Transcript of: Reminiscences of serving ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and Guardian in Haifa
Curtis D. Kelsey
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There are many of you who weren't there last night that night. So I thought it might be a good idea to tell you something to ah, about the faith that you don't want any read about. You read the writing. This will go back over quite a number of years. Actually, I'll go back to around 1910. So that's a long while. And the stories that I'll tell you are clear in my mind that they almost time they happened. And, uh, I think it's very interesting to see the environment from which many of us come and how we come into the faith. And so I'm going to be personal on a lot of these stories. You just disregard the personal because you can't tell the story without being personal, Madam. Er, maybe somebody in the room remember They were early behind in Portland, Oregon, and my mother and Mrs Latimer were members of the Browning Society on because my mother was president of that organization and Mrs Latimer, uh, knew something about the behind face. But in 1910 it was very sparse, very little that they knew they had typewritten excerpts from the writings. A matter of fact, I didn't know who Abdu'l-Baha Waas. They were used to refer to him as a great Persian philosopher this term, the years and they referred to by faith is a movement, a world movement. But she would tell my mother about the high faith and their movement. Mother, bring this material home, your house to try it out on the family. And I remember listening to talk about it. But I'd say, Well, you know, Mother, I'm not interested in religion anymore. Material usually go on the bookshelf or whatever we have. We had to hit in words at that time, but accepts and writings were usually type written by friends in the East. They passed them all over the country that way, so I paid no attention to it. But one day my mother announced that there was a man from New York City. Roy. See, Wilhelm. He was a coffee merchant, was coming to, uh, we were living in Tacoma at that time, and she's going to have to speak on this on the behind movement. She won't know if I wouldn't come and listen to him, and I told her No mother, I says you know, I'm not interested in the subject of religion. I'd rather work in my shop. Well, knowing my mother wasn't a kind of a person to take that kind of an answer, she I went down in my shop, all right, in the basement, the house. But I heard her talking to Mr Will home in the kitchen to go down in the basement. Tell me about the behind movement. Well, there's only one way out of our basement, so I knew I had Wait. Take this. When he came down, Well, Roy came down the stairs and I was prepared Thio fence with him on talking about buying movement and never even said a word about it. He came over and he asked me of the delay that I had in a band. So on some other things, he got it interested in the work that I'm doing that we struck up quite a friendship. I looked him over. I said, Well, this is this bullet seems to be quite a guy. There's no cracked up on the subject of religion with the result was the I was quite friendly with him. I would have been anyway, but I was quite friendly with him because I felt here's a man isn't tied up in these things. And while we're talking down there, he says, You know, I'd like to have a shop like this in my home in New York. And if you ever come in New York, I'd like to have you come help me step one up Well, I said, Roy, you know that That's a long way. I don't have a see any chance. Am I ever going to New York? Well, he said, You never know about those things. Well, I says, Well, ever come in New York, I'll certainly be glad to see you And he really left well, about a month after that, the things changed in my father's. A fairy was a civil engineer and he went to New York. Thio set up a business for a firm than in Seattle, and I have been working for Ford Motor Company on the Pacific Coast and I transferred that next two months to Detroit, Michigan. You know, when they were paying a $5 a day, which was quite a you have to account for 1\/2 of that $5 to the Ford Motor Company. You had to spend it on things worthwhile. Furniture, clothing, things that kind if you didn't do it, why the welfare worker came round took $2 1\/2 away from your $5. Well, while I was in Detroit at that time, I felt some need of going somewhere to some religious group. And I joined the Unitarian Church for a short period more for a social background or anything else. And 1\/2 1 Sunday morning, the minister knows that there was man, they're Persian, was present. Who was going to talk to us on the behind movement with my ears picked up? Because here was this movement again. He says anyone who would like to stay after the service and listen to him is welcome to stay. Well, the church cleared out, and I was one in another man than the two of us stayed here. And this was Dr Cia Baghdad e with you. Well, Dr Baghdad, if then if you heard read stories about him and know anything about him, though he was a very on Baha'i. He didn't bother him that there were only two of us. He got up on the platform. Even the minister. Excuse himself. He had another appointment. Well, Dr Baghdad, he got up on the platform and you talked to two of us about the behind. But I don't remember this day when he was said I was so intrigued that here was somebody talking about my movement this past off. And then about a week after that, I got a letter from my father who was in New York. Anyone? No, I wouldn't come here to, uh, spend the Christmas holidays with them. And I made arranged to go east. And I just made the ranger when the foreman was working under there came to me. He says what cat sees is you have to give up your vacation this year. Lesson, Mr. Lasky, I'm sorry, but I made arranged to go east, and I can't give it up releases. You'll have to give it up. I said, Well, I'm sorry. I can't give it up. Made these arrangements. Well, he says you won't get $5 outside the Ford Motor Company. I said, Well, that settles it. Now. I'm not only going here, but you've given my time. And he said, Oh, No, you can't do that. Because in those days you had to explain if you quit forward morning coming. Had to go before the welfare board of Ford Motor Company. Explain why you're leaving such a good job. It took me five hours to get out of Ford Motor coming that final that went on in New York on, uh, on the course. I got a better job when I landed in New York. When I worked with my father and I worked for a number of years After that, I hadn't been home more than two or three weeks and I came down with typhoid fever. You see, I was didn't know anything about faith and accepted. Remember the name? And I was intrigued by the name with his typhoid fever. You have a terrific headache, cos it's and I We were living in Van Courtland Park in New York at the time, and I remember my mother had made me very comfortable trying todo relieve this severe headache that I had put ice packs on my head and she's going to bed and family going to bed. But the pain was so terrific that I was turned over and trying to push my head on a pillow to relieve the pressure on my head. And as I did so, I heard a pool piece orchestra in the room, all the instruments. Of course, there wasn't any physical or instruments there, but I heard it's just a beautiful orchestra that I swung around in bed to see what this waas So I never had anything like that happened to me. And that is if it floated away and I started to follow listing toward, You know, this so surprised me. I called out to my mother. She came running in the room thinking something. Seriously. It happened to me and she found me sitting up in bed and I told her what had happened. And the first thing she did was going get some Baha'i books to find out what this was. Well, she sat up with me the rest the night, and I was reading these books and looking forward. One after another answered question. Hidden words and seven valleys. A few things like that, as I began, really seems I says, Why haven't you told me about this before? Says I've been trying to tell you this for nine years, but you wouldn't pay attention. Well, this so into this experience so intrigued me that I can't on every behind his doorstep that I could find. And I gave up my work. My father says, What's the matter? He says, Can t o be satisfied with a little read? No, I said, Dan, I've got to get around, find out what this is about. And, uh, So I camped everywhere and the guys came in those two or three weeks. I was sick there with the time for a fever. Just had even the doctor came in the next morning and he's probably sitting up. He couldn't understand it. When the friends came in, they tried answer and they couldn't give me any information about this experience. The, uh, well, I went on everywhere to try to find my