## Europe Heading Straight for a Terrific Conflict, Abdul Baha Declares. ### THE BAHAI LEADER ARRIVES IN MONTREAL ### Canadians Should Be Happy in Their Freedom from Great Armaments, Says Eastern Seer. 'Be Happy! Your in Canada, live in a magnificent, peaceful country. Be happy!'

## Leader of Bahai Movement to Leave for Chicago to Attend Conference.

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### PHOTOGRAPHS BY A STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER OF 'THE PRESS.' Abdul Baha, leader of the Bahai movement, who spoke in two Philadelphia churches yesterday, is seen in his native costume. On his right is Mirza Ali Akhan, a Persian nobleman and follower of the movement, who arrived here only a few days ago. At his left is Dr. Ameen Farred, the priest's right hand man, who interprets his addresses a paragraph at a time. On the extreme right is Mirza Amed Sohrab, another nobleman, who is in charge of the tour.] ### American Women Superior Mentally to All Others, Says Abdul Baha Abbas.

## Peace Apostle Who Predicts Bloodshed ### Abdul Baha Urges Local Bahaists to Do All in Their Power to Avert Terrible Bloodshed Which He Says Is Pending in East. Warning against a great European war and pleading that the people of this country do what they can to avert terrible bloodshsed, Abdul Baha, Persian peace apostle, addressed the local body of Bahaists at the Iroquois hotel last evening. Of the seventy persons in attendance about sixty were women.

[picture caption: ABDUL BAHA ABBAS, by GERTRUDE KASEBIER] Leader of Baha’is Finds This City Beautiful and Great, but Its Civilization Is Too Material Was Happy to Talk to the Men of the Bowery—He Has Done Little Sight Seeing in America

Abbas Effendi, known to his millions of followers as Abdul Baha, the leader of 'Bahaism,' is now on a visit to America.

Apostle of Cult Greets Followers Here After They Have Waited Patiently. 'MARHABA' IS FIRST WORD 'Reality, One and Not Multiple,' Says Leader in Explaining Principles of Belief.

## Persian Prophet Declares Tenets of the Coming 'Religion of the World.' ### By Paul Pierre Rignaux (Special Correspondent of the San Francisco 'Examiner.') [Special by cable to New York, and by leased wire, the longest in the world.]

## Abdul Baha, Oriental Prophet, and Leader, Here Soon. ### HEAD OF WORLD-WIDE 'BAHAI' PEACE CULT ### Unity of All Religion and Universal Peace is His Gospel. Abdul Baha, one of the supreme religious figures of the Orient, and known the world over as the head of the Bahai movement, with over three million followers in his native Persia alone, will arrive in Montreal about the end of August, to remain in the city for about a week.

The Time Has Come, He Says, for Humanity to Hoist the Standard of the Oneness of the Human World, So That Dogmatic Formulas and Superstitions May End. WITHIN the last week there has come to New York an old man, with a worn and beautiful face, who wears a long brown gown and a white turban, and speaks the strange-sounding guttural language of Persia. On the pier he was welcomed by hundreds of people, for he is Abdul Baha, or 'The Servant of God,' the head of the Bahaist movement, and he is known to tens of thousands of followers all over the world as the 'Master.'

Leader of Bahai Movement Will Speak at Howard University. Abdul Baha, Abbas Effendi, leader of the world-wide Bahai movement, who reached Washington Saturday and attended the closing session Saturday night of the second annual conference of the Orient-Occident Unity, will remain in the National Capital most of the present week. He will speak tomorrow afternoon before the student body of Howard University and tomorrow night he will address an audience in the Metropolitan A.M.E. Church.

'Century Has Come When All Religions Should Enjoy Universal Peace.' After expounding the unity of all fundamental religious beliefs and pleading for a universal faith, Abdul Baba, aged Persian leader of the universal religion movement, speaking today at Temple Emanu-El, rose to a dramatic climax in the emphatic declaration that the time has come for the unification of all religions when racial prejudice shall cease and when all the religions shall enjoy universal peace forever.

## Abdul Baha Abbas at Clark College ### TOUCHES BUT LIGHTLY ON RELIGION ### Pays Tribute to Science and Universities Abdul Baha Abbas, head of the Bab religion, the new Oriental faith which has already gained hundreds of thousands of converts in the United States, as well as millions in the near East, spoke yesterday afternoon in the Clark college gymnasium before an audience of 500 men and women interested in theology and philosophy.

