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Kaneohe Station Reports
Unsign e d . . . . . . .
.................. . . . . . 1835
Benj. W. P a r k e r ....................... .............. 18 3 6
B.W. P a r k e r ......................................... 1838
U nsign e d ..................... ............... ......... 1839
Unsi g n e d (B.W. Parker) . . . .
......... ............ 1840
U nsi g n e d (B.W. Parker) .................. . . . . . 1841
Unsign e d (B.W. Parker)
1843
Statistics of chh Kaneohe
. . . . . . . . . . . . 1843
Unsign e d (B.W. Parker) .............................. 1844
Statistics of chh at K a n e o h e ........... ............ 1844
* Unsign e d (B.W. Parker) ......... . . . . . . . . . 1846
U nsi g n e d (B.W. Parker) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1848
Unsign e d (B.W. Parker) . . . .
......... . . . . . 1849
B.W. Parker
. . . . . . .
...........
. . . . . . 1851
Statistics of the chh at K a n e o h e ......... ......... 1851
Unsign e d (Abstract ) . ................ . . . . . . 1852
Unsign e d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1852
Unsign e d (B.W. Parker) . . . ......... . . . . . . 1853
B.W. Parker ........................... .. ............. 1854
Unsigned (Kaneohe-Abstract of Report for Minutes)
Unsigned (B.W, Parker) (Statistics of Kaneohe Church)
Unsign e d (B.W. Parker) . . ...........
. . . . . . 1855
B.W. Parker
. . . . . . .
.............. . . . . . 1856
Statistics of the church at K a n e o h e .............. 1856
U n s i g n e d (B.W. Parker) ..................... ......... 1857
U n s igned (B.W. Parker) ........................................1858
Statistics of Ch. at Kaneohe . . . . . .
......... .1858
Unsign e d (B.W. Parker) . . . . .
......... . . . . 1859?
Statistics of Church at Kaneohe
................... .1859?
Unsign e d (B.W. Parker) . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . 1860
C h u r c h Statistics of Kaneohe Station . . . . . . . . 1861
Unsign e d (B.W. Parker) . . . . . . . .
........... .1862
�(Kaneohe
1835)
The station at K - has been occupied about months (!).
was in some respects an unpromising station.
It
A majority of the
population had no desire for a missionary & the chiefs, who own
that part of the island are not among those who desire their people
to he instructed.
At the commencement of this station there was no house of wor
ship in that part of this island.
Our services on the sabbath
were for the first 3 months attended under a ranai.
The frame of
a meeting house had been standing for more than two years.
Soon
after this station was taken the meeting house was finished - 72
feet by 30.
It was dedicated on the 31st of Nov ( !) & religious
exercises conducted on Saturday sabbath & Monday by brethrens
Bingham & emerson ( !).
Religious services -
On sabbath morning a prayer meeting has
been kept up since the dedication of the meeting house, a childrens
sabbath school has been attended immediately after the morning ser
vice the usual attendance has been over 70 children -
The ai o ka
la has been attended by about 150 not including any of those in
childrens school.
Occasionally meetings have been held at places 6 or 8 miles
from the station.
Schools.
There is no school house in the whole district of
Pali Koolau & no school taught by native teachers.
Three or four
have been employed as helpers in the childrens school.
But their
help can scarcely be said to be of any service.
Since the meeting house has been finished the stations schools
have been kept in it.
These have been
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A school for male adults
30
2
For adult females
30
3
For children
70
Thes(e) have been continued for about 6 months four days in a
w e e k & about 2 hours in each school day.
ably called for -
Books have bee n consider
Many more of some kinds might have been disposed
of than I have been able to get.
Toward the close of the year they
have been much oftener called for than in the early part of the
year.
No church has been formed.
There are only three members
of a
church in Koolau 2 females members of the Honolulu church & one
male,
a member of the church at Lahaina.
There have been 87 marriages most of them within the last 2
months.
The use of the native rum has made the condition of great part
of the population exceedingly wretched.
Five or six distilleries
have b e e n employed almost the whole year to distill the tea ( !)
root -
About three weeks since they were all stoped ( !) by an order
(of) the cheef ( !).
Previous to this order some of the natives
were breaking off f r o m drinking & attended schools & meetings.
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�(1836)
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(Kaneohe)
On my return to the station at Kaneohe after the close of the
last general meeting there were some things among the people more
encourageing ( !) than the previous year.
in the congregation on the sabbath the house was filled.
There was a large increase
For a succession of sabbaths
Bothe ( !) the childrens & the adults Sabbath
school was increased more than one half in number beyond what it
h a d been the previous year.
The congregation has been uniformaly
( !)
as it w a s for the first five or six sabbaths at the commencement
of the year it has however invariably been one third larger than it
was the year previous to the last gen. meeting.
Immediately after my return a childrens school was commenced
and has been continued four days in a week three hours i n a day d u r
ing the year excepting two vacations of three weeks each.
The
aspect of this school has been more encourageing than it w a s the
preceeding ( !) year.
A much larger number have attended & have
been m u c h more regular in their attendance -
Previous to the last
gen. meeting not more than 50 had attended and the average at t e n
dance h a d not b e e n more than 30.
The present year more than 100
have been in the childrens school & the average attendance has been
about 80.
About twenty five of these can read.
I have instructed
a class of 12 lads connected with this school who beside reading
the ikemua & huakeholoholona have attended to mental arithmetic &
geography.
At the examination of all the schools in A pril 365
children were present.
Only a ver y small number of the children
not connected with the station school can read probably not more than
4 or 5.
Fro m one examination to another no progress is made among
the children who are exclusive under the charge of n a tive teachers.
It is painful to see mont(h) after month & year after year pass
�Kaneohe 1836
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away and no advancement made in teaching this important part of a
missionaries charge.
Such have been the demands of the chiefs on the people during
the year past as to give very little opportunity for teaching adults.
About thirty females have been connected have been taught in the
childrens school a part of the year & about the same number of adults
have been in school three days in a week for about three months.
At the last general meeting I stated that there was no school
house in that part of the island which comes under my particular
care
.
During the year two very good native houses have been
built & three or four are now building beside a station school house
at Kaneohe.
The demand for books has been much greater than the
last year.
There has been in some respects an encourageing reformation
among the natives on that part of Oahu the last year.
in ardent spirits is now very little known.
Intemperance
The rum distileries
( !)
which for most of the year previous had been in active opperation ( !)
have all been stoped ( !) with the exception of one.
Many who had
formerly been teachers but whom I never saw during the first year
of my residence at the station have the past year returned to meet
ings & schools.
Prom some lands numbers now constantly find their
way to the house of God on the sabbath when a year since not half
u
a doz. would attend a meeting appointed in their own neighborhood.
This change has been in part & perhaps cheifly ( !) occasioned by
a change in the owners of the lands.
Religious instruction preaching &c have been as usual during
the year,
I have already stated that the sabbath congregation has
been one third larger than it was the year preceeding ( !) the last
�Kaneohe 1836
general meeting.
3.
Prom 100 to 130 children have been in constant
attendance in the childrens sabbath school - The year previous from
50
30 to --- ----. The sabbath school for adults in which the ai o ka
la has been the lesson has numbered from 250 to 300 the year previous
from 100 to 150.
In the month of Oct. a protracted meeting was held commencing
tuesday & closing monday -
The meeting was attended by the brethren
from all the stations on the island some being present the (whole)
& others only a part of the meeting from the commencement to the close.
The meeting was well attended
Of the result of the meeting
I cannot say any thing more than that a general permanent interest
seems to have been excited by it.
Prom that time to the present a
more serious attention has been given to preaching than before.
Many among the natives refer to this meeting as the time when they
gave their hearts to the Lord but they do not give that evidence of
conviction of sin & conversion which we wish to see.
About 150
from this station attended the protracted meeting at Honolulu &
more than 300 at Waialua.
these meetings.
Some were seriously impressed at both
But I cannot speak with any degree of confidence
of the conversion of this & that individual.
ceived much religious instruction is certain.
That they have re
It is also certain
that an open ear an attention to preaching and a mellowness of feel
ing (inserted between lines & not too clearly legible:) wh at is
desirable to see in a cong. has been the result.
Of a very few I have hope that they are christians.
has yet been organized at the station.
N o church
The way however seems to be
open & I hope to have one formed without much delay.
A register of births & deaths has been kept commencing January
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and is as follows
Births
Jan
Feb.
March
April
May
Total
2
2
3
4
3
14
Deaths
7
8
3
6
14
38
The above is a register of births & death(s) on on ( !) a land
of about eleven hundred people.
A census of the whole population has also been taken the last
year and is
Census 4636, 351 less than in 1831 four years since.
Respectfully submited ( !)
Benj W Parker
Kaneohe
June 1st 1836
�Kaneohe May 19, 1838
Report
The ordinary labours of the station have been continued dur
ing the year without interruption.
My labours on the sabbath have
been three public services a bible class and a sabbath school.
Wednesday afternoon a lecture and every thursday afternoon a meeting
at two out stations alternating on one thursday at one place and on
the next at the other.
Buildings.
A stone house has been built at the station the
past year at an expense of about $1500.
Schools -
I have spent a portion of every week in schools
till within the last six weeks other duties have made it necessary
for me to leave this part of missionary work entirely with native
teachers.
Soon after the close of the last general meeting Mr. Baily ( !)
went to the station & spent from two to three months with us and
assisted us in schools.
Soon after he left Miss M Smith came to
the station and after a few weeks engaged in the childrens school.
Since her return the school has been left entirely in the care of
native teachers.
Five native houses suitable for schools & meetings have been
built the year past 500 people.
They are large enough to hold from 400 to
Only two lands in the whole district now remain desti
tute of a house for schools and meetings -
More than 100 dollars
have been contributed in money for a bell.
School teachers may I
think be supported in future by contributions from the people.
Extraordinary Labours;
the year past.
I have held two protracted meetings
One at the station assisted by brethren Bingham &
Smith the other was held 6 miles from the station without any help
�2.
except such as I had from three (?) church members.
resulted from these meetings.
Great good has
For four months past there has been
more interest on the subject of religion than I have ever seen
them before.
And there appears to be as much at the present time
as I have seen during the last four months -
Every head man in
this district now professes to be on the Lords side.
Till within
the last two months not one of this class in the whole district
have ever manifested any interest in the gospel -
Not long since
in returning from Honolulu I found the head man of land lying drunk
in the road and a company of his men by the side of him in a like
condition.
Lord -
He now gives evidence of having given his heart to the
Another who has spent his sabbaths at the rum distillery
instead of the house of God tho much nearer to the latter gives
evidence of saving change.
Another who has lived within a mile of
the meeting house but never entered it till the sabbath previous to
the last protracted meeting was converted at the protracted meeting
& promises to be a shining Christian -
He first discovered his
feelings in a sermon during the protracted meeting - In which he
interrupted the speaker & occupied about five minutes in expressing
his own feelings.
He was evidently prompted to speak from the
fulness of his heart.
His language plainly showed that the Holy
Spirit had broken his heart.
A large number who have been employed at the rum distillery
have left it within the last two months & some give evidence of
penitence - though about thirty still remain at the distillery
carrying on the work & they say they shall not stop till they have
directions from the king to do so.
love to the Saviour.
Some children give evidence of
�Kaneohe 1838
Statistics
3*
Admitted to Chh the past year 43.
Baptisms of children 11.
Marriages 60.
Propounded 6 6 .
Whole number of chh me m
bers 54 (59 ?).
Kaneohe May 19 - 1838
B.W. Parker
Miss Smith has been removed from Kaneohe by a vote of the
meeting of this island.
If this movement is confirmed by the
delagate ( !) meeting I desire that they will station some one here
who will supply her place.
Miss Smith has spent about six months
of the past year with us and assisted in the schools.
We need the assistance of some one to share with us the labours
of the station.
I do not know that Miss Smith wish(es) her loca
tion changed unless some one can be found to be put here in her
place.
She is at Lahaina & can be consulted as to her wishes.
Benj W Parker
Kaneohe May 22
1838
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�Station Report
(1839)
Nothing has occured ( !) the past year to interrupt the usual
labours of the station.
We have been absent from the station t h r e e
weeks in which time in company with bro Smith & family we went to
Kauai made the tour of that island.
Encouragement to labour in
preaching teaching & the various missionary duties has been greater
perhaps than in any previous year sin c e the Station was taken.
Schools
The only schools taught in the district the past year
have been those for children.
Of these there are twelve in the
different parts of the district containing in all about 400 children.
The teachers of these schools are freed from all taxes except the
annual money tax of one dol l ar
for their labour.
They all receive some compensation
About 100 dollars have been contributed during
the year to pay the teachers of the childrens schools.
Of this 20 dollars was money & the remainder in such articles
as have been disposed of for clothing.
At the monthly concert in
April pr e v i o u s notice have been given that the contribution for that
day would be for the teachers more than 60 dollars were contributed.
19 in money and remainder in fouls turkies pigs goats &c which have
been sold at Honolulu.
There have been three exhibitions of the
schools the past year the last at the station when all the schools
were present whole number of children present 304 less by 100 than
would have been but for the mumps & other sickness which have been
prevalent for the last two or three months.
read tolerably well
150 of these can
Many of them have attended to mental arithmetic
& some have been through 10 chapters in Colburns some have attended
to written arithmetic some to geography and a small class to the
Little Philosopher.
A school house has been built at the station and furnished with
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seats and writing benches which will seat about 100 schollars ( !)
the work has been done by the voluntary contribution of the people
the expense of lumber for finishing and the carpenters work has been
mostly borne (by) the contributions from the people.
Sabbath preaching &c
The exercises of the sabbath have been a morning
meeting at sunrise childrens sabbath school at 9 forenoon public
meeting 1/2 past 10 Ai o ka la at 3 afternoon public meeting again
6
at 4 Number of children in the sabbath school has been about 156 the
adults sabbath school from 300 to 400.
Have had two protracted meetings the year past one was held at
Waimanalo Oct. 10 miles from the station & continued six days was
well attended and has apparently been the means of good.
Since the
meeting, many have been constant attendants at the station on the
sabbath who were never in the habit of attending before.
A number
profess to have given their hearts to the Lord at this meeting, tho
none have as yet been received to the church.
The other meeting was held at the station in the month of Febaruary ( !), brethren Emerson and Smith were present & assisted in the
meeting.
It continued one week was well attended and I hope has been
blessed to the salvation of some souls.