interest was trying to find the reason for this experience, but at the same time, by doing so, I was absorbing the Baha'i writing Well, then the war came along, and, of course, 1918. I had to take the glint of that and I had an extra gas masks I took Chloe and I had the books with me, my books with me. You know what? What a reception get when you try to give a bunch of soldiers. And, uh, one young man I gave the message to was quite interested. And he and we had only I don't have a chance to talk with him about a week and different things been giving this little nine year, which was very little at that time. And I live separated, and I went on over there through the first World War, and after the war, I was in Paris, is sitting in a restaurant, and I happened to look up, and he was this Fuller had given the message. Who was sitting across the restaurant. We both got up meth and send the rest of the first thing. He says I want no more about behind movement. He became a Baha'i. But then I came back to America, and I was talk down Wall Street vesting with my friend. Mr. Wilhelm was a coffee merchant. He was known in the copy market as the Tiffany of the coffee trade. He made these blends for ah, beast nut and other the leading coffee brands that you know, on the market and he had his office down the foot of Wall Street and Roy. Uh, when I was down there, he said, You never know about these things here. We were in New York, and I had gone out to this place to work on a shot. We had got a shop started one day. We're talking a new merit lunch together. He says, How would you like to go to Haifa? Roy? I'd like nothing better, but that's impossible. Well, he again, he said, You never know about those things. I began to see this some twist of this. Well, he he had written Roy had with the type of a behi that had come into the cause through an inter experience. Also very dramatic experience that he had. And he was a very wonderful believer. Uh, he he was a hand of the faith. As you know, if you've known about him and anything that Abdu'l-Baha would ask him to do it, do, no matter what have the Lord ask him? So Roy had read a tablet of Akka. Baha'i Hall was speaking about the bomb who was imprisoned in the fortress of fortress of Eric and where he didn't even have a candlelight. If you've read that tablet where speaks about the Bob didn't even have a candlelight where it says all the world is illumined with life on the one they're looking for is in prison. Who doesn't even have a candlelight This storm pest Roy that he wrote to amble on won't know if he couldn't send the lighting man over there like this right into the bomb. That long road back says, Yes, you could send three. Right is the kind of father who would send this tree so he right away he sent the three right when he was talking about my going on after he had some planning by have me go over. So when I told him I'd like nothing better, he wrote that law shortly after he wrote bad. Well, I got a cable gram from the master in which all it said Curtis Kelsey permitted. With that came a gram. I got the strongest impression that I must make every effort to go to hyper as quickly as possible, but to get there within the least 30 days, this was the impression I got. Well, I did like all, young man. I didn't have any money to mount anything. You spend what you learned, you know? And I had no model t. Ford. We were living in New Rochelle at that time, and I drove down on the one that grocery stores around six o'clock tonight when I knew several follows and I blew in this busy on I said out would like to buy my Ford. Well, they look with this blank look. Don't answer right away. I was felt kind of CBS, and I started to walk out when the boys came running. Wait a minute, Curtis. Is the battle crime a certain here hill here. I'll give you 100 $50 for it. And I had just clean the spark plugs That's away today. So we went over the hill in high and I got my 1st $150 Then I sold a few other things, and I think I've gotten about 253 $100 together. And I went downtown shortly after talking to Roy. This is how you making out on this trip. And, uh, I said making out pretty well, but not enough. He says, Well, I'm gonna give you $500 more. But he gave me $500. That was then I said, Well, now I've got to act on this. So I thought I'd better go and tell my father because he wasn't a Baha'i, and he had no idea what the by faith. But Waas when I told him he was dead against my going halfway around the world that time. But he wasn't the kind of man with oppose me Just said how foolish it was to go halfway around the world. But we're going to do this work for this little old man after all. Over there in the arts aren't even gonna pay for it. Well, I said that I can't explain to you, but I simply have to go and all. I want your permission. Well, he said, you can go. But he says don't expect any help from me is I think it's a foolish move here. You are just getting started. You're going halfway around the world. Well, I was satisfied, I said I started up, made to buy my ticket, and I went down to find out how quickly I could get there, and I tried to go to Paris and Naples in Alexandria, and we went down by the railroad around my incredible And I said I had to get there in about 30 days and they said, No, it's impossible. You can't do that in that time At least three weeks before I could get a board out of Naples. Well, I said, You give me a ticket that way Anyway, I'm going on that way. So they gave me the ticket and I went on to Paris. But when I get before I left down at the boat for a number of friends with messages to take back to the hall, my father was in the audience and you came over where I was and he bought me a graph. Lex, cameras and film. And then he gave me an envelope. Says you open this When you got on the boat when I got in a boat open, this was another $250 so he wasn't gonna do anything, but he did Well, then we got on the Bolton. I landed in passing. I immediately tried to find out if I could get a standing out of Naples, said no. There's no saving out of there for at least 23 weeks. Well, I said, I'm going on down there. Why don't you step here in Paris? There's a lot more fun here in Paris Down April. If I said no thanks, I'm going on down the maple. I went down in Naples and I made in crepe for saving out of Naples, and they told me there was nothing out of there. So I said to the steamship man, I said, Well, I'll be down to see you tomorrow He says, No, don't do that. He says. We know our business. There's nothing out here. This is where you're staying And I said, I'm staying in such and such a whole cow. He said, I'll call you up if something happens, but it won't happen that satisfy me and call me up. So I went back to the hotel while I was having dinner that night they came and said there was a phone call for me and I went the phone. This the steamship office, he says. How did you know the experience was going to talk here? I said I didn't know. He says, Well, they stopped here to let a sick passenger off. You want it passes. I'll take it. The next morning was on the way to Alexander between our Naples. Now, Alexander, I met Charles Dana, head of American missionary work in Europe. And he sought me out because he wanted to with this young man was going to the near East, and I told him about the Baha'i faces. Well, I know quite a number of the students of the University of Beirut are very fine. Young men says one of things that puzzles me is how the by students are able to convince so many Mohammed is of the Christian faith. Well, I says, uh, mister, uh uh. Well, forget a name that I hope what? Uh I said, uh, that very simple answer there is that the behinds don't tear down the life of Mohammed. What do you want from me? No, I said they accept my mom in the same is a step. Jesus Christ. And he said, Do you mind if I go along with the all the way? I'd like to see this right along Khanum past there, but I've never going up and I said no. So he went with me all the way and went up to see this, right? And then he went on a Beirut. Well, in those days we came on the train and down to train was Abdu'l-Baha Abbas. Hi buckboard wagon. It's four seats in the bag. You may have seen pictures of it and there was a few Gina, you heard a fugitive. The Jap. He's a young man at that time. He's my my eyes. Now, on Dr Lot Fuller came Who's the treasure of International council? Waas. You've heard stories about him when they were down there to meet me at the train, and then we drove up from the station down. Two adult, the Western Pilgrim pals and Mrs Uh, Grave and Nina's graven was there was her name was Cookie, perhaps her to her in a lawyer? California. She was there with a sister, and the Madam Standard from India was there, and we had just passed the time of day when the door opens from the room and out came through the door Abdu'l-Baha all this long flowing camel's hair, robe and