THE PREMTERIAH CHURCH 
 
 AND 
 
 THE FILIPINO 
 
The Philippine Mission 
 
 Manila: on the Island of Luzon; occupied 1899. 
 Missionaries — Rev. James B. Rodgers, V.D., and Mrs. 
 Rodgers, Rev. George W. Wright and Mrs. Wright, 
 Jliss Clyde Bartholomew, Rev. Wm. B. Cooke, Mr. 
 Chas. A. Gunn and Mrs. Gunn, Rev. J. H. Lamb 
 and Mrs. Lamb, Miss Emma J. Hannan, Miss Julia 
 M. Hodge. 
 
 Iloilo: on the Island of Panay; occupied 1900. 
 Missionaries — J. Andrew Hall, M.D., and JIrs. Hall, 
 Rev. Paul Doltz and Mrs. Doltz, Miss A. P. Klein. 
 
 Dumaguete: on the Island of Negros; occupied 
 1901. Missionaries — Rev. David S. Hibbard and 
 
 Mrs. Hibbard, H. W. Langheim, M.D., and Mrs. 
 Langheim, Mr. Charles A. Glunz and Mrs. Glunz, 
 Mr. James P. Eskridge and Mrs. Eskridge, Mr. Wm. 
 T. Holmes and Mr. Carlos E. Smith. 
 
 Cebu: on the Island of Cebu; occupied 1902. 
 Missionaries — Rev. Fred Jansen and Mrs. Jansen, 
 Rev. George W. Dunlap and Mrs. Dunlap, and Rev. 
 Wm. J. Smith. 
 
 Laguna: P. O., Pagsanhan, on Laguna de Bay, 
 Luzon; occupied 1903. Missionaries — Rev. Charles 
 R. Hamilton and Mrs. Hamilton. 
 
 Leyte: P. O., Tacloban, on the Island of Leyte; 
 occupied 1903. Missionaries — Rev. Charles E. Rath 
 and Mrs. Rath. 
 
 Aleay: P. O., Legaspi, in the southeastern part of 
 the island of Luzon; occupied 1903. Missionaries — 
 Rev. Roy II. Brown and Mrs. Brown, Robert W. 
 Carter, M.D., and Mrs. Carter. 
 
 Tayabas: P. O., Lucena, 80 miles southwest of 
 Manila, on the Island of Luzon; occupied 1906. Mis- 
 sionaries — Rev. Charles N. Magill and Mrs. Magill 
 Bohol: P. O. Tagbilaran, on the Island of Bohol; 
 occupied 1909. Dr. James A. Graham and Mrs. 
 Graham. 
 
 Camarines: P. O.,' Nueva Caceres, on the Island 
 of Luzon, between the Provinces of Tayabas and 
 Albay; occupied 1910. Rev. Kenneth P. MacDonald 
 and Mrs. JIacDonald. 
 
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHERCH 
 AND THE FILIPINO 
 
 Mr. Charles A. Guxn 
 
 There have been many changes since the 
 -Americans came, some good and some bad. 
 Some of the good ones are readily apparent, 
 even to the one-day tourist, and tend to add 
 to the cosmopolitan interest of the capital 
 ’’ literally the meeting of the East 
 and U est, the ancient and modern, to get on 
 a trolley car made in Elizabeth, X. J., equip- 
 ped with a \\ estinghouse motor, rolling over 
 steel rails from Pittsburgh: to ride past half- 
 clad coolies with bamboo rods over their 
 shoulders from which hang Standard Oil tins 
 transtormed into water buckets; to see in 
 passing the take-your-time-for-winter’s-never- 
 comnig carabao cart; to turn from the Luneta, 
 where you can look across the bay to the 
 scene of Dewey’s encounter with the Span- 
 iards. into the 16th Century walled city with 
 its narrow streets and old-world architecture' 
 and then across the Bridge of Spain and down 
 the bit-y Escolta with its kaleidoscopic mi.x- 
 ture ot peoples and costumes— and almost 
 lack ot costume. '1 he newness of it all has 
 pas.sed but the fascination remains, as it must 
 for anyone who pmes not for an investment 
 of money but an investment of life. 
 
 But this is a time of change in the Philip- 
 pines m other ways that must concern us 
 more protoundly. The light has been turned 
 on and the opportunities for secular education 
 are beiiig eagerly grasped by the Eilipino 
 youth. 1 wenty-one-year-old boys are glad to 
 take positions as “house boys” for $2 50 or 
 p.On a month and board if they may be al- 
 lowed to attend school in the fourth or fifth 
 grade from 7 r.tO to noon, while others work 
 during' tile day to go to school in the evening. 
 
