tlers, and in consequence, there are more vis-
itors in Kingston from England than in Port
Antonio, on the opposite side of the island,
which is the principal stopping place for
American tourists. The two principal hotels
of the city are the Myrtle Bank hotel and the
Constance Spring hotel. ‘The Myrtle Bank
hotel is located inside the city, while the Con-
stance Spring hotel is on the plain at the edge
of the foothills back of the city. There are
many successful merchants and several large
banks.”
The population of the city was about 50,-
000, mostly native negroes. The harbor is
large and one of the best in the world. At
the mouth of the harbor formerly stood Port
Royal, which was thrown into the sea by an
earthquake in 1692, causing the loss of many
lives. When the water is unruffled, any one
passing over the site in a boat can look down
into the water and see the ruins of the city
underneath. The Kingston earthquake is re-
ported to have caused a great subsidence of
the land underneath the water of the harbor,
and it was feared for a time that Kingston
would meet the fate of Port Royal. Jamaica
was thought to De out of the West Indian
“earthquake belt,” the island not being of
volcanic formation; but this opinion will now
doubtless be revised.
THE $150,000 FUND
NV AAAS
RESOURCES OF THE SOUTH
WiLL it pay to invest means in the South?
Is it such a poor barren field that no harvest
will be reaped from the seed sown? Are
there men of means and intelligence in the
-South who will ultimately make this work self-
supporting, and return into the cause that
which will bring souls into the truth in other
great mission fields?
To the first question we answer emphatically,
Yes; to the second question, a hundred times,
No; to the third question, a thousand times,
Yes. The South has wondrous resources.
Men of the keenest intelligence, men whose
blood is the purest Anglo-Saxon, men of un-
conquerable energy and of fiery zeal, are the
men who are leading the South to-day.
Though there is not the soil in every part
of the South that is found in Illinois, Towa,
and other states in the wonderful garden val-
ley of the upper Mississippi, yet there are
great agricultural possibilities here. What
would the world do without the cotton fields
of the South? I recently had the privilege
of visiting, at Montgomery, Ala, a manufact-
uring plant which took the cotton in its first
raw state, and seeing the process step by step
until it came out of the mill as cloth ready to
wear. I saw the manufacture of cotton seed
oil and cotton seed meal. Truly this resource
alone has almost illimitable possibilities.
Recently, passing through the great cotton
fields of Alabama and Georgia, I visited the
orange orchards of southern Florida. ‘There
I saw also bananas, pineapples, lemons, and
other tropical products growing. Northern
crops, such as potatoes and garden vegetables,
are grown during the winter, and tropical
products during the summer. I thought, What
THE WATCHMAN
a wonderful country!
sibilities!
Then there are the rice crop; the mighty pine
forests, producing turpentine and lumber in
almost limitless quantities; the great sugar-
cane industry; and many other agricultural
resources that are peculiar to this part of the
United States. There are also mineral re-
sources, an abundance of coal, iron, and other
metals, and to a certain extent the more val-
uable minerals, silver and gold.
Already a large amount of manufacturing
is done in the cities of the South. Many of
the cities will compare favorably with those
of the North. The school system in the South,
while yet not equal to that in the North, is
improving, and in many of the cities may be
found excellent educational institutions. Nash-
ville has a number of universities of high class
for white people; also the world-famous Fiske
University, and other first-class institutions for
colored people.
The Lord will give wisdom that our work
may be placed on such an elevated plane that
the people of energy, intelligence, and refine-
ment may be reached. Nowhere in this world
can be found a class of people of greater re-
finement, generosity, hospitality, and the graces
which constitute them true Christian ladies
and gentlemen than are the best people of the
South.
It is true that there are many in terrible
need of help; but we believe that God will
help us in time, and in a brief time at that, to
reach the people who will make this work
self-supporting, and who will make the South
a great missionary field for work in the semi-
tropical lands of heathenism. Yes, the South
has abundant resources in men and means, and
must yet play an important part in the clos-
ing work.
Let us give and pray that this may be speed-
ily accomplished, for surely the Lord will not
come and leave unfinished the work in the
South; for which he has been so earnestly
calling to this people for many years through
the Spirit of Prophecy. Remember that the
first one third of the $150,000 fund comes to
the South. Who will help now, sending your
gifts through your church or conference treas-
urer? J. S. WaAsHBURN.
5.
WHAT 1 CAN DO
“I can of mine own self do nothing.” “1
can do all things through Christ
strengtheneth me.”
“God is able to make all grace abound to-
ward you [toward me]; that ye [that I], al-
ways having all sufficiency in all things, may
abound to every good work.”
The whole sum, substance, and essence cf
the gospel lies in giving. “God so loved the
world that he gave;” and God's one gift is
so great that it comprehends all other gifts
for all time, from eternity to eternity. God’s
only begotten Son, the Lamb, was slain from
the foundation of the world: and it is through
him that we receive “life, and breath, and all
things,” and the gift of eternal life.
“He that spared not his own Son, but de-
livered him up for us all, how shall he not
with him also freely give us all things?”
which
What wonderful pos-
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“How shall he not?” Impossible to with-
hold anything in the face of so great a sacri-
fice! Christ's life is given for me, and all
things else therewith; my life is given to
Christ, and with the life all that I possess.
Why not? If I am a Christian, or Christ-
like, am I not to be doing as he does? The
giving of his life means the giving of all, now
and ever; the giving of my life must mean no
less than the giving of all, all my life long, in
this world and in the world to come. God
gives, and he permits me to give that I may
become like him.
“Every good and perfect gift is from above,
and cometh down from the Father of lights,
with whom is no variableness, neither shadow
of turning.” Since God has to do with every
good gift, and wishes to develop in me godli-
ness, or Godlikeness, why should I not have a
part in every good work or enterprise in the
cause of God? God has so ordered that I
shall if T will. To repeat, “God is able to
make all grace abound toward you [toward
me] ; that ye [that I], always having all suffi-
ciency in all things, may abound to every good
work.” Mark it: “Always,” “all sufficiency,”
“every good work.”
The infinite God is the source of our supply,
so we need never lack. But what is the mea-
sure of his “all sufficiency”? “Now there-
fore perform the doing of it; that as there was
a readiness to will, so there may be a per-
formance also out of that which ye have.
For if there be first a willing mind, it is ac-
cepted according to that a man hath, and not
according to that he hath not.”
If IT have much, IT am to give much, with a
willing mind; if I have little, I am, with the
same willing mind, to give little. But I am
to have a mind to give, and I must give always
to every good work. Be my possessions little
or much, a proportionate amount is required
of me, always,—this time, next time, and
every time. God looks not only upon what I
give, but also upon what 1 have left. The
widow’s mite was greatest of all, because 1t
was all she had. .
If T am not satisfied with what IT have in
give, God has for me more grace, and he is
able to make that grace abound toward me
in some practical way. He can enable me
to sell that I have and turn it into money
to give. If I have nothing of my own to
sell, then I can procure. books or papers,
laden with the truth for these times, and sell
them at a profit, and thus accomplish a double
good. If T may not canvass, still I may in
some other way earn or save. It is all in
my willing mind, and to the extent of my
willingness: for God wants me to be blessed
in giving, and he will bless me to the end
that T may and shall be blessed. If God wills,
I shall do something for the one hundred
and fifty thousand dollar fund.
Reader, are you with me, individually and
personally, in this thing, and the next thing
after this thing, if it be a good work? Let
us rejoice and thank God that it is our glo-
rious privilege, every one of us, to have a part
in this good work, and in all others that
may be brought to our attention in time to
E. E. Mires.
come.