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iith I Horning, Hot. 12, lili. i of OLDEP NAnONS A New World Now Another Creed for the Allegiance of the Whole Earth, Called American By WILLIAM T. ELLIS, Haifa, given tbe world Christianity, the one most nearly universally accepted religion, Palestine has now become headquarters of a faith. Behaium, formerly called Bab- fsm, which Its followers and some writers In and America, claim to be the universal and final religion.

Since I have found religion to be, in practice, fundamental to my main thesis In this series of articles, Awaking of the Older I repaired hither to the home of the bead vt the Bahlsts and its Abdul Baha Abbas. It was somewhat of a shock to be told, when I made Inquiry at the large gray stone house here, that Abbas Effendi was away on a vacation for his health. The house was full of people, is I could tell by the voices of scurrying females In the echoing ball, when I succeeded in making my presence known at the knobless doorbell. There were several children playing In tbe large, unsodded yard, and doubtless of these reported the stranger's coming These were grandchildren; for Abbas Effendl has four daughters, but no sons The whole family, or gToup of families, live In the one house. Oriental fashion An English governess, who Is not a Behalst, Uvea with them to teach the children.

A at a Summer Resort. There are no disciples of the lst in Syria, except the pilgrims who come here, and the number of these is regulated by Abbaa fendl bimself. He is highly spoken of by his neighbors, and especially by the poor, to whom he gives presents, some times standing on the corner, and giv Ing away a hundred garments. He Is enabled to do thla by the rich pres ents of his followers, who are said to number several million In Persia. Abbas Effendl makes no claim to be a healer, and he himself occasionally needs the doctor's attention.

He Is simple In his manner of life, and has refused to take more than one wife, despite tbe fact that be has no son, and that his father before him Blessed Perfection," had two wives. Ills teachings permit polyg ainy, but they couusel against It. Incongruous though It seemed to find a gone away to a health resort, I followed Abbas Effendl to Alexandria, In Egypt, where I trailed him by trolley car from a huge sum mer hotel to a magnificent private house which he has rented for his sojourn. There, hospitably received for Abbaa Effendl Is fond of visitors, I had a most interesting Interview with the man whom a considerable number of Americans and Britons, and mil lions In Asia, call and hall as the latest and fullest manifestation of tbe Deity. A New Religion and its Martyrs The proof of martyrdom haa been abundantly given to Bablsm, or Beha Ism.

Tbe Bab himself was executed at Tabriz In 1850, at the age of 31, six years after he had enunciated his gen tie doctrines, and had called himself to knowledge, recalling the prophecies of the Bible and the Koran, concerning a coming one. In the bitter persecutions by the Moslems that ensued, tbe followers of the Bab met death finely. There were few recantations, and in a single year th number of martyrdoms amouuicd to as many as 10,000, Two years after Uie death of the Bab, a group of leaders fled to Bagdad, among them Mirza Hussyn All, whom the Bab had called Ullah," "The Glory of He spent two years In tbe mountains In seclusion and meditation. After a time he announced to a few of his closest friends, that he waa the "Manifestation." of whom the Bab had been the forerunner. In 1863 the Bagdad Bablsts were sent Into exile at Adrlanople.

Five years later Beha, who had come to be generally accepted by Bablsts as the Messiah (although not without rivals), thenceforth called themselves Behaists," was sent Into confinement at Akka, a few miles north of Haifa, where he produced many writings, and died In 1892. He was succeeded by hla Abbas Effendl, who Is called by Bablsts "Our and "Our Ho, too, haa hud the contentiona of aspirants for the leadership has been a blot on the history of Behalsm, but be seems now to be generally accepted by nearly all profesaors of tbe fulth. Hla or messages, are regularly read In tbe meetings of the faithful. A Picturesque Personality. The essence of Behalsm Is the that messengers, or manlfesta- tions.

of God, are sent whenever the tides I have rMd upon him picture him as a very wonderful individual. In an elegantly furnished modern house I found Abbaa Effendl seated on a sofa, waiting for me. He Is a striking figure in any garb, and when clad in a white tarboosh, or fez, with a white cloth wound around It. Moslem Style, and a long gray outer cloak of mohair, like a motor coat, and two white cloaks beneath It, ho would attract attention anywhere. He resembles.

