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GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1973—PAGIi 74.;
gates from Baha'i
al Spiritual Assemblies t l
out the world
e Third International
tion on April 29 at the
World they elected the
when' ,
Center
Hada,
when'
al House of Justice.
Universal House of
, established in 1963, is
hest unit of the Baha'i
:trative order and
wears
every'
tes to the Third Inter-
! Convention comprise
rs of National Assem-
om more than one hun-
and thirteen c'odntries.
averse linguistic, racial
tional backgrounds
legates reflects a Baha'i
le of unity through
tv. The delegates elected
rsons from amongst the
of the world to serve
Universal House of
i,..�
the supreme governing
of the Baha'i ad-
ative order, the Univer-
use of Justice is em -
d to apply the principles
laws revealed by
'llah, The. Founder of
'ha'i Faith, and to adapt
aith to a progressing
It is also invested with
hority to legislate on all
not covered in the
Writings. The establish -
f the Universal House of
represent the first time
igious history that a
r of a religion provided
authorized source of in -
tion of His Word, thus
g the unity of His
rs.
esenting the Canadian
i Community .at the
International Conven-
re nine members of the
al Spiritual Assembly of
ha'is of Canada who
from widely separated
of the country: A.H.
i, D.G. Glen, ,and J.I.
of Toronto; M.E. Mut-
Edmonton and Toronto;
nd of Hull, P.Q.; R.J.
s of Winnipeg, and Dr.
rs. M.G. Rochester of St.
Nfld.
development which has
ssible this Third Inter -
al Convention,
ni'ng the base of the
system, is the corn -
of a Nine Year Inter -
,.I Teaching Plan laun-
• the Universal House of
in 1964. This global
g campaign for the ex -
of the Baha'i Faith has
d Baha'is from many
'es travelling throughout
rld to fulfill the goals of
an by establishing the
Faith in more than
hundred countries.
Canadian Baha'i Com
has played a vital role
,t+ginatiorial Teaching
'Hundreds .of Canadian
have settled. in over-
als in Iceland, Europe,
:and Asia. Since the in-
of the Baha'i Faith in
:t, the Canadian Baha'i
nity along with the
:n Baha'i Community,
oµldered the heaviest
abilities for the expan-
the 3aha'i Faith
out the .world.
The Canadian Baha'i Com-
munity with its bilingual ad-
vantage undertook a major
part of the responsibility for the
expansion of the Baha'i Faith
in the vast francophone world.
Recently, growing numbers of
French Canadians, and , par-
ticularly youth, have been at-
tractts l to "the, Faith.
The Baha'i Faith has spread
significantly in Canada in-
creasing its enrolment
dramatically in the final years
of the Nine Year International
Teaching Plan. Since the
Baha'i Faith places much em-
phasis on the respect for and
preservation of all cultures, it
has also been widely accepted
by many of the native peoples,_
of Canada.
An independent world
religion, the Baha'i Faith was
founded in 1863 by the
Prophet, Baha'u'llah, who
taught that all the world's
religions were stages in one
universal faith. The Baha'i
Faith has its own scripture,
laws and administrative order
and its own holy places, the
most sacred of which are in
Haifa, Israel, on and near
Motint Carmel.
Baha'u'llah proclaimed this
as the age of the oneness of
humankind. To the East and
the West He announced that
once again a divine Educator
had come to humanity in its
hour of need to quicken souls,
illumine minds, unify conscien-
ces and rempld the customs of
humankind in preparation for a
world civilization, which will
eventually be founded upon
spiritual principles: ---LL
Baha' u'1lah and His
followers suffered very great
opprgssion. In Persia alone
twenty thousand of the early
believers were martyred in the
nineteenth century. Eventually
Baha'tellah and His followers
were imprisoned, stripped of all
rights, then exiled to Baghdad,
to Constantinople, to
Adrianople and finally con-
fined to the desolate barracks
of Akka, -a Turkish hayracks
colony__�at the foot of Mount
Vii' f.�
e
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these efforts,
however, could extinguish the
Message of Baha'u'llah. The
Baha'i Faith gradually spread
from the East to Europe and
eventually to the North
American continent.
