May this community,
the leaven placed by the hands of Providence in the midst of a people belonging
to a nation, likewise young, dynamic, richly endowed with material resources,
and assured of a great material prosperity by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, play its part not
only in lending a notable impetus to the world-wide propagation of the Faith it
has espoused, but contribute, as its resources multiply and as it gains in
stature, to the spiritualization and material progress of the nation of which
it forms so vital a part.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a message dated March 1, 1951
to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Canada; ‘Messages to
Canada’)
