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BAHÁ’Í

NEWS

No. 209

JULY, 1948

YEAR 105

BAHA’I ERA

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European Bahá’ís Hold First Teaching Conference

“Share the joy and elation of the attendants at the first historic Bahá’í Teaching Conference on the European Continent, regarded as the fairest fruit of the momentous enterprise signalizing the second stage in the evolution of the Divine Plan.”

In this foregoing quotation from his cable-greeting to the historic first European Teaching Conference, the Guardian clearly foretold the spiritual blessing and bounty which was shared by all those participating in this Conference. Ninety-two Bahá’ís from seventeen countries gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 22 for the series of consultations which were planned for the following four days. All of the pioneers with one exception and at least one newly declared believer from each of the

goal countries but Spain, four members of the European Teaching Committee and Bahá’í representatives from England, Scotland, France, Australia, Germany and Austria, participated in mature and thrilling constructive consultation on all matters pertaining to the strengthening and promotion of the Faith on the European Continent and in the British Isles. Very special study was made of the Divine Plan, Administration, Will & Testament and Covenant as well as the important matters of teaching methods and techniques, translations, publications and publicity. Throughout the sessions a unifying welding spirit of Bahá’í love and fellowship pervaded the atmosphere and a new conception of the greatness of the Cause, of its power to draw together and unite the different peoples of the world, inspired all of those present to renewed dedication and devotion to their high mission of establishing the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh in these new fields. So great were the confirmations which descended upon those assembled here that five non-Bahá’ís who had been studying the Faith asked to declare themselves at this time. The two public meetings, one in Geneva at which addresses were given in French and in English and the other in Bern with talks in German and English, were most successful with excellent attendance. On the last day of the Conference, Wednesday, May 26, the representatives travelling in three chartered motorcoaches enjoyed a beautiful scenic drive from Geneva to Bern which gave them an opportunity to partake of the true spirit of Bahá’í sociability and fellowship and to share with each other their many confirming and thrilling experiences. The Commemoration of the Declaration of the Báb which was celebrated on the first night, May 22, of the Conference, was an outstanding occasion; at the close of which the Báb’s prayer, the Remover of Difficulties was repeated in all languages of the ten goal countries. To those who had experienced both occasions, this first historic European Teaching Conference could only be compared in its dynamic spiritual atmosphere to the Centenary of the Faith in 1944. It was truly an unforgettable, priceless experience. EUROPEAN TEACHING COMMITTEE

“Distinguished Disciple of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá” Greatly deplore passing of distinguished disciple of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, firm pillar of the American Bahá’í community, George Latimer. His outstanding services during closing years of the Heroic, and first epoch of the Formative Ages of the Faith, are imperishable. Assure bereaved, dearly loved, much admired mother my profound sympathy and fervent prayers for the progress of his soul. SHOGHI (From cablegram received June 23)

Cablegram from Haifa Welcome decisions made at recent Assembly meeting. Supplicating blessings for forthcoming Conference with Committees. Elated by magnificent success achieved at European Conference, development affiliation with United Nations ... Urge you devote special attention in current year to insure rapid progress of Temple construction, maintenance of Assembly status, and consolidation of newly formed Assemblies. SHOGHI (From cablegram received June 23)

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Community Development

A Letter from the National Assembly

Beloved friends:

At the core of our Bahá’í understanding, and of the resolve of our hearts, let us hold to the ideal of community development. The development of local and national Bahá’í communities throughout the world stands as the central theme of the Formative Age of the Bahá’í Dispensation. The Faith of Bahá’u’lláh will not be fulfilled in the spread of books nor even in the multiplication of believers, but in the creation of an ordered society, local, national and world.

The term “community development” covers many steps in this great process, but the process is one and the goal should be kept clearly in sight.

For example, the first step is the formation of a group of nine or more adult Bahá’ís in one civil area. The second step is the election or formation by joint declaration of a Spiritual Assembly. The third step is study and training in the principles and methods of Bahá’í administration. The fourth step is the unfoldment of those powers, capacities and responsibilities with which Bahá’u’lláh has entrusted the community of the Greatest Name. This step may be divided into many stages, some of them far beyond our present vision.

Two essential attainments are within our grasp, and indeed within our duty and obligation at this time.

1. The development of the sense of kinship in the local community, making of believers the members of one spiritual family and one social organism. Here there is mutual respect, trust, affection and the sharing of community joys and sorrows. Here there is regard for one another’s welfare, a swift flow of sympathy, and the proffer of what help, when needed, lies within the power of the community to supply. Here there is willingness to understand and appreciate the diverse types of character and temperament which necessarily exist in the Bahá’í community because it represents “mankind in miniature.” Until this development has taken place there is no proper foundation for effective teaching work.

2. The development of a unified teaching effort, on a scale commensurate with the size and experience of the community. A unified effort grows out of the consultation of all, and employs all available gifts and talents, each in its most effective place. A unified effort can be expressed through many different Bahá’í agencies, employ different methods and materials, and seek to influence the public on different levels; but remains a unified effort because there is unity of understanding throughout. Every committee, no matter how difficult, pressing or specialized its work, draws upon the common store of unified understanding and seeks to return its own particular gift to the common store.

Nothing less than a mature, conscious, developed community can cope with the difficulties of this particular age. Bahá’u’lláh knew the prevailing disease, and He provided the remedy. Therefore the aim of our spiritual knowledge, our love for the friends, our ability to work for the Cause, must be to strengthen the community and help in the unfoldment of its marvelous powers.

Many people feel that the modern family in great measure fails to implant the sense of security and the habit of cooperation which enable souls to come to sound maturity. Therefore the Bahá’ís are to supply the element which has become lacking, and learn how to maintain the spirit and wisdom needed to guide the immature, the untrained, encourage the weak, heal the sick, educate the ignorant, and raise up the broken-hearted.

Many feel that current education misses the central core of personality, the realization of a divine purpose in life. Therefore the Bahá’ís conduct schools for world religion, to quicken the heart and raise the understanding from the darkness in which it lies.

The instances are many. The purpose is to illustrate the vital role of the Bahá’í community as the nucleus and pattern of the new society. We can cultivate our own highest possibilities by accepting the divine trust laid upon us: to do all we can to help our community grow in unity, in wisdom and in power.

—NATIONAL SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY

International Relief

Because of the difficult conditions in the needy countries of Europe (particularly Germany, France and England), all Bahá’ís are asked to cooperate fully with the plan of the National Spiritual Assembly for international relief as published in Bahá’í News for February, 1948, pages 6-7. According to this plan the friends are asked to obtain addresses for sending individual packages or CARE orders from the International Relief Representative. The friends are asked not to go by the lists published in earlier issues of Bahá’í News or to use addresses which may be sent to them from other sources.

Adherence to this plan is necessary in order to follow the instructions of the Guardian that relief be sent only to declared and steadfast Bahá’ís. The responsible Spiritual Assemblies of the needy countries are cooperating only with this plan but they report to us that packages are being received by persons who are no longer Bahá’ís or whose claim to be a Bahá’í is not supported by registration. Because Bahá’í status may change, addresses change, people die, for these and other reasons, it is necessary to repeat this specific request that the friends use addresses obtained only from the International Relief Representative. These addresses are kept constantly up to date by contact with the responsible Spiritual Assemblies, to include new Bahá’í groups or communities also.

