The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-02
WOMAN'S
BOARD
Meeting Devoted to a
Study of the
Chinese.

back room of the Sunday School at
Central Union Church. About fifty
ladies were present.
The meeting was called to order by
Mrs. Gulick and those present united.
in singing Awake My Soul" Mrs.
GuIick then read from the 55th chapter
of Isaiah. Before offering the prayer.
she delivered little message from
Miss Chamberlain, the President, who
| sent her love and asked to be prayed
for. Miss Chamberlain has felt as
though she would never rise from her
bed but now is confident of recovering.
Mrs Gulick then led in prayer.
Mrs. Anterior. the Secretary, then
read an elaborate report of the meeting
for October when Miss Chamberlain
was suddenly stricken with apoplexy
shortly after opening the meeting.
Mrs Judd then gave a message from
Mrs. Henry waterhouse who is now
living in Pasadena, California. Mrs.
Waterhouse writes that her daughter
Elnora is IN bad health and they will
probably return soon if her condition
does not improve, Mrs. Judd also mem
toned letters she had received from
Hessie Dickson and Mrs. Pratt. The
latter expects to arrive here about
Christmas time.
Mrs. Dillingham; then read her report
as Treasurer, showing a balance on
hand of $134.7O The collection that
was taken amounted to $2S.15.
Mrs. Quick spoke of the Mission boat
which was now overdue from the
South Seas. Rev. Mr.. Rumble and wife
are on board. They are temporarily
returning from their labors in that
region because of the i'll health of Mrs.
Rumble
The letter of thanks from Mr.. S. M.
Damon was then read This was in
reply to one sent by the Ladies' Guild
expressing sympathy over his bereave-
ment.
The society has been taking UP the
general subject of the Chinese The
papers read at this meeting We're all
along the same general lines, dealing
with their civilization and conservatism.
Miss Clark read a paper on Chinese
Civilization" She dwelt on the length
of time that it had endured and yet
had not progressed in thought or
achievements for centuries. While
other civilizations have come to their
greatest glory and then decayed, the
Chinese have remained the same.
Mrs French wrote on the subject of
the Race characteristics of the Chi
nese'' She dwelt on the excessive in
dustry, and patience of the race but the
lack of honesty. That was one of the
reasons of the non-development of the
country. Interest was excessively high
because of the risk involved.
Miss Margaret Hopper read a paper
written by Mrs. Walker on THE PuZ-
zling Problems she spoke of their
excessive numbers and the general
poverty as the problems that arose to
confront the Missionary. The Chinese
consider themselves as practically the
whole unit of the human race and look
upon the foreign missionary as an in
truder. Their whole attention is turn
ed upon the achievements of the past
and this makes it hard to inculcate new
ideas
Miss Green's paper was on 'tChinese
Conservatism From the Standpoint of
a Chinese Scholar
The educated Chinese as a whole are
strongly opposed to the adoption of
foreign innovations and ideas because
they undermine all that the Chinese
hold sacred i. e., ancestor worship and
the completeness of knowledge as
comprised in the thirteen classics. The
younger generation of scholars has
awakened somewhat, and the compare !
lively recent edict allowing young men !
to study abroad will be beneficial in the
future.
Mrs Frank Damon then gave short
talk on Chinese work here. She spoke
of the good that the plague fire had
done in emancipating the Chinese wo-
men. Since then they had more in /
tercourse with the outside world and
did not consider all whites as devils.
Mrs Damon then explained point
that had come up in one of the pre-
vious papers The Chinese study aloud
to get the right pronunciation and not
simply because their ancestors had done
So
Mrs. Gulick then called for reports
On the work among the Portuguese and
of the Lima kokua, but the ladies' VINO
have charge of those departments We're
not present.
Miss Coan then spoke of her trip. She
had a glorious good time" and comes
back with "happiest memories of visits
N Connecticut. Massachusetts, New
York New Hampshire and Iowa She
spoke of the meetings that she had at
ended at Clifton Springs where the In
ernational Reunion of Missionariesl
vas held. She showed a photo of thet
'eventy-five present at the reunion
She also attended the meeting OF the !,
American Board at Grinnen and thel
Council at Des Moines.
The meeting then adjourned after +
singing more Love TO Thee.
Tess--''What's the celebration at l
8ess's house this evening"" Jess
She's keeOiuc her birthday" TeSS-I