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 A Review of Events Since \S9SY~^ 
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 Annifiil Report 
 
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 THE MIS'lONAKV DISTRICT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS WAS 
 ERECTED BY THE GENERAL C JNVENTION OF liWl 
 
 It int ludes the I, "00 islands of the Philippine Archipelago, with a population 
 of about 7,000,000. Of this number about 5,000,000 may be cla.ssed as Filipinos 
 proper, while 2,000,000 are savage heathen tribes, among whom no sustained Chris- 
 tian work has ever been done until our Mission began it. 
 
 THE STAFF 
 
 The first Bishop of the Philippines, the Right Rev. Charles H. Brent, D.D., 
 was consecrated December 19th, 1901. 
 
 The present staff consists of one bishop, five other clergy, one physician, two 
 women parish workers, three trained nurses and one kindergartner. 
 
 Churches have been erected at Manila and Baguio and a third is in course of 
 building at Bontoc. 
 
 I'RGENT NEEDS 
 
 1. At least three additional clergy. 
 
 2. An unmarried medical missionary. 
 
 3. A kindergartner 
 
 4. t;:!0,000 for a Cliurcli Hospital. 
 
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ST. bTEPHKN’S MISSION CHl’KCH, MANILA 
 
 The Church in the Philippine Islands 
 
 HOW THE WORK BEGAN AND HAS BEEN DEVELOPED — BISHOP BRENT’S 
 FIRST ANNUAL REPORT — WORK AMONG THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING 
 COM.MUNirY — WORK AMONG THE NATIVES — FINANCIAL MATTERS 
 
 W ITH the United States 
 troops landing in Manila 
 in the summer of 1898 
 were several army chap- 
 lains. among them the Kev. Charles C. 
 Pierce, d.d., the Rev. David L. Fleming, 
 the Rev. Walter Marvine and the Rev. 
 Henry Swift. Almost immediately they 
 began holding services for the English- 
 speaking civilians, as well as for the sol- 
 diers. It was not long before some of 
 the Filipino residents recognized that 
 these chaplains represented a true 
 branch of the Holy Catholic Church, and 
 asked that services might be provided in 
 Spanish and Tagalog for those who had 
 already given up, or were disposed to 
 give up, their Roman allegiance. After 
 much hesitation and repeated declina- 
 tions, these urgent requests were com- 
 plied with, and early on the morning of 
 Christmas Day, 1898, in a schoolhouse 
 in the Malate district of Manila, kindly 
 placed at his disposal by the military au- 
 thorities, Chaplain Pierce held the first 
 
 service for Filipinos, using the Com- 
 munion Ofiice, translated into Spanish. 
 
 In June, 1899, two clergymen and two ' 
 laymen, under the lead of Mr. John 
 Howe Peyton, Army Secretary, sent by 
 the Brotherhood of St. Andrew in the 
 United States, reached Manila and be- 
 gan a combination of social and religious 
 work among the soldiers. These 
 Brotherhood workers co-operated with 
 the chaplains already in Manila in es- 
 tablishing and maintaining the Anglo- 
 American Mission of the Holy Trinity. 
 
 In 1899 the Presiding Bishop of the 
 American Church appointed Bishop 
 Graves, of Shanghai, to superintend 
 the Manila work. In September Bishop 
 Graves visited Manila, conferred with 
 the chaplains and the Brotherhood work- 
 ers, made such arrangements as were 
 possible for the development of what 
 they had already undertaken, admin- 
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the Church. Among tliesc was a young 
 man of mucli promise, Santos .lavier, 
 who was commissioned a lay-reader and 
 now holds an appointment from the 
 Board of ilanagers as a lay missionary. 
 
 In these early days so.nething was 
 also done among the Chinese, of whom 
 there are about 50,000 in Manila, and 
 probably half a million in the archi- 
 pelago. As a result of services held by 
 the chaplains fifteen men were baptized. 
 
