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Chinese, Work
English iind
Portugaene
I8JMJ
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Japanese Work
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Kawaiahao's "At Home".
That the Mid-Pacific Institute is looming larger and larger on the horizon of
Island life was made evident to a wide
circle of friends on New Year's Day.
Principal liosher of Kawaiahao had planned an international species of New
Year's festivity, which in its reception
features suggested the Chinese Konohi
(pardon the monstrosity of this pidginCelestial), in its gift-bearing guests recalled to New Knglandcrs the donation
party and to Hawaiians the Hookupit
and in its general interchange of friendly
greetings preserved the essential spirit of
the year's opening in Dutch New Amsterdam and < lid Japan. The beauty,
massive simplicity, noble location and resourcefulness of Atherton Hall, the large
student hody and efficient enthusiastic
faculty impressed everybody. There can
he no question that Kawaiahao has gotten a new grip on life and that a splendid
history is fronting it in the new home.
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What is the reason for this sudden
of deep interest in Kawaiahao?
access
Hil.ill
Friend
hirst
foremost its absolutely incluand
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Qeaaral Fund
llawaiian Work. ,| 89.02
sive character. It exists not for people of
Salaries
4110.50
444.52
one blood nor for students of a social
class.
The real spirit of Hawaii breathes
3.75
Hawaii (Jen. Fund
the entire institution of which
throughout
5(fcl(i
Interest
Kawaiahao is the feminine expression.
Japanese Work. .$201.50
Mills, the boys' department, shows it
Salaries
75:i.50
HMO
This noble inclusiveness is
equally.
BO.00
Japaaeaa V. M. C. A
Mid-Pacific's
greatest asset. To know
Hoaloha
48.50
Ka
no color line, no sodistinction,
no
01
race
629
Kulihi-Mouualua
100.00
Kohala SomirTury
cial caste and to be out and out Christian
11'.'Jo
Makiki .lapnnese Church..
accords with Hawaii's history since it be3(1.00
Ministerial Kelief Fund.
gan to have a history worth mention,
!»7.(>0
Office, Expense. ,$
the atmosphere of genial medibreathes
546.00
Salaries
449.00
ateness between East and West demandI'alaina Set I lenient
87.50
ed by Hawaii's position in the Pacific
Portuguese Work.$ 88.50
mid-ocean and incarnates the very desti296.50
Salaries
258.00
ny of these strategic isles of the blest
Tomo
30.40
To have seen this and to have grasped
Settlement Worker
50.00
the possibilities of such an identification
Waiakea Settlement
50.00
of its raison d'etre with the spirit of HaPermanent Investment.... 3052.50
waii is the rarest good fortune. No wonRxcess of current receipts
over current expenses.
884.38 $9194.03 der the eyes of some of Asia's far-sighted leaders are beginning to turn hither18.25
.... 759.00
guese Work.
Salaries
.$
821.25
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HONOLULU, H. T., FEBRUARY, 1909
VOL. LXVI
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ward and twth the Mills and Kawaiahao
departments of the Mid-Pacific are attracting students from the Orient. This
missionary animating principle is bound
to be the in hoc simio I'inces of this large
horizoned institution.
Second.
Next to this spirit which forms its inexhaustible source of weaith comes its
endowment of real properly, its forty
acres of land already far advanced in
value above its cost and worth well on to
$100,000. .Add to this its two buildings, one completed, the other last rising, totaling more than $150,000 and its
invested funds of over $37,500, and it becomes apparent that the spirit of the MidPacific Institute is rapidly clothing itself
in attractive garments. The task is now
upon its friends of raising $350,000 cash
endowment. That ought to be done
during 1009 if advantage is to be taken
>f the tide which will soon set towards
the school from Asia. The directors
have authorized the engagement of a
capable Japanese lady to bead the Japanese department of Kawaiahao. When
she reaches Honolulu a large increase of
Japanese girls may be looked for. In a
year the new hoys' building will be completed and will soon be overflowing with
students. The practical character of the
courses of study, which, besides fitting
those who expect to pursue higher education elsewhere, plan to equip graduate
with power to be industrially independent, will compel the support of the hardest headed business men and still more
popularize the school. To meet all this,
the sooner the needed endowment is in
hand the better, llecause in the very
nature of things such an institution is a
sine qua iwn here, the money will come.
The environment, having necessitated the
establishment of the school, must also stimulate the financial support. Courage
then. Let the Mid-Pacific tell out its
story of God, who inspired its organization, will move the hearts of His
children to develop it into power.
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The Campaign For Men.
At the very outset of the present
administration
in Central Union
Church the slogan "Men to the front"
was sounded. It accorded with the
prevailing spirit of Christ's kingdom
on earth which is nothing today if not
February, 1909
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virile. Whenever a great advance has
been sounded by the Great Captain,
men have sprung forward with a vigor
and enthusiasm irresistible. We are
in the midst of such a rallying today
throughout the entire Christian world.
It matters not where one's eyes rest, in
Turkey, India, China, Europe, the
Americas, Japan, men are awake for
Jesus Christ, and are 'leading mighty
movements for ideal humanity. Hawaii is feeling this world pulsation and is responding as last year's
story in Central Union Church clearly
indicates. Of the yz admitted last year
to membership 44 per cent, were
males, the masculine percentage of
those received on confession of faith
being 48 per cent. But the organization of the Men's League, which was
the outgrowth of several months of
good work by the Young Men's Cabinet and whose membership is rapidly
nearing the 200 mark, indicated the
trend of things even more surely. The
Cabinet was organized distinctly to
help the Church realize the possibilities of its influence in the community.
Hence the League was planned to
facilitate this purpose. It meant business and the sections into which it at
once divided itself are doing business.
The test, of course, will come with
lime. Progressive response to environment is the price of life and an
organization of this kind in order to
be vital must ever accord with the
changing demands of the never resting human world.
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The Lenten Program.
The executive committee of the
League has requested the Minister of
Central Union Church to devote the
Sunday evenings during Lent to a
series of addresses upon the Reality
of the Spiritual Life. At its January
meeting the League enthusiastically
endorsed the committee's request and
voted to put forth all the power of
the League in making the series a success. The Musical Section is to have
charge of that part of the program.
The addresses, the nucleus for which
was a course of Passion Week Talks
given last year, have been in course of
preparation for publication. An endeavor will be made to rally as large
numbers of men to these services as
possible.
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Coastwise Shipping Laws.
The Civic Federation did one of its
beat strokes of work, when stirred by
the remarks of Governor Frear anent
the cowardly local back down on the
coastwise shipping question, it issued
a call for a mass meeting to voice I!"
nolulu's real sentiments. The gathering was an unusually large and representative one. the addresses by Governor Frear, Mr. Thurston, Prof. Babson and others were to the point and
the vote, if>B to 2, was decisive. The
meeting voted to cable resolutions
(costing some $150 to send) to Washington requesting the exempting of
Hawaii from the provisions of the
Coastwise Shipping laws until an adequate number of American vessels are
running between the Coast and the Islands. Inasmuch as the ship subsidy
measure is popular here the resolutions
expressly favored this policy. It is
needless to add that there are some in
Hawaii who do not favor subsidies or
protective duties, believing then) to be
forms of unjust taxation. Perhaps the
Democrats and free trade Republicans
may stave off the subsidy bill for another two years. Meantime it is to be
rival of the Honolulu boat and compelling all passengers to put in a long
tedious wait before the next train
leaves. It has done little good for islanders to complain of this, but when
two men of such commanding influence
in the traveling world point out how
certain such a policy is to discourage
tourists, it will bear fruit. After all it
pays to treat new comers as you would
be treated if you were new. Make every provision for enabling travelers to
see the best, to facilitate their every
comfort and they will want to come
again and tarry longer. They also will
send scores of others. The phrases,
"perfect accommodations," "every possible comfort," mean volumes to American travelers. We have found it hard
to get visitors to go to the volcano
simply because of the justice of the
very criticisms passed Upon the Hilo
trip by these visiting railroad men.
Some day a railway will run from Kawaihae to Hilo connecting with a rapid
steamer to and from Honolulu, and
then the horrors of the sea trip a thing
of the past, Hilo will come to its own
as a tourist center.
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CHRISTMAS IN WAILUKU.
A STUDY IN
BLACK
AND WHITS
hoped that the Coastwise laws will
directly be suspended for Hawaii. It
is too good to believe that Congress
will restore American shipping to the
seas by allowing its citizens to buy
ships built anywhere and fly the Stars
ami Stripes over them and employ any
seamen to man them whom they may
choose. What Congress will do when
it once begins to legislate for freer
commerce no one can prophesy. We
may yet see Hawaii a free port.
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Our Tourist Boom.
Among the many blessings, which
the promotion of world wide travel to
Hawaii is sure to bring, that of free
criticism of ourselves and of our insular way of doing things will not be
the least. Two railroad men of large
prominence have just visited the volcano and have called attention in no
unequivocal language to the inexcusably short-sighted and vexatious policy
of the Hilo railroad in despatching a
train to the volcano just before the ar-
The Christmas season in the Churches
uf W'ailuku was most delightful in
weather and filled with much joy for all
our workers.
At the Union Church the Sunday evening service was made very attractive with
excellent Christmas music by members
of our Church and congregation. The
decorations were decidedly in keeping
with Christmas, being red geraniums and
poinseltia. The collection for the Hawaiian Hoard was the largest in three
years.
()n the Saturday lx-fore the little people of the Sunday School met for Santa
Clans' presents, games and a tree. Tt
will be interesting to the many Honolulu
friends of Union Church to know that
fully half of the little white people of
Waliuku, other than of Catholic parents,
have been enrolled for the last eight
months in the Union Sunday School and
that the school is increasing in numbers
every few months. This fact with the
well attended evening services, and cordial relations in town with all other
Christian workers makes the Union
Church more and more valuable each
year to the community.
At Waikaptt and Kaahumanu Churches
the Christmas exercises were well attended and the little people greatly enjoyed their Santa and gifts.
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February, 1909.
THE MAILED FIST.
The good wishes and remembrances
from the many Wailtiku and island
friends made the Christmas season full
To the lot of Hawaii it has fallen to
~f joy for the people at the William ami
inherit
the choicest advantages of the
Mary Alexander Parsonage The preof military expansion, Xot only
policy
Maui's
most
beneficent
by
sentation
up in history as the Gibralfriend of a handsome tiling cabinet for will we loom
Pacific, hut many millions of
tar
the
Association
of
the
Maui
Aid
the office of
among us, thouwill make the work of the Hoard's agent dollars are to be spent
cultured famimany
sands
of
and
people
future,
for
now
all
much easier in the
our social circle. W •
bills. Church memberships, letters and lies will be added tocenter
shall live in a new
of world activireports will be immediately at hand.
ties, t tie will boom and many improveYear
full
of
encourThe Xew
opens
agement. The hearty spirit of cooperation among all the historic Churches of
Maui give us great cause for rejoicing.
will look sweet even if the whole beach
is taken by the defenders of the soil; but
it wishes, down deep in its heart, that
the civil and military authorities could
get toecthcr and, by a system of give and
take, make a fair division of the choice
spots."
"Yes, gentlemen," says Uncle Sam.
"I have
at
heart the
weifare of Hawaii
nei, but unfortunately I can not handle
this subject with gloves, when, by your
own choosing, I must now walk the
earth with a mailed fist."
R. P. D.
MORE ITEMS FROM
WAILUKU.
Christmas exercises were observed in
the Chinese Church, December 23rd.
There was a gathering of 150 people.
The children connected with the day and
Sunday School entered into the spirit of
the occasion by their songs, and recitations, which were given in a creditable
manner in Chinese and English. The
arrival of Santa Chios with his wheelbarrow load of gifts was the cause of
great wonderment as to what the contents contained. All were delighted with
Santa Claus's visit.
On December 35th another evening of
cheer was the Christmas celebration at
the fapanese Church. At an early hour
the room was well filled with the JapNINE NATIONALITIES.
will doubtless be made by the Naanese children, their parents and friends ments
government.
tional
to the number of about 200. The openThe above is a group representing
But now out from under the cloak of
ing exercises consisted of songs, diato
shownine
different nationalities among the
the
mailed
first
begins
prosperity
recitations
the
by
logues and
children;
batteries
pupils
attending the Kawaiahao Semihuge
location
of
following these was a dialogue by the it self. The
the
girls' department of the Midnary,
of
Honolulu's
the
of
some
vicinity
in
caused
much
fapanese voting men, which
amusement.
December 30th, a special service was
held at the Japanese Church, at which
six fapanese young men were received
into the Church by profession.
During the Christinas vacation Miss
Turner visited Lahaina, and called on
the Chinese families. Mrs. Lillian Simpson still gathers about her an interesting
class of Chinese children each Sabbath
morning at the Settlement for Sunday
School, instruction.
Mr. Man Hoy is doing good work in
bis Mission School. He also teaches
them, on Sunday. Bible lessons. He
feels the need of Sunday School picture
papers, or cards, with which to interest
the children.
Any contributions along this line will
be gratefully received both by Mr. Mar
Hoy and Mrs. Simpson.
C. L. T.
choicest resorts will be prejudicial to the
homes and property there and it is more
than likely that Iwfore the program is
finished the iron hand will have us in its
grip. The situation is well epitomized
in the following excerpt from an editorial
in the Advertiser of January 12. One
can not read it without seeing that the
advantage has a tail to it and that the tail
has already begun to wag the dog:
"Ten years ago Honolulu surrendered
the site of its beautiful marine park to
the Nayy—a place which still remains at
l standstill—and did it cheerfully. It
gave up a splendid tract on Punchbowl,
for the same purpose, and has never seen
anything done with it—but it still keeps
cheerful. It smiled amiably when a tract
of land which could be made to yield a
million dollars a year in pineapples was
preferred for cavalry horses to run on.
over land that would not be good for
much else. Honolulu is still smiling. It
Pacific Institute. From left to right in
the front row they stand in the following
order: Filipino, Chinese, Hawaiian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese. liack row,
left to right, Xorwegian, German,
French.
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MINISTER OF THE METHODIST
CHURCH.
Leaving a large pastorate in Indianapolis, the Rev. J. T. Jones has come
(by the Manchuria, Jan. 29) to take up
the work of the Methodist Episcopal
Church of Honolulu. Mr. Jones is a
graduate of Dc Pauw, the Methodist
University of Indiana. In the several
pastorates which he occupied in that
State he has won an excellent reputation
as pastor, speaker and worker. Mr. and
Mrs. Jones are accompanied by Bishop
Smith and daughter, who may remain a
few months in the Islands.
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February, 1909
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PICTURES OF OLD HAWAII WITH boys. The holoktt or Mother Hubbard
dress, at even that early day, having lieen
GLIMPSES OF THE NEW.
established as the orthodox and presentBy O. H. Gulick.
able garment for the fair sex. As for
shoes, at first, there were none, and later
Read before the Social Science Associa- when the shoemaker came to live at Kotion, Jan. 4, 1909.
loa, he soon learned that to be valuable
Dr. Cyrus Hamlin, a missionary in his shoes must have plenty of squeak.
Turkey, records that in discussing with Truly the amount of squeak was the
an intelligent Russian the conditions of most important element in determining
life in his country, the latter said, "If the price.
you let alone politics and religion one A day or two since I heard some
could be as free in Russia as in any ladies speaking of a certain silk skirt that
country." The doctor replied that in had an admirable rustle to it. How does
America politics and religion are a large that sentiment differ from admiration
part of life. The Russian responded, "If for the squeak of a new pair of shoes?
you will be so fools as that there is no "One touch of nature makes the whole
world kin."
help for you."
planters upon the islands in 1838 or 1831),
and the attempt at raising silk by Messrs.
Peck and Titcomb speedily contributed
decent appearance of the Sabbath
congregation.
to the
A Stale Yarn.
And just here let me say that under
the guidance of father and mother the
little Gulick hoys were encouraged to
raise silk worms, which were fed by
them from mulberry trees planted by
their father. We were very intimate
with Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Peck, who
were most estimable people. From the
silk planters we learned how to reel the
silk from the white and yellow cocoons.
These silk-worms were fed on Sundays
as regularly as the milk cows were sent
the pasture on Sundays. And yet the
stale yarn today finds credence, that the
silk business was abandoned because the
missionaries opposed the feeding of silk
worms upon the Sabbath. Such sapient
yarns have survived even to our day.
As an Angel of Light.
Missionary touring was one of the
most arduous duties of the earlier missionaries. A service not devoid of satisfaction. The missionary was hailed by
the people as an angel of light, and was
treated as if belonging to a higher order
of beings. The fatted pig or the pet hen
was unhesitatingly sacrificed for the entertainment of the welcome guest or
Hawaiian congregation today. The woThe establishment at Koloa of Messrs. guests. The thatched house or hut, even
men were more clad than the men and Ladd and Hooper as the second sugar if the abode of the better class of the
When the school hoy puts on his head
If it is tacitly understood that the discussion of politics and religion is not in his mortar-board, or the admiral his
place in the meetings of this Association, shoulder straps, the general or the KaiI must plead that politics, religion and ser his boots and spurs, when we are
education are the principal factors in the just a little vain at the nice necktie or
development of Christian Hawaii, from the broad-cloth coat we are wearing on
the heathen aggregation that once occu- a hot day, or when even a little set up
at the thought of our possessions or atpied these island shores.
tainments that we have made of grace,
Fashions, Then and Now.
or of human or divine favor,
The completion of the adobe church of intellect,
us
let
think
of our kinship to the lover
building at Koloa, Kauai, in about 1836
or 1837, was a great event. The earliest of shoe squeak.
The little missionary boys of whom
congregations that filled that large buildthere
soon were several rejoiced in bareor
800
ing may have numbered 700
peor»le. perhaps not one man of whom would feet until about Church time Sunday
be counted as reasonably dressed in any morning.
to
February, 1909.
common people, in the earlier times, contained none of the furniture of civilized
man. Lodgings for the missionary, or
for him and any portion of his family
who might accompany, was upon the
kikiee or raised platform covered with
huthala mats, which constituted the bed.
and upon which were spread some thicknesses of kapa, a substitute for sheets and
blankets
having considerable
and
warmth. Tn such a house even floors or
chairs were not found. In a well-to-dohome a curtain of cheap calico stretched
upon a string across the house might
separate the sleeping quarters of the
guests from the noisy inmates of the
abode.
If the host and his unclad family
were gathered around the fire in a hole
in the ground in the center of the bouse
where the cooking of fish, taro, potatoes
and bananas upon the coals, was in progress, at times, the smoke would make the
choking, gasping would-hc sleepers behind the cotton curtain wish themselves
in the open air. In those earliest days
mosquitoes and mosquito nets were almost unknown. These insects arc said.
by Prof. Alexander in his history, to
have been brought to the islands by the
ship Wellington, from San Plas. Mexico,
in the year 1826. Bui their spread was
very gradual. The joyous welcome that
the people gave their teacher, and the
hearty hospitality of the generous people.
made the discomforts seem light, and the
joy great. More willing listeners to the
simplest of Gospel teaching, than were
the early Hawaiians, chiefs and people
are seldom found. At the time when mv
knowledge of life and its surroundings
began to dawn, in the middle thirties.
Gosnel teachir« by the missionaries was
most warmly welcomed. Today, many
of every race arc barred from Church
attendance by lack of supposed suitable
clothing. The question of raiment did
not hinder from attendance at meeting
of the grandparents of the present day
1 fawaiians.
Problems of Early Evangelism.
Did not the missionaries begin at once
to gather in the children, and seek to
raise up a more enlightened generation?
No; such procedure is utterly impossible
in an uncivilized land. Children cannot
be held together or brought under the restraints or inconveniences of schooling
or of any kind of instruction, until the
parents are in some measure impressed
with the value of instruction. In such a
community men. young men. are the first
who can be reached.
The Hawaiian, like the most of the
human family, was a hero worshipper,
and one who held the chiefs, especially
the higher chiefs, in the most profound
respect. The first missionaries realized
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that the chiefs, if won, would surely lead
their people. Those of the earlier missionaries who were located near the high
chiefs spared no pains to obtain their
respect, and to inspire them with a desire
to receive what the messengers from the
far land had to impart.
The earliest attempts to lead the people in acts of worship, were fraught with
great difficulties. When the missionary
began in a proposed service to pray, the
people said he is talking to his god, and
when they heard in their own tongue the
words of confession, they said he is telling his god that we are bad, and turned
away in anger. "But wisdom is justified of her children." Some were attracted and came again and again to
hear. Such received instruction joyfully
and in time were sent out by the missionary to be teachers of others. Of
course these earliest teachers were the
But
crudest instructors imaginable.
MATAIO KEKUANAOA.
though so poor they were the
pioneer
school teachers of the land, and in time
were succeeeded by men of greater attainments and of comparative efficiency.
The Magic Paper.
be
It is to
remembered that the people
had no idea whatever of reading or writing, or that a piece of paper might be
made to speak to one miles away who
should scan it. This was as great a
mystery as the n>agic of wireless telegraphy. The story is told of the sending
by a missionary of a number—we will say
seven—melons to a distant friend. When
the messenger delivered six melons with
an accompanying note, the receiver asked
after the remaining seventh melon. The
bearer replied that the letter was not in
sight when he ate that melon, and he
could not understand how the letter could
have told of his eating that seventh melon
for he was himself out of sight of the
letter when he ate the fruit.
