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BAHÁ’Í

NEWS

No. 185

JULY, 1946

YEAR 103

BAHA’I ERA

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“With Absolute Detachment”

By the righteousness of God! Whoso openeth his lips in this Day and maketh mention of the name of his Lord, the hosts of Divine inspiration shall descend upon him from the heaven of My name, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise. On him shall also descend the Concourse on high, each bearing aloft a chalice of pure light. Thus hath it been fore-ordained in the realm of God’s Revelation, by the behest of Him Who is the All-Glorious, the Most Powerful.

There lay concealed within the Holy Veil, and prepared for the service of God, a company of His chosen ones who shall be manifested unto men, who shall aid His Cause, who shall be afraid of no one, though the entire human race rise up and war against them. These are the ones who, before the gaze of the dwellers on earth and the denizens of heaven, shall arise and, shouting aloud, acclaim the name of the Almighty, and summon the children of men to the path of God, the All-Glorious, the All-Praised. Walk thou in their way, and let no one dismay thee. Be of them whom the tumult of the world, however much it may agitate them in the path of their Creator, can never sadden, whose purpose the blame of the blamer will never defeat.

BAHÁ’U’LLÁH

Messages from the Guardian

New Enterprises

Obstacles, however formidable, should be determinedly surmounted, every opportunity seized, rank and file of believers continually stimulated and reminded of their responsibilities and directed into channels of active service. No time to lose, great sacrifices demanded, unity, audacity and stern resolution essential. Devout prayers offered at Shrines.

SHOGHI

From cablegram received May 5, 1945:

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Greatly welcome initial evidences of magnificent responses of Assembly to new Plan, Invoking divine assistance for vigorous, wise, sustained prosecution of manifold activities to be initiated in North America, Latin America and European continent.

SHOGHI

Cablegram received May 9, 1946:

(This message came in response to the cablegram sent to the Guardian by the National Spiritual Assembly from its meeting May 5, 1946, following the Convention, as follows: “You have disclosed to American Bahá’ís the glorious path of faith leading to world spread of Bahá’u’lláh’s Message and ascendency of the authority and dominion of His Divine Revelation. Awed but resolute the Assembly has pondered the four objectives of Seven Year Plan, formulated measures, established necessary agencies and adopted annual budget of $250,000 sanctified by your contribution. Invoking divine aid for purification of the souls and attainment of the spiritual worthiness requisite to success of America’s mission under mandate conferred by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.”)

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Opening phase of spiritual conquest of the old world under divinely conceived Plan must be speedily and befittingly inaugurated. Feel necessity prompt dispatch of nine competent pioneers to as many countries as feasible charged to initiate systematic teaching work, commence settlement and promote dissemination of literature. Urge establishment of auxiliary office in Geneva as adjunct to International Bureau equipped with facilities to foster development of assemblies in countries falling within the scope of Plan. Recommend European Teaching Committee undertake without delay measures aiming at close collaboration of British Publishing Trust and Publishing Committee of German National Assembly. Advise include Duchy of Luxembourg in Low Countries and enlarge range of Plan through addition of Switzerland. Owing to considerable sum already accumulated in Ṭihrán I prefer to divert sum for International Relief not yet forwarded to Persia, as well as Assembly’s annual contribution to World Center, to funds earmarked for all-important far-flung European teaching and publication activities. The challenge offered by virgin fields of Europe outweighs momentous character of task already confronting American Bahá’í Community in the Americas. Vast distances sundering the old and new world are visibly, providentially contracting, enabling the ambassadors of Bahá’u’lláh’s new World Order swiftly to discharge their apostolic mission through the continent destined to be stepping-stone to still vaster enterprises associated with future stages of divinely impelled, ever unfolding, world-encircling Plan.

SHOGHI

Cablegram received June 5, 1946:

Review of Magazine Articles

The following letter was written by the Guardian through his secretary, April 13, 1946:

“In the February Bahá’í News, page 3, it mentions that magazine articles about the Cause ‘written by individual believers as their personal understanding of the teachings’ ... need not be reviewed officially. He feels this is unwise in view of the Master’s own instructions that articles about the Cause should not be published by individuals without proper approval of some responsible body.

“The Guardian says the local Assemblies can pass upon such articles; it is not necessary to refer them to a national committee.

“So often persons can be carried away by their enthusiasm and express something detrimental to the Faith. Therefore they must either refer

[Page 2] their articles to their local Spiritual Assembly or the National Reviewing Committee.”

In connection with this direction, the National Assembly has voted to publish the communication from the Guardian and advise the believers that magazine articles are henceforth to be reviewed by local assemblies where the author is member of an organized community, otherwise the article is to be submitted directly to the National Reviewing Committee in the usual way. (The local assembly acting in each case is determined by the residence of the writer, not the location of the magazine).

National Spiritual Assembly

Who Can Assist?

Beloved Friends:

Before this issue of BAHÁ’Í NEWS reaches you, each member of the Bahá’í Community of North America will have received an individual copy of the bulletin prepared by the National Assembly on the subject of the new Seven Year Plan. Consideration of the objectives of the Plan and the channels through which effort is to be directed has become, and will long remain, our first and most imperative concern.

The new Seven Year Plan comes to us as guidance, charged with authority and power, not as mere wish and hope unable to rise above the destructive pressure of human affairs. To be a Bahá’í is to have capacity to recognize the Guardian’s plans as guidance and to feel the power offered to the spirit of every believer who arises to serve. This arena of service is truly a divine gift to us above the dominion of kings and states, for in that arena we dwell in the light of the Most Great Peace, partake of the food of inspiration, and work with the tools of the most effective force. We build, while others seek to emerge from the wreckage of the past. Therefore Bahá’ís are free of fear and spared the tragedy of frustration. We need not be rich, superior in health or intelligence, or have any other human advantage. With faith the lowliest can achieve success in the Kingdom, where the law of existence is inspiration by the Holy Spirit and not struggle and competition.

The new Plan has a tremendous range of possibility. From time to time the Assembly wishes to give special emphasis to some one particular feature, in its effort to stimulate the hearts and give direction to the efforts.

At the outset of the Plan, therefore, the Assembly stresses the continuous and vital need of pioneers within the United States and Canada. This community of North America is the storehouse of that power on which the Divine Plan of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá depends for its consummation from stage to stage. It is not for all of us to serve in Latin America or in Europe, however we might long to do so. But there are many more able to arise as settlers here than can volunteer to work in the foreign field.

In this issue of BAHÁ’Í NEWS the Assembly lists sixty local groups having five or more believers and therefore capable of development to local Assembly status within two or three years. (See page 11.)

May each believer ponder this list of cities, towns and villages. Who can arrange his or affairs so as to offer to the National Teaching Committee to assist in this great and fundamental work? The Cause is a unit. Those who serve in the formation of a large number of new Assemblies are in reality contributing to the work in Central and South America and the countries of Europe.

The believers in these various groups likewise have each one a glorious mission to teach the Cause and confirm new believers, thus lessening the immensity of the task. New Bahá’ís, and Bahá’í settlers, to a total number of over one hundred and fifty are urgently required. What can we do to assist the National and Regional Teaching Committees in their weighty and responsible task?

NATIONAL SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY

The Guardian Appeals for Thirty New Local Assemblies

Appeal National Teaching Committee unitedly arise play notable part in stupendous exertions now being made by Bahá’í communities throughout Americas in furtherance of second Seven Year Plan. Plead focus attention enable thirty groups having six or more members speedily attain Assembly status. Devoutly praying number of Assemblies functioning in North America will reach one hundred and seventy-five ere expiry of second year of second stage of Divine Plan. Attainment of this immediate objective will challenge and galvanize all other agencies functioning in Latin America and European continent to follow the superb example set for sister committees laboring at the heart of the mother community of the Western hemisphere.

