He told us later that when the ship was approaching the harbor and
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He told us later that when the ship was approaching the harbor and the Master saw, as his first view of America, the Wall Street skyscrapers, He laughed and said: 'Those are the minarets of the West. What divine irony!
Source: Earl Redman, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Their Midst, p. 57
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