A Persian student, the last stranger to visit him, has said he will never forget how my father, from his bed, waved, and waved again, as the younger man withdrew, reluctantly, through the door. Surely his soul was now a lyre on which the hand of the Almighty played. Yet he shed around him a gentle, benign radiance which conveyed comfort and cheer and affected all about him. While he sat there, he was conscious, from his deeper understanding, that he had much of unique value and real urgency to proclaim, for which eager hearts were waiting and, though burning with desire to serve mankind, he was denied, without hope expressed of his recovery, all means of adequate communication of his thoughts.
He was unforgettable in the extreme." Fresh signs of the believers' regard for him were continually appearing, and it became clear that in the hearts of more than a few he was already numbered among those how many? - who can truly say, and by their lives proclaim, "I have forgotten all for love of Thee.”Īnd yet in many ways the most lingering, the most remarkable, the most worthy of his achievements, to me at least, was his reaction to his own infirmities and, particularly during his last years, the influence one felt from his presence on entering his room. His love seemed to see into one's inmost spirit. He seemed to understand so much so quickly. "There radiated from him such a penetrating love," says letter that has come from Bermuda, "that one was immediately at ease.
Some fulfilled a wish and came to see him, greatly treasuring the memory of their visit. His witness to Bahá'u'lláh seemed indeed to have travelled through the wide world, where many who had never met him, and even whom he did not know, felt a sense of personal gratitude towards him and would speak of him with the greatest tenderness and affection. Booklets, articles and contributions made over many years to Bahá'í publications remain to be collected and enumerated. At the same time he produced a compilation for the Wisdom of the East Series, The Glad Tidings of Bahá'u'lláh.
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