Regional conferences in Latin America; . historical Christianity,and (b) Excerpts from the Mystics. /. G. Hernandez, Northern Presbyterian, from Puerto Es-peranza: Cubans read a great deal, and there is an increasingamount of religious fiction now being supplied to Cuban readersin Cuban bookstores, particularly that known as The RedLibrary. Much is read, but not of the kind to give goodresults; present literature produces great harm. Those ? whounderstand the English language have a great advantage overthose who do not. We need to have some of the splendidEnglish religious books translated int
Regional conferences in Latin America; . historical Christianity,and (b) Excerpts from the Mystics. /. G. Hernandez, Northern Presbyterian, from Puerto Es-peranza: Cubans read a great deal, and there is an increasingamount of religious fiction now being supplied to Cuban readersin Cuban bookstores, particularly that known as The RedLibrary. Much is read, but not of the kind to give goodresults; present literature produces great harm. Those ? whounderstand the English language have a great advantage overthose who do not. We need to have some of the splendidEnglish religious books translated into Spanish. /. G. Muiios, Methodist, of Jovellanos, recommended the book,El Crista, by E. Neville, among other good books which hecited, and advocated the circulation of these. He said that manybooks are needed for unbelievers who will not accept the Bible,considering it unauthentic; that the Cubans are governed moreby sentiment than by reason, and that there would be an ad-vantage in having some good books in Spanish printed in EVANGELICAL LITERATURE 409 H. B. Bardwell, Methodist, of Candler College, PuentesGrandes: Better Sunday-school literature for all grades isneeded; a commentary on the Bible; good literature, inex-petisive, to compete with the increasing supply of fiction andmaterialistic literature. The spiritualist literature appeals tomysticism, which is a strong appeal to the Cuban, and is havinga wide circulation. We ought to have in Cuba an exhibit atsome place or places of all good Spanish literature. Francisco Castro, Northern Presbyterian, of Havana: Ninetyper cent, of adult men and thirty per cent, of adult womenare indifferent to religion,—the result of four hundred years ofRomanism. Homes are filled with religious infidelity andmaterialism. The Bible ought to be circulated in these should preach the gospel to the poor. We ought to haveopen-air services. But preaching is not all. We must havebooks and female missionaries. The Rev. S. A. Neble
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