The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-06

meetings for the afternoons. which wer.
atteiiueo by only small numbers. TIL.
people We're visited in their homes as
! ds possible One morning we rode
our horses through the lantana bushes
Wnlch cover the country nearly every.
| where up high on the slopes of the hills
| W "nere quite number of houses comic
pe seeh' intending to visit from hols.
20 mouse in the morning and invite
.tienh 10 come to the church in
the afternoon. We found. howev.
er. that many of them wara o"e esG
and not able to make the Journey with.
out great difficulty so we asked ner.
| MISSION to invite them into one of the
.r ana hold meeting with them
mere Inc permission was given. and
ABOUT dozen men gathered in A
pieac l ~ service was held, with read
ing Oh Scripture, singing and prayer. The
people showed a good deal of reserve
at Hrst out as the service proceeded
! 'hls melted away, and at the close they
were exceedingly cordial and kind in
tielr expressions. 1t turned out that
, lheS were all Catholics but one and
tney afterwards told one of the students
that they at first took us to be men ONT
on some political Grand The visit 70
haupo lasted from Tuesday afternoon
I'll Friday morning. 1t would be impos-
slpie to say how much coed resulted
from it. An increasing confidence and
friendliness on the part of the peonle
seemed to show that it was not in vain.
On Friday morning we returned to XII
Pahuiu The weather was fair and the
Snlches dry, so that the trip was not
SO aifflcult as the first. At Kipahulu we
We're giad to welcome Mr.. Richards, whe
had been detained in Honolulu until
this time, and whose absence is always
regretted for various reasons, especially
as he is our leader in music While in
hipahulu before we had made appoint,
ments Tor services for the three even
ngs which We're now to follow The
news of these services had gone abroad,
] and the people came in on horseback
from the surrounding country. and we
had the church well filled at each one.
In addition to these, there was held on
Sunday the regular morning service and
service in English in the afternoon for
the English-speaking people of the place
/ IN kipahulu seventeen people signifie d
by rising, a desire for better life. five
OF whom had never made any profess
/ sion of Christianity before An eftor.
was made to visit them before we left
but as they were not all found, a list
i of their names was left in the hands OF
! the pastor, Rev. Kaaiakamanu, and on
Monday, February 4, we returned &C
Hama. a meeting had been announced
for the evening, but, owing to Lad
weather, only a few came, 50 it was
turned into a song service, with short
talks from two or three of our party.
On the next day we went to Nahiku
leaving Mr.. Poepoe behind, as before
| The people of Hama again furnished Us
with horses, and Rev. Mr.. Hanuna and
one of his parishioners went with us tC
take them back. We found Nahiku d
very wet place. It rained almost con
tinuously while We were there, and Us
! the bushes and other vegetation grow
RI aor-lTv To h. farsc
very muddy and difficult of getting
about. AS we were not provided with
rubbers and raincoats, we did not gel
into the homes of the people as mucf
as we usually did. On the first evening
there was some hesitation On the par
iof few of the people about corning
into the meeting. They evidently did no
understand what We were there for, ana
hence preferred to stay on the outside
This feeling quickly passed away, ans
the rest of the meetings Were well ct
TENDED Notwithstanding the wet wealth
err. On the last night, lis people, count
ing babies and children, were packed in
to n small church. The attention g:ver
IT, the presentation of the Gospel wa:
very marked, and in the two last meet
inGs twenty-seven people signified a dc
sire to receive it. We were not able t.
stay to follow up this work, as W.
would have liked to have done, 3ut tn
lst of names was turned over 70 TIL
pastor at Keanae, who has Nahiku als'
under his charge.
4 On Saturday morning Mr.. Poepoe ,od
ovei, from Hama to join the party, ant
/ rode his horse back to Hama TO b.
present at the communion service Oh th'
following day. The others crossed in
canoe from Nahiku to Keanae. wher
the last of the work on the east and o
Maui was to be done 1 greatly regret
ted that l could not go myself, as
wanted to see the place and meet tn
people. The rest of the company le
NAMED there from Saturday till Tues
day morning, and report cordial re
:. ception and an interesting and success
ful work Meetings were held On 5hre
successive evenings, besides three durin
the daytime on Sunday. These meeting
were well attended, and a considerabl
number showed, by rising, their accept
ance of the truth This closed the ton
on this most interesting part Of Maui
On Monday evening I took the steame
at Hama The others were taken o
board in the morning at Keanae, an
we all came to Wailuku, which Will
the next center of operations.