Transcript:Curtis Kelsey/Reminiscences of serving ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Haifa

Transcript of: Reminiscences of serving ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Haifa  (1969)  by Curtis D. Kelsey

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You all look very happy. That's in conformity with behind world faith. I feel very well supported by wannabe handmaidens of the Baha'i Allah. Harriet, Caroline memorized and still be ours. So I'm well supported tonight. Um, I wanna talk a lot tonight, honest Khanum aides to the horn and 1921 and you'll be heard me speak a lot about myself, which I can't help class apologize for. But before I started on the story, I wanted to read something about the Guardian's head on this. No stories on duh problems knows I have the same category. They're not teachings, but they're interesting, as you know. But in Mrs Maxwell, when she came back from the Holy Land and brought those two problems of her own notes and there were years and the friends, they had the same category of notes. And there's a guy said should be considered in the same light as killed him notes. But he made this statement written on her two books. Their use and steady by the believers, whenever so desired, should under no circumstances be prevented. So I'll, uh, we know that the tensions are the only thing that are important anything that the beloved Garden has written in connection with. It is of interest to us on Get so much. But if you read the 17 because he was usually asking questions with friends, as I have found much wonderful information by being able to study the notes of the various friends that ever permitted me to do so. So in talking about this program is tonight 1921 and I go back as far in 1909. See, that's a long way back in the world was really provincial in those times just to give you an idea, remember that we're talking about the world was running out of gasoline in 1909 they said. We had about two years supply left. And about 1912 Teddy Roosevelt was taking trips around the world with a big steak warning the nation's to stay out of the Western Hemisphere. Remember, No dated. It was really a brave American with very provincial and very set in their ways in those days. And, of course, we had very little information about my face that I'm fucking nothing wasn't called a Baha'i face. It was called a behind movement and many of the branches to refer to Abbas laws. A great philosopher, a great teacher. They didn't know Stacy was still in prison. And one of the, uh, very wonderful believers in the early days, George Latimer traveled around the world with Mace, screaming the early days and visit Adwan when he was a prisoner. Hey, brought back, blowing in terms of meeting with Abdu'l-Baha. No days. Mrs Latimer was on fire with joined this story and she never met anybody. She didn't tell something about behind. Move into the middle, it in cement. My movement Well, she met my mother at one of the clubs that she was a member of my mother was president of Browning Society in Port in Oregon. Mary, she met Mrs Latimer. The mission. Latimer lost no time in telling him under about Baha'i movement when it didn't pay too much attention to the time what they would never come together. Mrs. Lambert didn't give her a little excerpt from one of the hidden words are typewritten, except someone did admit tablet. That's all they had in those days. But you'll be surprised how enthusiastic they were over. Alexis is gone. That was really a power and these things that spread around the country in those days? Well, A. I've got to go back to them to tell me about the environment of our family, because this is true of all of us. We all come from different backgrounds environment that this will illustrate how things double check and come into each other. There's no it's really like a destiny. You can see a pattern as you've lived through it. My mother had decided she came in very often Dr Family, about this family, and she had decided to when he apparently started. But she was not going to raise him in off the blocks, training like fear and damnation, hell, fire and things of that kind. But she's going to the value of religion, and she says, Your boys, we had had three brothers, and she said, You boys will have to go to some Sunday school. You could take to Sunday school you wanted because you knew there was some value on nicely we, she says. But you don't have a slow everything. They tell you it was a pretty good start. I mean, actually went to the Baptist Sunday school because that's the only one we know about. I have been going, but a couple of months back for Sunday school and school I met AM Boy was around together. We were quite young in those days. Hey, why don't you come over to our Sunday school? And I said, Why should I come to your Sunday school? He says, Well, we've got a very interesting minister in our Sunday school. He takes his own camping trips and this number, and he plays ball with a long weekend on, uh, on Christmas, he puts on a real party. We don't get it. I did it. I joined Khanum. This is true that my mother had given me God bless her, was, uh, was one of freedom of research. My mother was really an idea that she was a porter. Many of her poems and stories were published in the Pacific Coast and magazines, and she won prizes many times during the air. For her stories and point. It was an idealist. We didn't have a TV in those days. Things like that used to gather around the living room and play and sing. You could play and sing and then she'd read. A story is it always had a moral of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table and Robert Louis Stevenson. Story of kindness, sandals, All these things that that had gave you hide Baha'i ideas. He read his stories about Abraham Lincoln. I have to get a little, except for maybe making around the lives of nearly days. And then this attitude that, uh, she gave me to Seoul three. I began investigate everything. I went to the Christian Science, a new thought. The Unitarian spiritualist, Waseem Plato, the Leaderboard and spiritualism. Remember down in California one day we were in the home of Mr Chapman of Young Man I met on. We were experimenting with paper lifting, and we had read an article on how you could sit quietly in the spirits, would lift the table to be sad Quietly. Way had to sit in a dark room with our fingers on the edge of the table. If we sat quiet enough there for about 1\/2 an hour for the 10 would lead. Well, Mr Chairman didn't want us to do that. She said she was embarrassed. Are doing those things that we see sneak up the back stairs with second floor when she opened the door very quiet way. When she turned the lights on, we were sitting on the floor, glassy eyed. I got a surprise for less course at that time. My mother, my father, was a very unusual man. He was a man of, uh what? I'm very proud of him. He's a man of the highest kind of integrity and honor. His word was his bond. He was a Civil Mexico hydraulic engineering I must do with hydraulic development on in the West. Great clothes, random with Cody Buffalo Bill. And he wouldn't go to any church because, he said to me, says they're all calling among themselves. And he pointed out that you know, the Baptist didn't like the congregation's Christmas. I didn't like the Illustrated one after another. The guys didn't