He (the Guardian) sincerely hopes that this trip to Japan will be
quite successful, and that the results achieved will be most encouraging
and stimulating to you, and will serve to bring to speedy and successful
realization ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s deeply cherished hopes concerning the
future of the Cause in these far-Eastern countries. The ground, of
course, is not yet quite prepared. There is still a tremendous amount
of publicity that has to be done before anything solid and enduring
can be attained. But the peoples, if not in the large industrial centers,
at least in the villages and country, are, as the Master has often remarked,
spiritually-minded and eager to absorb a message as sound
and as inspiring as that which the Cause offers.
