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| No. 358 | BAHA’I YEAR 117 | JANUARY, 1961 |
Hands of Cause Meet in Fourth Conclave
From left: Zikru’lláh Khádem, Paul E. Haney, Enoch Olinga, Hermann Grossmann, John Robarts, A. Furútan,
Shu’á’u’lláh ‘Alá’í, Hasan Balyuzi, Leroy Ioas, Tarázu’lláh Samandarí, Agnes B. Alexander, ‘Ali Muhumad Varqá Amatu’l-Bahá Rúḥíyyih Khánum, A, Q. Faizi, Amelia Collins, Ugo Giachery, Adelbert Mühlschlegel, William Sears, John Ferraby; kneeling: Jalál Kházeh, H. Collis Featherstone. Also attending October 1960 meeting at Mansion of Bahjí were Musá Banání and Rahmatu’lláh Muhájir.
The nine Hands of the Cause Residing in the Holy Land. From left: William Sears, Paul E, Haney, ‘Amatu’l-Bahá
Rúḥíyyih Khánum, A. Q. Faizi (partially hidden), Amelia Collins, Leroy Ioas, John Ferraby, Jalál {{u|Kh}]ázeh, A. Furútan.
Hand of the Cause Clara Dunn Ascends to the ‘Abhá Kingdom[edit]
The following cablegram was received from the Hands of the Faith in the Holy Land November 18:
“Grieved announce (the) passing (of) Hand (of the) Cause Clara Dunn, distinguished member (of the) American Bahá’í community who with Hyde Dunn, spiritual conqueror (of) Australia, responded (to the) Master’s appeal (in the) Divine Plan, arose (and) carried (the) Faith (to the) Antipodes (and) rendered unique, unforgettable pioneer service over (a) forty year period. Advise hold memorial gathering (in) Temple. Share message (With) Hands (and) National Assemblies.” (Signed) HANDSFAITH.
In accordance with the instructions contained in this message the National Spiritual Assembly arranged for a gathering in Temple Foundation Hall Saturday evening, December 31, to pay tribute to this beloved Hand of the Cause who, with her husband, Henry Hyde Dunn, responded immediately to the call of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in the Tablets of the Divine Plan when first revealed in the United States, arriving in Australia April 13, 1919, where they devoted the remainder of their lives to the establishment of the Faith in that continent and other areas of the Antipodes. Funeral services for Mrs. Dunn were held in her adopted homeland on November 28.
—U.S. NATIONAL SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY
Excerpts from The Bahá’í World, Vol. IX, pages 594-595[edit]
“In 1918, when ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Tablets calling upon the American Bahá’ís to hasten to all parts of the world to spread the Teachings, came, Mr. Dunn immediately decided to respond by going to Australia, where he felt he could best serve. Of this decision he wrote: ‘It was all very simple,—a wave that came into our lives possessing us and satisfying every desire to serve our beloved Cause, the Cause of Bahá’u’lláh and His Glorious Covenant. Mother (he always called Mrs. Dunn mother just as she called him Father) was reading ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s . . . call to the United States and Canada, and His appeal was so penetrating and thrilling. it pierced our hearts In one part he said, “If I could only go in poverty and barefooted, and raise the call of Ya-Bahá’u’l-Abhá, but that is not now possible.” Mother looked up and said, “Shall we go, Father?” “Yes,” was my reply, and no further discussion took place. We returned to San Francisco [they had been on a vacation], and after a few months my resignation (to my firm) was sent, everything given up, and arrangements made for our prompt sailing.’
