[8] i.e., “It is better to die than to federate.” [↑]
[9] This passage ([1 Machabees, iii, 59]), reads in the English Douay version: “For it is better for us to die in battle, than to see the evils of our nation, and of the holies.” [↑]
[10] i.e., “As long as I am the apostle, I shall honour my ministry,” a portion of [ Romans, xi, 13]. [↑]
[11] In the Ayer collection is a document dated Manila, January 17, 1888, by one Candido Garcia, a native Filipino, an inhabitant of San Felipe Neri, in which he complains against the friar parish priest Gregorio Chagra, O.S.F., who has endeavored to have him deported as anti-Spanish. The reason of this is because Garcia had complained that the friar disobeyed the law in regard to burials as well as other laws. He also accuses the friars of not wishing to have the Filipinos learn Spanish, as they desire them to have no communication with Spaniards. He thus charges the friars with disobedience and disloyalty. [↑]
[12] A brief statement by the pope of errors condemned in 1864, and known under the title Syllabus errorum. It was appended to the encyclical Quanta cura, condemning eighty doctrines, which it calls “the principal errors of our times.” These heresies had all previously been pointed out by Pius IX in consistorial allocutions, and encyclical and other apostolic letters. It is a protest against atheism, materialism, and other forms of infidelity. It condemns religious and civil liberty, separation of Church and State, and preëminence of the Church of Rome. See Philip Schaff’s Creeds of Christendom (New York, 1877), i, pp. 128–134 and ii, pp. 213–233 (this last the Latin and English text of the Syllabus.) [↑]
[13] We have taken the reading of the English Douay version. Translated directly from the Spanish, this verse reads: “If you be reproached for the name of Christ, you will be blessed; for the honor, glory, and virtue of God, and His own spirit rest upon you.” [↑]
[14] Bartolomé de las Casas or Casaus, who was born in Sevilla in 1474, and died in Madrid, in July, 1569, and because of his great exertions for the Indians called the “apostle of the Indies.” Much has been written concerning this romantic and sincere character of early American history. He wrote various books, some of which have been published. Mr. Ayer of Chicago possesses one volume in MS. of his three-volume Historia general de Indias. This history (covering the years 1492–1520) was begun in 1527 and completed in 1559. [↑]
[15] Aguinaldo states that after he had been driven to the mountains in May, 1897, he established a republic. See North Amer. Rev., August, 1901, p. 212. See also the constitution of the so-called republic in Constitución política de la Republica Filipina promulgada el dia 22 de Enero de 1899 (1899). [↑]
[17] This is [ Psalm 34] in the Douay version, but, as here, 35, in the Vulgate, and common English versions. [Psalm 9] in the Douay version is equivalent to 9 and 10 in the other versions. After verse 21 in the Douay version is the sub-head “Psalm according to the Hebrews,” and the following verses are numbered from unity. The Vulgate has the same heading, but regards the subject-matter as a new psalm. [↑]