The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-13
WESLEY HOME
IS OPENED
:1ouse Warming Given
by Bishop and Mrs.
Hamilton,

| Suffer little children to come unto
me, and forbid them not
| In those words, spoken on the broad
lanai of what had once been the Mel
rose. Bishop John w. Hamilton of the
Methodist Episcopal church virtually
| dedicated the Susanna Wesley Home
| last night. 1t was not, in reality, a
| dedication of the Home in form. 1t
| the Home, and in the receiving line
| on the lanai We're the Bishop and Mrs
Hamilton, Miss Battelle, the sister of
| Mrs Hamilton, Rev. John Wadman and
! Miss Wadman, and Miss Jayne, the
manager of the Home, with her assist
| ant. Miss Morrison.
The house and grounds had been
beautifully decorated with flags, Amer
lean and Japanese, and japanese Ian
terms, and a fruit punch was served to
the many guests who focked to the
place to add the encoura cement Of
their presence to the house warming.
After the guests had shaken hands
with Bishop Hamilton and the others
in the receiving line, Rev. Mr. Wad-
man said that the credit of the open
ing of the Home was really due to
Mrs. Hamilton, who had an assOcia-
ton with the Home Mission Society
entirely apart from the work of the
Bishop but that Bishop Hamilton had
RI few
words for the Home.
In explaining that the purpose Of
the Home was to receive orphan and
half orphan Japanese and Korean chill
dren, and children who were worse
than orphans in having bad parents,
and in doing rescue work among Japa-
nese women, Bishop Hamilton paid his
respects in no hattering way to those
narrow-minded persons of Anglo-Saxon
blood who held themselves superior to
men of other races, and said that he
had no doubt the managers of the
Home would receive children of any
race if they needed care and if place
could be found for them.
mo land owes SO much to foreigners
as the United States" said the speak
er, land if we trace our ancestry back
we are all foreigners
Bishop Hamilton said, likewise, that
Honolulu was the most beautiful place
that he had ever seen. God has made
this the last place. he said, and I
believe that it was designed to stand
between the two worlds to show what |
could be done on this earth of ours be- |
fore men died. And all men should |
see it, that they might want to come |
back I never was in a place that ere |
ated more strongly the desire to come |
hack than this beautiful city.
7 do not believe that we should |
gauge our charity by the color of a |
mans skin, nor by his nationality. If |
We had statesmen at Washington who |
our needs better, we should !
hear less of this prating about for |
eigners. We have obtained this beau |
tiful property at price not at all |
with its value. Some |
problems that have arisen here out of |
and especially the labor !
problem, have decreased property val
ues in Honolulu. If they had not, I
never could have looked at a proper |
ty like this. Yet we propose to devote
this beautiful place to these poor and
needy little ones. Well, what have you
got to say about that? Would you keep |
them in novels because they have |
known nothing different?
1T is true that this Home is a part |
Of the work of Mrs Hamilton She |
s the head of the Home Mission work
n San Francisco and in her position
here would haze to correspond with
he heads of tn 3iety in Cincinnati
before undertake, he establishment
If place of this kind here. 1t would
lave required months to do this, and {
had to take the RESPONSE
'flity if things were to be done. In
his emergency. I have stepped in and
I'D a part of the purchase price of
his property. Some good ladies of :
honolulu have paid another part. A
riend tonight has promised me. I'M
olicited, one hundred dollars. And I
rant you all to do your share, however :,
mall"
Mrs. Hamilton then made a graceful | /
peech returning her thanks to all who !
ad come to the opening of the Home =
nd TO all who had helped in the work.
nd Miss Jayne. manager of the Home, r
I'D of the work already done and what c
Home hnrpd To do in Future / 4