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Title: History of the Methodist Episcopal church in Mexico [electronic resource]; personal reminiscences, present conditions and future outlook Year: 1918 (1910s) Authors: Butler, John Wesley, 1851-1918 Subjects: Methodist Episcopal ChurchNew York, Cincinnati : The Methodist book concern Publisher: Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library

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Text Appearing Before Image: h in less than eight months. The sameyear Miss L. E. Bumgardner came for the work inOrizava, and others as follows: Miss Ida Bohannon,1901; Miss Laura Temple and Miss Helen Hewittin 1903; Miss Ellen Paine, 1905; the Misses Cook,Miss Grace E. Hollister, 1906; Miss Blanche Betz,1907; Miss Edith Salmans, 1910; Misses Dora A.Gladen, Lois J. Hartung, Kathryn B. Kyser, 1911;Miss Vernise Gelvin and Katharine M. Johnson,1912; and Miss Elizabeth Benthiem, 1914. Thevaluable work of these devoted women, and of someothers unnamed here who were permitted to give buta short term, challenges the admiration of the church.In addition to these, worthy Mexican teachers, Biblewomen, deaconesses, and nurses have loyally servedthe cause in various departments. The unselfish co- 61 METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHUKCH IN MEXICO operation of these and of a goodly number of con-tract teachers sent from the States, as well as manydaughters of the land, have made possible the successachieved in these forty-five years. 62

Text Appearing After Image: M H[H H M oo ^*<o M H o W H H toO ij oo a o la o CHAPTER VI MISSION EXTENSION, PACHUCA ANDVICINITY Pachuca, capital of the state of Hidalgo, is aboutsixty miles northeast of Mexico City. It was thefirst town of importance to which our work was ex-tended. The mountains which rise so ruggedly onthree sides of the city suggest impregnable militaryfortifications. These mountains are full of rich veinsof silver, a fact discovered by Cortes four hundredyears ago. Silver is Mexicos chief mineral product,and she has furnished one third of all that preciousmetal now in the markets of the world. The churchesin this land are rich with magnificent silver altarsand railings, yet this lavish display is rebuked by thegeneral poverty and ignorance of the masses. Bishop Haven was the first Methodist minister towalk the streets of the quaint city, though not thefirst Methodist. Wesleyans from Cornwall had pre-ceded him, and he found a class meeting which hadbeen held in the home of Mr. Richard Rule,

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