Disciples of `Abdu'l-Bahá

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Shoghi Effendi, head of the Bahá'í Faith in the first half of the 20th century, designated nineteen Western Bahá'ís as Disciples of 'Abdu'l-Bahá and 'Heralds of the Covenant':^[1]

• Dr. John E. Esslemont
• Thornton Chase
• Howard MacNutt
• Sarah Farmer (see Green Acre Bahá'í School)
• Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney
• Lillian Kappes
• Robert Turner
• Arthur Brauns^[2]
• Lua Getsinger
• Joseph Hannen
• Chester I. Thatcher
• Charles Greenleaf
• Mrs. J. D. Brittingham
• Mrs. Thornburgh
• Helen S. Goodall
• Arthur P. Dodge
• William H. Hoar
• Dr. J. G. Augur
• William Randall (see Green Acre Bahá'í School)

In volumes of the Bahá'í World published in 1930 and 1933, a list of the Disciples, prepared by Shoghi Effendi, together with their photographs, has been published. No other statements about them has been found in Shoghi Effendi's writings.^[3]

See also

• Letters of the Living
• Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh
• Knights of Bahá'u'lláh
• Hands of the Cause

References

• The Bahá’í World, vol. 3: 1928–30. New York: Bahá’í Publishing Committee, 1930. pp. 84–85.
• The Bahá’í World, vol. 4. New York: Bahá’í Publishing Committee, 1933. pp. 118–19.
• Stockman, Robert H. (2009). "Dodge, Arthur Pillsbury (1849-1915)". Bahá’í Encyclopedia Project. Evanston, IL: National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States.

External links

• The Revelation of Baha-ullah in a Sequence of Four Lessons by Isabella D. Brittingham at LibriVox