Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-11-29
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KIN Auht hhNl1tNt \
Ia the Western Christian Adeocute.
published at Cincinnati, Onlo, dated
November Ord, IN which paper
his obituary Is 10 soon TO
appear, Is tbs following article bear.
log the simple heading. "From New
Mexico" written by the late DR.. A. A,
Gve, superintendent Of the New Mex
,co VI Il. Missiopi
Dear Reader I'll wish I could paint
u p,clure that would i've and breathe
Then would / place before you a picture
that would thrill your soul, aud swhksL
you 10 new lite and activity. would
show you the Spanisb-speaking mission
co, ference Of The Methodist Episcopal
church In New NJ xico ~ | saw IL 10 its
session at RatoD, N NJ, October Tn
to 18th. The native men Of this old,
long. priest ridden Territory would not
be 10 your eye the best looking men in
h. world Most Of them are dark in
heir compilations and darker ia their
| minds and spirits But these men have
been changed The darkness has gone
on, Of their spirits and IL rapidly gong
out Of heir miDds. They have been
glor6ed, till to me, as | faced them IN
the thrilling moments Of their de-
v"ntional services, their faces g'owed
something as the face OF Moses When
he came down from ,he mount. When
the darkness If Rome disappeared from
| heir minds before thu sun OF righteous
ness, the dark SC wi Of higo,ry disap
peared fr IN their swart faces which
/, were illuminated BY the Shekinah glory
hat glnwed within them Yeu have
! s.en many couferencesFof Methodist
preachers, no doub, but you
saw a better looking or more typicsi
no than this liltle conferences OF
vents five natives Of New N xico,
converted from Superstition to religion.
from the pope to Christ. | never felt
more at home or realized more Of the
spirit OF ~brotberIy love in my own dear
Old conferences that opened her doors
to mo aud took me to her communion
in tae early morning OF my young man.
| mood than among this conference OF
men Of different speech that.
III could q understand ~ men
1 old CASTELAR, descent, many OF them ;
soma perhaps with the blood OF the
native am -rican in their veins; de-
scepdants II forty Eve generations Of
| Roman Catholic ancestors, converted
10 the pure and simple faith
~ Jesus as taught IN the gospel of the
| Son Of God, ~ it is preached by the
| spiritual descendants of John Wesley.
What an honor to stand 10 'iue WITH
such men, and to marca with them
| shoulder to shoulder. .yen though it
ne on the outposts Of ZION. 10 the very
presence OF the foe! Y@u are not to
think because these men are trans
figured in their lives, that nothing is
left them hut to wave palms OF victory.
They are face to face with the scarlet
uni ct Babylon The contest Is al
close quarters--hand INLAND, Thei .
is a work To Test the Christian courage
of any man.. II requires power to
stand before such superstitions IS these
men (most OF whom have but recently
~escaped) and win victories for jesus,
and lead to him such ones as these
men are secking to win, You can al
least give them your prayers; but 1t is
to be feared that prayers alone will not
add very greatly TO their strength or
Victories. Praying for the conversion
+ the world is not quite enough. An
old friend used to say that when they
bread in the family, be go
on his knees and prayed, "Glve
as cur dai!y bread" and Thea be gor
up and started to mill. D ar brother.
pray for this work, for these men,
srd then send your grist to Gods
mil for them, that they may have
Cad it be possible that tht
Church at large fails to ap-
pr eiato the magnitude. the difficulties,
pr the snceess Of this work, either the
or the Eaglishf +:
AT the Spanish-speaking conference,
McCabe gave appointments t.
wenty four native preachers converted
rom Rome within q few years, and
out into the Chr stan ministry, be.
tides four or fp Spanish speaking
Anglo Sax MS These men represent J
| membership OF 2 500. including pro- {
.,ationers. Think Of T.! conference '
II twenty. five ministers and Q 500 !
members won to Christ In this ancient =
eat of Satan's kingdom, and the
only about fifteen or sixteen
ears old, and these won from a super b
harder to conquer than pagan! n
.et me tell you, their 10 no failure k
nth God no failure with bis army at b
be front, The failure-;f there be n
ny-is with those in the rear. II the el
Missionary beard could appropriate
lore money for the work., a very few
ears would see the worit at the feet
Jesus bowling, and hear the glad
cGelm. "The kingdom Of this world
re- the kingdoms OF Christ
Dasr brethren, will you not lh ex-
from the debit size OF our
visionary account that p~aralyz,ng
200, 00Df Oar deas Bishop McCabe,
-ho IS az much Of . m~issiorar,
l.husiast as Chaplain McCabe ever
as, ard wac was 1t his very best at
lese New Mexicsn mission confer
ices, has been figuring szain. He
Is figured out what can be done by q 4
rthday gift TO the Lord II each &
of the churcb-our CHURCH