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Examine
the wondrous behaviour of the Prophets, and recall the defamations and
denials uttered by the children of negation and falsehood, perchance
you may cause the bird of the human heart to wing its flight away from
the abodes of heedlessness and doubt unto the nest of faith and certainty,
and drink deep from the pure waters of ancient wisdom, and partake of
the fruit of the tree of divine knowledge. Such is the share of the pure
in heart of the bread that hath descended from the realms of eternity
and holiness.
(Bahá'u'lláh,
The Kitáb-i-Íqán, p. 5 - 6)
The Bahá'í Terraces, Mt. Carmel, Haifa, Israel. 
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At the jubilee, a Botswana Bahá'í, Lally Warren, told participants that as a young child in Mafikeng it had been unusual to meet white people who were pleasant to her so she believed that all white people were bad.
That changed when she met the Robarts family, Canadian Bahá'ís who introduced the Faith to Bechuanaland in 1954.
"The Robarts didn't treat me like a black child, they treated me as a child," she said.
She recalled when she was 10 and the Robarts family came to her house for meetings with her parents James and Stella Moncho, the first local couple to become Bahá'ís.
"They could only do this at night, and as they came towards the house they would switch their [car] lights on and off to say, 'Is it ok, is it safe, can we come?'" said Mrs. Warren, who was a member of the Continental Board of Counsellors in Africa from 1985 to 2000 and has served the Bahá'í Faith in many other capacities.
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