The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-09-07
MISSION
WORKERS
tFrom Wednesdays Advertiser.)

(From Wednesdays Advertiser.)
One of the most interesting meetings
ever held by the woman's Board of
Missions was that OF yesterday after
noon in the Board room OF the Gen.
trail Union church, at which the at
tendance was particularly large. There
were present, in addition to the mem
bers. a number of visiting mission
aries, including several OF the Man.
churia passengers and short addresses
were given by each of these.
The report of the treasurer, Mrs
Dillingham;, showing a balance of $463
on hand. was read and adopted and
two interesting letters from the Amer
lean mission field were read by Mrs.
Coan.
The members of the Kin Kok Kon
Tan Full, the young ladies' Chinese
missionary society of the Fort street
church, which has recently been made
an auxiliary of the Board were present
In body and were welcomed by the
president, Mrs. Scudder. Their pres
ident, in a short talk, thanked the
Board for the honor done them, after
which the young ladies sang: God
Be With You Till We Meet Again.
Mrs. E. Mackenzie. who has been
here some months in charge of the
night school for Chinese boys in con-
nection with the Palama Chapel, and
of the Chinese girls school on Liliha
street, made report on the Chinese
work. Her experience in securing the
attendance of pupils through visits to
the shops and homes of the Chinese and
the success which has attended these
efforts made an interesting feature Of
the report.
The regular subject of discussion at
the present series of meetings, that of
Africa, was conducted by Mrs. D. L.
Wilmington, this being the first study
of the subject. Mrs. wilmington re-
ferred to Africa as 1.-The Dark Conti-
nent," justifying the term because of
the unknown physical features Of the
continent, the dark skins of the inhab-
itants and the darkness Of the coun-
try spiritually.
Under these different headings papers
were read by Mrs. Moore, Miss Patty
and Miss Mary Whine.
Miss Agnes Mahoney, who has spent
the past five years in Liberia, gave q
most interesting address on the spirit
ual conditions of that part of the West
Coast. What she particularly pressed
on the attention of her bearers was
that the country there was not napan
but Mohammedan tho nriests of that
faith having beaten the Christians nm
the ground and nrose,vtized the preat
majority NJ the adult nonuIation mak-
ing the work of the Christian mission-
arv much harder The Nobamme-
don re,igion suit, tho nasroas i,,o,
ferinp In NO wise with bis ordinary Iifa
and iustifvine noIvgamy ana s,,yorv
Under tbese conditions tho or1,, ,,,or,
noss,hlo is op,ong the cb;ldran for the
men saw that Allah 10 GOOD enough for
tban, ana tho n,or,er do &c ~ ,,,an
teI, thew
Miss Maboney told of ono African
cbiaf ubo nod twanty-ai,h+ ,,,,,,os MT
had d,snosed no some az tber, os ba
found his tro,hIos ,oo,,n,uIotinn
Tho sloyery question: n,os sar,o,s
ono pr,or 70 bor danartura fotbor
hroreht his IittIa CON "a ao,ah.an -
her to sol, .s otberwise tbev would no
Govt int Tho ,ntar,or +ha civ, ~ 10
the wife of a no,ygamous chief A.
his n,ead,ng che nnrcbased tha two
chi,dron Coz ,9o
Mrs r. w uuett ond ,1rs II II n
yuIiams two roissionorias IN th.i,
wav m Janan snoke of tbe;r ,yorL In
that country ond osLaa for che nra,,or,
M the BOARD
Nrs w w Camnbel, who bas heen
rasidant ~ az is,ond ~ u,,,,on o.,
seven years told of tho dteicu1,,, ox
perienced in nresentine tho hihIe truths
in such lipbt that the neonle could
prasn them