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A telegram received last week announced the sudden - oe brother Mr, Dahl of Pittsburgh and Verona, Pa. In ee ax oh peat we feel we should share the following letter from Miss ae cs volatile? Gee information all will want to know and as it expresses so Wel. =
members of the Bahai family. The letter follows:
Cambridge Springs, Pa., September 22, 1920.
My dearest Friends:
Our dear brother, Mr. A. M. Dahl of Pittsburgh passed on to pee cree Concourse September 15. He was hit with an SS... oe ia link a ai fune The body was taken to Chicago and I thi : ere. there, I understood the funeral was to be . ee ee heen
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I found they had all gone except the wife o ‘la were
- a These dear little children
randchildren. I stayed with them one day. i ae Saints speaking of what Grandpa and Grandma”had told ee au little while they would speak of him and put their pretty ; tele. ale bed. Chairs and cry for Grandpa. His photograph framed ri =" hildren's lives. His influence for good will be a great inspiration in those chi
A new Bahai in a store said: "Only two days ago Mr. — shook hands with me so cordially and I was so happy to ane : bee a friend who had heard of the Bahai Cause said: "O Mr. Dak roe ab pe kind and so good!" Every one spoke of him with such yeaa ‘a , eae Mrs. Dahl said to the children "Ve must not cry, I do now —— ioe pea wish us to cry when he has gone", A neighbor said to me: at he iaes great blessing in that she has such a wonderful son as Hilber 1- |
is one of the purest Bahai young men I ever met."
Mr. Dahl was so faithful in the Pittsourgh work. Those porch! « ri Ab him will never forget those days. I never knew him to miss eer as oi . or the feasts. He made photographs of Abdul Baha and gave them to — use in the Cause. All the photographs used in the ae ge ae articles were made by Mr. Dahl. Mr. Dahl went without his oe, or y . and sent’ the money to support a girl in the schools in Teheran, gg y sent her pretty red hair ribbons, pencils and wrote her letters. e _ the Creative Word to send out. He was always a happy Bahai and so ge ae that he gave away nearly everything he had. Several times ic we take his coat off his back and pass it on to some one. In thin ing " Dahl I felt: "How beautiful that he gave his all to Abdul Baha in the ay s when he was here to do it!" Now that he has passed it seems like Oa of joyous music, but in the Hosts of the Supreme Concourse “ rs oved. He can help us from the Other Side and we can pray for him. e are no’
separated; only he is glorified.
Perhaps you have heard of his passing but am sending out this little line to a few of you who knew him best.
ea - Yours in the Center of the Covenant,
MARTHA ROOT. Mrs. A. M. Dahl's address is 236 Railroad Street, Verona, Pa.