Peru by A. N. ALLEN

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 6, 1911

Peru

By A. N. ALLEN

To-morrow I expect to make out the papers for the purchase of a small piece of ground where Brother F. A. Stahl will erect a small house in which to live, and which will contain a room for a dispensary. We felt that Brother Stahl could accomplish more by being free to make tours occasionally to different Indian towns, and come in direct contact with the people, than by having placed upon him the burdens and perplexities of an institution. God is blessing wonderfully here, and we desire to have all hands as free as possible to engage directly in the work of saving souls.

This place is thirteen thousand feet above the sea, and I am writing (May 28) with all my heavy clothes on. The air is very rare. Some nights I have had considerable difficulty to breathe. I sleep in a sheepskin sack with the wool inside. Often the least exertion leaves one feeling as if he were suffocating. Many deaths have occurred in the high altitudes of Peru. The least exercise raises the heart action to over a hundred beats a minute. A. N. ALLEN.