W. JAY TANNER by W. Jay Tanner

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 21, 1907

W. JAY TANNER

By W. Jay Tanner

Hayti

We feel that we have great reason to be thankful for the many blessings we have been permitted to enjoy the past year in Hayti. It has been my privilege to baptize twenty-eight souls during this time. This gives us a net gain of twenty-four for the year. All but two of these were from the Catholic Church. Besides these, there are ten who await baptism. It was our plan to baptize them in December; but stormy weather set in, and made the roads impassable, thus preventing us from traveling.

A week ago I baptized a sister from Santo Domingo. She began keeping the Sabbath over six years ago. During all this time she never had the privilege of seeing an Adventist. As soon as I reached Hayti fifteen months ago, she wrote, asking me to come and baptize her. This I planned to do, but was prevented on account of the recent revolution in that republic. These revolutionary troubles finally made it necessary for her to flee for safety, and as a result, she came to Cape Haytien, where, to her great joy, after six years of waiting, she had the happy privilege of following her Lord in baptism. She will soon return to Santo Domingo, to be a beacon-light for the truth among the people of that as yet unentered country.

The last person to accept the message in Hayti the past year, so far as we know, is a young Wesleyan native pastor, who has been in charge of a church of that denomination not far from here. In the early part of the year this pastor had a report in a religious journal published in Port au Prince, in which he made the remark that “Adventism at the Cape” was “beginning to die out.” Since he wrote that report, several things have combined to lead him to investigate our work and message, with the result that he has determined to keep the Sabbath, be baptized, and have a part in the closing message for these times.