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| No. 368 | BAHA’I YEAR 118 | NOVEMBER, 1961 |
The Mother Temple of the Antipodes, Dedicated in September
Hands in Holy Land Send Joyful Tidings of Dedication of Temple in Sydney
“Share joyous news (of) dedication Mother Temple (of the) Antipodes (in the) presence (of) ‘Amatu’l-Bahá Rúḥíyyih Khánum (and) representatives (of)
twenty countries (of the) Bahá’í World Community. Historic occasion marks (the) attainment (of) second stage (of) beloved Guardian’s three-fold enterprise designed (to) establish (the) first sacred Houses (of) Worship (on the) African continent (in) Australasia (and in) Europe. Call upon (the) friends everywhere (to) join (in) prayers (of) praise (and) thanksgiving (to) Bahá’u’lláh (for) highly significant victory. Airmail message (to) Hands (and) National Assemblies.”
(Signed) HANDSFAITH
Received September 19, 1961
Hand of the Cause Agnes Alexander Visits Five Cities on Two-Week Korean Trip[edit]
Early in July Miss Agnes Alexander went to Korea from Tokyo for a fortnight of inspirational visits. Arriving in Seoul on July 7, she spoke at several meetings, including the observance of the Martyrdom of the Báb two days later. At her side during the observance sat the Korean poet Oh Sang-soon, who was Miss Alexander's interpreter on her first history-making visit to Korea in 1921.
Following her stay in Seoul, the beloved Hand of the Cause traveled to ChunjU, where there is a local assembly. She spoke to a public gathering of forty people and then went on to Pusan, stopping enroute in Taejon and Taegu, both goal cities. In Pusan she addressed two public meetings, and inspired the believers and their contacts with her Wisdom and exemplary devotion.
Leaving Pusan, Miss Alexander spent several more days in Seoul and then returned to Tokyo, having “diffused the Divine Fragrances” and given a strong impetus to the activities of all the friends in Korea.
The recently completed local Ḥaẓíratu’l-Quds of Muara
Siberut, Mentawei Islands. (See also picture at right.)
Hand of the Cause Agnes B. Alexander (holdIng GreateSt Name) with Bahá’ís of Pusan, Korea.
Believers from Padang and Djakarta at the opening of
the Ḥaẓíratu’l-Quds of Muara Siberut.
Haiti’s New National Assembly Stages Its First Summer School
With the and of Auxiliary Board member Dr. Sarah Pereira, local assemblies, Haitian and U.S. pioneers and other believers, the National Spiritual Assembly of Haiti conducted a three-day summer school from August 18 to 20. The locale was the home of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Corbin at St. Marc. During the twelve busy days of Dr. Pereira’s visit, she and the resident Bahá’ís also collaborated on five public meetings, three radio interviews, a radio tape used in several subsequent broadcasts, and newspaper interviews that resulted in considerable added publicity.
Above, left and right: Some of the believers who attended the summer school sessions. In the first picture. Dr. Pereira is third from the left ln the back row. She also appears in the other pictures. At left: Public meeting held in the Ḥaẓíratu’l-Quds, Port-an-Prince. Below, left: Public meeting at the Hotel Christophe, Cap Haitian. Below, right: Public meeting at Liancourt. This gathering was actually held in two parts, at two different believers’ homes. the second session occasioned by the unexpected arrival at twenty-five people from a neighboring village after the first session had closed. Another meeting, not shown, was held in St. Marc.
The Geyserville Story for 1961
THE MOST EXCITING news of the 1961 summer season at the Geyserville Bahá’í School was the declaration of twenty—two persons during the six-week session, including fifteen youth during the final week alone. This was the largest number of people ever to announce their intention of becoming Bahá’ís during a Geyserville session — and perhaps during any Bahá’í school session in still obdurate North America.
What had started simply as a successful last week ended in a spirit of reverence and devotion, as an ever-increasing number of youth indicated their intentions. Study classes were held far into the night, and recreation was abandoned, while the declarees sought to explore the limits of their faith and to comprehend their obligations as Bahá’ís.
