for all the friends recent translations of those highly
significant utterances of Baha'u'llah, revealed some fifty years ago, and
pregnant with His divine wisdom. His ringing call to humanity in its hour
of peril sounds prophetic in these days of utter gloom.

I am forwarding also a copy of the transliterated Oriental terms with few
corrections of minor type errors. I am confident that the friends will not
feel their energy and patience taxed by a scrupulous adherence to what is
an authoritative and universal, though arbitrary code for the spelling of
Oriental terms.

Committees of the National Assembly

The diligent efforts exerted by the various committees of the National
Spiritual Assembly, those for National Teaching, for the
Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar, the Star of the West, the National Library, for the
reviewing and publication of Baha'i literature, for education, for the
National Archives and the Race Amity Conventions, have cheered and
heartened me in the discharge of my manifold duties, and constitute in
themselves a convincing evidence and inspiring example to the Baha'i world
of the efficient spiritual administration of the affairs of the Baha'i
world.

As to the spiritual activities of the "Children of the Kingdom" in
America, my hope and prayer is that they may grow to become efficient
servants of the Cause of Baha'u'llah. Their devotion and self-sacrifice,
their readiness to help the cause of the Baha'i Temple, their activity in
connection with the Baha'i Magazine are all unmistakable signs of the
glorious future of the Cause in that land. May the care and
loving-kindness of the Heavenly Father guide them, protect them and aid
them in their future mission in life.

The Greatest Holy Leaf, the Holy Mother, and the other ladies of the Holy
Household wish to join me, one and all, in expressing to every one of you
their deep thankfulness and their highest appreciation for the efficient
and admirable manner with which you are coordinating the dynamic forces of
the Cause, and conducting its affairs throughout America.

The sum of 100 English pounds which you have offered to the Cause through
me, I must acknowledge with deep appreciation and gratitude, and wish to
inform you that a part of it has been directly expended for the furthering
of the interests of the Cause throughout the world, and the rest for the
embellishment of the Well-Beloved's Shrine on Mount Carmel.

With deep gratitude, and hoping to