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...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 at the home of Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, onetime (1907-09) Lieutenant Governor of New York, member of a famed old family...
...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...
...Said Mr. Sohrab to Mr. Obadie...
...Sohrab adjured the couple: "When God gives you sweet and lovely children, exert yourselves in their education that they may become imperishable flowers in the divine rose garden, nightingales in the ideal paradise, servants of the world of humanity and fruits of the Tree of Life...
Bahaism was originally introduced into the U. S. at the Chicago World's Fair Congress of Religion (1893). Mirzah Ahmad Sohrab, who assisted at the Manhattan ceremony last week, accompanied Abdul-Baha on U. S. visits during 1911-14 as his secretary. Today he is the leader of U. S. 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...