The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-13
The GOSPEL
AND LABOR
Industrial Work In the
Early Missions.
WITH BIBLES AND TOOLS
An Interesting Address at Central
Union Church by H. S.
townsend.

At the monthly missionary concert
OF Central Union Church last Wednes-
day evening Mr. ri. $. Townsend de-
livered an address entitled. Industrial
Work In Missions" which bore so di- |
rectly upon a lire Of thought recently |
presented IN these columns that theI
following outline is here published:
Many a young Christian. hearing in
his heart the voice of his departed
Lord. "Go teach all nations" in the
/ enthusiasm Of his youth has fancied
himself. like st. Paul on Mars Hill,
calling about him heather men to tell
| them the good news of salvation
Through Jesus, thinking OF this as the
Ichief. II not the sole work of the mis-
sionary. No such illusions blinded the
eyes of those who came to proclaim
the gospel OF Christ to the inhabitants
LOT these Islands. They came with in
lstructions to open their hearts wide
land to set their mark high. They were
Ito aim at nothing short of filling the
land with fruitful fields and pleasant
homes and elevating the people TO
Thigh state of Christian civilization. Ac-
lcordingly. they brought. along with
their Bibles their hoes and shovels,
their hammers and saws, their needles
land scissors.
| Probably the women of the mission,
Whom we are now accustomed to call
1.-The missionary mothers, then in the
enthusiasm of their youth and the
lstrength of their young womanhood,
had often pictured themselves sur
Grounded by women wishing To hear
more Of the story Of the cross, not
fully realizing the Importance of the
lother and less picturesque work which
Ithey were called upon to do so. or
the arrival of the brig Thaddeus al
IKawaihae Hawaiians, men and wom-
len. boarded her and remained aboard
while she sailed around to Kailua. As
lour distinguished fellow citizen would
say, IL was a condition and not
Theory which confronted them. TheS
lgot out their needles and began th'
, work of the mission.
From that time on the missionaries
whoever they were and wherever the!
worked. found the preaching of tn
gospel but a small part % their work
lThey had TO superintend the Dulldin'
lof churches. schoolhouses and bette
homes for their people. They taugn
the Hawaiians how to cultivate an
y Icare for new plants, and how to do TN
Imauy things which their new civiliZa
ltion involved. A few years later IL wa
Iclaimed. and as far as / know not dis
Iputed, that the most successful farm
Iers and mechanics among the HAWAII
lans were those directly connected wit
1.-THE missions.
Thus far I have have had nothin
to say Of the schools and the wor
v done in them. From the very begin
lining. when the schools were filled Wit
Adults desiring to learn 20 read an
write. there was manual labor con
nected with every school. Then cam
the organization OF manual lapo
boarding schools. Lahainaluna Semi
mary being the first, with Hiio Boaro
ling School coming but little later An
fright here I wish TO stop and say ho'
much I appreciate the work OF "a
LYMAN. so long the principal OF Hill
RoardinR school He taught his pupil
most admirably to do the things the
were called upon to do. and he wa
n great power in education in tn
little country.
The wailuku boarding school. wheI
girls were taught those lost arts OF on
youthful days. spinning and knlttinl
las we'll sewing and the preparation
dairy products. etc. Is or special II
lterest TO us. as Is also the experimer
lmade by Mr.. Locke at Waialua In col
lducting a self-supporting boardir
lschool
Later, Mr. Wilcox had an 'nterestir
manual labor school at Waioli. kaus
But time fails me even to mentit
these schools. Those named are on
lspecimens of a large class. In passir
n we may note that the manual trail
ing school" Is a very modern affai
but these manual labor schools Of q
fathers were about up to our prese