The basis of all western book learning
is the alphabet. The early missionaries
ere long discovered that all genuine Hawaiian words could be written with
twelve letters—five vowels and seven
consonants. The first primer was styled
the Pi-a-pa, this being the first bookteaching the construction of syllables by
the combination of letters. The five
vowels are given the Italian or Continental sounds. With a full understanding of these vowel sounds the reading of
the Hawaiian language Incomes exceedingly simple. All words being written
phonetically no time whatever is wasted
in teaching spelling. No child with a
1 lawaiian ear, will ever misspell a native
word. When it dawned upon the people how easy and how practicable it was
to learn to read, there swept over the land
a wave of desire to learn this wonderful
art. Chiefs and people alike flocked to
the missionaries to learn, and many
on.
teachers of reading led the
Why Not Teach English?
Xow, why did not the missionaries
teach the people English, and give them
something worth knowing, give to them
the key that would open to them the
literature and the wisdom of the ages?
Perfectb- impracticable, utterly impossible would have been the attempt, at that
period cttrthe nation's childhood to have
sought to imnart to the musses the knowlfdrw of an unknown tongue. The thousand teachers who. after a few weeks
or months with the missionary, acquired
the power to put the twelve letters' into
syllables and then by these syllables producing the words whose sounds were
familiar to their ears, words conveying
meaning to their minds: these, knew no
English, and were as incapable as babes
to acquire or to impart instruction in a
foreign language. No, the missionaries
did the only possible or practicable thing,
namely to teach the people in their native
language.
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"God is the new thought in the intellect, the new love in the heart, the
new tide of strength in the will, the new
reservoir of power behind all the lines
of supply coming into our lives." —
George A. Gordon.
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A CORRECTION.
Through an oversight the signature of
Rev. E. W. Thwing was omitted from
his "Letter from Japan," which appeared
in the last issue of The Friend,
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February,
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The Scribe's Corner
REV. WE BREWSTER OLESON
Corresponding Secretary,
THE
WORD CHURCH.
(hir
esteemed contemporary, the //<tin its January
issue, has an editorial on"The Word
Church," in which reference is made to
an article in the same journal in a preceding issue. We quote:
"Some of our good Christian friends,
not of the way in which we walk, felt
aggrieved at the article on Hilo in the
December issue. A sentence appeared;
'The Bishop almost despaired of planting
the Church there permanently.'
"The supposed grievance arises from
the use of the word Church. The writer
of the article certainly did not mean that
Christianity had not been planted at Hilo
and perhaps he would better have conveyed what he had in mind if he had
written, 'despaired of planting this
Church there,' etc.
"It must I>c remembered that the HaeWMOfl Church Chronicle is intended for
Churchmen and therefore its articles are
in words which they will understand.
When it is stated that the Bishop 'despaired
of planting the Church,'
Churchmen would understand that it
was" the Historic Church of which he
is overseer.
"There was no intention in the article
on Hilo to ignore what any Christians
have done or are doing."
Thk Pkiknd gladly makes these quotations from the Chronicle mainly because this explanation greatly honors the
Christian spirit of our esteemed contemporary; hut partly also because the
Chronicle is seen by others than Churchmen, and therefore it should be made
plain to all its readers just what it means
In- such statements as those referred to.
Now that our contemporary has called
special attention to the usage of the
word Church, it is fitting that we should
add that in no instance does the Century
Dictionary, or Christian usage the world
over, warrant the monopolizing of the
word Church by any organization of
Christians, whether the word be spelled
with a capital or otherwise. Thus the
Century Dictionary in its definition of the
word Church sanctions the use of the
capital in the descriptive titles of all organized bodies of Christians, as follows:
"The Roman Church; the Presbyterian Church: the Church of the Disciples; the Church of the New Jeru-
Xtniitm Church Chronicle,
njoo
salem; the Independent Evangelical accession, twelve, being received at the
Portuguese Church. It was an inspiring
The Chronicle expresses dissatisfaction occasion to see six young men and six
with the descriptive title of its own young women, between the ages of
Church. That dissatisfaction, however, eighteen and thirty, thus publicly enter
does not militate against the fact that into the Master's service. Xo wonder
its Church has a title which when used Pastor da Silva's heart was gladdened.
would remove all possible misunderstand.* S* c<
ing; and we fail to feel the force of the
In his recent trip through Hilo and
reasoning that in the columns of the
Chronicle the descriptive title is dropped llamakua, the (ieneral Superintendent
in the interests of Christian unity. Pot was impressed at the large audiences at
instance, the Chronicle is a public jour- the various Churches. It was refreshnal. It has its exchange list. What is ing to see the Ililo Portuguese Church
printed in its columns is liable to quota- filled to the doors with an interested and
tion at a distance; and that too in jour- devout congregation. At Haili Church
nals that are undenominational, and there was a large audience at the evenwhose readers are not all Churchmen. ing service, with a promising choir of
Suppose the Outlook or the Independent young people. ()n a half-hour's notice
should quote from the November issue a good sized congregation gathered at
Laupahoehoe for a week-night service.
of the Chronicle this sentence:
"There was no Church in Hilo when At llonokaa the people themselves were
surprised to find every seat occupied.
came
here."
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This is a quotation from a letter writ- Religious truth has certainly not lost its
ten by Bishop Restarick to a gentleman grip on men's hearts vet. Pig audiences
may not be the regular order: but it is
in Philadelphia.
encouraging to know that small audiChristian
people
Is the possibility that
ences
are not the unbroken rule. *
such
a
statement
misunderstand
will
Christian
really i in the interests of
unity? Would not such interests be betIf only a man could be a polyglot
ter served by using some descriptive title. preacher, and be able to cut loose and
preferably, of course, the name that the live in the saddle, and sleep in the bush,
Church lias adopted for itself, or if that What audiences he could gather half a
is disliked, some other equally distin- dozen times a day. Barring"such qualifications, the least that can be done is to
guishing title ?
Xow these are small matters, and we keep moving over the field, each worker
would not refer to them were it not that doing his best with what he has and with
it is just such preemptive claims that ob- what lie is : and the rest must he left to
struct Christian unity. It is not in mag- the vitality of the seed sown, and the
nifying differences, nor in disregarding S*race of Him who giveth the increase.
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the rights of other Christians, but in
aligning ourselves in every good word
A visit with Pastor da Silva in his
and work in a comprehensive fratcr- new rig to the Spanish camp above
nalism that Christian unity is to be Vniaulu was one of the features of a rereached.
cent visit to Ililo. What numbers of
children flocked to the carriage, standing
The Week of Prayer was very fittingly on every part of it that would furnish the
iliserved at Hilo by a series of union slightest foothold and eagerly scanning
meetings held for two evenings in the the pictures in illustrated tracts and
Portuguese Church, one evening in Haili copies of the Gospels. The men were
Church, and two evenings in the Foreign away at work in the fields, hut the woChurch. These meetings were well at- men greeted the affable Pastor and gladtended, and were participated in freely ly took the literature be brought along,
in three different languages. This draw- illicit one woman in accepting hers said
ing together of Christians of different "Sabe pocol" Even the Pastor's comnationalities in union meetings is one of panion understood that, and sympathized
the sources of the deepening spiritual with the woman for that was all he unlife in our Churches. There are few derstood! What a Joy to brine some
communities having their Church build- new thing, and that too a thing so
ings in such close proximity as Hilo. precious, to hearts so eager and recep
and this fact as well as the spirit of the live! May the pood Pastor reap well
people promotes union services.
where he is sowing so faithfully.
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Sunday, January to, was a glad day
in our Hilo Churches for it chronicled
an addition of twenty to their membership. The Foreign Church received
three, and Haili Church five, the largest
The Foretell Church Parsonage at
Hilo is completed, and Mr. and Mrs.
shields are again comfortably settled
; n this very attractive and convenient
cottage.
February, 1909.
Central Union News
A. A. EBERSOLE
The Week of Prayer
Central Union Church began the
New Year with a week of prayer.
Both in attendance and in the deep
spiritual interest manifested the meetings were a pronounced success. The
Methodist. Christian and Bishop
Memorial Churches united with Central Union in these services and the
Spirit of good fellowship which prevai'cd was most delightful.
The topics for the week were selected
from Stalker's "Imago Christi," the
pastors of the different Churches rep
resented each leading one of the meetings
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built up in that section of the city.
Largely through his efforts also the
money was raised for the erection of
the commodious Chapel, which was
dedicated on the evening of January
3. Already a nucleus has been gathered for the organization of a Church.
Some thirty individuals, most of them
adults, have signified their intention of
joining, and on Sunday evening, Feb.
7. will be received Lolo the fellowship
of the Church at Kalihi Chapel by the
Minister and Board of Deacons of
Central Union. No section of the city
offers a larger opportunity than Kalihi
for just such a work as this new organization is now equipped to do.
With such assistance as Central Union
can give Mr. Chamberlain the enterprise should soon grow into a strong
Church, ministering to the varied
needs of the people of that growing
community.
The Annual Meeting.
The annual Church supper and meeting for hearing reports of the various
organizations of the Church was held
in the New Parish House on Wednesday evening, January 13. Tables were
set for 27s and only a few chairs were
vacant. From beginning to end it was
a most enjoyable occasion. The Men's
League with its two committees —
Friendship and Welcome—attended
most acceptably to the sociability and
the seating of the feasters. The
Ladies' Society furnished the chowder—genuine Bay State Chowder, such
as the ladies of Central Union can
make. It truly was a feast.
The reports were unusually interesting. Although the three-minute limit
was not absolutely observed they were
all short and to the point. Resides the
reports of the officers of the Church
the following made interesting statements for the departments of the work
of which they have the supervision:
Bible School, Clifton 11. Tracy.
Ladies' Society. Mrs. W. J. Forbes.
Woman's Board of Missions, Mrs.
Doremus Scudder.
Missionary Gleaners, Mrs. D. L.
Monday evening, "Christ as a Man
of Prayer," Rev. John W. Wadman.
Tuesday evening. "Christ as a Student of Scripture," Rev. 11. W. Chamberlain.
Wednesday evening, "Christ as a Wellington.
Friend," Rev. John L. Hopwood.
Christian Endeavor, .Miss Lulu Law.
Thursday evening, "Christ as a Men's League, A. A. Fbcrsolc.
Winner of Souls," Rev. A. C. McI'alaina Settlement. las. A. Rath.
Keever.
Kalihi
Settlement. Horace \V.
Friday evening. "Christ as an In- Chamberlain.
fluence," Rev. Doremus Scudder.
Pleasant Island Mission, O. 11. GuA Branch Church.
lick.
At a business meeting of Central
Japanese Sunday Schools, O. H.
Union Church, Tuesday evening, Jan. (iulick.
Portuguese Sunday Schools, W. A.
5 it was unanimously voted to receive
Kalihi Settlement as a Uranch of Cen- Bowen.
tral Union. Under the leadership of
Chinese Mission Work. Frank W.
Rev. Horace W. Chamberlain, a son of Damon.
Without exception the reports showCentral Union, a strong work has been
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ed work.
The Minister's Class.
Chtistmas Sunday Dr. Scudder announced in his morning sermon that he
would be pleased to begin a class of
instruction for the boys and girls of
the Church who were thirteen years of
age. The purpose of the class he stated was not primarily to prepare the
children to join the Church or to bring
undue pressure to bear upon them to
take such a step, but rather to lead
them naturally and along proper pedagogical lines into an understanding of
the fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith so that as they come to that
age in life when they would most naturally decide to be followers of Christ
they would be able to do it intelligently. In response to this invitation a
•rood sized class has been meeting Dr.
Scudder Friday afternoon at 2:30 in
the parlor of the Church and have taken up in earnest this important work
—a course of study which cannot fail
to be of inestimable value to the boys
and girls throueh all their lives.
The Men's League.
Our Men's League is certainly making itself felt along both religious and
civic lines. It is putting new life into
every department of the Church's
work. The Friendship and Welcoming
Sections are doing a most important
service in keeping ever on the lookout
for new comers to the city, of which
there are a constantly increasing number, systematically inviting them to the
Various Church and League meetings,
and seeing to it that they arc made to
feel at home and get acquainted when
them come. The Sunday School Section
is rallying to the support of the
Wednesday Night Normal Class in
fine shape. The attendance and interest has been steadily increasing. The
Sunday Morning Men's Bible Class continues to be one of the strong features
of the Sunday's program. The attendance has kept close to thirty even
through the busy holiday season. One
of the most inspiring Mul-ifcek services, so a number of those who attended volunteered to say, was the
meeting January 20, on the "Brotherhood Movement," led and conducted
throughout by members of the Men's
League. At the last meeting of the
League it was voted to support both
by attendance and by personal work
among the men of the city a series
of Sunday Evening Lenten Addresses,
which Dr. Scudder has announced on
"The Realities of the Christian Life."
(Continued on Page 18)
February, 1909
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Christian Endeavor
JOHN F. COWAN, D.D.
THE UNITED SOCIETY Or CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOE.
Honolulu.
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600 Tramont T.mple,
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Rot Francl. E Clark, D.D.
OBraRAI, SBCraTABY-WiiuamShaw.
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EDITORIAL SECEETARY—Amos E. Well..
AROUND THE ENDEAVOR
HORIZON.
Dr. Clark is back from his European
tour, in good health and spirits. At
Christina. Norway, fifty Endeavorers
greeted him at the station before daylight, and King Hakon VII granted him
an audience.
Mr. llin Wong, former secretary of
the Oalni Young People's Union, sends
a message to American Endeavorers,
through The Christian Endeavor World.
He says that the outlook in China is
hopeful, and the next twenty-five years
will see wonderful changes. Mr. Wong
is now in the University of Missouri.
.Ml of the Young People's Unions of
the United Brethren Church, more than
a thousand in number, have added the
word "Endeavor" to their name, and thus
come into full affiliation with the worldwide, interdenominational young people's
movement. This was done with the full
approval of the bishops and highest authorities in the denomination.
In thirteen cities of California there
are organized Christian Endeavor Coffee
Clubs, which maintain reading rooms and
lunch counters. These places are made
as bright as possible, with a view to furnishing social centers that will draw men
from the saloons.
The St. Paul, Minn., Christian Endeavor Societies supplied one hundred
and ten poor families with Thanksgiving dinners. One basket went to the
Old Ladies' Home.
Twenty-two new societies have been
organized in Pennsylvania since the last
State convention. The general secretary
has toured the State from one end to
the other.
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THE TEBRITORIAL C. E. UNION Or HAWAII.
The Honorable George Nicholls, a
member of the House of Commons of
the Parliament of Great Britain, tells, in
an article in The Christian Endeaz'or
Times, London, how his membership in
the Christian Fndeavor Society made a
PEESIDENT-Eev. Mo.es H. Nakulna.
SEOEETAEY-Ml.. Florence E. Yarrow.
TEEABUEEE-Mr. T. Okumura.
TEAVELINO EVANGELIST-Be-. E. S. Tlmoteo.
mission worker of him, when a lad. He
became pastor of a church, through this
training and experience and says, "Every
time I entered the pulpit to preach, I
knew that my Christian Endeavorers
were praying for me."
Since entering Parliament, he has had
to give up his pastorate, but he preaches
on Sundays somewhere, which gives him
ample opportunity to see the work of
Fndeavorers, which they often carry on
under trying conditions, and to hear the
splendid testimonies of both pastors and
deacons to the effective work of the Endeavorers both in Church and Sunday
School.
ISLAND PEESIDENTS.
WEST HAWAII-Mr.. D. Alawa, Xallua.
EAST HAWAII-Mrs. Sarah Kalwl, Hilo.
MAUI-Peter N. Kahokuolnna, Paia.
OAHTJ-Ect. H. K. Poepoe, Honolulu.
KAUAI Hon. W. H. Rice, Lihue.
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CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR IN A
BUDDHIST TEMPLE.
Here in Hawaii, where just now
Buddhists are so aggressive (they are
dedicating two new school houses in Kohala district, and are giving the Japanese Christian pastor the time of his
life) it will be refreshing to learn of the
work of Miss Kajiro, in Japan.
She graduated from Mount I [olyoke
College, and started a small work in
(Ikayama, Japan, with meager support.
Her work has grown until she has been
compelled to rent additional rooms in the
Buddhist temples adjoining. She has a
wide wing in each of three large temples, where she houses dozens of girls
and herself.
Among her numerous activities there
are a Sunday School and a Christian Endeavor Society. She has refttsed the offer of a professorship in the only woman's university of Japan, with i..j,(x>
girls within its walls, and a good salary,
to stick to her own girls.
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Christian Endeavor Society in Bielefeld. Germany.
Secretary Friedrich Blecher
on the left.
THE INDIA CONVENTION.
The World's Christian Endeavor Convention, to be held at Agra, India, next
Xovember, bids fair to be the largest
Christian gathering ever held in the
Orient. More than six hundred foreign
visitors are expected. From three hundred to four hundred missionaries will
probably attend. The Indian Christian
community will probably send thousands.
Already it is known that Great P>ritain, America, Japan, Australia, New
Zealand and Canada will send delegates.
It will be the first time in the history of
the Christian Church that many of the
Indian Christians have met together. It
will mean a new era in the history of
Christianity in India.
Choose sides, in your society, and have
a missionary-reading contest, to see
which side will read the larger number
of pages of missionary literature in a
month, or three months.
An Endeavor society in Maryland
purchased a ncostyle and publishes a biweekly
church bulletin, containing
church announcements, church news, etc.
Dallas, Texas, Endeavorers visit the
Poor Farm one Sunday in each month,
and hold a service. The city and county
jails also come in for a share of their
attention.
Two Endeavorers of the Christian
Union Church, Xewark, "0.. are always
at the door to greet strangers. This society pays fifty dollars on the pastor's
salary, and has expended five hundred
dollars in fitting up a Sunday School
room.
During a recent evangelistic effort of
Rev. John McNiel, the Endeavorers of
the Church distributed several thousand
leaflets for him.
February, 1909.
Educational Advance
F. W. DAMON.
KAWAIAHAO
SEMINARY
"AT
HOME" —SUCCESSFUL NEW
YEAR'S CELEBRATION AT
ATHERTON'S HALL.
In May, 1907, many friends of this
institution gathered in Manoa Valley, on
the campus of' the Mid-Pacific Institute,
to witness the "Turning of the first sod"
on the site of the then anticipated building for Kawaiahao Seminary. Those of
this same number, who were privileged
to share in the festivities of January
Ist, 1909, in the completed edifice could
abundantly realize that the intervening
months had been busily occupied. On
the magnificent height, with its inspiring views of ocean and mountain, had
arisen a massive and picturesque building, constructed of the rocks of the valley, over which nature had dawn a delicate lichened tracery of her own. Where
the different schools had sung their
songs, in the Open, with the algarohas
encirling them and the blue above them,
was now the commodious home of one
section of the institute, with work well
under way, in its new and beautiful environment. Month after month busy
workmen of many different nationalities
had been engaged in accomplishing this
transformation.
The noble building,
which is now one of the most prominent
features in the landscape of Manoa Valley, is most conveniently located, within easy access to the cars of the Rapid
Transit Company. By a stimulating and
pleasant coincidence the visitor reaches it
most readily on Armstron street, a name
which recalls two men, father and son,
who have been inspiring forces in the
cause of education, both in Hawaii and
on the mainland of the L'nited States.
"Athcrton Hall" presents a noble frontage to Diamond Head, extending along
its main terrace, which rises picturesquely from the valley below, for nearly
two hundred feet. Three wine's inclose
two inner courts in the rear. The welllijrhted and convenient basement affords
spacious auarters for the laundry, storerooms and needed work-rooms of the institution. Above this on the first floor
are the reception rooms, offices, class and
music rooms and sewing department and
rreat dining hall, with its noble stone
fire-place. At the further extremity of
one of the wings is the infirmary, arranged with all necessary conveniences,
presided over by a trained nurse who is
a graduate of the Seminary. Ascending
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the main stair-way in the center of the
building, from the broad and airy cloister
with its massive stone arches, which runs
along the front of the building, the visitor
comes first to the spacious assembly
hall, which occupies nearly the full length
of the middle wing. This is one of the
most beautiful halls in the Territory and
reflects much credit tt|x>n the architect,
Mr. H. L. Kerr, as indeed does the whole
building, which has been greatly admired by all who have visited it. On this
same floor are to be found the apartments of the faculty and in two of the
wings separate rooms for the pupils of
the senior and intermediate grades.
These are well-lighted and airy and in
every way adapted for the comfort and
convenience of their occupants. On the
floor above are the dormitories, which
are most commodious and attractive. It
is a cause for much gratitude that the
penerous donors of this beautiful memorial building have here erected so well
constructed and attractive an edifice, and
one so fitted in practical details for the
varied needs of the institution which here
finds its home. Truly no more fitting
monument could have been reared to the
memory of one who so earnestly tailored
in the cause of all forms of philanthropic
work and especially of Christian education than this.
