The Washington herald., 1911-10-08
Hawaii Strategic Missionary
Outpost in the Pacific

The Rev DR.. c. J. Ryder. senior sec
retary OF the American Missionary As
soCiation. which does work of Congre--
gatiOna lists for Indians. negroes, and
other dependent races was the summer
preacher at Central Union Church. Homo
lulu. When it was foreign territory. the
American board did work in the Hawaiian
Islands. but twenty-five or thirty years
ago turned its work over to the Hawaiian
Christians, of which this Central Union
Church is the chief place of worship of
the islands. Since Hawaii became Ameri-
can territory. the Rev. Dr.. Ryder's as
sociatiOn has entered and now contributes
both to schools. especially Industrial
schools and TO evanEeliStic work among
natives and japanese.
The conflict between the OcCident and
the Orient is to be tried out in the
Hawaiian Islands" says Secretary RYDER
returning home and getting ready for the
annual meeting of his association in Chi
cago Tree weeks hence. Americans
are giving themselves to the task of Sc
curing victory for Christianity. and are
doing SO with courage. There are eX-
rCllent relations between races \ con-
Vention that I attended had ihirty-nine
races enrolled. and thirty-rwo were actu-
ally represented in the audience The
real problem is tn penetrate the vast for
tlBu mass uiIlp-ll bl N-nlIbSt ana
Japanes" are voters when they reach their
majority. In ten OF fifteen years a ma
iOritv OF the voters NAV he Orientals
Christian work in the islands is there
fore immediate and pressing. The ques-
tion is whether Christian civilization will
dominate the islands.
1T is absolutely necessary for Ameri-
can cities. and particularly Pacific Coast
cities. to clean up their moral conditions
AnElO-SaNonS in Hawaii appreciate this
and are doing heroic work a home. ORR
entails coming to San Francisco and find
ing their COuntrymen consigned and COM
PEELED to live in sections of cities given
over to unspcakable vice and vileness,
are Disguised with the Christian system.
We know such system is not Christian
but we do not make the Oriental under
stand it is not. II is a shame TO our ma
ton that Chinese are not allowed to buy
or rent buildings to live in, and bring up
their children in some other portions of
our cities. big part of what we call
foreign missions must be carried on
among our own people at home.
1T is a genuine satisfaction to learn
that the Mccarthy government in San
Francisco, which permitted such awful
conditions. has been overthrown. So
much for one city But there are others
apd they are not all on the Pacific Coast
How much permanent effect can our earn
est missionaries produce in China and
Japan when some of their own people,
hearing and seeing for themselves, return
and tell such truthful tales as We must
ourselves admit they can tell. We have
got to clean up our own conditions 1 re-
peat, our own expressions Of civilization
before we can hope to do the large and
permanent work for the rest of mankind
which Jesus Christ lays upon U.S.
We must stand by this outpost in the
Pacific, and make il possible for it to win
against the Orientals. Our own people
there are doing splendid things. / saw
some OF them. And they are splendid
men and women who are doing them
Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard Yale-and
these and many others were represented
In my congregations in Central Union
Church. missionary society on the is
lands, with an income last year Of So 600
contributed by islanders for Christian
. work in the islands-that is the record.
And the colleges, the institutions the in
dustrial schools, why, l was astonished
at their excellence. The Hilo School.
where Gen. Armstrong got his first ideas
of Industrial education, and where he also
got his inspiration for Hampton, what a
mother IL is and what splendid work 1t
Is now doing
''Chgistian unity obtains on the islands.
rhe largest work Is the union. of course
Because 1t Is the Oldest, but saw some