JAMES A. MORROW by James A. Morrow

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 24, 1907

JAMES A. MORROW

By James A. Morrow

Bermuda

HAMILTON.—The first of October we moved from the rooms we had occupied since we first came to Bermuda. We now have a six-room cottage. Our people have been urging the matter of a church-school for some time. We have felt very deeply over the situation, and my wife opened a school in one room of our house, six weeks ago. She now has eleven pupils. Ten of these belong to Sabbath-keeping parents. From the beginning we have felt the blessing of God in this work. There are eight or ten more children in the circle of our church, but their parents live nine miles distant. So far we have not been able to make any arrangement whereby they can attend.

Since writing last I have been sick two weeks. Two or three weeks before, I began open-air meetings on Monday nights, in a new place, seven miles from Hamilton. At first the people were very backward, but they have gradually come nearer to us. Two Monday evenings while I was sick, Brother Enoch held a service at this place. Last night about fifty persons were in attendance. The evening was quite chilly, as were also the two preceding Monday nights, but the people sat and listened. The very week I was taken sick I had intended to hold a service every night, it being bright moonlight. Had I been able to do this, I suppose the people would have heard enough so they could have been brought to a deciding point before these chilly nights came. But here we are, in a very trying place. We have been unsuccessful in finding a room in this neighborhood in which we could hold our meetings. Two or three persons have offered their rooms, but they were too small to accommodate the people. We have been thinking that we may have to get a tent. We have been making some inquiries about a room one and one-half miles this side of the point where we have been holding these meetings, but have not received a decided answer. It is a little doubtful whether we could hold the same interest, should we move.

We also have two or three interested families here in Hamilton, and the same number nine miles west, where I have a service every Thursday night.