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No. 404

BAHA’I YEAR 121

NOVEMBER, 1964

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Recent photograph of the Shrine of the Báb

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UNIVERSAL PARTICIPATION

To the Bahá’ís of the World

Dearly loved Friends,

In our message to you of April, 1964, announcing the Nine Year Plan, we called attention to two major themes of that Plan, namely “... a huge expansion of the Cause of God and universal participation by all believers in the life of that Cause.”

The enthusiastic vigor with which the believers throughout the world, under the devoted guidance of their National Spiritual Assemblies, have arisen to meet the challenge of the Plan, augurs well for the huge expansion called for. We now ask you to bend your efforts and thoughts, with equal enthusiasm, to the requirements of universal participation.

In that same message we indicated the meaning of universal participation: “... the dedicated effort of every believer in teaching, in living the Bahá’í life, in contributing to the Fund, and particularly in the persistent effort to understand more and more the significance of Bahá’u’lláh’s Revelation. In the words of our beloved Guardian, ‘One thing and only one thing will unfailingly and alone secure the undoubted triumph of this sacred Cause, namely, the extent to which our own inner life and private character mirror forth in their manifold aspects the splendour of those eternal principles proclaimed by Bahá’u’lláh.’ ”

“Regard the world as the human body” wrote Bahá’u’lláh to Queen Victoria. We can surely regard the Bahá’í world, the army of God, in the same way. In the human body, every cell, every organ, every nerve has its part to play. When all do so the body is healthy, vigorous, radiant, ready for every call made upon it. No cell, however humble, lives apart from the body, whether in serving it or receiving from it. This is true of the body of mankind in which God “has endowed each humble being with ability and talent,” and is supremely true of the body of the Bahá’í World Community, for this body is already an organism, united in its aspirations, unified in its methods, seeking assistance and confirmation from the same Source, and illumined with the conscious knowledge of its unity. Therefore, in this organic, divinely guided, blessed and illumined body the participation of every believer is of the utmost importance, and is a source of power and vitality as yet unknown to us. For extensive and deep as has been the sharing in the glorious work of the Cause, who would claim that every single believer has succeeded in finding his or her fullest satisfaction in the life of the Cause? The Bahá’í World Community, growing like a healthy new body, develops new cells, new organs, new functions and powers as it presses on to its maturity, when every soul, living for the Cause of God, will receive from that Cause, health, assurance and the overflowing bounties of Bahá’u’lláh which are diffused through His divinely-ordained order.

In addition to teaching every believer can pray. Every believer can strive to make his “own inner life and private character mirror forth in their manifold aspects the splendour of those eternal principles proclaimed by Bahá’u’lláh.” Every believer can contribute to the Fund. Not all believers can give public talks, not all are called upon to serve on administrative institutions. But all can pray, fight their own spiritual battles, and contribute to the Fund. If every believer will carry out these sacred duties, we shall be astonished at the accession of power which will

Hands of the Cause and members of the Universal House of Justice surround President Shazar of Israel and Mrs. Shazar on their visit to the World Center. Accompanying them, were Mayor Khoushy of Haifa and Mrs. Khoushy.

[Page 3] result to the whole body, and which in its turn will give rise to further growth and the showering of greater blessings on all of us.

The real secret of universal participation lies in the Master’s oft expressed wish that the friends should love each other, constantly encourage each other, work together, be as one soul in one body, and in so doing become a true, organic, healthy body animated and illumined by the spirit. In such a body all will receive spiritual health and vitality from the organism itself, and the most perfect flowers and fruits will be brought forth.

Our prayers for the happiness and success of the friends everywhere are constantly offered at the Holy Shrines.

With loving Bahá’í greetings,

THE UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE

The Bahá’í World Center
Haifa, Israel
September, 1964.

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First Convention of Tanganyika and Zanzibar Brings New Awareness

On the evening of May 1, 1964, in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika, this first national convention opened with a unity feast, the local community acting as hosts. Much concern was felt because many delegates had not arrived. Word had come of a train breakdown on the line which would be utilized by a number of the travellers. There were many flooded roads in the area which would hinder bus service. Prayers were offered for assistance, giving new hope to those present.

Next morning, during the opening, devotional period, there was the sound of footsteps as seventeen delegates came in and took their seats, having arrived after a difficult, nightlong journey. Then, just before the election of the National Spiritual Assembly, five more delegates arrived, bringing the total to forty-two. This was gratifying, considering all of the travel hazards involved.

Hand of the Cause, Musa Banani, representing the Hands in the Holy Land and also acting on behalf of the Universal House of Justice, gave inspiration, encouragement and direction throughout the convention, beginning with the message from the Universal House of Justice. He closed with a message from the Hands of the Cause in Africa, which was later distributed to all in English or Swahili. He said: “There are two ways to solve difficulties — two powers to assist in fulfilling the goals of the Nine Year Plan. Both are necessary. One is material power, manpower and money. The second is spiritual power.” He closed with these words: “As long as there is unity, harmony, love and cooperation, there is no doubt about the fruits of success.”

Another highlight of the convention was the reading of messages from Bahá’í friends throughout the world. Not having had such an experience before, it was a revelation and a delightful surprise. It made those present very happy and much strengthened for they became aware of the power of this Faith and the blessings bestowed upon them by Bahá’u’lláh.

The National Assembly members elected are as follows: H. S. Akida; Allen Elston, chairman; Mrs. Mary Elston, secretary; Lamuka Mwangulu; Jalal Nakhjavani, treasurer; Wallace Ngallomba; Glory Nyirenda, vice-chairman; Ruhulah Yazdani.

First National Convention of the Bahá’ís of Tanganyika and Zanzibar.

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Guatemala Expands Efforts in Belize — Future NSA

Guatemala is moving forward with its tasks in the great Plan. There is much difficult work ahead but many have arisen to devote their energies to the gigantic assignment from the Universal House of Justice. They have been much strengthened by the several visits of Dr. Ugo Giachery, Hand of the Cause, and Artemus Lamb, auxiliary board member who has spent many years, including those of the World Crusade, in Latin America.