SHEET METAL, WORK
THAT WILL ENDURE,
GIVE US THE JOB
I AND FEEL SECURE .
One hundred years after
Baha' u'llah's declaration of
His Mission to unify
humankind, the Universal
House of Justice was elected in
1963. This crowning unit of a
world • order envisaged by
Baha'u'llah emerged out of the
century -long efforts and
sacrifices of men and women
throughout the world who had
embraced His Teachings and
carried His Message to the cor-
ners of the earth.
and women throughout the
world are attracted to the
fastest-growing of the world's
religions. its adherents come
from all religious, cultural and
economic backgrounds. The
theme of the oneness of
humankind, "unity in diver-
sity'' proclaimed by
Ba,ha'u'Ilah has stirred the
hearts and minds of people
throughout the world and given
therm the compelling vision of a
gradually unfolding world or-
der through which a lasting
peace would be established.
In Level 1 semi-finals
Charlie MacDonald defeated
Reinhardt Voelmle to win the
series two g''arnea to one.
Charlie now advances to the
finals against Clarke Teal.
In Level 2 semi-finals Jin1
Kingsley defeated Kirk Lyndon
to win the series two games to
none. ,Iim then went on to the
finals in which he defeated
"Toni McGill two games in a
row to win the Level 2 cham-
pionship.
in Level 3 Dennis Little had
won the championship the
previous week by ,defeating
Harald Kloeze in the finals .
In Level 4 finals John
Seaman came up with a victory
to tie the series at one game
apiece and a tie. However, Rick
Kingsley bounced back to win
the fourth game and the Level
4 championship. -
'1'he Goderich Chess club
marks the end of this season
with a dinner at the Bedford
Hotel on May 9th at which
Mayor Harry Worsell will be
presenting trophies donated by
Carlings Breweries to the win-
ners.
Th6 .results of Level 1 finals
will be announced when they
become available.
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The 25 Officer Conference of
Federated Women's Institutes
of Ontario met at the Univer-
sity of Waterloo, May .1, 2 and
3. Despite grey sky and rain,
637 delegates came by plane,
train, bus and car to the lovely
campus. The vast majority
were attending the Conference
for the first time. The purpose
of this conference of Women's
Institute members is a training
school for officers. This time
the groups were Secretary -
Treasurer, under the chairman-
ship of Mrs. Wm. G. Miller,
Highland Creek; Citizenship &
World Affairs convenership,
under chairman Mrs. John
Hermansen, Weston; members
- at - large group, with Mrs. Ed-
ward Urstadt, Owen Sound.
On the first day 550 members
were taken by bus to visit the
Erland---lee Home which the
Women's Institute purchased
last year. Mr. Lee was co-
founder with Mrs. Hoodless of
the Women's Institute. There
was also a tour of the computer
centre at the Waterloo Univer-
sity. There were several
showings of the seventy-fifth
Anniversary tape, which took
place at Toronto in February
1972. It also afforded the
women the opportunity to visit
the Public Relations display set
up in Village 11 and purchase
the Ontario -W.I. story
"Hurtiianities in Homespun.", tiyt°`
Dr. Ethel Chapman, ,Con-
tributing membership to the
Associated Countrywomen of
,the World, and other W.I. sup-
plies. This is arranged by the,_
Provincial public relations Of-
ficer Mrs. Harvey Houston,
Lucknow. Detajls of the Con-
ference were in charge of Con-
ference Secretary-Tresurer,
Mrs. Robt. B. Weber,
Bloomingdale and the bus,
tours to the Erland Lee Home
by the chairman of the Home
committee, Mrs. Austin Zoeller,
New Hamburg.
May 2nd, the Conference met
in the . Humanities Theatre.
