s to her soul, and to proclaim far and wide the
purity of her life, the immensity of her love, and the supreme nobility of
her character.

23: I wish to express to your distinguished ...

(55) I wish to express to your distinguished assembly my gratitude for the
action they have taken in reproducing in facsimile my humble tribute to
the Greatest Holy Leaf. The hundred copies you sent me have been received
and are splendid reproductions of the original. The finest and most
enduring tribute which can be paid to her memory lies within the grasp,
and constitutes the supreme opportunity, of the American believers. Her
earthly life, as it drew to a close, was much brightened by the brilliant
accomplishments of her devoted lovers in the American continent. May her
pure angelic soul in the realms beyond derive added satisfaction from the
uninterrupted progress and the eventual completion of an enterprise on
which she had centered the one remaining joy of her life.

24: O ye who share my anguish and are my ...

(56) O ye who share my anguish and are my comforters in my distress and
bereavement! In these past few months, from the day of the passing of that
fairest fruit of the Undying Tree, of the setting of that wondrous Star in
the heavens of endless glory, and of that bright Ray from the well spring
of pre-existent light, ['Abdu'l-Baha], the Ancient Beauty, the Most Great
Name--may the spirits of the Concourse on High be sacrificed for Him--has
witnessed what has come upon me, whom she had surrounded at all times with
her loving-kindness, her unceasing favours, and what a wound this loss has
inflicted on my suffering heart. This parting from her has left my whole
being in turmoil, burning with the fire of my love and longing for her.
When, in the morning and the evening, I call her beloved face to mind, and
let her smiles, that nourished the spirit, pass again before my eyes, and
I think over all her bounty to me, all her unnumbered kindnesses, and
remember that astonishing meekness she showed in her sufferings--then the
flames of yearning love are kindled yet again, and sighs come out of my
heart, and tears flow from my eyes, so that all control is lost and I sink
into a sea of anguish without end.

Bearing witness to this, at this very moment, is her own pure and radiant
soul, her bright and sacred spirit, that soars in the atmosphere of the
invisible realm, and gazes, from beyond the throne of the Most Hi