The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-02-14
Rev. R. B. Dodge To
Leave Islands Soon
Continued from Page One.)

%signation to the Waikiki Union
Church that the decision to leave the
work and people on Maui has cost a
great struggle, and that it is with a
feeling that all is left behind that he
leaves this Island. He has nothing in
view at the present time, but felt that
it would not be fair to the people Of
the church or the Maui Aid Associa-
ton, if he went to the Coast to look
up a position, for then there would
be little time in which to secure his
successor. By taking the step he has
and giving six months notice, the or
CARNATIONS for which he has worked
will have plenty of time in which to
secure some n to take his place.
Recommends Division OF Work
Mr.. Dodge stated in his resignation
of Sunday that the work of the Union
Church and Maui Aid Association and
the Hawaiian Board has grown so
rapidly during the last few years that
he felt without any question two men
should take his place. He advises
the Church at once to proceed with
this thought in mind and after care
full consultation see if a man cannot
be secured who will devote his entire
attention to the Wailuku Union
Church, and the English work of the
three Hawaiian Board churches Of
Wailuku. These churches would &C.
cupy him to a certain extent on Sun
day mornings after the Union Church
Sunday School is over. He could al
SO do a little teaching during the
week. Otherwise under the arrange
ment suggested the new minister de-
vote his entire time to the church and
parish of the Waikiki Union organic
alton. In this case another minister
will have to be secured for the work
of the Hawaiian Board and the Maui
Aid Association. This is now so
large that it can well engage the en-
tire time of an energetic minister.
AT the close of the service on Sun
day Mr.. Palmer took pains to inform
the congregation of the Union Church
that the step Mr.. Dodge has taken
came as a complete surprise to him.
Because he knew how difficult it was
for Mr.. Dodge to do this, as he him
self had just been through a similar
experience when he left Oakland for
Honolulu, he was willing to come to
come to Maui and read the resigna-
ton.
Mr.. Palmer stated that one of the
great joys he had experienced which
Overcame a certain extent the great
sorrow of leaving his church in Oak
land was the fact that he had receiv-
ed such wonderfully encouraging re-
ports of the growth and activities of
his former Church. ""This, l antici-
pate, said Mr.. Palmer, will be one
of the joys of Mr.. Dodge after he has
become settled elsewhere"
Mr.. Dodge's Work On Maui
Mr.. Dodge came to Maui from Wor-
%cester, Mass, on August 25, 1905, or
over ID years ago., for the purpose of
taking up the work in which he has
been engaged ever since. He was
married a year later in Honolulu to
Miss Alice Sinclair, who came out
from Massachusetts for the purpose
AS pastor of the Wailuku Union
church, agent of the Hawaiian Board,
md secretary-treasurer of the Maui
Aid Association, Mr.. Dodge has been
occupied to his full capacity almost
from the day of his arrival. He has
been an indefatigible worker and has
done much to build up the work Of
the church organizations on Maui.
Under his direction the Maui Aid was
incorporated in 1909, and two years
later he had the satisfaction of see
ing the present beautiful little church
in Wailuku started.
The following from the last annual
report of the Maui Aid Association
indicates in some measure what has
been accomplished, in no small mea-
sure, through Mr.. Dodge's enthusiast
tic and p~ersevering efforts:
For the year ending September,
1916, the total gifts were less than
100000 The next year the in
come was $40, 000, 900, the year after
S12,109. The largest income in the
thirteen years since the r~eorganiza-
ton of the Maui Aid Association was
that of 1916, when the gifts Of both
the regular income and extra amount
ed to S33,400.00. The average for
thirteen years is $19, $4,000.
During this same period the trea-
surer has either personally supervis-
ed or assisted in the erection of 10
new church buildings and in the re-
modelling or repairing of As parson-
ages and other buildings connected
with religious and philanthropic work.
They Will Be Missed
During the years they have lived on
Maui both Mr.. and Mrs. Dodge have
made for themselves such a close
place in the life of central Maui that
their going will be severely felt
among a very wide circle of friends,
including very many not directly con-
nected with the church work. And
all of these will wish for them the
fullest measure of realization Of their
aspirations for the future.