The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-11-05


may gather experience for future serv-
ice.
But when this has been said, we have
nearly reached the limit of favorable
report. There is a small income of
few hundred dollars, part of which
is applied to one teachers salary, and
the rest TO student aid. The remain
der of the salaries is provided by the
American Board For the remainder
of that which is needed for student
support, together with the amount nee
essary for repairs and furnishing of
buildings, the school is Obliged to draw
on the treasury of the Hawaiian
Board.
The library consists Of collection
of books, mostly old; only few Of
which are useful for present purposes.
There are a number of men now in the
school, who can read the English lam
guage well enough to derive great
benefit from such modern books as
would bring them into touch with the
life of the present day. y limited
number of such books is greatly need
ed, and if they could be obtained,
would doubtless prove to be helpful
stimulus to those who could make use
of them.
The teaching force at present con-
sists of one man, who gives his whole
time to the work, and two others, who
for good reasons, give only a part of
theirs. The attempt has been made
this year at a separation of the stu
dents into two divisions-each having
several classes. But even with his
slight attempt at classification, the
present force of teachers is not suf-
ficient, and the lower division is not
receiving it's full share of instruction.
The situation is thus more clearly
revealed. Besides the sum already ex-
pended in the support of the school,
additional money is needed to replen-
ish the library, to increase the fund for
student support, and to provide for
more teaching. The total of these items
would make large increase in the ex-
penses of the school If this amount
s ould be taken from the funds of the
Hawaiian Board, it must, of necessity,
cripple some other phase of the work;
and this ought not to be thought Of
On the other hand, the mental, NOR |
al and social conditions of the country |
are such as to call for a better trained |
ministry, and so, for the school to take |
step forward. If it cannot take this |
forward step, it must simply be left |
behind in the onward progress of the
national life, and fail in it's work.
This also cannot be thought of. AS
has been said, this school is the nat
ural agency for. continuing the work
which was begun by the missionary
fathers and mothers. Under the pres
ent arrangements for carrying forward
that work, nearly everything depends
upon it. If it should fail, there is
forces to prevent that work from pass
ing into other hands. But no such re-
suit should ever be thought possible.
1t is due to the Christian people of the
United States, who furnished the
means for planting and sustaining
Christianity in the early years; and
it is due to the men and
women who gave the service of their
lives to this cause, that no failure
should be allowed to come. The only
logical and natural outcome of their
labor is that the seed which they
planted should grow into an evangel-
ical and enlightened Christianity which
should embrace the different races
which are gathering here.
Will not the friends of this Chris
tianity come to the support of that In
stitution which, more than all others,
must be conducive to that end?
s'ThOse is Them