white turban and a white beard. And there are no words to describe the majesty of this person is that came through the door as I look down on him and he came through the door and he walked over to the head of the table and see the people. He didn't say a word to me, but when he sat down, I see on this side that David looked over to me and he said, Did you notice how easy it was for you to come here? I had reached there. I had reached there within the 30 day period. Well, then, uh, after dinner, he got us all goodbye and he said, Well, we will see you to its supper tonight. And for many days after that, there were no Pilgrim's on every day at noon. And while I was in Haifa, Master would come over at the table for dinner and they just cost role and and, uh, we have man myself at the dinner table. We'll bring his mail newspapers now. The whole had a brown cat, F Eugene and I would hide the cat when the mass would come in the room. And when I would come over the stories, they let the cat out. Cattle run over and rub up against the massive feet is a pet. It and alcohol was sit down at the dinner table there these days and he pushes turban back on his head. And it was such a wholesome, uh, full meaning of the word simplicity and Abdu'l-Baha a great person is he Waas will read his mail daily there and even talk to us about the faith that these times and he would talk to many times in Arabic and Persian to the boys. And many times they speak to me in English. Well, then, for 15 years he didn't let me go to work at anything. I came over there to set up these plants, the three light plants to why the sign of the hall on about law Baba Mount Carmel in the home of Abdu'l-Baha. Well, I visit myself trying to get everything ready. I got all the parts laid out in catalog, so I knew where to work. Someone had sent Abdu'l-Baha Cunningham car that was in the garage. Didn't know how to operate it on the Ford car that was in the garage. You want without office? I pity myself. Got those in shape was driving those around the streets in those days. If you went around the corner of one of the streets and I had to back up twice to turn a corner and I got those ready and about 15 days, I was getting worried I wasn't starting on these life. Last I knew was gonna take me a long time to get busy. But I didn't dare ask. And above all because I knew he knew standing out in front of Advil horse home. If you've seen pictures of the street in front of Abdu'l-Baha his house, there's a big stone gate and you look through that gate to the porch is about 150 feet to the ports were eliminate the street looking through this stone gate. And I was talking to his grandson and I said, Really, when do you think Abdu'l-Baha? Don't let me start on this work. I've got to get started. If I ever go home, Well, this is a current I don't know when he's gonna just start and really hadn't any Sooners made that statement. I don't know when you're going to start. The Navajo came out the door on the sports be called us is we will start tomorrow. The smile went back in the house while I was delighted to think we're gonna get started tomorrow. And we had a room bedroom in the Western Program house. That was about the size. This square and Dr Lap Pool had a bad day. If Eugene and I had a built in this corner door, was this going before we could get out of bed? The next morning, the master stood in the door. We all resting it up to Rex is about 5 30 in the morning. He says no rest. Then he said to me, He says, I can't go Akka today. What shall I do about it? Well, the last in line line and I repeated to Mass. I says, Well, whenever the masses ready, I'm ready. You said we couldn't go well that afternoon. He sent word over. We were goingto Akka to make raise for lighting this run of the hollow. So four o'clock, uh, rap man and costal and Abdu'l-Baha and I went down to the railroad station knife in that time. The only way you went toe hyper was once a day, the night train from hyper toe Akka Now, Gates, Turkish Railroad or you drove in in his high buckboard wagon By the way of the sea along the seashore. We're taking the train now against Turkey. Israel would and everything was on that train. Chickens and goats and everything else that went long. These people were going this one clip over at night to go in the city of Akka and the train stopped about 1\/4 mile outside The city's Akka is a walled city. And if you didn't get in there, it's six o'clock. When the sun went down, you stayed outside the city at night. Well, we weren't going to Akka that night. We were going to the half miles inland body where the shrine of Baha'i was. We went down the statement heifer to start, and the alcohol didn't get on the train. He sat down the railroad station. The conductor was quite concerned because he wanted the people on the train and he knew that he must have had this experience of number times with that of all because he didn't start the train. But I took a look at these watching. He looked over this station and he didn't go in saying that a lot, but after a while I just sat. Then pretty soon I saw this. I am coming leading a camel, and he walked into the station, sat down and started to talk with him and laughed together in a few minutes after he finished talking. Then how the heart got up, got on the train and we were on our way, landed at Akka. And there was a, well, most wonderful even one of those. Even when there's a full moon and white clouds drifting by in this full moon. You know, just a really spring evening and the train stopped, All the people got out, went back in and we lost that night on the station and really half man and I sat out, stood outside waiting and uh, at all. I didn't get up. He just sat there, and pretty soon, coming through the desert was this big Arab with headdress, blackhead vests and cape hanging down over his shoulders. He was walking alone through the sand and he came into the station, he and have the whole had that conversation, laughing together and talking. And while they were talking and I saw, uh tallied Coming Leaving out Abbas lost White donkey had come from budget and when they got there, the station Abdu'l-Baha got up, got on the white donkey and rule you and wrap mine. I walked alongside the donkey is they rode from temple from the railroad station two badges about two and 1\/2 miles. Akka hopeful is admirable women. And he said, Beautiful night, wonderful sky. Beautiful moon, he says, Are you finding it difficult to walk? I guess I wasn't even thinking about walking. We're walking along side of it. Well, we reached, uh, we reached Badji and I don't remember. The first time is so short. That was such a wonderful thing to be walking alongside of out of the hall. And, uh, at that time, the bloody was not in the possession of the vise. So we went down to a little house on the corner of the garden. We had a group of flight of steps. You've seen them? Perhaps. And then this inner court, with his room a little bit bigger than this and off of the room is a garden with 1\/9 street in it, in the kitchen, where they cooked things on a charcoal stove, and Costco had run on ahead and prepared the dinner. For us. We had a curried lamb with rice and Safran. On it are candied orange peel. There was Persian melons and bowls of mustard, which is like our yogurt with the greens chopped up greens in it on the large Bunches of grapes from Damascus. On the table Match was talking about these wonderful grips that was so tended that the skin you didn't know is that when you ate them, he said, You don't get grapes like this anywhere else. And while we're talking about the grapes, someone rattled across the door and there was a big cross bar across the door in Akka horses, Bismol lobby farming, coming in the name of God and someone rattler during Karsa ran over and removed the crossbar, and here stood in Arab by six foot four. He stood there just grinning, didn't cross the threshold and will repeat business lobby for me. And he came in and add more, setting them down the table the right side of the table, and they began a conversation in Arabic, which I didn't know anything about, and really, of course knew all about it was missing and they were laughing, and all of them were laughing at this conversation. I was very intrigued to know what was going on. And then Roy, uh, Afros told me what the conversation was, and that's what was going on. It seemed that somebody had been stealing Abdu'l-Baha sweetheart. So Abdu'l-Baha had said to this Arab, he said, Is that isn't there tradition among the abs he belonged Thio, Nomad Tribe that they pitched their tents anywhere, he says. Isn't there a tradition among the Arabs is his father hasn't stolen something. His wife won't let him come in attendance night, he says. Yes, that's true. And that horse's will you ever have you ever been kept out of the tent? He said. No, he'd never been kept out of the tent. So I have a horse says