'Abdu'l-Baha, formally photographed at the famous Taponnier studio in Paris. He told one meeting in the French capital, "In this room today are members of many races...brothers and sisters meeting in friendship and harmony! Let this gathering be a foreshadowing of what will, in very truth, take place in this world, when every child of God realizes that they are leaves of one tree, flowers of one garden, drops in one ocean, and sons and daughters of one Father, whose name is love!"