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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 3, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 1.

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Portugal

By C. E. Rentfro

LISBON.—We are in Lisbon now. This change has been made on account of the inconvenience in coming here every Sabbath for Sabbath-school, as well as for the purpose of being in a more central location for the work. We have a good-sized house, one room being especially for the public. We have Sabbath-school at our home now.
Sunday, September 9, we met Brethren Carscallen, Sander, and Peter Nyambo, who were on their way to East Africa. We had a good meeting at 4 P. M. in our house, singing in English, German, Portuguese, and in Brother Nyambo's language. We were very much interested in the latter's talk on Africa. With help from Brother Schwantes I translated English into Portuguese. Brother Nyambo said that when he was getting ready to go to Europe, his people told him that the whites would kill him and eat him, and now he has learned that the people here believe that the blacks kill and eat people. His tribe was first under the Portuguese, but now it is divided—half for the English, and half for the Portuguese. This made our Portuguese hearts leap for joy; for it meant a possibility of the truth's escaping from the English side over the border, or that an interest might be aroused, so that a person who knew one of these two languages could, by help of this brother or any other from the same tribe, study the language, and enter the other side. He told us that about four years ago one thousand persons were keeping the Sabbath in Central Africa. Who knows but some are in our territory? We are sure our Sabbath-school money will slip into the donation boxes easier since we have met the workers who are going to Africa.
We have colporteurs, but we have not a thing for them to sell. To print an edition of The Family Bible Teacher, with one thousand books, will cost nearly two hundred dollars. Part of this is already donated. Why can not a call be made to supply what is still lacking? May the good work advance all along the line, is our prayer.
C. E. RENTFRO.