Moreover, when food and clothing are so scarce, hard feelings are engendered if one locality appears to be favored because a very active Bahá’í community in the United States may send chiefly to that address. As in all Bahá’í activity, “justice is loved above all” and we can express our universal love through a fair distribution of the help we are able to give to those temporarily going through difficult conditions.

The Guardian is constantly urging all Bahá’ís, in whatever part of the world they may be living, to function according to the Administrative Order, which has for its purpose the development of unity and harmonious cooperation among all the peoples of the world. It is the channel, the divine pattern, for activity and

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Guardian’s Cable to the European Teaching Conference, Geneva, Switzerland — May 22 - 26 Share the joy and elation of the attendants at the first historic Bahá’í Teaching Conference on the European Continent, regarded as the fairest fruit of the momentous enterprise signalizing the second stage in the evolution of the Divine Plan. Overjoyed at the manifold signs of the rapid progress evidenced by the formation of eight Assemblies in seven goal countries, in the notable increase in the number of new believers, in the remarkable activity displayed by itinerant teachers and the meritorious endeavor systematically exerted by the organizers and participators of the newly launched European campaign in the opening years of the Second Seven Year Plan. Appeal to the newly constituted Assemblies to preserve, at whatever cost, the integrity of the prizes gloriously won, to consolidate the institutions recently established, to simultaneously initiate extension work designed to form nuclei destined to reinforce the administrative structure of the Faith in the respective countries. Urge the groups in the three remaining goal countries to ensure Assembly status ere the termination of the current year. Entreat every individual and all agencies associated in the conduct of the divinely sustained, majestically unfolding, tremendously challenging crusade, whether administrators at home or abroad, visitors or settlers, itinerant teachers, newly enrolled believers to intensity their concerted efforts to win wider fields, to give added momentum to still more conspicuous victories. Undaunted by the aggravation of the crisis in the tragically disturbed continent, undeterred by the obstacles and pitfalls encountered in a thorny path, sensible to the growing hunger of disillusioned, fear-stricken, spiritually famished multitudes, constantly aware of the sublimity of the mission entrusted, in this critical propitious hour, to their care, inspired by the example of the Author of the Divine Plan Who, in no less a critical hour in the fortunes of the European continent, notwithstanding His age and illness, twice visited its shores and labored tirelessly for the illumination of its peoples, let them hold aloft, amidst the tumult of the disorders of a tottering civilization, the torch of divine guidance, tramp resolutely ahead to the appointed goals until the initial stage of so colossal an enterprise has been gloriously consummated. SHOGHI Haifa, May 2, 1948

contact between the different countries through the responsible Spiritual Assemblies. These ‎Assembies Assemblies‎ in the needy countries can help their Bahá’ís to understand and follow this pattern, the Administrative Order, if we Bahá’ís in the United States follow it ourselves. We have had the benefit of nine years of guidance and instruction from the Guardian through his letters, which the Bahá’ís in France and Germany, for example, have missed during the war years. It is our responsibility, therefore, to set an example of activity through the Administrative Order. This does not mean that personal letters should not be sent to friends. That is another form of expressing “loving encouragement.” But for the sending of relief packages and CARE orders, the friends are urged to follow the plan of the National Spiritual Assembly as worked out on the Guardian’s instructions. Thus the responsible Spiritual Assemblies of the needy countries will also be aided in their task of education and assistance.

The friends are asked also to refer to the National Spiritual Assembly of the U.S. or its International Relief Representative letters which may be received from persons claiming to be Bahá’ís or from individual Bahá’ís or communities or groups, asking for help or sending addresses. Some of these letters, which have been referred by the friends, have been found, on being forwarded to the respective Spiritual Assembly, to come from persons known to be against the Cause or to be non-Bahá’ís. For the protection of the Cause, therefore, it is thus obvious that the pattern of the Administrative Order should be followed in all our activities.

INTERNATIONAL RELIEF REPRESENTATIVE

Box 548

Evanston, Illinois

(New Address)

In Memoriam

Mrs. Margaret McCowan, Lima, Ohio. 5-8-48

Gale Marsolais, Monroe, Wash. 5-8-48

Mr. Offa B. Shafer, Clovis, Calif. 4-4-48

Mr. John Quinn, Los Angeles, Calif. 5-48

Miss Clara H. Philippbaar, Dunkirk, N. Y. Date unreported

Miss Neysa G. Bissell, Rutland, Vt. 6-5-48

Bahá’í News is published by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada as the official news-letter of the Bahá’í Community. The first issue appeared in December, 1924. Bahá’í News is edited for the National Spiritual Assembly by its Bahá’í News Editorial Committee: Mrs. Roberta Christian, chairman, Miss Margaret Yeutter, Mr. Gordon A. Fraser. Editorial office: Mrs. Roberta Christian, 1001 West Genesee St., Lansing, Mich. Please report changes of address to which Bahá’í News is to be sent and other matters pertaining to its distribution to the Bahá’í National Office, 536 Sheridan Road, Wilmette, Illinois.

Enrollments

Enrollments reported by Local Spiritual Assemblies

Minneapolis, Minn., 3; Champaign, Ill., 3; New York, N. Y., 1; Elmhurst, Ill., 1; Phoenix, Ariz., 1; Detroit, Mich. 2; Maui, Hawaii, 1; Santa Barbara, Calif., 3; Portland, Ore., 1; Louisville, Ky., 12; Monroe, Wash., 2; Greensboro, N. C., 1; Greenville, S. C., 1; Palo Alto, Calif., 1; Atlanta, Ga., 1; Syracuse, N. Y. 1; Youth 2.

Enrollments reported by Regional Teaching Committees

NORTHEASTERN STATES AREA

Lower New York and Connecticut, 1

Upper New York, 3

SOUTHERN STATES AREA

Kentucky and Tennessee, 1

CENTRAL STATES AREA

Ohio and Indiana, 2

WESTERN STATES AREA

Washington State, 1

So. California and Arizona, 2

[Page 4] First Naw-Ruz celebration in Norway, March, 1948.

Around the Bahá’í World

(From Bruce Davison)

GERMANY

To attend a late afternoon meeting the Dziobeck Family must leave their home, in Maidenbach 31 miles northwest of Frankfurt, at 9 A.M. They take one train to Wiesbaden where, after a long wait, they get the train for Frankfurt, and streetcar for the meeting. They have to leave the meetings a little early to make connections returning home, which at that involves an hour walk through the woods at midnight.

Bahá’ís were months learning Mr. and Mrs. Dziobeck, after the Friday night meetings, sat from 9:00 P.M. till 7:00 A.M. in Frankfurt’s railroad station for a train that would take them back to Maidenbach.

Herr Schlingmann, who recently recovered from a light case of tuberculosis, starts from Koenigstein 15 miles north of Frankfurt at 3:30 P.M. to attend the 7:30 meetings. Problem is: there are only two trains daily. One must go when the train goes. It is too bad that hours of waiting are involved, but, they just are if one wants to attend to the meetings. Schlingmann comes twice weekly: Monday evening youth meetings and Friday night public meetings. Train connections are better returning; he leaves Frankfurt at 10:30, arrives home at 12:00.

