F. H. WESTPHAL by F. H. Westphal

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 12, 1907

F. H. WESTPHAL

By F. H. Westphal

Chile

VALPARAISO.—At the close of our institute we were able to send twelve colporteurs into the wide harvest-field. Our book and paper work will still make a record during the three months that remain.

I came north to see about getting a home for our office and the publishing plant. We found a very nice place near Santiago, five blocks from the station. There are two houses on the lot, one having two rooms, the other five. The lot, which is a corner one, measures thirty-five by seventy-five meters. It is fenced with a high wall, and there are fruit-trees on the place. There is water to furnish power to run our presses. Eight trains pass there every day each way, and it costs no more than four cents to go to Santiago and back to Espejo, where we shall be located. We paid for this place $4,750 current Chile money, making at present about $1,311 United States money. The houses will need some repairing, but we believe that we have procured a nice place very cheaply. We shall sign the papers next Tuesday.

When we think what the Lord has done for us during the last three years, we feel to praise his name. We had four hundred pesos of debt on the school, and now we have buildings worth $2,208, and no debt. We had an old Washington hand-press, with some type and a worn-out paper-cutter; now we have presses and type and a paper-cutter and stitcher, all worth not less than $2,200, and no debts. We were living in a cramped-up place, in an old building, paying high rent, with only a few broken benches; now we have two houses of our own for the conference, a home for the office and the printing-plant, worth not less than $1,662, and no debts. Through the fire and the earthquake the Lord has brought us out this way, and we believe he has had his hand over us.

The work in general is progressing wonderfully, and yet not as it might if we were all consecrated fully to the Lord. Week before last fourteen souls were baptized at Guillota, seven in the north, four in the south, and five others are awaiting baptism there, also others in Santiago, and last Sabbath I baptized two in Valparaiso.

The time of the loud cry of the third angel's message has come. The war cry seems to be spreading everywhere. It shows that the clouds are forming rapidly, and soon the nations will be active in battle. May the Lord bless his work and cause in our hands from day to day.