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All dated 1871
Lahainaluna Seminary -
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L a h a i n a ---------------- -Unsigned
K e o k e a --------(Maui)---- Unsigned
Kealakeakua --(Hawaii)-- Unsigned
Abstract of Hilo report -Andrews, C . B.
�Lahainaluna Seminary [on side of page]
L-luna Sem.
Has continued in operation as in past years.
There have been two
discouragements. viz the falling of some of the buildings, & the sickness &
death of some of it's (!) pupils.
82 scholars have been connected with the
Sem during the year, 12 have completed the usual course & leave, besides
5 of last year's graduates who remained during the year & studied Theology.
Two important changes have been resolved on by the trustees of the
institution to take effect this year viz,
In view of the large expenditure for food, each scholar is to provide
for his own support henceforth.
2 .ndly
The English language is to be introduced as one branch of attainment,
by the scholars.
It is hoped, that both of these changes will add
greatly to the efficiency (!) of the Institution, in educating its
pupuls. (!)
[Unsigned]
�1871
Lahaina
Mission family h as enjoyed better health than in former years.
is in aprosperous
The church
(!) state. has increased in numbers by about 70 additions,
& 100 more maybe considered suitable candidates for admission during this
year.
Drunkeness prevalent heretofore in the village has decreased, &
other vices seem diminishing.
The chh. has assumed it's (!) pastor's support, & has contributed
liberally for their Meeting House, the Anti-Slavery Soc. for Micronesia, &
are much interested in the prospective Mission to the Marquesus.
It is
ped these calls for the gospel will come from more Isles of this pacific
Romanism sits very inactive in this field. Not so Mormonism.
I t ’s (!)
priest's began efficient operations last year with partial success among
the vilest population but have suspended most of them.
Schools were suspended about the close of 1852 for lack of funds but
are now in successful operation again.
[Unsigned]
�Keokea
This church was organized during the past year of 97 members from other
churches.
They called David Maro, & on the 2nd of Sept. last he was or-
dained & installed as their pastor.
The chh . is very promising.
Located
in the region which supplies the whaling fleet with I. potatoes, it comprises
many enterprising natives.
Since organization 115 new members have been
added.
There are 4 school (!) is (!) the district.
Two new Stone M. houses
are in process of erection one at Keokea, the other at the seaport adjacent
lepolepo.
There are no Mormons or Romanists in the field.
[Unsigned]
�Kealakeakua [on side of page]
South Kona
Hawaii
The past year has been one of privation & labor by the pastor Mr. Paris.
on account of the delapidated condition of the dwelling & M.Houses & the
disbanded state of the chh .
But his labors in many villages have been
blest & the religious engagedness there reawakened is peculiarly refreshing,
while other places seem very dead.
There is hope however, that a blessing will bepoured (!) eventually
upon all the field under continued culture hereafter.
The work for sometime
to come must nescessarily (!) be the rebuilding of wastes & dilapidations &
c o llecting the scattered & wandering.
The Meeting Houses are in process of rebuilding, $555.00 have been
collected for the one at Kealakekua, $100.00 give n at Mon. Con. $140.00
for pastor's support, $700.00 subscribed for next year.
There is hope
that this field will with present &prospective (!) labor yield good fruit
hereafter.
[Unsigned]
�[Hilo 1871]
Abstract of Hilo Report.
General temporal improvements move steadily forward.
Nearly every child of suitable age is gathered into School.
Seven new meeting houses built +2 others repaired at an
expense of 2000 dollars.
Many smaller houses conference ze (?) for prayer erected
in various parts of the field?
Poperey has little power & few adherents in Hilo & Puna.
Efforts have been made for the poor of seamen - 130 arrivals
of ships & other vessels during the year.
Tours through Hilo & Puna have been made as usual viz.
three in each district.
The Church has been peaceful, active & prosperous.
Reviving influences have spread over v ast parts of the
field & not a few hopefully converted.
The Annual Convention of delegates, & the juvenile temperence anniversaries were well attended & sustained.
Sabbath Schools embrace all the children & large numbers
of adults.
Contributions.
A.B.C.F .M.
Hawaiian M. Soc'y
Am. Tract Soc'y
Am.? Soc.Christian Union
Am. Sea. Fr'd Soc'y
Am. Bible Soc'y
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Am. T e m .
U n i o n
Am. For.Anti Slavery Soc'y
[Unsigned]
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C.B.Andrews
Hilo
$1000,
200
100
100
100
100
100
100
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WAILUKU
STATION
REPORTS
CONTENTS
Unsigned (Armstrong)................................... 1840
J o n a t h a n Green...................................... . .184 1
J o n a t h a n Green ............ .................. .. 1
84 2
Ephriam Clark................. ........ ................. 184 4
Unsigned (Clark)........... .......................... .1846
Unsigned (Clark) . ................... ........... ...... 1846
Ephraim Clark........ ...... .............. ..............1847
Unsigned (Clark)............... .................. l84 6-l84 8 ( 2 yr s .)
Daniel Conde..... . .................................... 184 9
Edward Bailey .................................. .. 1850-1851 ( 2 yr.)
Edward Bailey.... .......... .......................... 1852
Daniel Conde............ ...... ....................... 1852
Unsigned (Conde)..................... ....... ......... .1853
(see note at end for date)
Edward Bailey....... ................. ...... ....... .. 1854
Unsigned (Conde)............... ........... ............ 1855
Daniel Conde............ ...Abstract of Report........ 1855
W. P. Alexander......... .......... ................... 1
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W . P. Alexander................................... . . . . 1 8 5 8
John Pogue........................Statistics.......... 1859
'Unsigned.
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John P o gue ............................ ................. 18 6 0
Unsigned (W. P. Alexander)............................ l86l
Unsigned (W . P. Alexander) .......... ....... ......... 1862
W. P . Alexander ............ ............ ...............1862
Unsigned (W . P. Alexander)................. .......... 1863
�REPORT OF WAI LUKU STATION
[1840]
Labours among the people.
I have been enabled to pre ach during the year without any inter
ruption whatever.
For this privilege, let me here express my grati
tude to Him whom I serve in the Gospel of his Son.
On the Sabbath
I have usually preached three times, or performed labour equivolent
to that.
The Sabbath afternoon exercise is frequently, I may say
usually conversational, or rather catechetical but is quite as ex
hausting and more protracted than a sermon or lecture.
Our lecture
on Wednesday has been kept up as usual & pretty well attended.
I
have preached a good deal, tho. not very regularly at our 3 outstations
and there the routine of exercises are about the same as when at Wailuku.
During the year I have held 3 church meetings every week; one
on Wed. before lecture; one on sat. at 4 o'clock P.M. and one on the
Sabbath.
This is more than I ever attempted to do for the church in
any previous [year] . But less than this considering the number of
members in the church & their lack of knowledge, I did not feel willing
to attempt.
What can a church of 700 natives, even supposing it to
possess an ordinary amount of piety, - a church collected from a
people so characteristically unstable, so destitute of education &
moral discipline, so prone to evil, & so ready to relapse into the
pit of heathenism whence they have just been rescued, but the constant
pressure of divine truth, under the sacred influence of God's Holy
Spirit?
In these church meetings my chief aim has been, to indoctri
nate those present.
They were therefore conducted much in the form
of schools, lessons having been given out each week to prepare for
the following Besides these I have during the last half of the year held 2
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select religious schools during each week, one for the more intelli
gent young men in the church, held on Wednesdays & Saturday mornings.
Subjects of study the Old Tes. history and the Proverbs of Solomon.
In the latter, the natives take an unusual degree of interest.
The other is for young females chiefly ch. members.
They have
recently commenced on the Kuhi-Kuhi, or Fisk & Abbots questions.
This class contains about 40.
We have also a Bible class for the poe Koho, as they are called,
[poe: company of people; koho: to choose generally; select without
regard to number] This is held on Sabbath morning previous to the 11
o'clock service.
The Sab. school for children at Wailuku continues to be well at
tended & interesting.
from 500;
The avarage ( !) number of children is not far
sometimes it amounts to 600.
In no part of my labours do.
I feel a more animating interest than in this school of children.
Here lies the hope of Zion's (?) future prosperity in our parish &
the Saviour has afforded us good encouragement, that our labour for
these children shall not be in vain.
Some of the largest of them
afford comfortable evidence that they have chosen the good part which
shall not be taken from them, while the majority of them are increas
ing In a knowledge of divine truth.
At our 3 principal outstations there are also, Sab. schools for
children which are well attended & Interesting.
In all the Sab.
schools within our limits, there are at a rough estimate 1500 or 1600
children.
But we shall speak of these more properly under the head
of
Common schools for children
These schools are in much the same state as when reported a year
ago.
That is, childrens schools have been kept up pretty regularly
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in all the districts, although most of them are of such a character
as scarcely to promise any good.
The teachers generally are not
competent either to instruct or to govern children & most parents are
very indifferent as to the education of their children.
The introduction of the new code of laws have made some disturbance in our schools, by calling away the graduates of the Seminary
to be luna paahao’s [luna: overseer; paahao: system of work under the
Haw'n Government in which the common people worked out their taxes] .
The crisis however seems to be past & the schools go on as usual.
One [or] two things may here be mentioned as having a life giving
effect upon our schools - 1st
On a certain day, all the parents who
could be induced to attend a public meeting on the subject of schools,
were convened; Several speeches were made to them by native orators,
the most prominent of whom was the well known & indefatigable blind
preacher Bartimeus.
Several simple laws touching the subject of
schools were submited ( !), publicly & freely discussed for several
hours, & then passed by vote.
By this arrangement a school committee-
was choesen ( !) for each large district, whose duty it is to assist
in collecting the children, to visit & converse with parents, punish
children or parents who violated the law, which themselves had enacted
& take an active part in all that concerns the childrens school.
This
committee is chosen from our most active & benevolent men & serves
without compensation. 2.
Another measure attended with good effect
regular quarterly examinations.
In these we have endevoured ( !)
to be thorough, generally occupying 3 days with the schools in our
immediate parish, & closing with as full a meeting as we could collect
of parents & children & the subject of schools pressed upon their
attention, not only by myself, but by native speakers.
3.
Another
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means of keeping up an interest in our schools, have been school
feasts.
We have had these annually at the close of the examination,
and no part of the school system is more popular than this.
Notice
having been given out previously, the parents & children prepare their
own food, & after the school exercises, addresses &c, all sit down
on the grass together [and partake xx] of their rude repast.
While on the subject of schools it may be well here to state the
result of a consultation with the King & some of the chiefs at Lahaina,
in reference to the schools generally on Sat. the 2d of the present
month -
Messrs Andrews, Clark, Richards, & myself were present.
The
subject had been discussed in some degree by the chiefs previously,
& some few laws had been written down by Bro. Richards, with a view
to their being revised & adopted when the council of the nation
should convene.
The King entered into the subject, therefore, with
interest & expressed a willingness to make provision by law, for the
common schools of the nation, I cannot but hope that the government
will take hold of this subject with a strong hand & do something ef
ficiently for the general diffusion of knowledge in the islands.
Report of Schools at Wailuku
[This is a printed form filled in.]
May, 184 .
[At top is written :]
Wailuku
[Makawao]
station includes also Kahikinui, Honuaula, Kula, Haliimaile, Makauao,
Ham. loa, Ham. Poko.
Examination & when No. of
Apr. 1, 1840
chil. in
No. of No. of Av. no. No.
No. in No. in
the whole schools teach- atten- read- mental writter
field
ers
dance
ers
arith. arith
2000
30
45
1000
750
700
50
No. of chil.
enrolled
1600 ____ ___________ ______
t
A
[
____ __ ____ _______________ _
bottom written:] The above statistics are the best I can make from
my data, but they are not accurate, & it is extremely difficult to
procure accurate returns from the schools.
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Church
organized, on the Pres, plan [in pencil]
The statistics of the Wailuku church are as follows
Whole number recd to ch. on examination _________
691
22
Whole number on certificate
Recd
the past year on examination
192
Recd on certificate
9
Whole number recd the past year
207
Whole number dismissed to other churches
5
Dismissed the past year
4
Whole number deceased
18
Deceased the past year
10
Suspended the past year
12
Remain suspended
9
Whole number excommunicated
3
Excommunicated the past year
2
Remain excommunicated
3
Whole number in regular standing
681
Whole number of children baptised
226
70
Bapd the past year
190
Marriages the past year
Average congregation
1600
The general state of the church may be in some degree judged
of from the above table.
The tendency has been to stupidity & that
is the root of all evil, Satan gains an easy victory over the soul
that is dozing or fast asleep, while the wakeful are enabled to
resist him at every point.
For general objects of benevolence our church have attempted but
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little during the past year, their entire efforts of this kind having
been directed to finishing two stone meeting houses.
For this object they raised about $200, besides an immense amount
of work -
One meeting house (that at Haiku) is completed -
The one
at Wailuku, I hope, will be during the summer.
The cane concern
The planters on their part have done well.
A fine crop of cane
has been grown, but how much either the King or the planters will be
benefited. ( !) by it, remains to be known.
The whole concern has been
badly managed on the part of the King or rather his agents.
Contrary
to the advise ( !) of both myself & Mr. Richards a chinaman has been
employed at an immense disadvantage to the King to manufacture the cane
into sugar;
But the chinaman has as yet but very little preparation
made for his work & will not grind a stock of cane for months to come,
while the cane is rotting on the ground.
The mistake in the whole bus
iness was leaving any condition to be fulfiled ( !) by the King; who
does not seem to be much of a business man, especially at particular
times, and moreover his numerous councillors are too much like himself.
In regard to the works assigned me by the Mission, I cannot report
much progress.
The letter to Princeton Semy . has not been written, in
consequence of my having mislaid the letter received from t h e n c e ,
&
did not find it until within a few weeks since.
The tract on Romanism has been written & sent to press, but not
yet distributed that I know of.
A little more than 100 pages of the moral Philosophy has been
prepared & some 80 pages printed at Lahainaluna.
I might have accomplished much more in the way of writing but
for want of a convenient study, which I have never enjoyed until lately
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Secular labours & cares have made sad havoc of my time & strength
during the year.
attention;
The workmen on the meeting houses needed constant
The provision of the materials also cost no small trouble,
but the greatest effort of all was to keep the church in the spirit of
the work.
During the late winter season, there has been much sickness
in our region & some days I could do little else but administer to the
wants of the suffering The last item of labour I shall mention, is the instruction of my
own children & this I do not so much for the purpose of telling you
what I have been doing, as of bringing the subject again distinctly
before all our minds.
My plan has been to devote the time from 10 till
12 o'clock, five days in the week to my 3 oldest children.
Gould this
plan be carried out, something considerable might be effected but the
misfortune has been that about half the days in the year the school
was either broken up entirely or broken in upon sadly, by other cares
& labours.
The children are therefore very inadequately instructed &
are suffering in consequence.
But my case is not a singular one.
So far as I know, it is very
similar to that of all my brethren on Maui who have children of a suit
able age to learn to read.
the same condition.
Many children on other islands may be in
It has therefore become a question with me, whether
some of our brethren should not at once
. set apart for this
work of instructing our children.
[Unsigned; in Armstrong's writing]
�Station Report
Wailuku. Maui
for the year ending May 1841.
Changes at the station.
In July, soon after general meeting of last
year, the station suffered greatly in the removal of Mr. Armstrong,
pastor
the pster, to Honolulu, to assist in the labors of that important post,
during the absence of Mr. Bingham to the United States.
About the same
time Mr. Bailey arrived at Wailuku to assist the acting pastor either
in the parish or Seminary as might be deemed expedient.
After free con
sultation both Mr. Bailey and the pastor [thought] it best that there
should be no change during the year in the superintending and instruct
ing of the School - that Mr. Green’s relation to the institution should
continue, and in addition that he should perform so far as able, the
duties of pastor and teacher to the church, and congregation - that Mr.
Bailey should occupy the house of Mr. Armstrong, should teach the sta
tion school, superintend the schools throughout our field, and answer
the calls of the people for medical aid.
A report of his labors will
be presented.
Result of these changes, Health &c
Assent to the arrangement made by the Committee for the supply of
the pulpit at Honolulu was yielded by the brethren at Wailuku on the
ground that the good of the cause demanded the sacrifice of private
feeling.
Though Satan has many emissaries and devoted servants at
Wailuku, yet he may not has ( !) as many strong holds as at Honolulu.
There seemed to be no possibility of supplying Mr. Bingham's post without
weakening some out station, a na manao ia, he pono loa he limaikailea
ma ka hoeuli, ia manawa pilikia i pakele ai ka moku i ka nalu, a i
hooholo pono ia; no laila, na haawiia mai o Limaikaika e hona hohoolua.
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That the station at Wailuku would suffer from this arrangement there
could be no doubt.
The station school and the schools generally have
doubtless received more attention than they would have done had Mr.
Armstrong remained, and Mr. Bailey returned to Kohala.
They have been
conducted with efficiency, and are in a prosperous state.
The loss
which has been sustained by the changes are connected with pastoral
labors.
Had other things been equal, it was impossible for me as the
successor of Mr. Armstrong, to enter at once into all his plans of
labor.
Besides my attention being divided and bestowed upon two distinct
objects I have been unable to perform many labors which the interests
of the people obviously demand.
Scarcely have I been able to visit the
sick and the dying, though unless at a distance, I have always endeav
oured to do so.
To make any thing like pastoral visits, has been out
of my power, nor have I deemed it expedient on account of my connexion
with the Seminary to admit the people to my house unless on business of
great importance.
The health of the members of the station with the
exception of Mrs. Green, has been almost uniformly good, for which we
desire to record our tribute of praise to God.
Mrs. Green has been
laid asside ( !) most of the year from direct labors among the people,
and has done but little for the pupils of the Seminary.
Public labors.
These by the blessing of God have been uninterrupted, and to an
amount nearly as greatas formerly.
terrupted by ill health.
No Sabbath’s labors have been in
Morning, noon and evening the people have had
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opportunity to listen to the messages of God.
So also on Wednesday of
each week, and at funerals of which there have been many during the year
Two lectures each week have been preached as formerly, at Waikapu.
The season of monthly concert for the conversion of the world, for
seminaries & schools, and for the enslaved have been observed.
had no regular protracted meeting during the year.
We have
The week previous
to our quarterly communion however, public labors have been considerably
multiplied.
Two Bible classes have been conducted on the Sabbath.
One by Mr.
Bailey with the professedly enquiring part of the congregation at 9
O.C. [O 'clock]
the other by the pastor with the church soon after the
close of the 11 O.C. service.
Sabbath schools have been uniformly
conducted, and with considerable efficiency. A large number of children
house
have assembled at the ----- of God on sabbath morning, at Wailuku, and
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have been taught the word of God, and the ui no ka olelo a he Akua
[questions concerning the promises of God] - a little tract of more
value than all the volumes produced by the united, boasted wisdom of
Egypt, Greece and Rome.
At the close of the school, the children of
the sabbath school have united with the pupils of the Seminary in a
short exercise of singing and prayer, and have either been questioned
from the catechism, or listened to a short exhortation.
the sabbath school for children is very large,
At Haiku also
Mr. Bailey and the
pastor have spent some six sabbaths at that out station, and have
always been delighted at the number of the children whom we have ad
dressed.
I think no station on the islands affords so many facilities
for instructing children as Wailuku.
Would that a children's minister
were located in our field !
A theological class which Mr. Armstrong assisted to instruct the
last year, has received some attention.
During a part of the year,
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they received instruction twice a week.
I have been through the
gospels with them after the manner of Newcombs Harmony.
spared to return to Wailuku, to resume this labor.
I hope, if
From this class,
several have gone out occasionally to destitute places to communicate
the knowledge which they have gained from studying the Bible.
In this
way, some five or six of our out stations have been visited, and the
people, in a measure instructed.
Bartimea has received a temporary
license and is now laboring with much fidelity among the destitute at
a considerable distance from the station.
I designed that he should have
when
been fully licensed, perhaps ordained, but have seen no time ------ it
could well be done.
Translations - Assignments &c
The church history which at the last general meeting, was assigned
me for revision, I have thoroughly revised, greatly enlarged, and near
ly completed.
An edition of 3,000 has been put to press at Lahainaluna.
Fourteen sheets are in type, and If we are spared, it will be carried
through the press as soon as possible after general meeting.
probably make a book of some 250 pages.
It will
Peter Parley’s Universal history
was commenced with the design of translating it speedily, but on con
sulting Mr. Dibble who had used it somewhat in the Seminary, I laid it
asside ( !).
It is too puirile in our opinion.
A better work may be
selected, and assigned to some one for translation.
The part of our
foreign correspondence which was assigned me has been written.
I have
also addressed letters to some of the colleges and Theological Semi
naries of the United States, also individuals, clerical and lay breth
ren, on the amazingly important subject of the conversion of the world
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a part of our work second to no other, but one which, I
fear, we are greatly neglecting.
I would affectionately remind my
brethren that we shall not be blood guiltless if we neglect to warn the
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ministry and the churches of the United States of the criminality of
refusing to obey the ascending commandxxxx of the Lord Jesus Christ
and thus leaving unnumbered millions to perish.
Statistics for the past year.
Received to the Church
179
7
On Examination
By letter
Dismissed to sister Chh.
Died
Excommunicated
Suspended
Children baptised
Marriages
Attendance on
the Sabbath
6
26
12
16
120
128
1500
State of the Congregation
The attendance on the sabbath is much as it was the past year.
Our house is well filled, sometimes to overflowing at mid day.
usual, a much smaller congregation at sunrising, and evening.
As
The fail
ure of the roof of our new meeting house, keeps us still in straitened
circumstances.
season.
We hope to see the house completed in the course of the
The Savior has hitherto saved us from the emissaries of Satan
in the garb of a popish priest.
Of late I hear that some native is
making an effort to teach popery not far from us, but I think he has not
much encouragement.
and attentive.
ledge.
Our congregation has the reputation of being orderly
I feel an assurance that the people are growing in know
May the truth make them all free.
More strength has been expended upon the church than upon all the
people besides.
Though I have been unable to visit the members of the
church at their own houses excepting in seasons of affliction, yet I
have spent much time with all of them who could meet me in the house
of God, and all have been required to meet me there at least once a week.
�Wailuku - 1841
There I have exhorted, warned, and encouraged the members of Christ's
family.
More than half my discourses have been directed to professed
christians.
We have a stated meeting of the church on Saturday evening.
A part of the year we have had a special meeting on Wednesday afternoon
previous to the public lecture, to study the word of God.
I have also
uniformly addressed the church at the close of my bible class on the
Sabbath.
On these occasions I have endeavored to use great plainness of
speech; and I have sometimes felt that if persuasion and entreaty could
avail, it should succeed in causing these professed disciples of Christ
to glorify His adoreable ( !) name and to labor to build up His cause.
The result of these labors with the church have been exceedingly
various.
A small number afford me great satisfaction.
the seed seems to have fallen on good ground.
glory of God.
In their case
They bear fruit to the
They adorn their profession, are prayerful, humble, and
in a good degree
consciencious (!), seem disposed to do
good, and they are training, I cannot doubt, for the kingdom of glory.
I greatly rejoice in them, and find nothing more honorable and pleasant
than aiding them as I am able in growing in grace.
Of many others I have hope that they may be christians. True the
evidence which they give (is rather negative) of their adoption into the
family of the redeemer than positive.
in doubt of them.
I cannot but say that I stand
The Savior may see his own blessed image stamped upon
their souls, though faintly delineated the germ of endless life.
He may see in their bosoms
They are children and make slow progress
in knowledge though constantly instructed.
Still this may be consistent
with genuine piety, though I should hardly dare to encourage such to
hope, and should certainly refuse to admit those of this standing to
church privileges, so prone are they to cherish a hope on the slightest
evidence.
There appears to have been some - perhaps many, of this
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7.
character and standing in the churches planted and watered by
the hand of Paul.
He had hope that some of his Hebrew brethren were
christians, though they had need to be taught what were the first
principles of the oracles of God, and were such as had need of milk,
not strong meat. So it may be of some of these negative kind of
Christians in the church at Wailuku and indeed in all our churches.
God grant that many of whom we now stand in doubt, may be found stars
in our crown of rejoicing in the day of Christ Jesus.
Of others, and alas, not a few! I can form no other judgment than
that they have a name that they live while they are dead.
They do manage
most of them and these are the individuals who of all others most
severely try me to retain their standing in the church, but they ex
hibit no evidence of being living, fruitful members of the living Vine.
I know of no class in the community who seem to be in so fearful cir
cumstances as these.
When I look upon them, as in the house of God, or
in the prayer meeting, I sometimes watch, with an aching heart, their
vacant expression of countenance, and see how powerless the thunders of
Sinai, or the melting accents of Calvary fall upon their leaden ears.
I often think of the fearful language of our Lord, made perhaps to a
similar class of men - "How can ye escape the damnation of hell?"
Oh
the fearful responsibilities of pastors everywhere - but especially at
these islands.
Yes, I cannot help thinking, a more solemn post than
the most cautious among us has conceived it to be. Language is too
injury
poor to express the xxxxxxxx: which we may inflict upon the churches
and upon individuals themselves, by admitting to the fold of Christ
those who are unrenewed in the temper of their minds.
And as we claim
no knowledge of the character of our fellow men any farther than it is
developed by their daily conduct, may we have patience to wait till
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fruits of holiness shall abound to the glory of God.
Of the 179 individuals admitted to the church at Wailuku, during
the year, I remark, that they belong to different parts of our wide
field from Kahlkinui to Hamakualoa.
Nearly all profess to be the fruits
of the late revival - have attended protracted meetings at Wailuku, or
Haiku, or Honuaula.
Many of them had conversed, and some of them re
peatedly with Mr. Armstrong, and it is said of them that they have long
appeared well.
Though I carefully examined them as to the grounds of
their hope in Christ, and evidence of adoption into His family, yet to
my mind it is, I confess, a circumstance of considerable weight that
for two and three years and long after the peculiar excitement which we
have all witnessed had ceased, these individuals appear so well.
Still
they may appear no better than those who were admitted during the season
of excitement.
I shall watch the result, if spared, with deep interest.
As pastor of the church at Wailuku during the past year, I can
truly say, that as on the one hand, my richest enjoyments have had their
source in the apparent humble piety of some of my native brethren, so
on the other hand my deepest anguish has arisen from the unchristian,
and shameful conduct of others.
I have been particularly affected
with the evidence which has been accumulating through the year, of
the torpid state of conscience in the bosom of some members of the church,
What can be done to teach conscience to do her office to speak authoritively so as to deter from approaching the ordinances of the Lord those
who live in the habitual Indulgence of known and gross sin?
(!)
I am distressed also when I witness the death like indiference of
christian parents in relation to their baptized children.
Nothing can
exceed the indiference manifested by most, and the few who can be
aroused to some sense of its importance seem unable to make anything
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like vigorous efforts.
ing.
I see nothing in the churches more deeply alarm
To this cause I attribute in a great measure the fact that so
far as I have heard, nearly all the children who have united with
the churches, with the exception of most perhaps in our boarding
schools , are falling into sin.
They have never been trained to submit
their wills to any being, and they seem determined to do as they will,
though that will may directly oppose the will of their Creator and
Judge.
Hence the apparent ease with which they can break their covenant
obligations, and rush headlong into sin the moment their inclinations
are crossed.
Some affecting examples of this have recently fallen under
my eye, which I may mention in another connexion. What will become of
speedily
the nation unless there can be a change ---------(---) effected in re
lation to domestic education?
Can nothing be done to break up forever
the old system of educating children by allowing them to follow the
bent of their own inclination?
Cannot there be adopted a better system
of training their offspring?
Mortality among the people
I have not kept a record of the births and deaths which have occured ( !) at our station during the year.
So far as my obligation goes,
I should judge that the deaths have considerably exceeded the births.
Thus also throughout our field.
children.
I have baptized 179 adults and 120
This includes not only nearly all the children of the 179
adults who have been admitted this year, also several adopted children,
but the children also o f former members of the church throughout the
field born this year.
Another fact.
There have been admitted to the
church at Wailuku since the station was taken 870 individuals of all
ages from the child to the very aged but the majority [of] persons in
the prime of life.
The number of baptized children from the first is
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10.
366, considerably less than half as many children as adults.
I hope,
if spared, to ascertain more definitely the state of people in respect
to the waning population.
There has been no special sickness among
the people in the vicinity of Wailuku the past year, but that they are
wasting away, I have no doubt.
Since the last meeting of the mission something more has been done
to test the value of the experiment making at Wailuku in the cultivation
of cane and the manufacturing of sugar.
While Mr. Armstrong was with
us, some 50 acres of cane were planted by the people on shares, besides
a considerable quantity by orders of the king.
This crop is now manu
factured, and I allude to it in this report only as it has a bearing on
the cause of Christ and the interests of the people at Wailuku.
The advantages which may be supposed to accrue to the people from
this source are the following. 1.
Recognition of private rights. 2
Formation and increase of industrious habits. 3, Multiplication of the
means of living, and as a consequence - of the means of doing good.
all these respects something has been gained.
In
Though the king greatly
failed in the punctual fulfilment of)his engagement with the people,
yet the simple fact that he made an engagement with them shows that there
has been a gain to the people.
It is a kind of entering wedge which
will ultimately lay open to them sources of high enjoyment.
The formation
and increase of industrious habits is another great advantage.
Much
labor in preparing the ground, planting, watering, and weeding cane,
building, making roads, cutting wood, teaming &c has been performed
during the year —
too much of it alas - by criminals in paying their
fines - still a good deal has been done honestly.
the means of living has been another benefit.
Multiplication of
The acre men as they are
called, have most of them done very well for themselves.
Some have
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.
obtained 40 and even 50 dollars in trade, for their share of the profits,
and I think that they will average $25. per acre.
In all these respects
there has been a gain to the people, and all these might be made
to subserve the cause of Christ.
On the other hand there have been many evils connected with the
manufacturing establishment some necessarily so connected perhaps others - others owing to the fact that the business has most unhappily
fallen into improper hands.
four years.
The Chinamen have the establishment for
They have no Christian principle to restrain and guide
them, and their influence cannot but be regarded as unfavorable to good
morals.
They are nearly inaccessible to the influence of the gospel
having but a smattering of native, and less of the English language.
The only one in whom we had any confidence, and who seemed to be a
kind of chief among them recently committed suicide.
They have gathered
around them the refuse of society - much iniquity is practised in and
about the establishment, and I have many fears that the evil will in
crease.
(General Improvement
(and Future Prospects.
In a field so extensive as the one which we are called to occupy
and among a people so ignorant, and struggling with so many disabilities
it is not easy to mark the progress of improvement during a single
year.
To look back several years, and compare the circumstances of the
people now with their circumstances at that time, the change is striking
I think there is a gradual, though slow, change going on - that there
has been an improvement this year in the habits of some portion of the
people.
Not a few are becoming industrious, and seem ready to engage
in any plans which promise to make them more comfortable.
Still, there
are many things painfully discouraging, especially in relation to the
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female part of the community.
They often assign as a reason for in
dulging their indolent habits, that they have nothing to do.
Some of
them would probably labor, had they sufficient encouragement, but in multitudes of cases, their laziness, and love of sin is at the bottom.
To mention the case of several young women - members of the church in whose welfare we have all taken much interest.
have lived with Mr. Armstrong.
labor.
Two or more of them
Mr. and Mrs. Bailey encouraged them to
He employed them to teach the small children in school, and
gave them regular wages.
They were also encouraged to work at Mr.
Bailey’s during their leisure hours.
He built a loom for weaving mat
ting, which works well, and having procured materials for matting, he
employed them at this business.
But they became sick of this business;
one of them left her labor and school, and was found among the boys
breaking cane for the mill.
She needed more excitement than she found
in the quiet yard of Mr. Bailey.
She has since requested permission
to be connected in marriage with a thoughtless impenitent boy, which
being withheld, she has broken her covenant, and is suspended from the
church.
Another of whom we had still more hope, has for a similar
reason abandoned the cause of Christ and is now in the hands of the
luna kanawai [judge or magistrate] . I shall not [be] greatly surprised
if they all come to a similar end.
In regard to the prospects of the people, little can be said.
In some respects they seem encouraging.
We are at present favored with
as good native help in schools, perhaps, as any of the brethren, and we
hope ere long, to have comfortable houses for schools.
We are building
a ( !) adoby school house, and as soon as the meeting house Is finished,
we design to convert the old one into school rooms.
shall do in this department of labor.
What we can, we
So also in other departments
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which promise to elevate the people in the
all our hope is in God.
of existence.
But
The gospel of Christ, I am more and more con
vinced, is the grand instrument of elevating and saving the people.
This instrument of the renovation of a perishing world, plied in faith
with humble reliance on God, will save the soul, while it will lay
ample foundation for the civilization of the most degraded.
May we be
enabled to honor God by a diligent use of the means which His wisdom
has devised, while we rely with a child-like simplicity upon the pro
mised aid of the Holy Spirit.
J. S. Green
Acting Pastor
Whole no. admit on Exam.
On certificate
Past year on Examination
certificate
Whole no past year
Whole dismissed
Past year
Whole deceased
Past year
Suspend past year
Remain Suspended
Excommunicated past year
Whole in regular standing
Whole baptised children
Do past year
Marriages past year
Average attendant on the Sabbath
870
[no figure given]
179
7
186
28
6
44
26
16.
9
12
777
366
120
128
1500
�Station Report, Wailuku, Maui
For the Year ending May 1842.
Health.
The hand of God has been upon the families of this station
for good during the past year.
Till January, all of us enjoyed our
usual health, excepting the youngest child of Mr. Bailey.
But scarce
ly had Mr. Baldwin, who was send for on account of the sudden illness
of this child, reached Wailuku, ere the disease was rebuked.
Since
January, the health of the acting pastor has been less firm than usual.
For several sabbaths he was laid aside from his accustomed labors, and
an absence from the station of about two weeks was submitted to in the
hope of receiving permanent benefit.
By the mercy of God he is now
nearly recovered though less vigorous than before the attack.
Mrs.
Green has been, as usual, a great sufferer during much of the year.
She is now as comfortable as could be expected.
On the whole, we have
much occasion to speak of the loving kindness and faithfulness of our
Covenant keeping God.
Labors. The labors of the station have been prosecuted with as
much regularity and efficiency as the health of the members of the
station has admitted.
Schools.
To speak of them in order we begin with
Of the Female Seminary I need not speak, as Mr. Bailey
will make a report of the State and prospects of this institution.
I feel it a privilege, however, to say, that with the course which Mr.
Bailey has pursued in reference to the Seminary, I am much gratified.
All that could be done, so far as I can see, has been done to secure the
object for founding such an institution; and as great improvement in
the several branches of instruction communicated has been made as could
have been expected.
inary is unabated.
I scarcely need say that my interest in this Sem
I trust the mission will not cease to supplicate
the blessing of God on its behalf, while they do all in their power to
carry it forward.
I earnestly request that my connexion as principal
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2.
of the Seminary may be dissolved by vote of the mission, and that Mr.
Bailey may be confirmed in this office to which he was appointed tem
porarily by the Trustees near the close of the last missionary year.
Of common schools, I think I may say that they have been, on the
whole, prosperous.
I mean, prosperous for Hawaiian children’s schools.
That any improvement has been made is to my mind more astonishing than
that the improvement has not been more rapid.
The qualifications of
teachers and the little interest many of them take in the improvement
of the children - the state of their school houses - the destitution
of books and apparatus for teaching, the ungoverned habits of children
and the deadly apathy of 9/10 of the parents, all all present an as
pect of extreme discouragement.
Yet something has been accomplished,
all these discourageing ( !) circumstances to the contrary notwithstand
ing.
During the year there have been three public examinations of
schools, besides a partial one conducted by David Malo for his own
satisfaction as the Kahu of Schools on Maui.
youth and children present was 1600.
The average number of
This is a considerably less
number than the one reported by Mr. Bailey the last year.
2114, and 750 readers.
He reported
Prom inquiry and observation, I doubt whether
there are now as many children, of a suitable age to attend school,
in this field.
There may be 2000 who might, and who do occasionally,
attend school.
The cause of this decrease may be found in the decrease
of population by death, and removal to other places.
A considerable
number of youth have entered the marriage state, and, of course, have
ceased to attend school.
Statistics of schools in our field
Houses
Schools
Teachers
30
39
60
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Scholars
Examined
Readers, Good
Begin to read
Alphabet
Writers
Arithmetic
Geography
2000
1600
738
191
687
350
500
345
One thing unfavorable to the prosperity of schools in our field
is the character of a considerable portion of the country.
Kahikinui,
Honuaula and Kula are greatly subject to distressing drought a consider
able portion of the year, and parents and children wander here and there
for a precarious subsistence.
Schools, at such times, are nearly sus
pended, and what little had been gained by the labors of half the year,
is found to have been dissipated on their return.
But nothing so re
tards the progress of improvement as the increasing confusion and mis
chief of the children during hours of school.
The teachers
seem wholly
unable to maintain discipline, and they are well nigh discouraged.
I have petitioned the chiefs and council of the nation to take this
matter into consideration, and if possible, devise some method to put
the schools into a b&tter state in this respect.
To keep our number of teachers good, and to bring forward better
qualified ones, a station school has been taught during the year by
an industrious and well qualified graduate of the mission Seminary.
He has had about 25 pupils, some of whom are quite forward.
The pastor has had a class of adults pursuing studies preparatory
to the work of evangelists.
Of late they have been studying the Hull
kanaka and the Moo-olelo Ekalisia.
The class is making pleasing progress
in these studies, and in the study of the Bible.
Adults have also been
encouraged to attend exhibitions, and read a verse each in the word
of God.
This several hundreds have done and in this way an interest is
kept up among that class who can no longer be expected to attend schools
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excepting on the Sabbath.
Labors of the Sabbath.
These have been continued as usual.
Sabbath Schools on the morning
of the Lord's day are well attended not only at Wailuku, but at 6 or 7
out stations.
Bible classes have been conducted with efficiency and have
been instrumental of good.
The gospel has been preached at the station
regularly, and occasionally at Hamakua and Honuaula.
There has been
no protracted meeting chiefly because of the unfinished state of our
meeting house.
Several of the class who are pursuing a course preparatory
to taking a license have gone out occasionally; and as they were able,
have communicated instruction to their benighted and dying brethren.
Bartimea, the partially blind man, well known to most of the brethren
as an able, and devoted and popular Christian labour(er), after a full
and thorough examination in presence of the whole chh, and with their
cordial approbation, has been licensed to preach the gospel, and will
now go out and labor in this capacity where his services may be most
needed.
He seems full of the Holy Ghost, and speaks with power.
May
many men of this stamp be raised up to perpetuate religious institu
tions at these islands.
The pastor has made one tour round the island,
preaching as he went from village to village.
examining schools.
So also on his tours for
In these several ways, at home and abroad, much good
seed has been sown, which by the blessing of God may produce fruit to
life everlasting.
The congregation on the Sabbath has not been quite so large as
in former years, though there has not been any great falling off.
In
November last, one of our people who had been to Honolulu, and while
there had been baptised by the Romanists, began to make a noise in the
neighborhood of the station.
He began to have meetings in his own house,
and drew away some 20 or 30.
I believe these meetings are continued,
though there is no noise made about him or his meetings.
Our good
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5.
brother Bartemea has preached the gospel faithfully to him, and I have
had one interview with him.
The congregations on the Sabbath have been attentive - sometimes
peculiarly solemn.
Sixty two individuals from the world have been
added to the church, and seventy two children baptized.
duals have been excluded, and eight suspended.
Nine indivi
Fifteen members have
died.
Since the last general meeting the people have taken down the
roof of the meeting house, and with the assistance of Mr. Bailey, they
have put on a good one.
This was a heavy job, and considerable dis
couragement was doubtless felt.
But they are much gratified with their
new roof, and they are now about to take hold and finish their house.
Eighty nine marriages have been celebrated during the year.
The people are still decreasing in the vicinity of Wailuku.
The appointment made me by the Committee of Correspondence at the
last general meeting, has been fulfilled; and the works assigned me for
translation have been completed and printed.
There has been an unusual demand for books during the year.
I
have given away a large number of testaments, and several entire Bibles,
and there is still a loud call.
I could not in conscience withhold the
New Testament from the children and youth who were destitute, and who
came to me earnestly requesting it, though they had nothing to pay for
it.
Our people are forming a bible society.
Some 50 dollars have been
subscribed.
The work on the meeting house has taken so much of the time and
strength of the people in the immediate vicinity of the station, that
little has been done for benevolent objects the past year.
has been contributed to the Seminary in fish and kapa.
Something
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6.
On the whole, we who occupy the station at Wailuku feel that we
have much occasion for gratitude to God for His goodness to us & to the
people.
Many of the members of the chh are brethren beloved in Christ
Jesus, bear His image and glorify His name.
We hope they will be our
crown of rejoicing in the great day of account.
cause us much concern.
Others are a grief, and
But on a review of the labors & trials of the
year, a feeling of gratitude predominates, and we call upon our breth
ren to bless God on our behalf while they beseech Him to build up His
kingdom more gloriously by our humble instrumentality.
Statistics of Wailuku Station.
Whole No. ad. to the Chh. on Examination
On certificate
Past year on Examination
Past year on Certificate
Whole No. Past year
Whole No. dismissed to other chhs
Dismissed the past year
Whole No disceased ( !)
Disceased past year
Suspended past year
Remain suspended
Excommunicated the past year
Whole No. Excommunicated
Whole in regular standing
Baptized past year
Marriages past year
Whole No of baptised children
Average congregation on the Sabbath
932
[no figure given]
62
6
68
34
6
59
15
8
7
9
[no figure given]
823
72
89
438
1200
Respectfully submitted
J.S. Green
�Report of Wailuku Station
May 1844
The last Report of this Station was presented to the Gen. Meeting
by Mr. Green, whose connection with Wailuku Station ceased the early
part of the year 1843.
I removed to Wailuku with my family, agree
able to the vote of Gen. Meeting, June 14, 1843.
I had, for some time
before, partially supplied the pulpit on the sabbath.
The field of Wailuku embraces the teritory ( !) between Waihee on
West Maui & Kahikinui on East Maui inclusive.
The districts of Hama-
kua & Kula formerly connected with this station are now under the care
of Mr. Green.
180 members of the Wailuku church belonging to these two
districts were formed into a separate church by their former pastor,
Mr. Green, before my removal to Wailuku.
creased to about 400.
The same church has now in
In addition to the Female Seminary, Mr. Bailey
consented to take charge of the dispensary for the S [t] ation.
The
charge of the church & common schools devolved on me.
1.
Pastoral labors.
N o material change was made in the pastoral labors of the S [t] ation.
The labors of the sabbath consist of a sermon at sun rise in the
morning, & at 10 1/2 oclock A.M. & at 3 1/2 oclock P.M., & a Bible class at
1 oclock.
Mr. Bailey takes charge of the children’s sabbath school of
the station.
In addition to these labors of the sabbath, 4 meetings
are attended regularly during the week, 2 at the station, & 2 in neigh
boring villages.
Also 2 Monthly concerts every month.
At the restoration of the Government, a thanksgiving was observed
in a strictly religious manner.
A good impression was evidently made,
& considerable interest excited on the subject of religion.
Some of
our best men observed, that it was like a pule hoomau. [continuing
prayer or worship]
There has been a good degree of interest on the subject of re
�Wailuku - 1844
2.
ligion during most of the year.
Some hundreds, who regard themselves
as the poe koho [chosen people] , have been conversed with in private.
90 have been admitted to the church & 41 stand propounded.
There has ( !)
cut
been several cases of discipline, but none have been entirely xxxx off.
Some attempt was made for a time in our part of the island, to revive
a form of idolartry ( !) under the pretended sanction of the king.
One
member was suspended from the church for joining in the delusion.
A
company of Romanists have also been making strenuous efforts to aid the
cause of the Pope.
I hear of none, except the ignorant & the vicious,
who have been led into the snare.
Our last communion sabbath was ob
served by them as a day of public feasting.
A thatched house of worship,
which they had erected with much labor, was burned down soon after com
pleted.
It was said to have taken fire from the burning of a small
building near, which took fire from ahi buka [ahi baka: fire tobacco] .
Of the truth of this, I have not positive proof.
It is certain, how
ever, that smoking was universal in those who lived about the house, &
who worshiped ( !) in it.
I have made three visits to Honuaula, the out station recently
occupied by the lamented Bartimeus, & administered the sacriment ( !)
each time to that part of the Wailuku church.
On the second week in Jany. we held a protracted meeting at the
station, commending on Wednesday & closing with the Lord's supper on
the sabbath.
People were present from all parts of the field.
meetings were full & the audience attentive.
days during the meeting.
The
Mr. Green assisted two
A good impression was made, & we hope, some
wanderers reclaimed & some souls converted.
A few who sustain important
civil offices, some of them excluded church members, are seeking to
regain their standing, & give some evidence of repentance.
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We have been called to part during the year with some of our most
useful church members.
Bartimeus, whose praise is in all the churches,
was called to his rest in September.
A brief memoir of his life in
English by Mr. Green is now in the press at Lahainaluna.
A few months
after his death, Poehe, one of the most useful sisters of the church,
who held an important station in the female Seminary, was called to
leave her charge.
She died a peaceful death.
And in February, Hawaii,
an aged man, but a most active & useful officer of the church, was
suddenly removed by death.
He was greatly beloved by his different
pastors, & by all who knew him.
The contributions of the church & people for benevolent objects,
mainly for the meeting house/ in Hana have amounted to $112.14.
does not include late contributions for support of pastor.
This
This has been
nearly all cash.
Early in April, a church meeting was held without any suggestion
from me, & resolutions adopted, drawn up by a member of the church,
of which the following is a translation:
’’Wailuku Maui April 8, 1844
Resolutions adopted by the church included in the terratory ( !)
from Waihee to Kahikinui.
1.
That we decline the support received by Mr. Clark from the
Missionary Society of America, & that this church of Wailuku unite
together to supply all his wants in this thing & that thing, which he
needs for his support.
2.
That his support from America be sent to those places, where
the name of the Saviour has not been known.
3.
That collectors be appointed in different parts of the dis
trict, whose duty it shall be to take charge of the property contri-
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4.
buted by the church.
4.
That certain persons be appointed to stir up the people to this
work, & that the collections be made 4 times a year.
5.
That the contributions at the monthly concert & contributions
for other definite objects be kept distinct from what is contributed
for the support of the pastor.
6.
That the names of all, who assent to these propositions be
attached to this engagement, entered into by this church, & that it be
the duty of the collectors to take down the names.
7.
In this manner, shall each one give, each according to his
ability, some $1.00, some 50 cts, some 25 cts, some 121/2 & some 6 cents,
according as each one receive from the highest to the lowest, so shall
he give.
8.
To carry out these resolutions is the great thing, for it
it [is] an important work, & a work by which both our country & ourselves
will be benefitted.”
These resolutions were discussed at a full meeting of the church
at considerable length, & unanimously adopted, collectors chosen &c.
I encouraged them to go on.
I cannot but hope a beginning will be made
towards supporting their own pastor.
It is time some experiments were made.
More than $50. have been raised.
The effort of the people of
Hamakua & Kula to support their pastor is very encouraging thus far, &
promises to be successful.
I believe the effort will do the people good,
both in a temporal & spiritual point of view.
It will be attended with
considerable labor & perplexity on the part of pastors.
But does not
the good of the cause demand the labor & sacrifice on our part?
�Wailuku - 1844
5.
Statistics of the church.
Whole number admitted to the church on examination 1,170
On certificate 55.
Past year on examination 90.
certificate 12. Whole number past year 102.
other churches 254.
Whole no. dismissed to
Dismissed the past year 30.
Deceased past year 17.
Suspended past year 9.
Excommunicated past year none.
main excommunicated unknown.
Past year on
Whole no. deceased 86.
Remain suspended 6.
Whole no. excommunicated unknown.
Re
Whole No. in regular standing 885. Whole
No. of children baptised 652.
Baptised the past year 186.
of children deceased unknown.
Deceased past year unknown. Marriages
past year 109.
Whole no.
Avarage ( !) number of congregation on the sabbath 1200.
The church at Makawao under the pastoral care of Mr. Green con
tains about 400 members, 180 of which were formerly connected with
the church at Wailuku.
Schools .
The number of schools connected with the station is 25.
been in pretty constant operation during the year.
They have
There has been 2
examinations. Some advance has been made in the number of scholars &
the
in/efficiency of schools since last year. But there is yet much want
ing to make the schools what they ought to be.
There is a deficiency
in maps, stationary & some kinds of school books; & some of the teach
ers are wanting in qualification & energy.
But there is, I think, an
increasing interest in schools.
The labor of examining schools - attending to the wants of the
teachers, - supplying schools with books, - keeping account of avails
&c &c, is a heavy call upon the time & patience of the pastor.
A few
scholars have been sent to the Seminary, & a few more have been sent to
�Wailuku - 1844
Mr. Rice's school at Hana.
In the month of March, a convention of teachers assembled at Wai
luku from all parts of the island.
Nearly 100 teachers were present.
The object of the convention was to consult together respecting the
hemahema [need] of schools, the pilikia [troubles] of teachers &c &c.
The convention continued in cession ( !) 4 days & was conducted with the
strictest order & propriety.
An association of teachers for Maui & the
adjacent islands of Molokai & Lanai was formed to meet once a year.
A memorial to Government was drawn up, & various other matters in re
lation to schools were discussed.
Mr. Bailey or myself was present most
of the time, & aided by our remarks & suggestions.
Statistics of schools.
Number of schools & teachers 25.
Readers 492.
Writers 45.
Whole number of scholars 808.
Geography 110.
Mental Arithmetic 270.
Written Arithmetic 45.
The above report does not, of course, include that part of the
Wailuku field now under the charge of Mr. Green.
Respectfully submitted
E.W. Clark
�Report of Station - May 1846
[Wailuku]
There has been no sudden, or very marked change in the state of
things in my field since our last Gen. Meeting.
has evidently been on the advance.
The cause of religion
The same means have been employed
as in former years to carry forward the work & with equal success.
The meetings on the sabbath have been well attended.
consisted of three meetings besides the ai o ka la.
also attended a Sabbath school.
These have
Mr. Bailey has
Besides the Sabbath, a meeting has been
attended regularly 4 days in the week & sometimes 5, besides church
fasts & meetings with church lunas.
ferent places.
These meetings have been in dif
I have visited 3 times a year the out post at Honuaula
& administered the Lord's supper to the church in that part of the field.
Kaili a graduate of the Seminary & a very capable man has been
employed as a regular helper at this out post.
a year as compensation.
He now receives $50.
I have 8 or 10 other lunas who have charge of
separate districts, & who render important aid in various ways.
A protracted meeting of several days was held in January.
results were very happy.
The
Several back sliders, persons of much influence
came forward & made public confession, & have since appeared well.
seemed also to be the commencement of a revival.
It
A large number of
hoomolokas [hoomaloka: unbeliever], papists & others have since that
time professed to turn to the pono [right] , & have come to me to con
verse upon the concerns of the soul.
I have conversed individually with
more than 200, & could have conversed with many more if time could have
been devoted to it. A more than usual interest is still manifested in
different parts of the field.
The movements of the papists seem to have become almost extinct
within the boundaries of my field.
The leading man among them recently
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died, & I hear of no catholic meetings.
their professed adherance ( !) to popery.
Many have openly renounced
But should special efforts
he made by the foreign priests an interest would doubtless be again
excited.
The party have never had very many adherents on the island
of Maui.
During the year closing May 1844, 92 persons were admitted to the
church on profession 25 by letter.
18 suspended - 11 Restored 7 dis
missed to other churches - 11 deaths - Making an increase of 70 to the
church. 67 children baptised.
During the year ending at the present time 121 admitted on profession - 21 by letter - 40 restored - 32 suspended - 17 dismissed to
other churches - 10 deaths.
members.
Making an increase of the church of 123
55 stand propounded for admission.
125 children baptised.
At the time of our last Gen. Meeting efforts had just been com
menced to raise a support for the pastor.
The amount raised for this
object up to Jany 1845 about 9 months was 275 dollars, mostly in money.
This was credited to the Board.
The following year 1845 more systematic efforts were made to raise
a definite sum $450. the support allowed to a missionary & his wife.
This sum was raised & acknowledged to the agent at the close of the
year.
Upwards of $50. besides was raised by monthly concert contribu
tions for other objects.
These sums were contributed almost entirely
by church members, & with very little paipai-ing [arousing] on my
part.
Collections continue to be made both for support of pastor &
other objects.
past year.
About $40. in cash has been received for Bibles the
�Wailuku - 1846
3.
Statistics of church
Whole number on profession 1383
Whole number on Certificate 81.
Two past years on examination 213. Certificate 26. Whole n o. two
past years 239 Whole number dismissed to other churches 277
years 23
Whole No. deceased 107
past years 50
Restored 51
no. children baptised 844
186.
Two past
Two past years 21. Set aside two
Whole no. in regular standing 1078
Two past years 192
Whole
Marriages 2 past years
Average congregation 8 or xxxxxxxx 1,000.
[Unsigned; but handwriting & style of
E.W. Clark]
�Report of Wailuku Station May 1846
The cause of religion has evidently been on the advance in my
field since our last Gen. Meeting.
Much the same means have been employ
ed to carry forward the work as in former years, & with similar success.
More attention, however, has been given to the systematic study of the
Bible, & apparently with very good effects.
At the request of some of
our more intelligent church members, part of the meetings on the Sab
bath have been devoted to catehetical ( !) lectures on the Old Testament.
The meetings on the sabbath have been well attended.
ted of three meetings, besides the ai o ka la.
attended a Sabbath School.
These have consis
Mr. Bailey has also
Besides the meetings on the Sabbath, 4
meetings have been regularly attended during the week & sometimes 5
in different places, In addition to occasional meetings with church
lunas, & meetings with inquirers.
I have visited three times a year the out post at Honuaula & ad
ministered the Lord's Supper to the church in this part of the field.
Haili a graduate of the Seminary, & a very good man has been employed as
a regular helper at this outpost.
Wailuku church as compensation.
regular license to preach.
He now receives $50. a year from the
It is desirable he should have a more
Other parts of the field are placed under
the watch of different church lunas, who render important aid in various
ways.
A protracted meeting of several days was held in Jany.
results were apparently very happy.
The
Several back-sliders, persons of
much influence, came forward & made public confessions, & have since
appeared well.
It seemed to be the commencement of a revival.
A large
number of hoomolokas [hoomalokas?: unbelievers] , papist & others, who
were regarded as paakiki [obstinate; unyielding] have professed to
turn to the pono [the right], & have come to me to converse & make
�Wailuku - 1846
2.
known their determination to serve the Lord.
external change.
They exhibit at least an
I have conversed individually with more than 200.
A more than usual interest is still manifested in different parts of
the field.
The movements of the papists seem to have become almost extinct in
my field.
The leading man among them recently died, & I have heard of
no meetings of late.
ence to popery.
Many have openly renounced their professed adher
The number of professed papists has never been very
great on the island of Maui.
During the year closing April 1845, 92 persons were admitted to
the church on profession & 5 by letter.
18 set aside for misconduct -
11 previously set aside restored 7 dismissed to other churches - 11
deaths.
Making an increase of the church over dismissions &c of 70
members. 67 children baptised.
During the year ending April 1846, 121 have been admitted to the
church on profession - 21 by letter - 40 restored to fellowship - 32
set aside - 17 dismissed to other churches - 10 deaths.
increase of the church on the whole of 123.
of 193.
Increase for the two years
55 now stand propounded for admission.
the past year.
Making an
125 children baptised
The two past years 192.
At the time of our last Gen. Meeting, efforts had just been com
menced to raise a support for the pastor.
The amount raised for this
object up to Jany 1845, about 9 months, was $275.
mostly in money.
This was acknowledged to the agents & credited to the Board.
The following year commencing Jany 1845, more systematic efforts
were made to raise a definite sum.
$450. was fixed upon as being the
support allowed to a missionary & his wife not including children.
This sum was raised & acknowledged to the Agents at the close of the
year.
Upwards of $50. besides was raised by monthly concert contribution;
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for other objects.
These sums were contributed entirely by church
members, & with very little paipai-ing [arousing; putting in mind]
on my part.
Bibles.
About $40. in cash has been received the past year for
Collections continue to be made for support of pastor & other
objects.
Statistics of the church.
Whole number on profession 1383.
past years on examination 213.
past years 239.
Do. on certificate 81.
On certificate 26.
Two
Whole number two
Whole number dismissed to other churches 277.
to other churches two past years 23.
ceased two past years 21.
Whole number deceased 107.
Dismissed
De
Set aside from church two past years 50.
Restored to fellowship two past
years 51.
Whole number in regular standing 1078.
children baptised 844.
Whole number of
Baptised two past years 192.
Marriages two past years 186 couple
Average congregation 600 to 1000.
Schools.
Schools have been under the care of Government agents.
attended two or three examinations a year.
I have
As in former years, the
attendance has been irregular, & no very rapid advance has been made.
The teachers have received compensation in part from government funds
& in part from the parents.
The compensation, however, has been small
& not well paid in all cases.
The labor of supplying schools with books, maps, stationary &c,
& collecting pay for them has been no small one.
Statistics in part
Teachers 15.
of writers 144.
Number of scholars 633.
No. in Geography 13 0.
No. in written Arithmetic 39.
No. of readers 346. No
Arithmetic
No. in mental
235.
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The districts of Honuaula & Kahikinui are not included in the above
This would make the whole number about half as many more.
Unsigned; but the handwriting and style of
E.W. Clark]
�Wailuku
Aug. 10, 1847.
Dear Bro. Chamberlain,
I herewith send you the Statistics of the church
& schools at this station for the past year.
have the ability to make them.
They are as full as I
I have no means of ascertaining cor
rectly the number of persons set aside from the church before I came to
Wailuku.
I have, therefore, only put down the number set aside the
past year.
The records are imperfect with regard to the excommunicated
& restored; & it is difficult to keep them correct.
& restored several times, or more than once.
Some are set aside
And It is not easy to
make a distinction between suspension & excommunication.
All who are
set aside remain out of the church until they give signs of repentance
& amendment.
They are then restored.
I have/had but one form since I have been here.
Some are set aside
for more serious offences than others, but all are restored on repen
tance & reformation.
I have set aside 21 & restored 10 the past year.
Our churches are some of them so large & extend over so large a terratory ( !), it is difficult to keep all the statistics correct.
I think
the deaths in this field must be more than have been reported to me.
We are all as usual at this station - have had a pleasant visit
[Chamberlain]
from Martha Ann & J a m e s , &
should be happy to see their parents here.
^
How is your health these days?
I should be happy to hear from
you when you are able to write.
Mrs. C. joins in love to all
Yours affecly
E.W. Clark
�Wailuku - 1847
- Letter to L. Chamberlain Church Statistics
[Copied from Printed Form enclosed in letter]
Year ending
May 1, 1847
Wailuku
Whole no. on examination
On certificate
Past two years on examination
Past 2 years on certificate
Whole no. past 2 years
Whole no. dismissed to other churches
Dismissed last 2 years
Whole No. deceased
Died last two years
Suspended last two years
Remain suspended
Whole no. in regular standing
Whole number of baptised children
Baptised last 2 years
Marriages last 2 years
Average congregation on the Sabbath
1526
100
124
19
143
298
21
120
13
21
11
1176
936
92
60
800
Statistics of Schools connected with Wailuku Station
[Copied from separate sheet enclosed in letter]
No. of schools
No. of teachers
Whole no. of scholars
Readers
Writers
Arithmetic
Geography
Letters & Spelling
27
27
878
411
163
367
256
467
[E.W. Clark]
�Report of Wailuku Station
from May 1846 to May 1848
The usual labors of the station have been continued without ma
terial interruption from sickness or other causes.
My own labors, as
here tofore, have consisted in preaching & catechetical instruction,
three or four times on the Sabbath, three times on week days, school
once a week, occasional prayer meetings, funerals, marriages, church
discipline, assisting in superintending schools, selling school books,
writing occasionally for the Elele, writing letters &c &c.
The out-
station at Honuaula has been visited three times a year, & the Lord's
supper administered.
An additional service in English has been recent
ly added to the labors of the sabbath, at the request of a few foreign
ers, who wished to attend an English service with their children.
Its
continuance will depend on time, health & other circumstances.
Mrs. 0. has attended a female meeting once a week.
A sabbath school has also been conducted by Mr. Bailey.
Two protracted meetings have been held, since our last Gen. Meet
ing at the commencement of each year.
The results have been favorable
though there has been no special revival in my field during the past
two years.
Attendance on public worship has varied with the weather &
other circumstances, though there has been no special falling off
from past years.
The admissions to the church the last two years have
been less, & the deaths & removals greater than the two previous years
The cases of discipline about as in former years.
advance in religious knowledge.
There is a gradual
A few appear to be growing Christians
& afford their pastor much help by their example & prayers.
Much at
tention has been given to the systematic study of the Bible.
Kaili, who was laboring at Honuaula at the time of our last Gen.
�Wailuku - 1848
2.
Meeting, has been licensed to preach the Gospel, & continues to labor
at that out-post with acceptance & usefulness.
One person, Daniela Ii,
has also been licensed in Mr. Green’s field according to the rules of
our association.
An interesting temperance celebration was held in July last.
Between 500 & 600 children pledged themselves to total abstinence from
all that intoxicates.
Property, industry & civilization are increasing.
About 15 carts
are owned by natives in my field, with two or three yoke of cattle to
each.
Respectable clothing is becoming universal.
houses is small.
sils &c.
Improvement in
There is more improvement in furniture, cooking uten
Many of the people own cattle & horses.
But the people are
yet, as a general thing, indolent & improvident. The stimulus of a
fee simple title to land, & other incouragements ( !) are greatly need
ed to arouse them to continued industry.
We have in our field a few
native carpenters, & one or two blacksmiths & shoe makers, who apply
themselves with commendable diligence to their occupations.
Contributions.
Contributions for religious & benevolent objects for the two last
years have increased about $225.00 over the contributions of the two
previous years.
The following is the amount contributed the two past years:
For the support of Preaching
Monthly Concert contribution
For reroofing Meeting house
Total
$337.61
47.29
618.28
$1003.18
Of the above sum contributed for the support of preaching, $200.
have been forwarded to the Deposatory ( !), & $103.73 have been paid to
Kaili, the native preacher at Honuaula - leaving on hand $33.38.
�3.
Wailuku - 1848
Of the Monthly concert contribution $22.75 have been given to the
New Caledonia Mission - leaving on hand $24.54.
The contribution for the meeting house has not yet been expended,
but is now on interest in the Government treasury.
A much larger sum
has been subscribed but not yet paid in.
The above contributions have all been in cash except a trifling
amount in articles for family use.
A small amount of labor has been performed on Meeting Houses &c
not included in the above.
Statistics of church.
2
last
May 1848 years
May 1847
Whole number on examination
Whole number on certificate
On examination
On certificate
Whole number
Whole number dismissed to other churches
Dismissed
Whole No. deceased
Died
Suspended
Remain suspended
Excommunicated
Whole number excommunicated
Remain excommunicated
Whole No. in regular standing
Whole no. of baptised children
Baptised
Marriages
Average congregation on the Sabbath
1507
100
124
19
143
298
21
120
13
21
11
[No figure]
"
ii
"
"
1176
936
92
60
800
1518
1518
114
114
11
135
14
33
25
168
310
310
12
33
154
154
34
47
19
40
11
22.
[No figur e]
"
"
ii
ii
1134
962
26
52
800
1134
962
118
112
800
The whole number of exclusions since I took charge of the church
June 1843, five years ago, is 102.
ing the excess of exclusions 14.
The whole number restored is 88, leav
Part of those restored, however, were
excluded before I took charge of the church.
It will be seen by the above statistics, that the number of deaths
in the church the last year exceeds by 8 the number of children baptised.
This is a pretty sure indication that the people are diminishing.
fact seems to be indicated also by the diminution in the number of
This
�Wailuku -1848
4.
marriages from year to year.
Schools.
The state of schools is much the same as in former years.
teachers, however, are now regularly paid.
The
Old debts are also all
paid off, & there is a small fund on hand, which the Kahukula [one
having charge of schools] is employing in building & repairing school
houses.
Some attempt has been made to introduce manual labor, but it
is attended with difficulties.
An English school has been taught at Wailuku the past year by a
foreigner by the name of Page.
white children.
He has about 30 scholars, mostly half
He is paid mainly by foreigners, & receives a salary
of $500. or more.
A well qualified, pious teacher would receive good
encouragement, & have a very important field of usefulness.
Several
are anxious to get such a teacher.
Statistics of schools July 1847
No. of Schools
27
No. of teachers
27
Whole No. of scholars
878
Readers
411
Writers
163
Arithmetic
367
Geography
256
Letters & spelling
467
The Roman Catholic Schools contain about 100 scholars.
[Unnsigned, but handwriting of E.W. Clark].
�Report of Wailuku Station for 1848 to April 1849
It will be recollected that at our last Gen. Meeting in May /48
my location was changed by a vote of the Mission from Hana to Wailuku.
Said change was not effected, however, till the first of September
following, when the house designed for our use was first vacated by
our predecessor -
Sickness and so forth having prevented the removal
of his family to Honolulu whither his location had also been changed
by the same meeting.
I have therefore occupied my present field of
labor only seven months.
But during this period, short as it is, the
allotments of Providence to us as a family and to the people of our
charge have been peculiar and deeply affecting.
can never be effaced from our minds.
Their rem[em]brance
Every recurrence to the sa/d &
mournful events causes our hearts to bend afresh.
On the morning of
the 17th of December death entered our little but till then unbroken
circle - and snatched from our embrace youngest our beloved child.
By her peculiar loveliness - being endowed naturly ( !) with a very
gentle and affectionate disposition she had entwined her self ( !)
in the fondest affections of the whole family - Every member thereof
experienced real pleasure and constantly sought every opportunity to
contribute to her happiness.
Her untimely removal has proved a sad
affliction to us all - not to be appriciated ( !) fully by any except
those those ( !) who have been called in the providence of God to taste
or same bitter cup.
concerned.
The Lord has done It however for the good of all
We would therefore submit with christian resignation to
his rightious ( !) dispositions - praying that this and all other
reverses allotted us here below may work out for us a far more
ex
ceeding and eternal weight of Glory in the world to come.
In common with the inhabitants of other parts of the Islands
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the native population of our field have also suffered much.
les, hooping (
The meas-
) cough & Influenza have prevailed extensively and
!
proved fatal, as elsewhere, in very many instances.
Large numbers
from all classes have been suddenly called from time into eternity most of them perhaps unprepared for the dread ordeal throught ( !)
which they have passed.
improved state of health.
The present aspect of things indicate an
It is manifest however that a great many
are suffering from extreme debility resulting from the sicknesses
through which they have passed. Among this class deaths continue to
rather
occur at/short intervals. It may not be extravagant to anticipate
that there will be as many deaths in our field during the current year
as there have been during the past even if no new diseases are intro
duced into the Islands. We cannot refrain from thinking that future
prospects
xxxxxxx with regard to our people are dark and portentous. The people most of them at least - seem to have but little resolution left to
shake off & resist disease or to better their condition even where
health and a good degree of strength are enjoyed.
Very many will never
rally again and resume their various occupations with the energy &
perseverance whh they formerly exhibited.
The dreadful mortality and
sufferings of the past six months have induced a feeling of despondency
which they will not be able to surmount.
Poor afflicted people! It
is sad to witness so many things - many of which are beyond human
control - that seem to threaten their speedy extinction.
Their present
condition and future prospects should awaken as they no doubt do - our
deepest sympathy and to arouse us to make every effort in our power
[to] promote their Spiritual & Eternal welfare.
By the late census
it appears that there is a population in my field at the present time
of 4113 souls.
And that there have been 402 deaths & but 67 births.
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There are some/schools including all the districts of our field
&
Schollars. About
schools are able to read.
of the schollars ( !) connected with these
All these schools have been in operation
during the year with the exception of a few months when sickness
was most prevalent.
There has been but one public examination of the
schools during the past year.
This was attended by the Minister of
public instruction from who m we have had two interesting and profitable
visits since we removed to our new field of labor.
The concert of
prayer for the teachers and their respective schools have been observed
on the second monday of every months ( !)
weather rendered it impracticable.
except when sickness and bad
It has been our practice to secure
the attendance of as many of the teachers & schollars at these meetings
as possible.
On commencing my labors among the people prospects were very
flattering.
Our meetings not only on the Sabbath but on other days
devoted to religious exercises were fully attended.
This encouraging
state of things continued nearly two months when the diseases which
have prevailed so generally in the Island began to rage with great
violence, laying the people prostrate and spreading a dark cloud over
all our former cheering prospects.
The result was that some of our
meetings were suspended and those which were continued were very
poorly attended.
As sickness abated and health returned our congrega
tions began to increase in size and interest -
Still there is not yet
so good an attendance as formerly.
I can say but little with regard to the members of the chh as
I am, as yet, but partially acquainted with their daily walk by personal
observation.
Still the most of those with whom I have met oftenest
appear to be consistent christians -
some eminently pious.
We have
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had occasion to excind hut four during the 7 months which have elapsed.
There are doubtless others who ought to have been disposed of in a
similar way but their crimes have not been detected, at least, by their
Pastor.
I have visited far & near and from house to house in all the dis
tricts except Kahikinui.
Have held many neighborhood meetings, conver
sed personally with hundreds both chh members and others about the
concerns of their souls.
I have preached usually twice on the Sab
bath once at the Station & once at some one of the out posts, besides
conducting an exercise in the Ai o ka la immediately after the fore
noon meeting.
During the week I have attended some 4 or 5 meetings
usually in different parts of the field.
prayer has been uniformly observed.
The monthly concert for
So was the publick fast appointed
by Mr. Green in reference to the prevailing sickness.
The contrabutions ( !) of the chh during the time under review
have not be[en] so great as in some former years.
to sickness.
This has been owing
While they enjoyed health the chh contributed for the
Support of their Pastor from 5 to 34 dollars per month.
sickness commenced they have contributed but little.
Since the
It is hoped that
they will do better in future if prospered with health.
Both before
and after the their ( !) sickness the people performed a great deal of
labor on the public roads.
Much remains to be done however befor ( !)
the roads are what they should be.
Bro Bailey has had the entire charge of the Sabbath school.
He
has also preached almost every Sabbath Afternoon at the Station it
being my practice to hold a meeting at some one of the out posts at
that time.
Mrs. C. has held a religious meeting with the females of
the church and others every week except when prevented by ill health
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in the family.
Miss Ogden occasionally supplying her place at such
times.
It is due to the church and people in our field to say that they
have been very kind and attentive to their Pastor and his family since
he commenced M s labors among them.
Statistics
Whole No. on pro. of faith in Christ
1573
By certificate
122
By examination past year
55
By certificate
8
Whole number dismissed to other chhs
319
"
past year
9
Whole N. deceased
212
"
past year
58
Restored past year
50
Whole No. excommunicated
[no figure given]
"
past year
18
Remain excommunicated
[no figure given]
Whole No. in regular standing
1262
"
" Children baptised
979
"
"
past year
17
Marriages past year
73
Contrabutions ( !)
To repair meeting house
$144.87
Monthly donations (Sup. of Pastor)
65.00
Marriage fees
__ 9.25
Total
219.12
Population
Deaths in 1848
Births
"
4113
402
67
D.T. Conde
�E. Baileys' Report for 1850 & 51
Health.
[Wailuku]
Since the last General Meeting we have had considerable sick
ness in our family, but through the kindness of our Heavenly Father we
have all been preserved.
A life of confinement and care seems to have
been the cause of our ill health.
Repair of house.
I have been prevented by various causes, among which
ill health and want of carpenters are principal, from making the re
pairs on my house for which I requested an appropriation of 1000
dollars at the last meeting.
Of the 1000 dollars granted 915 have
already been expended for materials, leaving 85 dollars with which to
do the work.
This I hope to have accomplished soon after my return.
Purchase of Seminary land, and transfer of Seminary buildings .
As the land formerly occupied by the Female Seminary reverted to
Govt. by the terms of the grant, when the Boarding School was dismissed
I purchased a fee simple title to that and also to my house lot and
appurtenances.
It will be recollected that at the last General Meeting a commit
tee was chosen to correspond with the Prudential Committee in relation
to the transfer of the Seminary buildings and apparatus to me.
That
committee wrote making the proposal and giving their reasons why such
a transfer should be made.
The reply of the Prudential Committee you
have all seen in their printed letter.
They were not ready to make
such transfer without more light, and indeed to judge from their state
ment they were truly in the dark on the Subject.
I replied giving them
my reason for not accompanying the proposal with a request for a release,
viz, that before committing myself I wished to know what means I was
to have for carrying on my school as my case was somewhat singular,
not being provided for by the 7th Resolution in their proposal.
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2.
I could not pay rent for the School buildings and apparatus the
whole benefit of which to me would be merely a school room, and that,
as the buildings were in such close proximity to our dwellings we
might be able to avoid the annoyances to which we would be subject
were the buildings at the disposal of others than ourselves.
As the
buildings would be of no pecuniary value to me, and judging from past
experience would be a heavy bill of cost I proposed to the Committee to
retain the ownership of them themselves, merely giving me the use of
a school room.
Their answer you have seen passing buildings, apparatus
and all into my hands with the provisions specified.
see they will be merely a bill of cost to me,
So far as I now
the only benefit being
exemption from annoyance, and the use of a school room, should I be
able to resume my school.
In the course of the above correspondence I requested a release
from the Board, which was granted.
School.
In accordance with the vote of last General meeting we dis
missed the Female Seminary on our return, and so soon as a building
could be got ready I commenced an English School.
This was on the 26th
of June 1849.
The school consisted of about half natives, and half mixed races.
I had intended to have four terms of eleven weeks each in the year but
owing to interruptions from sickness the year was not completed till
July 50, 1850.
The number of pupils averaged a little more than 40.
The tuition for the first year was 18 dollars for each pupil.
After the first year it was raised to 24 dollars for each pupil.
There was in general a readiness to pay tuition - only one man having
refused to pay his subscription.
I had expected the school would
fall away, and that few would be likely to hold out after the novelty
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3.
of the thing had passed away.
But I found myself in the main mistaken, as very few left for that
reason, and when I was obliged to relinquish the School by ill health
its prospects were never fairer.
On the 21st of Aug. 1850 I commenced again and continued till
Sept. 19 when I was taken sick and was not able to resume school again
till Jan. 1, 1850.
But this proved too soon and continued but four
weeks when I was again prostrated.
As the doctors all concur in advising me not to reenter my school
room at present, I have not ventured to do so as yet, but hope by
active employment eventually to regain sufficient vigor to recommence
my school.
These interruptions following ill success in attempts to
sustain an English School formerly have greatly disheartened the par
ents.
There is however a school now in operation which I should think
bids fair to be well attended.
The main branch taught in the School was the English language;
and as subsidiary to it I taught some geography and arithmetic, writing
&c .
Reading, pronouncing, spelling, translating, forming sentences &
writing were the main business of the school.
There was some progress
made but it was rather constant than rapid, and would require
sev
eral years of close application to make the pupils master of the
language.
Several months are sometimes requisite to enable them even
to distinguish all the English sounds and a long practice is necessary
to enable them to form the organs to pronounce them.
Their previous
habits also, being formed by lack of discipline render/ their progress
much slower than it otherwise would be.
The only element in their
character which would ensure success are an intense desire to acquire
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4.
the language resulting from their thorough conviction of the benefit
of such acquisition.
The discipline of the school is decidedly difficult.
Both teacher
and pupils wish as far as possible to dispense with the native language
so that moral suasion cannot be brought to bear as as ( !) much as is
desirable on the pupils.
The corrupt moral character, and almost total lack of restraint
with which many enter the school render a great part of the efforts
made to benefit them useless, and add vastly to the labour of the teach
er while they detract materially from his success.
Inertness of mind is another great obstacle in the way.
On the
whole whoever would teach Hawaiians the English language must lay in
a large stock of patience, and if he would be successful a long supply
of enthusiasm.
Respectfully Submitted
E. Bailey
�[Wailuku Report - Bailey, 1852]
The state of my health has prevented me from resuming my school
the present year.
My family have also been afflicted with severe sickness.
Mrs.
Bailey's health has been far from firm.
There being no other labour of a strictly missionary, and at the
same time active character in which I could engage in the field in which
I am located I have been engaged principally during the year now past
in repairing my house - performing a part of the labour myself, in
Superintending work on the roads, and the building of a bridge across
h e Wailuku Stream, and in surveying and causing to be surveyed native
t
kuleanas in this and the adjacent fields.
In this latter work I ex
pect to be employed for the balance of the present year.
At the same
time I have continued to perform whatever missionary work came in my
way as usual.
Few day[s] pass when I am at home in which I am not
called to administer medicine.
I have had charge of the Sabbath-School,
which I hope has not been entirely without profit.
A contribution is taken up monthly in this School to be applied
to whatever objects of benevolence the donors wish it applied.
In
the last three months a little more than ten dollars have been raised
which is to be applied to the exploration of Micronesia.
Want of the Ni or question book has been one great obstacle in
my way in this department.
I have also on all occasions when the privilege has been extended
to me been ready to speak to the people on God's behalf as heretofore.
Should I find at the end of the year that my health would be
likely to allow it I shall hope to resume my old employment of teach
ing .
I am permitted also to do something for the native schools in the
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2.
district, the condition of which may be learned from the Report of the
Minister of Public Instruction.
The School houses being in a very bad
condition, and the funds insufficient to repair them properly I have
pointed the people to the law making provision for such deficiency and
they have gone about to build up the School houses again and have also
in some cases assumed in part the pay of the teachers till the govern
ment funds Shall again accumulate.
I am sorry to say that the deficiency of funds has arisen in the
first place from a generous distribution by the former Treasurer among
his friends, and 2 d, from an over liberal spirit in the present Kahu
kula and trustees - giving pay to the teachers without any regard to
the state of the Supply.
I hope however that no school will be wholly
suspended in consequence.
A School for teachers is much needed at Wailuku, and will no
doubt be established so soon as there is a prospect that it can be
sustained.
Although I have not been able personally to teach an English
school I am glad to be able to report so much success in providing
substitutes.
As my associate has reported Dr. Rae of Geological noto
riety has been practicing on the stony intellects of some 20 to 40
pupils till within a month or two.
I cannot say much for his success.
Mrs. Gower has taught an English school one term composed of our
own children with those in the care of Miss Ogden, and two half casts, (!)
This school may be continued for a time.
Mrs. Gower being an excellent
lady, long practised in the art of teaching her school could not fail
to be exceeding[
l y ] useful.
It is however desired to continue it as
it has been somewhat select.
I said I had been employed in repairing my house.
The appropria-
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tion formerly made for that object was all applied I think before last
Gen. Meet. and I think I stated that I had no means of paying my work
men.
know.
But I went to work and of course got deeply in debt as our agents
I hope however to pay it off in due season without asking help
from the funds of the Board.
As it is difficult to subsist comfortably without the means of
living I have without any conscientious scruples allowed those who
employed me to feed and clothe myself and family while I continue
in their employ.
E. Bailey
May , 1852
�[Wailuku] Report
May — - 1852
Another year of my missionary labors among a once barbarous and
idolatrous but now humane and Christianized people, is terminated and
numbered with which have preceeded.
That part of its history which
I am expected to report on this occasion may be presented in the fol
lowing order.
Health.
Our family - it is true has not enjoyed uninterrupted health -
every member thereof having been more or less indisposed at times yet no protracted or alarming sickness has existed in our dwelling any
part of the past year.
Notwithstanding therefore we consider ourselves
as having been highly favoured of Providence, And for it would be truly
greatfull ( !).
It is probable that we enjoy more vigor in our present
location than we used to at Hana.
With regard to my people neither general health nor prevailing
sickness has existed long at a time.
nation of both.
There has been a frequent alter&
Disordered Stomache (!)
colds attended with cough
and violent head ache have been the most comon ( !) indispositions.
I judge that deaths have not been frequent for a population like ours but the exact percentage I am unable to state.
They have occured (!)
among all classes, but chiefly among the aged.
Of infants there do
not seem to be many.
General appearances indicate that our population
like that of the Islands generally, is gradually diminishing.
An
actual calculation if made would doubtless corroberate ( !) this opin
ion.
As far as medicines and medical attendance are necessary for the
healing of sickness and disease our people are as well favoured as
those of any other section.
There are two regular Physicians of whom
the indisposed can obtain assistance.
And if they are unable or un
willing to render the compensation required they can obtain gratuitous
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2.
help from their foreign Teachers.
But what is most needed to augment
thier ( !) numbers and prolong thier ( !) existence is a higher
mate of life and uninterrupted health.
esti
This would accomplish more for
these purposes than any amount of medical prescriptions,
A people
that regard life and death - sickness and health with a stoic indiference ( !) so caracteristic ( !) of the Hawaiians, can hardly fail of
becoming extinct in a short time.
Thence the importance of hastening
the progress of religion and civilization among all classes.
The
tendency of these influences is not only to prevent pernicious indul
gences but also to make life agreeable, besides increasing a sense
of duty to use all suitable means to render it long and healthy.
Physical improvement.
Something has been accomplished in this line
by the people or rather by government thro’ the people.
An exellent (!
)
Bridge has been recently constructed over the Wailuku river at an ex
pense exceeding 1000 $ exclusive, I presume of the native labor of
erecting the Stone Butments ( !).
has been greatly improved.
The road also in both direction ( !)
The inhabitants of Waiehu & Waihee in the
north west part of my field can now visit Wailuku, Kalepolepo, Kahului
Makawao, and Kula, with oxcarts and beasts of burden with ease.
This must be advantageous to them, as in most of these places they can
find a ready market for thier "Pai ai" [a bundle of pounded taro done
up in ti leaves] which is produced in large quantities.
A good deal of labour and expense have also been bestowed on the
road leading to Lahaina, but subsequent rains, it is said have nearly
or quite nulified ( !) the improvements made in that locality.
The repairs of our meeting house progress slowly although begun
more than a year since much remains to be done.
The work has been
retarded for the want of materials and on account of dilatoriness
in the workmen.
The roof and nearly all the floor are completed,
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3.
together with some 12 or 14 pews.
The workmanship is good.
We hope
that ere long we shall have our house of worship repaired and entirely
finished.
There is probably enough subscribed to defray all expenses but
as money is scarce, payments at present are "few and far between".
The Meeting houses of Waihee and Honuaula have also been repaired
and thatched anew, the past year.
That of the latter place, however
was recently demolished by a powerfull ( !) wind shortly after the
Sabbath congregation had closed their exercises & retired ------- from
within its walls.
A very timely escape.
They are now devising means
to erect a more permanent and substantial building.
A Planter has
offered to put up a house for $500$ on condition that he be allowed
to select their Preacher - being rather jealous of the person now
acting in that capacity & against whom he does not hesitate to circu
late bitter things.
But I doubt whether he is the man to secure
thier assent to any such proposition, however favorable of view.
They
have a heavy job before them.
It will cost them much effort and
sacrifise ( !) to complete it.
They must have help from some quarter,
for they are poor in this world's goods and few in number.
Their
Wailuku friends will doubtless Contribute liberally for the object.
Altho' something has been effected by our people the past year in the
way of internal improvement there remains very much to be done in
order to remedy the defects every where existing.
The general appear
ance of Wailuku and vicinity is slovenly and by no means does justice
to the degree of wealth and intelligence which the inhabitants are
known to possess.
buildings.
Most of the dwelling houses are thacthed ( !)
Some in a very leaky condition —
What adobie houses there
are, present a dilapidated appearance and realy ( !) furnish no more
�Wailuku - 1852
4.
comfortable residence than the former.
But one very considerable
blemish which never fails to attract the attention of both resident
and stranger consists in numerous remains of mud walls scattered
about the neighborhood and in the country.
Nothing is more calculated
to give the impression right or rong ( !) that advancement has ceased
and that decay and ruin have begun thier ( !) work.
What a waste of time
and physical strength have these sphemoral structures occasioned.
How much better if the operators had been permitted to lounge in idle
ness or required to produce works which would have been a real benefit
and a lasting ornament to the place.
There is one consoling thought
in regard to these mememtoes of by gone folly which is that they can
not last for ages in thier present state.
Even if the hand of man
disdains to remove them the rains of heaven will ere long do it.
The dimunution ( !) effected in this way is very perceptible since
we came to dwell among them.
A few more years and the destruction will be complete.
If by
that time the existing houses shall have been replaced by permanent
structures and the cultivated lands secured from the Intrusion and
depredation of animals, now enjoying unrestrained liberty - by dur
able fences, Wailuku will be considered a desirable place of residence
and perhaps now it will compare in this respect with most others on
the Islands to good advantage.
Very little has been done in the way of building and repairing
schoolhouses the past year.
from actual decay.
Some of these buildings have fallen down
Others from the efect ( !) of strong winds.
there are many in a very open and leaky condition.
While
Inclement and
precarious wether ( !) which has prevailed a great deal during the year
is probably the reason why more has not ben ( !) accomplished in this
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department.
5.
When the dry season returned the Officers on whom the
business devolves will doubtless remedy these deficiencies.
Intemperance.
In the Winter and spring of /51 Some foreigners at
Kalepolepo and vicinity were in the practice of given ( !) or selling
to natives Alchoholic ( !) drinks in which both the givers and receivers
occasionly ( !) and perhaps habitually indulged to intoxication.
For
some time drunkenness, as far as Hawaiians were concerned, was confined
to nonprofessors.
temptation.
Afterwards members of the ch'h yeilded ( !) to the
Whereby they disgraced themselves and brought great
repro[a] ch upon the cause which they professedly espoused at the time
of thier uniting with the people of God.
The same vice broke out at
Kahului likewise but at a somewhat later date.
Natives often obtain
intoxicating beverage and sometimes they were found drunk conducting
(!)
in a most shamefully manner. Several chh members were of the number.
Finaly (!) the authorities interposed and the plague was stayed in a
measure.
Very recently it has begun to show itself again.
some seen intoxicated especially foreigners.
Occasionly ( !)
The use of ardent spirits
as a drink is an indiscribable ( !) evil And were it to prevail among
the native population the consequences would be awfull ( !) !.
Error
Labourers in the Lords vinyard always expect to meet with more
wherever
or less obstacles of this kind xxxxxxx they prosecute thier work.
It
is an old and often tried practice of the enemy to sow tares in the
fields already furnished with the good seed.
For some time he has been
trying by means of Popery to harden the irreligious against the truth
and to over turn the faith of Christians.
But finding that he is not
likely to accomplish all his designs by this means, he is now trying
the adaptation of Mormonism to his purpose.
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It may be that he will not find this latter expedient any more
successful! ( !) than the former.
Romanism is on the decline.
many children have returned to protestant schools.
Very
And the adults
connected with that sect are either sinking into a profound sleep or
returning to our meetings - some have recently joined the class of In
quirers.
Its pulse beats feebly and its existence is scarcely per
ceptible,
But Mormonism for the time being is more prosperous.
One year ago
it had no existence in our regeon ( !) as a society.
Its propagators had not obtained a single follower to my knowledge.
At present they may have somewhat less than a hundred within the bounds
of our field.
But those who embrace the error do not appear bigoted.
They manifest less sincerity in thier profession than the generallity
( !) of Catholics.
Thier organization appears to be very imperfect.
The members are scattering destitute of mutual Sympathy & hence without
any tie to constitute them a whole.
Many after being baptized are as
indiferent ( !) and isolated as before.
Some appostatize almost as soon
as they have been recieved ( !) .
Such to a general observer seem to
be some of thier characteristics.
Whether as a religious sect it is
destined to have much sway or even a permanent existence among the
Hawaiians is quite doubtful.
As yet they have no house of worship nor has there to my knowledge
been the least incipient step taken towards the erection of one.
Scripture and experience teach that devine ( !) influence and larg[e]
expenditures of money aside from persevereing ( !) labor are necessary
f o r the conversion of this people to the truth and thier establishment
in the practice thereof.
How then can a system of error like Mormonism
prosper among these Hawaiians unassisted by either of the above co
operations?
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Schools
7.
There are 25 common schools & 699 schollars ( !) of the pro-
testant order.
7 schools and 161 schollars of the Catholic order in
our feild ( !).
All the protestant schools are supplied with teachers
some one and others 2 apeice ( !) according to the number of pupils;
and they have all been in operation during the past year.
I am not
aware that any System of manual labor has been connected with either
of them.
The usual portion of both fore & after noon being devoted
to mental acquisition.
Several public examinations have been held.
On these occasions the improvement of the schollars in their respective
studies is not - it must be acknowledged - perceptible to a spectator
( !)
nor to the official Superintendant if we may judge from the character
of his address at such times.
Their proficiency however may be as
great as ought to be expected considering the disadvantages under which
they rise from infancy.
They are not brought up to habits of order
self respect and obedience to superiors at home.
Hence their atten
dance at school as far as the acquisition of useful knowledge is con
cerned must be little else than a n ominal affair.
It may be owing to
this that there is perhaps no country where so little benefit present
& prospective accrues from the same amount of money devoted to common
schools as in this.
Still it might be hazzardous ( !) to other great
and important interests to dispense with these institutions although
the
good which they produce is mostly negative.
But while we hear
tily wish thier continuence ( !) we cannot but desire, that they might
be so improved and conducted as to prepare the rising generation to
become intelligent and prosperous subjects of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
Dr. Rae's English school for natives and half castes, alluded to in
my last years report, has been disbanded after being in operation a
part of the past year.
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It was not for the want of patronage that the Dr. relinquished
the school (altho it was never conducted with sufficient tact and energy
to make it profitable to the supporters) but on account of its inter
fering with his medical practice to which he gave the preference there is now no English school in Wailuku for the many children and
(!)
youth of that region both native and half cast^whose parents are de-
sirious ( !) that they should acquire the English language.
Would that
some one could recommence this Institution and carry it on with the
ability and perseverance which its importance demands.
There is per
haps no station in the Islands possessing better facillities ( !) of
all kinds for such a school than that at Wailuku.
Not to improve them
cannot be otherwise than a great loss.
Aside from the benifit ( !) accruing to the children and youth of
the school it would have an important bearing on the community arround (! ) in awakening and perpetuating a proper degree of attention
to the education of the rising generation generally.
Labors
I have endeavoured to labor assiduously for the wellfare ( !)
of the chh, and people residing within my field although with less
apparent success than could be wished considering the great numbers
who heed not the warnings and threatnings ( !) of the gospel including
all of every class that entirely neglect the great salvation, compared
with those who afford comfortable evidences of having become new crea
tures in christ, the past year my mind instructively recalls the
lamentation of the Prophet "Who hath believed our report and to whom
is the arm of the Lord revealed"
Still I hope the great day of final
accounts will show that I have not labored in vain nor spent my strength
for naught.
I have usually had 3 and more recently 4 religious exer
cises on the Sabbath.
Two for preaching - one for explaining the
weekly lesson in the Ai O Ka La, and one for teaching a class of adults
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in the Bible.
These two exercises are held during the interval of
devine worship which with us is three hours and a half in length.
They are designed for all who wish to attend.
Besides these Sabbath
duties it has been my common practice to attend from 3 to 4 religious
meetings during each week in different parts of my field.
To these
may be added the stated observance of the monthly concert of prayer
for the conversion of the world.
This latter exercise is held not
only by those of us near the station meeting house but also by those
in the vicinity of the several preaching stations.
At all the school
examinations except those of Honuaula I have been present and assisted
as oppertunity ( !) offered.
The furn ishing of native Books to children and adults and of
medicines to the sick has also recieved due attention.
business is often arduous and consumes much time.
This latter
Still the Pastor's
usefulness is promoted by attending to these matters himself
otherwise
it would be important to transfer them to other hands.
State of religion &c
For some months previous to the commencement
of the past Missionary year the discovery of Gold in California and
the great demand for Hawaiian produce made a deep impression on our
people.
They became thoroughly imbued with the spirit of speculation.
Some left for the gold regions to make a fortune in diging ( !)
for the precious metal.
But most of them men and women old and young
left for Kula to cultivate Potatoes.
time.
There they spent most of thier
The means of grace were neglected - personal piety declined
and worldliness took full possession of the soul.
Although in the mean
time Church members and others contributed liberally of thier money
for various benevolent purposes.
Still the oppertunity then existing
for acquiring property with great rapidity seemed to anihilate the
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soul of religion.
But when the demand for these vegitables ( !) subsi
ded as it did sudenly
(!) leaving many in debt and with nothing to pay
thier creditors, There was a favorable reaction in regard to thier
religious state.
They returned home resumed thier seats in the house
of God and began again to attend to the wants of the soul.
Since
that religion has occupied a more prominent place in thier thoughts and
among thier daily avocations.
where ever held.
Meetings have been pretty well attended
In Waihee there has been unusual interest most of the
year - perhaps it might be said that the people of that District have
for months been enjoying a precious revival.
become pious.
Many profess to have
Backsliders and excommunicated chh members not a few
have confessed thier guilt & resolved to recommence the service of
Christ.
There are some in all parts of the feild (!
they shall do to be saved.
) inquiring what
May these tokens for good prove to be the
genuine effects of the Spirits presence reproving of sin of righteous
ness and of judgement.
Soon after the commencement of the past year
we were under the necesity ( !) of excluding a large number from the
privileges of the -church for drunkenness &c other immoralities.
But
it is a pleasing thought that some of these have already returned &
been restored together with others of long standing.
A number have
also been received on profession for the first time.
Those added to
the chh somewhat exceed the number excluded.
a small [increase?
]
Contributions.
There has therefore been
the past year.
We never designedly use any means calculated to excite
pride Ambition or fear in order to obtain the greatest possible amount
from the people for benevolent objects - but we afford them every
facility to act in regard to these matters according to the Saviors
["]
let
thy
injunction. When thou doest alms xx not xxxx left hand know what
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11.
1852
thy right hand doeth".
A little set apart for the Lords service with
the spirit here inculcated may and doubtless will accomplish more last
ing good than a large amount contributed to avoid censure or court
human applause.
Our custom is simply this.
It may not be the best
but as it is not offered as a thing to be coppied ( !) it will do no
injury to mention it.
On the Sabbath before communion and especially
on fast day preparatory to the observance of that holy ordinance the
church and people are informed that a collection will be taken up
immediately after the supper is concluded and that Plates will be passed
arround for the purpose.
They are also reminded of thier duty to be
benevolent from the example of Christ who became poor that they might
be made rich - of the privilege likewise from his own saying that it
is mor e blessed to give than to receive and of their obligations from
the fact that the Gospel and its kindred institutions have all been
brought here and sustained among them to thier everlasting benefit,
solely at the expense of the American chhs.
They are therefore re
quested to come to the Lords table prepared to give to his cause with
a willing mind according as God may have prospered them in thier basket
and store.
The donations of the past Missionary year amount in all to
$467.08.
All but 150$ of this sum was given for my support.
But as donors were influenced by the consideration that I had
written for my release and as the committee declined granting my re
quest I advised the chh to devote It to thier Meeting house which
they readily did as they were then considerably in debt for Lumber &c.
Our people have been quite destitute of money the past year.
There
being no market for their produce they have not been [able] to obtain
much.
This accounts for their contributions being less than those of
the preceeding year when money was plenty and easily obtained.
�Wai luku - 1852
12 .
Cencus ( !)_ of the Church.
On the arival ( !) of the last General
letter I proceeded to acertain ( !) the actual church members in my
field from Waihee to Honuaula inclusive as requested by the Prudential
Com.
The plan for accomplishing the object was adopted.
The result
I presume is very nearly correct although it falls considerably short
of the estimate diduced ( !) from the old baisis ( !).
It is as
follows
Members in regular standing
705
Remain excommunicated
73
From other fields
16
Whole No in regular standing
according to the old basis
Difference
916
Recd on profession past year
64
211
" by letter from other chhs
Excluded past year
Restored
2
40
"
"
7
Dismissed "
"
1
Deaths in chh
13
Chil baptized past year
22
Marraiges ( !)
87
"
"
D. T. Conde
�Wailuku - The Pastor has studiously devoted himself to Missionary
labors among the people of his charge.
He has preached twice on
the Sabbath besides instructing a large Bible class during the inter
mission.
He has lectured usually in the afternoon of three days every
week and observed the monthly concert on the first Monday of the month.
He has also taught a small English School five days in a week from
9 AM to 1 P.M in whh the studies pursued have been latin Ancient His
tory Arithmetic - Geography - Grammar &c&c.
The attendance of the people on the preached Word and other re
ligious exercises has been usually good Except at one or two out posts
of whh there are five in different parts of the field.
no Special revival.
There has been
Some, it is hoped, however, have devoted themselves
to the Lord the past year Seventy four of whom have united with the
church.
The people have
d to Several as follows
[Hawaiian Missionary]
For the H. M.
Society 95.25.
contrib[
u t e ]
For Support of Pastor 187.49.
For repairing Meeting house 182.69
And for assistant
Preacher at distant outpost 40.71 - In all 506.14.
One new Meeting
house has also been erected and two others commenced.
All of a per
manent character.
Owing to an unusual amount of Stormy weather during the winter &
Spring months there has been much sickness in the shape of Influenza
and coughfs ( !).
Both the Pastors family and his people have suffered
considerably from these causes.
Statistics
Whole No on profession
"
" by Certificate
Past year by Examination
"
"
" Certificate
Whole No past year
"
" D ismissed to other chh
Dismissed past year
Whole No Deceased
past year
990
19
74
3
77
Unknown
9
�2.
Whole Wo. in regular Standing
Children baptised past year
Marriages past year
758
23
122
[Unsigned]
"
[See "Extracts from the Minutes of the General Meetings, p. 10.
This indicates it is for the year 1853, by Mr. Conde]
�E. Baileys Report to the brethren of the
Sandwich Islands Missionary Association
written in May 30, 1854
Dear Brethren
Through the kindness of our Heavenly Father I am permitted
to report that the life, health & prosperity of myself and family are
all continued to this present time.
True my own health has not been
of a kind to permit me to follow my chosen avocation of Teacher, nor
has that of my wife been of that vigorous kind as to enable her to
perform active missionary labour, but we have been exempt from distress
ing sickness.
I would also record with thankfulness that tho' laid aside
from my former occupation I am yet enabled to spend so nearly my
whole time in efforts for the welfare of Hawaii nei in things both
temporal and spiritual.
Of the former class are my labours to settle land claims for
which I receive of the Land Commission my principal means of support,
and which occupies a large share of my time.
Also my efforts in the healing art, which, though somewhat em
pirical nevertheless cost some time & trouble.
I devoted one solid month to the business of vaccination, not
to speak of weeks and days besides in getting it fairly a going ( !)
and finishing up with those who kept aloof till the fear of small
pox brought them to their senses - or rather perhaps drove them out
of them.
Of the latter class are my labours in Sabbath School which I
have always attended while at home, and which has been quite inter
esting.
It is composed of the scholars of the day schools who are
expected to commit during the week 7 verses in Proverbs to recite
�Wailuku - 1854
in concert on the Sabbath.
2.
Each school recites by itself & the
teachers are expected to attend also, as those who habitually stay
away are considered immoral and unfit for their business.
Those
schools are uniformly found to appear best at examinations who give
the best attendance and are best prepared at Sabbath Schools.
I have also preached the gospel wherever I have gone, and when
ever I have had an opportunity.
Another field in which I have labored and which has had many
of my thoughts as well as prayers is the day schools of which I am
Kahu [person in charge] in a part of the district & Treasurer for
the whole.
I cannot report so well of them as I wish - the school
houses are poor and unfurnished -
the teachers are not all of them so talented or so well educated,
or so upright as I wish -
the parents do not help their children
always in the right direction, but I think I may say good is done,
and the children are much better with the schools than without them.
But they still need the foster care of the mission or they go down.
Mormonism has given some trouble, and Popery some.
They have both
stretched things beyond their measure somewhat and have felt and are
feeling something of the recoil.
In the first place the Mormons applied to the Minister of Pub.
Inst. for an appriation ( !) as the papists had, but did not get it.
Then they pretended to keep up a Kula hanai [kula:
school; hanai:
nourished by them] - which has passed away - and they are quiet.
The three Catholic Schools have been reduced to one for lack
of pupils, and a desperate attempt is making to sustain the remain
ing one by over zealous makua hanais [foster fathers] endeavoring
to claim children to whom they had no legal right.
Respectfully Submitted
E. Bailey
�Report of Wailuku
Station May 1855
Although it is generally known by the brethren, still it may
not be improper to allude to the fact first of all, that Mrs. Conde
the partner of my joys and sorrows during almost 19 years of mission
ary life, is no more.
On the evening of the 30th of March the
Master, whom she had served with sincere affection, for some 25 years,
called her away from this world of sin and suffering to one of pur
ity and eternal felicity and where the wicked cease from troubling
& the weary be at rest.
The patience & resignation with whh she
endured her last sickness - the love and attachment whh she mani
fested for the Savior as the one altogether love and as her only
hope of salvation - the joy she expressed in the prospect of soon
beholding his face in peace and the sweet words of consolation and
advice, she addressed to her Husband & children, at different times,
and especially on the eve of her departure, impress our minds with
the goodness of God and the happifying effect of the gospel, while
they authorize the comforting belief that her exit - although a
great loss to those immediately concerned is great gain to her.
Having entered God's kingdom on high, we would not call her back
if we could, for there she sweetly rests from all her labors and
sorrows.
The Husband is bereaved of an excellent companion & the
children of an affectionate & careful Mother.
But we believe that
God can and will make the affliction a great and lasting benefit to
our souls.
He gave & he hath taken away and blessed be his name.
As a family he has begun to gather us to himself.
[again ?]
he has visited us on this errand.
will be taken next is only known to him.
Once and gain
Whh of the survivors
It is my daily prayer that,
through his abundant grace in Jesus Christ, each and all may be
�Wailuku - 1855
ready for the great change.
And it is my privilege to state that
about two months before their Mother's death, my two Daughters,
Susan & Paulina, after a season of great anxiety for their salva
tion, took their places at the feet of Jesus choosing that good
part whh shall not be taken from them.
My son Saml also still cher
ishes the hope whh he first began to indulge during the last revival
in Punahou School.
Often did they all unite in social prayer around
the sick bed of their now departed mother. The soothing & comfortas well as hers
ing effect of these exercises on their minds/was very considerable.
I feel therefore that my afflictions are mingled with many mercies.
Labors .
During the greater part of the past year my labors among
the people have been similar to those of preceding years.
I have
preached regularly at the Station on sabbath forenoon and in the
afternoon at the Outposts.
The usual meetings on week days have
also been sustained Altho for several months I was not able to
attend them in person on account of sickness in the family.
Besides my labors at home I have had the pleasure of visiting
twice my old people on East Maui.
quest.
Both times at their earnest re
In July they wrote a letter, urging me to come to their aid.
While I was considering whether it would be expedient to comply with
their request, a committee came and renewed the invitation.
fore went.
I there
On reaching the southern border of the field I commenced
preaching in their school houses to great numbers until I arrived at
the Station Meeting house.
4 days continuance.
There I tarried and held a meeting of
Great many attended.
It was a solemn assembly.
The word of God fell with power upon the heart and conscience.
members were revived.
Chh
Many who had been set aside came back, pro
fessing repentance and a goodly number were hopefully converted.
A few months after the above meeting the people of Kipahulu,
sent a deputation, inviting me to visit them.
Before I could get
�Wailuku - 1855
ready to go, they wrote urging me to come as soon as possible that the people were hungry for the bread of life among them I found it even so.
days - 4 exercises each day.
ent.
Oh arriving
The meeting there, was continued 4
The Spirit of God was evidently pres
A more solemn - interesting meeting I never attended.
About
January I was invited by the people of East Maui to make them a
third visit.
But Mrs. Conde being sick at that time I did not go -
nor have I been there since.
But favorable news have reached us
from time to time from that region -
They anticipate the arrival
of their new Teac(h)ers among them with great pleasure.
According to my own observation and that of our chh Lunas, both
the Catholics and Mormons have diminished the past year.
Each of
the two Sects have but one place of worship In our field.
olics have but one School And the Mormons none at all.
The Cath
Many of the
latter class have migrated to Ranai [Lanai], where, as you have al
ready heard, they are trying to form a community purely their own.
Our chh & people have not been blessed with anything that might
be called a revival the past year ceived on profession.
And but very few have been re
But a greater degree of harmony has prevailed
than in the year previous.
