The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-13
MISS CORTEZ SPEAKS
YOUNG MEXICAN MISSIONARY AP-'
 PEALs TO YOUNG FOLK.
Addresses Epworth League of SEont~ goniery on Work of AEtnsfons--A Sfudent at Livingston
 School.

What Missions and Missionary Work Has Done for Me was the subject of an address to a union of the Epworfh Leagues and missionary societies of the Methodist churches Of Montgom- cry at the Court Street Methodist Church last night by Miss Elisa cortex. the young Mexican, who Is studying In this country preparing for missionary work in her own country.
 Of a pleasing personality. distinctly. spanish in her type of beauty, speaking English fiuently. yet with q distinct foreign accent. Miss Cortez held the closest attention of her interested au- dience. She speaks without notes. She has given her life to the work of her Master. She has directed her energies to young people. believing that on the training of boys and girls depend the future growth and development of the Kingdom of Christ on earth.
 For two years she has studied at the State Normal School at Livingston, and when, on August 23. the school resumes It's work. she will be in her accustomed place. After this year she win go North, where she will take an advanced course in training for Kindergarten work which she expects to do on her feturn to her home fin Mexico City three years from this time.
 Tn the meatime, she Is never idle. Her school days are full of study and work, and during her vacations she goes from place to place lecturing, and in other ways helping and strens then- ing the hands of those who. like her. self, are trying to do the win of Christ.
 Some years ago the Methodist mig s:cnary school. the Mary Keener" col- lege was established at Mexico City. with only about twelve pupils. Since that time the school has grown con- stantly and at this time numbers on it's roll the names of five hundred youths, boys and girls, who have adopt- ed the Christian faith and are prepar- ing in various ways to take up the work of missions.
 Many of the girls are preparing to do. special mission work" said Miss Cortez. some are studying fer teach- CTS; some of the young men are study ing for the ministry others for other calltngs in life that require the work of trained Christians. but each and ev- cry one is a Christian boy or girl and is doing in his way the work of the Master whom he serves"
 Miss Cortez Is most emphatic in her assertion that the only happy life and the only sort of life worth living Is the Christian life.
 My wish for the young people Of this city is that they may be as happy as am, and I know that there is but one way to reach that happiness--the One who has said Ask and ye shall re- ceive.'
 The Epworth League, she said, is the great training school of the Meth odist church, to fit the young people to take the places of the present work CTS, who, like the old soldiers, are pas sing away. and whose places must be filled and be filled with those eompe- tent to do the work. She said that the majority of parents take too little in~ terest in the training of their children to work for Christ They rarely fail to do their duty to the child in his sec ular education but act indifferent to the religious training
 She spoke especially of what the missions and the mission workers had done in her native land and for her own self. She pleaded earnestly with the young women and men of the Epworth Leagues of Montgomery to eonseerate themselves anew to the work and to accomplish more in the next year for the Masters cause than ever before,
 Miss Cortez while in the city, is the guest of MT and Mrs. J. B. chatfield. at their home on Holeombe street. She will leave this morning for Hammer. where she win visit a schoolmate untH time to return to school