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1927 10 - 11 Nov
192-		 The third convention for amity in inter-racial relations in Washington was held in the Mt. Pleasant Congregational Church. [BW2p285; SYH146] Conferences, Race Amity; Race; Race amity; Race unity; United States (USA); Washington, DC, USA
1927 Nov
192-		 "Muḥammad-'Alí and Majdiddin [his cousin] has sent a message requesting us to repair the roof which may collapse at any time. He has been told emphatically that we shall not proceed with any repair unless and until they evacuate the entire building." [PP231] Bahji, Israel; Covenant-breaking; Majdid-Din; Muhammad-`Alí
1927 Oct
192-		 The first issue of the monthy called World Unity Magazine. Its editors were John Herman Randall, John Herman Randall Jr. and Horace Holley. The concluding volume of the magazine stated its unique character proceeded from the outlook of its founders, who "realized the inter-dependence of religion, science and sociology in the movements simultaneously destroying the past and forming a new era in human history." During its last years of publication, it was openly a Bahá'í journal. [The Cause of Universal Peace]
  • All subsequent issues are available at Baha'i Works.
  • In 1935 it was decided to merge World Unity with another publication, Star of the West (renamed The Bahá'í Magazine in its later volumes) to become a new entity, World Order. This magazine was published from 1935 to 1949, revived in 1966, and ran until 2007. Like World Unity, its erudite articles covered a wide range of topics aimed at the educated public, but it was unmistakably a Bahá'í organ under the auspices of the US National Spiritual Assembly and never acquired as broad a readership as World Unity. [BN No 90 Mar 1935 p8]
    		•  Conferences, World unity; Horace Holley; John Herman Randall Jr; John Herman Randall Sr.; New York, USA; United States (USA); World Unity (magazine)
    1927 (Mid-Oct)
    192-    		 Shoghi Effendi announced the defection of 'Abdu'l-Husayn Ávarih (Abd al-Hosayn Ayati). He had been a very successful teacher and the author of a book on the history of the Faith but opposed Shoghi Effendi's efforts to build the Administrative Order. He was insistent that the Universal House of Justice be formed at that time. He was denounced by the believers in Egypt and Iran. [SETPE1p149, BA137-139, Ruhi8.2-20, CoC294-296; MBW53; PP120; ; BKC118-120]
  • After his defection he became a Muslim and an opponent of the Bahá'í Faith. He returned to Tehran and spent the rest of his life as a secondary school teacher. During this period he wrote many works of poetry and prose, including Kashf al-Hial, a three volume work refuting the Bahá'í Faith. He died in 1953.[Wikipedia]
  • See message from Shoghi Effendi regarding the civil rights of Avarih.
    		• `Abdu'l-Husayn Ávárih; Avarih; Covenant-breaking; Haifa, Israel
    1927 Oct
    192-    		 Shoghi Effendi entrusted Dr William Slater and his wife Ida Slater, who were visiting Haifa on a 19-day pilgrimage, with carpets from the Shrines of the Báb and 'Abdu'l-Bahá for the House of Worship in Chicago. [SETPE1p149] * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); Carpets; Gifts; Haifa, Israel; Ida Slater; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Wilmette; United States (USA); William Slater; Wilmette, IL
    1927 (Mid-Oct to 1 Nov)
    192-    		 Shoghi Effendi retired to the mountains of Switzerland to rest and re-gain his strength. (SETPE1p150, DND20] * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); Shoghi Effendi, Travels of; Switzerland
    1927 13 Sep
    192-    		 Dr George Augur, (b. 1 Oct 1853 New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA d. 13 Sep 1927 Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA), Disciple of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, passed away in Hawaii. He was buried in the O'ahu Cemetery in Honolulu. [SBR198]
  • Find a grave
  • For the story of his life see SBR187–98.
