The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-06-05
THE EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION.
Good Attendance of Pastors and
Delegates at Session.
New Missionary for Observation-Disclosures
ing Contributions to the Hawaiian
Board-Meeting Today.

terday morning. There was a
very general attendance of pastors
and delegates, only five pastors
failing to be present.
The association was organized
by the choice of Rev. E. S. limo
teo, as moderator, and Rev. J..
Davis, as scribe. The first item in
the order of business was reading
the statistical reports of the
churches. It is no slight ordeal
for a pastor to make public an
nouncement of the results of his
labors for a year. If his figures
fail to agree with former state
ments, or if no figures are reported
under the various departments of
pastoral work, he must stand fire
of questions as to the cause of fail
ure. But this public way of pre-.
senting the account current of each
church has its obvious advantages,
though of necessity much time
must be given to it. Both morn
ing and afternoon sessions were
given up to these reports and to
the report of the doings of the ISL
and associations.
The interest Of the meeting cen
tered in the project of sending Rev.
r. Maka back to his old field of
labor at Butaritari in the Gilbert
islands. The young missionary,
who had taken his place there has
lost his wife, and wishes to return
to Hawaii for a brief vacation. The
Catholic priests have begun their
work, and the natives have not
will power enough to stand out
against their coercive methods of
proselyting. Rev. r. Maka said in
reply to a request for an immediate
decision that his desire was to re-
turn, but his increasing physical
weakness warned him that he was
not fit for the kind of work that |
needed the full strength of youthful |
vigor. Thereupon Rev. Louis |
Mitchell, Of Koloa, volunteered to
go with his wife on this voyage of
the Star if the Hawaiian Board |
would make provision for a young
child that he could not well take |
with him.
Rev. Louis Mitchell married the |
daughter of Rev. J. Mahoe, Ha-
waiian missionary to the Gilbert |
islands. He was obliged to return
home from the effects Of gunshot |
wound at the hands of one of the |
natives.
It was voted to recon-
mend to the Hawaiian Board to &C
cept Rev. Louis Mitchell's offer,
and send him and his wife to the
field that needs at once the care of
an active and devoted missionary.
Then came up the question Of in
creasing the contributions of the
churches to the treasury of the
Hawaiian Board. One of the pas
tors showed that diligent effort to
gather up small contributions, gifts
of produce as we'll as gifts of money,
would bring in a revenue that
would astonish those who dispise
this constant looking after little
things. Another spoke of the duty
of caring first for gifts to the Mas
ter's work before looking out for
ones own comfort, and reprobated
the too common custom of the
churches of taking the contribu-
tons of the first Sunday of each
month for church expenses instead
Of consecrating these first fruits to
the Lords work of spreading Cos
pei truth and extending Christ's
Another advocated
vote by the church to raise a speci-
fed sum, and then devote the time
and energy needed to raising the
as a sacred duty that
would bless the giver far more than
keeping back for any selfish pur-
pose the money that might help to
save another's soul. Take the dol
Lars that might be spent on mo-
mentary enjoyment and make of
them vessels of service in the tenn
pie of the Lord. Another pastor
said he had noticed that the
churches that were ready to make
sacrifices for the welfare of others
found little difficulty in raising the
money needed for keeping up their
own church services. A committee
vas appointed to determine the
amount of money which the Ha-
yaiian churches ought to contribute
or foreign missions and report also
ways and means for collecting the
The association adjourned to
meet again at 2 o'clock this after
noon, the morning being devoted
% class exercises of the KaWaiahao
iris at the seminary