The world surely never possessed such a guest-house as this.
Within its doors the rigid castes of India melted away, the racial prejudice of Jew, Christian and Muhammadan became less than a memory; and every convention save the essential law of warm hearts and aspiring minds broke down, banned and forbidden by the unifying sympathy of the master of the house.

It was like a King Arthur and the Round Table ...

but an Arthur who knighted women as well as men, and sent them away not with the sword but with the Word .-- The Modern Social Religion, Horace Holley, p.

171.
During these years 'Abdu'l-Baha cared on an enormous correspondence with believers and inquirers in all parts of the world.

In this work He was greatly assisted by His daughters and also by several interpreters and secretaries.
Much of His time was spent in visiting the sick and the afflicted in their own homes; and in the poorest quarters of Akka no visitor was more welcome than the "Master." A pilgrim who visited Akka at this time writes:-- It is the custom of 'Abdu'l-Baha each week, on Friday morning, to distribute alms to the poor.