Porto Rico by B. E. Connerly

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 14, 1906

Porto Rico

By B. E. Connerly

WE are glad to report the opening of the third meeting place in Porto Rico. Our work has moved slowly, but the message is going. In Guanijibo there is a good interest, some we shall baptize. We need a man to take charge of the work at this place.

In Arecibo the work is encouraging, and, thank the Lord, the Board have promised to send us a man and his wife to take charge of the work there. We have one sister who speaks English there who will be a great help to them until they get hold of the language. Next month we hope to go to enlarge their meeting-house, and make seats of which they are sadly in need. Recently, an intelligent, influential man and his family have accepted the truth there. These we hope will also be a help to the work. When we were there in March he was married in Brother Moulton’s home. (It often happens in Porto Rico that when people get converted they get married even after they have raised a family.) They will be baptized next month.

Our new place in Mayaguez is a comfort to us. It has a seating capacity for one hundred and twenty-five people. We have a good interest there, the house being full from the first. Last year it was exceedingly hard to hold the interest in our church and Sabbath-school because we had no place to worship; the people went to the other denominations who had chapels. This place came to us in answer to our earnest prayers for it, and we feel sure that as the Lord has given it to us he will bless it. We look for the return of some who had become cold and indifferent. We are praying more earnestly than before that the Lord will send workers into this part of his vineyard. B. E. CONNERLY.