We have with us at present Abdul Baha Abbas, son of Baha'u'llah, Glory of God, third prophet of the Bahaists, on a mission. As missions go it is not an old one, in the specific form in which Abdul Baha brings it to us. It was declared first by Mirza Ali Mohammad, who was born in Shiraz, Persia, in 1819, and who was shot at Tabriz six years after he had become a prophet. It was carried on by Baha'u'llah, Glory of God, who passed most of a hard life in prison or in exile.

Abdul Baha Abbas Gives His Message of the Unity of Religions. Abdul Baha Abbas, prophet of universal religion, the eradication of prejudice, and dogma, and the establishment of universal peace and the fellowship of humanity, spoke at the regular service in Temple Emanu-El yesterday morning.

## Unity Temple Convention Pledges $9,000 for Building at Winnetka. ### LEADER TELLS DOCTRINES Theories of the universal brotherhood of man were advocated by Abdul Baha Abbas before the meeting of the Unity Temple convention last night. 'Some think that this association is a cause,' said the speaker. 'It is merely an attempt to unify the beliefs of different churches, religions and cults. I merely claim to be he who has been promised by different prophets in ages gone by. ### ALL CREEDS SAME.

## Leader of the Bahai Movement Comes to Present Peace Message. Abdul Baha, a distinguished Persian, who is at the head of the Bahai movement for the unification of religious, arrived in New York on the White Star liner Cedric yesterday. It is his first visit to the United States, and with the single exception of a short visit to Paris and London last Summer, this is the first time in more than forty years he has left the 'prison city' of Acre, in Syria, to which he and his father, Ben Ullah, the founder of the Bahai movement, were exiled by the Turkish Government fifty years ago.

Abdul Baha Portrays Principles of Order of Which He Is Head. The portrayal of the principles of the Bahai movement was the feature of a public meeting which was held at D.A.R. Continental Memorial Hall last night. Abdul Baha, world-leader of the Bahais, was the principal speaker, and the meeting, which was held under the auspices of the Orient-Occident Unity, marked his last public appearance in the National Capital on his present tour of the eastern states.

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### Head of Bahamism Visits This City on Thursday Afternoon. His excellency, Abbas Effendi or Abdul Baha, by which name he is most popularly known, will make an address presenting the main points of the religious faith of which he is leader, at Clark university on Thursday, May 23, at 4 p. m.

Abdul Baha Has Arrived and Believers of the Bahai Cult Are Rejoicing. Abdul Baha is within our gates: The long expected visit of this Prophet of peace is consummated, and Bahai believers may well be content. 'I am glad to be with you. The Buffalo Bahai are among the staunchest branchest branches. 'To this end I have traversed mountain passes, surmounted seas and rivers, covered many [text missing] in desire to meet you. 'I am glad that you hold fast. Some are like a tree, which takes no root. At the first storm it falls and without nourishment it dies.

## Abdul Baha Will Not Occupy Pulpit Of That Denomination In Baltimore. Abdul Baha who preached in an Episcopal church in New York the Sunday after Easter, will not occupy an Episcopalian pulpit when he comes to Baltimore. Abdul is a Persian philosopher and a storm has been stirred by his sermon in an Episcopalian pulpit. The Churchman, the national organ of the church, without mentioning the name of the rector of the church, says, after pointing out the canon which restricts permission to occupy the pulpit to Christian men:

## Persian High Priest of Universal Brotherhood Cult Greets Host of Followers. ### FAITHFUL FLOCK TO THRONE Abdul-Baha, 'Servant of Ineffable Splendor,' Adviser to 40,000,000 Through World. An oriental court that sways the destinies of 40,000,000 persons throughout the world has been established temporarily in Chicago. Abdul Baha, leader of the Bahaist movement, is the ruler. He has come to America to preach the doctrines of universal brotherhood and world-wide peace.

Noted Persian who is the most interesting delegate at the Lake Mohonk conference on international arbitration. He is the head of a new religion of peace and is touring the world. He says the expression 'all right,' which he hears everywhere in America is typical of the optimism of the United States.

Abbas Effendi, known to his millions of followers as Abdul Baha, the leader of 'Bahaism,' is now on a visit to America.

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Abdul Baha est parti pour Chicago aujourd'hui, apres avoir tenu des assemblees a Montreal tous les soirs depuis dimanche dernier. Il a tenu sa derniere reunion hier soir, a l'eglise methodiste Saint-James. Un auditoire considerable l'a entendu exposer les theories sur la fusion de toutes les religions et precher la paix universelle.

## Address by Abdul Baha, Congregation Emmanu-el, San Francisco, Cal., (Martin A. Meyer, Rabbi) Saturday, October 12, 1912 #### Translated orally by Dr. Ameen Fareed. Stenographically reported by Miss Bijou Straun. ### Introduction by Rabbi Meyer. ### Brethren of the Congregation Emmanu-el: It is our privilege, and a very high privilege indeed, to welcome in our midst this morning Abdul Baha, a great teacher of our age and generation.

