A FEW days ago there appeared in the Tribune an article signed J. L. Naughton, in which it was stated that the writer heard a professor of chemistry in a medical college say that the reason hens do not lay in winter is because of the lack in their food of albumen, from which to elaborate material for the formation of the yolks of the eggs.
The writer then states that “powdered red albumen,” mixed with an equal quantity of black or red pepper, will stimulate egg production wonderfully, and gives as an example his brother’s success from feeding it.
If albumen is needed to feed hens, it is not needed for furnishing yolk material, because the yolks of eggs are largely fat and mineral salts, of which albumen forms no part.
Laying hens no doubt need a comparatively large proportion of albumen in their food, from which to supply the material for the white of the eggs they produce, these being almost pure albumen. This supply of albumen may be cheaply secured in the form of dried blood, which sells at two cents a pound at retail. This dried blood is fifty per cent albumen, and is sold in the form of a red powder, which suggests that this may be the “powdered red albumen” referred to.
Whatever this article may be, the mischievous part of the advice given in the article is the use of pepper. Careful experiments have shown that while feeding pepper regularly will greatly stimulate egg production, it will just as certainly react and ruin the hens.
The writer has made poultry a special study for twenty years, and during that time has made many and costly experiments, among the most costly being the feeding of pepper.
May I be permitted to add that the best way to promote egg production in winter is to feed wholesome foods, such as corn, wheat, oats, mill stuffs, vegetables, and animal foods in the form of dried beef scraps, dried blood, or freshly cut green bone. Meat food in some form and vegetable food are necessary to best results. Besides these, a warm shelter, plenty of light, pure water, and an opportunity to get exercise are also needed. Any of the foods, except the green bone, may be bought at any of the big stores and at most groceries. The beef scraps or dried blood are perfect substitutes for the bone. Some kind of grit for grinding the food in the gizzard should also be within reach of the fowls. Poultry breeders should not feed pepper in any form.
Nuts as Nutritious Foods
SUCH nuts as walnuts, filberts, almonds, and pecans are valuable and highly nutritious foods, containing, pound for pound, almost three times as much nourishment as raw meat. If thoroughly masticated and eaten as a food, not after a full meal, they are readily digested by an average stomach. The almond is a particularly valuable nut, its composition being almost identical with that of milk. Almond meal has for many years been used by diabetic patients. The peanut is not a true nut, but a tuber. Unlike other nuts it requires cooking, as it contains considerable starch.—Selected.
LOYALTY
By L. A. S.
True loyalty is loyalty to right principles. Loyalty to God is loyalty to the principles of His government. To claim loyalty to God as a person, while repudiating any of the rules of right which He has set up, is fatally inconsistent. No transgressor of the divine law, however much he may have said, “Lord, Lord,” and taught and done “wonderful works” in His name, will be accepted at the court of heaven in the day of final account.
God did not ask the inhabitants of heaven to be loyal merely to himself; but there was a law which was followed by all in heaven—certain principles of right upon which the government of heaven was based; and God required that the beings He had created should be loyal to these principles.
There came a time when these principles were called in question among the inhabitants of heaven, and they were called to choose between loyalty to those principles, and loyalty to something else. They were called to choose between adherence to the principles of the divine government, and adherence to a person. A large number chose to adhere to the person who led them out in opposition to God’s government, and, in so doing, made a fatal and eternal mistake.
The Creator did not ask that the inhabitants of heaven should choose between Lucifer and himself, as a mere question of which one they preferred as their sovereign. This of course was involved in the controversy, but this was not the immediate and only issue to which the heavenly intelligences were brought by Lucifer’s rebellion. Had it been so, the controversy might have been settled at once; for the Omnipotent, as soon as all had made their choice between Lucifer and himself, might have destroyed the rebel host, and so ended the whole matter without any prejudice to His future government, since there would have been no further issue to be settled. But the Omnipotent did not do this. He left Lucifer and his rebel host free to carry on their rebellion to the extent of the power which they could command.
The Creator did not ask the inhabitants of heaven merely to accept Him in preference to Lucifer. He asked them to be loyal to the principles of righteousness set forth in the divine law. Nor did He ask them to accept these principles as righteous simply because He said so. They were to accept them of their own free choice; and further than that, the righteousness of these principles was to be demonstrated before them all, and before all the universe, by being worked out, in contrast with the working of Satan, through six thousand years of human history. Then, at the final day of judgment, which in His omniscience He had appointed, all intelligences would see and acknowledge that God’s law is just, and that He himself conforms to the principles which He had set before His creatures as the rule of right.
