for its
allusions and prophecies. On another occasion He pointed out Himself to
'Abdu'l-Baha, as He stood on the slopes of that mountain, the site which
was to serve as the permanent resting-place of the Bab, and on which a
befitting mausoleum was later to be erected.

Properties, bordering on the Lake associated with the ministry of Jesus
Christ, were, moreover, purchased at Baha'u'llah's bidding, designed to be
consecrated to the glory of His Faith, and to be the forerunners of those
"noble and imposing structures" which He, in His Tablets, had anticipated
would be raised "throughout the length and breadth" of the Holy Land, as
well as of the "rich and sacred territories adjoining the Jordan and its
vicinity," which, in those Tablets, He had permitted to be dedicated "to
the worship and service of the one true God."

The enormous expansion in the volume of Baha'u'llah's correspondence; the
establishment of a Baha'i agency in Alexandria for its despatch and
distribution; the facilities provided by His staunch follower, Muhammad
Mustafa, now established in Beirut to safeguard the interests of the
pilgrims who passed through that city; the comparative ease with which a
titular Prisoner communicated with the multiplying centers in Persia,
'Iraq, Caucasus, Turkistan, and Egypt; the mission entrusted by Him to
Sulayman _Kh_an-i-Tanakabuni, known as Jamal Effendi, to initiate a
systematic campaign of teaching in India and Burma; the appointment of a
few of His followers as "Hands of the Cause of God"; the restoration of
the Holy House in _Sh_iraz, whose custodianship was now formally entrusted
by Him to the Bab's wife and her sister; the conversion of a considerable
number of the adherents of the Jewish, Zoroastrian and Buddhist Faiths,
the first fruits of the zeal and the perseverance which itinerant teachers
in Persia, India and Burma were so strikingly displaying--conversions that
automatically resulted in a firm recognition by them of the Divine origin
of both Christianity and Islam--all these attested the vitality of a
leadership that neither kings nor ecclesiastics, however powerful or
antagonistic, could either destroy or undermine.

Nor should reference be omitted to the emergence of a prosperous community
in the newly laid out city of I_sh_qabad, in Russian Turkistan, assured of
the good will of a sympathetic government, enabling it to establish a
Baha'i cemetery and to purchase property and erect thereon structur