had he ever tasted sour oranges in the men said no. He never bothered with syringes will have the horses. They're very good with sugar. On the next day he began to steal our boss our well. The next morning we went into the strain was Abdu'l-Baha Baha'i Law and I could see him today We were standing at the threshold of Baha'i Lost Ryan and Andrew Hall was chanting the Tabriz visitation, and I stood behind him about four paces while he attended this wonderful Tabriz visitation and then add Baha'i said Toe rule happen when he wanted the rugs and things in the strain taken up and taken into Akka. But we didn't know why he was doing. But we took up all the precious things during the strain of a hollow on. And then we drove on Akka, and that evening for supper, we stayed in the house of a boot where Baha'i Allah revealed to act as the book of laws. And, uh, that evening at supper, the chiefs of the Druids came in with two of his sons. The chief was 92 brought to the center and never a very clean tribe of people in 11 and mountains. You could distinguish the Jews by the Clinton, but the father, all during the table, the meal was crying while out, always talking to him, and he was always trying to comfort him. I learned later learned that this father sense that this last time you see Abdu'l-Baha, they looked upon and a law is one of them. They felt that the battle hard fulfill the prophecies for them too. Well, dinner was over and Abdu'l-Baha embraced him and bid them goodbye. When we got in this instead of going back on the train, we rode back in this high buckboard wagon along the way of the sea. Mediterranean Sea, Everybody halfway back from between hyphen Akka, Akka In Haifa, there was a beautiful, sensitive woman comin. I asked a mass if I could stop take a photograph and he said yes, we stopped the car and then I got one the most wonderful short shots of the sunset coming over among Khanum time. Then we drove back the hyper and, uh then an adult hired, uh told me he wanted me to work two weeks on Mount Carmel in two weeks and badges so that I bring the lighting of the strains up at the same time so that they'd be finished so they could turn the lights on both shrines at the same time. Which meant I'd spend two weeks back and then go back to those two weeks to Haifa. It worked well during that time. This is in November. Uh, one night, uh, we were we were in bed. This is middle of night. Someone banged on our door in the Western Pilgrim. Allison said, Get up, get up. The master, The master, Of course, Fujita and Dr Laughton way were so surprised we're out out of our room in no time Flat went over to the masses How I know that. And I walked in the room the master's room and Dr Foreign Group was just crawled closing the master's eyes. He had just passed the way you read stories about the few minutes before he passed away. The daughter spoke to him and ask him if he wanted something to drink and he said he would ask me to drink when I'm passing. I knew he was going Just if the lady's coat aside passed away that quickly And of course, pandemonium broke loose When the massive past people have you ever seen the Mohammed in some of the highs? They're wailing at the thing of that kind. There was just chaos around the hole, and, uh, I didn't seem to be affected by this. I love the master very much, but I didn't seem it didn't affect me emotionally. And I thought there was something personally wrong with me, and I was tryingto affect this emotion. And when I was trying to think that I should take this emotion, I got the thought came even know this is the time to observe. So I looked around what was going on to see everything was there. And here was the greatest Holy Leave. The sister of the Master. And she was going around on this one. And the other one, she took command of meat. We were all crying to this thing. And of course, we went along this sand bar. I followed costume. He got by. All right, we got the next. We got by the Knicks sandbar and we drove on back and we inform the friends and Tahirih Khanum and told me to come back as quickly as possible. So we turned right around, started back, and we could see our tracks in the sand. So we didn't think it necessary to find the sandbar. So I got over the first of all right. But when we came the next one, the water had moved the sandbar and the Ford went down into the water up of the floorboards and started the mortar right in here. We were out in the base and Judy the Noron costume and I all jumped out to save the poor because we're just gradually settling down the sand. We walked around the car lift one wheeled up and when they would lift went in over there. People flat out, they float in the water. Well, I said, this can't keep this up all night. So I said costal was very quick and running down to find the fisherman's map officially. And if Eugene and I kept going around, we're going around for a couple of hours, keeping afford from sinking. And, uh, this is early in the morning on I knew these Abbas there were fishing and throwing the nets out. A very husky man. I could see them way down the coastline there, fishing in Costa ran down to get them. They came trotting back. Get here There jabbering 10 to 12 come running on the truck back along the seashore and they ran on the water and they picked that for the body and Katie, right on shore. You clean the water out of the cover it and drove back to hyper and we got the heifer. There were thousands of people gathered around the master's house. There they knew about came in from the village for miles around. There were more than 10 20 12,000 people around the city of Pipe at the time, and they had sent news to the High commission in Jerusalem about Patty sent word he would be there, and that morning finally came. You've seen pictures of the funeral of old stars the West. You'll see these sets of pictures that were taken and soon as the bridge Hiko Mr came there and the judges and other high officials of Akka coming to pay their respects at the heart coffin moved out the door on the shoulders of the friends down the stairs just to play with on the air. No, no group of people carried that sell for more than 10 paces. They take it away from me. That's the way they carried it all the way down the steps up mon Khanum grabbing up Mount Carmel. And these were non behind that we're carrying the master. They took it away from the pie. When I got up the corner that Boy Scouts placed a Persian Charlotte casket a little further along the Boy Scouts place recently find they carried the coffin up my own common. They set it out on the table there. There's where they gave those nine addresses about Abdu'l-Baha that is offensive, and I remember he was giving the eulogy about Abdu'l-Baha nieces. Don't weep for Abdu'l-Baha. Weep for those who is left here. Remember, you read those nine addresses. You're a wonderful able And he was so enthusiastic and in talking about Akka hard and he started to fall out for the step was simply staying on this stuff. Speaking, restoring grabbed him sitting back on the film world. Then, of course, there's passing in. The master was a terrific experience to the friends. No one knew what was gonna happen, because in those days we had no idea of how the cause is going to continue. And they were long days choke, if any was in in London, and we knew there was a will left by the law. No one knew what was in it. So they're waiting for show defending to come back and show your family arrived I was about a month before he arrived and when he arrived, they opened the red. This will buy. Took about it all day reading the will and testament of master and show you any of course, was appointed guardian in that will. And this was a terrific shock to him. And he was ill for a couple of days. And then he left hyper for two weeks after that. And the cause is in the hands of the greatest. Relief is you remember you read that she had ministers in the face for that period that the guardian was away. Well, then the stories that Abdu'l-Baha had told through the days we could see that he had told us about his passing Anonymous recognizes the time there was one. There was a caretaker. This line of the barb I'm on Carmo who was big husky man and Akka hard gone to him a couple of days before passed. He said, uh, I wish you could carry me away to a place where I could read well to the care to the gardener on top of the hill. He had told him he had revealed a secret that he was going to pass and he hadn't told anybody. But this man had been told where to open the floor of the train for the body of a lot of replaced in the lower part of this ride. So he had opened the floor at that time, and I took a picture of this particular place. But when they lowered the coffin of Abdu'l-Baha down through this opening in the floor, it was this man that Abdu'l-Baha and told him to carry him away to a place where he rests. He was so strong, he wore the whole