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272 SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
Besides the tent campaigns, the associations sponsor theater meetings,
colportage work, the opening of new mission stations; and street preaching is
carried on regularly. The Rosario Association had, as its goal this year, the
conversion and baptism of at least two people for every active Baptist, as well
as intensive evangelism to reach and lead to the Lord the 1,000 unconverted
in its, Sunday schools. Mr. Hawkins reports that in. one of the theater mass
meetings of this Association there were about 2,000 present. In another
theater meeting sponsored by all the evangelical churches there were about
7,000 present and approximately 5,000 were not evangelicals.
When Dr. E. Stanley Jones was here great crowds came to hear him, and
his messages are still remembered by many. He said: "Seventeen years ago
when I was here, the evangelistic movement was out on the edges of life, but
this time it is in the center. The Latin Americans passed up religion years ago,
but now they want to know what it means for them and their countries."
IN THE OPEN AIR
At present we are at liberty to hold open-air services, and these are being
carried on in many cities by various churches. One of the churches of Buenos
Aires conducts an open-air Sunday school in a plaza in the center, an hour
before the regular Sunday school session in the church. Thus many new people
are reached with the gospel and the attendance at the church Sunday school
A SUNDAY SCHOOL IN ARGENTINA
continues to increase. The missionaries of Tucuman hold open-air Sunday
school in a near-by town in which we do not as yet have a building. Dr. Gillis,
who has charge of the evangelistic work of the Seminary and Institute in
Buenos Aires, says: "We have been having this year open-air services every
two weeks, and have found these of great help and value. This year we have
been conducting these in relation with different churches in the capital, and
find this method of working with a specific church in some district of the city
of more lasting results than a service held by ourselves alone on just any
street corner that we may select."
BY RADIO
We are glad to report that once again, by radio, we are able to preach
the word to hungering hearts. During part of the year, due to Catholic pressure,
the government did not permit us to broadcast. With the persistent
efforts of the Radio Committee of our Convention this permission has now been
regained. In Buenos Aires there is a splendid station over which gospel programs
are presented every Sunday. This broadcast is sponsored by the Baptist
Convention of the River Plate, and each week some of the most outstanding
preachers of the Convention are presented. Also the word is preached by radio
in Rosario, Bahia Blanca, Montevideo, in Saito, Uruguay, and in other places.
Our Baptist Publication House is given fifteen minutes on the program from
the Quito, Ecudor Station. This is a powerful station and the programs are
heard in many countries. Thus by radio the "Good Tidings of Great Joy" are
proclaimed around the world.
URUGUAY
During this period both Mr. and Mrs. Orrick and Mr. and Mrs. Sidney L.
Goldfinch were at home on their furlough, and Mr. and Mrs. Carlisle were the
only Southern Baptist missionaries in the entire Republic of Uruguay. At