p. 18 | W. G. KNEELAND by W. G. Kneeland

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 3, 1902

W. G. KNEELAND

By W. G. Kneeland

Trinidad

We are very busy now in tent work at Princess Town. Our attendance has been from thirty to two hundred, with good order and fair attention. Last year the tent was repeatedly stoned, and ropes were cut, but nothing of that kind has occurred this year, and two are already keeping the Sabbath, although nothing has been said publicly about it. We have sold about three dollars’ worth of tracts and small books. Of course we meet some opposition, but we believe that a good work will be done in spite of difficulties. If we could only begin a church building here, it would do much to break the prejudice in the minds of the people as to our stability as a denomination. Many other missionaries have gone through the island and gathered a large following, and left them to go down, and having no building, we are always classed with those missionaries. Good results are being seen in many places from the work of the canvassers.

There are two places in the island where several Sabbath keepers are reported, with strong calls for help, but I cannot visit these places for some time. Brother Enoch is also very busy. The brethren at Port of Spain are doing nobly in raising money for a church. We are trying to get the buildings far enough along so that we can use them for the convention in June, and thus strengthen the work in those new places, and raise the means necessary to complete the buildings. We hope to hold the two missionary and Sabbath-school conventions in different parts of the island, to educate our people in better methods. We will make the sale of “Christ’s Object Lessons” a prominent part of the work at the convention.

We are now at Princess Town with the tent, and have a fair hearing. There seems to be an interest among the East Indians.