SHOGHI

Cablegram received June 13, 1946.

Calendar

Anniversary: The Martyrdom of the Báb, July 9. To be celebrated at about the hour of noon.

Nineteen Day Feasts: Words, July 13; Perfection, August 1; Names, August 20.

Summer School Sessions: As announced by each School Committee.

Meeting of the National Spiritual Assembly: July 4, 5, 6, 7; August 30, 31, September 1, 2.

Enrollments

Enrollments of new believers have been reported by local assemblies as follows:

New York, three and one youth; Chicago, two; Laramie, one; Elmhurst, one; Maywood, one; Fort Wayne, one; Los Angeles, two; Lima, one: Regina, one; Baltimore, two; St. Paul, one; Moncton, one; Anchorage, one youth; Muskegon, three; San Juan, two; Boise, one; Cloverdale Township (Geyserville), one; Richmond Highlands, one; Washington, D. C., one; Berkeley, one; New Orleans, one. Total 28 and 2 youths.

Enrollments reported through Regional Teaching Committees; — for April, 5; for May, 6.

Credentials for Traveling Bahá’ís and Appeals for Financial Help

Once more it has become necessary to remind the American believers that every traveling Bahá’í is expected to carry credentials and need not be recognized as a believer if credentials are lacking. It is also pointed out that, whether or not a visitor has Bahá’í credentials, any request for loans and financial assistance should be decided by consultation of the local assembly rather than by any individual believer. From time to time the National Assembly learns of cases where believers

[Page 3] have been deceived and their generosity abused by persons who in some cases claim falsely to be Bahá’ís and in other cases are Bahá’ís whose stated need for funds should be subjected to scrutiny.

For example, a warning has been received from the Fort Wayne Assembly concerning a Mr. Williams who has used the name Bahá’í in solicitation of funds; and instances have been reported from Providence and Boston recently of an enrolled believer misreporting his circumstances to the friends.

“Unnecessary Administrative Details”

Immediately after the Convention the Guardian cabled the National Spiritual Assembly to point out the “overwhelming responsibility” resting upon its members in connection with the new Seven Year Plan. He declared: “Feel necessity eliminate unnecessary administrative details enabling Assembly members to focus their attention at sessions on the diverse imperative requirements of the plan.”

This calls for an immediate and complete readjustment of the agenda of NSA meetings, so that each meeting can be devoted to prayerful meditation and action on those matters which are really essential to the progress of the great international campaign.

The National Spiritual Assembly cannot accomplish this result without the conscious and hearty cooperation of the entire American Bahá’í Community. “Unnecessary administrative details” are for the most part laid upon the NSA by individual believers, local assemblies and committees who fail to carry their full measure of responsibility in some activity or relationship and therefore feel obliged to ask the NSA to take over and solve the problem or finish the task.

The Guardian is not altering the nature of the administrative order. What he seeks is to free its highest level of administrative authority in America of details which others can and should assume, so that the particular contribution of that level can be rendered through clarity of vision, preservation of balance and encouragement and direction of Bahá’í affairs as a whole.

Prayerful consideration is besought, by all the believers, of this crucial matter. A little more maturity,

National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada, elected April 28, 1946. Left to right: Mr. William Kenneth Christian, Mrs. Amelia Collins, Miss Edna True, Mr. Horace Holley, Mr. Paul Haney, Mr. Philip Sprague, Mrs. Dorothy Baker, Miss Elsie Austin, Mr. George Latimer.

a little more thoughtfulness, a little more conscientious effort on the part of the communities and assemblies, will do more than anything to place the National Spiritual Assembly in a true relationship with the Guardian and with the objectives of the plan which Bahá’u’lláh has formulated through His one chosen representative on earth today.

NATIONAL SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY

Radio Script Writing

The Faith has urgent need of believers trained in the preparation as well as delivery of radio scripts. This is a new literary technic, combining dramatic and informative elements in a way different from that of the popular and effective public speaker or influential author of books and essays.

The National Assembly appeals to the friends to make use of whatever facilities are available to them in colleges and universities, or at Bahá’í Summer Schools, for training in the technic of radio script writing.

The published list of committees includes one for Radio Script Review, and scripts are to be submitted to that committee for approval for national use.

The Bahá’í School Committees are likewise requested to include in their courses as soon as possible programs in script writing to be conducted by professionals, and to submit projects with estimates of cost for approval by the National Assembly.

National Committees

North American Teaching

The Guardian’s message to the Annual Convention gives the first of the four objectives of the second Seven Year Plan as “The consolidation of victories already won,” the “multiplication of Bahá’í centers,” and a “bolder proclamation of the Faith to the masses.” The accomplishment of this first objective is our immediate task and each believer can aid in its achievement by holding fireside meetings through settlement in areas needing assistance, and by supporting the local teaching effort materially and spiritually through your attendance at public meetings and your contributions to the fund.

During the Convention period nine believers volunteered to settle in communities where reinforcement is

[Page 4] needed to hold the assembly status, and plans are underway already for the settlement of three of these volunteers. The Louisville, Ky., community has been strengthened through the settlement of Miss Frances Jones, formerly a pioneer in Sioux Falls, SD., and late in June Mrs. Kathryn Frankland, a former pioneer in Albuquerque, Little Rock and Houston, will further reinforce this community. Miss Josie Pinson of Charleston, S.C., is making arrangements to move to Greenville, S.C., in August to help in the consolidation of that community, and Mrs. Annie Romer, a former pioneer in Halifax, N.S., after a rest in the Temple area, will settle there also. Arrangements are also under way to provide reinforcements to other communities now needing assistance to hold assembly status, but the demand continues to exceed the supply of settlers available for this type of teaching service.

An appeal from the NTC for believers to aid with the teaching work in the small, new assemblies as part of their Convention trip, won response from several teachers and provided very stimulating help. In this way also the spirit of the Convention was brought to these small communities and news was shared with them of recent activities throughout the world.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reed Bishop of Pasadena, Calif., covered a circuit through Western Canada en route home, which included Winnipeg, Regina, Edmonton, Calgary, Vernon, West Vancouver, Victoria, and Vancouver. The details of this itinerary will no doubt be reported later by the new Canadian National Teaching Committee when all the reports are available.

Mr. Harlan Ober of Beverly, Mass. stopped over at Syracuse, N.Y., and at Cleveland, O., where a meeting was arranged at the home of Katherine Cole with 15 present.

Mrs. Orcella Rexford of Hollywood, Calif., visited many centers in the Temple area, following the Convention, in Wisconsin and Minnesota whence she went west to Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma and Portland.

Mrs. Helen Robinson of Anchorage, Alaska, is spending May and June on a circuit in Montana—her former home—and in Idaho, where she has many friends. Mrs. Robinson writes that she has “had grand firesides in Winnett, Billings, Helena, Butte, and Great Falls, Montana ... Will leave for Boise in a few days, Portland, Tacoma and then Seattle.” She comments: “The timing, the assistance, since leaving Alaska has been the greatest experience of my life. Somehow since being in the Temple I’m not afraid or timid any longer.”

Mrs. Frances Wells also of Anchorage, Alaska, is spending a month vacationing at Big Bear, Calif., and helping with teaching work. Miss Honor Kempton also plans to visit along the Pacific coast before returning to Anchorage. The RTC for Alaska requests teachers to visit that region, and it is hoped that if any believers plan a vacation to Alaska, they will advise the NTC, so that suggestions can be made in working out an itinerary.

