On the Isthmus by H. C. Goodrich

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 31, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, Nos. 43, 44.

On the Isthmus

By H. C. Goodrich

WE have here swarms of peoples and tongues, gathered from all parts of the world. In the Canal Zone the Chinese fill our shops, and work our gardens. Turbaned Arabians drive our carts. Greeks, Syrians, and East Indians sell marvelous cloths and laces from house to house. In Panama Spaniards are the police, and fill government offices. Germans, English, and French fill the better business places, while Americans are prominent in places of trust along the canal. And everywhere, in every place where man can serve his fellow man, is the Negro.

Such a field presents opportunity everywhere for the earnest Gospel worker. During the past year our Christian colporters have sold $17,519 worth of books and periodicals, the larger portion being in the English language. And many of these publications have been sent by purchasers to their friends in the many islands of the Caribbean Sea. Thus the influence of work done here reaches out through all the West Indies.

H. C. GOODRICH.

Cristobal, Canal Zone.