By Francisco Rendon When Furman University unveiled a bronze statue of Joseph Vaughn, its first Black student, it did more than celebrate one student, said Ed Good, chair of the university’s Board of Trustees. “It represents a turning point in civil rights and racial justice for Furman, for Greenville, the upstate and South Carolina,” he […]
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Impressions on ‘Abdu’l-Baha ‘Abdu’l-Baha in Edinburgh Source: Scots Pictorial, 18 Jan. 1913 Article by ‘Ion’ | ‘Abdu’l-Baha in Our Midst On the morning of 7 January ‘Abdu’l-Baha visited the Outlook Tower, which had a panoramic view of Edinburgh. He was met by the Outlook Tower Society President Sir Patrick Geddes, who escorted ‘Abdu’l-Baha up the […]
Service to Others Regard Thyself as Teachers Source: Tablets of the Divine Plan – to the North American Baha’is February 21, 1917 0 ye believers of God! Be not concerned with the smallness of your numbers, neither be oppressed by the multitude of an unbelieving world. Five grains of wheat will be endued with heavenly […]
Virtues | Happiness Trustworthiness Source: Compilation of Compilations, Volume 2 ‘Abdu’l-Baha Wrote in a Tablet about the importance of trustworthiness explaining: If a man were to perform every good work, yet fail in the least scruple to be entirely trustworthy and honest, his good works would become as dry tinder and his failure as a […]
A year for profound reflection on the life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and the strength of the Covenant of which He was the Centre, as the community prepares to commemorate the centenary of His Ascension.
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