Porto Rico by B. E. Connerly

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 17, 1907

Porto Rico

By B. E. Connerly

MAYAGUEZ.— We have let the last of the native helpers go, and Brother and Sister Moulton have come to Mayaguez to help us in a series of meetings and to do some canvassing. It really costs us two dollars to sell one dollar's worth of books. This year's work has been principally among the English-speaking people, and they are few, and it costs a great deal to hunt them up here and there, and then return to them to deliver the books. The Spanish people will not buy religious books. But we are sowing the seed. We have sold more than a hundred dollars' worth of books the past year, and one hundred and fifty dollars' worth of tracts. Recently we spent thirty-five dollars to publish some articles on present truth, to answer false accusations that were circulated everywhere against Adventists. As a result of this, three young native ministers have learned about the message. But though acknowledging the truth, they have not taken a stand for it openly. We are not discouraged, but do long to see the work move.

B. E. CONNERLY.