Rome's Intolerance in the Philippines Reported
A Methodist missionary in the Philippines reports in the Northwestern Christian Advocate the following, as to Rome’s attitude there:— The services were announced in the Spanish paper of Manila. The Romish archbishop sent a letter to the paper threatening the editor and the manager with excommunication if they did not do penance for giving notice of the heretics. The editor printed this threat, with a defiant challenge and a hurrah for liberty of conscience; and this incident has given columns in the Manila El Comercio against the intolerant spirit of Rome. . . . One man had been in prison five months for having a Bible; another had been in prison eighteen months for being a Freemason; others had lesser crowns of martyrdom.