"The second Protestant communion, of which there are data, is the Methodist Episcopal, founded in Mexico by Dr. William Butler, in 1873. It has extended its propaganda in the cities of Mexico, Puebla, Guanajuato, Orizaba, Cordoba, Pachuca, Real del Monte, and Amecameca, where it has twenty-one congregations, and employs thirty-three missionaries, nineteen of whom are foreigners. It sustains a theological seminary, various schools, attended by 518 children of both sexes, and two orphanages. It publishes two periodicals, with a circulation of 3,200 copies, and published, in the year 1878, 830,000 pages of religious literature. It possesses values to the amount of $75,400, and its expenses for the present year are calculated at $37,000. The members of this communion number 2,350. Besides the churches of Jesus and the Methodist Episcopal, other Protestant communities have been establishing themselves since 1861, which are now ramified in towns of the states of Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas, Yucatan, Oaxaca, Jalisco, and Mexico, and are denominated Presbyterian, Baptist, Southern Presbyterian Synod, Mexican Mission of Friends (Quakers), Southern Methodist Mission, Congregationalist, Independent, and Presbyterian Reformed, respecting which there are not sufficient data to note with accuracy their present condition."—" Report of the Secretary of Finance of the United States of Mexico," January, 1879.
