Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-02
BISHOP \. B. RESTARICK DELIVERS
ANNUAL ADDRESS TO CONVOCA7|OA

| Japan or China for further education
AS for getting cateChists from the
Orient-it is practically impossible.
| The bishops in the Orient are anxious
TO help me but they find it impossible
! TO get men 70 come and those who
would be willing to come are thOs'
who are unable 20 speak any English
and would be practically useless il
these islands. 1t has not been en-
easy task for your bishop to do the
Chinese, Japanese and Korean WORK
in Hawaii, out in all of it he has had
! in mind the Christianizing. training
developing and fostering the work
among American born OrientalS. Our
Chinese work is in good condition.
Our Japanese work considering all
things has made progress, especially
among American born japanese girls.
Some eight or ten Of these who are
soon TO be teachers have been bap
tized IN the past year and contrary
to my own ideas. have been astoun-
ed at the way in which these young
women have grasped American ideas
and have repudl1ted Japanese ideals,
that Is, the japanese ideals that were
un-AmeTiCan as far as marriage was
concerned. Again and again an Ameri-
| can-born young Japanese women
has told me that she will not be d
party to an arranged marriage, that
when she marries she is going to eX-
ercise her choice. 1t is 50 with our
Christian Chinese girls.
Growth 10 Large
There has been an increase Of S
per cent in our communicate list and
when we compare it with the average
in the United States of per cent the
showing is not unfavcrable and let
me state that in 1902 the number Of
communicates reported was 572 the
number reported this year is Psi,
this means near 200 per cent. Then
in 1902 the Rev. Ault reported 21 COM
municants at Waikiki, this year III
are reported. Then the contributions
were $6,5S5.O0, last year the contribu-
lions Of the cathedral itself were over
SIC, 100000
Il have been informed by the Off
GERS OF the Board of Missions that no
missionary district has ever in the
same time made a growth equal to
this. / am not assuming to myself in
the least the credit for it but when
people think that they could manage
to have a better and greater work it
is well to bear this in mind and to
think Of this, for example, that in
Nevada where hundreds Of thousands
have been poured for missionary work
there are today but 1915 communi-
cants, Is clergy and $16.500.00. That
in the state Of Utah in which a ire
mendous amount of money has been
spent there are 1145 communicates
and the contributions were but $751;
671.00.
For some years. there has been a
weight on my mind as to the future
Of the institutions of the church iE
Honolulu. 1t may be quite egotistic
for me to say and yet l believe that
up to the present time it has beeu
better all things considered for the
bishop to be the unhindered manager
Of the institutions but I do not know
that another bishop would wish to do
the work which a control of these
things entails.
I'VE are working hSre under pecu-
liar conditions as we all know. | sup
pose no bishop has ever had more
faithful, loyal and hearty cooperation
than the bishop of Honolulu has en-
joyed from his clergy and laity and
his helpers. When you consider that
we have q large number of men and
women employed by the church in
A4k - l. = IL
what little friction, exists and how
anxious all are to carry on the work
to its best advantage.
1T certainly ought to be known and
felt that 1t Is not enemies outside
the church which do it real hurt but
those inside, especially workers who
are cantankerous or jealous or sus-
picious or who speak evil.
Il cannot thank the clergy and laity
sufficiently for their kindly considera
ton Of mysel; and pray Almighty
God that he may bless and protect
them and keep them from all evil and
direct Them into all good.
"One could hardly deliver convo
cational address at this time without
u IAO W oIs HIS ICdu
church is and always has been loyal
to the core. AS long as there was an
doubt about what the nation would
do we considered it our duty to sup
press our private feelings but the die
is cast; this great democracy is at war
for all that concerns the interests OF
humanity. If the principles Of Prus-
sianism were to prevail civilization
and Christianity would perish from the
earth. l believe now as | believed at
the first when the war is over a better |
day will dawn for humanity, that
there will be a federation of the ma
lions for the maintenance OF peace |
and an insistance that small nations
have justice and good government II |
is unnecessary for me to state more
except to say that any sacrifice we
may have to make of wealth or life |
should be made willingly for God and |
humanity.
May God Help US in our work here
and guide us and guard US and direct
us and may His blessings rest upon
the children, upon the toilers, upon
those Of middle age and upon those