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The Training-School in the West Indies

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 1, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 31.

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The Training-School in the West Indies

By J. S. Washburn

THERE are about 3,300 Sabbath-keepers in the West Indian Union Conference. They are scattered through the islands of the Caribbean Sea and those adjacent to British Guiana and Central America. There has never yet been a school established for all this large membership. The public schools in those sections are conducted either by the Church of England or by the Catholic Church, so that our youth are compelled to attend schools conducted by other denominations. Surely, if such conditions prevailed in the United States, we should feel the great importance of our own schools more than ever before.
Elder George F. Enoch has been able to raise something toward this school, and yet not sufficient for its needs. Sixty-five acres on the island of Jamaica have been purchased, about twenty miles from Kingston. The soil is fertile, the land has a good elevation, and it is believed that much help in a financial way can be obtained by carefully tilling the soil. No buildings have been erected on the school site as yet.
The $4,000 appropriated for this school and the publishing house in Port of Spain, Trinidad, is certainly a missionary offering, and it is a small amount in comparison with the necessities of the work in this needy field. We believe our people will be gladly liberal.
The publishing house in Port of Spain is a small cement building about sixteen by forty-five feet and twelve feet high. It is ventilated on only one side. The roof is partly of galvanized iron, and is subject to the scorching rays of the tropical sun. This place is only ten degrees north of the equator. The city is surrounded by mountains, so there is but little breeze, and the employees in this office are exposed to the intense heat.
By means of this donation from the $150,000 fund, the brethren will be able to buy a lot on one side of this building, and thus open up the printing-office for ventilation. Surely our brethren and sisters will not consider this extravagant.
J. S. WASHBURN.