Dr. A. W. Halsey, one of the secretaries of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, has lately visited Mexico, and reports as follows:— Protestantism in Mexico is making great advancement, and, altho it is still a Catholic country, the liberal policy of President Diaz and his government has done much to help our churches. Men are selected as heads of public schools with regard only for their ability, and Protestants are selected as well as those of other religious faiths. This liberality has come only in comparatively recent years. In connection with a large Protestant meeting was an incident that is suggestive of the work done by Protestant missions. After the conference a large party left for their homes on one train. At one of the stations where it stopped, a man who was selling pulque, the native liquor, tried to get aboard. “You can not sell pulque on this train,” he was told. With a grunt of disgust he turned away, muttering, “Protestants.” The general condition of people in Mexico, viewed educationally, is put by Dr. Halsey concisely thus: “Mexico is now very progressive, but there is one serious drawback in Mexico. It is the illiteracy of the people. There are 13,000,000 inhabitants of the country, and of these 10,000,000 can neither read nor write, and of those who can read not one in twenty has a book of his own. Before many years a very different story will be told of the educational condition of the people.”