Kaauwai, however, made an attempt to
induce the people of Waihee to leave the Wailuku church and form
themselves into an Indepen[d]ant ( !) one, with himself as their
Teacher.
Assuring them that I had consented to the arrangement,
Many were led astray.
But on learning that I was not in favor of
any such decision - that they had been deceived - they all came back
except 3 leaders, who were subsequently dropped from our Communion
for disorderly conduct.
Since that there has been no disturbance.
On the contrary the chh generally walk together in peace and brotherly
�Wailuku - 1855
love as far as I am able to judge.
have been well attended.
All our Sabbath meetings especially,
The week, day meetings not so well.
But
the chh members generally are deficient in regard to contributing for
the support of their Pastor and for the common objects of benevolence.
Daring the year 1854 they have contributed as follows
346.71
69.75
For Support of Pastor
For foreign Missions
For Meeting House in
Honuaula
Whole N o on profession
Whole No by letter
Past year by examination
Past year by letter
Whole No. past year
Whole No Dismissed
Dismissed past year
Whole number deceased
Died past year
Suspended past year
Remain Suspended
Excom. past year
Whole No excom.
Remain Excom.
Whole No irregular standig
Whole No of chil. baptized
Baptized past year
Marriages past year
250.00
655.46
1660
58
2
60
7
12
29
6
1255
14
30
[Unsigned]
[On back:]
Wailuku 1855
Conde Rep.
[in pencil]
paha
[perhaps]
�Abstract of Report 1854
Wailuku.
[1855]
The Pastor is bereaved of an excellent companion and his
children of an affectionate and careful mother.
is her everlasting gain.
But their loss
After serving her Lord & Master some 25
years - 19 of them in the Missionary cause - with ardent devotion,
she departed this life on the 30th of March with a full assurance
of being forever with the Saviour.
Some two months before her death
and after a season of deep anxiety for their souls, two daughters
one 13 the other 15 years of age took their places at the feet of
Jesus - choosing that good part which shall not be taken from them.
An older brother also, still cherishes the hope whh he first indulged
in the late revival in Punahou school.
With affliction the Lord
has mingled much mercy.
Besides his ordinary labors - Ministerial and pastoral - among
his own people the Pastor has, during the past year, held a protracted
meeting of 4 days continuance in two different places in his old
field of labor, on East Maui.
results.
Both meetings were attended with happy
The Spirit of God was present.
Back sliders were reclaimed
and a large number of the impenitent were hopefully converted.
The
chh there are waiting the arrival of their New Teacher among them
with high anticipations.
In the opinion of the Pastor corroborated by that of the chh
officers generally, Catholicism and Mormonism in his field have
His
declined considerably the past year. xxxxx people have not been
blessed with a revival but a greater degree of harmony has existed
than in the year previous.
have been well attended.
The Sabbath day meetings generally,
Not so the week day meetings.
�Wailuku - Abstract 1855
The contributions of the chh & people for the[year] 1854
are as follows For Support of Pastor
For foreign Missions
For Meeting house & assistant
Preacher in Honuaula
Mr. Conde
No. 7
$346.71
69.75
250.00
-
$666.46
�Annual Report of W.P. Alexander
to the Ev a n g e l ical Association - May 1857
I spent eight months in the cool retreat of Ulupalakua and found
the climate and active employment very famorable to the health of
all my family.
On the sabbaths I preached alternately at Keawakapu,
Keokea, Kanaio and Auwahi, besides holding an English meeting at
my houses attended by all the foreigners in the neighborhood.
I
hope the seed sown, has not been sown in vain.
In the month of Nov. the church of Wailuku sent me a call to
become their pastor, & having obtained a release from my engagement
to superintend the Torbert Plantation for three years, I accepted
the call & commenced my labors there on Thanksgiving day, which
was the 25 of Dec.
During the last week of Jan. we held a protracted
meeting, in which I was assisted by Messrs Armstrong, Pogue, Andrews,
Kaukau & W.O. Baldwin,
During this meeting I was installed as pastor
of the church.
The church which had been in a stupid and distracted state
seemed to be revived, some backsliders returned with penitence &
we were encouraged to hope for a shower of blessing upon the people.
These hopes have not been fully realized.
The people continue
to come out in larger numbers to meeting on the sabbath, but very
few attend our weekly meetings.
life.
There is a great want of spiritual
A great majority of the members of the church care very
little for any of the ordinances of God's house, and evidently have
only a name to live while they are dead.
During the few months that
I have been with them, I have been more deeply impressed than ever
with the truth that Paul may plant & Apollos water but God only can
give the increase.
I found a strong feeling of hostility in a large portion of the
�Wailuku - 1857
church, to some of the ruling Elders, and at my suggestion, they all
resigned and a new election was made & harmony restored.
That portion of the Wailuku parish which comprises Honuaula
& Kahikinui has been organized into a district church and I hope
ere long they will have a pastor living among them to break unto
them the bread of life.
I shall continue to exercise the pastoral
over them until they are thus supplied.
The remainder of the parish
from Kamaalaea to Waihee is so accessable ( !) that I am able to
visit every part of it weekly.
On the sabbath I preach twice at the station & once a week
on week days at Waihee, Waiehu, Waikapu & Kamaalaea -
We also have
union meetings for the whole congregation on Wednesdays & Saturdays
at the station.
The people do not turn out well to meetings on week
days, their worldly cares absorb their attention.
I think if they
valued the gospel aright, they could so arrange their business as to
be able to attend.
Soon after my arrival among the people, it became evident that
we needed more seats in the meeting house & they have made contribu
tions for this purpose & that inconvenience will soon be remedied.
The people have contributed liberally for the Kingdom of God
considering their poverty since I became their pastor.
Their con
tributions during the past 4 or 5 months has been as follows
$ C
for erecting pews in station meeting house
198.00
for building meetinghouse at Honuaula
236.00
33.00
for Foreign Missions
Shares in the Morning Star
5.50
Support of pastor
290.00
Support of Teacher at Honuaula
50.00
to procure house for him
23.50
Making in all
$ 836.00
The people though very poor, have resources & might be com
fortable with a little effort.
They have excellent soil & their
�Wailuku - 1857
3.
kuleanas ought to abound with the valuable products of the country,
whereas they are so overrun by cattle & horses that they can culti
vate nothing which these animals will eat.
They are beginning to
awake to the importance of making fences and I hope they will soon
be able to turn their fertile lands, now lying waste, to good account
again.
Mormonism is dying out.
Those who were its earnest leaders for
merly seem to have lost all their interest in it & I have met with
none who seem ready to plead its cause.
Popery possesses more
vitality & seems pretty firmly rooted in part of the field & it will
probably maintain the struggle till Great Babylon is overthrown.
I have attended one examination of the schools & feel much en
couraged with the interest taken in the cause of education.
But I
need not enter into specifications as Bro Bailey will report this
department to you.
I will close this report by giving a table of the usual church
statistics.
And I would remark that I cannot find quite two thirds
of those reported in good standing in former years.
I have had the
Lunas write down the names of all now living in the several districts.
They say that many have removed to other parts of the islands where
they are living as men of the world, having abandoned their pro
fession as christians.
I will therefore take these lists reported
by the lunas as the basis of my report of statistics.
�Wailuku - 1857
Statistics of church of_________ _____________ Wailuku
Recd past year on profession
"
1
[ no figure]
certificate
4
Total past year
Honuaula
300
4
301
Dismissed past year
302,
2
Excluded past year
8
2
Whole no. in regular standing
664
Children Bapd past year
23
Married past year
13
Contributions
Wailuku
for Pastors Support
Foreign Missions
300
14
$ C
290.00
Honuaula
33.00
Morning Star
5.50
Church erection
198.00
Other objects
$ C
236.00
73.50
Total
[not given]
[Unsigned]
[On back:]
Report of W.P.
Alexander from
Wailuku Church 1857
�Station Report -
Wailuku
May 1858
On returning home from our general Meeting last June, I found
the ancient heathenish hula, which had met such favor in the metro
polis, had been revived at Wailuku during my absence & some of the
church members had joined in its carousals.
Although these persons
were possessed of rank & influence, yet being lifeless branches,
they had long injured the vitality of the church, & the opportunity
of lopping them off was not neglected.
Indeed, I have often found
it necessary throughout the year to use the pruning hook.
There is
so little spiritual life among the people, that they fall an easy
prey before every form of temptation.
The sin, emphatically called
the sin of the land, has swallowed up the most of those who have
wandered.
Intemperance stands next on the list of destroyers.
We have a clan of drunkards who glory in their achievements & make
their boast of the church members whom they have induced to drink
with them. Sometimes they get their liquor from Lahaina, sometimes
they get cologne or brandied peaches from merchants nearer home,
sometimes they resort to fermented potatoes & ti or to their ancient
drug, the awa.
This last article is extensively cultivated by
authority of the state.
among the young.
Gambling too is on the increase, especially
Many spend whole nights of feverish excitement
under the fascination of cards.
Five of our church members have
been seduced by its charms & wandered from us.
As is common in
other countries, gambling fraternizes with other vices and drags them
in its train.
In order that I might get acquainted with my people & know who
are church members & how they are living, I divided the whole church
into thirty classes & appointed a class leader for each class, whose
duty it is to see & converse with every individual in his class once
�Wailuku - 1858
2.
a month & report to the pastor.
By the assistance of these helpers
I have had a complete catalogue made out of all the church members
known in the field, and am gradually becoming acquainted with them.
There is a great deal of indifference to religion on the part of
many professors of religion.
We have, however, some praying men
and women, who hear with joy of the wonderful work of grace in pro
gress among the American churches & who are pleading with God that
the same cloud of blessings may be extended & pour down a shower
on the Hawaiian churches.
Our religious meetings on the sabbath
are better attended than they were last year, but still only a few
can be induced to lay aside their business & attend regularly on
week days.
We have made some progress in improving our houses of worship,
during the year.
We have added a board floor to the stone meeting
house of Waihee, & also doors & windows, so that it is now a com
fortable house of worship.
It is there that I usually preach on
sabbath afternoon to a congregation varying from 100 to 300 persons.
We have also erected 40 additional pews in our station meetinghouse,
so that our whole congregation are now comfortably seated.
During the past year, they have contributed in cash for various
objects, as follows,
Viz for meetinghouses
328.00
"
Church Bell
100.00
"
Pastor's salary
500.00
"
Foreign Missions
58.00
$ 986.00
My associate, Mr. Bailey embarked for the U.S the latter part
of January to recruit his health & see his aged parents once more, &
also meet his sister from the Zulu Mission now in the U.S.
Since
�3.
Wailuku - 1858
that time the care of the schools have devolved on me.
They are
in a flourishing condition; but to accomplish all that we ought to
expect from them, we must have better teachers.
What the teachers
lack is not so much knowledge, as tact & disposition to do their
best.
We want men who love their work whose hearts are in it, men
( !)
who will get the affections of their pupils, & arrouse them to
activity.
In the month of August we were visited by a severe epidemic,
which seized upon the whole population, almost without exception
& which in many cases proved fatal.
Such visitations, however, do
not seem to arrouse the people atall ( !) to attend to religion.
I have visited the church of Honuaula three times during the year
& administered the ordinances.
of piety among them.
They walk orderly & have some warmth
They are struggling to finish their stone
meetinghouse at Keawakapu & they have almost got the roof completed.
They are much attached to Nueku, a licensed preacher who is laboring
among them & would be glad to have him ordained as their pastor.
I
think he gives promise of becoming a very valuable helper in our
work.
The next mail from Maui will probably bring me Nueku's report
which I had hoped to embody in this.
I cannot now tell how much the
people have contributed towards his support & for foreign missions
& for their meeting house.
These items together with the church
statistics for Honuaula I will add when they come to hand.
In the month of September I visited Molokai in accordance with
the vote of this association & administered the church ordinances.
The church then appeared to be i n a vigorous healthy state, having
a bench of able Lunas, who seemed well united in the Master's work.
I rejoice that there is now a prospect, that one of our sons is
soon expected to join us in our work & become their pastor, to go
�Wailuku - 1858
in & out before them & break unto them the bread of life.
On the 12th inst I met with a clerical council at Lahainaluna,
when we examined & licensed four young men to preach the gospel,
who I trust will become burning & shining lights in Polynesia.
Church Statistics of Wailuku church for
the year 1858 - made out Dec. 1858.
Received during the year on certificate
"
"
Profession
Total past year
Dismissed past year
Deceased
"
Excluded
”
8
3
11
3
[no figure]
18
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Restored
Now in regular standing
Children Baptized p a s t year
Marriages
"
4
[no figure]
7
39
Contributions for 1858
Support of pastor
Foreign Missions
Meeting H ouse at Wailuku
"
"
W a i h ee
"
"
Waikapu
Bell at Waikapu
to Meeting house at Koloa, Kauai
"
Lahaina
Total
[Unsigned]
[On b ack:]
Statistics of church
at Wailuku
Rev. W.P. Alexander
455.00
53.00
241.00
107.25
355.25
100.00
31.00
15.00
1357.50
�Wailuku
May 1858.
Statistics of the Wailuku Church
Received the past year on profession
"
"
5
certificate
6
Dismissed past year to other churches
5
Deceased
"
36
Restored
"
1
Excluded the past year
47
Now in regular standing
575
Children Baptized past year
12
Marriages
41
"
Contributions past year
Pator's salary
Foreign Missions
Meeting Houses
Church Bell
$500.00
58.00
528.00
100.00
986. 00
Statistics of the Honuaula Church
Received the past year on Profession
"
"
1
Certificate
0
Dismissed the past year
1
Excluded
2
"
Now in regular standing
242
6
Children Baptized past year
Contributions the past year
Salary of native preacher
Erecting meetinghouse
Total contributions
$134.62
246.00
$380.62
�Report of the Church at Wailuku for 1859-60.
The great part of the field included in this church is a Moral wilderness - A
dark cloud hangs over the church.
For more than a year the people have not
had a Pastor to watch over, & guide them.
When the Pastor left for the States
he committed the affairs of the Church to my hands with the understanding that
I would not be able to do much for the people.
vacation of the Seminary
At the Commencement of the long
in 1859, I removed my family to Wailuku & occupied
the Parsonage, labouring for the people some six or seven weeks.
Since that I
have gone over, when my duties at the Seminary would permit, to preach, & ad
minister the communion.
Mr. Aholo, the assistant Teacher of the Seminary, has
occupied the pulpit frequently, with profit we hope to the people - He is very
popular among the people of Wailuku, & deservedly so - He preaches well digested
sermons - And sermons which are appreciated by the people.
The rest of the
preaching has been done by graduates from the Seminary living in that field.
Among whom were Manasa - Kuamoana, who/is an Elder in the Church, & Mikalemi Mr. Bailey has also preached, but not often - The Pulpit has also been supplied
one Sabbath each by Mr. Andrews, Mr. Baldwin of Lahaina & Mr. Cooke of Hono
lulu.
Mrs. Bailey has kept up a weekly meeting among the femails[!], which has
done good.
There is one bright spot in the field,
are awake.
The Meetings are full, & interesting.
Waikapu.
The People there
During the year they have
received a bell from the States which sends forth its merry voice to call the
people to the house of God morning by morning.
On the Sabbath afternoon, & at
other times.
The Romanists have a strong hold in this field.
the Sabbath is quite as large if not/larger than ours.
church.
thing.
Their congregation on
The Mormons also have a
They keep up service every Sabbath, tho very few attend as a general
It is sad to know that a great majority of the people living in the
field do not attend the house of God on the Sabbath day, nor at other times.
The afternoon service at the Station is very small - A mere handfull.
day meetings, so far as I can learn, are very poorly attended.
The week
It is a cause
of grief to behold the change which has taken place in this field during the
15 years past.
Islands.
Fifteen years ago Wailuku was one of the bright spots on the
Its church was prosperous.
How different now.
It almost seems as if
the majority of the people were given/up to a reprobate mind to work out their
own distinction[!].
The Pastor on his return will find his hands full, & more
than full of work - May the Lord bless his labours among them,
the waters to break out in the Wilderness,
&
&
again cause
Streams in the desert - May the
parched ground be come a pool & the thirsty land springs of water, that the de-
�Wailuku 1859-60
2.
sert may rejoice and blossom as the rose.
During the absence of the Pastor the communion oft h e Lords Supper has been ad
ministered five times,
to other churches.
14 persons have been suspended - 4 have been dismissed
10 children have been baptized[!].
$176.93 have been con
tributed for the Pastor. Kahale, one of the Elders of the church reports having recv'd $110.42 for the following objects - For the church $72.87 1/2.
ringing bell $13. For Fatuhiwa $10.
Expenses of Lord Supper $4 :12 [?]
For
For
foreign lands $10.42.
The Schools in the district are in a prosperous State.
The Kahukula is an ef
ficient. man - Has the Confidence of the Teachers, & pupils under him, 4[ ? ] is
doing a good work.
Respectfully Submitted
John F. Pogue
[Written on other side]:
Report of Wailuku
Rev. J.F. Pogue
1860
�Wailuku May 21st 1859
Moderator of the H. Evan. Asso.
The following are the statistics
the church at Wailuku for 1858 left by Bro. Alexander.
Re cv ’d during the year on Profession
"
"
"
"
by Certificate
Dismissed "
"
"
Deceased "
"
"
Excluded
"
"
Restored
"
"
Now in regular standing
Children Baptized past year
Marriages
"
"
Contributions for support of Pastor past year
"
Foreign Missions
”
Meeting house at Wailuku
"
"
"
Waihee
"
"
"
Waikapu
" for Bell at Waikapu
" Meeting house at Koloa
"
"
"
" Lahaina
Total Contributions
A true Copy
John F. Pogue
3
9
12
[no figure]
18
4
[no figure]
7
39
$455.00
53.00
241.00
107.25
355.25
100.00
31.00
15.00
$ 1,357.50
�Abstract of the
(1861 /)
Wailuku Station Report___________ ____
The past year has been period of unusual interest at Wailuku.
About the close of Oct. it became manifest that the Spirit of God was
moving on the hearts of the people.
Both the church & congregation
have been quickened in seeking after God.
Backsliders have been re
claimed, hypocrites alarmed & led to repentance & many who had acquired
a notorious celebrity from wickedness have turned to the Lord.
The good work is still going on.
Still many stand aloof from
all religion & press on madly the road to death There are nine district schools in the parish, all flourishing
comprising 400 scholars -
One of these is a popish school having 37
pupils, less than a tenth of the whole Wailuku possesses rich natural resources, yet the people & [are]
too poor to develope them, & in the midst of means of wealth, they live
in poverty Notwithstanding their deep poverty they give very liberally for the
erection of houses of public worship & for the support and spread of
the gospel -
Besides a large amount of labor performed, they have
contributed in cash since the first of June 1860 $1,366.00 for the
above objects.
Church statistics
Received past year on profession
"
"
certificate
Total past year
Dismissed past year
Deceased
"
Restored
”
Excluded
"
Now in regular standing
Children Baptized past year
Marriages past year
39
8
47
3
24
30
23
531
6
21
[Unsigned]
�(Wailuku Station - 1860)
An abstract of the Station at Wailuku The Pastor of the Church has been absent from his people more than
a year -
J.F. Pogue has been the acting Pastor -
low state feasts -
The Church is in a
The ways of Zion mourn because few come up to her solemn
There is one bright spot in the field - Waikapu -
ings there are well attended a strong hold in the Field -
The People are awake -
The Meet
Romanism has
There [are] also some Mormons -
The
people have contributed for different objects the sum of $287.35 The Schools in the District are prosperous John F. Pogue
�Station Report of Wailuku
Maul
May 1861.
After being absent from my people for eighteen months, I reached
Wailuku on the 5th of June last.
people:
I was very cordially received by the
stolid
Many, however, manifested a --------, stupid indifference.
I
resumed my labors , deeply impressed with the low state of piety among
the people, feeling that God only, who raised up the dry bones in the
valley of vision could quicken us again.
At our communion season in
July, a month after my return, we excluded 16 persons from the fellow
ship of the church, for various offences, such as entire neglect of
religion, adultery, having joined the Papists or Mormons:
the majority
of the church seemed to be sunk in a slumbering stupidty; yet there
were a few who mourned over the desolations of Zion & prayed earnestly
for a revival.
About the close of Oct we were cheered with evidence that an unseen
power was moving on the hearts of the people.
The morning prayer
meetings, which had been greatly neglected, were attended by increased
numbers and there was an evident increase In the numbers, who attended
all our regular meetings for worship.
Backsliders would rise spontan
eously in our meetings for prayer and conference & confessing their
wanderings, ask an interest in the prayers of God’s people.
Some of the
most careless, wild & profligate were seized with conviction of sin &
concern for their soul's salvation.
It is worthy of remark, that a large proportion of these were the
children of godly parents, who seemed to have broken away from all
restraints & sold themselves to work iniquity; bat "The mercy of the
L ord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him & his
righteousness to children's children."
He is faithful to his covenant.
�Wailuku 1861
Christians began to pray as I had not before heard them, at Wailuku.
Many fair professors of religion, who had been living in sin known
only to God, were constrained to come forward & confess their wicked
ness & beg the prayers of their brethren.
The brethren of the church
& the awakened were drawn together, and together they sought the Lord.
They met together for prayer & exortation three times a day for weeks
in succession & they would sometimes protract the afternoon meeting
till 8 or 9 o'clock at night, and indeed, for a while, they continued
all n ight in prayer & mutual exhortations.
Fearing evil would spring
up in the night meetings I advised their discontinuance.
Young converts,
of their own accord, diligently sought out their
former companions in wickedness & labored to bring them to Christ.
The
brethren went in companies of 2, 3, 4 or 5 and visited every house,
without distinction, whether of professed Christians, papists or mor
mons or of whatever character, would converse & pray with them, read
the scriptures to them & urge them to attend the meetings for public
worship.
Multitudes have thus been brought under the influence of the
gospel, who live far up the valleys & ravines among the birds and wild
goats of the mountains, who were quite inaccessable ( !) to the pastor.
A wonderful change has come over the whole community.
We no
longer hear the whistle & other sounds, by night, with which the
votaries of pleasure were wont to call each other.
reign, the fear of God rests on the inhabitants.
Order & quiet
Some of the most
distinguished leaders of the licentious, who were notorious as dis
turbers of the peace whenever they were found are now clothed & in
their right minds,
sitting at the feet of Jesus.
The first indications of the awakening appeared at Waih.ee, where
there had hitherto appeared less spiritual life, than in any other
section of my field.
I do not know of any special measures having
�Wailuku 1861
3.
preceded the awakening, & I can ascribe it only to the sovereign
grace of God.
The influence soon extended all over ray field, and during the
past six months, dawn prayer meetings at 8 or 10 different places have
been kept up every morning by joyful assemblies, who are glad to hear
each other say "Let us go into the house of the Lord."
The inhabi
tants of one hamlet have gone to another saying "Let us go speedily
to pray before the Lord & to seek the Lord of hosts," to which they
have cheerfully responded "I will go also."
Many, I fear, like Lot's wife, have been awakened to flee, who
have not been converted;- many have been moved by sympathy, seeing others
seeking the Lord, while in fact they have had no real concern for sal
vation.
Yet I bless God for his mercy & for his wonderful works among
us.
The increase of religious interest among my people has naturally
led to a large increase of my labors among them - I have been favored
with more vigorous health than in former years, so that I have rarely
failed to fill an appointment.
I attend the dawn prayer meetings when I can; sabbath morning at
8 o'clock attend Children's Sabbath school at the station; at 1/2 past
ten preach to the great congregation, after which a goodly number wait
to recite the Ai o ka la, which is often more profitable than the
sermon.
In the afternoon I go out to an outpost at Waihee or Waiehu,
at which time the people meet in Apanas at 8 or 10 different places,
the meetings are conducted by the Elders or persons invited by them.
All who are interested in studying the Bible in my field are invited
to attend a Bible Class at the Station on Wednesday & a lecture on
Saturday.
The remaining days of the week, are occupied in visiting
the various districts, where the people meet me to receive instruction
�4.
Wailuku 1861
& where I have spent much time in personal conversation with enquirers
I trust a large number have indeed turned to the Lord.
At the begin
ning of the year, I urged the people to undertake the work of reading
the whole Bible through annually.
I think a large number are now
engaged in this work, & I hope it will become a permanent institution
among us.
The pious women have been as active as the men, in their efforts
to rouse the careless & lead souls to Christ.
Mrs. Alexander has ac
complished a good deal in visiting from house to house, She has also
attended the female poalima [Friday] prayer meeting at the Station &
at out posts.
The work still continues.
The people hear the word gladly & it
is a pleasant work to preach to them.
Satan, however, still holds his sway over very many.
The period
of awakening has been marked by increased zeal among the mormons and
papists & there are many others who are still
things.
carnal & mind earthly
The marriage covenant is often violated.
There are many
married persons whose partners are yet living, who have separated &
taken manuahi [free; adulterous] partners, contrary to the laws of
God and man.
Many when sick resort to the doctors of Baal, who ad
minister their drugs with incantations to the ancient idols of the
land.
An excellent essay on this subject was read before our Presby
tery last April, which I hope the Hawaiian Tract Society will publish
& scatter among the people.
S. M. Kamakau, once a teacher in the Seminary of L a h a i
aluna, was
n
cut off from our church, three years ago for perjury.
His talents &
position gave him great influence over the people of Waihee, the dis
trict where he lived.
This influence, in the good providence of God,
is now effectually broken.
He joined the Papists & gave us much an
�Wailuku 1861
5.
noyance by his efforts to get possession of our Meetinghouse at Wai
hee.
This has broken the spell by which he held the people & they now
view him as a public enemy.
He, who said to the sea, "hitherto shalt
thou come but no further & here shall thy proud waves be stayed" is
able to abase those that walk in pride.
The experience, we have had
in reference to the meetinghouse of Waihee, has led us to apply for a
church charter, that we may be able to hold our church property with
more security.
Our schools are in a flourishing state.
400 pupils.
We have 9 containing
They all learn to read & write & get a good deal of
knowledge of arithmetic & geography & nearly all learn to sing.
By
aid of the teachers, I get a large part of the pupils into my sabbath
school & I esteem this part of my labors very important & hope they
will not be bestowed in vain.
A great desideratum with us is some means of giving profitable
employment to all the people.
resources.
We live in the midst of great natural
We have hundreds of acres of very fertile soil, that might
be easily irrigated by our perennial streams that burst forth from our
mountain glens; yet we produce almost nothing except kalo.
We might
produce & export a thousand tons of sugar annually, from land that
now yields nothing scarcely but indigo oi [sharp] & other noxious weeds,
and our rivers would furnish all the power needed to give motion to the
machinery.
But the people are too poor to erect machinery & they must
wait till the prospect of gain attracts capitalists to their aid.
The deep poverty of the people has abounded to the riches of their
liberality, for in regard to many, to their power, I bear record,
yea and beyond their power, they willingly contribute for the work of
the Lord.
I am unable to estimate a great part of their liberality
in labor to build & complete our various houses of worship.
The
�Wailuku 1861
amount contributed in cash during the year has been as follows, for
Church erection & repairs
Pastor's Salary
Sexton
Foreign Missions
$778.00
$500.00
36.00
52.00
1366.00
By mutual consent, a meeting of the pastors & ministers of Maui
& Molokai was held at Lahaina, on the 7th of Aug. last.
After free
conference on the state of the churches under our care, and the im
portance of adopting efficient measures to raise up & qualify laborers
to supply the destitute portions of our field & carry on the work when
our labors are finished, we were unanimously of opinion, that though
we had hitherto managed our ecclesiastical affairs harmoneously ( !),
without much system, yet that permanent peace & purity can not be
secured for our churches without order, and that no order can be main
tained without authority, laws & a set of officers to execute them.
The only question as to what form of ecclesiastical organization we
should adopt, was between Congregationalism and Presbyterianism, and
we were unanimously of opinion, that for a people partially enlight
ened, like the Hawaiians, Presbyterianism is decidedly the best form
of government.
We therefore organized the Presbytery of Maui & Molo
kai, and resolved to take the Plan of government and book of discipline
of the Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A. as our guide, until we have
time to digest & adopt a system of our own.
Thus, I trust, we have consummated a bond of union to preserve
order and symmetry in the house of God, which will e[n]able us to
to ( !) concentrate our efforts to supply the destitute in our field
& which will will ( !) afford a school for training young men for the
work of the ministry.
But I need not enlarge on this part of my re
port, as our stated Clerk will rehearse to you the measures we have
taken for raising up a native ministry.
�Wailuku 1861
In the month of Oct. bro. Forbes and I made the tour of East Maui
preaching to the destitute of Kahikinui, Kaupo, Kipahulu, Hana & Koolau.
We located Menase, a licensed preacher, at Mokulau in Kaupo,
where he is laboring with great acceptance.
We also have Kaono a
licentiate laboring in Koolau; the central point at the Hana Station
is still without a preacher.
after his own heart.
The Lord raise up & send them a pastor
We administered the Lord's Supper and attended
to matters of Church discipline in Kaupo, Hana & Koolau.
Our Presby
tery has directed that distinct churches be organized at Kaupo & Koo
lau.
We found a good deal of religious interest among the people at
Hana & Koolau.
Church Statistics
39
8
47
3
24
30
23
531
6
21
Received past year on profession
"
certificate
" Total past year
Dismissed past year
Deceased past year
Restored past year
Excluded past year
Now in regular standing
Children baptized past year
Marriages
[Unsigned]
[W.P. Alexander]
�Abstract of Wailuku Station
Report
May
1862 --
The past year has been very healthy, no fatal disease or
epidemic has prevailed.
Many children have had the measles & mumps,
but all recovered; yet the deaths have been 83 and only 66 births,
which shows that the nation is wasting away.
There has been a great scarcity of money, no market for poi &
beef.
Great efforts are being made to produce a more certain ex
port, for this purpose many are planting rice & sugar cane.
The congregation are disposed to engage the support of one
Hawaiian Missionary to a pagan land.
D. Kapali a ruling elder of the church was ordained in March, by
the presbytery of Maui & Molokai as an evangelist to Micronesia.
The
presbytery now has eight candidates for the ministry under its care &
there will probably be yearly additions to this number.
Thus the way
is preparing to go forth & possess the vast fields of paganism spread
out on this ocean.
No special revival of religion during the year, yet there are many
pulsations of life in the church; the leaven of the gospel is grad
ually pervading the whole mass.
A Mr. Gibson, a new apostle of Mormonism has been laboring to
rally that division of the enemy's post, but his efforts will prove
abortive.
Common schools are improving, the teachers are better & the pupils
make more proficiency than ever before.
�Abs. Wailuku 1862
Contributions
$
C
361.00
Pastors Salary
Foreign Missions
86.00
Church Repairs
"
245.00
Clock
22.00
Sexton
30.00
Monument for Dr. Armstrong)1
0
5
.
2
by the school children )
—
$ 756.50
Church Statistics
54
Recd, on profession the past year
certificate
Whole number received
Dismissed
"
8
"
62
"
2
19
Deceased
Excluded
8
Restored
4
Now in regular standing
568
Children baptised the past year
17
Marriages
20
"
[Unsigned]
[W. P . Al exander]
�Station Report, Wailuku
Maui,
May 1862.
The fields have been fruitful & the herds have yielded increase
& yet the people of Wailuku, who are both pastoral & agricultural, have
complained more of pecuniary destitution than ever before.
Although
their two staple products kalo & beef have yielded abundantly, the mar
ket has failed them.
Hitherto they found a ready market for these in
the great sugar plantations of Makawao & the irish potatoe fields
of Kula, a continued draught for three successive years has greatly
crippled the former & the latter have been almost abandoned, because
whaleships ceased to come & purchase their crops.
This has left the
people without the means to pay their taxes or accomplish any thing
that required money.
Necessity has been laid upon them to produce
something to exchange for which they could find a market & I doubt
not the embarrassment they now suffer will lead to a much more prosper
ous condition.
Some have commenced the culture of rice & others of sugar
cane & there is a general disposition to enclose their lands with sub
stantial fences.
We have two small sugar mills now in the field &
another with superior machinery is being erected, some capitalists are
making arrangements to erect a fourth.
We also have two flour mills,
whose machinery is carried by water power, for manufacturing the wheat
of East Maui, one of which is being greatly enlarged and improved.
All these things tend to increase the motives for active industry.
May we not expect the people will become more thrifty - more virtuous
& more godly?
Perhaps increased industry may turn the tide of depopulation &
the nation again recover strength & become an abiding monument of the
power of the gospel to purify & save.
�2
There have been in my field 66 births & 83 deaths since our General
meeting last year, and when we remember that the past year has been
unusually healthy, we cannot fail to see indications that the nation is
wasting away.
Foreigners, however, are steadily increasing, they have
almost doubled with us during the past year.
The attention of my people has been turned to the great work of
evangelizing the world more than usual during the past year.
We were
favored with a visit from Dr. Gulick of Micronesia and afterwards from
Kapohaku of the Marquesas
Islands.
The graphic descriptions these
breathren presented of heathenism & the missionary efforts in those
regions made a powerful impression upon the people.
Oh that these
impressions could be fixed like photographic pictures, but they are
too much like pictures on a mirror, that disappear when the object
painted is removed.
Our monthly concert for prayer for the spread of the gospel has
been kept up though generally it is thinly attended A very interesting meeting of the presbytery of Maui & Molokai
was held at Wailuku in the month of March, when D. Kapali, one of
our ruling Elders, and who for four years had been a teacher of one
of the district schools, was ordained as an evangist ( !) to carry the
gospel to Micronesia.
Kapali is much beloved by the people.
Some of
them were so impressed by the exercises of the day that that ( !) they
spent most of the succeeding night in prayer & I think a new link has
been formed between the hearts of the people and the work of missions.
They have been discussing the question, whether they shall not under
take to support one missionary in the foreign field, & I hope they will
do it.
They had their hearts set on selecting Kapali for their mission
ary but the Secretary of the Hawaiian Missionary Society selected
�Wailuku - 1862
3.
him for the Sabbath School of Mr. Lacy's Church at San Francisco.
I
hope this good example will be followed by many others in that highly
favored land.
We are in the midst of the pagan tribes of the Pacific,
we have many pious young men who are anxious to carry the gospel to
these tribes, they are already masters of one of the Polynesian dia
lects which makes the acquisition of kindred dialects an easy work,
they are accustomed to the food, climate & manners of the inhabitants,
but our churches are not able to send the number that are ready to go
& that ought to go.
May we not hope that while we raise up & train
the men, our continental neighbors will furnish the means.
There are
now eight candidates for the ministry under the care of the presbytery
of Maui & Molokai & there will probably be yearly additions to this
number, but we have not fields for them to labor in here.
Is not the
Master beckoning us onward to possess the vast fields that are lying
waste?
tidings
I am sorry I cannot report cheering - - - - . of the work of the Lord
in converting souls.
There are still many who profess to have turned
to the Lord, who are not church members, but who wish to be.
It is
hard to discriminate.
The love of many seems to have waxed cold.
people are impulsive.
At one time religion is the chief concern,
and then anon it is almost forgotten.
off of religious zeal.
Our
There has been a great falling
Our meetings on the sabbath are still well
attended, this is also true sometimes on week days, yet our meetings
on week days are often thinly attended.
This arises however, in some
degree, from increased diligence in secular labors.
In July 45 persons
who had been previously propounded were received to the fellowship
of the church & since then we have received eight others.
I know of
only one defection among the large number received to the church last
year.
Some of them give very cheering evidence that they have indeed
�4.
Wailuku - 1862
been born again.
My labors during the year have been very similar to that of former
years.
Sabbath morning at 9 o'clock, I attend a sabbath school of
children, then preach at the station, after which I have a Bible Class
of adults, and in the afternoon I preach at an out station at which time
meetings for exhortation and prayer are held at five other places in
my field:
these meetings are conducted by the elders of the church
or young men who are in a course of training for the ministry.
On
Wednesdays & saturdays I have delivered a course of lectures on the
parables & miracles of our Lord, & am now taking the gospel of Matthew
in course in one of these meetings & the Book of Daniel in the other.
On thursday afternoon I preach at an outstation.
The meeting for prayer at dawn is kept up at seven different places
in my field.
much good.
I attend these meetings occasionally & I think they do
Sometimes they are crowded & sometimes very few attend.
Mrs. Alexander has meetings with the women on frydays ( !) in different
parts of the field.
At these meetings, in addition to the religious
exercises they have manufactured several handsome bedquilts to aid the
cause of missions.
There has been a convocation of Mormons, from Hawaii to Kauai,
held at Wailuku during the year.
A Mr. Gibson, a new apostle from
Great Salt Lake, called them together & raised several hundred dollars
by selling, not indulgences, but commissions as officers of various
ranks among the Latter Day Saints.
I have no means of knowing what are the real aims of Gibson, but
suppose they have been connected with the expectation that the great
southern rebellion in the U.S.A. would prove successful & I shall
expect he will disappear from among us, when all hope of the rebels are
�Wailuku - 1862
extinguished.
5.
He is now conducting the Mormon interests on Lanai.
The
Mormon excitement which he roused at Wailuku has passed away & Mormonism
itself seems to he dying out.
The common schools in my field are improving.
We have an abler
set of teachers than ever before, for which we are indebted to the
Seminary at Lahainaluna.
The children very generally make proficiency
in reading, writing, arithmetic, geography & singing.
D uring the past
year they have committed to memory the Shorter Catechism & recited it
to me at the Sabbath School.
The past year has been the most quiet & orderly that I have witnessed
at Wailuku.
There have been no special outbreaks of iniquity, resulting
I hope from the fact that the leaven of the gospel is more & more per
vading the mass of the people In regard to the revision of the Bible for a new Edition.
Pentateuch is the portion assigned to Bro Baldwin & myself.
The
We are
each going over it seperately ( !) & intend to arrange the notes of
our corrections when we get through in readiness to lay it before
the whole Committee.
This we hope to have ready during the present
year.
Contributions
Church Statistics
R e c 'd on prof. past year
"
certificate "
Whole no. recd
"
Dismissed
"
Deceased
"
Excluded
"
Restored
"
Now in regular standing
Children Baptized past year
Marriages
"
54
8
62
2
19
8
4
568
17
20
Pastor's Salary
Foreign Missions
Church Repairs
"
Clock
Sexton
$ C
361.00
86.00
245.00
2 2 .0 0
30.00
$ 744.00
Which is $622.00 less than last
year Respectfully submitted
W.P. Alexander
�June 1863
Wailuku Station Report
The Wailuku church was organized in Aug. 1832 by the Rev. J.S.
Green who continued to be their pastor till July 1, 1836, when Rev. R.
Armstrong became their pastor, in which relation he continued till
1843, when Rev. E.W. Clark was appointed as his successor by the
Hawaiian Association & he commenced his labors as pastor June 18, 1843,
which he continued to perform till Aug. 1848 -
In Oct. 1848 Rev. D.T.
Conde, by appointment of the Hawaiian Association became pastor in
which relation he continued till Oct. 1856 Nov. 15, 1856 the present pastor accepted a unanimous call of the
church to become their pastor & was regularly installed Jan. 21, 1857.
On the 19th of April 1857 the church at Honuaula was organized
distinct church. It had hitherto constituted a
into a/part of the Wailuku church & when organized it consisted of
298 members who were for this purpose dismissed from the church of
Wailuku, and Oct. 14, 1860 S.W. Nueku was ordained by the Presbytery
of Maui & Molokai as assistant Pastor of the Ch of Honuaula.
The whole number of persons who have been received into the church
of Wailuku from the beginning on examination is
1957
the whole number on certificate
"
106
of deaths
860
"
dismissed to other churches
509
"
who remain excluded
164
"
Now in good standing
males
females
282)
248)
530
About one half of all that have been received into the church
during the 31 years since it was organized have died; of the 60 who
were received during the first five years only four remain in the
district, & 40 have died.
Of the 164 who remain excluded, 25 have
become papists, & 16 are Mormons.
�Wailuku 1863
2.
The past year has been apparently a period, of health, no alarming
sickness has swept over the land & yet while the number of births in
Wailuku district has been 45, there have "been 97 deaths, more than
double the number of births.
There Is however an alarming disorder
extending among us, I refer to the Mai Pake [leprosy] ; the number
affected with this loathsome disease has more than doubled during
the past year.
We have reason to believe the disease is contagious
& efficient measures ought to be taken to isolate it, Sc if possible
expel it from the country.
The agricultural interests of Wailuku have received a great
impetus during the past year.
Hitherto kalo has been the great
staple indeed our district has produced almost nothing else, while more
than 2000 acres of fertile land, that may be irrigated by the four
perennial streams that rush down through the Mtn gorges, have lain
waste.
The fence builder now is at work & the plowman -
Hundreds
of acres are being prepared for sugar cane & there is a prospect that
the export from the district will hereafter be counted by several
thousands of tons of sugar.
The facility with which the people can acquire property has been
greatly increased & many of them will doubtless become wealthy.
foreign element is also rapidly increasing among us.
The
A very respect
able congregation can now be collected to worship God in the Eng.
language & it is expected that Rev.
C .B .
Andrews, who has made arrange
ments to move into the district will preach to this congregation.
Prosperity in temporal good things has always been dangerous to
a people’s spiritual interests; the aspiration of the venerable Apostle
was judicious "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest pros
per & be in health, even as thy soul prospereth”
3 John 2.
To have
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3.
the soul's prosperity of the people keep pace with their material
accumulations will require increasing vigilance & labor on the part
of their pastors.
We must see to it that they consecrate themselves
& their all to the Lord & that their benevolent instincts are not
extinguished by increasing selfishness.
During the past year the peo
ple of Wailuku have been stirred to active benevolent effort on two
occasions, first when they heard the wail from Lahainaluna that the
much loved Seminary was consumed with fire, their liberality showed
how deeply they were moved.
Again when they heard the Directors of
the Hawaiian Board of Missions had resolved to recommend that the
Marquesas Mission be recalled from the lack of means to carry on the
work, they came nobly to their help us".
"The poor we always have with
We shall never lack suitable channels in which their benevolent
e[n]terprise may flow, let us be on the alert to train & guide them
aright in this matter.
Although we have not enjoyed a revival of religion during the
past year, yet the religious interest of the people has not declined.
Our meetings on the sabbath continue to be well attended, but the
great increase of agriculture has diminished the assemblies at our week
day meetings.
I think the church is growing in knowledge & strength.
Our schools were never as prosperous as now & there is no part
of my work that I enjoy more than laboring in the children's sabbath
school.
Mormonism is on the decline [,] Popery in statu quo, & the new
religion, the Reformed Catholic finds no favor among us, except among
a few Englishmen who live among us.
The contributions during the past year have been as follows
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4
For the cause of Missions
Pastor's Salary
Reroofing the Pastor's house
Church repairs
Lahainaluna Seminary
$353.00
300.00
219.12 1/2
45.25
249.18 3/4
Total
$1166.56 1/4
Church Statistics Whole number received on Profession
"
"
Past year on
1957
Certificate
106
Profession
00
8
Certificate
8
Total past year
Whole No Dismissed
509
7
Dismissed past year
Total Deceased
860
Deceased past year
17
Excluded past year
4
Now in regular standing
530
Total children Baptized
1153
Baptized past year
Marriages
4
"
23
[Unsigned; W.P. Alexander]
[lnsert on small piece of paper:]
The Committee for revising the
translation of the Bible, assigned the Pentateuch to me.
through with Genesis and a part of Exodus -
I have gone
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WAILUKU
STATION
REPORT
CONTENTS
Unsigned
(Green) ..................... .... 1833
J. S. Green and R. Tinker .................. 1834
Unsigned (Green) ........................... 1836
Unsigned (On back: read by Mrs. Armstrong).. 1837
R. Armstrong.............. ................ 1838
Unsigned (Armstrong) ............... ....... 1839
�Wailuku, Maui June 1833
Station taken August 15, 1832 Circumstances when taken.
We were cordially recieved (!) and entered
immediately upon the labors of the station.
There had never been a
meeting house here, and for some weeks we worshiped ( !) in a large
ranai [lanai: a shed; porch] .
For a few Sabbaths the people assembled
in great numbers, say 3,000, but after ascertaining that the gospel
could be heard every Sabbath, many soon became weary and absented
themselves.
We found the schools in rather a low state, having no
school house and their teachers being indolent.
We soon examined
the schools of Wailuku and the neighboring villages and found some
600 readers (?).
The church consisted of seven members.
Labors performed during the year.
Preaching on the Sabbath
has been regularly performed, also on Wednesdays.
For two or three
months the Wednesday lecture has been changed to a kind of bible
class.
Monthly concert has been observed.
This with a meeting of
the church on Saturday evenings is all the meetings which we have
sustained at Wailuku.
We have instructed a bible class of some 50 or 60 individuals
who have all instructed in Sabbath School between the services on
the Sabbath.
On Sabbath mornings we have had a school of some 150
children.
Of Schools we have taught some 100 teachers in reading and
Geography.
Many of them have made good improvement.
schools is, we think, improving slowly.
The state of
Many are learning to read
tho' the number at our last examination was nearly the same as when
we arrived, 631 being the number of readers, exclusive of those under
our
immediate instruction.
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I have attended nearly all the funerals in the neighborhood
of Wailuku, in all thirty nine.
Of marriages I have solemnized 139.
The statements above have referende to Wailuku and the villages
in the immediate vicinity.
The field committed to my care embraces the entire part of the
Island called East Maui.
late census 23,764.
Number of inhabitants according to the
I have been unable to visit the schools on this
part of the Island except 2 or 3 villages some 10 or 15 miles distant
where I examined about 1000 readers.
I cannot report special attention to religion at my station,
tho' I hope in the case of a few, there is a growing interest in
attending on the means of grace.
We greatly need help.
Summary.
Church. 9 members 2 added this year.
Schools
631 readers - com Schools
100 in geography
39
funerals
139 marriages
[Unsigned]
[On b ack:]
Wailuku Station
Report - 1833.
Mr. Green.
�Wailuku Maui May 19, 1834.
In presenting the annual report of the labors performed at this
station during the past year, grateful mention should be made of the
mercy of God in favoring us generally with comfortable health,
especially for his signal Interposition in rescuing one of our number
from the very jaws of death, and in restoring him to a state of
soundness.
In consequence of his fall, Mr. Green was laid aside for
three Sabbath[s] . With this exception nothing has occured ( !) to
interupt ( !) our labors, some account of which we now present!
I.
Schools .
At the commencement of the missionary year, we designed to
expend much of our strength in the business of instructing our
station school and we hoped to reap much fruit from this department
of our labor.
ted.
In this respect, however, we have been sorely disappoin
Our design of benefiting teachers, and their wives (?) many
of whom had previously removed to this place, has proved nearly
abortive in consequence of having no place for teaching.
however has been done.
Something
A school of children has been taught, and some
sixty teachers of both sexes have been under a course of instruction
a part of the year.
are brightening.
Our prospects in regard to our station school
Our school house Is nearly completed, and we hope
to redeem the time which seems to have been nearly lost.
The state of schools generally, on East Maui, is much as hereto
fore reported.
Since the last general meeting a tour of the island
has been made for the purpose of examining schools and preaching the
gospel.
was 2884.
The number of readers who were then enrolled in our schools
Pew children are in the habit of frequenting school.
Teachers are illy qualified for their business, and the state of our
schools calls loudly for some change.
�Wailuku Maui 1834
2.
II
Preaching the gospel.
\
Our pulpit at Wailuku has been regularly supplied during the
year on the Sabbath, Wednesdays, and the first Monday in each month.
In addition, considerable itinerary labor has been performed.
In
making tours for examing schools forty (40) sermons have been preached
[Waikapu]
and at Hamakua loa, Hamakuapoko, Waihee, Waiehu and Waikepu more than
one hundred times during the year, have we proclaimed the "glad
tidings of great joy", designed for all people.
On Sabbath evenings
Mr. Tinker has commonly preached in English to some half dozen
foreigners exclusive of our families.
III Extra Meetings
In addition to these stated means of grace, preaching Sabbath
morning to Children, at 11 o.c. A.M. and 4 P.M., we have continued
the Bible class exercises (?) on the afternoon of the Sabbath, in
which we have explained the verse a day system to the teachers in
our Sabbath school.
We have recently met our people on the after
noon of fridays, each week, to explain to them the sacred oracles.
On tuesdays of each week, we have met the old people, have prayed
with them, read to them the word of God, explained its meaning, and
besought them to become holy.
233
6
We have during the year solemnized 239 marriages, and attended
3
242
50 funerals.
Gladly would we now speak of the conversion of sinners and the
upbuilding of the church.
But on this subject we have little to say
which will cheer the hearts of our brethren.
We fear the church, tho'
small, presents a fearful obstacle to the descent of the Holy Spirit.
A dreadful state of apathy seems to pervade the church, which we fear
will remain unbroken till the light of eternity discloses their real
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character and unalterable condition.
give intimation of Spiritual life.
Some three or four members
Two members have been admitted
during the year, one native, and Mr. Murin (?), an English resident.
Tho’ we can speak of nothing particularly cheering, yet we
would say that for some two or three months past there has been
our
considerable increase of xxx congregations xxx on the Sabbath.
We hope too that there is rather an increasing attention to the
preached gospel, and some few seem to be enquiring the way to heaven.
Pray for us that God would shed down upon us the dews of his Spirit,
and bring multitudes to the Savior’s feet.
J.S. Green
R . Tinker
2884
242
50
2
11
readers
marriages
funerals
added to the church during the year
church members in all
�Wailuku, Maui, May 26, 1836.
The familiar line of Hewers beautiful missionary hym ( !) "And
only man is vile" - has frequently been on my tongue, as I have
walked from my study to the house of God, or to call upon some of
our poor people.
The sweet air of Wailuku, and the extensive pros
pect on either hand - the enchanting mountain scenery near us to
the west, - the ocean and the grand, distant "Hale o ka la" ( !)
to the east - the smiling villages to the south and to the north,
the unfailing streams of sweet water which meander thro the midst
of waving vegetation, all show plainly that God, on His part, has
done all that could reasonably be asked to make this the very garden
of delights.
How painful the reflection, that man, the last a n d
best of the works of God, should pollute, by his sin and folly,
all that is fair in the works of his benevolent Creator.
To make this field what God would have it, to render it in a
moral point of view as interesting as it is in a natural, is the
object for which we are toiling.
What we have been enabled to do
the past year, we will now briefly report.
We premise, that the past year has been In some respects, a
year of mercy to our poor people.
There has been less sickness,
and fewer deaths among them, than there were the last year.
No
accurate account of the births and deaths has been kept; they have
probably been nearly equal.
God, in dealing thus kindly with our
people is calling upon us to labor with our might to save them from
the agonies of the second death.
The increase of labours has also,
we trust, proved an unspeakable blessing to all who have been dis
posed to listen to instruction.
One of us, however, has been pre
vented from doing all that he had it in his heart to do, in conse
quence of much secular care in providing for himself and family, a
�2.
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comfortable habitation.
We hope soon to be relieved from care of
this kind that we may be able to show more conclusively after another
year, the superior advantage of united, to insolated ( !) [insulated ?]
labor at a missionary station.
1.
Improvement of the people as physical and social beings.
On this subject we can only say, the march of improve
ment is exceedingly slow.
Though some of the people are waking up
to a sense of their destitute circumstances, very little is actually
doing to better their condition.
Of the greater part, we need
scarcely say that they seem perfectly contented to remain as they
have always been, scarcely a grade above the swine they feed, so
far as habits of living are concerned.
We do not say that we ought,
as a mission, to do more than we now do to improve the habits of
the people at large, tho’ we think that candidates for church mem
bership should have special instruction relative to their duty on
this subject; - but we cannot refrain from expressing our belief,
that unless the rising generation are better trained than their
fathers, there is very little hope that religious institutions will
long be perpetrated.
2.
Manufactory of cloth &c.
In this department though we cannot report having
done great things, yet we have done too much to yield to discourage
ment.
Indeed we have been agreeably disappointed in witnessing the
diligence and perseverance of those females who have been instructed
in spinning.
One class of seven or eight has been dismissed, who
are in the opinion of Miss Brown, capable of teaching others to
spin.
They have also learned to knit.
course of instruction.
Another class is now in a
The quantity of cloth which Miss Brown has
�Wailuku, Maui
1836
3.
woven, for she has done the weaving hitherto - is as follows:
1st piece
2nd Do
3d
Do
She has yarn on hand for some
yds —
__
Do _ _ _ _ _
D o _____ _
would
yds more, which/have been
woven had she not accompanied Mr. Armstrong to this place the last
of April.
The great difficulty connected with this subject seems to be
that those who learn to spin are likely to lose the benefit for want
of encouragement after leaving school.
They are destitute of wheels,
and if they had them, they have no place to spin.
Would it not be
best for us, as a mission, to take the business into our own hands purchase cotton, instruct females to spin, and afterward pay them
from the. product of their own industry?
We are of the opinion that
we shall soon be obliged to adopt this course, or relinquish all
hopes of benefiting the people by teaching them to manufacture cloth.
3.
Translations.
Second Chronicles has been reviewed since general
meeting, and printed, and the assignments then made to us have been
performed, and also printed.
4.
Marriages.
There have been 139 marriages solemnized at this
station, and at other places on East Maui, since the last general
meeting.
5.
Preaching the gospel.
This we have made our great business.
The preaching
of the gospel has been maintained at our Station every Sabbath, dur
ing the year.
Also our Wednesday lecture, monthly concert, and other
occasional meetings.
We have of late, observed the second monday
�Wailuku
Maui
1836
4
in the month to pray for the blessing of God on sabbath school in
struction, and the third to unite in praying that God would smile
upon the means employed to train up youth for the ministry.
On
Wednesdays of late, one of us has been out to Waihee, four miles
distant, visited the schools there, and preached.
At Haiku, preach
ing has been maintained, when neither of us has been absent from
home, nearly every Sabbath, and occasionally we have preached at
Ham akuapoko on our way home from Haiku,
In October one of us,
accompanied by Mr. Clark made the tour of East Maui.
We spent
nearly a week in examining schools, and preaching the gospel from
village to village.
the island.
Quite recently Bartimeas has made the tour of
He was absent from Wailuku eight Sabbaths, held meetings
wherever he could find means, and conversed familiarly with all
whom he saw.
W e cannot but hope that good will result from these
itinerating labors.
Our congregations on the Sabbath have been much
as last year both at Wailuku and Haiku, and a good degree of atten
tion, at the time, is paid to the preaching of the gospel,
will be the result remains to be seen.
What
May it finally be seen that
our labors in the Lord are not in vain.
6.
State of the church, additions &c.
We have had no case of discipline in our little church,
the past year, though our hearts are pained with evidence, which
their lives too plainly furnish, of the unsoundness of the profession
\
of several.
A protracted meeting of the church of nearly a week
has been held, during the year, and of late more than usual labor
has been bestowed upon them.
On a part of the church, the influ
ence seems to have been happy, but the case of others seems more
hopeless than any other class of sinners to whom we preach the
gospel.
The seal of perdition seems affixed to them, and we might
�Wailuku
Maui
1836
5.
as well weep over the dead.
God grant that the churches may he
saved from the intrusion of others of like character.
The Savior
it has seemed to us o f late, is in a Special manner near to us and
waiting to shed down upon us the influences of the Holy Spirit, but
all we can say will not arouse some part of the church, nor induce
them to lift a finger to save their perishing fellow men around
them from perdition.
Indeed we greatly fear that some of them are
living in the habitual commission of known sin; and we do not expect to
live long without trouble of the kind which has afflicted our brethren
at other stations.
We can however report more favorably of several
individuals of our church.
They appear to be humble, prayerful, con-
sistant followers of the Lord Jesus Christ and seem disposed to be
co-workers with us in building up His cause.
In January last three individuals, one from Haiku, were admitted
to the church.
None stand propounded, but several have, of late
excited our hopes that they are the children of God.
There seems also
to be a growing solemnity on the minds of a class of our people.
We
cannot but hope that the Savior is about to pour upon us a blessing.
May we be prepared to welcome the Holy Spirit, and that He may be
shed down upon us in copious effusions we entreat our brethren "to
pray for us."
[Unsigned.
J.S. Green's handwriting]
�Wailuku.
Ap.
1837
In presenting the report of Wailuku station for the past year,
the first sentiment which arises in our minds is one of gratitude
to the God of our mercies fore we have prospered -
His good hand has been upon us & there
We have had no sickness of consequence at
our station during the year:
Neither has there been much sickness
or great mortality among our people -
The season however has been
unusually dry & we are in danger of suffering some inconvenience in
consequence.
The church
On our return from Genl Meeting the church was not in as en
couraging a state as could be wished.
The King and chiefs being at
the station, occasioned much destraction ( !) of mind, & presented
some snares in the way of our professing Christians - Lukewarmness
in some and spiritual death in others were apparent while one came
forward voluntarily and acknowledged himself guilty of drinking
brandy with King singing meles for him, and some other sins of less
consequence thus violating his own pledge, & bringing disgrace upon
himself as a christian -
But as the confession was voluntarily made
& with evidence of penitence, he was not suspended from the church.
This affair however was overruled for good not only to the individual
concerned, who has appeared much better since than before his fall,
but to the ch. generally - It occasioned some awakening & heart
others
searching, and fears lest xxxx might fall into the same temptation so that from that time to the present there has been rather an in
creasing spirit of prayer, zeal & activity in our church.
Most of
our church members are active labouring men & women & chiefly of the
poorer class, and on the whole the church at Wailuku may be regarded
as in a prosperous state -
It has been greatly revived & strengthened
�Wailuku
1837
2.
[protracted]
by two pro-meetings held during the year of which we shall speak
presently -
During the year 11 individuals have been received to
the communion of the church, one of whom is a young girl of 13 or
14 years old.
One case of discipline only has occured ( !) during the year.
A man from Kaawaloa, a member of Mr. Elys church, who had removed
to Haiku some 4 years ago, where his out deportment not only entitled
him to a good standing in the church but procured for him an unusual
degree of our confidence, was proved at the close of our. pro. meeting
in Nov. to have been guilty of adultery more than two years ago, in
repeated instances -
Considering all the circumstances of the case,
he was severely dealt with but I am happy to say there is some evi
dence of sincere repentance in him at present -
He has evidently
suffered sever[e]ly in discipline, even to mar[r]ing his countenance,
and affecting his health.
We hope therefore to see the way clear
ere long to restore him to his place in the church -
I mention this
case because several of the brethren are acquainted with the man &
may feel an interest in it Labours
The public labours of the station has been as follows - A
a Sab. school at 8. o'c A. M.
sermon sabbath morning and another and another at 11 o 'clock^with a
Bible class at 1 o'clock, and a catechetical lecture at 4, with
occasionally an english sermon in the evening -
A school of adults
to study the ai o Ka la & read the Kumu Hawaii has been regularly held
on Wed. afternoon & closed with a lecture on the verses for the week Since the 1st of Nov. morning prayer meetings have been held at day
break, which have been well attended & been highly useful A church meeting has also been regularly held every Sat. evening.
Mrs. A. has also held a meeting for women on friday & monday.
�Wailuku
3
1837
The out-station at Haiku has been, pretty regularly supplied with
preaching &c, during the year -
We have generally gone there alter
nately & preached once or twice on the sabbath, attended a Bible
class & a sabbath school & preached once or twice on our way home The state of the people at Haiku is encouraging -
One individual
from there has been recently recd to the church at Wailuku and
others appear to be under the evident influence of divine truth One or two more will probably soon be recd to the fellowship of the
church -
The importance of the outpost is enhansed ( !) by the
fact of Mr. Smith's settling there which will no doubt occasion some
influx of population into the neighberhood ( !) & moreover Mr. Smith
avows it as his intention to do every thing in his power to aid our
work & bring the people under the influence of the Gospel -
The
congregations both at Wailuku and Haiku have been much the same this
year as they were last - respectably large At our other out station Honuaula we have done something, though
not very much -
Since Pikenini has been at the head of affairs
there, the aspect of things has greatly changed for the better A new native meeting-house & (I think) 7 stone or doby school-houses
have been built, all of which are daily occupied with schools -
The
meeting house is well filled on the sabbath when there is any one to
preach & the sabbath school is large -
Bartimeus has done most of
the labour at this place and occasionally also gone to Haiku.
His
services we think are very acceptable to the people & highly useful.
The monthly concert has been pretty well attended at our station
during the year, & we think it has been very useful in the manner
in which it has been conducted -
We have laboured in this meeting
mainly to urge upon professing Christians their obligations to be
�Wailuku
4.
1837
co-workers with us and with our Master in building up his Kingdom We have insisted upon works as necessary to salvation, and urged our
people to do what they could for the cause of Him who bought them
with his blood -
A proposition was made to those who could work, to
devote the 1st monday in the month to labour in some way or other to
benefit the cause.
The proposition was acceeded to by a number &
they have continued to labour cheerfully every concert-day since They talk of building a stone meeting house in this way The concert for schools has also been observed at the station,
& has been a season of interest.
Schools -
Our station schools during the year have been as
follows 1.
Adult male school, or school for teachers.
The number who
attended about 30; no efforts were made to enlarge it as we thought
best not to employ a great deal of time & labour on this class of
persons -
Some of the scholars made commendable progress in Geogra
phy, arithmetic, Nat. history, composition &c, and read regularly
the Kumu Hawaii as a school exercise.
From the 1st of Aug. to Dec.
this school met twice a day & since that only once, owing to the
cares of building, & the superintendence of a large childrens school,
of which w e shall now speak.
2.
On our return from Genl Meeting in July, a free consultation
was held with our chiefs in reference to the interest of schools,
and as they expressed a willingness to co-operate in any measures
we should take - all the children in Wailuku old enough to go to
school were assembled & in the presence of the chiefs their names
enrolled on the school book & the duty of attending regularly on the
duties of the school enjoined upon them by the chiefs;
with this
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5.
1837
the childrens school commenced in July & no difficulty has been
experienced since in keeping them together.
The number enrolled is
245, and the average attendance quite as good as could be expected
in all weathers.
But of this school a class of 18 lads was selected,
who have been taught in a separate house with reference to their
entering the High School.
These boys form a very interesting class,
and ten of them at least we think of transferring to the High School
in July -
Another class of 15 girls equally or perhaps more promising
were placed under the immediate instruction of one of the graduates
from the H. school, who until he was obliged to leave for a season
did at least what he could for their improvement.
Both these select
classes are well initiated in the study of Geography, arithmetic,
Nat. His. and the scripture catechisms, &c, and only need proper
advantages to make as fine scholars as will ever be needed in this
nation In all the childrens school, besides the select classes, there
are about__who can read the common elementary books, commit the verse
a day & the catechisms, the remainder are in various stages of pro
gress from the a to the heluhelu maoli [perhaps:
a, meaning the be
ginning of the alphabet; heluhelu: to read; maoli: true, genuine.
Hence, from the beginning reader to the real, good reader]
Our ladies have been able to [do] something though not very much
in the way of teaching during the year.
For a part of the year Mrs.
Green devoted some time to the adult females, while Mrs. Armstrong
took charge, for a season of an interesting class of little girls.
It will be seen that the schools just mentioned, embraces after
all but a small portion of the population of Wailuku.
The great mass
of persons who once knew how to read a little & some of them well,
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1837
were seen to have forsaken their books in a great measure & of course,
their little knowledge fast waning.
To prevent if possible this evil
in month of March a general school was commenced under the special
care of our chief (Kawailepolepo) which has met on every Wednesday
afternoon & embraces all both male & female who know the alphabet Punctual attendance to this school is required by the chief who calls
the roll regularly & marks the absentees.
Those who can read, use
the Kumu Hawaii & the ai o ka la & those who cannot are furnished with
some elementary book.
(chils
school on Wednesday)
Of Schools in general on E. Maui, we have not much to say that
is encouraging.
In most places there are either no schools at all
or they exist merely in name.
But in a few places there have been
during the year schools of considerable value -
At Waihee, through
the influence of the chief (Kaauwai), a childrens school embracing
all the children of the land has been sustained during most of the
year.
There is there also a Wednesday school for adults similar to
that at Wailuku.
It is proper to remark too that this individual
has manifested during the year a very commendable interest in schools,
not only on his own land, but being the Governors agent has also been
devising plans for the interest of school generally on E. Maui And the interest appears to be growing -
It was principally through
his agency that a law has been eneacted requiring all children on
the island over 4 years of age to attend school, and exempting those
who are devoted to teaching from work on the lands -
The utility of
this law remains to be tested, but so far it has operated favourably Its utility will of course depend almost entirely on us The schools also in Haiku have been kept up during the year &
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1837
7.
*
some improvement made in reading by a considerable number of children
& others.
In the month of Nov. 5 graduates from the High School were
located on E. Maui as school teachers -
One at Wailuku, one at Koo-
lau, one at Hana, another at Kaupo & another at Honuaula; what success
[not]
these men have had in teaching is/definitely known to us, as we have
not visited them since they took their stations.
reports we judge they have done something.
But from their own
The one at Koolau reports
7 boys as having learned to read fluently & attended to some other
branches, a little.
the High School.
The one at Honuaula reports 8 as being ready for
And the one at Wailuku was industrious as long as
health allowed him to teach - is very inefficient however -
From
the other two we have no definite report.
Books -
The demand for books during the year has been such that
we have not been at a l l able to meet it.
been both too few & two small -
Our supplies of books have
We have also been much embarrassed
in not being able to obtain in due season such books as were printed,
and therefore, we would recommend the whole business of the printing
committee, of the bindery, distribution of books &c, be a subject
of deliberation at this general meeting.
Two pro. meetings have been held at Wailuku during the year:
one during the 1st
The
week of Nov. the other the last week in March -
At the former Bros Parker & Smith were present & assisted in the
exercises -
Their labours were timely and will not soon be forgotten
by our people -
This meeting was well attended, continued 6 days
and was productive of great good -
There is reason to believe that
some souls were truly awakened converted & saved;
say for we do not know -
How many we cannot
�8.
The last pro. meeting was not intended to embrace the multitude,
but merely the church, & the more serious part of the community;
But
notwithstanding the notice, three or four hundred attended, & we have
never seen at Wailuku seasons of deeper solemnity than were some of
these meetings -
The seriousness of a number continues , & we hope
will till they are perfected in Christ -
The children and the aged
have both received special attention in these meetings - the children
particularly -
It has moved our sympathies to contemplate a group of
40 or 50 aged men & women, attending these meetings & apparently
feeling after God if peradventure they might find him in their old
age -
One of them spoke out of a sudden in one of our meetings &
said I have lived In the reign of Kalaiopu & I have been with Kamehameha, and behold here I am now in the Kingdom of Christ - They were
bad this is good, I shall follow Jesus.
Translations
During the year the Hymns for children have been reviewed, a
small work on surveying nearly translated, and the translation of
Joshua revised and the remaining chapters translated, and the book
of Daniel translated in part.
A new doby school-house has been built at the station, 50 ft
by 28 ft & furnished with writing desks, seats, glass-windows;
is a convenient house & cost the Board about $100
?
It
books at
their nominal price The people of our neighborhood have during the year worked out
128$ towards procuring a bell for the meeting-house.
During the year there have been 90 marriages solemnized at our
station & 4 children baptised and deaths.
No account has been kept of births
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Maui
9.
1837
In th e month of August I made a tour around E. Mau i with Governor
Hoapili & his suite.
The object was to revive the schools, have
school-houses erected, & proclaim school & marriage laws -
The school
law in regard to children is in force and is no doubt useful.
The
new marriage law is that none but old people shall marry who cannot
read -
The old man was in good spirits & seemed to be resolute in
urging the business of education -
We have followed up his proclama
tion closely since & have not married any young folk who cannot
read;
On the whole it is thought that the tour did good.
The tobacco law on Maui is no more, and we have nothing to
lament that it is so:
To inflict heavy penalties on the people of
one island for smoking tobacco, while chiefs & people of another
church members as well as others continued to do so, and yet all
under the same government, could have no tendency to secure the con
fidence of the people in their chiefs, nor enable them to reconcile
the conduct of professing Christians with such a law:
the law did not keep down the vice, & could not.
And besides,
There is however a
pretty strong public sentiment still on Maui against tobacco:
None
of our teachers or church members use it that we are aware of & many
others abstain from it -
This public sentiment is better than law -
It may be proper here to call your attention once more to the
destitution of E. Maui -
It will be remembered that our station is
really on West Maui, and now may be considered as having only one
man to attend to the appropriate missy work of the station.
The
Seminary about to go into operation is for the benefit of the islands
generally & will occupy the whole time of its teacher.
So that E.
Maui with a population of some 20,000 has really no missionary;
and the people are so remote that even when there are two men at Wal-
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Maui
1837
10.
luku, we cannot preach to them more than once or twice a year Consider then her claim in the distribution of your men [Un sig n e d ]
[On b ack:]
Report of
Wailuku Station 1837
read by Mrs. Armstrong
�Report of Wailuku Station from
June 1st 1837 to June 1st 1838
In presenting this report, it will be understood that it con
tains merely an account of what has been attempted & effected in
my department of labour, during the year.
The reports of the Sem
inary & cloth establishments, are distinct & will give a statement
of what has been doing in those divisions of our work.
When I look back upon the past year, the first & most spontan
eous sentiment of my bosom, is gratitude to the Father of mercies,
for the countless & rich blessings, He has bestowed upon myself, my
family & my people.
With the exception of Mrs. A's confinement &
occasional but temporary ill turns of Miss Brown, no sickness has
visited our dwelling during the twelve months past.
Not a single
Sabbath have I been unable to discharge the solemn & heavy duties
which have devolved upon me.
Neither have we needed any good thing
for the sustenance & comfort of the body.
Our cup of blessings has
been full during the whole year but especially the latter part of
it, with scarcely a drop of bitterness intermixed, and I can truly
say I have never felt called upon more strongly to exercise gratitude
to God & to trust Him for the future.
But while this has been the case with ourselves & most of our
people It has been otherwise with a great many of our neighbours.
Since the month of January there has been an unusual amount of
sickness about us, and also an unusual number of deaths.
Besides
the common complaints among natives, an epidemic of a somewhat pecu
liar character has prevailed & proved fatal in a number of instances.
The symptoms are swelling of the whole body, attended with fever &
( !)
after the desease ( !) has made some progress, a dysentary. On
account of this sickness an unusual portion of my time has been
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2.
devoted to the medical wants of the people.
During the summer months
we were much favoured with the prof. [professional?
]
practice of
Dr. Lafon, who did much good in the way of healing, but as the
natives by his practice acquired increased confidence in our medi
cines, a great amount of this sort of business was thrown on my hands
after the Dr. left.
While speaking of the sickness & mortality of our people, I
may as well mention here the death of a worthy & beloved member of
our church; I mean Kawailepolepo. He died on the 13th of Feb. after
a tedious illness, of several months and left behind him a dying
testimony to the truth, power & preciousness of the Gospel.
His last
intelligible words to me were lanakila au [perhaps: I have come off
victorious] ; and these are in perfect accordance with all he said and
wrote during his long illness.
To me his end was more like that of
a civilized Christian of exalted piety, than that of any native I
have yet witnessed.
As to the progress of civilization and industry among our people,
I cannot speak very favourably.
Indeed I have regarded it as im
possible for the people to make much substantial improvement in these
respects until there is some favourable change in the government,
& therefore have not spent much time in teaching the people the arts
& usages of civilized life nor in urging them to be industrious in
labour while there is so poor a prospect of labours being rewarded.
I can say however, that there is less idleness about us than there
used to be.
Between schools, meetings, labour for the cause of
benevolence generally, & labour on their lands, the most of those
under our influence are occupied the greater part of the time.
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3.
Schools - Teachers &c ,
Let me here mention the bounderies of our school district.
It
extends to the Koolau line on the N . E. side of the island & to the
dividing line of Kaupo & Kahikinui on the S.W.
By mutual agreement
all the other districts of E. Maui belong to Hana station;
Our boun-
deries then include Hamakualoa, Hamakuapoko, Haliimaele ( !), Makaoao
( !), Kula, Honuaula, Kahikinui, Waikapu, Wailuku, Waiehu & Waihee.
In our immediate neighberhood ( !) that is from Wakapu ( !) to
Waihee, there are now 5 good doby school houses, four of which are
about 50 ft. by 28, and the fifth about 15 by 30.
In Honuaula there
are seven school houses, built of stone and mud & though not first
rate, are much more substantial & comfortable than grass houses.
There is also a neat doby school house at Hamakuapoko, & a pretty good
supply of good thatched houses in the other districts built by order
of the governor two years ago.
Schools have been sustained in all these houses during the year,
with a good deal of regularity & in some of them with much efficiency.
The schools are chiefly composed of children, except on Wednesdays
& Sabbaths when all classes & ages turn out.
What progress the children have made in knowledge, may be in
some measure ascertained from the following table taken from our
last examinations
Whole number Readers Geo'y
Wailuku )
Waiehu )
367
250
Waihee )
Waikapu )
Hamakualoa
)
& that region)506
249
Honuaula
&50
766
350
1425
65
. —
Dont
Helu naau Helu Kamalii read
100
150
202
—
75
257
—
—
200
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4.
We have no report from Kula nor Kahikinui & therefore cannot
tell with any degree of accuracy how many children can read in these
districts but there is a considerable number.
The above table is not quite accurate in another respect - be
cause it only includes those who have attended examination, while it
is well known that many children from one cause or another have
absented themselves from examinations As to adult scholars, I cannot report with much precision, having
no very accurate returns from the outer districts this season.
In
our immediate neighborhood however, that is, from Waikapu to Waihee,
there are according to a late examination 569 adults who may be called
respectable readers & many of them have a slight acquaintance with
geography, arithmatic ( !), writing &c.
In Hamakualoa & that region
there are about as many more according to former examinations.
These
with the adult readers of Kula, Honuaula & Kahikinui, I w d say at a
rough estimate amount to about 1800.
I think however this is rather
below than above the truth According to this estimate then we have in all of children &
adults about 2700 readers within our bounds, exclusive of the dis
tricts connected with Hana Station.
This is an increase of more than
one half within the last 3 years.
This increase is mainly to be attributed to the impulse given
to our schools by the teachers from the High School.
Of these we
have had eight employed most of the year & have now two more just
entering upon their labours.
With one exception these teachers have
acquited ( !) themselves in such a manner as not only to meet our
approbation, but to enlist my affections for them & increase my
interest in the institution where they have been educated.
What
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Wailuku - 1838
better testimony do we need to convince us of the utility & impor
tance of the High School than the successful efforts of these teachers.
In my opinion the benefits already confered ( !) & daily acruing ( !)
to the nation from the labours of these teachers is more than wd
be the discovery of a mine of gold on one of the islands.
They are
doing more to raise up, enlighten & improve the native society than
all the laws & rulers in the land.
Shall we not then hold on to
the High School in the face of all dangers, & hope for still happier
fruits from it by & by?
( !)
But the exception above mentioned is one of a distressing char
acter.
It is the case of [a] young man named Elemakeele [or Ele-
makule] who was located at Haiku, where for a season he laboured with
an energy & perseverence which soon gained him great popularity &
influence over a large section of E. Maui;
But he went up too quick,
reeled & fell to a depth of disgrace & shamefully proportioned to the
height of his elevation.
He has since however professed repentance
& is now allowed to teach again in a subordinate capacity in the
school of another We have a school at our station for adult teachers from the
remote districts, chiefly taught by the graduates & is very useful.
These common teachers alternate in coming to the school & change
every two months.
Mrs. Armstrong has had a school for women twice a week during
part of the year and once a week of late I have done almost nothing by way of direct school teaching
during the year except a singing school which I taught with no little
success for about 3 months of the year & a night school about 2
months for the teachers;
But I have kept a constant supervision of
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all the school operations at the station.
My practice has been to
visit & open the school every morning with singing & prayer & a short
address to the children & at the close of the school to visit it
again, hear the catechism, look over matters &c.
We have suffered some embarrassment for want of funds to support
native teachers.
They are all poor, & so devoted to teaching & so
cut off from the ordinary methods of getting a support except in the
mere article of food, that they must have aid from some quarter or
give up their schools & go to other business.
They have needed houses
& clothing for themselves & families most of any thing & as to houses
they are now comfortable.
We have called upon our people to aid
them & they have cheerfully done so in such articles of produce as
they possess, but the difficulty has been to convert such produce
into cloth.
Still however it has been a great help.
For examples
sake, I think it important that our teachers be clad decently & live
decently & moreover If industrious they are worthy of this at least.
I have paid out during the year to teachers, in cloth, books,
money & other articles, about $80,
they have recd about $40 worth
from the church & people - Considerable part of the above sum however
has gone to the teachers within the bounds of Hana station.
I have of late succeeded in procuring some valuable lots of
land for the teachers & am encouraging them to devote part of their
time to farming, by way of getting a support. Potatoe ( !) crops
a
fail in Lahaina & so they may r^ise this article with profit for the
shipping.
Books
We have recd during the year for Wailuku & Hana Stations probably
not far from $650 worth of book ( !), net value.
These books have
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7.
been chiefly given by the quantity on credit, & the majority still
remain unpaid for.
They have brought/in more than a supply of native
provisions not only for all our families, but also for the Seminary.
I think the book-debts in our immediate neighberhood ( !) will furnish
the Seminary with food for the current year, unless there is a great
scarcity of which there is some probability.
I would remark again that the books however indispensible oc
casion a good deal of perplexity.
facts.
1.
This arises from the following
The books in my opinion should not be withheld from the
people because they cannot pay for them in any article which can be
converted into money or to defraying the expenses of the printing
department.
Moreover they should be given to those who will be
most likely to profit by them. 2.
The most of our books go into
the hands of those who have nothing to give in return for them but
native produce for which we have no market, and moreover the principal
part of them are children who find it difficult to pay for them
in any thing whatever. 3.
Yet such is the state of our treasury that
I feel bound to dispose of the books in such a way as to save the
funds in every possible way, but how can I turn them to any such
account?
4.
They bring upon us many things which we do not really
need, but consume because we have them, & get them for books. 5. Our
yearly allowance is now so small that I cannot al low more credit to
the printing department, than would equal the sum I should expend
for articles of native produce had I no books. 6.
I have not time
to keep my book account as it should be kept & therefore there is
some loss on this account.
have done;
I have therefore concluded to do as I
That is the best I can.
We have received at the station
during the year not far from $300 worth of native produce.
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Marriages
We have married during the year 156 couple, that is 64 couple
more than we married last year with all E. Maui in our bounds. From
( !)
such a fact one might almost hazzard a hope that the progress of de
population would be somewhat checked.
Sabbath Schools
In the sabbath school at Wailuku there are 550 children - aver
age attendance about 500 casionally 700.
But we have often had above 600 & oc
In the Sab. school at Haiku there have been counted
550 children but as many come a long distance & it is often stormy
I should not think the avarage ( !) attendence ( !) over 400.
At Ho-
nuaulu there are about 250 children in the Sabbath [School] .
Kula & Kahikinui I have no regular returns -
From
In all our bounds
there are 1300 or 1400 children in the sabbath schools.
How many
adults attend Sab-school ( !) I cannot tell,but the number is consider
able: at Wailuku as many as 500.
As to the benefits derived from these sabbath schools we have
every reason to speak favourably.
ly & positively.
They are beneficial both negative
They prevent mischief & do good.
44 Sabbath school
scholars have been received to the communion of the church during
the last 2 months -
A number of others give evidence of piety &
will I hope be recd soon to the same holy fellowship.
The schools
are well attended & popular.
Bible classes
Bible classes have been regularly held at Wailuku & all the
outposts.
In these we have used the Huliano & the ai o ka la.
pious school teachers & other church members conduct them in our
absence.
These also are well attended & popular.
Our
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9.
Public labours
My ordinary public labours have been as follows.
On Sabbath,
a semon at sunrise - Sabbath school at 8 o'clock which I always
visit - address the children from 10 till half after, sermon again
at 11.
Bible class at 1, catechetical lecture at 4.
My ordinary week day public labours have consisted in attending
a meeting every morning at day break, lecturing on Wednesday after
noon, monthly concert for the world & another for our schools &
Seminaries, a church meeting every friday, an anxious meeting 4
evenings in the week, since February and for the last 3 months a
great deal of conversation with individuals -
Sometimes setting ( !)
in the meeting house for this purpose 6 hours in the day.
But besides these I have attempted to perform some labours which
may be called extraordinary ting &c.
Such as protracted meetings, itinera
I have laboured at 10 protracted meetings during the year -
4 at Wailuku, two of wh. were for the benefit of people from remote
places - 2 at Haiku, 1 at Honuaula, 1 at Lahainaluna, 1 at Lahainalalo & 1 at Molokai.
Itinerating -
At 3 of them laboured single handed I have preached occasionally also at Haiku &
Honuaula during the year & have deeply lamented my inability to go
oftener to th ese places.
In these labours I have derived important & often timely aid
from Mr. Green who has always been ready to give me a helping hand
when he could.
Attendance at the house of God on the Sabbath & other days
has been far greater during the year, than it has for several years
past.
We have no meeting houses large enough to hold the people, so
that at Wailuku & Haiku we have commenced operations to build new &
�Wailuku - 1838
better ones.
Church
During the year there have been recd to the full communion of
our church 279 persons of whom one only was recd by letter.
whole number now in regular standing is 309.
has occured ( !) during the year.
The
One case of discipline
One under censure last year re
stored - One died - Eighty children baptised.
Ch & people contributed $250 for various objects.
As to the state of the church I will merely say that the few
members with which we began the year have generally appeared well
and those recently received, present very much such an external
deportment as you would expect of babes in Christ.
I trust many
of our flock know by experience what it is to be filled with the
Holy Ghost & to agonize for perishing souls all they have seen appear as they ought.
But some do not after
Since January there has
been a high state of religious feeling among most of our members.
May
it ever continue so.
Translations
The tract on Popery assigned me at last Gen1 Meeting, has not
been fully prepared.
The reason is that after writing several chap
ters on that subject in the form of a dialogue & sending them to Mr.
Tinker according to his own request for the K. Hawaii -
H e informed
me that the printing committee did not think it expedient to print
any thing on that subject at present & returned the manuscript.
So it was dropt ( !).
I will say however that it seems to me expedient to publish &
circulate most industriously on the subject of Popery now, while the
evil is at a distance.
A stitch in time often saves nine.
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Wailuku - 1838
According to a vote, of the Maui meeting in April, the first 10
chapters of Ezekiel were assigned to me for translation & to be
accomplished soon as possible.
I have made a beginning & gone through
the first 4 chapters - hope to accomplish what I can towards preparing
the whole within the specified time.
Revival
This report is already so long that I have scarcely room to do
justice to this part of it.
And yet it is desirable that a particu
lar account of every part of this blessed work be given, so as to
enable us to compare the appearances in different places & thus percive ( !) the identity or diversity of the work.
Shortly after our return from Genl. Meeting last June it was
evident that there was a hearing ear & a desire for the word of life
abroad among our people.
Meetings began to be fully attended & many
came to inquire what they should do;
But the impressions of the
people did not seem to be deep & positive as they should be.
Things
continued much in this state, with perhaps a little increase of
feeling until about the first of December, when prospects began to
grow a little more bright;
An increase of feeling was manifest
in our morning meetings & in private conversation.
The first of
Jany was observed by our congregation, those out as well as those
within the church, as a day of fasting & prayer, and it was a truly
solemn day.
A large number attended the several meetings & much
feeling was exhibited.
Some members of the church began to quake
& two of our oldest & best men, proposed to absent themselves from
the communion of the Lords supper on the following Sabbath, in view
of their unworthiness;
One of them threw himself back on his seat
in a church meeting and said "I have no religion & the whole popu-
�Wailuku - 1838
12.
lation might as well go to the Lord's table as I."
Prayer now began to be offered by the church with much fervour
& perseverence & the work from this time assumed a more decided form We had before this been hoping for a revival, but now we felt that we
had one on hand -
We had till then held our morning meetings in a
large school house but were now obliged to go to the meeting house
in order to get room & many of our meetings presented a scene of
sobbing & weeping.
Crowds came to tell thoughts, but in very many
cases they were not the dry, made up trifles, they used to bring, which
one could not hear without pain.
They seemed to come from the heart
& the whole demeanor indicated solemnity of feeling & concern of
mind.
I now speak of particular cases -
The last week in January
we held a protracted meeting of six days continuance & it was a
precious season.
Meetings were full attentive & solemn throughout
& when we came to converse with them individually, it was evident
that the sword of the spirit had lad ( !) open many a heart & left
it bleeding.
Four or five hundred then professed to be seeking their
salvation through Christ, & I hope, not a few were really so -
After
this meeting, the work gradually spread in every direction, until no
neighbourhood was left unmoved;
A spirit of inquiry was abroad every
where & the descent of the Holy Spirit was the most common topic of
conversation so far as I heard.
I held prod Meetings in March at Haiku & Honuaula & was much
gratified with the appearances among the people.
Nearly all who
could, came to the meetings & the mass of the people seemed to be
deeply Impressed with divine truth.
A strong disposition to weep
aloud was manifested at some of our meetings but as it was met with
prompt disapprobation, there were few cases of extravagance of this
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kind; yet many could not suppress the inward gushings of their hearts
and would pour them out in tears.
Many wept none & yet seemed to he
more deeply convicted of sin than those who did & in fact my judgement
( !) led me constantly to guard the people against supposing that
strong emotions and weeping were necessarily connected with true re
pentance,
By the first of April it might he said that the excitement
had extended all over our hounds and so it continues till this day.
At the out stations however, it has been increasing much of late.
That is, many new cases of awakening occured ( !), so that many hun
dreds of all classes ages & sexes, profess to have turned from the
error of their way.
Time alone can tell how many have really done so
After all we have not received many out of so great a number who
profess repentance to the privileges of the church.
Only 244.
This may seem strange after what we have said of the extent of the
excitement;
But whether we have proceeded on wrong principles or not,
we have been honest in our caution.
None have been received without
some knowledge of their private character & manner of life, repeated
conversations with myself & then all passed a careful examination
befor ( !) Mr. Green & myself in which we spent two solid weeks, about
the whole of our time.
During this time we examined some 800 or more,
taking the names of such as we made up our minds to baptise & reject
ing the others for the time being.
Some of the reasons which have operated on my mind, to produce
caution in receiving members to the church, I will mention -1.
The
people are easily excited on the subject of religon, and their affec
tions easily moved by sympathy, so that having learned the prominent
practical truths of the gospel, it is easy for them to appear & talk
& feel like a penitent person, when a little time, or a slight ac-
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quaintanc e with their every day conduct, may show that the work is
not that of God's spirit - 2-
We have not yet had time to know much
about the majority of those who have come to us exhibiting marks of
repentence ( !) - 3.
In a number of instances, on inquiring into the
private conduct of those we have thought well of, we have been con
vinced that their fruits were not such as a good tree w d bear.
With
all the favorable appearances they have exhibited, they have been found
defective in honesty, purity - reverence for God or some such thing 4.
If they are God's children they will not fall away by being looked
at a little longer, especially while enjoying the means of grace.
5.
The history of excitement in the Islands is calculated to produce
caution. 6.
A corrupt church is a great curse to any country & the
greater the church the greater the curse.
As to measures, I
merely remark, that all we have used or en
d
w
couraged, is to call upon those who were ready to choose Christ to
manifest it either by rising or going into a separate house for con
versation & prayer -
We have not encouraged the old thought telling
plan, but have appointed in its stead set times for conversation with
persons from particular lands taking them in rotation.
We have employed many of the older church members to great
advan[ta]ge in carrying on the work.
Some of them have laboured with
much success & much to my satisfaction -
Bartimeus has been & is now
especially useful I might mention more particulars, but this we deem sufficient to
give you some idea of what has been going on at our station during
the past year.
Blessed year ! M [a]y it never be forgotten - Let
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heaven & earth rejoice over what the Saviour has done since our last
General Meeting.
Let our confidence in him & our love for Him b e
increased to the end of time.
Let our hearts too swell with the
hope that all heathen nations may yet see what we now see & rejoice
as we now rejoice R. Armstrong
�Report of Wailuku Station
[Armstrong]
[1839]
At the close of another missionary year, I find myself & family
in the enjoyment of all those blessings & comforts, which a Kind
Providence has been wont to bestow in former years.
So uninterrupted
has been the stream of our mercies and so few our afflictions, that
we feel like speaking of nothing hut the goodness of our heavenly
Father.
Yet we have not been entirely free from trials during the past
year.
Mrs. Armstrong, besides her confinement, had an ill turn in
November during my absence at Oahu, and in the latter part of August,
I took cold on my lungs wh confined me to my bed about a week & laid
me aside from preaching for ten sabbaths.
It pleased my Gracious Lord
however to heal my desease ( !), & restore to me my usual ability to
labour in his vineyard.
During my illness Bro. Green kindly took my place in the pulpit
& thus preaching has been sustained regularly at the station during
the year.
Two sermons and a lecture on sabbath, a discourse on Wed
nesday, an address or lecture every morning, preaching occasionally
at the outstations, two prod [protracted] meetings, labours at monthly
concerts, conferences &c have been about the amount of my public
preaching, when not interrupted by sickness.
The church
No inconsiderable portion of my time has been occupied with the
church, in attending to cases of discipline, instructing, counselling
& watching over it.
There have been received into the Wailuku church
since its first organization 497 members.
Of these 6 have died & 4
have been excommunicated, leaving now in our society 487.
—
200
have been received during the past year, and about 50 more stand
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propounded.
Connected with the church there are 153 baptised children.
___
[No number given]
baptised during the past year.
There have been in all eight cases requiring the discipline of
the church during the year - viz.
Five for adultery, two for quarrel
ing, and one for smoking tobacco contrary to his vows.
Three of the
adulterers have been cut off, two appear sincerely penitent, indeed
their case was not an aggravated one, and the other three persons have
been restored on confession of their fault.
As to the spiritual state of the church I have no reason to
speak discouragingly of it.
That there are many who have not the
root of the matter in them I have sad reason to fear, but of others
my hopes are bright that they have chosen the good part which shall
not [be] taken from them.
To assist in the management of church affairs, seven of the most
substantial members have been selected, though not publicly & formally
consecrated to the work.
These individuals have been of essential
service to me in my supervision of the church and I hope in a short
time to have them so trained, that we shall feel justified in formally
ordaining them as elders.
I meet all the ch. members in the parish of Wailuku proper, twice
every week, for the purpose of giving instruction in regard to the
various branches of Christian duty or holy living & have used with advan[ta]ge a small tract on self examination printed at Lahaina, as a
text book.
If any of the brethren are not acquainted with this little
tract, I would recommend it to their notice General attention to religion
We can hardly be said to have had a revival during the past year,
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3
especially when we compare the state of feeling among our people with
what it was the previous year, but still attention to religion has
been much more general during the past than any previous year;
times too there has been considerable excitement.
at
Nothing is more
evident than that the Gospel has gained ground greatly in some parts
of our field of late.
I know of no land from Kahikinui on the one
side to Koolau on the other, where the people generally are not atten
tive in some degree to the concerns of religion, while open vice is
surprisingly rare.
This is remarked by many, & it is well it is so,
for we have almost no magistracy now on E. Maui.
Schools
I have had but little to do with schools directly during the year
except church schools and a class in Theology.
had 3 a week;
of the latter two.
Of the former I have
The Theological class with me has
attended chiefly to the study of the old Testament, and for a season
to moral philosophy, until the class requested me to stop lecturing
until there could be some of it printed, which is now about to be done.
In teaching the Bible, it has been my object to continue as far as
possible the critical with the practical & thus enable the pupils to
understand & teach the word of God.
This has been a pleasing part of my work during the year, and it
seems to me time that something more efficient were done in this de
partment.
Have we not young men in our churches, of sufficient
tallents ( !), prudence & piety to become teachers of religion?
can doubt but that we have?
Who
Ought not some of them be in a state of
training to aid us cultivating the vineyard & sustain the work when
e
we shall have c^ased from our labours?
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4.
In addition to this I have endeavored to devote an hour a day
to my two oldest children, but a great deal of the time I could not
command even this much time for them.
The common native schools at the station and throughout our field,
are in about as prosperous a state as they have been - perhaps a little
( !)
more so in some places. School houses are in a tollerable condition
generally and but few children do not attend school.
The following
table will exhibit a pretty correct view of the number & progress
of the children in the schools.
Name of district
Hamakualoa
Hamakua'poko
Kula
Honuaula
Kahiklnui
Makaoao
(! )
Hallimalie
Waikapu
Wailuku
Waihee & Waiehu
N o. of
Readers dont Helu He. geogr
chiln
read Kama- na- aphy
well lii
in school
au
236
28
151
62
387
74
82 16
62
20
144
50
224
224
274
50
84
200
70
284
55
25 27
60
35
27
36
44
8
20
13
33
80
20 26
50
100
44
64
58
143
70
200
30
35 59
100
65
79
42
980
646 534
1626
346 237
No. of
schools
10
12
7
3
1
1
2
3
2
41
The above statistics do not Include all the children within our
bounds, but only such as have been reported at examinations.
The
teachers say there are a considerable number, who have not attended
the examinations, who have attended schools;
Poverty, sickness or
some other cause have kept them from appearing on these occasions.
The teachers from the High school have been thrown very much on
their own efforts for support during the past year, and on this ac
count they have been obliged to neglect their schools in some degree,
in order to seek a support for themselves and families;
But on the
whole they have done as well as could be expected & some of them
are in the way of getting a comfortable support by their own indus-
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try & a little help from their scholars.
Out stations
Of these, we have three, one at Haiku, one at Kula and another
at Honuaula.
That at Haiku is the most important & flourishing.
The
people there have by their own voluntary efforts, put up a noble stone
meetinghouse 96 feet by 42, & will soon, I hope, have it finished &
ready for dedication to the worship of God.
If any good missy is
adrift & wishes a place to work in the Lord’s vineyard, let him look
towards Haiku.
While your attention is directed to that region I will mention,
pious
that two xxxxxxxx & industrious foreigners, (Messrs McLane & Miner.)
have taken a lease of
acres of land on Makaoao ( !) & are attempt
ing the cultivation of cane & some other things.
They have not much
capital to go on with, but still the wilderness & solitary place
begins already to look glad about them, and I hope a little time,
will show to the natives a fair specimen of what industry & enter
prise can do & how desirable it is that these things should be encour
aged.
Secular labours
Of these I have had an unusual share during the past year.
Giving out books, administering to the sick, superintending the
building of two stone meeting houses, & some attention to the King's
business in regard to planting cane, and things of this nature have
made sad inroads upon my time & strength & at times almost exhausted
not only my strength, but my patience.
Still it is good to have some
thing to exercise the body, & prevent one from taking the gout or
dispepsia.
One is partially rewarded too for such labours in the
gratification derived from seeing something going on.
calm is very monotonous & tedious.
To live in a
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Industry among our people
I am glad to be able to report something favorable for once on
this head.
There has been more actual labour performed during the
last at Wailuku than any previous year since my connection was formed
with that people. This has been chiefly owing to two causes. 1.
[house]
new meeting/and 2. The King’s arrangements for planting cane.
Our
The new meeting house is 100 feet by 52, two stories, or rather
with a gallery.
collected.
The walls are nearly finished & part of the timber
The materials are brought together entirely by carts and
oxen and all the work from first to last is being done by natives; and
done voluntarily.
No chief, Konohiki, or magistrate has exerted any
authority in urging (?) on the work, except that two of the headmen
found themselves pilikia [in trouble] in getting along & turned on
the paahao [The system of work under the Hawaiian Government in which
the common people worked out their taxes] a couple of days to get
coral, but even in these cases, public notice was given that no man
would be fined in case he did not attend on these days to the work of
the meeting house.
It was somewhat difficult to convince the people,
even the most intelligent, at first that such a work could be done
without the influence & authority of the chiefs, but now they are as
tonished at the rapid progress of it & the ease with which it has been
accomplished.
it.
Only 30 men and boys have in fact had much to do with
20 men volunteered to build the wall & 10 men & boys to drive the
oxen, provided they were supplied with food.
A contribution of food
was brought in every week for this purpose & this is all the compensa
tion the workmen have had.
Two native carpenters have done the car
penter work so far gratis & one at Lahaina, has offered to finish the
house if no foreign carpenter is allowed to assist. The congregation
s
have rai^ed about $100. & the King contributed $50. for the purpose of
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purchasing materials to finish while Kekuanaoa & Hoapili have trans
ported 3,000 ft of lumber from Honolulu to Wailuku without expense.
Bro. Ives also has contributed $100. and Bro. Conde $50 to the building
So that on the. whole w e have the prospect of a new & spacious meeting
[house] before long.
In regard to the cane I w d simply say that the King has given
out small lots of land, from one to two acres, to individuals for the
cultivation of cane.
When the cane is ripe, the Kings ( !) finds all
the apparatus for manufacturing & when manufactured takes the half.
Of his half one fifth is regarded as the tax due to the aupuni [govern
ment] & the remaining four fifths is his compensation for the manu
facture.
These cane cultivators are released from all other demands
of every description on the part of the chiefs.
So far the concern works well tendency there can be no question.
Of its success & beneficial
A few individuals, perhaps 3 or
4, who entered into the arrangement, have proved to be unfaithful,
partly owing perhaps to inveterate habits of indolence & partly to
an impression that the King will not fulfil his engagement.
A serious
difficulty has been to get seed cane & on this account some have
failed to plant all their land in the proper season, having first to
purchase the pulapula [seed cane] & then carry it on their backes ( !)
several miles, but with all this difficulty about 80 acres have been
planted & is growing beautifully.
engaged in the work.
There are altogether -____ men
One of the most serious difficulties in the
business is to secure their confidence in the King's word, & thus
prevent discouragement.
They frquently inquire whether it is not all
a mea hoopunipuni [treachery; a deceitful thing] .
Much will depend
upon the King's fulfilling his engagement.
In consideration of my attention to the work, the King has en
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gaged to have what cane I have cultivated, manufactured at his mill
without further charge.
Prom what we have seen during the past to say nothing of previous
years, I am satisfied, that natives have in them all t h e elements of
industry, enterprise & skill and only need proper encouragement to
develop as fine specimens of human nature as can any where he found.
( !)
All that is said about there being incurably & intollerably indolent,
is to my ears perfect trash.
Any man will be both indolent & Ignorant,
if he finds it to be his interest to be so.
I neglected to mention in the proper place the number of Marriages
& baptisms during the year. Of marriages I have solemnized 102 and
baptised 77 children making in all 153 children belonging to our church
by baptism on the faith of their parents.
Efforts for the support of the gospel Besides building their meeting house our people have occasionally
aided the Female Seminary in work, especially in roofing the large
building, a dining hall, & hospital, & doing some other things of
miner ( !) consequence, and in addition have planted 4 acres of cane
for the support of their pastor, of which they now have the care.
I
hope from this to derive nearly if not entirely, my support, after the
produce has become available.
[Unsigned
]
[Mr. Armstrong’s handwriting]
[On b ack:
]
Wailuku Station
report 1839.
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Report of the Station
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Lahaina
May 1848
At the general Meeting in 1846, the Mission located Mr.
Forbes at Lahaina with special reference to seamen.
He continued to labor among seamen & foreign residents,
preaching twice each Sabbath till Oct. 1847.
Then, having by
correspondence, obtained the approbation of the Mission to
return to the U. States, on account of sickness in his family,
he emharked on board the A Z?3 H. Howland, as is already known
to the Mission.
Besides preaching & other labors for foreigners, he as
sisted in a select school at the station, & also superintended
a Sabbath "school embracing most of the children of Lahaina.
He assisted some in preaching to the Natives.
were very acceptable & useful.
All his labors
As neighbors & associates we
valued them highly, & would fain have detained them; but they
thought that duty plainly called them back to the land of their
birth.
Health &c
We that remain to occupy the station continued in 1846,
1847, the usual round of labors which we have been engaged in
for twelve years.
We were not tired of our work, nor discour
aged, & had no thought of deserting our post.
Indeed it was
hard tearing away from the people, at a time of more than or
dinary interest.
But Mrs. Baldwin's health failed very sudden
ly in Aug. last.
We removed to Mont Ball, with full confidence
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that the retirement there & the cool invigorating air would,
soon restore her.
In this we were disappointed; for tho' she
did improve for a while, yet, by Jan.. of this year; the
case
seemed to be growing desperate; & with the advice of our Brn
& Sisters whom we could consult, on the 21s^ of Jan. we left
the station to try a change at Honolulu & to consult Physicians.
The Physicians advised us to keep on.to Kau&i, which we did.
We visited all the stations there, sometimes going by land
sometimes by water - & had an exceedingly pleasant visit, the
more so, as we had never seen the Island before, in the seven
teen years we have been residents in this group.
We had the
benefit of Dr. Smith’s skill & kindness, residing a month in
his family.
The climate & everything there seemed favorable to
Mrs. B ’s.. recovery & she has recovered to some extent, for which
we would feel thankful.
But the disease, which appears to be
of a nervous character mainly, is not wholly removed^.]
We have
many anxieties about the case; but feel we can leave all the
fuiure in the hands of Him who can & will do all things well[.)
State of Religion & Congregation
The ordinary course of labors was persued (I) at the
station as long as we remained there; & we would hope the means
of grace have been attended with a blessing.
We have many signs,
that light & truth are progressing, & that souls have been
converted.
The state of Religion was, during the whole of the
past two years as favorable as at any former period, when there
was no special outpouring of the Spirit.
While residing at M t .
Ball the pastor descended to the shore nearly every day in the
week to aid fin the Select school & attend to other labors
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He also spent the whole of his Sabbaths
there, so that his labors were not then essentially interrupted.
We think we have seldom seen more encouragement to labor for the
people than we have seen the past 2 years C O
The meeting
house has been uniformly well filled, both morning & evening,
on the Sabbath - the people have all appeared attentive - more
of the young have been steady attendants on divine worship hardened sinners have not always forgotten the house of God some such are perhaps regular attendants there - Dispisers ( i)
of God & religion there are undoubtedly - but we have heard of
none who speak out reproaches against relegion (I); & even
of dispisers ( l) we would hope there are not a great number who
do not sometimes find a place in the Sanctuary of GodC.J
Revival
Prom the commencement of the present year, there were many
signs of an increasing interest- in the congregation at Lahaina.
Our Meeting house will contain about 2000 people; & the two
last sabbaths we were there, especially, it seemed'unusually
crowded.
It was the first time since the house was rebuilt,
exceedingly
that it seemed absolutely full. We felt .eja.ejp.e.a.siB.giy reluctant
to leave the people at such a time - but there seemed no other
way.
Soon after our leaving, we: heard through natives, &
letters from different members of the ch'h, that there was a
still greater religious excitement among the people.
ch'h seemed awake.
The
Some who had been far from righteousness
were thoroughly awakened & confessed their sins to the con
gregation to the astonishment of all.
Meetings were held
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The spirit of God
has evidently been there, & is still at work; hut the pastor not
having been at Lahaina would not decide how far the excitement
has been the work of the Spirit of God, or what other elements
have been mingled.
We can tell better when we see whether
it leaves the abiding fruits of the Spirit.
Prom the time we
left Brn Alex. & Hunt have preached on Wednesday & generally
twice each Sabbath.
They speak of a full house - good atten
tion & much excitement among the ch'h & congregation - but
did not mingle enough with the people to form an opinion of
the state of feeling.
David Malo has preached & attended
meetings when his health has been such as to allow it.
But
since we have been absent, he has been very wll most of the
time.
Meeting House.
Since our last general meeting, our meeting house has un
dergone a thorough repair, or, more properly, it has been re
built; two thirds only of the original wall being all that was
left standing.
One third was found defective, tottering &
ready to fall & was built anew from the foundation - the roof
was framed & raised anew & shingled - the galleries were re
framed in a better style - & a steeple built which raises the
bell some 60 feet from the ground - The whole building is con
formed, as far as we were able to do it, to the general style
of churches in the U. States.
it was before.
It is far more convenient than
The building is finished except that it needs
a new pulpit, flooring below, & seats above & below.
The ex-
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pense Incurred thus far & paid, or nearly so, has been a little
more than $4000 C.]
$2000 more are necessary in order to com
plete the building, nearly all of which Is already subscribedC.J
$499 of that already paid, was contributed by the government from
a legacy left by Auhea for such purposes [.}
Of the remainder,
nearly all, both of that which has been paid, & that to be
raised, comes (not from chiefs) but from the common people,
who have contributed it with great cheerfulness, besides what
they have given in labor.
All that they could accomplish by
their own labor they have done.
can be made.
