Laurence was a considerate and devoted son, the apple of his mother's eye and his father adored him. He is remembered as thoughtful, fun-loving, with sterling integrity, and with a bright future. He had transferred from Stanford to the University of Michigan and was engaged to be married. He was a strong athlete and was part of a sailing team that competed on weekends.
During the biggest race of the 1906 summer season, he stepped forward on the deck to adjust the boat's jib when a sudden gust of wind whipped the sail across the deck, knocking Laurence into the water. His body was not found for another week.
'Abdu'l-Baha wrote to his mother, Corinne True:
"Do not grieve on account of the death of thy son, neither sign nor lament. That nightingale soared upward to the divine rose-garden; that drop returned to the most great ocean of Truth; that foreigner hastened to his native abode; and that ill one found salvation and life eternal.
Why shouldst thou be sad and heartbroken? This separation is temporal; this remoteness and sorrow is counted only by days. Thou shalt find him in the Kingdom of God and thou wilt attain to the everlasting union. Physical companionship is ephemeral, but heavenly association is eternal. Whenever thou rememberest the eternal and never ending union, thou wilt be comforted and blissful."
During the biggest race of the 1906 summer season, he stepped forward on the deck to adjust the boat's jib when a sudden gust of wind whipped the sail across the deck, knocking Laurence into the water. His body was not found for another week.
'Abdu'l-Baha wrote to his mother, Corinne True:
"Do not grieve on account of the death of thy son, neither sign nor lament. That nightingale soared upward to the divine rose-garden; that drop returned to the most great ocean of Truth; that foreigner hastened to his native abode; and that ill one found salvation and life eternal.
Why shouldst thou be sad and heartbroken? This separation is temporal; this remoteness and sorrow is counted only by days. Thou shalt find him in the Kingdom of God and thou wilt attain to the everlasting union. Physical companionship is ephemeral, but heavenly association is eternal. Whenever thou rememberest the eternal and never ending union, thou wilt be comforted and blissful."
Laurence was a considerate and devoted son, the apple of his mother's eye and his father adored him. He is remembered as thoughtful, fun-loving, with sterling integrity, and with a bright future. He had transferred from Stanford to the University of Michigan and was engaged to be married. He was a strong athlete and was part of a sailing team that competed on weekends.
During the biggest race of the 1906 summer season, he stepped forward on the deck to adjust the boat's jib when a sudden gust of wind whipped the sail across the deck, knocking Laurence into the water. His body was not found for another week.
'Abdu'l-Baha wrote to his mother, Corinne True:
"Do not grieve on account of the death of thy son, neither sign nor lament. That nightingale soared upward to the divine rose-garden; that drop returned to the most great ocean of Truth; that foreigner hastened to his native abode; and that ill one found salvation and life eternal.
Why shouldst thou be sad and heartbroken? This separation is temporal; this remoteness and sorrow is counted only by days. Thou shalt find him in the Kingdom of God and thou wilt attain to the everlasting union. Physical companionship is ephemeral, but heavenly association is eternal. Whenever thou rememberest the eternal and never ending union, thou wilt be comforted and blissful."
During the biggest race of the 1906 summer season, he stepped forward on the deck to adjust the boat's jib when a sudden gust of wind whipped the sail across the deck, knocking Laurence into the water. His body was not found for another week.
'Abdu'l-Baha wrote to his mother, Corinne True:
"Do not grieve on account of the death of thy son, neither sign nor lament. That nightingale soared upward to the divine rose-garden; that drop returned to the most great ocean of Truth; that foreigner hastened to his native abode; and that ill one found salvation and life eternal.
Why shouldst thou be sad and heartbroken? This separation is temporal; this remoteness and sorrow is counted only by days. Thou shalt find him in the Kingdom of God and thou wilt attain to the everlasting union. Physical companionship is ephemeral, but heavenly association is eternal. Whenever thou rememberest the eternal and never ending union, thou wilt be comforted and blissful."
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