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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 20, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 3.

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Spain

SPAIN is in a sad condition spiritually, as well as financially and commercially. “Work and trade generally is in such a bad state,” one writer says, “that during the last two or three years thousands have emigrated to South America.” The government seems indifferent to the ruin which is facing the people. With unprincipled officials on the one hand, and a grasping priesthood on the other, the people are in a bad state. Their minds are darkened, and their consciences seared with superstition and error. Some, however, are showing interest in spiritual things, and a colporteur writes that when the priest tried to persuade the people to burn the Bibles, telling them the books taught heresy, the people would not give them up, and many who had not bought before then came forward for them. In the last eighteen months, the Bible house of Los Angeles has printed in Spanish, for distribution in that land, more than three hundred ninety thousand New Testaments and other portions of the Bible. It is through the Word of God alone that their minds can be freed from the superstition and bondage under which Spain for so many years has suffered. Let us pray that God may thus lead them into the light of life.