    		• - Disciples of `Abdu'l-Bahá; - In Memoriam; Biography; George Augur; Hawaii, USA; Honolulu, HI
    1927 9 Sep - 2 Dec
    192-    		 Leonora Holsapple (later Armstrong) made a teaching trip through Latin America and the Caribbean, becoming the first Bahá'í to visit Venezuela, Colombia, Haiti, Curaçao, Trinidad (2–12 Oct), the Guianas (29 Oct), Barbados (Dec) and several islands in the Antilles group. Caribbean; Latin America; Leonora Holsapple Armstrong first Bahá’í to visit Venezuela, Colombia, Haiti, Curaçao, Trinidad, the Guianas, Barbados and several islands in Antilles group
    1927 1 Aug
    192-    		 Geyserville Bahá'í Summer School, the first American Bahá'í summer school, was established on property in California donated by John Bosch. It was to operate until 1973 when a new road project divided the property. The land was sold and the funds used to purchase land in the mountains above the coastal town of Santa Cruz. The new school was named In honour of John and Louise Bosch. [BBD87; BW10:180; GPB340, Bosch]
  • BW5:28–9 says this was the second Bahá'í summer school in America but Shoghi Effendi indicates in GPB340 that Green Acre is formally established as a Bahá'í summer school in 1929.
    		•  - Bahá'í schools (conference centres); California, USA; First summer and winter schools; Geyserville, CA; Green Acre, Eliot, ME; John Bosch; Summer schools; United States (USA) first American Bahá’í summer school
    1927 (Summer)
    192-    		 The first Race Amity Conference was held in Green Acre. It was organized by Louis Gregory, Agnes Parsons, Dr Zia Bagdadi, Alain Locke, and Pauline Hannen. [GAP118, SYH146] Agnes Parsons; Alain Locke; Green Acre, Eliot, ME; Louis G. Gregory; Pauline Hannen; Race amity; Zia Bagdadi
    1927 7 Jul
    192-    		 Mr. Mountfort Mills received a cable from Shoghi Effendi through the Greatest Holy Leaf suggesting the American Assemblies send cables to His Excellency the High Commissioner in Baghdad, Iraq urging that the houses belonging to the Bahá'ís be restored to their rightful owners. [Highlights of the First 40 Years of the Bahá'í Faith in New York, City of the Covenant, 1892-1932 by Hussein Ahdieh p26] Baghdad, Iraq; House of Bahá'u'lláh (Baghdad); New York, USA
    1927 19 Jun
    192-    		 Karbalá'í Asadu'lláh-i-Saqat-furúsh was martyred in Kirmán, Iran. [BW18:388] * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution; - Persecution, Deaths; Iran; Kirman, Iran
    1927 Jun
    192-    		 Shoghi Effendi left Palestine destined for Switzerland in the company of his sister. [Ambassador at the Court Chapter 8] * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); Shoghi Effendi, Travels of; Switzerland
    1927 May
    192-    		 The funeral of a believer resident in the Holy Land, Mírá Moshen Afnán, was the first entirely Bahá'í funeral to take place in Palestine showing the strong independence of the Faith. [SETPE1p147] Firsts, other; Funeral; Haifa, Israel; Mira Moshen Afnan; Palestine first entirely Bahá'í funeral to take place in Palestine
    1927 May
    192-    		 The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States and Canada drew up and published a 'Declaration of Trust' and 'By-laws of the National Spiritual Assembly'. [BW2:89, BW10:180]
  • For text see BW2:90–8.
  • The Guardian described it as the Bahá'í 'national constitution' heralding 'the formation of the constitution of the future Bahá'í World Community'. [GPB335; PP302–3]
  • The drafting was largely the work of Horace Holley with assistance from the lawyer Mountfort Mills. [SBR234]
  • In subsequent years the National Assemblies of India and Burma, of Egypt, Iraq, Persian and the British Isles all adopted this example almost verbatim. [UD101, BA134-5, SETPE1p145-6]
    		•  By-laws; Canada; Constitutions (Bahá'í); Firsts, other; Horace Holley; Mountfort Mills; National Spiritual Assembly; Recognition (legal); United States (USA) The first document of this sort to establish a clear legal basis for the National Spiritual Assembly
    1927 29 Apr - 1 May
    192-    		 The third National Convention of the Bahá'ís of the United States and Canada was held at the Windsor Hotel in Montreal, the hotel where 'Abdu'l-Bahá stayed during His visit in 1912. [Bahá'í News No. 17 April, 1927]
  • It was attended by 32 of the 95 elected delegates, others voting "by wire".
