ubjects. The
bloodthirsty Jamal Pa_sh_a, who had resolved to crucify 'Abdu'l-Baha and
raze to the ground Baha'u'llah's holy Tomb, had to flee for his life and
was slain, while a refugee in the Caucasus, by the hand of an Armenian
whose fellow-compatriots he had so pitilessly persecuted. The scheming
Jamalu'd-Din Af_gh_ani, whose relentless hostility and powerful influence
had been so gravely detrimental to the progress of the Faith in Near
Eastern countries, was, after a checkered career filled with vicissitudes,
stricken with cancer, and having had a major part of his tongue cut away
in an unsuccessful operation perished in misery. The four members of the
ill-fated Commission of Inquiry, despatched from Constantinople to seal
the fate of 'Abdu'l-Baha, suffered, each in his turn, a humiliation hardly
less drastic than that which they had planned for Him. Arif Bey, the head
of the Commission, seeking stealthily at midnight to flee from the wrath
of the Young Turks, was shot dead by a sentry. Adham Bey succeeded in
escaping to Egypt, but was robbed of his possessions by his servant on the
way, and was in the end compelled to seek financial assistance from the
Baha'is of Cairo, a request which was not refused. Later he sought help
from 'Abdu'l-Baha, Who immediately directed the believers to present him
with a sum on His behalf, an instruction which they were unable to carry
out owing to his sudden disappearance. Of the other two members, one was
exiled to a remote place, and the other died soon after in abject poverty.
The notorious Yahya Bey, the Chief of the Police in Akka, a willing and
powerful tool in the hand of Mirza Muhammad-'Ali, the arch-breaker of
Baha'u'llah's Covenant, witnessed the frustration of all the hopes he had
cherished, lost his position, and had eventually to beg for pecuniary
assistance from 'Abdu'l-Baha. In Constantinople, in the year which
witnessed the downfall of 'Abdu'l-Hamid, no less than thirty-one
dignitaries of the state, including ministers and other high officers of
the government, among whom numbered redoubtable enemies of the Faith,
were, in a single day, arrested and condemned to the gallows, a
spectacular retribution for the part they had played in upholding a
tyrannical regime and in endeavoring to extirpate the Faith and its
institutions.

In Persia, apart from the sovereign who had, in the full tide of his hopes
and the plenitude of his power, been removed from the scene in so
star