Porto Rico by Mrs. Wm. Steele

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 30, 1910

Porto Rico

By Mrs. Wm. Steele

It has been some time since anything has appeared in the REVIEW in regard to the work in this field. We desire to say that our courage is good, and our hope grows brighter day by day. We thank God for a part in his work; there is nothing that gives one spiritual life like working for the souls of others. Six weeks ago our hearts were made glad by the arrival of the two brethren who have come to take up the canvassing work; we believe they will make efficient workers. At present, they are studying the language, in which they are making progress; they have also sold something like forty-five copies of Señales de los Tiempos. Yesterday they met a man who has known some of our people in the Hawaiian Islands, and has been favorably impressed; he promised to come to Sabbath-school. While we do not as yet see any immediate results, the seed is being sown, and here and there we see slight evidences that it may produce fruit. Our trust is in Him who has promised that his word shall not return unto him void, and we believe that in his own good time he will give the increase.

Mr. Steele is away almost continually, looking after the interests of El Centinela. He is having good success. I also have done a little in the way of selling the Spanish Life and Health (one morning I sold twenty-two copies); but as I have no suitable person with whom to leave my little girl, I can not work very regularly. However, I often find opportunities for sowing the good seed here and there. The more we talk of Jesus and tell of his wonderful love, the warmer our hearts grow toward him, and the more we desire his presence. Who among us longs more earnestly for his coming than the foreign missionary? O, that all might have just one taste of foreign mission life! Then would the work soon be finished. The needs are so great, the work before us is so vast, and the time so short! How eagerly we ought to improve our opportunities! A world is to be warned. This is no time to surround ourselves with luxuries, and sit comfortably in the midst of them. What value have words, when actions deny them? It will take all to buy the field. MRS. WM. STEELE.