A Carriage Ride Through the Park
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New York (today: New York, USA)
On April 12, 1912, the day after ‘Abdu’l-Bahá arrived in New York, a public meeting was held in the afternoon at the home of Mrs Alexander Morten, where He spoke on the spiritual springtime and about a hundred newcomers came forward to shake His hand.
On the return to the hotel the carriage drove through the park roads. The Master remarked, ‘America will make rapid progress in the future but I am fearful of the effects of these high buildings and such densely populated cities; these are not good for the public health.’
Source: Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání, Mahmúd's Diary (trans. Mohi Sobhani), Friday, April 12, 1912
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