p. 18 | Sav-la-Mar Work in Jamaica Progresses Slowly

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

Sav-la-Mar Work in Jamaica Progresses Slowly

By I. B. Beckner; A. G. Peart

Jamaica

SAV-LA-MAR.— After three months of work in the tent here, we have taken it down, and have rented a hall in the same locality. We hold Sabbath meetings, also two preaching services each week. We have meetings at Smithfield, two miles from here, three evenings of the week. The people move slowly. We had expected to baptize a number ere this, but they are not yet quite ready. We still find others who believe, but they have not the courage to break away from the old chains that bind them. We praise the Lord that there are even a few who will not let business interests, family or church relations, hinder them from obeying. The Sabbath is the market day of the week, so to miss that day would be to deprive them almost entirely of selling or buying.

We shall not erect a church building here at the present time, as we are now trying to complete several new church buildings in this part of the island. When it is remembered that this is all hand labor, it will be seen that church buildings go up slowly.

We are glad to report that some “lively stones” are being built into the Lord’s temple. Remember the work here in your prayers.

I. B. BECKNER, A. G. PEART.