The compilation of newspaper clippings with regard to recent persecutions
in Persia which has been sent by our dear brother, Mr. H. Holley, to the
Greatest Holy Leaf has been forwarded to the National Spiritual Assembly
of Persia, that they may witness for themselves and share with the rank
and file of the Persian believers the results of the extensive and
vigorous campaign so promptly undertaken on their behalf by their
sympathetic brethren in the West. It grieves me to inform you that this
sad tale of barbarism and unrestrained aggression on the property, the
lives and the honor of the heroic sufferers in that land is still
continuing to reach our ears, and the campaign of obstruction, of
intimidation and plunder is, but for short periods of comparative lull,
being systematically pursued with unabated vigor. I am certain that the
members of the National Spiritual Assembly, fully alive to the
uncertainty, the confusion and the seriousness of the present situation,
will seize the first opportunity to redress as much as it lies in their
power the interminable grievances that are being inflicted upon harassed
yet law-abiding citizens.
Wishing you success from all my heart, and assuring you of my continued
prayers for the steady expansion and consolidation of your work,
I am, your brother and fellow-worker,
SHOGHI.
Haifa, Palestine,
October 24th, 1925.
Letter of November 6, 1925.
To the members of the American National Spiritual Assembly.
My dear fellow-workers:
Two recent communications of your able secretary, dated Oct. 14th and
15th, have been received and read with deep gratitude and pleasure.