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.