The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-06

| variety of enterprise maintained by our
constituency, as evidenced, for instance,
by such institutions as Kakaako Mis-
/ sion, Palama, Waikiki, Waiakea and
| Lahaina settlements, were a most strik-
ing witness to the masculinity of the
| new era into which we have already
well entered. One was proud of be-
longing to so effective and dynamic an
/ organization.
| Hilo's message is one of prophecy.
| Better DAYS are ahead. We are only
on the threshold of the good times.
| That was the spirit from first to last
of the meeting. Lonely churches are
| filing. Way down in one district or
kona where ten or twelve used to
gather in the seaside stone church of
olden days the people began to rally
year ago to build a branch meeting
house ON the upper road where most
of them live. Their audiences number
from sixty to eighty today. This is
only one case among many. What
shall we do with the Mormons who
come focking in upon usq' was the
cry of one of the most interesting hours
in the convention. "We must have
some services in English in all our
churches was another rallying call.
Is it any wonder that there is de-
mand for more white American CO.
pastors2 If ever you hear a complaint
that we are pressing into a field occu
pied by another denomination S white
minister, remember we were there de-
cades beforehand and we can not suf
fer our Hawaiian Church, the historic
Church of the place, to die. The only
way to preserve it is to tide it over
from the use of the native tongue TO
that of English. To do this effectively
a white man is needed, and the native
churches themselves are taking the ini-
tiative in calling for these men. The
historic churches of these islands have
always stood for unity; many of them
are like Central Union, the very incar-
nation of the spirit of oneness. Even
since [ became your pastor we have !
received people of such diverse up |
bringing as the Catholic, the Unitarian !
and the Salvation Army give. Way |
back in the sixties our churches in
vited Episcopalians and Methodists to
come hither and today our people are
happy to subscribe to the upbuilding /
of every variety of Church, Protestant
or Roman, in the Territory. All this is /
prophetic of the day when there shall
be but one Church of Christ upon the
earth God hasten it! Hilo s message
to us all is, eff you wish to help bring
in this glorious day, push the work
already gaining such momentum and
lead into our churches once crowded to
the doors with worshipers, then in part
deserted, but now a second time I'LL
ing, the thousands of Hawaiian, Chi
nese, japanese, white and. mixed chill
1ren growing up with a common Ian
guage. To do this get enough white
men to man the centers, rush the or
yanization of Sunday schools and back
up the Christian Endeavor societies all
over the islands. -
That the Hilo meeting meant all this
was evident, first, when the Endeavor
Union was in the saddle and, second,
when the Sunday School Association
had its innings. The Endeavorers took
charge every morning at 6. They are
an early set and filed the church seven
days in succession. Vim, prayer power
and inspiration marked these services.
Hawaii s experience with the Endeavor
has been most happy. Young
people, especially forceful young men,
like President Nakuina, are in the lead
and our churches owe much of their
new life to them.
But Sunday school day easily regis
tered high-water mark at Hilo. Mr..
Turner of Paia, we'll beloved in Cen
trail Union, was officer of the day and
he made it tell; President Rice of Ka
1ai, master wit in two languages, an
deal moderator. Speakers were short,
crisp and meaty. Everything was pro-
ohetic of the time when added thou
sands of children in the Territory shall
De gathered into our Sunday schools.
The elimination was reached when
Rev. Henry 2. Judd was presented as
Sunday school superintendent for the
Stands. 1t stirs one s blood to think
what his coming here may and should
mean for our future progress. You
young business men now have lead
,r of your own kith and kin in the
most strategic work here. If you say
o him, 'tWe are back of you. Judd.
70 ahead and gather every unchurched
.hild in the Territory into your
schools We will foot the bills, and if
You want men from the mainland in
he important centers to safeguard the ,,
york, you shall have them If you
stand by him in this style, it will not
,e many years before this second mis-
i0nafy conquest OF hawaii Will DC j..
won.
So we pass on to the third note in
lilo S ssage-Esprit de corps. 1t
Gems hard to realize that only five
ears ago the individual churches of
hese islands as such had no represen-
alton in the association, that hardly a
word of English was heard at the
essions and that there was no real !
community of interest between the I
hurches of the several nationalities {
Connected with our Hawaiian Board. {
Today we are one solid body. The
iniest organized company of Christians
n far off Molokai has as much voting /
power as Central Union church in the1 q
Evangelical Association. We are all c
'rothers standing equal before God,
boulder to shoulder in His army, keep S
ng step in home and foreign mis- 5
ions, bearing one another's burdens V
nd moving ever on and up. The get
ing together which began four years i
go at Lihue by remodeling the con-
titution Powered at Hilo in the SPLEEN z
id army spirit which characterized 4