.
.
The
majority of the clergy, however, rose in fierce opposition to the Bab,
whose teachings jeopardized their position and exposed their hypocrisy.
They denounced Him from their pulpits as a heretic and an enemy of God
and religion. They did not rest until they had succeeded in arousing the
prejudice and hatred of the fanatical mass of their countrymen against
Him.
Many
thousands of His followers were tortured to death; and He Himself, after
being
made to suffer innumerable persecutions during the six years
of
His ministry, was publicly killed when He was thirty years
of
age. calm and steadfast to the end, the Bab willingly
laid
down His life for His Cause, assured that the
cry
had been raised and many were now ready to
accept
the Promised
One Whose Herald He had been.
.
.
SHRINE
OF THE BAB
.
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