Libraries for the Blind, as well as in a large number of
circulating libraries connected with public libraries in various large
cities of the North American continent.

Nor can I dismiss this subject without singling out for special reference
her who, not only through her preponderating share in initiating measures
for the translation and dissemination of Baha'i literature, but above all
through her prodigious and indeed unique exertions in the international
teaching field, has covered herself with a glory that has not only
eclipsed the achievements of the teachers of the Faith among her
contemporaries the globe around, but has outshone the feats accomplished
by any of its propagators in the course of an entire century. To Martha
Root, that archetype of Baha'i itinerant teachers and the foremost Hand
raised by Baha'u'llah since 'Abdu'l-Baha's passing, must be awarded, if
her manifold services and the supreme act of her life are to be correctly
appraised, the title of Leading Ambassadress of His Faith and Pride of
Baha'i teachers, whether men or women, in both the East and the West.

The first to arise, in the very year the Tablets of the Divine Plan were
unveiled in the United States of America, in response to the epoch-making
summons voiced in them by 'Abdu'l-Baha; embarking, with unswerving resolve
and a spirit of sublime detachment, on her world journeys, covering an
almost uninterrupted period of twenty years and carrying her four times
round the globe, in the course of which she traveled four times to China
and Japan and three times to India, visited every important city in South
America, transmitted the message of the New Day to kings, queens, princes
and princesses, presidents of republics, ministers and statesmen,
publicists, professors, clergymen and poets, as well as a vast number of
people in various walks of life, and contacted, both officially and
informally, religious congresses, peace societies, Esperanto associations,
socialist congresses, Theosophical societies, women's clubs and other
kindred organizations, this indomitable soul has, by virtue of the
character of her exertions and the quality of the victories she has won,
established a record that constitutes the nearest approach to the example
set by 'Abdu'l-Baha Himself to His disciples in the course of His journeys
throughout the West.

Her eight successive audiences with Queen Marie of Rumania, the first of
which took place in January, 1926 in Co