ll deservedly attract the manifold blessings of a loving and
bountiful Master. Much indeed has been accomplished during this past year
of concentrated and consecrated self-sacrifice for so glorious a purpose.
Much more still remains unachieved if we are to vindicate, in the eyes of
an expectant world, the honourable name, the inexhaustible and miraculous
vitality of the Revelation of Baha'u'llah.

In the mid-watches of the night, commemorating the passing of Him Who with
His own hands laid the head-cornerstone of His Father's House of Worship
in that land, seated within the hallowed precincts of His shrine, and
keeping vigil in the company of His closest companions, I have more than
once in the midst of my devotions prayerfully remembered those chosen ones
of God on whose shoulders has fallen so weighty a responsibility, whose
destiny is to bring to full fruition so excellent a heritage. I have
recalled on that peaceful and moonlit night, with much emotion and
gratitude, the inestimable bounties He lavished while on earth upon you. I
have revived in my memory the glowing promises that His unfailing guidance
and gracious assistance would continue from His station on high to be
showered upon you. I have pictured in my mind that beauteous vision of a
Cause unfolded in all its glory which in His immortal writings He has
revealed unto you. And with my head upon His threshold, I have prayed and
prayed again that we may all prove ourselves worthy disciples of so
gracious a Master, that we may, when called unto Him, transmit,
undiminished and unimpaired, our share of the immeasurably precious
heritage bequeathed by Him to us all.

And in closing, dearly-beloved friends, what more appropriate thought with
which to conclude my fervent plea than these pregnant words fallen from
the lips of Baha'u'llah: "O My friends! I bear witness that the Divine
Bounty has been vouchsafed unto you, His Argument has been made manifest,
His Proof has been revealed and His Guidance has shone forth upon you. Let
it now be seen what your endeavours in the path of renunciation can
reveal."

Your true brother,
Shoghi

Letter of 6 December 1928

6 December 1928(20)

To the beloved of the Lord and the handmaids of the Merciful throughout
the East and West. Dear fellow-workers,

I desire to convey to you in a few words my impressions of the recently
published "Baha'i World", copies of which I understand, have already,
thanks to the assidu