  • Those elected to the National Spiritual Assembly were: Allen McDaniel, chairman; Roy C. Wilhelm, vice-chairman; Horace Holley, secretary; Carl Scheffler, treasurer: Mesdames Florence R. Moron, May Maxwell and Amelia Collins, Messrs. Alfred E. Lunt and Louis G. Gregory. This reference contains a very complete report of the Convention including letters from the Guardian. [BN No 18 June 1927 p2-9]
  • See FMH41-42.
  • A major subject of which was race relations. Edwina Powell spoke on the subject, as she had been asked by Shoghi Effendi. In her address, Sadie Oglesby recalled her conversations with Shoghi Effendi on the subject of race. [TMW178–80]
    		•  Alfred Lunt; Allen B. McDaniel; Amelia Collins; Canada; Carl Scheffler; Conventions, National; Edwina Powell; Florence R. Moron; Horace Holley; Louis G. Gregory; May Maxwell (Bolles); Montreal, QC; Quebec, Canada; Roy C. Wilhelm; Sadie Oglesby; United States (USA)
    1927 Apr-May
    192-    		 Martha Root journeyed through the Baltic States and become the first Bahá'í to visit Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia (2 May). [MR272–4] Baltic States; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Martha Root first Bahá’í to visit Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia
    1927 29 Apr
    192-    		 The British delegates, at their first National Convention, elected ten members because there were an equal number of votes for ninth and tenth places. [EJR253; UD70–1]
  • One of the members was a Rev. Biggs. [EJR253; UD71]
  • Shoghi Effendi wrote on 13 May recommending that next year the number of members be strictly confined to nine. In an earlier letter written on his behalf he explained that all of the delegates were to choose nine members of the National Assembly from all of those eligible. Prior to that time the understanding was that, for example, the London delegates would vote for a proportional number of persons from the London area, the Manchester delegates would choose a number of members based on their proportion of the total Bahá'í population. [EJR253; UD70, SETEP1p140]
    		•  * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); Conventions, National; First conventions; National Spiritual Assembly; National Spiritual Assembly, election of; United Kingdom First National Convention of the United Kingdom
    1927 8 - 10 Apr
    192-    		 The second conference for racial amity in Washington was held at the Mt Pleasant Congregational Church with the cooperation and participation of other like-minded groups and persons. [BW2p284]
  • Members of the Race Amity committee were Louis Gregory; Agnes Parsons, Sia Baghdad, Alain Locke and Pauline Hannen. [SYH146]
  • Other conferences were held inNew York state, in Portsmouth, NewHampshire, with monthly amity meetings in Boston and a second one in Washington in November. [SYH146]
    		•  Conferences, Race Amity; Race; Race amity; Race unity; United States (USA); Washington, DC, USA
    1927 27 Mar
    192-    		 Martha Root left Shanghai for Hong Kong. At the end of May she sailed for Australia and New Zealand. During her stay in Hong Kong she made a trip to mainland China visiting Guangzhou and made another sortie to Saigon and Cambodia. [P35] Cambodia; Hong Kong; Laos; Martha Root; Saigon, Vietnam; Shanghai, China
    1927 25 Mar
    192-    		 Áqá 'Abdu'l-'A'zím, Amínu'l-'Ulamá' was martyred in Ardibíl, Iran, by the order of the mujtahid. [BW18:388] * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution; - Persecution, Deaths; Ardibil, Iran; Iran
    1927 11 Mar
    192-    		 Sadie Oglesby and her daughter Bertha Parvine arrived in Haifa, the first black American women to make the pilgrimage. [TMW173, 206, SETPE1p141-145] - First pilgrims; Haifa, Israel; Pilgrims first black American women to make pilgrimage
    1927 Mar
    192-    		 Shoghi Effendi retranslated the Hidden Words.