weight of the coffin was carried down to the fourth from 30 or 40 feet below the floor. So right in the direct center of the trying among common Oh is where everybody was very and in the back three rooms in the center Is that where the body of the mob and of course, uh, there was you, man, you may not have read their story, but I'll just tell you about the gardener who was taking care of Abdu'l-Baha. Gonna was a very wonderful man. He saw Abdu'l-Baha every day and he just couldn't stand that horse passing and even out our problem on Carmelo. Then he went behind the shrine of the bobbin. He cut his throat from ear to ear and you want to be sure he dies. So he took his red turban and catch. The blood is clean. To be sure you died. Rui Chapman came running down to the west until your mouth. The doctor Kruger nine. He told us about we jumped in the Ford and I drove up Mom combo back to find We've found him there and Doctor could raise his head back for me was saying the greatest name doctor was This man will never live. We got him down English hospital Man recovered. He went back to work and he served a guardian for many months. After that. He lived now the sequel that this is that many nights before that adult. I've been talking to us one of these nights. Where is his custom? Talk to us. Every night about seven o'clock. You talked on suicide and he said no one. No one should ever take their life because going never gave anyone a burden greater than make it fair. And then this man was president. Were taken his life cut his throat and he didn't get away with it because he was healed and he went back to serve The Guardian, passed away normally working for the garden. The, uh Well, there were so many other trying to think of something. Stories came there. Life. Well, teachers say that if we could actually see the next world actually see the next world, there's nothing could keep us here. That going fails us from the next step ahead of us. So the will will fulfill the obligations in the job that we have here. And of course, the one takes that step ahead of time. Of course, the classic consequences that definite results that would happen if one took us that ahead of time because you would interfere where they're definitely why they're living here trying to think it was some of the other things that so many things happened there or we were up way were at every night at seven o'clock with the men would meet in that one of the rooms. Now Dolores House, we sit around the wall had all its sit in the corner. There might be 20 years more men saying they sit with folded arms. Never speak in this at all. They were so happy to listen to him. Talk about the face. And I used to sit in the royal office of this corner and this went on in Arabic or person, so I didn't understand much was being said, But I always enjoyed being present while the talks were going on on one evening at the whole, looked over and he said, Do you understand what is being said here in English? I said, No, master, I don't know what your heart says in the language of the heart is much more powerful in the language of words. But you can see that you sense when you talk to people you don't have to say a word if you were really compatible and there's a really, uh, affinity between people. Words are not necessary all the time. Writing all that way back from Haifa with master, he never said a word, but it was a wonderful experience. Just be sitting inside writing back to life. Uh, I was a young man at that time, and we leave you. Also Sunday, we used to go up with the shrine of the Barb and sit in the front room where he talked about the face course. This also was in Arabic, And, uh, there are a lot of things in the face that I was questioning. Not that I doubted them, but they didn't. I couldn't understand them. And I would wear these things on my mind. Well, I don't I can't quite see this. You know, this is a conversation that was going on in my mind and what I was doing. This spot last my mind. Look up when I looked up on alcoholism in corn and he was looking directly at me and smiling so I don't have any doubt like that. You call my thought on these things. Course. The master had passed away and I went back and finished the work. And when I finished the lighting of the shrine, they returned on with at the same time, the one on my own common. I put a searchlight right on the strain of the bob that shone down mon common avenue on a flight on this line of the how long the lights around the shrine you could see across the to life and they hadn't seen electric lights around there At that time, the children were so intrigued by this, like they planned the shadow, the searchlight on Campbell and running down the street. And it's through the ship's off because the Catholic monastery on Point of Montcalm wasn't wasn't right enough. So actually, the lives of trying the bar became the lighthouse for the ships coming into the Bay of Hyper they had. So they had to turn that light on a sunset sunrise every night as the guys with the ships coming into the hyper so that, actually the sign of the bar became a lighthouse for the ships coming in today. Well, one day the greatest or leave, it asked me about the passing of the Mass. If I take a picture of I can understand why she did want a picture of the hallway lay in the bed after his passing, and I had this craft, Lex, and she'd call him in town photographer to take it, he said of his camera. So I couldn't get it, so I had to hold up over my head. I got two very wonderful pictures of alcohol as he lay there, and he had a green turban on. They placed a green turban on because it's green Turban was in. There was a tradition among the Bahamas that the great one will wear this re interment and the picture turned out wonderfully. And photographer who took a picture while he was looking at his place to see Abbas could have dropped out of his hand and broke in a number of pieces so he couldn't use it. Well, I had to Negative. Well, when should defend? He came back, he said. He heard I had these pictures. He asked me to come over to see him. Well, when he told me about these pictures and I said, Do you want to see them? And he said, No, he did not see them and he said he wish I would destroy them. So I said, All right, Benny, I'll be glad to destroy. But can I take him back to show Mr Wilhelm? Yes, you could do that. Let me know when it destroyed. So I took him back to Ah, West Englewood, New Jersey, with him. He was showing Mr Wilhelm because I knew he'd be interesting all these things and we look at them and Then we burned them up together. And I wrote on the sheet that this was done filed in the archives there at the western with assembly. And a copy of this was sent to the garden. That it came time for me to leave life after about eight months there. And, uh, I had Oh, I will come back to tell you the story that tells me because I didn't tell this the other night. A very interesting one. Beauty to the stem. Japanese boy had, uh, been an associate of the famous Japanese active. It came to this country. So say I think his name was in California. There were living together. Their fathers had sent from this country to go to school, and neither one of you were going to school. They were taking the money and having a high old time. And, uh, if Yuji that met Mrs Goodall, this is Cooper in California, and she gave me the message. Well, when she gave you Tito the message alcohol wrote him a tablet on these Tabriz. You can read there where he speaks about any called attention to all the virtues refugees had and told him that this knowledge that he had was much greater than ruling as the Makato of depends enthusiasm. Reddest. Abbas tells me this is me, but the Mass was telling with him because this is different, totally different what I am. So I put the tap of the size about too much. Lady got another Tabriz, Amanda Heart when he did the same thing with it and 1\/3 time came to Fujita about how wonderfully wasn't so for a few days, says Well, he says, I better act on this because something will happen So he didn't He didn't He didn't tell the policy that we're living with what he was going to do. He packed up his bags secretly and went back to school in an over Michigan going. And when alcohol came to America, he sent for Fujita. Fujita travel across the country with him, and he told you didn't finish it, study certain subjects in Man Harbor, and one day he sent for him to come to heifer. So Regina did this base in 19 after Ward ended 1914. Hey said for was 1918. Witness forgot well anyway, with First World War, and he said, for Fujita Fujita went the hyper and Akka hall put him in charge of Western, filled them out as a German. He waited on, he cooked breakfast, war whoever was there. And every morning he'd have to go over and have tea with at the bar early in the morning, which is one of the, uh, a little fellow Baha'i had him get Ah, a, uh, the