nsultation with the various Spiritual Assemblies, do as he deems best
and most serviceable to the interests of the Cause in that land.

That all the friends may realize more fully the urgent and supreme
necessity of teaching the Cause in these days; that they may arise to
inaugurate a more strenuous, systematized and extensive campaign of
service--these are the high aims he has set before himself and which he
intends, with the unfailing help and wholehearted support of every
believer in America, to achieve in the immediate future.

May his second visit to your shores mark, in its character and results, a
new and memorable era in the history of the Cause in that great country!

Your brother and co-worker,

SHOGHI.
Haifa, Palestine.
January 16, 1923.

Letter of January 17th, 1923

To the members of the National Spiritual Assembly.

Dear friends:

It is a great pleasure for me to share with you the translation(4) of some
of the prayers and Tablets of our beloved Master, the reading of which I
trust will inspire you and strengthen you in your work of service to His
Cause.

I trust that in the course of time I will be enabled to send you regularly
correct and reliable translations of the various prayers and Tablets of
Baha'u'llah, and 'Abdu'l-Baha, which will unfold to your eyes a new vision
of His Glorious Mission on earth and give you an insight into the
character and meanings of His Divine Teachings.

I shall await very eagerly any suggestions you would like to give me on
this point and on all other matters that pertain to the interests of the
Cause in America, and I assure you again of my readiness and wish to be of
help and service to those faithful and devoted servants of Baha'u'llah in
that land.

Your brother and co-worker,
SHOGHI.

Haifa, Palestine,
January 17th, 1923.

Letter of February 13, 1923

To the members of the National Spiritual Assembly.

Dearest friends:

I have just completed the translation of a number of selections(5) from
the Master's soul-stirring Words to His loved ones in Persia, revealed
some twenty-five years ago, and during the darkest days of His
incarceration in the prison city of Akka.

You will realize, as you read them, the unshakable confidence of
'Abdu'l-Baha in the inevitable growth of the Cause, even in the most
perilous days of His life. Their perusal will enable you all to grasp more
fully the significance of this Movement and its dynamic powe