On the final evening, at a special picnic, each of the fifteen youth was presented with a book signed by
View overlooking California’s beautiful Sonoma Valley, with
some Geyserville School buildings visible in middle fore-ground. Geyserville is situated about eighty miles north of San Francisco.
U.S. Bahá’í school near the west coast completes
its thirty-third summer session with a notable
record, including fifteen youth declarations
During the last week of the school’s summer session these
fifteen youth announced their intention of becoming Bahá’ís.
The event, which set a new declaration record at Geyserville.
lined the entire school to heights of thankful devotion.
everyone present at the school. For this occasion the
more than one hundred students were joined by about
seventy-five local Bahá’ís and their friends for an evening of fellowship that ended with a beautiful devotional period.
A spirit of reinvigoration, teaching and service permeated the entire six-week session. This was typified by the inauguration of a cooperative work program which gave everyone an opportunity to participate in the school’s physical operation, and made possible the elimination of almost all staff positions, with a consequent reduction in costs. The prevailing feeling was that the work program was an important step toward making the school an embryonic Bahá’í community.
Another source of inspiration was the use of experimental course materials prepared by the Advisory Committee on Education. Many areas of study were identified where revision would be needed, but the idea of compiling resource materials from which the individual teacher could develop specific content and techniques was enthusiastically welcomed.
Attendance was at a record high, and during three of the six weeks the school was filled beyond capacity. All possible space was converted into sleeping quarters but on several occasions the management was unable to provide for all those wishing accommodations.
The heavy attendance made It possible to operate the school on a sound financial basis even though rates had been lowered.
All in all it was an outstanding and inspirational session — so much so that it elicited these words from a consecrated school committee member and teacher: “We pray that each year Geyserville_wil1 come a bit closer to fulfilling its divine purpose as an institution of Bahá’í learning. This year it seems to have done so.”
At top: The Unity Feast, an outstanding annual demonstration
of amity and concord, was attended this yell by almost 700
people of diverse racial, religious and national backgrounds.
Here they are gathered in “use big tree.” a famous landmark. A special inspiration was the presence of several American Indian Bahá’ís from Nevada.
Upper right: The devoted service of Clare Irwin and Alla Dakserhof in Geyserville’s growing library was largely instrumental in causing the local newspaper run a feature story on this vital adjunct of tile school.
Lower right: Road to use redwood grove, where youth classes are often held.
Below: A glimpse of Collins Dormitory, which provides a large part of use sleeping accommodations.
The members of the panel for the Phoenix public meeting in observance of World Peace Day, together with
Mrs. Gladys Baumann, program chairman, who holds
the proclamation issued by Governor Paul J. Fannin.
Four U.S. Governors Proclaim World Peace Day a State Event[edit]
In 1960 the Bahá’í Group or Baltimore County, Maryland, succeeded in having a proclamation issued by the governor of the state declaring Bahá’í-sponsored World Peace Day a state event. The Hands of the Cause thereupon recommended that steps be taken to secure similar proclamations in other states. This year the U.S. National Spiritual Assembly undertook, through appropriate local assemblies and groups, to gain recognition of the event in nine states.
At least seven of the nine Bahá’í communities which were approached launched efforts to gain gubernatorial
A delegation of the Bahá’ís of Providence, Rhode
Island, were invited by Governor John A. Notte Jr. to
be with him in his chambers while he read the Proclamation for World Peace Day. Shown below with the
Governor are (left to right) Mrs. Beth Newport, Makoto Inaba and Mrs. Muriel Stokes.
The Arizona proclamation, which the governor strengthened with a phrase of his own.
recognition, and, of these seven, four reported success. One community was unable to make necessary
arrangements in time, but has proposed trying again
next year. Another’s request was declined for legal
reasons but the govemor’s reply highly commended
the Bahá’í project.
