AGAIN and again we meet with experiences which show that the Spirit of God is stirring up hearts to inquire for the very truths that are to be made clear in these days. For example, just now from the Sao Paulo Mission comes the news of a certain native who could not read, but who was a Christian believer. One day he asked the elder of his church how it was that when the elder read from the Bible, it always spoke of Sabado (Sabbath), and not of Domingo (Sunday). His elder told him that the Bible did not speak of the first day of the week as a day of rest, but only of the seventh. But notwithstanding this acknowledgment on the part of the elder, he tried to convince the unlettered man that he ought to keep Sunday. The latter, however, could not see how this could be, in view of what the Bible said of the Sabbath. Not being able to satisfy the man, the elder told him he had better go to those Adventists, who keep the Sabbath; he told him where he could find them. The man then went sixteen miles, to where our brethren lived, and asked them to explain the Sabbath question to him, which they gladly did. He then begged that they write out the proofs on paper, giving the reasons why we observed the Sabbath, so that he might take them home with him, and have some one read them to him and his family. This was done, and he, like the eunuch of old, went his way rejoicing, and is to-day keeping the Sabbath with his family.
GROUP OF COLPORTERS ON THE PORCH OF OUR BRAZILIAN PUBLISHING HOUSE, SAN BERNARDO
Calls keep coming to us from many places, but which, on account of lack of laborers, we are unable to fill. In the interior of the State of Bahia, there are persons who, for three long years, have been begging that some one come to them, that they might be baptized.
Brazil, with its twenty-one millions, not including perhaps a million or more Indians roaming its immense forests, deserves our consideration as a needy field.
