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EWA STATION REPORTS
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SCHEDULE OF SCHOOLS & TUITION (printed form) .......... 1835
L. S m i t h .......... ..................................1836
A. B i s h o p ............................................ 1837
A . Bishop . . .
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1838
A. Bishop ...................................... .
1839
Unsigned (A.
Bishop) . . . . . . . . . ........ . . . 1840
Unsigned ( A. Bishop) . ................ . . . . .
1841
A. B i s h o p ............................................ 1842
Unsigned (A. Bishop Report) (Ewa & Waianae). . . . .
1842
Statistics for Ewa & Waianae)(Unsigned).................1843
A. Bishop ............................................1844
Statistics for Ewa & Waianae (Unsigned) .............. 1844
Unsigned (Ewa & Waianae) (for two y e a r s ) .............. 1846
Unsigned (A. Bishop) (Ewa & Waianae) (for two years) . . 1848
Statistics for Ewa & Waianae (Unsigned) (for two years) 1848
Unsigned (Ewa & Waianae) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849
Unsigned (A. Bishop) ...................................1851
Unsigned (Abstract of Ewa Report)............ .
1852(?)
Unsigned (A. Bishop) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1852
Statistics (Unsigned) .................................1852
Unsigned (A. Bishop). .............
1853
Statistics ( U n s i g n e d ) .............. ..................1853
Unsigned (A. Bishop) ...................................1854
Unsigned (“Report of A. Bishop”) . . . . . . . . . 1855
Unsigned (A. Bishop) . . . . . . . . . ................ 1857
Unsigned (marked Rev. A. Bishop) .......................1859
A. Bishop (Abstract of Ewa Report) .....................1860
A. Bishop (includes abstract)
........................ .1861
Statistics (Unsigned) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1862
Unsigned (A. Bishop) . . . . . ........................ .1863
* 1847 statistics added
�Report of Ewa Station (1835)
M y Brethren w i l l recollect that E w a was one of the n e w posts
Selected at the last Gen-meeting.
taken into the account —
And w h e n all the circumstances are
Such as the illness of Mrs. Smith, the abso
lute necessity of my building a house before she could w i t h propriety
be removed fro m Honolulu to that place —
& moreover, there being no
School house in the vicinity of the Station at that time, & but a very
few people there w h o cared whether they ever h a d a teacher or School
house, or any thing else that pertains to civilization or Christianity;
I say, these things considered, y o u w i l l Still extend to us the h a n d
of christian fellowship, though w e may not be able to report any thing
of a very interesting character.
The Spot Selected for the Station is at "
a beautiful Steam of water;
?
", b y the Side of
& but a Short distance from the r o a d which
leads f r o m Honolulu to Waialua.
There I have erected a d oby house -
40 ft. by 20, one Story high.
By the way, Kinau ordered the people of Waia w a to put on a tii ( !)
leaf roof as a token of her good will towa r d us & the cause in which
we are engaged.
She also furnished the house w i t h m a t s .
For plastering we use d poho (a chalky white earth) ins t ead of
lime, w h i c h proves to b e
a very poor substitute.
Four months elapsed b e fore the house was in a proper Situation for
Mrs. Smith t o remove into it.
During this time I was able to do b ut
little for the people except what I could do o n t h e Sabbath.
do n o t h i n g in Schools for the want of a School house.
I could
It was at least
a month after our house was done before we h a d any thing that can be
called a School house.
On repairing to that field of labour, I found but a v e r y few who
expressed any degree of Satisfaction that I h a d b e e n a p p o i n t e d their
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teacher.
The great mass were engaged in hulas - rioting & drunkenness
& every other crime common upon these Islands.
One thing which particularly amazed us for Several months was their
perpetual h u l a s , accompanied by howlings & intonations apparently
unearthly & inhuman.
These continued until the tabu of the Chiefs
was published about the first of J a n .
no h u l a 's in our vicinity.
Since that time there have been
Previous to the tabu, they d r a n k - fought -
killed & burnt houses - & Since the tabu, one person has h u n g himself !
One day w h e n travelling to explore the nakedness of the land, I
Saw a heathen god wh i c h m y guide told me was an object of w o r s h i p at
that time.
It was a Small Stone dressed i n tapa, & m o u n t e d up o n a heap
of Stones, Some 6 , or 8 ft. from the h i g h way.
Ministerial Lab o u r s .
My congregation on t h e Sabbath for the first 5. months did not
exceed 150. & Some Sabbaths not over 1 0 0 .
But f r o m that time to the
present the congregation has been gradually increasing, & for a number
of Sabbaths past f r o m 6 . to 7. hundred have assembled on Sabbath m o r n
ing.
M y usual exercises
Sunrise —
12/ oclock.
on the Sabbaths have bee n —
prayer m e e ting at
preaching at 10. A.M. - Bible class or Ai o ka La class at
F r o m 50 to 80 have usually attended this exercise.
Preach
ing again at 3. oclock P.M.
I have preached a lecture every We dnesday P.M. at the S tation —
& occasionally at other places on Thursday.
W e have also observed the monthly c o n c e r t .
This has b e e n an in
teresting meeting to all who pay m u c h r e g a r d to Sacred things.
F or
Several concerts nothing was given as an evidence that they really
wished Christs kingdom to come.
I repeatedly alluded to the fact that
praying Christians in America do n o t appear empty b e fore the Lor d when
they assemble to pray, "thy k ingdom co m e . ”
Four months ago, different
individuals handed me their hapa u m i 's (10 cents) & h a p a walu's
(12 1/2
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cents) to the amount of a dollar & a half.
I then proposed to t h e m
the propriety of giving w i t h a Special object in view.
A n d as we have
no comfortable place for the worship of God, I Suggested that it might
be well for them to contribute of the product of their lands, & I
would endeavour to convert it into articles to build a m eeting house.
The next monthly concert they b rought in taro - p a i ’s (bundles)
of n a tiv e food - bananas - fowls &e to the amount of $18:00,
exchanged w i t h Mr. L a d ( !) & C o. for three boxes of glass.
which I
The next
concert, w h i ch was the first monday in May - they contributed in
articles above mentioned - & goats, turkies & ducks to the amount of
$ 27.56. w h i c h I also exchanged with Mr. Lad & Co for glass & nails.
I hav e not been able to visit much f r o m house to house & land to
land.
I have been to Waianai ( !) but once during the year, & that was
the 13. of Jan.
I was then accompanied by brother Eme r s o n who perhaps
will gi v e y o u Some account of that expedition.
I was gone f r o m home
three days & two nights.
We found the people in a most deplorable state of a l i e nation from
everything that pertains to Salvation.
The first P.M. after our arrival 23 persons in all assembled - a
number of these were children.
on the beach.
The next morning about 70. assembled
This was in Waianai village.
the farther extremity of the island.
under an old canoe house.
We then p r o c e e d ed on to
At 11. oclock we met 9. persons
At 12. oclock we met 44. persons under the
Skeleton of an old School house.
By the way, this w a s the only Shadow
of a School house or meeting house that I saw at Waianai A n d I traveled
from one extremity of that district to t h e other.
At 2. P.M. we met 25. persons in a house where there h a d just bee n
a hula.
At 4. P.M. we met 50 persons u pon the beach.
We then proceeded
to the farthest extremity of Waianai, called Makua - tarried over night
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& the next morning we addressed Some 42 individuals who assembled together,
Distributed among them a few tracts - Ai a ka L a 's &c - & then Set our
faces homeward.
On my arrival at Waianai, only 5. individuals assembled
at a meeting which we appointed the day before.
I made a Short prayer
& with Sighs & groans for those poor degraded beings I Set out for the
Station at Waiawa.
Dark & forbiding ( !) as things were at Ewa, I can
assure you it was very grateful to my feelings to return to that place
—
not Simply because there was my companion, but because there I met a
few who Seemed glad to See me.
I do not recollect of Seeing more than
half a dozen in all Waianai who appeared to express any joy on account
of our visit there.
Schools.
I commenced an evening Singing School the latter part of Oct. &
admitted all who wished to attend.
weeks —
Some 30 attended for two or three
That number however was Soon thribbled ( !) & 90 was the aver
age number for Several months.
The School afterwards increased to 120.
About the first of Dec. I requested the School to Sing with me on
the Sabbath.
The novelty of the occasion called out Some 75. or 80
persons who had not before attended.
The succeeding Sabbaths there
was Still a greater increase.
About this time I commenced an evening School for the recitation
& explanation of the verse a day.
F rom 30. - to 60. have attended this
School, & I have reason to think it has done good.
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first —
I commenced a School among the children —
The School Soon numbered 40. & afterwards 50 .
28 pupils at
F orty has been
the average number of regular attendants.
About the Same time also I commenced a School for adults; permitted
all to attend who wished to, bot h males & females.
Some 30 attended
for Several w e e k s ; - the number then gradually increased, & about the
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middle of Feb. we could do nothing more than read round once before it
was time to dismiss.
I then divided the School & had them meet alter
nately, the men one P.M. & the women the next.
The number of males was from 60
to 70. . & the females from 40
to 50.
The childrens School met five forenoons each week - & the adults,
4 . afternoons each week.
On Wednesday afternoons the people assembled for religious worship,
consequently no Schools for adults that day.
The adult Schools have attended to nothing but reading & mental
arithmetic as yet.
They first read the Ninauhoike through, & then
I introduced the Kumu Hawaii.
By the way I remark that we have 155.
Subscribers for the Kumu Hawaii at Ewa.
My plan of hearing them read
has been to question each Scholar concerning his verse immediately af
ter he has done reading i t .
Some of them have made good proficiency
in reading & appear to read understandingly.
Our greatest encouragement however is with the children.
I think
they have made as good proficiency all things considered, as any School
I ever taught.
In this School I have had 4. & 5 female assistants who
have aided me in teaching them their reading & other lessons.
The children then formed themselves into a circle & I questioned
them on their lessons, & various other Subjects; & concluded each
School by Singing & prayer.
With Singing they have been very much
pleased, & I think it has been a kind of load-Stone which has bound
them together.
I would advise all the brethren & Sisters to introduce
this branch of Science into their childrens School, provided they have
not already done it.
I met my Singing School two evenings each week.
think has made commendable improvement.
This School I
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From the fact that every thing at Ewa was inclined to fly off
in a tangent, rather than revolve around the Standard of truth & love,
I allowed any person to join the School, & have not as yet requested any
one to leave it; though it is very evident that 1
2
/
of the present number
(1 20) would make better music than they all do.
There have b e e n but two other Schools at Ewa during the year be
sides those taught at the Station.
Two young men residing at Honouliuli h a v e taught one School of
children & one of adults.
ment.
These Schools have made considerable improve-
Samuel has been the reading book of the adults.
They had also
an exercise in the Almanac; & it appeared at our examination or "hoike"
recently held, that they could answer almost any question that could be
asked from that b o o k .
We have had but one hoike during the year, & that took place
on the 2 0 . of May, & was composed of persons who had attended School
& no others.
Others would have gladly joined us as Scholars on that
o
occasion, but I told them they had no part nor lo t in the matter except
as Spectators.
The following is a list of the Scholars as they were examined.
No. of children from Honouliuli
Do of adults
Total
N o . of adult females at the Station
Do of males
Do of children
Choir of Singers
Total taught at the Station
Total taught at Ewa
31
19
50
51
73
54
122
300
50
350
The labours of the Station Schools have principally devolved upon
myself.
Mrs. Smith’s health has been Such as not to warrant her in
engaging very extensively in the public duties of the Station.
Yet
with gratitude to the author of Missions I would Say, She has been able
for the last 5. months to meet generally with the females for prayer &
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conversation every Friday —
60 - to 90.
the number who attended has varied from
It is Some three months Since She commenced a childrens
Sabbath School And She has for the most part been able to attend public
worship one half of the day on the Sabbath.
She has also visited Some
from house to house in our Immediate neighbourhood.
The climate at
Ewa has been very Congenial to her health; & So far as that is con
cerned we think it providential that we were located at that Station.
Protracted Meeting.
We have held one protracted meeting, which commenced the 1 5 . of
April last, & continued five days.
And So far as we can judge, the
meeting was blessed to the conversion of a few individuals.
A number of persons who had not followed the king & others in all
their out breaking vices, frequently gave us to understand that they
were ready to join the Church w h ever one Should be organized at Ewa, &
they wished to be remembered as candidates.
Their daily appearance -
& conversation & conduct however was that of a "Pharisee” & not of a
Publican.
We are happy to Say that a number of that class have been
led to See the error of their ways & the vileness of their hearts by
the blessing of God upon our protracted meeting.
Many thanks are due
to brothers Bingham, Tinker & Emerson for the assistance they rendered
us on that occasion.
We held 4. public meetings each d a y -- one at Sunrise - one at
10. A.M. - one at 3. P. M. & one at 7. in the evening]; besides meeting
daily with the church members belonging to the church at Honolulu & also
at Waialua.
The Special influences of the Spirit were evidently in the
congregation during the meeting, & also for Several weeks after the
meeting closed.
Our morning prayer meetings were continued till we
left for this meeting.
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It is perhaps impossible to Say who have & who have not repented
& given themselves away unreservedly to the Saviour.
Still there
are Some 12 or 15 whom we shall not hesitate to admit to the church.
Some few months hence, provided they give as much evidence of real
piety then as now.
A number of others give more or less evidence of
repentance & faith in Jesus Christ.
And there is still another class who date their experience back
Several years, a part of whom a p p e a r tolerably well; y e t they Seem to
know but little about the awful depravity of the heart.
I am far from attributing the convertion ( !) of a Single person
to myself or my brethren, independant of divine aid.
My experience
in other fields besides Ewa, has taught me that the real conversion
of Souls to God is the Special work of the Holy Spirit.
I am therefore
prepared cheerfully & heartily to say "Not unto us, not unto us, but
unto thy great name be all the glory", for the conversion of one or
more at Ewa during the past year.
But it is our privilege, brethren to bow with angels before God
& praise & bless his holy name for his renovating goodness to the
children of men.
Marriages.
I have Solemnized 54 marriages during the year.
Deaths !!
The people of Ewa are a dying people.
I have not been able to
obtain an exact account of all t h e deaths & births Since the last
general meeting.
But my impression is that there have been as many
as 8 or 10 deaths to one birth.
I have heard of but 4 births on W a i a w a
during the year, & all of these children are dead.
I have attended
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about 2 0 funerals on that one la n d , & 16 of them were a d u l t s .
Very few of those who have died ever applyed ( ! ) to us for medical
a id .
Here I remark that though I am a mere novice in the m edical l i n e ,
yet the Lord has abundantly blessed my feeble attempts to h e a l the
S ic k .
This among other things has been a powerful means of drawing
the wicked around us & even into the house of public w orship.
Ewa May 3 0 ,
1835.
L.
Smith.
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(P rin ted Form F i l l e d In )
SCHEDULE OF SCHOOLS AND TUITION
STATION
Total number of scholars
taught by the Missionary
( Ewa
)
( Waiawa)- Oahu
Total number 3 0 0 . including 122 who
attend a Sing in g School 2 ev e’ s per
week
M issionary Teacher
Lowell Smith.
Men
73 males
Women
51 females
C h ild ren
54
Attend to re ad in g , w r i t in g ,
geography and arithm etic.
Reading & Arithmetic 129
N o. of weeks continuance of
the school.
Singing School 28 weeks, Adults &
Childrens School, 20 w eeks.
No. o f days in the week
Singing School 2 e v e 's per week
Adult S . 4 days per week Childrens Do. 5 "
"
No. of hours instruction
per day.
4 hours per day
Average number of Sabbath
Sch o lars.
Average number of B ibl e
class Scholars.
35
No. of n ative teachers.
Scholars under them.
Adult S c h o la rs.
2
C h ild re n .
Largest n o . of readers at
any p ub lic exam ination.
Sabbath School scholars under
native in s tr u c to r s .
75
Children 3 1 . Adults 19
1 4 3 adults at Ewa
85 children in a l l
180
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Station Report. Ewa.
For Several months Subsequently to the last gen- meeting Mrs.
Smith continued to gain Strength.
She accustomed herself to riding
horseback, & repeatedly rode perhaps a mile & a half upon a gallop.
She continued her Sabbath School of children
& occa-
sionally took my place in the children's School during the week.
She established a maternal meeting to meet once in two weeks &
also a weekly female prayer meeting for all who could be induced to
attend, though She has not been able to Sit up more than three or four
hours at any one time during the year.
Since the first of Jan. She has not been So well, & has not been
able to endure much exercise.
And for Several weeks past has been
under the care of a physician.
But I am happy to Say that She Is now
apparently on the gaining hand again.
My own health for the greater part of the year has been firm.
I have been ill only one Sabbath; & then I was unable to preach in
consequence of a violent attack of the quinsey.
Schools.
During the first half of the year the people of our district
were almost constantly employed for the chiefs - making Salt - geting ( !) timber - wood, & money for their annual tax; which rendered,
it impracticable on my-part to do justice to a School of adults.
I
have therefore had no School of adults during the year at the Station,
except a Singing School - with which I have Spent an hour two evenings
pr. week for the greater part of the year.
I have had a School of children, numbering about 40, with whom
I have met five forenoons per. week for the greater part of the year.
The children have made commendable improvement, & I think my time
has been well Spent while thus employed.
There have been a few Schools
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in the district of Ewa, taught by natives, though I d o not think much
has been accomplished in them.
On the 25. of May last we had an examination of all who have been
connected with those Schools.
Some 522. were present on the occasion - 200. or more of whom
were children.
On the w h o l e , they appeared much better than at any
previous examination.
Su ch is the present State of things with us
that if I had given my assent, we might have had a thousand at the
hoike.
But I have no wish to encourage Such exhibitions.
If the
people do not attend School except a few days previous to the examina
tion, they ought, in my view of the Subject, to he excluded from the
examination, as Scholars.
Religious Meetings.
I have attended 18 public religious meetings at the Station
weekly;
(viz) a prayer meeting every morning at Sunrise - a meeting
every evening to explain the verse for the day - except Saturday eve when I meet with the members of the church for conference & prayer.
Five exercises on the Sabbath/ including the bible class.
And a
lecture every Wednesday P.M.
I have attended three protracted meetings during, the year, One at Kaneohe in Oct. last - One at Honolulu the last of January & one at Waialua about the 20 .or 23d of March.
For the want of a
convenient place of worship, I have not called Such a meeting during
the year at Ewa.
A considerable number of Ewa people accompanied me to each of
the above, named protracted meetings, a few of whom have since given
very Satisfactory evidence of having become better men by what, they
then heard & felt.
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Monthly Concert.
The monthly concert has usually been well attended, & Some few
have contributed liberally on those occasions in aid of building a
meeting house.
By means of their contributions the last year, we have
been enabled to obtain nearly glass - nails - & boards enough for our
contemplated meeting house.
Some 40, or 50 dollars have been contri
buted also towards the carpenters bill.
My congregation has not been
very large during the year; though it has been gradually increasing
of late.
It has varied perhaps from 6 to 8 hundred Sabbath mornings.
It is but recently that the people at Puloa & Haiawa have paid any
external regard to the Sabbath.
Now, in pleasant weather, we See Some
40 or 50 people coming up from Puloa in canoes on Sabbath morning.
At present, I regard Kiolea, the head man at Puloa, as a humble &
penitent man.
I have more or less charity also for Kamalanai, the head
man at Hal awa & I think they are exerting a happy influence over the
people who reside upon those lands.
Visits to Waia n a e .
I have made two visits to Waianae during the year.
was about the middle of August.
The first
I was then much more cordially re
ceived than on a former visit the preceding year, an account of which,
I gave at our last gen - meeting.
On m y first visit, only about 70 Individuals could be persuaded
to assemble for the worship of God.
convened.
But on my Second visit Some 250.
Seven couple also presented themselves for marriage - a
circumstance the more remarkable as the 7th commandment had been en
tirely disregarded throughout that district.
one seemed to be in the least hospitable -
On my first visit, no
But on the 2d visit, or
my visit last August, things were materially different.
man, Kapuiki, had become friendly.
The head
On my arrival, he presented me
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with a Small house, neatly finished & well furnished with mats &
Sleeping tapa, & said he had devoted that house to the priesthood.
He then presented me with provisions in great abundance & i n a great
variety.
On my visit there in April last, the prospect was still more
favourable.
Kapuiki not only expressed considerable anxiety for his
own Soul, but also for the people of that dark corner of Oahu.
Some
7 or 8 hundred assembled Sabbath morning to listen to what might be said
in favour of the pono.
Since that time, a number have repeatedly come
(!)
over the pari - a distance of Some 20. miles, & attended meeting with
us on the Sabbath at Waiawa.
Kapuiki
has also applied to me for some 250. or 300 school books.
He is quite anxious to revive the Schools on the old plan.
I Supply-
ed him with the books, though I anticipate but very little good that
will result from their labours.
Shall fall into the ditch."
"If the blind lead the blind both
That district contains 1,654 inhabitants,
& they need a teacher as much as any other dark corner of these
Islands.
"Whom Shall we Send, & who will go for us?"
Census of Ewa & Waianae.
Immediately after our return from the last gen- meeting; I took
measures to number the people of Ewa & Waianae.
We found the number
of inhabitants on Ewa to b e 3,423. - a decrease of 592. in 4 years.
The whole number at Waianae we found to be 1,654, a decrease of
214. in 4 yrs.
It is indeed a lamentable fact that the decrease of
those two districts is more than 8 hundred in 4. years.
On the first of Jan. last a list of the births & deaths for the
year 1835. was handed me from nearly all the lands on Ewa.
And it
appeared that there had been 130 deaths - & 41 b i r t h s - a decrease of
89. during the year.
These facts are alarming & cause the mission-
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aries at Ewa to feel that what they do must he done quickly.
Organization of a Church.
We organized a church at Ewa on the first Sabbath in Jan.
Bingham & Emerson w e r e present on the occasion.
Messrs
Six persons, members
of the Honolulu church, but residents at Ewa, removed their relation
to that place.
And 12 persons, 6 males & 6 females were admitted for
the first time after a critical examination of the nature of their
repentance & faith in the blood of atonement.
Thirteen candidates had
been propounded, but one of the most promising of them was removed by
death,
just before the church was organized.
And not more than three
weeks
had elapsed after the organization of the church, before one of
the Six from the Honolulu church was removed from us by death.
Thus
early did the Lord remind us that even church members hav e no abiding
place on earth.
The whole number therefore is Seventeen.
(17.)
We have had but one communion Season Subsequent to the organiza
tion of the church, which occurred on the 3d of April.
And we are
happy to Say that thus far our little church have appeared to run well
We meet them every Saturday evening for church conference & prayer,
which we think has a good effect upon their minds in keeping them from
Sinking into a careless & indifferent State; as well as from actual
transgression.
Baptism of Children.
I have baptized 8 children - four of whom had been adopted by the
individuals previous to their uniting with the church.
Candidates.
Four persons now Sta n d propounded to the church.
A number of
others give more or less evidence of having embraced the offers made
to them in the gospel.
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Marriages Solemnized.
I have Solemnized 78 marriages during the year.
Kumu H a w a i i .
I have 115. Subscribers for the Kumu Hawaii the present year.
N ew T e s t a m e n t .
The N e w Testament is at great demand w i t h us.
than
Probably n ot more
of those who are earnestly desiring to obtain it, wil l be
supplyed ( !) from the present edition.
Hymn B o o k .
The demand also for the Hymn Book about to be issued is very
great.
We feel the nee d also of a hymn boo k for children; & we earnestly
hope that measures will be taken by this meeting to Supply the Stations
w i t h hy m n books for children.
(180 scholars in the Bible class)
L. Smith.
�Report for the Station at Ewa
May 1, 1837
The present occupant at this station arrived with his family soon
after the close of Gen. meeting in July of last year.
of usefulness open & waiting for his labors.
He found a door
Two years had not elapsed
since the station was first taken; & it was therefore to b e expected
that the people would not be so much advanced in religious & book
knowledge as at the older stations, and more expecially ( !) as the
people
of Ewa were just recovering from the sad declension into which
their schools & their state of morals had fallen since the death of
Kaahumanu.
But there has been manifestly a gradual improvement upon
the general face of society during the year.
According to the last census, the district of Ewa contains 3,450 pe
people, and they are all or nearly so within 5 or 6 miles of Waiawa
as a center, so that it is in the power of every adult & child of a
suitable age to avail themselves of the religious privileges no w en
joyed at that place.
have been various.
The labors at the station during the last year
The first and principal extra labor has been the
superintending the building of a chapel.
I was much relieved of the burden which this work could have
occasioned me, had not most of the materials been prepared beforehand
by Mr. Smith, so that I ha d only to step into his place and pursue
the plan which he had marked out, availing myself of his direct agency
at Honolulu which tended in no small degree to relieve the burden which
otherwise would have borne upon me in carrying through the work.
Not
withstanding these favorable circumstances, my attention was necessarily
directed to the work of building some portion of every day more or
less while at home for more than 6 months.
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2.
The state of Religion at Ewa has been during the past year evi
dently on the advance.
The church tho small as a body, have been re
markably united & in most cases have appeared well.
Except two or three
instances of private admonition there has been no case of discipline.
During the last few months the male members, have been making laborious
& special exertions to arouse the people to come out to the ordinances
of the gospel, and their labors have been attended with favorable re
sults.
At the completion of the Chapel in February last, a protracted
meeting was held at E w a.
It was a solemn and interesting time, & we
have reason to hope that several souls w ere converted on that occasion.
I have a list of 30 or 40 persons who appear more or less clear in
their religious experience, all or nearly all refer to that meeting
as the occasion of their concern for salvation.
Besides those there
are upwards of a hundred who visit me weekly with the desire to ex
press their views of of ( !) Christ and the w a y of salvation,
concerning
whom, I can only say they do not as yet give satisfactory evidence
of conversion.
There have been received 10
individuals into the
church the past year, making in all 29 members n o w in good standing.
There have been two examinations of schools at Ewa & three at
Waianae during the year.
During the former part of the year the people
were so fully employed in building the chapel that I thought it not
best to call them off to prepare for examination.
The schools are
quite backward, there are but few tolerable readers among the best
schools, or even all the scholars of Ewa.
A t Waianae there is a pecu
liar destitution of books & of suitable qualifications in the teachers
even to teach the veriest rudiments.
I have made some effort to re-
move the first difficulty, by sending them books w h e n e v e r application
has been made for them.
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The sabbath school in the Ai o ka la is flourishing and numbers
300 or more scholars.
Two teachers from the High School have been employed during
a great part of the year, one on stipulated wages & the other for want
of the proper qualifications has received only occasional aid as his
needs seemed to demand.
Their attention has been confined to the
children of both sexes, which now number about 150.
