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 Extracts from an address delivered by 
 
 S. G. INMAN 
 
 At the Texas State Convention 
 
 Published by the Christian Woman’s Board 
 of Missions, Cbllege of Missions Building. 
 Indianapolis, Indiana Price 5 cents each, 
 40 cents per dozen September, 1912 
 
 
 
"NO COMPRENDO" 
 
 [Extract from an address delivered b}; S. C. 
 
 Inman at the Texas State Convention.] 
 
 I SAW a cartoon the other day that repre- 
 ^ sented beautiful Miss Liberty giving a 
 lecture to a desperado, w^ho, as he flourished 
 a revolver, seemed to be trying to make out 
 who the young lady w^as. On the brim of 
 his wide sombrero was written “Mexico,” 
 and he was saying, "No comprendo." The 
 disturbed conditions south of the Rio Grande 
 are proving only too clearly that indeed he 
 does not understand. The deep truths of 
 democracy are yet beyond his ken. He has 
 not learned how to accept defeat with grace, 
 to discuss issues without personalities, to con¬ 
 fide in his fellow man, to unite factions for 
 the common good. He has not learned to 
 go two miles with the man who compels him 
 to go one; that the man who hears and does 
 is the man whose house stands; that before 
 the tower is built one must sit down and 
 count the cost; that he who puts his hand 
 to the plow must not look back; that only he 
 who loses his life shall find it again. 
 
 All this we must candidly admit. But 
 whose fault is it that he does not know these 
 things? His own? The Mexican learns 
 when he has a chance. I want to show you 
 that he has had no chance—that his “No 
 comprendo,” far from being the flippant re- 
 
sponse of a don’t-care, the subject for the 
 funny column of a newspaper, is really the 
 wail of a neglected soul, rent with grief and 
 passion, who finds no one to explain the 
 deep mysteries of life. “Understandest what 
 thou readest?” was the historic question 
 asked the desert traveler. His reply, “How 
 can I, save some man shall guide?” is never 
 taken as a lack of ability, but only as a just 
 appeal for help. 
 
 The Mexican has had no man to guide. 
 Education and self-expression have been de¬ 
 nied him for the four hundred years since 
 the white man first set foot upon his soil. Let 
 us take a rapid glance at these years. The 
 names of four men.—Cortez, Hidalgo, Jua¬ 
 rez, Diaz—with the gaps filled in by po¬ 
 litical oppression and revolution on the one 
 hand, and the constant intrigues of the priests 
 to keep the people in ignorance on the other 
 —this makes up Mexico’s history. Cortez, 
 who conquered the aborigines in 1 520, was 
 one of the most astute and unprincipled ad¬ 
 venturers the world has ever known. Ac¬ 
 companying him were a band of priests. The 
 natives were compelled to bow to the Span¬ 
 ish king and the Pope at the same time. 
 “Christianity, instead of fulfilling its mission 
 of converting and sanctifying, was itself con¬ 
 verted. Paganism was baptized. Christian¬ 
 ity was paganized.” The people lived in 
 practical slavery for three hundred years. On 
 September 16, 1810, Miguel Hidalgo raised 
 the cry of revolt against this terrible oppres¬ 
 sion. But his love for liberty was not ac- 
 
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companied by a genius for leadership, and 
 soon he and his fellow leaders were captured 
 and shot. Then followed a continuous rev¬ 
 olution for fifty years, in which independence 
 from Spain was gained, only to be lost in 
 the strife between her own unprincipled 
 leaders. 
 
 Out of this carnage of blood and disor¬ 
 der appeared one of the greatest men ever 
 produced by the two Americas. Benito 
 Juarez laid the ax at the root of the tree. 
 He saw that his country could never have 
 political liberty till it had religious liberty. 
 He confiscated large amounts of church 
 property, separated completely church and 
 state, gave the nation her present magnifi¬ 
 cent constitution, repelled the French inva¬ 
 sion, and was about to establish a series of 
 reforms and an educational system for which 
 the people had waited all these eenturies 
 when he was suddenly cut off by death. 
 Fresh struggles for the presidential chair 
 finally resulted in its occupancy by Porfirio 
 Diaz, who retained it from 1876 till 1911, 
 with the exception of four years. His strong 
 hand forced peace and brought about mar¬ 
 velous material progress. But free speech 
 was still repressed, and while a few more 
 people learned to read, they must still reply 
 in a large measure to the question, “Under- 
 standest thou what thou readest?” with the 
 wail, “How can I, save some man guide?” 
 
