very few
months, write a report about the general conditions and attitudes of the
Cause of God in America and forward it to Acca, so that we may send it to
Persia to be printed and spread among the people.

O thou yearning servant of the Beauty of Abha! In the time that all the
ulemas and sages, leaders, merchants and traders, nay, even the public
itself from the highest to the lowest have taken refuge in the British
Legation and began to complain and clamor that they are oppressed, His
Royal Highness Shoa-Us-Saltanah, the son of the Shah, cried in the
Assembly of Nobles: "These ulemas and Sheite leaders were always
stigmatizing the Bahais, saying, 'They are the ill-wishers of the
government and the corruptors of nations!' Now consider ye with the eye of
justice! Sixty years have rolled by and the Bahais have been the object of
the sword of affliction and the target of the arrows of oppression.
Thousands of houses have been destroyed, children became captives, women
became prisoners, property was pillaged and not even a small children
remained safe; yet, notwithstanding all of this, not one single Bahai took
refuge under the flag of a foreign power! Now these Sheites, though they
have always been treated with the utmost favor and benefit by the
government, yet without the slightest reason they went under the
protection of a foreign power and brought down such humiliation and
dishonor upon the nation and the government! If they presented primarily
their petitions to the government, their wishes would be complied with in
a better and more effective way. This is the difference between the
Sheites and the Bahais!"

"O thou who art firm in the Covenant!..."

O thou who art firm in the Covenant!

I have received the eloquent article which thou hast written at the moment
of the arrival of the most great glad-tidings regarding the establishment
of the National Assembly and the organization of the constitutional and
judicial government of Persia according to the evident command of the Book
of Akdas, and the spontaneous joy and the genuine sympathy demonstrated by
the people of science and discernment in America at hearing this
soul-refreshing news, and the utmost happiness to the members of the
Legation. I read it and it became the cause of the utmost joy and
fragrance.

The Constitutional Government, according to the irrefutable text of the
Religion of God, is the cause of the glory and prosperity of the nation
an