The work of trans
lating during the past year has been prosecuted with as much attention
as my other avocations would admit.
The greater part of the time
devoted to it has been occupied in reviewing & preparing for the press
the works of others.
Besides these I have translated upwards of 100
pages of Bailey’s Algebra.
It was my intention to have finished it,
but other business coming in unexpectedly I was compelled to lay it
aside, or have the press to stop for want of matter.
One object of our removal to Ewa was the hope of benefiting the
health of Mrs. Bishop in a cooler atmosphere than where we formerly
resided, & wher e she might work in the garden & ride daily on horse
back.
This course has been strictly pursued during a great part of the
year to the evident benefit of her health.
She has not been able
however to relax her diet, without in every instance suffering the
return of distressing symptoms of dyspepsia.
We shall feel it our duty
in case Mr. Smith does not return to request permission to remain
at Ewa, as it is probably that a return to our former field would be
liable to bring on a return of the old complaint.
A. Bishop
Stated Supply
For Ewa
�Annual Report of the Station at Ewa
For the year 1858
It will hardly h e expected that I shall he able during the few
hours remaining for me to write to give a very extended review of the
operations of the past year at the Ewa Station.
A hasty scetch ( !)
must he all that my time will allow.
On the return of the windward brethren from general meeting to
Hawaii, in July, I accompanied them on a visit to Kailua and Kaawaloa,
taking Lahaina & Wailuku in my way.
At which time I was absent from
my charge three sabbaths; when my pulpit was supplied by the brethren
from Honolulu.
With the exception of 2 sabbaths, the one from illness
& the other from absence at Waianae in April last, the pulpit at Ewa
has been weekly & daily supplied with the preaching of the word during
the past year.
On my return fr o m Hawaii, my leisure hours were occupied in
translations, book making, reviews of other works and proof reading
until the end of the year, since which time the state of religious
feeling among the people has claimed & occupied all my attention.
Two hundred pages & upwards of Bailey's Algebra is no w translated
and about 40 more remain to be finished, when the work will be ready
for the reviewer.
But as there is no prospect of any time the coming
year to resume the work, I have concluded to forward the whole as it is
to the hands of B r . Clark, who I presume has been waiting for it for
some time past.
There have been but two general examinations of the schools during
the year, when they appeared to be on the increase both as to numbers
and improvement.
Since the revival of religion commenced in January,
it was not thought advisable to assist the attention of teachers &
scholars to a preparation for school examination.
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A new school house of dobies has been completed here during the
year.
I t is 66 fe e t by 3 3 , p lastered & g l a z e d , w ith a thatched roof
and contains seats & tables for 50 w riters and forms fo r
who do not w r it e .
as many more
The extra expense above what was done by n ativ es
amounts to about 2 0 0 d o l l a r s , one h a lf o f which was contributed by the
m is sio n , in c lu siv e of what I gave from my own su p p lie s.
The other h a lf
has been mostly p a id by the people, and a small debt remains s t i l l to
be p a id .
The fo llow ing are the s t a t is t ic k s for the y ear.
Marriages
Admitted to the church
this year
No. of ch . members at the
beginning of year
D ie d
Dismissed to other c h s.
Now in good standing
73
329
28
1
4
352
The f i r s t admission of 18 took place in Augt 1 8 3 7 , and the second
adm ission i n February 1 8 3 8 , when 21 were re c e iv e d .
The th ir d and p r in
cipal season of admission occurred on the 6 th of the present month,
when 2 9 7 were received from among the heathen to the fe llo w s h ip of the
church.
Scetch ( ! ) of the state of R e lig io n at Ewa.
About the close of the year 1837,
there began to e x is t some sense
of the low state of r e lig io u s fe e lin g among u s , & prayer began to be
offered more frequently for a general outpouring of the S p i r i t .
On
the last Friday of December, we set apart the day to f a s t i n g and prayer,
in re feren c e to the coming y e a r , at which time confession of past sins
was made, & supplications
offered to God fo r a re v iv a l of R e lig io n
among u s .
At the beginning of the new y e a r , I attended the protracted meet
ing at Honolulu together w it h about 150 of the Ewa peo ple ,
including
�3.
the church and the most serious persons among us.
That was a refresh
ing season to all of us, and we returned home prepared to begin more
thoroughly than ever before the work of reform in our own & the hearts
of sinners about us.
Several interesting cases of awakening among
sinners took pla c e during the month of January.
At this time however
there was nothing that could be denominated a general seriousness among
the people.
The Protracted meeting at Waialua which was attended by many from
Ewa, was another means of stirring up the attention of this people.
At our return from thence there were some 2 or 3 hundreds of inquirers
to b e found among us.
The sacramental season which followed, when 21
persons were received to the ch. was one of solemnity to all, and
served greatly to deepen impressions.
Immediatly after this, evening
meetings for prayer and exhortation were instituted, which have been
kept up every evening until the present time.
The means which was used
to arouse the attention of this people, seem to have been peculiarly
blessed by the Holy Spirit.
Especially in pouring out a Spirit of
prayer upon the church, it became an easy thing to pray & preach, &
in giving to the people a hearing ear, it has been a pleasant thing to
meet with them often, to impart religious instruction.
By means of these preparatory measures, and above all, by means
of the Blessing of the Holy Spirit, there was an unusual seriousness
& expectation upon the minds of the people, at the commencement of the
Protracted meeting held here the last week in February.
Their ears &
hearts were open to receive the word of truth, and before the meeting
closed, there was such a spirit of agonizing prayer poured out upon the
church as I had never witnessed.
A corresponding feeling was awakened
through the whole congregation, and it became evident that of a truth
■the Spirit of God was with us.
As the first fruits of this refreshing
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season, there were enrolled 700 names the week following the meeting,
all of whom professed to he seriously seeking the Lord.
They were in
all stages, of feeling, from those who were rejoicing in a well grounded
hope of pardon & acceptance, down to the stupid & self-deceived hangeron, who has no sense of sin.
This number was increased in a short time
to nearly one thousand persons, by such as have since turned from their
sins, and profess to have begun a new life.
Out of the number thus
brought in there were selected from time to time such as gave clear
evidence of piety, and on the first sabbath of the present month, 291
persons were admitted to church fellowship, about one half of whom
date their first true convictions since the beginning of the year.
The work with us is still progressing, and we are daily hearing
of interesting cases of turning to the Lord.
Besides the daily ordinary
means of grace used by us, there have been two protracted meetings
held in the neighborhood of Waiawa during the month of April last.
The first one was at Honouliuli 4 miles west of the meetinghouse, in
a populous neighborhood which had never felt any special Interest in
the new order of things, and where were residing several truly hardened
characters, who used to exert a great influence on the side of evil.
As the result of this meeting about 150 persons have embraced the side
of Christianity who had never before come out to our meetings.
They
have been regular attendants ever since, and many of them give hopeful
evidence of piety.
The week following, we held a protracted meeting a(t) Waianae
assisted by Dr. Judd of Honolulu.
The meeting was well attended, and
the only circumstance which we had to right was the crowd of people
from Ewa which distracted in some measure the attention of the kamaainas
from the solemnties of the occasion, by diverting their thoughts to
the rites of hospitality.
We however sought the blessing with strong
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crying and tears and it came.
It was a solemn & blessed season to
ourselves & to the people of Waianae.
Mrs. Bishop & I remained two days after its close to converse with
such persons as desired to visit us, and make known their feelings.
I conversed with nearl y 400 individuals, the greater proportion of whom
professed to have been first awakened at that meeting.
When I first came to Ewa, there was not a serious individual
known to live at W aianae.
Of all the districts on the Island,
that
was supposed to have felt the most influence adverse to the Gospel.
If a missionary visited them, he was barely treated with respect,
a few individuals would deign to give him a hearing.
and
The first indi
cation of a favorable change in the aspect of things, was at the time
of the dedication of the Ewa chapel, when 8 persons came over and
attended the protracted meeting, and their attention became awakened
to serious things.
These became regular attendants upon the preaching
at Ewa, their numbers gradually increasing as they came over every
Saturday to spend the sabbath, until at the close of the year, they
amounted to about 50.
At the protracted meeting at Ewa on the last of
February, they had increased to nearly 100 individuals who came over
every saturday; the distance is about 15 miles across the mountain.
The district of Waianae is at present in a very interesting state.
The number of inquirers is large, and I am told that several have
turned since we left.
How m a ny of them will give evidence of true
piety must be determined hereafter.
I trust will never be forgotten.
them the bread of life.
An interest is awakened there that
But they have no one to break unto
Punihaole, a very good man, of Honolulu, who
has been for some time their teacher is with them, and doubtless is
faithful in doing good.
But the people are needing a more efficient
teacher, one who can lead them out and in before the Lord.
As it is
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hopeless to expect a missionary to reside among them, I would here
apply for some efficient native to supply that place.
Davida Malo
offered me last year to come and live there in case he could get the
consent of the Mission & chiefs.
The mission had returned to their
homes, and the approbation of brethren and chiefs of Maui not being then
obtained, the matter has been deferred.
I wish however to have the
Mission take up the subject of a suitable supply for Waianae, and, if
it can be accomplished, obtain Davida Malo for that station.
The chiefs
& missionaries of this island are In favor of the measure, and have
given an invitation to Malo to come down and reside there.
In case a
supply can be obtained, arrangements also for his support must be made
with the government, and the chief of the district now at Maui.
One of the characteristicks of this wo r k of grace is the interest
ing number of children who have become pious.
There are with us
upwards of 50 children belonging to Hooliliamanu's school who give
cheering evidence of regenerate hearts.
Prom the portentous cloud that
hangs over the future destiny of this people, threatening them ex
tinction, this, that so many of the children of these islands have
recently become pious, hangs out before us a bright bow of promise.
It encourages our hopes to believe that the leaven of salvation is
being infused Into the rising generation, and that if we are found
faithful this nation may yet be saved.
There is another circumstance I ought to mention.
The crowd
that comes out on the sabbath has wholly overflowed our chapel &
verandah so that large nos. of them are obliged to sit in the sun .
The
people are now collecting timber to make a spacious ranai in the yard
of the chapel, where we expect to hold our meetings in fair weather,
until such times as a more spacious building can be erected.
A. Bishop
�Ewa
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Report for the Station
at E wa, May 1839
A kind and beneficient Providence has conferred upon the uncum-
bents of this station, a good degree of health & an open door of us e
fulness during the past year.
The direct preaching of the Gospel
has been more abundant and more blessed than at any previous season
either here or wherever else his lot has been cast.
May the praise be
to Him who inclines the ear to hear and opens the heart to receive the
messages of Divine truth.
At the commencement of the year just passed we were i n the midst
of an extensive work of grace, which had been in operation with more
or less power from the beginning of the civil year.
Our daily meetings
were thronged with solemn and listening hearers and on the sabbath
no place could be found sufficiently capacious for the crowd that/
assembled until the erection of a spacious Lanai in the rear of the
chapel which was completed in June.
Since that time we have held our
worship there during fair weather.
There have been 2 admissions to the church during the past year.
The first in May last, when 288 persons male & female were received
into covenant relations wit h the Head of the Church, and in the following August a still larger number were admitted amounting to 454.
Of these 2 admissions about 100 were from the district of Waianae, the
remainder were of Ewa, with the exception of some few from other
places then residing there.
The first indications of a decline in the work of revival, were
manifested in the falling off of some of the congregation, which con
tinued gradually to diminish until it came down to its present station
ary number, about 1500 in the morning and about 1000 in the afternoon.
Daily evening meetings, however, were continued until the month of Jan'y
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last, since which time we have returned to the former customary method
of Wednesday afternoon preaching as the only stated meeting during the
week for the congregation generally.
The present state of religious
feeling with us is low, altho there are a few cases of inquiries
There are about 100 who stand propounded for admission to the church,
the greater part of whom it is expected will be admitted at the next
communion, and the remainder deferred until a future season, or perhaps
dismissed from being candidates.
I said, the present state of religious feeling is low, this
however refers principally tho not exclusively to such as are out of
the church.
There is a good degree of religious attention among the
poe hoahanau (those in the church) as a body, altho we stand in fear
of some.
Those who have been overtaken in gross sin, have been prompt
ly disciplined, & either cut off or temporarily suspended from their
church relationship.
The effect of prompt discipline we think h a s been
salutary, and will continue to be exercised as offences shall arise.
Some of our greatest anxieties have been for the children in the church.
Of the 40 received last year, 2 have been excinded & about a dozen
suspended, part of whom have been again restored.
Of the 20 members
excommunicated none have been restored, and none have as yet given
satisfactory evidence of true penitence.
Upon the whole we feel that a great work of grace has been wrought
for the people of Ewa and Waianae, which has already effected a great
change upon the face of society, before unknown in those polluted dis
tricts of Oahu.
During the last 8 months we have enjoyed the presence of Mr. &
us
Mrs. Vanduzee, who have afforded xx valuable aid in the instruction of
an interesting school of boys & girls.
We have invited them to settle
permanently at our station in the hope that our wishes will be sanctioned
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1839
by the mission.
We propose to instruct a class of boys (in addition to the several
branches of literature usually taught in boarding schools,) in the
arts of cabinet making & the tanning of morocco leather.
The hope is
that our vicinity to a market will enable us to sell the productions
of their manufacture, s o as to procure the means of support to the
school independent of the funds of the Board.
There is at the present time a sugar mill in building to go by
water, on a scale sufficiently large to grind the cane of all the
natives of the district who wish to cultivate it.
It has been under
taken not with a view to the emoluments of the business, which are
altogether uncertain, but solely to encourage industry and enterprize
among the people by affording them the opportunity to obtain the avails
of their labors.
The expenses of its erection are divided between
Kekuanaoa and myself.
The following are the statisticks of the station for the year.
Marriages
Church members at the beginning of the year
Received by profession during the year Received by certificate
Excommunicated
Suspended & not yet restored
Died
Dismissed to other churches
Remaining in good standing
65
64
742
2 - 808
20
12
6
5 = 43
765
Benevo lent Contributions to Mr. Smith's church
62.12 1/2
Do for school house, in liquidation of the debt
50.00
Contribution for teachers
90.00
Rebuilding of teacher's house
Baptized the past year, Children
Do in all Children
256
256
The schools are in a less flourishing condition than during the
previous year.
This was owing in part to the attention of the people
& of the teachers being for a part of the time to the subject of re
ligious considerations, but principally we fear to the fact, that the
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people have been called upon to support their school teachers.
This fact
we fear has had an unhappy influence upon the minds of ignorant pa
rents.
There is certainly a repugnance in their minds towards support
ing their teachers.
The station schools however have continued without interruption
under the care of native graduates of the Seminary.
The Sabbath school of Children conducted by Mrs. Bishop is in a
flourishing condition.
The weekly & monthly meetings of mothers have been kept up and
vigorously sustained under the direction of Mrs. Bishop.
The sabbath school in the Ai o ka la is large and flourishing
containing on an average about 350 scholars.
Only 2 examinations of the district schools have been held during
the year.
A. Bishop
�Report of the Station of Ewa and Waianae for
the year ending April 30th 1840
The labors of the past year at the station of Ewa embracing the
district of Waianae have been performed without any interruption from
ill health, and with the absence of your missionary from his field but
one Sabbath.
But he has wrought alone with his companion at a station embrac
ing nearly 30 miles in extent, without any assistant in maintaining
the schools.
The consequence has been there has been but one district
school in the whole parish except the one kept up at the station, by
himself & Mrs. Bishop as the teachers.
With the burden of school keeping on his hands he has not been
able to travel and preach in different parts of his district as formerly,
altho' for most of the year one weekly lecture has been kept up on
fridays at some outpost, and. the district of Waianae has been visited
every 2 or 3 months, on which occasions he has usually spent several
days at a time at that place.
The state of Religion, has been growing more encouraging through
the year, tho’ no special religious awakening has occurred.
A pleas
ing and serious attention to the duties of religion has continued and
been increasing on the part of a vast majority of the church; -
the
duties of private and family devotion have been kept up, but the
scattered state of the population, and the distance from the the ( !)
place- of public worship have prevented many from entire punctual atten
dance to the public services of the sabbath, yet there has been no
material diminution of the congregation during the year.
There have been several hopeful conversions the past year of such
as did not give evidence of piety during the late religous attention
two years ago.
Their admission to the privileges of Ch. membership
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has been deferred for a season, sad experience having taught us not
to depend on the fallacious appearances of the first profession a
native may make of piety.
cases of long standing.
Those admitted during the year have been
The Lord has been merciful to us in keeping
so many stedfast, while numbers around and in the midst of us have
grievously fallen into apo stacy.
A prompt but kind discipline has been
executed towards those who have relapsed into sin, by means of which
many have been reclaimed before they had gone too far to give a hope
of return to virtue.
But it is painful to add that others who have
been visited and exhorted to return, have but hardened themselves
the more in sin, and cast off all restraint, and become sevenfold worse
than ever.
Upon such when the efforts to a restoration have wholly
failed, the sentence of excommunication has been passed.
But few only
of those who have been, cut off from the church have returned to give
God the glory.
The effect however upon those remaining has been salu
tary, and taught them the necessity of watchfulness and prayer as a
prime means of preservation from falling away.
A few weeks after the visit of the L'Artemise ( !) to this island
I heard with surprize ( !) that a Catholic meeting was got up at Halava ( !) and another at Waimalu in Ewa and still another at Waianae, all
of which were conducted by natives sent out by the Priest at Honolulu.
Presently I heard that houses were erecting for the purpose of their
worship.
Many of the natives immediately became infatuated to run
after them with greediness.
But as they were such as had long fallen
off from attendance at the Waiawa chapel, I saw no material diminu
tion of my congregation.
But the rage for smoking, the high promises
of long life and a merry one to all who would turn to their party,
y
and above all the wonderful miraculous cures alleged to have been
performed upon the sick, worked amazingly upon the imaginations of
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this fickle people.
The first case of any defection from our church
was that of a woman at Waimalu sick of the dropsy in the chest.
visited her in hope of reclaiming her from her delusion.
I
I found that
she had been under the hands of the papal emmissary who had persuaded
her that he could infallibly cure her if she would turn papist.
consented, and he performed over her his mumories ( !).
She
Altho she was
in the last stage of her disease, and unable to rise, she felt perfect
ly confident that she should recover, and utterly refused to return
again to protestantism.
After using every persuasive in vain, and I
was about to retire, I proposed to pray with her, but she said she
did not wish it, and so I departed.
The next day she was cut off by
a vote of the ch. session, and before the following morning dawned up on
her,
she died.
There have been several defections of a similar nature,
but this was the most affecting of any.
The usual m e t h o d is for the
catholic to go to a person who is sick, and obtain permission to
sprinkle him or her with holy water in the name of the Trinity and then
pronounce the person cured.
In the course of nature the person recovers,
and is made to believe that it was done b y miracle.
invariably becomes a catholic.
hands.
The individual
Many have however died under their
One of their leaders lately died at Waianae.
It was confident
ly asserted that he was not dead, but would return again to life on
such a day.
Out of shame, however, they buried him at midnight.
He
was a man, who in order to be like his priest, forsook his wife, and
refused to give her any support, unless she would turn papist.
The.
woman is a credible member of my church, and is now released from any
further solicitations of her former husband.
The progress of papacy
has been most rapid at Waianae, and has very much thinned the congregation.
Some 100 or more became papists in the days of Kaahumanu,
many of whom during the late revival there renounced their connextion
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with that aoao (what one has been taught), and in due time joined our
church.
Some 6 or 8 of them have, during the year, gone back again
to their old connexion, - the remainder stand firm as yet, and continue
to appear well.
And here I desire to solicit the attention of this meeting to the
destitute condition of Waianae.
It is doubtless owing in great part
to the destitution of that place, that so many are turning to the
Catholics.
There is not a school in all that district, and no man
suitably qualified has been found to take the post.
tained, there is no means allowed for his support.
Could one be obThe children there
are numerous, and all growing up in total ignorance of letters.
what shall be done.
But
Something must be devised for them, and a teacher
must be stationed and supported there.
We want one of our best edu
cated men, a man of decided piety and good talents to take the lead
in meetings.
Otherwise the cause of Christ, so propitiously begun
there must inevitably suffer and diminish.
Almost the same destitution as to teachers, exists in Ewa.
The
only teacher we had at the station was taken last year by the king for
a tax gatherer, and attorney for the district.
His usefulness in that
post, in superintending the konohikis, and seeing to the right ob
servance of the new law on the part of the head men, and in preventing
every species of oppression denounced by the law, has alone reconciled
me to the measure.
There is a teacher at Honouliuli a graduate of the
Seminary, struggling for the pittance of a support, who has a daily
school of about 30 children.
He needs some patronage from the mission
to enable him to get along.
For the last 8 months, since the station teacher was taken away,
Mrs. Bishop and I have kept up the school at the station.
But with all
my multiplied cares, it is too much, and cannot long continue.
A teach-
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1840
er must be obtained and a support provided for him, or the school
must cease.
The members of the church have done something, and when properly
organized, which is now we hope in the way of being effected, will do
more.
But it will be considerable time before the avails of their
labor will be productive.
Experience has taught us that there is no
public spirit in the people to do of themselves without being closely
inspected and urged on.
We need at least 2 new teachers for Ewa and
one for Waianae and they can doubtless be obtained, were the means for
their support provided.
government in this thing.
We need the assistance and cooperation of the
The only favor hitherto granted the teachers
is an exemption from the king's paahao (system of work to pay off taxes),
on this island, but I am informed that even this labor is insisted on
at some of the islands.
It becomes us while together to devise and
earnestly recommend to the go v t . some approved plan for effecting this
object.
We can no longer expect that men will work for nothing.
The
people will not support them, for they know not the value of learning.
If we neglect it, then we may as well fold up our hands and say at once
let the schools go.
this purpose.
Permit me here to suggest a source of revenue for
The usual annual expense of our gen. meetings is about
$15,000 ($1500 ?).
Were we to hold them only once in two years, then
we might have $750.00 for each of those 2 years to be appropriated to
the support of schools, wish (which) would allow about $5.00 to each
station, a sum sufficient with the aid of the people & chiefs to keep
50 schools in operation, which are no w languishing or already out of
existence.
The church h a v e raised about $15.00 the past year for the support
of schools., and about $100. towards paying for a bell.
The cultivation
of vegetables for the market has been mostly a failure, in consequence
of their planing in exposed situations, where they have been destroyed
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6.
by the goats and wild hogs in the mountains.
A piece of land for the
monthly concert has been obtained, and will be enclosed as soon as it
has been as yet effected.
(Unsigned;
A. Bishop)
Statistics of the year for the Districts of
Ewa and Waianae
Whole no. received to the church on examination
Whole no. on certificate - - - - - - - - - - R e ceived the past year on examination . . . . .
Received on certificate - - none - - Whole no dismissed to other churches - - - - Dismissed the past y e a r - - - - - - - - - - - Whole no. deceased - - - - - - - - - - - - - Deceased the past year - - - - - - - - - - - Suspended the past year - —
Restored, some of last year's suspension
Remain suspended - - - - - - - -- 10
Whole no excommunicated - - - - - - - - - - - - Excommunicated the past year - - - - - - - - - Remain excommunicated - - - - - - - - - - - - - Whole no in regular standing - - - - Whole no of children baptized - - - - - - - - - Baptized the past y e a r - - - - - - - - - - - - - Marriages the past year - - - - - - - - - - - - Average congregation from 1,000 to 1,500\
969
10
174
42
37
34
28
10
6
70
50
66
827
276
20
68
�Report of the Station of Ewa and Waianae
for the year ending April 30 t h 1 8 4 1 .
When the labors of a Station become regular, and the routine of
duties assume a sameness from day to day, and from month to month,
there is a liability of falling into the use of a certain set of phra
ses, in rendering our reports from year to year,
& As our labors are
the same, or very nearly so, that they were during previous years, it
will not be necessary to enumerate many minor items in our annual
account to the mission.
The continuance of our usual health calls for gratitude.
I
have been able to preach every sabbath, and every lecture day either
at Ewa or Waianae without interruption.
My visits to the latter place
have been as often as every 2 or 3 months, when I usually spend several
days in various missionary duties.
While at home, almost all my spare
time has been devoted to the revision & superintendence of the new
edition of the Scri ptures.
Pour protracted meetings have been held during the year, within
the bounds of my field of labor, to wit, at Halawa, Waiawa, Honouli
uli, and Waianae.
They were all, with the exception of the one at
Halawa, well attended, and solemn, and were followed by decidedly bene
ficial effects.
The frequent repetition of these meetings however
in the same place, does not appear to me to b e attended with very
striking effects, unless it be in a time of special seriousness among
the people.
Such meetings however continue to be popular, and prove
beneficial or not in proportion to the spirit with which they are
conducted.
The state of religion during the past year has been on the whole
encouraging.
About the beginning of last July there were indications
of a falling off to a considerable extent among the people of the
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2.
church and congregation, f r o m attendance on the ordinances of the
sanctuary, and the social weekly m e e t i n g s .
were indications of an incipient haunaele
of drunkness
At the sam e time there
(disturbance;
commotion),
( !) and riot, w h i c h had already commenced among the cath
olics of the neighborhood, and was making its way into the families of
m y congregation.
Some 2 or 3 of m y chur c h had been detected in drink
ing, tho not to entire intoxication.
They were disciplined a c cording
ly by suspension f r o m communion 3 months.
But the alarm was raised.
Information came that scenes of drunkenness were becoming rife through
out the islands, and b e s i d e s .their own fermented drinks, pedlars were
carrying bottles of rum f r o m the grog- shops of Honolulu into every h a m
let to seduce the simple people into sin.
In this emergency the church agreed to appoint a day of fasting
and prayer, and in the mean time our most able church members,
including
the elders, went out by two & two to every village and h o u s e in the
region,
conversed and pray e d w ith the people,
and exhorted t h e m to
return to attendance upon the meetings of the sabbath.
W h e n the day
of humiliation arrived, w e found a full and solemn congregation.
formula of a confession and covenant, previously drawn out,
The
and adapted
to the existing circumstances of t h e church, was read a n d r a tified by
them, and as a closing exercise of the day, they all stood u p and r e
peated after me, the words of the same confession and c o v e n a n t .
wh a t sincerity they renewed their vows,
hearts.
tears.
With
is known, to the searcher of
W i t h us it was a solemn moment, and many were affected even to
The immediate beneficial effects were, In the first place an
entire sto p was put to the haunaele f r o m that day f o r t h through the
bounds of my whole district of labor in Ewa and Waianae.
W e h e a r d no
more of drinking, except as individuals came to Honolulu & got In
toxicated.
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3.
In the second place, the congregation immediately became enlarged
to nearly double of its former numbers it soon became evident that the
And the last, yet not least,
Holy Spirit was in the midst of us.
