Santa Catharina (Brazil) Conference
By F. W. SPIES
THE ninth session of the Santa Catharina Conference was held at Gaspar Alto, March 25-28, 1914. A goodly number of the brethren of this conference were present, seventy-nine being in attendance at the Sabbath school. During the last few years, the Santa Catharina Conference has lost many members by emigration. Almost the entire membership of one of the best churches moved to Argentina in the year 1913. The Santa Catharina Conference has had a lack of workers for a long time. But at present, prospects are more favorable. The president's report showed that during the year thirty persons had been received into church fellowship by baptism. On the Sabbath of the conference, ten new believers were buried with their Lord in baptism, this number including two families. The financial report was encouraging, and we trust the present year will be a good one for Santa Catharina. Elder August Rockel was unanimously elected president, and we trust he may be richly blessed of God in his responsible calling. The Sabbath was a day of renewed consecration, and we verily believe many made a determined start to be more faithful than ever before. Elder Rockel plans to make a definite beginning in Florianapolis, the capital of Santa Catharina, as soon as possible, so as to plant the standard of truth in this important city. May the Lord richly bless the work in this conference, and prepare his people in it for his soon coming.