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’)
