much as God--glorified and exalted is
He! -- hath ordained mothers to be the primary trainers of children and
infants. This is a great and important affair and a high and exalted
position, and it is not allowable to slacken therein at all!

If thou walkest in this right path, thou wouldst become a real mother to
the children, both spiritually and materially....

("Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas", vol. III (Chicago: Baha'i Publishing
Society, 1916), Vol. III, p. 606) [90]

"91: Deliver my longings and greetings to the consolation of thine eye...
and..."

Deliver my longings and greetings to the consolation of thine eye(17) ...
and to thy younger son ... Verily I love them both even as a compassionate
father loveth his dear children. As to thee, have for them an abundant
love and exert thine utmost in training them, so that their being may grow
through the milk of the love of God, forasmuch as it is the duty of
parents to perfectly and thoroughly train their children.

There are also certain sacred duties on children toward parents, which
duties are written in the Book of God, as belonging to God.(18) The
(children's) prosperity in this world and the Kingdom depends upon the
good pleasure of parents, and without this they will be in manifest loss.

("Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas", vol. II (Chicago: Baha'i Publishing
Society, 1915), Vol. II, pp. 262-3) [91]

"92: ...O dear one of 'Abdu'l-Baha! Be the son of thy father and be
the..."

...O dear one of 'Abdu'l-Baha! Be the son of thy father and be the fruit
of that tree. Be a son that hath been born of his soul and heart and not
only of the water and clay. A real son is such an one as hath branched
from the spiritual part of a man. I ask God that thou mayest be at all
times confirmed and strengthened.

("Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Baha", Vol. II, p. 342) [92]

"93: O ye dear children!..."

O ye dear children!

Your father is compassionate, clement and merciful unto you and desireth
for you success, prosperity and eternal life in the Kingdom of God.
Therefore, it is incumbent upon you, dear children, to seek his good
pleasure, to be guided by his guidance, to be drawn by the magnet of the
love of God and be brought up in the lap of the love of God; that ye may
become beautiful branches in the Gardens of EL-ABHA, verdant and watered
by the abundance of the gift of God.

("Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Baha", Vol. III, p. 622) [93]

"94: It is incumbent