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MAKING THE WAY MORE PLAIN 309

Bishop Warne says in speaking of the development of the young evangelist: "I promised to teach Nicholas Methodism. I do not know how much he learned about Methodism, but I learned much about Romanism. We studied the doctrines and rules of our Church, and he was greatly interested. I said to him:

""You must have Sunday-schools and teach the Bible to the children.' With knitted brow and darkened countenance he said:

"Do you mean to tell me that I must teach the Bible to little children? I thought I had gone a great way in teaching it to adults.'

"I then told him the facts about Sunday-schools in Protestant countries; and as the idea of thus educating the children dawned upon him, his countenance changed, brightened into a smile, indicating intelligent understanding, and, retaining his Roman Catholic phraseology, he sprang up, caught my hands and said:

"Father Warne, when you come back you will find our children in Sunday-schools.' I told him to teach the people to have family worship, and I went through the same experience of seeing his brow knit and his countenance darken, and he asked:

"Do you mean to say that I must teach laymen to read the Bible in their homes and explain it to their children? Have I not gone a long way in consenting to teach it to the laity?' I then told him the story of family worship and Bible study in Protestant homes, and again his countenance brightened and he caught me again by the hands and said:

"Father Warne, when you come back we will have family worship among our people." They now have

in Manila Sunday-schools and family worship, and prayer meetings, class meetings, Bible-schools, open-air preaching, Epworth Leagues, quarterly and district conferences and a fully organized Methodist Church.

One evening I had a pleasant interview with the young evangelist, Mr. Rodgers acting as interpreter. He is a fine-looking man, about twenty-eight years old, with a wife and three children, and is a loyal representative of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Friends in New York who have known of the work which Mr. Zamora has done have thought that he might be able to lead an evangelistic work, but those who know him best feel that he is doing his best work as an evangelist under the direction of the missionaries, who are responsible to the home churches for the funds sent for the conversion of the Filipinos. He is growing in power as a preacher and in his appreciation of the deeper realities of the Protestant faith.

CHAPTER XXX

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH

Bishop Brent and Bishop Brooks-A Ton of Soap
Sent from the Homeland-Gambling Proceeds Re-
fused-Excellent Work Carried on by Women—Safe-
guarding the Health of Missionaries-Influence in
Public Affairs.

"THEY

HEY call St. Stephen's Church "The Five-Cent Church,'" said Bishop Brent with a smile, in speaking about the contempt of the Filipinos for the modest structures in which the three Protestant congregations worship. St. Stephen's Church will seat perhaps two hundred and fifty persons, and the others are nearly, if not quite, as commodious. It is probable, therefore, that in the opinion of the natives, the monetary value of the sacred edifices occupied by the Methodists and Presbyterians is not much greater than that which they place upon the Pro-Cathedral, as St. Stephen's really is.

About the last man in Manila that one would take for a bishop is the Rev. Charles H. Brent, D.D., consecrated Bishop of the Missionary District of the Philippine Islands in December, 1901. The reason for this is that he is so busy that neither he, nor those with whom he comes in contact, have time to think of the dignity which is supposed to center about the office which he honors. Unconsciously one is reminded of Bishop Brooks, both because of the simplicity of the two men and their inter

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