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"Ruins of the New Hall Preaching place in the Manchester Circuit, Jamaica. In this meeting house a Sunday School has been regularly held. It is also used for a weekly prayer meeting and class meeting. Occasionally it is also used for preaching and other services. It has been a great convenience and blessing in the past especially to the aged and sick people and the little children. The people are all poor and suffered greatly by the drought and still more from the hurricane and they cannot ?arise and build without outside help. " View of ruins of meeting house. William Baillie served as a missionary in Jamaica for over sixty years, He arrived in Jamaica aged 23 in 1887 and served until his death in 1948. There are a number of photographs by Reverend Baillie in the collection, and many appeared in the pages of the "Foreign Field. The earliest Wesleyan mission began in the West Indies when, in 1786, Thomas Coke, destined for Nova Scotia, was driven off course by a storm and landed at Antigua in the British West Indies. There he developed a successful mission of both slaves and landowners. Within a few years almost every colony in the West Indies had been reached.
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