een previously
published.--Librarian
274 The recipients of the following Tablets up to and including page
619, are unknown, and although we have no specific permission to
publish them, they are included here as they have been previously
published.--Librarian.
275 This Tablet bears the following heading: "Each child may memorize as
much as he can from this supplication."
276 The following Tablet as received bore no opening line of address.
277 Refers to the congress of The Hague held in 1907.
278 During the year 1899.
279 This Tablet bore the following heading: "A general prayer for
everyone to recite."
280 Children of the recipient of the preceding Tablet.
281 The following extract from a Tablet as received bore no opening line
of address.
282 Revealed during 1908.
283 Addressed to three maid-servants.
284 Baha'o'llah.
285 To the Boston (Mass.) assembly.
286 The name "Boston" rhymes with the Arabic name "Bostan," or
fruit-garden.--Translator.
287 This Tablet bears the following heading: "To the members of the
Spiritual Assembly of Chicago and the Spiritual Assembly of New
York."
288 To the Samarkand, Russia, assembly.
289 To a believer in Baku, Russia.
290 Abdul-Baha elucidated Jesus' teaching against the theory of
"blindness from birth" and the defects being caused by the sin of
the individual in a former state (see St. John 9:1-3), thus: "Jesus
states that this defect exists in order to prove and show that the
gift of sight is from God alone and is one of his bounties. Because
were all created with sight the people would consider it a mere
natural fact that they must be so made, and not give God thanks for
His great gift."--Translator
291 To the Cincinnati (O.) assembly.
292 The following extract from a Tablet as received bore no opening line
of address.
293 The first teachers of the Bahai Cause to come to America from the
Orient dwelt in the household of the recipient of this Tablet.
294 The following Tablet as received bore no opening line of address.
295 Khai Khosroe was a Zoroastrian Bahai of Bombay, India, who left his
home and went to Lahore to nurse Mr. Sydney Sprague who was sick of
a fever. Mr. Sprague recovered, while the great Khai Khosroe died.
He was the first Oriental friend to giv
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