The Five Year Plan, now set in motion, must under no circumstances be
allowed to lag behind its schedule. A befitting start should be made in
the execution of the Plan in all its aspects. The initial steps should be
relentlessly followed by additional measures designed to hasten the
incorporation of your Assembly, to accelerate the multiplication of Local
Assemblies, groups and isolated centres, throughout the Provinces of the
Dominion, to insure the stability of the outpost of the Faith which must
be established in Newfoundland, and to incorporate a steadily growing
element, representative of both the Indian and Eskimo races, into the life
of the community.
Obstacles, however formidable, will have to be determinedly surmounted.
Any reverses that sooner or later may be suffered should be met with stoic
fortitude, and speedily offset by victories in other fields. The glorious
vision now unveiled to your eyes must never be dimmed. The illuminating
promises enshrined in 'Abdu'l-Baha's Tablets should not be forgotten for a
moment. The quality of the success already achieved by so small a number,
over so extensive a field, in so brief a period, at so precarious an hour
in the destinies of mankind, should spur on the elected representatives of
this now fully-fledged community to achieve in as short a period, over
still more extensive an area, and despite a severer crisis than any as yet
encountered, victories more abiding in their merit and more conspicuous in
their brilliance than any as yet won in the service and for the glory of
the Faith of Baha'u'llah.
Your true brother,
SHOGHI.
(Cablegram) May 1949
(Cablegram) May 1949.