The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-25
DANGER IN THE PHILIPPINES.
The People, Eager for Education, are
Getting the Wrong Kind.

the Philippines, winch was QellVereQ
before the knights of Columbus in
their National Convention held in Col
orado Springs, last August, by the
Rev. James P. Monaghan of the So
ciety of Jesus. His exhaustive treat
ment of the subject, from which we
Gull the following extracts, is of per-
manent interest and is especially i'm
portant at the present time.
Gentlemen: l bear you message
from afar, from his Grace, the Arch
bishop of Manila, and from the
Knights of Columbus in the Philip
pines; for the banner of Columbus is
planted in the far East, and the dis
tant brethren of Manila Council, No.
1000, send greetings to their brethren
in the homeland 1t was my privilege
to aid in organizing that council, and
my honor to be it's first chaplain, and
am proud, therefore, to be the
bearer of their message to you and
to the Catholics of America.
1t is the wish of Archbishop Harty
and of the Manila Council that the
Catholics of this country should be
informed of the religious distress of
their brethren in the Philippines.
The American Government had
scarcely taken possession of the Is
land, when the various Protestant mis-
sionary societies of the United States
and England began their work with
an energy and zeal which can be
hu those Tuhn have
witnessed their operation and effects,
and which have caused and are caus-
ing great havoc in the Catholic ranks.
With ample financial resources at
their command, they have sent out
great numbers of missionaries, men
and women, who have been at work
in the Islands for nearly fourteen
years. They divided the Archipelago
into districts, assigning a different
sphere of activity to each of the sects,
so as to conceal from the Filipino
their lack of unity, and to work with
greater efficiency against Catholicism.
They have mastered the native d1a-
lects. They publish the Protestant
Bible in several of the native Ian
guages, and they food the Islands
with Protestant tracts containing the
vilest attacks upon the Catholic
Church and the clergy. Leaflets OF
this kind are sent by mail, not only to
grown people, but also and especially
to the children of the public schools.
Amongst the latter, also, copies OF the
marked" New Testament are distrib-
uted, in which the sources of Pro-
testant arguments are underscored in
red.
Not satisfied with ordinary means
of perverting the young, the mission
ers have established, in various CEN
tres, "dormitories," or homes for boys
and girls attending the public schools,
seminaries for young men and women,
industrial schools and free medical
dispensaries, which cloak the prosely-
Tiers in the guise of charity.
Since most of the children receiv-
ing a higher education come from dis
liant homes, the Protestants in order
to "get hold of them" have established
these dormitories, furnishing board
and lodging at low figure, $3.50 to
SO per month"; on condition that the
students attend the daily prayer and
Bible class and assist at the Protes-
tant services on Sunday. Four such
dormitories now exist in Manila, all
built and equipped by American Pro
testant money. And the Young Mems
Christian Association" is starting sew
eral more, at a cost of nearly 100000
of American gold. Thus they hope tC
purchase the faith of thousands Of
young people in higher education, and
send them out as missionaries or as
teachers in the schools and Univer
sity.
Great, indeed, has been the devas
tation wrought in Gods vineyard by
the secret societies, by religionless
education, and by the paid proselyti
zers of the Protestant ministry anC
of so-called Christian" society: Great
er havoc is in store of these infiu
ences continue unchecked; and it viii
not be long before the vain boast Of
an Eastern University President il
our own land will be verified in the
Philippines. For the Filipinos viii
then be able to say: eve are borI
into an age and into land which ha:
lost faith in signs and portents anC
supernatural manifestations of power
as well as in certain dogmas and for
mulas once supposed to be essentia
to salvation-and whereas in formel
years we were bound down by creed'
which described in detail Gods attri
butes and Gods wishes, today the hu
man intelligence decides for itsel
what shall be the attributes of thu
Creator and what shall be His Com
mandments."
The Protestants are beginning t
realize that their supposed convert
are fast slipping through their finger
and falling into infidelity. The Filipin,
sees that there is nothing in Protes
tantism-no unity, no consistency, n
foundation. Destroy his faith in Cath
oicism and you leave him no alter
native but infidelity. Teach him tn
foundation of Catholic belief, sho0
him the fallacy of Protestant argr
ments, and he is proud to see tina
''the Catholic Church is all right afte
ALL" as l have heard many of theT
say.
But is the Philippine Church lost
Tc fhoro M means RI ctom fho rid