Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-14
CHURCH-GOING IN HAWAII.
Adult WOrshipers Smoking Pipes or
Sleeping md Girls Enjoying Their
Cigars.

Adult WOrshtpers Smoking Pipes or
Sleeping md Girls Enjoying Their
Cigars.
Sunday at the great church, not a CHM
ney to relieve its barn outline, says a cor
respondent of the Boston Transcript. A
little girl sits at the entrance smoking a
cigar. This entrance is as fioorless as il at
a circus; the sexton, Chinaman all Joints,
is pulling at the church bell. AS worship
ers enter the bell puller stops to talk with
those who come in until all sound ceases
and We enter. The piastered walls inclose
large area. Here is a family in a roomy
pew near the door-four children with the
mother and father AS the service pro-
crosses the children must be amused: a
loaf of bread is produced, 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 wo-
men are seated Sideways confronting each
other. their arms firmly clasping the knees
Each smokes pipe; as they smoke they
nod and yawn. From the congregation loud
boys, close by the preacher skirmish with
umbrellas. One of the boys Is driven to the
wall; the 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 step over the backs of seats
" get drinks, sometimes returning with a
mug or calabash of water for friend. A
horse thrusts his head through a window
and looks quietly upon the audience. How
ever. In spite of these events the main por-
ton OF the large assemblage seems undis-
turbed; the mother with four children pro-
duces rattle, a dernier resort to quiet the
baby. "A woman is seized with heada che.
she loosens her hair and signals a friend.
VINO crosses to her in Decline, bestriding
the backs OF the Seats and kneads the mus
cles of her head in native fashion 0omi
lomD. Pausing in his part Che is by the
way, the only tenor voice in the choir) a
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.
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 your calabashes full? Oh. YOU are too
lazy! Go to the ant" ETC. Turning TO
me, the only stranger present, he trans
lates this part of the sermon, the Interrupt
ton being received with equanimfty by the
people. Suddenly descending he borrows a
cap. which he holds toward each person in
the audience, not excepting his own family.
Tor money or a written promise to bring IL
next Sabbath, and enters into a dfscussjon
Of pros and contras, when his parishioners
object to giving. The deliEquents blush
and stammer with native grace; a few
young men who attempt to slip away from
their obligations are checked by a brisk
turn of the minister's spectacles; he forces
back change upon such as give beyond his
approval; the little ones who have brought
| q kaneta are praised and thanked. As a
father guiding his children this good man
lives In their eonndencs and love.