Considerable interest was
manifest in the childrens meeting and a number appear well thus far.
Church
the past year.
Eighty five have been admitted to the church during
Some of these date their conversion to a protracted
meeting a year since others at different times longer since.
viously admitted 54.
5
In all 139 church members.
Separated from the chh 9 -
Pre
Died the last year
Present number 130
Children baptised 26
Number now propounded to the chh 48
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3.
have preached during the year in differrent ( !) parts of the
district on week days have spent much time in personal conversation
with candidates for the church and those who profess to be serious.
Have paid some attention to singing with a few twice a week during
the year.
Prom three to four months spent three hours a day in the
childrens schools but other missionary labours would not admit my
continuing this.
There has been some improvement in the habits of living among
the people - Nearly forty new houses have been built within half a
mile of the meeting house the year past
Most of them by those of
the out portions of the district.
Contributions at month(ly) concerts 180.
Every monthly concert
day has been spent in labor by a portion of the people the avails
of this day given to some charitable object.
Church members
Admitted the past year
Excommunicated past year 4
Died the Past year
Propounded past year
Whole number
Schools
Number of children
Paid to teachers
Monthly concert contribution
Children Baptised
Marriages
Births
Deaths
Childrens sabbath school
Adults verse a day
130
85
5
48
139
12
400
100
200
26
150
350
�(Kaneohe
1840 )
During the last year the labours of the station have been
considerably interrupted by sickness.
We have been obliged to be
absent from the station about three months of past the year ( !).
During the first half of the year the usual labours of the station
were attended to without interruption.
Congregations as large and
schools as well attended and flourishing as at any former time.
Schools.
Of childrens schools there are ten in the district.
Owing to causes which I could not controul I have visited them but
twice the year past and the last time found said evidence that both
schools and the people generally were in a low state more so than I
had found them a t any time for two years previous to this.
decreased both in number and interest.
They had
One reason probably is the
want of suitable teachers and another that they have not suitable
pay.
The only graduate from the high school in the district had
been appointed to an office in government and since that there has
not been much teaching at the station.
Sabbath schools have been larger the first six months of the
year than the year preceeding ( !)
morning, adults after-noon.
The childrens is attended in the
The hymn book huliana and Hawina Kama-
lii and the books used in the childrens the ai o ka la in the adults.
There has been an addition to the church of about 50 members
the past year
there have been no sad defections during the year tho
not so much of the spirit of the gospel as there ought to be -
We
have had but one case of discipline during the year a member was ex
communicated
a few have been received by letter and a few dismissed
to other churches
none now propounded -
A church meeting has been
attended every Saturday afternoon which all the members all the m e m
bers ( !) invariably attend unless prevented by sickness or some other
�Kaneohe 1840
urgent cause.
Contributions by the church & people the last year 110 dollars.
In addition to this a bell has been bought at 120 dollars paid for
by the people.
Every monthly concert day is devoted by the church
& some of the people to labour for some benevolent object.
Idolatry in another form has made its appearance during the year.
A native professing himself to be the Messiah has driven (?) numbers
after him by his declaring himself able to heal all sickness and
diseases of those who would apply to him -
Both he & his followers
have been fine & put to work on the road but still continue the
practice - M
The king has leased a large tract of land at Kaneohe to a few
natives - and though there was injustice done to the original land
holders yet I have strong hope that it will eventually be a great
advantage to
place (?)
-
They have already several acres of
cane planted have sent to the States for an iron sugar mill -
They
work with their own hands and employ natives at a meal a day cash - ?
They also lease land in small quantities to natives they -
They have
applied to the king for permission to establish a road across the
pali at their own expense passible for horses & mules and establish a
toll to mee(t) (?) the expenses of the road -
The work already commenced
(Unsigned, Benj. W. Parker)
�Report of Kaneohe Station (1841)
The past year has been with us one of interruption in our mi s
sionary labours on account of ill health.
Prom the 1st of April to
November (seven months) we were obliged to be absent from the station.
Pour months of this time was occupied in a voyage to the coast of
Calafornia ( !).
At our return to the station in Nov we found the people con
siderably scatered ( !), sabbath congregations diminished sabbath
schools very small the district schools all stoped ( !) and a few
cases of defection in the church.
The catholics seemed to have been
untiring in their efforts to bring the people under their influence.
They had appointed teachers buildt ( !) houses baptized such as were
willing.
One of the priests if not constantly residing there was
always there on the sabbath usually spent two or three days of every
week in some part of the district.
At my return to the station my health was not confirmed and I
could do little more than attend two services on the sabbath.
For
the last three months however I have been most of the time nearly
well and have been able to preach on the sabbath, attend sabbath
schools
preach during the (week ?) in different parts of the field
and pay some little attention to childrens schools.
As might be
expected there has been much less interest the past year than for the
two or three preceeding ( !) years.
(Note in margin of first page:)
Meetings were kept up by Kuke
during my absence and some interest sustained among the people.
Church - The decline of interest in the church as well as out
of it has been very apparent - None have been admitted by profession
during the year.
Three have been excommunicated and five suspended
from communion - four admitted by letter from other churches and two
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dismissed to another church in regular standing.
Schools -
Owing in part to the want of a suitable teacher there
has been no school for children at the station during the greater
part of the year and it has been the same throughout the district
there have been no children(s) schools till the last three months
when I tried to start them again and there are now in opperation ( !)
nine schools for children including about 300 children considerably
less than one half of the children in the district.
one examination during the year present 250,
There has been
For the last three
months I have had a school every week with the teachers and the
prospect is that childrens schools will be prosperous again if some
little attention can be paid to the superintendance of them by the
missionary and some pay furnished for teachers -
Nothing has been
received by teachers from the provision made by the new law owing
partly to the peculiar circumstances of the people & their readiness
to make any thing an occasion for going to the Catholics.
Probably
one third or more of the people would utterly refuse to comply with
the law and the collector could not collect fines of those who might
absent themselves from pahao d a y s . (collection days ?)
Catholicism
One of the priests reside(s) in this part of the
island most of the time.
Their station is near us and they are inde-
fatigable in their labours through the district visiting from vilage
( !) to village and house to house.
The number baptized I am not able
to state though I think more than one third of the people have gone
to the catholics -
They have built houses of worship on nearly
every land in the district
their largest house where they make their
central point for that part of the island is near us.
They have
appointed native teachers for childrens schools though their schools
are nothing more than a repeating after the teachers of some french
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or latin mumery ( !) - The causes that have influenced them are
promised presents of cloth or some property of the like kind.
that they restoration
Another
(!) to health, another the prospect of immedi
ate admission to church membership - another to evade certain laws
of the king and chiefs to which they do not wish to be subject.
Statistics.
Population of the district according to the census taken
the last year - about 4000.
dance 300
Number of schools 9
Children in atten
Whole no. received to ch by prof. 198 - Do by letter 14
Last year none - by letter 4 - whole no died 11
missed to other churches 9
Last year 2.
Last year 3, suspended last year 5
Whole no children baptized 82 tized decd 12
Last year 4
Last year 4 -
Dis
Whole no excommunicated 7 -
Whole no in regular standing 195 -
Last year 5 -
Marriages 7
No of children bap
Most of the marriages have
been mostly performed out of the district.
Benevolent operations -
less has been done the last year than
in the years preceeding - thirty dollars have been contributed in
money, at the monthly concert and some thing more than that in dif
ferent articles.
A good native house has been built by the church for Kuke value
of work 40 dollars - our meeting house has been rebuilt and rethatched
by the ch members - but it is poor house and we are much in need of
e
a better - We b^gan to collect materials more than a year since b e
fore my sickness - but when I left the station the work stoped ( !)
and nothing done since.
Resolved that sum of money
(Unsigned)
(On b a c k :)
Kaneohe
M r . Parker
1841
�Kaneohe Station Report 1843
The past year has been w i t h us one of uninterrupted missionary
labour at our station.
Our health has been such that we could
prosecute our missionary work and we have had an abundance of it
on our hands and encouragement to do all our time and strength would
allow u s .
Schools -
There are in the district connected with the station
ten childrens schools taught by native teachers.
Two of these are
from the mission seminary and the others have been taught in a school
at the station.
The number of children in attendance at these schools
is about 500 -
Attending to branches usually taught in common schools.
We greatly feel the need of more well qualified teachers.
I have had
a school a part of the year two days in a week for teachers -
Our
Sabbath school for children has numbered on an average 100 during
the year. -
Three school houses have been built by government the
last year.
Church -
The church at this station now numbers a little more
than 200 members in regular standing.
W e have had no sad cases of de-
fection during the year and but few of discipline.
Three have been
suspended during the year from the privileges of the church.
We have
a church meeting every Saturday afternoon and a sabbath school at
the close of the sabbath morning service exclusively for the members
of the church, which they almost all invariably attend.
None have
been admitted to the church by profession during the year, but a few
stand propounded for admission.
Congregation
Our congregation on the sabbath for a part of the
year has not been as large as in former years owing chiefly to the
want of a convenient place of worship.
We have met in a school house
that will not hold more than 300 consequently many have been obliged
�Kaneohe - 1843
2.
to regain out of doors during the time of worship and some have staid
away.
Meeting_hou s e -
But we are now happily releived ( !) by the com
pletion of our new stone meeting house.
The house is
(space but no
figures given) in length and wide with 8 glass windows 6 koa doors the walls and ceiling are plastered.
The work on the house has been the voluntary effort of the church
and people, though few beside church members have afforded much help.
Contributions
Contributions to the meeting house have been
as follows
2d- church in Honolulu
Mr Whitney
Mr. Gulick
Individuals
82.25
48.57
20.
9.
The church at Kaneohe have contributed $40 in money during the
year beside articles of native produce to about the same amount.
Romanism -
The Papists have in this field a considerable number
of followers of a certain class.
They are almost invariably from the
most ignorant part of the people and from those who have come least
under our influence -
They have four school houses in different
parts of the district, but they have not had much accession to to ( !)
their numbers the last year.
I am not able to give full and correct statistics of the schools.
(Unsigned, B.W. Parker)
20
�Statistics of chh Kaneohe 1843
Whole number added to chh on examination
Do on certificate
239
25
Past year on examination
0
Do on certificate
8
Whole number past year
8
Whole number dismissed to other chhs
4
Dismissed past year
0
Whole number deceased
27
Deceased past year
10
Suspended past year
3
Remain Suspended
8
Excommunicated past year
0
Whole number excommunicated
8
Remain excommunicated
8
Whole number in regular standing
217
Whole no children baptized
109
Baptized past year
10
Whole no children deceased
15
Deceased past year
Marriages past year
1
47
�Kaneohe Station Report
May 1844
Through the kind, hand of our Heavenly Father the mission family
at this station have enjoyed uninterrupted health the past year and
we have been able to pursue our missionary labours as in former years.
No Sabbath has past ( !) without affording to the people of our charge
the means of religious instruction and we have not been left without
some evidence that our labours have been attended with good.
Perhaps
in no year since the station has been occupied has the attendance on
meetings been better than during a considerable part of the past year.
Our new meeting house had been finished just previous to the las t
general meeting a work wh. had required much labour on the part of
the people.
But we have been blest in the deed and are more than com
pensated for all the toil the house has cost us.
The house was
dedicated in Oct and a protracted meeting at the same time in which
brothers Bishop & Smith assisted.
From the time of the meeting and
for several months succeeding it there was an increase in our Sabbath
congregation and other meetings.
Some of the church appeared to be
truly awakened humbled convinced of their own sins.
Expressions like
these were somtimes ( !) heard from the mouths of professers "I fear
for my own soul"
" I am afraid of the judgement".
Such expressions
were from those who if any in the church are Christians probably these
are the ones.
15 or 16 children seemed a goodell (!) interested at
the time of the meeting and have continued to appear so to the present
time.
With these I have had a meeting every week up to the time of
leaving for general meeting.
Beside the meetings at the station, I have attended two pro
tracted meetings in another part of the district and spent nearly
a week in holding meetings in the Koolau district.
Beside meetings on the sabbath and others at the station there
�2.
Kaneohe - 1844
are neighbourhood meetings in different parts of the district every
week for preaching on catechetical instruction
these meetings are
attended by church members & others not usually exceeding 50 or 60
at a meeting.
They are useful as a means of more intimate acquaintance
with the state of the people and tend to keep up an interest on the
Sabbath congregation.
Church
20 have been received to the chh during the year by
profession and 13 by letter from other churches.
11 have been sus
pended and 5 excommunicated during the year 1 previously excom.
restored - 4 dismissed to other churches and 2 have died during the
year -
A chh prayer meeting is held every Saturday at which 50 or 60
of those living nearest the station attend and at a sabbath school
specially for chh members at at ( !) the close of the morning service
nearly nearly ( !) all the chh attend.
Contributions for benevolent objects have been taken in the
church and 42 dollars in money contributed and 20 dollars in other
articles which has been paid to meet the bills of the meeting house.
Schools
The no. of childrens schools in the district is 10
with 15 teachers and number at the present time 444 children.
The statistics for schools will give the no. of readers writers &c.
Most of the year the schools have been in a languishing condition
owing to a want of care on the part of the school inspector and
delinquency in paying the teachers their stipulated wages.
Since
the apointment ( !) of a new school inspector a better attendance has
been secured and schools now promise to do well but how long they
will continue to prosper it is impossible to say -
The Kahu kula
made the tour of the island in the month of April made some changes
in the management of the schools.
Dismissed some teachers and ap-
�Kaneohe - 1844
pointed others
3.
examined schools
met the parents and aparently ( !)
has exerted a good influence on parents teachers and children.
A sabbath school for children has numbered 100 and an adults
School 250 both of these I invariably attend the one before the other
at the close of the morning service.
I have had a singing school one after(noon) or evening in the
week and on Saturday a school for all the teachers in the district.
Catholicism -
I do not think that they have gained in numbers
during the past year.
have returned.
Some children have gone to them and others
Some who have gone appear to be disgusted with what
they see there and have refused to receive the right (rite) of baptism
by the priest though repeatedly solicited to do so by h i m -
They are
collecting materials for a stone church but it is doubtful whether
they proceed with the work.
Koolau loa
At the request of Mr. A B Smith I have had the past year the
charge of the church and people at Haulau (Hauula) and the district
of Koolau loa.
It is but little that I have been able to do for
that poor & destitute people
have spent five or six sabbaths there
the past year and nearly one week in holding meetings wi t h the people.
