As we drove up Broadway, glittering with its electric\_signs, He
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As we drove up Broadway, glittering with its electric signs, He spoke of them smiling, apparently much amused. Then He told us that Bahá’u’lláh had loved light. “He could never get enough light. He taught us,” the Master said, “to economize in everything else but to use light freely.”
Source: Juliet Thompson’s Diary, April 19, 1912
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