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ADDRE55 ON THE

FIELD:

ADDRESS ,QN" THE. FIELD:

Bill and Dorothy Morgan

Apartado Postal 1572

Clinton and Melba Looney

Apartado Postal 11B3

Guadalajara, Jalisco
Mexico

Guadalajara, Jalisco
Mexico

FORWARDIiMG AGEMT:
Mrs. F, A. Kerns P. 0, Box 442

FORWARDIIMG-AGENT:
Mrs. Stanford Cook

P.

Box 278

Bouker, Texas
U.S.A.

Vansant, Virginia
U.S.A.

NUMBER

TWO

GUADALAJARA, JALISCO - MEXICO

MARCH 15, 1963

SPANISH
Shown here is

WORK

our small but faithful

Mexican congregation.
began
we

Fourteen months At . that time

Our first

ago, Mariano Faraas and Clinton Looney

services in a home on the out
there.

skirts of Guadalajara.,
had no members

convert
ter he

was
and

the
the

daughter of the man

La
other members-of his

who had invited us into his home.

family accepted Chr.ist and were baptised for the remission of sins.

We

now have 13 faithful members from five different families in 25. Last Lord's Day 29 attended our Bible School. At prayer

this group,
about

Four services are conducted weekly with an average attendance of

meeting

Tuesday evening a 16 year old boy made the "Goad Confession" and he and his younger brother are to be baptised next Lord's Day. Plans are now being made to purchase a lot, and these brethren, hope to build their own building.

Guadala j ara ^.'known

as Mexico.' s Pearl

of the West, for

is a

strategic location

Nogaigs

OUR
El Paso
Laredo

FIELD

the evangeli
of western Second

zation Mexico.

largest

city

in

the Republic, with a population of at

Brownsville

least 750,000,
is growing at
tremendous

it
a

rate.

Authorities expect
the t o t a l to reach a million ..soon . I t i s in the midst of

GUADALAJAJtA

this mushrooming growth that we are trying to plant the Gospel seed.

ENGLISH WORK

that at least 5,000 U.S. citizens are

residing in and 'ar'OLind Guadalajara, a

fact that presents a great challenge to those interested in the
vancement of the Kingdom of God. Here_.is 9 .mission field amonq
own people in.,,.th,e. .iJiid.t_ of a .foreign land.

COf^MUNiSM AND CATHOLICfSM

BY CLINTON LOONEY

In Mexico, rather than attenipt to answer the Word of God,

the priests

simply tell their members that nonCatholics are Communists and therefore their doctrine ahould be rejected. Thus in our work we have often been ac ,cused of being.'-&ofnmtJnaBts.,. On a wider front, the Romah"'Thufi:1f'T&^^

present itself as THE force against Communism. Needless to say, this pro paganda of one of the most tyrannical powers in the world is gaining sym pathy in many quarters. For example, Do-Good organizations and many organs
exhort the Communists to give freedom to their enslaved mil

of the press

tholic Church
elite?

lions.

When, however, have you heard these crusaders suggest that the Ca

should

give religious liberty to the people of Spain, Latin has not made a very good showing a
t

America and other priest-ridden areas?

gainst Communism.

To be truthful,

Was,-Cuba ,a^ Protestant country when it became a Red sat-

the Rom,n Church

the priests,

After years of illiteracy and poverty under the oppresive hands of

many

who

turn to Communism do so feeling that anything else,-^-"^

Indeed, one could make a forceful point that

will surely be better.

In 1961, John Gunther section on Italy, the home interesting reading for found on pages 150, 151 of

olicism is a fertile breeding ground for Communism,

published his latest "Inside Europe Today." The of the Papacy and fountain of Catholicism, makes those interested in the subject. This section, his book, will show at a glanc^ that even at

home, Catholicism is no invincible force against Communismt

^ I
I
I

''The Italian Communist party is, as is well known, the gest in the world outside China and the U.S.S.R, Moreover, with more than two million members and not less than 140 seats in the
chamber, it is the second biggest party in Italy;
question has

in

the last

general election it polled more than 6.5 million votes.

"...The

been posed: How can an Italian be a

Catholic and a Communist at the same time?

^
munist.

Obviously, millions

of citizens are both , as is easily proved by the fact that the country, 99.6 per cent Catholic, is also around 25 per cent Com "...One
the

striking

fact

is that leading Italian Communists

by church organs; the Vatican

are seldom attacked

personally

doesn't particularly
electorate."

want
Roman

to

alienate officially a quarter of

so vociferous against Communism in

And so it is,
other lands, finds

the
it

Church,

politic to stifle its voice in the Vatican itself.

For the sake of all mankind, the world needs to save itself from Communism.
Man needs to be free. But the doctrine that liberates is neither Roman nor Red. It is still the truth and only truth that sets men free.