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personal initiative. He
intendent or foreman,
intendent" above him.
responsibility, and is tl
Then I talked with s<
the Government Burea
already spoken, where
pleased to find Filipin
cated machinery and s
as proofreaders in seve
epiestionings the Ameri
government? Not in ;
ment was also based
and was decidedly the
heard. The reasons ui
those presented by the
feel that the race is sti
dred years of Spanish r
turity. Now a hoy maj
possess many of the ch
hood, but until he has
he is not ready to bear
of a man.
Then we had our lor
eral, and of course aske
answer shortened the
"Not for two generatioi
public education, and i
the government is doi
line at an annual cost <
Governor Smith feels
generation of adults is
dren can be taught. H<
a part of the time, ant
time, and family influe
tor in a child's develoj
homes as they have, sot
are doing is naturally
pects only partial rest
lion of children. But
will be different, and v
dren's children the futi
oiner words, the Gove
tion by saying, "Not fo
Then, of course, we
sionaries of several der
ions last because I tru
portant of all. They c
an intimacy and with a i
men do, and not one ol
feels that the present g
sibly govern themselv
have no commercial 01
who have at heart sim
feel that we Americans
the natural instructors
and that we are moral
monf ? -? ?J- -- ? A
nviii iii uui nanus nun
our sake chiefly, but fo
The intemperate talk
who, totally ignorant
Island, are clamoring i
done these poor people
the death of many a bra
ing met some of our sc
THE PRESBYTERH
: does not make a good superunless
there is another superHe
is far from feeling personal
lcrefore unfit to govern,
iveral of the superintendents in
u of Printing, of which I have
: we were so surprised and
os manipulating such compliihowing
such linguistic ability
ral languages. In reply to our
can superintendent said, "Self,
1 1 1 >? T?l- J - ?
x iiuiiuicu \ citrs. i nis JUQgon
their personal experience,
most encouraging we had yet
rged were almost the same as
school superintendent. They
ill in its childhood ; three hunule
have not brought it to mar
he wonderfully clever, he may
aracteristics of developed manreached
the years of maturity
successfully the responsibilities
ig talk with the governor-gena
u:? *1. TT*
<a nun me same question, tlis
period still more. He said,
ns," He laid great stress upon
ncidentally I want to say that
ing splendid work" along this i
:>f more than a million dollars,
that the case with the present
nearly hopeless, but the chilDwever,
they are in school only
J at home a good deal of the
nee is inevitably a strong facpment.
Returning to such
ne ot the good that the schools
erased, so the Governor exllts
from the present generawith
their children the case
vith the oncoming of the chilire
wonderfully brightens. In
rnor would answer our quesr
sixty years at least."
had many talks with the rnislominations.
I put their opinly
feel that it is the most imonie
to know the natives with
sympathy that no other class of
them with whom I conferred
eneration of Filipinos can poses.
These missionaries, who
r political axes to grind, and
nlv it.
yij inv. ^uuu ui me nnpinus,
are, in the providence of God,
and guides of the Filipinos,
ly bound to keep the govern1
our task is complete, not for
r the Filipinos' sake,
of political agitators at home,
of real conditions in the
or Filipino independence, has
a great wrong, it has caused
ve American soldier (and havtldiers
here, it makes me fume
t
r ' r
OF THE SOUTH.
to know how they are malij
home), and finally such wild
ends has vastly complicate*
which the civil authorities he
\T^ it-- - -
-\u, me rnipinos are not
selves, and will not be for m
but after all, their great lacl
intellectual, but moral. Th<
the key that will unlock the
dom, and it alone. What Gi
home influence is true, but
even more than the geograp
the children are learning in
Jesus Christ. Let us thank
growth of the Protestant CI
and by our prayers and gifl
own way the problem of the
minster.
TWO INFIDEL
Two infidel neighbors live<
England. One of them hea
victed of his sins, and believe
after he went to his infidel n<
"I have come to talk to you
"Yes," sneered the other,
down to the meeting and ha
1 ers. I was surprised, for I tho
a man as any in town."
"Well," said the first, "I li
I haven't slept much for two
I have four sheep in my fiock
came two vears aon with w
j ~0-- ^
took them and marked them
quired all around but could
in my held now, with their in
tie with you if you are willin
me by the law if you will."
The other infidel was am;
bor that he could keep the
away. lie trembled at the
had got hold of his old friend
stand. He repeated; "You m
will only go away."
"No,"' said the Christian, "
up, and can not rest until I d<
much."
"Well," replied the other, '
shppn wlmn tl-lrtir liiox* /-.
m.ivii >? v 11 l iu y un
^nd please go away and let n
The Christian laid down tl
bled it. He went his way,
heart heavily loaded. The ft
known only to God. But t
going to the house of God.?
I was staying one day at
where the floor was dreadful
to advise the landlady to scri
it was made of mud I ref
scrubbed the worse it woulc
a case for mending, but for i
geon.
August 4, 1909.
jncd in some quarters at
talk at home for political
d the intricate problems
:re are striving to solve.
: ready to govern thernlany
a long year to come,
lc, I am convinced, is not
e Christian Church holds
! door to Philippine freeovernor
Smith said about
what those homes need
hy and arithmetic, which
school, is the gospel ot
God for the phenomenal
Iiurch in the Philippines,
:s help to solve in God's
Philippines.?The WestNEIGHBORS.
1 among the hills of New
.rd the Gospel, was conid
unto eternal life. Soon
eighbor's house, and said,
; I have been converted."
I heard that you had been
a gone torward tor prayught
you were as sensible
lave a duty to do to you.
nights for thinking of it.
that belong to you. They
>ur mark on them, and I
with my mark. You innot
find them. They are
crease, and I want to setig,
or you can settle with
ized, and told his neighsheep
; only to please go
thought that something
[ which he did not underlay
keep the sheep, if you
I must settle this matter
3. You must tell me how
'pay me the worth of the
, and six per cent interest,
ne alone."
le amount and then douleaving
his old friend's
ill result of that scene is
oday the other infidel is
Rev. A. S. Burrows.
an inn in Northern Italy
ly dirty. I had it in mind
lb it, but when I perceived
lected that the more she
1 be. . . . Ours is not
making new.?C. H. Spur