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reg emmwà% or mieres tu xW h ore, especlally et. this time when thé temple, whIch, architecte ber- aUi as one of the mont beautiful bulld- legs ln the worlde -le under construc- tion. _It la the story of a, rnan's per- sisteént aimd'macrilflcng truggle to real-'- lmu- a dream. About in, April, 1909, 1 was invited by the committee on designsý for the M4ashrack-el-Aztor te submit a de- sign, giving me until August 'for the task-about thréc months' time.. As tbree monthis wrecomparatively short for' such an. undertaking,' I c o u 1 d b u t s ubmit preliminary sketches', whlch 1 did, but theywere flot satisfactory to me,.:I1could.get. onlythegenieral, outline.Th in verted circle' I had chosen for the f'erm' of anne-pomnted star was iny ideal in syinbol as 'an open circlé is a magnet, but the feeling of the space for windows and doors was net satis- factory. From 1909 tilI 1917 I often tried te sketch a more fitting archi- tectural arrangement f o r these spaces but met with failure every trne. Nothing seemed to fit in those' circles, so I decided te wait for a new light. Abdul Baha -had told the commit- Att.. Cw.to In Aprîl, 1917, 1 was invited by Mr. Roy Wilhelm te 'be hi. guest at the Boston convention that took place in that rnenth, and I glAdly accepted as it was mv first experience in wit-, ncssing a Baha'i convention., During the. convention there was an exhibition of the drawing sub- mtted by Mr. Charles Masen Remy, for this temple. When exhibited there wus not onlv the ene he had sub- war had, interrupted thé business of architecture and 1I Waseut cf work with nô incomne. I had plcnty oi time te myself, but t.he question was, "Wliat will keep the home going?" Mrs. Bourgeois propQU4 te. buy. a. small general store that was for sale near us, which she was willing to take care of. This was generous, but. I had ne mone y to buy the store with. After thinking it over a' great deal. we. decided that we would mortgage our- home in ordèr te get the money with which to buy the store. This was risky, but we had always trusted the Lord cf Might and he had neyer faileci. Se we bought the store.' witnîn me, a trllïng sensation that gave me courage. 'Inspiration came te me without interruption liow te use the wonderful space which I had trled to design for eight years without success. I was very happy and I realized that I was guided and that the thouglits this time were net mine, but came. from. the 'source of inspiration. Artiots'Praise Womk 1I shôwed the design te artists fer guidance to go andi do my own modeling myseif, te which I replied, "I neyer did it and do flot know how.' The answer was, "Go and do it." About that saine week a nmancalled at rny office, and looking at a larg e charcoal1 drawing on the wall said, "You.have no man heie, to model, that for. you?" I 'said, "You are right," then. he said, "Willyou ,et me mode! that for ýyou?" I an- swered, ",I. wish I could, but I have no money to pay',for-the man who. can mode'l that.": He- replied, "I.will" be pesdt oi for nothing-as it is so0 beautiful and I 'want, to do it, for I amn at'tracted> to, it.. You do.flot kno w me, but-t I know' yoèu. Lam-. the -head -artist of Mitchell and Hol- beck of Chicago who decorgted the new Congress hotel -and Y arný re- turning from -Mexico where, I went to decorate the Palace'of, President Diaz. I' used. to hear you and see you often in the'office of Mitchell, and Holbecki yor' friendls, se you-se .we are uot, atiangers. My naine u Guerini.H I was overjoyed and ac- cepted. The next evening he was busy modeling in,~ my office and 1 1was busy watching how lie was, doing it. Late that niglit he had rnodeled one side and a hiaif. As he was leav- ing, the theuglit came strongly to me, "Now go anld do it." I told him I wanted to borrow his tools and have a set made se 1 could try some day to model.' The next day I got vvas it your 1 sai, "Yes." "Weil, he said, you can't tell me that you neyer modeled befere." Then after my assertion that I neyer did it be- fore, and.after bis assertion that he, did not believe it, we departed the best cf. friends' withý this assurance that in thue future I did net need hirn and sheuld do ail my ewn modeling., That was how I came te be knewn in California as an arcbitect and a* sculpter. Lwhen it was finisheci, I got the idea, for the third. 1 could flot get the deme design until the third was carved, but was inspired to design it after I haci completed the third. I then had al' those- separate pieces and,,was very ankious to se e what the resuit would be when 'they al w ere put together. It: ail had been inspi'red, and I had hoped for the best. Given Fine Compliment To my surprise* the whole harmon- ized and showed a thouglieut en-, semble' better thani I myself could have done. Every' r critic I. have brought here tô see it lias passed the same verdict. Mr. Quigliano,. ardui- tect, mural painter, sculpter and ex- prof essor of fli Royal. College of, Architecture of Turin, wasý brought here te criticise it: and bis,,verdict was too complimentary for me te. write it. Mr. Bull, mural painter of reputatiQil who was- considered by Staniford White as such a good architectural critic that he called him te criticise bis work; Mr. I. A. Meli. odon, ex-professor of sculpture in Paris »for the French gç>vernrnent and a member of the itistitute, and. Mr. LeDouc, who was the promoter -of that great competition for an In- tern~ational City who lias ti'aveled the world over and is known for his ability in art criticism, ail have been as one in their appreciation of. this temple, this'- original art, the- new art of symbolism expressed in archi- tecture. EnursPoety * My trouble had not exactly ended with the history of the first barrel of plaster, and if I arn te tell thie- history of this new creation as I arn asked to do, I .must go back te the departure cf the small géneral store whicli was flot a success in the be- ginning. There was struggle: thee and, the beginning did flot helP. to keep. the- pot . boiling. ut home during my arducus task, but left debts that left sores"that are flot yet liealed. After completing the. first story of the 'Temple. haviua' no money, for ayof the cau retto it 1Buti ini My way. w ,e was.1lot an rst the inl the bdecy. Al -- %,t-161%.tuuq,- yvact l so a sting * l5 *8 8uw. e sign first the floor plan fthe mass for answered: "The' second floor of the the elevation, then iwork up the de- Temple." He answered me: III neyer tails, but I tried this persistently thought that it was an enormotus without succesa. I got that first work. like. this, I thought what Yeu floor tlught eut and 'could net sec brought t e'>i three months ago