Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-01-16
EP|SCOpANANS MEET
JOINTS SESSION OF GUILDS
AND THE BROTHERHOOD
Work Of Year Outlined By Mr., Mac
kintOSh 49, Address By Rev,
Sydney Hooker, of Dillon
Montana.

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ed with prayer after which Rev. Alex. I.
Macintosh outlined the work which |
had been done by the two organiza-
tiuus. He said the members of the
BruthD rhuod did much for the church
by visiting hotels, lodging houses,
ships and other places, where they
urged men to attend church services
and otherwise bring them within tho
influence of the church. After this
brief review. Rev. Alex Macintosh in
troduced Rev. Sidney Hooker, of Dill
lon, Montana, who spoke, in part, as
follows:
Il am glad to bring a greeting from
the church in Montana to the church
in Honolulu. Why We have guilds.
will tell you. When the spirit Of Christ
comes into our hearts we want to
show our love Of Christ and the church.
We know what Christ did and we want
to do as he did. When we become
members of the church we want to do
something to show we want to be use
full members Of the church, for by their
works shall you know them. Religion
is not sentiment. 1t is a thing of doing.
When we become church members we
want to show our Christianity by
deeds.
Now to accomplish anything We
must organize. just as we must Or
business ends. and therefore we have
our guilds. One man can do work
alone. but when men work together
they can accomplish things much
greater. II was this feeling that made
five men meet together to organize the
Brotherhood of st. Andrews, which is
great organization and a grand ex-
preston Of this feeling of desire to do
work for the church.
The Daughters of the King Is an
other expression of the same feeling.
We have neither of these at my home
in Dillon, Montana, but we will soon
start to organize the Daughters Of the
King. In other parishes in Montana
we have both these organizations and
they are doing splendid work. Thus in
Butte there were SO candidates for con-
frmatiOn last year which large number
was for a great part the result of the
work of these organizations.
I'VE also have missionary guilds.
These used to have the same trouble
as there seems to be here, that while
at times the attendance was large at
other times it was very small. We got
over that about three years ago by Or
ganizing on different lines. We all
want to help the rector to do the Lord s
work, and to do this 1t Is an important
thing to have people friendly towards
one another and making strangers feel
at home with us. Our guilds succeeded
in doing this splendidly by having So
Cial meetings every week. They met 1t
different houses at different times ana
the lady OF the house provided the re-
freshments so That this was only a
small burden. Then 1t was customary
for every member to bring small Of
fering at every meeting. This plan
worked surprisingly well. The attend
ance became larger. greater interest
was shown and more money was col
lected. A great number Of strangers
were also drawn to the chuch in this
manner. This plan might work ex-
ceedingly well here in Honolulu,
Another organization is the Wo-
mans Auxiliary which is very thor
oughly organized there being a branch
OF 1t in every diocese Of Montana. The
work done Is especially missionary
work and every baptized woman Of the
church Is considered member. Meet
ings are held once month. the main
feature being the reading of papers
which tell what is being done in the
missionary field. This makes these
meetings interesting. When we know
what Is being done and see the splen-
did results of the missionary work we
become Interested and will give more
for these purposes. Every year this or,
ganization pledges itself to give a Ger.
tain amount to the Board of Missions
and all the Sunday schools give offer,