Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 28, Number 46, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 15 January 1908 — Page 7

ON THE TRAIL OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY By WILLIAM T. ELLIS This Distinguished American Journalist is Traveling Around tha World for the Purpose ot Investigating the American Foreign Missionary from a Purely Disinterested.Seculat and Non-Sectarian Standpoint. Illustrated with Drawings and from Photographs. No "Knockers” at Mission in the Philippine Islands

Manila, P. L—" There are no knockers at missionaries in the Philippines.” Thus a Manila newspaper map colloquially diagnosed the missionary situation in the islands. My own investigations verified this opinion; the criticism of missions and missionaries which is so general in the port cities of the far east is conspicuous fo.r its absence in Manila. The missionaries appear to be on the best of terms with everybody, from the governor general down. One of the most popular dinner clubs in the city is the Quill club, to which most of the prominent ipen in Manila belong, and which was organised by two missionaries. Not until the recent visit of Dr. Charles Cuthbert Hall and Secretary Lloyd, of the Protestant Episcopal board when they were guests of the club, was anything like a religious topic even treated in the after dinner speeches. This suggests a notable fact about the Philippine missionaries. The man is not swallowed up in the minister. So far as I met them personally, I found the missionaries sharing the characteristics of most of the other Americans in the islands; strong, sensible, symmetrical men, seriously engaged in the business of making the best na tion possible out of the Filipinos. Catholic-Protestant Neighborliness. Inasmuch as the Roman Catholic church has been in the islands for 300

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years, and most of the natives are, at least nominally, members of that communion, I expected to find bitterness and acrimony between the Roman Catholics and the Protestants. But this is not the case, and for two reasons. The first is that the Protestant missionaries have worked with tact and quietness and have endeavored to avoid arousing antagonisms and sectarian bitterness. The second is that the old church ""’organization has its hands full with' the Aglipay schism, which claims not ofaly more than 2,000,000 adherents, but also a large part of the church ' property 'Tsiifinds. This question is now being fought out in the courts. In the meantime, the two wings of Catholicism are manifesting no- little bitterness toward each other. Archbishop Agjus, the Apostolic delegate, could not find terms with which to characterize Aglipay, when I broached the matter to him. . And from what I could ascertain I suspect that he is pretty nearly cor_„xflct. in regarding Aglipay as a selfish schemer, an opportunist, and a politician. Aglipay, who rose to power on the tide of opposition to the friars, merely represents 'the' idea of revolt against old and evil conditions. He seems to stand for nothing-tor rather for anything and everything—in a theological way; in one district he professes himself as steadfastly devoted to all the historic teachings and practices of Rome; in another, he is practically a Protestant, attacking church rites and distributing Bibles. So bitter, is the strife between the Roman Catholics and the Aglipayans that neither pays much attention to the Protestants, who go unmolested on their way, adding great numbers to the Protestant churches. Many recruits, I am told, come to the missionaries from the Aglipay an fold, having discovered the unsatisfactory condition of the latter. Not a few of the earliest adherents of the Protestant missionaries became such from political motives; anything to show rebellion against the Spanish friars. Many tSTthese early fell away, but some have become intelligent workers in the Protestant churches. Good Words for the Filipino. A further word*should be written concerning the Roman Catholic church in the islands, befortf passing on to the distinctively missionary propaganda. Il ls to be borne in mind that

the superiority of the Filipino to the Asiatic —and he undoubtedly is superior to Japanese, Chinese, Malay or Indian —is due to the civilising influence of the Roman Catholic church. That the United States has been able to do more for the islands politically in less than ten years than Great Britain has done for India in a hundred years, must largely be credited to the church that brought the Filipinos out of savagery. With the abuses that crept into the church in the islands this article is not concerned; but it must be pointed out that it was not against the American type of Roman Catholicism that the Filipinos revolted. On all sides it is agreed that the church in the islands should be brought up to the American standard. Concerning the handful of American priests who have gone to the Philippines, I heard only praise, from Monsignor Agiuis down to the civilian "man of the street.” There is a great need for more. Failing this, the church authorities look with most hopefulness to the present movement for the education of young Filipinos to the priesthood in the United States. Lack of suitable priests is the chief need of the church In the islands, in order to remedy conditions which cannot exist in the light of the increasingly-circu-lated newspapers, of widespread popular education, and of a steadily grow-

ing American spirit. Next comes the need for the rehabilitation of church edifices, which are still in a ruinous condition, as a result Os the war. Apparently none of the money paid by the American government to the friars for their lands is being used for the churches in the islands. Looking Out for the American. A peculiar situation was created in Manila by the advent of so many American men, mostly Protestants. In behalf of these, churches have been established in Manila .by the Presbyterians, Protestant Episcopalians, Methodists and Disciples. All of these are centere of vigorous relfgfous influences. Dr. S. B. Rossiter, the Presbyterian pastor, has won for himself an enviable place in the life of Manila, and Bishop Brent, of the Episcopal church, is by all classes regarded as one of the great men of the islands. The Methodist pastor is a young man and new-comer, but the church is a popular one. Dr. Homer Stunz’s return to the states because of illffess removed a forceful personality from the Philippines. The Episcopalians have built St/ Mary’s and St. John’s cathedral, the finest modern ecclesiastical structure in Manila. An adjunct of this is the Columbia club, a handsomely 1 ' equipped- clubhouse, run on liberal and gentlemanly lines by the members, and having about it no taint Os patronage or the eleemosynary spirit. Its members are men from all walks in life. It differs from other high-grade clubs chiefly in that gambling and drinking are tabooed. Altogether it is by far toe most successful 1 institution of the sort I have ever seen. Bishop Brent has 16 workers associated with him, and services for Americans are maintained in several places. The distinctively missionary work of the church has been almost wholly confined to the non-Christian ■tribes - - ■ - • For Manila’s Men. Some interesting statistics concerning the American men in Manila were recently gathered by the Young Men’s Christian* association. Os the 3,482 American young men in Manila, 83 1-3 per cent, are unmarried Os the total number, 351 have Filip mo wives or live with Filipino women The others ar#distributed as follows: Five hundred and sixty-five are living in American homes; 627 are living in messes; 813 are rooming ,in Filipino

