[255] Rev. H. H. Jessup, D. D., refers to this incident as published in the _Literary Digest_ (_Outlook, Ibid._, and "Fifty-three Years in Syria," p. 687). He said to Abbas Effendi, "An American woman has stated that she came to Haifa and when she entered your room she felt that she was in the presence of the very Son of God, the Christ, and that she held out her arms, crying, 'My Lord, my Lord,' and rushed to you, kneeling at your blessed feet sobbing like a child. Can this be right to accept worship?" "I left Abbas Effendi with the painful feeling that he was accepting divine honour from simple-minded women from America and receiving their gifts of gold without protest or rebuke." [256] New York _Outlook_, June, 1901, pp. 45, 46. [257] Mrs. Grundy, _Ibid._, p. 73. [258] Page 212. [259] See "Ten Days in the Light at Acca," pp. 71-73; "My Visit to Acca," p. 21; "In Galilee," p. 69; "Heavenly Vista," p. 22; "Daily Lessons," p. 80; "Flowers from Acca," p. 36; "Table Talks," p. 14. [260] Baha, in the "Akdas," forbids women from going on pilgrimage, the adoration of pictures and the kissing of hands. Why does Abdul Baha encourage them? Ignorant devotion has so soon degenerated into superstition and iconolatry. Others are trading on the superstitious. Abdul Baha writes: "I have received news that some one in Persia has imitated the picture of the Manifestation and sold it for $200 to a believer. The real picture is not in the possession of any one but me." [261] "Flowers from Acca," p. 34. [262] "A Heavenly Vista," p. 22; and above references. [263] _Star_, March 2,1914, p. 321. [264] Doctor Jessup, _Outlook, Ibid._, says, "An old Persian Sheikh, in 1897, came to the American Press in Beirut, with a large sheet of paste board on which was written the motto 'Ya Baha ul Abha' and wished to have a map mounted on the face of it. In reply to inquiry why he thus would use it, he said: 'I have had it hanging on my wall for twelve years and prayed to it, and found it to be vanity and worthless. I now prefer to read the Bible.'" VI Bahaism and the State Bahaism certainly does contemplate an earthly dominion which shall eventually subvert all existing governments.--_Doctor Holmes in Speer's "Missions and Modern History," Vol. I, p. 129._ The supreme manifestation of social morality is always government and in formulating a politic, Baha Ullah most clearly earned our reverence as the prophet of modern society.... Democracy alone tends to vulgarize personal values, as the United States proves. By uniting the aristocratic spirit with the democratic form of Government, he insured a politic at once equable and effective.--_H. Holley, "The Modern Social Religion" p. 203._ In calling Babi-Bahaism a worse cult than Mormonism, I do so deliberately.--_S. K. Vatralsky in "Amer. Jour. of Theology," 1902, p. 73._