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Messages to Canada

  • Author:

  • Shoghi Effendi

  • Source:
  • Bahá’í Canada Publications
  • Pages:
  • 276
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Pages 245-246

Letter of 1 July 1956

1 July 1956

To Ernest Harrison1

Dear Bahá’í Brother:
The Beloved Guardian has received your kind gift to be used for the progress of the Faith in Africa. He has directed me to acknowledge it on his behalf, and to inform you that it will be used as you wish, in memory of your dear wife. Receipt is enclosed herewith.
The Beloved Guardian wishes you to know how deeply he cherishes and values your long and devoted services to the Cause of God. You are one of the pioneers of the Faith in Canada, in the days of the Beloved Master. Now you are pioneering in a virgin area, in the days of the Guardian, who is striving so diligently to fulfil all the Master’s instructions; especially in the teaching field. Well is it with you, that you have arisen to win the goals the Master has set before us. The Guardian is sure the Master will both guide and confirm you in this noble mission.
The Guardian assures you of his prayers in your behalf; that every obstacle will be overcome, and you win many souls to the Water of Life, and Eternal Salvation, through the Outpourings of the Holy Spirit, through Bahá’u’lláh. He sends you his loving Greetings.
The Guardian feels this gift for the African work, made in the name of your wife, will give her great happiness in the realms beyond. It will be a means for the progress of her soul in the Abhá Kingdom. He assures you of his prayers in her behalf, and for the progress of her soul.

With loving Bahá’í greetings, I am,

Faithfully yours,

Leroy Ioas
1.Ernest Vernon Harrison—this early Montreal Bahá’í (confirmed 1921) pioneered to Prince Edward Island in the early 1950s, where he passed away in 1959.  [ Back To Reference]