MUHJ63-86/150/Passing of Laura Dreyfus-Barney, Compiler of Some Answered Questions

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Passing of Laura Dreyfus-Barney, Compiler of Some Answered Questions

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22 August 1974

[Page 282]To the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of France

150.1 ASCENSION DISTINGUISHED MAIDSERVANT LAURA DREYFUS-BARNEY FURTHER DEPLETES SMALL BAND PROMOTERS FAITH HEROIC AGE.^[1] MEMBER FIRST HISTORIC GROUP PARIS TAUGHT BY MAY MAXWELL SHE ACHIEVED IMMORTAL FAME THROUGH COMPILATION SOME ANSWERED QUESTIONS UNIQUE ENTIRE FIELD RELIGIOUS HISTORY. OFFERING ARDENT PRAYERS SACRED THRESHOLD PROGRESS HER SOUL ABHÁ KINGDOM URGE ALL COMMUNITIES FRANCE HOLD MEMORIAL GATHERINGS GRATITUDE OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT.

UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE

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↑ Laura Clifford Dreyfus-Barney was born in the United States in 1879 into a family of scholars and artists. She learned about the Bahá’í Faith from May Bolles Maxwell in Paris, circa 1900, during the Heroic Age of the Faith (1844–1921). Some Answered Questions, first published in London in 1908 and issued five times since by the Bahá’í Publishing Trust of the United States, consists of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s responses to questions put to Him at table by Miss Barney between 1904 and 1906. In 1911 she married the distinguished Hippolyte Dreyfus, the first French Bahá’í. She died in Paris on 18 August 1974. For an account of her life and services, see BW 16:535–38.

[1] Laura Clifford Dreyfus-Barney was born in the United States in 1879 into a family of scholars and artists. She learned about the Bahá’í Faith from May Bolles Maxwell in Paris, circa 1900, during the Heroic Age of the Faith (1844–1921). Some Answered Questions, first published in London in 1908 and issued five times since by the Bahá’í Publishing Trust of the United States, consists of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s responses to questions put to Him at table by Miss Barney between 1904 and 1906. In 1911 she married the distinguished Hippolyte Dreyfus, the first French Bahá’í. She died in Paris on 18 August 1974. For an account of her life and services, see BW 16:535–38.

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