Ellsworth American., 1903-07-22
Sunday in Honolulu.
VI.

1t is Sunday, April Il, 1908, end we are
geiBg to be good ana go to church and
Sunday school. By arrangement with our
friends, the Moores, of whom told you
IN letter number four, we shsll attend the
Central Union church. The church Is
centrally located, and Is near our present
boarding place; for we left the hotel yes
terday and came here to Hsaleiea, q
boarding house kept by a Mrs. Chappin.
formerly Of Pasadena, Cal. will tell you
more about this historic place later.
This beautiful church building, con-
strueted of volcanic rock taken from q
quarry near be city, at cost of sI39, 600,
has seating capacity of !, 600 persons.
fret visited the Sunday school rooms,
aud saw between five aud six bunored
children from three TO seventy years of
sge-we ali are cbildreB-snd ii was a
beautiful sight. This Sunday school Is
surely well Ameriesnizsd, although the
society il composed of Americans and
English. IL wss formerly controlled by
the American board of missions.
/ find q large congregation in attend
snce at the church service, of which
Governor Dole and family are members.
The young minister, who Is supplying the
pulpit tor few Sundays, came from
Minneapolis and was one OF our fellow
pessengsis ON the steamer Korea.
Flower and shrub decorations in the
church are proiase, bot lack the artistic
arrangement seen in our Californis
churches. We have listened to sn earnest
ana able sermon and went home satisfied
that we ought TO do aud be better,
Arer lunch: We are nov on our elec-
GiIe car going II waikiki. ouce The espi-
tol of Oahu. We pass through this yil-
Iage b. the ocean side and go TO Diamond
Head or Loahi TO the lighthouse. We ere
determined TO scale DIAMOND Head and
see the inside of the crater; but IL Will be
10 easy tass, for @e ste DO trails Ieacin q
up its steep sides.
We think that this place, which lie q
little way east Of The lighthouse, is as
good as any, 20 we make break 10 ciimb b.
and 1t is Climb, and steps back ward, too.
Finally, ell out OF brtaths We get on the
suArp rim or edge OF Ibe crater and get q
splendid v.eS ot this great esrthen dish.
THIS voieuuo has long suuce been exI inct.
NOT long ago poaG of water covel ed the
centre bottom OF this DISH. wild ducks
and otne: ses fowl came here III great
numbers, TO the joy OF eunners, bat the
water dried up ana left nothing 10 sho n
for it except the sediment ia rings, and
iais of blistered mud, in the order of its
evaporation. Around the crater, on its
rim, is footpstb, end In some places
there is only room Tor this, " hile ia OF her
spots there might be found few Ieet.
and perhaps a few rods of lava land TO
spare We ~alk on rspidiy, Tor MI gut is
coming on and we 10 not know hat sort
OF Chance We are going to find for get
ting down on the other side of the crater,
the rim or ridgepole OF which we are
ascending.
1t looks rather dubious jus, as we come
to place where there is an abrupt rise
and still up 1t goes to sharp and danger
GUS peak, where someone has erected q
signal or hag-pole. But here we see two
persons who had gone on before, return.
ing. We must all go back over the trail
or find some@ay down the side of the
crater where we are.
decide that am going to try descend
ing here, and without parley or delay
proceed to carry ont my resolution
Down go, by frs and starts, and jerks
and slips. l must run for bit of seen
o. m a or nd I'M
swing in some other direction to relieve
my momentum, catch on to some semi.
fiat surface, or strike my heels into piches
here and there. Sometimes / sit down
and slide, but / am going to get down all
right, for am Dear enough to field-sur.
face to be sure OF this.
Two of US are now at the base of ths
crater and engaged in the tedious anc
painful work of clearing our clothes o.
cockfsburs, or burs of some kind, whi'
four others-two ladies and two gentle
men, or ladies wit Ii their heroes-sr,
slowly and carefully making their de
scent.
| All are safely down and have gained th,
very good wagon road that encircles Dia-
Inond Head. We take this thoroug hfar,
end strike out for Kapiolsni park wher,
we will iptersect an electric car that viii
take us back to Honolulu. We roll alon.
the steel track that is bordered witt
pretty homes nestled in beautiful bowers
OF tropical foliage. Mr.. and Mrs. Moor,
leave us as we get about half way in Il
take cross cut TO Kinan street, where Il
situated their pretty home and we go OF
to our Haaielea, which means house O
| Joy, and it is dinner time. This close
our first Sunday in Oahu.
| p. g. WOOSTER