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From the lowest grade up through High 
 School, Normal School and University are 
 hundreds of thousands of children, acquiring 
 an education exactly similar to that of our 
 American boys and girls. They fully believe 
 that knowledge is power and propose to have 
 it. But just as in other countries, new ideas 
 and changing beliefs are often accompanied 
 by a tendency to discard beliefs. The public 
 school being divorced from religious training 
 places the responsibility for this directly upon 
 the Church where it rightfulh’ belongs, and 
 unless we give the awakened minds of the 
 young Filipinos something better than that 
 which they have discarded we shall have sig- 
 nally failed to do our duty by them. 
 
 We Presbyterians have a part in this re- 
 sponsibility. I should like to show in as few 
 words as possible something of the growth of 
 this branch of our great foreign enterprise; 
 its present equipment and cost of mainte- 
 nance, both in men and property: something 
 of the value of the work and its future needs, 
 as they appear to one who has only been on 
 the field a year and eight months. 
 
 Bj' mutual agreement among the mission- 
 aries of the ten societies (including the Y. M. 
 C. -\.) at work in the islands, we have the 
 undivided responsibility for 12V$ provinces on 
 six of the principal islands, besides a share 
 in the work of the cit^- of Manila. Our con- 
 stituency embraces Tagalogs. Bicols and three 
 branches of ^’isayans. — a total population of 
 three and a half million, or 43(K of all the 
 Filipinos. 
 
 The work started with the sending of Dr. 
 and ^Irs. Rodgers from Brazil in 1S09 and the 
 first year’s expense to the Board was $9,949. 
 This year the number of missionaries is forty- 
 six, with three more under appointment, 
 the original station at Manila has become ten 
 stations, and the appropriation, exclusive of 
 new property, was $66,682, — an increase of 
 seven and a half times in fourteen years. And 
 
yet we, in common no doubt with most other 
 Missions, are asking for still larger grants 
 in order to take advantage of the opportuni- 
 ties that are visibly passing away. 
 
 From the outset this has been a chief char- 
 acteristic of the growth of the work, the op- 
 portunities on every side e.Kceeding the ability 
 of the missionaries to take advantage of them. 
 The story, if told in full, would read like 
 a romance. Even the bald figures are fascina- 
 ting when we remember that they represent 
 life. Over 13, .500 baptized church members 
 where fourteen years ago there were none; 
 one self-supporting Chinese congregation and 
 si.xty-five Filipino congregations contributing 
 in part to their own support ; 15.5 Sunday 
 Schools; about 150 public school students (e.\- 
 clusive of Ellinwood Seminary and Silliman 
 Institute students) living each year in dormi- 
 tories run under Christian influence ; two 
 dozen graduates* of Silliman Institute, the 
 only school in the Islands where Bible study 
 is a part of the regular curriculum and which 
 now has an annual attendance of over 600 
 students and growing rapidly; fourteen native 
 ministers and eighty-five evangelists, about 
 twenty of whom have been trained in the 
 Union Theological Seminary in Manila; and 
 one foreign missionary working among the 
 Filipinos of the Hawaiian Islands. It has al- 
 ready changed the political complexion of the 
 province in which it is situated and a poli- 
 tician recently remarked that “in ten years 
 Silliman can name every office holder in Ori- 
 ental Negros.” 
 
 I said the story of the growth of the work 
 would read like a romance. Let me illustrate. 
 
 ■A few months ago I stood with Mr. Jansen 
 and two others on the beach at Campostelle, 
 
 * The reason for the small number of graduates, 
 representing only the last four classes, is that there 
 is such a demand for Silliman students as teachers 
 that it is hard to keep them in school until they 
 have completed the college course. 
 
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fwro?T I^IIL yUlLUINl. 
 
