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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...
...Guerre with palm, bars and citations. "Luckiest Man" Heinrichs, dapper and kinetic, has won to his side at the new Jerusalem Y. M. C. A. men of many faiths. In his tennis club are 31 Orthodox Greeks, 31 Protestants, eleven Roman Catholics, ten Moslems, nine Jews, seven Gregorians, one Baha'i. Last summer he put on a Y. M. C. A. cross country race with policemen, army officers. Jewish and Arab athletes. The race began near the spot where first broke out the series of Arab-Jewish Wailing Wall riots...
Died. Bahiyyih Khanum, 85, daughter of Baha'u'llah, founder of the Baha'i faith, in Haifa, Palestine. She was regarded by her sect as the world's holiest woman of all time. Baha'is believe in the oneness of mankind, internationalism, universal peace and love, equal opportunities and rights for both sexes. There are some 8,000 believers in the U. S. (TIME, March 10, 1930; July...
...Temple last May met Baha'i's 23d Annual Assembly. Quietly, with little ceremony, 95 delegates from 50 local Baha'i communities elected a board of nine directors for the year. Chairman and head of the U. S. and Canadian movement is Allen Boyer McDaniel, Washington engineer. The organization is simple; there is no proselytizing. People may join (and contribute money) of their own volition. Some who have shown interest are King Zog I of Albania; Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of the late great novelist; Mrs. Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, wife of New York's onetime Lieutenant Governor, whose daughter...
Across the street from the Temple of Light is the Sheridan Shore Yacht Club, a convivial organization which occupies the basement of Architect Benjamin Howard Marshall's gay pink house. So quietly, bothering no one, does Baha'i meet, that last week's celebration of the Bab's martyrdom (with readings and prayers led by Mrs. Corrine True of Wilmette) went quite unnoticed by the yachtsmen...