JUAN ROBLES by JUAN ROBLES

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 6, 1911

JUAN ROBLES

By JUAN ROBLES

Mexico

TORREON.— In this city, one of the most progressive in the northern part of this republic, the people who do not know how to find real rest, comfort, and trust, and have therefore been depending upon the arm of flesh, have been uneasy for the last three months through fear of the war.

On the thirteenth of May three thousand revolutionists attacked this city; and after forty-two hours' fighting the federal general, with some six hundred soldiers, escaped while it was raining heavily. In all, 239 persons were killed, and six wounded. The populace, with the supposed consent of the revolutionists, ransacked twenty-four groceries, shoe-stores, and dry-goods stores. They also pillaged the Baptist college, a block from our mission place. A Mexican family was taking care of this property;

and why the insurrectos should have plundered it under these conditions may be understood when it is explained that almost all of them had the crowns of their hats covered with a variety of images, besides those hanging from their necks, in frames as large as 8 x 10 inches.

Torreon is the Chicago of Mexico for railroads, yet we had no trains for fourteen days. All bridges had been burned. Not long ago the Mexican Central Railroad, north of Torreon, had 213 burned bridges at one time, most of them between Chihuahua and Ciudad Juarez.

In the midst of all this trouble, we who feed our understanding by the study of God's Word, and especially we who are warning the world with the threefold message contained in Rev. 14: 6-12, understand that the worst is not yet come, and that, if we live right, it matters not to us when, where, and how we die. If we live in Christ, we die in Christ. Yet we believe in asking God to spare our lives, that we may have as great a part in the battle for good as possible. Pray for the workers in Mexico.