The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-04-07

to be greatly disappointed and made SICK
with colds, la grippe and malaHlal diseases
Notwithstanding the great progress
claimed to have been made here III the
last twenty-five years, to the casual OBJ
server, Mexico as a whole seems obvious
~ to have been touched only by the ma
terial forces of our christian civilization,
railroads, telegraphS, telephones, and
electric lights. These doubtless will
prove and are proving open doors for the
entrance ofm0re subtitle sources that with
| the leaven of the Kingdom of Heaven
will change and largely degenerate this
land of bigotry, imposition and fraud in
| the name of religion.
With the exception of the capital, the
cities visited, Monterey, TampicO, mean
and in a wretched sanitary condition,
AguaScalienteS, noted Tor draw work,
| Cuernavaca and the towns seen enrOute,
with few exceptions ale composed of one
story adobe buildings vii h AN inner court
or Patio after the manner of Rome and
| Naples and the eXCavated homes OF
POmpeii-as we saw them twenty five
years ago. The PatiOs, especially of many
OF the well to do people here of both
Spanish and Aztec decent are made at.
tractive with beautiful flowers and
shrubs, including coffee and banana
plants and fruit and ornamental trees
! O.eanders in some cases grow to be TWEEN
ty to twenty-five feet high.
Last Saturday Sonora and myself and
five other tourists from the vicinity OF
Boston, by invitation took dinner at the
very pleasant home of Mrs. Florence
Garfield Spencer, whose husband, Rev.
VIM. 5. Spencer fills an important posi-
ton at the head of the Institute MetO-
dista Mexicano." They are doing excel
lent work, including on the part of Mrs.
S. voice culture, English and 5. 5.
class teaching. Mrs. Garfield and her
/ n 1 haa Inn iuhf
months and are making themselves very
useful. The latter has gained forty
pounds and proposes to start west Mon
day with her brother and sister and
others, during school vacation, on horse
back outing tour to the eastern and lower
county.
Puebla at an altitude of 1900 feet, has
about one-fourth less oxygen in its
varilied atmosphere than is found at Sc 1
level. Hence a given amount of labor is
far more eXhausting. Some facts have
come to nv knowledge showing the 81 eat
corruption of the priesthood and how
corruptlng and revolving is the confess
iOnal. The meanness and dlshOnOr of
some churches and church members in
the states though exceedingly over
matched here MAY not be less Teprehen-
sibie because of the greater light there.
Puebla with Popocatepett and Ixt cci-
huatt in tull view, with delightful sum
IlleT weather at Ills time, IL sal 10 COH-
tain about eighty Catholic churches and
1905 population. But | have already
taken too much space for this communi-
cation.
Z. B. BoTsFoRD.
p. S.-Allow me to appeal through the
OPINION, Mr.. Editor, especially to the
Methodist churches of Vermont that
have so worthy and devoted missionary
representative in Mexico for funds to
aid in the work of the boys and girls
school, the Methodist Institute of Puebla.
Mr.. and Mrs. Spencer are giving their
Young lives to this work and are now in
great need of a little change and rest
The institution is crowded and the chill
dren of applicants are turned away for
want of room, for want of means to en-
large. If some of the energetic women
of Vermont would only undertake to
raise fund for this very important and
hopeful work
let some of the men and women of the
churches who have in their wills OF pro
pose to put in their Wills benevolent be-
quests follow the admirable example of
IJr PearsOns and be their own executors
for much or little las the Lord has pros
pered them"
An industrial, self-help department
would be of incalculable value to the
bows and girls and to the country at large
as an object lesson. b.