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The Light of Divine Guidance [First of Two Volumes]
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Pages 13-15
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Letter of 4 December 1923
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To the dearly-beloved friends throughout Germany.
Care of the National Spiritual Assembly
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My well-beloved friends:
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What a joy to correspond with you again, and express,
after a long and unbroken silence, my warm sentiments of
love and affection for those tried, yet steadfast, lovers of
`Abdu'l-Bahá! Your trials and sufferings have been a
constant source of anxiety and painful sorrow, not to me
alone, but to the Ladies of the Household as well as to the
friends at large.
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True, humanity is to-day widely afflicted with
unprecedented ills and calamities, but you, the chosen and
favoured children of `Abdu'l-Bahá, have, by some wisdom
inscrutable to us all, received the fullest measure of this
distress, and are carrying the burden of your cares with
heroic fortitude, unflinching faith, and undaunted courage
worthy of the admiration of even the most severely tried of
your fellow-sufferers in far-away Persia.
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Your only consolation lies in the ever-living words of our
departed Master, who confidently declared that the days are
not far distant when Germany, will shake off her present
humiliation, and will emerge, mighty, united and glorious,
not only to take her destined place in the councils of
nations, but to raise high the triumphant banner of the
Cause in the very heart of Europe.
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Your ceaseless activities since His departure from our
midst have been steadily extended as your tribulations and
anxieties have multiplied, and I feel hopeful that ere long the
true Faith of God will blaze worth in that land, and will
herald publicly the Message of Salvation to that distracted
continent.
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I am so desirous to receive from the National Spiritual
Assembly, frequent, comprehensive and up-to-date reports
on the present position of the Cause throughout Germany,
with an account of the activities of the various Bahá'í centers
recently established throughout that land.
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Your Bahá'í Magazine, I have regularly received and read
with deep interest. I strongly urge you to devote a section of
it, written both in German and English, to an account of the
current activities of the Movement throughout the length
and breadth of Germany, a step which I am sure will rejoice
the hearts of our spiritual brethren and sisters the world
over.
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The members of the holy Family and myself have joined
lately the resident friends in the Holy Land in contributing
towards the relief of the present distress in Germany, and
we trust our modest efforts will mitigate to some extent the
rigours of this coming winter in that afflicted country.
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Hoping to hear from you, individually and collectively,
and remembering you always in my prayers,
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I am your brother and co-worker
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