The Bible in Brazil; colporter experiences . rs. It is rarely the casethat we can induce a priest to examine or readthe Scriptures. Maranhao, or Sao Luis was the next pointafter Ceara at which we stopped for half of the capital cities in Brazil aremost commonly called by the name of the State,though their legal names are different. Forinstance, one seldom hears the name city of SaoSalvador, but it is always Bahia: scarcely anyone speaks of Recife, but always Luis is thus the capital of the State of Ma-ranhao. Founded about 1612 by a Frenchmanwho named it in honour of
The Bible in Brazil; colporter experiences . rs. It is rarely the casethat we can induce a priest to examine or readthe Scriptures. Maranhao, or Sao Luis was the next pointafter Ceara at which we stopped for half of the capital cities in Brazil aremost commonly called by the name of the State,though their legal names are different. Forinstance, one seldom hears the name city of SaoSalvador, but it is always Bahia: scarcely anyone speaks of Recife, but always Luis is thus the capital of the State of Ma-ranhao. Founded about 1612 by a Frenchmanwho named it in honour of Luis XIIL, it wasformally called the Athens of Brazil, and not-withstanding the signs of decay and lack ofmodern enterprise, has still,an air of refinementand culture. In all our plans and work for colportage in thisState and the neighbouring State of Piauhy,we were greatly aided by Dr. G. W. Butler, thePresbyterian missionary stationed at this no section of the country has our Bible workfor the last twelve years been more strongly. Pernambuco 221 supported and helped forward by the mission-aries than in these two States: indeed much ofthe time it has been almost if not entirely undertheir supervision, and they and their helpershave taken an active part in circulating theWord. From the city of Sao Luis the Bibleshave gone out in every direction through thecountry and along the rivers and the sea following incident well illustrates the dif-ficulties under which persons in this countrysometimes read the Bible, and the power it hasover their lives. A short time before I startedon this journey to the north a young man inRio de Janeiro, who was at one time my Portu-guese teacher, was dying of consumption. Ivisited him several times during his illness, andhe gave very satisfactory evidence of being atpeace with Jesus. He had told me that hismother lived in Maranhao^ and that she was aChristian, that she had read the Bible and hadtaught it to him at times, and now i
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