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 INDUSTKIM. STUIIKNTS, SII.I.IMAN I N STI TUTK, l!)i:! 
 
fifteen or twenty kilometers north of the city 
 of Cebu. The moon had risen a short time 
 before and as we stood under the cocoanut 
 trees in the mixed twilight and moonlight 
 of early evening, enjoying the sound of the 
 miniature waves on the sand, iMr. Jansen told 
 of a prayer meeting held on that very spot 
 ten or twelve years before. Early in the 
 meeting he became aware of a suppressed 
 emotion, a burden apparently weighing upon 
 the hearts of the people, and asked the native 
 evangelist at his side the meaning of it. He 
 replied that some days before some members 
 of the congregation, relatives of persons pres- 
 ent, had gone off in their bancas on a fishing 
 trip toward the island of Leyte and although 
 they should have been back before then noth- 
 ing had been heard of them and it was feared 
 that they had been lost in a storm. 
 
 Interrupting the regular course of the meet- 
 ing, Mr. Jansen reminded them of the verse 
 “Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he will 
 sustain thee” : he pointed out that the promise 
 was meant for just such a time as tliis and 
 urged them to let the Lord carry the burden 
 for them. They did so and a new feeling of 
 peace and power was evident in their pray- 
 ers. Before the close of the meeting the 
 bancas of the missing men were seen on the 
 horizon and the service which had begun in 
 sorrow closed in thanksgiving to God for 
 their deliverance. 
 
 .\t this same town of Campostello the first 
 Protestant chapel on the island of Cebu was 
 dedicated, and that dedicatory service led to 
 the pacification of a part of Cebu that till 
 then had defied the power of the I'nited 
 States. The mountains of Cebu were infested 
 with bands of pulajanes (outlaws) and their 
 sympathizers, who had refused to recognize 
 the authoritv of oitr government and were a 
 terror to all who had to pass through these 
 regions. As Mr. Jansen opened his Bible at 
 that service he found a note written by a 
 
memljer of one of those Ijands and addressed 
 to "the pastor,” saying that some tracts and 
 scripture portions had come into their posses- 
 sion which had greath' interested them. They 
 wished to know more : would the pastor come 
 and tell them more. He replied that he would 
 but strongly advised them to give themselves 
 up to the authorities first, leaving the note 
 where it could be found by the man who had 
 brought the first one. 
 
 The trip was arranged and guides conducted 
 them over difficult mountain trails for hours 
 until they came to the outlaws’ camp. After 
 telling them more of the Way in which they 
 had become interested he explained that they 
 could not enter acceptably the service of 
 Jesus Qirist and continue their present course 
 of life, and again urged them to give them- 
 selves up to the authorities and take the oath 
 of allegiance. Over 400 of them agreed to do 
 so if he would go with them and assure the 
 authorities of their good faith. 
 
 They were accepted by the authorities on 
 condition that Mr. Jansen would take charge 
 of them and be responsible for their good 
 behavior. He organized them into four re- 
 concentrado camps, each in charge of its own 
 tiniente or head man, and these camps were 
 the beginnings of the small Protestant vil- 
 lages, scattered through the mountains of 
 Cebu. During my recent stay on that island, 
 I accompanied ]\Ir. Jansen on a hiking trip 
 to Paril, one of these mountain villages, 
 and secured a picture of the congrega- 
 tion which gathered for the Saturday night 
 and Sunday services. Some of these people 
 had traveled on foot for eight or ten hours 
 to get to the meetings, carrying their supplies 
 on their heads and in some cases little babies, 
 Filipino fashion, astride their hips. All of 
 those shown in the picture are either former 
 members of the pulajane bands or sympathiz- 
 ers with them, a former lieutenant being the 
 leading elder in the Paril congregation. 
 
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mountain CONOKICGATION AT I’AKIL, QCUU 
 
Whole pages of stories might be written of 
 similar experiences in other parts of the 
 Islands, insurrectos becoming government 
 supporters, old enemies becoming friends and 
 co-workers, hatred of "Protestantes’’ and fear 
 of the “Protestante” Bible changing to won- 
 der at the new spirit of the converts ; that 
 wonder changing to curiosity to see what 
 there was in the Book to work such a trans- 
 formation, and the curiosity in turn yielding 
 to the gracious work of the Spirit through the 
 printed page. My own mail is largely on 
 financial matters but every now and then I 
 find such a sentence as this in a letter,— 
 “we baptized eleven in Palangui and Dr. Car- 
 ter had a great clinic" ; or, “I was in Kabana- 
 ghan last week end; baptized twenty." Only 
 one more instance must be given of the many, 
 to show the indirect evangelistic influence of 
 the educational work. 
 
