The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-01-21
MISSIONARIES
TENDER REPORTS
Give Resume of Their Work at
Annual Meeting of Central
Union Church.
(From Thursday's Advertiserl

A years work in the missionary
fields of Honolulu, condensed and pre-.
scented before the annual meeting of the
Central Union church last night, prov
ed that Honolulu is progressive in this
work as in all things 1t was the
largest meeting Of the kind ever held
by the church, 375 people being seated
at the long tables arranged in the
parish house.
AT six o'clock, the young ladies be-
gan to bring on the chowder, which
prefaced the reading of the reports,
and for an hour and half the COM
pany INDUCED in merriment before the
serious business of the meeting was
commenced.
DR.. Doremus Scudder, pastor of the
church, rendered his report, which
comprised resume of the reports later
rendered in more detail by the heads of
the various missionary and settlement
work.
After the reading of the reports, DIR.
Scudder read proposed amendment TO
the bylaws and on motion of w. R.
Castle committee of FIVE was formed
to consider and report on it in detail
later The five appointed were DR..
Scudder, w. R. Castle, W. a. Bowen,
]. P. Cooke and Perley L. Horne. Mr..
Bowen then suggested a change in the
rules governing elections by which the
entire church membership becomes
nominative committee and this, on mo-
ton, was also laid before the special
committee for investigation and report.
DR.. Scudder's Report.
The reports contained numerous fig
ures which surprised the greater part
of those who heard them and who were
only acquainted with one part of the
work or with none at all. DR.. Scudder
in his opening report said, in part, as
follows:
"The financial record of the church
is bright one. Leaving off decimals
we expended upon ourselves. $l4,057
as against $2l 1928 in 1908. Of'the lat
ter sum $1,000 was the cost of our par
ish house leaving $l5,2l9 for the run
ming expenses of that year. We got
along with 81 ,162 in 1909 notwithstand-
ing the Men League excess expendi-
ture of $449.
awe have never done so well in
| benevolent contributions. The total
for 1908 was $1,000; 1909 bettered
| this by 1920. The figures are as fol-
lows:
Foreign Missions, chiefly via
American Board ...........$ 1896
Home Missions, chiefly via Ha-
waiian Board ............. $3.50
American Missionary Associa-
ton Illus
| Educational work .......... $50
Miscellaneous benevolences 80. 1890
Total. $40, l90
| "For the first time in our history we
have given away more than we have
| spent upon ourselves.
''But the story is better yet, for the
| total in the appended table will show
our gifts to Home Missions alone to
have been $26,SSS instead of $3.50 as
| just stated. This is due to the inclu,
sion of the contributions of all who
are connected with our church made
| either directly towards the work of the
Hawaiian Board or through our treas.
urer.
"The Hawaiian Board, having dec1d.
ed to assume full financial responsible.
ity for Kalihi Settlement, the generous
gifts of our people for this work will
l in fnt ba md nd
| in part via our church treasury as was
| the case last year. Hence this work
which enthusiastically belongs to Cen
trail Union must be financially classeu
as Home Missionary. Our gifts dur
ing 1909 to Kalihi expended through
Treasurer Swain, amounting to $2,3S3.'
Dir. Scudder discussed the criticism
of the church in general that has re
| ceived such universal attention through
out America and compared it with tho
status of the Central Union church. HI
gave a resume of the trend of thought
which Central Union has experienced
during the last year and summed NJ
its present condition.
Palama Settlement
One of the most interesting reports
of the evening WAS that Of James A
Rath, superintendent of the Palam;
Settlement, the more interesting par
being as follows:
"The great need of the settlement a
the present time is suitable admins
trative and school building. Two O.
our present buildings can not be use,
very much longer. The dispensary an'
milk depot, as well as the office arr
more than crowded out. When n new
building is secured the settlement will
work.
1.-THE following figures will give som,
idea as to the work done by the settle
ment;
1909 lD0i
Nurses employed ,.,,,. 4
Dispensares operated D..
Cases under care, ,.,,.. i,les ISL
Visits made by nurses. 1917 ,36l
| a..