# Mother's Stories: Recollections of Abdu'l-Baha

*Exported from [Holy-Writings.com](https://www.holy-writings.com/) on 2026-06-18 — 1 clipping.*

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> The Reverend Howard Ives, a Unitarian minister, pastor of a church in
> Summit New Jersey, and disalusioned seeker for higher truth and the true
> religion, met Abdu'l-Bahá in New
> York City in 1912. After declaring his belief in Bahá'u'lláh he spent
> the rest of his life teaching the Faith of God to who ever he could.
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> This site is dedicated to his memory and presents some memorabilia of
> and about Mr. Ives.  
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> Mother's StoriesStories of Abdu'l-Bahá and Early Believers told by Muriel Ives Barrow Newhall
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>  Download the PDF file of all stories
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> Part One:
> Mother's Stories of Early Bahá'ís
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>  Introduction  
>  O Thou Help Me
>  I Am Doing 
> What Realy Happens
> Tea in Paris 
> Pamphlets
> Teach, Teach, Teach
> Interactive Guidance
> Interactive Guidance II
> Character Development
> Gift
> Service
> Marriage
> Wheel Chair Pioneer
> To the Light
> Unstated Invitation
> Interactive Guidance III
> If Poverty...
> Green Acre
> Deserving Boots
> May waits for Thomas
> The Meeting
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> Part Two:
> Mother's stories of Abdu'l-Bahá
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> Introduction
> Repetition 
> Golden rain.
> Not yet known
> Translation
> Dedication
> At the zoo
> Questions not asked 
> Books 
> Study, study, study 
> Sow the seeds
> A Book
> Obedience and trust 
> Charity 
> Lover of truth
>  Detachmen
> In His footsteps
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>  Download the PDF file of all stories
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> — *Mother's Stories: Recollections of Abdu'l-Baha (Used by permission of the curator)*