About 60 members of this church have fallen into open sin mostly
drinking during the early part of the year, and so far as I am able
to judge the church and people of this district appear to have been
in a declining state the past year - and though the attendance has
been good on the f e w sabbaths I have been there yet there is an in
difference and hardness among the people generally that I have not
noticed in any other place.
�Kaneohe - 1844
This field ought not to be overlooked should any new station
be taken the present year.
It i s in some respects an eligible place
for the location of a missionary.
There is a church a church ( !) of
about 200 members and a population of 2000 or more all very access
ible to a missionary located at Hauula.
A few would be glad to receive a missionary among them and have
expressed to me a hope that one would be located there.
As to building furnishing supplies to a family &c it is as
fabourably located as most of the out stations -
the sabbath con
gregations when I have been there the past year have been probably
(or )
700/800 - If connected with the station at Kaneohe it brings a pop
ulation of at least 6000 under the care of one missionary and 2 churches
and 20 schools which is a larger field than one can be expected to
cultivate.
What progress the papists have made here the past year I cannot
say - the(y) have at least four pretty large houses of worship in
the district/ some schools a priest there a goodelle (good deal ?)
of the time.
We hope at least the claims of this field for a teach
er will be looked at should any new station be taken the present
year.
(Unsigned; B.W. Parker)
�Kaneohe - 1844
5.
Statistics of chh at Kaneohe
Whole number received on examination
"
On certificate
259
38
Past year on examination
20
Past year on certificate
13
Whole no. past year
33
Whole no dismissed to other chhs
8
Dismissed past year
4
Whole no deceased
29
Deceased past year
2
Suspended past year
Remain suspended
1.
Ex c om. past year
11
19
5
Whole no excom
13
Remain excommunicated
12
Whole n o . in regular standing
230
Whole N o . of children baptized
117
Baptized past year
Whole no. of children deceased
Deceased past year
Marriages past year
8
16
1
61
�Kaneohe Station Report 1846
W i t h devout grattitude ( !) to the giver of all good we may
mention the uninterrupted health of the mission family at this sta
tion.
No sickness has entered our dwelling during the past two years.
No interruption of our missionary w o r k from disease or death.
W e have continued our missionary labours as in former years.
The gospel has been statedly preached on the Sabbath in the house of
God and from w e e k to week in the little villages in different parts
of the field and to some extent fro m house to house.
It has been
an object to labour for every class of people as we could get access
to t h e m for the increase of piety and knowled(g)e in the church
members & for the conversion of sinners.
Congregations.
O u r Sabbath congregations have not d i m inished in
numbers f r o m what they have b een in former years.
Occasionally there
has been a little falling of(f) in attendance owing to some local
cause.
Meetings in the w e e k held statedly in different villages
are attended by members of the church and a few others usually from
40 to 50 in a meeting.
during the year.
The same persons being almost constant attendants
But there has bee n no special religious interest
in the congregation during the last two years.
the
No evidence of the
( !) Spirits presence in the church or congregation.
Church
church.
The statistics will give the present number in the
Only two have been admitted by profession during the last
two years while a large number have been rem o v e d by death and ot h e r
wise.
Contributions are taken up monthly in the church and they have
expressed a willingness to contribute for the support of the gospel.
92.50 were contributed for that purpose during the year 1845 in
�Kaneohe 1846
in money.
2.
But the people are still poor and heavily taxed and unless
some change more favourable to their condition takes place it
is
doubtful whether m u c h reliance can b e placed on their supporting the
gospel among themselves.
For the present year 1846 the c h u r c h have
engaged to pay two dollars
each male member and one dollar each
female member one half in money and one half in native produce.
This
sum however is intended to be expended in flooring and seating the
meeting house so far as (it) will go toward that object.
Popery
I a m not aware that the number who have
papists has increased any during the last two years.
making untiring efforts to advance their cause.
are located permanently in this district.
joined the
Still they are
Two preists
( !)
They have o b t ained there
a site from the government for a high school and are m a king prepara
tions to put up permanent buildings.
Their lumber is on the ground
and a teacher stationed there for the
school.
stone church the past year.
They have erected a
I seldom make an appointment for a m e e t
ing in any part of the district but that the priest is at the same
place the same day.
If a church member is know(n ) to (be) under any
any censure he is almost sure to be visited by the priest and solicited to join them.
Not much can be said, of the social and civil improvement of the
people.
A few seem desirous of improving their social condition
while the great part of the people seem satisfied to live in all the
degredation of their former heathenism.
They often see m on the very
verge of their former idolatry and ready to relapse into it.
The horse road over the pali at Nuuanu promises
advantage to the people on the no r t h side of Oahu.
to be a great
The transportation
of native produce on a seaco(a)st of more than 40 miles in extent
2 8
�Kaneohe 1846
3.
is over this r o a d .
And since it has been made passable for horses
and mules considerable of the transportation is made by these animals
and will be likely to increase.
The growing selling and drinking of awa has very much increased
the past year beyond what it has been in former years.
W ithin the
last 2 months however it appears to have been checked.
Old natives
games & songs such as hiaka puhene pone noa
have been frequent among some of the
people, but card playing is more common among almost all classes than
any other kind of games.
Statistics of Church at Kaneohe
Whole Ho. admitted to church on
examination
Admitted 2 past years on examination
261
2
Whole no deceased
54
Deceased past 2 years
25
Suspended past 2 years
Remain suspended
6
18
Excommunicated past 2 years
Whole no. excommunicated
7
20
Whole no in regular standing
212
Whole no of children baptized
136
Baptized past 2 years
19
Average congregation on the Sabbath
400
Marriages past 2 years
146
The above table of statistics shews some diminution in the number
of church members .
Several have been removed by death and other
causes while few have been received for the last three or four years.
Many church members from other places are living in this district
some permanently others on a visit of 2 & 3 years some with letters
�Kaneohe 1846
4.
from the pastor of the church to which they belong but most of them
without any letter.
They usually present themselves at communion
season, but are seldom seen at any other time either on the Sabbath
or the weekday meeting.
Statistics of Schools May 1846
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
of children in the whole field
of boys
of girls
of schools
of teachers
of readers
of writers
in geography
in mental arithmetic
in written arithmetic
753
432
321
28
28
281
173
163
218
181
The above statistics are from the examination in April last.
Only
a small part of the children in the district have regularly attended
school the past year.
Most of the parents have but little interest
in the attendance of their children at school.
The native super in
tendance as hitherto conducted appears to be entirely inadequate to
sustain an interest in schools.
The teachers generally appear to be
inefficient and uninterested in their employment.
Almost all the
school houses are entirely unfit for the purposes of teaching.
Very few native books have been dispo(s)ed of of late in this
district.
A little more than 100 of the Elele are taken.
A regester ( !) of births & Deaths at Kaneohe among a population
of 1000 inhabitants.
1840
"41
"42
"43
"44
"45
Deaths
"
"
"
"
"
59
45
30
60
55
65
The regester is for five years in succession.
"41
"42
"43
"44
"45
1840
"
n
"
"
"
Births
21
22
17
19
23
24
By comparing the census recently taken by the government col
lector with that taken in former years, it is evident that there is
some diminution of the people though it does not appear to be very
�5.
rapid.
The register shows an excess of the number of deaths during
the year 1845 over that of any previous year occasioned by the epidemic which prevailed throughout the islands in april of that year.
No census of the entire population of the districts connected
with this station has been taken of late.
The whole number is not
far from 6000 as appears from the books of the government collecttor
( !).
Statistics of the church at Hauula
Whole no admitted to chh on examination
Admitted last 2 years on examination
Whole no desceased ( !)
Desceased ( !) past 2 years
Suspended past 2 years
Remain suspended
Excommunicated past 2 years
Remain excommunicated
Whole no. in regular standing
Whole no of children baptised
Baptised 2 past years
Average congregation on Sabbath
286
00
__
__
4
24
6
13
269
10
500
The church at Hauula have built a good thatch meeting house the
last year.
They have also contributed $16.00 to pay for a small
communion set and meet the ordinary expenses of the church.
Number of Catholic schools in the district
No of Children enrolled
No in attendance
12
380
112
Koohulukea a graduate of the Sem at L. luna and member of Mr.
Dibble's theological class has lived a p rt of the year in this dis
trict conducted meetings on the Sabbath and afforded help in the
Miss'y work.
(Unsigned;
B.W. Parker)
�Statistics of the Church at Kaneohe, 1846-47
Whole number on e x a m i n a t i o n ---------- 275
"
"
on c e r t i f i c a t e --------43
Past year on examination — ---------- —
14
on certificate --------5
Whole number past y e a r -------------19
Whole number dismissed to other churches 20
past year -----"
"
deceased
------ --61
died last year --------7
Suspended last year ----------------1
Remain suspended
----- — ---------13
Excommunicated last year----------- 1
Whole number excommunicated-- -----24
Remain excommunicated---- ----20
Whole number in regular standing ---- 224
Whole number of children b a p . ------- 139
Baptized last year ----------- ---3
Marriages last y e a r --------------- 41
On back:
B. W. Parker
Sept 24, 1847
Addressed:
Mr. Levi Chamberlain
Honolulu
�Report of Kaneohe Station 1848
In presenting a report of this station and the missionary labours
for the last two years it is proper to acknowledge with gratitude to
our Heavenly. Father the enjoyment of almost uninterrupted health
in the Mission family here.
Our various missionary work among the
people has been continued very much as in years past and apparently
with as much success as at any former period.
The labours of a single sabbath and a single week may be taken as
a specimen of what our labours ordinarily are among the people.
the sabbath there Is a morning prayer meeting at sunrise.
On
A childrens
sabbath school at the ringing of the first bell a sermon at eleven
at the close of this service a sabbath school for adults whi c h consists
of church members and such others as wish to attend.
in the afternoon.
ing prayer meeting.
A sermon again
I always attend all these services except the morn
This is usually conducted by natives.
Our ordinary weekly meetings have been a church prayer meeting
every Saturday afternoon
for prayer.
a lecture on Wednesday, the monthly concept
A meeting one afternoon in a week, for those who profess
to be serious and wish to inqure and converse on the subject of re
ligion.
There (are) one or two meetings during the week at places a
little remote from the station.
A daily morning prayer meeting is kept
up at the station by the natives.
I have taught once a week for a considerable part of the time a
school for native teachers.
Also a singing school one day in a week
and, once In a week a school for lunas in the church.
This is about
the amount of my own teaching.
Church —
Of the state of the church for the past 2 years I have
nothing of very special interest to report.
The statistics will shew
�Kaneohe Station Report 1848
2.
some accessions and but few cases of defection.
The statistics for
45 and part of /47 were forwarded last year as requested and the
table n o w presented is for one year.
year by profession.
cated.
20 have been admitted the last
Only one has been suspended and no one excommuni
I cannot report a general revival of religion in the church
or among the people But for the last four months there has been an
unusual interest in attending meetings.
Our congregations has in
creased on the sabbath nearly one quarter from what it ha d been for
a year previous.
Frequent meetings have been held during the week
for preaching conference conversation and prayer and have b e e n well
attended both by church members and others.
Many out of the church
profess to be on the Lords side.
A new congregation has been assembled on the Sabbath in this
district in a part of it too far from the station for the people to
attend meeting there.
region.
There (are) 1000 or 1200 people living in the
I have occasionally spent a sabbath there and frequently held
meetings an a week day in that region.
There is a good attendance at
meeting and just at the present time an unusual interest among the
people.
I have lately spent three days there holding meetings
ing with the people.
convers
As many as two hundred express a desire to be
on the Lords side and unite themselves with the church.
been propounded for admission.
Eight have
The church members have collected the
timber and are ready to build a meeting house.
The native teacher and
preacher for this congregation is Koaehulikea a graduate of the Semi
nary at Lahainaluna.
The people there are to pay fifty dollars a
year towards his support.
This cong. has been for a part of the year
under the care of N aiapaahai but he has lately left.
Schools --
Native schools for children have been kept up and
�Kaneohe Station Report 1848
5.
in pretty successful operation for the last year and a half.
A debt
to the teachers of considerable amount had been contracted under the
old system but it was paid off soon after Mr. Richards entered the
Office (of) Instruction, and no debt has been contracted till within
the last few months.
The avails of the kings paahao days have been
enough to pay all the teachers till within a few months past when it
was found that the avails from this source decreased to one half of
what they had been and in consequence of this a debt was found to be
again accumulating but by a little attention on the part of the
Luna auhau the avails of the paahao are again increased and the debt
is nearly paid off.
The general state of the schools has been far
better during the past eighteen months than ever before since they have
been under the care of government.
culty with the Catholics.
There has been very little diffi
Teachers have be e n paid promptly and the
attendance of children has generally been pretty good.
Singing has
been introduced into some of the schools with a good degree of interest
and success.
It is a very desirable branch to be taught in the native
schools when suitable teachers can be obtained.
The schools have be e n examined as often as once in three months
and once in the year all the schools have been brought together for an
annual examination and at the close of the examination the parents and
children have united in a feast.
Much interest has b e e n manifested by
parents xxxxxxxxxxxx teachers and schollars in getting up these cele
brations and a large amount of money expended for dress and for such
articles as will enable them to have the feast in a style somewhat
approximating to c ivilization.
In this way many of the articles of
civilized life have been introduced into the district among the
people.
Some things among a few of the people indicate a little approach
�4
toward civilized life.
As many as 100 tables have be e n bought within
the last two years by the natives in this district.
chairs and other articles of household furniture.
More than 200
A few are getting
small herds of cattle and many now carry their produce to market on
donkies mules horses, and bullocks instead of their own shoulders as
formerly.
A great advantage will be derived to this district and to all
the north side of the island of Oahu from the road now making by govern
ment over the Pali.
Pro m the month of Oct last till the present time
about seventy natives have b e e n employed on this road.
W h e n completed,
it will very much facilitate the communication between this district
and Honolulu and make the transportation of produce and merchandise
easy.
This is the more to be v alued as the access to some parts of
this side of the island by sea is not very good.
The almost entire
travel of the natives on the north side of the island for a seacost ( !)
of 40 miles is over this Pali.
Catholicism
Two Roman catholic priests are located in this district.
One a teacher for their High School.
in the district.
They have built a frame house on the land granted
them by government for a school.
the Sabbath.
They have one stone meeting house
They have two places of worship on
One at their stone chapel the other at their school.
