What happened to a Baha'i who was expelled from the Baha'i faith?

"Shunned by the entire body of the believers, abandoned by his life-long and most intimate friends, deserted by his wife, separated from his only child, refused admittance into even his own home, denied of the profit he hoped to derive from the sale and circulation of his book, he found to his utter amazement and remorse his best hopes irretrievably shattered."

-Bahá’í Administration: Selected Messages, 1922-1932 (Wilmette, IL: Bahá’í Publishing , 1974), p. 138.