and the help and aid of the
Blessed Beauty, Baha'u'llah, support you.

In one of His Tablets He said:--

In these meetings outside conversation must be entirely avoided,
and the gathering must be confined to chanting the verses and
reading the words, and to matters which concern the Cause of God,
such as explaining proofs, adducing clear and manifest evidences,
and tracing the signs of the Beloved One of the creatures. Those
who attend the meeting must, before entering, be arrayed with the
utmost cleanliness and turn to the Abha Kingdom, and then enter
the meeting with all meekness and humbleness; and while the
tablets are being read, must be quiet and silent; and if one
wishes to speak he must do so with all courtesy, with the
satisfaction and permission of those present, and do it with
eloquence and fluency.

The Nineteen Day Feast

With the development of the Baha'i administrative order since the
ascension of 'Abdu'l-Baha, the Nineteen Day Feast, observed on the first
day of each Baha'i month, has assumed a very special importance, providing
as it does not only for community prayer and reading from the Holy Books,
but also for general consultation on all current Baha'i affairs and for
the association of the friends together. This Feast is the occasion when
the Spiritual Assembly makes its reports to the community and invites both
discussion of plans and suggestions for new and better methods of service.

Mashriqu'l-Adhkar(34)

Baha'u'llah left instructions that temples of worship should be built by
His followers in every country and city. To these temples He gave the name
of "Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar," which means "Dawning Place of God's Praise."
The Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar is to be a nine-sided building surmounted by a
dome, and as beautiful as possible in design and workmanship. It is to
stand in a large garden adorned with fountains, trees and flowers,
surrounded by a number of accessory buildings devoted to educational,
charitable and social purposes, so that the worship of God in the temple
may always be closely associated with reverent delight in the beauties of
nature and of art, and with practical work for the amelioration of social
conditions.(35)

In Persia, up till the present, Baha'is have been debarred from building
temples for public worship, and so the first great Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar
was built in I_sh_qabad,(36) Russia. 'Abdu