George Townshend: Defines the Lesser Covenant - Obedience to the Guardian, the Appointed Interpreter

 

“The ‘Lesser Covenant,’ of obedience to the appointed head of the divinely established Faith.”   George Townshend. The Covenant of Baha’u’llah (A Compilation) (1950), p. xix.

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