The (our chief executives whose proclamations have been received were the governors of Arizona,_ Nevada, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin. All followed suggestions as to how their proclamations might be worded, but also exercised their prerogative to make changes and additions. The governor of Arizona added the significant words, “Urging the people of our state to join prayerfully in this observance. . . ”
It goes without saying that state proclamations supporting World Peace Day can of themselves bring incalculable spiritual results, and they can also be an important step in the direction of mass proclamation of the Faith.
Early Returns Indicate Wide Variety of Programs Given on World Peace Day
While all the media of mass communication bristled with rumors of war, the Bahá’ís in numerous U.S. centers assiduously prepared and presented programs Commemorating World Peace Day, which this year fell on Sunday, September 17. Following are accounts of some of the programs.
The Stockton (California) Bahá’í community opened its observance with a Persian-style dinner served at a Bahá’í home to a group including seven adult and two youth contacts. This was followed by an introductory talk on the Faith, a showing of slides and informal discussion. An announcement of the event appeared in a local newspaper.
in the Colorado Springs (Colorado) area, five-inch newspaper advertisements heralded the day and offered further information through a specified telephone number. The observance was held jointly by the city-proper and suburban communities, in a Bahá’í home, at ll a.m. on Sunday morning. A newspaper report of the meeting followed in a few days.
El Paso Holds an All-Night Vigil[edit]
In El Paso, Texas, the churches and synagogues had started a sixty-day prayer vigil for world peace It was natural for the Bahá’ís to call attention to their forthcoming observance and to ask if they could take part in the vigil. The sponsors gladly accepted. The Bahá’í program, given in the beautiful new chapel of the Central YMCA, appropriately started at 6 p.m. on Saturday, September 16, and ended at 6 p.m. on World Peace Day itself. All of the El Paso believers, plus some of their friends, took part. The vigil led to new contacts, and the Bahá’ís themselves felt special power in the prayers and meditations which they used for the occasion.
Greensboro, North Carolina, gave a panel presentation on “Education for World Peace” in an auditorium on the campus of one of the local colleges. As befits a strictly Bahá’í event, all three of the speakers, and the moderator as well, were Bahá’ís.
The Durham (North Carolina) observance, held in a Bahá’í home, was announced through printed invitations which gave the purpose of the forthcoming gathering as “prayers, meditation for inspiration, guidance and discussion toward nobler lives.” Recorded organ music embellished the program.
Redding, California, was handicapped in some of its publicity efforts by church competition, yet succeeded in putting on an effective public meeting with the aid of two radio announcements and the thorough cooperation of all vicinity Bahá’ís.
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The Jefferson County and Denver communities collaborated on a public meeting attended by fifty persons. Program honors were shared by Mrs. Irene Vanderhoof, the Bahá’í speaker, and two Hopi Indian friends who contributed a wonderful talk and prayer. One of them also gave a brief account of the Hopi prophecies. Included in the audience were five Indians, four Negroes: and one Chinese — a representation which, in the words of the BAHÁ’Í NEWS reporter, “made a very pretty bouquet.”
Indianapolis, Indiana, used invitations plus numerous newspaper, radio and television releases to promote its public observance, and while the resulting attendance was not large, many seeds were no doubt planted.
Duluth, Minnesota, put on a student-panel meeting at the YWCA, with “Education for World Peace” as the discussion subject. It gave rise to considerable interest in the Bahá’í Peace Plan, and non-Bahá’í youth participating on the panel were spurred on to further investigation of the Faith. Mimeographed invitations, radio announcements and posters publicized the meeting.
Oregon Community Presents Eminent Speaker[edit]
Salem, Oregon, opened its public meeting with a short introduction to the Faith by the chairman, and then presented Mr. Robert L. Bogue, formerly Deputy Chief of the World Health Organization of the United Nations. This outstanding international civil servant gave a talk on “Education for World Peace” which beautifully rounded out the program.
The Los Angeles community staged a public meeting at its Center, with Elwyn Van Zandt, a member of the local assembly, giving a talk which traced man’s efforts toward peace down through the ages. The speaker pointed out that to achieve true peace a divinely inspired plan is needed. Two well-known guest artists provided instrumental music. Seventy-five people attended.
