Hippolyte Dreyfus Barney
To me, and particularly amid the storm and stress that have
agitated my life after 'Abdu'l-Bahá's passing, he was a sustaining and
comforting companion, a most valued counsellor, an intimate and trusted friend.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a message dated 21 December 1928; ‘Baha'i Administration’)
“…the first Frenchman to accept the Faith”
- The Universal House
of Justice (from a message dated August 1976 addressed to the ‘Friends
assembled at the International Teaching Conference in Paris’; ‘Messages from
the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986’)