The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-12-29

ma Wesley Home was spoken of. How
she had hoped for such an institution
and how she had picked up the Adver-
tiser one day to find an article of q
columns length taken from some West
ern paper in which 1t was described
how Bishop Hamilton had arranged for
the founding OF the home and the nam
ing Of it, whereupon Mrs. Richards had
written to Mrs. Clinton d. Fiske, the
president of the Women's Missionary
society of the Methodist church Of
America congratulating her on the
fact
She had seen work in other churches
than her own, she said. She had been
in Japan when the American Board
missionaries were in session. She had
been in Berlin and seen the women's
work there. She had been in Australia
where 600 societies conducted non-secta-
rian work and in Cairo, Egypt, where
the Baptists were so strong and sue
cessful. Mrs. Richards spoke Of the
graves in London and England, of
Wesley, who said 1.-THE world is my
parish" and whom the Episcopalians
! now claim never seeded from their
| church She touched also on the won
derful life Of Susanna Wesley and of
the uplift 1t brought to SO many.
BISHOP HAMILTON'S ADDRESS.
Bishop John w. Hamilton, DID,, LII.
D., who came here to hold the first
Hawaiian Missionary Conference, clos
ed the program Of speakers with a
| characteristic address. In opening, the
Bishop spoke Of the great pleasure 1t
was to him to be in Honolulu and how
pleased he was with everything. He
spoke of the great missionary spirit
which seemed to pervade everything;
of the great activities of the Methodist
and other churches. Il have been TO
meetings, morning, noon and night"
said he, land all missionary meetings.
had not been here forty-eight hours
before | was told a program had been
laid out for me to meet all denomina-
lions, all nationalities and all creeds,
entailing enough work for a dozen men.
l have been down to your prison where
/ they dress men in kimonos in order 10
distinguish them from other people.
!, Il do rot know that have been more
Iinteipsted in any mission work than
III am In the little Hawaiian mission
down IN the little village whose name
] can rot pronounce. but which ] will
learn, and OF which we have been told
tonight. i was down there for a few
moments this evening and what a won-
derful thing it is. How those faces
beamed
What wonderful things these are.
And contrast the selfish man, the self
faft a
whose creed is AS ] woke up myself.
% said to myself and myself said to
me: Look out for yourself, take care of
yourself. for no one will take care of
: thee A selfish person has not one
good quality that is not borrowed.
Their faces are repulsiye to begin with.
There is nothing in them but the
thought of how they can benefit them
selves. But II | could just carry back
to the states the spirit OF these meet
ings; If l could only get them there to
see what / have seen here, would
waken more interest than all the SUI
gar cargoes that you can ever ship
from here. (Applause).
Did you ever hear of Stewart, the
chaplain OF the Navy that came here
on Hawaii. Have you ever heard, on
the other hand of Kotzebue and the
vessel that brought Lord Byron here
They were here simply for pleasure and
they wrote a book about the mission
aries who came here. Does anybody
ever read their book now?
Let a good man come down here,
no matter II he comes down to make
money out OF sugar, ready to build a
mill and put In machinery and crush
the cane, carry II to market and sell
the product. Suppose he piles up a
million, or even millions? What good
has he been to the people OF the is
lands? He has made little commerce.
perhaps he has given some poor peo-
pie bread. But he is probably more
careful TO see how much bread he Is
giving them than 20 consider that he
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