Identifier: reportsofmission1900pres (find matches)
Title: Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions. Annual report of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions. Annual report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Education. Annual report of the Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work. Annual report of the Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of the Church Erection Fund. Annual report of the Board of the Church Erection Fund of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyterian Board of Relief for Disabled Ministers and the Widows and Orphans of Deceased Ministers. Annual report to the General Assembly Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen. Annual report of the Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies. Annual report of the Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Special Committee on Systematic Beneficence. Report of the General Assembly's Special Committee of the Presbyterian Church on Systematic Beneficence Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Permanent Committee on Temperance. Annual report of the General Assembly's Permanent Committee on Temperence for the year ending ..
Subjects: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A
Publisher: Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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pport the Missionis bringing its work to a solid basis. The Mexican Home Mis-sion Board, with which the Mission co-operates, has had a spe-cially fruitful year. Of the country as a whole and the effort toevangelize it, the Mission report speaks in its introduction: Mexico is a republic with a Constitution similar to our own. There are 27States, 2 Territories, and the Federal District. The total population is nowplaced as high as 15,000,000. Many millions are Indians, and many moreare of IndoTberian descent. This mixed race is the typical Mexican of to-day, quick and intelligent, the prime mover in every step toward religiousand political liberty. Independence from Spain was achieved in a long andbloody struggle, 1810-1821. Two priests, Hidalgo and Morales, were thechief heroes. Iturbide united all parties for a brief time and ended theconflict. In the second great struggle, that for religious liberty, Juarez, aneducated Indian, with his Laws of Reform and Constitution of 57, takes 179
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MEXICO. 181 the chief place. Hidalgo is often compared with Washington; and Juarez,with Lincoln. President Diaz, in a long era of peace, has secured the con-struction of many miles of railroad, and opened the country for commerce.As promoters of American liberty, Mexico and the United States have asimilar destiny in the Xew World. The Roman Catholic Church was su-preme for three centuries in all Latin America. Its first missionary zeal,its subsequent wealth, corruption and power are matters of history. Theliberal leaders in the long struggle for freedom from Papal tjranny wel-comed as allies the Protestant missionary and Mexican evangelical work-ers. We believe that the Gospel of Christ alone can solidify the work be-gun in Mexico at such cost of hero blood. This sister republic, in shapenot unlike a cornucopia, lies open toward the United States, to shake intoour lap her best gifts and receive of ours in return. The best that we cangive is evangelical Christianity. The war of 47 was

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