ll expect from it a rapid
transformation, a spiritual transformation even more sudden and startling
than its material progress and advancement, for the Power of God can
achieve wonders still greater than those the brilliant minds of the
Japanese can achieve. This they firmly believe, for more than once, the
Master has spoken of the spiritual potentialities hidden in the nature of
these capable people. They all await with eagerness the joyful-tidings
that your letters to them shall bear in future.

We all wish so much to know more about you, about your little rising
Baha'i community, your number, your meetings, your activities, your
difficulties, your plans, your distribution all over Japan and the
neighbouring islands. We shall all pray for you most fervently and in a
special manner at all the three Hallowed Shrines and beseech the Master,
under whose wings we are all, to guide you, to sustain you in your work
for Him.

I shall never fail to send you all the news I receive from different parts
of the Baha'i world that you may know of the efforts and triumphs our
brethren, the loved ones of 'Abdu'l-Baha, are achieving and will achieve
after Him.

Persia, the leading nation in the Baha'i world, today will, I am
confident, through its centre, Tihran, communicate with you all, that the
East and West, even as our Beloved One has so much wished it, may become
even as one.

The letter our dear sister, Miss Agnes Alexander, had written to Mr.
Fujita, gave us such a joy and was read at the sorrowful gathering of His
friends, in the very room He used to receive His friends and meet them
every night.

Ever awaiting your joyful news,
I am, your devoted brother in His love and service,
Shoghi

(January 26, 1922)

[Cable dated December 15, 1922]

To the believers in Japan care Agnes Alexander. Refreshed and reassured I
now stretch to you across the distant seas my hand of brotherly
cooperation in the Cause of Baha.

Shoghi

(cable dated December 15, 1922)

[Letter of December 17, 1922]

Dear friends, the chosen ones of 'Abdu'l-Baha in that Far Eastern land!

Having brought to an end my long hours of retirement and meditation, one
of my first thoughts upon my return to these hallowed surroundings has
been to inquire after the well-being and spiritual happiness of my
far-away fellow-workers who toil and labour in those remote regions of the
earth for the blessed Cause of Baha'u'llah. How great was my joy