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Human Feeling — I am fulfilling part of
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to any hungry heart — then it has
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LESSED is he -who. is' charitable for he shalj inherii
B      Eternal Life.            O'

Blessed is he who o'^oks the faults of others fpi- he shall
enjoy Divine Beatithde.
Blessed is he who associates with all with joy and fragrance
for he has obeyed the commands of BAHA’O’LLAH.
.Blessed is he who is kind to his enemies for he has walked
in the footsteps of Christ.'
' Blessed ijS he who proclaims the doctrine of Spiritual Brother-
hbod for he s'nall be the Child of Li^ht.^            ^ '
f .         Blessed is he whose heart is tender and compassionate for-
he will throw ^at^nes at no one.          ,                      f '
Blessed is he“ who will speak evil of no one for hp hajhr at- .
{ained to the^good pleasure of the. Lol?3;       '
Blessed is'^he who will not uncover the sins 6f others for he
will become favored at the Threshold‘of the Almighty.
Blessed is he who hath a forgiving nature for he will win
the spiritual graces of God. ' ■               '             .!
Ble.ssed is he who diffuses only the sweet'fragrance of the
flowera of friendship and rnutual association for\^e will obtain
a goodly portion of the bounties of the Mereiful.                    i
Blessed is he who teaches union and, concord |or he will.,
shine like unto a star in heaven.                  '                 V
r.y         Blessed is he who practices loving kindness and co-operation
for he will be encircled with celestial benediction.
Blessed is he who comforts the downtrodden for he will J3e
the friend of jGod.
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A Late Letter From Abdul Baha.                                               To Live The Life Is—                      ^
To be no cause of grief to any one.
'T/ His Honor                                                                          To be kind of all people and to love them with a pure spirit.
David Buchanan, -                                                                       Should opposition or injury happen to us, to bear it, to be
Portland, Oregon.                                                                  as kind as ever we can be, and-through all, to love^the people.
Should calamity exist in the greatest degree, to rejoice, for these
Upon him be Baha’o’llah el Abha!                     '   n                    things are the gifts and favors of God.
HE IS GOD! "                                             ,                        To be silent concerning the faults of others, to pray for them, .
and to help them, through kindness, to correct their faults.
O thou who are turning thy face to tlie Kingdom of GOD!'
Thy letter dated Dec. ^nd, 1918, was received. Altho the                            To look always at the good and not at the bad. If a man has
r^resentatives of various governments are assembled in Paris,                       ten good qualities and one bad one, look at the ten and forget the
in order to lay the foundations of Universal Peace, and thus                        one. And if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to
bestow rest and comfort upon the world of humanity, yet mis­                        look at the one and forget the ten.
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understanding among some individuals is still predolhinant and                           Never to allow ourselves to .speak one unkind word about
self-ihterst still prevails.                                                      '^nother,. even though that other 'be our enemy.
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In such an atmosphere Universal Peace will not be pra^ic-                          To do all oi(r deeds in kjndness.        ^       ^
able; nay rather, fresh difficulties will arise. This, is because
interests are conflicting and aims are at variance.                                     To cut our hearts from ourselves and from the world.
We pray and beseech at the Divine Threshold and beg for                            To be humble.                            '
the world of humanity, rest and composure. For Universal P^e                          "To be servants of each other, and to-know, that we are less
will not be brought alwut thru human power, and shall not shine                    than any one elsef                     ' ,        7   .
in full splendor unless this weighty and important matter shall
be realized thru the Word of GOD, and be made to shine forth                           To be as one soul in many bodies; for the more we love each
thru fthe influence 0^ the Kingdom of GOD.                                         other, the nearer we shall be to God; but to know that eur love,
Elventually it shall be thoroly established thru the power                   .qur unity," our obedience must not be by confession, but of reality.
of BahaVllah.                                                                           To act with cautiousness and wisdom.
Vejily, his honor. President Wilson, is self-sacrificing in                        To be' truthful. '                                   \
this path, and is striving heart and soul, with perfect good will
in the world of humanity.                                                               To be hospitable.
Similarly the equitable government of Great Britain is ex­                         To be reverent.
pending a great deal of effort.
