ges within Tablets a special sign has been
found necessary and these messages are enclosed within this special sign,
thus ~ ~. Quotations are shown by the usual sign, thus " ".

The great labor of translating these Tablets from the original language
has been entrusted to the following translators, whose inestimable service
is hereby gratefully acknowledged: Anton Haddad, Mirza S. M. Raffie, Mirza
Housein Rouhy, Ali Kuli Khan, Dr. Ameen U. Fareed, H. S. M. Taki Manshadi,
Mirza Ahmad Esphahani, Mrs. Getsinger, Miss Barney and Mirza Moneer Zane.

The House of Spirituality desires to thank all who have assisted in this
matter of gathering in copies of Tablets for preservation in its archives,
and requests the Bahais everywhere to continue the endeavor as outlined in
the circular letter sent out by that Body, as herein quoted. Address such
communications to the Librarian of the House of Spirituality, P. O. Box
283, Chicago, Ill.

Only a portion of the Tablets now on file with the House of Spirituality
are contained in this volume. Other volumes will be issued as soon as
possible. Tablets coming in will take their place in order according to
the date received and appear in forth-coming volumes.

The Bahai Publishing Society.

Feast of Naurooz, March 21, 1909.

"For the information of those who know little or nothing..."

For the information of those who know little or nothing of the Bahai
Revelation, we quote the following account translated from the (French)
Encyclopaedia of Larousse:--

Bahaism the religion of the disciples of Baha'o'llah, an outcome of
Babism.--Mirza Husain Ali Nuri Baha'o'llah was born at Teheran in 1817 A.
D. From 1844 he was one of the first adherents of the Bab, and devoted
himself to the pacific propagation of his doctrine in Persia. After the
death of the Bab he was, with the principal Babis, exiled to Baghdad, and
later to Constantinople and Adrianople, under the surveillance of the
Ottoman Government. It was in the latter city that he openly declared his
mission. He was "He whom God would make manifest," whom the Bab had
announced in his writings, the great Manifestation of God, promised for
the last days; and in his letters to the principal Rulers of the States of
Europe he invited them to join him in establishing religion and universal
peace. From this time, the Babis who acknowledged him became Bahais. The
sultan then exiled him (1868 A. D.) to Acca in Palestine, where he
compose