British West Indies Union Visitor for 1948
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BAHAMA BRITISH ISLANDS HONDURAS 74e Votaid Wee %deed CAYMAN VISITOR WEST JAMAICA EAST JAMAICA TURKS AND :31.T,NOZ ISLANDS -VOLUME V MANDEVILLE, JAMAICA, MARCH 1948 NUMBER 3 Finding Your Place (A MESSAGE TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE BRITISH WEST INDIES UNION) By `Robert H. ID*Let 8011 HOUSANDS of our young men and women through- Mission. We should pray most earnestly for God to T out our British West Indies Union are looking for lead us into the very line of work He desires us to make employment. Many are the letters that come to my our life's career. desk every month from young people, asking me to help The Lord uses different ways of leading young them secure some sort of work so that they can make people in selecting their life's work. Without enlarging a living and keep the Sabbath. upon them, 1 will mention five of This problem of employment is these methods: a very real one for our youth. I 1. By His Spirit's deep and abid- want to help you in finding some ing impressions as an answer solution to it. Meet 0 ur Workers to earnest prayer. In the first place, I believe God 2. Counsel from Godly parents. is interested in every young man 3. Counsel of workers and Mis- and woman in this beautiful island sion leaders who know you field of ours. I believe He is well. interested in helping you find work 4. Counsel of your teachers. that will enable you to at once 5. By the opening Providences make a living and remain true to of God such as those made the principles of the Advent Mes- known through committees sage. I am convinced that His and boards. great blue-print includes a special In seeking to know God's will for place for every one of you who has you in this matter, pray most earn- given his heart to the Lord. The estly, that through one of these servant of the Lord declares this channels He will make it crystal to be true: X clear just what line of work you "Not more surely is the place should enter. prepared for us in the heavenly Open Doors mansions than is the special place We are happy to introduce designated on earth where we are our VISITOR•fanilly to the Many Seventh-day Adventist to work for God." "Parables of Pastor of Hanover Parish, in young men feel that only the min- Jesus," Page 8. the West Jamaica Mission, istry is open to them, and unless Elder Lee Gouldhourne. they take the ministerial course, Place Not Found By Chance Elder Gouldhourne is a grad- there will be no opening for them As young people seeking to uate of W.I.T.C. College and inside or outside of denominational follow the Lord, we will not find has served in the work both employ so they can keep the Sab- our place by chance. Neither should in the Cayman Islands and bath. As the result, there have we expect to find it by depending Jamaica for several years. been instances when young men upon the influence of friends who have not succeeded in the, ministry hold responsible positions in the (Continued on pare 8) the work, but what we are. Before we `JUST BETWEEN US" see Pentecostal lumbers, we must have the Pentecostal power. "The Spirit awaits our demand and reception." C. 4, L., p. 120. "When divine power is combined with human effort, the work will spread like fire in the stubble. God will employ agencies whose origin man will be unable (A Personal Message from your to discern." — Mrs. E. G. White in Union President) Review & Herald, December 15, 1885. News from the A. M. H. May God grant us His grace and The workers on the staff of the We are not to expect that times will power that we may be prepared for the Andrew's Memorial Hospital were recent. be better, that funds will be more plenti- difficult days before us and may have ly encouraged with the cheering news ful, that things will go easier as we near a part in the glorious and certain triumph that the Government of Jamaica had die end. In fact, if I read my Bible and of the Advent Message, is my earnest appropriated £5,000 to us for continuing the Spirit of Prophecy aright, we must prayer for each of you. construction work on the new Hope Road prepare ourselves for just the opposite. Sincerely yours in Christ, Hospital building. This gift comes as a Difficult times are before us. Days of trial great blessing to our medical work, for and real test will try us before we enter we had beerf moving forward slowly by the kingdom! faith during the past few months, pray- ing that God would open the way to com- II Timothy 3:1 (Moffatt Translation) : plete most of the main building and "Mark this, there are hard times coming wings ready for occupancy within a few in the last days." Personnel Appointments did months. We thank Him for hearing and "In the last days perilous times will Changes answering these prayers. come" (King James' Version). The word Owen. Holness to the West Jamaica The present plan is to complete the "perilous" comes from a Greek word Mission as Assistant District Pastor in central section of the main building, and which includes the thought of "reducing." Manchester. • the west wing which includes the operat- Our budgets may be reduced, our work- David McCalla to the East Jamaica ing theatre. These will be furnished and ing staffs may be reduced, our equipment, Mission for Evangelistic Work at Jack's opened to the public while the other wing our facilities, all may be reduced. "Mark River. and the new kitchen are under this, there are hard times coming in the Miss A. W. Sangster to the Union construction. last days." Office as head of the Bible School and Dr. Edwin Dunlop recently left us to• Office Secretary for the Radio Depart- return to the States where he will connect "The work which the church has ment. with one of our large hospitals in the- failed to do in a time of peace and pros- Miss Bernice Pringle to the East eastern states. perity, she will do in a terrible crisis, Jamaica Mission for Bible Work in At the last Hospital Board Meeting, under most discouraging, forbidding Kingston. a call was placed with the Union for, circumstances.— Volume V, p. 463. Miss Anita Nembhard to the Union another doctor to connect with the insti- Office as secretary to Elder Pierson. tution as early as possible. We face days ahead that must not Mrs. H. S. Walters to the East Miss Marjorie Whitney has responded and us depending upon our visible Jamaica Mission as secretary to Bider to our call for another Nursing School resources tu finish the work of God. He Pond. Instructor. Miss Whitney was connected . will bring us to the end of our visible H. S. Walters to the East Jamaica with our large White Memorial Hospital resources that He may compel us to count Mission as Departmental Secretary. in California for some time and was our invisible resources . We must re- W. A. Holgate to Kingsway High more recently Director of the School of member, "not by might. nor by power, School as Headmaster of the school. Nursing in Monterey, Mexico. We wel- but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of M. G. Nembhard to North Street come Miss Whitney to our hospital staff. hosts." Zeoh. 4:6. Temple Church as Pastor. The fourth class of nurses entered the Dark days or forbidding circum- H. E. Nembhard to St. Catherine as School of Nursing in February. There stances should never dim our vision of District Pastor. are eight in this new class. We are the glorious triumph that shall ultimately A. D. Laing to Portland as District greatly in need of more dormitory and and certainly be the lot of the Advent Pastor. classroom space as our Nursing School movement. Recall the mighty power of B. E. Hurst to the West Jamaica Mis- grows. Pentecost. It shall he eclipsed in the sion as Publishing Department Secretary final days of this world's history. "The E. C. H. Reid to St. Ann's as District Bible School. great work of the gospel is not to close Pastor. Miss Pearl Bell to the Union Office as with lees manifestation of the power of David Hawthorne to East Jamaica secretary to Elders Haig and Parchment. !God than marked its opening. The pro- Mission as Church School Teacher in Miss Zeta Boyd to the West Indian phecies which were fulfilled in the out- Kingston. Training College for stenographic !louring of the former rain at the opening Miss A. Parchment to the West work. )f the Gospel. are again to be fulfilled Jamaica Mission Office as secretary to R. Douglas to Cuba for pastor-teacher at its close... By thousands of voices all Elder Hurst. work on the Isle of Pines. over the earth the warning will be given." Miss K. Morrison to the West Indian 0. S. -Rugless to East Jamaica Mis- G. C. p. 611, 612. Training College Office as office assistant. sion as Bible Worker and Music Leader. Miss U. Greene to the Union Office Leonard Grey to the West Jamaica It is not what we have that will finish as secretary to Elder Barclay and the Mission as pastor-teacher.