Grenada, West Indies by Linton Rashford

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jun 20, 1912

Grenada, West Indies

By Linton Rashford

WE left Jamaica on April 5, and after a voyage of ten days, and a stay of eight in Port of Spain, reached Grenada, our new field of labor, April 24. This is a very small island, being only twenty-one miles long and twelve wide, with an estimated population of sixty thousand. It is very mountainous, and its chief products are cocoa and nutmegs.

There are no trains, tram-cars, or hackney-buses, and the familiar ring of a bicycle bell is almost unknown, not to say anything of an automobile. Traveling is tedious and expensive, unless one has his own conveyance. The most of the people speak the patois, a corruption of French and English.

There is one Seventh-day Adventist church on the island, with a membership of a little over fifty. There are also a few believers in one or two other places. The people are nearly all Roman Catholics, and are very ignorant. There are some Anglicans, and a few Wesleyans, but they are so much like the Roman Catholics that it is hard to distinguish between them.

The cost of living is nearly twice as much here as it is in any place in which I have lived in Jamaica, and the groceries sold seem to be of the poorest quality. We are not at all discouraged because of these things, however, as the One who brought us here is bound by his promise to care for us as long as we remain faithful to him. We miss home and friends very much, but we trust the Lord for strength and grace to quit ourselves like men and be strong. We crave the prayers of our brethren and sisters for health with which to labor for the Master.

LINTON RASHFORD.