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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 16, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 46.

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Hawaii Island

By C. D. M. Williams

I HAVE just returned from a visit to the island of Hawaii. I was there over a month, distributing literature, holding Bible readings, and taking subscriptions for our papers and magazines. I distributed more than seven thousand pages of papers and tracts, sold some books, and took about forty-five subscriptions, baptized one person, and visited the Sabbath-keepers in three different towns. Had I not been taken ill, I should have gone all over the island, visiting every plantation and town.
The man whom I baptized is a native of Java, but has been in the islands so long that he speaks the Hawaiian like a native, and also talks English very well. He is seventy years old, and had tried many times to give up tobacco. When this matter was presented to him, it seemed impossible for him to give it up, but the Lord has given him grace and strength to gain the victory, and also to discard tea and coffee. Since giving up these, he has recovered from sickness of which he expected to die, and for about six months has been well and happy. The day on which I arrived on the island, he walked twenty-eight miles to meet me and to be baptized.
C. D. M. WILLIAMS.