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Show BAHA'I FAITH CONCLAVE HELD Members cf the Baha'i World Faith from Utah met last Sunday in Salt Lake City for the annual Baha'i state convention. A delegate was elected to attend at-tend the national convention in April at Wilmette, Illinois. This national convention will be particularly important because at this time the Baha'i Temple on Wil-mette's Wil-mette's harbor, a familiar landmark land-mark to tourists for years, will be dedicated. Baha'is from all over the world will make the journey to be at the dedication. Hitherto comparatively unknown in the west, but with an administrative adminis-trative structure which embraces 2500 local centers in 24 countries, the Baha'i Faith announced recently re-cently its plans for a world-embracing spiritual crusade to be launched next year, to culminate in a World Baha'i congress in 1963 in the City of Baghdad. The Baha'i Faith is about to embark upon the prodigious task of spreading the teachings of its founder, Baha'u'llah, to the most remote corners of the world, and among peoples of the most deeply-entrenched deeply-entrenched and ancient religious traditions all in a decade. Goals of the Crusade were outlined out-lined by the Guardian of the Faith, Shoghf ffendi, in a message cabled from the international adminstra-tive adminstra-tive headquarters in Haifa, Israel, and released recently by the National Na-tional Baha'i Assembly. Considered by its adherents to be the universal religion of this era, the Baha'i Faith is in the midst of celebrating its Centenary year, beginning October, 1952. Four intercontinental in-tercontinental conferences have been called, the first of which will be at Kampala, Uganda, Africa, in February. Others will follow at Wilmette, Stockholm and New Delh . Baha'is propose not only to scatter scat-ter over tht mainlands of the five continents, but also to settle among such isolated groups as the Eskimos of Greenland, the Polynesians of the south sea islands, and Negritos of the Archipelagos of the south Pacific, Pa-cific, in order o demonstrate their belief in universal religion and the oneness of mankind. The pioneers will spread out north to Franklin beyond the Arctic circle, and south to the Falkland Islands at the southern extremity of the Western Hemisphere. The Baha'i crusade is a step toward to-ward hastening the Golden Age of all mankind, and the entire resources re-sources of the Baha'i world will be dedicated to the fulfillment of this mission. Baha'is believe their Faith is the fulfillment of the promises of all previous religious dispensation and they consider His revelation the consumation of the 6,000-year cycle ushered in by Adam. |