Experiences in Georgia by Arthur W. Bartlett

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 5, 1908

Experiences in Georgia

By Arthur W. Bartlett

SINCE our last report there have been some interesting developments in Brunswick, especially among the colored ministers, before whom we are trying to present the truth. A large and flourishing normal school for colored students is located here, and we have proposed to the principal and the leading colored ministers of Brunswick that a Bible institute be organized as a department of instruction belonging to, and controlled by, the normal school. We expect to be permitted to teach the Word in this institute when permanently organized, and thereby get the truth before hundreds of the colored people here.

We are laboring with a family of white people here, the head of which is a Greek storekeeper and proprietor, who has been honored by the United States government for bravery while serving as an officer on the ship “Constitution.” This man has readily received the truth, and longs to sell his store and building, and obey God's Word.

We are slowly developing our sanitarium on St. Simon's Island. We are planning to raise the building six feet, and put in a lower story. We desire to make widely known the sole purpose for which we are establishing this sanitarium. It is to be strictly a Seventh-day Adventist institution, and all the net profits accruing are to be devoted to the establishment and support of mission schools and treatment-rooms among the colored people of southern Georgia.

We have received several letters from Seventh-day Adventist farmers, inquiring about St. Simon's Island. Briefly we would state that the island is about ten miles long by seven miles wide, and contains thousands of acres of uncultivated, well-timbered, rich, black loam soil that will produce two bountiful crops a year. Oranges grow well, but are not much cultivated. Poultry can be raised at a good profit. This land can be bought for from five dollars to twenty dollars an acre, and can be leased in any amount for two dollars an acre. Artesian wells are to be had in abundance for the digging, and will afford irrigation if needed. Fuel is cheap, and can be obtained for the hauling. The climate is unexcelled for mildness in the winter, and is refreshing in the summer.

All those whose principal motive is to save souls, and whom the love of Christ constrains to work for the colored people of the South, along medical as well as gospel lines, are cordially invited to come to St. Simon's Island, and join us in our work. My address is 2200 Ellis St., Brunswick, Ga.

ARTHUR W. BARTLETT.