Author: Sydney Sprague
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Category : Bahai Faith
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: Sydney Sprague
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ISBN: 9780282517472
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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Excerpt from A Year With the Bahais in India and BurmaI have confined myself, as much as possible, to relating my intercourse with the Bahais and what the Bahai Cause is doing in India and Burma.This will, naturally, interest much more those who are directly in touch with this movement, but I feel sure that what the Bahai Movement is doing in India to promote the cause Of unity and friendship among different peoples, will interest all thoughtful persons.Everyone who has looked into the matter at all, must acknowledge that the Bahai Movement is enlightening and educating people in a very wonder ful manner. Although all may not accept it, yet their eyes will be Opened through it to the beauty and truth Of other religions, and a realization will come to them that all the world is kin.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Sydney Sprague
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230353920
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Languages : en
Pages : 20

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... LAHORE. LAHORE is a great centre of missionary activity. Here the Americans have a large college, and there are numerous other institutions of learning. Great interest was aroused by my coming, and many enquirers from all religions came to see us. Mirza Mahmoud is possessed of an unusually sweet and winning personality, and has made many friendsin Lahore; even those who had not yet accepted his views, told me how much they admired his excellent character, and he is teaching continually by his beautiful life, which Baha Ullah has said in many of his Tablets is the best way of teaching. I felt that there were great opportunities forwork in Lahore, and planned to stay there some time. Two Hindu societies had asked me to give them lectures, and I had received invitations from Amritsaf and Rawalpindi to visit those places. But, alas, for human plans, I had only been a fortnight in Lahore when I was taken ill with a severe attack of typhoid fever. The great heat I had experienced, the strair of meeting and talking with so many people, had all told on me, and I had little strength to fight the-disease. The first attack was followed by a relapse, and it was nearly six weeks before my temperature went down. At times I seemed hovering on the brink of the great Beyond, and as I look back and think of the terrific heat of the Lahore climate and-of my own high temperature, it seems wonderful that my life was spared. In fact, the doctor had said: -" I can do nothing for him, his life is in the hands of God." Although my illness was a severe test to me at the lime, I can now look back on it with pleasure, for it was the means of the bringing out and the making manifest of what stuff the Oriental Bahais are made. Some Western writer has said that the...

Author: Sydney SPRAGUE
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Category : Bahai Faith
Languages : en
Pages : 53

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Author: Sydney Sprague
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ISBN: 9780649356515
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Author: Effendi Shoghi
Publisher: New Delhi : Bahaʼi Pub. Trust
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Category : Bahai Faith
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Bahaism in India.

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Category : Bahai Faith
Languages : en
Pages : 1100

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Author: James Hastings
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Author: Ebe Minerva White
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Category : Religions
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Author: Alexandra Popoff
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416559906
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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As Leo Tolstoy’s wife, Sophia Tolstoy experienced both glory and condemnation during their forty-eight-year marriage. She was admired as the muse and literary assistant to one of the world’s most celebrated novelists. But when in later years Tolstoy became a towering public figure and founded a new brand of religion, she was scorned for her disagreements with him. And it is this version of Sophia—malicious, shrill, perennially at war with Tolstoy—that has gone down in the historical record. Drawing on newly available archival material, including Sophia’s unpublished memoir, Alexandra Popoff presents a dramatically different and accurate portrait of the woman and the marriage. This lively, well-researched biography demonstrates that, contrary to popular belief, Sophia was remarkably supportive of Tolstoy and was, in fact, key to his fame. Gifted and versatile, Sophia assisted Tolstoy during the writing of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Having modeled his most memorable female characters on her, Tolstoy admired his wife’s boundless energy, which he called “the force of life.” Sophia’s letters, never before translated, illuminate the couple’s true relationship and provide insights into Tolstoy’s creative laboratory. Although long portrayed as an elitist and hysterical countess, Sophia was in reality a practical, independent-minded, generous, and talented woman who shared Tolstoy’s important values and his capacity for work. Mother of thirteen, she participated in Tolstoy’s causes and managed all business a airs. Popoff describes in haunting detail the intrusion into their marriage by Tolstoy’s religious disciple Vladimir Chertkov, who controlled Tolstoy at the end of his life and led a smear campaign against Sophia, branding her evil and mad. She is still judged by Chertkov’s false accounts, which dismissed her valuable achievements and contributions. During his later religious phase, Tolstoy renounced his property and copyright, and Sophia had to become the breadwinner. She published Tolstoy’s collected works and supported their large family. Despite the pressures of her demanding life, she realized her own talents as a writer, photographer, translator, and aspiring artist. This vigorous, engrossing biography presents in fascinating depth and detail the many ways in which Sophia Tolstoy enriched the life and work of one of the world’s most revered authors.