Introduction
In December 1914, through a conversation with friends who had met 'Abdu'l-Baha, and the loan of a few pamphlets, I first became acquainted with the Baha'i teachings. I was at once struck by their comprehensiveness, power and beauty. They impressed me as meeting the great needs of the modern world more fully and satisfactorily than any other presentation of religion which I had come across - an impression which subsequent study has only served to deepen and confirm (6:1)

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