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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 7, 1903

HENRY WILLIAMS

By Henry Williams

Hayti

HENRY WILLIAMS

OUR hearts have been made glad from time to time to read in the REVIEW of the progress of the cause in the world-wide field. I believe the readers of our excellent paper will rejoice with us to know that we are no longer the lone two witnesses in Cape Hayti, but that we are now seven. A mother and four children joined with us about six weeks ago in keeping the Sabbath. This sister is from Kingston, Jamaica, where she has an aunt who is an active member in our Kingston church.

This acceptance of the truth is not a hasty matter; it is the result of years of conviction from reading literature that I had given her. She saw where she was in error, but was not prepared to act out her convictions, even having promised to keep the Sabbath two years ago. Her eldest child is a girl twelve years of age. I think both the mother and daughter will be ready for baptism when one of our ministers visits us. Some Sabbaths ago, as this sister was returning home with her children after our morning service, she was met by the monks, and they asked her to give them her two boys as students in their school; but she answered, “I am a Protestant, and disbelieve in the taking of the sacrament by little ones.” They replied, “Do not be afraid of that; if you do not want them to have it, we will not give it to them. See Mr. — and that other Protestant — their children are at school with us.” As they see the obligation that Protestants are under in not having any Protestant school, they claim the field entirely as their own. Will not some of our workers come over and contend against this wholesale usurpation of the kingdom of the coming King?

Coming to Hayti is not coming among savages, to be killed at any moment. It is true that error and superstition prevail, the result of a century of the rule of priestcraft. But the same traits exist in so-called Christian countries, where priestcraft holds sway. Come over and help us to win souls from the teachings and dominion of the “man of sin” and Protestant unbelief and human tradition.

Cape Haytien.