Italy by Chas. T. Everson

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 23, 1908

Italy

By Chas. T. Everson

In a town not far from Sicily, Brother Fant met a colporteur of the Bible Society, not long ago, to whom he taught our truth. The man embraced it with joy, and is ready to spread our literature, by engaging directly in selling our papers and tracts. I have heard that he is one of the best canvassers in Italy, and has done excellent work in raising up Protestant churches and groups of believers while in the employ of the Bible Society. It is said that he and an evangelist of the Methodist Church have been instrumental in raising up about thirty churches in the province where he lives. Under Brother Fant's preaching and the reading of our literature, this evangelist has come out very strongly in favor of the truth. He is an ex-priest. He has been in England, and knows English very well, so I can send him our literature in that language.

The school work at Rome is making good progress. We have now over eighty students, and new ones are coming every day, so that I am sure we shall have one hundred students by the end of this month [December]. Our school is becoming well known, and is acquiring a good reputation, which is quite essential for both moral and financial success. I am endeavoring to push this work that it may come to the place where it will be self-supporting, and we thus have a strong center of influence for our work here, without its being a drag on the conference. Things move slowly in these old nations. However, we have reason to be thankful to God for the progress made thus far.

Of the first edition of forty-five hundred copies printed of our Italian paper, we have already sent out nearly three thousand. We are getting subscriptions, and words of favorable comment. I am now working on the next number. Brother Fant helps greatly in writing and translating. CHAS. T. EVERSON.