Strange, indeed, that in a country, invested with such a unique function among its sister- nations throughout the West, the first public reference to the Author of so glorious a Faith should have been made through the mouth of one of the members of that ecclesiastical order with which that Faith has had so long to contend, and from which it has frequently suffered. Stranger still that he who first established it in the city of Chicago, fifty years after the Bab had declared His Mission in Shiraz, should himself have forsaken, a few years later, the standard which he, single- handed, had implanted in that city. (256:1)

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