Argentina, South America
By H. S. PRENER
While my wife has been recuperating at the sanitarium from the effects of a year and a half in Brazil, I have been out among our Spanish and German churches in Crespo, Seguí, Mansilla, Concordia, Galarza, Urdinarraín, and Gualeguaychu. The Lord gave me great freedom in the use of the languages, and the Spirit attended the word spoken. We have a wonderful message, a purifying, all-powerful message. To the question, “Are the Brazilians stable?” the president of the largest Christian college in Brazil, with seven hundred students, confessed to me that he saw no difference in the Brazilian after conversion; and this after fifty years of observation. Almost immediately he acknowledged the lack of power in the evangelism of to-day. I was glad for his discrimination between the gospel of God and the evangelism of to-day; for the true gospel is still “the power of God unto salvation.” The third angel’s message has the mighty power to change a man all over. Hundreds of South Americans have found the third angel’s message powerful enough to separate them from habitual sin, inherited tendencies, liquor, tobacco, coffee, and maté. God’s message is a living and active power, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing its way till it penetrates soul and spirit,—not the joints only, but the very marrow,—and detecting the inmost thoughts and purposes of the mind. We are happy to be connected with it, and we at this end of the earth send greetings to those in other parts. At the South American Union Conference it was decided that I should make Argentina my field of labor. Our effort for the city of Diamante is the first one that has been made for years. We have a church numbering twenty or more, and several families are deeply interested. My wife is now able to be with me, and the cool autumn weather is already telling on us for the better.