like the Protestants choices. No use. You're wasting your time of all this nonsense, he says. All you have to do is making your mind to be an honest person, do a first class job and everything. Indio and let people know that when you say something that your word means exactly what it says. That's the kind of personality. Waas. And so I said, You don't have a waste time with this Single is appealed to me and I gave up the research. Religious ideas sounded very interesting. Well, about that time Mrs Latimer brought, the more I'm moving into our home. Mother came in with these little excerpt. She had hand him to me and I said, Well, you know, Mother, I finished up with something that is not hand it back and it's piled up in our library little things that she's brought home pay no attention to. But one day when we moved in Tacoma, Washington, mother said, You want me to stay on hold? Because there was a gentleman coming from New York who was going to speak on a behind movement. She want me staying here. I don't want to stay. But Mother was kind of a person, took no for an answer, so I stayed, but they didn't go to the meeting. E went down the basement workshop, and there's only one way out of here itself. I was up through the kitchen door, and it was about 50 of mother's friends, man and women who came to this meeting and it was Mr Wilder on the late hand of the cause, Roy will know, would come out less on a fishing trip, and I heard talk to Roy out in the kitchen, she says. Mr Williams says, I want you to get down in the basement. Tell Curtis about behind movement. Well, when I heard this, said he was coming downstairs, tell me about the behind movement. I made up my mind that he wasn't doing get right for talking me about religion. Roy came downstairs and he never said one word about it. You came downstairs me introducing myself. I had a very nice workshop of the circus on a band, saw on things like that, never work out the pressure. He inquired about all these things, and he was very much interested in these things. So I looked him over and I said, We'll give you this guy's no, no. Cracked up in relations were most became friendly. And then he said, You know, he says, I have a nice home in New Jersey. He says, I wish you could come a sometime and help me set up a nice shop like this New Jersey, so I said. Well, Mr Wilhelm majors a long way from the common. I don't see any chance of going to the coma from Coleman in New York that I have ever having opposite. They'll be very happy to set up help this out from work itself in this kind, many games, this peculiar answer, he says. Well, you never know about these things. Strange things happen. I was kind of funny. Answer. Toa give you. But I accepted every party, and I thought no more. About about three weeks after that, my father was transferred to New York City on and I was working for Ford Motor Company in Port, ignoring in that time with Florida. Just started paying $5 a day for his men Know find on a gold pieces going. This is going to wreck The economy of the West has raised the rate was racing to an affidavit $5 a day. There was a lot of do about raising such a highway $5 a day. Well, the Ford Motor Company sent me in Detroit, and this all came about within a month after I won this. Mr. Williams spoke about this strange experience when I was in Detroit and I said, Well, I've gotta have some kind of social contact here so I wouldn't join the last group I was with with the Unitarian. And one afternoon Sunday, the minister said that a very interesting man go to speak after church. Those would like to stay in here would be welcome to do so. He said, This is Dr Cia, Baghdad Believer And when they mentioned the by movement, I decided I was gonna stay. I wasn't arrested Baha'i movement. But I was curious that rice and come in contact with it again. So I stayed. The church emptied out. There was one other man of myself in the only to have stayed and the minister came down the interest introduced doctors here Baghdad to this other man of myself. Then he excused himself. He said he had to leave the only two people that Dr Baghdad, if you knew him, is a very fiery personality. He got up on the platform. He talked as if that church Well, I don't know today what he said. I wasn't interested. Just curious why I should be in time. Back to the base again. Well, this event passed. Then I waas working for the Ford Motor Company in Detroit at that time, watching commissions and end of the case with the family. So I wrote him and told him I would and I made plans to go. Is just getting ready to leave. My foreman came in, he says. He says You'll have to give up your trip to these people. I said, I'm shy. I've made plans to take this trip and I can't change them Well, he says, You have to change right now. When you're young person person, you're happy changes don't take something. Then I said, Well, I'm sorry, I'm going Then he said, Well, he says, You know, if you leave Ford Motor come, you won't get $5 a day outside the Ford Motor Company I says that set, I have given my time. I'm quitting. This is no, no, no, you can't do that because he had to go and explain to the welfare department I should leave such a good job. No, Mr Ford had a welfare department that what's about every two months the world where agent called on the employees to see how you're expending this additional $2 have been spent on clothes or friends or things like that on, uh, also of your left Ford Motor Company. They won't know why he would need something good. So the former tried, finished waited. I know is that you said I could make this month. I'm going out with me eight hours to get out of four. But I got out and I'm going on in New York and I went to work for my father and he paid the money to pay for the Ford Motor Company. Sent me out on the job in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. A supervisor for a larger pipeline for the General Electric Company. But I have been there for two or three days, and I came quite ill and had to go home When I was holding, Doctor came we're living in a bad in court in Park in New York came and he said you had a baby. A pickup. I want me. And if you've ever had my point, you know what a severe headache cos type points favor and pounding on your head and mother made me is comfortable. He couldn't one night with ice packs on my head and she's going to bed. And the pain was so bothered me so much. I don't know where my put my head on the pillow to relieve the pressure on my head because I did so I heard a little piece of Mr Play in the room. There wasn't any physical instruments in the room. It was a beautiful orchestra plane. Cygnus Theism is perfectly and I've never had an experience like this. And I strung around the pain Stop swung around, sat up in bed, could see where this was coming from and it just faded away. The music faded away. I called my mother. She came running into something that happened. I told her what had happened. What did she do? She went and got my books and answered questions. Seven valleys getting word. It's fine. And she said, Well, get a national from these might find an answer from these, right? So I set up, began to read these right? I must get arrested in the rise. Well, would you mind reading different books? And as I began to read, I says, Why haven't you told me about this before? This is true. You should