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The Colon Meeting

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 20, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 8.

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_The Colon Meeting_

By I. H. Evans

In company with Elder U. Bender, president of the West Indian Union Conference, it was my privilege to attend the second session of the West Caribbean Conference, Jan. 1-6, 1908. The territory embraced in this conference is the Isthmus of Panama, Costa Rica, and St. Andrew's Island.
The brethren had just completed the erection of a neat little chapel, located at Mt. Hope, about two miles out from the heart of the city of Colon, in which the meetings were held.
There were gathered together representatives from nearly all the churches in the conference, together with the brethren who were living in the vicinity, making a congregation of from one hundred fifty to one hundred fifty people day by day. All Seventh-day Adventists in good standing with their home churches were seated as delegates.
The meeting lasted six days, and was full of interest from beginning to end. Three new churches were taken into the conference. Elder H. C. Goodrich was re-elected president of the West Caribbean Conference.
The book business in this territory the last year has been very successful, and there seems hardly any limit to the number of books that could be sold, especially in the Canal Zone district. About forty-five thousand workmen are there, most of them away from their homes and families, anxious to get anything in the line of reading-matter.
The brethren were very desirous that some earnest, God-fearing man should take up the book work, and push it with vigor. Life and Health, Liberty, and the Caribbean Watchman were also freely discussed, and an effort was put forth to place these periodicals in the hands of the working people on the Zone.
Every day there was preaching service, and studies on church work, the duties of church officers, etc.
Our hearts were made sad as we shook hands with these dear brethren, and bade them good-by. All went to their fields of labor with good courage, and we look for good fruitage, and a large ingathering of souls from this conference.
Brother U. Bender and I sailed, January 6, from Colon for Kingston, Jamaica.
I. H. EVANS.