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FOREIGN MISSION BOARD 259
Not only would our own people have a place to go when ilf, but this would offer
a great opportunity to heal the souls as well as the bodies of the unsaved.
We are praying earnestly that we may soon have additional help. The
field is so large that, in order to cover our territory, we need at least two more
missionary couples for field work.
In the educational work we are behind other denominations. We have one
Baptist school in Mexico on the Southern field. At present we have a student
home in Guadalajara and one in Chihuahua. This year a commercial school
was opened in Durango. Already there are over one hundred students enrolled
and many have been turned away for lack of room. Your missionaries doing
field work in Mexico are: Rev. and Mrs. Orvil W. Reid, Rev. and Mrs. A. P.
Pierson, and Rev. and Mrs. James D. Crane. "But what are these" in so vast a
territory?
We ask that you pray with us about these needs.
MEXICAN BAPTIST SEMINARY AND TRAINING SCHOOL
W. J. WEBB
The Mexican Seminary and Training School located in El Paso, Texas, is
in the midst of the most fruitful year of all its history. The enrollment has
reached an all-time high of forty-three regularly enrolled students, and twentyone
in the night school classes. This past summer was a very good one in
the extension schools. Seventeen students finished the third year course given
in Toluca, while thirty-two completed the first year course in Torreon. Our
newly opened correspondence department has fourteen students in four countries,
taking a total of twenty-six courses.
This year's student body is composed of fourteen single girls, fourteen young
men, and fifteen married students. Of this group, twenty-five come from
Old Mexico, two from Guatemala, and sixteen from the United States.
Besides taking a full curricular load, all students are required to take an
active part in the missionary work over the week-end. Every Sunday fifteen
students cross into Old Mexico where they serve one church and seven missions.
The remaining number work on this side of the border, serving fifteen missions
and eight churches, extending from Roswell, New Mexico on the north to Alpine,
Texas on the south.
At the close of the year's work we expect to have fourteen graduates,
three of whom will go to Guatemala to work, three to Old Mexico, and eight
to the Unite'd States.
The faculty is composed of Rev. and Mrs. W. J. Webb, Miss Viola Campbell,
Rev. and Mrs. Alfredo Lerin, Rev. Jose Rivas and Rev. Leo Estrada.
Due to the recent reform of religious laws in Mexico, we believe that this
will be the last year that the Seminary will be in El Paso. It now seems that
we shall be able, without any difficulty, to return the Seminary to Mexico.
SPANISH BAPTIST PUBLISHING HOUSE
F. W. PATTERSON
In many ways 1945 has been one of the best in the forty years' history of
the Publishing House. We have come through the war stronger than ever
before, both in regard to our financial condition and the circulation of the
literature we publish. The net worth of the Publishing House, according to an
audit report as of May 31, 1945, was $112,924.31, which does not include the
value of the buildings'. Our periodicals have enjoyed a net increase of nearly
20 per cent in the past two years. The Spanish Baptist Publication House,
located in El Paso, Texas, furnished literature for the churches, missions and
Sunday schools of Southern Baptists and other groups in twenty-six countries.
Our publications include a graded series of seven quarterlies for the Sunday
school based upon the uniform lessons, three Training Union quarterlies, and -
a magazine of general interest to our churches. A very small part of our
literature is translated. The greater part of the quarterlres is the original
work of collaborators who represent eleven countries. This Publishing House
has sent fo~th some 200 volumes, many of which are classic Baptist works,