Jamaica by A. N. DURRANT

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Dec 21, 1905

Jamaica

By A. N. DURRANT

CLARENDON.—Another conference year will soon be in the past, but we can say that it has been a profitable one, for which we thank and praise our Heavenly Father. The message is onward, penetrating the dark corners, and sounding over mountains and plains. The accessions this year are none the less than other years, and the spirituality of the churches seems reviving, even though here and there we find some sleeping. The lessons on the tithing system have been a blessing to us here, waking up nearly all to the responsibility of giving to the Lord his own.

In this parish, about forty have accepted the truth this year; but there is not one finished house of worship here, hence the companies at Moores, Waterlane, and Portland are anxious to build. In a place where a laboring man gets only twenty-five cents a day (sometimes seventy-five cents a week), toiling in the burning sun from six in the morning until six in the evening for the support of a family, it means much to build.

Four sisters of the last-mentioned company were fined $2.28 last July for Sunday work, being maliciously prosecuted.

The tent we have been using here is no more; and as Brother Hall, my former coworker, is now on the island of Grand Cayman, I go from place to place, while I await another helper, and a tent if one can be procured.

We have given up Brother Tanner to the Mission Board for Hayti, and will support Brother Hall in the Caymans, and we are also looking to the Turks Island group. As these islands are dependencies of our government, we feel that they are also dependent on us for present truth.

Three weeks ago two nurses, Brother Manful and his wife, came to Kingston to give house-to-house treatments. Brother Manful counseled with a leading physician of the city, who assured him that if any of our doctors would come here and start sanitarian work, laying out a few thousand dollars, the

institution would prosper; he also said that he would send patients there. He has visited one of our sanitariums in the States. As Brother Manful had not sufficient money to start the work, he was forced to return. Shall the higher class of people who are prejudiced against going to our churches and tent-meetings die without hearing of deliverance from sin and bad habits? Will not some of our brethren come to their rescue now?

A. N. DURRANT.