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Messages to Canada

  • Author:

  • Shoghi Effendi

  • Source:
  • Bahá’í Canada Publications
  • Pages:
  • 276
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Pages 35-36

Letter of 1 April 1932

1 April 1932

To an individual believer

Dear Mr. ...:
Shoghi Effendi wishes me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated March 11th, 1932 as well as the enclosed copy of the report of the activity of the Bahá’í young people in Montreal. He is sure that Mr. Horace Holley1 will find in it many interesting facts to incorporate in his review of the progress of the Faith during the last two years.
Shoghi Effendi was very glad to read it and obtain first hand information as to the way the young people in Montreal have succeeded to attract many souls and inspire them with the spirit of service to our beloved Faith. Once the youth learns that this Cause is their Cause, and that through it they can ensure their future social tranquillity and spiritual progress, then they will arise and consecrate their life to the promotion of this Faith. And as you clearly state in your report, no one can awaken the youth of the world to a consciousness of this road to salvation except from their own numbers—youths already inspired with the Bahá’í spirit.
Shoghi Effendi will remember you and the other members of your group in his prayers, and ask for you all divine guidance and help in this all-important task.

Yours ever sincerely,

Ruhi Afnan

[From the Guardian:]

May the Beloved of our hearts bless richly your efforts, deepen your understanding of the truth and principles of His Faith, remove all obstacles from your path, and enable each one of you to render inestimable services to His Cause. I will pray that each one of you may be graciously assisted to become a living embodiment of the ennobling principles inculcated by the Message of Bahá’u’lláh.

Shoghi
1.Horace Holley—Secretary of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada, appointed a Hand of the Cause of God in 1951. See The Bahá’í World Vol. XIII, 849–858, In Memoriam.  [ Back To Reference]