Busy workmen so long occupied the
building that it was difficult to think of
any thing but "finishing" work ever going on then, hut at last a time came when
it seemed possible to throw open the
new school home to all friends who cared
to inspect it. January ist was chosen
for this opening day and with this was
connected the old Hawaiian custom of
the Hookuptt, so that this became a "giftday" as well. Early in the afternoon
friends of all nationalities began to arrive and for several hours a steady
stream of visitors passed through the
building, which was indeed open to them
in kindly welcome from basement to
attic. In the faculty parlor and the adjoining library, the principal, Miss
Ilosher, assisted by the lady members of
the Board of Trustees and the wives of
other members, received in a most hospitable manner the large throng of
guests. Different members of the faculty lent their aid at many points in making the afternoon one most pleasantly
to be remembered by all who came.
Dainty refreshments were served in the
large, cool dining hall and in the front
corridor the strains of Hawaiian music
added to the festive character of the
gathering. Prominent among the visitors and most gladly welcomed were a
number of former pupils of Kawaiahao
Seminary, now busy with the active duties of life in the iarger world outside.
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but drawn by their aloha for the dear
old school which in spirit still lives here,
amid new surroundings it is true, but
always ready to welcome with hearty
aloha those wdio have ever been in any
way connected with it. It was pleasant
also to notice among the hundreds of
visitors many representatives of the
()riental races which have come to Hawaii.
Their ever increasing interest in the
cause of education is most noteworthy.
Those present on this occasion seemed
much imoressed by the splendid opportunities offered in Kawaiahao Seminary
for practical and thorough training, amid
such stimulating surroundings, for
young women. China, Japan and Korea
are already well rq>resented in the institution and some of the most promising
pupils are from these races.
Most generously did its friends remember the Seminary on this Xew
Year's Day and left behind them abundant evidence of their kind wishes for
the continued success of the school in
a material way. Many of the gifts were
placed in the Seminary Hall and presented a beautiful and varied appearance,
watched over and guarded by the l>cautiful American flags which were suspended above them.
Long and pleasantly will the memories
of this delightful opening day linger in
the minds of many. The evidences of
sympathetic appreciation of the work,
here being carried forward, will serve
as a helpful stimulus to those who are
bearing its responsibility—to press forward to larger undertakings.
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INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION
IN EDUCATION.
()ne of the most encouraging features
in the larger altruistic life of the present
time is the desire on the part of many
in England and America to share with
peoples of other and less favored lands
the results of the educational systems
which have been beneficial to themselves.
An especially striking example of this is
to be found in the increasing interest
manifested by certain of our leading
American universities in educationai
work in China. Vale has for sometime
oast had her representatives at work laving the foundations of important collegiate work in the Hunan Province in
Central China. In Peking, Princeton
has been endeavoring to gain a foothold. While the University of Pennsylvania is lending a helping: hand to the
fine work initiated in the Christian College in Canton, Southern China.
Recently a brief visit was made inHHr
nolulu by a prominent educator from the
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February, 1909
THE FRIEND
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younger children are within easy reach
of school, and whose weaker members
can get out of its homestead more than
half of the necessities of life, while the
father
and elder brothers are within easy
FRANK S. SCUDDER
reach, by rail, of work on a plantation
on which they can get good remuneration
The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto Treasure Hid in a Field.
for work,—the creation of this social
experiment is a business proposition
which it would seem must work to the
tion, all unheralded by the newspapers, advantage, both of the plantations and
HOMESTEAD CAMPS.
but a little inquiry showed that we were of the laborers.
on the wrong track. It it called a Homehas
not
recently
passed
Any one who
It is business, not philanthropy, but it
through that part of Kauai which lies stead Camp, and is a practical experi- may be that when we have the highest
between Koloa and Hanapepe would be ment fathered by some wide-awake busi- conceptions of business, we shall no longastonished at the changes which have ness men who are trying to solve some er have need of the word philanthropy.
Notes From The Field
taken place there in the last few months.
Not only has the macadamizing of the
road added greatly to the pleasure of
taking a trip through this section of
country, but there have suddenly sprung
up, as if born of the soil, such a number
of cottages and such signs of development that one is reminded of the boom
of a western town.
Passing over this road a few months
ago we were impressed with the vast
area of fertile land which was lying practically idle. It is at too great an elevation to be suitable for cane production,
but there is a fair rainfall, the soil is
niellow and rich—even the fence posts
have sprouted and grown up into trees
that form a striking boundary line between the fields,—and the ground is already cleared, the forests having receded
far up the mountain sides. One could
not help wondering why no one was
making use of the opportunities which
lie on the very surface there. Another
thing was equally surprising, for in the
midst of this uninhabited country there
was a new pineapple canning factory, apparently unrelated to anything except a
few small patches of pines on the hillside.
The Transformation.
But now the whole aspect of the country is changed.
Scattered alont? the
road for a distance of two miles or
more there are about ninety thrifty
cottages, each located in the midst
of a tract of fenced-in land several acres
in extent, with a supply of pure water
carried by pipes to each house: pineapple
fields too, and gardens have bloomed into
existence in a manner suggestive of
dreamland. A Japanese temple is perched high on the hill, and a Portuguese
Church is under contemplation. In the
valley is a neat school house—we were
passing just at recess time, and the children were evidently patriotic, for the prevailing colors in shirtwaists were red,
white and blue.
Our first thought was that this must
be the small farmer proposition stealing
a march on us and springing into realiza-
of the problems of plantation labor.
In
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a word, it is a plan whereby laborers are
NEWSPECIES OF SHELLS.
encouraged and assisted to secure homes
of their own. By a mutual agreement
The Bishop Museum press has issued
the land which was held by a plantation an illustrated booklet (Vol. 111, No. 2),
in lease from the government was sur- on Hawaiian land shells which have re-
rendered to the government together
with the privilege of using the plantation's water supply, and the government
has divided the land into holdings of
from six to ten acres, according to the
fertility of the soil. These lots are made
available to "Homesteaders" on condition of certain improvements being
made, after which the occupant may
hold the title to the land in fee simple.
The promoters of this Homestead Camp
scheme offer to any one taking up one of
these holdings, a loan of $325 for building a house, also furnishing lumljer and
labor for the same at cost. If a man
wishes to add to this out of his own
means, he may build a house to suit his
own taste and he has 18 years in which
to clear off his indebtedness.
To make the investment still more inviting to the laborers, the promoters
have located a pineapple factory in the
very heart of the district, purchasing
pineapples at market prices. A railroad
has been put through to the Homestead
Camp, so that the Homesteaders are absolutely independent to come or to go,
to work on plantations or to work on
their own homesteads.
Purely Business.
This is said to be, not philanthropy,
but business, purely business. It is believed to be good business policy to have
a labor supply of people owning their
own homes in the vicinity of a plantation,
and free as men can be, to work when
and where they please. It is Ixdieved
that self-respect and love of home on the
part of a laborer is an advantage not to
the laborer and his family alone, hut to
the plantation that may he able to call
upon such people to supply its demand
for labor. A family with a home of its
own, with plenty of elbow room and
wholesome surroundings and a fair
moral opportunity, a family whose
cently been received at the Museum.
Among the specimens are several which
are of rare interest to shell collectors,
being quite distinct from any species yet
described.
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MORE THANKS.
More cards, pictures, illustrated papers
and magazines have been received from
friends during January for our camp
work for which we express our hearty
thanks to the donors.
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JAPANESE
ECHOES FROM
CHURCHES.
The Wailuku Japanese Church (Rev.
G. Tanaka. pastor,) celebrated the closing of the Old Year with a joyful service in which six young men were baptized and received into the Church. Mr.
Dodge speaks of it as a very good service because of the large number out,
and the earnestness of those who came
out to serve Christ openly.
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First fruits among the Japanese in
Kona were gathered into Central Kona
Church the first Sunday of the New
Year by the baptism of six young men,
one of whom was received into the
Church. Mr. Okamura speaks of fifteen more who, after further instruction,
give promise of becoming established in
faith.
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The Makiki Giurch, having received
during 1908, 121 members, 116 of whom
were admitted on confession of faith,
held a meeting to which the members
were invited to come, each bringing in
writing a statement of his or her purpose in the Christian life for the coming
year. At this meeting a number of the
members entered solemnly and prayerfully into a mutual compact, that they
February, 1909.
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You
can
Eat your cake and have it"
You can give away your property and have it,—really enjoy it, as long as you live. You could'nt have
it longer than that anyway.
This is the idea of "The Conditional Gift Plan" Your money,—property, or whatever can be
converted into money,—pays you a good steady income during your life and goes on working for you and for
humanity after you are gone.
So you "make friends (by) the mammon of unrighteousness"
So also, you "lay up for yourself treasures etc."
This is no cant. It is Christian stewardship and sound business sense combined.
The Finance Committee makes you an offer of one whole per cent better than before. You can hardly
;nvest much better elsewhere and
the amount you invest with the Hawaiian Board in your life time will not be
wrangled for alter you are gone.
If you are 20 years or over your money will earn 5 per
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See the Treasurer of the Board and talk over the security, the form of gift etc.
FRIENDS
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BOARD OF THE HAWAIIAN EVANGELICAL
Make it work.
ASSOCIATION.
Mr. Fukuda. our evangelist at Paia,
Y. M. C. A.
would strive to win for Christ, during
the year 1909 no less than 200 persons. l has* opened a Game Club and Reading
Lest a mere desire for numbers should Room in connection with his work. He
our eagerness to promote the cominfluence anyone in this campaign for would be glad to have magazines or ingInof people
to these shores, we ought
Christ, they have adopted special safe- games contributed for this purpose.
not to overlook our obligations to proguards against the dangers of a purpose
likewise certain privileges that will
Mr. and Mrs. Fukuda also have a day mote
expressed in terms of numbers.
be
in
their interest after they get
Like a river in a well watered plain, nursery, where mothers who work on the 'Our wide-awake friend Super ofhere.
the
plantation
may leave their little children
broadening and deepening in its onward
Y. M. C. A. is already at work on plans
he
and
to
cared
for
entertained
during
course, the interest and devotion have
for the benefit of the soldiers at Leilebeen steadily maintained through the |the day. Moved to do likewise, Mr. hua. He is in correspondence with the
year 1908 and the first communion of Maeda, a good Christian of our Puu- International Y. M. C. A. Committee in
the Xcw Year was gladdened by the re- nene Church, has obtained from Mr. Xew York relative to a building for
ception of 21 persons on confession of Paid win an extra house, with spacious Y. M. C. A. work at the new
camp. Just
grounds for this purpose. Mr. and Mrs.
faith.
what will seem best is not yet determinMaeda have 17 children to care for every ed.
It may be that the Association at
day and these form the nucleus of a SunXew York may see its way clear to esWhile our Japanese Churches have a day School.
tablish an Army Y. M. C. A. post with
goodly number of women in their memt&r*
building
and full equipment. Or it may
bership, no one can fail to notice the
Rev. M. Tsuji, Japanese pastor at Libe that the War Department may take
striking contrast in the proportion of the hue, writes of a visit, with
Kotani
Mr.
initiative, and establish a post exsexes in a Japanese and an American
land Mr. Takabashi, to Wahiawa camp. the
congregation. Of the 33 persons above They held a preaching service there, change, with the request that the Y. M.
mentioned as having just come into the which was the first gospel meeting the C. A. occupy the building, as is the case
fellowship of the saints, 32 are men. and people of the camp have been able to at- already at some other encampments. In
any event, we trust that a virile and atcomparatively young men.
tend. He says the leading men among tractive
Y. M. C. A. work may be in■■"
want
the Japanese
an evangelist to come
augurated
speedily at that important
The Makiki Church Sunday School and stay there, for there are no good inand we congratulate Secretary
economized on its Christmas expenses fluences among them, and good people center, on
his energy and foresight in
Super
and bought three dozen new chairs with all complain of the evil influence of gam- bringing
the project to the attention of
the money saved. The Church also has blers and wicked characters. They ask
increased its contribution towards the us to remember their request and send the proper officials at this early date.
an evangelist to reside among them.
pastor's salary by 20%.
W. B. O.
February, 1909
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Sunday School
OrnCEES.
.
SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION Or HAWAII.
SUPERINTENDENTS OF THE DEPARTMENTS
PEESIDENT-Hon. W. H. Rlc*.
VICE-PRESIDENT-Re». H. K. P<x|x>«.
RECORDING SECRETARY I. H. S. Kil«0
TBEASUBEE-Oeorg* J?. C.tle
BUFEEINTENDENT-E.T. H.nry P. Judd.
Since the last number of Tin-: Friend
press, the Superintendent has
made a tour of Oahu and visited three
of the country Churches, and in the last
part of January has travelled on the island of Mplokai to become acquainted
with the Churches and Sunday Schools
of that little known and yet most interesting island.
Tour of Oahu.
The day after Christmas I journeyed
across the Nuuanu Pali and through the
beautiful district of Koolaupoko to HakiDUU, where I spent the night.
Sunday, December 27th, was the day
for Hoike services in practically all of
our Church Sunday Schools. Having received a cordial invitation to attend the
Hoike at Kam-ohc I did so and was
pleased to find a good-sized congregation
in the old Church makai of the court
house.
Under the leadership of Mr. Frank
Pahia the children and the adults went
through their various parts with credit.
Then several addresses were made, the
first being by Mr. Joseph Roberts, formcrlv a cowboy and manager of the Kualoa ranch, on Oahu, but now an itinerant
preacher. Mr. Roberts told of his tour
of Maui on foot and how he had been
preaching the Gospel everywhere. He
was now to make the circuit of Oahu
without the use of horse or carriage.
The Rev. J. K. Paele of Waikane, recently ordained a minister of the Gospel
by vote of the Oahu Association, made
a few remarks and then I spoke of recent visits among the other Sunday
Schools of Oahu and on other islands.
Then Mrs. Rol>crts and others concluded
the program with appropriate remarks.
After an intermission, the Christian
Endeavor Society held its usual meeting,
the topic being "The New Era in China."
A most interesting speaker was Mr. Ah
Mcc, a Christian Chinese who came to
these islands many years ago and was
converted to Christianity through the influence of Mr. Frank W. Damon. He
spoke of the great good being done in
China by the missionaries. His speech
in Hawaiian held the close attention of
the Hawaiians.
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The usual social conversations took
place in the Church yard after the service and it was good to greet so many
friends.
Kaneohe is fairly well populated and
prosperous and the Church really needs
a regular pastor to minister to the community. Meanwhile Mr. Pabia, Mr.
Kellett and others are loyally supporting
the Church work.
Tuesday. December 2Q, in company
with friends, I l>egan a tour of the remaining portion of Oahu, visiting that
day the lovely valley of Punaluu and
making the ascent of "the James P..
Castle trail" to the camp on the Kalitiwaa stream, far above the famous waterfall. It is well worth while for anyone
to take this comparatively easy trip and
see a remarkably beautiful part of Oahu.
both grand in its far-distant glimpses of
Waimanalo and Makapuu as well as the
waters of Kaneohe bay, and picturesque
in its near-by views of moss-covered
lehua trees, banana trees, wauke. olona,
loulu or native palms and other luxuriant
vegetation.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Hay at the
Hauula railroad station gave us shelter
for the night. That part of this island
is being more and more visited, now
that there is a railroad from Kahttku to
Kahana and a stage-line from Hauula to
Honolulu. We found tourists from California and from our own metropolis who
were enjoying the Kaliuwaa valley, renowned in Hawaiian legends, the sunrise at the sea-shore and the many
charming features of country-life in Koolauloa.
When T rode over to the Hauula parsonage the next mornintr T was fortunate
in finding the Rev. Mr. Nuubiwa at
home. Tt was with much recrret that T
learned of the weakness of the Church
and Sunday School there. It is to be
hoped that the Church at Hauula may
vet become a power in the community.
Our next resting place was Waialee,
where we were entertained most cordially over niMit by Mr. and Mrs. T. H.
Gibson. The Boys' Industrial School
under their supervision is in excellent
condition. Great improvements have
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been made there in the past five years
and the farm is very productive of vegetables, taro, sugar cane, bananas, etc.
Resides farming in its various branches
such as dairying, pig and poultry raising,
fruit and vegetable culture, the boys are
taught useful trades in the carpenter and
blacksmith shops, are instructed in "the
three rs" in the class-room, are initiated
into the mysteries of the drill and some
of them play in the school band. Baseball and other games give healthy recrea»
tion.
Waialee is an ideal location for such
an institution and it is gratifying to knowthat the boys are being trained to become
useful citizens.
The ride from Waialee to Waimea
next morning was most interesting, hecause so many "small farmers" are developing the land that, less than five
\ears ago, was devoted to the cattle industry. Many people on Oahu seem to
have become "pineapple crazy," for at
Paumalu, Pupukea, Waimea and the vast
Wahiawa and 1 lalemano section acres
and acres of land are being put into pineapples. Let us hope that a welcome market may be found for all the pines produced by these progressive "small
farmers."
Passing through the village of Waialua and by the huge sugar mill and
through the cane fields, we came to the
home of Rev. and Mrs. John P. Erdman,
where we were entertained at lunch. It
gives one a gladsome feeling to thinkthat the country districts of the island are
being cared for by such an able leader as
Mr. Erdman and to know what a splendid influence he is exerting among the
Hawaiians and Japanese as well as other
races.
The First Church of Waialua, Rev.
L. D. Keliipio pastor, held a special service that evening, it being New Year's
Eve. At this "Watch Night Meeting" a
good audience was present. There were
songs and addresses by the pastor, the
president of the Christian Endeavor, the
superintendent of the Sunday School,
Supervisor Cox and other Church members. I was asked to say a few words
about the new year. In the audience
THE FRIEND
February, 1909.
or have ever asked if they could be of
any help to the little school? I dropped
in upon the small gathering that Sunday
afternoon and received a cordial welcome. It is unfortunate that the class
for boys and girls has had to be abandoned temjwrarily for lack of a teacher.
It seems a pity that twenty or thirty
persed shortly before midnight.
Dr. and Mrs. Hubert Wood were our young people have to be cut off from
entertainers over night and we left them the great privileges of Sunday School
Xew Year's Day to return to the city, because of "no teacher." The cry for
via Wahiawa. The interesting feature of more teachers again is abroad in the land.
the day was the glimpse we had of the Here is an opportunity for rich service
new cavalry pott at Lcilehua, beautiful in the Lord's Vineyard. Who will enfor situation and ideal for the purpose ter in ?
designated. It makes us feel that ()alm
After the school, I was invited to make
is indeed to become a Malta, to observe a few remarks in Hawaiian and did so
the Lcilehua nost and to note the various to the best of my poor ability.
preparations being made to defend I loThat evening the Kalihi Settlement
nolulu and Pearl Harbor. The exten- was opened formally under most favorsion of the pineapple industry was again able auspices. No doubt full re|>orts of
impressed upon us by observing the the proceedings will he made in other
stretches of new land recently planted columns of this issue, but it is worthy
with the pines. The end of the day again of note to record the fact that a new Sunfound us in the island metropolis.
day School has been established by the
were a number of the U. S. Engineers,
who had been making a survey of the
Waialua district. These and the others
in the congregation applauded each address and each song. After the program
coffee and cakes were passed about to
those present and then the gathering dis-
A Sunday in Honolulu.
The first Sunday of the new year was
a time for hopeful outlook and the beginning of the Church year with enthusiasm and renewed determination.
A visit to the Palatini Settlement Sunday School revealed the interesting fact
that a new course of study has been introduced there this quarter by Mr. Rath
anil his assistants. It is the note-book
and picture system, adopted last fall at
Kawaiahao and used so successfully by
them, Where the number of competent
teachers is sufficient it may be well for
any Sunday School to take up this new
method of study. It costs more effort
and time from the teacher, but it arouses
greater interest from the young people
and moreover gives them in concrete
form the results of their teachers' instruction. The note-book system, \ hope,
will spread among our schools. At Palama the boys and girls seemed to take
to the new idea readily.
At the Kawaiahao Church that morning the Communion of the Lord's Supper was observed, previous to which
seventeen new members were received
into the Church and twenty-seven adults
and children received the Sacrament of
Baptism. It was a most impressive service to sec so many Christians confess
Christ openly and to see so many infants
dedicated to the Lord and to His service.
Among the "apana" chapels of the
Kaumakapili Church is the Waikahalulu
Chapel, that is mauka of School street
and near the Waikahalulu falls of the
Nuuanu stream. The bell of the little
chapel calls people to the Sunday School
service every Sunday afternoon. How
many of those who ever hear the ringing of the bell know whence it cometh
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religious privileges. There are usually
at least four services every Sunday and
once a month—the second Sunday—
when Mr. Erdman conies, five services.
The attendance of about seventy in
spite of the bad weather was unusually
large.
A Sunday Among the Young People.
The third Sunday of January I attended the morning service of the Memorial
Chapel at Kamehameha School and gave
an address on"The Hawaiian Sunday
School Association." It was my purpose
to show the work of the Association in
its various features and to present some
of the problems we are trying to solve,
the teacher-training problem, the problem
of arousing interest in Bible study at
home daily, the problem of how to gather
in and hold the boys and girls not in any
school. In closing I urged all the Kamehameha girls and boys to become
identified with Sunday School work and
to support heartily the local Sunday
Schools of the communities from which
they come.
