p. 17 | Mexico by George M. Brown

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Feb 23, 1905

Mexico

By George M. Brown

TACUBAYA.— The week of prayer was a season of blessing to the believers in this field. Professor Caviness had charge of the daily services in Mexico City, and I had the privilege of being with the brethren and sisters at Guadalajara.

The Spirit of the Lord was present in all our services, and we were favored with the counsel and labors of Elder I. H. Evans, who was at that time in Mexico as the representative of the General Conference Committee, to prepare a statement of the Guadalajara Sanitarium business.

At the time of our visit the patronage of the sanitarium was light, but recent letters from the brethren there tell me that they are now having a good run of business, and that the medical mission for the poor is crowded.

Brother Harzman has recently returned from a two months' trip through the State of Veracruz. He spent four weeks in Jalapa, where his sales amounted to fifty-eight dollars, one week in Coatepec, where he took in eighteen dollars, and three weeks in the city of Veracruz, where he disposed of fifty-four dollars' worth of literature.

While selling papers on the street in Veracruz, a fanatical Catholic tore up the paper he had bought, as soon as he saw it was Protestant, and began to warn the people against it, but this only served to increase our brother's sales, for the efforts of the opposer attracted attention, and the people stopped to see what was the matter. On that spot Brother Harzman sold five hundred papers.

We need more colporteurs to enter the doors that are open everywhere. I trust that our brethren have already said by their liberal annual offerings that Mexico shall have at least two more good colporteurs to put in the field. We have consecrated men here on the ground who are ready to go when we have the means to send them.

Never before have we had so many really interested readers as now. Now is the time to scatter the printed page in Mexico. We pray that God will place a burden upon souls to help us push this work just now.

GEO. M. BROWN.