The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-01

made matter of reproach that they thus
treated -he poor natives as beasts of bur-
den. Native labor was then plenty and
unemployed. \ native in Honolulu was
glad TO earn twelve and a half cents a
day.
In 1886 we removed to Eva, just across
the stream from the present Pearl City.
There my IA. 1er found his hands full of
work He finished the great adobe
church begun by Rev. Lowell Smith, and
built large school house. Mr.. Smith. In
the following year, organized a second
church in Honolulu. and built the great
adobe church of Kaumakapili, usually
known as Smiths Church on the site
of the brick church. lately removed This
building" was done by the nstves and
their chiefs. under the superint endence
OF the missionary. From this time on,
church edifces of foreign form began to
rise throughout the Islands. The stone
church at KaiIua was built by Kuakini,
on the site of the great matched edifice
destroyed by fire in 1895.
4 considerable part of the labor OF the
older missionaries was expended il trans
lating the Scriptures and preparing school
books / remember no time when my
father did not spend as much as twelve
hours a week a his study table, working
with the aid of Greek and Hebrew Scrip
lures, revising the TRANSACTIONS made
by Messrs. Bingham, Thurston or Rich
ards, who were adopts in that work. Mr..
E. o. Hall, as printer. and Mr.. Henry
Dimond, as bookbinder, We're active IN
their work of publication on the ground
now occupied by Kawaiahao Girls Sem
mary. The first edition of the entire
Bible in Hawaiian appeared in 1899. in
three volumes, 12mo.
A great elimination took place IN 1873.
as result of seventeen years of earnest
missionary labor. Perhaps no more mark
place in the history of the Christian
church A tremendous religious enthu-
siasm pervaded every district of the ISL
ands. The pastors and their native help
ers held crowded meetings night and day
in every village. Penitents with fearful
emotion f1ocked in crowds for admission
to the churches. During those years, as
personally witnessed. our Eva church
membership increased from perhaps 100
to a thousand. Rev. Titus Coan of Hilo
and Rev. Lorenzo Lyons of Waimea each
baptized many thousands of enthusiastic
converts.
One one Sabbath. Mr.. Coan baptized
1907 candidates. It was physically impos-
sibIe to apply the water individually. and
he adopted the expedient of sprinklng
them in groups, with a brush. At some
time in 1898. the writer witnessed the
baptism of four hundred native men ana
women in the course of two hours. by
Rev Artemus Bishop. About 5000 people
were present, under large lanai shelter
covering one-haIf Of the churchyard. ex-
actly where the present church now
stands. The 400 were previously organic
ed into groups of about ten each, and
seated on the ground in the order IN
which their names We're previously writ
ten upon a paper. AS the pastor ap-
preached each group, they rose to their
knees. He then touched each forehead
with a wet sponge, pronouncing the per-
sons name, and following with the bap-
tismal formula, ct baptlze you all into
the name" etc.
I suppose that this memory of mine q
unique. Perhaps no other person now
living witnessed the event. I was too
Young at the time to deeply appreciate
the vast moral and spiritual revolution
hat was then taking place. This great
awakening was the predisposing cause OF
he extraordinary change which soon
in the willing elevation by the
King and chiefs of their serfs to the stat
Is of Independent freeholders, and of
voters for representatives in the leeisia-
ure. That great moral and mental up
fitting became the foundation OF all the
subsequent well-being of the Hawaiian
ace.