Mission Work in Queretaro
IN the city of Queretaro, Mexico, it has been said that "there are more churches than schools, and more priests than school-children." So far, according to the Christian Advocate, Methodist mission work moves slowly. "Even the police on the street seem to obey the bishops rather than the law. Two young men were recently arrested as they came out of our mission house, for no other crime, according to the police themselves, than 'entering the place and asking for tracts they had no business to read.' And both would have gone to jail but for the opportune presence of Brother Velasco, and his quiet but energetic defense of the young men. Another officer of the law one day attempted to compel our pastor to remove the Abogado bulletin from his door. But when the pastor replied that he would gladly do so the day that the governor ordered all bulletins and notices removed from the doors of Catholic Churches, the order was withdrawn. But things are changing in Queretaro. Some merchants of the place refused to sell to our people, but now seem to court their trade, and our workers are treated with more respect by the people on the streets. A revival resulted in seventeen conversions."