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THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN. ASHEVILLE, N. C. Friday, April 20, 1956 Religion Today Russians Talk Better Game In Cold War Bahai Holds All Great Faiths Are, In Fact, One Bv ARTHUR EDSON WASHINGTON. April 19 IB A Don't miss the once-a-year linguist said today the Russians realtor and treasurer of the national bodv.

said "the time must are talking a netter game in uie cold war, in 80 different come when the entire world will all be Bahais when all men will Shirley Duncan Hudson, of the American Council of Learned be united in peace, when all re ligions will be one." Estimates put the total of Bahais at more than two million T1 Societies, said the United States may be doing okay building up its military muscles. But she said that when it comes to winning friends, especially in Asia, by talking to them in their native tongues, the Russians seem to By GEORGE W. CORNELL AP Staff Writer An old, hard-fouyht dream today nourishes a young, peacemaking religion. The dream: that all men be brought into harmonious worship of one God. Many a battle has been fought over this goal, as rival creeds sought to win the world to their own particular way, but it's also the heart of one of the friendliest, most conciliatory of all faiths.

It's called Bahai. It holds that all the great religions are, in fact, one. "There are no basic conflicts," said Paul Haney, a Washington, D.C., economist and chairman of Hanoi's nine-member national ad-ministrative body called Uie "Spiritual Assembly" or "House of Justice." Followers hold that all the world's major religions Judaism Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism and Islam taught the same Divine Truth, expressed progressively by their various prophets, in their own time and way. The next stage ahead Is believed to be the uniting of all men of differing spiritual herritages, into one, universal faith in God Bahai. "This is an objective toward which all people of good will can work constructively," Haney said.

Howard B. Kavelin, a New York and just under 25,000 in this countrydouble what it was 20 years ago, Congregations of Bahais now exist in about 1,500 American towns and cities, with the larger have a Dig edge. She put it this way; "Language knowledge is but one groups in Chicago, han Francisco, L1f New York, Milwaukee and Los of the weapons, but it's an important one, and one which has been dangerously neglected." Angeles and schools in Eliot, Maine; Geyserville, Davison, and Pine Valley, Colo. Next week, about 1,000 Bahai A couple of years ago "Pravda" reported that the Russian state publishing house had turned out, or. was preparing, bilingual dic delegates from- throughout the country gather for their 48th an- 1 i JU -r nual convention, April 26 to 29, at a magnificent, domed temple in tionaries in 80 languages.

With help from Ford Foundation, some similar steps have 7 Iff I 4H If 'I 0 Campus Cobbler Shop the suburbs of Wilmette, ill The meeting, at this national headquarters, comes in the midst of a "12-day celebration, lasting from April 21 to May 2, of the been taken in this country. Don't look for them on the best seller lists, but books such as "A Gram, mar of Pashto," by Herbert Panzl; and "Spoken Amoy Ilok-kien," by N. C. Bodman, have been published. flWf Hf declaration by Baha'u'llah in Persia in 1863 of his mission to manifest religion's oneness.

rouble is. according lo Mrs. Hudson, there aren't nearly Before him had gone a long line of those he considered divine lililll prophets Moses, Buddha. Jesus Mainstreeter's Mesh Pump Summer-perfect for a lowly Mohammed and his immediate forerunner, The Bab, who fore- told the coming of Baha'u'llah to unify mankind faith. From the handful of disciples in those days, the religion has spread lo 22d countries.

mmmm enough of them. She has a list of work being done, and it shows great gaps in textbooks, grammars and students dictionaries in languages like Cambodian, Tibetan, Uigur, Uzbek and Marathi. Mrs. Hudson says, "has been sporadic, crisis-inspired and inefficient." Her conviction: That the U. S.

government must underwrite the preparation of the most needed dictionaries since there is no way a publisher could break even on, say a Javanese grammar. So far, Congress has shown little enthusiasm, although Sen. Alex Its direction was handed on by nana uuah to his great grandson Effendi Jiabbani, "The Wmmmmm guardian of the faith," who now resides at Haifa, Israel, on Mt Curmel. He has final authority in inter preting the sacred writings, simi lar to that of the Roman Catholic pontiff. But Bahais contend there ander Wiley of Wisconsin, the too- is a chief distinction the Bahai So smart so dressy comfortable.

The heels are extra narrow to prevent slipping up and down. office being hereditary instead of ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, has been interested in the project. elective. "There is no possibility of dis Airs. Hudson, who put in 10 years as a teacher in China, re agreement with his teachings or interpretations," Kevelin said.

"Accepting them is essential to being a Bahai. It is part ot the grets (1) that Americans are so reluctant to learn another language, and (2) that those we have learned have been mostly European. Four years ago a study of convenanl. The independent quest for truth, however, is a fundamental tenet 45 1 Sizes 5 to 10 AAA to Tan Navy White ot Bahai. mere is no clergy, no aOO scholars in the humanities and social sciences showed.

Mrs. Hudson said, "an alarmins deficien fixed ritual. Its worship services, held every 19 days and called "19-dav feasts. cy" in those who could handle arc led alternately by members any language save English. Among all those 25,500 experts, the Council of Learned Societio quanuea to no u.

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