The(y) have several childrens schools in the district but they
appear to be much inferior to protestant schools in the qualifications
of teachers
books.
the progress of the schollars and in their supply of
I am not aware that the papists have made any special progress
for the last two years.
and some have left them.
A few natives have occasionally gone to them
Quite a number have recently left them in
�5
that part of the district when our new congregation are ( !) es
tablished.
The school commenced in april last w i t h 17 children.
are hoarded at the seminary.
The schollars
They are taught the French language.
They intend to take in 200 children, these are to be selected from
all the islands.
The present number 17 are from Koolau and Koolauloa.
Young boys are selected for schollars.
Contributions for benevolent objects
The church has done something the past two years in this department
of christian duty
in evry ( !) month.
350.50 Dlls.
A contribution has (been) taken on the first sabbath
They have contributed in money the last two years
The above sum has been chiefly expended in flooring and
seating the meeting house.
Besides this amount contributed in money
some work has been done to build houses for meetings (in) the out
it
districts the amount of/$50.00. Whole contributed past 2 years in
cash $400.00.
(The following is in pencil on a separate sheet, and presumably refers
to Koaehulikea, see page 2):
This man appears to be acceptable to the people and useful amon g
them. He has no license from an ecclesiastical body to preach and it
does not seem to me that it would increase his usefulness among the
people or make him any more acceptable to them to give h i m a license,
a t present. The congregation receive and hear him gladly no w and very
cheerfully contribute to his support. Still if other teachers simi
larly situated and of the like character and standing with this ma n
are licensed it may be best to license him.
"Lay hands suddenly on no man.
Let them first be proved.”
(Unsigned; B.W. Parker)
�Kaneohe Station Report 1849
On returning to our station at the close of last general meet
ing we found a more than usual interest among the people of the dis
trict on the subject of religion.
Our congregation on the sabbath
was considerably increased in numbers.
well attended.
Meetings on week days were
Sabbath schools bible classes meetings for conversa
tion and prayer were well filled by apparently interested listeners
and learners.
Many of the church members seemed to be revived anew
and some afforded much help by visiting from house to house and hold
ing meetings with a few individuals in places remote from the station.
This interest continued through the summer and till the month of
October when the prevailing sickness made its appearance and immed
iately prostrated almost the entire population of the district.
In common with other parts of the islands it has been a year of
sickness suffering and death among the natives of this district.
From
the month of October to January 1st the missionary work was done ex
cept to visit from house to house
hood
administer medicine
sick and suffering.
from neighbourhood to neighbour
furnish such comforts as we could to the
All our meetings and schools were suspended
except one and sometimes two services on the sabbath and these were
(by)
attended only/a very small number not usually more than 40 or 50.
For the last two months our congregation has been increasing
people recovering
the
but at all our meetings the number in attendance
is much less than it was previous to the sickness.
Benevolent Efforts
At the beginning of the year we hoped to do much in this depart
ment of missionary work and both the church and others seemed more
willing to take hold of this subject than they have ever been before
but the sickness has retarded this as well as almost every other part
3 8
�Kaneohe
1849
of our work.
2.
The whole amount of contribution for the year may be
estimated at four hundred dollars.
Of this sum 205 dollars are in
money and the remainder cheifly ( !) on meeting houses i n different
parts of the district.
They money has been expended in flooring and
seating the meeting house.
Improvement in Civilization
I cannot report much progress in civilization during the past
year.
I have some hope that the sickness and suffering of the last
year will effectually teach them some things about the necessity of
civilized conveniences and civilized habits which they have been
slow to learn heretofore.
ment in these things.
Some are disposed to seek after improve
A few are trying to get better houses and to
furnish them after the manner of civilized families.
Some are grad
ually increasing in their means of living better than they have done.
A few own small herds of cattle
most of the produce is carried to
market either by boats or by horses mules & c instead of the former
way on the neck of the natives.
But there are many difficulties in
(i n )
the way of any very rapid improvement/these things
Schools
The schools in this district have never been in so
flourishing a state as they were during the first part of the year.
Books have been more called for than in any previous year since the
station has been occupied.
bible
New Testament
extent.
Those most in demand have been the whole
hymnbook
and all the school books to some
Singing has been a popular and profitable department in some
of the common schools.
We have a large and good quire ( !) at the
station led by a native on the Sabbath.
It consists mostly of child
ren and young persons.
Manual labour was introduced into most of the childrens schools
at the beginning of the last year.
The plan promised well.
Profit
�3.
able employment w a s found both for boys and girls and the system of
labour continued till the suspension of the schools on accoun t of the
sickness.
During the prevailing epidemic all schools were suspended
and have only recently commenced again and w i t h less vigour than b e
fore the sickness.
The prevailing diseases of the past year have
been f a t a l among the native children.
Many under the age of two years
have died.
There has been on the part of many natives a disposition to
relapse into idolatry during the prevailing sickness.
It has been
practiced cheifly ( !) in connexion with native doctors.
The sickness
and death were asscribed ( !) to some of the ancient Hawaiian divini
ties and in many cases to the practice of sorcery.
Sacrifices were
required to effect a cure and drugs employed to expel the evil or
devil from the afflicted persons.
The power of native doctors over
many of the people is very great and their ability to kill or cure by
the practice of sorcery is much confided in.
Popery -
I am not aware that any progress has been made by the
Romanists the past year.
The priests were active during sickness
not to administer healing medicines or comforts for the body but to
prosalyte ( !) the sick & dying to their faith, and perform extreme
unction.
Then the priests told them if they died it would be well
w i t h them and if they recovered after having received extreme unction
there would be no loss.
intreties (!
.
)
But few however if any yielded to their
They have not probably gained any in numbers during
the year.
There are two congregations on the sabbath in the district beside
the one at the station.
One is under the care of a native licensed
to preach by the association at our last general meeting.
and people to whom he ministers support him.
The church
The attendance on the
4 0
�Kaneohe
1849
Sabbath is good.
4.
Another congregation at the other extremity of the
district is under the care of a native church member.
The number who
attend is not large.
Church Statistics
Received
On examination past year
Whole no. on examination
Dismissed past year
Whole no dismissed
Deceased past year
Whole no deceased
Excluded past year
Whole no remaining excluded
In regular standing
Children bapti(zed) last year
Whole no baptized
Marriages last year
Average congregation
Av erage no who attend
Meeting in the field
36
326
3
22
27
90
1
22
203
2
151
37
450
900
Population
According to the vote of the last general meeting the census
was taken in the month of January.
is 2813.
The whole population of the district
By a census of the same district taken in the year 1832
and published in the first geography printed by the mission the popu
lation of the district was at that time 4987.
If the census of each
year is correct the number of inhabitants is less in 1849 than it was
in 1832 by 2174.
The decrease has been more rapid for the last three
or four years than previous to that time and the decrease will u n
doubtedly be more rapid hereafter than it has yet been.
The late
sickness has prepared the way for such a decrease and other diseases
will cut them of(f) more rapidly than heretofore.
During the three
months of the present year already past the number of deaths has been
greater than in the same length of time in any previous year excepting the months of the late epidemics.
�Kaneohe
1849
5.
The whole number of deaths during 1848 was 368, the number of
births the same year, 5 1 .
A grant of $200. was made at the general meeting in 1848 for
building.
It has been expended as follows
for a native frame house
cook house
Other repairs
Whole amount
Remaining unexpended
75
60
25
160
200
$ 40
(Unsigned; B.W. Parker)
4 2
�Kaneohe Station Report
May 1851
Through the kindness of our Heavenly Father the mission family at this
station have enjoyed almost uninterrupted health since the last Gen
Meeting.
Our labors among the people of our charge have been attended to
as in previous years, and the Lord has remembered them in mercy.
wasting sickness has been sent among them.
Wo
No pestilence to prostrate
and cut them off in large numbers as in some previous years of our
missionary labor among them - various meetings for instruction, schools,
Sabbath Schools & Preaching have been attended to much as in former
years - and it is not necessary to mention them particularly -
I
cannot report a general and extensive revival of religion during any
part of the last two years, though we have not been without encourage
ment - and hope some have turned to the Lord,
There has been no de
fection in the church - though there has been less interest in reli
gion among a large part of the church members than in some former
years, and it has required more and constant effort on the part of the
Pastor to keep up an interest among them specially in weekly meet
ing than formerly -
Sabbath congregation\ have been well attended,
and good attention given to preaching.
There are in the field two out stations, occupied by two native
licensed preachers - one a graduate of Lahainaluna and licensed to
preach at our last gen Meeting.
of Lahaina and Molokai.
The other was licensed by the brethren
They are both useful laborers.
They re
ceive their support from the people among whom they labor.
In both
places the people wish these men to be ordained and desire me to
present their request to the brethren of the Mission.
They are will
ing to assume their entire support and give them considerally more
�Kaneohe
1851
2.
than they now receive in case they are ordained.
There are probably
as many as eight hundred or Nine Hundred Inhabitants in each of these
two places.
In one of the congregations there are One Hundred and
twenty five church members - in the other Fifty Six.
I visit them as
often as once in three months and sometimes oftener.
The whole amount of contributions among the people in the year
1850 was $681.00 -
this amount was contributed in money and has been
expended in shingling the meeting house, excepting what has been paid
to native preachers & $90 paid towards building a native church at
one of the out stations.
We shingled the roof of our station meeting
house last year at an expense of a little more than $1000.
Our house
is floored has permanent slips all done at the expense of the church
& people.
There is something due but it will be paid during the
present year if the Lord prospers us.
Schools -
Children's schools have been kept up usually well
attended for the past two years -
During the winter 1849 we lost
several new and good school houses in the district by the destructive
gales of that year.
They were rebuilt during the past summer but another severe gale
in the month of January last again prostrated several of our houses
among them our station school house and adobie building well lighted
and seated and with desks that had stood about fourteen years.
These disasters have retarded our schools and require much labor &
expense to replace them -
Our schools are not supplied with so good
teachers as they ought to have through they are not contented with
the same wages they have formerly had.
Romanism -
I am not aware that the Papists have increased any
in number for the last two years.
the district.
There are considerable numbers in
Their seminary is in this district said to contain
�Kaneohe 1851
3.
Thirty Boys taken from the different Islands.
There are two Foreign
teachers in the Seminary - They have a permanent building.
They have collected or (are) collecting materials for a perma
nent church at their station.
Improvements -
Some improvement is made in civilization - a
few build better houses and more permanent ones than they have for
merly had -
A few have bought lands with fee simple titles and a
considerable number have received their awards from the land C ommission.
Their means of acquiring wealth have greatly increased
but it is (a) matter of regret that they are prodigal of what they
acquire and are so little disposed to expend their means in what is
really serviceable to themselves and families.
There has not been time to see what beneficial effects the
granting them their lands in fee simple will have on them.
It is
to be hoped that the influence of it will be to make them more indus
trious and more disposed to improve their condition,
ers are settling in the district.
A few foreign
Some have obtained land.
Probab
ly as many as 8 or 10 thousand acres have been disposed of by sale
or lease to foreigners within the the ( !) last two years.
Res Submitted
B.W. Parker
�Statistics of the chh at Kaneohe
Received past year on examination
Hhole number received on examination
58
398
Whole number received from other churches
56
Whole number dismissed to other churches
26
Deceased the past year
9
Church members excluded deceased past year
(__)
Vi/hole number deceased in good standing
106
Excluded past year
4
Whole number remaining excluded
Now in regular standing
29
326
Children baptized past year
Whole number baptized
7
157
Marriages past year
59
Population in the field
(__ )
Proportion who attend public worship
(
(Part of 1851 Report)
)
�Kaneohe Station Report (1852)
We have pursued our Missionary work at this station the last
year without any special interruption.
In no year of our missionary
Residence there, has there been more interest among the people in
attending meetings both on the Sabbath and occasional meetings, than
the past year.
It has be e n so nearly the whole year.
In the month
of March however an influenza prevailed very generally among the
people.
Some died of the disease, and since that sickness our con
gregations on the Sabbath and other meetings have not been so well
attended as during the preceeding ( !) part of the year.
occasional protracted meetings
We have had
in different parts of the field, be
ginning soon after our return from the last General Meeting.
These
have sometimes been held by the request and always with the concur
rence of the people in the place where they have been held - and
have been invariably well attended -
They have usually been con
tinued not more than two days sometimes three or four.
W e have
three places of meeting on the Sabbath - or three permanent congrega
tions.
One at Waimanalo, the extreme part of the field joining Mr.
Clarke's ( !) field.
H ere is a land of about 700 people.
A church
of 134 members, connected with the congregation at this place.
The
church and people have supported their native preacher for the last
two years - have collected the materials for a stone meeting house.
But they sustained a great loss in the death of their native preacher
who died about two months since.
He was useful - much esteemed and
confided in by the people among whom he lived.
is a great loss -
The death of such men
We know of no one to take his pla c e . A nother
congregation on the Sabbath is in another extreme/ part of the field,
joining Mr. Emerson's district.
About 1000 people live in this part
�Kaneohe - 1852
2
of the district -
They have a native preacher who is acceptable to
the people and useful among them.
for the Micronesian Mission -
He is willing to be a Candidate
As a graduate of Lahainaluna - been
licenced to preach - has a family.
It must be for the brethren to
decide whether natives occupying such fields should be taken from
them.
I know of no suitable person to supply his place if he should
be removed.
I visit these two out stations as often as once in three
months, and oftener when my place on the Sabbath at Kaneohe can be
supplied.
There is a church at this station of 112 members.
They
have built the last year a framed meeting house at an expense of $350.
There is at the present time a g ood degree of interest among the
people in this part of the field.
I attended a meeting of two days
continuance the week before I came up to general meeting.
It was
on a land where I have never been able to have such a meeting before.
It was on the same land where the Roman Catholic Seminary is located
and within half a mile of it.
spots in the islands.
It is perhaps one of the darkest
There is now a meeting held every thursday
on the land and they are building a house for meetings.
At Kaneohe our meetings have
been better attended than
during a considerable part of the last year both on the Sabbath and
on week days.
For a few weeks previous to Gen. meeting however there
has been some falling off both on the sabbath and occasional meet
ings .
The church members have generally been interested in all our
meetings.
There have been very few cases of discipline in the church
for the last year.
Catholicism.
Quite a number of natives in this district have
left the Roman Catholics the last year, and I know of not more than
three or four individuals that have gone to them during the year.
�Kaneohe - 1852
3.