famllles; 203 are living in hotels; 862 are soldiers; 61 are in Bilibid prison. Apparently, the average American does not find the atmosphere of the islands conducive to church-going. A count was made, upon a recent Sunday, of all the American men in attendance upon the city's 20 churches, Roman Catholic and Protestant, and the aggregate number was found to he 416. At the Columbia club were 81 and at the Luneta sacred concert were 395. Over against these 892 (among whom were doubtless many duplicates) who were under religious or “wholesome” influences* may be placed the count of 1,695 in attendance upon baseball games, races, etc. At two resorts where the count could not be made, the estimated number was 250 more. This does not mean that Manila is an immoral city; in truth, I was amazed at the quietness and orderliness of it, and at the manifestly high character of the people. So far as I could ascertain, the attacks upon the morality of Americans in the Philippines have been cruel exaggerations. While they apparently do not lean strongly to church-going, the men of Manila yet manifest an alert interest in the moral welfare of the city. The project to build a hundred thousand dollar Young Men’s Christian association building, with lodgings for a hundred men, was made a civic matter, and pushed through enthusiastically. The Y. M. C. A., by the way, was the first Protestant agency at work in the islands, and its splendid service for the soldiers, now supplemented by work for civilians, has continued to this day, winning warmest praise in. all quarters. Chutthes Get Together. The first outstanding fact concerning the distinctively missionary work of the Islands by the Protestant churches is the plan of cooperation which was lately adopted. Profiting by the experience of other mission fields, the denominations early got together to apportion the territory, so that duplication and conflict might be avoided. In order also to present a united front for Protestantism, a common name, "Evangelical churches,” was adopted, in place of the varied and confusing denominational appellations. From the first there has been substantial unity and cooperation among the missionaries; who are, as already indicated, a superior body ol sensible, capable men. In the division 6t the islands among the denominations, the Methodists have, the greater part of Luzon, north of Manila, and the Presbyterians the southern portion of the same island as well as four other islands. The Disciples of Christ also have four stations in the most northerly part of Luzon. Since 19Q0 the Baptists have occupied Negros, northern and southern Panay and the Island of Romblon, with 17 missionaries and 17 native congregations. Congregationalists are located on the Island of Mindanao, where they work in elose cooperation with the Presbyterians. The Episcopalians have a work for the pagan rgorrotes. and also for the Chinese. Methodists likewise have a mission among the Chinese. The United .Brethren are . strongly established about San Fernando. Spiritualists and Christian Scientists have work in Manila. The total Protestant membership of the islands, reported to the Evangelical Union last year, was 15,000, exclusive of 10,000 probationers recorded in the Methodist churfch. The lastnamed body is witnessing an extraordinary growth; with . only nine Americans engaged in the Filipino work —it now reports, according to Rev. M.. A. Rader, presiding elder, no less than 18,000 members, including probationers. A curious fact about its congregations, and those of the other missions, is that two-thirds of them are men, and of this number threeo.uarters are young men. There are 300 licensed native workers in the Methodist church, only a few of whom receive any financial asiatauc, .Tbit characteristic of independence and self-support runs through all the Protestant missions. The great bulk of their churches throughout the islands has been built by the natives themselves. Educational and eleemosynary effort on the part of the missions includes the Presbyterian hospitals at Iloilo and Demaguete and the Sllllman Industrial Institute for Boys at the latter place, the Protestant Episcopal Dispensary and Settlement House in Manila, the Methodist ■ hospital and schools, the Jaro Industrial school of the Baptists with about 300 students, and various training schools for native workers and periodical religious publications maintained by the different denominations. (Copyrigbt, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Saloons for Women. . “'When I was in Berlin,” said a clergyman,” I had enough curiosity to visit' one of the peculiar saloons for women that they have there. The place interested me, and I am bound to say’ that Itwas- decently conducted. Berlin is the only city in the world that has Jhose institutions. In our .country, where the women are nearly all teetotalers, we don’t need them. In England they don’t need them because EfigUsh women of' the Tawer classes: enter the public houses and lean against the bar and sip their beer with as much nonchalance as their husbands. “In this female saloon in Berlin about 25 females were gathered. They looked poor, but respectable. Some were smoking—cigarettes and cigars —some read the y papers, and in a corner a little group argued noisily over an artidtS in a fashion magazine, much as men argue in their own ss> loons over politics.’’

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