Taiwan Bahá'í Chronicle:
An Historical Record of the Early Days of the Bahá'í Faith in Taiwan
Chapter 6
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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.
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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