It would be
difficult to exaggerate the strengths that the Cause in Canada has developed,
at the threshold of a new century. The level of unity that has been achieved,
the energy and competence being displayed by your Regional Councils, the
financial sacrifices that the Canadian believers are so wholeheartedly making
to support the work of the Cause internationally, the trust and respect that
the community’s collective efforts have won from governmental and
nongovernmental institutions alike, its extraordinary record of service in both
the teaching and pioneering fields overseas, and most recently the dramatic mobilization
of human resources across your vast country through the Canadian believers’
embrace of the institute program being promoted by your National Assembly—such
a brilliant demonstration of spiritual power must excite the admiration of any
fair-minded observer.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a message dated 20
July 2000 addressed to the Friends Gathered at the Youth Conference in
Vancouver, 20-24 July 2000)
