. The Pacific islanders, from savages to saints; chapters from the life stories of famous missionaries and native converts. PROTESTANT SERVICE IX A COCKPIT IX THE THE PHILIPPINES S37 John the forerunner, was here, and hundreds ofhis followers are today baptized Christians. Padre Juans story is romantic, but one mustnot overlook the inevitable. No minister could,in four or five brief years, lead a great ignorantpeasant multitude into all the truth. And duringthe thirty or forty years since his capture, a wholegeneration has passed and another has taken itsplace. Only the tradition
. The Pacific islanders, from savages to saints; chapters from the life stories of famous missionaries and native converts. PROTESTANT SERVICE IX A COCKPIT IX THE THE PHILIPPINES S37 John the forerunner, was here, and hundreds ofhis followers are today baptized Christians. Padre Juans story is romantic, but one mustnot overlook the inevitable. No minister could,in four or five brief years, lead a great ignorantpeasant multitude into all the truth. And duringthe thirty or forty years since his capture, a wholegeneration has passed and another has taken itsplace. Only the traditions of Padre Juan and ofhis message remain, and these are often confusingand adulterated. A great multitude of peasantsare ready for the Gospel, due to their strangehistory and the remarkable way in which God ledthem long ago. But centuries of darkness anderror, of hungering and reaching out for the light,but meanwhile of wandering in the darkness, haveleft their blight upon the people. A long, difficulttask confronts those who would lead them out intothe fulness of the liberty of the sons of God. Moreof them believe the preached word than we haveas yet been able to bapti
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