It's a far cry from Dan to Beersheba,
and so it is from Kamehameha to that
other splendid institution, in the beautiful valley of Manoa—the Mid-Pacific Institute, popularly called "Kawaiahao."
Placed almost at the extreme limits of
our growing city these two institutions
of learning are doing splendidly in the
great work of character building.
The vesper service at Atherton Hall
was amid picturesque surroundings. A
preacher does not often have to look up
at his audience seated row upon row on
the broad stone steps leading up to the
front entrance of a school building, but
such was the setting of the scene that
evening.
Previous to my introduction to the
students they sang very sweetly several
beautiful hymns and also, by request, the
old Kawaiahao song. It was an inspiring sight to see girls of Hawaiian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Porto Rican and
other nationalities all uniting in singing
songs about the Father of us all.
Such a gathering as meets every Sunday evening at the Mid-Pacific helps us
to realize that Jesus Christ came for all
races and teaches us the brotherhood of
man.
It was a pleasure to talk to the interesting girls and tell them of the Sunday
Schools on Maui and other islands.
The girls of the Mid-Pacific are to be
congratulated on having such an able
leader in Miss Bosher and such a splendid faculty as the new institution pos-
Rev. Horace W. Chamberlain in connecthe Settlement. This growing
part of Honolulu is new being well provided for religiously, and the young people of Kalihi can now attend a Sunday
School of their own near at hand. May
the new Settlement he a great blessing
to Kalihi and an ever increasing source
of inspiration, comfort and cheer to the
community!
A Sunday at Waikane.
The latter part of the week the Koolaupoko district was again visited for the
purpose of beimr present at the Waikane
Church at its quarterly Communion service. The day, January 10th, was marked by the beginning of .a kona storm that
raged three days with more or less severity along the coast of Oahu. In spite
of great wind and some rain the people
of Waikane, Waiahole and Hakipuu
came out to Church and Sunday School
quite faithfully • that day. Besides the
Rev. Moses Kuikahi and Rev. J. K. Paele, Rev. Mr. Erdman and I were in attendance. After the Sunday School
meeting in "Lanakila Hall," the regular
morning worship was held in the
Church, at which time I preached.
Then I baptized ten children and infants,
after which Rev. Mr. Kuikahi, the pastor, and Rev. Mr. Erdman conducted the
Communion service. Then, in the Lanakila Hall or Sunday School house Mr.
Erdman held his Bibie class. It was an
interesting hour to which almost all the
congregation stayed. After lunch at the
parsonage there were other meetings— sesses.
the Christian Endeavor and the Hui Manawalea—but Mr. Erdman and I could
not remain for them. With these six serIdaho for the first time in its hisvices on that Sunday surely the people tory has raised enough money for a
of Waikane cannot be said to be without secretary and is looking for the man.
tion with
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February, 1909
and realized, then Church leaders and work and will soon have each province
Christian workers will strive to find a ready for a secretary of its own.
Dr. and Mrs. H. M. Hamill have just
plan and to carry it out to prevent such
returned from a six months' tour of the
Extracts from a pai>cr by J. P. Murray. losses to the Church. ajjpß
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"Sunrise Kingdom," representing not
"What is the true measure of success
Montana has raised $800, Wyoming only their denomination but this Assoof the Sunday School?" was asked at the
as well. They also effected the
last Convention of the International pledges $400 toward a joint secretary. ciation
Sunday School Association of Korea
S. S. Association. "Is it to teach the Illinois generously lifts the rest of the
students about Christ or to lead them to load, contributing $800. They are last March. Their, whole tour was
marked by enthusiasm and great sucaccept Christ?" Without a dissenting looking for a suitable man.
president
our
Rev.
of
cess.
Meyer,
F.
B.
back,
lead
them
"To
voice the reply came
is
in
now
South
Association,
World's
Christ."
to accept
Africa, devoting practically six months
If the true measure of success of our of his time to the Sunday School in- INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION
to
Sunday Schools is to lead our students
IN EDUCATION.
terests of the Dark Continent.
accept Christ, let us consider for a few
been
marOur
financial
has
growth
moments how far our schools have at- velous. The Treasurer has handled
(Continued from Page 11).
tained their true measure of success.
over $106,000 during this triennium.
Statistics show that about i.000,000 The
largest amount expended during mainland, namely Professor Thomas C.
Sunday School students were converted
triennium was $56,000.
previous
any
Chamberlain, who was on his way to
in the' last three years. As there are
new Sunday Schools
About
fourteen
Schools
China, as a representative of the Uniabout 14,000,000 in the Sunday
a
for every day in the year is the versity of Chicago, to inquire into eduof the United States, this gain of the netday
our
last Con- cational conditions
gain we report since
in that great awakenChurches in membership from the Sun- vention.
This means 15,000 schools ing empire. Those who were privileged
day Schools amounts to less than 2>/'%
last
Con- to meet Dr. Chamberlain, while in Homore than we reported at the
per annum.
vention.
Sunday
nolulu, were greatly impressed by the
to
attend
begin
Roys and girls
The Home Department shows a gain
School, on an average, at about the age
breadth and earnestness of his spirit.
of 50 per cent, in the number of de- He hopes to meet
of six years, and leave it, on an average
Professor Burton, also
cent,
enin
partments and about 40 per
from Chicago, who is now on his way
at about fourteen, and thus have, on an
have
considerablynow
We
to China via Turkey and India, where
average, but eight years of Sunday- rollment.
over half a million enrolled in this de- he has been visiting the schools and collife.
School
partment.
leges of those lands. It is truly an inAbout k//c of Sunday School students
Over 19,000 Cradle Rolls are reportthey
spiring fact that our great institutions
leave
become converted before
ed, which is about triple the number of learning are exerting themselves to
more
of
the
that
likely
school. It is
6%
reported at Toronto, while the enroll14,000,000 students become converted ment reaches the enormous figure of further the educational interests of those
during the years from 14-20, therefore over 444,000, a gain of more than 100 peoples who are reaching out for more
advanced standards of training and culabout 25% are converted before they per cent.
ture. In this connection we feel sure it
reach the age of 20.
At Louisiana's last Convention seven will be of interest to the readers of Tin-:
As the proportion of those converted
hundred and twenty-five delegates
before the age of 20 to those converted came in on one train. Sixty-seven men FRIEND to have their attention called to
after 20 is as 55: 45 then it is likely contributed $100 each for the State the commission issued to the al>ove-named gentlemen by the president of Chicago
that only about \<a°/c of the entire 14,work. They have had their secretary University.
heever
Sunday
Schools
-000,000 in the
less than two years.
"In the study of educational conditions
come converted.
One hundred and sixteen Sunday and needs in China it is important that
now?
Outis
doing
What the Church
School General Secretaries and Deside the Sunday Schools, in the outside partmental Specialists are devoting information be obtained from cverv
world, she has evangelists for some and their whole time to the work in the source accessible. Your report should
imrescue missions for others and is spend- various States and Provinces, and fifty- indicate what seem to be the mostcounportant educational needs in that
ing millions of dollars every year to save six are working on part time.
try, what work is actually under way,
souls. And what is she doing for her
our statis- whether from private or public sources,
of
feature
encouraging
An
we
she
find
own Sunday School? Here
903.028 conversions and ad- how far that work is well directed tois making comparatively almost no tics is that
to
Church are reported by ward the main purposes which ought to
the
ditions
to
serious, organized, persistent effort
This is a gain be in view and whether additional educaAssociations.
forty-six
win them to Christ. These young peocent,
over
previous re- tional agencies and activities would conany
of
to
per
ple in the schools are the wards of the
with joy. tribute to the best interests of China in
to
hearts
fill our
Church, placed in her hands and under port and ought
delerates
representing
Over
1,300
accordance with the highest ideals of
her guardianship. They should be won
earth
held
the
nations
of
the
many
of
modern civilization. The general purChurch.
to Christ by the efforts of the
Protestant Sunday School pose of your work in oriental countries
The teachers themselves should be taught a World's
in the old Eternal City of is to inquire Into the possibilities of
and led to become soul-winners. For this Convention
Rome,
one of their prin- bringing about closer relations in educaconducting
purpose a Personal Worker's Class might
services
the
Coliseum.
cipal
in
train
tional matters between the East and the
be formed in Sunday Schools to
West,
become
with mutual advantage: in particThe
Ontario
Association
has
work.
this
all-important
workers for
to
determine whether educated men
great
to
Brother"
to
the
Northwestular
"Big
It is probably not commonly known
Saskatchewan,
those
interested in education in
of
and
Alern
Provinces
that
such
the Church and Sunday School
in America can become of sera small proportion of the Sunday School berta and British Columbia, by helping China and
students unite with the Church while in them to a secretary in the person of vice to one another in the promotion of
the school. When the fact is well known Stuart Muirhead. He is doing choice education in the world at large."
WINNING SUNDAY SCHOOL
STUDENTS
TO CHRIST.
THE FRIEND.
February, 1909.
Temperance Issues
.
REV. W. D. WESTERVELT.
S
THEY IGNED THE PETITION a cent. "My husband sr>ent most of
his money with you," she said.
"Well, he got what he paid for, didA crowd stood closely packed around
a dark, ragged-looking object in the n't he?" replied the man of the white
Burlington railway yards one morn- apron.
ing. The "thing" was hacked and jagThere was one friend left —her
ged and bloody beyond language to preacher. She had not been to church
describe.
much of late, because women dislike
"Drunk and lay down on the track to appear in public in tattered garlast night."
ments. This minister went over to the
Those nine words told the whole county seat and got the names of men
pitiful and too common tragedy. Even and women who had signed the petithe newspaper reporters spent scant tion lor the saloon where the dead man
time over the matter.
got most of his whiskey. Then he took
The coroner came and smelled of the the woman and her children along.
empty whisky flask, which by some Arriving at the store of the first mercurious chance was unbroken. Four chant, he said:
or five deaths of the sort had occurred
"Mr.
I see your name here
in the railway yards there the past on the Crystal Palace petition. That's
twelve months; and in every instance where this woman's husband got the
the whisky bottle had been unharmed, whiskey that killed him. The iaw has
while the man who carried it was let the railroad company and the
ground to pieces. It might have been saloonkeeper out. and the woman is
the mute lesson of providence.
penniless. Now, it's up to you. Shall
When a man gets drunk he will hunt she and her little brood go to the poorthe railway track. Tips man was only house, or will you do your duty?
thirty-five. He had a wife and sev- Legally she can't collect a cent from
eral children, and they were left pen- you. But that man's blood—"
niless.
"That's enough," said the merchant,
"The man was drunk; there's no "here's twenty-five dollars."
liability," said the railroad attorney, as Some got mad at the parson for
he turned away. The prosecuting at- "butting in," but the majority saw the
torney advised the coroner not to put terrible logic of his argument and paid
the county to the expense of an in- what he asked. It was the first time
quest. "It's too clear a case," he said ; the issue had been brought squarely
"the man was drinking. There's no- before their eyes, and, being good men
body but himself to blame, and the for the most part, it was a startling
county board would object to a bill for realization. The "chickens had come
taking evidence."
home to roost," and they didn't look
The crowd turned away. The show good.
was over. An undertaker picked up
The preacher wasn't rough and perthe bunch of clothes and bones and emptory about it; he was just very
blood and put them into a cheap box. grave and earnest, and every man
The railroad furnished free transporta- knew in his heart of hearts that the
tion to the destination. Next day the woman's friend was operating in the
little tragedy was completed, and the proper jurisdiction. The woman got
widow and her children walked sor- enough to tide over the trouble until
rowfully away from the hillside ceme- she could obtain employment.
tery where the bread-winner lay. In
When the time came to renew his
the morning the woman consulted the license, the saloonkeeper
started
lawyer. He listened sympathetically around with his petition and a box of
but not hopefully. "I fear there's no cigars. He was smiling genially, beliability." he said. "Your husband was
cause it was only a matter of form.
intoxicated."
"Excuse me, Bill," said Smith, the
The woman went home with her lit- big merchant, handing the paper back,
tle ones huddled about her. She had "I'd rather not."
no bread for them, but told them she
"W-h-a-t?"
would get some. She went to a saloon"I'm not going to sign any more
keeper. He was indignant that she saloon petitions."
should call on him and refused to give
"You're joking."
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"Well, have it your own way. I
don't sign."
"After all the goods I have bought
of you?"
"1 appreciate your patronage," said
the merchant.
"I won't buy another trickle's worth
from you."
"All right."
The saloonkeeper went out noisily.
He was less sanguine when he approached the next man. but more
diplomatic. But his luck was the
same. The man didn't sign. When he
returned to his saloon he had three
names on his paper, and those were of
men to whom he rented houses. Next
month there was a sign on the saloon
door:
THIS BUILDING FOR RENT.
WILL BE REFITTED FOR DRUG,
GROCERY OR GENERAL MERCHANDISE STORE.—American fs-
suc.
Hawaii Cousins
COUSIN MARIA FORBES.
11l her tongue was the law of kindness.
On the afternoon of January 22 a
company of the good people of Honolulu assembled at the home on Punahou street, and later at the Kawaiahao
Mission cemetery, to lay to rest the form
of Mrs Maria Jane Chamberlain Forbes,
who fell asleep the day before, at the
age of seventy-seven years.
In the passing of Mrs. Forbes this
community loses from its midst one of
the strongest characters of the first generation of the children of the American
missionaries to Hawaii.
Maria Chamberlain was one of five island girls who, after study at Punahou.
pursued their education together at Mt.
Hoiyoke Seminary in the years 1850--1853, and was one who returned to Hawaii in 1854. Three of the five are still
living in Honolulu. She was married
to Rev. Anderson O. Forbes in 1858.
The earlier years <rf the married life of
this young couple were spent at Kaluaaha, Molokai. Mr. Forbes for some years
succeeding Rev. H. R. Hitchcock as missionary pastor, of what at that time constituted one of the most interesting portions of the Hawaiian field. Later, after
other pastorates in Hilo and elsewhere
in the islands, Mr. Forbes was called, in
1880, to the secretaryship of the Hawaiian Board of Missions, and made his
home in Honolulu. After years in this
service, physicians prescribed travel for
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February, 1909
THE FRIEND
his health, and while on return from the
Eastern States he died in Colorado
Springs, in 1888. In all his work for
Hawaiians, Mrs. Forbes was his devoted
helper.
rOC twelve succeeding years, Mrs.
Forbes, in her own efficient and satisfactory manner, conducted the Lunalilo
Home for aged and disabled Hawaiians,
winning the love and esteem of the many
needy ones who were recipients of her
kindness. Sensible of the increasing infirmities of age in 1901, Mrs. Forbes resigned, and was succeeded by Mrs.
Weaver in the care of this very interesting institution. Her later years have
been spent in her own home on Punahou
street, where surrounded by her children
and grandchildren and other kindred she
has l>een the valued friend of a wide circle of acquaintances.
In every relation of life she was to be
depended upon, to fulfil every trust. A
genuine interest in others accompanied
by evidences of sympathy, made her in
every case the true friend.
Brought up in a missionary family
Maria Chamberlain became an earnest
Christian and united with the Mission
Church, and in all the experiences of
life her faith in God was firm and unwavering and her example and influence
was ever on the side of right.
She opened "her mouth with wisdom:
and in her tongue was the law of kindness." "Her children arise tqi and call
her blessed." She leaves a son, two
daughters and four grandchildren to
bless her memory, besides brothers, a sister, nephews and nieces.
"The memory of the just is blessed."
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January I —Military electric railway
planned to operate through U. S. government lands connecting with Honolulu Rapid Transit.—Hookupu at Kawaiahao Seminary. About 500 people
present.
Jan. 2.—Cable announcement of
Science Convention coming to Honolulu in 1910.
Jan. 4.—Inauguration of the new
Municipal government of the City and
County of Honolulu at noon—a season
of political turmoil and wrangling.
Jan. 6,—An unbraced derrick at Hilo
breakwater fell into the sea while
handling a five-ton rock —killing W. D.
Johnson and injuring Messrs. Willard
and Beasley.—U. S. District Attorney
Breckons succeeds in unveiling plot to
import Japanese women for vile purposes and arrests Japanese men implicated.
Jan. B.— John T. Staytoti, assistant
postmaster of Honolulu, arrestee! for
opening and destroying letters directed
to other postof'fiec officials. — Plans received for the largest dry-dock ever
constructed by the C. S. Navy Department, to be built at Pearl Harbor.
Jan. 10.—Kona storm blows over
trees and houses in Waialua district.
Jan. II. —Fourteen government lots
on Alewa Heights sold to intending
residents.
Jan. 12.—Rev. Dr. Jones of Indianapolis, Indiana, announced as the new
pastor of the Honolulu Methodist
Church.
Jan. 13.—Arrival of first troops and
horses of the Fifth United States
Cavalry to be stationed at Lcilehua.
Jan. 14.—Hanalei, Kauai, school
house reported destroyed by the Kona
storm.—Honolulu people give a fine
poultry exhibition.
Jan. 16.—Three marooned Japanese
feather gatherers brought from I iermer
Reef.—Rev. Win. S. Anient, I). D..
missionary to China, and personal
friend to man) in Honolulu, announced
as having died January 8 in San Francisco.
Jan. 18.—Oahu Railway & Land Co.
reduce railroad fares to three cents a
mile.—Salvage on the British ship
Loch Garvie awarded; $15,000 to Inter-Island Co. and $4000 to J. I).
Spreckels & Co.
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Along Civic lines both the Social and
Civic Sections are accomplishing some
very practical results. After a month's
study of the Tenement House Problem of Honolulu, including the personal visitation and investigation of
every tenement in the city by members
of the Social Section, it was decided that
the first thing needed was to secure the
passage, if possible, of a bill at the
next Legislature, restricting the building of tenements and providing for
their proper control when erected.
The Civic Section devoted two meetings
to the study of the new Municipal Act,
with especial reference to the difficulty
which has arisen as to the respective
powers and jurisdiction of the Mayor
and Hoard of Supervisors under the
Act. Both meetings were largely attended and at the last a motion was
passed urging the County Attorney to
proceed at once to make a test case of
one of the appointments of the Board
of Supervisors before the proper court
so that the affairs of the city may not
be longer interfered with.
REVIVAL IN JAPAN.
Osaka, Japan, Dec. i(>, 1908.
leaving this busy city for Kobe
to take the steamer this evening for
Manila. It was a privilege to be able
to attend the Missionary Conference of
Central Japan held here today at Rev.
Mr. Murry's home. The burden of the
meeting seemed to be a desire for a revival and an outpouring of God's power here in Central Japan as they have
had in the north. Dr. J. D. Davis gave
a paper on "Conditions <>fa Revival."
The people are ready for it and all
Christians in the home land should
pray earnestly that it may soon come.
Mrs. I. G. Pierson writes from Hokkaido, in October, of God's power following the Revival, which began in
Tokachi* prison last year.
In her letter mention was made of
the wife of a prison official who lay
(King. Two physicians had said she
could not live through the night. She
had been a particularly zealous Buddhist, but during her illness had listened with interest to Christian teaching, and now, in the hope of comforting her in her dying moments, the
prison warder and several Christian
friends came to read a few passages of
scripture. To their surprise she answered with a loud "Amen," and from
that hour she began to mend. A weeklater she said, "I have been raised from
the dead by the Jesus religion, so please
give me the Jesus baptism." One of
her doctors, a non-Christian, said in
his amazement, "the woman has been
raised from the dead," and she now
goes by the name of "the woman who
was raised from the dead."
Just
revival in Tokaclii Prison wns the
* The
but only a single incident in the great
first
awakening in the Hokkaido, the northernmost
of the four large islands of Japan. The prison
is a little world by itself with a population of
some 2000 people, including nearly iooo prisoners, the rest being the warders and officials
and their families, who live in neat cottages
in the great open court.
The prisoners here were the most hardened
convicts in Japan, haying heen sent here from
other prisons in all parts of the Empire, so
that they represent the most vicious elements
among the Japanese, men who have heen guilty
of the heaviest crimes and are committed for
long terms or for life imprisonment.
Within the year 1007 nearly all the prisoners
were converted. Nearly all the officials and
their wives also have heen converted and baptized, and the Tokaclii Prison with its 2000
souls is now practically a Christian community.
For two years previous to the wonderful
awakening, Rev. and Mrs. G. P. Pierson. Rev.
C. Sakamoto and others had been in definite
and continuous prayer, for a special manifestation of God's power in Japan, and it was
in their own field and, humanly speaking, under their own leadership that the revival began.
F. S. S.
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THE FRIEND
February, 1909.
Mrs. Pierson, speaking of the way in
which, in prayer meetings visited by
her husband and herself, the people
were suddenly overpowered as they
listened to the story of the revivals in
Korea, Manchuria and in Tokachi
prison. They broke into weeping and
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At one such meeting there was a
Christian young lady who had become
paralyzed as a result of over-Study.
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For several months she had been unable to walk, but she attended the i
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A. M. C P, M
A. Ml A
$
Mush Place
Chinese, Work
English iind
Portugaene
I8JMJ
1500.00
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151.35
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Japanese Work
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Kiililii Settlement
Kauai Qeaaral Fund
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Maui (Joneral Fund
Molokai (ieneral Fund....