 Eight or ten years ago, two brothers, Hen- 
 rique and Restituto iMalahay, went for a year 
 or two to Silliman Institute and then, with- 
 out having finished their course, returned to 
 their home in Guijulngan, not many kilo- 
 meters away on the island of Negros. With- 
 out direct aid from missionary or evangelist 
 but inspired by their brief sta%' in the Insti- 
 tute, they organized a Protestant congregation 
 which has grown under their leadership to 
 over 1,100 persons. The two brothers have 
 recently been ordained to the ministry but 
 during those years of growth in the Guijuln- 
 gan congregation the only outside assistance 
 rendered has been the occasional visit of mis- 
 sionari' or evangelist to baptize and receive 
 new memliers into the Church fellowship. 
 
 What of the equipment with which the 
 Presbyterian Church is conducting its Philip- 
 pine enterprise?* 
 
 On the island of Luzon we have rive sta- 
 tions, — Manila, Laguna, Tayabas, Albay and 
 
 * Xote — See inside page of front cover. 
 
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 A MOUNTAIN CAVE, TAYAHAS PROVINCE 
 
 wiili group of worshippers of the “Colcrunis”— an heretical Catholic sect- Leader (with candle) and his family 
 
Camarines, — the first three being in the Taga- 
 log district and the last two in the Bicol. In 
 Laguna, Tayabas and Camarines, each cover- 
 ing an entire province averaging nearly half 
 the size of Connecticut and cared for by 
 one missionary family, there is not a dollar’s 
 worth of land or buildings belonging to the 
 Mission. Over in Laguna, the province made 
 famous for tourists by its picturesque gorge 
 and water-fall at Pagsanjan, Dr. Hamilton 
 has not even so much as a dispensary. In 
 Tayabas, the home of the Colorums, a small 
 hut strange sect who believe that the hob- 
 spots connected with the last week of Christ’s 
 life on earth are located right there on Mt. 
 Christobal. Mr. and Mrs. Magill may itiner- 
 ate through 2,400 square miles of most beau- 
 tiful cocoanut country, with a parish of over 
 200,000 people, but when they get back home it 
 is to a rented house in which they have the 
 nucleus of a dormitory, — for there are generally 
 four or five school children living with them. 
 In Camarines, a province of equal size and 
 population, the MacDonalds’ rented a house 
 large enough to establish a full fledged dor- 
 mitory in their own home, in which there 
 are now twenty to twenty-five students. -A.11 
 of these stations should have land, residences, 
 chapels, and possibly hospitals later on if the 
 work should prove advisable, both for the sake 
 of greater efficiency in the work and also to 
 give them greater permanency and influence 
 in the eyes of a people who have been trained 
 for hundreds of years to judge of the value 
 of their religion, — in part at least, — by its 
 visible manifestations. 
 
 The Albav station covers the provinces of 
 Albay and Sorsogon, about the size of Rhode 
 Island and having a population of over 
 3.50.000. The Mission owns a house at Le- 
 gaspi which is used at present by Dr. Carter 
 as residence and dispensary, costing about 
 $.5,000, and a small chapel two miles away in 
 the city of Albay which cost, with the ground 
 
on which it stands, $465. In addition an ap- 
 propriation of $4,100 is available for a hos- 
 pital (for which there is not yet any land) and 
 an appropriation of about $650 for dormitory 
 purposes, the latter work being carried on at 
 present in a rented house. Until recently Mr. 
 and Mrs. Brown were alone in this station, 
 Dr. and ^Irs. Carter having been transferred 
 there a few months ago from Leyte. There is 
 immediate need for more land, another resi- 
 dence and the completion of the dormitory 
 fund, the more so as land is increasingly hard 
 to secure in Albay at satisfactory prices. 
 
 Manila, the oldest of the ten stations, in ad- 
 dition to its special work in Manila where we 
 join with Methodists and United Brethren in 
 conducting a Union Bible Seminary and where 
 we also have a Girls’ Bible Training School and 
 dormitories for both sexes ; is responsible for 
 the evangelistic work in Cavite and Batangas 
 provinces, with a population of over 400.000. 
 Excluding the Mission Treasurer, who resides 
 in Manila but belongs to all the stations, there 
 are three missionary families and three single 
 women, besides the wife of the Treasurer who 
 assists the women in the Gitls’ School as time 
 will permit. 
 
