The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-08
LITTLE 4 BABTTS And BIG.
HERESY AMONG THE FAITHFUL
VINO ADORE ZIA JULIAN.

n You Would offend Neither Party Call
Him He" In small CAPS. for Heaven
Unly Knows whether He's Entitled 70
GCap III" or Nothing Bat Lower case
There IL heresy and schism among the
Babists. Things are 80 unsettled q ~ no
one knows for certain Just who are the
heretios and who the orthodox. One alone
can settle it--ziA 'U1lah Ehendl, who dwells
"a Aka, the Turkish City Of Exile The
mambers Of one division maintain that
He knows. The members Of the other side
aErOe that he knows. Whether or no that
shes a capitalized makes half the diheren %
between orthodox and heterodo1. II you
want 10 play safe among Babists, use small
oapltals In the personal pronou . which
refer 70 zia 'Ullah Bnendi.
Thia 10 the plain and simple point OF dis
aTeement between the secta Zia 'U'nAh
Ehondi u grandson Of Iela 'U'llah, the
oriRinAl Bah. II the Messiah IL TO appear
tSS years after the year S4Si, which makes
the year 1905, reasoning backward 10 the
Ollam books and keeping In mind the para
blo Of the son Of Justice wherein the Divine
Hour fastened unveiled from the Spiritual
Palace, Questioning names all save one
name (and when they insisted the hrst
lettsr Of that name flowed forth from the
tonRus); then the Healer appeared 10 the
People Of Lights In 1897, whereof It was
spoken from the Retreat Of NearneSs'
More than this isnot permissible ,; therefore
zia 'U'llah Ehendi IL divine as we'll as the
original Bah, and u you spell his pronouns
with a small letter you are damned.
But II this isn't 20, you can use lower case
initials In writing Of Zia 'C'llah Ehendi
without the slightest risk.
{ Perhaps II Is easy, from this clear yet
rapid summary, 10 see which side 10 In the
right.
But Brother MacNutt, who lives in Brook
Ign and lectures on the doctrines OF the
Beha, wasn't quite satisfied. To bridge the
schism, he jouneyed into Turkey and
visited the New Jerusalem at Aka, where
be had speech with Zla 'UlAh Enend
himself.
Brother MAeNutt Is back now. The an.
nounoement that he was to preach yester-
day at the Temple Of Bah In West Fifty
seventh street brought out both sects in
such force that there was no room IN me
MRoNutt would settle the question from
the lips Of the prophet himself. The timid
followers Of Bah, whose correspon deno9
has been getting behind since the vexed
QueollO0 OF pfOnouhb boI luoil DCtWooh
q scylla Of capitals and Charybdis Of lower
case letter., waited breathlessly for the
Il did not come Brother MaoNutt
played safe. He 10 doubtless a small
fHis first words to NO. said Brother
MaoNutt, were these: How fares II with
the brethren Of New York; Are they
unihsd?'
Yes said. they are growing toward
unity. Certain holy women are holding
them together And / wish that you
could have beheld his face.
Il asked him many questions The
Master answered me thus:
III you brought me 100 questions and I
answered them all, then 200 more would
spring into your mind. Strive 10 reach
that condition where you do not have to
AJAX questions; where they, answer them
Then 7 said TO him: Y wish II were posi-
HE 20 take back thy blessed face To the
beloved Of New York And he answered:
Ny love Is my face. Take IL TO them.
Let them see il IN ono another And again
he said 10 me: 'Ye shall be as one will in
different bodies Oh, the power Of that
statement
The rest was an exposition Of secret
words Not a syllable about the vexing
question Of the pronoun.
There is just one hope. Brother MacNutt
took a stenographer along. The sayings
Of the prophet were translated and taken
down on the spot. The inner circle Of the
enlightened will gather during the next
few weeks 20 hear these words read; and all
hope that some inner and esoteTic light on
the tronotfn will be therein revealed.