THE
FOREIGN MISSION JOURNAL
Vol. XXII— April, 1891— No. 0.
MADERO INSTITUTE, AND MISSIONARY EDUCATION.
Madero Institute, born with a silver spoon in its mouth, has enjoyed
a career of almost uninterrupted prosperity. Concerted prayers for
curses upon it have been offered, for weeks, by fanatical enemies. Ac¬
tual assaults upon it have been made by infuriated mobs. Unscrupu¬
lous judges, perverted by7 malicious priests, have decreed against it
gross injustice. But, as the furnace fires about the ancient Hebrew
children only developed the presence of the Son of God, so these persecu¬
tions merely attested the institution’s worthiness of the confidence of
Mexican citizens and the love of American Baptists. Instead of male¬
dictions invoked, benedictions descended uponthechildof Christian zeal
and God-inspired generosity ; and instead of violence checking growth,
it only engendered more vigorous and more healthful life. Forming
the acquaintance of the magnetic W. D. Powell, Governor Evaristo
Madero, wishing to do something for female education, secured a con¬
gressional grant of valuable property, to be used “to teach the daugh¬
ters of Mexico to think.” The declinature of the grant, while it sur¬
prised the gubernatorial friend, only accustomed to a Church which
had absorbed from his country $250,000,000, made him none the less
friendly to the man and
Ыз
people, who evidently were seeking not his
possessions and his people’s, but seeking him and them. By' his liberal
aid one of the most eligible places in the picturesque city7 of Saltillo
was purchased by7 the Board, where “education, primary7, academic
and normal should be imparted to girls and young women.” In the
boarding department “the authorities of the school,” according to the
constitution, “shall be in loco parentis.” The result has been that
many children have been brought into the Sunday-school, and “put
on Christ by baptism.” Attached to their Alma Mater, from which
they have derived training mental, moral and religious, not a few of
the graduates, occupying commanding positions in public schools,
have proved themselves well constructed conduits for the propagation
of the truth as it is in Jesus. Some of the graduates are wives of Bap¬
tist preachers and colporters, and intelligent and attractive helps meet
