TRIALS OF A MEXICAN CHRISTIAN.
A young man about twenty-five years of age, at Tuyahualco, an Indian town of Mexico, some years ago, obtained a Bible, and after perusing it awhile, he succeeded in gaining the attention of his mother, brother, and sister, while he read and explained it the best he could. He invited some of his neighbors at times to listen to the reading of the holy word, and has now a congregation of fifty-eight adults. But his father, who is mayor of the town, has disowned him, and the whole family likewise; forsaking his own wife and children. When they meet in the street, the father clasps his hands over his ears, and turns to the other side of the street. He says he would rather have seen his son hung, like a highway robber, to the branch of a tree, than have him become a Protestant. This simple incident, which is but one of a large class of cases, may give a faint idea of what it costs to espouse Christianity in some of the outskirts of Mexico, and may also show how surely Protestantism is progressing.—Illustrated Missionary News.