ble manner what the power of
dauntless faith, when coupled with sublimity of character, can achieve,
what forces it can release, to what heights it can rise.

Let such remarkable revelations of the reality and continuity of the
divine purpose, made manifest from time to time to us His feeble children,
serve to fortify our faith in Him, to warm the chill which fleeting
misfortunes may leave behind, and fill us with that celestial potency
which alone can enable us to withstand the storm and stress that lives
dedicated to His service must needs encounter.

Your true brother,
SHOGHI.

Haifa, Palestine,
October 7th, 1926.

Letter of October 29, 1926.

To the beloved of the Lord and the handmaids of the Merciful throughout
the West.

Dear fellow-workers in the Divine Vineyard:

It will gladden and rejoice every one of you to learn that from various
quarters there has of late reached the Holy Land tidings of fresh
developments that are a clear indication of those hidden and transforming
influences which, from the source of Baha'u'llah's mystic strength,
continue to flow with ever-increasing vitality into the heart of this
troubled world.

Both in the wider field of its spiritual conquests, where its indomitable
spirit is forging ahead, capturing the heights, pervading the multitude;
as well as in the gradual consolidation of the administrative structure
which its avowed followers the world over are laboring to raise and
fortify, the Faith of Baha'u'llah, we can increasingly discern, bids fair
to become that force which, though not as yet universally recognized, none
can afford to belittle or ignore.

In the bold and repeated testimonies which Her Majesty, Queen Marie of
Roumania, has chosen to give to the world,--a copy of whose latest
pronouncement I enclose,(13)--we truly recognize evidences of the
irresistible power, the increasing vitality, the strange working of a
Faith destined to regenerate the world. Her Majesty's striking tribute
paid to the illuminative power of the Teachings of Baha'u'llah and
'Abdu'l-Baha is bound to effect an entire transformation in the attitude
of many to a Faith the tenets of which have often been misunderstood and
sorely neglected. It will serve as a fresh stimulus to the enlightened and
cultured to investigate with an open mind the verities of its message, the
source of its life-giving principles.

Shrine at Baghdad

From Ba_gh_dad, moreover, where the sacred h