It is hard for the friends to appreciate, when they are
isolated in one of these goal territories, and see that they are making no
progress in teaching others, are living in inhospitable climes for the most
part, and are lonesome for Bahá’í companionship and activity, that they
represent a force for good, that they are like a light-house of Bahá’u’lláh
shining at a strategic point and casting its beam out into the darkness. This
is why he so consistently urges these pioneers not to abandon their posts. - Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 18 July 1957, written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the
NSA of Canada; ‘Messages to Canada’)
