The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-10-03
OUR MEXICAN MISSION
ABOUT MEXTCO-THE COUNTRY
Its PEOPLE AND ESPECI-
ALLY ITS CHILDREN
AN INTERESTING LETTER FROM REV. D.
w CARTER.

W. CARTER
OAxAcA, Mexico, Sept. A, 1883.
TO the Carter Missionary Society,
MorristOwn, Tennessee:
MY DEAR You've FRIEEDs:-l re-
ceIved, through your Corresponding
Mr.. s. A.. Magill, your very
kind and complimentary letter Of Au-
gust s.h. 1t was impossible for me TO
comply with your request that should
write in time for you 70 receive my let
ter at your September meeting. Your
letter went first to New Orleans where
il was stopped by the quarantine regu-
lations which do not permit ships 10
sail from that city to Vera Cruz In the
summer months. So, IL turned DaeA
and went to New York and took ship
for the island of Cuba, next IL went 10
the city Of Vera Cruz, thence Il came
TO me at this city, whose hard name
fear you cannot pronounce, Oaxac%'
fW,h.hAck-ah.) All this took nearly
a month, and your letter did not reach
me until the Saturday evening before
your September meeting.
l thank you very heartily for your
letter. but how shall thank you sufi-
GENTLY for the honor you have done
me In the name you have taken. They
say a gentleman is very happy When
ne can induce one young person to assume
his name. How happy, then, ought
20 be when fifty Of you have volunta-
riIy taken my name,-and more to fol-
Howl You could easily have found a
prettier name than mine, but If you
like IL. and are willing to wear II, L
| again thank you for the compliment
you pay me, and the kind interest you
express for my welfare.
To be interested in mission work, as
YOU are, is to be interested in the great
1t and best work in the wo.ld. You
ue helping to do the same work tha'
the Lord Jesus came into the world 70
10, to seek and save the lost. He VIII
surely bless you for all you dofo Him.
Not one little hymn, or verse or pray
err in your meetings will te in vain
not one little cent given will be lost oil
forgotten by our Father who is II
heaven.
am sure you want to hear some
ching about Mexico: the country th'
people, and especially the children
There are many things in Mexico u
; interest a stranger. The country
very different from yours, yet II Is
, beautiful country. God has bestowe'
, upon it some of His most wonderful
, and curious works. There are vas
| mountains, which are among the hlgh
est i'm the world. There are vast Ter
riIe.plains, rich in the curious and use
full products of nature; and there ar
? the ruins Of very curious old cite
r which existed long before ColumDu
? discovered America. Last May, In com
many with some other missionaries,
, vent to the top of the highest noun
tain in Mexico. 1t is the extinct vol
cano of Popocatapetl. 1t is l7,7l7 Zee
( nigh and is always covered with sno"
: Formerly it was a terrible and awfu
q volcano, sending forth great torrent
q If burning lava, melted stones an
sand. Now il is always covered VIII
snow up to the edges of the crater. VI
derneath the snow, and below the edg
j of the snow line, the mountain 10
S mass of black sand and broken fraI
@ ments of black stone. IL took us nv
4 hours to climb from the lower edge
the snow TO the summit. Sometime
we would sink into the snow up to u
. waist. 1t was very slow and hard elm
D. ing. Three of our party gave out an
4. .wo got quite sick and could not NAL
d | the ascent. Two of us, of the nun
te Der, climbed, unaided by our guide
. to the top. AT the top is the great or
> ter. 1t is SEQ feet deep and three mil
around its irregular edges. From q
bottom of the crater a great cloud
o. steam is rising all the time, and fro
n some of the crevices in the rocks It hl
ses and roars like the noise OF maj
steam engines. Though it is very war
b and steaming In the bottom, the roc
or around the upper edge Of the cra'
X are thickly hung with icicles and
I'D snow lies close up TO the rim all arour
+ Once this crater was very active
sent forth millions of tons Of rocks,
va and sand. The lava ran in melt
u Kissing torrents down the mounts
le, side and may now be seen in its G.
IN and hardened state far down the mot
,r- tain below. There is much sulph
IN down in the crater and the indians
% down and get 1t and bring 1t out
r. sell it.
The beautiful vallies of Mexico p
hu duce all varieties of grains and fru
Ith All those that you are familiar W
W. grow here, besides many others VIII
tie belong to the tropics only. What wo
you think of going out int the y
and picking up lemons and oranges
'iS' of the ground like you pick up apr
ep- in the orchard at home. Yet that is
ri way the people do here. In our y
nal where now live we have trees grow
m that would be great curiosities to y
One is a lemon tree full of fruit, ano
err is a lime tree, also with fruit. III
we have n banana tree. 1t Is very Ct
lty Gus and beautiful. Its broad leaves
ISL broad as a palm leaf fan, branch
es- from the top and curl downward
no. taper to point like corn blades.
:. fruit hangs in great punches just IN
-, the leaves. The bloom is large pul
i'n flower as big as little girls two han
as Theu we have the mango tree. Its les
hio are small and purple. its fruit large
nc yellow. think it is much the best
Ter in Mexico IL is so good that IL you
"a one think you would almost an
your lips for two days. Another tr'
a. the papya. 1t is large and tall
Tim broad scoIloped leaves. Its fruit X
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