The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-08-30
EVANGELICAL.
Twenty-sixth Annual Report OF the
Hawaiian Board.

The report of the Hawaiian Evangel-
ical Churches, presented at the annual
meeting June 10th, has just made its
appearance in print. The new Secre-
tary, Rev. o. P. Emerson, has con-
densed into ten pages very interesting
summary of the progress and condition
of the work carried on by and on behalf
of the native churches. Since 1868 these
churches have managed their own af-
fairs with very little supervision or as
sistance. The various departments of
work undertaken by them, not only
ecclesiastical, but also educational, char
liable, literary, and social, make very
creditable showing.
When the Hawaiian Evangelical Asso-
citation was first formed in 1868, the |
churches had not been organized in
separate parishes as now, but were
larger district organizations. Seventeen |
churches then contributed 1886 81 to
the Hawaiian Missionary Society. orig
inally established to send Hawaiian
missionaries to the Marquesas Islands.
Last year fifty-six churches gave to the
Hawaiian Board $2,568. 1t is worth
while to note as showing the present
financial ability of the Hawaiian
churches, that five gave less than $40;
eleven, $40 or more; eleven, $40; five,
less than $50; eight, between $50 and
800; eight, 500 and over; two, over
| $3.50; the largest donation to the Ha-
ID
hala church, used to give over 81 600
year, reported last year only $40. In
1859, the total contributions were re-
ported $26,O67 90; in 1869, $29, 1856 OF;
! in 1879, $24, 939 88; in 1889, $33 ,05O Is.
AS indicating the relative numerical
strength of these churches, the report
| shows that ten churches have between
twenty and fifty members; twenty-four
between 80 and 100; six, between 100
and $50; five, between $50 and 200;
four, between 200 and 250; two, between
$50 and $50; one, Kawaiahao, the larg-
est, has a membership of 604. The
smallest church, Olowalu, has twenty
two. In 1859 there were 1873 mem
bers 1869, 12,497; 1879, 1858; 1889.
$3.50. Two pastors dead; seven pastors
were ordained and installed; but there
are still fourteen vacant parishes. Four
} parsonages were built. The average
salary OF the Hawaiian pastors was
1896 40.
In the educational department of the
work, the training school for ministers,
the North Pacific Missionary Institute,
had thirteen students; ten of these en-
: tered last year; one graduated. The two
, Girls Boarding Schools, Kawaiahao and
Mauna Olu, have had respectively 12e
and rs pupils In the East Maui School
there were eleven daughters of Hawaiian
: ministers. In the Honolulu School,
seventy-seven had their tuition paid by
benevolent individuals or societies. The
! Hilo Bows School has had less than forty
pupils, and the Principal has rendered
his resignation; but school that has
done so much for Hawaiian manhood
ought not to languish for lack of funds o.
faculty.
Sunday Schools, Young Peoples AS
g sociations, Blue Ribbon Temperance
I Leagues, have been doing good work il
their specific lines of effort among the
Hawaiian population. But Christian
activity has not been confined to these
The Home Mission work among th'
Chinese Is fully reported by the Super
intendent, Mr.. f. w. Damon. Th,
9 Chinese Church in Honolulu has cele
) brated it's tenth anniversary. It has nov
two pastors, one for the Hakka, and tn,
. other for the Bunti. The debt on tn,
u Chinese Y. Al. G.. A. Hall has been pait
q off. New Sabbath Schools for Chimes
have been opened in different quarter
| of Honolulu. Mrs. Simpson, in Wal
:, luku, and Miss Ostrom, in Kohala, hav,
4 done great good through their day anC
y evening schools. The Japanese worl
9 has been prosecuted through the mis-
Q sion established last year as a branch O
9 the San Francisco Japanese Mission, g
which Rev. M. G.. Harris is the Superin
y tendent there, while Rev. K. Mijama ha
y had charge in Honolulu. But his depal
y ture is regretted, as the promising wor
, on Kauai and in Hamakua is left with
y out any worker. Mr.. Okabe has recent
It begun evangelistic labors in Hilo for tn
n Japanese there. For the Portuguese
1t nothing has been done beyond estab
n fishing an evening school in Quee
n Emma Hall, and Sunday School in tn
I Armory.
- In the matter of publications, specia
effort has been made for an increase
circulation of the Bible. The Bible Sc
d ciety has generously met one-half tn
"a cost of the last orders for ! 900 smal
Bibles, 80 that these are now sold at on
dollar each. Judge Judd's address
3 given in an English translation of tn
10 Jubilee Grafton, delivered in the Ka
1T waiahao church, in enumeration of tn
fiftieth anniversary of the publication {
the Bible in Hawaiian. A new editio
has been published of Gospel Hymns i
IL Hawaiian, and new supply ordered {
n the Hawaiian Hymn Book for tn
n churches. Three hundred and ten Bible
have been sold the past year, 325 Tesla
o. ments, 563 Hymn Books. Other book
@ foot up total of 1,731 sold for $1.167 6(
y When the old missionary annual meet
ing was changed into the Hawaiian Evar
p gelical Association, and the native pastor
% became members OF the new organization
d it was voted that eighteen should b
chosen to constitute the executive boarC
~ one-third of whom should be Hawaiians
= The Board now numbers " elected men
. bers and two ex-officio. The Presider
le is Hon. A. T. Judd; the Treasurer is W
0f W. Hall, who is also agent for tn
I'd American Board of Foreign Missions
N There are six standing committees; an
o. the business is prepared by these con
a. mittees for consideration and authorize
tive action, at the regular month";
meeting, held at the rooms, 108 Bert
r tania street. In the first twenty-fiv
le years of its existance, this organizatio
Of has had much to do with the religion
Of development of the community. In er
r. tering now upon it's second quarter-cer
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