“Later, when Mrs. Dunn doubted the wisdom of accompanying her husband, he wrote to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá for advice. ‘It seemed like ages,’ he goes on to narrate, ‘before a reply came. Read carefully, how and when it came. We were all packed up ready to leave the cottage we were living in. While the carriers were leading on our luggage and Mother waiting in the wee garden, a telegraph boy appeared with a cable from ‘Abdu’l-Bahá containing these words, “Highly Commendable.” Imagine our hearts’ delight and joy. This made out future an open door to service on this continent (Australia).’ ”
Hand of Cause H. Collis Featherstone Inspires U. S. Baha’is with News of World Progress[edit]
In early November the American Bahá’í community was honored by a visit to the United States by Hand of the Cause H. Collis Featherstone and Mrs. Featherstone of Australia who were completing a two months’ round-the-world trip which included the sixteen-day attendance of Mr. Featherstone at the fourth annual meeting of the Hands of the Faith at the World Center.
During his brief stop-over in New York, Mr. Featherstone participated in the NSA-sponsored institute for the believers in that area and shared the platform with Auxiliary Board Member Dr. Sarah Martin Pereira at a public observance of the anniversary of the Birthday of Bahá’u’lláh. This meeting, held at Carnegie International Center, was attended by more than 200 Bahá’ís and invited guests.
Mr. and Mrs. Featherstone then spent several days in Wilmette, Ill., visiting the Bahá’í House of Worship, the Bahá’í Publishing Trust, the Bahá’í Home for the Aged, conferring with members of the National Spiritual Assembly, and meeting Bahá’ís. Saturday afternoon and evening, November 19, were spent in Milwaukee where Mr. Featherstone met with approximately a hundred believers from all parts of the state of Wisconsin and addressed a public gathering of approximately the same number.
Leaving the Temple area on November 22, Mr. and Mrs. Featherstone flew to San Francisco to meet with the believers in central California and to address a public meeting, thence to Honolulu for a one-day stop, reaching Sydney, Australia, in time to participate in the funeral services for Hand of the Cause Clara Dunn.
In order that the maximum number of Bahá’ís in the Temple area might meet and hear Mr. Featherstone the Wilmette Bahá’í community sponsored a supper gathering in Foundation Hall of the Bahá’í House of Worship Sunday evening, November 20, attended by more than 175 Bahá’ís and their families.
In his opening remarks Mr. Featherstone brought to the friends the love and greetings of all the Hands of the Cause assembled in the Holy Land, and from the National Spiritual Assembly and Bahá’ís in Australia who feel a special closeness with the American believers because of the historic services to the Faith in that Continent by Hand of the Cause Clara Dunn and Henry Hyde Dunn, American pioneers who were among the first to respond to the Master’s call in the Tablets of the Divine Plan and who arrived in Australia in April 1919. Mr. Featherstone referred to the passing two days earlier of Hand of the Cause Clara Dunn at the age of ninety-one years, and of the many years of sacrificial efforts of Mr. and Mrs. Dunn which to date have borne fruit in the establishment of the Faith in 135 localities, the formation of the National Spiritual Assembly of Australia a number of years ago and its daughter Assembly in New Zealand, and the Mother Temple of Australia now nearing completion. He spoke particularly of Miss Effie Baker, the first believer brought into the Faith by Mr. and Mrs. Dunn, who served the beloved Guardian for eleven years at the World Center and who was sent by him to Persia to secure the photographs which appear in The Dawn-breakers.
Speaking about the Temple in Sydney which will be dedicated next September, Mr. Featherstone stated that it had already become an important “silent teacher.” Visitors come to it in great numbers inquiring about its purpose, and it has been given excellent publicity in the Sydney newspapers.
As evidence of the widespread teaching work that is being carried on throughout the world, Mr. Featherstone mentioned the activities and the growth of the Faith in a number of the countries which he and Mrs. Featherstone visited enroute to Haifa and America, some of which he visits from time to time as a Hand of the Cause. He spoke particularly of Indonesia where the teaching is moving so rapidly that the enrollment of new believers is increasing 900 per cent annually. He stated that in this country the people take the Faith very seriously; they cherish it with their lives; they study deeply; they are afire with it and are taking it from village to village.
