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Bahá’í Movement Followers Meet

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Bahai Movement Followers Meet
Baltimore Maryland Star
April 18, 1912
Washington, DC

Abdu’l-Bahá, Founder and Leader, Comes From Persia to Attend.

Washington, April 18. — A number of men prominent in politics, education, religion and labor assembled in the capital today for the second annual conference of the Persian-American Educational Society, which is made up of advocates of the so-called Bahá’í movement for universal religion, brotherhood and peace. The conference this year is honored by the presence of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, the founder and leader of the movement.

Senator Burton, of Uhio; Representative Sulzer, of New York; President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, and several other men of national prominence; are to address the conference.

The sessions will last three days.