Show THE OF PERSIA almost tho last halt centary rit a religion I 1 has sprung up in m which I 1 blell chilas to embody the latest revelation of tho the will of god to man although nominally ibe the religion of 0 persia la Is mohammedanism MohammedAn sm the country 1 ii 14 4 really in a state of religious unreal real duo due in part to the national belief in an ever millennium when their now hidden imam ll el Ift bAI III return to them with blessings in hla his hands this unrest the rev benjamin labardee La barree points out in the church at I 1 lame homo and abroad pi fleshy esby november I 1 has offered a ground peculiarly favorable to 11 hie spread read ot 01 such a 11 religion a as Vall earlem ism its adherents pr prophesy ophy will be the hie religion of 0 future on empires pires already it can point to its devotees unshaken even through bloody persecution and martyrdom no pr 0 of ot of the strength of its appeal to the human soul dr Lab labardee arlee eluo tl us briefly belr lly sketches tho the groath of the tha robi faith this thies new religion was waa first on nn by a gentle youth named all alic ho was as born ot shiraz tit in 1810 in iii ills early youth I 1 lie he visited tile sacred seats of 0 persian I 1 instruction at berbela Kerb Ner bela cla near bagdad where lie he stu studied lied av with ith the learned expound ero of i me lie ralah school 1 Lt to shiraz in 1844 lie put forward his claim as aa successor to big hl deceased master in th theology and later as af the bab or door to the true knittl nou dire alge a of f god and later still as the mahdi in ills his claim in creased rapidly and grew greir recklessly in promulgating the now new faith rutting in insurrections in different ferent parts ot of the country tit the government catly caily seized and ImpO imprisoned the dab bab and finally alarmed at tile the spread of the now new creed ith Us its re rc and heresies her esies it put him to death on in july 15 1850 ite ile met his big fate calmly aba tinor nono none of his allm claims s as a manifestation of gods 1 hlll I III t to 0 th the every very list last lie he hall had a bill barly winsome personality perin allty his purity ot of life nd gentle manners a his moral earnestness and transparent 1 deeply je tp impressing c yen ills his enemies and tit coave r ting some of his guards and escort to falth in his doctrines lie he left behind him numerous writings writing s of holcli the beyan Is the most important a volume of some bottle sla devoted to the exposition of ills his peculiar dog mak it was mas some time after the death that tho the insurrectionary insurrection ary movements of his followers su alth great arc at energy nor and ana sacrifice of life were put donn doin the defeated dabas nere mere subjected to hobt barbarous treatment for this and tile the death of their prop prophet liet the leaden of tile tho sect beet sought bought revenge on tile the government by attempts on the life of nasr 1 din shah A aluch aich brought upon the babler everywhere guilty and innocent alike punishments Ish ments most inhuman they finally be settled bitted flown down t to a more hopeful find and a 0 III mi nation of their doctrines doctrin eo within n a few years follow gnp a prominent disciple of 0 tho the dab bab mirza Ilus hussein seln all aho vho N ha had taken 1 refuge in turkish territory camo came to ase quinto tho the leadership ot of tile sect from hia exile home at aery acre on the mediterranean coasts coast ho be carried on a quiet but effective kropa gand indi filling persia with his epistles circus circulated ted through secret agents ile he gradually Kra dually advanced claims for himself higher even than tile tho BOYS babs position as the one 0 ot f wit whom 0 m the bab had so BO frequently made prediction in tile the phrase lie ile IN horn hom god shall manifest H took the title ot of reha ullah 1 e c the glory ot of god behn died in ISO and was succeeded by one of his sons once u velch aich nothing of importance has haa emerged merced c in the progress of the lon loll it li 14 often spoken of now nov as and wilh much reason for the teachings of delia have essentially esac modified the tenets of the faith as the they came from tho the bab himself in numerous particulars 0 0 dr labardee La barree then considers tho the question what has this faith added to the religious relle loui thou thought glit of 0 the woi id lie ile holds that there 18 19 little that Is essentially new about its beyond its ran on aral dogma of f the necessity of a risible spiritual gulde guide to men in intermediary bet wn ileen god ad and man always present in the church it claims wi qt ui its prop roi het liets are veritable of deity and that in no age Is the world left without such incarnation for fop the dallis it appears there Is no lie absolute concept conception lott of good or evl evil good Is what chooses ordain thi and tr truth u tit what ahat lie chooses to reveal through throng h its his intermediary whether there la Is future life or not la Is left in doubt it was the alm aim of beha ullah to incite in cite lit alft people to morality tho the acquisition of the aits anti and sciences of all countries brotherly ilive toward ajl ail the nations ot of the earth the elevation of momen and gentleness with detill dren this passage leont the beyan indicates a striking loftiness of conception clatl on so worship god that hat if t tile the recompense of thy worship be fire r to no alteration in thy worship would be produced it if you worship front from tear fear that Is unworthy of the threshold throE hold ot of the holiness of god nor will you be a a believer bp llever dableo according a to dr La labardee Laba barree iTee in regard to god oil himself merely repeats the teachings t of 0 islam except that it U laya I 1 arger emphasis upon his attrib attribute ut oa of 0 grace in distinction from rom his attributes tt rl of 0 wrath As to its compall son gon IV with lh ond and its probable effect upon the national ch character fracter wo a again duoto rl dr Labar rees own words worda As al compared with christianity falls alls far below it in the importance Lance of 0 its teachings respecting the divine nature and character it has haa nothing thing at all equivalent to lo tho the chris carla tian doctrine of the fatherhood of god tho the nearest approach to buca sin all idea ts Is perhaps in the presentation pre on of boha beho ullah as tho the incarnation of tile tho father but this seems to have put forth rather to characterize ills his manifestation fe ws aa a degree higher than that of jesus or the dab than to tf make possible for or believers bel lovora a sense of their filial relations with fiod could we believe that the debts or benais as we nye might better call them would hold fast to their great Ic aders of kindness still and jib liberal rot deall ing among tile lie oples of different relle li gione lons and of social reform in cayo they should ever come to power it would bo be a bright day for perilla to have them pet get the re relna reins ins of government into their hands but unfortunately wo we see aee nothing in their toach teachings ings that strikes deeply into the foundations of world moral conduct there la is no five principle in and without m moral regene radon there Is little hope that ili tho persian will ever be emsen trally different HA a babl babi from ahat hiu he be Is 13 as a salah |