918. The Master wrote to him
"It is my hope that thy church will come under the heavenly Jerusalem".
For very many years he tried to bring to the clergy of the Church of
Ireland and particularly the senior ones, the realisation of Baha'u'llah
as Christ returned in the Glory of the Father. In spite of his important
books, "The Heart of the Gospel" and "The Promise of All Ages", no one in
the church responded and in 1947 the Guardian called upon him to resign
from the church. He complied immediately and moved with his wife and two
children to a small bungalow in Dundrum near Dublin. He was one of the
founder members of the first Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Dublin
and in 1951 was elevated to the rank of Hand of the Cause. For many years
he gave distinguished services to the Guardian, not least of which was the
writing of the introduction to "God Passes By" and his presentation on
behalf of the Guardian of his paper "Baha'u'llah's Ground Plan for World
Fellowship" to the inaugural meeting of the World Congress of Faiths in
1936. The pamphlet he wrote to all Christians under the title "The Old
Churches and the New World Faith" was sent out to 10,000 so-called
"responsible people" in the British Isles on the occasion of his
resignation from the church, and his last book "Christ and Baha'u'llah"
was described by the Guardian as "his crowning achievement". He
participated in the Inter-Continental Conference, Stockholm, Sweden in
July 1953 and passed away in March 1957 at the age of 81. ("Baha'i World",
Vol. XIII, p. 841.)

MRS. ISOBEL SLADE

It has not been possible to trace exactly when Mrs. Slade became a Baha'i
but she did tell the story of how she heard of the Faith from a visiting
American believer and wished to go on pilgrimage to see the Master. Before
her plans were made she heard of His passing and she went in the early
1920s. In the year 1926 there is a record of her being a "substitute"
member of the National Assembly elected to "represent" the London
community. From the following year the delegates elected the National
Assembly from the national electorate and Mrs. Slade served as a member
for fourteen of the following nineteen years. She was, in different years,
Chairman, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary.
She was a "last ditch" pioneer to Edinburgh to form the first Assembly
there in 1948. To the end of her long life she would delight her visitors
with fascinating stori