The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1926, Page 72

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properly imparted, it does not appeal for funds or
carry with it any direct financial obligation. Of
course, there is a financial implication; for who-
ever gets the vision of our needy and sin-sick world
and catches the spirit of the Savior will be eager
to do something for the redemption of mankind.
This, however, is a perfectly natural and unforced
result that follows the sowing of the Gospel-seed.
By giving the information, we sow the crop, and
God then gives the increase.

Not money, but men, should be the primary
concern of those who give missionary information.
They should aim to bring a vision and to warm
the heart, to inform the mind, and to interest and
stimulate the soul. The result will then be an in-

Negrito-Filipinos and Their Chieftain.

terested and earnest people, heartily supporting the
missionary work at home and abroad, both finan-
cially and morally. Sympathy will bring forth
prayers, and prayers will be followed by gifts in an
abundant measure, if the interest of our church-
members has been awakened by adequate mission-
ary information.

In passing, let us bear in mind that interest
which does not result in activity is worth nothing.
There should be no emotion aroused without its
resulting endeavor. When men’s interest has been
awakened, it should be enlisted in some form of
practical service. A person who absorbs a lot of
missionary information and allows it to stir him
to a high pitch of enthusiasm, but then does not
let it all crystallize into practical service, has made
it only so much harder to interest him and arouse

THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

enthusiasm in his soul at some other time. For
our own sake, as well as for the sake of those who”
stand in need of the Gospel-message, may the
eagerness to help our fellow-men, aroused by a
vision of a needy and lost world, galvanize itself
into action! F.J.L.

Education in the Philippines.

A survey of the system of education in the
Philippines, made by a Government commission,
was presented to the Philippine Islands Legislature
which convened on May 16 of this year. Prof.
Stephen P. Duggan, of the College of the City of
New York, a member of the Government commis-
sion, made the following statement: —

“T do not believe that there is any accomplish-
ment of which Americans can be more proud than
what has been done in the Philippines for the past
twenty-six years, the first half of the work being
wholly accomplished under American supervision
and the second half in cooperation with the Filipino:
people. In consequence of this these islands, with
their 11,000,000 people, are far in advance of any
other people in the Far East. It is simply astonish-
ing what has been done in the fields of sanitary and
public health, in the building of roads, artesian
wells, public buildings, and docks, but particularly
in the field of education. In almost every town to
which you may go you will find the finest buildings
to be the schoolbuildings. There are more than
1,250,000 children in school, and there are 27,000
teachers; moreover, 25 per cent. of all the money
of the government is used for education. So re-
markable has been the accomplishment that other
colonizing nations in the Far East, particularly the
British in India and the Dutch in Java, are watch-
ing it with the greatest interest... .

“T do not know how many schools we have ac-
tually visited and inspected, but we have given in-
telligence tests to more than 35,000 children and
have listened to a large number of recitations. My
own particular field was higher education, and
I have spent a great deal of time in the various.
colleges and schools of the University of the Philip-
pines and also of the church and private univer-
sities.”

But the official report of the commission surely
fails to present so promising an outlook, and it is
for this reason, presumably, that the full publication
has been omitted. Another statement, taken from
the same report, has been published by the Asso-