The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-22
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| members from many diverse rationale
| ties, build a meeting house for a see
| ond congregation, equip social center
to be the only effective foe the saloon
! has in all that region, to gather chill
dren into Sunday Schools in half
| dozen needy localities, to serve as act
| ing pastor of three churches while pas
| toring fourth and overseeing eighteen
! preaching places, to organize the fight
| against a herd of low saloons, to con-
! duct university extension courses in
| Bible study, pastoral theology and SER
mon preparation, TO enter scores of
homes as only an earnest Christian
can, in word and stand forth as an
| embodied force for righteousness
these are q few of the achievements of
! DR.. Baker and his devoted mother,
Mrs. Ruth 3. Baker in West Hawaii.
The visitor to Kona leaves the district
with prayer of thanksgiving and a
cry of More, Lord, give US more such
leaders throughout Hawaii"
| We have one more in Maui. What
| our churches on that Island would be
! suffering today without Rev. r. B.
Dodge it is hard to conjecture. He came
| at the very nick of time. Quietly and
wisely he has led the churches into
| business methods, helped them free
| themselves from the threatened rule of
a clique of designing men and centered
the gaze of pastors and people upon
aggressive activities. Through his solic-
itation the churches of this Association
have decided to give the Hawaiian and
American Boards definite offerings
twice every year on Thanksgiving and
Easter. Besides this Mr.. Dodge has re-
facilitated one of the historic organ
izations of Hawaii, the old missionary
Union Church of Waikiki has prepar-
ed the way for the founding of another
much needed union church and is
proving very successful in fostering
the employment of English at evening
services in Hawaiian meeting houses.
HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE.
The Board joyfully acknowledges it's
deep Indebtedness to Revs. C. E. |
Shields of Hilo. r. A Buchanan of Ko- |
hala and B. V. Bazata of Paia for the |
large spirit of helpful cooperation |
which they have manifested towards |
the Christians of all races connected |
with our work. By conducting classes
in Bible study, sermon preparation, |
church history and Christian doctrine |
they have stimulated pastors, teachers
and evangelists to greater efficiency. |
By their expressed sympathy with !
every effort to advance the interests
of our churches, by securing larger
contributions to our treasury and by
their counsel and prayers they have
proved a tower of strength in their
several districts. They have been
comfort and source of in
spira ton to those in the immediate
conduct of the Boards enterprises.
TWENTIETH CENTURY WORK.
It is not yet quarter century since
Lord Shaftesbury, the pioneer in mod
ern social Christian work sighed be-
cause he must perforce leave world
where there was so much to be done.
Yet our Board has in connection with
it's wide enterprise no less than five
working along the most
approved lines of social approach.
Alexander House. the pioneer of them
all, has gone forward with a rush, it's
one of the brightest spots
in the Mid-Pacific and is just organic
ing a new department of manual train
ing. Miss E. A Babb for three years
the effective head worker, is about to
leave to the regret of all. Miss Ayers,
who must also return to the mainland,
will be another loss hard to retrive.
Lahaina kindergarten has made the
decision to broaden out into Baldwin
a blessed development for that
old missionary, center. Waiakea has
found it's ideal leader and faces a fas-
cinating future. The Liliha Settlement
the only one confined to one races
doing a splendid service for the Chi
nese of that section of Honolulu. Last
Of all comes Palama. It is hard to
speak with moderation of this notable
work. From a weak half dying mis-
sion this vigorous settlement has been
into a great healthy or
ganization with a record unparalleled
in the entire work of the Board. The
development has been all sided. View
ed from one point it is a great school
with some 200 pupils, seen on another
side it is a church with regular serv-
ices and a Sabbath School of more than
200 scholars, it's boys and girls clubs, I
its recreation field, its splendid record
IN public sanitation, it's relation to the
courts as a crime preventer and it's
wide social ministry in the homes of the
people proclaim it a worthy member
Of the genus social settlement. The
single item of the contributions of its
$45S.19 during the past
year, speaks eloQuently of the high
character of it's methods. 1t fingers
still in one tiny inadequate building
plus a rented dwelling across the
street. If Honolulu philanthropy would 1
only stop a moment and study what E
,hese trained workers, Mr.. and Mrs.
James A. Rath are doing it would need 5
1ut a few weeks to house their enter
prise in a building with surroundings
offering the spirit of the new Palama
adequate opportunity to express it's
Unique mission.
OUR ORDERS.
So from department to department.
# our large endeavor we wander,
encountering the same}
greeting of joy in the presence of a
mighty opportunity, the same glad
story of work well done and the same
expanse of possibility. Thet
more We study the field the larger the
lorizon grows. Each success but
,eckons US on while our Captain E