From: Talks of 'Abdu'l-Baha
12 April 1912
Talk at Studio of Miss Phillips
39 West Sixty-seventh Street, New York
(Notes by John G. Grundy)
(Notes by John G. Grundy)
I give you greeting in love and unity. The affairs of this world are to be
accounted as nothing compared to the joy and heavenly happiness of meeting the
friends of God. It is to experience this great joy and blessing that I have
come here although weary from my long voyage upon the sea. Tonight I am in the
greatest happiness, looking upon this concourse of God. Your meeting here is
surely an evidence that you are upholding the Cause of God, that you are aiding
and assisting in establishing the Kingdom of God. Therefore, the culmination of
my happiness is to look upon your faces and realize that you have been brought
together by the power of the Blessed Perfection, Bahá'u'lláh. In this meeting
you are upholding His standard and assisting His Cause. Therefore, I behold in
you the making of a goodly tree upon which divine fruits will appear to give
sustenance to the world of humanity. (‘Abdu’l-Baha,
‘The Promulgation of Universal Peace’)
