‘Abdu’l-Bahá in London
Public Addresses :: Meeting of Farewell to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
higher unity, while admitting special loyalties.
Mrs. Stannard dwelt on what that meeting and the sentiments expressed meant to the East, especially to the women, whose condition it was difficult for the West to understand.
Tammaddun’ul-Mulk testified to the unifying effect the Bahá’í movement had had in
Persia, and of the wonderful way in which it had spread to America and other countries.
Then
‘Abdu’l-Bahá rose to give his farewell address. An impressive figure, the face rather worn but the eyes full of animation, he stood for about fifteen minutes, speaking in soft musical Persian. With hands extended, palms upwards, he closed with a prayer.
Farewell words of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
O NOBLE friends and seekers for the Kingdom of God! About sixty years ago in the time when the fire of war was blazing among the nations of the world, and bloodshed was considered an honour to mankind; in a time when the carnage of thousands stained the earth; when children were rendered fatherless; when fathers were without sons and mothers were spent with weeping; when the darkness of inter-racial hatred and animosity seemed to envelope mankind and blot out the divine light; when the wafting of the holy breath of God seemed to be cut off—in that time
Bahá’u’lláh rose like a shining star from the
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