The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-26
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| though small is still active. and has
! exerted a decided influence for gospe
| temperance during all these years. Toe
much praise cannot be given to the lit
| tie band whose courage has not failec
| in the presence of many difficulties.
Our own organization was then and
Gas have often said) has always been
a company of ladies of whom a presi-
dent might well be proud to be the
leader. Mrs. Leavitt was especially
fond of this, her oldest daughter ano
said that the w. c. T. u. of Hawaii
never had an infancy, but sprang into
| existence full grown, like Minerva from
the head of Jupiter. The whole list of
names is too long to read here, but it
brings both tears and gladness as we
recall those who are gone and rejoice
in so many still here. Sixteen of those
who belonged to our number the first
year have gone to the better home, ard
we believe they have entered upon
wider service These are the we'll ;e-
membered names:
"oUR PROMOTED COMRADES"
Mrs. N. B. Atwater, Mrs. Hiram
Bingham, Mrs j. M. Cooke. Mrs. H.
E. Cooke, Mrs. S. C. Damon, Mrs. II.
Dimond, Mrs. Dickinson, Mrs. Laura
Dickson Mrs. Eberhardt, Miss Mary E.
Green, Miss E. B. Knight, Mrs. Julia
Prosser. Mrs. Lowell Smith, Mrs. Anna
Bruce Southwick, Mrs. H. NJ Whitney,
Mrs Julia Waterhouse.
Twenty-Five of the sixty-five are
still with us, beloved and honored MEM
bers of our society and prominent in
all good works. Most of the remaining
twenty-seven have changed their places
of residence, while not more than four
or five of those still remaining here
have wholly withdrawn their interest
in our work. Many new names have
been added during the twenty years,
some of those who are now our most
active members not being upon the orr
ginal list.
At this time and for many years aft
er, these islands were still an independ-
ent nation, and the two or three small
societies upon these islands formed a
National Union, thus giving US much
greater official Importance and making
our work more interesting to ourselves
and to the Worlds w. C. r. u. of which !
we were branch. than it has been of
late years. when we are only a terri I
toria1 union, and the smallest of all, at /
that. If there were time it would be
to dwell somewhat at length
upon those early days, their efforts and I
accomplishments. We were all then I
twenty years younger than we are now,
and under the inspiration of Mrs. Lea
witt, we entered the field as temper
ance workers, if not with the enthu-
siasm of youth, with the courage and /
hopefulness of mature life. That we
have accomplished 1.-THE of all that
we planned it would be vain to say,
but feel sure that a mere glance at |
some of the things we have undertaken
will show that our existence as a So
ciety has not been entirely in vain.
Soon after our organization, it be-
came clear to US for apparent reasons,
that large portion of our strength /
should be given to the Hawaiians
Accordingly, in connection with the /
Woman's Board of Missions, Miss Mary
Green, a thorough Hawaiian scholar, |
was secured and came from Maui to i
give her whole time to temperance and |
religious work among the native peo-
pie. How faithfully she carried on this
work for eighteen years, till "called up
higher" two years ago; how she visit |
and churches. preaching, talking, teach
ing, forming temperance societies when
possible, not only in Honolulu and its
suburbs but in nearly all the country
places and towns upon this and the /
other islands. often at the risk of her
health and her life we all very well
know. She loved the Hawaiian people
and had their confidence. What per-
manent results followed her labors, /
only Eternity can tell
During the second year, through the
influence of Mrs. E. P Adams, then
Superintendent of Temperance Instruc-
ton the Hawaiian Board of Educa-
ton was induced TO order the intro
duction of temperance instruction into
our public schools, and authorized US to
secure a translation into Hawaiian of
a Temperance Primer, and order 1000
copies for use in the public schools.
The translation was made by Prof
Alexander at our expense and the books
We're published by the A. s. Barnes Co.
of New York. with good binding and |
making a pleasing and
welcome addition to the limited NUM-
Der OF Hawaiian school books then in
use. We also translated into Hawai- |
ian a temperance song book. and |
leaflets for the use o. Miss
Green and other temperance workers
among Hawaiians- In January of that /
year a series of open air gospel tenn /
perance meetings was started Sunday |
afternoons st the wharf at the foot of /
Fort street, made comfortable with /
chairs loaned by the Y. NJ. C. A. Thei