The few remaining years, separating the steadfast and high-minded members
of the Canadian Baha'i Community, striving so assiduously to achieve their
goals, from the time fixed for the termination of a swiftly unfolding
Crusade, are rapidly slipping by. A community which, ever since its
inception, has, through the instrumentality of its most distinguished
members, and particularly its founder(63) and those nearest to her, as
well as a number of her spiritual children and associates, won such prizes
at the World Centre of the Faith, in Latin America, in Europe, in Africa
and in the Pacific area--such a community, at this crucial hour, cannot
afford to either stand still, falter or hesitate. As this World Crusade
sweeps majestically forward and draws nearer to its close, exploits as
superb as those its sons and daughters have successively achieved in
widely scattered areas of the globe, must continue to distinguish and
ennoble the imperishable record of its services.
'Abdu'l-Baha's prophetic words regarding the future of its homeland,
spiritually as well as materially--the initial evidences of which are
becoming more apparent every day, must not be lost sight of for a moment,
however exacting and all-absorbing the strenuous task ahead, however
complex the problems its prosecution involves, however burdensome the
preoccupations which it must needs engender.
Afire with that same love that burned so brightly in the hearts of its
earliest pioneers, holding fast to the strong cord of the spiritual
precepts and administrative principles of the Faith it has so
whole-heartedly espoused, confident of its ability to achieve, in its
entirety, the Mission entrusted to it by the Author of the Tablets of the
Divine Plan, this community must forge ahead, with undeviating loyalty,
with indomitable courage, with unbreakable unity, and exemplary
consecration, striving to scale loftier heights, and widening constantly
the range of its operations, on the American mainland as well as in
neighbouring and distant islands, until each and every objective of its
allotted task has been triumphantly attained.