A Child Recognizes the Master’s Picture
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When in Bahá'í history
Paris (today: Paris, France)
Two days before the close of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s visit to Paris, a woman came hurriedly into the gathering at the Avenue de Camoens:
“Oh, how glad I am to be in time! I must tell you the amazing reason of my hurried journey from America. One day, my little girl astonished me by saying: ‘Mummy, if dear Lord Jesus was in the world now, what would you do?’ ‘Darling baby, I would feel like getting on to the first train and going to Him as fast as I could.’ ‘Well, Mummy, He is in the world.’ I felt a sudden great awe come over me as my tiny one spoke. ‘What do you mean, my precious? How do you know?’ I said. ‘He told me Himself, so of course He is in the world.’ Full of wonder, I thought: Is this a sacred message which is being given to me out of the mouth of my babe? And I prayed that it might be made clear to me.
“The next day she said, insistently and as though she could not understand: ‘Mummy, darlin’, why isn’t you gone to see Lord Jesus? He’s told me two times that He is really here, in the world.’ ‘Tiny love, Mummy doesn’t know where He is, how could she find Him?’ ‘We see, Mummy, we see.’
“I was naturally perturbed. The same afternoon, being out for a walk with my child, she suddenly stood still and cried out, ‘There He is! There He is!’ She was trembling with excitement and pointing at the windows of a magazine store where there was a picture of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. I bought the paper, found this address, caught a boat that same night, and here I am.”
Lady Blomfield, who recorded the account, added: “The above was written down as it was related to me.”
Source: Lady Blomfield, The Chosen Highway, Part III (‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Paris); also retold in Earl Redman, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Their Midst, pp. 48–49.
Collected from bahaistories.com (Subject: intuition).
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