The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-12-05

tlfuI room. as VIII endDle us TO Invite
these. We have faithful band of
teachers, but more are needed for this
special work for the Master. We
want every member of the congrega-
tion to sympathiZe with us in our
work, and to help US by their prayers.
In going into our new Sunday school,
may God grant that we may have His
blessing on both teachers and scholars,
and that each scholar may be led into
the way of life.
The Society of Christian En-
deavor-Miss Wing.
The Christian Endeavor thought sets
at work the young people, and turns
their energies into the different church
activities through the channels where
already the church forces are directed.
The organization is simple. The life of
it all is in the pledge of active member
ship. Their activity is directed by DIFF
ferent standing committees bearing the
names Lookout, Prayer Meeting, Social,
etc, each of which reports regularly
through It's chairman. The business
meetings are conducted with parliament
tary order, and offer good practice in
business metho Is. In the prayer meet
ing the young people gain confidence to
share, humbly it may be, in the various
services of the Church. The earnestness
aud humility with which most of the
members speak leads us to think they
are not talking for effect. And their
lives show that they try to practice what
they preach They teach in Sunday
School and help in the various mission
airy enterprises of the city. They share
in personal charity and read to inmates
81 frih 70 ha
Leper fund, to support of students and
to the Building fund Many OF them by
patient work earned the money they
gladly paid for the final of the tower.
which our Society assumed as its part of
the expenses of our new church
The Ladies' Sociefy-Blrs. W. w.
Hall.
1t is largely the province of women
through life to gather up the ends,
and so our share in the building OF
this church has been to supply the
finishing touches, to wit, the cushions
and carpets, and towards this we have
been able to contribute nearly $500.
We have still more work waiting us
in the pleasant little parlor. In sup
plying these luXuries we have had no
desire to bring this church and con-
gregation under the malediction of
the prophet Amos: "Wo unto them
that are at ease in Zion," but simply
to make the worshippers in this house
so comfortable that they may forget
the creature in the Creator" In be-
half of the ladies, L am glad to extend
to all who have given us help our
most hearty thanks. Nor can re-
frain from extending special thanks
l. Ia -
only borne with commendable patti
ence our "poaching upon their pre-
serves,n but have also bestowed upon
us substantial gifts, thereby heaping
Goals of fire upon our heads.
"Woman's highest and finest power
| is always social. 8 IS She may teach,
she may preach, she may lead armies,
she may vote, but if she ever neglects
| the talents which make human inter-
course agreeable and hopeful she
| thereby throws away her sceptre. =
1t is as religious to bring q lonely
spirit to the touch of human sympa-
thy in congenial society as to send a
boy to the missionaries" Accepting
this dictum of DR.. Bradford, we hope
to make this church a larger social
| power. No part of it is more beauti-
full than that which is to be used for
social purposes, and with our in
creased facilities weshall find our OPP
portunities and responsibilities in
creased. Let us then each look upon
home for the homeless and lonely in
our midst.
The Hawaiian Churches = Rev.
H. III. Parker.
Tho EonnJor 90 Cbr;ef;op;tu ~,
the eve of his passion, expressed the
desire that the representatives of
Christianity throughout the world
might be one. If ever there was
a land where the transforming
power of Christianity has made
its mark it is in these fair ISL
ands of the sea. But we seem now
to have arrived at that stage of our
growth where we need diligently
cherish the spirit of unity which
Christ so earnestly speaks of. The
forces that summoned US are full of
, discord, and the tendency of our
, times, in these little islands at least,
is toward disintegration. This condi-
: ton of things is easily accounted for.
3 We are coming nearer TO the inf1u.
2 ences OF the great sweeping tide oil
religious and social progression that
e has been one of the distinctive feat.
: ures of the nineteenth century. The
1 old landmarks are passing away
S New issues are coming to the front
: The eye of the aboriginal Hawaiian
8 sees with unmistaken vision the
/ shadows of coming events. Toward
< that horizon whose distance in the
e past lent enchantment to thu
S view he is now rapidly advanc
= ing and it is portentous o
j. changes. He knows not what thu
4 issues will be. And it is very natura
e that he should feel disturbed. Ther
e we have large heterogeneous foreign
/ population with its distracting ele
e ments. 1t has come to us from tn,
n east and from the west, from the
n north and from the south. Will
b each nationality has come its owl
r peculiar social and religious habit
s and customs. And so it has come Il
a pass that in this beautiful land TIN,
e progressive Christian civilization o
n modern times and the heather civil
/, lzations of the Orient with the cas-
l. OFT remnants of a defunct paganisn
l. have found a field of conflict. Not
IS day too soon did the pioneers of tn
e work in these islands begin to build
They have laid the foundations we'll
1t is for us who now stand in thei
places, and for those who may com
after us in their time, to add on
o tribute of service to the one and tn,