Praise is Offered: 
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For the answer to prayer and sending in of funds to take out the new party of mis- 
sionaries to South America. 
For the answer to prayer in the receiving of sufficient gifts to the General Fund 
during the summer to pay allowances on the Field. 
For conversions in the Iquitos section. 
For blessings on the deputation work of Mrs. A. F. Tylee in the Middle West. 
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Prayer is Asked: 
For the meeting of the General Council in New York, commencing October twenty- 
sixth. 
That the financial needs of the General Fund may be met. 
For funds to bring home missionaries waiting on the Field for their furlough. 
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. 
For evangelization of Indians on the Ucayali River. 
For the healing and convalescence of the sick ones in the mission. 
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. 
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Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Clark will De holding meetings during October and the first part 
of November in Philadelphia, Westchester and Media, Pennsylvania; in Leesburg, Fair- 
ton, Woodstown, Sea Isle City, and Runnemede in New Jersey; and in Corona, New 
York. 
Mrs. Arthur F. Tylee is doing deputation work in the Middle West, and will visit 
Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Missouri. 
In the early part of 1931, an evangelistic trip was made down the Ucayali River, one 
of the sources of the Amazon in Peru, during which a total number of twenty-one 
meetings were held and twenty-five hundred people were preached to. Pictures of 
some of the Indians that can be met with, on or near the Ucayali River, are printed in 
the present bulletin. 
A New Book 
THE CHALLENGE OF AMAZON'S INDIANS 
By 
Mrs. Arthur F. Tylee 
Introduction by 
Rev. Kenneth Mackenzie 
An Account of Missionary Work Amongst the Nhambiquara Indians and 
of the Life and Martyrdom of Arthur Francis Tylee. 
Price 75 c Postpaid 
at 
Inland South America Missionary Union, Inc. 
Rev. Joseph A. Davis, Secretary 
113 Fulton Street New York, N. Y. 
CARDBOARD COIN CONTAINERS— We will send these cards with the book to 
those who so request it in their order. They may be filled out and returned at 
convenience. 
A Soul Saved Through the Bible of a Priest 
Mrs. Isaac Wesley Clark 
When Mr. Clark and I went to Albuquerque last year, to stay there for a short 
while, we first tried living at the port. Albuquerque is situated four miles inland from 
the Paraguay River. Early Sunday morning, the second day in our little thatch-roof, 
mud house, an old man clapped his hands outside our door. It was a man named Senor 
John Licio. He had walked barefooted on account of the mud, a distance of four miles, 
to find us. He told us that he had heard some evangelists had arrived and that he had 
come in to spend the day with us. He said that he was a believer. Mr. Clark remem- 
bered having met him when he first visited Albuquerque on his bicycle. We had break- 
fast together and then reading of the Word and prayer. At the meeting held in a neigh- 
bor's house in the afternoon and in the conversation during the day, Senor John showed 
a longing to hear the Word of God explained. 
Monday we moved into Albuquerque and Senor John visited us daily and attended 
all the meetings. He also invited his neighbors. It was a joy to sit and talk of the Bible 
to him. He liked to tell some story that he had read and re-read years ago, and ask 
us from time to time if it was not thus and thus. When we would assure him that it 
was correct he would continue quite satisfied. One day I said, "Senor John, you know 
the Bible well. Have you been reading it a long time?" Then he told us how he 
received the first Bible he ever saw. 
About nineteen years ago, a young negro who liked to sing in the serenades and at 
dances was wanting some verses to sing at the "Cururu", a dance that lasts three days 
and nights. The sexton of the Catholic Church liked the young black fellow, so when 
he asked him if he had a book that had verses in it, he said, "No, I haven't any but I 
will get one for you." The sexton looked in the church, but could not find anything. 
He very stealthily went into the priest's room and from there stole a Bible that was on 
the shelf with some other books. The sexton gave the Bible to the negro and he was 
quite content. 
This young man tried to use the verses he found in his "new" book in the "Cururu"', 
but found that they did not seem to work to his satisfaction. Later he gave it to Senor 
John saying that he could not use it nor could he understand it. Thus this man received 
the Catholic priest's Bible, that had been stolen from its place on the shelf where, no 
doubt, it had lain for years unused. The Word of God lives ! Let us follow the story 
of this Bible! 
Senor John Licio began to read the Bible in his little mud house. Lie read it more and 
more, and ofttimes became so fascinated with it that he could not lay it down but read on 
for hours. He asked God to show him what it all meant. About three years later (I cannot 
be certain about the time of each step of the story) a Brazilian visited Albuquerque 
where Senor John had moved from Cuyaba. The Lord led him to Senor John's 
house, for didn't He know that a sincere heart was seeking to know Him? The child of 
God, Senor Barbosa, showed Senor John the way to receive the Saviour into his heart. 
Senor John was born again by believing upon Him who said, "I am the way, the truth 
and the life." How happy he was to know that the Book that he had been reading was 
truly the Word of God and that God had revealed Himself to him through it ! With 
understanding now, quickened by the Holy Spirit, he turned again to the precious Book 
and continued to read it until his sight began to fail. It has been his only guide for these 
sixteen years, as there is no pastor nor other believers in this village with whom he can 
have fellowship. 
Soon after finding the Lord he and his family were baptized by a Baptist preacher 
who passed through Alburquerque. The Word of God is not bound even on the shelf 
of a Catholic priest. "So shall my word be that goeth out of my mouth: it shall not 
return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper 
in the thing whereto I sent it." 
