post to the Honorable Myron C. Taylor.
 
    
 
 
 These first months of the mission have occasioned Us great satisfaction   
and, in spite of the dark forebodings of the hour.  We express Our hope in a   
future which shall see the reestablishment of a general and enduring peace.    
Although the horrors of the war increase and Our sorrow deepens with every   
passing day, We are rebuilding Our prayers and Our endeavors to find a practi-  
cable way to such a peace as will bear within it the promise of permanency,   
and free men from the heavy incubus of insecurity and of perpetual alarms.  In  
our unceasing search for that peace which will be no longer, as so often in   
the past, a parenthesis of exhaustion between two phases of conflict, but   
rather, by the grace of God, a golden era of Christian concord dedicated to  
the spiritual and material improvement of humanity, We feel a distinct sense   
of comfort in the thought that We shall not be without the powerful support  
of the President of the United States.
 
     
 
 
It is therefore with heartfelt good will that We again assure Your Excell-  
ency of Our prayers for your continued