p. 19 | E. W. SNYDER by E. W. Snyder

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

E. W. SNYDER

By E. W. Snyder

Cuba

MARIANAO.—The need of a laborer for eastern Cuba, which lies about five hundred miles from us, has lately been emphasized by a letter received from Brother W. J. Wilson, in which he says: “Our Sabbath-school is getting along very well. There are three new Sabbath-keepers who desire baptism as soon as convenient. A Baptist minister and his wife have just begun to keep the Sabbath. We had our first social meeting last Sabbath, nine bearing testimony. We spoke of having a church organized, and all consented.”

In addition to the above, other calls are coming in, and I am sorry that to all of these I must answer that it is absolutely impossible for me to respond, owing to the interests of the Spanish work in this section of the field. Unless plans are laid to help us with laborers from the States, the work must lag in these Spanish fields.

With all my meetings, Bible work, and visiting, I am finding it hard to keep up with my correspondence and office work. However, we are cheered by the fact that the seeds of truth are taking root. Last Sabbath, May 18, two Cuban brethren went forward in baptism, and other Cubans are asking for the rite. Nine are keeping the Sabbath, all being white but one.

We are glad to be here. And, although the natives have their faults, yet their love for the truth, their liberality in paying tithes and offerings, and their general readiness to accept all points of truth, tend to bind us to them.