On one of His visits to New York He stayed with Juliet Thompson on

On one of His visits to New York He stayed with Juliet Thompson on West 10th Street not far from Fifth Avenue. Two or three doors away and across the street, the poet Khalil Gibran was staying with friends. He and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá had met in Syria so now they met again. Gibran said that he believed in everything Bahá’u’lláh had taught, but that he would never declare himself as a Bahá’í because he had his own message to give to mankind and he wished this to remain clearly his. However, said Gibran, he would like to do something for ‘Abdu’l-Bahá - so what might he do? "‘Abdu’l-Bahá was pleased and said, very good - go write me a book and the famous Jesus, Son of Man by Khalil Gibran's was that book.

Source: Reginald Grant Barrow, Mother's Stories: Stories of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and Early Believers told by Muriel Ives Barrow Newhall to her son, p. 40

Collected from bahaistories.com (Subject: khalil-gibran).

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