 Is it any wonder when the country was so 
 suddenly changed from a despotism to a 
 democracy by the Madero revolution, that it 
 
has been impossible to keep down disturb¬ 
 ances? The change was needed, but it was 
 made too suddenly. Just like Turkey, like 
 Portugal, like China, a period of trial and 
 stress must be passed through. History em¬ 
 phasises this to us repeatedly. Think of the 
 long, dark days of the reconstruction period 
 after our own civil war. We began learn¬ 
 ing our lessons in democracy in 1215, when 
 King John granted the Magna Charta, and 
 when Wickliff translated the Bible into the 
 language of the common people. And yet, 
 in this good year of our Lord 1912, it would 
 seem that with our strikes and riots, with our 
 problems of the trusts and child labor, with 
 the open saloon and the trampling of our flag 
 under foot in anarchistic demonstrations, that 
 we ourselves still have a few serious prob¬ 
 lems to settle. Let us quit thanking the Lord 
 that we are not like this publican, at least 
 long enough to inquire why? “Understand- 
 est thou what thou readest?” “No compren- 
 do.” “How can I, save some man guide 
 
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 me? 
 
 It is good to know that the disciples of 
 Christ are doing something at least to show 
 to Mexico that we believe we are our broth¬ 
 er’s keeper, and to help him to understand 
 what he reads. Most of you are familiar 
 with the great work done by the Christian 
 Institute and the large corps of evangelistic 
 workers in Monterey. For the last ten years 
 our m.ission has been as a light set upon a 
 hill m that great city. And never was there 
 such a splendid outlook for that work as 
 
there is at the present. I have been asked to 
 tell you of another work, in which we are 
 emphasizing especially the elevation of the 
 community life, and the interpreting the two 
 nations to each other. This work, under the 
 name of the People’s Institute, is situated in 
 the border city of Porfirio Diaz. It is housed 
 in a beautiful little building, recently erected 
 by the generosity, largely, of Texas Disci¬ 
 ples. Among the various methods of work 
 are lectures on moral and social themes, night 
 classes in fourteen different courses, a read¬ 
 ing-room, library in Spanish and a debating 
 society. 
 
 What we call conferencias morales have 
 been of intense interest. They are really a 
 preaching service. A theme, such as 
 “Friendship,” “Happiness,” “The Dignity 
 of Work,” “The Need of Tolerance,” is 
 announced, and the leading men of the city 
 are invited to take part in the discussion. 
 After the director has opened the discussion, 
 others are called upon to express their opin¬ 
 ions. All are encouraged to say exactly 
 what they think. At the conclusion the di¬ 
 rector sums up the discussion, and urges the 
 teachings of the Man of Galilee on the ques¬ 
 tion. These meetings are largely made up 
 of men who would not think of going to a 
 Protestant preaching service, but who are 
 willing thus to study the same problems, pre¬ 
 sented in a different form. Our debating so¬ 
 ciety acts largely in the same way. Moral 
 questions are discussed in the frankest way, 
 and sledge-hammer blows are hit against the 
 
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national and personal vices, before large 
 companies of people, where a regular ser¬ 
 mon would not reach a fifth of the people. 
 
 At the close of the Madero revolution, 
 when the people suddenly discovered they 
 were to elect their own officials, they under¬ 
 stood not what they read. The way to or¬ 
 ganize a political party and carry on an elec¬ 
 tion campaign was entirely foreign to their 
 understanding. We considered it a privi¬ 
 lege, when they sought our help, to give it 
 to them. In fact, we loaned them our audi¬ 
 torium for their meetings, and it was there 
 the reform mayor, that has done so much for 
 the city, was nominated. A prominent citi¬ 
 zen recently declared that there was not a 
 man who had been prominent in the new po¬ 
 litical activities of the city who had not got¬ 
 ten his training in the debating society and 
 night classes of the institute. 
 
