Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-02-03

ment distributing reading matter, presumably to
the inmates of prisons and hospitals, and to those
ON boHrd of ships and to the sick.
Second.-Work inside the walls of an Association
Building-ontertainm nts-which fairly include
Lectures, Readings, Concerts, and other improv-
ing recrentions Libraries and Chose in our build
ing must be ntended) Reading Rooms; and
Imtd-WorI which may properly be done both
within and without our Association rooms. Public
preaching, either in our Hall or in other parts of
the town, not in the churches. Prayer-meetings
the same. Sunday Schools probably most of this
work Is intended to be done in connection with the
regularly organized schools; hut If classes can DO
gathered together, for whom there is room in
the Church Sunday Schools then establish them
III our building at convenient hours. Glasses for
instruction.: These are doubtless intended TO give
opportunity for the formation of classes for spec
ai instruction evenings from among those who
are too old or too poor to attend the regular schools
OF the city Here - an opportunity for instruction
in book keeping in the sciences and in the Ian
guages. class in Hawaiian might soon be started
for those who desire this qualification for positions
on plantations, or in government employ, or
wherever Hnwaiians TO be dealt with, and
lastly, such other lines of Christian work as the
Association may, from time to time, decide upon.
To this must be added the work upon which
each member of the Association is appointed n
committee by virtue of his membership of setting
a consistent example as Christian and of put
ting forth personal efforts towards retaining the
wandering. Rather than extend this list, fear il
already spreads over too wide domain, and
perience may show that we shall accomplish more
by concentrating efforts upon more con-
tracted list of subjects. We cannot undertake the
entire management of religious affairs in this
munity. The subjects of our works are the young
men of in Honolulu, and to secure their
social, moral and religious welfare should our
efforts be directed.
the Century Md1dSiHe by Rev. Washington GLADDEN.,
entitled the "Chrstian League of Connecticut"
Chap. TX describes the method by which the Y. NJ.
c. \. of New Albion came to its death" by
spreading out itself so thin that it finally soaked
in and disappeared" While not agreeing with
the article in the idea that the church can best do
he If thn NJ haa U,ya
much food for reflection. Ours is not mission
AIRY organization dstnctively This field of both
Foreign and Home Missions Is we'll occupied by
the Hawaiian Board aud the subsidiary organiza-
ton OF the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society
aud Womnns' Board of Missions. 1t is quite true
that direct Christian work among the Chinese in
these islands received its FIRST assistance and i'm
pulse from within this Association and it has
continued 10 be hopeful feature of our work and
prominent subject upon which funds are ex-
pended With the growth of this work however,
IL is not difficult to that the time is near when,
IN order to its greater efficiency and also lest it
absorb too much of our force and financial means
it must be relnquished and somebody whose
legitimate work il is.
Many members of our Association are doing n
noble work among the native Hawaians, but it
would not be advisable to add this to the list of
our standing objects, of work and appoint thereon
regular committees, lest we find this too great
work for us and the object of our Association be
lost sight Of. So also this is not distinctively
Temperance Society though teaching and enjoiu-
ing Temperance always; and wisdom will dictate
that all enOrts toward compelling the execution of
the law ON the subject or agitation having in view
political reform or temperance legislation must be
left to other Societies.
1t is we'll occasionally TO take bearings and
determine our position as accurately as we can,
lest our cherished Association lose it's symmetry
and we find ourselves roaming over fields SO wide
and with objects so diverse that results will DO
produced, and Association, like that of New
Albion, become spread out SO thin as to soak in
and disappear"
United, concentrated efforts to reach the young
IN a Honolulu Al ham IN tba in
huences of the Gospel of Jesus Chist il the ulti-
mata object of for which Wa nra banded innothnr