He told of Malaya in which Islam is the state religion of many of the states and where it is difficult to approach any officials about religion, but where there is already a large number of believers, especially in Juala Lumpur where there is a community of thirty believers between the ages of twenty and thirty years. Mention was made also of the progress in Thailand, in Burma where the friends possess a great loving and humble—yet dynamic — spirit, in India as well as in Iran where it is still not possible for the believers to hold public meetings.
Following the meeting of the Hands of the Faith at Bahjí Mr. and Mrs. Featherstone visited Rome, then Frankfurt, Germany, where on this very day, November 20, Hand of the Cause Amelia E. Collins, who attended the International Conference in Europe in 1958 as the beloved Guardian’s special representative, had dedicated the corner stone of the Mother Temple of Europe, which after seven years delay in getting started will be completed before the end of the Guardian’s Ten-Year Plan.
Leaving Germany, Mr. and Mrs. Featherstone visited France where there is a wonderful new spirit, stopped over in England where they visited the grave of Shoghi Effendi and found the believers very busy completing the home front tasks assigned to them by the Guardian.
Some very interesting stories were told by Mr.
Featherstone of the progress of the Faith in the Pacific
Islands where the Regional Spiritual Assembly is already established and functioning vigorously and[Page 4]
where believers and local assemblies are multiplying
in great numbers.
Everywhere, Mr. Featherstone said, the Faith is forging ahead in a manner that did not seem possible when the Guardian, with one stroke, set the believers in the entire world to work in 1853 to implement the Divine Plan. “We are living in a unique period of history,” he said. “We are living in a time of great historical events when people who have gone out by ones and twos are Witnessing the conversion of hundreds and thousands who in turn are putting into operation the Teachings of Bahá’u’lláh. This is a very great age! This is a glorious period! We are rearing first national spiritual assemblies throughout the world — twenty-one next year — an opportunity that will never come again, thus laying the foundation for the Universal House of Justice, the source of divine guidance which will come into being in 1963 under the direction of the Hands of the Cause of God whom the Guardian himself designated as the Chief Stewards of the Faith.”
Mr. Featherstone closed his address with the following plea: “This is a time when the whole purpose of every institution, of every assembly and community must be directed to teaching! We are to take this Faith to the masses!
“What have we to recount? What shall we tell of our services? What pages have we written that will help to establish His Cause? Let us have no regrets!”
First Observance of United Nations Day Held in Seychelles Islands[edit]
United Nations Day was observed for the first time in the Seychelles Islands on Oct. 24, 1960, under the auspices of the Port Victoria Bahá’í Assembly. Marking the fifteenth anniversary of the birth of United Nations, a public symposium was held in the spacious hall of the Seychelles College, gaily decorated with U.N. flag-poster buntings, displays and photographs.
Two days before the symposium, at the request of the Seychelles Broadcasting director, the secretary of the Bahá’í Assembly gave a ten minute radio talk, the first broadcast of this nature ever heard there. The entire text of the talk was later published in the Seychelles Government News Bulletin.
The theme of the symposium was “United Nations Today and Tomorrow,” and it was presided over by Major C. Mazierieux, O.B.E. and member of the Legislative Council. There were three guest speakers: Sir Michael Nethersole; Honorable Mr. G. I. Michael, Director of Education: Mr. S. Quinlan, M. A. Principal Teachers Training College; and one Bahá’í speaker, Mr. A. Rahman.
Attending the symposium were His Excellency the Governor Mr. Ian Woodruffe; His Lordship the Chief Justice; the Consul of Germany in Nairobi Baron Von Stackelberg; the Heads of Roman Catholic and Church of England; Superior of the Brothers of Christian Instruction and Director of Seychelles College; the Honorable Attorney General; several Heads of departments, members of the Bar; Victoria citizens and students.
The mid-week issue of Le Seychellois devoted a column and a half of front-page space to the story.
