felkin become involved in the baháʼí faith, through his meeting with ʻabdu'l-bahá in london in 1911 at lady blomfield's. felkin introduced maurice chambers to the faith and presented him with two baháʼí ring stones that abdu'l-baha had given him. felkin may have had an article on the baháʼí faith published in a local newspaper, although there had been an earlier article by british baha'i alice buckton published circa 1909 in the havelock journal "the forerunner".