“Verily ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was with you in Green Acre in his spirit, soul and in all his spiritual grades. . . . Verily I beseech God to make Green Acre as the Paradise of El-Abhá, so that the melodies of the nightingales of sanctity may be heard from it and the chanting of the verses of unity may be raised therein. . . .

“Blessed art thou, that thy heart is connected with the callings of the Kingdom of Abhá, so that thou hast dispensed with the telepathic wires of the world, because the terminal of the spiritual wire reached the centre of thy heart and the other is placed in the spiritual centre. . . .

“O thou artery pulsating in the body of the world. . . . I supplicate God to heal thee from all troubles and diseases and make thee a sign of guidance and a standard of the Supreme Concourse in those regions. . . . Verily thou art with me in spirit at all times.”

On August 16,1912, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá Himself visited Green Acre and remained one week. His majestic figure became a familiar outline upon its grassy slopes and His presence a benediction. At this time Miss Farmer was ill at a sanitarium in Portsmouth. She was able, however, to spend a few hours at Green Acre in order to greet ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and extend to Him the hospitality of a spot already dedicated to His Cause.

The two addresses delivered by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá on the day of His arrival at Green Acre were significant of His later instructions regarding this centre. They were masterly discourses upon. “The Investigation of Reality” and “Love.” A divine joy seemed to fill the heart of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá at Green Acre for here were found many souls capable of responding to His message. His time was fully occupied with interviews and addresses.

Upon one occasion ‘Abdu’l-Bahá stood with the friends upon Mount Salvat, the noble elevation dedicated by Miss Farmer as the site for a spiritual university. He spoke of the future realization of this inspired idea—of the erection there of a University of the Higher Sciences—an institution where young men and women would be prepared for lives of true service and trained in the arts and sciences of a new age. Upon another occasion ‘Abdu’l-Bahá invited to a Feast all the residents of Eliot and Green Acre.

While sojourning in Paris, on His return from America en-route to Palestine, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá pictured to some friends interested in Green Acre the ideals on which its future should be built :

“In Green Acre you must concentrate your forces around the one all-important fact—the investigation of reality. Expend all your thought on this that the union of opinions and expressions may be obtained . . . .

“The chief objects of the Green Acre Conferences must be the furtherance of universal peace, investigation of reality, brotherhood, tolerance, sympathy to all mankind, the cultivation of a better understanding between the nations of the world, the elimination of dogmas and superficialities, the illumination of the hearts with the light of truth, mutual assistance and co-operation, social service, the study of the fundamental principles of all the religions and their comparative co-ordination. Green Acre must carry away this palm of victory . . . . ”

In July, 1925, at the invitation of the Green Acre Fellowship and Trustees, the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada gathered there in their Seventeenth Annual Convention and Congress, and this occasion signalized the visible fulfillment of Miss Farmer's pilgrimage to ‘Akká so many years before. An international touch was given the event by the presence of honorary Bahá’í delegates from France and Persia, and the receipt of messages of fellowship from the Bahá’ís of England, Germany, Caucasus, Egypt, ‘Iráq, South America, India and Burma, Australia and New Zealand.