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Contents

PART ONE

I. Aims and Purposes of the Bahá’í Faith

II. International Survey of Current Bahá’í Activities in the East and West

III. Excerpts from the Bahá’í Sacred Writings

1. Words of Bahá’u’lláh
2. Words of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

IV. The Centenary of a World Faith

1. The Significance of the First Bahá’í Century
2. A World Survey of the Bahá’í Faith
3. Centenary Celebrations in the Holy Land
4. Bahá’í Centenary Celebrations in the United States of America
5. Persia Celebrates the First Hundred Years
6. Bahá’í Centenary Celebrations in the British Isles
7. Bahá’í Centenary Celebrations in India
8. Bahá’í Centenary Celebrations in Egypt
9. Bahá’í Centenary Celebrations in ‘Iráq
10. Bahá’í Centenary Celebrations in Australia
11. Latin-America Celebrates the Bahá’í Centenary

PART TWO

I. The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh

1. The Present-Day Administration of the Bahá’í Faith

   The Formation of an Organic Religious Community, by Horace Holley

   A Procedure for the Conduct of a Local Spiritual Assembly

   The Annual Bahá’í Convention

   The Non-Political Character of the Bahá’í Faith

   Concerning Membership in Non-Bahá’í Religious Organizations

   Interpretation of the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

   Formation of the Administrative Order

   Bahá’í Relations with Civil Authority

   Excerpts from the Writings of Shoghi Effendi

   Important Messages from Shoghi Effendi to the American Believers

   Selections from “God Passes By,” by Shoghi Effendi

2. The Spirit and Form of the Bahá’í Administrative Order

   Certificate of Declaration of Trust of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada

   Declaration of Trust and By-Laws of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada

   Declaration of Trust and By-Laws of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Persia

   Declaration of Trust and By-Laws of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Germany and Austria

   Declaration of Trust and By-Laws of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of ‘Iráq

   Declaration of Trust and By-Laws of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Egypt and Súdán

   Certificate of Incorporation of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Australia and New Zealand, Issued by the Supreme Court of New Zealand

   By-Laws of a Local Spiritual Assembly

   Certificate of Incorporation of the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Baltimore, Maryland

   Certificate of Incorporation of the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Birmingham, Alabama

   Certificate of Incorporation of the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Kansas City, Missouri

   Certificate of Incorporation of the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Atlanta, Georgia

   Certificate of Incorporation of the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Dayton, Ohio

   Certificate of Incorporation of the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Denver, Colorado

   Certificate of Incorporation of the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Sholapur, India

   Certificate of Incorporation of the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Kolhapur, India

   Certificate of marriage license issued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, authorizing the Spiritual Assemblies of the Bahá’ís of Massachusetts to solemnize Bahá’í marriages

   Act Passed by the House of Representatives, Massachusetts, authorizing Spiritual Assemblies Within the State to Solemnize Bahá’í Marriages

   Certificate of Incorporation of the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Kari Afghanan, India

   Bahá’í Marriage Certificate adopted and enforced by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Persia

   Bahá’í Marriage Certificate adopted and enforced by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Egypt and Súdán

   Bahá’í Marriage Certificate adopted and enforced by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of ‘Iráq

   Bahá’í Divorce Certificate adopted and enforced by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Persia

   Bahá’í Divorce Certificate adopted and enforced by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Egypt and Súdán

   Marriage Certificate Issued by the State of Delaware, Authorizing the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Wilmington to perform a Bahá’í Marriage

   Text in Persian of the Outline of Bahá’í Laws Regarding Matters of Personal Status Submitted for Recognition to the Egyptian Government by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Egypt and Súdán

   Permits Issued by the American Military Government in Germany Authorizing the Bahá’ís to Resume Activities

   Decree Printed in the Official Gazette in Egypt in Connection with the Bahá’í Burial Ground at Ismá’ílíyyih, Egypt

   Trust Deed of the Transference of a Property in Ismá’ílíyyih, Egypt, to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Egypt and Súdán

3. The Institution of the Mashriqu’l-Adhkár

   Foreword

   The Spiritual Significance of the Mashriqu’l-Adhkár

   Passages Regarding the Temple in America, Taken from “God Passes By” by Shoghi Effendi and Introduction by Archdeacon Townshend, M. A.