One of the principal obligations is to establish the National Spiritual Assembly in Belize (British Honduras) along with the aid of Great Britain. Valiant efforts have already been made and a new, attractive Center now exists in the capital city. The city of Boom has been chosen for another Assembly, with pioneers Cora Oliver and Shirley Warde already established and teaching there. Forty-five people recently came to a public meeting held in Boom, presided over by the city Judge. Nineteen enthusiastic people attended next day’s fireside.

The Mayan Indians who live in the north of the country have not been forgotten either and plans are being made to reach them. Guatemala also has cooperative tasks to perform with Mexico. The State of Chiapas was recently opened there by veteran pioneer, Louise Caswell, who visited San Cristobal de las Casas

In June, Artemus Lamb visited Huehuetenango to talk about the message from the Universal House of Justice. The first young man at the left in the doorway left his home in Todos Santos at 3:00 A.M. to walk fifteen miles to catch the bus. Just as he was within a quarter of a mile of the highway the bus went by and he had to wait three hours for the next one.

Bahá’í School held in April at Huehuetenango, Guatemala with Louise Caswell and Roderick Land as teachers.

and Tuxtla Gutierrez in her teaching journey. Alberto Landau is bringing his usual spirit of dedication to the task of constructing the Martha Root Institute in Muna, Yucatan.

Four language goals for Guatemala are: Chorti, Chuz, Uspanteca and Aguacateco, the latter having only recently been put into written form by a Christian missionary. A student of the missionary, now a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of Guatemala,

On his return from an extended trip through Mexico, Artemus Lamb stopped in Huehuetenango. Seventeen people from seven different places came to hear him speak. Three guests declared themselves at this meeting.

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Encouraging Signs

Word of the Faith is also spreading in Huehuetenango, Guatemala. A radio program has been effective in reaching people, causing one public school teacher to speak favorably of it before his class of sixty; and the manager of a tourist hotel to recommend the program to her employees. Another person came to the Center to purchase twelve copies of Reality of Man for his relatives. Then a young man came in to make his declaration, saying that the prayer “Remover of Difficulties” had wrought great changes in his life.

Perhaps most unique of all was the pioneer’s experience who unexpectedly came upon an unknown herder sitting on a grassy knoll reading Bahá’í Administration.

The “city ... the mountain ... the valley and the land” are indeed becoming blessed!

New Translations — New Tribe Mark Venezuelan Indian Teaching

Upon receipt of the details of the Nine Year Plan goals in early May, the Venezuelan believers were pleased to find among these goals one task which had already been achieved — the translation and publication of Bahá’í literature in the Guajiro language. Only a few weeks before, three Bahá’í prayers had been translated and published in Guajiro.

Recently three Bahá’í prayers have been translated and published in the language of the Motilón-Yukpa Indians, another Nine Year Plan goal; and the same three prayers were translated shortly afterward in the Cariña Indian language although this is not a goal of the Nine Year Plan. Work is now being completed on an introductory pamphlet to be published jointly in Guajiro and Spanish. All translations have been made by new Indian believers.

Expansion work in Territorio Amazonas has led to the inclusion of a new Indian tribe in the Faith. Sr.

The unusual dwelling of the Piaroa Indians, shown above, is known as a churuata.

Some of the first Piaroa believers and their children in the village of Agua Blanca, Territorio Amazonas. With them is Guajibo Bahá’í teacher Ramón Ramírez in the last row, second from the right.

Ramón Ramírez, a Bahá’í teacher of the Guajibo tribe and the first Venezuelan Indian enrolled in the Faith (in 1962), decided on his own initiative to take the Bahá’í Message to the Piaroas. Travelling by canoe for a full day against the swift currents of a river swelled by heavy rainfall, he finally arrived in a small Piaroa village where the Message he had brought was enthusiastically received. During a successive visit to the same village the first nine Piaroa believers were enrolled on July 8.

The second Guajiro School for Bahá’í teachers was held in Los Mochos August 15 to 20. Under a palm roof built by pioneers and local Bahá’ís, daily courses were given in Bahá’í History, Spiritual Teachings and Character, Bahá’í Laws, Bahá’í Administration and Health and Hygiene. The extensive use of visual aids added greatly to the success of the School. At the close of the program eight Guajiro Bahá’í Teachers were graduated. Of special interest to the participants in the School was the visit of Jack Sanders, a Bahá’í university student from the U.S.A. who was spending his summer vacation helping with the teaching work in various Indian regions of Venezuela.

Early Victories in Latin America for the New Plan

The Bulletin of the National Assembly of Panama reports new and early victories in the Nine Year Plan for Mexico. The Island of La Mujeres has been opened with the declaration of two believers there, a Mayan pioneer has opened the island of Cozumel in the goal territory of Quintana Roo. Also, the first Institute required for the Nine Year Plan has been established in Muna, Yucatán, Mexico.

From Venezuela comes news of the opening of the Island of Aruba, one of their Nine Year goals.

Bahá’ís around the world will be encouraged to learn of these successes and eager to attain similar victories before the close of this first year of the great Plan given by the Universal House of Justice.

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THE TONGUE OF POWER — Part 1

by Eunice Braun

OF ALL THE works of man, words are the most enduring. The temple of Solomon has crumbled to dust, the melodies that David played to accompany the psalms have drifted away on an ancient wind, but the words live: “Day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night sheweth knowledge.” The Ten Commandments and parables of Jesus still guide men’s lives though no material tokens remain to mark the passing of Their days on earth. For words are carried forward not only on clay and stone, on papyrus and parchment, but in the mind and heart and on the tongue; and the words of the Prophet of God are like no other words for they are inscribed unto the inner recesses of the soul.

“Write all that We have revealed unto thee with the ink of light upon the tablet of thy spirit,”¹ Bahá’u’lláh commands.

This is the ink that survives millenniums of time and comes forth renewed in each dispensation when the Divine Author appears again. In this King of Days, the dispensation of Bahá’u’lláh, He gives us The Hidden Words, a volume slim and sparing of words as a small book of poetry, but so potent that it reveals to us the essence of all that has been “uttered by the tongue of power and might, and revealed unto the Prophets of old.”²

History does not trace the exact pathway that began with man’s first uttered words as symbols of communication until the day that language became letters to be engraved on tablets of stone, so that man could record the laws of his Lord for the generations that followed. The pictographs and hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt are the earliest known written symbols; and it seems highly significant to the unfolding drama of Revelation through the ages that the phonetic alphabet is attributed to a Semetic people and had its origin in the Siniatic peninsula.

