Southern Jamaica by Hubert Fletcher

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Apr 27, 1905

Southern Jamaica

By Hubert Fletcher

AT our last conference, held January 1-5, it was decided that Brother Hubert Randle and the writer make the parish of St. Elizabeth their field of labor, and engage in tent work. January 11, I started from Kingston, via the parish of St. Anns, at which place I was instructed to visit the companies. I spent two very profitable weeks there, and the Lord richly blessed us in our meetings.

I arrived at Southfield (St. Elizabeth) on the twenty-ninth, and met Brother Randle and his family, who had arrived four days before. The church at this place was much in need of help, so we spent the time with them while looking up a location for the tent, and homes for our families. Finally we succeeded in renting a spot for the tent in the district of Top Hill.

The people of this parish are very irreligious. It is here that the light of the third angel's message needs to shine, and we deem it a privilege to be entrusted with so important a commission.

Since we began meetings, the Lord has truly been blessing us. The attendance is from one hundred to two hundred and fifty. We have a twenty-by-thirty-foot tent, which is too small. We can accommodate only a portion of our congregation. There is a very good interest here. We find the people quite congenial and friendly. Though assured that we would be molested and stoned, yet those who attend say they are pleased and satisfied with the truths presented.

The Lord is surely leading, and we are expecting to see a goodly company from this place keeping the commandments of God. Several are deciding to obey the Lord. Pray for the work.

HUBERT FLETCHER.