A PRIEST RESCUED | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 4, 1905

A PRIEST RESCUED.

THE following communication to the Baptist Argus from a missionary in Brazil will give an idea of the difficulties and the needs of certain parts of that field:

Three months ago, on my return from the terrible persecutions in Cortez in which we were miraculously delivered from our enemies, from the hand of those who had sworn in the name of the Virgin Mary to drink our blood, having already arranged the plot to kill us: I received a letter from a priest who was professor in the Salesian College of Recife. In this letter he asked me to come to the college at midnight to explain to him some points of the Gospel. Altho it seemed a little dangerous from the fact that it might have been another plot to kill me, I went and found an anxious soul seeking the truth. We had a long conference in which I explained as best I could the Gospel.

With the promise to write to me as soon as it might be convenient and arrange another conference, he returned to his work in the college. Almost a month passed before he wrote again, but the reason for the delay was that he had no money to buy stamps.

The priests in this college are not allowed to have any money. The director of the college supplies them with whatever they may need. But one day one of the day pupils who lives in town lost in the class-room just the amount needed to buy a stamp which our friend Jose Piani found and the very same day wrote me again arranging for a second conference in which he decided to give up all for Christ's sake. He went to our home in Corpina and for these two months has been studying very earnestly the Bible. He has given most glorious proofs of a genuine conversion. Last Sunday night I baptized him in the Recife church. He is only twenty-four years old and gives great promise for the future. Pray for him that he may be indeed a true Gospel light.