Mrs. Schenk starts at 8:30 A.M., walking the first mile, then catches, respectively: a bus, streetcar, train to Frankfurt and another train to Zeppelinheim for a weekly afternoon Bahá’í fireside team. Mrs. Kohl-Schmit makes a similar trip, minus the bus ride, from Darmstadt and Mrs. Bommersheim the same from Bad Nauheim for the same tea. Often trains are so packed with passengers that a person cannot stand with full weight on both feet.

An exhausting trip, which no one envies, is Gunther Heyd’s monthly train jaunt to the Stuttgart NSA meetings. The 450 miles require two days, and usually one night in the Frankfurt railroad station just sitting and waiting. The round trip cost 150 Reichs marks, (an average German salary for one month) if you can get a ticket on the overtaxed railroad system. On one occasion Heyd waited seven hours in the Hamburg railroad station just to buy his ticket. Heyd has never been able to get a sleeper ticket.

Edith Horn, 70 year old Frankfurt Spiritual Assembly Chairman, arises at 3:00 A.M., eats a few slices of bread, drinks a cup of coffee and walks a mile to the railroad station. After a day of waiting in three different railroad stations she arrives in Laubach 50 miles north of Frankfurt, gives an evening class, stays over-night and returns on the same mixed-up train system.

GREAT BRITAIN

(Quoted from a letter to the N.S.A. of the United States from the National Teaching Committee of Great Britain) “.... Mrs. Baker’s visit meant something very special to our national community ... appreciation is not confined to the Committee but is warmly felt up and down the land.... Great as was the value of her teaching work, however, by far her most remarkable and permanent contribution grew out of the providential opportunity for her to participate in our Annual Teaching Conference. This Conference is one of the three rallying points of the national community during the year, and for the past three years has marked a significant turning point in the affairs of the Cause. In a sense, Mrs. Baker’s presence and contributions were a pivot for the whole proceedings of the Conference.... A reception was attended by 85 people, including 50 non-Bahá’ís, while the attendance at the Teaching Conference was the highest on record, averaging about 75 believers. You will realize that this is more than a third of our national community, every Assembly and goal town being represented. Thus it is apparent that the beneficient influence of Mrs. Baker’s work has gone out to all parts of Britain... Her work will long be remembered, and we feel sure that she has done much to knit even closer the bonds of Bahá’í fellowship which unite our two national communities....

AUSTRALIA

The eleventh session of the Yerrinbool Bahá’í Summer School was held Jan. 1 to 11, 1948... All those attending felt that there had been increased activity and consolidation in the progress of the school. The mornings began with devotions, and these were followed by two sessions, one on “The Rising World Commonwealth” and another on “The Book of Certitude.” Afternoons were open and round table discussions were held on subjects of interest. In the evenings, a series of lectures on “Nine Great Religions of the World” was given. On Saturday evening, Jan. 3, a social was held with over 50 present, both believers and non-Bahá’ís. The session was closed with the playing of the records of the Devotional service held at the Bahá’í Temple in Wilmette

[Page 5] during the Centenary in 1944, commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of the Báb. “That the school affords both an opportunity for spreading the Faith among non-Bahá’ís and deepening the knowledge of Bahá’ís in their own Faith was recognized by all those present.” ...

INDIA, PAKISTAN, and BURMA

“We have been caught in a tangle of negative tasks this year. To our losses already reported, we have to add these: The Jammu Assembly has been dissolved as the friends were forced to leave the town; of these friends, four, of whom two were accompanied by their families, joined a convoy which was attacked and they have been heard of no more; a consignment of copies of the New Era recently printed in Oriya, has been lost in transit to Delhi from the Press in Orissa where they were reprinted. We have further discovered that among the material lost at the capital during the recent riots were two or three manuscripts of translation of Bahá’í books that had consumed months of labor, also much of the N.S.A.’s past records the publishing committee’s books of account, and the bulk of Bahá’í literature that had been recently imported from America. This mounting tide of reverses should not unman us or deflect us from our purpose. They should rather inspire us to redouble our efforts to achieve our goals in the pioneering and teaching fields. Of some life is demanded in this glorious adventure, of others, possessions, of others, maybe less. But whatever it may be love holds back nothing from the Beloved. Time, energy, riches, life itself, if need be—all the wealth that Bahá’u’lláh has blessed us with are His and are freely given in His service. ‎ ‘‎He is a true Bahá’í’ says ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, ‘who lays down his life that others may prosper and succeed!’ This is the standard set by our Master. It is for each individual Bahá’í to endeavor daily to measure up to it.”

From the News Letter of India, Pakistan & Burma

Waterloo, Iowa Bahá’ís and friends at their Naw-Ruz banquet which closed the series of lectures and classes conducted by Mrs. Ruth Moffett. Several new declarations during this period resulted in a total membership of eleven.

The Home Front

Madison, Wis.

The University of Wisconsin Bahá’í Youth Group has recently been recognized as a religious group on the campus. As such it is now able to participate in all campus religious activities and privileges. Also, it is being admitted to the University Religious Council, a body which plans and coordinates the activities of the various religious groups in the council.

The Bahá’í Youth have been holding bi-weekly meetings at the University Memorial Union, usually beginning with a short talk, which serves to stimulate a discussion afterward. The attendance of interested friends has been encouraging especially among the older graduate students.

Texas

Since the regional bulletin made the suggestion that mothers of young children, who were isolated Bahá’ís, form an association by letter regarding Bahá’í training for their children and share problems in this respect, three mothers responded, generally benefiting by the group consultation.

Miami, Fla.

About 35 people gathered for the Feast of Ridván in the garden of a Bahá’í home. Held as an open feast, the audience was entertained by violin selections from a new believer who has been blind from childhood. An interesting part was taken in the feast by the Bahá’í children. As an older youth announced each of the Bahá’í principles, a child stepped up with a placard illustrating it and then told a short story for emphasis.

Providence, R. I.

Sayles Hall of Brown University was the scene of a Bahá’í symposium, March 31 on the topic, “Moving Toward a United World,” with 150 attending. Dr. Charles F. Towne spoke from the educational standpoint, Mr. Howard C. Olsen from the humanitarian, and Mrs. Mildred Mottahedeh the spiritual, with Mr. Matthew Bullock acting as moderator.

On April 6, 30 students of the Clarence Skinner Fellowship of Tufts Theological School gathered to hear a talk on the Bahá’í Faith by Firuz Kazemzadeh. After his half hour address they asked questions for an hour. The important point is that this group had written Mr. Charles Krug, ASKING for a Bahá’í discussion. Firuz also filled a speaking engagement on April 25, before the Young People’s ‎Felowship Fellowship‎ of the Washington St. Baptist church, as part of a program of getting better acquainted with other religious groups.

Anchorage, Alaska

Public recognition was given to the Bahá’í efforts against racial discrimination in Anchorage at the organization meeting of the Anchorage Youth Council. With various committees reporting on youth conditions, the chairman of the Committee on Youth in Minority Groups reported, “We have found that the Friendships Unlimited group and the Bahá’í Faith are actively working against race discrimination in Anchorage.” This was particularly significant since the Bahá’í Faith was never mentioned by the Bahá’í member of the committee, Janet Stout.

