nce for Thy service, dispelling the
superstitions of the doubters, elucidating the proofs and evidences before
all seekers, healing the sick, being kind to the poor, a refuge and home
for the helpless and a light for the hopeless.

Thou art the Powerful and the Able, the Pitiful and Compassionate God!

O my friends! Endeavor to your utmost ability that, day by day, unity and
harmony will increase and the love of God will so firmly capture the
hearts that they will forget all save Him and be engrossed, night and day,
in mentioning the Kingdom, the heavenly signs and the divine verses. If
love, friendship, association and unity be established among the
believers, the door of all significances will be opened and each believer
of God will be able to explain and interpret all of the holy Books.

O believers! The tests of God are very severe; you should beseech and cry
unto Him that you may be firm and steadfast during all temptations.

"As to [what thou hast heard concerning] the child..."

(292) As to [what thou hast heard concerning] the child born from Russian
parentage, this is pure imagination. Yea, certain persons shall in this
divine dispensation produce heavenly children and such children shall
promulgate the teachings of the Beauty of Abha and serve His great Cause.
Through a heavenly power and spiritual confirmation they shall be enabled
to promote the Word of God and to diffuse the fragrances of God. These
children are neither Oriental nor Occidental, neither Asiatic nor
American, neither European nor African, but they are of the Kingdom; their
native home is heaven and their resort is the Kingdom of Abha. This is but
the truth and there is naught after truth save superstitions (or fancy).

"O thou spiritual beloved!..."

O thou spiritual beloved!

I have carefully looked at thy picture and found that from thy face
emanates the spiritual glad-tidings, the merciful complaisance and the
heavenly brightness. Their traces shall appear and their lights shall
shine.

"O thou who art gazing toward the Kingdom of the..."

O thou who art gazing toward the Kingdom of the Testament!

I already received thy letter which announced thy receipt of the loving
letter sent to thee by the pen of Abdul-Baha. By God the True One! Verily,
those letters are as gifts of God to thee, to thy noble wife and to thine
honorable daughter. I beg of God to enable thee to perfectly endeavor to
practice according