We clip the following from the Canal Record of March 4, a weekly paper "published under the authority and supervision of the Isthmian Canal Commission:"—
"The Seventh-day Adventist Conference for Panama and the Canal Zone is building a small church for the accommodation of its congregation in New Gatun. The structure is a frame building capable of seating about fifty persons. The Seventh-day Adventists have churches in Panama, Empire, New Gatun, Mount Hope, and at Cristobal, the headquarters of the organization. The building now occupied by the superintendent of the conference was erected to take the place of the one destroyed by fire on March 23, 1911. The building contains apartments for the superintendent and his family, and the secretary of the conference, on the second floor, and the church and offices on the ground floor. Books and periodicals of the conference are sold at headquarters, also canned goods put up at the sanitarium operated by the Seventh-day Adventists in Tennessee. The printing plant, which was formerly located in the building in Colon, has been removed to Jamaica. The conference church has been established in Panama and the Canal Zone since 1907. There are about 250 adherents."
Our Work in Dominica, West Indies
THE Voice of Dominica for March 4, contained the following:—
"Last Monday evening, at eight o'clock, a select audience, comprising Roman Catholics, Wesleyans, Anglicans, members of the International Apostolic Church, and of the Seventh-day Adventist gospelry, gathered at the Seventh-day Adventist gospelry, in Queen Street, to take formal leave of Elder Philip Giddings, who leaves here today for a new field of labor, to wit, Guadeloupe."
The editor of this paper the week following bears this testimony to the work of Elder Giddings:—
"Elder Philip Giddings, pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, left here with his family on Wednesday last for Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, where he has been appointed to labor. Elder Giddings during his nine years' sojourn here had made many friends, and, though many did not agree with him on the Sabbath question, he was regarded by all who knew him as a gentleman and a man of God. Elder Giddings and Mrs. Giddings (who, by the way, did some good work here as an optometrist) carry with them the best wishes of the community for a successful career in their new sphere of labor. Elder Giddings founded the Seventh-day church in this island, and the neat little chapel at Newtown stands as a monument of his good work here."
