The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-19

of All Saints Parish Home and woul,
have liked to transport the whole thin.
to Honolulu, but, of course. as yet WI
have nowhere to keep things plendit
maps. pictures, models of all sorts. ant
l got some catalogues. and from having
seen the originals viii be better able il
the future to order intelligently.
Friday was Missionary Day for the
General convention when ladies were
allowed in, as many as could find seats
in st. Paul 's-the historic Church where
General Robert E. Lee worshiped, and
where President Jefferson Davis and his
family attended, and where he was con
tirmed and had his first communion, and
where, while sitting in his pew, he
heard that General Lee had surren-
dered. Here we assembled several times
and heard some splendid addresses from
Bishop Nicolls, Bishop Kinsolving, Bis
hop McKim Of Toxic, Bishop Brent Of
the Philippines, and so many others it
would take too long to tell you, but
| the place was too small for all who
wanted to get in always, and what will
you say when | tell you that | helped
| your Bishops wife to climb in once at
| the window, in order to get seat at
ALI
There was great historical mass
meeting one evening at the Auditorium
| where the Bishop of London exhibited
| the valuable documents he had brought
p, with him. Amongst the things he said
was that when asked why he was not
| Roman Catholic he said, Because /
am an English Catholic,' and when
asked why he was not a Dissenter he
said, Because he couldn t dissent from
four of the fundamental truths of our
Church and then he enumerated them.
Saturday, Oct. 9Th, was memorable
day, for an excursion was planned to
Williamsburg by train, to visit old
Bruton Church where the seat of Gov
eminent was after jamestown island
had been abandoned. Here Bible from
King Edward was presented and
lectern to hold it was presented by
President Roosevelt AS it was impos
sible for everybody to get into the little
old church, the Bishop of London also
had to address the crowds in the
churchyard, and he handed to the Rec
tor, the Rev. w. A. r. Goodwin, a
bound book of views sent by the Rector
and people of Bruton Church in Somer-
set, England, to the Bruton Church in
Virginia. Here was shown the font at
which Pocahontas was baptized.
Here all sorts of interesting spots |
were visited and one paper alone could |
be devoted to Bruton, but T must men
ton that we went all over the college of |
William and Mary The Bishop of Lon
don had addressed the students in the |
morning, and they gave him a great |
send-off on the. train. Such a scramble /
it was to get the 1000 people home in
the train. and we had many interviews |
with friends on the way home The |
Rev. George Wallace introduced us to
Miss Williamson s brother, then we
found the Misses Willis and their
brother of Carolina were on the train /
One Miss Willis had been in Kona at
one time. Mrs Restarick happened also |
to be on this train, and we met Mr..
Lyman, and his wife, of Detroit, that |
we had so often heard about, and also
Mrs. Justin Emerson of Detroit-sister-
in-law of our Mrs. Joseph Emerson of
Honolulu-and many others.
We arrived in Richmond an hour late
for dinner at the Jefferson Hotel with
Mr.. Proctor and his wife-the son of
the benefactor of ST. E1izabeth's. We |
spent a most delightful evening with
them, with a brother-in-law and sister
ln-Iaw, and it was such a pleasure to
meet with these people who had become
so near to us.
Governor Swanson gave a reception
that night in the Capitol building, but
we were too tired to 60. After rest
full Sunday we prepared for our all day
conference of diocesan officers, and we
had most exciting and interesting
day
Resolutions had been handed in about
the two great questions of ''Represen-
tation at the TrienniaI Meetings. and
also about the object of the - United
Offerings of 1910" A committee had
the two affairs in hand, and after in
tense excitement and arguments, and
votes, pro and con, the committees re-
port was received, and now our
UNITED Offering of 1907 will be for
the support and care of women workers
in the field Gas before), and that sum
not exceeding $4,000 shall be expended
for building or buildings to be erected
at the discretion of the Secretary of
the Board of Missions, and the Secre-
tary of the W6man's Auxiliary, with
added earnest prayers for more women
to offer themselves for work. This is as
near as J. can remember to the actual
resolution.
III tue cOuIoG Oh the meeting MIS-. .
Roots said it was always easier to get
workers because their salaries
were always assured, because of the
Auxiliary, while many Bish-
Dps could not assure the men who Of
fered, any adequate sum. Before this
was passed, Mrs. Swan of SACRAMENTO,
made strong plea for sum of money
to be set aside to pay field secretary I
who would travel among the seven mis-
sionary districts to instruct the people :;
about the Woman s Auxiliary. s
Then came the difficult problem of /
A committee also re-
ported for this, but it was not accepted :
until a great deal of discussion had ]
taken place, and now the resolution is {
hat the 1910 diocesan officers only shall
a diocese, and very urgent
stress was put upon the necessity of !
choosing a woman who was deeply in
terested and loyal to the Woman s &
Auxiliary, and the ones to represent /
were to be chosen at the annual cleo ,
ton before the General convention met,
and not to be appointed at the last mo- s