   “The Story of the Bahá’ís and Their Unique Temple of Worship” Reprinted from “Chicago Sunday Tribune” June 17th, 1945

   “A New ‘Taj Mahal’ ” Reprinted from “The Magic Powder” by Earl Hadley

   “The Architect’s Design” by Earl H. Reed

   “The Bahá’í Temple” Reprinted from the “Architectural Concrete Magazine” .

   “Flood-Lighting the Temple” by Carl Scheffler

4. Bahá’í Calendar, Festivals and Dates of Historic Significance

   Foreword

   Bahá’í Feasts, Anniversaries and Days of Fasting

   Bahá’í Holy Days on which work should be Suspended

   Additional Material Gleaned from Nabil’s Narrative (vol. II.) Regarding the Bahá’í Calendar

   Historical Data Gleaned from Nabil’s Narrative (vol. II.) Regarding Bahá’u’lláh

   Dates of Historic Significance During the First Bahá’í Century

5. Youth Activities Throughout the Bahá’í World

   Around the World with Bahá’í Youth

   “Youth’s Role in Future Civilization,” 3 Symposium

   “Faith in Action” by John C. Eichenauer, III

   “Youth and the Bahá’í Cause” by Esteban Canales Leyton

   “The Children’s Share of Summer School” by Doris Goodrick

   Random Pages from “A Bahá’í Child’s A-B-C”

II. References to the Bahá’í Faith

1. Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania
2. Prof. E. G. Browne, M.A., M.B., Cambridge University
3. Dr. J. Estlin Carpenter, D.Litt., Manchester College, Oxford
4. Rev. T. K. Cheyne, D.Litt., D.D., Oxford University, Fellow of British Academy
5. Prof. Arminius Vambéry, Hungarian Academy of Pesth
6. Sir Valentine Chirol
7. Harry Charles Lukach
8. Prof. Jowett, Oxford University
9. Alfred W. Martin, Society for Ethical Culture, New York
10. Prof. James Darmesteter, École des Hautes Études, Paris
11. Charles Baudouin
12. Dr. Henry H. Jessup, D.D.
13. Right Hon. The Earl Curzon of Kedleston
14. Sir Francis Younghusband, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E.
15. The Christian Commonwealth, Anonymous
16. Rev. J. Tyssul Davis, B.A.
17. Herbert Putnam, Congressional Library, Washington, D. C.
18. Leo Tolstoy
19. Dr. Edmund Privat, University of Geneva
20. Dr. Auguste Forel, University of Zurich
21. General Renato Piola Caselli
22. Rev. Frederick W. Oakes
23. Renwick J. G. Millar, Editor of John O’Groat Journal, Wick, Scotland
24. Charles H. Prisk
25. Prof. Hari Prasad Shastri, D.Litt.
26. Shri Purohit Swami
27. Prof. Herbert A. Miller, Bryn Mawr College
28. Viscount Herbert Samuel, G.C.B., M.P.
29. Rev. K. T. Chung
30. Prof. Dimitry Kazarov, University of Sofia
31. Rev. Griffith J. Sparham
32. Ernest Renan
33. The Hon. Lilian Helen Montague, J.P., D.H.L.
34. Prof. Norman Bentwich, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
35. Emile Schreiber, Publicist
36. Miss Helen Keller
37. Dr. Rokuichiro Masujima, Doyen of Jurisprudence of Japan
38. Sir Flinders Petrie, Archaeologist
39. Former President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia
40. Archduchess Anton of Austria
41. Dr. Herbert Adams Gibbons
42. H.R.H. Princess Olga of Yugoslavia
43. Eugen Relgis
44. Arthur Henderson
45. Prof. Dr. V. Lesny
46. Princess Marie Antoinette de Broglie Aussenac
47. Late President David Starr Jordan, Leland Stanford University
48. Prof. Bogdan Popovitch, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia
49. Ex-Governor William Sulzer
50. Luther Burbank
51. Prof. Yone Noguchi
52. Prof. Raymond Frank Piper
53. Angela Morgan
54. Arthur Moore
55. Prof. Dr. Jan Rypka, Charles University, Praha, Czechoslovakia
56. A. L. M. Nicolas
57. President Eduard Beneš of Czechoslovakia
58. Sir Ronald Storrs, N.V.C., M.G., C.B.E.
59. Col. Raja Jai Prithvi Bahadur Singh, Raja of Bajang (Nepal)
60. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
61. Rt. Hon. M. R. Jayakar
62. Prof. Benoy Kumar Sarkar, M.A., P.H.D.
63. Mrs. Sarojinu Naidu
64. Jules Bois
65. The late Sir John Martin Harvey, D.Litt.
66. Dr. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury

