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

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 22.

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British Guiana

By W. T. Downer

QUEENSTOWN, ESSEQUIBO.—I have much for which to be thankful. As I returned to my field of labor this year, I found the opposing stream of unbelief against the Sabbath of the Lord much abated. The people are reading the Bible with more attention and prayer than they ever did before.
At Danielstown our Portuguese friend who has accepted the truth, closes his shop on the Sabbath and attends worship. One of the schoolmasters in that village is also convinced, and is much interested. Many others are studying the truth. The one great difficulty is to find a suitable place in which to worship.
In Queenstown the small company is growing. Eight persons were baptized recently, and three are waiting now to follow our Lord’s example.
Leguan has the leading company on the Essequibo district. The people are poor. There is not much land for cultivation, and this is their chief means of a livelihood. The struggle is hard, but notwithstanding this, there is much cause for rejoicing. One candidate there awaits baptism. This field is beset with many inconveniences. But before the joy of seeing souls accept the truth all inconveniences sink into nothing.
W. T. DOWNER.