The Spirit of missions . thecapital of the mountain province toBontoc, is looking to us for supplies oflumber, and will shortly build a roadfrom the mill to Bontoic. With the mill Among the Philippine Mountain Tops 93 and the well-equipped taller (work-shop) which we have, we are at last ina position to develop the material sideof our missions here and in Bontoc. The spiritual side, too, is encourag-ing. The Roman priests have heen un-able to shake the confidence of our peo-ple in us and our work. On the otherhand, we have been more than happy tohave them turn to us for aid. has
The Spirit of missions . thecapital of the mountain province toBontoc, is looking to us for supplies oflumber, and will shortly build a roadfrom the mill to Bontoic. With the mill Among the Philippine Mountain Tops 93 and the well-equipped taller (work-shop) which we have, we are at last ina position to develop the material sideof our missions here and in Bontoc. The spiritual side, too, is encourag-ing. The Roman priests have heen un-able to shake the confidence of our peo-ple in us and our work. On the otherhand, we have been more than happy tohave them turn to us for aid. has ministered to one of them ful to Him when He was on earth! Hehas nothing but a woe for the prose-lytizer now and forever. When will wecome to see that the defamation of thedharacter of one Church by another isas despicable as the defamation of oneman by another! He has nothing butcondemnation for the defamer of raceor Church yesterday ^and to-day. Now that I am up ^among these sim-ple children of nature once more, and I. SOME OF THE SAGADA CHRISTIANS IN THEIR SUNDAY BEST in sickness, and they are asking forlumber from the mill for their »Bontocmission. Were it not that the hierarchyhas forbidden them social intercoursewith us, I believe we could make tautthe loose threads of underlying unityand work with them on terms of Chris-tian magnanimity. There is room forall the work whicih they and we con-jointly can do among the hundreds of people in the mountainprovince. When will Christians learnthat proselytizing from other ChristianChurches is as hateful to our Lord as thes-ame spirit among the Jews was hate- find how loyal they are to us and ourefforts to help them, my early dream ofmaking an extensive work out of oursmall beginnings is verified. Even thesplendor, land the persuasive (or, as Ifear, it was dissuasive) influence of aRoman apostolic delegate, could notshake the confidence in us of tlie leaderof the little band of Christians whom Iconfirmed in Quiangan.
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