A Persian Rug for Mohonk

‘Abdu’l-Bahá was invited to speak before the Eighteenth Annual Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration, held at Mohonk Mountain House in southern New York. The day before He was to leave, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá decided He would like to present the president of the Conference with a choice Persian rug which was, unfortunately, in His flat in New York. Dr.

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Ḍíyá Baghdádí performed the seemingly impossible task of fetching the rug all that distance in one night and arrived just as ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was 'shaking hands with Mr. Smiley', preparing to leave. Albert Smiley must have been astonished for he said, 'Why, this is just what I have been seeking for many years! You see, we had a Persian rug just like this one, but it was burned in a fire and ever since my wife has been broken-hearted over it.

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This will surely make her very happy.' As far as the author [Annamarie Honnold] is aware, the rug is still in use in Mountain House.

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