Bahaism and Its Claims: A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Ullah and Abdul BahaWilson, Samuel Graham
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Bahaism and Its Claims: A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Ullah and Abdul Baha
Wilson, Samuel Graham
Bahai Faith -- Controversial literature
[465] A European Jew reports as follows (1914), "The Jewish Bahais in
Hamadan are few in number (exactly fifty-nine besides children). They
have not yet broken with Judaism. They go to the Synagogue and follow
outwardly our religious practices. They deny _in public_ that they are
Bahais from fear of the Mussulmans, who detest the new religion. But the
continual attacks of the Bahais against the Jews will exasperate our
co-religionists, who will cast them out finally. At present the
practical result is hatred and disdain, and bitter dissensions between
fathers and sons, sisters and brothers, husband and wife."
[466] Phelps, p. 96. The Report of the Bahais to the United States
Census Board says, "One may be a Bahai and still retain active
membership in another religious body."
[467] Remey's "The Bahai Movement," p. 97.
[468] Bahaism says, "Christians who do not believe in the Koran have not
believed Christ."
[469] The name of the Society has been changed to the "Orient Occident
Unity," and a commercial department added. Its contributions are
acknowledged, and its work reported through the _Star of the West_ as
Bahai work. An American, who imported a machine flour-mill to Persia,
under its auspices, told the Consul that the object of his coming was
not the mill but propagating Bahaism. In the _Jam-i-Jamsied_, Calcutta,
March 28, 1914, Dr. E. C. Getsinger boasts to the Parsees, "The American
Bahais have established schools in Persia, and have sent American
teachers to those schools."
[470] "Words of Paradise," p. 53.
[471] "The Universal Religion," p. 139.
[472] "Observations of a Bahai Traveller," 1908, p. 77.
[473] Sprague's "A Year in India," p. 16.
[474] Pages 62, 63, 95, 96.
[475] "Bahai Proofs," p. 52. See also Browne's "Mirza Jani's History,"
pp. xxxiii.-vi.
[476] The Bahais are impaled on the other horn of the dilemma also, for,
as Professor Browne says ("Mirza Jani," p. xxxiii.), "The difficulty
lies in the fact that Subh-i-Azal consistently refused to recognize
Baha's claim, so that the Bahai is driven to make the assumption that
the Bab, who is acknowledged to be divinely inspired and gifted with
divine knowledge and prescience, deliberately chose to succeed him one
who was destined to be the 'Point of darkness,' or chief opponent, of
'Him whom God should manifest.'"
[477] "A Year Among the Persians," p. 517.
IX
Its Record as to Morals (_Continued_)
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