The Promulgation of Universal Peace

Talks Delivered by ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá during His Visit to the United States and Canada in 1912

Compiled by Howard MacNutt

• Talks in New York and Brooklyn, 11—19 April 1912

  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Kinney
  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard MacNutt
  • Studio of Miss Phillips
  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Morten
  • Church of the Ascension
  • Union Meeting of Advanced Thought Centers
  • Home of Mountfort Mills
  • Bahá’í Friends of New Jersey, Hotel Ansonia
  • Hotel Ansonia
  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Kinney
  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall L. Emery
  • Columbia University
  • Bowery Mission

• Talks in Washington, D.C., 20—25 April 1912

  • Orient-Occident-Unity Conference
  • Studio Hall
  • Universalist Church
  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Parsons
  • Howard University
  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Parsons
  • Bethel Literary Society
  • Children’s Reception
  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Parsons
  • Home of Mrs. Andrew J. Dyer
  • Theosophical Society
  • Message to Esperantists
  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Parsons

• Talks in Chicago, Wilmette, and Evanston, 30 April—5 May 1912

  • Public Meeting Concluding Convention of Bahá’í Temple Unity
  • Hull House
  • Fourth Annual Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  • Dedication of the Mashriqu’l-Adhkár Grounds
  • Hotel Plaza
  • Federation of Women’s Clubs
  • Bahá’í Women’s Reception
  • Hotel Plaza
  • Hotel Plaza
  • Hotel Plaza
  • Hotel Plaza
  • Theosophical Society
  • Children’s Meeting
  • Plymouth Congregational Church
  • All-Souls Church

• Talks in Cleveland, 6 May 1912

  • Euclid Hall
  • Sanatorium of Dr. C. M. Swingle

• Talk in Pittsburgh, 7 May 1912

  • Hotel Schenley

• Talks in New York, Montclair, and Jersey City, 11—20 May 1912

  • 227 Riverside Drive
  • Unity Church
  • Meeting of International Peace Forum
  • Reception by New York Peace Society
  • Church of the Divine Paternity
  • Brotherhood Church
  • Woman’s Suffrage Meeting

• Talks in Cambridge and Boston, 22—25 May 1912

  • Unitarian Conference
  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. Francis W. Breed
  • Huntington Chambers

• Talks in New York and Fanwood, 26 May—8 June 1912

  • Mount Morris Baptist Church
  • Reception at Metropolitan Temple
  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Kinney
  • Theosophical Lodge
  • Town Hall
  • Church of the Ascension
  • 309 West Seventy-eighth Street

• Talks in Philadelphia, 9 June 1912

  • Unitarian Church
  • Baptist Temple

• Talks in New York and Brooklyn, 11—20 June 1912

  • Open Committee Meeting
  • 309 West Seventy-eighth Street
  • 309 West Seventy-eighth Street
  • 309 West Seventy-eighth Street
  • 309 West Seventy-eighth Street
  • Fourth Unitarian Church
  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard MacNutt
  • Central Congregational Church
  • 309 West Seventy-eighth Street
  • 309 West Seventy-eighth Street
  • 309 West Seventy-eighth Street

• Talk in Montclair and West Englewood, 23—29 June 1912

  • Montclair
  • Unity Feast, Outdoors

• Talks in New York, 1—15 July 1912

  • 309 West Seventy-eighth Street
  • 309 West Seventy-eighth Street
  • 309 West Seventy-eighth Street
  • 309 West Seventy-eighth Street
  • 309 West Seventy-eighth Street
  • All Souls Unitarian Church
  • Home of Dr. and Mrs. Florian Krug

• Talks in Boston, 23—25 July 1912

  • Hotel Victoria
  • Theosophical Society
  • Hotel Victoria

• Talks in Dublin, 5—6 August 1912

  • Dublin Inn
  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Parsons

• Talks at Green Acre, 16—17 August 1912

  • Green Acre
  • Green Acre
  • Green Acre
  • Green Acre
  • Green Acre

• Talks in Boston and Malden, 25—29 August 1912

  • New Thought Forum, Metaphysical Club
  • Franklin Square House
  • Metaphysical Club
  • Home of Madame Morey

• Talks in Montreal, 1—5 September 1912

  • Church of the Messiah
  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. William Sutherland Maxwell
  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. William Sutherland Maxwell
  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. William Sutherland Maxwell
  • Coronation Hall
  • St. James Methodist Church

• Talk in Chicago, 16 September 1912

  • Home of Mrs. Corinne True

• Talk in Minneapolis, 20 September 1912

  • Home of Mr. Albert L. Hall

• Talk in St. Paul, 20 September 1912

  • Home of Dr. and Mrs. Clement Woolson

• Talks in Denver, 24—25 September 1912

  • Home of Mrs. Sidney E. Roberts
  • Second Divine Science Church

• Talks in Oakland, Palo Alto, San Francisco, and Sacramento, 7—26 October 1912

  • Japanese Young Men’s Christian Association
  • Leland Stanford Junior University
  • Open Forum
  • Temple Emmanu-El
  • Hotel Sacramento
  • Assembly Hall, Hotel Sacramento

• Talks in Chicago, 31 October—1 November 1912

  • Hotel Plaza
  • Home of Mrs. Corinne True

• Talk in Cincinnati, 5 November 1912

  • Grand Hotel

• Talks in Washington, D.C., 6—10 November 1912

  • Universalist Church
  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Parsons
  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Parsons
  • Eighth Street Temple, Synagogue
  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Parsons
  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Parsons
  • Bahá’í Banquet, Rauscher’s Hall
  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Parsons
  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Hannen
  • 1901 Eighteenth Street, NW

• Talks in New York, 15 November—5 December 1912

  • Home of Miss Juliet Thompson
  • 309 West Seventy-eighth Street
  • Genealogical Hall
  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank K. Moxey
  • Banquet, Great Northern Hotel
  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Kinney
  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Kinney
  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Kinney
  • Home of Dr. and Mrs. Florian Krug
  • Mr. Kinney’s Bible Class
  • Home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Kinney
  • Theosophical Society
  • On Board Steamship Celtic