p. 20 | Progress in Ecuador

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 23, 1911

Progress in Ecuador

ECUADOR is considered one of the most difficult countries in South America to evangelize, but even there the workers are meeting with excellent success circulating our literature. In a letter written Dec. 12, 1910, Brother John Osborne writes:—

“Brother Wheeler and I have been away from home the most of the time since the first of September. We have visited Quito and several smaller places. We have sold a number of different kinds of books, but have made the health paper our leader. Brother Wheeler had subscribed for one hundred copies of this paper; and when we started out, we had nearly all of them on hand from the first of the year; but we disposed of all except those for the last two months, and most of these will go to the subscribers. We are very much pleased with the interest the people took in this journal. In many places where we would sell perhaps only a single number, the next day the people would follow us up in the street and give us their subscription for the year. We heard no word of complaint against the paper, but on the contrary, took a number of subscriptions after the people had taken plenty of time to investigate. We have ordered five hundred copies a month for next year. We think it is a splendid leader, and it also gives us a good list of names to which to send the Señales.

“While down on the coast, Brother Wheeler baptized a faithful old brother, who has been keeping the Sabbath for several years. He has been reading our papers, and then passing them on to others as he had opportunity. He is a shoemaker, also city judge. He has many friends in the country who own their homes and make a good living. To these he has been giving our papers, and some of them are keeping the Sabbath. This brother took us out to the country, where these people live, and we had some meetings with them. The women came to hear, as well as the men. One family is about ready for baptism. This brother has already begun to pay tithe. We could not stay with these people as long as we would have liked, as we both had the fever. Our literature is responsible for this interest, as it all started by this city judge buying ‘Patriarchs and Prophets.’ We are now receiving many letters from different parts of the republic, as the result of literature sent out.” N. Z. T.