To be a cause of healing for every sick one, a comforter for
Undoubtedly the general condition of the people and the state                 every sorrowful one, a pleasant water for every thiristy one, a
of small oppressed nations will not remain as before. Justice
heavenly table for every hungry one, a star to every horizon, a
and right; shall be fortified, but the establisment of Universal
Peace will be realized fully only thru the Power of the Word of                    light for every lamp, a heralj} tc> every one who yearns for the
GOD.                    '                                          I               kingdom of God.         *          7                *
(Signed) ABDUL BAHA ABBAS.                                          ^ ,                            —ABDUL BAHA. ;
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r.Art Incident of the Capture of Haifa and                                 TO THE EDITOR OF REALITY
How Tliey Found Abdul Baha                                       Your publication .“Reality” desired to be Another “voice
crying in the wilderness”, will, I am sure meet, with a hearty re­
sponse by the seekers of Light, and the Pilgrims who have, lost
As told by his Secretary Mirza Ahmad Sohrab.                  th sir wsy       •                              ■
May its columns fee alive with the words of Baha’o’llah and
Abdul-Baha!          J           ,                 ^
That Sun of Reality,, Baha’o’llah has indeed risen, heralding
There is to be held in New York, April 26—30 inclusive, at         the day of Life, of bestowal, of deeds. It.will illumine and dirwt
the Hotel McAlpin a convention of t^ese people whcT call them­          the world of motive, enlighten the sphere of thought, and shed its
selves Bahais whose greeting is “Alaho Abha.” They are fol­             rays of the love of God upon action.                     ■   A.u
lowers of the Persian Prophet AbdHl' Eaha.                           ' \-   This Sun of Redlity has risen at the appointed time,- that
This is- interesting from the fact that several months ago      • time foretold byi all the prophets. No night will follow its rising.
Abdul Baha and his follo\Yers were found alive .and in good health      “But it shall be one day which shall be known to the -Lord not day
by the British upon their occupation and capture of Haifa, Syria.       nor night but it shall come to pass that at evening time it shall

The capture of Acca was most dramatic and inspiring, as the           This Sun of Reality will illumine the West and the East, and
taking of Acca and Haifa were the most brilliant and spectacular             *
wilf shine  !*■____n__ J?____
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the meridian of its rrlnrv
glory. Tf.fl
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rays are
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of the Holy Land campaign.                                            the fire of the \de of God, that pure alchemical Kre that will
refine and purify the hesirts of humanity. Through knowledge
There is a'small chain of mountains just bade of these towns
and the understanding of wisdom it will adorn the right hand of
and upon the other side: lies an extensive plain. The British         the West and the East with the mystery of the spirit of the
occupied the plain and directed a bombardment over the mount­
Brotherhood of Man,, that will fulfill the purpose of God and His
ains which lasted for a number of days. Then without a
moment’s warning fifteen thousand British cavalry comppsed                 Verily His greatest harmony is in His greatest \jiversity!
mostly of Colonial and Indian horsemen charged through the
passes,’split into three columns artd each yelling his own battle                                                  '   A. N. JJ. C.
cry surrounded the two cities, broke up into smaller columns and
entered through every street.                                  • -
This was accomplished with such promptness that though
the Turks had their horses ready for instant flight, over a thous­                               Reality
and were captured. It seems that, panor to this, all the division
Commanders had been instructed that, immediately upon occupa­                              By Isab^el Fraser Chamberlain.
tion, Abdul Bal^ was to be found at once and that he and all his                                                             V
followers were to be placed under the protection of the British
The word “reality” is on the tongues of men.                k.
Flag. '                           ‘
'   The great reality of this age is the teaching of Baha’o’llah.
' When the .Commanding General arrived at the-house of             • ■ Who^s Bal)a’o’llah?        ,                     ;
Abdul' Baha, he found the venerable prophet serene and undis-              In the last century the reaUty of all things has been un­
1 urbed—the General’s greeting was “Al^a Abha”—for he was
covered.                                "
a Bahais.                                                                  There appeared oh earth three great beings—The Bab or^

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Herald—Baha’o’llah or Glory of God—Abdul Baha or. Station of                              THE SIXTH SPNSE.
