The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress

Small Ship for Central America

The attention of the Conference being directed to the convenience and advantages of having a small ship by which missionaries could be conveyed from one island to another, it was voted that such a boat be constructed for the work among the Bay Islands at a cost not to exceed $3,000. GSAM 433.2

In 1896, there were only four laborers in Central America: Elder F. J. Hutchins and his wife, and Elder J. A. Morrow and his wife in Spanish Honduras. At Belize, the capital of British Honduras, was a company of believers who were keeping the seventh day according to the fourth commandment. The greater part of the labor in this field has been performed in the islands of the Caribbean Sea. Here several thousand dollars’ worth of books had been sold, and sixty persons were rejoicing in the truth of the third angel’s message. GSAM 433.3