The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-24
WORK OF CHURCH
| CONVOCATlON.

| Editor Advertiser: = Last week was
an eventful one in the life of the
! churchnan of Honolulu, recording as
| it has the proceedings of the Primary
Council of the American Episcopal
church in these Islands. Beginning
ed with the enforcement of the Right
| Rev. Henry Bond Restarick, Sunday
! morning Nov. 18TH until the adjourn
ment of the Council Thursday night the
! interest did not flag. The conference
| of Sunday School workers on Monday
afternoon and evening brought out
| many new thoughts and helpful sug-
gestions. But the Quiet Day at ST.
Clements church for church workers
| was a red letter day for church people.
| 1t began with celebration of the Holy
| Communion at 10 a. m. and was follow
| ed by addresses by the Bishop, prayers
and silent meditation and hymns which
continued throughout the day until p.
m. with only a short intermission for
| luncheon which was served in the par
| ish house during readings from 1.-THE
Practice of the Interior Life by Bishop
| McLaren. The deep. quiet earnestness
| of the speaker so impressed his hear
| ers that though hours passed, none COM
| planned of WEAKNESS and he held their
closest attention to the end. Every
one who was privileged to attend ex-
pressed qualification and satisfaction
| fer the spiritual refreshment received
and the inspiration and encourage
ment that has come to them and al
| ready the Bishop has been urged to
give the people more "Qpiet Days" at
some time in the future.
Thursday afternoon, the time set
apart for the conference of women
| workers, was of more than ordinary in
terest. The old pro-cathedral was filed
with enthusiastic church workers and
| the papers read We're so excellent that
| they deserve much more than a passing
notice. Notably among these was one
| by Mrs. John osborne on How to
Make Children Church Workers which
we wish could have been heard by ev-
cry Christian parent and teacher in the
land. Another by Miss Marie Won Holt
dealt with the question of why Wo-
| men Should be Interested in Missions"
and evinced much careful thought and
preparation. After tracing briefly the
| history of women under the various
| clinical religions up to our present
time, it is safe to say there was not one
| of her hearers who did not voice her
words, 1.-THE story becomes monstrous.
All ron-Christian religions degrade
women, and as woman is, so is all So
ciety." why then should women be
| interested in missions? Because from
the vast, patient and pathetic lands of
| India, China and Japan, Africa as well
as all around us, wherever we may be,
comes the cry for help, and it is our
| privilege as Christian women to bind
| up the broken-hearted, to give liberty
| to the captives, to comfort all that
mourn, to give beauty for ashes, the
| garment of praise for the spirit of
heaviness. Bishop Weldon, sometime
Bishop of Calcutta, now Canon of
| Westminster Abbey says, Christianity
is not the only progressive but the most
| progressive religion in all India: 1t is
| growing more rapidly than the popu-
lation, and more rapidly than any other
| religion. And the late Prebendary
| Tucker in his book Spiritual Expan-
| sion says, so long as the women of
India are immured in gloomy Zenanas
| and harems the work of elevating and
converting the mothers of the next gen.
| Grafton, must be entrusted to their
| white sisters, and woman's work as
| teachers, as doctors, as nurses, must
| be placed in a position second only to
| that of the ordained Evangelist And
so out of very thankfulness for all the
| enlightenment, power and liberty that
women now enjoy in this twentieth CEN
fury, should they be interested in CIV
| ing to others what they themselves en-
| JOY, and by the rule of unselfishness
IN not keeping good things to ones self
| should they be interested and so WIS.,
| hand in hand with their fellow men to
De helpsmeet indeed, so that the people
| near US, and far away from us may,
| under Christian influence become the
| kingdoms of our Lord and of His
| Christ"
The keynote of missionary enthusi-
| asm was struck at the beginning of the
| Dlshop'S address and this paper deep
| ened and strengthened it as did the dis
| cussions that followed each speaker
ana after the presentation of the needs
OF the greatest woman's missionary So
c1ety OF the church, "The Woman's
Auxiliary to the Board of Missions"
MRS. Give Davies was unanimously
elected to fill the secretary's chair for
the diocesan branch of the Woman's
Auxiliary in this missionary jurisdic-
ton, and Mrs. Soper. treasurer
Deaconess Drant's impressive story
of her three months work among the
Chinese was a happy and fitting climax
to the awakened interest and enthusi-
asm shown throughout the entire ses-
sion. Mrs. Emory's interesting report
of the work done by ST. Andrews Guild
during the past year was a remarkable
showing, covering as it did a period of
peculiar difficulties during the transit
ton stage from the Anglican church
government to that of the American.
She reported over $4,000 raised in cash
in that length of time and many works
OF charity. Mrs. Soper's report of the
work of st. Clements Guild was no less
remarkable, not only in figures but in
the scope of its influence in charities
and work for unfortunate victims of
humanity. She spoke as did Mrs. EN-
DRY i'll the same hopeful strain of the
bright prospects and enlarged plans of
usefulness for the future or to quote
Mrs. Soper's words, the people of ST.
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