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The situation in Brazil is complicated furthermore by the turn
affairs have taken in Portugal. There were riots in Rio and public
demonstrations against the local priests and against the exiled
Portuguese priests that would probably enter Brazil after the
establishment of the Portuguese Republic. But it appears that
these Portuguese clerics are to be admitted. This increases the
gravity of the situation. We shall be forced to take account of
these men. They are a part of the religious problem of South
America. Whether we wish to antagonize them or not, we shall be
cognizant of their power. They will not let us alone. They will
not give up South America to Protestantism without a bitter
struggle.

Now I do not say all of these things of the Catholic phase of the
religious problem in Latin-America for the purpose of recommending
that we should gird ourselves for a polemical mission to these
countries. We should look the situation squarely in the face that
we may be able to estimate properly every force with which we
shall have to do. I think that if the sole purpose in conducting
these missions is to fight the Catholics, then we can find work to
engage us more worthily. Let us evermore keep before us the fact
that the Latin races have a real need of the gospel and the gospel
is not being preached to them by the priests. If this is true, our
duty is clear and our call is imperative. We must go and preach a
positive, soul-saving gospel, avoiding conflict as far as possible
and by satisfying the heart-hunger of the people with the Bread of
Life, win them to Christ and a new life in Him.

I want to enter a plea for these, our brothers to the South of us.
God has separated them from their old soul-dwarfing environment in
Europe, and set them in this Western World that they might learn
of Him. Whether they realize it or not, they are making the last
fight for salvation and character their race is ever to engage in.
They have a need of the gospel as distressing as that of the
grossest heathen. Their religion itself is leading them further
and further from their saving Lord. Their teachers, who should
show them the light of life, are a beclouding hindrance. The
little band of missionaries we have sent are hopelessly inadequate
to the task and plead for reinforcements with a pathos that almost
breaks our hearts. Oh, do not some of us, as we have followed the
portrayal of the needs of South America, like Isaiah of old, hear
the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send and who will go for us?" God
grant that some of us may respond as he did, "Lord, here am I.
Send me."

The same deep longing for salvation that is in our hearts is in
the Latin heart. One day in the interior of Brazil I stood with a
missionary speaking with a man who had ridden to the railroad
station to talk with us a few moments while the train was
stopping. As we conversed a boy twelve years of age drew near to
hear us. He was pitifully disfigured with leprosy. So moved was
the missionary by the sight that he turned and said: "Why do you
not go somewhere and be treated." There flashed instantly in the
boy's eye a hope that had long since died, and he quickly
inquired, "Where can I go?" The missionary could not tell him, and
I watched the last ray of hope flicker for a second and then die
out forever! Ever since that day I have been hearing that pathetic
question, "Where can I go?" I seem to hear all Latin-Americans ask
it out of depths of sin. And we know to whom they must go for
healing and salvation. Shall we tell them? "Lord to whom shall we
go--thou hast the words of eternal life." To whom shall Latin-
America go? Only Christ has for them the word of life which
blessed truth they will never know unless we carry it to them.

THE END.





APPENDIX.

SUMMARY OF SOUTHERN BAPTIST WORK IN BRAZIL.

I. MISSIONARIES--
1. Foreign, 44.
(1) Men, 21.
(2) Women, 23.

2. Native, 117.

II. CHURCH STATISTICS--
1. Churches, 142.
2. Membership, 9,939.
3. Church Buildings, 44.
4. Outstations, 497.
5. Sunday Schools, 138.
6. Sunday School Scholars, 4,438.

III. SCHOOLS--
1. Primary Schools, 9.
2. Bagby School for Girls in Sao Paulo.
3. Fluminense School for Boys in Nova Friburgo.
4. School for Boys and Girls in Bahia.
5. School for Boys and Girls in Pernambuco.
6. Rio Baptist College and Seminary in Rio.
7. Total number of students, 869.
8. Theological Departments in connection
with Rio and Penrambuco schools.

IV. GENERAL--
1. Work begun in 1882.
2. Publishing House in Rio.

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