 After what we have said of the prejudice 
 of the two nations, we would hardly expect 
 to see the Mexicans coming together to cele¬ 
 brate the Fourth of July. Yet that is what 
 happened at our institute, and a more en¬ 
 thusiastic celebration you never saw—all m 
 Spanish, except the reading of the Declara¬ 
 tion of Independence and the singing of the 
 national hymn—but this by the Mexicans. 
 The new institute is, in fact, the meeting 
 place of several nations. Not long ago Bra¬ 
 zil sent a special representative to Mexico and 
 the United States to study the cultivation of 
 cotton. 1 he gentleman happened to get to 
 the City of Mexico at the wrong time, failed 
 
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to get the data he sought, and was leaving 
 the country, with not a very good impression. 
 He missed connection of trains in Diaz, we 
 met him, and, finding also Senor Dominguez, 
 the Burbank of Mexico, who is one of our 
 consulting committee, and often gives con¬ 
 ferences at the institute, we arranged a joint 
 conference at the institute. Senor Domin¬ 
 guez gave the gentleman the information he 
 was seeking, and he went away with another 
 idea of Mexico, and grateful impressions of 
 our work and Protestant Christianity, with 
 which he was unfamiliar before. 
 
 When this work was first opened, the peo¬ 
 ple were very suspicious of it. It was diffi¬ 
 cult to get them to realize even that entrance 
 to the reading-room was free, and in no way 
 committed them to our religious convictions. 
 The parish priest waged an incessant war, 
 and for a long time it kept many away, espe¬ 
 cially women. But our work is so recog¬ 
 nized by all now that we receive 1 00 pesos 
 monthly from the state government, and al¬ 
 ways entertain the government officials and 
 other prominent visitors to the city. Not long 
 ago the bank presented the Institute with a 
 note of $800, and we had not a dollar with 
 which to pay it. A campaign of three days, 
 in the time when there was most talk about 
 intervention and the business outlook was 
 most dark, the money was raised among the 
 representative people of the city, but four of 
 the men approached refusing to contribute. 
 
 On the 16th of September, 1911, when 
 a mob raged up the principal street, stoning 
 
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the houses of foreigners, they passed the in¬ 
 stitute without any demonstration whatever 
 and, returning to the monument in front of 
 our property, listened to incendiary speeches, 
 without even reference to the foreigners and 
 Protestants who conducted the People’s In¬ 
 stitute. The governor of the state, who came 
 to the city the next day, said it was one of 
 the most splendid tributes he ever saw paid to 
 a work of like character. At a celebration 
 of the reform laws, a national holiday, all 
 of the orators of the occasion were People’s 
 Institute men, and the night meeting, con¬ 
 trary to all custom, was held at the institute 
 building, with the mayor presiding. He said 
 the next morning in commenting on the mat¬ 
 ter: We are only beginning to realize the 
 
 good you are doing for our city. I am go¬ 
 ing to work to see that you have a tenfold 
 increase in your work which is doing so much 
 for this community. Such words of ap¬ 
 proval confirm the wisdom of the policy pur¬ 
 sued at the People’s Institute. 
 
 On February 22, Washington’s birthday, 
 the political situation was dark indeed. It 
 looked as if the whole country had turned 
 against the Madero government. We called 
 a meeting at the institute, to which we invited 
 all the government officials and prominent 
 citizens, and read a part of the farewell ad¬ 
 dress of Washington, which we had trans¬ 
 lated for the occasion, and which seemed to 
 have been written especially to advise the 
 Mexicans in their national crisis. The neces¬ 
 sity of standing by the constituted govern- 
 
merit, the cost of Ignoring authority, the nec¬ 
 essity of allowing time for reforms to be car¬ 
 ried out, were emphasized. A committee 
 was organized to conduct conferences in the 
 theater on the same subject. In two weeks 
 such meetings were being held all over the 
 republic, and the government was saved, at 
 least temporarily. Of course, that meeting 
 did not do it all, but it had its influence, no 
 doubt. 
 
 Considering the close proximity of Mex¬ 
 ico to our own country, it is difficult indeed 
 to realize why we have done so little to an¬ 
 swer her appeal for light and guidance. It 
 is certainly not because we have not come in 
 contact with her needs. As surprising as our 
 criminal neglect of her spiritual development 
 is our wonderful interest in her material 
 growth. The people of the United States 
 have $1,000,000,000 invested in the mines, 
 railroads, lands and industries of Mexico. 
 One thousand million dollars! And how 
 much have we invested in schools and 
 churches? It will hardly reach one million 
 dollars. Only one one-thousandth part of 
 the total investment! Not long ago a repre¬ 
 sentative of the Guggenheim Interests in the 
 republic told me that there were one million 
 Mexicans dependent upon their plants and 
 allied ones for a living. And how many 
 ministers of the Gospel, both foreign and 
 native, are there employed by all the Home 
 and Foreign Missionary Societies of the 
 whole Protestant world to work for Mex¬ 
 ico’s elevation? Two hundred I Two hun- 
 
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dred ministers to preach the Gospel to 16,- 
 000,000 Mexicans. A parish of 80,000 
 for each man. To teach the 12,000,000 
 who do not know how to read and write, 
 we have 1 70 schools. To convert the 
 3,000,000 Indians who live entirely un¬ 
 touched by civilization and our holy religion, 
 we have—not one single worker. 
 
