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| 1893 23 Sep
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Bahá'u'lláh's recent passing in Akká was announced to the World Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago, in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition, 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492, Rev. George A. Ford of Syria read a paper written by Rev. Henry H. Jessup, D.D., Director of Presbyterian Missionary Operations in North Syria to the audience. In his paper Reverend Jessup called Bahá'u'lláh "a famous Persian Sage" and "the Bábí Saint" "the Glory of God" had died recently in Akká. Jessup described how Professor Edward Granville Browne of Cambridge University had visited and interviewed Bahá'u'lláh in Bahji just outside the fortress of Akka on the Syrian coast in April 1890 and that during those four interviews Bahá'u'lláh had expressed "sentiments so noble, so Christ-like" that the author of the paper, in his "closing words," wished to share them with his audience. Jessup described Bahá'u'lláh as head of a group of Persians who "who accept the New Testament as the word of God, and Christ as the deliverer of man; who regard all natives as one, and all men as brothers." Jessop closed his paper with these words,(Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, page 256; (Jessup, Henry H., Ed. 1894. Neely, F. Tennyson Neely. 1894. "The Religious Mission of the English-Speaking Nations." Neely's History of the Parliament of Religions and Religious Congresses of the World's Columbian Exposition. Chicago. pages 637-641.)
"That all nations should become one in faith, and all men as brothers; that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened; that diversity of religion should, and differences of race, be annulled; what harm is there in this? Yet so it shall be. These fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the "most great peace" shall come. Do not you in Europe need this also? Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this that he loves his kind." -Bahá'u'lláh |
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