surge of spirit, of courage and determination, a display of activity, a
demonstration of self-sacrifice, and of solidarity such as to eclipse its
brightest achievements in the past. The highly meritorious tasks initiated
in both Greenland and Newfoundland need not be enlarged at the present
hour, but should, under no circumstances, be allowed to suffer any
setback. The work started among the Eskimos and Indians should be
maintained at its present level, and should not be permitted to decline.
An extraordinary concentration of effort, systematic, determined and
sustained, is however required throughout all the nine Provinces of the
Dominion, aiming at an unprecedented flow of contributions by the entire
body of the believers, each according to his or her means, into the
National Treasury; a marked increase in the number of pioneers; a much
greater dispersion; a higher degree of austerity; a still nobler display
of consecration--all of which must result in a speedy multiplication of
Assemblies and groups, which constitutes the core of the Plan, and on
which hinges its fortunes.

UNUTTERABLY PRECIOUS OPPORTUNITY

The fleeting months ahead will be truly decisive. Upon the success of the
present Plan must depend, not only the joint tribute to be paid by the
Canadian Baha'i Community to the memory of the Founder of the Faith on the
occasion of the centenary of the Birth of His Revelation, but also the
rapid unfoldment of subsequent stages of the Mission which the Tablets of
'Abdu'l-Baha so clearly, and emphatically entitle it to fulfil.

The opportunity given to this community is precious, unutterably precious.
The fate of this first historic Plan now hangs in the balance. The present
chance, if lost, cannot be retrieved. The issues on which hinge the
successful prosecution of the Plan are so weighty that none can assess
them at present. The needs of a sorely-stricken society, groping in its
distress for God's redemptive Message, are growing more acute with every
passing hour. The Canadian Baha'i Community, newly emerged as an
independent member of the Baha'i World Community, so richly blessed
through its elevation to the rank of a chosen prosecutor of a Divine Plan,
unique, in many respects, among its sister communities in both Hemispheres
in the manifold blessings bestowed upon it, can neither afford to flinch
for a moment or hesitate in the discharge of its sacred duty. Every effort
exerted by this community, during t