Many became deeply impressed, or professed to be so, many backsliders
returned, and Several excommunicated ch. members visited me for the
first time with professions of repentance.
Altho a multitude of all
classes have since proved that t h e y were not sincere, yet many have
held on to the present time.
None of the subjects of that season of
grace have as yet been admitted to the church though many of them now
stand propounded for the next communion.
The interest felt by the
multitude in that season of religious excitement, has passed by, and
at present there prevails a lamentable coldness and neglect towards
religious things.
Within 6 weeks past, the numbers of our congregation
have decreased perceptibly, some indeed through sickness and absence,
but others doubtless from apathy & indifference.
pensity.
The story of the "cross of Christ", and salvation through
h i m alone is becoming stale.
It falls upon the ear, like an old story,
whi c h has long ceased to be a novelty.
their old habits,
Sense.
Such is their pro
Many have turned b a c k again to
and expressed their preference for the things of
Still a goodly number hold on to the ways of the Lord, and
are walking in garments white and clean.
Romanism has made some stir in our neighborhood the past year,
and received some accessions to their numbers.
But a few of them
only, and those whom we could well afford to spare, have passed over
from the protestant ranks.
Some half a dozen ch. members perhaps have
during the year, apostatized to the ranks of papacy.
But it is only
the loss of religious influence that is regretted - the hope that they
might have truly repented had they stayed with us, - but as to any
evidence of piety they manifested in the church, they ha d long ceased
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to show it.
4.
Some few catholics who have been bapatem/a i a , have for
saken their ranks and returned declaring the whole of Popery to be a
delusion, and are n ow attendants on my preaching.
In the district of Waianae there has been made a great diversion
in favor of Popery.
Nearly or quite one half of the people profess to
have embraced the catholic party.
It is hardly to be accounted for on
any other principle but the ignorance of the people, and the special
efforts w h i c h have been made by the priests to prejudice the minds of
the people against the truth.
The most effectual means which they have
used to help their cause, is to raise opposition to the new school
laws, under the promise that whoever becomes a catholic shall be free
from all of its demands.
It has been but too successful.
congregations there continue to be good and attentive.
Still our
Our chapel
has never been deserted when I or the elders of the Ewa ch. have visited
the district.
They are in most eminent need of a missionary,
very desirous to obtain one.
and are
A missionary might expect to have a con
gregation of nearly one thousand.
Since the beginning of the present year, the schools have been
flourishing, more so than at any time since I have resided at Ewa.
This is to be attributed to the operation of the new school laws, which
are decidedly beneficial.
A certain class of advocates for the naaupo
( darkness; ignorance) are opposed to them, many of who m have organ
ized themselves under the banner of Roman discipline.
We are in
great want of suitable teachers, such as can bear an examination
according to law.
As a temporary substitute we have employed others
the present year, rather than to have the schools neglected.
are fully adequate to teach the rudiments of instruction.
They
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5
Statistics for Ewa & Waianae Station
For the year ending April 30, 1841.
Whole no. received to the ch. on examination
1058
Whole no. on certificate
11
Received past year on examination - - - - - - - 89
Received past year on certificate
1
Whole no. received the past year
90
Whole no, dismissed to other churches - - - - - - 45
Dismissed the past year - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4
Whole no. deceased - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 58
Deceased the past year - - - - - - - - - -- _ _ _ _
25
Suspended the past year - - - - - 13
Remain suspended, in all - - - - — - - - - - 12
Whole no. excommunicated - - - - - - - - - - - - - 91
Excom. the past year - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 21
Remain excommunicated, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 80
Whole no. in regular standing - - - - - - - - - 919
Whole no. of children baptized,
311
Baptized the past year - ------35
Marriages the past year - - - - - - - - - - - - - 56
No. of scholars In schools - - - - - - - - - - - 550
Average congregation - - - - - - - - - - 1000 to 1500
�Report for the Station of Ewa & Waianae
May 1842.
At the close of another year in the affairs of this mission, I
have little else to record but the continued goodness of God to myself
and family, and to the people of my charge.
The continual renewing to
us of Heaven's rich blessings, should have called forth fro m our
hearts a corresponding return of grateful love and obedience to Him
whose mercies have kept us.
done it.
But tho this is our duty, yet we have not
There is at present a greater apathy in respect to religious
concerns than I have ever known at Ewa at any previous time.
This is
apparent not in any numerous apostacies of the professedly religious
more than on other years, or any triumphs of the ungodly over the
cause of religion and virtue.
It is manifested in a coldness and
heartlessness which attends the performance of religious duties, and
the readiness of profession to allow of trifling hindrances to keep
them back from attending upon religious ordinances.
Their strong at
tachment to former habits of living, habits inconsistent with the
duties of Christianity evinces the low state of moral feeling, among
them.
The Holy Spirit is not present with us in His convicting and
converting influences, and I dont know that any persons have been con
verted during the past year, but on the contrary some have fallen away,
and are separated from the privileges of ch. membership.
The greater
part however of those who have-been cut off, are those who were in a
state of suspension last year, but failing to manifest any signs of
penitence, and wholly absenting themselves from the ordinances, were
judged unfit to be considered any longer as church members in any
sense.
I have been enabled to preach uninterruptedly every sabbath and
every Wednesday of the past year without: being prevented by sickness
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1842
2.
or other causes and to visit my people once from house to house, but
have had no protracted meetings at Ewa owing to the apathy of the
people.
But my main labors have been directed towards the revision of the
Scriptures for the press and superintending their printing.
In the
month of October last, a set of costs for the Pilgrims Progress ar
rived from the Am. Tr. Society, with an appropriation of funds for an
edition in the Hawaiian language.
This decided me at once to take hold
of the translation of the work, but it proved a greater job than I had
anticipated, and in order to complete it and attend also to the edition
of the Bible now in press, I have been obliged to neglect much mission
ary work among my people.
The consequences of this have been felt
in the coldness and apathy of religious feeling now so apparent.
What our people have needed is to be often visited from house to
house and collected together in social meetings in their several
villages, a duty as well as privilege to the missionary from which I
have been precluded by Biblical and literary labors during the greater
part of the year.
I have visited the district of Waianae as often as once in 6 weeks
or 2 months through the year, and have usually spent with the people
several days together.
On the first day of October last, B r . Emerson
and I met at Waianae, held a 3 day's meeting, formed a church consist
ing of the members of our Ewa and Waialua chs. resident in Waianae.
These consisted of 20 from the Waialua and 140 from the Ewa church, to
which no. 20 have since been added from the world; making in all a
church of 180 members.
Pour of these have since deceased and 2 now
stand suspended, leaving 174 members now in regular standing.
During the greater part of the year, the religious meetings of
that place have been conducted by Keikinui, a pious and intelligent
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1842
3
member of the 1st Honolulu church.
He has approved himself worthy of
our confidence by his dllegence ( !), prudence and zeal; and I would
suggest, whether it may not he allowable to afford him a small pecu
niary aid as an encouragement to enable him to labor free from em
barrassment and anxiety as to his temporal wants.
I hear or see very little of Popery of late in the bounds of Ewa
and Waianae.
Still It Is there, dormant indeed as the priests have
gone in quest of another prey at other islands.
The chapel at Waianae
has not been opened for public worship for several months past.
Sev
eral of their followers as I am told have left them, and occasionally
attend the Protestant worship, but the number is not great.
One
church member only who joined them has been restored, & one or two
more are candidates for a restoration to their former standing.
What
we most want is the Spirit of God to be poured out upon the missionary
and people, and then as in other places we should see the Standard of
the Gospel elevated, and the wanderers returning.
But alas ! it is our
own indifference and sinfulness that the Spirit is grieved away.
Were
the Christians as they ought to be, we might see what is now witnessed
on some parts of Hawaii and other places, a general returning from the
delusions of Popery and every other species of irreligion.
But Popery
is not down among us, and nothing has been done at all adequate to put
it down.
It is only in statu quo, and making no perceptible advances.
While the priests could continue to get up a breeze, and make fools
believe that they were or had been persecuted, there were many who
joined them.
But as all their promises and pretentions to miracles
have proved abortive, and no one has appeared to oppose the free
toleration of their opinions, the eyes of many have been opened to
see the nature of the imposture which has deluded them, and their
ardor has cooled.
S u c h I should judge is their present state.
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1842
But we need not count upon an easy victory.
The manner of its in
troduction at these islands may go to show us that it will not readily
y i eld to the truth; and moreover that nothing else but the power of
God can put it down from among us.
This is the point at which we
should aim continually, and by our prayers and labors endeavor to
diffuse this feeling among our churches, that prayer and penitence
on the part of Christians is the first prerequisite of a revival
of Religion and the overthrow of Error.
The contemplated addition and repairs to. our chapel has pro
gressed but slowly during the year past.
We have about 250 dollars
subscribed and about half paid in, and as soon as a sufficient sum
shall b e realized, the work will be resumed to a speedy completion.
(Unsigned, but marked on back:)
A. Bishop report
1842
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1842
§
Statisticks for Ewa & Waianae.
May 1, 1842
Ewa
Whole no. received to ch. on examination,
Whole no. on Certificate,
Received past year on examination,
Do
Do on certificate,
Whole no. received the past year,
Whole no. dismissed to other churches,
Dismissed the past year
Whole no deceased,
Deceased the past year
Suspended the past year
Remain suspended, (9 of previous year)
Whole no excommunicated,
Excom. the past year
Remain excommunicated,
Whole no in regular standing,
Whole no of children baptized,
Baptized the past year,
Marriages the past year,
Average congregation,
No.- of scholars in the schools,
N o. of schools
N o. of teachers
Waianae
1209
20
17
160
151
20
5
160
156
180
- 193
—
149
83 in both p laces
20
5
9
2
18
2
- _
113
- 22
102
875
174
369
13
58
13
47 at the 2 st
a
t
i
o
n
s
.
1000
600
516
180
9
3
12
3
�Report of the Station at Ewa
May 1, 1843.
The station at Ewa has been sustained through the year as usual
without any marked incident that calls for a prolonged report.
The
health of myself and wife has been good, and the Gospel has been preach
ed by me either at Ewa or Waianae on every sabbath of the year except
one when I attended a protracted meeting at Waialua.
The Wednesday
lecture and monthly concert has also been regularly sustained.
My Biblical labors has been devoted to the revising of the
Scriptures from the beginning of Isaiah to the end of Galations, and
to the reading of the proof sheets of the same as they passed through
the press to the end of the Gospel of Luke.
most of my secular time.
This labor has occupied
I have felt this the more, since it has
precluded me from visiting the destitute parts of the island to preach
the Gospel as I had intended.
My own people have also been neglected
in consequence, and I have visited them at their houses but once through
out.
I have made six visits to Waianae during the year, and spent a
sabbath with them at each time.
As that is a stronghold of Catholics,
the importance of spending as much of my time with them as I could
spare has been realized.
In Jan'y of the present year, the Waianae
chapel was blown down in a gale of wind, as was also my own house at
that place.
Since that time, they have had no place of worship,
except a lanai.
The people however in their poverty, have subscribed
$150.00 towards the erection of a new permanent building, and I
have engaged to double the sum out of my own resources.
The mater
ials are now being collected, and the hope is entertained that it
may be completed during the ensuing year.
The schools of Ewa and Waianae under my inspection amount to
17, to wit, 14 at Ewa, and 3 at Waianae.
They are in a more flour-
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1843
ishing condition th an formerly, and the teachers are better paid than
in most other places.
But there is a want of liberality on the
part of parents in contributing towards the support of teachers.
Should the Govt. withdraw its patronage, the schools would immediate
ly go down, unless the means for the support of teachers could be
derived from some other source.
At the examination in Jany. the
whole n o . of scholars in Ewa amounted to 662, including those who,
on account of want of suitable clothing and of tender age did not
attend; and at the examination in April, which I did not attend there
were reported as present 538, and 150 at Waianae.
There is much apathy with us still on the subject of religion,
tho there is a goodly number of the church who walk worthily of the
profession which they have made.
Several who fell into sin, and were
suspended, have returned of profession of repentance.
The larger
no. of those lately suspended belonged to one neighborhood, who a
few weeks since were convicted of playing cards.
most of them will soon be restored.
It is expected that
The discipline promptly exercised
seems to have crushed the affa i r, at least for the present.
We have been blessed with a few hopeful conversions during the
past year,
some of whom now stand propounded for ch. membership.
The no. however is small compared with those who remain indifferent
to their best interests.
Death has been thinning the ranks of the church this year beyond
that of any similar period of time past.
the hope of the Saviour,
Most of them have died in
and I trust have rest in the Lord.
Some
have died suddenly, while a few have failed to give that comforting
evidence of faith in their last moments, which is so cheering to their
pastor and friends.
By death, by excision, and removals there has
been a diminution of those in regular standing in the church to the
!
amount of 70 during the year.
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3.
In regard to the catholics, I have seen or heard little of them
for the last twelvemonth, and have no data by which I can judge of
their increase or decrease.
some proselytes.
I am told they are at work, and making
A poor ignorant woman, a member of my church, in
a remote part of the district, was baptized by a priest just before
she died; and I have heard of 2 excommunicated members having joined
them during the year, and tho they were deemed unworthy to b e members
of a Christian church, I have no doubt they will make good papists.
I have heard that they are much disappointed in their hopes from the
aid of the French nation since the English have taken possession.
What is to be the future condition of the Hawaiian Church of
Christ, is a subject about w h ich I feel many anxious forebodings.
The rulers of these islands are now the English, and they will doubt
less make such alterations in the laws of the land as shall suit
their convenience, without consulting the religious interests of the
people.
This they have already begun to do, and the immediate evil
consequences are beginning t o be felt.
Neither will any remonstrances
of the Mission be of avail, otherwise than to rivet their purpose.
Much as I feel that we shall experience better times under the Eng
lish sway than could be hoped for under the French, still in its
best aspects I can only view the late events which have transpired
here as a heavy calamity which we have but just begun to feel.
It
becomes us now to buckle on all our armour, and prepare for a defen
sive as well as an offensive combat with the enemy of souls.
no longer put any trust in earthly power to help us.
We must
We can only
look to God who is able to educe good out of what seems now as o n l y
evil.
After all I must confess that my fears are many, very many
and great, that the extinction of this people is about to be sealed.
Perhaps a just and retributive Providence has so deemed, as the
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1843
4.
legitimate consequence of their sins.
By the fixed laws of nature,
indeed, it cannot he possible that a licentious people should long
continue to flourish.
Our only hope hitherto has been that they might
he reclaimed, and by the grace of God become a virtuous people, and
thus be preserved from extinction.
Perhaps that hope was presumptu o u s .
The seeds of licentiousness are so inbred into their very blood and
marrow, their reclamation as a body would seem little short of a
miracle.
Of one thing we may be certain, that they have got their
, and we too, should we attempt any interference with
government measures.
Under these impressions, I feel that it is good
policy to act a firm but conciliatory part towards them, and not f ear
to remonstrate whenever we feel that they are encroaching upon the
interests of religion, however we may be repulsed in return.
Truth
is truth, and will carry power along with it, however unwelcome it
may be as a guest.
A. Bishop
Statistics for Ewa and Waianae
May 1, 1843
Whole no. received to church on examination
W h o l e no. on certificate
Received the past year on examination,
Do.
on certificate Whole no. received the past year
Whole no. dismissed to other churches
Dismissed the past year
Whole no. removed without dismission
Whole no. deceased
Deceased the p ast year
Suspended the past year
Excommunicated the past year
Remain excommunicated of past year
Whole no In regular standing
Whole no. of children baptized
Marriages the past year
Whole no. of children in the schools
Average congregation
Contributions for the chapel &c.
Ewa Waianae
1 2 1 7 - 26 -23
160
8
6
6
14
6
205
7
12
30
113
2
32
1
26
1
28
28
796
180
381
25
49
662
150
1000
100
$ 100 $ 40
�Report of the Station at Ewa for the year ending
April 30th 1844.
The work of preaching and instruction has been carried on as
usual by us throughout the year without interruption.
The health of
myself and wife has been good, with the exception of a severe rheu
matic complaint in my left hip, which affected me through the cool
season of winter, and did not leave me until the return of w a r m
weather in the month of April.
I was not laid aside however from
preaching but two sabbaths, and though I visited my people in the
time, and held meetings at different places of the district, and also
at Waianae, yet it was with the greatest pain that I got about even
on horseback.
The state of religion among us us ( !) at present is more favor
able than it was a year ago.
Though there is still a great coldness
and apathy on the part of some in the church, yet there are many who
appear to be engaged in religion, and walk worthily of their profession
as Christians.
The no. of those finally cut off from the church is
greater than those of any previous year, but the greater portion
of these are delinquents of old standing who had long been labored
with in a state of suspension in order to bring them back, but who
persevering in impenitent courses, were a few months ago finally
separated as incorrigible.
They were mostly persons who appeared on
their first falling into sin, desirous of returning to the bosom
of the church upon amendment of life, but who finally proved, the
hollowness of their professions, by becoming more and more indifferent
to serious things, and were cut off.
The improvement among us has consisted in a more punctual atten
dance upon the ordinances of religion, and a more serious attention
than formerly to its duties,
of the community.
on the part of the more serious portion
A small increase of the congregation is also
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1844
2.
perceptible.
We have held two protracted meetings of four days each
during the year, and with good effect.
The first was held in the
month of June, soon after our return from the General meeting, and
the other on the last week in March, both of which were productive
of much benefit in calling up attention to and awakening the conscience
to reflection upon religious truth.
Seventeen individuals have been admitted to the church during
the year on examination, and three by certificate; - and there (are)
about the same number of enquirers, as candidates on the list.
The schools were in a languishing state for several months, and
large numbers of children had left, some of whom from dissatisfaction
in being required to assist their teachers, went over to the catho
lics.
But upon being visited by our new Superintendent, and all de
mands upon parents and children being withdrawn, they have since
mostly returned.
as ever.
The schools are now in as flourishing a condition
The teachers have been promptly paid off and while the
present state of things continue, there is no fear of reverses.
My labors connected with the revision of the last edition of
the Bible were completed during the latter part of last summer, and
the first bound copy of the same greeted my eyes a few weeks after.
My first researches in it were to look for errors in the copy as it
stands.
It may not be deemed a self gratulation to say that there
are fewer mistakes than those of former editions, and a majority of
these are typographical.
Some of the mistakes and errors of the
former, are I presume perpetuated in this edition which I regret,
the more especially as it was my earnest and oft expressed desire
that all such as were known to the brethren should be sent in, and
they would have been carefully attended to.
Whatever has failed to
be corrected from this source the blame must be divided among us all,
and the remainder I cheerfully take upon myself.
Could I have had
an associate to have gone over the same grounds separately, many of
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3.
the present errors of the Bible would have been detected, or could
I have been near the press, I could have increased the number of
proof readings, which would have removed most of the typographical
errors.
After all, those detected by me are small and sparce.
The buildings under my direction at Waianae are nearly completed;
- but not being able myself to be on the ground to superintend and
direct the work, it has progressed with a tardy pace.
The little
cottage for a dwelling was completed early last year, at a cost of
about $120.0 0 :
The materials for finishing the chapel are mostly
on the ground, and the building is now being thatched.
I have already
expended about $300.00, or perhaps more on the building, and It is
calculated that perhaps $100 will be needed to finish the building.
The above named sums have been raised out of the avails of the herd
now in my possession.
In addition to that, the people of Waianae
have contributed $13 0 dollars, and the people of Ewa $42 more for the
same object.
In regard to popery among us, I hear but little, and that little
goes to confirm the Impression that their progress in proselyting Is
but slow.
My opinion is that they are still on the increase, altho
there i s not vitality enough in their religion as it exists among t h e
natives to keep up a constant interest in their ceremonies.
The(y)
speedily tire of the farce, and were it not the silken thread of
carnal pleasure connected with the profession of Popery, very few
would endure it a day.
Add to their tedious ceremonies the high
morality of pure christianity, and the votaries of the papacy would
speedily forsake the profession.
As it is, they are not required to
attend punctually at mass, except on certain high occasions, they
are boastingly exempted from all pecuniary aid for the support of
schools and religion, and their darling(?) pleasures & sins are winked
at.
This keeps them reconciled to the burdensome ceremonies.
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4.
The decrease of population among us still continues,
think in a less decelerated ratio than formerly.
tho' I
A f e w years
of
sober h a b i t s and external comforts, added to a healthy public senti
ment,
and better care of young children, would assist their downward
course to extinction.
Should w e ever arrive at this point and no
untoward events awaken their former h e a t h e n i s h h a b i t s , it is hoped
that the Race may be perpetuated to future ages, and they become in
time an enlightened and christian community.
A. Bishop
M ay 16, 1844
Report of Schools at Ewa & Waianae May, 1844.
(F r o m printed form, filled in)
Ewa
Examination, and when
No. of children in t h e whole field
No. o f boys
No. of girls
No. of schools
No. of teachers
Number of children enrolled
Average number of attendance
No. of readers
No. of writers
No. in G e o ’phy
N umber in Mental Arithmetic
Number in Written Arithmetic
No. of deaths during the year
May 1.
Since the last
to school.
A. Bishop
Apl/44
215
242
12
13
471
—
--
Wai a nae
Ap l /44
127
68
59
4
4
127
—
67
42
_ _
—
—
—
_ _
58
53
_ _
examination most o f the absentees have returned
The above is taken f r o m the examination in April /44.
There has been
a falling off of about 200 scholars during the year.
Many of them
attending school did not come to the examination. .
'
A. Bishop
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Statistics for Ewa & Waianae
May 1, 1844
Ewa
Whole no. received to ch. on examination
1234
Whole no. on certificate
26
Received the past year on examination
17
Do
Do
on certificate
3
Whole no. received the past year
20
Whole no. dismissed to other c h s .
219
Dismissed the past year
14
Whole no. removed without dismission (in all)
40
Whole no. deceased
129
Deceased the past year
16
Suspended the past year
23
Remain suspended
10
Excommunicated the past year
57
Remain excommunicated (in all)
189 in both places
Whole no. in regular standing
734
Whole no. of children baptized
395
Marriages the past year
55 in both places
Whole no. of children in the schools
485
Average congregation
1000
Contributions for Waianae chapel
$42
Waianae
28
160
2
2
3
1
10
i
1
2
2
180
30
127
400
130
�Report of the station of Ewa & Waianae for the 2 years
Ending May 1, 1846
Since the last general meeting the duties of the stations at
Ewa & Waianae have been administered without any interruption, with
the exception of a few sabbaths of illness during the prevalence
of the influenza in the months of April and June of last year.
The state of religious apathy continued as heretofore for sev
eral years past, down to the middle of last year, without anything
remarkable to disturb the false security that pervaded the community.
About the first of July last, I was visited by several inquirers,
from Honouliuli a settlement on the western part of the district,
who appeared anxious about their salvation.
dication of anything special among my people.
This was the first in
Soon afterwards I
was invited to spend a day at the place and meet the people in r e
ligious meetings.
I went accordingly and we had a full house and
attentive listeners.
Several who attended from neighboring villages,
requested that I would likewise spend a day in religious meetings
with them.
As I was desirous that the people should generally come
out, I required that the invitation should come from them, and
special effort be previously made to obtain their presence.
As I
had been so long discouraged with the slender attention paid to so
cial religious meetings which I had appointed in the neighboring
villages, I feared that without a special effort on the part o f the
kamaainas, the appointment might prove a failure.
But as I was
happily seconded by my elders and other lunas, my appointments were
all well attended, and the preaching was listened to with seriousness
and some solemnity.
My first efforts were mainly directed to the slum-
bering ch. members.
These however gradually began to awake to prayer
and effort to arouse others.
Daily prayer meetings were after a time
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established in every village in the district, and where suitable
houses for meetings were not to be found, new ones were in the course
of a few months erected, and two days meetings were appointed at
their dedication.
These houses which exist in all the principal
villages, are distinct from the school houses, and are consecrated
exclusively to religious meetings.
About the close of the year, a
general seriousness pervaded the minds of the people throughout the
district, the church was filled on the sabbath, and religious meet
ings were thronged.
Many backsliding professors were awakened, and
(!)
many apostates had publickly confessed their sins, and sought to be
restored to the bosom of the church,
The no. of inquirers from the
ranks of the world now amounted to upwards of 200.
But as there ap
peared so little excitement, and everything went on so still, I had
not dared to call it a revival.
Nor have I yet ventured to give it
that name; or scarcely to write much about it to my brethren, lest it
should prove in the end a false illusion to the greater part of the
young converts.
I have all along preached to them the terms of the
law, as well as the invitations and hopes of the Gospel - to lead
them to a sense of sinfulness as well a s to faith in the blood of
Jesus, but I fear that a great multitude of them, do not feel as
deeply as they ought their utter unworthiness, notwithstanding their
full and ample confessions with the lips.
But it is not easy for this
people to feel without animal excitement, which I have from the first
guarded against, and as there have been scarcely any instances of
falling away for n o w nearly a year, my hopes are more confirmed that
their repentance and faith are sincere.
Still I would hope with
trembling, knowing as I do the fickle character of this people.
Early in the month of December I appointed a 4 days meeting at
Waiawa, which was well frequented, and attended with happy effects.
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3
Since then the work has gradually extended into every part of m y
field, even the most remote, and new cases of inquiry have been
coming in every d a y , until the list has swelled to upwards of 500.
I have an overflowing & attentive congregation on the sabbath, and
some of the happiest moments of my life have been in the pulpit, and
in the social meetings during the last few months.
I have an effi
cient & active company of elders, who are an invaluable help to me.
Some of them I hope may yet become preachers of the Gospel.
On the first sabbath in January I received 39 candidates into
works of grace
the church as the final fruits of the
most of w h o m had been
more or less interested in religions duties for some years previous,
and were the first to come out on the side of the Lord.
On the 12th
of April last 48 more were received on the profession of their faith,
besides several by certificate.
I have recently learned for the first
time that there are many persons long resident within the districts
of Ewa and Waianae, who were ch. members on Hawaii previous to their
migration to this island, and who came away without a pastoral letter,
and have until recently remained in the ranks of infidelity.
These
are now desirous to return again to the bosom of the church.
I
would propose to the pastors on Hawaii, that they give certificates
of membership to as many as shall apply for the same, while they
are present at gen. meeting, leaving it with us who reside on this
island, to receive them or not as they shall appear fitted, to again
enter into the covenant vows.
The probability is however that those
only will apply who are really desirous to unite with the people of
God.
Since the commencement of the present work of grace, great num
bers of backsliding ch. members, who have been for years in a state
of separation from us, have professed repentance, and are now desirous
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4
to return to the bosom of the church.