Oaliu (iOlUTIll Flllld
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I'alaina Settlement
I'alaiua Coastruetion
Portuguese
The Toino
141)9.10
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50.00
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Work
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53.00
Mush Place
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Chinese Work
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Kawaiahao's "At Home".
That the Mid-Pacific Institute is looming larger and larger on the horizon of
Island life was made evident to a wide
circle of friends on New Year's Day.
Principal liosher of Kawaiahao had planned an international species of New
Year's festivity, which in its reception
features suggested the Chinese Konohi
(pardon the monstrosity of this pidginCelestial), in its gift-bearing guests recalled to New Knglandcrs the donation
party and to Hawaiians the Hookupit
and in its general interchange of friendly
greetings preserved the essential spirit of
the year's opening in Dutch New Amsterdam and < lid Japan. The beauty,
massive simplicity, noble location and resourcefulness of Atherton Hall, the large
student hody and efficient enthusiastic
faculty impressed everybody. There can
he no question that Kawaiahao has gotten a new grip on life and that a splendid
history is fronting it in the new home.
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What is the reason for this sudden
of deep interest in Kawaiahao?
access
Hil.ill
Friend
hirst
foremost its absolutely incluand
_-M
Qeaaral Fund
llawaiian Work. ,| 89.02
sive character. It exists not for people of
Salaries
4110.50
444.52
one blood nor for students of a social
class.
The real spirit of Hawaii breathes
3.75
Hawaii (Jen. Fund
the entire institution of which
throughout
5(fcl(i
Interest
Kawaiahao is the feminine expression.
Japanese Work. .$201.50
Mills, the boys' department, shows it
Salaries
75:i.50
HMO
This noble inclusiveness is
equally.
BO.00
Japaaeaa V. M. C. A
Mid-Pacific's
greatest asset. To know
Hoaloha
48.50
Ka
no color line, no sodistinction,
no
01
race
629
Kulihi-Mouualua
100.00
Kohala SomirTury
cial caste and to be out and out Christian
11'.'Jo
Makiki .lapnnese Church..
accords with Hawaii's history since it be3(1.00
Ministerial Kelief Fund.
gan to have a history worth mention,
!»7.(>0
Office, Expense. ,$
the atmosphere of genial medibreathes
546.00
Salaries
449.00
ateness between East and West demandI'alaina Set I lenient
87.50
ed by Hawaii's position in the Pacific
Portuguese Work.$ 88.50
mid-ocean and incarnates the very desti296.50
Salaries
258.00
ny of these strategic isles of the blest
Tomo
30.40
To have seen this and to have grasped
Settlement Worker
50.00
the possibilities of such an identification
Waiakea Settlement
50.00
of its raison d'etre with the spirit of HaPermanent Investment.... 3052.50
waii is the rarest good fortune. No wonRxcess of current receipts
over current expenses.
884.38 $9194.03 der the eyes of some of Asia's far-sighted leaders are beginning to turn hither18.25
.... 759.00
guese Work.
Salaries
.$
821.25
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HONOLULU, H. T., FEBRUARY, 1909
VOL. LXVI
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ward and twth the Mills and Kawaiahao
departments of the Mid-Pacific are attracting students from the Orient. This
missionary animating principle is bound
to be the in hoc simio I'inces of this large
horizoned institution.
Second.
Next to this spirit which forms its inexhaustible source of weaith comes its
endowment of real properly, its forty
acres of land already far advanced in
value above its cost and worth well on to
$100,000. .Add to this its two buildings, one completed, the other last rising, totaling more than $150,000 and its
invested funds of over $37,500, and it becomes apparent that the spirit of the MidPacific Institute is rapidly clothing itself
in attractive garments. The task is now
upon its friends of raising $350,000 cash
endowment. That ought to be done
during 1009 if advantage is to be taken
>f the tide which will soon set towards
the school from Asia. The directors
have authorized the engagement of a
capable Japanese lady to bead the Japanese department of Kawaiahao. When
she reaches Honolulu a large increase of
Japanese girls may be looked for. In a
year the new hoys' building will be completed and will soon be overflowing with
students. The practical character of the
courses of study, which, besides fitting
those who expect to pursue higher education elsewhere, plan to equip graduate
with power to be industrially independent, will compel the support of the hardest headed business men and still more
popularize the school. To meet all this,
the sooner the needed endowment is in
hand the better, llecause in the very
nature of things such an institution is a
sine qua iwn here, the money will come.
The environment, having necessitated the
establishment of the school, must also stimulate the financial support. Courage
then. Let the Mid-Pacific tell out its
story of God, who inspired its organization, will move the hearts of His
children to develop it into power.
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The Campaign For Men.
At the very outset of the present
administration
in Central Union
Church the slogan "Men to the front"
was sounded. It accorded with the
prevailing spirit of Christ's kingdom
on earth which is nothing today if not
February, 1909
THE FRIEND
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virile. Whenever a great advance has
been sounded by the Great Captain,
men have sprung forward with a vigor
and enthusiasm irresistible. We are
in the midst of such a rallying today
throughout the entire Christian world.
It matters not where one's eyes rest, in
Turkey, India, China, Europe, the
Americas, Japan, men are awake for
Jesus Christ, and are 'leading mighty
movements for ideal humanity. Hawaii is feeling this world pulsation and is responding as last year's
story in Central Union Church clearly
indicates. Of the yz admitted last year
to membership 44 per cent, were
males, the masculine percentage of
those received on confession of faith
being 48 per cent. But the organization of the Men's League, which was
the outgrowth of several months of
good work by the Young Men's Cabinet and whose membership is rapidly
nearing the 200 mark, indicated the
trend of things even more surely. The
Cabinet was organized distinctly to
help the Church realize the possibilities of its influence in the community.
Hence the League was planned to
facilitate this purpose. It meant business and the sections into which it at
once divided itself are doing business.
The test, of course, will come with
lime. Progressive response to environment is the price of life and an
organization of this kind in order to
be vital must ever accord with the
changing demands of the never resting human world.
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The Lenten Program.
The executive committee of the
League has requested the Minister of
Central Union Church to devote the
Sunday evenings during Lent to a
series of addresses upon the Reality
of the Spiritual Life. At its January
meeting the League enthusiastically
endorsed the committee's request and
voted to put forth all the power of
the League in making the series a success. The Musical Section is to have
charge of that part of the program.
The addresses, the nucleus for which
was a course of Passion Week Talks
given last year, have been in course of
preparation for publication. An endeavor will be made to rally as large
numbers of men to these services as
possible.
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Coastwise Shipping Laws.
The Civic Federation did one of its
beat strokes of work, when stirred by
the remarks of Governor Frear anent
the cowardly local back down on the
coastwise shipping question, it issued
a call for a mass meeting to voice I!"
nolulu's real sentiments. The gathering was an unusually large and representative one. the addresses by Governor Frear, Mr. Thurston, Prof. Babson and others were to the point and
the vote, if>B to 2, was decisive. The
meeting voted to cable resolutions
(costing some $150 to send) to Washington requesting the exempting of
Hawaii from the provisions of the
Coastwise Shipping laws until an adequate number of American vessels are
running between the Coast and the Islands. Inasmuch as the ship subsidy
measure is popular here the resolutions
expressly favored this policy. It is
needless to add that there are some in
Hawaii who do not favor subsidies or
protective duties, believing then) to be
forms of unjust taxation. Perhaps the
Democrats and free trade Republicans
may stave off the subsidy bill for another two years. Meantime it is to be
rival of the Honolulu boat and compelling all passengers to put in a long
tedious wait before the next train
leaves. It has done little good for islanders to complain of this, but when
two men of such commanding influence
in the traveling world point out how
certain such a policy is to discourage
tourists, it will bear fruit. After all it
pays to treat new comers as you would
be treated if you were new. Make every provision for enabling travelers to
see the best, to facilitate their every
comfort and they will want to come
again and tarry longer. They also will
send scores of others. The phrases,
"perfect accommodations," "every possible comfort," mean volumes to American travelers. We have found it hard
to get visitors to go to the volcano
simply because of the justice of the
very criticisms passed Upon the Hilo
trip by these visiting railroad men.
Some day a railway will run from Kawaihae to Hilo connecting with a rapid
steamer to and from Honolulu, and
then the horrors of the sea trip a thing
of the past, Hilo will come to its own
as a tourist center.
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CHRISTMAS IN WAILUKU.
A STUDY IN
BLACK
AND WHITS
hoped that the Coastwise laws will
directly be suspended for Hawaii. It
is too good to believe that Congress
will restore American shipping to the
seas by allowing its citizens to buy
ships built anywhere and fly the Stars
ami Stripes over them and employ any
seamen to man them whom they may
choose. What Congress will do when
it once begins to legislate for freer
commerce no one can prophesy. We
may yet see Hawaii a free port.
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Our Tourist Boom.
Among the many blessings, which
the promotion of world wide travel to
Hawaii is sure to bring, that of free
criticism of ourselves and of our insular way of doing things will not be
the least. Two railroad men of large
prominence have just visited the volcano and have called attention in no
unequivocal language to the inexcusably short-sighted and vexatious policy
of the Hilo railroad in despatching a
train to the volcano just before the ar-
The Christmas season in the Churches
uf W'ailuku was most delightful in
weather and filled with much joy for all
our workers.
At the Union Church the Sunday evening service was made very attractive with
excellent Christmas music by members
of our Church and congregation. The
decorations were decidedly in keeping
with Christmas, being red geraniums and
poinseltia. The collection for the Hawaiian Hoard was the largest in three
years.
()n the Saturday lx-fore the little people of the Sunday School met for Santa
Clans' presents, games and a tree. Tt
will be interesting to the many Honolulu
friends of Union Church to know that
fully half of the little white people of
Waliuku, other than of Catholic parents,
have been enrolled for the last eight
months in the Union Sunday School and
that the school is increasing in numbers
every few months. This fact with the
well attended evening services, and cordial relations in town with all other
Christian workers makes the Union
Church more and more valuable each
year to the community.
At Waikaptt and Kaahumanu Churches
the Christmas exercises were well attended and the little people greatly enjoyed their Santa and gifts.
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THE FRIEND
February, 1909.
THE MAILED FIST.
The good wishes and remembrances
from the many Wailtiku and island
friends made the Christmas season full
To the lot of Hawaii it has fallen to
~f joy for the people at the William ami
inherit
the choicest advantages of the
Mary Alexander Parsonage The preof military expansion, Xot only
policy
Maui's
most
beneficent
by
sentation
up in history as the Gibralfriend of a handsome tiling cabinet for will we loom
Pacific, hut many millions of
tar
the
Association
of
the
Maui
Aid
the office of
among us, thouwill make the work of the Hoard's agent dollars are to be spent
cultured famimany
sands
of
and
people
future,
for
now
all
much easier in the
our social circle. W •
bills. Church memberships, letters and lies will be added tocenter
shall live in a new
of world activireports will be immediately at hand.
ties, t tie will boom and many improveYear
full
of
encourThe Xew
opens
agement. The hearty spirit of cooperation among all the historic Churches of
Maui give us great cause for rejoicing.
will look sweet even if the whole beach
is taken by the defenders of the soil; but
it wishes, down deep in its heart, that
the civil and military authorities could
get toecthcr and, by a system of give and
take, make a fair division of the choice
spots."
"Yes, gentlemen," says Uncle Sam.
"I have
at
heart the
weifare of Hawaii
nei, but unfortunately I can not handle
this subject with gloves, when, by your
own choosing, I must now walk the
earth with a mailed fist."
R. P. D.
MORE ITEMS FROM
WAILUKU.
Christmas exercises were observed in
the Chinese Church, December 23rd.
There was a gathering of 150 people.
The children connected with the day and
Sunday School entered into the spirit of
the occasion by their songs, and recitations, which were given in a creditable
manner in Chinese and English. The
arrival of Santa Chios with his wheelbarrow load of gifts was the cause of
great wonderment as to what the contents contained. All were delighted with
Santa Claus's visit.
On December 35th another evening of
cheer was the Christmas celebration at
the fapanese Church. At an early hour
the room was well filled with the JapNINE NATIONALITIES.
will doubtless be made by the Naanese children, their parents and friends ments
government.
tional
to the number of about 200. The openThe above is a group representing
But now out from under the cloak of
ing exercises consisted of songs, diato
shownine
different nationalities among the
the
mailed
first
begins
prosperity
recitations
the
by
logues and
children;
batteries
pupils
attending the Kawaiahao Semihuge
location
of
following these was a dialogue by the it self. The
the
girls' department of the Midnary,
of
Honolulu's
the
of
some
vicinity
in
caused
much
fapanese voting men, which
amusement.
December 30th, a special service was
held at the Japanese Church, at which
six fapanese young men were received
into the Church by profession.
During the Christinas vacation Miss
Turner visited Lahaina, and called on
the Chinese families. Mrs. Lillian Simpson still gathers about her an interesting
class of Chinese children each Sabbath
morning at the Settlement for Sunday
School, instruction.
Mr. Man Hoy is doing good work in
bis Mission School. He also teaches
them, on Sunday. Bible lessons. He
feels the need of Sunday School picture
papers, or cards, with which to interest
the children.
Any contributions along this line will
be gratefully received both by Mr. Mar
Hoy and Mrs. Simpson.
C. L. T.
choicest resorts will be prejudicial to the
homes and property there and it is more
than likely that Iwfore the program is
finished the iron hand will have us in its
grip. The situation is well epitomized
in the following excerpt from an editorial
in the Advertiser of January 12. One
can not read it without seeing that the
advantage has a tail to it and that the tail
has already begun to wag the dog:
"Ten years ago Honolulu surrendered
the site of its beautiful marine park to
the Nayy—a place which still remains at
l standstill—and did it cheerfully. It
gave up a splendid tract on Punchbowl,
for the same purpose, and has never seen
anything done with it—but it still keeps
cheerful. It smiled amiably when a tract
of land which could be made to yield a
million dollars a year in pineapples was
preferred for cavalry horses to run on.
over land that would not be good for
much else. Honolulu is still smiling. It
Pacific Institute. From left to right in
the front row they stand in the following
order: Filipino, Chinese, Hawaiian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese. liack row,
left to right, Xorwegian, German,
French.
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MINISTER OF THE METHODIST
CHURCH.
Leaving a large pastorate in Indianapolis, the Rev. J. T. Jones has come
(by the Manchuria, Jan. 29) to take up
the work of the Methodist Episcopal
Church of Honolulu. Mr. Jones is a
graduate of Dc Pauw, the Methodist
University of Indiana. In the several
pastorates which he occupied in that
State he has won an excellent reputation
as pastor, speaker and worker. Mr. and
Mrs. Jones are accompanied by Bishop
Smith and daughter, who may remain a
few months in the Islands.
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February, 1909
THE FRIEND
PICTURES OF OLD HAWAII WITH boys. The holoktt or Mother Hubbard
dress, at even that early day, having lieen
GLIMPSES OF THE NEW.
established as the orthodox and presentBy O. H. Gulick.
able garment for the fair sex. As for
shoes, at first, there were none, and later
Read before the Social Science Associa- when the shoemaker came to live at Kotion, Jan. 4, 1909.
loa, he soon learned that to be valuable
Dr. Cyrus Hamlin, a missionary in his shoes must have plenty of squeak.
Turkey, records that in discussing with Truly the amount of squeak was the
an intelligent Russian the conditions of most important element in determining
life in his country, the latter said, "If the price.
you let alone politics and religion one A day or two since I heard some
could be as free in Russia as in any ladies speaking of a certain silk skirt that
country." The doctor replied that in had an admirable rustle to it. How does
America politics and religion are a large that sentiment differ from admiration
part of life. The Russian responded, "If for the squeak of a new pair of shoes?
you will be so fools as that there is no "One touch of nature makes the whole
world kin."
help for you."
planters upon the islands in 1838 or 1831),
and the attempt at raising silk by Messrs.
Peck and Titcomb speedily contributed
decent appearance of the Sabbath
congregation.
to the
A Stale Yarn.
And just here let me say that under
the guidance of father and mother the
little Gulick hoys were encouraged to
raise silk worms, which were fed by
them from mulberry trees planted by
their father. We were very intimate
with Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Peck, who
were most estimable people. From the
silk planters we learned how to reel the
silk from the white and yellow cocoons.
These silk-worms were fed on Sundays
as regularly as the milk cows were sent
the pasture on Sundays. And yet the
stale yarn today finds credence, that the
silk business was abandoned because the
missionaries opposed the feeding of silk
worms upon the Sabbath. Such sapient
yarns have survived even to our day.
As an Angel of Light.
Missionary touring was one of the
most arduous duties of the earlier missionaries. A service not devoid of satisfaction. The missionary was hailed by
the people as an angel of light, and was
treated as if belonging to a higher order
of beings. The fatted pig or the pet hen
was unhesitatingly sacrificed for the entertainment of the welcome guest or
Hawaiian congregation today. The woThe establishment at Koloa of Messrs. guests. The thatched house or hut, even
men were more clad than the men and Ladd and Hooper as the second sugar if the abode of the better class of the
When the school hoy puts on his head
If it is tacitly understood that the discussion of politics and religion is not in his mortar-board, or the admiral his
place in the meetings of this Association, shoulder straps, the general or the KaiI must plead that politics, religion and ser his boots and spurs, when we are
education are the principal factors in the just a little vain at the nice necktie or
development of Christian Hawaii, from the broad-cloth coat we are wearing on
the heathen aggregation that once occu- a hot day, or when even a little set up
at the thought of our possessions or atpied these island shores.
tainments that we have made of grace,
Fashions, Then and Now.
or of human or divine favor,
The completion of the adobe church of intellect,
us
let
think
of our kinship to the lover
building at Koloa, Kauai, in about 1836
or 1837, was a great event. The earliest of shoe squeak.
The little missionary boys of whom
congregations that filled that large buildthere
soon were several rejoiced in bareor
800
ing may have numbered 700
peor»le. perhaps not one man of whom would feet until about Church time Sunday
be counted as reasonably dressed in any morning.
to
February, 1909.
common people, in the earlier times, contained none of the furniture of civilized
man. Lodgings for the missionary, or
for him and any portion of his family
who might accompany, was upon the
kikiee or raised platform covered with
huthala mats, which constituted the bed.
and upon which were spread some thicknesses of kapa, a substitute for sheets and
blankets
having considerable
and
warmth. Tn such a house even floors or
chairs were not found. In a well-to-dohome a curtain of cheap calico stretched
upon a string across the house might
separate the sleeping quarters of the
guests from the noisy inmates of the
abode.
If the host and his unclad family
were gathered around the fire in a hole
in the ground in the center of the bouse
where the cooking of fish, taro, potatoes
and bananas upon the coals, was in progress, at times, the smoke would make the
choking, gasping would-hc sleepers behind the cotton curtain wish themselves
in the open air. In those earliest days
mosquitoes and mosquito nets were almost unknown. These insects arc said.
by Prof. Alexander in his history, to
have been brought to the islands by the
ship Wellington, from San Plas. Mexico,
in the year 1826. Bui their spread was
very gradual. The joyous welcome that
the people gave their teacher, and the
hearty hospitality of the generous people.
made the discomforts seem light, and the
joy great. More willing listeners to the
simplest of Gospel teaching, than were
the early Hawaiians, chiefs and people
are seldom found. At the time when mv
knowledge of life and its surroundings
began to dawn, in the middle thirties.
Gosnel teachir« by the missionaries was
most warmly welcomed. Today, many
of every race arc barred from Church
attendance by lack of supposed suitable
clothing. The question of raiment did
not hinder from attendance at meeting
of the grandparents of the present day
1 fawaiians.
Problems of Early Evangelism.
Did not the missionaries begin at once
to gather in the children, and seek to
raise up a more enlightened generation?
No; such procedure is utterly impossible
in an uncivilized land. Children cannot
be held together or brought under the restraints or inconveniences of schooling
or of any kind of instruction, until the
parents are in some measure impressed
with the value of instruction. In such a
community men. young men. are the first
who can be reached.
The Hawaiian, like the most of the
human family, was a hero worshipper,
and one who held the chiefs, especially
the higher chiefs, in the most profound
respect. The first missionaries realized
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that the chiefs, if won, would surely lead
their people. Those of the earlier missionaries who were located near the high
chiefs spared no pains to obtain their
respect, and to inspire them with a desire
to receive what the messengers from the
far land had to impart.
The earliest attempts to lead the people in acts of worship, were fraught with
great difficulties. When the missionary
began in a proposed service to pray, the
people said he is talking to his god, and
when they heard in their own tongue the
words of confession, they said he is telling his god that we are bad, and turned
away in anger. "But wisdom is justified of her children." Some were attracted and came again and again to
hear. Such received instruction joyfully
and in time were sent out by the missionary to be teachers of others. Of
course these earliest teachers were the
But
crudest instructors imaginable.
MATAIO KEKUANAOA.
though so poor they were the
pioneer
school teachers of the land, and in time
were succeeeded by men of greater attainments and of comparative efficiency.
