The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-05-01
ANNUAL ADDRESS OF RIGHT
REV. BISHOP RESTARiCk

reconstructed, the one who has the
lease bearing nearly all of the expense
of $1,000. It is an interesting fact that
in tearing down the inside of the house
prior to repairing it the timbers were
found to be marked: Ct B. W." These
are the initials of the Rev. Geo. b.
Whipple, the brother of the late Bishop
of Minnesota. Mr. Whipple was first
a tutor in the family CT Captain Ma
kee at Ulupalakua and later was or
dained and lived at Wailuku, holding
services also at UIupalakua in Capt.
Makee's chapel. 1t is further of inter-
est that Mr.. and Mrs. Lufkin who now
live in the house of which we are
speaking, were both educated at Bishop
Whipple's schools at Faribault and are
intimate friends of Mrs G.. B. Whip
pie. a letter from this lady mentions
that Capt. Makee had the church at
Wailuku ceiled and painted at his eX-
pense.
improvements We're also made in the
parsonage at Kona, and there and at
! kohala new organs We're purchased.
Another gratifying note of progress
is that st. Peters Chapel is entirely
too small for the congregations and
the offering on Easter day, which was
for the enlargement fund. amounted to
$3.50, which with money now on hand
makes $500 in the fund
WORK OF THE LAITY.
Real progress has been made I be-
lieve during the year in the enlarged
work of the laity in the church The
Brotherhood of St. Andrew with its
staff of lay readers conducts service
everY Sunday at the Queens Hospital
and frequently at st. Elizabeth's, the
Seamen's Institute, ships in port and
elsewhere With a trained band Of
laymen licensed to make addresses
much can be done in the future and
plans for this are in mind
As to spiritual progress the deepen
ing and enriching of spiritual life, one
can make no report. God alone is the
judge of this. But in conversation
with the clergy there are in many
places evidences of a clearer recogni-
ton of duties and privileges. If the
lives of the people are in a larger de-
gree consecrated to God, then all other
progress Will come. More communions
were made than ever before some
coming thirty or even forty miles to
church on Easter Day.
L called attention last year to the
large number of baptisms in proportion
TO communicates in this missionary
district when compared with most do
ceses on the mainland. But when we
count the number of baptized in the
last ten years and the number of COM
munlcants as given in reports we are
brought face to face with the fact
that there is fearful leakage. This
should stir the hearts of the clergy as
to the paramount Importance of pas
toral work. I know that the leaka ge
comes largely from the lack of reIi-
gious life in the home. There is then
the greater necessity of pastoral care
and diligence
DUTY TO THE YOUNG
which IS SO well known to you. as to
what is the church's system and ideal
These baptized children are members
of the church. All teaching and train
ing have for their object that the chill
dTen may recognize and realize their
duties as members of Christ, and above
all that in their hearts there may be
His church and the Christian life Our
children are not taught, as some Chris
tians teach, that at some time in the
future it is hoped they will Join the
church" as the phrase goes They are
taught that they are members. If they