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"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."
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"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."
By Howard Colby Ives · 1937 · George Ronald
Formative Age (1921–1957) · public domain
Memoir of meetings with 'Abdu'l-Bahá during the Master's American tour.
About Howard Colby Ives
American Unitarian minister who became a Bahá'í after extended encounters with 'Abdu'l-Bahá in New York during the Master's 1912 tour. *Portals to Freedom* is his memoir of those meetings.
1867–1941
Featured figures
Themes
“They say many things but do not fulfill them.”
From Her Highness the Cow
“he may be an agnostic and a captive of the tangibilities.”
From Her Highness the Cow
“be sanctified and purified from all save God.”
From Her Highness the Cow
“did not dawn upon me for years.”
“around a new and most disturbing axis.”
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When Howard Colby Ives wrote in 1912 that his Brotherhood Church had closed for lack of funds, 'Abdu'l-Bahá's reply joked about the philosophy of the age and urged him to give his whole life to spreading the teachings.
In 1912 the minister Howard Colby Ives received a Tablet from 'Abdu'l-Baha that he took at first for simply a beautiful letter. When his church closed, a second Tablet consoled him with humour and called him to teach the Faith.
In Dublin, New Hampshire, in August 1912, the minister Howard Colby Ives spent a Sunday with 'Abdu'l-Bahá and said he would never doubt again. He later wrote that he had spoken many months too soon.
In 'Akká, 'Abdu'l-Bahá sent Lua Getsinger to care for a poor, sick friend of His. She fled the filthy house, and He sent her back to clean it and to bathe and feed the man, telling her to see in him the image and likeness of God.
Howard Colby Ives, a minister who had long searched for God without finding Him, met 'Abdu'l-Bahá in New York in 1912. His doubts did not end that day; certainty came months later, after the Master had left America.
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