p. 19 | CHAS. T. EVERSON by Chas. T. Everson

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 10, 1907

CHAS. T. EVERSON

By Chas. T. Everson

Italy

ROME.—This winter we hope to enter upon a very active campaign at Rome. We are expecting to open up evening schools, in which we shall teach English and French, and thus get acquainted with the young men and women who would not be attracted by a gospel sermon. After getting acquainted with them, we can begin to do something for them in teaching them the truth. The school work is the great system of evangelization I see in the missionary fields like Syria and China, and Italy must be treated almost like a real missionary field to make the work succeed. The missions that have worked along that line here have made the most progress. You see Catholicism does not depend upon anything else as it does upon its schools and hospitals for maintaining and enlarging its work. I think we may learn a few things from them in this. I may preach an English sermon on Sunday afternoon, to which I can invite those who are studying English, as well as the English-speaking people of Rome.

You may have noticed that the southern California young people have agreed to help start a school at Rome. We have accepted their proposition, and are working hard to get things in running order. A school will put us in touch with the women, and that is the great problem in a country like this; for the women are closely watched by the priests, and it is almost impossible to get them to come to the meetings or to listen to this truth.

Thus far we have been getting our bearings in this country, but I believe when things get to going, with the experience gained, we shall see something done here. We are trying to lay the foundation sure, so that it will support the structure afterward built upon it.