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The North Honduras Mission

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 21, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 52.

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The North Honduras Mission

By Isaac Baker

ISAAC BAKER
OUR camp meeting was held in La Ceiba the last of May, where it was voted to divide Spanish Honduras into two fields by a line drawn east and west, the southern field to be known as the South Honduras Mission, and the northern part, including the Bay Islands and British Honduras, to be known as the North Honduras Mission.
It was voted to reorganize the Central American Conference into a General Conference mission field.
Nine persons have been baptized, and seven added to the church, while others are awaiting baptism.
A mission house was begun in the latter part of 1914; and although it is not yet finished, it is occupied by the offices of the conference and tract society.
In August, Brother Charles M. Paden, with his wife and baby, arrived in this field, to act as secretary and treasurer of the conference and tract society.
It was voted at the camp meeting to ask the General Conference to send us a canvasser capable of instructing others in the canvassing work, and we now have the promise of two, who are expected sometime in January, 1916.
A new church building was begun in La Ceiba in 1914, and is now nearing completion. It is painted and well seated, and services are regularly conducted in it, in both English and Spanish.
Our workers are, one ordained minister, one Bible worker who is past seventy years of age, a conference Sabbath school and Young People’s Missionary Volunteer secretary, and a conference and tract society secretary.
The area of Spanish Honduras is about 46,000 square miles, with a population of nearly 600,000. The most thickly settled portions are along the coasts, though there are some fair-sized towns in the interior.