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Title: Our next-door neighbor: a winter in Mexico
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Haven, Gilbert, Bishop, 1821-1880
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nt Status.—The first Ameri-can Martyr, Stephens ; and how he was butchered.—San Andres.—Govern-mental Progress.—The Outlook.—Postfatory. Not quite yet Good-bye. A journey undertaken solely forChurch purposes should not omit the consideration of that workfrom its pages. It has not been largely thrust into the body ofthe work, brief and infrequent references only having been madeto the subject. The aim has been to give a transcript of the landand people, apart from all especial views or ends, so that thosewho sought light upon the country or sought the country itselfshould not have too much, to them, extraneous matter set beforethem. It seemed better to put such matter in a chapter by itself,so that those who wished it not might avoid the dish entirely, andthose who wished for it might enjoy it all by itself. At the riskof slight repetitions in minor points, let us glance at the story ofChristian Work in Mexico, and put that which was first in its ap-propriate place, the last.
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CHURCH OF SAN FRANCISCO, CITY OF MEXICO. DIFFICULT NEGOTIATIONS. 427 At the very close of the journey, in the little village of San An-tonio, where the grateful husband acknowledges the lordship of hislady in the painted confession along the ceiling of his casa, I re-ceived a telegram, which drew my eyes and soul far away from thehandsome family, obedient husband, and horrible breakfast. Itwas an electric shock in which was more than magnetic currents;for it foretold a future of unmeasured and immeasurable vastness,a future of spiritual currents of divine magnetism, that shall per-meate, thrill, revive, and renew this whole .land. Its enigmaticwords were these : Puebla business closed. Mexico will be to-day. The brief line was inexpressibly grateful; for doubt had hungover the last purchase. Foes were many and sharp. One efforthad failed through treachery, a priest appearing before the judgethe day the papers were to be passed, and getting the property(the Church of Santa Inez, then u

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