The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-07

The Friend for March outlines tn,
present policy of the Board of the Ha
waiian Evangelical Association. Aftel
many months devoted to most careful
consideration of all features of it:
work, the Board has entered upon a
two-fold policy of coordination and affil-
iation, the one territorial in its scope,
the other national.
The original work of the American
Board in these Islands regarded the
Hawaiians alone. It's missionaries
founded churches and consolidated
them into four island associations: "a
Hawaii. CD Maui, comprising also Mo-
lokai and Lanai; 80 Oahu, and "a Ka-
uai including Niihau. These four COM
bined in the Evangelical Association
The system was complete and has work
ed admirably.
AS the white population grew, it be-
came necessary to provide means of
worship for those unacquainted with
the native tongue, and thus there slow
ly came into being the so-called For
eign churches. Composed of English
speaking people in sympathy with the
Christian work carried on by the Amer
lean Mission, the members of these
churches were Jealous supporters of
every effort made to Christianize the
native inhabitants. But owing to the
barrier of language on the one hand
and to their location at points widely
separated on the other, these churches
liSIas
themselves organically neither with the
native associations nor with one an
other. Drawing their membership from
all denominations, naturally they or
ganized on the union or congregational
plan, but enthusiastically each was abb
solutely independent, and stood unre-
lated to any denomination of Chris |
tians. Churches of this character grew
up on Hawaii at Hilo, Kohala and Ko- |
ma, (now temporarily quiescent), on Ma
vi at Paia, and Wailuku (services in |
ternitted for season., on Oahu at !
Honolulu, and on Kauai at Lihue and !
Waimea. Some. of these have to This
day not even been organized as
churches.
Christian work was pushed among
the newcomers, comprising Chinese,
japanese and Portuguese, by the Ha-i
" dtIdli bOdIu Will the CO-ODSTdllOn O1
the American Board.
With the entrance of Hawaii into the
Union, and with the diminished support
to the decease of several gen.
erous contributors, the Hawaiian Board
became hampered in its work. The
Board has now called upon its consti-
lency everywhere throughout these
Islands to close ranks and march to-
,ether. 1t is very gratifying to be able
% state that the response has been ,
unanimous and enthusiastic beyond ex- !
,ectation. I
The Board has already cut it's ex-
lenses down more than $4,000 per an G
Ium, but today stands about $500 in :
ebt, and the deficiency has increased :
he past ten months by a little over .
?, 100 month.
The Board last fall entered into COM 9
lunication with the Home Missionary :,
ociety and the American Missionary .
ssociation, with a view both to its :,
filiation with these organizations and 7,
their cooperation in its various en- -
,rprises. 81
The coordination requested by the -
GARD demands as its initial step, that :
4 the churches connect themselves re- =,
,ectively with the Island Associations - -
nd begin to pull together, regardless -
race.