The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-06

member Shin,
nus ne work grows and spreads The churches kept
IN an active condition and sef-support receives healthy inn
Peus Our pastors all faithful men and are making ire
ous sacfhce Tor their divine Master We have lost
worker during the year the OF Kauai returned
nome tor family His place taken bv one OF
SRA man OF tremendous ZEAL who has literally
orsaken all to follow Christ and his charges goes from
camp TO camp and from plantation plantation leading scores
energy knows no bounds
Wherever have children Sunday schools are duly organ
ICED while the kpworth League popular with the Young
people During the year the Banner Oahu Coun
Young Peoples Societies captured twice by Epworth
iedsueIs Al oPreckelsvile Maui our members have col
ected among themselves $50 new church which
they greatly need and the Hon. H. P. Baldwin al
ways been kind and friend has me to
say that the building will up the very future The
Waanae members have also raised $500 for the pur-
while the church Eeele has SI35oo with the
object OF churchbuiding within the coming year
OF the plantation exceedingly kind and do all
IN ter power 70 assist us IN our efforts to better the moral
condition of their aborers feeling that in the end is
ing investment few however have little concern their
Chief aim beng good and often their
better cared for than their coolies
The roll call of the Korean school here Honolulu now
numbers 45al bright faithful boys eager
Equipment and of them have decided preach
court interpreters and Others will find their knowledge useful
interpreters plantations These older boys all self
supporting All are Christians and members OF the church
Some of the younger orphans haorphans the
children of helpless parents For these scholarships
ed from local "A few weeks ago school
honored IN receiving government recognition as private
school and graduates will receive government cer-
cate which will great deal to these young in their
future work
The Christian Advocate" "Gokyo"
regularly published month and the
scrbers number 500 the former and 400 the latter
Three young girls being educated in Kawaahao
Seminary and of them have decided work for Christ
as Bible Women Our Korean work needs to be recruited
We should have least three evangelists and
correspondence with missionaries in Korea looking
towards the attainment of this object
Two three companies OF Fpnos have reached Hawaii
labor the plantations and them there is
earnest devoted local preacher OF our chc VINO mas unde
taken the long journey order help his feowountymen
as an interpreter and at the same time to lead them out OF
of religious superstition the bright light OF
religious faith These Fpnos have been sent to the
south OF the big island of Hawaii necessitatng long
expensive trip from Honolulu but just possible
plan visit the camps and up mission among them
We refer briefly English work in whose
neat edhce assembled Our property is
well centrally located including church and parsonage,
all free of debt and in good state of repair Our long cher
ished hope last realized and the month OF
August Bishop Cranston appointed Rev. David w Crane
intendent for efficient supervision of the fifty
stations we'll established the different islands
Bro Crane arrived in September and at once entered upon
his active duties HIS previous experience as pastor Q,
tan churches Presiding Elder of Districts in Nebraska resi-
dence in Porto Rico in charge OF our Engish work IN pan
uan ETC. him admirably for the important place which
he occupies in Honolulu The officers and members nave
gathered about their pastor with marked K
pairs amounting to 5000 or more nave been put upon te par
sonage official board has been organized junior league
started life nocuated into all the services and now with
bills all paid the various societies IN good FORM te oce
faithful and Jealous, pastor and his ehcient wie giving
their whole the work naturally predict great
future First Methodist Episcopal Church OF honolulu
all of which will tremendous inspiration to our
other missionary endeavors in behalf of these alien peoples
seeking help and salvation very doors
The Hon Alex Macarthur, Mp prominent and influential
English statesman, has recently said:
4 believe the of civilization the extension OF
commerce the increase knowledge science and tea
re the promotion of civil and religious liberty the develop
ent undiscovered mineral and vegetable
wealth are intimately identified with and to much larger
extent than people Of dependent upon the
orl of the missionary and hold that the missionary has
done more to cvze benefit the heather world than
anv or all other agencies employed"
Within the time of living Hawaii vast wilder
ness of undeveoped wealth. its people naked barbarians its
rulers stepped its shores infested by leprous white men
who broug sickness sin and death Today rightly called
the paradise the Pachc-cean in government just in
laws pure in morals rich in the products OF the soil advanc
g in education growing influence prosperous Territory
of the United States and the happy abiding place Of peace
full population representing nearly all the peoples OF the
earth Yes much done but still remains to be
ACCOMPLISHED We need Americanizatlon-pe OF
quality as well people in quantity Our missionary WORK
stands for this if it anything We need to Danish
the drink evil The saloon is a to our higher in
terests destroys the home and INJURIES the nation Ha-
wall IS moving line with temperance reform. Prohibit
ton is now our 'War Cry" We need clean politics-not
party for partv but principle for principles sake For
nate we gaining ground this respect too Won
the mnroXement during the past Jew