. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW Episcopal Church Consecrated The first consecration of an Episcopal church in Cuba was held in February last at Ensenada de Mora, a sugar estate in the southeastern part of the island. This church, built in the Spanish style, is very beautiful, and complete in every detail, from pews to bell, the gift of a Philadel- phia friend of the Church of Cuba, who is also building a rectory. At all sugar estates in Cuba there are Enghsh speak- ing people, managers, engineers, foremen, and such like, all men of education. In addition to these there is usually a large nu
. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW Episcopal Church Consecrated The first consecration of an Episcopal church in Cuba was held in February last at Ensenada de Mora, a sugar estate in the southeastern part of the island. This church, built in the Spanish style, is very beautiful, and complete in every detail, from pews to bell, the gift of a Philadel- phia friend of the Church of Cuba, who is also building a rectory. At all sugar estates in Cuba there are Enghsh speak- ing people, managers, engineers, foremen, and such like, all men of education. In addition to these there is usually a large number of Jamaica negroes, nearly all of them trained in the Church, and so attached to it that they refuse to work where they cannot have its ministrations. Many of them cannot read, but have committed to memory most if not all canticles of the service, together with many hymns, so that the service moves on almost as well as if they could read. Services are held both in English and in Spanish. The Rev. C. W. Frazer, formerly at Calvario Mission, Jesus del Monte, Havana, and more recently at Savannah, Ga., has been placed in charge of this Episcopal Church at Ensenada de Mora, Cuba Baptist Churches in Cuba The Baptists of Washington have been closely allied to religious work in Eastern Cuba, in the erection of eight houses of worship, that were given on condition that twelve others be built. That is now an accomplished fact. The school located at El Cristo, erected four years ago, now has 150 students, eight acres of ground and two dormitories. We have 45 church organizations in the island, 27 of which have houses of worship. In addition there are 54 preaching stations. A special pleasure was in store for us at Baracoa, the oldest town on the island. The town is cut off from the rest of Cuba by a mountain range, and was reached by us through the Carribean Sea, thence around the East point of the island into the Atlantic to a point due west, on the north side. That cut ofif
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