To the members of the National Spiritual Assembly.
My friends and fellow-workers in the Cause of God!
Your most welcome message, imparting the glad news of a successful
Convention, has rejoiced my heart and fortified my hope in this year of
active service, that has just unfolded itself before you.
I am certain that, as the newly elected representatives of the Baha'i
Community throughout America, you are, one and all, well aware of your
mighty responsibilities, and fully realize the tremendous need for a full
understanding amongst the friends, and their active and sustained
cooperation in spreading far and wide the Cause of Baha'u'llah throughout
that vast continent.
I fervently hope that in collaboration with our wise, able and devoted
brother, Jinab-i-Fadil, you will inaugurate a brilliant and vigorous
campaign of Teaching, that shall by its very splendor banish the darkness
of differences and contention that so impede the majestic and onward march
of the Cause in every land.