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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 16, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 62.

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Porto Rico

By D. D. Fitch

SANTURCE.— The friends who have been so kindly supplying us with periodicals will be glad to learn that our own people feel they have been having a feast of good things, and are passing the same on to their neighbors.
From the literature sent we selected some for ship mission work. We first paid a visit to the captain of the coast guard ship “Seminole,” to arrange for giving the sailors an exhibition of stereopticon pictures. We found the captain to be a thorough gentleman, genial, and withal a Bible student. So much time was spent in satisfying his interest in the truths of the message that the real errand was deferred until later, when some of the reading matter was placed in his hands. He has since bought “Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation” and “Bible Readings,” and seems in harmony with all he reads.
Among the pictures shown were some on the Eastern Question, accompanied by a few remarks on the subject. Later the second officer said, “You have started in my mind a train of thought concerning a subject of which I wish to learn more.”
The sailors of this boat have been liberally supplied with literature, and two times we have had the privilege of holding Sunday services on the boat.
The captain has twice tendered us the use of the ship’s launch to visit three German vessels interned in the harbor. Literature is gladly received by them. Arrangements are being made to place reading matter in every house in Santurce.
D. D. Fitch.