# In Memoriam

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> Source: Bahá'í Library Online (bahai-library.com), curated by Jonah Winters. Used by permission of the curator. Original citation: unknown, In Memoriam, Haifa: Bahá’í World Centre, 1970, bahai-library.com.
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> AN INTERNATIONAL RECORD
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> Prepared under the supervision of
> The Universal House of Justice
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> V O L U M E XI14
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> 111, 112, 113, 1$4, 125, 116, 117, 118 AND 119
> OF THE BAHA'I ERA
> 1954-1 963
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> THE UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE
> Haifzi, Israel
> 1970
> VAL~YU'LLAH VAP.QA                         were both staunch believers of the Cause,
> 1884-1955                          which they most earnestly served. 1 had three
> brothers. (i'v1~7 mother gave birth to four
> children.) n he eldest was named Mirzh
> Profoundly grieved loss outstanding Hand            GAziz,ul!a KhBn,         second was named
> Cause God, exemplay @ustee Buyc% dis-               Rf&ul&&, who was nlartyred, the third was
> tinguishd representative most venerable             myseif, md the     was called ~         ~       d   ~   ~
> community Bahk'i world, aorthy son brothel          \vho died in childhood. As a      we
> twin irnmortal martyrs Faith, dearly beloved              in Tabriz in the household     our
> disciple Center Covenant. Shining record            matcrnai grmdnzo&er in         love and
> services extending over half century emiched    hazmony and in              ease and honor,
> annals heroic formative ages Bahii'i Dispensa-            happiness was, however, upset and
> tion. His reward Abha Kingdom inestimable.      sllattercd in consequeilce of- some false
> Advise erect my be'a1E                          reports submitted by certain enenlies of the
> his graxJe. His mantle as trustee funds uuq6g   Cause      the Prince Regent, Mu?afFai'd-Dia
> now faIls on 'Aii Mubarnmad, his son. In-       Sha,             eR3ct that Mirza GAbdu9ilhb
> struct Row$ani Tihran arrange befittmg
> memorial. gatherings capital provinces honor
> memory mighty pillar cradle Faith Bah6'u'-
> membez.
> k B n , my granaatlIer., who was then a
> was acting          the
> Government and had put            house at
> N e w l ~ a ~ ~ O h ttrustee
> ed     Ptrqliq     disposd of Baha'is gz.thesing tbcre to con&uc-
> elevated rank Hand Cause.                       anti-government activities. My gxandhther
> SraoGal was obliged, therefore, to escape to Tihrh,
> November 15, 1955.                              and in his absence, my grandn~other,who wes
> a fanatical Muslim, found t k opportunity to
> exert her enmity by opposing my father SO
> Auto b iogruplzy                sirongly and relentlessly as to compel lrim to
> "Some time ago the Spiritual Assembly of leave h i s home and native to~vn,acco~npanied
> the Bahit'is of TihrBn asked mc to write my by his two cldest sons. My junior brother,
> autobiography for them. 111 reply, X explained Badj'uiUh, and nayself, being too small, were
> that during my youth I had had the privilege left behind with our mother in tke s m I~ouse
> and honor to be in the blessed presence of where m y gsandmother lived. This did nat,
> His Holiness "bdu'l-Baha and to be one of however, appease my grand~nother.She had
> His attendants during ETis visit to America. such a deep hatred of the Cause that she
> I had Jways seen aud witnessed Exis utter began to make evil suggestions to me against
> self-abrlegatio~lin words and deeds. When X my father and ro sow the seeds of hatred and
> stop to ponder. the resplendent servies enmity in ~ n soul      y    against him. She &as able
> rendered by the early believers of the Faith to impress m    y tender soul to sucl~an extent
> and tllcir heroic sacrifices, I do not see how that in my Islaillic prayers, which I was
> T can give any account about myself.            obliged to say, I wept in bittcr grief for nxy
> "I was born in Tabriz, 1263 Persian solar father's deviation which had earned him SO
> calendar (1884). My father, 'Ali Muhammad ~ m c hhaired frain the public.
> Vmq& a martyr of the Cause, was the thifiild        "Up to the age of sixteen, I lived with my
> son of E;Tkji Mull& Mihcii Yazdi, known as grandmother ia an at~xosplierecharged with
> Atxi, and my mother, Fittin~ih, iivzs the such fanaticisn~and hatred towards the Cause.
> daughter of Bhji MirG 'Abdu'llLih Khan Then my ur~cle,HAji Mlr &sap, a sincere
> Nbri of Mazindarhn. These two grandparents bdiever and teacher of thc Cause, took steps
> 53 I
> THE BAHA"              WORLD
> 
> to transfer me from Tabriz to Miyanduhb,             Bahfyyih RhBnum, daughter of the late
> where I lived under his care and lave for some       Sani-us-Sulj6n, surnamed Sani IlIkhi, of
> years until I b e m e a believer.                    whom I had ten children. Seven d these
> "During my stay in Miyanduhb, the late            children, three sans and four daughters, are
> Siyyid Assadu'lkh Qumi visited. there and            now Iiving and they are: 'Ali Maammad;
> was a guest of my uncle. Feeling that I was          Mihdi; Malihih (Mrs. Qubad); Munirih
> extremely anxious to visit the Holy Shrines          (Mrs. Fdrzar) ; Parvin (Mrs. Muvafiq);
> and the Center oS the Covenant, he promised          Mafymnud; Lami (Mrs. Nikanpirrf. I thank
> me, when leaving MiyanduBb, ihst whenever            God that they are all Bahs'is and are firm
> he intended to leave for the Holy Itand he           in the Cause.
> would inform me that I might join him at                '? must express my great appreciation to
> Tabriz. ShartIy afterwards 1 received his            my wife, who has sincerely collaborated with
> message telling mne that he was ready to leave.      we since our marriage and who had, in fact,
> Filled with great enthusiasm for this auspicious     a greater share than myself in rsaining the
> jo~uncyX did not even inform my uncle of my          children in the BahB'i spirit.
> intended departure, since I thought he urould           "After my marriage 1 took enlployment in
> definitely not allow me to make the journey          the Russian Embassy as a secretary, but when
> because of his great affection for me. I forth-      'Abdu'l-BakA was about to leave for America
> with left for M~arh&ihin company with one            I lefi for 'Akk&with His permission and had
> of the aged beliomrs, and thence X proceeded         the great hanor of attending Him o s His
> to Tabriz. At Tabriz I was summoned by the           historic journey. After my return to T i f i n ,
> Local. Spiritual Assembly, who, after holding        I was enlplayed as First Secretary Translator
> consuItation regarding nnly dm, informed nle         by the Turkish Embassy, My dayrime was
> that they had decided I should go to Tihrh           spent working at the office and at night I was
> to stay with my brother Mirz5 'Adzu'IlAIn            happy to serve on the Spiritual Assembly
> K b h . To persuade them to revise their
> -                                                    and on various Baha'i committees. At both
> decision was out of the question and I was           the Embassies 1 had ma& it a condition with
> therehre obliged to leave for Tihrh, where           them not to require me to do anything
> 1stayed with my dear brother and meanwhile           co~ceriledwith poiitics. After Inany years of
> took up nly studies ill the Tarbiyat School.         service, however, 1 was asked to do a service
> At the same time I began to study EngIlsh            which slightly touched on politics, whereupon
> outside the school and took up a course in           I tendered my ~esigrzation.
> Arabic with Bahh9f scholars. X spent a few              "For the last twelve years I have had the
> years a180 in the American High School in            incsiiinable honor to serve as Trustee of
> Tihrkn to advance my gem~eraleducation.              ~uqiiqu'llhh,having been appointed by the
> "The lorwcherished time now came wheil            beloved Guardian, and it is my utmost wish
> with the consent af my dear brother I left for       that 1 may be able during these last days of
> 'Akka, where 1 had the great privilege of           my life to render befitting service to our Holy
> visiring 'Abdu'i-Baha, the Center of the             Cause and give satisfaction to our ireIoved
> Covenant. Following this auspicious occasion         Guardian."
> I proceeded to Beirut where Z took up my                The spiritual services of the Hand of the
> studics with the aim of finishing the college        Cause Mr. Valiyu'llkh Varqa, which began
> wurse and continuing them in a university            at the early age of twenty and ended with his
> in England. During my stay in Beirut I was           death at the age of seventy-one, were charac-
> summoned by 'AbdrUfi-BAA to 'Akkri every             terized by weer-increasing zeal and enthusiasm
> summer and there I had the opportrmity to            throughout his Iife. His efforts in the Cause
> study the Cause and take teaching courses with       were redoubled particulasly aftcr the passing
> other students under the Late Frf6jC MirzA           away of Mr. , h i n Amfa in 1938, when Mr.
> Baydar-'ALi.                                         Varqa was entrusted by the beloved Guardian
> "Xn the summer of the year 1309, whiIe I          with the duty of taking care of Ehe Quq&qu'llBh.
> was in 'Akkit, I was instructed by 'Abdu'l-BahB     His elevation later to the rank of Hand of the
> to return to T i h r h to fulfill a mission which   Cause inspired in him a new spirit and stirred
> He so kindly entrusted to me. In Tihr&n,after        him to a still higher degree of service to the
> having carried out His mission, I married            Cause or BahB'u'llkh. Tn 1953 he prepared
> fN M E M O R I A M
> 
> when the New Dclhi Conference, in which
> Mr. VarqA was to participate, should have
> bcen concluded. He therefore left soon for
> New Delhi, not waiting to complete the
> convalescence period, and consequently had
> a very hard cime during the days of the
> Conference. He then received the Guardian's
> instructions to proceed to 'Iraq, Egypt and
> Syria on a teaching mission. He forthwith
> Ieft New Deihi for 'Iraq. I n that country his
> illness took a serious turn and Ize suffered
> extreme pain. He was therefore obliged to
> stay in the eziratu'l-Quds in Ba&d&d, After
> a while, when he felt himself ssiiglztly better,
> he Ieft for Cairo, Ismailia, Suez, Port Said.
> and Alexandria, where he visited the friends
> and gladdened their hearts by giving them an
> account of the magnificent results of the
> Conferences and of the lapid progress of the
> Cause in the world.
> He khen left for Turkey, where he visited
> the towns d Qazi Antap, Iskanderun, Adana
> and Istanbul, and met the friends. The
> unexpected cold weather in Turkey that
> year and Mr. Varq2s ill health caused him
> a great deal of suffering. I-ie now reported to
> the beloved Guardian an account of his
> journeys and was then kindly instructed to
> return to f r h . After his asrival in Tihrin
> the Guardian appointed a time when he codd
> himsdf, under instructions fxoln the Guardiaa,   visit the Holy Land. This visit to the Holy
> for participation in the Intercontinental        Shrines and to the beloved Guardian, which
> Conferences. He fvst attended the Kampala        lasted about two weeks, inspired him with
> Conference and then the Conference in            a uew life and revitalized him for still further
> CKicago. During the interval between the         activities. He was then instructed by Shoghi
> latter and the Conference in Stockholm he        Effendi to proceed to Gerinany so as to join
> was directed by the Guardian to proceed to       the Hands or the Cause and at the same time
> South America, where Iie visited the axea        to comptete the course of his medical treat-
> betu~eenBrazil and Santiago in Chile within      ment. From there, on the Guardian's i n s t r u ~
> forty-six days. His mission was to meet the      tlons, he departed for tlusiria and stayed in
> friends and to give the Message to the people.    Vienna for some time, where he started
> On July 10, 1953, he left for Europe and,        teaching the Cause and gi\<ngpr~blicaddresses
> after participating in the Stockholm Con-         tc? large crowds of searchers for truth. He
> ference, he visited a Iwge number of cities in   then returned to fr8n.
> Germany by the order of the Guardian. 111.1          In March 1955 he felt very severe pain
> Hsmbtxrg, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Munich and        which made him extremely uneasy. He there-
> Esslingen he met many BahA'i friends and         fore left for Europe again for medical treat-
> ofhers. 1x1Stuttgart the preliminary signs of     ment, visiting first Paris and then Italy. While
> his iilness beg~tnto appear. Hz stayed in a       receiving trealment he did not forget his
> hospital for a week in Sluttgarr and then for     teacching ~ntssion whenever IE found an
> a further month in UIm, where he underwent       opportunity. He then proceeded to Germany
> an operation.                                    and went to a hospital in Tubingen where
> Mr. VarqB's reqizest to Slzoghi Effendi for   for forty-one days hc passed the last part of
> a visit to Haifk had been granted for the time   his brilliant life. Even during these last days
> 834                              T H E BAHA'I WORLD
> 
> he did not neglect his teaching duty. Whencver       German believers. He assures you all of his
> he fell a mitigation of pain and suffering he        prayers for your success.
> called to his bedside both friends and seekers                             With Bahri'i greetings,
> of truth and spoke to thein of the Teachings.                              R. RABBANI
> But the light of his life was steadily fading, and
> I
> it was on Saturday, November 12, 1955, that          Assuring you of n-ty deep and abiding appre-
> he passed m7ayand joined the concoarse on            ciation of the sympathy you have expressed
> high, Hc was a drop that fell in the Great           for the great loss sustained by our beloved
> Ocean, a beam of light that attained to #e           Fsith, and of my fervent prayers for the
> luminous Sun.                                        success of cvery eEort you exert for its
> Afta Mr. Varqa's death the beloved               promotion.
> Guardian ordered that a memorial be erected                                                               I
> 
> tit his oq7nexpense, at the grave of Mr. Varqk                                   Your true bxothm,
> in Stuttgart. The design was inadc by Mr.                                           Smcm
> Seyhun, architectural engineer, and w11iZe
> this account is being written the construction
> of the roof i s nearing completion, under the
> supervision of Mr. Bauer, a beloved Geman                       AMELIA E. COLLINS
> friend. After it is completed the monument                             1873-1962
> will bear evidence of the grace of God to His
> devoted servants.
> "0 tizou lady of the Kingdom!" With
> these words 'Abdu'L-Wd addressed Amelia
> A h the passing of Jinkbi Varqk the                Engelder Collins in His Tablet to her, dated
> following letter was received in Germany:            December 6, 1919. It was an answer to the
> Haifa, Israel                                        longing of Lhis newly awakeiled heart to serve
> December 3, 1955                                     the Kingdom of Cod. The "hope" of 'Abdu'l-
> W i i as expressed in the Tablet becane
> fulfilled in fullest measure in the life OF this
> To the B W i s who wcre gathefed at the            devoted fiahk'i:
> funeral of the Wand of the Cause, Valiyn'ilBh           ''In brieL JbDm tile bounties o j His Aoli~less
> Varqii, in Stuttgart, November 17, 1955:             BuhCi'~'tIcih,My hope is that tiiou mayest
> duily ndvmce ia the Kingdaplr, that thort
> nlayest brconze a heave~lysoul, confirmed by
> Dear Bahi'i Friends:                                 the brruths of the HaIy Spirit, and r~myerect
> Your message touched our beloved Guard-          a ~tructurethat shall eternally remain ,firmand
> ian very much, and he was happy to see that          uns?~ccknbie."
> so many of the believers, both eastern and             'Abdu'l-Baha passed away in 1921. Amelia
> western, had been able to gather for his             used to say that, "After the provisions of His
> funeral, m d honor this greatly-loved and            Will becanm known, my whole h e a t a   u
> dl soul          I
> 
> staunch pillar of the Faith.                         turned to that youthful Branch, appointed
> bTeare assured that, dter so much suffering      by Him to watch over and guide the Faith
> during the Iast years of his life, he has gone       af BahB'u'li21. How Z prayed t h t God                   I
> 
> to receive a great reward in the Abh6 King-          would help me to make him happy !"
> dom.                                                   This became her guiding light, to scrve
> The Baha'is could not have a better              the beloved Gziardim and make him happy.
> example before then1 of nobility and faith-          She often said that to see the Guardian smile
> fulness than this distinguished Hand of the          just once was worth a lifetime of suffering.
> Cause; mid it is a blesskg h r the German            To this end, then, she poured forth unstintingly
> friends that their country should have received      her love, her strength, her means, throu&hout
> h i s dust. The Guudian urges you all to follow      the remaining ycars of her life, ofxctcn and
> in the footsteps of this beloved Hand, and           increasingly, at the cost of great physical
> to redouble your. effol-is to achieve the goals      sacrifice. Her personal possessions, art treas-
> of the World Crusade apportioned to the              ures, life itself, had meaning only as t h y
> could be used to serve the Cause of BahB'uSllAh   outstanding benefactress Faith Amelia Coliit~s.
> and the one on whom had fallen the re-            Unfailing support, love, devotion beioved
> sponsibility of carrying forward "tbe great       Guaxdian darkest period his life b~oughther
> work entrusted to his care,"                      unique bounty his deep affection, esteem,
> coniide~ceand honor direct association work
> WorId Center. Signal services every field
> Bah2i activity unforgettable. Purchase site
> Ma&riqu71-A&k&rMozmt Camel, genexous
> gifts hastening construction Mother Temples
> four continents and acq~iisiiion ndictnal
> IJaziratu'l-Quds endowne~~ts,     constanr: sup-
> port home front world-wide teaching eater-
> prises among her magnificent donations,
> Urge national assemblies bold memorial
> gaihcrings, l?articularly Temples colnnnern-
> orate her shining e x a ~ p l eceaseless
> r        services
> inailltained until last breatli."
> 
> Amelia Engefder Collins was born on June
> 7, 1873 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her
> rnot&e~,Catherine Groff, was born in the
> United States; her father, Conrad Engelder,
> emigrated from Gerfuai~yat an early age aad
> became a Lutheran ciergyfnm. Amelia wzs
> b~angh:htup in a strict Lutherran atlilaspliere.
> She was the seventh child in a family of nine
> sons and five daughfers, Her early married
> life was spent in Calumet, Michigan, and
> Bi.sbee, Arizona, in mining areas where her
> husband, Thomas H. Collins, had interests.
> After her husbmif"s death she sold their h o r n
> in California, and devoted ail her time and
> means to tIic Faith.
> During h e last ttvelve yea s of her life the
> As the years passed, in numerous leiiers        effects of arthritis became iiicreasiagly painful
> and messages to her, the Guarclim referred        and crippling, hut she did not alIow them to
> to her "indomitable spirit of faith and Love",    interfere with her services; her life becalm
> her "indefatigable services", her "single-        eor~pletely dedicated and the qualities of
> minded and \vholeheaated devotion" to the         spirit \kith which she was endowed blossomed
> Cause of God, her "self-sacrificing effortsw-     and bore fruit, Depth and clarity of spiritual
> examples which "will live and insuenee many       insight, wise and Ioving counsel, chiiiilike
> a soul," These services were crowned by           faith in prayer and ia the working out of
> Shogili Effe~ldiin Januasy 1951 with her          Gats Will, wholehearted sacrifi~%      of earthly
> appointment as member and vice-president          comforts, a real love for her f e I l o ~hrinun
> of the 11ew1y-appointed International Baha'i      beings, integrity in holding herseIf, and others,
> Councii, "Eoreruimer" of the Universal. House     to the highest standards, wei-equalities which
> of Justicc, m d in December 1951, with her        I-eachedthe h w l acC! illumined the way for
> agpoiniinent as one of the first contingent       many.
> of living Hands of the Cause.                        Early in 1923 Miily-, as she was aEectionatety
> At the time of lier passing in Haifaa,the       known, made her first pilgrimzge to Flaifa,
> Ha-ids of ihe Cause cabled:                       acconlpanied by her husband, who was not
> "With deepest regret shsue news Bah8'i          a Bah2i. She oftea spoke of the great kinbess
> world passing dearly loved Wmd Cause              shown by Shoghi Effendi to Mr. Collins. At
> 836                              T H E B A W A ' ~W O R L D
> 
> the time of her husband's death in 1937              lFEt5lmfridur Arnadbttir, who became a good
> Shoghi Effendi comforted her:                        friend and made the first translation of
> "Greatly distressed sudden passing beloved        BahB'i literature into Icelandic. Publicatian
> husbarrd. Heart overflowing tenderest sym-           of Miss Anladottir's translation of Essle-
> pathy. Offering special prayers. Advising            mont's BulaLi'u'lijJz nnd rlze New Era in
> Geyserviile summer school hold begtting              Icelandic, in Reykjavik in 1939, was made
> memorial galhering recognition generous              possible through Milly's generosity.
> support their institution. May Beloved aid              Milly was elected to the National Spiritual
> h i n ~attain goal he was steadily approachiry       Assembly of the B&g'is oF the United States
> closing years of his life."                          and Canada in 1924. Except for the years
> That same year she made her second                1933-1838 she was a member of this body
> pilgrimage to the Holy Land. A cIoser tie            until she was called by Shoglli ERendi to serve
> %?asforged wilh the beloved Guardian and             at the World Center of the Faith, She was
> the beginning of a deep aand significant             also an active member of the National
> relationship to his wife, Amatu31-BahB               Teaching, Assembly Development, and Inter-
> Rhbiyyih manurn, a relatianship which drew           America Comittecs. She visited most of the
> her closer to the Guardian hiznself. After           Baha'i centers in the United States and
> this pilgrimage he wrote to her:                     Canada to assist their consolidation, and mast
> "The days you spent under the shadow              of those in Central and South America to
> of the Holy Shrines ill long be remembered           promote tbe teaching work, during the First
> with joy and gratitude. I have during these          and Second Seven-Year Plans, 1937-1953.
> days increasingly appreciated and admired               The Guardian's appreciation of this work
> the profound sense of devotion, the passionate       was expressed through his secretary:
> fervor, the intense love and attachment that            "It comforts him greatly to know that you
> animates you in the service of this Holy Cause.      are in a position to help watch over and
> For such noble qualities 1 feel t h d f ~ ~and l,    safeguard the interests of the Cause and the
> T an1 certain that the fruits they will yield will   believers. Your calm sanity, your great faith
> be equally outstanding and memorabb. Rest            and devotion are assets of outstanding vaIue
> assured and be happy."                               to the Faith, especially at present."
> Three years Iater he wote:                          The Guardian in 1437 sent through Milly
> "Row pleased the Beloved 111ust be! Wow           a sacred gift to the American Bahk'i Com-
> proud He must feel of your truly great               munity. The cablegram announcing this gift
> achievements! The soul. of dear Mr. Collins          to the Annual Convention of 1838 said:
> 113ust exult and rejoice in the AbhA Kingdom.           "As token my gratitude to such a coinmu-
> Persevere and be happy."                             nity entrusted beloved co-worker Mrs. Collins
> And again that same year:                        locks BahA'u'llaFs nmst precious hair ar-
> "Dearly beloved co-worker:                           ranged preserved by loving hands Greates.t
> 1am deeply touched by your repeated and          Holy Leaf to rest beneath dame of Temple
> most generous contributions to the institutions      nobly raised by dearly beloved believers in
> of our beloved Faith established both in the         American continent."
> ..
> United States and the Holy Land. Z shall                She presented to the Convention the
> gladly and gratefully expend your two most           Cruardlan's gift, which she had had beautifully
> recent donations for the alleviation of              framed and placed in a special silver case.
> distress as we11 as for the initiation of fresh      This was the first sacred relic sent by the
> activities, institutions and enterprises in the      beloved Guardian to be retailledin the Alwr-
> Holy Land as well as ilr the adjoining coun-         icm National Baha'i Archives.
> tries. May the Beloved bless w u a thusaad-            After the second. World War Milly was
> fold for the powerful assistance you are            invited by Miss Arnad6tt3r to come to
> extending the Faith in so many tields of Bah8'i      Iceland. Mi@ asked the Guardian's advice
> activity and aid you to fulfill your highest         and received this reply, through his secretary;
> hopes in iLs service."                                  "As he cabled you, he ffeds your presence
> O d y brief ineation can be made here of         in Arnzrica more important tkan Iceland at
> Milly's many senices. In 1924, while on a            this time. . . The small assemblies in America
> cruise to Icelaild with her husband, she met         are badly in need of BaWi education. Feaple
> TN M E M O R I A M                                   837
> 
> like you, who are loving, tactfa1 and wise, to      Also ccbortt this time, he wrote:
> help them see their problen~sand the solution       "Though you yourself are in America, yet
> far them, should be in continual ckdation, the range of the services which y o u contribu-
> so to speak. Again he would remind you not tions render possible i s far-reaching. You
> to overtax your strength or wear yourself out should feel greatly encouraged, thankful and
> in your desire to do all yori can for the work. happy for being able to lend such an impetus,
> Your services are too much needed for you to in these days of stress and peril, to the world-
> jeopardize your health. , ."                      wide activities of so precious a Faith."
> Milly was one of the first to do something        man^ nlany of Milly's services are known
> about te~chingthe Indians in Anlerica, as only to God, the belotied Guardian and
> urged by 'Abdu'l-BahA in His Divine Plan herself. Indeed, she herself could not remein-
> Tablets. Over a period of many years she ber t l m all. In most instances her out-
> deputized Eahk'is to teach the Omaha Indians standing gifts were acknowledged by Shoghi
> in Macy, Nebraska, often visiting the group Effendi in his general letters or cablegrams.
> herseIf. In 1848 the first Indian Baha'i          Among those were:
> Assen~blyon the American continent was              Purchase of property on Mt. Carmel(l926);
> formed there,                                     development and exteasion of smmier school
> Milly lived simply, allowing herseIf 1x0 properties at Gcyserville, California (1936)
> luxuries, denying hersdf what many would and at Davisun, Miclrigan; publication of
> consider necessities. She rarely spoke af h e BahPi literature for the first time in An-haric
> many generous coi~tributions she made: (1934); first contribution to the Bahiyyiix
> the Guardian himself learned of some of then1 -   JLhburn Fund toward the ercction of the
> only tIxough the National Spiritual Assembly Mother Temple of America (1939); cantribu-
> minutes or reports of the National Treasurer. tion to the Teinple Fund in Persia (1939);
> Many of her donations were in response to defraying cost of publication of four recent
> the Guardian's mere mention of a needed volumes of The Bahd'i Y?o~'ln'; repeated
> development in the Faith. F equently MiEly's contributions to teaching work arid to the
> was the first response to reach him. Of one Mother Temple of America; gifts of p operties
> of these he wrote in 1914, through his secretary: near this Temple, as well as donations to the
> 'T am enclosing a receipt, at the iliscruction first Teinpic Dependency donations toward
> of our beloved Guardian, for the sum you so purchase of nineteen supplementary Temple
> spontaneously and generously sent to him to sites in Latin-America, Europe and Asia;
> be used $01-the construction of tlze Superstruc- contributions to aid eniX~elbshmentof the
> ture of the RSb's Holy Tomb on Mt. Carmel. area s u r r o u n d i ~the Tomb of Bal~ri'u'llhl~
> "lie wants you to know that this is the at Rahji and erection and furnishing of the
> first contribution he has received for this International Archives building on h4t.
> glorious undertaking, and he is not surprised Camel. In 1356 Shoghi Effendi wrote to
> that it should mme from you! You lead the Milly: "Dear and prized co-worker:
> way, in devotion, loyalty and self-sac~ifice, I will devotc a part of your very generous
> in many Eelds of Bahi'i service, and your contribution to the pu~ehaseof a few Chinese
> spirit of dedication to our beloved Faith and and Japanese cabinets, pands and ornaments
> its interests greatly endears you to him."        for the International Archives now naring
> On one occasion when the Guardian's and completion, the exterior and interior of which
> Milly's contributions coincided in being wiI1, to a very n~afkedextent, be associated,
> first, he cabled her:                             for alI time, with your nlunificent support
> "Our recent contributions teaching cam- of the rising institutions of the Faith at i t s
> paign synchronized evidence our hearts tVorid Center. I am sure you will bc highly
> attuned noble Cause."                             pleased, and the spirit of dear Mr. Collins
> In 1939 hc wrote:                              will rejoice in the Abki Kingdom.''
> "Your very generous offeriags enable me,         fie-emiaent anong the gifts of one called
> in these days of stress and trial, to extend the by Shaghi Effendi "outstanding benefactress
> range of the work of the Cause at its World of the Faith" was the donation of the entire
> Center, to reinforce the activities initjated sun1 for the purchase of the Temple siie on
> at the various national centers.. ."              Mt. Camel, acknowledged by Shoghi Egendi
> 538                             T H E B A W A ' ~W O R L D
> 
> in his October 1953 cable and in his message         nlemorid are indeed outstanding and never-
> to the twelve Annual Conve~~tions      in 1955.     to-be-forgotten achievexnents that enrich still            I
> 
> In the latter he also acknourledged Milly's         further the magnificent record of your services,
> assistance in the purchase of many national         local, national, as v7ell as international, so
> Ijaziratu'l-QuAs and endowments on five             nobly rendered to the Cause of Bah2uYULftb
> continents. Shoghi Effendi's last Convention        and its rising institutions. The Baha'is, East
> message of 1957 referred to this devoted            and West, North and South, admire and axe
> thankful for such signal services. . . Be happy,
> 
> I
> believer's "munificent donation" toward the
> building of the Mother Temples on three             and persevere in your exempiasy and llistoric
> continents (Europe, Australia and Africa).          services. Affectionately, Shoghi."
> The beautiful "CoUins Gate", the main               Milly anadc two subsquent trips to tatin-
> gate leading to the Shrine of BahB'u'llkl~,was      America. In January 1946 she attended the
> named in her honor by Shoghi Effendi                first Latin-American BahA'i Teaching Con-          ,
> hirr'self.                                          ference in Panama City, as rep~esentative              I
> 
> Milly's travels for the Faith werc far more      of thc National Spisilual Assenlbly of the         I
> extensive than can be recorded here; many           Baha'is of the United States and Canada and            1
> were mdertaken at the request of thc Guard-         of the Inter-America Teaching Cornlittee.
> im, To her he entrusted delicate t;tsks which       In January 1949 she attended the third South
> 11e knew would be carried out with the              American Teaching Congress in which seven
> greatest discretion and devotion.                   South Amsrican countries pmtiticipated. This
> In 1942 she represented the National             was held in SBo Paulo and resulted in the first
> Spiritual Assembly of the Bahsis of the United      Bahgi summer school in Brazil.
> States and Canada in connection with the               The Guardian's letters expressed con-
> erection of the memorial to May Maxwell,            tinuany l ~ i sdeep appreciation and gratitude     I
> 
> Rirwyyih &Anm's mother, in Buenos Aires,            to this devoted "co-worker".                       l
> Argentina. The nlonument, designed by                  Such an outpouring of love, of self-sacrifice
> Sutherland Maxwell, was erected by Shoghi           and heroic effort as was Maly's stemmed from
> Wen&. It was Milly's first trip to South            her great Iove for the Cause of God and an
> America; it was war time, and she was alone,        inner deep spiritual relationship and devotion
> embarking on a mission for which she felt           to the one on whose shoulders rested the
> unfitted. When at last she arrived at her hotel     burdens and responsibilities of the Faith. In
> she was handed a telegram which read:               January 1947,Milly received a letter from the
> "Prayers accompany you always, every-            beloved Guardian, thecontents of which were
> where. Deepest loving appreciation. Shoghi."        cherished for inany ycars, unspoken of, in
> Milly remained in Bumos Aires until the          the secret recesses of her heart. The firstpart,
> model was made and approved and arrange-            through his secretary, read:
> ments completed for its execution and erec-            "He wants to make clear to you that when
> tion in QuiImes Cenletery, She had selected         he said, in his recent cable, rhat your example
> the sculptor and located a block of Carrara         might well be emulated by the nine Hands of
> nmrble of suficient purity and size. She then       the Cause, who will in the future be especially
> flew to Rio de Janeiro, her mission accom-          chosen to serve the Guar&an. he meant that
> plished. In Rio, faced again with was-time          the very services you have been recently
> difficulties of civilian travel and inability t o   rendering the Cause, because of their nature
> obtain plane reservations, while praying she        and their intimate association with him, are
> saw "blazoned in light" before her eyes the         of the kind which one of these nine might well
> words: "Put your whale trust and confidence in      be called upon to render. So you see you are
> Cad." In two days she was flying to Miami.          not only \worthy to be a Hand of the Cause,
> but have rendered a service which ordinarily
> Of this mission the beloved Guardim               would be performed by this select body of
> wrote to her:                                       nine, You must realize that his conferring
> "Dear and prized co-worker:                         this rank upon you is not as im inducemeat to
> Your voyage to South America at this              you to perform future tasks, but as a well-
> critical hour, the efforts you have exerted for     deserved recognition of those already per-
> the initiation of the construction of May's         fornled!"
> IN MEMORIAM                                              839
> 
> The Guardian's postscript:                           After the second World War Milly's
> travels look her several times to Europe. In
> "Dm m d prized co-worker:                          October 1949 Shoghi Effendi wrote to her:
> With a heart overflowing with profound             "I greatly rvelcame the splendid oppor-
> gratitude, I an1 now writiizg you these few        tunity you now have of csntrributing yovr
> lines to reaffirm the sentiments, expressed        share--substantial and abiding I am confident
> lately on severai occasions and in a numba         it will be-ta the progress of the Faith and
> of telegranls, of heartfelt and unqualiged         tlte edification of the believers in Great
> admiration for your magnificent services,          Britain, Poland, Switzerland and Germmy.
> rendcred in circumstances so exceptional and       I have already informed the German and
> difficult as to make then1 doubly meritorious      13ritish. National Assemblies, and 1 am sure
> in the sight of God. You have acquitted your-      the friends will be delighted to meet you, a ~ d
> self of the task I felt prompted to impose upon    will be greatly stimulated by the news you
> you in a manner that deserves the praise of the    will impart to them, as a rest& o f your wide
> Concourse on high. The high rank you now           experience, and parfieularly by the spirit
> occupy and which no Bahri'i has ever held in       which so poweifu11y anhates you in the
> his own lifetime has been conferred solely         service of our beloved Faith. This lidtest
> in recogaitioa of tho manifold services you        journey you w d e r w e for the spread and
> have already rendered, and is, by no means,        consolidation of the Faith at such important
> intended to be a stimulus or encouragement         European centers constitutes another chapter
> in the path of service, Indeed the chasacter        of the truly remarkable and outstanding
> of this latest and highly significant service      r e o r d of your eminent international services
> you have rendered places you in the category                            ..
> to thc Cause of God. Your true and grateful
> of the Chosen Nine who, unlike the other           brothcr, Shoghi."
> Hands of the Cause, are to be associated               Milly was invited to Turkey and Egypt in
> directly and intimately with the cares and         December, 1951, to carry out special requests
> responsibilities of the Guardian of the Faith.     of the beloved Guardian. When it was titime
> I feel tmly proud af you, am d r a m closer to      for her to haye for Turkey she was ill, but
> you, and admire more deeply than ever before        this did not keep her from setting out on the
> the spirit that animates you. RIay the Beloved     long and arduous journey in mid-winter. In
> reward you, both in this world and the next        Cairo, when she could hardly stand, she
> for your truly exemplary achievemonts.Grate-      addressed a large public meeting in the
> fulIy and affectionately, Shoghi."                  Qa&atu1l-Quds. T t seemed as if this was to
> be Milly's role from this time on-to ignore
> In 2947 Milly Collins was made a Hand             illness and her increasingly crippling arthritis,
> of the Cause; this, he wrote to her, he would       and to go forward, usually in pain, putting
> himself announce at the right time in the           her whole trust in God.
> future. This distinction alone singles her out
> With her appointment by Shoghi Effendi
> as one uniquely 'loved and privileged. This         in January 1951, as vice-president of the
> explains the allusions ia the above letter.         International. Bah2i CounciI hiilly was called
> to Haifa to live. Haifa was now her "home",
> Later that year he wrote:                         the Guardian told her. She received his
> pern~ission,however, to return to the United
> "Dear and prized co-worker:                         States in s m e r for treatment of her arthritis
> The memory of the services, assistance and       and for attending to her business affairs.
> support you extended to me In my hour of
> anxiety and stress a year ago at this time, is        m e n Shoghi Effendi launched the Ten-
> still vivid, and evokes my deepest admiration      Year World Crusade, with four Xntercon-
> and gratitude. YOLI~   serk5ces in other fields,   tinental Conferences, in 1953, he appointed a
> and in the course of many years have, more-        Hand of the Cause as his representatiye to
> over, served to deepen my feelillgs of &ection     each Conference, For the All-America Con-
> and gratitude for so distinguished a handmaid      ference in Chicago he chose Amatu'l-Bahi
> of Bahti'u'llhh and Hand of His Cause. . ,         Rhhiyyih f(hhum, accompanied by Mifly
> Gratefully and aEectionately, She*."               Collins.
> 840                             T H E B A H A ' ~W O R L D
> 
> For the midway point of the Crusade,            of his sudden passing which shocked the entire
> Shophi Effendi again called for Intercanti-        BahL'i world. Milly, who had arrived the night
> nental Conferences, this time five ia number.      bcbre in Naifa, left at oilce for L o n b n lo        I
> 
> To the European Conference, in Frankfurt,          join R6~iyyihKJs&iluin      in her hour of greatest   1
> Germany, he appointed Amelia Collins as            need. This w7as perhcps one of the greatest
> his representative. When the time came for         zcis of her life, that ill, old, prostrated herself
> holding the Confence, in July 1958, the            with grief, she shouId think only OC the woman
> beloved Guardian had ascended to the               who had becomc Iike a daughter to her and
> Abhk Kingdom.                                      rush to her comfort and support. Though the
> At the close of Milly5s tribute to Shoghi       dark hours of London, at Bahji where the
> EEendi, givcn at this Conference, she said:        Harids of tl-ie Cause gathered immediately
> "We are all, in a way, Shoghi Effendi's.        after the Guardian's passing, for the four
> heirs. We have inherited his work. His plan        years following his death, Milly was RCbiyyih
> is completely laid out. Ours is the task to        KJAnurn's greatest comfort, - and indeed,
> fulfill it. We must, each of us, conlplete our     the greatest comfort to all her fellow-
> share af the World Crusade. This is the            Hands.
> ~nemvrlal we inust build to our beloved               Increasingly In constant. pain, her lo>e of
> Shoglli EfFendi.                                   the Faith and her inflexible deten~inationto              I
> "Let us love him more now thm ever              serve it, kept hex going; she attendcd the
> before, and through the poaer of our love
> attract his love to us, and bring his bbssing
> ineetings of the Hands in the Holy Land. mct
> with and inspired the pilgrims, forced her
> i
> I
> 
> on our labols.                                     failing body to keep going w h e ~every ~ move-
> "Let us not fail him, for he never failed us.   ment hurt.
> Let us never forget him, for he never foigot          How well she had lived up to the words
> us.''                                              written to her in 1924 by Shoghi Effendi:
> On November 20, 1960, at the laying of the         ".. . It is our duty and privilege to trans-
> cornerstone of the European Temple, this           late tile love and devotion we have for our
> heroic representative of the Guardian was          beloved Cause into deec's and actions &at
> ablk, to complete the sacred task entrusted        will be condr~civcto the highest good of
> by him to her of'placing some earth from           mankind. . ."
> Bahi'u'ilBhYsHoly Shine in the foundations            Tn October, 1961, Miliy returned to Haifa
> of the Mother Temple of Europe, In rain and        for the last time. Her sense of duty was so
> sleet, Milly stood throughout the ceremony,        slrong that in spite of the fact that she had re-
> completing her mission for the beloved             cently fractured her alm in a serious fali and
> Guardian.                                          k e n in hospital, shc managed to get home,
> Throughout the sad and overpowering             accompanied by a close friend. Her intention
> days folIowiag the passing of Shoghi Effendi       %as to attend the meting of the Hands in
> from this world, Miliy was sustained by words      Bahji, where important decisions Rere to be
> he had spakcn to her when he left Hsifa in         made regaxding the election of the Universal
> .Tune, 1457.He had taken her hand andlooking       House of Justice. Illness kept her from d l
> deep into h a eyes had said: "Don't be sad,        bur one of the sessions - the most important.
> Milly.'' His ringing words and his radiant        It was pitiful to see indomitable Milk carried
> smile would be with h a axzd sustain her          on a chair to the meeting and then back to her
> always. However n~uchshe had been enabled          car. On her last full day in this world she had
> to do, she felt it was neser enough; nothing       a cable sent lo her old, and always dear,
> could ever be enough to do for one who             National Assembly of the United States
> himself had sacrificed his life in loving          concerning assistance she wished to give to
> service.                                           a pioneer.
> Xt was in November, 1957, that heroic MilIy,       On the afternoon of January I, 1352, Milly
> determined to be in her "true home" when           passed away, held in the a n l s of RCQiyyib
> the Guardian returned to Ha~falatex in the         -
> Khhnum. She is h i e d ill the Bahb'k ccmctefy
> month, had hastened tc the Holy Land.               at the foot of Mt. Camel. She outlived her
> Instead of standing at the door of his home         beloved Guardian, who had written to her
> io receive him, she heard the calaniitous news      rnany years before:
> "Your constancy in service and your single-     Na other words are worthy to describe, or
> minded and wholehearted devotion to the indeed can convey an image of, the all-
> inanifold interests of our beloved Cause are consuming, ever-burning fire of devotion
> truly an example and an inspiration that will that dominated, gaverned and so ren~arkably
> live and iduence many a soul. Your endeav- sustained my father's life. Driven always Isg
> ass will eventually be crowned with success a restless urge to seek, to study and later to
> and I trust you will live to witness the fruit proclaim the Day of God, he seems not to
> of your indefatigable services to the Sacred have known real contentment nor, despite the
> Threshold."                                     tributes paid to him, to have reallsed what
> Surely she had fdfJlled the hope of 'Abdu'l- he had done or been aware that his prayer
> Bah6,                                           was granted. His great hhwnity blinded bin1
> "thaf tlrou rnnyest daily advance in the to his achievements. We saw only unattainable
> Kingdon?, that thou nuyest became a fieave?t/y goals ahead.
> angel, con$rmed by the breaths qf the Hu/y        Born in Dublin, where his father:was a well-
> Spirit, and may erect a structure rhar shall known figure and had a large family, he won
> eternaiiy remain Jivm and unshakeablc."        a scholarship to Uppingham School and avo
> exhibitions to I-Eertford College, Oxford,
> where he was awarded his half-Blue for long
> distancerunning and was graduated in Classics
> in 1899. In 1903 he was calIed to the Irish Bar,
> having served far SQlXetime as leader writer
> on the staff of the Irish Tinzes.
> GEORGE TOWNSHEMI                        He was troubled, hawever, by a feeling of
> restlessness and dissatisfaction, and his father
> To Bax~i'u't~A~t                having offered to send him to any country of
> his choice, he arrived in Provo, Utah, in the
> Only beioved! With a heart on fire             Rocky Mom~taiasin 1904. Here he worked
> And all my longings set in one desire          as a missionary znlong the Mormons,
> To make my soul a many-stringed lyre           initiating a movemc~llfox the building of a
> Iibr Thy dear hand to play,                 church, and was ordained a priest in 1905.
> 1 bend beneath Thy mercy-seat and pray          Fcur years later he joined the staff of the
> That in ihe strength of perfect love I may      Uniuersity of &e South, Sewanee, Tennessee,
> Tread with firm feet the red aud mystic way as Asslstani-Direclor oT the University
> Whereto my hopes aspire.                    Extension Departmeni, and in 1912 was
> appointed ~ssjstant-~rofessor    of Ei~glisb.
> I have forgotten all for love of Thee             l a the summer of 1916, after he had
> And ask no other joy from destiny               experienced a strange conviaion that he was
> T h to be rzpt withia Thy unity                 going to leave Ainerica, rll his holiday plans
> And-whatso'er befall-                       fell sudde~zlythrougl~and he decided to come
> To hear no voice on earth but Thy s7ueetcall, home.
> To walk among Thy pe~pleas Thy thrall              My father stood on deck on the early July
> And see Thy beauty breathing throughout all morning to take in the scene as the boat,
> Eternal ecstasy.                             driving westward, approached the I-iarbour in
> Dublin Bay. Before he reached hoine he had
> Lead nle forth, Lord, amid the wide world's decided that America, vvl~osenationality Ize
> ways,                                        had embraced and where his possessions
> To bear to Thee my witness and to raise         remained, would claim him no more. In the
> The dawn song of the breaking day of days.      autumn he undertook the duties of a curate
> Make my whole life one flame                 at Boote~stown,County Dublin.
> Of sacrificial deeds that shall prodaim            The Hill of Howth, with its seagulls, the
> The new-born glory of Thy ancient name;        scene of earlier holidays, had symbolized
> And let my death lift higher yet the same      Ireland in mny father's mind while he had been
> Triumplxil chant of praise!                  awav.. and it was Howth lie chose for his first
> *
> 
> George Ton~nshend,circn 1924 holiday after his return. On one of his first
> 842                                THE B A H A * W
> ~ ORLD
> days there - it was July %gab - there
> reached hiin, from a friend in Azncrica, one
> or t\xzo pamphlets containing some words of
> 'Abdu'l-Bstha, and a he himself expressed
> it, "WZ*en I looked at those, that was the
> beginning and the end with nnle5
> 
> "'To his honour Mr. George To?vmhend,Gatway,
> Lrelnnd; Upon him be greeting and praise.
> 
> 'athou who art thirsty for the foui~takof
> Truth !
> "'Thy letter was received and the account of
> thy life has bee11 known. Praise be to God
> that thou hast evex, like unto the nightingale,
> sought the divine rose garden and like unto
> the verdure d the madow yearned for the
> outpourings of the cloud of guidance. That
> is svfiy thou hast been transferred from one
> condition to another until ultimately tl~ouhast
> attained unto the fountain of Truth, h s t
> illuminated thy sight, hast revived and                             George Townshend
> animated thy heart, hast chanted verses of
> guidance and hast turned thy face toward the
> enkindled fire on the Mount of Sinai.
> 
> "At present, I pray on thy behalf       . . . Zl$aa
> thee be Bahci'u'jr-Abhii,
> (SignedvAs~u't-BAH       'ABBAs"
> ~
> July 24, 1919. "0Thou ilXufniried soul and revered personage
> in the kingdom!
> Translated by Shoghi Rabbani                     "Your letter has been received. Every word
> indicated the progress and upliftmeat of thy
> spirit and conscience. These heavenly sus-
> ceptibilities of yours form a magnet which
> attracts the confirmation of the Kingdom
> of God; and so the doors of the realities and
> Bail to Thee, Scion of Glory. . .          nleanings wiil be open unto you, and the
> Thy words are to me as fragrance born confirmations of the Kingdom of God will
> from the garden of heaven,                    ewelop you..             .
> Beams of a lamp that is hid in the height "It is my hope that your church will come
> of a holier world .'.. Lo, Thou hast breathed under the Heavenly Jerusalem. . . .
> on my sorrows the sweemess of faith, and                  " Emto thee be the glirry oj' AbM!
> of hope,                                                   (signed)-'A~ou'~-B~~L           'ABBLs."
> Thou hast chanted high paeans of joy that                                        Dec. 19, 1920.
> my heart's echoes ever repeat,
> And the path to the knowledge of God Translated by LtitfuXlAh S . W I m
> begins to glimmer and ope before my falter-
> ing feat,                                       * me entire poem appears in The Mls8iorr of Ballri'a'lliih,
> GEORGETOWNSHE%D plioiished by George Ronald. 1952.
> I N MEMORXAM
> 
> In January, 1919, within a p a r of his         under a pseudonym in 1934, and would speak
> marriage, my father had taken up residence         of it in enthusiastic terms in reply to m y
> as Rector of Ahascragh (ford of tile said-         inquiries on my retun1 fron~school.
> hills), Coanty Galway, a country parish in.           While Germany over-ran Europe in 1940
> the \vest of Xrclaild where a large Georgian-      he conclrtded a sermon on world perplexities
> built rectory looked out over a lawn snr-          by saying that he personally had found no
> rounded by beech trees. Soon after the passing     answer to the problems of the modern world
> of "bdu'i-Bah& he wrote: "While X see in           except that given by Bahk'u'llkh, the sound
> bold outline the forces and nlethods at work       of Whose Name I can still hcar as it was
> and constaatly forecast how the attack-            uttesed by my father's voice that day anid
> onrush - and victory of the upwelling and          the echoes of the great cathedral of the
> descending powers will be achieved, I am           pioneer of C1,iristianity in Ireland.
> drawn to wonder how in particular these               The foIlowing is recorded in his own hand:
> legions of the Unsee~lwill make their activity     "Tuesday eveg. Nov. 3rd. 1942 at 8.30 [in
> manifest in Ireland and also in this Church        a room at the Rectory] Nancy, Una u ~ 1d
> (as ill others). I consider what may be my         conjointly presented the Message to.. ., a
> part, as foretold by 'Abdu'l-Bah&.. ." At          total party of nine. The Message was well
> present, it seemed to him, the preparation lay     received and all went away taking BahB'i
> in working among the people entrusted to           literature and proadsing to cotm next week
> hi~n?  and he continued to be a loyal servant      and bring friends."
> of the Church.                                        When it is ranembered that my father, who
> He was elected, one of eight of all Ireland,    for years wrote for the Church of Ireland
> a Canon of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin,        Gazette, had also formed a Clerical Union in
> by his fellow clergy, by some of whom he           which the local clergy would meet informally
> came to be regarded as the best preacher in        each month in a hotel in Ballinasloe and each
> the Chuxch of Ireland. After he became             in turn pxepare and read a paper on a topic
> Archdeacoll of CIonfert (also in 1933) the         of interest, it is clear that while he remained
> honour of a bishopric was twice suggested to       in it he did all he could do to bring his church
> him, but he dedined to let his name go             ""under the heavenly Jerusalem."
> forward.
> Meantime, after nine years' study of the
> Faith of Bah2i'u'Ekh, he published in I926         Haifa? July 7, 1947,
> a book of prayers and meditations entitled         "Dear and valued co-worker:
> The Altar on the Ifeaiatlz and sent a copy to         I am thrilled by the news of your resigna-
> the Guardian who wrote: "The erlclosures           tion - a truly remarkable and historic step.
> you have sent me I will treasure, particularly     Your past and notable sesvices, ... your bold
> the little book which P conceive as an exquisite   and challenging act at present in dissociating
> expression of Ioiiy thoughts impregnated           yourself from the Church and its creed, to
> throughout with the BaWi Spirit." Some 04'         accomplish better the purpose of that Church,
> the contents reappeared in The Mission of          and your subsequent resolve to pioneer in
> Bnhli'lc'ilBIz, a miscellany of his writings       Dublin and hekp in establishing the adminis-
> published in 1952.                                 trative basis of the BahB'i New World Order
> Ten years later, after publicly. identifying    in Ireland are deeds that history will record
> himself with the Faith - a decision inadvert-      and for which future generations will be
> ently thrust on h i n ~at short notice - at the    deeply grateful and will extol and admire. . .
> World Congress of Faiths in London, he                              Yow true ~rndgratefulhrother,
> declared to the Guardian his eagerness to                          Sno~m."
> leave the Church and devote his energies to
> the service of BahC'u'll&. Eleven restless
> years, however, were to pass before this wish        My father's first experience of taking part
> was fulfrlIed.                                     in Wa'iteaching and admi~istrativeactivities
> &lore Io~lg~ n father
> y       became absorbed in     came after thirty years of purely academic
> his next book The Heart of ffie Gospel (1939),     study and contributed greatly, as he said, to
> i'%e Promise of A[[ Ages having llppcarcd          the development of fils thought.