Satan represented God as an arbitrary being, having a law for others, but himself conforming to no law, and requiring of all others arbitrary obedience to himself. But God so ordered events that it will be demonstrated in the judgment day that Satan was the one who sought adherence simply to himself, while God asked adherence to principles, to all of which He himself conforms perfectly.
The great controversy which began in heaven is now going forward in the earth, and men talk much about “loyalty,” but the “loyalty” that is seen and advocated is mostly adherence to persons or to institutions. About loyalty to principles very little is heard. But there can be no true loyalty apart from this. “Loyalty” to persons or to institutions has often meant disloyalty to the right, and has led myriads away from God into outer and eternal darkness. We should realize now that loyalty to right principles is the only loyalty that will count in the end.
By being loyal to the right, we are loyal both to God and to our fellow men. As Shakespeare has said,—
“To thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou can’st not then be false to any man.”
Be loyal to the eternal principles of justice and truth; then you will be true to your own best interests, to your fellow men, and to God.
This is a matter of the greatest practical importance at this time. “Now, when we are on the borders of the eternal world, what can be of so much value to us as to be found loyal and true to the God of heaven?”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. VI. Not only is it important from a Christian standpoint, but the world is more and more demanding allegiance to its time-honored institutions and its kings and rulers, which can be rendered, very often, only at the sacrifice of allegiance to the right. Persons and institutions change, but the principles of righteousness are unchanging. We must not change our loyalty to the right for the sake of allegiance to anything else. We must not lose sight of right principles for the sake of being counted with the majority who may be looking to human leaders and to worldly interests, rather than to God. We must not lose sight of the fact, to which we are pointed by prophecy, that ere long loyalty to God will be counted disloyalty to the governments of this world; for in the prophecy of Revelation we find it written that at the final day, when He who appeared to His beloved apostle in the isle of Patmos shall appear in the glory of His second coming, the “Beast,” and “the kings of the earth, and their armies,” will be “gathered together to make war against Him that sat on the horse, and against His army.” Rev. 19:19. The “kings of the earth” profess Christianity; nevertheless it will be necessary for the followers of Christ to be counted as disloyal to the governments of men if they would be on the side of Jesus at His second coming.
We must look beyond men, beyond institutions, beyond governments even, to the foundation principles of righteousness which underlie the very throne of God. To them we must give our allegiance, once for all time. And only by being loyal to God can we be truly loyal to our fellow men.
L. A. S.
In the Question Chair.
[Designed for the consideration of such questions as will be of interest and profit to the general reader. All correspondents should give their names and correct post-office address, that queries not replied to here may be answered by mail.]
843.—THIS GENERATION.
I wish a little information on the expression “this generation,” as found in Matt. 24:34, and other places. What is it, from the Bible standpoint? The Standard Dictionary makes it out to be a “natural lifetime;” that is, about the third of a century. Different articles in recent issues of the REVIEW express the view that the Third Angel’s Message, which has now been in progress fifty-seven years, will be carried to the world, and the work will be done, and Christ will come, in “this generation.” There are a number of generations living on the earth contemporaneously at the present time, as there have been at every other time. Which one is meant in the articles referred to? Does it begin with those who witnessed the occurrence of the latest event mentioned as one of the latter-day signs; namely, the falling of the stars in 1833? Shall we say that that is the generation, including all that had entered upon the plane of life at that time? Was that the one that shall not pass till all these things be fulfilled? Are we to expect that ere all these persons pass out of life, all the things mentioned shall be accomplished, the world be warned, that is the kingdom of God be established, and the overcomers be crowned with life in the kingdom of God? Please give us some light on this.
G. W., De Leon Springs, Fla.
Ans.—This is a very important question, and with any possible application, the question is rapidly narrowing down to a very limited area. But we imagine there may be a little leeway yet, though no time to lose.
