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

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 28.

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Hayti

By W. J. TANNER.

CAPE HAYTIEN.—Last week I returned home from Port de Paix, where I had been assisting Brother Emil Fawer with an interest. At that place, seven or eight bright, honest souls, mostly Guadaloupeans, have accepted the truth.
The work is more than holding its own among those who have accepted the Sabbath the past two or three years, and is making gains in new places, as, for instance, in Port de Paix, where a little company has been observing the Sabbath for a few weeks. Letters from Port au Prince tell me that recently three or four persons have begun the observance of all the commandments, so that now we have a company of seven or eight in the capital, a place where we have as yet done no public work.
The political unrest makes it hard for me to keep up with the work at present. All indications make it clear that if trouble once breaks out here at the Cape, we shall be in danger. This seems to be the general impression among all foreigners. I feel, however, that we are better protected than those who may see strength in the presence of foreign war-ships; for are we not right where God put us, in order that we might carry on his work? Nevertheless to be away from home under such circumstances is more or less of a strain on one, and especially where the means of communication are so meager.
If we had a man whom we could now put at Port au Prince to look after the growing interest in that part of the field, it would do a great deal toward helping me to look after the three-hundred-mile string of lights that now stretch from one end of the republic to the other.
I feel that the two and one-half years I have spent here have been surprisingly full of immediate results, although I have had to work through an interpreter a part of the time, and am still heavily handicapped for want of fluency and a better accent.
At present we are all quite well, for which we are truly thankful.
W. J. TANNER.