Be Very Careful
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In New York in 1912, at one meeting, Ella Goodall Cooper was quite taken with a woman there and gave her a rosary. Seeing this, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá called Ella to Him and asked, "What was she saying?" Then He nodded His head to Himself and said, "Be very careful." Ella heeded the warning, though she did not then understand it. In later years the woman attacked the Bahá’í Faith.
Source: Ella Goodall Cooper’s account, recorded in Marzieh Gail’s diary (6 May 1940) and quoted in Marzieh Gail, Arches of the Years, ch. 18; retold in Earl Redman, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Their Midst, p. 149.
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