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Second Appointment of Hands of the Cause |
Announce friends East and West, through National Assemblies,
following nominations raising the number of the present Hands of
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the Cause of God to nineteen. Dominion Canada and United States,
Fred Schopflocher and Corinne True, respectively. Cradle of Faith,
Dhikru’lláh Khádem, Shu‘á’u’lláh ‘Alá’í. Germany, Africa, Australia,
Adelbert Mühlschlegel, Músá Banání, Clara Dunn, respectively.
Members august body invested in conformity with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s
Testament, twofold sacred function, the propagation and preservation
of the unity of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh, and destined to assume
individually in the course of time the direction of institutions paralleling
those revolving around the Universal House of Justice, the
supreme legislative body of the Bahá’í world, are now recruited from
all five continents of the globe and representative of the three principal
world religions of mankind. Recently urged newly-appointed
Hand of Canada, on occasion of his pilgrimage to Holy Land, to
undertake preliminary measures, in conjunction with Canadian National
Assembly for the establishment of national Hazíratu’l-Quds
similar to those already founded in Teheran, Wilmette, Baghdád,
Sydney, Frankfurt, Cairo and New Delhi. Identical instructions
were given appointed Hand of Africa in course of his just concluded
pilgrimage, for the acquisition of property in Kampala to serve as
local Hazíratu’l-Quds to synchronize with formation of first Assembly
in heart of Africa, to be regarded as nucleus of national administrative
headquarters of Faith destined to arise on morrow of
formation of National Spiritual Assembly of Central and Eastern
Territories of African continent.
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