Of this no accurate estimate
It would doubtless amount to several thousands
more.
Church
The ch'h in Lahaina has not been increased, in numbers,
since our last general meeting, or, at most, by only a few
names.
Only 11 have been added by profession, which was on the
4’t'il of April 1847.
They were all from an out station.
This
small number, however, must not be understood as indicating a
want of feeling in the chh, or among those out of the chh.
The
pastor does not think there has been less religious Interest than
in former years.
In the latter part of 1847 a considerable
number of candidates were conversed with, with a view to their
admission to the ch'h.
Our being obliged to leave our post
interupted ( !) the work.
Probably as many as 200 may be admit
ted to the ch'h in three or four months if there is an oppor
tunity to attend to them.
As to the character of the ch'h.
There are members for
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whom we have no charity as Christians.
live, hut are dead.
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They have a name to
The mass of the ch'h however, I sincerely
"believe, are the children of God - converted-truly pious.
As
large a proportion of them, I judge, to he truly converted as
are found in what are called good ch'hs in the U. States; &
believing this, I have never said, that I knew that only one in
a hundred was pious. Inconsistencies we' often see in these
Christians, who are so much like .grown up children ~ but not
- a w - -<*g - -m u -v h -
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greater perhaps than we sometimes see in good ministers of the
Gospel, in the U. States.- I have more confidence in the piety
of Hawaiian professers (I) of religion than I had ten years
since.
Not a few lessons have been taught me on this subject.
I can name not a few, in my field, of vfhom I have thought it
impossible, that they were pious - & yet they have proved to be
the salt of the Earth, beyond the question of any body.
Out Stations
There are three outstations connected with Lahaina viz,
Kahakuloa 20 miles N.E.; Island of Lanai 10 miles west; &
Olualu 6 miles South.
Between 250 & 300 members of the Lahaina
ch'h reside at these outstations.
The whole population con
nected with these three outstations is not far from 1000
It is too a scattered population so that not more than half that
number would be found ordinarily In the meetings at all these
outstations.
The population of Lahaina being 3500 & the congre
gation large, there being also a bible class & 2 Sabbath Schools
to be maintained, the, pastor has not thought best very often
to leave the Station, to spend the Sabbath elsewhere.
He has,
however, aimed to spend about one Sabbath a year at each of these
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Each outstation has its own Native preacher.
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David
Malo, who is our superintendent of schools, has visited the
outstations at times; & we have an arrangement, by which two
of the native brethren from Lahaina go to each outstation the
last Sabbath in every month.
This measure has done much to en
lighten the out-districts, & to keep up a religious interest.
It has done not a little good also to the ten or twelve individ
uals who have made these visits, & who are the most pious &
influential members of our ch'h.
Four times in a year all
the ch'h members from our outstations come to Lahaina to unite
in celebrating the Lord's supper.
Sabbath Schools &c
There are sabbath schools at all our outstations.
there are four.
On Lanai
All these are somewhat ineficient ( I) but Ai
£ ka la (daily food) Sabbath School at Lahaina, after the morn
ing service is more efficient.
natives.
It is conducted entirely by
The Bible class at 1 P.M. consisting of 4 or 500
adults & children the pastor generally attends.
pleted the Old Test, in course (.•]
They have com
But our most interesting
Sabbath school is that of the children at 8 o clock Sab. morning
then
It was last year Superintended by Mr. Forbes, & i&SKsxjbii: num
bered 500.
With the increase of our day schools, it had in
creased to about 600 when we left; & the house proving too small
orders were left to divide it into two schools.
It contains
the mass of our children & youth, their work is to commit to
memory & hear explained the Holy Scriptures; & if the school can
be efficiently conducted, w§ may hope, that many, at least, of
the pupils will be trained up to knowledge & usefulness. But,
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in order to fdoj this, they must have matter to learn - they
must have hooks suited to Sab. schools,
llhat Lahaina needs,
every station needs; & it is to be hoped that this meeting will
not separate, till they have secured the speedy publication of
a series of Historical, Doctrinal & practical Sab. school
question books, similar to those used in the U. States.
Common Schools
There are 5 common schools on Lanai, 2 at our South outsta
tion; one at the North & 14 in the village of Lahaina, making
22 in the whole field.
All these have increased more or less,
in the number of scholars, the past year; or rather since the
government took upon itself the sole support of the schools.
The number of scholars in Lahaina schools has greatly increased [.]
At the commencement of 1847, we had 10 schools in Lahaina.
In
that year two of them increased from 70 or 80 to 150 scholars
each.
Two others increased from 50 or 60 to 100 or more.
These
-fiW 4 were divided, each into two; so that now we have 14
schools instead of 10'.
The 4 additional teachers were furnished
from the first class of the Select School, which has now been
taught at the station 2 &
years.
It has been conducted by
the pastor, & Mr. Porbes assisted in it, till near the time of
his departure for the U. States.
All these schools are as ef
ficient as their teachers are able to make them.
But the great
law of nature can never be broken, that the stream shall not
rise higher than the fountain.
The fountain In this case, can
be raised as high as the Missionary is pleased, or is able to
raise it.
The want of knowledge, in our teachers, or of skill
in communicating it, seems to be the great reason why a certain
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portion of their scholars do not make a much more rapid advance
in knowledge.
Till the last year, we have had no teachers who
could he said to he thorough masters of the whole of Colburn's
Sequel.
All the teachers at Lahaina have 25 cts each per day - one
or two have more.
promptly paid.
All the teachers of our field have been
No debts are due to them, or to others on ac
count of the schools.
The avails of the labor tax, at Lahaina,
in 1847, which is all devoted by law to the aid of schools, was
$1257.62^r.
Of this $197.80 were expended in building & repair
ing school house, $809.30 in paying teachers, $230.51 was given
to aid the schools of East Maui.
Several new school houses have been erected at Lahaina the
past year.
The ten original schools have comfortable houses -
the 4 new ones will soon have.
Every house is furnished with a
good clock, or soon will be, from the government fund; but floors
& suitable writing desks are generally wanting, except in our
cen*tral schoolhouse.
Such conveniences are very desirable in
all our schools; but we have never found materials substantial
enough to make them.
Our last public examination of schools was in Nov. 1847.
It showed them somewhat in advance of what we had ever seen them
before.
We having been absent from our post, the school statis
tics are left there; £c I can only state from memory, that the
schools of Lahaina & Olualu furnished 837 schoolars (I); all
of them neatly clothed; a large proportion of them in unbleached
cotton, which our good Superintendent, who has been accustomed to
wear cloth of of ( I) his own manufacture, had 'urged them to
adopt, as the most durable & economical material for native
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clothing.
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We think of urging all our native ladies to adopt
the same kind of dress, & shall probably succeed, if our Mission
ary ladies will only set them the example.
The calico's & silks
& satins of the natives £ of which they have too many, not too
few) swallow up much of their means, which ought to be laid out
in making good houses, educating their children, or in the
cause of Benevolence.
At the close of the above examinations, the same schools
of Lahaina & one outstation united in a public celebration &
feast, At which were present 1000 children, all of whom sat down
to good substantial koa tables, made in the best style bf For
eign carpenters, furnished with foreign plates, knives, forks
$ &° & c } & loaded with the richest dainties the land affords;
in chairs of foreign manufacture or settees of their own; &
they had their all {.?] clothed parents for waiters.
One native,
a mere common native, once a missionary cook, set a line of
tables himself 100 feet long killed a bullock & several hogs to
supply it. His own eleven children were there, & their young
ru
muddy looking mother with them & his half dozen hired men,
all hired by the year were there.
The feast was honored by the presence of the Governor of
Maui & the Missionary brethren of Lahaina-luna with their fami
lies; & we all sat near the head of the table of the Mission
ary cook.
Lest any one, from the above, should think, that this
native spends all his earnings in feasting I will add, that he
is a hard laboring man - all his children are t&aQght to be in
dustrious - A few years since, say ten, he could not have
owned fifty dollars worth of property - now he has a competency,
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which, he has gathered by steady industry, notwithstanding he
has a feeble constitution & is very often troubled with asthma
& bleeding at the lungs.
He clothes all his numerous family
of children - they are always clothed - they are all sent to
school - he has as good a house as many Americans £-J has given
$150 to the repairs of the ch'h the last 2 years, & is pledged
to give 100 or 150 more the present year.
He is a mason by
trade, has built many of our best'houses & has laid up the
beautiful walls of our stone ch'h with his own hands.
We have
many natives among us who are industrious Sc thriving, & are be
coming good & valuable members of society; the above individual
is perhaps one of the best specimens of them all.
But to return
I would truly add, that all the tables at our feast, if set in
one continuous line, could not have measured less than 12 or
1400 feet.
Some of our respectable foreign residents, we after
wards learned, had taken a post of observation in the upper
where
part of the ch'h, Tsdass: they could overlook the whole feast, &
they were highly delighted.
Previous to sitting down to this feast, all the schools
were assembled in the ch'h & were addressed by the Governor &
by the Missionaries present, & they then solemnly pledged them
selves for ever to abandon all intoxicating drinks, tobacco
smoking, cani playing, & other vices.
with their teachers rose by schools
About 1000 children,
& assented to this pledge.
Popery
Since the fall of 1845, we have had a Papist priest at
Lahaina, & lately 2 of them.
out of their own little yard.
the name of either of them.
We seldom hear of their being
I never found a native who knew
I have thought this a little re
markable, as Barenaba the Christian name of one, is easily
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The name of the other I have never
known myself, tho' their place is about 40 rods from my door$r
Of their operations we know nothing at all, except that, when
we have a religious meeting, they are likely to have one too When we examine our schools their school at Lahaina must be
examined too.
This course they persue ( i) merely to keep their
followers & pupils out of our meetings & schools.
I have
often remarked, that I really had the appointment of all popish
meetings & school examinations.
A Bolling ( I) Alley adjoining
their yard is their place of worship, tho1 a long uncouth build
ing for such a purpose.
How many they number among their fol
lowers is more than we can say.
The novelty which at first,
occasioned some flocking to their meetings, is all gone; & I
should be surprised to learn, that more than 15 or 20 ordinarily
attended meeting with them on the Sabbath.
They have few Po
pish ceremonies, as far as I can learn; no sin pardoning, ex
treme unction, or praying souls out of purgatory - & I am in
clined to think, that they do not keep their candles burning ■
either by day or by night.
How they reconcile these neglects
with faithfulness to the souls of poor Hawaiians, I am utterly
at a loss to tellC .J
So far as I can learn, not an attempt has
been made, in all these Islands, to get one poor Hawaiian out of
Purgatoryi
Ought not we Protestant Missionaries to report
these soul neglecting priests to the Pope?
I have never taken the attitude of opposition to them, as
that would help them into notice.
At first, I took great pains
to expose their errors in my own pulpit but since then have
only made occasionally an allusion to them.
No member of a
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Protestant ch'h in my field, has joined them, & hut few who
ever had anything to do with our meetings or schools.
know to have left.
Some I
A young woman who lately left them said to
me, that the priest asked her to go away with him alone to con
fess her sins - She was afraid of him feared she should commit
more sin there, than she should confess;' & so she left.
Last year they had in all my field, four schools, if a
few scholars without a teacher, or with a teacher who knows
nothing could he called a school.
The school at Lahaina is
taught by the priest himself, & has dwindled down from 25
scholars to 8 or 10.
The other 3 schools, at or® outstations,
have had a name - but, probably for lack of teachers, I sus
pect they have s&ifedom met, or had any school house to meet in.
This is strictly true of the school on Lanai, where 15 children
that constituted the school have now all returned to the Pro
testant' school.
Singing
The art of Singing has made considerable & a very desirable
progress, in our congregation the 2 past years.
Several natives
have contributed much to this end; & we are much indebted to
Bro. C. B. Andrews, whom we induced the past year, to spend two
£choir ?"]
or three weeks in teaching our chMin {^children]. Most of the
teachers- of our common schools, are singers £.) Singing is a
part of the exercises of the school - Br A. visited the schools
of the village to aid them in this art.
Many of the scholars
are coming forward well in this - some of them already belong
to the choir.
Ought not more pains to be taken to introduce
singing into all the schools of the islands?
Until the young
are trained to this art, & trained too in great numbers, we
cannot expect to have anything like decent singing in our Oon-
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gregations.
I
have statistics of births & deaths, for the past two
years, in most of our field; If we had returned, as we expect
ed to have done, to our station previous to gen. meeting, they
would have been at hand.
The deaths have not been numerous;
but as far as known, have a little exceeded the births.
Statistics of Lahaina Church
May 1848
Whole number admitted on examination
Do
"
Do
Do
"
1029
on Certificate
266
" on Examination & Certificate
Admitted on Examination May 1/46 to May 1/47
,T
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Tl
"
47 to do
48
On Certificate from May 46 to May 47
r.
it
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it
47
t o
.i
1295
62
11
21
48
22
Whole no. Admitted past 2 years
116
Whole no. dismissed to other churches
157
Dismissed past 2 years
21
Whole no. degeased
Whole N°
do
204
two past years
18
Suspended in 2 years
14
Remain suspended
17
Excommunicated last year
5
Whole N° Excommunicated
59
Remain Excommunicated
34
Whole N° in regular Standing
Do
Do
883
of Children Baptized
1052
Do
Do
Do
Do
past year
Marriages past two years 54 f 62 =
Average Congregation on Sabbath
53
116
1800
CD. Baldwin}
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D. Baldwin . . . .
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1851
D. Baldwin . . . .
1853
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Station Report
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Letter about above report
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Station Report
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Abstract
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1855
D. B a l d w i n ............. ....1855
Report of Seamen's Chaplain
.S.E. Bishop ............ .. 1855
Station Report
D* Baldwin . . . . . . .
Report of Seamen's Chaplain
S.E. Bishop . . . . .
Station Report
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1858
D. B a l d w i n ............. ... 1860
Abstract
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1860
Report of Seamen's Chaplain
S.E. B i s h o p ............ ... 1860
Report of Seamen's Chaplain
(Abstract)
Station Report Abstract
S.E. B i s h o p ......... ..... 1860
Report of Seamen’s Chaplain
(Abstract)
Station Report Abstract
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�Report of Lahaina Station.
1849
In commencing a report of the station for the year past,
we come to the work with feelings ■with which we never did this
work before.
God's hand shd always he seen & felt in what is
going on around us.
But, the last six months, he has displayed
it among us, in various providences, & in a way, that the stupid
& careless could not but see & fear.
Like all the members of this mission, I shall find it
impossible to describe the successive scenes of affliction &
distress whh have passed before our eyes & preyed on this
people - impossible to give utterance to the feelings of sorrow
upon sorrow -which have pressed on all the friends of this na
tion, as wave after wave of desolation has swept over it.
Who can tell the varied effects of these dispensations of Prov
idence on this people, on their bodies, their minds, their
families, plans & prospects - many a parent written childless many a house has sent all its occupants to the grave.
The mor
tality has been small compared with that of an Asiatic pesti
lence - but heavier than at any previous time since the Gospel
came.
Who will attempt to fathom the meaning of the Omniscient
in these his doings?
How often have we triumphantly recounted
the wonderful interpositions of God in behalf of this nation blessing efforts for their good I favoring the pious & the cause
of righteousness - building up the institutions of religion in
spite of enemies.
But now we have him before us apparently
pulling down what he h!ad builded up - blasting the long cherish
ed hopes of this nation - destroying the garden in which we had
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hoped he delighted.
feeble sense.”
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Still we will not "judge the Lord by
It may toe the design of the Lord, even in these
dark & trying times, & toy these mysterious means, to touild up
& strengthen this nation, notwithstanding all has seemed so
contrary to our wishes.
At the close of our last gen. meeting, we returned to La
haina.
My first efforts were to do up a variety of ecclesiasti
cal & other business which had lain undone & accumulated,
during our absence of five months, from the station.
This was
scarcely accomplished when the Lord,was, unseen, preparing for
us other labors & cares.
In Aug. we had a pleasant visit from
the U.S. Ship Independence whh had been at Hilo.
We were
pleased with the short acquaintance we had with the Commodore
& his officers; & they seemed delighted with our dusty place.
The sailors were quiet & orderly - they did honor to their
country.
In 100 who were on shore at once, only three got in
toxicated; & that was on Cologne water or tobacco.
We were
gratified with such a visit & did not once suspect, that there
was any "death in the pot'1. ■
They left us.
Soon after, that Is, about the middle of
Sept. letters reached us from Hilo announcing measles; &, at
the same time, some cases of it appeared at Lahaina.
This is a
disease whh had shown great virulence, at particular times, &,
in certain places; It was natural, therefore, for us all, on
its appearance among such an ignorant & foolish nation as this,
to be solicitous as to what it was to do among them.
We
warned - advised & did all we could to allay groundless fears.
After witnessing a few cases, & nothing dangerous appearing, we
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ventured to assure the people, that, with suitable caution, all
w&:igo well.
A pretty universal attention was given to direct
ions, & by the end of Oct. we considered, that our population
of 3000 were safely conducted through the measles; & so far as
our knowledge extended, not a single death had occurred from
that disease.
eight.
All the deaths in the place in Oct. were only
We hoped soon again to see our streets full of happy
faces & cheerful voices.
But no, the Lord had not done with
his chastisements.
Our people had now pretty universally abstained from their
favorite dishes for more than a month.
The danger from measles
they deemed to be over; & they fell too eagerly at eating raw
fish.
Perhaps also their kindled appetites led to a too free
indulgence in all kinds of vegetable & animal food.
Unfortu
nately, at that time of universal sickness, when food was not
brot in from abroad, hundreds had little but animal food to
eat - Another misfortune was, that one of the worst species
of fish eaten in these islands, the Opelu, appeared, at that
time, in great abundance in our waters. A diarrhea came over the people.
Most of the population
were affected with it - & some even struck with death before we
were aware of its existence.
It raged fearfully, though wonder
fully under the control of medicines, where the producing
causes were not continued.
Nov. was a dreadful month - It
saw 166 of Lahaina people laid in their graves.
The disease,
continued, in a degree, through Dec. & only disappeared
gradually afterwards.
The hooping ( l) cough came among us
in Oct. proving fatal to great numbers of children - though
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it disappeared afterwards as suddenly as it came.
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And now,
after all this breaking down of the people, in Dec. came a
severe influenza whh affected the whole population, not except
ing mission families.
These diseases too gave rise to many
other maladies, or increased their severity where they already
existed.
So that many sank away to the grave under a combination
of diseases who might have withstood the power of any one of
them.
The very elements seemed to war against the people.
Never before have we seen our rainy wintry storms commence so
early.
In Dec, when the consitutions & spirits of the people
were broken, many prostrate, & influenza adding its uncomfor
table weight, the rain was pouring, for almost the whole month,
incessantly, melting down their adobie walls, & adobie & stone
houses.
One of our chh found her death under their falling
hous e .
And now when four successive afflictions had sent so many
of this people to the grave, had so prostrated the strength &
spirits of those that remained, & had cast such a black cloud
over the'prospects of this whole nation, when, in short, no
strength or courage were left to sustain themselves, in Jan.
came a gen. letter from Boston demanding, that they not only
sustain themselves, but sustain the Sandwich Island Mission
too.
Men can endure a vast amount of misfortune & disease &
not be crashed or killed.
But the keenest of all heaven's
judgments, the most unendurable - the most unreasonable, is,
that when one is reduced by misfortune & disease to their last
extremity, to have their best friends talk of deserting them.
We stood aghast, & wondered, in ourselves, what Job's messengers
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would next "bring to this withered & blighted race.
God. had loaded the man of
his children
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As if, when
with sore disease, had taken away
so far as human ken c^- reach, had blasted all
his earthly hopes, as if this were not enough; but he must
allow the devil to Influence the minds of his friends, &
even of the wife of his bosom, that they might withdraw their
aid, never more needed, & so add the climax to all his sorrows.
How else can we account for the appearance of such a document
on these shores, at such a crisis as this 1
In speaking thus far of the dealings of God with the
people, it may easily be inferred what have been my labors for
most of the year,
lever before was my time given so exclusive--
ly to the medical wants of the poor people.
It was, for months,
the only subject whh pressed on me by night & by day.
I felt,
that, if I c* save their bodies now, at some future time, I
might benefit their souls.
When medicines for diarrhea were
likely to fail, we used a tea made of fresh cocoanut fibres,
& also one of guaver ( 1) leaves, both of whh are often very
effectual in that disease.
Many other articles are doubtless
growing around whh we sh^- have found out, had we been driven to
great extremities.
Two competent physicians who have, for years,
practised successfully at Lahaina, had left before the sickness,
one for the U.S. - the other for California - a third who had
practised much among the natives, was then almost devoured by
the demon, intemperance.
He is now in his grave.
So that I
felt, for the first £time}, in years, that what efforts I c^make to stay the ravages of disease among the people wd be
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nearly all the aid they c1^ receive.
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Many doubtless were saved
by medicines administered but in the months of Oct. Nov. Dec ♦
& Jan. there were in Lahaina 329 deaths.
Many are still lan
guid & suffering & deaths are still more frequent than in times
past.
When we left the station in Jan. 1848, there was evident
ly more than usual religious interest; & we heard more of the
excitement after we left.
Of this I spoke in my last report.
We returned the latter part of June.
The people never gave us
more pleasant proofs, than at that time, of their joy at our
return.
Most of the adults of the village, as well as the
children of the schools, came to express their aloha, each one
bringing something for us to eat; so that, for a month or six
weeks, we did not lack any of the good things whh the land pro
duced.
Their gifts were not so very valuable in themselves -
but they seemed a sort of proof that they felt some kind of in
terest in the aupuni o ke Akua.
When we had leisure for more
familiar intercourse with the people, as to real depth of
religious feeling, in the chh or out of it, we did not dis
cover any thing more than we had seen in years past.
There
were, however, a few individuals who had never before made any
pretensions to seriousness who now appeared to be awake in re
ligion.
They have appeared well ever since, & give now substan
tial proofs, that they are truly converted to God.
A few weeks after our return, about 150, candidates of long
standing, were propounded for the chh.
Fifty two of these were
received to the chh in Oct - & 38 more in Jan. of the present
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Never "before since the formation of the chh have so few
cases of discipline occurred as during the past year.
None
have "been excommunicated - some 3 or 4 have been suspended
for different offences - & a large proportion of those previously
suspended have been restored to the fellowship of the chh.
During the months when sickness prevailed, the congrega
tion varied much according as sickness was more or less exten
sive & severe.
It often dwindled very low.
It was not till
a month or two past, that it has returned to near its former
size.
Attention to preaching has been pretty uniformly good.
Still I might speak with other brethren of apathy in the chh & tell you, that the judgments of God have not waked the people
up to righteousness, but incr§ased their stupidity.
not believe that such has been the fact.
But I do
I do not believe,
that God's dealings have diminished the piety of the chhs, nor .
the value whh they set on the religion of Christ.
The truth is
there has been a deadness over the whole community - a tor
pidity of body & soul; the natural & unavoidable effects of
natural causes.
Disease after disease banished buoyancy of
Spirits & energy of body & mind - & their diminished strength
has been spent on coffins & graves, watching the sick or search
ing for remedies, when, in other circumstances, it might have
been exerted in efforts to secure their own or others' wel
fare for time or eternity.
Palsied energies have appeared in
all the employments of the people.
The adobie walls of Lahaina
almost universally lie where the rains of last Bee. iheft them their kihapais are nahelehele - plans of gain are abandoned
as well as plans of doing goihg good to Souls.
When their
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thoughts are necessarily absorbed, in personal wants & suffer
ings & afflictions, how can they go out in acts of benevolence
towards others ’
.
Schools . We have now 12 schools in Lahaina & nine or ten at
outstations.
Mr. Steele who kept an Eng. school at Lahaina has
had a shock of palsy & lost his voice.
All these schools were
suspended about three months on account of sickness - hut they
have been resumed, & bid fair to prosper as in former times.
Three of the school houses have been prostrated by the rains,
& have not been rebuilt whh is a great inconvenience.
The
schools are not encumbered with any debts, & we hope the labor
tax under the new law may be sufficient for their support in
future.
The schools have been visited by the superintendant
& pastor; but no public examination of them has been held during
the year.
Except during the prevailing sickness, books have
been in good demand.
Notwithstanding the many months we were
absent, about $200. were received in cash for books in /48 &
has been credited on the books of the Depy.
Papists.
We have had two papist priests at Lahaina, & some
times, I think, but one.
They are perfectly quiet, & still in
all their movements, if indeed they have any movements.
They
generally keep within their own yard, formerly a boiling ( 1)
alley & disturb nobody.
Our natives do not come into collision
with them as at times, formerly; nor do the priests act as if
they expected to make conquests.
They keep up some kind of
service on Sab. as I see half a dozen or more passing thither
through our street.
They have two schools in my field - one
at Lahaina - one at Ukumehame - one in the Forth East part
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of the field Toeing now in Mr. indrews1 field.
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They had one
on Lanai of 15 scholars who 106081116 papists mainly "because their
protestant teacher was unfit for his place - after being left
one or two years unvisited by the papist priest, they went in
a body to our school.
One of the priests said, two months since,,
to an Englishman whom he mistook for a Frenchman, that they
might not stay long.
up.
What said Mr. H. are you going to give
The priest replied, "No.
But protestants here have every
thing & will have all in their own way.
We can do nothing -
& probably we shall be sent for.,r This probably referred to
their operations in all the islands.
We sometimes report improvements in houses, -lands, &c*
But more houses have tumbled down at Lahaina the past year, than
have been built ihsxgKsixysa; up - more fences have been laid
level than have been built anew, more roads have been ruined
than have been made - Our meeting house is just in the condition
where it was a year ago, except that a debt of $600. has been
paid - But all these lacks leave great room for improvement in
time to come.
Our people continue to supply the whaling fleet
as far as their lands are capable - a Sugar mill is in good
operation & many natives are preparing respectable fields of
cane.
Notwithstanding all the ravages of disease, some of the
younger have life enough left to engage in foreign enterprise;
or rather, I shd say, since disease is all the fashion, they have
caught this new disease, the yellow fever, & have gone to
California.
Fifteen members of Lahaina chh have gone thither
in four different vessels, & how many other natives I cannot
say.
A religious teacher appointed over them all, left this
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They were strong
ly exhorted to carry with them wherever they might go, the Bible,
the Sab.
temperance, the fear & worship of Jehovah, that
so they might secure his favor & blessing.
Some of these may
secure some wealth & become more useful - but for the mass
we have many fears, lest they shd not become wealthy & happy but vicious idlers.
We wd rather have kept them all at home -
But that w^ not have been possible, after a dozen of our former
mechanics a few months since poor & pinched, had spent the winter
with us as gentlemen, not one at work, but all finels dressed,
& at perfect leisure.
One, at least, who brought two thousand
from California had not enough to pay his passage back.
To
conclude, the past yr has been eminently one filled with events
& rumors of events.
The middle of July, all foreigners, at La
haina, were fully armed, for several days & nights expecting,
every momeht, that the natives w^ rise & slaughter them & take
the kingdom, in imitation of the great kingdom of France.
Even
those sick in bed, lay with loaded pistols in their bosoms.
This was a rumor merely, & not an event.
crowded upon us, faster than even rumors.
But real events have
Never before has a
year made greater changes in the face of Society & business.
Our foreign population are nearly all gone - but not all to
California.
While vessel after vessel has filled for the gold
regions, death has made his demands upon them as well as upon
the natives.
Several who have held high rank among that class,
but who have stood entirely aloof from every thing connected
with religion, have been called away, some of them suddenly,
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to test their sentiments & practices at the bar of God.
influence has been evil.
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Their
The ruin of souls & blasting of all
earthly good has followed in their train.
But they have done -
’’the wicked is driven away in his wickedness" - & none who are
left behind take warning & seek a refuge.
D. Baldwin
April ll'k-11 1849
See statistics on next page.
Statistics of Lahaina chh, April, 1849
Whole number admitted on examination
1119
Whole number admitted on certificate
307
Admitted past year, on examination
90
Admitted past year on certificate
22
Whole number admitted past yr,
112
Whole number dismissed to other chhs
222
Dismissed past year
48
Whole number deceased
363
Died the
126
jh
st year
Suspended the past year
Remain suspended
5
20
Excommunicated the past year
Whole number excommunicated
0
59
Remain excommunicated
33
Whole number in regular standing
Whole number of children baptized,
762
1105
Baptized last year
53
Marriages last year
55
�Report of Lahaina Station,
May, 1851.
In reporting the station at Lahaina, we wd. mention, with
gratitude to the Giver of all good, that a good measure of
health has been allotted to us since the last meeting of the
mission.
Death has not been suffered to enter our windows;
nor has sore & dangerous sickness fallen to our lot.
The in
valid of the family has, in some measure, recovered her health.
For a large portion of the past year, she has "been able to
oversee & direct her domestic concerns, sometimes too in the
midst of a great amount of company, a work she C& not have
done in either of the two preceding years.
For all this we
w^ he duly thankful, not only for the need a youthful family
has of a mother’s care, hut for what she has been able to do
for the people.
Our two eldest children we have sent, the past
year, to the United States.
They sailed, with others of the
mission, from Oahu, in the Bk Croton, on the 9th 0f D ec< 1850.
We have letters from them, dated Raiatoa, Soc. Isis, where they
touched & spent a few days, the first part of Jan.
If they
are prospered, we hope to hear of their safe arrival in the U.
States, in two months more.
Conn.
They are destined .to Bridgeport,
We have recd from our friends, in that place, many kind
letters respecting the children, & some from entire strangers,
encouraging us to send them; & also since'they heard of their
sailing, expressing wishes for their safe arrival there.
All
these letters take it for granted, that there is a great nec
essity for sending our children home for education & for other
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reasons - None of the writers seem.to have heard of the late
Boston discovery, that the Sand. Isis is the "best place to train
the children of the mission - nor even of the Sand. Isd dis
covery of the same doctrine.
Of the people of Lahaina, I w^- say the interval of two
years, since our last general meeting, has been a time of
mercy to them - No unusually sad changes have passed over them.
Neither war pestilence nor famine have been sent upon them;
& yet over 400 of the people of Lahaina village have been laid
in the grave since our last general meeting.
Since July 1849,
we have had an accurate record of births & deaths kept for
Lahaina & for other parts of the field.
As we are watching
now the destinies of the race we have toiled for so long,
it may not be amiss to exhibit their prospects in this respect.
The following is the account for Lahaina only, for the
of 1849
Births
Deaths
July
4
28
Aug.
0
17
Sept.
1
16
Oct.
2
26
Nov.
3
8
Dec.
14
37
24
132
24
Total =
Diminution in 6 mos.
108 (18 per mo.
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%
1850
Jan.
Births
8
Deaths
25
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Births
10
Deaths
11
Feb.
3
12
Jan.
March
7
18
Feb.
3
14
April
6
21
March
7
11
11
21
April
4
15
June
7
13
Total
24
July
11
24
Aug.
6
13
Sept.
7
16
16
22
6
18
Dec. ■
11
9
Total =
99
May
Oct.
Nov.
Diminution
12)
4)
Summary.
Births
Deaths
24
132
99
212
212
99
113 S
108
51
24
27 (6--4
24
per m o ,
24__________ 51
I per mo.
Total
147
in 1 yr & 10 months
395
147
(Diminution in 22 mos.
248
In Olualu & Ukumehame, in 1850, Births 8, deaths 7.
Three first mos. 1851, for Lanai, births 6, Deaths 6.
The picture for Lahaina is a somewhat dark one, especially
as the past winter has been the most decidedly favorable for
health of any winter we have seen there.
The number of births
for the 22 mos. is to the deaths about as 1 to 2-g-; & in only
one month in all the 22, did the births exceed the deaths.
There is one favorable aspect in this report.
The rate of
diminution, for these 22 mos., has been gradually declining;
showing that the ill effects of the measles has been passing
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off, & that the people are gaining vigor.
The first 6 mos. of
th.ese 2 2 , the diminution averaged 18 per mo.
was 9-5/12 per mo.
The next 12, it
The last four, 6-f per mo, —
In most of the months where there is an increased number
of births, there is also an increased number of deaths, show
ing that infants probably go to swell the number of deaths.
I think a large portion of the children, born at the present
time, die under one or two years old.
One cause of this is the
eagerness of parents, thatr their children shd live.
As many
are living childless, there seems to be an Increasing desire
in those who have children to save them.
They are more ready,
therefore, to stuff them with food & medicines.
I have known
cases, where, without a single symptom of illness perhaps in
the child, upon the mere word of a native doctor, that some
mysterious disease lurked within, the anxious parent has allowed
him to commence his therapeutic operations.
The doctor’s word
is always seen to be true; for the latent disease never fails to
develop itself externally in a few days.
There are many signs among us, that seem to show, that the
native race is going out of existence.
The want of proper
dietetic knowledge, & dietetic rules, I judge to be the cause
of the largest proportion of deaths among them, both as to
adults & children.
We can do something towards disseminating
right Ideas among them.
BuB we can probably do nothing whh will,
In the end, tend so much to save the race, as to get them all,
men, women, old & young into habits of regular employment.
As before remarked, the two past years have been years of
mercy to the people.
We have had during most of these years,
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the rains of heaven & the sunshine - & with a prevalence of
health, all departments of labor have gone forward as usual.
The productions of the earth w& have been abundant, had they
not been carried off faster than the earth could bring them to
maturity.
Vessels after wessels have puured in upon Maui, till
it seemed as if they w<3- carry off the soil itself.
For about
three months past only has there been any diminution in the
number.
Never before were there years in whh such an amount of
temporal motives pressed on the people, to spur them on to in
dustry.
All kinds of labor meet with a plentiful reward.
Un
der all these motives, habits of industry are becoming more
general, &, it is believed, the temporal condition of the
people is improving, or, at least, of that portion of the people
who are most under the influence of moral & religious instruc
tion.
But we have not seen their condition improved exactly in
proportion to the amount of their money.
Abundance of money
does not always lead natives to improve their land, or to buy
or lease lands, or build substantial houses.
It much oftener
appears in finery about their persons in more & finer horses,
-in better saddles & bridles - Sometimes in pictures, daguer
reotypes, &c.
If we c* see the land filling with comfortable
houses in foreign style, good convenient furniture introduced
more rapidly, &, above all, education rising in proportion to
increase of means among the people, we might have some hope for
the Hawaiian race.
But natives do not get most of the money
whh comes into the country.
movements.
They are generally slow in their
Multitudes who came to Califomia to get gold have
failed of finding it & many of them have no better way than to
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They are dipping into every kind
of business whh promises to he lucrative.
We have, at Lahaina,
just as many new comers of this kind as can find employment, &
others pass on to look further; so that what natives get is what
they gather on a small scale.
They are ready to demand high
prices, & high wages; & often throw themselves out of employment
by so doing.
But there are very few of them that lay large
plans for accumulating wealth.
One obvious effect of the California trade has been, with
us as in other parts of the islands, a vast increase in the price
of produce.
In many cases it bears three or four times its
former value, & sometimes we have found it extremely difficult
to procure the necessaries of life at any price.
But this high
demand for the products of the land we take it for granted, will,
in the end, make such productions more plentiful; yet it is very
doubtful whether they m i l ever return to their former prices.
Wages have become high - in many cases enormously so.
All who
depend on native labor have had to exercise patience, as well
as pay out money more freely then heretofore; but we do mourn
most sincerely, that any shA have thought to make up for lack
of native service by increasing the most effeminate & immoral
class of all that we have in the land.
Good immigrants we shall
always be glad to see; men who will aid in laying a foundation
for a pure & prosperous nation in the islands.
But it is an
ill omen that any of the most obstinate & hopeless of the heath
en shd be brought in,' & that too when the non-execution of laws
against immorality is proverbial among us.
It may be asked what has been the effect on the chh &
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people, of our being brought into such close contact with other
nations, & of all these new influences whh are brought to bear
on this people?
It is not easy to describe the change whh has been already
effected in our region, from being brought so near the U.S. &
the whole world too, we may say, that we feel the movements of
their steamers, railroads & telegraphs, almost as if they were
among us; much less can we predict the influences whh these
causes will exert In years to come.
Some of our chh & people
have already found their graves in the U. States.
Others have
been given to the Sea monsters between the islands & California.
Our most dissipated foreigners caught the impulse for gold very
early & made a universal rush.
Many of them sunk; at once be
neath the fiery flood of rum whh were pouring over that land, &
some still remain there, a pest to any part of the world where
their presence is.
A merchant of Lahaina, in some respects, a
very worthy man, & fifteen others, mostly Americans, went to
the bottom probably without a moment's warning, in the Schooner
whh carried them.
So much for the cost of Mammon's service.
So far as the
influence of all these was evil, we & our people are delivered
from it.
But then disappointed hopes & the disgust of many
with ill success, or with vice, has brought down upon us a
greater host of foreigners than love of gold took away - some
worthy men #10 will do something for the benefit of the nation,
& others just such as we wd gladly see taken off by another
c
yellow fever epidemic, as the auri sagra fames is called.
eign influence mostly of the Janerican kind, has greatly in-
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creased the two years past in my field, & still more on other
parts of Maui, & it bids fair to make farther advances in years
to come. ' As before remarked, a ready market & high prices have
given an impulse to industry among the native population, such
as they have never had before.
avarice will increase.
With an increase of industry
Many will be drawn away into that power
ful vortex to their eternal undoing.
Souls will be bartered
for filthy lucre as in all enlightened countries.
But still we
have no reason to regret the prevalence of industrious habits.
Industry & enterprise, among our people, will not, in the long
run, injure the nation, or the kingdom of God, in the nation.
They will furnish the means of temporal comfort, & the means
of sustaining the institutions of the Gospel; & we shall have
no more to fear from the avarice whh accompanies Industry &
enterprise than from the covetousness whh are found with Indo
lence, poverty & want, & whh make up so large a share of the
evils in a heathen land.
As to the Influence of the new state of things on the chh,
some worldly minded members have doubtless become more worldly
minded.
The love of gain too may have taken too deep a hold
of the minds of some real Christians, & chilled their zeal in
the cause of religion.
But in regard to the great mass of our
chh members, I cannot believe that the tone of their piety has
been lowered the past two years; on the contrary, I W& hope,
that a very large share of them have been learning that most
difficult, & yet most necessary, of all Christian lessons, viz.
how to be active in the things of the world, &, at the same
time, zealous in the things of religion; how to ,rbe diligent
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in business & fervent in Spirit, serving the Lord."
mass out of the chh, & especially the young it
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As to the
seem, that
regular secular employments are a great advance towards Christian
izing as well as civilizing them.
Industrious habits, even when
they lead to love of filthy lucre, m i l not make the impenitent
so deaf to the calls of the Gospel as will indolence & the
thousand forms of lealea o Hawaii nei.
Pres. Dwight said, "he
never knew but one lazy man converted, & he became industrious
from the day of his conversion”.
Our meetings, on Sabbath & week days, have been kept up
with interest, both at Lahaina, & at our two outstations; &
there are Sabbath Schools & Bible classes at all these places,
maintained, of course, at the outstations entirely by natives.
We have made some progress in repairing the chh at Lahaina.
The upper part of the chh is now filled with convenient seats
whh is doubtless one reason why our congregation has filled up
some the past year.
At both the meetings, at Lahaina, on Sab
bath, we usually have a full congregation.
We have, in the last
two years, procured a good seraphina, whh, since our children
left for the U.S. is played by a native.
The singing is main
tained by the natives, & is spoken of by visitors, from abroad,
as respectable.
Concerts for prayer.
The monthly concert, for the conversion of the world, is
observed, the first monday of each month at Lahaina & at each
of our out stations; & we also keep the last monday of the month
as a concert of prayer for the extinction of slavery in the U.
States, & throughout the world.
A goodly number attend each
of these concerts, & they are, we trust, not wholly uninterested
in the respective objects of each.
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New Meeting Houses.
Two new meeting houses have been completed, the past year,
on Lanai; one of stone whh has been some years in building; &
one a thatched building erect to supply the place of one blown
down by a storm during the year.
The Church.
The chh, at Lahaina Station, is not materially different
in size from what it was when reported, at the general meet
ing, two years ago.
Only 63 have been admitted to the chh in
two years; among them was one of our own children, the daughter
who has left for the U. States.
There are, however, on the
island of Lanai, about 100 persons who are considered suitable
candidates for admission to the chh; & about 50 more, at Lahaina
& Olualu may be received before long.
be in a revived state.
high.
The chh cannot be said to
We all need a fresh unction from on
But a goodly portion of the chh always exhibit a uniform
& consistent zeal in the cause of Christ.
Never before had we
more proofs, in the chh generally, of an intelligent apprecia
tion of the worth of the Gospel, as a remedy for their own
evils, for those of the nation & the world; & there appears to
be, of course, a steady determination to have the institutions
of the Gospel maintained among them.
In March 1850, the chh
voted to support their own pastor, commencing with the year
1850.
They had many fears lest they shd not be able to raise
a salary
Since that time, I have received from the chh &
people $228.20 - My present expectations are to live on what the
people raise for my support, & to aid my children In the U.
/
States, to some extent, from the same; or to make up the de-
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ficiency in some other way than by applying to the funds of the
Board.
I do not expect to receive any thing from the Board
except such advantages as they grant alike to all.
Yet I have
not asked a dismission from them - It is not an easy thing for
a 20 year old branch to separate from the parent stock & set up
for independence.
But I may do it before long, especially if
the strong advocates for adhesion, sh1
^- abandon the doctrine.
Contributions.
In Aug. 1849, $76.00 were raised for the relief of the
French Protestant Misy Soc.
In Sept. /49 - a donation was made to aid in erecting a chh
on Lanai, $35.00
In 1850, the chh & people purchased &
paid for lumber enough to floor & seat their meeting house Cost about $900.00 - but some of the funds were on hand pre
viously.
In 1851, they have attempted to collect $1000.00 to com
plete the building.
One half has been paid.
The other half may
come slowly.
f
The first week of each month, a collection is made whh has
usually amounted to from $60 to $80.00 a month.
The first
collection of this kind wgs given to the French - the next to
Lanai chh - several to pay $200.00 for the Seraphina of the chh.
When not otherwise appropriated, it is understood to be devoted
to a fund for the support of the pastor.
The females of Lahaina are accustomed to meet quarterly to
recite catechism or some other book whh they have learned, &
to make a contribution.
couragement of industry.
It is properly a Society for the en
It is doing good by bringing the
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younger under the influence of the older who are pious.
Their contribution at a single meeting in 1849 was
19.12^
At two meetings, 1850
174 . 374-
Two meetings in 1851,
195.871-
Most of these donations are yet unappropriated. —
The people gave our children $48.00 on their leaving for the
U. States.
At the Anti-Slavery- Concert, the last Mon. of each
month, we always take up a collection to aid the Am. & Foreign
Ant. S. Society.
In 1850 we sent them $50.00.
Since that time
the collections monthly have been from $10. to $20. & we now
have on hand for them over $125.00 - If those now In power in
crease their efforts to blacken up the character of abolitionists,
we shall try to increase our contributions.
These are about the
amount of our contributions to benevolent objects.
We have
given nothing to the theatre, the opera, nor to horseraces -not much to the circus - & nothing to Jenny Lind’s concerts, whh
last we w^- cheerfully have patronized, had she come round our
way.
We have had no balls, nor celebrations, nor illuminations -
not even Union Meetings or slave catchers among us, though we
have had some of the "Fugitives from Service.” We have had no
duels nor murders on Maui, whh is greatly to be wondered at, as
many of our people & the haoles have been drunk on beer poisoned,
it is said, with Cologne water & tobacco.
I hope, we shall
hear of no duels among the members we have sent to the Hawaiian
Congress, nor fist fights in their sittings.
It wd grieve us
to have them descend to a level with Christian nations.
With all our agricultural reputation, we have sent nobody
to the world's Industrial Convention whh shows how sadly we are
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behind the times.
Schools.
All our schools have gone on with, their usual prosperity,
& no special interruption.
None of our teachers have forsaken
their work; & whenever a vacancy has occurred by the death of
a teacher or otherwise, there have always been applications for
the place.
Considering the low rate of wages, (generally 25
cts per day) compared with what all other labor commands, this
may appear strange; but the schools are not taught so many horn5
a day as some of us think desirable.
The Kahukulas have reported all the schools; but I have
not seen their reports.
In the village of Lahaina we have 14
schools, (not counting a papist school, if Indeed there be one)
The total number of scholars in all these schools Is 459 the regular attendance somewhat less.
The following Is the
number in different branches.
In the alphabet
Spellings
61,
121,
Readers
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277
Writers
-
183-
Geography
326
Mental arithmetic
172
Cyphering
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150
Algebra
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7
Singing
-
338
Child's arithmetic - 127
One of our Schools is without a house - whh we hope will not
long be the case.
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The Mission assigned me a work, designed mainly for schools,
on history.
My wish that we might have something of the kind
for natives led me to undertake the task - I then hoped I c^
prepare it without much delay - hut on looking I found we had
no "book of whh it w& answer to make a translation for natives.
I sent to the U.S. for one - it came, "but was still less adapted to our wants - I then sent for the Jm. Encyclopaedia,
with the aid of whh I have gone through the worst portion of
ancient history.
I have had many interruptions - "but hope I
can, after a few months, give the printer a "brief ancient his
tory, if the mission think it desirable.
But I must ask them
to lay the modern part on some one else.
It is too pondersome
a task for me in my situation.
Statistics of the chh for 2 years.
Whole number admitted on examination
Whole number admitted on certificate,
1 yr.
1182
342
Admitted past 2 yrs on examination,
63- 57
Admitted past 2 years on certificate
35- 11
Whole number dismissed to other ehhs
247
Dismissed last two years to other chhs
Whole number deceased
25- 15
474
Died last 2 years, to May l/51
67- 39
Suspended the last two years
8-
Remain suspended
Excommunicated last 2 yrs,
19
9-
Whole number excommunicated
68
Remain Excommunicated
26
Whole number In regular standing
4
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Whole number of children baptized,
- IS
1183
Children baptized last 2 years,
78 - 47
Marriages last 2 years
105 - 42
If the word Excluded, introduced into the last form of
chh statistics means the same as Excommunicated, it can be sub
stituted for it.
I did not us e it because, I ddid not recollect
what meaning was supposed to be attached to it.
Yours truly,
D. Baldwin
�To the Moderator of Genl Meeting,
Assembled at Oahu
Lahaina May 1 2 ^ 1853
Dear bro.
I herewith forward my report of Lahaina- Station whh
has been ready some days but I had no opportunity to Send it.
I do not think of any thing omitted In my report, except
that I sh^ have Spoken of the assignment made to me of a his
torical chart & a history.
I have done most of the work to
wards preparing two historical charts, one of ancient, & the
other of modern history.
I shd have finished them, had I
learned from Mr. Rogers, that they c<3- have been engraved.
They are on a plain Scale, whh can easily be engraved.
If the
mission can provide for the engraving, I c^ finish them, &
provide, as an accompaniment, a brief -outline, mostly questions.
The two together, I think, w^ give our Schools a general know
ledge of the course of history - Particular portions of history,
or of interesting nations, C& be brought out as necessity, or
our ability might warrant from time to time.
That the Lord may be with & bless you in all things, Is
the prayer of
Your fr<3- & bro.
D. Baldwin
�Report of Lahaina Station May ls^ 1853.
to
Through, the goodness of God, we are able stillAreport
ourselves alive, & in a good degree of health.
illness has befallen us the past year.
No serious
Mrs. Baldwin has been
much better the past year than in either of the four preceding
years; & we are not without hope, that, by suitable means, she
may entirely recover her health.
We are also permitted to
hear frequently of the continued welfare of our two children
in the U. States.
The climate there has proved beneficial to
them; neither has been ill - both have gained in flesh & strength.
Our daugh (I) is in Mt. Holyoke Sem. with plenty of Hawaiian
company - our Son about entering College.
I do not intend to write a very long Report this year.
I made a full one last year; & as it was not used, at all, in
the minutes, some of the facts will still answer for this year.
One subject, fully reported there, will need some modification
in this report, & that is the intemperance of our place.
evil has greatly abated among us.
This
It is very rare, that we see
a native intoxicated - & but few of the foreign residents are
intoxicated openly - Still the steady drinking habits of many
of them but too clearly Indicate what will ere long be their
end - A number of this class, for filthy lucre, still pursue
the illegal & cruel work of getting Seamen drunk; & a whole
sale license in constant operation, among us has furnished the
means.
The govt officers do what they can to. bring offenders
against the laws to the appointed punishment - I think, not much
less that $1000 has been collected from foreign residents, in
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twelve monthts}, for illegal sale of ard. Spt. - Some 250 or
300 gals of ard Spt. from California has "been seized after it
had "been' smuggled on shore, & the stringent laws of the nation
carried into full effect on the heads of the operators.
How
much longer they will find it profitable to aid the devil, in
this line, we cannot t§ll.
The usual course of labours have been pursued at Lahaina,
during the year, & also at the outstations; without any parti
cular interruptions from sickness or other causes.
The Gospel
has been preached - congregations, on the- Sabbath, & on other
days, have been as full as at former times, & have appeared
attentive.
We may hope, that Christians have grown in grace -
have increased in knowledge & strength, & that some sinners have
been converted.
The part of our congregation whh excites most
temptations
fears is the youthful portion. They meet with many
in such a place as Lahaina, & it is impossible, that many of
them should not be affected by these snares.
Besides regular preaching on the Sabbath, we have a child
ren's Sab. School, an adult Sab. School, & a Bib. class for
both, each Sabbath.
As mentioned in former reports Lahaina is divided into
nine Sections.
In course of 1852, I met with each of these
sections, chh members & all others who chose to come.
IDn con
nection with these meetings, I took a census of all the chh,
intending to embrace those absent as well as those present According to my report of 1852, we shd now have, in regular
standing, 690 members.
The census I took would bring the chh
within three of the same number, whh shows, that we have not
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reported too many members in past years.
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Still, of this num
ber, probably not less than fifty are mostly abroad at other
stations, & Islands - many of them, doubtless, ought to be
transferred to other chhs.
There has not been a great amount of discipline in the
chh' the past year.
A considerable number, however, remain sus
pended, whose cases have not appeared clear enough to admit of
their being restored, &, unless they are known to live in im
morality, we have not thought best to cut them off entirely.
Forty two were rec^ to the chh in Jan. last - 29 stand
propounded, & about 100 more may be considered suitable candi
dates to be received to the chh the present year.
Schools.
Our Schools were in operation the first six months of our
misy year - during whh time I visited them all, meeting parents,
& examining scholars.
The next four or five months, they were
all suspended for want of funds - They are now again revived
& are, we hope, doing well.
The kahukula has often visited &
examined the schools, at the school houses.
There have been
two public examinations during the year, one in 1852 - t h e other,
last March.
At the last examination we found 442 connected
Olualu
with the 9 Lahaina Schools - 35 with 9h«.iu, & 26 with Ukumuhame
Schools, making 503 scholars in all.
At the close of the March examination, we held a Juvenile
Temperance Celebration, & had a feast connected with it.
Our
meeting house was filled with teachers, Scholars, parents &
others.
The meeting was addressed by our police magistrate,
who never used intoxicating drinks from childhood up - by the
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Rev. Mr. Alexander, myself, & six natives, including our two
circuit Judges, John Richardson & Kamakau, our representative,
Timoteo, the Kahukula, Upai, Local Judge Kenui, & one other.
The music was appropriate & well performed.
It was an occasion
of interest - All the children of the Schools renewed their
pledge to abstain from all intoxicating drinks, & from one
thing that is even more absurd & filthy than rum, that is,
tobacco.
Romanism.
I am not aware whether Catholics have kept up meetings,
the past year, in Lahaina or not.
For most of the time, I
think, they have not had a priest residing there.
Some sort of
a school is continued, & they have also one at Ukumuhame, with
a few Scholars.
They do not seem to be attracting attendsxonrj. or
making %ny efforts to gain proselytes.
Mormonism.
When the Moimons first came to Lahaina, in the fall of
1851 perhaps, they made great efforts, among foreigners only but never made but one convert.
From that time, for nearly a
year, they disappeared from Lahaina, working in the region of
Wailuku, Kula, Koolau, &c.
There they gained several who had
been Scholars at Lahainaluna to their Sect - Having themselves
a perfect acquaintance with all sorts of vileness, they have
influenced a certain sort to join the Mormons.
One of them
worked long at Lahaina & prepared a few for Mormonism.
In
three successive Sabbaths, the foreign priest, who came to
gather in the harvest, baptized 7, 20 & 3.
Many of these, per
haps all, were among the vilest of our population.
The three
last baptized were persons we had excommunicated from our chh
for living, as we supposed, in licentious habits - They
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continued but a few Sabbaths with the Mormons.
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The priests used
every kind of statement, among the people, whether true or false
whh, they supposed, might aid their cause.
At one time, they
told the people they should work miracles as soon as they got
the native language, told what an angel had informed them, what
miracles had been wrought in other places, that Mr. Hunt & his
chh at San Francisco had become Mormon, &c. &c.
When they first
came to Lahaina, they denied, that any such thing as polygamy
existed at Salt Lake.
Lately they justify it.
One has said,
that Jesus Christ had two wives, at least, perhaps many others;
or, if not, that .he evidently lived with Martha & Mary, as wives
without ever being formally married to them - another said, "As
God had a Son, he, of course, had a wife, & many other child
ren, doubtless - that he enjoyed the family relation the same
as men did.
All these & many other things were too much for
our excommunicated persons.
They came to an open rupture with
the priests in their meetings, first disputed, then ridiculed
& forsook them.
Whether they had already gone the length of
their tether, or whether the three apostates brought them into
discredit, is not clear.
From that time, we hear little said
of Mormonism in Lahaina.
Except the 30 baptized, at first, I
know not, that any others have joined them.
I look upon them
only as a seive, to sift out the vilest dregs of the people,
perhaps because God sees they are ripe for destruction.
Benevolent Contributions.
The chh of Lahaina voted to sustain their pastor - the
Sum contributed for this object, at the monthly concerts,
from genl meeting in 1852 to the present meeting, amounts to
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$509.85 - Lanai has contributed, for the same object, during
the year, $23.50.
Several hundreds have been collected & disbursed for work
on the meeting house, whh is nearly completed.
They have sent
to the American & Foreign Anti Slavery Soc., at New York,
$182 .40 during the year.
For the Micronesian Mission they collected, & I paid over
to Mr. Castle, $362.85.
They will be willing, & probably able,
to collect as much more, the present year, for sending the
Gospel to the Marquesas islands.
I hope, we shall send back
Matunui, with, at least, two good native teachers; but if we
do, we may have requests from other islands in that group, &
of other groups for similar aid; & having put our hand to the
plow, there may be no chance to look back till every Island,
in this ocean, has the Gospel.
We shA doubtless make up our
minds to follow up the work we began last year.
We shall never
feel like refusing the lamp of life to any body that has a
Soul, & especially when they come to us & beg for it.
If
sending the Gospel to Fatuhiva this year shA bring suppliants
for Salvation from half a dozen other Islands, next year, & our
resources sh^ prove insufficient, God can augment our resources or our example may rouse native chhs in Samoa, New Zealand, &
other islands - There are hundreds of chhs in this ocean whh
have piety, but it has not yet become working piety; & If the
poverty of Polynesian chhs is not sufficient to convert Poly
nesia, we must send for the wealth of American chhs, & for their
Sons also.
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Our future.
Nothing remains for me to Sp©ak of except a few words about
the future.
I hope the gen. meeting will have wisdom to select
a suitable name for what was once called the Sand, island
mission, though it matters less what name we go under than how
we do the work of the Lord.
I
gladly join in the delibera
tions of the meeting, were it practicable.
As for myself, my
dismission from the Board, on the basis of the 7th resolution,
took effect Jan. 1. 1853.
Of course I expect no aid from them
unless I come to pinching poverty.
As for my brethren, still
dependent on the Board, I hold it wise for the Board to make
liberal provision, that they may have less excuse for turning
aside from their work.
We must be sustained & have something to
feed & educate our children.
Mind uneducated sbA not be tol
erated among us, in this age.
I take a deep interest in Punahou School.
(0
Dont transform
it into a bubble that wonOlt do any body any good. A college
(0
may grow up with necessity - but cant be manufactured as a
■
pair of shoes can.
Let us still have Punahou a mission school.
I care as much about the chr & habits of our children as I do
their amount of knowledge.
That School has been owned of God.
We owe the teachers now there a debt of everlasting gratitude
for their efforts & watchful care over our children, & I am glad
that my own far off children remember school & teachers with
deep affection.
the School.
I go for Sustaining -Mr. Dole & all now there in
Mr. D. is eminently qualified to teach the class
ics & other branches; he is known & read of all men for kindness
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forbearance & moderation.
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New modes of teaching will come up
in these days of Improvement.
Gan the present teachers at
Punahou learn nothing of their neighbors?
needs an additional teacher.
But the School greatly
When he comes, there will be no
difficulty in determining his position in the School.
He sh&
be able to take the whole department of music & other branches.
If
one is not sent, the lack shA be supplied, as well as we are
able, by such as are now in the islands.
Yours as ever,
D. Baldwin
Statistics of Lahaina church,
May 1. 1855.
Whole nuntoer admitted on profession
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1224
Whole no. by certificate
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355
Past year by examination
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42
Past year by certificate,
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2
Whole no. past year
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44
Whole no. dismissed to other chhs
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268
Dismissed past year
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7
Whole no. deceased,
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509
Died past year
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17
Suspended past year
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8
Remain suspended
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36
Excommunicated past year
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2
Whole no. excommunicated
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81
Remain excommunicated (now in the field)
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27
Whole no. in regular standing
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690
Whole no. of children baptized
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1236
Baptized past year
Marriages past year
Average Sab. Congregation
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37
1200
�Report of Lahaina Station,
for 1854 - May________
In presenting to the Mission a report of Lahaina Station,
for the past year, it becomes us to Speak, with gratitude to
the Giver of all good, for the amount of health he has granted
to us during the year.
Mrs. Baldwin has been among the in
valids for about six years - but her health for the past year
has been better than in either of the preceding five.
The
asthma, a frequent visitor in former years, has been less
troublesome this (year) - At times, especially in winter, other
troubles have taken its place.
Our children, who are with us,
have pretty uniformly enjoyed good health; & we have been per
mitted to hear the Same frequently of the health of those in
the U. States.
Of the native population also in our field, we must say,
they have been highly favored.
The seasons of 1853, & thus far
in 1854, have been uncommonly fine; & this is doubtless one
reason why no serious diseases have prevailed among the people.
We have not even had our customary influenzas in winter.
Cases
of severe fever or bowel complaints I have never found so rare
in former years.
The health of the people the last year, must
be set down as one of the wonders of this part of the world;
for indulgence of the appetite has been considered one great
source of disease, & the past year has been proverbially one of
plenty, especially in the line of fish.
In the summer of
1853, the alalauwas began to fill our seas - they are still
found, though not in so great abundance.
During all that year,
.a few hours w 1
^ secure to a fisherman bushels of the sweet
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tasted fish.
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The common price of a canoe full was a dollar.
Several other kinds of fish have abounded by turns, so that it
has often been remarked, that the Lord was feeding the people
as he did the children of Israel in the wilderness.
These re
marks on the health of the people are in accordance with the
record we have kept of the mortality.
In the district of La
haina, in 1851, there were 148 deaths; in 1852, 159; in 1853,
121.
And the census lately taken shows the population to be
about the same as it was two years ago. - The births in those
same years were, respectively, 92,76 & 84.
The births & dealhhs,
in the same district, for four mos. of the present year, are
as follows '5
Jan.
Born
4
-
died
10
Feb.
8
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4
Mar.
7
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9
Ap.__________ 5________ -_______ 11
24
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These have generally been the unhealthy months; & yet, at the
rate of these four months, the mortality wd "be only about
one hundred, the present year'.
I have not accurate returns
of births & deaths in our two out districts, Olualu & Lanai;
but in both, births reported have exceeded deaths reported,
for the three previous years.
The population of Lanai, by the
late census, is just about the same as it was in 1845 & 1846.
From the small pox so fatal in its ravages in many places,
we were mercifully preserved in a great measure.
Considering
that we c^- not be isolated, as c^ more remote districts, we
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did not expect so great an exemption from the plague.
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Prom
the time the Charles Mallory arrd at Oahu, with a case of the
small pox, we made up our minds that we must all grapple with
the giant; & yet probably we had it from some other source.
We looked around us immediately for means of renewing vaccina
tion.
As soon as we c^ obtain good vaccine matter, our two
physicians went to vaccinating in earnest.
They worked long
& hard, & without pecuniary compensation; & the misy pastor
scarcely did anything else, for five, or six months, but use
his efforts to protect the people from the threatening destruc
tion, he being one of the three subcommissioners, to manage such
matters on Maui, Lanai & Molokai.
Some have doubted whether vaccination w d protect Hawaiians.
With us it proved far more effectual than the most sanguine
expected.
Considering how careless natives sometimes are in
breaking kine pox pustules before they are matured, the reck
less ( i) bathing of others whh w^ turn a kindly pustule to a
shocking ulcer, & the diseases whh
exist in some, our phy
sicians expressed great astonishment, that the people were so
much protected.
Of 63 who were innoculated with small pox,
only 5 broke out at all; & they but slightly.
About twenty in
dividuals, from Oahu, broke out in our midst, exposing, at each
time, a larger or smaller family circle, not one of whom took
the disease.
■unknown to us.
proved fatal.
But 9 of our people took the disease, in some way
Most of these were light cases; but two of them
These two, with 7, from Oahu, who died at the
Lahaina pest house, were all the fatal cases whh occurred.
Our whole list, including our own & those from abroad, were
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Of cases of genuine sm. pox
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21
cases of varioloid
7
Those who had it by innoculation 5_____________
Total
33
—
9 deaths.
All who broke out among us were promptly removed out of town
to the place provided for them.
At first, we burned houses where
it broke out; but finding, those exposed did not take the dis
ease, the law was relaxed.
fered most.
The district of Hana on Maui suf
There were 118 cases & 63 deaths - mostly papists
& others of the very lowest order.
118
102
cases
Kipahulu,
add
--
63
27
Kaupo
29
17
Kahikinui
11
5
Hamakua
10
3
Wailuku
3
0
Waiokula
3
1
Lahaina
33
9
Total sm. pox on Maui
-309 cases
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125
deaths.
The first case whh occurred on Maui was at Lahaina June 23^ Our last case was well about the close of Oct.
lingered a little longer.
At Hana, it
On Maui, the districts of Koolau,
Makawao, Kula, Honuaula, Waikapu, Waihee, Waiehu & all the
district from Lahaina to Kahakuloa together with the islands
of Lanai & Molokai, escaped the disease entirely.
They es
caped by vaccination, & regular & constant fighting.
In common with all the islands, our census was taken, by
the govt, in Dec. last - probably a more reliable census than
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any previous one.
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The results are published. - I will only
mention some, that relate to the missionary field.
The -whole number of natives in Lahaina district is 2973.
Of these 83 are half casts.
men.
In the same district are 27 China
All other foreigners, including missionaries, their
children, & a few foreigners in a district North of Lahaina,
are 122 —
making a total population of 3122.
Of the native population —
238 are reckoned as papists - &
77 as Mormons - or Papists & Mormons 315 - Deduct 315 from 2973
& we have remaining 2658 who may, in a certain sense, be de
nominated Protestants.
We have a Papist priest some of the
time - Of all our foreigners, a Mormon priest & his wife are
all that belong to that sect.
In Olualu is a population of 185 65 of them are under 20..
Catholics
0
Mormons
1.
In Ukumehame are 209 - under 20 are 92.
Protestants
Catholics
Mormon
136
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1.
On the island of Lanai are a population of 602 Summary
Of these 515 are Protestants
Lah.
3122
Ukum
309
Mormons 9- 10________ _
Olualu
185
602
Lanai_____ 602_________
4118 in the whole field.
Papists - 77
total.
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The usual round of misy labors has been pursued at Lahaina
during the year, now past, with no other interruptions than those
whh have been referred to.
Two sermons have been preached on
the Sabbath - a Sabbath School for children has been kept up one for adults in the Ai oka la Bible class also.
a portion of the year, a
The Sanctuary has been well filled on the
Sabbath, & the attention of the congregation such as to afford
a well grounded hope, that the truth is not proclaimed In vain.
We think there is also an increasing interest in the instruction
given in Sabbath Schools.
At the Wed. lecture, whh Is held
Wed. afternoon, the congregation is not so large, owing, doubt
less, in part, to the numbers who are engaged in the business
of the place.
Our Monthly concerts, the first mon. of every
month, are well attended; & the anti Slavery concerts for pray
er, the last Mon. of each month, are about the Same.
The com
mencement of sending out missions to other islands of this
ocean has given new interest to our concerts of prayer for
missions.
The pastor has preached occasionally at Olualu.
He also
goes twice a year to the island of Lanai, to look after the in
terests of the chh there, & to administer the Sacrament to about
100 members of the chh who live on that island.
In Oct. 1853,
when he Visited the island for this purpose, their grass meet
ing house had been levelled by a storm.
We found a place for
preaching & for the Lord's Supper, under the shady kou trees
on the shore.
The last Sab. of April, this year, was also spent
on Lanai, for the same purpose.
The people had -united, with
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commendable zeal, & erected a new house instead of the one whh.
had blown down, & in a far better location.
They have also
selected a site for a stone chh, on the East side of the is
land, & they have agreed to unite, the present year, in making
a road over the summit of the island, so that the people of the
opposite side may more easily reach the newly located meeting
house, whenever a Missy visits them.
The population, as before
mentioned, is 602; & if they continue united, & attend, as they
ought, to their temporal affairs, they might soon be in a situa
tion to support a native pastor who sh^ devote himself wholly
to them.
Such a change w d be very desirable.
The last Sab. of
each month some of the leading chh members of Lahaina spend at
Olualu & Lanai; but all these means do not supply their wants.
They evidently need some controlling spirit among them every
Sabbath, & during the week.
For want of it, they fall into
many collisions & broils whh hinder the v/ork of God among them.
But they are scattered & poor, & whether they will ever be any
better off in temporals, seems exceedingly doubtful.
years ago, they made a great discovery.
They found out that
they c^ oarry horses over to their island on canoes.
begged horses of their Lahaina friends;
Three
Some
some bought them with
fish;- others went to the mountains & burnt coal, till they c^own some sort of a beast.
Horses are multiplying, & will soon
have possession of the island, whether natives have plantations
or not.
They find they are a great convenience in travelling;
& they often travel for the sake of giving exercise to the horse.
From their manner of using the animal, one w^- think they had
�found out an analogy between the horse on shore, & the old
boards with whh they rode on the tops of the waves.
We see many things in the foreign & native community
around us whh are not as we cd wish they were.
We have many
foreigners who have no regard for the Sabbath - are never found
in the house of God.
They have not yet begun to see any reality
in the Bible. Living to the lusts of the flesh will bury any
man In darkness -
Natives too, with the same principles, will
fall into the same ways - Our butcher shops are open Sab.
morning - eating houses have abundant custom, & the beer bottles
are not wanting.
other.
As many sailors reel Sab. evening as any
Our highest Govt authorities have ascertained one truth
whh they have committed to memory; & that is, that it is absolutely necessary for us to commit all the sins whh are committed
in Honolulu.
Nor is Sab. breaking our only sin.
There is,
doubtless, much secret licentiousness;■& some are not ashamed
of an open course of pollution.
The signs by whh we see the
existence of covered abominations makes our hearts sigh.
But
notwithstanding all that pains our hearts, we see signs of en
couragement -
The wicked show many signs of being reproved; &
that they are often ashamed of a course whh they have not
courage to forsake.
limits.
Even Sab. breaking is restrained in its
We rarely see any one, in our village, on horseback,
on the Sab.
Horses are not used to carry people to the Sanctuary
on Sabbath.
Our whole village Is quiet, so much so, as often to
call forth remarks from men of civilized lands (.)
Some are bent
on ruin; - & ruin they must follow till they find it.
of the wicked falls on some such every year.
The doom
But we think, the
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number is increasing, every year, even among foreigners, of those
who do reflect on the downward course of sin - who see that a
sinning community can never he a prosperous one - who value a
good name - & who set some value on the institutions of religion.
The Gospel is a leaven of great power.
Its power is seen
in gradually moulding the mass of our native population under
its influence, the -whole mass are certainly, though slowly,
adopting the ha hits of civilized life.
Christians we see "be
coming more enlightened & consistent - more settled in Ghristian
principles & better able to defend them; &, of course, more to
be depended on for supporting the Gospel, & for taking a stand,
■under all circumstances, on the side of Christ.
Some of the
wicked are merely restrained by the means of grace.
we hope, have been converted.
Thirty seven have been received
to the Lahaina chh since our last Gen. meeting.
stand propounded;
Others,
Seven others
- & from 100 to 150 others are candidates, a
large proportion of whom may be received the coming year.
The
past six months have been considered a time of uncommon re
ligious interest at Lahaina.
Many who have been looked ono
only as hardened sinners, who have shunned the pious, have ap
parently changed their course - they frequent religious meetings
have called on the miss’y, & profess to have abandoned their
sins.
Time must show ?fhether they are sincere, & their reforma
tion one that will endure. Schools.
We would speak of the schools in our field as in a prosper
ous state.
So they are; & yet, if our degree of advancement
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is to be judged of, by the state & efficiency of our schools,
we shd not take a very high stand in the scale of civilization.
The schools have done all the past year that cd have been ex
pected of them; but not all whh we c^ have wished them to ac
complish.
In the first place, for 4 or 5 months of 1853, when
small pox was flying as thick as flakes in a snow squall, we
suspended all schools in Lahaina, in order to diminish, all we
cd , the amount of intercourse among the people. When we found,
dthat the mass of the people, though expose^, did not take small
pox, we renewed the schools, & they have been steadily maintained
till the present time; but I must add, in the second place,
that for want of funds, for a large portion of the year, the
schools have been kept but two days in the week, while scholars
have been allowed to wander where they pleased four days, a
sufficient time to lose all they cd gain in the two.
Some of
the common people seta proper value on education, & will pur
chase it for their children at any price.
people have low ideas on this subject*
But the mass of the
They can appreciate
what will fill their bellies; but not "what will enlarge the
minds of their children, & give them an influence among en
lightened nations.
If the people, without govt aid, are to take
up the Schools, they will only take them up to let them die,
& to let the nation die down into the grave with them.
All,
therefore, who wish the welfare, & perpetuity of the Hawaiian
nation, will implore of the Legislature to make immediate,
steady, & efficient provision for the common schools.
If they
will vote us the $5000., for schools, in 1854, whh they propose
to give us, for a breakwater, whh might do us more hurt than
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good, we will ask no more.
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If they had given us, for 1853,
the $4000, or, rather $6000, whh was sunk in a rotten scow, whh
lies on our sand beach, a monument of the wisdom of some govt
adviser, we c<3- have reported more progress.
About $40,000 were
laid out, In 1852, for two prison buildings, in Lahaina, whh
are now about empty - If schools prosper, we shall not expect
to use them much for Hawaiians;- $6000 more are to be appro
priated to build a wall around them.
Better have saved three
fourths of the sum to create intellect among the young, whh wd soon make the nation look up.
If govt will give us our
share of what they are expending to raise a standing army to
defend our coasts from fillibusters who are probably not yet
born, there w^ be no lack of go-ahead in education, & we w^soon destroy all the food for fillibusters except what we are
raising up in our brothels & grogships.
We have in Lahaina eight common Protestant Schools, with a
aggregate of 308 scholars.
numbers 29.
There Is one Papist School, whh
We have also a select school of 41 scholars,: who
are pursuing such branches as are taught in a higher class of
schools in the U. States.
iAt Olualu is a Protestant school with
26 scholars - another at Ukumehame with 33.
At the latter
place, two years since, the Papist school numbered nearly as
many scholars as the Protestant.
It is now suspended, for want
of the legal number to make a school, ten only being found
willing to attend it .
At Lanai, there are 6 schools, (one of them Papist,) with
about 100 scholars.
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12.
The whole number of Schools, therefore, in my field is 18
viz. 16 Protestant & 2 Papist.
pist 49.
Protestant Scholars 408 - Pa
I am not aware, that the Papist Schools have any other
books than those furnished them by the Protestant Missionary;
but they have never applied to him for any part of the Holy
Scrptures.
In 1853, we had two examinations of all our Schools, &
the Papists always examine theirs whenever we do ours.
At the
last examination, whh was in Dec., #5 held a public celebra
tion of the schools whh was followed by a feast.
Some of the
Scholars of the select school gave us specimens of their compo
sition & declamation.
It was attended by the Minister of Pub
lic Instruction, Our Chief Justice, the Governor (,) teachers
of the Seminary, Native Judges, & others, who made appropriate
addresses, to teachers, Scholars & parents.
Our meeting
house was crowded; & both the occastion & the exercises awakened
gr§at interest & were calculated to do good.
On this public oc
casion, the Schools showed their Improvement in nothing so
much as In music.
One of the Scholars played the Seraphina.
We have now nine who can do it.
The best singing was by the
Selected Choir, mostly teachers & Scholars; but some hymns were
given out to the whole body of the Schools, & it w^- seem, that
almost all attendants on ( t) our Schools have become more or
less acquainted with the art of singing.
Benevolent Contributions.
So far as giving to benevolent objects is a sign of sincer
ity in religion, the chh of Lahaina perhaps give as much proof
of being true-hearted Christians as most Chhs in more enlight-
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ened countries.
There are no chiefs among them.
the island is, by birth, a common native.
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The Gov. of
There are none that
can be called rich among them; but though poor, they live in
a market town, & often have more means at their disposal than
falls to the lot of poor men in more remote ds|itricts.
When
they do have means, many, at least, seem to take delight in
giving to any object whh helps forward the cause of Christ.
In former years, they have raised considerable, each year, for
repairing their own church.
this object.
In 1853, they raised nothing for
But the present year, it will call for aid again,
as the work is to be completed, & they have already a man at
work to paint the inside.
The chh commenced the work of supporting their own pastor
the first day of 1850 - They supported him for two years, ex
pecting him to be dismissed from the American Board, but as he
was not dismissed, the pastor fell back, in 1852, again on the
funds of the Jm. Board, & received no salary, that year, from
the people.
He had requested anew a dismission, from the Am,
Board, as was mentioned in his last Report, whh dismission was
received in March, dating from Jan. l3^ 1853.
In order to raise a salary for the pastor, the chh & people
have taken up a contribution, during the monthly concert week
of each month.
a month.
This generally varies from 40 to 60 dollars
For the year 1853, it amounted to $578.25 - The
Treasury of the Society having had a surplus left in it the year
previous, they were able, in 1853, to pay the stipulated salary
of 1000 dollars.
They will also be able to pay the same sum
in 1854, without any other means than that raised by their
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monthly contributions.
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The sum raised during the five months
of the currSnt year already past, amounts to 306.50 - In Nov.
1853* $348.00 were raised for missions in the Pacific Ocean,
& forwarded to the Treasr of the Haw. Miss. Soc.
A contribu
tion has been taken up at the Ant. S. Concert, & $60. forwarded,
+■: ''
for the year, to t'lie' Am. & For. Ant. S. Society.
%\
The women of L&haina have two meetings a year, at each of
whh a collection is'"t'aken up.
The one in Aug. /53 & Jan. /54
amounted to $225.00, whh was devoted to different objects, ac
cording to their direction - $100 of this was sent to our two
children in the U. States - $73. sent to purchase a melodeon
for Hawaiian children to practise on - & the balance devoted
to future repairs on the native meeting house of Lahaina.
Seventy five dollars were contributed for a church in Kau. $75.00
The people have also lately undertaken to raise $200.00 for a
permanent building for Mr. Lyman's boarding School at Hilo.
This collection is not yet completed.
They are also trying to raise a still larger sum for re
building their own Sectional meeting houses in Lahaina.
For
the central house, which is also used for the Select School,
they have already raised $300.
This is to be expended in
tearing off the ti-leaf thatch, & covering it with Shingles.
This work, with other repairs whh the building will require,
will doubtless cost some f*600. or $800.
There are also six
other buildings on whh much labor & money must be expended.
These houses are mainly for sectional religious meetings, where
different divisions of the chh & people can meet without the
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necessity of using the School houses.
The amount of the above contributions, then, is ~ For 1853,
for pastor, $578.25
For the Haw. Miss. Soc.
Anti Slavery Soc.
348.00
-
60.00
Women's Contributions Contributed in 1853,
225.00_____
$1511.25
Contributed 5 first mos. of 1854,
Support of Pastor,
$306.50
Hilo B. School house,200.00
Chh in Kau___
Total in 5 mos. 1854
75/90
=
$581.50
Statistics of Chh.
Whole no. admitted on Profession,
Whole no. adm^- on certificate
1261
368
Past year by examination
37
Past year by certificate
13
Whole no. past year
50
Whole no. dismissed to other chhs
Dismissed past year
273
5
Whole no. deceased
524
Died the past year
15
Suspended past year
Remain Suspended,
Excommunicated past year,
Whole no. excommunicated
6
31
0
81
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Remain excommunicated
-
-
23
Whole no. in regular standing
-
740
Whole no. of children baptized
-
1285
Baptized past year
-
49
Marriages past year
-
45
Average Oong. on Sabbath
-
1200
(D. Baldwin)
16
�Report of Lahaina Station May, 1855.
In regard to labors at this station, the past year
has been a broken year.
My health became poor soon after
general meeting In 1854; & was so much so in Sept. that I
was obliged to desist from preaching.
I still attended
to the other cares & labors of the station, till the end of
Nov. when I embarked for Kauai, to try the effect of rest
& freedom from care.
The experiment was beneficial.
I
spent about six weeks on Kauai, & at Punahou, & returned
Jan. 13"kk, to Lahaina, with health much Improved.
I have
gained in health, & ability to 1 abor,r gradually from that
time to this, but very slowly - with many admonitions,
not to "do with my might," but rather to let my moderation
^e kncwn.
The brethren of Lahainaluna did most of the
preaching in my absence, or rather from the time I was un
able to preach till I felt myself able again in Feb.
For
most of the time since Feb. I have been able to preach, &
have not appeared to sustain much injury from it.
The health
of Mrs. Baldwin has been better the past year than in most
of previous years, with many times of exception.
Our children
who are in the islands have enjoyed uniformly good health.
The same also has been true of those who reside in the U.
States.
Though we speak of our own Illness, we do not forget,
that we have constantly cause of gratitude & praise to God.
While speaking on the subject of health, I w d add, that
the past has been peculiarly a year of health among the native
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population.
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During a residence of twenty years at Lahaina,
I do not think there has ever been sixteen successive months
when health has so universally prevailed among natives,, as it
has, in all my field, frcrn the beginning of /54 to the present
time.
An accurate account of deaths in Lahaina shows this -
In 1851, there were 148 deaths - in 1852, 159 deaths - in 1853,
121 - in 1854, 108 C O
average for each month w d be for
51, lSi/3 - 52, 13l/4 - 53, 10+ - 54, 9 a month, while the
population of Lahaina has remained all the while about the
same.
The births for the same years are 92,67,84, & 95.
The births & deaths, each month, thro. 54, in the district
of Lahaina, with a population of about 3000 are as follows.
Born
died
born
died
Jan.
4
-
10
July
12
Feb.
8
-
4
Aug.
1 0 - 6
Mar.
7
9
Sept.
6
Ap.
5
Oct.
8 - 1 0
Nov.
4
May
-
-
1
1
-
8
8
June________ 9____ -_____ 8____ Dec._______ 14
Total 1854
=
95
-
9
- 14
-
9
- 10
- 108
My returns from the two outdistricts of Lanai & Olualu are
imperfect.
The births at Lahaina the first four months of 1855 exceed
born
died
the 'deaths - Jan. 13
- 12
Feb.
5
Mar.
5 - 1 2
Ap.
-
1
11
-
6
34
-
31
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The usual round, of labours has been pursued at the station,
& outstations, except that week day meetings have oftener been
conducted by natives; & they have sometimes conducted the meet
ings on the Sabbath.
The children's Sab. School, at 8 Sab.
morning has fallen off to some extent - partly because the
only convenient hour to hold It is an hour, at whh I can never
attend; partly also because our day schools have had many
interruptions; & still another reason has been, that many of
our day schools are taught by young teachers, who do not
exert the religious influence, whh is exerted by older teach
ers.
Our adult Sab. .School has greatly felt the need of the
Ai oka l a .
For lack of it, I have given out, to the school,
the Ui by Mr. Armstrong.
Neither the interest, nor size of our Sab. congregations,
or week day meetings seems to have diminished.
We have gen
erally pretty full assemblies on the Sabbath both forenoon &
afternoon - those who profess to be pious, & some others are
generally present at the Wed. lecture, & also at the monthly
& anti Slavery concerts.
There is always good attention to the preaching of the word,
& there are many proofs, that preaching is not in vain.
There
are those that show no Interest in religion - who show, that
they have never relinquished their ruling lusts & Others, who
are notoriously wicked, who are pretty uniformly in the house
of God; & occasionally such wish to have their names enrolled
among the serious.
On a much larger number who have been moral,
the Gospel appears to be exerting gradually its transforming
power .
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Eighty have been admitted, the past year, to the chh, &
a goodly number appear to stand fair as candidates to be ad
mitted the present year.
Our schools have been prosperous under the management of
a faithful superintendent.
An English school was commenced
about a year since, with 40 or 60 scholars, & was taught in
one of the rooms of the palace.
The two last quarters were under the new act, for the
encouragement of Eng. schools.
Pour hundred dollars were
paid by the people to the teacher, for the two quarters; &,
according to the law, the teacher redd the same amount from'
the govt.
The teacher was a lady.
She succeeded very well
in communicating English to the native children, though she
scarcely knew a word of the Hawaiian.
She was from California,
& has now returned thither; so that we are, at present, desti
tute of an English teacher.
Meeting Houses.
The native chh, at Lahaina, has undergone some repairs the
past year; but it is greatly in need of still more.
The steeple
leaks badly, & has for years, so that some of its timbers have
become unsound, & the structure is no longer safe.
The plan
is to tear it all down, & rebuild it the present year.
Our house for chh prayer meetings, &c. has a thatched
roof whh has become very leaky.
was to put a shingled roof on it.
The plan, at first adopted,
But the chh have just voted,
that the walls are too old fashioned to be tolerated in these
go-ahead days.
So they are all to be torn down, the present
month, (May,) & to be rebuilt from the fouhdation, at an expense
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perhaps of $2000.
5
Two sectional meeting houses have been
built, the past year, in Lahaina.
progress.
-
Three others are now in
The past winter has been one of storms, & long con
tinued rains.
As the heavens have poured down torrents of
water, our adobie houses & fences have turned into unsightly
piles of mud & rubbish; so that, hereafter, Lahaina people
will build their fences & houses with wood or stone.
A stone
meeting house is also in progress on the East side of Lanai, whh,
we hope, will be completed the present year, ■
Benevolent Contributions,
There seems to be, in the chh, a disposition to aid
benevolent objects as far as they have the ability - The most
discouraging thing, in this matter, Is the little skill &
energy the people have for getting means; & their economy, in
using what they get, may well be compared to that of little
children.
but little.
l^
Their money too often goes for that whh profits them
The collections made at the monthly concerts, the
mon. In each month, whh goes to the support of the pastor
amounted to $5713,43-J in 1854.
The Salary of the pastor is
$ 1000,00 —
Collected, same way, l3^ four mos. of 1855
—
224,25
Women's collection, Aug. 1854 & March, 1855
—
218.18-§
Sent to Am. & For, Ant. S. Soc. Jan. 1855
—
Collected for repairs on Lah. native chh_______ -Carried over
$
brought forward
Contribution of Lah. chh to a meeting house
in Kula,
Lanai people, collected for a stone chh
Beginning of Collection for chh m'g house
Contribution for Lah. Section meeting houses
in cash
Total $
108,00
169.70
1433.57i
1433.57^
200,00
400,00
440,00
450,00
2923,57t
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The labor expended voluntarily, on these houses, by members
of the chh & others, cannot easily be estimated f .J)
Popery.
Popery, with us, seems to be a system whh has about worn
itself out, & now attracts the attention of nobody.
it never did gain much attention.
In fact,
They have a school in La
haina, taught mostly, I think, by the padre, though, much of
the time, no priest resides there.
One thing, however, they have whh is new.
ceived a bell, & huhg it up in a kukui tree.
They have re
Some poor faith
ful native rings it, every morning & evening, at about sunrise
& sunset; for what purpose, I have never been able to learn.
It rings also at other hours, on the Sabbath.
Their meetings
are held, inhere they always have been, in an old adobie Bowl
ing alley.
I heard, six mos. ago, on Oahu, that they were
about to build a Cathedral, at Lahaina, 100 feet long.
We
have heard nothing said about it at Lahaina.
On the Census taken Dec. 1853, the Papists were 238 in
number.
Some of the names I knew as men who belonged on a dis
tant part of the island.
How far they made up this number, by
gathering in proselytes from outdistricts of the island, I am
unable to s a y .
Mormons.
There Is a Mormon priest at Lahaina vfho is a shoemaker
by trade.
When they commenced operations there, some years
since, quite a number of the lowest class of the natives joined
them - also three excommunicated persons of our chh.
three soon left them in disgust.
Those
By the census, Dec. 1853,
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they numbered 77.
now.
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I do not think they have half that number
The priest does not practice according to his preaching;
for he preaches the duty of taking a multiplicity of wives, while
he says he has taken but one himself; for he says, his wife pre
fers, that he sh^ not marry another.
He speaks of polygamy
as a Christian duty, but once acknowledged, that some good
Christian ?fives of the present generation found it a hard doc
trine to submit to.
A more perfect generation may come when it
will be very easy.
For many reasons, the Mormons can never make much advance,
with their peculiar system, unless they can form an independent
community by themselves.
Their customs run counter to the
laws of every Christian nation, &, therefore, in order to carry
out their principles, they must have a secluded or independent
location, in whh they can manage both chh & state.
There is
no doubt, that they have searched for such a place on these
islands . Whether they have pitched upon the spot I cannot say;
but numbers of their priests have been over to Lanai, & they
have hired a land there, of one of the chiefs.
A few foreigners
& perhaps natives have gone to live there; they have sown wheat
whh, they say, is doing well.
whh the peelua has eaten up.
They have planted Irish potatoes
I know not, that they have built
even a grass hut; but they have begun to talk about the City of
Joseph, in the valley of Ephraim.
If they shd choose Lanai, for
agriculture & a city, it w& display about as much wisdom as they
have shown in the formation of their creed.
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8
Statistics of Lahaina Chh., May l3^ 1855
Whole number admitted on profession,
1541
Whole no. on certificate
-
378
Past year by examination
-
80
Past year by certificate
-
10
Whole no. past year
-
90
Whole no. dismissed to other chhs
Dismissed past year
-
10
Whole number deceased
-
530
Died past year
-
6
Suspended past year
-
11
Remain Suspended
-
28
Excommunicated past year
-
l
Whole no. excommunicated
-
82
Remain excommunicated
-
22
Whole no. in regular standing
/
Whole no. of children baptized
-
830
-
1342
Baptized past year
-
57
-
41
Marriages past year
.
283
.
Dwight Baldwin
Pastor
at Lahaina.
�Abstract of the Report of
CD, Baldwin]
Lahaina Station, May 1. 1855.__________
Owing to ill health* the pastor has been able to preach
only about half the year.
His lack of service* in this respect*
has been made up by the teachers of Lahainaluna Seminary.
year has been one of unusual health among the people.
The
There has
been no prevailing disease* & deaths have been less frequent
than in any preceding year - births a little more frequent than
of late years.
In the district of Lahaina* pop. 3000* there were in 1854*
95 births* 108 deaths.
In the first four mos. of 1855* the
births exceeded the deaths.
There have been about the usual amount of labors* at the
station & outstations.
The Sab. congregations* at Lahaina*
both forenoon & afternoon* have been full - the Wed. lecture*
missionary & anti Slavery concerts well attended.
Schools have
prospered - An English school of 60 scholars has been maintained
at Lahaina* through the year.
Meeting Houses.
The native church at Lahaina has under
gone some repairs the past year.
The Steeple needs rebuilding.
Two section meeting houses have been built - three others are
in progress - also a stone church on the Island of Lanai.
Benevolent Contributions V
Monthly Con. Contributions 1854 for
Support of pastor,
$713.00
Same 4 mos. of 1855*
224.00
Collections at two women's m'gs,
218.00
�Abstract
1855
-
Contribution for Am. & For. Ant. Slavery Soc.
5-08.00
Collected for Repairs on Meeting house,
169.00
Confc. for- a Meeting house in Kula,
200.00
Lanai people collected for a stone chh,
400.00
Con. for a house for chh prayer meetings,
440.00
For Section meeting houses
____ -
Total Contributions
Popery -
2
____________ 450.00____
$2922. —
There is a papist chh at Lahaina - Popery excites no
attention - appears to be on the wane.
Mormons -
There is a Mormon priest, who makes shoes - &
preaches polygamy.
He has a few followers, among natives only.
�I Report of S.E. Bishop, Seamen's Chaplain, Lahaina, 1855 J
The Seamen's Chaplain at Lahaina has to report with grati
tude to God, that in continued good health, he has "been able to
perform the duties of his charge without interruption.
Preaching has been maintained every Sabbath morning in the
Bethel, except on a few Sabbaths when the severity of the weather
& the impassable condition of the street prevented the congre
gation from assembling.
During that large porti-on of the year
while no ships were in port, the attendance varied from 15
to 30.
During Shipping season the house was well filled, and
with a larger proportion of common seamen than during previous
seasons.
A regular Exercise in the Scriptures has been held with a
few children of our congregation each Sabbath P.M.
In addition,
a visit has been regularly made to the Am. Hospital at 4-§- or
5 P.M. & a Bible Class or Preaching service held if convenient,
or the work confined to individual conversation.
A few times the Chaplain has preached in P.M. on board of
Ships in the harbour, on one occasion 75 Seamen & officers were
present.
These are the most interesting & apparently effective
services held.
But they are attended with great difficulties,
6 only with much effort can the opportunity be secured without
failure.
Were the harbor small & smooth, it would be easier
both to gather the hearers, obtain the ship, & conduct the
services.
Too few foreigners in Lahaina "call upon the name of the
Lord,” to make a church organization among us practicable.
Nor while the sickness of the missionary to the natives prevents
his attendance, can even a prayer meeting be sustained.
Thus
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deprived of the support of the love & sympathy of a church, &
for months without hearing the voice of prayer from any brother
in our own tongue, the chaplain must find a substitute for these
means of grace in the special help of God, & the prayers of
his brethren elsewhere asking this In his behalf.
A large & indispensable part of the work consists in indi
vidual intercourse with seamen.
They must be sought in the
street, in the Reading Room, on the beach, in the hospital,
their confidence gained, their feelings, characters wants, in
quired into, advice given them, & the Gospel preached to them.
I consider this the most Important & fruitful, as well as
laborious part of my work.
are full of interest.
The incidents connected therewith
The most impressible subjects of this
influence are the steady, prospering men, the young sailors
fresh from home, & the sick.
Yet often will a word in season
affect the hardened & the dissolute.
It has been my duty the past year to commit to the grave
many who died in the Hospital.
Several of these gave good evi
dence before death of repentance & faith in the Saviour, who
knew him not when they came there, while in one instance a good
profession of some years standing closed in a triumphant death.
The sailor in a strange land, alone perhaps dying, without
a gentle hand to comfort him, is peculiarly accessible to the
influences of the Gospel.
Less so, is the sailor long detained
with slighter ailments among the temptations of the beach &
corrupted by them.
The Portuguese Spanish & French sailors with Germans &
Swedes, foim interesting subjects of missionary effort.
An
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acquafi}ntance with their language is wanting to do them the
good desired.
But tracts & Bibles are largely distributed to
them, & will be preserved & prized by them, while no spiritual
tyrant is at hand to take them away.
The social & moral state, of our town is about what it has
been.
A time is looked forward to with hope, but distant we
fear, when the commerce we enjoy shall have created an indus
trious, enterprizing intelligent Foreign community, such as
might be sustained by the fostering of such a trade as we have.
Then we shall have an organized body of Christians [.]
will flourish.
among us.
Schools
Good social & domestic influences will prevail
Vice shall be made ashamed.
But as yet, our society
is in an unformed state, & the vile, & abandoned feel but little
rebuked by Its elevated & restraining influences.
So much the
more need for the Gospel to work both on shore men & seamen.
In conclusion, It may be said, the experience of the past
year adds to the conviction that a good work is going on among
sailors, slowly but with certainty - that religion is growing
in regard that gradually more humane & rational views are
gaining ground respecting their treatment, & that a day is at
hand when they shall with the rest of mankind honor God & be
blessed of him.
[On back)
Report of S.E. Bishop
Seam. Chaplain
Lahaina
£The date 1855 was given to this report due to the reference
to the illness of the missionary (Mr / D." Baldwin )'.J
�At a meeting of the native chh & Soc. held at the native chh, in Lahaina,
Feb. 22d - 1858, held to consult respecting the chh, the roof of whh[which] has
just been taken off by a whirlwind, it was voted, First, That as half the roof
still remains, we wd[would], in future, hold our meetings there.
2.
That the bell be carried to Upai's yard & so hung up, that it may be rung,
3.
That a Separation be made of shingles, boards, & timber whh may be used in
rebuilding the chh, & such as cannot be so[?] used, That the latter may be sold.
4.
Kahook'ano Sd[said] that the Halealo [page is torn off here]...some of the
timbers who[torn]...out; upon whh Timoteo,[torn]...were chosen[torn]...Com. to
j
Sell to Kahookano, for Halealoha, such timber as the former can spare[torn]...
latter may need.
5.
Voted to do the selecting to-day, the native carpenters being judges of
what are good & bad timers, board, &c.
6. It was moved by Moku, &.passed, that each of the 6 larger apanas raise, as
Soon as they can, for repairing the chh, $200 & each of the three smaller ap.’s
$100. -
7.
Chose Kahookano, Kenui & Upai, a building Committee, TtComite hana hale",
to see to all the work of repairing itfig chh, to make contracts, procure mater
ials, &c.
8.
Voted that it devolve on the building Com. to decide what means are neces
sary to be used to preserve the pulpit, seats, &c.
While the house is without
a roof.
0.
Voted that on Gens.[?] morn, all the 9 apanas come together to do what the
Com, hana hale may decide necessary for the above purpose.
10. Voted, to choose Rev. D,[torri] [Baldwin] to keep all monies [torn]... pair
of the chh.
TeusT!]. Dec. 28th.
The Lah. chh & Soc. met to deli[torn, probably deliberate]
on the unfinished work of the meeting house, Voted to accept of Mr. Chamberlain's
offer to do all the remaining work of the chh for $300, viz.
the clock tower of the Chh steeple, & blinds & cleise shutters
Glass windows for
to the bell
tower - also a wheel & hangings for the bell, & other needful work on the steeple - finish & paint the upper ceiling of the chh - repair the pulpit gallery, &c, also repair seats, make new ones, repair windows & whatever is ne
cessary to put the chh in complete repair.
The Treasr. D. Baldwin, made a report of all the money received & expended in
[torn] [re]pair [of] the chh, how much paid to [torn]...All pd[!] to carpenters
& assistants [torn]...[2]3.37-| - $300 more complete the work.
Voted also to
�£ahai4§;|i-85'8l
give [torn] old koa shingles of the meeting house to Kahookano for $70.
The
same [torn]...applied to dimim.sh[torn]... debt [of] $234, whh the chh & Soc.
owe[d] him for work
'On
Hale Aloha.
[End]
[Unsigned]
�Report of Lahaina Station,
May, 19th
1858.
Owing to ill health, the advice of physicians, & with the
consent of the mission, the pastor of Lahaina chh & his wife
have made a visit to the U. States.
Jan. 2 6 ^ ,
They embarked, at Honolulu,
1856, in the Bark Bhering, with Mr. & Miss Sarah
Clark, as a part of the passengers; & they arrd at New London,
Ct. May 22 ^ - after an absence from that country of more than
25 years.
•
They visited friends In various States of the Union,
until Nov. 5
1857, utien they, in company with their daughter
Abbie & Miss. Mary Parker, left New York, in the Steamer, for
the Sand. Islands, by way of the Isthmus & California, having
( i)
about 1200 fellow passengers. They had the company of Dr. Arm
strong & Wm. D. Alexander, from San Francisco to the Isis,
in the Fanny Major, & arr^ at Honolulu, Jan. 2^- 1858, & at La
haina Jan. 13th..
They enjoyed their visit highly; it seemed
very short; but they are glad to find themselves seated down at
home once more, in the midst of Hawaiian friends, & in the midst
of misy work.
Both of them improved much in health by the visit
& by rest from labor, & both feel richly compensated for all the
privation of voyaging &c. by all the new things they have had
opportunity of seeing, as well as by meeting relatives & friends
& renewing our acquaintance with them.
Six days before we
left New York, our eldest son, with his wife, left Boston, In
the ship Eliza & Ella, for these Isis.
They arr'3- at Honolulu,
March 8 "kh^ & a t Lahaina, Mar. 18th, so that our family after
the separation of two children, for eight years, & ourselves
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for two, have been all united, together again, for whh we w d
praise the Great Giver of every good.
Rev. Mr. Pogue acted as Pastor, in the absence of the
pastor, & it will devolve on him, therefore, to report the
labors of the station for two thirds of the past year.
I wd
say, however, that Mr. Poguers labors, consisting mainly in
preaching the word, were highly acceptable to the chh & people
of Lahaina, as were those of the brn. who assisted him.
The
congregation appeared to have been well kept up, & we found,
on our return, much that was interesting among the people,
nothing more so than the evident conversion of the only Son of
our Gov.; whom we had left an amiable, but a dissipated &
wicked young man.
The prayers of a devotedly pious grand
mother had perhaps been answered in his sudden conversion, &
preparation for heaven.
He exhibited, in all his conversation,
a wonderful maturity of Christian character.
We were hoping for
great good, especially among our youth, from his zeal & faithful
ness, when God took him away, by a very Sudden death, about two
& a half months after he showed his first signs of seriousness.
We hope there have been other conversions, especially among
the young; & some also among those older, who will hold out to
the end.
But in regard to Schools, a Supply of books, Sab.
Schools & c . we c^ not but see, that the station had suffered
some, from not having had a misy to reside among them.
There
is much that is interesting among those in the chh & out of
it.
We do not call it a revival; but we hope, that It may
result in the Salvation of many souls.
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I have preached almost every Sabbath, & generally twice
each Sab.; but Mr* Pogue has often preached one part of the day,
since our return; & I have occasionally had help from the other
brn.
I have been somewhat cautious In entering again upon the
labors of the station, lest I sh^- overdo.
but little pastoral work as yet.
I have attended to
But I do not perceive, that
any labor, thus far, has been an injury to me.
We have met with a great loss In the unroofing of our
chh.
On the 2 0 th of Feb. last, during a severe Southern blow,
a violent whirlwind, whh spared nothing in its course, demolished
the steeple of the chh & the half of the roof opposite to the
steeple end, piling the wreck of both In one common mass on
the East side of the house.
The timbers of the house were
mostly Hawaiian & were broken up very badly.
The bell, whh
fell a hundred feet from the place where it hung, was uninjured.
Thankful (Ve] were, that nobody was Injured in this catastrophe.
We have searched the resources of the Islands to procure tim
bers to repair the chh; but cannot find them - We have therefore
sent an order for all the timbers we need to PugetTs Sound.
It
will be some months before we can receive them, & some months
more before our house can be enclosed.
We have several smaller
meeting houses in Lahaina, but no one will accommodate our con
gregation; so we continue to meet in our wrecked sanctuary,
notwithstanding, under our burning sun, it is an inconvenient
place for preacher & hearers.
chh will be about $3000.
The whole cost of repairing the
We shall make a great effort to raise
one half the sum the present year, so that we shall hardly be
/■'
able to do what w§- otherwise be our share for missions in the
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Pacific.
Our two outstations have also the work of building them
selves meeting houses the present year.
That of Lanai has
nearly completed the walls of a stone chh on the East side
of the Island.
They have had with them, for three years, a
young graduate of Lahainaluna, as a preacher.
He seems to be
doing pretty well - has lately been licensed, & may, in due
time, be ordained over the chh there, if he gains the full con
fidence of the people.
The other outstation (Olualu) have their stone meeting
house in a good state of forwardness.
They are exceedingly
poor, but there seems, of late, to be a waking up among them.
Bro. Pogue has lately spent two Sabbaths among them.
Schools.
The number of pupils in our Schools has greatly diminished
from what it was a few years since.
Pupils are generally young
the older ones having left School, perhaps because they get
employment easier than in former years.
We have lately held a
public examination of all our schools; the Pres, of the Board
of Education has made us a visit, & we hope, our Schools will
do better.
Our children's Sab. School Cha’so] been suspended for want
of a house.
Mormonism
This absurd & polluted Sect seems to have vanished from
among u s .
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Popery
The Papists have built a large ohh in Lahaina.
wooden building & makes an imposing appearance.
finished entirely inside.
It is a
It is not yet
Whether they will be able to fill
it.with proselytes is yet to be seen.
They are making greater
efforts, among the people, than they have ever made before.
They attack our chh members wherever they meet them, & all
others, of course.
Pour of our suspended members, deep in in
iquity, have been persuaded to join them - & one has gone to them
who was not suspended, giving as a reason for going that awaawa
things were not kapu, among papists, & they had no contribu
tions there.
The Papist school has 14 scholars.
Oontributions.
During all our absence from Lahaina, the chh continued
their monthly contribution, whh amounted to about $1100 for two
years, & whh went for the benefit of the pastor.
continue it for the same purpose.
They still
They have expended much on
their Section meeting houses, but are now bending all their
efforts to raise money for the repair of the chh.
They ex
pect to raise $ 1 0 0 0 each year for the support of their pastor;
but how the deficiency is to be made up the present year is not
yet clear.
I have made no estimate of labor on their sectional
meeting houses.
It w d amount to some thousands.
The central
one, intended for chh meetings, &c. & called Halealoha, Is a
noble building about 30 ft by 60.
In Feb. the chh collected
between one & two hundred dollars, whh they laid out for
clothing or cloth, with whh they filled two or three boxes, &
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forwarded them to Mr. Castle at Honolulu.
Statistics of ohh & c .
Whole number admA to ch. on profession,
1370
I/'/hole number admA on Certificate
419
Past year on profession
6
Mr. Pogue admitted in two years
27
Past year on certificate
16
Total past year
22
Whole no. dismissed
292
Dismissed past year
6
Total deceased
544
Deceased past year
Whole no. excluded
Excluded past year
9
91
0
Remain excluded,
40
(suspended)
Now in regular standing
822
Total/ children baptized
1407
Baptized past year
41
Marriages by Mr. Bishop fr. May l/57 to same /58
By pastor
28
34
6
Mr. Pogue's not included.
These statistics built on preceding Report. A census pf chh.
makes it about a hundred less.
Born
Lahaina,
1856
66
»______ 1857_________ 87_______
The truth somewhere between
Deaths
Excessof deaths
114
48
155 ________ 46___________ _
Diminution in 2 yrs
=
94
Made good from other districts.
D. Baldwin
�{"Report of S.E* Bishop, Seamen's Chaplain, Lahaina, May 1858J
The work of the Seamen's Chaplain at Lahaina has been
varied little by any extraordinary incidents.
Yet there are
many things of interest to be noticed in connection with it.
First, Labors among Seamen.
These have consisted of the
regular Sabbath services at the Bethel, occasional preaching
at the U.S. Hospital, occasional visits to ships in port, inter
course with seamen in the street, on the beach, at the Hospital,
and at my own house, and the bestowal of Bibles, testaments,
religious books, and tracts.
About thirty ships were visited the past year.
In our spa
cious roadstead this is attended with difficulty and expense,
but seemed a very effective way of getting at the people, and
leading them to attend church & visit my study.
Books were
chiefly distributed at my own house; many most interesting in
terviews were held with the pious, the penitent, the awakened,
the troubled and oppressed.
French sought books.
Many Portuguese, Spanish and
During the Season of ships the Reading
Room has been supplied with papers and served to attract many
Seamen into the vicinity of the Bethel.
The attendance there
of sailors has been small, although as good as in former years.
Labor at the Hospital has been profitable, although not
favored in the conversion of any soul there the past year that I
know.
