less than half as long in Brazil and with one-third of the missionary force.  Last year with a missionary force one-third as large in Brazil as it was in China, there were 635 more baptisms in Brazil than there were in China.  There were 1,534 baptisms in China and 2,169 in Brazil.  The same sort of comparison between our work in Italy and Japan would make the same showing.  This is not to make a prejudicial statement concerning the work in any field.  We make it simply to show that the gospel does succeed remarkably in the Catholic countries.  The fact is, the rate of progress is far greater in the Catholic country than it is in the heathen land.  The gospel does succeed in Catholic countries.  What is said here of the work of this one Board can he laid just as truly of the others.

It was our privilege to witness some remarkable demonstrations of the power of the gospel while we were in Brazil.  About 3:30 o’clock one afternoon we arrived in Genipapo in the interior of the State of Bahia, after having ridden since early morning upon the railroad train through a mountainous country which, with its tropical vegetation, held our keenest interest.  We were met at the station by some members of our church, who escorted us to the home of Polycarpo Nogueira.  Mrs Nogueira is a very devout Christian.  Some years ago she learned that her mother had embraced Christianity.  Mrs. Nogueira set out upon a journey of 130 miles on muleback to her mother’s home for the purpose of taking out of her mother’s heart her belief in the gospel.  She succeeded in shaking her mother’s faith and also the faith of her brother.  She now determined to prepare herself to combat this Baptist teaching which was spreading over the country.  She marked passages of Scripture which she proposed to use against the Baptists.  But when she used them she grew ashamed because she became conscious of the fact that she had misapplied the Word which she then gave deeper study.  The Word of God took hold of her own heart and she in turn was converted.  Her first thought was concerning her mother and brother 130 miles away.  Again she took the long journey on muleback in order to lead her loved ones to Christ.  She was able to re-establish her mother’s faith, but to this day her deep regret is that her brother does not believe.

We had a great service at the church that night.  The crowd was so large that we held the services out in the open.  Seven stood to confess their surrender to Christ.  The good deacon of the church was so thoroughly in the spirit of the occasion and in such sympathy with me that he declared he could understand my English.  He really seemed to catch it before the missionary could interpret it.

On the following day we reached St. Inez, the station at the end of the railway, and spent the night in a poor excuse of a lodging house called the Commercial Hotel.