1. 1950. Bahá'í Faith 1844-1950, The: Information Statistical and Comparative. Shoghi Effendi, comp. Statistics.
2. 1941. Appreciations of the Bahá'í Faith. Various, Author unknown, comp. . Excerpts from books, magazines, newspaper articles, and testimonials. Introductory.
3. 1910. Fifty Three Years In Syria. Henry H. Jessup. Passing encounters between Bahá'ís and a Christian missionary in Iran, 1867-1901. Excerpts.
4. 1904. Religion of the Bab, The. Robert E. Speer, Henry H. Jessup. Two articles: Speer's "The Religion of the Bab," pp. 119-174, is followed by Jessup's "The Babites," pp. 174-182 (originally published in The Outlook, 1901). Articles.
5. 1902-10. Babism and the Babites. Henry H. Jessup. Sympathetic overview of Bábí and Bahá'í history, including a meeting and a detailed conversation with Abdu'l-Bahá. Essays.
6. 1901-06-22. Babites, The. Henry H. Jessup. Sympathetic overview of Bábí and Bahá'í history, including a meeting and a detailed conversation with Abdu'l-Bahá. Pilgrims.
7. 1894. Religious Mission of the English-Speaking Nations, The. Henry H. Jessup. The report mentioned by Shoghi Effendi in God Passes By, and often referred to as being one of the first public mentions of the Faith. In World's Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago with the Columbian Expo of 1893. Essays.

1. 1893-09-23 —
   First public reference in North America to the Bahá'í Faith. [SBBH1p76]
   • Reference was made to it in a paper entitled The Religious Mission of the English Speaking Nations by Rev. Henry H. Jessup, a retired missionary from north Syria, read by Rev George A. Ford at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago. [AB63–4; BBD2412; BBR57; BFA1:323; BW2:230; GPB256; SBBH1:76, 88, 202]
     See The Babites, a paper by Henry Jessup that was published in The Outlook 22nd June, 1901 in which he recounts meeting 'Abdu'l-Bahá.
   • See AB63–4, BW2:169 for text.
   • Historians have observed that, before this Parliament, "religion" was classified by many Americans into ethnic religion and universal religion. They considered there being only one universal religion: Christianity. In this view, all previous faiths were ethnic religions, and their purpose was to prepare the people for Christianity. Ethnic religions may have had portions of the truth, but only Christianity had all truth. This 1893 Parliament was a pivotal moment in the abolition of such classification, as representatives of "eastern" religions such as Swami Vivekananda and Anagarika Dharmapala promoted a new religious tolerance. [Paraphrased quote from Robert Stockman]
   • World Parliament of Religions 1893, a talk by Mr. Rothwell "Bud" Polk.
   • See Chicago 1893.
2. 1910-00-00 —
   The publication of Fifty-Three Years in Syria by Reverend H. H. Jessup. (Apologies: this link does not have the same text as found on SBBR1p78) [Collins10.818]
   • This same Reverend Jessup who delivered the address to the World Parliament of Religions in 1894 in Chicago seemed to have revised his opinion about the Faith. Perhaps this was due to the dis-information being spread by the Covenant-breakers after the passing of Bahá'u'lláh.
   • He also published Babism and the Babites in "The Missionary Review of the World", Princeton, NJ Oct 1902 p771-775 and The Babites in "The Outlook", London, 22 June 1901 p451-456. [Collins11.574, 11.575]
   • See also WOB83 for other missionaries who wrote polemics against the Bahá'í Faith.

1. 1893-09-23 —
   First public reference in North America to the Bahá'í Faith.

   Reference was made to it in a paper entitled `The Religious Mission of the English Speaking Nations' by Rev. Henry H. Jessup, a retired missionary from north Syria, read by Rev George A. Ford at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago. [AB63–4; BBD2412; BBR57; BFA1:323; BW2:230; GPB256; SBBH1:76, 88, 202]

   • See AB63–4, BW2:169 for text.
   • The Magee family of London, Ester and daughters Edith and Harriet heard of the Faith for the first time. [OBBC1]

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