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Show U. S. SHOULD INTERVENE Baptist Missionary From Mexico Advises Convention of Conditions Condi-tions in Southern Republic Re-public People Held in Ignorance St. Louis. Mo.. May 15. "ArrvKd in tervention by the United States is the only thing in my Judgment that will restore peace In Mexico' said Mis sionary R. P. Mahon, of Moreiia. siatr of Michoacan, Mexico m an address before the Southern Baptist conven tion toda ' I have been unable to return to my work in Mexico for the last tun months on account of revolutions and revolutions against revolutionists The country Is in absolute chaos and with out the hope of getting together if led by au of Its own people. A governor of a promineni nt.n told me he hoped we missionaries I would establish a school In every ll lage and town in his dominion as he belieecl the missionary schools wlli redeem Mexico The Bible is not known to the common people of Mcxl to. and many of the priests don't al low the people to read the Bible "This governor told me that he hp-lieved hp-lieved that only a system of edua tion like that of the United States would redeem Mexico He urged us missionaries to begin such a system and promised to protect us with troops If necessary Vice ignorance, gambling and extreme poverty hold the majority of the people In Mexico down Armed Intervention Necessary. "In the light of these facts, the only hope I can see for Mexico is armed intervention hy this country More than R0 per cent of Mexico's population pop-ulation have never learned to read or j write any language More than 7'. I per cent of Mexican men with families I are unfaithful to their families Th inlsslonar work in Mexico cannot be pushed a!i'l now and many Mexicans of education would not object to our intervention " J W, Lowe and A Y Napier, mis slonaries from China, said the new Chinese government welcomed th misslonarv schools and depended up on the missionaries for much of their knowledge concerning occidental things "In China at this time. we have the greatest opportunity as missionaries known to the history of the Christian religion." Raid Rev Mr. Lowe, "and if wo neglect li we will Ivive set backward the cause of Christ a thoa sand yearB " Both missionaries said that with united missionary work among rill churches in China, the four hundred million of Chinese could be brought to Christ. E W Stephens, of Jefferson Citv, Mo. reporllng on foreign field work of missionaries, said thnt during the year there had been 4,532 baptisms, which was 1,000 more than the total number of baptisms of all the Baptist churches in the mission field during the first fifty years of foreign work |