South America 
 
 © Brown & Dazvstn 
 
Getting Acquainted witk 
 Soutk America 
 
 Today we are closer to South America 
 then we have ever been before — closer 
 geographically because of the Panama 
 Canal, closer economically because of 
 the war. Since 1913 our trade with 
 Latin-America has grown from $389,- 
 000,000 to ^875,000,000. 
 
 If we are to keep up this new relation, 
 we need religious as well as commercial 
 understanding. The Roman Catholic 
 Church has lost its hold upon the lead- 
 ers, and the people are now more inter- 
 ested in Protestantism than they have 
 ever been before. 
 
 To keep up our trade interests in 
 South America we have invested ^80,- 
 000,000 since the war began; beside that 
 amount the $5,505,000 Methodism is 
 asking for religious work looks very 
 small. 
 
Your Money W^ill Preacli 
 
 $10 
 
 Will furnish needed lantern slides on 
 the life of Christ. 
 
 $50 
 
 Will purchase a horse for an itinerant 
 preacher. 
 
 $75 
 
 Will send a national preacher to theo- 
 logical school for a year. 
 
 $200 
 
 Will provide equipment for a chapel. 
 
 $350 
 
 Will pay the salary of a national preacher 
 for a year. 
 
 $800 
 
 Will build a chapel in unoccupied ter- 
 ritory. 
 
 $1,000 
 
 Will buy land for a church or a par- 
 sonage in a city. 
 
From our 44 schools we wish 108 more to grow. 
 
 Xeacliing a Continent 
 
 In some of the South American re- 
 publics the proportion of literates is as 
 high as fifty per cent, in others it is as 
 low as ten. But throughout the conti- 
 nent, only one person in four can read. 
 
 Yet the whole continent has only as 
 many teachers as there are in the state 
 of New York. The governments are 
 trying to establish schools but they 
 must have help from the missionaries, 
 and mission schools should serve as 
 models and train teachers. 
 
 Our church now has only 44 schools, 
 but if Methodists do their part in the 
 Centenary Campaign, we will have 152. 
 
Your Money Will Teacli 
 
 $10 
 
 Will pay the tuition of an Indian boy 
 for a year. 
 
 $25 
 
 Will maintain a child in primary school 
 for a year. 
 
 $30 
 
 Will keep a student in advanced’school 
 for a year. 
 
 $150 
 
 Will send out a national primary 
 teacher. 
 
 $200 
 
 Will provide the equipment for a pri- 
 mary school. 
 
 $850 
 
 Will send an Indian teacher into unoc- 
 cupied territory. 
 
 $900 
 
 Will buy land for an elementary school. 
 
The Sanitary Expeditionary Force. 
 
 Tke Gospel of Healing 
 
 We need five hospitals in South 
 America, one in the capital city of each 
 republic where our work dominates. 
 
 South America is a continent of open 
 sewers; outside of the large cities sanita- 
 tion is unknown. It is estimated that in 
 some of the republics seventy-five per 
 cent of the babies die in infancy. 
 
 State hospitals are not adequate to 
 care for ten per cent of the people, and 
 on the whole continent there is not one 
 first-class evangelical hospital. In some 
 places it is impossible for Protestants 
 to get medical treatment unless they 
 recant. 
 
 Yet to meet this situation we have 
 done 
 
 NOTHING 
 
Your Money H eal 
 
 $50 
 
 Will care for an out-of-door clinic patient 
 for a year. 
 
 $150 
 
 Will maintain a free hospital bed for 
 a year. 
 
 $200 
 
 Will support a national nurse for a year. 
 
 $250 
 
 Will buy a share in a hospital of a 
 hundred beds. 
 
 $360 
 
 Will pay the salary of a national trained 
 nurse for a year. 
 
 $750 
 
 Will pay the yearly salary of a nurse 
 from the United States. 
 
Published by 
 
 Tlie Centenary Commission 
 of the Board of Foreign Missions 
 Methodist Episcopal Church 
 
 150 Fifth Avenue 
 New York 
 1918