Through the swift and marvellous increase in its membership, through its
faithful and uncompromising adherence to both the spiritual and
administrative principles of the Faith it so nobly serves; through the
multiplication of its administrative centres from the Atlantic to the
Pacific sea-board; through the steady consolidation of its local and
national Funds, designed to sustain its ever-unfolding activities, through
the spirit consistently manifested by the small yet eager and valiant band
of its pioneers and administrators, and more recently through the official
recognition providentially accorded the body of its national elected
representatives by both chambers of the Legislature in that Dominion--an
act wholly unprecedented in the annals of the Faith in any country, in
either East or West--this vigorous, divinely sustained, resistlessly
advancing community, has not only fulfilled the expectations and hopes
that greeted its birth, but set a brilliant example to its sister
communities in both the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
The task which it has so splendidly inaugurated and which is being now
prosecuted with such vigour, devotion, single-mindedness, harmony and
determination, is still in the initial stage of its development. The
process that has stimulated the growth and increased the number of its
administrative centres must be accelerated no matter how great the
sacrifice involved. The development of the local and national Funds must
be continuously maintained as a prelude to the establishment of local and
national endowments and the ultimate erection of a House of Worship that
will incarnate the soul of a flourishing nation-wide community. The
initiation of a systematic and sustained campaign beyond the frontiers of
that Dominion, and in obedience to the Mandate of the Author of the Divine
Plan, to which it stands inescapably pledged, and aiming at the
introduction of the Faith in Greenland and the conversion of the Eskimos
still remains to be undertaken. The consolidation of the summer school,
the gradual incorporation of firmly established, properly functioning
Assemblies are, moreover, objectives that must under no circumstances be
overlooked or neglected.
As the operation of the Plan gathers momentum the members of this
community must evince a still greater measure of solidarity, rise to
higher levels of heroism, demonstrate a greater capacity for collective
achievement, and attract still more abundant blessings on the varied
enterprises on which they have embarked.
I am following the unfoldment of their Plan with eager and sustained
interest. My ardent prayers will surround and accompany its prosecutors at
every stage of their historic undertaking. My confidence in their ultimate
success is not only unshaken, but has been immensely reinforced. May He
Who watches over them guide every step they take, bless every measure they
adopt, remove every obstacle that impedes their onward march and fulfil
every desire they cherish for the future glory, honour and greatness of
their beloved Faith in that vast and richly blessed Dominion.