Rio Grande Do Sul (Brazil) Conference by F. W. Spies

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 15, 1913

Rio Grande Do Sul (Brazil) Conference

By F. W. Spies

THE eighth session of the Rio Grande do Sul Conference was held in the new chapel at Porto Alegre, February 18-23. At the Sabbath services there were present one hundred seventy persons, not counting the smaller children. The nineteen small tents of the conference furnished lodging for a goodly number of the brethren who had come from abroad.

The brethren who had contributed of their means to build the chapel could now with no little satisfaction behold the neat and commodious place of worship that had been built in Porto Alegre since the former conference, a year ago, and which now stands as a beacon-light in Rio Grande's capital city to point souls to the truth.

The conference had increased its membership during the year about thirty. But the tithe had increased relatively more than the members, being about one thousand dollars, United States gold, more than the year before, or about six thousand five hundred dollars.

Brother Waldermar Ehlers, the president of the conference, had been very sick three months, even at the point of death, but we were glad to see him on the way to health again. He was able to attend quite a number of the meetings, although he could not take a very active part. He was again elected conference president, and we hope that

after a season of rest and treatment he will be able to resume his labors. All the conference business was transacted with the best of harmony, and especially was the Sabbath a day of rich blessings. Brother E. C. Ehlers was ordained to the gospel ministry. The Rio Grande do Sul Conference surely ought to have more help, and we earnestly hope that we shall be able to find at least one more promising young man for it. May the Lord abundantly bless the efforts of the few laborers now at work during the coming conference year, is our prayer. F. W. SPIES.