Brazil by F. W. Spies

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Mar 25, 1915

Brazil

By F. W. Spies

In the month of November, 1914, it was my privilege to visit the new Sabbath keepers in Minas Geraes. Since the first of the year, Brethren R. M. Carter and H. Simon have been selling our good books in this state. While engaged in this work they found some persons who had already read our literature, and were, as a consequence, somewhat interested. Others became interested as a result of the literature received from the brethren laboring with these different persons as opportunity afforded, which resulted in a number of them beginning to keep the Sabbath.

In the city of Barbacena I found five adults keeping the Sabbath; in Palmyra three families (six persons, not counting children) are keeping the Sabbath; in Juiz de Fora thirteen have begun to obey the fourth commandment; and in Guarany, which I could not visit at this time, there are others. At all the places I visited I held meetings, and these were especially well attended at Juiz de Fora. We hope soon to have a worker in this section.

Returning to Rio de Janeiro Brother Carter accompanied me, in order to assist some colporteurs who had just made a beginning in selling our literature at the nation's capital, and a good report has since been received of the work being done.

Even though the financial crisis is making itself felt more and more, our faithful colporteurs are working away courageously, and with a fair measure of success. We thank God for this, as our message-filled books and papers so many times answer the question in many minds, though perhaps not even formed into words, “What do these things mean?”

As a whole, the reports coming in from the various parts of our union are encouraging. And as we consider how highly we are favored in our field, as compared with many other places where the turmoil of war and revolution causes a condition that greatly hinders if not entirely stops the work, we do feel grateful to our God for the special blessings we enjoy. Our desire is to push the battle to the gates, and thus hasten the day when, the work finished, the Master will come to take his storm-tossed and waiting children to their eternal rest.

F. W. SPIES.