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Messages to Canada

  • Author:

  • Shoghi Effendi

  • Source:
  • Bahá’í Canada Publications
  • Pages:
  • 276
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Pages 123-124

Letter of 26 October 1949

26 October 1949

To an individual believer

Dear Bahá’í Brother:
Your letter of September 21 was received, and our beloved Guardian is happy to see you are now settled down and that your dear mother and the Salas1 —such devoted and fine believers—gave you assistance when you needed it.
No doubt your presence in Canada will be an asset to the work there, as it was to the progress of the European work, which you served so devotedly, and he will pray that you may soon be reunited with your family.

With warmest greetings,

R. Rabbani

[From the Guardian:]

Assuring you of my deep and abiding appreciation of your past services to the Faith, and of my ardent and loving prayers for the success of every effort you exert for its promotion in the days to come,

Your true and grateful brother,

Shoghi
1.Emeric and Rosemary Sala—members of the National Spiritual Assembly 1948–53. During the first and second Seven Year Plans, they pioneered to Venezuela (1940–41) and travelled throughout Latin America. In 1953 they pioneered to South Africa, and returned to Canada in 1968. In 1971 they pioneered to Mexico, where Rosemary died in 1980. Emeric passed away in 1990. See The Bahá’í World Vol. XVIII, 713–715, and Vol. XX, In Memoriam.  [ Back To Reference]