Agnes Baldwin Alexander Hand of the Cause of God

Agnes Alexander was the only Hand of the Cause of God to be mentioned in the Tablets of the Divine Plan. 'Abdu'l-Bahá wrote of her: 'I declare by the Lord of Hosts that had this respected daughter founded an empire, that empire would not have been so great', and described her as 'the daughter of the Kingdom, the beloved maid-servant of the Blessed Perfection'.

Her life spanned the closing epoch of the Apostolic Age of the Faith and the earliest epoch of the Formative Age, saw the erection o...