Mrs. Mamie Seto of San Francisco, Calif., is visiting Salt Lake City, Boise, and Laramie, en route to the Louhelen Bahá’í School in June, and Mrs. Sara E. Witt of Santa Monica, Calif., is planning stop-overs in Oklahoma City, Little Rock, Memphis, St. Louis and Toledo en route to the Green Acre Bahá’í School.

Posters on the Brooklyn Academy of Music one of which announces the public meeting given during the national campaign, March 25, 1946

Mrs. Beulah Proctor, former pioneer in Halifax and Moncton, is visiting her sister-in-law in Vancouver, and assisting the teaching efforts there during the summer; and Mrs. Clair Gillespie, former pioneer of Laramie, Wyo., has moved to Cheyenne, Wyo., for the summer and is making many contacts for the Faith there; and Duncan McAlear of Boston, recently returned from over-seas, is assisting with teaching circuits in New England.

Teaching help has been provided several of the key cities to follow up the interest aroused through the big public meetings of the national campaign. In May Mr. Robert Durr of Birmingham, Ala., visited New Orleans, La., and Miss Pari Zia-Walrath of Chicago, native of Shíráz, Persia, spoke in Detroit to an audience of about 75 persons on the anniversary of the Declaration of the Báb on May 22nd. A dinner preceding the meeting was attended by about 35 of the local believers. Mrs. Margarite Ullrich of Oak Park, Ill., plans to visit Atlanta, Ga., in June to help with the follow-up work there and arrangements are being made for a circuit to provide her help to other communities in the region.

Other circuits made by visiting teachers include a visit to Birmingham, Alabama, by Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Blum early in April, when two meetings were held,—one in the afternoon at which Mrs. Blum spoke on a “World Community” and another in the evening at the Tutwiler Hotel where Mr. Blum discussed “The Meaning of Brotherhood.” Mrs. Verna Inglis, secretary of the Birmingham LSA, reports that “Besides those interested in the Cause, who regularly attend, there were five there who had never heard of the Faith in any way ...”

Miss Margaret Swengel, a graduate student at the University of Illinois, spent her spring vacation on a teaching trip which included visits to St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Duluth. Public meetings, firesides, and teas were planned to utilize every moment of her time in these centers, and many fine contacts with youth organizations were made; the most outstanding of these was a meeting with 50 members of the Cosmopolitan Club of the University of Minnesota at which Miss Swengel spoke on “A Blue Print for Society.” Miss Swengel reports that there was

[Page 5] a good representation of foreign students in the audience.”

The week-end of May 24th Mr. John Robarts, the newly appointed chairman of the new Canadian National Teaching Committee, made a flying trip to the Maritimes and spent a day in each of the communities there. Details of this trip will no doubt be given in a forthcoming issue by the new Committee.

Conferences in many regions have brought to the isolated believers, groups and communities, reports of the Convention activities to inspire and stimulate participation in the achievement of the goals of the new Plan.

Temple Guides

For the Months of January, February, March and April, 1946.

Records of previous years continue to be surpassed each month by the number of visitors to the Temple. Records for these four months for the years 1945 and 1946 are as follows:

Month	1946	1945
January	507	252
February	1190	445
March	1585	897
April	2174	1680

The Temple was opened for daily tours this year on April 1st instead of May 1st, which in previous years was the opening date. During January, February and March tours were conducted on Sunday only.

In January, 1946, visitors came from 26 states, the District of Columbia, 1 province of Canada, and Mexico, Bolivia, Norway, France, Switzerland, and Palestine.

In February, 1946, they came from 31 states, the District of Columbia, 1 province of Canada, and Mexico, ‎Nicaraugua Nicaragua‎, Brazil, El Salvador, and Palestine.

In March they came from 37 states, the District of Columbia, 2 provinces of Canada, and Mexico, Trinidad, England, China, India, and Sweden.

In April they came from 39 states, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, 2 provinces of Canada, and China, France, England, and Sweden.

The total number of visitors guided through the Temple from June, 1932, when guiding began, through April, 1946, was 216,386.

Many have answered our invitation to come to Wilmette to help in the Guide Work during vacation months. They have been sent study courses and are preparing themselves for this work. Mrs. Terah Smith of Atlanta stayed over for one week after the convention to serve in this way.

The increasing importance of guide work in the minds of the guides themselves is shown by the following excerpt:

“Dear—, I wonder sometimes if you people who live near the Temple appreciate the wonderful privilege you have always so near you! I know some of you do, but all of you should. It is the greatest privilege in the whole world today. That is literal. There is no other spot on the face of the entire globe where so much service may be rendered as you blessed souls have right at your door.

“You know, in ancient days, those who served at the holy places were specially blessed and only those who were pure and without flaw were permitted to render such service. You remember that, at long periods of history, only virgins were allowed to serve, since virgins typified purity. And always it has been to those rare souls whose dedication and love of God surpassed everything else that service at the Temple was permitted. It has been a high office that was striven for, sometimes for years, and that always was performed with deep love and joy. It is, and always has been, the closest a servant of God may come to the realization of that precious nearness. It is the greatest outward symbol of an inner devotion.

“And, of course, in this Day it is even more precious than at any other time in the past. For now, here at this Temple, we may not only offer up a continual prayer of gratitude, thanksgiving and worship, as has always been done, but we have the inestimable privilege of proclaiming to dozens and sometimes hundreds of people a day, the wonderful Truth of this Day and Age we, as Bahá’ís, are ushering in. The wonder of that is an amazement to me.

“Day after day, as I’ve guided there at the Temple, I’ve seen people come in who were discouraged, bewildered, sometimes even desperate with the problems, that, to them, had no solution, and, time after time, I’ve watched their eyes clear and then grow blazing bright as they realized that, through the Bahá’í Revelation, there was a Plan, there was hope, there was the wonderful certainty of a glorious future wherein the age-old promise of God to man would be fulfilled. And we, as guides at the Temple, have this inestimable privilege, this glorious opportunity, of opening the doors of hope and new spiritual life to these people.

“And so many people! this coming year there will be thousands more than we had last year—just as last year there were thousands more than the years before. It is the greatest teaching field there is in the whole world. Whereas the average pioneer works months before a single soul is touched, here at the Temple we are able to set aflame dozens of people each day. It is an amazing, astonishing thing to watch. And the fact that we are allowed to reach these souls, that we are privileged to hold the Divine match that sets them aflame, is a bounty that should fill our hearts to bursting with gratitude.

“You remember in the ‘Gleanings’ Bahá’u’lláh mentions the fact that all the holy ones of the past would give all they possessed to be

Exhibit at Los Angeles Public Meeting, March 1946, showing box with automatic colored slide display. The 22 flags indicate Bahá’í assemblies around the world.

[Page 6] alive for one instant in the great Day. And when I guide in the Temple I can easily realize why. The glory of proclaiming this Day—the thrilling joy of announcing to the world that, at long last, the promise of all ages is being fulfilled, is certainly a privilege that has never, in any era, been experienced before. And it is our privilege.

“In the mystery and bounty of God, we are being permitted to serve Him in this magnificent and wonderful way. And I think we should pray constantly, from the depths of our hearts that we may attain to a station that is worthy of such a privilege—that, like the servitors in the temples of old, we may always strive toward that degree of selfless service and of complete devotion and dedication that will allow us, in the eyes of God, to be fit and qualified to guide humanity through His House of Worship.