Servitude.
The Bab foretold the coming of one through whom all nations
j,nd peoples of the earth would be united.                                         After sight, hearing and taste, after touch and smell—after
\       Baha’o’llah came as prophesied and proclaimed the law for              or before the five senses—inscrutably the si.xth sense reigns. No
the age of peace.                                                           man but is dominated by its power. It is the image we feel ever
behind our own when we gaze^to the mirror of consciousness,
Abdul Baha isUhe expounder of the law.                                 the image that never stands revealed because we ourselves are in
Verily this is'the fulfillment of all the prophicies in all the        the way. It is the shadow of the kiffower falling upon and de.s-
Holy Books.                                                                  Iroying knowledge. It is the recoiling ecstasy of remorse, those
Abdul .Baha in addressing the sons of men declares that           , wings feathe ed black and gold. , It is the calm majestic reces'
“The Hosts of the Kingdom of Abha are drawn up in battle'                    sion of triumph, like the flowihg''of waters or the drawing of
‘array oiuthe plane of th^ supreme apex,and are expecting that                curtains, by which the mind learns the futility of all desire save
a band of volunteers step upon the field of action with the inten-           the desire to be. It invokes the mo.st sensitive element in us all.
rion of “service so that they may assist that band and make it               whether memory or hope, will or desiref fear or love, bringing
victorious and triumphant.” , •                                              by whatever means are available an awareness of a beyond, an
outside, less of place than of self; an awareness not so much
knowledge as-compulsion, like the irresistable on-thrust of time.
vLike sleep it comes'and goeS:—^present, it is most absent; absent,
nearest at hand, Superior intelligence can more closely seize its
Prayer When Assuming Daily Duties                                          apprehension, though thought cannot bid it come. Virtue can
' ■ refine its influence and effect, though even love may not encom­
pass its flight. It levels all experience as the sun levels the hills.
He is the Exalted and Truthfol!            .                   It levels all experience by the suggestion, the promise or the
threat, of one imminent experience, i'nfinitely different and
I have Come to this day, 6 my God, by 'Thy Generosity, and               supreme. Before that imminence^whatever life has been seems
1 depart from the-house, depending upon Thee and delivering my                the shadow of nonbeing, poetry written upon water, motherhood
affairs unto Thee.
expended for a doll. The sixth sense in men is the sense of
Send down upon me from the heavens of Thy Mercy a special                 mystery.
blessing from Thy Presence: Then bring me bacic in peace and                        All motive, whether primal instinct or intellectualized con­
righteousness, as Thou hast sent me forth.      .                              viction, flows into our pe*sonal apprehension of mystery as
. The e is no God but Thee!      Thou art the One bf‘Knowledge              st' earns flow into the sea. It gathers every experience into its
and Wi.sdom!     ‘ -                                                         Own invisible deep. Experience enacts itself for each life within,
a landscape friendly or ominous as each life’s contact with mys­
tery has descried. In the sense of my4te’*y our values take their
I ask Thee, 0 Ruler of exi.stence and Beloved of all who. are              essence and their form. For some, its light turns things evil to
in the world of creation, to assist me in all conditions, that I may            good. For some, its darkness turns things good to evil. The
advance toward the Goal of Thy Command, and that 1 inay ever                    sincere witness, c”oss-examining himself, will testify at last on*
show forth Thy Love among Thy creatures: Then grant me,                         thing only; the nature of that vision he had whCn the world of
through*Thy Bounty, that which^ill benefit m’e in this world                    the five senses withdraw, the ^xth sense compe|ling. The sin­
and in the world to come. ’Thou art the Almighty, the Supreme,                  cere witnesses he who finds hiijnself beyond the range of word
the Precious, the Powerful!                                                     or sign.                                      '            ’   .   ^
Rut where words and signs dominate, the, mystery with-
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drawn, they divide conviction as-the seasons divide the \ear.            the pattern is upon the wall. But if he turns about, now’ to one
For the sense of mystery leaves \>ehind among men two different         side, now to another, and still sees the same pattern, he must
impressions, by which men are stationed more truly than by mind         realize that the pattern is not of the wall but of his own spectacles.