have told me about this before. You have been trying to tell you this for nine years. It wouldn't end well for the next day. My mother called up the New York friends and into the other bedroom came Howard. Kobe eyes Mr Harris, Mary Hanford toward the kidneys. And they brought their behind books. Never trying to get an answer on this question. For the next two weeks or so, our places like Grand Central Station. I'm gonna find a spring, Didn't find it. But I learned a lot about Baha'i knows. Then when I got up out of bed, I wouldn't go back to work for my father. I went to camp on every doorstep where I could find a Baha'i meeting fireside. Whether they're going on everybody, I home, I could go to where the summer is going on. I get home two and three and four o'clock in the morning and my father got worried about this. You know, I came home one night about three o'clock in the morning and it was dark, and I was sitting on the term reading the answer question to be called out so that when he says Son for the love of Mike has come to Betty's. There's gonna be plenty of time to read tomorrow. Well, I went to bed, but the next day I got up and started going with being around again. I was not a boy. I was trying to convince about behind made. We're riding on the New York subway, and he was bored to tears. Didn't want to hear a thing about the Bible, but I was determined I was going to hear what they want to hear. A noise, someway, I said, I've got a little book. Sure, just exactly what I tell you. It's true, and I picked the book up. I hope I read something and I close it up. Put it back in my pocket. I had just rode Speak. Not unless you find a listen. And he looked at me, says, What happened? I said nothing. That event passed that event passing. I want to have a guy on Wall Street. Mr. Mr Wilder, late hand of the club way, came break fast, Friends that he had a very provincial office down 100. Well, straight after one for years is all this for the distribution of Tabriz cables to our friends of the United States and Canada. He had a big round table. The senator, about twice a size. This were traveled on a motor on there might be 40 or 50 cups of coffee around. He was known in the profit margins to any of the coffee trade. He made the famous plans like base not many other famous coffee blends in those days. I went down to have lunch with him one day, Way came back to the office, he said. Curries is How would you like to go? The hyper Roy? That's a long ways on. That's about miles from here, and that takes a lot of money. I don't see any chance of hyper. I can't raise money to Goto. He's What do we know about those things? Breaking things happen. Way partner. Three weeks after that, commerce is kind of a table lamp, a mandible, and all it said was dearest Chelsea permitted, and I got the strongest impression when I received that cable. Gram, remember all of it. I had to act on it at once. Make every effort to get the hyper as quickly as I could. I couldn't talk to my father Because you think I've taken leave of my senses? He didn't know rentable awards aboutthe so I set about Theo, get some money, and I had a model T. Ford. We're living in New Rochelle. At that time. I went downtown. When I have a grocery store where several boys, six o'clock at night. I reached in there and ask him with one of my board. It was a rush on it. Didn't pay too much attention. I started to walk on one limb, came running after me, says, Wait a minute, creases of your portal clam. A certain he'll here. I'll give you 100 $50 for it, since I need a spark. Plug it over the hill and I got a present. Well, then I sold a few other things. A few days. It was down there. When I get is how you making out on this trip with all of it? Well, which I had just $500. Sheldon gave me $500. That was what I had. My one thought Roy and me and what I had was enough to make a ruling on, uh then I knew I had to go see my father get over that hurt. He had 39 for the woman. I want to see my dad. What I was gonna do. Just expecting, Sonny. You must be living in your simple Here you are getting started. The man you're gonna go halfway around the world, they're gonna do that work with that little old man. You're gonna pay for it. Well, I didn't have time. I said that. I got time to explain to you, but I've simply got to go. Hey said, Well, if you're determined going, you'll have to build on, you know, expect any help from me as a wife. So I went down, but by my ticket, when I got done, I asked if I could get the hype in the circle and he said, No possible. I bought a ticket anyway. To Paris to Naples, Friend. Easy into Alexandria and Cairo and up the coast. Bye to Cantor on the railroad around Haifa. Going down to the ship, their friends, Their will packages for after Baha'i letters from everyone calling my mother a lot around. The good mother wanted camera for me. A lot of films. She wanted to take a lot of pictures. I took hundreds of pictures of this film. My father came over and he handing in low piece. If you get on the boat, you've been open this. When I got on the boat. No. $250. Well, in Paris and I made a delivery to get out of Naples. They said No, no. Both going up. And I don't just have their parents is in Naples Anyway, I said no, I'm going on down neighbors because I'm sure something's gonna happen. I was beginning to be aware of the strange happening Naples and I got the same story that there's no boat going on. So I said the man steamship Abbas, I'm gonna come down. See you tomorrow. Always says no. Don't do that. It is Reno Abbas. If anything should happen where you're saying I'll call you up if anything should happen. So that satisfied me. I went back to my hotel that afternoon. He called up his How did you know the xperia was going? Doc here? I said I didn't know. He says we're talking about a sick passenger. Wrong. You want his pastor and I say yes. I want more the next day between Naples and I buy many young men of the board. We played shuffleboard. That elderly gentleman came over and introduced himself to us. He was interested in these two young men were going to Neary's his Charles Day and head of American missionary work live in Beirut. When you found out when I told him I was going to see Sir Abbas, Apandi always says I know Abdu'l-Baha Mrs. I know prime number of the behinds in Beirut where students there and they're very fine young men. One thing puzzles me. I can't understand how they could make so many moms accept. Jesus Christ, you think about it, I said. Well, I said, Mr Dana, I said they don't tear down the teachings of Mohammed Mom in the same state that we hold. Jesus. Sorry, not you mind if I go the rest of the way with you on the trip? He says he's going to Beirut. Loathe high fun when he got the hype and giving up on my own common for this riding with Bob and I never saw him again when we landed in hyper hyper was just a little Billy's like that remain for centuries. In the Bible days, it was just a little bit very few homes on Montcalm. Mom Khanum was there and in the railways all railroad station. There were palm trees and men sitting around with Hubble bubble pipes and things like that in his cabin and down to the station with Fujita and Dr Lot hacking every young man in that time I had out of my butt more drag, You know that way. And I spent there, and they had come down to take me up to the mountains when we