The West Indian Training-School by I. H. Evans

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 21, 1907

The West Indian Training-School

By I. H. Evans

FOUR thousand dollars of the $150,000 fund was appropriated to the West Indian Union Conference, for its school work in Jamaica and the publishing house in Port of Spain, Trinidad. The school committee has purchased about sixty-five acres on the island of Jamaica, about twenty miles from Kingston. The land has a good elevation, with fertile soil, which the brethren believe will be very helpful in a financial way to the maintenance of the school in that island. No buildings have been erected on this school site as yet. It is expected that work will be begun immediately.

Elder George F. Enoch and Brother S. A. Wellman have been raising money in the States to assist in carrying forward this enterprise in the West Indian field. Many of our brethren have given liberally. The plan of the school building has not been perfected as yet.

There is a constituency in this West Indian Union Conference of about thirty-three hundred Sabbath-keepers. They are scattered throughout the various islands adjacent to the Caribbean Sea, British Guiana, and Central America. For all these Sabbath-keepers, there has never yet been a school established. Most of the public schools in the territory of this union conference are conducted either by the Anglican or Catholic Church, so that our youth are compelled to attend schools under the control of other denominations. It is not for the best interest of the students that they attend our schools in the States. Conditions here are such that they receive a wrong idea of life, and are loath to return to their native home land, to undergo inconveniences and hardships through which they have to pass.

VIEW ON THE WEST INDIAN SCHOOL FARM, JAMAICA

We believe this school will be one of the greatest blessings that has ever come to the West Indian field.

I. H. EVANS.