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Show 350 LEADING The Baptist In July, THE FACTS OF missionaries 1849, Rev. Henry were W. at Santa Fé. Baptists NEW the first to come Read, He 1¢0. ee to ae a Baptist missio soon opened a woe! English language was taught. PROTESTANT HISTOR Y MEXICAN In aie a He iit Sam- sohiist to uel Gorman came to New Mexico as a nm of Lagu: the Pueblo Indians. He established himself at the i sal na where he taught and preached until 1860. The ap CHa were the first to erect a Protestant church in New Mexico. erected at Santa Fé and was dedicated on the 15th ee - ae 1854. During the Civil War interest in the work “a “an of the property was sold to the Presbyterians. Before t ere adele Civil War period missions were carried on at Laguna, It. uerque, and Socorro. ist ae EK. a Nicholson was the first missionary of ses pe church to come to New Mexico. He came to Santa Fé in d niet the services for about two years, and aban THE METHODISTS out permanent in 1871. work. wen From time to time thereafter oa forts were made to establish missions, success until the This able man advent of Rev. established himself Thomas at woe mission school was opened. Although he met with ne he has ever since continued in the work in New yee 7” aath: | where 2 ile Later 02 ne mission schools were opened at other points in the ere nied great The building of the railroads into New Mexico, oe increase of population, was of great assistance to the aie lol churches, and nearly every city and village of any Oe “oe and has its church, and the outcome of the efforts of its min rib, missionaries has been most gratifying. In 1880, Rev ‘Thomas Ha Al- ido, Cerro, 276 Schools were established at Tiptonville, La fore Recon ae vay? burquerque, Las Vegas, Peralta, Socorro, Ranchito, ther places. Las Cruces, Martinez, Frampton, Rev: Wagon Mound, eg Methodist church, inty: On the 14th of September, 1875, a clergyman of t Le: wn, in Colfax cou i F. J. Tolby, was murdered on the road east of ee as It was charged, at the time, that the murder was a i ee men had been very outspoken in his criticism an of some 0 ras a great dea 0 political affairs of the territory at that time. There w one citement at Cimarron and it was only through the pl Fé, that county by one or two prominent vengeance politicians made. parties. was of Nothing not New was taken Mexico ever men, them. who fled to Santa yee 4°; a d 40% |. .tioD The church autho rities investiga" : . ve an did everything possible we ae were the 8¥ it) upon discovered, however, determining CHURCHES IN NEW MEXICO 301 wood established at Santa Fé the New Mexico Christian Advocate. This became the official paper of the Methodists in the territory and aided materially in the missionary work. It was printed in both the English and Spanish languages, The Protestant Episcopal Chur ch held its first service at Santa Fé in the summer of 1863. The services were conducted by the Rt. Rev. J. C. Talbot, at the time missionary THE EPISCOPALIANS bishop and afterward bishop of Indiana. Assisting him were Revs. M. A. Rich and A. H. DeMora, a Spanish ¢ lerg yman, who preached in the Spani sh language. In 1868, Ne w Mexico was visited by Bishop Randa ll of Colorado, the territory having been placed under his jurisdicti on. No church organization was effected, however, until the year 1874, When the general convention of the church created a miss ionary jurisdiction of New Mexico and Arizona and elected William Forbes Adams, D. D., of New Orleans, as the first bishop. The new bishop arrived at Santa Fé in Febr uary, 1875, and the first Service was held on the Seventh day of that month. Bishop Adams resigned in 74. Bor Several years after the departure of Bishop Adams, Rev. Henry Forrester was the only Episc opal clergyman in New Mexico. © remained in charge of the church he moved to Las Vegas, afterwards he Temained until 1892, when at Santa Fé until 1879, when going to Alburquerque where he was appointed by the presiding bishop a8 Superintendent of missi on work in the republic of Mex0. The first Episc opal churc h in New Mexico was built at Las “88, and was consecrated by Bishop Spalding of Colorado. The Structure Was of adobe bricks and is still stand ing. In 1880 the church wag regu larly organized by the hold ing of the in pad Convocation of the missionary jurisdic tion Arizona, in St. John’s church, at Albu rquerque. —vwded. 277 1 of New Mexico Bishop Spald- 1. Bredford Prince and. William W: Griffin *” of 1 1839). William W. Griffin was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia, i ah Came to New Mexico, in in April, 1860, by way of Little Rock to Galvest on, a clerk oe to New Mexico, walking the greater part of the distance. © Dositin the office of the United He was States quartermaster at Santa Fé j he held and wag ; e ma . : Boers collector of internal revenue. “mploy of the government pees ° a civil a ° ages: for many years. F B, i es he was eatiaed ok tite, Siva as a surveyor National Bank of Santa Fé. Lucien an ie became its first president and later on Mr. Griffin became its cashier Mr, Grint, holding the latter position until his death in December, 1889. o Waaa very enterprising and influential man. He was chairman of the |