The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-31
KAWAIAHAO is GIVEN A
SITE FOR PARSONAGE
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remember how in my college days
I was wont TO hope that / might be
fitted to return to my native land and
take up the work in Kawaiahao church
1 which my father had been obliged TO
give up. because of my mothers feeble
| ness
iii remember how. in 1857. seventeen
years after our departure from Homo
lulu, on my first return to this ISL
and, on my way TO Micronesia, in the
first Morning Star. / received an earn
est call from this church to become
their pastor. how the venerable Chris
ton governor OF Kauai the Hon. Paul
Kanoa stated to the assembly. in my
presence, that, as on the day on which
was born. my father had laid me in
the arms of the illustrious queen of
Hawaii. Kaahumanu, (who had called
to inquire after the welfare of mother
and child, saying as he did so. Here
is your new teacher, IL would be the
proper thing for me to do to fulfil this
| promise of my father by accepting the
| call to become their pastor. I remem-
| Der that replied that as the Hawai-
ian people had already the Bible print
ed in their own language, churches, /
schools, printing presses, Christian
books and newspapers; just laws, and
| a civilized government, I would prefer
| to go with such Hawaiian Christians
as might be ready, to Micronesia, to
cooperate with them and the Hawai-
ian churches in giving similar blessings .
to the benighted heather of those dis
tant and neglected islands. For forty
six years have been permitted to CO.
operate thus with them, first for six {
years in connection with the Hawaiian :
Missionary Society. and then for forty .
years through the Hawaiian Board.
have personally known all the TWEEN
ty-one Hawaiian missionaries who
have been sent out 70 the Gilbert ISL =
ands with the exception of the last :
and now only remaining Hawaiian la
borer in that group, the Rev D. P.
Mahihila. who went out while I was =
in New York carrying the Gilbertese =
Bible through the press of the Amer :
lean Bible Society in 1892 and 1893
1 cannot forget how, when three
Gilbertese teachers had been rescued :
from heathenism and were sent as =
foreign missionaries to the lone ISL =
and of Nauru where Mr.. Delaporte now :
is, Kawaiahao Church Sabbath school
paid their salaries for a number of 8
years, through the Hawaiian Board z
and so helped us in extending the :
Kingdom of Christ still further West =
ward
My memories of the Hawaiian mis-
sionaries with whom I have so long .
labored, are, in the main. delightful. =
i have seemed to have their confidence :,
and love. and have thereby been still :.
further drawn in my affections to the
Hawaiian churches from whence those
missionaries came, and by whom they z
We're supported. I have loved and =
still love the Hawaiian churches, be- =
cause Christ loves them. and because Z
my parents loved them. I love them
for the sake of the American churches 9
who, through the American Board, eX- =
pended so many thousands of dollars =
for them, and sent to them so many
of their best men and women az teach ;
ers. 1 love them for their own sake. p
But to return to what I was saying -
of my special interest in this church :,
While / have all these years loved it .
have never regretted declining your :,
kind call. for in 1863 God gave you your .
present beloved pastor whose 10th :,
anniversary of his passionate you have -
so recently and appropriately cele- =
brated. Long may he continue to min ;,
lister to your spiritual wants. By not .
accepting your call was enabled to :,
preach for years to thousands who q
had never heard of Jesus, to give the
Gilbertese churches the entire Bible in :.
their own tongue. to prepare them a -
Commentary on the Four Gospels, a
Hymn and Tune Book and a Bible =
Dictionary, and my dear wife was en- y
abled, among other things. to give them =
their school books.
For years our health has been such -
that we have been compelled to do -
our literary work for the Gilbertese y
here in Honolulu. To these islands
came many of our people some twenty II
years ago. cannot forget how you r
have welcomed many of them to your n
Sabbath school where for years we r
were permitted to teach them You q
have cordially opened your doors and IL
admitted to the church such as have Il
from time to time applied for admis- 2;
sion. L love you and thank you for j
the cordiality which you have shown p
to our poor people in your midst. I K
would show my gratitude by. in some Il
way, helping to strengthen this church. e
The American Board has lately re- lS
quested the Hawaiian Board to re- a
lieve IL of all further responsibility in is
on the work of missions in IL
these Hawaiian Islands. The Hawai-
ian Board has consented to do So For IL
lack of men and money it is now con- b.
strained to withdraw from the foreign o.
work: and even to reduce the number lie
of its home workers for the latter reas- T,
on. 1t will have all ii can do, and a.
more. in properly helping to strength h
en- the things which remain among the II
81 Hawaiian churches and in caring for a
the wants of the $1,000 Japanese and a
20 900 Chinese. to say nothing of the Il
Portuguese and Koreans. fl
You we'll know that not all the Ha- OF
waiian churches are supplied with d
pastors. and yet the Hawaiian Board g,
has been considering the question of I
suspending the North Pacific Mission in
airy Institute. You know that some of h
the churches are too small and feeble C,
and some not sufficiently inclined to c;
support their pastors. and IL
consequently we'll educated Hawaiian Il
young men are slow TO enter the min n
istry, and hence our Theological Sem oil
mary is in great danger of dying out, V
simply for lack of students If new n
men be not soon prepared TO- the min Il
istrY. ere long MANY of our Hawaiian ~