or hand or blood. There comes from old the witness of the                The test is w'hether the pattern moves with his moving, or re­
mystery of dice—^blind chance, without meaning, without interpre­       mains motionless in one place. But the philosophies elaborated
tation, without responser More than half the symbols by which            1.0 justify intuition move constantly as experience moves. And
the race has recorded its spiritual landscapes could be expressed        thus since the sense of mystery accompanies thought and emotion
by the gambler’s apparatus. As the dice fall, so the day and the        to their farthest bound, both in the devotee of chance and in the
y nian. As the dice fall, so the- days and mankind. The high and            believer of spiritual truth, we know' that neither philosophy had
[ the low of earth alike wait helpless before the revolving wheel.          its origin nor its justification in outer fact, but each alike derives
Rewards and penalties are various, but chance is one. Illusion          inevitably from the quality of the consciousness to which it is
has many veils, b^t reafity is one. Go to the end of your own           habitual. There is but one^ustifiable form in w’hicW the ever­
(ether—but none can ever break the invisible cord. Freedom—             lasting debate may be,discussed: whether consciousness itself;;^!!
that is the subtlest illusion of them all. And why not? The             its essence, is, a mechanical or a s^ritual thing.
■stars ride above all, the fatal stars, themselves haphazard flung            And it is no slight, unimportant furtherance of inquiry to
within the nothingness of space. The kipg’s robe, 'brpidered           come to feel that the inquiry stands upon this particular ground.
with knowledge and dream—the king’s robe, too, covers a                For the external wmrld of space'and event has ever favored a be­
prisoner’s c^ain.         / ■             .    •                       lief in chance as the essence of fate. To search a lifetime
Across.'the watershad, where experience flows the, opposite,      throughout matters external is to become at last part of their
w'ay, mystery from of old takes to itself another form. To the         restless movement and actuality. It is to lose the sensitive dis­
child, music is mysterious, yet music can be learned. To the           crimination testing the qualities of e.xperience by the recollection
savage, mathematics are mysterious, yet from /savages mathe­           of faith-—by the recollection that faith once justified itself to the
matics slowly, gradually came. And so it is that altough war          ..inner guardian—and acce"pt a "standard for things offered by the
follows war, and famine on famine feeds, and the world’s increas­      things themselvete. It is a fact that- the mystery of fchance a.^r
ing control of nature is only matched by its increasing reckless­       dominating j;he world never came from the depths of life, but is
ness of life, yet those in whom the sense of mystery has registered    the glittering surface of 'concrete things and evehts permitted all
not as chance but as the attainable unattained—those meet the          too unwisely to blind the lustful eye. It is a fact' that w’hile two
argument of fact -wdth hopeful insistence, relying upon a truth        opposite mysteries seem unalterably opposed, there is but one
for which no reality avails. And as scieitte shifts its attack’         mystery to which illusion itself opposes. But there is a gradual
from the emptiness of space to the mechanics of heredity, these       i;ransition from the sense of mystery to'the sense'of illusion
" still faithful toJ;heir vision admit even their own pre-natal infer-'     seemingly mysterious, a transition so gradual that any' one con-
iority but exult in a superiority that knows nor birth nor death.      .sciousness may pass over without awareness of the fact. It is a
Let life be chemistry, if it must, yet the-seething caldron of          t'-ansition downward, a subtle degradation of vital energy into
consciousness has for some at least set free an element with which      destructive motion—motion, .which, once released, never/can of
they feel themselves familiar to an eternal God.'             i         itself be raised to that height of energy again.^ So to accept the
Impression cannot be matched against impression, for all          debate upon the grounds of truth as truth? is presented by the
are equal in the democracy of truth. It is thropgh its alliance         universe is for the spiritual to lose their entire cldim. It is ever\
with e.xternal fact that impression acquires currency and value.        mo-e—^they join themselves, unwittingly, 'to their enemies and
And so the two opposed intuitions have, throughout the ages of          make a hostile cause their own.