Others, and not a few still
remain unaffected with the present state of things; and to human
appearances they will continue thus and die in their sins.
Many
catholic professors have also left their lying vanities, and are seen
worshiping ( !) with us.
The papal cause within our bounds appears
to b e declining, and those who have not professedly forsaken them,
appear to have lost their zeal towards popery, and seldom attend
their meetings.
The experiment to obtain contributions to the friends of the
mission has been as successful as could have been anticipated.
They
are taken up after each communion season, and have averaged from
$20. to 40.00, the latter being the largest sum contributed at any
one time.
The whole sum paid over to the agents down to the month
of September last is $114.68.
The contribution of Jany of the
present year $23.00 was given to the Waialua chapel, and that of
April the present year, $34.37 1/2is now on hand in season to effect
some repairs about our chapel.
The whole sum contributed by our
people in cash during the past 2 years is $172.68.
The church and congregation at Waiawa deserves a distinct notice.
After an interval of three years from the time their chapel was
blown down, a new adobie building, constructed after the model of
that at Ewa, has been completed.
The delay was occasioned princi
pally by the want of a suitable leader on the ground to conduct the
operations, as well as the low state of religious feeling among the
people.
As an illustration I will cite the instance of my applica
tion to the Gov. for 6 days of hana aupuni (government work) for the
people to bring timber from the mountains.
The request was granted
and proclamation made for them to. repair to the mountain on a certain
day.
The catholicks took the occasion to have a hana a u p u n i of their
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1846
5.
own to bring stones for a wall, and gave out I think about 10 stones
to each man as a day's work.
As the stones were close at hand, the
whole district with the exception of the members of the church went
to the catholic's work, and even four of my own church members
passed over to them on the occasion, in order to be rid of helping to
build the Protestant chapel, and the government grant had well nigh
proved a failure.
Had it not been for the pecuniary aid I afforded,
nothing could have been effected.
The chapel was however finished
and dedicated in Jany last, at an expense to me of $520,00, which
includes a little more than half of the work put upon the house.
At the time of the dedication I held a 4 days meeting assisted by
Br, L. Smith, and closed with a communion season on the sabbath.
This was the commencement of a very interesting work of grace which
is now in progress in that district.
Since that time I have visited
them several times, and have been much encouraged by full and atten
tive congregations not only on the sabbath but on all occasions at
other times.
The same is constantly reported of them by my elders
& others who have visited them at different times.
The no. of
inquirers from the world who have been entered on the lists is now
rising of 200, and the hearers on the sabbath fill the house.
Great
numbers of catholicks, have left their popery and are now regular
worshippers with the protestants.
Almost every one who left my church
to j oin the papists have now returned,
and it is reported that their
congregation is reduced to but a few.
The no of children in their
schools both there and at Ewa amount o n
to the protestant schools.
to 1 in 6 of those attached
Six years ago it was predicted by the
catholic bishop who was lost in the Jose Marie, that in five years
from that time Romanism would prevail here, and the protestant missionaries be sent away.
But I have never known their cause so low
as now since the year 1840.
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1846
6.
N o w is the crisis when we should settle a good native preacher
at Waianae.
There is a good house for him which cost m e 120 dollars,
and land has been promised by the g o v t . as soon as we shall settle a
preacher.
It is probably the most promising field now open for such
a laborer in the islands, and I want the best man we can find for the
post.
It will be proper also for the mission to make some provision
for his support, during a few of the first years of his settlement
until his land shall become productive.
The people will doubtless
render him aid, principally in cultivating his land, but which cannot
be available at once for his support.
They also promise to contri
bute money, but that cannot be relied on except as to help out the
grant which we may vote him.
These measures I would extend to any other part of the islands
where suitable native preachers could be advantageously located.
There
is at least one other place on this island which has equal claims with
Waianae, and that is Hauula in Koolau, now under the superintendance
of Br. Parker, and of which it is said a large congregation is already
gathered.
Statistics for Ewa & Waianai
Whole no. received on examination
Whole no. on certificate
Received the past 2 years on examination
Do
Do
on certificate
Whole no. received the past 2 years
Whole no. dismissed to other chs
Dismissed the past 2 years
Whole no. deceased
Deceased the 2 past years
Suspended the 2 past years
Remain suspended
Excommunicated the past 2 years
Remain excommunicated
Whole no. in regular standing
Whole no. of children baptized
Marriages the 2 past years
Whole no. of children in the schools
Catholic schools (5 at Ewa, 2 at Waianae)
Average congregation
May 1, 1846
Ewa
1845 1846 1845 1846
1239 1326
38
28
31
37 160 165
6
9
87
6
5
2
3
11
12
2
95
224
229
4
5
3
1
4
154
184
20
15
-30
25
5
13
10
3
-6
4
4
—
1
2
5
—
2
1
4
861
162
948
171
—
-—
--including
47
71
places
-226
635
““
—
—
104
47
800 1200 400 600
�Church statistics for Ewa & Waianae
year ending May 1, 1847
Whole no. received on examination
193
Whole no. on certificate
82
176
411
155
45
11
456
166
*250
9
10
1
206
27
22
7
Suspended the past year
3
2
Remain suspended
3
2
150
6
4
1
144
7
Received the past year on examination
"
on certificate
Whole no. received the past year
Whole no. dissmissed to other chs.
Dismissed the past year
Whole no. deceased
Deceased the past year
Whole no. excommunicated
Excommunicated the past year
Remain excommunicated
1481
Whole no. in Regular standing
81 in
Marriages the past year
Whole no. of children in the schools
"
in Catholic schools
Average congergation
* numbers not clear.
(prot)
339
10
(word not
clear)
917 inin both districts
189
1200
400
�Report of the Station at Ewa & Waianae
For the 2 years ending May 1, 1848
The duties pertaining to the station at Ewa have through the
Divine blessing, been discharged during the 2 years past, without the
interruption of a single week from ill health.
For more than a year,
there has been no special attention to Religion in my field.
The
Revival influences which I had the privilege to report at our last
meeting, have ceased.
Yet an encouraging attention to the worship
of the Sabbath, and to all the religious meetings of the wee k days,
and in particular to the. morning prayer meetings still continues.
Some however who for a time gave hopeful indications of seriousness,
and who partook of the sympathies of the religious feeling during the
revival have fallen away.
A few of these succeeded in getting into
the church, and some of them are there still, but the greater part
of them failed to give the evidence necessary to obtain church member
ship, and are now where they began among the unbelievers.
But the
defection of all these has been attended with no disastrous reaction.
The far greater part of those received for 2 or 5 years past, still
hold on their way, and appear to run well.
At no time since my re
sidence at Ewa have I felt more encouraged to hope for ray people &
the nation that Christianity may work out their preservation, than
at the present.
Could the causes of depopulation in the country be
arrested and their upward progress in numbers be ascertained, I should
not hesitate at once to declare that Christianity had obtained the
victory over the evil that threatens to annihilate them.
Already I
can perceive the tendencies to this point, in the mental & physical
improvement of the rising generation.
In their flourishing schools,
their civilized dress, their efforts to obtain the appurtenances of
civilization in their houses,
such as chairs, bedsteads, tables &
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1848
2.
table furniture, and cooking utensils, the feeling of moral sense upon
the community in a more elevated degree than formerly, and the pater
nal watchfulness of parents over their children, imperfect as all
these yet are, still they are indications for good.
More than these
their increasing & permanent regard for the ordinances of God's
house, their reverent and fixed attention to God's truth, and the
very few cases of ch. discipline are encouragements of still greater
import.
They testify to my mind that the time is not far distant,
when the people will voluntarily assume to themselves the support
of the Gospel.
But to these favorable indications of religious pros
perity, there are many cases of the reverse, and the church is yet
far fro m being purified from unworthy members.
They are there in our
midst and to our sorrow, for the mass of them are evidently self-de
ceived, and are therefore in a more hopeless condition than those who
never made the profession of religion.
But with their dead weight
upon our hands, the church of Ewa was never in a more propitious state
than at present.
In all the indications of outward prosperity, of in
creasing wealth and industry, and of personal security under the
vigilant protection of a mild Christian government, we can add that
of inward union brotherly fellowship, and an increasing spirit of
liberality in contributing towards the support of the Gospel.
During
the 2 years just passed, the 2 churches of Ewa & Waianae, have raised
and paid over into my hands for various religious purposes, more than
a thousand dollars, and y e t the effort has by no means exhausted their
ability to do.
The schools of Ewa & Waianae are prosperous, and the teachers
continue to be well paid.
The children enrolled in Ewa are 734
Protestant and 110 Catholic, and in Waianae they amount to 179 protestant to 80 catholics, making a gain of 14 in the Protestant & 9
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3
in the Catholic schools over the no. enrolled last year.
are kept up 9 mos in the year.
The schools
The actual advance of the scholars in
the different branches of instruction, does not keep pace with the
time in which they are taught.
Still there is a small but perceptible
advance from one examination to another in all the elementary branches
of learning.
The state of Religion at Waianae is very much the same as in
Ewa.
There is no special religious interest but much that is en
couraging, and no retrograde movements. The watchword is onward in all
my field.
I have an efficient company of elders both at Waianae &
Ewa, who afford me very valuable aid in all my labors, especially at
the little mass-meetings held in the different villages of the dis
trict.
But it is their exemplary Christian influence which I most
value.
But I was speaking of Waianae.
At my last visit there a few
days since, I found a full and orderly congregation, both on Saturday,
& the sabbath which was the season of their communion.
Indeed my
whole tarry there was but a succession of interesting religious ex
ercises, during which their attention was well sustained to the end.
It will be 2 years in August, since Waimalu removed there fr o m Lanai.
I must say that my hopes in the experiment of a native preacher have
been more than realized in this case.
He has discharged in great part
the duties of a pastor under my direction & subject to my approval,
and for more than a year has performed the marriages in that district,
by virtue of a license from the Governor.
During the first year of
his residence, he received $135.00 in cash of which 110 were contri
buted by the people of Waianae exclusive of presents, and $25.00 by
the people of Ewa.
During the past year, he has received his whole
support from the people of his charge, amounting to $120.00 in cash.
When I engaged his services, I guaranteed to him $100 annually.
But
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1848
4.
as he has a large family, and moved then in quite destitute circum
stances, I found it did not equal his need, and therefore allowed
him the whole of what the people should contribute for h im over the
above specified sum.
During the past year the people of Ewa have erected a gallery in
their chapel, at an expense of $762.00, the last of which was paid
off 3 days ago.
There is however a considerable sum yet to be paid
in painting & finishing & plastering about the gallery windows.
In conclusion, I beg to add briefly that my people are abundantly
able to support me, & I hope that ere long they may be willing.
At
any rate we must gird up our minds to meet the crisis which is approaching when the patronage of the Am. churches will be withdrawn,
and let not that day take us by surprize ( !),
The subject of raising
up native pastors too must be more thoroughly discussed at this meet
ing that it has b e en done heretofore.
I can see no reason why we may
not begin now the attempt before it shall be so late that we shall be
left by the chs of our native land, to shift for ourselves without
the means of meeting the exigency.
(Unsigned; A. Bishop)
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1848
.
5
Statistics for the Stations of Ewa & Waianae
For the 2 years ending May 1, 1848
Ewa
Waianae
1847
1848
1847
1848
1772
1904
193
251
82
92
182
184
411
132
155
58
45
10
11
2
Whole no. received during the year
456
142
166
60
Whole no. dismissed to other churches
250
262
9
13
10
12
2
2
206
246
27
30
22
45
7
3
Suspended the past year
3
4
2
12
Remain suspended
5
4
2
7
150
159
6
7
Excommunicated the past year
4
9
1
1
Remain excommunicated in all
104
111
7
1481
1558
339
392
81
57
10
23
Whole no. of children in protestant schools -
734
-
197
Do
110
-
88
Average congregation
1200
--
400
Contributed for various purposes $349.87 1/2
$473
Whole no. received on examination
Whole no. on certificate
Received on examination during the year
Do. on certificate
Dismissed the past year
Whole no. deceased
Deceased the past year
Whole no excommunicated
Whole no. in regular standing
Marriages the past year
in Catholic schools
$ 110.00
$ 120
�Report of Ewa & Waianae
Ap ril 1, 1849
Brethren, This is perhaps the last time which I as a member of the
Mission,
shall he privileged to present a Report to a Gen. M eeting.
yet I hope to continue my correspondence with you,
And
and the patrons of
this mission at Boston, as heretofore.
It had been my intention to begin \
the experiment of a parochial
support on the first of Jany. of the present year, but the prevailing
sickness at that time prevented the effort among my people until the first
of the present month.
During the Month of March subscriptions towards my support were ob
tained among my people to the amount of 4 or 500 dollars,
and altho I
d o n ’t expect that all the subscribers will pay to the full amount of their
subscriptions, yet during the past week of the present month were brought
in as their first quarterly effort upwards of $100. in cash.
So that I
feel encouraged to go forward without apprehension.
I wrote to the B oard in June last applying for a dismission from
their service,
and am daily expecting a reply granting the same on such
terms as shall be settled by us with the Board at this present session.
It is so far settled in our minds, that the experiment of a separate
support will go on, as contemplated last year, independant of any ar
rangements,
should such fail of taking place between this Mission and
the Board.
The past has been a year of trials and sorrows among my people in
I
passing through scenes of sickness and d eath, beyond what/had ever
witnessed.
It was not merely that the Angel of D eath has been among us,
for to his stroke all mortals are subject, but it was the affecting fact
that the Hawaiian was singled out for slaughter in the presence of
an alien population, who dwelt among them in fearless security, intact
by the plague that was decimating the aborigines.
It was the fact
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1849
2.
that no means could be efficatious to save their lives, which proved
effectual up o n foreigners, solely because of their unwillingness to
submit to the regimen prescr i bed.
a set of quacks & impostors,
died in the deception.
They preferred their native physicians
to the drugs of their foreign teachers, and
Many honorable exceptions are however to be noted
enough indeed to give one full & daily employment for many months in
prescribing & administering medicines.
St ill they died around on every
side, and the toll of the funeral bell was heard every day.
Until that
time I had clung with tenacity to the hope, that this people would even
tually be preserved in their distinct nationality to future generations.
I had believed that the power of Christianity was sufficient to deliver
them not only from the thraldom of sin, but to rescue them from ex
tinction.
I confidently expected,
therefore, that a stop wou l d even
tually be made to their downward course, when they would begin again to
increase upwards a purified generation through the power of religion.
My faith in the power of Religion has not been shaken, It is sufficient
to accomplish all this and more, but religion never interferes with the
effect of natural laws in its operations.
It purifies the heart, but
leaves the body subject to the laws of being which govern the natural
system.
Now these people, having violated those natural laws, must
suffer the penalties con s e q u e n t upon their error, whether knowingly or
not, in the enfeeblement and premature death of their race.
Christianity
will doubtless prolong their brief existence as a people, but unless a
speedy change of habits in living takes place, it cannot procure a final
arrest of the inexorable laws of their being.
Their present danger
is, they may not survive the transition process, and like the tribes of
North America\ , melt away before the vices of civilization & before they
shall have obtained the means & skill to arrest the progress of disease
& death.
One more such a mortality as we have just passed through, and
such an one may visit us under the form of small pox or Cholera; one
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more such a season would probably put it beyond, their power to pass
in safety the crisis of their existence.
How strikingly their former athletic frames & warlike habits
contrast with their present enfee bled & effeminate bodies.
all this been brought about?
H o w has
They were as licentious in ancient times
as at the worst periods of their later existence.
But the diseases
incident to intercourse with vicious foreigners has brought about the
present diseased condition of their bodies, & destroying their healthy
procreative powers.
There are no indications of improved health or
habits that imply a possibility of their preservation from utter
extinction as a pure Polynesian race.
The only thing we can hope for
is that a few whose blood has not been corrupted by disease, if such can
be found, may by the purifying influence of faith, may in themselves
and their descendants be preserved from that corruption of blood that
is cutting short their lives.
But to return to my field.
Until the month of October the usual
routine of things went on with their wonted results.
Religious meet
ings and schools were well attended, altho in religious things there was
a gradual but perceptible declension.
Still there was no outbreak of
sin, b u t the creeping in of a more worldly Spirit than formerly.
About
the middle of Oct. the measles broke out and spread like wildfire.
Suddenly the congregation diminished from 1200 to 40 or 50 on the sabbath
day.
All the schools were suspended, and I could not get together
singers on the sabbath to form the skeleton of a quoir ( !).
My own
hea(l)th xxx however was good, and my time was fully occupied in administering to the sick & dying and in burying the dead.
I forbear to relate
particulars, these are familiar to us all, the progress and consequences
of the sickness were the same with us as in other places.
Burying the
|
dead was the great work, all other occupations were suspended, and people
staggered about like walking corpses.
During the 3 or 4 months of the
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4.
sickness, the deaths in my church at Ewa exceeded a 100, and those of
Waianae were 45 a greater no. than had died since they were organized
into a church.
The mortality consequent upon that season of sickness
has not wholly subsided to this day.
I recorded no less than 9 deaths
in my church during the month of March, and four have died the past w e e k
of the present month.
Since their recovery from sickness, the people have been in a
more apathetic state of Religious feeling than before, and many have
not returned to public worship at all, upon the plea of feeble health.
About one fourth of the congregation is missing, from death, lingering
illness, & religious apathy.
It is within but a short time that my former hopes have revived
that all is not lost, and that we still have a great work to do, and many
souls to be saved through our instrumentality.
must be done quickly.
And what we have to do
It may be that another season of mortality is
at hand, and woe betide us if we suffer the blood of the dying to be
found in our skirts.
Census.
The no of inhabitants in the district of Ewa on the first
week in Jan. was 2386.
Deaths during the year '48
Inhabitants in Waianae
232,
Births,
26
922
Deaths in Waianae in '48,
91,
Births
Whole no of inhabitants in my field --
11
3308
No of deaths
323
No of births
37
Proportion of deaths to the whole po pulation 1 to 10 1/4 & a portion over.
The people of Waianae have continued to support Waimalu their preacher, who has continued faithful & useful to the present period among
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them.
1849
5
Their contributions are rising of 100 dolls. for the year, besides
the avails of his land given b y the govt.
Besides supporting their
preacher, the people of Waianae have raised $150.00 during the year for
the purchase of a hell.
The Ewa contributions are less than usual during the year, viz.
for the chapel $100.00 & for the support of their pastor on the first
of the present month, 145.00 dollars.
Statistical Table for the 11 mos. ending Apr. 1, 1849
For the Station of Ewa & Waianae.
Received on examination the past year,
Whole n o . on examination
Dismissed the past year
Whole no dismissed
Deceased the past 11 months
Whole no deceased
Excluded the past year
Whole n o . remaining excluded
In regular standing
Children baptized the past year
Whole no. baptized
Marriages the past year
Average congregation
No of schools in the district
No of protestant scholars in both places
Catholic scholars in do
Ewa
Waianae
10
1914
18
290
771
356
8
167
1430
35
559
44
900
11
5
256
8
21
49
79
6
13
334
4
8
729
117
�Ewa Station Report & Statisticks
for the Year 1851
During the past 2 years the services of the sanctuary at the Ewa
Station have been maintained without any interruption, and w h e n I have
been absent or unable to administer from illness, the services have been
conducted by the leading members of the church.
The cause of religion
has been during the time not perceptibly advancing, and we have hardly
been able to hold our own.
The spirit of the world has cre
pt into the/church, & the desire to
acquire property has absorbed the minds of our people to the exclusion
of the more serious concerns of the soul.
The extraordinary rise in
the price of every thing that is the production of native labor, has
rendered the acquiring of money so easy that it has taken a strong hold
upon the native mind, and in the same proportion loosened their attach
ments to spiritual things.
Their attendance on the morning services of the sabbath is usually
good, but about one half of the church & congregation return home at
noon to take their accustomed sieste ( !), & their distance from the
chapel is too great to enable them to return to the afternoon service.
I have long labored to induce them to break up that pernicious habit,
but it is too deeply rooted to be easily eradicated.
The weekly meet
ings are but sparsely attended, as every man is so absorbed in his farm
or his petty trafficing, as to be illy able to spare time towards atten
dance on religious meetings on the week days.
The question often arises in my own mind, whether this state of
things is not partly the result of my own secular labors.
And it has
not been without many doubts and misgivings on my part whether I am in
the path of duty to leave my pastoral labors for the purpose of survey
ing.
But all the physicians I have consulted concur in telling me that
o
frequent and persevering exercise is the only remedy that will restore
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1851
2.
the healthy circulation of the fluids of my system.
ated by my own experience for the last 10 months.
This is corrobor
And moreover I must
also have an impelling motive to keep up the habit of exercise or I
shall fail to take sufficient to benefit me.
I have usually so arranged
my labors at surveying, as to secure my attendance upon all the stated
labors of the pulpit, but find myself unable to visit my people, and
interest myself in their personal & spiritual welfare so much as form
erly.
There have been many deaths in our church during the 2 years past,
and but few additions.
But the great cause of decrease among us is the
migratory habits of the people.
Our church members wander off to other
parts, without taking a dismission from the church, and thus become
lost from all knowledge of their location, and in fact become absorbed
again in the world.
predicament.
is not known.
and uncertain.
A large proportion of the Ewa church is in this
They stand on my books as members but their whereabouts
This renders all statisticks about their numbers incorrect
I hesitate therefore about presenting any statistics,
until a new enumeration of the church as it now exists be made out, which
we purpose to do during the present year.
Since my last report the station of Waianae has become disconnected
from Ewa, and a pastor Stephen Waimalu has been ordained & installed
over that ch. & congregation.
This took place in September of last year.
Waimalu is laboring successfully among that people, and as far as ap
pears to their satisfaction.
I have not any report from that station to
present at this time, but would recommend that both he & Kekela be in
vited to make a written statement of their fields & the progress of the
work within their bounds.
The question is continually recurring to my mind, Can anything
further be done to effectually stay the progress of extinction that is,
xxxxxx going on around us throughout the whole bounds of the Hawaiian
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1851
nation?
3.
Are we to give them over as a doomed people?
The connection
has long been fastened on all our minds that this rapid diminution is
the effect of moral causes, which have hitherto been in the power of
the people to avert or accelerate, but which must soon pass even beyon d
their power to arrest.
Our sole reliance has formerly been upon
the influence of the Gospel to effect, by purifying the hearts & morals
of the community, and thus removing the causes that produce such deadly
results.
But hitherto even this has failed, except in some individual
instances, while the mass of the nation is still marching wi t h rapid
strides to its grave.
But the stamina of life is now nearly exhausted,
they have become so enfeebled by disease, and yet are so insensible to
their destiny, that it is becoming almost hopeless to revive them.
more vigorous race must soon take their place.
A
But it must be our effort
to bring as many o f these yet alive as possible to the knowledge of the
Saviour.
And while the feeling of hope that once stimulated us to many
enterprizes, that we supposed conducive to elevate them in the scale
of civilization are crushed, yet despondency as to the salvation of
many souls by our future labors, must not for a moment be cherished.
Our past success, & the promises of the Saviour, are before our eyes, as
stimulants to encourage us forward in all spiritual labors.
I may have
indulged, at times, too much in feelings of despondency, for my good or
the good of my people.
But God only knows how many hopes have been
crushed, of whom I had expected better things than have been realized.
But the thought of forsaking or remitting my work, has not been enter
tained.
I feel that I must labor here for their good the few years that
remain for me to work.
May the Lord prosper his own cause, & in his own
time and manner.
(Unsigned; A. Bishop)
�Abstract of Ewa Report
(1852 ?)
There has been a gradual increase of interest in the concerns of
Religion, during the past year, the congregation is larger than formerly,
attention better, social religious meetings more frequent.
Some fifty
persons mostly young people have come out from the world, and profess
to have taken the Lord Jesus as their Saviour.
Some of these appear
very well, others are not so clear in their Religious views.
The individuals suspended from ch. priviliges for not attending
the services of the sabbath, has had a good effect any ( !) many of
them have been recently restored to their former standing.
The per
sons excinded for persisting in attendance upon the heathenish dances,
mostly remain so, some have gone over to the Catholics, some have died,
and others still profess repentance and wish to return to the bosom of
the church.
Contributions the p a s t year
For support of pastor
F o r Missions
$150.00 including 9 mos.
90.00
In January last the people commenced preparation for raising
$2,500.00 to shingle the church, and to assist the effort, the pastor
relinquished any support for one year.
�Report of the Station of Ewa, May 1852
There has been no special change in the state of Religion at Ewa,
from what was reported the last year excep(t) a gradual increase of
the congregation on the sabbath, and some hopeful cases of conversion,
concerning which we are waiting for the fruits to appear and mature be
fore gathering them into the church.
There have, therefore, been no
additions to the church the last year, for the first time since my re
sidence at the station.
The persons now calling themselves "Hookaikas"
are mostly young people, a class peculiarly exposed to temptation, and
from w h o m in years past we have mostly suffered in instances of reli
gious defection.
There are now about 50 candidates mostly of this class
who visit me weekly for religious instruction.
There have been 2 seasons of sifting among my people during the
year w hich have served to separate in some measure the wheat from the
chaff.
At our April communion of last year I gave out public notice that
all persons habitually abstaining from public worship on the sabbath,
would hereafter be excluded from communion.
Directions were also given
the the ( !) lunas of each a p a n a to search out all persons of this class
and induce them if possible to return to their duty, and to make an
account of all such as refused to attend public worship.
These steps
were attended with good effects upon many who acknowledged their sin,
and returned once more to the house of God.
Others who had deliberately
made made ( !) up their minds to stay away, were publicly read off on
the next communion day, a number amounting to nearly a hundred.
Prom that
day forward the good effects of the measure were apparent in calling the
attention of the people to the duty of punctual attendance upon the
ordinances of the gospel, and bringing numbers back to their sworn
allegiance.
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1852
But another crisis was at hand more trying to us all than the last.
The young cheifs ( !) who have been educated with so much care, and upon
whom a brother & sister of this mission have sacrificed the flower of
their days, & who had been admitted into the highest circles in Europe
& America, came over to Ewa in August and set up the Hula.
Now, this
may seem to an unsuspicious mind to have been a small affair not de
serving a serious notice before such an assembly as this.
But if
there are any who think thus, let them inquire more fully into the nature
& prospect of a Hula, and they will find it a compound of all that is
corrupting & debasing to the human mind.
So much even that a mere state
ment of its nature will not hear to "be written in English on paper.
But
to the Hawaiian m i n d the Hula is a very amusing and entertaining pastime.
Despite all my warnings and entreaties whole neighborhoods turned out xxxxx
either to witness & laugh at the song & dance, and among the rest many
of our unstable church members.
Many of these were afterwards re
claimed & restored, but at the Oct. communion I was compelled to cut
off from the church about 40 persons who stedfastly refused to forsake
their favorite sport, with the young chiefs.
