Revealed during 1908.
Addressed to three maid-servants.
Baha’o’llah.
To the Boston (Mass.) assembly.
The name “Boston” rhymes with the Arabic name “Bostan,” or fruit-garden.—Translator.
This Tablet bears the following heading: “To the members of the Spiritual Assembly of Chicago and the Spiritual Assembly of New York.”
To the Samarkand, Russia, assembly.
To a believer in Baku, Russia.
Abdul-Baha elucidated Jesus’ teaching against the theory of “blindness from birth” and the defects being caused by the sin of the individual in a former state (see St. John 9:1–3), thus: “Jesus states that this defect exists in order to prove and show that the gift of sight is from God alone and is one of his bounties. Because were all created with sight the people would consider it a mere natural fact that they must be so made, and not give God thanks for His great gift.”—Translator
To the Cincinnati (O.) assembly.