UN Day symposium held in Seychelles Islands, Oct. 24,
1960. Left to right: Mr. A. Rahman, Bahá’í speaker; Sir
Michael Nethersole; Major C. Mazterieux, O.B.E and
member of the Legislative Council (chairman); Honorable G. I. Michael, Director of Education; Mr. S. Quinlan, M.A. Principal Teachers Training College.
United Nations Day Observances Reinforce Ties and Proclaim Faith[edit]
Additional information of United Nations Day observances throughout the United States further emphasizes a growing interest in world affairs, solution to the problems, and in the Faith itself.
Members of the International Institute in Philadelphia, an organization serving foreign-born newcomers to the area, were pleased to cooperate with the Bahá’ís in a public meeting in observance of UN Day, and permitted the use of their mailing lists, bulletin board, and meeting hall for the afternoon occasion. The speaker was Lionel Gonzalez, member of the International Secretariat, United Nations. Following the lecture was a lively question and answer period, then the serving of refreshments by the Bahá’ís. Approximately 100 people attended the meeting. termed as the most successful public meeting held in Philadelphia in many years. On the evening of the same day the Philadelphia Bahá’ís held an open-house. As a result of both the public meeting and the open-house, many contacts were made and some have been attending firesides regularly.
The Niagara Falls Gazette carried in its three-day
articles on UN Day observances and the Bahá’í Faith,
the following: “We should like to call attention to the
beautiful window display on Falls Street at the Manufacturers and Traders Trust Co., ‘United Nations Pattern for Peace‘ sponsored by the local Bahá’í group.”
This fourteen-foot front window display on exhibit for
two weeks in the center of the city’s downtown business area carried the Bahá’í theme and publicized the
Bahá’í Proposal for United Nations Charter Revision.
The Niagara Falls Bahá’ís also exhibited another
poster display in the lobby of one of the city’s hotels
which depicted the work of the UN in the humanities[Page 5]
activities and included free copies of the Bahá’í pamphlet A Pattern for Future Society. The friends had
received prompt and generous assistance from the office of the International Secretariat of United Nations,
and because of the lack of manpower to use all the
posters and leaflets supplied, the excess was given to
a senior high school. This encouraged an enthusiastic
observance of the occasion in the school. These successful efforts led to contacting the Chamber of Commerce and gaining its support for the observance of
UN Day next year.
United Nations Day was observed by the Bahá’ís of Glendora, West Covina, Covina, and Pomona, Calif., with a talk by Dr. Dwight E. Allen on “Bahá’í Looks at UN.” The meeting was announced on radio, in newspapers, by displays in colleges, high schools, and libraries, and invitations to the Pomona United Nations Chapter, members of which also participated in the event, Attendance was estimated to be near a hundred. The observance served to promote good will and friendly relations with the U.N. Chapter in Pomona as well as with the newspaper and radio station.
Successful observances also took place in numerous other cities, some of which are Yonkers, N,Y,, where Mrs. Lee Blackwell who is chairman of the Bahá’í U.S. United Nations Committee, spoke to many non-Bahá’ís; Buffalo, Amherst, and Hamburg Village and Township, N.Y.; Jackson, Mich.; Dumont, East Orange, and Teaneck, N.J.; Fort Myers, Fla.; Warsaw, Ind.; Nashua and Portsmouth, N.H.; and Sioux Falls, S.D.
The Bahá’í Youth of Brookfield, Wis., featured a box lunch and lecture for United Nations Day which attracted thirty-eight people.
An observance of UN Day in Kauai, Hawaii, where there is a Bahá’í group, came about through unexpected circumstances when two Los Angeles Bahá’ís were visiting friends in Hawaii and met the manager of the local radio station, at which time comment was made on a UN Day program. As a result of further discussion a thirty-minute taped program was broadcast with acknowledgement and introduction of the Bahá’ís taking part, the response to which proved to be very good.
