The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-06-16
4 CALL TO LABOR
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for us. and that IL may be foretaste
Of a Gilbcrtese commentary on the en-
tire New Testament. Will not friends
here help the Board to print IL? VIII
they not buy our oocoanuts and mats
and hats and baskets of the Hawaiian
Board. n the Board will take them In
exchange for the commentary?
Here are specimens Of our handi-
craft, evidences Of our industry. such
as We would be glad to make on order
to help us to rise. by the purchase OF
good books, still higher in a Christian
civilization, for We are very poor
people.
And finally. what have you brought
A book which. next to our Bibles,
We most prize; for out OF II we sing
the praises OF Jesus. II is a Gilbertese
Hymn and Tune Book published by
the Hawaiian Board. II contains 2l5
hymns of which few are the work
Of Hawaiian missionaries. The tunes
number 1877. We are told that 1t cost
the Hawaiian Board more than $1.l00
to electrotype and print the LIST edition
Of 1000 copies.
We deposit this book on the last
round Of our ladder and by 1t we place
a photograph of the pupils in the
Boarding School for Gilbert and Mar
shall Island girls on Kusaie. in CRATE
full recognition of the last loving. liv-
ing gift of the Hawaiian churches
through the Hawaiian Board to our
Gilberteen people. Miss Emma Kane.
once pupil in the Kawaiahao and Ka-
mehameha Schools for girls. who was
sent to Kusaie in the Morning Star"
in 1897, to assist in refining and elevat
ing our daughters in the environments
Of Christian home; and especially in
teaching them to sing the songs of
Zion.
We thank the Christian people of
these Hawaiian Islands for all that
they have done for us through the Ha-
waiian Board and we also thank the
American Board for its generous CO.
operation. We thank you all most es
pecially for every effort which you
have made to bring us to Jesus. our
Lord and Saviour.
In closing, we would like to sing one
of our sweet hymns about our Saviour
II is a free translation of MY Jesus,
| love Thee" made, in the main, BY
one of our own people. Kanikua, a
young man who came to these islands
in his childhood days. learned some
English, was afterward trained III the
school at Kusaie, became a teacher,
and died early, in the harness, in 1891
or '92.
The school then sang in Giibertese
art mine
Secretary Emerson next gave a very
brief statement of the present Foreign
work of the Hawaiian Board.
The Chairman next gave q presen-
tatiOn of some Foreign work which
the Hawaiian Board would be glad to
do in coming days. He said:
So rapidly and successfully are Gill
bertese teachers being prepared for
their work at the Training School on
Kusaie, that there would seem to be
little occasion for our Hawaiian
Board to send more Hawaiian mis-
siOnaries to the Gilbert Islands. A
glance at this large map before you
will show you where Gilbert, Marshall
and Caroline Island teachers and pas
tors are at work In their respective
groups. They are to be found on the
islands marked in red.
The American missionaries in charge
Of the work in the Gilbert Islands
make no loud call on us for more Ha-
waiian missionaries. Those In charge
Of the work in the Marshall Islands
make no call whatever. AS to the
Caroline Islands, Ponape, already we'll
evangelical, and, with the New Testa-
ment in the hands Of its people, is for
the present closed against us. The
Mortlocks are already supplied with
teachers from Ponape and Ruk, and
with the New Testament, translated
by the now sainted Logan. A few Ha-
waiians would be welcomed by Mr..
Price to aid in evangelizing the ten
thousand savages dwelling within the
lagoon OF Ruk; and we wolld be- very
glad to send some to his aid; but a
good beginning has been made In the
eastern portion of the Lagoon. A
Training School for young men and a
Boarding School for girls have been
for years established, aud nlti'e teach
ers have already been placed On some
OF the other islands In this lagoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Simpson and the Misses
Baldwin (the latter at their own
charges) have very lately gone to the
help OF the Mission there. Portions of
Scripture and other books have been
prepared and circulated; some church
es and schools have been established.
Soon they would not need help from
the Hawaiian Board Then again, the
American Board would surely look
after them.
Shall we rest here, and hold the
fort" or go forward? Come with me
in imagination. Morning Star" No.
4. is now 10 years old, and. voyaging
as she does so much of the time In the
warm waters and airs and soaking
showers of the doldrums of the torrid
zone, decay in her planks and timbers
is fast developing: her engine and boil
ers are well worn, and she must soon
be replaced. Let us imagine that on the
morning OF January list, 1901, at the
beginning OF the new century, there
looms up off our harbor larger
Morning Star" steamlng along at
eight knots instead of five, the ut
most speed under steam alone OF the
present Star" On her ! invite you
all to so with me as delegates OF the
Hawaiian Board to Micronesia, We
touch first Mt Butaritari, one OF the
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