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1985 (In the year) | The publication of The Bahá'í Faith; The Emerging Global Religion by William Hatcher and Douglas Martin. It was first published by Harper and Row, San Francisco and has seen numerous reprints. {BEL 7.1143 p87]
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The Bahá'í Faith; The Emerging Global Religion; William Hatcher; Douglas Martin | ||
1985 7 Mar |
The passing of Continental Board of Counsellor Lloyd Gardner. [Mess63-68p660]
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In Memoriam; Lloyd Gardner | ||
1985 | Number of Local Spiritual Assemblies in Canada: 350 Incorporated Local Spiritual Assemblies: 159 Localities where Bahá'í reside: 1,500 Members: 2,100 [from a pamphlet, The Bahá'í Faith and its World Community published by the NSA of Canada] |
Statistics; Canada | ||
1985 28 Apr | The passing of Samson Knowlton in his eighty-third year. Samson and his wife Rosie, who died in 1981, were among the first six members of the Piikani First Nation (Peigan Reserve), one of the three branches of the Blackfoot tribe, to proclaim their faith in Baha'u'llah. Their acceptance of the Faith in 1958 resulted from a visit to southern Alberta of the Hand of the Cause John Robarts. The Knowltons quickly became effective Bahá'í teachers, assisting in the formation in April 1961 of the first Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the Peigan Reserve.
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In Memoriam; Sam Knowlton; Rosie Knowlton; Piikani First Nation, AB | ||
1985 21 Jul | Prior to this time, some national communities elected their delegates to the National Conventions on the basis of areas that had Local Spiritual Assemblies, while in other larger national communities, delegates were elected on the basis of electoral units in which all adult believers had the vote. From this time forward, all were to use the Electoral Unit system. There would be no change in the number of delegates elected to attend the National Convention.
Given the wide variety of geography in the Bahá'í world, each National Spiritual Assembly was directed to establish the most effective means for the election of the delegates to its National Convention and for providing for an opportunity for consultation among the electors. [Message 21 July 1985] In its letter of 2 January 1986, the Universal House of Justice referred to ''a new stage in the unfoldment of the Administrative Order," a stage characterized by a "new development in the maturation of Bahá'í institutions" which marks "the inception of the fourth epoch" of the Formative Age of the Faith. |
National Convention; Elections; National Spiritual Assembly, election of; - Bahá'í World Centre | ||
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