Consider how 'Abdu'l-Bahá forgot all thoughts and mentions
and turned his face towards the countries and empires, cities and villages,
mountains and deserts of the West. Day and night he was engaged in teaching the
Cause and conveying the Message. The principle upon which his trip [throughout
Europe and America] was directed was this verse:
"O God! Make all
my ideals and thoughts One Ideal and One Thought, and suffer me to attain to an
eternal, unchangeable condition in Thy Service!"
He sought no rest, neither did he breathe one breath of
comfort. Notwithstanding the weakness of constitution, the infirmity of the
body and the nervous fever, every night I was in a city, and each day among a
community. Although at times I could not speak one word before large audiences,
I delivered lengthy addresses. Working in this manner shall bear fruit.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Extract from a Tablet to Persian Baha’is; Star of the West vol.
5, no. 1, March 21, 1914)
