ens
unto the field, disperses the armies of ignorance, and scatters the hosts
of error, who holds aloft the Standard of Divine Guidance, and sounds the
Clarion of Victory..."

Be assured my dearest friends of my unfailing prayers. On this day when
with bleeding hearts we commemorate the passing of our beloved
'Abdu'l-Baha we remember you most tenderly, we pray for your success at
His Holy shrine, and feel confident that you will soon achieve the
greatest victory.

Awaiting eagerly your joyful news,
Your true brother

LETTER OF 2 FEBRUARY 1925

2 February 1925

To my well-beloved Baha'i brethren and sisters throughout Germany.
Care of the German National Spiritual Assembly.

Loyal and capable children of our beloved 'Abdu'l-Baha!

I have received with the greatest pleasure from the National Spiritual
Assembly, through our dearly-beloved Consul Schwarz, the report of your
activities that reflect so vividly the unquenchable spirit of love and
self-sacrifice which animates you in your service for the Beloved's Cause.
Your unremitting labours are worthy of the highest praise, the success you
have so far achieved is well deserved. The refreshing vitality of your
work, the unity of purpose and the concerted action attained recently by
your fast-growing community are resplendent features of your activity.
They continually remind us of the Master's intense love for you, His high
hopes in you, His often expressed admiration for the ardent devotion, the
unquestioned sincerity, the unrivalled capacity of His loved ones in
Germany. By what you have already accomplished, and by what you are
determined to achieve in times to come, you have merited His abundant
blessings and proved in the highest sense worthy of the unsurpassed
affection He had for you.

The signs of the promised revival of your sorely-tried Fatherland can now
be easily discerned. In material prosperity it is steadily advancing, its
power and worldly prestige are being fast regained, and above all the dawn
of a spiritual awakening, unparalleled in your history, seems at last to
have broken upon it. His sure and often repeated promise will erelong be
fulfilled.

Let your National Assembly, therefore, redouble its efforts, inaugurate a
fresh campaign of ever-expanding activity, and make a solemn determination
not to relax till their one aim is attained. Let them, with the full and
sustained support, moral as well as financial, of the vast company of