Bahá’ís attending NSA-sponsored institute in Phoenix, Ariz., November 5-6, 1960.
NSA Week-end Institutes Study World Order and Institutions of the Faith[edit]
During the first and second week ends in November members of the Auxiliary Boards of the Hands of the Faith in the Western Hemisphere and of the National Spiritual Assembly conducted a series of thirty-one two-day institutes called by the National Assembly for the threefold purpose of increasing the understanding of the American Bahá’ís of the World Order of Bahá’u’lláh, increasing understanding of the nature of Bahá’í administration and the institutions of the Faith, and of consulting on the most effective means of completing the remaining tasks of the World Crusade, including the consolidation of the home front. The total registration at all institutes was approximately 1,750 believers, most of them being present for the full two days.
Among the items on the agenda which evoked the greatest interest and amount of discussion were the subjects dealing with the relationship of the present-day Administrative Order to the World Order of Bahá’u’lláh; the present institutions of the Faith in the World Center, including the functions and activities of the Hands of the Cause and their relationship to the National Spiritual Assemblies; the purpose and functions of the first international Bahá’í Council; the functions of the national and local spiritual assemblies and their relationship to the individual believers.
The matter of the impossible claims of Mason
Remey and his supporters was also dealt with under
the general subject of Covenant-breaking and its consequences. Here the leaders reviewed the facts of the
situation, the responsibilities imposed upon the Hands
of the Cause by the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi as the Chief Stewards of the
Faith for protecting the Cause of God, in collaboration
with the national spiritual assemblies, against enemies
from within and from without. The response on the
part of the believers indicated greater understanding
and appreciation of their own responsibilities for strict
obedience to the laws and teachings of the Founders of
the Faith and the instructions of the Guardian for pre[Page 6]
serving the unity of the Cause throughout the world.
While in some of the cities the Saturday evening session was devoted to continuation of the agenda, many of the host assemblies took advantage of the occasion to hold public meetings or information gatherings for the Bahá’ís, their families and close contacts.
The consensus of the leaders as well as the believers who were present is that this was by far the most valuable of the several series of NSA-sponsored conferences that have taken place under the home front consolidation plan adopted by the National Spiritual Assembly in 1957.
—U.S. NATIONAL SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY
Benelux NSA Wins Court Decision[edit]
The Legal Committee of the Benelux Regional-National Spiritual Assembly states that “the Cour d’Appel of Brussels has pronounced its judgement in favor of the Bahá’í Faith,” recognizing that the building at 54 rue Stanley. used as their Ḥaẓíratu’l-Quds, shall be free of taxes. Since 1956 when this property was purchased, the Ministry of Finances had opposed and refused to recognize that activities in the building were of religious nature, and argued that it was an association for social welfare.
The Benelux National Assembly could not accept this decision because it would have been impossible in the future to gain recognition for the Faith as an independent religion. Because of its official recognition now by the decision of the Tribunal, the Bahá’í Faith comes once again out of obscurity and reveals its irresistible force.
National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the
United States for 1960-61, Front row: Mrs. Florence
Mayberry, H. Borrah Kavelin, Miss Edna True, Miss
Charlotte Linfoot. Back row: Dr. David Ruhe, Charles
Wolcott, Ellsworth Blackwell, Amoz Gibson, and Arthur
Dahl.
Summer School held near Heidelberg, Germany, 1960.
German Summer School Held Near Heidlelberg[edit]
Hotel Adler, where the 1960 summer school was held, is situated in the midst of a lovely, shady garden on the banks of the Neckar River with a beautiful view of the wooded mountains in the famous Heidelberg vicinity.
Eighty-five friends of fifteen nationalities from three continents gathered here to revivify their spirits, and enrich their knowledge. Two successful public lectures were given in the course of the week at the Heidelberg Museum by Eugen Schmidt. Highly interesting courses were given on the “Promised Day is Come” and the “Kitáb-í-Íqan” by the Hands of the Cause, Adelbert Mühlschlegel and Hermann Grossmann respectively.
