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Of all the services rendered the Cause of Baha'u'llah by this star servant of His Faith, the most superb and by far the most momentous has been the almost instantaneous response evoked in Queen Marie of Rumania to the Message which that ardent and audacious pioneer had carried to her during one of the darkest moments of her life, an hour of bitter need, perplexity and sorrow. "It came," she herself in a letter had testified, "as all great messages come, at an hour of dire grief and inner conflict and distress, so the seed sank deeply." (389:5) Eldest daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh, who was the second son of that Queen to whom Baha'u'llah had, in a significant Tablet, addressed words of commendation; granddaughter of Czar Alexander II to whom an Epistle had been revealed by that same Pen; related by both birth and marriage to Europe's most prominent families; born in the Anglican Faith; closely associated through her marriage with the Greek Orthodox Church, the state religion of her adopted country; herself an accomplished authoress; possessed of a charming and radiant personality; highly talented, clear- visioned, daring and ardent by nature; keenly devoted to all enterprises of a humanitarian character, she, alone among her sister- queens, alone among all those of royal birth or station, was moved to spontaneously acclaim the greatness of the Message of Baha'u'llah, to proclaim His Fatherhood, as well as the Prophethood of Muhammad, to commend the Baha'i teachings to all men and women, and to extol their potency, sublimity and beauty.
(389:6)
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