Conference held in Chicago in 1893 in
conjunction with the Columbian Exposition. A paper written by Rev.
Henry H. Jessup and read by Rev. George A. Ford provided the first
mention of the Faith in the West: '. . . it was announced that "a famous
Persian Sage", "the Bábí Saint", had recently died in 'Akká, and that two years previous to His ascension "a Cambridge scholar" had visited
Him, to whom He had expressed "sentiments so noble, so Christ-like"
that the author of the paper, in his "closing words'", wished to share
them with his audience.'19 |