A number of interesting talks were given on following subjects: “Does Humanity Enter Uncertainty?”—“Religion and Social Development”—“The Bahá’í Religion in the Mirror of Christian Contemplation”—“Oneness of Religion, Providential Question of Humanity”—“A Warning to All Nations (Tablets to Rulers and Clergy)”—“Spiritual Unfoldment in a Technicalized Surrounding World.” All presentations were followed by lively, inspiring discussions.
Several choice slide programs were given on Írán, Scandinavian countries and Alaska.
A highlight of the delightful week was the fascinating report by Mrs. Anna Grossmann on the historically significant teaching mission covering a number of the South American republics which she took with Hand of the Cause Hermann Grossmann.
At a festively arranged Unity Feast, one of the young, active participants surprised us with his Bahá’í declaration, and a farewell celebration closed this year’s school session.
Hand of Cause H. Collis Featherstone (second row left)
with group of Tasmanian believers at Aug. 1960 Region
al Teaching Conference held in Hobart, capitol city of
Tasmania.
New library for the Blind Presented with Braille Book[edit]
The Bahá’í Committee for Service to the Blind reports that a Braille copy of The Renewal of Civilization, by David Hofman, has been placed in the newly established Regional Library for the Blind in Des Moines, Iowa. This library is the thirty-first regional distributing library listed by the Library of Congress. These libraries serve blind readers in the United States and outlying areas and all have Bahá’í books.
Because of the increasing burden of correspondence and requests for information regarding its service, the Bahá’í Committee for Service to the Blind requests the friends to please send their remittances when ordering literature for the blind. The address of this committee is: 842 North Hayworth Ave., Los Angeles 46, Calif.
Children in Temple Area Commemorate Birthday Anniversary of Bahá’u’lláh[edit]
In commemoration of the Birthday of Bahá’u’lláh the Temple Children’s School Committee arranged a special afternoon program for children in the Bahá’í House of Worship, inviting the Bahá’í children, their friends and parents from all the communities in the Temple area. The first part of the program was a devotional service in the Auditorium with readings and prayers from the Sacred Writings being presented with great reverence by eight children from five communities. Special programs quoting the readings were distributed to all who attended.
Following the devotional service, the Children and their adult guests assembled in the children‘s classroom in Foundation Hall for refreshments and a social hour, Approximately thirty children and the same number of adults were present.
BAHA’I IN THE NEWS[edit]
Know Your Faith, written by Nels F. S. Ferré and published in 1959 by Harper and Brothers, New York, makes reference on page 34 to “two outstanding students at Vanderbilt University” who became “converts to Bahá’í.” He commented: “They both believed in Jesus devoutly and continued to believe that Christ as God’s universal love is the ultimate truth, but they felt that now this truth had to be cut loose from those who smother it, and to be announced through a new Manifestation, the more universally and effectively to serve our age.”
Kappa Alpha Psi Journal for October 1960, official organ of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity carries on page 140 a story about the Bahá’í Faith under the title, “The Brotherhood of Man,“ by H. K. Fuqua. Across the top of the page is a photograph of the National Spiritual Assembly in session over the Labor Day week end from which there was released to the press the Bahá’í view of the current racial tensions and which is quoted in this article. Also, on the same page is a photograph of Ellsworth Blackwell, member of the fraternity, identified as a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and an active pioneer and teacher. It also describes the Bahá’í Temple (pictured on page 141) and gives a brief statement of the history, aims and purposes of the Faith.
Search Magazine for December, 1960 carries on its cover a photograph of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá over the caption: “The Holy Man of Bahá’í.” Under the same title in the body of the magazine a brief article refers to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá as the one “who in 1912 brought the Bahá’í faith to America.” It also comments on the
Children’s program on the anniversary of the Birth of
Bahá’u’lláh in the Bahá’í House of Worship, Wilmette,
Illinois.
