Linha Torres (Brazil) General Meeting by F. W. Spies

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 27, 1911

Linha Torres (Brazil) General Meeting

By F. W. Spies

The Linha Torres general meeting was held at the place of worship of the Linha Torres church, April 26-30. In the southeastern part of Santa Catharina we have four churches, comparatively close together, and all these were represented at this meeting. Although the time was somewhat unfavorable, the general meeting coming in the midst of rice harvest, there were 115 present at the Sabbath-school on Sabbath morning, and the small meeting-house was packed to its utmost capacity.

At the Linha Torres meeting the work was principally of a nature to help the brethren spiritually. No business was transacted, except to consider and discuss the resolutions adopted at Tijucas. This gave a good opportunity to speak of the need of faithfulness in the payment of tithes and offerings, in circulating our literature, and of individually engaging in missionary work.

The Linha Torres meeting, the same as the Tijucas conference, was a season of refreshing from the presence of the Lord. Old troubles were put aside. Special and definite sins were confessed, and we believe victories were gained. The Lord also came near to the hearts of the young people, and at the close of the meeting the writer baptized eight of these. At this meeting, at which the work was almost entirely in the German language, Brother Frank Belz, a German licentiate, assisted.

I am now on my way back to Tijucas, where I hope to spend a short time before returning to Rio de Janeiro. As I look at the many needy fields in this vast republic, the many states yet unentered, and see the great need of more workers in the fields already entered, I feel constrained to ask the prayers of our people that the Lord of the harvest will send more reapers into his harvest. F. W. SPIES.