1092 
Gu&daligsra 
(Jalisco) 
May 21 
to 
May SI 
nothing is done actively. Still the priests keer tin a constant 
ttndercurrent of feeling and .ni»rtonr;ries hare trouble ir renting 
houses, as many fhnntier. will let a house remain unoccupied rather 
than rent to a Protestant,- sometimes even refusing to rent to 
anyone, Protestant mieclorery or not. 
in cub small torn near Cbadaleje.ra where a small congregation 
of converts! was established, the people mobbed the heretics and fin¬ 
ally forced them to move sway. The local authorities paying no 
heed to protests and complaints, 
At another place, a noh gathered t© stone the con.grep.tion in 
e house one Sunday while service was in progress, hut the American 
clergymen who woe officiating walked to the door with a revolver in 
each hand and announced the fact that ho proposed to shoot the first 
ms who broke in upon the meeting with violence* The mob halted, 
considered the jkkt attitude of affairs for & merer*., end slowly 
dispersed and the misdenary returned to his sermon with the pistols 
on the table before him. 
Such little events go to epic© the life of a missionary down 
here and ft certainly requires persistence and considerable courage 
to do good work in the fsee of such, obstacles, 
Mrs, Howland, wife of the Congregational missionary hero, is a 
fine caasaple of what* ft true woman ©an be to her husband. She is a 
slight, delicate appearing woman, with 5 small children and the care 
of the household, yet she essifts in the editing of the small Spanish 
church paper published by her husband, doing all of the editorial 
work when her husband is away. In addition, she is studying Greek 
end Hebrew in order to be able to accompany her husband end .loin 
with him in his studies* United in their work and seeing the 
straightforward earnestness of her husband, one cannot but feel a 
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