An Ohio woman in the Philippines; giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China . st would get inside with hisattendants and then they would drive away. Whenthey returned they would go through this same perfor-mance of ringing this bell until they got inside of thechurch. I saw this many times and once asked a RomanCatholic soldier what it meant; he said he did not know. It may be that these people need to be terrorized bythe Driests; certain it is that, when a priest walksthrough the village or when any of the people see him, 114 -^N OH
An Ohio woman in the Philippines; giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China . st would get inside with hisattendants and then they would drive away. Whenthey returned they would go through this same perfor-mance of ringing this bell until they got inside of thechurch. I saw this many times and once asked a RomanCatholic soldier what it meant; he said he did not know. It may be that these people need to be terrorized bythe Driests; certain it is that, when a priest walksthrough the village or when any of the people see him, 114 -^N OHIO WOMAN IN THE they kneel and kiss his hand, if he is so gracious as tohonor them with the privilege. The people bow downbefore him and reverence him though he may at anymoment lift his cane and give them a good whack overthe head or shoulders. I never saw this done, butseveral of our men told me they had seen it; and onecaptain told me that he saw the priest take a huge bam-boo pole and knock a man down because he failed to getinto the procession in double-quick time. They do lit-erally rule these people with the OSTEOPATHY. CHAPTER NINETEEN.
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