Seekers After God in a Mexican Village by G. W. Caviness

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 4, 1909

Seekers After God in a Mexican Village

By G. W. Caviness

FOUR or five hours from the railway, on the back of a little burro, brought me to the village of Mexquitic, where a company of people had been calling for instruction.

The leader of the company is the secretary of the civil court; but in this out-of-the-way place I found that the secretary was dressed like the peons of the country, with cotton trousers and shirt, sandals for the feet, and a large, wide-brimmed, tall-crowned hat. He received me in his office, and afterward took me to the brother’s house where the meetings were to be held.

The house was nothing but a hut made of adobe, or sun-dried bricks, the walls being four or five feet high, and roofed with poles covered with the leaves of the maguey plant. There were no windows in the house, and only one door, but the roof was sufficiently open to supply the needed ventilation and light.

1. GROUP OF WORKERS AT COLPORTEUR'S INSTITUTE, MEXICO CITY
2. INDIAN SCHOOL AND MISSION, TAPACROOMA, DEMERARA — GROUP OF WORKERS AT COLPORTEUR'S INSTITUTE, MEXICO CITY

INDIAN SCHOOL AND MISSION, TAPACROOMA, DEMERARA

For breakfast they gave me some bread, with cinnamon tea; for dinner tortillas (corn cakes) and beans, with eggs. At night they spread on the floor, which was nothing but the naked earth, some skins and two or three blankets that I took with me, and so made a bed, where I lay down for the night.

Nevertheless, it gave me real pleasure to preach to these simple-minded people. They seemed to understand and drink in the truth and rejoice in it. I never enjoyed preaching to any people more than to these intelligent seekers after the way of God in this remote Mexican village. The long-neglected land of Mexico is wide open for the

gospel worker. We urge our appeal for help to bring light to those that sit in darkness. G. W. CAVINESS.