| Show M MA I IA A Manila teh of ot recent l date states that the Christian mil rota In the Philippines are greatly gies alarmed ever eYer the U ed 4 of Islam J JIn in the Minds Wands The teal seal of 01 the this Mo o Is Ie t Mid to be bs and aDd the results of ot their work werk rk are a at u t But the tile tart fart of or the th dl ills patch Is t I that In wit kh h it U is I that the fault Is U c Uh ti the ent enter r the complaint that the Moslems havo have as much freedom as the tho Christian missionaries to pros proselyte and further furthermore more inure that tho the Koran has Ita been recognized recognized as os a II valid code codo of at Jaw u for tor the tho Sulu Islands so that greater honor ts Ja s accorded to that book than to the tho Bible Dible This Thill suggests tho the question whether In tho the Judgment of ot the tho complainants our government ought to abridge the liberty of tho the to make proselytes and forcibly Introduce the tho Bible Instead of ot the Koran I In a 11 Mohammedan district That Th t really reull appears to tobe tobe tobe be their Secret p desire They are p pointed because they the are placed pl on an tin equal tooting footing with other religious preachers Christian missionaries who feel that way ought to be bl recalled by the societies they thy represent Th Thi prove themselves as ItS Ignorant of Chris Christian Christian tian principles ns as of tho the fundamental laws lawn of ot the American They MIL Cult do but hut mischief If It they persist In In III a spirit of at Intolerance Koran In Is by no means menns n a perfect codo code of ot nut hut It la Is bettor better titan than none It may mu trove provo a stepping stone stono to some thing and mote more perfect To 10 yb 10 strike that from under tho the feet teet of the Sulus would be to 10 precipitate them Into Inlo thu abyss from which per nor perchance chance the tho Koran Kormi has lifted them up They The must be lie educated to appreciate he tho excellencies of at the tho BillIe Bible not hot forced to accept It against a their Judgment Im mi nature mature and childish though this may appear from the Christian point of at View H It Is 19 stated that there aro are no less lew than limn eight Mohammedan missionaries In III n Manila and of ot these three are Amer Amor cans three I anti two Malays Malay I rue Die head hend of the mission miss 1011 Is said to bo be boone one ono J off a n native of With him bunt tire ate Mohammed Price and All 1 Lant two Americans both hothi veterans of the American civil war and learned earned They have long been con can connected with tho the Moslem union and do d voted much time to the Mohammedan movement In New York It Is 18 further explained that the most attractive feature of ot Islam as the tho Fill FUI lilacs vIew low viol It is the tho doctrine that to charge Interest on borrowed money Is robbery rob her Spaniards used usell to charge chargo as ns high as oslO 10 per cent a II month and some Home sometimes times Imes oven even 1000 per nor cent a U year ar Labor staN taken In i lieu of money In the pay payment P meat ment of at Interest and children were considered as 8 security t In many man cases cas CR Thero There are numerous Instances es of oC tani lies ICH for tor five fire generations It Is claimed working for Spaniards to pay off art a aloan loan Jonn oan When the tho United States took possession of ot tho the islands there were Filipinos 1 who were weno required l to toIe give Ie from sixty to one hundred days labor out of at every overy year to Spanish usurers usurer So that a n form of ot slavery was titus thus established by the tho Christian of or tho the country No wonder if IC ICa ifa a n religion that openly condemns such conditions should become popular But there thero Is no IIO need for alarm In nil all this title The rite missionaries can call prove that hat the tile Bible and especially tho the New Nell testament still more emphatically con can condemns I all nil kinds of ot oppression lon They The can point to the great sacrifices of at this country to abolish slavery and establish halt Ish liberty and antI equality among hu ha human haman man beings They confine themselves to the tho labor of at spreading anti and knowledge on ott nil all such uch ques I lions lons and leave leavo the tho results result II to the fu u tune ture Hut But If IC they thc stir up and sow the seeds of ot religious hatred they nay may be bo the tho cause of at rebellions and bloodshed They should remember first of oC nil all that their mission la Is ono one of oC peace lonco and good will ivill to nil alt men |
