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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Apr 8, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 14.

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W. W. QUANTOCK

By W. W. Quantock; W. G. Kneeland; G. Mathews

Ceylon

COLOMBO.—Before coming to this place, we spent about five weeks in Madras, in the interest of the Oriental Watchman. We secured nearly five hundred subscriptions for the paper, besides selling some small books. While there, I met a lady who believed in conditional immortality. She wanted to know what we believe, and when I told her about the Sabbath, she could not quite see why we kept the seventh day, but after a little conversation on the subject, she said, “If that is the thing to do, I want to do it.” She seemed very anxious to study the Bible with us.
We have already spent about two weeks in Colombo, and have taken over one hundred orders for the paper, and expect to get others before we leave. We have also disposed of a number of small books. This is a pretty place, but the people say that it does not compare ably with the scenery farther inland. The weather is quite pleasant now, but it is very hot during March and April. A short ride brings one to the hills and mountains, where it is much cooler.
The Catholics have a strong hold on southern India and Ceylon, and their membership is continually increasing. In Colombo they have many schools and churches and printing offices. The man in whose home we are living told me that at one town here on the island they have a school in which they are educating twenty-five hundred priests. These have been in training two years, and will soon be ready for work in the island.
The Buddhists are also quite strong, and so far as I can see, are growing in numbers. Many who are forsaking their former religion, if they had any, are joining something that is just as bad. We frequently meet people who say that they belong to the Catholic Church, and at the same time frankly confess that they know nothing about the doctrines which that church teaches. I trust that Seventh-day Adventists will arouse to their opportunities, and that ere long many will come to these Oriental fields to proclaim the gospel of the third angel’s message in all its fullness.

W. W. QUANTOCK

Trinidad

PRINCESTOWN.—We began meetings in this place the latter part of February. We have had a good attendance, and many are deeply stirred by the gospel truths we have presented thus far. As a result of the canvassing work and the meetings, twelve are now keeping the Sabbath of the Lord. Many others are convinced, and we trust that by carefully following up the interest, we shall see a large company of believers developed here.
A STREET SCENE IN COLOMBO
A STREET SCENE IN COLOMBO
The one pressing need in this place, as in every town in Trinidad, is a church building. The people are all very poor, but they are willing to work; and if they could be encouraged by a little help to secure their own buildings, the funds would soon flow into the treasury in increased tithes and offerings. Do not some of our brethren already comfortably housed, desire to lend something to the Lord, with which to build churches in this island? Means thus expended will bear much fruit in this world, and in the life to come, eternal riches to the investor.
W. G. KNEELAND, G. MATHEWS.