The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-02

Rev. DR.. Doremus Scudder's Eloquent Address
Before the Congreg ationaI Home Mission
airy Society In Des MONIES, Iowa.

The Des Moines Register says: One
of the most interesting addresses be-
fore the Congregational Home Mission
airy society yesterday was that of Rev
Dorernus Scudder, secretary of TIE
Hawaiian board, who came all the way
from the far off islands to present its
needs and opportunities for missionary
work. His address was a most eloqueEs
review of the missionary history of
the islands and he paid splendid trib-
lite to the early missionary heroes who
planted the first seeds of Christianity
and nurtured them. He pointed put
also that while at one time, in 1866,
a. per cent of the Hawaiian population
was enrolled in Christian churches, in
1000 only 10 per cent was SO enrolled;
he showed further that in 1860 81 per
cent of the entire population OF the
islands was in Christian churches while
now only 4 per cent is SO enrolled. He
declares that in a large measure this
alarming decrease was due to the fact
that America taxed in its missionary
work
Mr. Scudder made a warm plea for
a renewal of Congregational activity
in the Hawaiians and establishment
of Congregational prestige. He advan-
ced many reasons for working this field,
not merely for its local good, but be-
cause through Hawaii is a gateway for
ho1
paid an interesting tribute to the Chi
nese He said:
CHINESE NOT so BAD.
But our opportunity widens far be-
yond the boundaries of Christian fellow
ship and race assimilation within the
territory. Hawaii simply can not live
for itself alone. Its destiny is to af
feet the whole Pacific world of which
it is the center. AS that world halts
at this God-made rest house will the
influence of the islands be recreative
or destructive? Is the touch to be that
of Christ or of the beast? The multi
tudinous saloons and gambling dens of
Honolulu are fighting a life and death
battle to answer this query their. way.
We want your help, fathers and brothers
in Christ, to answer it Gods way. Our
touch is wider than you think. 1t reaches
far across the blue Pacific into thousands
of hamlets in China and Japan. Re
member the farming class of the latter
empire is almost untouched by the Cos
pei at home We have the most pro-
gressive of the children of its farms
and fields at our doors We love these
Asiatics as you do not because we know
them. We have never treated the Chi
nese with the scorn and meanTess, the
stonings and r1urderous mobbings of
the mainland. Hawaii gave them her
daughters and opened to them her
citizenship. They have them repaid the
confidence a hundred fold America
is making one of her biggest b1unders-
not excepting slavery and free franchise
for blacks-in her open door to Europe's
worn out millions side by side with
her closed door to the yellow man, the
arbiter of the future We in Hawaii
who know him found in him some eIe-
ments of adaptation to the coming
world-civilization which we proud An
SiO-1etAOliS ldSh. WE hive DcS1l GVOiVGQ
to survive in an atmosphere of war;
he in one of peace. We need him more
than he needs US. But to make him
what he may be- to round out all his
glorious possibilities, he must have
Christ Therefore, God sent him to
Hawaii, where, though not always treat
ed like brother, he has Jared better
at the hands of the Anglo Saxons than
anywhere else on earth He comes to
us by the ten thousands Part of him
returns home; part stays. The part that
goes carries back new wants and opens
the way for American commerce. It