p. 15 | North Brazil Mission by F. W. Spies

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 29, 1908

North Brazil Mission

By F. W. Spies

In this mission we continue to receive the Lord's blessing and to see his workings. Last Sabbath we had the pleasure of baptizing an aged sister. Several others had expected to be baptized on this occasion, but circumstances prevented. We expect to baptize them soon, however, and also some others who have recently begun the observance of the Sabbath.

LOADING COFFEE ON A TRANS-ATLANTIC STEAMER IN SANTOS

A short time ago we received letters from the interior of the province of Bahia, inquiring about the truth. The letters indicated that these persons had been warned against us; but this apparently made them only the more anxious to know the truth. Since returning from Sao Paulo, I have received a letter from Alagoas, the second province north of Bahia. This province has never been visited by a Seventh-day Adventist missionary, yet there are now some there keeping the Sabbath and awaiting further instruction and baptism. So, while we have not yet a minister in Bahia, already a province farther north opens its doors, and invites us to enter. But we are glad to have it so. It shows us that this message is going, and even where we do not think it, or know of it, the Lord is working. We expect, however, that Elder Ernest Schwantes will soon come to Bahia, and Brother H. S. Prener to Rio; and so we are encouraged, knowing that the work is the Lord's, and that as it is more thoroughly established, we shall get more native helpers.

Soon I hope to take a trip to these northern provinces. May the Lord call many more; and, even though at present the laborers are few, may he continue to open new doors to us, that the message which is to prepare the way for the Lord's second coming may soon be known in all Brazil and in all the world; for then the Lord's people will enter into the joy of their Lord.

F. W. SPIES.