The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-11-04
'MOMAN'S
BOARD
Meeting Devoted to a
Study Of the
Chinese.
trrom Wednesday, AdvertIser.l

Womnn's Board OF Foreign MISSIONS
was held yesterday afternoon In the
back room OF the Sunday School at
Central Union Church. About fifty
ladies' were present
The meeting was called to order by
Mrs. Gullck and those present united
In singing Awake My Soul" Mrs.
Gulick then read from the 55th chapter
OF Isaiah. Before Offering the prayer
she delivered a 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. Atherton. 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
Warehouse writes that her daughter
Elnora Is in bad health and they will
probably return soon II 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 s13i7O. The collection that
was taken amounted to s2S.15.
Mrs. Gulick 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. NJ
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 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 acknowledgements 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-
cling 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 Chinese
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, /. e., ancestor worship and
the completeness of knowledge as
comprised in the thirteen classics. The
younger generation of scholars has
awakened somewhat, and the compara-
IL.
to study abroad will be beneficial in the
future.
Mrs Frank Damon then gave a 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 n point
that had come up in one OF the pre-
yious papers The Chinese study aloud
10 get the right pronunciation ana not
simply because their ancestors had done
so.
Mrs. Gulick then called for reports
on the work among the Portuguese and
~ the Lima Kokua, but the ladies who
have charge OF those departments We're
not present
Miss Coan then spoke Of her trip, She
'hud a glorious good time and comes
back with "happiest memories OF visits
In Connecticut Massachusetts, New
York New Hampshire ana Iowa" She
spoke Of the meetings that she had at
tended az CLIFTON Springs whore the In
tornatioual Reunion ~ Missionaries
mas held. She showed "a photo Of the
seyeuty-iiye present az tho reunion.
shr also attended the meeting ~ the.
American Board ut Grinnell and the
Congressional council at Des Moinos
The meeting iheu adjourned after
singing "M0r, Love a. Thee
FRANK kTAERT0N IN