The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-11-10
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D|DSFAREWELLTO
DOCTOR SCUDDER
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Central Union Congregation Gives
Big Reception To Departing
Pastor and His Wife
PARLoRs OF THE CHURCH
ARE FILLED BY FRIENDS
Divine Will Leave Honolulu Next
Week For His Japanese
Passionate

Central Union Church last night paid
full honor to the departing minister
who has cared for the spiritual wants
of its congregation for almost nine
years. The parlors of the church were
thronged from eight until ten, and
many not members Of the congregation.
hut friends of DR.. and Mrs Doremus
SCudder, were present.
The committee for the evening, of
which Mrs. Walter A. Engle was chair.
man, had promised to give splendid
program, and it amply kept that
promise
The other ladies serving with Mrs
Engle were Mrs. Alexis J. Gignoux,
Mrs. Charles w. Baldwin, Mrs. Frank
c. Anterior, Mrs c. s. Judd, Mrs l. J.
Shepherd, Mrs. John Buel Guard and
Miss Ruth Anderson.
Miss Anderson had charge Of the
decorations of the evening and Mrs.
Anterior arranged the following pro
gram!
Piano Solos ~
ta) Valse Caprice. Cyril Scott
(b) Etude in A Flat ........ Raft
Miss Emily l.. Parish, of the Punahou
Faculty.
Violin Solos
(H) Tambourin -. lie Clair Kreisler
(b) Moment Musicale. .....,..
........ Schubert Kreisler
(c) Larghctto ..........W Weber
Mrs. Arthur B. Ingalls,.
Ieh"r SOLOS by Mr.. george Andrus.
Leaving For Japan
One week from today Rev, Doremus
Scudder, accompanied by Mrs. Scudd er
will sail for japan on board the Tenvo
Maru to resume his work in Christian
service in japan. He was ordained to
the ministry in Kobe, June i, 1885,
and hence looks upon the Land of the
Rising Sun as the proper place in
which to complete his life work. Doe.
tor Scudder will be pastor of the For.
eign Church in Toxic, a non sectarian
Protestant congregation.
Doctor Scudder has been identified
with Christtian' work in Hawaii since
1902, having taken service under the
Hawaiian board in that year. In Octo-
Der 1903, he was elected to SUCCEED o.
p. Emerson in charge of the mission
work among the japanese in Hawaii
and in June 1907 accepted a call to the
pastorate of Central Union church. He
preached his first sermon as pastor of
the church, October 5, 1907, and was
formally installed November 20, so that
he had almost completed nine years in
the pulpit here.
His Mainland Service
From 1889 70 1902 he was pastor Of
Doremus Congregational church, Chica
20, then known as the Worker s
church. Doctor Scudder was one of the
pioneer medical missionaries sent to
the Orient, for after graduating with
the degree of A. b. from Yale in 1880,
he took first two years course at
Union Theological Seminary and then
a full three years medical course at
Columbia University and Chicago Uni
versity, receiving the degree of M. ID.
He received the honorary degree of
ID. d. from Whitman college, Washing
ton, in 1898.
Doctor Scudder filed pulpits at
Brooklyn, New York and WOburn, Mas
sachusetts, during short periods after
his return from Japan before entering
the service of the Hawaiian Board.
While in Honolulu he has been presi-
dent of the Mid Pacific Institute and
editor-in chief of The Friend. He has
acceptibIy performed much civic wei
fare service for Hawaii, having repre-
scented this Territory at the Mohonk
Conference on several occasions, and
has been delegate to many mainland
assemblies and conventions.
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