Argentina by J. W. Westphal

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 30, 1908

Argentina

By J. W. Westphal

PARANA, ENTRE RIOS.—We have appointed our union conference meeting to be held at our school in Camarero, March 7-21. We expect this meeting to be a very large and important one, by far the largest ever held in South America. We expect also that the new school building will be completed, and ready for dedication during the meeting. An effort will be made to raise means to enlarge the building, and we shall endeavor to get more students at the opening of the school year, immediately after the meeting.

Our school is growing rapidly in importance. Last year the attendance was about twenty, and this year twenty-five or more—this in spite of our disadvantages. With his medical work, it is impossible for Dr. R. H. Habenicht to do for the school what ought to be done. Many, many times he has had to teach after being up all night with the sick, and many times has not been present. With two languages to be taught, and one teacher able to teach only in German, it was impossible to do justice with the teaching force we had last year, and now that the school is growing, and there is a greater diversity of grades, it will be impossible the coming year. We have invited Brother Yepez to come from Ecuador, to assist. If he comes, this will only partially help us out. To teach full time, to have full charge of the home with sixty or seventy students of all ages; to look after the work, and to be everything, is a very much larger task than one man can do justice to.

I am now on my way to Missiones, to attend the general meeting.

J. W. WESTPHAL.