The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-13
P|ONEERS Of
RELIGION
The Session Of the
Hawaiian
Clergy.
NEWS FROM HILO
ON SATURDAY
Something About the Evangelical
Association Whose Business
Closes at Hilo Today.

Today and this evening the final
evangelical services of a weeks series
of religious revival meetings will be
conducted at Hilo by the Hawaiian
Evangelical Association, and tomorrow
Rev. Mr.. Kincaid, Mr.. Theo. Richards,
Mr. Frank Damon, Rev. w. D. Wester-
Welt, and other ministers and laymen
who attended the annual convention,
will begin their return voyage, arriv-
ing here Saturday, via the Kinau.
No reports have been received Of the
success of the associations plans, as
there have been no steamers In since
the first day of the series, but is was
a great deal of enthusiasm, and to
centralize the religious interest of the
Island by the nightly meetings, that
were to extend one week, beginning
Thursday, June s. 1t is expected that
the delegation will bring good report
of the weeks work on Saturday.
This is the first of the annual meet
ings that have been held outside of
Honolulu, and Hilo was determined
upon this year for the reason that the
association wished to broaden It's cir
Gle and create new center, SO that
the people of the other Islands may
come within closer scope.
The Hawaiian Evangelical Associa-
ton has been in organization for many
years, and was at first composed of
only the old missionaries, when they
Were the sole representatives of Chris
tian work in the Islands. AS their Ia
bors began to bear fruit, however.
| there were many natives who became
ministers, and later the association
| became largely a native organization.
Even now the native ministers out
number the American ministers in the
association.
| The delegation that attended the Hilo
convention this year left on the Kinau
on Tuesday, June 4, and among the
delegates We're Rev. w. NJ. Kincaid,
| representing Central Union Church;
Mr.. Frank Damon, superintendent OF
the Chinese work of the Islands; Rev.
O. H. Gulick, superintendent of the
japanese work of Hawaii: Mr. j.
| Leadingham, of the North Pacific In
stitute, accompanied by four of his
| theological students; Mr.. Theo. Rich
| ards, VINO goes as general actlVe
worker, and who will direct his male
quartet dhe four theological students
referred to); Miss Francis Yarrow,
representing the Christian Endeavors;
Rev Mr.. Westervelt secretary of the
association; Rev. Mr.. Thwing, at the
head of Chinese branch work, and also
general superintendent of the Maui
Chinese work, and Mr.. Wong, pastor
of the Chinese Church, who recently
arrived from Canton, where he has
been nine years in religious work.
Delegates from all the Islands were
to attend, and among those outside the
Honolulu delegation are Mr.. stephen
Desha, who is pastor of the Congrega-
tiona1 Church at Hilo, and Rev. Mr..
Lydgate, of Kauai, who superintends
all the work of that Island.
The religious meetings of the an
nual conventions have always aroused
much interest and enthusiasm, and
With the force of energetic religious
workers that came together at Hilo
there probably was a rohsing series OF
evening services. Full reports will be
brought by the ministers on Saturday
when the kinau arrives.