Thornton Chase

Thornton Chase by Robert H. Stockman Download PDF EPUB FB2

This is an interesting biography written about the first American Baha'i, Thornton Chase. During his early life Chase was to study religion and to search constantly for Truth.

He was 47 years old by the time he came across the Baha'i Faith in /5(2). In Galilee Hardcover – January 1, by Thornton Chase (Author) › Visit Amazon's Thornton Chase Page.

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Chase published a booklet called Sketches that explains why people should purchase life insurance for themselves, using biblical and religious stories to illustrate its major points. The booklet reveals Chase as a religious seeker familiar with all the major religions.

Get Textbooks on Google Play. Rent and save from the world's largest eBookstore. Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone. On returning home Chase wrote an account of his pilgrimage, which was published under the title In Galilee in The short work gives a detailed and poignant description of `Abdu’l-Bahá’s home and family in Akka, as well as a moving description of `Abdu’l-Bahá Himself.

Thornton Chase book Thornton Chase's meditations on the relationship between the individual and God stand alone in early American Bahá'í literature. His Thornton Chase book remains the first and only work on Bahá'í "mysticism" written in the English language.

It remains one of the greatest literary products of an American Bahá'í. Thornton Chase also wrote many circular letters that the House of Spirituality sent to Bahá’í communities throughout the United States and Canada, explaining the Bahá’í holy days and the period of fasting, thereby establishing their observance in North America.

Edward Thornton Chase, American Lawyer. Bar: New YorkUnited States District Court (southern and eastern districts) New YorkSupreme Court of the United States Court Member ATLA, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York State Trial Lawyers Association.

Biography: Thornton Chase. Thornton Chase was designated by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá as “the First American believer”. He was the first to embrace the Cause of Bahá’u’lláh in the West after following a friend’s recommendation to meet Ibrahim Kheiralla, a Lebanese immigrant who claimed that God recently “walked upon the earth”: he joined Kheiralla’s first class on the Bahá’í.

On 28 June Chase's only son, William Jotham Thornton Chase, was born. Chase published a booklet called Sketches that explains why people should purchase life insurance for themselves, using biblical and religious stories to illustrate its major points. "Thornton" Chase first appears in the newspapers (so far) on 21 Junewell into his life at 36 yrs old already having won and lost much.

As noted in Stockman's work Chase is noted for his poetry in the s. A "hit" finds this mention when he appears in newspaper review of a poetry collection magazine submitting "Lo. Thornton Chase, the author of this account, was the most distinguished of the pilgrims. Having declared his belief in Bahá'u'lláh inhe was one of the first four Americans to accept the Faith, and the only one to remain loyal to `Abdu'l-Bahá after Kheiralla's defection in Thornton Chase's value can best be understood when one considers the importance of the qualities he exemplified.

`Abdu'l-Bahá's sister, Bahíyyih Khánum, offers one insight when she describes steadfastness, the trait Thornton Chase particularly epitomized: Steadfastness is a treasure that makes a man so rich as to have no need of the world or.

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On returning home Chase wrote an account of his pilgrimage, which was published under the title In Galilee ] in The short work gives a detailed and poignant description of `Abdu'l-Bahá's home and family in Akka, as well as a moving description of `Abdu'l-Bahá Himself.

Thornton Chase wrote another book that was finally published inseven years after his passing, titled: The Bahá'i Revelation. Chase then turned his thoughts to an introductory book on the Bahá’í Faith. Published as The Bahai Revelation inthis work was one of the most comprehensive and accurate introductions to the Bahá’í Faith written by an early American Bahá’í.

It continued to be reprinted until the s. Chase’s only son, William Jotham Thornton Chase, was born in Santa Cruz on J (March 2, ). In California, Thornton Chase continued his religious search, combining it with his work. In he published a booklet called Sketches that uses biblical and religious stories to explain why people should purchase life insurance for.

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Author: Thornton Chase. Thornton Chase had first heard about Bahá’u’lláh from the speech Dr. Henry Jessup had given at the World Parliament of Religions in By mid he was studying the new faith in Chicago. Three other Americans became Bahá’ís before Chase, but, of the four, only Chase had stuck.Chase’s only son, William Jotham Thornton Chase, was born in Santa Cruz in In California, Thornton Chase continued his religious search, combining it with his work.

In he published a booklet called Sketches that uses biblical and religious stories to explain why people should purchase life insurance for themselves.Thornton Chase ( – ) is commonly recognized as the first convert to the Bahá'í Faith of Occidental background.

During his life he organized many Bahá'í activities in Chicago and Los Angeles and was considered a prominent Bahá'í. In Chase was able to go on : Thornton Chase.