Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-12-24

sponsi Utilities In reference to the work
of evangeizing the Chinese.
The Christian families into whose
service there came some of These Chi.
nese score and more OF years ago, did
what they could to instruct them in
English and to make known to them
the way of life through Jesus Christ.
One OF these earl y converts united with
the Fort Street Church. Ten united |
with the Bethel Church; for from the
very first Rev. DR.. Damon has taken
special interest in the social and reli-
gous welfare of the Chinese. A
school for teaching English was open.
ed at the Bethel under MIR. buns
combe, from 1870 to 1880, 24S Chinese
received instruction in English three
evenings in every week. The board
of Education, on application from DR..
Damon, granted in 1869. $500 annual
ly, in aid of the school, increased in
1879, to $500. In January, 1880, the
Board of Education engaged Miss Pay
son as an English teacher in the Chi
nese School, held in the lower room Of
the Chinese Church. The school was
begun in September, 1880, by the
Chinese Y. NJ. G. A., who sent to Cal.
ifornia for u Chinese teacher. lie was
not able to speak English, but taught
the children to read Chinese. He re-
tured to China, and another teacher
was found in Honolulu. lie teaches
Chinese in the mornings, aud in the
afternoon Miss Pnyson teaches English.
The school opened with II scholars.
There are now SO. Miss Payson was
formerly connected with the Mission
of the A. b. G. +. NJ. in Foochow,
China. She came to Honolulu, through
the kind agency OF the American
Board. who recommended her to US and
paid her travelling expenses. Miss
Payson has also an evening class of
Chinese young men studying English.
The Honolulu Y. M. G. A., by I'D
vice of Rev. Dr.. Damon, took up Evan.
gelistic work among the Chinese as u
department of their Christian work.
A Sunday school for teaching English,
and so affording an opportunity to
teach Christian truths, was opened in
the vestry OF Fort Street Church, the
first Sunday afternoon in January,
1872. j. b. Atherton Esq, acted AS
Superintendent, assisted by a corps of
volunteer teachers, one for every two
or three scholars. 1t was suspended
during greater part OF 1880, but was
resumed again in the Chinese Church
in January, 1881. On the return of
MIR. Frank Damon to the Islands, he
! has interested himself in this enter
prise and secured additional teachers
as we'll as large increase in the num-
Der of scholars. 1t was through the
efforts of the Y Nj. G. A. that Sit
Moon was secured to act as colporteur
among the Chinese. He came from
California at the recommendation of
DIR. A. W. Loomis, and began his Ia
bors May l6, 1915. When Sit Moon
returned to China in 1878, to bring
back a wife, his place was supplied by
Sat Fan, who had been several years
under the instruction of the Rhenish
Mission, but had come to the Islands
assntsyo n St ct a dass Through the
the Y. NJ. G. A. Sat Tan was sent to
Maui, to act as coIporteur on that Is
and; Wong e was sent to Hio; and
Ho All Pun to Kauai. None of these are
now in this service, for good and suf.
ficient reasons that need not now be
detailed. Ho All Pui ut present is ell
gagged as the Y. NJ. &. A. coporteur
for Honolulu and Oahu, and is prov
ing also an excellent teacher of Chi
nese Canton diaIecD for MIR. Damon.
The direct participation of the lia-
waiian Board in the work of Chinese
CHARACTERIZATION has been mainly in APP
proprlating from time to time special
grants in aid, rs individuals, or the Y.
NJ. @. A. made application tor such aid
from the Board. In 1869 the Board
made grant of 5000 to the school es-
tablished by S. p. Ahiong, aud after
wards conducted by Mr.. Dunscombe.
For nearly two years, 1869, 1870, the
Board employed S. p. Aheong, or
Ahiona, as colporteur among the
Chinese on the various Islands, paying
him an annual salary Of $500. lie was
previously o storekeeper in Lahaina,
but had, under the teaching Of Miss
Mary Green, renowned heathenism,
aud taken up Christian lite and duty.
Rev. q. b. Andrews recommended
him to the Board, and on receiving
his appointment rs the Board colpor.
tenr, he gave up his business aud de-
voted himself to the Evangelization of
his countrymen. lie left the Islands
May rs, 1870, expecting to spend
year in China, and then return. But
he never came back. lie died in Chi
ia, and his widow, Hawaiian woman,
returned in 1880, and now has her
home again on Maui. The colporteurs
ON Maui and Kauai received each 800
annually from the Board, tho Christian
communities on those Islands paying
the remainder of their salaries. $500
each annually. The foreign Church
at Hilo, has supported Chinese col
porteur for two years. The Kohala
and Puhala plantations have each
Chinese teacher and preacher, in their
employ, enrolled on the books Of the
company aud receiving regular month.
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