The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-12-31

nese are ready and active In dong
their part in maintaining Christian or
dinances and Christian institutions
among their countrymen. Nor have
Christian people in u own commuui-
ties been unmindful of their special re
sponsibilities in reference TO the work
of evangelizing the Chinese.
The Christian families into whose
service there came some of these Chi
neSe a score and more o fyears 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 early 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-
gious welfare of the Chinese. A
school for teaching English was open
ed at the Bethel under Mr.. 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
~, 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 III 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. c. A, who sent to Cal
ifornia for a Chinese teacher. lie was
not able to speak English, but taught
the children to read Chinese. lie re-
tured to China, and another teacher
was found in Honolulu. He teaches
Chinese in the mornings, and in the
afternoon Miss Payson 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. T. 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. NJ. G. A., by adj
vice of Rev. DR.. Damon, took up Evan
gelistic work among the Chinese as a
department of their Christian work.
A Sunday school for teaching English,
and sc atfordng 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
a greater part of 1880, but was
resumed again in the Chinese Church
January, 1881. On the return of
Mr.. Frank Damon to the Islands, he
las interested himself in this enter
Prise and secured additional teachers
IS well as a large increase in the mum
Der of scholars. 1t was through the
Efforts of the Y. M. G. A. that Sit
Noon was secured to act as colporteur
lmong the Chinese. He came from
California at the recommendation of
Dr.. A. w. Loomis, and began his la
,ors May 16, 1875. When Sit Moon
t O China in 1878, to bring
Jack a wife, his place was supplied by
Sat Fan, who had been several years
Inder the instruction of the Rhenish
dission, but had come to the Islands
> a COuOIuCG IdOOISI. 1iIOuS HlC
gency of the Chinese Committee of
be Y. NJ. G. A. Sat Tan was sent to
iaui. to act as colporteur on that Is !
nd; Wong E was sent to Hilo; and !
10 All Pui to Kauai. None of these are !
in this service, for good and suf- {
reasons that need not now be !
etailed. Ho All Pui at present is en- |
aged as the Y. NJ. &. a. colpOrteur
)r Honolulu and Oahu, and is prov S
lg also an excellent teacher of Chi I
csc Canton dialect) for Mr.. Damon. /
The direct participation of the Ha- y
Board in the work of Chinese :,
'vangelization has been mainly in APP
ropriating from time to time special -,
in aid, as individuals, or the Y. )
G. A. made application for such aid "
ON the Board. In 1869 the Board =
Iade a grant of 5000 to the school es- =
lblished by S. Z. Ahiong, and after =
ards conducted by Mr.. Dunscombe. J.
or nearly two years, 1869, 1870, the \
GARD employed S. P. Aheong, or :,
.hiona, as a colporteur among the q
hinese on the various Islands, paying g
I'M an annual salary of $500. He was :
-e~viously a storekeeper in Lahaina, 9
ut had, under the teaching of Miss ',
AIRY Green, %renounced heathenism, !
I'd taken up Christian life and duty. :
G. B. Andrews recommended y
m to the Board, and on receiving -
s appointment as the Boards colpor- y
ur, he gave up his business and de- =
,ted himself to the Evangelization of .,
5 countrymen. He left the Islands =
&c, 1870, expecting to spend a !,
in China, and then return. But y
!, never came back. He died in Chi Il
!, and his widow, a Hawaiian woman, >
turned in 1880, and now has her =
'me again on Maui. The Colporteurs ~
Maui and Kauai received each 500 -
from the Board, the Christian -
mmunities on those Islands paying d.
e remainder of their salaries. $500 "