Mexico City by G. W. Caviness

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 2, 1907

Mexico City

By G. W. Caviness

Since our general meeting held in Mexico City, we have continued the work, holding two meetings a week in the evenings, besides the regular Sabbath services. The interest has increased slowly, until we now have an attendance of from forty to fifty on the Sabbath. One man and his wife have recently accepted present truth. This man is a minister, and has a congregation in a small village here in the Federal District. He told his people plainly about his change of belief on the Sabbath question, and gave them the Bible evidence. He hopes to gain some of his flock. Although not very well educated, he seems to be a devoted and spiritual man.

A few canvassers and a Bible worker have been laboring in the city and its vicinity, sowing seed that we hope will spring up in time and bear fruit for the Master.

We now have twelve or fifteen children of Sabbath-keepers, from eight to fourteen years of age, who ought to be in a school of our own. The question of a school is a practical one with us just now. Also we should soon have a church building and place for a school here at the center of the republic. I have been reading the pamphlet regarding “Strengthening of Our Institutions and Training Centers,” and firmly believe that the time is ripe for Mexico City to have a church building as a monument to the truth. In the city proper, land is too expensive, but in some of the suburbs, readily reached by the electric cars, we ought to have a church building to let it be known that the message is firmly planted in this country. We are paying twenty dollars a month for a place to hold our meetings. In the course of a few years this would do considerable toward paying for a church.

Brethren, remember the work in this difficult field. Here are nearly fourteen million people in far greater need than those in more enlightened lands; but we have only three organized churches and a few scattered brethren, and not a single building erected for the public service of God. In Guadalajara, I understand that soon our people will have a small chapel of their own. May Mexico City not have to wait very long for one.

G. W. CAVINESS.