Satan may yet make attempts to maintain his throne in Mexico, but [...]]]> Today I heard about Melinda Rankin for the first time.  An amazing woman!  Melinda was a single Presbyterian missionary in northern Mexico in the mid-ninteenth century who started a school in Monterrey.  Her little autobiography, Twenty Years Among the Mexicans, ends with these excellent words:

Satan may yet make attempts to maintain his throne in Mexico, but only to find himself baffled and thwarted. The Bible is rapidly shedding its hallowed influences, and will constitute bulwarks against which the gates of hell shall not prevail.

To me, the crowning joy of the work in Mexico is the triumph of Divine Truth over superstition and error, proving beyond a doubt that the Bible is Heaven’s ordained instrumentality for elevating fallen humanity, and for bringing back an apostate world to the allegiance of God. If there is one nation of people more than any other -with whom I shall delight to join in singing the song of Redeeming Love in the day when that great multitude, which no man can number, stands before the throne of God, I am sure it will be with the Mexican nation.

Big dittos!