dress of a judge which is staying was a mullah, which was this long white robe with the white turban. And he had any minute told him to go. This beer's in this period was more what I call him off eating because a few areas here in a few years and he alcohol use the laughing on, get a great deal of happiness, joking with him and the people all over the city of Haifa love Fiji. They knew he was costly, saturated with Abdu'l-Baha. And, uh, but if you did, it was quite worried that here he had gone to college, prepared himself to Avalon, told him, and that always having to do this work. So he had a whole trunk full of tuxedo on old clothes. That kind everyone the one room and I see if you see to sit down and open it from companies. Look at all those clothes, All this stuff, You know where to go. So one day I had Theo, I went I needed some special wire in wiring the shrine of the bomb. Ammon Khanum. I didn't want to put this black wire with, you know, the portion will be the old fast wireless in There is fine. So I have to have a coffee. Let me go to Cairo and pick out some lead wide. I could encase in the dome of the building. It would all be concealed switches. That loss is yes. You can take these either with you knew this would be something for Regina. So we were delighted. We're going toe to Cairo. Is it to find this material disease? And I started out and he took his tuxedo with He was gonna wear that tuxedo. Well, we got off the train and pitch dark and current. We didn't know where we're going to go there and told her to go. We'd find some hotel and we were talking a few days and I talking in the railroad station dark hair together on dhe funds is I call him. But where do you think it is? I don't know. We have walk uptown, find some hotel when we're talking. Some woman came over close to it. There's a lot of heart I looked around. This is Mrs North of Washington, D. C. He had it thio, two sons and a daughter with her. What are you boys doing here in Cairo? And that's what we've come here to, uh, buy cereal grand lodges where you're going? Well, we don't know. We're going up. You're going right? Let me see. So she took us to a Chevron hotel in Cairo. Which one? The main or town where? A beautiful hotel. And he got us a room. But I say it was twice the size of this room. And then it was too big beds in the bed of this high off the floor. Well, if you could see for judo and we opened the door to that bedroom way were sleeping. We were sleeping on beds of heifers that we just had a 3\/4 inch mattress on board and Stephen netting all around. These are in bed. She's been sleeping those kind of bets from London. When he looked, hey was carrying the bags. We went through the door of the room. He dropped the bags, right? His tracker. He let out a war open. He took a nosedive right over the bed. Landed in the middle of Ben. That's falling right up over a nice looking that even here all I could see this little head of the way Mrs. Morris had told us to hurry up and come down to dinner. She was going to come down to dinner in the hotel. So after I looked around enjoy this nice fall feather bed. He got out of bed, get dressed in the tuxedo. We went down to this magnificent dining room in the Shepherd Hotel course. All eyes were on Regina was this little Japanese with smartly dressed tuxedo and so forth. And they actually this into ah, central table in the dining room. And everybody was watching. And pretty soon incomes. A man with he was sort of an advance guard of some person important person was a very colorful uniform on. He came over the table Astra Fujita and said it was someone out there some person been wished to see you, Sofa. Gina got up, you know, followed by a gracious leader. This man, he walks out there with to everybody watching through the door and step through the door. The time some person grabbed even lifting, went up and kissed his beard. This man has known at a lot off post Vagenas beard remain this person who knew have law done this. He just kissed this period of media, and then he put him down and talk to him and to deter, wasn't it all embarrassed? And the people courses in think people more to see what was going on. Well, we finally had this visit over with meeting a number of people that we went back to, uh, Piper and right back there. And I say, Then the time came for me to leave, to go to go home. And I spent all my money except enough to buy deck patches from Constantinople to Constantinople, from Haifa to Constantinople is on the northern part of the minute training, you know, is all young men. I felt that the world is my oyster. I could work. We'll find a way to get back at o take a job in a car in Constantinople, find enough money to get back home. When I made up my mind to do this, I'm gonna come back and tell you about the deed to four. Because there's another interesting story, but I'm gonna finish it. So I made him mine. I'm going to come to Constantinople and I earn enough money to get home from there. But after I did that very slowly worked me to come over to our Abdu'l-Baha. And I went in the room. And here we were in the room with the Matthews to talk everything. And the four daughters of the Mass in the great Holy surrounded me. And I was right in the center. And they began to tell me how much the master would appreciate the work of lighting the shrines. And I was apologizing for I enjoyed it. I wasn't You know how he's doing it with things. And finally, one of dinosaurs and Chelsea. You need some money to return America. No, no, thank you. Everything's been taken care of. I don't need any money. And back to me. The other doctors. Kelsey, you need some money. Return America I turn around? There's no thanks. I don't need one. It's all taken care of. In the great police is Chelsea. You need the money to return to America. And I said no to her till finally she reached out. Took my answer is Chelsea You need some money to return to America? You must take this money. And I said, Well, I didn't dare tell the girl, so leave. I couldn't take the money so I said, Well, I'll take it on one. Understand that you let me return it when they get back home, which is no if he says this is the money for you to return to America And then I had to take it. And what I had in what he gave me landed me back in New York City. I haven't told anybody about that. Then I'll come back intended this one of few. Gina, when you Tito was so upset that he'd come over to Haifa on Baha'i, had used him in his talents that he thought that was used, he just figured out No, I just made a dope of myself. I've come over here. Maybe I've been a fool about coming I'm gonna go back home. This one have a wall of living there. And when he decided he was going to pack up and go back to America really happening come over the Western program. Alfie's Bahji The Abdu'l-Baha wishes to see you. Fujita trots over that Baha'i house. He goes into a room and And what is it? What's the matter? You when you were in America this way, when you were in America What you told me to study certain things And when you need me for me to come alive When I come over here on all you're doing, let me take care of the Western program. Austin, I can't do any of my work as you were. Handle a mile. Then he says, Well, this is it is if I wish mechanics with this, I get any of these people. What you're doing is the work that will always love you. That's perfectly all right. Me This evening. Fine. Shining the master shoes that's perfectly satisfied. Never made. He went right back to him, very happy. He went back to Japan for a while and later showed you finished informants. You know, he says he's in I don't know, but I had to laugh where he was so concerned about going back to America. Well, those are some of the wonderful stories and many others I could tell you, but it takes all night. Keep on with it. I tell you about our beloved guardian show you, effendi. I had met him there in 1921 right after he became the Guardian and had several a very nice visit with him. Then in 1953 uh, I will come up before that in Haifa in New York City is I have become a very close friend of Mr Wilhelm Royal, always doing things for Abdu'l-Baha lying that's always doing the same thing for the Guardian. And one day Roy said to me said, Uh uh, I want you to figure out the cost of a pump because rule here Khanum and I were talking about bringing water to this trying on my own Khanum Gardens around this kind of the bob. I don't know anything about that. He says you work out the details when you get this all worked out. The price of the pope. This is when we hear from showyou finishes you buy the equipment. Now, pay aboard. My correspondent was an engineer in Tel Aviv and got the physical situation there. How do you know where the elevations were? And will had a well on his yard, 160 feet deep. That meant we had lift water from this. Well, some 300 feet up in conflict with the guidance