The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-02
N. 5. SACHS DRY GOODS COMPANY, Ltd, Cor bmmMrmnM

Mrs. Bristol at Kohala has wrought
wonders. Steadily curtailed in resources
by the inability of the Board to grant
aid as of old this worthy institution
under this able leader has not only
determined to erect new buildings and
enlarge it's course but has actually done
so. Maunaolu too has refused to yield
to financial discouragements. Miss
Snow, fresh from her large experience
at Hampton, has revived the entire
institution. The reports of these three
women are stimulating reading.
The boys and. mixed institutions do
not lag behind. Hilo Boarding School
was never so full as today. 1t has be-
come widely international and has de-
veloped an esprit de corps that prom
ises great things for the future. There
is a fine religious spirit which has
manifested itself in inspiring the boys
with the determination to serve and has
forced the opening of a training de-
partment for Christian workers. Mills
too has taken a fresh lease of life. 1t
has found it's long sought administrator
in the person of its vice principal. Mr..
A. NJ Merrill. Plans have been care
fully laid for moving the school to
suitable quarters in some suburb and
funds are being solicited to erect the
needed buildings. The splendid
achievements of the boys in English
and athletics evidenced last year in the
rendition of Midsummer Nights
Dream and this spring in the decisive
defeat of the Kamehameha, baseball
nine have marked this institution as
worthy of the most enthusiastic back
ing of patriotic Americans. Mr.. Oku-
mura's japanese school has had more
pupils than ever Before and could be
doubled if there We're room. When it
is remembered that these boys are al
most certain to remain permanently in
this country as citizens, that in this
school they learn loyalty to the United
States and that they grow up naturally
into the Christian life under the genial
attractive influence of their chief it
seems almost a crime to keep out the
numbers ready to crowd in but for the
lack of accommodations. Down in Ha-
waii Mr.. Sokabe maintains his famous
Honomu Boarding School stronger the
more bitterly the Buddhists oppose it.
Here boys and girls enlist in the army
of Christ with an enthusiasm and
manifest a loyalty in their new faith
which must be seen to be understood.
1t is enough to say of this remarkable
nursery of Christians that when the
children leave for their vacations. going
to the baroness and depraved associa-
tfons of the camps, they beg with
tears to be sent back home
GODS POWER HOUSES.
Wherever the Board maintains Chi
nese and japanese evangelists. there
Christian schools grow up to save the
children. These institutions are for
the most part supported by the tuition
of the pupils. They are modest little
places but to one who has the eyes
TO see they are Gods own power houses.
model institution of its kind is that
under Miss Turner at Wailuku for the
Chinese. This is more attractiveIy
housed than most of its fellows and
gets strong hold of the families through
the children. What wide-awake Jap
anese young men think of these plan
tation schools for boys and girls of their
race may be known when it is told that
at one of them in Lihue a talented