Let us survey the ground again. Our Lord speaks of the great tribulation that was to follow the great falling away in the Church, and press so heavily upon His people that it was necessary that the time of its duration should be shortened, in order that any flesh might be saved. Matt. 24:22. Then false Christs and false prophets were to arise, and if possible, deceive the very elect. Then confusing views and voices were to break forth upon the world in reference to the coming of Christ. Then the Lord throws out a warning in regard to the manner of His return: as the lightning cometh out of the east, and flashes with a vivid light even over the whole heaven, so shall the coming of the Son of man be. Then He alludes to the suddenness of His coming, and the separation that will take place in the midst of the closest associations. Two shall be in the field, two grinding together, and Luke (17:34) says two shall be in one bed,—one shall be seized and the other escape. Christ illustrates the agencies by which this shall be done, by eagles and carcasses. Matt. 24:28. The eagles are the plagues, which seize upon the wicked like vultures upon a dead body, when the day of vengeance comes. While those who have passed the examination of the investigative judgment, and been counted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass (Luke 20:35), shall obtain the world to come and the resurrection from the dead, and escape the plagues by which the others are seized and destroyed. Then follows a mention of the unexplainable phenomena of the darkening of the sun and moon, and the great star shower, when all the luminaries above seemed to have unmoored from their position in the heavens, the shaking of the powers of the heaven, the wailing of the startled and unprepared tribes of the earth, and the coming of Christ in the clouds with power and great glory.
By the parable of the fig tree the whole subject is then clinched. “So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it [“he,” margin] is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.” Matt. 24:28-38. “Generation” cannot here be used in a general or indefinite sense; for it is restricted by the adjective “this.” By “passing” must be meant passing off the stage of action before all the events referred to shall be accomplished.
How much is included?—All that is given as a warning, and to prepare men for the event of Christ’s appearing. All that would be so near to that event that it would allow no time after it to prepare for Christ’s coming would be excluded from “these things,” the seeing of which would make us know that He was near, even unto the door. They would not therefore include the appearance of Christ himself, nor, probably, the shaking of the powers of heaven, but would take in the things referred to in Luke 21:28, even the beginning of which should lead us to look up and lift up our heads, knowing that our “redemption draweth nigh.” The “generation” would therefore take in all those whose life dated from the last sign, the falling of the stars in 1833, and cover the time between that and the coming of Christ. But the number of those whose life began as far back as that, is fast wearing away. In 1903 the number of all such will be dwindled down to those aged threescore and ten. But there are a few left still more aged than this. We have an Adventist brother in Memphis, Mich., Father Gifford, a recent photograph of whom we hope to give soon in the REVIEW, whose age is one hundred and three. There are many younger, still in good health. So the “generation” has not yet expired. Take the case of the writer of these words: born May 2, 1832, he would come within the “generation.” Yet817not till May 2, 1902, will he reach the Scriptural limit of life, threescore and ten. And he is not aware of any limitations which would prevent his living on, if time should continue thirty years more, till he completes a century. The point we wish to make is this: that we belong to “this generation;” and the generation has not passed so long as we abide in the flesh. How soon our life may be brought to a limit, of course we know not; but the generation has not passed so long as we are here, nor so long as any one is living whose birth was as early as Nov. 13, 1833. We have all confidence and expectation that the end will come before thirty years from next May shall end. Our correspondent expresses a doubt whether the generation has not already passed; but he will see, according to the calculation we have adopted, that it has not ended yet. Still, if the world is to be warned before this generation is gone, we can see that there must be rapid and efficient work. Whatever we are to do must be done at once. The prophecy will not fail, but we may fail, and the work go on without us.
Editorial Notes.
EARNESTNESS is the eloquence of prayer.
It doesn’t take a very big sin to shut away a very great blessing.
If you will furnish the consecration, God will furnish the rest.
HAPPINESS is found not in the position of a lord, but in that of a servant.
Our work is not negative, but positive; not destructive, but reformative.
If you hate sin as much as you ought, you will not have any hatred left for your fellow beings.
That “self is nothing,” does not mean that one should not have any self-respect.
You cannot teach the people present truth without presenting to them a present Saviour.
WHEN you shut your eyes to new truth, you shut out the light of the truth you already have.
CHRISTIANITY never paints her brightest picture behind the pilgrim, but always before him.
THE tongue is the rudder of the soul. If you can control that, you can steer a straight course Zionward.
Don’t count on being introduced to the Lord after you get to heaven. None but those who first know the Lord will see that country.
If you do not give anything to the Lord, do not be surprised if He does not give very much to you. Most of us have as much wealth as we can safely be trusted with.
ARE you following Jesus Christ, or are you merely following some one who claims to be following Christ? If you do not see Jesus himself, how can you be sure that you are following Him?
