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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · May 14, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 20.

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Ecuador

By Thos. H. Davis

AMBATO.— While busily engaged in teaching, I have found some time to do a little missionary work in the way of distributing our literature. This has stirred up the priests. One has said from the pulpit that we are trying to corrupt the young people. This sermon seemed to have only to cause more inquiries on the part of those interested, and they are asking for more reading-matter. A young man from the coast, who is here for his health, has begun distributing some of our reading-matter; and though his relatives, where he is staying, try to make it disagreeable for him, he keeps on asking for more literature for his friends. I pray the Lord to open his eyes fully to the truth. While out distributing literature, I met a prominent young man of Cuenca, the third
city of Ecuador, which has the name of being the most fanatical in the country. “This young man desires to take subscriptions for our Spanish paper, Las Señales de los Tiempos, and I have encouraged him to do this.
Several have written asking about the openings for English teachers, and I would say that nearly all the colleges I have inquired about are anxious for American teachers. As they can not get any, they take any native who understands a few words of English. So there is an urgent need of some good teachers to act as self-supporting missionaries.
The bubonic plague has at last got into Guayaquil, and there are ten new cases a day. The authorities of the interior are having the towns cleaned up, and are paying two cents each for rats. While the plague is taking its victims, on the one hand, on the other the people are learning to be cleanly. The Guayaquil and Quito Railroad Company have distributed a very timely circular, which states that the plague propagates rapidly among people who are uncleanly, and also advises the extermination of rats, flies, hogs, and guinea-pigs.
Since the plague has arrived in Guayaquil, I often think of an expression in the Testimonies, which says what we could do, and do not, in time of peace, we shall have to do in time of trouble. We must wake up and do more before more troubles come. Thos. H. Davis.