Dear Friends,
It is a great pleasure and privilege to me to enter into direct, and I
trust, permanent correspondence with those faithful friends of
'Abdu'l-Baha, who though few in number and scattered over that vast and
flourishing country, will I trust act as a powerful leaven to the mass of
that spiritually-minded people.
Though its people be firmly entrenched in their religious sectarianism and
strongly attached to their religious doctrines and traditions, yet who can
doubt that with courage and persistence, kindliness and wisdom, the
all-conquering words of Baha'u'llah can fail to break down all these
barriers of prejudice and religious exclusiveness and conquer this
longstanding stronghold of sectarian belief!
Surely the efficacy of the universal Teachings of Baha'u'llah as applied
to the cherished and time-honoured religious traditions of the East, has
been sufficiently demonstrated to justify at present our confident hopes
for the future and speedy re-awakening of that land.
May the small company of the steadfast followers of 'Abdu'l-Baha in Canada
be filled with the outpourings of the Divine Grace that are being showered
so mightily in these days upon the friends of God the world over, and may
they arise with undiminished fervour to carry out to their fullest measure
the last wishes and instructions of our departed Master for that great and
flourishing Dominion!
With all good wishes,
Your brother and co-worker,
SHOGHI.
Haifa, Palestine.
January 2, 1923.
THE BIRTH OF THE INDEPENDENT CANADIAN BAHA'I COMMUNITY AND THE FIVE YEAR
PLAN. 1948-53
THE BIRTH OF THE INDEPENDENT CANADIAN BAHA'I COMMUNITY AND THE FIVE YEAR
PLAN. 1948-53