The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-06
BOARD OF
MISSIONS
Monthly Meeting
Held Yesterday
Afternoon.
MUCH WORK IS
DONE BY WOMEN
An Interesting Paper is Read by
Mrs. Mcclellan on Missions
in Central America.
m HE woman's Board of Missions
held its regular monthly meeting

~ HE Woman's Board of Missions
held its regular monthly meeting
- yesterday at 2:30 p. m. in the
parlCrs of Central Union church. The
papers and reports read before the
Board were OF an interesting charac-
ter and were listened to atten:iveiy.
Letters were read from various persons
engaged in the work of the Women's
Missions and prayers We're offered for
the absent ones
a pathetic feature of the sessions was
that of placing upon the roll of the
women's Board the name of Mary Rice
the daughter Of Mother Rice of Ka-
uai. who died in her early womanhood.
a request came from Mother Rice ask
ing that the Board place her dead
daughters name upon the honorary
roll. Miss Chamberlain, who presided
at the meeting, referred to the request
in sympathetic terms, and she express
sed a hope that the ladies would rec
cgnize the spirit of the desire of Mother
Rice. and accede to the same according
~. A vote was silently taken and the
name was added to the roll with the
unanimous consent of all present. Miss
Chamberlain stated that it was iue to
the philanthropic purpose of Mother |
Rice, who supplied large sum of
money for the purpose, that the names
Of all missionary mothers in the Ha-
Waiian Islands had been added to the
roll OF membership.
The meeting was opened with song
praise followed by a reading of the
scriptures by Miss Chamberlain from
the sixth chapter of the Second Corin-
thians. in which she laid stress on the
phrase, BE Ye Enlarged" She also
read some beautiful sentiments based !
uion the sentence written by anothef.
\ letter was also read from Mrs. c.
NJ. Hyde, formerly president of the
Board, who is now in Dresden with ner
daughter. Mrs. Hyde said her daugh
ter's health was much improved and
they hoped soon to return to Honolulu
They were looking forward to- q meet
ing with Mrs. James Campbell ard
daughters who were in Dresden when
the letter was written. They missed by
one day DR.. and Mrs. Day and DR.. Judd.
Mrs. Coan, treasurer. reported that
the collections at the last meeting were
S2I for the general treasury, and $3.50
for the Armenian mission. OF this
amount 800 was given by one person,
$50 by another and there were four 50
gold pieces. evidently from four others,
while the SO represented the contribu-
lions of the large number. Mother Rice
of Kauai also contributed so as the
fee for entering her daughters name
upon the Board roll of membership.
She stated that $3.50 would also have To
be paid out by the Board for its regular
pledges.
Mrs. GuIick announced that the mis-
schooner Carrie and Annie had
safely arrived at Pleasant Island in the
Caroline group. with material of vari-
Gus kinds for the mission now working
there Much anxiety had been express
sed over the schOoner's voyage. The
news came in a letter from Mrs. De La
Porte. who with her husband. is labor
ing in behalf of the religious training
" the natives. 1t was explained that
Mr.. and Mrs. De La Porte were sent
from Honolulu to Pleasant Island on +;
account of their being Germans. Pleas
ant Island was under German rule and
the Governor prohibited American mis-
'iOnaries from laboring amongst the ma I
lives. Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis. passengers
III AAAG IilSSAbudig SNAbbAifAs HNAN NAAN 1
irst persons whom the missionaries had {
seen in many, many months.
They Were the only white people on
he island amongst the natives. with the 7
Exception OF a young white man. who :
had married native woman, both OF :
whom assisted in the work. Mrs De ,
La Porte spoke OF the difficult work /
IN teaching the natives. They were so !
Inherent from other peoples. and the :
women and girls We're quite filthy in
heir habits. Many OF them had been 4,
aught to eschew certain Of their habits
md were much cleaner All were ad- :,