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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Apr 28, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 17.

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Central America

By H. C. Goodrich

BELIZE, BRITISH HONDURAS.—I have been most deeply interested in the moving of the Review and Herald to Washington. The pouring out of the Spirit of God after that move seemed as real to me as though a wave of the sea had rolled over us. It seemed as if the remainder of the work was held out before us, and the end was in sight. I believe the Lord will bless his people now, as he did in the days of Jehoshaphat, when he said: “The battle is not yours, but God’s. Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.”
I have just heard the present week from French Harbor. There have been several weeks of very bad weather, so that no ships have come from the Bay Islands to Belize, and I had not heard a word from French Harbor since leaving there. I had cried to the Lord many times for the believers there, as they were nearly all new converts. Three of them took their stand in the last meeting I held there, and they were surrounded by bitter enemies and opposition. But in the four letters received from them yesterday, I learn that every one has remained firm, and others are inclined to join them. How good the Lord is! If the weather permits, I hope to visit them again next month.
Captain —, whom I found two years ago “holding on to the faith,” now has the faith holding on to him. He writes: “‘Power for Witnessing’ is a most wonderful book to me. The more I read it, the more I feel that I must tell others what Christ has done for me.” He is a retired sea captain, with a good plantation, and has all he can do as a sail-maker; yet during the last year, with what time he could spare from his work, he sold nearly a hundred dollars’ worth of books at wholesale price. He feels now that he must give himself to the work of the message. He is a Scotchman, about sixty years of age, but the fire is getting into his bones, and he can not keep still. I have often prayed for a laborer for the Bay Islands; perhaps this is the one. He sends for quite a large order of books, and says he has come to the conclusion to work all he can for God.
The Lord is good—so much better than we deserve! I do praise him for all his works. May we all be workers together with him.
H. C. GOODRICH.