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392 quarrel with the governor as well as with the Protestants, and the city authorities, coming to the rescue of the latter, prevented the intended massacre. The whole of this vast building is now used for Protestant worship, the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions having sanctioned the purchase. It is a four-story edifice, with balconied windows and solid stone walls very rich in carving and other ornamentation, and can easily accommodate a thousand persons in its audience-room.

In 1875 fourteen Protestants were killed in Acapulco in a riot stirred up by an attempt to establish a Presbyterian mission there. The missionary who accompanied the party was obliged to flee for his life. He was taken for shelter on board a man-of-war then in the harbor. He made his way back to his home in Mexico city, a distance of three hundred miles, by going up the Pacific coast from Acapulco to San Francisco, thence overland to New York, and so by steamer and rail to Vera Cruz and the capital. The little flock already gathered in Acapulco, scattered at that time, "went everywhere preaching the word." Two of them who fled to Southern California were instrumental in gathering a circle of believers there, who were afterward found ready for organization as a church when a missionary came upon the ground. In less than a year after the massacre of their brethren thirty new centres of light appeared in mountain-villages in that region, and nearly five hundred believers traced their conversion to that time of bitter persecution. Native brethren had supplied their friends with Bibles and tracts, which had been secretly circulated and read. When the region was visited by missionaries, in 1883, there were thirteen congregations in and about Acapulco, and six churches ready for