I am hopeful by divine bounty and grace that the beloved
ones of God may he confirmed in the building of the Mashriqu’l-Adhkar and all
its accessories, for the Mashriqu’l-Adhkar has important accessories which are
accounted of the basic foundations. These are: School for orphan children
Hospital and Dispensary for the poor: Place for the incapable: i.e., (Home for
the cripple); College for the Higher Scientific Education.
The meaning is this, that in every place:
First a Mashriqu’l-Adhkar must be founded. Then a School for the Education of
orphan children and the poor. Then the Hospital and Medical Dispensary must be
founded. Then the home of the Cripple. Then the College of Higher Scientific
Education.
In every city a great Mashriqu’l-Adhkar must be founded after this order.
Now we hope the Mashriqu’l-Adhkar may be founded in Chicago.
After its foundation the important accessories may gradually be founded.
(Signed) ‘Abdu’l-Baha Abbas
(Star of the West, vol. 1, no. 7, July 13, 1910)
