A New Company in Brazil

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 11, 1915

A New Company in Brazil

From the Brazilian interior, Elder J. H. Boehm sends a photograph of a company of believers who have accepted the message, and built a little church in which to worship God. The call for meetings in this place came to our people through the experience of a young man whose dying wife was healed as he called upon God for the first time in his life. Having grown up in a Catholic community, with practically no religious instruction, he knew not how to learn about the God who had answered his cry, until by a manifest special providence a Bible was placed in his hands. In this he learned that the seventh day is the Sabbath, and while he was wondering why the first day was the day of rest, one of our colporteurs came to his home, answered his questions, and told him of our people and work in Brazil. At once he made a journey to the Sao Paulo headquarters, asking for a preacher to come into his community. The result is the little company of believers shown in the picture.

Leaving them for meetings in another community, Brother Boehm says: “We regretted to part with our little company as much as they regretted to let us go. But as they want to see the message go to all the world, they bade us Godspeed. Since reaching our new place of meetings they have written that they are daily praying that the Lord may make many others as happy as they are in this present truth.”