…[Ruhiyyih Khanum] whose unfailing support to me as my
helpmate, in the darkest days of my life, has earned her the title [Hand of the
Cause] already conferred on her father—Sutherland Maxwell has left a legacy, and achieved a position
excelled by only a few among the supporters of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh
throughout the eleven decades of its existence. …
- Shoghi Effendi ( Post script
to a letter dated 8 June 1952 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the
Canadian National Spiritual; ‘Messages to Canada’)
