Canadian Baha'is. I
would be pleased to receive your views as to who should represent Canada
at the Conference. India is the only other country within the British
Empire that can send a native Baha'i representative to the conference, and
it is rather unfortunate that the United States of America should have to
be excluded, as the speakers at the conference must necessarily be
subjects of the British Empire.

I am enclosing recent translations(11) of the prophetic and most
remarkable words of Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha which I trust you will
all find of great value and interest in the great work you are doing for
the Cause.

May this great project yield an abundant harvest for the Cause, and your
efforts be richly blessed by the guiding Spirit of 'Abdu'l-Baha.

Your fellow-worker,
SHOGHI.

Haifa, Palestine,
January 4th, 1924.

Letter of February 23, 1924.

To the beloved of the Lord and the handmaids of the Merciful throughout
America.

My dear fellow-workers:

I gather from various sources that the Cause of Baha'u'llah, in the course
of its sure yet toilsome march towards the salvation of the world, has
encountered of late further obstacles, which in the eyes of some appear to
retard its progress and hinder its growth. I have learned with feelings of
sadness and surprise that some vague sense of apprehension, a strange
misconception of its immediate purpose and methods, is slowly gaining
ground, steadily affecting its wholesome growth and vigorous development
throughout the continent.

Though such signs should appear from time to time, and however
unrepresentative they be of the vast and growing mass of its convinced and
zealous supporters, the world over, what, I wonder, could have caused this
uneasiness of mind? Are such misgivings possible, though on the part of
but a few, in the face of the remarkable manifestations of so remarkable a
movement? To what extent do they form a part of those mental tests and
trials destined at various times by the Almighty to stir and reinvigorate
the body of His Cause, and how far are they traceable to our imperfect
state of understanding, to our weaknesses and failings?

Divine Destiny and Human Frailty

That the Cause of God should, in the days to come, witness many a
challenging hour and pass through critical stages in preparation for the
glories of its promised ascendancy in the new world has been, time and
again, undeniably affirmed by our depart