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"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."
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"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."
Giving a fireside, devotional, or talk? Pick a theme, get a curated brief: relevant stories, key quotes, citations, and recommended sequencing.
Suggested sequencing: open with a powerful story, deepen with a reflective one, close with one of joyful resolution. Adjust to your audience.
Opening
Why Not Praise Christ and Muḥammad: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at Temple Emanu-ElOn October 12, 1912, 'Abdu'l-Bahá addressed an audience of approximately 2,000 at Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco — the largest synagogue on the Pacific coast — and asked the gathered Jews, with all the courtesy of a guest and all the firmness of a prophet's son, why they had not yet honoured Christ and Muḥammad as the heirs of Moses.
Mahmúd's Diary: The Diary of Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání
Middle
Where Conscience Is Free: Brooklyn's Central Congregational ChurchAt the Central Congregational Church in Brooklyn on June 16, 1912, 'Abdu'l-Bahá traced religious discord to one root: the inheritance of ancestral imitations rather than the active investigation of truth. Where conscience is free and every soul may speak its own conviction, He said, growth becomes inevitable.
The Promulgation of Universal Peace · 'Abdu'l-Bahá
Closing
The Days Are Many, the Sun Is One: At the Church of the Divine PaternityAt the Church of the Divine Paternity on Central Park West on May 19, 1912, 'Abdu'l-Bahá told a New York congregation that religion has many forms but one reality: as the days are many but the sun is one, so the Manifestations are many but the Truth they reveal is single. If religion sets itself against science, it becomes mere superstition; if it becomes a cause of hatred and strife, its absence would be preferable.
The Promulgation of Universal Peace · 'Abdu'l-Bahá
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