E. W. SNYDER by E. W. Snyder

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Jan 2, 1913

E. W. SNYDER

By E. W. Snyder

From Cuba to Southern California

August 13 my wife and I sailed from Havana to return to the States in order to recuperate our health, which was much run down from a residence of nearly seven years in the tropics and about twenty years in Spanish mission fields. It was with regret that we left our Cuban believers, to whom we were bound by the ties of this message.

We have now spent three months in visiting our friends, some of whom we had not seen for many years; and we are glad to say that we both feel much rested, and are looking forward with hope and good cheer to our work among the Mexicans in our new field, Southern California.

It has been truthfully said that the best assurance of the success of the third angel's message in a new field is its reception in the hearts of the people. Of this our Cuban believers have given evidence. In January, 1911, a colporteurs' society was organized in the Havana church, which held regular weekly meetings. During the year from four hundred to seven hundred copies of our Spanish papers were sold in the city, and by this means the workers found interested families, some of whom invited us to hold cottage meetings in their homes. Through this method of work, with the Lord's blessing, the church was built up, and we were glad to leave a company of about forty members, who by their tithes and offerings have nearly supported the Cuban laborers who assisted us.

Outside of Havana and its vicinity the message has witnesses in Cabanas, Pinar del Rio Province, where Brother and Sister S. H. Carnahan are laboring efficiently in the school work; also at Minas, Camaguey Province, where there is a company of about a dozen Cubans obedient to the truth. The light here had been kindled by Brethren Holmes and Franz, who are working under the auspices of the Madison (Tenn.) school. A good beginning in self-supporting school work has also been made by Brother and Sister J. C. Anderson, of Las Tunas, Oriente Province.

With a church organized for work in Havana, a school work established in three provinces, and a corps of American colporteurs whose orders amounted to over $1,600 in June, we believe that the work of God in this needy field will be ever onward.

We are now on our journey to Southern California, and would ask the prayers of all of like precious faith in behalf of our work for the Mexican people of that field.