L. BROOKING by L. Brooking

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 10, 1903

L. BROOKING

By L. Brooking

Argentina

AFTER staying to follow up the interest awakened by the camp-meeting at Humboldt, I came to the Chaco to work. Here I found a change. Some lukewarm ones had dropped out. But on the other hand, Dr. Habenicht had been there on a visit, and had spoken forcibly on the harmfulness of mate drinking. Our efforts to induce our people here to give up the habit had met with little success, but the doctor's talks convinced some, and I was glad to see some born in the country, all their lives addicted to its use, standing free. For this I praise the Lord. Satan has tried hard to destroy the work here in special ways, but some are standing firmly in the place of those who have given up. Some Sabbath-keepers have come from Chile with false doctrines about the sanctuary question, teaching that it is necessary to keep each day of atonement (October 22), and to observe the feast of tabernacles and other feasts. Only one, however, united with them, and he is beginning to see the error of that teaching.

We have an example here of how Eze. 34:11 is being fulfilled. On one of the islands of the Parana River lived a man and his wife, natives. During one night in a dream she heard several times a voice telling her to go from there. Finally she decided to go; so putting her husband, who was sick, into the canoe, and their three children, she saw a light like a falling star. Before that she was afraid of falling stars, but a voice told her, “Go forward; I will accompany you.” Following the light, they arrived at the hut of a Sabbath-keeper, Angel Benetez, who taught them of the true God and the Sabbath. Very soon afterward they were baptized. The wife had often prayed that she might know the true God, and he answered her. “For thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.” Her husband also was healed of an incurable disease which he had had for about sixteen years.