Undoubtedly it was a Manifestation of God who brought the impetus that made man’s tongue an instrument of power and inspiration. ‘ “The God of Mercy hath taught the Qur’án, hath created man, and taught him articulate speech.” ’³ The pathway of civilization is marked by words — from first, simple sounds spoken to convey man’s needs and desires, to a religious literature revealed for planetary man in an age of universal peace.

Literature is defined as the “writings of a period or country kept alive by beauty of style or thought,” but the revealed Word of God cannot be contained within this definition. Although it has its origin in the land of the Prophet and is revealed in the tongue that He speaks, it has a power which transcends limitations of language, culture and physical boundaries. Men may reach forth to quench it but it is carried like an underground stream beyond the borders of its beginning. It belongs to no one people or culture but to all the souls who desire it. Drop by drop, through hidden springs, or thundering over cataracts, it brings its soul-refreshing water of life.

Thus the parables of Jesus, spoken in an almost forgotten Aramaic tongue in ancient Palestine, were retold throughout the Greek and Latin world and were later to become Holy Scripture to all of Europe, the New World and beyond. It carried with it the holy books of the Jews, making words recorded on clay tablets on Mount Sinai a code of ethics for the western world.

The scholar who selects, compares and evaluates, must use a different measuring rod when confronted with the Revealed Word of God. He must look through the same glass as the artist, craftsman, lawyer or laborer — the glass of a pure heart, whereby all who would know truth are aided to see with their “own eyes and not through the eyes of others.”⁴

The Greatest Gift

The greatest of all divine gifts to man, apart from the gift of life and consciousness itself, is the Creative Word of God. Through it, God manifests His mercy and His justice. The Word spoken by His chosen Manifestation changes individual lives and redirects the currents of civilization. This is the Word, which the Bible declares is not “returned void.” It accomplishes its mission, for it is creative. The fabric of personal faith is knitted to that Word when the golden thread of man’s inner faculty, his spiritual insight, responds to the Word of the Prophet of God and reaches out to be woven with the greater pattern of the Divine Will.

“Be and it is!” declares the Prophet of God. It may not be visible to our eyes today, but tomorrow or next year or next century all is fulfilled.

Stories of the coming of Revelation from God are filled with mystery and awe for us. To Moses the Voice spoke from a burning bush that flames would not consume. A Voice from the heavens spoke to Jesus when He came out of the River Jordan; and Muḥammad’s first awareness of his role as God’s Revelator came to Him on Mount Hira near Mecca when the Voice spoke: “Cry in the Name of thy Lord!” In this new Dispensation, when the whole world of humanity shall look to one Author, we have been brought nearer to this divine phenomenon, for we live in the Day of Days when the Word itself has been signed and sealed and sometimes even penned by the Prophet’s own hand.

What were the circumstances surrounding Bahá’u’lláh when the first intimation of Revelation came to Him Who was to be the Creator of a new world order, the Lord of Hosts, the Spirit of Truth? Shoghi Effendi Rabbani, great grandson of Bahá’u’lláh, late guardian of the Bahá’í Faith, has shed light upon this auspicious event in his historical work, God Passes By.

To Bahá’u’lláh, descendant of Abraham, Zoroaster and Jesse, and scion of a noble Persian family, Revelation did not come at first on a mountain top nor on the banks of a river. It came in a subterranean dungeon in the prison of Síyáh-Chál in Ṭihrán, where He had been placed as an expounder of the Cause of the Báb, the youthful Prophet who had been martyred three years earlier. In chains, Bahá’u’lláh first heard the Voice that said: “We shall render Thee victorious by

[Page 7] Thy Pen.”⁵

The short, meteoric mission of the Báb, Herald and Forerunner of Bahá’u’lláh, was evolving “in the year nine”⁶ (as He had proclaimed in His book, the Persian Bayán), into the Mission of “Him Whom God would make manifest.”⁷ The Bayán was the seed, the Báb wrote from the prison fortress of Máh-Kú, that held within it the potentialities of the “Revelation that was to come.” It was revealed “for no other purpose except to establish the truth of His (Bahá’u’lláh’s) Cause.”

Although the Persian Bayán contained laws and ordinances that were to abrogate the Quranic laws and inaugurate a new, universal cycle, Shoghi Effendi states that these were not designed to be a permanent guide for the future, but rather an eulogy of the Promised One. In referring to these ordinances, Bahá’u’lláh later wrote: “... the world of Command hath been make dependent upon Our acceptance.” He had, therefore, “enforced some of them and revealed them in a different text, in the Book of Aqdas, while We have not adopted others.”⁸

Much of the Báb’s voluminous Writings were despoiled and interpolated by His enemies. Of all of His works, Bahá’u’lláh states in The Kitáb-i-Íqán, “the first, the greatest and mightiest of all” was the Qayyúm’l-Asmaá’, the commentary on the Súrih of Joseph. The first chapter had been revealed to Mullá Ḥusayn in the upper room of the Báb’s home that memorable eve of May 23, 1844. A portion was later presented to Bahá’u’lláh, winning His immediate allegiance to the Báb’s Cause. Its main purpose was to prepare the people for the coming of the “true Joseph” (Bahá’u’lláh) and to foretell the tribulations that He would suffer at the hand of His own brother. Revealed in Arabic, this entire work was translated into Persian by the renowned poetess, Ṭáhirih, the only woman among the Báb’s disciples. Portions of this work and others of the Báb are quoted in many passages in the major Bahá’í works.

