Vignettes of Remarkable People in the Faith: Howard and Mabel Ives:
;From their friends we learned more about Howard and Mabel. After meeting `Abdu'l-Baha, Howard had given up his ministry and his security. His marriage broke up and his little daughter, Muriel, remained with her mother. Howard travelled and taught and tried to make a living.
;In 1920 he married Mabel Rice Wray, an equally devoted early Baha'i teacher who, also, had met `Abdu'l-Baha in 1912. After an unsuccessful business venture, they faced the fact that there was no easy way to find the freedom to teach others the principles of their religion. They sold their things and accepted a joint selling job in Pittsburgh, peddling a course of literature for people who had not gone to college. Together they sold the books and Howard gave a course of lectures on them..
;The selling of books would be followed by a six week course of lectures requiring two or three months. At the end of the lecture series, the Ives advertised free public talks on the Baha'i Faith. Usually study classes weould follow and from them, Baha'i groups would form.

;By living very frugally, the Ives managed. One wondered how they could have done it. Recklessly they burned themselves out and only through stressed concentration, were they able to balance their Baha'i activities with keeping alive. They were truly heroes, but they did not pretend to be saints. They kept their enthusiasm all through a life made up of crises. There would be good food and good times. Always the Ives were human. Always the Ives were fun. Certainly this is a high station: to appreciate the good things that God has given us and, yet, to give them up gladly - to be detached.
;Mabel, in her remodelled handed-down clothes was dainty and feminine; Howard in his shiny grey suit was distinguished. Together, they were an aristocracy of spirit
[Doris McKay, Fires in Many Hearts, p. 20.]