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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 9, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 15.

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A Trip to Grand Caymans

By F. E. Carey

DECEMBER 5 I started with seven of our brethren and sisters from Bonacca, to visit the little island of Grand Caymans, near Jamaica. We embarked on a schooner which was quite crowded with passengers, and having to beat against a heavy wind, it was a week before we arrived at Caymans. This was a rough, seasick trip of three hundred ten miles. Caymans is an island thirty-five miles long and from two to twelve miles wide. The inhabitants are mostly of English descent. The island is very low, rising in no place more than forty feet above sea-level. This makes a good home for mosquitoes, which abound in and near the swamps. The inhabitants number between one and two thousand, and are mostly Presbyterians. They have five churches in different parts of the island.
When I went there, I took over two hundred papers to give away, and some special Signs to sell. I also took some Scripture mottoes to sell, to pay expenses. I had planned to hold some meetings; and with God's help see what good I could do; but on arriving, I met Brother and Sister Hall, and learned of the tent effort that was in progress, conducted by Brethren Hall and Durant. Some stirring meetings were held, and many were warned. Although our company of believers is very poor, and has no church, the work is started, and I trust that others will take their stand with God's remnant people. I visited all parts of the island, and found a few scattered believers as a result of Brother Hall's work, some time before this effort. I distributed the reading-matter I had, and held some meetings, in the absence of Brethren Hall and Durant, who went to another part of the island to carry the truth.
Our trip home to Bonacca was accomplished in three days, and now we are preparing for a camp-meeting in our conference. Pray for the success of our work here, that sheaves may be gathered for the heavenly garner.
F. E. CAREY.