The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-02

churches; we should not meet together
in worship I'm His name today Thank
God He never sent any one away. Re
member His words Let him that
thirsteth or hungereth come unto me.
Whosoever cometh unto me ! viii In no
wise cast out
} what I want To say to the churches
OF Honolulu today is this: That we
must stand together and face the starry
ing muttudes 4 heavy responsibility
is ours and we cannot shirk 1t or put
1t upon others-we must give the people
the bread of life. Let us not, like the
disciples. when the day Is far spent ana
the multitudes are I'm desert places
send them away Let us give them to
eat of the bread of life. 1t Is the one
great food for the famishing soul. There
Is on life apart from the Savior, and
the bread Of life is HIS life. Away from
Him the soul viii lauguish and die.
I'VE believe We possess the bread of
life. Let us break It that 1t may multi
ply and let us pass II to the hunCering
ones. In the reorening of this histori-
cal old church let us keep its mission
before us. 1t Is the duty Of every one
of us to give the bread of life. God
grant that we may keep the mission al
ways before us and remember the Mas
tcrs command. Give We them bread
whereof to eat"
At the conclusion of Rev. Mr.. Kin
caid's address Rev. Mr.. Parker an
nounced a hymn by the choir, after the
singing of which Rev. Mr.. Tlmoteo Of
fered a prayer, and another anthem
followed. Mr.. Henry Waterhouse then
addressed the congregation. speaking
in the Hawaiian language and occupy
ing some ten minutes. The kawaiahao
Sunday school of little girls then sweet
~ sang one of their hymns. the pretty
words of the old verses Twinkle,
Twinkle, Little Star" being changed to
express sacred sentiment.
Rev C. S. Timoteo and Rev Mr..
Westervelt then made short addresses,
both speaking in the Hawaiian lam
guage and endorsing the point made by
Mr.. Kincaid that the new church was
to be dedicated to the spirit of active
Christian work. Rev. MIR. WeSterVelt
told the story of the pulpit which Is
now the property of the new chapel.
1t is a large, handsome pulpit of dark
wood and is the same from which the
famous Rev. Leonard Bacon preached
many sermons in New Haven, Connecti-
sionary work in the Islands was still
young, the famous old minister sent the
pulpit to Kawaiahao church; it came
in sailing vessel around Cape Horn,
and when it reached Honolulu was
placed in Kawaiahao church, where 1t
remained until it was removed to IA
Moiliili church Recently it has not
been used at all. but with the reopening
of the old chapel made new the old pull
pit has been restained and placed upon
the platform. to do service for many
more years, during which the speaker
hoped many great messages might go
forth from ii to the people to be given
as the bread of life to the multitudes.
The following letter which Mr.. Wes-
tervelt had received from Mother
Rice" was read by him to the congre-
cation:
II can give you very little informa-
ton in regard to the Moliliili church,
which Mr.. Rice added to his duties at
PunahOu when we We're located by the
mission in 1914. He helped in the build
ing of the native church at Manoa and
Moiliili and a church near Punahou. the
building now used as a school house
near the residence of Professor Alex
ander He assisted in the building of
the three churches and usually attend
ed in one or the other Sunday after
noon. I recolect his coming home very
tired one day. saying. i have been
shingling on the MOiliili church today
I do not know just when this was, but
think it was about 1850.
During the prevalence of the small
poX the temporary hospital was erected
by the Government between Punahou
NJ ID hi
time with the sufferers, ministering to
them. 1t was a time of great suffer-
ing. | have kept few records. l close
with real gratitude and thankfulness
that the old church has been restored.
Your friend, MOTHER RICE"
The following statement in regard to
the old church, which through the gen.
erosity of Mr.. Isenberg has been re-
paired at a cost approximating near
$4,000, was read by Mr.. Westervelt also:
q "Kawaiahao, Moiiili and Kaumaka-
pill churches have several missions in
the district of Honolulu. In these mis-
sion churches Sabbath school and
church services are held from time to
time.
"Moilili is a part of the large work of
Kawaiahao church.
las early as 1880 the missionaries had
schools and services in villages sur
rounding Honolulu. for which grass
churches were built
I'm 1874 Rev w. II. Rice and his wife
took charge of the school at Punahou
and visited both Sabbath and week days
'apanas' of Moiliil Manoa and Makiki.
Mrs. Rice, now known everywhere
throughout the Islands az Mother
Rice says: 'Punahou the princely gift
of Father Bingham, was not, as now,
an inviting place, 1t was without now
ers or trees and was connected with
Honolulu by treeless plain This was
the general appearance OF the country
between Honolulu and the desolate re-
zion back OF Diamond Head