. Annual reports of the boards to the General Assembly . oad across the western range of the Andes. The building of therailroad to which I refer has been undertaken by a company in theUnited States, which proposes to begin work in July next. Owingto the salulDrity of the climate in and around CaH, a number of theofficers, contractors, and workmen, who v/ill come out from theStates, to be employed in building this road, Avill bring their familieswith them. These might form a nucleus that would form an excel-lent means for beginning a work among the natives, We cannot yet speak of much fruit gat
. Annual reports of the boards to the General Assembly . oad across the western range of the Andes. The building of therailroad to which I refer has been undertaken by a company in theUnited States, which proposes to begin work in July next. Owingto the salulDrity of the climate in and around CaH, a number of theofficers, contractors, and workmen, who v/ill come out from theStates, to be employed in building this road, Avill bring their familieswith them. These might form a nucleus that would form an excel-lent means for beginning a work among the natives, We cannot yet speak of much fruit gathered here, although theopportunities for sowing seed are most abundant; and, if fieldswhite already to the harvest, should furnish motive suificient to firethe zeal of Christs ambassadors, and place them under obligationto preach the Gospel, then have we reason, not only to pray andlabor more earnestly ourselves, but to pray also the Lord of theharvest that he wUl send forth more laborers into his harvest, whichwe believe is here waiting to be 24 AJSTNTJAL REPORT. MISSION IN BRAZIL. Rio db JANEmo: the capital of the country ; population variously statedup to 400,000 ; occupied as a mission station in 18G0 ; missionary labourers—Rev. Alexander L. Blackford and his wife; two native licentiate preachers,three native colporteurs, and two-teachers. Sao Paulo: 280 miles of Rio de Janeiro; chief town in the prov-ince of the same name - population 22,000; occupied as a mission station in1863; missionary labourers—Rev. Messrs. George W. Cliamberlain and and their wives, and Rev. Jose Manoet da Coiiceicao, one nativelicentiate preacher, two teacheis, and one colporteur. Bkotas : 160 miles N. W. of Sao Paulo ; occupied as a missioii station in1868 ; missionary labourers—Rev. John F. Da^ama and his wife ; Miss MaryP. Dascoml), teacher, one native licentiate preacher, one native teacher, andone colporteur. LORENA : 190 miles of Rio de Janeiro ; Rev. 31
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