e covered by your Plan is stimulating in the extreme. To be
the Trustees of such a Faith, in such a place, at such a time is a
marvellous privilege, and he is looking forward to your next achievements
with confidence and keen interest.

You may be sure his loving prayers are with you in all you do for the
beloved Faith.

With warmest greetings,
R. RABBANI.

Dear and Valued Co-workers:

The progress achieved in the course of the opening year of the Five Year
Plan, to which the newly emerged independent Canadian Baha'i Community is
solemnly committed, is such as to excite the admiration, and merit the
gratitude, of the entire Baha'i World. A community, so small in numbers,
so restricted in resources, labouring over so extensive a field,
shouldering such weighty responsibilities, has passed through the initial
stage of its task and discharged its duties with such distinction as to be
worthy of the glowing promises and weighty utterances recorded in
'Abdu'l-Baha's Tablets regarding the material as well as the spiritual
potentialities with which that great and promising Dominion has been
endowed.

OPERATION OF THE PLAN GATHERS MOMENTUM

Through the swift and marvellous increase in its membership, through its
faithful and uncompromising adherence to both the spiritual and
administrative principles of the Faith it so nobly serves; through the
multiplication of its administrative centres from the Atlantic to the
Pacific sea-board; through the steady consolidation of its local and
national Funds, designed to sustain its ever-unfolding activities, through
the spirit consistently manifested by the small yet eager and valiant band
of its pioneers and administrators, and more recently through the official
recognition providentially accorded the body of its national elected
representatives by both chambers of the Legislature in that Dominion--an
act wholly unprecedented in the annals of the Faith in any country, in
either East or West--this vigorous, divinely sustained, resistlessly
advancing community, has not only fulfilled the expectations and hopes
that greeted its birth, but set a brilliant example to its sister
communities in both the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.

The task which it has so splendidly inaugurated and which is being now
prosecuted with such vigour, devotion, single-mindedness, harmony and
determination, is still in the initial stage of its development. The
process that has stimulated the growth an