out
the West.

Dearly-beloved brothers and sisters in 'Abdu'l-Baha!

In the course of the few months that have elapsed since my last
communication to you regarding the appalling circumstances that have
culminated in the martyrdom of our Persian brethren in Jahrum, events of
the highest importance to the future welfare of our beloved Cause have
transpired, and with startling suddenness conferred abiding solace upon
those who still have to face the pains and terrors of unmitigated and
shameless tyranny.

You have, most of you I presume, read with thrilling joy in one of the
recent issues of the "Star of the West" that illuminating account given by
our beloved sister, Miss Martha Root, wherein she tells with her
characteristic directness and modesty the story of her moving interview
with Her Majesty Queen Marie of Rumania and of the cordial and ready
response which her gentle yet persuasive presentation of the principles of
the Baha'i Faith has evoked in the heart of that honoured Queen. One of
the visible and potent effects which this historic interview proved
capable of achieving was the remarkable appeal in the form of an open
letter which Her Majesty freely and spontaneously caused to be published
to the world at large testifying in a language of exquisite beauty to the
power and sublimity of the Message of Baha'u'llah.

It was indeed a never-to-be-forgotten occasion when, on the eve of the day
commemorating the passing of Baha'u'llah, a handful of us, His sorrowing
servants, had gathered round His beloved Shrine supplicating relief and
deliverance for the down-trodden in Persia, to receive in the midst of the
silence of that distressing hour the glad-tiding of this notable triumph
which the unbending energy and indomitable spirit of our beloved Martha
has achieved for our sacred Cause.

With bowed heads and grateful hearts we recognise in this glowing tribute
which Royalty has thus paid to the Cause of Baha'u'llah an epoch-making
pronouncement destined to herald those stirring events which, as
'Abdu'l-Baha has prophesied, shall in the fullness of time signalise the
triumph of God's holy Faith. For who can doubt but that the deeds of those
valiant pioneers of the Faith, unexampled though they have been in the
abundance of their number and unexcelled in their sublime heroism, are but
a faint glimmer of what, according to the Divine Promise, its steadfast
followers are destined to perform? Those heroic exploits that