On the other side of the religious: question the Protestant missionaries not complain of being hampered in their work by the constitutional restrictions; the government has: encouraged them to go ahead with their schools and to have no anxiety. Against them the Government is not on the defensive is against the Catholic church.
From 1571 until the time Jaurez, according to another writer in the' pamphlet, the church pro perty trad been valued at $50,000, 00 (pesos). The backbone of its organization "lay in the 1,078 parishes with some 22,500 ecclesi ties; the 264 convents with more than 8,000 celibates; the 157 missions with their many Indians wor-.|Shippers. The cathedrals, handed down through centuries, represent ed an enormous Labour and expedi-tare. The Cathedral of Mexico, largest in the Western Hemisphere, cost $2,000,000 and numerous other places had equally magnificent ones. Frequently villages too insignificant to find a place on the map beautiful cathedrals that would do credit to any large European or American city.
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