“I do pray that all of you who are within any practical distance of the Temple may not, for a single instant, forget the bounty and privilege that is at your door. Guide at the Temple in every spare instant and with all your hearts—for there is nothing more wonderful in this world that you may do.”

TEMPLE GUIDES COMMITTEE
By Mary Haggard, Chairman

Bahá’í Study Aids

The purpose of the Study Aids Committee is, primarily, to aid Bahá’ís in their study of the Bahá’í Teachings and not, directly, to bring new believers into the Cause (which is the function of teaching committees.) Of course in this day every believer is enjoined to teach the Cause, and the Study Aids Committee by encouraging study has also for its purpose the improvement of teaching effectiveness through study of the Sacred Writings.

We are all surely agreed that it ‎ is‎ very important to emphasize study for new believers. Study broadens and deepens one’s knowledge of the Cause. Study, especially in small groups, promotes unity through placing emphasis on the Teachings, not on personalities. Study promotes action, through increasing one’s awareness of the greatness of the Cause and creating the desire to have an active part in its unfoldment.

For the new believer, especially, study reveals the importance of his function in the group, for upon each one of us rests the responsibility of the establishment of World Order, through the application of the teachings given us by Bahá’u’lláh.

“To strive to obtain a more adequate understanding of the significance of Bahá’u’lláh’s stupendous Revelation must, it is my unalterable conviction, remain the first obligation and the object of the constant endeavor of each one of its loyal adherents” (Dispensation of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 8).

In these words the Guardian himself urges us first and foremost to study. Then we can give to others me true, clear Teachings and, with the impetus of the inner realization of “the unfailing efficacy of the Message,” demonstrate that the Bahá’í Faith is actually building a workable world unity today.

BAHÁ’Í STUDY AIDS COMMITTEE
Box 252, Evanston, Illinois

Bahá’í House of Worship

Sunday at 3:30 p.m.

Date	Subject and Speaker
July
14	THE DESTINY OF AMERICA
	Nina Matthisen
21	PROPHECY, THE SOUL OF HISTORY
	Horace Holley
28	SAFEGUARDS FOR CIVILIZATION
	Margery McCormick
August
4	CAN THE RELIGIONS UNITE?
	Edwin Mattoon
11	SUBJECT TO BE PROVIDED
	Youth Group
18	VICTORIOUS LIVING
	Dorothy Baker
25	“ADAM TO ATOM”
	Margarite Ullrich

Banff Summer Conference

The Regional Teaching Committee for Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta has prepared for a Summer Conference at Banff, Alberta, August 11th to 16th. Present indications point to another large attendance and a very vital program on the theme, “The Bahá’í Faith in Action.” The following topics will be discussed:

1. The individual Bahá’í as a dynamic, living instrument for the propagation of the Faith.
   Lecture Course by Dr. Edris Rice-Wray of Chicago.
   1. Devotional life.
   2. Intellectual life (the Bahá’í as a student)
   3. Social life (ethical attitudes and actions)
   4. Bahá’ís as Individual teachers
   5. Bahá’ís as administrators and members of a Community.
2. The Bahá’í Community as the sole means by which the world objectives of the Faith will be realized.
   Lectures by various Bahá’í teachers, and discussions.
   1. A channel through which World Order will come
   2. Unity—the most important principle
   3. Justice
   4. Consultation
   5. Relationship of the Bahá’í Faith to other political, religious and social movements.
3. The immediate scope and goals of the Faith in its present period of development.
   A Forum—Everybody.
   1. International
   2. National
   3. Local
   4. The Bahá’í Faith—personal, social and historical—A Summmary.

Inter-America News

A Message from the Guardian

In reply to a request by the Inter-America Committee that the Guardian suggest a city in which to hold the next Latin-American Teaching Conference, the following message has been received: “Advise Buenos Aires, Panama. Immediate task confronting Committee further multiplication centres, increasing and consolidation existing assemblies designed reinforce representative character future National Assemblies. Urge intensification effort dissemination literature, increase activities itinerant teachers both North and Latin American, establish closer relationship between existing groups, assemblies. Fervently praying attainment objectives.”

(Signed) SHOGHI

Conferences will, therefore, be arranged in both of these cities. They will probably be held after January 1st., and will be under the auspices of special committees appointed by the local Spiritual Assemblies.

Numerous reports reach the I.A.C. of extension teaching activities and the multiplication of centers. In Colombia, for example, with assemblies in Bogota and Mogotes, we are informed that there are “... two additional groups close to assembly strength in Contratacion and Cartagena. Smaller groups are being formed in Medellin, Cali, and Barranquilla. Sr. Ernesto A. Flores is the guiding spirit and enthusiastic teacher in Cartagena, and Sr. Vittorio Magagna, who studied the Faith while a student in the University in Santiago, Chili, has recently come home to Barranquilla, where he will be of great assistance to the Cause.” It is evident that the leaven of the Divine Plan is working among the native believers.

[Page 7] We are informed that the Guardian has approved the plan of the National Spiritual Assembly to set as a goal to be attained at the end of five years, or in 1951, the formation of National Assemblies covering Central America and South America. Word is coming from all of the Latin countries telling of how thrilled the believers were upon receiving the Guardian’s Convention message, and describing how they are already beginning to arise to meet their new responsibilities. One description of this nature is contained in a recent letter from Marcia Steward, who on her way to do itinerant teaching for several months in the five Central American countries north of Panama, has visited Assemblies in Lima, Quayaquil and Panama City since the Guardian’s message was received. She writes, “I left Lima with the most profound admiration and joy ... for the way the Faith is developing and consolidating with marvelous rapidity. Coming direct from Chili. I have been able to view the different communities from a whole new standpoint, and what I have seen has filled me with a joy that is unexpressible. One senses the surging of the Sea of the Covenant ... The Guardian’s latest cable has caused a new surging tide of the spirit, which is manifesting in startling changes, in overnight growth, in a visible maturing action, in an assumption of responsibilities all through the communities.

“It is hard to express what I felt amongst the believers in Quayaquil ... There is a poignancy about that particular group, ... a yearning for more knowledge and for help, an eagerness to spread the Faith ... They are so dear, so faithful, so young ...

“Panama, too, is a revelation to me. Last night there were forty people at a meeting, people of every color, race, and religion, including Muhammadans. A spirit of union and peace prevailed, and one sensed the flowing together of the races.”

The acceptance of new responsibilities is also evident in the spirit of sacrifice among the Latin believers. A check has come from a friend in La Paz, Bolivia, to be used for Bahá’í relief in Burma. Evelyn Larson reports that the Assembly in San Jose, Costa Rica, has started a special fund to help pay for finishing the interior of the Temple. A Chilian believer is making it possible

Gathering at the Bahá’í Center, Havana, Cuba, on the occasion of an address by Dorothy Baker, Much 15, 1946.

to start a Bahá’í Summer School in that country.

Difficulties hard to overcome, and too detailed to report in brief space, have handicapped the publication and dissemination of Bahá’í literature in Latin-America. However, four new titles in Spanish were reported less than a year ago, and three additional titles have just come from the press in Buenos Aires. These are Some Answered Questions, The Great Announcement, and Wisdom of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. A new and improved printing of Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era has been made in Portuguese, together with Bahá’í Prayers and two pamphlets. The efforts of all concerned, the Committee, pioneers, and native believers, are definitely being intensified in this field.

Teaching in the Maritimes

The report of the Regional Teaching Committee for the Maritimes was not received in time to be included in the Annual Report of the NTC and so a brief digest of their report is given as follows:

“There are five isolated Bahá’ís in the region, making a total number of 34 in the Maritime Provinces.

