the efforts of the missionary, meets the aching spiritual hunger
of the heathen heart and transforms his life into spiritual
efficiency.

Since this is my conception of what the burden of the message
concerning missions should be, it should not surprise anyone to
find the following pages filled with concrete statements of actual
gospel triumphs. I have endeavored to draw a picture of the
religious situation in Brazil by reciting facts. I have described
some of the work of others done in former years and I have
recorded some wonderful manifestations of the triumphant power of
the gospel which I was privileged to see with my own eyes. These
pages record testimony which thing, I take it, most people desire
concerning the missionary enterprise. More arguments might have
been stated and more conclusions might have been expressed, but I
have left the reader to make his own deductions from the facts I
have tried faithfully to record.

No attempt has been made to follow in detail the itinerary taken
by my wife and myself which carried us into Brazil, Argentina and
Chili in South America, and Portugal and Spain in Europe. It is
sufficient to know that we reached the places mentioned and can
vouch for the truth of the facts stated.

I have confined myself to sketches about Brazil because I did not
desire to write a book of travel, but to show how the gospel
succeeds in a Catholic field as being an example of the manner in
which it is succeeding in other similar lands where it is being
preached vigorously.