 Facing this neglect, can we afford to criti¬ 
 cize and condemn the Mexican people for 
 their present reign of blood and horror? 
 Should it not rather cause us to cry out to 
 God for forgiveness for this awful neglect 
 during these long years of opportunity? 
 
 “Understandest what thou readest?” 
 “How can I, save some man guide me?” 
 May it be, when some Dr. Luke of the 
 twentieth century writes the New Acts of the 
 Apostles, that he shall be able to record 
 that, though after long hesitancy, 10,000 
 Phillips came down from the north, obeying 
 the angel’s voice, and, hearing the sad wail, 
 climbed up into the chariot and preached 
 unto the desert traveler, Christ, 
 
 1 hen shall the Mexican, as the Ethio¬ 
 pian of old, go on his way rejoicing, the rid¬ 
 dle of life explained, his burden rolled away, 
 his soul transformed into the image of the 
 Prince of Peace! 
 
 Will you generously give yourselves to this 
 great work? 
 
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BITS OF CONVERSATION 
 
 HE following bits of conversation show 
 
 how our mission work is receiving at¬ 
 tention and endorsement such as would have 
 been impossible in the old days before the 
 Madero revolution, and that now is the time 
 of all times to push our work in Mexico: 
 
 “I am a walking advertisement for the 
 Institute,” said a young man who works in 
 the railroad shops. ‘‘Ever since that Sunday 
 you met me on my way to the bull fight, and 
 told me I was on the wrong road, I have 
 practically given up going anywhere except 
 to the Institute. I have not drunk a drop 
 since that day, and I never tire of telling 
 my friends what you have done for me, or 
 urging them to come to the Institute. I am 
 a different man. My family and friends all 
 want to know what has changed me, and it 
 is a great pleasure to tell them that it is all 
 due to your work.” 
 
 ‘‘Hello, is that the People’s Institute?” 
 said a voice over the telephone. ‘‘This is 
 the secretary of the Anti-Re-election Club, 
 and I have been instructed by our executive 
 committee to see if we might have the use 
 of your assembly room for a meeting of the 
 club next I uesday. Also, as we have some 
 important questions to discuss, and, as you 
 know, are new at the business, we would like 
 for you to be present and advise with us on 
 
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the matters.” This is a sample of the re¬ 
 quests that come since the new political re¬ 
 gime in Mexico, when for the first time the 
 people have been allowed to engage in se¬ 
 lecting their officials and saying something 
 about the policies their nation shall pursue. 
 In their ignorance of procedure in the or¬ 
 ganization of political parties, it has been 
 given those in charge of the People’s Insti¬ 
 tute to be helpful along these lines, and to 
 influence in the selection of the best candi¬ 
 dates for office. In a recent public meeting 
 it was stated by one of the speakers that 
 there was not a man prominent in the new 
 political life of the city who had not re¬ 
 ceived his training for this work in the de¬ 
 bating society or the night classes of the In¬ 
 stitute. 
 
 ‘‘How sorry I am that I did not know 
 you were in the city,” said the Governor of 
 the state to the Director of the Institute, not 
 long ago, when he called on him at the State 
 Capitol. ‘‘There was a committee here to 
 see me today from San Pedro about forming 
 a night school for the workmen. I told them 
 about the great work of your school in Diaz, 
 and gave them your name for correspondence. 
 How splendid it would have been if they 
 could have talked to you personally as to 
 their plans. By the way, let me present you 
 to a good friend of mine who is planning to 
 start some night schools for us here in Sal¬ 
 tillo. He will want you to help us with 
 these. The idea of the reform government 
 is not only to better our public school sys- 
 
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tern, but provide instruction at night for 
 adults. Your school is the first, and we will 
 look to you for much help in establishing 
 these new ones.” 
 
