Haifa, Palestine,
January 12, 1923.
Letter of January 16, 1923.
The beloved of the Lord and the handmaids of the Merciful throughout the
United States and Canada.
Beloved brothers and sisters in ‘Abdu’l-Bahá:
Our dear friend, Jináb-i-Fádil-i-Mázindarání, accompanied by his family,
has gladly and gratefully responded to the kind invitation of the American
friends to visit them once more and extend his helping hand to the many
friends who are so faithfully laboring throughout that continent for the
Cause of Bahá’u’lláh.
Deeply appreciative of the sentiments of warm and abiding affection which
his co-workers of that land have abundantly shown him in the past, fired
with the zeal of service which the passing of our Beloved has kindled in
every heart and hopeful of the immediate future of the Cause in those
regions, he is proceeding to America with the sole purpose of promoting
far and wide and with greater efficiency and vigor the all-important work
of teaching.
As to the extent of his sojourn, the details of his travel, his plan for
visiting the various spiritual centers and all other matters related to
his visit, I have left them all to his own discretion, that he may, after
consultation with the various Spiritual Assemblies, do as he deems best
and most serviceable to the interests of the Cause in that land.
That all the friends may realize more fully the urgent and supreme
necessity of teaching the Cause in these days; that they may arise to
inaugurate a more strenuous, systematized and extensive campaign of
service—these are the high aims he has set before himself and which he
intends, with the unfailing help and wholehearted support of every
believer in America, to achieve in the immediate future.
May his second visit to your shores mark, in its character and results, a
new and memorable era in the history of the Cause in that great country!
Your brother and co-worker,
SHOGHI.
Haifa, Palestine.
January 16, 1923.
Letter of January 17th, 1923
To the members of the National Spiritual Assembly.
Dear friends:
It is a great pleasure for me to share with you the translation(4) of some
of the prayers and Tablets of our beloved Master, the reading of which I
trust will inspire you and strengthen you in your work of service to His
Cause.
I trust that in the course of time I will be enabled to send you regularly
correct and reliable translations of the various prayers and Tablets of
Bahá’u’lláh, and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, which will unfold to your eyes a new vision
of His Glorious Mission on earth and give you an insight into the
character and meanings of His Divine Teachings.
I shall await very eagerly any suggestions you would like to give me on
this point and on all other matters that pertain to the interests of the
Cause in America, and I assure you again of my readiness and wish to be of
help and service to those faithful and devoted servants of Bahá’u’lláh in
that land.
Your brother and co-worker,
SHOGHI.
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