Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-01-19
CENTRAL union
RECORD in 1910
Pastors Report Declares it the
Most Noteworthy in
Church History.

III the criterion of worthy deeds ac-
complished be adopted as the basis of
judgment, the year 1910 has proved
the best thus far in the history of our
beloved church, declared DR.. Doremus
Scudder, pastor of Central Union
church. in his annual report, made last
night at the annual meeting. Cohtin-
uing, DIR. Scudder said:
Financially, our record for 1910 is
far and away the most brilliant Cen
trail Union church has ever known We
expended 1924 more upon ourselves
than during the previous year, or a to-
nevolence we gave for others total
of $37790, or $3452 more than in 1909.
This does not include the splendid Of
ferings for permanent endowment of
work in connection with the American
Board-one of $4,000 and one of $4,000
by two of our families. These two me-
mortal gifts in the boards centennial
year will always accentuate the story
of this church in 1910. 1t will be hard
for us to equal the regular contribu-
ton of $7655 made by us last year to
foreign missions. We can, however, do
it if we will. For home missions we
fell off 1929, small item in the total
of $26,360, and our miscellaneous COL
umn is 1852 less than that for 1907
l,o
fore more than 500 church members,
who sat. down to a choWder dinner
that preceded the annual meeting. 9th
er reports were made by officials of
various branches of church work, as
follows:
Report of church clerk, Lyle A.
Dickey treasurers report, Jonathan
Shaw; church treasurer's report, Oil
yer c. Swain; Bible school report, Ed.
Towse; Bible school treasurer w. j.
Forbes; Woman's Board of Missions,
Mrs. Theodore Richards, president;
Women's Society, Mrs. William CT
Hobby, president; Christian Endeavor
Society, Albert Parsons, president;
Mems League, w. F. Dillingham;, re-
firing chairman, read by Rev. A. A.
Ebersole; Missionary Cleaners So
ciety, Mrs. M. d. Wilmington, read by
Marion Brown; Palama Settlement,
James A. Rath, superintendent, read
by Spencer Brown; Kalihi branch, Rev.
H. w. Chamberlain, read by A. E. Lar !
inner; Nauru Island Mission and Jap |
anese Sunday school, Rev. o. IL. Gu |
lick; Portuguese Sunday schools, w.
A. Bowen Chinese mission work, f,
W. Damon.
OF membership the following was re-
ported:
Our total corrected membership in
January / was 1880. In 1905 we re-
ported 1863, but that seems to have
been a sporadic burst which could not
be maintained, as the number fell IN /
1906 to 9S4, and was reduced to SS7 in
1907, at which point the present pas
torate began. Your minister made 7zS
recorded calls during his several
presence in Honolulu last year
"a little more per month than his
usual average He has attended eleven !
funerals and solemnized six marriages. ,
The figures for Mr. Ebersole are five
funerals and eighteen marriages. There
have been twenty seven pabtisms OF
infants. Too much can not be said or
the faithful, efficient services of our
devoted assistant minister"
Expenditures for the year were as
follows: Foreign missions, $685.; home
missions, $26,360; American Mission
airy Association, 1881; education,
$500; ministerial relief, 800; miscel-
lareous S1524; expended on self, $14,-
1872. These items are spread over
many branches of the work. In addi- |
ton, it is stated that one family gave
S25, 900 and another $4,000 to the Amer
lean Board in it's centennial year as
for permanent investment