The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-06-08
NATIVE PASTORS.
Closing Days of the Regular An.
nual Meeting.

The Association met Wednesday aft
ernoon for the transaction of the re-
mainder of the routine business. Sta
tistical reports from churches, and re-
ports from committees occupied the
session. The Solicitery Committee of
the church at Kailua, Hawaii, reported
five hundred dollars raised for repairs
and in confirmation of it the stately
old church, where the Hawaiian kings
and queens of the olden time used to
worship, lifts up its spire pointing
heavenward the thoughts of every old
resident and every passing traveller
The church at Hama, Maui, was author
lied to solicit $4,000 to complete the
repairs that have been begun. The
Hawaiian Board was requested to con-
slider the advisability of sending among
the Hawaiian churches this coming
year such an Evangelistic Committee
as visited Kauai two years ago. The
Board was authorized to appoint such
Visiting Deputation, and provide for
the expense of the work.
The Association resumed its session
on Thursday morning. After the usual
preliminary exercises, an hour was
spent in listening to fraternal greetings
from other nationalities engaged in the
same lines of Christian work. Rev. D.
P. Brine spoke for the Central Union
Church, and abiding to the large gath
ering of the Y. P. S. c. E. in Kawaia-
hao Church, urged the Hawaiian pas
tors to pay special attention to the
young people, as the strength as well
as the hope of the Kingdom of Christ
Mr.. Joseph Emerson, as the delegate
of the Central Union Church, spoke as
a Hawaiian in Hawaiian, declaring his
devotion to the best interests of Ha-
wall his birth place, and rejoicing that
new hopefulness and new purposes
were pervading the Hawaiian element
in these days of new life, and new
activities. Rev O. H. Gulick and Rev.
J. Oyabe, of Paia, Maui, spoke for the
Japanese, and deprecated and DISPOSE
| ton to doubt the friendship and loyal
| ty of their friends from the Empire of
the Rising Sun. So marked had been
the triumphs of Christian love in these
| Islands, that this new band that is
uniting so many Christian believes in
service for the One Master is far
stronger than any of the diverse in
fuences that spring from divided in
terests, and selfish schemes. Rev. Kong
| Tet Ying, pastor of the Chinese
| Church. Kohala, spoke for his band of
workers. His remarks were translated
into English by Mr.. F. w. Damon, and
Rev. o. P. Emerson's completed the
circuit of communication by putting the
English into Hawaiian. The work is
! steadily advancing year by year, and
no step in advance has been lost For
the first time the Chinese workers have
come to Honolulu for the first General
/ Meeting, the new preacher in Canto-
nese Bunti from the Presbyterian Mis-
sion in China, the faithful Hakkah
preacher in the Honolulu Church, the
! Theological Instructor who has just
completed his first year of work on that
! department, and others whom Mr..
Damon mentioned by name. Mr.. Dam
on thanked the Association for the
thousands of dollars so generously and
cordially voted by the Hawaiian Board
| each year for the Chinese Mission.
! The steady growth of the work is
shown in the fact that few months
! ago. Rev. DR.. Hyde received into the
church half a score of young people,
some of whom he had baptized in their
early infancy Mr.. Damon invited the
Association to visit at any time the
buildings of the Mill Institute, and
promised them chop-sticks and bowl
of rice if they happened to come about
o'clock, when the sixty Chinese boys
of that Boarding School have their
afternoon meal. Rev. Mr.. Hasugawa
spoke for the M. E. workers associated
with him in the M. E. Mission to the
Japanese in Hawaii He wished to
bear testimony to the Christians sym
pathy with which he had been received
and to express his thanks for the help
given him by the generous contribu-
lions received from the liberal givers,
who were ready to support and forward
every good work.
The annual meeting of the Hawaiian
Evangelical Society was finished yes
terday, and the many pastors who at
tended may well be proud of its sue
cess.
waiahao Church, was given the native
Sunday School luau, given annually in
connection with the meeting of the
Evangelical Association. Previous to
this, however, and beginning at 10
o'clock in the morning, came the exer-
cises of the various native Sunday
Schools of this island The attendance
was large, but the exercises a bit too
long to suit the majority. In the au-
dience was goodly sprinkling of for
eigners.
The exercises over, all repaired to the
basement where 16 long tables, covered
with native dishes of all kinds were
set. One of these was arranged espec-
tally for the foreigners, and so well
was it patronized that it was necessary
to set it twice.
Late in the afternoon the pastors,
Sunday School children, parents and
friends, went out aboard the U. S. S.
Philadelphia and spent an hour or so
of unalloyed pleasure in roaming about
the decks of the warship and examin-
ing into the various implements of war