fford to either stand still, falter or hesitate. As this World Crusade
sweeps majestically forward and draws nearer to its close, exploits as
superb as those its sons and daughters have successively achieved in
widely scattered areas of the globe, must continue to distinguish and
ennoble the imperishable record of its services.

'Abdu'l-Baha's prophetic words regarding the future of its homeland,
spiritually as well as materially--the initial evidences of which are
becoming more apparent every day, must not be lost sight of for a moment,
however exacting and all-absorbing the strenuous task ahead, however
complex the problems its prosecution involves, however burdensome the
preoccupations which it must needs engender.

Afire with that same love that burned so brightly in the hearts of its
earliest pioneers, holding fast to the strong cord of the spiritual
precepts and administrative principles of the Faith it has so
whole-heartedly espoused, confident of its ability to achieve, in its
entirety, the Mission entrusted to it by the Author of the Tablets of the
Divine Plan, this community must forge ahead, with undeviating loyalty,
with indomitable courage, with unbreakable unity, and exemplary
consecration, striving to scale loftier heights, and widening constantly
the range of its operations, on the American mainland as well as in
neighbouring and distant islands, until each and every objective of its
allotted task has been triumphantly attained.

SHOGHI.

FOOTNOTES

1 Mrs. May Ellis Maxwell--spiritual mother of the Canadian Baha'i
community, became a believer in 1898, visited 'Abdu'l-Baha in 1899
and returned to Paris to found the first Baha'i centre on the
European continent, married Sutherland Maxwell and settled in
Montreal in 1902, achieved "the priceless honor of a martyr's death"
in Argentina in 1940. For a review of the vast range of her
contributions to the Faith in Europe and America, see "Baha'i World"
Vol. VIII, In Memoriam.

2 The Tablets of the Divine Plan, revealed by 'Abdu'l-Baha in 1916-17,
and addressed severally to the Baha'is of the United States and
Canada, constitute the authority for the successive Plans
inaugurated by the Guardian for the spread of the Faith and the
establishment of its Institutions throughout the world.

3 The city of Montreal, Quebec, visited by 'Abdu'l-Baha August
30-September