Visiting Teachers

“Charlottetown—Mrs. Ruth Moffett, October 15, ’45 to February 15, ’46, gave 81 lectures at the Queen Hotel, 189 classes, and 14 broadcasts. Mrs. Moffett addressed the students of the Prince of Wales College. Three new members signed, one since removed.

“Halifax—During Mrs. Moffett’s visit March 9th to March 25th, there were 33 lectures and classes and 2 radio broadcasts. Mrs. Moffett addressed the Haddessah Club, the Public Radio Forum, Dalhousie University, etc. Willard McKay visited Halifax Feb. 28th to March 2nd.

“Moncton—There was special teaching work by Mrs. Annie Romer in February to prepare for Mrs. Moffett’s visit, Feb. 16th to March 6th. During that period there were 19 lectures, 24 classes, 3 broadcasts, a reception, a farewell dinner, and talks before several organizations. Several reported interested. Mrs. Beulah Proctor also assisted with the work.

Activities Within Centers to April 1st

“Moncton—A study meeting was begun in September on “The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh.” Special publicity with quotations from Bahá’í Writings were weekly inserted in paid space. An Esperanto class was organized by and conducted by Mrs. McEwen which several Bahá’ís and excellent non-Bahá’í contacts have been attending. Since Mrs. Moffett’s Seminar in Moncton there is a class in “Dispensation.” There have been numerous fireside meetings in the various homes throughout the year.

“Halifax—A week-end Maritime

[Page 8] Teaching Conference was held in Harring Cove, N.S. from June 30th to July 4th. The teachers were Mrs. Laura Davis, of Toronto and Mr. Willard McKay of Charlottetown. There were 24 present at some of the meetings. While representatives from Charlottetown and Moncton were present and preliminary consultation was carried on by mail, this project was inaugurated by the Halifax friends.

Assembly meetings were held on alternate Monday evenings at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wade and a study class on “World Order of Bahá’u’lláh” was held at the various homes. Meetings for non-Bahá’ís were held regularly on Thursday or Friday evenings. About 75 Service men and students were reached and 4 indicated an intention to enroll at a future date. From Oct. 27th to January 19th, meetings were held at the Women’s Council House. This was also a publicity project. The whole month of December was devoted to the subject of Peace, including a special radio broadcast, and 2 discussion meetings, climaxed by a brilliant International Peace party with 10 nationalities represented and 35 non-Bahá’ís present. During “Education Week” a radio broadcast was given in “Bahá’í Ideals in Education.” Copies were distributed to teachers and principals of schools. Public relation work was very strong here with 75 leading people receiving literature. A lending library has been established.

Charlottetown—” Through May and June, 1945 weekly advertised meetings were held at the Queen Hotel and a series of 20 broadcasts was finished. Early in July a Bahá’í Library was opened with Florence Cox in residence; and the room was open daily and considerable literature was given and sent out. There was a weekly advertised public meeting there from July to October 1st. Mrs. Cox also conducted a class on “Dawn Breakers” for several weeks. On October 1st it was decided to move the meetings to the Queen Hotel while retaining the Bahá’í Library, as the room was too small for the fall projects.

“Since October our entire effort has centered around the teaching activities of Mrs. Moffett. When she left on February 25th, immediate plans were drawn up to consolidate the gains of more than four months of intensive effort, as follows: 1. Study Class under L.S.A. to complete ‘Dispensation,’ followed by ‘Heart of the Gospel’ with Bahá’í and Christian references. 2. Weekly public meetings — forums, musicales, addresses — newspapers and radio publicity, at the Queen Hotel, alternating with meetings at the homes of the McKays and the Gearys on Saturday evenings. 3. Fireside established by Mrs. Moffett at the home of Helen Gidden to be continued each week. 4. Two Feasts of Attraction, Feb. 27th and March 20th and a special Naw Rúz broadcast with Spring music and a Bahá’í talk on ‘The Return of Spring.’

“Mrs. Moffett returned March 25th to April 4th, and classes and conferences were held at the Queen Hotel and at the various homes, with a number of social occasions. Successful contact was made with most of the people on her ‘attracted’ list. “A Regional Bulletin was issued in April, 1946.”

G. I. GEARY, chairman
MRS. DORIS MCKAY, secretary

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World Order

Contents for July, 1946

From Chaos to Order	Horace Holley
Heaven and Earth Have Sworn, Poem	Silvia Margolis
To S. J. Farmer on Her Birthday, Poem	John Greenleaf Whittier
	Sarah Jane Farmer
.	Bahíyyíh and Harry Ford
Experiences in the Armed Forces	Alvin Blum
What Happened in Tabríz, Editorial	Bertha Hyde Kirkpatrick
The Interment of the Báb	Moneer Zaine
Youth and the Modern World III.
Meditation and the Modern Mind	G. A. Shook
The Star of the West, Book Review	Elizabeth P. Hackley
	With Our Readers.

Local Bahá’í News

The first MILWAUKEE Bahá’í marriage took place on March 9, 1946, when Miss Florence Masshardt, a WAC stationed at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and Mr. Albert S. Royise of Columbus, Ohio, were united at the Bahá’í Center, 744 North 4th Street, Milwaukee. The bride and groom presented letters of consent from all four parents, and the ceremony was witnessed by the chairman and secretary

Youth dance at the cabin in West Englewood, N. J. held at the time of a Bahá’í youth conference from nine northeastern states, held in the New York Bahá’í Center and in West Englewood, May 18 and 19, 1946.

of the Milwaukee Bahá’í Spiritual Assembly. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s marriage tablet was read, the groom repeated, “Verily, we are content with the Will of God,” and the bride rejoined, “Verily, we are satisfied with the Desire of God.”

The printed program for the Latin American evening scheduled by the NEW YORK Bahá’ís for June 7th, included the Spanish translation of the inscriptions above the entrances to the House of Worship. The entertainment was to include music by Señor Angel del Busto, composer and bassoon virtuoso, and Gladys Mayo del Busto, and two sound motion pictures, the Walt Disney “South of the Border,” and “Americans All.”

Some good ideas for weekly Bahá’í talks are given in the programs for WEST CHESTER, PA. Among them were the following: A New Justice for a New Day, Youth Prepares for Peace, True Happiness through Religion, The Millenial Promise, World Cooperation, Dedication to a Cause, Freedom as a Step toward World Peace, Love and Fellowship, Palestine—

[Page 9] The Heart of the World, The Power of the Holy Spirit, Sharing, God’s Newly Revealed Law, Signposts, and The Happiness of Nations.

A world unity forum was conducted in BEVERLY, MASS., on April 20th. Harlan Foster Ober was chairman. Dr. Glenn Shook, professor of physics at Wheaton College, spoke on “Atomic Energy and a Unified World,” while Mrs. Wendell Bacon spoke on “The Price of World Peace is World Religion.” There were thirty-four present of whom thirteen were non-Bahá’ís.

HUNTINGTON PARK Bahá’í youth presented a symposium entitled, “A World Faith the Remedy” on May 12th. Helen Lounsberry spoke on “Religion as a Basis of Civilization,” John Carre on “The Need for a World Religion,” and Mignon Thomasson on “The World Faith of Bahá’u’lláh.” The chairman was Joel Marengella and the pianist, Joan Coleman.

Community cooperation is practiced by LOS ANGELES in its widely distributed program. The telephone numbers are listed for information concerning Bahá’í classes not only in Los Angeles but also for Alhambra, Beverly Hills, Burbank, Glendale, Long Beach, Maywood, Pasadena, San Marino, and Santa Monica. The Los Angeles ideas for subjects

Cosmos Club concert and ball, San Francisco, California, at which Mr. Leroy Ioas spoke to about 1000 guests. (Set Bahá’í News for June.)

include The Perfect Man; The Path of True Liberty; Panorama of Religions; Three types of consultation; The Door of Hope: the Báb; The Fulfillment of Prophecy: Bahá’u’lláh; and New Life for the World.

