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SOUTH AMERICA,

With Special Reference to Recent Legislation
in Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia.

BY

JOHN LEE, M. A., D. D.,

WITH AN INTRODUCTION

BY

BISHOP JOHN H. VINCENT, D. D., LL. D.

CINCINNATI: JENNINGS AND GRAHAM.
NEW YORK: EATON AND MAINS,

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Dedicated,

WITH SINCERE AFFECTION,

TO MY FRIEND,

THE REV. CHARLES M. STUART, D. D.

PREFACE.

THIS volume contains a brief account of the movement for religious liberty in the South American Republics of Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia. The movement had its inception in an address by the Rev. Dr. John F. Thomson before the Methodist Ministers' Meeting of Chicago, Illinois, on Monday, April 2, 1894. At the close of the address a committee of three was appointed to make representations to the Roman Catholic authorities, and for six years thereafter the agitation was maintained under the direction of this committee. On Monday, April 2, 1900, the Ministers' Meeting, in discharging the committee, adopted the following:

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"Whereas, Some six years ago the disabilities specting civil marriage under which Protestants labor in the various Republics of South America were set forth in this Ministers' Meeting by Dr. John F. Thomson, for many years a missionary in that country; and

"Whereas, At his request a committee consisting of the Rev. John Lee, the Rev. John O. Foster (whose place in the committee was afterward taken by the Rev. W. H. Holmes), and the Rev. M. M. Parkhurst, was appointed to bring the subject to the attention of the authorities in those countries and in Rome; and

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