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Drama is essential to the launching of a new religion. Christian Science was the rare exception; Mary Baker Eddy started it in 1866 simply by having a revelation. Conforming to the rule is another latter-day faith, Baha'i, which commemorated last week with services in 65 cities in the U. S. Its drama, not unlike the Christian Good Friday, was a drama of martyrdom...
...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 and equality for men and women. Persecution, next best thing to martyrdom for making...
...International Congress of Religion at the Chicago World's 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...
Patriarchal, seamy-faced, sad-eyed, the Expounder & Promoter died in 1921, aged 77. He had insured the hierarchic succession (though never claiming divinity) by providing a grandson to carry on. Shoghi Effendi who now lives in Haifa, Palestine. He had designated the U. S. as a Baha'i centre by laying the cornerstone of a mammoth Temple of Light near where Chicago's drainage canal flows out of Lake Michigan in Wilmette, Ill. This will serve the Baha'i's in the western world?some 3,000 believers. Less pretentious but serving some 2,000,000 communicants are the three...
...composed of two superimposed stories and a great Oriental dome. As yet incomplete, its concrete sides will be covered with fancy stonework, the dome filled in with translucent glass. Three-quarters of a million dollars, half of its eventual cost, have been expended upon it, but now Baha'i has no more money, and will ask for none. All contributions must be voluntary, from people to whom it represents an actual sacrifice. But Chicago rumor says that Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, who does not need to scrimp and sacrifice, was a large contributor to the building fund last year...