EXILE TO BAGHDAD.
An original Tablet of the Bab in His own handwriting This terrible imprisonment lasted four months, but Baha'u'llah and His companions remained zealous (showing great energy) and enthusiastic, in the greatest of happiness. Almost every day one or more of them was tortured or put to death and the others reminded that their turn might come next. When the executioners came to fetch one of the friends, the one whose name was called would literally dance with joy, kiss the hands of Baha'u'llah, embrace the rest of his fellow-believers and then hasten with glad eagerness to the place of martyrdom. It was conclusively proved that Baha'u'llah had no share in the plot against the Shah, and the Russian minister testified to the purity of His character. He was, moreover, so ill that it was thought He would die. Instead, therefore, of sentencing Him to death, the Shah ordered that He should be exiled to 'Iraq-i-'Arab, in Mesopotamia; and thither (towards that pl...