Canadian Baha'i summer school, which, as the scope of the activities of
the Canadian believers extends, will have to be gradually supplemented by
other institutions of a similar character, as has been the case in the
development of summer schools in the United States of America. Preliminary
steps should, likewise, be taken for the incorporation of all firmly
grounded spiritual assemblies, as a prelude to the establishment of local
and national endowments. The institution of the local Fund, in every
center where the administrative structure of the Faith has been erected,
should be assiduously developed. The holding of conferences designed to
foster the unity, the solidarity and harmonious development of the
Canadian Baha'i Community should be steadily encouraged. An organized
attempt should be made to broadcast the Message to the masses and their
leaders through the medium of the press and radio. A deliberate and
sustained endeavor should be exerted to win fresh recruits for the Faith
from the ranks of the considerable French-speaking population of that
dominion. The greatest care should be exercised to attract the attention,
and win the support of other minorities in that land, such as the Indians,
the Eskimos, the Dukhobors and the Negroes, thereby reinforcing the
representative character of a rapidly developing community.
Nor should that community, as its local centers multiply, and the fabric
of its national institutions is erected, and its maturity is demonstrated,
and its independence vindicated, lose sight of, or neglect, the weighty
provisions of those Tablets of the Divine Plan, addressed specifically to
its members by 'Abdu'l-Baha, wherein He confers upon them the mission of
carrying the Message of His Father to territories and islands beyond the
confines of that dominion, to Newfoundland and the Franklin Islands, to
the Yukon, to Mackenzie, Keewatin, Ungava and Greenland. The tentative
steps recently taken by a Danish believer in disseminating Baha'i
literature in the territory of Greenland, in a number of settlements and
outposts beyond the Arctic Circle, and in dispatching Baha'i books to
Godthaab, its capital, and as far north as Upernavik on Baffin Bay,
constitutes a modest yet historic beginning which the Canadian believers,
in the light of 'Abdu'l-Baha's Tablets addressed to them, must follow up
in the years to come.
"Should the fire of the love of God be kindled in Greenland," He
significantly assures
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