The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-04-20

Total for year.. 357 14,O72
We take this opportunity of thank
ing the ladies who have so kindly
played for our n,eetings-Miss Denzer
at the Prison, Miss Hopper at the
Barracks, Mrs. 5. M. Damon at
Bethel Mission, Mrs. e. G. Damon at
the Boys, meetings, and Miss Rhodes
al the Praise service.
G. J. DAY,
Chairman of Dew. Committee.
The report of the President, c..
&. Ripley, was then read. 1t was
as follows:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:-In the
by laws of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association of Honolulu, wherein
is set forth the duties of it's officers,
these words will be found: ssThe Pre-
sident shall preside over the meetings
of the association, and shall deliver
an address before the association at
its annual meeting, upon retiring
from office;' without this excuse for
occupying your time upon this most
interesting occasion, | should feel
great reluctance in attempting to adj
dress you.
We are taught that at some time
''the last shall be first and the first
shall be last" so it is tonight, and I
I am convinced that you all desire the
last President of this association, who.
is to be the first to address you, and
who has but one year to review, shall
be as brief as possible, that the first
President who is to be the last to adj
dress you, and who has twenty-five
years to review, may have ample
time at his disposal.
This night closes an association
year; tonight we pass the twenty fifth
mile stone in our association journey,
and as We turn for II moment to look
upon the beaten track of the past, we
see more clearly than ever before the
gravity and Importance of the events
which have TRANSFERRED in the year
now ended.
To large extent our members are
active participants in the social and
political affairs of the land, as con.
science dictated they have assumed
the new and greater responsibilities
which came, with the new and chang
ed conditions of citizenship in Hawaii;
yet amid all these distractions, dur
ing this most serious financial de
preston, which affects every one
in a greater or less degree, our
members have not failed in their
obligations to this association;
no meetings have been omitted, every
nnanclaI OOllgatlOn has been met,
as the duties elsewhere made greater
demands upon our working force,
greater sacrifices were made to meet
the needs of our association, and it is
with gratitude to such CO. workers that
pay this tribute to their fidelity.
Early in the year our General Sec
rotary, III. w. Peck, left our associa-
ton to take up his residence in an
other land, and d. w. Corbett, of
Montreal, was secured TO take the DO
sition. Any change in this most inn
portant office must of necessity make
some break in our regular work We
lost an earnest, devoted, Christian
worker-we gained another; but no
two men work on the same lines, so
the new wOrker--the stranger-must
needs get acquainted and take up the
work in his own way. How this has
been done / need not remind you, but !
let there be no misapprehensicn as to
the work devolving upon the General
Secretary. He can do the work of
but one member of this association;
he cannot do your work or mine-it |
would not be we'll that he should, if |
he had the power. He has his duties, |