Paraguay by E. W. Snyder

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

Paraguay

By E. W. Snyder

Asuncion.—This field is now ripe for the medical work, and if the opening here is not entered soon, the conditions may not remain so favorable. These countries at least are not becoming any easier to enter, and it may be that Argentina and Paraguay will follow the example of Uruguay in excluding foreign physicians entirely.

Although the work in Paraguay has not shown great results, yet we have encouraging omens that the leaven of truth is working. Before we came here, no seed had been sown in this country; and our first work was to secure a list of colonists, to whom we mailed tracts and papers. Afterward we made a best thorough canvass of five of the colonies where these persons lived, following up the interest by Bible readings and public effort as the way opened. In three we now have representatives of the truth; and the leaven is still working, as the following letter just received from an intelligent German woman will indicate. She says: “O that God would give me wisdom to train my children to bring them to him! I am in earnest, and one with you in heart, and God will give me strength to show it openly some day, and will have patience with me yet a little while.” This woman is meeting with opposition from her unbelieving husband, and must endure the ridicule of her neighbors, all of whom are godless people.

E. W. Snyder.