You are to “let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works;” hence without some good works to be revealed, it will be useless for you to try to enlighten others.
THE more you try to make yourself happy, the more you will succeed in making yourself unhappy. To be truly happy you must learn to forget yourself; and to forget self it is only necessary to be fully occupied in seeking the welfare of others.
THE money that is paid into the Lord’s treasury here, is invested in an inheritance “incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.” But no inheritance is reserved for such as prefer to invest their means in this present world.
THE normal occupation of created beings is praising God.
“THOU shalt not covet” is a command that is broken by coveting power as much as by coveting wealth or “anything that is thy neighbor’s.” The only coveting that is authorized by God’s word is the coveting of the “best gifts.” I Cor. 12:31.
SOME people justify themselves for not seeing truths that are plain to others, by saying, “I have tried to believe these things, and have tried to force myself to see them; but it was impossible.” And because they have been so honest about it, they per-
SOME MISSIONARY PROBLEMS.
By L. A. S.
Here are a few mission problems which may be taken in at a glance.
LITERATURE IN ALL LANGUAGES.
A firm of soap makers some time ago spent one hundred thousand dollars in filling the world with the picture of a boy blowing soap bubbles. They doubtless considered it money well spent. Advertisers often spend one hundred thousand dollars or double that per year in bringing some article before the public.
We ought to be advertising the greatest thing in the world—this precious message—in all the printed languages of the earth. The leaflets should be falling, literally, “like the leaves of autumn,” in more than a hundred languages as yet untouched by us. A thousand dollars spent thus in each of a hundred languages would bring the message this year before many hundreds of millions. This alone would take all of the one hundred thousand dollars called for this Week of Prayer. We cannot do that, for all branches of the work must be helped forward by the offerings made.
But our workers should have the means to publish the leaflets by the million in territory already entered. In most of the populous lands printing is cheap. For five dollars, for example, five thousand four-page leaflets may be sent flying among the people in the East, every one preaching a message that arouses the interest of the reader. Sometimes a whole village will gather round to hear a leaflet read and re-read. Shall we say to our comrades at the front that we will supply the means while they scatter the literature throughout the fields within reach?
QUESTIONS FOR ALL THE PEOPLE TO ANSWER.
Here is a sample of the very practical questions that come continually from the fields. A fresh attempt … persuade themselves that the things their brethren are trying to point out to them must be errors, and that those believing them must be in the wrong. But does this conclusion necessarily follow?—Hardly. What one can see depends largely on the position he is in. However honest you may be, you cannot see the truth unless you are walking in the light. Be sure that you are in the right position before you assure yourself that what others claim to see must be error. And remember that you cannot expect to see advanced truth unless you are yourself advancing. Truth does not come to you while you stand still, but you must come to the truth.
L. A. S.
Mission Board Office: Missionaries Sent Abroad and Children's Meetings
FROM MISSION BOARD OFFICE.
From many lands and many tongues prayers will ascend to God during the Week of Prayer.
Heaven hears also the cry that continually comes up from hearts that as yet know nothing of our special season—hearts that long for deliverance from sin. Our prayers and theirs will blend before the throne, and somehow God’s Spirit will help us to seek out the waiting ones.
Off to the Front.—Since the General Conference, last April, one hundred and four missionaries have left for other lands. This number includes the wives of missionaries, though not the children. We want the children, however, in the mission fields. Every one, little or big, is a factor in the work. There are few fields in which a well-ordered home, presided over by a motherly heart, is not the best possible missionary influence.
To the Whole World.—Over a hundred workers sent out, and others very soon to follow—this means that the message is being carried to the world. Almost every week, during the past season, some818one has been taking ship for other lands. Let us keep it up during the year to come. Set the leaven of truth working in every nation, and very quickly the Spirit of God may cause the whole mass to be leavened.
Children’s Meetings.—Don’t forget the children, but plan for some special help to be given them during the meetings. The children are quickest to catch the missionary spirit. They will help both at home and abroad. The other day seven dollars came in for missions from a children’s missionary service in Honey Creek, Ind. That was a very practical children’s meeting.
Glad to Go Back.—Sister Georgia Burrus, who has been spending the summer in this country, has just left for India, glad at the thought of getting back among the women of the East. “I am going back,” she writes, “full of courage and hope, believing we shall see much of the blessing of the Lord in our work.” At the South Lancaster Eastern Union Conference meeting, at which Sister Burrus was in attendance a few days, she presented the idea of circulating the leaflets, telling some of her experiences. Hearts were touched, and all felt that the only proper thing was a collection for the leaflet work. So, in about ten minutes, about one hundred and seventy dollars was donated for scattering leaflets among the villages of Bengal.