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PIONEER (Ed. note: This is the last installment of a series of excerpts from the letters and diaries of Martha Root, compiled by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ford. It is suggested that the various installments now be gathered together and read in their full continuity, for a fuller grasp and appreciation of the indomitable spirit of this valiant pioneer and the flow of inspiration to be gleaned by such a reading.) Karachi. (August) How can I put in one short letter the report of four months more “spiritual skylarking”! (Sura to Bombay, Ajmer then Indore). April fourteenth I arrived in Indore to take part in the All Faiths Convention ... One man had a paper on the need of a great universal religion, and explained what it ought to inculcate. A great Hindu professor arose and said: “The Bahá’í Faith we have been hearing so much about in this Convention is a universal religion and it inculcates all your suggestions and more The Bahá’í Faith is READY, why not accept it for a universal religion?” ... It is remarkable how many religious conventions are being held in different parts of India, and the N. S. A. of India, and Burma is invited to send, and does send Bahá’í speakers to every one of them. The N. S. A. is very efficient and very, very spiritual; the members work almost beyond human endurance and they are as united as one soul in nine bodies... Lahore. (October) Since I wrote you from Karachi, I wish to tell you that the three thousand copies of my book “Ṭáhirih the Pure, Iran’s Greatest Woman” which I published in Karachi, have been sent out over the world... I have already heard from more than twenty countries about this book... No Bahá’í teachers have ever toured the Northwest Frontier Provinces of India, and the N.S.A. was very eager to have these cities opened to the Bahá’í Religion. Really this trip has been historic in the fact that so much of this vast country has been toured, even including Colombo, Ceylon to the south and Kashmir to the north, and all Burma to the east... It was extraordinary the way we met prepared souls, for we went as strangers, and only stayed two days in each place... but we hope these visits are only the beginning of further work down through the ages—“Where the acorn falls, the oak tree grows.” Bahá’í Youth class in Sioux Falls, So. Dakota.

Suggested Daily Readings for August Arts, Science and Religion August 1 B.W.F. pp. 242-245 2 B.W.F. pg. 247 3 B.W.F. pg. 189 The Second Tajalli 4 B.W.F. pg. 189 The Third Tajalli 5 B.W.F. pg. 195 The 11th and 12 Glad Tidings 6 B.W.F. pg. 240 4th teaching of Bahá’u’lláh 7 B.W.F. pg. 171 The 6th Taraz 8 B.W.F. pp. 376-377—Duty to attain science 9 B.W.F. pg. 377 Work is Worship 10 B.W.F. pp. 377-378 Science is Worship 11 B.W.F. pg. 378 Music 12 B.S. 871—page 467 13 P. of U. P. pp. 49-50 14 P. of U. P. pp. 46-47 15 P. of U. P. pg. 27 16 P. of U. P. pg. 28 17 P. of U. P. 133 Scientific knowledge 18 P. of U. P. pp. 342-343 19 B. S. 422, 423—pg. 218, Science of God 20 B. S. 424 pg. 219 21 B. S. 413 pg. 216 22 B. S. 309 to 315, pg. 194 23 B. S. 132. pg. 154 24 Gl. pp. 141-142 Potency of God’s Word 25 Gl. pp. 156-157 26 D. P. pp. 76, 77, 78 ‎2 27‎ D. P. pg. 79 Knowledge 28 D. P. pg. 91 Spiritual education 29 D. P. 102 Balance of science and reason 30 N. E., pp. 100, 101 31 N. E., pg. 131 Key: B.W.F.—Bahá’í World Faith B. S.—Bahá’í Scriptures P. of U. P.—Promulgation of Universal Piece Gl.—Gleanings D. P.—Divine Philosophy

Publishing Committee Announcements
Portals to Freedom by Howard Colby Ives; a new edition made in England. 254 pages, paper cover	$1.50
Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era, fabrikoid	1.25
Seven Valleys and Four Valleys, fabrikoid	1.00
Hidden Words, fabrikoid	1.00
Above titles in fabrikoid binding again in stock after a long wait and at increased prices which seem inevitable.

[Page 7] ... A great scholar, Prof. M.H.H. of the Royal Asiatic Society Library of Calcutta, a leading Orientalist of the world, has written about Ṭáhirih. Perhaps he is one of the first great Indian scholars to write about the Faith. He said that he had first met the fine Iranian Bahá’í teacher, Ibn Asdaq, who came to India about 1902 or ’03. “He was so charming, so spiritual, so cultured,“ said Prof. H., “and we read the Íqán together in Persian.” This very sentence throws an illuminating light to us today, on the qualities that a Bahá’í teacher should possess. We must all be teachers today, and the great scholars of this and the coming generation will be quickened or left unawakened perhaps, by the way we present the Cause to them...

I was so touched: a Bahá’í had gone from Calcutta nearly two years ago to spread the Faith. He was very poor and lived on seven rupees (less than three dollars) a month. Bahá’í friends had given him a present of money to buy a bullock and a cart to help him earn his living. The bullock and cart were stolen from him, and for several days he had no food; then Mr. P. found him; but later this most devoted self-sacrificing Bahá’í whom everyone who knew him praised, took the plague and passed on in Madras, a month before we arrived... To me that Bahá’í was as great as the widow with her mite (in the New Testament) for he gave his ALL! Because of his self-sacrifice, Bahá’u’lláh will OPEN the doors of Madras to the Bahá’í Faith!

(December) ... Like you I am very sick at heart about the war clouds, but I have bought my ticket third class as far as Australia, and even if war comes, I expect to go forward with my plan...

On ship from Perth to Adelaide, Australia, Jan. 26, 1939

My back was very, very lame, and it is still hurting a little. My back would not be WELL even if I did not do one thing about it, and I thank God I can work a little longer. I am HAPPY in the work because I see how it helps many souls. Whatever our troubles are, they are as nothing compared to the world troubles; all we can do is pray as hard as we can to

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Incorporation of their Assembly is announced by the Bahá’ís of Albuquerque, N.M., April, 1948. Seated, left to right: Mrs. Mabel S. Coxwell, Mrs. Lois K. Heister, Dr. E. Leonore Morris, Mrs. Frances B. Crichet, chairman. Standing: Louis Heister, Miss Frances C. Bothe, James H. D. Merrifield, Mrs. Clara May Merryfield, and Mrs. Catherine O. Cole.

Bahá’í Sales Committee

Bahá’í Addresses National Office: 536 Sheridan Road, Wilmette, Illinois. Treasurer’s Office: 110 Linden Avenue, Wilmette, Illinois. Bahá’í Publishing Committee: 110 Linden Avenue, Wilmette, Illinois. Bahá’í News Editorial Office: 1001 W. Genesee St. Lansing, Mich.

Slides

A set of 70 film-slides of the Temple, accompanied by a 10 page mimeographed script. The set includes 51 Kodachrome or color views and 19 views in black and white. The slides are the standard 2 x 2 inch size on 35 mm. film, cost $12.75 prepaid.

Just released by the Visual Education Committee, a set of 65 film-slides, a lecture entitled “The Goal is World Order,” designed to serve as the basis for an entire evening’s program. The set is accompanied by a 16 page mimeographed script giving full description of each slide. The cost is only $4.00. Standard 2 x 2 inches in size. The same thing may be had in a film strip, standard 35mm. size for $3.00 postpaid.

