Gospel Progress in the Inca Union

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 5, 1916

Gospel Progress in the Inca Union

BROTHER E. L. MAXWELL, superintendent of the Inca Union Mission, in South America, writes: “During September, 1915, I took a trip up the north coast, and before returning to Lima I had baptized sixty persons,—carpenters, tailors, shoemakers, and artisans of nearly every class. In the mountains, at an elevation of 13,000 feet, in sight of the eternal snows, I baptized three Quichua Indians, our first fruits among this great tribe numbering many thousands. On the plains of Junin, three miles above the sea, I celebrated the first Protestant baptism, in sight of the famous battle field where Bolivar and Sucre wrested the Southern Continent from the dominion of Spain one hundred years ago. At the end of our first two years in the field we have added 303 baptized believers, bringing our membership up to 490, with more than seventy-five to be baptized in the next three weeks.”