The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-02


Institution were practically broken Vi
by sickness in the principals famil!
followed by successive epidemfcs o
measles. influenza and whooping cough
School operations were suspended IL
February and no new class entered
pending action Of the general meeting
Of the mission. The report for tina
year says:
a new class. according to custom
should be entered this year. II has
not been called for yet by US because
we thought il best first to hear what
changes will actually be decided on by
the mission at this meeting. The late
unparalleled diminution of population
may have also some effect in modify
ing the views of the mission in regard
to this school and render II expedient
In their minds to alter it's operations
or the number of its scholars. these
with other reasons induced the teach
ers to defer the calling of another class
| until after this meeting Of the mission.
IF II is decided by the mission to
call a new class we wish to present a
few considerations to the brethren TO
guide them in their selections. Many
thousand dollars of money have been
wasted or unprohtabiy laid out upon
young men sent there OF only middIing
ability and low morals. It has been
with regret that the teachers have had
to select, with few good ones many
young men Of doubtful talents and
worth to make up a class when they
felt there were enough in the nation
that would do honor to their training
at the seminary" Report. June, 1S48,
to April. 1919, Plaintiffs Elk. rs.
Besides these conditions and the emf
grafton to the god fields of California,
also referred TO in the report, the gen.
erai meeting had to face an embar-
raised condition of the funds of the
home board and the consequent cur
tailment of tire allowance to the mis-
sion. (From report of committee, April
25, 1S49. Plaintiffs Elk. ID 1t was un-
der these circumstances that the offer
of transfer to the Hawaiian govern
ment was made.
The proposal of transfer, under date
of April Is, 1S49, was upon the express
condition that the said Hawaiian Gov
eminent agrees that the said institu-
ton shall be continued at its expense.
as an institution fer the cultivation of
sound literature and solid science, and,
further, that 1t shall not teach or allow
to be taught any religious tenet or doc
trine contrary to those heretofore in
culcated by the mission, which we rep
resent, a summary of which viii be
found in the confession of faith here
with enclosed. and that in case Of
the nonfulfillment or violation of the
conditions upon which this transfer is
made by the said government. the
whole property hereby transferred.
specified, together with
any additions or improvements which |
may have been made upon the prem |
Uses, and all the right and privileges |
hereby conveyed or transferred to the |
Hawaiian Government by the said Is
land Mission shall revert to the said |
Mission, to have and to hold the same |
Tor and in behalf of the American
Board of Commissioners of Foreign |
Missions" The entire letter is set out |
n Lowrey v. Hawaii 2o6 U. S. BOG, 2o9. |
The confession of faith sent with the /
letter is evidently. as alleged in plain
Lfffs' declaration. printed profession /
of faith, which, as introduced in evil !
Certificates of Church Membership" |
and reads as follows:
THE Lord Jehovah our Creator has |
given to the world law which is holy, |
lust and good, that we should love him |
n all that we do.
'.This law I have often broken. and |
rave made myself exceeding sinful In |
ais sight. Now I hate my sins, I re-
sent of them, and renounee them. God |
r. Ia
Son that whatsoever be1ieveth IN him |
should not perish but have everlasting /
ife. He has invited me to come to i
him. This / have resolved to do, and /
% devote myself to his service. I i
ldore his rich grace in calling me to
he feast of the gospel. l do now hope |
or part in the blessings of his won
ierful redemption. desire to do what
can to promote his glory and the
Aviation of my fellow men. and
eel 1t to be duty and a privilege /
o take on me the vows of his ever
asting covenant.
"T do therefore in the presence of !
Tod and before the world. make a
olemn declaration of my faith.
q. I believe in Tehovah:-that he
xists without beginning. without end,
nd without change: that though he is
lot seen with mortal eyes, yet he is
present and sees all
hings: that in power and wisdom. and
'oodness. in all Projections and excel
ences he is Infinite: that he made tie
arth and the heavens. men and an
els. all worlds. and all that is in them; |,
hat he upholds. and governs all ac-
ording to his own pleasure: that he
lone is God and that all beside him
hat are called gods are vanity and the
york of errors.
'2. believe in the scriptures of the
Did and New Testament, that they
re the word of God and the sure. and
perfect and only rule of holy faith
nd practice.
-. believe that man was originally
reated in the image of God. pure and
lappy: that he fell by transgression,
nd that consequently all mankind of
very generation are naturally in a
tate of corruption. guilt and death.
e. I believe that God in his SOW
reign mercy, gave early promise of a