In 1902, after nearly eleven years of faithful labor, F. J. Hutchins was stricken with a tropical disease, and died in Bocas del Toro. His grave and that of Dr. John Eccles, who died four months earlier in the same year, mark this region for the message.

H. C. Goodrich had general charge of the work in Spanish and British Honduras for some years, the mission headquarters and book depository being for a time in Belize. He was succeeded by E. L. Cardey. Spanish Sabbath keepers in Honduras were reported as early as 1905, when A. N. Allen was selling books along the coast. H. Publer and C. A. Nowlan were other colporteurs who worked at this time. Early in 1908 a campmeeting was held on Ruatán.

In 1907 H. C. Goodrich was made president of the West Caribbean Conference, including Panama, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua, and the islands of St. Andrews and Old Providence. There were then believers in Colon and Costa Rica.

The membership gradually increased as the workers reached out in various directions. In 1920 F. Hardt began to conduct an industrial school for the training of our own youth. The membership, as reported by a later superintendent, W. E. Lanier, amounted to three hundred.

Guatemala and Salvador

The first of these fields has received but little attention. E. L. Cardey in 1908 located the Central American headquarters in Guatemala City. J. B. Stuyvesant settled in the same city in 1913, and W. E. Hancock, E. W. Thurber, and others followed.

Salvador was first entered in 1915, when J. L. Brown returned from Spain and opened work in San Salvador City. C. F. Staben reported sixty-five members in 1919.

West Caribbean Conference

C. E. Peckover began in 1905 to labor for the thousands of Indians working in the Canal Zone. Churches and companies were raised up by him and those who followed. A training school in charge of C. J. Boyd was opened in 1921. It is located on forty acres of land near Imperial on the canal.

Believers in Costa Rica are scattered along the coast, where they work on plantations. There are churches at Port Limon, San Jose, the capital, and in other ports. Along the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua we have had believers for some years.

Colombia, South America, was early entered by the colporteurs, B. E. Connerly, Gilbert A. Schwerin, and others having a part in the circulation of our literature as far as Bogotá, the capital.

W. E. Baxter, president of the Caribbean Union Mission, reported a membership of 3,603 in 1925.

Venezuela

Venezuela was not entered in a permanent way till F. G. Lane settled in Carácas in 1910. He was welcomed by a small group of people who had met together for years, praying for additional light. Some of them very quickly accepted the advent message. Colporteurs and other workers entered the field, among them D. D. Fitch and W. E. Baxter, the latter becoming superintendent. The work moves forward slowly but steadily.

Jamaica

Work in Jamaica began in 1893. Mrs. M. Harrison, a resident of the island, who had accepted the message through reading, visited the General Conference and earnestly pleaded for a minister. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Haysmer, sent in response to this plea, landed at Kingston in May of the same year, and found there a company of believers waiting to welcome them. In February, 1894, they were able to organize the first Seventhday Adventist church in Jamaica, thirty-one persons being baptized, and six being received into the church by letter. In March, 1895, F. I. Richardson joined Elder Haysmer in labor on the island, the membership at that time being seventy-four.

The church thus raised up was more than usually active in the circulation of literature, large clubs of the Signs being taken, and thousands of pages of tracts and pamphlets given away or lent on the envelope plan. The young men and women who accepted the message were trained to labor as colporteurs, and soon our books were to be found in every parish. Among those who embraced the truth in 1895, were A. H. Humphries, a native preacher, a portion of whose congregation followed him, against no little opposition. The first tent-meeting on the island was held on the race course at Kingston.

F. I. Richardson being called to Africa in 1896, C. A. Hall and his family took up the work in Jamaica. In that year the Spanish Town church was dedicated, and the following year marked the dedication of the Kingston church, the largest church building Adventists then had in the West Indies.

Once it was well under way, the evangelistic work went steadily forward in Jamaica, both in the coast towns and in the villages of the interior. The training school in Mandeville is successfully preparing workers.

In 1925 C. E. Wood, president of the Jamaica Conference, reported sixty-seven churches, with a membership of 2,430.

