The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-19

of the mountains and including the
valleys between AS in the case OF
the farm on Lake Titicaca the In
dians went with this land. They had
their own little holdings scattered
over il. ana owned their own hocks
working part Of each week for the
farmer The foreigners have estab-
lished schools or the estate. and are
introducing our grains and grasses
and new methods of farming am
told that the Indians are learning to
pillow. They use one handled plows
OF American make. and now cultivate
their land in deep and straight fur.
rows, a thing 'hey did not do in the
past The foreigners have brought in
old crops Among other things they
are experimenting with is the Irish
potato. of which they are raising as
much as 800 bushels per acre.
talked with Mrs. Austin. a fine Ca
madam woman, the Wife of one of the
missionary farm managers. She tells
mc that the Indian boys are very
Gui1k To learn and showed me bright
little fellow, belonging TO the farm
who spoke Spanish. AT the same time
she brought out some ears of corn
about loot long with grains as big
as lima beans, and told me that il had
't'H id-Stu on lne farm. mad the
boy hold up the ears of maize and pho
toSraphed them. Mrs. Austin says the
mission mas already proved that the
Indians can be civilized. and that all
they need TO get along in the world
is education and freedom from alco-
hol This mission is doing not only
work of an industrial order among the
Indians. but also evangelical and even
gospel work among the PeruVians. II
has thriving school at Cuzco, where
The rupiis are taught Spanish: and il
has trained nurses who serve among
all classes OF people
In sailing down the west coast i
came from Lima 10 Mollendo. with
general supervision of the Methodist
Episcopal missions of South America,
with his headquarters at Buenos Aires
He tells me that there are six Nortl
american Protestant missionary boards
on this continent. These are the
Methodist Episcopal. Southern Ban
fist. Protestant Episcopal. Canadian
Baptist. Methodist Episcopal Church.
South. and the PRESBYTERIAN The
church having the largest force of
missionaries is the Methodist Episco-
pal and next TO 1t is the Presbyterian
Including the missionaries from Flu
rope. there are altogether about 1000
Ell. with more than LOCO missionary
stations and substations. They have
altogether 10000 communicates and
adherents, which is not very much lin
the population of 50.o0o.o00 or more
which South America now has They
have 1913 day schools and forty-two
high schools with about 10000 pupils
Among the institutions doing mission
work is the Salvation Army, which
has something like 27.OOo adhercnts
said Bishop Stunt:
I'm the beginning, about all We could
do was to carry on the schools We
found that the people wanted to learn
English. and the Rev William Taylor
opened a chain of schools all along
the west coast, from Guayaquil. in
Ecuador. to Conception. in Chile. Al
one time we had sixteen schools. and
all of these were supported by the tu-
itions received OF late the govern
mcnts have been more Interested In
cduca ton. and the schools have been
cut Gown to ten.
I'm Bolivia the interest of the gov
crnnent in the educational work OF the
Methodist Church is so great that j,
has recently made an annual grant OF
$4,000 for supporting two OF our
boarding and day schools. and ii ex
support of girls school on similar
lines. We have in La Paz the Amer
lcan institute, with 200 or 400 students.
This is the largest school of its Kind
in. the republic. The new girls school
Will be at Cochabamba. a town of 80
900 people. on the eastern slope Of
the Andes. abou; 40 miles from La
paz."
| asked Bishop Stuntz about the mis-
sion work in Peru. He replied
The outlook is encouraging The
Peruvian Congress has just passed
law by vote of 81 10 granting
liberty of worship throughout the
republic. This the people have not
had until now, although missions have
been established in certain localities
NOV the missionaries can go wher-
ever they please. and there will be
plenty Of opportunity TO do work
the Indians, as well as among
the other classes of the people. This
is regarded as great step toward
freedom Of worship. Ecuador secured
religious liberty six years ago. The
Argentine Republic granted it nearly
thirty years lago. and Uruguay still
earlier. Brazil has not only granted
religious liberty, but ii has no es-
tablished union OF church and state"
But has all this been the work of
the missionaries"
Yes. to a large extent DR.. Thomas
8. Wood, seconded by DIR. Trumbull,