Eliot
Eliot, Maine, USA
3 stories took place here — most often featuring Sarah Farmer and 'Abdu'l-Bahá.
Eliot (today: Eliot, Maine, USA)
Stories at this place
'Abdu'l-Bahá's ministry (1892–1921) · 3 stories
Four Proofs and a Prayer for Sarah Farmer: Green Acre, 1912
At Green Acre on August 16, 1912, 'Abdu'l-Bahá enumerated the four fallible standards of human knowledge — sense, intellect, tradition, and inspiration — then turned, in the same talk, to love as the binding force of all phenomena, and ended with a prayer for Sarah Farmer, the founder of the Green Acre Conferences.
Green Acre and Sarah Farmer's Free Platform
In June 1917 the Star of the West announced the year's summer gatherings at Green Acre, the Maine retreat founded by Sarah Farmer, and recalled 'Abdu'l-Bahá's praise of the place as a *free and unrestricted platform* for the meeting of religious and spiritual seekers of every background.
Green Acre's Summer School Comes of Age
In the August 1915 issue of the Star of the West, the editors surveyed the program of the Green Acre Bahá'í summer school at Eliot, Maine — the gathering that, since Sarah Farmer's gift of the property, had become the principal summer institution of the American Bahá'í community.