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...York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, invited the Einsteins to a concert, sat them in a box belonging to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. - So impressed were U. S. citizens with the fame of their guest that few atteided the significance of his remarks. At a meeting of the New History Society, Bahai (universal worship) organization, he urged all pacifists to organize, suggested the League of Nations as organizer. His point: If only as much as 2% of men eligible for military service would refuse to fight, there would not be jails enough to hold them, there could be no war. Mme Rosika Schwimmer...
...Universalist, 27: Quaker, 27: Latter Day Saints, 22: Greek Orthodox, 20, Union Church, 10: Evangelical Church, eight, United Church of Canada, six, Swedenborgian, five: Buddhist, four: Church of New Jerusalem, three: Ethical Culture, three: United Brethren, Mohammedan, and Hindu, two each: Russian Orthodox, Humanism, New Church, Plymouth Brethren Bahai. Armenian Church, Church of God, Laurentian, Seventh Day Adventist, and Church of Christ, one each...
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...
...Bahaism, which differs slightly from the Persian. Some 6,000 U. S. cultists are spread throughout the country with centres in Boston, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco. Manhattan headquarters under the title of the New History Society are at the home of Mrs. Chanler, mother of last week's Bahai bride...
Among famed Bahai communicants are: Queen Marie of Rumania; Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of the late great Russian novelist; Zog I of Albania...