Display Kits

These Kits are intended to furnish basic display fixtures for arranging small window, counter or table displays. The Kits include easels made of lucite; printed cards; a large Global Map; instruction sheets and a photo of a sample display. The cost is $8.50 postpaid.

Change In Prices

Owing to increased cost of production, the following changes are now effective:

Steel engraving of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, 12x16 now $3.25 postpaid.

Photopostcards of Temple—6 for 25c, in lots of 100 postpaid $3.50 (No order for less than 50c will be mailed) Photographs of Temple including two views of interior 50c each. The size of these photographs is 8x10.

Now Available

A color postcard of the Temple to sell for one cent each, in lots of 100, 75c prepaid.

Music

O Friend! A vocal solo; music by Ernest Lubin for a selection from Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh. (“O friend! In the garden of thy heart plant naught but the rose of love ...”) Key of F. Each—$.50

Harry E. Walrath,
4639 Beacon Street,
Chicago 40, Illinois

[Page 8] help make a better world. How thankful I am that I can work. I shall concentrate to do the utmost possible in Australia and New Zealand until early May.

Adelaide, Jan. 29. We have consulted and made plans for the work in Australia. They have nearly seventy lectures arranged for, and nearly twenty broadcasts under consideration. Of course I submit the radio manuscripts for the Directors to see...

Melbourne, Feb. 10. Last night, I broadcast “Ṭáhirih, Írán’s Greatest Woman” at 9:05. It was a state broadcast, the greatest here, and at least 500,000 people listened in. The Director said: “It is a perfect broadcast!” (It is my most favorite broadcast... this is thrilling, gripping, it moves me until it seems to be Ṭáhirih speaking her own self to the modern world.) ...The nine o’clock hour is the best hour of all on their programmes...

Tomorrow afternoon from two to six o‘clock in my hotel I am giving an “at home” to the people... who wish to come and meet me and ask me questions. The invitation is in the newspapers, (for everyone in the city) and was given out at the luncheon... the Hotel Manager gives me the reception room free (the fee is generally nine shillings) and he said: “I see you do everything for humanity, you do not do anything for yourself, I will give you the room.” The temperature is 108 degrees F., I shall have plenty of ice water and glasses (I have to pay for the ice water) and some biscuits... Mr. Bakhtian of Karachi gave them to me, but—shall not serve tea. It would be too expensive—and they are coming not for food, but to ask questions, it is all right. (P.S. Later the Spiritual Assembly telephoned me and said they wished to serve tea at the party and they are going to do it. We expect a large party.)

Hawaii, Honolulu, July, 1939

Tenderest love to you all

Today I received a cablegram from our beloved Guardian from Haifa: “Grieve illness, fervently, lovingly, praying. Shoghi.” I was so thrilled and happy to receive it. I am making every effort to get better, but I have suffered so much... I try to endure the pain and I pray to Bahá’u’lláh to hold my hand and help me to bend every nerve to try and get better. I trust Him and I know that He will walk with me to the end. I pray that even this illness in the mystery of God will bear good fruit, that this crisis will be an impulse forward to promote the Cause of God.

(September) I am so near the shore of eternity... I thank you each and every one for all that you will do to help me, and I thank you for your love. I do not speak, so late tonight, of the glorious side of life after death. We shall all walk together arm in arm, you and I; and in the mystery of God, the Bahá’ís will confer together, understand each other... I am glad to go through this terrible agony; for if it came it must have come for a purpose... If our love for one another has been deepened, if this servant has been able to witness for her Lord, if the ties between India, Australia, New Zealand and the Hawaiian Islands is strengthened, then I have not come in vain. Everything has been successful... Such are our lives...

Assemblies Contributing for the Month of May, 1948

Alaska—Anchorage. Arizona—Phoenix, East Phoenix Rural, Tucson. Arkansas—Little Rock. California—Alhambra, Berkeley, Beverly Hills, Burbank, Burlingame, Carmel, El Monte Twp., Fresno, Glendale, Inglewood, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Monrovia, Monrovia Twp., Oakland, Palo Alto, Pasadena, San Diego, San Francisco, San Marino, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica.

Colorado—Colorado Springs, Denver. Connecticut—Greenwich, Hartford, New Haven. Dist. of Columbia—Washington. Florida—Jacksonville, Miami. Hawaii—Honolulu, Maui. Idaho—Ada County, Boise. Illinois—Batavia, Champaign, Chicago, Danville, Elmhurst, Evanston, Limestone Twp., Maywood, Oak Park, Peoria, Springfield, Urbana, Waukegan, Wilmette, Winnetka. Indiana—Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, South Bend. Iowa—Cedar Rapids, Waterloo.

Kansas—Topeka. Kentucky—Louisville. Louisiana—New Orleans. Maine—Eliot, Portland. Maryland—Baltimore. Massachusetts—Beverly, Boston, Brookline, Springfield. Michigan—Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Davison Twp., Dearborn Twp., Detroit, Flint, Grand Rapids, Grosse Pointe Farms, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Muskegon, Roseville. Minnesota—Duluth, Minneapolis, St. Paul. Mississippi—Jackson. Missouri—Independence, Kansas City, St. Louis. Montana—Butte, Helena. Nebraska—Omaha.

New Jersey—Bergenfield, Dumont, East Orange, Englewood, Montclair, Red Bank, Ridgewood, Teaneck. New Mexico—Albuquerque, N. 10 Albuquerque. New York—Binghamton, Buffalo, Geneva, Jamestown, New York, Rochester, Syracuse, Yonkers. North Carolina—Greensboro. North Dakota—Fargo. Ohio—Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dayton, E. Cleveland, Columbus, Lima, Mansfield, Toledo. Oklahoma—Oklahoma City. Oregon—Portland. Pennsylvania—Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Scranton, West Chester.

Puerto Rico—San Juan. Rhode Island—Providence. South Carolina—Greenville. South Dakota—Sioux Falls. Tennessee—Memphis, Nashville. Texas—Houston. Vermont—Brattleboro. Virginia—Alexandria, Arlington. Washington—Marysville, Monroe, Richmond Highlands, Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Wisconsin—Kenosha, Racine, Madison, Milwaukee, Shorewood, Somers Twp., Wauwatosa. Wyoming—Laramie.

Total number of assemblies	179
Number contributing	150
Number not contributing	29

World Order Magazine

With justifiable hopes of passing the half-way mark in our call for help to procure 1,000 additional subscribers to World Order, before the end of June, we extend our heartfelt thanks to the many friends through whose efforts and generosity this has been accomplished. Up to May 31st a total of 435 additional enrollments have been received.

The numerous letters with subscription gifts to friends and for library donations, are especially gratifying and reflect the sentiments of the contributors, who realize that in these days of world re-making, a World Order subscription gift to a friend may mean a new Bahá’í enrollment or that a subscription donated to a Public Library may enlighten many of the Library readers to the real value of the Bahá’í Teachings.

Subscription rate to World Order is $2.00 yearly. Address orders to World Order Magazine, 110 Linden Avenue, Wilmette, Illinois with name and address of new subscriber, or if you wish to donate one or more new subscriptions to libraries, address order to World Order Library Fund and if desired we will select placement and notify the Librarian that the subscription is donated by you.

