On Saints of the World: So Christ-like

 

Jamie found this chalk art on a concrete wall in Tacoma. There really is a St John of Napomuk. To be a saint in one part of the world is to be remembered in another. Such is the world today. -gw

 

 

Chapter XVI: The Rise and Establishment of the Faith in the West

 

It was on September 23, 1893, a little over a year after Bahá’u’lláh’s ascension, that, in a paper written by Rev. Henry H. Jessup, D.D., Director of Presbyterian Missionary Operations in North Syria, and read by Rev. George A. Ford of Syria, at the World Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago, in connection with the Columbian Exposition, commemorating the four-hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America, it was announced that “a famous Persian Sage,” “the Bábí Saint,” had died recently in ‘Akká, and that two years previous to His ascension “a Cambridge scholar” had visited Him, to whom He 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.

 

Shoghi Effendi, God Passs By

The Báb, Forerunner of Bahá'u'lláh

info.bahai.org/the-bab-forerunner.html

"His life is one of the most magnificent examples of courage which it has been the privilege of mankind to behold..."

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