[The following letter has been published in the faith that widespread publicity at this time will end forever the bitter persecutions still inflicted upon the Bahá’ís of Persia by their fanatical religious enemies. This implacable opposition to enlightenment, maintained almost without interruption for eighty years has been possible only through the isolation of Persia from the general progress of the world. Signs indicate a complete breakdown of the mental and social medievalism of that once notable people, even now more secluded from the West in many ways than Thibet, and their final liberation from an oppressive orthodoxy which has not only caused the martyrdom of twenty thousand Bahá’ís, but stifled the very life of the land. When the veil of this seclusion is lifted, and the true history of modern Persia becomes known, it will be seen that the Vital Spiritual Drama has been repeated on that darkened stage, and that the mighty figures of Love and Wisdom and Sacrifice have once more moved among men. Mutely, yet with a most terrible eloquence, the Bahá’ís of Persia have been telling in their suffering and death the immortal story of man’s devotion to the living God. If the result of their voluntary martyrdom is to turn the minds and hearts of the American people toward the Source of their radiant faith—Bahá’u’lláh—then this history of unequaled persecution will at last have been fulfilled.—Editors.]