THE NEGLECTED CONTINENT by J. W. Westphal

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 4, 1909

THE NEGLECTED CONTINENT

By J. W. Westphal

The Highway Prepared

ON its discovery, South America fell under the yoke of papal domination. The Inquisition was set up, and civil and religious liberty were unknown. But the awakening to liberty that swept over North America and Europe a little over a century ago, overturning the old order, aroused South America also, and these peoples proclaimed liberty. The independent republics were the result.

Though papal oppression was by no means at an end, the leaven of liberty was planted. Through revolution and struggle, by voice and pen and sword, each striving for mastery, the power of the oppressor has been broken. The Word of God passes majestically through the lands where only a few years ago it was unknown. The door is open for the final gospel message to be preached in every South American land.

With the open doors of the nations, there are also open hearts. Souls are hungering and thirsting for the truth. Deaf ears are unstopped. Wicked men are turned to the ways of God. This shows that the opening of the doors is of God, and that the highway is prepared in order that we may quickly do our appointed work. The ever-present question is, Will we do it?

J. W. WESTPHAL. Florida, Buenos Aires.