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Messages to Canada

  • Author:

  • Shoghi Effendi

  • Source:
  • Bahá’í Canada Publications
  • Pages:
  • 276
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Pages 60-61

Letter of 22 April 1939

22 April 1939

To Howard Colby Ives1

Dear Mr. Ives,
Your valued letter of the 15th March has duly reached our beloved Guardian, and he was pleased to note that you had safely received his message, as well as the six ringstones, which he hopes you have found satisfactory.
He was also considerably rejoiced to know that Mr. and Mrs. Robarts,2 for whom you had asked his special prayers in your last letter, have joined the Toronto Bahá’í Community, and are progressing so well spiritually. He will continue to remember them in his prayers that they may keep on deepening in their devotion and love for the Cause, and that also they may receive ever-widening opportunities of promoting its truth, and of extending its foundations in their centre.
The Guardian wishes me to take this opportunity of assuring you also of his best wishes for the success of your efforts in connection with your projected book on the Cause—which production, he hopes, will soon be completed and ready for publication, and will, through its circulation, help in further reinforcing the teaching work throughout the States.
May Bahá’u’lláh bless your painstaking and devoted exertions in His path, and fulfil your heart’s highest aspirations in service to His Faith.

With the season’s warmest greetings,

Yours most sincerely,

H. Rabbani

[From the Guardian:]

Wishing you ever-increasing success in your incessant and highly meritorious labours for the spread of the Faith and the consolidation of its institutions,

Your true brother,

Shoghi
1.Howard Colby Ives—a former Unitarian minister, this American believer published Portals to Freedom and The Song Celestial, died in 1941. See The Bahá’í World Vol. IX, 608–613, In Memoriam for an account of his life.  [ Back To Reference]
2.John and Audrey Robarts—John was a member of the National Spiritual Assembly from 1948–53. In 1953 they became Knights of Bahá’u’lláh when they pioneered to Bechuanaland. In 1957 John Robarts was appointed a Hand of the Cause of God. He passed away in Rawdon, Quebec in 1991. See The Bahá’í World Vol. XX, In Memoriam.  [ Back To Reference]