The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-02
thoroughly locked over and it was

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| GET IN TUNE WITH THE AGE
and consolidate. No time was lost
The plan of uniting every force con
nected with the. Boards enterprise wa.
made public and the Hawaiian church
es as controllers of the ecclesiastical
machinery were asked TO throw oper
their Associations TO all races. The
response was magnificent. With q
generosity truly ChristIike they refused
not single request. altered their con-
stitutions, made places on their pro-
grams and welcomed Chinese, japanese
| and Caucasians with their varied Ian
guages and differing ways Of thinking
TO compose with themselves one grand
subdivision of the Army of the. Cross
/ in these islands. The result is that
we stand today single compacted
| company of Christians facing our
| brethren of the United States with
! courage as we bid them suffer US 10
| close ranks with themselves in the
| general campaign of winning our
| Country and the World for Christ.
The next step is plain We
! have only to go ahead and perfect our
| consolidation, first by working ii here,
| and second by seeing to it that our
| fellows of the American Union admit
US into the wider comradeship Of nu-
tuaI giving and receiving. Certain
things must be done on these Islands
to carry out this plan. First every
Caucasian, Chinese and japanese pas
tor, evangelist and minister connected
| with our work or our churches should
join the local Associations. This is but
honorably reciprocating the generous
- How Tor hTnT
Again the various companies of Chi
nese and japanese Christians should
forthwith be organized into churches
in connection with these same Asso-
Citations
OUR MAINLAND SOCIETIES,
meantime, must be brought into vital
relations with this Territory. In the
case of the American Board this is
being done through the vote of the
four Associations to secure a semi
annual gift from each church to the
treasury of that Society. Already Ho-
nolulu Central Union, Hilo Foreign,
Makiki japanese and many Hawaiian
churches have started in to carry out
this vote in good faith. We believe
the time is coming when the ''Old
Board which has done so much for
Hawaii will derive no small share of
its support from this mid-Pacific COM
munity
We have already applied to the Home
Missionary Society, the American Mis-
sionary Association and the Sunday
School Society to help bind US to the
great company of our fellow disciples
on the mainland by granting us aid in
our present great emergency. Kindly,
as yet no financial assistance has been
voted. The Board should see to it
that at no expense to itself a goodly
sized delegation visits the meeting of
the American Board and National
Council this Fail goes on to New York
and Boston and perfects a plan of CO.
ganizations.
OUR HISTORIC TRUST.
Before our next annual meeting the |
eighty-fifth anniversary of the land |
ing CT the first missionaries on Ha- |
waiian soil will have come and gone. |
The occasion should serve to impress |
upon US the truth that whereas 40 |
years ago more than one-third of the |
Hawaiian people were connected with |
the churches of the Evangelical Assoc |
citation, today the proportion is about /
one-tenth. The native race of these
Islands constitutes a sacred trust re-
posed in us by these So years of his
tory Signs abound which testify that |
the latter proportion has begun slowly
to increase and may be made to re-
turn to the figures of 1863. The Board |
is committed to the policy of more en-
thusiastic care and oversight of its Ha-
xr-ci to-. OBJ -oI,n
operation with them. Fortunately the
loss of Rev. o. P. Emerson in the ex-
ecutive department has been made
more than good by the generosity of |
Hon. H. P. Baldwin which has secured
him for the work of superintendent
upon Maui, Molokai and Lanai. In
East Hawaii the Board has in Rev.
c. w. Hill faithful agent whose CO.
operation with Rev. S. L. Desha has
been productive of large results. Rev
G. e. Shields, the able pastor of the
HiIo Foreign church, is also proving |
rare helper. Kau and Kona ought |
each to be provided with a special t
agent. Doubtless the new pastor of
Kohala church will carry on the fine
work done for Hawaiians by Rev. E.
b. Turner and oversee that district
Kauai with Rev. J. NJ. I.ydgate and |
Oahu under Rev. Mr.. Quick are well
provided for. Rev Mr.. Timoteo has
proved a most fortunate expedient. He /
is succeeding in stirring the churches
to new life, in tonfng up standards and
in promoting peace. Better salaries
ought to be paid our Hawaiian pastors.
But this cannot well be done if the
way into the pastorate is not safe
guarded and the discipline of unworthy
men is not vigorously maintained. The
Oahu Association at its last meeting
was unwarrantably loose. We need
men Of good education, or ability, of
upright character, and of experience in
the Christian life. We cannot get them
without guaranteeing adequate sup
port. But in order to secure these two
ends the Associations must cooperate
by refusing to license babes in the
faith and by making it perfectly clear
that unworthy men will not be re-
tanned on the rolls of the ministry.
While it is not feasible to reopen the
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