p. 12 | W. JAY TANNER by W. Jay Tanner

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · May 3, 1906

W. JAY TANNER

By W. Jay Tanner

Hayti

CAPE HATIEN.—Since my last report for the REVIEW I have baptized six persons at Grande Riviere, and expect to baptize three more there this week. As others are beginning to obey the Lord at that place, the prospects are that we shall soon have a strong church in Grande Riviere. Our native worker has recently spent some time at Port Margot, a town a few miles up the coast, where heretofore Protestantism had made no entrance. He had to hold his meetings in private houses and in the open air, as in Hayti there are no halls available for such purposes. A well-to-do lady opened her house for this purpose, and large crowds attended, filling the yard and street outside. The priest, hearing of it, sent word to the lady that she, being a Catholic, should not lend her house for Protestant meetings. She answered him rather pertinently: “It is my house, and I shall lend it to whomsoever I please.”

As a result of the small effort at Port Margot, Brother Isaac is able to report two leading men keeping the Sabbath, and the interest is still good. While there, he also heard of a man far in the interior who has been keeping the Sabbath for some time. The man has been considered crazy, but from subsequent correspondence we conclude that the only ground for this claim is that he is keeping the ten commandments. From the outlook in this quarter of the field we feel convinced that the Lord is about to do a “quick work” in the earth, and it is our desire to keep abreast with the Spirit’s movings.