friends, for they thought that a stranger who could render such a
good account of himself at a Brazilian breakfast must be very much
like themselves. (Let us explain about Brazilian meals: They take
coffee in the early morning. Bread and butter is served with the
coffee. Breakfast, which is a very substantial meal, is served
about eleven o'clock. Dinner, which is the chief meal of the day,
is served about five o'clock in the afternoon. At bedtime light
refreshments are served, which are often substantial enough to
make another meal).

After breakfast was over, and it was some time before it was over,
for the crowd had to be fed, we assembled for worship. The
congregation was too large for the little room, so the men built a
beautiful arbor out of bamboo cane. When Maddox told me we were to
hold services under an arbor I was dissappointed, for somehow
there had come over me a great desire to speak from that large
pulpit in the little room. My dissappointment was short-lived,
however, for when we reached the arbor there were the pulpit and
the lace-covered chairs! It was a gracious service. The Spirit of
the Lord was upon us. The sermon lost none of its effect from the
fact that it had to be interpreted, because Maddox interpreted it
with sympathy and power.

After preaching, four were received for baptism. They were not
converted at this service, but had been expecting to come for some
time. Maddox baptized them in the spring branch, which had been
deepened by a temporary dam being thrown across it. One of those
baptized was a woman ninety years of age.

Our time was growing short now. Maddox changed his clothes in a