East and West at the Hotel Rittenhouse
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As the Master travelled in the West, He compared the East and the West and was delighted with the contrasts.
In the Hotel Rittenhouse in Philadelphia about fifty people were crowded into a small room for a meeting with the Master. For lack of chairs some people sat on the floor—this delighted ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. He commented, ‘This is a cause of unity; see! The Occident is sitting on the floor like the Orient and the Orient is sitting on the chairs.’ He laughed with delight and then gave His talk.
Source: Annamarie Honnold, Vignettes from the Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, p. 175.
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