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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 30, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 35.

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Ecuador

By Thomas H. Davis

GUAYAQUIL.—I have just returned from a trip to the interior, a region known for its fanaticism. The head priest of Ambato had preached against my books, so it was hard to deliver them. One man who had subscribed for “Patriarchs” took the book. Soon his sister came in, and snatching the book, ran out, declaring that she would burn it. She gave me strict orders never to return, but her brother tried to excuse the circumstances, and asked me to visit him again. I left them quarreling over the book.
MT. CHIMBORAZO IN THE DISTANCE
MT. CHIMBORAZO IN THE DISTANCE
From Ambato I went to Riobamba for the first time. This is a beautifully located town of about twenty-five thousand inhabitants. It is in a beautiful valley, surrounded with mountains, several of which are covered with perpetual snow. Mt. Chimborazo, twenty-two thousand feet above the sea-level, is the highest, and is about twenty miles from Riobamba.
The ride from Ambato on horseback was quite tiresome, but with fasting and prayer, the Lord gave me twenty orders for the first day’s work for Spanish “Patriarchs.” I had the pleasure of meeting two professors of the English language. Although they did not speak very plainly, I admired their effort to try. One of them invited me to spend the evening with him, meeting him at his home at half-past seven. As he did not speak very good English, I understood him to mean that he would see me at my room. So we both waited for each other in our respective rooms. This will show you how they speak English. One of the professors seemed anxious that I should stay and teach him, but this was impossible, as my work is to get the reading-matter before the public.
Here is a great field open for self-supporting missionary work. Why could not several teachers be sent here, as they are being sent to Peru? They surely would have their hands full. Brother Casebeer offers his nice little home to such free, until they can get well started. The interior of Ecuador, with a continual spring climate all the year round, would be a pleasant place for some good young teacher to locate at once. May the Lord pick out the right ones and send them soon, is our prayer. THOMAS H. DAVIS.