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(11) August 12th, 1926 |
Shoghi Effendi wishes me to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter dated June 7, 1926. It was most interesting to go
over your circular letter and read the many points of interest. I
was especially struck by the literature you have sent to Lord
and Lady Allenby. If they have at all seen them I am sure they
were much impressed, for they knew the Master so well.
They were surely very astonished to see a group of Bahá’ís
formed in such a distant land.
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I am very ashamed of myself not to have yet answered
your letter of some months ago. It was mainly because Shoghi
Effendi wrote you and acknowledged the receipt of your
contribution for the pilgrim house that I have been so neglectful.
I took Miss Baker’s advice on the matter and together
we went down-town and bought a set of straw chairs.
We thought that would be most appreciated by the friends
while sitting in the veranda of the new Pilgrim House.
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I remember a prayer, which you wrote, has been asked
by a certain friend to be read daily. I believe sometimes the
friends through their zeal and ardour do things that are not
asked in the Cause. We have only one prayer that we have to
say daily. No one in the world has the power, given to him by
Bahá’u’lláh to add another to that daily prayer. If we should
admit this the life of the friends will soon be spent in mere
prayer, which is not the aim of the Cause. The healing prayer
and such ones are only for occasional use when the need
arises.
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Your letters are always a source of inspiring joy and
stimulating encouragement to me. You are destined to
achieve great things for our beloved Cause and my constant
prayer is that your vision may be clear, your purpose unshaken,
your zeal undiminished, your hopes undimmed. Let
not obstacles and disappointments, which are inevitable,
dishearten you and whenever you are faced with trials recall
our Beloved’s innumerable sufferings. You certainly occupy
a warm and abiding place in my heart.
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