Extract from a Tablet to his honor Ebn Abhar. [A venerable teachers of the East]

Explain to the people the details of the Mashriqu’l-Adhkar in Chicago and tell them how contributions are received from the East and the West. For example, at this moment four contributions were received in one day from Rangoon, Bombay (India), Jahram of Shiraz and Kheirol-Gora of Khorassan for the Mashriqu’l-Adhkar of America and were forwarded to their destination.

Truly, I say, the friends of God displayed wonderful generosity in regard to the contributions for the Mashriqu’l-Adhkar. They displayed magnanimity at any cost to such an extent that some of them sold portions of their clothing on the streets. This is through the Power of the Covenant of God, for until this day an event of this character has never transpired that from the East and Asia contributions were forwarded to the West for the building of a Temple. 

Verily this is a cause of astonishment for the people of perception.

(Signed) ‘Abdu’l-Baha Abbas
(Star of the West, vol. 6, no. 17, January 19, 1916)