Thou hast
written concerning the meetings and gathering-places of the believers of God.
Such assemblies and gatherings will greatly aid the promotion of the Word and
all the audience, whether friends or not, will become affected. But when the
friends have the intention of entering into these meetings they must disengage
the heart from all other reflections, ask the Inexhaustible Divine
Confirmation, and with the utmost devotion and humility set their feet in the
gathering-place. Let them not introduce any topic in the meeting except the
mentioning of the True One, neither must they confuse that merciful assembly
with complex outside questions. They must either teach or open their tongue in
propounding arguments, either commune or supplicate and pray to God, either
read Tablets or give out advices and exhortations.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Star of the
West, vol. 2, no. 6, June 24, 1911)
