ss, consecration
and self-sacrifice in our labours in His Path.

51: I was very glad to know of your meeting ...

(176) I was very glad to know of your meeting with the Chinese students,
and I am sure your effect and influence shall be great upon them because
their fresh and receptive minds are ready to grasp the importance of this
Manifestation; and when you go to China, which you may if you think it
wise, your influence and success, I hope, will be still more.

I pray God that He should confirm you in your teaching, and when you go to
China, He should make you a pioneer in carrying the Message of this
Dispensation to the farthermost countries of the world and to the most
obscure.

The members of the Holy Family join me in extending to you their love and
Baha'i greetings, and may the spirit of 'Abdu'l-Baha guide you and keep
you.

52: We were delighted to receive your excellent ...

(177) We were delighted to receive your excellent letter ... and read it
with joy. It gladdens our hearts to witness from its contents the
evidences of loyalty and sincerity and perfect steadfastness in the Cause
of God, and unshakeable constancy in His Covenant.

I offered praise to my Lord, the All-Glorious, for His abundant blessings,
the prodigality of His bestowals, and His wondrous grace; for He has
created such spiritual beings, such illumined essences, who attract bounty
from the Sun of Truth, and are lit by its heavenly light, which unravels
the mysteries, parts the curtains, and tears aside the veils. He has sent
forth pure and holy souls whom the blame of the blamer cannot shut out
from the Faith of God, nor frighten away from establishing the truth of
His Teachings. These are they whose thirst is quenched, whose ills are
healed, whose hearts are gladdened, whose minds are set at rest, whose
souls are stirred, whose spirits rejoice, whose eyes find consolation by
beholding the splendours of the beauty, and the graces of perfection, that
come down, one following after another, from the firmament of glory. Well
is it with them for such wondrous gifts, and bliss be to them for such
blessings!

As for me, acquainted with great grief as I am, subjected as I am to
calamities, I have no solace in this dire ordeal that has suddenly come
upon me to darken my days, save only to see happiness in the hearts of the
believers; to breathe in the sweet scents of loving-kindness from the
gardens of their hearts, and to be