The recent news that Anticosti had at last received a pioneer(50) was
immensely welcome, and enabled the Guardian to take off his list one of
the few remaining virgin territories (aside from those under Soviet
domination) on the list of countries to be opened to the Faith under the
Ten Year Plan.
The remarkable achievements of the friends during the last three years in
opening the virgin areas no doubt will be looked back upon by posterity
with astonishment and admiration; and the Canadian friends have certainly
played an active part in this process and forged ahead in carrying out
their own Plan.
He is particularly eager that Iceland should have a Baha'i nucleus formed,
a country which has for many years had the blessing of knowing about the
Faith(51), but never the blessing of resident local Baha'is. It deserves
particular attention at this time.
The achievement of the friends in the far northern territories is a source
of great pride to him; and his warm admiration surrounds the valiant
pioneers who, forgetful of self, have arisen to follow 'Abdu'l-Baha's
expressed wishes.
Another achievement during the past year of the Canadian friends has been
the publication of literature in Ukrainian and in some of the Indian
languages. He feels sure that this will speed up their teaching work
immensely amongst both of these minorities; and he hopes that more of the
Baha'is will make a special effort to get jobs in the reservations or
amongst Indian people, so that they can carry to them the Message of
Baha'u'llah.
He was glad to know that a number of Spiritual Assemblies have been
incorporated, and hopes that this process will also be accelerated during
the coming months, and that all of the Assemblies that seem to have a firm
foundation, however small the community may be, will take out their
incorporation papers.