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administrators of the Faith in all countries where its institutions had
been erected or were being established--these may be regarded as the
highlights of a service which, in many of its aspects, is without parallel
in the entire history of the first Baha'i century.

No less impressive is the list of the names of those whom she interviewed
in the course of the execution of her mission, including, in addition to
those already mentioned, such royal personages and distinguished figures
as King Haakon of Norway; King Feisal of 'Iraq; King Zog of Albania and
members of his family; Princess Marina of Greece (now the Duchess of
Kent); Princess Elizabeth of Greece; President Thomas G. Masaryk and
President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia; the President of Austria; Dr.
Sun Yat Sen; Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University;
Prof. Bogdan Popovitch of Belgrade University; the Foreign Minister of
Turkey, Tawfiq Ru_sh_di Bey; the Chinese Foreign Minister and Minister of
Education; the Lithuanian Foreign Minister; Prince Muhammad-'Ali of Egypt;
Stephen Raditch; the Maharajas of Patiala, of Benares, and of Travancore;
the Governor and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem; Dr. Erling Eidem,
Archbishop of Sweden; Sarojini Naidu; Sir Rabindranath Tagore; Madame Huda
_Sh_a'ravi, the Egyptian feminist leader; Dr. K. Ichiki, minister of the
Japanese Imperial Household; Prof. Tetrujiro Inouye, Prof. Emeritus of the
Imperial University of Tokyo; Baron Yoshiro Sakatani, member of the House
of Peers of Japan and Mehmed Fuad, Doyen of the Faculty of Letters and
President of the Institute of Turkish history.

Neither age nor ill-health, neither the paucity of literature which
hampered her early efforts, nor the meager resources which imposed an
added burden on her labors, neither the extremities of the climates to
which she was exposed, nor the political disturbances which she
encountered in the course of her journeys, could damp the zeal or deflect
the purpose of this spiritually dynamic and saintly woman. Single-handed
and, on more than one occasion, in extremely perilous circumstances, she
continued to call, in clarion tones, men of diverse creeds, color and
classes to the Message of Baha'u'llah, until, while in spite of a deadly
and painful disease, the onslaught of which she endured with heroic
fortitude, she hastened homeward to help in the recently launched Seven
Year Plan, she was stricken down on her way, in far off Honolulu