1892 
respect for such 
workers and their oaurte aiuvtover predisposition 
CHaa dalajara 
(Jalisco) 
May 21 
to 
May 31 
ho may have had against *&3eionaries la general, 2o a’ 
SuCil 
missions I oay *8 wjm«s f And good snood to the mark*' 1 
June In connection with Mr, Howland*s mission is a mission school, 
and quite a number of young ladies are being taught there. All 
manner of absurd reports are spread among the people about the 
missionaries, and Mrs, Howland told of a characteristic instance 
where a father brought his daughter to their house to see about 
i 
her entering the school and the girl appeared terror-stricken all 
the time as though fearful of some great calamity. 
Another instance was given of a son who had become a convert 
and who wished his mother to attend one of the meetings. She per¬ 
sistently refused, fearing to go, and one night when a service was 
being held the son searched for her and found her hidden under her 
bed. He thereupon tied her feet together and, taking her up in his 
arms, carried her into the meeting where he kept her till it closed. 
After this she came to the meetings voluntarily and finally became 
a convert. 
Despite their opposition to the Protestant missions, some of 
the priests have been seen to raise their hats as they passed the 
entrance of the mission, with the same respect that they show in¬ 
variably when passing the doors of the front of their own church. 
All men and boys of the Catholic faith who wish to appear good church¬ 
men raise their hats as they pass the main portals of the churches or 
chapels$ and also when the great bell of the cathedral sounds vespers 
every hat is raised and a hush seems to fall on the street as the 
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