The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-06-08

Alexander. into the heart of Africa
| may be expected to come here TO give
q talk on her experiences. February
| Mrs. Cockett presiding. Mrs VIII
Whitney to read paper. March, Mrs.
Brear. presiding. will take up the Nile
country. April. Mrs VIII Forbes pre-
siding, n paper will be read on Mo-
hammedanism, with Nor bern Africa
az the location for the months study.
In future the various departments
viii make formal reports only twice
year, with, however. demonstrations
by the departments at more frequent
| intervals.
The report of the committee was
adopted unanimously.
BISHOP "REMINISCENCES.
Following vocal solo by Mrs. Vein
rich, DR.. S. Z. Bishop read portions of
diary written by his mother, soon
after her arrival at Honolulu in 1923.
She was missionary of the first re-
lnforcement sent out from New Eng
land. One of her earlier remarks
speaks of her husband and herself sit
ting in the home of Mrs. Thurston on
Punchbowl hill from which place she
noted two lunar rainbows. This was in
July, 1923 She then tells of terrific
wind which threatened to overwbelm
their matched home and of the adyis-
ability of seeking refuge in the mission
church, the site of the present Hawai-
ahao church On August she notes
the arrival of the Paragon. bringing
cheering news from Boston. of an out
llt-in nf III. tt.
and the asking of blessings for the
missionaries laboring in these islands.
she ADDED: This is a land of moral
darkness. Kings queens. chiefs. men,
women and children are the slaves of
sensuality and vice. Our heagts are
torn by the exhibitions of vice all about
us"
In November Mrs. Bishop writes of
their arrival on Kauai, at the village
of Waimea where they We're met by
Brother Whitney and wife. She refers
to Captain Macy and their debt of
gratitude to him for having going out
of his course, solely for the purpose
of landing them at Waimea. She
writes of visit to Queen Kapule,
former ruler, and then adds that she
was panied about "the perfidious queen
kaahumanu-she is one of the yeriest
tyrants that ever lived"
DR.. Bishop called particular atten-
ton to this description of a woman who
afterwards, as he said, became SO
glorious a Christian"
Mrs Bishop then tells of a visit to
Wahinenui, saying she twas the larg-
est woman she had ever seen. She
writes: Il said to her, L have never
before seen so large a woman to
which she replied, I was a pretty
GIRL
On November 2S. 1923, she wrote that
her newly finished cambria calash
pleased Kapule and she asked her hus-
band to take down from a basket a
lot of oranges to give to Mrs. Bishop.
She also gave Mrs Bishop a beautiful
lace handkerchief and asked her to
make calash for her (Kapule).
DR.. Bishop remarked that he remem-
pered this woman. having visited her
several years later with his father and
stepmother. she was an excellent
woman" said DR.. Bishop.
THE chiefs are constantly bringing
me cloth to make into garments for
Them writes Mrs. Bishop. "Kapule
is visiting us daily" she adds on Nov
ember %, ito be instructed in making
garments. Men and women are en-
ployed in the making of clothing"
DIR. Bishop remarked that his mother
died in 1925
FURTHER PROCEEDINGS.
Mrs. John T. Gulick and Mrs. Town
send made short talks. Mrs. Weaver
spoke for her sister, Miss Jennie Arm
strong, sister of General Armstrong.
Miss Armstrong. she said, was a ref
ugee from San Francisco.
Letters We're authorized to be issued
to Mrs. P. C. Jones and Mrs. C. M.
Cooke, who will visit the mainland this
summer, empowering them as repre-
sentatives at church or board meetings
OF the local Woman's Board.
Rev. Doremus Scudder spoke of the
increased activity in the Japanese
work and referred to the new Japanese
church being erected at the corner of
Pensacola and Kinau streets. The
building is a handsome structure and
he said 1t would house a very interest
ing and enthusiastic japanese Chris
tan colony in the worship of the Mas
ter He said the Japanese in the Ma
XXI section We're about the best Or
ganized In the city for the carrying on
of Christian work. He said there were
camps of Japanese, the houses built
about little courtyards. where mission
aries of Japanese nationality have
often gone to sing church hymns. From
many of these they have been stoned
away.
The Board authorized Mrs. Sakura-
gawa as the missionary to work among
japanese as an attache of the Woman's
Board, Mr.. Scudder spoke of the
highest terms of her work.
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