[224] "Answered Questions," pp. 209, 238, 317; _S. W._, June 5, 1913, p. 90. [225] Phelps, p. 116. [226] "Answered Questions," p. 209. [227] _Ibid._, p. 213. [228] Phelps, p. 137. [229] Page 173. [230] Mrs. Grundy, p. 6. [231] "Ten Days in the Light of Acca," p. 23. [232] Pages 121-127, 173. [233] "Tablets of Abdul Baha," Vol. I, p. iv. [234] _S. W._, March 2, 1914, p. 321. [235] "The Bahai Movement," p. 80. [236] _Contemporary Review_, March, 1912. [237] Page 145, Chicago Edition. [238] Goodall, "Daily Lessons," p. 17. [239] Dreyfus, "The Bahai Revelation," p. 59. [240] "Table Talks," by True, p. 21; "Tablets of Abdul Baha," Vol. I, p. 17. [241] _Star_, July 13, 1913, p. 121; "Tablets of Abdul Baha," Vol. I, pp. 118, 124. [242] "Answered Questions," p. 106. [243] "Tablets of Abdul Baha," Vol. I, pp. 149, 150. [244] "Observations of a Bahai Traveller," p. 40. [245] "Tablets," p. 149. [246] "Daily Lessons," Goodall, p. 18; Sprague's "A Year Among Bahais," p. 8; _Star_, 1913, pp. 121, 159, 203. [247] _Star_, Feb. 7, 1914, p. 306. [248] "Daily Lessons," Goodall, p. 74. [249] "Tablets," Vol. I, p. 15. [250] _Star_, Feb. 7, 1914, p. 304. [251] _Star_, Feb. 7, 1914, p. 298. [252] "Glad Tidings," Tablets, p. 90. [253] The Bab's body, at the time of his martyrdom at Tabriz, was thrown to the dogs. It was rescued, taken to Teheran and interred. After many years it was secretly transferred to Acca. The Bab's house in Shiraz was first of all a shrine, and pilgrimage to it is enjoined in the "Akdas." Another is the mausoleum over the grave of the martyrs at Teheran. Similarly at Ispahan ("A Year Among the Persians," p. 13). Abdul Baha seems to desire to increase reverence for shrines and inculcates such honour for the martyrs as will soon develop into superstition. In the "Visiting Tablets for Martyrs," he says (pp. 9-12): "Blessed is the one who attains to visit thy grave. Blessed is the forehead that is set against thy tomb. Blessed is the person who lights a lamp at thy resting-place." "I beg God to make thy sepulchre a mine of mercy, a depository of gifts, and to encompass it with manifold signs." A chant for the pilgrim begins: "O peerless martyr! Verily I salute thy pure dust and thy holy blessed tomb. The everlasting abode is for such as visit thy tomb." [254] "Table Talks," pp. 13, 17.