THE WATCHMAN
THE NORTH BRAZIL MISSION
Tur last message of mercy is making pro-
gress in this mission field also. We see that
the gospel is even here accomplishing for in-
dividual hearts that which at the Saviour's
birth angel songs announced, as, hovering over
the hills of Judea, they sang: “ Glory to God
in the highest, and on earth peace, good will
toward men.”
Across the bay from Rio de Janeiro lies the
small and ancient city of Nictheroy. A short
distance from Nictheroy lives Brother N., a
native, and shoemaker by trade, who, as all
true Adventists should do, sought to interest
his neighbors (who were Roman Catholics)
in the word of God. Accordingly he loaned
one family a Bible. The wife soon became in-
terested in this, to her, new book, and began
to put into practice what she read. Brother
N. also began to work with another neighbor,
and he also became interested in the Bible and
its teachings. Now it so happened that these
two families, neighbors of Brother N., were
bitter enemies, and Mrs. Mary would never
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speak to Mr. Antonio, nor even look at him.
But some time after Mrs. Mary had com-
menced to study her new-found Bible, which
told her to love her enemies, she met Mr. An-
tonio in the road, and the latter hardly knew
what to say or think as his former bitter en-
emy gave him a hearty shake of the hand and
a cordial and f{riendly greeting. As Mr. An-
tonio thought of the past, his eyes filled with
tears, and he said, “Surely only the gospel
could have wrought this change in vou.” And
from that day, Mr. Antonio made greater
progress in the spiritual life.
Mr. Antonio had been a devoted Catholic,
and had many images of saints in his house,
but as soon as he learned to know the true
God, who forbids the making and worshiping
of images, all his once precious idols were put
away and destroyed. He at one time said to
me, “All my life I have worshiped clay, but
now am glad that I
one more worker, a native brother who is do-
ing colporter and Bible work in Rio de Jan-
And we believe the Lord will send us
We desire an in-
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the help we so much need.
terest in your prayers.
F. W. Sriks.
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THE WEAPONS OF OUR WARFARE—NO. 1
Tur great threefold message of Revelation
14 is to be preached “to every nation, and
kindred, and tongue, and people.” The proc-
lamation of the everlasting gospel as embodied
in these messages directly results in develop-
ing, from all nations, a people of whom it is
said, “Here is the patience of the saints;
here are they that keep the commandments
of God, and the faith of Jesus.”
This calls for faithful message-bearers to
know and can serve the
true God.”
Where Brother N. be-
gan to sow the seed of
present truth there are
now two entire families
keeping the Sabbath of
the Lord, and members
of two other families
are likewise obeying the
Lords commandments
and rejoicing in the hope
of the Lord's soon com-
ing.
Homes where Egyptian
darkness reigned, with
its multitude of
where people hated one
another, are to-day send-
ing forth beams of light
to other souls still in
darkness. The precious last-day gospel mes-
sage, the message that calls all men to keep the
commandments of God and the faith of Jesus,
has there kindled a light which is even now
guiding the feet of others to the sure harbor;
for through these above mentioned, still oth-
ers are becoming interested in the third angel's
sins,
message.
A short time ago seven of these dear souls
asked to be baptized, and we are expecting
soon to have a baptism at this place.
It is hard for those who have not before
seen the utter darkness and ignorance of these
poor people in the things of God to realize
the great change that has come over them;
hard to realize what it means to now see them
converted to God and his truth. And natur-
ally their joy in the Lord and in his light is
in proportion to the darkness from which they
emerged.
This is what the third angel's message is
doing for the people of Brazil, and surely it
is gratifying to know that in some few prov-
inces of this vast country the work has now a
firm foothold, But in the North Brazil Mis-
sion, which includes sixteen provinces, and
in which more than seventeen millions of just
such poor souls are sitting in darkness, there
is great need of more men and means, as the
writer is the only ordained minister in this
vast field, and aside from myself there is only
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go into all parts of the earth to preach the
coming of the Lord and to hold up the com-
mandments of God. As these workers go
out into lands where heathen and papal dark-
ness have long reigned supreme, they realize
as never before the fact that “ we wrestle not
against flesh and blood, but against princi-
palities, against powers, against the rulers of
the darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high places.” Eph. 6:12.
Note the opposing forces against which we
are called to labor. The Twentieth Century
New Testament states it thus: “ For our strug-
gle is not against enemies of flesh and blood,
but against the powers of evil, against those
that hold sway in the darkness around us, and
against the spirits of wickedness on high.”
This condition is truer now than when the
apostle Paul, under the guidance of the Holy
Spirit, wrote of it; for we are certainly liv-
ing in the times when Satan is working * with
all power and signs and lying wonders, and
with all the deceivableness of unrighteousness
in them that perish.” 2 Thess. 2:9, 10.
Here is a summing up of all the master-
pieces of deception on the part of the powers
of darkness as arrayed against the work of
God in these last days. It is not necessary
to mention the different forms in which these
deceptions appear; they are legion. However,
it is necessary for us to remember the nature
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