Later, while riding in a
carriage on His way to the home of Mr. Alexander Graham Bell, the famous
telephone inventor, 'Abdu'l-Baha very sweetly and softly chanted in Persian: "O Baha'u'llah what hast Thou done? O Baha'u'llah may my life be a
sacrifice to Thee. Through what sufferings and hardships Thou hast passed Thy
days. What calamities Thou didst endure. But in the end, what a formidable
foundation Thou hast laid. What an evident banner Thou hast raised."
(Reported by Dr. Zia Bagdadi, April 24, 1912, Washington DC, ‘Abdu’l-Baha in America’,
Star of the West, vol. 19, no. 2, May 1928)
