Loulie Mathews

3 stories in the library.

A life in stories

'Abdu'l-Bahá's ministry (1892–1921)

The First Shall Be Last

As the New York friends met to form their first Local Spiritual Assembly, a cablegram from ‘Abdu’l-Bahá sent them to Matthew 19:30, and they learned a lesson in humility.

1 min

Loulie Mathews tried to teach the Faith in Paris through elegant teas, until a visitor scarred by the chains of prison with his Lord showed her how much she had to learn. 'Abdu'l-Bahá wrote that she would one day be a lion roaring through the Cause of God.

3 min

Formative Age / Shoghi Effendi (1921–1957)

Pamphlets in a Manila Library

With only an hour ashore in Manila, Loulie Mathews tucked Bahá'í pamphlets onto library shelves. Months later the man who found them wrote asking for more, and a Bahá'í community grew there that regathered after the war.

2 min