""As an independent church it made no profession of working against the established authority for political freedom; and under the guarantee of liberty of worship was beyond the power of government interference... and the very arguments they use to induce people to join it and to become its "priests" are arguments of political scope and nature.It is, in all its own proclamation, the Church of the Filipino, in which white men are to have no part, to join which and work with and for is a demonstration of Filipino patriotism, to fail to join it [is] a proof of sympathy with American domination.