Ever since the emergence of this progressive, youthful and
dynamic community, [Canada] as an independent entity, and particularly since
the inception of the Ten Year Plan, it has demonstrated, on several occasions,
those qualities which alone can provide the guarantee of success in carrying
out, as a worthy ally of her sister community in the Great Republic of the
West, the sacred and historic Mission assigned to it by the Author of the
Tablets of the Divine Plan. The staunchness of the faith of its members, their
unyielding resolve, their ceaseless efforts, their willingness to sacrifice,
their exemplary loyalty, their steadfast courage, have, time and again, been
strikingly displayed, and served to fortify the hopes which I have always
cherished for their future destiny. - Shoghi Effendi (Post script to a message
dated 26 June 1956 to National Spiritual Assembly of Canada; ‘Messages to
Canada’)
