The work in the north should likewise be consolidated, and every effort
made to get more pioneers to join those heroic souls already labouring in
such an infertile field. This applies equally to Labrador and Greenland,
where Bill Carr(60), the lone Canadian pioneer, is demonstrating the
Baha'i spirit in such an exemplary manner. It is hard for the friends to
appreciate, when they are isolated in one of these goal territories, and
see that they are making no progress in teaching others, are living in
inhospitable climes for the most part, and are lonesome for Baha'i
companionship and activity, that they represent a force for good, that
they are like a light-house of Baha'u'llah shining at a strategic point
and casting its beam out into the darkness. This is why he so consistently
urges these pioneers not to abandon their posts. Apropos of this, he hopes
that it will again be possible in the near future to get someone into
Anticosti. It is a great pity that the friend(61) who went there could not
remain.
The beloved Guardian sends all the members of your Assembly his loving
greetings and assures you all of his ardent prayers for your success.
With warm Baha'i love,
R. RABBANI.
Dear and Valued Co-workers:
The opening of the second year of the third phase of the Ten Year Baha'i
Spiritual Crusade presents the entire Canadian Baha'i Community, and,
particularly, its elected representatives, with an opportunity, and brings
them face to face with a challenge, unique since its inception over half a
century ago.
The achievements that have distinguished the record of its stewardship,
ever since its founding, and particularly since the launching of the World
Baha'i Crusade, both on the homefront and beyond its confines, have been
such as to ennoble the annals of the Faith to which it is so
whole-heartedly dedicated, and to arouse in the hearts of all those who
have watched, throughout succeeding decades, the rise, its emergence into
independent existence, and its rapid consolidation, feelings of profound
admiration, of pride and of thankfulness.
The distance that has been traversed, in the course of the four brief
years since the inauguration of the Ten Year Plan, by a community, still
highly restricted in numbers and circumscribed in resources, and faced
with tremendous responsibilities, as a result of the colossal task it has
willingly shouldered, is admittedly great, and augurs well for its further
advancement along the path traced for it by the Pen of the Centre of
Baha'u'llah's Covenant in His immortal Tablets(62).