Praise be to God that the New York believers became confirmed in the accomplishment of a great service and held in that city the consultation Convention for the erection of the Mashriqu’l-Adhkar. They displayed the utmost of effort until that Convention was inaugurated with infinite perfection. They exercised the greatest of love and kindness towards all the delegates who had come from the different states. They invited and entertained the delegates in their homes. With perfect affection they spread before them the banquet of hospitality. Every one became grateful and happy. This event will adorn an important and blessed page in the Bahai history. ‘Abdu’l-Baha is pleased with every one and supplicates and entreats toward the Kingdom of Baha’u’llah and begs inexhaustible confirmations for the friends.
(Signed) ‘Abdu’l-Baha Abbas (Star of the West, vol. 4, no. 10, September 8, 1913)
