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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.
(11:1)
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