A TRIBUTE FROM DR. EDMOND PRIVAT
Dear Mrs. French:
I write to thank you for sending me the BAHÁ’Í WORLD. It was a great pleasure to find in it striking signs of the progress of the Baha’i spirit of goodwill throughout the world and also fragrant news of our dear friend Martha Root, so well known and loved by many of us all over the globe.
Dr. Edmond Privat, advocate of Esperanto.
Our respected old friend Professor August Forel died this summer and had his philosophical will read by his son whilst his body was being cremated in the cemetery of Lausanne (Switzerland). It was a very impressive moment when the conclusion came telling all his friends about his belief in the Bahá’í Message and his conviction that it is the one needed by the suffering world.
Coming from such a well known scientist and free-thinker, such a testimony has a great value.
I am glad to see the auxiliary international language, Esperanto (which Professor Forel learned and advocated), being used extensively for the diffusion of the Bahá’í Principles in Europe and Asia.
The practical and spiritual understanding between nations, the realization of the unity of mankind above all barriers of language and religion, the feeling of responsibility towards all who suffer from grief or injustice, are only different branches of the same central teaching which gives the Bahá’í Movement such a faithful and active family of workers in so many countries.