 In the spring of 1900, upon the de- 
 cision of the Brotherhood of St. An- 
 drew to withdraw its workers, the Board 
 of ^fanagers appointed one of them, the 
 Rev. James L. Smiley, as its missionary 
 in the Philippines. For several months 
 Mr. Smiley did what he could single- 
 handed, but was eventually obliged to 
 return to this countrj' on account of 
 breakdown in his health. About the 
 same time Chaplain Pierce was ordered 
 home for similar reasons, and the 
 Church in the Philippines was practical- 
 ly without official representation. 
 
 Before this, however, largely through 
 the foresight and work of Chaplain 
 Pierce, two valuable pieces of property 
 were purchased — one in the Ermita or 
 residence district, one in the heart of the 
 city. For several reasons it was deemed 
 wise not to hasten the erection of a 
 church building on either of these plots, 
 and services were held in a room in the 
 Government barracks, thanks to the 
 kindness of the military authorities. 
 
 In the spring of 1901, at Bishop 
 Graves’s earnest request, the Board of 
 ^lanagers determined to appoint two 
 missionaries, fortunately securing the 
 services of the Rev. Walter C. Clapp 
 and Mrs. Clapp, and the Rev. John A. 
 Staunton, Jr., and Mrs. Staunton. This 
 party of four reached Manila in Novem- 
 ber, 1901. 
 
 In the meantime, on October 5th. of 
 the same year, the General Convention, 
 meeting in San Francisco, erected the 
 Philippine Islands into a missionary 
 district, and on the 14th of the same 
 month elected the Rev. Charles H. Brent, 
 rector of St. Stephen’s Church, Boston, 
 as the first bishop. Mr. Brent was con- 
 secrated in Emmanuel Church. Boston, 
 
 Dc’cembcr 19tli, 1901, and until the mid- 
 dle ol the following May devoted him- 
 self to the difficult task of securing 
 funds, in addition to the appropriation 
 from the Board of ^lanagcrs, for the 
 prosecution of the work committed to 
 him. 
 
 Mr. Clapp and .Mr. Staunton, who had 
 l>ecn joined in January, 1902, by the 
 Rev. II. R. Talbot, of Boston, continued 
 to maintain services for English-speak- 
 ing people, for such Filipinos as were 
 still attached to the mission, and, to a 
 limited e.xtent, for the Chinese. The 
 erection of a temporary chapel was be- 
 gun on the Ermita property, and the 
 building, with a seating capacity of 
 about 225, was opened for worship on 
 Palm Sunday, iMarch 23d, 1902. Early 
 in the year the alarming illness of Mrs. 
 Clapp obliged her husband to remove her 
 for treatment to the Church Mission 
 Hospital at Shanghai, where her death 
 occurred February 15th, the first sad 
 break in the history of the Philippine 
 IMis.sion. A second misfortune has since 
 befallen it in the enforced retirement, in 
 January. 1903, of the Rev. H. R. Tal- 
 bot, because of illness which would not 
 yield to medical treatment and constant- 
 ly recurred in the tropical climate. 
 
 Bishop Brent arrived in Manila 
 August 24th, 1902. Within the next few 
 weeks he was joined by the Rev. Irving 
 Spencer and l\Irs. Spencer, Miss Har- 
 riet B. Osgood, kindergartener, and Miss 
 M. P. Waterman, parish visitor, whose 
 services he had secured before leaving 
 the United States. Other additions to 
 the mission staff to date include Miss 
 Beatrice Oakes, Miss Clara Thacher 
 and Miss Jane Jackson, missionary 
 nurses; C. Radcliffe Johnson, m.d.. mis- 
 sionary physician, and Mrs. Johnson, 
 and the Rev. Mercer G. Johnston, mis- 
 sionary priest, to be in charge of St. 
 Stephen’s Church, Manila, and Mrs. 
 Johnston. 
 
