GREAT issues are involved in the so-called "religious question" in Mexico. The present discussion between the Italian government and the Papacy, the question of the wisdom of electing a Catholic to the presidency of the United States, the tendency of other Latin-American countries to follow Mexico's example, recent legislation affecting religious schools in China, are only a few illustrations that the world is rethinking the question of relation of church and state, as it is rethinking other fundamental matters. The bitterness of the struggle in Mexico, which has been transferred also across the border, both North and South, makes it still more difficult for a Protestant to write impartially on a subject which involves the deepest things which divide Catholics and Protestants. The author can only say that he honestly tries to do justice to both the Mexican government and the church in a brief discussion which necessarily omits many important considerations. Doubtless a Roman Catholic student, honestly seeking with like impartiality to survey and interpret the same range of facts, might choose from different sources which would imply different conclusions. All people who believe in religion and in the pure purposes of the majority of its priests, whatever may be the faults of the minority, cannot help but feel a deep sympathy with the suffering Roman Catholic church in the present deadlock between it and the government. All who believe in the freedom of the church to hold high the banner of the spirit and not suffer the state to lower it for political and nationalistic purposes must also realize that here is a fundamental issue, 384