Never Forget Christ
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After the war, pilgrimages were resumed. Among the last of those fortunate pilgrims to visit ‘Abdu’l-Bahá were the members of the Edwin Mattoon family. In their great longing to reach His side, they had asked if they might come from the United States ‘if only for a day’. Permission was granted. With their two little daughters, Florence (Zmeskal) and Annamarie (Baker), the latter only three months old, they joyously set sail. They were asked to take a part of an automobile so that the Master’s—sent by American friends—might be repaired. Somehow they managed that, too. Annie Mattoon remembered later that ‘Abdu’l-Bahá said to them, “You must never forget Christ.” With this encouragement, they included visits to the Holy Places of Christianity. [Today, also, Bahá’ís frequently make the ‘wider pilgrimage’.]
Source: Vignettes from the Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (Annamarie Honnold), pp. 123–124.
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