III. In Memoriam

Siyyid Muṣṭafá Rúmí

Henrietta Emogene Martin Hoagg

‘Azíz’u’lláh Meṣbáh

Muhammad Sa‘id Adham

‘Alí-Aṣghar Qazvíní

Lydia Zamenhof

Asadu’lláh Nadírí

Ḥasan Muhájir-Záhid

Muhammad Jadhbání

Prof. George W. Henderson

John P. Stearns

Sulṭán Ník-Á’ín

‘Ali-Muhammad Nabílí

Mabry C. Oglesby

Esther Tobin

Mary Lesch

Jamíl Isfáháni

PART THREE

I. Bahá’í Directory 1945-1946

1. Bahá’í National Spiritual Assemblies
2. Countries where Bahá’ís are resident:

   Abyssinia

   Af{u|gh}}ánistán

   Alaska

   Arabia

   Argentina

   Australia

   Austria

   Báḥrayn Island

   Balúchistán

   Belgian Congo

   Belgium

   Bolivia

   Brazil

   Bulgaria

   Burma

   Canada

   Caucasus

   Chile

   China

   Colombia

   Costa Rica

   Cuba

   Czechoslovakia

   Denmark

   Dominican Republic

   Ecuador

   Egypt

   El Salvador

   Finland

   Eritrea

   Finland

   France

   Germany

   Great Britain

   Guatemala

   Haiti

   Hawaiian Islands

   Holland

   Honduras

   Hungary

   Iceland

   India

   ‘Iráq

   Ireland

   Italy

   Jamaica

   Japan

   Java

   Kenya

   Lebanon

   Mexico

   New Zealand

   Nicaragua

   Norway

   Palestine

   Panama

   Paraguay

   Persia

   Peru

   Philippine Islands

   Poland

   Puerto Rico

   Russia

   South Africa

   South Rhodesia

   Súdán

   Sweden

   Switzerland

   Syria

   Tahiti

   Tasmania

   Transjordan

   Tunisia

   Turkey

   Turkistán

   United States of America

   Uruguay

   Venezuela

   Yugoslavia

3. Officers and Committees of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada
4. Local Bahá’í Spiritual Assemblies, Groups and Localities where Isolated Believers Reside in the United States and Canada
5. Bahá’í Administrative Divisions in Persia, Listing Local Spiritual Assemblies, Groups and Isolated Bahá’ís
6. Directory of Leading Assemblies in Bahá’í Administrative Divisions of Persia
7. Directory of Localities in India where Bahá’ís Reside, Listing Local Spiritual Assemblies, Groups and Isolated Bahá’ís

I. Bahá’í Bibliography

1. Alphabetical List of Bahá’u’lláh’s Best Known Writings
2. List of Báb’s Best-Known Works
3. Bahá’í Publications of North America in Print

   a. Writings of Bahá’u’lláh

   b. Writings of the Báb

   c. Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

   d. Works Compiled from Writings of Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

   e. Works Compiled from Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, The Báb and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

   f. Works Compiled from Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi

   g. Writings of Shoghi Effendi

   h. Writings on the Bahá’í Faith

   i. Bahá’í Reprints

   j. Pamphlets

   k. Outlines and Guides for Bahá’í Study Classes

   l. Children’s Courses

   m. Bahá’í Literature in Foreign Languages

   n. Periodicals

   3A. Bahá’í Publications of North America that Are Out of Print

4. Bahá’í Publications of Great Britain in Print

   a. Writings of Bahá’u’lláh

   b. Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

   c. Works Compiled from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

   d. Writings of Shoghi Effendi

   e. Writings on the Bahá’í Faith

   f. Bahá’í Literature in Pamphlet Form

   4A. Publications of Great Britain that Are Out of Print

5. Bahá’í Publications of India in English (Publications in other languages spoken in India, Burma and Ceylon listed elsewhere under name of language)
6. Bahá’í Publications in French
7. Bahá’í Publications in Italian
8. Bahá’í Publications in Dutch
9. Bahá’í Publications in Danish
10. Bahá’í Publications in Swedish
11. Bahá’í Publications in Portuguese
12. Bahá’í Publications in Albanian
13. Bahá’í Publications in Esperanto
14. Bahá’í Publications in Russian
15. Bahá’í Publications in German
16. Bahá’í Publications in Bulgarian
17. Bahá’í Publications in Rumanian
18. Bahá’í Publications in Czech
19. Bahá’í Publications in Serbian
20. Bahá’í Publications in Hungarian
21. Bahá’í Publications in Greek
22. Bahá’í Publications in Maori
23. Bahá’í Publications in Spanish
24. Bahá’í Publications in Norwegian
25. Bahá’í Publications in Croatian
26. Bahá’í Publications in Polish
27. Bahá’í Publications in Icelandic
28. Bahá’í Publications in Finnish
29. Bahá’í Publications in Oriental Languages

