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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 27, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 35.

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Peru

By F. L. Perry

LIMA.—I have just received a letter from a brother, the first believer in Puno, who secured the first subscribers for the Señales. He had seen in the REVIEW an article of mine about our proposed Indian school, and is all enthusiasm in regard to the idea. At present he is in Bolivia. He said that he had occasion to meet a company of about thirty Indians, in some sort of festival; that he taught them as best he could the truths of the gospel, and then told them about the plans that the Adventist mission had in mind. He says they all accepted his teaching, and were filled with gratitude at the prospect of help for their race.
This brother speaks, although not perfectly, the Quechua and Aymará, and has a diploma as a teacher in the public schools of Peru. He says that he has dedicated himself to this cause, and wants to do all he can to help. I think he will be valuable assistance.
An experienced canvasser is needed here. I am sure we can find some to step out in this work; but they will need better training than I can give them, and Brother Davis is not expected to stay here long.
Another family has begun keeping the Sabbath in Yauli. I am going up there to spend Sabbath. Yesterday Mrs. Perry had another attack of the fever, and the day before, Mora was down with it. It is very difficult to get away with such conditions at home, but we shall do the best we can.
How I enjoy getting the REVIEW these days! Somehow it seems to have taken on a new measure of power. How its messages inspire one with fresh courage and confidence! As we see the very events taking place in the nation, and among the other churches, and in the progress of our own work, which were written of by the spirit of prophecy many years ago, what joy fills the soul!—not that these things are happening, but that we are on the right track; that this work is of God; that soon the conflict will be over, soon we shall see the King in his beauty, and enter into the inheritance of the redeemed.
F. L. PERRY.