The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-06-12
People Urged to Aid FOF5iga Mis-.
sion Enterprise.
REV. DR.. BlkCHAM'S APPEAL
One OF the Philippine IsIanos Men
ton sd-Odsstion OF Expansion
Strongly Presented

OiSh AhiooioiI manly Ut central Mon
Church, Sunday morning, at 10: 30 were
conducted by the pastor, the Rev VIM.
M. kincaid. He then introduced the
chairman of the committee on Foreign
Missions of the Hawaiian Board. the
Rev. Hiram Bingham, ID. D., stating
that the remaining exercises would be
conducted by him in behalf of the Ha-
waiian Board. DR.. Bingham at once
invited the congregation to unite with
the choir in singing "Watchman. tell
us of the night
After the singing he made a state
ment of the object of the meeting in
the following words:
The main object of the exercises OF
this morning is to deepen the interest
of each one of us in the great work
given to the Church of Christ in His
last command, GO We therefore and
teach all nations, baptizing them into
the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching
them to observe all things whatsoever
| have commanded you
A special object is the interesting of
the young people of this congregation
Hawaiian Board which is popularity
and technically called Foreign Mis-
sions," the evangeliZation of heather
tribes inhabiting islands of the Pacific,
North of the Equator: | say North of
the Equator, for there has been Il long
understanding between the American
Board, with which We cooperate and
the London Missionary Society, that
the latter are to care for the islands
South Of the Equator.
All the methods of this morning
which may be used to awaken such san
interest may not perhaps, commend
themselves to every one present: but
let it be charitably borne in mind that
it is not the intention to glOrify either
the Board or any of its agents; but TO
impart wildly such information as
shall directly tend TO encourage God S
people to go forward in the conquest
of the isles of the sea for Christ by the
further use of methods, more or less
familiar, of the Hawaiian Board which
has been for so many years the almon-
er of your gifts for the conversion of
the heather.
To further this object. we would
have you to come into closer sympathy
with, and a better knowledge of. the
GERS have, at my request. taken seats
on the platform, the members on my
left, and the returned missionaries on
my right The Board is elected in
three classes by the Hawaiian Evan
geIical Association, now in session in
this city We meet monthly At our
annual meeting held last Friday even
ing, we re-affirmed resolution, pre-
viouSly adopted. directly bearing on
the object of this meeting, of which /
wish especially to speak later.
At this point the chairman intro
duced Rev. S. E. Bishop. d. D., in the
following words:
We will now listen to the Sermon on
Foreign Missions by the Rev DR.. Bish-
op, whom you all know the able editor
of The Friend" He is Chairman of
our committee on Home Missions. but
he is so interested in Foreign Missions
that we can trust him to inspire your
hope in their final successful issue.
Dr. Bishop preached from Isaiah
52:7, having for his theme, Publish
good tidings" At the close of the ser
mon DR.. Bingham said:
At my ordination in 1856 to labor in
the service of the American Board in
Micronesia, on which occasion my
l.
mitted to read, before the chanting of
the same by the choir, some lines writ
ten by Mr. Edward Howe. | know
not when or where, but they were ex-
pressive of my emotions at that hour,
and continue to be to the present time
Hoping that these lines may touch
some young heart and lead 1t to a
more entire missionary conservation to
Christ. | will again read them They
will then be chanted by the choir
They will be assisted by Rev. Louis
Mitchell, a Foreign Missionary of the
Hawaiian Board to the Gilbert Islands
After the chant the Chair
man went on to say In FUR
therance of the object of this
meeting we would be glad TO call at
tention to all the Foreign Work Whlcf
the Board has done in the past, through
it's eighty-two missionaries, men ant
women: but the shortness OF the time
will compel us to pass unnotlced theh
efforts TO evangeliZe the MarqueSan'
through the labOrs of the eighteen Wn'
have been sent into that field since
1S53:.nOr can we speak of the early
labors of the seven in the Caroline
Islands. and the sixteen in the Mar
shall Islands, where none are laborlns
now. We are compelled to conten
ourselves with a review of the result:
of the principal Foreign work OF thu
Board that of the evangeliZatiOn o
the Gilbert Islands, through forty
three missionaries 1.-TWO of these for
merly in the Marshall islands,. In
stead of taking the twenty minute
which are available for giving You thi
review myself. | am glad to give tn
time to some of that people who surel!
can furnish you with a number OF per
tinent facts, and perhaps in way u
fix some of them in your memory.
1t may not be known to all OF you
that a Gilbertese Sabbath School l