    Persian

    Urdu

    Arabic

    Turkish

    Burmese

    Chinese

    Hebrew

    Tartar

    Gujrati

    Japanese

    Armenian

    Tamil

    Kurdish

    Sindhi

    Bengali

    Hindi

    Abyssinian (Amharic)

    Kinarese

    Malyalam

    Pushtoo

    Assamese

    Mahratti

    Gurmukhi

    Telugu

30. Languages into Which Bahá’í Literature Is Being Translated

    Latvian

    Lithuanian

    Orriya

    Punjabi

    Rajasthani

    Singhalese

    Ukranian

    Nepalese

    Chin

    Swahili

    Tigrigna

31. Bahá’í Literature in Braille (for the Blind)

    a. Published in America

    b. Published in France

    c. Published in Czechoslovakia

    d. Published in Japan

32. Bahá’í Periodicals
33. References to the Bahá’í Faith in Books and Pamphlets published under Non-Bahá’í Auspices
34. References to the Bahá’í Faith in Magazines by Non-Bahá’í Authors
35. References to the Bahá’í Faith by Bahá’ís in Non-Bahá’í Publications
36. References to the Bahá’í Faith in Encyclopedias and Reference Books

III. Transliteration of Oriental Words Frequently Used in Bahá’í Literature

Guide to the Transliteration and Pronunciation of the Persian Alphabet

Notes on the Pronunciation of Persian Words

IV. Definition of Oriental Terms Frequently Used in Bahá’í Literature

PART FOUR

I. Articles and Reviews

1. Speech Delivered at the Opening of the Bahá’í Centenary Exhibition, London, May 20th, 1944, by Sir Ronald Storrs, K.C.M.G., L.L.D., L.C.C.
2. The Assurance of World Peace

   The Evolution of Peace, by Horace Holley

   The Nations Build the Lesser Peace, by George Orr Latimer

   The Most Great Peace, by Dorothy Baker

3. The Call to God: A Meditation, by Archdeacon George Townshend
4. Religious Foundations of World Unity, by Dr. Raymond Frank Piper
5. What the World Needs Today, by Prof. Stanwood Cobb
6. California—Host to the Nations, by Marzieh Gail
7. His Japanese Witnesses, by Helen Bishop
8. The Meeting of the Americas, by Philip Leonard Green
9. Social Basis of World Unity, by Elsie Austin
10. Progress in Latin America, by Edna M. True
11. Getting Ready for the Peace, by Dr. H. O. Overstreet
12. Neue Arbeit, by Dr. H. Grossmann
13. Recent Stirring Years in Chile, by Marcia Steward
14. Bahá’í Order and Social Justice, by Prof. K. T. Shah
15. Little Did I Dream, by John Carl Eichenauer, III
16. Hacia una Religion Universal: el Bahá’ísmo, by Vicente Donoso Torres
17. The Bahá’í Faith and the San Francisco Conference, by Marion Holley
18. Religion Comes Again to Mankind, by Dorothy Baker
19. The Oneness of Humanity, by William Kenneth Christian
20. San Francisco and the Bahá’í Charter, by Shirin Fozdar
21. Impresiones de un Delegado Bahá’í Durante su Visita a los Bahá’ís de los Estados Unidos, by Salvador Tormo
22. Pioneer Journeys: Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, by Virginia Orbison
23. The Spiritual Conquest of Magallanes, by Artemus Lamb
24. Carrying the Faith to the Philippines, by Loulie A. Mathews
25. Costa Rica, the Beautiful, by Gayle Woolson
26. Founding the Faith in Puerto Rico, by Ayned McComb
27. The Founding of the Bahá’í Faith in Venezuela, by Elisabeth Cheney
28. Commemorations Explicit and Implicit, by Christine Lofstedt

II. Verse

III. Music

IV. Contents of Volume I—Bahá’í Year Book and Volumes II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, and IX—The Bahá’í World

V. Maps of Mexico, West Indies, Central and South America, India and Burma, Teaching Regions of the United States and Canada, and of the Bahá’í World