The Days of a Man [1912 



The Bahai 



as to personal liberty, diet, and methods of studying 

 literature, and his many eccentricities were effective 

 in impressing his ideas. It seems that he had been 

 granted an undesired "leave of absence'* from Cra- 

 cow because of his freedom of speech. In the stormy 

 days which followed he took refuge in Savoy, whence 

 he sent me his book on "The Meaning of Freedom," 

 and where later, as I learned through the Polish 

 Relief Committee, he was on the verge of starvation. 

 We then forwarded a little money from Stanford, 

 but I have since heard nothing of his fate. 



Another visitor of the same year was the Bahai, 

 Abdul Bahas, son of Baha O'llah, the famous Persian 

 devotee, founder and head of a widespread religious 

 sect holding as its chief tenet the Brotherhood of 

 Man, with all that this implies of personal friend- 

 liness and international peace. Through an inter- 

 preter the kindly apostle expressed with convincing 

 force a message accepted, in name at least, by good 

 men and women all through the ages. He asked 

 for some of my own essays to be translated into 

 Persian and cordially invited me to his abode of 

 peace in the hills of Damascus. 

 GrenfeU Still auothcr apostle of good will, who came to us 



not long after, was Sir Wilfred Grenfell, the mission- 

 ary physician of the bleak shores of Labrador. The 

 story of his noble work has been so well told that I 

 need only express my own appreciation of the man 

 and my pleasure in presenting him to the students of 

 the University. 



On June 5, 1912, on the invitation of the German 

 consul Von Bopp, I heard an address at the Fair- 



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