Each evening, shortly after sunset, the friends of the East and
the West around Mount Carmel gathered in the Master's salon. The Master spoke a
few words of greeting, and one or two of the Persians with heavenly melody chanted
the prayers and tablets of Baha'u'llah. The Master sat silent as though lost in
prayer, while the waves of peace flowed from him seeming to fill the room. Then
he gave a short address upon the early days of the Cause, or about the Divine Principles
of Baha'u'llah and the meeting ended. We arose refreshed as though bathed in a river
of light...
- Harry Randalld (During his pilgrimage in November 1919; ‘William
Henry Randall, a Disciple of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’, by Bahiyyih Randall-Winckler)
