To the loved ones of 'Abdu'l-Baha throughout
the continent of America
Dear fellow-workers in the Holy
Vineyard of Baha!
Now that my long hours of rest and meditation are happily at an end, I turn my
face with renewed hope and vigor to that vast continent the soil of which is
pregnant with those seeds that our beloved Master has so tenderly and so
profusely scattered in the past. Prolonged though this period has been, yet I
have strongly felt ever since the New Day has dawned upon me that such a needed
retirement, despite the temporary dislocations it might entail, would far outweigh
in its results any immediate service I could have humbly tendered at the
Threshold of Bahá'u'lláh.
I am now confident that the energies of my beloved brethren and sisters across
the seas, far from being damped by my sudden disappearance from the field of
service, will henceforth be fully maintained, nay redoubled in their intensity,
that we may all together carry triumphantly to the uttermost corners of the
world the glorious Standard of Baha.
