Opportunities for Mission Work in British Guiana
BROTHER BABCOCK makes this plea for British Guiana: “If some of our people who have money and understand agriculture could locate in such mission fields as this, and buy land and let our own people work it, teaching them how to cultivate it, much good could be done, and our mission fields would soon become self-supporting. When our people rent small tracts of land, they are generally defrauded of the profits, and are left helpless, and thus unable to help the message from a financial standpoint. The people of nearly all foreign fields need leaders, and those in this field are at least ready to be directed by North American people. I do not believe that our own people understand the privileges they would enjoy in such a country as this, in home life, as well as in having great opportunity to do missionary work. A few godly families, having two or three thousand dollars, could make a good living, and be a help to the work of the Lord.” Brother Babcock has arranged their little boat so that they can accommodate seventy-five persons in the cabin. It thus serves very well as a place of meeting in the small villages up the river.