The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-05


said And here in Hawaii. the needs
of woman's work is SO great that IL
we were to spend all our energies, time
and means, we could not meet them
ALL
And this introduces the special work
of the last decade. The heather ma
lions have crowded our land. They are
at our doors and in our homes! The
beginning and growth of the Christian
work in any OF these nationaiities
would fiji a volume We rejoice that
our Woman's Board has aided some
what in this advancement, and been
stirred by the reports of the workers.
The first of these that claimed our
assistance was the Chinese work. un
der Mr. and Mrs. Damon. This be-
gan with house to house visitation,
and the gathering of the few Chris
tians into bands of worshipers mere
and on the other Islands. Then began
the boys day school, the girls school
the kindergarten. Then Mills Insti-
tute, a boys boarding school was
opened with five boys in Mr.. Damons
own house. These overlooked into the
barn; then the barn was converted In
to school, and an upper story added
for a dormitofy, to accommodate thirty
boys. This building was spared, as by
miracle, from fire and plague, and the
ScnOOf has IIicIedStu u1ltll t1cS utiiiduu
new building and more room III the
suburbs In 1899 our society transfer
red the help given to the school to the
special department of Miss Sunter'S
house to house visitation among the
women, the reports of which nave been
intensely interesting.
In 1887 our dear departed Miss
Knight was impressed with the fact
that something must be done for the
Portuguese. She said, Where shall
we find a consecrated young heart that
will gather into a free kindergarten
the many little boys and girls whom
we meet at every turn, for whose edu-
cation no one seems to care. and whose
toiling mothers scarcely know that
there is, even for them. a hope and
trust that could bring brightness into
their hard lives. IL only there was
some one who understood their Ian
guage. to go from house to house to
tell them" She and Mrs. DR. Whit
ney We're appointed committee to see
what could be done. They, with 9TH
ers, organized a Sunday school on Mil
lerF street, which was handed over to
the Central Union Church and ably
carried on by Mr.. Dillingham;, Mr. ana
Mrs. Frank Cooke, Mr.. Bowen, and
others. Ekk
But the real work for the Portuguese
was taken up in 1891, when Mrs. Sea-
res, arriving with her husband, was
made our missionary among the won-
en-. The work grew A chapel was
built for Mr.. Soares, primary school
started. a kindergarten established a
sewing school and benevolent socie-
ty. They have established a branch
Sunday school at Punahou and one at
kakaako, where clubs meet and mucn
good is done. So the work goes on,
and where our influence ends we know
not, nor where we enter into another
mans -labors.
Our first report of Japanese work
was given in 1891, and the first money
recorded was donated in 1893; though
some of our members had been help
ing them from the landing Of the first
shipload on our shores. In 1892 Mrs.
Sunamoto said, There are 3.45I Japan
csc women on the Islands, but very
few Christians There are seven on
Kauai, one on Maui. three at Eva, ard
eight in Honolulu. I have not heard
if there be any in Hilo.' There are
now 10000 Japanese women. Miss Cas-
ties papers and those of Mrs. Gulick
have brought the work and its great
needs in the other Islands. as well as
in Honolulu, very wildly before US.
We have assisted in the kindergarten
and in, procuring a house and grounds
for the boarding school; and now that
Mrs. So is devoting her whole time te
work among the women, her salary
has been paid by the Woman's Board.
Mrs. Gulick has been burdened with q
sense of the Sneed of a home for Jap
anese women when out of employ
ment, where they might be free from
the many evil influences so ready to
pull them down. 1t is to be hoped
this need may be met in the Rescue
Home, lately established and placed
under the care of the Salvation Army.
The Japanese Christian Endeavor,
Benevolent Society, temperance organ
ization, twelve evangelists and minis
tiers. with the children. constitute the
little leaven hid in the meal-sixty
thousand japanese on our Islands.
Other duties have called us. An APP
peal from Mrs. F. A. Shepherd for help
for the poor Armenian orphans in Tur-
key, stirred our hearts and received a
donation of some six hundred dollars.
The suffering of the child widows OF
India was presented, and a generous
response given. The great political
changes in the country have affected
our work only in giving us more to
do. The transports, laden with boys
in blue" have engaged our sympathy,
time and strength; the ladies OF our
BOARD Delng among the nrSt to extend
welcome to our soldiers.
The terrible curse of fire and plague
which desolated our city in 1900, called
for special help form all, and our
president, at the head of band of
ladies, cut out and made thousands of
garments for the sufferers.
And recently, when the suffering
missionaries We're returning from the
Boxer uprising in China, a committee
was appointed to receive them, and
funds provided to assist them on their
way.
And thus the work, so varied, has
perhaps suggested such mottos as
these: GO forward Sow beside all
waters" What Thou commanded me
to do, I will do
The papers read at the monthly
meetings have many times been the
outpouring of a great desire, the ex-
preston of strong conviction or a
deep-seated desire. Such was a paper
read by Mrs. Brine, eloquent on the
needs of a home for orphan white
children, and also a place where girls
might ne sheltered from terpnta tJnn