There have been several deaths out of the large no. of
patients., but chiefly Portuguese & Catholics.
Preaching has re
ceived good attention, when not too often repeated.
But sailors
become fearfully demoralized by a Stay of a few weeks or months
in Lahaina, amid the gross temptations existing there.
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2
Many who at first were friendly, "become sullen & hard in a short
time under the influence of evil companions.
At the present time
there are several young men in the Hospital of an unusually
& often the prayer meeting
respectable character, -who attend the Bethel r e g u l a r l y , a p
pear to "be under some concern, though perhaps not deep.
The moral condition of seamen of all classes from Captains
down, is generally a most deplorable one.
The evils practiced
are so immense, it seems almost a desperate undertaking to reform
it."" Much might doubtless be done by lopping off evil branches;
but nothing except a powerful work of the Gospel can reach the
root.
The state of religion in our foreign community has been
low.
Perhaps some faint streaks of light could of late be per
ceived amid the darkness.
There has been a marked increase of
attendance at the Chapel the past few months - and lately a
more serious attention to preaching was to be noticed.
Since
the return of Dr. Baldwin & family, weekly prayer meetings have
been sustained, chiefly by three families, with a few others oc
casionally attending.
We have enjoyed some good & lively seasons
in that way, especially since the news of the Lord's work in
America has reached us & lent more hope to our efforts for good.
We have a fine melodeon in the Chapel, and now a number of
excellent singers, with the aid of a superior organist, so that
our praises sound loud & clear if not fervent - not struggling
for life as formerly.
A small Sabbath School class has been taught comprising the
children of white families in town.
A good library for their
use has been provided by the exertions of Mrs. Baldwin while in
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the States.
The character of Society in L. is slowly improving.
I
may instance the fact that when I first arrived in L. 5§ years
since, there were hut two church going families "beside those
of the missionaries & now there are five such.
The obstacles to moral & religious progress are immense.
Yet we do not despair.
Vice on one side, & self-vs. irreligion
on the other hold our people entrenched from the Truth.
Lord has power to beat down all these their strongholds.
He come speedily among us in power.
The
May
�Report of Lahaina Station,
Mgy, 1859.
By Rev. D„ Baldwin
In making our report to the Association, for the year past,
we feel, that we have great occasion to bless the Lord, for the
measure of health we have been permitted to enjoy.
nesses have been, in a good measure, removed.
Former ill
No great or dis
tressing sickness has come upon us; nor has our number been dimin
ished by death.
Instead of this, one has been added to our fam
ily circle, the beginning of a new generation, a generation which
we hope & pray may be more devoted to the Lord's service than
any of the generations of their fathers.
The usual round of ministerial & pastoral labors has been
pursued at the Station.
There has been regular preaching on
the Sabbath, & on other days.
Whenever I have been absent on the
Sabbath, my place has generally been supplied by one of the brn
from Lahainaluna, or by their assistant teacher.
The destruc
tion of our meeting house, which 1 mentioned last year, & the
unfinished state of our Hale aloha, (the church & prayer meet
ing house,) broke up our Sabbath Schools, in some measure, for
1858.
But we have recommenced them in 1859; &, for lack of
our Ai o ka L a , we have adopted Clark on the Promises, as our
regular Sabbath School book.
Our Wed. afternoon lecture is de
voted to an explanation of the seven verses, which form the
lesson for the ensuing Sabath (I).
During the year, I have spent one Sabbath at Olualu, &
two at Lanai; & administered the Lord's Supper, each time, at
the latter place.
I should have gone to both places much often-
er, had it not been for the total lack, In either place, of a
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house of worship, a lack whh we hope to see supplied, before
the close of the present year.
Besides the ordinary labors of the station, the past year
has been filled with extra-ordinary work & care, beyond any
other mis'y year we have seen, except the year 1853, when we
were contending with the small pox.
When I arrived at Lahaina,
from the U. States, in Jan. 1858, I found, that Prince Lot had
taken possession of the road, leading directly to the front of
our native church, which had been travelled as a road, probably
from 1800 or earlier, &, from that time, down to the present
day.
It led through the premises whh he had leased to the jAm-
erican Consul, & whh he fancied w d be more valuable without the
road.
I found the whole congregation travelling to the chh,
through a narrow, round about way, in which the dirt was trodden
up like an ash heap, by the tramping of horses.
This road led
the people to the side & back of the house; but the Prince &
his lawyer told us, that the hot, dirty, indirect road was all
sufficient for our purpose.
There was much sensation among our
people, on account of this; but they knew not what to do.
They
soon, however, held a meeting, & voted to return to the road, &
travel It, till they were regularly ejected by law.
The Prince
then brought an action against certain individuals, for tres
pass, & "for injuring the flowers & other ornamental trees," as
they passed through to meeting. Some of our people were so con
scientious & tender hearted to chiefs, that they wd not pass
that road, even after a vote had been passed by the congregation.
The case was tried at Honolulu, in Oct. of last year, before
the judges of the Supreme Court; but it was not till the present
month, (May) /59, that we have received a decision in favor, of
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I mentioned, in my report of last year, the destruc
tion of our chh, "by a whirlwind, Feb. 20ttL 1858.
do without a house of worship.
We could not
Through all the summer & fall,
we held our Sabbath meetings, within the naked walls, under the
open canopy of heaven.
But we felt compelled to rebuild the chh
before the rains of winter shd set in; & yet it seemed a work
entirely beyond our means.
ing funds.
We set our chh teachers to collect
Most of the writing & planning devolved upon me.
As there were no timbers in the Islands, suitable for the roof,
we sent an order to Pugetfs Sound, & recd a noble set of tim
bers from thence in July.
Other materials, whh were, at the
time, in the forests of California & Maine, came along in due
time.
We procured two foreign carpenters from Oahu, & furnished
four native carpenters to work with them.
They began the work,
the middle of Sept. & before the first storm of winter, the
building was well enclosed.
In a few days less than a year,
from the time the chh was thrown down , the whole work of re
pairing was complete, except the inside painting, whh is not
yet done.
The building is one of great strength - 1400 lbs of
iron hold the frame work together.
We had many fears of the
effect whh the taxation, necessary to repair the chh, w^- have
on .the people, just at the time when the Papist chh was complete
& they were besetting chh members & all others, on every side, t
join them.
A few may have gone to the Papists on that account.
But, in general, the chh & others have contributed, for this ob
ject, with great cheerfulness.
From the end of March /58, to the end of Sp. /59, or in
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13 mos. the natives of Lahaina contributed $2874.
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One hundred
& nineteen dollars ($119) were raised from the sale of old lum
ber - Near $400. were given by foreigners * including mission
aries - & $910. were borrowed.
materials & work, $4304.
So that we have paid out., for
The whole cost, thus far, has been
about $4700 - so that we have a debt, (including $ 1 0 0 0 . of bor
rowed money & interest) of about $1300.
When the work of the
house was finished, our debt was over $ 2 0 0 0 - but, on the 31st
of March, we had a formal dedication of the house, &, on that day,
took up a collection of $716.
Outstations.
We have two outstations connected with Lahaina, Lanai and
Olualu.
At each of these we have finished the walls of a good
substantial stone meeting house.
Ihen the people are a little
more in funds, each of these is to be shingled and floored, and
will be very convenient places of worship.
A native preacher
was stationed at Lanai, but did not get along well with the
people, and so Lanai falls back upon our hands.
them as often as we are able.
We shall visit
Some one of Lahaina church
teachers visits Olualu every Sabbath.
Schools.
Our schools are in as prosperous a state as they have ever;
been.
In November last our faithful kahukula, Upai, died.
His
death was a great loss to the schools, but a greater to the
church, and cause of Christ.
He was an active and zealous
Christian.
Our son, Dwight, took the English school in the fall, which
now consists of seventy or eighty scholars.
He has since been
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appointed kahukula for the district.
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I need not describe the
schools particularly, as they are all to be remodelled under
the new code of laws.
Our kahukula leads the music of the congregation, and has
had several classes of pupils on the melodeon.
He thinks the
natives are apt scholars in music.
Revival.
I mentioned, in the report of last year, an unusual reli
gious excitement among the natives.
and went on increasing for months.
It was then in progress,
For a time it seemed as
though the most wicked and thoughtless of our population would
all be converted.
At many of our prayer meetings, not a word
of exhortation was heard from any except the notoriously wicked,
■which exhortations they brought out in confessing their sins.
There were always more persons ready to expose the blackness
of their lives, than we had time to hear.
Among them were two
deaf and dumb persons, who always showed as much zeal as any
others in addressing the congregation.. This was a scene of
things altogether new to us,- and we hardly knew to what It would
grow.
We looked steadily at all who professed to have found the
Saviour, for a year or more, and, on the first Sabbath in April,
of this year, 103 of them were received to the church.
A few
other candidates remain in Lahaina, and many in Olualu.
I mentioned our addoption ( I) of "Clark on the Promises” ,
or the^Olelo Hoopomaikai", as a Sabbath-school book.
This
little book was gathered by Mrs. Baldwin, from the Hawaiian
scriptures, and printed, by the American Tract Soc., for the
Sand. Islands Mission.
Only 1000 copies were printed, which
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have been received in good order; but the plates are laid up
in the Tract house, and a larger edition can be printed at any
time, if it is thought desirable, or the plates themselves can
be sent to the Islands.
Popery.
The papists have made a greater show at Lahaina the past
year than ever before, and perhaps have made some real progress.
Instead of an old bowling alley, for a church, they have erected
quite a handsome edifice, 70 or 80 feet in length - finished,
in fanciful style, by French mechanics; and it is said to have
been built at the expense of the French govt.
They have put two
bells, of three hundred pounds each, in the tower of the church,
with which they ma&e a terrible noise.
Their church was dedicated on the 8 ^
of last September,
and all the papists of Maui, and many of Oahu, with the bishop
and priests, were assembled together.
Our people laughed at
their mummery, and they did not seem to gain many proselytes.
Still it was a trying providence to us, that their house was
made attractive, while ours lay all in ruins.
spared no pains to gain followers.
The papists have
Some few members of our
church, who have been long suspended, and two or three who were
not suspended, have gone over to them making six or eight in
all.
Some young men and others flock to their house, out of
curiosity, and it is impossible, at present, to say how many
proselytes they have gained.
Of the 103 received to our church,
three or four had been members of the papist church.
Mor monism.
It is well knoiTO. that the mormons selected a land, on
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Lanai, which was to "become the New Jerusalem of the Sand. Isles,
and Lanai was to he spared when all the other islands were
swallowed up in the ocean.
Famine soon scattered most of the
saints to the four winds, but a remnant still remain, strong
in the faith; fully believing, that parched up Lanai will yet
monopolize all the markets of the Islands, and supply, with
vegetables, all the ships of the ocean.
In the art of lying
they cannot be out done.
Temperance.
The efforts of our rulers to fasten grog shops on Lahaina,
and make ardent spirit free to natives throughout the Islands,
produced a deep sensation among our people.
They regard these
efforts as nothing less than efforts, blindly made of course,
to ruin the Hawaiian race.
The attitude of the chiefs on this and other subjects, led
the church of Lahaina to call for a monthly day of fasting and
prayer.
The last Friday of every month has, for a long time,
been devoted to this ob§ect - that of supplicating for the con
version of the rulers of the nation.
The idea, that any article of the Hawaiian Constitution is
violated, by an extra fine on those who sell intoxicating drinks
to natives, or even by a total prohibition, Is, to all our people,
simply ridiculous; unless it can be proved, that rum is a real
blessing to the Hawaiian race.
If our rulers, who are trembling
for the safety of the consitution, choose to put the controversy
on this footing, let us, the people, join issue with them, and
the sooner the battle is begun, the better.
If Judge Lee, who
drew up the constitution, did not understand it, we may well
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1859
despair of its being comprehended by our school boys.
Benevolent Contributions.
Contributions of natives for meeting house'in 12 mos.
,r
for support of pastor
"
$2874.
”
800.
3 boxes of cloth & clothing, for Marquesas Isles
150.
3,824
No estimate of native labor on their chh.
Statistics.
Whole No. admitted on. profession
It
tt
ri
tr
certificate
Past year
n
u
1473
461
IT
tl
profession
103
tl
It
certificate
42
Total past year
145
Whole No. dismissed
296
"
"
"
past year
4
Total deceased
558
Deceased past year
14
Excluded past year
7
Remain excluded
42
Now In regular standing
942
Total children baptized
1469
Baptized past year
62
Marriages past year
38
Births & Deaths of Lahaina.
Born
Died
185 6
66
114
1857
-
87
133
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69
103
Olualu, 1858
Born
Died
4
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�Report for Lahaina Station,
May , 1860
The past year has been, at Lahaina, generally, a year- of
health.
The only exceptions, whh need be mentioned, are a
felver, whh prevailed somewhat, for a month or two in the spring
of 1859, & a species of elephantiasis, affecting mostly the
&
face aisui hands, of ufoh there have been many troublesome cases
during the last two years.
Both these diseases have often
proved obstinate, but neither has often proved fatal.
Me have
had an unusual number of deaths in the chh, mainly because there
have been an unusual number in the chh, who were enfeebled by
age, or by frequent attacks of disease.
In the mission family, we have had our usual amount of
health, & more strength for labor than we had any reason to
expect.
The Pastor has been able to preach twice every sabbath,
& to conduct the adiilt Sab, school; leaving the children's
Sab, school to the management of the natives.
He has also
attended all the weekly & monthly prayer meetings, & occasion
ally visited the two outstations.
Our Congregations, at the
station, have been full & always attentive; & we may hope, that,
by all the means used, some good has been accomplished.
Mrs. B., though feeble has generally been able to attend
a select meeting of females, held on Prid. of each week.
They
pray for such an outpouring of God's Spfebit, as shall break up
all the great fountains of wickedness whh are pouring pollution
over the whole nation.
Our good people mourn sincerely, that so
many in authority, are not, In any sense, "nursing fathers" to
the chh of God.
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We have had, at Lahaina, during the past year, a royal
tragedy, of a most singular character, of whh probably all have
heard.
On the night of Sept. ll^k 1859, the King, probably
through jealousy, shot his private SecY, through the chest.
Prom that day to March 2 7 ^h i860, almost seven months, the wound
ed man lay there patiently on his back apparently wasting away.
His case excited the sympathies of many.
It threw a gloom over
our whole community; but the saddest part of the gloom was the
danger to the morals of the place, from the visitors it brought,
& the immense impulse given to the work of our abominable grog
shops .
Wickedness, too often seen In high places, sometimes
unconcealed & unblushing, & a thousand chanels by whh It makes
its sure & deadly way to all parts of the nation, have led the
chh, at Lahaina, to set apart the last Prid. of each month, as
a day of fasting & prayer; Wickedness in men of rank is es
pecially corrupting & ruinous to the young.
The wicked are put
into office, the last place where immorality shA be found our laws, intended to restrain evil, too often lie as a dead
letter; &, with such a state of things, what but speedy ruin
lies before the -whole nation, unless God shall interpose to
save it I W^ it not be well for every chh, in the Islands, to
have frequent days of fasting & prayer, to intercede for our
rulers?
Meetings for parents.
Of all subjects brought before the people, by the pastor,
for two year past, none have been insisted on more frequently,
than those whh might aid parents in training aright their child-
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ren.
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The great desideratum in Hawaiian Society is the rearing
up of well ordered families.
We often see pious parents with
vicious children; & we have mothers among us -who have had 10,
12, 16, & 18 children each, who are now almost as desolate as
those who have had none; & we have one who has h o m e 36 child
ren, & has now hut one left.
Hawaiian parents are more ignorant
of the economy of the human body even, than they are of proper
moral training.
When I found some of the grossest errors, on
this subject, prevailing among the people, I called a meeting of
parents to correct them.
We afterwards held several similar
meetings, in whh various matters were discussed with some ad
vantage, I trust, to the people.
Debt for Rebuilding chh.
I reported, last year, the rebuilding of our chh.
work was completed previous to the last general meeting.
The whole
But
so heavy a work could not be accomplished by so poor a people,
without borrowed funds.
At that time, they owed, for borrowed
money, building materials, freight, &c. over $2000. besides
some hundreds whh w^- be due on the pastor’s salary.
The people
have shown a commendable zeal, In paying up these debts.
The
idea of being free from debt, after being so heavily encumbered,
was to them a delightful one.
was paid of the chh debt.
In Ap. last, the last dollar
They have also nearly paid a small
debt, due on Hale Aloha.
The whole cost of rebuilding the chh has been $4741. in
cash besides native labDi?.
About $400. of this was contributed
by foreigners, mostly of Lahaina & Honolulu; leaving $4341. to
be paid by the people themselves.
When we commenced the work,
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it was a mystery where the means were to finish it.
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But all the
means have been furnished voluntarily, & meet cheerfully; & God
has verified to the people his promise, ’'Give, & it shall be
given, good measure,11 &c.
God has more than repaid them for
all that they have given to his cause.
When we were in the
States, they had no market for most of their produce.
The past
year, their crops have been abundant, & the demand has been
greater than they could supply.
Prom Dec. ls_b 59 to Ap. 1 st,
of this year, 6000 brls of Lahaina sweet potatoes were sent to
California.
These were all purchased at $1. a brl.
Between
one & two thousand brls more have been sold to whale ships, at
Lahaina, Kawaihae, & Honolulu; some of them at $1.25 a brl.
because they had become so scarce.
All this looks as if the Lord intended to help the people
out in a good cause.
There is no probability, that there will
be a similar demand for their produce in any year to come.
They have been scattering & increasing; & their increased means
have given an Impulse to industry & more liberal expenditures.
Some are getting better houses, more furniture &, of course,
better saddles.
One pious man, who has been most liberal to
the chh, rides to meeting in a Boston carriage, another in one
made In Lah.
We now have, In the place, eleven carriages of
all descriptions, owned mostly by foreigners, Including a milk
cart.
I need not add, that when means are at hand, that the
ladies improve their dresses, & some of ours have lately come
out to meeting, in those latest & greatest wonders from en
lightened lands.
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Schools
The native schools of Lahaina & the district have had a
thorough overhauling under our new Kahu kula D. Dwight Baldwin.
The Protestant schools have been reduced, in number, from 6 or
7, to 3 schools, containing now 173 pupils.
Inefficient teach
ers have been dropped, & the scholars given to those of better
qualifications.
The Papist school has on their list 45 scholars.
Our central school house, called Hale Aloha, has been fitted up,
in good style, by the Govt, for the English school, at an ex
pense of $600. - The number of scholars has been Increased, the
past year, from 40 or 50 to 140.
Besides the Principal, there
are 3 assislsant teachers, & two side recitation rooms.
The whole
reminds one more of a good Boston school house than any thing
I have met in the Islands.
The branches taught are Reading,
writing, spelling, & speaking the English language, also arith
metic, Geography, Oomposition & Declamation.
is also given to vocal music.
Much attention
Out of school, some 30 or 40 of
the children & youth have been taught to play on the melodeon;
an art, in whh their progress, to a certain extent, at least,
is as rapid as that of almost any American scholars.
Our son,
David Dwight, is Agent for a new & superior kind of melodeons ( I),
made in New Haven, Oonn.
He has imported a considerable number,
& several of our native as well as our foreign families have
been supplied with them.
Popery
I mentioned, last year, the completion of the papist chh,
some 50 feet by 70 or 80.
This has proved far more acceptable
as a place of worship, than the old bowling alley, where the
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disciples had to kneel in the dirt.
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How far their unhounded
efforts have succeeded, in gaining converts, I cannot say.
I
think but few have joined them, & those only of the lowest
grade, & of very suspicious moral characters.
The whole number
who have belonged to the Lahaina chh, & have gone to the Pa
pists, from the beginning, is twenty one, (21).
Some of these
had long been excommunicated - a greater number were on our sus
pended list, - & a few were in regular standing, when they left
us.
Of these 21, one has lately been restored to our chh.
Pour
papist members, on the last sab., renounced popery, & requested
to be considered candidates for our chh.
The Papists of Lahaina meet morning & evening, of most days,
& no pains are spared to retain their naaupo followers.
the poor natives groan over so many genuflexions.
But
Even the
powerful solace of tobacco cannot reconcile them to aching
knees.
They have in front of their new chh a little kapuahi
more attractive than the chh itself, where a few coals are
prepared, as holy water Is Inside of the chh.
When the time
comes for meeting, they first gather round the coals, & raise a
glorious cloud of tobacco incense.
They puff at the foul to
bacco pipe, till they reach the chh door.
I have seen one hand
lay hold of the door handle, while the other slipped the pipe
into the pocket.
Smoking is not deemed proper in such a
sacred place 1 We cannot see why.
I cd report fehitt mormonism, with us, is dead; but that a
set of men, mostly from other places, still cling to sun-burnt,
parched up Eanai, the picture of desolation.
They are ashamed
to leave; & so they insist most pertinaciously, that Lanai Is
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to "be the happy New Jerusalem of the saints & that all the
other Islands are soon to'be buried in the Ocean.
A very few
only are to escape, when this deluge of God’s wrath is poured
out, & they some of the vilest dregs of the land.
D . Baldwin
Chh Statistics, Lahaina, May 1 4 ^ 1860
Whole no. admitted on profession,
on Certificate,
Past Year on profession
on Certificate
Total past year
1504
468
31
7
38
Whole no. dismissed,
305
Dismissed past year,
9
Total deceased
587
Deceased past year
29
Excluded past year
10
Remain Excluded
33
Now in regular standing,
Total children baptised
970
1519
Baptised, past year
50
Marriages past year
40
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Births & deaths May 1/59 to May l/60
Mos. of the year.
deaths
Births
Lah.
Oloalu,
outstation
Bir ths
Deaths
0
3
May/59 -
11
-
12
-
June
-
6
-
18
-
0
-
0
July
-
12
-
10
-
1
-
0
Aug.
-
9
-
12
' -
1
-
1
Sept.
-
3
-
10
-■
1
-
2
Oct.
-
8
-
16
-
0
-
2
Nov.
-
4
-
12
-
1
-
2
Dec.
-
' 8
-
10
-
2
-
1
Jan.
-
2
-
11
-
0
9
0
Feb.
-
6
-
9
-
1
-
0
Mar .
-
1
-
13
-
3
-
1
8
-
6
-
1
-
0
-
78
-
139
-
11
Lah. 1856
~
66
-
114
1857
-
87
-
133
69
_
103
1860
Ap.
Total
1858
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12
D o . Oloalu
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1858 -4
11
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�Lahaina Report. [Abstract I860]
There has been a good degree of health, during the year,
in the mission family, & among the native population.
There
have been some cases of fever, & also a species of elephant
iasis , very difficult to cure.
The usual round of missionary labor has been performed.
In addition to these, the last Prid. of every month has been
observed, by the chh, as a day of fasting & prayer for the con
version of our rulers.
A select weekly meeting of females have
also prayed for the same object.
Meetings have been held for parents to teach them to rear
up healthy & virtuous families.
We have many mothers among us
who have lost all, or nearly all, their children.
Rebuilding the Meeting House.
The rebuilding of thqir chh has cost the people, in cash,
$><3341. besides $400. contributed by foreigners, mostly of Hono
lulu & Lahaina; & excliislve of all their labor contributed.
The Lord has verified to them his promise, "Give & it shall be
given".
Necessity gave a spur to industry, & an unexpected
market was opened for their produce.
In four months, more than
$6000. worth of potatoes was furnished by them, for the Calif
ornia market.
Schools.
All our native schools have xmgDesxxE improved the
past year.
The English school of Lahaina has been increased
to 140 pupils, & is conducted after the model of the best Am
erican Schools.
I
Popery.
Papists have been zealous & active, but have lost rather
than gained during the past year.
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God has given us many signs of reviving his work among us,
hut we have not yet seen the windowp of heaven opened.
Church Statistics.
Whole no. admitted on profession,
tf
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on 0ertificate
Past year on profession
,r
1504
468
31
certificate
Total past year
7
38
Whole no. dismissed
305
Dismissed past year
9
Total deceased
587
Deceased past year
29
Excluded past year
10
Now in regular standing
970
. Total children baptized
1519
Baptized past year
Marriages past year, by pastor
Births at Lahaina during the year,
Deaths
"
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50
40
78
139
Births at Oloalu, the year
11
Deaths
12
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COn hack]
Abstract of Station Report
Lahaina, D. Baldwin
1860
�Report of Labors at Lahaina by
S . E. Bishop, Chaplain to Seamen.
1859-60
In presenting this report of labors during the past year,
acknowledgements of peculiar gratitude should first be rendered
to God for the signal mercies in the experience of which the
Chaplain returned to his post of labor just one year ago, the
13th of May, from an absence of ten months on a visit with his
family to California and the Atlantic States, laden with the
rich memories of many social and spiritual enjoyments, and many
enlargements of experience.
During that absence, Rev. C. B. Andrews of Lahainaluna
supplied the'Chaplain's place in his pulpit and otherwise.
His earnest labor infused fresh life' Into these services, crea
ting an interest which has not ceased to be felt.
My Sabbath labors have proceeded through the year without
interruption, save one Sabbath of absence at Molokai In Febru
ary last.
To the other services, an Evening Service at the
Bethel has been added since last October.
The attendance at the Bethel has been good, shewing a
large increase upon the earlier years of my ministrations there.
In the absence of ships, the average congregation is about 40.
During Shipping seasons, it sometimes exceeded 100.
The Tues
day evening prayer meetings have shewn a marked increase of
interest.
The attendance is from 15 to 20.
present from the Seamen's Hospital.
Some are usually
A Sabbath-School for white
children has been regularly held by Mrs. Bishop.
Labors among Seamen.
Nearly all of the 90 ships that have
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lain in port have been personally visited by the Chaplain and multitudes of Seamen invited to the Bethel, and exhorted to
seek Salvation.
These visits have generally been welcomed;
and
have been fruitful of visits in return to the Chaplain's study;
where many have been counselled - some prayed with - and many
Bibles, testaments, books and tracts have been distributed to
them.
Many cases of peculiar interest have come to view.
Es
pecially so, are those repeated instances of pious sailors,
maintaining a Christian conversation among ungodly and profane
shipmates, and commanding the respect of all, while winning some
to the side of religion.
Some of these persons were subjects
of grace during the late Revival In the United States.
Labors at the U.S. Hospital for Seamen.
A service has been held at the Hospital every Sabbath
5, P.M. at i/faich there have been from 15 to 20 usually
present.
There has been a constant and stimulating call to
comfort, counsel, & exhort the sick.
Five have been buried by
me, two of whom died in hope of salvation through the Redeemer.
Many who have recovered and gone forth have seemed to bear with
them deep and serious impressions from Divine truth.
The interest of our Public Worship, has been augmented
materially by good singing, for which much praise is due to-the
aid of Mr. D. D. Baldwin’s services.
The organization of a Church from our Foreign Community,
has not yet been judged to be an expedient measure.
There are
two native churches, to which several of our congregation be
long.
The whole number of professi[njg Christians Is very
small, while our community is subject to constant changes.
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3
These facts would render the organization of a church very
difficult.
Morals of our Foreign Community.
While our people as a
whole, are growing better, at least externally, there are many
wicked, who are growing worse.
The general decline of business
has diminished the illegal liquor traffic.
natives Is a i d to increase*
Lahaina.
The sale of beer to
Temperance is the great need of
We need a strictly enforced prohibition of the sale
of all that intoxicates.
The diminution of trade at Lahaina is the most prominent
feature of change.
The business done with Whalers is less than
half of what It was five years ago.
All business interests
have E’ohsequently declined, and many of our Foreign Residents
are leaving.
Hence will result a diminished support of the
Gospel and of attendance on its public ministrations.
The amount contributed by Foreign Residents to various
objects connected with our work is as follows.
For Support of Chaplain
For Chapel Expenses
$185.
60.
$125. has also been given for the maintenance of the Reading
Room for Seamen, which was established last year at an expense
of $160. previously contributed.
It remains to report the Boarding School for Native Female
Children under the care of Mrs. Bishop with the aid of Miss
Abby F. Johnson.
In the family have been received since Jan'y
1st, 11 promising native and half-caste girls, from 5 to 7 years
of age.
Their bills, $100. per annum are paid, in part by
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parents, and in part by the liberality of Foreign Residents.
Their schooling is conducted in the English language, in the use
of which they are making good progress, while learning the
decent and desirable habits of a Christian household.
The work
Is one of much labor, but as we hope, of most valuable fruits.
�A b s t r a c t o f R e p o r t o f ILiLbprs a t -tfee
Lahaina, for 1859-60-, by S .E. Bishop
Chaplain to Seamen at that port.
The Chaplain, resumed, his labors, just one year ago, May
13th, having experienced many mercies during ten months of ab
sence with his family in the Atlantic States.
Owing to the earnest labors of Rev. C. B. Andrews, fresh
life was infused into the work during his absence.
The Usual Sabbath services.have been continued, with but
one interruption during the year.
The attendance has increased
An evening service has been sustained since last October.
A Sabbath-School for white children has been taught by
M r s . B.
The weekly prayer meetings have been well attended with a
marked increase of interest.
The same has been the case with
the Sabbath services at the Hospital.
Of the ninety ships that have visited the port, the maj
ority have been visited.
Many Seamen have visited the Chaplain
Business in Lahaina has declined with the diminution of
the whaling fleet.
Great changes in the Foreign Community are
threatened.
By Residents, $185., has been contributed to the Chaplain'
support the past year.
$60., for Bethel Expenses - and $125.
for the maintenance of the Reading Room for Seamen.
Since January 1st, a Boarding School for young native fe
male Children has been maintained by M r s . Bishop, with 11 pu
pils.
One half of their support is furnished by the benevo
lence of foreign residents.
�Abstract of Lahaina Station
Report, 1861
The past has been a year of many mercies.
The mission
family have enjoyed their usual health, & it has been a year of
health among the people.
No epidemic disease has appeared '
among them, except a light form of the measles whh has been
confined to young children, & never proved fatal.
All the usual labors of the station have heen performed,
without interruption, during the year.
These have consisted
in two sermons each sab.; also a Sab. School for children, &
another for adults; a Wed. lecture, a monthly Concert the first
& last monday of each mo., besides whh, in each of the nine
different sections of our village, a prayer meeting has been
held, at daylight, every morning.
These means of grace have not been without a blessing.
have seen many signs of the Spirit's working among us.
We
About
forty, we hope, have been converted, though none of them have,
as yet, been propounded for the church.
Oases of discipline
have been more frequent than in most previous years.
these have been old offenders.
Some of
Iniquity has abounded around,
& has infected some wlho have vowed to be the Lord's.
Benevolent Contributions.
The monthly concert collection is usually about $60.
goes to the Pastor's salary.
Remainder made up by special con
tributions, three such, in the year, amounted to $499.50.
for Micronesia $125.
Hanging new Bell, $50.
butions about $1550.
Society in debt for a new bell $406.
Box
Sum of all contri
4~
Gov
This
tax for Lahaina & district, to be pd in cash, $7000.+
�Abstract 1861
Schools well looked after, &doing well.
Births in Lah. last 12 mos.
78
Deaths during same period,
87.
Oloalu same time, Births
Do
"
Lah. 1860, births
Do.
"
deaths
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10
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10
78.
deaths
139.
Oloalu, ”
births,
11.
Do.
deaths
12.
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�Lahaina -
Seamen's Chaplain
{Abstract 18611).
S. E. Bishop
About 60 ships at Lahaina the year past.
The reduced trade
has diminished the foreign population as well as the number of
seamen, and opportunity for gospel labors are lessened.
The average congregation on the Sabbath has been about 35.
Weekly Prayer meeting well sustained}., also the services at the
Hospital Sabbath P.M.
Five deaths at the Hospital, in two of which there was de
lightful evidence of salvation.
Some interesting tokens have been found, of the work of
the Holy Spirit, converting and sanctifying the hearts of
sailors while at sea, making some of them faithful witnesses
for Christ in the midst of wickedness.
Mrs. Bishop's boarding school for Hawaiian female children,
opened January 1860, has prospered.
The number of pupils for
last six months was 13, aged from 5 to 9 years.
Their progress
in the civilization of the Family, and in order and purity of
habit, has been very marked, as well as in school studies.
English Is habitually used by them.
�An Abstract of the Lahaina Mis'y Station Report,
for the Minutes of the Hawaiian Evang, Association.
May, 1862.
The health of the mission family has been better than in
some years previous.
All the usual labors of the station have
been attended to, without interruption, during the year, & our
two outstations have been visited.
The last two months of the
year have been spent by the Pastor, in a voyage to the Marquesas
Isis, at the request of the Directors of the Haw. Missy Soc.
Meanwhile, the pulpit at Lahaina was supplied by the Teacher of
Lahainaluna & the Rev. J. Bicknell.
The past year has been one of general health among the
people.
We have, however, lost an unusual number of our church
members.
During the 13 mos. now reported, 39 have died.
This
increased mortality has been owing, mainly to the fact, that one
half of our chh, lil^e their Pastor, are getting to be old men
& women.
Of those who have died, are the three best of our chh
teachers, Kaiwioni, Timoteo Keaweiwi, and Akula Moku - All these
were shining ornaments of the chh, fathers in Israel, leaders of
the people.
■army.
They were tried & faithful veterans in Christ's
We mourn their absence, & look around, in vain, for some
to fill their places.
Births & deaths in all Lahaina & Oloalu for the last 13
mos. as follows,
Lah
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Oloalja.,
Births 58
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6
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Deaths 139
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We have had, at times, pleasing evidence, that the Spt of
God was among us.
There have been some interesting conversions,
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& some of the subjects have united with the chh.
Besides our ordinary meetings, we have established a
weekly prayer meeting for youth & boys, & a similar one for girls
& young women, both of whh seem to promise great good.
Benevolent Contributions.
Formerly the chh of Lahaina maintained a regular monthly
contribution.
This year it has been irregular from want of means.
Whaleships, formerly the chief dependence of Lahaina, have nearly
ceased to visit us.
$560.
The people are embarrassed.
They have paid
of the Pastor's salary for 1861; nothing on 1862.
They
have also paid, this year, the debt for their bell, viz. $475. ■
They gave $50. or $60. to the blind preacher from Hivaoa, & have
sent a box to the Marquesas mission.
The people of Lahaina are now turning their attention to
the culture of sugar cane, which, in time, may prove a source,
of income.
[Unsigned but presumedly Dr. Baldwin^
�Report of Lahaina Station
May 15
1863
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by D. Baldwin
A year once seemed a long time to us all; but the years are
growing shorter.
They fly swifter.
It seems but as yesterday,
that I was looking at the missionary work in Fatuhiva.
turned, found you gathered at the .^Anniversary here.
We re
And now
behold the time has arrived, for another general meeting, fflhere
has the year gone?
Fled forever; swifter than a weaver's shuttle,
but not like the weaver's shuttle, to come back again.
"Well, if our i/iears must fly
We'll keep their end in shight (I)" - and try
to be grateful for all the good they bring us.
The past has been
a year of many mercies, to the mission family at Lahaina.
own health has improved, certainly in some respects.
My
My wife
too, who had been for many years, subject to wearisome nightly
attacks of asthma, has been now for one and a half years, free
from it, cured by a medicine wh. all the world may have.
In the
mean time she has been gaining in flesh and strength, so that
she has quite renew§d her youth.
Our children have been spared
thus far, and their children seem to be thriving, growing up
as we hope and pray, to be future helpers in the cause of the
Redeemer.
We have no greater ambition for them, than that they
should be helpers in his work.
Miss. Labors.
The usual course of labors has been pursued, at the station,
without interruption, during'the year.
Two sermons have been
preached each Sabbath, in wh. work I have often had the assis-
�1863
tance of Messers Pogue and Aholo of Lahainaluna.
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Pour times in
the year I have preached, and administered the sacrament to that
section of our church, wh. is at Oloalu, seven miles south of
Lahaina.
A Sabbath school for the children of Lahaina.held
Sabbath morning, has been managed by my son, and native teachers;
and one for adults at noon, I have attended myself.
Our week day meetings have been, the mon. concert, the first
Monday, and the Antislavery Concert, the last Monday of the
month.
The Wednesday lecture, and the Saturday church prayer
meeting.
All these have been attended by myself at 4 oclock P.M.
The females also have 2 or 3 prayer meetings each week wh. are
generally attendee by Mrs. Baldwin.
Besides these there are
prayer meetings, at each of the nine Section meeting houses, of
Lahaina, held at sunrise every day; attended by only a few, but
serving generally as a nucleus, the most pious, of each section,
together.
Attendance on meetings
Where there are so many meetings through the Sabbath, and
through all the days of the week, it is impossible for church
members generally, to attend them all, even if they were dis
posed to do so.
The morning prayer meetings are thinly attended,
for many reasons 1st
They are seldom made interesting on the
part of those who conduct them.
2d Of all hours in the early
morning is the time, when those who work out in this hot climate,
should be on their lands.
Many are hired by the month, and
cannot atten[dj[ week day meetings.
3Q
Its cannot be denied, that religion is at a. low ebb, amg.
most of our community.
An outpouring of God's spirit wld. fill
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up these meetings, without hindering any of the business of the
place.
At our mon. concerts, and weekly prayer meetings, we always
expect about 100 individuals; wh is sometimes increased to 150,
including some youth and children from the schools.
If to
these we add a large number confined at home by age and infirm
ity, and others who are detained to care for thefmj, and their
children, others again who can not leave their work, and some
of the pious also, who are absent on other islands, say, 100 for
all these, we may call this the "Kingdom of God" at Lahaina.
Of most of these I have grt. confidence, that they will hold on
their way, and abide by the ark, till they get through the wil
derness of this world, into the land of Canaan.
Of our congregations on the Sab. I'need say but little.
They have been rather increasing in size and Interest, for the
last 2 years; but we have not yet got back, so full a congre
gation, as we had previous to the destruction of our church, at
the commencement of 1858.
That was to us a dark day.
On Sat.
at noon, a whirlwind demolished the steple ( I), and roof of the
church.
On Mon. we commenced carrying the timber and lime
rubbish, out side the walls.
There was no other building in
the place, where we could hold our services; and, therefore,
unsuitable as were the naked walls for the purpose, we were com
pelled to hold our meetings there for almost a year, before we
could get a new roof over our heads.
The pulpit was left.
A
mat was raised over the preacher, and the people took refuge from
the burning sun, as well as they cld. under the still standing
galleries.
Such as had little love for the house of God were
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sure to stay at home.
The tide of more open immorality, wh. commenced ahout 1855,
was, at that time, exerting a deliterious influence on the.
people, and even invading the church.
But probably that wh.
produced the most depressing influence of all, and lost us many
friends, was our calling for large sums every week, in order to
rebuild the church.
The church and people pay^dd, for this pur
pose, in about 2 years, $4300.00; and this too, while their resourses ( I) from the visits of whale ships, (their only market
formerly) were diminishing constantly, to almost nothing.
Al
most all Hawaiians can willingly bear heavy contributions, for
sensual gratifications, and for a new fashion; and those whose
hearts the Lord has turned, will give cheerfully for the support
of religion, when they have the means.
Dr. Anderson's visit
On the morning of March 10n we had the pleasure of welcoming
to our home, Dr. Anderson, and family, for an hour or two, and
they took breakfast with us.
They were on their way to Hawaii.
Apr. 30" they reached our place again, on their return fr. Ha
waii; and after attending the examination and exhibition at L.
luna, he devoted himself to the interests of Lahaina.
were busy days.
They
Sab. May 8^- was our regular communion season.
Dr. Anderson addressed the congregation in the morning; it was
somewhat increased by individuals fr. Oloalu, Kanapali, and
scholars fr. L. Luna.
All were deeply interested In the Luna
nui, who had spent more than 40 years in sending out missionar
ies, and had now come to see, what were the fruits; Interested
too, in all he had to say of the countries he had visited.
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the afternoon, he assisted at our communion.
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On Mond. at 10
A.M. he addressed the children of Lahaina schools - a t 8 P.M.
attended our Mon. concert, and made further communications on
missions; at a dinner party at evening at our son D. Dwight's,
Dr. A. baptized his 3 children.
On Tues. we visited the La
haina sugar Mill; on our return went over the Catholic church;
finished up our talking, and, the same eve, Dr. A. and his
family, embarked for Oahu.
good.
His visit has done us and the people
As long as they live, they/ will remember'"the .good man
with a white head,'1 as a little girl of 4 years called him.
Results of misy. labor.
This is a heading, always expected in our reports, but
nothing is more difficult or uncertain, than, at the close of a year, or even a series of years, to recount the fruits of o.ur
labors.
They must not be judged of by the number we have re
ceived into the ch. nor by the hopeful candidates we may have,
by the amt. of contributions, nor always by the numbers who are
ready to hear the word.
In such a vin[e]yard as this, the most
promising fruit, often proves blasted in the end; and on the
contrary, we often find, that some seed w h . w e have sown is
springing up unto everlasting life, in places where we had not
dared to hope for any good.
We need always to keep in mind, that the Word of God is not
of our manufacture.
It was made in heaven, and sent down to
earth, quick and powerful, and wonderfully adapted to convict and
convert sinners.
If used right, and accompanied by prayer for
the Spi’rit of God, we should always expect to see the enlighten-
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ing and purifying power of the Gospel.
While the Gospel has "been preached, and all the ordinary
means of grace used, a goodly number of our ch. have seemed in
earnest, praying for the out pouring of the Spirit of God, well
knowing, that we need the spirit's influence, more than our
thirsty plains ever needed the showers of heaven.
At times we
have hoped, that God was about to revive his work, But hopeful
appearances have passed away, and wickedness in some of its
forms, has prevailed to an extent we have never seen It before.
Still we wld. not feel that our labors have been in vain.
In the midst of the contest vto. Is always going on amg. us
between light and darkness, between purity and polution, the
preaching of the Gospel has doubtless, done much to enlighten,
and strengthen and embolden the pious, in their warfare against
sin; and we may hope, that, in a thousand ways unknown to us,
it tends to check the progress of iniquity, and make the wicked
ashamed of their downward course.
But, besides these general
effects of the word, we are sometimes permitted the joy of see
ing the truth, made effectual to the salvation of some individ
uals .
In the year 1858, the most dissolute and depraved young man
in all Lahaina, become converted, showing that God's grace is
omnipotent here, as everywhere.
He came out, not as a young
convert, but as a full grown Christian.
Without waiting for an
invitation, he went fr. one part of Lahaina to the other, ad
dressing all classes, but always most in earnest with his former
companions in sin.
It was the beginning fxff a grt. excitement,
as the fruit of wh. in Apr. /59, we gathered 103 into the chh.
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Most of them had heen the dregs of the place.
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Some of them
are bright examples of piety to this day; and some have turned
back, to be dregs again.
Christian earnestness.
That young man was a noble specimen of
I thought I had in him a real helper.
But God had higher labors for him.
Two short months was his
whole Christian career, when death came suddenly upon him.
For nearly 3 months, just past, we have had among us an
Interesting case of piety, in a youth 16 years of age.
When
yet a child, he exhibited a character of mature reflection, and
conscientiousness, often reproving his father for his irregularities.
As he grew older, the uniform sedateness of his char
acter seemed rather remarkable.
He was quick to learn, and was
an Interesting and promising scholar of the English school.
Early the present year, he was taken with bleeding at the lungs.
This followed by a cough, wh. soon after confined him to his
room, and to his bed.
His pious feelings were early known to
his mother, who was his constant companion; but did not attract
our attention, till within 2 or 3 weeks of his death, wh. occured
( I), the 12'tl1 of May.
At first he expressed a strong desire to
live, and rejoin his school.
As disease advanced, he showed
entire resignation to the will of God.
His sense of God’s
goodness, his expressions of love to the Savior, his love for
prayer, the interest he.took, to the last, in his parents, his
companions, and his schoolmates, and the absence of all fear of
death, were such as showed us, that the grace of God had pre
pared him for a higher sphere of action.
This Is the 3d case
within as many years, of children in our schools, who have first
shown clear evidence of piety on their dying bed; and we some
times reason with ourselves, that if God is preparing some dying
children for death, may it not be, that he is preparing others
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to live, to labor for Christ, & perhaps to preaoh his everlast
ing Gospel?
In contrast to these cases of living piety let me fmenjtion
the case of the oldest living member in our Ch.
Daniel II,
once a licensed preacher on E. Maui, Mr, Richard's right hand
man in the ch. twice a judge under Kam III Hoapili1s favorite,
for more than 36 years having adorned his profession in Lah.
ch. now lying there on his last sick bed, in a little grass
hut by the side of the road, more prostrate with old age, than
by any disease.
He is 74 years of age, in full possession of
all his mental faculties, full of faith, and of the Holy Ghost,
desiring, waiting, longing to depart to be with Christ, but still
praying earnestly, that God wld. raise up the young, to fill the
places of those that are going.
Half a mile from this spot, the next oldest member of Lah.
ch. is confined to his house, Kuakainauna, about the same age;
once the second native doctor in the Islands.
Hhen he professed
religion he gave up the practise of medicine.
He has been 35
years a consistent- Christian, much respected by chiefs and
people.
His faculties are now grtly decayed, his hearing im
paired, & his stay with us can not be long.
Statistics and state of the chh.
Previous to the last year, there was no list of Lah. ch.
except the simple list of those received by profession, or by
certificate, in the order of their admission.
On this were
marked all deaths that occured ( I), and dismissions given.
But as the names had Increased to more than 2000, it was diffi
cult, often, to find names so as to mark deaths and dismissions,
& often exceedingly difficult to determinate between names which
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I have therefore been compelled the past year, to
arrange the records, dividing the ch. into 12 geographical
sections, by wh. means, keeping the records will become, here
after, more simple and easy.. No deaths had been entered on the
book, during the 2 years of my absence, and many others had been
omitted, for various reasons; so that, after investigating the
history of every menber, instead of 649 deaths, as reported
last year, I must now report 868; 45 of wh., however, have
occured ( i) within the last 12 months.
There have been admitted into our ch. fr. the commence ment, on profession 1543, on certificate 518, or 2061 in all;
deduct from this 339 dism^ & 868 deceased, and we shd have
854 living members; or as in my new list, 848.
Deducting f r .
this 211, for members of outstations, will leave 614 for Lah.
Deduct fr. this, 37 deaths and dismissions the few past mos.
88 who are absent on various parts of the Islands, 78, whom I
have marked as very doubtfull members, and 30 who have from the
commencement gone to the Papists and we shall have for members
in regular standing, at Lah. 376, or 545 for the whole ch. 48 of these, at Lah. are sick, and unable to attend meeting.
Many of the sick are old and. infirm, some are blind - nearly
all of them, have about finished their work upon earth - they
belong to a generation that is passing off the stage.
Of the state of feeling in the ch. little need be said.
Of those that now constitute the ch. there is a goodly number
who give evidence that they are attached to the cause of Christ as large a proportion, perhaps, of true believers, as will be
found in most American churches.
But they are not very inteli-
gent ( !), and are not well educated.
Grace they may have, but
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gifts are scarce.
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There is more hope that they will get to
heaven themselves, than that they will take many along with
them.
They are in no way fitted to be 'leaders in the ch.
Within the last 6 years, we have lost about 300 members.
Amg. them were not only many good men and women, but our ablest
section teachers, champions for the truth; they themselves known
and read by all men.
A few of these, dated their piety fr. the
days of Mr. Richards; but most of them were out of the revival of
38 and 40, born again in times of grt. excitement, and they
have been the best, and most useful of all that have turned
to the Lord, amg. us; so that we, of all others, have least
reason to fear animal (?) excitement.
have a few T/iho are promising.
If spared, they will in time
become fathers and mothers in Israel.
ly here, within a few years.
Of younger members, we
Times have changed rapid
Religion is less popular now,
than formerly, with a worthless rabble; & more of a conviction
with those who have character and ability enough to form an
opinion.
Of converts to Christ now are likely to be modified
in their character.
May we not hope that hereafter they will
be more self denying, efficient, and given to work for Christ,
such as the times demand.
Let us pray for an outpouring of God's spirit, without wh.
nothing can be accomplished.
Nothing else can stay the tide of
iniquity, & multiply the helpers we need.
C ontri but ions
Formerly the sole resource of the ch. people for raising
money, & procuring such necessaries as they could not produce
themselves, was the semi-annual visits of whaleships.
These
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In
those days, we took up a monthly collection, applied mostly
to the support of the pastor, and special contributions to aid
other objects, as often as we thought best.
But whale ships failed us, oil was pumped out of the earth;
the few ships wh. came into the ocean, found other places to
recruit in.
Our monthly contributions first became irregular, and
afterwords ( I) were omitted altogether, simply because they
amounted to nothing.
all contributions.
We did not, however, think best to omit
In July /62 $262.00 were contributed towards
the Pastor's salary of 1861, then greatly in arrears, - $70.
more were given before the end of the year.
Jan. l" /63 $390.00
were collected, wh. made about $400.00 for /62 - The remainder
of our living for /62 is supposed to be pd. by the special
grants of the Board.
May 21 of this year $252. (?) were col.
towards the salary of /63.
Thus within 12 mons. $942. were
coll. by special efforts, for this object.
They have also pd. $42. for necessary repairs on the ch.
and #100. more, in a lawsuit, to defend one of our section meet
ing houses.
They commenced a collection to aid L.Luna Sem. - but it was
deferred to wait for better times.
We have not "dispersed a-
broad", but we hope the time will come, when we can do our share
in spreading the knowledge of the Gospel over the Pacific.
The people of Lah. are now engaged in an enterprise to
them, entirely new, - that of cultivating the sugar cane.
Sugar Go. was formed 2 years since, and a mill ordered.
A
Why it
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A borrowed mill is now
taking off the crop, and it is hoped that the large steam mill
of the Co. will commence its opperations ( I), before the end
of June.
Other Denominations
A few observations may be appropriate, concerning other
denominations amg. us, and,
1.
Papists.
Until /57, the Papists in Lah. worshipped
in an old dobie Bowling alley, quite too dirty to be respectable.
In /57 the French Govt, built them a ch.
It is a wooden building,
about 70 by 40, neatly done off with slips, and hung around with
a beautiful set of pictures, decorated too, with an alter ( I),
and a sufficient amt. of images inside; besides a life size
image of the virgin Mary, and the infant Savior in her arms, wh.
are placed high up in frt. of the ch. - the first objects-wh.
meet your eye, as you approach the place.
With all these attractions, and a plenty of beguiling lies,
the papists have made more headway in their new house, than they
made in the old Bowling alley.
Their ordinary congregation may number about 100, and their
every day school has on the list 74 scholars.
2.
Reformed Catholics
This, as all are aware, is a new
sect, imported, the present year, from England.
Coming, as
we were told, they did fr. the body of the English Ch. we ex
pected in them, something like what we had seen in Episcopalians
in our own country.
In this, some who were prepared to welcome
them, spy, they are disappointed.
They call themselves Refd
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Gath, and claim an affiliation with Catholics, or Papists,
rather than with Protestants.
Their representative in Lah.
said in his sermon, the 2d Sabbath of his residence there,
There are but 2 sects of Christians in the Is. the Catholics with
a few errors, and our ch. - all others who are laboring here,
are impostors & deceivers, misleading the people, giving them
a Jewish Sab. & c .
He is rept. as saying in a private conversation "we were
all impostors, and liars,”
Such denunciations w&. of course
excuse us, by Christs rule, fr. any special intercourse with
them, and must excuse me f r . any further account of their op
erations amg. us.
A few have been confirmed - curiosity drew
many out to their meetings at first - but, as yet, they do not
seem to be in high favor with the natives.
They have commenced
a girls school, wh. is to be taught by a young lady; and, it is
said, are soon to have a boy's school, under the care of a
master.
3.
sect at Lah.
Mormons.
I am not aware that we have any of this
In the South part of Lanai is the place wh. they
have fixed on as the New Jerusalem.
not informed.
How many there are, I am
I only know that the population of the Isd. wh
for many years has been abt. 600, was in /60, 649.
meetings on the Sab.
be their leader.
They hold
Capt. Gibson, as he is called, is sd. to
I cannot learn that he labors much to proselyte
the people to Mormonism, he seems to be engaged mostly in agri
culture, raising poultry and sheep, and in trafficking with
the natives.
He has leased lands of the Govt. & cheifs ( i), and,
I suspect, will soon have the resources of the island, under
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his control.
Marriages
I have married during the year, 30 couple.
Schools
The English school at Lah. has numbered abt. 70.
It is
taught by my son D. Dwight, who Is also superintendent of schools
for the whole district, reaching 20 miles North, and 9 South of
Lah.
In Lah. there are 5 native Protestant schools, numbering
in all 207 scholars - 1 Papist school, 74 scholars - has in
creased the past year, somewhat, at the expense of one of our
schools.
At Oloalu a Protestant school 30 scholars, a Papist school,
11 scholars,
On Lanai 5 schools, with about 140 scholars.
The one in
the district, where the Mormans reside, has 70 pupils, and is
taught by one of our people.
Births and deaths in the whole field
In Lah. fr. May l"/62 to May l"/63, there have been 61
births, and 116 deaths.
At Oloalu during 9 mos. of the year,
there were 7 births, 11 deaths.
At Lanai in /62, there were 6 births, gl deaths.
Lah.
Oloalu
Births
Deaths
61
116
7
11
Lanai______ 6__________ 21
74
148
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After looking thus far over the history and statistics of
the past year, it is natural to turn our thoughts to the future
prospects, of the people, and nation.
We may often find the
future of a nation in their past history, or in their present
character.
So of this nation.
As health or disease prevails,,
as their morality is more or less pure, as the religion of the
country is real, or degenerates Into a mere formalism, as the
Political management is wisdom, or chicanery, so may we augur
prosperity and hapiness ( I),, or degredation & woe, as the future
lot of this people.
Notwithstanding all that has been done, & all the hopes that
have been raised for this nation, still we must allow, there
are many dark clouds, hanging, over them.
ing people, are all around us.
and it Is not wise to do so.
The signs of a wast
We cannot shut our eyes to them,
If the rulers and people, as a body,
even now cd. be filled with wisdom fr. above, the road seems
still open for them to take an honorable & elevated place among
the nations of the earth.
mus.t be in God.
But will they be wise?
Our hopes
When we remember how many prayers have been
offered for the nation, we will trust, that the clouds will
scatter, and a remnant be saved.
I might stop here with my report, but I have not reported
all my labors, nor even the most troubelsome (I) of them.
In
the division of the Bible for revision, the books of Ezra,
Nehemiah, and Job were assigned to me.
I have looked over a
small portion of these books, enough, however, to see that they
have been translated with grt. care; but still need a revision,
before another edition of the Bible is issued.
I could have
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taken hold of this work with grt, pleasure, hut I have found
most of my leisure during the year, swallowed up in a work of
more immediate importance.
The one to wh. I have already alluded,
namely, remodeling the Records of the Chh. To learn the history
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of all the members of the ch. - there present location, and
standing,so as to give faithful statistics, I have found to be
a task far grter. than I ever anticipated.
There is also another work, wh. has taken up still
more of my time, and been more exhausting and troubelsome (l),
namely, attending to the medical wants of the people.
Of all
the 32 years, wh, I have spent on missionary ground, in no one
have I devoted so much time to medical labor, as during the
past year.
Our only physician, holds an office under govt. wh.
requires him to be absent for weeks, and even mons. at a time.
Meanwhile both foreigners and natives call on me daily, to pre
scribe for their diseases.
Of all ordinary complaints, every community has its share;
we all have to deal with them, they occupy but little time.
But we have some more formidable diseases amg. us.
Much of my
time during the 2 past years, has been spent in attending to the
two diseases wh. follow licentious living.
In fact for the past 2 years, - that is, since the enact
ment of the law, on prostitution - I have had more patients of
this class, than in all the 30 previous years of my missionary
life put together.
I do not consider the prevalence of this
disease, owing entirely to the law.
They are rather the legi
timate fruits of a lax system of execution of law, w h . may be
almost said to have had its beginning, about the year 1855,
when some who were apptd. gaurdians ( l) to the law, were its
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greatest violators.
When the mission first commenced Its
opperations amg. this people, perhaps •§• of the people were
afflicted with what we call "scrofulous ulcers", - some of them
had them even fr. head to foot.
But the wisdom of our physi
cians taught us so to deal with them, that they have "been almost
"banished fr. the land.
About the year 1845, our physicians
decided that the venereal disease, scarsely ( I) any longer, had an
existance (I) in the nation.
We were beginiBig (I) to think,
that the blood of the nation, was in a measure purified, that we
shd. hereafter see an increase of population, and all the blessed
fruits of pure morality.
A few years after, it was said that there was a fresh im
portation of this disease fr. the French In Tahiti.
may not be so.
This may or
But fr. whatever source it comes, one thing is
certain, that we have going the rounds in these Islands, the
disease of more virulent type, and more dreadful In its conse
quences, than some of us have ever seen before.
So far as my
observation extends, the most afflicting circumstance connected
with this is, that its victims are almost universally fr. amg.
the young.
It Is owing, no doubt, in a grt. measure, to the
l
prevalence of these diseases, that we see a diminution of
births in these Islands, and a quickened pace given to mortal
ity.
The worst forms wh. I have seen of this disease, come fr .
the rural districts of our Island.
If all parts of the group,
are as much afflicted with this, as the Island of Maui would seem
to be, a large portion of this people must go out of existance ( 1).
We can only hope, that a t>emnant will be saved, to perpetuate the
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race.
I will now mention another formidable disease, wh. is.
comparatively new - amg. the people; I mean the disease called
the "Mai Pake" and wh. Dr. Hildebrand supposes is the Asiatic
Leprosy.
15 years ago, the only case I had of this disease
under my care, was the father of the present queen, who died
in 1854.
When I returned fr. the U.S. In 1858, 6 or 8 similar
cases applied to me for help.
might be at Lahaina 15.
Last year, I supposed there
2 mons. ago, I collected the names of
all who had the disease, and found they numbered pO. - 21 women,
49 men.
This disease commences by a reddening, and a thicken
ing of the skin of the face and forehead, and the back of the
hands.
Generally the progress is slow, sometimes 2 or 3 years
scarsely ( l) making any difference in the appearance, but pro
gress is sure, it holds on its course, and will sooner or later
make the Individual miserable & helpless, and carry him to the
grave.
For 5 years, I have sought for remedies, and tried
various experiments, but all v/ith out much success.
3 years ago,
I wrote to Dr. Jane for a large quantity of Alterative, wh. I
have tried thoroughly on some cases of long standing, and some
more recent.
It produces some effect on the disease, often
seems to improve it; but still it holds on its course uncured.
The first grt. question as to this disease is, what are
its causes?
We have many Chinamen amg. us, and though it is called
Mai Pake, none of them have it, neither Europeans, nor Amer
icans, nor their children born in this country, have taken
this disease.
Whatever, therefore, may be its causes, it
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I have supposed that
the causes may be eating raw fish, as well as fish that are more
or less poisonous.
The Opelu abounds amg. us, and always becomes poisonous,
after lying several hours.
Want of cleanly habits, and of well aired houses may also
contribute to the same result; and undoubtedly exposure to burn
ing s m , has more or less to do with it.
.Another important question in regard to it, wh. the learned
Doctors must settle, is, whether it is contagious?
There is already, grt. alarm about it, amg. the people;
many of its victims are amg. our best people.
There are so many
fears and prejudices on the subject, that more advanced cases,
stay away fr. the house of God, or sit down out side the door;
while others who have had the disease a shorter period, are found
in all our meetings.
For my part, I see very little proof, that
the disease is contagious.
Of the 60 names wh. I have collected,
14 are living 2 In a house, leaving 46 individuals, living in the
midst of as many families, fr. 1 to 10 years each, without com
municating the disease to any of them.
If our learned physicians
will wake up, and investigate this new disease, they may teach
us our duties in regard to it, and confer a grt blessing on the
Hawaiian people.
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Statistics of Lah. Church
Admited. C O
it
on profession
certificate
Past year on profession
1543
618
6
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£Past year on]
"
"
" certificate
25
Total past year
31
"
dismissed
339
Dismissed past year
4
Total num. deceased
868
Deceased past year
Excluded
"
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45
7
Now in regular standing
645
Total children baptised
1631
Baptised past year
21
Marraiges
30
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Of these now in regular standing, 464 belong to Lah.
101 to Oloalu, and 77 to the Is.' of Lanai.
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�^Baldwin} •
Report of Lah. Station, year ending,
June 1. 1864.
Another mis'y year has fled away forever - gone with all
Its labors & Its cares - its doings all to be reviewed by Him
who presides over all things.
It has carried with It, into
eternity, many of the people, who must each give up a solemn
account of himself to God.
Sad to think, how many of those who
are"cailed away, go apparently without any preparation to meet
their God I They have lived after the flesh, while they lived;
have sought pleasure of the world, & lived all their days in
pain, & then gone down to the grave with the full load of their
sins upon them, without hope, because without God in the world.
Through the mercy of God, myself & companion are still
spared, & have had, the past year, even more health & strength
than in some previous years,' to pursue the work committed to
our hands.
Our children too have all been spared, though some
of them have been exposed to great danger - the Lord alone, in
the time of peril, opened a way of escape, for which we w^praise his great & holy name.
The Lord has also, the past year,
added three to the number of our grandchildren, making seven in
all; & so far as we know, they are all well & prospering.
The past year has been, with me, an exceedingly busy one.
A pretty large share of ray time has been necessarily spent in the
practice of medicine.
We have around us a village of 2 or 3000
natives, & many forreigners ( l); all, of course, liable to their
share of sickness.
For the last two years, we have had but one
foreign physician at Lahaina; & he, being the Circuit Judge of
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the Island, was often absent for weeks & even months together.
He has lately left L. & become physician to the King.
Under
these circumstances, foreigners pretty universally resort to
the only medical help that is left as some of them did before.
Sickness among foreigners usually consumes more time than we
can often allow to natives.
We have had no epidemic disease
among the people, unless I may mention fevers among children,
in the summer & fall of T63 - These have not often been pro
tracted cases & never fatal.
Some diseases, however, have
greatly increased, in number & virulence, among the people, for
the last 5 or 10 years.
attend licentious habits.
This Is especially true of diseases that
It is awfully alarming to see what
multitudes of our youth are perishing before the deadly power of
sin.
Among the deaths at Lahaina, since our last Gen. m'g,
10 were from this new scourge of the race, which is now called
leprosy.
Most of them were our worst cases.
year,. 60 cases of the disease.
genuine leprosy, or T1Mai Pake".
places.
I reported, last
Probably about 50 of them were
A few have removed to other
We have two or three new cases.
The whole list of those
among us who now have the complaint, as far as I have been able
to collect it, comprises about 50.
I have spent much time upon
this unfortunate class of patients; & I expect to give them
much attention in time to come, whether with or without any
success, in the way of during, time alone must determine.
We
think we have gained much by debarring those who have this
disease from our religious assemblies, & by isolating them, as
far as possible, in the family.
The papists still allow them in
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their meetings.
Misy Labors.
The usual routine of misy labor has been pursued, at La
haina, without interruption, during the year.
There has been
preaching twice on the Sab. a Sab. school for children, another
for adults; a'Wed. meeting, a Sat. chh prayer meeting, & the
usual monthly concerts, besides whh I have frequently met the
people at their section meetinghouses.
Once in each three
months, I have spent a Sab. at Oloalu, & administered the
Communion there.
c^- have wished.
I have visited Lanai., but not as often as I
A graduate of Lahainaluna has conducted the
meetings at the only chh building on the Island; & the leading
chh members have held meetings on the Sab., more or less regular
ly, at four other places, because the people are widely scattered
over the whole Island.
If it be asked, what are the good results of our labors?
I w d answer, that we cannot, at the end of the year, gather up
the fruits of labor, as the husbandman does the fruits' of his
sowing.
The germ planted in the heart one year, often requires
long after years of watering & nursing to bring it to maturity.
Though we all rejoice in seeing immediate effects from our
efforts, yet we shd also rejoice in seeing good results from
years long past & almost forgotten - Evangelical truth attended
by the Spt from on high must always do good.
buried long in dust," &c.
"Though seed lie
It is, no doubt, owing mainly to the
public ministrations of the word, that there is, among us, a
general respect for the institutions of the Gospel.
I have not
yet met, in this land, with a native who w^ deliberately own,
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that the days of heathen darkness were better than the days of
Gospel light.
If there be such, they must be among the lowest
dregs of the land, & such generally show their hatred of the
Gospel by their works rather than confess it in words.
We generally speak of the state of religion among us as
low.
But this term will not apply to all the chh.
Though there
are many who ten years ago, made a fair profession of piety, &
who have, one after another, turned back to the world, & prac
tice openly sins which they never did forsake, yet there is a
goodly portion of the chh who stand fast In the faith, who give
cheering evidence, that they are born from above.
They love
the courts of the Lord's house/ - do not neglect the reading
of the Bible, & are evidently from year to year growing in
knowledge & in grace.
Some of these, especially among the
women, are persons eminent for prayer; & when I look upon them,
I think, that God has not forsaken the earth, & has not forsaken
the Hawaiian race.
inefficient at best.
Most Hawaiian Christians are inactive &
We have occasionally the satisfaction of
seeing one of the inactive kind wakened up into new life &
energy.
The most active man now in our chh was probably con
verted a few years since, after being, for many years,
worthy member.
an un
Therefore dont give up hypocrites in Sion.
We have had no special outpouring of the Spt, but we think
we have seen some true convers^ions.
ceived to the chh during the year.
Twenty two have been re
About half a dozen of
these were youth brought up In strictly pious families, where
they have had more watchful care than is found in many native
families.
They have not been known to be in any immorality, &
have been interested attendants on all our Sab. Schools, & re-
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ligious meetings for many years.
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They come into the chh under
much the same circumstances as most of the children of the
mission have "been received.
May they prove equally worthy of a
place in Christ’s house I
Of the mass of those -who are outside the chh I need say*
but little.
Some of them are regular attendants at the house of
God, &, therefore, we may hope, that they will, at some day, be
brought into the fold of Christ.
Others are but seldom found
sitting under the sound of the Gospel, & the prospect for such
Is, that they will soon forsake it altogether.
Of the great
mass of the unconverted, we have too much said evidence, that,
for the last ten years, they have been sinking deeper & deeper
in moral turpitude.
The bad examples of some in high places,
the responsibility of executing the salutary laws of the land,
sometimes entrusted to those who cannot govern their own pas
sions, &, as a consequence, the almost universal neglect to en
force those wholesome laws whh were made to help, in purifying
the land, all these warn us of the downward tendency of morals
in this land.
The Gospel has created a public sentiment among the people
whh keeps the external of society decent, even whole vice is
rampant - but outward decency will never save the nation, if
the fires of sin are allowed to burn at its vitals.
Licentious
ness is common, & the victims of its terrible diseases are mul
tiplying, especially among the young.
The Sab. Is the great
conservative influence in the land, tending to preserve a pure
morality, & to keep up the fear of God before the minds of the
people.
It does more than any other institution to stamp the
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The Sab. is usually with us a
quiet day, owing to the presence of so many who love the Holy
Sab.
Ife see no canoes abroad upon the ocean - no carts rolling
through the streets as on other days - but few horses moving no stores or shops open, & none of the markets open, except the
beef markets early in the morning.
And yet any kind of business
whh a man may wish to do on the Sab. he may do without let or
hindrance from the laws.
I have not heard of a prosecution for
violation of the Sab. laws for very many years.
Doubtless many
avail themselves of this license whh wicked rulers give them.
But it is a mercy, that they hide their deeds away where they
will not offend the eyes of Sab. keepers.
They lasso their
cattle in the mts - take rides or journies where they are not
known, & in stealing God's time, follow, in some degree, the
same course they wd in stealing their neighbor's property.
Schools.
Our schools were all in a state of prosperity, when, about
4 mos. since, the Board of Education appointed a new Kahukula,
viz. the Gov. of the Isl. & all Haw. schools were suspended,
under the pretense, that they were $200. In debt.
He has been
asking of the people contributions for continuing the schools,
& has probably obtained $2 or 300.
We cannot foretell the fu
ture, but we strongly suspect, that the schools either will not
be recommenced, or If they are, it will be to make them depend
entirely on the voluntary contributions of the people.
Our school for teaching natives English consists of over
50 scholars,
Mr. & Mrs. Mason's Boarding school of 26 girls
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was imported into Lahaina from Honolulu.
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They have also a
school of 20 or more boys.
There seems to he among our people, an increasing desire fo
the establishment of Boarding Schools; but whether there will be
among parents,, the thrift & economy to defray promptly even a
small part of the expense of their children's education, remains
to be seen.
English Ohh. They have given us a better clergyman for
this chh than formerly; but natives do not flock to them much.
Papists.
Our Papists hold their own pretty well - do not
seem to gain or lose much.
The conviction is becoming more &
more deep, every year, among our people, that Popery is a dark
system.
A member of their own chh sd to the priest at Lahaina,
not long since, "He mea lapuwale keia pule ana a kakou la Petero
ma; e aho kakou e pule pololei aku 1 ke Akua."
See Note # last
page.
Mormons.
The Mormon settlement on the South part of Lanai
has dispersed within the past 3 mos.
Some returning to their
old homes on Hawaii, & elsewhere; Others perhaps compelled to
find a home, wherever they could.
Marriages by D. Baldwin during yr.
Births in Lah. repd in 1863,' 61.
Oloalu 1863 - Births 7
Lahaina 1864 - Births 62
Oloalu
Deaths
Births 14
29
Deatha 116.
Deaths
131
Deaths
23
11
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Contributions.
Contributed for support of Pastor
---
For Kauwealoha at Uapou
”
362.00
150.
Kaukau
20.
Past salary of Bell ringer
55.
Contributed for supt of Com. Schools,
For painting chh
200.
—
50.
Waihee chh--------------------------- --------- 25.
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862.
Statistics of chh, 1864
Admitted on Prof.
"
Certificate
Past year on Prof.
"
"
Cert.
Total past year
Dismd to other chhs
"
past year
Deceased
"
1565
524
22
8
30
344
5
899
past year
31
Excluded past year
11
Now in regular standing
622
Children baptised
"
past year
Marriages past year
1661
30
29
Note #. As to the number of the Papists at Lahaina, they furnish
about 75 voters in the whole district from Ukumehame to Lah. in
clusive. In all the district there may be 200 papists; & their
congregation (the only one on West Maui) may ordinarily on the
Sab. number 100. They are generally among the most ignorant &
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degraded of the people. During the past year, three who have
heen members of the Papist chh., have been recO- to our chh.
The
Papist priest has., the last year, shown more zeal in schools than
ever before.
Their school numbers 70, & has two active young
men for teachers.
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REPORTS PROM IAHAINA, MAUI
Station Report
Statistics & incomp. Rep.
Station Report
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1832 ?
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Wm. Richards
Eph. Spaulding . . . . .
1834
Station Report
Unsigned, but
0
writing of Richards) . . 1835
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$ Spaulding ’
< (Includes printed letter of protest to
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| Gov. Hoapili against selling rum to seamen) A
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Station Report
Unsigned, but Richards. . 1836
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D. B a l d w i n .......... ....1837
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D. Baldwin . . ......... 1838
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D. Baldwin . ............1839
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Unsigned . . ............1840
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D. Bald?ri.n . . . . . .
. 1841
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D. Baldwin . . . . . .
. 1842
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D. Baldwin . . . . . . .
1843
Addition to above rep,
D. Baldwin . . . . . .
. 1843
Station Report
D. B a l d w i n ............. 1844
(No Meeting 1845)
Station Report
D. B a l d w i n ............. 1846
Statistics only of church & s c h o o l s .................. 1847
(No Meeting 1847)
�[Lahaina [1832] Station]
In compliance with the requirement of the Mission the
members of the station at Lahaina present the following
report.
I.
That the mercies of God to the different members of
the station and also his smiles on its genral [sic.] con
cerns demands their most devout acknowledgement and
warmest gratitude.
II.
Health of the members of the station.'
The health of
Mr. Shepard^ while lie resided 'at Lahaina was perhaps a
little better than during the latter part of last year, so
that he was able to perform some labour in copying Manu
scripts for the press &c.
Mr. Richards was attacked with a severe disease on the
first Monday in March by which he was soon brought to a
state of extreme debility, but through the mercy of him who
[sic]
doth not afflict willingly no^grieve the children of men, he
is now far restored though still quite unable to enter on the
duties of his station.
With these exceptions, health has
genrally [sic.] prevailed among the members of the station.
III. General labours.
In addition to those who regularly
occupy the station Messrs. Tinker and Shepard^ have resided
there
the last half of the year.
The labours common to the different stations have been
regularly performed during the year.
During the season in
�Report of Lahaina Station
which, the whaling ships were present, Mr. Tinker preached
regularly every Sabbath-in English and in several instances
to large audiences.
A religious conference has also been
held during the last half of the year which has usually been
attended by about eight foreign residents one of whom is a
church member— another is propounded, a third gives consid
erable evidence of piety and others are serious and attentive.
During the first half of the year there was preaching
at Wailuku seven sabbaths, one sabbath at Honuaula and
several sabbaths at Kanapali.
During the last four months
in consequence of the great assemblage of people in Lahaina
from the back parts of the Island there have been regularly .
two or sometimes three congregations on the sabbath.
In
consequence of this and Mr. R ’s sickness the station at
Wailuku has been entirely neglected.
IV.
Labours assigned by the Mission. Of what was unfinished
Lsic]
the
at the last
meeting^,
Epistles of James, Peter,
John, Jude and the book of Revelations have been reviewed and
put to press.
The Geography has also been reviewed— some
additions made and put to press.
The book of Numbers though
more than half of the year in our hands is only about half
reviewed.
Nothing more has been added to the Gamut, of musick, as
it is concluded to publish the tunes here at the Islands and
it must be a considerable time before they can be prepared.
The review of Mark has not been commenced.
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Report of Lahaina Station
Of the new assignments at the last meeting, the last 74
Psalms are translated.
Nine chapters also from the hook of
Judges.
The Sermons which Mr. Richards was requested to collect
and prepare are not collected.
Different members of the
mission were early requested to furnish one or two sermons
each but only two were received.
The sickness of Mr. R. and an unhappy occurrence in the
church whieh will hereafter be alllraxlMi to and the removal of
Mr. Andrews to take charge of the High School are the only
reasons to be offered why the appointments made by the Mission
have not been more perfectly fulfilled.
V.
Increase and state of the church.
During the year there
have been added to the church in Lahaina sixty five persons
and-there-have been three deaths.
into the church 153.
142.
Whole number?; received
Whole number now living in the church
Thirty six more now stand propounded.
It should also
be added that on the 15th Oct. the sacrament was administered
to those members of the church who reside at Wailuku and the
names of 22 more proclaimed as preparatory to the establish
ment of a church at that place.
The sickness of Mr. R. and
other circumstances have prevented carrying the design into
execution.
In the general state of religion there has been nothing
unusual.
The church as a Taody have as far as is known in a
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good degree adorned their profession.
There has however been
one case of discipline of a distinguished member of the
church which for a ’
season overwhelmed the station with dark
ness.
It is believed however that the wandering shee.prH©.1i
only heard the voice of the shepherd but knew it and returned.
No general evil appeared to result from the example of the
unhappy wanderer, but the great headr of the church has no
doubt overruled it for good.
VI.
Marriages.
During the year there have been solemnized
at the station 464 marriages making the whole number 2860.
VII. Schools.
The following is a list of the schools.
Kahoolawe are 56 scholars.
On Maui 11,170
On Lanai 496.
On
On Molokai 1,173.
Total 12,895.
VIII.Miss Ogden teaches an infant school of 160 scholars
every morning from 6 to 9 o'clock, 20 of whom are writers.
On Monday of each week attends a class of 63 in Ninauhoike.
Also a school of 30 in writing and arithmetick on Tuesdays
Wednesdays and Thursdays.'
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JLahaina Report of StationJ
Lahaina June 1st 1833
Number of marriages during the past year 1
221
Readers in all the schools connected with the station
Admitte [sic] to the church on their own profession
42 persons
On Recommendation 3
Candidates
Translation finished.
Review partial.
�As to stitcliing Mr. R. says that for himself he should
prefer to have it done at Honolulu for this reason— detention
and danger of mistake.if not done there.
He thinks however
that Mr. Shepard's time should not be taken up in stitching:
he might superintend the work.
If books are folded and
gathered at Honolulu and put up in such a manner that a bun
dle may be put into the hands of a native so as to be stitched
without danger of mistake the objection would be nearly
obviated.
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Since the examination in the fall Mr. R. has given away
of the Ka pi-a-pa for the purpose of establishing new
schools on Maui, Molokai and Lanai the number of 6512.
There have also been distributed by Kekauonohe on Molo
kai a good many books perhaps 400 of books left by Kalaimoku.
The increase of scholars Mr. R. is of opinion has been
greater than of half the number of books given out.
In all the Schools are perhaps 2500 who may be called
readers: more than this number probably would be able
to find out the meaning of a new book.
Meetings conducted by natives.
A few natives, church members go out occasionally to
the neighboring villages to address the people on the
Sabbath.
The halawai of Saturday evening is of church
members only and persons propounded for admission.
A Thursday afternoon meeting is numerously attended
all who choose may be present and it is commonly more
fully attended than the Wednesday lecture conducted by
M r . Richards.
The Congregations on Sabbath morning average from 1500
to 2000 in the afternoon not so large.
There is at
present no special attention to religion
Belonging to the Church
19
Propotinded,
18
hopeful persons who will probably be brought
forward before long, from 5 to 10
�Report of the Lahaina Station
For the year ending May 50th 1854
In commencing the report of our station it becomes us
to speak with gratitude of the health, with which Providence
has blessed the most of our number while at the same time
we recognize his afflictive dispensation in the continued
debility of those who were feeble at the last general meet
ing.
No change has occurred in relation to our health
worthy of special remark.
The general business of the mission has been Conducted
according to the system common at the stations.
There has
been regular preaching only 5 times a week, vis'.- twice on
the sabbath and once on Wednesday, together with the month
ly concert at its regular return.
There has also been_ a church meeting regularly on Sat
urday eve, conducted principally by the missionaries, but
mad-e a familiar meeting for questions & remarks by members
of the church.
The bible class has during the year consisted of memibers of the church only recitingon Sunday noon, the verses
of.the week, according to the verse a day system, and the
members of the church) have been employed as teachers to
hear those out of the church who commit the verse a iday,
and recite the men on Thursday and women on Friday.
The
whole.number of those whose names are enrolled as com
mitting the verse a day is about 900, but the avarage [sic]
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number of those who attend is about four or five hundred.
The church has also been divided into classes of about
30 persons each who meet in sepparate [sic] places on the
evening after the sabbath^ for conversation, particularly on
the subjects of the sermons, though other subjects are not
excluded.
These classes are attended in rotation by some
of the missionaries^ and as far as our observation has ex
tended^ has appeared to have a very good influence^ affording
as it does a very good opportunity to make more peiss’oiial
application than can well be done in public & fixing more
in the mind what might otherwise be quickly forgotten.
There has however been a change in the meetings which
will probably be prefered as a permanent arrangement.
That which has hitherto been considered as a bible
class is now enlarged^ a.& as to embrace all who commit the
verse a day.
They meet immediately after the morning
service on the sabbath & all the recitations take place
under the immediate supervision of the missionaries instead
of being left to the natives as on the other days of the
week.
A new meeting is established on Tuesday for the purpose
of questioning the people on the subjects of the sermon
during the week.
Those who attend the class-meeting on
Sunday eve are the assistant teachers in this meeting.
It
is but just established & whether it will be permanent or
not is uncertain.
�Report of the Lahaina Station— 1854
Some special exertions have been made during the year
to collect together that class of persons who have been
openly immoral & have kept alojfif from all instruction.
It
was found easy to get them together & they assembled weekly
for some length of time, but evils were discovered not un
like those which have attended the kapu meetings & they
were discontinued, though quite a number who then commenced
learning the verse a day & attending meeting on the sabbath
still continue to be punctual.
During the year 18 persons have been received to the
church out of 42 who were propounded near two years ago,
all of whom were thought to give evidence at the time they
were propounded & still appear well.
Of the 7 church members who were suspended at the time
of the last general meeting, two appear truly & have been
restored.
The other 5 still stand on. negative ground, being
neither openly unchristian, nor yet exhibiting sincere
repentance.
In addition to the above, there have been during the
year 6 new cases of discipline.
Kapiu— for adultery drunkenness & apostacy.
Kekuelike— for intemperance.
Kaunakakai— for intemperance and adultery.
Kamainalsu— for general unchristtsan deportment & contempt
of those who went to converse ’with him.
Maluoo & Hahee— for adultery.
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Of the above Kapiu appears perfectly incorrigible.
All the rest have made public confession & Kekuelike has
given such evidence of penitence that he is restored to
church fellowship. The rest give various evidence of sin(sic)
eerty in their confession, some being almost satisfactory
while others are far from it.
The whole number now sus
pended from the church is 10.
There are others who are
far from exhibiting a Christian spirit, tho. they do not
them
pursue such a course as to lay toms- open to discipline.
But even while the church has been in such a state,
(sic)
it is to be hoped that the truth has been produced some
beneficial effects on those without.
The number of those
who have attended on a preached word, has not been greatly
diminished: & the attentive countenance has often afforded
encouragement to the preacher.
A few ’show by their countenance on the sabbath— by
their constant & persevering attention on all the means
of grace within their reach & by their conversation too
that they are deeply interested in the cause of religion,
& we have little reason to doubt but trhat the all seeing
eye perceives among them a goodly number who are Israelites
indeed.
The state of the church however we feel to be deeply
afflicting & while we would look perseveringly to it its
great head,.who we hope will still acknowledge it as his
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own, we feel also that we need the prayers as well ks the
advice of our brethren in the mission.
�Report of the Lahaina Station— 1854
On the subject of schools we have not much to say.
They have been far from being prosperous the past year,
especially the school for adults.
The schools for child
ren have done as well as could be expected considering the
character of their teachers.
It is believed there are very
few children on this part of the Island who do not attend
school apart of the time.
The children in Lahaina while they
have enjoyed superior advantages, have also superior temp
tations to encounter.
During a lacgg portion of the year their
attention is materially taken off from their school by the
ships & not a few of the promising scholars enlist as sailors
& thus all they learn in school is turned into the worst
channel & they return from sea without any taste for fur
ther instruction except such as is to be obtained in com
pany like their own.
But we proceed to speak of our out stations of which
we have 25, Kanapali & Oloalu.
The meeting house in Kanapali
is 9 or 10 miles from Lahaina will accommodate lg> tc3 1500
people & is pretty well filled when it is known that there
will be preachihg.
Preaching has been maintained regularly
every other sabbath.at the out stations during the intervals
of shipping.
At other times they have been supplied with
native speakers from Lahaina.
Kanapali with an adjoining district has a population of
nearly 4000 souls and affords abundant encouragement for
missionary effort.
Oloalu & aukumehame are- small districts
so situated that the people about 1000 in number can ‘
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conveniently at one place to hear the gospel.
There is no
meetinghouse but the head man & people are anxious to build
a house more durable & permanent than the ordinary grass
houses.
The place for meeting is 7 or 8 miles from Lahaina.
Mr. Spaulding with his family moved to Oukumehame about
<
the middle of January & affer spending one month moved to
01®alu & spent another month more in the center of the popu
lation.
Preached 3 times a weferk— held 2 bible classes one
for men &udnother for women when the Ai o kala was recited
&.;remarked upon— one school for children on Sab.
noon
& a school every evening from 15 to 40 to recite the verse
for the day, listen to remarks & attend prayers.
During the week except on Sat. there were 2 schools
every day ©nbf’a.SiBig nearly 5SD0 scholars, men women & child
ren,
All the interest was manifest that could be expected
& we were convinced of the importance of living among the
people if we wauldddo good among them to advantage.
When
health of our families & other circumstances will permit
we intend one of us to live alternately at Kanapali & Ooalu (sic)
during the intervals of shipping.
The number of marriages during the year is— —
Whole number since the station was
— — 106
— ------ — 3181
Readers
1791
Number of children in school but who cannot read
641
Admitted to the church
ST8
Whole number admitted
225
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Dead_____ __________ '
_____________________ _20
Excommunicated_______________________ ____________
l
Suspended_____________________________ ___________ 11
Removed to other stations__________
____________15
More are residing here from other stations than have
"been removed from the church.
Respectfully submitted,
(Signed)
Wm. Richards
(Signed) Eph. Spaulding
�Qtfr. Richard’s handwriting to middle of page 8 ; from then on,
Mr. Spaulding’s
Annuaal [sic] Report of the Station at Lahaina.
T1835J
In many respects the station at Lahaina has been in deep
affliction the last year.
The health of those two members of
the station, who had been laid aside from the ordinary duties
of the missionary, even from their first arrival on mission
ary ground, as reported the last year, is still- so low as to
share
give little promise for the future. If they t a ® not our
labour here, they surely do our sufferings in no ordinary
degree, and may &t last be more worthy than their associate
of the welcome, ”well done good and faithful servent. 11 Csic|>
They need and deserve the most feiment prayezs of the mission.
Miss Ogden too, was for a number of weeks laid aside from her
ordinary useful labours, by a threatning [sic] disease, but
in the kind Providence of God is apparently quite restored.
The family of Mr. Spaulding has been entered by the great
Cornelius B. during the 6 months & 16 days of
entwined
heart
his residence on earth esstosdsasti himself around the
destroyer.
o;f his parents and those who saw his sufferings and his
smiles, & then took his departure, leaving an affeeting
lesson not only for the parents and the children of the sta
tion, but also for us all.
The other children of the station have most of them,
had severe attacks of disease of threatning [sic] character
croup
which it was feared would end in emHsgix by which the children
of Messrs. Clark and Armstrong were removed.
The remaining
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members of the station have enjoyed their accustomed health,
though Mr. Spaulding has in two or three instances been laid
aside for a few days at a time.
The last of Dec. Mr. and Mrs.
R. were under the necessity of removing from the station at
Wailuku where they remained untill [sis] the 14th of February.
The labours of the station have been on the sabbath
among natives.
1st
A morning prayer meeting at sunrise attended by from
4 to 6 hundred persons at which either a sermon has been
preached, or remarks made from some text of scripture.
2nd
Preaching at. 9 o ’clock A. M.
3rd
Recitations in the verse a day, until February when the
Huliano by Mr. Dibble was instituted.
This class con
sists of 500 persons, more than 3/4 of whom are usually
present.
The class might of consisted of 200 or perhaps 400
more if books could have been obtained.
The exercise
is a very popular one and as far as can be judged by a
few months experience is very profitable. This mode'of
seems
studying the scripture sj^ssbkkkmuch better adapted to
the people and much more profitable than the verse a
day provided the exercise can be attended by a mission
ary, but at out stations where a missionary can not
regularly attend, the verse a day is prefered.
4th
The fourth exercise of the sabbath, preaching at 4 o'
clock P.M.
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5th
eveng (sic)
Class meetings of the church in the ©swaagsp, for the ob
ject of conversing on the subjects of the sermon and on
various subjects.
These class meetings the pastor attend
in rotation when he is able.
The attention to public worship has been pretty uniform
even for years. Though there was a smaller congregation
fore
we
during the M r part of year than/have known at Lahaina
for a length of time.
About the middle of the year the
number greatly increased, but is now rather small again,
though not materially diminished.
The other religions exercises of the week have been mere
ly, the monthly concert, the weekly lecture, a weekly
church meeting.
(sic)
The monitors of the bible class however have meet/once
a week, at which meeting it has been the object as far
as possible to prepare them to communicate instruction
to the classes.
There have been 5 additions to the church during the
year.
Of those who were suspended at the time of the last general
meeting, 2 have been restored.
The rest (who reside in La
haina) remain in the same state, neither exhibiting that
hardaes [sic] which would justify full excommunication, nor
that penitence which ..would justify their restoration to the
privileges of the church.
There have also been several other
Hauwa
new cases of discipline. ..'EtoeKHBa, a native of Huihini who is
(sic)
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so extensively known in the mission and in the Christian
w or 3_d
a man who has heretofore exhibited a uniformity of
Christian,character, such ks has adorned his profession and
rendered him extensively useful—
He too has been guilty
of that crime which so emphatically renders the land a sink
of pollution.
The birth of a child but a few months or weeks
after his marriage made his guilt certain and laid it out before the world.
We rejoice however to be able to say that
such is the evidence of sincere penitence and contritian
that he will probably be restored to his standing in the
church at the next communion.
It ®ay be proper to mention in
particular, the case of the Princess which has pained not our
hearts only but 1000 ‘s of others in various parts of the world.
Immediately after her fall in July last, her pastor ad
dressed her a letter and sent messenger on purpose to be the
bearer of it.
It was kindly received, seamed to receive a
little feeling for the moment, so much so that during the
resume
stay of the messenger Sir hours, she did not
■her wicked
conduct.
Between that time & January of this year several
letters passed between her and her Pastor.
On her arrival at
Lahaina, all the missionaries stood entirely aloof from all
they
that freedom of intercourse with her which/indulge even with
the wicked who are not members of the church.
The Pastor
being at Wailuku and being unable to visit Lahaina at that
time, addressed a letter to the church, stating their duty
to keep entirely aloof from their fallen chief, and avoid all
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familiar intercourse with her while she lived in aasaefcf and
stating fully the scripture reason for this course.
This
letter was read in publick, & seemed to be approved by the
church.
Soon after this the Pastor visited Lahaina for the pur
pose of going on the course of discipline which had been coneven
she
vened by letter. Henrefused however/to see her while -tek&genemy
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was a professed
of Christ. Her case was laid before
the church and a day of fasting and prayer observed on the
occasion, she did not listen to the committee of the ehurch
and a leter of excommunication prepared.and the hour appojntread
ed for it to be <a=eaa*. The prospect of immediate excommunicaishej
tion produced a little feeling so that/spent most of the night
in conversation with some church member, who previous to her
fall had been her companion and adviser.
On the next morning
which was the day appointed for her excommunication, she sent
a message begging that her excommunication might be post
poned, and promising full and immediate reform.
Her request
was granted and in the evening her pastor -had an interview
with her.
She renewed her promise, and when she returned to
her house burnt her cards— threw away her puu-ili— called her
women,iand told them of her promise, & that she intended to
keep it and forbade every kind of immorality in them.
During
the few days she remained at Lahaina and for a short time
after her arrival on Hawaii'/ she kept her promise, and exci
ted some faint hope, that she did really design to reform.
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But the design did not result from a deep sense of her guilt
or her danger, for after a few days she again plunged into
former excesses
her
essesassa®, though in a more limited degree and in a
more private manner than before.
During her whole residence
on Hawaii she showed that she was an enemy of Christ, and a
friend of the world.
As soon as she returned to Maui her
case was again laid before the church and on the 23 of Mai
the letter of final excommunication was publicly read.
Several other members of the church give but too much evi
dence that they have no right there, and several will be sus
pended before another season of communion.
One who has been a long time suspended and who has been
residing at this place, is worthy of excommunication and it
is understood by the church at Lahaina, that the letter will
be given him before we return.
The state of religious feeling has varied considerable
fore
during the year. During the ■IPsrtfesg- part of the year it was
unusually low.
The news of the Princess fall created consid
erable excitement and it was thought a favorable occasion for
a protracted meeting.
After a series of church meetings and
a day of fasting and prayer the 8 days meeting was commenced
on August 14th. It was an interesting season, and though
were
there -wae- none to whom we could point and say, this man was
set (?)
converted, yet we have no doubt but the truth was -art home to
the hearts of some by the Holy Spirit and that when the Lord
shall right up the people he will count that this and that
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born
man were
there. The number of those who attended
worship increased, until about December, when it was nearly
double what it was
traced
to no other
assignment
public -argUHtoa-t of
in June last. The increase could be
cause
-e-euroo but the protracted meeting. Of the
more left undone.
In the month of Sept. Mr. E. visited Lanai
the mission something has been done but
where he spent 9 days, made a tour of the island and made a
geographical survey of it, & preached 12 sermons.
He has also
visited that island 3 times since, whole number of sermons
preached there during the year 27.
It is an encouraging field
of labour.
The number of marriages during the year has been 135.
The greatest evilsfelt in relation to the subject have arisen
from the fact that there are so many native sailors there,
some of whom on the week of their arrival from sea present
themselves for marriage, and perhaps the next week are gone.
Six months or a year after their wives being weary of wait
ing for their return present themselves again for marriage,
and perhaps some 10 or 20 days or more after the right is
solemnized, the former husband returns.
These are serious
evils at Lahaina.
Among the records of the station it should be mentioned
that about the last of Nov. the brethren of Lahaina luna and
Lahaina lalo, met at the house of Mr. Richards to take into
providentially
consideration the case of Mr. Dibble who had been
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called to this place, for medical aid.
Considering
tlie state of his own health and the circumstances of his
family it was thought inexpedient he should return to Hilo.
Similar reasons lay in the way of his joining the station at
&
Wailuku or Haiku,/we thought it inexpedient that he should
convene a new station, without a prospect of its being per
manently maintained, even though we might have selected a
spot which would have been favorable to his health.
We
therefore advised him to remain at Lahainaluna until general
meeting, and do what he could to assist the teachers of the
high school.
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As it regards the schools of Lahaina & the districts
belonging to that station, under the care of native teachers,
it may be said that little has been done the past year & of
that little no definite account can be given, as we have not
marked
-saake-dr the progress of their labors by examinations as has
been customary in times past.
We have ceased to expect much
from many of the old teachers & have taken no pains to revive
the schools nominally under their care.
The most efficient
aid has been rendered by 8 or 9 scholars from the High School
who have taught in Lahaina, Haanapali, £)loalu & Oukmnehame.
Three of the number have had schools in the two districts
last mentioned on Saturdays & have engaged in S. S. on the
Sabbath.
On Saturdays they have had two schools one for children
& another for adults, but the number of their scholars cannot
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be reported.
On the Sabbath, one has had. a school in the
"hull anoTI just before the morning service of about 80
scholars, another has had a school on sab. eve in which the
"Ai o ka la" has been reeited,
Immediately after the morning
service, all have assisted in the children’s S. s. consisting
of about 100 scholars.
They have assisted also in hearing
the recitations in the Ai o ka la school immediately preceeding the afternoon service.
After the recitations an explanation of the verses re
cited has been given in a catechetical manner.
At first from
2 to 250 committed to the verse for the day & were pretty
regular in their attendance till their teacher was obliged to
leave them by the return of ships.
Since that time the school has been nearly extinct.
For various reasons we have had no station school for
teachers the past year.
Our efforts in teaching have been
bestowed principally upon the children.
Miss Ogden as usual has been indefatigable in her labors.
Immediately after the last gen. meet, shte3commenced a school
of 150 scholars, about 60 in writing- 30 in arithmetic & all
in reading & learning to read.
Prom 8 till 11 A. M. were the
hours for school, tho a little more than two hours were usu~
ally spent in the schoolrooms.
She had also a daily school of about 60 girls from 2 to
4 P. A. [sic] for sewing & writing.
Both these schools were
continued 5 days in the week, with little diminution of
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interest- till about the last of Kept, when they were dis
missed on account sickness in Mr. Spaulding’s family.
Mr. Spaulding resumed'the childrens school with 150
scholars, about the first of March which continued to average
120 till some time in April.
After the death of his child the childrens school was
divided.
All the girls who were able to read, including most
of the writers, from 70 to 80 were taught in sewing & writing
by Miss Ogden.
All who were unable to read, except a dozen
or more of large boys whose attendance was very Inconstant,
were under Mr. Spauldings care.
The number was about 60 tho
the average attendance would not exceed 40. Theseoschools were
continued till just before.we left for gen. meeting.
The S. S. of which Miss Ogdem has had the charge for a
long time, during the past year has been under the joint care
of Dr. Chapin & Miss Ogden.
the eare of Dr. Chapin alone.
For nearly. 6 months it was in
The school for nearly 3 months
consisted of about 150 scholars.
Since that time the scho
lars have been inconstant & the school has been more or less
prosperous.
Except during the visits of ships preaching has been
maintained pretty regularly at Oloalu principaly by Mr. Spauld
ing.
The walls of a new stone meetinghouse 55 ft. by 28-
10 ft. high & nearly 5 ft thick have been put up in 4 days.
The walls were laid up in boxes, using earth instead of limesuperintended
whegfr-i-ntended by Mr. Spaulding. The stones were collected
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almost entirely fey the women.
As the house stands nearly on
the dividing line of Oloalu & Oukumehame, the people of each
district perform their appropriate half of the labor.
It is
designed to have it plastered & thatched with ti leaf & when
finished will answer the two fold purpose of meetinghouse &
schoolhouse.
It is believed that ways can be devised by which
the people may defray the whole expense without applying to
the mission.
They have a mind to build a house for the Lord
& if they can have anyone to guide them it may soon be finish
ed.
_ \% 3^
In regard to seamen the same may be said in general, that
we reported at the last meeting, tho there have not been as
many ships at Lahaina during the last year as there were the
year previous.
Last fall there were 45.
This spring there
have been 10 or 12 .
Our intercourse with seamen has been cordial & pleasant,
distance
That
of feeling which has formerly been manifest
seems to be gradually subsiding so that now no obstacle lies
in the way to prevent intercourse with them to any extent
desirable.
As there have been no ardent spirits to be ob
tained, except in such small quantities & so secretly as to
be seldom noticed & as they have little to divert their
attention, aside from their ordinary business, a wide door has
been open for doing them good.
Meetings have generally been well attended.
There have
^ been with some exceptions, three sermons a week, one on the
sabbath at the meeting house & the other two on board ships,.
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generally on sabbath & Wednesday or Thursday evenings*
Meetings on board have become so common or perhaps we may say
so popular that no hesitation is felt in asking any master
for his ship, for this purpose.
This pleasant state of things
we attribute in part to our reading rooms which continue to
be acceptable & consequently popular.
The cost of the buildings were estimated at $750, but
at the close of the season last fall we took the subscription
paper from the table having reeieved tsid enough as we
supposed to cover the whole expense of making no allowance
for our time & trouble.
We have had a respectable supply of papers istpon the
tables of which a number of files have been furnished by the
Atheneum
Barllet
at Andover & by vote of that society
are to be continued.
A valuable box of books & tracts for seamen estimated at
(sic)
$50 wa.s reeieved by the Velocity from the Am. T. Soc.
(sic)
Another box of Bibles &c. has just been reeieved by the
Hellespont
■¥e4^e=sfeottt from the Philadelphia Bible boc.
A circulating library has been commenced among seamen.
The books are loaned by the season to be returned.
Bibles
& tracts have been often called for & a considerable quantity
of each have been distributed, but as no particular account
has been kept, no definite report can be made.
We have reeieved three letters from the Secretary of
the Am. S. 0?. Soc. in two of which he intimates that at no
distant period a seamans chaplain may be stationed at Lahaina.
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Preaching has been maintained regularly at Oloalu &
Ukumehame, except when ships were at anchor.
The population
of the two districts, according to the recent census is but
718— Oloalu 440 & Ukumehame 278.
This is 586 less than the
number printed in the geography which was doubtless incor
rect .
A stone meetinghouse 53 ft by 28 thatched with ti leaf,
plastered & whitewashed, will be dedicated as soon as the
sash & doors can be made.
The pulpit is to be, not a box
high in the air after the old fashion, but simply a platform
2 ft. high with a table upon it.
The house has been built voluntarily by the people,
without the authority of the chiefs, or aid from them or the
mission except that Hoapili gives $15 which is the wages of
a sailor’s iniquity.
The schools in these two districts have been under the
care of two scholars of the High School, one of whomehas been
dismissed for laziness & the other, am^ active efficient
young man to whom we had looked as a permanent teacher for
both districts, is found to be corrupt having been long
& repeatedly guilty of the sin of the land.
The schools are now placed under a recent graduate of
the High School"& arrangements are made for immediately
building two stone school houses, one in each district &
-•-also a stone house for the teacher at about equal distances
between them.
The stones for this house have been collected
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with the Ai o ka la,
•
In Lahaina, Miss Ogden commenced school immediately
after the last gen. meet, which was continued without interruption till sometime in April.
(?)
She taught from 8 till 11
o*clock A. M. .5 days in the week & had an average of 120
scholars.
Fifty of this number are pretty good readers— 20 were
learning their letters & the other 50 may be regarded as
learning to read.
They were more punctual in their attendance than usual,
& in this respect gave better satisfaction to their teacher,
tho their general improvement is about the same as in former
years.
She had another school also of 40 small girls from 2
to 4 o'clock P. M. 5 days in a week, learning to read & sew.
This was continued till April.
The Sabbath School under Miss Ogden’s care has been
continued during the year., 2s has been in a more interesting
state than formerly.
The scholars 160 in number have been
more regular & punctual in their attendance.
Thirty used the Ai o ka la after it was recieved.
The
remainder who were able, committed & recited, the scripture
handbills, one each week.
more oral inspection.
Those unable to read recieved
Dr. Chapin assisted in the Sabbath
School till he left Lahaina.
Miss Ogden has also met the maternal Association every
Saturday afternoon, till the other schools were dismissed.
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This consists of 15 members.
Mis. Baldwin occasionally met
in the As. with Miss Ogden & for a few weeks had a school
of about 20 females in reading, arithmetic & sewing.
Mr. Spaulding commenced school on the 28 of Dec. 1m of
such young men & lads principally as were attending no school.
\
There are more than 60 on the list tho the average number
would not exceed 45.
After the examination on the 9th of
March, some of the small scholars left, but the larger
scholars averaging about 30 were quite regular in their
attendance & made satisfactory improvement.
This was con
tinued till just before the teacher left for gen. meeting.
Some young men objected to attending school because they
wished some time or other to go to sea & they supposed that
if they united with the school, there would be an obstacle
in their way, as they took it for granted that they could
not then go without the consent of their teacher.
After the Ai o ka la arrived, fir.. Spaulding had a school
every evening in the sailors Reading Room.
For some ti#e
the house was full to over-flowing, each reciting the verse
Sc. but some grew negligent & when we left for gen. meet,
the school had dwiiad&Mt'tolless than 20 .
At the examination of the schools in Lahaina on the 9th
of March 1271 were examined, 936 of whom could more or less
intelligibly.
This is a larger number of readers than has
-been found at any previous examination.
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Since that time in view of another examination, which
was then appointed, there has been considerable interest in
the native schools, both among the teachers & scholars &
a great demand for books.
A second examination wkscheld on the 23 ult. & the
appearances were much the same as at the examination in
March.
Of 7 graduates from the High School, one is to have
the charge of the Princess school wherever she may be, one
is stationed at Oloalu & Ukumehame, one at Kaanapali, one at
Lanai & three in Lahaina; one at each end where arrangements
are made for building two dobie schoolhouses & David Malo
at his own residence where he designs to have a boarding
school for boys who shall live & sleep in his own yard & be
under his constant watch & care.
Seamen.
It gives us pleasure to state, that, during the past
year we have witnessed much encouragement to continued effort
for the benefit of seamen.
From July 25 to Dec. 39 ships
visited Lahaina & during the last two months 9 more making
48 during the year.
two weeks.
Each ship on an average has spent about
There has been preaching to seamen three times
a week with rarely an exception; twice on board ship & once
at our meetinghouse immediately after the morning service
jon the Sabbath.
These meetings have been well attended,
especially those on board ship.
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The Masters have uniformly manifested a willingness to
have preaching on board their ships & have generally taken
much pains to make suitable accomodations.
have been really splendid.
whatever the motive nay be.
Some preparations
They manifest a pleasing interest
One Master suggested that they
must all unite & have a light canvass awning made for the pur
pose.
The Lord has been pleased to bless the means of his own
operations
appointment & last fall we were permitted
to see
of the Holy Spirit in the conversion of sinners.
The revival
dif such it may be called, commenced at sea through the distri
bution of a few tracts by a pious Master.
Capt. B. spoke a ship & Oapt. R. made him a visit.
As
he was about to return, Capt. B. requested permission to
send a few tracts on board for his men.
But says Capt. R.
11It will do no good- they will not Bead them- they are a hard
set of fellows" .
"Let me write each man’s name on the cover11
says Capt. B. "& I guess they will read them.
He did so &
one had entitled, "The incorrigible sinner forewarned of his
doomT1, happened to be addressed to the most incorrigible on
board.
God blessed it to his conviction & soon to his joy
ful conversion.
When his eyes were opened & he had found
peace in believing, he was faithful to warn his ship mates,
some of whom became serious & one in a few days hopefully
converted.
