50,000 locals refused to accept Baha'ullah's claim

Subject: 50,000 locals refused to accept Baha'ullah's claim


Dear newcomers to TRB

In the 13 years I was a Bahai I used to visit a small community of
between 10 and 14 bahais lived in a medium sized town in Northern
ireland which has an urban population of 25,000 and a total district
population approaching 50,000.

All the bahais who lived in this town were what the locals called
blowins's and the bahai's would call pioneers. They all came from
English, Persian and Southern Irish backgrounds. One (although not
from the town) was from Northern Ireland who had married a Persian
bahai and converted.

The whole object of a Bahai its to teach the bahai Faith to seekers
hoping for conversion and one particular bahai in this town took this
as a great challenge to promote the faith. She would regularily go
walk about through the town meeting the locals, stopping them to tell
them that the Second coming of Christ had arrived and his name was
baha'u'llah.

In the whole 13 years not one convert came from the local community.
Many were invited to firesides were quest speakers came from other
parts of the country to give this message, yet no local signed a
declaration card.

So what has gone wrong, why have none of these people accepted
Baha'u'llah's claim to be the Second coming of Christ?

Surely readers would agree this is one good reason why  Bahaism is
failing to attract new converts.  I wonder is there any others on TRB
who can give similar reasons, or experiences about the failure of
Bahaism to attract converts in their own countries.
....................................Errol