ally recognized as the one
Haven of abiding felicity and peace.

Regarding the pamphlet entitled "The Passing of 'Abdu'l-Baha," I believe
some additional material, consisting mainly of a few selections from
leading American newspapers, would increase its value and extend its
scope. I shall be glad to receive a copy of the reprinted edition, and I
wish you success in this endeavor.

My dearly-beloved friend and fellow-worker, Mr. Mountfort Mills, is now
with me in Haifa, and will ere long join you in the discharge of your
manifold and arduous duties. I greatly value his assistance in the
difficult task and the complex and often urgent problems that are before
me, and I trust that his return to America will lend a fresh impetus to
the glorious work of service you are rendering to the Cause of
Baha'u'llah.

I wish you success from all my heart.

Your brother and fellow-worker,
SHOGHI.

Haifa, Palestine,
January 29th, 1925.

Letter of April 10th, 1925.

To the members of the American National Spiritual Assembly.

My dearly-beloved fellow-workers:

The communications lately received from your distinguished secretary,
dated January 8th, February 6th and 13th, and March 17th, together with
the enclosed minutes, reports and letters, have been read with profound
interest and genuine satisfaction. The methods you pursue, the new
measures for publicity which you have adopted, the increasing confidence
you have achieved, and the degree of support, both moral and financial,
which you have deservedly earned from the body of the believers are all
encouraging signs that testify to the growing solidarity of a Cause
destined to confer inestimable benefits upon mankind.

Great as is the promise of the Movement for the future, it has already
revealed in a remarkable manner to every unprejudiced observer its
indomitable spirit of loving sacrifice and true fellowship burning with
undiminished ardor in the breasts of its followers both in the land of its
birth and in the great Republic of the West. The heroism and fortitude
lately displayed by its sorely-tried adherents in Persia, and the prompt
and generous contributions of the American believers who have
spontaneously responded to the call of their needy brethren of the East
have served to kindle the flame of enthusiasm in many a heart, and forged
fresh bonds of fellowship which will prove of the highest value for the
advancement of the Baha'i Faith. I would specially