Unity and Amity at Dublin

Though most of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's time was spent with the rich, famous and white people, He gave special attention to their black servants, treating them no differently than their employers. On 4 August 1912, near Lake Dublin in New Hampshire, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá addressed a group of 28 black people, and spoke of the importance of unity and amity between black and white people. He told them of the upcoming marriage of Louisa Mathew, a white woman, and Louis Gregory, a black man. The white people in the audience were amazed at the influence the Cause of Bahá’u’lláh had on everyone, while the black people were very pleased to hear about such integration. Some Americans considered the creation of unity between blacks and whites to be nearly miraculous and as difficult to accomplish as "splitting the moon in half", but here was ‘Abdu’l-Bahá showing that it could happen.

Source: Earl Redman, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Their Midst, p. 161. The meeting is recorded in Mahmúd’s Diary under 2 August 1912; the editor’s note dates it to Sunday, 4 August.

Collected from bahaistories.com.

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