Barbados by W. A. Sweany

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 25, 1902

Barbados

By W. A. Sweany

BRIDGETOWN.—God is abundantly blessing every phase of the work here. The entire church was greatly blessed during the week of prayer. And the work that began then is growing deeper all the time. We are seeing some practical results from our school work. The enrollment is now thirty, the average attendance twenty-five. We need more books, but cannot afford to pay for them now. Is there no way that a school that is promising and accomplishing such good results, can be supplied with absolute necessities? We have now gone even beyond the limit of our means, and so must do the best we can, and wait for God to send us help. Five of the students were baptized at the last quarterly meeting, and under the influence of the Holy Spirit, all are growing in the knowledge of the truth.

Fifty copies of the Signs of the Times were not enough to supply the church, as nearly every one, including the children, is engaged in the work of selling them. So we have increased our club to one hundred. Our companies in the country are also using twenty, besides these. Our canvassers are prospering. They are selling a large number of books, although Barbados has been canvassed over and over again, and the young men who have entered the work are among those who have recently been baptized. We are of good courage, and hard at work. W. A. SWEANY.