teen Day Feast and of the National Fund.
Reference should, moreover, be made to the establishment of National
Archives for the authentication, the collection, the translation, the
cataloguing and the preservation of the Tablets of Baha'u'llah and of
'Abdu'l-Baha and for the preservation of sacred relics and historical
documents; to the verification and transcription of the original Tablets
of the Bab, of Baha'u'llah and of 'Abdu'l-Baha in the possession of
Oriental believers; to the compilation of a detailed history of the Faith
since its inception until the present day; to the opening of a Baha'i
International Bureau in Geneva; to the holding of Baha'i district
conventions; to the purchase of historic sites; to the establishment of
Baha'i memorial libraries, and to the initiation of a flourishing
children's Savings Bank in Persia.
Nor should mention be omitted of the participation, whether official or
non-official, of representatives of these newly founded national Baha'i
communities in the activities and proceedings of a great variety of
congresses, associations, conventions and conferences, held in various
countries of Europe, Asia and America for the promotion of religious
unity, peace, education, international cooperation, inter-racial amity and
other humanitarian purposes. With organizations such as the Conference of
some Living Religions within the British Empire, held in London in 1924
and the World Fellowship of Faiths held in that same city in 1936; with
the Universal Esperanto Congresses held annually in various capitals of
Europe; with the Institute of Intellectual Cooperation; with the Century
of Progress Exhibition held in Chicago in 1933; with the World's Fair held
in New York in 1938 and 1939; with the Golden Gate International
Exposition held in San Francisco in 1939; with the First Convention of the
Religious Congress held in Calcutta; with the Second All-India Cultural
Conference convened in that same city; with the All-Faiths' League
Convention in Indore; with the Arya Samaj and the Brahmo Samaj Conferences
as well as those of the Theosophical Society and the All-Asian Women's
Conference, held in various cities of India; with the World Council of
Youth; with the Eastern Women's Congress in Tihran; with the Pan-Pacific
Women's Conference in Honolulu; with the Women's International League for
Peace and with the Peoples Conference at Buenos Aires in Argentina--with
these and others, relationships have,
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