The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-07-20
CORNERSTONE OF "
memorial HALL
PUT INTO PLACE
Despite Rain Toward Close Of the
Program, Stone Is Well
And Truly Laid
BUILDING COMPLETE
TO- COST $4,000
Suitable Monument To Pioneers
Who Brought Gospel To
The Islands

Impressive .ceTehOHlcS HlHIhou Jut
having of the cornerstone yesterday
after noon of the Mission Memorial
Building in King street, eva of the Y.
W. c. A. Homestead, being erected at a
cost Of Sg0,UnO as n monument to piO-
nssr missionaries and to be the center
of missionary work in Hawaii in the
future.
Rain which began to fall toward the
latter part of the ceremony did not
dampen ardor or enthusiasm. Not Sl
sirgle person of the several hundred
who witnessed the exercices left the
grounds. Despite his advanced age,
Rev. .. II. Guliek handled n minia
ture trowcl with the activity of a
younRstCr, aud though the rain soaked
his garments and trickled from his
gray locks, he applied cement until the
stone was lastly get in place as well as
the metal box containing a number of
documents and encased within the
stone.
The program foponpd with a song by
the Young Prople's League. All par
Elephants in the program were seated
on n raised platform, with the specta-
to.s AND auditors grouped about them.
Rev. A, Y. tSoarcs, pronounced the in.
vocation. Rev. Use Kei Yuen read
frnrn til" Scriptures in the Chinese Ian.
fuag", Prayc, was offered by Rev. T.
Okuu ura in Japanese.
Financial Statement Read
f. J. LowrCy read n statement from
the Hawaiian Board of Missions and
the Cousins Society regarding the
Fl Hnrcs of thr project. After the
SINGING Of hymn by the Young PEG.
pie : League, thu main address of the
day was made by DR.. Doremus Scud-
der of Central Union Church. Doctor
Srudder dwrllcd almost entirely in his
address that the building being erected
would undoubtedly prove more satisfy.
ing as n monument for those for whom
il is intended than n costly and useless
statue or shaft. He pointed out,
however, that the builders themselves
must enshrine within the building the
incarnation Of the spirit of those who
first spread the Gospel in these Islands.
By applying the building to further the
work of the pioneers for whom the
building is erected ms a memorial will
their memories be best perpetuated.
At the conclusion of the address by
Doctor Scudder, the actual cornerstone
laHing was performed by Mr.. Gulick.
The exercises closed with benediction
by Rev. }. NJ. Kamoku.
The financial statement of F. J.
LOwrey, with its history of the new
building, was as follows:
Gives History of Project
"a few words in regard to this
bnildng, the cornerstone of which we
lay today. The matter of a memorial
to those who composed the American
Protestant Mission to Hawaii and the
magnificent work done by them has
lurg bean considered.
''NariOus forms of memorials have
been suggested, but instead of some
monument of beauty, perhaps, but
which could I've put to no practical use,
why not something which would be of
lasting value md usefulness, and what
would combine all 30 well as a building
which would be the center of activity
for the Hawaiian board, where work
along tn" lines of those whose mem
Orirs are now being rcvcred, should be
directed
"Thr board has had for some years
its own home in the building presented
to it by Mr.. and Mrs. u. G.. Jones, and
Mr. Jones has been the largest con
trbutor to our building fund. The To-
cation was good, but as other build
ingS were erected around it, it became
an WV VIZ W 'hblN IId't lOI NJ many 10
work in, aud the matter was apitated
for a new building.
''Thrn came the idea of combining
the old and the new in a building
which should honor the work of those
who had gone before and provide a
place for the workers of the present
Two Sites Arc offered
"The object met with a hearty re.
spouse from our friends and we were
offered free of charge two sites, one
flOm the AthertOn estate and one from
the May Castle Trust Both were in
the section of the city formerly known
to all as the Mission but this one
which was chosen by the board was
the one offered by the Mary Castle
Trust and was ground which had been
haIlOwcd by actual missionary work.
at one time the matter was con
aihered Of using the Chamberlain lot
across the way aud owned by the IIa
waian Mission Children Society, for
a memorial building to house the two
IOdies, but this was given up, aud the
Onsins, while now planning the
restoration of the old Chamberlain
humr, are uniting in the erection of
this building, in which they are to have
"a large room, the use of the upper part
of the vault and are to become the
"ustodians of the valuable papers and
records Of the board.
'"rhe main building is to provide
offices for the secretary and the treas.
urer. III" Supcrintcndcnts of the vari.
Gus hra"chFs of the work. the book
rooms for the board as well as the
rooms for its regular meetings; provi-
ion NJ mentioned fOr tn" Mission chit
drrn's Society; meeting place for
the Christian Endeavor Society, etc.
He"dnr"r'crs FNr RELIGIOUS Work
cit is hoped that arrangements may
be made 50 that other societies may