The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-05-08


ally presented in this way. We
have received much inspiration for
ourselves as well as much tan
gibIe help for the carrying on
of this great enterprise IN this personal
heart to heart contact with those who
are warm with sympathy for it. We
have been permitted to see the fulfill
ment in more than one instance OF
those words of our Lord and Master,
"Give and it shall be given unto you
Good measure, pressed down and
shaken together and running over,
shall men give into your bosom for
with the same measure that you meet
Withal it shall be measured to you
again. The widows mite which she
dropped into our treasury has been
literally returned in full scripture
measure through new and enlarged
OPPORTUNITIES for herself and her Or
phan children, thereby strengthening
not only her faith, but our own; and
we hope that of many others who hest
tate to diminish an uncertain income
by dividing it in this way. 1t has
been q great lesson to us to observe
that probably our greatest gifts have
come from the slender purses of the
Door. ''Greatest in proportion to
their means; and we feel that an es-
peciaI blessing has come to our work
from these widows mites. We do
most earnestly pray for an increased
conservation on the part of those who
are the stewards in large measure of
the Lords goods" for "the Earth
is the Lords and the fullness thereof"
and that which he has bestowed IS
only entrusted to our care for this life:
Thus only can our treasury be full
and running over and our borders un-
0TaIu child
in the land come under the influences
that are to be found in the true kinder
garten. Influences which "tend to
develope," as Froebel has made clear,
this three-fold relation to Nature,
man and God. All three processes
the intellectual, the moral and the
religious-must go on together to
make perfect education, and it is the
province of the true Kindergarten to
help each child in its development to
a Consciousness of all the relations at
once
From the many warm friends who
are interested in the prosecution of
this greatest of good works and who
earnestly desire to see it enlarged, we
have received during the past year
$3762.71. These gifts began to come in
before this free kindergarten branch
of your Board took full charge of the
work that was already in operation,
and we were thereby enabled to start
a little ahead financially. This fact
in itself has had an element of inspir-
alton IN it, for which we are grateful.
We are thus able to begin our second
year with small credit balance, and
we hope always to keep it so. The
cessful one. Yearly pledges were made
in fifty cases in preference to the
plan, and 1858 80 have come
to US in that way. A few Of the busi-
ness men in Honolulu and two ON
Kauai responded to the appeal that
was made directly to them early in
the year and their semi-yearly pledges
have brought in $40. Two hundred
and sixty-three packages of small en-
velopes have been distributed for the
monthly subscriptions. OF these,
eighty six packages were lost sight of,
while forty-two, who subscribed orr
gfnally, dropped off along through
the year. Some of these latter, how
ever, have taken up the good
work again with the beginning of the
second year. The remaining 1876 pack
ages or 1920 little envelopes have been
returned to us, with scarcely months
failure, through the receiving boxes
at Thrum's, Hebron drug store and
NdStIO SOOhOS} cdCu Gil
closing the amount promised for each
month in the beginning, and from
these many rills we have realized
the sum OF $777.85. These pledges
have been almost universally re-
newed for the coming year-some
have not yet been heard from, but we
feel confident that we shall do so soon.
In some cases the amount of the
pledge has been reduced, but in others
increased, so that at the present show |
ing we have reason to believe that |
we have not fallen back financially,
and we are earnestly hoping that we
shall yet find that the result is on the |
side of increase; for our next years |
work calls for greater outlay than the |
past, even if there were to be no en- |
largement of it. Enlarge we must, |
however, by extending aid to those !
at HilO and kOhala who are alive to |
the great needs OF those places, and |
who have sent more than one earnest |
appeal to us for help. Let us bear
this in mind in renewing our pledges
or the coming year.
Our other sources of income the
past year, outside of the regular
pledges, have been special donations,
# which there have been many gen.
rOus ones; the interest on the me-
|
ng pupils in the training class, and
ents from fruit and soda-water stands
N Emma Hall premises. This latter
ource of income will cease, however,
fter the first of next July.
We wish to take this opportunity to
hank with most grateful apprecia-
ion all who have aided US in our
york during the past year; not only in
direct financial way, but in any way
whatsoever. Our gratitude was called
0rth at an early day by the action of
he trustees OF the Emma Hall proper
=, who, in renovating and repairing
he building last summer,eve showed
warm interest in our plans and a
ordial desire to do all in so far as they
7ere able to make the place comforta-
lie, convenient and clearly for the chill
rem. From the merchants in Homo
1lu and from many others we have |
eceived many necessary articles for
ne furnishing and finishing of the
uildings and grounds at Emma Hall | (