The Real Christ for the Filipinos
W. D. McKINNON, a Catholic priest who has served as chaplain in the United States Army in the Philippines, in a recent speech in Washington, D. C., said, "Little material progress has been accomplished [in the Philippines] since the time of the complete Spanish occupation to the present day, except the Christianizing of the greater portion of the natives." Any one who knows the degraded and barbaric condition of the natives of the Philippine Islands, and who also knows the real Christianity of the true Christ of God, can appreciate the deplorable misconceptions of a man who will say that such creatures as the Filipinos are Christianized. And yet this same Mr. McKinnon is appointed by the President to serve still further in the Philippines as a chaplain. Under such circumstances as these, are there not those who really know Christ and His uplifting purity, who feel constrained to go to those darkened islands and reveal to the poor natives the real Christ of God in all His living power? O, that all such would speedily yield to the heavenly drawings! Christ is not in forms and ceremonies; He is not in superstitious rites. He is both life and power and joy and peace to the soul as soon as he is accepted as our Redeemer.