Bahá’í Temple as “the achievement of this one holy man, in planning and setting up the financial basis” for its construction for which “donations could not be accepted from any but those who professed the Bahá’í faith.”
Vogue Magazine, September, 1960 issue, in an article on page 268 about “The Druses of Mount Carmel” there is reference to “the gardens and golden dome of the Bahá’í shrine.”
The International Language Review, April — June, 1960 contains an article on “Soundwriting” by Mrs. Evelyn Lackey Bivins, a Bahá’í of Gulfport, Miss. Mrs. Bivins refers to the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh regarding the adoption of a world language and a world script as one of the specifications for a peaceful world. This same issue carries a half-page advertisement on “The Bahá’í World Fai ” with specific reference to a universal auxiliary language and offers a catalog of Bahá’í literature to those interested in writing for it.
The 1961 holiday annual of Paradise of the Pacific, a monthly magazine published in Honolulu, Hawaii, contains a two-page photo story by Mrs. Frances Tamanaha, a member of the Honolulu Bahá’í community, on “Honolulu’s Houses of Worship.” Honolulu’s new Ḥaẓíratu’l-Quds is one of the ten places of worship pictured and is described as follows: “The Bahá’í World Faith recently moved into its new Ḥaẓíratu’l-Quds in Nuuarla Valley. The new building has rooms for public meetings, class rooms, and a library open to the public. This world-wide faith is established on all the major Hawaiian Islands.”
At left: Well-known American painter Mark Tobey, Bahá’í of Seattle, Wash., was selected by the United States Government to represent the United States at a conference of the International Association of Plastic Arts sponsored by UNESCO. The meeting was held Sept. 24-25, 1960 in Vienna, Austria. Next to Mr. Tobey is the famous painter Andre Masson of France.
Baha’i Publishing Trust[edit]
The Divine Art of Living. This compilation from the Bahá’í Writings, emphasizing qualities that mark wholeness of living and the means to attain spiritual development, has been out of print for some months pending some revisions. Now it is available in both paper and clothbound editions. The paperbound cover, and jacket, are illustrated in two colors with an artist's drawing of the monumental path and gate leading to Bahá’u’lláh’s Shrine at Bahjí.
Paperbound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ .80
Clothbound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1.60
Two More Talisman Books Available[edit]
In addition to Prescription for Living, the Publishing Trust now has available two more titles of the George Ronald Talisman edition. These are Renewal of Civilization and Heart of the Gospel. All three books are the same pocket size and attractively designed. They are priced at $.50 each, net.
Calendar of Events[edit]
FEASTS[edit]
January l9—Sultán (Sovereignty)
February 7—Mulk (Dominion)
WORLD RELIGION DAY[edit]
January 15—“One Universal Faith”
U.S. NATIONAL SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY MEETINGS[edit]
February 10, 11, 12
Baha’i House of Worship[edit]
Visiting Hours[edit]
Weekdays
1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Auditorium only)
Sundays and Holidays
10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Entire building)
Service of Worship[edit]
Sundays 3:30 to 4:10 p.m.
BAHÁ’Í NEWS is published by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States as a news organ reporting current activities of the Bahá’í World Community.
Reports, plans, news items, and photographs of general interest are requested from national committees and local assemblies of the United States as well as from national assemblies of other lands. Material is due in Wilmette on the first day of the month preceding the date of issue for which it is intended.
BAHÁ’Í NEWS is edited by an annually appointed Editorial Committee. The Committee for 1960-1961: Richard C. Thomas, Managing Editor; Mrs. Eunice Braun, International News Editor; Miss Charlotte M. Linfoot, National News Editor; Miss D. Thelma Jackson and Mrs. Harriett Wolcott, Assitant Editors.
Editorial Office: 110 Linden Avenue, Wilmette, Illinois, U.S.A.
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