The Magic Paper.
be
It is to
remembered that the people
had no idea whatever of reading or writing, or that a piece of paper might be
made to speak to one miles away who
should scan it. This was as great a
mystery as the n>agic of wireless telegraphy. The story is told of the sending
by a missionary of a number—we will say
seven—melons to a distant friend. When
the messenger delivered six melons with
an accompanying note, the receiver asked
after the remaining seventh melon. The
bearer replied that the letter was not in
sight when he ate that melon, and he
could not understand how the letter could
have told of his eating that seventh melon
for he was himself out of sight of the
letter when he ate the fruit.
The basis of all western book learning
is the alphabet. The early missionaries
ere long discovered that all genuine Hawaiian words could be written with
twelve letters—five vowels and seven
consonants. The first primer was styled
the Pi-a-pa, this being the first bookteaching the construction of syllables by
the combination of letters. The five
vowels are given the Italian or Continental sounds. With a full understanding of these vowel sounds the reading of
the Hawaiian language Incomes exceedingly simple. All words being written
phonetically no time whatever is wasted
in teaching spelling. No child with a
1 lawaiian ear, will ever misspell a native
word. When it dawned upon the people how easy and how practicable it was
to learn to read, there swept over the land
a wave of desire to learn this wonderful
art. Chiefs and people alike flocked to
the missionaries to learn, and many
on.
teachers of reading led the
Why Not Teach English?
Xow, why did not the missionaries
teach the people English, and give them
something worth knowing, give to them
the key that would open to them the
literature and the wisdom of the ages?
Perfectb- impracticable, utterly impossible would have been the attempt, at that
period cttrthe nation's childhood to have
sought to imnart to the musses the knowlfdrw of an unknown tongue. The thousand teachers who. after a few weeks
or months with the missionary, acquired
the power to put the twelve letters' into
syllables and then by these syllables producing the words whose sounds were
familiar to their ears, words conveying
meaning to their minds: these, knew no
English, and were as incapable as babes
to acquire or to impart instruction in a
foreign language. No, the missionaries
did the only possible or practicable thing,
namely to teach the people in their native
language.
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"God is the new thought in the intellect, the new love in the heart, the
new tide of strength in the will, the new
reservoir of power behind all the lines
of supply coming into our lives." —
George A. Gordon.
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A CORRECTION.
Through an oversight the signature of
Rev. E. W. Thwing was omitted from
his "Letter from Japan," which appeared
in the last issue of The Friend,
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February,
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The Scribe's Corner
REV. WE BREWSTER OLESON
Corresponding Secretary,
THE
WORD CHURCH.
(hir
esteemed contemporary, the //<tin its January
issue, has an editorial on"The Word
Church," in which reference is made to
an article in the same journal in a preceding issue. We quote:
"Some of our good Christian friends,
not of the way in which we walk, felt
aggrieved at the article on Hilo in the
December issue. A sentence appeared;
'The Bishop almost despaired of planting
the Church there permanently.'
"The supposed grievance arises from
the use of the word Church. The writer
of the article certainly did not mean that
Christianity had not been planted at Hilo
and perhaps he would better have conveyed what he had in mind if he had
written, 'despaired of planting this
Church there,' etc.
"It must I>c remembered that the HaeWMOfl Church Chronicle is intended for
Churchmen and therefore its articles are
in words which they will understand.
When it is stated that the Bishop 'despaired
of planting the Church,'
Churchmen would understand that it
was" the Historic Church of which he
is overseer.
"There was no intention in the article
on Hilo to ignore what any Christians
have done or are doing."
Thk Pkiknd gladly makes these quotations from the Chronicle mainly because this explanation greatly honors the
Christian spirit of our esteemed contemporary; hut partly also because the
Chronicle is seen by others than Churchmen, and therefore it should be made
plain to all its readers just what it means
In- such statements as those referred to.
Now that our contemporary has called
special attention to the usage of the
word Church, it is fitting that we should
add that in no instance does the Century
Dictionary, or Christian usage the world
over, warrant the monopolizing of the
word Church by any organization of
Christians, whether the word be spelled
with a capital or otherwise. Thus the
Century Dictionary in its definition of the
word Church sanctions the use of the
capital in the descriptive titles of all organized bodies of Christians, as follows:
"The Roman Church; the Presbyterian Church: the Church of the Disciples; the Church of the New Jeru-
Xtniitm Church Chronicle,
njoo
salem; the Independent Evangelical accession, twelve, being received at the
Portuguese Church. It was an inspiring
The Chronicle expresses dissatisfaction occasion to see six young men and six
with the descriptive title of its own young women, between the ages of
Church. That dissatisfaction, however, eighteen and thirty, thus publicly enter
does not militate against the fact that into the Master's service. Xo wonder
its Church has a title which when used Pastor da Silva's heart was gladdened.
would remove all possible misunderstand.* S* c<
ing; and we fail to feel the force of the
In his recent trip through Hilo and
reasoning that in the columns of the
Chronicle the descriptive title is dropped llamakua, the (ieneral Superintendent
in the interests of Christian unity. Pot was impressed at the large audiences at
instance, the Chronicle is a public jour- the various Churches. It was refreshnal. It has its exchange list. What is ing to see the Ililo Portuguese Church
printed in its columns is liable to quota- filled to the doors with an interested and
tion at a distance; and that too in jour- devout congregation. At Haili Church
nals that are undenominational, and there was a large audience at the evenwhose readers are not all Churchmen. ing service, with a promising choir of
Suppose the Outlook or the Independent young people. ()n a half-hour's notice
should quote from the November issue a good sized congregation gathered at
Laupahoehoe for a week-night service.
of the Chronicle this sentence:
"There was no Church in Hilo when At llonokaa the people themselves were
surprised to find every seat occupied.
came
here."
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This is a quotation from a letter writ- Religious truth has certainly not lost its
ten by Bishop Restarick to a gentleman grip on men's hearts vet. Pig audiences
may not be the regular order: but it is
in Philadelphia.
encouraging to know that small audiChristian
people
Is the possibility that
ences
are not the unbroken rule. *
such
a
statement
misunderstand
will
Christian
really i in the interests of
unity? Would not such interests be betIf only a man could be a polyglot
ter served by using some descriptive title. preacher, and be able to cut loose and
preferably, of course, the name that the live in the saddle, and sleep in the bush,
Church lias adopted for itself, or if that What audiences he could gather half a
is disliked, some other equally distin- dozen times a day. Barring"such qualifications, the least that can be done is to
guishing title ?
Xow these are small matters, and we keep moving over the field, each worker
would not refer to them were it not that doing his best with what he has and with
it is just such preemptive claims that ob- what lie is : and the rest must he left to
struct Christian unity. It is not in mag- the vitality of the seed sown, and the
nifying differences, nor in disregarding S*race of Him who giveth the increase.
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the rights of other Christians, but in
aligning ourselves in every good word
A visit with Pastor da Silva in his
and work in a comprehensive fratcr- new rig to the Spanish camp above
nalism that Christian unity is to be Vniaulu was one of the features of a rereached.
cent visit to Ililo. What numbers of
children flocked to the carriage, standing
The Week of Prayer was very fittingly on every part of it that would furnish the
iliserved at Hilo by a series of union slightest foothold and eagerly scanning
meetings held for two evenings in the the pictures in illustrated tracts and
Portuguese Church, one evening in Haili copies of the Gospels. The men were
Church, and two evenings in the Foreign away at work in the fields, hut the woChurch. These meetings were well at- men greeted the affable Pastor and gladtended, and were participated in freely ly took the literature be brought along,
in three different languages. This draw- illicit one woman in accepting hers said
ing together of Christians of different "Sabe pocol" Even the Pastor's comnationalities in union meetings is one of panion understood that, and sympathized
the sources of the deepening spiritual with the woman for that was all he unlife in our Churches. There are few derstood! What a Joy to brine some
communities having their Church build- new thing, and that too a thing so
ings in such close proximity as Hilo. precious, to hearts so eager and recep
and this fact as well as the spirit of the live! May the pood Pastor reap well
people promotes union services.
where he is sowing so faithfully.
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Sunday, January to, was a glad day
in our Hilo Churches for it chronicled
an addition of twenty to their membership. The Foreign Church received
three, and Haili Church five, the largest
The Foretell Church Parsonage at
Hilo is completed, and Mr. and Mrs.
shields are again comfortably settled
; n this very attractive and convenient
cottage.
February, 1909.
Central Union News
A. A. EBERSOLE
The Week of Prayer
Central Union Church began the
New Year with a week of prayer.
Both in attendance and in the deep
spiritual interest manifested the meetings were a pronounced success. The
Methodist. Christian and Bishop
Memorial Churches united with Central Union in these services and the
Spirit of good fellowship which prevai'cd was most delightful.
The topics for the week were selected
from Stalker's "Imago Christi," the
pastors of the different Churches rep
resented each leading one of the meetings
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built up in that section of the city.
Largely through his efforts also the
money was raised for the erection of
the commodious Chapel, which was
dedicated on the evening of January
3. Already a nucleus has been gathered for the organization of a Church.
Some thirty individuals, most of them
adults, have signified their intention of
joining, and on Sunday evening, Feb.
7. will be received Lolo the fellowship
of the Church at Kalihi Chapel by the
Minister and Board of Deacons of
Central Union. No section of the city
offers a larger opportunity than Kalihi
for just such a work as this new organization is now equipped to do.
With such assistance as Central Union
can give Mr. Chamberlain the enterprise should soon grow into a strong
Church, ministering to the varied
needs of the people of that growing
community.
The Annual Meeting.
The annual Church supper and meeting for hearing reports of the various
organizations of the Church was held
in the New Parish House on Wednesday evening, January 13. Tables were
set for 27s and only a few chairs were
vacant. From beginning to end it was
a most enjoyable occasion. The Men's
League with its two committees —
Friendship and Welcome—attended
most acceptably to the sociability and
the seating of the feasters. The
Ladies' Society furnished the chowder—genuine Bay State Chowder, such
as the ladies of Central Union can
make. It truly was a feast.
The reports were unusually interesting. Although the three-minute limit
was not absolutely observed they were
all short and to the point. Resides the
reports of the officers of the Church
the following made interesting statements for the departments of the work
of which they have the supervision:
Bible School, Clifton 11. Tracy.
Ladies' Society. Mrs. W. J. Forbes.
Woman's Board of Missions, Mrs.
Doremus Scudder.
Missionary Gleaners, Mrs. D. L.
Monday evening, "Christ as a Man
of Prayer," Rev. John W. Wadman.
Tuesday evening. "Christ as a Student of Scripture," Rev. 11. W. Chamberlain.
Wednesday evening, "Christ as a Wellington.
Friend," Rev. John L. Hopwood.
Christian Endeavor, .Miss Lulu Law.
Thursday evening, "Christ as a Men's League, A. A. Fbcrsolc.
Winner of Souls," Rev. A. C. McI'alaina Settlement. las. A. Rath.
Keever.
Kalihi
Settlement. Horace \V.
Friday evening. "Christ as an In- Chamberlain.
fluence," Rev. Doremus Scudder.
Pleasant Island Mission, O. 11. GuA Branch Church.
lick.
At a business meeting of Central
Japanese Sunday Schools, O. H.
Union Church, Tuesday evening, Jan. (iulick.
Portuguese Sunday Schools, W. A.
5 it was unanimously voted to receive
Kalihi Settlement as a Uranch of Cen- Bowen.
tral Union. Under the leadership of
Chinese Mission Work. Frank W.
Rev. Horace W. Chamberlain, a son of Damon.
Without exception the reports showCentral Union, a strong work has been
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Ed splendid progress and taken all together made a most impressive presentation of Central Union's many-sid-
ed work.
The Minister's Class.
Chtistmas Sunday Dr. Scudder announced in his morning sermon that he
would be pleased to begin a class of
instruction for the boys and girls of
the Church who were thirteen years of
age. The purpose of the class he stated was not primarily to prepare the
children to join the Church or to bring
undue pressure to bear upon them to
take such a step, but rather to lead
them naturally and along proper pedagogical lines into an understanding of
the fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith so that as they come to that
age in life when they would most naturally decide to be followers of Christ
they would be able to do it intelligently. In response to this invitation a
•rood sized class has been meeting Dr.
Scudder Friday afternoon at 2:30 in
the parlor of the Church and have taken up in earnest this important work
—a course of study which cannot fail
to be of inestimable value to the boys
and girls throueh all their lives.
The Men's League.
Our Men's League is certainly making itself felt along both religious and
civic lines. It is putting new life into
every department of the Church's
work. The Friendship and Welcoming
Sections are doing a most important
service in keeping ever on the lookout
for new comers to the city, of which
there are a constantly increasing number, systematically inviting them to the
Various Church and League meetings,
and seeing to it that they arc made to
feel at home and get acquainted when
them come. The Sunday School Section
is rallying to the support of the
Wednesday Night Normal Class in
fine shape. The attendance and interest has been steadily increasing. The
Sunday Morning Men's Bible Class continues to be one of the strong features
of the Sunday's program. The attendance has kept close to thirty even
through the busy holiday season. One
of the most inspiring Mul-ifcek services, so a number of those who attended volunteered to say, was the
meeting January 20, on the "Brotherhood Movement," led and conducted
throughout by members of the Men's
League. At the last meeting of the
League it was voted to support both
by attendance and by personal work
among the men of the city a series
of Sunday Evening Lenten Addresses,
which Dr. Scudder has announced on
"The Realities of the Christian Life."
(Continued on Page 18)
February, 1909
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Christian Endeavor
JOHN F. COWAN, D.D.
THE UNITED SOCIETY Or CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOE.
Honolulu.
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600 Tramont T.mple,
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Rot Francl. E Clark, D.D.
OBraRAI, SBCraTABY-WiiuamShaw.
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EDITORIAL SECEETARY—Amos E. Well..
AROUND THE ENDEAVOR
HORIZON.
Dr. Clark is back from his European
tour, in good health and spirits. At
Christina. Norway, fifty Endeavorers
greeted him at the station before daylight, and King Hakon VII granted him
an audience.
Mr. llin Wong, former secretary of
the Oalni Young People's Union, sends
a message to American Endeavorers,
through The Christian Endeavor World.
He says that the outlook in China is
hopeful, and the next twenty-five years
will see wonderful changes. Mr. Wong
is now in the University of Missouri.
.Ml of the Young People's Unions of
the United Brethren Church, more than
a thousand in number, have added the
word "Endeavor" to their name, and thus
come into full affiliation with the worldwide, interdenominational young people's
movement. This was done with the full
approval of the bishops and highest authorities in the denomination.
In thirteen cities of California there
are organized Christian Endeavor Coffee
Clubs, which maintain reading rooms and
lunch counters. These places are made
as bright as possible, with a view to furnishing social centers that will draw men
from the saloons.
The St. Paul, Minn., Christian Endeavor Societies supplied one hundred
and ten poor families with Thanksgiving dinners. One basket went to the
Old Ladies' Home.
Twenty-two new societies have been
organized in Pennsylvania since the last
State convention. The general secretary
has toured the State from one end to
the other.
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THE TEBRITORIAL C. E. UNION Or HAWAII.
The Honorable George Nicholls, a
member of the House of Commons of
the Parliament of Great Britain, tells, in
an article in The Christian Endeaz'or
Times, London, how his membership in
the Christian Fndeavor Society made a
PEESIDENT-Eev. Mo.es H. Nakulna.
SEOEETAEY-Ml.. Florence E. Yarrow.
TEEABUEEE-Mr. T. Okumura.
TEAVELINO EVANGELIST-Be-. E. S. Tlmoteo.
mission worker of him, when a lad. He
became pastor of a church, through this
training and experience and says, "Every
time I entered the pulpit to preach, I
knew that my Christian Endeavorers
were praying for me."
Since entering Parliament, he has had
to give up his pastorate, but he preaches
on Sundays somewhere, which gives him
ample opportunity to see the work of
Fndeavorers, which they often carry on
under trying conditions, and to hear the
splendid testimonies of both pastors and
deacons to the effective work of the Endeavorers both in Church and Sunday
School.
ISLAND PEESIDENTS.
WEST HAWAII-Mr.. D. Alawa, Xallua.
EAST HAWAII-Mrs. Sarah Kalwl, Hilo.
MAUI-Peter N. Kahokuolnna, Paia.
OAHTJ-Ect. H. K. Poepoe, Honolulu.
KAUAI Hon. W. H. Rice, Lihue.
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CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR IN A
BUDDHIST TEMPLE.
Here in Hawaii, where just now
Buddhists are so aggressive (they are
dedicating two new school houses in Kohala district, and are giving the Japanese Christian pastor the time of his
life) it will be refreshing to learn of the
work of Miss Kajiro, in Japan.
She graduated from Mount I [olyoke
College, and started a small work in
(Ikayama, Japan, with meager support.
Her work has grown until she has been
compelled to rent additional rooms in the
Buddhist temples adjoining. She has a
wide wing in each of three large temples, where she houses dozens of girls
and herself.
Among her numerous activities there
are a Sunday School and a Christian Endeavor Society. She has refttsed the offer of a professorship in the only woman's university of Japan, with i..j,(x>
girls within its walls, and a good salary,
to stick to her own girls.
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Christian Endeavor Society in Bielefeld. Germany.
Secretary Friedrich Blecher
on the left.
THE INDIA CONVENTION.
The World's Christian Endeavor Convention, to be held at Agra, India, next
Xovember, bids fair to be the largest
Christian gathering ever held in the
Orient. More than six hundred foreign
visitors are expected. From three hundred to four hundred missionaries will
probably attend. The Indian Christian
community will probably send thousands.
Already it is known that Great P>ritain, America, Japan, Australia, New
Zealand and Canada will send delegates.
It will be the first time in the history of
the Christian Church that many of the
Indian Christians have met together. It
will mean a new era in the history of
Christianity in India.
Choose sides, in your society, and have
a missionary-reading contest, to see
which side will read the larger number
of pages of missionary literature in a
month, or three months.
An Endeavor society in Maryland
purchased a ncostyle and publishes a biweekly
church bulletin, containing
church announcements, church news, etc.
Dallas, Texas, Endeavorers visit the
Poor Farm one Sunday in each month,
and hold a service. The city and county
jails also come in for a share of their
attention.
Two Endeavorers of the Christian
Union Church, Xewark, "0.. are always
at the door to greet strangers. This society pays fifty dollars on the pastor's
salary, and has expended five hundred
dollars in fitting up a Sunday School
room.
During a recent evangelistic effort of
Rev. John McNiel, the Endeavorers of
the Church distributed several thousand
leaflets for him.
February, 1909.
Educational Advance
F. W. DAMON.
KAWAIAHAO
SEMINARY
"AT
HOME" —SUCCESSFUL NEW
YEAR'S CELEBRATION AT
ATHERTON'S HALL.
In May, 1907, many friends of this
institution gathered in Manoa Valley, on
the campus of' the Mid-Pacific Institute,
to witness the "Turning of the first sod"
on the site of the then anticipated building for Kawaiahao Seminary. Those of
this same number, who were privileged
to share in the festivities of January
Ist, 1909, in the completed edifice could
abundantly realize that the intervening
months had been busily occupied. On
the magnificent height, with its inspiring views of ocean and mountain, had
arisen a massive and picturesque building, constructed of the rocks of the valley, over which nature had dawn a delicate lichened tracery of her own. Where
the different schools had sung their
songs, in the Open, with the algarohas
encirling them and the blue above them,
was now the commodious home of one
section of the institute, with work well
under way, in its new and beautiful environment. Month after month busy
workmen of many different nationalities
had been engaged in accomplishing this
transformation.
The noble building,
which is now one of the most prominent
features in the landscape of Manoa Valley, is most conveniently located, within easy access to the cars of the Rapid
Transit Company. By a stimulating and
pleasant coincidence the visitor reaches it
most readily on Armstron street, a name
which recalls two men, father and son,
who have been inspiring forces in the
cause of education, both in Hawaii and
on the mainland of the L'nited States.
"Athcrton Hall" presents a noble frontage to Diamond Head, extending along
its main terrace, which rises picturesquely from the valley below, for nearly
two hundred feet. Three wine's inclose
two inner courts in the rear. The welllijrhted and convenient basement affords
spacious auarters for the laundry, storerooms and needed work-rooms of the institution. Above this on the first floor
are the reception rooms, offices, class and
music rooms and sewing department and
rreat dining hall, with its noble stone
fire-place. At the further extremity of
one of the wings is the infirmary, arranged with all necessary conveniences,
presided over by a trained nurse who is
a graduate of the Seminary. Ascending
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the main stair-way in the center of the
building, from the broad and airy cloister
with its massive stone arches, which runs
along the front of the building, the visitor
comes first to the spacious assembly
hall, which occupies nearly the full length
of the middle wing. This is one of the
most beautiful halls in the Territory and
reflects much credit tt|x>n the architect,
Mr. H. L. Kerr, as indeed does the whole
building, which has been greatly admired by all who have visited it. On this
same floor are to be found the apartments of the faculty and in two of the
wings separate rooms for the pupils of
the senior and intermediate grades.
These are well-lighted and airy and in
every way adapted for the comfort and
convenience of their occupants. On the
floor above are the dormitories, which
are most commodious and attractive. It
is a cause for much gratitude that the
penerous donors of this beautiful memorial building have here erected so well
constructed and attractive an edifice, and
one so fitted in practical details for the
varied needs of the institution which here
finds its home. Truly no more fitting
monument could have been reared to the
memory of one who so earnestly tailored
in the cause of all forms of philanthropic
work and especially of Christian education than this.
