Religious Conditions in Brazil
By Christian at Work
The Southern Presbyterians have six stations in Brazil and twenty-four male and female missionaries. The Southern Methodists have ten ordained missionaries in that country, and ten single ladies. Brazil is practically without a religion. The leading features of the condition of the people are: (1) Lack of a knowledge of religious truth on the part of the best classes, and indifference to religious obligation; (2) the Bible is interdicted; (3) there are no voluntary religious organizations; (4) the religious services of the churches are in a tongue unknown to the people; (5) there is rarely any preaching in the churches, and what there may be is usually about the saints and the festivals; (6) the people of the rural districts are almost wholly destitute of religious advantages of any kind.