t surer and greater promise have we
than the one His Glorious Father, Baha'u'llah, gives us in His Most Holy
Book:--"Verily, We behold you from Our Realm of Effulgent Glory, and shall
graciously aid whosoever ariseth for the triumph of Our Cause with the
hosts of the Celestial Concourse and a company of Our chosen angels."

How dearly all the Holy Leaves(1) cherish that memory of the departed
Master, as He commented upon the fresh tidings that poured in from that
continent, admiring the untiring activity of the friends, the complete
subordination of their material interests to those of the Cause, the
remarkable spread of the Movement in their midst and their staunch
firmness in the Covenant of Baha'u'llah. It is these encouraging
reflections of the Master about His loved ones in America and the tests
intellectual rather than physical which He said He would send to them to
purify them and make ever brighter than before--it is these comments and
promises of His that make of the Movement in that land such a potential
force in the world today. The Beloved Master's cable to the friends in
that region is a clear indication of the presence of those counteracting
forces that may usher in those storms of tests that the Master Himself has
said will ultimately be for the good of the Cause in that land.

And finally, the ladies of the Sacred Household and we, the rest of His
kindred and family, will pray at His Hallowed Shrine for every one of you
and He will surely watch over and enhance in the course of time that noble
part of His heritage that He has bequeathed to His friends in the Far
West; friends from whom in return He expects so much and whom He has loved
and still doth love so dearly.

Your sincere co-worker in His Cause,
SHOGHI.

Haifa, Palestine.
January 21st, 1922.

Letter of March 5, 1922.

Dear fellow-workers in the Cause of Baha'u'llah:--

It is with words of regret and disappointment that I desire to open this
letter because of my inability, in view of my manifold and pressing
duties, to respond individually and in writing to the many messages of
love and sympathy and of hope that you have so affectionately sent me
since our Beloved's passing from this World. I am sure I am voicing the
sentiments of the bereaved ladies of the Household when I say that however
desirous we may be to correspond separately with every one of you, the
grave responsibilities and manifold duties now devolved upon us make it