From: Talks of ‘Abdu’l-Baha
16 April 1912
Talk at Hotel Ansonia to Bahá'í Friends of New Jersey
Talk at Hotel Ansonia to Bahá'í Friends of New Jersey
Broadway and Seventy-third Street, New York
Notes by Ahmad Sohrab
Notes by Ahmad Sohrab
Souls from the East and West have been brought together here through the power
of the Holy Spirit. Such a gathering as this would be impossible through
material means. A meeting of this kind has never been established in New York,
for here tonight we find people from remote regions of the earth, associated
with the people of America in the utmost love and spiritual unity. This is only
possible through the power of God. Christ appeared in this world nineteen
hundred years ago to establish ties of unity and bonds of love between the
various nations and different communities. He cemented together the sciences of
Rome and the splendors of the civilization of Greece. He also accomplished
affiliation between the Assyrian kingdom and the power of Egypt. The blending
of these nations in unity, love and agreement had been impossible, but Christ
through divine power established this condition among the children of men.
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