Mexico and Our Mission (Associate Reformed Presbyterian)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1910. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. OUR MISSIONARY AGENCIES. By all means save some is our supreme ambition and all-determining missionary aim; and any instrumentality that will administer to that end must be pressed into service. No worker will tie himself down to any ironclad list of agencies for making the gospel known to those without God and without hope. Rather any legitimate help will be used that will effectively bring the gospel to bear on the minds and hearts of those committed to our spiritual keeping. When the lamented Mrs. Emma Hunter, who was without a peer in the sphere of soul-winning, went to Ciudad del Maiz, 6he found that the people stood aloof from the missionaries. Her ingenuity began'to devise some means that would bring her in touch with the women. She saw that all the Mexican ladies were lovers of flowers, and so she brought from the United States flower seed, and not a few dared to enter the missionary home to buy the foreign flowers. She would seize the opportunity to tell them of the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the valley. She also brought little cake pans and other novelties that would attract the people and bridge the wide gulf which fanaticism had reared between her and the souls she labored to win. OUR DECEASED MISSIONARIES. Rev. J. S. A. Hunter. Mrs. Kmma McDill Hunter. Miss Fannte Wallace. Miss Mat tie Boyce. Nearby was a large plantation owned by an American. She offered to sell the sugar from her front window, and selling it cheap, many of the poor came to buy. She made nothing in dollars and cents, but she was always ready with a word for her Lord. When they came on Sabbath, she told them why she could not sell and urged the obligation to keep the Lord's day of rest. And every field has its own ways of working. The nature of the conditions obtai...