* Philippines 
 
 
The Growth 
 of Trdde 
 
 I 897 
 
 Does Democracy Pay? 
 
 It has paid in the Philippines. The 
 year before we gained possession of 
 the islands the total foreign trade 
 amounted to #29,000,000; in 1917 it was 
 #130,000,000. 
 
 The Philippines are our experiment 
 station in Democracy, and the whole 
 East is watching. No other dependent 
 race ever had the freedom we are giving 
 the Filipinos. All of the governors of 
 provinces, ma)mrs of cities and members 
 of the Assembly and Senate are natives. 
 
 If we try to give the Philippines De- 
 mocracy without its foundation, Chris- 
 tianity, our experiment is liable to fail, 
 but the Filipinos freely accept Protes- 
 tantism along with the other benefits of 
 American rule — as is shown by the fact 
 that our own church has a membership 
 of 50,000 who contribute eigbty-five per 
 cent of the funds necessary for the sup- 
 port of the native church. 
 
Your Mooney Will Take Chris- 
 tianity with Democracy into 
 the Philippines 
 
 $25 
 
 Will support a vacation evangelist 
 during the summer. 
 
 $30 
 
 Will buy a bicycle for an itinerant 
 preacher. 
 
 $50 
 
 Will furnish a scholarship in Theological 
 Seminary. 
 
 $180 
 
 Will pay the salary of a native preacher 
 for a year. 
 
 $250 
 
 Will aid the natives in building a chapel. 
 
 $500 
 
 With the assistance of the natives, will 
 build a church. 
 
 $ 5,000 
 
 Will build a mission house. 
 
Schools, Soap, and Service 
 
 The United States has realized the 
 part which education and sanitation play 
 in Democracy and has established schools 
 throughout the Philippines and hospitals 
 in a few of the larger cities. 
 
 But the Church must help. 
 
 We must build two hospitals. 
 
 We must strengthen the Union Theo- 
 logical School. 
 
 One of the chief ways we can help is 
 by building Christian dormitories, or 
 hostels, at the high school centers. 
 The pupils who gather in these schools, 
 are, for the most part, unused to city 
 life and equally unused to liberty. They 
 need guidance, and they need a knowl- 
 edge of Christian life which no text- 
 book can teach. 
 
 We have three hostels, all of which 
 are self-supporting, but we need six 
 more immediately. 
 
Your Money Will P rovide 
 Christian Influences in 
 School and Hospital 
 
 $10 
 
 Will take a patient to a government 
 hospital. 
 
 $25 
 
 Will pay the expenses of a Bible Institute. 
 
 $50 
 
 Will keep a high school boy in a Chris- 
 tian hostel for a year. 
 
 $ 1,000 
 
 Will aid in building a Christian hostel 
 for high school pupils. 
 
 $2,000 
 
 Will buy land for an industrial school. 
 
 $2,500 
 
 Will aid in the opening of a hospital. 
 
"They Signal, 'Send Books 
 
 Since the time we took possession of 
 the Philippines the public school system 
 has grown from practically nothing until 
 there are now 650,000 pupils. After 
 twenty years of American occupancy 
 English is more generally known than 
 Spanish was after four hundred years. 
 
 The increase of literacy brings the 
 question, “What are they going to read 
 
 Our church has established a publish- 
 ing house which yearly prints and dis- 
 tributes millions of pages, but the whole 
 enterprise needs to be put on a firmer 
 business basis, and, in this as well as in 
 our other work, the church at home must 
 pay part of the cost. 
 
Your M oney Will A ssist in the 
 Distribution of Christian 
 Literature 
 
 $1 
 
 Will aid in the distribution of tracts. 
 
 $5 ' 
 
 Will help the circulating library for 
 native preachers. 
 
 $8 
 
 Will supply a Sunday school with litera- 
 ture for a year. 
 
 $100 
 
 Will buy books for a shelf in the Theo- 
 logical School library. 
 
 $500 
 
 Will print new editions of dialect 
 hymnals. 
 
 $ 1,000 
 
 \\ ill aid in the purchase of new property 
 for the publishing house. 
 
Published by 
 
 <Tke Centenary Commission 
 of the Board of Foreign Missions 
 Methodist Episcopal Church 
 
 150 Fifth Avenue 
 New York 
 1918