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

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 24.

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British Guiana

By D. E. Wellman

WE were never more busy than we have been since about the first of February, when the conference committee separated. Up to the middle of March I spent my time in Trinidad. Since then I have been in this colony, with the exception of the time I spent in the office of the Watchman and in repairing the church in Port of Spain.
In Georgetown our labors for a higher spiritual life in the church have met with signal success, and nearly all have come to see eye to eye. Eleven were baptized, and we had a most excellent quarterly meeting, which was one of the best, and the largest in its history.
At New Amsterdam our labors were fruitful. Four were baptized. The members were brought into closer union, and plans were laid for earnest labor for their fellow townsmen. An elder and a deacon were ordained, and other matters were set in order. Brother J. J. Smith, of St. Thomas, has charge of this section of British Guiana, having recently moved to this field at the request of the conference committee. We hope his labors will be marked with success. He has been well received.
From this place we expected to go up Canje Creek, which is really a large river, to visit a thriving little company of our people. But having received word that important business matters would require many of them to be away from home, we had to turn back to Georgetown. Two of the brethren from this company were with us at New Amsterdam, and from the instruction given, gathered much to take home with them. They live seventy miles back in the interior, and their only highway is the river above mentioned. The entire distance has to be made in a small row-boat. They, however, take advantage of the tides, which naturally assists in making the journey. The whole country is nearly a dead level; consequently, the tides affect the river far into the interior, something like a hundred miles. This church has its own building, and conducts a thriving Sabbath-school, day-school, and young people's society, and is showing a true spirit of progress in the message.
Although there has been much in this colony to hold back the message, and to bring discouragement, we are fully persuaded that better days are before us.
D. E. WELLMAN.