The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-28
WORK AMONG JAPANESE.

they lined up in front of the platform
and Rev Mr.. Quick, who is at the head
of the japanese Mission work in these
islands, spoke. He began by reminding
the audience of the immense percentage
of the population which the Japanese
form. He stated that about two-ffths
of the people of the islands were Jap
anese there being about &C, 600 alto
gether Among these there were twelve
preachers, noble, faithful men, who
were devoting their life-work to the
spreading of the gospel among their
countrymen. It might be that many of
those present thought of the Japanese
as heather. but this was a mistake.
The japanese took kindly to Christian
ity and at the present day the mission
was nearly able to locate twelve new
preachers among them. He praised the
assembled congregation for the noble
way in which it lived up to the Bibles
bidding TO be kind to the stranger with
in their gates. The Japanese were
..ra+cbine out their arms for the Cos
- +,at the appeal is heard tue
pei az which represent dlhereii'
osIiiAe e the work among them pear
phases There were the SuhuaS
sobools. the Bible classes amos, 1s ond
Tonanese women, f1ve-day sciiOo -
.o,.-rie-ht schools the Hoiiol'iu
school with its sixty-tWo pups ++,a
w other things, which polhleu ~
ar,yire success of the work. II MS -
e. +r,,a that Buddhist temples 5r
- astahIished throughout the lsidioI
bit II was to the people OF TINS o- ,-;+b
tho+ the Japanese were loohihe
expectation. o;t.n BOARD
oor the Japanese could be seen GU
1i,,ad IN the big map, where oo's sao
"a The numerous places where missions
ho5 been established among the pt'
tation laborers.
THE PORTUGUESE
r,o last procession of all was that OF
.ha representatives of the portuguese
eIs..ioo like the rest they marcheu
~ singing. with waving banners anu
bsl+ed in front of the platform.
pav Mr.. Soares spoke in oehal1 Oh
49,, ,,iseion. thanking God that ne hau
wade it possible to have the WORK car
Lea ON through the supporting alo Oh
49, congregation of the Central Union
|
church. ,aer in
TTba Portuguese Mission had heeh II,
o,-ie+ance for about eleven years anu
in comparing the past with the pre9e ll
4 was great pleasure to see no" MAY
we're now earnestly striving 10 iiFe
,ot,1sr and better lives. The SUNDAY
sotoo1 was full of life and enthusiasm
The day school, which began with only
CIV nunils. now had 100 to snow lhdt
the work had been successful. Also on
+ba other islands the work was in prog
ross trip taken by Mr.. Soares last
800 nod shown him the enormous
nropress of the mission in Hilo ana on
Hroui where the small children congre--
gated to hear the word of the hora
and to praise him in song.
| The street meetings which had peer
started short while ago mere III 10
noIulu also showed a marvellous pros1
ress. In the beginning these meetHlsF
were continually disturbed by insults.
vile language, oaths and all sorts %
noises. but now they had enllreif
changed character; quite a NUMBER "
neople came as eager listeners, and thf
meetings were drawing people why
showed the greatest attention. amp
these people not only listened to tne
truth, but many of them earnestly
strove to live the truth.
The workers OF the mission were
thankful to the people of the Centrai
Union Church who had enabled them
and helped them to do their work 70
the glory of God and the salvation OF
men.
EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION.
! Prof. Theodore Richards was the next
to speak. He began by saying that
great work had been done, much OF
which could not be seen. There was no
display about the work of the Hawaii
ian Eva1g elical Association. Many did
not suspect before that morning what
great labor was going on on the PLAN
tations on these islands. He bade the
assemblage to look at the map and to
note the great number of marks which
denoted that Hawaiian missions were
established there. But another look
would show that at many of the great
! plantation districts as for instance
Hilo and Hamakua, there were no
marks of Japanese mission work, which
showed that there was still a great deal
| left to be done.
While the whole organization was 50
to speak, an insurance for the people
on these islands, yet the burden had
heretofore fallen on a few shoulders
only. Great gifts had been forthcoming
heretofore, but the time of large gifts
was past. Oahu alone had paid over
one-half of the money for the mission
work, but this could not continue The
burden must be shifted on other
shoulders. Not big gifts but many
generous donors were needed.
MIR. KINCAID's TALK.
Rev. Mr. Kincaid hereupon spoke
upon the different ways of giving. In
giving it was necessary to observe three
things. I. All give something II. All
| give as the Lord has enabled them.
III. All give cheerfully. Mr.. Kincaid
related the story of the meeting, where
| these rules were given out before a coll
lection was taken. A rich man put a
| silver coin in the box. but the treas
urer gave it back to him, telling him
| that the second rule had not been OBJ
served. The rich man went to his seat
in anger, but later on when he saw
every one else giving more than he had