Further Helpers.—Two other workers sailed with Sister Burrus. Sister Grace Kellogg, of Wisconsin, goes at her own charges to work for India, where she has long felt the Lord would have her work. Sister Anna Orr, a Kansas Bible worker, goes also. The women of the Southwestern Union Conference hope to support Sister Orr, as their special contribution toward bringing the light of life into the secluded homes of their Indian sisters.
Missionary Stock.—A brother and sister in Oregon send in sixty-five dollars for missions, most of which, they say, comes from the sale of four missionary calves. By this means the message will be preached in a number of distant lands. This is in truth letting “the field be joyful, and all that is therein, . . . for He cometh, for He cometh to judge the earth.”
His Mite.—One little lad sends in fifteen cents for missions, earned by himself. He says it is his mite, and our little friend spells it “might.” It is not a bad mistake. He worked with all his might to get it, and it is all he has. If everybody will work in the same spirit, there will be such an annual offering as will make Heaven rejoice, because it will be an evidence that this people mean to put all their might and mind into finishing this work of witnessing to the world.
They Come Before the Throne.—Don’t forget that a sincere prayer to God is a very real thing. Every petition comes up before the throne, mingled with the incense, which is the merits and intercession of Christ Jesus. John, in Revelation 8, saw the prayers of all saints coming up thus before God. There are not enough evil angels in the world to shut down one petition. It will wing its way straight to God. And by prayer hearts are converted, and God’s truth goes forward. May the Week of Prayer but lead more fully into a life of prayer.
AMIDST WAR'S ALARMS THE PEOPLE GIVE EAR
By W. A. Spicer
An attack is being made upon the great French-Latin field of Europe, with its five populous nations, and its fringe of African territory across the Mediterranean. Professor Wilkinson writes:—
“We have five young people to train and put in the field, and we are prepared in everything but the financial support. That we need in order to push ahead. Spain and Italy are open, and we have the talent, but lack the means. What has the Mission Board decided for this poor Catholic field? You cannot tell with how much anxiety I am waiting for news from you to know how much you have decided to help us.”
They want just now the means to hold a three months' training-school for workers to go out among these unevangelized masses. Shall they have the money?—They must have it.
AMIDST WAR'S ALARMS THE PEOPLE GIVE EAR.
South Africa reports an awakening interest in its war-swept territory, and is anxious for further workers to enter as soon as the war is over. They want several lady Bible workers at once for Natal. Colombia, South America, has been in the throes of revolution, which now and then involved the district in which Elder Hutchins and his wife have been laboring. They must have assistance. They write:—
“At the present time we have a good interest here in Bocas, and are much in need of some one to help in the work at Sharkshole, ten miles down the lagoon, where we have been holding a few meetings. We had an excellent service last Sunday. The Spirit of the Lord seemed to be working upon every heart, and all in the house, except one, arose, expressing a desire to live a better life. Some wept aloud while standing. Pray for us and the work here. Send us help as soon as you can.”
FIGHTING UNHEALTHFUL CLIMATES.
In many parts our workers have to fight debilitating climates as they work. Elder D. C. Babcock, writing from British Guiana,—where his own wife sleeps in Jesus,—calls attention to one subject for prayer. He says:—
“How fast our laborers are falling! It seems to me if ever there was a time when our workers in distant lands needed to be careful, and needed the prayers of God's people, it is now. People are dying very fast in this country; and if it were not for immigration, the country would soon become almost depopulated. I thank God for the promises of His word for this trying time. I am sure it is but a short time until the Lord will come, from what I see among our own people.”
How much there is to pray for and to work for at this time! W. A. SPICER.
যীশু খ্রীষ্টের দ্বিতীয় আগমনের লক্ষণ।
পৃথিবীর সৃষ্টি হইবার পূর্ব্বে ঈশ্বরের প্রিয় পুত্র যীশু খ্রীষ্ট তাঁহার পিতার সহিত এক এবং তাঁহার গৌরবের ভাগী ছিলেন। তাঁহার দ্বারা সকল বস্তুর সৃষ্টি হইয়াছিল, কারণ পিতার সহিত মিলিয়া সকল কার্য্য করেন। ঈশ্বর বলিলেন, “আমরা আপনাদের প্রতিমূর্তিতে ও আপনাদের সাদৃশ্যে মনুষ্য নির্মাণ করি; তাহারা সকল প্রাণীর উপর কর্তৃত্ব করিবে।” আদি ১; ২৬।
THE LESSER ANTILLES MISSION FIELD.
