US-Canada NSA 1933 |
Already, the community of the believers of the North
American continent—at once the prime mover and pattern of the future communities
which the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh is destined to raise up throughout the length
and breadth of the Western Hemisphere—has, despite the prevailing gloom, shown
its capacity to be recognized as the torchbearer of that light, the repository
of those mysteries, the exponent of that righteousness and the sanctuary of
that freedom.
(Shoghi Effendi, letter dated December 25, 1938, ‘The Advent of
Divine Justice’)