He Is God
O thou Star of the West!
Be thou happy! Be thou happy! Shouldst thou continue to remain firm and
eternal, ere long thou shalt become the Star of the East and shalt spread in
every country and clime. Thou art the first paper of the Baha’is which is
organized in the country of America. Although for the present thy subscribers
are limited, thy form is small and thy voice weak, yet shouldst thou stand
unshakable, become the object of the attention of the friends and the center of
the generosity of the leaders of the faith who are firm in the Covenant, in the
future thy subscribers will become hosts after hosts like unto the waves of the
sea; thy volume will increase, thy arena will become vast and spacious and thy
voice and fame will be raised and become world- wide -- and at last thou shalt
become the first paper of the world of humanity. Yet all these depend upon
firmness, firmness, firmness!
(Signed) ‘Abdu’l-Baha Abbas
(Star of the West, vol. 1, no. 17, January 19, 1911)
