make sincere and renewed efforts to face these
difficulties and smooth any differences that may and must arise.

I look forward with fervent hope to hear of these renewed efforts on your
part and of the strong determination which you will never suffer to
slacken, to maintain at any cost the unity, the effectiveness and the
dignity of the Cause.

May I through you express my heartfelt gratitude to the members of the
Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar Building Committee, Mr. Alfred E. Lunt, Mrs. Corinne
True, Dr. Zia Bagdadi, Mr. Charles Mason Remey, Mr. Louis Bourgeois, Mr.
Leo Perron for their incessant labors in speeding the work of this noble
Edifice which when raised and completed will prove to be the most powerful
factor in the promulgation of the Cause in America.

Will you also extend to the members of the Publishing and Reviewing
Committees, Mr. William H. Randall, Mr. Mountfort Mills, Mr. Roy C.
Wilhelm, Mr. Albert R. Vail, Miss Edna True, Mrs. Marjory Morten and Mr.
Alfred E. Lunt, my high appreciation for the very efficient management of
their departments and their devotion to a work which if consistently
maintained cannot fail to impress and attract a vast number of the
enlightened public. Regarding the Star of the West, I wish to congratulate
in particular the members of the Publishing Committee on the quality of
their work. I have perused with particular interest the last numbers of
the Magazine and am glad to note an encouraging improvement in its
management, its style, its general presentation and the nature and number
of its articles.

To the members of the Teaching Committee, Mr. William Randall, Mrs. Agnes
S. Parsons, Mr. Albert Vail, Mr. Louis G. Gregory and Mrs. Mariam Haney I
offer my very best wishes and assure them of my constant prayers on their
behalf, that their services to such a vital department in the affairs of
the Cause, so primary and immediate in its importance, may be crowned with
brilliant success.

For the members of the Children's Educational Work Committee, Mrs. Grace
Ober, Mrs. Louise Boyle, Mrs. Victoria Bedikian, Mrs. Hebe Struven, Mrs.
Grace Foster, Mr. Stanwood Cobb and Mr. Allen McDaniel, I supplicate
Divine Assistance, that He may graciously aid them in a work which was so
near and dear to the Master's heart and enable them to assist in the rise
of future devoted and efficient servants to the Cause of God.

On behalf of all the members of these Committees, I shall pray at the
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