I am gratified to peruse the able and masterly work of my dear fellow-worker, Mr. Horace Holley, a work [1] which I have no doubt will by virtue of its subject matter, its comprehensiveness and uniqueness arouse widespread and genuine interest in the Movement. I am looking forward eagerly to similar productions by the pen of such able and gifted servants of Baha'u'llah.[1=Baha'i Scriptures, New York, 1923; replaced by Baha'i World Faith, 1943] (56:1)

I am enclosing for all the friends recent translations of those highly significant utterances of Baha'u'llah, revealed some fifty years ago, and pregnant with His divine wisdom. His ringing call to humanity in its hour of peril sounds prophetic in these days of utter gloom (56:2)

I am forwarding also a copy of the transliterated Oriental terms with few corrections of minor type errors. I am confident that the friends will not feel their energy and patience taxed by a scrupulous adherence to what is an authoritative and universal, though arbitrary code for the spelling of Oriental terms (56:3)

Committees of the National Assembly
The diligent efforts exerted by the various committees of the National Spiritual Assembly, those for National Teaching, for the Mashriqu'l-Adhkar, the Star of the West, the National Library, for the reviewing and publication of Baha'i literature, for education, for the National Archives and the Race Amity Conventions, have cheered and heartened me in the discharge of my manifold duties, and constitute in themselves a convincing evidence and inspiring example to the Baha'i world of the efficient spiritual administration of the affairs of the Baha'i world (56:4)

As to the spiritual activities of the "Children of the Kingdom" in America, my hope and prayer is that they may grow to become efficient servants of the Cause of Baha'u'llah. Their devotion and self-sacrifice, their readiness to help the cause of the Baha'i Temple, their activity in connection with the Baha'i Magazine are all unmistakable signs of the glorious future of the Cause in that land. May the care and loving-kindness of the Heavenly Father guide them, protect them and aid them in their future mission in life (56:6)

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