The Methodist missionary administration in Mexico
Expansion and potential development 1873-1897
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The objective of the article is to analyze the United States Methodist missionary work development from 1873 to 1897. Exposes the importance of railway network as an elementary means of transfer and communication of the missionaries, as well as the contrast between material development from congregations from different regions of both the Methodist Episcopal Church (IME) and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (IMES). The case studies are based on data found in reports, blogs and newspapers published inEl Abogado Cristiano Ilustrado and El Evangelista Mexicano, elemental information organs of Methodism in Mexico at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Finally, the importance of the missionary strategy based on an efficient administration of resources and the importance of religious offering, donations and tithes from yours parishioners as elements of socioeconomic support of the congregations is highlighted.
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