e that I shall soon be in receipt of a detailed answer
from you on all the points which I have raised in my last letter.

I am also enclosing my revised translation of the Hidden Words of
Baha'u'llah, both Arabic and Persian, and hope to send you more of His
Words and Teachings in future.

Awaiting your news, and wishing you the highest success in your glorious
work of service,

I am your devoted brother

LETTER OF 4 DECEMBER 1923

4 December 1923

To the dearly-beloved friends throughout Germany.
Care of the National Spiritual Assembly

My well-beloved friends:

What a joy to correspond with you again, and express, after a long and
unbroken silence, my warm sentiments of love and affection for those
tried, yet steadfast, lovers of 'Abdu'l-Baha! Your trials and sufferings
have been a constant source of anxiety and painful sorrow, not to me
alone, but to the Ladies of the Household as well as to the friends at
large.

True, humanity is to-day widely afflicted with unprecedented ills and
calamities, but you, the chosen and favoured children of 'Abdu'l-Baha,
have, by some wisdom inscrutable to us all, received the fullest measure
of this distress, and are carrying the burden of your cares with heroic
fortitude, unflinching faith, and undaunted courage worthy of the
admiration of even the most severely tried of your fellow-sufferers in
far-away Persia.

Your only consolation lies in the ever-living words of our departed
Master, who confidently declared that the days are not far distant when
Germany, will shake off her present humiliation, and will emerge, mighty,
united and glorious, not only to take her destined place in the councils
of nations, but to raise high the triumphant banner of the Cause in the
very heart of Europe.

Your ceaseless activities since His departure from our midst have been
steadily extended as your tribulations and anxieties have multiplied, and
I feel hopeful that ere long the true Faith of God will blaze worth in
that land, and will herald publicly the Message of Salvation to that
distracted continent.

I am so desirous to receive from the National Spiritual Assembly,
frequent, comprehensive and up-to-date reports on the present position of
the Cause throughout Germany, with an account of the activities of the
various Baha'i centers recently established throughout that land.

Your Baha'i Magazine, I have regularly received and read with deep
interest. I strongly urge yo