May I also mention in passing the fact that since my return to the Holy
Land I have directed and emphatically urged in my letters, the friends in
Persia, Turkestan, Caucasus, Great Britain, India, Egypt and Syria to
subscribe, through their respective Assemblies, to the Star of the West,
report regularly to that paper and through their Assemblies the news of
their activity and contribute every now and then carefully written
articles approved and sanctioned by the same Assemblies.
I trust that this measure will react favorably on the Star of the West and
will serve to stimulate the members of the Publishing Committee to further
activity in their sphere of service to the Cause.
Awaiting eagerly your letters and wishing you the fullest success in your
very arduous duties,
I am your devoted brother,
SHOGHI.
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-Baha:
Our dear friend, Jinab-i-Fadil-i-Mazindarani, 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 Baha'u'llah.
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.