A Weary Evening in Budapest
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Budapest (today: Budapest, Hungary)
During the afternoon of April 11th, 1913, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá returned the visits of Professor Ignaz Goldziher and other notabilities, and engaged in long conversations with them. When He arrived at the hall of the Old Building of Parliament for the public meeting, He was very fatigued, barely able to speak. Yet He delivered a powerful discourse, and the audience, which had in it a number of the prominent men and academics of Budapest, showed that it had greatly appreciated the talk.
Source: H. M. Balyuzi, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá: The Centre of the Covenant, pp. 385–386.
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