A Signal for Help by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Feb 15, 1906

A Signal for Help

By W. A. S.

The Maritime Conference is manfully extending its work in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. They have an interesting school enterprise well started in the Williamsdale Academy, and two of their young people, trained in Melrose, have returned to Nova Scotia, to take up medical missionary work. Every one of the little staff of workers is covering all the ground possible, and the believers are faithfully lifting and doing.

There is new life stirring in this far northeastern field. But their numbers are few, and resources small. Hence it is that such a field as Prince Edward Island, called the “Garden of the Gulf,” lies unworked in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Two sisters represent the truth there. A portable church building stands in Charlottetown, waiting for the coming of a laborer. The last conference of the believers passed the following resolution, which we print here as a signal to some of the stronger conferences that might be able to supply and support some young laborer:—

Whereas, We have been unable to send a laborer to Prince Edward Island; therefore,—

Resolved, That we call the attention of the older conferences to that populous island off our eastern coast, and that we still invite any of our sister conferences who can do so to supply and support a laborer for that waiting field.

The population of the island is one hundred thousand, mostly engaged in agriculture. Would that some conference were able to annex this unworked territory this coming season.

W. A. S.