p. 13 | British Guiana by U. BENDER

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 15, 1912

British Guiana

By U. BENDER

LEAVING Trinidad on March 12, I reached Georgetown, British Guiana, the morning of the fourteenth. Elder E. C. Boger met me at the wharf, and a quiet day was spent at his home, visiting with the laborers and believers who had come in from different parts of the colony to attend the meetings.

The meetings began Thursday night and ended Sunday night. We had morning meetings at five o'clock. Bible study was held in the forenoon and in the afternoon, with preaching at night. One afternoon a program was rendered, consisting of several good papers, in the interest of the Sabbath-school and young people's work.

The tent-meetings recently conducted in Georgetown by Elders E. C. Boger and T. L. M. Spencer resulted in the conversion of several persons. There has been quite an increase in the membership of the Georgetown church. The church building needs repairing and enlarging.

Elder Spencer is located in Georgetown. Brother T. J. Kennedy has moved to New Amsterdam, and works in that district. Brother H. Beck is working on the Essequibo Coast. Brother R. Hyder works among the people of his own race, the East Indians. In different parts of the colony, five schools, with about one hundred thirty pupils, are being conducted with some of our West Indian brethren and sisters as teachers.

At the present time, British Guiana is suffering from a severe drought. For several months, but little rain has fallen. There has been but little cane harvested on account of the lack of water in the canals. If rain comes now, it will spoil most of the cane; this crop will be a very short one.

Although the land may be dry and thirsty and the people hungry, the Lord will continue to give the bread of heaven and the water of life to those who seek him. U. BENDER.