> 844                            T H E B A H A. ' I W O R L D
> 
> A statement which, under the title "The wish and came to see him, greatly treasuring
> Old Churches and the New World F a i ~ , "he the inelllory of their visit. "There radiated
> uow addressed to all Christian people on the from him such a penetrating love," says a
> relationship of the B W i Faith to Christianity, letter that has come from Ber~nuda,"that
> was circulated to 10,000 leaders of thought one was imlnediately at ease. He seemed to
> in the British Isles. A copy was sent to the understand so much so quickly. His love
> Bishop of Utah, where he was ordained, with seemed to see into one's inmost spirit. He was
> a letter relinquishing his American Orders:      unforgettable in the extreme." Fresh signs
> ",.. My motive is to be loyal to Christ as    of the believers' regard for him were conti~luai-
> T know Him and to give to His Clrurch the ly appearing, and it became clear that in the
> best se~.ieewhich in the special circumsta~~ces hearts of more than a few he was already
> I have to offer. It is my settled conviction numbered among those -how many? - who
> that the Gizd Tidings brought by the Prophet can truly say, and by &eir lives proclaim, "I
> of Persia, BahA'i'u'UAh, represent the promised have forgotten all for love of Thee."
> return of Christ; that Christ is and has ever       He suifexed more and more from a sense            I
> 
> been tl~roughall our difficulties in our inidst of loneliness, and as this feeling f m d nu
> though we have secognised Him not; that the adequate solace, inhibitions and kifirmities
> Christian Cl~urches in recent years have began to grow upon him, though when it was
> missed their way, and have lost their hold on possible to make him happy they could allnost
> human hearts because they are out of touch disappear.
> with their Lord; and that the path back to          He was one of the Gist to be appointed a
> ~~
> Him and to His Fatlux lies wide open before Hand of the Cause during his lifetime, in                I
> 
> them though hey have not chosen to walk December, 1951, and his presence at national
> in it. I feel I must make any sacrifice in order gatherings, which included five summer
> lo be free to help in transmitting to my schools, came to be greatly valued. Be would
> fellow-Christians a Message which presents lioid a &Eattended study class and help with
> the one and only hope of resyisitualising thc program of rnornjng lectures, as well as
> mankind and rebuilding the social order. . ." take a full part in the life of the school. His
> last attendance was the Znre*.continentd
> Conference at Stockholm in July, 1953.
> Arehdeacoi~Euikley replied:                      Thereafter, wZ~ilehe always lroped for re-
> covery, he continued to inspire the ii-ier~ds,
> "Dear Townshend,                                 as he had dways done in individual letters,
> Bishop Moulton hzs just turned over to by messages addressed to the various con-
> me as Secretary of the Coilswcation of Upah ferences and schools.
> two of your letters asking for deposition. . .      He was past his se\?enty-eighth birthday
> As an old fellow-worker with you in Utah w11en he began a version of his la5t great work,
> I wish to slate my confidence in you and yaur Christ and Bnhd'u'!luih, which his continually
> conscientious withdrawal from our Church developing illness did not later compel him
> to accomplish better the purpose of that to abandon. By this tiale, however, he could
> Chwch. God be with you and bring you speak and write on:y mth difficulty, and this
> happiness in success."                           difficulty increased as the months went by.
> At the same time he produced a conlpilation Near the end he seemed to be retaining and
> for the Wisdom of the East Series, The Glad working out in his head whole portions of
> Tidings of Brihu"rt711dh.Booklets, articles and the book, or even the whole book, and the11
> contributions n~ade over many years to condensing it in his head into lengths he would
> Baha'i publications remain to be collected be able to dictate, which hc then, it was clear,
> and e~~umerated.     His witness to Bah&'u'll&h  inemmrised, fighting all the time a battle
> seemed indeed to have travelled through the against his steadiIy failing strength. Without
> wide world, where inmy           had never lmt t h i s great determination of my father's to         i
> Mm, and even whom he did not know, felt give it to mankind, this highly vdued work
> a sense of pcrsonai gratitude towards him would not be ours to-day.
> and would speak of him with the greatest            And yet in many ways the most lingering,
> tenderness and affection. Some fulfilled a the most remarkable, the most worthy of his
> MORIAM
> 
> achievenlents, to me at least, was his reaction      nlunities. His fearless chanxpionship Cause
> to his own infirnlities and, particularly during     he loved so dearly, served so valiautIy,
> his last years, the influence one fcIt from his      constitutes significanr landmark British
> presence on entering his room. While he sat          BahB'i history. So enviable position calls
> Iheze, he was corascious, from his deeper            for national rribuie his memory by as-
> waderstanding, that he had much of unique            sembled delegates, visitors, foforthcoming
> value and real urgency to proclaim, for which        British BahB'i Convention. Assure relatives
> eager hearts were waiting; and, though burning       deepest loving sympathy grievous loss.
> with desire to serve mankind, he was denied,         Confident his reward inestim'bli: Abh5
> without hope expressed of his recovery, all          Kingdom."
> means of adequate con~n~unicationof his                 His fellow Hands of the Cause have paid
> thoughts. Yet he shed arour,d him a gentle,          their tributes:
> benign radiallee which conveyed comfort and             "The passing of our dear revered great
> cheer and affected all about him. Surely his         friend has deeply ginovzd nly heart. Let us
> sou4 was now a lyre on vhich the hand of the         endeavor to feel znd see merely his radianr.
> Almighty played. A Persian studeat, the last         sod, his lofty station, his splcndid example,
> stranger to visit him, has said he wit1 never        his everlasting love."
> forget how nty father, from his bed, waved,             "I shall never forget him and he will
> and waved again, as the younger nzax with-           always rank among lay most illtimate dear
> drew, reluctantly, through the door. And             ones."
> while his presence made this unforgettable              "Dear George Totmshend's sweet smiles
> impression, elsewhere, in the words of the           and kindness will remain in ~zlyheart for aI1
> Bermuda correspondent, "His name men-                my life."
> tioned at a convention immediateIy caused a             These words testify, along wit11 the others,
> cathedral stillr~ess."                               to an in~perishablequaiity of his pure, kindly
> As I look back on t h i s time now and ponder     and radiallt heart.
> his obvious, though not physical, sufferings,           Close to Xi-eland's capital a gently rising
> Z am made to tilink of some of the words             hill dominates the city and the lalxdlocked
> 'Bah$i'u'IlBh has written:                           bay. Across the water Iies the Hill of How&.
> "0 Son oJ being! Tkotc art -My lamp and           On its northeast side a tree-lined avenue.
> J W ~light is in flzee. . ."                         where my father heId his first appointment in
> " 0 Son of ~VIaiz!For everytizing fitere iis n    the Church of Ireland, runs in a straight line
> sign. TIE sign of b v e is jovtitude under M y       to the sea. Near the sumunit, to the northsvest,
> decree and patience zrnder My trials."               stands the bungalow ivliere he spent his years
> "0 So?a o j Man! Write all rlzat We Izave         of unfettered service to thc Causz; where, on
> r~realedunfo thee wifh rlze ink of i'ight upon       his desk, the assembled friends ~ignedthe
> rhe tablet qf f h , ~~ p i ~ .i ."
> f.                   dedaration of the first Spiritual Asseinbly
> On hearing of the passing, an March 25,           in the laid. Away to t l ~ esouth rises the
> 1047, of George Townsl~end, Hand of the             dignified outlim of Sliese Cualin, the most
> Czuse of God, Uli: Guadian of the Baha'i             disting~~ishaabie
> peak alike from sea and Land,
> Faith tdegraphcct:                                   standing over t!x viISage (Enniskerry - the
> "Deeply mourn passing dearly loved, mrich         iugg~Aford): v:here my father was welcomed
> a h i r e d , greatly gifted, outstanding Hand       on his miurn from across the Atlantic. Now,
> Cause Georgz Townshend. His death illorrow            beneath this mountain, my father lies buried,
> pubIication his crowning achievzment robs            while in the churchyard arouild him contintie
> British foliowets Bd~ihVu'liiihtheir most dis-       sounds of nature which he kuew while he
> tinguishcd collaborator and Faith itself one         lived in the West.
> of its stoutest defenders. His sterling qualities,      The burial serfice, attended, at short notice,
> his scholarship, his challengii~gwritings, his        by seventeen persons, was cond~xctedthrough
> high ecciesiasticaX position unrivalled any           church prcciacis, zccardjng to the require-
> BaWi Western world, entitie hiin rank with           ments of the Bahh'i Faith, blending the
> Thomas Breakwell, Dr, Esslemont, one of              custoins of the followexs, not yet united, of
> three luminaries sl~edding brilliant lustre           Chist and BahA'u'UAltil. Menloria1 nlcetings
> annals Irish, English, Scottish Bahh'i coin-          were held in local communities and in the
> London P@ratu'l-Quds, and his former                   The successive dcatbs of four soas and her
> parishio~sersin County Galway gathercd to           husband betwen 1899 and 1909 caused her
> hold a memorial service in the Church where         to turn more and more to, and to beconze
> he had ministered, when a worthy tribute to         further and further immersed in the Faith.
> him was paid.                                       Among her more than f&ty Tablets from the
> His body proved, unexpectedly for him,           Master, some of the most beautiful and
> unabje to ret& a little longer a sou1 eager for     cerhin1.y the most tellder are .those sent by
> further sefvice on earth to Bahk'u'llkh - a         Hkn at the iinle of these continuous bereave-
> disquieting event of this strange and not easily    ments,
> fargotteo springtime, when the dafodils                Her childhood upbringing was strictly
> bloomed in the garden along with the last           orthodox, with a. father who was a Presbyterian
> of the earlier season's roses and the may came      minister. She would laughingly explain tbat
> out in March.                                       her unusual knowledge of the Bible was
> because she was disciplined by having to
> read it - "so, I must have beell a naughty
> little girl." She was always know1 for her
> independe~ceItn thinking, and often reniarked
> as a child, "How wonderful it must have been
> to have lived in the days when Christ was on
> CORXNNE KNIGHT TRUE                         earth."
> It was in 1899 that 'Abdu'l-BahA sent
> successive teachers - H5ji Xbdu'l-Karim,
> "0 ye who are set aglo~:with the ,fire qf' God's    Mirza Asadu'Hrih, Mimi Abb'l-Fadl - and
> Love! Blessed are ye far having been chosen by      others, to the United States because of the
> God for His lave, i12 this new age, and joy be tu   defection of Dr. Khayru'llkh. MIS. True was
> yoit JOT Ravikg been guided to the @eat             told of these teachers, who were then in
> Xi~gdom! Verily, yonr Luvd hath chosen you          Chicago. After accepting the Faith she turned
> to slaow the pa& to the K i n g d m of God,         at once to 'Abdu'l-&ah&, aslring Him for a
> among the geopie. . ."                              set of guiding principies to live by. She
> rece~vedthe folloa7ing TabIet from Erm:
> "0thou dear servant of God!
> It was thus that: 'Abdu'l-Bahi in one of His         Thy letter was recei\~edand i t s contents
> Tablets addressed that luminous soul, Corinne           noted, As to instructions which thou
> Knight True.                                            desirest, they are as follows:
> Mrs. True was born in Oldham County,                    Believe in God; turn unto the Supreme
> Kentucky, on November 1, 1861, and moved                 Khgdonz; be attracted unto the Beauty of
> to Chicago with her fanlily as a y o ~ ~ ngirl.
> g          Abhzi; remain &-rn in the Covena~t;yearn
> On June 22nd, 1882, she married Moses                   for ascending into the heaven of the sun
> Adanls True. She passed to the Abh8 Kingdon1            of the univexse; be disinterested in the
> April 3, 1961 - having been spared to work              world; be alive with the f~agrancesof
> for the Killgdoni of God on earth untiI her             holiness UI the Kingdons of the Highest;
> one hundredth year.                                     be a caller to love; king to the human race;
> During her life she gave birth to eight              gentle with humanity ; interested in all the
> children - four boys and four girls. The                people of tlie world; wish far harmony and
> oldest daughter (Harriet Merrill) died in               seek friendship and llonesty. Be a healing
> 1892, when nine yeais old, as the i.esuIt of an         for every wound, a remzdy fo~-every sick,
> accident. In Mrs. Tmds deep sorrow over                 a source of i~ainionyamong the people;
> this, she started her search for Txuth and her          chant the ~ersesof guidance; pray to God;
> investigations of "Uni$yjr," "Diviile Science,"         wise for the guidance of the peopb; let
> and 'Chistian Science." In 1899 she first               thy tongue explain and thy face illumine
> heard of the Message of 135th&h'Ufih which              ~ 4 t hthe glowing love of G o d Rest not
> was being given by a group d Pcxsim teachers            a nsoment and breathe not a breath of
> in Chicago. She immediately became interested           repose until thou becomest a sign of God's
> and conimenced to study the BaWi Teachings.             love and a banner of God's favor."
> IN MEMORIAM                                              847
> 
> As Financial. Secretary of the Bahti'l Temple
> Unity she acknowledged every donation with
> a loving personal note, shzring with the
> friends the progress of the Temple Project,
> and news of some special event of develop-
> ment - letters which have bee11 preserved by
> ihe recipients throughout the years.
> She was held in sucli love and affection
> by the friends arortnd the world that quite
> spontaneously came that precious, endearing
> title, "Moiher True.'"
> H;er home in later years ia Willnette became
> a "mecca" for searching souls, 2nd ail who
> went there were revived, encomaaged and
> inspired by the love, the kindness and the
> wisdom she bestowed upon them.
> Early in 1907 (February 27 to M a c h 24)
> Mother True realized her heart's desire and
> made her first pilgrimags to visit 'Abdu'l-Baha.
> This was during the time of the Seca~id
> Comnlission of Investigation by the Turks,
> when 'Abdu'l-Bahri had again been confined
> as a prisoner to 'Alckri hy order of the SuIta~i
> of Turkey. On this visit Mrs. True took a
> petition to the Master asking perlnission for
> the American Bahii'l'is to begin plaming for
> the erection of a "'House of Worship." This
> Corinite Knight Trlre                 petition was in the form of a par-H      L lnerit
> 
> containing the signatures of over a tkausa~d
> American beIievess. She tells the story of
> She at once broke away from the traditions putting the parchlent behind her on ~e
> B I I ~orthodox teachings of her early life and     divan and first presenting the little gifts sent
> from then on lived in co~npleiededication to by the loving ftiends. But t31e Master strode
> the service of the Bald'i Faith, following, for across the room, reached behind her and
> the rest of her life, those guiding principles grasped the parchment, holding it high in tile
> given her by the Master.                            air. "This," He exclaimed, "this is what gives
> Successive Tabbts sl~owthat she turned to me great joy." "Go back," He told her, "go
> 'Abdu'l-BaG in every phase of her life, and back and work for the Temple: it is a great
> followed implicitly His loving counsel and work." How she longed to do t h i s work, but
> advice. Her complete acceptance of and it seemed snch a great task. 'Abdu'l-Baha,
> obedience to the Master's guidance, and hex looking at her with deep intensity said,
> steadfastness in the Covenant, helped her to "Devote yourself to this project - make a
> make the transition after the indescribable beginning, and all will come right." He then
> loss of the Master in 1921, and to understand ploceeded to give basic instructions about its
> and accept fully the station of the Grrardian. design, It was to have nine sidos, nine gardens,
> She met the irreparable loss af the Guardian niile fountains, nine doors, nine walks, etc.
> in turn with the same strength, courage and And so a vision of the first B&Yi Temple
> faith, saying, when told d his passing, "But in the Western Hemisphere was born.
> we ~ m s know
> t     it is the will of God."              Mrs. True made nine pilgrimages in all, of
> Although outstanding in her spiritual wbjch the followlag seemed to have special
> greatness, she possessed i n t i t e love and significance. Her first, in 1907, for reasons
> tenderness for eveiyone, continuously dokg already stated. Her pilgrimage in 1919 at the
> little things at a telling moment which made close of the first wodd war was the last time
> the act live forever in the heart of the recipient, she was to see her beloved Master. Early in
> 848                             T H E B A H A ' ~W O R L D
> 
> 1922 she again made a pilgrimage, This was rience to have heard Mother True's words as
> soon after Shoghi Effendi had become tlie she spoke at the Unity Banquet at Elsinore.
> Guardian 01the Cause of God, at which time The friends listened, spellbound. The atmos-
> he instructed her, together with Roy Wilhelm, phere was charged with light and spirit.
> Mountfort Mills, and others then in Haifafa, Mother True was transfigured and the words
> to return to the United States, as the first fell from her lips like jewels. Asked aftmswds
> Coiwention for tho election of the first where she gleaned such ivisdom, she replied:
> American National Spiritual Asselnbly was "It was 'Abdu'l-Baha speaking, not I. We told
> to be called during Ridvan. Corinne True was me when I said 1 could not speak, 'Get
> the fislrst to be elected to this body.           yourself out of the way and I will come
> On February 29, 1952, the G~rzrdian through,' so I did just that."
> bestowed upon Mrs. True the supreme honor            In later years, under encouragement from            I
> of appointing her as a H a ~ dof the Cause of the Guardian, she concentrated her efforts
> fod, so she made lier last pilgrimage in this more on teaching potential teachers, and
> year, as the invited guest of the Guardian, carried out regular fireside study classes in                !
> and as a Hand of the Crruse of God. The her home where the basic and most profound
> beloved Guardian was especially endearing Teachings were enthusiasticd1y and thorough-
> to her during that laqt visit, losing no oppor- ly studied.
> tunity ta show his love and high regard for          When returning from her vasious pilgrim-
> her, presenting her with a precious gift - the ages to Haifa the Guardian always asked her
> Master's purse which He carried while in the to speak to the friends about the Covenant.
> United States (1912) and which contained a This she faitl~fuIly did, and it becane a
> golderi English coin bearing the same date subject which she conveyed to others with
> (1907) of her fisst visit to the Master. Tt was remarkable wisdom and clarity.
> at this time that the Guasdhl paid her a             During the years 1948-1932 Mrs. True            I
> 
> nobie tribute, saying, "Mrs. True is to be visited many new centers in Western Europe.
> regarded as the most venerable figure among In April 1957, when oinety-five years old,
> the pioileers of the Faith of Bah&'ul'&h       in shc was requested by tha Guardian to act
> the West."                                        as his representative to the historic Convention
> Although Mrs. True was peihaps best of Greater Antilles, to be held in Port-au-
> h o v n thro~~ghout     the Bahti'i worid for her Prince, Haiti. (Because of political reasons
> unparalleled service in the development of the the Convention was a c i d l y held in Kingston,
> filst Temple of the Western World, her Jamaica.)
> record in the field of teaching is equally          Mother True's entire Bahii'i life was
> glorious. In her early and middk years in the closely bound to the buiIding of the Mash-
> Cause, while arduously working for the riqu'l-Aakkr of the West. From the t h e of
> Temple Project, she also devoted time lo her first pilgrimage when she presented to the
> teaching the Faith in Chicago, and in the Master the appeal of the American bbeevers
> towns between Chicago and Milwaukee- to begin this enterprise, through the selection                 I
> I
> Kenasha, Racine and Waukegan, She intro- and purchase of tho site and the various stages
> duced the: Faith in the State of Michigaa. In of canstrirction, to the completion, she was
> addition, she did a great deal of public ail ardent and steadfast participant in the
> speaking far the Faith, a difficult task for many triumphs and dificulties encountered.
> her. When asked by the Master to do this, Certain events connected with this life-
> she explained that she was without special time servic3 proved to be of speciai signifi-
> tsaining and was shy Wore the public. Then cance.
> the Masta told her to speak freely, never to        From the outset Mrs. True fell that the
> be concerned, but to turn her heart and mind Temple Project could not be carried entirely
> to Him, and He would never fail her. This by the local believers in Chicago, so she wrote
> she did with complete confidence and faith, to the Master suggesting that the work of the
> and became an outstanding and effective administration be shared with bdevess fro111
> speaker. For those who were prcsenl at the other parts of the United States.
> European Teaching Conference in 1950, in            The Master replied as follows:
> Copenhagen, it was an udorgettable expe-                ".. .. Concerning the members of this
> IN MEMORIAM
> 
> spiritual meeting, you suggested that they supreme joy of receiving the beloved Master
> be selected from all the spiritual meetings as guest in her own home at 5338 Kenmore
> OF the other cities of An~erica.I quite Avenue.
> approve and am very much pleased with           Wtzr crowning jay was to see t h i s House o f
> tgis plan. This will become the cause of Worship, the Mother Temple of the \Vest,
> harmony in the ?Vord in all America. completed in 1953 a n d to be present at its
> TIierefore, ask every spiritual meoting in dedication on May 211d of that year.
> the other cities that they will each select    A few weeks after her passing, and at the
> one and send him,and from these sdected request of the Hands of the Cause in Haifa,
> ones and with those who are select& from a memorial service was l ~ d dfor this revered
> the Chicago meetings, establish a new and venerable ~naidsorvant,Corinne Knight
> meeting for the provision of the needs True, in the Ma&riqu'i-A&k;ir dm-iag the
> of the Temple. If this be established with 53rd National Convention of the Bahi'is
> perfect fragrance and joy, it will produce of the United States.
> great results. Zn this new meeting, especial-  One remembers the words of the beloved
> ly fur the establishment of tfie Temple, Master aclclressed to this pure and selfless soul:
> ladies a e also to be members."                  "Verily, your Lord hath chosen you to
> In November of t h e same y e a , represent-      show the path to the Kingdom of God,
> atives from various parts of the country met          among the people."
> in Chicago and appointed a "Temple Site                                     CHARLOTTE      LMFOQT
> Committee" to locate a suitable piece of land
> on which to build the Temple. Corinne True,
> with Cecilia Harrison, found the present site,
> submitted ir to the Committee, and it was
> accepted by unanimous vote. The Baha'is of              HORACE HOTCHKTSS HQLLEY
> Chicago immediately responded and in the                   April 7, 1887-July 12, 1960
> .
> words of the Guardian, ". ,arose, despite the
> smdhless of their numbers and their limited          Horace Holley was a tail, spare man with
> resources to initiate an enterprise which must a pleasant, intellecttlal face and singuIarly
> rank as the greatest single contribution which luminous light blue-green eyes which regarded
> the BaM'is of America, and indeed of the the world and his Mlotv man shrewdly and
> West, have yet made to the Cause of Bah2- openly. Anjrone who is unfamiliar: with t l ~ e
> u'il8.ll.'"                                       people of New England cannot expect to fully
> In 1909 representatives from a11 centers grasp his nature for he was a typical example
> of the Waited States of America, following of that race of hardheaded, independent,
> instructions from the Master (39 delegates 1i~anorous and yet taciturn people, de-
> from 36 cities) assernblcd in Ciiicago on the scendents of the fist colonizers of America,
> very day the remains or the Bltb were placed who are renowned for their rugged i d i -
> in His Tomb on Mount Carmel, and "estab- vidualism, who were largely responsible for
> lished a permanent organizion known -as winning the Uuited States its polirid
> the Baha'i Temple Unity which was incor- independence anct who later pla~7edno small
> porated as a religious corporation fmctioning part in abolishing slavery from their nation,
> under the laws of the State o f Illinois, and Of S L I C ~a largely Puritan stock was Horace,
> imested with full authority to hold title to the whose a~lcestorsincluded many educators and
> property of the Temple and to provide ways Congregational ministers. Born in the town
> and means for its constrtrction." Corinnc of Torril~gton,Connecticut, he atttnded the
> True was elected Financial Secretasy of this LawrznceviZlc School in New Jersey, going
> Baha'i Temple Unity and served as such until back to New England for his higher education,
> the elecdoxl of the first National Spiritual where he studied at Williams College, in
> Assembly in 1922.                                 Wlliamstown, Massachusetts, from 1906-
> IE had been in May, 1912, that the chosen 1909, majoring in Iiterature and becoming
> site was bIessed by a visit from 'Abduq-Bahh a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity.
> Who dedicated the Temple grrrui~ds.During He was also s member of the Gasgoyb
> this visit to Chicago, Mrs. True had the Society.
> 850                             THE BAHA
> 
> There were two strongly de5ned sides to
> Horace Holley's personality, and part of the
> spiritual triumph that was his before he
> passed away, at the age of 73, was that these
> two sides of his nature flowered into a third
> creation, more bea~~tiful   and powerful than
> either of the others had ever been. To under-
> stand this process one must go bbac to the
> forces that shaped his life. Not only did he
> possess a briliiant, analytical mind, but at the
> sametimehewas a dreamer, ideatist and mystic.
> His strong personal bent was literature and
> those of the BahB'is familiar tvith his books,
> his letters, articles md speeches as a Brth$i,
> are pabaps unaware of the fact that he was
> a poet and had published between the ages
> of twenty-one and thirty three volumes of
> verse. His capacities and interests led him
> amongst a circle of artists and svriws,
> progressive, independent, often Bohemian,
> but also astir with the new social concepts,
> the exploring and questing ideas so character-
> istic d the generation to which he belonged.
> When he left college iin 1309 be went to
> Horace Hotchkiss HoUey                       I
> Europe where he travelled, studied and
> worked until war broke out in 1914. On that
> voyage two major changes in his Efe were to
> take place. 'ffe met a young artist, Bertha        life but also the arena in which be was to
> Herbert, who lent him a book to read; and          express himself, to labour, to be tested, to
> shortly afterwards he married her in Paris.        suffer and win his victories for over half-a-
> Tlne book was Abbas Efendi, His Life and           century. His own attitude to the metamor-         I
> Teachings by Myron H. T>helps. Compared            phosis which took plaee in him over the
> with the literature now available in English it    years, he expressed in 1956: "At first it
> was inaccurate and inadequate, but it opened       seemed possible to encompass the Reyelation
> a new world to the mind of the twenty-two-         of Baha'u'llhh by reducing it to a formula
> year-old young man who read it.                    or confining it within a well-turned phrase.
> Years later, writing of this event in his       Gradually my ventures p r o ~ e dto me that I
> Ue, Horace said:                                   myself was to be encompassed, re-oriented,
> "That was my first encounter with the           re-moulded in all the r e a h s of my being.
> Faith of BahSu'llAh. The wisdom, the               For religion in its purity reveals God, and
> universality of spirit and the profound love       only God can reveal man to himself."
> expressed in 'Abdu'l-Baha, perseated leader           It was while Horace and his wife were
> of a new religion, captivated me. He stood         living in Siena, Italy, in 1911, #at he heard
> apart from the epic heroes and thinkers of         of the arrival of %bduTl-Bah6and his party
> history and brought a new dimension to my          in Thonon-les-Bains, France, As they had
> inexperienced, naive liberal culture. Without      been hoping to make the pilgrimage to the
> knowing what it meant I had become a               Holy Land in order to meet the Master they
> k h t f . The pattern of life since then has       lost no time in seizing this goldm opport~~nity
> been a series of eEorts to fiad out what the       to attain His presence and Ieft immediately
> BahB'i World Faith is, what it means, and          for the smaU watering place on Lake Geaeva,
> how it functions."                                 where they arrived on the afternoon of
> From that day he never turned back. X-fis       August 29ih. Horace, ia his account of this
> seeking mind and strong spirit had not only        meeting with 'Abdu'L-Bahft, wrote that he
> found personal answers to the problems of          had felt that if he could only look upon the
> I N MEMORIAM                                                851
> 
> Master from a distance, this would satisfy          to take it in His h*x~dsas hc wanted to give
> his pilgrim's heart. He then goes on to             it to his child "a Messing", as he wrote, "for
> describe what this privilege of spending a          my baby gi~l.who thus, as it were, %corn-
> few days near "Mu'l-'GBahiha meant to him:          panied us on our pilgrimage and shares its
> "I saw among them a stately old man,             benet2ts". When 'Abdu'I-BahB was in Paris,
> robed in a cream-colaured gown, his white           Horace again had the privilege of meeting
> hair and beard shining in the sun. He dis-          Him and hearing many of His intimate daily
> played a beauty oE stature, an inevitable           talks. Doris Pascal, later t o become Doris
> harmony of attitude and dress 1 had never           Holley, remembers being present on one of
> seen nor thought of in men. Without having          these occasions and seeing 'Abdu'l-Bahd
> ever visualized the Waster, I h e w that this       holding on his knee Horace's daughter
> was He. My whole body underwent a shock.            Hertha. This contact with 'Abdu'l-BahA in the
> My heart leaped, my knees weakened, a               early days of Hotace's BahB'i life left a deep
> thrill of acute, receptive feeling flowed from      inark on him. The Master had entered the
> head to foot. I seemed to have tumcd into           door of his heart m d never left it again.
> some nmst sensitive sense-orgm, as If eyes          Through many of the trials and bitter experi-
> and cars were sot enough for this sublime           ences of life this core of swectlxess left by that
> impression. In every part o l me f stood aware      great privilege sustai~~cd  and nourished him.
> of 'Abdu'I-BahB's presence. From sheer                 It was during the yeas in Paris, before the
> happiness I wanted to cry-it seemed the             outbreak of the war, that Borate's first two
> most suitable form of self-expression at my         books of poems, The irzner Gardm and The
> conlmand. While my own personality was              Stricken King were published. He had become
> flowing away, a new being, not my own               ~e founder and director of the &ur Gallery
> assumed its place. .A glory, as it were from        of Modern Art, situated at 211 Boulevard
> the summits of htunan nature poured into me,        Raspail in Pasis. It is clear that in spite of a
> and I was conscious of a most intense impulse       mind preocc~zpiedwith the s o e x and econom-
> to admire, In 'Abdu'l-BahB I felt the awful         ic problems a£ the world, the arts were the
> presence of BabB'u'lI~,and, as my thoughts          predominating infltlence during these early
> returned to activity, I realized that I had &us     years. Paris has always been h o r n for its
> drawn as near as man now may to pure spirit         small but klite American colony and the
> .
> and pure being . . I yielded to a feeling of        days of the saIon had not yet been swallowed
> reverence which contained more than the             up in the bedIam of the post-war years;
> solution of intellectual or moral problems.         Horace and his wife must have enjoyed the
> To look upon so wonderful a human being,            entrk to many interesting circles of artists
> to respond utterly to the charm af His              and intellectuals, a11 environment eminently
> presence-this brought me continual happi-           co~igenialand natural to them bath in every
> ness. I had no fern that its effects would pass     way.
> away and leave me unchanged. X was content            In 1913 Horace's f i s t book on the subject
> .
> to remain in the backgt-ound . .'Abdu31-BahB        of his new-found Faith was published in New
> answered questions and made frequent                York under the title Bahd'ismn-The Modern
> observations on religion in the West. He            Social Religion. A copy of this u7asforwarded
> laughed heartily from time to time-indeed,          to 'Abdu'I-Bah& and on the twenty-second
> the idea of asceticism or useless misery of any     d September, 1913, 'Abdu'l-BahSt sent to
> kind cannot attach itself to this fully-developed   him from Ramleh, Egypt, the first of the two
> personality. The divine element in Him does         Tablets He wrote to him, praising his book
> not feed at the expense of the humm element,        highly and stating that the friends were busy
> but appears rather to vitalize and enrich the       reading it and that He Himself hoped it
> human element by its own abundance, as              would be translated so He, too, could rcad it.
> if He had attained His spiritual development        He addresses Horace as "0Son of Ihe King-
> by fulfiIlinp His social relations with the         dom!" and goes on to say, "Thtil~kGod .       ..
> utmost =dour . . ."                                 thou art confirmed and assisted, thy aim is to
> When the time drew near for them to leave,       render sexvice to the Kingdom of Abhk and
> Horace, (like others), having received a gift       to promote the teachings of BahA'u'llrih.
> of a Bah2b ringstone, requested 'Abdu'l-Bah&        Although the glory and greatness of this
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> 
> service is not known at prcscnt, in luture         bnpulses, inherits a farm, needs a means of
> agcs it will asswne the greatest importmice        support, goes and farms and in the endlcss
> and will attract the aucnlion of learned men.      round of pressing chores all his practical,
> Therefore strive thou ever increasinglq in such    iliherited farmer-ancestry comes out in him.
> servlce in order that it may become the cause      Every now and then the dreamer inside turns
> of thy everlasting glory . . . and thou mayest     over restlessly in his sleep. Such to me is       I
> shine like a star on the Mhri horizo~."            what happened to Horace. But at the end
> Rett~rningwith his family to the United         of his life the dreaming Horace awoke again
> States in 1914, Horace moved in New York           and the t ~ meno became one, a much greater
> City in very much the same circles as he           person than either could have been alone.
> had in Europe; he was engaged in writing a            From 1918 to 1920 Ilorace went to work
> sccond book on the Bahi'i standpoint which        for the Iron Age Publishing Company in
> appeared in 1916 undcr the titIe The Social        New York in its sales promotion department.
> Priizciple. It was during this year that he       These were the years when his marriage to
> received his s a n d letter from the Master,       Bertha came to an end and he married Doris
> written from Hifa and dated March 20th,            Pascal, with whom he lived for forty-one
> 1916, in which 'Abdu'l-Bahb addresses him          years, serving the Cause constantly together.
> as "0tree of the AbhA Paradise Laden with         In 1921 he left the publishing fum a*ld became
> fruit." From the tone of this Tablet it is cfear   chief of the copy department at the Redfield
> that Horace ha& been passing thsough deep          Advertisir~g Agency, where he remained
> waters in his own personal life. Unfortunatdy      until $925,
> Horace's letter to the Master is not available,        His preoccupation with serving the Bahs'i
> but 'Abdu'l-Bah&'s letter says: "All that         Cause was steadily wowing. In 1922 the hst
> thou hast written was a cry from the depths       American National Spiritual Assembly was
> of a sincere heart." He goes on to say, ill       elected, In 1923 Horace became a member of
> sum, that although Horace bas been silent,         that body, on which he remained until 1959,
> once again his voice is raised in new melodies     serving as its secretary for thirty-four of hose
> and that every wayfarer must expect to be          thirty-six history-making years. It was in
> tossed on the rough seas of life; tests are        1921 that he wrote Bnhd'i-The Spirit of the
> stimulating and a sea with IW storms brings         Age. His own spirit is revealed by the words
> stagnation and complacency.                        in which he dedicated a volume of this work
> In 1917 Horace's pen was again active and       to Xbdu'l-BahXs much-loved sister: "Will
> he published two books, one of p o r n ,           the Greatest Holy Leaf lay this book in the
> entitled Divination and Creation and a prose       dust of the Supreme Threshold as an offering
> work Read-Alotld Plays. They m7ere his last        of humility, of love, of evanescence from the
> flights in poetry and prose to go to pl'ess. The   servant of BahB'u'llLih, Horace Halley, New
> presei~tworld is not too hospitable to poets       York City, December 20, 1921 ." Dusing that
> or dreamers and the struggle to eaxn a living,     same year he edited the fist comprehensive
> to s~lpporta wife and now two daughters,           compilation of the BahB'i Teachings in the
> Hertha and Marcia, as welt as a growing            English language, entitled Bahd'f Scripfares,
> unhappiness in his donlestic life, aB combined     a thick volume that for many yews served
> to clip Horace's wings.                            as a sort of BahB'i bible a d was of inestim-
> X remember Horace from this period. My          able assistance in educating the Bahk'is
> mother and he and his wife were old friends,       themselves in a better tmderstanding of their
> joined in their common devotion to the Faith,      Faith. This book was later revised by him
> the very essence of which had been poured into     and published as Bah&'i World Faith.
> them through their meetings with 'Abdu'l-             At the very outset of Skoghi Effendi's
> Bahli. Our association lasted until his death      ministry Horace's relationship to h e young
> in 1966, so one can only take this as a personal   Guardian of his Faiib was estabIished, a
> impressio~x.                                       relationship the importance of .which to the
> These were the years, I believe, when           development of BaWu'likh's Administrative
> Woracc changed. It is hard to define in words.     Order cannot be overestimated. As early as
> A race-horse has to give up racing and lellril     1923 Shoghi EEendi wrote to the American
> to pull a load; an artist, full of creative        Assembly in connection with the Star of the
> I N MEMORIAM
> 
> West: "I have been impressed by the beauty       having 2 collaborator like you working by my
> and force of the various articles contributed     side here in Haifa. The loss of Dr. Esslemont
> to the Journal by Mr. Horace Ilolley and          is keenly felt by me and my hope is that the
> Mr. Stanwood Cobb and would indeed                conditions here and abroad will enable me to
> weIcome with genuine satisfaction an wen          establish the work in Haifa upon a mare
> more active participation on their part in the    systematic basis. I am waiting for a favorable
> editoriai section of the BahB'i Magazine."         time."
> And in 1924 11e wrote to Horace: "My most            But t l ~ eGuaxdian realized that to bnnp
> precious brother: The recent activities of the     Horace to Haifa was a solution to his own
> Publishing Committee with you as its central      personal problem which thi: work in America
> figure and moving and directing force, are        could not aKord. A month later he wrote to
> indeed ivorthy of the highest praise. Words       two of Horace%old B&Zl friends: "Horace
> arc inadequate to express my admiratiolz,         of cowse is tlze ideal man, but he ni~~stn't
> gratitude and appreciation."                      leave his podtion at the present the."
> Shoghi Effendi highly valued the qualities        Shoghi Effei~di'sattitude to what Horace
> of Horace's mind and throughout the years         was accomplishing in America and its relation
> encouraged him to write. '11 am gatifred",        to his own needs is fully clarified in his letter
> he wrote during those early years, "to peruse     to Horace written in September of that same
> the able and masterly work of my dear fellow-     year: "&Xy dexe8t co-worker: T haw lately
> worker, Mr. Horace Holley, a work which I         followed your activities and efforts, as refieckd
> have no doubt will by virtue of its subject       in tthe n~inutesof the meetings you sent me,
> matter, its comprehensivemss and unique-                                              ..
> with true satisfaction and pleasure . I bsve
> ness, arouse widespread and gcnuinc intexest      read with deep interest the article you wrote
> in the Movement."                                 on Green Acre and published in the Star.
> The relationship between Horace and the        Your personal contribution to so =any
> Guardian was an extremely interesting one.        aspects and phases of the Movement, per-
> Shoglri ERendi desperately needed capable,        formed so diligently, so effectively and so
> loyal workers to assist him in his tasks. Such    thoroughly are truly a source of joy and
> people, from East ox West, were for the most      inspiration to me. Wow much I feel the need
> part lacking, and of the few, relatively          of a similar worker by my side in Xfaifa, as
> speaking, giants in the Cause, many instru-       competent, as thorough, as methodical, as
> ments he seized upon crumbled in his hands,       alert as yourself. You cannot atlrd should not
> proving themselves sick of the disease of self    leave y o u post for the present. Haifa will
> and becoming Covenant-breakers and even           have to take care of itself for some time.
> bitter enemies. Other capable lieutenants,        Your grateful brother, Shoghi."
> like Dr. Esselmont, died. Slioghi Effendi's          It irevor materialized. In 1925 Horace gave
> work was staggeri~g  and the workers possessed    up earning his living in various companies
> of any real eapacity were tragically few.         to devote his entire life to Bah8'i activity. I t
> Horace was therefore doubly precious. Ln          must never be thought that this was an easy
> 1925 Shoghi Effendi refers to him, in writing     step for a man of his character to take. It is
> to the American National Assembly, as             always difficult for devoted Baha'is to accept
> "Yoru distinguished secretary", and calls         support from Bahai Funds. It was o111y
> him "that indefatigable servant of BahB'u'll&h,   Horace's passionate conviction of the rightness
> ilw esteemed brother, Mr. Solley . . .''. The     of BaZ~Zu'llah's Teachings that pawaded
> Guardiaa at this time was hilaself in desperate   him to give zip all thought of a pexsonal,
> need of secretarial assistance and his thoughts   independent career and become the full-time
> naturally turned to this man of such marked       servant of an administration in which all too
> ability. He writes to him, in May, 1926, very     often his fellow believers criticized him for
> revealingly on this subject:                      doing so. Shoghi Effendi was well aware oi'
> "*Mydear and valuable friend: I wish to        all this; his sympatI~y, understanding and
> massure you of my keen appreciation of            approval were reflected in the letter he wrote
> your conth~uousefforts $01 the consolidation      to the National A s m b l y s.t that h e : "1
> of the work of the Cause throughout America,      rejoice to lea11 that ways and m e m have
> 1 have often felt t l e extreme desirability of   been found to ena51e the National Secretary,
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> 
> who discharges in such an exemplary manner world-wide activities of the Faith. Shoghi
> the manifoId and exacting duties of a highly Effendi reacted enthusiastically to this idea
> responsible position, to devote all his time and the series of Bahd'i World came into
> to the pursuit of so meritorious a task. 1 am being. The Guardian was in reality the
> fully conscious of the privations and sacrifice Editor-in-Chief, Horace the executor. At the
> which the choice of this arduous work must Guardian's request, Horace, until he passed
> involve for him, ns well as Ms devoted and away, wrote every International Survey of
> selfless conlpanion; I cannot but admire and Current Bahli'i Activities. The materid was
> extol their heroic efforts and wish to assure largely forwarded to him by Shoghi Effendi,
> them both of my continued prayers for the together with pages and pages of instructions
> speedy fruition of their ewnest endeavors."      and not infrequent cables similslr to this one
> With this instrument, the most powerful sent jn 1932: "Detailed letter mailed for
> national body throughorrt the B;rbB'I World, International Survey confident your masterEy
> a national body responsible for the exe- treatment coIlected data". As this added
> cution of the Divine Plan of 'Abdu'l-Bahit periodically a tremendous amount of extra
> given to the American 'believers as their work for Horace, he was often behind
> unique distinction and sacred tsust, with schedule in writing these surveys and it was
> a man of Horace's calibre devoting his suggested to Shoghi Effendi that someone
> entire time and energy to its work, Shogl~i else should do the survey, a suggastion he
> Effendi found that he could set the forces of would not hear of, as he considered no one
> Baha'i Administration in motion. Halfway else as qualified to produce such a key article
> across the world there was a collaborator .for the Bahci'i World. In 1932 in a letter of the
> who grasped the import of his instructions Guardian to Horace, Shoghi Effendi's sec-
> and interpretations of the Teachings and who, retary writes: "Were it not for your com-
> as the "indefatigable and distinguished" petence and his reliance on your eEciency
> secretary of that Assembly, as Shoghi Effendi and judgment he would have to do the work
> characterized him, in conjmction with its of the Bahd'i World done and thereby neglect
> other eight members, and backred up by a many of his other duties, He is stilI more
> devoted and enthusiastic BahB'i community, thankful to God when he sees you hunger
> not only saw they were implemented, but for service and enjoy being over-burdened."
> expounded and classified them.                   And in 1933, in his own hand, Shoghi Effendi
> This partnership was of an importance wrote: "Dear and precious co-worker: I
> impossible to overestimate. That it worked aun deeply conscious of the complexity and
> so well, bore such fruit and survived the acid strenuous character of the work you have
> test of t h e , is a great compliment to the two underiakea for the Bahd'i Wurid. I trust and
> people i~vokved.For Shorn Effendi was not pray that the forthcoming volume will be
> dealing with a sycophant but a man of strong such as to fully repay your painstaking and
> personality, views and capacity, and Horace valuable efforts, f am eager to receive a few
> was not dealing with a mere leader but a copies of your survey as soon as con~pleted~"
> divinely inspired, infallibly guided spiritual     "Your contributions to the Biennial'',
> ruler. The execution of the tasks set by the Shoghi Effendi wrote in 1933, "are out-
> Guardian for Horace was therefore not standing, ~uliqueand exemplary. The more
> without its hazards, But the loyalty of Horace you contribute the greater my eagerness to
> on the one hand and Shoghi Effendi's patience have you add to the outpui of your already
> and tact on the other, avoided situations remarkable contributions."
> which in other circumstances might have led        It was Horace who so brilliantly titled the
> to dEculties.                                   wonderful general letters of the Guardian
> In Shoghi mendi's life there was a tragic to America and to the BahB'is of the West,
> lack of stimulating, creati~ie individuals. picking out from the text such key, eye-
> Horace drew out of the Guardian many catching phrases, as "The Promised Day 1s
> things that would have otherwise remained Come", "The Goal of a New World Order",
> hidden or pursued some other course, It was "The Dispensation of Bahi'u'llW', and so
> Horace who reany conceived the idea of some on, and put subtitles throughout the texts
> form of publication that would reflect the to facilitate ale study d s u c l weighty,
> ~         thought-
> IN MEMORIAM                                             855
> 
> provoking material. Shoghi Effmidi approved Effendi wrote to Horace: "Be assured and
> of this and it was a major service to the persevere in your historic services." And in
> BahB'is everywhere.                               1943 SfiogfiiEffendi reiterates these sentiments
> Qne of the bonds that liiked'the Guardian in even warn= terms: "I greatly value, as
> and Horace was their common overwork, you already h o w , your presentation of the
> In one of Shoghi Effendi's letters to Horace various aspects of the Cause, for whose
> his secretary writes: "He is always happy to expansion, consolidation and defense you
> hear from you, as he has a great deal of have, during so many years, laboured so
> sympathy for what he fnily realizes must be indefatigably and served with s ~ ~ distinction.
> ch
> your continuaily overworked state. Hard- I will, I assure you, continue to pray $01 you
> pressed for time as he himself constantly and your dear collaborator MIS. Holley,
> is, he weE knows what it means!" And "he that you may both enrich still furher the
> hopes you yourself are keeping in very good record of your past services."
> health m d not overdoing?--Though he hilows         Needless to say Horace" soad was a
> from Ioilg experience that it is almost im- thorny one. Periodical$ he had battles to
> possible aot to ovexdo when the work of t l ~ e win \vi& Izimself, like most of us, and he
> Cause keeps on piling up?"                        usually had a lot of battles to win for the
> The Guwdian bad the habit of addressing Cause. A time came when Slioghi Effendi
> his letters to National Assemblies to their wished the Nadonal Secretariat to move to
> secretaries; usually this meant that they the vicinity of the Temple in Wilmctte, so
> stated "Dear BahSt'i brothw", but there are that in the heart of the American continent
> dozens and dozens of letters to the American the spiritual and administrative centre could
> Assembly that just start "Dear Horace". It be fused into one. It was not an easy thing
> was a very personal relatioilship.                for Horace to pull up stakes and leaye Newr
> The evokution of the Administrative Order York, the biggest city in the world, where
> and the part Horace played in its unfoldment he had long lived in a congenial atmosphere-
> is too vast a subject to be dealt with here, but and with some degree of privacy-and take
> the messages sent to him by Shoghi EiTendi up residence in the middie west, in a small
> adequately testify how great a r6le he town, where his home would be constantly
> played in the early hihistory of the Formative invaded by visiting Bah2f.s and the public
> Age ofour Faith and how deeply the Guardian who came to see the Temple. Shoghi ERendi
> valued liis services mil constantly encouraged appreciated a13 .this and cabled him in 1939:
> him: "Your ready pen, your brilliant mind, "Awue, profoundly appreciate sacrifice per-
> your marvellous vlgour and organizing sonal convenience involved trmsfexence
> ability, above dl yoar unwavering loyalty Temple vicinity deepest love.'" Having accept-
> arc assets that I greatly value and For which ed to do it he put his h e a t into it; in a letter
> I am deeply grateful . . ." he wrote in 1931. In dated 1940 from Shoghi Effendi his secretary
> .
> 1932 Shoghi Effendi wrote to him: ". . your wrote: "The Guardian was pax-titularly
> active share in the administrative activities gratified to kno\+ of the mi-angements you
> of the Cause, your splendid letters of appeal lravemadeinconnection with the eseablishment
> in connection with the Plan of U~~ified   Action, of the National Office in Wilmette." Kis
> your wise leadership of the Neiv York qualities were soon appreciated by a new
> Assembly-all testify t o yeur marvellous circle of friends and fie was n-radea Rotarian
> efficiency and your high spiritual attain- and founded the Wilmette Historical Com-
> ments." That same year he cabled him : "&fay mission, acting as its chairman for many
> the Almighty sustaiu you in your stupendous years.
> efforts . . ." Another cable, in 1933, testifies     Horace was a clevcr, witty artd distinguished
> to the esteem of the Guardian which Horace lecturer. He had a rather high voice with a
> was winning for himself: '%%l.$re you my slight Yankee twang, wllich added spice to
> ever deepenling admixation your unrivaled his clear, dry, gripping de13vexy of his subject.
> services", and the same thought was echoed Throughout the years he was one of the h e s t
> five yews later; "qssure you my ever deepen- speakers the Bah&"ishad in North America
> lag admiration your unrivaled services love and, in addition to a great many public
> abiding gratitude."' In this s m e year Shoghi lectnres to Bah6'i and non-BahUi auiuilienw,
> 'f W O R L D
> a ~ dparticipation in various symposiums, wrote to him in August of 1344: "I am so
> he frequently gave c o w m at Bahk'i Sum- glac! and iehevcd to learn you are OII the
> mer Schools, particu'larly Green Acre road to recovery. I tsust, howeyer, you will
> where he and his wife had a cottage of their not overtax your newly-found strength, and
> own.                                             1 feel confide~~ltthat you will render our
> On Horace" initiative the American Bahd'i beloved Faith services as outstanding and
> News was tread and met with the Guardicm's unique as those that wiIl remain associated
> enthusiastic approval. "The first prhted with your name during the Formative Age
> issne of the National Assembly's News of the Faith of BahB'u'llWh".His continued
> Letter", he wrote in 1925, "prepaxed and soIicitude for Horace's health and services is
> signed on behalf of the AssenlbZy by its reflected iil a letter to him written in 1945:
> capahle secretary, stands as a bright alld ''.. . my prayer to the Almighty is to give
> eloquent testimony to his thoroughness, you all the strength you need lo enabie you
> his industry, his conspicuous ability, his to win stilI greater victories in the caursc of
> undoubted sclf-sacrsce," Horace contributed your historic labours for the establishlneint
> many articles to Wovid Ordev Magazine, of Ris Faith m d Wlc consolidation of its
> and to various volumes of BaIzd'r' Wori~i nascei~tInstitutions. Be happy? rest assu~ed,
> (in addition to his Surveys).                    m d pa-severe. Your iruc and grateful
> To many people Ire was many tl~ings. brother".
> Mrrch loved by his personal Friends who            In spite of weakened health Horace u s
> understood and enjoyed his often caustic present as represeiihtive d the old, outgoing
> wit, his intense independence and individ- National Spiritual Assembly of the BahB'is
> uality, he was not always understood by of the United States and Canada, at the
> others. Nevertheless his comprehensive knowi- convention held in Montreal to elect the
> edge of the Teachings, his mastery of correct h s t inciependeet Canadian National Assern-
> Bahli'f procedure, and the lucidity of his mind bly in 1948, In 1951 he and Dorothy Baker,
> were invaluable assets to the Cause. Jt was acting as representatives of the United States
> Horace who was largely responsibte for &aft- National body, zttended the convention held
> k g , in conjunction with a BahB'i lawyer, the ill Panama City to elect the first Central
> America11 Declaration of Trust of the Na- American National Assembly, and in 1957
> tionat Assembly and the By-laws of a Local Horace, in his capacity as Wand of the Cause,
> Assembly which have been made by Shoghi and acting as Shoghi Mendi's own special
> Effendi the pattern for a11 such legal instru- representative, attended the convention in
> ments of the Faith i a other countries.          Lima, Peru at whicl~the northern countries
> This great servant of the Faith, with just of SoutIz America elected their new National
> that kind of mind, ground a lot of edges off Assembly.
