to you his high estimation for the beauty of the faith of the
New Zealand friends, and deep appreciation towards the splendid services
of our dear Mr and Mrs Dunn,[+E2] who are so wonderfully blessed and
assisted by the power of the Holy Ghost. He loves you all and prays for
your happiness and spiritual growth.

It is true that your group is now still small, but he assures you that
your group will before long grow larger and larger day by day. It has been
always the case with the growth of every religion. Some pure soul or souls
go to some land and sow the seeds of the heavenly teachings in the hearts
of few who are most pure and so most receptive. The seeds will germinate
and grow in them. The fruits of these seeds appear in the regeneration of
the lives of these primary adherents. These primary adherents share the
bounties they have received with other souls, who through them obtain new
life and light and in turn illumine other people.

The primary adherents are the stars of great magnitude in every land in
the firmament of the Kingdom of God. They are the chosen people. They are
like candles which, through their sacrificial efforts, are weeping their
lives away in order to give light to the world and establish the purpose
of their Lord and Saviour, which purpose is the salvation of mankind. His
Holiness, Jesus Christ! see how small the group of His disciples was! No
matter how few the number of the disciples was, yet they through His power
illumined the world. Our Era is similar to that, but through the
development of humanity it is greater, and through the evils of the
material civilization and negligence of mankind our sacrifices must be
greater. Divine light must make itself manifest in our daily life deeds.

In the early days of the appearance of our Saviour, virtue was to save
ourselves. When we are once established in our faith, then virtue is to
save others. The three mottoes of education hold true in our case too.
First grow, then become and then contribute. We have developed; we have
established ourselves, and now it is time to contribute to others. We have
inexhaustible capital. The candles of our spiritual lives constantly weep
away their lives in shedding light to the world, but they never become
exhausted. For there is connection between our lives and that of
Baha'u'llah and our beloved 'Abdu'l-Baha.

It cannot be described how much we long to see our dear New Zealand
brethren and sisters. We hope the