pleasure and felt a thrill of delight at the welcome news
of the harmonious and efficient functioning of your Spiritual Assembly.

I very sincerely hope that now that I have fully re-entered upon my task,
I may be enabled to offer my humble share of assistance and advice in the
all-important work which is now before you. I fervently pray to God that
the field of your activities may go on expanding, that your zeal and
efforts may never diminish, and that new souls, active, able and sincere,
may soon join with you in bearing aloft the Glorious Standard of the Cause
in that land....

Ere long, an able and experienced teacher recently arrived from Persia
will visit your shores and will, I trust, by his thorough knowledge of the
Cause, his wide experience, his fluency, his ardour and his devotion,
reanimate every drooping spirit and inspire the active worker to make
fresh and determined efforts for the deepening as well as the spreading of
the Movement in those regions. His forthcoming book, which he has
patiently and laboriously written on the history of the Movement and which
has been partly revised by the Pen of our Beloved Master is beyond any
doubt the most graphic, the most reliable and comprehensive of its kind in
all Baha'i literature. I am sure he will considerably enrich the store of
your knowledge of the various phases and stages of the Baha'i Movement.
Our beloved Dr. Esslemont will, I trust, be particularly pleased to meet
him, as he is eminently qualified to offer him valuable help in connection
with various aspects of his (Dr. Esslemont's) book. I am enclosing various
suggestions of Mr. Dreyfus-Barney and of Mr. Roy Wilhelm made by them at
my request, during their last sojourn in the Holy Land. I submit them to
Dr. Esslemont's consideration as well as to that of the Spiritual
Assembly. I very deeply regret my inability to give the attention I desire
to this admirable work of his, but will assuredly do all in my power to
aid him in the final stages of his work. I am certain however that the
book as it now stands gives the finest and most effective presentation of
the various aspects of the Cause to the mind of the Oriental as well as to
that of the Westerner. May it arouse a genuine and widespread interest in
the Cause throughout the world.

I am now starting correspondence with every Baha'i local centre throughout
the East and will not fail to instruct and urge the believers everywhere
to send directly throu