How many souls have been
ruined by that thoughtless measure, none can tell, but some of those
then cut off have already died & gone to the eternal world in their
inpenitence.
But the worst part of the affair Is the corruption it
has wrought upon the young, for whole families of all ages & both
sexes frequented these sports, until they were finally broken up by
the authorities, who were along while afraid to act, because of the
high prestige of the young chiefs who threatened to shoot any one who
attempted to interfere with their pleasures.
As a corrollary to the affair, a whole neighborhood at Waikele
the place of the Hulas, went off & joined the Catholicks, out of pure
revenge for being disciplined, where they were received with open
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1852
3.
arms, and the school of the place came well ni g h being broken up, by
the parents taking their children with them, & to complete the tri
umph, a Catholic school has been established on that spot as the
legitimate fruits of the hula.
The continual tendency of my system to suffer from a painful
feeling of cold in the lower limbs, has induced me to continue fre
quent and active exercise, principally surveying excursions.
In this
business, I have spent about 3 months from home during the year, but
preaching on every sabbath to the people of the places of my labors.
As the business of surveying is however about done up, some other
active employment requiring travel on foot must be devised about home
in order to wear away the cause of the complaint.
The People of Ewa have contributed about 50 dolls quarterly
towards my support, for the 3 communions of July, Oct. & Jany last,
making $150. in all, But as they are now making an effort to raise
2500.00 dolls for roofing their chapel, I have voluntarily relinquished
any further support from them for one year.
The contributions for the
monthly concert already raised by them since last Gen. Meeting, amount
g gen Meeting.
to $91 .00, which I expect to pay over at the ensuin
ensuing
(U nsigned; A. Bishop)
�Statistics of Ewa for Year ending Apl. 30th 1852
Received on examination the past year,
none
Whole no. on examination
1916
Dismissed the past year
12
Whole no dismissed
317
Deceased the past year
20
Whole no deceased
420
Excluded the past year
130
Whole no remaining excluded
300
In regular standing
878
Children baptized the past year
6
Whole no baptized
568
Marriages the past year
53
Average congregation
600
N o of Protestant schools in the district
"
Catholic
"
"
8
No of Protestant scholars
"
699
Catholic
Whole no schools
17
169
32
Scholars
860
Births
36
Deaths
43
�Report of the Station at Ewa, for May 1853
In making my Report for the present year, I have first to account
the Goodness of our Covenant God in graciously bringing together all
the members of my family after a long separation of many years.
I
trust my brethren will sympathize with us in this kind providence as
I hope to rejoice with them for similar blessings in future years.
I feel now more than ever that these islands are my home, and that
here I shall live till I am called home.
I have also to record my
acknowledgements to the Lord, in enabling us to procure the means of a
livelihood without any support but from our own resources.
In the be
ginning of 1852 I voluntarily relinquished my salary which I had
received from my people, for 1 year, and in Jany last I did the same
for the pr esent year, in order the better to enable them to raise the
means of covering & finishing off the church building, which has b e
come dilapidated.
We have now nearly obtained the amount required to
shingle the building, which we hope to accomplish during the ensuing
summer.
The state of religion among my people is encouraging, more so than
at any time for 5 years past.
The catholicks have been making stren
uous efforts among the people, & have met with some success among a
certain class of persons.
They have depicted the religion of protes-
tants as a money making scheme,
and its teachers as wolves in sheep's
clothing, who are only destroying the flock for the sake of the fleece.
The recent attempt among us to raise money for church purposes, has
given occasion to them to represent to the people that I am seeking
only for their money, and not their sou l s
salvation.
To the poe
hoomaloka (unbelieving people ), & the selfish & ignorant this has been
an inducement to j oin the catholics, as they boast they will not call
on their people to contribute money.
Several members of my church, who
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1853
never gave any thing for the gospel have left us and joined the Papists,
while others who have been disciplined for immoral conduct have also
gone the same way, & been received with open arms.
But we have not
been diminished by their desertion, on the contrary our congregation
has steadily increased during the past year, many excluded members have
returned on profession of repentance, while 65 from the world have
joined us, and 40 more are propounded to be received in July next.
There is also a goodly number of inquirers, many of whom will be received during the coming year.
Since the first of June of last year, $209 have b e e n contributed
to the Missionary Society at the monthly concert,
and $91 paid over,
the remainder has been retained, to meet the possible exigencies of the
chapel, should it be called for, with the intention to refund it to
the Society afterwards.
Since July, they have raised upwards of
$1,500 for the chapel, & will need as much more for the entire contem
plated repairs.
Preaching has b e en continued during nearly every Sabbath, since
the last Gen. meeting, and a sabbath school has been well kept up,
while the Ai o k a l a ’s lasted, since which time the school has been
converted into a Bible class.
Daily morning Prayer meetings have been
held in nearly every apana of the district, and social religious meet
ings have been frequently appointed in the different parts of my
field, which have been attended with good effects.
The schools have
been prosperous, the nos of children have been on the decrease.
In
the station school at Waiawa, when I first went there to reside,
there
were upwards of sixty scholars.
Now they number about twenty.
But
few of the families have any children of their own, and in that whole
school district, I know of but 2 infants under a year old, in a population of about 150 persons.
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1853
3.
Before closing this Report I wish to mention a few facts concern
ing m y house.
I wish it to continue as the property of the Board.
It
is the poorest house in the mission, and has cost the Board less than
any other.
For 10 years past or more, if my memory serves me I have not
asked for a grant but once to put it in repair, and that was for only
50 dollars to rethatch it.
But I have paid out every year more or less
from my own money for its repairs.
thatching & a fence.
The past year I paid $200 for
The present year I shall need to spend still
more, but have not the means I possessed when engaged in surveying.
The H ouse would not sell for much, if it should ever be disposed of,
and for that reason I have never asked for a grant to shingle it, which
would cost perhaps $1500.
sum on a covering.
But the walls are too poor to expend that
I wish therefor to let the Board hold it, & keep
it in repair while I use it, and when I shall leave, to relinquish it
to my successor.
But I shall need $3 or 400 the present year to put it
into proper repair, and extend the fence around the yard.
Possibly the
most economical method after all would be to build a new house and take
the materials of the old one to work into It.
It might be done at a v
very little advance upon the expense of a shingle covering upon the old
walls.
(Unsigned; A. Bishop)
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1853
4.
Statistics of the Station at Ewa for A.D. 1853
Received on examination the past year
65
Whole no on examination
1981
Dismissed the past year
12
Whole no Dismissed
329
Deceased the past year
25
Whole no Deceased
445
Excluded the past year
34
Whole no remaining excluded
325
In regular standing
912
Children Baptized
10
Whole no Children baptized
578
Marriages the past year
52
Average congregation
800
Contributed to monthly concert
$
209
Do for repairing the church
$1,500
�Report for Ewa Station, May 1854
The two prominent events of the last year, of our residence at
Ewa, ar e the completion of the roof of our chapel, and the great mor
tality among the people by the small p o x .
After my return home in June of last year I set myself to com
pleting the collections for finishing the roof of the chapel.
At the
close of the first sabbath in July, the people had made up $750.00
in addition to the $1756 previously contributed.
On the arrival of the
lumber in July, the work began and was finished in September follow
ing at an expense of a little more than $2700.00.
As the shingles
are of shaved cedar, and the roof steep, it is estimated that it will
stand good for 20 years.
We were much indebted to Timoteo Keawuivi
of Lahaina, for the last and crowning effort, towards which he contri
buted $105 of his own money.
I wish to record this testimony of my
gratitude & that of my people, without which as it afterwards became
evident, we should have failed and I should have become responsible
for at least $500 without the hope of relief from the people.
Another object also called for immediate & pressing attention on
my return from Gen. Meeting, - the taking all precautionary measures
to prevent the spread of the small pox.
I procured vaccine matter
from the physicians of Honolulu, and vaccinated some 1500 persons
when I discovered that the matter was spurious, and tho many of the
sores suppurated, yet they did not assume a proper form, or have a
proper vaccine scar.
In the mean time the mortality was fast spreading
through the district and there were n o means to prevent its approach.
The people seemed bewildered, and when one of them was taken down,
against all warning the friends of the patient refused to separate,
but declared they would stay by & die with them.
It is not necessary that I go into a detail of that season of
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1854
2.
sorrow & trial which we passed through, & from which I did not myself
escape without feeling its influence in my own person.
here,
that not a house or family in Ewa escaped.
families were cut off.
separated by death.
Let it suffice
In m a n y cases, whole
Husbands & wives parents & children, were
The whole state of society became disorganized,
almost every family was broken up.
In the whole district between July
and October inclusive, upwards of half of the people died and of
those who escaped, many are still enfeebled in consequence.
In the
church we have lost upwards of 400 members, including several of my
best men.
We feel ourselves very much crippled in consequence.
Many sad & affecting feelings, mingled with discouragement have followed
my labors through the year, & that to a degree far beyond what I ever
before suffered.
But,the affliction was from the Lord, and this
alone has reconciled me to the dispensation.
try and prove us.
It was doubtless sent to
But it is sad to confess, that the people have not
laid it to heart as a means of spiritual benefit.
The whole state
of society became for a while disorganized, both in family ties broken,
and in property claims from contending h e i r s .
For a few months after
the sickness passed by, there was much secret & open vice, and much
litigation to settle property claims.
deplorable for a season.
The effect upon religion was
The Sabbath was not well observed, & few
meetings but thinly attended, and immorality prevailed
(hole in paper)
things have now settled down to a calm much as formerly, except that
there is much apathy prevailing on the subject of religion, as was the
case after the measles in 1848.
The contributions of the church during the past year are
1 For covering the chapel
$600.00
2 For monthly concert, $120, Sixty of which I
have been obliged to use In liquidating the
school debt, &. there remains
? O.OO
3. By the Ewa A u x . Miss. Society, instituted
on the 5th instant
30.00
4 For support of pastor
170.00
Total
$ 920.
(Unsigned; A. Bishop)
�Ewa
1854
3.
Statistics of the Church at Ewa, May 1854
Received on examination the past year
52
Whole no on examination
2033
Dismissed the past year
10
Whole no Dismissed
339
Deceased the past year
410
Whole no deceased
855
Excluded the past year
5
Whole no remaining excluded
328
In regular standing, resident members
370
Massing, residence unknown
151
Children Baptized past year
12
Whole no baptized
590
Marriages the past year
137
Average congregation
300
�Report for Ewa 1855
The events of the past year have been few and of no special
interest in a religious point of view.
The ordinary labors of the
pastor have been continued, in the sabbath and week day preaching,
the ordinances of the gospel have been regularly administered,
rers have been instructed in the principles of Christianity,
inqui
and a
small number have been admitted to the fellowship of the church.
The
state of religion however continues low, there has bee n a falling off
from the former attendance upon the ordinances of the sabbath, and
from the week-day meetings.
This is to be attributed in part to
the many removals of ch. members to other places, but mostly to de
bilitated state of health which has pervaded the people since the time
of the small pox.
Altho there have been fewer deaths than usual, yet
there has been no time when so many invalids existed among us as during
the past year.
All worldly enterprises among us have been suspended,
so that food sufficient for the sustenance of the people has not been
cultivated, and none for the market, except melons.
This state of
things has induced many people to remove to other places for the means
of sustenance.
My people have not only diminished, but the pastoral
support has also diminished.
I have depended for the past year upon
personal effort mainly for the means of support.
Early in October I commenced an English school with 43 scholars,
all Hawaiians, and have continued it up to the present month with en
couraging success.
N on e of them had learned English previously to any
extent, and I had to begin with them in the alphabet.
They have made
various progress, according to their-----?-----talent for acquiring the
foreign sounds.
One of them is reading in John, a class of 12 have
j. nearly completed the reading of the Hawaiian Phrase Book, and the
remainder are in various stages of progress in Webster's Spelling Book.
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2.
1855
The school has occupied most of the secular time I should have devoted
to pastoral labors.
But as it has been my only resource for the means
of an adequate family support, I have felt myself justified in so doing,
altho at a loss of spiritual benefit to the people.
I have spent 5
hours each day in the school, and invariably with fatiguing results
to the lungs, tho with interest to the mind.
The experiment has thus
far proved satisfactory to my mind, that the plan of teaching the
English language to the rising generation is a feasible one, so far
as giving them the power to read and speak the language in a broken but
intelligible manner.
The danger however is that the children will
not persevere for a sufficient length of time to perfect themselves
in a new language.
I was not present last year during the time appointments were given
out, and had proceeded some distance in the preparation of a Phrase
Book, wh en I learned that Br. Smith had the appointment.
I immediate
ly offered to relinquish the text to him, but he insisted upon my going
on and finishing it.
The preparation of a New edition of the Eng. &
Hawaiian Dictionary has been commenced, but since I began my school
I have found but little time to persecute it, and it is uncertain when
it will be ready for the press.
It is a labor of more magnitude than
I had contemplated.
The contributions the past year have been smaller than in any
previous year since they began to give for the support & spread of the
gospel.
This is to be attributed mainly to their present state of
destitution, which is to be hoped will be but temporary.
follows, viz
For support of pastor
For Haw. Missionary Society
$150.00
93.00
They are as
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3
The Statistics for May 18 5 5
Received on examination, past year
Whole no. on examination
6
2339
Dismissed the past year
8
Whole no dismissed
347
Deceased the past year
12
Whole no. deceased
867
Excluded the past year
10
Whole no remaining excluded
330
In regular standing & in the field
362
Missing, residence unknown
160
Children baptized, past year
15
Whole no children baptized
605
Marriages past year
40
Average congregation
300
(Unsigned, but marked on back as the
Report of
A. Bishop)
�Report of labors for the year ending May 1, 1857
Soon after the close of the anniversaries of last year, I embraced
the earliest conveyance to Wailuku to fulfil the commission committed
to me by this association.
Soon after my arrival I embraced an oppor
tunity to meet the lunas of Wailuku church, and opened to them the nature
of my errand.
They welcomed me kindly and bade me proceed to fulfil my
duty as directed.
On the sabbath morning I preached to them on the sub
ject of christian love, and included the scriptural method of proceeding
with offending members.
After the sermon your resolutions were read to the assembled congre
gation.
After wh ich Br. Conde proposed to the church to rescind their
proceedings towards B r . Bailey, which was accordingly done; when Br. B.
arose and confessed to them his error in nearly the same manner as he
had previously done in our presence.
Br. Conde then arose, and very unexpectedly to all of us, resigned
his office as their pastor.
Thus terminated the Wailuku difficulty.
I reported therefore to the brethren on my return that as Br. C. had
fulfiled ( !) the conditions required by us, he would, I thought, be entitled
to letters of recommendation to the churches in the U.S. as a member of
our association in full standing, which were given him in our name by
Br. Gulick.
Until the return of Br. Clarke ( !) in January my labors were princi
pally devoted to pastoral duties, in conjunction with B r . Armstrong, among
the people worshiping in the Kawaiahao church.
A s B r . A. had the pastoral
care of the church, I shall leave with him the duty of making the re
port of my labors there.
I will only add, that it was with me a labor
of love, among that interesting people, from whom I have received many
tokens of kindness, and no unpleasant event occurred during the time to
mar the satisfaction I received.
my associate & myself.
Entire harmony also subsisted between
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1857
2.
During that time I also paid a monthly visit to the people of my
charge at Ewa, with whom I usually spend a few days including the Sabbath.
Preaching and social meetings among that people have been kept up by
Mahoe, a licensed preached from L. Luna, who has labored faithfully and
successfully among them for the last year & a half.
however,
that the support
I regret to add,
given him by the people, has not been adequate
to his services.
There has been no special attention to religion in Ewa during the
year.
Several religious inquirers have appeared some of whom have been
admitted to the ch. and others remain as candidates for membership.
The
attendance on public worship has not diminished, beyond the diminishing
numbers of the people.
There is a constant emigration from thence to
other places, principally to Honolulu.
influence now residing among them.
off.
There are but a few persons of
My most reliable helpers have died
The moral condition of the district has suffered some of. late in
the erection of a dance house at Waikele, under the patronage as they say
of the native official authorities, altho it is said those authorities
disavow the patronage.
At any rate the local authorities dare not in
terfere to prevent the hula, but only send a delegate to maintain order.
Popery has obtained a stronghold in that district, andmanages
warily to pick up as many of my people as they can get, while under
church censure.
In many instances they have succeeded in aiding in that
way of some unworthy church members.
Setting aside the regret for our
hopeless attempts for any further reclamation, it has been a relief to
us rather than otherwise.
On the other hand persons of their communion
often leave them and come over to us.
Of Mormonism I hear nothing in my field.
It has never taken hold
of any considerable portion of the people, so as to make up a congrega
tion, and is reported now to be extinct.
My impression is that deadly
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1857
3.
imposture is dying out in these islands.
Of the schools, that in the English language has been suspended,
and will not he revived until sufficient funds for its support he provi
ded.
The Native schools are diminishing for want of children to keep up
their number.
There are but a few births in the district compared with
the sea of married women, and of those born, the greater part die early
Waiawa
When I went to Ewa 21 years ago, the school of the single land of
had 60 scholars in its school.
Now that station school is only kept up,
by the union of 3 other lands along wi t h Waiawa, and the no. of scholars
amounts to about 30.
through the district.
A similar reduction of schools has taken place
Ten years since there were 18 schools, where now
we have only eight.
In reference to the case of the press during the year, I have to
inform you, that v e r y little has been done t h e past year for want of
funds to print books.
The only works printed were the completion of the
Lena Hawaii, the Aiokala, and a Tract on Mormonism, with 3 other small
tracts.
These have been frequent calls for books which are out of
print, and it has been a source of great regret that it devolved on me to
announce the fact, while there were no means on hand to supply the de
ficiency.
There is a good supply of paper, and perhaps of type now
nearly worn out, and scattered over the office all pellmell.
The office
is in inextricable disorder, but I had no means to remedy the disorder,
and it continues as I found it.
A considerable expense might refit it;
by hiring a printer to go over the whole and collect the old type, and
by purchasing some new fonts.
But I think it would be better to dispose
of the whole concern, and with the avails hire our printing done else
where.
Our native printers are slovenly & negligent, but beat up for
- hi g h prices, as if they were good workmen.
(Unsigned; A. Bishop)
�Report of the church at Ewa.
May 1859
In the return of another year of our existence as a Christian
Association, it would give me great pleasure to report of progress
being made in the conversion of souls, and the continued prosperity
of the church under my care.
But a good Providence has denied me
that pleasure in my Report of the past year.
I can only tell of
the stationary condition of the people of Ewa, or rather, of their
backward tendency when not progressing forward.
For whe n there is
no increase of a church by new accessions, and deaths are continu
ally occurring among them, there is always a decrease of their num
bers and spirituality.
Two causes have mainly contributed to this state of things, viz,
their destitution of a preacher during the greater part of the year,
and the continuance of the idolatrous hulas among them.
It is known
that Mahoe left them last June for a mission to Micronesia, and his
place was not supplied till the beginning of the present year, when
Solomona from Lanai was called and settled there.
Solomona is very
acceptable to them, and they have pledged themselves to raise for
h i m $200 per annum, which pledge they are fulfiling ( !).
But he has
been absent at Lanai since the month of March, and it is hoped his
detention there by sickness In his family, will not discourage the
people from continuing their attachment to him, for by their inquir
ies about him I find they are anxious for his return to his labors.
I have visited the people as often as I could make it convenient,
spent several days at a visit.
and
The regular communion seasons have
been observed, an d a pretty good turn out of the church has been
obtained at such times.
But I am pained to add, that at other times
when I have visited them, there is great slackness of attendance on
the ordinary services of the Sabbath, and that but very few of the
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2.
1859
irreligous ( !) portion of the people come out at all.
The sabbath
is with them a day of pleasure, and scarcely any access can be had
of the message of the gospel to their hearing.
Prayer meetings, have been regularly kept up by a few Christians
in nearly all the apanas of the district, and regular appointments
of weekly meetings have been made in the different parts of the field
by the preacher, but they have been poorly attended by the ch. mem
bers, and not at all by the worldly portion of the community, while
the hulas in the same neighborhood have been fully attended by crowds.
I have also attended at times the apana meetings, and could rejoice
to do it more frequently, but my strength fails me when I attempt
any extra labor.
Even the fatigue of riding down to Ewa, usually
unfits me for the duties of the Sabbath, and when I return from the
brief labors of the pulpit with an aching head, the exhaustion of
my system compels me to keep my couch for the rest of the day.
And
after my return home, a day's rest is required to restore my exhaus
ted system.
These peculiarities of my system often admonish me that
my former vigor has left me, and every year is adding to this bodily
weakness.
Yet with this exception, my general health remains good,
and free from disease.
When I consider there is so much to be done
by way of preaching and visiting the people, my heart prompts me to
take hold of the work as in former days.
me it cannot be accomplished.
But the attempt convinces
I feel that we are but a feeble band
of laborers here on Oahu; that our best days have gone by.
We are
unable to cope with the power of the papal force arrayed against us
on this island.
We are in need of some strong men to take up the
guantlet so defiantly thrown down, and carry the war into their midst.
s
I speak not so much in reference to the tracts which are s owing deadly
errors through the length and breadth of the land, as to the con-
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1859
3.
fldent efforts being made to induce our people to apostatize.
They are laboring, not to bring sinners to repentance, but to make
proselytes from the ranks of the protestant churches, and it must
be confessed, that they have in my field been but too successful.
It has become almost a matter of course that a church member under
discipline is induced by persuasion to go over to the scarlet beast,
and never return to the bosom of the church he has left.
When I
set aside a ch. member for immoral conduct, I usually feel that there
is little hope of his returning again to repentance, as the catholicks
beset him on every side, and he enters under their banner, receiving
a full remittance of priestly absolution, and ready to begin anew a
life of sin.
But this is a painful subject, and we must try to meet it.
Everywhere on this wide earth, whenever the gospel is preached, Rome
has her emissaries to oppose it.
time is short.
But this is our consolation, her
Already we hear the murmurings of the inter-necine
war, which is destined to devour her "and burn her with fire” .
But
the day of her doom we know not, we only know that what is revealed
will take place in God's own good time.
We can only pray in the words
of the slain martyrs, "How long, 0 Lord, how long !"
Until that day
arrive, let us withstand the insidious foe, and prevent as far as
possible the ruin of the Hawaiian race by exposing the falsehoods
of Rome.
The whole fabric of her system is built upon a stupendous
fraud, viz, that St. Peter founded the church at Rome, was the first
pope, and inaugurated an apostolic succession which holds the keys
of heaven, to admit to or shut out from paradise.
And yet there is
the most complete evidence that Peter was never at Rome.
But for
nearly 15 centuries that lie has prospered, and deluded its count
less millions of adherents into perdition.
" 0 arm of the Lord,
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1859
awake !
4.
It is useless to shut our eyes and say, as in years past,
"The catholicks are making no advance," and thus remain willingly
ignorant of the fact, that they are straining every effort to prose
lyte, and that they are more or less successful with the class of
natives who dislike a religion of heart purity, and prefer one of
external forms.
(Unsigned; marked "Rev. A. Bishop".)
�Abstract of Ewa Report
for May 1860.
There have been no marked alterations to the duties of religion
in this district during the past year.
Nor have we suffered any
reverses beyond those of former times.
The preaching of the gos
pel and the administration of the church ordinances have been regular
in their season.
The native preacher, Solomona, has been faithful
to his work, on the sabbath and in visiting the people at their
homes.
His preaching has been blessed in the hopeful conversion of
several, ten of whom have been accepted as candidates for immediate
admission to the church.
A gradual increase of hearers on the sab
bath has followed his labors from the first.
But the people are
backward in fulfilling their engagements to pay in full his salary.
Their contributions are about $150 per annum.
Many of those who
subscribed for his support, have died or removed from the place.
The pastor has made semiquarterly visits to the people, spending a
few days with them at each visit in preaching and in administering the
ordinances.
The people of the district are rapidly diminishing, and whole
neighborhoods where in former years were numerous families and cul
tivated lands, there are now no inhabitants, and the land is left to
run (?) to waste.
The fathers have died off, and the children wander
into other parts, and there are none to fill their places.
Popery has had much success in that district.
There are now two
new churches in Ewa, which are said to be tolerably frequented.
They are supplied directly from Honolulu with priests.
have also some of the schools.
The papists
All schools taught by papal teachers
exclude the Bible and all protestant books from the classes, and make
the chatecism ( !) the principal text book for the children.
Being
�Abstract Ewa
1860
2.
nominally government free schools, protestant children are required
to attend them.
The schools are all suffering for the want of a
better class of teachers.
They are mostly an uneducated class, who
have not enjoyed a proper training for the work.
This defect calls
for a speedy remedy.
On the whole there is no occasion either for great discouragement
for want of progress in Ewa, or of congratulation in view of advance
ment.
While the people are fading away, we have no other prospect
before us, but a final extinction of the race, while the younger
generation upon whom so much labor has been expended both moral &
physical, continue to fall into sin, and remain strangers to renewing
grace.
Our hope is n o w to devote ourselves to the work of saving as
many as possible while th e people remain.
A. Bishop
Statistics of the church
at Ewa for May 1860
Received on examination the past year
"
on certificate
Total past year
Total deceased
Deceased past year
Members in regular standing
Members in the field
Absent
Children Baptized past year
Marriages
Contributions for support of preacher
"
For missions
5
4
9
916
13
320
255
65
6
21
(no figure)
(no figure)
�Report of the church at Ewa, 1861
It w illbe recollected that at the close of our last meeting we
delegated two of our brethren Messrs Parker & Coan to make a preaching
tour of this island, and visit the churches.
This tour w a s followed
by others of the brethren in the same manner through the summer.
They were accompanied by a number of their elders in the churches,
some of them as precursors to visit among the people in their several
neighborhoods, and stir them up to come out to hear the preached
word.
These were all listened to by throngs, multitudes of whom
had long neglected the house of God, and had become practical heathens.
These movements were the commencement of a revival of Religion
in all parts of the island of which Ewa partook with the others.
Religious meetings became frequent and full, the church waked from
its long lethargy, backsliders returned from their wanderings into
the bosom of the church by a public confession of their sins.
Many papists and mormons renounced their errors, and professed the
desire to seek salvation through the blood of Jesus.
I made frequent
visits to the place as often as my feeble health would permit,
preached to the people, assembled and conversed with candidates for
admission to the church.
In all these labors I have been materially
aided by the efficient labors of Solomona Kahoohalahala, their pre
sent junior pastor.
On the first sabbath in January last, we received 85 c andidates
to church membership, and in April 14 more in all 99 persons.
