ly of
the Baha'is of Egypt submitted to the Egyptian Prime Minister, the
Minister of the Interior, and the Minister of Justice, following the
verdict of the Muslim ecclesiastical court in Egypt, or of the letters
addressed by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Persia to
the _Sh_ah and to the Persian Cabinet in connection with the closing of
Baha'i schools and the ban imposed on Baha'i literature in that country.
Mention should, moreover, be made of the written messages despatched by
the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Persia to the King of
Rumania and the Royal Family on the occasion of the death of his mother,
Queen Marie, as well as to the Turkish Ambassador in Tihran enclosing the
contribution of the Persian believers for the sufferers of the earthquake
in Turkey; of Martha Root's letters to the late President Von Hindenburg
and to Dr. Streseman, the German Foreign Minister, accompanying the
presentation to them of Baha'i literature; of Keith Ransom-Kehler's seven
successive petitions addressed to the _Sh_ah of Persia, and of her
numerous communications to various ministers and high dignitaries of the
realm, during her memorable visit to that land.

Collateral with these first stirrings of the Baha'i Administrative Order,
and synchronizing with the emergence of National Baha'i communities and
with the institution of their administrative, educational, and teaching
agencies, the mighty process set in motion in the Holy Land, the heart and
nerve-center of that Administrative Order, on the memorable occasions when
Baha'u'llah revealed the Tablet of Carmel and visited the future site of
the Bab's sepulcher, was irresistibly unfolding. That process had received
a tremendous impetus through the purchase of that site, shortly after
Baha'u'llah's ascension, through the subsequent transfer of the Bab's
remains from Tihran to Akka, through the construction of that sepulcher
during the most distressful years of 'Abdu'l-Baha's incarceration, and
lastly through the permanent interment of those remains in the heart of
Mt. Carmel, through the establishment of a pilgrim house in the immediate
vicinity of that sepulcher, and the selection of the future site of the
first Baha'i educational institution on that mountain.

Profiting from the freedom accorded the world center of the Faith of
Baha'u'llah, ever since the ignominious defeat of the decrepit Ottoman
empire during the war of 1914-18, the forces relea