the Lord of the Kingdom and supplicate assistance from the
Holy Spirit and heal the ailments of the sick one. I beg of God to bestow
thee with an eloquent tongue.

"O thou maid-servant of God!..."

O thou maid-servant of God!

Thy letter was received and the contents indicated that--praise be to God!
--thy heart is ablaze with the fire of the love of God and thine eyes are
illumined with the light of the guidance of God, that thy face is
cheerfully beaming and thy countenance is shining and gleaming.

Say unto thine honored helpmate, thy dear husband: "Thousands of souls,
including the great divines and Pharisees among the Jews, were awaiting
the Manifestation of Christ, lamenting and weeping and supplicating that
the Messiah should soon appear. But when His Holiness Christ came with a
beautiful face and sweet utterance and dawned from the day-spring of the
contingent world like unto the shining sun, all those souls who awaited
Him rejected Him, became afflicted with the sleep of heedlessness, did not
wake up by the voice of Christ nor did they gain consciousness. Now again
the same is the case in the Manifestation of Baha'o'llah."

I beg of God that thy dear husband be guided through the light of guidance
and become a sign of the gift of the Kingdom of Abha.

"O thou who art attracted to the Kingdom!..."

O thou who art attracted to the Kingdom!

The decoration and adornment of the tongue consists in praising and
thanksgiving to the Lord Almighty, especially when a man is guided by
divine grace and mercy to the path of guidance and when he is intoxicated
by the chalice of boundless blessings.

Thank God that--praise be to God! --the glass of thy life and heart hath
become bright with the lamp of guidance, and the chalice of hope and
desire hath overflowed with the wine of the love of God. This is an
attainment and blessing that, if thou give thanks a thousand centuries and
cycles, thou wilt not be capable of doing it justice. Therefore, in the
utmost joy, gladness, rejoicings and endless happiness thou must open thy
tongue in thanksgiving and glorifying the Lord of mercy and become the
cause of enlightenment.

When in perfect obedience thou followest the path of the evident Light,
thou mayest rest assured that in a little while life will find the
Beloved, the seeker the Desired One and the traveler the Goal.

Kiss the face and hair of thy dear children for me, love them and educate
them in