Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-26
GREAT WORK AWAITS CHURCH IN
 PHILIPPINE ISLAND SAYS BISHOP
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Our work in the Philippine Islands IS a great work lonely work, and we need all your help, spiritually, financially. and need more priests, doctors, nurses, teachers and laymen to carry out the vast problem that the Episcopal church faces in those islands was the state ment of Right Reverend G. F. Mosher, bishop of the Philippine Islands before a united meeting of the Episcopal church es at Trinity church Wednesday evening.
 In the Philippine Islands where your church is at work, said Bishop MoSher, there are thousands of natives, Chinese, Japanese and Americans, representing such religions as Mohammedans. Confu- cianists, Shintoists, Buddists and Ami mists, and it is among those people that some twenty years ago our first mission aries began the work for Christ in those far away islands This work spreads over more than a thousand islands and there are over 1O,O00,0o0 people to be reached.
 At present our vast undertaking is in charge of a force consisting of one bishop. nine priests and a few laymen and laywomen.
 When we started our work n the Philippines Bishop Brent made it a poli- cy not to proselite from among the Catholics on the island. When we got there we found a backward civilization. Spain was using the island and it's peo- pie to further her own ends. Now the policy has been to unite them all under one common language and the American public school system has been installed throughout the islands, there are scat
 tered high schools and the University of Manila has over 5000 students.
 Since the time twenty years ago when
 our missionaries first went. to the is- land tens of thousands have turned away from their religion and as many more are not connected with any church and
 are leading evil lives. We have there
 fore decided to change our policy on the islands and we have established a school
 for Filipinos in our cathedral in Manila.
 One of our biggest works has been on the island of Luzon among the Igorotes, pagans all and when Father Clapp and Father Stanton went there they found I thousands of small tribes, headhunters
 twenty years ago. These people believed and lived a life of murder, but where | twenty years ago there were headhunt- i CTS and savages, today we have 5000 , Christians among the tribes. What tha ! Japanese have failed to accomplish n | Formosa, men high in our governnszht
 have accomplished among these people. They have taught them to set settling :; their disputes by murder, and today 1 when court is held we find hundreds of them huddIed on the court floor, giving
 their testimony. and although failing ! perhaps to understand what it is all about showing a willingness to obey the { law that is being administered fairly. In 1 Bohol among these people today we have 1 little fear and now there are three lit l tie houses where our women live alone, safe among the former head hunters. ] Savagery has been wiped out, the natives have learned to love and trust our wo- men and will not see them harmed. The work of our church there is a great work, it being only last December ; that while on a trip to that section, there were 50 baptisns, a wedding and s0 ! were confirmed. Indeed on most of my trips through this part of the island find from POO to 400 natives to be con firmed These people there take interest