Capt. R. soon spoke another ship of which his brother was
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Master & the newly converted sailors told their fellowseamen what a Saviour they had found & warned them to flee
from the wrath to come at the same time giving the tracts
which God had blessed to them.
God blessed this effort also
& when the ships arrived at Lahaina, two on board each ship
others
were rejoicing in hope & some -fehoy were serious. These con
verts appeared uncommonly well.
Gapt. W. arrived about the same time under serious im
pressions & we labored hard & in vain to remove his diffi
culties & help him to the Saviour.
A meeting was held on Wednesday evening on board Capt.
B.'s ship, where after a short sermon, Capt. B. his pious
carpenter, a pious sailor, & the four new converts addressed
the audience.
Awful solemnity prevailed.
The Holy Ghost was
there & Capt. #„ who had shrunk away into one corner was cut
to the heart.
He returhed to his ship, entered his state
room, fell upon his kneBs & contrary to his expectations soon
found the Savior to be precious.
He scarcely knew what to
got
make of it, but he felt so full of joy & praise that he
but little rest that night.
At daylight he hastened to tell
Capt. B. how glorious the Savior appeared to him & how happy
he felt.
They both kneeled down in the cabin, the door &
skylight being open & rendered thanks to God for his pardon
ing mercy.
Eeesoon came on shore & as he entered Mr. Spaulding's
house, he Was so overcome with joy that he was unable to
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to speak hut shrunk away into his seat sobbing aloud.
Before
he had time to tell what the Lord had done for him, he began
to preach the gospel.to an aged sailor who had called for a
bible.
"Old man" says Capt. W. uy°U- must repent— you can re
pent— don't.say you can’t.
I was decieved.
ask him.
I thought I could noty but, 0 ,
God has helped me & he will help you if you
0 I rejoice in the Savior.
to judgment-—you will soon die.
Old man you are going
0 go right to the Savior now—
don’t make any excuse11. In this simple strain the gospel was
preached & the old sailor sat silent in tears.
The next Friday evening a large congregation assembled
on board another ship, where after a sermon Capt. W. looking
up to God for strength, related in a most feeling manner what
God had done for his soul & urged all to flee to Savior.
He said he had been out of health most of the voyage
dut was stupid, scarcely thinking about his soul or death.
But God restored him to health contrary to his expectations
& his surprising goodness to him affected his heart till he
became serious & was led to inquire what he should do to be
saved.
Some others were more or less serious tho we find scareeFew
ly time~"bo find them out before they were gone,
seamen
expressed hopes whose minds were first impressed while their
ship was laying at Hilo.
Was not very clear.
The evidence of their conversion
This spring we have heard of no partieutho ’
lar cases of seriousness,
our meetings have been well
attended as usual.
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Bibles Tracts & papers have been often called for & more
than 50 volumes lent out from the circulating library.
We are encouraged to expect more Bibles & testaments from
the Philadelphia Bible Soc. & also Tracts & books from the Am.
Tract Society.
Our reading rooms are constantly visited & are obviously
acceptable & afford a great accommodation to our sea faring friends.
Some donations have been made for keeping the buildings in repair,
tho 1 the subscription was taken from the table more than two years
ago.
Temperance is making increasing progress among seamen.
Of
the 48 ships we know of no one which has had ardent spirits on
board for sale in the Pacific tho’ we have not been particular to
inquire of every ship.
If any have had it for this purpose they
have been ashamed to acknowledge it & the fact has been concealed.
Ship owners are becoming wiser.
Pew (?) comparatively put
the pbison on board & ship masters, during the past year have done
a little at Lahaina to aid the cause of Temperance in the Pacific.
Ardent spirits had been conveyed to Hawaii in a small schooner
for sale & the owner not being able to dispose of it all there &
having about two barrels left, declared that he would sell to
Seamen at Lahaina 1,law or no law".
This information reached La
haina & the chiefs before the vessel came to anchor.
As soon as
one of the orniers of the vessel came on shore, he was called to
the Captains Reading Room & assured by some of the masters that if
he sold one drop of it to their men., they would unite in a body go on board his schooner & pour his liquor into the Sea.
The
vessel was also watched & there is no evidence that any was sold.
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On Sunday &c. (see printed letter)
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Three hundred copies of this letter were immediately printed
& all have "been circulated.
After the Fliberty Gibbett ( l) left some natives were detected
with ardent spirits & were fined.
During the last month the 3d officer of a ship while walking
on shore was asked by a native if he wished for some rum.
He con
ducted the foreigner to a retired place among the sugar canes &
as he was about to pour out a glass, says the Officer.
pour it out.
He took the bottle & says "tabu" .
"Let me
The native.attempted
to escape but the bottle was carried to the chiefs & the native
detected & fined six dollars.
About the same hour in the day the steward of the same ship,
who had broken into the rum & drawn a bottle of brandy from the
Captains medicine, became intoxicated, fell from the railing &
launched from time into eternity drunk I He never rose & on account
of the strength of the current his body was not obtained.
Two days after a sailor from the same ship stoped (1) a shore
over night - two natives sold him three dollars worth of rum i.e.
12 glasses.
This produced intoxication.
He became noisy & trouble
some - was taken to the fort & put in irons.
The next morning he
told the chiefs that he got the rum on board his own ship & they
decided that if the rum came from the ship, the Master should pay
6 dollarsj but if from the shore & the sailor would tell who sold
it to him, the six dollars should not be required.The seaman knowing that if he persevered in his falsehood the
6 dollars would come from his own pocket, pointed out the two men
who sold it to him & the next day they were publicly flogged in
the fort.
(Read before general meeting at Hon.
June 8 th 1836 )
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Lahaina Report!
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On Sunday, the 15th. inst. the $libbei>y Gibbet^ a small schooner,
arrived from Oahu, with ardent spirits for sale among seaman (1).
On
monday evening, a number of sailors were found to be intoxicated,
and to day, the number rapidly increased; whereupon, the following
letter, drawn up by the Masters and signed by all then in Port, was
presented to the Governor.
Lahaina, Nov. 17, 1835.
Governor Hoapili,
We, the undersigned, have come to this good country to refresh
our ships with fruit and vegetables.
These we find in great abun
dance, for which, we leave you our dollars and cloth.
We do not
any of us like to go to Oahu, because bad.men sell rum to our
seaman ( l).
We like your Island, because you have a good law,
preventing the sale of this poison.
But now, after lying here in
peace for some weeks, a vessel has come among us from Oahu with rum
for sale.
Our seaman ( I) are drinking it, and trouble is commencing.
We now look to you for protection.
lie think, as these men have
violated your wholesome regulations, and given your visitors so
much trouble, they should be punished by fine, or otherwise, and
sent immediately from the Island, after having all the rum thrown
into the Ocean.
Franklin Riddell.
Christopher Allyn.
Philetus Pierson,
Henry Lewis*
Charles G. Barnard.
George Alley.
David Baker.
Isaac Brayton.
John Henderson.
Edward Harding.
Timothy W. Riddell
Rodolphus N. Swift.
James Pierson.
Elijah Davis.
George Haggerty.
James B. Wood.
Richard Weeden.
George Allen#
�Printed letter continued
LAHAINA Nov. 18.
This morning, the C-ovemor has sent forth
a crier prohibiting all the natives, henceforth, from trading with
the Flibberty Gibbett, until the Captain has paid damages.
The
schooner was ordered away last night, by Government, and has left
the place, leaving a prospect of usual quiet to the ships which
remain.
Lahainaluna.
High School press*
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STATISTICAL TABLE OP MARRIAGES, SCHOOLS AND
CHURCHES, FOR THE YEAR BHDIHG JUNE, 1835'
Marriages .
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________________ ______________________ 135
Readers. ___________ _______________________ ___________1813
Learners. __ _________
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2543
Admitted to the church on profession. _______________
Admitted on recommendation. .
Candidates. __________ •
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________________________ _____
227
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Whole number admitted from the formation of the church. 234
Removed. _____
Excommunicated.
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_________ .. .
Died.
Pres ent number of chur ch members.
__________ ____
17
2
20
195
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�Report of the station at Lahaina
for the year ending May 31s^ 1836
At the commencement of the year the station at Lahaina
was occupied by Messrs Richards, Spaulding, Chapin and their
families together with Miss Ogden.
Mrs. Baldwin also with her
children took up her residence there during the absence of her
husband at the Society Islands.
On the return of Mr. Baldwin,
Dr. Chapin being about to remove, he went into Dr. Chapin's
house, where he remained until the fore part of March.
During
his residence there he attended to the medical wants of the
station, went out to preach at out stations perhaps 5 or 6 times,
assisted in reading 10 or 12 proof sheets, and preached at the
station a few times at the station ( I) when the other members
were absent.
As however he was not located by the mission at
Lahaina he will probably himself report the particulars of his
labors.
The general division of labor at the station has been
essentially the same as in former years.
Mr. Spaulding has attended to the English department of
labor for seamen, has also managed the out station at Oloalu,
has during most of the year had a school of one hour for the
three eldest children of Mr. Richards, and during a part of
the year has had the care of a station school (.)
The particu
lars of his labors will be detailed In their proper connections.
Mr. Richards has attended principally to the pastoral duties
of the station, and during about 7§- months of the year has de
voted a portion of each day to translations.
The last 2
months
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Besides these parts of
the New Testament which were behind last year, the Book of
Esther has been translated, the book of Isaia ( i)> and the
greater Part of Jeremiah, the two former of which have been
printed and Jeremiah as far as the 32nd Chap.
Genesis and
Ezra, the translations of brethren Thurston and Bishop have
been.reviewed, not however with that particular care which has
been customary but rather in conformity with the views of the
mission as expressed at the last General meeting, viz. that the
parts of the Old Testament might be printed at the discretion
of the translators without being reviewed.
And the books
translated at Lahaina have not been reviewed except as they
passed under the observation of those who assisted in reading
the proof sheets.
The first 20 chapters of Exodus have been
revised for the press and a part of the remainder translated.
This would have been finished before unassigned books were
taken up, had the state of the printing department allowed of
its being printed immediately.
There have been married at Lahaina during the year past
117 eouplev-
Much trouble has been experienced In consequence of
frequent applications to be married from persons who ought not
to be united In marriage*
Ex. Old men with young girls - old
women with boys - church members with partners of no established
character, or none that is good.
Children of not more perhaps
than 12 years old have been brought forward by the chiefs as
suitable to be married, and the irregularity of the holokahikis
is still a sourse of much trouble.
It is desirable that this subject be examined by the
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Mission, and a uniform rule of practice adopted.
The census of the island of Maui has been taken as correct
ly perhaps as can be expected until some of the present preju
dices of the people are removed.
The population according to
the present cans us amounts to 24,248., instead of 35,000 as
published in the Geography.
The reason of this difference Is, first, the over rating
of the people at the last cenees ( i) Second, the under rating
in the present census. 3d- A real decrease by death, and 4^-tl
A migration of the people to Oahu.
The proportionate number of births and deaths on the
island has not been satisfactorily ascertained.
At Oloalu and Oukamehame, they have been equal, viz 11
births & 11 deaths.
On the island of Lanai there have been
since Jan. 9 births and 19 deaths.
It is hoped that these records may be kept more correct
ly hereafter.
During the year there have been received to the church
on their own profession 15 persons, and 5 have been received
from other churches.
Nine persons now stand propounde ( 1).
Eighteen persons have {been] dismissed and received by other
churches, and five have been excommunicated.
Of those who were suspended last year 3 have been restored,
and two more will probably be restored at the next communion.
N
To the number suspended five new ones have been added.
Whole number, received to the church in Lahaina
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On recommendation
12
Whole number dism issed
31
of •
Do
4
241
On profession
Do
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253
26
Deaths
Excommunicated
7
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7
Ho. now suspended
182
Now i n regular standing
To enter p a r tic u la r ly Into the cases of excommunication
would requ ire more time and room than can be allowed to a mere
sta tio n re p o r t.
The number of children b a p tize d during the year i s 2 0 .
As to the general sta te of the church d uring the y e a r , i t
may be remarked that the lin e of d is t in c t io n between those who
r e a lly love the Savio u r, and those who do n o t, appears to be
growing more d i s t i n c t ; and it C^s a3 matter of p a r tic u la r
g r a t if ic a t io n th at those who have f a l l e n the past year have been
persons whose character was previously su s p ic io u s .
As fa r as
we know the character of every in d iv id u a l which stood f a i r
f o r p ie ty at the beginning of the y e a r ,
stands f a i r still*.
The g en e ra l sta te o f religio us fe e lin g was thought during
the last w inter to b e more than usually encouraging,
and had we
not been so fre q u en tly disappointed we should have been con
siderably animated.
Meetings were, attended in greater numbers,
and Some of the church appeared more than usu ally aw ake.
We
do t h in k ,
that
and f e e l
considerable degree of co n fid e n c e,
at the great day when &ea*ts sh all be re v e a le d , i t w i l l appear,
that notwithstanding a l l
the overwhelming in iq u ity which pre-
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v a i l s , the utter f a l l of some of our church members, the un
ch ristia n conduct of others, and the u nfaith fu ln ess
of a l l ,
there have s t i l l been a number of conversions during the
year.
And we have cheering hope that some of the domestics
of our own fam ilies are among the number.
already propounded to the church.
Of these o n e 'h a s been
There have been a few rather
s t r ik in g cases of persons who have been v io le n t opposers, who
now now ( 1) appear to b e truly p e n ite n t.
have been conducted as u su a l.
R eligio us meetings
The Bible class r e c it in g the
Huliano during the la s t part of the la st y e a r , and Ai o ka la
during the fore part of the present y e a r ,
consists
of 467 persons,
and o f these about §- or 4 / 5 are u su ally present at the same
tim e .
The out station a t Lanai is s t i l l prom ising.
v is it e d during the year 6 times by M r. R ich ard s,
I t has been
and tw ice by
M r. Baldw in, and 48 sermons have been preached to congregations
of something more than 300 persons.
We know of no p lac e where
labors appear to b e better rewarded than at L a n a i.
The opinion
of M r. Baldwin f u l l y corresponds w ith that of Mr. Richards in
th is re sp ec t.
There is a very marked lin e of d i s t i n c t io n between
the enemies & the frien d s of tr u th on that Is l a n d , and w it h in
a few months there has been a large increase of the l a t t e r .
There is quite a number who shew suoh a knowledge of the s c r ip
tures as to prove that they have not been careless readers* o®
h ea v e n s.
Among those re ce iv ed to the church the past year
4 were from Lanai — now 7 church members on the i s l a n d , and
one more is propounded.
So large a proportion of the whole
population have renounced the use of tobacco that i t i s very
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d i f f i c u l t fo r those to escape detectio n who would be g la d to
use i t .
Owing to the neglect of the Gov. the census of Lan ai has
not been taken.
The c a l l fo r books at the st a tio n d u rin g the year has b een
encouraging.
None of consequence are on hand, and many more
would have been s o ld ,
The Kuma
could we have obtained them.
Haw aii has been c a lle d for to some ex te n t.
About 150 copies are read, and by those who read them, they are
p rized
much ffrsrsrx-gr'g#, as much as any books we c ir c u la te .
{On back}
Statio n report
presented by Mr.
Richards
1836
�Report of Lahaina S ta tio n . 1857
It
is w e l l known toy a l l the brethren of the M is s io n ,
that
the station a t Lahaina has suffered great changes, in regard
to labourers, during the past y e a r .
Some of these changes were
p a r t ia lly an ticip ated at the la st general m eeting, & some of
them were wholly unexpected.
Both its located m is s io n a r ie s ,
who have been e f f i c i e n t labourers in past y e a r s , & have found
t h e ir hands f u l l of work, have le f t the f i e l d for Am erica.
At the close of the last general meeting Mr. R ic h a r d s , w it h
most of h is fa m ily , w ent,
spent some weeks.
for a v i s i t ,
to K au ai, where they
When they returned they staid perhaps a
month at La h ain a, when they sa ile d for Haw aii & made the tour
of that is la n d .
After they returned again to th eir s t a t io n ,
they had but a short season to spend & that f i l l e d w ith the
b ustle of preparation f o r a voyage, when an opportunity of
embarking for America was offered on board the w h a le sh ip ,
Danl W ebster, Capt. Philetus P ie rso n .
28th & reembarked at Honolulu D ec. 8 t h .
They le ft Lahaina Nov.
The short voyages about
the islands had been of great service to Mrs. R . ' s
h ealth -
& they hoped fo r much further b e n e fit to i t from the long
voyage to Am erica.
The business w ith whh Mr. R . was charged
by the m ission had g reatly augmented in importance in h i s v iew ,
So that they embarked w ith very f u l l con fid ence, that they were
in the path of duty.
As a pledge of t h e ir speedy return to the
i s l d s _, they l e f t the two youngest of their 8 c h ild r e n ;
the
elder of the two in Mr. G re en ’ s fam ily ; the tender i n f a n t , torn
from its mother’ s embrace, b efo re i t was 8 months o ld , under
Miss Ogden's c a r e ,
in our own fa m ily .
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Mr. Spaulding, on his return to Lahaina from our l a s t general
m eeting, immediately engaged in w r it in g communications to Am
e r ic a , & in other la b o u rs, whh, together w it h his previous
precarious state of h e a l t h ,
proved too much for him , & probably
commenced the breaking down of h is h e a l t h .
He was soon p ros
t r a t e , & was prostrate & convalescent, by t u r n s , & constantly
engaged in plans f o r doing good, & in labours B^rond h i s strength
t i l l D e c . 3^-, when he was taken w it h bleeding at the lu n g s .
This was repeated several times whh reduced him very lo w .
viewed h is
state as c r i t i c a l , & wished him,
for h is own sa k e,
& h is fa m ily 1s , to have a ll the m edical advice, we
him .
h elp.
We accordingly sent for Doct.
I
fu r n is h
Judd who came soon to h is
His urgent advice was for b ro .
Spaulding to take
a voyage
This he consented to do; - but the only opportunity whh seemed
p ra ctica b le fo r doing t h i s , was on board a w haleship bound to
Am erica.
He accordingly embarked w ith h is fam ily on board the
A d e lin e , C apt. Buckley, D ec. 26 th , less than one month a f t e r
M r. Richards had le f t the s t a t io n ; & they reembarked at Honolulu
on the last day of the y ea r.
As for m yself, i t is w ell known, that two years
since I
went to Lahaina to try the effec t of the climate on my lu n g s .
Last year I went partly fo r the same re aso n , & p artly on account
of some of the fam ilies who were a f f l ic t e d w ith s ic k n e s s .
From
the time of general meeting to D ec. of la st y e a r , I devoted my
time almost exclusively to m edicine.
The last of Nov. I
commenced preaching a g a in ; & from that time to this I have con
stantly preached once, & generally tw ice ,
n a tig e or E n g l is h .
When b r o .
each week,
either in
Spaulding was p ro stra te d , a ll
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as w e ll as the
other cares of the statio n & the oversight of the congregation.
There
seemed to be no other way but fo r me to f i l l
the p lac e
as w ell as I ca ; - & contrary to my own expectation,
as w e ll
as that of others, in stea d of breaking down under the w eight
of care whh had previously been d ivided between three men,
my health has gradually improved from that day to t h i s .
For
the la st four months, except when I have overdone i n speaking
or s in g in g , or been two much exposed to a damp atmosphere, I
have had no uncomfortable fe e lin g at the lu n g s .
I have great
occasion to bless God f o r h is in te rp o sitio n in my b e h a l f , &
d esire to f e e l my increased o b ligatio n to be more devoted to
him in fu t u r e .
So far as means have been used for my r e s to r a
tio n thus f a r , I
say, I have taken but littlejmedicine -
scarcely any at a l l .
The means have been 1st a s t r ic t l y tem
perance d ie t - one of the lig h te s t k in d ,
avoiding meat almost
e n t ir e ly , & using m ilk as far as po ssib le - 2^- Bathing in cold
w ater every day. & 3^ What has perhaps done as much as any
thing e ls e , the pressure of secular cares, whh has kept me
almost constantly on my f e e t , during the day.
Miss Ogden has continued her labours as usual a t the sta
t i o n , & been perhaps more exclusively devoted to the work of
teaching than h e re to fo re .
Her schools have b e e n ,
one fo r g ir ls
taught i n the fo reno o n, & one for boys, taught in the afternoon
each 5 days i n the w eek.
for most of the y e a r ,
In the g i r l s ’ school,
there have been
60 or more scholars; & la t e ly they have
increased to 130 pretty regular attendants.
In the b o y s 1
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scho o l, there have been , most of the y e a r , about 50 - & la t e ly
th eir number has Increased to 8 0 .
Miss 0 . has had i n b o th these
schools two female & two male a s s is t a n t s ;
the two la t t e r from
the High School, & one of them among their most promising
grad u ates.
The branches taught in both these schools have been
r e a d in g , w r it in g , arithm etic & geography, & the elementary
books.
Miss 0 . has also a Sab.
school every Sab. morning at
8 , where the elementary works,, reading Scrip tu re, & the D a ily
Food are attended t o .
Mrs. Baldwin has also had a school of g i r l s ,
fo r the most part of the y e a r , s u b je c t , at tim es,
to in t e r r u p
tions from fam ily cares & sickness of our ch ild r e n .
Both of
them have also engaged, to some extent, in teaching the women
& g ir l s the art of sew ing.
Before b r o . Spaulding was la id a s id e , he had p lan n ed , &
considerably advanced the b u ild in g o f , four doby school h o u ses,
two in d iffe re n t parts of Lahaina, one at Ciualu & one at Qkumeham e..
Something has been gradually doing to these b u ild in g s
s in c e ; but none of them has as yet been completed.
b u i l t by the people themselves, req u irin g l i t t l e
the m ission;
They are
or no aid from
or rath er they are b u il t by the c h ie f s ,
the poalua
or c h ie f s 1 working day having been regularly turned to that ob
je c t .
For these school houses, we have already se lec ted 5 or
4 graduates
of the High School, who are a ll members of the chh.
Some of them have commenced their schools,
though the houses
are u n fin is h e d , & most of them, we th in k , prom ise, as teach ers,
to do w e l l .
Last year the chh people of Lahaina purchased lumber to
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f i n i s h t h e ir central stone school house; & this year the chh
h a v e , w it h t h e ir own h an d s, la id in it a good f l o o r , & also
made seats & desks t i l l th eir lumber was exhausted.
also on the N .
The people
end of Lanai have been b u ild in g themselves a
stone school house, whh is probably near completion.
They have
also b u ilt a grass house nearer the centre of that i s l a n d ,
intended for meetings on the Sabbath.
Mr. Richards appointed
a Sabbath to go & dedicate this b u ild in g to the Lord; but the
ship c a lle d for him too q u ic k .
I also once or twice appointed
a time to go, but medical c a lls from the fa m ilie s prevented my
g o in g .
There are two teachers on L a n a i, from the H igh Sch ool,
who are doing something to enlighten the p eo p le , & t r a in the
ch ild ren - but there have been no examinations of sc ho o ls,
connected w ith Lahaina S ta tio n , during the past y e a r .
The region of Kaan apali, 10 miles N. of La h ain a ,
together
w ith the schools t h e r e , have been under the care of Mr. C la r k ;
& the fo llo w in g is his report of them.
Preaching has been m aintained by Mr. Clark at Kaanapali
during the y e a r .
the same p lac e .
He has also conducted a B ible class at
A Sab.
from the High School.
500.
school has been taught by a graduate
The usual congregation has been about
There has been no sp ecial a tte n tio n to r e l i g i o n during
the y e a r.
There are 14 chh members at this s t a tio n connected
w ith the chh at L a h ain a .
One chh member has been under d i s c i
p lin e w ith m anifest b e n if it
( i) to h im se lf & o th ers.
A good meeting house has been fin is h e d & dedicated during
the y e a r .
I t is 78 feet by 30 i n s id e , b u i l t of d o b ie s , w ith a
good t i le a f r o o f, glass w indow s, p u l p it , & c .
The expenses de-
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frayed by the people themselves*
A good school of children has been kept here by the grad
uate from the High School.
He has also several other schools
under h is superintendance.
His in flu en ce has been h ig h ly sal%
utary in various w ays.
He has recently united w ith the chh at
L ah ain alun a.
He has r e c d a few dollars in books & clo th from
the m issio n .
The s iz e of the congregation at Lahaina has been
much the same as i n years p ast.
have been the same as formerly;
A ll the exercises on the Sab.
the Wed. le c tu r e , S a b . chh
prayer meeting, & monthly concert have been continued as b e fo r e .
A nativ e member of the chh has gone once each fo r t n ig h t , during
most of the y e a r ,
on the S a b .,
to O lu a lu , 6 miles d i s t a n t , where
a congregation has met of about 2 0 0 , & where a good meeting
house of dobies has been fin is h e d & dedicated during the past
year.
The Sab. School a t Lahaina,
embracing perhaps 40 0 or 5 0 0 ,
who consist of the chh & more serious part of the congregation,
have attended every S a b . to the Ai o ka l a ; the te a c h e rs , 15
i n number, I have instructed regularly each Teus.
( I) evening;
& they have each met their c l a s s e s , on some later day of the
w eek,
at such time & place as each has found co nvenient.
Mr. Hitchcock & h is
family re sid e d at Lahaina during the
months of D ec . Jan . & most of F e b .
During th is tim e, he did
the largest share o f the p reaching.
A ft e r h is return to Molo
k a i , Mr. Andrews preached re g u la r ly ,
at L a h a ln a la lo ,
(except
when h is place was su p plied by Mr. C l a r k ,) two sermons on the
S a b ., leaving generally to me, a fter the commencement of sh ip
ping season, one sermon on S a b . e ith e r in Eng. or native§
& the Wed. le c tu re .
These d u t ie s , together w ith attending
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the prayer meetings & sabbath sc h o o l, the medical wants of the
fa m ilie s & n a t iv e s , In d iv id u a l c a l l s , the sale of books, d i s t r i
b u tio n of Kumu Haw aii & Kumu K a m a lii, the numerous secular cares
of the statio n , & superintending the b u ild in g of school houses
& c . & , a fter the 9th of March, g iv in g a large share of my time
to the concerns of the sh ipp ing , a l l these have kept upon me
about as heavy a pressure of business as I ever found r e s t in g on
me at any time of my l i f e .
through i t ,
But the Lord has enabled me to go
w ith more ease & comfort than I cd have exp ected. -
There has been no regular d is c ip lin e of the chh at Lah ain a
attempted, since the departure of M r. R ich ard s; & none admitted
to the communion of the chh.
Some offences have been known in
the chh - but none o f a very aggravated character have come to
lig h t.
iAll that has been done,
salutary a d v ic e .
tobacco.
in these cases, was to g iv e
The members are a ll under a pledge not to use
Two or three have been reported to me as g u ilt y of
v io la tin g t h e ir p le d g e .
There have b een two communions sin ce
M r. R ic h a rd s’ & S p a u ld in g 's dep arture.
At the f i r s t ,
one
member was advised to stay away, because he had used tobacco,
& one also fo r other u nc hristia n b e h a v io u r .
At the second com
munion, one was advised to stay away from the L o r d ’ s t a ^ l e , be
cause of reported a d ultery .
No regular t r ia l was h e l d in these
cases, & they were made to understand,
la r ly suspended from the chh.
that they were not regu
Jealousies & contentions have
p rev ailed to some extent in the chh the past y e a r ,
I n years b e fo r e .
as well as
But so f a r as they have come to my knowledge,
they have been amicably s e t t le d .
Eight in d iv id u als were admitted to the chh, by Mr. R ich a rd s,
i n Aug. 1 8 3 6 .
Five are recorded, by him , as suspended, during
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the year - 3 as restored - & 1 as excommunicated.
on the suspended l i s t ,
of two or th ree .
The number
when he l e f t in Nov. l a s t , & ,
rem aining there s t i l l , was 1 1 .
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o f course,
Of th ese, I have thought w ell
Some of them are re sid in g at other p la c e s ; & I
have not been acquainted w ith them a l l .
I cannot t e l l how many of the chh died between our la s t
genl meeting & the departure of Mr. R ich ard s, as h is record does
not d istin g u ish such from those who died b efo re.
departure,
Since h is
8 have d ie d , besides the princess who d ie d w ith out
the pale of the chh - making an average of nearly two d u r in g
each month of th at p e rio d .
The fu n era l of Nahienaena was a t
tended, at Lah ain a, w ith great m ilita r y parade, but w ith much
s t il l n e s s & order, a few days before we l e f t the s t a t io n .
After making the above deductions from the chh, I f i n d
209 s t i l l on th e chh record as in regular
standing.
This num
b e r , however, must include a number, who reside at M o lo k a i, &
others who belong to W ailuku re g io n .
My impression i s that
there are somewhere about 176 in regular stan d ing ,
at L a h a in a .
There have b e e n , during the y e a r , 2 4 baptism s, & §5 mar
riag es.
Of the la t t e r ,
num ber, had not the
there w^- have been a somewhat greater
enforcement of th e marriage law h in d e r e d
some from entering into that contract. V io la tio n of the marriage contract & of the laws of chas
t it y have been frequent - b u t , I know not that they have been
more frequent than in years p a s t.
been sustained;
The salutary laws have
th e ir penalties have been promptly ap p lied to
a l l known o ffen d ers, whether natives or fo reigners without
respect of persons;
& the general m orality of the people
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has "been secured.
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But one crime has been committed, in that
of a higher order than the common sins of the l a n d .
This
was a murder, or rather a case of manslaughter, whh took place
at E a a n a p a li,
some four or fiv e months sin c e.
I t o rig in a te d
i n the Hawaiian method of co llectin g pay for damage done i n the
p la n ta tio n ; v i z . by k i l l i n g the animal that did the damage.
This gave r is e to a quarrel in whh b o th parties used stones .
& c lu b s; & the older & weaker of the two f e l l before h is younger
& more a th le tic antago nist.
Ought we not to urge the c h ie fs &
k in g to adopt some enlightened & just method of c o lle c tin g debts
& damages?
Intemperance has but rarely made its appearance among u s .
Wherever it has been known, the s e l l e r ,
o&
d r in k e r , has been
compelled to pay h i s $>6 . according to law; & every quan tity of
a rd.
spt. i n whatever form whh has been found on sh o re , has
(I).
been promptly d eized by the m ajestrates.
In these statem ents,
however, I shA except the liquor & drinkers of the K in g .
There has b e e n ,i n g en era l, a th rivin g condition of our
■section of M aui, as to the comforts of l i f e .
A l l the ship
m asters, whom I have heard speak on the s u b je c t, say the mar
ket is w e ll supplied w ith refreshments for th e ir ships - Many
of the leading inhabitants
are b u ild in g
dwellings - some of the arts
themselves permanent
of c i v i l i z e d l i f e are re c e iv in g an
Increased attention - sugar & molasses were never made i n
greater abundance than the
past year - & what Is
also w orth
adding, o f the three sugar m ills at La h ain a, 2 are owned by
common n a t iv e s .
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The sugar & molasses o f the h ig h er ch ie fs are
a l l made at the m ills of the common n a t iv e s .
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Of the labours assigned to me at the la st genl m eeting,
I
have f in is h e d the essay on Temperance, & I t has been about two
months in the hands of the re v ie w e r.
to me were w ritte n & sent,
A l l the lette rs assign ed
except one to the S e c . of F o reign
a f f a ir s of Great B r i t a i n , fo r reasons assigned to the m eetin g.
Sale of books.
I fin d on the books of Mr. Spaulding & myself an account
of 429 Testaments s o ld , at La h ain a , the past y e a r.
This does
not include those sold for ready pay, nor any disposed of by
Mr. R ich a rd s, who does not seem to have been in the h a b it
k eep ing regular accounts.
of
There are now on hand probably not
less than 400 - whether our having so many on hand is owing to
having had more than our share, I do not know.
quently called f o r .
They are f r e
The new Hymn book has been in h ig h demand -
a l l we have rec^ have met a ready sa le - Even a bundle rec^-,
as we were on the point of embarking for th is p la c e , w^- a l l
have been gone, had I had time to attend to these who w is h e d
them.
Large q u a n tities o f the Geography, the Hoikeholoholona,
& other school books have been sold.
I t is thought,
that the
d esire for books has been greater the past year than i t has
been in previous y e a r s .
We have s t i l l on hand a few Ikemuas & H oikeholoholonas, a
part of the H u lian o s, Nehemias & Kumu Muas whh have been sent us
a pretty f u l l supply of the Hoikehonua & Helunaau, a l l the Hinauhoikes whh have b e e n sent fo r the la tte r part of the y e a r ,
at l e a s t , & some other books of whh I cannot now g iv e a p a r tic u
l a r account.
The Kumu Hawaii had not been ta k e n , by y early su b s c r ip tio n ,
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at Lahaina t i l l w it h in s i x months p a s t.
150 subscribers.
But it i s
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There are now about
im possible to say , how many copies
w i l l prove a s u f f i c ie n t supply, as there i s ,
even among the
most en ligh ten ed, a d is p o s it io n to take a ll the numbers at the
end of the y e a r , rather than to have them come l i t t l e by l i t t l e .
There are above (about) 100 subscribers
to the Kumu K a m o lii;
& the names for both this & the Kumu Haw aii are constantly in
c r e a sin g .
Seamen’ s Cause at L a h a in a .
The f i r s t w haleship at Lahaina,
9th of March.
this
season,
anchored the
Except the two f i r s t Sabbaths, E n g lis h preaching
has been re g u la rly kept up every Sab. on shore, for the b en e
fit
of masters & seamen.
Mr. Clark preached to them once or
tw ice - the r e st o f the preaching was d iv id e d between Mr. An
drews & m yself.
As a general t h in g , masters & o ffic e r s have
been p rese n t, & a goodly number of seamen; & some good, we
h o p e, has been done.
No evening m eetings, or meetings o n .b o a r d ,
have been attempted, fo r want of help in preaching.
Up to the time of our leaving the sta tio n ,
ships v is it e d the place,
there had 12
one h a l f of whh had gone.
A l l the
Masters have shown themselves kind & f r ie n d l y ; & what I am glad
to add,
all or n ea rly a ll have seemed to take a good stand on
the subject of Temperance.
l i e v e , are f u l l y
^American C ap tains, at l e a s t , I b e
convinced, that they cannot manage their men
in a p la c e , where ardent s p ir it is to b e found.
During the month of A p r i l , the largest share of my time was
devoted to arranging papers for the two reading rooms of Masters
& Seamen; to arranging the Seamen’ s lib r a r y & giving out books
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to such as w ished them; to p utting up tracts & papers for ships
to carry to s e a , & a great v arie ty of other matters connected
w ith the shipping & th e ir intercourse w ith the p e o p le .
W hile
we were at the s t a tio n , a ll was order in this department;
l e a s t , to the external observer l i t t l e
at
of a contrary k in d was
to h e seen; & i f here & there a seamen ( 1) was known to v io la t e
the laws of the la n d , the penalty was forthw ith coming, without
fe a r or favour.
What may take place in the absence of any
m issionary, & while the king & a l l h is adherents are t h e r e , &
liq u o r probably to be h ad , none of us can t e l l .
I
have spent as much time as I cd command, i n conversing
w ith o fficers & seamen,
on the great concerns of t h e ir s o u ls .
" But that tim e, a fter a l l , has been b ut l i t t l e .
p ie ty we have met w ith , even in w h a le s h ip s , & ,
Some cases of
in other c a s e s ,
i t has been pleasing to s e e , that the im pressions, made by an
early r e l ig io u s education, were f a r from b e in g a ll e f f a c e d .
There is great hope in labouring for th is
class of our fellowm en.
Before closing th is r e p o r t, I must add, that P ik a n e le ,
the head man of Honuaula,
on East M aui, wished me to ask the
m issio n to locate a m issionary among them.
They have 3000
or more people.
The people of Lanai also have often entreated me to ask fo r
them a m issionary; they have 1200 p eo ple .
Probably 200 on that
is l a n d wd derive as much b e n e fit from preaching as 10 00 or 1200
in almost any other p la c e .
D . Baldw in
�Report of Lahaina S ta tio n .
June 1 8 3 8 .
The important changes at the s ta tio n , the past y e a r , have
been the ad d itio n of b r o . & siste r McDonald to the la b o u r e rs ,
b eing located there at the last genl m eeting; & the re tu r n of
Mr. Richards on the 8 th of A p ril l a s t , a fter an absence of
one y e a r , four months & eleven d a y s .
The members o f the Station have much cause of g r a titu d e
to God for his unnumbered m ercies; & reason too to be humbled
under h is mighty h and.
There has probably been as much sickness
at the station as in any previous y e a r .
has been v a r io u s .
Mr. McDonald’ s h e a lth
Several times during the nine months he has
been at the statio n he has been attacked w ith h is former com
p l a i n t , bleeding at the lu ng s, but has not been reduced so low
as a t some former p e rio d s;
- & a short time since he was s e iz e d
w ith p le u r is y , whh ( i) fo r a tim e , brought h is l i f e into s t i l l
greater jeopardy.
Mr. B ald w in ’ s h e a lth has been f a r b e t t e r
than c^ have been expected, co nsidering the labours whh ( 1)
have devolved on him, & e s p e c ia l l y , the amount of preaching he
has done.
But sickness is not a l l we have had to humble us &
teach u s .
©eath has
come among u s .
The 3 d ch ild of M r. & M rs.
B . was taken w ith f e v e r & a complaint in the bowels - on the
5th of la st D e c .; & a fte r a lin g erin g i l l n e s s of seven w e e k s,
weeks of much an xiety on the part of the p aren ts,
moved from their s i g h t ,
on the 26th of Ja n . l a s t .
she was re
This was to
them a trying ev en t; but they t r u s t , God meant i t fo r t h e ir
good, & the promotion of h is cause.
Other members of the
statio n have s u ffe r e d , at tim es, from sick n e ss .
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Mr. B . & fam ily with. Miss Ogden reached the s t a t i o n ,
t h e i r return from genl m eeting, last y e a r ,
on
on the 18th of June;
& one of the f i r s t things we attended to was an
Examination of the C h ild re n ’ s Schools of L a h a in a , O lu a lu ,
Okumehame, Kahoolawe & L a n a i.
The schools of the above places
on Maui occupied the last week i n June.
was devoted to those on L a n a i.
The f i r s t week in July
The follow ing is a schedule
of those exam inations. Miss Ogden’ s school of g i r l s ,
school of boys 104 in number.
145 in number.
The cen tral
The School from Olualu consisted
of 97 c h ild ren .
That of Okumehame of 6 7 .
That of Kahoolawe of 2 0 , b eing a l l
\
the c h ild ren , that belonged to the i s l a n d .
At the close of th is exam ination,
a day was devoted to
examining David M alo' s d iffe ren t sc ho o ls, at whh ( I) wej?e
present the c h ie f s ,
a ll the chh ( I )
& many others.
The f i r s t week in Ju ly , the three schools of c h ild r e n on
Lanai were examined,
one of whh ( 1) contained 84 c h ild r e n ,
another 4 2 , & the th ird 21 = 147 i n a l l .
During the f i r s t part of the y e a r , important aid was
rendered by the chiefs & people towards organizing r e g u la r schools
throughout the f i e l d .
The walls of fo ur doby school houses had
been b u ilt by them p reviously; one at the H . end of Lahaina one a t the S .
end - one at Olu alu; & the fo u rth at Okumehame.
D uring the month of Ju ly ,
these b u ild in g s ,
they bestowed much time & labour upon
in covering & otherwise f i t t i n g them for th eir
intended use - H oapiliw ahine su p erin ten din g, i n perso n,
the work
of those in Lahaina - In A u g. they were ready to be occupied,
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when the schools of the two o u t d is t r ic t s , whh ( I) h ad b een
p reviously in operation, were removed to the new b u i l d i n g s ; &
new schools were organized in those at each extremity of La
h ain a .
At this time we also obtained one of the most worthy
graduates of the High School, who has superintended the South
school of Lahaina, & ,
for a large portion of the y e a r ,
cen tral boys' school a lso .
the
Miss Ogden l e f t Lahaina f o r W ailuku
about the middle of the y e a r .
Her school has since b een con
tin ued by fo,ur n a tiv e fem ales, three of whom are members of th e
chh.
A ll tiaese schools have been continued during the y e a r .
There has also been a nativ e b u ild in g erected on the Western
part of Lanai fo r the accommodation of meetings & schools & a small stone school house, on the Eastern side of the same
has been b u i l t this y e a r , en tirely by the children them selves,
under the superintendence of t h e ir teahher.
David Malo was much engaged in teaching the a d u lts, &
espec ially the chh the f i r s t part of the year - he had a school
i n chh history - one in geography - one in arithm etic - & one
i n the Kumu H a w a ii.
At a l l these the ch iefs attended & were
much interested - but they did hold out through the y e a r .
For remainder of report on schools,
see report of tea ch er.
The church.
There have been but two members admitted to the chh from
the time th at Mr. Richards l e f t the s ta tio n to the present not but that there were probably some more who belonged to the
household of f a i t h who shd have been adm itted.
part of the time Mr. B .
But the f i r s t
considered h im se lf but im perfectly ac
quainted with the people; & the la st part he was expecting the
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congregation soon to f a l l into the hands of t h e ir former p a s to r.
Added to t h i s , he has "been obliged, during the y e a r ,
to v i s i t
a l l the st a tio n s , on Maui & M olokai, except Hana, fo r m edical
a i d ; has had an unusual share of the same work at the s t a t io n ,
& has attended to the numerous calls for medical a id from "the
p eople,
duties whh, of course, take the precedence of a l l
others
these w ith many other cares & labours at the s ta tio n whh were
almost equally indispensable have not l e f t him that time to
attend to the d u tie s of pastor whh seemed d e s ir a b l e .
The record
of the chh then for the year w ill b e as follow s 2 admitted during the y e a r .
3
received by letter from other c h h s.
None excommunicated.
1 . dism issed to Molokai chh.
4 . dism issed to K a ilu a chh.
4 . deaths i n the chh.
Of the 1 3 , who were on the suspended l i s t at the commencement
of the y e a r,
suspended.
two have been restored - & 2 new ones have been
The whole number now in r e g u la r standing i n the chh
is 1 7 2 .
A minih er of the members of the Honolulu chh who have r e
s id e d at Lahaina, & one from W aialua chh have been suspended at
the request of th e ir resp ective p asto rs.
drin kin g either wine or ardent s p i r i t ,
or shortly a f t e r ,
Their offence was
c h ie fly at the time o f ,
the K i n g ’ s f e a s t .
The state of the body of the chh at £ahaina is probably as
good now as In times past - but a considerable number, perhaps
as many as. h a l f a dozen, w i l l probably require the hand of
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ex c isio n whenever the pastor is ab le to attend to the w o rk .
Thirteen c h ild re n have "been b a p tized during the y ear 4 of them children of the m ission.
M arriages»
There have been 98 marriages at the statio n during the
year.
Labours in preaching & c . M r. Baldwin was a b le to m aintain preaching as u su al on
W ed. - also to preach twice on Sab. during the year - These w it h
the Sab. school & other customary meetings of the statio n were
sustain ed re g u la rly ; & the congregations were perhaps as large
as usual & exhibited their ordinary in t e r e s t .
commenced t i l l
No new meetings were
about the middle of F e b ., when we commenced a
m eeting, at the meeting h o use, to be h e ld every morning before
s u n r is e .
An encouraging degree of in t e re s t was m anifested in
th is meeting.
The house was generally w e ll f i l l e d .
About the
same time, a committee of 12 of Lahaina chh, & 6 of Oahu members
re s id in g among u s , was appointed to v i s i t & converse w ith the
whole p o p u la tio n 'a t their h ouses.
They did their work as f a i t h
f u l l y as cd "be expected; & the reports they brought back showed,
that the Spt ( I) of God.was already at w ork.
Many confessed w it h
t e a r s , that they had never attended the m inistratio ns of tjie
Gospel,
shores.
except, from c u r io s it y , when i t f i r s t came to theirThis measure had also th is good e f f e c t ,
that i t brought
fo rth many of the h a l t , the lame, & the b l i n d , whom none of us
had seen b e fo r e ,
to attend the protracted m eeting, whh commnsnced
the 6th of March.
The exercises during the 6 days spent in this protracted
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m1g were much the same as in other m’ gs of the k in d - preaching
3 times d a ily - one m’ g d a ily w ith ch ild r e n ; & occasional meet
ings w ith the chh.
The brn ( i) of W ailuku & Lahaina-luna d id almost a l l the
preaching during these 6 days, in about equal pro p o rtio n s; & ,
as we th in k , w ith evidently good e f f e c t .
Every sermon seemed
b le s s e d not only in awakening in d iv id u a l s , but in in c re a sin g
the genl seriousness of the congregationl
A fter the close of the protracted meeting, the morning
meetings were continued - Mr. B. also met the people of c e rta in
la n d s , every afternoon, where the time was spent in personal
conversation, prayer & exhortation from him self & some of the
members of, the chh.
His house was also thronged from morning
to n ig h t without interrup tio n - I t was often a scene of ^.weeping,
& one apartment of it of fre qu en t, & some days, we might say,
of almost continual prayer from some of the female members of
the chh.
We gave ourselves up wholly
to the w ork,
allow ing
n o thing to divert our m inds, in the l e a s t , from the p e o p le .
The afternoon meetings were continued t i l l b ro . R i c h a r d s 1
a r r i v a l , & the morning meetings are continued s t i l l , b esides
whh we have had frequent meetings for the grey headed. The meeting house was generally crowded to excess d uring
the protracted m 'g - 2000 or more - & so i t has b een g en era lly
since on Sab. & every morning t i l l 2 or 3 weeks p a s t .
The
King attended most of the m 'gs those 6 days & pretty frequently
afterwards - but has grown more n egligent l a t e l y .
The young
men around him began to attend at the protrd m eeting, & a fte r
that meeting attention to meetings became gradually more general
among them.
For some tim e, there have been very few probably
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of his tr a in who have not generally attended on the means of
g race .
A few weeks after the protracted meeting for the congre
g a t io n , we spent a week in meetings for the children - th is
means seemed to he b le sse d beyond our h ighest expectation*
E ffe c ts *
If
it be asked what were the e ffe c ts of a l l these means
among the people, it may be answered, that there w a s , a t the
time of the protracted m eeting,
a general seriousness
minds of the great body of the p o pu latio n .
on the
And th is seriousness
increased in extent & in t e r e s t , g rad u ally but very p erce ptibly
for many weeks afterw ards.
In d iv id u a l cases were coming to our
knowledge every day of a more & more In te r e stin g k in d - the
most stone-hearted, in many instances,
down to tears,
at le a s t , were m elted
i f not to penitence - men who had apparently
looked at the Gospel, fo r 15 y e a rs , as an id le sto ry , novf for
the f ir s t ft im e j, began to view it as a r e a l i t y , & to wake up,
In some degree, to the worth of t h e ir souls - tobacco pipes
were abandoned, by old & young, as i t were spontaneously, w hile
not a word was said on the s u b je c t .
a ffe c t e d than the a d u l t s .
The children seemed more
Some of the most d isso lu te of the
k i n g 's tr a in were among those who were awakened very e a r ly One or two of those, we th in k , give decided evidence of p iety & probably many of them think they have found the Sa v io u r.
The
k ing has appeared to be much exercised at times - has uniform ly
favoured the tu rn ing of h is people to r e lig io n - b ut never
seemed f u l l y ready to engage in earnest h im s e lf.
His w i f e , at
f i r s t , seemed to take a stand of opposition - but of late appears
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more interested than the k in g ; & professes to he horn a g a in .
We hope a goodly number of adults & some ch ild ren are
truly converted; hut we think,
have been born a g a i n ,
that hundreds & hundreds more
the work have been fo llo w ed up
properly f o r a few months lo n ger.
This ed not be done by u s ,
as from the day of Mr. R ich ard s' a r r iv a l I was taken w it h a
co ld , whh prevented my preaching altogether - & Mr. Richards*
absence f i r s t at W ailu ku ,
then at the meeting of the b rn of
Maui & Molokai at L ah ain alun a, & la s tly at Haw aii l e f t him
but l i t t l e
time at the s t a t io n .
For one Wed. & one Sab. during
h is absence on Hawaii I attempted to preach - but f e e l i n g the
ill
effects of i t ,
I
p rese n t, alto g eth er;
thought i t prudent to d e s is t ,
for the
so that for most of the time s in c e Mr.
R ’ s re turn, the meetings have been conducted almost e n tire ly
by n a t iv e s .
During the last month, the diminution of i n t e r
est in the congregation has been v ery apparent.
I omitted in its proper place to m ention,
that immediate
ly a ft e r our f i r s t protracted meeting I a ss is te d in a p ro trac
ted meeting a t M olokai; & also that shortly a ft e r Mr. R . ' s
ar
r i v a l , we held another protracted meeting of three days w ith
the people.
During the whole period of excitem ent, at L a h a in a ,
deserves to be mentioned,
it
that a few in d iv id u a ls of the chh
seemed truly awake & endued w ith a s p ir it of prayer - of p er
severing prayer - & but few , compared w ith the whole chh seemed
to p articip ate at a l l in the work.
When speaking of schools, I omitted to m ention,
that our
S a b . School had not been enlarged this y e a r , because we had
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only about h a l f a supply of the ai o ka l a .
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Hundreds have
c a lle d for i t & b een sent-empty away - as they have l a t e l y
f o r the Old & New T e s t, in v a i n .
The demand for books,
es
p e c ia lly the Scriptures & Hymn book has greatly increased for
months p a s t .
p eo p le .
This has especially been true of the k i n g 's
They have been eager for the word of l i f e ,
b ec a u se, as
one of them remarked, 1Tthey have h ith erto read nothing but
ru m ."
They have brought th eir money, & other things to pur
c h a se , & it has been w ith great p a in ,
dreds of times over,
that I have s a i d , hun
there is n either Buke k in o h i , nor
Kauoha hou remaining at Lahaina.
We commenced taking up mon. concert contributions in D ec.
last.
The contribution that month, consisting of money only,
was twenty two ( $ 2 2 . )
the contributions
d o lla r s .
In Jan . i t was proposed, that
consist of work certain days on the school
houses whh was done.
During the month of F e b . the people
expected to contribute food fo r the scholars of the Seminary but an unexpected supply from the region of W ailuku p revented
t h e ir givin g as they expected - & my hands were soon too f u l l
of work to prosecute the business fu r th e r .
No regular wages have been p aid to teachers during the year
but something has been g iv e n in cloth & otherw ise,
to each
teahher from the Seminary.
S eamen1s Pep ar tment.
During the season of shipping the la st f a l l , & also this
sp rin g , I have endeavoured to take care of the Reading Room,
& attended to many other matters connected w ith that d e p art
ment .
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When we returned from g en l m’ g la st y e a r , M essrs. Conde
& I v e s , returned w ith u s, & re s id e d at the s t a tio n ,
end of the y e a r .
till
the
They did most of the preaching to the seamen,
h o ld in g m eetings, as had been customary, on Sah.
at 11 A .M . -
& Sab. evening & on Thur. evening on board sh ip.
B r o . Mc
Donald also conducted some of the m eetings.
B ro . Oonde devoted much time to the study of the n a tiv e
language - but bro . Ives gave him self up mostly to seamen,
during the season, putting up tracts & papers fo r them to
carry to s e a , supplying them w it h B ib le s & T e s t ’ s - conversing
w ith them at tim es, & loaning books to them from the Seam en’ s
L ib ra ry .
That Library now numbers about 600 volumes, most
of whh are flo a t in g on the ocean.
During the v i s i t
of ships th is sp rin g , bro . McDonald has
conducted many meetings both on shore & on board - b ro .
Richards has also preached to them some.
I have looked a ft e r
th e ir Reading Room, given out B ib l e s , d is tr ib u te d Tracts &
papers to them, as fa r as other duties wd allo w , & also r e
ceived & loaned the books of the Seamen's L ib ra ry .
D uring
both these seasons, several pious masters have been a t
p la c e .
the
I have [a j lette r from a s a ilo r of one of them, g iv in g
an account of the conversion of one of the men - Three of his
men were decidedly pious b e fo r e , & a l l In the h a b it of attend
ing public w orship.
We have reason to t h in k ,
that the number
of pious is increasin g among this class of our f e llo w men & that opposition to the G-ospel is becoming more & more unpop
u lar.
D . Baldvrin
�Report of Lahaina S t a t io n ,
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May 1st 1 8 5 9 .
The commencement of our past m issionary year found us in
the midst of a precious outpouring of the Spt of God, whh we
w ere , at that tim e,
en jo y ing, in common w ith very many s t a t io n s ,
throughout the i s l a n d s .
The work commenced in March p rev io u s;
though we thought we could perceive the f i r s t movings o f the
Spt fo r even a month or more earlier than t h a t .
So f a r as
means w ere b lessed in introducing the work, besides the ordinary
means
of grace, they were the v is it i n g of a certa in number of
se le ct chh members at every house throughout the p la c e ;
sp ecia l
conversation with in d iv id u als wherever we had opportunity;
the
establishment of some extra m eetings, where truth might be brought
to bear upon the people; & e s p e c ia lly of morning meetings w ith
a view to prepare the minds of the people fo r a protracted
meeting to be h e ld in March; but above a l l we look upon that
protracted m eeting, at whh I was a s s is t e d by brn from L a h a in a
luna & W ailuku,
as having done most in commencing the w ork.
During that meeting there was evidently a deep solemnity r e s t in g
over the whole p la c e .
I t was days, & even w eeks, b efo re the
fe e lin g s of the m ultitude came out f u l l y to l ig h t ; but as they
became more & more developped, the minds o f a l l c la s s e s ,
& of
the entire population of that region appeared to b e engrossed
In the g re at things o f salv atio n .
One of the f i r s t signs whh we w itn e s s e d ,
ment became g e n e r a l, w a s ,
after the ex c ite
that people, in every d i r e c t i o n , were
throwing away t h e ir tobacco p ip es, w h ile nothing was s a i d on
that subject - as i f the use o f tobacco was a b a r r ie r between
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them & sa lv a tio n .
2
Many of those who had in years past stood
aloof from the Gospel,
befo re
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perhaps I ought to say a ll that had
acted the part of scoffers & re v ile r s were broken down
& came w ith tears confessing t h e ir sin s; & no class of the
people were more a ffe c te d than the c h ild r e n .
The f e e l i n g among
them also was almost simultaneous w it h that of a d u l t s .
The arriv al o f b r o . & s is t e r Richards at the statio n in
A p r i l , w hile the work was in progress was very seasonable &
welcome; the more so as I was at the time almost exhausted by
incessant labo urs.
Owing to my taking cold & to a p a r t ia l loss
of v o i c e , on that account, I was a fte r that nearly l a i d a sid e
from labour for a tim e.
From this f a c t ,
together w ith Mr. R . ’ s
b eing absent on a v i s i t at W ailuku & at H a w a ii, besides having
h is attention taken up with the Is l a n d & delegate m e e tin g s,
there was so great a want o f labour in the congregation,
that
f e e l i n g began ev id en tly to d eclin e; & we feared the Spt was
about to take h is 'departure.
disapp o inted.
But i n this we were wonderfully
There had been an evident s p ir it of prayer in a
goodly portion of the chh, & their w restlin g was not y et at an
end.
As soon as the d iv e r tin g causes above named were removed,
& we were able to g ird ourselves again to the work, God s t i l l
showed him self near at hand & ready to convert sin n ers.
The
r e v iv a l went on w ith undiminished interest through the summer,
during whh time we h e ld a t h ir d protracted m eeting;
through the
f a l l also there did not appear to be any abatement i n the work;
r e l ig io n was s t i l l the great concern among a l l c la s s e s ;
insomuch
that strangers who came there could not but remark the s t i l l
ness & solemnity that reigned over the p lace;
the s t i l l n e s s
along
the shores where hundreds of c h ild re n used to p lay ; & the empti
ness & s t illn e s s of the market even when 20 or 30 ships were at
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anchor & taking in th eir r e c r u it s .
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I t was a new thing fo r the
people to w itness so many ships at anchor, & yet no apparent
dim inution either In the numbers or interest of our d a ily meet
ings .
W ith the exception of occasional flu ctuatio n of f e e l i n g , &
perhaps,
at p articular tim es, a dim inution of i t ,
may say,
that this in t e r e s tin g state of things at Lahaina has
continued to the present tim e.
I t h in k , we
The u n iv ersal prevalence of the
mumps, however, among the people, & an unusual amount of other
sickness have, fo r two months p a s t, made great Inroads upon our
co ngregations; & perhaps the d iv e r sio n of fe e lin g produced hy
these causes has b een such, that there was much less in t e r e s t
at the time we le f t than there had been b efo rel
I f i t be asked by what means the work has been co ntinued at
L a h a in a .
We must answer, that next to preaching of the Gospel
& the other ordinary means whh we have
used , shA be named an
uncommon s p irit o f fa it h fu ln e s s , on the part of a goodly portion
of the native members of the chh.
A b le s sin g has doubtless
attended the ze a l & f i d e l i t y w ith whh they have carrie d the
truths
of God to the cottage & the p r iv a te c i r c l e .
e ff ic ie n t
But the most
of a l l the means they have used has been prayer for
the S p i r i t .
Many o f our native members, I have reaso n to b e
l i e v e , have been powerful in prayer & have p r e g a ile d w ith God.
I have neve r,
in America,
seen any C h ristia n s, even the most
devoted, & g i f t e d , take hold of this work w it h so much apparent
sim plicity & f a i t h ; nor have I
ever seen any others hold on to
i t with such unwavering perseverance.
They have been often
encouraged to b e l i e v e , that as long as they continued to pray,
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the b le s sin g wd continue to come.
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They have read the same -
"A sk & ye shall r e c e i v e ,” - & they seem to have taken God at
h is word.
The manner in whh some of them have persevered in
pleading fo r the S p ir it to carry on h is work, i f f u l l y brought
to the light of day, w &, I have no doubt, put the most f a i t h f u l
of a l l our number to the b lu s h .
Some of those to whom I have re fe rr ed as having e x h ib ite d
a s p i r i t of prayer have been b u t babes in years as w ell as babes
i n C h rist.
Perhaps no part of the population of the place has
f e l t more of the influ en ce of the Spt than the central g i r l s '
school whh has numbered about one hundred, & was form erly under
the care of M iss.
Ogden.
I t is now about 15 months that these
g i r l s , w ith th e ir pious native female teachers have met fo r
prayer every day e it h e r before or a fte r their scho o l;
& from what
I have heard, I .sh^- judge, that those seasons of prayer had
o ften been seasons of refreshin g from on h ig h .
The la rg e r part
of that school are probably truly converted to God.
We trust much good has been done in this work of the Spt
of God - good whh w i l l last as long as e t e r n it y .
& th ir ty one have been gathered into the chh.
One hundred
A part of these
have doubtle§§ been b o r n a g ain the past y ea r; & of othei’s , we
have reason to suppose they were r e a l l y the L o r d ’ s long b e fo r e ;
but have b een roused to a higher degree of s p ir it u a l l i f e
i n t h is
time o f r e v iv in g ,
communion was the w if e
Among those admitted a t our last
of the king as well as many others who
were formerly h is d issip ate d companions.
named, are 30 o f the g i r l s '
Among the 1 3 1 ,
school formerly M is s .
above
O g d e n 's .
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These we cannot hut look upon as the most precious of a l l the
f r u i t s of the h a r v e s t.
Their advantages have b een better than
those of t h e ir mothers before them; & ,
may hope they w i l l be
i f truly converted, w§
e ffic ie n t coworkers in the cause of
G h r i s t ; that they w i l l be mothers in I s r a e l ; & Sfcfifcpt© as p il l a r s
in h is temple, & become at length as stars in the firm am ent.
But the good done has not been confined to a few .
A new image
seems to have been stamped upon the whole face of s o c ie t y .
Those who b o ld ly stand aloof from the Gospel, or who can l i f t
up t h e ir heads as sco ffe rs or r e v i l e r s , we are to ld , are now
rarely to be fo u n d .
So f a r as I can judge,
there appears to be
i n the minds of hundreds .& thousands, yea perhaps of the whole
population as a mass, a deeper & more tangible co n v iction than
befo re both of the r e a l it y & importance o f the C h ristia n r e l ig i o n
& this i s great gain to the Gospel.
The chh also has re c eiv ed
new l i g h t ; & we may expect the t r u ly pious in it w i l l h e r e a ft e r
be more in t e llig e n t coworkers in b u ild in g God’ s h o u se .
hope also ,
We w^
that besides those already received to the chh, hun
dreds of others w i l l prove truly born a g ain , who may in due time,
be gathered Into the fo ld of the Great Shepherd.
And may God
grant that what he has hitherto done may be only the b eginning
of greater & better things to come.
Mr. R ich ards,
as he has reported, has done the preaching
on Sabbath & on W ed.
The congregation t i l l of l a t e , has been
thronged, numbering probably from 1500 to 2 , 0 0 0 .
I have g enerally attended the adult Sabbath sc h o o l, & also
a meeting for the children every Sabbath.
The f i r s t part of the
year I attended se ctio n a l meetings every afternoon of the week,
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when there was not some more public e x e r c is e .
h ain a was d iv id e d Into sixteen d iv isio n s
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The whole of L a
one of whh I met each
day in regular r o t a t io n .
For the whole of the year I have attended morning m eetin gs.
The meetings have commenced, when i t was f a ir l y l i g h t , have
"been h eld at the meeting house, & pretty f u l l y attended.
They
have g en erally b een sh o rt, but s t i l l long enough to admit of
s i n g in g , two or three prayers & an exhortation adapted to the
state of the p eople.
Owing to want of su ita b le accommodations
I have been able to do f a r less in p rivate conversation w it h the
people than I could have w ished.
B e s id e s ' labouring as pasto r, I might mention, that I have
been more or less engaged d a ily in Im parting medicines to the
peo ple.
I have a l s o , to some ex ten t, attended to the m edical
wants of the several f a m il ie s ; but the la tte r part of the year
I have received c a lls for a id from Molokai & W ailuku to whh the
situ a tio n o f my own fam ily rendered it utterly im possible fo r me
to a tte n d .
In case of severe sickness In one of M r. G re en 's
c h ild r e n , b r o . Richards went several times to W ailu k u , & by the
blessing?
of God on th e means used, the c h ild was re sto red to
h ealth.
The females at the s ta tio n have also been engaged i n h e lp
ing forward the work of the Lord.
For some part of the year M rs. Baldwin has h e l d three
weekly meetings for conversation, prayer & c .
- On Monday a f t e r
noon she met with females who were not members o f the chh.
Teus.
On
( I) afternoon, w ith those -who were members of the chh; &
on Thur. afternoon with the ch ild ren .
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Mrs. Richards has enro lled the names of a l l the females of
L a h a i n a ,'f o r the purpose of meeting w it h a certain p o rtion of
them,
every day, for personal r e lig io u s conversation & p ra y e r.
These meetings were attended w ith many b e n e f i t ,.n o t the le a s t
of whh is Its b ringing one to be acquainted with those of a l l
classes & conditions In the f i e l d .
The-work of communicating in stru c tio n to those at our outstatio n s has been l e f t ,
the past y e a r , much more to the labours
of native members of the chh than in years p revious.
The fo llo w in g are the s t a t is t ic s r e la t iv e to the chh & c .
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The whole number admitted to the chh from the commencement is
382.
Admitted the past year on p ro fe ssio n ,
131 -
Received by le tte r from other chhs mostly scholars
returned from the Sem. -
4
D ism issed to other chhs
5
_ _ _ _ _ _
D ie d in a l l from the commencement —
48
D ie d the past year
8
Children b a p tiz e d from the f i r s t ,
C h ild re n b ap tized the past y e a r,
Marriages the past year
265
—
—
81
126.
I have not the means of knoviring the number now in regular
standing in the chh, because of those who, in former y e a r s , have
removed to Molokai & the region of W a ilu k u , I know not how many
have had their names regularly tran sferre d to the chhs in those
p la c e s, & how many s t i l l stand on the l i s t at L a h a in a .
fmembersj
Five of the chh/who stood suspended the la s t y e a r , h a v e ,
t h is y e a r , been re sto re d .
Three of the same c l a s s ,
who have been su sp e n d e d ,) hav e,
( v i z . those
this y e a r , fo r the a d d itio n a l
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crimes of a d u lte ry , l y i n g , & c . been excommunicated from the
chh.
Near the commencement of the y e a r ,
a member was sus-ended
fo r adultery who was shortly afterwards restored; & two others
were suspended for drinking ardent s p i r i t , who are not y et
re sto r e d .
No new case of d is c ip lin e has occurred in the church
fo r about the period of elev en months.
Honolulu May l s^ 1839
D . Baldwin
�Report fo r Lahaina
Station
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1840.
I n reviewing the conerns of the statio n at Lahaina fo r the
past y e a r , i t w i l l he proper f i r s t to notice the d ea ling s of
God towards u s, & the admonitions he has given us of our f r a i l
ty.
Death had repeatedly heen commissioned to v i s i t
i n previous y e a r s .
the statio n
One a fte r another of the precious l i t t l e
ones had heen c a lle d away; hut the last year is the f i r s t when
any a d u lt has heen taken away.
You have a l l heen inform ed of
the death of h r o . McDonald on the 7th of Sept. l a s t .
He died
of inflammation & abscess of the lu n g s , the disease under whh
he was laboring & of whh he was extremely feeble at our la st
genl m eeting.
Prom the time of h is severe attack previous to
the meeting last y e a r , he probably indulged no hopes of l i f e ’ s
b eing lengthened out very long.
He continued to f a i l g radu ally
through the summer, often w ith great su ffe rin g of b o d y , t i l l a
week previous to h is d ea th , when a v io le n t attack of haemorrhage
from the lungs, we supposed, w1^ re lease him at once from a ll
p ain .
But he survived this attack & a sim ilar one the succeed
in g d a y .
Through this last week we were expecting h is
depar
ture d a ily & sometimes h o u rly , & he h im self often expressed
intense desires to be gone; to throw o ff the body of s in &
death & to be w ith C h r is t .
He re t a in e d his reason & the powers
of h is mind most p erfec tly to the l a s t .
Not only d id he r e t a in
h is mental powers, but the same great & important matters whh
had engrossed h is
thoughts , when in h e a lth , h e l d p erfect pos
sessio n of h is mind, t i l l he had no longer s u f f ic ie n t b reath or
stren {g^th to express them.
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As to his piety i t appeared to be much of the same cast
near death that it exh ib ited during h is l i f e .
When asked some
days previous to h is death respecting h is f e e l in g s , he r e p l i e d ,
that he did not think he had a l l the glow of fe e lin g s
that some
p ossessed; that h is r e l ig i o n had always been more of the i n
t e ll e c t u a l character.
H e, however, expressed an unwavering hope
in Jesus C h rist; & on another occasion, he s a id , none of us
need be concerned but that a l l was w e ll w it h him a f t e r he was
gone.
His habits of mind were always decidedly of the i n t e l l e c t
ual stamp; but h is fe e lin g s were notwithstanding stro n g , & the
d is in t e r e s te d character of them in regard to the great sub
jects connected with the M issionary en terprise, & e sp ec ia lly
the strength of interest whh he always m anifested in some p ar
t ic u l a r branches of benevolent e ffo r t leave us no room to doubt
but that the grace of God had found a home in his h e a r t , & that
he has now found a home in a better world than t h i s .
W ith the exception of Mr. M c D .'s c a se , most of the members
of the Station have enjoyed pretty uniform Jhealth; & been able
to atten d to th e ir several spheres of labour during the y e a r .
Nearly the same r o u t i n e / of labours has been fo llo w ed at
the statio n as has been reported in years p a s t.
services of the Sabbath, the Wed. le ctu re ,
The re g u la r
the monthly concert &
the chh prayer meeting on S a t. have been kept up as hereto fo re The morning m eeting, communcing at d a y lig h t , has also b een con
tin ued ever since i t s commencement in 1 8 5 8 .
I t h a s , however,
been conducted the past year by leading members o f the chh.
The S a b . School in the Ai o ka l a , & the c h il d r e n 's meeting
every Sabbath, at the chh, have also gen erally been conducted
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by members of the chh; & the c h ild r e n 's Sabbath Sch o o l,
on
Sabbath morning, has been sustained by the teachers of the common
schools a ll united together.
A fter going repeatedly through
w ith the Haawina K a m a lii, a ll the older part of th is school
have attended to the Ninauhoike - w hile a younger set have used
up over & over again a l l the small c h il d r e n ’ s books; & there i s ,
among u s , a sad scarcity o f such small books as are f i t
Sabbath day.
for the
A l l these schools have been v i s i t e d o ccasio n ally
& conducted & superintended by the p astor.
Mr. Richards has done a share of the preaching when he
has been at the s t a t io n .
Owing, to h is frequent absence & to
other causes, we have not ourselves been able very fre qu en tly
to v i s i t
our---outstations.
This lack of service has b e e n ,
in
a good measure, made up by fiv e or s i x of the n a tiv e members
of the chh whom we esteem very competent to conduct p u b lic
m ee tin g s.
Our congregations,
at the S ta tio n ,
on Sabbath & at other
tim es, have not apparently dim inished in numbers or i n t e r e s t ,
during the past year; nor is there any very strikin g d iffe r e n c e
between the congregation of Sab. morning & that of the a f t e r
noon.
They are nearly the same.
The chiefs at the s t a t io n have
gen e ra lly been regular attendants at the house of God on the
Sabbath - & on Wed.
We must, hovfever,
except the k in g who has
not b een at the sanctuary during the year on Sabbath,
t i l l the
afternoon of the second Sabbath of the present month (M a y ).
There may be on the -whole less f e e l in g in the congregation than
there was a year ago .
Probably the relig io us f e e l i n g , among most,
has been gradually d e c lin in g for more than a y e a r .
S t i l l we
are not without proof that the word of God is quick & pow erful.
We often see evidence that our labours are not in v a in in the
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Lord.
Besides the other meetings Mr. Baldwin h is conducted a
B ih le cla ss,
the past y e a r,
the tim e, on F r i d . a ls o .
every Teus. afternoon & a part of
A ll who could read f l u e n t ly & w ished
to jo in this class have been allowed so to do - though a l l
the chh & as many others as chose, have been in v ite d to a t t e n d ,
as l is t e n e r s , whether they co u ld re ad w e ll or n o t .
About 300
have been enrolled who have g en erally been punctual in t h e ir
attendance.
The object of this class has been to dissem inate
a knowledge of the B ib le .
The parts of the B ible whh have been
attended to are the books of D a n ie l & R e v e la tio n s .
These books
have been se lected w ith sp e cia l reference to the contest b e
fore us w it h ” the mother of harlo ts & abo m in atio n s.” - Wo other
books give so f u l l & clear descriptions of the beast as t h e se ;
& no others deal out such aw ful denunciations & plagues whh
are soon to come upon him.
I t has been a part of our p lan that
members of the chh who occasionally go & hold meetings at our
outstations shA communicate what they le a r n ,
to the most d istan t parts of our f i e l d .
in th is
e x e r c is e ,
The meetings of th is
class have been deeply in tere stin g & we think have been p ro
ductive of good.
I n all our m eetings, on the Sabbath & at other t im e s , where
prayer has formed a part of the e x e r c is e s , it has been an i n
v aria b le ru le w ith us to have but one praying aloud at o n c e .
W i l l the m ission t e l l us whether th is is proper;
or whether the
praying aloud of 4 0 , at once, in the same m eeting,
is more
according to Scripture & more favourable to the o peration of
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so, we ought to adopt i t .
As to the state of the church, there is evidently a good
proportion who have not declined in p ie ty for these two years
past.
They have lo st some of the glow whh ch aracterized their
fe e lin g s In 1 8 3 8 ; hut they received an impulse at that tim e, &
gained light whh they m anifest to t h is day - & there is no
p ro b a b ility that they w i l l
ever lose what they then g a in e d .
They are more zealous than b e f o r e ; & more e f f i c i e n t , not merely
because of greater z e a l , b u t because they understand b ette r how
to w ork for C h r is t .
They give evidence that they have been
taught of the Spt.
The past year has not been one of t r i a l & d i f f i c u l t y i n the
chh - at le a s t , there has been nothing p ecu liar in t h is r e s p e c t .
There has been f a r more order & q uiet in the conduct of our
members than one would suppose from the number actually under
d iscip lin e.
The fo llo w in g statement w i l l e xh ib it the s t a t i s t ic s of
the church.
Whole n o . admitted to chh on examination
from beginning
Number admitted on examination the past year
Admitted on c e r t if ic a t e past yr
Deaths i n chh past year
Excommunicated
Suspended
Dism issed to other chhs
Now in good standing
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Marriages the past year
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131
22
12
2
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Children b a p tize d the p ast year
513
16
10
426
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99
140
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Of the 16 mentioned above as suspended,
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two are old mem
bers who have long been considered as unprom ising.
F iv e are
young persons g u ilty of gross o ffe n c e s , four of whom g ive
some evidence of repentance.
at Waimea on H a w a ii.
at H i l o ,
since
One is a young man from the chh
One is a young woman recd from the chh
The remaining seven are young females recd two years
on examination h e r e .
Their crime was' that of l i v i n g on
more sociable terms with scholars of the Seminary than was
thought to be f o r the good or s a fe t y of either p arty .
I t is
b e lie v e d , that there has been no ground of complaint a g a in st
them in th is re sp ect, since the time of th e ir suspension..
In the 12 deaths mentioned in the above s t a t i s t i c s ,
the
m ission w i l l remember that that of our lamented governor H o a p ili
is included.
He died Jan.
3d 1 8 4 0 , of dropsy in the bow els.
A few words only can b e sa id
of him h e re .
I n h is la st d a y s ,
h i s piety shone out w ith a more glowing & heavenly flam e than
any of us had expected to w it n e s s .
m il i t y ,
His deep & u n a ffe c te d h u
expressed in more ways than any of us could have d e v is e d ,
h i s sens-e of o b lig a tio n to Christ for renewal & pardon of s i n ,
i
& h is longing to b e gone & be w ith Christ were such,
cd possibly mistake th e ir meaning.
God,
that none
His love to the house of
(whh had always been uniform) h is love to the work of
prayer & p r a is e , & h is interest in the cause of truth & r i g h t
eousness were such as showed he was r ip e fo r glo ry.
Even while
we were looking upon him as almost gone, he wished to pray once
more - rose upon h is knees (whh to us seemed im p o ssible) & then
punred out his soul to God;
- when through, he sa id ,r]tfa pau" -
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His anxiety fo r the future welfare of this n a tio n , h is warnings
& entreaties to the King & the tears he poured out over him
were almost as much as even h is m ajesty could endure; they
spread a sacred awe over the -whole p la c e .
We need not a d d , that
we remember him w ith affe ctio n & in t e r e s t , & that we g re atly
deplore h is loss as a c i v i l r u l e r .
The Lord ra is e up many such
to preside over th is p erishing people I
Prom the time of Mr. McDonald1s death, the superintendence
of schools has devolved on the p asto r.
As much a tte n tio n has
been g iv e n to them as was consistent w ith other d u t ie s .
School
committees have been appointed in a l l the d i s t r ic t s whose
business was to awaken interest among parents & s c h o la rs ,
to
collect contributions fo r the teachers & attend to such other
matters as the prosperity of the schools r e q u ir e d .
We have some
men who have taken great interest in the work.
We have eleven
schools in our f i e l d , not including K a a n a p a li.
None o f them
have been e x tin c t the la tte r h alf of the past y e a r ,
though some
have had to struggle for existence; & several have done w e l l ,
considering how l i t t l e patronage they have had from the govern
ment.
This has been p artic u la r ly the case with David M a lo 's
school in the centre of L a h in a , to whh he has devoted h im s e lf,
w ith great patience & f a it h f u l n e s s , for the last s ix months.
The Seamen’ s Chapel, at La h ain a,
though not f i n i s h e d , was
opened for p ub lic worship f o r seamen in the f a l l of 1 8 3 9 .
During that shipping season, & the season th is sp rin g , the labour
of that department have devolved on M r. B aldw in.
w h ile ships were i n ,
He has preached
once every Sabbath in E n g lis h - has d i s t r i
buted tracts & Bibles to seamen, loaned books from the Seam en's
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l i b r a r y , & used such other means as time & opportunitles have
perm itted.
When there has been a service in E n g lis h , & Mr.
Richards has been present a t the statio n , he has preached to
the native congregation on Sab. morning.
a b sen t, at such tim es,
When he has been
the n a tiv e services have been conducted
i n the morning, w ith acceptance, by David Malo, or some other
n a t iv e .
Notwithstanding a l l the darkness whh hangs over seamen
we often f in d signs of encouragement & hope among them.
There
is now a seaman, at th is p la c e , perhaps converted here who
has been 12 months under deep co n v ictio n , formerly enormously
w icked, now in the midst of much profanity & r i d i c u l e , & In
a ship where there is no one to d irect him in the way of l i f e .
As the committee on Temperance were not called on f o r
a
report last year & probably there w i l l be no report th is y e a r,
i t may not be amiss to mention, that subject h e re .
As soon as the re su lt was known of the v is it of the French
fr ig a t e in July 1 8 3 9 , a ll the frie n d s of intemperance took
courage.
The general Impressions among them, on th is i s l a n d ,
was that a ll laws against ardent s p ir it were broken down.
Therefore liquor soon found it s way h e r e .
In one month a ft e r
the King signed the French treaty to permit ardent s p t / on
shore, we saw more staggering drunkards in our st re ets than
we had seen in a l l the is la n d s , fo r f i v e years b e f o r e ; b ut not
a Sandwich islan d native among them a l l .
This in t o x ic a t io n d id
not continue long as the supply f a il e d - The f i r s t
A p ril,
of last
a certain fo r e ig n residen t brot l|r brls to th is place
whh was soon a ffe c t in g the g a it
of many r e s id e n t s ; b u t as fa r
as our observation extended of no n a t iv e s .
Lately w haleships
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are sa id to have furnished some; for instance 6 b r ls from a
sin g le
ship.
A l l Masters cry out again st its "being g iv e n to
t h e ir crews - yet Some are so conscience
seared as to he able
to f u r n is h the deadly drug to the crews of others.
The brandy
part of the French treaty has outrun the popery part as i t
respects our f i e l d .
T i l l w it h in a few d a y s, it was not known,
that a sin g le d iscip le
of popery had reached this part of M aui.
A work was assigned to Mr. B. to be e n t it le d a chh member’ s
guide some time s i n c e .
Such a work was needed & Mr. B .
apology for not fu rn ish in g i t .
owes an
The only excuse is a perpetual
press of work whh has not allowed him to s it down to s t u d y .
He has now befo re him the outline of a tract on that su b ject
whh he hopes to f i l l up ere long.
I t w i l l then be p laced at
the disposal of the p rin tin g Committee,
so that it may not be
best to continue the assignment any longer on the p rin ted
minuets ( I )
of the M issio n .
One other subject may be mentioned h e r e , v i z .
that of
p ro v id in g, at this p l a c e , of means fo r landing & conveying on
board passengers & such goods as are to be landed here or shipped
from th is place.
We have now no conveyance at our d is p o s a l whh
is thought s u f f ic ie n t l y safe for the valuable lots of books &
boxes of goods whh come here for the d if f e r e n t statio n s on Maui
& Molokai; nor,
can a very safe conveyance be e a sily h i r e d .
Some suppose a small but strong double canoe wd -be the convey
ance needed.
I f so,
cost 200 or 250 d o l s .
t h is , w ith a house to keep I t ,
might
The m issio n , together w ith the members
of the stations most concerned, can determine whether It w i l l
or w il l not be best to lay out that sum f o r such an object at
L a h a in a .
May 1 4 th 1840
�Report of Lahaina Station, 1841
Through the k in d n e s s o f Pro v id en ce an unu sual m easure of
h e a l t h has b een enjoy ed at the S t a t i o n the past y e a r ;
o r d in a r y la b o u rs
in terru p tio n .
h e r e t o fo r e v i z .
& the
of the S t a t io n have b e e n co n tin u ed w it h o u t
P r ea ch in g has been m a in t a in e d r e g u l a r l y as
t w ice on S a b . & on W e d .
a fte r to o n ( i ) .
m eetings have b e e n as r e p o r t e d i n ye ars past - v i z .
i n p e n c i l from "w e e k ly "
m onthly concert —
[in se rte d
to nco n c er tnJ w eekly prayer m e e t in g ,
a m eeting for
sch o o l for c h i l d r e n , &
c h ild r e n on the S a b .
also f o r a d u lt s
- a Sab.
in the A i o k a l a .
L a t e l y a ls o an hour has b e e n spent each S a b . by a d u lt s
r e a d in g & e x p la n a t io n o f the B i b l e ,
Morning m eetings
at
of the y e a r ,
at K ahakulo a & at two on
the a d u lts have h a d ,
m eetings or schools
& f o r the
there were a lso d a i l y morning m eetings
but for the l a s t h a l f o f the y e a r ,
m orning m e e t in g s ,
the
every day have been m a in ta in e d a t th e
three o f our o u t s t a t io n s , v i z .
La n a i;
in
commencing w it h G e n e s i s .
s t a t io n conducted by the le a d in g members o f the chh;
fir s t half
Other
several tim es
in s t e a d o f t h o s e
at our fou r o u t s t a t i o n s ,
in the a ft e r n o o n o f each w eek,
i n order to r e a d the B ib le through from G en . to R e v e l a t i o n .
M r. R ich ard s has co n tin ued to do one h a l f o f th e p r e a c h in g
a t the S t a t i o n .
have
When no sh ip s have been at L a h a in a ,
commonly spent the S a b . a t O l u a l u ,
W hen one of us h as not b een t h e r e ,
one of us
6 m iles S . o f L a h a i n a .
that m eeting h as b een s u s
t a i n e d by some member of the chh from L a h a i n a .
Sab.
m eetings
have also b e e n h e ld r e g u l a r l y a t the three oth er o u t s t a t io n s
by such as have b een a t the Sem inary & are now lo c a t e d there
as t e a c h e r s .
�1841 The w eekly B ib le
2.
cla ss a t the s t a t io n has b e e n continued,
w i t h no loss o f I n t e r e s t .
About th ree hundred of our most en
lig h t e n e d & i n f l u e n t i a l chh members & others have r e g u l a r l y
a tte n d e d t h is
class.
We have been th ro u g h w it h D a n i e l & R e v
e l a t i o n , & c a r e f u l l y re v ie w e d b o t h ; m aking I t
a sp e c ial
o b je c t
to examine a l l they have g iv e n us on th e s u b je c t of p o p e r y .
We have a ls o b e e n over the tr a c t on P o p ery .
no p apal o p era tio n s on Maui or L a n a i ,
expect to b e thus fa v o r e d ,
- As y e t we have
though we do n o t lo n g
as the D e v il has d o u b tless
some
f o llo w e r s among us whom he w i l l be g la d to put under the f i r s t
p o p is h priest- that
o ffe r s to t r a i n them up more t h o r o u g h ly f o r
h is purpose.
Our co n greg atio ns on the S a b . are much as in y e a r s
past.
Perhaps our morning & a ftern o o n con greg ations have n e v e r b een
n e a r e r a lik e
than they are at p r e s e n t .
The c h ie fs
g enerally
a tt e n d m eetings both morning & a ft e r n o o n on S a b . - & the K in g
o ft e n e r t h a n he has a t some form er p e r i o d s .
good sig n fo r
It
perhap s a
the con test that i s to b e m a in ta in e d w i t h p o p e ry ,
that a l l t h e h i g h c h i e f s , whether good or b a d ,
opposed to i t .
does not h e lp
is
seem d e c i d e d l y
The manner i n whh popery was in t r o d u c e d p ro b a b ly
them love i t ; nor is
there any th in g
( I) i n the
o p p o s it io n whh p a p is t s are now making to the laws whh i s
c u la t e d to make the r u l e r s w ish i t .
to the b e a s t
We t h in k t h e ir
i s becom ing more & more s e t t l e d .
cal
o p p o s it io n
S t i l l we know
t h e i r weakness & f i c k l e n e s s & must put no t r u s t i n man.
[singular is t r u e copy]
The shipmate^ o f po p ery , rum & in tem p eran c e, have fo u n d more
of an abode at L a h a in a th is y e ar
years.
The trade is
than I t has b efo r e f o r many
deemed d i s g r a c e f u l , & no one owns th at he
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sells
i t - "but s t i l l s a i l o r s
sometimes
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stagger & f i g h t i n the
s t r e e t s - the n a t i v e p o p u la t io n has p a r t i c i p a t e d h u t l i t t l e
d r in k in g the a b o m in a tio n .
d eg rad ed themselves
h a s been t h e c a s e ,
A few m asters o f w h a le s h ip s h a v e
so low as to s e l l rum t h e r e ;
& when such
they have not b een a s s a i l e d so v i o l e n t l y b y
m is s io n a r ie s as they have by t h e i r own b ro th e r M a s t e r s .
w ork of f u r n i s h i n g rum to s a i l o r s
g r a c e f u l by a l l
We s t i l l
th ere
two
or n a t iv e s
s e n s ib le men who s a i l
see
in
among us
is deemed d i s
the oce an .
d e c id e d f r u i t s
of the work of God
- & three y e a r s s in c e - We hope too th ere
y e t s ig n s that the S p t M t
The
are
of God has no t w ho lly f o r s a k e n u s ;
b ut yet works i n co n v ertin g s i n n e r s . S t i l l as a g e n e r a l t h in g
th e f e e l i n g i n the co n g r e g a tio n has p ro b a b ly b e e n d e c l i n i n g f o r
a y e a r or two p a s t .
426 were r e p o r t e d l a s t year as i n r e g u la r
s ta n d in g i n th e
chur c h .
86 have been r e c e iv e d the y e a r p a st on e x a m in a t io n , & 44
from other c h u r c h e s .
A ll 130.
3 members, fo rm erly s u s p e n d e d ,
have b e e n r e s t o r e d the p a st y e a r ;
& th e r e have b een 7 new
cases of s u sp e n sio n d u r in g the y e a r ;
l e a v in g 13_ now on the
l i s t of suspen ded members.
3 have b een excommunicated d urin g th e y e a r ;
13 have d i e d ;
& 25 have b e e n recommended to other c h h s .
599 i s the w h o le number whh has b een a d m itted to the chh
at La- ( I) L a h a i n a , on e x a m in a t io n ,
t i o n i n 1 8 2 3 ; & 239 is
other chhs.
r e g u la r
s in c e i t s
o r g a n iza
the whole number r e c e iv e d by l e t t e r from
70 o f a l l these have d i e d .
s ta n d in g .
first
5 13 now rem ain i n
£The f o llo w in g in s e r t e d i n p e n c il^
Ohh
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p le d g e d to a b s tin e n c e from S p t , w in e & to ba cco .
4 6 3 c h il d r e n have b e e n b a p t iz e d s in c e the f i r s t
tio n
of the ch h .
102 of these were b a p t iz e d the p a st y e a r ; i , e ,
or about 2 / 9
of the w h o le ,
almost
the past y e a r , when only 86 new
members were r e c ^ to th e ch h .
The y e a r p r e v io u s ,
b a p t i z e d when 1 3 1 i n d i v i d u a l s were r eed
is
o r g a n iz a
9 8 only were
p-^ _
P o p u la t io n
perhaps i n c r e a s i n g .
There have b e e n 93 m arriages a t the s t a t i o n - T h i s , how
ever,
does not
in c lu d e a few perform ed by Mr.
R ic h a rd s.
For 2 or 3 months every s p r in g , & f o r a lo n g er p e r i o d i n
the f a l l ,
making about
once each S a b .
6 months I n the y e a r , I ha v e p r e a c h e d
to seamen & to such fo r e ig n e r s as h a v e a t t e n d e d
w i t h them - have also fu r n is h e d t r a c ts
h a v e anchored at L a h a i n a , & B ib le s
to n e a r ly a l l s h ip s whh
to such as have n ee d e d them.
A f r i e n d l y s p i r i t has b een m a n ife s te d g e n e r a lly by m asters
a l l who b e lo n g to
ships - & t h is
sp irit,
I t is
&
b e l i e v e d , has
b een more & more apparent of late y e a r s .
M asters & ' o f f i c e r s ,
w hether b e l ie v e r s
are g e n e r a lly
fo u n d in the house
in C h r i s t i a n i t y or n o t ,
of God,, & are fr e q u e n t i n t h e i r
c a lls
to b e
upon
us.
A Seamen’ s Chapel has been b u i l t a t L a h a i n a , & i s
w it h the e x c e p tio n o f a fe w a d d i t i o n a l s e a t s .
It
com pleted,
i s t h e upper
*
story of a b u i l d i n g 4 6 f t lo n g ,
by 2 8 b ro ad - the exp ense has
b een m ostly d e fr a y e d by s u b s c r ip t io n s from M asters & o t h e r s ,
&
a s u b scrip tio n l is t
Is s t i l l k ep t open f o r
com pleting the b u i l d i n g .
the pu rp o se of
We have u s e d it as a p la c e o f m eeting
f o r f o u r s u c c e s s iv e s e a s o n s ;
the two l a s t of whh the a tte n d a n c e
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h as b een b e t t e r than t h e two f i r s t .
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5.
Hie g e n e r a l e s ta b lis h m e n t
o f b eer shops throughout the p l a c e , w h h ,
i n many c a s e s , a r e
u s e d s e c r e t ly as rum shops f u r n i s h a s i t t i n g p la c e on S a b . f o r
many a poor s a ilo r who m ight otherw ise have b e e n drawn to the
Sanctuary.
Cards have sometimes b een u s e d at such p la c e s
on G o d 's h o ly d a y , & we have no t had H o a p i l i 's
thorough adm in
i s t r a t i o n to put them to f l i g h t .
I have g iv e n more a t t e n t io n to our system of s c h o o ls t h is
year
than g e n e r a l l y I n p revio us y e a r s .
12 schools - v i z .
We h a v e ,
i n our f i e l d ,
5 i n L a h a in a & 7 at o u t s t a t io n s , n e a r l y a l l
o f whh are taught by members of the c la s s whh f i r s t g r a d u a t e d
at
the H ig h S c h o o l;
& most o f them are managed w i t h some good
d eg ree of e f f i c i e n c y .
The want o f thorough government i s an
e v i l in many o f th ese
s c h o o ls, g r e a t l y Im peding the p r o g re s s
o f scholars - the want o f new s u p p lie s o f r e a d in g m a tter is
an e v i l i n a l l ,
t e n d in g to make the schoo ls
d u l l & t ir e s o m e .
We have h e ld 2 g e n e r a l exam in atio ns of the schools d u r i n g
the y e a r ;
the f i r s t
in June 1 8 4 0 , when 7 1 6 c h ild r e n w e r e
ex
amined - the second in J a n . 1 8 4 1 , when 849 were e x am in ed .
Most o f t h e s e have attend ed the sc h o o ls p r etty r e g u l a r l y .
the In t e r v a ls b e tw e e n these ex a m in a tio n s ,
In
some of our most en
l ig h t e n e d chh members have o c c a s io n a lly b e e n se n t to v i s i t
the
scho o ls
con
at the
o u ts ta tio n s to s t i r them u p , & re p o r t t h e ir
d itio n .
The new school law has brought such c h i l d r e n in t o
the
schools as d i d n o t a t t e n d b e f o r e , & has in oth er ways been
b en efic ia l,
though perhaps in no part o f our f i e l d has i t b een
c a r r ie d into thorough o p e r a t io n .
["The f o llo w in g to end o f para-
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schools
6.
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graph. In s e r t e d in p e n e i l j
A d u lt
Geography i n the s c h o o l s .
W r it in g on S l a t e s , A r i t h m e t i c , & c .
About 2 months s in c e we formed a B i b .
I t was made to b e
s ib le.
as e n t ir e l y
—
S o c ie t y a t L a h a i n a .
every c h ie f who
every K a u k a u a l ii & w e a lt h y man $ 2 .
who is w aiw ai i k i $>1. - a woman i n
cts
a poor man 5 0 .c t s
No
a v o lu n ta r y a s s o c i a t i o n as p o s
The c o n s t it u t io n r e q u ire s
$5- y e a r l y ;
enco u rag ed .
jo in s to pay
each;
a man
s im ila r circum stances
& a woman 25 —
50
c h ild r e n 12-ir c t s .
The c o n s t it u t io n had not been c ir c u l a t e d among c h i e f s when
we l e f t About $ 2 5 0 h a d b een s u b s c r ib e d by the common p e o p l e .
The
g r e a t e s t s u b s c r ip t io n by any one of the common p e o p le was $ 1 0 .
Many others-were $ 5 .
each.
i n th e c o n s t it u t io n i s
The o b je c t o f t h is
the same as
of a l l B i b .
S o c ie ty ,
g r a t u it o u s
as s t a t e d
S o c ie tie s
b ut the immediate o b j e c t , most t a lk e d of among u s ,
is
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—
the
supply o f a l l our s ch o o ls w it h the New T esta m en t,
an ob ject whh we hope w i l l b e accom plished w ith out much d e l a y .
Our S o c . i s
a u x il ia r y
to the Am. B .
a u x i l i a r y to the S a n d . I s l d B .
I
have co m p leted ,
Soc.
S o c . b ut ex p ected to b e
as soon as one i s
the past y e a r ,
fo rm ed .
an a d d it io n to my ho use
o f two rooms; one f o r a stu d y & d is p e n s a r y - the o th er f o r a
bedroom .
The
cost has b e e n $ 6 0 0 .
fo r the w h o le .
sum was d e fr a y e d by a g ra n t made me, fo r
M is s i o n , y e ar before, l a s t .
the p u r p o s e , b y the
the past y e a r ,
have been spent in the' purchase of a d o ub le
put u p .
o f t h is
Of the 2 5 0 g ra n te d to b u i l d a
canoe house & purchase a c a n o e ,
canoe is not ye t put
$250
in order fo r u s e ,
about 7 5 dols
c a n o e ; b ut
nor is
the
the b u i l d i n g
A l l of the fu n d g r a n t e d fo r t h is o b j e c t ,
except the
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7.
75 dols above m en tio n ed , has b een expended 'in f i n i s h i n g my
own b u i l d i n g ; & b e s id e s
o b jec t,
th is,
I
am in a r r e a r s , fo r the same
at the Depy [ D e p o s i t o r y ] , betw een 90 & 100 d o l s ;
m aking
me i n d ebt to the Depy & the m is sio n about $ 2 7 5 . whh sum I
s h a l l be o b lig e d to a s k of the m is s io n ,
& perhaps some more a ls o to a i d in
at the p r e s e n t m e e t in g ;
the e r e c t io n of a cook house
whh is now p a r t ly f i n i s h e d .
D.
H o n o lu lu May 1 8 ,
B ald w in
1841.
S ta tis t ic s
W h o le number adm itted to chh on exam in ation ---- •--- 599
A dm itted on c e r t i f i c a t e ------------------------
89
A dm itted p a st y e ar on ex a m in a tio n — -------------
86
P a s t y e ar on c e r t i f i c a t e ■
— ------------ -------- -
44
W hole number p a st y e a r ------ -— --------------
130
Whole number d is m is s e d to other c h h s -----------
80
D is m is s e d p a st y e a r -------------------------
25
Whole number d e c e a s e d ------------------- --- -—
70
D e c e a se d p a st y e a r ----------------------------
13
Suspended past y e a r ---------------------------
7
Rem ain s u s p e n d e d -------------------------- -—
13
Excommunicated p a st y e a r -----------------------
3
Whole number e x c o m m u n ic a t e d ---------------------
16
Remain e x c o m m u n ic a t e d ---------------------- ---
16
Whole number in r e g u l a r
s t a n d i n g ----------------
513
W hole number o f c h i l d r e n b a p t i z e d --------------
463
C h ild r e n b a p t i z e d p a st y e a r — ---- ------- -----
102
M arria g es past y e a r ------------ ------ •-- -■----
93
A verage number o f co n g reg atio n 1 0 0 0 to 1 50 0
�Report
of L a h a in a S t a t io n May, 1 8 4 2 .
The h e a l t h o f most in our f a m i l i e s
good.
M rs . R . ,
h o w e v e r, h as b e e n i l l
the past y e a r h as "been
at times & b e e n r e s t o r e d
to h e a l t h b y an o c c a s io n a l r e s id e n c e h ig h up the m o u n ta in , where
the tem perature i s g e n e r a l l y 15 degrees lower than a t the
M rs.
B . has
shore.
also b e e n l a i d a sid e more or le s s w it h s ic k n e s s
d u r in g a la rg e p a rt o f the y e a r .
w h ic h h a v e ,
in consequence,
b e e n a g reat h in d ra n c e
The a d d it io n a l c a res & la b o u rs
d evolved on M r. B . h a v e ,
of c o u r s e ,
to labours among the p e o p le .
The i n
t e r r u p t io n s from other causes have been the same a s
in years
p r e v io u s .
He has b e e n c a l l e d o fte n to g iv e m ed ical a d v ic e to
the fa m ilie s & o c c a s io n a lly to v i s i t
of M rs. B.
other s t a t i o n s .
p r e v e n tin g h i s going to Hana on account o f one of
the fa m ilie s
t h e r e , M r. R ich ard s went & spent a f o r t n i g h t i n
F e b . o f t h is y e a r .
M e d ic a l a t t e n t io n to the n a t iv e s
s t a t io n r e q u ir e as la r g e a sh are of a t t e n t io n as
on some accounts more a t t e n t i o n ,
c in a t in g
The h e a l t h
at th e
ever b e f o r e
-
inasm uch as the w ork o f v a c
the n a t iv e s has b e e n r e g u l a r l y fo llo w e d up by M r. B .
f o r the l a s t s i x or e ig h t m onths.
The in t e r r u p t io n to labo urs fo r t h e n a t i v e s ,
v isitin g
o c c a s io n e d by
of w h a le sh ip s has always b een c o n s id e r a b le a t L a h a i n a ,
b ut g re a te r fo r the p resen t year th an ever b e f o r e .
ships i n the f a l l ;
& we h a v e a lre a d y h a d 36 t h is
Me h a d 46
sp rin g ,
g r e a t e r number than we have h a d any s p r in g b e f o r e ;
a
& we expect
many more b e fo r e the s e a s o n is
end ed .
y e a r i n F e b . in s t e a d of A p r i l ,
as has b e e n the case h e r e t o f o r e .
The f a l l
season a ls o is
The season began t h is
exp ected to commence a month e a r l i e r
in
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fu t u r e than i t has fo r m e r ly ;
ships
9 months i n the y e ar
b e e n th e c a s e .
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so th a t h e r e a f t e r we exp ect whale-
in s te a d of s i x ,
T h is change i s
as has g e n e r a l l y
owing to a change in the b u s i n e s s ;
a change Tifaich w i l l b r in g i n upon us & upon other p a r t s
Islands,
in fu t u r e ,
ha v e h e r e t o fo r e
the w hole f l e e t
of F r en c h w h a lesh ip s
w hich
c r u is S d i n the r e g io n of New Z e a l a n d .
A l l that has b e e n attem pted i n la bo u rs here fo r
has been preach in g in E n g l i s h a t
fu rn ish in g
o f the
the Chapel
seamen
once each S a b b a t h -
the R eading Room w ith papers & good b o o k s ,
out s u c h b ooks as b e lo n g to t h e Seam en’ s l i b r a r y ,
T ra c ts to each s h ip as
they were
fu rn ish in g
ready for. s e a , & th e B i b l e
such as were d e s t it u t e & w is h e d to r e c e iv e i t .
could not be attem pted w ith
g iv i n g
to
More than t h is
our p r e se n t amount of s t r e n g t h .
The Chapel has g e n e r a lly b e e n w e l l a t t e n d e d , e s p e c i a l l y by M as
ters & o ffic e r s .
W hen, a t
r i t h a s been most a b u n d a n t,
some parts
o f the y e a r ,
ardent s p i
the b e e r s h o p s , as they a r e
w h ic h a re numerous & have f u r n i s h e d ardent s p i r i t ,
a more po w erful a t t r a c t i o n to s a i l o r s
I n t o x i c a t i o n among them has b een as
called,
have proved
than th e house o f G o d .
common on the S a b b a t h as on
any other day .
N a t iv e s .
The o r d in a r y course of l a b o u r s ,
pursued h e r e f o r e f o r the
n a t iv e p o p u la t io n , has b een kept up the p a st y e a r .
The amount
of p r e a c h in g r e p o r t e d i n years p a s t has b e e n the same t h is y e a r .
Our m eetings on the S a b .
the same.
M eetings
up on the S a b .
o f the church.
in g
& on oth er days have g e n e r a l l y b e e n
also as our fo u r o u t s t a t io n s h a v e b e e n kept
g e n e r a l l y , h o w ever,
a tte n d e d by n a t i v e members
M r. R ich ard s has u s u a lly
done h a l f
to the n a t i v e . co n g reg atio n on the S a b b a th ;
a t t e n d e d any of the m eetings d u rin g the w e e k .
the p r e a c h
but has not o f t e n
H is
d u t ie s
as
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t e a c h e r of the c h ie f s have a b s o r b e d most o f h is a t t e n t i o n .
We cannot s a y that we have had any t h in g l i k e
outpouring
of the Sptfiit among us the past y e a r ;
a s p e c ia l
& y e t we t h in k
the p reach in g & other means of g ra c e here have not b e e n w it h o u t
s a v in g
effect.
Our con greg ations have d im in ish e d n o t h in g i n
numbers or In t e r e s t from what they have e x h ib it e d i n y e a r s
past.
The r u le rs
of the n a t i o n , a s
a general t h in g , have been
p r e t t y punctual In t h e i r a ttend an ce on the p u b lic means of grace
We have m a in t a in e d a S a b . School & a B ib le c la s s
at the S t a t io n every S ab b ath ;
fo r a d u lt s
& have had three S a b . Sch o o ls f o r
c h il d r e n i n La h ain a in s t e a d of one as in p revio us y e a r s .
P ro b
a b ly three t im e s ,a s many c h ild r e n have a tte n d e d these t h r e e
scho o ls
as a t t e n d e d the one p r e v io u s l y .
The p astor has co n v ersed w it h a l l who w ish ed to co nverse
on t h e s u b je c t o f r e l i g i o n ,
t io n ,
throughout L a h a in a ,
once d u r in g the p a st y e a r ;
extent a t the o u t s t a t i o n s ,
a t t e n d e d w ith good e f f e c t .
in regu lar rota
& has done the same to
some
an e x e r c is e w hich has seemed to be
Two o f our m eeting houses at
o u t s t a t io n s have f a l l e n d u r in g the p a st y e a r .
the
One has b e e n
r e p a i r e d , & two f i n e sto ne meeting ho uses are I n a g ood degree
of p ro g ress on L a n a i , w h ic h we hope may be com pleted the p resen t
year.
The people a r e p o o r , b u t are w i l l i n g beyond t h e i r a b i l i t y
I n one r e s p e c t , w e have been h i g h l y fa v o r e d on a l l M a u i.
We have h a d no f o r e i g n J e s u it p r i e s t among u s ,
three who m erely la n d e d f o r a day or tw o .
a n est h e r e of such a s c a l l
except two or
We h a v e , h o w ever,
themselves p a p i s t s ,
g a t h e r e d by the
n a t iv e who was ed ucated i n Prance & by c e r t a in p o p is h d i s c i p l e s
who have come h e r e ,
from time
to tim e ,
from O ahu.
They may
amount to 50 or 60 & keep up m e e t in g s , whenever we have m eetings
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S im il a r clu sters
are
to b e fo u n d in other parts
So f a r as I can l e a r n ,
m eetings or schoo ls
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of the
islan d .
few of them e v e r h a d any t h in g to do w i t h
i n tim e past - they know l i t t l e
abo ut the
G o s p e l, & s t i l l le s s about po pery ; b ut w i l l undoubtedly f u r n i s h
the n u cle u s f o r a p o p ish c o n g r e g a t io n , w henever an a r t f u l
f o r e i g n J e s u it s h a l l t a k e up h is abode h e r e .
we expect to do a l l we c a n , by s c h o o l s ,
t in g the B ib le & B ib l e k n o w led g e,
I n the m eantim e,
p r e a c h in g ,
& d is s e m in a
to root out the seeds
p o p e r y , w hich were v e g e t a t in g h e r e long b e fo r e e it h e r
of
the name
o f t h e pope or o f the B i b l e h a d r e a c h e d the Sandw idh I s l a n d s .
Schools .
