p. 20 | S. A. WELLMAN by S. A. Wellman

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 12, 1907

S. A. WELLMAN

By S. A. Wellman

Trinidad

The work in the island has been going on nicely, considering the time we have been able to give to it. There were twenty-seven accessions during the last quarter, and there are others awaiting the ordinance of baptism. In Tobago three have been added by baptism, and in Grenada several more.

Here in the printing-office we are keeping up with the regular work on the Watchman and Gleaner, and we have printed fourteen thousand tracts, and done considerable job work during the same time. The circulation of the Earthquake Special of the Watchman reached twenty-eight thousand five hundred copies.

In the Watchman office we have started night-school work in two subjects, to improve the condition, educationally, of the employees. Many of the subjects taught the children in American schools are not taught here, and they lack sadly in everything but arithmetic, grammar, spelling, writing, and dictation. Geography is taught in a way from a book, without maps, and physiology is not taught. We need a school in this part of the field, but there is not much hope, I fear, of that in the near future. Our work in the classes referred to is mostly review, and we have recitations only twice a week; but we hope to do better as time and strength permit.