of Baha'i centers in that territory; the propagation of the
teachings among the Eskimos, emphasized by 'Abdu'l-Baha's pen in those
same Tablets; the translation and publication of selected passages from
Baha'i literature in their native language; the extension of the limits of
the Faith beyond Fairbanks and nearer to the Arctic Circle--these
constitute the urgent tasks facing the prosecutors of the present Plan in
the years immediately ahead.

"Alaska is a vast country," are 'Abdu'l-Baha's own words, recorded in
those Tablets, "...Perchance, God willing, the lights of the Most Great
Guidance will illuminate that country, and the breezes of the rose garden
of the love of God will perfume the nostrils of the inhabitants of Alaska.
Should you be aided to render such a service, rest ye assured that your
heads shall be crowned with the diadem of everlasting sovereignty."

CANADA TO FORM SEPARATE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

In the Dominion of Canada, to whose significance and future the Author of
the Tablets of the Divine Plan has repeatedly referred, and in all the
nine provinces of which, as a direct result of the operation of the first
Seven Year Plan, the Faith has established its spiritual assemblies, the
Canadian believers, as a token of their recognition of the significance of
the forthcoming formation of their first National Spiritual Assembly, must
arise and carry out befittingly the task allotted to them in their
homeland. Irrespective of the smallness of their numbers, notwithstanding
the vastness of the territory for which they have been made responsible,
and as a sign of their appreciation of the great bounty and independent
status soon to be conferred upon them, they must, unitedly, exert a
supreme effort to enlarge the limits, multiply the administrative centers,
consolidate the institutions, and broadcast the truths and essentials of
their beloved Faith throughout the length and breadth of that immense
dominion.

The thirteen Canadian assemblies already formed should be, at all costs,
maintained and fortified. The fifty-six localities where Baha'is reside
should receive immediate attention, and the most promising among them
should be chosen for the establishment of future assemblies, in order to
broaden the basis and reinforce the foundations of the future pillar of
the Universal House of Justice. Particular attention should, moreover, be
paid to the need for the establishment, without delay, of the first