We t h in k our schools have b e e n more f f l c i e n t
the p a st
than
i n any p revio us y e a r , though I n t h is r e sp e c t some o f them d i f f e r
w id e ly from o t h e r s .
The schools
are 18 i n number under the I n
s t r u c t io n of about 4 0 teachers & a s s i s t a n t
teachers.
The num
b er o f s ch o la rs n o m in a lly connected w it h the schools i s p r o b a b
ly the same as l a s t y e ar 1 1 2 0 now be a s c e r t a in e d .
was
in S e p t .
June n e x t .
last.
The average atten d an ce cannot
The only ex a m in a tio n h e ld d u r in g
That u s u a lly h e l d i n A p r il was d e f e r r e d to
We a r e very d e s t it u t e of school houses
L a h a i n a ; but w e have
by th e governm ent.
the y e a r
the prom ise
A l l the
ju s t now at
of h a v in g 5 or 6 e r e c t e d soon
scholars a b le to r e a d i n the s c h o o ls ,
throughout our f i e l d , have b e e n s u p p l ie d the p a st y e a r , w i t h
the New T e s t , by our L a h a in a B ib l e S o c ie t y , w h ic h s u b s c r ib e d
fo r t h is
ob ject about $ 4 0 0 .
—
T h is
s u p p ly , we t h i n k , has done
g r e a t good - by communicating d ir e c t l y much B i b l e kn ow ledge to
th e c h i l d r e n - by f u r n i s h i n g them a permanent r e a d in g b o o k , &
by e x c i t i n g In th e schools
a d e s ir e to le a r n to r e a d .
Many new
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r e a d e r s E H &H &ix have "been add ed to a l l th ese
whole number of r e a d e r s
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s c h o o ls ; b u t the
cannot now be a s c e r t a in e d , as w e have
n o t b e e n a b le to o b t a in a supply of the New T e s t , f o r such as
have lea rn ed to r e a d during the y e a r .
Number l a s t y e a r 5 8 4 .
Cause of Temperance.
Three ye ars s i n c e ,
the l o c a l a u t h o r i t i e s
of t h i s
p la c e
a llo w e d no ardent s p i r i t to b e brought on shore a t t h is p l a c e .
From the time t h a t th e F ren ch t r e a t y was made,
to la n d i t - very s e c r e t l y at f i r s t
grown b o ld e r & b o l d e r .
Last y e a r ,
s c a r c e ly an e f f o r t a t concealm ent;
le s s
shame than ever b e fo r e at
- b u t they have g r a d u a l l y
i n some fo r e ig n e r s
b e e n opened i n every part of our v i l l a g e
in g v e r y common.
c a r r i e d by n a t iv e s
( i ).
Beer shops have
- most of w h i c h ,
I t was an every day occurrence to s e e
to the fo r t f o r f i g h t i n g ,
p ects of f o r e i g n e r s , b o th v i s i t o r s
The k i n g ,
r io t s & the l i k e ,
h u la s
had started
These w ere c a r r ie d to g r e a t e x c e s s ,
o ft e n kept up n ig h t & d a y , by him & some o t h e r s .
n a t iv e s
The p r o s
seemed s c a r c e ly b e t t e r .
i n a n t i c i p a t i o n of the b ir t h of a c h il d ,
a so n , was b o r n J a n .
some
& r e s i d e n t s , seemed d i s m a l .
part of our v i l l a g e
the a n cien t h u la s & m e l e s .
we
Drunken s a i l o r s w ere becom
& others c a r r ie d by t h e i r comrades to t h e i r b o a t s .
That of th e n a t iv e
th e re was
& t h is year they showed
the t r a f i c
s u p p o s e , k e p t the p o iso n f o r s a l e .
some h a v e v en tu red
14th & Feb.
The c h i l d ,
1 4 t h I t d i e d , b e i n g , as the
some.times express i t , h u l a d out of e x i s t e n c e .
But the
d id no t even t h e n cease even thoug h the k in g h a d prom ised
from the b e g in n in g to stop them soon; & many scenes o f i n t o x i
c a t io n were w it n e s s e d among those h i g h i n a u t h o r it y & among
others.
Our prospects were nev e r darker h e r e only as we lo o k ed
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up to the Lord f o r l i g h t , & b e l ie v e d the clouds w^- ere lo n g
b r e a k away - how , we knew not - som etim es, we thought the Lord
w ^ come d ressed i n v e n g e a n c e , & s c a t t e r the leaders
i n th ese
a b o m in a tio n s.
seemed to
us
"When the l i t t l e
the b e g in n in g .
one was cut down, i t
But, perhaps the Lord d id not
h a d other d e sig n s whh we knew not
c a s e , from what has s in c e
see as m an, &
of - such wd seem to b e the
o c c u rr e d .
B efore the end of M arch,
the k in g was brought to prom ise
to put an immediate end to a l l h i s h u la s & every other h e a t h e n
i s h p r a c t i c e , never to r e v iv e them afeain; & to abandon h i m s e l f
u se of a l l i n t o x i c a t i n g d r in k s ,
T his
was a great
never to resume t h e ir use
a gain .
step for one who h a d pursued the course he h a d ,
& we cd not doubt t h a t
It was i n
answer to the pray ers
o f those
who lo v ed the L o r d , & who had poured out t h e ir h e a r t s b e f o r e
h im .
A ft e r s u i t a b l e d e l ib e r a t io n w i t h the other c h i e f s ,
were here con cluded to ta k e
t o x ic a t in g d rink s
a l l who
the same ground i n r e l a t i o n to I n
- a p u b lic m eeting was c a l l e d A p r il 2 6 t h -
Our n a t iv e m eeting house was f u l l
- a ft e r
some r e m a r k s ,
t o t a l pledge was p r e s e n t e d , & the K in g stepped f o r w a r d ,
a fe w ap p ro p riate rem arks,
a temade
in whh he s a i d "h e was p l a c e d as
a f a t h e r over t h is people & he meant to b e
a fa t h e r to t h e m ,"
& then put h i s name to the p ledge - the other c h ie fs a l l f o l
low ed - t h e ir p e o p le , hulum anuTs & c .
the
t e t o t a l m ark.
the
all
came at once up to
We r e j o i c e d , b ut r e j o i c e d w it h a stran ge &
p a i n f u l m ixture of t r e m b lin g , as we saw the v e r i e s t v e te ra n s
i n the army of o ld Bacchus vowing b e fo r e a great c o n g r e g a t io n
& b e fo r e God t h a t they w1^ have n o t h in g more to do w i t h t h e ir
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d ru n k e n ,
abominable God.
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i&fter the c h ie f s & most o f t h e i r
peo p le h a d g iv e n t h e i r nam es,
the m u ltitu d e gave t h e i r s ;
though
a second day of m eeting was a p p o in ted b e fo r e even the l i s t
th o se n e a r the K in g & c h ie fs was com pleted.
The p le d g e has b e e n
s ig n e d by upwards o f 1000 - Perhaps a l l M a u i, & , we h o p e ,
the other is la n d s w i l l yet s ig n i t
to g e t
- but we are n o t
to keep
The Lord alo ne i s
them.
The fo llo w in g are s t a t i s t i c s r e l a t i v e to the c h h .
Whole number adm itted on e x a m in a t io n ,
653.
Whole number on C e r t i f i c a t e
124.
-
Past y e ar on exam ination
Past y e ar on C e r t i f i c a t e
54.
-
W hole number past y e a r
33
'
87
Whole number d is m is s e d to other chhs
93
D ism is se d the past y e a r
11
Whole number d eceased
D eceased past y e ar
-------- —
90
-------
10
Suspended p a s t y e a r -------
18
Remain suspended
19
Excommunicated past y e ar
9
Whole number excommunicated,
25
Rem ain excommunicated --
24
W hole number in r e g u l a r s ta n d in g —
558
Whole number of c h i l d r e n b a p t iz e d
525
B a p t iz e d p a s t y e a r —
a l l of
so anxious
the m u ltitu d e p le d g e d as we are to have the l e a d e r s
t h is work stand fir m to t h e i r p u r p o s e .
of
62
in
a ble
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M arriages past y e a r -----
p en d e d lorijg hegoxjB.
8
96
A verage number o f C o n g reg a tio n on
the Sabbath
-Most o f th o se
-
1500
excommunicated the past year h a d b e e n su s
Many o f those suspended also h a d b e e n s u s
p ended and r e s t o r e d b e fo r e - some o f them r e p e a t e d l y , e i t h e r i n
c o n n ectio n w ith t h e k i n g 's
fea st,
or fo r some other c a u s e ;
so
th at e n t i r e l y new cases of d i s c i p l i n e have not been numerous
d u r in g the y e a r .
The l e t t e r s a s s ig n e d me, v i z .
to the Tonga I s l d M i s s i o n &
to the M is s io n in Greece were w r it t e n & fo rw a rd ed e a r l y i n the
year.
The Chh Member’ s G u id e ,
ly w ritte n .
a work a s s i g n e d me, has b e e n p a r t
I t has b een d i f f i c u l t
i n t h e midst of
to s i t down to such a work
a l l my la bo rs & c a r e s ,
& the a d d i t i o n a l
care
of my fa m ily whh s ic k n e s s has d evolved upon me.
The g re a t
d iffic u lty
( I) c o u ld b e
of t h is has b e e n ,
that so few m inuets
at my command a t any one tim e .
no w b e fo r e I
But I hope i t w i l l n o t b e long
can f i n i s h the w o r k .
b u t may answ er, i n some m easure,
We g r e a tly n eed more h e lp a t
a id s
I t w i l l be but a t r a c t the end d e s ir e d .
our s t a t i o n .
M r . R ic h a r d s
i n p reach in g on the S ab b ath - but d u rin g the days
o f the
e n t ir e ly d evoted to the w o r k o f h i s
week even th en ,
as he is
own departm ent,
too many labo urs & cares d evolve on the p a s t o r .
Bufi> the g r e a t e s t d i f f i c u l t y i s when he I s g o n e ,
& s h ip s
are h e r e .
as h e o f t e n i s ,
Two c o n g r e g a t io n s , & most o f the la bo u rs
connected w ith two c o n g r e g a t io n s ,
then devolve on one m an.
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The h e lp we need is i n p r e a c h in g ,
s in c e ,
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fo r most p a r t o f the
y e a r , we have two co n g r e g a tio n s a t the s t a t i o n , & much p r e a c h
in g ought to h e done a t the o u t s t a t i o n s .
D.
B ald w in
�Report o f La h ain a S t a t io n
1845.
Through the b l e s s i n g
ha s
of God, the f a m il y at th e S t a t i o n
e n jo y e d , d u r in g most o f the y e a r ,
almost u n in t e r r u p t e d h e a l t h .
No s e r io u s case of i l l n e s s has occurred among us t i l l now n e a r
the c lo s e
s een f i t
of the y e a r .
D u rin g the l a s t month the L o r d has
to a f f l i c t & bereave u s .
y o u n g est c h i l d , excep t on e,
d ia r r h e a or d y s e n t e r y .
About the l 3^ o f A p r i l ,
our
(D o u g la s s ) was taken down w i t h
For a tim e ,
d e f ia n c e to a l l r e m e d ie s , b u t ,
some m easure, e o n t r o le d ( 1) ;
the d is e a s e
at le n g th ,
it
seemed to b i d
seemed to b e ,
& we hoped the l i t t l e
one
in
soon
/
recover.
d ise a se ,
But w h e th e r, d u r in g the g r e a t e s t v io le n c e of the
some f a t a l in j u r y
took p l a c e ,
or w h eth er,
from some
other c a u s e , he sunk away under the d is e a s e & d ie d on the 3 ^- o f
M ay.
This has b e e n ,
w ou ld not f o r g e t ,
-things w i s e l y ,
to th e p a r e n t s ,
a sore b ereavem ent;
that the Lord has done i t .
& we pray fo r
but we
He does a l l
g r a c e , that we may a c q u ie s c e i n
h i s h o ly w i l l .
D u rin g the i l l n e s s
o f t h is
little
o n e,
such was
the b u rd en
on the mother from the care o f the c h il d s t i l l y o u n g e r ,
& from
oth er c a r e s , t h a t the a t t e n t io n of M r. B a ld w in to th e s i c k was
r e q u ir e d almost c o n s t a n tly by n ig h t & by d a y .
For n e a r l y a
month h e almost e n t ir e l y abandoned m isy w o r k in the c o n g r e g a t io n .
One month a ls o
of the y e a r he sp en t w it h h i s
to a f f o r d m ed ic al h e l p to the f a m il y t h e r e .
tio n s ,
& a few l e s s e r in t e r r u p t io n s
p ro fessio n ,
m isy l a b o r .
he has
spent the year
fam ily a t W a i l u k u ,
W it h t h e s e
excep
from a t t e n t io n to the same
i n d i f f e r e n t departm ents of
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D u rin g th e in t e r r u p t i o n & absence o f the p a s t o r ,
2
some one
or other of the L a h a in a lu n a b rn has p reach ed on the S a b b a t h ,
t h a t the Sabbath e x e r c is e s & Wed.
m a in t a in e d .
le c t u r e have b e e n r e g u l a r l y
Our con gregations have b e e n more r e g u l a r l y f u l l
fro m b e g in n in g to the end o f the y e a r than ever b e f o r e .
ha v e p e r c e iv e d but l i t t l e
in
d if f e r e n c e betw een the c o n g r e g a t io n
the morning & that o f the evening o f the S a b b a t h .
f a c t s & others we a r e
encouraged to h o p e ,
(I)
no t d is p e n se d not a lto g e t h e r i n v a i n .
B esid es
a c h i l d r e n 's
Prom th ese
that the w ord is
the two r e g u la r s e r v ic e s on th e S ab b ath we have
Sab.
S c h o o l, as in former y e a r s ,
a i oka la school fo r a d u lts at no o n ,
a d u lt s in
We
the a fte r n o o n .
endeavors to a t t e n d .
This B i b l e
The work i n
l y the B ib le i n c o u r s e .
S a b . m orning -
& a B ib l e c la s s
fo r
c la ss the p a sto r g e n e r a l l y
it is
to r e a d & expound b r i e f
The class h a v in g commenced a t G en esis
have a lrea d y proceeded through a fo u r t h part o f the S a c r e d
vo lum e.
t io n s
is is
in
A s im ila r e x e r c is e is a tte n d e d a t each of our outsta-
fo r the purpose of r e a d in g
( i) to R e v e l a t i o n .
t h is w o r k .
the B ib le through from Gen-
Some part of every Sabbath is
spent
M afnjy o f the people h a v e , , e i t h e r in p r iv a t e or
i n t h e i r f a m i l i e s , f i n i s h e d the r e a d in g of the whole B i b l e
course - some o f them many times
in
over - but as to the mass o f t h e
p e o p le , we know o f no w ay i n whh a knowledge o f the S a c re d
o r a c le s
is l i k e l y to be advanced among them than by form ing
among them B ib l e c la s s e s
conducted on the above p r i n c i p l e s .
The monthly concert has b een m a in ta in e d at the
w e l l a s a t a l l our o u t s t a t io n s ;
s t a t io n as
& , d u r in g the p a st y e a r ,
we have
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commenced observin g the 2 ^ monday of ea c h month as a con cert
fo r
schools - the 3^- monday f o r Seam en, & the l a s t monday o f
the month as an A n t i S la v e r y c o n c e r t .
These pray er m eetings
we expect to m a in ta in i n f u t u r e the same as they are m a in t a in e d
by a p o r t io n o f th e
churches i n C h r i s t i a n l a n d s .
b e in g t h is y e ar l e f t
alone at the s t a t i o n ,
im p o s s ib le f o r him to v i s i t
o u t s t a t io n s ,
h im to preach a t them on the S a b b a t h .
up ,
I n some m easure,
of the Schools
by D a v id M alo ,
The p a s t o r
i t has b e e n almost
& e s p e c ia l l y d i f f i c u l t fu r
This la c k has b e e n made
who is
the s u p e r in te n d e n t
of Maui & the a d ja c e n t i s l a n d s .
He h a s made
fr e q u e n t t o u r s , & they have always been more or le s s
p r e a c h in g to the p e o p l e .
& w e have many f e a r s ,
tours
of
For many months past he has b e e n i l l ,
t h a t h is
s e r v ic e s
in the cause o f C h r is t
w i l l not con tin ue v ery- lo ng .
Our s c h o o l s ,.w e
any p rev io u s p e r i o d .
t h in k , a r e In as prosperous a s t a t e as at
We see many signs
among the people to g iv e t h e ir
of an i n c r e a s i n g d e s ir e
c h ild r e n e d u c a t io n .
We h e a r few or no com plaints h ere among t e a c h e r s ,
are n o t p a id fo r t h e i r w o r k .
The r u le r s
seem to have come up
to t h e law they have made so f a r as p a y in g teach ers i s
The s u p e r in te n d e n t r e p o r ts
p a i d to the teac h er s
p a id i n money, b u t
the
of t h is
that they
concerned.
sum of $2 ,45 8|r as h a v in g b een
is la n d by the governm ent; not
in o t h e r kinds
of .p ro p e rty ; & h e r e p o r t s
same amount as h a v in g been r a i s e d by
the p e o p le .
the
We have r e a s o n
to b e l i e v e t h a t sup p lyin g our s ch o o ls w i t h the New Testam ent
has b een g reatly f o r t h e i r a d v a n t a g e .
Of the new r e a d e r s we
have s u p p lie d many t h i s y e a r - b ut many are y e t u n s u p p l ie d for
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want of Testaments.
One thing we ought to b e g r a t e f u l fo r - The p a p is t s have
d ev o ted very l i t t l e
Even a
few that
of t h e i r
e n erg ies to our part o f the f i e l d .
c a l l e d them selves p a p is t s at L a h a in a
have vanished - or i f
seem to
they s t i l l b e lo n g to that S e c t , we h e a r
n o t h in g of them.
Over the temperance cause a t L a h a in a there hang many d ark
clo u ds - in t e r m in g le d with spots
d o u b t fu l in d ic a t io n s
o f b r ig h t
sky that g iv e no
of clear w eather In tim e to come.
The
d a r k e s t cloud that has r is e n upon us was the d e c is io n o f th e
B r i t i s h Commission to l i c e n s e ru m sellers at L a h a in a .
T h is
r a i s e d alarm among us - alarm t h a t has no t y e t s u b s i d e d .
We
im m ediately f a n c i e d our s tr e e ts r eso u n d in g w i t h p r o fa n e oaths
& filth y
songs, w i t h b r o ils
& f i g h t i n g , & not a l i t t l e
h a s proved r e a l i t y .
When w i l l law makers a l l l e a r n ,
h a v e no moral r i g h t ,
except as
the d e v il g iv e s
l i c e n s e persons to t u r n r a t io n a l b e in g s
c r a zy fie n d s ?
o f t h is
t h a t th ey
them r i g h t ,
in t o s i c k l y p o l l u t e d ,
Three l ic e n s e s have been g iv e n to s e l l
ard ent
s p i r i t - & perhaps
it
Temperance c a u s e s ,
that two of t h o s e who have b een l i c e n s e d
should b e m entioned as a good omen fo r the
are r e p u t e d the lowest & most d egraded of any b e in g s
ever set foot
on our s h o r e .
Of the t h i r d ,
so l o w , a s e a f a r in g man l a t e l y s a i d ,
l i c e n s e to d e a l i n ardent s p i r i t ,
any other man to corrupt
place.
have fo r
to
though no t
who have
counted
& that when he h ad not
that he was doing more th an
the morals
of those who v i s i t e d the
Now to a l l th e eminent q u a l i f i c a t i o n s whh th e s e people
s e rv in g the d e v i l , why the power of rum has b een a d d e d ,
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can b e
accounted for only on th e p r i n c i p l e
down w i t h great power w hen he knows h i s
is
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5
that the D e v i l comes
time to b e s h o r t .
It
among the good s ig n s fo r Tem perance, t h a t the K i n g , & c h ie f s
& p e o p le who signed the pledge seem to stand f a s t .
A fo reig n
S o c ie t y f o r t o t a l a b s t ic e n c e has b e e n form ed a t L a h a i n a .
Between 30 & 40 of the r e s i d e n t s have s ig n e d the p l e d g e , &
some of them have b ro ken i t .
In c l u d in g those from s h ip s
s o c ie t y numbers above one h u n d r e d .
s ig n s
It
the
is among the c h e e r in g
o f the d a y , t h a t th e Temp, cause is making s u ch r a p i d
strid es
i n a l l e n lig h t e n e d l a n d s ;
& as m ight be e x p e c t e d , the
in flu en ce
is f e l t I n s h ip s l a t e l y from t h e U . S t a t e s .
One
( 0
s h ip touched a t L a h a in a w i t h a t e t o t a l S o c ie t y of 20 on board an o th er w it h 27 - another w ith 2 9 .
the p le d g e .
sh ip s,
It
On a n o t h e r ,
a l l h a d s ig n e d
-CO
is owing m ainly to the t e t o t a l I n f l u e n c e
In
that w h ile rum abounds on s h o r e , & we have h a d t h i s
s e a s o n already over 90
s h ip s , s t i l l a good degree o f q u ie t &
order has p r e v a il e d on s h o r e .
W hether w e lo o k a t the
it
Temp, c a u s e ,
is matter o f devout g r a t it u d e to God,
dawning on the sons of the ocean.
N antucket
& other
seems
R e v iv a ls a t New B e d f o r d ,
Two ships have h a d a r e v i v a l on b o a r d
when w i t h i n a fo r t n ig h t s
s a il of L ah ain a.
were h o p e fu lly c o n v e r te d , whh made,
& man.
that a new day
and the V in e y a r d have g ath ere d i n many shipm asters
s e a fa r in g men.
I n several
or w hatever good c a u s e ,
other ships
in a l l ,
I n one of them t e n
20 p iou s on b o a r d .
there have b e e n pious m a s t e r s ,
One l a t e l y there h a d a p iou s m a s t e r , & e ig h t
h a d then p ro fe s se d to be b o m
a g a in .
o ffic e rs
of the men
We h e a r o f many others
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w here God d w e lls .
6
-
One, i n p a r t i c u l a r , w i t h a p iou s C a p t . &
stew ard from home, has h a d 20 others con verted on the v o y a g e .
The Mary F r a z i e r , w h ic h b ro ugh t out a la r g e rein fo r c e m e n t
m is s io n a r ie s
in 1 8 3 7 ,
now a w h a lin g B a r q u e ,
of
is a B e th e l where
God i s a d o r e d , & where the S p i r i t is poured o u t.
These f a c t s
speak of g lo r io u s tim es to come on Seam en, & g lo r io u s tim es fo r
every ca use over whh seamen have an i n f l u e n c e .
S t a t i s t i c s f o r L a h a in a chh.
W hole number a d m itted to chh on e x a m in a t io n ,
758
Whole number on c e r t i f i c a t e
157
P a s t y e a r on ex am in atio n
105
P a s t y e a r on c e r t i f i c a t e
33
W h o le number p a s t y e a r
W h o le number d is m is s e d to other
138
ch h s ,
97
D is m is s e d past y e a r
17
Whole number deceased
1 12
D e c e a se d past y e ar
22
Suspended past y e a r
7
Rem ain suspended
19
Excommunicated past y e a r
W hole n o .
1
excommunicated
26
Rem ain excommunicated
25
W hole number in r e g u l a r S tand ing
6 57
Whole no',
663
of c h ild r e n b a p t i z e d
B a p t i z e d p a st year
138
M arria g es paast y e a r
Average C ongregation on S a b .
L a h a i n a May 9 th 1 84 3
67
1600
D.
B a ld w in
�Addition to the Report of
Lahaina Station 1843
I n the report
of L a h a in a S t a t io n no m ention was made of the
assign m ents made the l a s t y e ar & "before.
A chh members gjuide was
a s s ig n e d to M r. B a ld w in some y e a r s s i n c e .
At the commencement of
l a s t y e a r h e began to prepare some th in g l i k e a Tract on t h a t
je c t,
s u fficien tly
la rg e to b e u s e f u l i n th e H a w a iia n c h h s , & had
h o p ed soon to complete i t —
p e r y was
sub
a ssign ed him —
b u t at th e l a s t m eeting a w ork on Po
th is,
it was th o u g h t, was more im m ediately
demanded t h a h th e o th er work —
at the same
time Mr.
Arm strong sent
him a sm all w o rk, w r i t t e n b y an E n g l i s h P r o t e s t a n t a g a in s t p o p e r y ,
t r a n s l a t i o n of whh, h e thoug ht, wd be a f u l f i l l i n g
m ent.
of M r . B ’ s a s s i g n
He w is h e d the same t r a n s l a t e d fo r t h e Nonanona.
was a t t e n d e d t o ,
a
H is r e q u e s t
& t h e catechism on popery was p u b l is h e d i n s u c c e s
s iv e numbers of th e psp er —
The work has c o n s id e r a b le p o in t &
s t r e n g t h on the s e v e r a l p o in ts of c o n te s t w i t h p a p is t s
-- b u t
still
i t is n o t i n a l l r e s p e c t s p r e c is e l y w hat i t wd have b e e n h a d i t b een
p r e p a r e d o r i g i n a l l y f o r t h is p e o p l e .
r e a d i t more o r l e s s ,
i t to b e
Most of the brn h a v e d o u b tle s s
& they must d ecide whether i t i s b e s t
to p r in t
c ir c u la t e d in t h e form o f a t r a c t .
H a v in g devoted co n sid erab le tim e to t h i s w o rk, & have h a d to
devote,
as a lre a d y m e n tio n e d , an u n u s u a l amount of tim e to m e d ic a l
d u tie s,
& h a v in g had an in c r e a s e d b u r d e n from other s o u r c e s ,
b e e n u t t e r l y out o f
the q u e s t io n fo r M r. B .
the Chh member’ s Guide --
i t has
to resume h is work on
He i s now somewhat r e l i e v e d by M r. A ndrew s'
b e i n g employed to p r e a c h at the S eam en's C h a p e l, & what he can do
t h i s y e a r i n th at way is y e t
to be s e e n .
�Addition to the Report of Lahaina 1843
2.
L a s t y e ar $ 1 5 0 w ere a p p ro p ria te d to "build a canoe h o u se a t th is
place.
A spot was procured i n the
m aking the ro a d a d j o in in g
d atio n p a rtly prepared.
edge o f the Sea on c o n d i t i o n of
i t , whh has b e e n done in part.,
& the fo u n
About 100 d o l l a r s have b een e x p e n d e d & the
r e m a in in g 50 w i l l be as soon as m a t e r ia ls c a n b e p r o c u r e d .
1 5 0 w i l l prob ab ly about complete the fo u n d a t io n —
It
The whole
is h ig h ly
d e s i r a b l e th at the b u i l d i n g be f i n i s h e d as we have now no house fo r
our c a n o e s.
t io n I s
The b r n from t h is p la ce can t e l l w h a t ,
p r e p a r e d , w i l l b e need ed to put up the h o u s e .
be w e l l to m ake,
b u ild in g
&
a ft e r
for the o b j e c t ,
the fo u n d a
Perhaps
i t wd
a somewhat i n d e f i n i t e g r a n t .
shd be b e tw e e n 4 0 & 50 f e e t
The
long & of p r e tt y g o o d w i d t h s ,
shd be w e l l secured in fr o n t w it h clo se f o l d i n g d o o r s .
I t i s w e l l known t o the b r n r e s i d i n g
in t h i s v i c i n i t y ,
t h a t M r.
B a l d w i n 's house does not f u r n i s h any spare room fo r the accommodation
of v i s i t o r s n o t w it h s t a n d in g the s t a t io n
many c a l l s ,
& he w d be
is
so s i t u a t e d ,
t h a t h e has
g lad to f u r n i s h them w i t h good accom m odations,
e s p e c i a l l y as most o f them a re w e l l sea-worn by the time they a r r i v e .
I t was h is
in t e n t io n th e p a s t year to have f i n i s h e d a sp are room i n
a p a r t of the store house a t an expense of about 100 d o l l a r s
—
b u t he abandoned the o b je c t because he fo u n d he cd not a c c o m p lis h i t
w it h o u t b e in g about 1 0 0 dols i n d eb t at the
le a v e s
end o f the y e a r .
He
i t w it h the m is s io n to say whether th at sum ought n o t to be
g r a n t e d him to f u r n i s h b e t t e r lodgin gs to those who a r e u n d er the
n ecessity o f ,
or who c h o o s e , c a l l i n g at t h i s p l a c e .
{TJnsigned, b u t B ald w in * s j
�R ep or t of Lahaina,
June
1844.
F o r the l a s t two y e a r s only one misy fa m ily has r e s i d e d
a t L a h a in a ,
A ll
the la b o rs
o f the s t a t i o n & of the t h r e e
s t a t io n s con nected w i t h i t have d evolved on M r. B a l d w in .
the f i r s t
of th ese
two y e a r s , b e s id e s
a tte n d in g
w ith some h e lp
For
to the n a t i v e
co n g reg atio n & to th e m ed ic al wants of Maui & M o lo k a i,
as i n h is power, h e ,
o u t
as f a r
from o t h e r s , m a in t a in e d
p r e a c h in g once each Sabbath in t h e Seam en’ s c h a p e l, f o r m early
the whole
of t h e y e a r .
D u rin g the p a st y e ar M r. Andrews has
b een engaged to preach to Seamen - b ut M r.
d iv e r t e d from h is
labors
wants
any previous y e a r .
than d u r in g
y e a r he & h i s
B . has b e e n more
as p astor by a t t e n t io n to m e d ic a l
One fo u r t h o f th e l a s t
fa m ily were a b s e n t from the s t a t i o n .
h a l f months of t h is tim e were
spent a t W a il u k u .
Two & a
D u r in g t h is
time the p u lp it was g e n e r a lly s u p p l ie d on the S ab b a th by one
of the b reth ren fro m L a h a in a lu n a ; b ut the amount of m isy la b o r
perform ed has b een far from adequate to t h e w ants
T h is w i l l be more r e a d il y
understoo d when i t is
o f t h e p e o p le .
added,
th at the
number of ships a n n u a lly v i s i t i n g L a h a in a has in c r e a s e d from
60 or 7 0 to 250;- thereby d im in is h in g
the amount of la b o r Tfihich
a m isy could give to t h e p e o p l e , & in c r e a s in g the n e e d of such
la b o r.
For a part of th e y e a r , the h e a l t h of the fa m ily a t the
s t a t i o n h as b e e n good - b u t fo r a s t i l l la r g e r p o r t io n o f the
time more or less I l l n e s s has f a l l e n to t h e i r l o t .
h a d o c c a s io n a l tu rn s
l a s t g e n e r a l m e e t in g ,
of i l l n e s s ,
M r . B . has
& a few days p r e v io u s to the
one o f t h e i r l i t t l e
ones was removed
�1844
g
-
by d e a t h .
The common ro u n d of m isy la b o r at th e s t a t io n h a s b e e n
p e r fo r m e d , b o t h on th e S a b .
& d u r in g the w e e k .
We cannot speak
of any s p e c ia l o u tp o u rin g o f the S p i r i t - b ut s t i l l as i n many
other y e a r s ,
c o u r a g in g .
to the
t h e a t t e n t io n to the means of g ra c e has b een e n
We would h o p e ,
t h a t these means have b een b l e s s e d
co n versio n of many; & we see many p le a s in g p r o o f s , t h a t
r e l i g i o u s knowledge & in t e r e s t a re
in c r e a s in g among a l l
of th e p e o p le , & t h a t , throughout our f i e l d ,
there I s
c la s s e s
a grow
in g c o n v ic t io n o f the r e a l i t y & w o r t h of th e G o s p e l.
The c o n g r e g a tio n a t L a h a in a whh has g e n e r a l l y b e e n e s tim a ted
at 1 5 0 0 , has b een as la r g e the past year
fu ll.
There i s
as u s u a l - perhap s more
a lso a g e n e r a l u n ifo r m it y in the co n g r eg atio n s
o f one Sabbath compared w i t h another;
& that o f the S a b . morning
is much th e same w i t h that of the a ft e r n o o n .
There is more
r e g u l a r i t y in the a tte n d a n c e of t h e k in g and c h ie fs t h a n i n
some form er y e a r s ; & where i r r e g u l a r , t h e i r example has
power over others
M eetings
n ativ es,
less
than fo r m e r ly .
are m a in ta in e d at each of th e fo u r o u t s t a t io n s
by
on the s a b b a t h , & on Wed - a ls o the concert f o r p r a y e r
each monday.
But the s i z e
of the
c o n g r e g a t io n s ,
or t h e
of good e f f e c t e d cannot b e v e r y d e f i n i t e l y s t a t e d .
s t a t io n s have b een v i s i t e d
amount
These o u t
only a few times b y the m isy the p a st
year.
The sc h o o ls
in that part of th e f i e l d have b e e n as f l o u r i s h
in g as in years p a s t ,
& the c a l l s f o r books about the sam e.
D a v id Malo is prob ab ly the most e f f i c i e n t
in a l l
the i s l a n d s ,
school s u p e r in t e n d e n t
& h e has done what h e could fo r t h e i r
�1844
p ro sp e rity .
It
is
owing m a inly to h i s
-
3
effo rts & z e a l ,
t h a t th e
government have f u l f i l l e d t h e ir engagements
in p a y in g wages to
a l l th e teachers
teachers t h e y have
of M a u i.
H a lf the pay fo r
c o n s id e r e d as due from the p a r e n t s .
d o u b tle s s b e e n g r e a t
sence
d e fic ie n c y .
I n p aying t h i s ,
t h e r e has
Owing to the i l l n e s s & a b
of the m is y , but l i t t l e h a s b een done the p a st y e a r in
way o f examining s c h o o l s , except by n a t iv e s
s e le c t e d f o r the
purpose.
No a d d it io n s have b e e n made to t h e church d u r in g the y e a r ,
p artly f o r
a t t e n d to
the want
it.
a l l b e lo n g in g
of more time & s t r e n g t h i n th e p a s t o r to
S ix t y s t a n d propounded fo r a d m issio n to t h e ch h ,
to one o f the o u t s t a t io n s .
& La h ain a may f u r n is h
c i p l i n e the
1 50 more c a n d id a t e s .
The other o u t s t a t io n s
The cases
of d is
past year have not been num ero us.
C o n t r ib u t io n s .
The church & peo p le have done som ething,
a p a rt
o f th e y e a r ,
more reg u la r i n c o n t r ib u t in g v eg eta b le s & c . to the m isy than
i n any previous y e a r .
T h eir
c o n tr ib u t io n s have a v a i l e d some
t h in g towards the support o f the p a s t o r .
t h e s e has not b een g r e a t , b u t
The r e a l w o r t h
of
t h e ir g iv in g has b e e n commendable
inasm uch as i t has "been .e n tir e ly o f t h e i r own a c c o r d ,
& as
all
t h e y have c o n t r ib u t e d has borne a h i g h p r ic e i n the m a rk e t.
The chh at L a h a in a h a v e ,
during the y e a r , b u i l t
one s c h o o l h o u s e ;
the government 2 or 3 o t h e r s .
The peo p le o f L a n a i have done
/
something towards t h e i r two m eeting houses - b u t they a r e not
y e t completed - & the peo p le in the w h o le f i e l d h a v e b een en
couraged to g iv e i n support
of t h e i r
own school t e a c h e r s .
The church & p eo p le of L a h a in a have c o n tr ib u t e d ,
year,
$ 4 0 0 f o r th e com pletion of
m eetings & other p u r p o s e s .
the p a s t
a house fo r church & p r a y e r
�1844
The B ib le S o c ie ty has commenced it s
sent y e a r ; b u t
T h e ir
i t cannot y e t be to ld what
vote at t h e i r l a t e
th e ir fu n d s ,
4
c o lle c t io n s
the p r e
they w i l l
amount t o .
annual m eeting was to a p p r o p r ia t e
the present y e a r ,
to s u p p ly in g new r e a d e r s
s c h o o l s , w i t h the New T e s t . - to f u r n i s h i n g the N .
some o f
& to
Test,
the most needy of the s ch o o ls of other parts
g iv in g the B ib le
chase I t
e n tire
i n the
a lso to
o f M a u i,
to some s u c h as are un a b le
to p u r
for th em selv es.
C o n trib u tio n s a re also going fo r w a rd i n the
at L a h a in a f o r
the iAmerican B oard .
have b e e n p a id i n f o r
c o n g r e g a tio n
Over one h u n d red d o l l a r s
t h is o b j e c t .
It
hundreds have b een s u b s c r ib e d - b u t i t
w i l l be c o lle c t e d d u r in g the y e a r .
is
supposed th at
several
cannot now b e t o l d what
W hether i t w i l l
amount to
a support fo r
the p astor or not w i l l b e b e t t e r known at the c lo s e
of
There appears
the y e a r .
to b e
among chh members & others
a commendable d e s i r e to give for the
of the
support 'of the
in s titu tio n s
G o s p e l.
Of Improvements among the people i n p o in t of c i v i l i z a t i o n
there are some s ig n s .
Many a t L a h a in a are b u i l d i n g b e t t e r
h o u ses - many a re p ro curing b e d s t e a d s ,
& b u re a u s ,
ta b le s, ch a irs,
& a few have clocks & w atches to h e lp them improve
t im e .
Chh S t a t i s t i c s
W hole number adm itted to chh on e x a m in a t io n ,
758
W hole n o . on C e r t i f i c a t e
179
on exam ination
0
P a s t year on c e r t i f i c a t e
22
W h o le n o . past y e a r
22
P ast y e ar
t ru n k s
�1844
Whole number d is m is s e d to other chhs
D is m is s e d past y e a r
---
Whole number deceased
----
D e c e a s e d past y e a r
---- ---
-
1 14
5
138
26
Suspended past y e a r
------Rem ain suspen ded
----Excommunicated p a st y e a r
-----
7
20
2
W hole number excommunicated
28
Rem ain excommunicated
----------
W h o le n o .
I n r e g u la r s t a n d in g
W hole n o .
c h ild r e n "baptized
25
---- -
637
-----
B a p t iz e d p a st y e ar
------
M arriages past y e a r /
---
Average c o n g r e g a tio n on S a b b a t h ,
5
725
62
117
'
1600
1 2 2 4 in c lu d in g m en, women & c h i l d r e n at La h ain a pay t a x e s
-
& the whole p o p u la t io n probably amounts to 2 6 0 0 or 2 7 0 0 .
Two
or t h r e e y e a r s s i n c e there were le s s t h a n 2 9 0 0 ,
b e e n s e v e r a l d im in u tio n s s i n c e .
th e r e ha v e
The m eeting house at L a h a i n a ,
when w e l l f i l l e d , h o ld s 2000 p e o p le .
D . B a ld w in
�Report of Lahaina Station,
May 1 8 4 6 ,
During
the two y e a r s s in c e the l a s t g e n e r a l m e e t in g ,
Lo r d has k in d ly p r e se r v e d the l iv e s
L a h &In a .
of a l l
the
the m isy fa m ily a t
He has n o t s u f f e r e d d e a t h to la y h is h a n d upon any of
t h e i r num ber, as he has done i n
some p re v io u s y e a r s ,
& th e ir
h e a l t h has been more unifo rm ly good th an i n almost any two
p r e v io u s y e a r s .
T h ey , h o w e v e r, s u f f e r e d ,
in common w it h
every i n d i v i d u a l i n the I s l a n d s , i n March & A p .
almost
1 8 4 5 , fr o m the
influen za.
Between 30 & 4 0 o f t h e n a t iv e s
at L a h a in a d ie d of the
d i s e a s e , m ostly such a s h a d b een p r e v io u s ly d e b i l i t a t e d b y other
d is e a s e s .
There were two d i s t i n c t a ttack s
March 2 0 t h - t h e
second In A p r i l .
- the f i r s t
commenced
The f i r s t was by f a r
the
most se v e re , & the only one w h ich much a ffe c t e d any o f the
m is s io n fa m ily .
During the summer of 1 8 4 5 , M r . Forbes & f a m i l y , who h a d
l e f t K ealakek ua,
on account, of the i l l n e s s
of M rs. F o r b e s ,
took
up t h e i r r e s id e n c e at L a h a i n a , i n the ho use form erly o c c u p ie d
b y M r. R ic h a r d s , & h e has s in ce b een a s s o c ia t e d i n t h e la b o rs
o f the s t a t i o n .
a t the s t a t i o n ,
years.
9 A .M .
The o r d in a r y round of labo rs has b een p u rsu e d
the
two years p a s t ,
These have c o n s is t e d ,
the
same as i n a l l p revio us
on the S a b b a t h , o f a sermon at
and another always at 4 P .M .
the
same hour i t has been
from the commencement o f the s t a t io n - a S a b . s c h o o l f o r c h i l d r e n
& y o u th a t 7 A .M .
the a i oka l a S a b . s c h o o l , a t 11 A .M . & a
B i b l e c la s s at 1 P .M .
The two sabbath schools have b e e n l e f t
to the management of n a t iv e s
- the B ib le
c l a s s / / has g e n e r a l l y
�1846
-
2
b e e n a tt e n d e d by the p a sto r - has b een w ell a tten d ed & a p p a r e n t
ly p ro d u ctiv e of much g o o d .
g e n e r a l l y a tt e n d
s e rv ic e
The m is s io n a r ie s & t h e i r c h i l d r e n
at the S eam en's Chapel at 1 1 A .M .
The m eetings d u rin g th e w e e k ,
p ray er
every mon. a t 4 P .M .
P .M .
- a s in g in g
school F r i d .
every S a t . a t 4 P .m .
have b e e n a concert fo r
- the W ed.
male p ray er m e e t in g s , by s e c t i o n s ,
-
le c t u r e at 4 P . M .
thro ugh L a h a in a ,
4 P .M .
Fe
Thur. 4
- & the chh p r a y e r m eeting
- The b u sin e ss m eetings
of the
church have
b e e n h e l d T e u s . ( I) 4 P .M .
The n in e s e c t io n s of L a h a in a meet
im m ediately a f t e r p reach in g
cn S a b . & a f t e r the le c t u r e
each s e c t io n at t h e i r
teacher.
own m eeting h o u s e ,
& under t h e i r
on W e d .
own
Their m eetings are f o r q u e s t io n in g on the serm o ns, f o r
e x h o r ta t io n & p r a y e r.
These are a l l the s ta te d m e e t in g s ;
s id e s w hich the p a sto r h a s sometimes met w i t h d if f e r e n t
of
be
s e c t io n s
the church - or o f ca n d id a te s f o r the church - or w i t h those
who are suspended from the chh - & sometimes w it h committees
o f the chh on b u s i n e s s .
S a b . m e e t in g s , & S a b .
s c h o o ls , W e d . m eetings & the mon.
con certs have b e e n a t t e n d e d a t the fo u r o u ts ta tio n s
of the f i e l d
by n a t i v e preach ers
of the misy
(not., l i c e n s e d )
- b u t the v i s i t s
at th o se o u tsta tio n s have b een f a r b etw een owing to h i s
•alone at
the s t a t i o n , & h a v in g many d u t ie s b e s id e s
p a sto r r e s t i n g upon h im .
the s t a t i o n ,
S ince the r e s id e n c e
each misy has v i s i t e d
The pastor has b e e n
of the n a t iv e s
He h a s ,
s t a t io n s
& a lso
for this
the
those
b e in g
of
o f M r . F o rb es a t
outposts more f r e q u e n t l y .
o b lig e d to a t t e n d to t h e m e d ic a l w ants
of the m is s io n f a m i l i e s
purpose,
- one at H a n a ,
i
to some e x t e n t .
o c c a s io n a lly made v i s i t s
to other
at the commencement o f 1 8 4 5 ,
was pro-
�1846
lo n g ed to s i x w eek s.
In Ap.
last,
-
at the req u est
members of K a il u a s t a t i o n , he made a v i s i t
3
of a l l
the
to D r . A n d r e w s ,
who
h a d b e e n a f f l i c t e d f o r more than n in e months w it h ch ro n ic
d ia r r h e a .
As to the f u t u r e ,
the p a st o r o f L a h a in a ex p e c ts
b e f r e e d from m ed. a t t e n t io n s
M o lo k a i,
inasmuch a s
to the m i s . f a m il ie s
a p h y s ic ia n o f known s k i l l &
from A m erica, now r e s id e s a t L a h a in a .
h a v e g iv e n h im employ, & w ould,
to
on M aui &
e x p e r ie n c e ,
The m is sio n families
of c o u r s e , have a p r e fe r e n c e
f o r one w holly devoted to h i s p r o f e s s io n over one who was encumbered w it h too much other w ork.
As to the state
o f fe e lin g
L a h a in a , we may r e m a r k ,
Sab.
in t h e chh & c o n g r e g a t io n at
t h a t , d u r in g the w h o le two y e a r s ,
congregations have been p r e t t y u n ifo rm ly f u l l
i n g & evening m eetings have b een n e a r l y
t io n unifo rm ly g o o d .
- The Wed.
a t t e n d e d , c o n s id e r in g the
b u s in e s s at L a h a i n a .
- the morn
the same - & the' a t t e n
l e c t u r e h as a lso b e e n w e l l
great d iv e r s io n o cc as io n e d by s e c u la r
Towards the c lo s e
to b e an In crease of in t e r e s t i n the
of 1 8 4 4 ,
th ere
a ppeared
chh & c o n g r e g a t io n , w h ich
appeared much the same t i l l June 1 8 4 5 .
h a d the s a t i s f a c t i o n ,
the
During t h is t im e , we
at i n t e r v a l s , to hear of one & another
d e c l a r in g f o r C h r is t who had b e fo r e appeared i n d i f f e r e n t .
t h i s tim e there was a m a n ifest
p e o p le .
iAbout
in c r e a s e o f f e e l i n g among the
This was e s p e c ia l l y m a n ife s t e d in the a w akening o f a
c o n s id e r a b le number of those who h ad b e e n c o n s id e r e d among our
hardest
characters ~ but who now came out to a l l our m e e t in g s ,
& sought fr e q u e n t o p p o r tu n it ie s
fo r r e l i g i o u s
They h ad b e e n a c q u a in te d w i t h a l l
p r a c t i s e d at L a h a in a ,
c o n v e r s a t io n .
the d epths o f i n i q u i t y as
& they sometimes now exposed the former
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p r a c t ic e s
of them selves & t h e i r com panions.
in g o f the n a t iv e p r a c t ic e
4
One of them speak
of m e d ic in e , s a i d ,
d o c t o r in g was con nected w i t h id o la t r o u s a c t s ,
a d m in is t e r e d the K o w a l i .
-
that
a l l n a t iv e
except when they
Another was so a d d ic t e d to g a m b lin g ,
t h a t , a f t e r h a v in g sta k ed & l o s t a l l h is
little
p r o p e r t y , he
a c t u a l l y gambled away h is w if e & c h i l d r e n & gave them up to
the w in n e r .
Another s a i d ,
f i f t e e n tim es
fo r a d u l t e r y ,
in p u b lic ,
that he had b e e n t r i e d
was g u i l t y i n every i n s t a n c e ,
escaped c o n d e m a t i o n by crafty management.
sailo rs,
or h o l o k a h l k i s ,
Many o f the n a t iv e
seemed to be much a f f e c t e d at t h a t t im e .
A protracted, m eeting was a p p o in ted fo r A u g .
h a d a r r iv e d i n seaso n
- M r. Forbes
to a s s i s t the pastor on that o c c a s i o n .
The e x e r c is e s , d u r i n g the w e e k ,
m eetings of th a t k i n d .
were much the same as at other
The m eetings were f u l l y a t t e n d e d - the
a t t e n t io n was good - & the
feelin g
but
e ffe c t was e v id e n t ly an in c r e a s e
throughout the p l a c e .
of
Numbers then had t h e i r a t t e n t io n
c a l l e d up f o r the f i r s t t im e , d u r in g th a t m e e t in g , who as y e t
seem to rim w e l l .
A f t e r the p r o t r a c te d m e e tin g ,
i n a d d i t i o n to
s t a t e d m e e tin g s , we met o c c a s io n a lly w it h d if f e r e n t
sec tio n s
o f the p e o p le ,
effects.
c la s s e s
or
whh m eetings were a tten d ed w i t h good
The m eeting o f t h is k in d most fr e q u e n t ly a t t e n d e d by
us was in a part of the p la c e most n o to r io u s fo r w i c k e d n e s s .
When f i r s t
commenced, n e a r ly a l l the abandoned fem ales a t t e n d e d ,
& they p r o m is e d , to the number of 50 or 6 0 ,
v i l e mode of l i v i n g
long - so h a rd is
to f o r s a k e
t h e ir
- a promise w hich few o f 'them kept very
i t fo r "t h e Leopard to change h i s
S h ip s soon m u lt ip ly in g upon u s ,
in d u lg e n c e o f l u s t , & the o ffe r s
s p o t s .,r
they c o u ld not w it h s t a n d the
of filt h y lucre,
attended,
as
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5
i t was i n some c a s e s , w it h rtu$> that f o u l d e s t r o y e r o f sense &
decency.
The I n t e r e s t a t L a h a in a d e c l in e d very s e n s i b l y towards
th e end o f t h e y e a r .
From May l / 4 4 to May 1 / 4 5
a d m itted to the c h u r c h .
receiv ed .
From May l / 4 5
- 62 were
to May 1 / 4 6
- 20)02 were
Probably 150 may now be c o n s id e r e d as s u i t a b l e
can
d id a t e s f o r a d m issio n to the chu rch .
There has b e e n ,
on the part of th e
r e a d in e s s to c o n tr ib u t e to p ublic
the y e a r ending May 1 8 4 5 ,
Board.
Since
church & p e o p l e ,
& b en ev o len t o b j e c t s .
D u rin g
$ 2 2 1 . were c o n t r ib u t e d to th e
that tim e b u t l i t t l e
<Am.
( $ 1 1 0 & over) has b een co n
t r ib u t e d f o r t h a t o b j e c t ,
the people h a v in g turned t h e i r
t e n t io n mostly to r a i s i n g
funds fo r the r e p a i r of t h e i r
For t h a t o b je c t , about $ 8 0 0 .
1845;
&,
were r a i s e d ,
for the same o b j e c t , s in c e
s c r ib e d about $ 1 6 0 0 ,
Jan.
the l a t t e r
exceptio n of 7 0 0 0
b e e n r e c e iv e d from them.
sub
a lr e a d y p a i d .
s h in g le s from A uhea) n o t h in g has
What has b e e n r a i s e d for
t h is y e a r ,
p a rt o f
fo r the church - b u t
has b e e n g iv e n b y the people th em selv es.
In c r e a s e the sum,
at
church.
1 8 4 6 , th ey h a v e
a good p o rt io n o f w h ic h is
The k in g & c h ie fs s u b s c r ib e d something
(w i t h th e
a
It
t h is
ob ject
is ho ped they w i l l
to 2 5 0 0 or 5 00 0 d o l l a r s .
A con
t r a c t has already b een made for new r o o f in g & a tho ro ug h r e p a i r
o f the chu rch ,
tio n s ,
the
coming summer.
B e s id e s
th e people of L a h a in a have p a i d ,
$ 1 8 0 for
the above
c o n t r ib u
t h e past y e a r a b o u t
the support o f the teachers o f t h e i r s c h o o l s ,
& $150
more have b e e n p a id by the government f o r the same o b j e c t .
The p eo p le have a lso o c c a s io n a lly b ro u g h t I n
other a r t i c l e s as were n eed ed in the fa m ilie s
such v e g e t a b le s &
o f the m i s s i o n .
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The s c h o o ls ,
usual.
throughout the f i e l d ,
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6
have b een c o n tin u e d as
They have b een s u p e rin te n d e d by D a v id Malo m o s t ly .
O w ing to h is
a b s e n c e , d u r in g a la rg e part o f 1 8 4 5 ,
they must
An. exam in ation was l a t e l y h e l d o f those
h a v e somewhat d e c l i n e d .
o f L a h a in a & the n e a r e s t o u t s t a t io n . Connected w it h t h i s
o f our schools w ere 668 sch o la rs I n v a r io u s
There are so many tem ptations i n L a h a in a ,
minds of c h ild r e n & y o u t h ,
select
stages o f Improvement
so much to d iv e r t the
that th ey a re i n c l i n e d to fo r s a k e
school at an e a r l i e r age than is d e s ir a b l e
improvement.
p o r t io n
There is needed m uch,
- the b e s t age fo r
therefo re,
a tho ro ug h g o in g
schoo l, w hich should command the a t t e n t io n o f s u c h as
are too o ld to b e drawn In t o the
w ould f i t them f o r the busin e ss
w h ic h b u s in e s s i s
q u ie t place it
once w a s .
It
of a c t iv e l i f e ,
always open b e f o r e them.
About 4 00 ships now v i s i t
of r e c r u i t s .
common schools - a sch o o l w h ic h
the p la ce y e a r l y , dem anding a l l
is not uncommon to have 700
the lo c a l
a u t h o r it ie s
too weak & i n e f f i c i e n t .
f o r e ig n e r s have s o ld
L a h a in a is n o t
the
The w h a lin g f l e e t has g r e a t l y in c r e a s e d
shore upon l i b e r t y , a t the same tim e .
or two p a s t ,
an abundance of
M e a n w h ile ,
sailo rs
on
fo r a year
of the p la ce have b e e n q u it e
For a y e a r
in t o x ic a t in g
or 8 0 0
sorts
or two p a s t ,
d rink s
some 8 or 10
almost w ith o u t
c o n c e a l
ment - a dozen more, have sold more s e c r e t ly - ndme p i n a l l e y s
h a v e b e e n m u l t i p l i e d - c a r d p la y in g & b i l l i a r d s have become
q u it e too common - n o i s e ,
c e r a t in g s a i l o r s
p r o fa n e n e s s ,
in th e f o r t ,
in to x ic atio n & in c a r
have r ag ed at d i f f e r e n t t im e s ,
about i n p r o p o rtio n to the amount o f rum to b e h a d on s h o r e .
S till
it
should b e a d d e d ,
that n a t iv e s are seldom known to take
�1846
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7
i n t o x i c a t i n g drinks;: & awa d r in k in g & awa s e l l i n g have g r e a t ly
d im in is h e d fo r a y e ar or two p a s t .
The in c r e a se o f the w h a lin g f l e e t a t L a h a in a h a s
t h e number o f f o r e i g n r e s i d e n t s .
I t has in c r e a s e d the amount
o f m e r c a n t ile , m e c h a n ic a l, & a l l
has
in c r e a s e d
other k in d s of b u s in e s s
- it
in c r e a s e d also t h e p r ic e of la b o r & p r o v i s i o n s , & made i t
d iffic u lt
to procure the fo r m e r .
whh v i s i t
L a h a in a is
ago,
somewhat la r g e r t h a n 'i t was 10 or 15 ye ars
thereby in c r e a s in g the f a c i l i t i e s
the d i f f e r e n t
islan d s,
ers,
The number o f s m a lle r v e s s e l s
islan ds.
of
communication b e tw e e n
O f such v e s s e ls as cr u ise among the
(not i n c l u d i n g , ho w ever,
some of the s m a lle s t schoon
or any of the numberous boats whh go. from i s l a n d to I s l a n d )
th e re have been at L a h a in a , d u r in g
riv als.
In these v e s s e ls ,
few by l a n d , .in th e
the y e a r 1 8 4 5 ,
in c lu d in g a few by w h a le s h ip s & a
same y e a r ,
there have b een also a r r i v a l s
o f 3 26 m is s io n a r ie s & m i s s i o n a r i e s ’ c h i l d r e n .
p asses w ithout o p p o r tu n it ie s
L a h ain a.
about 4 00 a r
Seldom ^ a week
for s e n d in g to other i s l a n d s
O fte n s u c h o p p o r tu n it ie s
from
o f f e r every day i n the w eek
(S u n da y e x c e p t e d )[ .J
As misy postm aster a t L a h a in a , M r. B ald w in has fo r w a r d e d ,
the y e ar 1 8 4 5 ,
Oahu,
83 l e t t e r s
to A m eric a , 1 3 8 6 i s l a n d l e t t e r s
the postage of w h h , at 6i
91 letters
to H i l o ;
L a h a in a l u n a ;
cents e a c h , tA
1 07 to W . H a w a i i ;
3 60 t o W a ilu k u ;
1 3 8 6 to Oahu & 1 7 5 3 to the s t a t io n s
$86.62|- -
3 4 6 to M o lo k a i;
1 5 7 to H a n a ;
le t t e r s
5 8 8 to
1 0 4 to Makawao;
i ,e ,
'
on M a u i, M olok ai & H a w a ii -
or 3 1 3 9 i n a l l - o f w hich he has w r it t e n 4 52 h i m s e l f ,
l e t t e r s to other S t a t io n s
to
each two d a y s .
This
or 3
in c lu d e s no
sent th ro u g h other c h a n n e ls , nor any whh are
c a r r i e d by
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the numerous m isy & other passengers
t h a t , a t a m oderate com putation,
L a h a in a
o f th e
in 1 8 4 5 .
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8
to & from L a h a in a ;
4 0 0 0 m isy l e t t e r s
so
p a s s e d thro ugh
T h is w i l l help us to u n d e r sta n d the rem arks
correspondent o f the K L y n e s ia n , about Tlthe p a u c it y of
l e t t e r s w r it t e n by m is s io n a r ie s
one to a n o th er"
— about t h e i r
"becom ing fewer & f a r t h e r b etw een" - & "l e s s e n i n g i n q u a n t it y
& q u a lit y t i l l
May 9 ^
they become mere h a s t y n o t e s ."
1846.
A census was tak e n
of
Jan.
See P o l y n e s ia n
1846.
By t h is
of the p o p u la t io n o f L a h a i n a ,
it a p p e a r s ,
that the n a t iv e p o p u la t io n
has In c r e a s e d about 500 in the l a s t three y e a r s .
ing i s the enum eration of the d if f e r e n t
1
boys,
N ativ es
or 1 06 2 n a t iv e c h il d r e n ;
in c l u d i n g the m is s io n f a m il ie s
n a t iv e p o p u la t io n ,
T o t a l p o p u l a t io n 5 4 4 5 .
I n a l l 1 12 f o r e ig n p o p u l a t io n ,
o f L a h a in a ;
w i l l make a t o t a l
appears,
w h ic h ,
of 5 5 5 7 .
added to the
By the above
that there a r e , at L a h a in a , more n a t i v e
men than women - & more n a t iv e boys than g i r l s .
n a t iv e m a les, a t L a h a in a ,
The excess
over the fem ales is 1 2 9 .
is not c l e a r , t h a t the fem ales
h a in a ,
- 589
88 men - 6 women; or 94 a d u lts - 7 boys -
or 18 f o r e ig n c h i l d r e n .
s ta tem en t, i t
classes.
£5 . 0 *
F o reig n ers.
11 g i r l s ,
The f o l l o w
- 1 1 9 8 men - 1 18 5 women or 5 2 8 5 ^ a d u lt s
475 g i r l s ,
2.
the f i r s t
perhaps not to H o n o lu lu ,
the c o n tra ry n o t w it h s t a n d in g .
So that
of
It
of M olok ai have fl o c k e d to L a
the E d it o r of the P o ly n e s ia n to
See P o ly n e s ia n F e b .
14^
1846.
The number of dogs a t L a h a in a J a n . 1 8 4 6 , was 5 2 8 - or about
one to every seven p e o p le .
fo re ig n e rs;
the
& about
one f i f t h o f them b e lo n g e d to people
c h ie fs.
S h o u l d he
A few only of these b e lo n g e d to
S3
of
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Of the n a t iv e s o f L a h a in a ,
c h i l d r e n ) are kuew as;
i ,e ,
9
(i n c l u d i n g men, women &
have n e i t h e r house l o t s ,
c u l t i v a t i o n o f t h e i r own, & are
sustenance,
1422,
-
dependent m a in ly ,
or la n d fo r
fo r t h e i r
on fo o d brought in f o r s a l e from other p l a c e s .
Progress i n C i v i l i z a t i o n .
The people
of La h ain a h a v e , w i t h i n a few y e a r s , made some
commendable progress
in c i v i l i z a t i o n .
them the m eans, & there has been
use the means they have h a d ,
houses,
bedsteads,
tab les,
k e e p e r s , more c l o t h in g ,
for
th eir
c h ild ren .
Ithaleshlps h a v e f u r n i s h e d
an in c r e a s in g d i s p o s i t i o n to
to procure f o r them selves b e t t e r
c h a irs , k itc h in
( l) f u r n i t u r e ,
time
& c . & i n many c a s e s , b e t t e r e d u c a t io n
The people pay f o r a l l the books they
have.
I n a l l L a h ain a there a re 882 grass h o u s e s ,
h o u s e s , & 59 stone
1 0 9 6 h o u ses;
T h is ,
if
if
t h is w i l l make
or s h e d s , whh are
used
added to th e h o u s e s , w i l l make the num
c o r r e c t , w o u ld g iv e an average of abo ut
t h r e e I n d i v i d u a l s to ea c h house
Y/e have had the t a b l e s ,
&c.
In a l l
& there are a l s o 94 la n a is
fo r h o u s e s , & w hh,
ber 1 19 0.
or wooden h o u s e s .
155 a d o b ie
thro-ughout the p l a c e .
p la te s , k n iv e s,
forks,
a l l numbered - but t h e number is not . at h a n d .
sp o o n s,
As n e a r as
can be r e c o l l e c t e d , about 3 0 0 fa m il ie s a t La h ain a eat a t t h e
ta b le
i n t h e s t y le
of c i v i l i z e d p e o p l e .
W it h in a l i t t l e more
than a y e a r , w e have b een i n v i t e d to one d in n er by n a t l g e s ,
where about 200 sat down & a t e at t h e ir own t a b l e s ;
w here 80 a t e at t h e i r own t a b l e s ;
tables;
at a t h ir d 200 sat a t the
at a f o u r t h th e re were about 1 5 0 .
down w ith 3 5 0 .
The f i r s t
same h o u s e , & among the
to a seco nd ,
& at the f i f t h
we sat
& l a s t of th ese d inners were a t the
same p e o p le .
In all
these
cases I t was
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a r u le not to "borrow t a b le s or t a b le
bors
it
- & t h e ir
fu r n it u r e
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10
of t h e i r n e i g h
cooking was g e n e r a l l y w e ll done, & a p o r t io n of
in European s t y l e .
B esid es th e n a t iv e stone chh, w e h a v e ,
s e c t io n a l m eeting h o u se s ,
& n eed fo u r m ore.
5
at L a h a i n a ,
We have a l s o 9
school houses & need one m ore.
H it h e r t o ,
on Maui & L a n a i , we have b e e n a llo w e d to pursue
our misy work w i t h l i t t l e
or no o p p o s it io n from p a p i s t s .
have had no f o r e i g n J e s u it s
or on M o lo k a i.
We
to r e s i d e on e it h e r of t h o s e i s l a n d s ,
This w e have esteem ed a g re a t p r i v i l e g e ,
have b l e s s e d God,
that, w h ile ,
the b rethren have h a d to f i g h t
i n other p a r t s , f o r
& w&
seven y e a r s ,
a g a in s t the man of S i n , we have
h ad no thin g w orse th an the abom inations o f h eathen h e a r t s
deal w it h .
But we expect such a p r i v i l e g e no l o n g e r .
2 1 s t of A p r il l a s t ,
p riests
the Kamehameha I I I
land£ ed]
On the
e ig h t p a p is t
at L a h a in a from Oahu; & on the 2 3 ^ she took fo u r
on to H i l o .
So the great scourge & cu r se
mother of h a r lo t s & a b o m in a t io n s ,"
is
to
of the e a r t h ,
come among u s .
o f them
"t h e
We ex
p ect henceforw ard to have a c o n te s t w it h t h is A n ti C h r i s t .
It
w i l l not be p le a s a n t to come I n con tact w i t h p a p i s t s ;
it w ill
be p a i n f u l to see them draw away poor unwary w ic k e d n a t i v e s
t h e ir snares.
They w i l l 'undoubtedly reap
so many o f the w icked & ign oran t as
B ut i t rem ains y e t to b e
i n a land of B i b l e s .
lo ca tio n is
among
there are among t h is p e o p l e .
seen w hether popery ever
can l i v e lo n g
I t was rum ored, t h a t of th e fo u r p r i e s t s ,
one w^ be lo c a t e d a t L a h a in a ;
one on M o lo k a i.
some h a r v e s t
in to
one a t L a n a i ;
one a t W a ilu k u ;
I t w i l l p ro b ab ly m atter l i t t l e
where t h e ir
- W herever i t i s , w i t h no f a m il y t i e s
to b i n d to
&
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one spot,
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11
they w i l l d oub tless roam over the l e n g t h & b r e a d t h o f
the lan d.
S ta tis tic s
of L a h a in a Chh May 1 $ 4 6 .
W hole number a d m itted to the chh on exam ination
1021
W h o le number a d m itte d on c e r t i f i c a t e
223
Pa st 2 years
263
on exam ination
V i z . May l / 4 4
to May l / 4 5
-
62
May l / 4 5
to May l / 4 6
-
201
P a s t 2 yrs on c e r t i f i c a t e
V iz.
44
May 1 / 4 4 to May l / 4 5
May 1 / 4 5
to May l / 4 5
-
27
( I)-
•
17
W hole number past 2 yrs
307
Whole n o . May l / 4 4
to May l / 4 5
-
89
May l / 4 5
to May l / 4 6
- 218
Whole, number d is m is s e d to other c h u rch es,
134
D is m is s e d the p a st 2 yrs
(i ,§ ,
l s-k y r 10
20
2d yr 10. )
-
W hole number d eceased
178
D e c e a se d past 2 yrs
(v iz .
40
l s t y r 20
S uspended May / 4 4
Suspended May l / 4 5
-
2d y r 2 0 )
to May / 4 5
to May l / 4 6
-
32
ss
8
Suspended past 2 yrs
40
R e s t o r e d p a s t 2 years
18
Rem ain suspen ded
12
Excom m unicated p a st y e ar
Whole number excommunicated
9
37
�1846
-
R em ain excommunicated
—
34
W hole number I n r e g u l a r s ta n d in g
—
885
W h o le n o .
—
9 35
—
210
--
223
of* c h ild r e n "baptized
B a p t iz e d May / 4 4
to May / 4 5
12
- 71
B a p t iz e d May / 4 4 to May / 4 5
139
^ O b v io u s ly means May / 4 5 to May / 4 6 ]
B a p t i z e d past 2 y e a r s
M ar ria g es May l / 4 4
to May l / 4 5
- 1 24
M arriag es May 1 / 4 5
to May 1 / 4 6
-
99
M ar ria g es past 2 y e a r s
Average C ong reg atio n on S a b .
1831,
1600 f . }
Sin ce about t h e yr
a l l the members of the Chh at L a h a in a have b een p le d g e d
to t o t a l a bs tin e n c e from tobacco sm oking.
It
t h a t many of them v io l a t e that p l e d g e .
they are known to
do
so,
they are d e a lt w i t h ,
ju st
If
is not b e l i e v e d ,
as they wd b e ,
oth er vows.
D . B ald w in
if false
to any
�S t a t i s t i c s of L a h a in a chh. from
A p . 1 . 1 84 6 to A p . 1 . 1847
W h o le n o .
r eed on ex am in atio n to A p .
W hole on c e r t i f i c a t e
.
.
.
.
1083
. . . .
P a s t year on ex am in atio n
Do.
1 /4 7
242
. . . . . . . .
62
on c e r t i f i c a t e ....................................... ....
W hole past y e a r
................................................ ....
W hole n o . d is m is s e d to other chhs
D is m is s e d f r . Ap.
19
.
81
. . . . . . . .
151
l / 4 6 to D o . / 4 7 .......................... ....
Yi/hole n o . d e c e a s e d
.
17
.........................................................
1 86
D e c e a s e d p a s t y e a r .............................................................
8
S uspended past y r .................................................................
Remain Suspended
............................... .
.
26
Excommunicated l a s t y e a r ....................................................
17
W hole n o .
54
excomd .
..............................
19
..................................................................
Rem ain excomd ..................................................................' . .
Whole n o .
in
W h o l e 'n o .
of c h ild r e n b a p t iz e d
Do.
good sta n d in g
............................................
...............................
............................................
Average C ohg reg ation on S a .
969
999
p a st y e a r .............................................................
M a r ria g e s la s t y e ar
48
*
64
58
1600
�2
Schools of Lahaina & outstations — May 1847
S cho la rs
9 Schoo ls
Do.
of L a h a in a
O lu a lu
Do.
.
.
......................
739
cL Schoo l
.
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95
Okumehame .
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
1 S choo l of K a h a k a l o a ...................................
6 Schoo ls o f L a n a i , a b o u t ,
. . . . . . .
T o tal ~
There
is
72
40
1 10
1086
in an E l e l e fo r June perhaps an a c c o u (n )t o f our exam ina
t io n i n May whh w i l l give many p a r t ic u la r s
do of schools —
—
-
hut i t does not
I have not now time to
co n tain L a n a i i f I r e c o l l e c t
r ig h t
& i t g iv es only the number at e x am in atio n whereas the above g iv e s
the whole n o . of S c h o l a r s .
I have made out the above i n h a s t e ,
w i l l no t ensure t h e ir accuracy i n every t h in g —
Your;
b r o . D . B ald w in
B r n at D e p o s ito r y
[A d d re s se d t o :J
M r. L e v i Cham berlain
or
M ess rs . C a s tle & H a l l
H o n o lu lu
Oahu
tNote i n c o r n e r ] :
Dwight Baldwin. „
S & p . 1 0th 1 8 4 7 .
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KAANAPALI
E. W. Clark .................. .................. ..... 1841
Unsigned (E. W. Clark)..................... ...... ......1842
E. W. Clark ................ ..................... ....1843
J. S. Emerson ................... ........... ..... .... 1844
J. S. Emerson....................................... .. 1846
T. D. Hunt................. .... .......... ........ .
T. D. Hunt
1847
......... ............ for.2.yrs. .ending.... .1848
C. B . Andrews ....---- -— -.July 1 to April ............ 1849
HAIKU
Schedule of School and Tuition
Unsigned..... ...............................1835
HONUAULA
S.W. Nueku ............ ............. ................. 1861
MAKAWAO
J. S. Green........................... ........... .. 1843
�Report of the out station
at Kaanapali Maui
May 1841.
An out station at Kaanapali has been maintained for 8 or 10
years.
Since my residence at Lahainaluna, the principal care of
this station has devolved on me.
The distance from Lahainaluna is
about 7 miles by the mauka road.
The distance from Lahaina is about
l/2 of a mile more.
A good dobie meeting house was completed about 4 years ago.
A dobie school house has since been built, & a dobie house for the
teacher with a room for the temporary accommodations of the mission
ary who supplies the pulpit.
These have all been built by the people
with the exception o f the doors & windows of the dwelling house.
During the absence of Mr. Dibble, I was able to preach but
seldom at this place, as the care of the church in the Semy devolved
on me.
On Mr. Dibble’s return to Lahainaluna in June last, I resumed
regular preaching at Kaanapali, which has been maintained during the
year.
The usual audience in the fore noon ( !) has been about 500.
The labors of the sabbath have consisted of two sermons, a Bible
class & occasional meetings with the church & with inquirers.
Until the past year most of the church members residing at
Kaanapali have been connected with the church at Lahaina.
During
the past year, it has been thought best to form a church in this
place,
as it was very difficult for Mr. Baldwin to perform the duties
of a pastor towards them, while they were under the special care &
Instruction of another.
There were also obvious advantages In having
a church connected with the station.
Accordingly on the 5th of Sept.
a meeting was appointed for this purpose at which Messrs Andrews &
Dibble attended, Mr. Baldwin being necessarily engaged.
A church
�Kaanapali Report 1841
2.
was formed consisting of 16 members, 15 from the Lahaina church &
1 from Lahainaluna.
On the following sabbath Sept. 6, the Lor d ’s
Supper was administered & 12 persons admitted to the church on profession.
At two different communions since 24 more have been admitted
on profession & 5 by letter.
One member has died & one has been
dismissed to another church, leaving 55 now members of the church.
A few more are candidates for admission.
cated or suspended.
teresting.
None have been excommuni
The state of religion has been on the whole in
No very special attention, but a considerable increase
of hearers since the commencement of the year.
Those admitted to the
church have been candidates for a considerable time.
A considerable
number more give more or less evidence that they are on the Lord’s
side.
Previous to the several communions, I have spent some days
at this place with my family examining schools, candidates for the
church &c.
The people have contributed something on the first monday of the
month, principally in work, which has been turned towards the support
of the teacher, building dwelling houses &c.
Children baptised 42.
Marriages, since June 1st, 26.
Schools.
Kaanapali embraces 10 or 12 miles of coast & containing 1341
inhabitants by the last census.
In this district, there are 6 schools.
These have been examined 3 times duping the year.
ination there were 274 children present.
sent.
At the last exam
A few were reported as ab
Some impulse has been given to the schools by the new laws,
but there is still much room for improvement.
A small grant is
needed from the Mission in aid of schools.
E . W . Clark
�Report of the Station at
Kaanapali
May 1st
1842.
This out Station is on the N orth West part of Maui, about 8
miles from Lahaina.
It contains about 1500 inhabitants.
The district
is not well supplied with water except in the rainy season.
Kalo,
therefore, is not abundant, & the people are generally p o o r .
A church was organized here last year of 16 members which has
since been increased to 88.
Preaching, a Bible class & sabbath
schools, church meetings &c have been sustained here during the year.
Catholics have as yet made no inroads upon the district.
I have
preached here every sabbath except when prevented by sickness,
or
some other cause, & attended a bible class & church meetings.
I
have been absent 6 or 7 sabbaths since last Gen. Meeting.
about 10 days here also in vacation with my family.
I spent
There have been
no special excitement, but a pretty good attention to the means of
grace.
There has been no serious cases of church dicipline ( !).
A
good many are ready & waiting to make a prublic ( !) profession of
their faith, but we have kept them back.
31 have been admitted during
the year on profession.
About $30 have been paid towards a bell, besides a monthly con
tribution in mats & labor amounting to $15 or $ 20.
We have been deprived of a very comfortable meeting house a
few months since.
During the rainy season, the doby walls not being
very well secured gave way.
The roof is not materially injured &
will answer for another house which has been commenced.
There are six schools in this district, the oversight of which
has involved considerable time & care.
school.
Most of the children attend
The schools have been examined three times during the year.
�Kaanapali 1842
2.
The following is the statistics of the schools.
6 Schools, 6 Teachers, 307 Scholars, 204 Readers, Writers unknown,
104 in Arithmatic, In Geography 38/
Statistics of the church
Whole number admitted to the church on examination 67;
certificate 21, Past year on examination 31.
On
Past year on certifi
cate none, Whole number past year 31, Whole No. dismissed to other
churches 1, Dismissed past year none, Whole number deceased 3, Sus
pended past year 2, Remain suspended 2, Excommunicated none, Whole
No. excommunicated none.
regular standing 82.
past year 34.
Remain excommunicated none, Whole No. in
Whole No. of children baptized 76, Baptised
Whole No. of children deceased 2, Deceased past year
Marriages past year 13 couple.
Avarage ( !) No. of congregation on
the sabbath 400.
(Unsigned)
(On b a c k : )
E .W. Clark report
of labors at Kaanapali
1842
�Kaanapali [1843]
Preaching has been sustained at Kaanapali during the year as
of
heretofore.
During the absence/the pastor on East Maui about 4
months, his place was supplied principally by Mr. Andrews, for which
the people have made or expect to make a small compensation.
There
has b e e n no special excitement on the subject of religion, nor has
there been any outbreaking ofevil.
the district.
Popery has made no inroads upon
Attention to the ordinances of the Gospel has been
much as in former years.
The new stone meeting house which was com
menced last year has been finished, & was opened for worship in
Feby .
Twenty three persons have been admitted to the church during
the year - 20 on profession 23 by letter.
There have be e n no cases
of discipline - 2 su(s)pended members have been restored.
Statistics
Church.
Whole no. a d . to church on examination 87.
Past year on Examination 20.
year 23.
On certificate 3.
On certificate 24.
Whole number past
Whole number dismissed to other churches 2.
Whole number deceased 5.
Deceased past year 2.
none.
Remain suspended none.
none.
Remain ex. none.
Past year 1.
Suspended past year
Ex. past year none.
Whole no. ex.
W hole number in regular standing 104.
Whole number of children baptized 93.
Past year 17.
Marriages
past year 12.
Schools.
The schools are in much the same state as last year - a small
Increase in the number of scholars.
6. Whole number of scholars 322.
Arithmetic 123.
Geography 79 .
Number of schools 6.
Teachers
Readers 189. Writers unknown.
E.W. Clark
Pastor
�Report of Station Kaanapali
for May 1844 —
The Station at Kaanapali has been supplied with preaching from
Lahainaluna since last Gen. Meeting, a few sabbaths only excepted.
During several sabbaths, when the pastor was unable to leave
his family, the desk was supplied by Bro. Alexander.
Schools in the field are not remarkably flourishing;
they are
however doing good, & the teachers, with one or two exceptions are
trying to do well.
The people are poor & inclined to indolence, not ready to pro
cure books for their children, which is quite an embarrassment; the
want of maps for the study of topical geography is also an evil.
The pastor has attended three examinations, all of which have
indicated that there are many children to be taught, & much room
for improvement in the instruction of them.
The chch. at Kaanapali is a pleasant little community, & as yet
quite remarkable for its freedom from quarrels & disorderly conduct.
A protracted meeting was held among them in the latter part of
January last, at which Bro. Alexander assisted me.
The meeting was
commenced on tuesday & continued till the close of the sabbath fol
lowing .
Some of the obvious results of the meeting were an increase
in the congregation on the sabbath, more frequent calls for the Bible,
a disposition to pay old debts, & a wish to talk with the pastor on
the subject of religion.
A change in the habits & course of life
of a few has been quite marked & pleasing.
The congregation is rather uniform in its size, rarely so small
as three hundred in the morning & never perhaps larger than six
hundred generally more than 400.
�Kaanapali
1844
There are no papists in the parish; except it be that a company
(!)
in Honokohao,
a remote corner of t h e parish, who set up ava drinking,
praying to departed spirits, reveling &c on the sabbath may be called
papists.
Some of these I was informed were desirous of joining the papists - but the papists were forbidden by Auhea to hold meetings
or erect a house for the purpose among them.
She said let those who wish to join the papists go where the
papists are, but let not the papists come into Kaanapali, as that
is yet free from them & the land is mine.
The Seven verses for the week have been committed by a goodly
number in Luke, the Doctrinal Catechism is also studied with some
interest by the people.
The people have paid about $25. for bibles the past year which
sum has been reported to the Sec. Agents.
The(y) have made promise
to do better the coming year; but the close of the year will better
tell the fulfillment of their promise.
Statisticks
Schools
9
106
Teachers
9
29
Scholars
370
19
4
23
Av. attend.
265
Readers
240
Whole no. dismissed
4
Writers
147
dis. past year
2
Schol in Geog
deceased in all
"
past year
Suspended past year
7
Arithmatick
The Chch.
Ad. on examination
"
on certif.
Ad. past year on ex.
" on certif
Whole no. ad. past year
Perm. susp
0
150
2
1
Population
1469
�3
Excom
0
Whole n o . in reg. s t . 131
Children bap.
101
Bap. past year
28
married past year
14
Average cong
Elderly men
118
elderly women
114
Young men
405
Young women
children
Deaths past year
332
500
25
Births
400
32
Respectfuly ( !) Submitted
J.S. Emerson
The grant of $150. has been economically expended in repairs & in
painting the dwelling house which I occupy.
There remain however
about $8. unexpended which are on hand in lumber.
The additional
room has not been erected as the grant allowed was merely adequate
for other needful repairs.
�Report of Station
Kaanapali
May 1846.
Nothing of a peculiarly marked or very interesting character
has occured ( !) among the little chch. & people of Kaanapali during
the past two years.
The preaching of the Gospel has been enjoyed by all who wished
to hear it nearly every sabbath during this period.
When, from
peculiar circumstances, I have been unable to visit the station
on the sabbath one of the brethren at Lahainaluna has exchanged
labours with me; or otherwise one of the Theol. Class has been sent
to their assistance.
About the time of our last Gen. Meeting some would be papists
were making an effort to divide the people; & their success for a
time created some alarm, & some efforts to check their progress;
but all efforts to check them only tended to increase their strength
& enthusiasm.
Soon however they were let alone, & being let alone,
their power left them, their numbers diminished, & their meetings
became so unimportant that for the past 9 months or a year I have been
hardly able to learn whether they have h ad any meeting at all in the
district.
The number of their proselytes has not increased for nearly
two years.
Sickness.
During the epidemic that prevailed 12 or 14 months
since - the people of Kaanapali suffered extensively; all were sick;
many died, & a number were siezed with coughs, which have since
terminated in consumption.
severely.
The aged & the children suffered most
The affliction did not however in any case, which has come
to my knowledge lead any to repentance; an other ( !) illustration of
the fact that people do not always learn righteousness when the
judgments of God are abroad in the earth.
Benevolent efforts.
While absent at Gen. Meeting two years
�Kaanapali
1846
since a subscription was started for the support of the Gospel; the
people subscribed liberally, & a few paid promptly & to the extent
of their subscription, but the mass of the subscribers found it more
convenient to promise than to pay.
only were paid.
Over $200 were subscribed & $56
But as no one was allowed to pay his subscription
who did not pay it within the time specified, those, who did not
pay learned a lesson of mortification which will be of permanent
benefit to at least a few of them.
A want of fixed purpose & regard for their word, when once
pledged is a great drawback upon the good estimation of the people.
It is pleasing however to observe among the professed followers
of Xst here a few who appreciate his injunction to support his or
dinances & extend the knowledge of his Gospel.
Since January 1846, the chch. have agreed to contribute monthly
the m e n 12 1/2¢ & the women 6 1
/
4¢
unless sickness prevents.
to be paid in all cases promptly
It is the understanding of the chch. that,
if any one fails to make out his contribution, without a good reason
he subjects h imself to the censure of the chch.
Attendance on publick worship.
The congregation was unusually
small during the summer of 1844, but, during the past six months,
it has been on the average about as large as in former years; the
afternoon meetings are always smaller than those in the fore-part
of the d a y .
Discipline, & receptions to the chch.
Twenty only have been recd to the chch. by profession during
the past two years, & these, after having a long probation; there
are also a few others who are promising candidates, but who will
not be recd till there is further trial of their attachment to the
cause of the Saviour.
�3.
Kaanapali 1846
The number of cases of discipline from the first, have been
but few;
in all but ten, one for adultery, three for quarreling, &
six were cases in which females went from their husbands to other
Isls, to visit friends &c - contrary to the advice of their husbands
& of the chch.
There are at the present time three only who have
ever been chch. members, who are under suspension from its communion
& fellowship.
No individual has ever been disciplined in the chch
for the use of either rum or tobacco, & I know of no individual
member of the chch who uses either.
Schools.
Our schools have been but very indifferently watched
over by the Kahukula the past two years -
Teachers have been but
partially paid, & as a consequent ( !) have but partially performed
their duties as teachers.
Attendance of the children has been quite irregular, & their
supply of books very inadequate to their necessities; as a consequent
( !) to all these evils the schools with a few exceptions have been
rather unprofitable & the money expended upon them well nigh thrown
away.
He that can not get a sufficient amount of food for his work
will rarely earn the little that he does get.
The ai o kala has been committed to memory by the chch. generally
& by the larger scholars in the better instructed schools.
On the first day of the present month we had an examination
of the schools at Kaanapali; & connected with it a feast & an exhi
bition of musick ( !) from about 20 children, who have been taught
the art by one of the scholars of the Seminary.
The music was very respectable - & the school has been quite
advantageous in h elping keep up an interest in publick worship.
�Kaanapali 1846
4.
Statistics of the last examination are as follows
Number of schools
Number of teachers
Scholars in the schools
Readers
Writers
Arithmetick
Geography
11
11
242
17 3
110
12 6
82
The number of scholars as reported two years since was 370 i.e.
128 or 1/3 more than at the present time.
The reason of this diminu
tion is stated by the teachers to be in a great measure owing to the
large number of boys who have gone on board whale ships.
Receipts for books b etween July 1844 & Jan. 1846
To the credit of the Bib Society
"
Tract Soc.
"
Am. Board
$18.00
5.42
17.25
$30.67
All of which have been rep. to Sec. Agents.
The Elele is promptly paid for in cash.
Benevolent Contributions from July 1844 to May 1846 - - in cash - - -
$92.93
which have been expended as follows
To
To
To
To
To
cover (?) an old debt to seminary
procure bibles for the poor
Olomana for services among the people
fixtures & repairs at the station
a contribution to the chch Waialua
11.56
10.00
8.00
26.00
30.00
$85.56
Leaving unexpended $7.37
Statistics of the Chch.
Whole number recd to chch. on examination
"
"
"
159
on certificate
30
Admitted in 1844-5, 11; in 1845-6,10; on examination
"
on certificate 1844-5
3; 1845-6,
0; - -
21
3
Dismissed to other chchs. whol(e) number
9
Dismissed in 1844-5, 3; in 1845-6, 3; -
6
�Kaanapali 1846
5.
Whole number deceased
20
Deceased in 1844-5, 6.
in 1 8 4 5 - 6 , 7 ,
Suspended in 1844-5, 3
in 1845-6, 3,
13
6
Remain suspended
3
Excommunicated
0
Whole num ber in Reg. Standing
127
Whole number of children baptized
147
Baptized in 1844-5, 8; in 1845-6, 14,
22
Baptized children deceased
14
"
"
deceased in 1845-6
Marriages in 1844-5, 64, in 1845-6, 20
Average cong. on sabbath
6
84
300
Deaths to births about 2 to 7
May 6
1846
J.S. Emerson
�[Kaanapali]
Lahainaluna Sept. 9th 1847
Dear Bro. Chamberlain;
According to your request I return a statistical report of
the small church under my care.
I have been pastor of the church at Kaanapali a little more than 14 months.
My labors among that people have been confined almost entirely to the sabbath owing
to my duties in this Sem'y
[Lahainaluna] during the week. I have, however, occasion-
aly visited the different villages, & during this period have conversed several
times with about
300 inquires.
During the first 10 months of this period, a theo-
logical student of this sem'y labored on Saturday in the different settlements &
on the Sabbath preached at Honokohau, the last but one of the largest villages in
the district.
His labors were very acceptable to the people, & were in many ways
productive of
good. The church paid him one dollar cash each week for his two
days' services - During the last 4 months they have enjoyed the constant services
of a graduate of this sem'y & a candidate for the ministry.
given evidence of high promise for future usefulness.
Thus far he has
He will ere long be licen
sed to preach the Gospel & should he continue humble & zealous & prove himself a
good workman, of whom he himself & we need not be ashamed. it[!] is proposed ulti
mately to ordain him & instal[ !] him over that people.
The church at a recent
meeting cordially undertook his support, which will be for the first year $100.
cash.
He married a graduate of the Female Sem'y at Wailuku, who, though not a
professor of religion, is nevertheless an excellent young woman, & appears to
enter with interest upon the duties incident to her station.
There has been dur
ing the year past some feeling in the church, while the number of inagaurated
have greatly increased.
There has not however been what could be considered, in
the usual signification of that word, a revival.
The schools in the district are not flourishing.
of well qualified teachers.
The cause is in the wan t
The inadequate pay, & even the failureof that for
the portions of the year, have contributed to make even the poor teachers more
inefficient & delinquent.
On the whole the year has been a prosperous one for the church.
The attend
ance on pubic worship has been good, while the cases of discipline have been few.
They have rethatched their meeting house, while the church members at Honolulu
have built & furnished a thatched house for my accommodations when I go among
them & are now getting timbers for a roof to the stone meeting house whose walls
have been up for 4 or 5 yrs past.
Perhaps the whole district of Kaanapali numbers 1200 people, stretched along
the coast 8 miles in length & 2 or 3 in breadth.
The Catholics have made but little progress -- in this field
& are now at
a dead stand, probably on the retrograde. The people of the whole field are
�[Kaanapali]
2.
Lahainaluna 1847
are contiguous to Lahaina market, is reaping many of the advantages with but few
of the disadvantages of such a port. My labors there are an advantage to me, as
they keep on & in use my ministerial armor, which, as an Instructor merely,would
get off or get rusty; while at the same time they afford an agreeable variety to
my employments, both refreshing & healthful.
Members of the Church in regular standing - 213; (105 females)
(108 males )
Admitted during the period of this report, on profession - 96 "
"
by letter-6
"
"
both by profession & letter 102
Suspended
"
----2
Excommunicated for idolatry (in 1846)
—
1, who
was restored to the church Sep. 5th 1847
Number of children baptised - -115
Adults baptised: (who joined the church)
93
Number of schools.
-- ----7
Number of scholars
---- -------253
Number of church members, died
3
”
"
dismissed to other churches
3
Suspended members restored
1
Amount contributed in cash to support the Gospel
$72.75
being a great advance upon preceding years & it being the intention of the people
to raise the sum of $100 & more.
We have reason to bless God & take courage
[ T. D. Hunt]
�Report of the Church
at
Kaanapali I. of Maui
For two years ending May 1848
The pastor of this church is but little more than a "stated supply."
His
residence is 8 miles from his meeting house & 14 (?) respectively from the ex
tremes of his
field.
This distance in connection with his
employment as teacher
in L'luna Sem'y puts his work in a double sense at arms length.
His pastoral
labors have occupied necessarily but little of his time & thoughts & hence have
engaged but partially his affections.
pastor.
He has been their preacher but not their
They have seldom seen him except on the sabbath & in the pulpit.
Of
course the attendance has not been great, & duties which need the constant
& care of a present pastor have failed or dragged in their performance.
classes & sabbath school particularly have suffered from such neglect.
cumstances to must necessarily affect the preacher.
of the congregation to whom he preaches.
guidance
Bible
Such cir
He is comparatively ignorant
Hence he cannot as well adapt his
preaching to the state & circumstances of his people. He is obliged too often to
draw his bow at a venture & trust to
the particular Providence by which alone
such shots are guided to their object.
The vigilence of the church officers
among a people like this amounts to but little in the habitual absence of their
pastor.
Hence the ocassional tours generally afford him
as much pain as pleasure.
He sees so much to be done which he cannot do, but which would come within the
compass of a real pastor, that he cannot enjoy even the good that is accomplished
while he labors
under the oppressive apprehension that secret sin is at the root
of even that which appears good.
But these evils could be less could the interval labors of the nominal pastor
be regular.
But for the two yrs. past my pastoral visitations have been subject
to frequent and protracted interruptions.
For instance, this year I was in my
pulpit but once respectively for the 3 months of Jan'y, Feb’y & March.
This absence
was unavoidable but on that account none the less unfortunate for my people.
instance was an extreme one but forcibly exhibits the disadvantages under
This
which
such pastoral labor is performed.
But the particular in which the inadequateves (!) of such labors is especially
felt is in the admission of candidates to the church.
them which my circumstances would permit,
Yet the best knowledge of
yet I would be painfully ignorant of
them. Though favorable impressed by two or three interviews at long intervals. &Z
informed of their regular attendance at the sectional meeting as well as their
orderly & pious deportment before others yet after all what have I known of them
in view of the hypocracy of the race &
their greediness to get into the church.
�Kaanapali, Maui, station report , May 1848
Hunt
2.
This embarassment distresses more or less every pastor however favorable situated
to become acquainted with his people.
But it is particularly trying to one
resid
ing out of his field & whose opportunities of visiting his flock are both infrequent
& interrupted.
And still he has the work to do.
There are inquirers.
In the ex
ercise of charity that be ieves all things he hopes the hearts o f a few are renewed by the Holy Ghost.
He pursuades himself that some have repented of their sins
& forsaken them & he hopes & prays that they may be rewarded & made more fit for
fellowship with the saints.
He looks at those already in the church & comparing
themselves among themselves, he at length concludes that if they were fit to enter
these new seekers are also fit.
So with a joy almost all of trembling he opens
the pressed door and takes in the besieging group.
I can truly say that in my
inquiry meetings & at my communion sessions my anxieties have exceeded my joys.
Another difficulty I have experienced has been the want of a pastoral habit
i. e. that frame of mind & aptitude in my labors which daily pastoral work secures.
I have gone to my little flock not always with the smiles of a shepherd to his
flock, but too often with the frown and sternness of a
& truant class.
schoolmaster to his dull
MY mind has been occupied during the week with the dry instructions
of Golburn & Euclid so that, the fountains of my heart have hardly been
broken up
to refresh my people when they were again sealed up in the cold regions of un
relished duties.
In other words not happening to like the employment of teaching
my spirit has been vexed 6 days to prepare or rather spoil me for the seventh.
Another & still greater embarassment has arisen from the growing conviction
that I was cultivating a field I was soon to leave.
not fasten there.
Of course my attachment could
I tried to do what I could, yet who can plant & water & prune
& multiply attractions at a place of sojourn as he would at home. In truth I have
all along sighed that I was
a pastor only in name, & as I urged myself over the
plains & down the ravines of my half-cultivated field, longed for other
labors.
scenes &
I have tried, however, not to let my feelings influence my conduct; but
I am aware that I am human &
can but feel that I have not done all I would have
done had my heart been more enlisted.
But not withstanding these discouragements there are some pleasing features
to the work.
The duties connected with the pastoral office there are healthful.
They afforded needed excercise after a weeks confinement.
calms &
The change from the
heat of the leeward to the windward side of the Island, from the sea
breeze to the bracing trades has been both a luxury & a benefit.
The duties connected with that station, though at arms length & often inter-
�Kaanapali, Maui, station report, May 1848
Hunt
3.
rupted & painfully inadequate have neverthless a great relief to one who vastly
preferred such work to his daily tasks.
They have served to keep an uneasy
schoolmaster from being absolutely rebellious.
They have helped,too, to keep alive the little missionary spirit which re
peated disappointments had well nigh extinguished.
Yes, Brethren a spark is
left & I hope that devotion to the work I prefer coupled with contentment in a
field of my choice will kindle that spark to a flame, & secure both heart & hand
in warm attachment & energetic action for this race.
Acquaintance too with that little flock has convinced their pastor that, how=
ever much chaff there may be in the Hawaiian churches, there is some wheat.
I
rejoice in the conviction thus gained that however many may at the last day say
"Lord Lord" & stand unadmitted at the door of Heaven,yet I hope to unite there
with a multitude of this poor people, gathered from the huts & caves, & some
though few, from the palaces of Hawaii.
I have also had this to encourage me, that though I could do but a tythe of
the work, yet that tythe was all gain.
It was so much real benefit a people who
would otherwise have been left very much to the enemy.
Something it is hoped has been accomplished.
vanced but little.
The schools however, have ad
Causes, incompetent teachers & poor pay.
The papists, too,
have made a beginning, but their success has been very small & very doubtful.
They have gathered a few of their own kind from among the old, the vicious & the
secluded.
But even these have been thinned by apostates, & but one church mem-
bet has fallen into the snare.
These sly agents, however, are on the alert.
They call for vigilence & Instruction on the part of the pastor & prayers &
activity on the part of the good & true.
So far they have, on the whole, done us
no harm.
During the period now reported, there have been received to this church on
profession
118
by letter
8
126
Total There have been suspended from the Church
3
Of these there has been restored
1
Excommunicate d
Restored
3
1
Dismissed to other churches
4 [?]
Deaths in the church
8
Number now in regular standing
230
�Kaanapali, Maui, station report, May 1848
Hunt
4.
Of this 116 are males - & 113 are females
Number of children
baptised
Marriages
144
57 [? ]
Number of schools
Number of scholars
7
198
There is one Catholic school of 20 scholars.
Cash contributed for the support of the Gospel
$144.75
In addition to this, the meeting house has been refroofed & the adobe house of
their na/tive preacher rebuilt.
A grass house was also built in one of the dis
tricts for the accommodations of the pastor on his occassional tours.
The meet
ing house also has been furnished with new mats.
Money rec'd for books
the "Elele" $11.25
There is little disposition among the people to buy books.
I have seen with pain
the struggle on the part of many to provide themselves with gay clothing,while
they would go without means of mental culture, & even deprive themselves of the
Word of God, except furnished them gratuitously.
times in silks but destitute of
Children well dressed; & some-
m ost common school books presents a strange
but [?] frequent spectacle at our examinations -.
The people of the district are
evidently diminishing the deaths exceeding the births.
advance has been made in civilization.
While but little if any
There has occured no special revival of
religion though there was more than ordinary interest felt in the fall & winter
of 1846.
This is to be attributed instrumentally to the labors of Naiapaakai,
then a member of the Theological class in the Sem'y at Lahaina, on Saturdays &
Sabbaths.
field.
Sabbath & week class meetings have been maintained throughout the
The church have supported a native preacher the whole time, to which the
money raised for benevolent purposes has been appropriated.
On the whole the church has experienced two prosperous years.
has more than doubled.
Their number
Their contributions have considerably advanced upon those
of previous years.
In relation to the Sem'y the church is of great importance.
It affords past
oral labor for a missionary who would otherwise have no ministerial responsibi
lity.
It is important as a place of exercise for the theological class of the Sem’y.
It affords a rare opportunity for training a promising licentiate for the
high functions of an ordained
minister. This training has been commenced & it is
hoped that whoever succeeds the present pastor will be encouraged gradually to
�Kaanapali, Maui, station report, May 1848
Hunt
5
advance Kauwealoha on to ordination - & installment.
In conclusion let me commit my little flock to the paternal care of this
mission.
In providing for the Sem'y make good provision for the smallest, though
not the youngest of HAwaiian churches.
T . Dwight Hunt
Pastor.
�Report of Kaanapali Church & Congregation from July 1 to April 1849
[ Andrews]
C
.
Shortly after arriving at L'luna last year my predecessor informed me that he was
ready to introduce me to my new parish.
It took me by surprise, as I had returned
from the meeting last year light hearted in the feeling that being stationed at
L'luna I was to be free of ministerial duties & responsibilities.
By what auth
ority, I asked "do you favor me with a new parish?" "By that of the Hawaiian Assoiation."
I demurred to the authority, especially as I had previously supposed, Kaana
pali religious interests were to be attended to by the young licentiate just hired
by them from L'luna, Kauwealoha by name.
But as Mr. Hunt had informed them Analu
no Molokai was to be his panihaka & Kauwealoha sent saying they were expecting me.
I went out there about the first of July & preached.
& came around me
The people appeared pleased
"a la Hawaii," to shake hands.
It was evident they had a warm attachment to their former pastor & that I
might not succeed
in acquiring his influence over their minds.
How different they appeared from Molokai
people.
The children would roll
about on their mats in church, or lie down flat & sleep.
After the 1st SAbbath few came to the afternoon service, & my bodily presence
& speech were too much like that of a preacher of old to command their presence or
attention.
I had previously been reminded on Molokai of my ill adaptedness to the
office of bishop & now I began to realize it.
But something must be done even at a venture.
I straitened [!]
up the
children by telling them that J. C. whipped such violators of his worship out of
the house
of prayer.
From the
older sleepers I proposed to levy a
subscription
to buy pillows, & with the remainder hire a carpenter to partition off part of the
house for a
"Keena hiemoe."
This was to touch their shame & their pockets &
being often reiterated by one another out of meeting has helped to keep off sleep
during service.
But the greatest difficulty was to maintain a respectable congregation at P.M.
service.
To attain this I often requested at noon the church members (something
crossed out)
to tarry after the next service & tried to
for their consideration there.
invent interesting topics
To make the Sab. & sanctuary service
attractive to the people generally I used to go out Fri. & Sat. &
more
gather singing
schools, contriving so to raise their enthusiasm, that they the younger portion
would come on Sabbath to attend a singing service between sermons.
I made this a
kind of mixture of r e l i g i o n &
singing instruction, by singing hymns in full &
commenting on them to tunes which we had practised in the previous days of school.
Many wild little fellows would come & stay through morning meeting for the sake
�Kaanapali July 1 - April 1849
[C. Andrews]
2.
of hymn-singing, at noon, & that continuing until the P.M. meeting, most would
then stay until it was concluded.
The usual division of the field has been into two parts for preaching, one
8 mls.[miles] from L-luna the other 16.
The average cong. during the 1st part of
the year was 300 for the nearest & 200 for the part farthest away.
the licentiate & I would alternate at each place.
Kauwealoha
His preaching has seemed ac-
ceptable to the people.
Thus I began, & after
struggling for a few months [!] thought I could see some
faint traces of improvement, when the epidemics came,with consequences similar to
that felt in other places, only worse, because the people of Kaanapali are fisher
men, & by fishing they get all their living.
To give you an idea of the months
during the sickness, permit me to read some of the records of the church.
[Blank page]
Such is a general outline of Kaanapali religious operations to which I will add
a few items.
1st Kan.[Kaanapali] has never had a mission family to reside there & the people
evidently shew[show] the destitution.
from 8 to 16 mls. distant.
Its pastors have always lived at L-luna
They have never had a mission lady there to organize
direct, & carry on religious labors among the females.
There is much vacuity
laziness, listlessness, among the females of that region than among any that I am
familiar with.
There are few good helping women.
2nd. The pecuniary condition of the people.
1/2 of the people of my field live entirely from hand to mouth by fishing.
The whole country is fertile, large districts being good arable land, but the
cattle & horses, of Lahaina pasturage have broken over & roamed without barrier
over the whole ground for 2 years.
hog pen as
The inhabitants might as well plant corn in a
potatoes or any eatable on their grounds, & as they are too poor to
own cattle of their own, & cannot controll[!] those of Lahaina, their only means
of living left is the sea.
Some of the brethren think the law of trespass is a hard one, $1. dol. fine
where an animal merely intrudes on/his neighbor's premises, especially if the
tresspasser was a mission cow or horse, but let me say, beware how you put a
straw in the way of that law, if you do not wish your fields to to[!] resemble
Kan.
Natives decrease & animals increase here as these [Isles?]
, & the in
terests of a drive of a rich man's cattle are much more likely to be attended to
than are those of a village of poor natives.
Of course the people of K. are poor, miserably, poor & they always will be so,
under the present system of obtaining a livelihood.
�Kaanapali July 1 - April 1849
[C. Andrews]
3.
3rd. No benevolent effort has been set on foot among them this year.
They have
partially supported Kauwealoha & he has received 15 dollars from the Mon. Con. of
the Sem.[!].
4th.Statistics,
The censuses as taken by the natives & handed to the Kahu Kula,
before I saw it.
I can therefore give only an approximation to correct statis
tics from my own observation.
Since Kahakuloa was added to Kaanapali, it numbers from 12 to 13 hundred all told,
of whom nearly 2,50[!] are school children.
In two of the larger villages whose
census I knew, The mortality has been l/9th of the population for the whole year.
The reason of this great mortality is, the inhabitants support life e ither on fish
which they had to go & catch during the time of sickness when/they ought to have
been in the house, - or no food at all - at times alternating with old/or indif
ferent poi, brought along to be exchanged for fish.
It is a miserable sustenance
at any time, but a destructive diet for the sick.
The no. of ch. members is 230, to whom I have as yet added nine by profes
sion, though I shall venture to take in a few, appearantly[!] very consistent
persons at the next Sacrament.
The church records do not shew the statistics of
those suspended & excom[!], to & I cannot give them.
Finally should it be asked,
"Are there any available & probable means by
which together with what they now have the people of Kan. could be saved from ex
tinction & could be raised to a pleasant civilized & social conditions." I would
answer thus, Were it given to me to accomplish that object I should try 1st to
get a good warmhearted missionary with his family to settle among them, not one
divided between them & his family living at L-luna (for Kan. is long & its people
scattered) & would require all of his labors.) [!] one who with his helper would
abound with human kindness & be father, brother & sister to the poorest & mean
est of the Kanaka nation in his field.
I would then try to induce Govt to compound with the natives for their petty land
claims, by laying off to the few left there, a strip of ground each in villages,
where the whole could be fenced with a strong barrier giving each a portion there
in fee simple side by side, & then require them to fence it strong, at the same
time giving each a right of pasturage say for 15
animals' [?] each on the plains
rising in the interior.
This would be a great saving of cost, labor & vexation to the Govt & to the
natives also, recover to them some land out of the range of herds upon which to
raise the staff of life, & at the same time leave vast tracts as a source of
revenue, & pasture for natives from wh. now not one farthing is gained to either.
No region I have seen at the islands, unite so many advantages both for an arable
�Kaanapali July 1- April 1849
[C. Andrews]
4.
& grazing country where natives could prosper, & now none is so destitute.
