The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-31

ed with it's pathos. Are not yours also
by the spirit of love which breathes
in it for Kawaiahao church? Notice
this expression. There is one object
for which 1 have labored-that church
my thought turn there and 1 am
disputed" While she endeavored to
regard the transfer of Punahou into
other hands as a matter that public
good required yet thoughts of public
good of another kind" (to use her own
words) filled her mind. The more she
contemplated her object the more it
magnified in her view. She had seen
in it the permanent support of the
Gospel in the First Church in Homo
lulu. She did not forget that very
much of the labor on the land by Ka-
waiahao church people in building
that great stone wall and cultivating
the soil had been gratuitous; but she
felt that there was a fitness in this
fact. as she had regarded the benefit
to be derived from Punahou as 1.-The in
heritance of the congregation"
How I longed that in some way the
desires of my sainted mother, who so
many years ago fell asleep in Jesus,
might in part be realized in my day.
I am hoping to meet her soon IL the
better land; and think you not she
will rejoice with me when I come to
tell her what plans I formed to help
carry out her early wishes and the
spirit of her purposes of love toward
kawaiahao church, and how I was
permitted by your pastor to lay these
plans before his congregation on this
my seventy-second birthday in the
form of the following definite propo-
sitions?
Not long ago I was the owner of a
lot of land at Punahou lying south Of
the College Campus which lot was
once a part of my fathers Punahou
Estate which he gave to Oahu College.
This lot I purchased twenty-five years
ago from the Trustees of Oahu Col
lege when its value was not one-eighth
of what it now is. It contains about
IS. 700 square feet. or nearly one-third
of an acre. It has a frontage of 81
feet on Bingham street. $50 named in
honor of my father by the Trustees. of
Oahu College,. The lot is 200 feet
deep, and 40 feet wide at the mauka
end. It adjoins Mr.. George H. Rob-
ertson's valuable property on the Eva
side at the head of Artesian street 1t
is only one minutes walk from it to
the Rapid Transit Line at the corner
of Bingham and Alexander streets.
Easy connection WITH the sewer-main
on Bingham street can be made. The
lot has been assessed this year at ST.
900. It's real value is at least $3.50.
In 1900 I gave this land to my only
living son Hiram. He has since then
given me the refusal of the repurchase
at any time for the object which will
appear below. with the $1,000 legacy
which was bequeathed to me by my
sister Miss Elizabeth Bingham who
died in Nov, 1899, and who, in her
will. stated that IL I was not living
at the time of her death $500 of the
above amount should be given to my
nearest legal heirs and the remaining
$500 to the American Board Of Com
missioners for Foreign Missions for
educational work at the Gilbert ISL
ands. This sister of mine was not only
interested in the mission work in the
Gilberts. but was a friend ana teacher
Of the Hawaiian girls for Any years.
and for a number of years Principal