Punta Arenas, Chile

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 15, 1915

Punta Arenas, Chile

BROTHER AND SISTER A. G. NELSON are laboring in our southernmost mission station, at Punta Arenas, on the Magellan Strait. From a recent letter we take the following: —

‑We regret that we cannot report something from the Falkland Islands, but we have not driven stakes there yet. The interest in Punta Arenas holds us here. Since there are no more workers in this field to follow up the interest, it seems best to concentrate our energies in one place until a nucleus can be formed. After getting a few believers established, we shall have a basis, and perhaps some help accruing from them. Should we scatter our work over a larger territory, there might not be anything definite accomplished.

‑We cannot as yet report a very large harvest. We are still sowing. A few grains are beginning to ripen, and we hope in the binding off of the work a few more may be found for the Master's garner. We can report four souls as fruitage, two adults and two children. These are English-speaking people from the Falklands.

‑We are planning a little missionary work with our new believers. As far as possible, we are going to mail a copy of Extra No. 2 of the REVIEW to every English-speaking person in Patagonia. The people are scattered over so much country, with so few in a place, that this seems about the only way we can reach all in a short time. We were so fortunate as to secure a list of the names and addresses of most of the English-speaking people.

‑It seems from the conditions in the East, that the kingdoms of this world will soon become the kingdoms of our Lord. And we earnestly hope that when he comes for his subjects, there may be found some trophies of his grace in this part of the world.”