> the administrative machinery of the Cause          In a cable to Horace, dated December
> in A~ilerica and in this proms, lasting 24, 1951, Shoghi Effendi announced to him
> thirty-six years, had a lot of the sharp edges his appointmei~tas one of the three Hands
> grouild off his own nature and mixid. Un- in America, chosen by the G~zardian:
> doubtedly the %reatestfactor in his Iife, next     "Moved convey glad tidings your election
> to his having accepted so wi~oieheartedly rank Hand Cause stop Appointment officially
> iJse Faith of Bah$'u'Hah, was Shoghi EEei~di. announced public message addxessed a11
> Horace loved Shoghi Effendi's ideas. We IVational Assemblies stop May sacred function
> grasped, perhaps better than anyone dse, ertablc you enrich record services already
> just what the Guardian was collstrrrcting rendered for Bal12u'llki1", It was received
> through the erectiorr of the Administra- a l the National Office during his absence aild
> tive Order. He assisted in this througl~ when Mrs. HolIey imet him at the airport
> all the powers of Iiis mind, giving, year with this momentous news his i i r s ~reaction
> after year, a11 unstinting service to its ~eaii- was to push &om him thjs station, so utterey
> zation,                                          unexpected and overwhelming. The dreamer
> ID 1944 he saEered a heart atlack and was m d mystic, csscirtidly humble beiore his
> in hospital for some time. The Gnnrdian God, shied away from the glokous rank so
> wss disrsessed by the news of this illness and suddenly thrust upon him. But or course
> IN MEMORIAM                                            857
> 
> there was really no g~iestion,for any of the n sand fortress when the tide comes in, and
> Rands, of accepting or rejecting the Ilonour I: suspect this must haie been a great inner
> t h e i ~Guardian had seen fit to confer upaa release for this essentially sensitise, deeply
> them; whether they felt fliemsdues worthy spirituaI n3ar1.
> or not they howed their heads in submission.       \hen Sboghi Effendi passed away in
> Like yeast the new oflice fermented in the November, 1957, Horace was again iii in
> character of Horace, bringirig cut the depths hospital and unable to attend the fune~alin
> of his spirikuality, raising him to new heights, London. Inc~easingIyfor some years he had
> releasing, after so many years of grinding been suffcrillg from some implngeme~~t         oon the
> routine and adnli~istrativework, that other nerves of his legs and towards a12 2nd of
> side of his nature which had prevailed in his his life he          almost constantly in pdn.
> youth. Uuder the influeme of this new form This condition, combined wzth his weakened
> of service Horacz meIlowed and snf'tened. healt, now left him near to being an invalid,
> Now he had another function to fulfil. For yet in spite of his frailty he attended the
> years he had Instructed, admonished, fought hagic a ~ historic
> d      fist gathering of the Hands
> for adherence to laws m d priaciples, blcnded of tllc Ca~~se   hdd in Sahji in December, 1957
> himself into the col~sultativeprocess of Il-re after the passing of their Guardian. To me,
> National Assembly as a body. Now be was it was here that Horace crowned his lifetime
> called upon as an individual, one man, a of service to the Cause of BahB'u"ilih by
> high-ranking oflicer of the Faith, to work in psoducing the ftaest fruit of his knowledge
> a different way; to protect, to teach, to heal and understanding of its teachings-the
> the hearts of the believers, ro lead and help Proclamation issued by the Hmds, the first
> as Horace Holley, the Hand of the Cause, draft of which and major portion, we owe
> operating under the direction of the Guardian to his pen alone.
> himself as part of his own Institutioil.           His fellow-Hands desired that he should
> In 1953, during the Holy Year ceiebxarions, come and serve as one of the nine Hands in
> and pursuant with the request of the Guardian the Holy Land, and after returning to America
> that the Hands of the Cause attend as many to get his affairs in order and resign from the
> of the Intercontinental Conferences as pos- Ameiican National AsszmbIy, he and lris
> sible, Horace was present in Kainpda, wife airived In Israel on December 31, 1959.
> StscklloXm, Chicago and New Delhi. In As his wife later wrote, "When he was in
> December, 2953, at long last, and for the &st flaifa he was $0 21 and so depleted by pain
> time, he #me to Efaifa as a pilgxhn m d met that he was hardly a shadow of his red
> hce to face the man he had served for the self." Indeed, little time was given him to
> best years of both their lives. My own in~pms- serve in fais new cspacity, fox six months
> sion of the significance of that meeting is, Iattta he died. suclda~lyand peacerully, and
> of course, personal, but it seemed to me that is burkd at the foot of Mount Camel, not
> Horace, wlio had a i ~ a y been1
> s    a man simding very far froin the resting place of 'Abdu'l-
> alone in his own wilderness, bowing only to Bah&Ilimself.
> his God, and vigorously protecting his inner       I t was very touching to see how Horace, so
> indepe~~deilce,had been. a little aii-aid, &ail that one felt a breeze would blow him
> probably sub-consciously, of meeting this away, ivould cross the street and struggle
> Shoghi ERendi. 1 think he suspected his soul up the s h o ~ tflight of steps to rhe Hands'
> would be seduced by that meeting, and to nle meeting room. He listei~edattentiveiy to the
> that is what happened. Ilorace surrendered discussions, signifying agreement th~ough
> completely to love. As to the Grrardisn, he a ncd of ltis head or raising his hand, saving
> too had heen aware of the iintense iindepefid- the very little strength he had left to express
> cnce of this rare Bal~B'igiant and wocdered his opinion in words should the nced xise.
> what their meetmg would be like. T remember Ia spite of his extremely frdgiie condition Be
> the first night somsthing prevented Shoghi \+as shll tlw old FIorace, and his clear mind
> Effendi from going over to tXle Pilgrim House and wisdom were of hrestmable lleIp r t l our
> and so hc did not nxet Elorace until tile second decisions and his persoxlaiity a joy to mc.
> night of his pilgrimage; but then thc last         No zaount of this gat Bahli'i tiveuld be
> barricades of Horace's heart weiit down I l k complete if it did not cite at Ieast a Pcvl of
> 855                           T H E BARA"         WORLD
> 
> his delightful b u ~mots, gathered from the tinguished l3md Cause l3orace HolIey out-
> recollections of one of his fellow-ffands and standing champion Faith since days Master
> long-time fellow-member of the American praised by beloved Guardian for uniqae
> National Assembly: one midnight, when the coneribution development Administrative
> members of that Assenlbly were stiil consult- Order. His indelktigable se~vicesprotection
> ing at the end of a tong week-end of constant teaching administrative fields culminating
> meetings, this friend, trying from a tired-out service Holy Land inspiring example present
> mind to express himself, apologized in future generations Baha'is." Great as this
> advance if he did not succeed in conveying tribute is, one cannot help wondering what
> his thought lucidly; Horace remarked, "I the goEden pen of Shoghi Effendi would have
> assure you, my dear boy, you have marc written, on such an cccasion, of such a man
> capacity to give than we have to receive." as Horace X-Polley. But let Horace's own
> Being called upon late at night by a Bal12i words reveal him as he was during the end
> woman, who volubly expressed, at great of hits Iife: "Now what we bave here is,
> length> what she thought should be done; indeed, a Divine creation. It Is humanity
> about a certain admitkistralive problem that being raised toward God and the Divine
> had arisen in her community, Horace inform- grace of God descendii~gto bumanity . . .
> ed her, "You are very sincere, dear-but you therefore in our d d y lives, when we bave
> are sincerely wrong;!'W~n the occasion when, troubles and difficulties of an administrative
> after months and months of patience, durh~g natnre, Iet us not be too impatient or too
> which the man concerned had insisted on easily discouraged because we are in the
> his own rightness and the National Assembly's pmcess of making possible the formation of
> wrongness and had been an ever-inweasingly that spiritual body of the Universal House of
> disturbhg element to the American Com- Justice. There is the basis of the world's peace.
> munity, this individual had at last been There is the order and security of the world.
> deprived of his voting rights. Horace pro- There is the nobility and enlightenment of
> nounced the following obituary: "Mr. So the human race . . . if by t31e purity of our
> and So has been unable to adapt the BahB'i motives, by the depths of our self-sacrifice,
> comnlunity to himself."                        we codd hasten by one year or one month
> Ijis felbw-Eands, deprived of his counsel the estabiblishmmt of that body, the whob
> and support, paid a last tribute to his memory l'iuman race would bless us for that great
> and services in the message they sent to the gift.'"
> BaMi world at the time of his death: "Ckieved
> announce pasing Haifa much loved dis-
> CLARA DUiW                              The strcngth of this conviction was weli
> 1869-1960                        andtruly put to the test in Seattle. Washington,
> where Mother spent the next five y e m
> teaching tirelessly on behalf of the Faith with
> absolutely no sccn result. Such was her
> mental anguish during this time that she
> As with several distinguished Bahri pio-        sraffered a nervous breakdown and had to
> neers gone belore her, Clara Dunn arose to         enter a hospital. Some friends eventually took
> undertake her life's main work at an age when      her from the hospital and cared for Im.
> many women are thinking of "some time for          Unfortunately, not ill1 Mother's "friends" at
> themselves" after years of devotion to their       that time were sincere. Her landlady "loved
> families. The decision she made at the age of      n-ie as much as she could love her own
> fifty, to leave American shores for Australia      daughter" and provided her with an attic in
> with this mightiest of all Revelations, the        which to sleep when Mother bad no money,
> Baha'i Faith, was, and stilL is, the great-        having had to give up the good job she had
> est thing that has ever happened to that con-      with the doctors. This same landlady, however,
> tinent; further, it constituted a major dccl-      carefully warned all who came in contact with
> sion in the history of the world.                  Mother that she was mad and belonged to a
> Little did the London policeman, Thomas         crazy refigionabout which she wanted to tell
> Holder, arid his Irish wife, Maria, guess that     everyone.
> whw they gave birth to their sixth chiid,             It was at this unhappy time that Mother
> Clara, in London, Endand, on May 12,1869,          learned that 'Abdu'l-Bahi was coming to San
> they had braught into the world a girl             Francisco and she determined, in response to a
> destined to become the "mother" of a               telegram from a San Francisco believer, to
> continent! For that is what she did become,        travel there to meet Him. That she was
> in spirit and in word. To BahZis the world         penniless did not deter Mother one instant
> over, and to Australians in particular, Clara      and she eventually arrived in San Francisco,
> Dunn was our nlost loved and revered               hungry and in low spirits, She had no idea
> "Mother". It was not until some time after         where to go beyond the name of the street
> coming to Australia that Mother received a         where 'Abdu'i-Bah& was staying, so she
> letter from an early believer which began,         asked a tram conductor if he knew where
> "Dear Mother, (May I)." It svas then that          there were Persians staying in Market Street,
> Mother recalled a dream that she would be          San Francisco. The tram took her right to
> widely called mother some day, and from that       the door of the very house in which 'Abdu'l-
> time she and her husband, John Henry Hyde          Bahh was staying, and feeling her journey
> D u n , became known affectionately among          accompIished, Mother knocked thankfully
> Baha'is, not onIy in Australia but throughout      at the front door, only to receive no answer.
> the world, as "Mother" and "Father'maunn.          Time and again she knocked and rang but
> It was when she was in her late thirties lhat   to no avail. "So I began to cry and then T got
> she first met John Henry Hyde Dunn and             mad," Mother recalled with a chuckle. She
> upan joining in conversation with her he           pushed the door, found it unlatched and
> asked hcr if she were interested in spiritual      entered.
> things. With delicate humor she replied,              'Abdu'l-Bahfi had just completed a press
> "'I would be if T knew of any spiritual            conference when hl[other arrived and He was
> thkgs."                                            exhausted. Mother left His presence and only
> He then told her of the Bah8'i Faith and        twenty minutes later was recalled by 'Abdu'l-
> invited her to attend a lecture that evening.      Bahii, now complctcly refreshed. to join the
> Before ever heaxing of the message, Mother's       conlpany at His dinner tabIe. Mother's
> outlook was a universal one: she bas said          memory of that meeting was one of such
> that she was ioterested only in a refigion that   laughter and joyousness as she could never
> was "for everybody in the suorld, of every kind   before remember. "Oh, His smile was so
> and colour." After hearing Father Durn's           beautiful!" Mother said, and it was also at
> message, Mother said, "I'm sure it's from         that meeting that 'Abd~r'l-Bahri, "radiazlt
> God."                                              and glorious looking", told a story with
> Bahh lefL San Fxa~ckico.As it happened,
> Mother not o31y achie~edher prsonai wish
> to hear the Master, - she was the last person
> horn anywhere in the world to arrive in Sail
> Francisco for 'Abdu'l-BahB's last night there
> --bat she also received at that meeting t11c
> spiritual stimirlus that was to send her to
> Australia, together with Hyde Dunn w1101-i1
> she masried on July 9, 1917, as pioneers to
> tlmt continent.
> On His return tir the Holy Land after Fllis
> visit to America, 'Abdu'l-BahB revealed the
> Tablets of the Divine Plan in which He calkd
> upon the believers in Anmica to arise acd
> spread the Message of BahB'u'llAh throughout
> file world. He expressed the longing to travel
> "if necessary on foot and with the utmost
> poverty" m d raise the cry "YA BahB'uYl-
> ~ is r o t
> Abhk" and regretted that c ' i ~ othis
> feasible for me. . ."
> In 1919 Mother and Father Duan were
> holidaying at Santa Cruz when Dr. D'Ewlyn
> returned from the 1919 Canvention where the
> Tablets of the Divine Plan had been uilveiled;
> and when Mother read the penetrating call
> profound happiness and ringing laughter, to open the Australian continent to the Faith,
> looking at Mother all the while, It was not she said to Father, "Shall we go ?" and Fatbey
> until Mother and Father had brought the replied, "Yes."
> light of His Message to the Austrstlian COD-           True to 'Abdu'l-Bah5's call to action,
> tineiit, that she sealized that 'Abdu'l-Bahi's      Mother and Father began making prepara-
> story was, in fact, telling of their most gXorious hons to leave for Australia inunediateEy after
> destiny. No wonder He was happy! ('Abdu'l- returning from their holiday. For a moment
> BaM had said, "Unless your love attracts Mother was uncertain whether 'Abdu'l-BahB
> me, f will not come to the West." Father and would wish for both Father and herself to go
> two other believers bad stayed up all night but she prepared nevertheless and was, in
> and prayed that "Abdu'l-BahA would come.) fact, "waiting in the wee garden" whcn "a
> To hdve met souls of the calibre of Mother telegraph boy appeared with a cable from
> and Father Dunn and to have known their 'Abdu'l-BahA contabling these words -
> sincerity and courage must indeed have 'Highly cornendable'." They were delighted,
> gladdened 'Abdu'l-BaWs he&; for here was for, as Father wrote, "This made our future
> not only the Iove which He sought to bring an open door for service m this (Australian)
> Him to the West but also a devotion and continent." They finally set sail aboard t l ~ e
> servitude that would cwry the Message of His S. S, Sunanza early in 2920, arriving in
> Father to a distant land where Be Himself Sydney on April 18, 1920 after spending two
> could not go,                                       monihs in Ho~~olulu.
> How often we can look back and see in a             The first two yeas on Australian soil were
> train of seemingly unconnected events a very trying ones for these pioneers. So011 aftcr
> orderly plan. Consider the: events whicl~ their arrival they established their honle in
> immediately preceded Mother's visit to Sydney, New South Rides, but Father took
> 'Abdu'l-B&6. Had she, for ally reason, been ill and Mother was obliged to take a job tlntii
> unable to reach Sarr Francisco that light, Father's health was restored. This amom-
> the present history of the BabB'I Faith in plished, Fatiler joined the Nestl@'s Milk
> Australia rnight never have been written. For Company as a traveUing salesnun and in this
> at nine osc!ock the followingmorning "Abdu'l-       role he was able to cover the w l ~ o kof Aits-
> XN M E M O R I A M                                       561
> 
> traiia, Tasmania and New Zealand, with             Dunn passed away an E'ebruasy 17, 1941,
> Mother accornpaayi~him from place to               leaving Mother ia casi-y on alone. This she
> place. Arriving in a city she would set up         did with, if possible, even more vigor than
> kousekeepimg and while Father \+as away            511c -Lzd done before. \lTherl.eFather had m m y
> durii~gthe week on his business throughout         times shouldered the public meeting re-
> Ihe surrounding towns shc ~vould make              sponsibiiity, Mother was now left to hold the
> frieads, entertain and tear21 the Faith. She       plalibrrn hei-self. This she did with the vigor
> ivould then have meetings arranged for Father      and forthrightness that charackrised her
> to address during week-ends, and in this way       basic personality. She was now Australia's
> the Teachings spread throughout the breadth        last rernainii~gdirect link with 'Abdu'l-Balia
> of the Cornonwealth. Nevertl~eless,it was          and, until rhe time of her death, she continued
> two years before the first believer accepted the   to impart to the believers of that continent
> Faith - in Sydney. The loneliness, determi-        the same spiritual iinpetus thar she had
> nation and courage of that first ''breaking-       receiired from t31e Master Himself. How else
> through" period was matched only by the            could the n~iraculous dcvclopment of the
> unflinching Faith that Mother and Father           Faith in that land in just over a quarter of a
> held, that they would be assisted and victory      century have bee11 accomplished?
> ivouId most certainly come.                           The consummate honor bestowed on
> And how truly it did come! Leaving              Mother in recognition of her sterling service
> Australian shores for a brief period. MoUaer       to the Faith came on February 29, 1952 when
> and F a t k crossed to neighboring New             she was elevated to the station of Haad of the
> Zealand in 1923, not knowing that there was        Cause of Cod by the Guardian. Father Dunn
> already a believer in that country. That           was subsequently elevated to the same rank,
> believer was Miss Margarct Stevenson, who          posthumously, when the National Spiritual
> had spoken of the Faith to many people,            Assembly af Australia received the following
> but it was, as she said herself, "not until Mr.    cable, "Hyde Dunn regarded Hand. Shoghi".
> and Mrs. Dunn's visit that the Cause in            At the age of eighty-four, Mother was frailer
> A4~ckland   grew." In late 1923 Mother and         in body but her remarkable memory a i ~ d
> Father went to Melbourne where they                vibrant personatity had never heen more
> established the Faith, leaving behind them         alert. In 1953, she attended the first Intercon-
> Australia's fist Spiritual Assembly when they      tinental Conference held in Dellli, India.
> went to Adelaide a ycar later. In Adelaide,        How her heart must have filled with
> where they stayed for some time, the Farth         happiness to have witnessed that tmly
> was firmly established before Mother and           universal gathering under the banner of
> Father returned to Sydney where, except for        BahB"u'llrih! Here was the first materid
> brief periods, they spent the remainder of         evidence of the gradual fulfi112nent of 'Abdu'l-
> theis lives. Tllus ia three years two major        BshXs Divine Plan :an assemblage of BahB'is
> countries had been ope~xdto the Cause of           represeritaiive of world-wide communities -
> B&A"uyZlah by these gallant souls. In 1932         the fruits of ploneers such as herself -
> Mot!xr interrupted hel- teaching activities for    gathered together to stimulate even further
> a time to go, alone, on a pilgrimage to the        the teaching efforts which would eventually
> Holy Land. Wlzile there she sigt~ed the            fulfill the goal of the Divine Plan.
> visitors' book at the Mansioii d Bahjf on             The foliowing year 1954 saw Mother as a
> January 15th of that saim year.                    Hand of the Cause of God, oncemore in New
> Returning to Austxalia she renewed her          Zealand. This time it was to attend the New
> teaching activities and in 1334 wrtnessed the      Zealand Swlmtr School at Henderson VafIey.
> fruits of this work in the establishment of the    The visit was commemorated by the planting
> National Spiritual Assembly of Australia and       of a Kauri tree on the Hyde Dunn School
> New Zealand, and by this time Spiritual            property thsre.
> Assemblies had been established in several            Towards the latter part of the same year,
> states in Australia and in Auckland, New           a11d despite Ker advanced years, Mother
> Zealand.                                           visited all the i;tates of Australia. Three years
> Then, for the second time in her Life, Mother   later, in 1957, Mother xettlrned to New Zealaad
> became a widow when John I-Penry Hyde              for a third time; on this occasion as the rep-
> THE B A H A * W
> ~ ORLD
> resentative of the Guardian at the formation        yeas in the quest that she started at the age of
> of the National Spiritual Assenlbly of that         wty.
> country. Upon the passing of the Guardian,             The Guadian said of the Dufzns that they
> Mother, as Hand of the Cause went to Haifa          were the true conquerors because they stayed
> where she attended the .first Conclave of the       where they pioneered.
> Hands of the Faith in the Mansion of Bahjl',           On November 28, 1960 after a befitting
> Israel. Although physically now very weary,         ceremony at the National *a?iratu9l-Quds,
> Mother's desire and determination to serve          Hand of the Cause of God Gara Dunn7s
> was as strung as ever.                              cortdge left for the Worunora Cemetery,
> The closing years of Clara Ilunn's life          Sydney, where she was laid to rest beside her
> witnessed many wonderful things. Not only           husband. Unique in the annals of the BaWi
> did she behold the groua and development            Faith is the fact that two souls, both Lhnds
> of her own spiritual children around her, but       of the Cause of God and pioneers of a con-
> she also saw the fruits of her smice reflected      tinent, should lie together.
> irx th islands of the Pacific, as pioneers from
> the Australian continent arose with equal                   National Spiritual Assembly
> h o t i o n to open the territories virgin to the           of the BahPis of Australia.
> Message of BahA'u'llah. These teaching efforts
> mlnlinated in the establishment of the Region-
> al Spiritual Assembly of the South Pacific
> Islands. Further, from the days of teaching
> the Faith without books or any material
> assistance for guidance, Mother witnessed the
> rearing of two National Spiritr~alAssemblies,                  JULIET THOMPSON
> Australia and New Zealand, as well as a
> National &ziratua1-@ds. She was Iurther               "Deplore loss much-loved, greatly admired
> to see the crowning glory of Australia - the        Juliet Thompson, outstanding, exemplary
> erection of the first Mother Temple of the          handmaid 'Abdu'X-BAA. Over half-century
> Antipodes, set within these shores. It was, in      record maniPold meritorious services, embsttc-
> fact, ia March 1958 and at the request of the       ing concluding years Heroic opening decades
> Gua~dim,that Mother placed "plastex. from           Formative Age BA6'i Dispensation, won her
> the Castle of Mih-KV' in the foundation             enviable position glorious company trjuun-
> of the Australian B a W i House of Worship          phant disciples beloved MasterAbhh Kingdom.
> during the Australian Intercoll2inentd Con-         Advise hold memorial gathering Mashriqu'l-
> ference.                                            A & ~ Ppay befitting tribute imperishabIe
> The remaining years of Mother's life were        memory one so wholly consecrated Faith
> spent in a fiat at the National .@qisatu'l-Quds     Bahk'u'lIAh ihed such consuming devotion
> in Sydney. Until the time of her passing on         Center His Covenant.
> November 18, 1960, at the age of 31 years,
> Mother never lost her scintillating Irish wit
> which seized upon anyone and everyone,
> sometimes with fiery pointedness, sometimes
> with most delightful and delicate subtlety,
> but always with twinkling enjoyment. Fresh             At a memoxial service, held on Febiuary
> to the end, too, was her remembrance of             9, 1957, two months afta her death, Mbutes
> many of tile beautiful BahB'i prayers, her          were oflered by several people who had known
> favorite among them seeming to ha\re been. . .      her well.
> " 0 Lord, my haven in my disfiess!My shield            At an early age Juliet became interested iil
> imdshelrei. in my woe,. ." for she was reciting     painting. She studied at the Coscaran Art
> It up to her Iast breath. How inany occasions       School in Washington and at seventeen was
> must Mother's l~earthave been heavy for             doing porisaits in pastels professionally, By
> that to have been her favorite prayer; but          the middie 1890'~~ when in her early twenties,
> how faithfully was her prayer answered to           she had already made a name for herself.
> have enabled her to persevere for farty-one            Around the turn of the century the mother
> IN MEMORIAM                                              853
> 
> accepted the Cause. She aIso made it a practice
> to hold a weekly mee~ngfor the believers.
> "Never," wrote one of her close friends,
> "will these meetings be forgotten. Those who
> were fortunate enough to assenzble there in
> those pioneer days w e tasiing the spiritual
> happiness @leyhad atways read about, which
> sings on in the l~eart
> regardless ofthe turbulent
> waters of the outer world.. .. Every evidence
> of a worldly atmosphere was absent. . ."
> The year after the Master's reIease from the
> prison city of 'AkkB, in 1908, Juliet was one
> of rJ.1e Kianey party who made the piigrimage
> to Raifa. It is not difficult to imagine her
> exalt'ation on attaining this longed-for
> goal.
> On her return to New York, hw meetings
> were resumecl. Pages of a new ~oIumewere
> being written in the Lives of many devoted
> American believers; a11 were looking forward
> to a possible visit s f 'Abdu'l-E&B to the
> Juliet Thompson                      United States. But in Juliet's case the interval
> of waiting seemed to be too iong; in the
> s m n e r of 1911, when the Master was in
> Europe, she again sought His presence, first
> of Laura Clifford Barney invited the young at Thoaon-ies-Bains, France, and the^ in
> artist to come to Paris for further study. Juliet Veveyr on Lake Geneva in Swit~erland.
> went zccompanied by her inoiher and Eagerly she listcned to Ris vivifying words,
> brother.                                            and faithfully she recorded in her diary the
> It was there that she nlet May Bolles - the priceless impressions of those days.
> first BaM'i on the European continent - and            On April 11, 1912, 'Abdu'l-Bahri arrived
> through her, accepted this xlew Faith. Mrs. in New York, and when fie s%pped off the
> B m e y wrote of Juliet that she had accepted steamship Cedric one of those who met Him
> it "as naturally as a swallow lakes to the air.''   was Juliet Thompso~i.She fotlowed the Master
> Juliet became one of that frrsi group of everywhere, attending all meeikigs in New
> Paxis Bah$'ls, which inciuded Mrs. Barney. York, Brooklyn and New Jersey* and the
> Enthusiasm and acti~~ity    were at a high point, Master graciously addressed a gathering in
> partIy because of the presence of Mirzk her studio. Seyeral times He called her to
> Abir'l-FadI, whom 'Abdu'i-Bahli had sent to walk with Him on Riverside Drive, accorn-
> France. His lessons: tagether with May BolXes- panied by Vaiiyu'IIBh Vaq& as interpreter.
> irduence, were very confirming to Juliet, and It was through her eEorts that the rector of
> the process was mn~pletedwhen Thomas the Church of the Ascension in New Y o ~ k
> Breakwell, the first English believer, gave her received 'Abdu'l-BahB at a Sunday evening
> Count de Gobineau's stirring description of service, seating the Master in the bishop's
> the Martyrdom of the B a h                          chair beside the &tax. Here 'Abdu'l-BahL
> From the beginning of her acceptance of answered many questions about the Teachings
> the Faith, juliet served it. Following her Paris that were asked by the congregation.
> sojourn she spent most of the rest of Xler life       Juliet reached the pinnacle of success and
> in New York, and her studio there became happiness when the Master granted her
> a center fax Bah&'imeetings. Juliet's great love request to paint His portrait. This she executed
> for and devotion to the Master made her a in pastels, unfortunately a somewhat perish-
> natural channel for the spseadi~g  of the Faith. able medium. Photographic reproductions of
> Her ~:cnthuusiasmwas so soul-warming and the portrait axe to be found in many BahB'i
> contagious that, through her, many people homes, but the original has been lost.
> I
> Miss Thompson was by now z, i d - k x o n n       In the later years of her life, she was
> I
> portrait painter, exeating many commissions incapacitated physically; nevertheless, mher-             I
> in Xew Yark and Washington. Among these ever sl-ie was, there was a center around which
> was a portrait of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge.            B&B'i thought and activity revolved. D~ubi-
> Juliet kept a compkte diary sf the trs- less nany of her friends did not realize the
> mendous events that transpired dur.ing'Abdu31- seriousness of the heart ailment that affiicted
> Baka's visit in and around New York. Her her becax~sehex spirit was so alive and vibrant.
> article, " "bdu'i-Bahk,      the Ccz~terof the Althaugh she was then in her early eighties,
> Covenant," gives examples of the I-espoiise those closestto her never thought of age i;n
> of people froin all walks of life to the ctyi~amic connection with Juliet; she seemed ageless.
> personality of the Master - responses which Her earthly lift? can= to an end on Deccmber
> in most cases she herself witnessed.               9th, 1456.
> Then came World War 1 - which the
> Master had prophesied would occur - when
> all commnunication was severed between
> 'Abdu'l-Bahi in the Holy Land and the
> friends in the United States. Throughout
> this time of trial and testing, Juliet did not
> lose the vision of the BahB'I pronlise of peace.
> In collaboration with her spiritual mother,
> May Maxwell, she collected the utterances of          Mrs. Carrie Kinney, whose maiden name
> BahZu'llAh and 'Abdu'l-Baha on this subject. was Hebne Morrette, was born in New York
> T h e were p~~blished    in 1918 under the title, City in 1878, After more than two years of
> "'Peace Compilation.'"                             serious illness she passed from this life to the
> Because of her ardent advocacy of peace, heavenly realm an August 16, 1959, there,
> JuIiet attracted the attention of federal agents, as she often expressed it, to meet her Lord,
> some of whom were present aat Bahi'i meetings        She was affectionately krrotr?n to the be-
> in her home. She was nevcr afraid; she knew lievers from all parts of the Bah&i'          world as
> she spoke the Teachings of God for this day, "Vafi", a name bestowed upon fier by the
> Thrflugl-iout her entire Bahri'i career she was beloved 'Abdu'l-BaM. Her many years of
> courageous, staunch, and firm as a rock in constant, loyal, devoted and loving service
> her faith.                                         to the Carise extended to many channels. Her
> T h a Juliet was a semitiye writer was feelings of universal love and &Teetion
> demonstrated in her book, "I, Mary Magda- enwmpasscd ail those who were privileged to
> len," published in 1940, Here she paints with enter her home, a home truly dedicated to the
> words a portrait of the woman whose life was service of BahA'u'ilBh, 'Abdu'l-Bahti and the
> deeply inffuenced by the teachings o f Jesus beloved Guardian.
> the Christ, just as Juliet's own life had been        Vafi'a and Edward Beadle Kinney met in
> galvanized by the radiant loving-kindnessand 1893 and two years later tvere married. That
> wisdom of 'Abdu'l-Baha. This book has been same year Mr. Kinney attended a Baha'i
> characterized as 'bne of the most graphic and meeting at the home of Howard MacNutt
> lofty delineations of Christ ever made in where for the first time he heard the Message
> literature."                                       of BahA'u'llah. He accepted what he heard
> Juliet was for many years a member of the i~mediatelyand rushed back hon~eto tell
> Splriiual Assembly of New York and a VaEa about it, saying excitedly, "1 have just
> delegate to the annual convention. In 1926 heard a .rvonderfulstory. Om Lord is on earth.
> she made, with Mary Max~vell,the da~~ghter 1 must write to b4im at once and plan to go to
> of her beloved friend and teacher, a second see llim." Coming from a strong Cathoiic
> pilgrimage to the ltfoiy Land. Aftep years backgound, Vaffa was a little afraid of this
> of service in New York, and not long announcement and ran and hid in the closet.
> aftex Shoghi Eifendi had sent the first Hoivever, several days later hlr. Kinney took
> Bah8'i pioneer teackrs to Latin American Vaffa with him to the next BahB'i meeting
> countries, Juliet spent over a year leaching in and immediately she, too, accepted the Faith
> Mexico.                                            and toether they wrote a Iettcr to 'Abdu'l-
> IN MEMORIAM                                             865
> 
> The Kinnoys' Iast place of residence, after
> living for some time in Boston, was the
> Woodward Hotel Annex in New York City
> and here they continued to caxy on the weekly
> metings. Shortly after her husband's death,
> Vaffa responded to the call of the beloved
> Guardian ta pioneer, and in 1952 moved to
> River Edge, New Sersey, where she established
> her home. There, with a devoted friend and
> believer, MIX. Maud Gaudreaux, weekly
> iiresldes were again held and thraugh this
> teaching effort several friends were attracted
> to, and accepted, the Faith.
> In 1956 Valfa became seriously ill, but after
> a serious operation she appcazed to be re-
> covering very \veil and was loi~gingto return
> to active teaching. At this time the liews of the
> passing of the beloved Guardian reached her
> and it was such a shock to her that her phys-
> ical health and vitality never f~ullyreturned,
> and she was taken to her son's liome where
> she spent the last two years of her life,
> When the friends would call to see her
> thev would talk about the Cause and this
> Canie Kinney                       would always brighten her spirits, but on the
> morning of August 16,1959 her sou, entering
> Iier room, found that she had quietIy ascended
> Bahh who was still held a prisoner in 'AkkB, into the Abh& Kingdom.
> Palestine.                                           Vaffa was not an eloquent speaker but no
> After 13 years their cherished longing came one who met her failed to hear about the
> true and they, with their chiidren, found glorious Message and to be brought dose
> tl~emselveson the way to visit 'Abdu'i-B&&.       to its spirit. She followed the instruction of
> .
> Their visit was an extmded one, a period of the Master explicitly to ". . consider her
> some eight months, and during their stay audience like beautiful birds waiting to hear a
> they expressed the wish that when 'Abdu'l- wonderful melody, and herself like an organ
> Baha came to America He should make their played on by invisible bands, and be sure ta
> home His place of stay.                           take this attitude because you are alive by
> When 'Abdu'l-Bahh paid a visit to America the breath of the Holy Spirit." Both. Vaffa
> in AprB of I912 there were many friends at and her husband were designated as "PiIlars
> the dock to greet Him. 'Abdu'l-Bahk however, of the Cause of God", by the Guardian, who
> sent word for the friends to leave the dock bad written to them a ie~teterin which he
> and that He would meet with them at the stated, "The Cause of God in North
> Rinney home in the aftexnoon. He theil called America ~ 4 l remainl       seang in the hands of
> for Mr. Kini~eyto come onto the ship to see such lion-hearted and staunch believers as
> Him, and later that after110011the first meeting yourselves."
> with the Master in ArneriwLtook place in the
> Kinney home, During His stay the Master                                        CURTIS D. KELSEY
> told Mrs. Iunney, "I am returning your visit,
> but nhile I am in your home I will be the host
> and you will be the guests." For many days
> and nights people came to meet with 'Abdu'l-
> Bahk, a i d the Kinneys spared neithcr time,
> effort nor money to have everything as well
> arranged for 'Abdu'l-Baht as possible.
> .'i
> WORLD                                             I
> I
> 
> HARLAN FOSTER OBER                        this promulgation of &vine teachings attracts
> 1881-1962
> heavenly  confirmation. Soon ye shall consider
> what a profound effect it shaLl exert and what
> a manifest sign it shall display,"
> On May I, 1312 Barlan was present at the
> Harlan Foster Ober came into the Faith a laying of the foundation stone by 'Abdu'l-
> young man just out of college. At that time B&& of the Ma&iqu't-A&kks in Wilmette;
> there were no Spiritual Assemblies, local or on May 1, 1953, just forty-one years later, he
> national, and all teaching was on an mljrely took part in the program o f dedication 01
> individual basis, guided by Tablets froin this "Mother Tenlplc oE the West." And in
> 'Abdu'l-Bahfr. The fire of the love of God San~rary,1958, hc was present at the h y i n g
> reached the hearts that were open; Ifarhn's of the cornerstone for the B&$i House of
> was one of these. He lived to take an active Worship in Kampala, Uganda the "Mother
> part as a pioncer iin Shoghi ERendi's Ten Temple a£ Africa."
> Year plan, to see the growth of the Ad-              ffmlan was born on October 6, 1881 in
> ministrative Order from its beginnings to Beverly, Massachusetts, in a wdl-known and
> a stsucturc of fifty-six National and Regional highly-respected New England family. His
> Spiritual Assen~biiesat the time of his death, mother, Macena Harmon. Ober, was a school
> and to see the Faith established all over the teacher before her marriage. His father,
> world. Harlan ivas always actively engaged in George Oliver Qber, was in the shoe business
> B W i service. The period of this service which Auctuated considerably in these yeazs.
> covered .fifty-seven years, a unique and out- Hxlan wried his way tlvough college and
> standing record as B a w l teacher and devoted, graduated from Harvard University, receiving
> steadfast, inspired and inspiring worker in the his B. A, degree in 1905. In his biography for
> Faith of Bahk'u'liah.                             the Harvasd Class of 1905 Fiftieth Axmiuer-
> 'Abdu'l-Baha wrote to Harlaa on June 24, s a ~ yReport he wrote:
> 1919:                                                "'Although lectures bad been given on this
> "Today the stirring power that exhibits subject [the Baha'i Faith] at Phillips Brooks
> itself throughout aU regions is .the power of House, I had not heard of it while at college.
> the Covenant which, like unto the artery, After about nine months of investigation, I
> beats md pulsates in the body of the world. recognized the truths unfolded in its mow-
> H e who Is firmer ia the Coveaant is more ment. Dui-kg the following year T travelled t o
> assisted, just as ye are manifestly witnessing the Holy Land, Egypt, Ti~ldia,and Burma
> how firm souls are enkindled, attracted and which gave me an opportunity to discover
> confirmed.                                        at first hartd the application of the Bahii'i
> "Stri~e, therefore, day and night &at ye Faith. I also lectured on the BakB'i Faith
> may cause the hearts to become fium and ill colleges, in Young Men's Christian As-
> resolute. The journey of teachers to different sociations, forums and other public meet-
> parts is like unto the rays of the sun which i n g ~ . ' ~
> radiate from a cenlhal point to the surrou~iding    Harlan was not only a graduate of Harvard
> regions and undoubtedIy gieat illumination University but held a Iaw degree from
> will be obtained.-'                               Northeastern University in Boston, Mass-
> Thus Harlan Ober's path was early chafted achusetts.
> by 'Abdu'l-BaM.                                      On July 17, 1422 'Abdu'l-Baha Himself
> In a Tablet sent at the same lime "To the united in marriage Grace Robarts of Cznada
> members of the Executive Board of the and Harlan Foster Uber. 'Abdz~'l-Bah&sug-
> Ma&riquYl-A&k&rW,       of which Rarlstxl was gested this marriage and these two dwoted
> then president, 'Abilu'l-BW wrote:                 believers were immediately and joyously
> "Pxaiso be to God, tkat ye have been obedient to His wish. The simple Sah&'i
> confirmed with such a supreme bounty and service took place at 309 West 78th Street,
> have arisen with all your power in the service New York City, and was followed later that
> of the X(ingdom, which is no other than service same day by a legal ceremony performed by
> to the oneness of Ihe world of humanity. the Reverend Howard Colby Ives (not yet a
> The magnet attracts unto itself the iron, while BahB'i), in the presence of friends from East
> IN MEMORIAM
> 
> 2nd West. Description of this event stated         National Spiritual Assembly of the B a i s
> in part (Star o j flze West, Vol. 3, No. 12,       of the United States and Canada for three
> p* 14):                                            years (1838-41) m d on several national
> "Never before in Plmerica had such a             committees.
> wedding a s this been eitnessed. All seemed           The BahB'i Ten'emple Unity Board's consritu-
> to feel the power of the Holy Spirit,"             tion states that it was drawn up by "the
> The prayer, chanted by 'Abdu'i-Bahh, was         BahB'i Assembiies of North America, inanity
> revealed for Harlan and Grace:                     convened at the CiLy of Chicago, to tke end
> '"lory  be unto Thee, 0 nly God! Verily,        that we may advance the Cause of God in this
> this Thy scrvant and this Thy maid-servant         western hemisphere by the founding and
> have gathered under the shadow of Thy mercy        erection of a TempIe with service accessories
> and they are united through Thy favor and          dedicated to Ria Holy Name, arid devoted to
> generosity. 0 Loxd! Assist .them in this Thy       His love i11 the service of mankind." Its oi-iject
> world and Thy Khgdom and destine for them          was "to acquire a site for and erect a?ld
> every good through Thy bounty and grace.           xnai31tain thereon st Sah8'i Tel~lplcor I~la&-
> 0 Lord! Confirm them in Thy servitude and          riqu'l-A&k&f,           service accessory build-
> assist them in T I I ~service. S u k them to       ings, at Chicago, Ill., in accordance with the
> become tfie signs of Thy Name in Thy world         declared wish of 'Abh'l-Bahd."' The Execu-
> and protect then1 through Thy bestowals            tive Board consisted of nine members, elected
> which are inexhaustible in this world stnd the     at the c2nnual Convention. This work was
> world to come. 0 Lord! They are supplicating       taken over by the National Spicitud Assembly
> toward the Kingiiom of Thy mercifuIltess and       of the Bahi'is of the United States and Canada
> inwking toward the reaim of Thy singbness.         when it was estabiished in 1922.
> Veriiy tiley are married in obedience to 191y         It was fronz Harlan and Grace's home, at
> command. Cause them to become the signs            37 nowbridge Street, Canibridge, Mass-
> of harmony and unity until the end of time.        achusetts, a room of which was given over to
> Verily Thou art the Omnipotent, the Omni-          the office of the National Teaching Conlmitke,
> present and the i41n1ighty !"                      that the first Teaching Bulletin, dated Noefem-
> The marriage certificate was signed by          ber 19, 1919 was issued. This bulietin evolved
> 'Abdu'i-Bahk, M, Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney          into the U.S. Bahd'i niervs.
> and the Reverend Howard Colby Tves. Several           Harlan was chairman of the Local Spiritual
> years after their marriage R a h md Grace          Assembly in several cities as he moved about.
> adopted three children, of English, German         As such he was inslrumentai in obtaining the
> and Russian back-grounds. There are aow            incornoration of the Spiritual Assemblies of
> seven grandcl-rilhn and a great-grand-             the BahB'is of Boston, Mass, and o f Bevalji,
> chiid.                                             Mass. He also assisted in obtaining the
> During 'Abifu'l-BahB's stay in America He       marriage lice~~se    issued by the Common-
> visited Green Acre, in August, 1912, the           wealth of Massachusetts in 1946, ar~thor-
> nineteenth year of its existence. Of this visit    izing the Spiritual Assenlbiies of the 4361rb'is
> Harlan wrote:                                      of Massachusetts to solemnize BahZi mar-
> " 'Abdu'l-Baha    rescued the Green Acre        riages.
> Conferences from oblivion . . . His talks dealt       Numerous teaching trips were made by
> with reality and gave a anew direction to Green    Harlan over a period of many years tlxough-
> Acre."                                             out the United States and Canada. Ezrly in his
> With this new direction Harlan and Grace         Bahb'i life he planned to spend half his time
> and Harlan's close friend and classmate,           in teaching and in tfte affairs of the Faith and
> Alfred Lunt, had an increasing m o u n t to        the other half in earning a living. He -was
> do, as they were for many years active in the      confumed in this endeavor at every step
> BahB'i conferences and schools cal~ledon           tbxoughout his life.
> there.                                                frtis close friendship with Louis Gregory,
> Harlan's early services to the Faith included,   outstanding BahB'i tcachcr, who was appoint-
> besides diose as president (1919-20) aad           ed postliumously first Negro Hai~dof the
> secretary (1918-19) of t l ~ eBaha'i Temple        Cause of God by Shoghi Effendi, took him on
> Unity Executive Board, membership on the           many teaching trips to the southera states.
> THE B A W A ' W
> ~ ORLD
> Harlan was constantly in demand as a
> speaker at Rttce Unity Conferences, at BahPl
> Summer and Winter Schools and Conferences
> held in the United States and Canada. Of one
> of these John Robarts, formerly of Toronto,
> nephew of Grace Robarts Ober and now a
> Hand of the Cause in Africa, writes:
> ".. . With a little persuasion Harlan would
> begin to tell a story about 'Ahdu'l-B&&, a
> hush would settle on the gathering and all
> eyes and eaps would bc turned to him. Thea
> I knew the conference had begua. Tbe Holy
> Spirit, with all its glory and joy, had descended
> upon us, Sometimes we wouldn't let him stop
> m d be would go on m d on telling us those
> beautiful stories, bringing 'Abdu'u'i-B&& right
> to us. What til~xesh e were! L am sure I uq7a
> my love for 'Abd11'1-BahihP to dear Harlan."
> In 1906, Wa1.1an was oneof the rvst Amer-
> ican Bahh'is to visit 'Abdu'I-Bahi, who was
> still confined in the Turkish prison city of
> "Akkh. After returning, Harlan gave a talk
> from the notes oi' which tlie following facts
> emerge:
> When the need arose to send American                        Harlan Foster Ober
> Bai~B'isto India to spread the teachings m d
> show that the BahP'i Faith was accepted ia
> the West, 'Abdu'l-B&b inquired of Mirza             newly-arrived pilgrims to tbe Feast, Harlan
> Abir'l-Fadl M ~ I O should be sent. The latter      co~tinues   :
> recomn~endedMr. Hooper Harris, whom he                 "It was a b o ~ ~ten-thirty
> t        in the eveniag.
> had taught in N e w Yosk City. In due time          It iiilpi-essed mc because it was I l k the Lost
> a Tablet came to America from 'Abdu'l-Bah&          Sapper by konardo da Vincl. 'Abdu'l-BahB
> asking that two teachers be sent to India,          went around tha long table, heaping high
> Mr. Wooper Harris to be one and a companion         each plate. Then when ali were served He
> to be chosen to go with him. Dr. Wtliarn            wdked hack and forth, the Ughts showing
> Moore, brother of Mrs. Lua Moore Getsinger,         on His face aatd flowing robe, and gave a t a k
> was chosen. When Dr. Moore sudden$ died,            which He repeated for us fie next morning
> Mrs. Getsinger suggested to Hadail Ober             at breakfast. While Re was sealing us at the
> that Re should go in her brother's place. Harlan    Feast, two young Persia inen chanted poem
> was delighted at the prospect, and 'Abdu'l-         and Tablets. The large room., the long table,
> Baila approved the p b . Harlan's family,           the varied Oriental costumes, the wonderful
> however, had not accepted the Baha'i Faith          faces of the believers, the spirit that was
> and opposed his trip to h & a , with its dangers    present as everyone turned to 'Abd11'1-Baha
> f m plague, cholera and cobras, and Harlan          etched an uilforgettable picture on our
> did not have the means for financing such           hearts."
> a journey. But money was borrowed by Mrs.              It was at this table that Harlan was intro-
> Getsinger and on November 110,1906 Hooper           duced to, and seated next to, MirzL gaydar-
> Harris and Harlan Ober sailed ffom Hoboken,         'Ali.
> New Jersey, for Naples and 'Akka.                      As time passed the two pilgrims faom
> They arrived in 'Akkri after dark. When          Anlerica grew anxious because nuthing had
> 'Abdu'l-Btihb came to welcome them that             been told them about their trip to India arid
> evening>He told &em He was giving a Feasr           what they were supposed to do. Twice they
> for forty pljgrims from Persia who were             spoke to the interpreter (Miss Laura Barney)
> leaving the next day, and He invited the two        and asked her to speak to 'Abdu'l-BahB about
> IN MEMORIAM                                              869
> 
> it. He replied that He would send for them at the Theosophical Society, two listeners
> later. Oa the third day He asked then1 to became coa~incedof the truih of Bahh'u'llrih's
> come to His room. We then said:                   Message: one was Dr. Hermann Grossmann,
> "1 will now speak lo you about lndia. In now a Hand of the Cause; the other was Frau
> Iaclia people believe that God is like the sea Lina Benke, who told her husband, (absent
> and man is Like a drop in the sea, or that God from the city whe11 the meeting was held), of
> is like the wasp and man is like the woof of what she had learned, He Iater becalnc the
> this coat. But the BahB'is belie-ie that God first European BahL'i martyr.
> is like the sun and man is Iike a fiirrror fixing    Harlan's third pilgrimage to the Holy Land
> the sun."                                         was made in 1956, to visit Shoghi Effendi. On
> After this was translated to thein, 'Abdu'l-   this pilgrimage Harlan was accompanied by
> Bah6 began to repeat the statement. Miss his second wife, Dr. Elizabeth Kidder Dber,
> Barncy said: " 'Abdu'l-Bah&,1 have already She and HarIan had been married in BeverZy,
> told them." Then He said: "Tell them Mass. on .Tune 21, 1941. (Harlan had been
> again." Which she did. The11 He e ~ d e dby widowed in 1938). After their pilgrimage they
> saying :                                          went to South Africa as planned, and were
> "Wheaever di&cult questions or problems able to carry out the wish of the beloved
> come to you, turn your hearts to the heart Guardian to help form the first all-African.
> of 'Abdu'i-BahA and you wilI receive Local Spiritual Assembly in Pretoria. They
> help."                                            returned to the United States to settle their
> This was all. that 'Abdu'l-Baha told thein affairs and, in December 1956, settled in
> about teaching in India but it was adequate. Pretoria as pioneers. At that time the Guard-
> By foilowing His inshilctions, evsry qucstion ian spoke of Harlan as a champion of the
> was answered, and oi'ien the answerer was Cause af God.
> as astonished as the questioner. The Indian          I-larJan was appointed a m e d e r of the
> BahB'is were deIighted, and on one occasion Auxiliary Board for Protection in Mica in
> when Ms. Harris was speaking to members October, 1957. He served on the National
> of rite Arya-Sonlaj they were astonished at Teaching Committee of South and West
> the answers. These few words of 'Abdu'l-Bahi Africa for two years. Xn November, 1957 he
> were like seeds coming into fruition whenever flew from South Africa to attend the funeral
> the hearts were turned to Him.                    service of the beloved Guardian in London.
> Later 'Abdu'l-Bahli told Harlan: "Sexve On his way back he visited the friends in
> the people, speak in the meetings, love them Douala, Cameroon, and Luanda, Angola.
> in reality not through politeness, e~ilbrace         John Robarts' letters teIl of the spirit that
> then%as 1 have embraced you. Even if you anbnated Harlan's services:
> should never speak, great good wilI be               "Harlan wrote inspiring and most loving
> accomplished."                                    letters to the friends in his territory. EEe
> Concerning this visit to India, "bdu'l-BahB    brought 'Abdu'l-BahB close to us with his
> wrote in a Tablet to Harlan and Grace Obcar wonderful stories about Him. He had great
> dated July I I, 1316: "Truly I say Mr. Qber knowldge, wisdom, life-long experience in
> rendered a great service to the Kingdom of the Faith. He bved to answer questions and
> God and undertook a long and arduous trip to help others to a better understanding of
> to India." The beloved Guardian wrote in the Faith, its signiEcance in the world, its
> Gad Passes By that this trip lasted "no less history, its teachings, its believers, its ad-
> than seven montl1~".                              ministration. He was dedicated, devoted,
> Harlan's second pilgrimage was in July living a iifc of service. His perception of the
> 2920, when, with Grace, he visited 'Abdu'l- inner meanings of the tcachiilgs was keen
> Bah&in Haifa. They returned via Germany and he could clarify them, often very vividly,
> and England, where they had the privilege of so that others could perceive them. I-le always
> meeting ShogM EiTendi, then a student at had a ready, merry laugh. He visited the
> Oxford University.                                friends whenever possible. He read and
> In Germany, at the suggestioll of 'Abdu'l- studied the teachings constantly and could
> Bahti, Harlan and Grace went to Lcipzig to relate them to whatever was the problem at
> speak on the BahB'i Faith. At a public meeting hand. His approach in helping othexs to sect
> their problems in perspective was heart-         The Beloved, whose Cause you are serving
> warming. We left one free, aflcr looking         with distinction and exemplary fidelity, wilI no
> squarely at various aspects, to think out a      doubt co~~tinue  to bless your high endeavors."
> solution and make one's awn decision."             In October, 1937 after the passing of Alfred
> Another friend writes: "Harlan never tired    Lunt, Dr. Zia Ba&da& and Mrs. Mary
> of trying to find comrion ground between         Hrznford Ford, "outstanding figures in the
> .
> the believers on which he could build mity. ,    Cause in America," the Guardian, writing
> Harlan would be aglow hv$th joy when he          through his secretary, advised Harlan to
> spoke about his association with the Master;     "remain in the United States and assist in the
> so alert was his ~nilldthat he would speak of    teaching work there. Your presence i n h e r -
> those experiences or nearly fifty years ago      ica, he feels, is now absolutely necessary, as
> as if they were matters of just .five years      the Giends can ill afford to lose the varied
> ea-lies."                                        aab rich experiences which they            draw
> At the end of a few days spent by Elizabeth   througir their close association with an old
> and Earlan in Lourenco Marques, Mozam-           and outstanding teachex like yourself."
