increased by baptism twenty-five per cent, last year. They
maintain a boys' school and a theological school at Pernambuco, a
school for boys and girls at Bahia, a boys' school at Nova
Friburgo, a girls' school at Sao Paulo and the crown of the school
system, the Rio Baptist College and Seminary in the capital. They
have a Publication Board to produce Sunday School and other
literature, a Home Mission Board to develop the missionary work in
the bounds of Brazil, and a Foreign Mission Board, which conducts
foreign mission operations in Chill and Portugal. While their
country is so needy, they believe in the principle of foreign
missions so thoroughly that they gave last year for foreign
missions as much per capita as did the churches in the bounds of
the Southern Baptist Convention. One night during the Convention,
I addressed them upon the subject of foreign missions, and after I
had finished speaking one of the missionaries came forward and
said he had thought that in as much as he had given his life to
foreign mission work, he was not under any special obligation to
contribute money to this cause, but now he saw his error and
proposed to give as a means of grace and in order to discharge his
duty to the larger cause.

What a privilege it was to attend this Convention! All of us took
our meals at the Girls' College and by this arrangement we had a
most delightful time socially. It is a fine body full of good
cheer, hope, faith, courage, consecration. To come to know them--
missionaries and native Christians alike--is to enter into
fellowship with some of the choicest and most indomitable spirits
that have ever adorned the Kingdom of our Lord.