Patagonia-The Far South by Arturo Fulton

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

Patagonia—The Far South

By Arturo Fulton

Older readers will remember that in the geographies they studied in school, the long, tapering point of South America bore the name Patagonia. This is now a part of the great Argentine republic. It is divided into territories, and is fast being opened up to settlement. At the lower tip on the Chilean side, our work has obtained an entrance. The past summer several of the towns, both on the mainland and on the island of Terra del Fuego, were visited by one of the Chilean workers, who had good success in putting many of our books in the homes of the people. Some of our stanch Uruguayan brethren have now gone to Chubut, one of the central of these territories, in order to take up land. Farther to the north, and about six hundred miles southwest of Buenos Aires, in the territory of La Pampa, or Great Prairie, there is a church of about twenty members, seeking to let the light shine out.

This country is being rapidly settled with German, Scandinavian, and Russian colonists, as well as with immigrants from the south of Europe. We believe it offers one of the most productive fields of our South America Union Conference. The time has come when these scattered settlers must hear the truth for these last days.

ARTURO FULTON. Buenos Aires.