piled in this, like about five feet tall, with Thomas Dorsey gin and a friend Stop way drove up to the western, killed a mouse at the foot of Person Street. Not the one that you have now that we wanted to put you up First Street, right on the right was the old, primarily focus house and the front ports based the Bay of. So we went into the building houses Fujita had. I just had the table set for London, and on the table was a beautiful platter of person flower, curried lamb and sprinkled with saffron little glass of tea. You don't see that you go home for the day. That's what was disappointed in the last year, but it's become like another any other city. But here in this picturesque situation with this table set of these little glass of tea, little bowls of months like are you over and unleavened bread. You know when they cook Tabriz about three inches high. But when it dries, Trump's town, top of the lower half on Arab, will carry some times 30 loaves of bread in his coat with goat's cheese and dried. All is well there, with Mrs Cook and her sister and madam standing from Indian Way. We're talking about the people in New York City when in the side of the room, the doorman and through the door slept a master. I was really surprised when I saw the master that beautiful smile on his face. You know, the long, white hair hang down to his shoulders and white turban, and his blue eyes is that times have a lot of us. A ring of blue run, that wonderful smile you seen one face to face on with Mason walked over some panties Mamba mambo, which means you're welcome. Then He went around the other side of the table of Judah, brought in a little bowl basin of water and read studies, mouth more voices, hand and wrist out his mouth with a cup of water. And then he suited us at the table and he's tied at the end of the table. And I sat over here next to rehab on the mystical, consistent man standing on the other. Master just sat down and he looked over to me and in English, he said, Did you notice how easy it was for you to come here on? I realized we had reached. I put in the time. I was impressed when I received that cable gram back in New York. Then he talked. He talked to us about the early days of the faith. He asks after the friends in. Almost immediately after that, he said to me, How do you like it here? I said that I feel a wonderful spirit here. Wonderful atmosphere here today said that's because all the profits of God had walked in that area. All had walked in that area. I later found out that there's only three right down on that mom common. Abbas runs a foot of mom was there with after horses. Just Christ sat under that tree. A great big tree, about four feet in diamonds, going to all kinds of stories. Well, he talked to us. Uh, he talked briefly at lunch. Then he told us to rest at that time. Wear custom in Haifa Waas to after lunch arrest about before in the afternoon. And then the business will open up again. So late hours in the evening. And he told us to go to our room in red and he sent out a branch from a tangerine tree. A little girl brought in a branch from 10 countries with about a dozen tangerines on into the room. That night he was back for dinner and he talked about the early days in the sufferings of the friends sufferings of the bomb on the promise of the cause. And things like that inquired about friends in New York, anything like that. This went on for a number of days now. I had come over there too. Why are the sign of the bomb in how long I have to die? Aggressed To tell you why when Roy had asked me if I wanted Goto hybrid. He had he had plans of blood because three years prior to that he had read a tablet. But Hall wrote about the bomb, and there's that Tabriz, one of the world is waiting for is in prison. Doesn't even have a candlelight when the whole world is waiting for him is flooded with light. Roy was so impressed with that letter about the heart that he wrote to the master and ask him if he couldn't have sent a lighting one lighting plan overto like this, right above on alcohol. Cable back said the sentence relighting. So there I was, kind of behind instant, exactly completed beatings that he sent three lighting. Plant's been idle for two or three years. No one had set him up. This is Cooper from California. Sent a young man to go toe to toe. Wasn't Baha'i careful? Lighting plants Have a hostage back person, boy, whole same cab. I came from Persia to sell the land plant Hussein Khanum by his whole saying the electrician's and he came there and he asked if he gets out the lighting class man told him, No, but you go back home and when the time comes, I'll send for you. So Hussein went back home and then I was. That was the reason I was there because Roy had written. He said he knew a young man was electrician's electrical workers. The holidays in that time. That's why I got that cable. Gram have a lot of coming when I think it was much more distant cable that caused that anyway, days went by and that always had nothing about lighting trying. I didn't dare ask him because I knew very well you know me better than I knew myself. I instinctively knew that I'm asking everything about you. Couldn't hide anything imaginable. I didn't dare ask him And David. My 15 days went by. He hadn't said a word about staying up late England. I had repaired two cars that he had there that no one knew how to use. It was cunning, and someone had sent him afford someone the same. No one knew, huh? Dr. Gasoline or something? For a dollar. A gallon prime got on 10. That time I got them out. I took out a wall for several riots in the big cunning on that for this 50 day. I got worried. I'm gonna find out what I'm doing away because I had a lot of work to do lighting putting up flight implants like trying Baha'i along on the bottom. So I had one last year. We have men were standing out in front of the masses home one day, and you always have been a hyper. You know, that's quite a distance from the front porch of the master's home. Looking through the stone gate. I was talking to Ruli in a normal voice. Really, When you think that lost, let me start this work. But don't get started. I'll never get back home. I don't know he had any sooner said that album. All came out on the porch when he called. He says we will start tomorrow. Well, I was delighted we were going to start tomorrow, but the next morning, before I could get out of bed. The master, the master in the doorway, the bedroom and I had a bed in this quarter and a few feet in that corner, and Dr Laughter when that door was here, and there's still the matter of about six o'clock in the morning. We're all three in a bed way made a quick move. Get up! He said no to rest. Then he turned to me and Amy. She said, I can't go back today. What shall I do about it? Instantly, I replied. Abdu'l-Baha. Whenever the mash is ready, I'm ready. And it is a ballot. Well, well, now they're disappointed. We weren't gonna go five o'clock that afternoon. He said work. We get ready. We're going over to badges to start the lighting plan. So down the railroad station, it was a narrow gauge Turkish railroad that ran around the beta pipe about 16 miles. Open cars. Everybody piles on the scars of night with chickens and goats and everything else. We went down with some fool taking over there. This was a master was making, But he didn't get on the train. He sat down the