 Since Bishop Brent’s arrival he has 
 endeavored first to strengthen the 
 Church’s work in Manila, and then to 
 extend it to other parts of the island. A 
 celebration of the Holy Communion in 
 Spanish is held every Sunday morning. 
 
THE KOJIAX CATHEDRAL AT MANILA 
 
 attended by a few Filipinos, but beyond 
 this no attempt has been made in ]\fanila 
 to provide services for the natives. A 
 mission lias been established at Cavite 
 and another at Caloocan, small towns 
 near Manila, for American soldiers and 
 some civilian residents. A settlement 
 house has been opened in the Trozo dis- 
 trict of i\ranila, a place which Hishop 
 Brent says offers all the opportunities 
 for wmrk which the most ardent social 
 reformer could desire. Here, too. the 
 first kindergarten in the islands has been 
 begun, under .Miss Osgood’s direction, 
 while i\Iiss Tliacher has maintained a 
 dispensary, with the assistance of a 
 number of resident physicians, both 
 .Americans and b'ilipinos, who have 
 kindly given tlieir services without com- 
 pensation. 'I'his dispensary has tri'ated 
 an average of l.oO people a wec“k. A 
 systematic visitation of tlie hosiiitals 
 and one of tlie prisons has been main- 
 tained under the Bishop’s direction bj' 
 i\rr. W. 11. .1. Wilson, a layman, and a 
 member of the original Brotlierhood 
 party, who has been maintained in 
 Afanila by a communicant of the 
 Church in the United States, though he 
 
 has never received a missionary ap- 
 pointment. 
 
 Before the Bishop’s arrival in Manila, 
 and for some time thereafter. Air. 
 Staunton was in the southern islands as 
 a deputy superintendent of schools, and 
 was able to learn much of value to 
 his future work concerning native life. 
 Air. Clapi), under the Bishop’s direction, 
 has also visited the southern part of the 
 archiiielago to look into the ]) 0 ssibilit.v 
 of beginning work among the natives. 
 Bishoji Brent has made an c-xtended 
 trip through the interior of northern 
 I.uzon, chieily among the Igorrote peo- 
 jile, and as the result of his observations 
 has o])ened new missions at Baguio, in 
 the Province of Benguet, with the Bev. 
 .Tohn A. Staunton, Jr., in charge, and 
 at Bontoc, in the Province of Lejianto. 
 with the Rev. Walter (\ Clapp in 
 charge. 'I'hese are pioneer missions, 
 untiling having lieen done by any (^liris- 
 tian iieojile. since the .American occupa- 
 tion. in these districts, and little or noth- 
 ing having Ik'Cti done at any time by the 
 Roman Church. The Rev. Air. S]iencer 
 has been sent to begin work at Iloilo, on 
 the Island of Pana,y, an important point. 
 
both on account of its extensive com- 
 mercial relations, and as the division 
 headiiuarters of the army for tlio soutli- 
 ern district. 
 
 From tlie first. Bishop Brent was 
 anxious to undertake ajrfrressive work 
 amon<r the Chinese in Manila, lie lias 
 been fortunate in scciiriiifr the services 
 of the Bev. Hobart K. Studley, for six 
 years a missionary under the American 
 Dutch Bcformed Board, in Amoy, China, 
 now a candidate for Orders in the 
 Church. ^Ir. Studley was confirmed last 
 spring by Bishop Brent, and enters on 
 his duties in IManila in September. 
 
 One other important event should be 
 noted. When Bishop Brent arrived in 
 -Manila it seemed to him that the prop- 
 erty alreadj' purchased for the Church, 
 though admirably situated for residence 
 purposes, was not entirely what was 
 needed for the central church and the 
 other buildings which he hoped to erect. 
 Clifts of $20,000 from Mr. and Mrs. 
 George C. Thomas, for a parish house, 
 and of $100,000 from an un-named 
 donor for a cathedral church, made pos- 
 sible much larger plans for these cen- 
 tral buildings than could have been 
 wisely entertained in the earlier days of 
 the mission, when the property was 
 secured. The Bishop accoi’dingly pur- 
 chased, at a cost of about $.30,000, a 
 tract of three acres, finely situated in a 
 commanding position, which is being 
 prepared for early building. The prop- 
 erty previously purchased is valuable, 
 and when sold will be almost sufficient to 
 reimburse the Bishop for the monej’ he 
 has advanced from his own funds. 
 
