The Lights of Broadway
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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: The Diary of Juliet Thompson, entry for 19 April 1912 (the evening of the Bowery Mission talk, New York).
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