By E. Van Deusen
While the pen cannot give so correct an idea as the eye, yet it may help to form some idea of the situation. The following are some of the islands of the Lesser Antilles group (see a map): Grenada, St. Vincent, Barbadoes, St. Lucia, Martinique, Dominique, Guadaloupe, Monserrat, Antigua, St. Kitts, and Nevis, St. Croix, and St. Thomas, and quite as many more of smaller dimensions, belonging as dependencies to the larger ones. These islands are now held by England, France, and Denmark.
From thirty to two hundred years ago these were great sugar-producing islands. In this industry, however, there has been a great decline, which has been brought on by the price of sugar going down. Years ago, sugar brought as high as two hundred dollars per twenty-two hundred pounds; now, it brings less than forty dollars. The products of Grenada are coffee, cocoa, and fruit. St. Vincent Island was once sugar-producing; now, the product is arrowroot, which is made into starch. Once, it brought from ten to sixteen cents a pound; now, it is one cent a pound. St. Thomas was once a flourishing sugar-producing island. Now it is covered with brush, and nothing is exported but a limited quantity of bay rum.
When we say that the poor are very poor, we make a statement which is better understood by being here, and seeing what that term means. We wish now to give you the state of some of these isles, from the standpoint of the message. I will take them in the order heretofore mentioned. The island of Grenada has had no preaching of the word as yet. This is the third year in which canvassing has been done on that island. Many of our books are now scattered over it, and it is ready for the living minister.
About six years ago Brother Willis Hackett and others canvassed in St. Vincent. Many families have both the larger and many of the smaller of our books. We have felt for some time that the living preacher should be here, but not until the middle of last October could we come. With Brother Sweeney and wife at Barbadoes, we felt it our duty to come here and try to start the work. We have been here four weeks, and are of good courage.
Barbadoes is the headquarters of our mission field. This isle has a fair beginning,—a neat stone chapel (26 x 42 ft.), all paid for, and a fair congregation, with growing interest, after twenty of their number have been scattered over the other islands, doing mission work, and a school of about forty on the roll, taught by Sister Sweeney.
St. Lucia has had a fair supply of our books by canvasser Hackett. A company of nine are there.
There are three workers in Dominica. No canvassing has been done by one experienced in that work. This isle needs both a canvasser and a minister. Monserrat needs a canvasser. Some of our books have been sold here.
Antigua is now having the labor of Brother D. E. Wellman and wife. Cheering reports are coming from his pen to us of the prospect for good being done there. The financial condition of this isle is low, yet many books have been sold by our canvassers.
St. Kitts and Nevis come next. These islands have many of our books among the people. What the people now need is visiting concerning the themes of which the books treat. Brother Morrow’s stay of a little over a year brought out a company of ten or twelve, at the main business port of St. Kitts. They have a neat little house in which to worship. Brother Sterry Wellman and wife are now there, further to develop the work on these islands.
There are small adjacent islands on which work should be done. A native canvasser is on St. Kitts and Nevis. As the present crops are in good condition819we hope for a fair sale of books this season.
St. Croix is a Danish possession. On this isle Brother Palmquist has sold many of our books, but no minister has yet done work there. It is awaiting a laborer’s efforts.
St. Thomas is also a Danish isle. Elder Haysmer and wife have been doing hard work here for the last year. They report a company of over twenty-five. A meeting-house is needed. A company brought out always demands a place in which to worship.
You who have read Brother Palmquist’s letter concerning his efforts will see how the adjoining islands are conditioned. There is a state of things in connection with the work among these islands which makes the work much more difficult, owing to their scattered condition. Each island is a little world by itself, having customs, regulations, etc., peculiar to itself.
Many persons on these islands need personal visiting. Preaching is not so much needed as visiting. As a whole, there is a fair degree of intellect among the peoples of these islands. Many are serving the Lord according to all the light they have. There are as many here who love the Lord, and serve Him in truth, as elsewhere in this world. Do not forget the workers in the West Indies.
