The eyes of the Bahá’í world are expectantly turned towards
this newly erected pillar [NSA of Canada], designed to sustain in conjunction
with other National Assemblies the weight of the Supreme Legislative Body of
the World Order of Bahá’u’lláh. Sister communities in both the East and the
West, less privileged than it and deprived of the primacy with which the twin
Bahá’í national communities labouring in the North American continent have been
invested by the unerring Pen of the Centre of Bahá’u’lláh’s Covenant, yet able
to achieve, under circumstances no less challenging, a success wholly out of
proportion to their numbers, are eagerly awaiting the outcome of this initial
crusade embarked upon by this blessed, this envied community in conformity with
the Mandate issued by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in His immortal Tablets. He Himself Who
nourished and watched over it with such loving care from the earliest days of
its inception, Who, in unmistakable language and on more than one occasion,
foreshadowed its glorious future, both materially and spiritually, is from His
station on high, gazing down upon the youthful efforts exerted by a community
so dear to His heart, so newly launched upon a course which He Himself has
charted.
- Shoghi Effendi (Post script to a letter dated 30 October 1951 written
on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the Canadian National Spiritual; ‘Messages to
Canada’)
