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Issue no. 7, September 1925: News of the Cause

The first fruits of the beautiful Green Acre Convention was the cordial invitation extended fey Dr. Leslie P. Hill that a Baha’i teacher be sent to speak at the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools at Durham, N.C.

A letter from Dr. Hill informs us of the success of this trip:

“I want to let you know how deeply grateful I am that the N.S.A. decided to send Mrs. Keith Ransom-Kehler to Durham on July 29, 30 and 31st. Mrs. Ransom-Kehler arrived at the very beginning of these meetings and stayed through to the end. She spoke at Departmental meetings and made an address on Thursday evening before the whole Association. She was heard not only by the colored teachers in attendance but by the United States Commissioner of Education and a number of white superintendents, supervisors and specialists in our field.

“Mrs. Ransom-Kehler, moreover, in addition to her speeches, made a large number of direct personal contacts, and in that way made a more intensive impression. It was our general feeling that she was not only brilliant in her discussion of the whole big question before us, but that she brought to our cause a sincerity and a courageous consecration that touched the hearts of all who heard her. I believe that she created many centers of influence from which the light and the truth will spread.”

An international Baha’i Bureau has been established at the suggestion of Shoghi Effendi at 19 Boulevard Georges-Favon, Geneva, Switzerland. This new and extremely important Baha’i center is under the direction of Mrs. J. Stannard. Information of its activities will be given from time to time in the News Letter.

The Baha’i Magazine, Star of the West, for August, contains the first of a series of important articles by Mr. George Latimer on the Rapprochement of Science and Religion.

This issue contains other articles by Mr. Stanwood Cobb, Mrs. Shanaz Waite, Mr. Harlan F. Ober, Mrs. Coralie Franklin Cook and Mr. Horace Holley.

The Publishing Committee announces the following new books: A Series of Twelve Articles Introductory to the Study of the Baha’i Teaching, by Charles Mason Remey, 50 cents per copy; The Universal Consciousness of the Baha’i Religion, by Charles Mason Remey, 20 cents per copy; Religions of the Empire, reprinting the addresses delivered at the religious conference in London during 1924, including the two papers on the Baha’i Movement, price four dollars. Copies of the Forum Magazine for July, containing an article on the Cause, can be ordered from the Committee for 35 cents each. A new supply of the Esslemont pamphlet has been received from London, for sale at 20 cents each. Copies may be obtained from Baha’i Publishing Committee, P.O. Box 348, Grand Central Station, New York City.

During the past year three new local Spiritual Assemblies have been elected in the United States. These Assemblies are located in Visalia, California; Geneva, New York; and New Haven, Connecticut.

The Central States Teaching Convention will be held November 12th to 16th in the Foundation Hall of the Temple, at Wilmette, Illinois. The Convention will open with a Feast in commemoration of the birthday of Baha’u’llah, and will hold public congress sessions Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon, November 14th and 15th, and conferences upon methods of teaching the morning and afternoon of Friday and Saturday. It is hoped that the friends not only in the Central States but from the various parts of the country will be able to attend.

Further details will be given in the next News Letter.