  • He was assisted by George Townshend and Ethel Rosenberg, the 'English friends' mentioned on the title page. [EJR246–7, 253–6; GT109, SETPE1p126]
  • This was to be the start of an 18 year relationship of collaboration between Shoghi Effendi and George Townshend in the translation of the Writings. As well as Hidden Words, he worked on Kitáb-i-Íqán, The Dawn-Breakers, Prayers and Meditations by Bahá'u'lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, God Passes By and by suggesting titles and writing introductions for The Dawn-Breakers and God Passes By. [SETPE1p127]
    		•  * Publications; * Shoghi Effendi, Basic timeline; * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); * Translation; - Bahá'í World Centre; - Basic timeline, Expanded; Ethel Rosenberg; George Townshend; Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words); Shoghi Effendi, Translations by; Shoghi Effendi, Works of
    1927 Jan (Towards end of the month)
    192-    		 Chicago held its first Race Amity Conference. Louis Gregory spoke. [SYH147] Chicago, IL; Louis G. Gregory; Race amity
    1927 13–16 Jan
    192-    		 A World Unity Conference was held in Dayton, Ohio, one of many such conferences to be held in the year in major cities of the United States. [TMW159, 165]
  • See also The Babi and Bahá'í Religions: An Annotated Bibliography, section 'conference listing'.
    		•  Conferences, World unity; Dayton, OH; Ohio, USA; United States (USA)
    1927 8 Jan
    192-    		 The National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Canada appointed seven people to a National Race Unity Committee. [SBR94; TMW166]
  • For the functions and challenges faced by the committee see TMW165–72.
    		•  Canada; National Spiritual Assembly; Race; Race amity; Race unity; United States (USA)
    1927 (In the year)
    192-    		 Martha Root gave a talk to the International Esperanto Conference in the Free City of Danzig*. [SYH159]

    *The Free City of Danzig (German: Freie Stadt Danzig; Polish: Wolne Miasto Gdańsk; Kashubian: Wòlny Gard Gduńsk) was a semi-autonomous city-state that existed between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) and nearly 200 towns and villages in the surrounding areas. It was created on 15 November 1920 in accordance with the terms of Article 100 (Section XI of Part III) of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles after the end of World War I. [Wikipedia]

    		 Esperanto; Martha Root; The Free City of Danzig
    1927 (In the year)
    192-    		 Leonora Armstrong was the first Bahá'í to visit and speak about the Bahá'í Faith in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Trinidad, Barbados, Haiti, British Guiana and Dutch Guiana (now Suriname). [Biographical Profile] Barbados; British Guiana; Colombia; Ecuador; Haiti; Leonora Holsapple Armstrong; Suriname; Travel Teaching; Trinidad and Tobago; Venezuela the first Bahá'í to visit and speak about the Bahá'í Faith in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Trinidad, Barbados, Haiti, British Guiana and Suriname.
    1927 (In the year)
    192-    		 Abu'l-Qásim Faizi, a 19-year-old student who had attended the Tarbiyát School in Tehran but was now enrolled at the American University at Beirut, visited Haifa to meet Shoghi Effendi. Like Hasan Balyuzi before him, he was immediately possessed by a great desire to serve him. [SETPE1p146-7] * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); Abu'l-Qasim Faizi; American University of Beirut; Beirut, Lebanon; Haifa, Israel; Iran; Lebanon; Tarbiyat School, Tihran; Tehran, Iran
    1927 (In the year)
    192-    		 The Baghdád believers took photographs of the cave in the Sargul Mountain near Sulaymáníyyih where Bahá'u'lláh spent two years in solitude. [BW2Surveyp.33, SETPE1p141] * Bahaullah (chronology); Baghdad, Iraq; Caves; Iraq; Kurdistan; Mountains; Photography; Sar Galu Mountain (Iraq); Sulaymaniyyih, Iraq
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