There
are a few more remaining candidates who are hopefully converted,
while many others are being passed over as not giving satisfactory
evidence of conversion, have left their classes and cease to receive
religious instruction.
The religious excitement has passed over, but leaves a large
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1861
2.
increase to the regular congregation on the Sabbath, and a more
regular attendance on the meetings for prayer in the different neigh
borhoods of the district.
We look on these tokens for good as an
indication of the continued merciful purpose of our Lord tow ards the
degraded Hawaiian race, despite the many untoward indications of the
people as a race to still cling to their ancient heathenish customs.
It proves that but one power in the world is able to eradicate heath
enism from the breast of one b o m in idolatry, that is christianity
in the heart of the redeemed sinner.
wealth cannot do it.
effect it.
Civilization, literature, or
A mere external profession of religi on cannot
In every unregenerate mind, however long removed from
the temptations to heathenish practices, there lurks a secret fond
ness to return to the old abominations when the temptation presents
itself, until the heart is ren e w ed by the Holy Spirit, and sancti
fied by the implantion (!) of the holy faith in the Redeemer.
Every
revival of true religion, is therefore a clear gain upon the domin
ion of darkness, which education of itself cannot effect.
At the beginning of the present year, the church of Ewa made
out a unanimous call to Solomona to become their acting pastor,
promising him a salary of $200 per annum, and wrote a request to the
Oahu Evangelical association to ordain him.
This being objected to
by some of our members as extra constitutional for our association
to ordain ministers, the brethren took up the case as individuals
and formed an ordaining council of ministers and delegates of the
churches for that purpose.
10th of last April.
The solemnities took place at Ewa on the
We were all highly gratified by the very clear
& satisfactory examination which the candidate underwent, and felt
that he is a very promising accession to our native ministry.
But
for reasons of a prudential nature he was installed as sub pastor
only for two years, w i t h the thought that perhaps after the lapse
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1861
3.
of that time, he may be made more useful in some other pastorate
after the manner o f bur methodist brethren.
"Festina lente"
(make haste slowly) is always a prudent maxim, but while we have
no book of church government asserted (?) to by the churches, I
know not how we can carry out the idea of a change of pastorales ( !)
should the people desire to retain their old pastors to whom they
have become attached.
This ordaining by councils has always ap
peared to me a lose method, where there is no book of record to hand
down an authentic account of our acts to future years.
How will
it be known 20 years hence that an ordination took place at Ewa in
April of 1861?
Tis true it is on the church book of that place,
but that book may be lost, and moreover it has not been authenticated
by the officers of the council.
Since the month of October I have taught a class of young men
in the study of theology.
They are mostly graduates of the Seminary
and recommended to me by their pastors as suitable candidates for the
ministry.
After twice going through Br, Alexander's Book, and making
them familiar on all the points contained in that work, w i t h refer
ence to the proof texts, with an oral explanation, we took up the
Bible,
and went through the prophecies of Daniel and the Revelations.
We have also read Genesis, wher e we propose to continue through the
Pentateuch.
One of my class Hapuku has gone as a missionary to the
Marquesas Islands.
I have h a d a large number of applications from others to be
received as students, but have deferred to receive them until the
present class is dismissed.
It is at present uncertain whether my
health and strength will permit me to undertake the instruction of
another class in theology.
And this brings up the subject of in-
stituting a Theological school either at Lahaina or Hilo.
I trust
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1861
this subject will be fully discussed and acted upon at this present
meeting.
Statistics of the church at Ewa, May 1861
Whole no on profession
On certificate
Received past year on profession
"
"
on certificate
Total past year
Total deceased
Deceased past year
Excluded past year
Now in regular standing
Children baptized
Baptized past year
Marriages
2507
(no figure)
99
4
103
932
16
6
358
(no f i g u r e )
13
30
Contributions in cash
For support of native pastor
For missions, (see Treasurer's account)
$200
61
Abstract of the Ewa Report for May 1861.
A. Bishop and S. Kahoohalohola, pastors.
After the visit made by Kuaea and others to Ewa in July of last
year, unequivocal evidences of a revival of religion appeared in that
district.
These religious impressions were multiplied and strengthen
ed by the visits of the pastor and native assistant among the people,
and by the preaching tours of other Oahu brethren.
This good work resulted in the hopeful conversion of 100 or more
persons, and by the return of many backsliding brethren to the bosom
of the church.
The good effects of the work are being evidenced by
a large increase of the worshiping ( !) assembly on Lord's day, and by
the multiplication and sustentation of prayer meetings in every part
of the district, which are still kept up.
During the year 9 9 persons
have been received into the church.
During the past year, the church has called and settled an
assistant pastor, Solomona Kahoohalahola, with a salary of $200
per annum.
He was ordained by a council of ministers and delegates
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1861
from the several native churches cm this island.
These solemnities
took place of ( ! ) the 10th day of April ult.
The schools have been in a more languishing condition than
in, former years, for the want of a vigilant superintendence.
The
n e w Kahukula, it is hoped, wi l l remedy these defects, as far as in
his p ower.
Since October last I have taught a theological class of four
persons.
Two of these have been licensed to preach the gospel,
one of these, Hapukuj, has been sent as a missionary to the Marquesas
Islands.
The remaining three are still receiving lessons.
These
consist a t present in scripture readings, and oral criticisms on
Waimanu
the same. Near m y residence in xxxxxx I hold a religious meeting
every sabbath afternoon, and preach to about & hundred people, in
the chapel.
But my health is still too feeble to engage m u c h in
pastoral labors.
A. Bishop
�Statistics of the ch. at Ewa, Oahu, May 1, A.D. 1862
Whole no. received on Profession
"
"
on certificate
Past year on profession
"
on certificate
Total past year
2508
(no figure)
11
4
15
Whole no. dismissed
(no figure)
Dismissed past year
2
Total deceased
941
Deceased past year
9
Ex c luded past year
1
Members in regular standing
317
Total children baptized
342
Baptized past year
12
Marriages the past year
21
�Station Report for Ewa, Oahu, 1863
I cannot divest myself of a feeling that this may he my last
Report before this Association.
of my missionary life.
I have entered upon the forty first
Many old associates with whom I met in the
first General meeting have passed away before me, and only two or
three of them are supposed to b e living in venerable old age.
My
own health is also too feeble to permit me to labor continuously
in any department in the missionary calling.
When I look back in
reminiscence of past years, to the scenes of active life, while
travelling on foot over the mountains and lavas of Hawaii, or skirt
ing its shores by canoe, collecting together the people of each
village passed, to preach to them the words of life,
or weary and
foot-sore, lay down at night within their hospitable grass cabins to
rest; - or when I call to recollection the fifteen years I spent with
my beloved associates, Bingham, Thurston
and Richards, in translating
and correcting for the press the Holy Scriptures into the Hawaiian
language, I thank God that I have been sent hither, and been permitted
to labor so long as I have in such a cause.
This cause has never
lost its hold upon my highest affections, and I have never been weary
of my work, tho often disappointed in my hopes.
Altho I esteem it
the best work to which a man can be called, yet it has not been without
its trials as well as joys.
Its joys have consisted in preaching the
Gospel unobstructed by external opposition to appreciative audiences,
and in gathering converts into the church covenant.
Its trials have
arisen from the falling away of many of these into open or covert sin,
walking unworthily as Christians,
or passing over to another and
reprobate faith.
Ten years ago the church of Ewa consisted of more than eight
hundred members in good standing, and about 20 elders as assistants
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1863
2.
and fellow laborers in our social meetings.
That year the small pox
swept off a full half of the church at one swoop, during the three
months of its prevalence.
It took off the older people in most cases,
and left the younger ones as orphans, to wander away in quest of homes.
Great numbers came to Honolulu to fill up the void created here by
the same disease.
Thus this place was supplied its lack of numbers,
at the expense of the adjacent country, already depleted.
Those who
remained on the land have never recovered their former population,
but a constant downward tendency has ruled to the present time.
After the pestilence had ceased, I collected the names of the
surviving members, which amounted to between three & four hundred.
That number has never increased, tho many have since b e e n added by
new admissions.
Since my removal to this place in Jan. 1856, there have been two
native assistant pastors settled there.
The former, Mahoe, was sent
as a missionary to Micronesia, and in 1859, Solomona Kahooholahola
came there as preacher from Lanai.
He was ordained & installed as
assistant pastor in April, 1861, the people pledging him an annual
salary of $200.
Sometime early last year, a report unfavorable to
his moral character got into circulation, and tho no tangible proofs
of/its truth appeared, it was believed by many who forsook their at
tendance upon his ministry.
Prom that time to the end of the year,
it seemed to me that his usefulness among that people was ended.
The congregation continued to diminish, and his salary fell more than
$100 in arrears.
At the communion in Jan. of the present year, I
found only about 100 members of the church present, and their quart
erly contribution was diminished to about $10.00
resigned his pastorate.
Then Solomona
At the meeting of the Oahu Association in
Feb. last at this place, a list of accusations against him was handed
up to us by two ch. members who had opposed him from the first.
It
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appeared that these accusations did not emanate from the church,
either as a majority or minority.
They all failed of being substa
tiated, and the accused received an honorable acquittal, while his
resignation was confirmed by u s .
But the present state of religion is low more so than I have
before known it, since the church was formed.
I have often and
earnestly desired to go among them once more, and visit the people from
house to house, pray with them and constrain them to return again to
their duty.
In fact I did spend part of a day last April in so doing,
and found it profitable to myself as well as the people; but my
strength failed me on the first day.
I found myself inadequate to
carry it through, as too exciting and laborious for my pow e r s .
I
can now only commend them to God in my prayers, and continue my
stated visits as heretofore.
The past is the only year since I have
been their pastor, in which no additions have been made to the church.
Of the Ewa meeting house, the walls and roof remain good.
will not need to be reshingled for many years.
It
But the doors, windows
and plastering are much broken; a sad specimen of native neglect,
without one to lead them in keeping their house in repair.
My old
dwelling house at Waiawa is also in a tumble-down state, and long
past repair.
One of the buildings however is in a better condition.
Support of__a native ministry.
The great problem how to perpetuate the institutions of
Christianity among this partially civilized people, when their for
eign teachers shall be removed, still remains to be solved.
The most
obvious and natural method, viz, to educate and ordain our best
men for the ministry, is a process which we are imperfectly pursuing.
This is the third year in which I have taught theological classes of
picked young men.
But the school has no regular organization and no
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endowment.
4.
The young men are obliged to pursue some business to
obtain their support, and consequently are irregular in their atten
dance.
The result so far has been encourageing ( !), but the in
struction they receive is not thorough.
A school should b e so con
ducted as to secure a regular attendance & a thorough training.
Tis not yet ascertained that this poor and ignorant people,
constantly decreasing in numbers, will be able and willing to render
their native pastors an adequate & continued support.
most difficult part of the problem.
This is the
By a spasmodic effort they can
be induced to subscribe liberally to sustain an important object
brought before them.
But when called on for payment they are slow
to respond, and many fail utterly to redeem their pledge.
This
has been my experience thus far, and both Mahoe and Kah o ohalahoola
were compelled to leave their post at Ewa, for this reason.
The
same thing has recently occurred at Waianae to the preacher there
employed.
A part of this deficiency is owing to the want of persevering
energy in the native mind,
and partly in an insensibility to the ob
ligation to fulfil a contract; and still another cause of the de
ficiency is to be attributed (to) the constant diminution of the
people, who are thus every year becoming less and less able to sup
port a pastor.
This is the great discouragement in view of the
future prospects of the church on the question of self-support.
The next question is, Will they be able to continue the system
of self-support, in presence of the hostile sects of French and
English Catholics?
Those missions are liberally supported from a b
road, and the strong contrast has been repeatedly and successfully
urged by the papists upon the minds of our people, that while they
are laboring gratuitously, we are taxing them for money.
This has
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had its effect to alienate many ignorant minds from the protestant
worship.
Schools
Since the death of Dr. Armstrong, and more especially since the
retirement of Mr. Fuller as secretary of the Board of education, the
management of the schools has been left mostly in the hands of the
native superintendants.
I am happy to he informed that the Ewa schools
are not less prosperous than formerly, though that is not saying
much.
The primary schools do not turn out as good scholars with u s
as they did formerly, because there is not that stimulus for the
studies as once existed.
A want of new and suitable books, adapted
to the improved condition of the people is one great drawback.
It
is much the same thing in the schools over and over for years, and
but very f e w new books have appeared for a long time.
Since the
government has assumed the entire control of the schools, the pro
testant missionaries have, I fear, lost much of their interest in
their management, and have relaxed their watchfulness over the pro
gress of the pupils.
The jealousy of the jesuits towards our influ
ence over these schools, and the frequent interference of the French
Commissioner in the papal interest,
compelled the late lamented A r m
strong to take away all official influence from us, but while he
lived he endeavored to supply that deficiency by his own watchful
care.
Since his death that care has been wanted beyond the routine
of office duties.
The N . Testament has been retained in the schools
conducted by protestant teacher's as a reading book, but carefully
excluded from those taught by papists.
Religious instruction has
been very much neglected in all these schools,
the teachers having
contented themselves with giving the usual lessons in reading, writing
and arithmetic, while the moral improvement of the intellect has been
neglected.
When we take into consideration that these children re-
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ceive little or no religious or moral instruction at their homes,
and that their parents exert no authority over them to bring them to
church after they arrive at a certain age, we need not wonder that
a large part of the rising generation are growing up In a course but
a little removed from the heathenism of their ancestors; nor that so
many of the youth, especially the girls should be early led astray.
I would here notice,
that the enemies of Evangelical religion
have diligently spread a columny that the Protestant missionaries
are opposed to English schools for the people.
We have ever favored
instruction in English of those who can be benefitted by it.
But
experience has taught us the futility of such a smattering of English
as can be obtained by a native in three or four years.
It requires
all the years of youth from Infancy to manhood, with a residence in
an English speaking family, to enable a native to get acquainted with
our copious language, so as to understand a common English book or
newspaper.
Even a correct pronunciation of English cannot be obtained
by one whose organs were first exercised upon his own native
tongue.
The ground of our opposition to the disbanding of the native
schools, rests on the fact, that imperfect as they are, there is
nothing else that can give the means of any education at all.
The
education of the masses could not be accomplished through the medium
of a foreign tongue.
The subject must be taken in infancy, be
separated from his own people, adopted into an English family,
there kept until maturity.
and
To make such a work national, is a simple
impossibility.
But the great argument of our opponents rests on the assertion
that there are no words in the Hawaiian tongue to Express European
ideas; and the only way to infuse these ideas is to anglicize the
nation.
But this argument assumes as practicable what has never been
accomplished,
and never can be.
The Romans attempted to Romanize
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the languages of Gaul, Britain and Spain.
The Norman conquerors
tried a similar experiment upon the conquered Saxons.
entire failures.
They were all
All that they did accomplish was the infusion of
certain Latin and French words into the languages, by which they
only became mod i f i e d but not extinct.
Again, the advocates of anglicizing the nation seem net to have
comprehended the true relative position of ideas and words.
precede the words used to express them.
Ideas
I can illustrate this fact
by calling our attention to a familiar case in our own language of
recent date.
It was a long time after the discovery of the Electric
Telegraph, before a word was found to express the idea of a message
flashed along its wires.
message.
phrase.
gram.
It was called a T elegraphic D espatch or
But a word was wanting to express the thing without a
Some one thought of a word, and called the message a Tele
It flew with lightening speed around the world, and everybody
felt that it was the long needed word.
So in Hawaii nei, give a native a new idea, and he will soon find
a word to express it in his own language and it will be understood
without a definition; so flexible is his native tongue in taking in
n e w words, as new ideas multiply among them.
The whole question, stripped of its adjuncts, seems to be
this:
How are we to get European ideas into the Hawaiian mind?
He
cannot understand a foreign word until it has been interpreted to
him in his mother tongue.
If the idea to be conveyed is one not in
his own language, he cannot comprehend it, without a roundabout
process of explanation.
c onvey it to him.
The simple lesson in English reading cannot
And I know of no process by which he can be made
to comprehend an abstract European thought not in his own language.
The only feasible process is to get a new idea into his min d ,
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independent of the foreign word which conveys the idea, before he
can understand the meaning of the word.
But this must be done through
the medium of his own language.
The result folows, that we must educate the masses through the
medium of the mother tongue, as the only means of raising the n a tion into a christian civilization.
The other method of anglicizing
them would only result in partially educating a few, while the mul
titude would be left in all their ancient ignorance & serfdom.
The latter is the European, the former the American idea.
I have been the more particular in vindicating our principles,
because it constitutes one of the grave charges in Mr. Manly Hop
k i n s ' History, that we are, "Setting our faces against English schools."
I understand, moreover, that our friends of the English mission are
pledged to carry out the programme to Anglecize the Hawaiian nation,
as the only hopeful way to preserve it from extinction.
Nothing
can be more incorrect than Mr. Hopkins’ charge, since teaching Eng
lish to the natives has ever been a portion of our system of instruc
tion, wherever it has been practicable, viz, in family schools.
It is a curious fact, suggestive of many reflections, how this
little nation has attracted to its shores,
so many discordant ele
ments from the four quarters of the world, to rescue it from the
grasp of puritanism.
When it became known to the nations of Christen
dom, that American Missionaries were building up a protestant church
on these pleasant Hawaiian Islands, the Pope sent forth his emis
saries to withstand us, backed by Fren ch guns and French Br andy.
These have been but too successful in materially embarrassing our
measures to enlighten and convert the nation,
They have, however,
not been without their uses in weeding out unworthy members from our
churches,
and in making us more circumspect in the presence of such
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deadly enemies.
Next came the Mormons,
and travelled through the length and
breadth of the land, to make proselytes to their delusive and im
moral faith.
It would be useless to ignore their success in leading
astray large numbers to follow in their paths.
Lastly, the son of the great and good Wilberforce, the redoubt
able Bishop of Oxford, and the no less bigoted Marcly H opkins, took
up the role and proclaimed through England that puritanism in Hawaii
has proved a failure, and has only built up a church of hypocrites: and that the nation is dying out for want of a church eredted upon
the true apostolic succession.
Well, an apostolic Hierarchy is now
being set up among us, whose design & expectation is to supercede
us.
To these it would seem we are only preparing the way for the
advent of a purer dispensation; a church built on the apostolic foun
dation, through the laying on of the hands of the "holy Bishop, by
whom alone the Holy Spirit is given.
They do not refuse to acknow
ledge that we have done some good, but only as preparatory to the
advent of a pure dispensation.
And now, gentlemen,
(these measures
seem to say,) you will please to step aside, and give place to those
whose episcopal descent is reckoned back through a long line of Roman
pontifs to Peter the head of the Apostles.
And though w e hold that
the church of Rome has been wrong on some points of doctrine and
practices,
it is still the true parent church, which is to be per
petuated through the coming ages when purified, from her errors.
But while we acknowledge the Romanists as brethren, we cannot recog
nize the Independents & presbyterians as a church at all, not having
received Episcopal ordination.
What the influence produced by these opposing sects upon the
unsophisticated Hawaiian minds is, cannot be mistaken.
To those
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established in the faith, and accustomed to read the scriptures for
themselves, the effect has been to confirm them in the truths.
But
to the masses, unaccustomed to reason for themselves, these conflict
ing dogmas serve but to confuse their minds, unhinge their beliefs,
and render them indifferent to the gospel faith.
To such, one kind
of religion is as good as another, provided they maintain a fair
standing in their communion.
With these obstructions before us, how can we wonder, that with
the good measure of success obtained,
verting the whole nation?
that we have come short of con
Such a boon has not been given to any
Christian church in the days of their militant struggles.
reserved for a purer and millennial period.
That is
It will be a happy thing
for this little nation, if the cry from Rome, from Oxford and from
Utah, "To the rescue", does not prove to be the digging of its
grave.
But I do not despair for Hawaii.
A remnant will be spared,
I fully believe, that shall multiply upward, and bear fruit in the
coming millennium.
But whether the future Hawaiian is to be of the
pure Polynesian blood, or a miture with the Caucasian race, cannot
be certainly predicted.
Of this we may be assured that there will
be a nation here, and the fruits of our present labors w ill influ
ence the destinies of coming generations, whether of Hawaiian, Sem
itic or Caucassian ( !) blood,
or a due mixture of all.
The question
now before us is to solve the problem of self-sustaining religious
institutions among a diminishing people, without knowing the terminus
of their downward progress.
Since penning the. foregoing a few weeks ago, I have visited
the people of Ewa, in company with Dr. Anderson and family, and am
happy to report a more hopeful condition of things among them.
The Revd Mr. Bicknell has visited the field, spent two sabbaths there,
and held meetings in every neighborhood, going from house to house
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to seek for absenting members of the church.
The congregation has
increased in consequence, and the people are now uniting to make
him out a call to become their pastor.
They talk of only $150.00
a year, as the most which they can raise in their present broken
state.
I am satisfied, that is the most they can do at present, and
until a better organization shall be effected.
man to revive them if it can b e done.
support, from some quarter.
Mr. Bicknell is the
But he must be aided in his
I should not hesitate to commend him
to the patronage of the Board, as a person worthy of their aid, until
he can organize the means of a support in hiw own field.
(Unsigned; A. Bishop)
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M. Kuaea, Abstract.............................1861
Unsigned (M. K u a e a ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1862
�H auula
M. Kuaea.
[Abstract 1861]
This church is under the united pastoral care of b r e t h r en E m e r
son & Kuaea.
lier part
There was a good degree of Christian energy in the e ar
of the year, Congregations large, meetings frequent, & atten
tion good.
Contributions to shingle & repair the meeting-house at H a u u la were
promptly made - the church has been peaceable & orderly.
not unlike former years.
Schools
The sabbath school attended by a small
number, w h o are regular attendants.
near the close of last year,
The church largely increased
a few have been added, the present year.
Mormonism not much known, & papacy exerting but little influence.
Contributions of the people in cash the past yea r - - $ 1069.87
�Hauula Station report, May 1862
The Station at Hauula has been sustained the past y ear by the
ordinary amount of pastoral labor.
The public worship of the Sanctuary
has b e e n uniformly maintained on the Sabbath, & daily m o r n i n g prayermeetings have been held at some of the places of gathering m ost of
the year.
The finishing & furnishing of the meeting house at the
Station, wh i c h was nearly completed at the last general meeting, has
been fully accomplished & paid for.
So that we now have at Hauula
the most spacious & well finished house on the windward side of Oahu.
There
is no debt on the
church f o r
the house, but there are funds,
on hand, nearly sufficient to procure a bell, which has b e e n ordered.
There have b een four communion seasons for the chch. the past
year, w h i c h were attended by the
joint pastors.
These communion
seasons ocupy ( !) each about five days of my time including travel
to & f r o m Hauula, & involve more or less labor inversely to the amount
of religious interest in the Church.
There have been no additions
to the Chch. at Hauula the p a s t year, except one by letter,
19 have
been cut off from the chch, 13 dismissed to other c h c h s ., & 4 have
died.
Consequently our number of communicants is 35 less n o w than at
the beginning of the year.
The monies collected at this station the past year were as
follows,
For sup p o r t of pastor,
For foreign missions
" mee t i n g house at Kahana
" Meeting house at Hauula
In all $ 7 4 5 . 80
$134.55
47.12-1/2
35.00
529.12-1/2
of wh i c h $268 were contributed from wit h o u t the
parish at a feast held at Hauula to pay off the debt for the meeting
house.
This feast was a splendid occasion, no doubt,
about w h i c h much
might b e written; but as the senior pastor was not present, he can only
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say it was r e p o r t e d to be a grand affair, & money was h a n d e d in liber
ally.
The Chch. at Hauula,
like many others,
contains too m a n y members
who give to benevolent objects from impulse & not from principle.
They give where a display can be made in giving even where they withhold
fro m a creditor his honest due.
T h e communions of t h i s Chch. have b e e n thinly attended the past
year.
The pastor's salary has not been half paid,
owing in part to
the effort for the meeting-house, & in part to their inability to
dispose of their produce, & in a larger degree to lack of interest.
Changes.
The past year four or five new & foreign families have
entered this part of Koolau loa & are calculating on permanent resi
dences among the people.
Laie, the best land perhaps in Koolau loa, has b e e n purc hased by
Capt. Howland & is occupied b y h i m & Mr. Spencer & their families.
Dr. Ford w i t h one or two families is engaged largely in the cultivation
of Rice at Punaluu.
A Chinaman Aa - ki (?) owns Kahana.
Mr. Wilder
is in possession of Kaawa ( !), & Judge Moffit is at Kahuku.
So that
not far from 3/4 of the land in Koolau loa is owned by foreigners
or is under lease to them.
The native population is extensively employed in the s e r v ice of
foreigners,
as hired laborers,
shepherds,
cattle-drivers,
cooks &
stew a r d s , or else paying a partial service for t h e pasturage of their
many, morse than worthless, horses.
What wil l be the r e sult of this
state of things time will develope.
At present it is obvious that they
are gradually losing t h e i r independance, & their ambition to cultivate
the soil for themselves.
Children are decreasing in numbers & are
more rapidly leaving the schools to do service as shepherds & herdsmen.
Between Waimea & Hauula there were ten years since 8 schools & ten
�Hauula 1862
teachers where there are n o w but two teachers employed w i t h two schools
each, to w h i c h they devote 12 hours per week.
By a record of the past
I see that in 1846 there were in Koolau loa 20 Schools & 396 scholars
at the
examinations; there are now but 3 or 4 teachers & less than 100
scholars.
Probably the average daily attendance at school is not over
50 scholars as most, if not all, these schools are taught but 3 days
per week.
But 50 scholars daily when there were 17 years ago 300 !
Imp r o vements.
making b ut few.
W h i l e foreigners are making many, natives are
Many of the houses that are built apparently by n a
tives are either on the foreigners land,
or w i t h the foreigners capi
tal, in whole or i n part, so that the foreigner has lien u p o n them, &
can dispossess the native often at his pleasure,
Every n o w & then a native sells his kuleana,
er is generally the purchaser.
if occasion presents.
in which case the foreign
Not unfrequently a native builds a
house in his friends yard in the city, & as a consequent
( !) the
kuleana must be sold to foot the bill & the family remove to Honolulu
or its v icinity, the great Maelstom of the race.
But I have bee n casting about for a bright point with w h i c h to
close this report & here it is.
Our people have to a great extent
ceased f r o m litigation, what one judge in h i s court confirms the next
above h i m is almost sure to destroy by his verdict & so the people have
very generally concluded to leave off litigation & settle their wrongs
in a cheaper & better way.
Habits
of the people.
The number, who are suspected of living
in adultery, is alarmingly great.
the constaple
But if the judge,
the lawyer, &
( !) are supposed to be, & some of them are known to
be, in the same category, it is not an easy matter to get laws executed,
if we have any on the subject;
- & where there is no civil law, it is
not common for ignorant m e n to feel that there can be moral tr a n s
gression.
