Word: bab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public square of Tabriz, Persia, 81 years ago last week, 31-year-old Mirza Ali Mohammad was stoned and shot to death with "a thousand bullets." Known as the Bab (gateway), he had heralded the coming of a mighty world religious leader. Soon as Mirza Ali Mohammad was dead, Mirza Husayn Ali proclaimed himself the predicted leader, took the name of Baha'u'llah (Glory of God). He preached a simple all-inclusive creed, recognizing the divinity of the founders of the world's other religions. His tenets were internationalism, universal peace, love and tolerance for all, education, work...
...Fair in 1893 went one Ibrahim George Khayru'llah to spread Baha'i in the U. S. Founder Baha'u'llah had died the year before and his son Abdu'1-Baha (servant of Baha) had become Expounder & Promoter. Born in 1844 on the very day when the Bab was making his great prediction, Abdu'1-Baha began expounding and promoting late in life, but under his able leadership the faith gained world following. In 1912 he followed Ibrahim Khayru'llah to the U. S., spoke in churches, synagogs, D. A. R. meetings, visited the late William Jennings Bryan...
Like many an oriental cult, the Persian Bahai movement dates itself back to a ''forerunner," one Bab, who was martyred at the age of 31, "his breast becoming the target of a thousand bullets." Bab, in 1844, sagely predicted the coming of the Founder, Baha'u'llah. The Founder spent most of his life in banishment, gathering followers and codifying the cult's beliefs. When he died in 1892 he left the faith in the hands of his son, Abdul-Baha, the Expounder & Promoter, who languished in a Turkish gaol until the release...