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WOULD UNITE
ALL RELIGIONS
Followers of the BAHIA Explain
Their Beliefs and Their
Expectations.
UNIVERSAL PEACE Is COMING
World Arriving at Spiritual Ma
turity, and War viii Be
Banished.
UNIVERSAL PEACE is COMING

The establishment of universal re-
ligion and of universal peace is the
modest task set for themselves by the
| Bahais, two of whose teachers are now
| In Honolulu disseminating their propa-
! ganda. Charles Mason Remey, assist
ant professor of architecture in the
George Washington University, Wash
| ington, D. c., and Howard G. Struven,
of Baltimore, are travelling around the
| world teaching the Bahai movement, or
| the doctrine of BAHIA Ullah. This doe
trine they not only hope, but conf
IDENTIFY believe, is to become the religion
of the world-or, rather, is to unite
| all the religions of the world, all the
! Earring sects, and bring about an era
of universal peace.
| "We believe" says Professor Remey,
| the chief spokesman of the two, "that
the world is coming to spiritual ma
turity. There is general spiritual
awakening manifesting itself through
out the world which promises well. The
| general tendency of the human race is
, toward universal peace, universal har-
m0ny. We would do away with wars
and contentious, but that comes later.
Our present task is to change men s
hearts,
''We are not proselytizing, - the two
men say. "We are not seeking to con-
vert people The word convert is not
in our vocabulary. Our idea is to go
through the world and give the mes
sage where we have the chance, where
people are willing to listen. We sim
ply present the truth to them and they
can do with it as they win. We have
no organization, no membership, no
churches, and, therefore, nothing TO
proselytize for. Our teachers are all
selfsupporting. We have no priesthood
or clergy, and no form of public wor-
ship.
Believe in Prayer.
''We do believe, however, in indi-
vidual prayer.
"fTo whom-or to what?" Professor
Remey was asked.
'ETo God. We believe in God, one
God.
] ''But what God9 You say your idea
is to unite all religions. Which God
of all the religions is the God of the
Bahais?'
+ "There is but one Cod Professor
Remey said, s'the God of the Christian
religion
EAnd you expect to induce the ad
herents of other gods to believe IL
your God?''
Bahais in Honolulu
eve are having great success
throughout the whole world. We have
sixty or seventy centers in the United
States Our movement is strong in Per
STA, Russia, Syria, Burma, India, Tur
kew, and other countries. We have &
few followers in Honolulu-twelve oil
fifteen. | believe Our idea is one that
can be accepted by adherents of al
other religions. We do not aim to teal
, down other religions: our purpose /:
to break down the differences between
them, the differences which are really
man-made, not Cod made, not of truth
We would do away with creeds ant
dogmas, not with religions.
The Bahais claim three teachers, the
first of whom was Bah, the forerunne'
of s'He whom God would manifest
After the death of Bah, BAHIA Ullaf
declared himself the one who was tt
be manifested, and the sect takes it:
name from him He was succeeded by
his son, Abbas Effendi, who is now al
Acre.
Ranks With Christ.
These three men, Professor Remey
Continued on Page Two.)
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