arthra

Here is the book "Portals to Freedom" by Howard Colby Ives online:

Portals to Freedom: Table of Contents

Howard Colby Ives was a Unitarian Minister who met Abdul-Baha on His travels in the US in 1912.. Ives covers meetings and personal visits with the Master.

Here is an example:

As we walked a few paces ahead of the others He
talked at length about Horizons. Of how the Sun of
Reality, like the physical sun, rose at different points, the
Sun of Moses at one point, the Sun of Jesus at another,
the Sun of Muhammad, the Sun of Bahá'u'lláh at still
others. But always the same Sun though the rising points
varied greatly. Always we must look for the light of the
Sun, He said, and not keep our eyes so firmly fixed on its
last point of rising that we fail to see its glory when it rises
in the new Spiritual Springtime. Once or twice He
stopped and, with His stick, drew on the sidewalk an
imaginary horizon and indicated the rising points of the
sun. A strange sight it must have been to the casual
passer-by.

~ Howard Colby Ives, Portals to Freedom, p. 55

LordOfGoblins

I love this story. I always picture what it would have been like to be in his shoes (Howards).

arthra

This story is one of my favorites:

There is a story told of an illiterate miner who made a
long journey on foot to meet 'Abdu'l-Bahá when He was
in San Francisco, which further illustrates the same spiritual
phenomenon. This man, though uneducated, had great
spiritual capacity.

He attended a meeting at which
'Abdu'l-Bahá spoke. He seemed enthralled as the measured,
bell-like tones fell from the Master's lips.

When the
interpreter took up the passage in English this miner
started as if awakening. "Why does that man interrupt?"
He whispered.

Then again 'Abdu'l-Bahá spoke, and again
the visitor was lost in attention.

Again the interpreter
translated as the speaker paused. At this the miner's indignation
was aroused. "Why do they let that man interrupt?
He should be put out."

"He is the official interpreter," one sitting beside him
explained. "He translates the Persian into English."
"Was He speaking in Persian?" was the naive answer,
"Why anyone could understand that."

~ Howard Colby Ives "Portals of Freedom "pp. 99-100

LordOfGoblins

THis is the day for very great things.VERY GREAT THINGS!!!

Jafar

good stories. i should read that book...