railroad station. The conductor must have had this experience number time, that mom. But he couldn't start that train. The lab Baha'i got on it and he was quite worried with everyone just sat around, was pretty certain Arab came into the station. He ties his camel toe in the palm trees and he walks in their station. And on this I had a conversation. After few inscom Mrs Navajo came out got on the train and off we go Akka, We re stack just before sunset. And you know, they closed the gates to the city of Akka at sundown. And if you're not in by that time, you stay outside on the land a between Akka hyper that would just like the plains of the West. When the sun goes down, you can hear the Jackal style. How nice that time and the cactus little cactus fence around little Arab villages in the plane. I had a loss that down, Reverend, And everybody went into bad to Akka Gone and really have never standing outside waiting for Abbas. Pretty soon can lead. Another Egyptian boy came from Badger really bringing up his white donkey. And the three of us were standing there. You killed a man that didn't come out from the rebels. And then I see coming across the standing there with dark Avalon head red when he walked into the statesman. He and have a talk, have a conversation together, hear him laughing in the States, men in a few minutes I have a law came out any mountain gone white donkey. And I was walking on the right hand side of donkey and rule out there on the left. And Khalid was leading him on and it was man dark on a beautiful night. The bombing night You'd like to be out of white flowers in full moon And if he wrote it all, a massive police bound up over his shoulders And he began. How many on the beauties of nature and a beautiful night? Beautiful, beautiful guys. Let me give you my heart, the wall. Maybe thinking about walking. So I have to walk one time, no matter what. We were walking two and 1\/2 miles badge and Casa, who was with us, had gone ahead and had prepared dinner for when he came to the bath mansion back. We didn't have the man that I was in the hands of the company records. We had a corner building off the right through about 20 by 20. Offer that with two bedrooms that the back was little garden with an orange tree. In the back of that was a room where they cooked the meals on charcoal braziers Your brother's table said this long table again set with a beautiful bride of a person. Beautiful damask, Bunches of Damascus grapes on a little brass balls of my ass, pomegranates and the unleavened bread. And uh, that's it was coming on, these brakes said, These grapes are you don't get these kind of mix anywhere else commented on the team. The kind of team we were drinking wasn't wouldn't get other was a white leaving team. Someone ran out the door while I was talking to prosper over the door. Never listens. Best lobby Balmy means coming in the name of God and cost Iran across and took the crossbar often. Open the door here. Student. Been interested in the door on there, about six feet two. Just straight as an arrow. Is Esther very grinning, then have a home repeated again Business lobby for me. Then they came across the floor and a horse heading down the right hand side of the table. He was saying in the head, and I was sitting here with you and they began a conversation in there. I didn't know why, but I have a wish. Is turned back on his head. He was laughing in this Abbas Lammy ruling was laughing. I was laughing even though I didn't know he was so interested, then returned to me, he said. You told me what had happened. He said. Adam said to this, You belong to a tribe that had stolen something Your wife wouldn't let you come in. A tent that's true at a high got been kept. Another Tennis has never been kept out of the 10. It seems somebody's been stealing and Baha'i sweet oranges. So I said to this horrible honey like sunrise, he said, Don't like sour, just horses. Will it taste very good in the shitter next day? This, Abbas told us, are just way went. The next morning he went into the strain of Baha'i along with that of a home on the extreme, right over the front of the whole lawn. We haven't and I still about three feet behind him. There he attended a beautiful kind of visitation. I can hear him today. This is 48 years ago. I can hear the Master Chan in that temple. Voices he attend that so wonderful stand behind. Then he turned to rule on. I told us to take out the rugs from this Ryan and ornaments within this rifle of the hollow shrine. We're going to take him into the hospital with Akka. We didn't know why we later learn I'll tell you about So we put these things in the wagon to take into the hospital. We're going to be in there. Have never gonna drive back. By the way of the sage of hyper in this high court wagon, there are three horses to a little horse into big horses. Company spending. A very wonderful believer did the driving well, we before we went at it all went, told me to go out with him, then he or I didn't show him. What about going doing, lighting this lineup? Baha'i, Iraq, and described Black Hole. I would light it. So I told him, I'm going to put lights on the corners of the shrine of the whole law around outside corners to flood the gardens and in the inner garden errand running lights would shine up through the tropical plants over the light Hope and Anna Coren, lighting a bottle would like there, then changed the oil lands until hectic life without changing the character of their land. Very well, he says. You use your dearest Mito elderly man, he says, is a mason, and he'll put up a little building for you for the parkland. Way back in the Badji Akka. Possible upstairs. There were massive way president for some time. The table was set for three other guys. We're not in evidence, but in a few minutes in game in the Rue St who is living down to the bottom of his son, I was in his nineties and have a hardly at this elderly man. Even being husband greeted a man was maybe most of time. He was the presence of the master master. We're kind of on the back and was company speaking. Wait, man, Wait. He's waiting Quite a long time. Mass was talking to him. You really realize afterwards he felt this is the last time he would see after the hall, which was trying other was last time laughter. They dinner. He just missed him. We all got in the wagon. The rest of us got the wagon. We drove back by the way of the seas can do that today you know the way in land on a beautiful drive we had to the way she is gone, but that would be re established one of these days and halfway back there was a beautiful sunset over my gun, and I asked the manager because I was sitting alongside him in Center City, that role, like take a picture and he's stopped wagon. Let me take a board member of the board that he and the rag in the same time. And the sons that turned out to be a beautiful picture of the sunset isn't picking up pictures of the things I'm talking about. This way. Brokeback. Hi, Bob Back the hyper He said No, he said, You want to have these lighting plants finished at the same time you're spending two weeks in baddie comeback Baha'i work two weeks in hyper amon combo on all night, back and forth. So what? You complete these two plants at the same time so they can turn the lights on the same time? This is what I was doing the 1st 2 weeks we went to bed and that a lot At that time it didn't