In appearance and manner, General Booth of the Salvation Army, more than any other man I recall. He has the same Homan nose, the same restless, hawk like rye, the same silver beard and Iron gray locks, the same transparent skin. As he speaks Abbas Effendl opens wide his big gray eyes beneath his bushy eyebrows, and looks directly at one, giving an of ulated Interest and sincerity. He 1s restless those 40 odd years as a prisoner have left their mark on his throughout the interview he wriggled and wlsted his body, sometimes revealing the folded red bandana handkerchief upon which he sat; sometimes cocking his fez to the back of his head, and again to the side, and sometimes rakishly forward until it rested on the high bridge of his nose. All the while he was talking he twiddled In his long white hands a string of mother-of-pearls beads, such as gentlemen commonly carry In this part of the world.

Altogether, he looks the part of a benevolent old gentleman with considerable force of character. This positiveness was shown during Interview. A gentle-faced young Englishman, who looked fitter for esoteric discussions than for the football field, had been doing the Interpreting, Abbas Effendl speaking In Persian. The most difficult form of Interpretation Is that of a discussion of abstract themes, and I early saw that the young man'a renderings were Inadequate; my host saw It, also; and peremptorily ordered one other of his attendants to repeat what he said, sentence by sentence. In the room during the conversation, besides the two men mentioned, was to whom a piece of money was given in common.

Each said In his own tongue what he wanted bought with It, and they had a long and angry discussion. Then alcng came a man bearing lo. that was what they all wanted, but each had used a different name for it. So Moses, Buddha, Confucius. Christ, Mahomet, were all prophets of God, They merely had different names.

Each should accept the other." When this Important point as i pressed, he affirmed that all tlans should accept Mohamet, as Jews should have accepted Christ. "Do you really mean that all rel. g- ions are essentially the same, and thit one is as good as another? Do yeti include paganism, and idolatry?" "Yes, they were all right at first, even Buddhism, which has deteriorated, as all religions At this point my knowledge of the ancient and so-called "ethical faiths," proved so shaky that I abandoned this line of questioning He got on to firmer ground by saying. "There have been a thousand unknown prophets in the world. They were truly of God, but the world never recognized them." "Please tell mo what you mean by prophet? That word Is often used as meaning any man with a new or helpful messago to bis time; but you surely do not put the prophets you have named in the same class with the ordinary writer, teacher or cr today?" Here again the "Prophet" of the Bo- halsts showed his rare skill at evu- slon.

He took up the figure of the mirror, and dwelt at great length upcn that, and would net be diverted; tLe prophet is the man who best mirrors God. I could not get to him the sig- gestlon that, after all, the mirror dees not reflect or Impart life, heat or power. Nor could I get past the Interpreter the query whether this tea ing Is not a great comedown for those of Buddha, with his doctrine of nan being part of tbe divine essence; iJid of Jesus, who professed to give life; and who boldly declared: "I and the Father are and of Mohaciet, with his stern claim to be the very WRECKED BEFORE SHE EVER MADE A FLIGHT WHAT Is the Reason? By Dr. J. H.

JOWETT, Pastor of Fifth Avenue (New York) Presbyterian Churchy 77fV MAY FLY HE May Fly, a dirigible built for the British navy at a cost of about 1200,000, met with disaster recently when she was taken out of the shed for her first trial flight Fortunately there was no loss of life, although the officers and men in charge of the vessel were for a time In an extremely perilous position, during which they behaved with great courage and coolness Almost Immediately after coming out of the shed the airship was caught by the wind, heeled over, and eventually broke her back. Her fate will probably cause tbe abandonment of llghter-than air craft In favor of the heavler-than air biplane or monoplane. ASK NEW CALENDAR MONEY ADRIFT THREE YEARS British Statesman Would Rearrange Months of Year. In Palestine. a Persian Pilgrim, mho wore the green turban that marked him as a descendant of Mahomet; a keen-eyed old fellow, who followed the discussion Intently; and another Persian In long black cloak and turban, who looked as if he might sit fur an Illuminated edition of Omar Khayam; but he went sound asleep during the Interview.