The Phoenix (Arizona) Bahá’í community held a well-publicized panel-type meeting. Mrs. Carston Schmidt, a Bahá’í from Tempe, served as a member of the panel, which also included the president of the International Relations Club of Phoenix College, a representative of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and the coordinator of the Quaker Committee on Peace.
International News Briefs[edit]
Because of the considerable amount of funds still required for the Sydney Temple, the general financial needs of the Faith, and the necessity of concentrating primarily on local teaching as the Crusade approaches its end, the National Spiritual Assembly of Australia decided not to hold a summer school at Yerrinbool this year. Instead, all of the regional teaching committees were asked to arrange either a study week or week end, open to both Bahá’ís and non-Bahá’ís and designed to promote local teaching.
On July 9 the National Consolidation and Teaching Committee of Luxembourg conducted an all-day teaching conference in Differdange. It comprised an observance of the Martyrdom of the Báb, a review of a Message from the Hands of the Faith and Consultation on “The Unfoldment of the Divine Plan in Europe.” Following the conference the local assembly of
American Indian Service Committee Display at the 1961
National Convention.
Bahá’í exhibit at Benton County Fair, sponsored by the
Rogers (Arkansas) Assembly. Over 1000 pieces of literature were given to inquirers, and at number of visitors
signed the guest book.
Bahá’í booth at the Young Farmers’ Fair, held September 1 to 3 at Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands.
Differdange held its first public meeting, with Auxiliary Board member Louis Henuzet as speaker. And on
August 8 the Differdange believers were able to announce the joyous news of the hrst Bahá’í declaration
in a goal city of Luxembourg.
Among the bulletins now being published for believers by the new Latin American national assemblies is Noticias Bahá’ís of El Salvador. In addition the national teaching committee is issuing a brief and attractive monthly publication called Bahá-Luz (“Bahá Light”) and addressed specifically to non-Bahá’ís.
William Maxwell Jr., member of the Auxiliary
Board for Asia, recently returned to Korea with Mrs.
Maxwell after they had completed a six-week tour of
the United States. Speaking to about 80 believers in
Los Angeles prior to departure, he said: “Our task
has been made easier because of the workers for the
other Prophets, who have smoothed the road before us.
Without Buddhist and Christian teachings, the peoples
of the East might not have been ready for the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh for another 2000 years. . . .” The
Maxwells have pioneered in Korea since 1954. Mr.
Maxwell was chairman of the first North East Asia
National Assembly, formed in 1957. He is one of the
directors of the U.S. Army Education Program in
Korea.
Two new members have been elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of Nicaragua to replace Ruth E. Yancey and Pablo Pérez, who have moved out of the country. The new members are José Barahona Diaz and Luis Guillermo Bonilla.
The Spiritual Assembly of Cuidad Trujillo, Dominican Republic, showed commendable zeal by presenting several Bahá’í books to the Institute Cultural Dominico-Americano. The gift was gratefully acknowledged by the institute’s director.
Under the heading, “New Goals Achieved,” the September newsletter of the National Spiritual Assembly of Central and East Africa cites the fact that over 100 declarations from pygmies in the Congo have been accepted in the Ubembe area. Good news of a different variety is the report that recognition of Bahá’í Holy Days is now being granted in Kenya.
During May a Bahá’í Society was established at Queensland University (Australia), its object being “to promote discussion and analysis of Comparative Religions and the Bahá’í World Faith.” Meetings held at three-week intervals are centered around basic talks by selected speakers. They have been well attended and have had the effect of widely publicizing the Faith at the University. A similar society founded earlier at Sydney University has enjoyed the same experience.
The Child Education Committee of the Kauai (Hawaiian Islands) Bahá’í Group attracted much favorable attention with a booth at the local Young Farmers’ Fair, It was the first time that a religious group had been represented at any fair on the island of Kauai. One of the believers who manned the booth was Miss Lani Chun-Fat, first Bahá’í of part-Hawaiian ancestry to declare herself on the island.