 In the Tondo district of Manila we have 
 a good-sized frame church for Filipinos and 
 in the Ermita district the Emerson Memorial 
 concrete chapel for the Anferican congrega- 
 tion, the latter being practically an indepen- 
 dent work with only a sympathetic connection 
 with the Mission. Dr. and Mrs. Rodgers, the 
 pioneer missionaries of the Philippines, oc- 
 cupy the only residence in Manila belonging 
 to the Mission. Ellinwood Seminary and 
 Ellinwood Girls’ Bible Training School, to- 
 gether with their respective dormitories, oc- 
 cupy frame buildings, and there is sufficient 
 land adjoining for a modest assortment of 
 tennis and volley ball courts for the students. 
 The buildings, which have served their pur- 
 pose well, were limited by the amount of the 
 
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FIRST GRADUATES OF THE ELLINWOOD SCHOOL 
 FOR GIRLS 
 
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original appropriations to wood construction 
 and are now showing with increasing rapidity 
 the effect of rot and tropical insects, requiring 
 constant repair. Sooner or later they must 
 be replaced by reinforced concrete, — the only 
 satisfactory construction in this country of 
 earthquakes and vegetable deca}'. 
 
 Meanwhile the dormitories have been over- 
 crowded and land has been purchased a block 
 away for a new Girls’ School, $17,000 of the 
 necessary $20,000 being already appropriated 
 toward the new concrete building. \\'hen this 
 is erected the two existing buildings will be 
 used by the Seminary and boys’ dormitory. 
 Exclusive of the unexpended appropriation 
 above referred to and the Emerson Chapel, 
 the total investment in Manila station for per- 
 manent equipment is about $40,000. .As rents 
 are very higli here we should have the land 
 and cottages wliich now separate the ground 
 of the Ellinwood Seminary and dormitory 
 from the ground of the new Girls' School, 
 thus bringing all the missionaries of this sta- 
 tion into one compound and saving $1,600 rent 
 annually. There should also be a progressive 
 appropriation for changing, a wing at a time, 
 the present decaying wooden buildings to 
 concrete. 
 
 Turning now to the "Visayan stations of 
 Leyte, Bohol, Cebu, Iloilo and Dumaguete, we 
 find that each of the first three occupies all of a 
 large island, while Iloilo and Dumaguete oc- 
 cupy half of Panay and Negros respectively, 
 the other halves being under the care of the 
 Baptist Church. 
 
 Leyte station has one missionary family 
 and no property except a lot in Tacloban 
 given by the missionary himself. .An appro- 
 priation of approximately $1,000 has recently 
 been made to replace the chapel which was 
 also given by Air. Rath but destroyed by a 
 typhoon several years ago. The total invest- 
 ment, exclusive of the unspent appropriation, 
 is about $.') 00 . To properly carry on the work 
 
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Leyte needs more land, a residence and a 
 dormitory, in addition to the chapel already 
 provided for. 
 
 Bohol station, with one missionary family, 
 has a* new hospital costing nearl}' $ 4 , 000 , a 
 small chapel costing $500 (both of wood), 
 and has a concrete residence under way, to 
 cost $ 4 , 000 . all in Tagbilaran, the provincial 
 capital. Land is cheap in Bohol and that 
 under the above buildings plus a tract a short 
 distance down the shore only cost $200, in 
 spite of the fact that it commands a view of 
 one of the most beautiful little bays to be 
 found anywhere. A dormitory would complete 
 the present necessary equipment of this station. 
 
 At Iloilo we share with the Baptists in the 
 joint ownership of the Sabine Haines Memo- 
 rial Hospital property, the buildings being 
 partly of wood and partly of concrete, the 
 whole property representing a Presbyterian 
 investment of about $21,000. The hospital is 
 self-supporting and includes in its work a 
 training school for nurses, the first of its kind 
 in the Islands. Our force in Iloilo consists 
 of two missionary families and one trained 
 nurse, caring not only for the hospital work 
 and extensive itineration over half the island 
 but also dormitory work in Iloilo. This work 
 could be more advantageously carried on if 
 we had more land, a dormitory and two resi- 
 dences for our missionaries. The hospital 
 needs a union office and dispensary, nurses' 
 home and laundry, part of which they can 
 finance on the field. 
 
