"Romanism is not Christianity," so the few Christian workers are
fighting against tremendous odds. What shall the harvest be?
PART I.
THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC
The country to which the author first went as a self-supporting
missionary in the year 1889.
And Nature, the old nurse, took
The child upon her knee,
Saying, "Here is a story book
Thy Father hath written for thee."
"Come, wander with me," she said,
"Into regions yet untrod,
And read what is still unread
In the manuscripts of God."
And he wandered away and away
With Nature, the dear old nurse,
Who sung to him night and day
The rhymes of the universe.
- Longfellow.
THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC
The Argentine Republic has an area of one and a quarter million
square miles. It is 2,600 miles from north to south, and 500 miles at
its widest part. It is twelve times the size of Great Britain.
Although the population of the country is about seven millions, only
one per cent, of its cultivable area is now occupied, yet Argentina
has an incomparable climate.
It is essentially a cattle country. She is said to surpass any other
nation in her numbers of live stock.