News of Other Lands

Geneva Bahá’í Bureau

The annual report from Mrs. Anne Lynch, secretary of the International Bahá’í Bureau at Geneva, Switzerland, contains interesting news of the European Bahá’ís.

One of the functions of the Bureau is to maintain an international Bahá’í library. To this end all Bahá’í publishing committees are asked to send two copies of each publication printed since 1939. The Bureau already has Bahá’í literature in 42 languages.

The Bureau also serves as a link between isolated believers and groups of believers in Europe and other parts of the world and as a central bookstore. It has a large number of books, pamphlets and multi-graphed material available for distribution and sale. Since financial conditions in most European countries are very difficult, it would be only fair to set aside part of this stock for free gifts. The report adds, “Will the friends whom this may interest get in touch with the Bureau? Let us lose no time in lending a hand to those who need such help in promoting the Bahá’í Message.” Address Bahá’í Bureau, 40 Grand Rue, Geneva, Switzerland.

The following countries are now in touch with the Geneva Bureau: Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Morocco, Norway, Palestine, Persia and the U.S.A.

The report from Austria shows only eight Bahá’í left of the once flourishing community of over eighty. The food situation is very grave. Luise Lappinger, former member of the Vienna Assembly, wrote on April 4, “Food is so scarce that I often wonder how it is possible to live on so little.”

An earnest seeker, Mr. Renard of Ligny, Belgium, wrote to the Bureau in 1940 expressing his desire to take the proper steps to become a Bahá’í. In 1946 he writes: “I had hoped so much to regain possession of my minute stock of Bahá’í literature and my annotations made in studying it. But I had served in the Army, my wife had taken refuge in France and my house had been plundered in 1940—nothing was left ... I would be very grateful to receive all the literature that you can send me on the Cause and wish to assure you that I have the most ardent desire to continue my study of it in order to consecrate my efforts to the promotion of so lofty a Faith.”

Marta Weiss, Kesselwarm, Esslingen, a/N wrote to the Bureau in April requesting addresses of Bahá’í groups throughout the world, adding, “It is so important for our youth to have the stimulating experience of hearing and learning from youth of other countries. We would be very grateful for such a list.” As the addresses at the Genera Bureau are 6 years old youth groups in the countries reached by this report are asked to get in direct touch with Marta.

Vuk Echtner of Prague, Czechoslovakia, spoke on the Bahá’í Cause as the New World Order in the city of Pilsen in April. He feels very much the lack of information material: pamphlets, leaflets, etc.

Madame Acard, “Le Clos Fleuri,” La Poterie, Hyeres (Vars), France, has adopted two children and is bringing them up as Bahá’ís. She

[Page 10] expresses gratitude for parcels sent by American friends and adds, “The only thing I dare ask for is baby food and soap ... And yet I must say that I long for news more than I do for food. It does not matter if the friends write in English. I could have the letters translated.”

Bahá’í groups in Zurich and Northeastern Switzerland remain firm and continue seed sowing through talking with friends about the Cause, distributing or lending publications and occasionally holding public meetings. The American friends will be interested to know that the Zurich group owes its beginnings to the labors of Mr. Mason Remey and Mrs. Anna Kunz.

“The Fragrance of Letters” by Ruhíyyíh Khanum

This beautiful and inspiring article appeared in the January number of “The Herald of the South,” Australian Bahá’í Magazine. The author quotes the many letters from all over the world which stream into the Guardian’s mail bag and adds her own illuminating comments. We can make only a few brief excerpts from this heart warming article.

“From letters one gleans bright and lovely facets of the many-sided whole that goes to make up Bahá’í activity and thought. Here is an excerpt from a Regional Teaching Committee’s bulletin (of which there are dozens now to meet the needs of the many believers and the work they undertake): ‘Senor Pecora Blue Mountain, our Bahá’í brother, a native Peruvian of Inca Indian origin, is making a goodwill tour for South America. He visits the Bahá’ís in the cities through which he passes, sharing that very valued quality of fellowship and love Bahá’ís know so well. We deeply appreciate the privilege of this contact. While in Birmingham, (Alabama) it was arranged for him to give a piano concert of South American music over station WSGN ...’

“These regional News Letters or Bulletins are very stimulating reading. Take this, for instance: ‘Please understand the purpose of this publication. It is to try and keep you informed of the plans and activities of this committee and of the region in the hope that by so doing we all may become better acquainted and more unified and thus better able to ‘spread the light of the Faith and cast the anchor of its Administrative Order throughout the states of Utah, Wyoming and Colorado, thence throughout America, and thence throughout the world.’ Those ‘thences’ are pretty ambitious! The calm, determined way he rolls them out one would not be surprised if he had added ‘and thence throughout the Solar System.’ ”

International Relief

(Editors’ note: The following bulletin was received just as BAHÁ’Í NEWS was being made up. Part of it is being printed in this issue. Other addresses will be given later.)

The Committee on International Relief 1946-1947 appeals to assemblies, regional committees, groups, and isolated believers to send immediately names and addresses of individual believers, assemblies, and groups in Europe and the Philippines in need of relief, to its chairman Mrs. Randolph Bolles, Box 165, Washington, Conn. Specify if possible the kind of relief most needed.

What and Where to Send

Attached is a list of believers who are in urgent need of assistance. Confine the relief to food, clothing, edible fats, and other essentials. It is not intended that cash be sent to the individual Bahá’ís.

This committee recommends to Bahá’ís residing in:

Western States of the United States and Western Canada to concentrate their relief upon the Philippines at present and the far eastern countries when names and addresses will be available.

Middle Western States to concentrate on Finland, Norway, Switzerland, Holland, Austria, ‎Czechoslovakis Czechoslovakia‎, Bulgaria, Jugoslavia, Germany, and Hungary.

Southern States and Eastern Canada to concentrate on the southern part of France—Marseilles, Lyon, Hyeres, Toulouse.

Eastern States and Eastern Canada (including New England) to concentrate on the rest of France, on Germany, and on Great Britain.

Packages to Europe are not to exceed 42 inches in length and girth, and their weight is not to exceed 11 lbs., including wrapping. Postage: 14 cents per pound. One package a week (per person).

This service is now available only to the American zone in Germany.

It is recommended that dehydrated food and powdered milk be shipped in preference to canned food. (Powdered milk is more nourishing and palatable.) Edible fats in tins only. Avoid any glass containers. Coffee beans, tea, dried fruits, sugar, hard candies, chocolate, sweet cocoa, sewing thread, darning thread (except for England‎  )‎, canned meats, canned fish, vitamins, first aid medicines (except for England), all kinds of wearing apparel, shoes, underwear, bed linens, towels, etc. Please see that all garments are usable, cleaned and repaired. It is hoped that the National Spiritual Assembly will recommend all local assemblies in the United States and Canada to appoint relief committees to collaborate and assist in this vital and imperative work.

Address all correspondence to the chairman of the Committee for International Relief, Mrs. Randolph Bolles Box 165, Washington, Connecticut.

Relief Agencies

Parcels have been sent up to 25 lbs (foodstuffs and soap, very concentrated foods like dehydrated milk, meat, vegetables, canned butter, etc.) made up by the Trans-Ocean Packing & Shipping Co. from their stocks in Sweden. Address in New York City, 33 Whitehall St. Their things are insured by Lloyd’s of London, E. They will also mail packages made up.

