the Faith she had dearly loved was made two
years before her death. "More than ever today," she wrote, "when the world
is facing such a crisis of bewilderment and unrest, must we stand firm in
Faith seeking that which binds together instead of tearing asunder. To
those searching for light, the Baha'i teachings offer a star which will
lead them to deeper understanding, to assurance, peace and goodwill with
all men."

Martha Root's own illuminating record is given in one of her articles as
follows: "For ten years Her Majesty and her daughter, H.R.H. Princess
Ileana (now Arch-Duchess Anton) have read with interest each new book
about the Baha'i Movement, as soon as it came from the press... Received
in audience by Her Majesty in Pelisor Palace, Sinaia, in 1927, after the
passing of His Majesty King Ferdinand, her husband, she graciously gave me
an interview, speaking of the Baha'i teachings about immortality. She had
on her table and on the divan a number of Baha'i books, for she had just
been reading in each of them the Teachings about life after death. She
asked the writer to give her greeting to ... the friends in Iran and to
the many American Baha'is, who she said had been so remarkably kind to her
during her trip through the United States the year before... Meeting the
Queen again on January 19, 1928, in the Royal Palace in Belgrade, where
she and H.R.H. Princess Ileana were guests of the Queen of Yugoslavia--and
they had brought some of their Baha'i books with them--the words that I
shall remember longest of all that her dear Majesty said were these: 'The
ultimate dream which we shall realize is that the Baha'i channel of
thought has such strength, it will serve little by little to become a
light to all those searching for the real expression of Truth'... Then in
the audience in Controceni Palace, on February 16, 1934, when her Majesty
was told that the Rumanian translation of 'Baha'u'llah and the New Era'
had just been published in Bucharest, she said she was so happy that her
people were to have the blessing of reading this precious teaching... And
now today, February 4, 1936, I have just had another audience with Her
Majesty in Controceni Palace, in Bucharest... Again Queen Marie of Rumania
received me cordially in her softly lighted library, for the hour was six
o'clock... What a memorable visit it was!... She also told me that when
she was in London she had met a Baha'i, Lady Blomfield, who had shown her
the orig