The Improvement Era, Vol. 29

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Excerpt from The Improvement Era, Vol. 29: October, 1926Peter of Ghent, a Flemish monk, writing from Mexico in 1529. Says that he and another missionary had converted two hundred thou sand Mexicans, their ordinary day's work being from ten to twenty thousand soul's.Father Hunt, do you believe that people who are converted under these circumstances can possibly have proper understanding of Christianity?Von Humboldt says: The introduction of the Romish relig ion had no other effect on the Mexicans than to substitute new cere monies and symbols for the rights of a sanguinary worship. I have seen them, masked and adorned With tinkling bells, perform savage dances around the altar, while a monk of St. Francis elevated the Host.The Abbe Emmanuel Domenech says: The Mexican is not a Catholic - he is simply a Christian because he has been baptized. I say that Mexico is not a Catholic country. This man was a Catholic priest, and chaplain and spiritual adviser to the Emperor Maximilian and the expeditionary forces sent by France to establish him on the throne of a Catholic empire which they plotted to create in Mexico.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.