The conversation lasted for over an hour, and 1 was cordially pressed to remain and partake of a Persian meal; but a Journalist must be careful whose halt he eats, If he Is to remain free. Beharista in America. After the pleasant generalizations with which the conversation opened, 1 asked Abbas Effendl concerning the number of tils disciples in America, for this has been put as high as a million. He himself avoids the use of the word "disciples," but does not object to Its employment by others. I could not get him to give even approximate figures; he contented bimself with saying that he had many friends in America and that there are regular spiritual gatherings of these In Washington, Boston and Chicago.

It Is evidently with these centers that he conducts his correspondence, for the names frequently recurred. As to the number of Behaists lu the world he was equally vague, but wholly honest. When I said that a friend from had told me that fully hulf the people In Persia are Behaists, he promptly declared that he thought thla number entirely too high. Equally candid was he In saying that there are practically no Behaists In Turkey; the following Is found chiefly in Persia, and then in India, America, Great voice of their predecessor becomes ob aln, and a scattering In other coun- scured. These are ire-1 queutly given as Moses, Zoroaster, Buddha, Christ, Mahomet, and the founders of tbe Behai faith.

Of the ltehai annotations, tbe last Is tbe fullest revelation of all. So I read in the book upon Behalsm which finds most favor with the leaders of tbe cult. Of course this doctrine makes Abbas Effendl tbe greatest of all tbe prophets and Incarnations of God; is It any wonder that 1 should want to him? Especially so, as all tbe ar- tries. he remarked. "Is more than quantity; better five diamonds than a hundred blea Abbas Effendl has considerable aptness In the art of illustration; this was further shown when wn got on the main track of the meaning of Behaisiu.

An All-Inclusive RellQlon, "All said Abbas Kffendl, substantially the same; there is no real difference. Tlie difference la only in names. There were once a 1 urk, a Greek, a Persian and an Arab, voice and representative of God. Interpreters are a great convenience, when there are uncomfortable questions flying around. What Behalsm Stands For.

A definition of Behalsm, which to an unsentimental westerner seems rather vague, 1s the hard thing to secure; so I asked Abbas Effendl, frankly, to give mo a categorical definition of the distinctive doctrine of Bcharism, "something with books to It, so that it will grasp the ordinary man." This he patiently and kindly did. "First. Behalsm believes that all men are brothers, and should bo act. "Second. Behalsm believes that there should be no strife of religious creeds.

All are equal. No man need chauge his religion when be becomes a Behalst, whether he is a Moslem, a Christian or a Buddhist. "Third. There should be no war between races or countries. There should be international brotherhood and international peace." ully, the retainer who had done the interpreting, later told me that Abbas believes that there will be a great war, and then world wide peace.

He also one language and one form of writing. Fourth. Behalsm teaches Its follow- era to love everybody. In Persia there are Jews, Moslems. Zoroastrlans, Budd- I hlsts, Brahmins aud Christians, who meet In love and concord as Behaists.

It removes fanaticism from all Aud I verily believe that Abbas 1 deudl practices his creed, for he Is a gentle, kindly man; who, however, has no conception whatever of the high In- cxorableness of truth Gen. Lew Wal- aphorism: "Better law Every Month Would Begin on Sunday Year Day and Leap Year Other Novel Features In Scheme. Henry Dalzlel, leader of the ultra radicals In the house of commons, the father of the bill which alms at giving Scotland local self- government had Just had prepared a bill to alter the calendar. This bill, known aa tbe fixed calendar bill, contains some novel features. As the memorandum which accompanies It ex plains, tbe bill purposes to substitute for the present Irregular calendar a fixed calendar having regular periods, of which the week is the common measure.

