ha'u'llah's Mission and His Journey to
Constantinople
Chapter X: The Rebellion of Mirza Yahya and the Proclamation of
Baha'u'llah's Mission in Adrianople
Chapter XI: Baha'u'llah's Incarceration in Akka
Chapter XII: Baha'u'llah's Incarceration in Akka (Continued)
Chapter XIII: Ascension of Baha'u'llah
THIRD PERIOD: THE MINISTRY OF 'ABDU'L-BAHA 1892-1921
Chapter XIV: The Covenant of Baha'u'llah
Chapter XV: The Rebellion of Mirza Muhammad-'Ali
Chapter XVI: The Rise and Establishment of the Faith in the West
Chapter XVII: Renewal of 'Abdu'l-Baha's Incarceration
Chapter XVIII: Entombment of the Bab's Remains on Mt. Carmel
Chapter XIX: 'Abdu'l-Baha's Travels in Europe and America
Chapter XX: Growth and Expansion of the Faith in East and West
Chapter XXI: The Passing of 'Abdu'l-Baha
FOURTH PERIOD: THE INCEPTION OF THE FORMATIVE AGE OF THE BAHA'I FAITH
1921-1944
Chapter XXII: The Rise and Establishment of the Administrative Order
Chapter XXIII: Attacks on Baha'i Institutions
Chapter XXIV: Emancipation and Recognition of the Faith and Its
Institutions
Chapter XXV: International Expansion of Teaching Activities
Retrospect and Prospect

FOREWORD

On the 23rd of May of this auspicious year the Baha'i world will celebrate
the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Faith of Baha'u'llah. It
will commemorate at once the hundreth anniversary of the inception of the
Babi Dispensation, of the inauguration of the Baha'i Era, of the
commencement of the Baha'i Cycle, and of the birth of 'Abdu'l-Baha. The
weight of the potentialities with which this Faith, possessing no peer or
equal in the world's spiritual history, and marking the culmination of a
universal prophetic cycle, has been endowed, staggers our imagination. The
brightness of the millennial glory which it must shed in the fullness of
time dazzles our eyes. The magnitude of the shadow which its Author will
continue to cast on successive Prophets destined to be raised up after Him
eludes our calculation.

Already in the space of less than a century the operation of the
mysterious processes generated by its creative spirit has provoked a
tumult in human society such as no mind can fathom. Itself undergoing a
period of incubation during its primitive age, it has, through the
emergence of its slowly-crystallizing system, induced a fermentation in
the general life of mankind designed to shake the very