. The Pacific islanders, from savages to saints; chapters from the life stories of famous missionaries and native converts. GUAM 241 placed at its (eety and large sums of money werecast into the box by excited worshippers. In theprocessions of Easter and other feast-days, whengreat crowds throng the streets, marching in pro-cession, the images are carried at the head of thethrong, receiving all the honors of the occasion, andevery person in the island is practically compelledto attend and march in their processions. For-merly these processions were semi-religious andsemi-political; now, under
. The Pacific islanders, from savages to saints; chapters from the life stories of famous missionaries and native converts. GUAM 241 placed at its (eety and large sums of money werecast into the box by excited worshippers. In theprocessions of Easter and other feast-days, whengreat crowds throng the streets, marching in pro-cession, the images are carried at the head of thethrong, receiving all the honors of the occasion, andevery person in the island is practically compelledto attend and march in their processions. For-merly these processions were semi-religious andsemi-political; now, under the American govern-ment, they are wholly religious. The active opposition of the Roman priestsis a serious obstacle to Protestant work. Forseveral months after the mission was startedpeople gathered in crowds on the street in frontof the chapel to listen to the singing and bold onesventured to sit on the steps and look in at the out from the service the missionary couldhear the people saying among themselves: Thatsa good man, he is a kind father (padre). These things came to the priests ears, and acontinuo
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