Mexico by Juan Robles

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 12, 1910

Mexico

By Juan Robles

IN San Luis Potosi I have been preaching the threefold message just one year. I am glad to say that, although I feel so incapable, God has delighted himself in touching the hearts of a few here and in Mexquitic, my other place of labor, fifteen miles distant. To this latter place those who love the truth come from a distance of three miles, walking, and bring their wives and children. When I am to be with them on Sabbath, they generally go Friday, and remain at the meeting place until Sunday, when they all get up about three o'clock in the morning, and start for their homes.

Last Sabbath I acted as superintendent of the school. We began at ten o'clock, and got through at twelve. Then they said to me: “Go right ahead, and tell us all about every symbol on the chart. We will not have dinner to-day.” I began to explain from the great image of Daniel 2 down to the New Jerusalem in Revelation 21. It took me three hours and a half to go over the subjects.

Since I have been here, I have had the privilege of seeing twenty persons follow Christ in baptism.

Although I am a Mexican, I do not know all about Mexican ways, as I spent twenty-one years in California, and came here last April. During the holy week here, I went to Roman Catholic churches and observed some of their ways, and learned some of their beliefs. The bishop here washed the instep of the right foot of twelve men, dried them with a towel, and then bowed down so as to come very near to kissing them. The same day they hung on the cross a big image, and at 4:30 P. M. took it down. While they were doing this, many persons, especially women, began to howl, some like women, and some like cats, some feignedly and some really shedding tears. There was such a noise as would be equal to that made by five hundred people clamoring at the same time.

I am glad to read the experiences of my coworkers everywhere. May God keep us faithful until the end, is my prayer. JUAN ROBLES.