New Britain herald., 1921-11-10

or superior. one nation after another in Asia is going to awaken suddenly. The second nation we are In danger Of losing Is the Philippine Islands The government has done lot for the Philippines but the church people arc leaving too much to the govern ment If the government was teach ing religion 1t would have thous- and missionaries Tn the Philippines. The churches have less than 50.
 Japan Undcrestimatod
 The area of the Philippine Islands tg almost equal to that of Japan. There arc almost ll,000,o00 people iR the PhuIprlne Islends. We underes- timate the Philippines the same as we underestimate Japan. The Phil | ippines are the only yellow-brown peoDle in the Far East who pretend to be Christians out of two-thlrds Of the worlds population. They are the only yellow. brown people under tho American Gag. Spain christianlzed | them in name and forced them to | church at the point of payonet' | They are liable to drop tAls chris- ttanity at any moment.
 4 Religious Misunderstanding
 The philipi=e War was religious a;ng. Four million young men and wosnen In the Philippines have gone te our Philippine schools. There are 1900" American school teachers. IA 19U2 we had fz,opo American people in the Philippines who so far aa any outward sign goes had no apparrnt religion, and we had l2 missionaries The thing that IS needed ter->t-ly rs church leadership.
 NC0,OOO, ,OU0 People in Far East
 Gro-fourth the world comprisingthe Far East. contains 300. 100000 people, the other three fourths only mas 'oo- O00 OOO. China, Korea, India, already are clamoring and demanding that the United States educate and ciVlllze them.
 asiatic Division. Asia is divided into two groups. One is the bolsheistic, mohamme- danism and junkerism of the Japs,the other is the christian democracy or the Tinted States The government can educate the Philippines put the church must christianize them. rho pubIic schools do not teach religion. To every christian missionary Tn the Phlllppines from America, there are
 so of the riff raif, reneGades, thieves, etc They teach crime and spread disease. Unless we christianize the philiDnine Islands, as soon as we withdraw the Moros will recommence their interrupted conquest or the 1s- lands.
 Make Mohal%medans of Christians.
 There are 220,000 MohammedanS in the Philippines, the most fantastic religion in the world. Up to date they have made more Mohammedans
 out of us than we have christians out of them. We have been pottering in ! the Philippine Islands when what we
 needed was statesmanship.
 Politics Inadequate.
 The solution of the question now going on in Washington will never be solved by politics, it will be solved only by christianizing the world. We lost Japan, are we going to lose the Philippines? Later on we may have 5 China to look after. The Philippines are becoming impatient of our de- : nominationalism." In answer to a question, Where are the Japanese going to go, now 5 that the Japanese Islands are over- ' crowded?" the speaker replied: T don't know. Nobody knows They don't know themselves. They don't care particularly for the Philippine
 Islands. They would like to go to
 Australia, North or South America" The meeting was in charge of George E. Bean, president of the Brotherhood.