Such was the effect of ‘Abdu’l-Baha that a noted columnist
of the day, Elbert Hubbard, later wrote (New York American, 1 Mar. 1915), “When
he went to Washington and swept through the Capitol even the Supreme Court of
the United States saw fit to adjourn; the House the same, and the Senate, for a
while, at least, forgot matters of investigation.”
- Allan Ward (‘Abdu’l-Baha:
Speaking in America’; World Order magazine, Winter 1971-72)