‘Abdu’l-Bahá in London
Public Addresses :: Meeting of Farewell to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Mr. Eric Hammond said the Bahá’í movement stood for unity; one God, one people; a myriad souls manifesting the divine unity, a unity so complete that no difference of colour or creed could possibly differentiate between one
Manifestation of God and another, and a sympathy so all-embracing as to include the very lowest, meanest, shabbiest of men; unity, sympathy, brotherhood, leading up to a concord universal. He concluded with a saying of
Bahá’u’lláh, that the divine cause of universal good could not be limited to either East or West.
Miss Alice Buckton said we were standing at one of the springtimes of the world, and from that assembly of representatives of thought and work and love, would go out all over the world influences making for unity and brotherhood. The complete equality of men and women was one of the chief notes of Bahá’í teaching.
Sir Richard Stapley pointed out that unity must not be sought in the forms and externals of religion, but in the inner spirit. In
Persia there had been such an impulse towards real unity as was a rebuke to this so-called Christian country.
Mr. Claude Montefiore, as a Jew, rejoiced in the growth of the spirit of unity, and regarded that meeting as prophetic of the better time to come, and in some sense a fulfillment of the idea expressed by one who fell as a martyr to the Roman Catholic faith, Sir Thomas More, who wrote of the great Church of the Utopians, in which all varieties of creeds gathered together, having a service and liturgy that expressed the
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