y and as frequently as possible of the various features of your
work, of the plans and schemes which you have in mind, of the various
obstacles in your path, and of whatever is needed to ensure the peaceful
and steady progress of your work and the consolidation of your devoted
labours.

An active, united, and harmonious National Spiritual Assembly, properly
and conscientiously elected, vigorously functioning, alert and conscious
of its many and pressing responsibilities, in close and continuous contact
with the international center in the Holy Land, and keenly watchful of
every development throughout the length and breadth of its ever-expanding
field of work--is surely in this day of urgent necessity and paramount
importance, for it is the corner-stone on which the edifice of Divine
administration must ultimately rest. It is my hope and prayer that the
ever-watchful Spirit of 'Abdu'l-Baha will guide, reinforce, and bless your
unceasing and unsparing efforts, and crown with brilliant success the
services which His well-beloved and loyal German friends are rendering to
His Cause.

I am enclosing a general letter of appeal addressed to the declared
believers throughout the Baha'i world, acquainting them with the present
situation of the land in close proximity to the Shrines of Mount Carmel
and urging them to do all in their power to safeguard for the future the
surroundings of this cherished and sacred Spot.

I am also enclosing a copy of the list of transliterated terms commonly
used in Baha'i Literature, and ask you to distribute them throughout the
various Baha'i centres in Germany and Austria, that the friends the world
over may adopt in their writings one common, authoritative, and uniform
system of spelling and thus avoid inevitable confusion in future.

I have already acquainted you by cable of the sad and grave situation in
Ba_gh_dad in connection with the House of Baha'u'llah, wherein He passed
the greater part of His sojourn in 'Iraq, which He explicitly designated
as sacred, object of Baha'i veneration and pilgrimage, and of the future
of which He spoke and wrote with glowing praise and majestic confidence. I
am certain that every true believer in Germany and Austria, conscious of
the gravity of the present situation, will after due consultation and
deliberation, do all in his power to safeguard such an infinitely precious
and sacred edifice.

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