ed by her inspiring example, who have committed to memory
her matchless odes, or set to music her poems, before whose eyes glows the
vision of her indomitable spirit, in whose hearts is enshrined a love and
admiration that time can never dim, and in whose souls burns the
determination to tread as dauntlessly, and with that same fidelity, the
path she chose for herself, and from which she never swerved from the
moment of her conversion to the hour of her death.

The fierce gale of persecution that had swept Baha'u'llah into a
subterranean dungeon and snuffed out the light of Tahirih also sealed the
fate of the Bab's distinguished amanuensis, Siyyid Husayn-i-Yazdi,
surnamed Aziz, who had shared His confinement in both Mah-Ku and
_Ch_ihriq. A man of rich experience and high merit, deeply versed in the
teachings of his Master, and enjoying His unqualified confidence, he,
refusing every offer of deliverance from the leading officials of Tihran,
yearned unceasingly for the martyrdom which had been denied him on the day
the Bab had laid down His life in the barrack-square of Tabriz. A
fellow-prisoner of Baha'u'llah in the Siyah-_Ch_al of Tihran, from Whom he
derived inspiration and solace as he recalled those precious days spent in
the company of his Master in A_dh_irbayjan, he was finally struck down, in
circumstances of shameful cruelty, by that same Aziz _Kh_an-i-Sardar who
had dealt the fatal blow to Tahirih.

Another victim of the frightful tortures inflicted by an unyielding enemy
was the high-minded, the influential and courageous Haji Sulayman _Kh_an.
So greatly was he esteemed that the Amir-Nizam had felt, on a previous
occasion, constrained to ignore his connection with the Faith he had
embraced and to spare his life. The turmoil that convulsed Tihran as a
result of the attempt on the life of the sovereign, however, precipitated
his arrest and brought about his martyrdom. The _Sh_ah, having failed to
induce him through the Hajibu'd-Dawlih to recant, commanded that he be put
to death in any way he himself might choose. Nine holes, at his express
wish, were made in his flesh, in each of which a lighted candle was
placed. As the executioner shrank from performing this gruesome task, he
attempted to snatch the knife from his hand that he might himself plunge
it into his own body. Fearing lest he should attack him the executioner
refused, and bade his men tie the victim's hands behind his back,
whereupon the intrepid suff