Our Common Servitude
May I also express my heartfelt desire that the friends of God in every land regard me in no other light but that of a true brother, united with them in our common servitude to the Master’s Sacred Threshold, and refer to me in their letters and verbal addresses always as Shoghi Effendi, for I desire to be known by no other name save the one our Beloved Master was wont to utter, a name which of all other designations is the most conducive to my spiritual growth and advancement.
Haifa, Palestine.
Circa May, 1922 (undated).
Letter of December 16, 1922
To the loved ones of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá throughout the continent of America.
Dear fellow-workers in the Holy Vineyard of Bahá!