do a whole saying, Cara bite me. He says he doesn't speak person. You don't speaking. Hey, doesn't speak English. You don't speak person, but you'll get along together. So when we went over this together, not speaking another language, I put flyers. Give me the person I am a glass of water, something else for two days with my drinking game. Right? Wait, come back. I want to work on Mount Carmel and a massive Gaby instructed was working on going with. I was come down every day and have lunch with man. I had to write down every two weeks. I would come down there, have lunch one day. I was a little late and, uh, send a pretty much moving Kelsey up. He says he's changing his clothes. He says, You're telling the commitment Aqdas Cheney's clothes. So after that, I had to sit at the table with having in overalls were closed due okay? And I said that supposes that lost here from the table that when it comes, sometimes he'd bring his newspapers. This ma'am, he puts his turban back in his hand on his head. Hey, had a beautiful brown cat. Fujita took care Bahji tonight locking cattle for me just to hear at all. Say, let the cat out when he can wait, Let the cat out of the cattle run over the table and rub up against out. Baha'i pushes chair with his feet again at the table. You know, this was such a wonderful experience to me because I knew I couldn't put in the words who alcohol and is His Majesty waas. But I guess I could feel that part. But then I thought at the same time saw the humanist absolute humanist in the form. So hey, he made you feel at home. You're talking like you close, Uh, kind of one day I said, Well, I'm gonna get a quick answer on a more talent. I said in the massive one day, What's the difference in life? Can't laugh myself. Game started went through all the different organs of the body is purifying the bloodstream and all this description of the food north through the body. And then I didn't just didn't look to me like an answered immortality. But later, when I read the tablet on traveling through the middle of vegetable mantle kingdoms, I find out the brake investment that he got up and he walked across the floor. There were nine styles in the more sleep and let him was losing the cement on his foot stuck it does. He walked across the floor and I made a little that it passes by and turned around and pointed toe. And he said It is progressing and it's possible it's the reached a stage of a mirror Human temple You stop taking the middle on the mental gonna love the middle. Can the animal kingdom, the vegetable kingdom come into the human form? So later on, of course, inside. Give me a very natural way. We're working on the lighting on the front of the probably And I decided that I didn't want to put this wire that Mr Wilhelm a set up over there was the old fashioned black wire to put on portion cleats on interior that's trying in the money. So I went down on asking me, wouldn't let me go to Cairo, get some lead cable like bury in the concrete so switches kind of switches so it would be hidden writing. So I said, Yes, I could go the kind he gave me $600 anything. I needed this work. They said you take it easy with that. He'd like to go to Cairo. No, I don't know if there was one over in these eighties today still living in highway. You just came back to Chicago about a month ago after 50 years and, you know, a fascinating never seen a t be truthful me satin from the team to be so fascinated with this. Well, neither came a very wonderful, very fine Japanese family in New York. He was a very fastidious dresser. And I can't take time and go and tell you all the details but the mass that he had sent work something when you don't have to do this. Patina went to California his Iqan at his father's request and two other Japanese boys to study. And while they were there, they didn't study. They housekeeping, having a grand pamper themselves. Don't miss it. Miss it. Miss Cooper. Mrs Good on game, Pretty to the message. And after you got the message, he received a Tabriz Madeline on which, and we'll tell him what a wonderful person he waas He read this type of traditional can't see me and he laid the hammer down Most of the time I got another type of master Master tell him allegedly wasn't so far and still get paid No intentions when he got 1\/3 cabin when he got the third time, you better pay attention. This without telling the other two boys about. He packed up his bags and he goes back to Ann Arbor. Ghosted. Takes up his studies. When alcohol came in New York, it took Majid across America with I told him to finish his studies and in Auburn someday it's informant. After the first World War, he sent refugees in Paju became too hyper and he had tea every morning with the master early in the morning, The message has just come have tea and he made congee to grow a little beard. Hey, stand under my arm. And how short it? Yes, is what I call him off eating Bear because it wasn't a full beard and he helped you to dress up like a monkey with a turban in flowing robes. It was known all over well, and when he came to hyper what? Always buying clothes with a trunk full of buying clothes on. We were three of us rooming together in this room. We had iron beds there with Memphis, about equal or a stick on board on mosquito netting around. And we were told all shake out shoes on the morning of fear wasn't stopping in front of our shoes. That's how the conditions work. Well, every once in a while, Regina would open up his trunk. He said, Look, all dressed up with nowhere to go. So what you doing is going on? I wouldn't be so I'm gonna take my tuxedo. I'm sure they were this vaccine way went home the car when he takes his tuxedo. But I got off stage in Cairo Way didn't ever going to go. We're talking star. What will tell you go to when some lady stepped up and said along. And when she came in like he had a good herself. Mrs. Norris and her two sons, donors on the right, And she's one of your boys doing here narrow. I don't wear your boys way. Don't notice. I'm protecting with me. Mrs. Norris had the means to do a source or a famous separate hotel. Separate convent living. It wasn't like a wall of story in New York. We're best leaving our matches about 3\/4 of interesting for some time here for several years. And Mrs Norris got his room by 16. 