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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 26, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 43.

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South America

By Maximo Trummer

MAXIMO TRUMMER
It affords me great pleasure to be able to report that our canvassers are continuing their work with special courage in the River Plate field. All winter they have worked faithfully from town to town, losing scarcely a day.
The blessed Master continues always to bless our efforts. One of the boys earned enough in one year’s canvassing for “Home and Health” (Spanish) to go to the Friedensau school in Germany for a two years, besides paying for a scholarship for his sister here in Argentina.
Recently two canvassers began work with “Patriarchs and Prophets,” and received as many orders as they had formerly taken for “Home and Health.” Among others, we sold to the secretary, to the mayor, to the chief of police, also his secretary, to the priest, and to numerous merchants. This gives us more assurance still that we can sell our religious books with success. Our reports show that the brethren took as many orders during the first seven months of the present year as were obtained during all of 1910. We thank the Lord for it all.
There is much strenuous work before us. The following incident will give an idea of the sentiment of many of the people here: Several months ago, while in one of the capital cities, I witnessed a street parade, which was held in favor of the separation of church and state. Literature was distributed by the tens of thousands of pages, containing such articles as, “There Is No God,” “Separate the Family From the Church,” “We Want to Be Free From All Religions.” The parade, with a multitude of about 40,000, reminded me forcibly of scenes described in the history of France, in a time when the entire nation had rejected God and worshiped the goddess of reason.
I could not help asking myself, Where are we in the history of our message? The people, having been held in darkness for centuries, are breaking the shackles that have fettered them, and the church itself is powerless to prevent the direful results of its own teaching.
There are many conscientious souls among them, who will love the message as much as we when it is taken to them, and we are determined to let them know that it is not science which gives perfect liberty, but the gospel of Christ in its purity. We need wisdom from on high to stay the tide a little longer. Brethren, remember the work in Latin America.
Buenos Aires.