 “Why didn’t I ever hear religion ex¬ 
 plained in that common sense way before? 
 Since I have begun to think for myself, I 
 have never been able to accept the religion 
 of the priests. For a number of years I have 
 abandoned all religion, and read the works 
 of the agnostics. It is going to be hard to 
 come to a simple faith in God again. But I 
 want to. The way you talk of prayer as a 
 fellowship with God, a consultation with Him 
 about our life plans, a harmonizing our will 
 with that of the Infinite One, makes a deep 
 appeal to me. I feel the need of such a 
 power in my life. I wonder if I can ever 
 get to it? I wonder if you would take the 
 time to discuss these things regularly once a 
 week with me and a few of my friends, en¬ 
 tering into detailed explanations showing, as 
 you claim, that modern science is not an 
 enemy, but a friend, to religion?” Thus 
 spoke a young professor of the public schools 
 to us as we were endeavoring to get him to 
 realize his need of Christ. Mexico is full 
 of such young men, who have become dis¬ 
 satisfied with Catholicism, and have turned 
 to the writings of French agnostics for guid¬ 
 ance. Yet by approaching them in scientific 
 and philosophical terms, they can be inter¬ 
 ested in the Gospel, and by patience and 
 sympathy be finally won to Christ. These 
 young men are now, or will be soon, the 
 
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nation’s leaders. To win the nation, they 
 must be won. 
 
 “The Governor thinks that he never heard 
 of such a striking testimony of the splendid 
 way in which a work is regarded as the atti¬ 
 tude the mob assumed toward your building 
 the other night, when they were destroying 
 property. They came up the main street 
 shouting against the foreigners and the peo¬ 
 ple of the former political regime, and broke 
 in doors and windows of a number of Span¬ 
 iards, the American saloon, the Chinese ho¬ 
 tel, and the home of some of the friends of 
 former President Diaz, and passed your 
 place three times, each time stopping there 
 to hear speeches in front of the monument 
 which stands in front of your building. Yet 
 in spite of the fact that you were both for¬ 
 eigners and Protestants, the mob did not 
 make a single demonstration against you. 
 That to him is wonderful. He is greatly im¬ 
 pressed with the work, and says that it is 
 greatly to be hoped that you may inaugurate 
 it in other cities also.” Thus spoke a gen¬ 
 tleman who is a close personal friend of Gov¬ 
 ernor Carranza. 
 
 “Why don’t you come to our city and es¬ 
 tablish a work of that kind,” said a business, 
 man whose home we were visiting the other 
 day. “We have nothing here to raise the 
 ideals of the people. We are all losing 
 interest in the Catholic church, and we have 
 nothing else to take its place. We have no 
 place to take our families of evenings. We 
 have no place to send our children to school. 
 
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when they finish the fifth grade. We have 
 no one to lead us in the new political life we 
 are entering. You have no idea what good 
 you could do here with a work such as you 
 have established in Diaz.” 
 
 Said one of the principle lawyers of Sal¬ 
 tillo: “We are in the greatest need of a 
 work of this kind in Saltillo. We have 
 many schools and churches, but we have 
 nothing to get the people together on a com¬ 
 mon basis like your Institute. I will help 
 you in every way possible. Urge upon your 
 society the starting of this work here. It will 
 give more results than you can imagine.” 
 
 Yesterday a traveling man said: ‘‘Why 
 don’t you enter Torreon? It is growing 
 more rapidly than any city in Me.xico, and 
 it is also the most needy of any I ever saw. 
 It is wide open, and it actually seems as if 
 there are no elevating influences whatever. I 
 believe the rich men there would take an 
 active interest in the opening of a work for 
 the elevation of the community life. There 
 are the greatest kind of opportunities. Don’t 
 fail to push this matter right away.” 
 
 And so we could go on quoting calls that 
 we are receiving constantly for the enlarge¬ 
 ment of our work already established and 
 the entering of new fields. What shall we 
 say to these calls? The home base must 
 reply. 
 
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LETTERS FROM PROMI¬ 
 NENT MEN ABOUT THE , 
 PEOPLE’S INSTITUTE 
 
 FROM THE "BURBANK OF 
 MEXICO." 
 
 1 1 is a great satisfaction to me, and at the 
 same time I believe my duty, to recom¬ 
 mend the work of the People’s Institute, 
 which is under the direction of Prof. S. G. 
 Inman, because 1 believe it to be of great 
 help in the education of our people—the 
 only means by which they can obtain true 
 progress. 
 
 It has been with the greatest pleasure that 
 1 have contributed to this work with my lec¬ 
 tures on agriculture, and 1 shall continue on 
 my sphere of action to co-operate in the en¬ 
 largement of the Institute, which I do not 
 doubt will find philanthropic friends who will 
 help such an untiring gentleman as Prof. 
 Inman in his humanitarian task, which so 
 honors and benefits our people. 
 
