The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-05-06

church was given to talk by Rev.
0. P. Emerson upon the work OF
the Hawaiian Board. This adj
dress was made in pursuance Of a
new idea introduced by Rev. Mr..
Birnie to bring at least once a year
the people of the Church face to
face with the heads of the various
benevolent organizations towards
which the Sunday morning offer
ings are expended. Mr.. Emerson
spoke as follows:
The Hawaiian Board of Missions is
composed of body OF men, nine of
whom are natives and eighteen
whites, chosen by the Hawaiian
Evangelical Association, which meets
each year in June in this city.
This Board has six missions, two in
the foreign and four in the home field.
Three of the four home missions are,
in a sense, foreign missions, for they
are carried on in the interests of those
who have come to US from foreign
lands. Our other home mission is
carried on in the interest of the Ha-
Waiians in furtherance of the work
begun among them by the missionary
fathers. It has three departments,
evangelistic and church work, school
work, and the department of publica-
tions, business and accounts.
This last department costs the
Board about $1,000 year. 1t is really
conducted in the interests of all the
missions. Perhaps you do not know
that we have q book room, corner
Fort and Merchant streets, where the
business of dispensing books, mission
mail matter, etc, is attended to.
Bibles and testaments in various lam
guages are to be found there on sale.
a very important branch of this de-
partmeDt is that Of the treasurer, Mr..
Hall. am anxious that you should
become acquainted with his depart
ment, for he is a much burdened man.
I can size up the treasury by his looks.
An empty treasury makes him sober,
and sometimes sleepless. He is best
comforted then by contributions.
The department of education re-
-Quires about $1,000. The Hawaiian
Board has four schools-two girls
schools,a boys school and theological
school. These are all boarding schools,
and with their associate schools, one
on Maui, one on Kauai and the Ka-
mehameha schools in this city, are
doing the work that shall make re-
fined native christian homes posi-
bility in the land. Our Hilo boys |
boarding school is carried on without
cost at present to the Board. The |
wits OF its associate principals have |
brought this about, yet they should |
not be left without support when the |
difficulty comes and they ask help:
To the Kohala and the Kawaiahao |
girls school the Hawaiian Board |
stands pledged to the extent Of $4,000 |
or $500 to each respectively.
The North Pacific Missionary In |
stitute is our theological school. In |
it is trained our native ministry. IN
der the charge of its efficient principal |
it is run most economically, and costs |
the Board only about $3.50 q year. |
There is now an attempt being made |
10 raise the standard of this school. |
There is connected with it an English |
department, under the charge of Rev. |
Mr.. Leadingham. He would be glad
to receive such books as second hand |
English dictionaries and commen-
taries. DR.. Hyde has received for the
school O partial endowment of $4,000 |
$1,000 more is needed.
The church and evangelistic work
makes q requisition on the Board OF
about $500, small sum for so i'm
portant a work. We have fifty~six
native churches under the charge of
about forty pastors. These Hawaiian
churches are supposed to be independ-
ent, but they are only nominally so.
They are really very dependent on
their white neighbors, and it is to the
credit of many Of our planters and
business men that they have been so
generous in their contribution to
these churches.
Poor as the native pastors are, they
bear their poverty with dignity ana
bravery, and are really happy lou OF
men. They are the best OF the Hawai-
ians and are leaders in virtue. We
need at least $500 in aid of the most
1iestitute of them. at our Maui meet
inc last week, one man reported that
he had received only SIS during the
last half year. His name was added
TO the list of those for whom help Is
asked of the Hawaiian Board.
Then we want $500 for our retired
pastors and missionaries. These men
have not gathered unto themselves
much riches outside of the kingdom OF
heaven There is also the support of
our missionary at the leper settle
ment which has to be counted in. He
costs US $3.50, and he earns his money.
Our evangelistic work costs US very
nearly $500 q year, and the summer
work of the theological students re-
quires $50. They go to the destitute
parishes where they get almost no
support.
Once more, our annual meeting costs
Us $500 The pastors and delegates
come together here from the ends OF
the group to counsel together ana 20
be frightened and quickened ana
cheered by each other. The kindly
of your annual tea party
given them in the parlors of this
church is priced and remembered by
them long after you have forgotten IL.
So, for this very important depart
nent of church and evangelistic work
we want $500. We ask for only $3.50
in all, or if some one will give $1,000 10
comniete the endowment OF the theol-