Bahai Faith -- North America; Shoghi, Effendi, 1897-1957 -- Correspondence
“Although,” ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, in the Tablets of the Divine Plan, has written,
“in most of the states and cities of the United States, praise be to God,
His fragrances are diffused, and souls unnumbered are turning their faces
and advancing toward the Kingdom of God, yet in some of the states the
Standard of Unity is not yet upraised as it should be, nor are the
mysteries of the Holy Books, such as the Bible, the Gospel, and the
Qur’án, unraveled. Through the concerted efforts of all the friends the
Standard of Unity must needs be unfurled in those states, and the Divine
teachings promoted, so that these states may also receive their portion of
the heavenly bestowals and a share of the Most Great Guidance.” “The
future of the Dominion of Canada,” He, in another Tablet of the Divine
Plan, has asserted, “is very great, and the events connected with it
infinitely glorious. The eye of God’s loving-kindness will be turned
towards it, and it shall become the manifestation of the favors of the
All-Glorious.” “Again I repeat,” He, in that same Tablet reaffirms His
previous statement, “that the future of Canada, whether from a material or
a spiritual standpoint, is very great.”
No sooner is this initial step taken, involving as it does the formation
of at least one nucleus in each of these virgin states and provinces in
the North American continent, than the machinery for a tremendous
intensification of Bahá’í concerted effort must be set in motion, the
purpose of which should be the reinforcement of the noble exertions which
only a few isolated believers are now making for the awakening of the
nations of Latin America to the Call of Bahá’u’lláh. Not until this second
phase of the teaching campaign, under the Seven Year Plan, has been
entered can the campaign be regarded as fully launched, or the Plan itself
as having attained the most decisive stage in its evolution. So powerful
will be the effusions of Divine grace that will be poured forth upon a
valiant community that has already in the administrative sphere erected,
in all the glory of its exterior ornamentation, its chief Edifice, and in
the teaching field raised aloft, in every state and province, in the North
American continent the banner of its Faith—so great will be these
effusions that its members will find themselves overpowered by the
evidences of their regenerative power.
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