One of these was a suspended church member.
Mormonism.
This system of error has been introduced into
( !)
this district the last year.
Two mormans (foreigners) have been
living a considerable part of the year in this field.
Their first
public labour was baptizing more than 20 individuals on one land in
a part of the field remote from the station none of them church
members.
They deceived the people.
And in less than three months
all that joined them returned to our meetings with the exception of
two and they have now no followers in the field to my knowledge.
The two Mormans (foreigners) still live in the district one of
them constantly the other a part of the time.
They are now trying to
teach the English language to such children as will go to them, hoping
no doubt to secure an influence among the natives.
Schools.
Childrens schools have not been so well sustained the
past as some other years chiefly for the want of suitable teachers and
houses.
Statistics of church &c Kaneohe May 1852
Received on examination past year
Whole No.
Dismissed last year
Whole No Dismissed
Died past year
Whole No deceased
Admitted past year on Certificate
Whole No.
"
"
Suspended past year
Remain Suspended
Excommunicated past year
Whole no Excom.
Remain
"
Whole No in Regular standing
Children baptized past year
Whole No children baptized
Marriages past year
Average Congregation on the Sabbath
"
No who attend meeting in field
Benevolent efforts -
84
682
2
28
9
115
11
67
"
"
24
21
4 13
15
172
4 6
800
900
Our Statistics will show what has been done
by the church for the past year in this department.
Most of the church
�Kaneohe
1852
4.
members and a few others contribute cheerfully systemmatticaly ( !)
and liberally according to their ability.
The contributions have been given for the erection
completion
and repair of meeting houses for the support of native preachers and
the monthly concert contribution to the Micronesian Mission.
Contributions from Ch. at Kaneohe
Contributed at Monthly concert
"
for support of native preachers
"
for matereals
$100.
130.
( !) and work on meeting houses 527.60
W hole amount cont. for the year
$ 757.60
51
�Kaneohe - Abstract 1852
Kaneohe Station Report - Abstract.
We have pursued our labours in the Missionary work at this
station the last year without any special interruption.
In no year
of our residence there has there been more interest among the
people in attending Meetings than the past year.
We have had oc-
casional protracted meetings in different parts of the field.
We have three permanent congregations on the Sabbath.
One at
Waimanalo a land of about 700 inhabitants and a church of 134 members.
Another congregation is at Waikane among a population of 1000 people
and and ( !) a church of 112 members.
These two congregations have
been under the care of native preachers.
Catholicism.
Quite a
number of natives in this district have left the Roman Catholics
the last year.
Mormonism
This system of error has been introduced into this
district the last year.
They baptized twenty individuals, but within
two months they all left the Mormon teacher and came back —
Schools
Childrens schools have not been so well attended the past year as
in some previous years.
There (are) 10 childrens schools in the
district.
Contributions.
W hole amount
At Monthly concert
100
For support of two native
preachers
For Materials and work on
Meeting houses
Whole amt
130
527.60
$
757.60
$757.60.
�May 1853
Kaneohe Station R e p o r t .
My Missionary work has been the last year so much like that of
previous years already often reported that I need not again mention par
ticulars.
I have failed to preach about four sabbaths during the year
and this was occasioned by the fever which prevailed in the islands the
last summer.
I had a severe attack of it and all my family also had it.
With the exception of this sickness the voice of health has been heard
in our dwelling.
Among our people too sickness has been less and deaths
less frequent than in some former years.
One of our most influential members of society however was sudden
ly and unexpectedly taken from us after a short sickness.
He was the
judge of the district for several years an active member of the c h u r c h and a useful member of the community.
He did more for the support of
the gospel at home and for sending it abroad than an(y) other one in the
district.
There has been among the people generally in the district a
good degree of interest in religious meetings.
been usually well filled on the sabbath.
Our house of w orship has
And at occasional meetings
on week days the attendeance ( !) of church members and others has usually
been good.
We have three separate congregations on the sabbath, viz Kaneohe
Waikane under the care of a native preacher\ & at Waimanalo.
The
later ( !) has had no stated religious teacher for a little more than
a year, but is greatly in need of one and a suitable man would be well
supported among them.
At both these out stations when I visit them and
spend a sabbath the congregations are as large and perhaps larger than
that at the station.
Church.
The whole number of church members in the district and in
cluded in the three congregations at Kaneohe Waikane & Waimanalo is about
�Kaneohe 1853
2.
700.
There
There have been a few cases of discipline during the year.
appears to be no disposition on the part of church members and not much
among those out of the church to go either to popery or to Mormonism,
and although there has been and is still a considerable large number of
papists in the district, yet I am sure there is a gradual drawing of(f)
from them -
As to Mormonism the priest often residing a year or more
in the district and trying various ways to proselyte without any
success has left the place.
He did baptize a few in one part of the field but they all soon left
him and I knowof but one of his disciples no w left in the field and that a
foreigner.
The preist ( !) several times called on me always ready (to)
introduce his favourite subject often loud and boisterous in his language.
"I know that Mormonism is true.
I know that it is of God.
You had better
be careful how (you) prejudice these natives against Mormonism.
that you'll be damned.
infant Baptism.
I know
Shew me one passage in the bible that teaches
Shew me one passage that teaches the validity of Bap
tism administered by sprinkling within doors.”
I know not how soon they
may make further efforts or with what success.
Contributions for benevolent Objects.
A Mission Society Auxiliary to the Hawaiian Miss Soc has been
formed and $200 paid in as an annual
Contributed at Monthly concert
"
Meeting houses
subscription
200
$
169.35
600.
Support of Pastor
118.25
to the poor
1 5 __
Whole amount cont.
Add for native preachers
$ 1102.60
140_____
1242.60
5 3
�3.
So small a sum has been contributed the past year for the support
of pastor because of debts previously contracted for work on Meeting houses, the present year there will be a considerable larger sum contribu
ted for the support of pastor,
Number of childrens schools in the field 12 - No. of children in
sabbath schools 150
No. of adults in sabbath school, 300
No of those
who attend Meeting on the sabbath in the field 800.
A stone Meeting house has been begun at Waimanalo.
Some contri
(been)
butions have/made for small permanent houses of worship in different
parts of the field.
(Unsigned; B.W. Parker)
�(1854)
I have no report to make of my missionary work at this station
the past year.
I have been here less than three months during the year;
and, while here, able to do little more than preach on the Sabbath to
such as assemble.
There is but little prospect that my injured limb will be so far
restored as to allow of my performing the labors of the station very
soon, if ever, as I have formerly done.
I can only see and hear the
desolation made in the field by long absences by the ravages of the
small-pox, and by advantage taken of my absence and of my present disa
bility, by Papal and Mormon priests.
600 in this district died of small
pox, about 150 of whom were chh. members.
have joined the Catholics and Mormons.
Several other church members
With my former ability to travel,
visit, and labor, I should have great hope that the church and people
would be again revived, and the wastes in a measure repaired; but I have
the prospect of doing but very little missionary work in this field.
I
feel that duty to the church and people here require me to state to the
Mission that I cannot do the work that ought to be done in this district.
It requires travel and visiting, and thi s I cannot do.
So far as I have had the advice and opinion of physicians I cannot
expect to recover entirely from the effects of this injury; but with
great care I may hope after a long time to have a comfortable use of my
limb again.
The physician at Tahiti who first attended i t, told me I
probably should not be entirely well of it, and that for two years I
could not expect to have a tolerable use of it.
It is now ten months
since the injury was received, and I am not yet able to dispense with
the use of crutches.
Still It Is very slowly improving.
It has been,
and is, a very great affliction; but the hand of the Lord is in it.
I wrote to Dr. Smith and Dr. Baldwin, hoping to have some prescription
and advice from them, and I still hope to have. # (Footnote)
Dr. Smith
�2.
has written me a kind advisory letter.
I may add that the present arrangement for my support is, under
existing circumstances, inadequate.
my people the present year.
I am expected to get $500 from
Owing to the state of things among the church
and people, which I have already stated, and to my own inability to
labor, the prospect is, that very little will be received this year
towards my own support from the people, and I ask the Mission to provide
for the deficiency occasioned by unforseen ( !) events.
If church
statistics are desired, I can send them, also the little amount contri
buted for the year, and any other items desired,
if there are to be any
printed minutes.
I will add that if the Mission can furnish an adequate supply for
this station I feel it my duty to say to them that I shall not stand in
the way of their doing so.
B.W. Parker
Kaneohe, May 1854.
�Kaneohe
Abstract of Report for Minutes
The past year has been one of declension in the church and congre
gation on the subject of religion.
There have been more cases of discipline in the church than in
any previous year.
Whole amount of contribution from the church for different ob
jects $629.80.
Mormonism has a few adherents, but mostly of the baser sort.
Popery - much as in former years.
Native schools very low.
Little interest in them among parents,
teachers, or children.
A flourishing school for teaching native children the English
Language was commenced in January.
It has more than sixty scholars.
(Unsigned)
�Statistics of Kaneohe Church.
Whole no admitted on profession
Whole no by certificate
Past year by examination
Past year by certificate
Whole no past year
Whole no. dismissed to other chhs.
Dismissed past year
Whole no disceased ( !)
Died past year
Suspended past year
Remain suspended
Excommunicated past year
Whole no. excommunicated
Remain excommunicated
Whole no in regular standing
Whole no of children baptized
Baptized past year
Married past year
Average congregation on the sabbath
785
69
"
"
"
18
"
253
150
3
5
"
25
9
429
197
6
11
Very little missionary work has been done at this station the past
year.
The Pastor has been absent from his field of labour nine months.
During his absence the Mormons came in and made some converts .
The
Papal priest too was active in his efforts to induce chh. members to turn
papists.
About 600 died of small-pox in this district the last year,
about 150 of whom were chh. members.
pastor $150.
Contributed for the support of
At monthly concert $60, and to the Missionary Society
about $150.
Owing in part to the absence of the missionary the congregations
have much diminished and there has been no special interest in religion
during the year.
(Unsigned; B.W. Parker)
5 8
�Kaneohe Station Report (1855)
For about one half of the last year I have been unable to do much
missionary work in my field.
twice on the Sabbath.
I could only preach once and sometimes
I could not travel over the district at all.
The injury which I received while at Tahiti confined me to the use of
crutches in walking, for about one year.
I, however, gradually recov
ered, and the last few months have been able to travel a n d labor, to
considerable extent, as formerly.
The condition of my field at the time
of my return to it, a few weeks before the last meeting of the mission
was truly s a d.
I had been absent from the Station nearly one year.
It was the year of the prevalence of the small pox.
It had made great
and sad devastations among the population of this district.
Every pos
sible advantage had been taken of my absence by Catholic and Mormon
priests, and some church members had joined, chiefly in the time of the
small pox.
But it was not until I had recovered, and was able to visit
all parts of the field, that I was fully aware of the extent of the
desolation made by the pestilence.
gregations on the Sabbath small.
Meetings were thinly attended.
Con
Many houses were left without an in
habitant; and of those who survived, many of them had relapsed into a
state of indifference and stupidity, from which there seemed to be
little hope that they would ever be recovered.
I have little that is encourageing ( !) to report of the state of
religion, education, morals, or civilization during the year past.
For some part of the year intemperance has been considerably prevalent
in some parts of the district, by the use of intoxicating liquors, ob
tained sometimes from Honolulu, and sometimes procured by the fermen
tation of native produce.
The late king spent some six weeks or two
He
months in the district, a little previous to his death. H e took up his
�2.
residence with the Catholic Priest.
Many of the people,
including a
considerable number of church members, would go where the king was,
to the feast, the horse race, the hula, and to the Catholic meeting
on the Sabbath.
I can say little of interest as to the state of the
church the past year.
Some have fallen away.
and backslidden ( !).
day or the Sabbath.
Others have declined,
Some seldom attend meeting, either on the week
Still a part remain firm and cdnstant in their
attendance on the means of grace.
Our contributions to the different benevolent objects have not
been as large as in some former years.
the year is $629.80.
The whole amount contributed for
This included pay for a native preacher, monthly
coneert contributions, support of pastor, missionary Society, and meet
ing house.
Beside this considerable work has been done on one meeting
house in the district.
finished.
It is of stone, and has a shingle roof, nearly
My labors are now much as formerly.
On the Sabbath, a school
for children, two public services, and a meeting at evening, at some
school house away from the station.
The monthly concert is regularly
attended, also a lecture Wednesday afternoon, at the Station, church
prayer meeting Saturday afternoon, and usually two meetings in the week
at some place away from the Station.
Occasionally a Sabbath is spent at
an out station.
Our native schools have been but indifferently attended the past
year.
Neither parents or teachers manifest scarcely any interest in them,
and the children have little If any more.
Men of any ability and energy
care very little about teaching for the usual wages, when they can get
three or four times that sum by other labor.
In January and English
school was begun, and the first quarter there were forty children in
attendance.
The second term has begun with over sixty scholars.
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Statistics of the Church in Kaneohe.
Whole no. on profession
806
Whole no. by certificate
73
Past year on examination
21
Past year by certificate
6
Whole no. past year
27
Whole no. dismissed to other churches
28
Dismissed past year
3
Whole no. deceased
276
Deceased past year
11
Suspended past year
4
Remain suspended
3
Excommunicated past year
17
Whole no. excommunicated
58
Remain excommunicated
25
Whole no. in regular standing
508
Whole no. of children baptized
208
Baptized past year
11
Marriages past year
45
(Unsigned)
(On back:)
Report
from Kaneohe 1855
Rev. B.W. Parker
�Kaneohe Station Report 1856.
The missionary work in my field has been performed the past year
much as in former ones.
Preaching on the sabbath attending meetings on
week d a y s , teaching, visiting, attending to the native schools, and the
various et cetera of missionary work have occupied a great portion (of)
my t i m e .
In addition to my ordinary Mission work I have taught the English
school for native children for two terms.
This has necessarily kept
me from some other labours among the people.
only way I could do.
But it seemed to be the
The school must either be given up after it had
been successfully begun or I must teach it temporarily at least.
Of the state of religion in the church and congregations in my
field I have little of interest to r e p o r t .
vival of religion among our people.
We have had no general re
There seems rather to have been a
decline of religious interest both in the church and congregations.
Meetings both on the sabbath and week days have not been as well atten
ded as in some former years.
A worldly spirit has prevailed and in
some cases a disposition to relapse into heathen practises
( !),
There
has been no great defection in the church, and the cases of suspension
and excommunication have been less than in the year previous.
xSeven
have been added to the church during the year.
