My dear Baha"i sister,
Our dear Guardian has instructed me to acknowledge the receipt of your welcomed letter dated June 3, 1927. He is delighted to hear of your intended visit to j.a.pan where he hopes and prays you will receive your full share of confirmations from the Abha Kingdom.
He cherishes great hopes for your future contributions to the progress of the Cause in that far away and promising country. He wishes you to write to him frequently of the progress of your activities and of those whom you will interest in the Teachings of Baha"u"llah.
He would specially request you to prolong your stay in j.a.pan as the soil is exceedingly fertile and the workers are so few in number. The hosts of the Supreme Concourse will surely aid you and a.s.sist you in your endeavor to spread the Faith which the world needs so vitally today.
(in the Guardian"s handwriting)
Dear and precious sister:
Do not feel disheartened if you meet at first with trials and obstacles in His Path. I will pray for their removal and will supplicate for you Divine Guidance and strength. Your reward is indeed great and glorious in the world to come for all your endeavors and exemplary services to the sacred Threshold.
Shoghi
(July 16, 1927)
[Letter of October 12, 1927]
My dear and precious co-worker:
I cannot exaggerate the importance, nay the urgent necessity of your return to j.a.pan. Your place there is vacant, and the opportunities are varied and brilliant. The few friends there have to be nursed and a.s.sisted to renew their activity and consolidate their work. I will pray that you will be guided by our dear Master who loved you so dearly and wanted you so keenly to train and guide the rising generation in j.a.pan into the light of this Divine Revelation.
Your true brother, Shoghi
(October 12, 1927)
[Letter of October 22, 1927]
My dear and precious co-worker:
Though immersed in an ocean of activities and cares, I find always the time to think of you and express to you in writing my sentiments of love and appreciation of all you are doing for our beloved Cause. I trust the way to j.a.pan may open soon, and that you may resume in that important field, the work so dear to your heart.
Your true brother, Shoghi
Please a.s.sure dear Mrs. Augur of my tenderest brotherly sympathy in her affliction.(24) The services of her dear husband are engraved upon my heart. I will pray for him from the bottom of my heart at the Beloved"s Shrine.
Shoghi
(October 22, 1927)
[Letter of October 31, 1927]
My dear and precious sister:
I am glad that the date of your voyage to j.a.pan is at last settled and I hope and trust that you will be enabled to consolidate the great work you have initiated in j.a.pan. My prayers will accompany you wherever you go, and I ask you to a.s.sure the loved ones in j.a.pan of my continued prayers for their progress and spiritual advancement.
Shoghi
(October 31, 1927)
[Letter of December 30, 1927]
My dear co-worker:
What a relief to learn that you are at last on your way to j.a.pan where I trust and pray you may witness the growth of the Cause so dear to our hearts. I will pray that your efforts may meet with the fullest success and that you may be enabled to establish a powerful centre in the heart of that promising country.
Shoghi
(December 30, 1927)
[Letter of March 13, 1928]
My dear and precious co-worker:
I rejoice to learn of the resumption of your most valuable and pioneer work in j.a.pan, and I wish to a.s.sure you again and in person of my continued and fervent prayers at the Holy Shrines for your success in spreading and consolidating the Cause in that land. I urge you to make a special effort to organize the believers there into a local Baha"i Spiritual a.s.sembly as a nucleus round which will gather and flourish the future Baha"i community in j.a.pan. I trust that the Beloved may guide your steps and bless your efforts in this connection. Awaiting eagerly your good news.
Your true brother, Shoghi
(March 13, 1928)
[Letter of March 29, 1928]
My dear Baha"i sister,
Our Guardian has received with extreme pleasure your letter of February nineteenth from Tokyo.
He is so glad to know that you are finally there and actively busy in a work to which he pays the greatest importance. Being pioneer work it is bound to be slow, but he hopes that it will soon pa.s.s beyond the pioneer stage and that Baha"i a.s.semblies and groups composed of full fledged and confirmed Baha"is will replace your isolated individuals with whom you now communicate.