p. 15 | Mexico by J. F. Blunt

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 26, 1909

Mexico

By J. F. Blunt

TACUBAYA.—I am glad to report favorable conditions in Mexico. The people seem ready to listen to the truth, and I have enjoyed the privilege of working among them. Coming here nearly four months ago, just as Elder G. W. Reaser had returned to the States, and only a short time before Elder G. W. Caviness left for General Conference, I felt unequal to the duty of preaching to the people, owing to my inexperience in the language. But, remembering that the work is the Lord's, and not ours, I plunged into the earnest presentation of the wonderful chain of prophetic truth, so effective in tent work, and there was an immediate quickening of interest. Our Sunday and Wednesday night meetings more than doubled in attendance, and several persons began to observe the Sabbath, which obligation I made prominent from the first.

To accommodate a few Americans who became interested in the truth at our Spanish meetings, I began to speak Tuesday and Friday nights in English, and soon these friends acknowledged the obligation of the Sabbath, and one woman began to keep that day. A young man, just out of college, and his mother, here from Texas to study the language, also manifested deep interest and conviction of heart. They are thoroughly persuaded as to the Sabbath, and express no difference of sentiment on other topics. They say they purpose to subscribe for the Signs of the Times when they return home, and they have enjoyed our studies and our literature here.

Now Elder Reaser is with us, and he wants me to remain, at least for a time, in the city of Mexico, where we hope, at the conclusion of our special meeting and canvassers' institute, to hold a series of lectures in a better location. Our present quarters are difficult of access and unsatisfactory. I am confident we can secure large audiences, if we have the right place, instead of being on the second floor, far back from the street, and with a winding staircase as a further handicap. Pray for us and for the work. J. F. BLUNT.