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Show I. Tho wrrtaiy of Porto Kico is a natire' of Caii- ' Tf'"- O. Ilia father, who is a strict 'Meth- r"iit' together with his mother and sister, are with I in the secretary doing: missionary work. The. father, 11 .Tosiah IlamelL writes to his home paper, the Can. il ton Kepository, of the wide field for missionary a . zeal, am! in conclusion says: "; "The supporters and attendants of "the Protestant Pro-testant churches here are principally American. ! l TIieso rrto rkicau people have never known any i 5' . rclipion except the Catholic. That the advance of p. Protestantism must be very sdow is the least that can v ho In fvery event ihcre is.no better ground ' h liau this for the casting of any seed which has in f! i1 lho Promise of moral and intellectual improve- l Under the auspices of the government Porto a Piicans are promised moral and intellectual improve- j , mcnts. if they abandon their faith and become , b Methodic. The irartzells would find at home fonet- I v ter ground for casting seed."' Uut then home 1 p 1,irJ" oulil not have the government's influence and rrc&tige to aid them in tilling the soil. 1 " 4 ; J Jn distant Africa -.ha zealous missionaries are 1 f active, too. But their activity consists in making j t friends with the Mammon of iniquity. An eastern 1 publishes a long letter from Prince Hosanna j j Caronto, in which he accuses the missionary of ! I : ,:, i"S "'worse than a bad Kaffir' The following ex- - i t 1laCt fl0m tlie "nce's communication sounds so 3 ' refll ad genuine that we give it in full: I J 'iTIlc missionary is a trick person. When he I 3 : " ?oc's tljat funds are not coming in as rapidly as he I J . j 3iad heped for, he writes a heart-touching letter, or ! : - a scrics of if necessary, to the 'poor white ,' ; io0 t liome, saying that he wants money to build S s ; ' 3 church or school. When the money reaches him j I v.h at does he do? lie simply rents an abandoned f . warehouse or shed somewhere; fits it up with a few : J ; rde benches and, after remaining eight or ten J ; months, during which he has lived on the fat of '. and, he pockets the money and returns to the I j i States." ! , The Ehtiopian prince is no fool. lie has Yankee ' J ' instincts, and can measure mathematically the ex- tent of missionary zeal. It all depends financially ! " cn the question: How much? j . ' ' I ' The governors of the Philippine provinces at iA present are all Catholics. Governor Taft, in a proc- t lamation to his subordinates, tells what they may ) 5o, and what they cannot and must not do. This i" might be extended to the Porto Tiican officials. We I P'ive a few extracts from the official document to y t-'1 the attitude of the government toward tlie Church: "Again let nie call your attention to one phase t f the schism which is most important, and that is, ; as to the possession of churches and convents. Ex- 1 j feu live officers have no function whatever to per- " nn in respect to the detennination of the ques- ) lion who owns private property." f As 10 the guestion of ownership or possession of j' Church property, he points out their duties to his representatives. lie writes: "Whatever you may think of tho merits of such h a fut-,blio it is your duty to preserve tho possession I V cf 1,ie pric'st or otIlcr Psentative of the Poman t Cathojic church by arresting any person who at- J; tempts forcibly to dispossess him or actually suc- v. cocd3 hl d& and allow the priest or other ier- l t on having had peaceable possession to resume if I ,mt bJ"nd this you cannot go. Such rights as the I erlc of a town may have, cither to ownership or possession of tho church property, may bo asserted in the courts." Those in possession, if threatened by any disturbing dis-turbing clement, must be legally protected : "Should any .priest, or other person jn charge of a church or concent, notify a presidente that he has reasonable ground to suspect that au attempt will be made to dispossess him, the presidente should detail policemen to maintain him in his possession and prevent assault or forcible dispossession. A failure on the part of the presidente with energy to protect peaceable possession oFthurch property will be good cause for dismissal." , |