_ 147 _ to be. If God is with you, who shall be against you?(A) Your Highness is sustained by Him and not the Shah. You are in good hands for the benefit of all. Since He ordained it, thus, it is for a great increase of the faith, if not in the temporal sphere, in the spiritual. Do not cease to praise Christ and beg of Him [300v] just one thing with David, who says: I have sought one thing from the Lord, this I need, which is to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life(B), because only there, is it possible to be safe from all the storms and evils of this present life, as He himself says in the psalm: Who dwells in the shelter of the Most High(C), a thousand may fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you(D). No harm will befall you and no disaster will come near your tent(E). This house is our church militant, in which God resides and we with Him through faith and grace. Would to God that I could be Your Lordship’s companion in these labours for Christ, and that the Shah would deign (A) Cf. Romans 8, 31. (B) Cf. Psalms 26, 4. (C) Psalms 90, 1. (D) Cf. Psalms 90, 7. (E) Cf. Psalms 90, 10.
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