Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas
Volume I
whose inestimable service is hereby gratefully acknowledged: Anton Haddad, Mirza S. M. Raffie, Mirza Housein Rouhy, Ali Kuli Khan, Dr. Ameen U. Fareed, H. S. M. Taki Manshadi, Mirza Ahmad Esphahani,
Mrs. Getsinger, Miss Barney and Mirza Moneer Zane.
The House of Spirituality desires to thank all who have assisted in this matter of gathering in copies of
Tablets for preservation in its archives, and requests the Bahais everywhere to continue the endeavor as outlined in the circular letter sent out by that Body, as herein quoted. Address such communications to the Librarian of the House of Spirituality, P. O. Box 283, Chicago, Ill.
Only a portion of the Tablets now on file with the House of Spirituality are contained in this volume. Other volumes will be issued as soon as possible. Tablets coming in will take their place in order according to the date received and appear in forth-coming volumes.
The Bahai Publishing Society.
Feast of Naurooz, March 21, 1909.
For the information of those who know little or nothing of the Bahai
Revelation, we quote the following account translated from the (French) Encyclopaedia of Larousse:—
Bahaism the religion of the disciples of
Baha’o’llah, an outcome of Babism.—Mirza Husain Ali Nuri Baha’o’llah was born at
Teheran in 1817 A. D. From 1844 he was one of the first adherents of
the Bab, and devoted himself to the pacific propagation of his doctrine in Persia. After the death of the Bab he was, with the principal Babis, exiled to
Baghdad, and later to
Constantinople and
Adrianople, under the surveillance of the
Ottoman Government. It was
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