The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-04-22

traI Union church.
After the address Of welcome BY
F. J. Lowrey, the new president
D. w. Corbett, general secretary oil
the Association, made the twenty
sixth annual report Of the boarC
of directors, from which the follow.
ing are extracts:
The time has come to make a record
of the work accomplished and account
for the stewardship entrusted to the
Honolulu Young Mems Christian
Association during the past year.
The rooms of the Association are
open daily from a. M. to $3.50 p. NJ
The daily average attendance at our
reading room numbers $50. Our room
is supplied with the best reading
material procurable, and is constantly
in use. One hundred and sixty-seven
volumes have been added to the
library shelves during the year. The
total number of books in circulation
during the year numbers $40. This is
a large circulation, considering the
material we have at hand, some 1000
volumes in all.
The educational work of the Asso-
citation continues to occupy an inn
portant place in the years program me.
The enrolment of students in October
was not so large as in the previous
year. The bookkeeping class has
twenty-one students. Mr.. William
Harris has charge of the work and
has proven painstaking and careful
instructor. Shorthand has had nine
teen pupils, and typewriting twelve.
When the additions to our present
building are completed, better faclli-
ties will be at our disposal for this de-
partment.
The principal social gathering OF the
year was the New Years reception to
the young men of the city. We were
assisted in this reception by the ladies
of the w. @. T. U. and Y's. About
two hundred participated in the din
ner. The evening concert was at
tended by about four hundred people,
and was one of the best ever given in
our hall. Three concerts and recep-
tions were given to the sailors of the
war vessels in port, and were much
enjoyed by the men. A number of
temperance concerts have been held
and attended by large audiences. Our
lecturers on the temperance subject
included DIR. Hutchins, Chief Justice
Judd, Rev. II. w. Peck, G. b. Ripley
and others.
The Sunday evening prayer and
praise service continues with profit to
very many of our members, and holds
q prominent place in the work of the
association. The Bible class work is
not so strong as it was a year ago.
This may be accounted for by the fact
of other classes started in the city, as
also the large number of young men
engaged in week night drill in the
lse.,- Toe NInP afh nI 1nl
nilsson, continued by the Association
for many years, was abandoned, but
not until the fielG was amply covered
by the entrance of the Salvation
Army, who are accomplishing rOble
work for this class of men. The work
outside the building has included the
Sunday service at the goal, by Messrs.
Walter G.. Weldon and George 2. Cas-
tie, who have labOred faithfully and
well. The hospital and visitation
work has been attended to by Mr..
Frank Cooke and committee. The
work of this committee has brought
comfort and good cheer to many lives.
Young men who are sick, in boarding
houses or at home, are visited by the
members whenever their name are
known to us.
Mr.. Hiram Purdy has been the
faithful center of the work to sailing
vessels in port. Each Sabbath morn
ing the vessels are visited and reading
material, consisting of magazines,
newspapers and tracts are lett. Two
hundred and eight applicants for
employment have handed their
names to be entered on the register
for work. All have been counselled
to the best of the secretary's ability
and situations found for thirty eight.
The membership numbers 2S3, a
gain of nine for the year. We have
to record the names of the following
members and subscribers who have
died during the year:
E. G.. Damon. Died June 4, 1894.
8. N. Castle. Died July IA, 1894.
Henry Dimond. Died January 8,
1895.
Charles L. Carter. Shot at Wal
kiki, January 6, 1895.
Captain Kibling. Died March 10,
1895.
This list forms a silent appeal to
every member for more earn
est and faithful service in the days
that are left. "F0r our life is but
shadow that appe4reth for a little
while and then vanisheth away"
c. B. Ripley, the retiring presi-
dent, presented paper entitled
"Past, Present and Future of the
Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton" He spoke in part, as follows:
A little more than fifty years ago,
in the great city of London, two
young men began their life work;
one, an open air preacher, spoke daily
III different parts of the city, and by
his earnest, unconventional methods,
the preacher Booth drew to him the
nucleus of that vast army which to-
day numbers more than two and one
half millions OF devoted, self-denying
soldiers, aud is one of the grandesU or
CARNATIONS on earth; uni ue in its
religious methods, wonderful in the
zeal aud devotion of its members, the
Salvation Army is doing work for
fallen humanity, the value of which