 Cebu station bought some years ago a very 
 desirable piece of property in what was then 
 the outskirts of the city. It is now enjoying 
 the rare sensation of erecting five buildings 
 in one year. — two residences, two dormitories 
 and a church. — all of reinforced concrete. To l>e 
 accurate a sixth should be added, for throu.gh 
 the generosity of Bishop Fallows a $250 
 shower bath and locker building is being 
 built for the use of school boys not in the 
 
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dormitory. The net cost of land and build- 
 ings when complete will be $ 35 , 500 . Cebu 
 has waited long for this development and the 
 missionaries are making the most of it now 
 that it has come. The equipment is ample 
 for present needs but the work is growing 
 and additions to the “Sneed Dormitory for 
 Boys” will be needed in the future. 
 
 Last of all, far to the south on the coral 
 sands of the Mindinao Sea, is Diimaguete 
 station, almost synonymous in the minds of 
 most people with Silliman Institute, although 
 it conducts evangelistic work up and down 
 the coast of Oriental Negros and even on the 
 little island of Siquijor. Tlie Institute is a 
 monument to the late Dr. Horace B. Silliman, 
 who gave most of the money for its buildings 
 and equipment and an additional sum for 
 endowment, the interest on which partially 
 provides for the annual repairs and upkeep. 
 
 Although it has more students than many 
 of our American colleges, 330 of whom are 
 internos or dormitory students, Silliman is 
 housed in a combination dormitory, assembly 
 hall and classroom building two and one-half 
 stories high, with a one-story dining room and 
 kitchen annex ; a small one-story concrete 
 laboratory of two rooms for the use of chem- 
 istry, physics, zoology and botany classes; and 
 a two-story frame shop and annex. In addi- 
 tion, a house belonging to ex-Governor Lorena, 
 one of the Board of Trustees, has been 
 rented to the Institute for dormitory and 
 classroom purposes. Besides the buildings 
 above mentioned in use by the Institute there 
 are four frame residences for missionaries, 
 a fifth in process of erection and a small 
 frame hospital which ministers to all comers 
 both in and out of the Institute. The land, 
 including athletic field and school gardens, 
 comprises about 22 acres, besides a small farm 
 two kilometers distant, upon which an agri- 
 cultural department will be established when 
 there is money to equip and man it. 
 
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Turning now to the human equipment which 
 is all-important for a work of this kind we 
 find first of all that Silliman covers the entire 
 curriculum from third grade through High 
 School and two years of college, conferring 
 upon graduates the degree of A.B. The 
 work is all based upon government standards 
 and measured by those standards ranks sec- 
 ond to none in the Islands. 
 
 What should be the size of the facultj' for 
 carrying on the 110 daily recitations of such 
 a school together with the attendant prepara- 
 tion and administrative work? In public 
 schools we should not consider eighteen teach- 
 ers and one principal, giving entire time to 
 the work, too man 3 ' for such a task and in 
 colleges the faculty would be much larger. In 
 Silliman, including the wives of the mission- 
 aries who have some other duties to perform, 
 and the doctor who treats about 1,500 cases 
 a month in addition to his teaching, there 
 are eleven American and one Filipino teach- 
 ers, with one more American under appoint- 
 ment. In addition some help is given in the 
 elementary grades by undergraduate work 
 students. 
 
 One of the missionaries who is no busier 
 than the rest conducts eight recitations daily, 
 superintends the Silliman printing press in- 
 volving the proofreading of a million and a 
 half pages annually, takes his turn at con- 
 ducting Sunday and chapel services and 
 serves as superintendent of the Sunday 
 School. His spare hours are occupied in 
 writing a new text-book. His work com- 
 mences at 7 :45 in the morning and ends when 
 it is necessani' to go to bed at night, and that 
 within ten degrees of the equator. And he 
 likes his job! 
 
 Dumaguete's need for farm equipment has 
 already been touched upon. If we add to this 
 a new science building and dormitorj- to sup- 
 plement the over-crowded buildings now in 
 use we shall just be ready to consider the 
 
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 KAMHOO VJI.LACilC 15AND — EVIvKVUODV PLAYS IN THE PHILIPPINES 
 
advance which to Dumagueteites seems unes- 
 capable, and that is the establishment of a 
 girls’ dormitory and the admission of the 
 boys’ sisters on the same terms as the boys 
 themselves enjoy. Already there are eight or 
 ten girls from the town in the classes and 
 the demand from outside is urgent. The ex- 
 pense of broadening Silliman into a co-edu- 
 cational institution would be far less than 
 the establishment, de novo, of a girls’ school 
 in the Visayas, while it would be in entire 
 harmony with the public school system which 
 is co-educational from the kindergarten 
 through the University. 
 
