Central America and Bay Islands
By H. C. Goodrich
I HAVE seen some wonderful evidences of how the loud cry will go, I believe, in the different places I have visited recently. For instance, in La Ceiba, Spanish Honduras, a Spanish lawyer of some note began to keep the Sabbath last October, through reading “Prophecies of Jesus.” Although he could not understand all he read, yet he was convinced of the truth. One part of his experience was with spirits of devils, who, when they found him determined to accept the Sabbath and believe the Bible, turned right about and told him to keep the Sabbath and study the Bible, and follow Christ, only the spirits must always tell him what the Bible meant. Mr. Allen writes that he is advancing daily in the truth. In Ruatan, Bay Islands, the agent of a commercial company, who had always been a wild young man, was suddenly seized with a desire to be a Christian. His mother is a member of the Utilla Seventh-day Adventist church. The young man's wife was quite prejudiced; but while attending a meeting on the second coming of Christ, conducted by a Holiness man, the thought flashed into16her mind that the seventh day is the Sabbath; and when I came, they sent for me to visit them. They kept the next Sabbath, set up the family altar, began paying tithe, and subscribed for our papers. A man in French Harbor, Ruatan, who a year ago was bitterly opposed to our work, is now very friendly, and is willing to donate a lot for a church. This man's daughter, aged twenty years, told me her experience. One Sabbath, while at work, the impression came to her very forcibly that it was the Sabbath. The next Sabbath this impression returned with still greater force, and she determined to obey.