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Messages to Canada

  • Author:

  • Shoghi Effendi

  • Source:
  • Bahá’í Canada Publications
  • Pages:
  • 276
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Page 53

Letter of 11 February 1938

11 February 1938

To an individual believer

Dear Miss ... ,
The Guardian has been most pleased to receive your message of the 23rd January last informing him of your absolute acceptance of the Bahá’í Cause, and pledging yourself to devote all your time and energies to its service.
He rejoices to know that through the devoted and valuable efforts of dear Mrs. Ives1 a group of thirteen believers has been formed in Moncton, and he cherishes the hope that this truly splendid start that has been made will be followed up by careful and well-planned teaching activity. He would urge you and each one of your fellow-believers to gird the loins of endeavour in this path, and to exert yourselves day and night until this supreme task is accomplished.
He will specially pray on your behalf at the Holy Shrines, that you may meet with increasing success in your activities for the spread of the Faith in Moncton and in the adjoining centres, and that your highest hopes of serving the Cause may be thus fulfilled.

Assuring you also of his prayers on behalf of dear Mrs. Ives, and all the friends in Moncton, and with loving greetings,

Yours ever in His service,

H. Rabbani

[From the Guardian:]

May the Almighty Spirit of Bahá’u’lláh watch over, sustain, and inspire you and your dear co-workers in that promising centre, and enable you to proclaim His Faith and establish the basis, and extend the range of its God-given institutions,

Shoghi
1.Mabel Rice-Wray Ives—an American believer who taught the Faith in central and eastern Canada. For more details, see The Bahá’í World Vol. IX, 616–623, In Memoriam.  [ Back To Reference]