Contributions have (been) made during the year mostly by church
members as follows
For support of Missionary
Monthly concert
Missionary Society
Native preacher
Meeting house
Whole amount of contributions
$380.
90.88
65.
100.
600.
$ 1235.88
This amount is somewhat over two dollars on an average for every
member in the church.
This amount was contributed in money only.
In
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addition to this some work has been done by church members on meeting
and school houses, but no estimate is made of the amount of the work.
About one half of the above amount or $600 dollars was contributed
by a small portion of the church a t an out station for their meeting
house.
They have built a stone house shingle roof
nent slips throughout.
floored and perma
The work has been most cheerfully done by the
natives in that part (of) the field superintended by native teacher - a
graduate of the last class of Lahainaluna.
At our other out station a house is greatly needed but as yet the
church members there do not seem ready to take hold of the work efficiently.
The native teacher in this part of the field is not well adapted to
help on the work of building.
Schools -
Native schools for children have been better attended
and more prosperous than during the previous year.
This ow ing to a
better age viz better school houses and and ( !) some better teachers than
we have formerly had.
The English school for Hawaiian children has had
an average of sixty scholars for the year past.
There appears to be no
diminution of interest either on the part of parents or children in the
school.
Mormonism.
It has had some adherents in this field.
priests foreigners
have resided there
One or two
But most of their followers have
left them the last year, I know of only one place where they attempt to
have a meeting now and that is attended by very few of the natives.
Popery.
I am not aware that there is any increase in the number
of Papists though probably their number is as great as it has been at
any previous time.
I think about one third of the population in the
district are papists.
Their school
to have merely a nominal existence.
anything.
High school
located near us appears
I can not learn as they are doing
They have I have been told but very few scholars in their
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1856
Seminary.
But they have in their number two or three rather intelligent
and energetic natives that gives them some advantage.
Of the progress of the people in this field in civilization and
general improvement I have nothing encourageing to report.
little i f any advance from year to year.
have been.
I see very
Their houses are much as they
Their way of living sleeping eating talking acting and not
is much as years ago.
Morals -
The inhabitants of this district would perhaps generally
be considered moral in their external conduct.
grossly immoral.
They regard the Sabbath.
They are not apparently
There are occasional cases
of drunkenness by the beer obtained at Honolulu and by the collogne ( !)
which i s pretty freely used by some as a drink.
There is disposition
among some to go after native doctors, doctors who pretend to some
superhuman power.
They perform wonderful cures
god that causes the disease
cast out the evil
and the more ignorant and vicious and d e
graded the doctor is the more he seems to be esteemed and sought after
by some of the natives.
The Chinese are becoming considerably numerous around.
That portion
of them called the coolies are scattered about over the district.
Occasionally some of them find their way to the house of God on the
Sabbath.
But they seem to be almost shut out from the means of salvation.
What can we do to benefit them?
But what we most need for ourselves and for our church and congre
gation our schools and our people generally, is an abundant outpouring
of the Spirit of God.
B.W. Parker
�Kaneohe
Statistics of the church
at Kaneohe.
(1856)
Whole no. on profession.
Whole no by certificate
Past year by examination
Past year by certificate
Whole no. past year.
Whole no. dismissed to other chhs.
Dismissed past year
Whole no. deceased.
Died past year
Suspended past year.
Remain Suspended
Excomed past year
Whole no. excommunicated
Remain excommunicated
Whole no. in regular standing
Whole no of children baptized
Baptized past year
Marriages past year.
808
77
7
4
11
31
3
285
9
6
5
2
60
28
500
221
13
34
(Unsigned; B.W. Parker)
�Kaneohe Station Report 1857
My labours at the station have been continued the past year
without interruption.
They have been much the same as in former years
and I need not report the particular meetings and other work.
There has been no Special interest among the people in attending
or
meetings on the Sabbath as on week days but rather a falling off in
attendance from what it has been in former years.
Congregations on
the Sabbath have been small not exceeding on an average 200.
And
meetings on week days attended by few usually not more than 25 or 50
persons.
There are meetings at two out stations on the Sabbath con
ducted by natives but the attendance small.
Church. We have had no general interest in the church during the
year.
The cases of discipline have been probably more than in any
former year.
Eighteen have been added by profession.
Contributions.
These have been taken up usual(ly) the past year
for missions, for the support of pastor and native preacher and for
meetings ( !) houses.
And as much contributed as could be reasonably
(be) expected considering the habits of the people, the small number
in the church and their extreme poverty.
The whole for all purposes
contributed is $768.75.
Beside this there has been some work on school houses and meeting
houses, the amount not estimated.
At one of the out stations the church
has finished a permanent house of worship stone with shingle roof
floored and furnished with slips throughout.
The whole cost of the
house of the house ( !) some over $1000 beside native work.
It was
dedicated in July la s t .
Schools.
Native schools for children have been as good and
perhaps better in attendance and progress than in former years.
have better school houses and some better native teachers than
We
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formerly, and this has helped to improve the schools.
The English school for native children is continued.
third year it has been kept.
This is the
Of late the number of children has dim
inished and only about 30 at present attend.
The parents feel it to
be too great a burden to continue to pay a tuition.
The progress of
the children is not rapid but some do make advancement in acquiring
the Eng language.
Morals.
There has been more than usual open immorality in some
parts of the district the last year, drinking, native dances gambling
quarrelling.
One most shocking murder of a native man.
This state of
things has been owing in part to an ignorant inefficient\ district
judge unworthy and unfit for any office.
He has been lately removed
and w e hope a better man put in his place.
Improvement in Civilization.
I do not see much advance in civi
lized habits and general improvement from year to year.
In general
the natives live in the same little dirty grass unfurnished huts that
they did twenty years ago.
With very few exceptions they seem to be
as indolent shiftless improvident as they were when we first took the
station. The population has diminished in number one third during the
twenty two years we have lived at the station.
And such are their
habits and ways of living that the result must be their entire extinc
tion.
In my view there is no more hope for them as a people that they
will live recover a(nd) flourish than there is that a man in the last
stages of consumption will recover and again become a strong and healthy
man.
There is a possibility in either case and some reason to hope.
At least so long as there is life it is to be watched over and provided
for.
�3
Mormonism flourished some for a time but is I believe entirely
extinct.
Popery has i t s usual number of adherents but not making any
advance i n numbers.
(Unsigned, B.W. Parker)
Statistics of Church at Kaneohe.
Whole no. on profession
826
On certificate
82
Past year on profession
18
On certificate
5
Total past year
23
Whole no. dismissed to other churches 37
dismissed past year
6
Whole number deceased
296
deceased past year
11
Excluded past year
26
Remain excluded
Whole number in regular standing
480
Whole no. of children baptized
226
Baptized past year
5
Marriages past year
10
Contributions past year.
At Monthly Concert
For Pastor
For two native teachers
” Meeting houses
Children for Morning Star
Missionary Society
Whole amount of Contributions
$ 94.75
360
85
299
10.
20.
"768.75
�Kaneohe Station Report 1858
My labours at the Station have been continued the past year
and conducted much as in former years.
But it has been a year o f less interest among the people than
previous years.
Our congregations have diminished and the number of
those who attend any weekly religious meetings is very small.
Stupidity
indifference to all religious instruction and to all the interests of
the soul and to the interests of Christs Kingdom seem to have settled
down on almost the whole church and people.
In no year have we had
so many cases of discipline in the church.
Several reasons might be assigned for this diminished interest,
but prominent among them is the reviving of the old system of heathen
hulas.
They appear to be established on almost every land in the
district.
They are attended by great numbers both of parents and
children, church members as well as those out of the church.
are
There
schools for instructing the children and youth in the native song
and dance.
The hulas are kept up day and night.
And it is surprising
to see with what eagerness those from wh o m we have long hoped for b e t
ter things have gone back to these heathenish customs.
Native schools have diminished in numbers and attendance small.
Little interest is felt among parents and scarcely any more among
teachers or s c h o l l a r s !
(
.
T
) hey leave the school to go to the hula.
The English school for native children is continued.
in its fourth year.
It is now
And though not as large as formerly yet there is
a good degree of interest in the school manifested bot h b y parents
and children.
And their progress in acquiring the English language
has certainly been very encourageing.
Two formerly members of the
school are now promising s c h o l a r s in the Royal School in Honolulu.
�Kaneohe 1858
It is somewhat dis c o u r a g i n g that some of the children have sickened
and died.
Six of the best most advanced and most promising schollars
have died, three of them the last year.
I have thought that continued
confinement for native children for from four to five hours every day
tends to bring on disease.
It is matter of frequent remark among n a
tives that so many died from the English school.
I have two out stations to each of which I devote one Sabbath in
a month leaving the congregation at the station with natives.
It has
seemed necessary to do this the past year to save any f r o m falling into
the temptations that beset them.
A prevailing epedemic swept over the district in the month of
July.
It suddenly prostrated almost all the people.
ually recovered f r o m it in the course of a month.
births few and the natives rapidly decrease.
if any slow.
But most grad
Deaths are frequent
Progress in improvement
At present the natives complain of a famine little food,
small means for obtaining the conveniences and comforts of civilized
life.
But amid all the discouragements we have mercies and much to be
(!)
thankfull for - Our Sabbaths and sanctuary privileges have been con
tinued to us.
Our weekly church prayer meetings conferences and lec
tures have not been entirely forsaken.
And few of the church stand
fast, and offer some resistance to the downward current.
Something
has been done to support the gospel at home and send it to the desti
tute.
And there are some who will throug(
h) the grace of God endure to
the end and so be saved.
Mormonism has entirely gone out
I know of no natives in the
district who adhere to it.
Popery is much as in years past.
It has a strong hold here and
has some little additions chiefly from suspended and disaffected church
members.
(Unsigned; B.W. Parker)
�Statistics of Ch. at Kaneohe (1858)
290
50
20
4
24
Whole no ad. on exm.
On certificate
Past year on exm.
Past year on certificate
Whole no past year
19
Whole no. diss. to other chhs.
63 Whole no deceased
3 Died last year
1 Susp. last year
11 Remain Suspended
0 Excom. last year
19 Remain excommunicated
222
Whole no in regular standing
149 Whole no of baptized children
11 Baptzd last year
42 Marriages last year
450 Average Gong on Sah
V
�[Kaneohe Report].
Missionary work has been continued at this station the last year
without interruption.
Labors have been much the same as in former
years; preaching twice on the Sabbath; attending meetings in different
parts of the field on week days.
We have three places of worship on
the Sabbath; one at the Station; another about ten miles in one di
rection; the third about the same distance in another direction.
At
the two out stations I have preached one Sabbath in each month during
the year.
Our regular week day meetings for the past year have been,
one at the station every Wednesday afternoon; Thursday and Friday
afternoons in other places, Saturday afternoon a church meeting, and
the monthly concerts.
I have to report that the numbers attending
meetings both on the Sabbath and other days have considerably dimin
ished the past year.
Parents, children, an d many church members have
become very negligent in their attendance at all religious meetings.
Our congregation on the Sabbath does not average more than one hundred
I think, and almost invariably on week days very few attend at any
place.
The same may be said of schools.
interest.
natives.
They decline in numbers and
I may say the same too of improvement generally among the
They are less industrious, and less disposed to improve the
habits of civilized life.
The question will arise what has occasioned
so great a falling off among the natives in this part of the field.
There are some very obvious reasons for it.
There is a torrent of
iniquity from some source flowing over us more destructive than the
Hawaiian lava flow; for it destroys souls.
I will state some of what seem to me to be the causes of a dim
inution of interest in religion, and education, and in almost every
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Kaneohe
thing that is u se fu l and important.
I
And f i r s t I w i l l mention the prevalence of the H u la s .
The extent
to w h ich they are carried on, and the patronage they re ceive is exert
ing a most inju rio u s influence among the p e o p le .
Great numbers are
drawn to them; p a r e n ts, c h ild r e n , and church members go to see the
dance,
and hear the so n g s.
Teachers are employed to in s tru c t the young.
School for practicing the song and the dance, and, at t im e s , public
e x h ib it io n s , when
great multitudes are brought to g eth er, and the whole
day spent in hearing the songs, fe a s t in g and dancing.
The whole in flu e n ce of the Hulas is most i n ju r io u s , d e m o ra lizin g ,
and degrading; the dress o f the performers, the dance,
and the song
are a l l o f the same debasing tendency.
So numerous were they becoming, and so numerously attended by
almost every class o f persons, c h ild re n from the schools, church
members, males and fem ales, that I f e l t i t to be duty to atten d them
and the year p ast, I have attended a number of the H u l a s .
The dress
of the dancers i s most shameful, th eir movements abom inable,
songs o f a lasciv io u s character.
I have u s u a lly , but not alw ays, been
able to get a h e a rin g ; they would stop the dance,
In two instances
and l i s t e n to remarks.
they were induced to stop i t e n t ir e ly ,
At other p la ces they would continue th e ir performance,
me
and th e ir
and a l l l e f t .
and sa id to
"You have your dance, d iffe re n t somewhat from o urs, and we have
o u r s ."
I t is w e ll fo r the missionary to go .
The tendency i s to
prevent some n a tiv e s from frequenting them; they do not w is h to be
seen a t these p lac es,
and, it w i l l ,
or to have i t known that they a tte n d the H u la s ,
in d iffe r e n t w ay s, operate as a check upon them.
we can have but l i t t l e hope th at,
so long as the Hula is p atronized
by the Highest a u th o r ities in the i s l a n d s ,
among th e common p eople.
Though
that they w i l l be checked
�Kaneohe
3.
It is matter of regret that it has received in any w a y approbation
of the national Legislature.
Licensed in Honolulu, it will not he
confined to Honolulu, nor in any way suppress them in other places.
Gould it he that those legislating for the good of the Hawaiian nation
were ignorant of the nature and tendency of the Hulas !
In the reliable history of the Hawaiian nation we have their
character given in the following language.
Mr. Bingham in his
history says, "The whole arrangement and process of their old Hulas
were designed to promote lasciviousness, and, of course, the practise
of them could not flourish in modest communities.
They had been in
terwoven too, with their superstitions, and made subservient to the
honor of their Gods, and their rulers either living or departed and
deified."
Mr. Dibble in his history says, "Of all the sports that
took their zest and charm from lewd, and vile associations, the most
prominent, perhaps, was the dance.