Calendar

FEASTS: Aug. 1—Kamál—Perfection; Aug. 20—Asmá’—Names.

N.S.A. MEETINGS: July 29-Aug. 1 (at Green Acre); Sept. 3-6 (at Louhelen).

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Latin America Moves Toward Independence

The two National Teaching Committees of Latin America, one for South America and one for the Caribbean Area, are getting underway with their year’s projected work, aiming at increasing the local Assemblies in their territories and developing their national administration so that it will be able to continue independently of the guidance and assistance of their brothers in the United States, through the Inter-America Committee, upon the establishment of their own National Spiritual Assemblies in 1951.

The Chairman of the South American NTC, Esteban Canales, of Valparaiso, Chile, is devoting several months to a teaching trip that has already taken him to Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador, and will carry him on through Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. Through him, the National Committee will thus obtain a comprehensive picture of the Bahá’í communities spread over that vast continent and thus be greatly enabled to more wisely plan and coordinate Bahá’í activities in all of these countries.

The Secretary of the Caribbean NTC, Natalia Chavez, is going to Mexico City for the first meeting of that Committee this year, having terminated her brief vacation with her family in Honduras, where, also, she made teaching trips to the new Bahá’í Assemblies in the towns of San Pedro Sula and Taulabe. In San Pedro Sula the Cause has caught the interest of the business and professional people. In Taulabe, where as yet there are no hotels or electric lights, the entire town has been attracted to it. These two Assemblies were formed last April as a result of the teaching work done there shortly before, during her vacation, by Maria Francisca Rivera, of the Tegucigalpa community.

Meanwhile, our pioneer Lucha de Padilla is proceeding to her post in San Jose, Costa Rica, making stops in all the Central American countries en route.

From Buenos Aires comes word that a large quantity of books have been shipped from there to Santiago, Chile, where henceforth the Spanish Publishing Committee will be located, and that all books still in Buenos Aires will be shipped out soon.

The town of Cordoba, near Buenos Aires, has given a warm welcome to the Bahá’í Message. Shirley Warde and Salvador Tormo have spoken at several large meetings and secured fine newspaper publicity there. The new Assembly of Cordoba, organized last April with 11 members, now numbers 13.

Helen Shearer, who just returned to this country after 11 months in Brazil, and who was responsible for the formation of the Santos Assembly last spring, has been a visitor in Chicago and at Inter-America Committee meetings. She has given us valuable suggestions for preparing pamphlets especially designed to appeal to the Latin Americans.

Our stalwart pioneer, Eve Nicklin, at the request of the National Teaching Committee of South America, and of the Guardian, has gone to Punta Arenas, at the tip of Chile, to strengthen that community. Here in this city, the closest to the South Pole, Eve has gathered a class of 20 English students, and in her free time arranges Bahá’í programs and publicity, and otherwise serves the Cause. The climate is bleak and severe. Writes Eve: “If I ever get warm again, I will never complain of heat.”

Sheila Rice-Wray, in Ciudad Trujillo, the Dominican Republic, describes how she was able to interest some people in the Faith: “One day I prayed to find some more people to tell about the faith,” writes Sheila. “That night I collapsed in class, and two of my students called a taxi, brought me home, got medicine, fixed me all up, and then sat down to hear all about the Faith.”

The Panama City community are thrilled with their new and attractive Center. After two years’ searching for a place, they finally found one that was for them in every way ideal.

A year-old Assembly in war-torn Costa Rica has set a shining example of true Bahá’í devotion. In the little town of Quepos, as soon as meetings were permitted, the believers gathered together and decided, as their first act, to collect $10 and send it to their National treasurer. For this small and poor community, this was a large sum and real sacrifice.

PERFECTION AND COMPLETE MERCY

Humanity is not perfect. There are imperfections in every human being and you will always become unhappy if you look toward the people themselves. But if you look toward God you will love them and be kind to them, for the world of God is the world of perfection and complete mercy.

—‘Abdu’l-Bahá

Window display of literature for the blind, in Little Rock, Ark., arranged by the R. T. C. of Arkansas and Oklahoma, appearing at the time of public lectures in that city.

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A Resume of Some Key Thoughts on Teaching Recorded at 1948 Convention

1. Emphasis on deepening our own consciousness by regular study. Comprehension and conviction by this means.
2. Special study on the Covenant and the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.
3. Goal for the individual of confirming one new believer this year.
4. Teaching individually by word of mouth and by pamphlet distribution, and with daily follow-up.
5. Area meetings for the public, so located that several communities can take part.
6. Goal for the Regionals of a minimum of fifteen members in every community.
7. Goal of Regionals to bring further groups to assembly status; a second assembly where possible in virgin areas.
8. Encouragement of firesides for enquirers, by as many believers as possible, and not to be dependent upon attendance of other community members.
9. Association with liberal groups for contact purposes (Example, Great Book Club).
10. Teacher training in communities and schools.
11. Daily prayer for unity within our own groups.
12. Attitudes of encouragement in communities, releasing all to make contact and teaching efforts with audacity and enthusiasm.
13. Study of the Guardian’s words for directives in contact and teaching Advent of Divine Justice, 42-48.
14. Study of Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, p. 390, for directive in teaching a fireside.
15. Use of seminars or series, rather than single presentations alone.
16. Psychology of teaching:
    1. Begin with special interest of enquirer.
    2. Sympathetic recognition of backgrounds, and care not to sound dogmatic.
    3. Avoidance of arguments.
    4. Emphasis on life rather than theory.
    5. Care not to give too much at first, but attractive development of a usable branch of the Teachings to inspire them to further investigation (use of stories and illustrations rather than heavy material).
    6. Hospitality as an aid.
    7. Necessity of flame and the spirit of love.
    8. Confirmation dependent upon the spirit of love.
    9. Further study immediately arranged following confirmation and registration.
    10. Development of a universal sense and spirit.
17. Further coordination of programming needed nationally.
18. Training of teachers should meet the expanding need.
19. Use of the visual and radio facilities as well as the literature.
20. A faster start, with no summer lull.
21. Immediate regional conferences with the believers at large.
22. Continuance of all extension work done by assemblies.
23. Periodic national information on progress.
24. Immediate publication of goals chosen by Regionals.
25. Emphasis on attaining spiritual prerequisites of success.
26. Itinerant teachers for groups and smaller assemblies.
27. Courses on good chairmanship as well as on teaching.
28. Giving the Word as a source of courage.

The above picture, released to the press by Bahá’í Public Relations, shows a few of the delegates attending the opening session of the United Nations Conference of Non-Governmental International Organizations on the subject of Human Rights. Bahá’í International Community delegates include Mrs. Mildred R. Mottahedeh and Dr. Ugo R. Giachery.

Public Relations Launches Campaign on Religious Education

Last month, against the backdrop of the recent Supreme Court decision which brought to a climax the struggle between the churches and schools, the Public Relations committee unwrapped its new national campaign on the theme of Religious Education for a Peaceful Society. By far the most widespread plan the committee has attempted, it marked the start of an advertising drive, using the theme which opened the door of the Bahá’í teachings that “the prophets are the real educators of humanity.” Variations of the theme will be presented, such as “what men must know about religion in order to survive” and “what men seek in religion.” It combines in one brief and complete phrase three concepts of vital public importance—religion, education and peace.