around. This is the bomb for nearly 500 feet lifting a water. So I worked out this plan and the kind of pump foolproof pumps that told us they wouldn't have any trouble with it and work your fountain. You're everything ready. And we sat quiet. In the meantime, Roy had contracted cancer, and we're passing, dying with cancer. And, uh, a few days before he passed away, we received a cable gram from the garden. He did with North Level Maine. No, this was just a conversation between Roy and I at the time about this pump guardian. Knew nothing about. We hadn't talked to the guiding about it. I'd like to tell the story because some people say so you've ended, you know, with the same way the massive Uh So, uh, this cable came and Roy was so sick. Hey, be screwing who was a sister of little guessing? He said Royal. So Well, she got down, whispered this cable gram is Roy's here. That really was. He said, Maybe you tell Curries about he knows just what to do in the day and next day passed away. Well, he told me, Don't come up here, Chris, for the money because Roy made no provision to pay for that pump. You better not buy it, baby. Roy told me to buy it, so I'm going to buy Seizes. Well, don't come up here for the money because there's no provision for I never left are going by the pope. Remember, Wife, what are you gonna pay for that? I don't know. But I'll buy the pope that'll take care of itself. I ordered a pope annoying on the 16 90 days to pay for it. I find some way to pay for it, and I sat quiet about two weeks after I bought that pump. Roy. I also was then pleasure, National spirit of semi called me up from Chicago and I have all this work going that time and he said, Are you going to Haifa, Curtis, And I said, No, I'm not going office is what makes it again going. Hi, Peaches. Well, we got a very interesting cable from Rogue, effendi. I said, What is it? Well, he says he cabled us to send you $10,000. What do you want us to do with it? Well, if he said to send me a better send it to me. So the next day I got a certified check for in the air mail for $10,000. I didn't know what four. So I made. I made it open up an account and trust coming here in the name of the guard in the national semi. If anything happened, they'd have the money. A couple weeks went by and I got a letter from the garden. He said this money sent me, would pay for the pump on other things that is gonna buy it. And from that point on, he sent me about $50,000 devising time, different times with floodlights on Dwyer, paint on everything that they did around the properties on little common in his body. Then one day, I got a letter from the Guardian. It takes $600. Go pay this man. He gave me his name. No address. That's the name of the man. I remember the day talking to my second issues. We're cursed. You're gonna find this man. It's something like Smith. But it wasn't me. It was that kind of a man. So I said, Well, we'll just go down the telephone book and I went down telephone book to read sentences. I think I'll call this man up and I call this man up when I said, You know, his Eminence should give any Rabbani's yes, 1st 1 I called. Well, I have a message for you for from him. Could you come down to my office? He said. Well, I'm assignment to, Kelsey said after I'd introduce myself. I can't come down. I can't explain to you over the phone. Well, that night have you come up to my office? So what? I'll do that I got on the subway and went up to 646 feet Diamond market up there. I went up to the fifth floor of this building and I went into a little room, which is like a doctor's office was because It was a lamp on the reading tables, the magazines and there's a door in the back wall with people in it. When I was in the room, this man open people, he said. Just a minute goes. The people in the door automatically open and I went in this room door automatically close behind me and locked. Is the door locked? He stepped out from another door and introduced himself and he pulled out a tray and the energy had $250,000 worth of diamond. Because this is the reason I couldn't come down here, all of it, because we transact our business here. That's why I was behind locked doors and I ended. Just hey introduced himself, gave me some identification and I gave him $600. I sent a letter to God in never gonna work. So when they tell you that the Guardian doesn't know, just remember that that while the station of Suge Effendi Rabbani the guide into the base, this is a step down from Baha'i lot out of a lot of the guardian robots with a guardian just the same distance is great, but the spirits and the power was there with a garden. And I could tell you the defendant was such a such a height and things so forthis wouldn't give you any concept of who show your friend he was. I can only say through that when you're in the presence of master guide and you were in your own home, here was this was your home and such love went to anyone who's sat in the presence of the guardian. If you couldn't but feel it. Uh, one day we're talking to me over. Then came 1953. Course with this. I wrote to the guy, Don't know if I go to compel Iqan compile a conference. You know, it was actually a stickler disease in the international confidence. He wrote back and says, Post for pilgrimage. And, uh, I hadn't talked about a pilgrimage, But then a couple weeks later, I got a letter from the gun. He said, hey, hadn't answered my letter right away because he felt I couldn't come. Well, if I had accepted the invitation. Come on. The road. I couldn't have come because something came up in my business. But then Mrs Kelsey and I went 1953 and I was sitting across from the table from Show Give Penny and I could see the same shoulders in the head, almost the personality of the Masters. I looked at him and he talked and acted in lots of ways and at ease. I did see and talking as if he's looking through there, seeing what he was telling you about. He talked and described the International House of Justice, described the institutions, and you could see it in being as he talked, that how animated he was. Just come on, everything he said. Well, I went over there with usual nine day pilgrimage. People were supposed to to go thinking I'd be there for the nine days in the second day show. Good friend, he said. I'm going to extend your stay here. Last time you were here was to put in the lining of the shrine this year. Well, this time will be furnishing water for the guns. They kept that pope over there till I got over there and we've set this pump up running pipes around, building in Little Reservoir, carrying the water around the shrine Garza's body. So they kept me there 26 days. One of the guys that sign for 12 nights straight and he never once talked to me about any calamity. He talked about the introduces, a divine institution. I wasn't interested in commandment. I was interested in teaching and he talked to me about the local strip, disseminate how they would evolve and how the International House of justice would come into being. How is the institution of the guardianship would come into being out. There would be an international school on long combo and he gave me gave me permission to copy a drawing that he brought to the table that night of the world Centre. As it will develop on this item on combo, there will be the first list nice markup, which we have up. Then there will be a building with new house with papers and material for the station of the guardianship. Then there will be a school for the hire scientists, and then he says these other 2,000,000,000 he had drawn the blinds will know about those later on and just wonderful away talk. Talk to us about the faith you could just see one day said to me, said when people say to you that these institutions, the institutions that humanity has had in the past and man made first time in the history of you know of religion. We have institutions that embodied in the revelation of a hollow log. And he said, There's a vast difference between the divine institution, human institution. So I think friends, these stories will will bring you closer to the central figures of the faith. Give you a glimpse of what a wonderful day we are. Have the body of living in, and we could never be thankful enough are grateful enough for having been brought to the conscience of the wrist revelation. The master said that the what if we were to go on 1000 times with every breath, we couldn't be grateful enough for having been given this medicine in this dying. When I didn't tell you about that inner experience that I had was sitting at the table one night with the master and it came up in conversation came up and he told me this music I had heard back in New York was the music of the kingdom, and it had caused my spirit to become awakened I see what you get away from religion. I wasn't even thinking. This is the thing that attracted my attention is exactly what it did. Awakened