Na. ;. Harvey Noblitt Ottawa,
Provincial president spoke on
the theme: "When the freedom
they wished for most was
freedom from responsibility,_
then Athens ceased to be free
and was never free again" —
Edith Hamilton (Historian).
To the Greeks their most
precious possession was their
freedom. They were willing to
fight for it, if it meant death to
the last man. Freedom was
born -in Greece f*cause men
limited their own freedom. Self
discipline was a way of life, the
limits were good. There was a
willing obedience to the written
and the unwritten law. They
revered their government and
glad+r serves} it; Responsibility-
is the price every man had to
• pay for freedom. When we
relinquish to administrative
bodiesour rights and respon-
sibilities, even our homes are'
\threatened, children have been
set against parents, parent
against parent, families against
families.
A delightful Wednesday
evening session entitled "You
Can do it", presented' a
monologue by Mrs. John
Richardson, St. Marys; a skit
by Board Directors, Mrs. Ed-
'' a'"tr U't"stiiidf,` IVlrs. +:.'I$rnerson
Emke, Mrs. Herb Ma luskb, of
the Grey -Bruce Area, advice on
how to attain new members.
During the convention Mrs.
Noblitt reported 142 branches
of the 1,292 in Ontario had at-"
tained a 20% increase in mem-
bership. A skit by Mrs. John T.
Taylor and Mrs. Ford Sudden,
Galt -Cambridge area, and
several "Let's Sing" sessions
led by Mrs. Laurel Maltby, ,
rounded out an evening of
relaxation.
A welcome to the Campus
was extended by the president
of the University, Dr. Bert
Mathews, has had a long
association'with the FWIO and
Ontario is a better place in
which to live because of the ef-
forts of the Women's Institutes
for Horne and Country.
.'Mrs. J. R. Futcher was
president when the first Officer
Conference was proposed in
1948. Because she was unable
to attend, her address was read
by Mrs. Noblitt. The first
secretary - treasurer, Mrs. John
McCulloch, Brampton was in-
troduced. An account of the
first Conference -is in the sum-
mer
issue of Home and Country
Magazine, 1949. Mrs. Futcher,
in her address said`"a friend is
one to whom one may pour out
the contents of ones heart, chaff
arid- •grain glike;"A'r tiwiiirthl
the gentlests of hands will take
it, and sift it — keep what is
worth keeping — and with the
breath of kindness, blow the
rest away.
The Very Reverend Dr.
Finlay G. Stewart, Kitchener
addressed the final session on
Thursday afternoon. His topic
was "New Freedoms". We had
stated four great freedoms
twenty-five years ago. They
were freedom of Expression, of
Worship, from Fear, and
Freedom from Want. We have
'opted out on most of these
great areas for lack of 'real
responsibility. We have become
echos ,and no, longer have the_
rightof self expression when
personal opinion • disappears:
We have lost the 'right of
Freedom of Worship. 50% do
not wish to worship anything
more notably greater than
themselves. Freedom from Fear
- no. We are the most
frightened of all generations.
Children „are afraid of
authority. Parents are afraid of
children. All of us are afraid of
tomorrow, and a dozen other
areas make us tremble.
Freedom from want — We are
a world rich in resources and
knowledge, available to
everyone to become real people.
What are the Freedoms?
Freedom to Excel, - this is a
new exciting freedom available
to everyone to become real
people. Freedom to believe —
Man can't live in a vacuum. He
has to believe something about
himself, others anti the resour-
ces about him. What he
believes - will determine what
history writes about him.
Freedom for moral judgement -
we have all.the freedoms to ask
is it right?
There is not always a clear
right and wrong to every issue.
Freedom to live ahead of our
times. Tie e are -"not times
when we can wait for a long
drawn plan to unfold. These
are times when the goals of
future decades are set. Perhaps
the collapse of old freedoms
may ' give us a new exciting
freedom for tomorrow.
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On Monday, May 14th, 1973
from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
one of our representatives
Mr. N. Peever
will be at
The Bedford Hotel, Goderich
Telephone: 524-7337
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