The Gathering Forces of Prophethood

The Voice that spoke to Bahá’u’lláh in the fetid dungeon of the Síyáh-Chál marked the beginning of Revelation. It continued with His banishment to Baghdád where He revealed the Tablet of Kullu’t-Ta‘ám, proving His ascendancy over the superficiality of His half-brother, Mírzá Yaḥyá, who was already arising to fulfill the divisive role foretold by the Báb. The Voice accompanied Bahá’u’lláh to the mountains of Kurdistán, in Sulaymáníyyih, where He retreated for a time in the attire of a dervish. Here He astounded scholars, learned doctors and people of all degree when they discovered His presence. The beauty and power of an Arabic ode, the Qaṣídiy-i-Varqá’íyyih, so moved them they declared it surpassed the work of their most illustrious poet, Ibn-i-Fárid, though they were unaware of Bahá’u’lláh’s true station. These days of self-exile were to be His last days of comparative tranquillity. Soon He would return to Baghdád, knowing full well the Role He must play.

A soul-stirring picture comes to mind when we think of Him now, pacing the banks of the River Tigris, revealing the Hidden Words, a portion each in Persian and Arabic. It was the year 1858. He was forty-one years of age, approaching the springtide of His spiritual magnitude. The Kitáb-i-Íqán was revealed during this second Baghdád period and Shoghi Effendi declares these two works to be the “two outstanding contributions to the world’s religious literature.” The Kitáb-i-Íqán, he further states, is “foremost among the priceless treasures”⁹ of His Revelation, occupying an unequalled station in Bahá’í literature (except for the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, the Book of Laws).

The Seven Valleys and The Four Valleys were written during this period, along with a host of epistles, odes, tablets, commentaries and prayers. These were portents of what was to come, as He gathered together the reins of His Prophethood in the seven-year period that marked his return from Sulaymániyyih, until the declaration of His Mission in the garden of Riḍván, April, 1863.

In the Tablet of the Holy Mariner, written on the first day of Riḍván, 1863, before His banishment to Constantinople, He foretold the grim trials that lay ahead, a theme shortly reaffirmed in the Lawḥ-i-Hawdaj revealed as the band of exiles neared the port of Sámsún where Bahá’u’lláh caught a first sunset glimpse of the Black Sea and a Turkish streamer that awaited Him.

New Phase of Ministry

Now began a new phase of Bahá’u’lláh’s ministry, to be reflected in His Writings. During the four months in Constantinople, the Proclamations to the ecclesiastical leaders and kings began. First came a Tablet to the proud, arrogant Sultan of Turkey, ‘Abdu’l-‘Azíz; then a Tablet to ‘Ali Páshá, Grand Vizier, who stated it was as if “the King of Kings were issuing his behest to his humblest vassal ...”¹⁰

Through the subsequent five years in Adrianople, the calamities foreshadowed in the earlier Tablets developed relentlessly. Here Bahá’u’lláh suffered some of the most anguished moments of His entire life. Here He proclaimed His Mission, powerfully and inexorably to the world’s leaders. The prayers of fasting were revealed. The Tablets to Napoleon III, the Shah of Persia, the rulers of Christendom were written and the Tablet to the Kings (the Súrih-y-Múlúk). These were the letters of a divine Prisoner to those who seemingly held His life in their hands, who had the power not only to assuage His suffering but to summon the people and nations of the world to a just and lasting peace.

Shoghi Effendi’s condensed but weighty work, The Promised Day is Come, addressed to Bahá’ís of the West, summarizes many of these illustrious Tablets and analyzes the impact they were destined to have upon their recipients and upon the whole world. Hardly had they been written, when religious and political dynasties began to reveal the weaknesses within. The “sword of wisdom ... hotter than summer heat, and sharper than blades of steel”¹¹ had struck.

Shortly before leaving for His last exile to ‘Akka in Palestine in 1868, Bahá’u’lláh revealed the Tablet to the Ra’ís. From this moment, He declared, the equilibrium of the world and its people had been upset, a process that would continue until the teachings of the true Physician would be applied.

In The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh, a series of letters written by Shoghi Effendi immediately preceding World War II, we are apprised of this retributive and purifying process that involves the disintegration of

[Page 8] the old order along with the emergence of a new, divinely inspired civilization. Herein are outlined the steps that will take humanity from the nucleus of that new order as it exists today, to its fruition in a universal, golden age when the whole earth “will have yielded its noblest fruits.”

His Most Signal Act

The product of Bahá’u’lláh’s pen reached its zenith during His incarceration in ‘Akka from August 31, 1868, until His passing May 29, 1892. Additional Tablets were written to the kings, to Pope Pius IX, and to Queen Victoria whom He commends for having “entrusted the reins of counsel into the hands of the representatives of the people.”¹²

The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, His Book of Laws, revealed while residing in the House of ‘Abbúd, was the “most signal act” of His ministry, Shoghi Effendi states. The resounding theme of all of these Tablets and of the Aqdas itself is justice for all mankind. Although not yet adequately translated into English or available in its entirety, large portions of this Most Holy Book are found in the major Bahá’í works such as Gleanings and the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf and are quoted by Shoghi Effendi in his works: God Passes By, The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh, The Promised Day is Come and Advent of Divine Justice. It is also to be found in the gradual training of the believers by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in a whole new arena of spiritual understanding and social responsibility. The Aqdas was supplemented by Bahá’u’lláh with additional ordinances in such Tablets as Ishráqát, Tajallíyát, Ṭarázát, Bishárát, Tablet of the World and others, contained all, or in part, in chapter four of Bahá’í World Faith.

Bahá’u’lláh’s last major work was The Epistle to the Son of the Wolf. It was written to a bitter enemy, a person filled with hatred for Bahá’u’lláh and for the Light which He brought. Its soul-lifting theme is the overflowing mercy of God, a divine gift which even a darkened soul can reach out and grasp, if it will. In this work Bahá’u’lláh alludes to His Book of the Covenant, The Kitáb-i-‘Ahd, as the “Crimson Book,” His “Most Great Tablet.” This was written entirely in His own hand and given to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá for safekeeping shortly before His passing. In this document, the link that was to maintain the unity and authority of the Faith was forged when ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, His eldest Son, was appointed the Center of His Faith, the “delineator of its future institutions.”

These are highlights only of the voluminous Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, the outpouring of thirty-nine years of continuous Revelation. “Well is it with him who fixeth his gaze upon the Order of Bahá’u’lláh,” the Báb had declared in the Bayán. Now Bahá’u’lláh could say as His earthly life neared its close: “We ... have not fallen short of our duty to exhort men and to deliver that whereunto I was bidden by God ...”

