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September 11, 1932 ]
fully cool even in mid-summer. We
found it especially so this year. If It
grows warm toward the middle of the
day the afternoon rain, which is a part
of the season "weather" during the
summer, sprinkles the streets and
nvikes everything fresh and cool acain
To those of us who live in the warm
climate it was a refreshing experience.
Too much cannot be said about the climate
of Mexico City. They have neither
winter nor summer?one eternal spring,
i \v0 felt a pardonable sympathy for all
of those who have been trying and are
now trying to get into this city of invigorating
atmosphere.
The Synod is composed of four Presbyteries.
Three of these are occupded
by the Northern Mission and one in the
territory occupied by our Mission. It
has been the policy since the organization
of the Synod in 1901 for the missionaries
to belong to the Presbyteries
in .Mexico. With Mexican ministers and
missionaries tnere are about fifty ministers
in the Synod. On account of the
political conditions and some washouts
on the railroad, not 'more than one-third
of that number was present this year.
Still the meeting was of importance and
many matters of interest were discussed.
Among these were, The need for
a more evangelical spirit among the
pastors; need for a larger reaiization
on the part of our pastors of their high
calling; a crisiB in our work on account
of lack of pastors; an. adjustment of
the relations between the mission anu
the church courts in Mexico, need for a
greater interest by our ministers and
officers in our publications. Many of
the reports presented to the Synod were
full of interest. The most interesting of
notice"
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, all perhaps were those from the seven
boarding schools under Presbyterian
, control in Mexico. Tnese scnoois are:
me Gins' School at Matamoroe, iat
, t>oys' scnool at Montemorelob, cue G?ris
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city), the Boys' School at Coyoacau.
and the Theological Seminary at Coyoacan.
The reports show that all of these
scuool8 are doing splendid work, the
value of which only eternity can reveal.
Report was made to the Synod
tnat three churches had gotten together
on a plan for the publication of our
Sunday school literature. These
cnurcnes are the Methodist, Norta
and South, and the Presbyterians. The
Presbyterians publish the Monthly Magazine,
corresponding to the Earnest
Vvorker. The iNorthern Methodists publish
the quarterly and the Southern
Methodists publish the Graded Lessons.
Each of the three churches using tne
publication, of the other. The matter of
tne Graded .Lessons is giving us the
same grave concern that is felt in our
church at home. The system that is being
published is the same as that gotten
out by the so-called syndicate of the
"Big Four" at home. It will probably
be settled in our own Presbytery tne
same way that it is being settled by
our church at home, by not being used.
The Synod of Mexico is unique in
that it is the only church in Mexico that
has its own Home Mission Agency. The
beginning of this work was very interesting.
At the close of the last cen.
tury during a centennial meeting of the
Evangelicals of the City of Mexico,
some one stated that there was only
one state in the Republic where there
was no evanglical work. Dr. Morales,
the "Moody of Mexico," said: "By the
grace of God that statement shall never
be made again from a platform in
Mexico. He began at once to work for
the establishment of evangelizing
agencies in that state. The matter wae
taken up in the Synod and the Home
Mission Board of the Synod was organized.
This board has been working
with good success for some years until
the last two or three. The greatest
hindrances to the work last year being
the internal wars. The state that the
board has as Its field has suffered greatly
and It has 'been almost impossible to
make advances. The board is out of
debt, has a fund of a few hundred dollars
on hands' and hopes with the return
of peace to go on with the work.
The Synod had the honor of hearing
an address 'by the General Secretary of
Sunday schools of Mexico. The General
Secretary of Young Peoples' Societies
was also present and gave an address.
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Both of these addresses were encouraging
and helpful.
The sad condition of the country on
account of the continued uprisings in
different parts was talked of a great
deal. While work has in many parts
been hindered during the oast eighteen
months, and while reports came to the
Synod of the death of some of out members
at the hand of the rebels, and
while there could but be anxiety expressed
as to the future of the republic
and of evangelical work, there was a
feeling of confidence expressed on all
sides in the government of Madero and
a belief that the government will be
victorious and that during the next year
we may expect a larger work and more
quietness in which to do it. Will you
not pray that under the blessing of God
this may be so.
Brownsville, Texas.
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born every minute," we are told.
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But the Divine Word gives the main
reason?hostility to the truth on the
part of the unregenerate heart.
"And because they receive not the
love of the truth, that they might be
saved . . . God shall send them strong
delusions that they should believe a lie."
2 Thes. 2: 10, 11.
And there in no lie framed by the
"father of lies," the devil, so puerile
and silly, so glaring and preposterous,
but that you can find a certain class
of silly balanced and credulous people
who will clamor for it, and pay out
good money, too, for it.
Strange! Possibly Carlyle was not
far amiss of his mark after all, when
he said with fine cynical scorn, that
most people were "mostly fools."
"Little children, let nr? man deceive
you."
Montgomery, W. Va.
THE OPTIMISM OF THE BIBLE.
The finest and purest expression of
optimism is that which may be called
Christian optimism. The warrant lor
it is found in every part of the Bible.
The word of God, its general purpose,
and its scheme, are all constructed
upon the fundamental principle of giving
mankind that which is 'best. God's
word offers a substantial basis for the
most confident hope. It declares the
removal of the greatest obstacles to
happiness. It presents a never-failing
source of new and vigorous life. In
the foundation, the material, the agent,
the development, the support, and the
crownng of life, its provision, is both
complete and adaptable.
One of the strongest assertions of
this optimism is found in (Paul's prayer
for the Romans: "Now the God of hope
fill you with all joy and peace in believing,
that ye may abound in hope,
through the power of the Holy Ghost."
Here is a series of words which rise
one from the other, and in. a splendidly
ascending scale, each one packed with
the very best that man could look for,
and each rich by itself. '"Hope," "fill,"
"Joy," "peace," "believing," "abound,"
"power," "the Holy Ghost." As one
writer has put it, there are set forth
here the creative ministry, and the created
result, while strewed all along
between the two are the successive developments
in a glorious spdritual progression.
The source is God, the God
of hope. The Instrumental means is
faith, "in believing." The agent is "the
Holy Ghost." The measure Is complete
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when all the world seems to be
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stocks.?Selected.
Am I to thank God for everything?
Am 1 to thank him for bereavement,
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the message. It is not to give thanks
for everything, hut to give thanks In
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