.speculation, attached them.selves to the uniye"se of sen.se and              If We draw’ closely to the debate as it has gone on from school
, event, brooding over it, drawing near and nearer then far and            to school, w'e perceive very readily that the force behind each
farther away, constantly changing their perspective in the' effort     argument can be measured in terms of a certain condition in
to set claim to one more weapon in the clash of minds. No-w if -       social development. It is more particularly w'hert the individual
»■ a man sees a pattern before him-in a dim light, he will believe            mind is surrounded* by a great accumulation of treasure—w'hen,
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Its own capacity seems weak in comparsion with its inherited                     cannot perceive w'hence the forces come. For a new experience
knowledge—^that the doctrine of chance becomes generally ac­                     enters the mind by the most accesible door—and the mind judges
ceptable The universe, and consciousness itself, become ap­                      it by comparsion with the experience entering most often the
parently mechanical and devoid of spiritual claim precisely when                 .same way. It is only by standing outside the personal attitude,
consciousness tends least to exert its own innate power. As a                    and estimating the force historically, that one can perceive that
merely passive force employed to register an abundant inherit­                   behind the force whose influence begot confidence in the soul---
ance of art, philosophy and experience, the soul actually comes                  confidence to be—invariably a Messenger stood. Invariably it
tt5 iustifv the mechanical theory. As society grows in institu-                  has been the Message that inspired the soul. It is the Message
Lns, the soul diminishes by functions. It witnesses power all                    that awakens the soul to itself, as the lover awakens the uncon­
about itself, and the spectacle overawes its own instincts. Then                 scious heart of a girl. Being is a gift from without, not an
the soul is caught up into the restless movement of mechanical                   attainment from within.
. things, and the only record it leaves behind is the record of aim­                    The sense of mystery in life is a harkening to the Messenger’s
less wandering abroad for a happiness and a peace it left unre­                 footsteps; the footsteps that echoed away long since, but surely
cognized at home.                                              ;■               to return,
For all knowledge and all art, yes all wealth too, originally ^                                                    —HORACE HOLLEY.
came from active functions of the soul. The soul dismayed at
the world is dismayed at/its own creation. For the soul gave
these things of its own abundance to the, world; the world never                     The following are from the Persian
•>-ave one thing to the soul. The \vorld is a dry desert filled only
from the overflow of the soul. It is in this desert that so many                          “Hidden Words”
are walking, walking, each with his cup which nevey can be filled
save with.the bitterness of Salt; an eternal spring all unknown                O MY SON!                                                 ■   .
flowing in the deeps of his own heart. Before him rises a               V        ,    The Cohipany of the wicked increaseth sorrow, and the
mirage which day after day he pursues, past the bodies of the                    fellowship of the righteous removetli the rust of the mind.
dead, until he too lies down wearily among them, dying. The                      He who desires to associate with God, let him associate with
glitter of the world is the glitter of a mirror, bright by the sheer           . His Beloved; and he who desires to hear the word of God,
perfection of its own nothingness.                .     .                        let him hear the'Words of His chosen ones.
' “/ have created thee rich, why hant thou made thyself poor?
Noble have I crowned thee, why hast thou deyraded thyself?”                   o'fRIENDS! X,            '             '          7    .
As the soul ^ibsides within itself, like a flame to ashes, the                  Truly I say — all that ye have, concealed in yoiir hearts,'
presence of God grows incredible and remote. For God is to the                   is clear to Us, clear, manifest and open as the day; but the
soul as heat is to the flame, and the only “proof” of God is His                 cause of concealment is from Our Generosity and Mercy^ not
possession. God does not inhabit the world of chance; His law              ■A from your merit.
does not control that world; Ills traces are a^nt from it. The               O SONS OF ADAM!                                     ^
world of chance derives from men’s own ex|ferience of darknes.s                      “The good word”,and pure and holy deeds ^cend to the
and cold. To escape that world, and enter the world where God                   glorious Heaven of Oneness. Strive that thy deeds may be
is, one must rekindle the flame. This is of the essence of spiri­               cleansed from the dust of hypocrisy and from the tuihidness
tual experience: that the realization of soul is identical with thei            of self and passion, and thus enter the glorious Presence of
realization of Gbd.                                                             Acceptance. For soon the Assayers of Existence, in the
But there is a characteristic condition o^ society, also, when,            portico of the Presence of the Worshipped One, shall accept
.■the soul comes into its own. From time to time strange force.«                  naught except pure deeds. This is the Sun of Wisdom and
blow across .the world of minds, as winds blow across the wheat.                Significances which has dawned from the horizon of the
• And before the.se fbfces men bow and are bent, .even while they                  Mouth of the.Divine.Wilh Blessed are they wfho advance.
