The Presbyterian church and the Filipino . d go with them and assure theauthorities of their good faith. They were accepted by the authorities oncondition that Mr. Jansen would take chargeof them and be responsible for their goodbehavior. He organized them into four re-concentrado camps, each in charge of its owntiniente or head man, and these camps werethe beginnings of the small Protestant vil-lages, scattered through the mountains ofCebu. During my recent stay on that island,I accompanied Mr. Jansen on a hiking tripto Paril, one of these mountain villages,and secured a picture of the congre
The Presbyterian church and the Filipino . d go with them and assure theauthorities of their good faith. They were accepted by the authorities oncondition that Mr. Jansen would take chargeof them and be responsible for their goodbehavior. He organized them into four re-concentrado camps, each in charge of its owntiniente or head man, and these camps werethe beginnings of the small Protestant vil-lages, scattered through the mountains ofCebu. During my recent stay on that island,I accompanied Mr. Jansen on a hiking tripto Paril, one of these mountain villages,and secured a picture of the congrega-tion which gathered for the Saturday nightand Sunday services. Some of these people *had traveled on foot for eight or ten hoursto get to the meetings, carrying their supplieson their heads and in some cases little babies,Filipino fashion, astride their hips. All ofthose shown in the picture are either formermembers of the pulajane bands or sympathiz-ers with them, a former lieutenant being theleading elder in the Paril congregation. 6. Whole pages of stories might be written ofsimilar experiences in other parts of theIslands, insurrectos becoming governmentsupporters, old enemies becoming friends andco-workers, hatred of Protestantes and fearof the Protestante Bible changing to won-der at the new spirit of the converts; thatwonder changing to curiosity to see whatthere was in the Book to work such a trans-formation, and the curiosity in turn yieldingto the gracious work of the Spirit through theprinted page. My own mail is largely onfinancial matters but every now and then Ifind such a sentence as this in a letter,—•we baptized eleven in Palangui and Dr. Car-ter had a great clinic; or, I was in Kabana-ghan last week end; baptized twenty. Onlyone more instance must be given of the many,tO show the indirect evangelistic influence ofthe educational work. Eight or ten years ago, two brothers, Hen-rique and Restituto Malahay, went for a yearor two to Silliman Institute and t
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