### Head of Bahai Movement Will Speak at First Congregational Church. The real live prophet from Persia has arrived in San Francisco. He came Wednesday and has taken a furnished house of his own where he will live for several weeks and receive his friends and followers. He is Abbas Essendi, the visible head of the Bahai Movement, which numbers several millions or followers among all the principal religions of the world. Abbas Essendi is sometimes known as Abdul Bahai, or 'The Servant of God,' and the gospel which he is preaching is the gospel of universal peace and brotherhood.

Dr. Fareed's Address Followed by One on the Philippines. The teachings of Bahaism were expounded yesterday afternoon at the Twentieth Century Club by Dr. Ameen H. Fareed, interpreter to the head of the cult, Abdul Baha. 'Anybody,' said Dr. Fareed, 'may join Bahaism without giving up either his church or his nationality, for Bahaism means love, charity, kindness to all -- in short, the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. The fundamental principle of Bahaism is that while religions are many, religion is one.'

Head of Bahai Movement Says All Shall Be Brothers Some Day. Spiritual Culture Lags Persian Philosopher Declares Humanity Is Merged in Sea of Materiality

Head of Bahai Movement Will Speak at First Congregation Church. The real live prophet from Persia has arrived in San Francisco. He came Wednesday and has taken a furnished house of his own where he will live for several weeks and receive his friends and followers. He is Abbas Essendi, the visible head of the Bahai Movement, whch numbers several millions or followers among all the principal religions of the world. Abbas Essendi is sometimes known as Abdul Bahai, or 'The Servant of God,' and the gospel which he is preaching is the gospel of universal peace and brotherhood.

##‘Abdu’l-Baha Visits Mission and Distributes Quarters. ###MONEY BAG SOON EMPTY ####News Spread Rapidly, but the Persian Prophet Has to Disappoint Many.

## Universal Peace and Religion Theme of Persian Nobleman, Guest of Denver. Abdul Ba-ha Abbas, Persian noble man, for twenty years in prison as a result of his devotion to duty and his stand for Christianity, who is in Denver with his family, an interpreter, Dr. Ameen D. Fareel, and a Japanese servant, lectured last night at the Divine Science church on '? Universal Peace and Universal Religion.' It is to the study of this problem that Abdul devoted the twenty years he spent in prison, and it is to these two questions that he has since addressed his labors.

## ARRIVAL OF BAHAIS' LEADER AWAITED BY FOLLOWERS HERE ### AWAITED BY BAHAIS HERE Abbas Effendi, Chief Exponent of Religious Cult, Will Speak Before Persian-American Society in Washington Next Month. Abbas Effendi, or Abdul Baha Abbas, as he is known among his faithful followers will arrive in this country about April 1. On April 18, 19, and 20 he will address the Persian-American Educational Society in Washington.

About 500 persons interested in theology and philosophy listened to an interesting talk given in Clark college gymnasium yesterday afternoon, by Abdul Baha Abbas, head of the Bab religion, a new oriental faith that is said to have gained hundreds of thousands of converts in the United States and millions in the near east. The Bab, as the leader is called by followers of the faith, wore a characteristic Persian costume, flowing robes and snowwhite turban. He is 65 years old and claims to have passed more than 50 years in prison in Akka, Persia.

>'When the ocean of My Presence hath disappeared and the Book of Origin is achieved to the end, turn your faces toward Him Whom God Hath Purposed, who hath branched from this Pre-Existent Root' -- Words of BAHA'O'LLAH. [picture caption: Abdul Allaho Abha, Persian -- prophet and apostle of the Baha a' Llah religion and his retinue, after their arrival in Denver yesterday. Left to right: Mirja Mohmoul, the scribe; Fingeta, the Japanese cook; Ahmad Sohrab, Abdul Ba-ha, Dr. Ameen U. Fareed, the interpreter, and Sayid Asad O'llah.]

BAHAI LEADER AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY Head of Oriental Religious Sect Delivers Lecture to the Student Body. FREEDOM HERE BROUGHT FREEDOM ELSEWHERE. The Effect Of Freedom In This Country Reacted All Over The World Washington, April 25 -- Abdul Bahai Abbas Effendi, oriental seer and world leader of the Bahai movement, delivered the last of his series of lectures here tonight. In an address to the students of Howard University, he said: 'Let us recall the fact that the first proclamation of liberty, of freedom from slavery, was accomplished in this continent.