Identifier: spiritofmissions80epis (find matches)
Title: The Spirit of missions
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Episcopal Church. Board of Missions Episcopal Church. Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
Subjects: Episcopal Church Episcopal Church Missions
Publisher: Burlington, N.J. : J. L. Powell
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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Making tortillas for our breakfast 537 538 Her Mercy Among the Mountains flower. The flower is a big yellow orwhite cluster at the end of a spike sixfeet long. The fermented aguamiel(honey water), as the sap is called,becomes the sweetish-sour foamyliquid known as pulque, and is thensent to the City for the glorious in-ebriation of soldiers and civilians. Ittakes a maguey about ten years toflower, and then, of course, it can beused only once; but they are grown insuch abundance that the production ofpulque is one of Mexicos most thriv-ing industries. The tough fiber of themaguey is woven into coarse cloth,and the fleshy part of the trunkroasted, makes a delicious sweet,much like sugar cane, called mescal.The leaves go to feed the pigs, andpaper is sometimes made from thepulp. It must be remarked that pulqueitself is by no means an unmixed evil.In the cities, where it is adulteratedwith cheap whiskies, it results in muchvice, but in the mountains the people
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THE MOTHERS BURDEN IN MEXICO This woman is a sister of. one of our HookerSchool girls drink it instead of water, and it issaid to be very healthful. In SantaMaria, all the water has to be broughtup from the foot of the mountain inhuge earthenware jars on the backsof the Indian women, who sell twojars for three cents. Where a day-laborers wage is thirty cents, threecents is not so ridiculous a price as itsounds. Out of their poverty, our little con-gregation, by dint of much saving andscraping, has bought a piece of landand started to build a chapel. Themen made the adobes, and our lay-reader, Mr. Andrade, himself wentup into the forest, cut the timbers,and hauled them down the mountain-side. What with war, pestilence, andfamine, however, the people could nolonger afford to give their pennies, oreven their days work for nothing.The little chapel had, therefore, to beabandoned half-finished. The serv-ices are at present being held in a tinyadobe room with a mud floor, with noaltar but a

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