National Teaching Committee Bulletins/1924/Undated/Text
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Donations for the German friends sent sometime ago through Mr. Roy Wilhelm, -have been acknowledged in a letter from Consul Schwartz, as follows:
"Many thanks for your kind letter.....--I hope that you are in receipt of my letter in which I expressed my best thanks for the first donation of $70.00. Today we have again to thank you for $28.00. I beg to express the heartiest thanks of the National Assembly for your great kindness. We will use the money for the care of the friends who are in need. Your kind remembrance shows the true and kind Baha'i feeling and sentiment for the German believers."
d ay THE CONVENTION AT WORCESTER [ia Ar] From a letter received from Mr. Randall, we quote the following:
"A telegram from Jenab-i Fadil states that he will be with us during the entire Convention. There will be three Congress evenings, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday -- and it is the desire of the Committee to limit the program so as not to tire people and at the same time to give at each Congress meeting one of the best speakers obtainable, which will include Dr. John Herman Randall, Albert Vail and Jenab-i Fadil, there being one principle speaker each night with a good chairman. ~% appears to us that with lovely music, addresses that are not too long, but filled with the spirit, will be more effective than a long program which has been the temptation in the past.
“Phe Ridvan Feast will certainly be very beautiful and give opportunity for not only a welcome to all the friends, but a welcome from many of the friends in five minute addresses. I hope everybody will make the effort to attend this Convention because it is really pivotal in many respects and ought to usher in a new era of growth and unity."
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A NEV BOOK OF VALUE TO ESPERANTO STUDENTS
A book recently published in Washington will be of great intérest to students of Esperanto the world over. It is an Esperantido Text Book by Miss Alice Frances Spiers, and those who understand the New Universal Language say that this grammar or text book should be in the hands of every student, and should be recommended to all who desire to sutdy the universal auxiliary language. ksperantido is “Improved Esperanto." We all know that ‘Abdu'l Baha said that Esperanto was destined to become the Universal Language, but He also added at the time, "that it had not reached a state of perfection." The cost of this book is One Dollar, for sale by the World Language Bureau,
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Tribute of Mr. Louis G. Gregory at The Funeral of Mrs. Brittingham
“After these wonderful words of eulogy, any of mine would seem vain and useless by comparison. Yet as the suggestion has been made, I hope that it is not out of keeping with this occasion to give brief testimony to the wonderful services of our departed friend.
“Most outstanding among her many qualities was her deep spiritual consciousness. Association with her would make any one better informed of both the inner and outer significances of the Baha'i Teachings, and there was no one in all America whose understanding was clearer. Another trait was her universality. Day by day she labored, sacrificing herself that all the people might share. She could adapt her supply of lmowledge to their peculiar needs, and lent her sympathy and kindness to all.
"In her faith she was like the Rock of Gibraltar. No obstacle could shake her, and those whom she taught showed forth faith and firmness. It has been my privilege to know her over a period of years. She once took a journey, coming to my bedside when I was sick anc helpless. On various times when we met, my place, in view of her noble station, was at her feet. It was another sign of the nobility of her nature and her universality that she always seated me beside her and consulted with me as a brother.
"She never faltered through difficulties and afflictions, and in the world today there are many souls who are grateful for her services, many who have found the Light of Reality through the flame of Guidance which shone within her. These, in an ever widening circle, will be her spiritual descent in the world. Her peaceful end, after such a life, brings to us the possibilities of man on this plane, where life is short. We know that this outer form upon which we look, is not she; but only the house in whicn she lived. That bright light, that immortal spirit, has already ascended to her Lord, and is blessed with that blessedness which can come only to those who are firm in the Divine Path. If we could know the rewards of those in the past who were faithful and what wonderful dazzling vistas are open today, surely nothing would for @ moment separate us from the Divine Love........se.
"Baha'u'llah said: 'Didst thou behold immortal sovereignty, thou wouldst strive to pass from this fleeting world. But to conceal the one from thee, and reveal the other unto thee, is a mystery which none but the pure in heart can comprehend.'"
From a letter of Miss Juliet Thompson, dated on 2, 1924:
"I cannot feel grief about ovr beloved Isabella, except that we will see her no more on this plane, because I am so happy with her in her liberation into the Presence of her Lord. I shall never forget those early days in the Cause when she showed me such great love, keeping me days at a time with her, reading her Tablets by the hour with that wonderful spirit of reverence of hers that you and I know so well, leading me into their Divine mysticism, helping me to gaze with her 'divine insight into the souls of the perfect words of eternity' and bringing me my first breaths of a new consciousness that was the most wonderful ecstacy......I shall always feel the utmost and intense gratitude and love to her for the realization of the sacredness of the Cause and of the unfathomable mystery of the Covenant which her om strong realization carried to my heart. Our Lord said to me once: "You must associate with Mrs. Brittingham. She will help you to become more spiritual.'"
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