From Copper to Gold

Dorothy was particularly vexed during the early development of the Lima community about another woman who seemed close, yet hesitated to become a part.Finally she prayed that Bahá’u’lláh would appear to her friend in a dream; then she would surely be convinced of the truth of His revelation.

The next morning there the woman stood at Dorothy’s front door, full of the news that the night before she had dreamed of Bahá’u’lláh, who had announced that He was the Promised One.

Dorothy was ecstatic, but her friend was not. ‘How’, she asked, ‘could He have done that? It was not good sportsmanship. Jesus Christ would never have tried to influence me like that I’ll never accept Bahá’u’lláh’.

Crushed, Dorothy recognised her folly. The woman never did become a Bahá’í. Dorothy decided never again to pray for anything but God’s first choice.

Dorothy Freeman (1984) The Life of Dorothy Baker; FROM COPPER TO GOLD, George Ronald: Oxford, p113.