ur and thanked
them for their service, giving to each some remembrance of his visit. He
went over the Guest house and blessed it as a centre for pilgrims from
every part of the world, and said it would become indeed a House of Rest.

On the morning of the third day, a Canon of the Anglican Church met him at
breakfast. The conversation turned on the reluctance of the rich to part
with their possessions, 'Abdu'l-Baha, quoting the saying of Jesus, "How
hardly shall they that have riches enter into the Kingdom of Heaven." He
remarked that only when the true seeker finds that attachments to the
material are keeping him from his spiritual heritage, will he gladly enter
the way of renunciation. Then will the rich man joyfully share his worldly
possessions with the needy. 'Abdu'l-Baha contrasted the unpretentious
hospitality before him with the costly banquets of the wealthy, who too
often sit at their feasts forgetting the hungry multitudes.

He urged his hearers to spread the light in their own homes so that
finally it would illuminate the whole community.

'Abdu'l-Baha then returned to London. It was the earnest wish of those who
had the privilege of meeting him that his followers in other lands should
know how much the Clifton people appreciated his visit and realized his
spiritual power and love.

Thomas Pole.

AT BYFLEET.

On the afternoon of September 9th, a number of working women of the
Passmore Edwards' Settlement, who were spending their holidays with Miss
Schepel and Miss Buckton at Vanners, in Byfleet, a village some twenty
miles out of London, had the great privilege of meeting 'Abdu'l-Baha. They
wrote a short record of his sayings to keep for themselves. The following
is an extract:--

We gathered round him in a circle, and he made us sit beside him in the
window seat. One of the members, who was ill, had a specially beautiful
greeting from him. 'Abdu'l-Baha began by saying, as he seated himself:
"Are you happy?" and our faces must have shown him that we were. He then
said: "I love you all, you are the children of the Kingdom, and you are
accepted of God. Though you may be poor here, you are rich in the
treasures of the Kingdom. I am the Servant of the poor. Remember how His
Holiness Jesus said: 'Blessed are the poor!' If all the queens of the
earth were gathered here, I could not be more glad!"

'Abdu'l-Baha knew that we had a treasury box from which we try to help
people less fortunate than o