The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-31
CONFERENCE OF
THE METHODISTS
A Stirring Meeting in Which Several Nationa-
ties Testified to Their Religious Faith
Bishop Hamilton Address.

in all the schools so that the fac, that
Russia was a nominally Christian ma
ton while Japan was nominally
heather had not been allowed to be
made a matter for public discussion.
| Physical Director Haley of the Y. NJ.
! G. A. spoke briefly of her work and
wished more members of the Y. M. c.
| A. belonged to Epworth League.
| A lady who has been unable to walk
| for five years gave a most beautiful
f! testimony of faith and peace and hope.
| She was not visible, as she has to be
| carried in and out of the church, but
| the tone of her speech was buoyant
and her voice clear and her spirit that
of one who has fought the fight and
earned the victory, After the service
was over some of the congregation saw
her and she looked as small as her
spirit was big. But her testimony was
one of the gems of the conference.
Mrs. Eddie Damon then gave one of
her excellent religious short talks
which needs to be heard to be ap-
preciated. She closed with the wish
that .'all those who bear the name of
Christ might have the joy and know
the peace of Christ
THE BISHOP CLOSES.
The Bishop was the closing speaker
Although he speaks twice a day at the
conference, besides making other
addresses he never seems to repeat
himself. His talks are always good
and to the point. There are a number
of notable buildings of great interest
in Honolulu" said Bishop Hamilton
last night. "One of them stands down
here and the most notable structure
of all the city is that magnificent ho
tel, worthy of the greatest city on the
continent of the United States of Amer
lea. And in that building they have
what they call Promotion Committee
headquarters. I went in there with
great deal of interest to see what the
Hawaiian Islands have been doing all
these years of their history. was
taken around the room to be shown.
First there was great glass bottle
filled with the sweetest products of the
sugar cane. YES" I said, ''that must
be sweet. 1t looks good. And it is a
great harvest indeed that you have in
these islands.
Then they took me to another line
of bottles in which I saw all manner of
fruits. Bananasi Why, the best ba-
nanas L ever saw. Up in our country
we have to get our bananas green and
wait for them to ripen. They look
nothing like those rich luscious ba-
nanas that you get right here at home.
And then they showed me some of
the finest grapes in great clusters that
We're grown here. And there were the
vegetables. They showed me taro
What is taro? I had never seen it.
I looked at a bunch of it and it looked
big enough to be good. I hear that in
some sections the people live almost
entirely upon it, when they can get
nothing else.
"And then they showed me trees,
great big trees. And such trees They
were in another part of the room and
hanging on them were what if I had
been at home, I would have called
watermelons, or musk melons or canta-
loupes. Great luscious fruitsi And a
lot Of them there We're When I was
in Boston they told me that the rose
bushes down here were big enough for |
trees and when I got further west they |
told me that the cucumbers grew so |
fast here that they wore themselves
out by their own motion before they
could get ripe. So I was prepared for |
But I was not prepared to |
see waterme1ons growing on trees !
Musk melons, they We're. You call /
them papayas
And then those cocoanutsi Big as a
mans head When I write home that
have actually seen trees with cocoa
nuts. growing on them as big as a
mans head. And when I write them
that these great cocoanuts are not only
fine to eat when grown, but delicious
While they are green, they will think
that 1 am green, myself. but still I
have seen them with my own eyes. I
saw them down here growing. I would
never dare tell them / had seen water
melons growing on trees. for they
would feel worried about my mind.
Il have seen another room in this
city. I have been to another promo
ton headquarters-right here. Here
have spent most of my time that I
have not spent in my bedroom. And
how splendid it is. How luscious is the
and wonderful is the work that is being
fruit that is being gathered Great
done in this vineyard. This promotion
work is splendid and I shall take home
with me the recollection of it and
shall tell them there that the like %
it I never saw before.
Think of it. That little nation hid
den away in the corner Of Asia away
over yonder beyond the great waters
Of the Pacific. And as looked into
the faces of the boys and girls from
the hermit kingdom who have been
brought to these islands where for
the first time they have learned the
lesson of the Savior and for the first
time the song of joy has been put
nto their mouths. I can but think. How
wonderful it is.
And then L think of the japanese