Word: bahai
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There stood last week in Manhattan before a small table on which gleamed two chaste candles, a man, Charles Clarke, and a woman, Elsie Benkard, step-daughter of onetime Lieutenant Governor Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler of New York. First socialite Manhattanites to be married according to the Bahai religion, they chanted...
Officiating was Mirzah Ahmad Sohrab, accredited U. S. leader of the Bahai cult. Stocky, moist-eyed, he adjured them...
...simple a fashion, the pair had ostensibly become one flesh. Not until one alert newsgatherer noticed that no license had been used during the ceremony was it discovered that Mr. & Mrs. Clarke had taken the precaution of being married at the municipal building chapel the morning before the Bahai wedding. Subsequent investigation proved that the judicious civil ceremony was quite in keeping with the gentle faith of Bahai, one of whose principal tenets is tolerance of established custom...
Mountfort Mills, senior warden of St. Marks-in-the-Bouwerie (classic dancing church of Dr. Guthrie) is head of the Bahai movement in New York. Bahai hopes to capitalize present denominational differences. Further conferences will be held...
...Bahai aims to unite all sects, creeds, races, in love and the other well-known phrases. Its principle of unity has already been violated by schism...