 I have said nothing of the fact that in the 
 early days of the Mission $470 was invested 
 in a tract of four or five acres in Baguio, the 
 summer capital of the Philippines, 5,000 feet 
 above sea level, and that we are now for the 
 first time asking $1,250 to build a rest house 
 where missionaries may build up exhausted 
 vitality in the cooler air of the pine belt, as 
 some might think that did not so directly 
 concern the missionary work. 
 
 Before concluding I must call attention to 
 one feature which is perhaps peculiar to the 
 Philippine Mission, — the dormitory work. It 
 is the natural outgrowth of the application of 
 the American public school system to the 
 Islands. Every provincial capital has its High 
 School and the graduates of the intermediate 
 schools gather here for their advanced work. 
 The opportunity to furnish a Christian home 
 to the brightest of the oncoming generation — 
 “the future leaders’’ — is too obvious to re- 
 quire comment. Years ago Dr. Barrows, then 
 Director of Education, said to one of our 
 missionaries, “You people are missing a great 
 opportunity in not providing more dormi- 
 tories. The government is not in a position 
 to do this work but would welcome it on 
 the part of the Churches.” More recently 
 Vice-Governor Gilbert, the present Director 
 of Education, told Dr. Rader of the Metho- 
 
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dist Mission and i\Ir. Wright of the satisfac- 
 tion which the government took in the work 
 of the jVIethodist and Ellinwood (Presby- 
 terian) dormitories on account of the high 
 ranking of the students from those dormi- 
 tories and urged the extension of the work. 
 The government is now erecting a girls’ dor- 
 mitory, a three-storj- concrete building, for the 
 Normal School girls in Manila, but nothing 
 of the kind is planned for the boys. On 
 the other hand, the value placed upon this 
 evangelistic agency by others is shown by the 
 fine building recently erected in Manila by the 
 Episcopal Church, and the $90,000 Student 
 Building now being erected by the Y. M. C. 
 -A., which will not only provide dormitories 
 but also reading room, dining hall, gymnasium 
 and swimming pool facilities for the students 
 from other dormitories as well. A separate 
 City building will provide dormitory and night 
 school classes for local Filipinos in the busi- 
 ness world, nearly half of the total cost of 
 the two buildings being subscribed with en- 
 thusiasm here in the Islands. 
 
 If further testimony is needed as to the 
 value of the work it may be had from the 
 lips of Father Monaghan of the Catholic 
 Church, who said in an address before the 
 National Convention of the Knights of Colum- 
 bus at Colorado Springs, August 7th, 1912, — 
 after pleading for the establishment and sup- 
 port of a student Qiapel : — “A dormitory 
 building is needed in Manila. To be effective 
 and self-supporting it must accommodate five 
 hundred students. When this is done the best 
 of the students — the ones worth having — will 
 come to us. Their influence in the' schools and 
 in their native towns will check the work of 
 perversion that is now going on. Eventually 
 we must have a chapel and dormitory in every 
 provincial capital in tlie Islands : but we are 
 now talking of Manila alone. To erect such 
 a building we must have at least $150,000, for 
 the Y. M. C. A. are just now putting nearly 
 
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$200,000 of American contributions into 
 buildings for the same purpose.” 
 
 Are there some of my readers who think 
 the request for $16.5,000 worth of additional 
 equipment for the Philippine ilission an ex- 
 travagant one? The Y. M. C. A. is spending 
 more than that on two buildings for Filipinos 
 in the city of Manila alone. Are there any 
 to whom $40,000 seems large for additional 
 dormitory equipment ? 
 
 I wish I could get the attention of every 
 layman in the Presbyterian Church. “Gentle- 
 men,” I would say, “this is an important 
 branch of your King’s business. Its success 
 depends not upon material equipment but upon 
 the work of the Spirit. Nevertheless the 
 Spirit works through human agencies and 
 material equipment and there is a close con- 
 nection between good equipment and good 
 dividends. From patriotic as well as religious 
 viewpoint the work of the Presbyterian 
 Qnirch in the Philippines is worth while ; it 
 is well x^’orflt while; yes, gentlemen, IT IS 
 TREIMEXDOUSLY WORTH W'HILE.” 
 
 20 
 
Board of Foreign Missions 
 of the 
 
 Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. 
 156 Fifth Avenue, New York 
 
 October, 1913 
 Form 2025 
 
I 
 
 I 
 
 PAGSANJAN FALLS 
 
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