As I used to sit at table looking at Shoghi Effendi I was
struck by his resemblance to the Master. In the shape and poise of his heed,
his shoulders, his walk and his general bearing. Then I felt the terrible
weight and responsibility which had been placed upon that young boy. It seemed
overwhelming that he, whose life was just starting, so to speak from the human
worldly standpoint, should have had this great responsibility and care thrust
upon him, a weight which would so consume him and place him aside by himself as
to eliminate from his life the freedom and joy of the human side of life, which
, though not eternal, has a certain call l for each of us human beings.
- Mason
Remey (‘A Brief Account of Eight Pilgrimage to the Holy Land’, 1922)
