The People of the Philippines: Their Religious Progress and Preparation for Spiritual Leadership in the Far East

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George H. Doran Company, 1925 - 515 ページ

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119 ページ - Orient— that would be bad business and discreditable; (3) that we could not leave them to themselves— they were unfit for selfgovernment— and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain's was; and (4) that there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and by God's grace to do the very best we could for them, as our fellow-men for whom Christ also died.
151 ページ - Him, Sir, if thou hast borne Him hence, tell me where thou hast laid Him, and I will take Him away.
118 ページ - The truth is I didn't want the Philippines, and when they came to us, as a gift from the gods, I did not know what to do with them.
307 ページ - I thank God there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience and misery and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both.
269 ページ - Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not : eyes have they, but they see not : They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not : They have hands, but they handle not : feet have they, but they walk not : neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
256 ページ - Samuel, and of the prophets : who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
151 ページ - She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him. And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou?
119 ページ - Spanish fleet, and he had to; because, if defeated, he had no place to refit on that side of the globe, and if the Dons were victorious, they would likely cross the Pacific and ravage our Oregon and California coasts. And so he had to destroy the Spanish fleet, and did it! But that was as far as I thought then.
119 ページ - I walked the floor of the White House night after night until midnight; and I am not ashamed to tell you, gentlemen, that I went down on my knees and prayed Almighty God for light and guidance more than one night. And one night late it came to me this way — I don't know how it was, but it came...
119 ページ - Germany - our commercial rivals in the Orient - that would be bad business and discreditable; (3) That we could not leave them to themselves - they were unfit for self-government - and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain's was; and (4) That there was nothing...

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