Food parcels can also be sent to Austria through the Free Austria Movement in Switzerland. Standard parcels of Swiss francs 19.50 and 32.50 can be ordered at the above address.

The following is a list of agencies compiled by the American Red Cross and given to the Dept. of Agriculture branch of the Red Cross as a guide in sending supplies abroad:

CARE (Cooperative for American Remittance to Europe) 50 Broadstreet, New York, N. Y.

American Relief for France, 39 East 36th Street, New York, N. Y.

American Relief for Italy, Inc. 27 Broadway, New York 6, N. Y.

American Relief for Norway, 135 S. La Salle Street, Chicago 3, Ill.

United Jugoslav Relief Fund, 677 Fifth Ave., New York 17, N. Y.

American Hungarian Relief, Inc. 165 West 46th Street, New York 19, N.Y.

Philippine War Relief of the U.S. 1720 Eye Street, Washington, D. C.

[Page 11] United China Relief 1780 Broadway, New York 19, N.Y.

‎Amercian American‎ Friends of Czechoslovakia 8 West 40th Street, New York 16, N.Y.

American Relief for Holland, 465 Fifth Ave, New York, N.Y.

(If you decide to use any of these agencies check with them first.)

Address List

THE PHILIPPINES

Revised corrected list of needy Bahá’ís, submitted by the Bahá’ís of Washington D.C., June 11, 1946.

Felix Madella, Bintawan St., Solano, Neuva Vizcaya, Philippines. Food and clothing. First Philippine Bahá’í.

Mrs. Adeline M. Guarin, Bascaran, Solano, Neuva Vizcaya, Philippines. Daughter of Felix Madella. Has 6 children, 4 boys and 2 girls. Oldest 12. Needs blankets. Solano is 200 miles north of Manila where it is cold. Expects baby in August, 1946.

Sr. Perfecto Tabora, 22 Halun St., Mesa Heights, Quezon City, Philippines.

Mrs. Concepcion Flores, Cordon Isabella, Philippines. Widow with 7 children from 16 years of age down. Food and clothing. (Annamarie Honnold received letter.)

(Please inquire at the post office as to whether packages can be sent to these places.)

EUROPE

Finland Mr. Vaino Rissanin, Box 13, Helsinki, Finland Friend of J. Kruka. Family consists of wife, husband & two children.

Norway Johanna Schubarth, Prof. Dahlstt, 1.III, Oslo, Norway. Fru Aagot Krantz-Rämsli, Vaagevej 7, Kristiansund, Norway, asks especially for clothing and shoes (no sizes given) her town burned down “her house alone was still standing by the pier.”

Holland Mrs. Wygman Verbeek, Meezenbroekerweg 92 Heerlen Limburg Holland. (Esperantist who is studying the Bahá’í Faith.) Arnold van Ogtrop, Groot Hertoginnelaan 32, Bussum, Holland. Has corresponded with Norwegian believer since the war (Bahá’í).

Switzerland Anne Lynch, (Mrs.) 40 Grand’ Rue, Geneva, Switzerland (has her married daughter and young baby with her from France.)

Austria (Declared believers) Mr. & Mrs. Franz Pöllinger, Wein II,

Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Shiráz for the year 102, Bahá’í era.

Whittmann & Mrs. Pendel, Deutsch-Wagram, Helmersdorf; Mrs. Marie Amschel, Wein 12, Wienerbergerstr. 10/X/3; Hans & Luise Lappinger, Wein 3/40, Reisenerstr. 7/11. Franz Bausbeck, Stammersdorf b/Wien, Brünnerstr. 79; Mrs. Julia Schwarz, Wien, Ramperstorfferstr. 25; (parents have farm, all others need food). Mr. Victor Erdman, Wein 19/119 Kahlenbergerstr. 59, Austria.

Czechoslovakia Mr. Vuk Echtner, c/of Brückner, U, Pujcovny 2, Prague (eleven) II, C. (very active Bahá’í, several young children)

Bulgaria Miss Marion Jack, (old, devoted pioneer in that country) c/of of Miss Roseva, ul Neophyte Rilska 40, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Jugoslavia Mme Desanka Forgovice Tokin, Osthaimerstr. 76, Vrsac, J. (asks for coffee, tea, sugar, canned meat and cocoa.)

Hungary Mrs. Jenny Komlos, Vilma Kiralynö 9 f.2, Budapest 7, H.

Germany (groups and isolated believers with study classes):

Frau Marie Schenk, Darmstadt 2 Land, Kolonie Trautheim, Darmstadt. Oberschwester Berta Freimuller, Balsersche Stiftung, Wilhelmstrasse 14, Giessen; Frl. Anna Hacher-Schoch, Ulrichstrasse 24, Goppingen, Wttbg.; Hans Gajus Schmidt, Postfach, 41 Heppenheim a. d. B.; Frau Martha Brauns, Ruppur-Gardenstadt Resedenweg 70, Karlsruhe, Baden.; Dr. Hermann Grossmann, Neckargemund, Wttbg.

Böcklin str. 4, Tür 15, Austria; Mrs.

France Moreau, 10 Ernest Michat, Nancy, Meurthe et Moselle; Louis Martin, chez Mme. Vervaet, 46 Rue Carnot, Nogents-Oise, 0ise, France; Mme. Lucienne Acard, Les Clos Fleurie, La Poterie, Hyeres, France. (Is in want. Has baby girl about 6 months (orphan) to bring up in the Faith.)

(Please inquire whether packages can be sent to all these places.)

