Chile by H. F. Ketring

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 16, 1902

Chile

By H. F. Ketring

COPIAPO.—We came here a little more than a month ago to follow up the work begun by Brother Davis. As a result of his canvassing and preaching, about twelve persons are keeping the Sabbath. As he went back to the States before they were thoroughly instructed, there was yet much for them to learn. They receive the word with gladness.

I hope the time will soon come when we shall have medical workers in Chile. But I shall not wait until then. I had some training in College View, and have given a good many treatments; and with the aid of “Home Hand-Book,” which I am studying, I hope to be a blessing to the people in the community, and as far as my influence reaches. An American dentist in Valparaiso took great interest in instructing me in the art of extracting teeth. So I shall go with my Bible, fomentation cloths, and a pair of forceps, and expect to have success.

As I am feeling more at home in Spanish, I have begun the study of German, as there are thousands of Germans, especially in the south. I studied it while in college; but through disease I am not able to speak very much now.

We need a German worker for the south. There is so much to do in this field! There are millions of Indians in whose dialects the Bible has not yet been translated. Something must be done for them. There is a brother in the south whom I baptized last summer. He speaks the dialect of the Indians, and I expect to make a trip among them with him next summer.

We were much interested in the account of Brother Booth’s labors in Central Africa. When we think of Africa’s, China’s, and India’s millions, yes, hundreds of millions, our souls would faint were it not for His promise, “Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.” H. F. KETRING.