A. J. HAYSMER by A. J. Haysmer

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 14, 1903

A. J. HAYSMER

By A. J. Haysmer

Trinidad

PORT OF SPAIN.—While we are quarantined, we are pushing the work here. Doing all the work by free labor makes it go slow; yet we are getting along pretty well. Our church is twenty-eight by forty-six feet. We have almost completed the depository and printing room, sixteen by twenty-seven feet. This is a good, nearly fire-proof building. We have just moved the books in, but it will take another week to complete it. We are already holding our meetings inside the church, although we have no floor, and walls only a few feet high. We have the roof on. Each week sees the building advance a little. When we get windows and doors in, it will be much better. We dare not go faster than the means comes in.

Our paper, The Caribbean Watchman, is prospering beyond our expectations. We put out three thousand in June, and have had calls for many more. They were sold in a day or two in most places. Barbadoes took five hundred, and has ordered one thousand for July. We are well organized in Trinidad, and have set our mark to three thousand. For the July number we are printing five thousand. We are bound to make it pay its own way. We are now putting on a cover, with a few advertisements. The people like the paper. It is doing the work much good. We must have leaflets now for the agents to use with the worthy poor. We are going to push this as soon as we get our rooms ready, and some other work off our hands. We now have a paper cutter and more type.