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Progress of the Work in Peru

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 8, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 27.

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Progress of the Work in Peru

By A. N. ALLEN

We have now been in Peru nearly six months. With moving, getting settled, helping to fit up a new place for meetings and an office, with the regular meetings, has kept us very busy. In March we held an institute for the canvassers, and since then I have made four trips to different parts of Peru to visit the workers and believers. Am very anxious to see some one come to take charge of the office work, and thus give me more time to labor for those interested in the truth.
Since our institute closed, the canvassers have sold four hundred dollars' (gold) worth of books, have increased our Señales club from fifteen hundred to three thousand. We are also using one hundred copies of the Chinese paper, but have found it necessary to increase the number to five hundred, as there are more than half a million Chinese in this republic. I wish we had a good missionary to labor for them.
Brother T. H. Davis is with us for a time, training our canvassers to take orders for our larger books. He is working here in Lima at present for “Patriarchs and Prophets,” and is having excellent success. I see no reason why our canvassers can not do just as well here as in other places if we give them proper training. What would our young men in the States do if they were loaded up with a large assortment of all our books and sent into a town to sell them? This has been the method here in the past, and the wonder is they have had as good success as they have.
Our workers have been so scattered in the past that it was almost impossible to get enough together to pay to have special help to train them, but as the work is growing, better organization of the book work becomes possible, and the same increase that has marked our book sales in the United States can be expected in South America.
We are of good courage, our health is good, and God is going before us each day. Pray for us, that we may keep pace and finish our part of the great work of God committed to mortal beings. Our address is Casilla 1002, Lima, Peru, South America. A. N. ALLEN.