Praise is Offered: 
1. For the answer to prayer and sending in of funds to take out the new party of mis- 
sionaries to South America. 
2. For the answer to prayer in the receiving of sufficient gifts to the General Fund 
during the summer to pay allowances on the Field. 
3. For conversions in the Iquitos section. 
4. For blessings on the deputation work of Mrs. A. F. Tylee in the Middle West. 
Prayer is Asked: 
1. For the meeting of the General Council in New York, commencing October twenty- 
sixth. 
2. That the financial needs of the General Fund may be met. 
3. For funds to bring home missionaries waiting on the Field for their furlough. 
4. For new missionaries just arrived in South America : that they may be given ability 
to learn the new language; and that they may become accustomed to the new cli- 
mate and new peoples. 
5. For evangelization of Indians on the Ucayali River. 
6. For the healing and convalescence of the sick ones in the mission. 
7. For a revival in South America. 
News Notes 
A party of new missionaries sailed from New York for the work in South America 
on October the eighth, on the steamer, "Benedict." Their first stop will be Para, Brazil. 
At that point they will tranship to a river steamer and will travel three weeks up the 
Amazon River to Iquitos, Peru. There they will train and make ready to engage in 
the work cf evangelization at the headwaters of the Amazon. 
A General Council Meeting with delegates in attendance from Great Britain, Can- 
ada, and South America will be held at 113 Fulton St., New York City, commencing 
Monday, October 26, 1931. 
Mr. and Mrs. E, H. Lauriault and family have arrived in the United States for their 
furlough. They were stationed at Iquitos, Peru, and have had about a month's trav- 
eling to reach New York. 
A letter from the secretary of the British Council, Mr. George U. Graham, tells us 
of the safe arrival in Scotland of Rev. and Mrs. John Hay and Miss Helen Hay, and 
of Rev. George Jennings, who is returning home on furlough. 
The Annual Special Prayer Week 
Again this year we are setting aside the week October 19-25 to pra}'er for the 
evangelization of South America. Our special request is for wisdom and God's 
leading in the General (International) Council Meeting to be held in New York 
at 113 Fulton Street, commencing October 26th. Our friends are asked to specially 
lay aside one day of the week of prayer for intercession. 
It is hoped that local councils and prayer circles will make every effort to gather 
together in one place for one evening. Where there are no such groups, our friends 
are requested to set aside a night for prayer in their homes or in their own closets. 
A suggested program for the evening is for someone to read the prayer requests 
as outlined in copies of the Bulletin and Magazine so that intercession may be 
definite. Inland South America is calling for evangelization in our generation. 
Prayer will bring to pass this desired end. 
Letter From Christine Cameron 
Visconde de Taunay, Matto Grosso. 
It is now some time since I have written you a letter, but owing to the intense 
heat very little has been accomplished in the way of letterwriting. I do not remember 
ever having suffered so much with the heat during the nearly eleven years that I have 
been in Brazil. And this afternoon, were it not for the typewriter, I could not write 
th ese few lines. One's hand just sticks to the paper and to use a familiar expression, 
"it gets on your nerves." Yet with all "He giveth me strength as my day." 
January 20th I was disturbed from my peaceful slumbers at 3:30 by a voice shouting 
the name of Mr. Hunrichs and then my name "for the love of God" to attend a man 
bitten by a snake. The dogs barked and barked and then the man remained outside the 
gate so I got up and asked him what he wanted. Then I dressed and went out — it was 
still dark. I went to the gate and asked him who he was, etc. He brought a horse along 
for me to ride and he saddled it. I called the boy who works here and off we went, the 
man leading the horse as the road was bad, and the boy following behind. As I mounted 
the horse I noticed that the man's breath smelt of liquor. Mr. Hunrichs was away that 
night. I gave an injection for snake bite (rattle snake). The man who was bitten had 
been invited to play an instrument at a feast that night, and had come a distance of about 
23 miles, but before he arrived at the house the snake had bitten him. When I arrived 
he was already vomiting and had pain in his heart. The people of Ipegue were dancing 
in front of the house where the feast was and many were standing looking on. The 
man who had given the feast, a black man, had years ago had the missionaries holding 
meetings in his home. "And ye will not come to me that ye might have life." 
To celebrate my birthday I invited 15 boys of my class in Sunday school, those who 
attended this year, to have dinner at the Mission. Twelve of them came, one of 
the 15 being sick, one away, and the third, evidently did not care to come. The boy 
who works here joined them, although he did not belong to the class. We had dried beef, 
rice, beans, mandioca, squash, and cooked fruit with plenty of sugar for dessert, then 
black coffee. Patricio, one of the class, has been teaching them this year. He set the 
table and served the others. We had our dinner together later. Before dinner they had 
games and for prizes I used a few of the articles that the Ladies' Bible Class had sent 
out with Mr. Anderson. After dinner they took the organ outside and we had musical 
chairs, other games, and finally we sang hymns. 
Suddenly there came a shower of rain and we all hurried to the house each carry- 
ing something. On the way, quite near the house, a great big snake came gliding along 
apparently after or behind one of the boys. There was a cry of "coichoi," which means 
snake in the Terena language. I ran for my stick but I was just too late, as the boy 
who was being followed by the snake was just striking it. Of course I had to use my 
stick on it too. It was about a meter and a half long, and a poisonous one. 
