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CONTENTS	PAGE
Introduction	xi
PART ONE
"O Army of Life"―Words of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá	xvi
A Statement of the Purpose and Principles of the Bahá’í Faith and Outline of Bahá’í History	1
The Passing of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá	7
Survey of Current Bahá’í Activities in the East and West	19
PART TWO
Excerpts from Bahá’í Sacred Writings	49
Soul, Mind, Spirit and the Essence of Divinity	64
A Statement on Present-Day Administration of the Bahá’í Cause	69
Excerpts from the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá	81
The Spirit and Form of Bahá’í Administration	89
Declaration of Trust	90
By-Laws of the National Spiritual Assembly	92
Excerpts from the Letters of Shoghi Effendi	99
Bahá’í Calendar and Festivals	109
Bahá’í Feasts, Anniversaries and Days of Fasting	110
The Mashriqu’l-Adhkár	113
Address of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá delivered at Bahá’í Convention, Chicago, 1912	115
The Structure of the Bahá’í Temple	116
Address delivered by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá at the Dedication of the Mashriqu’l-Adhkár Grounds, May 1912	119
The Mashriqu’l-Adhkár of ‘Ishqábád	121
Brief History of the Mashriqu’l-Adhkár in America	64
Impressions of Haifa	125
Haifa, ‘Akká and Bahjí	129
Kunjangood―The Village of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá	141
Through India and Burma	145
Green Acre and the Idea of World Unity	151
References to the Bahá’í Faith	159
Queen Marie of Romania pays tribute to the beauty and nobility of the Bahá’í Teachings	173
PART THREE
Bahá’í Directory, 1928	181-191
Bahá’í National Spiritual Assemblies	181
Bahá’í Spiritual Assemblies	182
Bahá’í Groups with names and addresses of correspondents	185
Bahá’í Groups	187
Bahá’í Administrative Divisions in Persia	187
Bahá’í Periodicals	190
Bahá’í Bibliography	193-211
List One: Bahá’í Publications of America	193
List Two: Bahá’í Publications of England	197
List Three: Bahá’í Literature in French	198
List Four: Bahá’í Literature in German	198
List Five: Partial List of Bahá’í Literature in Oriental Languages	200
Alphabetical List of Bahá’í books and pamphlets	201
References to the Bahá’í Movement in non-Bahá’í works	207
References to the Bahá’í Movement in Magazines	210
Transliteration of Oriental Terms frequently used in Bahá’í Literature	213
Guide to the transliteration and pronunciation of the Persian Alphabet	214
PART FOUR
Introduction to The Promulgation of Universal Peace	219
Poem―"A Prayer"	224
The Bahá’í Religion―Papers read at the Conference of Some Living Religions Within the British Empire, 1924	225
Paper I―By Horace Holley	227
Paper II―By Rúḥí Effendi Afnán	239
Living Religions and the Bahá’í Movement	243
The Bahá’í Attitude Towards Muḥammad	251
A Modern Interpretation of Muḥammadanism	253
The World-Wide Influence of Quarratu’l-‘Ayn	257
Souvenir Feast of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá	263
The Bahá’í Cause at the Universal Esperanto Congresses at Edinburgh and Danzig	265
On the Borders of Lake Leman	271
Translation of a Letter from the Israelitish Assembly of Bahá’ís of Ṭihrán, Persia	275
Inter-Racial Amity	281
Appendix―Tablet to America revealed by Bahá’u’lláh	285
Bahá’í Persecutions in Persia―An Appeal to His Imperial Majesty Reza Sháh Pahlaví	287
Appendix One―Summary of Bahá’í Teachings	294
Appendix Two―Excerpts from Letters of Bahá’u’lláh to the Sultán of Turkey and the Sháh of Persia	296
Appendix Three―Words of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá concerning Persia	299
Contents of Volume I, Bahá’í Year Book	303

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