In this, as In other features, it differs from tbe calendar reform bill. Introduced In the house of commons In 1909, but which never got beyond tbe second reading stage. That bill sought to make the months as uniform in length as possible, but as a difference In this respect Is unavoidable in a year with 12 months. It Is thought better to Increase that dlf ference so as to allow of the week being a common measure of all months This arrangement makes It ttosslble for each month to begin on a Sunday and end on a Saturday. A table giving 'be proposed fixed calendar shows that tbe montha of January, February.

April, May, July, August. October and November would each conalst of 28 days, while the re malning months of March. June. September and December mould each have 35 daya. "New Year day" la aet apart, thus bringing the total of days up to the requisite number o.

365 days, while for leap year a special day is set aimrt for "Leap day," mhlch Is to be Intercalated between the last day of June and the first day of July, as reconstituted by the bill. A clause In the bill provides that the New Year day and Leap day shall not be accounted days of tbe week, and shall not, except where specially mentioned or provided for, je held to be Included in any computation of days, but shall otherwise be public bank holldaya. Tbe conditions of labor on theae days, and the remuneration therefor, under the bill, would conform as far aa possible to what prevails on Sundays. A fixed date, April 15. la selected for Easter day.

Finally, the bill. If passed by parliament. will not become operative until the government decides that sufficient International concurrence has been secured. Pocketbook Dropped From Boat In Delaware Bay Cornea Aahore and Owner Recovera Valuables. Lewes.

Harry Hickman of Philadelphia has recovered bis pocketbook and 1120 whlcb It contained. Three years ago he dropped It from a launch into Delaware bay. The NE of tbe most striking utterances of Dr. J. H.

Jowett is as follows: "You may proclaim the as a great ethical Teacher, but the ethica may generate no more energy than the Ten Commandments painted upon thep cold surface of the walls of a church. You may proclaim Him as a young Reformer, but the program will no more lift men out of their deadly grooves than a party program will lift men out of their sins Jesus, the young Prophet, may draw cheers; the uplifted Lord draws men. The young Reformer may gain men's signatures; the eacrlfical Saviour wins their We may be allowed to say reverently that the biography of God has been written and that It Is In three volumes. One volume treats of Him as Father, another of Him as Son, and the third of Him as the Holy Ghost. For many long decades the last was a practically unread volume.

So little was said of the Holy Ghost from the pulpit and In books and publications that the people could appropriately say, with the disciples of Epbesua: "We have not so much heard whether there be any Holy Ghost." This volume, however, 1s now receiving more attention Biography of Christ. We may be allowed to say ly, also, that tbe biography of Christ has been written, it has three chapters. They may be entitled "Christ the the Priest," and "Christ the King," We have us many who claim to have obtained a clear and adequate view of Christ, but it is safe to say that no clear and adequate view of Him baa been ob- pocketbook was found by the little daughter of Ernest Lynch, who picked by any one who has not seen CAT SLEEPS ON $16,000 RUG Lives All Night In Wsldorf-Astorls Safe, Which Is Supposed to Be Airtight and Burglar Proof. It up on a marsh where she was driving a cow. where it was probably washed by some winter storm Three years ago Dr.

Hickman, who was visiting here, was In a launch party and dropped his pocketbook overboard. Search was made for It. but no trace was discovered Some of the money found by the girl was redeem- i ed at the National Bank here and the rest, which was badly soaked and torn, sent to Washington for redemption. Although the pocketbook contained Dr. name in It when it was lost, the card was gone when It was returned to him New Prank Allstrom.

treasurer of the Waldorf-Astoria, opened the Inner doors of the big safe In his private office he waa greeted by a atray black cat whlcb Jumped from a vault containing 116,000 In fresh, crisp bank notes. Mr. Allstrom could not explain bow the tramp cat happened to be in the safe. Although the massive steel vault is airtight and burglar proof, the cat seemed none the for Its sixteen hours of Imprisonment. unlocking tbe Mr.

