MAXIMO TRUMMER by Maximo Trummer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 10, 1910

MAXIMO TRUMMER

By Maximo Trummer

Argentina

This last month's report of book sales (amounting $1,473.75) includes two hundred sixty copies of “Christ’s Object Lessons,” which have been on the shelves here for four years. At the camp-meeting I persuaded the brethren to take from two to ten copies each home with them, to sell to their neighbors. The Lord so blessed in the undertaking that all the books were disposed of, and we had to tell the people there were no more. One brother sold his ten copies within three days.

We are getting along nicely. Some of the boys do not sell as many books as I would like to have them, but all are having their first experience, except one—a school-teacher. But though they do not sell much, they are just as faithful as if they did. One wrote to me last

week, that I should go ahead with full courage, and they would follow me. It is a pleasure to have boys like that. I certainly love to work shoulder to shoulder with them. I am in the field helping them from three to four days every week.

They work two and two, like the Waldenses. They take their cots and bedding and an oil-stove with them, rent a room, do their own cooking, and work until the town is finished; then they move on to the next one. Thus far the city authorities have given us permission in every place to canvass without a license.

The school and conference unite in offering scholarships on the same basis as in the United States. We are working with heart and hand and head to make the work go quickly. The more we are tried, the more we hang on. Like Hannibal, “If there is no way, then we will make one.” I could not have found a better field than South America; thanks to our Heavenly Father.