If
their claims are granted it will do nobody any good, & continue a great deal of
harm for these petty claims lie scattered here & there, in the midst of this vast
range & one man's 1/2 acre of potatoes, must lay an embargo on ground where 10,000
cattle & horses could luxuriate the year around & bring in as many [as]
dollars yearly to Govt.
[End]
[Unsigned]
10,0000
�Report of the Station at Haiku
(1 8 3 5 )
The station at Haiku in Hamakualoa was taken about the first
of September 1834 -
On the arrival of the missionary and his fam
ily at the place selected for the station a native dwelling-house
& small cook-house were in readiness for him.
The natives gave
him a welcome reception, & their kindness has hitherto been uni
form in supplying him and his family with such of the necessaries
and comforts of life as they possessed.
The only place of worship at the station, during the first
four months was an old native house in a falling and ragged state,
the thatch principally off the sides & partly off the roof, and
withal not large enough to contain more than half the people who
usually attended worship on the sabbath.
school-house for the first few months:
This was also our only
But a new native house
100 ft long by 26 ft wide has been erected for public worship &
was dedicated to God in December.
were conducted by Mr. Clark;
The services of this occasion
A large number of people assembled
and gave good attention to the word;
Gov. Hoapili was present with
a number of ch. members from Lahaina, which in part accounts for
the great concourse of people.
Labours:
The public labours of the station (aside from the
schools ) have consisted usually of two sermons on the Sab. and a
lecture during the week - a Sabbath-school for the children on
Sab. morning & a Bible-class in the afternoon, besides a catechet
ical exercise in the evening in reference to the sermons delivered
on the same day.
A prayer-meeting was held on Saturday evening
exculsively ( !) for ch-members, and since the erection of our new
meeting-house morning meetings for prayer have been regularly held,
�2.
and usually well attended considering the scattered situation
of the people.
Attendence on the services of the Sanctuary has
been encouraging.
The congregation on Sab. has (been) respectably
large for that region.
It has varied some on account of the storms
which prevail there, but since the erection of our new-meetinghouse in good weather it has usually been well filled on the
Sabbath.
As to the effects of these labours I can say but little that
is encouraging.
There are a considerable number of persons about
the station who give good attention to the word preached, are
orderly in their daily walk, and profess to be seeking the "pearl
of great price", and a few give considerable evidence of having
passed from death unto life, but in general the seed sown seems to
have fallen by the way side, among thorns, or on stony places, &
perished.
No church has been formed at the station, though there
are some 10 or 11 ch-members residing in that region, belonging
to the churches at Lahaina & Kaawaloa ( . )
Of this number one is
under censure, another is suspected, and of the remainder I can
only say they are neither cold nor hot and therefore little can be
said either for or against them.
Schools;
During part of the year 3 schools have been sustained
at the station, 1, A school of from 30 to 40 teachers and others,
who attended to geography, arithmatic ( !), writing & reading, but
principally to the last.
The reason for their attention being
directed more particularly to reading existed in the fact that
not over 5 individuals could be found within our limits who could
read either the word of God or any other book with facility or much
profit, and 4 of these were formerly scholars of Mr, Greens at
Wailuku.
To this school I devoted 2 hours a day 4 days in the week -
�Haiku 1835
2.
3.
A school of women taught by Mrs. Armstrong.
This school was
commenced with about 30 scholars & increased to 70;
The studies
pursued in this -school were the same as those of the male school,
with the addition of some attention to needle-work & bonnet-making
in which the native-ladies manifested much skill but not so much
industry -
Two hours a day for 4 days each week were devoted to
this school.
3.
A childrens school, to which my attention was given 2 hours a
day 3 days each week.
to 140;
It commenced with 70 scholars & Increased
A great majority of the children knew not the letters of
the alphabet when they entered the school & none of them could
be properly called readers;
Of course our first object was to
teach them to read & in this we have only partially succeeded.
The children appear to be attached to the school, & for the advan
tages they have had have made commendable improvement.
Our labours during the first months of the year were sustained
with great disadvantages, arising from the want of a meeting-house
or school-house & more particularly on account of ill-health in
our family.
About the first of January, it became necessary to
leave our station on account of sickness & remove to Wailuku.
Since
that time our school operations were entirely suspended until the
first of April when they were again for a few weeks resumed with
an increase of scholars.
The labours of the Sabbath, with the
exception of a few Sabbaths, have by the assistance of several of
my brethren been sustained since the station was first taken.
In December the Governor of Maui paid us a visit having sev
eral objects in. view, collect taxes, establish prayer-meetings &
proclaim the tobacco-law.
On the evening of his arrival he assem
bled the people, proclaimed the law, declared Its penalty, then
�4.
gravely called on all who were willing to give up smoking tobacco
to hold up their hands;
their h a n d s !!
So they all, with one consent held up
But the law, though proclaimed by the Governor in
person has fallen far short of producing the desired reformation.
There is probably not much less smoking now on Maui than there was
before the law was proclaimed.
Tobacco is not only used in the
pipe, but is cultivated & grows abundantly in many places on the
island.
popular;
The proclamation in regard to prayer-meetings was more
Morning & evening meetings have been held in most parts
of east, if not of West Maui, the teachers & Konohikis usually
taking the lead in them whether they made any pretentions to ser
iousness or not.
These meetings we have regarded as having an
evil tendency, and therefore frequently expressed our disapproba
tion of them, but until recently did not succeed in breaking them
up such was either their popularity or the regard the people had
for the injunction of the Governor.
As to the state of the people about our station, we have no
particular report to make.
It is well known that the mass of them
care not for the things which belong to their everlasting peace.
In Hamakuapoko which has long been notorious for its wickedness,
many of the people have been practicing the
_,_
and in Haiku a company have been convicted of idolatry & are now
working on the roads On the 6th of May I set out on a tour of East Maui & returned
to Lahaina on the 20th.
The object of this tour was twofold;
first to preach the Gospel to the people in those dark & destitute
parts of the island, and more particularly to preach for several
days in succession in some populous & central place, and 2 - To
make a thorough examination of the schools. —
The place I selec
�Haiku 1835
5.
ted for a protracted meeting was Hana.
Here I remained for 10
days & preached twice each day besides holding daily meetings for
conference & Prayer.
Previous notice having been given, a number
of persons came from the adjacent districts Koolau & Kipahulu, &
remained during the meeting.
On the two sabbaths the congregation
was quite large & it was respectably so during the week.
Good at
tention was given to the word preached and some individuals were ap
parently in some measure convicted of sin & penitent -
Such was
their profession & their appearence ( !) indicated solemnity of feel
ing.
But the conviction for sin appeared to be too superficial,
to hope much from them, unless God by his gracious spirit should
deepen & strengthen it, & cause it to result in a radical change
of heart -
During the past year wickedness has greatly abounded
at Hana drunkenness, adultery, & heathen sports have been most
common, but the law being rigidly inforced ( !) & the leaders pun
ished, things have been restored to their former order.
In regard to the schools on East Maui it can hardly be said
that there are any.
So far as I could ascertain the people do not
assemble in any place for instruction unless it is on the Sabbath;
then they in some places meet & recite the catechism, & perhaps
read a little.
Multitudes who formerly attended examinations have
forsaken their books & schools, and many others appeared with the
old pa-pa, which was all committed to memory, but they could not
read a line in another book.
In some places, there are as many
teachers as scholars, & they are in many instances not a whit in
advance of their Scholars;
It is not infrequently the case that
the Konohiki is the teacher, though he performs none of the duties
of a teacher directly, and more frequently still the case, that
�Haiku 1835
6.
one individual has the care of all the schools in a large district,
and appoints whom he pleases to do the teaching;
The inspection
of the schools in every place is calculated to lead one to mourn
over the faults & disqualifications of the teachers to he wondered at that the schools do not flourish:
It is not
It is rather
a matter of wonder that the people learn to read as well as they do
considering the oppertunities ( !) they have for instruction The readers on E. Maui are as follows -
Hamakualoa, Hamakuapoko,
Haleimaile, Makawao, 600 - Koolau 22 2 , Hana 211, Kipahulu 166,
Kaupo 213, Kehikinui 77, Honuaula 178, Kula 115 (In all 1782)
These are called readers not because they can read well b ut be
cause they can read at all.
A person is rarely to be found on E.
Maui who reads well.
The number of marriages at our station during the year is 99.
Of the Kumu Hawaii I have sold about 30 though I might have
sold more had I thought they would be profitable to those who ap
plied.
The demand for books has not been great until within the last
few months, when I could not obtain books enough to meet the demand
(At end:)
Station report.
Hamakua loa
June 1835
�SCHEDULE OF SCHOOLS AND TUITION
(Printed Form)
Station
Haiku
Missionary Teacher
R . Armstrong
Total number of scholars taught
by the Missionary
250
Men
40
Women
70
Children
140
Attend to reading, writing, geography
and arithmetic.
110
No. of weeks continuance of the school,
13
No. of days in the week.
5
No. of hours instruction per day
5
Average number of Sabbath Scholars
250
Average number of Bible class Scholars
130
No. of native teachers
Scholars under them.
Adult Scholars.
110
Children
140
Largest no. of readers at any public exam
ination
Sabbath School scholars under native
instructors
(Last six items crossed out)
600
�Abstract of Report of Honuaula
Maui Station, by S. W. N ueku
May 1861
Preaching has been maintained at six different places, at
Keawakapu, Hoiu, Kanaio, Auwahi, Keoneoio and Kanahena, sometimes
at one & sometimes at another.
The monthly concert of prayer on
the first Monday of the month has been revived; so also have the
meetings for conference & prayer on Wednesdays & Saturdays.
Some
of the church are awake & earnest, yet there has been no special
revival.
Apathy & indifference present the great obstacle to the
success of the gospel.
field.
The Mormons and Papists are very few in this
The people need more constant employment, they spend a great
deal of time in idleness.
During the dry season, when the sea is
smooth they fish; they also braid hats, those dwelling inland culti
vate irish potatoes.
A great evil among them is the habit of getting
in debt to the Chinese pedlars.
The schools are kept up part of the time.
Our school funds
are low & hence we cannot get the best teachers.
Most of the parents
are very indifferent to the education of their children.
Contributions for the year
Pastor's Salary
Finishing the meetinghouse
Monthly concert
To aid other churches
$135.94
286.25
4.37 1/2
4.50
$431.06 1/2
Church Statistics
Whole number recd on profession
"
"
certificate
on Prof. past year
"
Whole number dismissed
Dismissed past year
8
cert
"
269
2
0
(no figure)
3
�Abst r . Honuaula
Whole no deceased
(no figure)
Deceased past year
7
Excluded past year
3
Restored
1
"
Now in good standing
265
Children Baptised past year
Marriages
"
8
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�To the Brethern of the Sandwich Islands Mission assembled at Honolulu,
Oahu, May 1843
Dear Brethren,
It is known to you all that my request for a dismission
from the further service of the A.B.C.F.M. has been granted.
Of course, I am no
longer regarded as a member of the Sandwich Islands Mission.
The vote of the
committee complying with my request not reaching me
till six months of the
missionary year had elapsed, and as I felt it to be my duty, for reasons which I
will state in their place, to remain at Wailuku several months after receiving my
make a
dismission, it became my duty to^report of my labors at the station up to the time
of my leaving.
This I should love to do\violi voce but the circumstances of my
family and people make it
inexpedient for me to leave home for so long a time. By
brother Bailey I therefore forward my report referring you to him for any explana
tions or further information respecting my labors at the station.
During the time of general meeting of last year, the teachers being absent,
the care of
the Seminary greatly increased by the near neighborhood of some 40
young gentlemen from Lahainaluna devolved on me in addition to the
station.
labors of the
On the return of Mr. B ailey, I removed my family to Lahainaluna to enjoy
the benefit of a school
for our own children.
my dismission reached me.
My family remained there till after
I spent most of my time at Wailuku.
removing to our side of the
On Mr. Clark's
island, I spent an ocassional sabbath at
I continued to superintend schools, preach to the people and labor in
Kanepali[!]
other
ways
for the good of the people till Oct. 1, when I received a letter from Mr. Anderson
notifying me of my dismission.
I consulted with brethtren Clark and Bailey on the
subject of leaving Wailuku at once.
at
I had serious doubts whether I could
leave
once consistently with my obligations to God and to the people and I finally
concluded to stay till such time as it
should appear duty to go.
a few weeks I wrote Mr. Chamberlain inquiring whether I
After laboring
might expect any things
in the way of support for services rendered: in other words, whether he could afford
me my "bread and cheese"
for work performed while holding on to the station till
the mission could send a supply.
I wish the brethren here to understand that I did
not ask to be hired - I wished to leave and would do so
could anyone be sent to
occupy my place but If I staid from a sense of duty as I had already done more than
a year after asking dismission I thought I ought to be supported.
Mr Chamberlain
[!]
replied with his usual prompness^that nothing could be granted, that I could
occupy the station house if I chose to labor something as Dr. Judd was doing..
About this time I received
some 300 dollars from the American Female
Society for the use of the
Seminary.
Moral Reform
Feeling that I must provide for my
family
�Makawao & Wailuku, 1843, J.S. Green, letter to the Mission,
2
and that the laborer was worthy of his meat, I applied to the trustees of the
Seminary, stated the circumstances of the station, and the means by which I ob
tained the donation for the Seminary from N. York, and I asked their advice.
They recommended "That a portion of the money received from the ladies of the
moral Reform Society be appropriated for the supply of the pulpit at Wailuku for
the present."
I therefore continued my labors till February 7th when I left for
my present station.
As I have been considered by some of the brethren
?
terms for the
course which I pursued in relation to Wailuku, I beg leave to state the case as
fairly as I know how.
It may be easily be supposed that though dismissed from
the service of the Board, I should have some attachment to the people of Wailuku
among whom I have labored for more than ten years and who were very averse to my
leaving them at all.
But in ordinary circumstances I would have left them im
mediately or have sought my support at their hands.
The case was this, their
meeting house which was nearly ready to plaster when Mr. Armstrong left for Hono
lulu, was found to be unsafe so far as the roof was concerned, and after waiting,
and looking at it and taking advice with everybody who came along, till the walls
began to give way, the roof was taken down.
In doing this we saved most of the
rafters and some of the aho, yet we lost nearly all the lathing, the furring and
the beams.
The people, as might be expected, were greatly discouraged.
It re
quired all the influence I had to pursuade them to procure timber and put on
another roof.
This being obtained Mr. Bailey kindly undertook to superintend the
work while I assisted him in school.
house was soon covered again.
We got up a good substantial roof and the
After resting awhile from this effort I pursuaded
the people to go to the m o u n t a i n ;
procure furring and lathe, and complete the
building.
I promised, on my part, to see that the sash were made, the glass set,
doors hung, pulpit made up.
Since Mr. Armstrong left we had not had a protracted
meeting, and as an inducement to the members of the church to finish the house, I
promised that on its completion, such a meeting should be held.
In Lahaina, I
engaged a drunken carpenter, being unable to obtain a sober one - giving Peck my
note of hand for nearly fifty dollars for the sake of obtaining him - entered a
grog shop where I found him "half over seas" and stuck by the fellow till he ac
companied me home, and went to work on the house.
received my dismission.
In the midst of all this, I
For this I was thankful, as I am to this day, but I was
not the man to leave at such a time.
I had too much affectionate regard for my
associate to leave him with this accumulated burden upon his - shoulders.
not leave.
I did
I am glad (sentence crossed over) that I remained at my post till He
whom I serve in the gospel of His Son made it plainly my duty to leave. In December the house was
finished: my note canceled the workmen paid and the house dedicated. In January we had a protracted
meeting; and an arrangement being made with Mr. Clark to supply the pulpit, I left early in February.
�Makawao & Wailuku, 1843,
J. S. Green, letter to the Mission,
3
The first Sabbath in March I spent at Wailuku - admitted a number of individuals
who had
stood propounded several weeks, and preached my valedictory sermon from
Philipians 1: 27.
This statement I have made because
I felt that my brethren had
a right to know why I lingered so long at Wailuku after receiving my dismission.
I am
willing that the Board, or any other body of men
should know why I staid
I merely add, that on learning that some of my brethren were complaining of me
of the trustees of the Seminary, in
and
reference to the money contributed by the
American Female Reform Society, I wrote immediately to the President of the So
ciety stating the circumstances of the case, and the reasons which weighed with
the trustees in appropriating a portion of the money sent us to the supply of the
pulpit.
this:
I am willing to abide by the decision of the Society.
But enough of
Of my labors at Wailuku I will now make a brief report.
Schools.
These have been conducted much as in former years.
by a graduate of Lahainaluna, has been continued.
in teaching in this field, three
nothing, or worse than nothing.
prosperous [!]
with efficiency.
The station school, taught
Several graduates are engaged
or four successfully.
Some others are doing
I think the schools are generally prosperous-
I mean for Hawaiian Schools.where none of them are conducted
I cannot give the statistics of schools for though I have done
more than usual in superintending them yet I have no word of examinations.
The summer examination I attended, but the account of it I cannot find.
The
fall examination I did not attend being summoned to Lahaina to bid farewell to
Dr. Lafon.
David Malo attended this examination which was an interesting one
followed by a feast, address & Malo is expected to examine schools again this
month.
During the year I had a monthly and the latter part of the year a semi monthly
examination of all the children within three or four miles of the station, who
could read.
More than 100 used to meet me on these ocassions.
After reading a
verse each I commonly addressed them and closed with prayer.
Sabbath Schools
These have been conducted much as usual.
A more\thorough super
vision would make these schools & much more efficient means of good but the labors
of the Sabbath are so arderous that but little time has hitherto been devoted to
superintendence.
The adult Sabbath School I regard of much importance.
While
the children are reading or being addressed, the adults, members of the chh. and
others are sitting in the house of God and conversing for an hour or two.
results in obvious improvement in their knowledge of the word of God.
This
Books have
�Makawao & Wailuku, 1843
J. S. Green, letter to the mission
4
been distributed among the people, old and young, as heretofore. Many more bibles
and testaments could have been disposed of.
Preaching of the Gospel, Congregation, Church, etc. (?)
The state of things on the Sabbath has been encouraging till nearly the close
of the year 1842, we suffered for the want of a house, the old meeting house being
at that time
used for a school house, dirty and leaky.
much as usual.
The congregation continued
On entering the new house, the congregation increased.
The people
retain their reputation for good behavior in the house of God, and for giving ex
cellent attention to preaching.
better in this respect.
the
The Romanists have
neighborhood of the station.
gress in
I think no congregation on the Island appears
continued to hold their meetings in
I cannot asertain that they have made much
proselyting to their faith.
I
pro
believe they have changed their hour of
worship so as to call in some who worship with us, on their way home.
Those who
have united with them are, without a single exception those who have been proof
against the call of the gospel, or those who have been expelled from the fellowshhip
of the church.
The means of grace have been blessed apparently to the growth in grace of a
a portion of the church and to the conversion of sinners.
church have given me increasingly
Quite a number of the
precious evidence of their growing attachment
to the person and cause of the Lord Jesus Christ.
They are conscientious,
humble, devoted Christians, whom I love a[s] dear brethren in
whom I hope to spend an eternity of holy fellowship in heaven.
praying
Christ, and with
Of many others in
the church I stand in doubt. Some few have been excluded from the fellowship of
the church
, among whom are Mik/ahala and her husband.
The former, it will be
recollected, the wife of Auwae the former head man of Wailuku, was one of the
earliest members of the church.
She is now a most devoted adherent of Kekauluohi,
and she is putting up the chief to acts of great oppression.
ness is the sin
The sin of unclean
which leads to nearly all the exclusions from the church.
more can be done to
What
save our Churches from this ever yawning gulf of Hawaii?
January 1, 1843 twenty-six individuals were admitted to the fellowship of the
church and in March one hundred and twenty two.
These had all cherished a hope in
Christ for a considerable time.
In January we held a protracted meeting of nearly a week at the station.
Mr. Baldwin was with me nearly the whole time of the meeting, and Mr. Clark one
day.
The meeting was well attended throughout.
state, and many seemed seriously affected.
The church seemed in a praying -
The results of the meeting cannot
no w be known , but I cannot but hope that it will appear in the day of God, that
�Makawao & Wailuku,
souls
1843
J. S. Green, letter to the mission
were savingly benefitted.
On the next
5
page I will give you the statistics
of the Church.
Whole no. all to the church on examination
1080
On certificate
Past year on exam.
148
Past year on cert.
8
whole number past yr
156
whole no. diss. to other chhs.
Past year ■
10
whole no dismissed
past year
10
suspended past year
3
remain susp.
Excommunicated the past year
7
who. no. in reg. stand.
977
Baptized the past year
28
Marriages past year
70
This it will be understood/applies to the church at Wailuku up to the time
leaving.
of my
I have since moved to Makawao the people of Hamakua and Kula having
given me a call to settle with them.
The Church of Hamakua
and Kula
has since
been/formed, or in other words the members of Wailuku Church residing in Hamakua,
Hamakuapoko, Makawao, Halimaile[!]and Kula have been constituted a Church to be
known as O ka Ekalesia
schools ,
?
huipuia o Hamakua o me Kula.
Of this
station chh.
you will not expect me to report, and I mention the taking of the
station, formation of the chh. merely that the
desire and expect to be responsible to the Great
mission may understand that I
Head of the Church while I am
spared for the supply of this station.
In closing my communication to the mission, with the members of which I have
often, during the past
fifteen years, taken sweet counsel, I beg to say, that I
shall still rejoice to cooperate with you in whatever may
the Redeemer's Kingdom.
relate to the interests of
On my part, I hope to do nothing to cause a division
among the followers of Christ.
After fully investigating the claims of duty, I
made up my mind that I ought not to leave the islands.
I cheerfully left Wailuku
because the property of the Board in Seminary and other buildings gave them an
undisputed claim to that station.
I know not that they have any other claim to
Hamakua, and Kula than they have to any other district on the island.
mission I make no claim.
Upon the
I have never expected, nor desire to be hired by the
�Makawao & Wailuku, 1843
J.S. Green, letter to the mission
mission for a single day.
6
Still I know not by what wiles of logic Christian or
heathen, we i.e. I and my brethren who have left the mission, or rather in the
service of the Board, honorably, ie[!] permission having' been sought and obtain
ed with as much humanity as drunkards, I cheerfully proffer my aid as a trans
lator or book maker, and will stand on the same ground with my brethren, that is,
work, for the privilege of having books for my people.
And I beg to enquire[!],
Can my people be supplied on the same terms as the people of other districts?
Will the brethren reply to this inquiry?
I make these remarks in the connexion
[! ] that the brethren may know in the outset of my engaging in the work of a mini
ster of Christ among this people, independent of the Board, with what feelings I
bid, as I now do, an affectionate Adeiu to the Sandwich Islands Mission "Brethren
the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all."
J.S. Green
[Written on the back]:
J.S. Green 1843
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�Report of Station at Hana including an account
all things except sch o o l s .
[1839]
This report covers the space of two years, because there
has b een no opportunity to report before,
since our arrival
at these Islands.
At a meeting of the Sandwich Islands Mission in May 1837
we were designated to f orm a n e w station at Hana, on East
Maui where the gospel h a d seldom b e e n preached.
At the
close of the meeting, therefore, we proceeded on our w a y
thither, as far as Lahaina where we took up our residence,
for a few months, in the house formerly occupied by R e v Mr
Spaulding.
During our stay there,
our time was chiefly
spent in studying the native language, and in labouring
as opportunity offered among seamen and foreign residents
[b e r ]
of w h o m there was a goodly num.-/in the place most of the
time we continued there.
As soon as the health of our families permitted, we
proceeded with all our goods to Hana, the field assigned
us by the mission, where we arrived safely and in good
he a l t h about the first of Jan. 1838.
We were very kindly
w elcomed by the people of the place and w i t h manifest
indications of joy at the idea of our settling among t hem
as their Teachers in holy things.
The sight was affecting,
and awakened with i n us not a little sympathy for their
spiritual and eternal welfare.
They immediately
conducted us to the houses w h i c h they h a d kindly erected
�1839 - 2
for our accommodation.
These of course were built and
furnished in native style, w i t h the exception of not
being quite so good as those they generally erect for
themselves.
However we were glad, and we trust thankful,
to find a shelter, poor as it was.
The first two weeks after our arrival, were chiefly
spent in fitting up our houses and in a r r a n g i n g our
goods, not a long time surely to be occupied in this
manner considering the many interruptions occasioned by
[quarter]
the multitudes that crowded around us, f rom every quater,
to see the strangers, and to get, if possible, a glimpse
of the wonderful things they had brought wit h them.
After bestowing considerable labour and some expense
[habitations]
on our slender h a b i t i a t i o n s , to render t hem comfortable,
we enjoyed them but a few months, w h e n god in his righteous
providence, saw fit to take them from us.
A fire broke out
in our book house w h i c h was not discov e r e d until all efforts
to extinguish it proved futile.
The firery element r a g e d
( !)
w i t h indiscribable rapidity, so that w i t h i n a very short
time, all our houses except one, occupied by our domestics,
were reduced to ashes, together w i t h considerable property
to the amount perhaps of 250 or 300 dollars.
About every
thing of any value in bro Ives house was saved.
This
accident occured on the 21st of March 1838, near night,
w h i c h rendered it still more trying, especially, to our
families.
But fortunately there was not far distant a
�Hana report 1839
93
newly erected house and w h i c h h a d not as the n been occupied.
We
therefore obtained permission to take up our residence there.
being, however,
It
quite small and open & w i t h all ( ! ) situated in a
very windy place we suffered not a little b o t h for the want of
sufficient room and f rom severe colds.
W e soon had pleasing evi
dence, that the people were not regardless of our circumstances,
nor destitute of sympathy for our temporal comfort.
They immedi
ately proceeded to make preparations for erecting ( ! ) n e w houses
for us which they completed w i thin a few months.
These houses are
better built and are also more convenient than the former.
However
all that can be said of them is, that they are mere temporary haexhibit
bitations.
They already e x h i b i t
signs of decay and are
beginning to lea k very badly.
We shall not be able to live in them
even another year, without considerable inconvenience and perhaps,
I might say, danger of being buried beneath their ruins, for it
should be recollected that the wind blows v ery powerfully in that
regio n sometimes, tho, n o t very often.
On our return therefore,
it wi l l
i t w i l l (! ) be absolutely necessary for us to proceede ( !) imme
diately to the erecting of permanent houses.
In fact considerable
preparation has already b een made for this purpose.
E n o u g h coral
and timber, have been engaged for two dwelling houses,
for in native books.
and paid
The greater part of these articles,
a state of preperation ( !) to be used,
the spot where they w ill be needed.
to collect stones for the walls.
are in
although not gathered on
Not h [ ing] as yet has bee n done
There is, however, a great plenty
of materials of this kind, within a half a mile of the Station,
and
�Hana Report 1839
4
can b e conveniently obtained by means of a yeoke
( !) of cattle.
W e are happy to state, that, notwithstanding the dif f i c u l ties
disadvantages, under which we have laboured,
houses,
such as the loss of our
an imperfect knowledge of the native language &c, we have,
as w e trust, through the blessing of God, bee n of some little benefit
to the people in a religious point of view.
We have endeavoured to
labour according to the extent of our abilities.
On our arrival
them
among the people we found them generally very ignorant, but quite
accessible, and willing to receive instruction.
For several months
( !)
our houses were litterally crowded, every day, excepting Sabbath,
w i t h persons apparently anxious to hear and understand the truth as
it is i n Jesus.
These opportunities,
for explaining to them the
fundamental doctrines of the Gospel, were,
of course,
improved by
us, as far as our imperfect qualifications would admit,
and we n o w
look b a c k upon these feeble efforts, with m u c h satisfaction,
lieve that the Spirit of God was bot h w i t h us and the people,
and b e
and
that some impressions were made,
even then, which have since resulted
in tru e convertions ( !) to God.
Soon after the commencement of our
labours and just before the loss of our dwelling houses,
the r e l i
gious aspect of the people became such, that it was thought advi
sable to commence a series of religious meetings for their more
a
& that
rapid increase in th e ( !) knowledge,
( !) the truth might
have a better opportunity to affect their hearts.
A c cordingly about
the first of March 1838 a protracted meeting was h eld at the Station
which was continued 4 or 5 days.
The meeting was very fully attended,
even from the mos t distant parts of our field.
appeard ( !) attentive and solemn.
The congregations
It was, to us especially, a
�Hana Report 1839
refreshing season,
5
and w e have r e ason to believe that the truth was
understood by many and that not a few were much enlightened if not
savingly impressed.
Ag a i n during the latter part of the following July w e h e l d
another meeting at the Station of 4 or 5 days continuance.
Breth
ren Andrews & Armstrong laboured during the whole of this meeting
to
w i t h great acceptance on the part of ( !) the people.
Many we hope
w i l l bless God to all eternity for having been permitted to enjoy
the prayers and u n
exertions
interesting season.
than the former.
of these b r e thren at that
This meeting was perhaps more fully attended
The truth appeared to fall w i t h weight, u p o n
the congregation, w h i c h was very large and attentive.
We have
comfortable evidence that many found the Saviour precious to their
souls
at that time.
At the close of this meeting (29th of July 1838) a church was
organized,
consisting chiefly of members f r o m churches in differon
ent parts of the Islands.
Only 3 united at that time b y
( !)
profession.
Since that meeting there has bee n no special effort
of the kind, m a d [e] at the station.
The church, however, has
somewhat increased since its first formation.
in all, 53 males and 18 females.
It n o w numbers 71
Many of them date their conversion
b a c k to some time previous to the commencement of our labours among
them.
They h a d he a r d the gospel preached in other places, where
they formerly lived or where they went to visit their friends,
met w i t h a change of heart as they suppose.
and
They all, thus far,
have afforded pleasing evidence of rea l conversion to God.
How
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the chh as a body wil l compare w i t h other chh's on the Islands
we kn o w not, nor should it concern us,
if they only exhibit the
Spirit of Christ and conform their conduct to his bl e s s e d gospel.
They however appear
( !) as well as the generality of those
w h ose ( !) who have at different times visited us f r o m other church
es.
We have had but one case of discipline in which it was n e c e s
sary to excind the member in question.
more or less imperfection in all.
It is true that we see
But they manifest a very good
degree of willingness to do as well as they know how.
The most
enlightened are as yet ignorant of many things w h i c h b e long to the
Christian character.
Of course if must be expected that they will
at times do things which ought not to be done and leave undon(e)
some, w h i c h ought to b e performed.
beginning to walk alone.
They are like children just
They have b o t h the desire and the d e
termination to persevere but they are very liable to stumble and
even to fall.
They, therefore, need a great deal of watchfulness
and instruction from those placed over them in holy things.
Many
them
of our church/members ( !) reside in some of the most remote parts
of our field.
It is n o t therefore,
expected that they all wi l l
attend religious meeting at the Station every Sabbath but only On
the first Sabbath only ( !) of every m o n t h - then they all are in
the practice of coming together and usuly
util ( !) after the monthly concert.
( !) do not return,
On these occasions a l so ( !)
they have b e e n in the practice of contributing something for the
suport ( !) of boarding Schools, none in operation in different
at
parts of the Islands.
Mats and tapas have been the principal
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articles of contribution.
7
Since the formation of the church, whh
is about 8 months, there have b e e n about 22 dollars w o r t h contri
buted.
This of course is a small sum, but it should b e remembered
that they are as yet v ery young and inexperienced in matters
of
this k i n d .
But ( !) In addition to the above the people h a v e f r o m
tributed
the beginning considerably (! ) m u c h towards our Support.
Perhaps by
4
far the greater part of our provisions have been given to us.
Sometimes provisions have come in so abundantly that we were under
the necessity of sending considerable quanties
Station.
Perhaps it should be stated here,
( !) to an other
( !)
that we have never been
in the practice of soliciting presents of the natives.
However
the importance of contributing for the support of schools has several
times b e e n suggested to them.
Among some, the spirit of liberality
is encouraging, but they constitute only a small part of those who
might do considerable in this way, if their hearts were truly on
the Lords S i d e .
P r o m the commencemement
( !) of our labours among the people,
the gosp e l has b e e n preached from 3 to 4 times every S a b b ath and
for nearly a year past, at 2 different places for nearly a year
p ast - at the Station and at another place about 5 miles
distant.
A mee t i n g for prayer and exposition of the Scriptures has been
Sustained every morning at sunrise during the week,
till w i t h i n a
few weeks past when it was thought proper to discontinue it for a
season.
Also a Wednesday afternoon lecture and a c h u r c h meeting
on Satur d a y afternoon.
It should likewise be added that the Sisters
have for many months past met with the females once and sometimes
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8
twice a w e e k for the purpose of imparting to them religious in
struction.
All these meetings have been as well attended as perhaps
we co u l d expect considering their frequency.
The congregation
( !)
on the Sabbath especially, has generally b e e n very large, But since
the
erection
of
than formerly.
our new meeting house,
it has
been
some w h a t s m aller
rather thinner
The cause is not definitely known, Perhaps the habit
of staying at home during the time that we h a d no convenient house
for public worship combined w i t h rather a low
state of religious
feeling w h h prevails at present, may be the true cause.
To arrouse
the people and induce them to come out to meeting, considerable has
been done by w a y of visiting from house to house - conversing wit h
every individual and holding meetings in the different neighbourhoods;
and there
is reason to believe that such visitations h a v e in many
instances had the desired effect.
What has th us f ar been said respects more particularly the
labours performed at home,
of Hana.
among the people living in the district
There are 3 other districts included in our field.
Koolau on the n o r t h and Kipahulu and Kaupo on the south.
These p l a
ces have been repeatedly visited, and 2 protracted meetings of from
2 to 12 days continuance, hel d in each of them.
meeting(s) were attended w i t h considerable
Two or 3 of these
interest - people very
attentive and solemn and the Spirit of God was evidently present
to gi v e efficacy to the wor d spoken.
We trust that the Lord has
some in all those places who have really be g u n to serve him.
A few items of minor importance remain to be mentioned.
Namely,
2
A large class of Adults in the Ai o ka la has b e e n instructed,
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every Sabbath during intermission.
week.
9
A singing school twice a
Solemnized 100 marriages and baptised 37 children whose p a r
ents are members of the church, of some one,
of others both.
Be
fore closing this report it should be remarked that we consider our
field one of great importance,
inasmuch as the people are quite
numerous and so situated that they cannot derive any advantage com
paratively from even the nearest station on the same Island.
They
also as a body esteem it a very great privilege to enjoy the society
and instructions of missionaries.
Besides as far as the climate and
scenery are concerned it is rather a pleasant place to live at.
True, it is a v e r y considerable objection t o the place, in the
minds of some, that it is so retired,
parlies
[p a l i s ]
by water.
and so surrounded by
( !)
that, it is almost entirely inacessible except
This viewed by itself, is indeed a very great objection,
for it is natural f or us
( !) to love society and to dislike soli
tude and perhaps there is no station so seldome ( !) visited, nor
so difficult to b e visited, and none so h a r d to get away from,
after arriving at it, as Hana Station.
Yet there are considerations
which render it b o t h a desirable and an important station and there
fore it should b e by all means sustained,
Our h e alth has probably
b e e n as good as it w o u l d have been in any other place and thus far
the L ord we think has sanctioned our feeble eforts
( !) and made
us b o t h contented and happy and w e would ascribe to h i m all the
praise and glory.
[On paper c o v e r :]
Hana Station
Report 1839
�Report of H ana Station for the year ending May - 1840
In reviewing the past year we recognize many things c a l cula
ted to swell our bosoms w i t h gratitude and love to the Author of
all g o o d & the disposer of all Events.
yea r to us of unparalled labours
Although it has b e e n a
(! ) and fatigue f or us,
(!) yet
the good hand of t h e Lord has conducted us safely and ver y happily
to its close - often causing our hearts to rejoice on account of
the sensible manifestations of himself to our souls.
A n d w e would
ever acknowledge his kindness w i t h a tribute of praise and thanks
giving while we confess and lament our imperfections & s h o r t
comings in duty.
■ After spending a little more than 3 months of the first part
of the year at Le-luna [Lahainaluna?] for the purpose of enjoying the
and
kind of (l) offices of Dr. B - but ( !) where I myself was able to
do b u t little more than to assist bro Andrews,
occasionally,
in
preaching - We were permitted to return to our heme ( !) S tation
w i t h an accession to our little family,
of a healthy and very quiet
little daughter w h o m w e call Susan Huntington.
Our B r o t h er & Sister
Mr. & Mrs. V a n Duzee, w h o m the Mission stationed w i t h us at their
last meeting,
returned w i t h us but not to stay.
After tarrying a
few days to pack their goods, they went b a c k to Lahaina and
shortly embarked for the Unit e d States, where, w e trust,
they
have b e e n permitted, i n the good Providence of God, to land ere this.
What ever may be the minds of the Mission generally respecting Mr.
& Mrs. V a n Duzee leaving Hana I must improve this opportunity to
state that as muc h as both myself & Mrs. C desired their continua-
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2.
been w i t h us, we could n o t feel it our dut y to urge it.
For the
state of his m i n d was such that he could not be happy himself
nor contribute ver y materially to the happiness of those connected
w i t h him.
It was his impression that he could do far more,
the general cause of religion, in the land of his nativity,
for
than
in these Island[s] ; and we hope that his expectations will he fully
realized.
The Mission in their deliberations at this m e e t i n g for
the g o o d of the chhs & schools under their care, will,
I trust,
b ear i n mind that the Station w h h b ro V was expected [to] occupy
is now vacant - And perhaps a more important station for usefulness
does not exist in the Islands.
I do hope therefore that some change
in location may he effected, w h h shall result in the appointment,
of some of our number to that interesting field of labour.
It is
h o p e d also that the fact of our being all ( !) alone in the midst
of a population of perhaps 8000 people and In a place too, very
retired and difficult of access, will aid a little,
at least, to
Influence this respectable b o d y to look about for some one to
comfort us i n our loneliness, and to aid u s ( !) in the cultivation
of so extensive a field.
overlooked.
Nor should the request of our people be
One of the objects for w h h they have p r a y e d w it h the
most earnestness and frequency during the past year has been the
location of another missionary among them, to educate their child
ren,
and youth, and t o point them to the Saviour who has said " S u f
fer little children to come unto me and forbid t h e m n o t ."
My time d u ring the past year has b e e n variously occupied, but
scarcely any has b e e n devoted to reading or study.
Not, however,
because I have had no inclination to spend a portion of it in this
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3.
way, b ut because other duties have rendered it impracticable.
(It is probbly ( !) known to all that) after our r e t u r n to
Hana Station ( !) we proceeded to erect a permanent dwelling house,
whh
T h e h o u s e ( ! ) is now nearly completed except plastering & painting.
F r o m this source we have b e e n burdened w i t h no small labour and
anxiety.
Our reasons for engaging in this u n d e r t a k i n g , just as we
did with but little or no
( !) prospect of b e i n g f urnished w i t h as
sociates very soon, ought to be stated here, perhaps for the satis
faction of the mission.
1st During the last Gen. Meet, it seemed quite evident to us
that the Mission felt it their duty to sustain the Sta t i o n at Hana,
even if some other station should h ave to b e abandoned.
W e therefore
thought it h i g h time that a comfortable house was commenced,
in as
m u c h as our grass h o u s [ e ] was very poor and could not render a
family comfortable for mor e than 1 y e a r longer.
2nd The Mission at their last Meeting gave p e r m ission that
two permanent houses might b e erected at the Station, and granted
two appropriations to begin said houses - promising to appropriate
the remainder at some future time.
3rd Wh e n we returned to our Station we found about all the lum
ber nece s s a r y for a permanent house on the spot, it h a v i n g bee n
taken
brought there by bro VanDuzee.
Besides all the doors & w indow
sashes - door frames & window frames - floor boards and some other
articles for a house bad already b e e n made.
We thought therefore
that it w o u l d be more economical on the whole, to b u i l d immediately
than to defer to some future period, as no missionary f a mily could
be expected to live there wit h o u t a cumfortable
( !) house.
Such are some of the considerations whh influenced us,
on
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4
our return, to proceed immediately to the erecting of a permanent
dwelling house at our station.
I have stated the m here for the
satisfaction of the Mission; because whe n bro V- left u s
advised us not to build while others were - - our building immediately.
( !) some
( !) in favour of
Of course, by doing as we have, we do
not f e e l ourselves under any more obligation to sustain the sta
tion all ( !) alone, than if w e had not built at all.
We hope
however to be always satisfied w i t h the advise ( !) and direction
on the subject
of the Mission as a b o d y in relation to being alone
and on all
other matters w h h involve the interests of the Redeemers Kingdom.
We think w e are willing to continue alone if necessary, but it would
be exceedingly gratifying to us and our people to have associates
for the purpose of aiding to diffuse the light of truth and salva
tion throughout that dark region.
Although secular business has necessarily consumed considera
ble of my time during the past year, yet I have in the m e antime
preached as much perhaps,
of Hana,
at the station, and throughout the district
as I otherwise would have done.
My usual exercises on the
Sabbath have b e e n preaching at sunrise - superintending a Sabbath
School of between 200 & 300 children, besides many adults at 9
o'clock - preaching again at 11 oclock and closing the exercises
of the Sabbath in the afternoon by asking questions and l ectur
ing on the daily food of the previous w e e k To whh exercise is
also connected the discussion of some questions in t h e o l o g [y] such
generally as are calculated to expose the absurd and unscriptural
tenets of the R o m i s h chh.
The question always havi n g been g iven
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5.
out one w e e k before han d to be examined in the light of the
Scriptures.
By means of this latter exercise a ver y encouraging
Spirit of inquiry after "what
saith the Scriptures",
is "beginning
to "be awakened in man y of our people.
Our religious exercises during the w e e k have "been, a conference
meeting every morning "before sunrise, generally conducted "by myself a lecture
every Wednesday afternoon at the Station, and one on Thur
sday afternoon in some one of the school districts, ta k e n in their
proper order.
Also on Saturday afternoons a meeting for conversa
tion wit h chh members and such others as m a y present themselves,
on
experimental religion.
O n the 1st Monday of each of
each ( !)
likewise
m o n t h there has also
( !) been a meeting for prayer and exertation.
Our religious meetings have not generally been as fully
attended as we could have wished.
But a small part of the inhabi
tants of the district of Hana are in the habit of attending any of
our meetings on the Sabbath.
They go in great multitudes to work
for the King & chiefs on Paahao days, but the Sanctuary of God is
never entered by the great mass on the Sabbath.
However there are
a goodly number who attend upon the preached word, on every convenient
opportunity.
On Sabbath forenoon the congregation is large and on
Sacramental occasions our meeting house is very full.
weeks before w e
F o r some
left our congregations were larger than at the
beginning of the year, And the state of religion more encouraging.
I have not been able to make frequent tours through the remote
districts of our field during the past year,
last, w h e n we h a d associates.
as I did y ear before
I have made but one short tour
through the district of Koolau on the north t h e p a s t y e a r . ( !)
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6
It has not been convenient to visit K ipahulu & Kaup o at all.
A
great many however from all those remote places, have frequently
attended our meetings at the Station on the Sabbath & other days.
Unless we can ( !) have associates it cannot be expected that I
can
wi l l ( !) labour m u c h in either of those remote places.
The state of r e l igion has
at no time during the past yea r
been so interesting as it was several times during the 1st ye a r and
a half that we spent among the people.
But the Lord has not left
us to labour without any encouraging signs.
W e think that his
w o r d has b e e n in some measure blessed to the people who h a v e a t
tended u p o n the ordinances
of his house.
The desire for a knowledge
of the Scriptures in the people ( !) generally is m a n i festly increas
ing.
The church as a body we trust are standing fast in the Lord.
Some making more and others less improvement in grace and in the
knowledge of Jesus Christ.
Their attendance at all our meetings
of religious worship is uniform an d punctual.
live in the district of Hana.
I m e a n those who
Those who live in the remote part
of our field, have about as many meetings by themselves as we who
live at the Station.
On the first Sabbath of every other month
the Lords supper is observed, whe n all the chh members throughout
the field attend meeting at the Station.
There have b e e n 2 cases
of discipline during the past year in t h e c h h . ( !)
One was for
the great sin of the land, the other for stealing an article of small
value.
pended.
The former was excommunicated and the latter merely s u s
One that stood suspended at our last g eneral meeting,
has since been restored.
There have bee n 80 individuals received
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7
to the fellowship of the chh during the past year, 58 by p r o f ession &
22 by letter.
Of the 22 received by letter 1 was from the chh in W aimea,
7 fro m the chh [in] K ohala, 3 from the chh in Wailuku, 3 f r o m the chh
at Lahaina, 4 from the church at Hido
( !) [H i l o ?], 1 from the 1st chh
at Honolu l u and 3 f rom the 2nd chh at Honolulu.
regular standing is 150.
past year is 10.
The whole number in
The number of children baptised during the
The number of marriages 90.
The various articles
contributed by church members and others in our field for the benefit
of schools &c &c amount to about seventy dollars $70.
In regard to schools I w o u l d r e mark that they were generally
in a very low condition,
during the former part of the year, b u t during
the last five months they have been improving.
our field are 23 in number.
The schools throughout
Each of these schools has a teacher.
the teachers however are v e r y poorly qualified for their office.
are barely sufficient to keep a kind of school in e x i s t a n c e .
port t h e m s e l v e s .
All
They
They sup
The Government however have relieved them f r o m working
on paahao [ tax] days.
as usual.
But the ordinary taxes they are r e q uired to pay
( !)
The avarage ( !) number of schollars in each school is not
known.
I have not bee n able to visit the schools much during the past
( !)
year but I have held a meeting expressly for the teachers and s c h o l l a r s
on every other monday,
in the Station meeting house.
thus far b een v ery good.
schools,
The effect has
What we very much n eed is teachers for our
and perhaps the only way to get them is to go to w o r k and
educate and raise them up o u r s e l v e s .
To wait any longer to have them
furnished by the High School or any other boarding school in the
Islands would be vain.
Mrs.
C 's h e alth has usually been good.
Besides
superintend
ing her domestic affairs She has b e e n able to hold a m e e t i n g with the
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native females every tuesday, besides teaching a class every Sabbath
morning of 30 young girls.
She has also taught a class of 20 grils ( !)
taught
about 2 hours every day in the week.
The branches pursued ( !) in h e r
c lass have
[been] Arithmetic, Geography - childs book on the soul,
reading and vocal music.
In the latter branch par t i c u l a r l y , h er schol-
( !)
lars have made very commdible
( !) proficiency.
Sewing and making b o n
nets have also b e e n part of the exercises of her class.
[ On back sheet] :
Mr. Conde's
Report Hana.
1840
�Report of Han a Station for the year ending May 1841 -
In reviewing the incidents of the past year it becomes me
first to acknowledge w i t h adoring gratitude to God the watchful
care he has exercised over me and my dear family, and the many t e m
poral and spiritual mercies he has bestowed - upon us f r o m d ay
to day'.
My own health w i t h the exception of a few short seasons
of illness has b een very good during the past year.
C ’s and the children has not b e e n so good.
That of Mrs.
During the former part
of the year Mrs C. was attacked by a fever which incapacitated her
entirely to attend to any of her domestic concernes
( !) for several
weeks - Our trials - if such they may be called - were at the time
considerably aggravated by heavy rains and the poorness of our
thatched habitation.
Since her recovery fro m that sickness she
su ffered much and long fro m ill h ealth.
has s o o n c a l l e d t o pass t h r ou g h another season o f g r e a t d i s t r e s s
which continued f or several m on t h s and by wh i ch she was so far reduc ed at one time that fears w e r e entertained that life could n ot
be sustained untill the trying season should have passed.
But God
the goodness of God, however,
was better than our fea r s . Through his great and u n - - — ted g ood
all our lives have been preserved, A n d to h i m alone we w o u l d render
all the praise.
Owing to sickness in the family,
and being without associates
in a place far removed from all medical and friendly aid s o d essir a b le
in su ch circumstances as of affliction , I have not been
able to accomplish as much during the past year for the good of
the multi (tu)des of souls about us as I might have done in more
favourable circumstances.
A great deal of my time and energies have
necessarily been employed about home.
Our dwelling ho u s e cost me
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many wearisome days
of care and h a r d labour.
2
The w o r k was in a state
of considerable progress ["advance" crossed out] at the last general
meeting.
The walls were up and the roof finished, but the finishing
of the inside extended into the year which has
just closed.
w i t h difficulty that we obtained carpenters to do the work,
It was
and
when obtained they were very deficient in many important p a r ticu
lars.
Their skill in architecture was so imperfect that they r e
quired my constant oversight.
After labouring some months very
deliberately [two words crossed out] they became homesick,
presume,
owing I
to there ( !) being no other foreigners in the place for them
to associate with.
They abandoned the job and returned to Lahaina.
I then undertook to finish our house myself rather than make another
effort to procure new w orkmen wit h little or no probability of suc
cess.
But toiling for weeks at the work be n c h from m orning to
besides attending to all the duties of the Station was not a
little fatiguing to one so unaccustomed to such labour in earlier
days.
There was however no other alternative.
I neglected my more appropriate duties
In some Instances
as a missionary.
B ut the
necessity of the case is a sufficient justification - The comfort
of my family imperiously demanded it.
Nor do I apprehend that the
cause of religion among the people suffered materially in a (!)
consequence as all appointments of importance were s c [r]upulously
attend[e d ] to.
Except wh e n prevented by sickness.
In the construction of our house we have studied economy as far
as our circumstances would permit.
No more has b e e n expended upon
it than a regard to comfort and durability seemed to require.
The
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The dimentions
( !) are 32 feet by 28 inside.
below and 2 above, one story high.
Containing 4 rooms
Besides, there are a kitchen
and study both attached to the mai n house.
good ranai
3
The house has a l s o a
( !) all round except on one side, w h i c h was thought
necessary, not only for the comfort of the children, but ( !) b ut
About all
also to preserve the walls of the building.
The w h ole ( !) of the
w o r k except the w o o d w o r k and part of the plastering was performed
by natives.
They put up the walls as neatly and as substantially
as foreign workmen wo u l d have done it.
of the expense.
And for less than one third
But, although all the w o r k was done at a low price,
the whole expense of building is far more than I anticipated.
I
am n o t prepared at present to tell precisely how much h a s be e n
expended.
However this much I have learned to my no little surprise
is
that besides expending all my building grants upon it I a m ( !)
in
debt to the Depository more than two hun d r e d dollars.
If I a m re-
quired to pay this debt out of our yearly stipend we shall be poor
indeed and suffer the w a n t of many things necessary for our comfort.
I trust, however, the Mission will be as kind to us as it always
has been to its members from the beginning,
ie, grant us enough
to b u i l d ourselves a comfortable house over and above our yearly
stipend.
In this particular the doings of the past should be consi
dered a precedent,
at least until some modification of the rule has
bee n formaly ( !) e s tablish[ed] by the Mission or its directors.
As to morals and r e l igion among the people generally, I must
confess the aspect of things at times and in some sections has been
quite too unfavourable.
prevailed in the church.
A great deal of stupidity at times has
And multitudes of all ages out of the
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have
church at one time ( !)
4
during the past year turned to the foolish
and he a t h e n i s h pr actic (e) of tattooing their bodies.
However the
rulers endeavoured to turn all their folly to some g o o d account
and put the perpetrators to improving the roads.
Some other vices
also have prevailed among some classes not, however, w i t h impunity,
excep
( !) where the g u i l t y have escaped detection.
But while I
refer to some of the sins w h ich have b e e n quite too notorious during
the past year in all parts of our field I am permitted also to speak
of some redeeming virtues.
All things considered the m o r a l and
religious aspect of the church and people generally has presented ( !)
afforded many bright spots to comfort and cheer our souls and to
assure us that our labour thus far has not been in vain.
During
some parts of the year the attention to religion has bee n truly
gratifying.
It was especially so at the commencement of the year
and for several months which succeeded.
On our return f r o m last
glow
general meeting a xxxxxxxxxxxx of affection beamed fro m every coun
tenance, attended by such expressions of kindness on the part of all
as plainly bespoke the gratitude they felt at meeting once more with
their religious teachers.
They appeared to have b e e n apprehensive,
that we might not return again for want of associates.
But they
said they staid ( !) themselves u p o n the arm of God in w h o m they
h a d been taught to trust,
and observed several seasons of fasting
any
and prayer that the Lord would not leave them destitute of some ( !)
one to br e a k to the m the bread of life.
been returned in answer to their prayers.
And they thought we h a d
Nor could we avoid b e
lieving that there must have been considerable prayer during our
absence w h e n we perceived the interesting state in w h i c h they
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appeared to be.
5
There was evidently more religious feeling among
the people than w h e n we left 5 or 6 weeks previously,
( !) A n d sub
sequent results showed that our opinion was not incorrectly formed.
All our religious meetings began and continued to be w ell attended,
and very great n u m b ers came from all parts of our field to listen
to the preached gospel and to converse w i t h us about the concernes
of their souls.
(!
)
We have reason to believe that the concerns which
many expressed during that awakening was genuine and eventually
resulted in their conversion to God.
During the yea r past I have h e l d a meeting every Saturday to
converse with and instruct all who professed to be anxious for their
souls whether in or out of the church.
who have been in
Of those out of the chh
the habit of attending these meetings there have
been as many as 400 different individuals.
attended all at the same time.
These of course have not
Our field consists of 4 districts
and non e but the professedly anxious of a particular district have
b e e n permitted to attend at the same time, except in a f e w instances
These meetings have generally been interesting and I trust b e n e f i
cial to many.
The Scripture knowledge of m a n y w h o-have
( !) has
b e e n considerably improved by attending these m e e t i n g [s] .
Those
who we hope are passed from death unto life appear humble and
penitent for their sins.
Their views
of Christ as the only Saviour
of lost men, and of a life of holiness,
as essential to salvation
accord very well with the instructions of the bible.
The number of hopeful converts received into the church by
profession during the past year is 88.
The whole number
( !) By
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letter from other churches 10.
The whole number r e c e i v e d into
our church from the time our church was organized w h i c h was
29th 1838 is 255.
Of this number 50 have been received by letter
f r o m other churches.
Excommunicated the past year 3.
number excommunicated f rom the b e g i n n i n g 6.
year 6, Three of w h o m have been restored.
The whole
Suspended the past
And 3 rema i n suspended.
The whole number dismissed to join other churches 5.
past year 3.
July
Die d in all 4.
Died the past year 2.
number in regular standing at present 237.
babtised ( !) the past y ear about 40.
D i s m i s s e d the
The whole
The number of children
The whole number f rom the
beginning not precisely known, about 100.
70
past year §8 couple.
Married duri n g the
Our church and people have been in the practice f r o m the b e g i n
n i n g of contributing something every year for benevolent objects
besides making us various pressents
in our
support.
( !) wh i c h have aided us some
But presents during the past year have b ee n rather
few and far between.
The church and people however have contributed
any year before more the past year for other objects than ever
. A ll
their cot r abutions
to $74.10.
( !) exclusive of presents to the family amount
Of this sum $46.50 are cash and the remainder in kapa
olana w ood &c.
They ought to have done much more and it is
hoped they will another year.
to themselves.
Our people have but little time
It is surprising to see h o w they are kept on the
go, labouring for the chiefs, konohikis,
teachers & c .
W h at time they
have to themselves is so cut up into small parts that even the
truly industrious can accomplish but little in the course of the
year for the good of themselves or for any other object.
I find
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it h a r d to call u p o n t h e m to contribute for benevolent object[ s]
while I see that in addition to extreme poverty they are constantly
oppressed by the chiefs and others.
It is impossible for the m
even to support their own institutions of learning and r e ligion at
the rate they are now taxed.
It may be thought by some this
government has b e e n modified of late for the better.
It is true
that it has been systematized and red u c e d to something of a tangible
for m by the drawing up and publishing of certain laws and that
t h e code contains some things conducive to the moral a n d religious
interests of the people but as far as it relates to t a x a t ion of
every kind the Government is more oppressive if possible than wh e n
there was no written code of laws.
The burden of our people,
least, has not b e e n lessened but rather increased.
themselves and often express it in so many words.
at
They think so
W h e n then will
they be able to support their own institutions of learning & r e
ligion.
I must say that since my arrival at the Islands I have
not percieved ( !) all things considered the least approximation
towards such an ability on the part of the common people.
I never
expect to see the d a y when I shall be willing to depend u p o n any
of our churches here for a n entire support unless the government
changes greatly f o r the better and that too very soon.
B ut b u r
dened as our people are they are about beginning to collect m a
terials f o r a stone meeting house.
How they w i l l succeed in the
undertaking is not easy to tell, unless the Kin g a n d others afford
a liberal assistance.
It is desirable also that some churches that
should
are able will
( !) lend a h elping hand.
My missionary labours at the Station have b e e n substantially
the same during the past year as in years preceeding.
My uniform
practice has been to preach and expound scripture 3 times every
Sabbath.
Besides superintending a Sabbath school of about 300
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schollars.
My practice also ( !) has also b e e n to h o l d 3 meetings
n o w a n d then
during the week at the station besides preaching often
( !)
in the different neighborhoods about us.
except when prevented by ill health,
Mrs C - has uniformly,
or ( !) held a weekly meeting
of the females besides instructing a class of youth and adults
30 or 40 in number on Sabbath mornings.
I have twice, spent a we e k
at a time from home on tours through the remote districts of our
field during the past year.
The meetings I h eld while performing
those tours were well attended and the people seemed hung ry for the
word.
During the former and latter part of the year the meetings
on the Sabbath have bee n very wel l attended.
I am not able to tell
the avarage ( !) number of attendants.
The dimentions ( !) of Our
are
Meeting house is
( !) 50 by 135 feet.
This sometimes is crowded
to overflowing.
entirely full.
But usually,
it m ay b e said, it is not to be
( !)
Our practice has been to observe the Lords supper
once every two months.
At these seasons all the church members
throughout our whole field are present unless providentially prevented.
I have experienced no difficulty in getting all the church
members within 8 or 10 miles of the station to attend m e e t i n g w i t h
us Every Sabbath w h e n in ordinary health.
Those also w h o reside
in the remote districts as uniformlly ( !) assemble for religious
worship on the Sabbath in the place appointed.
Prayermeetings
(!
every morning before Sunrise have bee n regularly sustained in as
many as 20 different places throughout our field during the past
year.
As far as I have been able to learn, all the church members
b een
attended
together with
have quite
regularly attended at these meetings and at t i m e s , ( !)
ages out of the chh
great numbers of all cla sses have a t t ended have a l s o attended ( !)
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9
A great many of the professors of r e l i g i o n with some others are
likewise in the practice of assembling in some places twice in
other places once a w e e k for the purpose of improving in reading.
In some instances they take lessons in mental arithmetic and ge o g
raphy.
Those wh o read well, n e w generally ( !) commit to m e m o r y
a verse every day in the Aiokala and repeat it in the m o r n i n g m e e t
ings for prayer.
Thus they are abundant an d quite regular in ex
ternal duties, b ut I often fear that w i t h ( !) the great mass have
m earl y ( !) the f o r m without the power of Godliness.
It is there
fore my constant aim in every discourse to teach t h e m what reli g i o n
consists in - warning them to beware of hypocrisy and of trusting
in outward performances merely as the only means of salvation.
receiving candidates
In
into the church I have in all instances endeav-
oured to observe the utmost care, b u t in spite of all m y vigil( !)
ence I am well aware that many m a y have b e e n received who are
still stranger to renewing grace, and our constant prayer is that
all s u c h may fee ( !) realize their condition and repent before
it shall be forever fee ( !) too late.
I see more and more the
importance of observing strict dicipline
( !) in the church.
I
often remind them of what they have solemnly coven[an ]t e d before
h e a v e n and earth to do, and if any are detected in outwardly
violating their vows, they are either suspended or excommunicated
according to t h e nature of their offence.
Our church government
is as purely congregational as the circumstances of its members
will admit, nor do I think,
that for many years to come, any
other form of government can b e safely adopted.
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Besides
10.
the labours aready ( !) reported I have superintended
the concerns of all the day schools throughout our field.
I
have repeatedly v i s i t e d and examined the schools of Han a during
the past year.
Those in the remote districts of Koolau, Kipa-
h u l u and Kaupo I have visited and examined but once.
I have
however had frequent interviews w i t h the teachers, in m y study
to consult the the ( !) interests of their respective schools.
The number of schools in our field is n o w 29.
They are all
in operation and perhaps more flourishing than ever before.
The whole number of children and youth in all these
is 1477.
523 are able to read.
beginning to read.
ginning to read.
schools
The remainder 954 are
just
Hana has 11 schools 160 readers 291 just b e
Koolau has 8 schools 134 readers & 172 just
beginning to read.
Kipahulu has 4 schools 40 readers 195 just
beginning to r e a d .
K aupo has 6 schools 190 readers and 296 just
beginning to read.
There are 29 teachers and a suitable n umber
of assistants.
Most of the teachers however are very incompetent.
Others may be said to be suitably qualified considering the small
proficiency
generally
advan c e
of the children
in reading & c . As soon as the n e w
school laws were promulgated the specified number of lunas were
appointed for every school & their duties explained to them.
Teachers w ere then sought and placed where they were n e e d ed &
suitable wages promi s e d to each according to the directions
given in the laws.
The lunas have not succeeded in all places
in obtaining lands for the teachers owing to a want of accomoda
tion on the part of Konohikis.
Where land cannot be obtained
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some other arrangement is contemplated for paying the teachers.
As far as I could observe the school laws were adapted w i t h a good
degree of cor/diality on the part of the people generally.
I have perceived no opposition.
I n fact
All ( !) The people generally have
b e e n willing to w o r k for the teachers as far as they have b e e n called
u p o n to do it thus far.
All the children of a suitable age w o r k
of ( !) their teachers according to law.
This practice hov/ever has
obtained in our field f r o m the beginning of our labours among the
people.
If the Children do not attend school, they or their parents
are fined according to law.
school they are frequently
And if they are very disorderly in
(perhaps not in all cases) delt
w i t h according to the directions given in the law.
( !)
I h ear of no
complaint on the part of the children or their parents that the
school laws are too strict or too severe as to the p e n a l t y annexed.
Since there ( !) adoption teachers have b e e n more faithful, more
( !)
schollars have attended school regularly a n d thus far they hav e made
v e r y commendable proficiency in their studies, All things considered.
I am happy to r e mark in conclusion that we have h a d several
visitors during the latter part of the past year.
In the m o n t h of
November we were honoured w i t h a visit from His Hawaiian Majesty,
t h e K i n g o f t h e S a n d w i c h I s l a n d s w i t h whose urbanity and sociability
we were very muc h gratified.
in our field,
He made many inquiries about the schools
and the attendance of the people on religious worship
on the Sabbath;
also about their morals - all of w h h was calculated
to convey the impression that his Majesty felt interested in the
measures now in operation to inlighten ( !) and christianize his
subjects.
But I did not succeed in getting h i m to consent, to
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12
have the people collected in the meeting house,
dress t h e m on these subjects.
that he mi g ht a d
After spending a part of one day in
our house and dining w i t h us, he, together with the few who accom
panied him, proceeded on his w a y to Lahaina by water on canoes.
later
A few weeks afterwards ( !) we h a d the pleasure of a short
visit
f r o m b r s Clark a n d Bailey.
At a W e d n e s d a y a f t e r n o o n t h e
peopl ( !) were v e r y m u c h gratified with a discourse from b r o C The next day the
schools of Hana assembled in the mee t i n g house and
after a slight examination listened very attentively to addresses
f r o m b o t h bro B & C - W e
regretted that the brethren were n o t able
to spend the following Sabbath with us.
Still later we enjoyed a good visit of several days f r o m
Dr. Baldwin, w i t h w h h we were muc h gratified although a s ( !) as
2
individuals, ( !) none of us, were in special need, at the time, of
his medical advice.
He spent the Sabbath - preached to an attentive
audience and afterwards assisted in administering the Lord's supper.
It was a good and profitable day to us all I trust.
account of all the
( !) foreign Society society ( !) we hav e had
during the past year.
Respectfully submitted
D.T.
[On bac k ] :
Such is an
Hana
Station report
R e v . D.T. Conde
1841
Conde
�Hana May 2nd 1842
Dear Brethren
Through the k i n d providence of our Heavenly Father,
we as a family have been favoured during the past year w ith a degree
of health and buoyancy of Spirit during the past year
( !) so m u c h
greater than that of any preceeding year, that we esteem it not
only safe but a privilege to remain at home engaged in the d e l i g h t
ful service of our Divine Master, while some, perhaps the greater
part, of the Mission are assembled in council to deliberate u p o n
general
the
( !) interests of the Redeemer's Kingdom in the Islands
of the ocean
generally.
( !) It is however obligatory on me to report, as in
former years the state of my church and people and my labours among
the m during the past year.
But the time alloted me for the p e r
formance of this duty is so very limited that I shall have to be
more concise in my statements than may be desirable.
In fact I
have only time to present the statistics w i t h a few general, d esult
ory remarks.
The whole No. ad. to our chh on examination is
317
On certificate
42
Past year on examination
95
Past year on certificate
8
W h o l e number past y e a r
Whole No dismissed to other churches
D i s m i s s e d past y e a r
Whole No Deceased
103
11
6
11
Deceased the past year
7
Suspended past year
7
R emain suspended
5
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2
Excommunicated the past year
2
Whole No. excommunicated
8
Remain excommunicated
8
Whole No.
in regular standing
314
Whole No.
of children baptized
186
Marriages the past year
53
Owing to the peculiar circumstances of the Family we were
under the necessity of b e i n g absent from our station about 4 months
at the commencement of the past year, including general m e e t i n g time
So long a separation from my chh & people was indeed a source of
no
small regret to me at the time.
I have reason to think, however
that our detention so long at Honolulu was very beneficial to Mrs.
C's health, and that consequently we have accomplished as m u c h for
the good of our people as we might have done,
if we h a d returned
immediately at the close of general meeting.
On our r e t u r n I found the church in a commendable and prosper
ous state.
In v i s iting different parts of the field and inquiring
into the condition of the members it was truly gratifying to per
ceive that they were all to human appearance, with the exception of
( !)
3 or 4, standing fast i n the faith of the Gospel, dilligently using
the means of grace as far as they were accessible to them.
It will
be seen by the statistics that we have h a d ( !) b e e n c a l l e d in a few
cases to the unpleasant but important duty of church discipline.
W e have bee n under the necessity of excinding but 2 the past year,
one
and that f o r ----- ( !) had previously b e e n suspended for attempting
to deceive on (?) this condition he removed to another part of the
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3
Island altogether b e yond our influence where his conduct as reported
to us seemed to require that he should be droped ( !) entirely.
The other was excinded for removing f r o m our field - never giving
any account of himself and forsaking the worship and ordinances of
Gods house.
Both originally united w i t h us by letter.
who have been
lasscivious
suspended the past year, 4 have
Of those
( !) are guilty of
( !) conduct, 1 for great and general stupidity and the
remaining 2 for unchristian treatment of each other.
A f ew months since there was a season of great and very
general stupidity, on the part of the people.
The chh also seemed
to partake of the apathy though not to the same degree.
meetings were poorly attended.
discouraging.
Our religious
The prospect was in many respects
A few baptised Catholicts
( !) came into different
parts of our field and exerted themselves very m u c h to g ain p r o s e
lytes to their faith.
To counteract this downward tendency and to
awaken a greater attention on the part of the people to the concerns
religious
of the soul I h e l d m orning
( !) meetings in different parts of
H a n a almost every morning during the week.
This soon awakened a
very general interest throughout the districts thwarting in a great
measure the efforts of catholicts
( !) to propagate their religion.
More recently I have held 3 protracted meetings in the remote dis
tricts of our field.
I have still one in contemplation.
meetings I think have been blessed to the good of souls.
the state of things is rather encouraging.
All these
At present
Besides those who have
b e e n received on examination the past year there is a large number
who profess to be anxious and many of them thus far have given us
reason to hope that they are Christians.
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4
The chh. and. people have not contributed, as m u c h during the
past year as they did two years ago.
Perhaps their cause
( !) di-
ficiency in this respect may be ascribed to their Pastor's not urging
the duty of liberality upon their attention as often as he did the
as well
preceeding year.
I learn that on this subject especially the y ( !)
as on all others that pertain to godliness they need "line u p o n
line and precept upon precept" and I shall try to supply their need
hereafter in this respect.
The amount contributed the past year
are
is a l m o s t ( !) $77.72 of which $13.53 is
cash, the rest consists
chiefly in olana - some Kapa &c & c .
The contributions of these 2
years past are designed to be devoted to the purchase of a Bell for
our Station.
Besides these cotributions
( !) Our chh & people are
n o w and then occupied in gathering materials f o r a permanent house
of worship.
Mrs C. has b e e n uniformly engaged in the same exercises for
the benefit of the people as in years preceeding - such as holding
religious meetings w i t h the females instructing a large class on
Sabbath mornings and teaching singing every week.
I must not forget to remark that Br & Sister Rice f o r m a
valuable accession to o u r station.
in m a n y respects.
They have afforded important aid
He will doubtless report for himself.
We sincerely
hope that Providence will permit h i m to become connected w i t h this
Mission and permanently located with us at this station.
No place
needs his services more.
Several brethren of the Mission have visited us during the
past year by whose society we felt very
( !) m u c h refreshed & bene-
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fited And it is hoped that the Brethren & Sisters too will favour
us frequently with such visits.
D . T . Conde
[On separate cover sheet] :
To Moderator
of Gen. Meeting
Honolulu
D. R. Conde, report
1842
�Report of Hana Station for the Missionary y e a r ending
May 10 1843
W h e n I reflect how many in this wide world have b e e n the
victims of poverty,
w h i c h have
disease,
pain and death, during the 12 months
just terminated, it is highly suitable for me to feel
and express the deepest sense of gratitude to Our Heavenly Father the Author of all good - for preserving us as a family f r o m all
these and similar misfortunes and for crowning our lives w i t h lov
ingkindness
and tender mercies.
of our experience.
No pinching want has b e e n any part
No incurable disease nor racking pai n has dis
turbed our repose by night or our regular routine of business by
day.
Not one of our little number has been called away by the "grim
Messenger"
into the world of Spirits.
Not one has even b een startled
by an apprehension of his probable proximity to our doors.
Health
and prosperity have as a general thing b een inmates of our dwelling.
It is
true, however, that Mrs C - and I might also say, the children,
have been more or less indisposed a few times,
but so effectually
were the remedies, used, blessed to the restoration of health,
that now,
after the lapse of so long a time, these dispensations
are scarcely regarded by us as afflictive.
about
I have the satisfaction of having performed as
( !) as
m u c h direct labour, during the past year, for the good of our chh
& people as perhaps any former year of my residence among them.
I
have preached 3 times on the Sabbath, till within a few months since,
when m y exercise in the morning, at sun rise, was discontinued, that
Bro R might occupy the house w i t h his large & interesting class of
all ages i n the Ai o ka la.
I have also made it a practice of h o l d
ing f r o m 3 to 5 religious meetings during the week, besides instruct
ing a large class of adults weekly for some time, in chh. history.
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2
I have likewise made several tours - h o w man y does not occur to
me at present, in the remote districts of our field preaching 3, 4
sermons
and sometimes 5 times
( !) per day.
I lament, however, that a sore
toe, unfitting me for pedestrian excursions, has prevented me from
visitin g those distant places as often as I h a d designed.
have not been entirely neglected.
But they
Besides the tours w h h I have bee n
able to make myself, b r o R- has spent several Sabbath(s) in those
different
remote districts at several
( !) times, holding forth the word
of life, to the edification and spiritual benefit, no doubt,
of
ma n y people.
Our chh. & people still continue
respect for the w o r d of God.
attended as usual.
to manifest a very commendable
Religious meetings have b e e n as fully
No diminution has bee n observable in this res
pect.
True our large house of worship is not always ful ( !) on the
the administration of
Sabbath except on special occasions suc h as sacrament a l o c c a s i o n s ( !)
the Lords Supper &c w h e n it is always considerably crowded.
people live very scattering,
as all know who have v isited us - and
generally a great distance from the Station.
This circumstance is
unfavorable to a v e r y full attendance every Sabbath,
in the
afternoon.
Our
especially,
The people manifest a reluctance to travelling a
great distance to publick ( !) worship especially w h e n the prospects
for fair weather are not good.
more cultivated fields.
And perhaps
But I have always
this is not u n c ommon in
observed that when the
gospel is to be proclaimed in their respective neighborhoods they
exhibit a readiness to assemble in great numbers.
Hence our meetings
abroad have generally b e e n well attended by all classes from the
oldest to the youngest.
- There are morning meetings for prayer
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3
and repeating the verse in the Ai o ka la for the day, h eld in not
less than 20 different places in our field.
And from frequent in
quiry respecting these exercises I learn that they have been generally
well attended by chh. members and many others.
In some places they
have been crowded m u c h of the year. - These meetings I bel i e ve are
regarded by some as of doubtful utility, and as rather m e r i t i n g dis
approbation than encouragement.
I am i n c l i n e d to the opposite
opinion from watching their tendency among our people these four or
five years past.
They have b e e n decidedly favorable towards p e r
petuating a lively sense of the importance of religion in the minds
of the people.
Besides as t hey are conducted with us, those who
attend commit to memory much scripture or other religious truth of
w h h they would always perhaps remain ignorant were these exercises
n o t observed.
Hence it has been my practice to encourage t h e m in
various ways, and endeavor to get all who are favorably s i t uated to
attend them,
although I do not attend regularly myself as I was
in
the habit of doing for two or three years at the beginning, w h e n
m y circumstances were favorable.
I
have not the pleasure to report any powerful r e v i v a l of
religion in our field during the past year.
of religious feeling m a y b e
considered rather low
lamentable as I have witnessed it.
however,
At present the state
, b ut n o t so
In the former part of the year,
the aspect of things was somewhat cheering, and we hoped
that part of our field, viz.
the district of Hana, where I have
itinerated most - experienced a slight refreshing from on high.
There was a very sensible increase of attention to divine things.
Religious meetings were very fully attended and new inquirers were
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4
frequently met with, while those of longer standing seemed consider
ably revived.
Church members also appeared more awake and engaged
than t h e y had been for sometime previous,
in visiting f r o m house to
house to converse w i t h the careless and unbelieving.
I am sorry to
say that no such indications have bee n observed in the other d i s
tricts to s how that the inhabitants have been favored w i t h the
special influences of the Spirit.
Accessions have been made to the chh fro m time to time, during
the year, amounting,
from other c h h s .
any previous year.
in all, to 170 by profession and 12 by letter
This is a m u c h larger number than has b e e n received
But it is hoped that, whatever be the results
of the Judgement day, in r e l a t i o n to any of them, the blame of hasty
admission will not attach itself to the Pastor or to his chh.
It
is m y impression that all had stood on tr i a l and were subjected to
frequent examinations from 6 months to 2 and perhaps 3 years.
We have endeavored to practice a strict discipline
during the year as the result
and 7 suspended.
in the churc
h
of which, 5 have been excommunicated
The whole number excom. & suspended f r o m the b e
ginning is 24, of w h om 10 have b e e n restored to chh. fellowship
leaving 14 still under censure: of these only 6 continue to reside
within our field;
the remaining 8 have long since removed to places
far beyond our influence.
All but one or two of those who still
reside w i t h i n our bounds, w e hope, w i l l b e restored some time h e r e
after.
As formerly our chh & people have been testing,
the past year,
our Saviour's declaration that it is more blessed to give than to
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receive;
5
doubtless
and they, n o d oub t , ( !) have experienced the t h ruth ( !)
of it in their own hearts.
The purchase of a Bell and the erection
of a permanent house of worship are the chief objects to w h i c h they
have b e e n directing their benevolent efforts these three years in
cluding the past.
About the middle of last year I circulated a
subscription paper stating the objects for w h h their contrabutions
were solicited.
obtained.
$10.
(!
)
W i t h i n a few weeks a great many subscribers were
The individual subscriptions varied f rom 12 1/2 cents to
Nearly all have redeemed their pledge.
The sum already paid
in b y the natives exclusively - mostly chh members - is - $140.73
are
of this $65.56 is
( !) cash.
The remainder $75.17 consists in
olana [olona - a kind of fiber use d for rope,
etc.] and a small
quantity of kapa &e all of which may easily be converted into cash.
All that has been contributed the past year,
including the donations
of the different members of the Mission families at the Station,
amounts to $192.73.
Besides these direct contributions our church
& people have performed considerable labour in collecting stone,
wood, coral,
and in cutting timber,
all for their contemplated
house of worship.
If Providence permit w e hope to increase our subscriptions
the coming year.
But I apprehend that the work of erecting a pe r m a
nent meeting house, at our station, will press very h eavily upon
our people before it is completed, considering their extreme poverty
and disadvantageous circumstances - unless their b r e t h r e n in other
churches kindly step forward and aid them.
I would r e m a r k in this
connection, that whatever any of the Pastors m a y get their churches
to contribute in aid of this object, w i l l be most greatfully ( !)
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acknowledged;
6
and certainly there Is no Society in the Islands that
needs aid from abroad more than ours.
The G o v t . are just beginning
to aid i n the work, but what their assistance will amount to I know
not.
We hope to b e g i n putting u p the walls some time in the course
of the coming year.
We wish to expedite the w o r k as m u c h as possible.
Our present house of worship,
is not very inviting nor comfortable.
To those w h o are acquainted wi t h the great extent of our field
and the difficulty of visiting some portions of it, particularly
Kaupo & Koolau it must be quite evident that we need n o t only p h y s i
cal but also moral aid in the cultivation of it.
helpers
Could not native
- intelligent and energetic m e n - be obtained by the mission
and appointed one to each of those districts?
If the proper persons
could b e procured and persuaded to locate in those places
it i s p r e
sumed that enough might be collected annually on the g r o u n d and in
other parts of the Island to render t h e m more than comfortable.
The
people i n those districts are numberous and need more labor performed
among them than w e are able to render.
of the catholic chh in bothe
There are also a few members
( !) those places who are exerting
anything but a salutary influence upon those in their v i c i n i t y .
Nay
they have already led off numbers after the Beast, a n d it may be
expected that the evil will continue to augment and r a p i d l y too, If
there Is no one to expose the error and hold forth the w o r d of life
from Sabbath to Sabbath to enlighten the pathway to heaven.
I think
the good of the cause imperiously demands that something should be
done immediately to sowe a n d cultivate the good seed of the word
in those districts more abundantly than it has even b e e n done h e r e
tofore.
If they are not preoccupied they will eventually become the
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strong holds of the adversary for the Island.
They are advantageous
ly situated for that purpose and will, doubtless, be improved by by
( !) h i m as soon as he comes really to locate himself among us.
Among
the greatest apparent obstacles with w h h we m e e t in
raising our poor people f r o m ignorance degradation and r uin to
habits of civilization and r e l i g i o n are tobacco and a w a .
The use
of these narcotics - filthy and disgusting in the extreme - most
evidently lie at the foundation of m u c h crime.
It hardens
the
heart stupifies the conscience and creates an aversion to public
it
w orship & to the society of the moral & religious; while/sinks those
who practice it deeper and deeper in vice and heathenism.
deleterious
E v e n the
influence of the kind of R o m anism wit h w h h w e are blest
or rather cursed is the more dreaded from the fact that it is asso
ciated w i t h and favours the cultimation trafic ( !) and u s e of these
contraband - I mean prohibited by reason by reason ( !) conscience
and the w o r d of God.
Strange that "the church" as they choose
to denominate themselves - are not as ready to apply the laconic and
pithy saying, repeated by the Apostle "touch not taste not handle
not"
to these things as to many other articles & practices which
are not only innocent in themselves but beneficial in their influ
ence.
Everyone in our field as far as my knowledge extends who
professes to be a catholic uses either tobacco or awa or both.
These however constitute a small part of those in our part of the
Island who indulge in this practice.
B o t h the plants in question
are evidently cultivated more largely and u sed by greater numbers
tha n formerly.
Men are frequently seen carrying Awa in great quan
tities fro m place to place,
exposed too, to the view of all they
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meet.
8
Formerly they kept it concealed in leaves and w h e n questioned
about the nature of their load they would call it food or something
else as harmless.
The use of it is also becoming more public.
In
dividuals are every now and then seen w h ose trembling motions dull
w a t e r y eyes and scaly appearance alas, make it quite to(o)
that they are slaves to one of the worst of practices.
evident
P r o m the
exhibitions w ith which we meet occasionally It would seem that
public opinion is not so strongly arrayed against these vices as
formerly.
I witness, however, no abatement in the church.
Our
professors of re l igion have always b e e n unanimous and d e c i d ed in their
opposition to the cultivation and use of bot h of these articles.
A n d as far as the morality of actions is concerned they w o u l d perhaps
as soon excuse the "great sin of the land" as "puhibaka" or "inuawa” .
Nor have we any w r i t t e n prohibitory law in the chh. on the subject but they have been taught f r o m the beginning to regard the use of
these articles an immorality.
There are other important obstacles to the rapid spread
of truth and rightiousness
in our field which time will not permit
me to notice particularly, b u t which ar e more or less experienced
by all of us being common to all places in the Islands;
such as pround (!
)
ignorance - deep seated depravity - a p(r)oneness to depend upon
external works and a connection w i t h the visible church for accept
ance with God &c &c.
All these are constantly met wit h whenever
we go and they doubtless oppose a strong barrier to the salvation
of thousands.
The labors of Mrs C- during the year have been v e r y similar
to those of former years; such as teaching vocal music - holding a
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weekly meeting of the females and instructing a bible class of b e
tween 30 or 40 women with several young girls every Sabbath morning.
All these exercises have been interesting and productive of sensible
benefit to those who have attended.
I would, notice here what ought to have b een recorded in a
less advanced stage of my report, that the concert of prayer for the
conversion of the world has been regularly and quite fully attended
during the year by about all our chh and many others.
These meetings
are observed by us in the morning of the first Monday of each month
( !)
instead of the afternoon and are always pr eceeded by the administra
tion of the Lords Supper on the Sabbath before.
This arrangement
affords an opportunity for all our church members to atte n d the
exercise together in our station meeting house - for the whole chh
always
come together on sacramental occasions and do not disperse to
their several homes till sometime on the following day.
I think these
concerts of prayer &c have been among the most interesting and b e n e
f i cial exercises w h h have b e e n observed by us during the year.
They
have greatly tended to awaken gratitude in the church & people to
their benefactors in America and also to create a spirit of liber
ality in contributing of their substance for benevolent objects.
It should also be stated that our chh have observed 3 fasts
the past y e a r .
Two were held previously to observances of the Lords
Supper and exclusively with reference to a preparation of heart to
celebrate aright the dying love of our once crucified but n o w risen
Saviour.
The remaining one had reference to the schools in the
Islands.
They were all fully attended and we think w e r e beneficial
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to us all.
My excellent associate, bro R will report the state of the
schools and his labors among them together with Mrs R ’s .
But per
mit me to stat(e) that we fondly anticipate the Mission locate them
permanently with u s at Hana, and also grant them an appropriation
this session sufficient to erect a convenient and comfortable house
to live in.
Their present is a thatched one and will hardly be
habitable after the expiration of another year.
I would further state that we have made some repairs on our
dwelling house a few months past but which are not yet completed.
1st
Our room appropriated to the reception of natives when
they call for conversation medicine &c became quite leaky overhead,
besides it was quite t o [o] small for some purposes for which we wished
to use
viz, teaching singing school & Bible class - holding female
meetings and meetings for chh business &c.
That we have extended
some 8 or 10 feet in length and rethatched the whale roof.
All that
remains to be done is to put on the inside plastering on the walls a mat is to form the ceiling over head.
2
Our Kitchen.
The original fireplace and oven were such
great niusances whenever we attempted to kindle a f ire in them, that
we were compeled ( !) to abandon them and use a stove which also
smoked very much.
But it failed in the cours[e] of last year
leaving us in rather straitened circumstances as to cooking apparatus.
We therefore had the whole chimney fireplace and oven taken down to
the foundation and rebuilt them extending the kitchen a few feet
beyond its original length, which by the by increased the expense but
very little.
The inside plastering together with the floor of the
new part is all that remains to be done.
We have used the fireplace
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and oven a few weeks and the former to our great satisfaction works
admirably.
The oven also proves to be good; but while being heated,
it suffers some smoke to intrude into the room, to the annoisance
of the cook and others.
( !)
The evil, we confidently hope, m a y easily
be remedied, by enlarging the flue, and running it into the chimney
at a higher point.
The repairs on the native room as we choose to call it were
performed by 3 natives of Hana.
One of the m h a d a little experience
in the business, but his habits of "inuawa" &c rendered h i m by far
the least skillful and efficient of the three.
The repairs on the
kitchen were performed b y the other two alone except what I did m y
self w h i c h was to build the fireplace and oven, And we think they
have done the work admirably although they h a d not the least exper
ience in the business w hen they commenced.
Their wages w e r e 18
pence per day and that of their tenders 12 nearly all in trade.
The
greatest number of days any one mason work e d on all the repairs was
36.
The expense of all the repairs thus far including the lime n o w
on h a n d and wh ich will probably suffice to finish the plastering
amounts to about $25 in cash.
all that has been commenced.
I think about $25 more w i l l complete
It may thus be seen that the expense
of repairing our kitchen w i l l not amount to the value of a good
cook stove which w e would have had to purchase had not these repairs
bee n made for our old stove long since became quite unmanageable.
If therefore the m ission will be so kind as to allow me an a ppro
priation,
this year, to meet these expenses, it will be most thank-
f u l [ly] received.
Could I have defered ( !) these repairs till
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after the advice of the Mission had been obtained on the subject, I
would have done so, but our circumstances rendered it necessary to
commence them when I did.
[Cover page]:
Hana
1843
Statistics of the chh in Hana for the year ending May 10th 1843. Whole No. ad. to the chh on examination
On certificate
Past year on examination
Past year on certificate
Whole No. past year
Whole No. Dismissed to other churches
Dismissed the past year
Whole number deceased
435
65
170
12
182
16
3
17
Deceased past year
6
Suspended past year
7
Remain suspended
5
Excom. past year
3
Whole No. excommunicated
11
Remain Excommunicated
10
Whole No. in regular standing
Whole No. of children baptised
Baptised past year
Marriages the past year
Contrabutions ( !) past year
452
[no figure]
118
89
$192.73
�[Hana Report]
May 1844
My labors during the past year have been considerably inter
rupted by ill health in my family. On leaving home for last Gen.
Meeting I was myself attacked with fever which confined me a few
weeks at Lahaina and prevented our arrival at Honolulu nei till
after the close of the Session.
I had then our supplies to procure
in whh I could make but slow progress on account of the debilitated
state in which my previous indisposition had left [me] ; And after
completing my business of this kind we were detained - still long[er]
for want of a vessel to convey us back to our Station.
It was not
therefore till the latter part of July or the first of August that
my labors were resumed among the people of my charge.
After the
lapse of 8 or 10 weeks - during which time I labored - under great
disadvantage - the entire care of our little ones devolving upon me I was again under the necessity of being absent better than 2 weeks
in order to go down to Lahaina and accompany Mrs C- home who had
been absent on a visit of 2 months & more to the Island of Kauai for
her health.
From that time - I continued to labor with mor[ e] or
less interruption till the latter part of Feb. when Mrs C -
became
so much enfeebled, that we felt it our duty - having been previously
advised by our Island Physician - to visit Wailuku & Lahaina, hoping
that Society - a change of scene and medical aid, might afford es
sential relief - nor have we been entirely disappointed - Her great
depression of Spirits has in a good measure been removed by the course
pursued and consequently her health is better in some respects than
when we left our station.
But the prospect of her ever enjoying com
fortable health again at Hana for any length of time seems very dark
to her.
The experience of the past throws a gloom over the future.
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And if she ever returns to our lonely yet in many respects peleasant ( !)
abode it will be with increased reluctance.
The experiment whether
she is adapted to that post, has been long and faithfully tried and
without success yea (?) to the irreparable injury of her constitu
tion - it is feared - And now it seems - although late in the day important that some more suitable place should be sought for.
Ex
perience teaches us that she needs more Society - a dryer climate
and more convenient access to the services of a Physician than our
station affords.
As it respects myself, there is not a place or
station in the Sandwich Islands which I prefer to Hana yet there may
be places where I might have labored with less interruption from ill
health in my family if Providence had located us in some one of them.
In order to prevent as much as possible the loss of time and
any considerable injury resulting to the good cause in our field from
my absence - I have endeavored to keep up as much intercourse with
our people as our relative circumstances and duty to my family would
permit.
Once I made a visit of 2 weeks among them - at another time
a visit of 3 weeks - leaving my family in the care of the good
friends of Wailuku while on the former, and in the care of the good
friends of Lahaina while on the latter, to all of whom we feel very
much indebted for their unwearied attention during our sojourn among
them.
It is also due to Bro Rice, my associate, to state that he
kindly officiated in my place, at least, on the Sabbath, besides
attending to his own appropriate duties during the first 6 weeks of
our absence.
Since his leaving the station which was about the
first of April, at my sugestion ( !) Kaauwai of Wailuku spent some
2 or 3 weeks in our field holding forth the word of life to the people.
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3
And it is hoped that they now have the assistance of Haili another
intelligent native of bro Clarks chh.
I t will therefore appear that
our people have been in part, at least, supplied with religious in
struction during my absence from the station.
While at home my labors have been similar to those of the year
preceding.
I have usually held 3 religious meetings on the Sabbath
and 4 during the week, besid.es instructing a large class in vocal
music.
This latter department was formerly occupied by Mrs C- but
owing to feeble health she has attempted little else - by way of di
rect effort, than to meet with her bible class on Sabbath mornings
and occasionally with the religious meeting of females.
As our field is extrusive and the population scattering preach
ing tours are necessary in order to bring the gospel within the
reach of all.
Of these I have made four the past year - holding
meetings in almost every neighborhood - looking into the character
& daily health of chh. members and conversing with such as might
be anxious for their souls.
I have also had considerable business
of a secular nature on my hands - such as building a stone house
and mounting our Bell upon it - gathering materials for a permanent
meeting house - laying the foun dation and getting the walls under
way - waiting upon the sick and dying - dealing out medicine &c &c.
In short I have endeavored to keep employed in whatever it was thought
would most further the good cause whether my time has been profitably
spent or not the results of eternity will determine.
Our church & people have been contributing, as formerly, of
their substance for benevolent purposes.
$200.
They have subscribed about
and it is confidently expected that at least $180 of this
sum will be paid into the treasury - in fact nearly all was either
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paid or said to [be] ready 2 months ago.
4
They have also performed
more or less labor every week on the walls of our meeting house or
in furnishing materials - such as timber wood - coral - sand & stone.
However the work thus far has progressed slowly on account of the
peoples' not having a mind to work and make sacrifises [ !] as they
ought.
year.
But we hope the house may be finished within the present
As the church is beginning to exhibit more energy and a
stronger determination to persevere (?) than formerly.
The example
of our two neighborning churches is having, I think, a good effect
upon them.
A spirit of ambition something like that which induced
the Isrealites ( !) to ask for a King - though directed to a more
laudable object - is being awakened in their bosoms.
They have not
only resolved to performe ( !) all the work, on their meeting house,
for which they may be competent gratuitously.
But they have likewise
expressed a unanimous wish to support their Pastor and thus relieve
their American friends in part from sustaining the institutions of
religion among them.
feeling.
I have labored some to induce such a state of
But considering their poverty - their great distance from
market and a hundred other inconveniences of obtaining property under
which they labor - it will not be practicable for them nor ought they
( !)
to be asked to aid in supporting their Pastor untill the works of
improvement in which they are now engaged are completed.
When these
are finished it is presumed that they will not suffer themselves to
be surpassed by any of the neighboring churches in supporting the
preached gospel within their bounds.
We have received important help from abroad for 2 years past
towards erecting a permanent house of worship.
And I would Improve
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this opportunity to acknowledge publicly and with gratitude in be
half of our people the several donations which friends have made to
this object.
$22.50.
The church at Wailuku $100.
Rev. Mr. Whitney $25.
$10. and Conde $93.
1st Church of Honolulu
Mr Buel $2.
Mr Rice $21. Mr. Cooke
By referring to our accounts I perceive that
there is a balance of some $300 on hand exclusive of what is neces
sary to pay for Our Bell and the expense of mounting it upon a good
stone house.
This is to he devoted to our meeting house and the
deficiency made up by the people & a few friends who have already
volunteered, it seems, to help us.
The state of religion in our field was anything but encouraging
during the former part of the year.
There did not appear to be any
considerable falling off from religious meetings nor much going
astray of chh members from outward rules (?).
But stupidity and
listlessness characterised ( !) the great mass of those who are in
the habit of attending on the means of grace - while a spirit of
opposition - a desire for new things and an utter recklessness of
character were observable on the part of the more wicked and ignorant
class.
Awa and tobacco were much cultivated and used to excess or
carried to Lahaina and sold to multitudes either residing at or visit
ing that place.
a while.
Romanists also attracted considerable attention for
They organized themselves into societies in some 3 or 4
different places - built houses to meet in on the sabbath and per
form their fooleries or rather blasphemies - such as smoking tobacco drinking awa - crossing themselves praying to the Virgin Mary &c.
There are but few however of this class in our field who have received
the rite of "Bapetema" only some 25 perhaps in all and these are from
abroad for there never has been as yet a regular priest of that order
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In our field.
6
Some attempt was also made to revive the ancient
Idolatry of the Islands.
A man of Hamakua - which is included in
bro Greens field - commenced a tour of our part of the Island, giv
ing out that he had been authorized by the King to prescribe for the
sick and to revive the "Pule Anana".
He was listened to by some of
the most ignorant and degraded for a season.
But before he had time
to complete his tour he was apprehended by the authorities and taken
before the Governor - who It is said placed a heavy fine upon
him for his wicked deception and sent him home with strict orders to
keep the peace.
The Impression however was entertained by some, who
were sadly in love with Idolatry, that His Magesty favored their cause.
They proceeded so far as to form a large company and called upon him
with presents of Fowls - eggs &c hoping to be kindly received.
They styled themselves the "Po e pu pule" - acting of course, as they
wandered from place [to place], in a manner correspondent with the
name they had assumed.
How far their conduct was influenced by the
examples of the King at that time it is not easy to judge.
But two
things are evident 1st They wished to revive the heathenish prac
tices of their Ancestors And 2ly they hoped by feigning insanity to
be exonerated from all taxation.
Such was the unpromising state of things during the former
part of the year.
The cause no doubt must be ascribed to the native
depravity and extreme obduracy of the human heart of the existance ( !)
of whh we have abundant evidence among our people; but there was
nothing perhaps whh contributed so much to the development of the
latent evils of the human heart in the forms here complained of -
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as the visit of the Carysfort and the unjust proceedings of its
commander - Capt. Paulette in reference to this government.
The
wicked and abandoned supposed - and correctly too - that they had
found a friend in the English Lord who was opening a wide door for
the gratification of all their violated propensities.
The[y ] became
bold, and for a season it was evident that their hearts were fully
set in them to do evil.
was comparatively short.
behalf of his cause.
But this openly triumphing of the wicked
The Lord in his providence interfered in
The restoration of the Hawaiian flag and
the subsequent acknowledgement of the nation's independance by the
great powers of the Earth - as the news of it was disseminated among
the people - served to check them in their career of folly and
madness and to restore order & tranquility.
Since that church
members have shown more engagedness in the subject of religion.
The experience of the past affords to their minds demonstrative
evidence that the Lord is watching for good over the interests of
the chh in these Islands and that the gates of hell shall never
prevail against it.
Romanism has greatly declined for some months past.
Its
adherents In many places have utterly abandoned their sabbath meetings
and reunited themselves with the protestant party.
of late respecting the favorers of Idolatry.
Nothing is heard
The enemy has again
retired to his secret lair, there to slumber, as we would hope, the
sleep of eternal death.
There has also been and Is still quite a
stir among those who were formerly indifferent about the interests
of their Souls.
A large number - about 200 in all have professed
ly turned to the "Pono".
I hope their reformation will not prove as
the morning cloud and as the early dew.
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It is also worthy of remark that our people are improving
in externals.
It is plain in regard to many that their comforts
are multiplying about them.
Considerable stone wall is being built
enclosing small farms for cultivation.
market than formerly.
More produce is carried to
One of our chh members has cultivated during
the past year some 15 barrels of Indian corn.
Others half as much
& some less.
The consequence is the people are beginning to be
better clad.
But their advancement in this respect as well as in
religion is quite too gradual.
Would that they could be made to
quicken their pace an hundred fold in every improvement that is
calculated directly or indirectly to benefit their mortal and im
mortal part.
And to this end it is desirable that their Teachers
should be multiplied.
Two more stations should be taken in our field
immediately in case the Mission is reinforced this year.
The people
of Kaupo were particularly urgent that I should present their claim
for a missionary.
They say that they will build him a house and
feed and clothe him - in short do all in their power to render him
comfortable and happy.
The people in Koolau have also conversed with
me in the same strain.
There is no doubt but that the good people
in both places would afford important assistance if their pe[ti]tions should be granted.
In preparing my report since I came down I perceived that my
church records are missing - They have either been left at home
or unfortunately lost during my last tour.
to present my statistics.
I am therefore unprepared
I hope however to hand them in before
the minutes of this meeting shall be printed.
D .T . Conde
�Statistics of the chh. at Hana from May 1844 to May 1846
Whole no. ad. to the chh on Exam.
539
On certificate
84
Past two years on exam.
54
Past two years on certificate
15
Whole No. past two years
69
Whole No. Dismissed to other chhs
Dismissed past two years
-
22
6
Whole No. deceased
54
Deceased past two years
24
Suspended past 2 years
13
Remain suspended
11
Excommunicated past 2 years
5
Whole No. excom.
40
Remain excom.
17
Whole No. in regular standing
523
Children baptised past 2 years
111
Marriages past two years
197
Donations - aside from considerable manual
labor performed on the Meeting house
amount to (see Report)
�Hana July 16th 1847
In making this my first report of labors as a pastor I can only state
things as they are now seen and mention what has been done during one year with
out making any comparison with former years.
Morals.
The morals of the people have been good so far as I have been made
acquainted with them.
During the past year we have enjoyed the outpouring of
the Spirit by which many have been led to attend to the eternal interests of
their souls, some of whom have been admitted to the visible church.
remain apparently unconcerned
courses.
Others who
have doubtless been restrained in their sinful
The Judge of the two Districts told me that he thought that there was
a less number of criminals than in former years.
The use of Potatoe Whiskey
and Awa has occasioned more trouble in some parts of the field than any other
form of vice. I mean so far as the law of the land is concerned.
Education.
ficial.
The effect of the regulations in the School System has been bene
There appears to be a desire on the part of the parents as well as the
children to obtain books.
have paid in full.
A great many books have been sold for which many
Several Globe maps have been purchased for the Schools.
In
examination the scholars appear very well and teachers manifest an ambition to
urge on their pupils in the acquisition of knowledge.
There are 10 schools in
the whole field containing 491 scholars.
A good number of the children attend the Sabbath schools though not as
many^ go to the day schools.
There were 120 copies of the Elele taken during
the past year.
Benevolence; There has not been much contributed at the Monthly Concert.
Being
unable myself to attend regularly, the people have not any one to plan for them
and lead them on in their benevolent operations.
At the beginning of the year
it was proposed to build a stone church in Kaupo & the members came forward and
pledged themselves to contribute for its erection; but a little has been paid.
They have hewn
the corner stones & brought them to the place for building a
[A page seems to be missing here]
They have not done anything towards getting the timber on account of rain &
not being supplied with axes.
The people in Kipahulu are erecting a new that
ched house of worship.
As my statistics are for one year only my table will be different from the
others.
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2.
Admitted the last year on examination
96
Deceased the past year
3
Suspended
5
Remain suspended
5
Whole number in regular standing
236
Children baptised past year
Average congregations
49
200
E. Whittlesey
[Written on the back of the last page]:
E. Whittlesey's Report
in answer to Circular,
July 23, 1847
�Statistics of the chh[!] in Hana & Koolau
May 1/46 to May 1/47
Whole No. ad[!] to the chh on examination
503
11
On certificate
Past year on examination
163
Past year on certificate
1
164
Whole no. past year
Dismissed the past year
3
Whole no. Deceased
31
Deceased past year
8
Under chh. censure
25
453
Whole No. in regular standing
38
Children baptised past year
Dear Brethren,
The above are the statistics of the church of which I am pastor.
scattered over two districts - Hana & Koolau.
off for Mr. W. -
It is
Kipahulu & Kaupo having been set
The above Statistics are not so full as are usually made out
by the brethren of their respective chhs.
tial for the public to know.
But they contain all that is essen
They are sent to you in accordance with a printed
circular which I had the honor of receiving from you some time ago.
I hope I have not defered[?] attending to it too long to be incerted[!]
in the report which you design to send to Boston this/
year.
Yours truly
D.T. Conde
[Written on the other side of the page]:
Messrs S.N. Castle & E.O. Hall
Honolulu
Oahu
[Writteon on the other side of the page, sideways]:
D.T. Conde
Aug. 12, 1847
�[Hana, 1848]
[D.T. Conde]
The establishment of a missionary station in the district
of Hana on East Maui was assigned to us at the general meeting of
May 1837.
On the 8th of Jan following we landed on the ground took
up our abode in a thatched house and the next day I preached my first
sermon in hawaiian to a numerous & apparently interested assembly.
We have therefore occupied our present post some ten years & more.
During this time we have had no less than four different associates
besides living alone at different times from a few months to two
years.
Although we have suffered not a little as a family on ac
count of sickness general debility and great depression of spirits
induced chiefly by our isolated position - the want of congenial
society & the extreme humidity of the climate - still we recur with
gratitude to the many distinguished favors whh we have received at
the hand of our Heavenly Father in the progress of each successive
year.
In fact when we consider our desserts in connection with
the actual dispensations of Gods providence we are constrained to
say that goodness and mercy have followed us at every step - that
our lines have fallen to us in pleasant places and that we have al
ways had a goodly heritage.
Our bread & water have been sure.
We
have never lacked raiment nor a comfortable habitation to shelter
us from the scorching sun or the driving storm.
In short a kind
and liberal hand has constantly administered to our every want.
In
our labors we have been encouraged by tokens of the divine presence
& special cooperation prospering the work of our hands; And In sea
sons of bodily indisposition and perplexing trials we have felt
comforted & cheered by the assurance that all earthly afflictions
will ultimately contribute to the benefit of those who commit them
selves to the direction and disposal of Him who ruleth all things
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2
for his own glory.
My missionary labors during the two years whh has elapsed
since my last report have been similar to those of former years.
They have consisted chiefly in preaching the gospel - administering
the sacrament - conducting prayer - meetings - directing inquirers visiting from house to house & conversing with the inmates - teaching
the youth to sing hymns of praise to God their creator and in super
intending Sabbath Schools.
Some of these labors have been uniformly
attended to on the Sabbath and the rest on w eek days.
My Sabbath
exersises ( !) have usually been a school for children and youth at
9 A.M.
Preaching at 11 A.M.
followed by a School in the Ai o ka la
for all classes and at 3 P.M. another meeting chiefly devoted to the
exposition of the N . Testament by course.
bors of the day.
This terminates the la
The exercises during the week are the monthly
concert observed on the first Monday of each month.
Wednesday afternoon at the station.
ture in some other part of the field.
A lecture on
On Friday P.M. another lec
A singing school on Thursday
and on Saturday a meeting for inquirers followe d at 4 P.M. by an
assembly of the chh & others for prayer & religious instruction pre
paratory to the Sabbath.
The Lords Supper is observed 3 times a year at the station
and usually the same number of times at an outpost in the district
of Koolau.
Kipahulu & Kaupo were severed from my field 2 years ago by
the Hawaiian Association & transferred to M r. Whittlesey.
These
districts have therefor e been under his special and exclusive care
during the past two years.
Owing to ill health in the family and to
frequent & long continued rains (an obstacle never so common as during
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the time under review)
3
I have not been able to make as many tours
as I have wished nor so many as I used to formerly.
The importance
of itinerating among the people of my charge for preaching & religious
conversation from house to house is fully appreciated.
The awaken
ing and salutary effect of this kind of missionary labor has often
been observed and I have always deemed it my duty & privilege to
perform as much of it every year as weather - health & the more
paramount duties at home usually permit.
Aside from my regular missionary labors there have always
been a great amount of secular business to be attended to at our
station.
My labors of this kind have never been more arduous than
during the past two years.