The campaign went into action early in June when the theme was announced to the press and radio through their trade papers, “Editor & Publisher” and “Publishers’ Auxiliary.” “Bahá’ís recognize,” the ad ran, “that the gap between education in the factual sense, and denominational inculcation of religious doctrine,

[Page 11] is fatal both to the interests of education and those of religion.”

The first public ad in the campaign appeared in the “Saturday Review of Literature,” whose readers had this salient reminder: “Religion as blind tradition and separate sect has come to an end. The Bahá’í definition of faith is conscious knowledge.” The ad further cited the three most urgent needs of human personality today: “Recovery of the basic purpose of life through a clarified understanding of God’s relationship to man and man’s relationship to God ... Opportunity to participate in a powerful world-wide affirmation of human unity which uproots prejudices of race, class and creed ... conviction that the pattern of a world society has been created to release the forces of mind and conscience for the victory of peace on earth.” Advertisements in “Newsweek” and “United Nations World,” told the “Education in Religion” theme in another way.

The advertising series, backed by a publicity and direct mail campaign, continues July 17 in “Saturday Review of Literature” and in the August 9 “Newsweek.” Explaining that the main point about an ailing society is the number and diversity of its ‎sectrian sectarian‎ creeds, the copy cites: “Division of faith in God prevent the people from attaining the moral unity needed to generate power enough to uproot the real causes of disease.”

A new public teaching pamphlet has been prepared on the general theme. This will be available to communities. A compilation, “What modern man must know about religion,” prepared by the committee to bring together Bahá’í teachings on the theme has been approved by the NSA and will be released by the Publishing Committee as a Bahá’í study aid.

Scheduled for general release in early fall, the public relations campaign will utilize every means of publicity available. Local assemblies and groups, through their publicity chairmen, ‎wlil will‎ receive full information about the campaign plan by August 1. Inquiries should be addressed to the secretary, Bahá’í Public Relations, 112 Linden Avenue, Wilmette, Ill.

Settlers Responding to Guardian’s Emergency Appeal

New Assembly	Settler	Former Location
N. Phoenix, Ariz.	Miss Edith Goranson	Minneapolis
N. Phoenix. Ariz.	Mr. Clarence Iverson	Phoenix
N. Phoenix, Ariz.	Mr. Owen Trowbridge	Phoenix
Tucson, Arizona	Mrs. Kathryn Frankland	Louisville, Ky.
Tucson, Arizona	Mr. Richard Walters	Albuquerque
Tucson, Arizona	Mrs. Richard Walters	Albuquerque
Tucson, Arizona	Mr. Paul Schoeny	Phoenix
Tucson, Arizona	Mrs. Paul (Zahrah) Schoeny	Phoenix
Tucson, Arizona	Mrs. Maida Merriam	Chicago
Tucson, Arizona	Miss Mary Louise Kelsey	Teaneck, N. J.
Tucson, Arizona	Mrs. Mabel Hoegner	Tucson Twp. No. 13
Arcadia, So. Cal.	Mr. Martin Kob	Los Angeles
Arcadia, So. Cal.	Mr. John Quinn	Los Angeles
Escondido Twp., S. Cal.	Mr. J. V. Matteson	Santa Barbara
Escondido Twp., S. Cal.	Mrs. J. V (Berdette) Matteson	Santa Barbara
Escondido Twp., S. Cal.	Mrs. Marie Lowell	Santa Barbara
Escondido Twp., S. Cal.	Mr. Walter Jones	San Diego
Escondido Twp., S. Cal.	Mrs. Walter (Emma) Jones	San Diego
Glendale Twp.	Mr. Ralph Schall	Glendale
Glendale Twp.	Mrs. Ralph (Charlotte) Schall	Glendale
Monrovia Twp., S. Cal.	Mrs. Hilda Pulley	Alhambra
Monrovia Twp., S. Cal.	Mr. Everett Justice	Monrovia
Oceanside, So. Cal.	Miss Bertha Matthiesen	Pasadena
Oceanside, So. Cal.	Mr. M. R. Carter	Oceanside Twp.
Oceanside, So. Cal.	Mrs. M. R. Carter	Oceanside Twp.
San Marino, S. Cal.	Mr. Dwight Barstow	Los Angeles
San Marino, S. Cal.	Miss Joyce Bronson	Pasadena
Santa Monica, S. Cal.	Mrs. Alice Mickle	Los Angeles
Santa Monica, S. Cal.	Mrs. Marguerite Hendricks	Los Angeles
Santa Monica, S. Cal.	Mrs. Marjorie Thompson Torres	San Francisco
Santa Monica, S. Cal.	Mr. Elwyn VanZandt	Chicago
Santa Monica, S. Cal.	Mrs. Elwyn (Sharla) VanZandt	Chicago
Southgate, S. Cal.	Miss Mary Ellen Reese	New Orleans
Southgate, S. Cal.	Mrs. Edna Johnson	Los Angeles
Fresno, No. Cal.	Mr. Kenneth Smith	Visialia
Fresno, No. Cal.	Mrs. Dorothy Smith	Visialia
Palo Alto, No. Cal.	Virginia Breaks	San Francisco
Palo Alto, No. Cal.	Nassrollah Rasek	Stanford University
Palo Alto, No. Cal.	Vernon Kellog	San Francisco
Eureka Springs, Ark.	Mrs. Roberta Wilson	Little Rock
Ada County, Idaho	Miss Elizabeth Adelmann	Boise
Ada County, Idaho	Mrs. Bertha Adelmann	Boise
Ada County, Idaho	Mr. Walter Ingham	Boise
Ada County, Idaho	Mrs. Walter Ingham	Boise
Greenwich, Conn.	Mr. Robert McLaughlin	Bedford Village, N. Y.
Greenwich, Conn.	Mrs. R. (Katherine) McLaughlin	Bedford Village, N. Y.
Hartford, Conn.	Mrs. Helga Nielsen	Bedford Village, N. Y.
Winnetka, Ill.	Loretta Voelz	Evanston, Ill.
Batavia, Ill.	Mrs. Meta Wetterau	Milwaukee
Batavia, Ill.	Miss Cecile Hargis	Chicago
Phoenix, Ill.	Maybelle Perry	Chicago
Park Ridge, Ill.	Mr. Wilfred Barton	Chicago
Portland, Maine	Mrs. Lorol ‎Schopflocker Schopflocher‎	Eliot, Maine
Brookline, Mass.	Bertha Herklotz	N. Quincy
Brookline, Mass.	Mr. Joseph Nelson	Boston
Davison Twp., Michigan	Arnold Ketels	Marysville, Mich.
Davison Twp., Michigan	Mr. George Springston	Flint, Mich.
Davison Twp., Michigan	Mrs. George Springston	Flint, Mich.
Dearborn Twp., Mich.	Mrs. Jessie Hall	Detroit, Mich.
Dearborn Twp., Mich.	Phyllis Hall	Detroit, Mich.
Dearborn Twp., Mich.	Paul Becker	Chicago
Grosse Pt. Farms	Mr. Floyd Munson	Detroit