16 with two twin beds in it. They were this high off the floor. Well, confused. He'd open the door to that. Better me had his bag in his hand. He was so surprised to see that Betty dropped the Baghdad door, made running, diving over a foot of the bed and folded right up around like you look so comfortable lying in bed, they didn't want to get out. But Mrs Norris had, uh, not waste any time to get dressed and come down to dinner. So Regina gets up and he puts on this magnificent tuxedo was straight as an arrow down to this magnificent dining room, Ingo Quddus leading the procession of the end of the line. And he didn't know anybody there. But you want for the door, He bythe they bought back, you know, And of course, our table is quite almost standing room. So this, in fact, a lot of tension we had been seeing the few minutes until the warrior came to our table with very colorful uniform, he said. There was a gentleman outside. Went to see Mr Eugene. So, friend, did you forget something again? That's a very dignified way out. He also about the honest way. Step through the door. He got the surprise of his life. Just step through the door. A person grabbed him, pick him up and kisses his beard. Now this person had known that all your support, this bed. So he knew of this. So he picked it up in case it is way. Had a wonderful time of the pens came down to see us back off the car. And they feel sorry, Coach with flowers and candy and things that take back with night went back and I went to work on this trying to the bomb, and I put in this different wiring. Well, there was one day there's a burial believer move. Was spending the last years of his life with a massive giving permission to come. Stay there. This man was a silent personality. He never I never heard him speaking as a master dress something. He lived across the street in a little house by himself on duh one day he walked out in the sea, close his clothes on the seashore and drowned. Oh, they have a long talk about this man. And he talked about what a braid difficult life This man had had had a successful venture in his life. But this these in this life of this man in hand, the frustration all who had not made him bitter. There was such a radiance in his face when he was president of the boy. We never saw any bitterness from not only experiences he had, but he had drowned himself. So that night the master talked about this man and he talked about suicide. And he said We must never take our lives, Never heard Enjoy yourself or commit suicide. This is because God never gave anyone. It was a burden greater than we can bear. By bearing the burden, we would get the spiritual value of experience. Well, saying this baby meeting way would lead with that horrible night at seven o'clock in the room, remember? Sit around the world, sit in the corner room where we can talk to everybody in the room. Sitting in this room was saying Baghdad, the gardener of the master when the master said not commit sources. Well, there's only a few days. There's only a few days after that the master passed away, not almost knew that he was going to go. We get an untold number of stories that we didn't even catch the significance of the time. One on one Hey went up to the caretaker of this one of the bomb was a big man and a great home and a very strong man. And he says I'm very tired. This is the day before he passed away. He says, You're a strong man. Couldn't you pay me away to a place Reich and rest? Well, this man didn't know what the master was talking about, so we get smiled. And the next day, when the master passed away, when they opened, the made an opening in the more of this Ryan a bomb. There was only room for one man down through their care, the coffin and this man tried the entire way that coming to his last resting place. Then he knew what the minister was talking to him the day before. Well, their stories like this that you can read in the passing of the massive veils. Nor after was I said said, I have a sad Akka was sitting amaze me is where the master said not to commit suicide. Dr. Dorian Crew was another real wonderful behind New York City. He was the head of the Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City. I hate going. He was spending the last hand. Miss Cooper, we're in life at that time. Mr Mrs Box were there at that time. Mrs Apartment of Germany's Western people were there. That's a nice thing about home. And, uh, Dr Cooper and I was sitting down in the American, killed a mouse in early one morning when Rudy I came running. Right, Grady says, is a man of mine. This Ryan was cutting stroke, so we jumped in foreign time and go left on my own Khanum, Highness, right. And every found safe dinos line and cut his throat from here. There have been sitting in the room with the matter, said not commenced like a crew greased over the minute and lost so much blood. Mr. Cooper. Dr. Cooper. So he says, Man has lost so much, but he can't flush me live. We took him down to the English hospital, recover when he went back to work and he served the Guardian for many. Remember this a short time ago, just a few years ago that he passed away and he didn't get away with taking his life given present, with the master not disobeyed. He didn't have to come back and stay here. Other things like that. One day I was sitting in the room. We every night at seven o'clock with the man would sit around and maybe 30 or 40 of us sitting around on. The man said. Some of these men remaining have been in prison and the Mass would talk and talk seriously. Many tell stories. Have them laughing. These men would never speaking. Thus, the master's address, some comments, and I was, well, president. These beans on the side of the room on it never went on any modem maker person, so I didn't know either language, but I was enjoying being there just the same. One evening, the master looked across the Manny smiling, says, You want a sandwich being sent here? I said, No mess. I don't speak in this. Well, it says your heart understands the language of the heart is much more important language. The words you think of that. But there's a report between two a beautiful. After saying it, I run with road one whole afternoon with that of a man. He never said a word I tell you, that was really communicates in just the same. Just that's the spirit of being in a press. The mess I would look at his. This person is phased. Marty McInnis active. It was just wonderful just to see the master even to receive a smile. Remember, knowledge. No words to describe it I'm talking about This is true of our beloved garden. Well, uh, yeah. I'm trying to think of so many other stories there. One day we're we alway every afternoon wins. Sunday afternoon we dropped the shrine of the bomb and massive would talk to the friends there And one a beauty in. He had finished talking. We all started Walk down Mount Carmel. Haven't you remember Bon Khanum was just banging Rocky Mountain at that time, we're all walking behind. Industry came down Khanum and it was getting dark and all of a sudden he told us all to go on. A bit of good money starts right down through the mountain. Never has to start right down the mountainside control. It's not a problem. We went back down the road. We learn later that in Garner's visit, a sick family about that family went stop right down with got strong, impressing because meeting went down to see this. Well, these were things friends. And then last night we saw him leave for the funeral was passing the master. A chaos broke off, never passed away. Abdu'l-Baha passing with Justus if he had taken his coat. Related aside, that's how quickly it happened. Jameson Room. When they ruled there with his daughter to Khanum on Dhe, she asked if she wanted him. He wanted some food. He said he would give me food when I'm leaving, and he asked her to raise the window in the room for some air actually went over to raise the window. I want to turn back and go on condition that is left in that Dr Cole does. The night before, Baha'i told Dr Kruger Movement appel the house into the little room above ground. So Dr Cooper's right, so he was immediately the basket a massive as I came into the way before. This is a massive planet. Money came over to our house and pounded on the door. So get up, Get up Mass in the past. Rest all while the three of us flew out of the house quickly as we could get up and walk in the room. I walked in the room. Doctor was standing by the