Show ANCIENT CHURCH IN DESERT wP m a New Mexico which has recently become become become be be- come one of the sister states in the Union can boast structures that surpass surpass surpass sur sur- pass in age any other in the United States with the exception of a few fewIn fewin fewin In St St. Augustine Fla Santa Fe N. N M. M was the second settlement In the United States Zealous Spanish priests first pushed their way into this part of or the world which was wa's then unknown to Europeans Their object was was to convert the Indians The first structures structures structures tures they built were churches and many of these stand today as monuments monuments monuments ments of the early priests who set them up among the Indians and there preached the gospel One of at the most interesting of at these early churches is located on the edge of Burrow Durrow Flat FIat FlatIn Flatin In the Sacramento National forest in New Mexico This Is a solitary region region re reo re- re gion glon but sparsely Inhabited Here is to be seen the adobe house of a Mexican and the little less I primitive rock cuts of the Pueblo In In- These Indians are devoutly religious and have been saying masses masses mass mass- es 5 at such little churches as that at Burrow Flats for the past four hundred hundred hun hun- dred years |