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New Assembly	Settler	Former Location
Grosse Pt. Farms	Mrs. Floyd Munson	Detroit
Grosse Pt. Farms	Mr. Donald Corbin	Detroit
Grosse Pt. Farms	Mrs. Doris Corbin	Detroit
Kalamazoo, Michigan	Etta Catlin	Detroit
Kalamazoo, Michigan	Nayan Hartfield	St. Louis
Kalamazoo, Michigan	Agnes Mae Ayers	Celina, Ohio
Kalamazoo, Michigan	Fannie Jupnik	Kenosha, Wis.
Jersey City, N. J.	Mrs. Geneva Brown	New York City
Jersey City, N. J.	Mr. Pecora Bluemountain	New York City
Jersey City, N. J.	Mr. Edgar Wright	New York City
Bergenfield, N. J.	Mr. Richard Greengard	New York City
Bergenfield, N. J.	Mr. Alla’i Kalantar	Dumont, N. J.
Bergenfield, N. J.	Mrs. Emilie Kalantar	Dumont, N. J.
Bergenfield, N. J.	Miss Valerie Joyce	Nashville
Bergenfield, N. J.	Miss Feny Paulson	Washington, D. C.
Newark, New Jersey	Mr. Gottleib Klumpp	New York City
Newark, New Jersey	Miss Dorothy Champ	New York City
Newark, New Jersey	Mr. Nicholas Giammeresse	New York City
Newark, New Jersey	Mr. Zelo Garza	Chicago
Ridgewood, New Jersey	Mrs. Grace Marshall	Newark
Geneva, New York	Mr. Edwin Barham	Washington, D. C.
Geneva, New York	Mrs. Edwin (Bessie) Barham	Washington, D. C.
Syracuse, New York	Mrs. Grace Cody	San Francisco
Syracuse, New York	Mr. Rudolph Handel	Scranton, Pa.
Syracuse, New York	Miss Ida Noyes	Binghampton
Syracuse, New York	Mr. Michael Betelak	Scranton, Pa.
Waterloo, New York	Miss Maude Mickle	Eliot, Maine
Waterloo, New York	Miss Alta Wheeler	Eliot, Maine
Waterloo, New York	Miss Ella Quant	Schenectady
Mansfield, Ohio	Mr. A. L. Price	Mansfield outside
Mansfield, Ohio	Mrs. A. L. Price	Mansfield outside
Mansfield, Ohio	Rose Steinberg	Columbus, Ohio
Mansfield, Ohio	Marion Clark	Chicago, Ill.
Mansfield, Ohio	Henrietta Corrodi	Columbus, Ohio
Toledo, Ohio	Miss Jessica Perry	Cleveland
Columbia, South Carolina	Mrs. Annie Romer	Portland, Me.
Columbia, South Carolina	Miss Josie Pinson	Greenville, S. C.
Columbia, South Carolina	Mrs. Eugenia Meyer	Greenville, S. C.
Dallas, Texas	Mr. Joseph Hannen	Evanston, Ill.
Dallas, Texas	Miss Barbara Hannen	Evanston, Ill.
San Antonio, Texas	Mr. and Mrs. R. Christensen	Chicago
Marysville, Washington	Mrs. Lorol Jackson	Spokane, Wash.
Shorewood, Wisconsin	Mr. Robert Miss	Nashota, Wis.
Somers Twp. Wis.	Mr. John DeBruin	Racine, Wisconsin
Somers Twp. Wis.	Miss Iva Russell	Kenosha
Greenville, S. C.*	Mr. John Inglis	Birmingham, Ala.
Greenville, S. C.*	Mrs. John Inglis	Birmingham, Ala.
South Bend, Indiana*	Mrs. Clara Huber	Indianapolis
South Bend, Indiana*	Dr. Alph Sampson	Indianapolis
Charleston, W. Va.*	Mrs. Marcia Andrade	Chicago
Charleston, W. Va.*	Mr. John Gloeckner	Columbus
Charleston, W. Va.*	Miss Ada Schott	Vienna, W. Va.
Charleston, W. Va.*	Mrs. Ruth Meurer	Greenville, S. C.
Butte, Montana*	Mr. Harold Hunt	Washington, D. C.
Butte, Montana*	Mr. George Miller	Washington, D. C.
Elmhurst, Illinois*	Mr. Larrie Cramer	Chicago, Ill.
Elmhurst, Illinois*	Mr. Rouhollah Zargarpur	Chicago, Ill.
Alexandria, Va.*	Mr. Harvey Wisner	Washington, D. C.
Alexandria, Va.*	Caroline Stewart	Washington, D. C.
Duluth, Minnesota*	Mrs. Marguerite Bruegger	Fargo, N. Dakota
Red Bank, New Jersey*	Mrs. Sarah Maher	Farmington, N. J.
Red Bank, New Jersey*	Mr. William Millete	New York City
Montclair, New Jersey*	Mr. Seymour Weinberg	New York City
Montclair, New Jersey*	Mrs. Edna Hyatt	New York City
Tacoma, Washington*	Mrs. Florence Keemer	Denver, Colo.
St. Augustine, Florida*	Mr. John Verhoven	Miami, Florida
Wilmington, Delaware*	Mr. Fred Sudhop	Baltimore County
Wilmington, Delaware*	Mrs. Donia Leitner	Ardel, Del.
Laramie, Wyoming*	Charlotte Dakin Orlock	Los Angeles
Laramie, Wyoming*	Mel Orlock	Los Angeles
Lansing, Mich.*	Miss Margaret Yeutter	New Haven, Conn.
Lansing, Mich.*	Mrs. Mabel Vicary	Detroit, Mich.

*Endangered Assemblies secured by these settlers.

“It Behoveth the People of Bahá ...”

“It behoveth the people of Bahá to die to the world and all that is therein, to be so detached from all earthly things that the inmates of Paradise may inhale from their garment the sweet smelling savor of sanctity, that all the peoples of the earth may recognize in their faces the brightness of the All-Merciful, and through them may be spread abroad the signs and tokens of God, the Almighty, the All-Wise ...”

Bahá’u’lláh: Gleanings, p. 100

TABLE OF CONTENTS

	Page	Col.
Addresses	7	3
Around the Bahá’í World	4	1
Assemblies Contributing to Fund	8	1
Bahá’í Sales Committee	7	3
Calendar	8	3
Enrollments	3	2
European Teaching Conference	1	1
Fund, Assemblies Contributing	8	1
Guardian
Cable to NSA	1	3
Cable about George Latimer	1	3
Cable to European Teaching Conference	3	2
Home Front	5	2
International Relief	2	3
Latin America	9	1
Memoriam	3	1
National Spiritual Assembly Community Development	2	1
Pictures
Albuquerque, N. M.	7	1
European Teaching Conference	1	1
Little Rock, Ark.	9	2
Naw-Ruz in Norway	4	1
U. N. Human Rights Conference	10	2
Waterloo, Iowa	5	2
Youth Class, Sioux Falls	6	2
Pioneer	6	2
Publishing Comm. Announcement	6	1
Public Relations	10	3
Resume of Key Thoughts on Teaching	10	1
Suggested Daily Readings	6	1
Settlers	11	2