I have come here with this mission: that through your
endeavors, through your heavenly morals, through your devoted efforts a perfect
bond of unity and love may be established between the East and the West so that
the bestowals of God may descend upon all and that all may be seen to be the
parts of the same tree—the great tree of the human family. For mankind may be
likened to the branches, leaves, blossoms and fruit of that tree.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk, New York, 14 April 1912; ‘The Promulgation of Universal Peace:
Talks Delivered by 'Abdu'l-Bahá during His Visit to the United States and Canada
in 1912’)
