Missionary Work in Brazil

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 22, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 12.

Missionary Work in Brazil

Brazil.—Christianity is always in conflict with error, and missionary work must ever be an aggressive work, because the enemy is everywhere throwing up barriers before it.

Rev. J. L. Bruce, a missionary in Brazil, says: "The greatest hindrance to the work here is the fact that we have a strongly-organized Roman Catholic Church opposed to us. The Roman Catholics do not hold the simple truth nor the simple error, but the truth mixed with the error, or the truth perverted. Also, religion and morality have been thoroughly divorced, so that gross immorality and thorough devotion may exist in the same person. They think they have just what we wish to give them. On the other hand, our great difficulty is that we will undertake to combat a church by a church."