One day the missionary felt exercised to visit the Governor of North Chichas. He and his wife, Rose, had heard there was no Gospel testimony in the Province of North Chichas and so were praying together about it.
The thought of leaving his wife grieved the missionary, but she said she did not mind for she would not be alone. She had become very friendly with the women and children so she was never alone. One of the women who had confessed Christ as her Savior-a sister in the Lord-would stay with her when the missionary was away all night.
The missionary first visited the Governor, the head of the Municipality, to ask permission to preach the Gospel in the Plaza there. The Governor gave him permission to do so but also warned him that the people in that place were very fanatical. He explained that some years earlier an Argentine colporteur, passing through the City selling Bibles, was attacked by a fanatical mob who stoned him to death and threw his body in the river, where he was eaten by buzzards and dogs. To this day the town has never prospered since this terrible act of the people. The people themselves have noticed it.
Consequently, the Governor told the missionary he could not promise what might happen, but he was glad for him to preach the Gospel there, and he would do all in his power to see that he was protected. The missionary was grateful that his request was granted.
The father of the Governor became very interested in the Gospel. Some time later he became very ill and sent for the missionary a number of times to come and read the Scriptures to him and to explain the Gospel of the grace of God to him. He was brightly saved before he died and forbade the priest to visit him or to give him "Mass," saying that he had accepted Christ as his Savior, and the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, had washed all his sins away. He was a lovely testimony to his family and friends and would often quote to them 1 John 1:77But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7): "The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin."