The Master Sleeps on the Drive Through New York

John Bosch, a Bahá’í from California, came to New York in April 1912 to see ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. He later told Marzieh Gail how the Master pulled him into His car as He left the Hotel Ansonia:

The believers had planned to show the city to the Master; the stores, hotels, banks; to give Him a good time seeing New York. Just as I stepped into the machine and was seated, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá looked at me. He just looked at me, and all at once with an immense sigh--or what you call it better than a sigh--like the whole world would be lifted from Him so He could have a rest, He put His head on my left shoulder, clear down as close as He could, like a child, and went to sleep. I was still as a mouse; I didn't want to move--I didn't want to wake Him up. The trip was nearly a half hour and often I wondered what the others thought--that ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was looking out of the window all the time. He woke up just as we stopped at the Kinneys' home.

Source: Marzieh Gail, Dawn Over Mount Hira, “‘Abdu’l-Bahá: Portrayals from East and West,” p. 199 (John Bosch’s account).

Collected from bahaistories.com (Subject: exhaustion).

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