(to be continued)

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1. Hidden Words, 21
2. Hidden Words, 3
3. Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, 1
4. Hidden Words, 4
5. Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, 21
6. God Passes By, 29
7. God Passes By, 30
8. Bahá’í World Faith, 203
9. God Passes By, 140
10. God Passes By, 160
11. Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, 55
12. The Promised Day is Come, 35

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Bahá’í Summer School at Banff, Alberta, Canada held August 16-23.

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new Hawaiian local assemblies

New Local Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Koolaupoka Oahu, Hawaii formed Riḍván 1964. Left to right, front: Mrs. Judy Blakely, Mrs. Elsie Umetsu, Miss Elena Marsella. Back: Dudley Blakeley, Howard Orr, Donald Stevens, Hugh Chapman, Max Eckels, Paul Umetsu.

First Local Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Waianae Judicial District elected April 21, 1964. Left to right, seated: William Shattuck (chairman), Mrs. Angela Russell (vice-chairman), Mrs. Dorothy Kleinschmidt (secretary), Raymond Russell (treasurer). Standing: John Knaus, Floyd Loving, Mrs. Gladys Johnson, Roy Johnson, Frank Kleinschmidt.

First Local Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Wahiawa Judicial District formed April 21, 1964. Left to right, seated: William Tift (secretary), Mrs. Betty Schuster (treasurer), Craig Quick (chairman), Gunnar Luth (vice-chairman). Standing: Carmine Maceri, Phillipo Kahuhu, Gordon Schuster, Richard Spray, Laurence Watts.

First Local Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Ewa Judicial District elected April 21, 1964. Left to right, seated: Joseph DeSena (treasurer), Miss Tyshon Clark (secretary), Mrs. Florence Kelley (chairman), Jacques Smith (vice-chairman). Standing: Commander Laurence Kelley, Donald Allred, Mrs. Susan DeSena, Duane Troxel, Philip Lemon.

Local Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Honolulu Judicial District elected April 21, 1964. (Formerly LSA of the Bahá’ís of Honolulu with jurisdiction over the entire island of Oahu). Left to right, seated: Claude Caver (treasurer), Maurice Willows (vice-chairman), James Wada, Michael Woodward (chairman). Standing: Miss Gertrude Garrida, Mrs. Lois Willows (recording secretary), Paul Thiele, Miss Eva Geary, Mrs. Elizabeth Hollinger (corresponding secretary).

[Page 10] Scenes from the Teaching Institute held in El Lago de Coatepeque, El Salvador, August 4-6. Hand of the Cause Doctor Ugo Giachery is at the left of the photograph.

Walk Five Hours to Salvador Institute

Mingling with the Bahá’ís at the teaching institute in El Salvador were some fifty guests who came to learn more about the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh and of the spirit that has caused that Faith to penetrate their land and many other countries of the world. How to teach the Faith — this was the theme, used at so many institutes and conferences throughout the Bahá’í world community, and participated in by all the attendants at this August institute at Coatepeque Lake.

‘Abdu’l-Bahá has taught that successful teaching requires devotion and self-sacrifice; but seldom is this so visibly demonstrated as at this program designed to forward El Salvador’s goals of the Nine Year Plan. In order to attend a single meeting of the day, friends from Las Lomas de San Marcelino walked five hours and then had to again resume the long journey homeward in order to attend to their jobs at a coffee farm.

“O ye believers of God! Show ye an effort ...” wrote the Master in the Tablets of the Divine Plan. “Oh, how I long that it could be made possible for me to travel through these parts, even if necessary on foot and with the utmost poverty ... and promote the divine teachings.”

Dr. Ugo Giachery, Hand of the Cause, encouraged the hearts of the friends with stories of pioneering in Africa and brought enlightenment in many areas of the Teachings. A course in Bahá’í history was conducted by Quentin Farrand. The last session witnessed the declaration of one of the guests. All of these experiences were to be counted among the special blessings of this institute so that the time to say Hasta pronto came much too soon; yet each one took with him the spiritual forces released during the meetings and the memory of the long walk of the devoted friends of Las Lomas de San Marcelino.

Students at Bahá’í Teaching Institute at Indore, India pause from classes to pose with distinguished visitor ‘Amatu’l-Bahá Rúḥíyyih Khánum during her visit last March.

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Guarani Indian Chief Enrolls in Paraguay

Paraguay has enrolled its first Indian, a chief of the Guarani tribe. Although most Indians of Paraguay avoid contact with outsiders, Rosendo Segundo carries on pleasant relationships with many other Indian chiefs, with government and military authorities and with President Alfredo Stroessner. He contacted the Faith through a chance meeting with a Bahá’í in a store while on a visit to the capital city, Asuncion, to arrange for the official documentation of land for an Indian colony. After this, he was taken to the Bahá’í Center where he became confirmed in the teachings through the efforts of auxiliary board member, Hooper Dunbar.

For Rosendo Segundo, the Faith is the answer to an old promise of his grandfather concerning a new day of unity for the Indian people. He has already introduced the teachings to two Indian chiefs who were on visits to the capital and plans to visit their remote tribes. He speaks little Spanish but is fluent in Guarani which is widespread throughout the country, a language in which Bahá’í literature has already been translated, according to the statistical information compiled by the Hands of The Cause in 1963.

The Bahá’ís of Paraguay feel that a rich harvest is ready among the Indians of their land and are hopeful that Hooper Dunbar and Rosendo Segundo might both be able to direct concentrated effort in this field.

180 Indian Guests Attend Bahá’í Conference

There was something of the spirit of an international conference at the fourth prayer powwow held near beautiful Lake Eucha in Oklahoma. There were the messages from the Universal House of Justice, from the Hands of the Cause in the Holy Land, the National Assembly and the Indian Service Committee to greet the 233 guests (180 of them Indian) who assembled on September 12 and 13 under the sponsorship of the Rogers, Arkansas Local Assembly.

