September 7, 2014

Haifa 1919: Evening devotional meetings with the Master

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)