First National Spiritual Assembly of El Salvador,
formed April 1961. Left to right, front row: José Maria
Padilla (chairman), Marta de Herrador, Gabriel Torres
(recording secretary). Back row: Napoleon Gonsalez
(vice-chairman), Quentin Farrand (treasurer), Marcia
S. de Matamoros, Rafael García (secretary), Marco
Antonio Martinez, Jeanne de Farrand.
National Spiritual Assembly of Venezuela Incorporated[edit]
Another World Crusade goal has been achieved with the incorporation of the newly formed National Spiritual Assembly of Venezuela. The incorporation was registered by the Republic of Venezuela on August 1.
New NSA Secretary Elected in Chile[edit]
Sr. Edmundo Fuchslocher P. is the newly elected secretary of the National Spiritual Assembly of Chile, replacing Dr. Alex Reid, who will be in Europe for an indefinite period. A by«election resulted in the elecnon of Sr. Ricardo Bafiados to fill the vacancy on the National Assembly created by Dr. Reid‘s departure.
First Local Spiritual Assembly of Leylien, Netherlands, formed April 1961. Left to right, front row: Khalil Ala’i, Mrs. Nosrat Rahnama Rabbani, Mrs. Shams-i-Jahan Ala’i, Mrs. Eshraghieh Faridian, Zia’u’llah Faridian. Back row: Miss Ridvan Ahadieh, Mehraban Hedayati. Massoud Mazgani, Mrs. Farrokh Taheri.
First Local Spiritual Assembly of Glendale, Wisconsin,
formed April 1961. Left to right, seated: Mrs. Wilma
Craeger, Mrs. Shirley Niss (vice-chairman), Mrs. Alma
Thur, Mrs. Barbara Perleberg, Mrs. Opal Schmahl.
Standing: Richard Craeger, Robert Niss (secretary),
William Perleberg (chairman), Leonard Schmahl
(treasurer).
First Local Spiritual Assembly of Oeiras, Portugal,
formed April 1961. Left to right, seated: Fernando
Jordão, Sta, Maria de Lurdes Gomes, Xavier Rodrigues, Neal Brady. Standing: Snra. Maria Luisa Ribeiro,
Mrs. Isabel Horton, Miss Janet Coppen, Snra. Hilda X.
Rodrigues, Mrs. Emma Martensen.
First Local Spiritual Assembly of Rotterdam, Netherlands, formed April 1961. Left to right, front row:
K. Khavari (vice-chairman), N. Sayyah, Sh. Sana
(secretary), H. Nadimi. Back row: Mrs. T. Sayyah,
Mrs. A. Khavari, Mrs. F. Sana, Mrs. J. Straub (chairman), Mrs. Ine de L. van Wijngaarden.
Know Your Baha’i Literature[edit]
“The Promised Day Is Come”[edit]
By Shoghi Effendi
The following paragraphs are taken from the preface prepared by Dr. Firuz Kazemzadeh, associate professor of history at Yale University, for a new edition oi the above work.
To SAY that we live in an age of crisis is to utter a platitude. Hundreds of books, thousands of articles, speeches, sermons and lectures play endless variations on this frightening theme. The facile optimism of an H. G. Wells, the irrational faith in an automatic betterment of human life, the confident expectations of a universal triumph of peace and democracy have given way to anxiety, fear and despair. There is remarkable agreement that the world is sick, that “something went wrong” with Western civilization at the very moment when it was about to become world civilization, that yesterday’s utopias have proved cruelly disappointing, that man’s future is threatened by his own destructive impulses, which are much stronger than he had suspected and which he seems unable to control. However, there is little agreement about the causes of the crisis and none about the necessary cure. Lost in the labyrinth of conflicting ideologies, blinded by glittering theories which distract him for a brief moment, lacking a vital system of values, modern man, almost in spite of himself, continues on the road to catastrophe and total self-destruction.
Having voluntarily renounced his spiritual nature and proclaimed himself nothing more than a higher animal, modern man is as yet incapable of discerning the simple truth that his happiness and his very survival depend upon the establishment of harmony between his will and the Will of the Author of the universe. The cause of man’s tragedy lies in his rejection of the principles which constitute the sole basis of human existence, principles which are as real as physical laws but apprehended through reason and faith rather than through reason and the senses.