The greeting from the Universal House of Justice read in part: “Such a gathering will assuredly bring forth the blessings of the Great Spirit—the Creator of the heavens and the earth.”

The Hands of the Cause conveyed loving greetings to all and the “hope that this meeting may demonstrate once again the spiritual power generated by such gatherings and shed the illumination which the Master foretold when the native inhabitants of the Americas would come in contact with and accept the Teachings of Bahá’u’lláh, the great Prophet whom God sent to unite all peoples in this day.”

Prayers were offered in many languages.

In this way a world-encircling fellowship, with love and guidance radiating from the heart of the world, the Holy Land, brought forth an atmosphere of understanding and illumination. Various aspects of the teachings were highlighted by Nancy Dobbins of Fort Worth, Brandsford Watson of Oklahoma City and Peter Terry of Santa Fe.

Falkland Islands Continues to Be Goal of United States

The Falkland Islands off the southern tip of Argentina which were among the goals opened by an American Bahá’í pioneer during the Guardian’s Ten Year Crusade, have again been assigned to this same community by the Universal House of Justice under the Nine Year Teaching Plan for the purpose of raising up a local spiritual assembly.

Pioneers Mr. and Mrs. John Leonard are the only Bahá’ís in that goal at present. They would welcome the prayers of all the believers that their efforts will achieve this objective well before 1973. The American Bahá’ís are requested to add this goal to the list of objectives assigned to them in the Riḍván message from the Universal House of Justice.

Members of the National Spiritual Assembly of Brazil for the year 1964-65, together with Hand of the Cause Jalál Kházeh. Left to right, seated: Robert Miessler, Muriel Miessler, Mr. Kházeh. Nyla Taetz, Shapoor Monadjem. Standing: Vivaldo Ramos, Osmar Mendes, Rangvald Taetz, Djalal Eghrari and Anthony Worley.

Exhibit of Bahá’í books arranged by the community of Curtiba, Brazil in the neighboring city of Ponta Grossa, the goal city of the Curtiba Bahá’ís. The exhibit was viewed by hundreds of passers-by, several of whom expressed their desire to know more about the Faith.

[Page 12] LEFT: Dinner time at the Fifth Annual Bolivian Congress held in Oruro in June. RIGHT: Between sessions all gather for photo of the Congress.

Complete Analysis of Nine Year Plan Published

The complete Analysis of the Nine Year International Teaching Plan has just been published by the Publishing Trust of the United States at the request of the Universal House of Justice. This work, prepared by the Universal House of Justice, details each portion of this august Plan, categorizing it in a most convenient form. The last section carries a chart covering all of the national spiritual assemblies (listed by continents) showing statistics on centers and groups, spiritual assemblies and incorporated assemblies for 1964 and again listing the goals for 1973. The various territories and island groups under each national assembly are also listed.

Every Bahá’í will wish to obtain a copy of this work in order to be informed of the overall program of the Faith throughout the world and to try to recognize his own privileges and responsibilities in respect to it. Believers of more than ten years will recall Shoghi Effendi’s book that charted our part as we began the awesome Ten Year Crusade in 1953. As various believers answered the call of God to fulfill their own spiritual destiny, one by one the goals were achieved and we began to read of unbelievable victories in BAHÁ’Í NEWS coming from all parts of the globe, victories that gladdened the heart of our beloved Shoghi Effendi even as the burdens increasingly fell upon him.

Now, in this decade, each Bahá’í has a similar opportunity — to serve Bahá’u’lláh under the direction of our first Universal House of Justice, to show our loyalty, our loving obedience to that majestic institution raised up in the hundredth anniversary of the declaration of the Divine Author of the institution itself.

In the current message from the Universal House of Justice, we read of the request for universal participation and of the “overflowing bounties of Bahá’u’lláh which are diffused through His divinely-ordained order.” “... In addition to teaching every believer can pray.” “... fight their own spiritual battles and contribute to the Fund.”

This is the Plan and each has his measure of responsibility toward its success, to blend his deeds, his prayers and his funds into the universal participation of the Bahá’í World Community.

The Universal House of Justice has also made available an Adenda to the Statistical Information published by the Hands of the Cause in the Holy Land to cover the period of Riḍván 1964. For information on ordering, please refer to the Bahá’í Publishing section on the last page.

Bolivian Congress Reported in Press and Radio

Bolivian Bahá’ís gathered from the cities, villages and the country to hold their Fifth National Congress in Oruro in the month of June. This ancient city of the Andes mountains, founded in 1604, stands at an altitude of 12,119 feet in the heart of the mining districts. Seventy-four Bahá’ís came together there to

Bahá’í exhibit at the Canadian National Exhibition.

[Page 13] discuss ways and means of implementing their goals of the Nine Year Plan. The economic problems that exist and the special needs that teaching work takes on in this land were thoroughly studied and consulted upon, so that the first year of endeavor might prove fruitful.

El Patria, a daily newspaper of Bolivia, gave two articles to the Faith during the period of the Congress. A twenty minute radio audition was also held.

Most promising of all were the strong, new steps taken by the youth of Bolivia to offer their services wholeheartedly to the Cause of God. They came from many parts of the country to hold their own meetings and to set plans for their first Youth Congress in January of 1965 in Cochabamba. This gave new inspiration and courage to all of the faithful friends who are striving to bring the Message to their countrymen.

BAHA'I SUMMER YOUTH PROJECTS II

GREENVILLE, South Carolina: Youth Teachers and Singers.

In the South there is a rapid social evolution which focusses upon the emergent Negro minority. It is a place of bright hope for Bahá’í progress through interracial teaching and living. Therefore a team of six youth was sent to Greenville, S.C. to undertake, under the guidance of the local spiritual assembly, a six weeks combined program of tutorial assistance to Negro students, of rural Bahá’í teaching, and of Bahá’í human rights activities. Karl Borden, Edson Hockenbury, Marian Parmelee, Douglas Ruhe, Patsy Sims, and later Richard Thomas composed the newcomers. Local youth participated intensively: Eddie Donald, Curtis Butler, the Abercrombies, William Smith, Steven Moore, and others. It was an energetic team addicted to group singing, whose ambitious objective was mass conversion.