Bahá’í Groups, June, 1946

1. United States

Group	Membership
TUSKEGEE, ALABAMA	7
Correspondent—Mrs. F. L. Drye, Tuskegee Institute, Ala.
ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA	7
Correspondent—Mrs. Mortimer Rich, 1021 W. Duarte Rd., Arcadia
BIG BEAR LAKE, CALIFORNIA	6
Correspondent—Mr. R. Bruce Munro, Box 226, Big Bear Lake
COMPTON, CALIFORNIA	5
Correspondent—Mrs. W. J. Williams, 1135 W. Spruce St., Compton 27
DOWNEY TWP., CALIFORNIA	5
Correspondent—Mr. Wm. Scholling, 103-99, Rancho Las Amigos, Hondo
EL MONTE TWP., CALIFORNIA	8
Correspondent—Mrs. W. John Griewank, 127½ N. LaRica, Baldwin Park
HUNTINGTON PARK, CALIFORNIA	5
Correspondent—Mrs. Asher Goodrick, 2117 Mortimer Ave., Huntington Pk.
INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA	8 [Page 12]
Correspondent—Mrs. Gust Pappas, 934 S. Grevilla Ave., Apt. D, Inglewood
KNIGHTSEN, CALIFORNIA	5
Correspondent—Mrs. Helena Somerhalder, Knightsen
MONROVIA, CALIFORNIA	6
Correspondent—Mrs. Bessie Duckett, 149 Norumbega Dr., Monrovia
MONROVIA TWP., CALIFORNIA	5
Correspondent—Miss Pauline Washburn, 2019 E. Foothill, Duarte
PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA	5
Correspondent—Mrs. Arthur L. Dahl, 2150 Byron St., Palo Alto
SAN ANTONIO TWP., CALIFORNIA	5
Correspondent—Mrs. Mary Smith Johnson, 5889¼ Miramonte Blvd., Los Angeles 1
SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA	7
Correspondent—Miss Ottilie Rhein, 244 N. Fremont St., San Mateo
SANTA ROSA, ANALY TWP., CALIFORNIA	5
Correspondent—Miss Alice Griffith, 1881 Laguna Rd., Santa Rosa
SOUTH GATE, CALIFORNIA	5
Correspondent—Mrs. Rose West, 9705 Truba Ave., South Gate
HARTFORD, CONN.	5
Correspondent—Miss Gladys Palmer, 578 Blue Hills Ave., Hartford
NORTH GREENWICH, CONN.	5
Correspondent—Mrs. Rene H. Welsh, R.F.D. 4, Greenwich, Conn.
WEST HAVEN, CONN.	7
Correspondent—Mrs. Rob’t. Bradley, 5 Graham Ave., West Haven.
BRISTOL, FLORIDA	5
Correspondent—Mrs. Virginia Harrell, Bristol
PINE CASTLE, FLORIDA	5
Correspondent—Mrs. Albert B. Mills, Gen. Del., Pine Castle
CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS	6
Correspondent—Mr. Edgar Harris, 208 Ellis Ave., Champaign
HARVEY (MARKHAM), ILLINOIS	5
Correspondent—Mrs. Raymond Grote, 15734 S. Trumbull Ave., R.F.D. 1, Harvey (Markham)
HARVEY (PHOENIX), ILLINOIS	5
Correspondent—Mrs. Lorraine Galberth, 15255 4th Ave., Harvey (Phoenix)
PARK RIDGE, ILLINOIS	8
Correspondent—Mrs. J. H. Redson, 612 S. Washington St., Park Ridge
PEORIA (LIMESTONE TWP.), ILLINOIS	7
Correspondent—Mrs. Fred Vallery, R.R. 1, Peoria
WINNETKA, ILLINOIS	7
Correspondent—Mr. James Hammond, 1217 Asbury Ave., Winnetka
INDEPENDENCE, IOWA	6
Correspondent—Mrs. H. A. Lenius, 805 Third St., S. E., Independence
WENHAM, MASS.	5
Correspondent—Mrs. Emma M. Rice, P. O. South Hamilton, Mass.
DAVISON, MICH.	6
Correspondent—Mr. L. W. Eggleston, 3208 S. State Rd., M 15, Davison
DEARBORN TWP. MICH.	5
Correspondent—Mrs. Gerald M. Horne, 4423 Kingston St., R.D. 4, Dearborn
KALAMAZOO, MICH.	8
Correspondent—Miss Gladys Kline, 415 S. Park St., Kalamazoo
NIRVANA, MICH.	6
Correspondent—Mrs. Helen Zenobia Thompson, Box 9, Nirvana
BERGENFIELD, N. J.	8
Correspondent—Miss Zelda Rustay, 90 Fairview Ave., Bergenfield
ENGLEWOOD N. J.	7
Correspondent—Mr. James Stone, Jr., 200 Englewood Ave., Englewood
JERSEY CITY, N. J.	6
Correspondent—Mr. David Acheson, 118 Jewett Ave., Jersey City
MONTCLAIR, N. J.	7
Correspondent—Mrs. Catherine Healy, Mountainside Hospital, Montclair
RED BANK, N. J.	7
Correspondent—Miss Virginia Godfries, 164 Broad St., Red Bank
RIDGEWOOD, N. J.	5
Correspondent—Mrs. Dorothy Meacham, 223 Brookside Ave., Ridgewood
BUFFALO, N. Y.	8
Correspondent—Mrs. J. P. Patterson, 333 Ontario, Buffalo 7.
GENEVA, N. Y.	6
Correspondent—Dr. Albert D. Heist, 83 Lyceum St., Geneva
PENN YAN, N. Y.	7
Correspondent—Mrs. Harry B. Feeley, 105 Burns Tr., Penn Yan
SENECA TWP., N. Y.	7
Correspondent—Mrs. Marguerite Firoozi, Canandaigua Rd., Geneva
VICTOR, N. Y.	5
Correspondent—Mr. John S. Woolston, Victor
WATERLOO, N. Y.	5
Correspondent—Mrs. Ruth Hart, “Knollwood” Rt. 3, Waterloo
FINDLAY, OHIO	7
Correspondent—Mrs. L. K. Ebersole, 924 N. Main St., Findlay
LAKEWOOD, OHIO	5
Correspondent—Mrs. Mildred Swingle Bates, 1362 Cove Ave., Lakewood 7
GRANGER TWP., OHIO	7
Correspondent—Mrs. Ed. Riedel, R.F.D. 4, Medina, Ohio
HINCKLEY TWP., OHIO	7
Correspondent—Mrs. Anna Beach, R.F.D. 4, Medina, Ohio
TOLEDO, OHIO	7
Correspondent—Mr. Charles M. Hill, 2421 Chase St., Toledo 11
URBANA, OHIO	7
Correspondent—Mrs. Hazel Owens, 119 Hill St., Urbana, Ohio
COLUMBIA, S. C.	6
Correspondent—Mrs. Cecelia W. Glenn, 1011 Oak St., Columbia, S. C.
NORTH AUGUSTA, S. C.	6
Correspondent—Mr. Geo. Wink, 321 Georgia Ave., No. Augusta, S. C.
KNOXVILLE, TENN. (a 9th member has been away for a long time)	8
Correspondent—Mrs. Lessie McMichael, 711½ S. Gay St., Knoxville
DALLAS, TEXAS	7
Correspondent—Mrs. Elizabeth Bailey, 2633 Maplewood Ave.
MONROE, WASH.	8
Correspondent—Mrs. Florence Cromwell, Box 512, Monroe, Wash.
SULTAN, WASH.	6
Correspondent—Mrs. Bernice Keck, Sultan, Wash.
GREEN BAY, WIS.	8
Correspondent—Mrs. Florence Delaney, 214 S. Webster Ave.
SHOREWOOD, WIS.	5
Correspondent—Mrs. Marjorie Nedden, 3514 N. Murray Ave., Shorewood 11
SOMERS TWP., WIS.	6
Correspondent—Mr. Gilbert De-Bruin, R. 3, Box 64, Kenosha, Wis.

2. Canada

Vernon, B. C.	7
Correspondent—Mrs. Edna J. Montfort, P. O. Box 477, Vernon
WEST VANCOUVER, B. C.	8
Correspondent—Mrs. M. E. Fry, 2264 Inglewood Ave., Hollyburn P. O., B. C., Can.
SCARBORO, TORONTO, ONT.	5
Correspondent—Mrs. Audrey Westheuser, 6 Parker Ave., Toronto 13

TABLE OF CONTENTS

	Page	Col.
“With Absolute Detachment”—
Words of Bahá’u’lláh	1	1
Messages from the Guardian
New Enterprises	1	1
Review of Magazine Articles	1	3
Thirty New Assemblies	2	2
National Spiritual Assembly
Who Can Assist?	2	1
Calendar	2	3
Enrollments	2	3
In Memoriam	2	3
Credentials for Traveling Bahá’ís and Appeals for Financial Help	2	3
“Unnecessary Administrative Details	3	1
Radio Script Writing	3	2
National Committees
North American Teaching	3	2
Temple Guides	5	1
Bahá’í Study Aids	6	1
Bahá’í House of Worship Program	6	2
Banff Summer Conference	6	2
Inter-America News	6	3
Teaching in the Maritimes	7	2
“World Order”	8	3
Local Bahá’í News	8	2
News of ‎ther other‎ Lands
Geneva Bahá’í Bureau	9	1
“The Fragrance of Letters” by Ruhíyyíh Khánum	10	1
International Relief	10	2
Bahá’í Groups, June, 1946	11	3