River Plate Conference
By J. W. Westphal
The work in this conference is onward. The young men who have gone out from our school to labor as ministers or canvassers are having success. Brother Louis Ernst went to the Chaco to follow up an interest that had been created there, two or three having already begun to keep the Sabbath. The result was that a few weeks later, when Dr. Habenicht returned from Missiones, he could baptize eight souls. Through these an interest sprang up in the province of Corrientes, and Brother Ernst went there to labor. Before leaving, twelve had accepted the truth. Thus the work has for the first time obtained a foothold in this province. Everything possible was done to hinder the work, the police coming several times to take Brother Ernst, but each time he happened to be away. He has now gone to Paraguay, his future field of labor, and he reports one family interested in the truth. Several of the canvassers went to Concordia, in the eastern part of the province of Entre Rios, to labor, not simply to sell books, but to do personal missionary work. I have visited them once, and found some keeping the Sabbath, and others interested. The last reports tell us that six families have accepted the message, and still others are interested. Dr. Habenicht will go there at once to assist in the work. Concordia is at the head of navigation on the Uruguay River, and is an important center for northeastern Entre Rios, eastern Corrientes, northwestern Uruguay, and southwestern Brazil. At Bahia Blanca, in the southern part of the province of Buenos Ayres, where Brother Paul Bonjour is canvassing, one brother has accepted the truth, and others are interested; brother Santiago Mangold has gone to assist in the work there. At Lehmann, where our last conference was held, ten have recently begun to keep the Sabbath, and at San Geronimo, where our conference was held last March, several will be baptized soon, and a church organized. Thus the work is moving on, for which we thank God, and take courage.