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tion in which they have been inter- 
ested for some time. It is a place 
abounding with children who fill the 
streets before and after school hours. 
It is our earnest desire to see these 
gathered into a Sunday School. 
Strange to say, we are not at the pres- 
ent able to find even a room in which 
to hold it. 
During 1930 we were cheered by 
thirteen professions of Salvation. Of 
these only six can be baptized so far. 
There are others who would like to 
be baptized but who do not show 
sufficient evidences of salvation. Of 
these, one young man, the director 
of a large and thriving private school, 
is the most interesting case. Profes- 
sor Flavio has a real desire to speak 
in public and would like to be bap- 
tized. He has made two attempts to 
speak in the Church. However, one 
cannot avoid receiving the impression 
that his is more the desire to become 
a public speaker than it is to tell forth 
the Good News. Will you pray for 
this man. When convinced of a thing, 
he is utterly fearless in standing by 
it. He lacks the Holy Spirit. 
In the middle of the year we were 
refreshed by the short visit and 
powerful preaching of Dr. Philip 
Landes, of the Presbyterian work. It 
was at this time that several of the in- 
terested ones came out for the Lord. 
A helpful instrument for personal 
work came to hand in the shape of 
several thousand copies of the tract, 
"Answering the Great Question." 
These were the generous gift of the 
Dominion Tract Depot of Toronto. 
When we looked through this attrac- 
tive booklet, we were impressed with 
the opportunity it offered for taking 
a man step by step through the whole 
plan of Salvation, thus opening the 
door for the very type of evangelism 
most needed in this land. The thou- 
sand that fell to Corumba and 
Ladario are almost used up. We look 
for fruitage from the use of these 
and thank the Dominion Tract Depot 
for the gift. 
The organization of the Church 
along Apostolic lines with the view 
of self-direction brings out at once 
the spiritual weakness of the congre- 
o-ithm. This drives us to prayer that 
God may give more abundant spir- 
itual life. At the same time we re- 
member the truth of that statement 
made recently: "You will grow as you 
go." Activity in service is one of the 
greatest means of spiritual growth. 
The Church here must become active 
in all lines of Christian work: soul- 
winning, teaching, directing, follow- 
ing, organizing, etc. Many of our 
brethren are coming up to meet the 
call right nobly. We covet your earn- 
est prayers that the whole Church 
may become a mighty power for God 
in this country. 
REPORT OF THE YURIMAGUES TRIP IN THE 
LAUNCH "RUTH" 
Rev. Henry W. Stahlman, Iquitos, Peru 
WE LEFT Iquitos on the com- 
mercial launch "Huallaga" 
destination in Yurimaguas In 
the party were Mr. and Mrs. MacKin- 
non and two children: Pancho, the 
Cocama boy living with them; our 
motorist Nephtali Davila; Don Justo 
Campos and his family, going to 
Yurimaguas to begin the work there, 
and myself. Along side was the 
launch "Ruth" being towed, as that 
was the cheapest way we could travel 
upstream. 
We arrived in Yurimaguas three 
days later. Finding a room for the 
week-end, we began arranging things 
for travel in the smaller boat. Sat- 
urday night some folks came asking 
to hear our organ so we had a sing 
for those who gathered. Sunday 
morning we had a fine Sunday School 
of 25 and in the evening a meeting 
with about 50 present. Next day we 
started up river. All was new ground 
and we went along slowly looking for 
good ground for our work. We found 
a well populated district and a good 
reception waiting us in nearly every 
place. We also had a fair sale of 
books, especially of the cheaper New 
Testaments. Eight days we kept 
going, stopping at all the places, of 
course, until w T e came to the begin- 
ning of the bad passes, about two 
days steady run above Yurimaguas. 
There we turned back without seeing 
territory that is even more thickly 
populated, so they told us. 
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An Indian Home 
Returning to Yurimaguas, we again 
stayed the weekend, having Sunday 
School and an evening service at 
which there were about 65 present. 
The people had learned to sing very 
well indeed bv that time and we had 
a really inspiring meeting. Don Justo 
preached. It gave us joy to see that 
many are readv for the Gospel in that 
place, as reports received from Don 
Justo since have confirmed. 
We left Yurimaguas for Iquitos two 
weeks later, arriving here just a 
month later. The trip down was the 
usual thing of stop and go, stop and 
go, selling the books everywhere we 
could and having meetings where we 
stopped at night. We tried to get 
a good idea of the lay of the land 
and where and what the people were. 
That led us off the river in many 
places, back into cochas and lakes, 
etc., and our trip includes many hours 
of tramping through the forest paths 
as well as in canoe. But by so do- 
ing we got a lot of valuable informa- 
tion for the future. 
Regarding our sales we put out into 
the hands of the people 425 Testa- 
ments of various grades and 74 Bibles. 
We distributed 700 Gospels and manv 
tracts and papers. Had we had more 
books we could have sold them on 
the latter part of the trip but our 
supply ran out. 
Regarding the people we found in 
Yurimaguas a rich field that is . al- 
readv bearing fruit. On the river 
Huallaga we found two grouos of 
Indians, one above and one below 
Yurimaguas, and another group on 
the Paranapura river west of that 
citv. And on the Maranon the 
Cocamas, as we have known before 
centered more or less about the mouth 
of the Ucayali. Four distinct groups 
that are easily accessible. (1) On the 
upper Huallaga the Indians from 
Chasuta have drifted down stream 
with the tide of commerce to Yuri- 
maguas and are settled in small towns 
along the river. They speak Inca and 
Spanish and there are now a few 
schools among them. (2) Back of 
Yurimaguas on the Paranapura river, 
and on the road to Moyabamba, the 
Balsapuertinos are centered. From all 
reports they are quite numerous 
ing scattered over the river mentioned 
above which flows into the Huallaga, 
and the Cahuapanas which empties 
into the Maranon. We are able to 
visit only one town of this group and 
found the people spoke Inca mostly. 
But there is a school there and soon 
Spanish will be known. We need to 
go over this ground more thoroughly 
though to get exact information. Still 
it helps to know that they are there 
and form a distinct group. (3) Below 
Yurimaguas and not very far frorn the 
mouth of the Huallaga, the Cocamillas 
are centered. This is a fine group of 
Indians settled, industrious and living 
for the most part in six small towns 
with many more scattered along the 
river in the same general district. 
There are six schools in these six 
towns, one having two, and in this 
region we sold 161 Testaments and 
27 Bibles. To my mind this presents 
one of the finest prospects for Ind^.n 
work that one could wish for. (4) 
The Cocamas are centered as before 
mentioned, around the mouth of the 
Ucayali and radiate from there up and 
down the rivers. There are a laro-e 
number of them and some are among 
our converts. Our last night out we 
stayed at the home of one, Crispino, 
who has a Sunday School in his home 
and is working diligently to win 
others. 
