Mrs. Keith Ransom-Kehler's passing is, indeed, an
irretrievable loss which the Bahá'í world has come to suffer at a time when her
presence in their midst was so greatly needed, not only because of her
inspiring personality, but due to her intelligent, wise and energetic handling
of the many and varied problems confronting the followers of the Faith in
Persia. For more than one year she toiled and suffered, undismayed by the
forces of darkness which so increasingly challenge the devotion and loyalty,
and hamper the progress of the work, of our Persian brethren. Nothing was
strong enough to sap the vitality of her faith and neither the opposition of
the Government, nor the slackness and inefficiency of those with whom she had
to work, could possibly discourage and dishearten her. Her faith was deep, her
energy inexhaustible. And she was, indeed, fully repaid for all that she did,
whether in connection with the teaching of the Message, or in regard to the
consolidation of the nascent administrative institutions of the Cause in the
very land of its birth.