Service: Fifty-five Negro students of primary and secondary school age had applied for transfer to heretofore all-white schools. Their tutoring program, designed to prepare them for the stiffer requirements of the new schools, was staffed by four of the youth; a fifth taught art at the Y.M.C.A. Easy and friendly contact by the tutors with the students and their parents prepared them for a more integrated life. Culminating the six weeks program, a parent-teacher banquet was sponsored at a local church, while a picnic for the students was conducted by the Bahá’í teachers.

Teaching and Human Rights: Innumerable fireside discussions of collegiate Bahá’í stamp were carried out with the Greenville contacts, but particularly during the last three weeks with rural contacts in the county surrounding Greenville, in nearby Piedmont and Pendleton. Key to the successful contact with the Negroes was the interracial group singing, music which bridged the gulfs of culture and race, and made true human contact possible.

Two Bahá’í projects were possible: petitioning for the opening of a public swimming pool serving the Negro community, and interracial public facilities visits following the signing of the civil rights bill. The Greenforest Public Swimming Pool had been closed by authorities to prevent integration. More than a thousand children frequenting the pool were thus deprived of this needed recreation. In order to serve the Negro community surrounding the pool, door-to-door petitioning was conducted, ultimately to collect 800 names. The petition was then heard before the Greenville City Council after cooperative planning for presentation.

Visits to churches, to the Piedmont community center, to public parks and stores and restaurants demonstrated Bahá’í solidarity and provided abundant teaching opportunities.

Side ventures included attendance at the Southeastern Bahá’í Summer School, near Asheville, N.C., a trip to Greensboro, N.C. for a discussion meeting, and a journey to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference training camp near Savannah, Ga.

The six weeks were rich in experience, in the planting of Bahá’í seeds, in the public recognition of the unequivocal Bahá’í position on the oneness of mankind, in new declarations (seven so far), and in the opportunities to serve the community and its neediest citizens.

GALLUP, New Mexico, and PHOENIX, Arizona: Three Girls of Good Will.

The Southwest is dry, beautiful, and rich in Bahá’í opportunities through the communities’ contacts with the Indians and Spanish-Americans. Ouida Coley, Nancy Marlowe and Sharon Wade, because of their training in Spanish, were assigned to serve Gallup, N.M. and Phoenix, Ariz. in exploratory programs of service and teaching.

At Gallup in two periods of two weeks each the girls undertook to canvass the town to inform about the Cause, and helped also to recruit students for a free art class conducted at the Bahá’í Center by Gordon Laite, distinguished Bahá’í artist. They worked with the juvenile probation officer, Mr. Maldonado, accompanying him on his rounds and contacting the Indian parents. Teaching at discussion meetings, attending all Bahá’í community events, the girls spent weekends at Bread Springs, Toadlena, Chinle, Teec Nos Pos and Klagetoh on the Navajo Reservation, wholeheartedly entering into Indian life with friendly and beautiful spirit. At the famed Inter-Tribal Ceremonial

Bahá’í Children’s School held recently in Sandaken, Malaysia.

[Page 14] in Gallup they were able to staff the Bahá’í booth full time, there to make contacts for the Faith.

In Phoenix tutoring of high school dropouts and work in the Golden Gate Settlement House was combined with Bahá’í discussion meetings both in the city and in nearby Tempe.

The way of life of the Indians was ‎facinating fascinating‎ in its challenge to familiar Bahá’í teaching methods. Along with the extensive travel experiences to and from the Southwest, to the Zuni Reservation and to the Southern California Bahá’í Summer School (for Nancy), there was a rich and mutually inspiring fellowship with the Bahá’ís of the two communities.

NILES, Michigan-SOUTH BEND, Indiana and MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md.: Two Experimental Community Projects.

An interracial team of two young men, James Sims and Curtis Butler, was assigned to active Michigan-Indiana Bahá’í sister communities to expand work long underway. In extensive door-to-door surveys regarding knowledge of the Faith, with dissemination of literature, in talks with the NAACP, community clubs, church groups, and a newspaper interview the youth sought to foster wider knowledge of the Faith under the guidance of the local assembly and Mr. Donald Streets, youth adviser. Bahá’í discussion groups were sparked by the youth and the general level of the information on the Faith in the non-Bahá’í community perhaps was significantly raised during the four weeks of the effort.

In Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland, a group of local youth, Leslie Mitrotti, Allan, Kathy and Bonnie Kern, Steven Coley, Gwynne and Eileen Lourie, were bolstered by Jim Sims and Norman Hodge. With Dr. Irvin Lourie as youth adviser, the local spiritual assembly developed a volunteer service at a recreation center in the Negro section of Rockville with the assistance of Bahá’í Percy Holstein, offering a variety of activities for the children and youth: arts and crafts, singing, games, etc. Outings into Washington, tutoring for those having school difficulties, and a community picnic - campfire sponsored by the entire Bahá’í community and attended by about 150 persons were a direct contrast with the hostility, gunfire, and church-burning which had been the immediate antecedents of the Bahá’í activities.

NASHUA, HUDSON, PORTSMOUTH, N.H., and ELIOT, Maine: Youth Initiative at Home.

Upon their return from Davison Bahá’í School, Sandie and Grant Rohde, Mary and Dorothy Tucker with David Schlesinger actively set about discovering opportunities for service, Bahá’í teaching and human rights projects in their own back yard. Electing to serve the aged in nursing homes of Nashua and Hudson, regularly visiting the elderly to bring them flowers, prayer-books, and friendship; sparking fireside meetings; actively participating with the NAACP; and collaborating with the youth throughout New England — a year-round effort hopefully has begun.

Joining with the youth working at the Green Acre Bahá’í Institute: Gloria and Daniel Reimer, Alicia and Claudia Waite, Jacqueline Ballou and others, the Nashua-Hudson youth participated in a door-to-door information survey undertaken in Portsmouth, N.H. in connection with a weekend institute of the school. At the school itself, the youth were vibrantly active and intensely

Some of those attending the Northwest Children’s Summer School held at Astoria, Oregon, August 19-25.

[Page 15] participant in every program, bringing a spirit of energetic resolution which helped to bring many declarations of faith.