 In his first annual report to the 
 Presiding Bishop, Bishop Brent deals 
 with some important matters. Readers 
 of The Spirit of Missions will be in- 
 terested in his estimate of the situation, 
 which follows: 
 
 I. The Work among English- 
 5peaking Residents 
 
 From every point of view the most im- 
 portant section of our work at present, 
 and it will be so for some time to come, 
 is among Americans and other English- 
 speaking people. Manila, with its grow- 
 
 ing population of citizens employed in 
 Government offices or ))ursuing some 
 business vocation, ought cv(>ntually to 
 shoulder tlie current cximmisps of the 
 local church. No one class of citizens 
 has shown a more unwavering interest 
 in all that jicrtains to our work than 
 army officers and their tamilies; and 
 whatever success there has 1k-cii in our 
 endeavor to carry on a mission in Cavite 
 has been due to the efforts of navy offi- 
 cers and men. One man could easily 
 siiend his entire time to good advantage 
 in ministering to the differemt army 
 posts, in but few of which is there a 
 chaplain. Scattered about all through 
 the islands are indivitluals, isolated 
 from white people, and groups of Amer- 
 icans. with no religious privileges what- 
 ever — unless the Roman Catholic cere- 
 monies can be counted as such; but even 
 members of that communion (Amer- 
 icans) have told me that they find it 
 difficult to worship under the conditions 
 which exist in the majority of their 
 churches. It is my purpose to try to es- 
 tablish lay services, at any rate wherever 
 there are Americans, by urging them to 
 avail themselves of that priestly privilege 
 which belongs to every Christian and to 
 accept the responsibility that flows there- 
 from. 
 
 Wherever I go there is a sincere ex- 
 pression of appreciation that oppor- 
 tunity is once more afforded of attend- 
 ing public worship, though no one seems 
 to think it his duty to take a position of 
 leadership and gather his fellows from 
 week to week to join in those services of 
 the Church which a layman can conduct. 
 It is an interesting fact that in several 
 communities where I have been I have 
 found that Roman Catholic natives, 
 neglected through a long stretch of time 
 by their Church and priesthood, have 
 had their weekly services with a layman 
 as leader; this in a Church where the 
 rights of the priesthood are exaggerated, 
 and lay encroachment strongly depre- 
 cated ; whereas in our communion, as well 
 as among the various Protestant bodies in 
 which the priesthood of the laity is 
 theoretically exalted as a pivotal tenet, 
 no similar sense of responsibility seems 
 to exist. 
 
II. Work among the Natives 
 
 The question of native work is an ex- 
 tremely difficult and perplexing one. I 
 cannot feel it to be the duty of the 
 Church which I represent to build up a 
 constituency by deliberately drawing 
 upon the Koman Church. It is here that 
 I find myself differing from the Protest- 
 ant Churches at work in the islands, 
 and for this reason if for no other I am 
 unable to enter into any formal relation- 
 ship with them. The Evangelical Union 
 have extended us a cordial invitation to 
 
 ligence to distinguish between a higher 
 and a lower form of Christianity. Wher- 
 ever in the past the Roman Church has 
 proved to be an oppressor instead of a 
 spiritual mother, there has been revolt, 
 and will be again. The cause of this, 
 however, lies not in the doctrinal teach- 
 ing or the ceremonial, which seems to be 
 adapted to the temperament of the na- 
 tives, but because the fundamental in- 
 stinct that insists upon justice and fair 
 play has been outraged and calls for 
 strong protest. In this I find the ex- 
 planation of Aglipay’s success in gain- 
 
