ust never disregard or forget.

I cannot refrain from expressing in this, my first letter to you my deep
gratitude and great pleasure in learning how promptly, thoroughly and
admirably you have conducted the affairs of the Cause in that land. Of the
sincerity of your efforts, of the determination with which you have faced
your delicate and difficult task, I have never doubted for a moment, as I
knew too well of the ardent spirit of service and fellowship which the
sudden passing of our Beloved had infused in all his followers everywhere.
But great was my surprise to know how the ever-present Hand of the Master
has removed so speedily all the difficulties in our way and how the light
of His Divine Guidance caused the darkness of doubts, of fears and
mistrust to vanish.

The efficient manner in which you have carried out my humble suggestions
has been a source of great encouragement to me and has revived confidence
in my heart. I have read and re-read the reports of your activities, have
studied minutely all the steps you have taken to consolidate the
foundations of the Movement in America, and have learned with a keen sense
of satisfaction the plans you contemplate for the further rise and spread
of the Cause in your great country. I very highly approve of the
arrangements you have made for centralizing the work in your hands and of
distributing it to the various committees, who each in its own sphere,
have so efficiently and thoroughly undertaken the management of their own
affairs.

What has given me still greater pleasure is to learn that the members of
this Central Body which has assumed so grave a responsibility and is
facing such delicate and difficult tasks, command individually and
collectively not only the sympathy of their spiritual brethren and sisters
but who also can confidently rely on their active and whole-hearted
support in the campaign of service to the Cause of Baha'u'llah. It is
indeed as it should be, for if genuine and sustained cooperation and
mutual confidence cease to exist between individual friends and their
local and national assemblies, the all-beneficent work of the Cause must
cease and nothing else can enable it to function harmoniously and
effectively in future.

True, the Cause as every other movement has its own obstacles,
complications and unforeseen difficulties, but unlike any other human
organization it inspires a spirit of Faith and Devotion which can never
fail to induce us to