3/17/21

To Mr. Horace Holley, author of the Bahai work, ‘The Modern Social Religion’

He is God!

O thou son of the Kingdom!

A copy of the book written by thee and forwarded to this spot was received. The friends are engaged in reading it. They praise and commend your book most highly and appreciatively, God willing, it will be translated and I will likewise read it. Thank thou God that thou art confirmed and assisted; thy aim is to render service to the Kinbdom of Abha, and thy object is the promotion of the Teachings of Baha’u’llah. Although the glory and greatness of this service is not known for the present, but in future ages it shall assume most great importance and will attract the attention of the most great scholars. Therefore, strive more and more as much as thou canst in this service, so that it may become the cause of thy everlasting glory and in the Kingdom of Abha thou mayst shine like unto a star.

Upon thee be Baha’u’l-Abha!

(Signed) ‘Abdu’l-Baha Abbas  (Star of the West, vol. 4, no. 16, December 31, 1913)