The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-03
AN APPEAL MADE
Hawaiian Board Requires
Money BY May IS.
Call for Quite a Sur-How Funds
Have Been Applied-Grand
Work Done.

of the Evangelical churches
of these Islands, having the official
charge of the evangelistic. publication,
and educationa! gork of these church
es. will close it financial year May Is.
Mr.. w. w. Hall, the treasurer, is very
lest the year should close
with any outstanding financial obliga-
tions unpaid. He is looking to the
wfse-hearted and generous givers in
this community for $4,000, to balance
his books without being obliged to re-
port deficit when he makes his annual |
report of his stewardship. Yet it is not |
his personal duty to secure such an
amount of money. He simply receives
and disburses funds, which 1t is the
obligation of the constituency OF the
Hawaiian Board to provide. There
ought to be larger number interested |
in the work which the Board is seeking |
to accomplish, and for which 1t needs |
and deserves such aid as everyone in
terested in such work, charitable, phi |
lanthropic, religious, should gladly
tender 1t may be well to set forth
this work in it's broad outlines, from
the treasurer's point of view, that
deeper and more widespread interest
may be aroused towards securing
speedily the money that is needed for
the credit side of the ledger account.
From the financial report for 1897,
if is noted the total annual expenses
of the work amounted to 29,347.35,
al
81 .477.37; to Hawaiians and for Hawai-
ians. S11. 661. 10; Japanese, $3,4O3.60;
Portuguese, $3,737.05; Chinese, $5,374.-
90.
OF the large amount spent on Ha-
waiians, S1.949.3O was on account of
Hawaiian missionaries in the Mar
ouesas Islands, the special field of the
Hawaiian churches for foreign mis-
sionarv work. and in the Gilbert ISL
ands, the foreign field in which the
Hawaiian churches act in cooperation
with the American Board, CA. B. G. f.
M S6.843.28 have gone for education
al purposes in connection with the
Kohala Girls School, for which the
Hawaiian Board is directly response
BILE; and for the North Pacific Mission
arv Institute, which provides special
1OI la w cIAA@biA PeNN'o>-N'
missionaries.
The figures given, OF Work zone
among the Japanese, do not give the
whole cost of that work; for some
plantations assist by defraying sala-
ries. or cost of buildings, of which no
account is given in the report of the
treasurer. Nor does the report men
ton the money raised, $8,45665, for
the purchase of the Lyceum premises,
to be used as the headquarters of the
Japanese Mission; nor does there APP
pear the amount, S1,385, contributed
by the Japanese churches for various
religious and benevolent purposes.
Nor do the figures given by the Chinese
Mission, S5,374.92, large as they may
seem represent all that has been given
to the jealous superintendent, IN
building his boarding school for Chi
tnese bows. ''The Mills Institute" nor
the money generously contributed by
the Chinese merchants for the support
of Chinese schools connected with the
| Mission: nor the cost of repairs and
maintenance of the Chinese church,
| and the Y. Nj. G. A. buildings. Nor
does there appear in this report of
| the Hawaiian Board the cost OF the
fine property, now occupied by the POr-
tuguese Mission, the school buildings,
! the parsonage, the cOmmOd1OuS and
beautiful church. Thanks to Mr.. w.
A. Bowen and his untiring zeal in col
Ilecting the large amount needed, that
property is free from all Indebtedness,
the remaining mortgage of $1,000 hav-
ing been cancelled, as soon as the
money could be paid.
Who can doubt that the annual eX-
penses of the Hawaiian Board, now
amounting to $4,000, only inadequate
llv and imperfectly represent the fdel1-
tv and generosity, with which people
in this community have met the re-
sponsibility of their day and genera
ton in providing for those whose claim
upon benefactiOns is the need fOl
which all can and ought to provide?
Now turn to the account given Of
the money received, S29, 288.26; anC
lanalyze the sources from which this
income has been derived. Sales o
notifications have amounted to S919.7l
donations to the Board have been re
iceiyed S2O.35, from the Portuguese ant
S1S3.4O from the Chinese; invested
funds and rentals of lands have yielde'
S4.730.66; but the great bulk OF tn
receipts. 22,419.44, is from generous
givers in this community, seven indi
viduals contributing $4,000 of thi
amount, the Central Union Church 81,
IA. and the A. B. c. F. NJ. sendin
$3.50. grants in aid of the work it be
gan here, and for which it still thu
j acknowledges a measure of responsi
bility.
It will be noticed how large pro
: Dor+ioD c0rnac from individual giyerS
If to the $4,000 mentioned above a
coming from a few individuals, be add
ed Mrs J. NJ. Cookies bequest of 81
d 417.75. it will be seen that more tina
half the amount coming from resident
mot Hawaiians) is from only eigf
persons. What is needed is a NOR
) special interest in this work in tn
- community generally. and widenin
of the constituency of which the Boar
q is the representative and the excel
$50 It &c tho small piftS of man