tian Association in Bubbling Well Road has arranged for Miss Martina]
Root, New York journalist and international speaker to give a talk at 9.15 o'clock, Sunday, September 28, on the subject 'The' Message of tte After Death" will be the subject of a free public Iecture which Biss Root will give at 5.30 o'clock' to-morrow, Monday afternoon, in the Royal Asiatic Society Hall,' North China Branch, in 5 Museum Road, Miss Root spoke on this same subject in, the late Six Avthur Conan) Doyle's church in London, Al! interested are cardinally invited.
Miss Root spoke-last evening under)
auspices of the Esperantiste of Shanghai in the Royal Asiatic Sojcty Hall on the theme "The Baba' Movement and Esperanto." Miss Agnes Alexander of Honolulu was also present and spoke. © She is a Baha'i and an Esperantist. Miss Root, who is herself a distinguished Espevantist who tas spoken yeranto in more than one hundred cities in Europe said in part:
I introduce my talk with the words of Sir Abdu'l Baba Abbas to} the Edinburgh Esperantists as. why we should work for a universal auxiliary Janguage to promote world peace. He said. "The unification of Tanguage will transform the world of humanity into one world; the luniffeation of Janguage will change this world of mary families into one family. This international auxiliary] language will gather the various yaoes under one cover, as if the five continents of the world had become as one continent, because then they] can convey their thought to one another, 'The international auxiliary Tanguage will do away with ignorance and superstition, for each] child, mo matter to what race or] ration he may belong, will be able to pursue his studies in science and vt, because at that tithe he' will ae called upon to study only two] Tangruages, one his native language. the other the international auxiliary Innguage, Then the material world will become the expression of the inner world, Then discoveries will be unfolded; inventions will become multiple; sciences will advance by leaps and bounds; scientific agricul-wre will take a wider sphere of] accomplishment, because time the nations will be able quickly: to assimilate the thoughts—whieh ave expressed, because all these thoughts will be expressed in, this universal auxiliary language.'
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.