The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-08-04
A MINISTER ON HAWAII.
Rev. s.. Il. Rice Addresses the Pres
byterian Union.

About two months ago Rev. II. II.
Rice, pastor of the Second PIesbyte.
Ran Church of Oakland, left here
with a party of eXcuTsionists, num-
herring nearly twenty, for the Sand
witch Islands, taking passage on the
steamer Australia, which, though a
week in making the voyage, never
changed her course as much as sin
Gle degree after passing the FarallOnes
until the islands were reached, says
the San Francisco Chronicle. The
party having returned few days ago,
and Mr.. Rice being full of what he
had seen and heard, ne was invited by
the Presbyterian Ministerial Union to
attend the meeting in the home of
the WOman's Occidental Board and
impart To the members some of the
information he had gathered during
his absence, which he readily under
took to do. The newly elected presi-
dent, Rev. w. Il. Noble, DID,, pre-
sided. The attendance was unusually
large, the excess doubtless being at
tributable to the attTactiveness OF the
subject, as previously announced:
''The New Republic, or Our kXcur-
sion to Hawaii"
In the beginning Mr.. Rice made
some reference to the Australia, and
speaking of them in the highest terms.
OF Honolulu Mr.. Rice said that it was
a handsome city, Astounding in beau
tifuI residences, and with church,
the Central Union, just finished, finer,
in his opinion, than any in California.
With Mr.. Dole, the President of the
Republic, he was very favorably i'm
pressed. While man OF culture and
intellectual power, he is Christian
gentleman in the full sense of the
term. simple and transformations in
his habits and manners, and as aces
sibIe by the humblest of the people as
by one in the highest station. He
used to teach Bible class of natives,
who became greatly attached TO him
because of his kindness and the value
20 them of his instructions.
Chief Justice Judd is a power in
Jurisprudence, but he is always at the
weekly prayer meeting, where his tes-
timOny as a Christian and his strong
words of encouragement do much for
the promotion of spirituality and the
strengthening of his brothers faith.
From Honolulu the party went
up to HilO, on the island of Hawaii,
the largest by far of the group, and
rode out to the crater of the big vol
cano, which was described in vivid
manner. \ graphic description was
also given of the ride along the road
from Hilo to the Volcano House, and
OF the surrounding scenery, with the
magnificent sunrise view from the
hotel.
Mr.. Rice regards the country as
naturally a part of our own, and
thinks that it will before great while
come fully under the stars and stripes
The controlling element of the popu-
IatiOn is American; the greatest part
of the taxes are paid by Americans Of
their descendants, and it only lack:
our willingness to accept of them tC
make the islands our own. Many o
the natives in the schools are study
ing English, which he thinks will
before long, oethe prevailing language
among them.
The future of the islands is in the
hands of God, and the reverend gen
tleman is sure that He Will bring al
their difficulties to a satisfactory con
clusiOn.
Mr.. Rice is preparing u lecture o
two on Hawaii which he expects t.
deliver, illustrating them with stereo
scOpic views, so that they will, NJ
doubt, prove both interesting to thos
listening to them.