p. 14 | Among the Incas of Peru by A. N. ALLEN.

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

RUINS OF THE INCAS' FORTRESS, CUZCO, PERU

Among the Incas of Peru

By A. N. ALLEN.

HERE was the capital of the ancient empire of the Incas, the wealth and dazzling glory of which drew Pizarro and his bands across the Spanish main. Oppressed through the centuries, in the land of their fathers, with its ruins of departed glory, it is just and right that the Inca Indians should hear the message of the goodly land.

The largest company of Seventh-day Adventists in Peru are all Inca Indians, only a few of whom speak any language but the Haimara. They live high in the mountains, by the famed Lake Titicaca. This company, so far as I know, has never been visited by any of our workers, but is the fruit of labor done by a native of the place, Manuel Camacho, who was taken to serve in the house of a gentleman in Moquegua when a boy. While serving here, he was allowed some school privileges. Afterward learning the gospel, he desired to give it to this people. He returned to his native home, opened a school, and began teaching them the gospel story.

While in Puno with Brother W. R. Pohle, recently, we tried very hard to procure horses that we might visit this company; but, all efforts failing, we sent Brother Camacho word to come to us. The night before he received the word, he dreamed that he was in Puno (the place we were waiting in); that he met two strangers; and that in talking with them, one of them told him he had been called to give his people the gospel. After receiving our message, he came to us. I had just finished telling him that he had been called to a sacred work, and that as he could read, and his people could not, he must break the bread of life to them, when he related this dream. At present this brother has fifty-two enrolled in his school, and he reports a Sabbath attendance of from twenty-five to thirty. The priests have never ceased to persecute him. Only recently his house was surrounded by an angry mob of Indians, who, swinging clubs and threatening his life, called him to come out. This has been done several times, but each time they have retired in confusion. God protected his servant, fulfilling his word, "The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them."

A. N. ALLEN.

Lima.