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ciples have since been presented there, at monthly meetings, by
THE STEPPING STONE                                              iS                  Bahai friends, together with excellent music.

THAT GATHERS NO MOSS                                                           In connection with the “Bread-line”, spontaneously organ­
ized at the two Stepping Stones, thousands have been fed. In
all, about 35,000 people have been freely provided with food,
Trials are stepping stones unless we make them stumbling blocks.
about 3,000 with lodging, and hundreds helped along to positions.
Through securing work for the “Breacjliners,” the backbone of
Some seven months ago was the above sign engrossed in                                  the “Breadline”''!^ been broken and both suffering and danger
golden letters on the show' window of a modest store, No. 203
averted.
East 9th Street, New York City..
\   Some thirty days ago a similar sign went up at No.                                        Some of the Bahai friends have come forward with both
Bowery, about twenty blocks away, close to Chinatown and the                             service and financial help, and are now paying the rent of the ori­
“Tin-Pan Market”, between Bayard and Canal Street.                                       ginal Stepping Stone, on Nintfe; Street, contributing to its fur­
Poor Men’s Clubs are they, wherein material and spiritual                           nishing and decollating, as well as helping to furnish and support
food is served night and day with Bahai ,1‘love and fragrance’.
the Bahai Home, now being organized at No. 12 Stuyvesant
Bom in Loving Service, their household desires to remain -
, Street, just across the way, whero aged working-women will find
unknown except as the “Servants of the Servants”. ' ’Oieir ^
founder craves but for the station of “The Shepherd s Dog at the                         lodging amidst loving service.
Shepherd’s Feet”.         /                  „    .         i, i •                              And what inspired all this—the following passages of* the
These are stepping stones in fact as well as in name, helping ,                        Hidden Words:            .                            .
men to step from the lowest .of earth’s strata to the highest of
The poor among ye are My trust. Therefore ^ard My
heaven’s realms.                                                x- i                                 Trust, and be not wholly occupied with your owAease.
Followmg the example of the Master, the hup^y are first
fed wholesorne material food ‘ere t^iey list’ to the spiritual har-         •                         Guidance hath ever been by words, but at this time, it
''          is by deeds. That is, all. pure deeds must appear from the '
Strict vegetarianism is practiced. Neither are coffee, tea,                                  temple of man, because all are partners in words, but pure
nor condiments, served. ?moking is absolutely prohibited.        '                                and holy deeds belong especially to dur friends. Then strive
Bahai meetings are held in t^e evehing, bringing together                                    with your life to be distinguished among all people by deeds:
the most cosmopolitan of people from all parts of the city, parti­                                Thus We exhort ye in the holy and radiant Tablet.
cularly frbm the East Side.             .   ..      j >        r 4-                           '' These Stepping Stones are, simply the Glad Tidings announc-
The Message has been delivered to thousands o| eager list-
' eners of all 'creeds-, races and stations, who in turn sow the seed         *               ed by the Master*in a Tablet addressed ‘^To.the Ass^bled Friends
in all parts of the city and country.                '                                      in the Bowery Mission”, April 5th, 1913, in which he said:
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In co-operation with Joe Justice — Joe fhe Jew ,          ma­         ’ •                       Glad tidings be unto you, for the Doors of the Kingdom
terial and spiritual food has been delivered every Wednesday                      ■S              of God are open before your faces and the Glances olthe'^eyes
night at the Midnight Mission, of the Rescue Society, at No. 5                     .              of Mercifulness have encircled you.      •   ‘           n ,
Doyers Street, Chinatown, and in co-operation with John Carroll, .
