intentions may at all times
reflect heavenly virtues and perfections and become the expressions of
divine attributes and saintly characteristics, thus breathing a new life
and spirit into all the dwellers of the world and causing the inner ties
and spiritual relationships to be fostered and fortified in all fields of
human endeavour.

69: We beseech God--exalted be His glory--to ...

(197) We beseech God--exalted be His glory--to grant awareness and insight
to the men of wisdom as well as to those who hold in their grasp the reins
of power in Persia, that they may be able to distinguish the right way
from the crooked and devious path and may clearly discern the well-wisher
from the ill-wisher with a true and genuine sense of discrimination.

As regards the amelioration of your own affairs, let us entrust the whole
matter to the Blessed Beauty. He is the best Benefactor, unsurpassed in
His bounty.

70: Your letter of 12th October 1922 is just ...

(198) Your letter of 12th October 1922 is just received and refreshed in
our memory the many beautiful days that you spent here when the Beloved
Lord, 'Abdu'l-Baha, was still on this earth. Those are days that many
events of history could never efface from the hearts, nay rather the
further we go in the scale of life the deeper become the impressions
thereof within the meshes of our inner life.

I read your letter with full attention and in the course of the reading
the words of the Master were ringing in my ear; words that have descended
like showers on all souls and hearts that could understand. Now is the
time when we should forget everything and concentrate our thoughts upon
the advancement of the Cause of God and strive day and night that the
principles and teachings of His Holiness Baha'u'llah and the words of the
Master may find full expression in the hearts of the true friends.

When I think over the history of the Cause and the many difficulties that
all its promoters have undergone I unhesitatingly am convinced that the
sincere friends who have watched the events will not lose a moment but
will with all their hearts and souls sacrifice everything of worth in
order to realize that for which the Divine plan has been working.

Have all your thoughts directed to the Master and heed not what you hear
from here or there. We hope that soon beloved Shoghi Effendi will come
back to Haifa and things will resume their natural course. What we need
today is