Allstrom said. "1 reached Into the vault where I had placed the bank notes. 1 was never more surprised In my life than when the big, black cat yawned and looked at me as though to aak, my breakfast "We have been unable to ascertain bow the cat gained access to tbe safe, as tbe inner doors are at all times kept locked None of my assistants can recall seeing the cat In tbe office before we closed the safe on Tuesday SNEEZE PLAYS GREAT HAVOC Big Indian Elephant Performa Her Triennial Feat, Shaking Building and Breaking Glaaa. the big Indian elephant, which sneezea once In three years, performed her triennial feat the other afternoon at the Boatock Jungle, White City. Aa results of her sneeze: of plaater fell from ceiling.

Four windows were broken. An electric light cluster was smashed. A party of thirty acboolboys were watching Daisy, which bad been motionless for more than an hour, when suddenly the animal gave a scream, reared up on Ita hind lega and. giving vent to a roar that shook the jungle to its foundations, spurted a stream of water over them, drenching them to tbe skin. Daisy laid down Immediately after her sneeze and went to sleep.

YANKEE ANKLES TOO BEEFY Fifty Years of Europe Than an Instep of Back Paraphrases Briton In Boston. England doesn't like the ankles of the women of America Alfred Tennyson Dickens, son of tbe novelist and godson of tbe poet, cries aloud In paraphrase of bis godfather: "Better fifty years of Europe than an Instep of Back At the City club Mr. Dickens tbe sad story of how, walking about, bis eyes cast down, presumably through homesickness for London, he caught a glimpse of Boston ankles and how his soul cried out tn horror: "Beefy! Beefy as Mra. own!" Mr. Dickens said later he was only attempting to be a little humorous tn a land where be bad heard humor was lightly thought of lie gave bis word not to touch on auch a dainty topic again aa long aa he lived NEWEST THING IN COOKING i Judge la Expert With Needle.

Hot Springs, S. Cook, justice of the peace, aged years, devotes several hours every day to tbe making of fancy work One of out love, than love without law," would I the features of the exhibit at the state not appeal to him. None the less, bia high, fine ideals, embodying as they do, tbe commonplaces of Christianity, are in consonance with the spirit of the age. and we may expect to see Be- haistn grow and prosar, especially among sentimental persons. Its claim to bo tbe final and universal religion la scarcely tenable, since It has not bones enough to stand tbe scalpels of the scholars.

(Copyright. Ull, by Joseph B. Bowleaj fair from this county mill be a craxy quilt made by him Sewing is Mr Cook's hobby. He learned it as a child Although once famous In Nem York state aa a ball player, he has become more uoted for doing fancy work Since the death of his wife, a few years ago. he has lived alone He demoted several tours each day to bis quilt pitches From Paris Comes an Innovation Which Will Eliminate Present Clews to Menu of Host.

now It Is odorless cookery Straight from Paris, and also from a master chef of that epicurean met has come the latest Item of elimination by which modern clvlllza tlon makes its progress, and a bevy of Chicago matrons, young women who have "come and othera soon to do the same crowded tbe instruction rooms of tbe Chicago School of Domestic Arts and Sciences to learn of the nemeat thing lu cookery For no longer are palates to be tickled and mouths to mater on Thankagiving morning at tbe frag ranee of roasting turkey, and the higher cost of turkey mill not necessarily be responsible No longer are the breezes to waft more of frying onion and boiling cabbage from your neighbor'a kitchen to your living rooms than that neighbor gets mhen his dinner Is served And never more mill houses become saturated with stale reminiscences of the fuilures and mistakes of cooks who might have been more accomplished In their vocation Investment lu a few paper bugs is all that is necessary for the new style of cookery. It Is almost utensil-less, as well as odorless, and tbe boura and energy employed in scraping pots aud pane hereafter will be saved Tbe greater part of an elaborate dinner was placed in a single com- dents of tbe School of Domestic Arts and Sciences this morning And when onions, trout, bscon. baked pies, potatoes, stuffed tomatoes and several other edibles were cooking steadily at the same time, a nose held so close to the oven as to be In danger of acorching could not detect any odor mhatever. Moaqulto Saved His Life. Sharon, mosquito saved tfte life of John Mahoney the other day.