> bique, a young African friend said: "Tears          Shaghi Effendi wrote to Harlan on June 30,
> wing their way across my heart at your going."   1938 :
> When Harlan passed away, on July 20,            ""Dear and prized co-worker:
> 1965 the Rmds of the Cause in the Holy             The vigor, the zest and fidelity with which
> Land sent the FolIowing cable, befittingly       you are discharging your duties, in spite oE
> summing up almost half-a-century of service      the severe and crushing blow you have
> to this Faith:                                   recently sustained, heighten my admiration
> 'Tkepest sympathy passing &car Harlan         for you and reinforce the ties of brotherly
> Ober, devoted, distinguished American bcliev-    affectioll that h i t our hearts together. I
> er buth Heroic Formative Ages Faith. Early       greatly value yottr observations, your ac-
> global travels, membership Temple Unity          complishments, your motives, your example
> Board and later National Assemhiy, historic      and the hopes you cherish. . ."
> services Africa pioneer Board member unfor-        And on June 30, 1939:
> gettable. Assure loving prayers Shrine. Hands-     "Your letters are so ilIuinating and so
> reassuring in thc spirit of selfless devotion,
> He is buried in Zandfontein Cemetery, and of exemplaryloyalty which they invariably
> Pretoria, next to an African Location in a breathe. Your activities, strivings, vigilance,
> valley surrounded by lovely Ithills.             patience and accompl:,shments arc invalu-
> During a period of over thirty years Harlan able assets for which 1feel genuinely grateful.
> received lettexs from Shoghi Effendi which May tlze beloved, whuse Cause you are fur-
> guided not only his o m services but aIso thering in so mdny ways and with sucla a
> illumined the path of newly-formed adminis- noble spirit, cheer              sustain you always,
> trative bodies, of committees and of individual and reward you a thousmclfold."
> Bah5'is. The first of these, dated February        And on Noveaiber 18, 1939:
> 14, 15124 read:                                    "You are often in my thoughts, in these
> ". . . Just a word to assure you in person of days of anxiety, stress and turmoil, and your
> nzy nffection and esteem and constant prayers work, as a devoted, capable and zealous
> for your weifme and success in the service member of the National Spkitual Assembly
> of our beloved Cause! May yow bea~~tiful I profoundly and increasingly value. I will
> spirit kindle many a receptive heart and may continue to pray for you from all my heart,
> the radiance of such lives illumine all the and trust that your highest aspirations in His
> coatinent of America. I have great hopes in service will be fully realized. Your true and
> both of you and you may rest assured that grateful brather, Shoghi."
> our beloved Master is with you always."            In October, 1941, after Hulm was not
> "I am adding a few words in person in re-elected ta the National Spiritual Assembly,
> order to assure you of my great love for you, the beloved Guardian wrote in his postscript:
> my deep-felt appreciation of your past and         "Now that you are relieved of national
> present services, and of my constant prayers administrative responsibilities, 1look forward
> for your spiilual advancement and success. to an intensification of your devoted and
> IN M E M O R I A M                                       871
> 
> highly appreciated efforts in the teaching
> PieEd -a field jn which the American believers
> can achieve, in these concluding years of the
> First BahP"i Century, their most brilliant
> and memorable victories."
> In this same letter the Guardian stated,          At the time of the passing of Qusayn
> through his secretary:                             Uskuli to the Abhii Kingdom two messages
> "Shoghi Effendi entirely approves of the        were received from the beloved Guardian:
> manner in which you conducted your marriage          "Deplore loss ardent steadfast servaat
> and feels you did entirely right. . . not having   Faith. Fervently supplicating progress soul
> m y church ceremony or minister to unite you.      Kiagdom. His services unforgettable."
> The more we associate wjtl~churches and              "Grieve passing dear steadfast promoter
> other religious bodies the better, but we          Faith Uskbli. Reward great Kingdom. Praying
> should not in any way identify oorxselves with     progress soul."
> their doctrines and usages."                          E;Tusayn Uskm, a faithful and dedicated
> In his Ietter of December 30, 1945 Shoghi       Bahb'i and pioneer, was w d 1 - h o r n for his
> E h d l said:                                      steadfastness, simple We, and his hospitality
> 'T was very happy to hear from you and          lo friends and non-BahVis, whether in Tabriz,
> to learn of your continued and highly              'I&qAbiid or China. He was born in Usku -
> vaIued activities in the service of our beloved    a township in ~ & i r b 6 ~ j a nnot
> ,   far from
> Faith. You are, I assure you, often in my          Tabriz - in 1875, and passed away in
> thoughts and prayers, and I will continue to       Shanghai, China, on February 25, 1956. His
> pray from the depths of my heart for the           mortal reinains were laid to rest in the
> extension of your labors to which I attach         Shanghai Kimgwan cemetery.
> the utmost iillporlance. Persevere in your            He heard of and accepted the Faith through
> valued activities, and rest assured that the       a noble soul, Mkza EJaydar-'Mi, of the same
> Beloved is well pleased wiFh the long recorn       town of Uskli, at the age of eighteen. He was
> of your distinguished and meritorious ser-         born to a nloderately well-to-do family, but
> vices."                                            in accepting the Faith had io pay the price
> Aftex ths launching of the World Crusade        of severe trials at their hands. They opposed
> the Guardian wrote to Harlan, though his           him bitterly and persecuted him to the extent
> secretary:                                         that, after giving up a11 his inherited posses-
> " I f by any chance it should seem economi-    sions, he left his native place for good. He
> cally sound and feasible for you to go to          stayed for a while in Tabriz, enjoying his
> Pretoria, and assist in the establishment of an    new1y-born life anlidst the friends. Soon after,
> Assembly there, he feels this would be highly      he attained the presence of 'Abdu'l-Baha, and
> meritorious."                                      returned from this pilgrimage with fresh zeal;
> Accordingly Harlan and his wife Elizabeth       wl~ereverhe settled he soon distinguished
> weut to Pretoria the followiug year. In the        himself by his active service and devotion.
> Guardian's last letter to them dated January          After marrying he moved with his family
> 4, 1957 he said:                                   to 'TshqAbkd, renlaining there many years,
> "Nay the Bdoved bless your meritorious          and serving as a member of the Spiritual.
> smices, aid you to overcome all obstacles,         Assembly, the BahA'i School committee, the
> and enrich the ~ecordof your past achieve-         Ma&riquSl-Aakrir and Welfare committees.
> illents for the promotion of His Faith and         One of the joyous experiences of those days
> thc consolidation of its institutions."            in Turkistan, our father orten used to relate,
> was tile visit of a groixp of American Bahli'is
> in 1908 to the h.la&riqu'l-A&k&r and the
> friends in 'Iaqkbkd, when father with some
> other friends went to Krasnovodsk, a Caspian
> seaport, to welcome them.
> In 1914 Uusayn UskulitraveIcd to Shanghai,
> China, first with two Bah&'i friends and later
> with I-iis family. I-Fe settled permanently in
> IN MEMORIAM                                             873
> 
> dl the clmnges the years have brought. He
> also greatly admires your devoted daughter
> and son-in-law. He hopes you will keep in
> good health, and that you will meet with
> success in your work, and assures you of his
> prayers, . . .
> "May the Almighty bless your highly
> meritorious eTorts, guide and sustain you
> in your historic task, and enable you to
> enrich the record of your splendid services.
> 
> Your true brother,
> SHOGHI."
> 
> With. what joy and radiant spirit f;Xusaycl
> Us@U must have ascended to the Kingdom
> Beyond on his release from the mortal cage
> in his eighty-Grst year, with such a blessed
> record of services to the Holy Threshold!
> 
> Albert R. Windust
> 
> ALBERT R. WINDUST
> the fourth grade level. He ended his fornlai
> 1874-1956                           education in the sixth grade. Despite this,
> Albert Windust during his life attained a
> "Deeply grieved passing much loved greatIy       depth of knowtedge anand spirimal wisdom
> admired staunch ardent promoter Faith,             reached by very few.
> Albert Windust, Herald Covenant, whose                At the age of fourteen Albert becane ail
> notable services Heroic Formative Ages             apprentice in the printing firm where his
> Faith unforgettable. Assure friends relatives      father worlced. The following Noveinher his
> fervently supplicating progress s o d King-        mother died.
> dom.                                                  His interest in nature awakened a desire
> SHOGHI"           to draw, and he became a pupil at Chicago's
> Art Institute. Through associations made in
> Albert Robert Windust was horn oil               the printing business, he illiustrated storks of
> Chicago's west side a&          Hull House on      many authors, including Opie Read and H.
> March 28, 1874. His parents were Thorns            Rider Haggard.
> and Sarah SheEeid Windust. His father was             Albert had an iiiquisitive and questioilil~g
> a printer, who, shortly a f t a Albert was born,   nature. He learned of aad became interested
> moved with his family to a section of Chicago      in the BahB'i Faith. Word of this came to the
> known as WoodIawn. They were members               ears of the minister of the Methodist Cl~wch
> of the EpiscopaI Church. Mrs. Windust, a           of which he was a member. The sermon the
> school teacher and a very actlvc church            follov~ingSunday dealt with following false
> worker, was the founder of the First Christ        gods. While the sermon thundered around his
> Church of Woodlawn (Episcopalianl.                 ears, Albert Windust heard xhe words of the
> In his early years, Albert Windust was not       Lord that had been said to Abraham: "Get
> physically strong and this may have accounted       thee olit of thy country, and from thy kindred,
> for the fact that he had very little formal         and from fhy father's house, unto a land that
> schooling. He was tutored in his early y e a s     I will shew the." He left the church.
> by his mother and entered a public schooI at          Thorntou Chase, the first American believer,
> 874                             T H E B A M A ' ~W O R L D
> 
> became instrumental in attracting a small tbia of U~riversaEP e ~ c eAlbest
> .      also helped in
> group, among them iylbert who, in 1897, the compilation a d publication of the first
> became a Bahai and gave undeviating devo- five volumes of The Bnhd'i World for tl~e
> tion to the Faith, until the day of his death. years 1925 to 1933,
> He was unqmtionabIy oile of its stxongest           In 1431 he made a pilgrimage to the Holy
> and most competent servants. No activity Land to visit the Shrines of BaWu'll&~and
> that concerned the Cause in America but the Bkb and to see the Guasdian of the Faith,
> was sirongly ii~Auencedby his devoted efforts. Shoghi Effendi. He deemed it a privilege he
> In 1900 he married Lucy Roberts and they was cllosen by Shoghi Effendi to carry to the
> had three daughters, Sarah, IsabeUc and Ethel, Moly Land the twenty original Tablets of the
> The list of Albert Windust's achievements Bkb reproduced in ShoghiEfYendi's translation
> for the BahB'i Faith is a long one. He was a of The Dawra-Breakers,published in 192.
> member of the iirst Spirirual Assembly              Albert, fmm the nioment be beard of the
> (Chicago). This body enjoyed the distinction BahB'i Faith, was active in spreading it in
> of bearing the m m e of BapuZ'Adl (House Anier-ica. He was a deep student of the
> of Justice) and was so addressed by 'Abdu'l-      Writings, an able speaker, a psofouad teacher
> BaM in a series of Tablets, the fist of which, of the Laws and Ordinances. His classes on
> before it was dispatched froni the prison of the Covenant m d B W i Admir~istrationwere
> 'Akka, had been engrossed by Mishkin-Qalam, most helpful both to newcomers and B d ~ i ' i s
> the celebrated Pexsian penman, in $1 the of long association with the Faith. There was
> knnwr~forms of Persian writing.                   a freshness and vigor in his teaching; he
> As a member of that itsfirst ,4ssembly, Albert radiated a love that reached the Izearts. Xn his
> was active in carrying on correspondence with every-day life he demonstrated the power of
> the BahB"l'sof the Orient which led to building the revealed Word o f BahB'uYZl5h,
> the BahB'i House of Warship in the United           Albert Robert Windust will long be
> States. Through letters between the B&B'is of remembered. The inspiration of his faith and
> 'I&qabad, Russia, and the "House of devotion bas without doubt moved a great
> Spirituality" in Chicago, news was received many souls into the orbit: of the Faith of
> concerning the erection of the House of BWu'llAh. Here was a m n who was truly
> Worship in 'X&qabBd. This activity had been a channel of a grcat spirituat force          -     it
> initiated by 'Abdu'I-BaMand was is awelous shoaile in his countenance. Its rabrance was
> means of stimulating the work OF the Cause felt by all who knew him and its influence
> in America. Albert Windust was a member spread to all with wlmm he came in contact.
> of the committee 'tvllicfi drafted the supplica-
> tion to 'Abdu'l-BahB asking per~nissionto
> exect a BakXi Rouse dWorship in the United
> States.
> AIbert became the first publisher of the
> Writings of' the Faith in America. He printed
> booklets, early editions of prayers, and the                     PRITAM SINGH
> Hid& Words of BahihC'u711&; in 1910 he                               1881-1959
> founded ruld started printing the fist Baha'i
> montl~lypublication, Star of the West. In its        Professor Pritarn Singh will always occupy
> early years this pahlication carried a Persia~    a unique position in the history of the BahB'i
> section. The Star of the Wesr was circulated Faith in the Indian subcontine~~tas the
> in the Orient m d thus served to bring the first member of the Sikkr commzu~ityof India
> oriental and occidet~tal B W i s into close to accept B&ri'uYllAh as the Pronlised One.
> conlcl. Be gathered and publir;h& the well-        After accepting the Faith he devoted his
> known t h m volumes of Tablets of 'Abdu'd- entire Ijfe to the promotion of the Cause of
> Bahti from Tablets written to the Bahgis in Bahk'u'll6h. A very great number of people
> North America. He also ass~stedHoward of this country who have heard about the
> MacNutt in publishing the addresses of Faith did so though Professor Pritarn Singh,
> 'Abdu'l-Bat& delivered in the United States for he Qavelcd Far and wide to tile remotcst
> and Canada, in 1912, under the title Prumuka- corners of this country in is service.
> IN M E M O R I A M                                        875
> 
> Professor Ritam Singh was born on Novern-
> ber X 6,1881, in the family of a judge in Sidkot
> City, now in West Pakisthn. We studied in
> Amcitsar, the holy city of Sikhs, and later on
> in Lahore he rcceived his higher education
> in the University of Punjab. From 1905 to
> 1908 he was a teacher in the Achison College,
> Lahore. It was during this period that
> he came in contact with Mkrza h?&mlld
> Zarqani, a distinguished Bahfi'l teacher and
> the compiler of the famous diary of 'Abdu'l-
> Bahi's travels to Europe and America.
> Later on in Bombay he met MirzB Mebram,
> md through the blessings of BWu311~h          was
> wan over to the Faith. Meanwhile, in 1908
> for his postgraduate studies, he went to
> Cdcutta to receive his Master's Degree in
> Economics from that fa~nousUniversity. He
> became Reader of Econoinics in the Univer-
> sity of Allahabad from 1917 to 1920. Up to
> 1927he continued to be a professor in various
> universities, but his m a h interest was to
> teach the Faith of Bah;i'u'll&h to his colleagues
> and students and to spend most of his time in
> promoting its interests. Therefore, he gave
> up 11;s profession and served BahA'u'llah,
> Professor P r i t m Singh belonged to a
> wertltily family. His family was embarassed
> that he, with all his brilliant career and bright
> future, should leave not only his colnfo&db12 National Assembly for a number of years.
> way of life, but also his hereditary religion. His contribution to thc Administrative Order
> Therefore, ihey started to place Professor of B&iA'u'Ilah in this land is as outstanding
> Pritam Singh under economic and other as his teaching work.
> pressures. However, when their persuasions,          Professor Pritam Singh has left a iastillg
> Aavored with the promise of a large fortulle impression in the pages of the history of the
> to be bequeathed to him by his father, failed, Formative Age of the Bah5'i Cause in the
> they even begged Professor Pritam Singh to Indian subcontinent. He, almost single-
> remain a Bahsi if he wanted to, but at least handed, established a BahB'i weekly, to be
> far t l ~ esake of the reputation of the fam~ly, numbered among the fist BahB'i period-
> to give up his ptzblic Icctlxres and tmching icals of the world. The namc of this
> tours. But the love of God was more precious periodical was "The Bah$'i." Be was a
> to him than all the fortunes of the world. His disting.iisbehed writer. Some of his articles
> firmness in the Faith did. not waver with dl have been printed separately after their
> these thrcats and persuasions. I-Ie asked his publication in various BahA'il magazines,
> brothers to take care of all the wealth belong- such as "The World Order," "Kaukab-e-
> ing to him and he, with freedom from all Hind," "Payambar," etc. Being well-versed
> worldly attachments, engaged himself iio t l e in Persian, he acted as a unique interpreter
> service of BahB'u'lEh to his very last breath. to famous BahB'i teachers of frkn, visiting
> On August 25, 1959 he died as a pioneer in India. He was also a companion of Mrs. Keith
> Amritsar in the vicinity of the famous Golden Ransom-Kelder, Miss Martha Root, Mr.
> Temple of Sikhs. He was buried as a BahB'i. Siegfried SchopRocher and others in their
> He was one of the earliest secretaries of the Indian tours. Perhaps nobady else in this
> National Spiritual Assembly of the B~ahiiis subcontinent has visited so many universities,
> of Tndia and continued to be a n~en~ber     of the colleges, clubs, societies, regional and national
> I
> 876                           T H E B A R A ' . ~W O R L D                                                  I
> 
> conferences throughout the length and breadth      following which she spent several years in
> af India, Bmma, and P&kisth, as Professor         sacid work,
> Pritam Singh did.                                     Possessing a beautiful lyric soprano voice,
> As a token of the appreciation of the Bahgis    she left England to pursue her musical studies
> of the country for his memorable services to       in Paris. It was here she learned of the BaM'i
> the Cause of God, the National Spiritual           Faith. In a short time, after she had become
> Assembly has made plans to erect a tomb for        a deeply wnfirn~edbeliever in the Teachings
> Professor Pritam Singh in Amritsar.                of RahB'u'litih, she was inflamed with a desire
> On hearing the news of his passing to the        to visit 'Abdu'bBahB, who was at that time
> Abl.16 Kingdom, the Bahgis of the subcon-          in Egypt. She wrote to Rim, expressing her
> tinent held memorial meetings and prayed for       longing to see Him, and her happiness knew
> the progress of this precious soul, itho \+as      no bounds when she received permission to
> lovingly called by them ' W i t a m Kaka'"         make the pilgrimage.
> (Uncle). The Wands of the Faith in the Holy           Time and again her carefully laid plans to
> Land communicated to the BahB'is of India          travel to Egypt met with delays, but at last
> the following cable expressing their sorrow        she set out Lo realize her fondest desire. From
> over the loss of such a distinguished servant      this moment her will was gently laid at the
> of Bahri7u"lEh:                                    feet of 'Abdu'l-Babd. Henceforth He m7i?s her
> "Grieve Ioss outstanding Indian believer        guide and her Master.
> Pritaln Singh, distinguished teacher adminis-         From America there came to Egypt n tail,
> trator Faith much loved praised by bebved          dark, Negro Baha'i, his h e a ~burning
> t      with love
> Guardian. His devoted, untiring services so        and an all-consuming desire to serve the Faith.
> long period so many fields unforgettable.          He too had met with many delays in his
> Praying shrines rich reward Kingdom."              attempt to reach the goal of his heart's desire,
> 'Abdu'l-Baha. Thus Louis Gregory and
> Louisa Mathew's pilgrimages coincided,
> Louisa llad to return to Paris before sailing
> to America. Thus it was that she met 'Abdu'i-
> Bahi again in France, and came to America
> in 1312.
> It was in h e r i c a that one day 'Abdu'l-Bahh
> LOUISA MATHEW GREGORY                      summoned Louisa and Louis Gregory to His
> 1866-1956                        presence. He asked Louisa if she liked Louis.
> She stammered, "Yes." He further questioned
> "Grieved news passing faitlIfu1, consecrated     her, "Do you love Louis?" She replied, "Yes,
> handmaid 'Abdu'l-BahP. Confident rjcl~re-         as a E M i friend." To Louis, 'Abdu'l-Ball5
> ward Kingdom. Pioneer services highly             put the s m c questions aild received similar
> meritorious.                                      answers, Then 'Abdu'l-B&& piaced t b i r               I
> SHOGN~"      hands together and married them in New                 I
> York, on September 27,1912. This became a
> This cablegram attests the value of the        tangible evidence of the power of the BaWi
> teaching services performed by Louisa Mathew     Faith to wipe out the barrier of color in
> Gregory in the pioneering M d of the Bahk'i       marriage, a symbol of the Will of God as
> Faith.                                            expressed by Xbdu'l-BahA, and a living
> Born Louisa Mathew, on F e b ~ u a ~1,1866
> y         demonstration of the keynote of the unity
> in southernEngland, she was raised in a Iarge,    of the races as sa-unded by Babii'u'likh*
> comfortably wealthy family. Her paents were           Many were the cruel strictures which an
> very advanced and liberal in their attitude       unthinking and blindly prejudiced generation
> toward education. Louisa not only received        inflicted upon thcm. 'Abdu'l-BahB was once
> the conventional education of a girl. of that     infom~edby a visitor in Haifa that, "It is not
> time, but was permitted to attend Cambridge       easy for them to travel together, and some-
> University. There she studied economics and       times they cannot go to the same hotel." The
> languages, as well as voice c u l t u ~ ' ~She
> ,     Master rcplied ernyhatica& that at Haifa
> received her Certificate of Education in 1895,    they would bc received with open arms.
> IN MEMORIAM                                               877
> 
> Thxoughout the many years of their marriage,
> whether together in the northern states or in
> Haiti, or separated as they followed their
> individual paths of service in the southern
> states a ~ in d Europe, these two radiant sods
> kept the underlying significance of their union
> forever in their hearts. In a letter of July I ,
> 1416, Louis wrote:
> "My darling Wife:
> ". . , Recdved a long, interesting and
> beautifd letter fron~ Mrs. Brittingbam. . .
> Reading this, I was most happy, as well as
> thankful to recall what was once told me by
> Mrs. True. She says that 'Abdu'i-Bahi was
> asked by sonleone about our marriage and
> repltierl: 'Those two souls fowd each other.'
> "How gratefd we should be to God for
> His great bomty and protection! This also
> explains some dificulties we have h a 4 and
> how by divine Kaavor, oar lives grow more and
> 1110re halmn~oaious.. ." ln 1920, 'Abdu'l-BahB
> wrote to Louisa:
> "0thou revered wife of his honor, Gregory!
> Do thou consider what a bounty God hath                      Louisa Malhew Gregory
> bessowed upon thee in giving thee a husband
> like Mr. Gregory who is the essence of the
> love of God and IS a symbol of guidance. . ,"      to the united States; she indicated in her lettes
> In addition to the i115~11ybounties bestowed    that she would remain at her teaching post
> upon her by 'Abdu'l-BahB and Shoghi Effendi        if he so desired. So confident was she that the
> d~iringihe Iifetime OF her dear husband, she       Guardian would grant her permission xhgt
> was iiestined to survive him and witness that      she booked her passage. But sa the day
> the Guardian of the Faith had conferred upoa       before she mas to leave, a letter came from
> hrm the highest rank possible: after his death     Hitifa saying tkrit he wished her to remain in
> he became the first Negro Hand of the Cause.       Sofia, and that lie hoped there might be a
> f ~ b1927, %vfUhenLouis was devoting every      strongly coilffrmcd group of beIie\rexs before
> momcnt of his tinle to extmsive teaching           she left. He wrote that he hoped Bulgaria
> trips rhrougbout the United States, Louisa         would beconie illumined and illuminate all.
> turned her steps toward Central Europe and         the Balkans. Altllough Louisa had believed
> joined Marion Sack in Sofia, B~rlgaria. In         that the group could carry on without her,
> April, 1928 with Martha Root, she attended         she cancelled her passage a ~ i dn~tzdeplans to
> the Esperanto Congress at Prague. It was in        be away only for the sumnler months. Shc
> Sofia that Louisa used a tccbnique of finding      wrote to a friend, "1 could not leave after
> belzevers which has subsequently been used by      srlch a message !"
> Baha7s throughout the world. She gathered            Again she joined Martha Root, this time
> about her you;ng students and business men,        in Belgrade, Yugoslsvzvia. From Belgrade she
> who wexe interested in learniilg French,           journeyed to Vienna to render much-appre-
> English or Espc~aato.After her classes were        ciated assistance, later returning ta Sofia,
> firrnIy esl-ablished, shc selected hose who        where she remained until sure the foundations
> were receptive to the Faith, and from these        nf the Faith were secure.
> she formed a new cIass to study the Teachifigs                                 the German BahFi
> In 1932, after atfei~din~g
> of Baha'u'li&h.                                    Convention at Essliyen, Louisa returned co
> Summer, 1928 when thc heat of the city          the States, She and Louis then spent their
> became almost unbearable, Loulsa wrote to         summer-s at Eliot, Maine, near the Grxrr.
> Shoghi Effendi asking permissioii to return        Acre Bah2i Sumia~erSchool. and eventualiy
> T H E B A H A ' ~W O R L D
> 
> this becanle their permanent home. Here they         EDITH DE BONS & JOSEPH DE BONS
> welcomed people of d I races and religious               1878-1959      1871-1959
> backgrounds, and fwnished a unique iaspira-
> tion to all who came in contact with                                                                    i
> them.                                                   Dr. Joseph de Bons was bora in Switzerknd
> Louisa Gregory was shy and modest. She            on July 31, 1871 where he later became very
> felt that her contribution to the Bahk'I Faith       successful in his profession. Edith McKay de
> was to be made through "living the life*"            Bons had lived most of hex youthfui yeas in
> Whether in Europe or America, her teaching           Paris with her wldowcd mother, Madame              I
> work was always with individuals or smaLl            Mark-Louise McKay. Edith had studied at
> groups. She wrote:                                   the Conservatory in Paris for several years
> "I fsel that our uninlportant selves can          and took singing Icssons. She began her
> somehow achieve more than we &earn of.               singing career with Maclanit! Marie Rsge of
> even by rhe fact of trying o w little best td        the Opexa of Paris, and was also instructed
> lead a Bah&'i life snd our feeble efforts t o give   by Massenet m d Cavallo.
> the Message, even without being speakers                I will quote from Edith de Boas' o m diafy
> in large gatherings. . . . We must alI do our        to describe her life as a Baha'i:
> best to prodaim the Cause to the extent of             "It was in 1900 that 1 became rt B&&'i:
> our capacity, and feel the importance or this        T was 21 years old, One e~~ening        (it was
> time when the urgency i s so great."                 Christmas) I was invited to my godfatheres
> There existed for Louisa two great shining        home and on entering the salon 1 saw an
> loves which dominated her life - h a love            angelic creatuxe. It was May Bolies, who later
> for the Faith and her love for hex husband.          became May Maxwell, the 111other of RGbiyyih
> One codd aimost say that they were synony-           Khanun~,A nlysterious foi-ce drew me to her
> mous.                                                and I said: 'I believe that you have something
> The life of Louisa Gregory is one which           to tell me'. 'Yes,' she said, 'I have a message
> wilI continue for generations to inspire othexs.     for you,' She then disclosed to me this secret,
> She walked the thorny pathway of life, serene        which was the Eah5i'i Faith.
> in the knowledge that God had o r d ~ n e dfor         "I saw her maay titnes, and she taught me
> her that path and no other. Never did her            the marvelous story of the Faith: the advent
> feet deviate. She walked unhesita.tingly             of the Bab, of BabL'uY~h,of 'Abd~l'i-$ah&
> through the bigotry md prejudice which were          whom she had gone to see in Efaifa. I accepted
> freely strewn in her way. With consummate            the Faith and became the first beJiever in
> dignity she became an example of sdf-                Paris. l always considered Mrs. Maxwell
> sacrifice and radiant yielding to the decree         as my spiritual mother.
> of God, living out the years of her long life           "Later, my m o k , Madame Marie-Louise
> far from the comfort and security she h e w          McKay, also became a BahB'i, as did my
> as a girl in her English countryside home,           fxiends H. Dreyfus and his wife, Madame
> to stand hand in hand with the husband she           L. Dreyfus-Barney, Edith Srurde~son,and
> felt was her "gift from God."                        others. Thus was formed the small ~ O L I P ,
> The end of this earthly life for Louisa           fervent and full of zeal, to whom one day
> Mathew Gregory came on May 20, 1956.                 'Abdu'l-Bahii sent this message:
> She was laid to rest beside her husband                'To the servallts and Handmaids of God
> Louis, (see Tha Baizd'i Warid, Volume MI,            in Paris: He is God. O my dear Friends, all
> page 666) inMount Pleasant Cemetery, Eliot,          the peoples of the world seek the shade og the
> Maine.                                               fig tree which Jesus condemned, bat you are
> under the shade of the Tree of Life, in the
> Center of tine Paradise of Guidance. R o w
> great is your favor in the Kingdom of God
> that such grace and such blessing have beea
> vouchsafed to you! Know ye to appl-eciate
> them a ~ axise
> d      to accomplish that which
> beseenls such a condition. Ail 1nc11stre asleep;
> you are awake. All eyes are blind; yours are
> seeing. All ears are deaf; your hearing is cleat..
> A11 tongues are mute; you are eloquent.
> All humanity is dead, and you are full of life,
> vigor and force ilxough the benefits of the
> Holy Spirit. Render thanks unto God, and,
> according to His divine teacl~ings,be merciful
> and benevolent to all. With all your soul and
> with all your heart, be kind to your fellow-
> men. My blessings and praise be upon each
> one of you.'
> "Next year, 1901, 1 pessuaded my mother
> to make a pilgrimage to Kaifa, and dter
> a short stop in Cairo, where we met other
> believers, we arrived in the Holy Land.
> "Several BahB'is were waiting for us at
> the port, and brought us to the house of Dr.
> and Mrs. Getsinger. It was evening, and we                Ioseph and Edith de Boris
> were to meet the Master at noon next
> day.
> "After a restless night, we gathered in the
> dining room, when suddenly we heard a            many questions asked and answered, kt%
> sonorous voice ~7hichwe were never to forget,    were children in the Cause and needed to
> saying: 'Welcome, welcome!' All an our           l e a n very much. It was in Haifa that I made
> knees, we wept with joy and 'Abdu'l-Bahg         the acquaintance of those adn~irablewonlen-
> received us with infinite kindness. We then      the sister of 'Abdu'l-BahB, the Greatest Holy
> took place at the table a ~ He,
> d having broken     Leaf, and His wife, the Holy Mother, Our
> the bread, servcd us with His heavenly           Guardian was then aa adorable little baby,
> smile.                                           so charming and intelligent. Tlse Master was
> "Those were two wonderful weeks. We always ready to give us an audience; some-
> would go each morning very early to the times He asked to be alone with us, and
> Master's house and He would teach us. although we could not converse, they were
> answering our nuinerous questions, explaining heavenly moments.
> the scripturesand many things we had ignored.       "Then came the time to leave. . . to leave
> There were always two or three ii~teqreters this Paradise. But we took in o w hearts so
> for different languages. After that, the Master nzdny precious things that our anguish was
> would dictate His Tablets, often two or three appeased. f came back to Paris and we
> at the same time, answering hundreds of started again our meetings with the friends.
> letters which He xeeeived; then all of a sudden A year latcs, my mother being very tired, we
> He would rise and go towards tire door where decided to go to Switzerland. We chose Sion
> a crowd was waiting for Him, He would the11 in the Canton of T'alais, where the friends
> go to town, visiting the poor and the sick had a little pension. It was there that I met
> and healing them. I witnessed some of these him who later became my husband, Dr. Joseph
> miraculous healings.                             de Bons.
> "One day He invited us to come to Bahji;         "My husband belonged to a very Cathalic
> another day on Mount Carmel to IElija11's family; his father was a jtrdge. 13e was a great
> cave. He walked ahead of us, with a light mountaineer and made twice the ascent of
> brisk step, turning round once in a while, to hiatterhorn with Whymper. tTery capable in
> address some work to us.                         his profession, he had the opportunity to
> "Sonletimes the Master would ask me to treat at Zermatt the &ah of Persia, \vho
> sing ia the evening on the terrace of the house, decorated him. It was a Persian BilZlA'f friend,
> so that He could hear my voice from His o m member of the party of the Persian Embassy
> house. I sang 'Holy City' which He liked in Cairo, who soIe~nnlyhanded to him the
> very much.                                       decoration.
> "How many lessons were learned! How               "He was very fond of nature, especially of
> 880                            THE BAHA
> 
> flowers. He bad a deep faith, though detached     prove the bdievers in such a way that those         I
> from the Church. As soon as I gave him the        who ase not entirely sincere will not be able
> 
> ~
> I
> BahB'i message, he accepted it with enthu-        to stand the tests. A believer is like gold which
> siasm. Two years after the birth of our
> daughter Mona, tve both made a pilgrimage
> is tested by fire; the more he is burnt, the more
> beautiful and pure he will become; but copper,
> i
> to the Holy Land to see the Master.               passed through fire, becomes black and decom-
> This time it was in ' A k k A that we found       poses. The Cause is now like a tmy seed
> Him."                                             planted in the ground. It is invisible, but soon
> In a letter from Hotel Carmel, Haifa,          the seed will become a tree and its branches
> Palestine, on February 5, 1906 my mother          will ovesslladow the earth. A believer is like a
> wrote: "Here I am again waiting impatiently
> for the blessed hour!. . .
> soldier who goes into ths combat: the brave
> one will resist ail day, but the fearful one will
> 1!
> ".. . A believer came to tell us that the     rrin away at the firsr shot.'                       !
> Master was miring for ns and we at once              "Today the Master distributed alms to a
> took a carriage for 'Akkii. The carriage          number of poor at His doon. Unfortunately,
> bomced on the cobblestones and stopped at         we.were not permitted to see this moving sight,
> a kind of fortress. We got off and were met       for, because of the govzrnment, we must not
> at the door by a believer who showed us into      be see11 in the street with Zlim.
> a large room placed at oru disposal. We              "February 9th. Alas, today is the last day!-
> rested a little while, and then 1 went to greet   the end of this wonderful dream, for here, it
> the family. Presently I heard the voice! Oh       seeins that life ends and it is drcady tke peace
> that voice, so well knonn, the memory of          of heaven that begins.
> which had never left me! My feelings were            "This morning T was permitted to come to
> stifling me. . . At last He was before me,        the Master's room very early; the hmily and
> speaking words of welcome. T threw myself         the servants gathered there for morning
> at His feet and hssed His hai~clswhich he         prayers. The Master was sitting on the divan
> stretched out to nle in His loving kindness.      in the comer of the room, showing fifth kind-
> We passcd to our room, where my husbal~d          ness their place to each new arrival. Being
> was waiting. Thc Master came rorward, while       phced almost directly opposite Rim, I dared
> my husband prostrated himself and the Master      surreptitiously lo lift my eyes to His counte-
> embraced him with ineffable kindness; the         nance. No words are able to render the
> emotioa of the believers was indescribable.       beauty, the holy r~adianceof that unique
> We gassed to the table placed on a slnaIl         Being, The eyes especially were extraordinary:
> balcony overhanging a kind of oriental            now penetrating and as piercing as steel, now
> verandah. At the table were the Master, a         of ineffable sweetness. A lofty brow, deeply
> believer, an Italian governess who taught the     fui-rowed- a brow of a thinker and a sage;
> believers' children, and u e two. The Master
> the waving hair, almost entirely white, de-
> introduced us to this lady who was a Catholic,    scending to the shoulders; a white b m d , a
> saying that her heart was very pure and though    thin ascetic face, a mobile and extremely
> she was a f another religion, Ile coilsidered     sensitive mouth. Qf medium height, the
> her as one of us, Far, szid We, only forms        Master's departnzent had an e~Qaor&mary,
> change, but the basis of d l religions is axe     superhuman majesty which sstikes all those
> same. We must love all religions and live in      who see Him for the fist time. He usually
> harmony and love with one another. The            passes suddenly from absolute immobility to
> difference between the Bah2i Faith and other      rhe higI~estpoint of activity. His voice is
> Faiths is that thest: last detest one another     strong and deep and carries a penetrating
> while thc Bah&'i Faith must love the Ruth         authority. Five ycars ago I had never heard
> which is contained in all other beliefs.          the Master laugh, though He always smiled
> After these words the Master rose and             when His eyes met mine. But this year He
> retired.                                          laughed frequently, erjpeeially when talkillg
> "February 8th. This morning after break-       to my husband and Mr. Woodcock. ETe was
> fast, the Master came for a moment into our       inade very happy, it was said, by the news
> room. He spoke of the tests which we would        received: the Cause was making great
> have to face in the Cause, saying: 'God will      progress,
> IN MEMORIAM                                              88 t
> 
> "These unforgettable days over, we retunled Bahii once stayed, will remain as a witness of
> to Switzerland, but the Orient drew us the fidelity of these two servants of God in
> irresistibly, and presently isc decided to settle the Cause of BaliB'u'lli~h.
> in Cairo. hly husband established there his
> practice as dental surgeon, and I opened a
> schooI of singing. Those itere happy years.
> My little daughter was with us and we
> associated a great deal with BahB'ls. In Cairo
> we were surrounded by friends, and attended
> Bahii'i meetings every Friday. Among others
> tilere were Abir'l-Fa& Ahn~adYazcll, Mrs.
> Staiinard, Miss Riscox.
> "The Master, 'Abdu'l-B&A, passed tl~rougl~
> AIexandria in 1911 aud we visited Him.. . .
> "When the war of 1914 broke oat, we had         Dia'u'llAh A~&asz&dihwas born in M i h ,
> to leave Cairo w11ere there was no more work Persian Ac&irbAyJ&nin 1880, His father was
> for us and the climate too tl-ying for iny al that time already a bdiever, as were other
> daughter. Wc returned to Switzeriand in m e m b e r s of his family. His rnacher's family
> 1916. . . 1 wrote to the Master, telling Hiin were believeis in rhe timz of the Bhb. In about
> of my discouragement at nzy falure. He 1845 t l ~ cbvllole family migrated to 'I&qAbbd
> aoswred among other things: '. . . Thoa hast iil wbar was then Russian TurkisrBn, and
> y~rittenconcerning the errors and negligence there IpiB'u"Il& was vsry active in the BahL'i
> of the Swiss people. Before long. thou wilt see community, playing an important role on the
> that the Light of atlraction will beco~nc committee responsible for the BahB'i schools.
> efficacious in that region and finally that         Mr. Asbarztdih made his first piIgrimags
> country will be illumined. . . .'                 to the Holy Land in 1903, where he spent
> "And finally, here we are at the end of our several months in the presence of the Master,
> lives. My husband, bedridden and very sick, and in 15120 he was a pilgrim far the secoxd
> but more Bahri'i than ever. Myself, unable to time. It was on this occasioii that he brought
> do the work I should like to do for the Faith. to ffaifa the beautiful silk carpet which the
> Nevertheless, we both cherish in our hearts Master personally laid in t l ~ aInner Shrine
> the memory of the happy days when the of Bahk'u'llAh. This carpet had been specially
> Master wrote to us:                               woven for the Emir of Bokhara bur on
> '0ye two lainps enIightened b y the radiance account of the Russian Revolution it could
> of the love of God? Your iettcr has arrived ~ i o lbe &liveled. 5)iB'u'IZAh As&ariadih.
> and the conlcnts understood. 'Abdu'l-BahP         bought it and b~oughtit with gi-eat difffdty
> has deep fove for you and prays in your behaif out of f i ~ ~ s sand
> i a throi;,oh lndia to the Holy
> that you be assisted in this life and in the Lmd. Sane yeus later Shoghi E%en.dl, rtith
> Kingdom. . .' "                                   Bias approval presented it to the Mother
> i n November, 1959 in the presence of TeinpIo of the West at Wilmette, where it now
> several Bahh'i friends, a monument was hangs m Fuundatio~~                Hall,
> inaugurated in memory of Joseph and Edith           After his second pilgrimage Piri went to
> de Bons. The monument is a great block of live in London where he carried on business
> s i l v e ~granite surinounted by a bronze eagle, as a cax-pet me~chmtuntil he pioneered in the
> and the eagle was given by tile American Ten-Year Crusade. He knew the beloved
> Government to Edith the Bons' father, Colonel Guardian well, wllo loved and trusted him
> McKay, for scsvices rendered during the W a greatly.
> of Secession. Under the bronze eagle is a           In 1921 at the time of the passing of 'Abclu'l-
> parchment roll on which ase engraved the Bahi, Mr. As&arzB&h had just rsceived
> words of Babiiyu'll&h     :                       pssmission for a further pilgrilnage ar.d when
> "Verib we are Exom God and to Him we Ile arrived in Haifa he was given by the
> shall return."                                    Guardian the privileged task o l making
> This beautiful monument, situated 011 the copies of the Master's Will aiid Testame~t,
> sbo1.e~of llie Lake of Geneva where 'Abdu"l- Born the orlginaI document, l o b: sent to
> !
> 'f WORLD
> 1956 in San Diego, Caiifomia, she departed
> from this world. She was born July 16, 1877
> in the Hinrdayan mountains in the family of
> a British national of Irish descent. The
> granddaughter of a distinguished surgeon,
> Sir John 1-Pall, K.C.B., she was educated at
> Cheltenham College and at Oxford. Shc was
> a me~nloerof the Illuminating Engineering
> Societies of EngIand and of America, a
> foundermember of the Electrical Assodation
> for Women, an inventor of color filter
> iUunlination which she installed at thc
> Barcelona Inkrnadonal Exposition and in
> such wosld-famous buildings as the Palais
> de Glace, Paris; Sheghestrd's Hotel, Cairo;
> the Berkeley IloteI, London; the Fairrnont
> Hotel, San Francisco; and in hotels and
> expositions of many other countries.
> She became a BaWi in P a i s in 191 1, when
> 'Abdu'i-Bahk was there.
> Persia, Turkist5n and other eastern com-              "Beatrice Irwin, a blond. young intellec-
> munities.                                          tual," Mme. Laura Dreyfus-Barney khas
> ,4 feiv years later he rnarried an English lady written, "had come to Paris to study her
> and they had t h e e daughters. Pi& was an profession.. . She had an unusual gift for
> active supporter of the London comunily color and for the use of light and shadow. . .
> and was a menlber of the British National To her, beauty was an expression of spiritual-
> Spiritual Assembly for various psriods f ~ o m jty. When 'Abdu'l-BahA came to stay in Paris
> I925 until 1941. When the Ten-Year Crusade he held small gatberings. . . Beatrice Irwin
> commenced in 1952, he was eager to play was often present." Many years later she
> his part and before the end of t h P year, recaIied how she had beeil "pi-ivileged to
> though well over seventy years of age, he had meet Him daily. . . and to marvel at the
> left Pngland and settled in Jersey, one of the universality of His knowledge. . . and the
> Channel Islands. Therc he worked actively breadth and depth of Plis sympathy with the
> to make the Faith known and made many realities of existence."
> friends for the Cause in the island.                  In 1914 'Abdu'l-Baha revealed for her one
> He passed on, still at his past, after an of His nmst important messages on war and
> illness of some length, in April 1956. His peace. A closing paragraph contains the
> tombstone records that he was a BaWi thenle which, above all others, was the guiding
> pioneer and a Knight of Bah2uYW.                    star of her Life:
> "0 people! . . . Hasten ye, hasten ye,
> perchance ye may become able to extinguish
> with the water of the new-born ideals of
> spiritual democracy a d celestial freedom,
> this many-flamed, world-consuming fire, and
> BEATRICE ZRWIN
> through your heaven-inspired resolution you
> 1877-1 956                     may usher in thc golden era of international
> solidarity and world confederation,"
> "Grieved passing steadfast devoted in-              Miss Irwin had endowment and training
> defatigablc promoter Faith. Reward assured for a bright and versatile career. A t one time
> Kingdom, haying progress soul.                      she was an actress and played with Sir Henry
> Irving and Sir Charles Wyndham. She was
> the author of two professional books, The
> Sucll was the passport of Beatrice Irwin to New Science of Color and The Gates of Liglit;
> the Abhii Kingdom, when, on March 20, of a book of p o r n , The Pagan Trinity;an:!
> MORIAM                                     883
> 
> of a collection of BahihB'i poenls and essays
> dedicated to 'Abdu'l-BahA entitled He~aEds
> ofPeace. Of her, Richard Le Gallienne wrote
> that she had the "right to a high place among
> living poets." A31 her life she was nmved by
> the Master's wish "that you will contime to
> pow the pearls of your thought into poetry."
> Through her attainments six had access to
> Inmy important piatibrrns and leading
> personalities. She spoke of the Faith to
> H.R.W. Feisal of Saudi Arab:a, President
> Cardenas of Mexico, Rodin, Tagore, Satojiz~i
> Naidu, Luther Bwba-~k,Jan Masaryk, Mme.
> Chiang Kai-shek, and illany others. In twelve
> countries of Europe, North Africa, the Middle
> East, and North and South An~erica she
> spoke on the radio, gave public Iectures, and
> arranged important book ediibiis and exhibits
> a£ the model of the American Bahk'l Tmlplc.
> She played an active part in the BahB'i
> campaign during the first United Nations
> Conference in San Francisco in 1945. "Inde-
> fatigable promoter" of the Faith she truly
> was!
> About 1930 she visited the Guardian in
> Haifa. Here lies talents were galvanized and                        Beatrice Trwin
> foa~sed,fbr the rest of Iles life, on one supreme
> end. Her best and nmst fruitful years came
> after sixty. Xn four pioneer missions, at least
> two of which (Mexico and Tunis) were                returned to Spain in her mid-seventies, to the
> undertaken at the suggestion of ifie Guardian,      Island of Mailorca, in 1954. Despite i w a
> she achieved historic services.                     accidents, and her health being far froin what
> The first was her residence in Mexico, in         she dcmanded of it, she visited mmy parts
> 1937, when she broke the ground for the             of the Island. The most happy outcome af her
> collective teaching under the fist Seven-Year       journey was that Dona Carmen Nieto de
> Nan, and wideIy scattered the seed for future       Miguel, first Spanish believer of the Balearic
> harvests. In 1941-42, Miss Irwin spent six          Islands aad wife of a famous Spanish paintel-.
> months in Brazil under the auspices of the          in whose home Miss Irtvin lived, became a
> Pan-Pacific Press Association, She utilized         Bahsi.
> every inonlent and every opportunity                   Bold advocate, intrepid herald, brave sol-
> adsance the knowledge of the Faith.                 dier of Baha'uYllcih, her thoughts were
> In 1943 shc again preceded a teaching            centered on the unfoldment of the New Day.
> plan; this time the Five-Year Plan of the           She was a woman eznancipated from the
> Egyptian NSA. When she arrived in Tunis             Victorian society of her childhood. Ailve11-
> there were only seven Bahj'is. She became           turous and fearless, she traveled the wide
> very active: weekly conferences in the Public       world, was known in professional and artistic
> Library were we11 attended by professional          circles, might indeed have gone far had she
> people, a broadcast was made, Feasts were           bent hex will and intellect to personal success.
> re-established, the Spiritual Asselx~blyorgan-      But she chose the way of sacrifice, to walk
> ized, and a shost circuit of southesn cities        ahead of her time, to expend hex personal
> of Tunisia was made during her five-months'         powers in the service of BahB'u'llAh. Her life
> stay.                                               was not easy. She knew loneliness, insecurity,
> Miss Irwin was blessed to continue her           frustration. But this was not her true image.
> pioneer services nearly to her life's end. Slie     In the divinely inspired utterances of 'Abdu'l-
> BahB we may best seek and h d the reality
> of Beatrice Irwin:
> ". . . For the sake of the love of God thou
> art a wanderer and traveler over mountain
> and desert and art the wooer of the Heavenly
> Beloved. Today thou livest in the city and
> at night thou passest on the plain and beyond
> the hills. Thou lmst no other aim save the
> diffusion of the fragrances of God and
> entertainest no other object except the
> .
> enkindlcment of the fire af the love of God. .
> Becar~sethine intention is sincere and thy a h
> high it is mtain that thou wilt become con-
> firmed in the service d the Kingdom of God."
> 
> VICTORIA BEDIKIAN
> 1879-1955
> 
> MES. Victoria Bedikian was one of seven
> sisters of the SchnabeI fa~niiym d was born                      Victoria Bedikian
> in Boise, Idaho, Februay 9, 1879. All seven
> sisters were educated in art and music, both
> in the United States and in Germany.              who first called Mrs. Bedikian "Buntic Victo-
> While still young, she became deaf. This ria"-the nasne which she cherished and was
> affliction caused her to abandon her musical lovingiy known by for the rest of her life.
> career and to devote herself entirely to apt, Having had no children af her oivn, she
> Her husband, Madris Bcdikian, a native of adopted one ~01%.
> Armenia, was aa ardcnt admirer of Abrjhan~          Auntie Victoria never missed aopportunity
> Lincoln and, in accordance with h a husba~d's to give the Message. She had a very keen sense
> wishes, Mrs. Bedikian painted mmy portraits of humor. She detached herself from every-
> of Lincoln which were given as gifts to the thing save Cod. Her only material possessians
> mayors of various cities in New Jersey for were a tiny typewriter and her art nzalnials
> the city halls.                                   and the little black books containing natnes
> In 1912 when 'Abdu'l-Bahii was in the and addresses of BahCis all over the world
> United States He sometimes visited thc which she guarded w i ~ hher life.
> oriental art shop of Mr. Bedikian in Mont-          After the ascension of 'Abdu'l-Bahk in
> ciair, New Jersey. There Mrs. Bedikian had 1921, Shoghi EfTendi directed her continuous-
> a memorable meeting with Him. 'Abdu'l-Rah&, ly in her work, guiding hex as had "Abdu'l-
> with Whoin she later corresponded, asked her BahB. In 1926 he wrote to the National
> to d e v o her
> ~ art to tho Faith, anand this serkice Spiritual Asse~nbly of the BahS'is of the
> was rendered gloriously and uniiiterrt~ptedly United States and Canada: "I have specially
> to the very last day of hex life.                 requested that indeCati@bb pioneer of the
> ,4t one time Mrs. Bedikian cared for as Cause of God, our well-beloved Bd1B"i sister,
> many as forty orphans in her own home. Mrs. Victoria Bedikian, to concentrate for
> 'Abdu'l-Bahb at that time wrote to her :"None the present all the resources of her mind and
> is nmre            in the Abhri Kingdom than heart upoil this vast and vital undertaking.
> thee far the work thou hast done for the I have urged her to direct her encrgies to this
> childven. . ." I t was this group of clzildren lofty purpose, and by the aid of her most
> IN MEMORIAM                                             8 85
> 
> valuabie letters wouse both the East a ~ the d   remains were Idd to rest in Greenwood
> West to a El-esh consciousness of the signifi- Cemetery near where she had lived. The grave
> m c e and urgency of the object you iuve set     is an the side o f a hill, facing the east as she
> yourselves to achieve." (The erectiotl of the had requested.
> BabB'i Temple.)                                     Memorial services were held for Auntie
> In the early days of her B~ah&i' activities Victoria 011 August 14, 1955 in many BahCi
> Auntie Victoria wrote to 'the cl~ildrenof laally cornmi&@ of India, Piikistin, Burma,
> lands, orgaz~izing chiIdren's Gardens of Ceylon, South East Asia, Indonesia and
> Fellowship, giving each "garden" the name Islands of the Indian Ocean, flyhere the loving
> of a flomr. The Guardian at that time told influence of her letters had awakened many
> her that these gardens of felIowship would hearts.
> serve as seeds for futurs BahA'i communities.
