The Living Christ for Latin America

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916. Excerpt: ... PREFACE Mr. McLean writes as one who has lived, and is returning to live among the Latin American people. In a real sense he has made them his people. For ten years he has been in Chile and for some time, at the request of the Chilian educational leaders, has been teaching in the University of Chile, and has enjoyed in an unusual degree the intimacy and confidence of the educated class. He writes, as every writer must, out of his own experience and from his own point of observation, and he has not been restrained in the free expression of his own strong personality, either in the form or in the substance of what he has written. Especially has he spoken with freedom his enthusiastic personal convictions regarding the women of Latin America. In dealing with the prevailing religious institution and with the moral and religious ideals and practices among great bodies of the men of the Latin American nations, he has spoken with positiveness but with the effort to set forth with judgment and truth some of the conditions which good men throughout Latin America realize as clearly as anyone and are seeking earnestly to change. All of our American nations, North and South, our own as well as the Latin American lands, have their great problems to deal with, and we should all be eager to know the truth, that the work of patriotism and friendly service may be done with fruitfulness and power. The opening of the Panama Canal, the enlarged commercial re'ations of the American nations and their increasing friendliness and political good understanding, the pressure of the European War, the community of interests and endeavor in North and South America, and many other influences have united to strengthen at this time our interest in our neighboring peoples. The Panama Cong...