The people of the Philippines, their religious progress and preparation for spiritual leadership in the Far East,

352 THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES

a piano, and Broadway Tabernacle in New York responded by
sending a beautiful instrument, said to have the best tone in
Cagayan, As soon as the piano arrived the number of girls
who applied for accommodations in the dormitory jumped
from eight to thirty-six! The next year there were so many
applicants that the Mission had to hire a second building and
to send for more missionaries to come to the aid of the overworked principal. It does seem true in the Philippines that
the only way to give young people what you want them to have
is first to give them what they want you to give.
Mrs. D. O. Lund has accomplished the impossible in Zamboanga. With an extremely meager salary from her mission
board in America and with no allowance for running expenses,
she has gradually built up a school of seventy mestiza girls,
carrying them through all grades including the high school.
The money for this work has been made very largely by the
girls themselves. Mrs. Lund has taught them how to do fine
Philippine embroidery work, and this work has been sold to
help pay the expenses of the home-school. The fathers of the
girls have also contributed very liberally toward the expenses
of their daughters. By dint of careful economy, prayer, hard
work, and fearless asking, Mrs. Lund has been able to construct a creditable school building and to train scores of beautiful girls in the Christian life. There are no more attractive
women in the world than many of these girls of AmericanFilipina parentage. A large percentage of the unmarried men
in the province, Americans as well as Filipinos, become ardent
suitors of these fair ladies on every possible occasion. And
so Mrs. Lund carries about in her heart the constant dis~
appointment of finding that girls she meant for Bible women
have decided that they would have a home of their own. After
all it may prove true that those lovely Christian mothers are
doing more for the Philippines in bringing their children up
in the love of Christ than an equal number of Bible women
could have done.