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The Man Who Did Not Forget
Jealous courtiers tell a king that his favoured servant creeps each night to a far room with a bundle. The king follows and learns the bundle holds the servant's old rags, which he wears each night so that he will always stay grateful.
2 min
The Traveller and the Robe
In Denver in 1912 'Abdu'l-Bahá told of a traveller who could not sleep for fear that a gift of a robe would be stolen, and threw it away to find rest.
1 min