side of the bed and he was just closing the message. I said The masters just left. This pandemonium broke loose. People were waiting around there. Then there was really chaos going around that time. I didn't feel any emotion. I love the massive very much, but I didn't feel any emotion that was worried about this. And I tried to force us emotion. Somebody had to be. This isn't something you build this time. Observe. When I looked around, I saw across the room was the greatest holding position as calm and poison. You can imagine What was she doing going to this person, the other person immediately sending everything in order, giving directions, position direction for that because he came over to her, I wasjust says you take a seat and cost around three. Dr. Akka, following the friends of the passing of the Masters was about two o'clock in the morning and come back. And there was another beautiful night as we drove along the seashore in this model T Ford Fujino and cause we're both about the same height. Well, three of us were weeping a federal along in the car to Akka. We had it across to Little Creek, so I came out into the baby. We had to find the sandbars. Drive over as they come to one point, Consul would get out, wait on the sandbar and follow across the sand bar on driving. And we got past all these little sand boys and drove over back in the old way. Turn around. We didn't think we had to find a sandbox person. All right, way back. C sharp. What came next? One waves had question around on the floor. Went down in the water. Well, it can't now. Every war, the three of us. And there's a lot of people in Florida just gradually settling slow in the sand. Got out a few process so short of natal one wheel lift, the Florida to keep it up in a minute. They've been over the lift, afford their features from out their appointment tomorrow. Wait. I said car. So down to get some fishermen in those days, these husky fish, we're gonna be on the seashore. Pulling in the nets began so cost ran down. It was dark outside. And when he went down to get this Richmond opinion and I went from one or the other or keep lifting up to keep him for a second. What happened? Receiving fishermen. Just getting beginning day daylight coming out and drawn up beans. Trouble neighbor hammering in there because he came out and rest of the war. They picked a board of cage rattling short weight on top, right and fold back. Always daylight there in the street from? Well, well, the street was just around 1,000,000 in a few minutes. Later, up Rolls Herbert Sand with several Model T Ford just driven. There's been other dignitaries in doing it a little with a massive past. That night at 1 30 here next morning. All this was going on minutes. Remember? Salmon went in the room meeting after serving. Salmon came. He had a high sell patents on brother Army officers alongside of me. They went in the room need after they went in, Officer, the doorway comes the coffin. The master on the shoulder not behind. And they got down the steps and they were taken away from others. Took the position. This changed over 15 and 20 feet. They kept taking away from each other. They like stuff. Longtime laminate carry. Think this about a mile and 1\/2. But they had a lying around and get a flying bomb halfway up. The Boy Scouts put a wreath on the cropping The master, that was all of us. And it was a person, Charlotte. And they said the popping out on the table in front of the shrine of the bomb. And there was one of those nine addresses were given by you to read this pamphlet on tenure. They talked about the master's life so glowing and after this address is forgiven. Then they win this round of the bomb and lowered it. Final resting. Now, Uh, Abbas Cooley was the caretaker of this line of the ball at night. The massive passing the open the hole in the booth. Master must have confided in him and I'm gonna leave that way just really opened up this opening in. So this is where they Lord, that you ran into Bob. But that time was six rooms about 20 foot square. Later on show your penny added three more rooms behind. So it's nine rooms about 24 25 foot square with heart and the masters. In this in a sterile room, is the bomb. In the front center rule is the burial place of Abdu'l-Baha, where they had notable, and I took a photograph of this opening in the floor. I filed the negative with making for years Great. It's holy, but asking takes a photograph of the masters he lay on the bed. There is a passage Iqan photographer to take photographs, but he had neighborhood Cam and I had this graphic had hold my camera like is to take four guys got great clear shots lay in bed. They had placed a green terminal in a massive head. Was something in something of a Iran that time would be. I went to a time when talking about developing, making looking that dropped out of his hand and it broke you didn't have a name. Well, what so many came back. I have became no one should get any arriving 40 days in the will and dressed him. Several of us talked around. Sit around talking the show. You've been busy, young man. Even though we didn't know he was the guardian. Yes, you can see a difference in defending me in his brain. And his point is there's dignity of the garden was outstanding before we even knew it was good. Well, after this passing and, uh, have become like on base, that works me to come over to the house. I went over the house and he says You're having some photographs aboutthe No, you didn't care to see them and I was destroyed. And he said, The reason for that Waas it's much better for the friends. I have a mental picture, Master, I have gas. So then I said to show you if any. Do you mind if I look back over your shoulder? Will? Because Roy was involved in all this is no All right. Thank you and Roy have looked over and stand by yourself. You know what you want to see? It will burn the negatives up on right? I brought way had in his cabin there. What happened? Every road leading shall get way filed animals, but not the negatives in the archives. They're teenagers. So the ambos describing what happened Wildcard way went back to work here. Julia. Plenty left. Greatest. Only lead was a way back to work in lightness. Right? Way completed this riotous Azad Baha'i said, biting the shrine's turning the lights around. There was a searchlight on Mount Carmel. People hadn't seen Cristian that neighborhood before. The children were coming playing their shadows in the floodlight was signed on time of Abbas And you could see the light on the train of the across the baby Ana one day before she'll get any left. Hey said for me to come and take a look with him you want Come on, Khanum Avenue way We're walking a lot of Mount Carmel Avenue. Hey was telling me how much the master and the family appreciated. The work had been done on this rain of bombs, and it's right in the old name is praising you very highly. And every time he prayed that I would appreciate it by saying well, she'll give any. I come over here for any credit. I was happy to do the work when I had done this two or three times as he talked, He's turned around. Stop right in front of me. Please is nevertheless says appreciation goes with him. I learned right there important it is for us to express appreciation for anything is done in the service. You don't wait a person by what you say is I mean, that it's really, uh, less.