> Auntie Victoria also inspired the editing and                                     Doms EBBERT
> publishing oP a little magazine at this time                                      O LGA F ~ X E
> 
> called "Children of the Kingdom," in tvhicIi
> the various children's gardens all over the
> world were pictured aed written about.
> In 1927 Auntic Victoria spent thrce months
> in Raifa with the family of 'Abdu'l-Daha zs
> guest of the Guardian, having traveled thele
> with Mrs. Keith Ransom-Kehler, Her meeting                     ABBASALLY BUTT
> with 'Abdu'l-Bah&in the United States, and                           18%-1959
> the Guardian and tlae Greatest Holy Leaf
> (sister of 'Abd~i'i-Bafii) in Haifa, were the       Mr. Abbasaliy Butt, member of the
> highlights of her life. Many were the ti~nes Auxiliary Board of the Hands of the Cause
> that these experiences were told with great in Asia aid one of the stalwarts of the Cause
> fervor to file friends wherever she traveled.    in India, passed to the Abha Kingdom on
> After Mr. Bedikian's passing, Auntie April 21, 1959 at Rangoon, Burma, where he
> Victoria made an extended trip, in 1445, from had gone to hclp the Baha'i friends in es-
> the cast coast to the west coast and the sonth tablishing h e National Spiritual Assembly
> to the north of ths United States, by Grey- of the Bahsi'is of Burma. The account of his
> hound bus. She traveled four tirncs around ulforgettabIe, untiring services and sacriiices
> the entire country after she had reached the will always adorn the pages at' the history of
> age of seventy yeass, visiting valous groups the Faith from the closing phase of the
> and comnlunities and encouragirag them in Apostolic Age and the beginning of the
> their Bahk'i activities. hl August 1952, she Formative Age of BahB'i history.
> suffered a severe heart attack. She was obliged     When a youth, Mr. Butt felI seriously ill in
> to settle down and spent the last three years Calcutca and was taken care of by a BahB'i
> of her life in Atlanta, Georgia.                 friend in that city who served him till he
> Awltie Victoria's inspirational letters with regained his health, Po order to repay his debt
> Eahgi quotations and h a owia artistically to this friend Mr. Butt asked what he could do
> spiritual drawings contillued to go out to a11 for him. The friend requested him to heIp
> parts of the world, to the very end of her translate The Ki~db-i-j.~a'n        (Book of Certitude)
> earthIy life which came on the evening of into Urdu. 'Ibis was hzs first introduction to
> July 3, 1355.                                    the B N i Faith and the beginning of his
> On heaing of her passing, Shoghi Effendi, careex as an zble translator of the BahB'i
> Guardian of the Bahg'i Faith, sent rhis Writings into Urdu. The BahA'is of India will
> cablegram to the secretary of the Spiritr~al always feel grateful towaids Mr. Ahbasally
> Assembly of the Bahglfs of Atlanta: "Praying Butt who cither directly enlightened them, or
> progress soul indefatigable, wholly conse- through his outstanding transiatioas of Bahri
> crated promoter of the Faith. Wcr services literature, such as The .Kitrib-i-fq&., Bol3ci"d-
> unforgettable. Love."                            11~37~lrzclthe lYPw Em, Some Anslvered Qlres-
> A beautiful funeral service vias held in tioas and a score of other books and booklets,
> Atlanta for her on July 6, 1955 and her earthly increased their knowlcdgz of their Faith.
> 886                          THE; B A H A ' 1 W O R L D
> 
> at the instruclions af ihc belayed Master, to
> enshrine the precious remains of" the Bfib on
> Mouat Carn~el.
> In 1913 he was again called by the beloved
> Master, 'Abdu'l-BahB, to the Holy Land.
> There he q7as ewaged in emslating Tablets
> of 'Abdu'l-Bahd to the wtstern friends and
> also translating their letters to the Master.
> However, when the first World Was begal,
> he was forced to leave Haifa and return to
> India to continue his ~ficritorious services
> in various fields of activity.
> His contribution to the BahB'i adminis-
> trative activities is no less outstanding than
> his teaching and translation work. For years
> hi: was h e chairman or the secretary of ale
> National Spiritud Assembly of the BahB'is
> of India, PiMstAn and Bulma. He will bc
> remembered as the first member of the Asian
> Auxiliary Board to be appointed in India.
> This gave him still another opportunity to
> incsease his wonderful services in spite of his
> iU health and weak physical constitution.
> The Bahk'is will always remember Mr.
> Abbasally Butt as an example of devotion
> Abbasally Butt               and sincerity to the Faith of BMu'lLah and
> for his manifold services in this subcontinent.
> Mr. Abbasally Butt was born a i Ludl~iana,     As a token of appreciation for his long
> h n j a h , India, in 1894, in the family of a service, the Hands of the Faith in the Holy
> Kashmiri Muslim shawl merchant. He was Land cabled their decision to erect a befitting
> a graduate in arts and also a bachelor of mnemorial on his grave in Rangoon, Burma:
> education. Later oil he qualified himself in "Deeply regret passiy distiiished member
> the Persia language in the University of Indian community, b n g standing, faithful,
> Plmjab. His fist job &;as.that of headmaster- devoted servant Bahit'u'llih Abbasally Butt,
> ship of the Muslim High School at Rangoon Services NationaL Assembly, Auxiliary Board,
> from which he was expdled by the school teacking fieid unforgettable. Passing Rangoon
> authorities for his being an active Bah2i. crowns selfless labors Faith. Praying Shriaes
> Then he joined the St. Gabriel Mission progress soul joyful reunion beloved Guardian
> High School, Rangoon, as a teacher of Per- AbM Kingdom Advise hold memorial
> sian. From those early days his attachment meetings. Hands Cause will build gave,"
> to and love for the BaM'is of Burma took                                        H. M, ILMI
> deep root in his h a r t and he always longed                                    S.H. KORESHX
> to breathe his last when he was in B u r m
> with BahA'i friends there.
> Mr. Butt was fortmate in having received              ANTHONY YtTEN SET0
> close and constant companionship of early                          1890-1957
> believers in Burma who achieved historic
> accon~plishmentsin that country. Along with       -'Grieved sudden loss dear husband, valued
> the friends of fanlous Siyyid MugfapM consecrated, high-minded promokr BahCi
> Rlimi who, after his death, was nuinbered Faith. Rewrd his deeply appreciated services,
> by our beloved Guardian among the f-Iands both America Asia unforgettable. Reward
> of t l ~ cCause, Ms. Butt was fortunate to be great Kingdom. Assure loving, fervent prayers
> among those few who had the privilege of progress SOU^."
> carrying the marble box, prepared in Burma                  Cablegram from SHOGHIEFFENDI
> Anthony Yuen Seto was born in Hanapepe,
> Kauai, Territory of Hawaii, November 18,
> 1890, He was descended from a long-lived
> Family, stsong morally, pI.~ysicallyand mental-
> ly. In chiidhood he attended a . epublic scl~crois
> in Wanapepe a d HanoIulu, Hawaii, and
> later in San Rafael, California. In the year
> 1906, Ere went with his father to Detroit,
> Michigan, and there he entered Cass Technical
> High School. After graduation, he decided
> to study engineering and entered the Universi-
> ty of Michigan. After. two years' study of
> engineering he changed to law and was
> graduated from the Detroit College of Law.
> He first practiced his profession in Honolulu,
> Hawaii, and later in the State of California.
> In 1950 fie retired from his professioli owing
> to a heart ailment. In his profession he was well
> versed in immigration law, and many o f his
> countrymen will mmembs him for his able
> handling of their cases.
> Anthony Yuen Seto
> He was kind, generous, patient, with capac-
> ity for sacrifice. He possessed quiet courage,
> a characteristic of the Chinese, as I came to
> know them in their land. Besides being an 1917, the United States entered the first
> attorney, Anthony was a business man and World W~trand Anthony" time and a t b t i o n
> m d e wise investments in real estate and were taken up with his work at Schofield
> advised his peopIe along business lines.           Barracks, Honolulu, where he was in training
> Anthony's way of life w a s that of the at the Reserve Officers Training Camp.
> pioneer. He was one of the f st yourig men            A group of devoted believers resided in
> of Chinese ancestry to enter the legal profes- Honalulu for a number of years, at whose
> sion and one of the first to practice law in fm homes the friends gathered for BahB'i affairs.
> Territory of Hawaii. He was also one of the After we established a home our place was
> Grst Chinese atto~.aeysto be admitted to open for classes to study the BahB'i teachings,
> practiee law in the Supreme Court of the and fm meetings of various kinds, including
> United Slates. He was the first and only the holding d Feast Days, Anniversaries and
> Chinese believer in the BahB'i Faith in the Holy Days. From then on, Anthony served
> Hawaiian Islands, and until a few yeas ago in many ways; He was elected chairman of the
> the on$ Chinese B&$i in America.                   first Spiritual Assembly of the Bah2is of
> In the autumn af the year 1916, Charles E-IanoluZu and served for several years there-
> Mason Remey, distinguished architect, and after in that capacity, He spoke at meetings
> one of the first Bakh'is in America, went to for the believers and at public ones. He also
> Honoltdn together with the Iate George aided with the work for the children.
> Latimer, and remained for six months for the          Xn HEionnlq where Anthony was well
> purpose of teaching tlm Bahg'i Faith. Meetings known, he boldly proclaimed the Faith.
> were held weekly at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Through him his business and professional
> George J. -4ugur who were then residing in associates, friends and others learned of this
> Japan and teaching the Faith in that land. world religion. The degree to which he was
> These meethgs were well attended. Here were recognized not only as a latvyer but also as a
> gathered the humble, the well-known, artists, devout foHower ofthe BahA'i Faith.is recorded
> husiness and professional peapb. In addition in the following tribute paid to him in a
> t o the townspeople, many tourists came to ~esolutionby the members of the Bar of the
> learn of this new Faith. In I916 Anthony and Supreme Court, Territory of Hawaii, on
> I accepted the Revelation of BaWu511&. In October 15, 1957:
> THE BAHA'L            WORLD
> 
> .
> ",. He was adndtted to practice before         Prince Ednpad Island; Moncton, New Bxutuns-
> this Court in 1916, and excepting for a period wick; and Halifax, Nova Scotia. On this trip,
> of two years when he served our Country in Anthony's value as a pionecr became apparent.
> World War I, he carried on the legal profes- His g i ~ i a Zmanner made friends for hiin
> sion in Hoilolulu very commendably until instaiztly. He could wit11ease become acquaint-
> 1932, when he moved on to San Francisco, ed with people. Xn approaching editors. his
> California, where he continued his Iegal friendliness won for us their hdp. Tl~ese
> career, retiring seven years before his decease lrindly Scotch editors printed every artieie
> on May 5, 1957, in Tokyo, Jzpan. A sincere presented to then1 without any change what-
> disciple of the BahFi Faith, he taught, soever.
> lectured, aad practiced the ideals, precepts,       With the launching of the Ten-Year
> and tenets thereof. in the last few years of Crusade in 1953, a plan designed to hring
> his life he devoted his full time to disseminat- the B a h t i teachings to ail parts of the globe,
> ing the teachings of &at Faith in the Orient, there czme the call for the follo~versof BahB'-
> particularly in Hong Kong . . . A man of u'll81 to go to near and distant parts of the
> strong religious convictions, he was honest, world to teach the Faith. We planlled to
> forthright, and scrupuZuus to a fault. For his a ~ s w e our
> r beloved Guardian's aish. A yeax
> hard work and conscientious efforts, he later, one of the places not yet open was tile
> prospered in his business, and as a lawyer he Crown Colony of Hong Koi~g.On a c!ear,
> was a credit to the profession.                   bright autumn day in I954 we ai-rived there.
> "NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED bp the           Again Anthony's value as a pioneer bwama
> members of the Bar of this Court, that out evident. h Wong Kong he met former dass-
> d respect to the memory of A s T a o N Y YUEN mates, clientsand friends;to each one Antilany
> SETO, this meill~rial be spread upon the          gave the teachings and told of his reason for
> minutes d this Court, and h a t a copy thereof being in Hong Kong.
> be forwarded to his widow and family."              Early in 1956, Anthony became ill rqith
> In Sa11 Francisco, where we resided from a return of Izeart trouble and steadiiy grew
> 1432 through 1954, Anihony practiced law worse, until in September it becam-: nemsary
> and engaged in real estate tra~sactions.At for us to return to California. After five
> the same time, hs served faithfully the Cause months' time, he improved in health and we
> he loved, Here was a wider field for his returned to Hong Kong. On our return lie
> activities. He served from time to time as expressed a strong desire to attend the Canven-
> c h a i m n of the Spiritual Assembly, spoke tion to be held in Tokyo for thi: purpose of
> at meetings a l ~ dgave talks at the Geyse~vilie electing the first Regional National Sgiritual
> Summer School. He also assisted severat Assembly of North Fast Asia.
> Bahri'i communities with their incorporatioil        He was the only Chinese believer present
> papers.                                           at the convention, which lact he meutioned
> We returned to Honolulu for t l ~ esurmner many times and deeply regrettzd. All went well
> and autumn of 1941. At that time the Hono- and he thoroughly cnjoyed all aspects of the
> lalu Baha'i Community had set the date for trip and the interesting sessions of the Convea-
> the dedication of its newly constructed center. tion, particularly the uplifting message of our
> Anthony was one of the speakers on this beloved Guardiail covering the progress of
> important occasion. He prepared a very the Ten-Year Crusade.
> scholarly paper on tlie Faith, with an interest-    His last day on earth was a happy one. A
> ing background telling of the contributions trip to the ancient and historic town of
> and sacrifices of the eariy missionacies in Kamdkura where we beheld the colossal
> bringing lfie Chsistian Faith to the Hawaiian statue of the Buddha, built in the twelfth
> Islands.                                         cmtury, and a happy dinner hour with fellow
> In the SLIIIIIII~:. of 1843, the work of the bdievei-s ciosed the day and we were ready
> Fkst Sewn-Year Man, launched in 1937, was to depast for Bong Kong, our home.
> nearing its close. There wefe piaces in Canada      li?len the airline limousine that {ailed to
> where BahB'i teachers were needed. We arrive a ~ adtaxicab that came fifteen minutes
> volunteered and went '10 the Maritime late causad a delay of forty miiiutes in starting
> ProvU~ccs. We taught in Charlottetown, for the airport. This delay shorrteried grsatly
> IN MEMORIAM
> 
> our time for clearing customs. The haste,
> anxiety and strain were roo much for An-
> thony's weakened heart. On reaching the                I~~mediately   upon hearing of the death of
> plane, he collapsed and died withill a few min-     Edith Sanderson. Shoghi EEendi, the Guzrd-
> utes, So ended, an May 6, 1957, his sexvice         ian of the BaWi Faith, sent this telegram to
> l o the Faith that he had embraced as a young       the Spiritual Assenib'iy of Paris:
> man and had served faithf~~ily         for lbrty       "Deeply grieved. Deplore loss stauxch,
> years of his life.                                  courageous, tireless promoter Faith, Edith
> Interment took place in Yokohama at no011        Sanderson, greatly beloved 'Abdu'l-BahB.
> on May 8. Ninc believers representing Iran          Long record historic services covering heroic,
> and the United States were present and they         formative age Faith imperishable, reward
> chanted and read prayers and verses froun the       Abhk Kingdon1 great, assured. Urge believers
> Roly Utterances. In the evening of tbe same         centers France hold memorial gathering,
> day in an atmosphere of reverence, an               extol exemplary spirit, emulate noble example.
> in~przssivemenlorial. service was heid at the       Exert utmost burial Paris execution BahB'i
> Bahrf Haq'ratu'l-Quds in Tokyo. Twenty-             laws."
> three believers representing Japan, frh and            Edith Sanderson, one of the firsr pioneers
> the United States gathered to bear the revered      of the Bahi'i Faith in France, taught by that
> Guardian" Iovixx cablegram of sympathy              distinguished BahB'i, May Bolles Maxwell,
> and appreciation, and to listen to messages         has finished her life on earth: but the G-umdian
> from reiativcs and from believers in different      assures us of her entrance into the AbhA
> parts of the world. After selections from the       Kingdom. Even in the sadness of separation,
> Writings on life eternal were read, a r&stm&   of   we imst rejoice ill her attainment to a higher
> Anthony's life-work for tine Faith was given.       state of b&g.
> Laid to rest in the beautiful cemetery of           Her life aamoni: us was long and beneficent.
> Yamatemachi on the bluff in the city of             An American, she passed her earliest years
> Yokohama, he sleeps in a country fie admired        with her Faniiy iil Sacranlento, capital of
> m d loved-Japan, Land of the Rising Snn.            California, where her father was Chief Justice
> Today believers and friends from Yoko-           of the Supren~eCourt of that State. After his
> hama, Tokyo and nearby places a>i.ileto his         death, Mrs. Sanderson took her four daughters
> grave and keep his memory alive by their            to Ewope to fiiiish thzir education. They
> frequent visits, floral gifts and loving prayers.   settled in Paris, where the ddest, Sybil
> A letter frola the Guardian, through his         Saide~son,became one of the great opera
> secretary, to the newly-elected National            singers OF the end of the nineteenth century.
> Spiritual Assernbiy of the Bahzis of North          The composer Massenet dedicated to her
> East Asia, gives a final tribute to the services    several operas, in which she created the roles
> of Anthony Seto:                                    w~.nposedfor her.
> "The work so faithfully carried on by the            In 1901, the youngest sister, Edith, became
> American and Persian pioneers, has born its         a Baha'i and went several times to the Holy
> first fruit. The long and Ioyd services of dear     Land, where she lived with the family of
> Agncs Alexander, who so faithfully casried          'Abdu'l-Baha. These visits were the happiest
> out the beloved Master's wishes and served          periods of her life. When 'Abdu'l-23aM came
> the spiritual interests of japan for decades,       to P a i s in 1912. she had the joy and honor of
> has been ricllly crowned. Even the death of         receiving Rim in the home of her mather on
> the devoted pioneer, Mr. Anthony Seto, has          Avenue MalakoT.
> added a blessing to t l work ~    in that region,      D ing the two world wars, Edith Sander-
> for he scz-ved in spite of failing health and       son d ~ deverything in her power to preserve
> remained at his post to be iaid to rest in a        in France the Arne of the BahiriB'iFaith. Her
> distant land, his very dust testifying to the       study of tilt teachjngs of the Bgb, of BahB'u5-
> greatness of the love and nature of tlxe ideals      Ii& and of 'Abda'l-Bal-18 was continuous a ~ i d
> BahB'u'llah has inspired in His servailts."         profound, and with her growing knowledge
> of Pa-sian she achieved an evar Inore direct
> coi~gicl~cnsion   of Tlteir Writings. Although
> fragile in appearance, she bad rare will-power
> 890                              T H E B A . H A ' ~W O R L D
> 
> ANNEMARIE SCHWEIZER
> 
> One of the earliest Bahk'fs in Germany,
> Annemarie Schuleizer was affectionately
> known as "Tank hfariele" to many Bahk'is
> throughout the world, as weil as hGermany.
> She and her husband, Friedrich Schxveizer
> had ihe great privifegz of beconling BahA'is
> before World War I. She followed the path
> of BahB'u'lEh with great enrhusiasm, md
> taught indefatigably in womc~'s clubs and
> associations and itherever there was an
> oppartunity lo do so.
> In the years 1911 and 1913, in Park,
> Stuttgart and Esslingen, Frau Schweizer
> several times met 'Abdu'l-Bahh, who honored
> her by staying in her hone in Stuttgart-
> Zuffenhausen, Friesensisasse 26. Since that
> time this home has been a center of activity
> m n g the BahB'ls in Germany. From here
> Edith Sanderson                      communications went out to the whole world.
> To this home came letters from BahKis of d1
> countries. Friends visiting Stuttgart found
> and fidelity, and she displayed a coufage           their way to this home. One could almost say,
> almost heroic in spreading the BahB'i Faith         "Who did not know Annemarie Schweizer?
> in a country where it found little response.        Who has not already heard of her?"
> F r o n ~the time of her conversion to the end      Frau Schweizer taught the BahB'i Faith in
> of hcr life, she gathexed in her home seekers       its eady years in Germany; 'Abdu'l-BahB
> of the tmth. She kept well-informed of the          greatly appreciated her efforts. AEkr His
> current writers of our epoch, such as Lecomte        passing she held fast to His Will and Testa-
> du Now, Father Teilhard du Chardin, and             melt; all doubts which arose in those years
> S h o n e Weill, and consequently had. contact     rebounded f m her as from sted She became
> with writers or groups who were interested in       one of the mothers of the German BahTi
> social and spiritual questions.                     co~nrnunity and a light in the European
> She was a force in these uncertain tima,         mother-conmunity- of Stuttgart.
> a hope hours of desolatio~~;      she gave to the      In the spring of 1934 she was privileged to
> point of exhaustion of her time and her             visit the Guardian of the 13aG'I Faith in
> means.                                              Haila. She returned with new impetus to
> Like 'Abdu'l-Baha, she loved nature:             activate the teaching cffarts, During the
> flowers, trees, thc sea, the beauty of clouds.      prohibition of the Faith under Hitler she was
> She lived in a rarified atmosphere. Her many        taken by the Gestapo, was tried before a
> ordeals could not efface the charm of fier          court and sentenced. After 1945 she was
> countenance.                                        again teaching the Faith, and undertook trips
> Let us give hornzge by our deeds to her          t o visit old friends and to contact and win
> whom we loved, who knew how to live as a            new ones. Whenever there was a meeting in
> true Christian and a "true BahVi.                   the G e r m n BahB'i cornmnaity-teaching
> L. D. ffmm       conferences, summer schools, regional, na-
> tional and intercontinental confexeacesshe
> was present. She was vivacious, generous and
> friendly to the last I'iour of her earthly Life.
> As she had always wishcd, death came to
> her a m n g the Mends at the Swnmes School
> in EssIingen, on August 23, 1957 in her
> IN MEMORIAM                                             891
> 
> of Shoghi EKeendi"s telegram concerning the
> departed soul of hgrs. Zarrintaj AErhk&ih.
> She passed away ia Dar-es-Salaam, Tan-
> ganyika, where she left a brilliant name and
> set a high example in the fuifilmeot of the
> wishes of the beloved Guardian. She was
> given the gift of being one of the pioneel-s
> of the early stage of our spiritual Tes-Year
> Cmsade to Af~ica.With a weak body attacked
> by grave illness (caacer o f the throat) and aa
> exalted spirit inspired and blessed by the
> Blessed Beauty she rase m d won. the victory
> in the service o f our bebved Faith.
> She &as a grandclliughter of Razai-Rooh
> who was one of the reliowned souis who
> served the Faith. Her father was Cobnel
> Ha& &&in, a high-ranking chemist in the
> Persian army. She married Dr. Youness
> Afr6atih who was the personal secretaxy
> and interpreter of Ihe Beloved Master £as
> nine years in Haifa. She was well educated and
> received her diploma in midwifery from the
> American Hospital in Tihiin. She took an
> active Dart indiEerent BahL'i committee work
> in ~ i & &andn aceompanicd her husband in
> some of his teaching can2paigas, She left two
> seventy-third year, A sudden heart attack took     &aughtas wllo, with their families, are
> her from our midst. Although in the spring         pioneering in f i s t Africa.
> she had for days hovered between life and
> death, she still spared no effort to help the
> frjeads and strengthen them in the teachings,
> Annemarie Schxeizes is immortal in German
> Bahb'l histoiy. Her home she gave in her will
> to the* National Spiritual Asse~nbIyof the
> Bahli'is of Geriilany.
> Wfien the Guardian was informed of her
> passi~ig,he sent thc foliowing cablegram:
> "Grieve passing distinguished handmaid
> Center Covenant much loved deeply admired
> Annemarie Scfiweizer.Record notable services
> closing yeus Heroic, three decades Formative
> Ages BahB'i Dispensation inperishable. Re-
> ward gEeat Kingdom. Fervently praying
> progress soul."
> 
> "Grieve passing distin,oished handmaid
> Center Covenant reward great Kingdom
> praykg progress soul example she set worthy
> emulation spiritual sisters Persia," is the text                Zarrintaj Afrhbtih
> 892                             T H E B A R A ' ~W O R L D
> 
> In spite of being in bed a11 the h e , Mrs.
> Afrhutih wascrownedwith an historic service
> in Dar-es-Salaam, FOE example, on her
> request and encouragement the Spiritual
> Assembly applied to the government for a
> plot of laad for a Bahgi ceinetery and thus
> could receive the precious appreciation of
> the beloved Guardian for being the first
> comiunity in the Ten-Year Crusade to secure
> a BahB'i cemetery in Central and East Africa.
> Her f i e r a l set for the first tlme bei-o~e
> non-Bah9'I onlookers was an exai11p1eof racial
> and religious unity of people of different
> backgrounds.
> A few months later one o f the Bahi'i
> pilgrims returning from Haifa brought a
> bottle of attar-of-rose which Shoghi EEendi
> had specially sent for the grave of this dear
> pioneer. In accordance with his wish its
> precious contents were sprinkled on her tomb
> as a symbol to ail the friends of how much the
> beloved Guardian had appreciated her spirit
> and services.
> 
> DR. K. M. Fozdar                    I
> DR. K. M. FOZDAR                    them by logicat replies and tried to preach the
> 1898-1955                     C a ~ ~ samong
> e      his Pmsi friends. His first
> spiritual child was Mr, Ormsby Molliei-, son
> On the night of Apl-il 26, 1958, Dr. K. M. of a high priest of the Parsis, and his schoal-
> Fozdar, a b i g h t of B&8'u'li;ih, and the mate. Later m o h e r Indian Parsi who came
> first India1 Parcsi to accept the BaWf Faith into the Cause at Dr. Foziiar's hand was MI..
> passcd away In Singapore suddenly, while Mani Mehta, the son of millionaire S i i Homi
> talking with his wife Shirin.                   Mehta. Dr. Fozdw studied other religions
> Dr. Fozdar had accepted the Faith to and preached the Cause among Bindus,
> which his wife belonged, soon after his MusEms, Christians and Buddhists.
> marriage in 1925. Ever since theta he had been     In 1935 on his return from Europe Dr.
> devoted to it, and served it conscientiousIy. Fozdar visited. the Holy Land. 'IYkile on zhe
> M3ithin three years of his marriage he was boat, he taught the Cause to some German
> employed as Medical Oificer in the State Jetvs who were visiting Palestine. They were so
> Railways, which entitled him a d his family impressed that they also visited the beloved
> to certain concessions in railway travel in Guardian. T11e Guardian was very happy
> different parts of the country. This oppo~tuni- with him and assured Mrs, Fozdar that Dr.
> t y he availed of for his wife, and sent her    Fozdar was protected by God. This pilgrimage
> &eely to all parts of India to teach the Cause. strengthened him fnrther in the Faith, and
> B e staycd bchind to look after his work and on his 1Y:inrn he advised friends to go and
> his children. The Ca~xsein India has been meet the beloved Guardian as "he gives new
> iinked in many cities with the name Fozdar.     spiritud sustenance."
> His acceptame of the Faith ax~tagonized When the National Spiritual Assenlbly of
> his mother and athcr relations, and he was Illdirt started its seven-yem pian, Dr. Fozdar
> persecuted by them for soinc yeas; but he valrmttered to settie in virgia territories and
> remained undisturbed. When the Parsi priests succeeded in establishing groups and assen-
> attacked the Cause in the press he countered bIies.
> XN M E M O R I A M
> 
> In obedience to the ca13 of the beloved        to Singapore as the authorities on that island
> Guardian far pioneers to southeast Asia, Ds,       would not prolong his stay.
> Fozdar resigaed his government post in the           On his rcttlrn to Malaya, Dr. Fozdar
> railway, four years before the period of           set%leddown in a virgin territory and within
> retirement,and went to Singapore. A complete       a yeas succeeded in forming t h e e new Assern-
> strmger to that city he established himself as     blies. His spiritual children settled in visgin
> a medical practitioner. Re gave the Message        territories and the Cause spread rapidly.
> to the klite, to his patients who came from a71      At a time when he was actively preparing
> walks of life, and to humble folk. We kept his     to receive the guests to the Convention which
> home open for all who wished to know about         was to be held in Singapore two days later,
> the Cause and would discuss with inquirers         he was suddenly, but peacefully, called away
> until midnight. To wide souls to the Faith         to be the guest of God.
> had become sccond nature and he was very             The name of F o ~ d uin Singapore and
> often misunderstood and called a fanatic. The      Malaya is a household word and 4s linked
> beloved Guardian at that time wrote to him         with the BahB'i Faith, which in Malaya
> through his secretary, "Your departure for         represents a progressive movement for Ilu-
> Singapore and safe arrival there brought him       ~nanitytowads spirituality, morality, amity
> great joy and he has high hopes for the success    and unity.
> of your teaching work, particularly since            Dr. Fozdar was sixty years old when he
> receiving the atice, published in the press        died in active service of BahB'u'llhh.
> there, w h i l you recently sent him. The
> devotion with which you, your dear wife,
> and now your son and daughter-in-law serve
> the Cause of God i s truly exemplary and
> cannot but attract the blessings of Bah2-
> u'liah and His confirmations. Your heart
> must rejoiee that God has so blessed you and
> favored you."
> Dr. Fozdas was blessed with five children:
> three sons and two daughters, d l B M i s .           Mu115 &mad AI-Mailkb was a steadfast
> He trained his children to be devoted to the       believer "ki~~dkd    with the low of God" who
> Cause and encouraged them to play great            had raised the banner of Bail~$u'llih for
> r6Zes in the fidd of teaching and pioneering;      almost half a century in Mosul, the largest
> and he gave them all a very good education.        city of northern 'Iraq. He was aware of the
> In order to prove to the people &at Baha'is    nlysteries of the Bible, the Qur'an and the
> practise service to Ilumanity, Dr. and Mrs.        Baha'i Scriptures. He had taught tlle Faith to
> Pozdar started a free schooI in Singapore          most of the BahB'is residing ill Mosul; his
> \*re    300 underpsiv2eged women were taught       explmations of the divine Scriptures had
> to read and write. The people of Singapore         attracted the hearts of the peaple.
> were inlpressed by this spirit of sacrifice, and      He accepted the Fairh about 1845 through
> other organbations and individuals later           MirzB 'Ali Zayn'l-'Abidin Klishaui, who had
> -Eollo\vedsuit and many nwse such free classes     been banished from t3agbdAd to Mosul ~ ~ i t h
> for poor wonlen were started. The Cause            many Persian believers soon after Baha'u'-
> became better known and in 1952, two years        118h's bailishmcnt to Istanbul.
> after his pioneering to Singapore, the first          Mirz&'AH was living in a room in the same
> Spiritual Asselllbly was formed.                   inn known as man El Mufti in Sarai market,
> In 1953, Dr. Pozdar attended ths Inter-        where Mulla Aljmad used to work as an
> continental Conference in New Delbi. When          ophrhahlogist. When Mulla AWad em-
> the appeal for pioneers was made for virgin        braced the Cause his family tusned hiin out
> territories, he voluilteesed to go to Andaman      of his house and he %assumn~onedbefore the
> tsIm~ds;this pleased the beloved Guardian,        h f u f ~ i(ie., Head Priest of Islam) to answer
> zed he received the title of Knight of B&i'uT-    qi~estiotasrs,wding the accusation of e~nbrac-
> Ilih. After four nloilths' stay he succeeded       ing 2 new religion. Muilk &mad defended
> in confirming four Bahi'is, I?ul hltd to retxun    the uew Revelation with such power and
> T H E B A N A ' ~W O R L D
> 
> he quoted from the Qur'kn. The two young
> men testified that it was Mull5 Ahnlad wha
> converted them to the Bahii'i Faith, which
> they wholeheal-tediy embraced now. At last
> the court found the111 innocent and not guilty
> of any crime, and released them, dedaring
> that there was not a single reason that BahB'is
> in Mos~lZand in another town, Ba'qubah,
> should be regarded as conmunists.
> In a special messagc from the beloved
> Guardian to 'Ehc 'PrBq National Assembly Rc
> glorified the courage the believers of Mosul
> and Ba'qubah displayed dul-iag the trid and
> persecutions they suKexed. In 1939 Mull&
> AIpnad received a cablegram f ~ o m the
> Guardian expressing appreciation of his
> merits and. beseeching for him heavenly
> blessings. Iri March, 1940 the Guardian
> mentioned the name of Mull&*ad             before
> some 'Mqi pilgrims as being kindled with
> the love of God and corresponding to the
> believers of Amexica.
> Mull5 Ahmad saved every penny be gained
> to suppati the Bahgi funds at home and
> abroad. He was a salt-seller by profession and
> ability that the clergyme11 were astoandd,    remained healthy and sound until the kist
> as was the entire audience,                   moment of his iife.
> Mull& Abmad dedicated his whoIe life to       Two months before his death lle suffered
> the sacred task of teaching the Faith, Com-   pleurisy. He did not wish to die In Mosui
> pletely dedicating his time to it, he led a long
> where the enemies would stone his funeral.
> life of celibacy and detachment.              He expressedhis desire to spend the remaininmg
> In 1925 Mull&Allmad, in collaboration with few days of his life among the BahSis of
> tho new bdievers, established the Erst B M 1  Kirkuk, a neigl~bo~ing   city. He actualilly spent
> Center in Mosul, to the bitter dissatisfactioii
> ten days among the friends in Kirkuk and
> of its fanatical population; armcd with       passed away peacefully an Qctober 15, 1957.
> different weapons and tools of butchers,      On October 31 the following telegram was
> carpenters and blacksmiths, they marched on   received, which was really the last fragrance
> the BaWi Center and attacked and beat         the Bal~i'is of 'Ir5q had the privilege to
> down Mull& Af?mad mercilessly.                receive from Shoghi EfTendi:
> Mull6 A h a d dofended the Faith through      "Deep sorrow passing distinguished pro-
> writing excellent articles which he sent %    moter Faith Mull&Abmad his services richly
> MusIim periodicals in Mosul and Ba&&d         rewarded praying progress soul Kingdom."
> which had continually attacked the Faith.
> Qn June 22, I939 the police mided MuilA
> ,!&mad's house, gathered the BaIlB'i books
> they found there, put the lot into a sack and
> obliged the aged Mull5 Algaad to carry this
> heavy load on, his back to the carriage which
> took them to the custody of the Court hlartial.
> He was detained fox a fortaight with two          Among the distinguished members of the
> young Bahgi'is, RB&i;?imRu&di and &%if BahB'i Faith in its early days in America
> 'Aziz.During the long processof the trial Mull5 appears the name of Dr. AIain LeRoy Locke,
> Alyc~adcourageously defended the Faith and noted American Negro author and educator.
> proved the Lordship of Bd~&'u'Ilith by verses     Aiain Locke was born in September, 1886
> IN MEMORIAM                                            595
> 
> in Phiiadelphia, where he received his eleinen-
> tary and high school'education. At the age
> o f eighteen he entered the Philadelpl~ia
> School of Pedagogy, and on graduation three
> years later he enrolled at Efailiard College
> he graduated in 1907 with honors
> from ~ h i c h
> in Philosophy and English. i n recognition
> of his outstanding ability and achjeverneilt,
> this same college, in 191S, honored Dr. Locke
> with a Doctor of Philosophy dcgree.
> In 1918 Dr. Locke was awardcd a Rhodes
> Scholarship which entitled him to three yzars
> at Oxford. This was followed by a year of
> specializstiorxin pIxiZosophy at the University
> of Berlin.
> Folbwing his return home to hme~ica,Dr.
> L o c h spent six xnollths in the Southern
> States where, for the first time in Ixis life, he
> came actually f x c to face with the race
> problem. From then unkil his death on h u e
> 3, 1954, d l the while teaching philosophy at
> Howzrd University, Dr. Loeke devoted his
> literary and avocational interests to the anal-
> ysis, interpretation and recognitio~l of the
> culturaf achievenlents of the Negro and his
> relations with orlw races.
> In the e d y 1920's Dr. Locke came into Negro and His Music, and The Negro in Art.
> contact with tile BahA'i Faith in Mi8shington, From 1948, in spite of failing health, until his
> D.C. He immediiiateEy recognized and accepted death, he was a valued and active member
> its teachings as %heonly tm solution to the of the Book Committee of The Key Rqorter,
> problems arising from prejudice among men. the official quan-terly of Phi Beta Kappa of
> This belief was reeected in his pubXic ap- which he was a member. At his death he held
> pemances atad in his writings wherein Ile the title of Professor of Philosophy-Emeritus
> contiaually pointed out that the rapid advance at: Howard Unive~sity,Washington, D.C,
> of the Negro was not a social and economic
> encroachment, which the prejudice of the
> whites fougkt to hold in check, but &at it
> was part of the comnon advancement of ail
> mankind, lifting the IeveI of civiIization as
> a whob.
> During one of his travels abroad, Dr. L o c h
> had the rare p~iviiege of visiting Shoghi
> Effendi, the Guardian of the BafiQ'f Faith,            F. ST.GEORGE SPENDLOVE
> and the Sacred Shrines of the Brib, Bah2u51i&h                    1897-1962
> and 'Abdu'i-Bafia. His experiences at this-
> spiritual cellter are recorded in his article,    George SpenilIove combined in his life and
> "Impressions of Haifa," which was published work the deeply spiritual and the brilliantly
> in Volume III of The BahLi'i tt/brid. A further intellectual, and became dis~inguishedand
> ~iiatementof his conviction of the truth and much beloved not only among the BahB'is but
> power of the f3ahB'i Faith appears in Volume among h i s professional colleagues, as wel2.
> V, under the title, "The Orientation of f-fope."  His chosen profession was the world of art
> Dr. Locke's books and poems on racial and archeology, In which he made a name
> prabbms are nullzerous, perhaps the best for himself ill America, Canada, Europe and
> hxown being The Negro in America, Tlze Asia. The Forcword to his first book, Tht7
> T H E B A H A ' ~W O R L D
> 
> Face o f k r i ' y Canada, contains the following    whexe I last saw him. He introduced me to
> tribute, mitten by Lorne I?ierce, editor of The      Inany books and many thoughts and influ-
> Ryerson Press, publisher of thc book:               enced my mind. T am not speaking of him as a
> "Both in what Mr. Spendlove wiites and in         BahB'i, but as a h i m being.. . the inan
> the things he eollects can be discerned the          whose heart was healed, dter the terrible
> qualities of hischaracter-his restless ctxiosity,    experiences of war, by the teachj~rgs of
> his integrity, his dislike of afl, pretence. His     Baha'u'ila, and who became His devoted
> thinking is warmed by deep emotional and             follower.. ."
> spiritual attitudes. Aided by a phenomenal                Many will serneniber George's telling that
> and photogcaphic memory, by a vast capacity          when he first bcgan studying the BahB'i Faith
> for patient and psolonged concentration, his         he got himself a large notebook in which to
> uncanny instinct enables him to tell the good        jot down, as a good scientifjc researcher, any
> froin the bad and the real from the shoddy.          question he felt could not be answered satis-
> A specialist orspecialists,with an almost fana t-    factorily in the Teachings. After thirty years
> ical love of the minutiae of evide~~ce      in his   he rreferrzd again to this book, at Green Acre,
> highly specialized xvol-ld, he reinains delight-     and told that there was not a single entry
> fully hwllan because of his interest in people,      in it ! Again, several years later, he was asked
> and also bccause of his saving grace of humox.       about the notebook. We admitted there was
> This rich vein of humor is perhaps the best          still no entry.
> clue to his OWXI personality. Certainly it is a           Gem-ge became a vital part of the Green
> clue to his vast interest in everything hunzan       Acre BahA'i Summer School, in Eliot, Maine.
> in aur history, in everything that in any way        Duriilg his sumner vacations he taught
> touches man.. ."                                     courses which opened to many tine depth and
> George Spendlove was born in Montreal,            beauty of the Bah2i Teachings. It was at
> Canada, April 23, 1897; his family was well          Green Acre that he met Dorothy G. Spurr of
> known in lhat city. He was educated privately       Sparkill, New York, and they were married
> by tutors; he showed particular interest in          in 1929. Their son David was born in 1933,
> art histmy, and early acquired tastes which          and their daughtcr Dorothy Grace in 1936.
> were to influence his future carecr, At 19               After being in business as a dealer in fine
> he enlisted far the war and served in               a r t s for several years hz sold out and spent
> Europe, suffering seve16 concussion which            the year 1932-1933 travelling in Palestine,
> injured the nerves of his ears. The deafness         India and the Far East.
> which resulted was to plague him all his life.           It was during this year that George made
> He returned to Montreal in 1919 but was              his first of two pilgrimnagzs to Haifa. Iie
> unable to work for two tcxs. It was during           visited not only museums and art collections,
> the latter part of this period that he became        but many BahZi groups and communities.
> interested 4a rhe Teachings of Bah2u'llrih           Shoghi Effendi \)rote to him May 8, 1933;
> through readi~lg a book oil conlparative                 ".. . 1 carnot refrain from acknowledging
> religion.                                            receipt of your welcome letter and from
> hatu.1-Bah& RS$yyih MhBnum, wife of               adding a few words in person as a token of my
> the Guardian of the BahB'i Faith and the             lively appreciationof your des7otcdandnotabIe
> former Mary Maxwell of Montreal, has                 services to the Cause. 1cherish happy recollec-
> written concerning this period of George*slife:      tions of your sl~ooxtpilgrimage, and trust the
> "1 remember George coming ta the meetings         day may not be distant when you can make
> in our home when X was a child. It was after         a longer visit to the holy &shrines. May the
> tZze first World War. . . He gradually accepted      ALmighty keep and bless you, sustain and
> the Cause and was a devoted friend of niy            protect you, and assist you to achieve your
> mother and of nle as I grew up. . . George           heart's desire.'"
> Spendlove was always a fascinating person.               The year following his return from this
> He had a most charming and individual                trip George went to London to take a two-year
> mind; he was also a thinker and a man of             course in Chinese archeoaogy at the Courtauld
> great culture. ?b talk to M m was always a           Institute of the University of London. On
> treat for me, whzthcr as a child, oi. here when      completion of 'this cowse hc was given thc
> he came on his pilgrimage, or in Toronto             Academic Post-Graduate Dipbmlz in Arche
> IN MEMORIAM                                               897
> 
> of your historic services to the Faith. You have
> upheld the principles of our Faith, spil-i1ua1
> as well as administrative, and with eexeiupiary
> loyalty, courage and wisdom. I will, from the
> depths of my heart, supplicate for you the
> Master's richest blessings. Persevere in your
> high endeavors."
> After George's death, David Hofilian wrote
> from London corxcerning these services:
> "He was one of the first BahB'is, in the
> Maxwell home in 1933, vAom I met and I
> was always running into him after that. He
> introduced me to the British community when
> 1 came borne. . . He played a very great part
> in. establishing the British N.S.A. 011 a firm
> foundsltio~~  and beginning the Ahinistrative
> Order here."
> liz November, 2936, George returned to
> Caaada to join the staff of the Royal Ontario
> iWuseu:um in Toronto, in charge o f the Japanese
> and East Indhn Collections. After several
> years he became carator of the Modem
> European Collections and was appointed
> speciai lectures in the depastmnent of art
> and archeology of the Uraiversity of To-
> F. St. George Spendlove                  ronto, corresponding to the rafk of associate
> professor.
> The wide extent of his knowledge and of
> oIcgy. 13e was, moreover, raommended to            his interests is shown in the varied subjects
> assist the Royal Academy in preparing a            of his lectures, givsn at art galiel-ies, art
> catalogue of the great International Exhibition     museums and schools, m Chicago, Boston,
> of C1inese Art s h o w at B~rriingtonHouse          Kansas City, Milwaukee, and Williamsburg
> io 3935. George had prepared himseIf for           (Virginia) in the United States, besides
> working with Chinese art by teaching himself       Montreal and Toronto. When asked for a
> to read the printed language. He was appoint-      copy of one of his lectures by a friend unable
> ed official lecturer for the Efiibition, as well    to attend it, his q i y was, "I have it all in m
> y
> as its assistant secretaiy and the editor of       hcad." This was true, whether the subject was
> its catalogue.                                      Chinese art, lils first iove, or European furni-
> Shoghi Effe~~di  w o k to him, July 26,1936     ture; Indian art, Japanese cerninics and
> througl~his secretary:                             lacquer, rime pieces, @ass, silver, or, hter.
> "Wllile he feeIs tndy rejoiced over the news    Canadiana: it was all in his head. Nor were
> of thc successful con~pletionor your academic       these dry lectures. They were leavened with
> work at London, he cannot but deplore the          humor and r~ndastanding. He had a vast
> fact that you have left Eizgland, as your          fund of information at his mental and spritual
> presence in that coun&y was of an immense          fingertips, coupled with a phenomenal laern-
> benefit to the English BahB'i Conununity,          ory. His impact on peeple evegwhere was
> particularly rlaw that the Adnlinistratition is    great.
> making a steady headway. . .'"                        In 1952 cane h i s final appointn~entat the
> Royal Ontario Museum as curator of the
> In his postscript Shoghi Effendi wrote:           Canadiaria Caliections. He resigned his other
> curatosships, though continuing to give
> "Dearly beloved co-worker :                        lectures. In his new post h was in charge of
> I wish to asswe you in persoil of the deep        the Sig~nund Ssinuel Canadiana Gallery,
> debt of gratitude that 1 feel I owe you in view    housed in a new building. He lsad assisted
> 898                            T H E B A E A ' ~W O R L D
> 
> Dr. Samuel for nuny years in the colleetio1.1 circumspection, finesse, and eve11 with a
> of these historical treasures. George's first certain amount of dry good humor. What
> book, The Face of Early Canada, pablished better wrty to dispose of dragons?
> in 1958, is illustrated by examples from this        "He knew no compromise with the Faith
> collection. A second book, CoEEec~om'Lrrrlc, of BahB'-u'Ilkh. He was intolerant of second
> followed in 1360.                                  best. Having reached the City of Certitude
> Among the professional honors received by himself, he was able to show the path and
> George Spendlove were Fellowships in the help smooth the way for others. It was aln~osi;
> Royal Society of Arts, the Royal Geographical uncanny how he could hold your gazs: for a
> Society, the Royal Asiatic Society, the long, searching moment, then unerringly- fcm~s
> Museums Association of London. He was oil the precise cause of yow pa~fimlaxspirlez-ral
> charter member of rlre Far Eastern Ceramic dilemma. It isn't always easy to face up acd
> Group, and was elected to meiribership in the look into the exactiag mirror of truth. But
> Michigan Academy of Sciences, the Royal son~ehowyou were able to accept what you
> Asiatic Society of Be:lgal, the Royal Societies saw with better grace and firmer resolve to do
> Club of London, and was moderator of the sorraetMw constructive about it because you
> First Xntern~ationalWedgwood Seminar. Post- knew he expected it of you."
> humoasIy l ~ ewas awarded a certificate of           George's fkesides in Toronto literally
> conmendation by tfie American Association sparked that community into activity and
> for State and Local I-Iistoxy.                     growth. O m of those who for fourteen years
> During all these years of intense application regularly aktended has written:                    I
> in his chosen profession, George lectured at         ". . . As the ex-ening started one was aware
> Oreen Acre, nearly every year, and for over of George's alnmst unbearable fatigue from
> twenty years had a Tuesday night Bahk'i            the efforts of his strenuous day at the Muse~m,
> fireside in Toronto.                               and the struggle he would undergo within
> EEs courses on BahSu'llBh's Book of himself to draw on the opening prayer and his
> Certitude (~itab-i-iqgn)and on G1eani.g~ own inner supplication for spiritual strength.
> f i m the Writings of Bdtdlu'lfdf~will long be Soon, it would come pouring out, and he
> remembered, He was also generous with his would gain a mysterious momentum which
> time for individual consuItation. His keen carried us all into his raeEed atmosphere.         ..
> perception was active primarily in his under- We were dI spetlbonnd. . . The pristine ~vords
> s h ~ d i n gof the spiritual reality in man. The roIfed out, and you plucked from a surfeit
> shoddy or superficial was stxipped away what y o u lesser mind could gasp. He
> within a few words. If you could not stand repeated himself often, so that you could go
> this searchlight of the spirit, it was your loss. back stild tie the pieces together, but it was
> If you came to him with a problem, he set never boring to hear the same phrases ovcr
> you again on the path of love, service and again; it only made ).ou more aware of their
> obedience; the paticular was gently but simple truth. 'It i s always possible to do
> firmly put in its true proportion with thewhole. what God mwts you to do,' he would say.
> His humor was ever present, whoIesome and And this was somehow annoying because
> clarifying,                                        you knew that it %as. George put you on a
> Many will remember his oft-qeated close, intimate connection with God as a
> admonition, "Be very careful what you pray 'dear friend, who loves you more than your
> for; you may get it." Re was an ardent own mother or father could possibly love
> advocate of prayer, of the daiIy obligatory you.' And George had a sense of hmmc that
> prayer, and of d l the laws of Bah$u'llBh. He 1-ouxded out everything he said-the true
> was sure all prayers are rinswered, although mark of greatness. 'Honm sap,' he would say,
> the answer 1my son~etinlesbe "no."                 and thea look around at us mischievonsly.
> One Grcen Acre friend lias writte13, recalling B e meant this in the sense &at without God
> George" services:                                 directing oar lives we were nothing. With
> "1 often thougbt how aptly he was named, God in our lives, he would go on, wc could
> St. George. We semzed to me to have con- become the most fulfkd, the most mature,
> quered his personal dragons with quiet the most happy people that it was possible to
> dignity m d to havc dispatched the111 with become, Ife stressed that there was no such
> I N MEMORIAM                                           899
> 
> thing as accident or coincidence, that God having been in excellent spirits, tl'iough
> hnew every line that our eyes would follow complaiuifigof tiring easily.
> in thene\~papes,that He was deeply interested      Raiyyih m i n u m , afhr being informed
> in us, and waited only for us to want His love, of George's death, wrote:
> and that when we did, He was ready to show~er "So long the bird beat its \v<iings on the cage,
> and e1icompass us and enfold us in His perfect and in the end it was not the freedom he
> love. All we had to do was to ask. And the thought he was going to have, but the uliimate
> saddest thiilg in the worid, George would frecdom which he recei~ed.George wrote me
> often say, was that people did not want to quite often; there was always this straining
> turn to God. 'They don't wnnf to,' he would to be up and away, to go back to the East he
> say, over and over, in the saddest voice.       loved and understood and there teach the
> "George did not paint pretty pictures, Faith so supremely dear to his heat. The
> either of world conditions or 'what religion gentle dreamer, the charming critic and con-
> could do for you,' He h e w this, and o h n noisseur. . .wiI1 be much missed and hard to
> he mrouid txy to temper his harsh statemmts, replace in every way."
> but he stressed that the age of the atonlic
> bomb could never be complacent. He con-
> tinually reiterated the Guardian's adrnonish-
> ment to act. 'Let deeds, not words be your
> adorning,' he would often quote,                              JOS~PHMESCOTT
> "One of the last times we met, I asked
> George bow he was.                                 Le 3 d k m b r e 1955, Joskphine Scott, veuve
> " 'Well,' he said, 'about six months ago du peintte Edwin Scott, a quitte cette vie
> I looked over nly shoulder and 1 could see apr&savoir consacrB de Ioagues annees 2i la
> Old Age conling towards me from a long way Foi Bahsie.
> off. Ywterday, I looked around, and he was         LC Gardien a fait parvenir B Paris, le 5
> standing right behind me.' He smiled at me, dkcembre 1955, le rstdiogramme suivant :
> and his eyes twinkled."                            "rittrist6 nouvelks dkpart J o s k p h e Scott,
> In em-1y February, 1196 George made a longs, fi&ies services inoubiiables, grande
> second pilgrimage to Haifa. His devotion and rkompense Royaume Abh&."