Girls were the actresses.
Their
motions were anything but graceful, and often very revolting.
Every
variety of song was rehearsed, and acted, even the most vile and
lascivious, and the action always corresponded with the sense, and
there were connected with them such exhibitions of licentiousness and
abomination as must forever remain untold."
Mr. Jarvis, in his his
tory says, "The dances or hula were of various character; sometimes
interspersed w i t h chants relating to the achievments ( !) of the past
or present rulers, or in honor of the Gods.
Though they were commonly
practised in honor of the Gods, or for the amusement of the chiefs.
The dances of the professional dancers consisted in a variety of u n
couth motions and twistings of the body, of too lascivious a nature
to bear description, and were generally preparatory to brutal revels.
Their costumes were in conformity w i t h their actions."
�Kaneohe
4.
Such is the historical account of the hula.
with what we see of them as now revived.
It agrees well
And it has been publicly
asserted that they are more objectionable as now practised than they
were in the times of the deepest heathen darkness.
They are a system
of iniquity that is only evil, idolatrous, tending to promote licen
tiousness, to foster idleness, and ignorance, to produce famine, pov
erty, disease and death, and now it is licensed.
When that act r e
ceives the signature, the death warrant of many souls will be signed,
and the death of the Hawaiian race rapidly hastened.
2.
I mention another injurious influence over the people in this
field.
The extensive practise of native doctors.
It has been here
formerly, but not so extensive, so open, and so heathenish as at pre
sent.
At least, I have not known it.
I was induced to inquire more
into this system, from finding church members among the licensed doc
tors; Also, that it was quite common for church members, when sick, to
commit themselves to the care of native doctor, and have all the
juglery of their system practised over them, such as casting lots, to
know whether the sickness will terminate in death, or restoration,
prayers to the dead, and offerings to their old heathen deities.
We have had several eases of discipline in the church of members, who
have engaged in this system, and who have gone thoroughly into all
the vile practices, of native doctors.
I requested a native to write
for my use some account of the present practise of these doctors.
And
the following is a translation of a part of what he wrote.
Practising medicine in the Hawaiian nation, after the manner of
pagan nations, is a permanent thing.
From the arrival of Bingham
and company to the present time it is continued.
Because, both the
common people and chiefs are mistaken, and desire this practice.
A
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good profession indeed, but here is the evil, idolatry and prayers to
the dead, calling upon the sun, the east and the west, the dead an
cestors of the night, and men now living to labor together in this
work.
In practising, the native doctors cast lots.
purpose, pebbles, or kapa, or rope.
They use for this
When the doctor begins, he has
present the sick person, and the one who has the care of the sick,
prepares his lots, points out where is death, and where life, inquires
whether the present sickness is occasioned by the influence of d e a d
ancestors, or whether by the the ( !) sorcery of some mischievous living
person.
If the result of the lot is favorable, the doctor begins his
practice, if unfavorable he leaves the patient because the Gods of
medicine will not lend their aid in this case.
doctors they offer prayers.
In this work of the
Having collected in one heap the pebbles
or other things they have used in casting lots they cover them with
tapa and spread forth their hands and pray thus "Ye dead ancestors males - that know their pebbles that know this sickness - that know
the sickness grant power - give life that this sickness m ay be cured,
that it may be cured by me a mere male that takes care of your medi
cines life.
Ye dead ancestors - mothers look upon us - give power, give
Then follows an invocation of heathen Gods by their names -
Ku - Lono - Pele - Hiekka - and Jehovah the father of heaven, and the
father of earth give life give power.
It is said there are sixty native
doctors - men and women - licensed - having a printed certificate their whole practice is a base imposition upon their credulity - tends
to foster among the natives ignorance - superstition & idolatry and
hastens their death 3.
I mention as another source of evil among the natives in this dis
trict the facility with which they obtain intoxicating drinks.
sometimes return drunk from the beer shops in Honolulu.
They
A few weeks
�Kaneohe
6.
since a native female,
church member came to me and said, that while
in Honolulu she was enticed into one of these shops, drank and was
intoxicated.
our field.
Such instances are not uncommon among the natives in
They also make it by fermentation - get up a feast and have
a drunken revel.
During the past few month[s] two distilleries have
been in operation among us making rum fr o m the ”ti" root.
This however
is the work of foreigners, and most of the products of these distilleries are brought to Honolulu.
I have not been them for these dis
tilleries are far up in the mountains, in unfrequented places - the rum
transported to Honolulu by night.
Our natives are not allowed to
approach these places, - they say - they are my informants, but the
fact that rum is distilled there has lately come out in the course of
a trial before the Supreme Court in a case between two foreigners
living in that section.
I am told one of the manufacturers has said -
only let him have six months in which to prosecute the business, and
he will have acquired an ample fortune.
4.
I mention as another influence for evil popery -
The papists are
making more vigorous efforts in this portion of their field - than at
any time before, and seem inspired with ne w hopes - working with renewed
strength.
I know not why it is, unless the declension among protest-
ants - the tendency to dissipation and a return to heathen practise,
is favorable to their cause.
Within the past year they have established
a congregation on the Sabbath close by the protestant place of worship,
at an out-station a place where they never had services before - and
on a land where are not ten papist(s) probably -
They assemble here
from all parts of the district going eight or ten miles to this place
of worship.
They are active to get disaffected church members and
disciplined members from the protestants
also church members who come
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�7.
from abroad
strangers - are sought and drawn away to the papists -
They are active in the distribution of their tracts and pamphlets
issued from their press in Honolulu -
They are distributed gratuitous
ly to protestants - particularly to the more influential or important and disciplined members are certain to be furnished with them, These tracts are on various subjects introduction
progress, struggles
Islands from the year 1827 dow n.
persecutions
of popery in these
Some of them contain a journal of
their labors at different stations
on the different Islands -
They give a history of the
letters written f r o m the priests
one on the Celibacy of the Priests
The
apostles were not married - nor their successors in the first centuries
nor are their true successors at the present time.
Consequently
protestant missionaries in these Islands are not the successors of the
Apostles lulu
they are published in the newspapers as arriving at Hono
Lahaina
Christ -
etc
with wife and children they are not ministers of
Another is on trans Substantiation -
The emblems are the
very body and blood of Christ - for he said this is my body
The
protestant teachers have deceived the Hawaiians in representing them
as only symbols.
Some of the tracts are reviews of the different
Hawaiian publications on popery Hae -
The Catechism Nona Nona - Hele-
In one they give an account of the proceedings in Gen M eeting
of the Protestant Mission.
They are written wit h great confidence, much spirit & with a
zeal worthy of a better cause - contain many misrepresentations - much
that is false - but well calculated to deceive the ignorant.
to one point -
All tend
The Roman Catholick church is the only true church,
and there is no salvation out of it.
The mystery of iniquity is at
work - only he who now letteth, will let, until he be taken out of
the way.
�Kaneohe
8.
There is at the present time a famine on this part of the Island a result of the growing evils above mentioned -
There has been no
prevailing sickness during the year but the number of deaths has been
unusually large.
But I may add that a portion of the church stand firm - and true
to their profession have no fellowship wi t h the unfruitful works of
darkness - and these mostly constitute our congregation on the Sab
bath - and are ready for every good word and work.
The contributions the past year for all objects amount to $508.
The only school for/native children is continued.
constant attendance is twenty five.
The number in
Their progress is g o o d .
(Unsigned; B.W. Parker)
11
�Statistics of Church at Kaneohe (1859?)
Whole N o . on profession
On Certificate
Past year on profession
On certificate
Total past year
Whole no. dismissed
Dismissed past year
Total deceased
Deceased past year
Excluded past year
Remain Excluded
N o w in regular standing
Total children baptized
Baptized past year
Marriages
831
85
4
3
7
43
6
320
13
25
69
399
235
7
14
�Kaneohe Station Report 1860
Our last annual report presented a dark picture of the state of
religion morality and improvement in this District.
valent, the making and drinking of rum abounded.
the grosest ( !) idolatry.
Hulas were pre
Some had relapsed into
As a consequence of this state of things,
our congregations on the Sabbath h a d very much diminished, our week day
meetings very thinly attended.
The sabbath was neglected and in various
ways lamentably desecrated and a general stupidity a moral and spiritual
death spread over almost all the people.
This state of things was much
the same on our return fro m last general meeting.
The heathen idola
trous hulas were continued in all that region in their full strength
till the first of August when the new civil code of laws went into ef
fect in which is a law licensing the Hula but confing it to Honolulu.
They were then entirely suppressed.
I am not aware that there has been
one in the district since the first of August, indeed I am sure there
has not been.
For this we feel grateful to God.
Rum and Intemperance
Would that I could report the same of the manufacture and use of
intoxicating liquors, but this evil has not been stoped ( !) and perhaps
not very essentially checked.
is carried to Honolulu.
Rum is distilled, sold, given away.
It
It has been distilled since the n e w law passed
at the last session of the legislature went into effect*
It seems
evidently to be patronized or at least encouraged by those in authority.
Two or three instances may be mentioned to show that it is so.
eigner, one of the distillers furnished rum to a native.
ecuted before the police justice.
A for
He was pros
It was a plain case that it had been
furnished to the native as complained of, but because of some little
technicality in the form of trial the foreigner was cleared.
case was that of the distiller.
Another
He had been watched by the police and
�Kaneohe 1860
2.
was finally detected with his horses loaded with kegs of rum, taking
them to Honolulu in the night.
The spirits were secured.
turer was prosecuted and tried before the Supreme Court.
isted as to the facts in the case.
The manufac
Ho doubt ex
But a flaw was found by w hich the
distiller could be cleared, and he was so.
Another case is that of two
foreigners distilling since the new law enacted by the last legislature
went into effect.
to avoid detection.
They had their distilling far back in the mountains
A native informed of them.
Several of the police
with a foreigner at their head were conducted to the distillery.
found there two foreigners in the very act of distilling.
They
At the
ap
proach of the police they both fled to the mountain, and instead of
pursuing and taking them the constables all went into the distillery.
helped themselves freely to the native rum there found, returned home,
and no further efforts have been made to arrest the distillers.
The
manufacturers I am told furnish the article gratuitously to the more
important persons in the community such as the local judge the collector
of the district, important lawyers &c, thereby securing the favour of
those whom they otherwise would fear.
very general among the natives.
I do not think the use of it is
Some drink it.
The bia (beer ?)
found at the grog shops in Honolulu is drunk to some extent by the n a
tives here.
There is at the present time less drinking than there was
a few months ago.
Some I know who were addicted to it a few months ago
are entirely reformed and thus far stand firm against the enticements
that surround them.
But it is easy to see that while the making intox
icating liquors is favoured or winked at by those whose business it is
to put a stop to it, it will continue to be used.
Popery.
Never were the papists more active in this field and so far,
as I can learn over all Oahu than the last year.
Every individual they
�5.
can induce to join them of every character and condition, they do.
Their chief efforts have been,
1
By the use of tracts and papers freely gratuitously distributed.
These tracts are issued and often given to protestants on the Sabbath
at or in the region of our meeting house, as the people go and return
from the meeting.
I have just seen one of their regular series entitled
the ’’Christian Banner".
It was written by Kamakau who in this paper,
professed to have lately become a convert to popery.
He has evidently
been thoroughly instructed by the Jesuit priests in the matter of this
paper, but written by a native of so much ability and enfluence as
the author has, it is I think calculated to do great injury to the cause
of truth.
2.
They are indefatigable in their efforts among the sick and those
apparently near to death where there is any hope that they may be con
verted to popery before they die.
They visit, either the priest or his
agent, the sick and try to persuade them to receive Roman Catholic
baptism and extreme unction.
The following is an instance.
A few weeks
ago in a part of my field an aged man who had been an exemplary church
member for more than twenty years, was taken sick and they thought not
likely to live.
see him.
A daughter who was a papist came over from Honolulu to
Her first wish was to attempt his conversion to popery.
was old, sick, and feeble.
He
She was imperative promissing ( !) and
threatning ( !), and he finally yielded.
The priest was sent for, ad
ministered baptism and the blessing of a happy death.
As soon as a
native told what occured ( !) there I took my horse rode to the house,
found the man sick, and his daughter sitting by.
After inquiring about
his sickness, some conversation followed as to what I had heard of his
becoming a papist.
He said h e h a d done so under the influence of what
had been said to him.
I then reminded him of the truths of G o d ’s word
�Kaneohe 1860
that he h a d long heard and professed t© love and obey, and assured him
that no priest could help hi m in the hour of his extremity, none but
Christ could take away his sins.
After some further conversation he
confessed that he h a d been induced to yield to the strong xxxxxxxxxxx
so licitations of the papists, but that he now remounced them.
He took
hold of his beads and cross and striped ( !) them from his neck, and
threw them aside.
Upon this his daughter broke out in the most insolent
language, saying to him if you renounce Catholicism you are no longer my
father, nor I your daughter, and other violent language.
said she to a boy who stood by, I go to Honolulu.
all gently replied to her, that is with you.
former kumu (teacher).
Get my horse
The father heard it
I shall stand fast to my
He recovered from his sickness and is a con
sistent Christian and constant attendant at our meetings.
3
They make efforts to proselyte by establishing meetings in every
village where are meetings for protestant worship.
If there is any
unusual interest in a place, any special effort made they are sure to
come along side and get up a meeting.
By the side of our ne w house of
worship at our out station, they have erected a little grass house ap
parently for no other reason than to have a house as near as possible
to ours.
Their success has not been very great the past year.
Their
accessions have been only from a few suspended disaffected church members.
These they readily receive in all cases, I think.
I think more have
left in this district than have joined them the past year - but I beleive
( !) they have great hope that they will yet possess the power on Oahu
at least, and should the day come when any of the highest native cheefs
( !) join them there they will receive great accessions to their numbers.
Church at Waikane.
tion.
We have built a new house of worship at an out sta-
It is a neat substantial building seated throughout with permanent
�sl ips.
Cost $ 1 ,150.
I regard the district as no w well supplied with
permanent houses of worship.
I do not see why they should not last till
the last generation of natives shall have passed away.
preached at this out station died a few weeks ago.
The native who
We have now no native
preacher i n this district.
Benevolent contributions.
The ability of this people to contribute is very limited.
The
entire support of a foreign pastor is entirely out of the question, by
the church, and should it be increased to double its present number they
could not be relied on to support institutions of the gospel among them
owing to their deep poverty.