It is beyond the ability of our people to conceive that, if
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it is right for the government to tax them to raise a p r e m i u m to b e
paid to a certain class, who choose to live in the v i o l a t i o n of the
commandment,
7th
it should he wrong in t h e m to commit the same violation
without a premium for doing it.
The C h c h .organized at Kahuku in 1848 h a d in 1854 increased to
126 members under Kekela.
But it now has no longer a name to live,
& but few of its members are in good standing in any other church.
Meetings
are held with them,
almost every sabbath by some one of our
deacons; yet rarely more than 20 or 30 persons can be collected in any
one place for worship; & on a week day rarely can more than ten or 15
be got together.
Statistics
Wh o l e no recd to the Chch on prof
"
"
"
on Certif
"
"
past year on Prof
"
"
past year on certif
Total past year
Total dismissed
Dismissed the past year
Total decea s e d
Deceased the past yea r
Excluded the past y e a r
Now in regular standing
T o t a l children b a p tized
Baptized the past y e a r
Marriages
”
644
37
0
1
1
73
13
242
4
19
262
168
3
13
(Unsigned)
(M. Kuaea)
�Kahuku Station
[Abstract]
Gen. Improvements.
The people although m u c h cramped (?) in
their circumstances & deprived of the greater portion of their lands
have made commendable progress in industry & improvements.
Benevolent efforts -
A good stone w all about 1/ 10 of a m i l e / in
l e ngth to aid in enclosing a parsonage - Also
(?) a good framed
Meetinghouse w i t h doors & w indows has been erected & p a i d for by the
people
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They have also paid their pastor in cash $117.75 for his
support.
Schools have been w e l l sustained But they have been r e p orted in the
schools in Koolau.
Popery -
This evil has vanished f rom the field - there is no papal
school & only one or two persons now in the field, who profess to be
papists.
State of religion - Attendance on public worship good - sabbath
schools are attended wit h adults & children & are useful Meetings are attended on sabbath & on weekdays with success.
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KAUMAKAPILI
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1839
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1840
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1841
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1842
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1843
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L. Smith..
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�(Kaumakapili
)
Report of the Station at N.W.H. (Northwest Honolulu),
May 21, 1838
At the close of our last general meeting, I resumed my labours again in the
School at the Mission, assisted by Brother & Sister Cooke.
I continued my connect
ion: with that School till the examination in Oct.; though for the last six or
eight weeks I was necessarily more or less absent to Superintend the erection of a
dwelling house & School house at the new Station.
It was obvious however at the examination on the 19th of Oct. that the Scholars
had made far more improvement during those two terms than during the same length
of time the preceeding year.
Mr. & Mrs. Cooke now took the entire charge of the School & my whole time was
devoted to the business of the new Station.
I wanted remark (!), by the way, that I commenced preaching lectures in the
neighbourhood of the new Station every Saturday P .M. as early as the month of
August.
Some 90, or 100 usually attended; though no special takers of seriousness
appeared till after we removed to the Station.
Our dwelling house & School house being finished, we removed & commenced oper
ations there on the 19th of December.
At 3 o'clock that
P.M. the people assembled
to dedicate the New School house to the Lord. Br. Bingham favoured us with an in
teresting & appropriate sermon on the Occasion.
The house which will hold about Six hundred was full, & some two or three hun
dred out of doors.
On the following Sabbath as many as eight or nine hundred were
present, the most of whom had not been in the habit of attending meeting (!) at
the mission chapel.
I
endeavoured from the commencement to make it clearly understood that I
had been located at this part of the village to seek after those who did not at
tend School or meeting at the mission, & that I did not wish Br. Bingham's haumanas to come to this place of worship, except a few who were ready to assist
impenitent
in labouring with the
to attend upon the means of grace.
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Brother Bingham appointed a protracted meeting to commence on the first of
January.
I advised the people in our part of the village to attend.
Many of
them did attend; & during the meeting Several church members were appointed to
go from house to house through the village, & talk with those who would not
attend the meeting.
our neighbourhood.
This visiting was blessed to Several hundred(?) cases in
The meeting was also blessed to the awakening of many, &
some few think they truly repented on that occasion.
At the close of that meet
ing I commenced morning meetings, & endeavoured to follow up the impressions of
the meeting as far as practicable(! ).
The Spirit of God has evidently been moving
upon this congregation from the close of that pro- meeting to the present time.
The congregation has also increased every week, till we now number a bout two
thousand; 19/20 of whom did not attend upon the means of grace, previous to our
labours at this new Station.
Childrens School
I commenced a School for the children & youth on the 9th of January; 114 child
ren the first day.
Efforts were made to call out all the children in this part
of the village; & during the term some 460 were enrolled as Scholars of the
School.
Some 270 only proved to be regular in their attendance.
sent however at our examination in April last 331.
dress & manners , was truly encouraging.
There were pre
Their improvement in learning
Owing to my abundant labours among the
people, I was obliged to leave the School in the hands of native teachers.
Kaio
has had the principal charge of the School; he has been popular with the Scholars,
& has given good satisfaction.
I provided him with one male & five female assist
ants who have also given good Satisfaction.
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Protracted Meeting
On the 19th of March I commenced a protracted meeting with the children & youth of
the School.
Brother & Sister Cooke also joined us with their pupils; in all a
congregation of about 500.
The meeting continued five days, & though many of them
were rude & noisy at the commencement of the meeting, still they became quite
sober under the plain & pointed exhibition of divine truth.
Three female teachers & about 20 of the Scholars were hopefully converted at the
time, & now Stand propounded for admission to the church.
There are others quite
serious & thoughtful, & perhaps penitent.
The effect of the meeting upon Br. Cook's (!) School I know not.
His report will
probably inform the meeting on that point.
Our School is somewhat diminished this present term, though the number is
still quite too large for profit.
I ought to have remarked ere this, that Brother Wilcox, providentially at
this place, very kindly tendered his Services & taught a class in the School for
Several weeks, & also assisted us in the childrens protracted meeting.
Hours for School & c.
The girls meet every A.M. at 9 o.clock, & the boys every P.M at half past 1.
Each
School is usually continued from 21/2 to 3. hours - five days in a week.
Besides this they have a Sabbath School every Sabbath morning at 8. o.clock,
which School I usually attend myself.
Remark .
I remark here that the parents
very cheerfully contributed the last term for the support of the native teachers,
& I think it will not be necessary to make any draughts hereafter from the de
pository for the Support of teachers.
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Ministerial Labours
Since the first of January, I have attended five protracted meetings, one week
each,
The first was held at the Mission chapel at Honolulu — the Second at
Waialua -- the third was a childrens meeting at this Station — the fourth at
Kaneohe, & the fifth a meeting with the adults at this Station.
During this
meeting, Br. Bingham preached for me once & Br. Tinker twice.
When at the Station, I have uniformly preached three Sermons every Sabbath -a lecture every Wednesday P.M. & preached a Sermon, or expounded Scripture at every
morning meeting during the week.
And I am happy to state that my labours have not
been in vain.
On returning from the meeting at Waialua, many of the people were anxious to
converse with me; & I divided off the lands from Honolulu village to Moanalua into
Small districts, or apana's (!), & set a part a day for each apana to call & con
verse.
The first time round about 1,000 persons came; & it was very obvious that
the Spirit of God was Stiring with very many of them.
Some were unquestionably on
the old hoikaikaing (! ) ground, & had not the fear of God before their eyes.
After a few weeks had elapsed I allowed the apanas to call again, & the number in
creased this time to fifteen hundred; (ie) 500 more now wished to converse with me,
who were at least indifferent & many of them violently opposed to religion & its
ministers & professors but a few weeks before.
the
And since our protracted meeting
last of April, I have conversed with them individually again, & m ore than 500
more have come out from their abodes of vice & profess to be Seriously inquiring
the way to Zion.
I have already remarked that 19/20 of of (!) these people were not in the
habit of attending meeting formerly.
The effect of our labours upon the people around us is quite obvious in sev
eral respects.
Several who made & vended(?) ardent spirits, & others who drank
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it to great excess, have abandoned their vile habits & are now constant attendants
upon the means of grace; & Some of them give evidence of penitence for sin.
Truth
having made such rapid progress in the minds of Some of the people, I thought it
expedient to organize a church; & accordingly did so the first Sabbath in April.
Twenty two persons, 12 males & 10 females were received by letter from Br. Bingham's
Church —
two from the church at Ewa, & one from Waimea on Kauai.
Making 25 re
ceived from other churches.
Forty nine were also admitted on profession of their faith in Christ; making
his
in all a church of 74. Br. Bingham kindly favoured me with
assistance on that
interesting occasion.
The following Sabbath April 8th
I propounded —
--------- — 106
& on the 22nd of April --— --- 56
& on the 6th of this month --- 84
& on the 13th "
"
"
--- 102
& on the 20th "
"
"
--- 85
So that there now stand propounded
to this infant ch u r c h ------- 433.
Some 25 of these are Scholars & teachers of the Station School.
There are others who think they consecrated themselves to the Lord during our pro
tracted meeting in April.
I was much pleased with the Spirit of prayer that pre
vailed among our church members during that meeting.
I have never seen the like
at any of the protracted meetings that I have attended on the Islands.
from
I felt very much Strengthened also myself
the truth of God which reads,
"The Lord’s arm is not Shortened that he cannot Save, nor his ear heavy that he
cannot hear."
Another passage of Scripture has weighed heavily upon my mind since
we commenced at this Station (viz)"According to your faith be it unto you."
We have abundant occasion for gratitude & humility before God for his loving
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kindness to us at this new Station; & for his removing, in part at least, the
mountains of obstacles that presented themselves to our minds one year ago.
Nothing
is too hard for the Almighty & with him, "all things are possible."
Our congregation constantly increasing, we feel very much Straightened in our
present place of worship.
Not more than 1/3d of our usual congregation can be ac
commodated in the School house.
The people have built a ranai(!) in front of the
School house, which will accommodate ten or twelve hundred in pleasant weather; &
by standing in the door, the preacher may be heard by the most of them.But we all
know that it is a great tax upon the preachers lungs to preach in the open air.
Hundreds of men are ready to rise & build a doby meeting house forthwith; & would
do so, were they not called to work for the chiefs.
With our present/inconveniences.
in view.
We must hoomanawanui a while
I take up a monthly collection with this object
The value of the collections in March & April each exceeded $60. & the
one for the present month was rising of a hundred dollars.
The women contribute
monthly in Sugar bags to the amount of 35. or 40. dollars.
And Some 250. or 300.
men go one day in a month into the vallies(!) to cultivate potatoes & beans & c.
for the Shiping (!) market —
building a house for the Lord.
& hope to/realize Something in that way towards
Some prefer to pay 12% or 25 cts in cash monthly.
"Deo volante," we hope in due time to build a comfortable house of worship, not
withstanding we are poor.
Mrs. Smith is much better than at any former period since the failure of her
health.
She is able to visit some from house to house, & to hold a meeting once
a week with the women & explain to them the duties devolving upon them as wives &
mothers, as well as their duties & relations to God.
The consequence is that there
has already been a very considerable change in the external appearance of the fe
male part of our congregation.
About 500. females attend this meeting —
between three & four hundred of them
make a monthly contribution in Sugar bags* the product of their own industry.
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Mrs. Smith also has a class in the Sabbath School
Singing School
I Spend an hour two afternoons p r . week in a Singing Schoo
l
About 80 Scholars.
Marriages
I have Solemnized about 50 marriages.
Lowell Smith
(Written on last page, sideways):
Rev. L. Smith's report
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Station Report
May 1839
(Kaumakapili)
(1) Health,
Our report concerning health the past year is favourable, & calls
for devout acknowledgements to our Heavenly Father.
My own health has been
firm as usual, Mrs, Smith has not been so well for five years as during the
year past.
She has been able to walk from our place of residence to any part
of the village, & even up to the families of the mission.
March She gave birth to a Still born Son.
On the last day of
She is gaining Strength again now;
is able to ride out in a carriage & it is hoped She will Soon be able to re
sume her labours among the females, & in the Sabbath School, & to visit more
or less from house to house as usual.
(2) Congregation
Since the awakening during the winter & Spring of 1838 our congregation on
Sabbath mornings has uniformly been about 2,000. until within the last two
months.
Since that time there has been a great falling off from religious
meetings, not only during the week, but also on the Sabbath.
This I attribute, not to a desire to forsake the "pono," but to the prevailing
epidemic in the place; & also the death of Kinau.
been Sick with the mumps & influenza.
The people have nearly all
And Kinau1s death, instead of waking
them up to be more attentive to meetings, & to do with their might what their
hands find(?) to do, realizing that there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge
in the grave whither (!) they, as a people are all fast going; it had an effect
just the reverse.
It has been very trying to me to See the tide thus Set back.
But when I look
at the Subject in all its bearings I am not so much Surprised that things have
taken this retrograde course.
It is natural that is should be so from the
existing State of things.
Sickness is regarded as a good excuse at all times for not attending public
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worship.
And when a high chief dies, the people under him or her, die too; (ie)
their houses & lands & taro patches & c are all liable to be taken from them &
given to others.
System
No marvel then that the blood ceases to circulate, & the whole
bemused a s with a paralysis.
Signs of life however Still remain, among us, & we hope to recover Soon from
our present
Shock; though Sound & vigorous health is out of the question while
the present State of government continues.
Schools
I Superintended the Station School myself last year two or three terms; but was
oblige(!) to employ Some five or Six Assistant teachers; for we collected between
four & five hundred ignorant, wandering children & youths; though only about one
half of them became regular attendants.
These made commendable improvement while
I continued to Superintend them.
But as the religious State of things became more & more interesting & my labours
increased among the people, I gave up the School to Kaio; a man from the Seminary,
who did well for two terms.
He was then taken ill, & Palana, another from the
Seminary took the Superintendance.
He Succeeded well for one term; but for the
last term he has had not more than 30. or 40 Scholars.
One grand reason why the
Scholars have forsaken the School, is the fact that they or their parents have
been requested to make a contribution for the Support of the native teachers.
Mrs. Smith & myself paid Some 60. or $70. from our own Stipend to Sustain the
teachers till last fall.
We were then obliged to withdraw our aid, & the School
has been very inefficient Since that time.
We most ardently desire that Some
measures may be taken by the General Meeting at this cession(!) to Secure a
Salary —
for good, faithful, native teachers.
Will not the King & chiefs obli
gate themselves to do Something for teachers who ought to be patronized?
Our Sabbath School which was So flourishing last year, has greatly diminished
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in point of numbers.
Mrs. Smith however has a very flourishing class of girls,
30 in all who are very regular in their attendance & have made good proficiency
in their Sabbath S. lessons.
I have also a bible class of 80 adults who take
much interest in the verse a day System.
I think of making another effort to revive the School at the close of this meet
ing by teaching an hour or two daily myself.
Ministerial Labours
Besides preaching three times regularly on the Sabbath, attending a Sabbath School
at 8 o .clock A.M. & a Bible class at 2. P.M. & occasionally preach in English at
The Seamen’
s chapel; I have attended the morning prayer meeting almost daily the
year round; & a regular church meeting every Saturday P.M. I have also attended
three protracted meetings on this Island Since the first of January last.
The
first with Br. Bingham, the 2d with brother Emerson, & the 3d with brother Parker
at their Several places of public worship.
We have not held a protracted meeting at our Station the present year.
Our
present place of public worship being very inconvenient for Such a meeting; more
over, those who wished, had the privilege of attending br. Bingham's meeting.
There were Several hopeful conversions among us Soon after Bro. Bingham's meet
ing; & two or three hundred persons came out to meeting in those days for the
first time.
The excitement however has by no means been So powerful & extensive
this year as it was last.
Still large numbers have been anxious to talk personally with me; & I have
Spent such time in close personal conversation.
I have conversed with more than
3,500 during the year & with many of them at three or four different times.
Some
of the natives abuse this kind of instruction, & often times, discover great guilt
Still I know of no better way to teach them the way they Should go, or ascertain
their minds on things pertaining to Salvation.
In Some cases I have been decieved.
But the Lord knoweth them that are his.
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Church.
The whole number admitted to the church Since its organization the 1st of
April 1838 is 754.
Thirty three of whom were recievedby letters from other churches
& the remainder on profession of their faith in Christ.
20 Church members have died during the year!
13 have been dismissed to join
other churches.
Eleven have been excommunicated = 5. of them for adultery —
bacco & lying exceedingly about it —
one for Smoking to
Two for weawea & lying —
one for abusing
& forsaking her husband, & two for intemperance & lying.
Some two or three of these persons give more or less evidence of repentance.
Three others are Suspended at the present time.
died —
Deducting therefore 20 who have
13 dismissed to other/churches -- 11 excommunicated & 3 Suspended, there
remains 707 in regular Standing.
Some 290 now Stand propounded.
those admitted to the church.
I have Baptized 188 children, the offspring of
I have Solemnized during the year 116 marriages.
I have a Singing School of about 50. Scholars who meet twice a week.
Mrs. Smith
has held a meeting regularly every Friday P.M. with the females -- from four to
five hundred usually attend.
She has also held a meeting with a portion of the
female members of the church every Monday afternoon.
One grand object which She
has held up before them is industry & cleanliness both as it respects their persons
& habitations.
She appointed a visiting committee who have visited the habitation
of every female ch. member & reported to her; which was a great advantage to her
in her meetings.
The good effects of these efforts are already obvious; though
comparatively little has yet been accomplished compared with what yet remains to
be done.
Meeting house
We have done Something towards building a dobie meeting house.
When we commenced
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it last year, we intended to have finished it before the rainy Season commenced.
But being detained at least two months by the chiefs, after the dobies were all
made, before they would decide where the house Should be located we were over
taken with the rainy Season before we could get the walls up
We commenced upon the plan of voluntary operations.
& the roof covered.
I, in the first place, Spread
out the Subject before the church & congregation; & told them as near as I could,
what the labour & expense would be of building a dobie meeting house.
quired who were ready & willing to under take the work.
unanimous
I then in
The church were very
in their vote to arise & build at once.
A Subscription paper was then circulated, & the ch members generally Subscrib
ed $1, apiece.
Some few Subscribed $2 —
Some $3. —
a few $5.
One $15. one
$20. & one $50.
Some out of the church Subscribed $1. each.
12 1/2cts.
Some 50 cts —
Each one according to his ability & disposition.
amounted to about $1,300. —
Some 25. & Some
The whole Subscription
One thousand of which has already been collected; 1/2
perhaps in cash, & the other half in goats -- pigs-
fowls —
most of which Mr. Ladd has taken & paid us in lumber
potatoes &c the
nails —
glass &c.
The churches at Ewa & Waialua have contributed to aid us in this building.
Ewa church has raised $62.12 1/2 cash for this object.
in fowls —
Waialua ch have contributed
turkies(!), fish, tapas &c. to the amount of about $84.
Besides this Br. Emerson contributed ten dollars —
Br. Castle ten dollars —
$25.
Dr. Judd five dollars, Br. Parker $14.50.
Br. Gulick 8 dollars.
Ladd &Co.
Br. Cooke ten dollars —
Br. Knapp
Br. Whitney proposes to give us an order of $50. on
Sister Dimond has contributed a piece of cloth worth perhaps $5. &
Mr.(?) Calkins $4.
The contributions from those two churches & the brethren & Sisters mentioned,
amount to $287.62 1/2
I employed men at Waialua to go into the mountains & cut the timbers for the roof,
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& deliver them upon the beach at that place.
They have Since been brought round
in vessels to Honolulu.
As it respects the walls, each male ch member has made 40 dobies twice over.
I
say twice over; for in the first place we proposed to build the walls high enough
to put in a gallery.
But we found that the walls would not Sustain themselves;
they began to crush about the doors & Windows; & moreover the heavy rains material
ly injured the wa lls before we could get a roof on.
We were of one mind to take
the walls down & build them over again, leaving out the gallery.
Hence I Say the
burden of the walls has been to make 40 dobies twice over, & lay up the walls
twice.
The house is 125 ft. by 60 ft. inside, the walls are 13 ft. high.
The roof &
verandah are raised & the people have commenced thatching it; & we hope to have
it completed ere long.
Statistics
Whole number recd to the church Since its organization----- ---- ----754
Recd . on profession within a year
"
by letter
"
672
"
8
D i e d ---- ------------------------- — - - ---- ----------------------
20
Dismissed to other churches
13
Excommunicated
------------- ------ --------------------------- .
---
11
Now Suspended
------ —
3
Now in good Standing —
— — ~--- ------------------- --------- —
—
707
Now Stand propounded ----------------------------------------------------
290
Children Baptised -— --------- ------— —
189
Marriages Solemnized--- —
116
Bible C l a s s ----- -—
— —
----
80
Average
S. School --------- ----- —
100
attendants
Station School --------------—
70
during the
year
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(signed, in pe ncil): ( Lowel
lSmith)
(Written on last page, sideways):
Honolulu 2nd
Congregation
�Station Report
(Kaumakapili)
In making out the third report of the Station at the N.W. part of Honolulu village, we have occasion to record the
goodness of God as it respects health.
Mrs. Smith who has been feeble the greater part of the time Since we came to the
Islands, has been very much better for the last two years.
Since her Second con
finement & Second bereavement however, wh. occured on the 8th of Feb. last, She
has not recovered her usual Strength; though She is comfortable & able to look
after her domestic affairs & attend to her Sabbath School.
I was unwell myself Some 8. or 10. days the first of Nov. in consequence of a
violent attach of cholick.
again.
I Soon made a tour of Oahu wh very much revived me
Except this Short interval, I have been enabled to-attend to the ordinary
duties of the Station through the year. —
As it respects the fruit of my labours
in the conversion of Souls, I cannot report So favourably this year as I did last.
The deep interest manifested in Spiritual & eternal things the first two years of
our residence at this Station, had materially abated in the minds of our congrega
tion previous to the last Gen Meeting.
I attributed that unhappy State of things
to two apparent causes; (viz), the mumps, a prevailing epidemic at that time, &
the death of one or two of the high chiefs.
Another circumstance wh
has operated unfavourably upon Some of our ch
&
congregation this year, was the doings of the French Frigate, L Artimese Capt.
Laplace; who arrived here on the 9th of July, Soon after tbe close of last Gen
Meeting.
As the unjust, illegal, belligerent & most oppressive conduct of Capt Laplace
has been published by Br. Castle, & probably read by all this mission, I pass over
this part of the Subject, & proceed to notice Some of its effects upon the people
in our part of the field.
The French, by the aid of a large frigate, having extorted permission from the
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S. Isls govt. to commence the catholic worship at Honolulu, there was a great an
xiety on the part of the people; especially those who had not been enrolled as ch
members, to go See the new teacher, & his mode of worship, & ascertain on what
terms they might receive "bapatima", & be called good people.
On the Sabbath, the
14th of July 1839 Capt Laplace & Some 200 of his men came on Shore & commenced
public worship in the catholic religion in one of the Kings houses near the re
sidence of the British consul.
Mr. Walsh, an Irish Priest, who had been cloistered
(?) up here for Several years, came forth in his Pontificial robes & officiated on
the occasion, & administered a military mass.
To see men worship with guns & Sword, & drums, & hear them mutter in an unknown
tongue, was Something new.
To know too that these belliggerent ( ! ) worshipers
practiced little or no Self denial; that they drink wine, brandy & other inebria
ting drinks, Smoke & chew tobacco according to their pleasure; that they bow &
worship before images & pictures wh are Seen & temporal; that they discard the
Bible as used by the American Missionaries; these & like considerations ignited in
the minds of those who were wedded to their sins & unwilling to renounce them; &
hence that class rushed after the Beast.
And for Several Successive Sabbaths there
was such jargon, confusion & uproar, beating on old tin pans, flying of kites, &
hallooing of the rabble in the yard of the catholics, that the neighbours in the
vicinity of this house of Dagon were very much amazed.
To our Sorrow, we Soon ascertained that there were Some five or Six in our ch
who were at heart one with the catholics.
And like the goats of the forest they
unceremoneously(!) leaped the fold of Christ & Joined themselves to the ranks of
the
worshipers of the virgin Mary.
On hearing that one of our male ch members
had gone to their meetings, I Sent for him to come & talk with me.
He Sent back
word that he Should not come; that his new teacher had told him it would be his
death, if he Should come & inform me of his purpose to leave this c h & Society &
Join them.
I then went immediately to his residence, in company with Several ch_
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members, & enquired into the reason of his unchristian conduct; of his violating
his covenant vows; of his abandoning the Bible; of his ceasing to pray to God, &
of his praying to the Virgin Mary &c?
bacco.
He Said it was because he/w
ished to use to
I asked him if his new teacher Smoked with him?
no ia, alaila ua haawi mai i ka ipu ia makau.
wine & brandy with you?
He replied Ae, ua puhi
I inquired further, Does he drink
He replied "I mai la oia, ua pono no ke inu i ka waina,
a me ka ruma a me ka Barani, aole nae pono ke inu a ona.
I inquired what his (new teacher Said about his reading the Bible?
He Said
that he forbid it entirely, Saying, "If you do read the Bible G. will See you; &
if I Should See you reading the Bible it will be your death."
pray to G. now?
He Said, no.
What is your G. now?
Said I, do you
He replied, "tobacco." With
all the arguments & entreaties that I could use, I could not persuade him to re
turn to this church & congregation.
So with 5. others, who without consideration
leaped into the dark, I Sought them all out & laboured with them individually; but
having made a league with the prince of darkness, they regarded themselves a s bound
over forever.
mai."
They Said, "Ua ae makau mamuli o' ka Pope, nolaila aole e hiki ke hoi
I asked them if they had not promised before G. & man that they would be
the Servants of Jesus Christ, & work in communion & Fellowship with this church?
They replied that they had, but, that they had Since consented to become catholics
& that there was no discharge in this war.
I ought here perhaps to remark that our church has elected a c h committee,
consisting
of 10 persons, who, together, with myself, look into all cases of ch
discipline, & our decision, after having consulted all the parties concerned is
regarded as the voice of the church.
Our committee took up the case of these
wandering & offending members, & came to the following conclusion concerning them.
(1) Ua haalele lakou i ka olelo a ke Akua, o ke kauoha kahiko a me ke kauoha hou.
He ku e hoino loa ia i ke Akua.
(2) Ua hoopunipuni lakou; no ka mea, ua haalele lakou i ko lakou manaoio i ke
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Akua a me kana olelo; a ua uhai lakou i ko lakou berita me ke Akua, a me keia
ekalesia no hoi; a he hoopunipuni ano e no ia.
(3) Ua hoomana ku lakou ia Mari a a me na haipule e ae i ka lani.