He was passing a building In course of construction when a workman on tbe top floor accidentally dropped a heavy hammer. At the same Instant tried to alight on Mahoney's nose, causing him to jerk hla head backward. The hammer grazed bis face and chipped a piece out of the atone pavement. Had the hammer struck Mahoney on Him In this official trinity. Just we must study God as Father, ob and Holy Ghost, so we must study Christ as Prophet, Priest and King We fear that the Priesthood volume of the biography of Christ Is not now receiving the attention which It received a generation ago.

Then Christ the PrleFt. the atoning One, the great Deliverer from eternal death which was pictured as the wsges of sin, waa held up before the eyes of dying men and women. Much was made of the atoning blood. The of Jesus was represented as a real and efficacious reality. The greatest sermons were on the subject of "The Atonement." The penitent at the altar felt that mhat be waa trying to find had been made possible through the sufferings and death of the Son of God, the great High Priest "that Is passed Into tbe Heavens, Jesus the Son of Need of the Day.

Christ Is still, we are glad to say, the theme of Christian preachers and other thinkers. Men are preaching Christ from the pulpit and platform and tn newspapers, magazines, and books as never before in tbe history of the morld. This Is nn inspiring fact. Yet It Is mainly of Christ tbe Prophet and King that we bear. Christ the Teacher, Christ the Philosopher.

Christ the social Leader. Christ the Lover of man, Christ the Victor over death and all other foea is a familiar figure. But we are hungering aa a Church and as a people for something concerning Christ as our great High Priest; of Him who. knowing no sin, was made sin for us, "that we might be made the righteousness of God in How we long for an old-time sermon on the atonement! Our plea for a larger place for Christ the Priest in mind, heart and life mill receive, we feel aure. only cold disdain from some who teach that no good can come out of Nazareth of what they call the "old Yet It Is a fact written plain on the tablet of common observation and experience the clean, clear-cut conversions mhlch have enriched the Christian life of the past and are enriching that of the present followed tbe uplifting of a suffering and atoning Christ.

Why should we seek the living among the dead? The saint- lleat lives are those whlcb enshrine the crucified One. The cry which still deeply touches the divine Heart Is the old. old cry so familiar to our Tattlers snd mothers: Just as 1 am, without plea. But that Thy blood vai shed for me. Thinga to Remember.

David aays, speaking directly to himself In the spirit of gratitude, the Lord. my soul, and fop- get not all his He does ex would crushed' skull. Mahoney declared that tbe mosquito's attack was so vicious that the pain had caused him to throw hla bead back, saving bis life. Buy Land by the Inch. Louisville, citizens of a West neighborhood are buying a lot 250 feet squaro at the rate of about SI 25 a front Inch When the lot Is all sold It will be presented to the trustees of the Louisville free library as a site for a new branch, the money for which Is in hand, but awaiting presentation of a site.

No aite donor coming forward, the people devised novel scheme to partment of one oven by cookery stu- i raise $3,800 for the site. favor that God has bestowed, the million of Instances In which the divine benefits had fallen Into his heart an 4) life, but he begs his soul not to forget them all. Some persons seem to have forgotten everything that God ever did for them. Indeed, the good ness of God and the kindness of men seem to be alike forgotten by many, even In cases where It was "bard to forget," because of the abundant and almoat miraculous care and kindness of both. These manifold mercies of God.

including a countless throng of kind words and tender ministries on the part of our earthly friends, should never, never be Telescope..