p. 16 | Jamaica by W. J. Tanner

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jun 9, 1904

Jamaica

By W. J. Tanner

KINGSTON.—It has been one year since we were called to leave the north side of the island and come to Kingston to take up the work in this city. While a retrospective glance reminds us how feeble have been our efforts in proportion to the importance of the message, it also suggests numerous causes for thanksgiving and praise. During this time we have seen thirty-three precious souls unite with the church by baptism, and five whose names had been dropped, reclaimed, and taken back into church fellowship. At present there are five others awaiting baptism.

One noticeable feature of the work here is the good attendance and deep spirituality that characterize the prayer-meetings. They are the best I have seen anywhere, and are always attended by a goodly number not of our faith.

The changes that have taken place in our work in America the past year, have been a source of encouragement to the work here, and show how far-reaching in their moral effect are all the moves made at the head of the work.

We must not close this short report without saying that a power that we have not witnessed before is accompanying the message here. It seems that every soul that comes into the truth, and every advance move that is made, is led by an unseen hand in such a way that all are convinced that the Lord, and not man, is leading out in the work now—an omen that that for which we have been looking is upon us, and that soon we shall be in our “own” land.

W. J. TANNER.