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key	CJGU5RLJ
title	For Such a Time as This
author	Kern, M. E.
item type	Journal article
publication year	1922
date	1922-01
publication title	The Church Officer's Gazette (Washington, DC)
abstract note	A few evenings ago I stood in the aisle of a crowded hall. The audience was composed mostly of fashionable and well-to-do people of our national capital. An old man in priestly robe and Persian costume entered with his retinue. The people rose en masse to do him honor. The leader of this meeting, in introducing our Oriental visitor, expressed the opinion that the audience was about to hear such words of wisdom as had never before greeted their ears. Who was this wise man from the East? — AbdulBaha, leader of the Bahai Movement. It is said that he has six million followers, mostly in the East, but a considerable number in England and America. What is this Bahai Movement? Believing "that creeds and dogmas of the past have lost their spiritual power, and the world is reaching out for a religion which will be a living, spiritual factor in the life of humanity," this Eastern philosophy is offered as a universal religion, adapted to all peoples. It recognizes good in all preceding religions,— heathen, Mohammedan, and Christian,— endeavors to harmonize science and religion, and concerns itself with temporal matters mainly, peace and progress,— a religion well adapted to the unregenerate heart, in love with modern culture. Thus Christ, the only one who can satisfy the longing of the sin-sick soul, is superseded, and men are being bound in bundles for the great day of God. Old controversies are being revived and, new controversies are springing up. The only movement that can meet the needs of the world at this time, and save those who are listening for the voice of God amid all this confusion, is the third angel's message.
pages	10
issue	1
volume	9
language	English
manual tags	CHRISTIANITY; 'ABDU'L-BAHA; ADVENTISM; MISSIONARIES

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