 A CASCO ox THE JIAXILA CAXAL 
 
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 membership in their body, but we are 
 unanimous in feeling that we cannot 
 subscribe to some of the principles im- 
 ])licd or set forth explicitly. 'I'his, how- 
 ever, will in no wise prevent friendly 
 relations with our Protestant neighbors, 
 or th(! observance of Christian con- 
 sideratemess wluu’c division of territory 
 is concerned, 'riiough 1 cannot say that 
 1 shall nev(*r place missionaries at points 
 where missionaries of other communions 
 have preceded, I shall do so only in cases 
 where! my conce[)tion of duty leaves me 
 no choice. 
 
 d’he (luestion is frceiuently ask(>d at 
 home: “Is there any movement away 
 
 from the Roman Catholic Cliurch?” 
 Tlu! reply is that among the great masst's 
 of the people there is not <!nough intel- 
 
 ing a largo following. The more I study 
 tlie movement the more 1 am convinced 
 that no positive religious principles 
 move the man or his disciples; it is a 
 protest dressed in the clothes of religion, 
 but at bottom it is a new phase of politi- 
 cal and social unrest, the responsibility 
 for which lies at the door of the Roman 
 (’hurch, whose lust for wealth and 
 domination has led to such inaction re- 
 garding the (piestion of the friars’ lands 
 as under the existing conditions foments 
 the spirit of insurrection. The greatest 
 satisfaction 1 could have would lie, to see 
 the Roman Church jnirify her skirts. 
 But when there has been and is such an 
 .absence of veracity, such a suppression 
 or denial of facts, facts which until 1 
 came out here 1 I'oidd not believe, but 
 
which arc painfully and palpably true, 
 how ean there be any deep reformation '(* 
 In the coast regions the i)eople are al- 
 most solidly Koinan t'atholic in name 
 at least. 1 e.xeept the country of the 
 Moros, of course. Among the better 
 educated there is more or less breaking 
 away from the old faith, shown rather 
 by indifference than by active opposi- 
 tion, though there is not a little of the 
 latter in some quarters. While the 
 churches in most places are well at- 
 tended, here as elsewhere largely by 
 
 win them to religion. How to reach 
 them is a problem yet to be solved. 
 
 When we turn from the coast to the 
 interior of Luzon a new situation greets 
 us. In the northern and eastern sections 
 there arc multitudes of non-Christians, 
 variously denominated as Alzados, Igor- 
 rotes and Calingas. No work of any 
 sort is lx?ing attempted among them. 
 Formerly the friars had a few missions 
 in the interior provinces of Lepanto 
 and Bon toe, bnt they n'ached only the 
 llocanos, who were in the employ of the 
 
 THE SETTLEMENT HOUSE IN THE TKOZO DISTRICT 
 
 women, there is a vast population whose 
 Christianity is so purely nominal that it 
 would offer no indignity to the Roman 
 Church were an earnest effort made to 
 
 * XOTE. I am aware how easy it is to ac- 
 cuse a whole body of misdemeanors for 
 which only certain members of that body are 
 responsible. In the case in point the lack 
 of frankness and, to put it mildly, the trifling 
 with veracity are all but general, and seem- 
 ingly receive official sanction. A few days 
 since an American Roman Catholic said to me 
 with some impatience that the Church was 
 not facing things as they are; he added that 
 the situation could be likened to “a cancer- 
 ous growth” and could be dealt with only 
 “with the knife.” In the case of an individ- 
 ual w'e count the case desperate if there is a 
 steadfast refusal to acknowledge facts as 
 they are when there has been a palpably bad 
 past. tVhat shall we say when it is a part 
 of the Church of Christ which so demeans 
 itself? 
 
