Argentina by Arthur Fulton

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 18, 1907

Argentina

By Arthur Fulton

JUNIN is a city of fifteen thousand inhabitants, situated about one hundred and fifty miles due west of Buenos Ayres, on the Pacific line. It is also the terminus of a branch line of the Central Argentine Railway. The Pacific shops are here, and employ about two thousand men. The city has many English residents. We came here the first of November to answer a call to follow up an interest created by a brother who was teaching in the home of a prominent rancher, where a sister of this gentleman's wife had begun to keep the Sabbath. Since coming, the young lady's parents have also accepted the truth. These are Scotch people, and have been members of the Presbyterian Church. Others are interested, for whom we have hopes.

The twentieth of January I left for Buenos Ayres, to audit the conference books and attend the meeting of the South American Union Conference Committee, which was held in Entre Rios. In company with Brother Town, I crossed Entre Rios from east to west. It was all a barren waste; the grasshoppers had left the ground bare and the trees leafless, while a severe drought and intense heat added to the distress. We were sorry to see the orchard at the school completely destroyed; the trees that had rallied from last year's scourge were entirely barked and ruined. Surely the judgments of God are in the land.

I arrived home February 22, and made arrangements to move my family to a more healthful and favorable location for our work. We moved to our new home the twenty-seventh, and the same evening our little Bernice was taken sick with what proved to be confluent smallpox. Before she was entirely recovered, I took the same disease. The Lord came very near to us in our suffering, and at times in answer to prayer was present with his healing power. We feel very thankful for the knowledge of simple treatments, and above all for a faith that can sustain us at all times. Even though we may be brought low, we are not forsaken nor forgotten of the Lord.

In Argentina is a large English population, for which nothing has been done as yet. I feel a great burden for them, and am desirous of reaching as many as I can with the truth. For this reason I ask for a supply of our papers to be sent me for distribution among them.

ARTHUR FULTON.

Junin, Argentina.