Crowds at the True Home
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Chicago (today: Chicago, Illinois, USA)
In Chicago in September 1912, the Trues' downstairs rooms were constantly filled with people for meetings or those just wishing to meet ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. Large as they were, they still weren't large enough for the crowds. People lined the hallways and were stacked up on the stairs. When the Master became tired, He would take a walk outside and then return to the house.
Mahmúd, who travelled with the Master, recorded one such evening: “the three large rooms on the ground floor of Mrs True's home were filled with so many visitors that people were standing in the hallways. The Master walked among the crowd and spoke about the assistance of the Blessed Beauty, the spread of the Cause of God and the impact of the Word of God on the churches and meetings.”
Source: Earl Redman, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Their Midst, p. 193; Mahmúd’s Diary, September 13, 1912.
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