The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-03-15

Hawaiian Mission Chudrcns Society
win Keep Fifueh Anniversary m
May Work of the Organizations

The Hawaiian Mission Children's Soc
Ciety, founded fifty years ago by the
children of the Missionary fathers OF
Hawaii FOR the purpose of promoting
the cause of Gospel Missions for
strengthening the already established
bonds of union between it's members
coupled with social intercourse and reg
ular meetings, will celebrate its jubilee
year i'm May with Congratulatury meet
ingS lasting for two evenings. The pro-
gram is as yet i'm embryo beyond the
fact that there will be review of the
work accomplished during the past half
cycle and an evening devoted to literary
exercises with other social features.
THE social side of the society" says
the Rev. Orramel II. Quick the present
president of the society and one of the
original members lis gradually growing
less and less as the young folk affiliated
with the society have other and more
varied claims upon them while the town
grows larger and the social entertain
ments provided grow more numerous
In the Olden days, our getting together
was not only more easy of accomplish
ment but the meetings We're eagerly
looked forward to socially. Now the
claims on the young people come in
from all sides SO that i'm lieu of our
meeting every month We were forced TO
set the meetings for five times a year
and today there are some who wish to
hold merely an annual meeting. l think
this feeling is in a minority however
We have been able to get an average
number of seventy to our regular meet
ings and our jubilee gatherings Will
doubtless be very largely attended
The missionary fathers themselves
were only admitted as honorary mem
bers of the society but all of them were
affiliated i'm this way. The roll call
shows but eight of them to be now
living one hundred and forty-nine hav-
ing now TeaDed the reward Of their
labors in the mission field Honorary
members not of Hawaiian missions
number fuTty-fOur living and thirty
six deceased.
Life members, all Of whom have paid
ten dollars for that privilege are scat
tered all over the States and other ter
ritOres where some of them are work
ing in the mission fields. Two hundred
and twenty of these have passed to
the great beyond but there are still
945 living life members who are con-
nected with the society through mar
riage or actual lineage.
All the missionary families may be
found i'm the lists printed yearly i'm the
annual reports. Such names as An
drews, Alexander, Armstrong. Atherton
Austin, Baldwin, BeClJwfth, Bishop,
Bond, Bowen, Brewer Carter, Castle,
Chamberlain, Cooke Damon, Dilling-
ham. Dole Emerson Forbes. Gilman,
Goodale, Gulick, Hall, Hartwell. Hitcn-
cock Holmes, HOsmer, Hyde, Isenberg
Judd Kinney, Levers, Lyman, Rice,
Richards, Shaw Stangenwald, Taylor,
Thrum, ThurstOn, Warehouse, Whit
ney. Wilcox, Williams, stand cOnspicu-
Ously i'm the list, many of them with
dozen or more names of branch mem
bers of the family appearing. There are
at present nine annual members, maxi
ing an active living membership Of over
| one thousand.
The present officers are Rev. O. H.
! Gulick, president; f. A. Cooke vice
president, LOrrin Andrews, secretary;
Charlotte V. G. Holland and Ada r..
Whitney. corresponding secretaries,
Lyle A. Dickey, treasurer and the Rev.
W. d. Westervelt and Martha A. Cham
berlain elective members of the board.
During its existence the society has
annually assisted local and foreign mis-
sionary institutions to an amount Of
something over two thousand dol
lars This amount has been distri-
buted in various sums of about two
hundred dollars each to the Kawaiahau
schools and similar institutions on the
other islands. The Rev La Porte on
Gilbert's Island has received some as
sistance in his work and sums have also
been sent to Micronesia. Annual re-
ports have been printed from time to
/ time showing the work of the society
| and these are available to the public
generally as far as the surplus Of the
| limited edition will go.
There is to be meeting next Satur-
| day evening at the residence of Theo-
dore Richards to decide the arrange
mentsoof the eiubilee celebration and
make up the program.