 Zeforino Dominguez. 
 
 FROM THE ADMINISTRATOR OF 
 THE CUSTOM HOUSE. 
 
 It is with great pleasure that I present to 
 you my good friend. Director of the People’s 
 Institute, from which this city and various 
 
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others of the frontier receive great benefit, 
 principally from its active propaganda of cul¬ 
 ture and morality. This work has been so 
 well received by our people that the absolute 
 necessity is clearly seen of enlarging the build¬ 
 ing in order to carry out more perfectly the 
 educational work which is planned. 
 
 1 he organization of this Institution is 
 most excellent, it being the only one of its 
 kind in the country, and its tendencies, its 
 building, its excellent location (in front of 
 the Custom House), make it most accept¬ 
 able; and it has been satisfactory to me to 
 observe personally the good work of Prof. 
 Inman, for which cause I feel it is a real 
 honor to us Mexicans who love progress to 
 give our financial help for the enlargement 
 of an institution so beneficent as the People’s 
 Institute, A. A. BeREA. 
 
 FROM THE “PRESIDENTE MU¬ 
 NICIPAL” OF C. PORFIRIO DIAZ. 
 
 I am honored in presenting to you most 
 attentively my good friend, Senor S. G. In¬ 
 man, a resident of this city, who is at the 
 head of the most modern educational work 
 in the republic. The direction of the Peo¬ 
 ple’s Institute is in his charge, this institution 
 being of an exceptional character, as it car¬ 
 ries on not only special courses for working 
 men, but also conferences and lectures on 
 civic, industrial and moral themes, given by 
 competent persons from different places; a 
 public reading-room; athletic department; a 
 
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debating club, where our citizens prepare 
 themselves for our democratic contests under 
 the restrictions of peace and law. 
 
 Under the transcendent importance of 
 this work the Governor of the state has de¬ 
 creed a certain amount of help, but on ac¬ 
 count of the many financial responsibilities 
 this help is not commensurate with the great 
 need of this Institution. The present build¬ 
 ing cost $10,000, which was raised by the 
 solicitation of personal contributions by the 
 Director. There is still, however, a balance 
 due on the building, and to raise this and to 
 enlarge the building, adding baths, a public 
 clinic, some dormitories for poor young men 
 who wish a higher education, etc., Senor In- 
 m.an finds himself in the necessity of appeal¬ 
 ing to the generosity of some of our promi¬ 
 nent citizens to aid in this great work, and I 
 urge such persons as desire to figure among 
 the benefactors of the People’s Institute to 
 aid liberally in this work, which will honor 
 our country. 
 
 A proof of the prestige of this Institution 
 is that Senor Venustiano Carranza, Governor 
 of the State; Senor J. de la Sa Pereyra, 
 special envoy of Brazil; Senor Andres Osu- 
 na, ex-Superintendent of Education in the 
 State of Coahuila; Senor J. Kim Yuen, rep¬ 
 resentative of the Chinese Empire; Lie. Eli- 
 seo Arredondo, Secretary of the State, and 
 many others who have visited the Institute, 
 have expressed the highest regard for this 
 work, which all good Mexicans should favor. 
 Lie. Enrique del Castillo. 
 
FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE 
 ASSOCIATED ADVERTISING 
 CLUBS OF AMERICA, 
 BOSTON. 
 
 I want to add a personal word of Inter¬ 
 est and approval for the splendid work you 
 are doing. It seems to me you are decidedly 
 on the right track. Our Sunday night meet¬ 
 ings at Ford Hall must be precisely in spirit 
 what you are attempting in Mexico. 
 
 I wish you every success. There must be 
 some way found of getting people together 
 in spite of political and religious differences 
 if democracy is to prevail. 
 
 George W. Coleman. 
 
 FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE 
 MEXICAN COAL AND COKE 
 COMPANY. NEW YORK. 
 
 Having seen the success of your work 
 among our coal miners at Las Esperanzas, 
 Coahuila, and realizing from personal ac¬ 
 quaintance the broad and deep Christian 
 spirit and vigorous energy with which you 
 are striving for the elevation of the people 
 of Northern Mexico, I am greatly interested 
 in the new work you have undertaken. I only 
 wish that I were able to contribute more than 
 I have toward this new and promising mis¬ 
 sionary development. 
 
 Jas. T. Gardiner. 
 
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