p. 15 | Intramuros by R. A. CALDWELL

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 11, 1909

"Intramuros"

By R. A. CALDWELL

INTERPRETED, this means, "within the walls." In canvassing Manila I left till last the section thus named. It is almost entirely church property, and colleges and churches are numerous. Very few business places are located here. Before American occupation, the people were prohibited from coming within such sacred precincts. Most of the residents of Manila are, of course, Catholics. The people are of the poorer classes generally. A great number of students from the provinces reside here while attending the higher schools. Some of them are of wealthy parents, though only a very few. One house accommodates almost two hundred. Its board rate is ten dollars a month. The place is controlled by the Catholic Church.

On the whole, we have sold only a few books to students. But these will be taken into their home towns, and will thus widen the influence of the truth. Some orders were lost when I informed

them that the book was not Catholic. However, one of the better class, conversant with English, ordered it, although he possesses a “sacred” shrine of no mean equipment in his home. Last Sunday I called at two homes where a priest was visiting.

A few weeks were necessary to finish the canvass, and more than one hundred orders were secured. A number of government offices are within the walls of this section of the city, and many orders were secured from the clerks, who usually draw good salaries, and are not very narrow in their religious views, and are somewhat inclined to investigate.

R. A. CALDWELL.