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Christian Education in Mexico

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 24, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 25.

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Christian Education in Mexico

By Waldo B. Miramontez

It was on the first day of last August that we arrived in the flourishing metropolis of Guadalajara, Mexico. It was our intention on coming down here, to start a school something on the plan of our church-schools in the States, but we have had to learn the lesson since that we are living in the “day of small things” here in this neglected republic of Mexico.
We started our little school with six native children in attendance; and while this was but a small beginning, still we feel that the Lord blessed us exceedingly in the effort. After spending three months in school work in Guadalajara, it was thought best by the local Mexican board that we be transferred to Tacubaya, where the demand for a school seemed to be greater than it was in Guadalajara; so acting upon this decision, we came to Tacubaya, and since the seventh of December we have been conducting a school based on church-school principles, but more rightly known as a mission school.
Because of lack of means, we have had to conduct our school in a small tent. This did not accommodate a third of the pupils that would have come. We have now ten registered pupils; five of these are American children, and five are Mexicans. These five native children are a very slight representation of the millions of these dark-skinned niños who ought to have access to Christian education; but we feel that we have lubricated the wheels of Christian education in Mexico, and hope that another year’s effort in the same work will see the educational machine in active operation. However, before we can see this activity, we shall have to procure a larger schoolroom. We long to gather in these poor children for whom the Saviour gave his life. These poor children appeal to me, and I feel that we can reach their little unprejudiced hearts with the Word of God; and perhaps have very little difficulty in working through them for the salvation of their ignorant parents. What a wonderful part of the third angel’s message is the educational phase! I rejoice more and more every day that I have a part in it.
Our school will close on the eighteenth of June, and open again the first of September. Pray for our future success; and remember, brethren, that there is one way to help answer our prayers,—to ourselves work toward the accomplishment of that for which we pray.
WALDO B. MIRAMONTEZ.