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north of here, and seventy-two south of the Rio Grande, we come
to Sabinas, where we find our two preachers, Felipe Jimenez
and Gilberto Rodriguez, and also our bright young lady school
teacher, Senorita Rosa Ramirez. This has been the center of our
work on the frontier ever since we began the work in November,
1905, and we have a nice four-room house, bought a year later,
where one of the families live, and we have our little day school
and church services. Our church here is not as large today as it
was two years ago, but this is due to the fact that so many of the
members have moved to places near there, and have taken mem-
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bership with the other churches that we have recently organized.
Just four miles from Sabinas, on another branch road is the
mining camp of Agujita (the needle), where about four thousand
people live. We have here the largest church house in all the
frontier, which was started for the Catholic church, but as the
priest there collected the money for completing the building,
when the Mining Company had put up the walls, and went off
without finishing it, it was afterward turned over to us for com-
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pletion. The little church there raised the money, about $400