Busy workmen so long occupied the
building that it was difficult to think of
any thing but "finishing" work ever going on then, hut at last a time came when
it seemed possible to throw open the
new school home to all friends who cared
to inspect it. January ist was chosen
for this opening day and with this was
connected the old Hawaiian custom of
the Hookuptt, so that this became a "giftday" as well. Early in the afternoon
friends of all nationalities began to arrive and for several hours a steady
stream of visitors passed through the
building, which was indeed open to them
in kindly welcome from basement to
attic. In the faculty parlor and the adjoining library, the principal, Miss
Ilosher, assisted by the lady members of
the Board of Trustees and the wives of
other members, received in a most hospitable manner the large throng of
guests. Different members of the faculty lent their aid at many points in making the afternoon one most pleasantly
to be remembered by all who came.
Dainty refreshments were served in the
large, cool dining hall and in the front
corridor the strains of Hawaiian music
added to the festive character of the
gathering. Prominent among the visitors and most gladly welcomed were a
number of former pupils of Kawaiahao
Seminary, now busy with the active duties of life in the iarger world outside.
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but drawn by their aloha for the dear
old school which in spirit still lives here,
amid new surroundings it is true, but
always ready to welcome with hearty
aloha those wdio have ever been in any
way connected with it. It was pleasant
also to notice among the hundreds of
visitors many representatives of the
()riental races which have come to Hawaii.
Their ever increasing interest in the
cause of education is most noteworthy.
Those present on this occasion seemed
much imoressed by the splendid opportunities offered in Kawaiahao Seminary
for practical and thorough training, amid
such stimulating surroundings, for
young women. China, Japan and Korea
are already well rq>resented in the institution and some of the most promising
pupils are from these races.
Most generously did its friends remember the Seminary on this Xew
Year's Day and left behind them abundant evidence of their kind wishes for
the continued success of the school in
a material way. Many of the gifts were
placed in the Seminary Hall and presented a beautiful and varied appearance,
watched over and guarded by the l>cautiful American flags which were suspended above them.
Long and pleasantly will the memories
of this delightful opening day linger in
the minds of many. The evidences of
sympathetic appreciation of the work,
here being carried forward, will serve
as a helpful stimulus to those who are
bearing its responsibility—to press forward to larger undertakings.
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INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION
IN EDUCATION.
()ne of the most encouraging features
in the larger altruistic life of the present
time is the desire on the part of many
in England and America to share with
peoples of other and less favored lands
the results of the educational systems
which have been beneficial to themselves.
An especially striking example of this is
to be found in the increasing interest
manifested by certain of our leading
American universities in educationai
work in China. Vale has for sometime
oast had her representatives at work laving the foundations of important collegiate work in the Hunan Province in
Central China. In Peking, Princeton
has been endeavoring to gain a foothold. While the University of Pennsylvania is lending a helping: hand to the
fine work initiated in the Christian College in Canton, Southern China.
Recently a brief visit was made inHHr
nolulu by a prominent educator from the
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February, 1909
THE FRIEND
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younger children are within easy reach
of school, and whose weaker members
can get out of its homestead more than
half of the necessities of life, while the
father
and elder brothers are within easy
FRANK S. SCUDDER
reach, by rail, of work on a plantation
on which they can get good remuneration
The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto Treasure Hid in a Field.
for work,—the creation of this social
experiment is a business proposition
which it would seem must work to the
tion, all unheralded by the newspapers, advantage, both of the plantations and
HOMESTEAD CAMPS.
but a little inquiry showed that we were of the laborers.
on the wrong track. It it called a Homehas
not
recently
passed
Any one who
It is business, not philanthropy, but it
through that part of Kauai which lies stead Camp, and is a practical experi- may be that when we have the highest
between Koloa and Hanapepe would be ment fathered by some wide-awake busi- conceptions of business, we shall no longastonished at the changes which have ness men who are trying to solve some er have need of the word philanthropy.
Notes From The Field
taken place there in the last few months.
Not only has the macadamizing of the
road added greatly to the pleasure of
taking a trip through this section of
country, but there have suddenly sprung
up, as if born of the soil, such a number
of cottages and such signs of development that one is reminded of the boom
of a western town.
Passing over this road a few months
ago we were impressed with the vast
area of fertile land which was lying practically idle. It is at too great an elevation to be suitable for cane production,
but there is a fair rainfall, the soil is
niellow and rich—even the fence posts
have sprouted and grown up into trees
that form a striking boundary line between the fields,—and the ground is already cleared, the forests having receded
far up the mountain sides. One could
not help wondering why no one was
making use of the opportunities which
lie on the very surface there. Another
thing was equally surprising, for in the
midst of this uninhabited country there
was a new pineapple canning factory, apparently unrelated to anything except a
few small patches of pines on the hillside.
The Transformation.
But now the whole aspect of the country is changed.
Scattered alont? the
road for a distance of two miles or
more there are about ninety thrifty
cottages, each located in the midst
of a tract of fenced-in land several acres
in extent, with a supply of pure water
carried by pipes to each house: pineapple
fields too, and gardens have bloomed into
existence in a manner suggestive of
dreamland. A Japanese temple is perched high on the hill, and a Portuguese
Church is under contemplation. In the
valley is a neat school house—we were
passing just at recess time, and the children were evidently patriotic, for the prevailing colors in shirtwaists were red,
white and blue.
Our first thought was that this must
be the small farmer proposition stealing
a march on us and springing into realiza-
of the problems of plantation labor.
In
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a word, it is a plan whereby laborers are
NEWSPECIES OF SHELLS.
encouraged and assisted to secure homes
of their own. By a mutual agreement
The Bishop Museum press has issued
the land which was held by a plantation an illustrated booklet (Vol. 111, No. 2),
in lease from the government was sur- on Hawaiian land shells which have re-
rendered to the government together
with the privilege of using the plantation's water supply, and the government
has divided the land into holdings of
from six to ten acres, according to the
fertility of the soil. These lots are made
available to "Homesteaders" on condition of certain improvements being
made, after which the occupant may
hold the title to the land in fee simple.
The promoters of this Homestead Camp
scheme offer to any one taking up one of
these holdings, a loan of $325 for building a house, also furnishing lumljer and
labor for the same at cost. If a man
wishes to add to this out of his own
means, he may build a house to suit his
own taste and he has 18 years in which
to clear off his indebtedness.
To make the investment still more inviting to the laborers, the promoters
have located a pineapple factory in the
very heart of the district, purchasing
pineapples at market prices. A railroad
has been put through to the Homestead
Camp, so that the Homesteaders are absolutely independent to come or to go,
to work on plantations or to work on
their own homesteads.
Purely Business.
This is said to be, not philanthropy,
but business, purely business. It is believed to be good business policy to have
a labor supply of people owning their
own homes in the vicinity of a plantation,
and free as men can be, to work when
and where they please. It is Ixdieved
that self-respect and love of home on the
part of a laborer is an advantage not to
the laborer and his family alone, hut to
the plantation that may he able to call
upon such people to supply its demand
for labor. A family with a home of its
own, with plenty of elbow room and
wholesome surroundings and a fair
moral opportunity, a family whose
cently been received at the Museum.
Among the specimens are several which
are of rare interest to shell collectors,
being quite distinct from any species yet
described.
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MORE THANKS.
More cards, pictures, illustrated papers
and magazines have been received from
friends during January for our camp
work for which we express our hearty
thanks to the donors.
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JAPANESE
ECHOES FROM
CHURCHES.
The Wailuku Japanese Church (Rev.
G. Tanaka. pastor,) celebrated the closing of the Old Year with a joyful service in which six young men were baptized and received into the Church. Mr.
Dodge speaks of it as a very good service because of the large number out,
and the earnestness of those who came
out to serve Christ openly.
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First fruits among the Japanese in
Kona were gathered into Central Kona
Church the first Sunday of the New
Year by the baptism of six young men,
one of whom was received into the
Church. Mr. Okamura speaks of fifteen more who, after further instruction,
give promise of becoming established in
faith.
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The Makiki Giurch, having received
during 1908, 121 members, 116 of whom
were admitted on confession of faith,
held a meeting to which the members
were invited to come, each bringing in
writing a statement of his or her purpose in the Christian life for the coming
year. At this meeting a number of the
members entered solemnly and prayerfully into a mutual compact, that they
February, 1909.
THE FRIEND.
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You
can
Eat your cake and have it"
You can give away your property and have it,—really enjoy it, as long as you live. You could'nt have
it longer than that anyway.
This is the idea of "The Conditional Gift Plan" Your money,—property, or whatever can be
converted into money,—pays you a good steady income during your life and goes on working for you and for
humanity after you are gone.
So you "make friends (by) the mammon of unrighteousness"
So also, you "lay up for yourself treasures etc."
This is no cant. It is Christian stewardship and sound business sense combined.
The Finance Committee makes you an offer of one whole per cent better than before. You can hardly
;nvest much better elsewhere and
the amount you invest with the Hawaiian Board in your life time will not be
wrangled for alter you are gone.
If you are 20 years or over your money will earn 5 per
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See the Treasurer of the Board and talk over the security, the form of gift etc.
FRIENDS
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BOARD OF THE HAWAIIAN EVANGELICAL
Make it work.
ASSOCIATION.
Mr. Fukuda. our evangelist at Paia,
Y. M. C. A.
would strive to win for Christ, during
the year 1909 no less than 200 persons. l has* opened a Game Club and Reading
Lest a mere desire for numbers should Room in connection with his work. He
our eagerness to promote the cominfluence anyone in this campaign for would be glad to have magazines or ingInof people
to these shores, we ought
Christ, they have adopted special safe- games contributed for this purpose.
not to overlook our obligations to proguards against the dangers of a purpose
likewise certain privileges that will
Mr. and Mrs. Fukuda also have a day mote
expressed in terms of numbers.
be
in
their interest after they get
Like a river in a well watered plain, nursery, where mothers who work on the 'Our wide-awake friend Super ofhere.
the
plantation
may leave their little children
broadening and deepening in its onward
Y. M. C. A. is already at work on plans
he
and
to
cared
for
entertained
during
course, the interest and devotion have
for the benefit of the soldiers at Leilebeen steadily maintained through the |the day. Moved to do likewise, Mr. hua. He is in correspondence with the
year 1908 and the first communion of Maeda, a good Christian of our Puu- International Y. M. C. A. Committee in
the Xcw Year was gladdened by the re- nene Church, has obtained from Mr. Xew York relative to a building for
ception of 21 persons on confession of Paid win an extra house, with spacious Y. M. C. A. work at the new
camp. Just
grounds for this purpose. Mr. and Mrs.
faith.
what will seem best is not yet determinMaeda have 17 children to care for every ed.
It may be that the Association at
day and these form the nucleus of a SunXew York may see its way clear to esWhile our Japanese Churches have a day School.
tablish an Army Y. M. C. A. post with
goodly number of women in their memt&r*
building
and full equipment. Or it may
bership, no one can fail to notice the
Rev. M. Tsuji, Japanese pastor at Libe that the War Department may take
striking contrast in the proportion of the hue, writes of a visit, with
Kotani
Mr.
initiative, and establish a post exsexes in a Japanese and an American
land Mr. Takabashi, to Wahiawa camp. the
congregation. Of the 33 persons above They held a preaching service there, change, with the request that the Y. M.
mentioned as having just come into the which was the first gospel meeting the C. A. occupy the building, as is the case
fellowship of the saints, 32 are men. and people of the camp have been able to at- already at some other encampments. In
any event, we trust that a virile and atcomparatively young men.
tend. He says the leading men among tractive
Y. M. C. A. work may be in■■"
want
the Japanese
an evangelist to come
augurated
speedily at that important
The Makiki Church Sunday School and stay there, for there are no good inand we congratulate Secretary
economized on its Christmas expenses fluences among them, and good people center, on
his energy and foresight in
Super
and bought three dozen new chairs with all complain of the evil influence of gam- bringing
the project to the attention of
the money saved. The Church also has blers and wicked characters. They ask
increased its contribution towards the us to remember their request and send the proper officials at this early date.
an evangelist to reside among them.
pastor's salary by 20%.
W. B. O.
February, 1909
THE FRIEND
14
Sunday School
OrnCEES.
.
SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION Or HAWAII.
SUPERINTENDENTS OF THE DEPARTMENTS
PEESIDENT-Hon. W. H. Rlc*.
VICE-PRESIDENT-Re». H. K. P<x|x>«.
RECORDING SECRETARY I. H. S. Kil«0
TBEASUBEE-Oeorg* J?. C.tle
BUFEEINTENDENT-E.T. H.nry P. Judd.
Since the last number of Tin-: Friend
press, the Superintendent has
made a tour of Oahu and visited three
of the country Churches, and in the last
part of January has travelled on the island of Mplokai to become acquainted
with the Churches and Sunday Schools
of that little known and yet most interesting island.
Tour of Oahu.
The day after Christmas I journeyed
across the Nuuanu Pali and through the
beautiful district of Koolaupoko to HakiDUU, where I spent the night.
Sunday, December 27th, was the day
for Hoike services in practically all of
our Church Sunday Schools. Having received a cordial invitation to attend the
Hoike at Kam-ohc I did so and was
pleased to find a good-sized congregation
in the old Church makai of the court
house.
Under the leadership of Mr. Frank
Pahia the children and the adults went
through their various parts with credit.
Then several addresses were made, the
first being by Mr. Joseph Roberts, formcrlv a cowboy and manager of the Kualoa ranch, on Oahu, but now an itinerant
preacher. Mr. Roberts told of his tour
of Maui on foot and how he had been
preaching the Gospel everywhere. He
was now to make the circuit of Oahu
without the use of horse or carriage.
The Rev. J. K. Paele of Waikane, recently ordained a minister of the Gospel
by vote of the Oahu Association, made
a few remarks and then I spoke of recent visits among the other Sunday
Schools of Oahu and on other islands.
Then Mrs. Rol>crts and others concluded
the program with appropriate remarks.
After an intermission, the Christian
Endeavor Society held its usual meeting,
the topic being "The New Era in China."
A most interesting speaker was Mr. Ah
Mcc, a Christian Chinese who came to
these islands many years ago and was
converted to Christianity through the influence of Mr. Frank W. Damon. He
spoke of the great good being done in
China by the missionaries. His speech
in Hawaiian held the close attention of
the Hawaiians.
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The usual social conversations took
place in the Church yard after the service and it was good to greet so many
friends.
Kaneohe is fairly well populated and
prosperous and the Church really needs
a regular pastor to minister to the community. Meanwhile Mr. Pabia, Mr.
Kellett and others are loyally supporting
the Church work.
Tuesday. December 2Q, in company
with friends, I l>egan a tour of the remaining portion of Oahu, visiting that
day the lovely valley of Punaluu and
making the ascent of "the James P..
Castle trail" to the camp on the Kalitiwaa stream, far above the famous waterfall. It is well worth while for anyone
to take this comparatively easy trip and
see a remarkably beautiful part of Oahu.
both grand in its far-distant glimpses of
Waimanalo and Makapuu as well as the
waters of Kaneohe bay, and picturesque
in its near-by views of moss-covered
lehua trees, banana trees, wauke. olona,
loulu or native palms and other luxuriant
vegetation.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Hay at the
Hauula railroad station gave us shelter
for the night. That part of this island
is being more and more visited, now
that there is a railroad from Kahttku to
Kahana and a stage-line from Hauula to
Honolulu. We found tourists from California and from our own metropolis who
were enjoying the Kaliuwaa valley, renowned in Hawaiian legends, the sunrise at the sea-shore and the many
charming features of country-life in Koolauloa.
When T rode over to the Hauula parsonage the next mornintr T was fortunate
in finding the Rev. Mr. Nuubiwa at
home. Tt was with much recrret that T
learned of the weakness of the Church
and Sunday School there. It is to be
hoped that the Church at Hauula may
vet become a power in the community.
Our next resting place was Waialee,
where we were entertained most cordially over niMit by Mr. and Mrs. T. H.
Gibson. The Boys' Industrial School
under their supervision is in excellent
condition. Great improvements have
V
been made there in the past five years
and the farm is very productive of vegetables, taro, sugar cane, bananas, etc.
Resides farming in its various branches
such as dairying, pig and poultry raising,
fruit and vegetable culture, the boys are
taught useful trades in the carpenter and
blacksmith shops, are instructed in "the
three rs" in the class-room, are initiated
into the mysteries of the drill and some
of them play in the school band. Baseball and other games give healthy recrea»
tion.
Waialee is an ideal location for such
an institution and it is gratifying to knowthat the boys are being trained to become
useful citizens.
The ride from Waialee to Waimea
next morning was most interesting, hecause so many "small farmers" are developing the land that, less than five
\ears ago, was devoted to the cattle industry. Many people on Oahu seem to
have become "pineapple crazy," for at
Paumalu, Pupukea, Waimea and the vast
Wahiawa and 1 lalemano section acres
and acres of land are being put into pineapples. Let us hope that a welcome market may be found for all the pines produced by these progressive "small
farmers."
Passing through the village of Waialua and by the huge sugar mill and
through the cane fields, we came to the
home of Rev. and Mrs. John P. Erdman,
where we were entertained at lunch. It
gives one a gladsome feeling to thinkthat the country districts of the island are
being cared for by such an able leader as
Mr. Erdman and to know what a splendid influence he is exerting among the
Hawaiians and Japanese as well as other
races.
The First Church of Waialua, Rev.
L. D. Keliipio pastor, held a special service that evening, it being New Year's
Eve. At this "Watch Night Meeting" a
good audience was present. There were
songs and addresses by the pastor, the
president of the Christian Endeavor, the
superintendent of the Sunday School,
Supervisor Cox and other Church members. I was asked to say a few words
about the new year. In the audience
THE FRIEND
February, 1909.
or have ever asked if they could be of
any help to the little school? I dropped
in upon the small gathering that Sunday
afternoon and received a cordial welcome. It is unfortunate that the class
for boys and girls has had to be abandoned temjwrarily for lack of a teacher.
It seems a pity that twenty or thirty
persed shortly before midnight.
Dr. and Mrs. Hubert Wood were our young people have to be cut off from
entertainers over night and we left them the great privileges of Sunday School
Xew Year's Day to return to the city, because of "no teacher." The cry for
via Wahiawa. The interesting feature of more teachers again is abroad in the land.
the day was the glimpse we had of the Here is an opportunity for rich service
new cavalry pott at Lcilehua, beautiful in the Lord's Vineyard. Who will enfor situation and ideal for the purpose ter in ?
designated. It makes us feel that ()alm
After the school, I was invited to make
is indeed to become a Malta, to observe a few remarks in Hawaiian and did so
the Lcilehua nost and to note the various to the best of my poor ability.
preparations being made to defend I loThat evening the Kalihi Settlement
nolulu and Pearl Harbor. The exten- was opened formally under most favorsion of the pineapple industry was again able auspices. No doubt full re|>orts of
impressed upon us by observing the the proceedings will he made in other
stretches of new land recently planted columns of this issue, but it is worthy
with the pines. The end of the day again of note to record the fact that a new Sunfound us in the island metropolis.
day School has been established by the
were a number of the U. S. Engineers,
who had been making a survey of the
Waialua district. These and the others
in the congregation applauded each address and each song. After the program
coffee and cakes were passed about to
those present and then the gathering dis-
A Sunday in Honolulu.
The first Sunday of the new year was
a time for hopeful outlook and the beginning of the Church year with enthusiasm and renewed determination.
A visit to the Palatini Settlement Sunday School revealed the interesting fact
that a new course of study has been introduced there this quarter by Mr. Rath
anil his assistants. It is the note-book
and picture system, adopted last fall at
Kawaiahao and used so successfully by
them, Where the number of competent
teachers is sufficient it may be well for
any Sunday School to take up this new
method of study. It costs more effort
and time from the teacher, but it arouses
greater interest from the young people
and moreover gives them in concrete
form the results of their teachers' instruction. The note-book system, \ hope,
will spread among our schools. At Palama the boys and girls seemed to take
to the new idea readily.
At the Kawaiahao Church that morning the Communion of the Lord's Supper was observed, previous to which
seventeen new members were received
into the Church and twenty-seven adults
and children received the Sacrament of
Baptism. It was a most impressive service to sec so many Christians confess
Christ openly and to see so many infants
dedicated to the Lord and to His service.
Among the "apana" chapels of the
Kaumakapili Church is the Waikahalulu
Chapel, that is mauka of School street
and near the Waikahalulu falls of the
Nuuanu stream. The bell of the little
chapel calls people to the Sunday School
service every Sunday afternoon. How
many of those who ever hear the ringing of the bell know whence it cometh
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religious privileges. There are usually
at least four services every Sunday and
once a month—the second Sunday—
when Mr. Erdman conies, five services.
The attendance of about seventy in
spite of the bad weather was unusually
large.
A Sunday Among the Young People.
The third Sunday of January I attended the morning service of the Memorial
Chapel at Kamehameha School and gave
an address on"The Hawaiian Sunday
School Association." It was my purpose
to show the work of the Association in
its various features and to present some
of the problems we are trying to solve,
the teacher-training problem, the problem
of arousing interest in Bible study at
home daily, the problem of how to gather
in and hold the boys and girls not in any
school. In closing I urged all the Kamehameha girls and boys to become
identified with Sunday School work and
to support heartily the local Sunday
Schools of the communities from which
they come.