> close bond with the beloved Guardian were          Depuis 1907 environ er jusqu'en 7 948, Mme.
> ever present, although, as George said, in E. Scott a accueillj avec cordialit6 et bien-
> later years he had too great respect for the veillance les croyants, ainsl que ceux qui
> preciousness of the Gwdrdirtn's tiim to burden dbirajent se renseigner sur la. Poi BahQie.
> him with correspondence.                        EUe bs a regus, d'abord 8 17   ' rue Bolssonade
> After George's return from this pilgrimage, ou elk v&ut jusqu'h la mort d'Edwin Scott
> he was looking fonvard to his retirenlo~~t. He en 1929, puis ti 12 rue Victor Considgrant 00
> wrote to an old friend in February, 1962:      elle s'installa aprb, dans un autre atelier,
> "I am leaving the Museum for good on toujaurs entourkc des belles oeuvres de son
> June 1st (what a relief!) and we are going to rnari et dam un quartier qui h i etait familier.
> the farm for a couple d months. Some rime          Dans Zeur prem3re demeure, M. et Mme.
> in August we start on a 'crawl' to the West Scott eure~ltle grand priviltge de recevoir
> coast, and take our ship for Sydney at deux ou trois fois 'Abdu'l-BahA quand il vint
> Vancouver on September Eth, Our final port en France. I1 s'adressa dans leur grand atelier
> of call will probably be Seoul, and I am going 5 un auditoire de cent & deurr cents perso~~nes,
> to see (if God permits) if I can be of any use 11s eurent aussi Ia joie de bien cannaitre
> to the Koreans. They have had such a hard Shoghi Effendi; il venait bs voir quand il
> history!. . . I am going to various places in traversait Paris pour se rendre B l'universiti:
> the Far East, and if1 lind a place where 1can d'Oxford.
> be of use to the Faitl~,even at my advanced        Dmsla secoade demeure de Josephine Scott
> age, it is my intention to stay there. However, fut instalike la bibliothkque BahB'ie et cette
> inan proposes and God disposes. . ."            demeure devint un centre de reunions.
> On May 10, 1962 George passed away Mentionno~is specialement les confkrences
> peacefully in his sleep in Toronto, seemingly organisCes par les gtudiants persans en
> THE BAHA'I WORLD
> 
> "The soul that harh reinaiued faithfill to
> the Cause of God, and stood unwaveringly
> firin in His Path shall, after his ascension, be
> possessed of such povcr that all the worlds
> which rhe Almighty hath created, can benefit
> through him."
> 
> Mihat proof we have already had OF the
> truth of this statement! A power is stirring
> within Finland. People arc defmltely aaqakcn-
> ing, searching for the Light af Truth.
> The passing oC ELsa VEII~Qin =lo, Finland,
> on August 31, 1355 has left a great gap in the
> B;tbB'I ranks in Finland. We did not realize
> how dear she was and how we ail leaned on
> her- and loved her ur;iil she was taken from
> our midst,
> Joskphihine Scott                       Elsa radiatcd a superb spiritual vigor that
> charged the atnlosphere of our meetings. Her
> bright eyes danced and sparkled from sheer
> Europe qui, de 1932 a 1938, enrent lie~tune          joy. Her weakening pllyysical strength put
> ou deux fois par an. Des questions impor-            into greater relief her sublime spiritual powers.
> tantes y ktaient kturiikes par des jeunes Bah;i'is   All those who came into contact with lzer
> iraniens. Des exposCs btaient faits par &verses      during her brief stay in a nursiug home
> personnalit8s, notamment par I'bistorien ddu         remarked about the great power of her
> BBb, Nicolas, par Emile Schraiber, auteur            beautiful eyes and luminous face. This some-
> d'un reportage sur la religion BahB'ie dans          thing intangible, dificult to explain, th~sbreath
> l'hebdomadaire L'lllustmrion.                        of heawn, wils felt also on wading her letters,
> En 1948, pour des saisons de sant6 ducs en        a trttc source of inspiration. The writer
> partie aux privations de la gumre, Mmc.              corresponded with her in Espcrmto for twelve
> Scott fut obligke de s'installer dans une            years before meeting her for the first time
> maison de pas. Les Bahi'ds qui allhent la            in May 1950 in Helsinki,
> voir furent profundkment touches par la                 Elsa Vento was born in Tampere, Finiand,
> ferveur de sa I'oi et son intkret croissant dans     on Rilarch 14,1886 as Elsa Matilda HeIIstrom.
> le d6veloppernent de la Cause a travers Ze           Being of an original bent d mind, an early
> moilde.                                              searcher of Truth, she always blessed the
> Ce couple Baha'i, si profondi.nlent uni           day God led her faoi8teps to the glorious
> repose maintenant dans le cimetikre de               Teachings of BahB'u'liiih. She first heard and
> Scezux, aux environs immbdiats de Paris.             accepted the Faith in Toronto, Canada. in
> Des tabjea~ur d'Edwin Scott se ti-ouvent          1938. By 1944 she was pioneering in Prince
> dans pltisieurs Mus6es d'Eusope eF dans des          Edward Island. She always longed to return
> ktablissements officieis, B Washington meme.         to hex- native Finland to share her inestimable
> jewels. After trventy-six years in Canada,
> vlith her scant earnings, her dream was
> realized in the early spring of 1950. Financial
> pressure, however, made a retwn to Toronto
> imperative, but after putting aside penny
> upon penny, April, 1953 found her again in
> three weeks of beer passing. She was a pure,
> humble, self-sacrificing, noble s ~ u lwho
> , nwer
> wished credit nor the limelight. She was
> dearly beloved by dl the Finnish Ba'hlB'is.
> From 1938 on, EIsa traildated many of tlse
> Baha'i writings and talks, which were pub-
> lished in Finnish newspapers in the United
> States and Canada. Many of her poems zlso
> appeared in newspapers, magzGnes and in
> pan~phletform. She was the means of con-
> firming two of her sisters besides many
> others. Truly a great pioneer!
> 
> DR. JOHN GEORGE MlTCHELL
> 1907-1957
> 
> "Greatly deplore loss nluch loved 3oh11
> Elsa Matiida Vento                      Mitchell staunch, consecrated promoter Faith.
> Fervently supplicating progress his soul."
> Thus read the cable received from the
> her beloved Finland-this time to remain.             Guardian by the National Spiritual Assembly
> The foIlowing is the appreciative cablegram       of the British Isles. John Mitchell was a
> from tbe beloved Guardian: "Grieve loss              much loved man, loved by the Guardian and
> precious pioneer Elsa Vento. Her historic            all those who came into contact with him. He
> services unforgettable. Praying progress soul        was known for his kindness. generosity and
> in Kingdom. Love."                                   skill as a doctor. The most me~xorabieevent
> From Gerd Strand of the Northern Coan-            of his life came in 1953 when he made the
> tries Regional Committee: "We feel with you          pilgrimage to the Holy Shrines in Haifa and
> all in this terrible loss of our dear Elsa, a soul   Bahji, and had the privilege of meeting
> so devoted, so pure, so detached, so cleansed        Shoghi Effendi. The Guarrlian thought very
> of all the worldly things. Her visit with us in      highly of him and entrusted him with his
> the Regional Comnmittee in Stockholm will be         original nlap of the goals o f the Ten-Year
> one of the most outstallding memories eon-           Crlisade to take to Rome for printing.
> nected with the work an that committee. Her             Tle was born in Biddenham, Bedfordshire,
> mind remained clear to the end because her           England, on November 19,1907. On the death
> light came from above, and in that direction         of his father, when John was thirteen, his
> her vision was never blurred. . .I was the one       mother contin~~ed   to run the farm on which
> to get the greatest benefit from her burning         they lived. John went to college and took his
> Torch. . . she filled me with awe every moment       B.A. at Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1932.
> of the time we spent togethex, and now that          He then entered St. Bartholamew's Hospital,
> she is relieved of all pain, her help in the         London, and qualified from there in 1937
> Cause she so dearly loved, will be indispu-          with the diploma M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. From
> table."                                              May to November of that year he held the
> Elsa's activities spread throughout Finland,      posts of non-resident anasthetist and junior
> even ta L a p h d . She wrote IeEters about the      resident anaesthetist at this hospital, and
> Faith and sent Bahd'i literature to clubs of all     gained his diploma in anaesthetics in June
> kinds: youth, scientific, labor, ed~rcationaland     1938.
> women's organizations. She worked quietly              He subsequently went to Worcester Infir-
> and unobtrusively, actively and persistently         mary and during the war years served in the
> under the most trying conditions to within           Moggerhanger Paark Sanitorium near Bedford.
> 902                             THE BAHA"              WORLD
> 
> where he was m charge. The Matron there            MAUDE ELIZABETH TQDD FISHER
> said of him "be always thinks of his patients,
> never of himself". Many workers in the nearby        Mstude Fisher was the first pioneer to give
> brickworks rcrneil~beredhim with gratitude        her life for the Faith of SahB"u'Hfi damidst
> as he it was who helped tgiem recover Rorn         the sweet green hills of Swaziland, and one
> tuberculosis.                                      of the first to die at her post during the Ten-
> John heard of the Faith in the latter 1940's   Year Crusade.
> and became a Bahzi'i in 1950. He soon took           She was also anlong the first to arise and
> an active part and from 1951 to 1953 served       answer the call of the beloved Guardian,
> on the Consolidation Committee. I-le was          Shoghi Effendi, for pio~leersto leave their
> a member of the National Spiritual Assembly       homeland. Forgetful of age, indifferent to
> from 1952 to 1954 and during that period           weakening health, Maude Elizabeth Fisher
> became national treasurer. He said that he        was determined to reach her African pioneer-
> felt he was then a part of history. During        ing post. Swaziland became her goal in life;
> these ycars he toured the country, took the        then it became her home, the land that she
> friends from one town to another in his car,               e d of all; then finally it bccame her
> 1 0 ~ ~ most
> opening up new territory to the Faith. As           last resting-place arnong the people to whom
> treasurer he worked hard, starting early in the    she had brought the light of BahVu'Ukh.
> morning and often missing his meals, trying           Maude Fisher was born to the pioneering
> to cope ryitli the books and letters.              spirit. She drove her own covered wagon
> Upon his return to England from Haifa          across the great western plains and into the
> John pioneered in Blackpool for several            mountain country of the United States. Her
> months and then pioneered to Malta, becom-         heart was restless, always moving on, always
> ing a Knight of BaWu'lljh. It was in Malta         seeking that finer lan4 that freer life, trying
> that his illness became apparent and he was        to satisfy a longing thirst which was never to
> flown home early in 1956 for treatment in         be quenched until she embraced the Faith
> London. He seemed better for a while, but          of Baha'u'ilAh many years later.
> an operation on his brain became necessary,           She was descencled from English, Scotch
> which left him partialiy paralyzed.                and French ancestry, and it was said that the
> Having hardly any relatives left in England    tall, dark, handsome md silent Frenchman
> he then came to live with friends in kicester      who had married her maternal grandmother
> and thus the Leicester Bahsis, few in number       was part American Indian.
> then, were privileged to get to know lzim and         Her mother, Lydia Ann Slay, was a woman
> were helped by his presence amongst them.          of masual industry, vision and deep religious
> Hc died on February 19, 1957 md is buried          conviction, She understood the restless longing
> in a Leicestea: cemetery, kis body lying           in her danghter's heart and told her, "'Don't
> beneath a beautiful tree in just such surround-    worry, Maude; as you work your blessings
> ings as he would have wished.                      will come."
> His headstone aptly records: "A life for          Maude Elizabeth grew up on her father's
> others spent,"                                     eighty-acre Kansas farm.
> All his efforts went toward the education
> of his five sons. His four daughters, he felt,
> needed only a good home and a husband who
> would love and protect them. He had at least
> some rebels among his daughters. One was
> Maude Elizabeth. She had the same pioneering
> spirit which had led her grandmother to cast
> aside a useless life and sail for America. Her
> father always said Iaughingly that she was
> n a n d for two queens. Maude Elizabeth's
> regal manner and diplomacy won him over
> until he agreed that she could have a limited
> education. By sheer determination and
> encouragement from her understanding
> IN MEMORIAM                                            903
> 
> motl~er,Maude Elizabeth worked until she
> secured ari elementary teacher's certificate.
> This proved to be a wise investment, for one
> Mrier winter -.hen the crops aL1 failed$it was
> the meager salary of Maude Elizabeth which
> helped support the family.
> She also persuaded her father to let her
> take lessons in art. Maude was very gifted in
> this field and was soon illitking more money
> from her painting than she could make
> teaching school.
> Maude Elizabeth married a young farmer
> from rearb by whose name was Elmer Fisher.
> After the birth of two sons, they decided to
> "go west." They purchased tvo fully equipped
> covered wagons and started westtvards.
> The journey was exciting and thrilling but
> it was aIso tong md dangerous. Maude drove
> one of the wagons herself. At one time her
> wagon burst into h n e s ; at another the child-
> ren were desperately ill, and at still another
> her wagon was swept downstream whib she                   Maude Elizabeth Todd Fisher
> was fording a fast-ru~mingriver.
> Maude and EInler decided that Idaho was
> not the place they wished to bring up their
> children. They moved down to California            longer be content to return to a darkened
> where there were bet& schools. Here, at last,      room. To help her friends, she began holding
> Maude's longed-for dream of truly beiag            classes in Bible prophecy wlrich she knew
> able to work for the rights of women was            and loved. Pn this she was enabled to lead
> realized.                                          gradually and wisely those with pure hearts
> She joined several political c l ~ ~ b sshe
> ;     to the fulfrlIment of the promises recorded
> became bi-county president of the Women3s         in that book.
> Christian Temperance Union.                            In 1945 when her husband passed away,
> She was in the midst of this work when she      she went to live with her daughter and son-
> first heard of the Message of BahB'u'll&h,in       in-law, Valera m a John Allen, and their t h r ~
> 1927. Maude felt here was ejther the greatest      sons. Her da~rghterhas stated: Her good
> tlvth or the greatest hoax that had ever been      l ~ w ~ oher
> r , understanding nature, her deep,
> offered to mankind.                                steadfast belief in God and His Plan far rhis
> Soon Maude knew that this was the pure          day had a profound influence upon the boys.
> fountain of truth for which she had been           She was an untiring worker for the Faith,
> seeking alI these years. This Faith not onIy       serving on the Local Spiritual Assenzbiy,
> elevated women to their true station ia            teaching wherever and whenever she was
> life, but it exalted a11 humanity to a new         needed, never missing a conmiunity function.
> dignity and stature by bringing them close to          Her greatest days of service to humanity
> God.                                               were yet to come. At the age of eighty-two.
> Maude Fisher embraced the Faith of              a grandmcrther and great-grandmother several
> Bahsl'u'llkh and began teaching it. She spoke      times over, she was about to embark on her
> out with the same courage and conviction           most exciting journey of all, a 12,000 mile
> which had carried her across plains, rivers,       journey into the heart of Africa to bring the
> mounrzlins and valleys, unafraid of my              light of BahB'u'llAh to a land where it was yet
> obstacle that stood in her way. She withdrew       unknown. Maude Fisher was going to pioneer
> from the church. Her friends came to her in        in the greatest religious Cmsade the world
> consternation. But Maude Fisher had found          had ever known, and shc would allow riotking
> the lamp that was alight and she could no          to stand in her way.
> She made her pians to pioneex in Afiica          They promised, and again, in the United
> following the great Baha'i Intercontinental Slates, she became ill. In great pain she made
> Conference in Chicago in 1953. She was going the long trip back to Swaziland to begin the
> to Swaziland with her daughter Vaiera and last and most fruitful years of service. With
> her son-in-law, John Allen. T h e rest of her a remarkable return to good health, she m d e
> l'amily, who wepe then not followers of teaching trips to Mozambique, Southern and
> BaMu'ilAh, urged her to stay at home. They Northern Rhodesia, and South Africa. She
> tried in every way to dissuade her. They spoke to the friends nherever she went. She
> pointed to her advanced age, her health, her won their hearts by her courage, indifference
> home, her friends, her Gamily; she would have to fatigue, and dedication to the work of the
> nothing but suffering and hardship in a Faith. It was her life. She helped to establish,
> strange land, a people whose language she and she served an the first Local Spiritual
> could not even speak, a backward and Assembly in Swaziland.
> primitive country where even the strong and         Even in her last illness, when her pain and
> hardy would find it difficult to survive.         sfiering were s e a t , her thoughts were on
> Maude smiled, thanked them for their con- the progress of the teaching work. One
> cern, and went on packiag. Her health d ~ d evening at the:hospital, she said to her daugh-
> fail her. John and Valera went on to Swazilaad ter Valera:
> in order to reach their pioneer posts, but           "We must keep the fire burning, so that
> Grandma Fisher had to be left behind. She the light can be seen everywhere. Not only in
> was determined to follow them. She finally Swaziland, not only in Africa, but it must be
> reached the midwest, and was stricken with a such a big fire that it can be seen all over the
> complete breakdown. %e doctors gave up world,"
> all hope of her life. She rallied, borne along      She sooke of the bcloved Guardian and
> by her will to reach the goal set for her by her of her deep love for him, then peacefuliy
> bdoved Guardian.                                  began another pioneer journey, this one to
> Once again the family entreated her to the Abh5 Kingdom. She had fallen at h a
> turn back and remain at home where she post. She had been the spiritual soldier sso
> would be safe and taken care of. The doctors loved by the Master, the one who puts on his
> pointed out that it would be impossible for armor, goes into the field, never turning back,
> her to survive the trip. C a h l y indifFerent to leaving a11 behind, and presses on to victory,
> their lack of faith, Maude went resoluteIy on or lays down his life upon the path which will
> with her plans. By sheer will power, she forced point the way to those who will win the
> an unco-operative body to press on, until at victory after her.
> last after flying for over forty consecutive         On her passing the following cablegram
> hours, she arrived at Jaharu~esburg,South from the beloved Guardian was received by
> Africa, with her grandsons. There, joined by her daughter:
> her daughter and son-in-law John, she made          "Grieve news assure you loving fervent
> the final journey overland to Swaziland. Her prayers progress soul dear mother memory
> heart was home at last.                          her pioneer service imperishable reward great
> She began teaching at once and because Kingdom."
> of her good humor, her simpIe, practical way        Amatu'l-Bah& Riihiyyih Uii.num wrote:
> of speaking, she soon won over the hearts of "The beloved Guardian has a list of the
> the African people she met. In no time at all pioneers who pass away at their posts; I was
> she was plain "Grandma" or "Granny" to touched to see him add your mother's name
> them all.                                        after he cabled you. We cannot understand
> When John and Val were forced to return yet the nature of these blessings because we
> to the United States on business, they waated are too dose to it all. But in the future others
> Grandma Fisher to accompany them.                will understand."
> "I wiiI," she said, "but only on one condi-      By the African people whom she loved at~d
> tion: that you pron~iseto bring me back here by whom she was loved in return, Maude
> to my pioneering post m d my horns, even Fisher was called in their o m words, "a
> if I ain unable to come by myself. Otherwise builder OF the Bahgi Faith."
> I won't go.'"                                       An African friend paid her this tribute:
> "What a wonderful pioneer she was! How
> devoted to thc Faith she was! How we miss
> her!"
> Maude Elizabeth Todd Fisher was buried
> high up on a hillside looking down ouer a
> great green valley toward the Lobornbo
> Mountains and the people she loved. The
> African people call this vaIley Ezulweni, which,
> Iike the word Ridvgn, means "paradise."
> A srnaIl vial of attar-of-rose, a gift to her
> from her beloved Guardian, was placed in
> her hands.
> Words were spoken in both the English and
> African languages on that sunny July day
> when the earthly remains of Maude Fisher
> were laid to rest; words that told of the
> happiness she had brought to the African
> peoplc.
> The ceremony was closed with a prayer of
> Bahii'u'llah and these words spoken on behalf
> of ail the African friends who loved her:
> "Tsama2a hantle, 'M'a rona kdofeela. Re
> fl rata hahob." ("Go well, nlother of 11s all.
> We love you very much.")
> 
> Until the death of the older one, on Novem-
> ber 7, 1954 and the younger one, on August
> 8, 1957 these two devoted men co~ltinued
> to serve theEgyptian Bahri'i con~rnunityand
> to stimulate and inspire the believers in their
> country to ever greater efforts in the path
> of God.
> After the passing of 'Abdu'l-Baht, in 1921,
> The history of the BaWi Faith was enriched       a goup of mischief-~ilakersarose to oppose
> through the lives and the devotion to the          the Guardian of axe B&&'i Faith; the two
> Cause of God of two Egyptian BahB'is,              brothers, ever Zoyd and devoted, were insku-
> brothers, the oldest, 'Abdu'r-Rahnlgn Ruddi,       mental in protecting the believers from these
> the younger, 'Abdu'l-Fattrih Sabri. When           Covenant-breakers and in helping to create,
> the Cause was still in its infancy in Egypt        under the guidance of Shoghi Effendi, the
> 'Abduyr-Rahdn accepted it during the first         present day administration of the Faith in
> World War.In a small Musiim community              Egypt.
> such as that he lived in, in Tehel-Barroud,          Both brothers served at differrent tiines an
> this was a sign of great independence of           the Natioilal Spiritual AsscmbIy of t l ~ e
> thought and spirit; he hastened to convey          BahB'ls of Egypt and Si~d&n;   both assisted In
> the good news to his brother, 'Abdu'l-FattZih      contacts with the authorities and winning a
> Sabri, who likewise embraced the Faith with        degree of recognition of the infant institutions
> equaI devotion and enthusiasm.                     of this Cause,
> 906                          THE BAHA. > fW O R L D
> 
> WILLIAM KENNETH CHRISTIAN
> 1913-1959
> 
> One does not expect death. at 46 years of
> w e ; Kenneth had never had what might be
> called great material success or any degree
> of ease. His life was a torture of stress and
> strain in his profession. As a teacher in col-
> leges, he found it imperative to earn a doc-
> toral degree and this meant eight long years
> of carrying a full teaching load, doing his
> research and writing in his "spare" time.
> These, too, were the years during which he
> senred as a member of the National Spiritual
> Assenlbly of the BaliB'is of the United States
> and it would have been understandable if he
> had died then from sheer fatiale.
> In 1953, thle beginning of the Ten-Yew
> World Crusade, Kenneth became iaBaaned
> wifh tbr? desire to pioneer in a goal area.
> Kenneth wrote to ale beloved Guardian of
> his hopes in this matter and when the answer
> was received, plans were made and finally he
> and his family set sail for Africa on December
> 10, 1953. For nineteen days at sea he talked,
> prayed and planned. Then there were six
> months of failure, six months of eternity in
> At the Ijine when hlr. Ruadi andMr. Sabri efforts to find a job, any job, and personal
> accepted the Bah2i Faith there were very pride and faith was s h a h to the roots. Here
> few believers of pure Egyptian background. was Kenneth's own Gethsemane, with agonies
> The fact that they were, and that they had of mind, body m d spirit to be continudtlly
> accepted this new religion, nat only attracted wrestled, In retrospect he was probably truly
> many other Egyptians to the Faith but brought barn during those days and nights of despair.
> upon thein r n ~ ~ ccriticism
> h        and even pesse- He was unable to find work and thus repay
> cution. Heedless of everything except their his debt to the National Spiritual Assembly;
> love far Bahii'u'llfih they served until the the lai-gestbarrier was that he couldwnot teach
> horn of their death with steadfast devation the Faith in the only way he kne ; circum-
> and enthusiasm. Such was the quality of this stances in Southern Rhodesia at the time
> devotion that their children arose to follow in made it inlpossible to boldly proclaim the
> their footsteps; many of then1 have pioneered Faith or to even openly try to ftnd native
> outside of Egypt and are spreading the Africans to whom the message might be
> Messzge of God for this day in distznt places. taught. Until this time, "to teach" had meant
> Upon the death of 'Abdu-I-Fattall SSabri, "to talk'', and such restraint was almost
> in 1957, tile beloved Guardian sent the overwhelmingly difficult to accept,
> following cable:                                   After a period of trying to get settled in
> "Grieve, deplore loss distinguished pro- Africa, unsatisfactorily as it turned out,
> moter Faith. Long record services unfosgt- Kenneth asked, and received, pern~ission
> table. Rewad groat Kingdom. Praying from the Guardian to go or1 to Athens,
> progress soul."                                 Greece, where through the help of another
> Atthough the words of the Guardian on pioneer i3e found a job 'teaching in a sinall
> the octlasion of the death of the older brother Anlericansponsored college. Since Greece
> are not available at this          we feel sure was a goal country he was happy to again be
> the same bcantiful tribute applies to both oil the way toward accoxnpiishing what he
> of these devoted servants of the Faith.         had sot out to do, With hopes soaring thus
> IN MEMORIAM                                           907
> 
> began anoti~erperiod. Bur again there was
> frustration, fear, financial need and a govern-
> nxnt which made it unlawful for anyone to
> ha\re people come to a home for the purpose
> of promulgating any religion other than the
> religion of the country. Again Kenneth's
> lips were sealed to teach the Faith without
> restraints. During three years he began to
> look inward; he went to his beloved books;
> he established pdtwns of prayer-campaigns;
> he sought understmding. His eloquence, his
> intellectual cleverness, his lightning-Iike
> thought processes and his trenlendous knowl-
> edge of the teachings-all seemed useless.
> Tn short, during these times he began to
> become a growing spirit. It was also during
> this period that a pilgrimage was inade to
> the World Center at Haifa, and to meet the
> bejoved Guardian---a never-to-be-forgotten
> event. Also during these years Kenneth was
> accepted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of
> Arts and the Royal Geographic Society.
> At the expiration of his contract to teach
> in Athens Kenneth became acquainted with
> a man who pmsuaded him to apply for a
> position as a culturd affairs officer with the          William Kenneth Christian
> United States Informtion Agency, He was
> accepted and returned to Vl'ashington in 1957
> for a five-months training and waiting period, was truly happy and his relationships with.
> at the end of which he was assigned to the Indonesian people were thriiling to watch;
> Djakarta, Indonesia.                            they adored him, although he never was able
> While Djakarta was a goal area there was to lear11 their language. The Americans with
> already an established Spiritual Assm~bly whom hc associated at the Embassy, and at
> there and this disappointed Kennetll to some the USIS, loved him too and cailed hiin "the
> extent. However, by this time his attitude little Doc," an affectionate term for a man
> was very l~umbleand his gratitude great; who had become a humble, sweet andoutgoing
> he was radiantly happy. At the peak of person.
> excitement and happiness, and a new begin-        This is Kenneth's story. The story of bow
> ning, came the news of the passing of the God burned him and pressed him and sent
> beloved Guardian. On the day of the funeral him the thousand boils of Job; and how, in the
> in London, Kenneth Christian, and his end he became, truiy, a Bahgi.
> fanGIy, \vex again on the way to yet an-         There were many noble thoughts in his
> other pioneer post.                             hemt and mind as the 'esult of his special
> Kenneth found great difficulty functioning hour af meditation in the dawn of each. day
> as one of the two western people on the which was his lifetime habit. On the early
> aII-Persia Spiritaal Assenlbly in Djakarta. morning of May 4,1959, I heard him choking,
> Those who knew him could imagine the inner Going to him I quickly gathered him into a
> effort it took for him to understand and live sitting position, trying to help him to breathe,
> among this loving, enthusiastic, but to hirn but his spirit flew from its pain-racked body
> incon~prehensiblegroup of eastern peoples. in a matter of fifteen minutes. His death was
> But Kenneth learned well and he came to due to coronary occlusion. How merciful
> dearIy love each and every one of them.        a death it was for him \\rho Izad, most of kis
> His American friends never knew the life, suffered physical pain or distress of one
> entirely different person Kenneth became. He sort or another. To have been ill or to have
> 908                           T H E B A H A ~ LW O R L D
> 
> suffered for any length of time would, I think, some sort are essential to growth. . .Bordefis
> have been difficult for him.                      may be great, but God is greater. He not only
> I3is funeral was attended by people of creates the burdens, but He has crated the
> every conceivable color and rank-from strength to bear them."
> Embassy oRleiaX to native servant. The dear         April 1959: "We should personalIy think
> Persian Bahgi men, who had once been such in terms of 'hopes,' not 'musts.' IF we think
> a somce of n~ystificationand irritation to him in terms of 'I must have,' we cut off the srrbtle
> just eighteen months earlier, washed his body connection with God. The easiest thing in the
> and anointed it with the attar-of-rose which world is to fink that our wills are sacred.
> Shoghi EEendi had placed in his hands The greatest delusion is to think that we
> during the pilgrimage, and read prayers at absolutely know otrr own needs,"
> the house and at the save. Kenneth Cl~ristian,      April 24, 19551: "Marks of Maturity: 1-
> Knight of Bah&'u'lI&h, was the 5rst Bah6.Y to Ihr: assi~mptionof moral responsibiljly, 2-
> be placed in the Bah2i burial g o w ~ dat Dja- the acceptance of the conditions of life, 3-the
> karta. Many people made efforts to learn just eKort to grow &n understanding, 4-the
> what the religion was that made so Fine a man. practice of socid responsibility."
> Thus Kenneth learned that to teach is not           April 25, 1959: "Any set of conditions in
> ai:vays to talk and perhaps in having grown life can be a straight-jacket m d a priso~~.
> and Ieafned so much, so fast, he was ready This idea is expressed in the folk-saying: 'The
> to enter into the next phase of life's jomney. grass is always greener on the other side of
> His writings are a heritage that ail can cherish the fence.' A person may be free, no matter
> and he also left in this world a legacy of love w h t his circun~stancesif he (1) has really
> which he could never h w e dreamed of-            accepted life itself and (2) has understanding
> because he threw himself so freely upon the of life as a goaZ."
> altar of full sacrifice-and this recails the
> recurring dream of his adoIescence of the
> Phoenix who is wnsu~nedonly to rise and
> soar heavenward again.
> Someone has said tl~atwisdom is "to see
> much, to study much, to suffer much.''
> Kenneth Christian became wise, indeed, in all
> of these ways-from theoretical knowledge                     SALVADOR TORMO
> to true reality,
> K a ~ m t his best known through his mmy         The sudden passing of Seiior Salvador
> articles, poems, and essays. I submit here the Tormo in an airplane accident on Septe~ilber
> last flowers of his brilliant and ever-developing 7, 1960 was a grievous loss of a noble and
> mind in the form of jottings in a little blue tireless servant of the Faith of Bah5'u3llhh
> book of thoughts which he kept sporadically who died after carrying oat a teaching
> all the years I knew him.                         mission in the Republic of Paraguay so
> On March 31, 1959, he wrote: "Life must triumphmtly that his last i~issionmay well
> have the principle of growth, not just action.'* have changed the coarse of B&thb'i history in
> And-"We need to know how to call to om that country.
> assistance #e reinforcements of God." And-          Selior Tornlo's long record of services to
> "A man must be 'saved' many times. This is the Faith in Latin-America are too numerous
> tn*e because change and growth are essential to recount here in full. However, he and his
> to life. Each time a m m consciously recog- dear wife, Adela, established the Spiritual
> nizes and accepts a significant truth, he Is Assembly on the Island of Juan Fernandez
> saved from error and misunderstanding. (Robinson CJlusoe Island) in 1953 and the
> Indeed, a nlan nausf be saved many times. If annual International BahB'i Sumrner SchooI
> not, his whok view of life becornes frozen. has been held on their property in Ezeiza,
> Efe becomes st spiritual midget when he could Argentina, for many years. Saivador Tarrno,
> be a giant."                                     who was a Knight of BahB'u'Bkh, s p e d as
> April 4, 1959: "The life of faith involves chairman of the first Spiritual Assembly
> rnonients of agony. Pain a i ~ ddificultics oC of Buenos Aires and was manager of the
> Bahri'i Publishing Trust in Buenos Aires from
> 1957 to the time of his death. He was a
> constant ~ ~ a i ~ s l aoft oEnglish
> r      teaching materi-
> al and Bahri'i books into the Spanish Iangnage
> a i d included among these translations wci-e
> the Kitdb-i-fqdn arid the Gieaiziigs from the
> Wririrzgs of'_strhd'u'ildh. Wc was also a member
> of the Regioi~aiNational Spiritual Assembly
> ol' Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and
> Uruguay froin the time of its formation iu
> 1957, ancl at thc time of his death he was the
> elected sxretary of that body. In his capacity
> as international teacher, translator and ad-
> ministrator, Salvador Tormo contributed
> inestimably to the establishment of the Faith
> of Bzhh'u'lIhh in South h11cnca.
> That Salvador Torcno was guided and
> blessed in his work for the Faith is very clear
> from the many letters received from the
> Guardian. Oiie letter written to him, dated
> July 1, 1941, reads:
> "I was truly delighted to receive your letter
> and I am lruty proud of the work which you
> and yoirr collaborators have thus far achieved.
> For the success of your efforts of y o u historic
> assexnbIy (Buenos Aires) i will specially and
> fervently p a y . Be assured and n e w relax                       Salvador Tormo
> in your n~eritoriousefforts, wllich the Beloved,
> whom you serve so splendidly, will assuredly
> bless. May He enable you to follow the foot- greates glory t h a n that, that he served the
> steps of that valiant soul, May Maxwell, Cause with great devotion and love in h e
> whose dust reposes in your city and whose lifotirne QE fie beloved of all hearts, Shoghi
> associatioil with your C e ~ ~ i ethroughr       her Effendi, and arose to serve, after the passing
> selCsacrificeand death is an eternal iiisaIrsbion of om beloved Guardian, with greater
> to ail who Labor in your promising country." medsure in pioneering, adrniuistration and
> Saivador's many friends will not forget his all other fields, gladdened the heart of the
> s p d a l qualities and characteristics, his bzloved Shoghi Effendi and now is alive in the
> unfiagging enthusiasm atid cheerfuliless, his Abhi realni, ill his presence,"
> defightful sense of l~uumorand his eloquence
> and decp knowledge of tile Teachings, m7ith
> that power of conviction which co~tldstir all
> who heard him speak.
> Possibly these words which were received
> fi.orn the Hands of the Cause in the Western                      MAX EREEVEN
> Hemisphere best exemplify this wo~~derful                             1369-1981
> nlan: "According to the sacred writings, death
> is but an aswilt from this material world to           Throughout a long life Max Greeveli
> the spiritual one and an obvious progress, exenlplified the Bahb'i standard of conduct
> especially as in the ease of our dear Tomo, ill his personal and business affairs, although
> who rendered such woilderful services which hz had never heard of the Faith until he was
> sl~allalways make him immoxtal. Indeed he fifty years old. This might serve as an illustra-
> was a shilling-example to the B&$is. Hc left tion of what 'Abdu'l-BahB meant when He
> the friends heart-broken, bur look refuge said we cannot make Bahh'is, but rather go
> with his Beloved in Ihe Abhk Kingdom. What out and find them.
> THE BAHA'I WORLD
> 
> His first knowledge of the Bah%'i Faith         The Guardian wrote r e g ~ d i n gthese Brst
> came through Mrs. Grrzce Krug of New York,        publications in Dutch: "You should rest
> in March, 1920 when she was en route to Raifa assured that your painstaking efforts will in
> with her party of twelve piIglims. She gave tine bear fruit. . .the harvest which the future
> a number of public talks during the fourteen- shall reap will be incalculably ~ i c hand
> , great
> day voyage tto Naples, at mhich Mr. Greeven wig d s o be your reward for having so tin-
> was present. It was for Mrs. Kl-ug's ability remittingiy toiied in bringing it about."
> to organize #is trip in those early postwar        In March 1434, Mr. Greeveix visited Haifa
> years of diEcult travel that she earned the where some of the members of the Germail
> name " 'Abdu'l-Bah&'s      General," given her National Spiritual Assembly were already
> by the Master upon her arrival at Kaifa.         gathered. This was his first meeting wiih ;he
> After XIr. Greeven returned to lxis hon~ein Guardian, a Iong anticipated event. He was
> New Yo&, be had no further contact &irfi deeply touched by the heavy responsibilities
> h e BWEs until a ysar later and o ~ l became
> y       carried by Shoglg Effendi, the enormous
> a declared bdiever in 1927. Shortly tl~ereafter, correspondence and the burden of family
> he was instnrmentd in putting into effect the affairs, and his seat desire was fson~then
> desire of the Local Spiritual Assenibly of New on to be of some service to him, The Guardian
> York to presei~ta specially bound. set of tlze reco&ed certain qualities in Mr. Greeven
> B&$i Teachings to the Emperor of Japan. and told the German friends he would bc
> The prorocoI attendant upon the seixding of "'pleased" if they should elect him ro the
> a gift of this sort to the Imperial Household National Spiritual Assembly. On March 27,
> called for permissioil from the State Depart- he wrote a believer: "Mr. Greeven &illgreatly
> ment in Washington, and only after nearly reinforce your effortsfor the effective prosecu-
> a yeas's correspondence with the proper tion of your task. His attachment to the Cause
> authorities a a s MT. Ereeven notifred by and his realism combined with his remarkabIe
> Dr. R. Masujima that the books were at last capacity for appreciating spiritual values, all
> on the shelves of the En~peror'slibrary.         these are undoubtedly qualities              if
> Mr. Greeven moved from New York to properly translated into action, can be of
> Bremen, Germany, in 1930, to become a treinendous help to the general welfare and
> partner in the firm of Clason 6c Burger, the progress of the Faith," The Guardian was
> European branch of the cotton iism of Ander- not disappobted in his expectations, because
> son, Clayton & Co.,Houston, Texas. He was a year later he wrote on March 6,1935 ;"Dear
> authorized to reorganize rhe business, which and prized Co-worker; The letters I have
> had not recently been shaming the profits of received from Germany beat witness to the
> fonner years, and he adopted with great remarkable in~petuswhich your efforts In
> success the pro5it-sharing policy advocated recent months have lent to the consolidaiisn
> in the BrthtiY Teachings.                        of the Faith." Shoghi Effendi was eager to
> During the next few years he was responsible have the S w m e r School at Esslingen become
> for the publication in Bollvld of the following firmly established, and urged Mr. Greeven
> BaM'i books, which had been translated into to work towards that goal. He hoped that
> Dutcl~by Captain 5. A. Liebau, a believer increasing numbers of BahZi travelers in
> from Rotterdam: "Bahau'llAh and the New Europe would fiud it "a center of proibund
> E~E,"by Dr. E s s l m ~ n t ;"Hidden WorW'; attraction." In referring to this School again,
> "The Kitkb-i-fqh." The translation of "Some as well as the conference held in Northern
> Answered Questions," which had been com- Germzny, he wrote on Juiy 6, 1936, "My
> pleted, wouid have foilowed if the war had well-beloved Co-worker: 1 am delighted to
> not prevented. The Custrdian was deepIy leal-n of the spXendid progress that is bcing
> interested in seeing this work accomplisl~eed achieved both in Northern arrd Southe~zt
> an&, as each book was released, requested Germany. To both movements you arelending
> tiyo hundred or l o r e copies be sent to him.   powerful and unique lis~petus.I feel profound
> Urifortunately, inany of thc remaining books ly thankful for your increasing achieveme~~ts.
> were stored itt the warehouse of tkle publishing la return I cannot but pray that He who is the
> firm and dwing tile bcnlbing of Rotterdam, Giver of every good and perfect gift m y rain
> in the war of 1940, this building was butned. down His blessings upon you, cheer your
> heart and reinforce your high endeavors.
> With my best wishes for you. . . affectionately,
> Shoghi."
> By 2937 conditions in Germany had
> worsened and were pasticulaxiy ominous for
> the Baha'is. Their books and funds had been
> seized by the Government, and their nleetings
> dissoIved, The Guaxdian's cailcern for the
> friends during this period was constant; one
> never knew from day to day what new tcst
> nligld befall them. Ile wrote that his only
> fear was "r-ather for those Gicnds who, due
> lo their insufficient reaiization of the divine
> power that inysteriousIy operates in the Faith,
> are prone to Iook at such deve'loyments as
> coilstituting the death knell of the Cause,"
> whereas, in reality, he continued, "Trials and
> tribulations, as BalzB'u'IlAh says, are the
> oil that feeds the lamp of the Came and are
> indeed blessings in disguise." During this
> time the Guardian was directiag Mr. Greevea's
> contact with t l ~ eMinistry of Church Affairs,
> in an effort to have rescinded the edict
> curtailing all Baha'i activities. Promises were
> made by the Government. but never keut.
> However, the Guardian nevel relinquished                          Max Greeven
> his purpose of pressing this nlattes, and
> meanwhile wrote to the National S~kitual
> Assembly of America to intercede with its
> Govern~mentfor assistance to the German reward hiin in the fo!Io%ing words: "Dearest
> friends, as by this thne one of them had been Co-worker: Zust a word to assure you of my
> interned. It was, as the Guardian wrote, a ever-deepening gratitude and adairation for
> "delicate and difficult mission" and that he the eforts you are ceaselessIy exerting on
> felt Mr. Greeven was "indeed the man of the behalf of our oppressed brethren. Babk'u'ilib
> situation, as his matured experience, wisdonl is no doubt watching over you, and the
> and above ail his unwavering loyalty stlid Beloved is we11 pleased with your historic
> attachment to the Cause, en~inentlyqualify endeavors. Whatever the autcoie, you have
> him to undertake so delicate and diffict~lta won for yourseif an abiding piace in the
> mission."                                        affections of tile believers. Affectionately and
> Although Mr. Gs-eeven was forced to move gratefully, Shogbi.'"
> to ~ o l l a &in the autunm of 1937 due to
> ~ N E LGREEVEN
> business restrictions, he conti~luedta travel to
> Germany to make repeated pleas to the
> Government, but always received promises
> without results. Finally, the Guardian wsote                         -   .
> 
> that further appeals might only have the
> effect of displeasing the artthorities, and
> shortly thercafkr the war closed all doors of
> hope.                                                  JEhWIE OTTTLIA ANDERSON
> Mr. Greevsn never wished for any recogni-                         1884-I960
> tion for Izimself, finding his reward in bcing
> able to carry out the Guardian's instructions      Jennie Cttliia Anderson was bo:-n in 1854
> and always hoping to be able t o send him in Ganznlalkil.;, Ostergbtlands, Sweden and
> encouraging news. But the Guardian did came to the United States in 1901. S ~ Ywas             ,
> 912                           T H E B A H A ' ~W O R L D
> 
> introduced to the Faith by her brother, Peter,       "011Sunday morning our guide took us
> \vbo had settled in Seattle, Washington. Tliis to a Cangcegatianal Church on Cottage Grove
> brother also introduced her to August Avenue where 'Abdu'l-Ball9 was to speak.
> Anderson, (not a relative), and also a BahKi, 'Abdu'Z-Bahk had not yet arrived, when we
> who became her husband in 1906. They had got there. The church was eon~pletelyfilled
> Yow children.                                     witli people and the atn~osphere was in-
> Jennie had always been active in BaWi describable, such a stillness as I have never
> activities andher greatest source of inspiration experienced. I shaIl never forget the experience
> in the easly days of the Fzith in America was we had there seeing 'Abdu'l-BahB for the
> Isabella Brittingharn. While her family was first time. Whib the organ played 'Holy,
> growing up she nevcr missed a local meeting, Holy, Lord, God AImighty', 'Abh'l-Baha,
> feast or other activity and was always on the with His secretrtpies following, came walking
> ''watch" for hungry souls, as she said, who down the center aide. With the congregation
> might be in search of this great Message.         standing the minister approached 'Abdu'l-
> 'kbdu'l-Baha, in September of 1929 wrote BahA with open arms, cmbraced Iiim and
> to her:                                          introduced Him, saying how very happy he
> ". . . O thou leaf of ffe Tree of Life!. . . was to have this man come from the Orient
> Happy is thy condition for the thickly to speak in his church. In the afternoon our
> condensed clouds did not prevent thee from Persian gaide took us to anothm church
> seeing the Sun of Reality. With thine own ear \\here 'Abdu'l-Bahj spoke agaiii. 'Abdu'l-
> thou hast heavd the cail of the Kingdom of Bahk had been invited to this minister's home
> God and with thine eye thou hast witnessed the for dinnsr but at 5 o'clock our guide, who
> lights of guidance. Rest thou assrued that is a rug dealer iiz Chicago, brought us back
> thou art under the protection of the Lord of to the hotel where 'Abdu'l-Bahk was staying
> Hosts aand art considered one of tile dar~ghters while in Cliicago and here hundreds of
> of the Kingdom. . ."                              friends had gathered in the lobby waiting for
> Jennie wrote of her and her husband's 'Abdu'l-Baha's arrival. Shortly after our
> experiencein meeting 'PLbctu'l-bhiiin Chicago arrival Re came in and was escorted to His
> during his visit in 1912 as follows:              room, where He was to interview the Bah8'is.
> "Whal we. . . received the news of 'Abdul- Dr. Z. Ba&dkdicii served as His interpreter at
> Bahri's intended visit to the United States that particular time. It seemed as though
> joy and excitenient filled us all. I can remein- 'Abdu'l-Ballti knew that sve had a long way to
> ber the meeting in Kenosha, Wisconsin where go back home since sirangcly enough He called
> everyone was making some plans to go to on my l~usbsuidand myself to be the first ones
> Chicago so as to be sure not to miss 'Abdu"1- to come up to His room. Later I was told I h ~ t
> BahB. However, we lived in the mulltry seven He had asked for the Inan who had the Oreat-
> miles from Kenosl~aat that time, and had est Name tattooed on his l~and,which was my
> two small children, so X redly didn't sce how Inusband, and his wife. Wc had never seen
> we could go. . . When the time came my 'Abdu'l-BahA closely, nor had He ever seen
> husba~dsaid, 'Let us get ready and go,' - us closely, yet Hc had called for the man with
> so ive left early on a Sunday morning, about the Gxatest Name on his haiid. 'Abdu'l-Baha
> five or six a.m., as we had two miles to walk warmly embraced us both, gave us His
> to the North Shore train-and arrived in blessing, and said to my husband that his
> Chicago about 8 a.m. My husband then said, hand was the only hand in the world which
> 'Let us go into a restaurant and have a cup had the Greatest Name written on it and
> of coffee.' The restaurant that we entered was that it was greatly blessed.
> empty except for a Persian gentleman who was         "Sotne time later 'Abdu'l-BahA came to
> seated in a corner, enjoying his coffee, and we Kenosha. . . 'Abdu'l-BahA went arou13d the
> decided to speak to him thinking that perhaps hall and shook hands with every one of the
> he might h o w something about where friends who were there. Before the friends
> 'Abdu'I-BahB was staying. I asked Mm and seated themselves at the banquet table
> he said that he knew where 'Abdu'l-Bahh 'Abdu'l-Bahk first seated Himself at the head
> was and that he would be our guide through- of the table and beckoned the children to him,
> out the day.                                      taking them one by one in His lap and giving
> IN MEMORIAM                                            913
> 
> each one a piece oE fruit,. . On Sunday
> morning He spoke at the Congregational
> Church in Kenosha on the subject of the
> equality of the sexes, and stayed at the home
> af one of the older believers in Kenasha."
> Having always in mind the love and
> burning desire to aid the people of her native
> land to gain their rightful place in the arena
> of BahB'u'll21's glory, Jennie pioneered
> alone in Stockholm for two years, 1947 to
> 1949, a i d then returned to ihc United States
> to be with her family. In 1955 her husband,
> who had also sesved the Faith so well, passed
> into the Abh8 Kingdom and Jennie returned
> to Swede11 again, all on her own this time and
> not sponsored by the European Teaching
> Committee as her previous trip had been,
> She settled in Goteborg and while there
> Shoglli EEendi s e ~her
> i &c followingmessage
> in January of 1957:                                        Jennie Ottilia Anderson
> "Your letter of January 14th has been
> received by the beloved Guardian and he        over to the couch and then very quickly
> has instructed me to answer you on his         death overtook her; her w d deserved rest
> behalf.                                        had come and her soul found release. The
> "He is very happy to see with what devo-       BahiYl funeral service for her served as a
> tion and tenacity you are persevering in the   teaching medium, which was her heart's
> service of the Faith in Sweden, and fie        desire, and shall never be forgotten in the
> wants you to know that he attaches great       hearts of those who were present, for the
> importance to this work, particularly inview   spirit was heavenly.
> of the Fact that the Scandinavian and            Quoting a letter received from the Hands
> Finland National Assembly will be formed       of the Cause residing in the Holy Land, in
> this conling April. He feels s u e that this   part, is fitting:
> will mark a new period of unfoIdment for         "The soil where the remains of a pioneer
> the Faith there, and you wiII have had your      are laid to rest is indeed blessed. Not only
> share in this wonderful work. He will pray       does the Bahk'i world today know and
> for you and your success in the holy             cherish the memory of pioneers gathered
> Shrines, and assures you that you are near       to the Abhir Kingdom, but future genera-
> to him in spirit.                                tions will recognize what they owe to the
> With Ioving greetings,       courage and the sacrifice of these valiant
> souk, .."
> "May the Almighty bless continualIy your
> meritorious endeavors for the spread of
> His Faith, guide every step you take,
> remove every obstacle from your path, and               LOUISE M. EIUCKSON
> enable you to enrich the reeord of your
> deeply appreciated accomplishnlents.          Louise M. Erickson was 'barn in Sweden
> and with a healthy curiosity and interest
> Your tnre brother, SI-IOGRI"in other Iands travelled to the United Stares
> at the early age of thirteen. She heard of the
> O n October 2, 1960, while at her home Bahk'l Faith through same of the earliest
> Jennie remarked that she had some pains in believers, and had the privilege of knowing
> her chest and needed to lie down. She hurried soim of these wonderful BahB'i teachers
> 914                             THE BAHA'IWQRLD
> 
> this." He then telephoned the Royal Palace         I
> and an interview was arranged limited to
> twenty minutes-the outcome was that the            I
> I
> Crown Prince gave her two hours.                   I
> 
> Louise Erickson attended ma& Bahii'f            !
> functions, including Convention in the United      !
> States, Stockholm and Denmark, as w d l as
> sunmer schools in Green Acre, Maine, and
> Denmark. She loved the Faith and did ali
> she could to support its activities and func-
> tions.
> She passed away Oct, 12,1960, in Goteborg.
> BahA'i services were held for her, and she rests
> in the same cemetery with only a single grave
> between her and that of Jennie Anderson,
> another wonderful Swedish pioneer, whom
> she had known and loved. For Louise
> Esickson, too, the words of the Bands of the
> Cause can be quoted:
> "The soil where the selnains of a pioceer
> are laid to rest is indeed blessed. Not only
> does the Bahj'i world today know and
> cherish the memory of pioneers gathered
> to the Abh& Kingdom, but future genera-
> tions will recognize what they owe to the
> Louise M. Erickson                     courage and the sacrifice of these valiant
> SOU~S.''
> while living in New York City before her                                          .TEAS A. B ONN
> return to Sweden. In 1912 she visited 'Abdu'I-
> in Chicago, New York City and Pazis;
> He showed her great kindness.
> Mrs. Erickson visited Shoghi Effendi in               ELISABETH ROPE CHENEY
> 1955 at which time tl-ie Guardian encouraged                        18$5-1959
> her to sponsor the translation and publishing
> of Bahri'u'iiuh and the New Em in Swedish;           Severence is the quality that distinguished
> this she did in co-operation with Mrs. Rudd-      Elisabeth; single-minded devotion to her
> Palmgren. She traveled extensiveIy th-ou&out      Lord. She expressed a shining courage in her
> Sweden, presenting the Faith an& giving the       domination of ller weak physical body, and
> Message to everyone she coul& At one time         faced and solved incredible problems witl~out
> she gave the Message to the Crown Prince          fear, in her work for the Faith in Latin-
> of Sweden, and also the Swedish Minister          America. Prayor and a deep abiding Faith
> Carl Lindl~agen.She had slso informed the         were the standards proudly borne by this
> Mayor of the City of New York, when she           dainty little woman with her curly red hair.
