The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-05-16
Birthplace or
FIVE CHURCHES
TO BE RHPLAoRD BY A MoDBnN
BUmDutO-BHRvTCEs
YESTERDAY.
IFrom Monday 3 AdvertIapr.l

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After having served for between
atty and sixty years for religious work
and having seen the birth OF avo
churches within its walls, the old Japa-
ncse Church on Nuuanu nvonuo is at
last to be demolished aud a now strue.
ture raised in its stead.
A commemoration service was held
there yesterday, which varied congre.
CATION attended. There were present
those who had been connected with it
when it was first built and there were
those who had known no other church.
All of them united in the service and
listened while kamaainR and malihini
spoke aboat old and new things.
The building was put up in tho FIRST
place by the father of tho present
Henry Waterhouse to serve as church
for Che English Methodists, or Wes-
leyans.
et'I remember,' w. r. Castle told
them, i'when us small boy hearing
my parents talking about the proposed
new church that was to bo erected.
( Afterwards went there, but did not
] take much interest in tho actual
/ church services, 1t was the prayer
meetings that remembered most. II
sounded so funny to me to hear the
earnest crowd suddenly all como out
+, with a deep Amen, or Lord hear US.
/ remember standing up on the seat
once to try and find out what it was all
about,
That Bad Boy.
''The Mehtodists were good earnest
people, however, and have great ad.
miration for them. Not long after they
started prayer meeting for children,
and there was one old lady who CON
tracted the habit of picking oat one
(. small boy in the front seat and telling
all the rest about him. On one oe-
casion she singled out a boy and
started in to tell the rest how wicked
Z he was. The little fellow blushed with
shame and hung his head. Still the old
lady kept on enumerating all the sins
that he had committed and relating
what they would lead him into when
he grew up. At last he could stand it
no longer, and seeing that there was
room under the seats crRwled under
when the old lady was not looking and
made his way to the door. The times
I.were not ripe for the Methodists, how
ever, and soon after the services were
; discontinued and the building was un-
occupied for some time.
cit was then that the bishop Of the
Church of England came to the Islands
and made arrangements to start mis-
: sion field down here. The building
|. was given over to them and they start
3 ed what was then known as the Ha-
y M d. 11,s.,,
4 continued in this until 1870. 1t was
7 during their re gn in the old building
; that the late King Kamehameha Nv.
and Queen Emma were confirmed,
: The building was crowded to its-ut.
in through the windows. The Church
! tions on the side.
Y Brothers Under One Head.
: 81 hope" concluded the speaker
: 'fthat the new building will be another
Z link in the chain that draws US all to
: gether as brothers under one head. -
s Willie Quai Fong read an account
: from the columns of the Friend, of thC
J organization of the first Christian Chi
nese Church. This took place in thI
!, building on Jane s, 1879, ma My
through the efforts of the Y M. c.. A.
{ which had occupied the building in the
4 meantime. Ont of the six Chinese whC
openly confessed their faith there il
only one now in the Territory. Out Of
thirty who confessed by letter theR'
are only some six or seven left. From
a small beginning, however, there hal
been an increase until at the present
/ time there are about four hundred
members.
' Rev. Mr. Gulick also ran over tn
history of the building, the first par
of his address being made in Japanese
Ie The others who spoke were the paste
10 of the church, Rev. Mr.. Hori, k. Ko
Is saki, who is one of the oldest members
!. and, as someone remarked, had beel
= born there; Rev. Mr.. 0kumura Of tn
y Maikild Street Church, and Fran
Il scudder. Doctor Scudder of the Cen
y trail Union Church sent his apologies TO
y not being present.
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