ay the Power of Baha'u'llah breathe the dynamic spirit of Life into the
combined and systematized efforts of the friends the world over and revive
through them the body of stricken humanity and give it the peace which it
yearns for and which the world cannot give.

Your devoted brother

LETTER OF 16 FEBRUARY 1923

16 February 1923

The beloved of the Lord and the handmaids of the Merciful throughout
Germany,
Care of the members of the National Spiritual Assembly.

My dearest brethren and sisters in 'Abdu'l-Baha!

I have received with mixed feelings of sadness and gratitude your
longexpected letter, sent on behalf of the National Spiritual Assembly
(National Body), and written by our sincere and devoted brother Consul
Schwarz. It made me feel relieved and grateful at receiving at last the
news of your safety and the assurance of your unwavering determination to
serve with heart and soul and to the very end the Cause of Baha'u'llah;
and it filled me with sorrow to hear of the grievous calamity that has
befallen your land and the hardships that are afflicting your country.

Let me assure you, at the outset, of the deep sympathy of the Ladies of
the Household, of the friends the world over, and of myself, in your great
suffering, and our unfailing prayers to 'Abdu'l-Baha, that He may
dissipate these gathering clouds of animosity and strife, and relieve your
great and beloved country from its present state of uncertainty and peril.

Why fear and sorrow? Have we not the express promise of the Master,
uttered after the termination of the Great War, that Germany, now humbled
and weakened, will no doubt be freed from its fetters and will develop,
materially and spiritually, and shall one day emerge from this sad turmoil
strong, united and prosperous, ready to take her place in the great Family
of the advanced nations of the world?

I am enclosing for you all my translation of a number of selections from
the Master's soul-stirring and comforting words, revealed some twentyfive
years ago, and during the darkest days of his incarceration in the
prison-city of Akka. You will I hope translate them and publish them in
your Baha'i organ the "Sun of Truth", copies of which I shall be most
pleased to receive and share with my friends in the Holy Land.

I am enclosing also a copy of my last letter to you, wherein I have asked
you, among other things, to send me a detailed report of your activities,
and I sincerely hop