Editing Mason Remey (section)

===Baháʼí service, 1903–1950===

After embracing the Baháʼí Faith in Paris, Remey returned to Washington, D.C., and became a prominent author, public speaker, and organizer.{{sfn|Smith|2000}} Remey proposed the idea to the Baha'is in Washington to organize the first local [[Spiritual Assembly]] in the city, which he was elected to on 14 March 1907.{{sfn|Stockman|1995}} He made a second pilgrimage to see ʻAbdu'l-Bahá in 1907, and returned in 1908, 1909, 1914, and 1921.{{sfn|Stockman|1995}} He traveled extensively to lecture in the interests of the faith,{{sfn|Johns Hopkins University|2021}} visiting Iran, Russia, and Central asia in 1908, and in 1910 became the first Baháʼí to circle the globe on teaching trips, along with his companion Howard Struven.{{sfn|Effendi|1944|p=261}}{{sfn|Garlington|2008|p=113}} [[Robert Stockman]] wrote of his journeys:{{sfn|Stockman|1995}}
{{blockquote |text= In November 1909 Charles Mason Remey and Howard Struven began the first Bahá’í teaching trip to circle the globe. Leaving San Francisco, they traveled to Hawaii, four cities in Japan, Shanghai, Singapore, three cities in Burma, at least eight cities in India, and Palestine; they returned to the United States in June 1910. In 1914 Remey and George Latimer crossed military lines to teach the Faith in France, England, and Germany. Lesser known traveling teaching trips occurred in 1919, 1943, and 1944, to the American south; 1945, to the Northeastern United States; 1945–46, to Latin America; 1946, to the Midwest; 1947, to the American south, Europe, and Latin America; 1948, to Germany, Austria, Italy, and England; and 1949, to Europe.}}

According to William Garlington, Washington D.C. became the third most influential group of American Baháʼís in the first decade of the 20th century (after Chicago and New York), because of "its talented membership, which included leaders such as Laura Barney, Mason Remey, and Pauline Hannen."{{sfn|Garlington|2008|p=91}}

At the first national convention of American Baháʼís in March 1909, Remey was the delegate representing Washington, and was elected to the executive committee of the "Bahai Temple Unity", a precursor to the [[National Spiritual Assembly]].{{sfn|Stockman|1995}}{{sfn|Garlington|2008|p=113}} In 1917–1918 Remey chaired a committee investigating the Chicago Reading Room, a study group that combined the teachings of Baháʼu'lláh with those of a Bostonian occultist, ultimately expelling its members as "violators".{{sfn|Garlington|2008|p=97}} Remey's loyalty brought him praise from ʻAbdu'l-Bahá and later Shoghi Effendi mentioned him as one of the most eminent Baháʼís in America.{{sfn|Garlington|2008|p=114}}

Remey was also a prolific writer, and published several volumes on Baháʼí history and teachings.{{sfn|Johns Hopkins University|2021}} His first pamphlet was published in 1905 and was among the first material on the religion available to American Baháʼís.{{sfn|Stockman|1995}} In part due to his fear of global cataclysm, Remey compiled much of his records and in 1940 he provided copies to several public libraries, requesting them not to be opened until 1995.{{sfn|Johns Hopkins University|2021}}{{sfn|Stockman|1995}}