Address to the friends at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-03-09
OOL 06 20008Phelps:ABU 1028
ABU 1028•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Address to the friends at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-03-09
300 words
Translation:
Provisional translation
O God! This [city of] Paris is a lamp in the utmost transparency but it is in need of the light. It is a body in the greatest of comeliness but it is in need of the spirit.
DAS.Diary notebooks and letters of Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Dec. 1912 – Jun. 1915. English and Persian diary notebooks and letters held in the U.S. National Bahá’í Archives. Often quoted in other sources such as SW. Catalog entries are indexed by date and include only the English notebooks and letters. Letters from 1 Jul 1913 through 19 Oct. 1914 found here: https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914