Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . of God hasbrought an unexpected change. The gov-ernment by friars has been tried and found wanting. Under the government or theprotectorate of the United States, whetheroccupying much territory or little, a pureChristianity, with disinterested and Christ-like aims, should be introduced and illus-trated. Our American institutions make nodiscrimination against the Roman CatholicChurch. It flourishes here among us evenmore than in lands where it holds an intol-erant monopoly, but what is demanded isuniversal religious freedom. In the Philip-pines
Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . of God hasbrought an unexpected change. The gov-ernment by friars has been tried and found wanting. Under the government or theprotectorate of the United States, whetheroccupying much territory or little, a pureChristianity, with disinterested and Christ-like aims, should be introduced and illus-trated. Our American institutions make nodiscrimination against the Roman CatholicChurch. It flourishes here among us evenmore than in lands where it holds an intol-erant monopoly, but what is demanded isuniversal religious freedom. In the Philip-pines even the Papacy needs it for its ownsake. Enlightened statesmen in Mexico,like Juarez, Dias and Esquibedo, have wel-comed Protestant missions for the very sakeof breaking up an age-long, bigoted, irre-sponsible and degrading monopoly of religion. The same advantages will follow theintroduction of an open Bible, with freedomof worship, popular education, and wide-spread Christian effort, in all our newlyconquered territory. The task before us is. Convent on the Island of Luzon. 296 THE LATE MARCUS M. CARLETON. [October, great, as when the disciples were asked tofeed the multitudes with bread; but nowas then a divine power attends the effort. THE LATE MARCUS M. CARLETON. Rev. Marcus M. Carleton, whose photo-graphic likeness is herewith given, wasborn in Marshfield, Vt., August 13, 1826,graduated at Amherst College, in 1851,and at East Windsor Theological Seminaryin 1854. The same year he was marriedto Miss Celestia Bradford, and in Octoberfollowing he and Mrs. Carleton sailed forIndia. He died ofheart disease, May6, 1898. Mr. Carleton hadbeen engaged in con-tinuous work fornearly forty-fouryears, never havingreturned to theUnited States on fur-lough. He was char-acterized by greatkindness, an earnestmissionary spirit anda rare childlike sim-plicity of character. Mr. Carleton wasamong the first todissent from the ex-treme fostering pol-icy, which all thesrreat missionaryBoards and
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