Brauges, France by Daniel T. Bourdeau

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 28, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 33.

Brauges, France.

By Daniel T. Bourdeau

I HAVE now been here five weeks; have spoken twenty-eight times and visited much, and about twelve persons are rejoicing in present truth. They have about everything to learn, and it will take time for them to come up fully on all points; but I have faith that they will set a worthy example to others in France, in every important feature of this glorious work.

The cholera is still doing its deadly work at different points in France. One hundred thousand persons have left the city of Marseilles; twenty thousand out of twenty-five thousand have left the city of Arles, near Marseilles; and two-thirds of the population of Toulon have fled to other more salubrious parts of the country. The Italian Government will not suffer foreigners from the West or even from Switzerland to enter Italy. So I am shut up to France for the present. This plague is doing more toward preparing the French people to receive the truth, and to hear of more fearful plagues, than fifty preachers could do in six months. God help us to act well our part.

D. T. BOURDEAU. August 4, 1884.