# Macau Bahá'í Community in the Early Years

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>         Approved by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Macau
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>         © Copyright 1991 by Barbara R. Sims
>         Digital text © 1999 by Barbara R. Sims and the Bahá'í Academics Resource Library
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>         Typeset using SGML by Uniscope Inc., Tokyo
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> This is dedicated to the early Bahá'ís of the Chinese race
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>                        Contents
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>           Dedication
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>           Epigraph
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>      1.   The Ten Year Crusade, 1953 — 1963......................1
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>      2.   Macau..................................................2
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>      3.   Early Bahá'í History...................................3
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>      4.   The First Believers of Macau...........................8
>                Four Naw Rúz Celebrations........................10
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>      5.   More About the Early Believers........................14
>                Mr. Harry Yim....................................14
>                Mr. John Chang...................................18
>                Mrs. Mary Shia...................................19
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>      6.   More About the 1950s..................................19
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>      7.   John Chang Fulfills a Goal of the Ten Year Crusade....36
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>      8.   From the 1960s........................................38
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>      9.   Activities in the Late 1960s..........................46
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>      10.  Advances in the 1970s.................................48
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>      11.  Hands of the Cause Who Have Visited Macau.............52
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>      12.  Macau Comes Under the Jurisdiction of the National
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>           Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Hong Kong........60
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>      13.  The First National Spiritual Assembly of the
>           Bahá'ís of Macau......................................61
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>           Names.................................................65
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>           Afterword.............................................67
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>  Chapter 1
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> — *Macau Bahá'í Community in the Early Years (Used by permission of the curator)*