British Guiana

After struggling alone for six years, the believers in British Guiana rejoiced in the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Kneeland, who settled in Georgetown in 1893, and at once gathered the believers together and reorganized the work. Elder Kneeland also pushed out into the unentered portions of the Guianas, along the coast and up the great rivers, finding in many places faithful ones who were glad to receive the message.

Philip Giddings, a native of British Guiana, who had spent a few years at the college and sanitarium in Battle Creek, Mich., returned to his native land in 1895. With him were Dr. and Mrs. B. J. Ferciot, who intended to open up medical missionary work, but owing to medical restrictions, were not able to do so.

In July, 1895, Elder Kneeland was able to organize the Bootooba church, on the Demarara River, which included among its members three aboriginal Indians. A little later a colored brother who was a school-teacher carried the truth to some of the Indian tribes living near the mouth of the Essequibo River, holding his first meeting under the shade of a tree in a forest.

The message was joyfully received by a number of these Indians, children of nature, to whom the Sabbath especially made a powerful appeal as being the sign of the Maker of all things. A small church building was put up, and dedicated in December, 1896. The membership included representatives of four races South American Indian, Hindu, Negro, and Caucasian. Not long after the dedication, smallpox broke out in these Indian settlements, and many died. As a result the Indians moved farther up the Essequibo River, and the believing ones settled on Tapacrooma Creek, where they erected a new church building, and held regular Sabbath services.

In 1911, O. E. Davis, then superintendent of Guiana, made an effort to begin work among the Indians of the Mt. Roraima district, the meeting point of Brazil, Venezuela, and Guiana. Brother Davis reached the field with his guide and interpreter, but fell ill of fever and died. The last entry in his journal reads thus: "Just finished establishing a mission when I was taken sick." He was buried by the Indians, who erected a building over his grave. More recently there has been planted the Kimbia Mission, among the Indians living 200 miles up the Berbica River, six tribes having called for teachers.

Trinidad

Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Flowers took up work in Trinidad in 1894, assisted by Mr. and Mrs. F. Grant, who were colporteurs. They found a few believers, to whom the truth had been carried by publications. A minister in another island had purchased a copy of "Patriarchs and Prophets," but not caring for it, had given it to a catechist. He in turn gave it to a third person, who accepted the message it bore, and became one of the first Sabbath keepers in Trinidad. Mr. Flowers and Mr. Grant had labored for only a few months when they were stricken down with the yellow fever, to which the former succumbed on the 29th of July, 1894, and was buried in the Port of Spain cemetery. Mrs. Flowers returned to the States in the autumn, and one year later Elder and Mrs. E. W. Webster arrived in Trinidad and took up the work. On Jan. 15, 1897, Elder Webster had the privilege of dedicating at Couva the first Seventh-day Adventist church building in Trinidad.

Trinidad became the headquarters for the South Caribbean Conference, reaching from British Guiana to the Leeward Islands, and having a membership of over 1,600.

In 1925 this mission had twenty-four churches, with 450 members.

Barbados

In 1895 the believers in Barbados, after two years' patient waiting, gladly welcomed Mr. and Mrs. E. Van Deusen, who spent six years in labor among them. Elder Van Deusen not only revived the work in the Lesser Antilles, but pioneered the way into St. Vincent. He enjoyed the privilege of erecting church buildings in Barbados and St. Vincent, the former being dedicated Sept. 30, 1900, the latter two years later. It was

A. J. HAYSMER AND E. VAN DEUSEN WITH THEIR FAMILIES

while he was laboring in St. Vincent that the supposedly extinct volcano, Soufrière, suddenly became active, sending forth smoke, mud, and lava, so that the north portion of the island was overwhelmed.

Beginning with 1890, D. A. Ball labored for two years on the island. Dr. Charles Cave, a West Indian, did sanitarium work in Bridgetown.

Porto Rico

While the message was being introduced into the Englishspeaking portions of the field, the Spanish portions remained largely unentered. In 1901, however, Mr. and Mrs. A. M.