p. 17 | The Chile-Bolivian Mission Field by F. H. Westphal

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 20, 1907

The Chile-Bolivian Mission Field

By F. H. Westphal

On my trip north I baptized six souls in Iquique. Others are awaiting baptism. In Antofagasta the elder baptized three: the elder at Copiopo, two; the local elder at Santiago, six; and the local elder at Nueva Imperial, six. On my last visit to Nueva Imperial and Bajo Imperial, five more were baptized, and here at Pitrufquen we are expecting to administer the rite to-morrow.

The circulation of literature is also progressing nicely. Brother Eduardo Thomann writes:—

“The Lord is blessing the circulation of literature very much. It is really wonderful how our paper is sold. Yesterday my sister went out at eight o’clock in the morning, taking with her seventy-five copies of the January number and twenty-five of the February issue of the Señales, and at two o’clock she returned, having taken seven subscriptions and sold seventy-seven single copies. This was her first experience in canvassing in Valparaiso.”

“I went out the evening after the Sabbath, and sold in two hours forty-nine copies of Señales, two Signs of the Times, and four Gute Gesundheit, making altogether a sale of $5.90. Yesterday (Sunday) I went out in the morning, and in four hours disposed of papers to the value of $9.30.”

Brother Steele writes: “I sold sixty-one Señales in one hour.” This is a little more than one every minute. Truly, if many were at work selling our literature, the drops of the latter rain would moisten the earth in all parts, and the Lord would soon come to gather his waiting people to their long-looked-for home. F. H. WESTPHAL.