> h ~ resided
> d       there of this Faith.                A flower, fresh as springtime placed upon ha1
> The steadfastness of Louise Erickson and        left shoulder, was her insignia.
> her great wish to spread the Message were            Elisabeth became a BahVi April 19, 1937.
> proniinent qualities. Nothing could prove         She left her home in Lima, Ohio on November
> a hindrance to hez desire to do this and she      28, 1940 to go to Asuncion, Paraguay, there
> never missed an opportunity to bring fonvud       to open a new country to the Faith and to
> and spread the knowledge of the Faith to          help establish an Assembly. However, in 1941
> which she was so deeply devoted. Carl             she had to return to the United States because
> Lindhage~~,  Minister of the Statale of Sweden,   of illness.
> having heard the Message from her said:              Ebabeth regained her health to some
> "Louise, the Crown Prince must know about         degree, but during this time the death of her
> IN M E M O R I A M                                     915
> 
> mother occurred and so after this loss she        On August 29, 1355 she eame to live with
> left, for a second voyage, on Noven~ber28, me and continued to teach in the same school.
> 1944. During this trip she rebuilt the Assem- Her work with the fourth grade for a period
> blies in Caracas, Bogota, Lima, Santiago, of three years was such. that Elisabeth Hope
> Montevideo and .fillally returned to her Cheney will never be forgotten there. She
> beloved Paraguay, although some delay bywas gently but kmly guided the children to self-
> encountered because o i a shipvrech, arriving understandiug and the right path.
> Sune 27,1945. After rebuilding this conm~mity     Eiisabeth made many teaching trips in the
> she left in October to aid Central America, Dominican Republic and during 1957 when
> facing revolutions, and incredibly difficult the National Spiritual Assembly of the
> problems within the BahB'i communities.         Greater Antilles was elected, Elisabeth became
> On July 9, 1946 Elisabeth was recalled ro a member, and the follo\ving year she was
> Chicago, Illinois to serve as the Secretary of elected to serve as its San-eia~y.However, ill
> the Inter-America Commitlee and to help health was to prove too much of a barxier
> guide, inspire and encourage its n~embers, and she was soon unable to serve in the
> for new pioi~mrswere now arising to fdfiil capacity of Secretary, although she continued
> the second Seven-Year Plan. She organized to serve everyone through prayer and as
> and co-ordinated the Committee work which much sewice as she was able to give.
> she was so enlinently well prepared to do.        On December 31, 1958, at the req~~est      of
> Her ability as a writer and her brilliant mind Horace HoIley, the Secretary of the National
> were invaluable in preparing the South and Spiritual Assembly of the United States, 1
> Centrdl American friends to form their brought Eiisabeth to a hospital in Miami,
> Nationd Spirit~ralAssemblies in 1951.           Florida where, nluch to the amazement of
> In October, 1949 Elisabeth made her third the physicians there, she survived two major
> trip lo Latin America, holding teaching operations for cancer and then went to her
> co~lferencesin Havana, Mexico City, Gua- home in Linla, Ohio. Her letters to me were
> temala, San SaIvadoi-, Honduras, Managua always filled with the constaat hope and
> (Nicaragua) and Costa Kica, and arrived in desire to be able to continue to serve the
> Panama on Febnrary 13, 7950. Having fought Faith but this was not to be for her frail body
> illness all the way she finally took to her bed was tu~ableto withstand a third operation
> for five weeks and was very, very ill. But her and on October 8, 1959 Elisabeth passed on
> conrage and devotion helped her to publish to the Abhg Kingdom to join her Lord, and
> Cornzmidad Bahli'i, and she helped prepare her adored Dorothy Baker.
> and publish ElPlan Divim. She had formerly
> prepared t l ~ epamphlet, Propi~eeyFu@ibled for
> the National Spiritual Assembly d the United
> States. In December 19-50, she was again
> recalled to Chicago, Illinois to guide the
> formation of the two Latin American National
> Spiritual Assemblies, serving as Secretary of
> tho Inter-America Com~ittee. With the
> Natioilal Spiritual Assemblies of South and       "In His service" is the simple but all-
> Central America elected in April of 1951 the encompassing inscription on the tomb of
> Inter-America Committee ceased to exist.        Bawkat 'AIi Faraju'lEhh,erected in Tripoli
> As a memorial to her beloved spiritual in North Africa. Service characterized the
> mother Dorothy Baker, Hand of the Cause, thoughts and actions of this noble lady who
> Elisabeth set out on her fourth trip an August was born in the cradle of the BahA'i Faith,
> 27, 1954, having obtained a ten-month &frAz. In this soutl~ernPersian city aawkat
> -
> teaching contract in Monterrey, Mexico K h i n m first saw the Iight of day in the lasb
> which was a goal city, The pupils of her decade of the nineteenth century. She lived
> s&ool, ranging from tweIve through eighteen there until aromd the age of Ulree years and
> yezrs of age, offered Elisabeth a new field of then was taken by her family to Egypt, first
> service, and her knowledge and love helped t o Cairo and then to Mallawi.
> to guide and orient these children.               At an early age she married the distinguished
> 916                             THE BAHA'I WORLD                                                     I
> 
> pionmrs. Her knowledge of both Persian and
> Arabic, her unswerving steadfastness and
> loyalty to the Cause of God and to His Sign
> on earth, her open-handed hospitality, her
> sympathy and understanding, were out-
> standing. It was fitting a memorial service for
> her should have been heId under the auspices
> of the Nation& Sp?ritual Assembly of the
> Baha'is of 'IrAq, in Ba&d&d.
> Severe illnesses did not diminish her ardor
> for serving the Faith and the friends. In 1950
> she jour~seyedto the United States, a nation
> whose customs and language itere almost
> wholly new to her. She qnkuicMy attracted a
> throng of admirers and well-stishers, 6rst in
> New York and then in California.
> Sawkat 'k;hdnum was eager to extend the
> range of her activities and it was with a happy
> heart that she hailed the prospect of settling
> in Africa. She accompanied Ella Barley, Bahia,
> her grandson, and the writer to Tripoli in
> July 1953. The following Rigvkn she became
> a member of the first Spiritual Assembly aE
> Triooli. Xnde~endent in outlook. wise in
> judgment, humble and gentle in manner, her
> virtues as an ad~ninistratorwere not incon-
> siderable. The one drawback was Iack o f
> BaWi publisher, g a y & Farajn'llkh Zaki           freedom to teach, to use those wonderful
> al-Kusdi, who had been attracted to the Faith      talents that had attracted many people of
> by MirzA Abgl-Fadl, greaiest of BahFi              capacity ta the Faith in Egypt and 'XrBq. Her
> scholars. &ayU Faraju911&h aas a youilg boy        humiIity and love for the Faith*her unfailing
> had left his native MarivBn in Persian Kw-         loyalty to the Guardian, and her daily life
> disttin and traveled to Cairo where he becanle     of sacrifice for His loved ones merited the
> a student at aI-Aiihar, the thousand-year-old      praise and endation accorded her by the
> Islamic university.                                h-iends in Egypt, 'Irdq, America, and Libya.
> &aym Faraju'll&h was deeply loved by            They olten remarked that she did not have
> 'Abdu'l-Bah5, and received many Tablets            a selfish bone in her body.
> from Him; Shoghi Effendi mentions his name            Het h a 1 illness in mid-February 1956 was
> in his Bahd'i Administ~ationletters. &ay&          short and her last words were of thanksgiving
> Faraju'llih edited with imticulous care            and gratitude, She kept repeating, "Thank
> and published many Bahk'i books in Persian         you# thank you," ta the attendants at the
> and Arabic. Associated with him at every step      United States Air Force Hospital at Wheelus
> was Bawkat a 8 n u m . She proohad manu-           Field. Her sweet Persian words to me wilt
> scripts and assisted in the multitude of tasks     ever be graven upon my mind and soul. As
> connected with the painstaking and arduous         oxygen was administered to her she said in
> business of publishing. Her patience, per-         Persian, "This is the door of Paradise." LittIe
> severance, and serenity were vaiued assets in      did we realize that her earthly end would
> these activities.                                  come in a brief hour or two.
> The passing of Bay& Fafaju711-;1htoward            The beloved Guardian cabled assurances
> the close of 1937, marked the beginning of         of his prayers and tZle Secretary-Genera1 of
> a new chapter of serviccfor aawkat t(hhum.         the Tnternakioilal B&i"i Council wrote oa
> In the spring of Z 938, she joined her daughter,   March 10,1956:
> Bahia, in Ba&did, wbere she was of constant           "The Guardian was very distressed. He
> comfort and aid to Bahb'f travelers and            asks that you assure her daughter and reIatives
> IN MEMORIAM                                             917
> 
> &at he i s praying ferventIy for the progress
> of her soul in the realms beyond. She will
> surely be richly rewarded by Baha'u'llBh for
> the sewices which she has rendered so
> sacrificially and unseIfishly all the years of
> her ljfe. Her sexvices reached their cIimax in
> her becoming a member of the Spiritual
> Assembly of Tripoli, one of the beacon lights
> of the Faith in that country."
> 
> RQQWE CENTURION               MIRANDA
> 
> Roque Centurion Miranda, the first person
> to accept the Faith of Bahs'u'llab in Paraguay,
> died very suddenly of a heart attack on
> January 31, 1960. The history of the Faith in
> Paraguay wit1 forever 'oe associated with his
> name for he hekl the small band of believers
> together through the example of love and
> devotion for a period of nineteen years. He
> served on the Local Spiritual Assembly from                Roque Centurion Miranda
> the time of its formation, was their delegate to
> the latatin-American Congresses and was flit:      greeted him with big Latin embraces and to
> Paraguayan representative to the Bcthri'i          visiting Baha'is his name was aij open szsanle
> Jubileein f 944 in Wilmette, Illinois. He served   toward a warn1 wetconxe in Paraguay.
> on the Regio~lalNational Spiritual Assembly        Although renowned his life \was characterized
> of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and         as one Living almost In poverty and in the
> Uruguay from the tin~eof its formation in          most hunlble of neigl~borhoods.
> 1957 to the date of his passing.                      A Minister of the Government of Paraguay
> Re was a man greatly loved in his country       said of Rogue that he was the true Guarani
> and all radio programs devoted hours to            Paraguayan who represented the soul of his
> eulogizing both his life and his theatrical        country. An Anibassador said chat he was a
> achievements at the time of his death, He was      personage who sepresentecl the new spirit
> the head of the National School of Theater         of Paraguay and generations r?.f Paraguayans
> in Pafaguay and was known as an artist,            will gratefully ren~enzbei.that such a man
> playwright, poet and teacher. During his           lived among thenl.
> last year of life he was paid homage for some         He gave numerous talks about the Faith
> thirty yeass of devotio~lgiven to the culture      on various radio stations and he spoko of the
> of Paraguay. His body was laid out in state        Faith constantly to the many daily visitors
> in the Municipal Theater, with thegovernment       to his office. The Hand of the Cause Dr,
> of Paraguay taking charge of his funeral, in       Aemann Grossnian said, "Does his cou1ltl.y
> co-operation with the Baha'is, with BahthB'i       realIy recognize its grcit loss? IZe was truly
> manorial services held in the theater and at the   a great sou!." An Auxiliary Board member,
> cemete~y.A gsief-stricken country joined In        who knew him well, wrote that Roque's
> a shared sol-row.                                  sacrifices and sufferings for the Faith had
> Roque was known for his great humility,         been intense and that it mighc &ell be that
> colnpassion and sympathy toward the suger-         his death would prove a rallsom for &is
> ings of his people. As he would walk down the      country and bring a hai-vest 07 the masses
> streets of the city oT Asuncion everyone           into the Faith in the future.
> 918                           T H E B A H A ' ~W O R L D                                        1
> 
> Roque Centurion Miranda was like a
> father to the Paraguayans, and even during
> his last hours, ever mindful of the Faith, he
> kept repeating again and again, "What more
> can I do for my people? What more can I do
> for my Faith? What more can I do to serve
> BahB'u'Zl&h?"
> ELLENSIMS
> 
> FMTZX SHAVER
> 1895-1958
> 
> Mrs. Fritzi Shaver, ardent follower oP
> Bnh2u'li&h, left her home in Minneapolis,
> Minnesota, in 1943 to pioneer with her sistes
> in Sioux Palls, South Dakota.
> A nature sparkling with beauty, laughter
> and love, Mrs. Shaves attracted h a r t s and
> enkindledMendshjps.Her chosen professional.
> fields were nzusic and dramatics, and dter
> becoming a Bahti'i, she augmented these
> with her greatest of all deiightsnan~ely,
> teaching the Faith. Hers was the gift of
> sensing deeply the spiritual needs and aptitudes               Fritzi Shaver
> of her listeners.
> In 1946, when the beloved Guardian ncss and patience, teaching from her bed to
> launched his Second Seven-Year Pian and the very last. Her faith was indomitable and
> called for pioneers ta establish the Faith in shed its radiance jn her angelic submission
> the capital cities of ten Western European to the Will of God. Deeply touched by the
> cou~ttsics,the two inseparable sisters offered specid prayers of the kIoved Guardian, and
> their services. Tho European Teaching Com- by the love, helpl'zdness and generosity which
> 1nittee of America chose Bern, Switzerland, streamed in to her from all directioi-is, she
> far them, and an April 7, 1947, they arriwd would frequently remark: "It has been worth
> at their post, overjoyed to be met by four of all of the suffering to experience this divine
> the Geneva friends who had so tfiougl~tfully love!"
> travelled to Bern to welcome them. On thd          Two thousand friends from all parts of the
> same day-Easter Monday-the Erst BabZ'I world attending the Frankfurt Intercontinetl-
> Feast in Born was held by this little group of t d Confere~lcewere witness to another rare
> six, in the sisters' room at the Krwz Hotel. privilege which God in His great bounty
> The story of the development of the Cause in accorded our beloved "Fritz?'. On July 27,
> Bern in those early days wili be written by 1458, when the message of her passing was
> other hands.                                     read from ihe podivxn in FrmHurt, this
> After six years in Bern, Mxs. Shaver uncler- glorious assemblage rose to its feet and
> took pioneering in other cities, inciuding centered its thoughts upon her while prayers
> Basel, where she again joined her sister, and were being read. How unfarl~omable tYie
> from whence she left Swiizerhd in 1956 to spiritual forces which were reiezsed rim those
> pioneer in Luxeldourg. Before many months moments! Ia the words of returning fiends,
> Mrs. Shaver became seriously ill and was Fritzi was carried to the A5hB Kii~gdonaon
> forced to return to her sister's home in Basel. the wings of boundless love and devotion.
> Intense suffering lay before her, during which     On August EirstSu~itzerland'sIndcpend-
> she b i z her affliction with undirmned sweet- ence Day-under blue skies and a smiling
> IN MEMORIAM                                            919
> 
> sun, Mrs. Shaver was carried to her resting       Bahri'is. It seemed to me that it wasn't an
> place in the beautiful Hornli Cenaetery of        achievement--it was an endowment from
> Basel. The accomnpanyingfriends, heartbrokm God. She did not believe-she kt~ew."
> by the loss, yet gave silent thanks that God        To a close friend Farrrtu confided that her
> had released this faithful one from earthly earljest and happiest BahB'i mne~norieswere
> limitations for activity in the timeless freedom her simnnsrs at Geyserville BahB'i School in
> of loftier spheres.                               California. She was preseal in 1927 at the
> ELSA STEINMETZofficial opening of the school and attended
> each summer thereafter for twenty years until
> her family moved to Wiln~ette,Illinois. She
> served on the school committee, taughi ciasses,
> I d many youth activities. Ail iniimate friend
> of those days writes:
> "She lored to sit and listen as a child for
> endless hours to deep and profound discus-
> F a ~ r u aIoas was gifted with a superior sions of thc meaning of l i f e and the thrilling
> intelIect, a warm and vibrant nature, with w y the Faith knits all the aspects of life
> great personal charm and, above dl, with togethex. She was passionate about discus-
> spiritual capacity that was tra~~smnukd      into sions, m d remained so. She found it essential
> service to the Faith which was the beacon to fallow a thing to its ultimate conclusion
> of her life. Farruws many friends felt the which made her a superb teacher."
> void that is left in the world v~heiisuch a          Sheonce said that in her early years she was
> radiant personality passes on; yet the thought engrossed mostly in the spiritual and social
> was expresszd sepeatcdly, in the hundreds of teachings but that her fatheres classes on
> tributes that poured in to her family, that admillistration had awakened a keen interest
> now she could fully and joyously use all of the in her in this aspect aad it became of deep and
> innate talent which she possessed to such an vital interest lo her. She was an articulate
> outstanding degree.                               exponent of the administrative order, its
> F a r r u b was born Mary Lorraine Ioas but uniqueness, and of its eventual fruition into
> was known from early childhood as Farrukh, the World Order of BahQ'u'llrih. She was
> a name meaning "Joyous One, - bestowed deepiy consciorrs of the historic period of the
> upon her by 'Abdu'i-Bahk-a          name which Faith in which she lived, spanned by the
> she loved. She g e w up in a family who were leadership of the beloved Guardian, Sl~oghi
> completely devoted to the Faith of BahB'u'- Effendi. At the time of his passing, while
> 1lBh, her paternal grandparents having been flying to London to attend his funeral, she
> among the earliest believers in America. Her wrote her thoughts of him: '? . .one ~vhorn
> fatha's life had been indelibly stamped, as a mast of us had never seen, but who was
> young bay, by his meeting the Master in identified as an integral part of the very
> America in 1912. He was to be calkd many fabric of this our Faith, one who had been
> yearslater by Shoghi Efffendi to serre at the the very pulse of the word Bah/i'i for those
> World Center, in Hoifa, where he became of us who were born and grew up under hiin
> secretary-general of the first fnternationd alone."
> Bahri'i Comcii. Earlier he had been appointed       F a r r u a was seventeen, ready to graduate
> a Wand of the Cause. In 1955, her mother, from high school in 1937 when the first
> Sylvia, was also appointed to the International Seven Year Plan was mi~ounced.In Jalluary
> BahB'i Council. Frtrruu u7as aware of d l of 1937 Shoghi EEenili stated h t to establish
> these bounties; but she had, as well as a the Faith in xhirty-four new states and
> superior mind, an independent spirit and her provinces of the United States and Canada
> conviction as a BahB'i was not based upon was the obligation of each individual as well
> acceptance but upon certitude. One who as Assembly. Her thoughts and feelings had
> learned of the Faith from her and v,~ho been galvanized by the Guarclian's Plan and
> her-self became an orrtstmding teacher and she put aside her education in 1942 and went
> pioneer has stated: "The quality of Farruws to Boise, Idaho to pioneer in a state that did
> faith was unique in my experience among not yet have a Bahk'r' Asse~bZy.In April
> !
> THE BAHA'I WORLD
> 
> severd Texas co1nn1ttnities; and in Apfil of
> 1948 both DaXias and San Antonio formed
> their Assemblies.
> During her y w s in Wjlmette, Farxx~U
> served in multitudinous ways: as a public
> speaker on many platforms and in Bai-tzi'i
> Temple meetings held in Foundation Hall;
> on the Public Relations ComGitee; the
> BeJzd'i World Editorial Committee; as an
> editor of &riiciYiNetvs. She worked in the
> office of the Bah8'f Publishing T ~ u s t i i n
> Wilmette for over a year in an editorid
> capacity. She compiIed The i)ra~g?aof Salva-
> tion used in insritutes throughout the United
> States and other countries.
> It was during her work at the publishing
> oEce that the nlessage from Shoghi Effendi
> I~unchingthe World Crusade o l 1953- L963
> arrived. Her resuonse was electric. Her lnhd
> leaped ahead, contenlplating how this awe-
> some PIal would affect the world, he Bah&'is,
> her own life. She eodd not know then that
> 5943, Boise elected its frst Local Spiritual she woxdd pioneer once again on the home
> Assembly.                                        front, in two countries abroad, and finally
> Throughout her lifetime, Farruu was to be reEeased t o the Abh.6 Kingdom, before its
> respond in this way to the messages of Shoghi final. coinpletion.She went to Texas again and
> Effendi. A BaWi recalls vividly hex enthu- helped to establish the first Assembly in Fr.
> siasm when Shoghi EfFendi announced the Worth in April, 1955. The11 late in 1956, she
> second Seven Year Plan: "Fasruj&'s joy ad \\ent to France at the request of the European
> enthusiasm were all that our Guardian could Teaching Committee. Here she served on
> .
> possibly Xlave desired. .all of iny Bahgi &e Local Assembly of Paris. She became
> life I have had a special feeling about pioneer- chairman of the National Teaching Conlmittee
> ing because of the way F x r a spoke of it. m d worked without cessation in developing
> She made it seela that pioneering was Iife m excellent teaching program that included
> itsea'.'"                                        a13 details of e i r d teaching, worksljops, and
> Leaving Boise, Farrul& returned to univer- regional confexences with that rase quality
> sity life and graduated with distinction, a Phi of o~ganizationand folIovr7-through that she
> Beta Kappa, from Stanford University in had. four Local AssernbIies *ere formed in
> 1945. A fellow student at Stanford recalls the provi~sces.She heEped to locate the Bahk'l'i
> this of hex: "She had a wonderfully dear, TeipIe site for France west of Paris on the
> incisive mind, capable of absorbing an almost Seine and the endowment property located
> unlimited number of facts, anstIy7ing them, in the southwest, central part of the country,
> evaluating them and using them in sew both goals of the World Crusade, One of her
> contexts. She was a joy to her teachers who &st, magniiicent services to a community
> on more than one occasion in my presence which she loved was her indefatigable work
> praised her attitude and abifity." As a BahPi h the preparation for the convention that
> she also felt that her ~lniversitywork was a elected dm first National Spiritual Assembly
> reflection upon her Fairh and hw self-imposed of Fcauce in 1958. Throughout all of these
> standards were very high.                        yeass of service, imde diEmlt aft21 the loss
> Her participatioxl in the second Seven of Shoghi Effendi, Farm& was outstanding
> Year Piad began in the south est, particularIy for her ribsolute firmness in the Covenant, for
> in Texas. She fbXIou.ed a series of public her elucidation of and courageous adherence
> meetings given by her father with a regular, to the ai%mU~istrative       principles of the Faith.
> weekly drcuit or te'tchixy: that included There were times when krer efforts in these
> MORIAM                                    921
> 
> directions, coupled with her Iess than robust   was elected to the Rqiaaal National Spidtr~al
> health, brought deep suffering.                 Assemnbly of the Bah2is of Central America,
> Early in 1959 she returned to America for     Mexico and Panama, which at that time also
> medical tieatnlent. Though aware of the         encomnpassed the Greater Antilles and a
> seriousness d her illness, she showed her       major part of the Islands of tile Pacific. In
> moral courage at this time in insisting that    1954 she was re-elected and served as Record-
> her beloved parents should not know or be       ing Secrel;ll.y.
> distressed at a time when they were over-          Amy llow decided she would pionezr to
> whelmed with work at the World Center.          Escash, Costa Rica, and cffer what services
> Regaining some vigor, she once nlore re-        she could in the consdidattion of the Assembly
> sponded to the call for pioneers and in the     and the comni~mitythere. 1x1 1560, however,
> autumn went to Florence, Italy-her Iast         she was again elected as a meinber of the
> post. Ifer health failed and finally she was    Regional National Assembly and al&o-ugl~
> prevailed upon to return to America early       still in poor health she voIuntarily offzred
> in 1960 for treatment, though adamant in        her services as Assisrant Cori-esponding
> her desires and plans ta return to Europe. A    Secretary, After a year of very intensive
> few months later, on April 14, she passed       B&2i activity in Costa Rica, Amy had to
> away and was buried in Washington on a          rcturn to Panatla for further niedical treat-
> beautiful spring day that reflected in its      nlwt and because of' physical coa~glrcations
> bright sunshine, bird song, blossolniug shrubs  it was not possible fox her to return to Costa
> and flowers not oiily the radiance of her own   Riea. She knew for her heaIth she should
> spirit, but the promise of the world to come.   return to Col6n but she did not wish to leave
> the pioneer field, and her last requcst prlor
> di                                       to leaving the National I;la7iratuyl-Quds in
> Panamiia to return to ColBn was ta be placed
> aboard a ship destined for BIuefidds, Nic-
> aragua which she hoped would fulfiI1 her
> past assignment as a traveling teacher to
> a goal city which was so deas to her heart.
> On December 17, 1960 Amy passed away
> AMY ISABEL bIcALLISTER                   during the time khe RegianaI National
> 1907-1960                     Assembly was in session in Guatemala City;
> all the members present knew how much she
> Miss Amy Isabel. McAllister was born on had wanted to attend this meeting. T i was
> May 6, 1907 in Col~n,Republic o f Panama, decided that during t i e seven National
> the daughter of Emma Louise and George Teaching Congresses to be held at the end
> Alexander McAlIister. She attended an of December, in each of the seven countries
> English-language elementary school, the comprising the regional area, memorial
> E. A. Kerr School, and afterwards completed services would be held in her honor.
> her stu es at the Uruguay School in the city       Amy McAllister was a vital part of Shoghi
> of C o l h . Then she further continued her Effendi's World Clusade and she was dedicat-
> education by taking up accounting at the ed to the beIoved Guardian azd gladly gave
> Professional School in Panama City, graduat- her life to the service of the Faith of I3ahA'u'-
> ing in 1927.                                    Ilih, A most bcfirting tribute to Amy Mc-
> To her family and the business world Amy Allister would be found imi the words of
> was thought of as a self-discipljnwian and the Master:
> was always methodical in her pt~rsaits             "The disciples of Christ forgot tl'ieinselves
> throughout her life. Her ntotto was, "There        and all earthly things, forsook ail tiieir
> is only one way to do anything, and that is,        cares m d belongings. purged thenlselves
> the right way."                                    of self and pgssion and with absolute
> In 1953, scarcely three years after entering     detacluilenl scattered far and wide and
> the Faith-yeas .n,hicli bad been spent in           engaged in cdling the peoples of the world
> stalwart and constant service to the Local          to the Divine Guidance, until at Iast they
> Assembly and community of Coi6n-Amy                 iliade the ~ o r l danotiler world, illumined
> the surface of the earth and even to the last
> hour proved sdf-sacrificing in the pathway
> of that Beloved Oue o f God."
> 
> ELLA W. DUEFIELD
> 1373-1962
> 
> Ells Warden Dxfield was born in Pitts-
> burgh, Pennsjilvanra in IS73 of Scottish-X~ish
> descent. the family name bekg SenlpXe. Both
> of her parents were from the region of New-
> townards and Belfast, Irehld, but they had
> come to the United States wlior~they were
> very smaU chi!dren. Ella's parents were
> merubers of the I'resbyterian church and
> she was reared ill a family whose life was
> deeply influenced by the essential teachings
> of Christianity and a strong bdief in God.
> Ella had a great love for nlusic and her
> ability to play the piano Iron1 an euly age
> found her attracted more and moss to the
> wor!d of music. She also had a h e coiltcalto
> voice and during a period of ten years was
> well! known on the concert stage, and she it in eveiy wq7that it was possible for her
> sang in several of the largest churches in to do so. She was an avid reader anit her
> ber native city.                                 constant study of the creative Word gave her
> She married Dr. Thomas hlcCann, a a great reserve of potvex which served her
> surgeon, and from this union a daughter particuhrly in her later years.
> was born. Her happiiless in this n~arriagewas      Mihen the Guardian, Shoghi EEendi, called
> shortlived for within four years her husband upoil the American believers to leave their
> died. Three years later she re-married, this country and to pioneer in foreign lands she
> time to Dr. William Duffield, M. D., and         asked to accompany her daughter m answer
> they established their home In Los Angela, to this call. They arrived an the islaid of
> California, Zt was during this time that Ella Madeira on September 30, 1953. Ten months
> DuEeid identified herself with the imsical after their arrival there they were asked to
> world of California and she co~nposedmany go to France by the European Teaching
> song which gained her irltei.~~ational  recogni- Committee of the United States, where the
> tion, one in particidatr being a book of songs work of consolidatiag the Faith toward the
> called Songs jirr Cl~iEdren.                     formation of a National Spiritual Assembly
> In 1933 Ella, ;iceomp2nied by bsr dax~gl~ter, had been inaugurated by the ieuardiatl in      I
> first h e a ~ dof tile B&?I Faith at the home his message to the United States of 5uIy 28,      I
> 
> of Mrs. Martin Carter, and the speaker at the    1954. There w r e already two pioneers of
> time. was Beulah Stosrs Lewis. EiIa often the Faith on Madeira so Ella and her daughter
> said that she clid not know the moment when accepted the iequest of the Teaching Com-
> she accepted Dahfi'u'iljh, but that it happe~ed mittee and arrived in rhe city desigaated to
> very soon after she began reading tile Teach- them, wl~ich was Nice (Alpes-Maritimes),
> ings, evely word eal~vincicg her of the Franrx in June o f 1954.
> station of Banxi'u'llBh.                           Ella Duffield was in vmy delicate health
> From the time slzc accepted the Faith when she left her home. but in spite of this
> her life was spcnt in dedication to serving she was able to serve for nine years of the
> IN MEMORIAM                                             923
> 
> Ten-Year Crusade iastigated by thc Guardian.
> It was during- the last four years of her life,
> at a time when she was prucdcaIiy bed-ridden,
> that her great spiritual capacity was most
> strongly felt by everyone who came in eontact
> witb her, and although many of the people
> who visited her at this time &idaot speak her
> language. nor she theirs, they felt the great
> assurance in the Faith that she had and Ella,
> tvho knew that a new and happier world was
> being born, gave forth a quality of humor
> that was a delight to those around her.
> In her 89th year, this Knight of Bahfi'I1ali
> passed into the Abha Kingdom and she is
> buried in the CimitiCre de I'Est, high in the
> hills overlooking the Mediterranean.
> 
> FRANCES WELLS                                         Frances 'CYells
> 1906-1960
> 
> Frances WeIls,              West, was a pioneer Guardian was pxticulari)7 pleased w i h her
> whose labors for the spread of the Faith of achieven~entof being abie to take the Faith to
> Bah2utll&htook her far north to Alaska I>oiatBarrow above the Arctic Circle, where,
> and then, much later, ta Luxembourg in the under most difiicuir coilditior*~she worked
> heart of Europe, where, on December 22, ar11ong the Eskimos Tor three years, which
> 1960, she passed away and she was burled led to the acceptance by the first Eskimo in
> in her goal city of Yifferdange. Her deter- that region of the Faith of Bahk'u'ilah.
> mined and dedicated services recall these               ln 1955 Frances made thz Pilgriiilage to
> words of Bah2aali$a: "They who i ~ for-           e   the World Center in Waifa. Stopping in the
> saken their courttry Joi. flie pulpuse of te~iclti~g Benehix couatries on I~ei-way back to Alaska,
> O w Ceiae-these shdi tile F~ithfirlSpirit she decided to ans~ver the urgent cdil t~
> st re fig the^ t h m u ~ hits powa-. No act, ho~vever pioneer in a Eiiropzai~ goal city and on
> great can coltzparc wiflz it. . .Szich u scrvic~.is i-Iugusr 3, 1959 she arrked in Luxembourg
> indeed the prime of nil goody deeds."                 and settled in the town of Differdaage.
> Frances was a chiId of six when 'Abdu'l- Although ignorx~t of the languases and
> Ball6 visited Los Ai~geles.As m s His custcm, customs, she followed in the steps of other
> He called the children around Him and Mrs. pioneers and was abie to gather a ggroup of
> Hattie Cline brought her nieces to Him. Little sincere friends around her. France3 was
> Frances, with her flaming red hair and green faced with many tests in her new post and
> eyes received her gift of roses from the handled them with the same courage and
> Master, bui secxetIy, she told us, she wished pet-selierance that she had shown in other
> they had been candy.                                  adverse circumstances.
> All her life Frances scrved the Faith, first        After attending the cercnzany of the laying
> in Los Angeies and in Big Bear and tben in of the cornerstom of the Mother Tc~nple
> 1943 in Alaska where she pioneered for of Europe at Frankfurt, Germany. on Novem-
> seventeen years. In. Anchorage she worked ber 20, the conditioa of great fatigue which
> with Honor Kenlptoiz helping with her Frances had b e a feeling s~rddenlybecame
> famous "Book Cache", giving radio talks, very acuie. On Decernber 7 she eaterexi the
> teaching, visiting many eities, m d engaging hospital at Esch where 11er ailmcilt = m s
> in many other Bah$i activtties, The beloved cliagnosed as leukemia; she lived only three
> 924                            T R E B A H A ' ~W O R L D                                         I
> I
> 
> more uze&s. During that tinle she was lovingly
> attended and n r ~ e dby h e BahB'i friends
> until on the night of December 27 she quietly
> slipped away.
> Decenlber 31, some seventy BahB'is and
> townspeople assembled to pay Frances homage
> at the service held in the open air before the
> casket. The Mayor of Differdange was repre-
> sented and Mi.. Donald Cruz, the sccretaxy
> of the American Embassy, represented the
> United States Government. Mr. Ben Levy,
> of the Bene11~xNational Spiritual Asse~nbly
> had been chosen as the spokesman of that
> group as it was though hearing Frances
> teach the Faith in Alaska that he had become
> a Bahsi, and Hanor Kempton, whom
> Frances had followed to Alaska, and who
> had introduced the Faith in Luxembourg in
> 1946, read the last prayer.
> Frames Wells, pioneer, Lies on the slope
> facing the Holy Lmd wit11 the Gelds of
> Bowers that she so loved spreading out in
> a bright carpet around the area, and the great                Harry Edwin Ford
> iron mines toward the rear, symbols, perhaps,
> of her iron determination servi~gthe softer
> flowers or spirit.                               in the woods with his father; the wodd of
> VIRGINIA ORBISON nature was his home.
> Be received his education in Upper New
> York, graduating with a B.S. degree in educa-
> tion from Syracuse University. In 1910 he
> HARRY EDWIN FORD                      accepted his first official teaching position
> 1892-1954                    and from then until he retired in 1948, in
> order to devote aU of his life to the Bahai
> The little white signal flag went up in the Faith, he was a teacher and principal of
> window.                                       schools,
> There was a shout, "Uncle Hany is well           When Earl-y first heard of the Faith about    I
> 
> enough to hwe us come.'"                      1936, 'fiesaid at once, "But 1 have thought
> Small ;Feet hw-ried along the apartment out my own religion; it does not need a
> corridors.                                    church and does not harm any living thing."
> Tile children's hour had mine!                In truth he had been waiting for the BahB'i
> Up to the last day of his life on earth, Faith! He became active at once. He taught
> Harry was with children.                      at Green &re. wrote short stories for chitd-
> How well he understood thein, and how ren, served on national conlmittees.
> they in twil, loved him.                         Upon the suggestion of Shoghi Effendi,
> This understanding of children, and for the Harry and Bahiyyib Ford moved from New
> world of nature, were Harry's dominant York State to Colorado Springs in 1948.
> characteristics.                              Mr. and Mrs. Mathews had asked them to
> help manage the Iixternationd BahA'i School.
> f h r y Edwin Ford was l ~ o min Rushford, For five years Harry was active at the school
> New York, August 7, 1892. His fathe1 was in the summer months. then traveled ex-
> a lumberman and their home was a cabin on tensively during the winters teaching the Faith.
> the edge of the forest. Harry was the eldest of     In 1952, in response to a question from me,
> six children; the first liitle ones he lox~edand Shoghi Effendi again conferred a m a t
> cared for. Much of his early youth was spent blessing upon Harry by asking us to go i o
> IN MEMORIAM                                               925
> 
> Jol-mnesburg, South Africa, to pioneer.             The XfaWis of the Antipodcs have cause
> Although. Harry was ill he knew this was the      to be grateful for her many sexvices; her name
> cXow.aiugevent of his life and with a11 his       will be forever remembered as one of the
> t ~ r he t prepared for the trip.                 &st pioneers of the Faith from this area.
> XI? July 1953, Jobannesbwg became his
> final hotne. In a small one-room apartment,
> he prayed to be aiIowed to 5nd receptive
> heal-8s in this city of no friends.
> His strength was rapidly failing but he                  CYRUS SAMANDAR~
> could just manage a short walk each d a y .
> 011 tlicse waIh he iner the chiidren! Like a
> pied piper he found them. Soon they were             This radiant young believer received the
> ovc~unniiigthe tiny flat urxtil his only way      approval of the beloved Guardian for his
> to have quiet was to put up the little white      pioneer project to Son~aliain  1955. Assured b y
> flag in the window when he was abIe to see        the promise of success which Shnghi Effendi
> them. He told then stories of all the growing     had given him, he arrived in Mogadiscio
> things around thein, and of the new Messenger     ou Bahb'u'llAh's birthday, and by his warm-
> for his Day. The chiidren told their parents;     heartedness and beauiiful chanting cndeared
> the parents cruile to see the much loved          himself to us all. His style of chanting was,
> "Uncle Harry." Thus the first class on the        indeed, unique and he became a nightingale.
> Faith was established.                               He studied hard and learned to speak not
> On January 31, 1954, Hmry quietly passed       only Arabic but sufficient Somali (which has,
> from this world into the next. He is buried in    as yet, no script) to be able to teach Ehe Faith.
> Johannesburg.                                     EFe taught with such Iove, patience and
> The tributes he would have wanted most,        sincerity that he was able to attract many
> followed his passing. A cable from the beloved    souls. He not only taught the Faith, but
> Guardian reading: "Profoundly grieved pass-       mathematics, Arabic and English to the many
> ing devoted exemplary pioneer-reward Abhri        young men who were uuabie to study at school.
> Kingdonl-praying progress soul. . ."                 The &st lRf$vBn after his arrival in Mo-
> A loveiy bunch of _4fricanflowers on his       gadiscio, he ms elected to the Local Spiritual
> grave was marked: "From The Children."            Assembly, and he was also an active member
> of the local teaching conmiittee. He continued
> to serve on these two bodies mtil he fell ili.
> He taught early morning, mid-day, evening
> arid night, and even during work, fearlessly
> DULCIE BURNS DIVE                       and with as much wisdom as his ardent nature
> permitted. He showered love upon his conracts
> On Tuesday rxarning, 18th September 1962,       and in less than two years brought six souls
> valiant pioneer, Knight of Bahri'u'llkh, Mrs.     to the Faith, in a country where fanaticism
> Dulcie Burns Dive, passed to the Abhk             and opposition made many difficulties.
> Kingdom in Auckland, New Zedmd. The                  Most young inen \vould have been bored
> Faith has surely lost one of its most devoted     and complained of the dullness of their life
> servants in the Pacific area.                     here, but although he lived such a simple,
> Mrs. Dive, after working with her own          restricted life, he was always radiantly happy,
> community in Auckland, moved to Australia,        which, combined with his kindly, synlpathetic
> where she was active in the teaching work and     nature, nude him not onIy magnetic but a
> served for some years on the National             very successful. teacher. Even the fanatical
> Assembly of Australia and New Zealand.            psople who came to the shop to threaten M m
> When the Guardian callcd for pioneers to          during his life, were shocked to hear of his
> settle virgin areas Mrs. Dive left for the        death and declared that he was a very good
> Pacific islands, where her services were          young m a .
> invaluable. She served on the Regional               One of his spiritual children transferred
> SpiritnaI Assembly of the South Pacific fi-om     to Afgoi; together they started extension
> the time it was formed in 1959 until her death.   teaching, Cyms waveling in the crowded
> 975                             T H E B A F I A ' ~W O R L D
> 
> he was w~complai~~ing       and unclen~anding.
> When his condition suddenly becane serious,
> he was hurried to a hospital. This was during
> the Kampala Conference, which he had so
> hopeit to attend. A cable wzs sent, asking
> for prayers, and beloved Amatu'l-Baha
> R6l~iyyih~ h n 1 1 1herself called upon the
> friends to join in praying for his recovery.
> The cable informing us of her solicitude for
> him came to lighten a very dark day of
> suffering. After the conference, his unclc, the
> Hand of the Cause. Mr. Samandari. visited
> Mogadiscio and gave Q r u s great happiness;
> some sf his old radiance rstupaed to his face.
> It was discovered a serious operation wodd
> be necessary, and he was sent by air to Nairobi
> an March 19; with broken hearts his relatives
> in Mogadiscio helped the now frail and
> pathetic figure to board the plane-a shadoav
> of the former Baely built, handso~~le    young
> man. The operation proved to be useless, as
> he was suffering from advanced cancer.
> Doctors and nurses were all dee~lvimpressed
> A   -   +
> 
> with his gentle and courageous character.
> He dipped from this life to the next on the
> Somali bus or an oppe~~      lorry. One of the     evening of April 5, 1958, with the Nairobi
> contacts that he made in Afgoi moved to the        pioneers watching over him. Altho~xghit had
> bush; Cyrus fomd a yoxmg man who can%              been hoped that he could regain sufficient
> from the s a l e bush village and was returning    strwgth to pass his last days with his beloved
> on foot that evening; he insisted on accom-        inother, he was destined by God to serve the
> panying him, although he was told that the         Faith in death as In life. The Nairobi friends
> way was rough and long. They arrived at            were able to acquire a BahZi burid ground
> nightfall and Cyrus went to the hut of his         and obtain special permission to bury both
> friend, shared lnis strange h o d and slept        bhck and white in the same area. Tilus he
> beside him on a mat. The other villagers were      helped to win another god.
> astonished to see a white rn strajlii~gwit11          The Hands of the Cause in the Holy Land
> them. Next day, very early in the morning,         cabled: "Confident spirit devoted enkindled
> they made their jo~~rney    back to Afgoi, #c      pioneer receiving r e w d presence beloved
> sun beating down 011 them, and the dust            Guardian Abha Kingdom. haying Shrines."
> choking them. Cyrus returned l~oxlle,bumt by
> the sun, tired with the long walks but happy
> that he had obeyed 'Abdu'l-Bah&'s           wish
> literally.
> When Cyrus heard of the passing of the
> beloved Gua~dian, the radiant light was
> extinguished, and he said in a broken voice:
> "Therc is nothing to Iive for now. Life wiIhout
> the beloved Guardian has no meaning."                 The high point in the lives of our parents
> Not many days later he became unwell.              was In the summer of 1921, when we all
> At tjrst he ans nursed at home, all this time   visited 'Abdu'l-Bafi in &fa, Palestine,
> receiving a diow of studei~tsand contacts,         la* a farewell talk, on July 23, 1921, He sdd:
> who came lor lessons in Arabic or mathemat-        "You have journeyed from that long distant
> ics, or for "bedside firesides." He continually    region m d =rived in this H o b L.and and
> apologized far giving trouble, though, in fact,    you have visited the two Holy Shrines. You
> IN MEMORIAM                                               927
> 
> must appreciate this gift. Not everybody has
> such a gift. You became conErllled in it with
> utmost sinceiity and with your attention
> turned toward the Kingdom of God complete-
> ly. While you were here, we were pleased with
> you and you wiih us. Visiting is good like
> this £01- it is of worship, This visit of yours is
> well accepted in the Kingdom of Abha. Its
> results will remain with you fosever. There-
> fore, you should thank God that you attained
> to such great Bounty.
> "Now that you return, your going should
> be like the breeze that comes out of a rose-
> gaden-the breeze that has a very sweet
> fragrance. You who return should be in
> ut~nostjoy and mirth, and with great glad
> tidings be the cause of the happiness of the
> friends, that whoever meets you may be fiIled
> with joy.
> "Convey to every one of the friends the
> message of kindness from me. You. yous-
> selves, must be like letters, letters that speak.
> I wish to write to every one of the friends, but              Edtvin Whitaker Mattoon
> you know that I have no time. I am always
> with you. My heart is with you. I urili never
> forget you."                                         When leaving this i~ieeiing,they received an
> It seems to us this was true; our parents         imitation to a forum at which various
> spent their lives in showing kindliness and          religious subjects were to be discussed. At
> thoughtfulness to peopie everywhere.                 these meetings, they met some of the BahFis
> Dad was born on a ranch nem Galatea,              who lived in Urbana. Tlley desreloped a kecn
> Coiorado. His parents, Edwi~iCharbs Mat-             interest in the BahA'i Faith. Whenever one
> toon and Mae Whiiaker Mattoon, were                  of the friends received a letter fi-0111'Abdu'l-
> pioneers to the W&. With then1 he lived in a         Bahri, it was a treasure for all and evzryone
> sod hut for a few years. Very early in life,         rushed to read it.
> Dad learned to recite and sing. One of his               Dad's interest in the Faith contimed to
> great pleasures throughout his life was taking       glow, as was shown by his correspondence
> part in and directing amateur dramatics              with mother during the world war (he %as a
> and talent sliows. 13s parents returned to           First Lieutena~itin the United States Army).
> Illinois when he was twelve years old. Dad           Many of his letters centered wound his
> received both his Bachelor of Science and            thoughts about the Faith and the Bahk'is he
> his Master's degrees from the University of          met in other lands.
> Illinois,                                                In the years after the war, the desire to
> He married Annie Ellen Crathorne in 1912.         visit 'Abdu'l-BahB became strongcr and
> They had a full and rewarding life together          stronger; finally, he wrote and asked for
> and shared he great experience of discovering        permission for him and his family to ixake the
> the Faith. They Grst heard of it while attending    pilgrimagz. A few months before 'Abdu'l-Bahj
> a Sunday School class in tile Methodist               died, their wish was granted; we rerminsd in
> Church in Urbana, Illii~ois.Prof. Jacob Kuaz        Baifa for niiieteen days.
> was the teacher and he told them of a great              From 1920 to 1929, oar father was the
> prophet, Bahit'u'llgh, who had appeared in           principal of the High School in St. Joseph,
> the East. Shortly after this, Dad read an             Illinois. He was iiistr~menta! in buiiding a
> announcement in the paper about a lecture at        fine new school with beautiful gt.ounds which
> the Unitarian Church entitled "The Life of           is now the pride of the countryside. He was
> Muhammad." Motl-ier and Dad decided to go.           very interested in helping deseiving students.
> 928                             THE BAHh'f WORLD
> 
> In 1331, Dad accepted a position with the highly meritorious. Assure fervent prayers
> Cl~icagoPublic High Schools. In 1435, w progress his s o d AbhA Kingdom."
> bought a home in Wilmerte, Illinois. From           His body lies in the mn~cteryin Key West.
> then on, Dad's activity centered m t m d the On the marble stone that covers the grave
> BahA'i House of Worship where he can- a-e engraved the words of Bah5'u'll&h, "1
> tinuallyserved as a guide. He was the cllairnlan have made death a messenger of joy to thee.
> of the Natio-nal BahA'i Archives Committee Wherefore dost thou grieve?"
> from 1834 to 1947. We served on the I~~tes-
> America Teaching Committee for many
> years. He visited most of the countries in
> Central and South America in the summer
> of 1949 assisting the Bahi'i activities. This
> meai~tnmch to him; he always wished to
> retwn. He also visited and worked with the
> Omaha Endians in Macy, Nebraska.                          CARL SIGURB H~GBERC
> During all this time he was a loving husband,                     1902-1962
> father and grandfather. He had a capacity
> for giving freely of his time and devotion           On J m ~ e27, 1962, seated on a bus coming
> and love. Nothing was ever asked for in home at noon, Carl Sigurd Hiigberg suffered
> return.                                           a heart attack and died.
> Dad had long desired to pioneer, and after        Boxn in Giiteborg, Sweden, in 1902, Sigurd
> the Guardian launched the Ten-Year Crusade had gone to Amexica at the age of 24. Having
> this desire gtew into a reality when he and conlpleted his school. education and served in
> nlother arrived in Key West, Florida, in the Swedish Navy, he sought a wider field
> A u y s t 1954. There he devoted his energies of opportunity.
> to teaching, He had realized Ms dream and            Was it a foreordained plan which fed him
> felt very grateful. He made many friends and to the B W l Faith, through his wife, Alethe
> gave the Message to everyone he could. He Holsapple, and then back to his native land
> became wdi known to the Negroes in Key as a BahB'i pioneer? At the time he became
> West and was asked on several occasions a BaWi in southern California in 1948
> to speak to the students attending the Negro Sigurd's work as a salesman took him through
> High School.                                      eleven western states. Earnestly he en&avored
> Pa Febmary, 1955, he suddenly became ill to apply the principles to business relation-
> but codnued active in the £?ah&"icomnlunity ships and to put into action those Words of
> and to his great joy Assembly was formed Bahii'u'llkh: "Should any one of you enter
> in April, 1956, The loving spirit of the Bahii'is a city, he should becoixlr: a center of attractioa
> was a grcat solace to him. His spirit never by reason of his sincerity, his faithfulness and
> faltered,                                         love, his honesty and fidelity, his truthfulness
> Mothes has written: "During his last and loving-kindness towards dl the peoples
> months, he was so unbelievably brave and. . . of the world, so that the people of that city
> never complained. He never lost his desire may cry out and say: 'This man is unques-
> to go to South America and when the Con- tionably a Bahri'i."' Over this widespread
> ference was in session in Havana, Cuba, he area he said many prayers and sowed many
> said he felt able to go.  ..   he surprised the seeds. Ia order to attend Feasts he often
> friends there, He came back very happy about traveIed long distances to reach the neaest
> meeting them. Just a shori time before he died Bahgi community.
> he gave an inspiring talk to a group of Ba-          What a joy It was to Sigurd when the first
> G ' i s and guests ia Key West. . ."             Spiritual AssembIy in Ms home community,
> On Decernbe~.24, 195f& Dad passed into Culver Township, was farmed! He felt his
> the next world. Mother asked us to notify home richly blessed through BahB'i firesides
> the Guxdian. The Guxdian's reply, which and by &elcoming groups of Bah2i youth
> was a geat source of comfort, is as fvlio.nis: and their friends,
> "Grieved news dear Father's death. Pioneer           511954 Slgurd sugared a serious illness and
> teaching administrative services unfmgettable, a period of discouragement followed, One
> 930                            T E E B A P - ~ AW' ~O R L D
> 
> Dwight Lamb, and later by Fae passing of a 1954 and, acco~npaniedby Mr. and Mrs.
> cherished daughter. Perhaps these were the Edward Bode, went to Ciiex~~avaca,              Mkxica.
> incidents which drew Mother away frona tke 111 1855 Mother t3ansferxed to Costa Rica. For
> social world to which she belonged, t o search two ycars she assisted the work in Costa R i a ,
> for the things of the spirit.                    first in the City of Alajuela, a ~ i dlater in the
> The friends she selected were sincere, village of Esca~u,Costa Kica. At this time,
> d thein as a resdt of her advanced age, her health
> forthright persons like herself, a ~ with
> she explored many avenues of leligious began to fag. She was not one to complain
> thou&t. She I~adno use for sanctinlonious but she deplored the check-rein it put on her
> piety and ncver considered that she had any being active. In 1957 she returned to MBxico,
> special virtues, her sense of hul~lorwas too the country of her first choice, and there in
> great for that.                                  January of 1859, she passed away.
> She first received the BahB'i Message in         -4t her me~noriaiservice, in the National
> California in 131e early 1930'5, Frit ~t was not Eja&-atu'l-Quds of MExlco, Dr. Edxis Rice-
> kmt~Z1938 that she turned with all her heart Wxay said o f her: ". . .She seemed to love
> to B&2ufil&. She was seventy-onc y m s of everyone and certaizly evsrtryono loved her.
