The Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu (Oahu), Hawaii) 1840-1841, 1840-11-14
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER IA, 1910.

institution. But it was pleasing to OBJ
serve the good degree of proficiency
manifested by the more advanced classes
of both boys and Girls in the use of the
English. One class even parscs simple
sentences in English with much correct
ness and apparent case.
The Oahu Charity School house is Il
neat, well arranged, and well furnished
building, with Il convenient location, but
it is quite too small for the accommodate
ton of eighty scholars. Ii is SO contract
cd even as 20 ob!igc the teachers to divide
the school into two parts. having tIIc boys
in the forenoon and the Girls in thc after
noon. This is not only very inconvcnicnt
but very uncconomcal. win not its pat
rons and friends remedy the evil:
/ On looking around the room, it appear
ed well furnished with cards, maps, books,
states. Sc, of ali excellent character and
in sufficient variety. The books for read
ing appear to be of decidedly Christian
character, and therefore calculated TO
teach the best lessons of wisdom to the
youth who daily ponder their pages.
Ontl,c whole, the Oahu Charity School
is an interesting institution, and in flour
isiIing state. We regard it as more than
an ornament to IIonoIuIu: it is a blessing.
Let it be sustained; yea let it be enlarged
and furnished with every possible facility
for doing its work, and unless its charac-
ter changes sadly for the worse, which
may God forbid, it will richly repay all
1hc efforts and expenditures of lis friends.
1t will scatter around our village those
treasures in comparison with which silver
and cold are but dust and ashes.
We now come to speak of the native
schools for children and youth in Homo
lulu and its vicinity. At the celebration
last week, seventeen schools, containing
in all IA few over 100 children, were con-
vcncd for examinations and other cXcrcis-
cs of the day. The scene was one of
interest and calculated to call into cXcr-
else all the better feelings of mankind in
behalf of the rising generation in our com
munitv. CaIIous indeed must have been
the heart that would not have responded
"Amen." to the concluding sentence Of
Capt. Wilkes brief but very appropriate
address TO the children, MAY God bless
You all Yes, may God bless you all, be-
loved children, for in this prayer is inclu-
dcd the sum total of all good, was the III
voluntary response of one heart at least.
hope it was of ALL. No more appropri-
ate aspiration could be uttered on such an
occasion. When the children and youth
of the land are blessed, the nation is bcs-
scd in them, and who is so willing, so
able, so DESTROYS of blessing the ''riSing
race" as God to whom the prayer was
directed:
Only about an hour was devoted to- the
examination, AS this was merely Il secondary
object of the occasion. The exercises of
the children were confined to specimens
in reading, geography, arithmetic, natural
history and singing. The gentlemen pre-
sent expressed themselves much gratiiicd
with the evidences ofimproycmcnt cNhlb-
tied in the different schools.
As might be expected, the select schools
of Mr.. and Mrs. Knapp, the one contain
ing fitty-iour sprlghtly and promising
young girls, and the other thlrly-iiyc
boys, and the family school for the young
chiefs. under the care OF MIR. and Mrs.