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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 8, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 6.

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MRS. D. E. WELLMAN, of Riversdale, Jamaica, writes: “We have so little to do with down in these fields that it is hard to know what to do with our young people and children. We are not discouraged, and mean so to consecrate our efforts that God will give wisdom, and we hope to see victory before we finish. We had excellent consecration services both here and in Kingston, with our young people, during the week of prayer. One of our young sisters sold over one hundred papers last month, and for January she has taken three hundred, and others are doing well. I trust we shall have good reports, as their hearts are warm and full of zeal.”
“At a recent convention we were holding, I was asked, ‘Can you help us to know what to do for our young people’s meeting?’ I said, ‘Do you have the Instructor?’ When told that they did not, I replied, ‘So they have no helps for you to help them with.’”
Another worker writes: “Seven years ago I came to this conference with a great burden on my heart for the young people. I tried to get the brethren to form some kind of society, but they did not seem to see the way clear. I could see that the young people in the church where I was, were just hanging on by the tips of their fingers. One evening they came to me, and asked if they could not have a young people’s meeting. The church elder objected, and the members of the church did not approve; but finally we decided to try, and appointed a time for the meeting. Just two or three days before the meeting was to be held, I received from the General Conference Office an envelope containing leaflets on this work and a sample membership card. We began our meetings along the line suggested.”
“The young people were anxious to learn the truth, and we studied hard. At the end of two months I went to the church elder, and asked that we be given the meeting hours one Sabbath. He did not know whether it would be just the thing, but finally arranged the matter. At the close of our first meeting a gray-haired man arose and said that he wanted to belong to the young people’s society. This was the first organized meeting in this union. There are now ten fully organized societies, and one hundred seventy-five members.”