Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30

The Presbyterians have one section the
Methodists another Episcopalians an
other Baptists another. etc
| Manila is fast becoming one of the first
cities of the east. 1t is most important
! that the religious influences should be OF
the best, and the opportunities are great
beyond all expectation. The work has
taken great strides in the last five or six
years The Christian schools are full, and
| there are converts everywhere. A recent
| missionary magazine published the pic
ture OF a Filipino funeral of a little
| child, the mother standing beside the dead
baby, with her hand upon it's head Five
years ago that very mother tried to stone
| the missionaries and break up the meet
| lnss because her husband had accepted
Christ 1t means much to these peonle
| to put their trust in Christ and know
Him personally. 1t is startling to know
! tnat they whom We have been trying to
Crlstlanize have gone to work at home
missions themselves and have formed a
home mission committee with workers IN
the nelo. This Is in the region of Manila
great deal of work is done by native
converts who go about on bicycles carry
ing few Bibles with them, and selling
them to the people. preaching the word
as they go. Perhaps some of the BICYCLES
In our attics might be put in order and
used in some such way if we. would put
them repaired into the hands or Soma NJ
our mission boards.
In one town 49, persons signed a petit
ton asking for an evangelist. In another
SOD persons declared their faith in Jesus
Christ.
One missionary writes: THE mission
aries in and around Laguna station found
ii difficult to reach the numerous towns
which lie along the shore Of the bay An
appeal was made to friends at home.
which resulted in gospel launch being
secured. 1t has proved a great blessing
and multiplies the missionaries efficiency.
IN one city man gave corner lot
There was plenty Of heavy, square timber
nd MI ,frr Of IL a.
ing fifteen miles away. Twenty men,
most of them carpenters, members of the
church. were willing to give two days
time free. The launch sailed one morn
ing at o'clock. carrying very many
barrels of lime, three barrels OF water, a
bag of rice, carpenters tools, rope and
tackle, three women to do cooking and
twenty carpenters The cargo and men
and women were landed across the lake
at the place of the chapel building sixteen
miles distant, in one hour and fifty min.
utes. In two days the chapel was COM
pleted. To have done this by land would
A memorial of the first work done at
Stillman Institute, Dumaguete. is found
In little town by the name OF Guijun-
gan, eighty miles away. Two brothers
attending St.llman Institute were convert
ed, the first converts of the school, and
when they went home in vacation they
were blessed by God to bring every mem
Der OF their family to Christ-even
every neInoer OF the femoter branches
of their family-and now there is q
church In that little town with 2Oo men,
bers and a chapel built by the Chris
tians without outside aid. All this is
the work of those two brothers.
The native Christian soon becomes an
evangelist. former revolutionist who
was converted in prison through a Bible
given him by a missionary began to
preach the gospel and distribute gospels
the Island of Cebu. AS the re-
suit of his labors a congregation was
formed and two chapels were built, and
later two others.
One of the members of the Cebu
church. an old pilot, went to the Island
Of Bohol for his health. He preached and
gave away leaflets, and in a short time
he had gathered congregation OF
grown people and forty-eight
children. And there are many others.