The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-09-01

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we're permitted to teach them. You
| have cordially opened your doors ana
admitted to the church such as have
from time to time applied for adnis-
sion love you and thank you for
the cordially which you have shown
to our poor, people in your midst.
would show my gratitude by, In some
way, helping to strengthen this church.
The American Board has lately re-
ouested the Hawaiian Board to re-
fieve 1t of all further responsibility in
carrying on the work OF missions in
these Hawaiian Islands. The Hawai-
ian Board has consented to do so. For
lack of men and money it is now con-
strained to withdraw from the foreign
work; and even to reduce the number
of its home workers for the latter reas-
on. 1t will have all it can do, and
more, in properly helping to strength
en- the things which remain among the
81 Hawaiian churches and in caring for
the wants OF the $4,000 Japanese and
20 900 Chinese. to say nothing of the
Portuguese and Koreans.
You we'll know that not all the Ha-
waiian churches are supplied with
pastors. and yet the Hawaiian Board
has been considering the question of
suspending the North Pacific Mission
airy Institute. You know that some of
the churches are too small and feeble
and some not sufficiently inclined to
adequately support their pastors, and
consequently well educated Hawaiian
young men are slow to enter the min
istry, and hence our Theological Sem
mary is in great danger of dying out.
simply for lack of students. II new
men be not soon prepared for the min
istry, ere long many of our Hawaiian
churches will be left without pastors
and be numbered with those that are
now ready to perish. In case this
Seminary should be continued how
can I help this church to try to be
responsible for the support of one
student in it? Let me now tell you of
plan of mine which would make it
easy for you to do so, and at the same
time the easier to support your own
pastor; and how I was led to form the
plan
have in my possession copy of a
letter written to n friend by my dear
mother in December, 1S43, more than
three years after her departure from
these Islands. extracts from which
propose to read to you, which however
will be better understood If l quote q
sentence from a letter of my fathers
to Mr.. Levi Chamberlain, Ia former
financial agent of the American Board
in these Islands) which is in the ar
chives of the Hawaiian Historical So
ciety. In this he says, II suppose the
real extent of the land which was Civ
en- me at Punahou and 'makap was
ten times as large as the Plantation at
Punahou. The enclosed twenty acres
/ presume will not be disputed. Though
1t has been a matter of some regret
that the grant has not been made
more productive for the furtherance
of the cause of missions, l am glad
! to have so much of it devoted to the
Academy for the children of the mis-
sonaries who are devoting their lives
to the nation as can be advantageous
ly used for that purpose"
| You will note the expression which
my father uses in which he speaks of,
| Punahou as having been given to him.
I Rev. Rufus Anderson, DID,, long the
Foreign Secretary of the American
Board, in his history of the Sandwich
Islands Mission, confirms the truth of
| the above statement, when on page
259, he Uses this language, I'm 1929,
! Just before starting on his fatal eX-
petition in search of sandal wood, Bo-
| Xxi gave Punahou to the Rev. Hiram
| Bingham, and Mr. Bingham, before
leaving the is lands in 1910. generous
~ gave ii to the mission school which
afterwards became Oahu College. He
| is therefore to be numbered among
it's founders"
With these PREDATORY statements be-
fore you, you will, as I have said be
better able to understand the tenot
of the following extracts from the
letter of my mother to which I have
referred above, in which she says:
when Punahou passed into other
hands, I endeavored to regard 1t as a
matter which the public good required
and though thoughts of public good OF
another kind had filed my mind, drawn
forth my plans, and moved my feeble
I frame to many an hours hard labor
on that land. my thoughts were not
disturbed by it. I had always indulg-
ed a pleasant kind of assurance that
I was not laboring in vain, nor spend
ing my strength for naught. There
had been for some three or four years
connected with my efforts at Punahou
calculations which extended farther
than finding for myself n quiet re.
treat from the noise and hustle of Ho-
nolulu.' The more I contemplated my
object the more it magnified in my
view. I saw in 1t / supposed, the per-
manent support of the preaching OF
the Gospel in the First Church of Ho'
nolulu. independent of funds appro'
priated expressly to extending the
Redeemer's kingdom among the un'
evangelical.
VERY much of the labor on the lane
(by members of Kawaiahao church.
was gratuitous. To me there was {
fitness in that, regarding it, in anti
cipation at least, as the inheritance o
the Congregation. But the parsonage
I had given up: my charming hom'
could give up. There is one objec
for which I labored-that church:-m!
thoughts turn there, and I am dis
puted."
Every time I read this letter (and
have read it. often) my heart is touch
ed with its pathos. Are not yours ais,
by the spirit of love which breathe
in it for Kawaiahao church? Motto
this expression, "There is one objec