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Messages to Canada

  • Author:

  • Shoghi Effendi

  • Source:
  • Bahá’í Canada Publications
  • Pages:
  • 276
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Page 201

Letter of 4 June 1954

4 June 1954

To Mr. and Mrs. Ted Anderson1

Dear Bahá’í Friends:
Your loving letter of May l8th, giving your permanent postal address, has just come to hand.
The Beloved Guardian was very happy to learn of the recovery of Ted, and of your happiness, and feeling of being at “home” in the far north country.
The Guardian assures you of his prayers in your behalf; that every obstacle may be overcome, and you win new and fresh victories for the Faith. The Guardian welcomed advice of the teaching work you are doing. He urges you to concentrate on the native population, as it is for that reason that we have opened new countries to the Faith. After all, Europeans, Americans, etc., can become Bahá’ís in their home lands. We have entered new fields all over the world, to bring the light of Divine Guidance, to the native populations; who have thus far been deprived of the spiritual teachings of Bahá’u’lláh.
May you be confirmed in this teaching effort among the natives. The great goal would be an Assembly in Whitehorse, made up of native Bahá’ís, or at least the majority natives.

The Guardian sends you his loving greetings.

Faithfully yours,

Leroy Ioas
1.R. Ted and Joan Anderson—Knights of Bahá’u’lláh for the Yukon Territory (1953), where they remained until 1972.  [ Back To Reference]