The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-09-04

unglazed windows and tiny gypsy fires are light
ed under the house to cook the unpublished" rice
with possibly bit of cheap fish, for supper The
pot is often watched by man and woman, wien
ed before their time squatting on their heels,
each smoking the perpetual cigarette. The wom-
an is apt to be holding, always tenderly, the
smallest of half dozen nearly naked children
The man with less fondles docile but
spurred game cock Fields for manly sport are
slowly rivaling the cockpit with it's ruinous idle
and betting. The Filipino women have al
ways shared the passion for gambling with their
men, to the hurt of the family and it's earnings.
Many of them now learning embroidery. They
do it well and find it even more interesting than
cock fights cards or craps.
visitor is lucky who comes upon one of the
tidier cottages and espies youth with scarlet
trousers and bare bronze torso tumming sort OF
guitar for the benefit of nut-brown maid at
the window above the stills. She has delicate
features and bright eyes and long and strikingly
graceful neck, and mass of smooth glossy, jet
black hair hangs below her waist over her gay
balloon-seeved bodice and folded panuelo, or ker
chief. One waits, half expecting to see chorus
emerge from the f1owery background and break
into dance or song. But, alack! such romantic
illusions are rare and feeting. The reality that
stays is homely and hard and sometimes tragic
Manila is beautiful for situation. The bay to
the west is as blue as the Mediterranean and the
Spendor OF the sunsets Is beyond telling Some
times nothing is to be seen but luminous sky and
water. Then Of sudden there appear as If just
created the scalloped hills of the distant coast
beyond the long low peninsula Of Cavite, for
merly, and still to some extent, used a naval
station The fortified island Of Corregidor, soft
and dim on the horizon, stands in reality verit-
able armed Titan to guard the narrow entrance Of
the vast bay Close beside 1t the lovely noun
tain of Maribeles suggests earthly paradise,
but in fact it Is the unfriendly abode Of the Ne
gritos, resembling the pgmies of Africa.
Beyond on other shores and on other islands
Of the vast Philippine archipelago other races
unclaimed, untamed, unchrstian. Among them
most dreaded by foreigners and natives are the
fanatical, treacherous, fierce Mohammedan Moros.
AS we look at the work in Manila and through
out the Philippines during the last ten years we
feel that America has made here it's finest mark
the finest and fairest, it is not too much to say,
made by any western people in any eastern col
ony But it has not done enough. Nor would 1t
have done enough If the material benefits be-
slowed immeasurably greater Atruism
has still Its most potent part to play, its most
immitigable demands to meet. There is need of
more American missionaries, wise, consecrated
tactful. There are such men and women already
at work in the provinces-teachers, doctors. in
structors in manual industry and In farming
uplift workers, who at the same time evange-
lists. And there are those who give themselves
wholly to preaching and to pastoral work. OF all
this service 1t would be joy to tell IL space
allowed. But owe far larger ministry to
bodies and minds, and above all to souls that
consciously or unconscously are feeling after God
If haply they may find him.