The superintendance of the work & work
men on our meeting house which has been In building for a number
of years past has pressed with unusual weight on my shoulders.
With
out enumerating the various kinds of business of this nature which
have received my attention I would say that there is scarcely anything
comprisable within the whole circle of the mechanical arts but what
I have been obliged to do with my own hands.
Nor have I regreted ( !)
the necessity of engaging in labors of this kind although fatiguing
& perplexing for the time being as they all have more or less con
nection with the furtherance of civilization and religion.
The
example thus furnished to the people is calculated to awaken their
ingenuity and to prompt them to acts of laudable enterprise.
At our last meeting in this place I had the pleasure of ann
ouncing the existence of a religious awakening in my field which
resulted In a large accession to our numbers.
Some months after
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4
our return home this awakening entirely subsided. Since that date
the
there has been nothing of/kind discoverable in our midst.
On the
contrary great stupidity together, with a criminal inattention to the
duties of religion have generally characterised quite too many of
our chh members.
Some on whose christian character we used to reflect
with pleasure and approbation have in a measure disappointed our
expectations & presented evidence that the genuineness of their con
version to God is at least doubtful.
Others have entirely gone out
from among us and returned to some if not all their former sinful
indulgences like the dog to his own vomit and the sow that was washed
to her wallowing in the mire.
In a word so imperfect has been the
Christian character exhibited by the chh generally that it has been
difficult to avoid the suspicion that far the greater part have
merely the form of religion without the power - that they have only
a name to life while their souls are dead in trespasses & sins.
However no conviction to this effect has ever become settled in my
mind notwithstanding all that I know from heresay and actual obser
vation derogatory to the profession of piety made by so great a
number in the respective fields of labor in these Islands.
promises of God are sure.
The
Says the Apostle ye know that your labor
is not in vain in the Lord.
Hence where the good seed is so assidu
ously and unsparingly sown as in these Islands and so often & so
copiously watered from on high & so signally guarded by the Master
of the vineyard it cannot be but that some nay many seeds have
sprung up & are now growing & will finally produce as much fruit
to the - praise of God.
Yes there are doubtless many in all our
churches that now occupy although it may be an humble place in the
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5
Saviours Spiritual Kingdom and that will finally be transfered ( !)
to his blissful presence in heaven.
In this their preparatory state
little else but dross and imperfection may be discovered by our
limited powers of perception but who knows but there liesxxx concealed within this rubbish (if so it may be called) the pure metal
whh when divested of its doubtful exterior will shine as brightly
to all eternity as the souls of Payson Newton and many others of whose
piety when living none doubted.
If the state of religion in my field
is lower than that of some other places may it not be accounted for
in part at least from the fact that our people have more to contend
with on one hand and on the other more to render them remiss in
spiritual things than exists else where.
It is known that for some
years past I have been trying to erect a large stone meeting house
by the voluntary efforts of our chh members.
During the two years
whh have now elapsed they have been strongly urged by their Pastor
t o press forward with the work to a speedy completion, Which however
has not yet been realized.
Hence aside from the ordinary tempta
tions to declin[a]tion in religion our chh members being poor & bur
dened with heavy money & labor taxes for the support of government &
schools have had not only their natural avertion ( !) to personal ef
fort in behalf of our house of worship to overcome but also the
distracting and secularizing effect of this & all their other bur
dens.
All these things combined have served powerfully to dampen
their zeal in the Lords Spiritual Service.
Some have doubtless
willfully deviated from the path of Christian rectitude to order
to subject themselves to chh discipline and by that means escape the
duty of aiding in this work of benevolence.
Many also that were
formerly candidates for chh membership have retired into the back
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6
ground & ceased expressing any desire for salvation lest by entering
the chh they too should he required to labor & contribute of their
substance for the promotion of this object.
The labors & sacrifices
necessary to erect & complete a meeting house however great cannot
considered
of course have any tendency in themselves/- like that of the practice
of known sin - to harden and unfit the heart for the reception of
truth and the cultivation of piety but as long as there exists any
remaining depravity in professors of religion they will make such
things to a greater or less extent the occasion of neglecting the
exercise of watchfulness & prayer.
This fact the most enlightened
Christians know from personal experience.
And if it be true with
regard to the wisest & best informed how much more so with regard to
the most Ignorant & undisciplined.
And if the former are in the
least excusable for declention ( !) in in ( !) religion from such
causes how much more the latter.
These things however should not
be thus.
They are discouraging to the missionary & to the patrons
may
of the missionary cause as far as su ch things ( !) receive publicity.
The only way for me to reconcile these sad imperfections in indivi
duals and even Whole chhs with the supposition that they may neverthe-less be christians is to view them as mere babes in Christ who
altho feeble in religious principle will finally be reared up thro
the abounding mercy of God and made meet for an inheritance on high.
It is not like God to bruise the broken reed or quench the smoking
flax.
Although I have felt constrained to dwell a little on the dark
side of the picture in order to develop the true state of the case still I shall not be just were I to withhold commendation where it
is due.
With regard to the mass of our chh members better things
�7
may be said.
They have stood firm.
They have not only been regu-
lar in their attendance on all the duties & exercises required
of them but they have uniformly manifested a heart felt delight
in the observance of them.
Many have labored faithfully and contri
buted to the extent of their ability for the .erection of otm house
of worship.
They also exhibit a becoming concern for those of their
number who by their indifference dishonor the profession of reli
gion and also for those who are out of the pale of the chh.
They
actually mourn & are sad that their fellow creatures about them are
in such numbers & with so much heedlessness pressing their way
down to perdition.
Our chh & people have during the two past years
contributed about 110$ ( !) in cash and 15$ ( !) in kapa & c besides
performing considerable manual labor for benevolent purposes.
meeting house was nearly inclosed when we left home.
Our
There is also
on the ground lumber & coral sufficient to complete the house or
nearly so.
But we have expended all the funds contributed by the
chh & many other friends in the Island and are now in debt to the
amount of 130$ ( !).
The state of morals in my field generally is I have reason to
think in advance of what I have known it to be in former years.
Good order and general obedience to the laws of the land is every
where observable.
so much cultivated in some parts of Hana &
Koolau three & four years since is not used now but to a limited
extent - nor can it be while the present law exists - still the
inquiry arising from this source has not entirely ceased - Many will
manage to use it secretly until the cultivation thereof is entirely
prohibited by law.
I[n]dustry is evidently on the advance among
�Hana 1848
all classes.
8
Much more work is done than formerly.
the comforts of the people gradually increase.
part are generally well clad.
Consequently
By far the greater
Some few are even acquiring property.
The disposition however whh they sometimes make of it is far from
being wise.
Many exhibit an eagerness for horses and gay apparel
which if directed to the building of good houses and the enlargement
& better cultivation of their farms would result in great benefit
to themselves and their children.
Formerly the people - many of
them - raised corn beans & various other articles for market in
exchange for which they received cloth & some money.
At that time
there was an increase of of ( !) cultivation on their owm
lands.
But since Foreigners have come in and begun the growing of sugar
cane corn, beans & coffee the people have droped ( !) their own
plantations and are now laboring for these new comers ( !) at the
rate of 1 yd of poor cotton cloth per day.
It is manifest that
by so doing they labor much harder & for a much less compensation
than when they applied themselves to the cultivation of their own
lands.
It is therefore my opinion that the settlement of foreigners
in our place is no particular benefit to the native population in
a pecuniary point of view.
W ere the natives to confine themselves
to their own farms and raise such things as the market demands
I apprehend that it would be much to their advantage.
Most certain
ly it would be better for their morals which are beginning to suffer
from the influence of foreigners.
I fear there is no higher des
tiny for the great mass of the Hawaiians than that of servants or
hirelings to whites that come here to seek pleasure & pecuniary
profit.
Foreigners will be favored by the chiefs & principal land
�Hana 1848
9
owners as they possess the ability to buy or lease land.
They also
are supposed to have the enterprise that will contribute to the
support of government.
The natives on the other hand will be
slighted - crowded off from all the most desirable lands and
compeled ( !) to locate in remote and unproductive places.
This
will occasion discouragement and sink them still deeper in all
the common vices of the country by whh their extinction will be
rendered the more sure & rapid.
Such may by ( !) the final result
of the state of things now in progress however much it may be depricated & guarded against by the friends of the Hawaiian nation.
But if such is the will of Him - who ruleth all events for his own
glory it should be cordially acquiesced in.
The people who are
destined to succeed may for aught we know be better calculated to
perform a part in the great work whatever it may be that God has
yet to accomplish on this earth than these Haw aiians.
are nevertheless precious.
Their souls
And what is done for their salvation
must be done soon.
The schools in my field are 16 in number.
The children &
youth connected with these schools respectively range from 20 to
115 - Total 650 - About all these schools have been in constant
operation with the exception of the ordinary vacations.
In some
of the schools the children are taught but half of the day - the
other part being devoted to manual labor in whh the Teacher unites
with the Scholars.
among themselves.
The avails of their labor are equally divided
This arrangement is doubtless praiseworthy as it
tends to promote industry as well as intelligence.
The schools
have been statedly examined and a grand school celebration has been
�Hana 1848
10
observed the past year in two different places at whh all the
children & youth subscribe the temperance pledge discarding the use
of everything that intoxicates.
It is not supposed that all who
took this step have maintained the pledge inviolate altho there are
no facts to the contrary - Still the proceeding was calculated to
awaken public opinion against the use of awa tobacco & all that
inebriates whh may continue indefinitely to exert a salutary influ
ence.
The schools in my field altho as prosperous as at any former
time labor under many disadvantages.
The teachers in general are
deficient in knowledge and government.
There are only 2 of the 16
that received their education in the Mission Seminary.
rest were educated in common schools.
All the
These however perform the
office of instructor with as much credit to themselves & profit
to their pupils as the former.
But there is great room for Improve
ment with respect to all of them.
supplied with the necessary books.
The children are also poorly
Altho a competent supply for all
the schools is constantly kept on hand and at a very low price
still their appreciation of such things is as yet so Imperfect
that Parents are unwilling to make any sacrifise ( !) to furnish
their children with them.
A great many seem to think more of
gratifying their appetities with a quantity of Poi & fish than they
do of procuring the means of storing their own & their childrens
minds with useful knowledge.
How to remedy this defect from which
the children & youth in our schools suffer so much is an important
question equal if not paramount to that whh relates to the equitable
support of teachers & for whh government professes to make ample
provision.
For the Mission to furnish the necessary amount of books
�Hana 1848
1
gratuitously or even at a price very much below the actual cost
would require an expenditure that would not meet the approbation
of its Patrons at home considering the present stage of operations
in these Islands.
It is high time for this nation to assume the
support of education in all respects.
Besides to give the people
that which they ought to purchase & for whh they are abundantly
competent will tend to make them indolent - ungreatful ( !) and
troublesome - it would serve to perpetuate the nation in a state
of imbecility and childhood than which nothing can be more impol
itic.
They should be urged forward to assume the strength and
responsibilities of manhood.
It would [be] better to have the
people destitute of books for a season than to supply them without
pay for by so doing the intrinsic value of a book might soon be
felt by all classes and this would lead to proper efforts on their
part to purchase all such things at the reasonable price for whh
they are offered.
Romanism in my field cannot be said to be advancing.
On the
contrary It has sensibly declined during the past two years.
Such
at least is the opinion of those who have considerable opportunity
to know the condition of that Sect.
in all where meetings are sustained.
They have some 3 or 4 places
The attendance however is small
I am told except where the foreign priest officiates and even there
the congregation does not exceed perhaps 150.
Those who attend their
meetings are to a man of the lowest class whose morals are anything
but good.
Some of the most corrupting vices are said to be
winked at and even encouraged by their Priest who manages to keep
all the Kai k o 's [policemen] in his little community under his
�Hana 1848
influence.
12
In this w ay his people practice many kind of wickedness
with impunity as I am informed.
It is well known that many of that
order attend our meetings as much as they do their own and some
others not a few have forsaken them entirely and returned to us.
Some of their schools during the time under review have become
extinct and the children have returned to ours.
Their Teachers
are far more inefficient than the p [r] otestant teachers.
scholars have no Books except what they purchase of us.
Their
This they
have been allowed to do by their Priest of late more than formerly.
He doubtless finds that it is the only way to retain the children
which remain in their connection.
containing about 200 schollars.
They have some 7 or 8 schools
( !)
Statistics of the chh of Hana & Koolau
Whole no. received on profession
580
Re'd the past 2 years
203
Whole No rec'd on certificate
Recd on certificate past 2 years
23
4
Whole No. suspended
72
Suspended past 2 years
34
Whole No deceased
48
Whole No. restored
35
Remain suspended
37
Whole No. Dismissed to other chhs.
15
Whole No in regular standing4
3
0
Whole No of childn baptised
Baptism past 2 years
211
80
�Hana Mar. 22, 1849
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; & that which
is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing
under the sun, at least so far as I have seen the past year.
If the call is made "Watchman, what of the night” I cannot say
that the day breaketh; but rather that darkness covereth the land
and thick darkness the people.
If I were to enter into the min
utiae of my labor and speak of each effort made to benefit the
flock over which I have been placed as overseer or were I to por[been]
tray all the obstacles which have/found in our way, there might
not be seen on the one hand any thing worthy of imitation or on the
other any thing to excite joy for your escape from the same.
Labors.
At the beginning of the year when it was known that there
was a new porter at the door of the fold there was a weekly gather
ing of those who sought admission to the church.
I met with them
on Wednesdays in the afternoon until the sickness dispersed them.
We endeavored to excite more interest in the Bible by having the
older part of the church, and others who wished it, attend the Sab.
School.
For a while our meeting house was well filled with children
and several classes of adults both male & female.
We used the Ai
o ka la for 1847 for those who could read, while the little child
ren were taught from the Haaw ina Kamalii.
Mrs. W & myself have
attended the school from the beginning for the sake of example as
well as to assist.
There was quite an interest manifest in those who attended.
As the
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2
natives have no habits of punctuality we were troubled by tardiness
of the teachers.
the scholars.
They were more frequently absent or tardy than
After the public services in the afternoon I had a
class of adult males in B r . Alexander’s book of Theology and Mrs
W . at the same time had a Bible class with the females.
Mrs. W .
has continued the Tues. female prayer meet. established by Mrs.
Conde.
I attended a weekly meeting on Friday in some of [the] school houses
about us.
The Mon. Concert was observed in the afternoon at which time by
the aid of the Missionary map I endeavored to instruct the people
regarding the condition of other parts of the heathen world.
The
attendance at the concert has not been very large, at any time &
since the sickness, owing to rainy weather and in one case to my
absence it has not [been] so well attended.
Benevolence.
The contributions during the past year united with what
has been received for marriages amount to about $55,00 ( !)
These
contributions are applied to pay the debt of the church which amounts
to more than $70,00 ( !).
Although this is placed under the head of
Benevolence I would say that the people do not manifest & spirit of
X X X X X X benevolence if they are to be judged by their willingness
to labor that the church may be completed.
advanced some.
However the work has
They burned one pit of lime in Oct. and gathered
a quantity of timber for furling but to be consistent the timber
was as crooked as they were and only about 1/3 of it could be used.
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3
The sickness left them so feeble that they have done nothing at
collecting timber since Oct.
The carpenter who framed the roof
put in the windows and the doors as soon as the requisite trimmings
could could ( !) be procured from the Depository after we discovered
what was lacking.
Being the only carpenter whom we could employ
and having work of his own besides some for foreigners to perform
he was unable to w ork constantly on the church.
In Dec. when he had hewed the furring that was suitable and
with my aid had lathed one space he hired out to Mr. Fixsen by the
year on account of some rumors which he heard whereby he thought
we had tried to injure him.
When I explained the matter to him
he told me he would not have left us if he had not heard those
slanders.
So we are destitute of a carpenter once more.
Two
natives have since put up the furring that was on hand & covered it
with lath.
The lime is at present being used in plastering over
the walls.
Schools.
These have during the past year been quite feeble on account
of the teachers not getting their pay as they wished it.
The wages
are low; but from the unfaithfulness of the Govt taxgatherers ( !)
they are hard to be collected.
Several new school houses are
needed which will soon be built if the people are strong enough
to do the labor.
Statistics
On Exam. past year
Whole No. on Exam
28 P. Schools
16 C . —
[no figure]
953 Scholars
464 —
Children baptized p.y [no
fig .]
626
Whole N o. Bap.
Dismissed past year
276
2
Marriages past year
78
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"
whole No.
58
Whole No
98
Excluded past year
10
" w hole No. remaining
51
In regular standing
Pop
5587
4
20
Deceased past year
"
- Whittlesey
566
Deaths
Births
450
97
A select school has recently been commenced at the station under
the care of the school Superintendent.
at present.
There are about 30 scholars
The Bible Catechism, Geography, Arithmetic Hulikanaka
& Singing are branches taught.
[Moral Philosophy]
E.Whittlesey
�[Whittlesey]
Hana May 6, 1851
In making another Report, I find nothing new, wonderful or
alarming to embody in it.
The Lord has been mercifu l and gracious
to us as a family & as a people, merciful in sparing our lives, and
gracious in the gifts of His providence.
Neither the moan of famine nor the wail of bereaved sorrow
has been heard in our borders.
Our own health has not been very (?) vigorous attributable
I think partly to a lack of variety in our diet, and partly to the
climate.
In Jan. of last year I suffered from some affection of my
head arising, I think from exposure to the sun, which would nearly
deprive me of consciousness at times.
It commenced in the morning
as I was arising from the bed by dizziness which was so severe that
I could not distinguish objects in the room.
For two days I was
confined to the bed as the least motion would bring on the vertigo.
It gradually abated; but for about three months I could not look
upwards without a return of the dizziness.
Notwithstandiag our feebleness of body the Lord has prolonged
our lives in His service.
State of the people.
In regard to some things I say there is prog
ress, while in regard to many other points the advance is not so
apparent.
The small number of those who read the Elele shows that
the desire for knowledge is not increasing.
Intemperance which abound to a great extent in some parts
of the year, indicates that their hearts are fully set in them to
�2.
Hana - Whittlesey
do evil” .
East Maui is still a dark place.
1851
Foreigners who have
lived in other parts of the Islands give the people there the name
of being different from other natives, that they are meaner in their
dealings, and more indolent in their habits.
Still many are furnishing themselves with more and better
clothing and in other ways increasing the comforts of their homes.
The number of those who own cattle, horses and donkies is
increasing.
Previously to the last anniversary of the Restoration our
school Superintendent made a law that the teachers & parents should
provide themselves with certain articles of househole furniture,
such as tables, plates, knives & forks.
At the feast there was such a- display of those articles as
was very creditable to the industry & enterprise of the people.
It looks more like civilization being forced into them than like
their imbibing it naturally.
The number of foreigners is increasing in our neighborhood.
Two young men from California during the year past have ap
plied for land at Honomaile and commenced a sugar cane plantation
which is the third in that end of the island.
These plantations give proof of something either that the
people are possessed of a competence and need not labor for others,
or that they are so lazy, that they will not work.
Each establish
ment would employ more hands but they are not to be had.
Schools.
In regard to these there is not the advance which encourages
�Hana 1851 - Whittlesey
us.
3
The parents feel but little interest to have their children
instructed and the teachers know that other employments are as easy
and more profitable.
ficient.
These combine to render the schools inef
Some of the scholars have labored with their teachers
and realized a profit in cash from their industry; but the amount
of the avails I am not able to state.
The children buy more of their books than they did formerly,
and we give fewer books yet I believe the schools are well supplied.
It would be well if each teacher w ere obliged to spend a part of his
time in the field with his pupils since the habits thus formed
would be good capital for the nation were the children to spend
even less time in the use of their books.
For the want of funds the schools were suppended entirely
during the first quarter of this year.
They are taught now but
three days in each week for the same reason.
The Catholics increase the number of schools under the
shadow of the Law which authorizes a school to be established
wherever 15 Scholars can be obtained.
They divide a school which
one teacher might manage move a part to some place agreeable to
native indolence so as to shorten the distance and commence opera
tions even if only 8 or 10 children are present.
The distance being
no objection other children are soon found to complete the requisite
number.
When arrived at this state the Superintendent is applied
to for a teacher's certificate.
However stupid the teacher may be
naturally he is as competent to teach the little children wh.
compose the schools as those who have passed their term of study
at Lahainaluna and therefore he must be paid the same wages.
�Hana 1851 - Whittlesey
4
This increase of teachers renders the funds inadequate to the
constant support of the schools.
The following table shows the relative strength of the schools.
Protestant
Catholic
Teachers
"
41
Scholars
23
"
872
528
Readers
"
476
234
State of Religion.
There is a great stupidity on this subject.
The
people seem to be left without the influences of the Spirit to live
as the flesh desireth "and for this cause many are weak, and sickly,
and many sleep;" so that many of the visible church absent themselves
from the week day meetings.
Several members of the church have been
suspended for intemperance.
The prayer meetings are but poorly attended.
The contributions
of the church for the support of the pastor since our last meeting
amounts to $221.75.
The labor on the church is going on more vigorously at present
so that there is a prospect of its being completed in a short time.
At the time of the Kona a year ago in Dec. the roof was in
jured to some extent and greatly endangered.
The Catholics are active in proselyting, though I have not
heard of any of the church going after them.
The plain gospel truth seems to be no match for their intri
gues when allied with the ignorance of the heathen.
There is great need of more labor in my field than one man
can perform and considering that I am not very vigorous I am con
strained to ask for another laborer to be located at Kipahulu.
would not ask for an associate merely.
I
�Hana 1851
Whittlesey
Statistics.
Received past year on examination
Whole No.
"
"
"
"
[no figure]
63 5
from other churches
dismissed to
"
52
46
Died past year
15
Excluded "
27
Remaining
"
"
[exluded]
In regular standing
104
484
Baptized past year
3
W h ole No. baptized
282
Marriages
58
�[Hana Report 1852 - Whittlesey]
Hana A p . 1852
The past year has been a year of mercy & goodness to us
as a family and of grace & judgment to the people.
We experienced
some benefit to our health from the visit we made on Hawaii at
the close of our last meeting.
My own health has been better
since that visit than it was the year previous, but Mrs. W. does
not see much improvement in her strength though the visit has
served to relieve the monotony of solitude by its pleasant recol
lections .
On our return to Hana in Aug. we found that the people had
stopped the work planned for them or rather had not commenced it
and had given themselves to prayer.
Such was their report.
The meetings on the Sabbaths were fully attended by
eager
attentive ( !) listeners, and the members of the church seemed
watchful and prayerfully anxious.
The meetings for those who desired instruction in the inter
ests of their souls and the nature of Christ's Kingdom were very
interesting.
Previous to our observance of the Lord's Supper in
Oct. a series of meetings was held during three days when there
was a sermon in the forenoon & prayer meetings in the afternoon
held in different places in the district.
Some of the church members in Koolau have been admitted to
the ranks of the Mormons.
Thinking that their ignorance had proved
their snare I expostulated with those who did not hide from me
showing them their error, and waited for them to return.
But one
or two returned & the others were separated from us.
There have been 19 cases of discipline during the year.
�(Hana - 1852 - Whittlesey)
2
Since 1848 there have been 74 cases of church discipline of wh.
34 were for the use of fermented potatoe.
Wishing success to all measures of reform which those high
in rank & possessed of acknowledged talent are inclined to pro
pose I regret that facts no more encouraging can be found within
my reach.
For if in the number of professors of religion Intemperance
with all the present barriers (?) of law & public sentiment against
it finds so many victims what would be the condition of the people
were all restrains removed?
Either no law is better for the suppression of vice than
stringent laws or else the advocates for stills & a reduction
of duty on liquors are wrong.
No report on schools as they have been inactive for the most
of the year for a want of funds to pay teachers.
I said that the past year had been one of judgment to the
people.
A severe drought prevailed in this region from April
till Sept. in consequence of which the Kalo crop was rendered
unfit for use.
The potatoes were destroyed by a worm in the root.
I have often heard the cry of famine there but never before really
saw the people destitute of food.
Money has been very scarce among
them so much so that some have used the Castor oil berry for light
because they could not buy oil.
When asked to contribute for the
Mon. Concert many who would have given said they had no money.
Only $95.50 have been contributed for the support of the Gospel.
An Auxiliary Missy Society has been formed but has done very
�(Hana 1852 - Whittlesey)
3
little in raising funds aside from the fee of membership.
Those
who were appointed to collect funds did not seem to know that any
thing devolved on them, and when asked why nothing had been done
said they were mere children and altogether ignorant.
Statistics.
Received past year on profession
Whole
No.
"
Suspended past year
Restored
"
"
Received by letter
In regular Standing
Marriages
"
58
693
19
9
3
527
50
�[1856]
Hana - Station Report
[W.O. Baldwin]
At the meeting of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association held
May 1855, it was voted that Mr. & Mrs. Wm. O . Baldwin be located
at Hana, East Maui, and they in accordance with this vote sailed
for Hana at the earliest practicable opportunity, where they arrived
[1855?]
June 20th 1856, and received a most cordial greeting from the
native brethren who assembled to [give] their aloha to their new
teachers.
Mr. & Mrs. B remained at Hana until about the first of Sep
tember when Mrs. B's circumstances rendered it necessary that she
should be placed within the reach of Medical Aid.
They accordingly
repaired to Lahaina where board and lodging were secured at the
House of Rev. S.E. Bishop, when Mr. Baldwin returned to Hana to
superintend the repairs then in progress on the mission house;
where he remained until October 4th or about one week too long;
for on that day a messenger arrived from Lahaina informing him
that his presence was indispensable at Lahaina.
He accordingly
repaired thither as speedily as possible where he found Mrs. Bal
dwin and her infant son comfortable but in need of constant atten
tion.
At the end of six weeks they set out on their return to Hana,
but were compelled by the rough weather and the consequent intense
sufferings of Mrs. B. to stop at Kawaihae and finally to return to
Lahaina; where under the kind care of her former physician Dr. Dow,
she soon recovered sufficient strength to start again for Hana.
This last trip was made with comparatively but little suffering.
Soon after their arrival at Hana Mrs. B. reopened her English school
�[ l856]
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which had been commenced the July previous.
2
This school has 50
pupils and appears to be doing very finely.
Mr. B's labors have been somewhat promiscuous, such as re
pairing house building cistern, learning the Hawaiian language
(which by the way he has not acquired perfectly yet,) and in
preparations for the pulpit, which demand much time and some pa
tience.
Mr. Baldwin is hardly yet recovered from the effects of
a fall with his horse; and he feels that he has especial reason to
thank God that his life is spared.
This accident compelled him
to relinquish all effort of body or mind for about three weeks and
then to labor with great caution.
right shoulder & ankle.
His injuries were in his head,
He does not fear that any permanent in
jury has been received.
During the past year the mission house has been new ( !) shing
led and otherwise extensively repaired though not yet complete.
The roof also of the meeting house has been entirely reconst
ructed.
New timber has been purchased for all places where it
was needed so that the frame is good as new.
It is at present
thatched but it is designed to shingle it as soon as practicable.
The church has paid in money for timber and carpenter work
$669.50 besides doing the entire thatching and carrying a large
portion of the timber from the beach to the house on their backs.
When the appeal for aid to send a vessel with supplies to
Fatuhiva reached them their pockets were almost empty but, said
they, we must do something; and by carefully searching they found
h apahas, kapawalus, & kapaumis (quarters, 12 1/2 cent pieces, & dimes]
�Hana - Wm. O . Baldwin
3
(1856)
to the amount of $25.00 which they cheerfully devote[d] to that
object.
As soon as Mr. B. had acquired a sufficient knowledge of the
Hawaiian language to render such a work practicable he began to
inquire into the records of the church, which were found to be in
a very confused state.
Some things in the past history of this
Church are probably entirely lost.
The best that could be done
seemed to be to begin anew, by making an entirely new list of
names of the members in regular standing now living which has
been done by the aid of the church Lunas at their respective stations.
In Nov. while Mr. B. was detained at Lahaina, Rev. Mr. Alex
ander visited Hana, administered the Sacrament of the Lords
Supper, excommunicating in concurrence with the vote of the lunas
for good and sufficient reasons thirteen of the members.
On the sixth of April the Sacrament was administered again
and 69 new members admitted and four who had been suspended were
restored.
It was an occasion of much interest.
The Sabbath service has been generally well attended in the
forenoon, but not so well in the afternoon.
The Sabbath School has been kept up though not so fully attended
as it should have been.
Its text book h as been the Ai o ka la.
In consequence of his lack of acquaintance with the Hawaiian
language Mr. B. has of course been able to preach but little ,
but the natives have always listened with attention to what he has
had to say, and he, on the other hand, has tried to speak with
great plainness, and has had some proofs that he has been under-
�(1856)
4
Hana - Wm. O . Baldwin
stood in some measure at least.
Mormonism seems to be rapidly declining several have become
disgusted with it and have returned to our worship.
The Lord in
mercy turn them all from that foul abomination to the God of
purity and love !
Catholicism is struggling terribly.
in the end is yet to be revealed.
What it will bring forth
They have recently started an
English School at about half-price, of which Dr. John Rae is the
teacher.
This school contains about 40 (?) pupils.
The native schools have not been very efficient during the
past year but a new Kahu [teacher ?, superintendent ?] has been
recently appointed and we hope for better things, for the coming
year.
Statistics
Whole number admitted on Profession
Whole number
"
"
Certificate
-
Admitted past year on prof.
"
"
"
by certificate
Whole number past year
Whoe ( !) No. dismissed to other churches Dismissed past year
unknown
unknown
73
2
75
unknown
15
Whole No deceased
unknown
Died past year
unknown
Suspended past year
Remain suspended
Excommunicated past year
Remain excommunicated
0
unknown
13
67 ( !)
�Hana - Wm. O . Baldwin
Whole No. in regular standing
Whole No of Children baptised
(1856)
1167
unknown
1
Baptized past year
67
Married past year
It is with no little regret that we present such an imperfect
table of statistics as the preceding and we intend to make another
effort to rouse from their tombs these forgotten statistics of the
past, that we may know on what vantage ground we stand.
Our contributions have been already in part reported, but we
will repeat them for the sake of bringing them all together.
They have been as follows: viz.
For Repairs on church
$669.50
For the Fatuhivan Mission
Total cash contributions
25.00
$694.50
In addition to this they have given all of the potatoes con
sumed at the mission house, about twenty five barrels.
These are
worth among us one dollar per barrel making therefore --- $25.00
They have also thatched the church this is 110 feet long by
50 wide.
Value not estimated
They have also labored an indefinite amount of tim e in the
mission garden lot, value not estimated, not great however.
Respectfuly ( !) submitted
Wm. O . Baldwin
On back:
Station Report
Hana
E . Maui
�Abstract of Report of Hana
(1853)
The people are in a low state as regards enterprise in things
temporal, or interest in things spiritual.
Perhaps it is an indi
cation of advance that they are so engaged In worldly labors they
cannot attend the weekly meetings.
It does not however indicate
that they have a right appreciation of the value of their privi
leges or of their obligations as Christians.
They seem interested in the Micronesian Mission though the
contributions at Mon. Concert have been very small during the
year.
They are now making an effort to raise funds for putting
a permanent roof on their house of worship and while they are so
engaged they cannot do much for the support of their pastor unless
the business of the Islands should make money more abundant.
The schools are not carried on very vigorously owing to a
lack of funds.
There is but little desire apparently on the part
of the parents to have their schools kept up for the benefit of
their children.
The health of our family has been such as to confine my la
bors principally to the duties of the station & some few week day
meetings in other places.
Statistics
R e cd on profession past year
693
W h ole no. on "
Suspended
"
"
Restored
Received by letter
"
"
"
Died past year
In regular standing
Baptized past year
Marriages in 1852
00
"
9
00
1
7
511
38
45
�(1856-1857)
Hana
Station Report.
Another year has fled; - another year of missionary life.
Another season appears when a report Is expected from each member
of the mission.
But my dear Brethren of the Hawaiian Evangelical
Association, it is not without conflicting emotion that I now
attempt to give you some idea of what has been going on here at
Hana since our last general meeting.
At the commencement of the year here reported, there was a
good degree of activity in the church; the meetings were well
attended, and much seriousness was manifested.
Large numbers
presented themselves as subjects of regeneration and applied for
admission into the church.
These candidates were examined with
watchfulness and prayer, and all that caution which seemed avail
able in the case, and a large part of them were rejected, as not
giving satisfactory evidence of having passed from death unto
life.
Quite a number however were received, and probably some
found their way into the church whom the Lord knows to be yet in
their sins.
May the Lord forgive us wherin we have misjudged.
The renewal of a stated ministry among them, however imper
fect, and the efforts of their new pastor to do what he could In
their behalf, seemed to awaken something like real thankfulness
on their part, which they were not slow in expressing.
Quite a
large number of Mormons and Catholics left their respective parties
and attended our worship and some of them were admitted to the
church among the number mentioned above.
�(Hana Report, 1856-1857)
2.
As the cold season came on the frigidity of the atmosphere
seemed to enter the souls of nearly all the church members, and
when there will be a thaw the Lord only knows.
Bright and beauti
ful Sabbaths have returned to us - the trees are exchanging their
old garments for those of a more beautiful green, but alas !
Where are the disciples of our Lord?
Echo answers, Where !
Z i o n ! How do thy highways mourn for solitude, and thy
O
temples
for desolation ! At the commencement of the year the church here
at Hana was often near(l)y full.
300 to 500.
Now it is from 100 to 150 or 200 in the morning and
perhaps 50 in the afternoon.
mine.
The regular attendance was from
Perhaps dear brethren the fault is
I am Inexperienced in Hawaiian character.
counsel.
I nead ( !)
Come and help us, for we are in trouble.
The church is
ready to promise anything, but ready to do nothing.
is we cannot rely at all upon their engagements/
the church as a body.
are) exceptions.
The result
I mean (of course
There are, thank God, a few (and few they
But I am afraid I shall soon come to the con
clusion of my predecessor viz: that I have mistaken my calling,
unless something is done to lighten this terrible burden which so
presses down the feeble pastor of this great church.
A Movement.
I should do great injustice to this church and to all who
feel any Interest in its welfare, did I fail to report the recent
movement of this church towards settling the present incumbent as
their pastor.
It was my privilege to go in company with Puhi & Kaakaaina,
two of our Church lunas, to Wailuku to witness the Installation
�Hana - 1856 - 1857
S
of Bro. Alexander and also to perceive tokens of the Divine
presence among that people.
The two lunas became very deeply in
terested in what they saw and heard at Wailuku, and came back with
the determination to do what they could to effect the same object
at Hana.
They consulted with their brother lunas, engaged their coop
eration and rode forth to canvass the field, and with native haste
returned to report.
Early in March a letter was put in my hands
(the letter had no signature) inviting me in very strong terms to
become their fixed pastor; pledging the church to support me by
a salary of $1000 per year and requiring me to pledge myself not
to leave them without the consent of two thirds of the church
members included in this Station.
I reminded the lunas who brought me the letter that it had
no signature, and [they] replied that they wanted to know what I
thought of it before they attempted to get signatures.
I had asked them to raise $200. (?) for the pastor' s .support
during the year past and they had found great difficulty in collec
ting it - have not indeed yet quite succeeded.
raised is $186.77 1/2.
The sum actually
Therefore I did not feel very confident that
they would succeed in raising $1000. during the year to come.
Again, while this work of canvassing the field and inviting
the pastor to settle was going on the church seemed more dead than
ever.
The number of church goers diminished; cases requiring
discipline multiplied, and general stupidity prevailed.
And I
felt as though a proper desire on their part to settle a pastor
must necessarily involve some increase of activity on their part,
�4
Hana Report - 1856-1857
or at least some degree of wakefulness in spiritual things.
Otherwise, the settlement of their pastor would only prove a means
of perpetuating their spiritual slumbers.
I therefore told them (or tried to) that though dollars were
an absolutely necessary part of a pastor's living, they were by
no means the greatest part, that Piety, wakefulness,
and activity
were of the first importance and that without these $2000.
or any
sum w o u l d not suffice to render a true pastor's life a h a p p y one.
I reminded them of their inactivity and told them that if
they w a n t e d a fixed pastor they must wake up, - that n othing
short of that would suffice.
I told them that the failure of the
En g li s h School after all their pledge to support It was a great
disappointment to us;
not indeed that Mrs. Baldwin expected to
continue the school herself, but to commit it to other & perhaps
better hands. I reminded them also of the premature d e a t h of their
Agricultural Society, because that they who voted the constitution
w h i c h was prepared would not sign it because of the h a p a h a required
for the initiation fee, although this was fully u n d e r s t o o d whe n
the constitution was adopted.
I also reminded them of their
failure to furnish potatoes & c to the pastor's family according
to their previous promise,
asking them h o w I must u n d e r s t and n e w
promises while old ones yet remained unfulfilled.
I told them
as kindly as I could that wit h such a heap of difficulties before
me
such that I could neither see through nor around the m I could
not consent to become their fixed pastor without further advice
and consultation w i t h my Brethren the missionaries.
(They w i shed
�Hana - 1857
to h a v e the installation services the first Sabbath in April) I
could not say: Y es, give me a thousand a year and I w i l l not
trouble your s t u p i d i t y .
Brethren, did I do right in hesitating under such ci rcumstan
ces, or not?
I felt that the step was a great one and ought not to
be taken hastily.
Please advise us in your w i s d o m for the case
is before y o u in f u l l detail.
We are willing,
to labor w i t h
all our might in Hana or any where else where the Lord our God
shall place us.
Do not mistake us on that point.
But do not
leave us, still strangers as we are to grope our w a y alone and
unadvised.
The Sabbath school was reorganized in January, and for awhile
seemed more flourishing, but that seems to be waning now.
The only work t h a t seems really to have gone forward aside
f r o m the increase of numbers in the church is that of improving
the condition of meeting houses.
At Wananalua nei, the church has be e n floored at an expense
of
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
$359.00
At Wailua Koolau, a new stone church has been commenced and
in some places the walls have been carried to nearly the proper
height.
Expense thus far - - - - -
-
$127.00
At Keanae K o o l a u a n e w stone church is also in progress.
The money raised thus far for this church is - - $311.00
actually expended u n k n o w n
At Kipahulu also a n e w stone church has been commenced.
Money actualy ( !) paid out - - -
--
-
5 8.87 1/2
$
At Kaupo the brethren have been preparing stone f o r a new
church, though no money has yet been expended.
�Hana -
1857
6
I ought perhaps to say that for the last six months there
has been more interest manifested in the native schools t h a n for
merly.
The Introduction of n e w blackboards throughout the dis
trict has apparently exerted a good influence.
The E n g l i s h school
is at present stopped partly for lack of a teacher, a n d partly for
lack of a sufficient number of scholars.
The progress of the natives here in the industrial pursuits
has not been marked.
I have already s p oken of the agricultural
Society and of its death while yet in embryo.
The planting of
tobacco, however, has not been neglected by the brethren, n or yet
the smoking nor the chewing.
And I firmly believe that this
tobacconi zing is the great and leading cause of the stupidity
in the the ( !) Hana church.
So also think that portion of the
church who are somewhat active, whose eyes are not so b e d i m m e d
w i t h tobacco smoke that they cannot see.
Brethren, I beg pardon for the length of this report, but
I w is h e d to speak plainly,
and fully,
of facts, that y o u m a y see
Hana at the general meeting and consult for her future and eternal
welfare.
And may the Lord guide you into all truth.
Respectfully,
Wm. O . Baldwin
Hana April 13, 1857.
�Hana 1857
Statistical table
Church members in regular standing at the
commencement of the year here reported - - - - Ad d e d on profession during the year - - - - ----"
by letter
"
"
"
- - - - - -
"
"
"
"
Restored
"
"
"
7
"
Excommunicated
_ _ _ _ _ _
"
"
4
_ _ _ ------- -- _
Births in this district - - - - - - "
10
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
W h o l e number in regular standing at the
present time - - - —
_ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
Deaths
401
1
Dismissed during the ye a r
Suspended
1167
---------
—
—
14
_
1560
—
174
- - -
140
Marriages
58
Children Baptized - - -
--
--
--
--
--
--
-
115
Contributed for repairs on the several
churches during the year
$ 5 44 . 87 1/2
For the aid of Foreign Missions
30.00
F o r the Support of Pastor - - - - - - - Value of provisions for pastors family
Amount contributed for benevolent purposes
188.50
25.00
$ 788.37 1/2
The $311.00 raised for the new church at Keanae is not included
in this
estimate.
That would make the entire sum
Wm.
[On b a c k s h e e t :
Hana
]
Report
for 1856 & 1857
W. O . Baldwin
0. Baldwin
$ 1099.37 1/2
�(1858)
Han a Station
Annual Report
To The Hawaiian Evangelical Association
D ear Brethren:
It w o u l d n o t perhaps be strange if the annual
report from this station should find y o u waiting w i t h some anxiety
to learn the progress
of events in the great field w h i c h that r e
port is expected to cover.
There was perhaps enough of discouragement expressed in the
report of this station for the last year to give rise to serious
apprehensions respecting the future.
At any rate, such apprehensions
did exist in the m ind of the pastor; and he - as he supposed an
honest m a n should - laid open the whole state of the case to those
whose right it was to counsel, direct, and repr ove according to
the w i s d o m God had given them;
and, whose advice and counsel he
ho p e d and expected to obtain.
And no one fact in his short H a w a i
ian history has produced a keener sense of disappointment than
the utter failure of that report to secure to the pastor one word
of response from any one of all his missionary brethren and
fathers.
But the pastor begins to feel that, perhaps it was best after
all,
that that appeal should prove a mere dead letter,
and he be
compelled to make his appeal to a court which always hears, for:
"When my father and my mother forsake me, then, the Lord will
take me up."
The pastor by no means wishes to b e understood as saying or
implying that all things are now as he w o u l d have them; far from
it.
"There remaineth yet muc h land to be possessed."
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2
W e returned to our home after our recruiting visit to Honolulu
in June and July last, w i t h the purpose of increasing our effort
f or the spiritual g r o w t h of this people.
And, through the k i n d
ness of our heavenly Father the former hindrances to our personal
efforts have been in some measure removed.
Pastoral l a b o r s .
measure
The labors of the pastor have b e e n in some
increased during the past year.
He has visited all of
his outstations five times and two of them six times during the.
year.
In two instances he was accompanied by his wife.
On r e t u r n
ing fro m her visit to Koolau the pastors wife fell from her horse
while descending the steepest part of the steepest p a l i in our
field.
But as merciful Providence w o u l d have It, she fell u p o n
her husband, who was, at the time, leading her horse;
and neither
of them received the slightest injury.
The pastor's health has been so continued that he has b e e n
able to preach every Sabbath since his return to Hana in July.
Also to attend the weekly prayer meeting on Wednesdays,
lecture occassionally ( !) on Fridays.
and to
At the Wednesday prayer
meeti n g a portion of scripture previously given out is read,
of
w h i c h the pastor gives a practical exposition according to his
ability.
He has also just completed a n e w tour throughout his field
for the purpose of searching out the wandering sheep,
of correcting the
and also
church rol l wh i c h was thought to be imperfect.
It was found that many, whose names stood undisturbed upo n the roll
of the Church, h a d either entered upon their eternal state,
were no longer known to the lunas of the Church.
The result
or
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3
of course is a new church r o l l in accordance w i t h which the statis
tics of the present report w ill be made out.
There were also a
few who gave undoubted evidence of church membership whose names
h a d b e e n omitted in the former imperfect record.
It is not sup
pose d that the record is yet entirely perfect, but the pastor
intends to spare no pains to make it as nearly perfect as possible.
About the first of October, difficulties at Kaupo, w h i c h h a d
their origin years ago, h a d assumed such shape that it was thought
the proper time had come for some decisive action.
The pastor
therefore removed J. Mawae the licensed preacher laboring there to
Koola u the opposite extremity of his field, for the reason that,
while he greatly needed the
the ( !) assistance of one or more
subpreachers in his field he was fully convinced that har mony could
never exist in the Kaupo church while Mawae remained as preacher
there.
The removal seems thus far to have worked well.
The pastor has also acquired an undesired and un d e s e rved fame
f or medical skill w h i c h has drawn largely upon his time.
He is also expected to know what will reconcile mutually
offending parties, re-unite the fragments of a family jar, how
peace and happiness
mutual love.
can be found in the marriage relation without
And, besides no one but he knows h o w to h e a l failing
spectacles and lamps, and correct refractory clocks.
This may seem
strange work for a pastor, b u t wh e n a good old deacon comes with
his spectacles and says: "Please men d them soon,
for I cannot
"
r ead my Bible until they are repaired,
This very thing occurred last week.
why, what is to be done?
In such cases the Hana
�Hana 1858
pastor mends the
4
spectacles.
State of R e l i g i o n .
The state of religion in this field
at the commencement of the year, might wel l he called a spiritual
death.
The house of God seemed well n i g h forsaken.
A deathlike
stupor seemed to hol d as it were spell hound the great body of the
chu r ch.
This was the state of things at the time the last report
was w r i t t e n and gave its peculiar character to that report.
state
1858.
This
of affairs continued w i t h no material change u n t i l January
At that time the Sacrament of the Lord's supper was a d m inis
tered at the several outstations in succession.
E a c h of these
seasons was preceded by a season of fasting and prayer during which,
cases requiring discipline were attended to of which there were a
truly alarming number, and the larger part of these were among
the older members of the church.
The whole number set aside at
this communion was 45.
In April a communion season for the united churches
of this
field was held at Hana, preceded as before by fasting and prayer
and Church discipline.
On the first day of the fast, w h i c h con
tinued two days the roll of the Hana church was called, and inquiry
made into the condition of each absent member.
10 we r e set aside.
At this communion
The pastor h a d previously told the church,
that such a state of indifference to the demands of the Gospel
could not and w o u l d not be allowed to continue,
and that though he
h a d heretofore deferred employing all his functions f r o m a want of
acquaintance wit h their language, he dared not defer any longer;
and that a refusal to comply with the plain demands of the Gospel
wo u l d subject t h e m to discipline;
and, the actual commencement of
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labor with the unruly,
in earnest.
activity,
5
seemed to convince them that the pastor was
And they have awakened to something of commendable
for w h i c h all thanks to the Great Shepherd whose power
has blessed our feeble efforts.
The Church were moreover constant
ly remin d e d that the fear of discipline was not the true motive to
Christian effort, b u t that a higher, nobler principle was ever
present, urging the true disciples on to devotion and to labor
for his loving, yet suffering Lord.
Our meetings are n o w better
attended than they have ever been before, and we hope for yet
better things to c o m e .
And while recording the Lords doings among us, we cannot
omit to mention that the Lord of the harvest has seen fit to gather
some of his
Ripe F r u i t .
their rest.
Three of our church lunas have recently gone to
The last of these was that old, long tried,
loving friend of the cause of Christ,
loved, and
"Abia H o p u " , our brother
in adversity and our comforter in distress.
He died on Sunday
the 2nd inst. rejoicing in hope of the Glory of God.
It was my
privilege to converse frequently w i t h h i m during his sickness;
and a firmer more unshaken trust in Christ I have never h e a r d
expressed.
He said to his wife a day or two before his death that
he wanted to die on Sunday, and he believed the Lord w o u l d grant
his wish;
and so it proved.
At the ver y hour w h e n the brethren
were entering the house of God below, he entered the congregation
of the redeemed on high.
Would that they who call the Hawaiian Mission a failure could
have witnessed the death of Abia Hopu.
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Benevolence.
6
W i t h i n the last f e w months the b r e t h r e n and
sisters have shown an increased interest in the cause of Missions.
Their cash contributions have not indeed b e e n great, for they are
r eall y poor; but wherever they could labor and see that their ef
forts were of real service to the cause, they have engaged w i t h a
truly commendable interest.
Consequently their thoughts have been
turned tow ards giving such articles as they possess or can readily
obtain wh i c h w i l l be of real service to the missionaries at Fatuh i v a and Micronesia.
They have contributed money w h i c h has been
devoted, in part, to the purchase of cloth which they w i t h some
little assistance have c ut and made into garments to be sent to
the above named missionaries.
forwarded.
Micronesia.
A part of these have already b e e n
More wil l be ready when the Morning Star sails for
They have in this way prepared upwards of one hundred
garments.
We have estimated the labor at
$
11.50
a ready sale amount to
$
75.10
making an aggregate of
$
86.60
Their contributions of money and articles finding
The first contribution for the support of the pastor's
family was made Feb. 20 and amounted to
-
-
-
$
0.50
Since that time more commendable exertions have b e e n made
and the whole amount received from the Church during the
year in mo n e y and labor is
The pastor is expected to collect $200.
$ 158.25.
of his yearly sup
port from the people, but he has not yet been able to do it.
The
balance due for the last two years if $ 55.25.
He hopes, however,
and expects that greater exertions will
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7
be made during the coming year than have b e e n during the past.
Certainly greater efforts are necessary to render permanent the
pastor's residence at Hana.
Morality.
The general morality of this people has undergone
very little change during the past year.
The pastor has i t is true,
come in contact with more of the fruit s of vice than formerly;
but he
sees no reason to suppose that vice itself has essentially
incre a s e d in his field during the past year.
There have indeed
been some alarming developments especially of
Int e m p e r a n c e .
We have already alluded to the great number of
cases of discipline In our field.
Fortyfive of the fifty five
cases were for drinking fermented potato, and thirty five of these
were at Kaupo.
Many others besides Church members were of course
guilt y at the time.
The temptation, indeed originated among the
Catholics and Mormons.
And, the whole thing began and almost
entirely subsided in the space of a single month.
But a foreigner
f r o m Honolulu appears to be about setting up a beer ma n u f actoring
in the parts, and we greatly fear that the evil spirits w h i c h will
enter in and dwell there will outnumber those of the swept and
garnished house of Scripture.
Mormonism.
Elders,
Mormonism is at a low ebb.
All Its foreign
but one, have left for Salt Lake, and that one is n o w at
work by the m o n t h on the plantation.
Catholicism.
The catholics have recommenced their church at
Puuiki and s e e m likely to complete it.
Beyond this this
( !) they
appear to b e exerting no new influence; but doubtless the new
church w h e n completed will attract some to leave us.
But It is
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good to f e e l that the Lord knoweth them that are his,
8
and will
preserve them f r o m the worship of the beast.
Idolatry.
Church,
and the
Two men, one an expelled member from the Makawao
other, a member,
at the time in regular standing,
in this Hana Church, brought up a rock f r o m the ocean, built a
house for it, and placed it therein and anounted it their god,
offering their sacrifices to it and placing food before it, which
was devoured (by the ants & rats) and the whole affair seemed
under fu ll headway before it became known to the pastor and l u n a s .
But it was soon disposed of.
Two of the lunas suddenly made war
against it, broke down the image and reduced it to fragments
in spite of the protestations of its devotees and in defiance of
the w r a t h of the insulted god who
in coming time.
threat.
Alas !
(they said) would avenge himself
And not a few were actually terrified by their
for poor w eak human nature!
We believe however that God has m a d e even the w r a t h of m a n
and the Devil to praise h i m in this very thing.
It has shown
these poor natives their weakness and caused them to pray more
earnestly for strengthening grace.
May God in mercy hear their
prayer.
Hana Maui
May 13: 1858
Respectfully Submitted
Wm. O . Baldwin
(On b a c k page:)
W.O. Baldwin's
Report for 1857 & 8
R e cd. May 21, 1858
for
Hana, Maui
�(1859)
Hana Station
Annual Report
Once more the season has arrived when it becomes m y duty to
report the progress of events in the k ingdom of our Lord, as they
have
transpired in Hana.
The year we n o w report has had its lights and shadows,
its
Joys and its Sorrows to encourage or sadden the heart of the lone
ly missionaries at the Hana Station.
Not that the pastor himself
has severely suffered personally, f r o m loneliness;
that b u r d e n has
been b o r n e by the pastor's wife, until she has staggered beneath
its crushing weight.
Those long seasons of anxious watching w i t h
the little sufferer, whose aching head is at last at rest on his
Savior's bosom, h a d well n igh ruined the constitution of h er w ho
gave it birth.
She left home about the first of April, to try the
effect of change of air and climate and has not yet returned.
The usual amount of pastoral labor has been perf o r m e d in this
field during the past year, w i t h the exception that the pastor has
travelled, personally,
somewhat less than during the past year,
among his outstations,
in consequence of the circumstances of his
family.
But the wants of the people have not been neglected.
The
ready activity of Kamakahiki, who has b een employed as assistant,
has done m u c h to supply the defect in pastoral visiting.
Joseph Mawae still remains at Koolau, and has bee n doing well,
though less faithful in reporting than I could wish.
W e have as yet no assistant permanently located at Kaupo.
Our hopes have been sadly delayed in that quarter.
At the close
of the Seminary year of Lahainaluna in 1858, one of the graduating
class, a good scholar, and o f good standing In the church, re-
�Hana 1 8 5 9
2.
turned to his fathers home in Kaupo.
He was immediately employed as subpreacher there, but sub
sequent e v e n t s led to his dismissal f r o m that office, he h aving
in t h e p a s t o r ’s estimation shown himself unworthy to h o l d It.
The brethren at Kaupo, also h olding the same opinion.
The state of religion among us is very difficult to describe
without going very m u c h into details.
The field as our brethren are aware is made up of several
parts almost entirely separated one f r o m the other.
u al life,
As to spirit
these parts seem entirely distinct from each other.
Kipahulu seems almost dead.
Kaupo seems about to w a k e f r o m
a long sleep.
Hana has opened her eyes and is trying to find out
where she is.
Koolau is awake, standing,
clothes and in h e r
right m i n d but struggling with d i f f i c u l t i e s .
Distinct and separate, however as these different parts of
our field are, there is one evil which has been common to all
parts & which has most sorely tried us.
It is that Bacchanalian
feast known at Han a by the name of Lau l i m a .
I know not whether the nature of this feast is w e l l understood
by any now in this mission,
found
although the evil is an old one.
We
it there on our arrival nearly four years ago, b u t d id not
t h e n understand its character.
Further time, however has served
to make it plain, and the evil has b e e n increasing among us casting
Its withering blights on every effort to arouse the C h u r c h fr o m
Its dream of security in sin.
Fully believing that nothing could be done effectually to
puri f y the Church with that sink of pollution In her midst,
I
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3
called together our lunas and laid the matter before them, having
previously written out a pledge wh i c h I thought all the members
of the church ought to sign as a prerequisite to c o ming to the
Lord's table.
This pledge required an immediate and entire
abstinence from all further participation in the iniquity of
the Laulima.
Horseracing,
The more prominent of these evils were Adultery,
fighting, card playing, a n d the Hula, but as sorcery
was being practised together wit h a renewal of sacrifices to their
ancient deities, these were also included in the pledge.
This
pledge was read before the lunas; they were then asked if they
w o u l d give the pastor their support and cooperation in requiring
it of every member of the church as a prerequisite to coming to
the Lords table f rom that time forward.
The lunas all offered
the pa s t o r their support and unhesitatingly signed the pledge.
W i t h that we went forward,
and the greater part of the c h urch have
already gi v e n their names,
and others are waiting the opportunity.
Some however,
as was anticipated, have refused to sign, and are
indignant that any attack should be made on their orgies.
The effect of this action, thus far, has been an almost e n
tire suppression of Laulimas in that District;
and f rom that time
forward there has b e e n more of spiritual life manifested in the
church than has been befo r e for the last two y e a r s .
It was said that Kipahulu seemed n o w almost dead.
This is
true, but the cause is not the Laulimas at this time.
At the time of the election of the n e w representative from
our District a person w e l l known in this kingdom who h a d been
excommunicated from the church at Wailuku,
came to Kipahulu and
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4
by dint of cunning succeeded in inducing the lunas to invite h i m
to b e their preacher for the Sabbath preceding that election.
They wel l knowing h i m to be an excommunicated m e m b e r , The pastor
immediately called the Kipahulu lunas to an account for s u c h a
violation of all rule & order.
They saw their error, p u b licly con-
fesse d it with a full promise never to do anything of that kind
again.
The violator of the pulpit was, of course very angry with
the Han a pastor,
and as this move has some influence in Kipahulu,
their present condition is not perhaps strange.
"One sinner d e
stroyeth mu c h g o o d . ”
The number of cases of discipline has been quite large this
year, showing that w e have great reason to pray that these poor
Ignorant creatures may not be led into temptation.
Twentyfive have been excommunicated from the Hana churches
during the past year and seven suspended, making thirtytwo in all,
14 at Hana, 4 at Koolau, 2 at Kipahulu and 12 at K a u p o .
Three
have b e e n regularly dismissed, and five wanderers restored.
One
has bee n received by letter and 14 on profession of their faith
thus diminishing the roll of the church by 15, and 16 children
have b e e n baptized.
The number of deaths was not r e p o r t e d to the
pastor and hence is not reported here.
In the matter of contributions
the church have somewhat changed
their course; not however at the recommendation or suggestion of
the pastor, but at their own option.
The amount contributed has been rather more than it was last
year, b u t less has b e e n g i v e n for Foreign Missions,
a n d more for
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5
the support of the pastor's family.
The contributions for Foreign Missions w e estimate at 50
dollars of w h i c h $30. have b e e n in money.
The amount paid in for
the support of Pastor during the yea r is $293.40 w h i c h is more than
has b e e n received before by about $ 1 0 0 .
The amount expended in Church erection is more difficult to
estimate.
It has been the labor of willing hands and earnest hearts
amid great discouragements.
in progress.
Four new houses of w o r s h i p are n o w
Of one of these the walls
are now nearly complete
(Wailuanui) of another (Keanae) they are about 6 ft. high.
Of
another (Kaupo) they are now engaged in collecting the materials.
The stone are ( !) nearly all cut.
The other is the church at Kipahulu which has been interrupted
by the
action of the man on whose land the natives h a d b e g u n to
build it.
He h a d agreed to sell t h e m the land and the deed was
made out, but w i t hheld by the seller, as it appears, bec a use
the
pastor did not give h i s influence in favor of electing h i m to a
seat in the house
of Representatives,
at the election before a l
luded to.
The church purpose removing the materials already collected
on said grounds to a piece of land on w h i c h they have a claim,
although the situation is less agreeable.
The house where the pastor has b e e n heretofore entertained
is on the land of the same
individual, who owns the old Church lot,
and the brethren assisted in building it on the condition that it
should be a house of entertainment for the pastor, b u t the
pastor is now forbidden to trespass upon those grounds or to enter
that house.
I mak e this statement that my brethren of the Hawaiian
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Missi o n may see how huhu [ angry]
the Hon.
6
exmember of the Hawaiian
Legislature can get w h e n his plans are frustrated.
M a y the Lord
cause the w r a t h of even this man to praise him, and the p eople
learn that "it is better to trust i n the Lord than to put confi
dence
in princes."
The schools in this District have made commendable progress
during the year, better than during any preceding year of the
present pastor's residence among them.
Mormonism seems dead, although four of our church hav e
left
us to join t h e m d u ring the year.
Catholicism has made no new demonstrations here except in its
strenuous efforts
to circulate the new catholic paper.
Idolatry has again appeared among us.
be
A woman professing to
endued with divine power and skill to give light to the blind
and soundness to the lame, if they w i l l follow her directions which
quite a number have b e e n attempting to do.
She directs t hem to
sleep in a haleakua [g o d house] built by her directions, a n d to
pra y to the god that inspires her, and acts through her.
O
w h e n shall Satan's empire be demolished and the d a r k night
of ignorance and superstition no longer b r o o d over the poor
Hawaiian.
May 14, 1859
Wm.
O . Baldwin
�Hana Report
1862
Hana Station
Report of S. E. Bishop
In all, three months and a h a l f have been spent in the present
field of labor during the past year.
One visit was mad e
in June
1862, in company w i t h Father A l e x a n d e r , to the different portions
of this field; at this time the churches of Kaupo and K o o l au were
organized as distinct from that of Hana, by direction of P resby
tery .
In September another visit was made in company w i t h Dr.
lick, who
everywhere advocated the cause of missions,
Gu-
awakening a
great Interest.
My labors as Chaplain to Seamen at Lahaina closing on the last
day of N o v e m b e r , I then proceeded to Hana,
and spent one m o n t h
in the field, returning to my family at Lahaina on the 1st of
January.
On the 17th of that month a daughter was b o r n to us.
On t h e 12th of March w e bade farewell to our home of 9 years abid
ing at Lahaina,
and proceeded to our n e w abode.
Our route was by
steamer to Makena, thence four days travel by land via K ahikinue,
Kaupo and Kipahulu.
We arrived here on the 17th.
A schooner w i t h
our goods which sailed from Lahaina on the same day w i t h ourselves,
was driven back by stormy weather, and did not reach H a n a until
the 19th.
We were soon comfortably settled in the M i s s i o n House,
wh i c h w e found convenine t , and in tolerable repair.
Since then, some h a r d wor k has been performed chiefly of a
tentative and preliminary nature.
Preaching upo n the Sabbath
has thus far bee n confined to this Station and n e ighboring villages.
Congregations here averaging about 110 Sabbath a.m.; p.m. about 5 0 ;
�H an a 1862
Wednesdays about 30 (?).
2
At Village meetings from 30 to 50.
During the past m o n t h I have preached every Tuesday at Nahiku,
and each Thursday at Kipahulu,
ride e a c h way f r o m the station.
places about three hours
Hereafter these points are to be
visit e d each fortnight, and intermediate points at other times.
The quarterly visits are now due to the churches of K o olau
and Kaupo, w h i c h are under the same pastoral care as Hana, but
supplied w i t h stated preaching b y L. Kaono, and H. Manase,
tiates of the Presbytery
licen
of Maui a n d Molokai.
A system of visiting has bee n commenced, which has n o w extended
about two miles
each way from the station.
personally visited,
and standing noted.
Every house has been
and all persons found conversed with, & names
This course is adopted for the sake of a
better mutual acquaintance between people and pastor,
personal knowledge of their condition.
a n d of a
It is hoped to e x tend these
visits through the whole field.
In the districts visited, about 55 perct. of the a d u lt po p u
lation are found to be Protestant church members,
Romanists,
connection.
about 22 per ct.
11 percent Mormons, and 12 per ct. not h a ving any church
I should take this to b e nearly the p r o p ortion t h r o u g h
out t h e field.
As to comparative Intelligence and character,
the
Protestants comprise the great majority of the best in these r e s
pects, w i t h few of very low condition.
The Catholics f o r m rather
a m e d i u m class, wit h few very prosperous or intelligent, and
some very degraded.
The Mormons as a class, appear to belong to
the most degraded of the community, w i t h a few active intelligent
persons among them.
Among the Mormons,
there appears
nearly total absence of moral instruction.
to be a
�H a n a 1862
Yet
of our
3
though so far superior to others, h o w low is the condition
own church members .
This visitation has satisfied me that
vice is prevalent in the church.
It would appear that a majority
of the church frequently fall into adultery;
in it habitually.
and many of t hem live
It is believed that more than hal f of them would
easily be induced to connive at the prostitution of their daughters
These
things they have b e e n strenuously taught are wrong;
in a slight degree learned the lesson.
with t h e m fro m infancy,
and have
Still having b een familiar
and practiced them unrestrainedly in youth,
their dull consciences are but slightly awakened on the subject,
and the offence is regarded as but slight and venial.
Yet,
except
in cases where the sin is habitually persisted in, may w e not hope
that Divine grace may be truly and effectually wor k i n g to restrain
and cleanse.
ment
For one, I w o u l d exercise the same charitable
towards these wea k c h i l d r e n of a degraded race, as
our more enlightened brethren, who
judg
towards
so commonly yield to what they
in their turn consider the more venial faults of w a n t of candor
and strict honesty of dealing.
Perhaps the enthroning of chastity
as a cardinal virtue is to b e one of the last triumphs of the Gos
pel a m o n g this people.
Because Its claims are yet unrecognized,
it does not prove that Divine grace is not truly working in m u l t i
tudes
of souls, nor that the work of the Gospel is not successfully
proceeding.
For the past three months,
drunkenness has bee n v e r y prevalent
W i t h a r i c h and exhaustless soil, and almost perpetual moisture,
lack of food exists through neglect and Indolence,
have b e e n compelled to dig ti-root to eat.
tation to ferment the juice.
and the people
This affords a t e m p
I have evidence that a m a j ority of
a
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the church indulge more or less
tobacco
4
in this practice.
is quite open and general among them.
The culture of
Awa is extensively
cultivated by some church members, and bought and sold b y others.
I believe that few of t h e m use it.
It is thus apparent that there is a strong call f o r disci p l i
nary measures.
The discipline of the church has n aturally b e e n
neglected in the absence of a pastor.
A prominent church member
the brother of the preacher Kamakahiki, has been for more than a
yea r cultivating awa, yet no one would disclose the f act to me;
nor w h e n on penetrating the interior I discovered his plantation,
would the chh. members tell to whom i t belonged,
and I was indebted
to a Mormon f o r the Information, a disclosure which appeared to
give h i m much satisfaction.
The elders afterwards reluctantly
owned that they knew of it.
The Bible or N. T e s t . is found in the houses of a m a jority
of Chh. members
in the vicinity of the station.
but little read by most of them.
ture at family worship.
It appears to be
A small minority read the Sc r i p
Other books are rare.
Tracts, newspapers
or Hymn books are found only in a small proportion of their houses.
In a few cases, c h u r c h members were found, who h a d not yet
seen their new pastor, scarcely he a r d of him.
away by age or feebleness,
Some h a d been kept
others by indifference.
In a few cases
the visitor's character was not disclosed, until various e xperi
ments wer e tried,
in every case eliciting an utter infirmity of
belief and lameness of practice.
former was startling.
The latter was expected - the
A n entire confidence was expressed by aged
and seemingly worthy Christians in Mormonism, Romanism,
and Cal
v i n i s m as alike pono [ the right] , and acceptable to God - a degree
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of liberality of sentiment,
free thinker.
pinion.
5
such as would gratify the most sensitive
It seemed to be the expression of the g e n e r a l o-
The preference for the "pono Kalavina" was founded on
personal connections & habitual attachments; not on any conviction
of truth.
Is this, or not, the common state of feeling among our
churc h members?
Industry is somewhat active in the immediate vicinity, under
the auspices of Messrs. Needham & Co. who are establishing a Sugar
plantation.
Koolau,
selves.
The people are buying largely of Poi and f i s h from
as well as planting taro & potatoes extensively for them
The leading crop of the season throughout this r egion
A trifling attempt has b e e n made to cultivate
seems to be tobacco.
rice.
Two persons have a few choice cotton plants.
four lots of coffee trees in bearing.
The whole district is well
adapted to a great variety of productions.
b eyon d the supply of immediate wants.
I have found
Yet very little is done
Improved houses are rare.
There are four framed & clapboarded houses in this village owned
by natives,
and but one other in the whole field.
few houses with windows.
Very rarely,
There are a
a table or chair is to be
found.
In the entire lack of assurance as to the sources of my future
support, I have felt constrained to make some provision by b e g i n
ning to cultivate a portion of the Mission land w i t h Sugar cane,
say 10 or more acres .
teams in t h e district.
per m o n t h and food.
The ploughing Is done by natives owning
Plenty of good hands can b e h a d for $5.
This work promises to furnish means of support
w i t h less diversion of time and strength from Missionary wor k than
any other.
Yet with the wide and varied calls for pastoral labor
on every side, it is h ard to be obliged to spend any time in
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other p u r s u i t s .
Christian L i b e r a l i t y .
The people of Hana completed the roo f
ing and repairs of their church a year ago, at a considerable ex
pense.
They have never paid anything to Kamakahiki, who has
zealously labored among them in the Gospel, according to his
ability,
and has had to maintain himself besides.
buted a small sum to Missions through Dr. Gulick.
They c o ntri
Together with
the people of Kipahulu and Nahiku they have formally a g reed to raise
$400.
for the support of their new pastor, and have organized
measures for that end.
I have good hopes of receiving about half
that sum.
The people of Kipahulu have built a fine stone chapel about 50
by 30 ft., w i t h shingle roof, floors pulpit,
first of February.
all paid for by the
The church of Kaupo have also n e a r l y completed
a similar building, having lately r a ised more than the remaining
amount needed at a great feast held for the purpose.
The Koolau
people are building two similar houses, at Wailua, and at Keanae.
The people of Nahiku are also preparing to build.
vity thus appears in c h u r c h building.
A special a c t i
Kamakahiki has b e e n the
m o v i n g spirit in this work, for w h i c h he appears to possess a p e
culiar genius.
Kaupo and Koolau c h h s . have only paid in part the meagre sti
pend of $ 1 0 0 . per annum, promised to their preachers, w h o are able
and laborious y o u n g men.
Schools are in a tolerable condition,
means
so far as I have the
of judging, not having yet instituted any special examination.
There are some active teachers, h o w able I know not.
been seen to show them to be a great means of good,
Enough has
i f but In
instilling a sort of order and thoughtfulness among otherwise
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vagabond children.
Statistics of the church and of contributions I am quite
unable to furnish in the present Report.
present a confused aspect.
rectify the confusion.
The Church records
Nor has there been time to u n r a v e l and
Another year it is hoped will find these
things arranged.
I have sought to give a faithful and impartial picture of the
condition of the church and population of this field; wit hout em
bellishing what is good or magnifying what is evil.
Y e t in con
cluding this report, the leading impression is, how m u c h there is
that is good, what manifest progress is manifest out of h e a t h e n i s m
towards Christian civilization.
and grace steadily at work.
W hat evidences of Divine power
At present the state of R e l i g i o n Is
dull and cold.
But this can and in a breath by the power of the
Spirit of God.
May he soon breathe upo n us,
that w e m a y live.
S. E . Bishop
Hana,
M a y 4, 1862
Abstract of Report.
Three months and a half have b e e n spent In the field.
labors as Chaplain at Lahaina closed on the 30th o f Nov.,
My
and our
removal was effected on the 12th of March.
3 Tours have been made throughout the field.
held latterly at two distant points.
house has been begun,
W e e k l y meetings
A system of visiting every
and extended two miles each way.
So far
55 per ct of adults are found to b e Protestant church members, 22
per ct. Papists,
and 11 per ct. Mormons.
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8
A great prevalence of vice i s found in the church,
vastly less than outside of it.
though
Drunkenness is very prevalent.
Awa is extensively cultivated and trafficked in.
Discipline has
been long neglected.
The Scriptures are found in a majority of Protestant houses.
Pew read them. -Pew books or papers are found.
Industry is advancing.
A sugar plantation is being established
and the Pastor himself is trying to raise some cane.
The Hana house of worship is repaired.
completed.
Also one at Koolau.
2 i n progress.
That at K i p ahulu just
At Keanae a n d Wailua in Koolau are
But little has been paid for the support of
preachers.
Ho Statistics ready.
-
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Report of Hana Station, 1862 - 3.
S. E. Bishop
The missionary has completed his first entire year of labor
at this Station.
There has been no interruption f r o m sickness of
himself or family.
The regular Sabbath labors have been maintained, at the Sta
tion,
including a 4 o'clock service at some village w i t h i n a few
miles .
An occasional Sabbath has been spent w i t h the people of
Kipahulu and Nahiku,
o'clock service
stations at three hours distance, w i t h a 3
at Puuhawa on the road bac k fro m Kipahulu.
been endeavored to make
It has
these visits regularly each quarter w i t h the
administration of the Sacrament at those out - s t a t i o n s .
The regular
Quarterly visits have b e e n made to the Churches of Kaupo and Koolau,
each occupying from Thursday until Monday.
Every Thursday the pastor
visits Nahiku or Kipahulu alternately, holding meetings and classes
of instruction, w i t h occasional meetings and other labors at inter
vening points.
Each Tuesday noon,
is hel d a Bible Class and Prayer
Meeting of the Women, at the Pastor's house.
On Wednesdays, are
held, at 10 A.M. a class for instruction of Candidates for church
membership at 11, the regular Services of worship, followed by a
class in the Class-book of Theology.
These have b e e n the routine duties of the parish a n d field,
besides the numberless occasional and incidental ones familiar to
every missionary.
Besides these pastoral labors,
the planting and cultivation
of a field of ten acres of Su g a r -cane has been superintended.
This has prospered in growth, b u t the manufacturing of the crop
is an ■uncertainty,
on account of the small capacity of the works
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at the Hana Plantation.
2
The missionary has found this w o r k at times
a serious impediment to his pastoral labors, the one or the other
b e i n g necessarily slighted.
150 bushels of corn were also raised
among the young cane, in order to help meet expenses of planting.
About 400 dollars of debt wil l have b e e n incurred in this w o r k b e
fore the crop can be realized,
a n d if every way prospered,
m ay be obtained for the crop, possibly $1200.
thus to combine secular w i t h spiritual
the Treasury of the Board,
$1 0 0 0 .
It may be a duty
labors, in order to relieve
and probably there is no w a y in wh i c h
it could b e done w i t h less care & more prospective profit, but
it seems an undesirable thing in a large and neglected field which
needs a man's whole energies of soul in uninterrupted activity to
impel the torpid mass
of heathenism.
It could be done w i t h less
loss to the work, w h e n that work was thoroughly organized and in
effective progress.
Straitened pecuniary means have laid too heavy a weight of
domestic labor u p o n the pastor's wife, having compelled her to
work-basket
spend over the stove, the sewing m a chine ( !) and the ironingtable, much time that should have been occupied in learning the
Hawaiian language and instruction of females,
and n e u r a l g ia has
already p l a c e d its stern veto upon any increase of h e r labors.
Two of the most promising half-caste pupils of her former boardingschool at Lahaina are still members of the family,
and w i t h our own
children, receive what b o o k instruction the mother's time and
strength allow.
The pastor has performed the principal labor in the children's
Sabbath School at the Station, w h i c h has b e e n considerable,
from
the lack of any religious books of any sort whatever on a level
w i t h children's
capacities.
Hence oral instruction has been almost
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solely relied on,
3
the use of a book being followed by immediate
listlessness and disorder.
Portions of the Catechism hav e been
read by the teacher, repeated by the children,
and expatiated upon.
Repea t e d & continued efforts have failed to secure the committing
of anything to memory by mos t of the scholars; it has only driven
them awa y from the school.
They have during the year b e c o m e fa m i
liar w i t h a considerable number of Bible stories, and w i t h several
chapters of the Catechism,
including part of the Commandments.
An attempt was made to hold a Bible Class for adults in the
morni n g after the c h i l d r e n ’s Sabbath School.
It was found di f f i
cult to secure their attendance so early, many living at a great
distance,
and the uninterrupted labor was found to unfit the teach
er for the later duties of the day.
Hence the afternoon service
has latterly (?) b e e n changed into a general Bible Class of the
whole congregation.
eagerness.
About
one half remain,
and engage in it w i t h
The other half decamp, being those church members,
who
having had least interest in the Word of God, are the most In need
of Instruction.
The W o m e n 's prayer-meeting and Bible class has b e e n attended
by f r o m 8 to 12 females.
Portions of Scripture have b e e n selected
for instruction, bearing upo n the duties of women,
of the Holy Women of old.
immediate vicinity,
ages.
Those who attend,
also the histories
are m o stly f r o m the
and are the best classes in the church, of all
There is manifest among them a desire for improvement.
of t h e m pray fluently.
Many
But all have shewn extreme ignorance of
the scripture and Divine truth.
young woman f r o m Lahaina.
The only exception w a s
that of a
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The Class for Hooikaikas, Catechumens,
or Candidates for church
membership has existed for about three months.
Many of the members
h a d previously attended the women's meeting, but it was found that
the same persons presented themselves again and again f o r Chh.
privileges, w i t h [out] progress in knowledge, although r e commended
as bringing forth other fruit of good works.
It has b e e n slenderly
attended, proving that the hooika ika [to make stong] was rather
n a w aliwali [wea k ] , although three or four individuals have b e e n quite
constant.
Only six persons have been found during the year who
have b e e n judged worthy to be admitted to the fellowship of the
Church.
There are several others who are promising.
admitted since the commencement of my labors in Hana,
Of those
several have
stood substantially well, and none have given cause for Exclusion,
although a majority have relaxed the attention they previously
manifested.
The class in Theology using Mr. Alexander's Class-book has
been maintained since last August,
Chapter 9.
and have proceeded as far as
The members of th i s class are about 12 in number,
con
sisting of some of the church lunas, and some of the most intelli
gent young men.
They constitute the elite of the church.
are truly intelligent.
They have all received a great deal of B i b
lical instruction from former pastors.
through this book.
All
Some have previously be e n
It is almost the sole exercise of the pastor
w i t h his flock, which i s not a dealing w i t h inveterate ignorance
and stupidity,
to the sore weariness
C ongre g a t i o n s .
of the flesh and spirit.
The average congregation on the m orning of
the Sabbath at Wananalua, has been about 100, rather over than
under,
In fine weather occasionally rising to 130, and on Commun-
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ion Sabbaths to 150 or 180.
5
Afternoon services have averaged 60.
At the 4 o'clock preaching at an outpost, there is u s u a l l y an
audience of 40 to 60, many of them having been unable or indis
posed to attend the services at the Church.
At Nahiku, a congregation of 40 has been found u p o n Thursdays,
and of 70 upon the Sabbath.
At Kipahulu,
Thursday, and 120 on the Sabbath.
about 40 on Sabbath.
of 20 besides schools on
At Puuhawa, a m o u n t a i n hamlet,
Occasional instruction has b e e n gi v en to
hooikaikas at Nahiku a n d Kipahulu,
and usually to school-children.
A class has just been formed at Kipahulu in the book on Theology.
Our Wednesday
services were conducted until last February,
w i t h lectures in course, and were very thinly attended, n o t w i t h
standing every effort to render them interesting.
a dozen would come.
Often not over
In March, a change was made, reverting to what
was at that time learned to have b een the former pastor's method,
for which a general desire was expressed.
A test is a s s igned on
the Sabbath, upon w h i c h the members of one fourth of the church
are expected to prepared themselves and explain,
patiate on Wednesday.
and corrects the whole.
expound and ex
Other members follow, and the pastor adds to
There has been a greatly increased atten
dance of about 50 as the result, muc h talent has b e e n c a lled out,
m u c h investigation of the Ss. [Scriptures?
]
incited, attention
has b e e n stimulated and fixed on important scriptures,
and the
pastor has h a d opportunity to study the min d & views of his hearers
instructions
and effectively to adapt his remarks
( !) to aro u s e d minds.
Tried by a critical standard, much of the brethren's speeches consists of mere verbosity & strugglings for thought, without actual
birth of ideas, yet often an idea is actually b rought to light,
and a good one, and the very effort has b e e n profitable to the
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speaker.
Many of them display much industry in collecting collat
eral passages.
Usually one or more of our accomplished lunas aid
with valuable comments and applications, so that sometimes the
pastor finds little left for himself to do.
Special attention has been paid to securing D e c o r u m in
W o r s h i p , and a great improvement has b een visible in this r e s p e c t ,
in all parts of the field.
of the Elements
Formerly, at the time of distribution
of the Lord's Supper, there was great confusion,
disorder and merriment.
All this has now ceased.
A general q u i e t
ness pervades the house, during prayer, and even the children are
gradually learning to kee p their seats and be quiet.
Our si nging continues to be in a wretched condition.
The
pastor has no skill In the art, w herewith to promote an amendment,
nor is there any competent choir-leader. Hence irregularity in
distressing
attendance of the singers, and constant
( !) break-downs in
performance.
Houses of W orship.
That at Wananalua continues in the same
substantially good condition as before, rough but commodious.
It
is planned to get it furnished with seats during the coming year,
in place of the present crude (?) and break-down settees.
At
Kipahulu there is an excellent house, as reported last year.
At
P u u h a w a , M u olea, H a o u , M a k a a l a e , and H a m o a , are rude meeting
houses, of stones and thatch, used also some of them as schoolhouses.
At Nahiku is one of the very best of the latter class,
wh i c h the people are preparing to replace by a plastered and shingled
one.
Support of Pastor.
this duty freely.
The people have not yet learned to perform
They agreed,
through their leaders, & those
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present at a public meeting before my settlement,
per annum.
7
to pay $400.
Lists were made out, and each able member m a l e & female
assessed in proportion to ability, at an average of less tha n one
dolla r a p i e c e ,
Probably there has been no great efficiency in
making the collections, although there is reason to believe that
all have been called upon more than once.
As the result,
$141.81
have been received by the pastor, during the past year, since May
1, 1862.
It is believed that by well-directed efforts,
ma y be muc h increased in another year,
this amount
perhaps as hig h as $ 2 0 0 .
Probably that would be the extent of their liberality, u n t i l general
progress In knowledge and piety led them higher.
heavily taxed for church-building,
Should they be
it w o u l d probably diminish
materially the amount raised for the pastor.
General B e n e v o l e n c e .
The time and the method hav e not appeared
clear for systematic applications for contributions to missions,
but the subject is borne in mind,
and it is hoped that there will
be something favorable to report thereon another year.
Church Discipline.
At this time last year a general state
of disorder existed, fro m drinking ti-root, throughout Kipahulu
and Hana.
into it.
Nearly the entire population were more
or less drawn
The m a j o r i t y of the church wer e involved in i t including
some district lunas.
In this state of things,
ing was impracticable, nor were the facts
a g e n e r a l disciplin
easy to get at.
number of the delinquent were solumnly admonished,
worst offenders suspended,
including one aged luna,
and a few of the
of h i g h esteem,
who w i t h most of the others, has since been restored.
menti o n e d disorders
A large
The af o r e
took place during the protracted absence o f
the District Judge, the offenders believing themselves
safe from
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penalty, which, however, afterwards fell heavily u p o n m a n y of them.
No renewal of those disorders has occurred.
There have b e e n 11 persons suspended for the culture and
traffic in Awa, 2 of them Elders,
2 District lunas,
all persons of consideration in the church.
and nearly
Nearly every case
was developed by the pastor's own efforts and personal inquiry.
All w ere dealt with slowly,
and time and means taken to
repentance in each case rather than discipline.
obtain
As the result,
several of the offenders abandoned the practice.
Since these cases, no open disorders have existed, nor have
m an y cases occurred for discipline.
There is undoubtedly an enormous
amount of criminal conduct In secret among the church,
and a great
deal that is known to the lunas, some of w h o m screen it entirely,
while all unduly delay bringing it before the session, h o ping for
amendment, after a period of persistence in sin.
There is a t er
rible reluctance and fear of causing h a r d feelings,
while very few
of the lunas have any adequate sense of duty upon the subject.
The only sin wh i c h they are prompt to discipline is the open and to
t h e m heinous one of violent
speech and conduct - also such of
fences as have brought conviction in the civil courts.
This brings up the interesting subject of the Character of
the C h urch l u n a s .
There are now in the Hana church including
Kipahulu and Nahiku,
12 Elders and about twice as m any District
\
Lunas.
All of the former and many of the latter, are m e n of marked
appearance of piety, considerable Christian knowledge,
ment,
and much force of character for natives.
some judg
They are emphatical
ly the elders and leaders of the people, widely removed,
in these
respects like an old aristocracy f r o m the great mass of them, and
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even f r o m their own wives and children.
effect in good part,
9
I suppose this to
be the
of frequent official intercourse w ith the
pastor, as w e l l as of special Biblical instruction f r o m him,
also
and
of the habit of exercising gifts and authority among the
people.
The piety and ability of the church appears to b e almost
concentrated among these men, some of w h o m are old, m a n y young and
vigorous.
There are beside a few young m e n who shew signs of p ro
mise to fill the places
of these as they depart.
Three
of our
elders are men of great superiority of character and intelligence,
of unquestionable piety, a n d one of them of rare devotion to the
things of God, and fine theological attainment.
m e n are very useful and acceptable preachers.
All of these three
Yet, there appears
to have bee n among them an impediment to action,
idity,
or whatever it might be; so that their gifts have until
recently,
been for the most part unused in diffusing knowledge among
the ignorant of the
active,
of jealousy, t i m
out districts.
Of late, they have become more
and I hope next y ear to see a general system of labor
organized to bring Into play all the available energies of our
church.
We parted last month w i t h H a u u n a , the oldest of the Elders.
He truly finished his course with joy.
My acquaintance w i t h h i m
impressed me m u c h with his pure and simple piety, his love of D i
vine things, his single-mindedness, and stedfast principle.
At
his funeral, P u k i , the ablest of the elders, and his n ear n e i g h
bor & special intimate spoke w i t h deep feeling.
He
told his
sense of loss in the departure of one who h a d long b een his com
panion i n spiritual things, and close counsellor in the labors
a nd cares of the church.
Also, of the triumphant peace of his end.
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How
10.
in his s i c k n e s s , he told him, "It is all light w i t h me."
"He malamalama wale no,"
(What blessed light, to one w h o till
40, h a d dwelt in the thickest darkness of idolatry!)
He also
spoke of his characteristic unflinching principle, h o w w h e n long
ago
in Kaupo, he alone of all the session stood firmly w i t h the
pastor for the discipline
of a corrupt magistrate, of w h o m all the
rest stood in fear, & by whom, he in consequence was s ubjected to
punishment.
The presence of such men as these in the church and community
give great comfort and hop e to the missionary in the m i d s t of pre
vailing carnality ignorance and stupidity.
Yet there is observ
able among these v ery men, what appears like a peculiar lack of
sponaneity, and self-direction,
bility,
an unwillingness to take r e s p o n s i
a waiting to be told and directed, a backwardness to give
information & suggest courses of action whe n called upon for coun
sel.
During the first months of my residence here,
in inexperience
and. Ignorance of the people, I found no voluntary help in them, and
no information f rom them.
Why, is still a mystery to me.
Eve n
n o w though ready to execute what I say, I find no spontaneity
of action.
I must set them at w ork, and continue directions or they
case like a wheel when one stops turning it.
State of Religion.
The foregoing statements Imply that while
there are many cases of sound and stedfast piety in the church,
the general state is very low in spiritual things.
their neglect of the sanctuary;
w h e n there;
It Is seen in
in their inattention and slumbering
in their general backwardness to speak and to pray;
in their unwillingness to study the w o r d of God, or to be instruc
ted in it, and in their general spiritual inactivity and carnality
of life.
It is long since the refreshing showers of the Holy
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11.
Spirit fell upon this suffering field.
In February and M a r c h our
congregations were considerably but temporarily augmented,
in con
sequence of some special efforts made to induce a better attendance
deed (?)
A n d In som e-respects ( !) there has been ever since, a somewhat
improved attendance at meetings.
Having by the experience and observation of the past year at
tained some little idea of what needs to b e done in this church,
and of some o f the means for accomplishing the work,
it is my hope
d uring the coming year to organize various methods and systems of
operating w i t h the aid of the Lunas,
so as to secure a spiritual
oversight and instruction to every individual in the church.
A
general canvass of the church for the purpose of constructing a
n e w list, and as far as possible reproducing the old church records
w h i c h are imperfect or lost, has disclosed many strange facts,
an d
the necessity for a thorough & penetrating system of w a t c h & care
for members.
Schools and Condition of Y o u t h .
fr o m Kaloa, Koolau,
to Nuu, Kaupo,
There are 16 District schools
12 Protestant, a n d four Catholic
All are under the superintendance of S. Kamakahiki, who is ener-
tolerable
getic
and faithful in the discharge of h i s duties, and has a/judg
me n t o f men and their capabilities,
in the niceties
although not so w e l l versed
of school instruction.
I believe that w e have no ver y poor teachers n o w in the P r o
testant Schools and there are three or four quite g o o d ones.
Two
of the Catholic Schools are very large, and under the immediate
care of very devoted F r e n c h teachers, w ho labor indefatigably,
and produce considerable results for show on examination days.
For
some reason, however, the two schools of theirs u n d e r the care of
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12.
their native teachers in out-distrlcts, are the most poor a nd w r e t
ched in the whole District.
Considerable attention has b e e n given
to vocal music in several of our schools.
At the examinations, good
progress has generally been s h o w n in all the studies.
The school
houses are in good repair, but generally dark and unfurnished.
The
g o o d influence of the schools is very mark e d upon the children, who
wo u l d otherwise be without restraint, but are now subjected to a
certain degree of control and order.
And although the amount of
m ental discipline which most of them receive appears to be small,
not
the majority indeed sca r sely ( !) learning how really to s t u dy a book,
n o r to take the sense of what they read, yet it is u n speakably greater
and better than the absolute blank or defacement of the u n t aught
minds, while a considerable minority are in some degree educated and
enlightened,
and better filled to entertain and apprehend the glo r
ious truths of salvation, and prepared to advance to further steps
of knowledge in subsequent life as opportunity and incentive may
present.
There is around us a considerable number of interesting
and bright youth of b oth sexes, w h o m I long to see gathered into a
goo d school under a truly competent Christian teacher, but how it
shall be done I do not yet see.
Mr.
and Mrs. Baldwin did some wo r k
of this sort which shows its goo d in the peculiar intelligence and
activity of a number of our young men, as wel l as in their higher
moral sentiments and better developed religious character.
Ignorance.
So far as I have h a d opportunity to f o r m a judg
ment, the people in other districts in the islands are generally
muc h In advance of those in this field in respect to knowledge.
The
majority of the
Ignorance of the church ( !)
members of Hana C h urch In respect to
Divine things is strange and heart-sickening.
The average knowledge
of the professing Christians is still less in the churches of Kaupo
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and Koolau.
13 .
In a multitude of cases it is so small, that it seems to
render saving faith impossible.
The Being and attributes
of God are
imperfectly apprehended and but partially belie v e d by them.
p o w e r , holiness,
The
providence and presence of God seem scarcely to
have entered the thoughts of many of them, while it is evident that
they extensively entertain acti v e habitual fears of the ancient
deities and demons.
While there is a considerable class who clearly
apprehend, heartily believe, and savingly follow the great doctrines
of God's word, the majority of those who have found entrance into the
church can hardly be b e l ieved to do so.
To specify, I find t h e m very extensively ignorant respecting
the expiatory character of the Savior's death,
and that G o d Is a
table
Spirit, without Body; That the bread and wine of the L o r d ’s supper ( !)
stand for His Body and Blood.
That the Savior arose f r o m the grave,
and ascended bodily to heaven;
that the bodies of the dea d are to
rise.
I judge that a majority of the church h a d no idea of the
Resurrection of the Body,
or of Christ's Resurrection.
The great defect appears to have b e e n that of Catechetical
Instruction, which the majority have evidently not received.
Hence
they have learned little,
They
having no ear for hearing sermons.
have not intelligence or interest enough to read the Scriptures or
any other religious b o o k in the language, w h i c h is sadly destitute
of children's
and pictorial books meet for such capacities.
not read the Scr. in family worship,
except in a few cases,
They do
and when
called on to read, their stumbling proves it to be an u n w o n ted exe r
cise.
The present catechism is excellent, b u t it seems to be too
long and d ifficult to secure its be i n g thoroughly learned, understood
and f i x e d in the memory.
A succinct compend of Divine truth, simply
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stated,
is m uch needed by us —
14.
mil k for B a b e s , as w e l l as the strong
meat for men.
After leaving out the class of intelligent lunas n a d others
w h o m I hav e named before, who listen attentively to the word, & seek
instruction,
the rest of the men and nearly all of the w o m e n and
y o u t h appear to be profoundly ignorant of the historial facts of
the Bible,
series,
including the miracles of Christ.
A "
of D a y "
so prepared and illustrated that it w o u l d secure b e i n g
read, is greatly wanted.
I do not think they wo u l d read t h e m if
without full Pictorial illustration.
Books and N e w s p a p e r s .
the past year 6 [or maybe 9?
]
includes Koolau and Kaupo.
for school use.
I have sold about 36 H ymn Books during
Bibles, and 60 Testaments.
This
Most of the Testaments have b e e n bought
I have also sold 21 Theologies, and 3 chh. Histories
About 50 copies of the "Kuokoa" are taken in the whole f i e l d and 15
"P a k i p i k a " .
L i c e n t iousness.
of the Missionary.
The precise facts are not obvious to the eye
Open immorality continues repressed.
general sentiment in favor of good morals.
But we continue to lament
what has always been the Missionary's grief,
ness
There is a
the obstinate f e e b l e
of the disapprobation felt for unchastity, and the absence of
regard for purity of speech.
To illustrate the State of sentiment
among our better class of church-members, ( !) Christians,
I will put
on re c o r d three cases that have occurred during the pas t year.
First example.
The lunas at Nahiku brought before me the
violent language of one of the elders towards a near relative,
and
refusal to b e reconciled, w h i c h caused them m u c h grief and sense of
reproach.
On hearing the offenders story,
it appeared that he had
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obtained what seemed convincing evidence that his wife while accom
panied by this relative on a long visit to Lahaina, h a d b e e n h a b i t
ual paramours.
He h a d therefore forbidden h i m to enter his premises,
although previously a member of his family; and as he h a d t r a n s
gressed the rule while the husband was away f r o m the house he had
threatened h i m severely, and publicly,
in w h i c h he firmly persisted.
The other brethren felt deeply grieved, and anxious that he should
be reconciled w i t h his brother.
The offence of his w r a t h and u n
yielding displeasure was great in their eyes; the sin of the guilty
paramours, which they did n o t controvert, was small.
W h e n I justi
fied the Elder in defending the purity of his home, and d i r e c t e d h i m
firmly to persist in his course, I was evidently surprising and dis
appointing them all, who delighted in being m e n of brotherly kindness
Second Example.
Kaono, the preacher at Koolau Church
was caught by me entering my house at midnight to visit his betrothed
girl, w h o m we were keeping for instruction.
He confessed that they
h a d cohabited previously in the house and w i t h the knowledge of her
parents.
Her father was a luna,
and a pious, sensible Christian.
Kaono was profuse and importunate in his penitence and self-reproach,
n ot for his unchastity, but for breaking into my house; nor was I
able to elicit any other feeling from him.
The Christians
in Hana
and Koolau, were exceedingly scandalized by his conduct, as a burglar
but no one ever spoke of the other sin as noticeable.
Indeed,
the re
lation in w h i c h the parties stood, seemed to remove all guilt in
their view.
Third Example.
for census purposes,
In making a thorough canvass of the church
I found that one member, a y o u n g and very in
teresting woman belonging to a rather good set of people, h a d been
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for several years
16.
the mistress of a Portuguese in Honolulu, w ho
was the father of her child of 3 yrs.
visits home, at all our meetings,
old.
I had seen her on her
intimate w i t h our best young people,
and a frequent attendant of the women's meetings, and h a d felt much
Interest In her.
The luna, when asked w h y he had not r e p o r ted her
case to myself and the session for discipline,
excused it as an
oversight, in consequence of her usual absence at Honolulu.
S uch cases as these convince me,
viduals,
that save a very few indi
our Christian people have made a comparatively small advance
f r o m the ancient standard of estimating the crime of unchastity.
whole manner of allusion betrays the fact.
The
The conversation of all
classes evinces an absence of shame or conception of decency.
The
rising generation are being trained in this school of filthiness,
and their condition and prospects
are exceedingly sad.
testimony of the people i s that the School children,
hours, w a nder off unrestrained,
learned at h o m e .
acts,
The u n i f o r m
out of school
to practice the lessons of vileness
What can be expected w h e n not to speak of shameless
the habitual conversation of pious parents before their chil-
r e n embraces the grossest subjects in the most obscene language, wit h
free and mirthful discussion of the uncleanness of the neighborhood.
There is more prospect of a child growing up into untar n i s h ed purity
of life in the Five Points than in the families of our C hristian
people,
light,
the piety of many of whom nevertheless shines w i t h a steady
and an ultimately saving influence upo n their children.
The saddest effect of this evil condition of things is seen
in the state of the sex in w h i c h purity Is most sacred and precious,
and its loss the most disastrous to themselves and society.
It is In
the w o m e n of Hana that the traces of the ancient degradation of the
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land are the most plain and palpable.
17.
It is rare to see a w o m a n
of mature years whose features are not debased and repulsive.
I
can think of but few in my congregation who are in t e r esting and in
telligent Christian women,
pious.
although I believe that many are truly
Many of the younger women appear interesting,
lacking intelligence as a class.
altho ugh rather
As a whole, the women impress me
w i t h a disproportionate inferiority to the m e n in knowledge,
sense
and moral character.
Here appears to be the most pressing social wo r k for religion
to accomplish In this field, to elevate the character of woman,
and
develop the finer qualities peculiarly hers, which render the civil
ized Xn. woman the full equal and helpmeet of man.
R e l i g i o n has
already laid a solid basis upon which to rear such a superstructure
of moral culture.
The fear of God and the desire for holiness dwells
truly and deeply in man y souls preparing them to feel & r e g ard the
obligations of purity, & the heinousness of its opposite, whenever
their perverted consciences can be sufficiently instructed and cor
rected.
But Religion needs that her handmaids of social organization,
training and education should go forth under her sanction and p r o
tection to do the w o r k which is n o w become a possibility.
I n o w find
our most enlightened people eagerly seconding muc h that I say to
them,
and earnestly desiring a better state of things.
But they are
unable individually and alone to make headway against the settled
habits of feeling and action in the community.
They cannot alone,
treat the impure w i t h the needful r epulsion and reproach,
and render
the sin a disgrace.
I would therefore venture the question, do we not need in this
matter of Purity, as in that of Temperance, to avail ourselves of
the effective means of Association?
If the people n e e d Temperance
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Societies,
18.
do they not still more nee d Chastity Societies?
I would
like to have all the g ood people who value this virtue, organized
and handed together in promoting it, unit e d to sustain and countenance
each other in placing a stigma upo n crime,
in repelling the impure
f r o m their homes and their social gatherings,
filthiness of language and of action.
and in frowning down
The y o u t h too, mi g h t he or
ganized in hands of honor and merit; there might he festivals and
processions - or these might he omitted as unsuited to the subject.
But the conviction is strong that we need to banish all shrinkings
of delicacy and attack this subject w i t h boldness and thoroughness,
as a nurse or a surgeon goes to work in a hospital to combat d istem
per.
It is the sin and the death of the nation.
Health of P e o p l e .
There is m u c h sickness.
It is evident that
Deaths m uch exceed births, as also the official statistics show,
wh i c h I have not access now.
to
There is a constant drain of the
younger and more active of the people to the sea-ports.
Hence there
is a n unuaual proportion of the elderly and aged among us.
N o general
or severe sickness has been prevalent in the field during the past
year.
The whole number of deaths in the church has b e e n 50 during
the year among over 600 members.
Dysentery was very prevalent at the
beginning of the year, and the missionary had the satisfaction of
being the means of saving the lives of several children.
He Is much
in nee d of medical Books, Drugs, and implements, w h i c h present means
do not permit h i m to purchase.
violate the law of the
remedies,
He has felt compelled repeatedly to
land by receiving pay for simple but essential
which he could not otherwise provide.
Industry.
n ot retrograded.
No mark e d improvement has been seen.
Yet it has
A good deal of labor has bee n called for by the
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19.
n ew Sugar Plantation, w h ich is now in full and successful operation,
and making the very finest grades of sugar.
A w a and Tobacco continue
to be the chief articles of native produce for export.
There has
bee n some talk of combinations among natives owning land for culture
of cane on their own account.
Prices of eatable produce of all kinds
continue higher than Lahaina market, except poi.
are rather above Oahu prices,
Cattle & poultry
and very f e w are sold.
The Missionary
must raise his own produce or be liable to pay exorbitant prices for
everything.
It is usual for all the people of a district to unite
in cultivating a tract of upland taro,
w o r k together, and whe n ripe,
sumed.
or a laulima, in w h i c h they
often feast upo n together u n t i l con
It Is difficult for the native to raise anything and call it
h i s own.
All friends & neighbors claim to share it.
is checked.
reason.
Hence industry
Pew raise melons, bananas or other fruit for the same
On the whole,
there is no serious difficulty among the people
in procuring money for all wants, for taxes and for the support and
spread of the Gospel.
constant
increase.
And the facilities have every prospect of
The soil is fertile,
the climate moist,
and land
abundant.
Other R e l i g i o n s .
N o signs of progress have been observed
in these, although they still measurably hol d their ground.
p a r ison wi t h Bible Christianity,
clining.
Popery fails
In c o m
I believe them to be relatively d e
to gain any new popularity,
or to draw in the
intelligent and enterprising. [ The following is a f o o t n o t e :]
It has
no such class of intelligent men, as I have above described as of
ours.
Nevertheless among the lower mass of their people,
there
appears to be a more generally diffused knowledge of leading simple
doctrine,
than among the same portion of ours.
I attribute this to
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diligent plying w i t h creed,
may be learned.
20.
catechism, and Pictures, whence a lesson
Morm o n i sm makes no progress, except in the increas
ing degradation of its followers.
[E n d footnote]
The rumor of a
ne w hoomana [worship] has reached us, not as of anything acceptable
or ensnaring to Christian people, but rather as belonging to the
po u l i [darkness;
ignorance] .
Kaupo C h u r c h .
This church has been under the immediate care of the young
preacher, Mr. Hezekiah Manase.
He has been a good and useful laborer,
although impeded in his usefulness by the necessity of spending a
good part of his time in teaching, in order to a support, w h i c h the
people are backward in rendering him.
The inhabitants
ignorant.
of this district are comparatively stupid and
The church members numbering 225 partake of this
character.
The church has suffered exceedingly by former wholesale admissions
of people without knowledge or piety.
There is however as elsewhere
a body of truly wo r t h y and measurable active Christians.
Their house
of worship has been floored the past year.
During the past two months,
there has been a great Increase
of activity among the leaders, and of interest among the people.
The preacher has felt much encouraged and stimulated.
Organization
and system are needed to develop the usefulness of the lunas.
At the last administration of the Sacrament, u nusual good order
and seriousness of deportment were maintained.
Two prominent mormons
have renounced their errors.
Sorcery has b e e n very prevalent of late years in Kaupo.
have died in consequence,
Many
including some of the Kahunas themselves.
Many natives have taken lessons
in the art.
The revival of these
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horrible
21.
practices is attributed by the intelligent natives
to the
extensive licensing of native doctors by K a p u , about 4 years ago.
Stimulated by covetousness, these wretches have been the most dil i
gent missionaries of idolatry and demonism.
Koolau Church.
At the time of Kaono's fall, the Lord provided an immediate
supply for this promising church in Mr. Samuel Kamakahiki who was
then laboring upon their n e w house of worship,
and who h a d become
already very acceptable to the people as a preacher.
He was f o r
merly a missionary at Ponape, and subsequently preacher at Hana,
and Kahukula.
He at once took hold of the w o r k with zeal a n d success.
The religious
interest in this church has been w e l l sustained.
Congregations have b e e n large.
The preacher has b een active in
visiting outposts, and new interest has b een awakened in dark places.
The people are generally i gnorant, but not indifferent.
There is
muc h spirit of inquiry into God's word.
The new and large house of worship at Keanae was enclosed last
July and occupied with a great feast, at wh i c h $368 were contributed
for the building.
The house has been
called too large, b u t is often
filled.
The people of Wailuanui also have enclosed and f loored their
house,
of somewhat smaller dimensions.
In m a k i n g this review of the work and condition of things
during the past year, the prevailing thoughts are those of thankful
ness and hope.
The darkness
is great, the contest is severe, but
(!)
progress is made, a n d the way to bitter progress seems visible,
and
the Lord manifest His gracious presence and power in the hearts of
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22.
man y of His people among us.
The missionary's most earnest desire
is to be enabled to devote his undivided strength to the great and
glorious work laid before him; and he views with dismay, any liabi
lity or possibility that he may be compelled to turn aside to other
duties of a secular nature.
But this and all other anxieties may
safely be cast u p o n Divine Providence, and t h e subordinated w i s d o m
of those who have always liberally supported the Lord's work.
Table of Statistics
Whole no. admitted on Profession
"
"
"
”
Certificate
Past year on Profession
"
"
" Certificate
Total past year
Whole no. dismissed
Past year
do
Total Deceased
Past y e a r Do.
Excluded past year
Now in Regular Standing
Total Children Baptized
Baptized past year
Marriages
Left for good without dismission
Hana Koolau
Kaupo
[no fig.] [No figure]
"
6
14
1
2
8
(!)
—
- -
14
(!)
1
)
!
(
2
2
- -
49
18
559
—
20
90
—
3
4
234
6
12
225
- -
—
2
8
4 2 --
Contributions
For support of Preacher
" Church building purposes
" General Benevolence
$ 141.87
371.00
Total
$520.87
[On bac k page:]
1863
June
Report of
Hana Station
60
600.
44.25
19.69
8.00
$660. $63.94
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