Eric Bowes
Eric Bowes | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1902 |
| Died | August 20, 1989 |
| NSA member | Australia 1958 - 1962 |
| ABM | Australasia 1957 - 1963 |
Eric Stanley George Bowes (1902 - August 20, 1989) was an Australian Baháʼí author who served on the National Spiritual Assembly of Australia.
Biography[edit]
Eric's wife was Marjory Edith Bowes (d. August 16, 1988) and they had three children.[1] He owned the Midge Frock Shop on St. Vincent Street in Port Adelaide and was also a writer having written a novel and published articles in newspapers. In 1939 he briefly disappeared, having written a letter to his wife to say he wanted to be in seclusion to write and abandoning his shop and car. He was found in another State and returned to Port Adelaide.[2] As of 1949 he was serving as financial organiser of the TB Soldiers' Aid Society in Adelaide and that year he toured towns of the Yorke Peninsula to raise funds.[3]
Eric was an active Congregationalist and lay preacher before he and his wife became Baháʼís in Adelaide in 1949. Soon after declaring he was able to begin contributing to the Baháʼí communities understanding of the relationship between the Faith and Christian teachings.
In 1950 he spoke at the Centenary of the Martyrdom of the Báb in Adelaide and he was soon serving on the Herald of the South committee, as was his wife, and accompanying Harold Fitzner and Collis Featherstone on teaching trips in South Australia. He appointed as an Auxiliary Board member late in the Ten Year Crusade serving in the role as of December 1957,[4] and he also served on the National Spiritual Assembly of Australia from 1958 to 1962. He resigned as an Auxiliary Board member in 1963 to focus on his writing.
Books[edit]
- 1958 - Great Themes of Life[5]
- 1963 - The Cause of Life to the World
- 1970 - The Gospels and the Christs[6]
- 1980 - These Things Shall Be[7]
- 1986 - Baháʼu'lláh's Message to the Christians, the Lawh-i-Aqdas: An Appreciation[8]
- 1988 - The New Gospel: Good News for Christians[9]
References[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ↑ https://billiongraves.com/grave/Marjory-Edith-Bowes/31856561
- ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/236746110?
- ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/36694000
- ↑ Baha'i News (1958). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 325, Pg(s) 16. View as PDF.
- ↑ https://bahai.works/Great_Themes_of_Life
- ↑ https://bahai.works/Gospels_and_the_Christs
- ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/9945783?q=%22Eric+Bowes%22&sortby=dateAsc&c=book&versionId=11551671
- ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/19194230?q=%22Eric+Bowes%22&sortby=dateAsc&c=book&versionId=22550596
- ↑ The New Gospel at Kalimat Press website
