I am to deal with Bahaism in its latest phases. The term Babi is not appropriate to the religion of Baha nor to his followers. Of the "revelation," it may be said as Jacob said of his wages, they "have changed them ten times." The Bab altered his declarations regarding himself and his statements of doctrine. Subh-i-Azal made further changes. Baha's standpoint in the "Ikan," at Bagdad, differs greatly from that in the "Kitab-ul-Akdas," at Acca. Abbas gave the kaleidoscope another whirl and added his interpretations and emendations. Besides all these, it has been given a Western aspect for Christians. The Rev. H. H. Jessup, D. D., compares it very aptly to the town clock in Beirut, which has two kinds of dial plates. The face turned towards the Moslem quarter has the hands set to tell the hour according to Oriental reckoning; the face towards the Christian quarter, according to the European day. It is the face towards the Christians that I shall look at specially in the present investigation. However historical facts are the same and the main doctrines taught in the West have no essential difference from those of Persian Bahaism. Acknowledgment and thanks are hereby tendered to _The Bibliotheca Sacra_, _The Bible Magazine_, _The East and the West_, _The Church Missionary Review_, _The Missionary Review of the World_, _The Moslem World_, _The Union Seminary Review_, and The _Princeton Theological Review_ for the use of materials which I have previously published in their pages. FOOTNOTES: [1] Nov. 16, 1911, quoted in _Star of the West_, Dec. 11, 1911. I Historical Sketch Does it often happen that the earliest records of a religious movement...pass, within a short time after their completion, into the hands of strangers who, while interested in their preservation, have no desire to alter them for better or worse. So far as my knowledge goes, it has never happened save in the case of the Babi religion.--_"The New History of the Bab," p. xi, by E. G. Browne._ Persia is, and always has been, a very hotbed of systems from the time of Manes and Mazdak in the old Sassanian days, down to the present age, which has brought into being the Babis and the Sheikhis.--_"A Year Among the Persians," p. 122._