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TAGS: - 20th century; - Biographies; - Visuals, illustrations and photographs; 1952; 1992; Bahá'í history by country; Taiwan

Abstract:

Bahá'í activities in Taiwan and personal histories, 1952-1992. Includes earliest pamphlet published in Chinese.

Taiwan Bahá'í Chronicle:

An Historical Record of the Early Days of the Bahá'í Faith in Taiwan

Barbara R. Sims

Bahá'í Publishing Trust of Taiwan, 1994

Chapter 6 6. The First Teaching Conference in Taiwan

In November 1956 the first Teaching Conference was held, in Tainan. Attendants numbered nineteen and represented five localities. Miss Agnes Alexander attended from Japan and stayed for three weeks. She was happy to see the Suleimanis again as she had first known them in China in 1923 when she went there with Martha Root. She wrote that every day and night of her visit to Taiwan was blessed to the last moment. At that time she was an Auxiliary Board Member of the Hands of the Cause in Asia. At the conference she told of the introduction of the Faith in China in which Miss Martha Root played a principal role. Miss Alexander wrote later that the friends in Taiwan with the exception of one Taiwanese, were all originally from mainland China. At that time Taiwan was under martial law but the Bahá'ís could have meetings in their rooms.

Miss Alexander visited Taiwan three times. The second visit was in 1958 and the third in 1962. The latter two times her visits were as a Hand of the Cause.

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The first All-Taiwan Teaching Conference, held in Tainan, November 11 and 12, 1956. Miss Alexander (center), who at that time was an Auxiliary Board Member, attended from Japan. It was her first trip to Taiwan. She stayed for three weeks to help with the teaching.

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