Colombia (South America) Entered by B. E. CONNERLY

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 20, 1916

Colombia (South America) Entered

By B. E. CONNERLY

B. E. CONNERLY

No doubt the readers of the REVIEW will be pleased to know that Colombia, the most neglected part of the Neglected Continent, has finally been entered as a mission field. At this late date, after so long a “delay,” the principles of the third angel's message are beginning to be proclaimed to this waiting people, and another great country, with millions of people, has been added to those in which the advent message is being given.

According to a prearranged program, our work for a year or more will be the introduction of our medical books among the educated class. This is the best and quickest way to begin work in new fields, especially among the Latin Americans. It is the natural way, the way of least resistance, and may become more nearly self-supporting than any other method. Our medical books make friends wherever they are sold; they benefit the people more physically, socially, and morally, and thus prepare the way for evangelical literature, the Bible, and the minister. Benefiting the body is making ready the approaches to reach the heart and life with the third angel's message.

As to the outlook of a speedy work in Colombia, actual conditions seem favorable, better than we had expected. While we have lost by delay, and the country's finances are not what we might desire, yet the hour is propitious. Colombia is awakening. She has heard the trumpet call of progress, and is shaking off those medieval institutions that for three long and dreary centuries made her the jest of civilization. The Bible is no longer “new and illicit,” but there is a manifest craving for modern advancement in both church and state. Political and religious conditions in the republic, the temper of the people, and the character of our message all combine to make the hour propitious.

Barranquilla.