Therefore we have commanded all the Bahá’ís in the Orient to study
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Therefore we have commanded all the Bahá’ís in the Orient to study this language very carefully, and ere long it will spread all over the East. Therefore I request you also, non-Esperantists and fellow-Esperantists, to put your utmost exertion into the spread and promulgation of this language.
Source: ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Star of the West 1921 p 299-306
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