10 INLAND SOUTH AMERICA 
EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY THE 
REV. ARTHUR F. TYLEE TO FRIENDS IN THE U. S. 
1HAD the pleasure of spending a 
day with one of the first converts 
of the work at Jurena, Joaquim 
Antunes de Barros. He is now in 
charge of constructing the auto road 
to Jurena. From his conversion in 
1925 when he voluntarily threw his 
saint into the Jurena River, he has 
been an earnest devoted follower of 
the Master. It was he who gave us 
his first piece of planting ground 
cleared by himself. In time of famine 
he gave us our only food, Mandioca 
from his garden. (His wife, Dona 
Miquelina, also converted, was more 
to us than words can express, being 
as a mother to Mrs. Tylee). His coun- 
sel and knowledge of the wilderness 
and how to live in it, ever available 
to us, solved many of our problems 
and eased us over rough places. 
Shortly after our departure on fur- 
lough in 1927, Joaquim was ignomini- 
ously discharged as assistant telegraph 
inspector through opposition to him 
as a believer and through his refusal 
to stop witnessing for Christ. He 
was then taken into the Mission 
House where he and his family 
brought untold blessing to Mr. Mc- 
Dowell through their Christian fellow- 
ship. Dona Miquelina went to Cuyaba 
for medical treatment and died there 
early in 1929. Mr. McDowell took 
their only son, Candido, to live with 
him. Joaquim undertook the super- 
vision of the auto road. He com- 
pleted the road to Sacre, 78 miles 
from Jurena and then agreed to put it 
through to Juruena. 
The work is very difficult. The 
Telegraph Commission has failed time 
and again to supply the necessary 
food. The men are obliged to carry 
their food, tools and water sometimes 
as far as four or five miles, since 
their work is often that far from the 
nearest possible camping place. Th* 3 
truck promised to carry the men_ and 
their tools has not been provided. 
Joaquim has provided considerable 
meat for the men through gun traps 
and has supplied food from his per- 
sonal provisions when the Commis- 
sion has failed them. He has done 
all this to encourage his men to press 
on in spite of their difficulties, when 
he himself has a reduction in pay due 
Rev. Arthur F. Tylee and Senor Joaquim 
Antunes de Barros 
to the miserly tricks of his employers. 
He is getting 60c a day, the wage of 
a day laborer in his gang. He has ac- 
cepted all of this with marvelous 
grace, declaring his purpose to put 
the road through to Juruena at any 
personal sacrifice for the sake of the 
benefit it will be to the Mission. May 
this self sacrifice cause you, reader, 
to bless God for such a convert and 
to pray for him. 
Because of much slander arising, 
due to financial success in legitimate 
transactions along the telegraph line, 
Joaquim has now stopped all such 
affairs, with considerable financial loss 
for the sake of maintaining an irre- 
proachable testimony. He has re- 
stricted himself to his 60c a day with 
extreme satisfaction, he told me, since 
he is doing it for Christ's sake. 
(Note: — Senor Barros 9 son, Candido, 
was one of the six who lost 
their lives at Jurena on Novem- 
ber 3, 1930.) 
INLAND SOUTH AMERICA 
11 
TYLEE'KRATZ MEMORIAL INDIAN FUND 
IN ANSWER to prayer funds are continuing to come in for 
the Tylee-Kratz Memorial Fund. Donations to this Fund are 
used to carry on work amongst the Indians, to send out, equip 
and maintain missionaries amongst those not yet evangelized, and 
.to advance the work of evangelization into unreached parts of 
the Indian world. 
A MEDITATION 
Kenneth Mackenzie 
BECAUSE of the weakness of our 
humanity, our christian service is 
prone to be punctuated with the 
hunger for success. To reach and 
hold the multitudes, to be praised for 
our consecration, to cherish the com- 
fort that we have not labored in vain; 
these considerations move us to fret 
if the reversal of our hopes is forced 
upon us. Many a pastor, hidden in 
the obscurity and unappreciativeness 
of a little country parish feels the hu- 
miliation of his ignoble estate. As he 
reads of the acclaim given to men, 
whom he may well consider but his 
equals, men who are the creatures of 
favorable circumstance, grandly float- 
ing upon the stream of public appre- 
ciation, the bitterness of contrast eats 
into his soul. 
Is there any remedy for this spir- 
itual malady? Is there anything to 
substitute for the lack of heart-sat- 
isfying statistics, of popular applause, 
of that sweetly inner consciousness 
of being used of God in a large way? 
Yes, there is. We behold Elijah, 
failing in the consummation of a na- 
tional revival, driven away to a cave, 
lamenting that he is the only prophet 
of God left; unpopular and persecuted 
Jeremiah; Amos, scorned by the 
learned and the aristocrats of his day; 
John the Baptist, languishing in prison, 
once the heralded prophet of his day, 
overwhelmed with spiritual melancho- 
lia, doubting the proclamation he had 
nobly declared. These men and many 
others, tasted the dregs of disap- 
pointment. And our Lord Himself is 
the exemplar of joyous acceptance of 
humiliation. He shrank from popul- 
arity. To do the will of his Father 
was the passion of his life. All else 
sank into nothingness. And to him, 
one soul at the well of Sychar was as 
precious, a}^e perhaps more so, than 
the crowds that pressed upon him. He 
cherished the little ministries, the con- 
tacts which excluded the multitudes. 
He ended his life on a cross. 
Probably, in no sphere of dedication 
is the temptation more appealing than 
in the mission field. So isolated the 
sphere of life, so tantalizing the un- 
certain fruitage, so imperfect and un- 
reliable the characters won, so con- 
flicting the issues, that the devoted 
servant of God might well ask if it is 
worthwhile. Added to these factors, 
the inveterate antagonisms which ruth- 
lessly charge against the man of God 
as he longs and labors for souls, may 
become a striking factor of dis- 
couragement . Yet, herein has been 
the invariable experience of God's 
men all along the line of missionary 
endeavor. Henry Martyn could say 
as he toiled in hostile India, "Tho 
I may never see a convert, God might 
design by my patience and continu- 
ance to encourage other mission- 
aries." Robert Morrison could state, 
"I have been twenty-five years in 
China and I am now beginning to 
see the work prosper." And yet, do 
we take courage in even that hope. 
Suppose the harvest does not reward 
our steadfastness? Shall we abate 
our ministry an iota? What is the 
basis of our stand for God in the de- 
livering of the Gospel and the living 
of the life "hid with Christ in God?" 
Essentially, loyal obedience; not the 
congratulating fellowship of those 
who rise up to call us blessed, but the 
sense that we are where He has put 
us, that we are what He is making 
