I have the great happiness of meeting my friends again in Brussels, and in this house where the Message commenced. It is a great pity that our friend Madama Graeffe is not with us just now owing to her poor health. Nevertheless, we feel her with us in the heart just the same, and we pray from the bottom of our hearts that from this moment that we all pray together for her that she soon will be better and well.

Now coming to the question of the work of the Message. Since I left you I should like to say a few words in what way the work has been done. The Message was given in the different parts of the United States, in New York, in Chicago, in Detroit, in San Francisco. Of course the time was too short for a large place like the United States. In four months I had to finish my visit whereas four months only a city like New York would take. No doubt, after having spread the Message there was a great demand for institutions to be founded in different places for the study of philosophy, and only I was able to do so in a few places like Detroit, New York, Santa Barbara, and Los Angeles. In San Francisco already a society existed.

Of course my greatest difficulty in the United States was that the response was greater, and to answer that response there is a lack of workers who are trained and ready to answer the great demand of the place. I returned with the hope that soon some of our friends will be ready with enthusiasm and with their study and practice to do what little they can, if not in their own countries, then in the United States. Since then I have met with people, some coming from the United States, who have taken a deeper interest.

In America, no doubt, I found that there is one thing which appeals to an American, whatever be his occupation or position, and that is the idea of brotherhood, it being a place where in this ideal the national constitution has been built. Any other problem might divide their intentions, but in the idea of brotherhood they will unite. There has been a great difficulty between America and Japan; but when the difficulty came in Japan, this disaster, when the President wanted some few millions, twice as much was at once contributed, because the feeling of brotherhood touches the heart of the people.