The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-12-15
These Men, according To Rever-
end Mr.. OlesOu, Founded
Powerful Mission Board
$500 tff
CHURCHES WILL ELEBRATE
CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY
Services Yesterday Morning In
Central Union EdifIce Were
va Of Unusual Interest
ORION Monday Advertiser

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Church yesterday mOrning, in
~ honor Of what Is known a. Ha.
waiian Mission Board Day, was marked
BY specially prepared program, In
which great interest was taken BY a
large congregation.
Rev. William Brewster Oleson, super.
intendent Of the board, had been cspe.
oiallv invited 10 deliver the sermon, and
hecspoke on the subject OF "Clasping
Hands With the Fathers.' 10 his ser
mon, which Is given In full, he reviews
the entire history Of the movement from
the arrival Of the first missionaries in
Hawaii nearly century ago.
Regular Annual Observance
Central Union Church, which is re-
Aponsible for the founding Of the pres
ent mission board, has designated the
sunday before Christmas Sunday OF
zach year as the day ON which the an.
hnal report OF the work of the board
win be- made TO the members Of the
church In the form Of an address by
one Of the mission board workers. Rev.
Mr.. Oleson, superintendent Of the
hoard, was designated 10 fulfill that
once this year. Next week the entire
Christmas Sunday offering at the church
services will 90 towards the work OF
the board, and Rev. A. A. Ebersole,
Associate pastor Of Central Union, said
last night that In spite Of the many
present demands on the pockets Of
Charitable persons this year, large Of
ftfihR was anticipated. 81
Address By Mr.. oissOn
Rev. Mr.. OIeson 8 address follows:
i1t' Ninety-hve years ago a sailing YES
- arrived on the coast Of Kona, bring
ing the pioneer missionaries 10 Hawaii.
That was sixteen years before Whitman
found Oregon. 1t was twenty-Eine
years before the discovery Of gold In
California I II was thirty years before
responsible government was established
in4 the Australian colonies. 1t was
thirty four years before Japan, acced-
ing to The request u Commodore Perry,
opened its ports 10 Western nations.
1.-THE arrival Of the missionaries in
Hawaii, therefore, may well be spoken
81 a. one Of the most significant events
10 the history OF this great waterway.
For that annotated many Of the mo.
mentoas events in that history, and In
time led 10 the erection Of Christian
nDmmunity, with the customary institu,
tions and safeguards Of a Christian
civilization, when there was no similar
expression Of such civilization any.
where else on the shores Of this vast
sea. go II. go
How Project was Conceived
N An event of snch Significance ought
20 be suitably e0mmemorated. In the
ldar 1883 two Hawaiian ministers,
delegates 10 the International Council,
theioik session In Boston, made q pill.
ffimage 10 Plymouth. Ror long time
I|Il5 sat IN silence before the famous
A|onument to the Pilgrim Fathers. Then
one said to the Others What are you
thinking about, I'm blinking said
inc other, that We ought 10 have a
monument like that for the missionary
fathers 20. Hawaii. and that, said
the first, was what I was thinking,
tod, And then and there those two
Hawaiian ministers, still alive and
prominent in the work of the churches
Of Hawaii, resolved TO start campaign
for the raising OF funds for an endpr.
ing monument TO the missionaries who
bad brought the gospel Of Christ to
these Islands
ssIn 1--WE years more we shall eele.
brate the centennial anniversary Of the
arrival In these Islands of the first mis-.
niohariea. What shall be the form Of
The monument that shall suitably com
niemorate that eyentf
comelineas and Utility Necessary
Manifestly, II should possess both
eoipelipesa and utility, Its aspect
shenld be digni6ed and beautiful as a
fitting expression OF our esteem for the
heroic sell denial and fruitful service OF
those devoted men and women. But out
efTegard for those plain, unostehtatious
servants Of God, whom we well know
taEed supremely for getting things
dane that were worth while, any mOnu,
plent TO them TO be Ut all In accord with
chs consuming passion of their lives,
should be one through which present.
day service may be rendered In their
oEp spirit Of conservation to God and
humanity,
ss'sThose men organized the Hawaiian
board. They thus gave concrete ex,
preston 10 their wish and purpose to
provide an evangelizing agency that
should live ON after they had gone, and
that should do for other men after them
what they had loved TO 10 for men
while they were living among iaem.
What better monument could there
he then than something through which
The Hawaiian hoard, organized by
them, could best do the work for which
they had created i'll fFN
And what could that something be
better than TO house that board in q
bhilding suited 20 It's actual needs in
~ work Of pressing the evangelism OF
the fathers among the people Of today
ste ana FUND Nucleus Donated 4
Sbtgitiy the generous, giftk OF mission,
Any descenddAts, a NhpbIe site On mis-
sion grounds has been set aside for such
hnilding, without cost 10 the board. BY
4 ike generosity, former president OF
the board contributed large sum rs
the nucleus OF fund for the erection
Of such memorial building, to which
fund others have volunteered to add
ppeeial gifts, 50 that the structure may
be erected without affecting the ordi
nary resources aud income Of the board
When completed this building will
he's worthy tribute 10 the past. aud VIZ
trnAt . no less worthy angnry Of Ell