Twenty years ago in the midst of the second World War, Shoghi Effendi addressed to the Bahá’ís of the West a long letter which became a book. In it he spelled out in clear and powerful language the Bahá’í understanding of the crisis of our age. “The powerful operations of this titanic upheaval,” Shoghi Effendi un-equivocally proclaimed, “are comprehensible to none except such as have recognized the claims of both Bahá’u’lláh and the Báb. Their followers know full well whence it comes, and what it will ultimately lead to.” The certitude expressed in these lines is derived from faith in Bahá’u’lláh as a divine Messenger Who had opened a new era in mankind’s history.
Eloquently and vigorously Shoghi Effendi sketches the outlines of Bahá’u’lláh’s mission and of the response it evokedi In numerous messages to “emperors, kings and princes, chancellors and ministers, the Pope himself, priests, monks and philosophers, the exponents of learning, parliamentarians and deputies, the rich ones of the earth, the followers of all religions,” Bahá’u’lláh proclaimed His message and unfolded before the unseeing eyes of the rulers of the world the Divine Plan destined to raise mankind to a higher level of development and to create a new, a spiritually sounder civilization.
The disintegration of the traditional foundations of civ zed society, the overthrow of its ancient institutions and values created a vacuum which inevitably had to be filled. When humanity turned its back on Bahá’u’lláh, refusing to accept His message, it opened the door to false and vicious doctrine which quickly captured its mind and heart. Today, as Shoghi Effendi points out:
The chief idols in the desecrated temple of mankind are none other than the triple gods of Nationalism, Racialism, and Communism, at whose altars governments and peoples, whether democratic or totalitarian, at peace or at war, of the East or of the West, Christian or Islamic, are, in various forms and in different degrees, now worshipping. Their high priests are the politicians and the worldly-wise, the so-called sages of the age; their sacrifice, the flesh and blood of the slaughtered multitudes; their incantations, outworn shibboleths and insidious and irreverent formulas; their incense, the smoke of anguish that ascends from the lacerated hearts of the bereaved, the maimed, and the homeless.
The Promised Day Is Come is not a history of the last century, nor is it a philosophy of history in the more technical sense of the termi Yet it conveys in less than a hundred and fifty pages a truer picture of the cataclysmic changes which have occurred in Europe and Asia since the middle of the nineteenth century than whole libraries of heavily footnoted tomes. Shoghi Effendi’s analysis penetrates to the core of events and personalities. His brief characterizations of Napoleon III, Pope Pius IX, Násiri’d-Din Sháh, Wilhelm II, are brilliant examples of bold and precise condensation, in which a few sentences sufiice to reveal the most important qualities of each man. The same genius for concise formulation is displayed in discussing such complicated events as the downfall of monarchic institutions, the collapse of the Caliphate, the crumbling of religious orthodoxy, or the rise of Bolshevism. Unerringly he selects the essential characteristics of each; and the event, the institution, or the movement comes to life and yields its meaning to the astonished reader.
This remarkable book, ostensibly addressed to the Western Bahá’ís, is a challenge to everyone. Rapidly and dramatically, it tells the story of the last of God’s messengers speaking to the entire humanity but being heard by only a few. It shows the frightening consequences of such recalcitrance: the downfall of the old order and the obscure birth of the new, It shows the depth of present-day darkness and predicts a new dawn to a humanity which would respond to the Divine Call. But above all, it forcefully reminds modern man that he is not alone in the universe, that his existence is not meaningless, that his destiny is significant. and that the way to God is once again open to him.
(ED. NOTE: See Publishing Trust section for information on new cloth and paperbound editions.)
The Fire of the Faith in Asia[edit]
Above, left: Believers of Djakarta (Java) and nearby points gathered In honor of ‘Amatu’l-Bahá, Ruhíyyih Khánum (center of group) and Miss Jessie Revell (to her left, in white hat), member of the Bahá’í International Council. Both were making a brief stop-over on their way to the dedication of the Sydney Temple.
