p. 13 | Getting Started in Old Spain by H. A. B. Robinson

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 16, 1915

Getting Started in Old Spain

By H. A. B. Robinson

H. A. B. ROBINSON

ON August 1, my wife and I arrived in Barcelona, after three weeks of traveling from New York City. We had an uneventful trip across the ocean, landing at Cadiz, the first port touched by the Spanish boat on which we sailed. We saw no battleships and no submarines, indeed nothing but sea and sky for the first eight days, and then we passed between two of the Azores, or Western Islands.

At Cadiz we were met by Brother J. L. Brown, his wife, and two of the canvassers. Brother Brown and his family left five days later for Cuba, en route to San Salvador, his new field of labor.

We then visited three of the colporteurs in Cordoba, on our way to Alicante, where Elder Frank Bond lives, who is our only minister among Spain’s nineteen millions, mostly Roman Catholics. We were glad to meet and speak to the little company of believers in that place, leaving soon afterwards for headquarters in Barcelona.

From August 26 to September 1 the annual conference and colporteurs’ institute were held, Elders L. P. Tieche and W. Dexter, of France, assisting, and a very profitable time was spent together. Two new canvassers entered the book work following this meeting. All are having as good success now as they had last year, when their sales for the year amounted to over $11,600, gold, two of them earning the premium offered for sales of over $1,500 worth of literature in one year.

I am now on a trip through southern Spain, visiting some of the colporteurs, small companies, and isolated Sabbath keepers, encouraging them especially in the home missionary work.