New Era in South America

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 3, 1910

New Era in South America

THERE is a new world of South America growing up to the southward. The River Plate region is the great center, but all the continent has entered the new era. Pastor N. Z. Town, of our Washington headquarters, who formerly lived in Buenos Aires, and who has just revisited that country in the interests of our Spanish publishing work, writes from Argentina of the rapid changes taking place:—

“Can you imagine yourself rolling through Patagonia on a railway train? Yet this is the way now. This country is forging ahead by leaps and bounds. Thousands of immigrants are pouring in. Shiploads of two thousand or twenty-five hundred are not at all uncommon in Buenos Aires.”

“La Nacion (Buenos Aires) says of the newly opened Trans-Andine line and other railway projects: ‘With the opening of this line of railway, the republic realizes another step in the program of communication with all the neighboring countries. Paraguay will soon be joined to us, uniting Asuncion to Buenos Aires by a direct route of thirty-nine hours. The railway communications with Bolivia are authorized, and in part realized. With the Brazilian frontier there are several projects of easy realization. A few days ago the government inaugurated the first line in Patagonia. The government has in construction at the present moment eleven new lines, nearly all of which are frontier lines, on which are employed eleven thousand men.’”

“The opening up of these new regions,

and the coming of so many new peoples, make the demand more and more urgent for an increase of gospel laborers. South America needs more colporteurs, more ministers, more evangelistic nurses, and more medical workers.”