The Washington herald., 1911-07-30

the Mundesley Conference, is the CEN
ter of the Bible work. Mundesley is
Mr.. Morgan's summer home, and, like
Dwight L. Moody, he turned his acres
into a summer headquarters for Bible
and missionary instruction.
1t is proposed, so reports from Mum
desley and London just to hand indi-
cate. to perfect what will be, in effect
a college whose faculty has headquar-
ters at Westminster and Mundesley,
but whose work is the training of lead
ers in Bible and evangelistic work in
many cities of England. 1t is said to
be Mr.. Morgan's ambition to leave. as
his life's benefaction, this Bible college
in permanent form. having a home in
the historic Westminster section of
London. Mr.. Morgan's tour in the
United States will begin in October.
Religion in the Hawaiian Islands.
In our Hawaiian possessions Chris
tian men becoming wealthy at growing
sugar continue to take the same personal
interest in their churches and missions
that they took when they were poor. as
Christian men in the United States
proper, grown wealthy in other ways,
often admittedly do not. The Rev. Will
lam Oleson, superintendent of missionary
work under the Hawaiian Evangelical
Board, has been In New York and Boston
for some months. and is just returning
TO his island work. He does not say that
American rich men leave their churches,
but he does affirm that wealthy Chris
tians Of Hawaii work at their religion and
give to missions in a most encouraging
fashion.
According to this missionary leader ma
tive Hawaiians are increasing in num-
bers not dying out as formerly, and
membership in their churches is also in
creasing Japanese churches in Hawaii,
of which there are a considerable num-
ber, are growing rapidly in membership,
and the union churches, of which there
are ten are more prosperous than ever.
The Hawaiian Association receives from
Congregationalists in the States $4,000
year, but Hawaiians themselves con-
tribute to the association for missionary
purposes $4,000 a year.
Mr.. Olescn is encouraged over the edu-
cational and political situations in Ha-
waii at the moment. There was opened
three years ago the Mid-Pacific Institute,
consisting of two splendid buildings. one
for young men, the other for young
women. They are stone buildings, large
and handsome, and fully paid for. Be-
sides, the institute has an endowment of
$4,000. The whole institute is an island
development Politically, the last legis-
lature, WITH many difficult problems be-
fore it, adjourned after having arrived
at many wise conclusions, showing its
members to be progressive. patriotic
men.
Four religious bodies are at work in
the Hawaiian Islands. These are the Con-
gregational the Episcopal. the Metho-
dist and the Roman Catholic 1t was
the Congregational body that sent the
first Christian missionaries from Boston
to the islands. but long ago the Ameri-
can board which sent them withdrew its
support and supervision, leaving the con-
troll to native Christians. Now, under a
new arrangement. American Congrega-
tionalists, through the American Mission
airy Association, give aid to the extent
of $1,000 year All bodies maintain eN-
tensive work among the Chinese, Japan
ese. and Portuguese, of which there are
thousands.