p. 62 | Bermuda Islands

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 16, 1910

Bermuda Islands

In the mid-Atlantic, in this “land of the lily and the rose,” the light of the advent message is glowing. Early in the year Elder J. A. Morrow, who had labored in Bermuda for some years, returned to attend the General Conference, and was retained in the States. Brother M. Enoch, church elder, who is in business in Hamilton, on the islands, writes:—

There are about fifty Seventh-day Adventist believers in Bermuda, thirty-six in full membership in our one church organization. Regular meetings are held in Hamilton, the capital, and in Crawl, six miles away. Meetings are held in other places, but not regularly.

An act for the enforcement of Sunday rest was brought into the Parliament in September, through the efforts of a society organized by Methodists and Presbyterians. A motion to table the act for six months failed, and the measure came up again for discussion; but as there was no second to the motion, there was no discussion, and it was supposed that the measure met its death. However, the mover of the measure recently made another motion, but it was ruled out of order, and thus this Sunday measure died. It is but just to state that the Church of England, which claims about two thirds of the population, not only had nothing to do with this Sunday measure, but, as a people, opposed it.

In December Miss May Cole, appointed by the Mission Board, arrived in Bermuda to take up church-school work.