Untitled article by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 6, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 39.

FROM SOUTH AMERICA.

By Editor

The Union Record, of New York City, publishes a private letter from Brother R. B. Craig, dated Buenos Ayres, May 11, from which we take the following extracts:—

Yes, the Revolution did interfere with the work in Brazil, or at least it seemed so to us. Yet we know that all things work together for good to them that love the Lord. It is in the past now, and Brother Stauffer is pushing the work there with increased help from some who have commenced to keep the Sabbath.

I wish someone was here to take charge of the business matters, which are increasing all the time, and this would leave me free to give my time wholly to canvassing. I am now getting "Patriarchs and Prophets" in some of the best English families in Buenos Ayres; but I only get two or three days a week to canvass. The brethren are doing fairly well on the Spanish books, but it is still a problem to be solved how to get the books into the homes of many of the Catholic people. Brother Brooking is having some success in this direction, and our prayers constantly ascend that the Lord will direct in our efforts to reach them. Brother Nowlen is now at Sandy Point, Straits of Magellan. The prospects are not now so favorable there as on the islands, but he is pushing things, and we hope to see some respond to the light he leaves there.

My wife is teaching school with a few English children, and we spend an hour or more each evening studying Spanish with two other families, one of which is Spanish, and while they teach us Spanish we teach them English. The climate here is good in many respects, yet there is much suffering from rheumatism, and from the very bad meat, which is eaten in large quantities by almost every family.

We are very anxious to hear from the General Conference Council. We are expecting a reënforcement by some ministerial help. Certainly the people of this country should have the privilege of hearing the message publicly soon.

Exchange is very bad here now, as it takes $3.90 in this currency to buy one dollar of United States money. But the currency is like many other things here—it is rotten beyond repair. If anyone wants to see what Catholicism will do for a country, just let him see things in these South American countries. Still it is better now than a few years past, when Romanism held full sway.

We are all of good courage in the Master's work, and are doing all we can to push it forward.