June 1

Tonight, I am exceedingly happy to be with you. You must be very happy and in a prayerful attitude for no better meeting could be held. The holding of meetings at which people from the East come to the far West and sit together with you with such love and affection was impossible but through His penetrative power Bahá'u'lláh has made this easy and has joined the East and the West. 
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha  (From a talk, November 4, 1912, Chicago, recorded by Mahmud Zarqani; ‘Mahmud’s Diary’)