 Spanish Government, and aeeomiianied 
 officials to their various stations. The 
 great heathen population was almost un- 
 touched. For several years past there 
 have been no ministrations whatever, 
 even where considerable communities of 
 Christians are established, as, e.g., in the 
 Ilocano town of Cervantes, though a re- 
 quest for a priest has been earnestly 
 made. This condition of affairs is due 
 partly to the insufficient supply of na- 
 tive priests, and to the fact that the 
 friars dare not return thither, and partly 
 because they are poor communities where 
 the temporalities of the Church are of 
 small value and temporal advantage 
 wholly wanting. A fair field is offered 
 for the work of our Church among these 
 
xiiislieplierded Christians, and the non- 
 Christian tribes among whom their lot 
 is east. But with our very inadequate 
 force of clergy we can accomplish but 
 little. 
 
 The tribes of the highlands are numer- 
 ous (the Negritos excepted), domestic, 
 industrious and naturally religious; they 
 are primitive people of considerable 
 promise, the superiors of their lowland 
 neighbors in physique and energy, and 
 seemingly their peers in intelligence. 
 We have plans for educational and 
 medical work, as well as for bringing 
 them to a knowledge of our Saviour and 
 theirs, which I trust the generosity of 
 the Church at home will enable us to 
 carry out suecessfull.y. If we can get 
 well established at an early date, we 
 shall be able to guard their interests and 
 protect them from injustice when the 
 evil concomitants of civilization assail 
 them, as is bound to be the case upon the 
 opening up of their beautiful mountain 
 country. 
 
 Whatever native work we undertake 
 must be limited. The various tribes of 
 the islands are quite distinct each from 
 each. The Tagalogs predominate, but 
 they are not universally loved by any 
 means. There is no such thing as a 
 Filipino people; Filipino peoples there 
 are, peoples full of mutual jealousies 
 and hatreds, with no apparent unifying 
 or cohesive force among themselves. To 
 reach one of these peoples is by no means 
 to reach all, owing to the diversity of 
 language and the poverty of moans of 
 intercommunication. We must care- 
 fully choose our field or fields, and con- 
 centrate all our energies there. At pres- 
 ent we have no reserve force of clergy. 
 In the civil service a surplusage of one- 
 third is not found to be too many work- 
 ers for the requirements of the situation. 
 With us if one man is taken ill the work 
 must stop. I am averse under any con- 
 ditions to sending one missionary alone 
 to such a station, for instance, as Bontoc, 
 where the isolation is absolute. If 
 other and cogent reasons were wanting, 
 it is not in accord with our Lord’s ex- 
 ample, who sent Ills messengers two by 
 two before II is face. Of course, it is 
 
 unfair to the man concerned; but more 
 than that, it is false economy. If one 
 can chase a thousand, two can put ten 
 thousand to flight. One reason why I 
 have set my heart on work among the 
 Igorrotes is because theirs is the 
 greatest need and no one has held out a 
 helping hand to them. 
 
 III. Financial flatters 
 
 As I tried to impress on the Church 
 before leaving America, this is bound to 
 be an expensive mission. Rents in 
 Manila are absurdly high, and the food 
 supply is proportionately dear. It costs 
 me about one-third more to live here 
 than it did in Boston. In Iloilo matters 
 are not much better. In provincial 
 towns rents are lower, but the cost of 
 living is high, partly on account of the 
 tariff, partly because of the difficulty of 
 getting transportation for goods, now 
 that the commissary is no longer avail- 
 able for civilians. Proper housing and 
 food are not a luxury but a necessity, if 
 health is to be retained in tropical life. 
 
 I would strongly urge the purchase of 
 property and the erection of suitable 
 buildings in whatever place we establish 
 work. If it were possible to secure at 
 once the house and grounds used by the 
 kSettlement it would te a politic move. 
 The house is admirably adapted for its 
 purpose, and is in an ideal location for 
 the work. This would entail an outlay 
 of from $15,000 to $20,000. 
 