And it is evident they always will be
poor, for they have no way by w(h)ieh to improve themselves in wealth,
no means no habits of e ndustry and economy and improvement.
So that as
long as a foreign pastor occupies the station he must be supported
mainly from a board.
Contributions the past year as follows
For the support of pastor
Monthly concert
Meeting house at Waikane
"
"
" Koloa
$322
115
60
40
$537
The money contributed at Monthly concert has mostly b e e n used to
pay the expenses of the new house at Waikane.
The house is not yet all
paid for.
Schools.
The English school is kept up though with less interest among
the parents, and a smaller attendance, than in former years.
It must
soon be classed among things that have been.
The native schools have been improved from what they were in former
years.
Sabbath schools both for adults and children are attended and
both parents and children are much interested in the exercises and I
think profited by them.
We use the new testament, facts of the old
Testament and the catechism in these schools.
�Kaneohe 1860
Revival.
6.
We have had for a part of the year an unusual interest among
our people in religion.
The Spirit of God has most evidently been in
our midst awakening sinners and converting them to God and reviving
many of the church and Congregation backsliders to repentance restoring
those who had wandered.
We have been constrained to say it is the L o r d 's
doing and is marvelous in our eyes.
The work began at a time and in a
way and among a class of persons where we least expected it.
Those who
to human appearance were the least hopeful were the first to be inter
ested.
The work was more among the young though not confined to them.
The work was marked by more deep seriousness deeper conviction of sin
than I have ever known among natives before I think.
And those who
first found the Saviour, soon manifested a strong desire for those who
had been their companions in sin.
They immediately began to visit
talk with them on the soul's salvation and pray with them, get them to
meeting on the Sabbath and to the prayer meetings.
God seemed to
bless our labours and the interest increased and spread.
hope that many have been truly converted to God.
fast and that too under manifold temptations.
I have great
They do thus far stand
The enem ies have been
busy all the time trying to lead them astray, the wicked bo t h foreigners
and natives and half casts try to lead them back into sin, they laugh
at them, tell them they soon will return to their old habits, they put
the bottle to their mouths and solicit them to drink again wit h them
the intoxicating cup.
But by the help of God they have so far as I can
ascertain always resisted the temptations.
Fifteen have been admitted
to the church but somewhere about forty are propounded for admission.
There were no very special effort s made among the people before the
interest began.
prayer meeting.
members.
Soon after the last general meeting we began a morning
It was attended by some fifteen or more mostly church
The number gradually increased to 25 and 30.
The early
�Kaneohe 1860
7.
mourning ( !) hour devoted to their meeting was spent in prayer reading
a portion of scripture and remarks on the passage read.
case of awakening known was at this morning meeting.
The first
About the same
time October perhaps it was there were some rather remarkable deaths
among us.
Two occured ( !) very near together and very sudden.
They
were both men in fine health and in the prime of life, and they had both
been noted for their unbelieving wicked disipated ( !) course of life.
Some among the natives seemed to feel that the hand of God was in this,
and that h e was speaking to them . About the same time a girl of some 18
years died just by us, I had for some time missed her from the school
& meetings.
On inquiry I found she had gone to Honolulu to stay.
went to see her.
Apparently she could live but a little while.
I
Of
this she was fully aware, and said I am now reaping the reward of my
doings,
and said she I am afraid t o die.
Why are you afraid to die?
She then gave her history for the last few months.
She ha d been enticed
from her home induced by the hope of a little money to go to Honolulu
to take care of the room of a foreigner sweep it and make his bed and
had been living in sin, and now was reaping the reward of her doings.
I am afraid to die.
She did die shortly after this, though not till she
had been repeatedly exhorted to look by faith to the Lamb of God who
takes away the sin of the world.
Before she died she did profess to
have made full confession of all her sins to Christ with true repentance,
and expressed the hope that her sins were pardoned through Hi s atoning
blood.
These deaths were made the occasion of solemn warning to the
people and were not without some effect.
Church discipline was more carefully attended to.
There was good
reason to believe that there was iniquity among the church members.
They were preached to, exhorted to remove all stumbling blocks.
were some s a d developements ( !) of sin among the church members.
There
The
�Kaneohe 1860
8
girl above mentioned was the child of a church member.
taken to Honolulu by a church member.
She ha d been
The house in which she was
kept was a church member's house rented to foreigners, and the girl
furnished for their room.
of our church.
The church member who did this was a member
He at first evaded it, tried to justify himself, but
finally admitted that his house was the source of abominable iniquity,
but plead that he was doing only what was the common practice in Ho
nolulu.
The good and the ba d there were in this way.
There has been much earnest prayer on the part of some in the
church frequent neighborhood prayer meetings of a few individuals.
Sometimes a day set apart especially for prayer.
visiting from house to house, tracts distributed.
blessed such means to the salvation of souls.
needed on licentiousness.
There has been much
God seems to have
A tract is greatly
One that shall speak out God's truth on
that sin, truth that shall burn as an ove/n, truth that shall be as
the fire and the oven hammer, truth that shall expose and rebuke that
sin as it deserves.
Let one be written in Hawaiian and English too
for these islands.
Something should be done or our youth, our churches, our nation
will go speedily down to the gates of death.
It is truly encourage-
ing ( !) to see the interest there is at the present time among the
people in our region and it seems to be increasing and spreading.
The attention to preaching to conversation on the soul's salvation is
unusual.
The last Sabbath before coming to this meeting I spent at
the out station where our new house is.
the aisle crowded many out doors.
It was filled to overflowing,
It is so/on week days.
commencement of our session I went home one afternoon.
morning I attended an early meeting.
Since the
The next
There were I suppose sixty or
more present, almost every eye fixed, and every ear attentive and
/
�Kaneohe 1860
9.
open to hear language and thirsting for the bread of life.
There
are at least 500 perhaps 500 in the district who profess to he on
the L o r d ’s side.
They desire baptism and admission to the church of
Christ.
A great portion of them among the younger part of the com
munity.
Many of them never (were) untill ( !) the present revival
of religion interested on the subject of their soul’s salvation.
Shall they all be admitted to the church.
What doth hinder them to
be baptized?
1860
Statistics, of the church at Kaneohe
Whole number received on profession
On certificate
Past year on profession
On certificate
Total past year
Whole number dismissed
Total -------- past year
dismissed
Total deceased
Deceased past year
Excluded past year
Remain excluded
Now in regular standing
Total children baptized
Baptized past year
Marriages
Contributions
(Not signed, B.W. Parker)
(On back:)
Report of
Kaneohe Ch 1860
B.W. Parker
846
90
15
5
20
51
8
327
4
15
38 9
285
1
18
$537.
�Church Statistics of Kaneohe Station
Whole number admitted on profession
"
"
"
on certificate
Past year on profession
on certificate
Total past year
Whole number dismissed
Dismissed past year
Total deceased
Deceased past year
Excluded past year
Remain excluded
Now in regular standing
Total children baptized
Baptized past year
Marriages past year
(1861)
904
96
58
6
64
51
"
338
11
11
431
288
3
12
(Unsigned; B.W. Parker)
�Statistics of the Church Kaneohe 1862
Whole number - on profession ,
H
Certificate,
Past year on profession,
”
"
Certificate
Total past year
Whole number dismissed,
Dismissed past year
Total deceased
Deceased past year
Excluded past year
Now in regular standing
Total children baptized
Baptized past year
Marriages
Congregation on the Sabbath
Contributions past year
922
98
18
2
20
55
4
354
16
15
420
293
5
14
100
$500
In surveying my field and looking back on the Mission work
of the past year preparatory to reporting to the Annual Meeting a
gloomy picture of this portion of the Hawaiian race presents itself.
And such a picture I must present to this meeting if I report at all.
It is true the usual amount of missionary work has been done
the past year.
Not a sabbath has passed but the doors of the house
of God have been opened for worship, instruction has been given,
the gospel of Christ preached.
Week day meetings have been attended
nearly every week in different parts of the district.
Schools for the
Instruction of children have been continued the whole year.
But why then so dark a picture of the field, of the missionary
and of the prospects of the people?
I mention first the rapid decrease of the population of this
district.
From year to year it is becoming more and more apparent
that the natives are wasting away, the race hasting to extinction.
The gospel does not save them from this rapid decay.
It does not
prove a remedy for those vices those national and social evils that
are hastening their extinction.
It is to me very plain that a great portion of the natives
�2.
are less interested than in former years in all that will improve
them physically mentally and morally, they are less interested in
those things which are for the best good of the young, for the im
provement of their children.
They are less interested in all that
will save them.
The past year in my field there has been a great falling off
among church members and others from the Sabbath Services.
The con
gregation on the Sabbath has been very small not probably averageing
over 100.
Yet In the district there is a population of 2700 and there
are over 400 church members, in the field and none of this population
live more than 10 miles from the station, and a majority of them re
side within 3 or 4 miles of the Station.
of church members from Sabbath to Sabbath
Where then are the hundreds
plainly at their houses
too indolent too indifferent to go to meeting or - they are visiting
or travelling on the Sabbath.
attended by very few.
Meetings on other days of the week are
And here I may mention that most of those who
seemed two years since to be awakened and some we hoped were truly
converted have fallen away left all meetings and this is true both
of those who were received to the church and those who were not.
But while there has been such a marked neglect of attendance
on public and social worship there has been an increase of immorality
Sabbath breaking, card-playing, horse rac ing - drinking awa feasting
for - the dead, a revival of some old heathen customs and none are
more forward in such immoral practises than a portion of the church
m e mbers.
Among the dark prospects that came over my mission field is the
progress of popery among the people.
I do not say that popery is in
the ascendancy in this district or on the whole island of Oahu certain
ly not numerically and yet there are plain and strong indications
�Kaneohe 18 62
3.
that the in flu en c e and the power is w ith them and t h e ir p a r ty .
Was
not the r e s u lt of the electio n of representatives in January not
only i n t h is d is t r ic t bu t over the whole is la n d of Oahu a most s ig n i
f i c a n t fact and this too so soon after the great r e l ig io u s interest
we have had over the whole island?
Here was a great moral question
presented to the people a question whether the n atio n sh a ll liv e and
prosper under the influ en ce of light & lib e r t y or whether i t sh a ll be
enveloped in papal & pagan d arkness.
of the papal party is
rum s e llin g
tiousness
e le c t e d .
elec ted.
Sabbath breaking
In every d is t r ic t the candidate
In every d is t r ic t the rum-making
the abbettor
( ! ) of the law fo r l ic e n
the advocate for entire change of the school system is
Who cast those seven votes to elect a papal p r ie s t chaplain
for the house o f representatives?
W ith one exception they were
probably a l l east by the members from Oahu.
The weekly newspaper supported by the papal party and t h e ir ad
herents has i f I am r ig h t l y informed a larger l i s t of subscribers
on the isla n d of Oahu than the paper supported by the p r o te s ta n t s .
The papal high school at Ohuimanu on th is is la n d has of la te
been making some advances -
A few weeks ago for the f i r s t
had a public examination of the sc ho o l.
time they
The teaching of the E n g lis h
language has a prominent place in the instructio n of the sc h o la rs .
On the day of examination they gave public n o tic e that th e ir Seminary
now received the patronage of the Haw aiian Government.
N a tiv e c h ild
ren are taken In to the school as boarding scholars fre e of a l l
expense to t h e ir parents.
The desire of the parents to have their
children taught E n g lis h and th eir being taken there f r e e of a ll ex
pense is an inducement to some protestants to send to the school.
Some effo rts have been made to separate between the c h aff and
the wheat and some measures used to keep the church members up to
�4.
what appears to be the bible standard of Christian duty.
names
It has been my practise to call the ------- of the church members
of the Sabbath to ascertain who are absent and those not at meeting
on the Sabbath who live within a reasonable distance of the place
of worship have been visited either sabbath evening or on Monday.
They may have been absent from sickness, if so they require a pastoral
visit, if absent from indifference only the(y) have been conversed
with admonished exhorted not to forsake the house of God on the Sab
bath, and those who persist in staying away without any reason have
been suspended from the church.
Church members are exhorted to attend the stated weekly meetings
regularly such as the Wednesday afternoon lecture
church meeting, monthly concert &c.
Saturday afternoon
At some of these meetings the
list of church members is called over the absent inquired after
for
exhorted
sent
admonished as the case may require, but with all the
efforts made the attendance at the weekly meetings is small.
An early morning meeting is held daily at the station whi c h I
always attend but the number who go is small varying from ten to
twenty.
All the church are expected to be present at the season prepara
tory to communion and if absent from the preparatory meeting without
any excuse in some cases they have been set aside at the approaching
communion.
This however has not been done till after repeated instruc
tion on the duty of all making special effort if necessary to attend
the meeting preparatory to the celebration of the Lords Supper.
Nor have any been suspended for such absence except where they have
had no or the most trivial excuse.
It is true by using such measures
our congregation on communion sabbath is only about as large as on
other sabbaths.
And some are kept away who would attend on this one
�5.
meeting the communion but seldom any other either Sabbath or week
day.
Such measures have caused dissatisfaction and disaffection on
the part of Some
Schools
The English school for native children has been con
tinued - the average\ attendance for the year has been 25 children.
The parents are unwilling to pay the tuition.
Doubtfull whether it
will be continued though the progress of the scolars ( !) in acquiring
the English language is such as to encourage its continuance.
A
few of the parents wish the school to be kept and will send to some
English school.
The papists will take them to their schools without
any tuition.
The native schools have been kept during the year four in n u m
ber with abou(t) 100 scholars.
There is a sabbath school at the
station attended by about 50 children.
We have no sabbath school for
adults.
Considerable effort has been made to induce the natives to be
more industrious, to cultivate the soil more and particularly to try
the culture of rice.
natives.
It is such kind of work as is well adapted to
Foreigners too have be(gun) the cultivation of rice in this
district extensively and it was hoped that their example would stim
ed
ulate the natives to cultivate their own lands, but most of them
choose to hire themselves to the foreigner at low wages and put their
lands into the hands of foreigners for a few dollars rather than
cultivate and improve them themselves.
Contributions.
Every month contributions have been taken for
foreign Missions and I have placed into the treasurer of the Hawaiian
Missionary Society one hundred and twenty five dollars.
The church
have also contributed for the support of pastor & some other objects.
The amount contributed during the year for different objects
is five hundred dollars ($500.)
(Unsigned; B.W. Parker)
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