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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 11, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 37.

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In the Bahamas

By JAS. H. SMITH.

Having received an invitation on June 19 from the Mission Board to make the Bahamas our field of labor, and follow up the work of Elder W. A. Sweany, we accordingly set sail from New York on the “Seguransa” of the Ward line on July 11, and reached Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, on the fifteenth.
The members of the little church here, having been notified by cablegram when to expect us, were at the docks and gave us a very hearty welcome. Brother J. P. Simms, being there in his motor-car, soon took us over the city, and helped us to select a place in which to make our home. As our goods were on the same boat that we came on, it did not take long to get settled.
We found a very earnest company of believers here. I think I have never seen their equal for faithfulness and liberality in the States. They are also awake to the responsibilities that rest upon them to give the message to the people around them.
Many are ready to listen to the truth for these times, but the tendency to stick to old habits and ways makes it hard for them to obey. We have been holding meetings for the public in the little chapel in which our people meet, and they have been well attended. Several are stirred to investigate the Scriptures. We feel quite sure God will give us some fruit as a result of these efforts. For the past two weeks we have been trying to secure the use of the Masonic hall, the largest and most popular hall in the city, in which to hold a series of meetings, and now we are quite sure we shall get it, and begin services next Sunday evening. Here we can invite the most influential and respectable people in the city. We find that as the result of the careful work done by the former laborers here the cause of truth is held in esteem by most of the people. It is with courage that we take up the work, and our desire is that we may leave nothing undone that we can do to make it a success, that when the Lord makes up his jewels, many may come from the Bahamas. JAS. H. SMITH.