The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-11-03


Bah had announced. His assertion
was hotly contested by his half-brother
who had been named by the Bah as hi!
| immediate successor, and two sects o
Bablsts now exist in the east. DIR
Kheiralla is follower of the Ezelis
| wing and Abdul Karin of the Beha'S
party.
! Previous to the death of Beha-ullat
he made many prophecies and all OF
them came true, say his followers
For Instance he sent letters to all the
crowned heads of Europe, Victoria, Ma
| poleon III, and the Car of Russia
among others, demanding recognition
of his divinity Napoleon ridiculed the
| idea in the reply that he caused to be
sent, whereupon it is said Beha-u'llah
caused him to be Informed that he
would die in exile, and the power of
| France would fall before the foe. Two
| years later France was invaded by
/ German armies. The Gar Of Russia
sent soothing reply and was notified
| that his doom would be assassination.
| Queen Victoria, the only one of all the
| crowned heads who sent a courteous
reply received assurance that her
would be marked by increasing renown.
A great mass of testimony of this ma
ture is to be found in books relating to
the Bah religion, and is believed by
every faithful follower
The teachers of the faith in New
York and other places in this country
call attention to the fact that the year
1914, the birth year of Beha. was that
in which the Millerites in America pre-
pared for the second coming of Christ.
The Millerites were right as to His COM
ing, but wrong as to the manner in
which He would return, say the Babs
"Beha' say the Babs, lis a man per-
feet in humanity" and they add: Be-
ha is Christ returned again. even as He
promised, to perfect that which He had
begun. Beha has come for the perfect
ing of the law of Christ and His in
functions are in all respects similar to
those of Ills other incarnation. For in
stance, we are commanded" they say,
ito prefer rather that we should be
killed than that we should kill. 1t is
the same throughout, and, indeed, could
not be otherwise"
One Of the cardinal points Of the Bah
list teaching is that all the prophets
were true teachers; and that there is
no disagreement among them; all teach
the same truth, but in such measure as
men can receive it. One spirit speaks
all the prophets. Mankind adj
vances, and as it does SO it needs new
instruction. Abraham's teaching was
suitable and sufficient for the people Of
his dou I'm 1ont tp
Moses was sent, nor yet for those to
whom Christ was sent.
Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, more prominent
because of her great wealth than many
other of her American sisters, paid a
visit to the Beha, and was impressed
with his conversation. Since her visit
to Syria she has been a continuous and
munificent contributor to the cause,
and, it is reported, recently gave ten
thousand dollars to the fund being
raised by Abdul Karen to carry on the
work in the east.
Another convert, Miss Farmer, the
founder of Greenacre farm, in Maine,
visited Acre last spring, and her inter
view with the Master has been the
theme at meetings of the beirsieve
1CtAI III lilio Ilty anu he tIlCtSu. NILES /
Farmer, it seems, wrote out fifteen |
questions that she desired to put to the |
Beha, and had the paper containing !
hem folded between the pages of her I
Bible which she held in her hand. AS
she was ushered into the audience hall |
he secretary of the Master told her to
stop a moment, and then repeated to |
Ter what the Master instructed him to
say to her. She heard from his lips the
fifteen questions she had brought with |
her! So impressed was she with this
revelation of his superior knowledge !
that she tainted. Subsequent inter-
Jews confirmed her faith and in
'reased her desire to serve the Masters
,ause, and she has returned to her
nome convinced that she has seen and +
alked with the rencarnated Christ
Miss Lillian Whiting has been con-
rinced of the genuineness of the Beha's
eligion, and has returned to her home
n Boston an ardent Babst. Mr.. and
Hrs. Gesterfeld of Detroit, journeyed
o Acre to see the Bella and returned to
New York in the early summer pre-
Jared to give up everything and be-
,ome followers of the Beha.
Some years before DR.. Kheiralla
anne to New York from Syria to tell
he west of the Beha Laurence OIL
,hant in his Life in Modern Pales-
inc" published in London in 1897 de-
'oted chapter to the ''Babs and their
Prophet" and described a visit paid by
i'm to one of the Beha's gardens in the
icinity of Acre. His account of the
'abs colony was gathered from hear
ay, for he did not see the Beha or be-
ONE acquainted with any of his imme-
late household The most interesting
f all accounts given of the Beha by a
ersonal acquaintance is that of Pro-
essor e. G. Browne, of Cambridge uni
ersity, who spent a week at Acre in
.pril, 1890, and held four different in
arviews with him.
Acre, Mr.. Browne found to be COW
red with a wealth of beautiful gar
ems and fragrant orange groves, and
G was told that the change had taken
lace in the thirty odd years in which
ne Beha had lived there. He was in
tailed as a guest in the Behje, where
yes the Bella, his wife, sons, sister !
nd disciples, and he says of his stay
lere: Here did I spend five most
honorable days, during which / en-
,yed unparalleled and unhoped for OPP ,
ortunities with those who are the very
of that mighty and Won
rouS spirit which works with invisible