Colombia by B. E. CONNERLY

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 13, 1916

Colombia

By B. E. CONNERLY

B. E. CONNERLY

SINCE I last reported to the REVIEW Mrs. Connerly and our two girls have joined me in the work in Colombia, and we have changed our headquarters from Barranquilla to Medellin, the second city in the republic. The way distances are measured here, we are six days up the Magdalena River to Puerto Berrio, and one day west from there by train and coach, near the Cordillera Central Mountains, between the great rivers Magdalena and Cauca. The altitude of Medellin is nearly 5,000 feet, and the climate is much cooler than that of the coast towns.

We like it here, and the opportunities for work are as abundant as they were for Paul in Macedonia.

Just now there are many obstacles that retard the book work; however, not more than we met in Barranquilla, where later we sold one hundred copies of the book “Practical Guide,” and I see no reason why we may not do as well here. It is always hard to get started in a new place, but we are finding that there is not only an interest in sanitation and hygiene, but in the Bible and the gospel as well.