h the Greatest Holy Leaf has left ...

(96) Even though the Greatest Holy Leaf has left us in body she is with us
in spirit, inspiring us in our work and beseeching for us God's loving
mercy and fatherly care. She will never forget her loving friends nor
leave them in their woes.

Shoghi Effendi was very sad to hear of your difficulties, especially as
they have encompassed you at an age when you cannot confront them but must
have comfort and peace. You should, however, take courage and resign to
the will of God when you see what the Greatest Holy Leaf had to face
during her life. All you may suffer is nothing compared to what she had to
endure; and yet how joyous and hopeful she used always to be!

This is the way of the world. The greatest among us seems to be the one
who has suffered most and withstood best the battles of life.

23: Shoghi Effendi wishes me to acknowledge ...

(97) Shoghi Effendi wishes me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter
dated August 25th 1932 and to extend his deep appreciation for your kind
words of sympathy. This loss is a thing that will be bitterly felt by
every Baha'i throughout the world, because she used to be a source of
inspiration to every one of them. The mere coming into her presence and
thinking of the trials and difficulties she had to pass through in her
life, was sufficient to create in us new hope and arouse us to stronger
determination to promote the Cause she suffered for.

24: You should be very happy to have had the ...

(98) You should be very happy to have had the privilege of meeting her
upon this physical plane of existence, for the world has seen only very
few such souls who have suffered so much for the sake of God and yet kept
their cheer and uttered words of hope and encouragement to those who were
around them. What a source of inspiration she was to the pilgrims who came
from the four corners of the world to seek spirituality and attain a new
birth by visiting the Holy Shrines. They should surely remember those
blessed moments they spent in her room or in her presence elsewhere, and
remembering her suffering, take courage in confronting the problems of
their life. May God help us all to follow her example and like her be a
blessing to others.

25: Surely there is nothing that will console the ...

(99) Surely there is nothing that will console the Guardian more than the
happy news that the Cause for which the Greatest Holy Leaf