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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 14, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 41.

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Bermuda

By MARSHALL ENOCH

HAMILTON.—The last two Sabbaths have been precious seasons with us; for the good Spirit of the Lord came very near. The Sabbath-school lessons are appreciated. We do all we can to get out of them the design of the author of the lessons, and they have been a real help to us. After Sabbath school we usually have one of Sister White’s articles read. Every heart was touched yesterday as I read her letter to the brethren at Nashville; for this field is much like that, as the color line is nearly as marked here as there.
The Spirit is very near us here. I almost wonder sometimes if Jesus is just as precious in Michigan as he is in Bermuda; if he is, I cannot see why any one should hesitate to come here and labor for this people. As I write, I feel to say, as I have often heard Sister White say, “I love him! I love him! I love him!”
As I read of Elder Munson alone in Sumatra, with a population of three million souls in heathen darkness, I felt that I would withdraw my plea for Bermuda, and let the Lord take his own time for sending help here. Still, it does seem to be an important field, as it is near the United States, and thousands from America come here to spend the mild winters. Bermuda is also in a direct line between Halifax and Nova Scotia and the West Indies, and is situated about half way between the two places. There is a good fortnightly steamship service between the last two places mentioned.
Bermuda would be an excellent place for a sanitarium, with its semitropical summers and its mild winters, where frost is never known, and where the air is as pure as on the broad ocean. It is only a small spot on the great Atlantic. If the main islands were put together, with the ends touching one another, the total length would be only about thirty miles, and the breadth about three miles at the widest place.
An excellent way to open work here, would be for some of our worthy brethren to move here with their families, and settle in different parts of Bermuda. They could rent a farm, or garden, as it is called in the United States, and thus support themselves. One thing is sure: who ever comes must come trusting God. His life must be a life of faith. If the Lord could raise up children from stones if necessary, he could just as easily make bread from stones for those who trust in him. So no one need fear, as far as a living is concerned. I would be glad to correspond with any one who may desire to come. MARSHALL ENOCH.