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Updated: May 31, 2025
"I do not know," he said with a courteous air, "whether it is permissible for a newly-enrolled associate of this Brotherhood to make a speech on the first night of his membership, but after the cordial welcome I and my comrades, strangers as we are, have received at your hands, I should like to say a few words if, without breaking any rules of the Order, I may do so."
The house of M'Nab was thus filled from morning to night with soldiers of various grades of rank serjeants, corporals, and privates and of various degrees of standing, from the raw, newly-enrolled recruit, with his stiff black stock the only article of his military equipment with which he had been yet provided to the veteran serjeant, who had literally fought his way to his present rank.
The marvellous increase in the number of newly-enrolled believers, the multiplication of groups and assemblies throughout the length and breadth of your land, the purchase and projected restoration of the national Hazíratu’l-Quds in the city of Frankfurt, the impetus lent to the translation and publication of Bahá’í Literature, the receptivity shown by your country-men to the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh, the consolidation of the various agencies of a steadily expanding Administrative Order in the various zones of your country—all these augur well for the complete fulfilment of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s glorious prophecies regarding its future.
It also earnestly desires that the inhabitants shall refrain from overt acts against the Boer government. It also "distributes arms" at the Court House, and furnishes horses "to the newly-enrolled volunteers." It also brings a Transvaal flag into the committee-room, and the entire body swear allegiance to it "with uncovered heads and upraised arms."
He was a lieutenant in the Neopolitan army, sent with despatches for the commandant of the garrison of Messina to send two or three companies of the newly-enrolled troops to the capital.
It also earnestly desires that the inhabitants shall refrain from overt acts against the Boer government. It also "distributes arms" at the Court House, and furnishes horses "to the newly-enrolled volunteers." It also brings a Transvaal flag into the committee-room, and the entire body swear allegiance to it "with uncovered heads and upraised arms."
They had wrought for many days in the erection of sand-bag defences, in the digging of trenches, in the drilling of Baraland Irregulars and Rifle Volunteers and the newly-enrolled Town Guard. This was the pleasant social time of lull before the storm, and they were not to get many more good dinners or peaceful nights in bed for a long siege to come.
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