Two More Witnesses.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 24, 13 June 1901, Page 2

Two More Witnesses.

General Otis, as reported by the Protestant missionary referred to above, Rev. Mr. McQueen, gives a decidedly discouraging outlook for Protestant missions in the Philippines. ' In regard to the establishment of Protestant missions in these islands at the present time,' said he, ' they will have a hard and stony ground. The Filipinos are all earnest Catholics, and any attempt at proselytising them would stir up their anger against America, whom they would accuse t>f trying to take away their religion as well as their liberty. I think in time Protestantism will be good for such of them as care to worship that way, but as things are now it would only stir up animosity. 1 Mr. McQueen deplores the unfavorable impression which the multiplicity of non-Catholic religious sects must necessarily produce upon the Filipinos ; he admits that the masses of the people ' are more intelligent and progressive than we thought they were '; and he fully agrees with General Otis as to the hopeless prospects before the Protestant missions in the Philippines. President Schurmann and many prominent army officials, according to him, held a similar view.