- Martha Root (Baha’i News, no. 32, May 1929)
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April 8, 2018
Dr. August Forel – how he heard about the Faith
Yesterday, I [Martha Root] spent the day with our glorious
Baha’i brother, Dr. August Forel, the European scientist, at his home in
Yvorne. You cannot imagine the importance of his influence in Europe and in
other continents! Though he is now such an invalid, still he is always thinking
of the Baha’i Cause and doing something to promote it. I was astonished at what
he thought of yesterday and he actually wrote it and sent it! Still, the rest
of us may find courage in the fact that Dr. August Forel first heard of the
Teachings from his son-in-law Dr. Arthur Brauns who first knew of the Cause
from a Baha’i lecture which Mr. William Herrigel, I think, gave in Carlsruhe,
Germany. If we faithfully keep on “giving the Message”, this truth of
Baha’u’llah will illumine the world. It was Peter and James and John’s
faithfulness which brought the divine civilization of Christianity to the
western world.