‘Abdu’l-Bahá visited the Outlook Tower Museum and later addressed the Esperanto Society He drove in the morning to Castle Hill to visit the Outlook Tower museum. Professor Sir Patrick Geddes, a man renouned for his pioneering work in the field of education and social reform, the founder and president of the Outlook Tower Society, was there to receive...

Early in the morning of Monday 6 January Lady Blomfield and her daughters collected the Master from the apartment and traveled with Him to Euston railway station… He had been invited by Mrs Jane Elizabeth Whyte, ‘one of the noblest and kindliest women that I have ever met,’ wrote Ahmad Sohrab. A friend of Mrs Thornburgh‐Cropper, Mrs Whyte had traveled...

1 January 1912 Abdu’l‐Baha addressed the friends gathered at 97 Cadogan Gardens ‘Civilization is like unto a moving hill of sands, Today it is here, tomorrow it’s many thousand miles away. It is subject to constant transference . . . Who knows what course of nobler and higher civilization is not made ready for the East – the cradle of spiritual...

29 December 1912 - ‘Abdu’l-Bahá spoke at King’s Weigh House It was a very lovely church. The stairs leading to the wide platform as well as the platform itself were of pure, white marble. The Master stood in the center of the platform looking in the faces of the large audience. His was a heavenly picture, standing there supreme and often walking or fixing his...

‘Abdu’l-Bahá answered questions from guests gathered at 97 Cadogan Gardens, including these: ‘Should Prayer take the form of action?’ ‘Abdu’l-Bahá – ‘Yes: In the Bahá’í Cause arts, sciences and all crafts are (counted as) worship. The man who makes a piece of notepaper to the best of his ability, conscientiously, concentrating all his forces...

24 December 1912 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá spent Christmas Eve fairly quietly. Reporters had a long interview with ‘Abdu’l-Bah. on Christmas eve. As usual they wished to know where He had come from and why He was there in London. He told them of His journeys in the United States; of the conferences He had attended, the addresses He had delivered; of His aim and purpose,...

22 December 1912 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá reflected on the themes of the play ‘Eager Heart’. He is taken for a drive in Richmond Park The following morning the Master spoke again to friends assembled at Lady Blomfield’s apartment about the performance, which evidently left a marked impression on Him. After praising the actors once more, He reflected on the...