p. 20 | Tobago and Trinidad by J. B. BECKNER

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 1, 1908

Tobago and Trinidad

By J. B. BECKNER

We have had three companies of Sabbath-keepers in Tobago; but until July, no effort had been made to erect a church building. August 13 we began work on a little house, sixteen by twenty-four feet, American lumber covered with zinc. It is on Mount Grace, a beautiful spot overlooking the sea, also the capital of the island,—Scarboro.

Six were baptized during our stay of three weeks. After my return to Trinidad, on August 9, I baptized twenty-two in the river at Tacarigua, ten miles from Port of Spain. Sixteen of these were from Aronca, where Elder S. A. Wellman with Brother P. C. Carrington as helper, and Sisters B. Moore and A. Osborne as Bible workers, held a tent-meeting in the dry season. These, with eleven already baptized there, make a company of twenty-seven, with others interested. Brother Carrington is following up the interest. They have bought a suitable lot upon which to build a church, and efforts are now being made to raise money for the building. They have voted to pay a second tithe toward the building fund. We hope soon to report another house there. We still have an occasional case of yellow fever, but no case of plague has been reported during the past three weeks.

Remember us and our work here in your prayers. J. B. BECKNER.