VALEDICTORY.

With the conclusion of the projects, and the return home or to school of almost all of the youth (some few remained at their cities of assignment), a summary and analysis is being prepared by the youth projects secretary, Mrs. Jane McCants, for the guidance of communities who subsequently may wish to utilize the unrivalled spirit and initiative of the youth. By the grace of God there were no accidents and no incidents of any gravity, despite the miles travelled, the youth-weeks spent, the billions of words exchanged, the prodigious output of Bahá’í energy expended, and the potentials for difficulty in the many kinetic situations encountered. The youth were vastly stimulated. The host communities have learned better how to offer guidance for utilization of the youthpower. The summer has been a time of live experience for all involved. Planning for new projects with better management of details will begin soon for the summer of 1965.

— by David S. Ruhe

FROGMORE WINTER INSTITUTE

Thursday, Dec. 31 (first class at 1:30 p.m.)
until Sunday noon, Jan. 3

Penn Community Center, Frogmore, South Carolina
4 days: $16.00 for adults; $11.00 for
children 2 to 12 years of age

Send $3.00 for each reservation by Dec. 18th to:

Miss Yvonne Harrop, Registrar

P.O. Box 3614

Augusta, Georgia 30904

This is more than a traditional winter school — it is a teaching institute devoted to enrollments during the institute, expansion of the Faith in the southeastern area, and specifically oriented to the goals of the Nine Year Plan in the South. All are encouraged to foster the attendance of friends not yet enrolled.

Some of over sixty people attending the eighth Japan Summer School August 8-9. Hand of the Cause Agnes Alexander holds the Greatest Name.

Those attending 1964 National Convention of Sweden.

NEWS BRIEFS

A panel discussion on July 19 on the results of current efforts toward racial integration was the first major public teaching effort sponsored by the newly formed Local Spiritual Assembly of Cedar Falls, Iowa. Fifty-eight adults and twenty children, half of whom were Bahá’ís, attended and many visitors participated in consultation on what constructive action could be taken by individuals and the groups they belong to in accelerating this movement.

The panel members were: the director of the Lutheran Student Center of the State College of Iowa, a teacher from Columbus High School in Waterloo, and Mr. Sam Jackson (Bahá’í) from Elmhurst, Illinois. A picnic supper and a swim party for the children followed the program.

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Mrs. Betty S. Feldman, a member of the Bahá’í Community of Baltimore, Maryland, was able to give the Bahá’í message to approximately 300 Negroes when she was invited to participate in the dedication of a new Negro Baptist Church. Recently Mrs. Feldman was able to arrange through proper official channels to make Bahá’í books available to prisoners in the Maryland Penitentiary where she is also assisting in the rehabilitation of five Negroes by helping them to record for use in the chapel original songs which they have composed.

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In April, as a service to the community and to attract attention to the Faith, the Bahá’ís of Clayton, Missouri, sponsored a very successful show of art by amateur artists in a leading department store. The contestants who entered their works competed for the privilege of having them shown. 103 artists submitted 215 works from among which 40 were chosen. Three small prizes were offered in each of three categories — oil, water color, and graphic arts. Approximately 2,500 people saw the display, many of whom not only asked questions of the Bahá’í in constant attendance, but also asked for literature and showed surprise that this service was offered by the Bahá’í community without the hope of “getting anything in return.”

[Page 16] Robert W. Sparks, Jr., chairman of the Bellaire, Texas, Bahá’í group, gave a talk for a comparative religion study class at Congregation Brith Shalom on Friday evening June 19. The title of the talk was “Basic Facts of the Bahá’í World Faith.” Mr. Sparks first showed some slides of the World Center in Haifa then explained the history and goals of the Bahá’í Faith. He then stated that Bahá’ís seek to establish world unity through individual application of moral laws, not through politics.

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The Local Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Niagara Falls, New York, commemorated the 1912 visit of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to Niagara Falls with a program at the Hotel Niagara on Sunday, September 13. The program began with a luncheon at 12:30 which was attended by seventy-three adults and six children. The formal part of the program began at 3:00 p.m. and began with a discussion of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s identity and station, personality and influence. This was followed by the reading of excerpts from his writings. At 4:00 p.m. fifty of those who attended walked to the Falls.

The event received excellent publicity in the local newspaper.

Baha’i Publishing Trust

Analysis of the Nine Year International Teaching Plan of the Bahá’í Faith, 1964-1973. By the Universal House of Justice. This is the complete analysis of the Nine Year Plan with all of the goals delineated. Each goal is listed, such as Temples to be constructed, National Spiritual Assemblies to be established, etc., with each continent and the National Assemblies within them responsible for the various accomplishments of the Plan. The last section of the book has a tabulated chart which shows Assemblies, Groups, Centers and Incorporated Assemblies as of 1964 listed by continents and then by National Assemblies, along with their inclusive territories and island groups, followed by the goals for 1973.

Size 9x6, with soft grey, paper cover printed in red-rust.

Material entitled Addenda to Statistical Information Published by the Hands of the Cause in the Holy Land, Riḍván 1963 has also been compiled by the Universal House of Justice. This separate, eight page, self-cover booklet designed to be inserted in the cover pocket of the Statistical Information on the Faith, 1844 to 1963, published April 1963. It brings the statistics up to date with the beginning of the New Nine Year Plan.

Copies of the two above titles will be mailed as one set.

Per set (one copy each)	$1.00
25 sets	$20.00
100 sets	$75.00

Growing List of City School Systems Recognize Bahá’í Holy Days

The local Spiritual Assembly of Eugene, Oregon, reported on August 25 that the Superintendent of Schools for District No. 4 of the Eugene area has granted permission to the schools to excuse Bahá’í children from attendance on Bahá’í Holy Days.

The Chicago Assembly also reports that on its own initiative the Office of the Superintendent of Schools for that city has asked for a list of Bahá’í Holy Days to be included in the school calendar along with the holy days of other religions to be observed by children of those faiths.

Calendar of Events

FEASTS

November 4—Qudrat (Power)

November 23—Qawl (Speech)

HOLY DAYS

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

November 20-22

U.S. STATE CONVENTIONS

December 6

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