/ at the All-Night Mission, every Friday night. About 10,000                         ;                      ‘         The noble .soul in.spired to do this Great X^ork i.s iirbain j
men were thus fed.- The very bfest of vocal and instrumental                                                   Ledoux — whose name is on the lijjs of thousands who have
music was, also furnished by Bahai friends.                     ^                     .■                       heard of his.Mi.ssion and whose image is engraved injoving ■-
.        ■ remembrance of kindness, sympathy and helpfulness or, ;
By invitation of Dr. Hallimond, the Sixth Anniversary of. the             ' •'          !                 hundreds of hearts
visit of Abdul Baha at the Bowery Mission was held, at that                                 , ' ■                                                         (Editor’s note.!.
Mission on .April'19th, 1918, and the Twelve Basic Bahai Prin-
From A Worlding                                              Eleventh Annual Mashreck El Askar
r       The Hope of the Multitude is in- the Spiritual Education of
Bahai Congress
.-VJStD
the Individual.   v                  '
WHAT IS A BAHAI?                    x                              Feast Of El-Rizwan
He is the richest man on Earth—-his Heaven is Here and
Now—liis home is the World—he can not be lonely—for every.                                                     ■ -'   "X       -

* man is his Brother—he cannot be sad for the Joy of Knowledge                        HOTEL McALPIN — NEW YORK CITY
is his—^he can not be poof for the Treasury of God is open to him                                April 26^-30, 1^19.
—^he cannot worry for his hand is in the Hand of the Great
Protector.                       •              '                                                       :—^                        '
S.VrURDAY, APRIL 26th.
A woman once told me she thought every one Iiad a soul save        5 P. M. Rec'eption In Ci>ngress Hair to all the friends. ,
a plumber—she did not stop to think that much of the refinement         6 P. M. Feast of EI-Bizwan —
and exquisiteness of life comes from the work of a plumber.                 Chairman:/.Mrs. AMce Ives ,Breed. New .York City.^ r
/     ■                <           *   “

If you worry too much to-day you won’t live to worry to­                         SECOND SESSION BAHAI CONGRESS                           ’
morrow. -                                                             SUNDAY, APRIL 27thr — .3 o’clock P. M.
Chainnan: Howard MacNiitt. Brooklyn,           »
If you love enough and have faith enough in the Greatest
Love of All you ean change your own condition and the condition       SUNDAY APRIL           — 8 o’clock P. M.    ’ .'               7
Chairman: Mrs. Mabel Rice-Wray, Detroit.
of the World.
.AIONDAY, APRIL 28th, — 10 o’clock:
Meeting of Masheck el A.skar
Man struggles to amass a fortune—so he may “take it easy.”        ■X Convention for transaction of business.        ' 4
__The greatest slave on earth is the man who has to take care
MONDAY, APRIL .28th, — 3 o’clock P. M.
of millions.                                                                Chairman: Horace Holley, New York.
Lust is like the tiger brought in its infancy from the jungle     MONDAY, APRIL 28th, — 8 o’clock P. M.
' __it is sweet and playful at first^but bye and bye it turns and               Chairman: Grace Oher, CamVidge, Mass. •
rends you.                                                             'I'UESDAY, APRIL 29th, - 10 o’clock A. M.
Meeting of Mashreck el Askar                 ,       .
Com’ention for the tran.saction of business.
Hurry up and do a great work for Humanity—millionaires
are dying every day and taking nothing with them—if you help         TUESDAY, APRIL 29th, - 3 o’clock P. M.
the needy you will take their prayer^" and if you don’t think they          Chairman: Roy C. Wilhelm, New York City. •'
are any good now you will When you “cross over.”                     TUESDAY. APRIL .29th, -.8 o’otockxP. M.
Chairman: Zoraya Fraser Chariberlain, Boston.
The quest for a new sensation is the most boring thing in       AVEDNESDAY, APRIL 30th, - 3 o’cldck P M
the world—try helping others for a while and being good,—It’s               Chairman: William H. Hoar, _ Pan wood. N. J.
really delightful.                                                   WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3o\h, -• 8 o’clock P.’ At!
• — WANDEYNE.                        Chairman: -Jhliet, Thompson. New York.

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