Regional conferences in Latin America; . but in all the reports and dis-cussions. The narrative undertakes to recount the experiences offriendly fellowship, deliberative study, and spiritual com-munion enjoyed by members of the several deputationswith those rare souls from among the Latin-Americanpeople who have themselves felt the power of the per-sonal Christ as he is apprehended by Protestant Christian-ity and who have left all to follow him. These handfulsof Latin Christians yearn for their brothers and neigh-bors that Christ may come to be more simply known andmore personally loved by the
Regional conferences in Latin America; . but in all the reports and dis-cussions. The narrative undertakes to recount the experiences offriendly fellowship, deliberative study, and spiritual com-munion enjoyed by members of the several deputationswith those rare souls from among the Latin-Americanpeople who have themselves felt the power of the per-sonal Christ as he is apprehended by Protestant Christian-ity and who have left all to follow him. These handfulsof Latin Christians yearn for their brothers and neigh-bors that Christ may come to be more simply known andmore personally loved by them than they have been ledby their form of religion to believe possible. Of all theappeals that reached the members of the deputations theone that searched farthest into the heart was the un-conscious appeal of the evangelical Christians themselves,many of whom have partaken in literal experience of thewords of our Lord about leaving loved ones and beinghated by ones friends for his dear sake. THE CONFERENCE AT LIMA, PERU March 1-5, 1916. THE CONFERENCE AT LIMA, PERU I BACKGROUND AND SIDELIGHTS The first regional conference was held in the city ofLima, the capital of Peru. This ancient city was foundedby the terrible Pizarro himself nearly four hundred yearsago, three quarters of a century before the landing atJamestown. Until one hundred years ago Lima was theclearing-house of Spains political affairs and Romesecclesiastical affairs in all South America. So dominantwas Lima in the days of Spanish rule on this continentthat for a long time practically all goods shipped to thecontinent, even those cargoes destined for Argentina andUruguay, instead of being carried directly to their desti-nation were brought over the Atlantic to the Isthmus ofPanama, reloaded on ships on the Pacific side of theIsthmus, brought to the port of Callao, Limas port, andthence carried by pack-trains over the Andes into theinterior and even to the very shore of the Atlantic the Church establi
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