The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-07
oHURCH-ao1Na IN HAWAII.
Adult Worshipers Smoking Pipes or
Sleeping and Girls Enjoying Their
Cigars,

Adult Worshipers Smoking Pipes or
Sleeping and Girls Enjoying Their
Cigars.
Honolulu Letter in Boston Transcript
Sunday at the great church, not
chimney to relieve it's barn outline; A
little girl sits at the entrance smoking a
cigar. This entrance is as fioorless as if
at a circus; the sexton, n Chnaman all
joints, is pulling at the church bell. AS
worshipers enter, the bell-puller stops to
talk with those who come in, until all
sound ceases, and we enter The plas-
tered walls inclose a large area. Here is
family in rOOmy pew near the door
four children and the mother and father.
As the service progresses the children
must be amused; loaf of bread is pro
duced, and while the mother nurses the
baby she cuts three slices from the loaf,
and adds these to the spiritual food,
which is offered her restless young ones
from the pulpit
Directly below the preacher two old
women are seated sideways, confronting
each other, their arms firmly claspiug the
knees. Each smokes a pipe; rs they
smoke they nod and yawn From tho
congregation loud snOres are occasionally
heard; two little boys, close by the
preacher, skirmish with umbrellas. One
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father of the defeated comes from the
body of the church and roughly drives
away the boy who has discounted his
child. Young men and women stroll down
the aisles, or to step over the backs Of
seats to get drinks, sometimes returning
with "A mug or calabash of water for
u friend. A horse thrusts his head
through a window and looks quietly upon
the audience. However, III spite of
tbngn the main npVtign pf tho
large assent lage seems undisturbed; the
mother with four children produces a
rattle, a dernier resort, TO quiet the baby.
A woman is seized with headache, she
loosens her hair and signals a friend, who
crosses to her i'll Decline, hestriding the
backs of the seats, and kneads the mus
cles of her head in native fashion (lomi
lOmD. Pausing In his part (he is, by the
way, the only tenor voice in the choir, n
young man takes from his pocket a little
mirror and comb, carefully arranges his
necktie and combs his hair, standing in
full view.
Look" cries the preacher, on tip-toe,
with vigorous gestures, look at the sea,
look at that old hill. there are enough
raw fish and taro, while you are complain
ing of famine! Why doesn't the Lord
bring you calabashes fun Oh, you are
too laZyi Go to the ant, ~ etc Turning
TO me, the only stranger present, he
translates this part of the sermon, the
interruption being received with equa-
nimity by the people. Suddenly descend
ing he borrows a cap which he holds tow
ard each person in the audience, not
excepting his own family. for
money on written promise TO
bring it next Sabbath, and enters into a
discussion of pros and contras, when his
Pensioners object TO giving The dolin-
quents blush and stammer with native
grace; a few young men who attempt to
slip away from their obligation are
checked by brisk turn of the minister's
spectacles; he forces back change upon
such as give beyond his approval, the lit
tie ones who have brought a kaneta are
praised and thanked. AS father guild
ing his children this good man lives in
their confidence and love.