We await your Majesty’s assurance that our respectful appeal has achieved its aim. Our love for these oppressed Bahá’í brothers and sisters makes it imperative that we continue our efforts to rescue them from their sea of calamity, until assured that henceforth they shall be protected by the full power of the Imperial Government, and just restitution made them for losses already sustained.

We transmit this petition in behalf of the Bahá’í Spiritual Assemblies of the United States and Canada as follows: Berkeley, Geyserville, Glendale, Los Angeles, Oakland, Pasadena, San Francisco and Visalia, California; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Denver, Colorado; New Haven, Connecticut; Washington, D. C.; Miami, Florida; Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands; Chicago and Urbana, Illinois; Eliot, Maine; Baltimore, Maryland; Boston, Springfield and Worcester, Massachusetts; Detroit, Fruitport, Lansing and Muskegon, Michigan; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Montclair, Newark and West Englewood, New Jersey; Buffalo, Geneva, New York City and Yonkers, New York; Akron, Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio; Portland, Oregon; Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Seattle, Washington; Kenosha, Milwaukee and Racine, Wisconsin;—and in behalf of the Bahá’í groups and meetings as follows: Clear Lake Highlands, Santa Barbara and San Diego, California; Toronto, Ontario and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; St. Augustine, Florida; Atlanta and Augusta, Georgia; Spracklesville, Maui, Hawaiian Islands; Keokuk, Iowa; Peoria and Springfield, Illinois; Haverhill and Somerville, Massachusetts; Duluth and St. Paul, Minnesota; Omaha, Nebraska; Asbury Park and Jersey City, New Jersey; Johnstown, Ithaca and Rochester, New York; Dayton and Sandusky, Ohio; and Spokane, Washington.

“Bahá’u’lláh addresses Himself to the world of man saying: ‘Ye are all the leaves of one tree and the fruits of one orchard.’ That is, the world of existence is no other than one tree, and the nations or peoples are like unto the different branches or limbs thereof, and human individuals are similar to the fruits and blossoms thereof . . . while in all past religious books and epistles, the world of humanity has been divided into two parts: one called the ‘people of the Book’ or the ‘pure tree,’ and the other the ‘evil tree.’ One-half of the people of the world were looked upon as belonging to the irreligious and the infidel; one-half of the people were consigned to the mercy of the Creator, and the other half were considered as objects of the wrath of their Maker. But Bahá’u’lláh proclaimed the oneness of the world of humanity—He submerged all mankind in the sea of divine generosity.