fter dark, their precious burden, having first re-wrapt the
remains in a silken shroud brought by them for that purpose. Finding the
next day to their consternation that the hiding-place had been discovered,
they clandestinely carried the casket through the gate of the capital
direct to the house of Mirza Hasan-i-Vazir, a believer and son-in-law of
Haji Mirza Siyyid 'Aliy-i-Tafri_sh_i, the Majdu'l-A_sh_raf, where it
remained for no less than fourteen months. The long-guarded secret of its
whereabouts becoming known to the believers, they began to visit the house
in such numbers that a communication had to be addressed by Mulla
'Ali-Akbar to Baha'u'llah, begging for guidance in the matter. Haji _Sh_ah
Muhammad-i-Man_sh_adi, surnamed Aminu'l-Bayan, was accordingly
commissioned to receive the Trust from him, and bidden to exercise the
utmost secrecy as to its disposal.

Assisted by another believer, Haji _Sh_ah Muhammad buried the casket
beneath the floor of the inner sanctuary of the shrine of Imam-Zadih Zayd,
where it lay undetected until Mirza Asadu'llah-i-Isfahani was informed of
its exact location through a chart forwarded to him by Baha'u'llah.
Instructed by Baha'u'llah to conceal it elsewhere, he first removed the
remains to his own house in Tihran, after which they were deposited in
several other localities such as the house of Husayn-'Aliy-i-Isfahani and
that of Muhammad-Karim-i-'Attar, where they remained hidden until the year
1316 (1899) A.H., when, in pursuance of directions issued by 'Abdu'l-Baha,
this same Mirza Asadu'llah, together with a number of other believers,
transported them by way of Isfahan, Kirman_sh_ah, Ba_gh_dad and Damascus,
to Beirut and thence by sea to Akka, arriving at their destination on the
19th of the month of Ramadan 1316 A.H. (January 31, 1899), fifty lunar
years after the Bab's execution in Tabriz.

In the same year that this precious Trust reached the shores of the Holy
Land and was delivered into the hands of 'Abdu'l-Baha, He, accompanied by
Dr. Ibrahim _Kh_ayru'llah, whom He had already honored with the titles of
"Baha's Peter," "The Second Columbus" and "Conqueror of America," drove to
the recently purchased site which had been blessed and selected by
Baha'u'llah on Mt. Carmel, and there laid, with His own hands, the
foundation-stone of the edifice, the construction of which He, a few
months later, was to commence. About that same time, the marble
sarcophagus, designed to receive