 Such to-day is the situation as I con- 
 ceive of it. I have tried to make clear 
 the complications and difficulties with 
 which we are confronted. But I am im- 
 Ijclled to this not from any sense of dis- 
 couragement or from a fear as to the 
 filial issue; I believe with a deeper con- 
 viction than ever that our Church is 
 here by the ordering of Ood. At the 
 same time, it must be borne in mind at 
 home that unless Churchmen face and 
 realize just what we have to contend with 
 the.v may lie disappointed in results. 
 Achievements that can be tabulated — 
 perhaps I am too inrliffcrent to such — 
 will be slow’ in coming. In the mean- 
 time steadfast faith and quiet patience 
 must jireiiare for them. 
 
THE DISPEXSAKV DREG AND OPKRVTINl} ROOM 
 
 Medical Work in the Philippines 
 
 O XE of the important enter- 
 prises undertaken in eonnee- 
 tion with the Cluu'ch’s mission 
 in Manila is the dispensai’y 
 of Luke the Be- 
 loved Phjsician. It 
 is now under the 
 care of C. Radcliffe 
 Johnson, m.d., who 
 went out to ^Manila 
 in July, 190:5. Be- 
 sides Dr. John- 
 son, Miss Clara 
 Thacher and !Miss 
 Jane S. Jackson, 
 trained nurses, are 
 attached to the dis- 
 pensary. 
 
 It is a very 
 modest institution 
 at present. Two 
 rooms back of the 
 house which is 
 used for settlement 
 work in the Troso 
 District have been 
 set apart for this 
 medical service. 
 
 One is used as a 
 
 C. K.ADCLIFFE JOHNSON. M.D. 
 
 reception and waiting room; the other 
 as a drug and oi)erating room. Patients 
 have come not only from all parts of 
 Manila, but in some instances from dis- 
 tant outlying prov- 
 inces. 
 
 Soon after Dr. 
 Johnson’s arrival 
 he saw that a dis- 
 pensary would not 
 be able to meet all 
 the needs for med- 
 ical work. He ac- 
 cordingly borrowed 
 a tent from the 
 Board of Health, 
 which he has con- 
 verted into a tem- 
 porary hospital 
 with six cots. It is 
 most important 
 that at an early 
 day a proper hos- 
 pital should be 
 erected. Bishop 
 Brent is most 
 anxious that the 
 Church should lead 
 in this enterprise. 
 
Strange to say, 
 there is not in the 
 city of Manila at 
 the present time 
 (1903) any hospital 
 for the care c f 
 either Europeans or 
 Filipinos. The laige 
 military hospital 
 maintained hy the 
 United States Gov- 
 ernment is general- 
 ly overtaxed in car- 
 ing for the soldiers, 
 so that no relief can 
 be exi>ected from 
 that quarter. The 
 need can only be 
 met by the purchase 
 and equipment of a 
 suitable building. Bishop Brent esti- 
 mates that this will cost about $30,000. 
 lie believes that it is one of the things 
 the Church ought to undertake quickly; 
 not only for the sake of the needy 
 
 MISS EDITH BE.4TRICE OAKES 
 
 Filipino population, 
 but also for the com- 
 fort and protection 
 of the hundreds of 
 American civilian 
 residents. 
 
 jledical work has 
 also been under- 
 taken on a small 
 scale in the Bontoc 
 mission in north- 
 ern Luzon. A 
 trained nurse, !Miss 
 Beatrice Oakes, has 
 been detailed for 
 this post, but a resi- 
 dent unmarried 
 physician is a neces- 
 sity. Information 
 .concerning the op- 
 portunities for medical and other work 
 in the Philippines may he obtained from 
 the Corresponding Secretary. 2 S 1 Fourth 
 Avenue, New York. 
 
 • Copii s of this pamphlet may be obtained, without 
 cost, from the CORRESPONDING SECRETARY, .?<?/ 
 Fourth Avenue, Nexv York, by asking for No. 401 
 
 • All offerings for Missions in the Philippines 
 or elsewhere should be sent to Mr. George C. 
 Thomas, Treasurer, 2 S 1 Fourth Avenue, New York 
 
 Second Edition, jMurcIi, 1904. 2M.