Above, right: A gathering of the Bahá’ís of Sigli, Sumatra, Indonesia.
At right: Bahá’ís who attended Pan Malayan Summer School, held at Port Dickson, Malaya, August 3 to 6. Hand of the Cause Rahmatu’lláh Muhájir is seated In second row, center.
Below: Bahá’ís of Pitihuma, a village in Ceylon, gathered on the occasion of a recent visit by Band of the Cause Rahmatu’lláh Muhájir (shown at right at Greatest Name). The number of adult believers In this village is over 140.
Baha’i Publishing Trust[edit]
New Edition of Guardian’s Book[edit]
The Promised Day Is Come. By Shoghi Effendi. This new edition has a foreword from a general statement on the Bahá’í Faith by Shoghi Effendi and an excellent introduction by Dr. Firuz Kazemzadeh, associate professor of history at Yale University.
There is perhaps no book by Shoghi Effendi more timely for the work in which Bahá’ís are engaged today than The Promised Day Is Come. In this book, he warns of the “tempest, unprecedented in its violence, unpredictable in its course, catastrophic in its immediate effects” which marks our present stage in history and describes the goal as “unimaginably glorious in its ultimate consequences” He quotes Bahá’u’lláh’s warnings to emperors, kings and princes, the Pope, priests, philosophers. exponents of learning, parliamentarians, the followers of all religions. The disintegration of society and the God-given remedy are clearly enunciated.
The title, the theme and the entire message of this important work are all perfectly coordinated with the message that must be given to humanity in the remaining months of the World Spiritual Crusade. Now, it ever, this important work of the beloved Guardian should be widely used. The foreword and introduction by a recognized Bahá’í historian make it possible to place this book in libraries, present it to leaders in all fields of thought as well as to anyone who has been made aware of the coming of the Messenger of God.
Two editions, paper and cloth, have been produced to meet all of the above needs. It has a newly designed clothbound cover that carries a tastefully designed jacket in gold, black and white, depicting edifices at the World Center — the same design appearing on the paperbound edition in another color combination.
Clothbound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2.50
Paperbound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1.25
Bahá’í Calendar—1962. Photographs of the newly dedicated Bahá’í Temples in Africa and in Australia are both depicted on this new calendar, in the usual wall size of 8½ x 12. All Feast and Holy Days are identified in color with additional pertinent information contained on the back.
Per copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ .25
10 copies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2.00
25 copies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$4.50
50 copies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7.50
Minimum order, of single or combined items, $1.00 (Overseas postage is $.15 for each $2.00 unit of order or fraction thereof.)
World Religion Day Poster Again Available[edit]
One poster, 50 cents; three posters, $1.25; five posters, $2.00. Prices include third-class postage only. Order now to avoid extra mailing cost later.
This four-color 14x20-inch poster, designed to publicize
World. Religion Day (January 21, 1962), has space at
the bottom for the date and place of your public meeting, Send your order early, with remittance, to Bahá’í
Public Information Service, 121 Linden Avenue, Wilmette, Illnois.
Calendar of Events[edit]
FEASTS[edit]
November 4—Qudrat (Power)
November 23—Qawl (Speech)
HOLY DAYS[edit]
November 12—Birth of Bahá’u’lláh
November 26—Day of the Covenant
November 28—Ascension of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (1:00 a.m.)
U.S. NATIONAL SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY MEETINGS[edit]
November 24-26
U.S. STATE CONVENTIONS[edit]
December 3
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.
Public Meeting[edit]
Sunday, November 19
4:15 p.m.
BAHÁ’Í NEWS is published for circulation among Bahá’ís only by the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States, as a news organ reporting current activities of the Bahá’í World Community.
BAHÁ’Í NEWS is edited by an annually appointed Editorial Committee: Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Meinhard, Managing Editors: Mrs. Eunice Braun, International News Editor; Miss D. Thelma Jackson, National News Editor; Miss Charlotte M. Linfoot, National Spiritual Assembly Representative.
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