The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-10-12

We're many opportunities of social con-
verse. Reports were read, matters Of
interest discussed. Devotional services
We're held together; we sat down at
the table of our Lord. Was there ever
more soul-stirring music than our
grand old hymns, rolled out by the
voice of Father Thurston, leading in
Lennox?
BECAME HOME MISSIONARIES.
"In 1852 there was longer session
than usual. for that year the change
came. BY one dash of the pen In Bos-
ton we We're changed from foreign
missionaries to home missionaries, to
get in part our own support, to hold
property and the property of the Board
was to be divided-houses, lands and
herds. Before this. or about the same
time. King Kamehameha had express
ed a wish that the mission families
remain here, and had given to each
family at low price a small tract of
land. Many of the missionaries had
small patrimonies and paid for this
land. From this has arisen much scan
dial to the mission and the taunt of
rich missionaries. But careful survey
of the families of the mission Will show
that the majority are poor. and will
convince one of the truth of the re-
mark once made by His Excellency, r.
c.. Wyllie, that the mission had, on
very small salaries, lived decently and
raised their families creditably, not
knowing the faculty of many Of the
mission mothers.
I'm the spring OF 1854 we left Puma
hou. poor and worn, feeling that our
salary was of more value to the school
than our services. Though 1t was
often very hard at Punahou, with per-
picking questions and conscious mis-
takes. as review our life work / must
be thankful for ten years service at
Punahou."
The Rices then settled at Lihue,
Kauai where they struggled for liv-
ing, while still having a supervision
of the moral and religious welfare Of
the Hawaiian people. Gradually Mr..
Rice's sugar fields enlarged until they
were merged into the Lihue sugar
plantation, of which he was manager.
His health had begun to fail while at
Punahou, and in fact was the prime
cause of his leaving that institution.
He died May 81, 1863, leaving his Wild
ow and son, w. II. Rice, and daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Paul Isenberg, Mrs. c. NJ.
Cook and Mrs. George De LaVergne.
Her daughter Mrs. Isenberg, died,
leaving a son, the Hon. d. p. r. Isen-
berg. and daughter, the wife of Rev.
Hans Isenberg.
Grandma Rice has lived to see her
grandchildren and great grandchildren
multiply around her. all of whom rise
~, IN oaII har hlaasad
The Friend of December, 1902, says
of Grandma Rice:
Her life Is a placid stream which
beauties all it's banks. She Is remem-
bered as one of the early teachers OF
Punahou, and her gentle and persuasive
methods reigned both In schoolroom
and In her parlor classes, where, at
certain times, she taught the clumsy
fingers OF small boys to sew and to
braid. Mrs. Rice was to the manor
born, her father being then a mission
airy among the Indians on the Buffalo
reservation. Her first four years OF
labor here was at the Hama station
east end of Maui and Mrs. Condo was
the only white lady within forty miles;
then came nearly ten years at Puma
hou school. and then Mr.. Rice, for his
own health's sake. moved with his fam
lily TO Kauai. and she now eats and
gives away fruit from trees which he
planted forty-eight years ago."