It is indeed gratifying to learn how your flourishing city, so rich and splendid in its material gifts, so similar in its atmosphere and peaceful surroundings to the Holy Land, and potentially endowed with such spiritual capacity, is now taking a leading part in lending a fresh impetus to the onward march of the Movement in regions which, though distant and remote, are yet so near and dear to the Master's heart.
May your patient efforts be crowned with signal success and may the Light of this Divine Revelation so illumine your city as to justify the high hopes which our Beloved had confidently reposed in every one of you. (Shoghi Effendi, excerpt from a letter dated December 30, 1922 to Baha’is of San Francisco; Star of the West, Vol. 14, April 1923) (To see the entire letter please visit Messages to the Baha’i World)
