Advice of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to E.G. Browne

Later He related many stories about the days in Baghdad. In the afternoon He spoke about Mr. [Edward Granville] Browne and said:

I wrote to him, saying, ‘You are the first European teacher and author to have attained His Blessed Presence. Do not lose this distinction.’ He did not understand me and his loss will be known when the lights of guidance shine in England with supreme brilliancy.