Chile by F. H. Westphal

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

Chile

By F. H. Westphal

PITRUFQUEN.—We are surely reaching stirring times in the work. The nations are angry, the clouds of strife are gathering, and soon the tempest will break upon all the inhabitants of the world.

We are glad that reinforcements are coming to the South American fields. From letters received from the east coast, we learn that some have already arrived there. We sent one of our men to Argentina, and I think he will do good service there. That country will send us two men in return. These will be here after the snow has melted so that they can cross the mountains.

The message is progressing in our field, and devout Catholics are accepting it. A sister who for years has been the guardian of nuns has taken her stand for the truth; and another sister who has been a nun several years expects to be baptized this spring. A man who was clearing from fifty to two hundred pesos daily by manufacturing liquors embraced the truth, and is now canvassing. He seems happy and contented when he can clear two pesos a day by selling our books and papers. Six members of the Baptist Church embraced the truth recently, and one of them went to another neighborhood and taught the truth from house to house, and three families accepted it. We are encouraged to press onward.

There are four young men in the school who will enter the canvassing work at the close of October. One of them will go to Bolivia. One student has already gone to Ecuador. The school as a missionary factor is being felt. Although the beginning was very small, yet we hope that the school work will grow in importance from year to year. We are practically out of debt. Our printing plant is also out of debt, and we hope to keep it so, and to grow as time advances. Some of our Señales workers are in the school at present, but in October will go into the field again.

F. H. WESTPHAL.