iction, the area of
jurisdiction is related to the National Spiritual Assembly responsible for
the teaching work in the goal country in question, and has nothing to do
with what nation the territory belongs to. All Canadian goals are
therefore under the jurisdiction of your National Body, and their pioneers
must report to you, and people, whose declarations are accepted, should be
registered by your National Body, or the Committee in charge of the work,
as the case may be.

Regarding the question as to whether your Assembly need do anything about
its Israel Branch here; this is a matter which concerns entirely local
procedures. Your Canadian Branch has now been legally established, and is
entitled to hold property in this country; and he is planning at an early
date to register a piece of land in its name. He will send you the title
deed as soon as all formalities have been carried out.

CRITERIA FOR TEMPLE SITE

As he has already informed you by cable, he feels that the land which you
proposed as a Temple and National Haziratu'l-Quds site was altogether too
large, too expensive, and above all, too far from the city limits. He has
given instructions to a number of other National Bodies who were pursuing
their investigations in a direction much the same as your own. He realizes
that it is difficult, and much more expensive, to find a plot close to the
heart of the city. On the other hand, he feels that even a small plot,
near to town, is much more reasonable from every standpoint than a large
plot way out in the country. The friends must remember that they have to
be able to get out to their National Centre and their National Temple and
use them; and, as Baha'is are all busy, hardworking people for the most
part, the time involved must inevitably influence their attendance at
Baha'i meetings in the Haziratu'l-Quds, and later, Baha'i services in the
Temple.

If the filling of the goals and the purchase of the Temple site can be
accomplished before the lapse of two years from the inception of the Plan,
he feels you will have carried out his instructions to the letter, and he
will indeed be very happy.

He thinks that it is very befitting that your Body, as representatives of
the Canadian Baha'is, should be responsible for the erection of a
tombstone over dear Fred Schopflocher's grave.

As you no doubt are aware, he cherishes the very brightest hopes for the
future of the Canadian Baha'is. They are a fortunate pe