New Periodicals in the West Indies
By W. A. S.
It is encouraging to note the success that is attending the efforts of our workers in various fields to reach larger masses of the people by periodicals, without laying extra burden upon the Mission treasury. Two new papers are circulating in the West Indies, and no appeal has been made for financial assistance in launching them. At the organization of the two West Indian conferences it was agreed to start the Caribbean Watchman, as a monthly organ.6and the believers pledged themselves to push its sale among the islands. Of the second number Brother George F. Enoch writes from Trinidad:— “We have printed five thousand copies of the July number, and to-day, the first of July, they are all gone, and orders are in hand for more; so you can see that our brethren and sisters have taken hold with a will. We have orders for seven thousand copies of the August number. I can assure you that there is a loyal body of believers in the West Indies who believe that Jesus is coming soon, and we intend to let all the people within our borders know why we believe it. We are more than paying for our cover through advertisements. In fact, we have a credit on our July issue.” This periodical campaign is bound to greatly increase the effectiveness of our work in the islands. The little band of workers in Porto Rico, only three, all told, are issuing a trim little monthly in Spanish, El Centinela de la Verdad (Sentinel of Truth), which they propose to finance in the field. Our missionaries the world over are straining every nerve to press forward this campaign. As the literature is scattered, the cry for more laborers to gather the harvest will ring louder and louder.