The gospel in Latin lands; outline studies of Protestant work in the Latin countries of Europe and America . the mainland of America. 1500. Cabral explored the coast of Brazil; discoveredthe Amazon. 1508. Vincent Pinzon entered the Rio de la Plata. 1520. Magellan passed the southern point of the con-tinent. 1528-15i3. The Parana and Paraguay rivers discovered. 1531-1532. Conquest of Peru by Pizarro. 1535. Buenos Ayres founded. Lima founded. 1536. Asuncion The Amazon explored. 1541. Chile conquered; Santiago founded. At the end of the sixteenth century all South Americaexcept
The gospel in Latin lands; outline studies of Protestant work in the Latin countries of Europe and America . the mainland of America. 1500. Cabral explored the coast of Brazil; discoveredthe Amazon. 1508. Vincent Pinzon entered the Rio de la Plata. 1520. Magellan passed the southern point of the con-tinent. 1528-15i3. The Parana and Paraguay rivers discovered. 1531-1532. Conquest of Peru by Pizarro. 1535. Buenos Ayres founded. Lima founded. 1536. Asuncion The Amazon explored. 1541. Chile conquered; Santiago founded. At the end of the sixteenth century all South Americaexcept Brazil was nominally under Spanish rule. 1635. A French colony established in Guiana. 1807. The Portuguese court, driven from Lisbon, took refuge in Revolution in Independence of Argentina Independence of Chile. 1821. Venezuela and Colombia declared independent rejiublics. 1822. Indei^endence of Ecuador. Brazil declared an empire with Doin Pedro as Freedom for Bolivia declared Brazil declared a republic. 226. CHAPTER V THK GOSPEL IN SOUTH AMERICA No foreign land should be of more interest toNorth Americans than the twin continent thatlies to the south of us. To the ordinary mission-ary motives which lead our Protestant Churchesto seek the evangelization of the world and toobey our Lords last command is added the factthat, next to Mexico and Central America, SouthAmerica is our nearest neighbor which can be Our nearestconsidered in any sense a missionary land. It ^S^^^o^-is a source of constant wonder and surprise toany one who has visited South America that solittle interest comparatively has been shown inthat continent, either commercially or politicallyor religiously, by the people of the United means of communication between the twoAmericas is still slow and tedious, and those whogo from one continent to the other usually crossthe Atlantic twice and visit Europe in the
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