‘Abdu’l-Bahá''s train passed through the small town of Aitkin

‘Abdu’l-Bahá's train passed through the small town of Aitkin, Minnesota, pausing briefly to let off and board passengers. On the platform was a small boy, aged one and a half, and a man, waiting for the boy's aunt to disembark. Suddenly, the young lad's attention was grabbed by a very unusual man standing in one of the train exits. The stranger was dressed in a white, full-length robe, wore a turban and had a white beard. The stranger was, of course, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, but the boy wouldn't know this for 28 years. The little boy was William Sears, who would be appointed the Hand of the Cause of God 45 years later. That night, William had the first of a long running series of dreams about ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, but not until 1940 when his new wife Marguerite, showed him the picture of the Master did William know who it was he had seen.

Source: Earl Redman, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Their Midst, p. 200

Collected from bahaistories.com (Subject: hands-cause).

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