It's a far cry from Dan to Beersheba,
and so it is from Kamehameha to that
other splendid institution, in the beautiful valley of Manoa—the Mid-Pacific Institute, popularly called "Kawaiahao."
Placed almost at the extreme limits of
our growing city these two institutions
of learning are doing splendidly in the
great work of character building.
The vesper service at Atherton Hall
was amid picturesque surroundings. A
preacher does not often have to look up
at his audience seated row upon row on
the broad stone steps leading up to the
front entrance of a school building, but
such was the setting of the scene that
evening.
Previous to my introduction to the
students they sang very sweetly several
beautiful hymns and also, by request, the
old Kawaiahao song. It was an inspiring sight to see girls of Hawaiian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Porto Rican and
other nationalities all uniting in singing
songs about the Father of us all.
Such a gathering as meets every Sunday evening at the Mid-Pacific helps us
to realize that Jesus Christ came for all
races and teaches us the brotherhood of
man.
It was a pleasure to talk to the interesting girls and tell them of the Sunday
Schools on Maui and other islands.
The girls of the Mid-Pacific are to be
congratulated on having such an able
leader in Miss Bosher and such a splendid faculty as the new institution pos-
Rev. Horace W. Chamberlain in connecthe Settlement. This growing
part of Honolulu is new being well provided for religiously, and the young people of Kalihi can now attend a Sunday
School of their own near at hand. May
the new Settlement he a great blessing
to Kalihi and an ever increasing source
of inspiration, comfort and cheer to the
community!
A Sunday at Waikane.
The latter part of the week the Koolaupoko district was again visited for the
purpose of beimr present at the Waikane
Church at its quarterly Communion service. The day, January 10th, was marked by the beginning of .a kona storm that
raged three days with more or less severity along the coast of Oahu. In spite
of great wind and some rain the people
of Waikane, Waiahole and Hakipuu
came out to Church and Sunday School
quite faithfully • that day. Besides the
Rev. Moses Kuikahi and Rev. J. K. Paele, Rev. Mr. Erdman and I were in attendance. After the Sunday School
meeting in "Lanakila Hall," the regular
morning worship was held in the
Church, at which time I preached.
Then I baptized ten children and infants,
after which Rev. Mr. Kuikahi, the pastor, and Rev. Mr. Erdman conducted the
Communion service. Then, in the Lanakila Hall or Sunday School house Mr.
Erdman held his Bibie class. It was an
interesting hour to which almost all the
congregation stayed. After lunch at the
parsonage there were other meetings— sesses.
the Christian Endeavor and the Hui Manawalea—but Mr. Erdman and I could
not remain for them. With these six serIdaho for the first time in its hisvices on that Sunday surely the people tory has raised enough money for a
of Waikane cannot be said to be without secretary and is looking for the man.
tion with
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February, 1909
and realized, then Church leaders and work and will soon have each province
Christian workers will strive to find a ready for a secretary of its own.
Dr. and Mrs. H. M. Hamill have just
plan and to carry it out to prevent such
returned from a six months' tour of the
Extracts from a pai>cr by J. P. Murray. losses to the Church. ajjpß
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"Sunrise Kingdom," representing not
"What is the true measure of success
Montana has raised $800, Wyoming only their denomination but this Assoof the Sunday School?" was asked at the
as well. They also effected the
last Convention of the International pledges $400 toward a joint secretary. ciation
Sunday School Association of Korea
S. S. Association. "Is it to teach the Illinois generously lifts the rest of the
students about Christ or to lead them to load, contributing $800. They are last March. Their, whole tour was
marked by enthusiasm and great sucaccept Christ?" Without a dissenting looking for a suitable man.
president
our
Rev.
of
cess.
Meyer,
F.
B.
back,
lead
them
"To
voice the reply came
is
in
now
South
Association,
World's
Christ."
to accept
Africa, devoting practically six months
If the true measure of success of our of his time to the Sunday School in- INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION
to
Sunday Schools is to lead our students
IN EDUCATION.
terests of the Dark Continent.
accept Christ, let us consider for a few
been
marOur
financial
has
growth
moments how far our schools have at- velous. The Treasurer has handled
(Continued from Page 11).
tained their true measure of success.
over $106,000 during this triennium.
Statistics show that about i.000,000 The
largest amount expended during mainland, namely Professor Thomas C.
Sunday School students were converted
triennium was $56,000.
previous
any
Chamberlain, who was on his way to
in the' last three years. As there are
new Sunday Schools
About
fourteen
Schools
China, as a representative of the Uniabout 14,000,000 in the Sunday
a
for every day in the year is the versity of Chicago, to inquire into eduof the United States, this gain of the netday
our
last Con- cational conditions
gain we report since
in that great awakenChurches in membership from the Sun- vention.
This means 15,000 schools ing empire. Those who were privileged
day Schools amounts to less than 2>/'%
last
Con- to meet Dr. Chamberlain, while in Homore than we reported at the
per annum.
vention.
Sunday
nolulu, were greatly impressed by the
to
attend
begin
Roys and girls
The Home Department shows a gain
School, on an average, at about the age
breadth and earnestness of his spirit.
of 50 per cent, in the number of de- He hopes to meet
of six years, and leave it, on an average
Professor Burton, also
cent,
enin
partments and about 40 per
from Chicago, who is now on his way
at about fourteen, and thus have, on an
have
considerablynow
We
to China via Turkey and India, where
average, but eight years of Sunday- rollment.
over half a million enrolled in this de- he has been visiting the schools and collife.
School
partment.
leges of those lands. It is truly an inAbout k//c of Sunday School students
Over 19,000 Cradle Rolls are reportthey
spiring fact that our great institutions
leave
become converted before
ed, which is about triple the number of learning are exerting themselves to
more
of
the
that
likely
school. It is
6%
reported at Toronto, while the enroll14,000,000 students become converted ment reaches the enormous figure of further the educational interests of those
during the years from 14-20, therefore over 444,000, a gain of more than 100 peoples who are reaching out for more
advanced standards of training and culabout 25% are converted before they per cent.
ture. In this connection we feel sure it
reach the age of 20.
At Louisiana's last Convention seven will be of interest to the readers of Tin-:
As the proportion of those converted
hundred and twenty-five delegates
before the age of 20 to those converted came in on one train. Sixty-seven men FRIEND to have their attention called to
after 20 is as 55: 45 then it is likely contributed $100 each for the State the commission issued to the al>ove-named gentlemen by the president of Chicago
that only about \<a°/c of the entire 14,work. They have had their secretary University.
heever
Sunday
Schools
-000,000 in the
less than two years.
"In the study of educational conditions
come converted.
One hundred and sixteen Sunday and needs in China it is important that
now?
Outis
doing
What the Church
School General Secretaries and Deside the Sunday Schools, in the outside partmental Specialists are devoting information be obtained from cverv
world, she has evangelists for some and their whole time to the work in the source accessible. Your report should
imrescue missions for others and is spend- various States and Provinces, and fifty- indicate what seem to be the mostcounportant educational needs in that
ing millions of dollars every year to save six are working on part time.
try, what work is actually under way,
souls. And what is she doing for her
our statis- whether from private or public sources,
of
feature
encouraging
An
we
she
find
own Sunday School? Here
903.028 conversions and ad- how far that work is well directed tois making comparatively almost no tics is that
to
Church are reported by ward the main purposes which ought to
the
ditions
to
serious, organized, persistent effort
This is a gain be in view and whether additional educaAssociations.
forty-six
win them to Christ. These young peocent,
over
previous re- tional agencies and activities would conany
of
to
per
ple in the schools are the wards of the
with joy. tribute to the best interests of China in
to
hearts
fill our
Church, placed in her hands and under port and ought
delerates
representing
Over
1,300
accordance with the highest ideals of
her guardianship. They should be won
earth
held
the
nations
of
the
many
of
modern civilization. The general purChurch.
to Christ by the efforts of the
Protestant Sunday School pose of your work in oriental countries
The teachers themselves should be taught a World's
in the old Eternal City of is to inquire Into the possibilities of
and led to become soul-winners. For this Convention
Rome,
one of their prin- bringing about closer relations in educaconducting
purpose a Personal Worker's Class might
services
the
Coliseum.
cipal
in
train
tional matters between the East and the
be formed in Sunday Schools to
West,
become
with mutual advantage: in particThe
Ontario
Association
has
work.
this
all-important
workers for
to
determine whether educated men
great
to
Brother"
to
the
Northwestular
"Big
It is probably not commonly known
Saskatchewan,
those
interested in education in
of
and
Alern
Provinces
that
such
the Church and Sunday School
in America can become of sera small proportion of the Sunday School berta and British Columbia, by helping China and
students unite with the Church while in them to a secretary in the person of vice to one another in the promotion of
the school. When the fact is well known Stuart Muirhead. He is doing choice education in the world at large."
WINNING SUNDAY SCHOOL
STUDENTS
TO CHRIST.
THE FRIEND.
February, 1909.
Temperance Issues
.
REV. W. D. WESTERVELT.
S
THEY IGNED THE PETITION a cent. "My husband sr>ent most of
his money with you," she said.
"Well, he got what he paid for, didA crowd stood closely packed around
a dark, ragged-looking object in the n't he?" replied the man of the white
Burlington railway yards one morn- apron.
ing. The "thing" was hacked and jagThere was one friend left —her
ged and bloody beyond language to preacher. She had not been to church
describe.
much of late, because women dislike
"Drunk and lay down on the track to appear in public in tattered garlast night."
ments. This minister went over to the
Those nine words told the whole county seat and got the names of men
pitiful and too common tragedy. Even and women who had signed the petithe newspaper reporters spent scant tion lor the saloon where the dead man
time over the matter.
got most of his whiskey. Then he took
The coroner came and smelled of the the woman and her children along.
empty whisky flask, which by some Arriving at the store of the first mercurious chance was unbroken. Four chant, he said:
or five deaths of the sort had occurred
"Mr.
I see your name here
in the railway yards there the past on the Crystal Palace petition. That's
twelve months; and in every instance where this woman's husband got the
the whisky bottle had been unharmed, whiskey that killed him. The iaw has
while the man who carried it was let the railroad company and the
ground to pieces. It might have been saloonkeeper out. and the woman is
the mute lesson of providence.
penniless. Now, it's up to you. Shall
When a man gets drunk he will hunt she and her little brood go to the poorthe railway track. Tips man was only house, or will you do your duty?
thirty-five. He had a wife and sev- Legally she can't collect a cent from
eral children, and they were left pen- you. But that man's blood—"
niless.
"That's enough," said the merchant,
"The man was drunk; there's no "here's twenty-five dollars."
liability," said the railroad attorney, as Some got mad at the parson for
he turned away. The prosecuting at- "butting in," but the majority saw the
torney advised the coroner not to put terrible logic of his argument and paid
the county to the expense of an in- what he asked. It was the first time
quest. "It's too clear a case," he said ; the issue had been brought squarely
"the man was drinking. There's no- before their eyes, and, being good men
body but himself to blame, and the for the most part, it was a startling
county board would object to a bill for realization. The "chickens had come
taking evidence."
home to roost," and they didn't look
The crowd turned away. The show good.
was over. An undertaker picked up
The preacher wasn't rough and perthe bunch of clothes and bones and emptory about it; he was just very
blood and put them into a cheap box. grave and earnest, and every man
The railroad furnished free transporta- knew in his heart of hearts that the
tion to the destination. Next day the woman's friend was operating in the
little tragedy was completed, and the proper jurisdiction. The woman got
widow and her children walked sor- enough to tide over the trouble until
rowfully away from the hillside ceme- she could obtain employment.
tery where the bread-winner lay. In
When the time came to renew his
the morning the woman consulted the license, the saloonkeeper
started
lawyer. He listened sympathetically around with his petition and a box of
but not hopefully. "I fear there's no cigars. He was smiling genially, beliability." he said. "Your husband was
cause it was only a matter of form.
intoxicated."
"Excuse me, Bill," said Smith, the
The woman went home with her lit- big merchant, handing the paper back,
tle ones huddled about her. She had "I'd rather not."
no bread for them, but told them she
"W-h-a-t?"
would get some. She went to a saloon"I'm not going to sign any more
keeper. He was indignant that she saloon petitions."
should call on him and refused to give
"You're joking."
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"Well, have it your own way. I
don't sign."
"After all the goods I have bought
of you?"
"1 appreciate your patronage," said
the merchant.
"I won't buy another trickle's worth
from you."
"All right."
The saloonkeeper went out noisily.
He was less sanguine when he approached the next man. but more
diplomatic. But his luck was the
same. The man didn't sign. When he
returned to his saloon he had three
names on his paper, and those were of
men to whom he rented houses. Next
month there was a sign on the saloon
door:
THIS BUILDING FOR RENT.
WILL BE REFITTED FOR DRUG,
GROCERY OR GENERAL MERCHANDISE STORE.—American fs-
suc.
Hawaii Cousins
COUSIN MARIA FORBES.
11l her tongue was the law of kindness.
On the afternoon of January 22 a
company of the good people of Honolulu assembled at the home on Punahou street, and later at the Kawaiahao
Mission cemetery, to lay to rest the form
of Mrs Maria Jane Chamberlain Forbes,
who fell asleep the day before, at the
age of seventy-seven years.
In the passing of Mrs. Forbes this
community loses from its midst one of
the strongest characters of the first generation of the children of the American
missionaries to Hawaii.
Maria Chamberlain was one of five island girls who, after study at Punahou.
pursued their education together at Mt.
Hoiyoke Seminary in the years 1850--1853, and was one who returned to Hawaii in 1854. Three of the five are still
living in Honolulu. She was married
to Rev. Anderson O. Forbes in 1858.
The earlier years <rf the married life of
this young couple were spent at Kaluaaha, Molokai. Mr. Forbes for some years
succeeding Rev. H. R. Hitchcock as missionary pastor, of what at that time constituted one of the most interesting portions of the Hawaiian field. Later, after
other pastorates in Hilo and elsewhere
in the islands, Mr. Forbes was called, in
1880, to the secretaryship of the Hawaiian Board of Missions, and made his
home in Honolulu. After years in this
service, physicians prescribed travel for
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February, 1909
THE FRIEND
his health, and while on return from the
Eastern States he died in Colorado
Springs, in 1888. In all his work for
Hawaiians, Mrs. Forbes was his devoted
helper.
rOC twelve succeeding years, Mrs.
Forbes, in her own efficient and satisfactory manner, conducted the Lunalilo
Home for aged and disabled Hawaiians,
winning the love and esteem of the many
needy ones who were recipients of her
kindness. Sensible of the increasing infirmities of age in 1901, Mrs. Forbes resigned, and was succeeded by Mrs.
Weaver in the care of this very interesting institution. Her later years have
been spent in her own home on Punahou
street, where surrounded by her children
and grandchildren and other kindred she
has l>een the valued friend of a wide circle of acquaintances.
In every relation of life she was to be
depended upon, to fulfil every trust. A
genuine interest in others accompanied
by evidences of sympathy, made her in
every case the true friend.
Brought up in a missionary family
Maria Chamberlain became an earnest
Christian and united with the Mission
Church, and in all the experiences of
life her faith in God was firm and unwavering and her example and influence
was ever on the side of right.
She opened "her mouth with wisdom:
and in her tongue was the law of kindness." "Her children arise tqi and call
her blessed." She leaves a son, two
daughters and four grandchildren to
bless her memory, besides brothers, a sister, nephews and nieces.
"The memory of the just is blessed."
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January I —Military electric railway
planned to operate through U. S. government lands connecting with Honolulu Rapid Transit.—Hookupu at Kawaiahao Seminary. About 500 people
present.
Jan. 2.—Cable announcement of
Science Convention coming to Honolulu in 1910.
Jan. 4.—Inauguration of the new
Municipal government of the City and
County of Honolulu at noon—a season
of political turmoil and wrangling.
Jan. 6,—An unbraced derrick at Hilo
breakwater fell into the sea while
handling a five-ton rock —killing W. D.
Johnson and injuring Messrs. Willard
and Beasley.—U. S. District Attorney
Breckons succeeds in unveiling plot to
import Japanese women for vile purposes and arrests Japanese men implicated.
Jan. B.— John T. Staytoti, assistant
postmaster of Honolulu, arrestee! for
opening and destroying letters directed
to other postof'fiec officials. — Plans received for the largest dry-dock ever
constructed by the C. S. Navy Department, to be built at Pearl Harbor.
Jan. 10.—Kona storm blows over
trees and houses in Waialua district.
Jan. II. —Fourteen government lots
on Alewa Heights sold to intending
residents.
Jan. 12.—Rev. Dr. Jones of Indianapolis, Indiana, announced as the new
pastor of the Honolulu Methodist
Church.
Jan. 13.—Arrival of first troops and
horses of the Fifth United States
Cavalry to be stationed at Lcilehua.
Jan. 14.—Hanalei, Kauai, school
house reported destroyed by the Kona
storm.—Honolulu people give a fine
poultry exhibition.
Jan. 16.—Three marooned Japanese
feather gatherers brought from I iermer
Reef.—Rev. Win. S. Anient, I). D..
missionary to China, and personal
friend to man) in Honolulu, announced
as having died January 8 in San Francisco.
Jan. 18.—Oahu Railway & Land Co.
reduce railroad fares to three cents a
mile.—Salvage on the British ship
Loch Garvie awarded; $15,000 to Inter-Island Co. and $4000 to J. I).
Spreckels & Co.
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Along Civic lines both the Social and
Civic Sections are accomplishing some
very practical results. After a month's
study of the Tenement House Problem of Honolulu, including the personal visitation and investigation of
every tenement in the city by members
of the Social Section, it was decided that
the first thing needed was to secure the
passage, if possible, of a bill at the
next Legislature, restricting the building of tenements and providing for
their proper control when erected.
The Civic Section devoted two meetings
to the study of the new Municipal Act,
with especial reference to the difficulty
which has arisen as to the respective
powers and jurisdiction of the Mayor
and Hoard of Supervisors under the
Act. Both meetings were largely attended and at the last a motion was
passed urging the County Attorney to
proceed at once to make a test case of
one of the appointments of the Board
of Supervisors before the proper court
so that the affairs of the city may not
be longer interfered with.
REVIVAL IN JAPAN.
Osaka, Japan, Dec. i(>, 1908.
leaving this busy city for Kobe
to take the steamer this evening for
Manila. It was a privilege to be able
to attend the Missionary Conference of
Central Japan held here today at Rev.
Mr. Murry's home. The burden of the
meeting seemed to be a desire for a revival and an outpouring of God's power here in Central Japan as they have
had in the north. Dr. J. D. Davis gave
a paper on "Conditions <>fa Revival."
The people are ready for it and all
Christians in the home land should
pray earnestly that it may soon come.
Mrs. I. G. Pierson writes from Hokkaido, in October, of God's power following the Revival, which began in
Tokachi* prison last year.
In her letter mention was made of
the wife of a prison official who lay
(King. Two physicians had said she
could not live through the night. She
had been a particularly zealous Buddhist, but during her illness had listened with interest to Christian teaching, and now, in the hope of comforting her in her dying moments, the
prison warder and several Christian
friends came to read a few passages of
scripture. To their surprise she answered with a loud "Amen," and from
that hour she began to mend. A weeklater she said, "I have been raised from
the dead by the Jesus religion, so please
give me the Jesus baptism." One of
her doctors, a non-Christian, said in
his amazement, "the woman has been
raised from the dead," and she now
goes by the name of "the woman who
was raised from the dead."
Just
revival in Tokaclii Prison wns the
* The
but only a single incident in the great
first
awakening in the Hokkaido, the northernmost
of the four large islands of Japan. The prison
is a little world by itself with a population of
some 2000 people, including nearly iooo prisoners, the rest being the warders and officials
and their families, who live in neat cottages
in the great open court.
The prisoners here were the most hardened
convicts in Japan, haying heen sent here from
other prisons in all parts of the Empire, so
that they represent the most vicious elements
among the Japanese, men who have heen guilty
of the heaviest crimes and are committed for
long terms or for life imprisonment.
Within the year 1007 nearly all the prisoners
were converted. Nearly all the officials and
their wives also have heen converted and baptized, and the Tokaclii Prison with its 2000
souls is now practically a Christian community.
For two years previous to the wonderful
awakening, Rev. and Mrs. G. P. Pierson. Rev.
C. Sakamoto and others had been in definite
and continuous prayer, for a special manifestation of God's power in Japan, and it was
in their own field and, humanly speaking, under their own leadership that the revival began.
F. S. S.
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THE FRIEND
February, 1909.
Mrs. Pierson, speaking of the way in
which, in prayer meetings visited by
her husband and herself, the people
were suddenly overpowered as they
listened to the story of the revivals in
Korea, Manchuria and in Tokachi
prison. They broke into weeping and
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At one such meeting there was a
Christian young lady who had become
paralyzed as a result of over-Study.
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For several months she had been unable to walk, but she attended the i
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She spent the night in prayer. The
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If the Christian workers in Japan
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