my interest to the point where I understood what the faithless uh I can honestly say, after some 50 years, going back to the face that each day is you live gross, happier, more enjoyable than you look forward to the expanding of the faith and the glorious things that airhead for all of us and for humanity and show your family said you tell the friends in America that nothing can happen to them or to the cause which is isn't in his best interests. We should go ahead as if nothing was going to happen. So you can see that if we act with this enthusiasm for the cause. And we stand on the two principal of the firmness in the government, in love for the friends, this thing will attract other people, too, are to our efforts and we'll be confirmed service because if we just keep those two facts in line, firmness in the teachings of the faith, which is the Covenant of God and love and fellowship among the friends and our beloved garden has said nothing else will attract the people, then weigh this mirrors from us from our own in her life. We can't fool people by taking the name behind. This is the This is the day when it's impossible for a person to carry the name of religion without the action follows you face today is, the master said, is conscious knowledge, plus the action. It's impossible to have action with face that the action doesn't follow. I'm very happy to be in your midst, and I want to say to you that the hands of the cause build serious. Mr. Khanum advised me to be sure and extend their love and appreciation to you. They're praying for your efforts. They'll be happy, very happy to hear my report as I give them back a meeting with the friends. We had a meeting just recently with the hands of the faith in the Western Hemisphere and all auxiliary board members in the United States and Canada at the temple last 31st of December January 1st, we spent two days in consultation on the urgency of the hour where we are now and achieve the goals of the remaining. The next 14 wants to establish these assemblies so that next year we'll have our 300 assemblies and all his gold. And Mr Kadam explained to us the word, the meaning of the word crusade, which was a very wonderful explanation we had. They said the guy did. It wasn't pleased with this word crusade, but it was the only English word that was the equivalent of the meetings that was in Arabic, which means jihad, which means holy war. But this has reduced the world only war in the West with that misunderstood it. But what is meant by holy war is to strive to strive with ourselves, to overcome every deficiency in our life, to crusade with our own lives. So that way reflect the qualities. And as we crusade with our own cells to overcome all the deficiencies in our own lives, then we by doing so, we will neer forth these qualities which where we're supposed to do as the highs in the image and likeness of God. The active issues, you know, are the real image. But only when we're imbued with these attributes can we be this image. So be whose Every behind crusade every day. And by doing so, this is the real crusade. We removed the deficiencies in our life, and this becomes an attraction to other people. They see us in our happiness, uh, joy of living in these things. They see from this on the kindness of emanates from this sort of thing and flee from anything that creates any high harmony in our consultation or any of these things. This is this is the thing that the hands are urging us to do now in iPhone in the hands of the Western Hemisphere, in our communities. If we could just get this ball started this way, it'll step to the communities and everyone else on fire. We're on the verge of large groups of people coming into the face. As you well know, I'm very happy to be in your midst. I've had a rushing week this week on the next one this week, and it's a really happy experience to meet the friends joy for the institution of the guidance that you never meant to guide. In the instance, guys repeat all it isn't every you'll be arrested, Miss. He told me, and I didn't see the reason for it. Mrs. Kelsey and myself, he was talking to the table and he spoke about to, uh causes that we have One is the overall cause of God, He said, which we have nothing to do with it. Then we have the divine plan which we have everything to do with it. He says sometimes the overall plan of God intervenes in the divine plan. And then, you know, after shortly after, I didn't know at that time I got a picture. Why? I was saying this, but I understood why what it was. But I didn't see why I was saying. But then you remember shortly after 53 when the temple was to be built in Persia, this affair of blew up in Persian. They took the property away from behind and destroyed the nationals headquarters. And the guy didn't at that time had to change his plan to have a temple in Persian and decided to have it in Kampala. Remember? Published the attendant with this persecution at the time and going to Kampala caused the cause to rise in other parts of the world. This is said with the intervention the guiding call This an intervention in the removal of the Guardian was another intervention with divine plan. Now, uh, two of the high to a believer who, uh, who understands the face. You know that. God says and black is white. It's white. Remember in 1912 when I was talking to Mr Kinney, who was, uh hey, gave him the name Safa on this staff means Peter. He said, Do Saffy picked up a book sample. He says this book is black. What do you say it is? Mr. Kenny says it's Black Valley. No. Massa knew that wasn't a black book, but he was seen Mr Kinney, if he understood Instant is exact and complete obedience. Now, Baha'i, As you read that, you know that it hasn't he gone that the acme of attainment for any believers to admit to himself that God do it whatsoever? He will it if we don't do not admit that to ourselves, we will be a sale by all kinds of dollars. And so, to a man of faith, no argument is required. But to a man of doubt, no argument, whatever satisfying. So we must be prepared to know that God can change any situation. But this drawing the cars of God is perfection itself. Nothing can interfere with the claws. So all we have to do is be patient with these things will work out when we have international house of Justice. I saw numbers of Tabriz of a hollow that haven't even been translated yet. There will no doubt unfold Many of evolving faces is the face and we could just look forward to a glorious achievement in the face. When a person gets off Thio, try to use this human mind. Thio Sable This is the way it should be then and somebody is done. This this this is this is human frailties. And if you read in the letters of the guardians of human frailty is human action and frailty is powerless to damage the structure of the face. But we will have we already have the institution of the guardianship in 36 years. Furthermore, Australia's labors of the page Okay, if any was mentioned in I say his name showed you mean zealous zeal says denies Ayla zeal of the Lord shall accomplish. Then we take the short view is behind. We always think things done in my life rather than really when we're dealing with 8500 years in the first pirate part of the by faces that dispensation 1000 years. So in this 1000 years is a short period as far as the cause is concerned and all the fastest of the faith will work out. This is the face of Believer should have. I'm sure you do, Abbas. I go around since the passing of the garden, I find, because is stronger, who is the actual friends is greater and their efforts of increase 1000 fold since the passing of the garden. You know that without my telling you, you could see people coming in live numbers everywhere, and it's because the friends have responded in America. They've gone out to the four corners of the gold teaching. Look what's happening in Africa. Look what happened in South America. Look flapping in the Pacific Islands and things like that. So it should give us a great deal of joy and happiness to see what's happening in this day, then the master. One thing in our clothes of this was the master says, if you want to see how fast the cause is growing compared with past history. And if you were living in 2000 years ago, at the time Jesus was speaking around Mount Carmel, you would have had to ask yourself this one question. Would you have been one of the 12 who recognized him? Or would you have been one of the thousands who didn't know who he was? So the same situation stands for a Baha'i today. We're hearing about the revelation of the how law we have to ask ourselves. Do we know who the Bob was? The hollow awas Abdu'l-Baha was showing off. Anyway, this is the whole question. It's a everything has to be the heart, you know, Baha'i says. Knowledge is revealed to us, and learning is acquired in a dunk. It could carry a whole library on its back. One doesn't want to get this done