> age at this time, a reserved, direct ~ ~ v m a Her~ . failing health even befole leturniag to
> Her lovc for BahB'ra'll&h 1109~'occsmne such Mexico, made it i~nposs~bie         for her to serve
> a force in her 11fe that any fo'ar~xerbarriers h e Faith very actively. Howevei-, she came,
> af reserve were dissolved. She extezded her determined to do what she could. Even when
> love m d friendtiness to God's chilrirelz of ail she coeddn't leave her bed at the last, she Bras
> races 2nd nationalities. Her cvcry thought coasrantty assistifig in every way possible. . .
> seemed ta be doniinzted by the exampie of           "1 think one of the inost striking things one
> 'AAbdu'L-Bahk. EIer home in Scverly Kills, notices about the Sah6'i Faith is the old
> California was given over Lo innumerable peapie. They nevcr appear se~~ilile,              but are
> Bab5'i activities as well as to r g d a Stmdag dynanic and alive until the last. Pi. i s their
> evening "fireside" ~neelings.These meetings faith which makes a difezence. It is ozle of the
> averaged fron~twenty to thirty pezsons, Inany greatest proofs of the Faith, And Mrs. Young
> of cvhoia became Baha'is and zxe now scrvl~lg had it to a very great degree."
> throughout xhe world,                               Her grave staads high on the mountain
> When attending the Inter-Aii~ericai~    Con- slopes that 0oyerX00k the Valley of Ni6xico.
> rere~~ce  in Chicago in 1953, she was quickened On the simple headstone the beautiful Words
> by the spirit cf the world-embracing Crusade o f BahB'u'llah are witte11 in Spanish:
> and cspecialiy with one of its most iinportaa~t "0SON OF THE SOI'KEMB!
> objectives, of carrying the Message to evefy        "Ihave made death a messenger of joy to
> corner of the earth by 11963, the Centenary         thee. Wherefore dost thou grieve? I made
> of the Declaration a f Bal~a'u'll&h.She never       the iigl~tto shed on thee its splendor. Why
> thought of heisdf as a EahSi teacller-               dost thou veil tkjself therefrom?"
> coupled with hm strong will &re 5was always
> h~~mility.When she heard Amatu'l-EaM
> Rdbiyyih mhn~rn,the beloved wife of the
> Guardian, w30 had come to the Confei-eiice
> as his special represeritztive, she determined
> to leave her native l a d z11d do what sbe
> could to serve Shoghi Effe11d1 in helping to
> ftiIFilI rhe goals of the Crusade. She was
> eighty-six ycars of age at this tinle. The           Lutfu3ll8h"AlizBdii and his wife came :a
> statenlent which had impressed hcr was the Africa from Persia zt tbe begin~liago f the
> fact that 211 could scrvc regardless of age. Crusade and despite perpetual ill hedth "Eu"
> Thr,se who were too old cculd jio to foreign stayed in his pioneer post. I-Ie was born on
> countries, there by exam_n!e, they could leach March 9, 1893 in TaSriz, Persia. One day he
> others and they could "lay down their banes" stood with a g o u p of yomg friends watching
> in these foreign lands.                          a carpenter at work and this man began to
> She womd up her aRairs, by the fall of spezk to t l ~ cgroup about the Baha'i Fai'h.
> I N MEMORIAM                                             93 7
> 
> carried him along, enabling him to continrze
> his sersice to the Cause.
> The Bahii'i Cemetery, Nairobi, has been
> blessed to receive this second pioneer to give
> his life faat the light of God mighr be ignited
> in Kenya. His funcrd was truly internatianai,
> attended by Africans of several tribes, Ames-
> iwns, Persians, Scottish, Irish and English
> frjends who carlze to pay their last respects;
> the service w;.s in Aral>ic, Persian, English
> and Swahili,
> W. 'Atf z h n r ~
> 
> MU,I;TAFA EFFENDI S ~ L ~ M
> 1899-1962
> 
> MusCaFA EEe~idiSBlinl passed to the Abhk
> Kingdom on 23rd Noveabe:: 2962 in Tripoli,
> Libya. Born in Egypt on Oct. 17&, 1899,
> Muqtac& Effendi enlbraced the Fzith at aa
> early age and rendered memorable services
> to t l AIexandria
> ~                     to the Natiailal
> Conili~lunity,
> Spiritnal Assembly of Egypt and the Shdhn,
> Although Luffull6h and the athers were all and to the pioneering e h r t in Libya. His
> Muslims, what was said by this man interested vas rhe privilege to be in the presence of
> hi111 and he kept going back again and again Shoghi Effendi in 'the Holy Land at a Lime
> the day caiile wlxea he totally ivherz pilgrimage was pern'itted only in
> to hear morc ui-~iil
> embraced it. This choice caused a great deal exceptional cases. Eis loysity a d devotion
> of unpleasantness in the family and finnlly he were shown at tke s t x t of the WosM Crusade
> decided he would have to leave Irome. Hc when, alone and wiihout ernploylent, he
> first went to Russia where lie arinessed rhc pinneexed to Bengkazi and late1 b e c m a
> beginning of the great rcvoIution there. HE: znenzber of its Local Assenlbly, the first one
> managed to escape and made his way tto to be fornied in Libya. In 1953 he went to
> Rilland, Austria and limally, London.              Tripoli and becam a nxmber of that tie's
> W1ie11 he arrived in London, he kncrv no first Assenfly, wl-ricls was foraxed at RiQvhn
> English but regadless of this handicap he 1954, We was Vicc-Ckail-manof the Assensbly
> was soon giving his services to the B&Wi at the time af his passing.
> Cause there 2nd he was one of the handful of
> young people who started the first youth
> grmp cf h~f2i1d.He worked and tzught
> with the English Brrhi'is for fourteen years
> and then, with the Guardian's blessing,
> returned Fo his n&e counkry of Persia in
> 1936 wberc he renxkii~~ed    for twcnty years,
> carrynlig on fils work for the Cause.                 By 1902, ten years r?ftcrthe ascension of
> When he heard thc Guardian wanted Bah5'u111&h, Thornton Chase, an American,
> pioneers for Africa, he joyfiilliy accepted this had becoine the frrst from the t-vestesrl world
> opport~lnityand arra:?ged to go to Nairobi, to believe in Him; Robert Tu:.r?er, the first
> Kenya. He becanli: a member of the Spiritual hn~esican Negro; Thomas Breakwell, the
> Assembly and also of the Keiiya Teaching first Englishnlan; I-lippolyte Dreyfus, d c
> Conunittee. Although for many years his first Freilchillan and Kanichi Yamamoto,
> health was poor, the strezgtlz of his spirit twenty-three years old, the first Japmesc.
> THE BAHA'I WORLD
> 
> sure the Master ivould understand. He wrote
> then in his awn language, humbly confessing
> his belief in the Manifestation of Gad and
> asking for ability to teach the people of his
> native land. When he received a Tablet from
> 'Abdu'l-Baha in repiy, Yamanoto felt he had
> been fully answered.
> In February 1903 Moto received a second
> Tablet. stating, ". . . there hath come a soul
> from the remotest horizon wilo hath entered
> the Kingdom of God."
> In the early days of the Bah&i'       Faith in
> Honolulu there was no home where the group
> of four could meet. Agnes Alexander,
> Clarence Smith, Elizabeth Muthes and
> Kanichi Yamamolu would go by trolley
> to Pacific Heights and there on the hilltop
> read the prayers m d Tablets.
> Moto stayed six nionths in the Islands to
> l e a n more of theTcachings, axid left in 1903 to
> become not only the butler but "a member
> of the family" of Mrs. Helen S. Goodall in           I
> Kanichi had left his parents in the province Oakland, California. Mrs. Goodall wrote                   I
> I
> of Yamaguchi, Japan and set out for a new soon after Moto's arrival that, "It seems
> world. He was an inciependexlt thinker, self- wonderful to me how the Spirit bas taught
> reiia~t,earnest and adventureson~e.Brought Moto as he does not understand English very
> up a Buddhist, he liad becoille a devoizt well. . . . We is very happy and goes about the
> Chistian. In Hawaii on his way to America house as if he were walking on air, especially
> he worked for a B&ii'i f d l y , Also living if a believer comes to see us or we have a
> with this famiLy was Miss Elizabeth Muther meeting."
> who helped '-Mato" with his English. When            On August 4, 1904 'Abdu'l-BahB revealed
> Elizabeth became a Bahai, her first thought a third Tablet to Yamamoto, addressing him,
> was to speak to Yamamoto.                         "0 thou who art the single one of Japan and
> Miss Agilcs Alexander, Amd of the Cause, the unique one of the extreme Orient!"
> records the story:                                   The familiar words of 'Abdu't-Bahk on
> ". . , the power of 'Abdr~'l-BahSs Tablet marriage were revealed in a Tablet to Yanla-
> to her and her own earnest prayer, brought moto, who was married in 1908in accordance                 I
> about a great event in the spirit~~alworld, and with American customs. An elaborate wedding
> God used her as His instrument to conftrm the was plamed by Mrs. Goodail whicli, was
> first Japanese BahA'i. . .When she asked him attmided by all the R&&is and the Japanese
> how he knew it was the Truth, he answered friends of the couple. After the ceremony,
> by putting his hand to his heart, and said he Moto said to his wife, "I don't want you to
> knew there."                                      be like a Japanese wife, always bowing. I
> Miss Muther wrote on September 8, 1902, want you to be like an An-iedcan wife and
> "Now he has reczived the Message, and I boss me!"
> thought this evening, for the joy expressed in       f n 1909 Mrs. Goodail nloved to San
> his face as well as his words of gratitude for Francisco but kept her Oakland home open
> the Truth of God, that he must have forgotten for BahB'i meetings with Moto in charge.
> everything but to rejoice in God."                   Then came the historic visit of 'Abdu'l-
> At once Moto wanted to write to 'Ahdu'l- Bahk, He arrived on October 3, 1912, m d
> B&$. He rewrote the lette~four tintes but His first talk was in the OaMand home that
> stin thought Ixe had not adequately expressed evening; this was followed by othcr memo-
> his thoughts in Erglish. Finally, Miss Miztl~er rable occasions at which Moto served with
> told him to write in Japanese, for she felt joy and radiance.
> "The meeting arranged by Yaman~otofor
> 'Abdrt'l-BahB to speak to the Japanese
> Y ,M.C.A. at the QaMand Japanese Indepen-
> dent Church on October 7 gave Him special
> happiness, and He showed great Fayor to ali
> the Japanese fi-iends."
> During His northern California visit,
> 'Abdu'l-Bahk stayed in the home prepared
> for Him by Mrs. Goodall and Mrs. Cooper;
> it was Moto who had the privilege of iivii~g
> in this home aud serving his beloved Master
> during those glorious days. 'Abdu'l-BahB
> Ioved the three Iitllc Yanlamoto boys, gave
> them Persian names and held them on His lap.
> On May 1, 1961 Kanichi Yamanlato
> passed away. His BahB'i cklidren, now in
> busi~iessand the professions, came from
> different parts of the country to attend a
> special service arranged by the Berkeley
> Baha'is.
> MARIOWYAZDI
> 
> Jahangir Ta'yidi
> 
> the hemor~bage.About twelve hours from the
> This devoted BahB'i was a pioneer youth           time of the accident his pure and courageous
> to Knwail on the Persian Gdf. He arrived             sou1 ascended to the Abh5 Kingdom.
> in Kuwait in 1953 and participated in the              All the beIievers of the Persian Gulf prayed
> establishment of its first Spiritual Assembly,       throughout that &y for the recovery o f this
> which was elected in Eahahil; and in the             gallant pioneer, but it was the Will of God
> second, in Hawalli.                                  to have this ransom for tho Cause in this part
> The services of Jahangk Ta'yidi will be           of the world. The Muslim magistral of
> remembered forever. He courageously suffcsed         Kuwait wrote with his own hand a special
> afl kinds of difficulties for the sake of pioneer-   permission fur "the burial according to die
> ing, and settled in unfavorable and uncasy           Bahri'i rites in the Fslarnic cemetery."
> areas, simply in obedience l o the hopes and            A memorial mceti~~g  for him was attended
> wishes o f the beloved Guardian.                     by eighty- Baha'is and noa-Bah8'i friends who
> On the diiy of Maw-Riiz, March 21, 1953,          listened to the Bah2i teachings on the
> as kc was leaving his house in the marfling,         immortality of the soul. Such a meeting had
> he had gone only a short distance when he            never been held in Kuwait before.
> was k~lockedd o m by a heavy wooden vase
> fnft of dry earth which fell on bis head from
> the window of a nearby house. We got up,
> with blood pouring from his nose and fore-                      PAUL GOLLMER
> head, arid managed to reach the h o ~ ~ sTwo  e.                    1886-1961
> pasers-by witnessed the event and one of
> them harried to stop a taxi and took the               The friends called bin1 ibe "faithful St.
> youth to the government hospital. A few             George" of the Stuttgar Bah2i community.
> ~ncrmenrslater he lost consciousl~essand the        His life bad been devoted to the Cause of
> sight of his eyes, so that he was unable to          Bah&'ti'u'llah. He died an September 9, 1961
> give his rmme and address. It was later             a few days before his 75th birthday. He
> announced that a fractured skuli had caused         longed for those everlasting realms into
> THE BAHA'I W O R L D
> 
> which his dear wife Martha had preceded
> him the year before.
> Paul GoIlmer was born on September 21.,
> 1886 in Stuttgart-Bad Clannstadt. [When he
> was six his father died and his mother, a very
> pious Cilristian, brought him up in finn
> discipline and loving stxictness. At the age
> o f f~urteenhe went to work as a journey ma^-
> joiner in Kanigsfeld; an accident caused the
> loss of several fingers and hc could no Ioriger
> continue in this field of work so he returned
> to Stuttgart and found a post with the
> "Aliiaraz," a Stuttgart insurance con~pany-.
> Because of his willingness, industry, reliability
> and general ability he rose in fie company.
> From his early youth he had been a true
> see-ker ax] dl in 1910 he hzd the great privilege
> to hear of the Faith. Kt?accepted it inl~nediate-
> ly with zeal and entbt~siasmand all his life
> he was a loyal, devotcd and vely acljve
> follower of Bah2n'lihh.h; and to spread the
> Cause amongst his fellowmen was his rnost                          Paul Gollmer                        I
> ardent desire. He was anlelnbes of the German                                                          I
> 
> BahA'1 community which was founded in                                                                  I
> I
> 1912 and at a later d a b became a member of meeting place in the bolabed town, and at
> I
> the publishing house of the German BabB'is, that t h e he tried to have public meetings                I
> bemining its head in 1928.                        a ranged. When he met with success these
> In 1913 he was blessed by a visit with meetings were visited by many contacts.
> 'Abdu'l-Bahk in Stutzgart. In f 919 the beloved After his ~etireinenthc +kited a number of
> Master hoaored 11im with a Tablet, and in Bah2.i coinn~unities,groups 2 s well as isolated
> 1936 he went to visit the Guardia~~      in Haifa, friends, all over Wiirttemberg whenever they
> ~etusningdeeply imnpressed with all that he were in need of persolla1 or spiritual help.
> had see11 and M t there.                              When this ardent, enthusiastic, devoted m d
> For maay years he was a member of the faithfa1 foJ3ower of the Cause died it was a
> National Spiritual Assembly o f Oernmy great loss for the friends of Stuttg~~strt,            and
> and Austria, and of the Stuttgmt Locdl niavy others in that area, and he will always
> Assembly on which he served as chairinan be remembered by the Sawis grarcful for
> numerous times, E c rendered miqhie services the services he rendered the Cause of Uah&'uY-         I
> I
> to the Faith in Stuttgart during the tiiiie of IlBh.
> Adolf Hitler. PJthou& always loyal to the
> government, he was jlever willing to compro-
> nlise in any cluestisnu or matters concerning
> the eternal truths of the Faith* He alsa did
> a great deal in securing aiuch of the BahB'i
> literature and saving it from the Gesiapo; he                    FRANK ASHTON
> was indefatigabtblc in contintlally strengthening
> the bonds between the friends at a tiine when         Frvlk Ashton was born in Froasham,
> they were not permitted to gather togelher in England, July 3, 1879. He attendcd school
> meetings.                                          at Durham where he trained to be a macllinist-
> After the war he tried his best to have the engineer. He came to the United States while
> prohibition of mzetiags cancelied and with still a yonng man and worked far many y e a s
> thc help of John Cichenauer this request was in I3a11arnafos the United States Government.
> finally s u ~ s f u l .lTrom 1945 the frie~lds Later he was employed by the Pei~nsylvania
> gathered a t his home far there was no other Railroad and the11 by the General Electric
> EN M E M O R I A M                                    93 5
> 
> Company. Duin:: World War I X he was ia
> the employ of the Navy Department in the
> Navy Yards at Kittery, Maine, and toward the
> end of the w a at Mars Island. Califo nia.
> In everything he did he had a high sense of
> perfection and of duty.
> Frank bras an expert: cricket player and
> member of chanlpionshitip teams in the United
> States. Wheii over fifty yeais of age he was
> s member of a teal11 which t o r ~ ~ eCanada
> d
> and the eastern United States. He was an
> agreeable coinpanion, a good sport, and he
> was huumble; Illroughout his life be was a
> lover of the o~~t-of-doors.
> He heard of the Farth white living in Detroit,
> Michigan, from the well-known BahB'i
> teacher, Mabel 2ice-Wray Tves and b e m e
> a sincere, dcvozed and faithful believer, ever
> busy in the Cause. For many ycars Frank
> was a member of the Spiritual Asse~nbiyof
> the BahB'is d Phiiadelphia and, later, of
> Eliot, Maine, whme he also shared in the
> activities of Green Acre. His servicrs, though
> unobtrusive, \ m e always constructive and          serve liie beloved G~saxdianand to carry out
> wherel~erhe went he was a stabilizing factor.       his wishes.
> Ee was fLnn in the Covenant. These qualities           One of Prank's chief ~F~aracteristics    was
> were a great asset when the call for pioneers       his instant, unhesitating response to the calls
> came from the Cruardian. It can be truly said       of the Guardiac. In thc First Seven-Year
> of Frank that ivherever he went, people were        Plan hc came from Ftorida sild pioneered in
> glad to have him arrive, and when he Mt.            Portsmouth, New Hampshire, v~L1ere he
> they were sorry to have l~ilizIezve; his was        becanletisenlainstayoFtheSpiritua1Assembly.
> a rare spijt. f i e had the most great faith in     Later, when he was transferred LO &S ?Vest
> BahB"u'llAh,          demonsbated this faith        chtsst m1d v~zsa inember of the 53x1 Francisco
> through many trials and ~icissitudes. The           BahB'i community, he xespon6cd tc the need
> soul of honor, he was dependabibie, generous,       for a pioneer in karmic, 'CV:iomi.ng, and
> sacrificial in his attitizde. He was g:eaily        hsIlsed establish and maintain a Spiritual
> respected, not only by his feilow bdieves,          Assembly them. 111 the Second S c v e n - " ~ ~ ~ ~
> but also by the people with zvho~nhe worked.        Plan he illso \vent as a pioneer to Red Bank,
> They trusted him, and throug;~the bounty            New Jmsey.
> and protection of Baha'u'llhh their trust was          When his Lzealth became poor, the doctor
> always justified, Frank was a iiving iliustration   advised him to go tu a warmer at-ea, so he
> of the phrase "His word was as good as his          went to Florida arid settled in St. Petersburg
> bond."                                             where he was as a c t i ~ ein the teaching work
> Z30ssessed of an excelle~ltmemory and a          as his hedth would ailow, giving the Message
> clear, distinct v~ice,it was his joy to recite      and arranging mecti~ngs.
> the B&b9sAddrcss to the Letters of the Living,         Agait:, in the Ten-Year World Crusade,
> the Tablet of &mad, arid other gems from            Frank could not resist the call for pioileels
> the Writings of BahA'u'llah, thi: B5b, 'Abclu'l-    m d he vc)iurrteered for the foreigo field.
> BahSi an6 Shogbi Effendi. The many hundreds                   ii1 and ?rail, hs moved to Miinterrey,
> who have heard hill1 will never forget the          Mexico, in July 1955, and thsse joined in
> spirit o f love and devotion with which he          fornzing a group which was destined to
> spoke and the spiritual atniosphere that was        achieve Asselnbiy status within a month
> created. His whole life revolved around             dter his death on March 23, 1956. His life
> lSahB'uytl& m d his greatest desire was to         on this earth ended cvhile he was serving in
> 936                           T H E B A H A ' ~W O R L D
> 
> the forefront of the pioneer ranks of .the
> Cause to which he Ezrzd dedicated his life.
> After his death ize following message was
> received from the beloved Guardian:
> "Praying progress soul Kingdom. His
> services meritorious."
> HARLANE. OBER
> 
> In November 1923 a public meeting %as
> held by a religious body-New Thought
> Society-in Adelaide, South Australia, The
> gucst speakers wsre Mr. and Mrs. EIyde
> TItunn, recent arrivals from America and their
> subject was the BabQ'i Faith.
> Seated in the audience were Mr. and Mrs.
> Percy kleade Aln~ond, perplexed, seeking
> a faith, aware of something they one day
> hoped to h d ; and now they were waiting to
> hear yet another speaker. As they listened
> their thoughts rapidly turned to awe, and
> turning to one another they whispered, "This
> is it," Their seaxch had ended, their road to
> eternity had begun-they had found the            Mrs. Almond carved a niche for herself in
> BaM'f Faith.                                   the early Baha'i history o i Aust~z-alia:
> A Rose
> Just two days after this meeting Mrs. Garden School was established by hei- for
> Ahnond and her husband entertained Mr. children in and mound Adelaide, her gin
> and Mrs. Dunn in their home and accepted of music helping her vely much in this work.
> t h e Faith of BahB'u'UAh, and as a result Eve~rtuallyshe added sonlething of wider
> there was formed the first Bahii Group ia value which was a Correspondence Rose
> SOU&A u s % T & ~ ~ ~ .                        Gafden School and the lessons from this
> In 1927 Mrs. Almond was to see the result school were sent to all the states in Australia
> of her teaching work in her own honle town. and as far as thc island State of Tasmania
> That year the first Local Assen~blyu3asformed where children svere eager to get thesewonder-
> in Adelaide. This d e ~ a u tsoul then went ful lessons, so well ~houghtout and well done.
> farther afield to the State of Victoria, as a They were appreciated by adults, too, vvho
> pioneer. The Faith became very precious to kept learning about the Faith along with
> her as the years passed; the Continent was their children, and in this way Nrs, Almond
> Lrge, the laborers few and she realized there literally sent the meaning of the Greatat
> was much work to be done. When she Nanie to the Bah8'i children all owr this vast
> returned to Adelaide she accomplished nlucl~ continent. Today in Australia these same
> useful work in goal areas of the Seven- chiIdren have formed wonderhl Youth.
> Year Plan. I n 1955 she and her husband Groups while others have become adult
> tisited the Pacific Islands, NewZealand, and BaWis.
> other places where they encouraged the           At the time of her passing Mrs. Almond
> pioneers in their work with the nztive popula- was a member of the Asian Teaching Coin-
> tion. Mrs. Almond's letters were known fax mittee, on which she had served since its
> and wide for the encourageinmi =ad inspira- incepti~nin 1953, and she had devoted 37
> tion they contained to new believers, pionees years of her life to the Guse of Baha'u'liiih.
> and those serving in isolated places both She had kept her wonderful sense of humor
> at home and abroad.                            and every visitor to ker home was assured a
> I N MEMORIAM                                             937
> 
> happy time and always came away with a
> more intimate knowledge of the Faith.
> On December 23,1960 she died. One of her
> fron~Holy Scx-iptul-ewas :
> favorite '~~erses
> 
> "Waft, then, u~rtome, G nzy God r i d
> Beloved, ffidomthe rigfit hand uf Tizzy mercy
> and Thy loving kindness, the holy breatlzs
> of Thy jhvorar+s,that they may draw me away
> from myxev end from tile world rmfo the
> COL!PISof Thy nearness nad TIT>)presence."
> 
> Surely ~ v i t bthese words in her beast Mrs.
> Almond passed to the Abha Kingdom.
> 
> 'Azizu'ilAh San~avrdariwas born in tile city                'Azizuu'llah Samandari
> of Qasvfn, Persia, Marc11 21, 1910. After
> finishing his primary education he went to
> the Bdik'l secondary school io Tih~Ln.As a           positions, and with his wife, Bahiyyiil,
> student he showed such zeal and enthusiasn~          readered wanderiiil services in the honxknd
> in teaching the Faith that ever since he was         of BahB'u'llih.
> known as a very firm Bah8'i.                           When they heard of the beioved Guardian's
> When the Persian governnaent decided to          sail fop pioneers the Sama~idarifanlily left
> send students to Europe for further studies          their home in Persia for Turkey and went to
> 11e was one of those chosen. After years o f         reside in the beautiful city of Izinir wi-iel-e
> study he returned to Persia a welI-qualified         they rendered wonderful service. Unfortunate-
> engineer. Although he was well knoivn as a           Iy Mr. Samndari was to be wiW1 his family
> BahB'i he was i~nnieaiatelyappointed as the         for only one year-and-a-ltalf i s that pioneer
> head of all the sugar factories in different        post; at the agc of forty-six years he x7as
> parts of Persia and he mailaged to conduct          suddenly summoned to the AbM Kingdom.
> these factories, in different stages of develop-
> ment, and in spite of many djtficulties, success-
> fully. The gos7ernmnentlater appointed him as                  ROBERT S. BROWN
> the gencral manager of the Industrial Bank                           1891-1962
> and commissioned him to go to Europe and
> purchase factories for the couniry.                   One of the very early believers of Australia,
> Wherever he went Mr. Samandari demon-           Mr. Robcrt S. Brown of Adelaide, Sout.11
> strated the teachings of his beloved Faith by       Australia, passed to the AbhB Kingdom July
> his honesty, upright conduct and pure               8, 1962 after thirty-two years of faithful
> character. Due to such excellent qualities and      service to the Bah25 Faith. He abandoned
> his being known as a Bah&'i-(for      four years    the physical garment happy in the k~~owledge
> secretmy of ths T i h r h Local Spiritual As-      that he had been spared long enough to enable
> sembly)-he was the subject of many severe          him to donate all his worldly wealth to the
> attacks by the people. In order to spend all       BahB'i Faith. He had made it his life's work
> his time and energy for the C'ause of God he       to support the Bahi'i Fund and this hc did
> retired from all gavernmenfA ranks and             with mfaiIing regularity and great generosity.
> 936                           THE B A H A
> 
> R1usay-n R6ki was born in Cairo, Egypt,
> in 1878, the son of $&j MaUB 'Ali Tabrizi, who
> was a BahA'i teacher and pioneer sent to
> Egypt by Bahtu'llkh. Rir~was a young boy
> whei~his father was killed during a teachiog
> journey ~ Z I Diar-Bekr, Turkey.
> After the martyrdom of his father Ritbi
> stayed with hjs mother and thsn joined the
> household of B&j IMlfzk Ijsasa-~S#tklir&sani
> who aided in his education at school, taught
> him eke Persian l m g ~ ~ a gtaught
> e~    hiin the
> Faith, thus preparing hiill for iitture service
> to the Faith of Bahi'u'liih.
> In 1899 4fAj Mir& F3asan and others were
> sent by 'Aiidu'l-Bah8as special meshcngcrs
> to the Uaired States mrl Epusa31 was choseil
> to be the intespreter for the group, They n?zde
> &eir headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, and
> stayed irr the United States until 1982, ~ind
> Ri&i seized the opportunity during this time
> to colntinue his college education.
> After his rcturn to Egypt, Rirbi worked as
> Robert S . Brown                     a teacher of the E~rglishImguage at vafio~rs
> schools and later published two bi-weekly
> magazines. Although these magazines w e ~ e
> published to i~elpteach EngElish, evcry issue
> Mr. Brown was a meinber of h e first conlt;ked sn article which mentioned the
> Spiritual Assembly of Adelaide. Always Cause or its principles.
> practical and just in administrative iuatters he     During tIie year of 1906 the greclt B&&'i
> was, at the same time, kind znd tolerant. His teacher MirzA Ab2l-Fad1 stayed in C ~ i r o
> acts of kindness and generosity to those in and R6b.i was one of his constaai companions,
> need were too numcroizs to bc counted.             aticnding nost of thc meerings at which
> He was a ddegate to the 6rsl Convc~~tion Mirz$ Ab6'1-Fadl hught.
> of Australia which nas held in Sydriey in 1934       In 1910 RShi estabIiskcd Abbassia Schools,
> and elected Chai~l~ian   of this Co~~veniioa   as na~ncdafter 'Abddl-BahB 'Abbbs, in Cairo.
> we12 as Chairman o f the first Nation21 Spiritual These were two schools, one for boys and one
> Assembly o f Australia and Nen Zealand which for girls in which both BahVi aiid nun-Bakjli
> was fornzed at that Convention. He served youngsters were enrolled. The schools con-
> in this capacity with grcat distinction for timed to sene the czuse of ducation anti1
> several years.                                     1919 when by form of cirtxmstmces they
> Although rile last twelve years of his life had to be closed.
> were ones of painful illness which made him           In 1920 Ruw was offered the past of
> unable to move a bout freely he never hiled, to hspector of Education in [he ~zcgilyliberated
> deliver the message oE the Fzith to all with Palestine, an oRer whicli he gladly accepted,
> whom he callle in contact and his enthusiasm because it meant being near his beloved
> never wancd.                                        Master, 'Abdu'I-&ihA.. His p0s.t was loc~ted
> The devoted service of &is staunch early in Jerusaienl and Born there he paid frequent
> believer of the Faith shines lilce a bright jewel visits to tile Master in Ha3fa.
> in the early history of the Faith in Australia.       After the pasing of .Abdu'l-B&A, R&&
> remained f i m and fai~Vulin the Faith a d
> on the fortieth day of the ascension U b i was
> IN MEMORIAM                                              939
> 
> Cemetery in Cairo, aad may the Mercy of
> God yest upon his soul in the Abhd Kingdom.
> 
> CARL SCHEPFLBR
> April 8,1583 May 17,1962
> 
> The passing of Carl ScheBXer lmrics the
> departure o f yet ogle nlorc from Ihe rapidly
> thinning ranks of those who enxbracetl the
> Faith of BahB'u'll6h in its very eajy days in
> hnerica.
> About the year 1897 news of a "teacher"
> was brought to the Scheffler Iamily by a
> cousin who mged investigation so persistently
> that several membe's of the family, includiilg
> Carl and his mother, went to hear %hat the
> teacher had t s say. This t e a c h was TbcAhh
> &&aym'li&h x7ho had coim from Egypt on
> business associated wlth the Cllicago World's
> Fair of 1893. The fanlily attended his lect~rres
> and decided 'chat what Dr. IQaym'llAh was
> present to take an active part in the mcrnorable telling about ths Message of BahB'u41C14?^was
> meeting when the Wilt and Testament of logical, and as one of them said, "made
> 'Abdu'l-Balla was read a ~ ~Slioghi
> cl    Ei?'endi was sense," They attended Dr. Khayru'lI&'s
> prociainled Gumdian of the Bal-iB'i Faith. classes and eventnaily became $ism believers
> Ri&i ranaimd in Palcstinc, holding many and remained so despite Dr. Khayxu'liah's
> Imnport2.11t goser~l%neilt  positions, until 1435 o ~ i subsequent
> n           vioiation.
> when he was retired with a pension. D~rring          There was of course no administrative
> all this time he was in constant touch with pl-ocedr~reas prese~t-dayBaha'is know it,
> the beloved Cruadhn and was always glad to but one of the devoted believers, Ivlrs. Fannie
> Be t h e contact with authorities in the area on Lescl~,lilore farsighted than the rest, perhaps,
> matters pertaining to the Cazse when the kept a record in a laxge ledgel. of ths mum,
> Guardian requested biin to do so.                  date and ,~umericalsequence 01 aU emoI1ees.
> Upon ~ e t i r e ~ nRi~bi
> e ~ ~ follotved
> t         the Gnard- Carl Schefller, zt tire zge ~f $6, was enrolled
> ian's instructions a ~ dreturned to Egypt in 1899, tfte 665th lo haye declared his hit11
> wlzere he devoted dl his time and abiiity to iii Chicago.
> the ses\~iceof the Cause there, as a member          Qne of the great bounties shoivered upoil
> s f the Local t l ~ dNztitional Spiritual Assem- Carl SchcEler by BahB'u711&h wss that
> Hies, serving on various co~~imitkcs    and aiding Thornton Chase, Aibert Windust, Albsi-t
> in the translation of the Writings fro111 Persian Grecided and others, staunch pillars of the
> into Arsbic. He was always one ofthe teachers Faith, d l considerably older than he, took a
> in the Bah&i' Summer Schools. In his last days gi-eat intexest in his boy and exerted the most
> he was quite happy because he had beea abie profound inflizence on his spiritual deveiop-
> to complete extensive work oT translation melit. He had little formal education, but
> he had srarted and many of these translations inspired by asseciation witti these great souls
> are in manuscript forms.                           to study the Sacred Writings of Bah&'u'llSih,
> On Novcmber 10, 1960 Yrisayn Kithi he becaine a truly educated 1n21-iand a dedi-
> passed away at the age of 82 after a long life cated servant of Bahfi'u'llkh, the Mastsr,
> totally dedicated to the service of BahB'u'll&h. and later, the bdoved Guardian, Sl~oghi
> His body was laid to rest in thc BahL'i EfTerxdi.
> 940                          T H E B A N A ' ~W O R L D
> 
> Wilmette, Ill~nois,he had great opportunity
> to exercisc his rare gifts as a teacher-one
> whose teaching was always dirmly based on
> the BahB'i principles.
> Characteristically, when Mr. Scheffler was
> no longer able to teach. publicly, be began to
> write, with the purpose of elucidating the
> application of the Baha'i Teachirrgs to daily
> living. These essays preseai the philosophy
> developed during a lifeiin~eof close association
> w~ihthe Teachings of Baha'u'll&hW
> The g r i d occasioned by his loss is tempersd
> by &the knowledge that his service did not
> end wizh his departare from this world.
> Following is the tributo of the Hatzds of
> the Cause in the Holy J ~ n d :
> "Grieved passing much loved Carl Scheffler
> steadfast devoted tireless servant Master
> eaaly days Faith h e r i c stop
> ~ Outstanding
> services Teinple Teaclrii~g adnlinistrative
> fields period beloved Guardian's ministry
> unforgettable stop Convey deepest synlpa-
> thy family assure ardent prayers HoIy
> Shrines." (signed) Handsfaith May 20, 1962.
> 
> Carl Scheffler
> 
> Iu 1907 Mr. Schefler, in company with
> Mr. Chase and Mr. Arthur Agnew and his                          'ETHEL DAWE
> family had the great bounty of being permitted                     1902-1954
> to visit 'Abdu'l-BahB in His prison home In
> 'Akka, an experience which deepened still          Miss Ethel Dawe ascended to the Abhd
> more his spiritual perception,                   Kingdom on September 18, 1954. Her
> At an early age Carl Sch&er became a passing was deeply felt by all who knew and
> member of the first "House of Justice" in loved her. Miss Dawe entered a hospital
> Chicago, autl~orizedand named by 'Abdu'l- in Sydney in January, 1954, and during her
> Bahk. Later he also served as a member of the prolonged illness demonstrated such sweet-
> Bahli'i Teinple Unity, and in 1925 was elected ness, Iove and radiant acquiescence that she
> to the National SpiritrraI Assembly of the charmed all with whonz she came into contact.
> BahPfs of the United States and Canada, Her remaills wefe laid to rest in the Northern
> on which body he served as a nlenlber con- Suburbs Cemetery, Sydney.
> tinuously until 1938, part of the tinle as its     The National Spiritual Assembly of the
> National Treasurer,                              Bahgr'r'sof Australia and New Zedand cabled
> He was an effective speaker and rendered the beloved Guardian the sad news of her
> valuable service in this field. As a teacher for passing and he replied:
> groups and individuals he wds m~surpassed,         "Grieve loss devoted capabIe pronloter
> particdarly with youth.                          Faith Ethel Dawe notable sexvices unforget-
> In his chosen frdd of secuIar activity, first table reward assured Kingdom."
> as a commercial artist and the11 as owner and      Miss Dawe was born at Burnside, South
> director of the Evanston Academy of Fine Australia, October 17, 1902. Of her early
> Arts and Dirsctor of Art in the North experiences as a RahB'i she mote:
> Evanston F'ublic Scl~ools,as well as some of       "'heard
> I      of the Faith in 1931 through my
> the parochial schools in both Evanston and mother's cousin, Maysie Almond. She and
> IN MEMORIAM                                                 911
> 
> her husband were the lint two people to
> accept the Cause in South Australia on
> l~earingMr. and Mrs. Duim speak in Adclaxde
> in 1924.
> "Aftel rearling Tile Hiddetr Words, The
> S e v e ~Valteys, and the Kildh-i-f&in, I recog-
> nized in my h a t the tnzth of the Revelation
> of Bd~k'u'liBh. My active pa~ticipationin
> the life of the BahB'i Faith began at a meeting
> held as a me111orla1 to the Greatest Holy Lea[
> in July, 1932, a serious illness of many months
> prior to t h i s having caused me to miss the
> meeting held for Keith Ransom-Kehler who,
> however, had graciously visited me although
> I was not thcn a declared BahB'i.'"
> In 1934 Miss Dawe was elected a nien~ber
> of the Spinkual Assembly of Adelslide and
> attcnded the Errst Australian BaliZi'i Coilven-
> tiou t~cldIn Sydney.
> Miss Dave in 1937 was appointed tem-
> porary collaboraiar for Austrlia to the
> League of Nations and visited Geireva,
> S\~itzelrland.While working at the League of
> Nations, she met ~ a d a n l e~ r e ~ i u s - B a r n e ~
> whose name had long been known to her
> through. Madame Barney's intimate associa-
> tion with the Holy Family at HaiFa, a d also Scott, and a week at Edith Sanderson's
> as the doyen of women in the intellectual apartment.
> Co-operation Section of the League of                     "From there 1 journeyed lo London in
> Nations. Afte~visiting Budapest, V ~ e m a.ad December 1937, and met. with great pleasure
> Gelmany, MISSDawe was inwted by Madame the Dah2is of London. The greatest joy was
> Barney to visit her in Paris, at the time of the an afternoon spent with dear Lady Blornfield,
> Paris Exposition of 1937 which was Irejd in whose Loving radiance still illumines my
> Ule Gardens of the Trocadero. It was in these thoughts.
> gardens that 'Abdu'l-B&a used to walk,                    "Then I set sail in the Stintheden for IXajfa
> where he would sit and over3ook the playing at the invitatioil of the Guardian, arriving on
> fountains. The Exposition had raised the January 6, 1938, for approximately ten days.
> Pavilion of Peace--with its high colarnn in How cajl I describe the Gmsdian? His power
> which tvas placed the golden Star of Peace-            and his love surroz~ndall on this easlh.
> overshadowing the whole of the Exposition.                "The meeting with Ri~biyyihKhkn~zmwill
> At the gate 'Abdxi'l-Baha used to enter, the remaill as an inspiration with ine all my life.
> Exposition had erected the Pavilion af Pales- The meeting with the Holy Mothei-Mush
> Zlne. In a letter Miss Dawe wrote:                     F&tnum-was      an inestimable privilege. I
> "Madame would take me to walk in the shall always hear her say as she folded me in
> garde~rs,foIlorving the path she had trod with her arllrs, 'Read the Words of Bahb'u'llSl,
> Rim. Precious indeed were the words she dear, read the Words of BahB'u'll&h. They
> spoke, telling what the Master had said. are creative Words. Blcssed are the hours
> Scarce could we teas ourse3ves away fro111 speizt u7ith the Word of God.'
> the sparkling, playing fountains which He had            'The visits to the Shrines, to Bahjl and to
> loved so much.                                         h e Most Great Prisoix at 'Akkii, made so
> "Joyous indeed was the visit to Paris and great an impression that life is forever
> also the association with the BaM'i com- changed.
> munity .there; a Feast at the home of Madame             "On leaving, the bdovcd Guarclian entrust-
> Dreyfus-13araey, a week at the studio of Mrs. ed m e to carry to Australia a Lock of the hair
> 942                            T H E B A H A ' ~W O R L D
> 
> of BahB'u'lllah, The Greatest Holy Led                         AMY DEWING
> herself had arranged this lock. The Guardian
> was sending it to Australia, to the beiievers,     On Septenlber 11, 1959, New Zealand lost        I
> 
> because of their distance from the Holy Laad. one of its earliest BahB'is with the passing
> He especially wished Father and Mother Dun11 of Mrs. Amy Dewing, at the age of 83. From
> to touch the sacred lock of hair.               the time whm she &st heard of and accepted
> "The precious lack journeyed wi.th me llze Faith from Father and Mother Dunn she
> to the fxiends in Port Said and Cairo where the ivas active in spreading its Message and in
> Guardian had sent word that 1wsls co~ning. assisting in the establishment of the Ad-
> Four nlcmorable days were spent wilh the ministrative Order of B&&"u'llLh iin the
> woadcrful BaWis there before joiiling the A~atipodes.Her name will forever be reinem-
> iWh!oja for Australia.                           bered as one of the sn~all;u'ld persevering band
> "'RILIS I was home in time for dear Martha of New Zealand believers who remained firm
> Root's last visit to Australia in 1938, which and ~tea~lfast    in the face of many obstacles
> was of suclx beneiit to us dl."                  and who lived to witness the emergence or the
> Aftex Miss Daiie's rcturn fconz abrcad she New Zedand c ~ n z m n i t yinto an indepenclent
> was apyoi~tedTalks Officer for the ,kastralian exisleace, separate from tirat of Austraiia,
> Broadcasiing Convlzissionfor South AustraZia. aild wit11 its ow2 Natioaal Spkiiraal Asscn1b3y.
> AltI~oughher home was ill Adelaide, she was
> able to visit and assist the friends inTasmania,
> Melbourne, Sydney, and also to attend the
> Yeri-inbooIBah;i'iSumnler Scbod. Several vis-                   JEAN SILVER
> its weremade to Canbol-ra. In 1947, 1948 arid
> 1949 she made three visits to Perth in Western      Miss Jean Silver, who passed aw-eyin kyan,
> Australia, a11din 1949 vent to England for one Massachusetts, 01% August 14, 1959, was one
> year where she assistcd in the British Six-Yeax of those ardent early pioneers who have lent
> Plan. Her services on the National and Local distinction to the annds of tke American
> Assemblies and on committees, as well as in BA9'i Comirtuzity. I I was chiling the first
> the teaching field, are, as the Guardian says, great Seven Year i>im of Shoghi Effendi,
> "unforgettable."                                 when the objective was tke spresd of the Faith,
> Miss Dawe's charming personality and wide according to 'Abdu'l-BabZs Tablets of the
> range of knowledge and experience made her D i v i ~ ~Plan,
> e       fnrosghout Latin America,
> services very valuable in Bahgi activities. As that Jean Silver w c ~ to  t Caba to teach the
> a n executive olflicer of Ihe Australian Broad- Cause of God. Year after year she remained
> casting Com~llissio~~     hex position as Talks at her post         illness and advanced years
> Supervisor enabIed her to meet many per- nsacle it impossiblefur h6r to go on pioneering.
> sonages of high standing both nationally and       Together with Miss Jasephiile Kruka, Jean
> intc~nationally,to many of whom she gave succeeded irt esiabiishing a flourishing corn-
> the Baha'i Message,                              mnanity in Habaila. She tatigl-it the yoz;th and
> Z i i 1953 Miss Daliie accompanied Mrs.       children as well as the adults and her merry
> Clara Dunn, Hand of the Cause, to the Fourth personality, deep conviction of the iruth of
> Xntercontiilentai Conference in Delhi, India, BahB'u'llih's Message, and shrewd mind,
> m d frola tilere she again visited the beloved atti-acted to her many Erieilds and admirers.
> Guardian at the World Center of the Faith Indeeed,frfim the many bttcrs she received
> in Haifa, Israel.                                f~om  the bcloved Guardiuz, it is clear he too
> a?-mired her indonlitable spirit.
> Mter the F a ~ t hwas firmly established in
> Rabana Jean moved to Cie-nfuegos-"a
> hundred firesw- a d there lighted the fire:
> of " k love of Gcd in many hears. Her name
> will forever be honoured by the Cuban
> believers as one of the trail-blazers in the
> history of the development of t i ~ Faith
> k     in
> their native land.
> EM M E M O R I A M
> 
> -4th the assunnee of the New Day dawning
> upon hrmanity, a d Iceland in centuries to
> come will look back to her as ro the morning
> star.
> Hiilmfridur hrnadtittir has been accorded                                 MARIONMor MAN
> by the beloved Guiu-6ian the station of
> Iceland's first Baha'i. From her fifst contact
> wit11 the Faith in 1924 ui~tilher passiag in
> 1955, she was alom in her xcdization o f the
> inissian of Bakitl'llSih, the only Ycaiandcr to
> hail the glzd tidi~lgsof &c New Day. Far thrs
> acd far two ~nemoxableservices she will ever             FREDERIXCk AGNES CAREY
> be honorecl in lcela~~dic  history. She was the                       1879-1958
> translator o i Ur, EssIe~aorat'sBaJil4'u'llhh and
> ii?e iVew Era into the Icelandic izraguzge, an        Fzederika Awes Carey was born in Cape
> endwing work of the gredest significsmce Town, South Afaicr;, on Deczmber 1, 1579.
> at this time when the Cm;e is beginr>inpto Eler lifo \+as one of struggle and great deter-
> prow in iceiaizd under the mome~:irm of the minatior, to hold Fast to the principles of the
> Ten-Ymr Cxusade. And she serve5 tireiessiy BahB'i Faith d d n g the time ~ 3 1 2 ~it1tkaf first
> and with great devotion our greaccst Bahsl being iutioduced into Africa. Zer early years
> teachex- Martha Rout, &winsher nriforgei- werc lrted in Cape Town. and laiex Pretsria,
> table visit to IceIauri for one month in 1935, where she trained as a lmrse. She was keenly
> bringing her into contact with many leaders ii~teresteclm helping wornen who were serving.
> of thoaght end paving t h e way for Matila's        yrlso~lsentences; slie mas a rne~llberaf ii~c
> pab!ic work through iectuses, newspapa Pretoria Prisons Zjoard and was respmsible
> art~rlesand radro talks.                            for &ding sriirable occupalioils for sziieral
> Ttie !vlesszge of BahB'u'llt ccamc to Miss women rc!ciiscd from prism and seckirag
> Ainadiiiiir thrcmgh Mrs. Amelia Collins, reI~abSitatiun.
> who with her 111~sSandvisited Reykjavik for                    I ~ she met an a d e n i Bah&'i,
> A ~ O F1920,
> two days ir, 1924. "Tcdand made sr liolic",ay Fanny KnoblocfL fzon? the United States,
> of t-k*elm&ng of o.acr~xlscr," Mrs. Collins who proved to be a groar i d x c ~ l c in    e her life.
> Fa; rrxdrlcd, as it was thc largest to haye Miss Knoblock vlsitcd 51fx Zlo111s in A:ca&~s,
> eatcred the harbor to that date. Martha bas Pretoria, a:;d also nnct her I~usbandHaxry
> written of this historic meeting i;i these uicrrdf: Carey. 'Fhc ibilctvirtg quotation is Fra3 Miss
> "'One shouiii begin any saga, any article about Knobloch's account of her experience? in
> Imland with tke llarne of Einar 56nsson; he Soutli Africa: '-In this city Mr. and Mrs.
> is I h e greatest soul in Icdaird today . . . It Cmey gexe~ausly sttpported the Cause by
> may have been only a coincidence3 but it is opening t h i s home as the center of 1[3ahBYi
> like a confixmation from God t h a t i t was in activities, The first South African Bsli5'i
> this lofty Einar 46mson Mnsemn that the Assen~blywas orgailizcd there ir? 1925."
> MiIZj-Hcildridrit- f i o ~ e ror" friendship was      The mei~~iile;-s
> of the comn~unityestablished
> first plmtcd in Iceland." It was the planting by Fanny Rr,obluch, gia&uaXly dv$<ndlad
> of the divine seed in Iceland, beautifuliy and ~ m t i ionly Agnes Caey remained, a d for
> loyally tteaded by MiUy for over tliirty years; tweniy yerrzs she saw no BakB'i fcie~lel;but she
> a ~ d  the association of tI.isse two spiritual kept in t o ~ d with
> i         BahB'i world through
> sours warmed aud crrltivaied this vital corrsspondecce wit11 our belcved G ~ a d i a n ,
> Nufihe~aland for the rich harvest v~lnich Shoghfii ESenifi, who proved to be her great
> eve11 todzy %naybe glimpsed axld con.Sd~,atly source of spisiitt~aicomfort aad Inspilatian.
> antieipszted.                                      When sbr: received ths nlessage from Shoghl
> After a long        rich life dwoied to ku- EEendi calliilgth? Inrcrcontid~ntalCoofexence
> manitsrim and spil-ihal endeml-, Hblmfrid~~r ira Karapaia, W ~ m d ain 1543, dihough she
> passed to the AbhB kingdom at the age of was the^ seventy-three years old, she deter-
> eighty-two, ia Reylcjavik, oni Novernber 25, inined to malce tks joix-ney. This great journey
> 1955. SXne was imly a ilziversal s ~ t i l ,gifted by air was tIie hi& point of her life.
> 944                            THE B A H A * ~
> \VORLI3
> 
> Followir~gis the cabb sent from Haifa,
> Juiy 12, 1958, by itbe Hands of the Cause at
> the time of he*. passing:-'"eel deep sorrow
> passing staunch devoted uphoider Faith,
> Agnes Carey, Services greatly appreciated
> Bclaved. Praying RoIy Shrirjnes."
> 
> Nlme. Bertha Pappiloud was a French-
> tvornm who heard of the BahA'i Faith in
> Asmsu-a, Eritrea, accepted it with enthusiasm,
> and, when the need for service came, arose to
> respond to that need heedless of personal
> comfort and convenience. The need was ia
> Djibouti, Somalia, one of 'Ehe worst climates
> on the East Coast o f Africa. hifnle. Pap-
> Fredesika. Agnes Carey               pilond moved there, accanwanied by her
> dsughter and grandson, despite her yeafs and
> the diEculties she might have to face, and
> S c m after she ~etupnedfrom the Con- helped estabiish the first Spiritual Assembly
> ference, her eyesight and health suddenly irr that city in 1961. She served as a member
> failed. After a long illness, Agnes slipped away of that Asseinbly until her death on December
> pezcefuily in Durban on July 10, 1958. On 15, 1362 in Djibouti. She was also elected a
> the day of her funeral, her dear friend, delegate to the con~entionof the Regiond
> Professor Bishop Brown, who was now Spiritual Assen~bIyof the B&thB'is of North
> pioneering in Durban, placed beside he3. in the &st Africa, held in Addis Ababa in 1962.
> cof^nm a green sprig from &f: grave of her         Upon being infoi-med of her death the
> beloved Guardian.                                Hands of the Cause in the Xoly Land cabled:
> Agxs was a truly wonderful soul with an         "Grieved news passing valiant pioneer
> indomitable spirit. Alone, facing apposition Bertha Pappilaud. Assure ardent prayers
> horn-ever unspoken, ivith no one to succor her shrines convey loving synlpathy bereaved
> ar bring her fresh news fiom the outside iBmiIy,"
> Balrti'i world, she kept the flame of Bzh2u'-      When the history of the Faith in this area
> 11ah burning in that dark lai~d;those of us is written, and future generations of Bahk'is
> cvho came afwher were merely to take a ligl~t look back on their spiritual antecedents,
> from tile flame she had protected and to Mme. Pappiloud's name and example will be
> ipnitz the s~~rrounding    countryside.          revered and enlulated,
>
> — *In Memoriam (Used by permission of the curator)*