Word: baha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus one flesh to the satisfaction of the New York State law, Mr. & Mrs. Obadie had still to go through a ceremony according to the gentle tenets of their religion -Baha'i. This loosely organized faith, to which some 5,000 U. S. believers adhere, has no priesthood, is not recognized by civil law as qualified to perform marriages. Nonetheless Mr. & Mrs. Obadie asked a friend to read them the Baha'i service. He was Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Persian poet and a U. S. Baha'i leader. Two nights later they met for the ceremony with friends...
...Wearing a green shirt, Poet Sohrab stood behind a small table upon which were three candles signifying: The Bab, martyred prophet of the Baha'i Movement; Baha-U-Llah, the Founder; Abdul Baha the Expounder & Promoter...
This was the second Baha'i wedding to take place under the auspices of Socialite Mrs. Chanler, her daughter having been similarly married four years ago (TIME, March 10, 1930). A seasoned Baha'i follower like the late Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick of Chicago, Mrs. Chanler currently busies herself with the Green International, an organized anti-war group claiming 2,000 members in the U. S., 1,500 abroad. Its adherents wear green shirts. Originally a green blouse which looked Russian and was inconvenient for street wear, the shirt is now of standard cut in a special olive...
...Does civil law recognize a Baha'i marriage...
Liberals, beginning with a comparatively small number of Universalist, Unitarian and New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian) churches, have come to include also the Latter Day Saints (Mormons) and all such "Philosophical Cults" as Baha'i, Spiritualism, Theosophy. Present membership...