Thou hast written concerning the meetings and
gathering-places of the believers of God. Such assemblies and gatherings will
greatly aid the promotion of the Word and all the audience, whether friends or
not, will become affected. But when the friends have the intention of entering
into these meetings they must disengage the heart from all other reflections,
ask the Inexhaustible Divine Confirmation, and with the utmost devotion and
humility set their feet in the gathering-place. Let them not introduce any topic
in the meeting except the mentioning of the True One, neither must they confuse
that merciful assembly with complex outside questions. They must either teach
or open their tongue in propounding arguments, either commune or supplicate and
pray to God, either read Tablets or give out advices and exhortations.
(Signed) 'Abdu'l-Baha Abbas
(Star of the West, vol. 2, no. 6, June 24, 1911)