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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."
Giving a fireside, devotional, or talk? Pick a theme, get a curated brief: relevant stories, key quotes, citations, and recommended sequencing.
Suggested sequencing: open with a powerful story, deepen with a reflective one, close with one of joyful resolution. Adjust to your audience.
Opening
Memorial of ‘Abdu’l-Ghaffár of IṣfáhánAnother of those who left their homeland to become our neighbors and fellow prisoners was ‘Abdu’l-Ghaffár of Iṣfáhán. He was a highly perceptive individual who, on commercial business, had traveled about Asia Minor for many years. He…
Memorials of the Faithful · 'Abdu'l-Bahá
Middle
Memorial of ‘Abdu’lláh BaghdádíWhen he was very young, people thought of ‘Abdu’lláh Baghdádí as a libertine, solely devoted to pleasure. He was regarded by all as the sport of inordinate desires, mired down in his physical passions. But the moment he became a…
Memorials of the Faithful · 'Abdu'l-Bahá
Closing
Memorial of ‘Abdu’r-Rahmán, the CoppersmithThis was a patient and long-enduring man, a native of Káshán. He was one of the very earliest believers. The down was not yet upon his cheek when he drank of the love of God, saw with his own eyes the heavenly table spread out before…
Memorials of the Faithful · 'Abdu'l-Bahá
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