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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 23, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 38.

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Peru

By Thos. H. Davis

We are having interesting times here with our Peruvian canvassers. At the close of the first institute eight entered the field for the first time. Some are doing well. During the first six weeks two of them secured over three hundred subscriptions for the Señales (Signs of the Times, in Spanish), besides their book sales. One was put in prison for not taking off his hat when the procession on Corpus Christi day was passing. Brother A. N. Allen and I went to the ministerio del gobierno about it, and the director said he would inquire into the affair. Church and state are united here; however, things are changing, and there is hardly one man in a hundred in Peru who believes in the priests.
I shall be here for a few days, disposing of the old edition of “Patriarchs and Prophets” in Spanish. The time I have put in canvassing here in Lima has given me, on an average, about two and one-half orders an hour. Not so bad for the capital of Peru, where there is so much style! I have on my list three of the four station masters here in Lima. One day I took sixteen orders in three hours.
“O where are the reapers that garner in The sheaves of the good from the fields of sin?”
From here I intend to go to Chile to hold an institute commencing August 2. We are beginning to see the importance of canvassers’ institutes in South America.
We believe we are in the time of the latter rain; but the Holy Spirit will never take away our responsibility, nor excuse us from personal effort. Let us all have a part in the work of the third angel’s message.
THOS. H. DAVIS, Field Agent for South America, West Coast.