He hana ku e
keia i ke kanawai mua o na kanawai he umi a ke Akua i haawi mai ai.
Akua e ae imua o ko'u alo."
"Aole ou
Nolaila ua pili mai ka hewa o ka hoomanakii ia
lakou.
(4) Ua hele aku lakou no ka manao ma uhane.
0 ka baka, a me ka rama, a me ka
barami, a me ka awa, a me na lei, a me ka lealea; oia ko lakou mau manao i ko
lakou haalele ana i keia ekalesia.
mea ku e i ke Akua."
A "0 ka manao ma ke kino, he make ia; a he
I mai ka palapala hemolele peneia(?); "Hele e aku la lakou
mai o kakou aku, aka, aole loa lakou no kakou; no ka mea, ina lakou no kakou, ma
ua noho lakou me kakou i maopopo ai,
aole lakou a pau no kakou.
I. John 2:19
No ia mau mea, ke manao nei kakou, he pono ke oki aku i ua poe la a eono a pau."
Accordingly they were all excommunicated for the reasons above assigned.
I am
happy to State however that one of them Soon Saw her error & the awful mistake
Wh She had made; & came back, confessed her Sin before the ch committee & also
before the whole church, & She was restored.
This occurred by the way before any
of them had received "bapatema." Mr. Walsh, on ascertaining that one of them had
returned, & that one or two others had Sent us their aloha, proceeded immediately
& bapatema'd the remaining five & thus bound them fast.
I lost no time in calling a ch meeting; & after exhibiting plainly the re
quirements of the Bible, & pointing out Some of the more obvious errors of the
Romish Church, I called upon every one by name, & inquired who was for Christ &
who for the Pope?
And there was no one who expressed a wish to join the catholics
but all promptly Said they were on the Lord’s Side. And from that time until the
present, I have heard of only one person in our ch inclined to Popery, & I have
not Seen him as yet to talk with him on the Subject.
The general Sentiment expressed by our ch members concerning the catholics is,
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that they are "he poe hewa, a he poe hoomanakii."
Considerable of a number who attended meeting with us during the months of
religious excitement, but who never gave evidence of true penitence, have gone to
the catholics.
Ten or twelve of this class have come back again; Some of them
because they are required to kneel So much that their knees ache; others because
they dirty their clothes, having no comfortable place to Sit or kneel except in
the dirt.
One woman on being asked why She had left our meeting & gone to the
catholics replied, "when I went to Mr. Bingham's meeting house, I looked all
around, but I Saw no God.
God.
So when I went into Mr. Smiths meeting house I Saw no
But when I go to the pule Farani I See God; no ka mea, aia, ke kau mai la,
ke ike maka nei au ia ia.
I have been thus particular in mentioning Some of the obstacles thrown in our
way Since last Gen Meeting, that the brethren at the out Stations may know Some
thing of the wind & tide with which we have had to contend against.
prospect of late grows Still darker.
Kolau(!) &
And the
An imposter has recently arisen up at
calls himself the Mesiah, & professes to be able to heal all manner
of diseases with a word.
And though he utterly fails in 49 cases out of 50 &
perhaps 99 cases in a 100 So that the halt
& the lame & the blind & the dumb
& the deaf & the bald headed return with all their infirmaties & diseases upon
them; yet So completely are Some of the natives under the influence of Satan,
that they regard him as Superhuman, & able to do all things.
Meeting house
Our new dobie meetinghouse which was in progress at our last Gen Meeting, was dedi
cated to the worship of the one only living & true God on the 29th of August.
Br
Bingham preached on the occasion to a large & attentive audience from Gen 28:17.
"This is none other but the house of G. & this is the gate of heaven."
It is a
very pleasant building, easy for the Speaker, & will hold about 2,000 people. —
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On the following Sabbath, Sept. 1st we celebrated the Lord's Supper, at which
time 267 were admitted to the fellowship of the church on profession of their
faith in Christ.
Several were Suspended & a number were excommunicated on that
occasion.
Protracted Meeting
On the 16th of Sept. we commenced a pro meeting wh. continued one week.
average congregation during the week was about 2,000.
The
Solemnity & a good degree
of attention pervaded the assembly; though the feeling both on the part of the
ch. & others was by no means So deep & pungent as on former occasions of the kind.
Brethren Bingham, Emerson & Parker assisted me in the meeting.
During the meeting
a few who had been excommunicated & Some who were Suspended came forward & ex
pressed penitence & a desire to return to the privileges of the ch. but the repentence of most of them was that which heeded to be repented of; for they Soon plung
ed again into vice & plainly showed that the truth of G. had no place in their
hearts.
At the close of this meeting, I Set apart a day or two to converse with new
cases, (ie) Such as had never told me their thoughts, & 150. persons presented
themselves for the first time.
I then proceeded to talk with those who had for
merly been Solicitous, but had not give Satisfactory evidence of true penitence.
I found that the meeting had been apparently blessed to a goodly number of this
class.
Such I propounded to the church.
171 to the church.
And of the 1st Sabbath in March we recd
On this occasion we restored three Suspended members, & one
who had been excommunicated.
We excommunicated 18. who had been for some time
Suspended, & Suspended Several others for the common vices of the land.
I observe here, that the conduct of many under ch. censure has been truly re
markable the past year.
Formerly if any one was Suspended for any one or more
offences(!), he would frequently come to my house & feign repentance at least
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whether it were genuine or not.
wise the past year.
But with a few exceptions it has been far other
When they have made up their minds to return to any one or
more of their former vices, at that moment they renounce apparently all anxiety
for their future character or Standing in the church.
Ask them what their ob
ject is in returning again to the practice of adultery, rum drinking, card play
ing, rolling nine pins, Smoking tobacco, wearing leis; quarrelling with & for
saking their husbands & wives, oppression &c?
no ia oe." (or) "Aia no ia oukou.
no ia oukou."!!
And they imprudently reply, "Aia
Ina i manao mai oukou e aki(?) mai ia'u, aia
Ask them which they prefer, providing they cannot have both;
their rum & brandy or their Standing in the ch?
& leis, or their Standing in the ch?
their cards —
ninepins, tobacco
to live peaceably with their companions ac
cording to their marriage vows, & to deal justly & love mercy, or be removed from
the church?
And they reply that they are resolved to drink rum, play cards —
Smoke tobacco, wear leis, forsake their husbands & their wives, & take away others
lands whatever may be the consequence as it respects their future connection with
the church. —
In Such cases we have felt justified in Suspending them, & if they
did not reform from one communion Season to another, we have cut them off from
the church.
whom
Consequently we have excommunicated 43. during the year, four of
have been restored.
One of these four however (viz) Kalunaaina has been cut
off the 2nd time.
It is a lamentable fact, that he & nearly every other Chiefish character in our
ch, & even those too who follow in the train of the chiefs give but little evidence
of having
the love of G . Shed(?) abroad in their hearts, or the fear of G. before
their eyes,
Schools
At the commencement of last year, we were in debt to the depository over $100.00 &
there being no appropriations for Schools from the funds of the mission, I thought
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we could not Support a native teacher.
Schools has been trifling the year past.
The contributions of parents to Sustain
I resolved however to do what I could
myself in this department, even if I neglected other important duties.
But in
our extremity the Lord was pleased to provide, & he opened the hearts of brother
Ives & brother Cooke to make us a donation from their family appropriations.
I
immediately employed two teachers from the Seminary, (viz) Kaio & Kapooakamoku.
The School flouished well the first term; the average number of Scholars being
about 100 daily —
the girls A.M. & the boys P.M.
Towards the close of the term
however, Kapooakamoku left the School St returned to the Seminary with Br. Clarke
(!), on his return from China; & Kahoohano & Kalili Supplied his place till the
examination which took place on the 25. of Oct.
During the vacation, Kaio was
taken Sick & has done nothing in the School Since that time.
On the 2nd of Dec I commenced School again with Kahookui, the teacher for
merly employed at Lahaina, to assist me.
& has given good Satisfaction.
He taught until our recent examination
During the illness of Mrs. Smith, I was not able
to attend to my class in the School, & Dr. Judd employed Kalama, the celebrated
Scholar at the Seminary to teach in our School house for the term of a year &
three months; with the understanding that each of his Scholars were to pay 25cts
tuition pr. quarter; & the balance of his wages was to come out of the funds of
the mission.
ill.
He commenced on the 2nd of March & taught 2 1/2 days & was then taken
After an absence of about a week, he commenced again, & after teaching 8.
or 10. days he was ill, & left the School again; & So he operated till the close
of the term.
And the consequence is, his class have been So irregular in their
recitations that they are unwilling to pay their tuition.
fail, but I apprehend
I am Sorry to have him
that he will not Succeed in teaching School, especially
in our district.
There never was a time when efficient Schools were more needed at these Is
lands than the present.
Blind leaders of the blind have obtained permission to
do what they can to extinguish what light there is, & conduct the people back to
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ignorance, idolatry & all its accompanying abominations.
Souls has come.
The day to try many
Ignorance, deception & hatred of the truth is their Strong hold
Light, knowledge, truth & justice is our strong hold under God.
We must Spare
no pains to put the Bible into every family & teach them how to/read, & understand
it.
I do not know that funds can be appropriated by this mission for Support of
Schools; but it is my earnest prayer that funds may be raised from Some quarter to
Sustain our Schools vigorously the present year.
And I hope, brethren, that this
Subject will have a due Share of our deliberations during this meeting.
I ought to remark however that there has been a School of Children at Kalihi
for five or Six months, & the teacher has been compensated in part at least by
brother Cooke.
At our examination in April, the teacher came forward with 76
Scholars, Some of whom I Should think had made commendable proficiency.
—
There
has been another School for children at Moanalua the last three or four months, &
the teacher is nominally Sustained by the parents.
district attended the April examination.
occasion was 187.
Do. of adults 236.
Thirty Six children from that
The whole number of children on that
Making in all 423.
We have had a childrens Sabbath School through the year, who have assembled at
8 0 .clock in the morning.
Ninety (90) has been about the average number.
Br.
Dimond has had the charge of this School; & I have had a class of from 40. to 60.
adults at the Same hour who have been reading Matthew by course.
This has been
rather a catechetual exercise, as I have called upon them to give the meaning of
every verse as they read, & where they misapprehended the import, I have explained
it to them.
This has been a very profitable & interesting exercise to them.
At
the Same hour also, Mrs. Smith has had a class of about 30 girls in the Hawina
Kamalii.
This class has done remarkably well & given great Satisfaction to their
teacher, till within the last 2 or 3 months.
During this time Some of them have
become very "palaka"& have left the School.
I have also an Ai o ka la class of about 80. adults & a few of the youth who
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meet every Sabbath at 1. o . clock.
I have also kept up the form(?) of a Singing School during the year, two
hours pr. week.
Pastoral labours
Besides the regular routine of preaching two Sermons every Sabbath & attending to
the Schools & Bible class
above mentioned, I have alternated with Mr. Bingham in
preaching in the Seamen’s Chapel Sabbath evenings Since Mr. Tinker left last fall.
I have attended two protracted meetings; one at the Station & one with Mr. Bingham
in his congregation.
We have held morning prayer meetings daily through the year; these I attended re
gularly myself till the 1st of Nov.
Since then I have attended only on Sabbath
mornings, Wednesday mornings, & the mornings of the monthly concert.
We have held a regular ch meeting every Saturday P.M. through the year.
Spirit of Enterprise
The following are Some of the improvements that have been made in our neighbourhood & congregation during the last 2 1/2 years.
When we first commenced at our
Station there v/as no School house & no meeting house —
grog shops.
except Some five or Six
There the people assembled, male & female, foreigners & natives &
bowed together before the Shrine of intemperance, licentiousness & debauchery &
practiced every evil work.
Now there are no grog Shops in the neighbourhood -- we have a comfortable
School house, & a Spacious & very pleasant meeting house.
During the winter &
Spring our people have built a respectable bridge across the Stream which comes
down from Nuanu(! ), & passes but a few rods North of our meeting house.
The
bridge is about 100 ft. long & 12 ft. wide & Strong enough to cross with horses
& carriages.
Their contribution in labour, timbers & cash for the bridge
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amounts to $150. dollars.
Some of the residents in the village contributed the
plank & Spikes to cover it with; they also paid the carpenters bill.
And with
their aid also we have made three gates & four Small plank bridges & four or five
Small Stone bridges, & thus we have opened a comfortable horse road to Kalihi;
consequently those who wish to ride to Ewa or Waialua are now Spared the neces
sity of wading through the arms of the Sea & the fish ponds.
We hope the day
is not far distant when a good carriage road will be built from Honolulu to Ewa.
Something has been Said of late about making a carriage road up through the
s
valley of Nuanu, a continuation of the road wh. runs directly mauka from the
Store of Ladd & Co. & passing a few rods east of our meeting house; & coming in
to the old road a few rods east of the Mauka School house built by Mr. Hall.
I understand also that Nahinu & Pikoi ma have already commenced cutting &
blasting a road up the pari(!), hoping to make it passable for horses & mules.
By a little encouragement from the chiefs & foreign residents, I think this con
templated road may be made & I hope the enterprise of 1840 & 41. will bring it
to pass.
The external appearance of our congregation has materially changed also dur
ing the two & half years of our residence among them.
Their dirty & tattered tapa
garments have been exchanged for clean white dresses, & instead of dissheveled
hair & heathenish leis, they now generally wear hats & bonnets.
A goodly number
of our congregation have provided themselves with Seats & benches for the Sabbath.
Some of the females have become quite Skilful (!) with the needle in making
garments —
Some are Skilful in braiding & Sewing bonnets, & nearly all can braid
mats & Sugar bags, by wh_ means they obtain many comforts at the Store both for
themselves & their families.
A number of neat dobie dwellings have been built in our part of the village, &
others are in progress.
Those who live back in the country upon the lands, have
been Slow to build permanent houses, knowing, as they did, that under the old
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dispensation they were liable to be striped of both houses & lands at any time.
And whether their rights & privileges are really improved & more Secure under the
new laws, & new governors, time will Show.
Statistical
Table
Whole number recd to the chh on examination
"
"
"
on certificate
Total received ------- — - - - — — — — —
1159
53
------ -------------- 1212
Recd the past year on examination—
438
"
"
"
" " certificate —
20
Whole number recd the past year______________________________________458
Whole number dismissed to other churches —
Dismissed the passed year —
Whole number deceased
30
1
7
45
Deceased the past y e a r ---- 25
Suspended the past year
51
Remain suspended
24
Whole number excommunicated
"
"
past year
Remain excommunicated
55
44
51
Whole number in regular Standing
Candidates
1062
10
Whole number of children baptised
320
Baptised the past year
112
Baptised children deceased
Marriages the past year
No record
134
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Average congregation
1500
Average number of Scholars at the Station School
Do.
"
" at two district Schools
90
100
Average number in the Ai o ka la & Bible classes
130
Contributions in taro, potatoes, fowls & eggs for Schools
$ 10:00
Contributions in vegetables for Support of pastor
$ 10:00
Contributions in labour, lumber & cash for building a
publick bridge ---
$150:00
Contributions towards liquidating the debt of our Meeting house
$200:00
Now in debt for the Meeting house
$ 80:00
Whole number of contributions
$450:00
(in pencil):
80.00
370
L . Smith.
(Written on the back of the last page, sideways):
Mr. Smith's
Report
Honolulu
(in pencil):
1840
�Station Report N.W. Honolulu
(Kaumakapili)
May 12/41
At the close of our last Gen. meeting, I organized adult Schools in each of
the 10. divisions of my parish for ch. members & others, for the purpose of Study
ing, reading, & expounding the Bible.
This plan was adopted in order if possible
to counteract the influence of Romanism , which had planted its footsteps & raised
its brazen front in the midst of us.
"The weaponry of our warfare are not carnal."
Darkness is to be overcome by
light; ignorance by knowledge & error by truth.
These Several Schools I met once in two weeks with but few interruptions till
the first of Jan., when a Series of protracted meetings & other labours prevented
me from attending them longer.
These Schools, insconnection with a Series of lectures on Romanism delivered
by Br. Armstrong, appeared to be blessed to that portion of the church who regu
larly attended.
Four however of our ch. have joined the catholics during the year.
One who
had been a long time Sick, professed to turn unto them in order to be healed* but
died Soon after.
The other three joined them in order to indulge in Sin, & drink
in iniquity like water, & Still be called good people.
Intemperance prevailed to an alarming extent for 3. or 4. months after our
last Gen. meeting.
ed.
In this whirlpool a number of our church members were engulf
It Seemed for a time as if the very elect would be Swept away by this enemy
of all righteousness.
A kind of mania Seemed to possess the minds of all classes,
until Satan acted out himself in the person of two natives in Such a horrid deed,
that the arm of Civil Justice Suspended them by the neck till they were dead!
Kamanawa, a low chief had for Several months been living in adultery with
another woman, & wished to put away his lawful wife & marry her.
Lono, who for
Several years had been Capt. of the Hoikaika told him how it could be effected.
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They mingled poison with poison & gave it to her, which caused her death in a
few hours.
They were both Suspected, tried, & convicted, & on the 20th of Oct
were executed upon a gallows erected upon the top of the fort, & in the presence
of 10. or 12. thousand people.
Brethren Armstrong, Emerson, & myself were pre
sent on that awfully trying occasion.
But though there have been from 20. to
30. grog Shops in the village from that time to the present, yet I have seldom
seen a native intoxicated in the Streets Since that time.
Tour to Hawaii
Feeling much the need of relaxation & having never visited the Island of Hawaii,
Mrs. S. & myself proposed to embrace the first good opportunity & go to that Is
land.
Accordingly on the 8th of July we embarked on board the Brig Clementine
bound to Kawaihae.
Had a comfortable passage —
with Br. & Sister Lyons.
Spent the 1st Sabbath at Waimea,
Mrs. S. had purposed(!) to accompany me to Hilo across
the land; but it was thought by our Waimea friends that the jaunt would be too
much for her, consequently She Stoped(?) to try the efficacy of the Waimea cli
mate, while I passed on to Hilo.
After refreshing a few days with our kind friends at Byrons Bay, I proceeded
in company with brother Wilcox to the new Sand hills & eruption of lava in Puna thence to Kilauea —
& thence back to Hilo again, much gratified with beholding
the works of creation & providence, & Sufficiently fast(?) sore & fatigued with
my pedestrian journey to enjoy anew the hospitality of our beloved brethren & Sis
ters at that place.
After the Sabbath I returned again by the way of Laupahoehoe, narrowly es
caping in two instances being overwhelmed beneathe(!) the rolling billows.
On
Wednesday arrived at Waimea having been absent from there just 2 weeks.
On Friday, Set off in company with Mrs. Smith for Kohala.
Spent the Sabbath
with Br. & Sister Bliss; & on Monday returned to Kawaihae, expecting to take
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passage that evening for Honolulu; but unfortunately for us, the vessel was de
tained & we did not Sail till Saturday evening.
We arrived at this place the
next Monday morning, Aug. 10th, having been absent from our people one month &
two days.
Mrs. Smith's health has been about as usual the past year.
My own health has
not been good for the last 2. or 3. months, owing in part perhaps to a want of
relaxation.
Tour of Oahu
The early part of Nov. I made a tour of Oahu, accompanied by 8. native ch. mem
bers.
I preached 26 times.
Spent the Sabbath at Kaneohe & by the request of
Mrs. Parker, (her husband not having returned from the coast), I administered
the ordinance of the Lord's Supper to that church.
interesting.
The occasion was Solemn &
I found things in rather a discouraging State however on the
Kolau(!) Side of the Island at that time.
Some had turned to Popery - & others
had been drinking awa, potatoes & melons &c—
Thanksgiving
The 1 st day of Jan. we observed as a day of thanksgiving.
My native congregation
was as large on that occasion, as it usually is Sabbath mornings.
After public
worship, the people all retired quietly to their Several villages & homes, & par
took of the bounties of a kind providence, & I did not hear of an instance of in
toxication or improper conduct in consequence of the feast. —
We missionaries
contributed to a common Stock dinner, & had a Sociable, refreshing time; a time
when we called to mind our thanksgiving days in the U. States; a time too when
we felt to thank God & take courage, notwithstanding the obstacle that oppose
themselves to the cause of Christ in which we are engaged.
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Protracted Meetings
I Have laboured in three protracted meetings since the first of Jan..
The 1st
was with Br. Armstrong the 1st week in Jan.y -- The 2d was in my own congregation
the 1st week in February.
I was favored with the assistance of Br. Armstrong &
Emerson on that occasion.
The 3d. was at Ewa with Br. Bishop the 1st of March.
Brethren A. & B. will of course report concerning their respective meetings.
As it respects our own meeting, every external circumstance was peculiarly
favourable, & it was most obvious that the Spirit of God accompanied the word
Spoken during the meeting, & for Several weeks afterwards.
A number of the child
ren were Serious & prayerful for a time, though I do not feel Satisfyed(!) that
any of them were truly converted.
Some of our ch. members were much engaged, others exhibited but little inter
est in the meeting.
Over 100 new cases came forward immediately to talk with me
for the first time as the fruit of this meeting, numbers of whom appeared to be
truly converted(?) of Sin; Some of whom appear well thus far; while others have
gone back.
The meeting was also blessed to a number who were under ch discipline at
that time, & who have Since been restored to the fellowship of the church.
A goodly number also who expressed hopes during the Great awakening two years
ago, appeared well, & have since been propounded for admission to the church.
I remark here that each morning meetings have been held at the Station through
the year, conducted principally by the ch. members themselves.
It has been my
practice to attend every Sabbath, Wednesday & monthly concert mornings.
Besides
this we have a regular ch. meeting every Saturday P.M.
Schools
Our Schools for children have flourished far better this year than any previous
year.
The King's School law has operated favourably with us in two respects; 1st
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It has greatly multiplied the number of children in our Schools; & 2d it employed
a large number of teachers; but it has furnished no aid whatever in Supporting
them.
By the voluntary aid of Some of our ch members, & various donations from
other Sources by making draughts from the depository which make us very much in
debt there, we kept up the Schools till the April examination.
Our people have contributed the year past about $90:00 for the Support of
School teachers.
They ought unquestionably to Sustain the whole expense; but I
have not been able as yet to make them See & feel the extent of their obligations
in this respect.
At the public examination or celebration of Schools in Oct., we numbered only
255 children.
The public dinner on that occasion had a very happy effect upon
them, & also upon the parents.
Consequently the number of children immediately
increased, previous to the promulgation of the School law .
So that at our ex
amination in Jan. we numbered 393, & at our examination in April we numbered
470 —
one half of whom are in the first rudiments, & the remaining half have
made very commendable proficiency in a number of branches. (4 Schools & 9
teachers.)
Our Schools are quite too large for profit. (ie) we need more S. houses & more
teachers & also more funds for Sustaining them.
My prayer last year was that funds might arise from Some quarter to Sustain
our Schools vigorously.
That prayer has been answered in part at least.
I now
prefer the Same petition again for the coming year, for, So far as our instrument
ality is concerned, I see nothing of So great importance, or likely to be So effectual in Saving the nation from Romanism, idolatry & rui n as education, light,
knowledge & a correct understanding of God's word.
Let the Schools then be Sus
tained among the children & youth; & let even the adults be encouraged to revive
their Schools again, & learn Still more about the way & plan of Salvation.
Our Sabbath Schools meet at 8. o. clock Sabbath mornings —
about the Same
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number attend who attend the day School.
Br. Dimond has the charge of the Boys,
& I take the charge of the girls, except about 30. of the more intelligent, who
are in Mrs. Smiths class.
Between the morning & afternoon Services I have a Bible class, this has been
quite flourishing the most of the year.
I have also kept up a kind of Singing School two hours pr. week during the
year.
Mrs. Smith has held a meeting with the women every Friday when health & other
circumstances would permit.
The number who have attended has varied from two
to four hundred. The women have recently contributed $40:00 to aid in building
a church at Waialua.
Volume of Native Sermons
I have Superintended the printing of a volume of 30. native Sermons.
The edi
tion is 5,000; & I trust they will be bound ready for distribution before this
meeting Shall adjourn.
to print.
The volume has been greatly delayed for want of Sermons
Several of the brethren appointed to write, did not Send in their
manuscripts till a late hour; & others have not Sent in theirs yet.
Only one
Sermon has been rejected, & that because of its treating more or less on the
Subject of infant baptism, the object having been to print the volume with the
funds of the Tract Society.
Should the brethren think it advisable to print another volume, I would re
commend that we do it with the funds of the Board, that there be no obstacles in
the way to our printing on any doctrines of the Bible, regarded by us as im
portant.
In conclusion I wish to remark that we have built a doby house 28 ft. by 20.
for the purpose of accommodating our friends Gen_Meeting time, & other times when
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they may providentially call upon us. Hitherto we have had no convenient lodging
place for friends.
The whole expense of the building is $240:00.
Besides this we have been ob
liged to rethatch our house for domestics, which cost $10:00.
The Bill then which
we wish to have footed from the Building fund is $250:00.
Statistical Table
Whole number recd to the church on examination
Do
"
" on certificate — —
Total Recd
"
1274
62
1336
Recd past year on examination
Do.
-
" on certificate
Total recd past year
115
9
124
Whole No. dismissed to other churches
52
Dismissed the past year
22
Whole No. deceased
77
Deceased the past year
32
Suspended the past year
88
Remains Suspended
45
Whole No . excommunicated
88
Excommunicated past year
33
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Remain Excommunicated
68
Whole No. in regular Standing
1094
Candidates
187
Whole No. children baptised
353
Children baptised past year
33
Marriages past year
130
Average congregation
1500
------------------------------
---(!)
Contribution of the ch. & people for Schools
$ 90:00
Contribution of the females for Waialua meeting house
$ 40:00
Contribution for an out fit of a native & wife for the
Oregon Mission
$ 20:00
Paid off our last years debt for our own meeting house
$ 80:00
Total
$230.
Children Schools
Number of Schools
4
Number of teachers
9
Whole number of Scholars
470
Average number of children who have attended School
360
L. Smith
(Written on the back of the last page):
Honolulu
2nd Cong.n
1841
Mr. Smith
�Honolulu 2d Parish
Station Report, May 1842
In presenting the 5th annual report of the Second parish & congregation in
this village, we have occasion to bless the God of missions for the good degree
of health with which we have been blessed the year past.
My own health has been much as usual (ie) I have been enabled to fulfill the
duties of my Station with very little interruption during the year.
The last of March however I felt So much debilitated in consequence of a
Series of protracted meetings held in different parts of my field Since last
December, & other consequent labours of a Similar character, that I deemed it ex
pedient to take a Short trip to Some one of the neighbouring Islands.
Accord
ingly I took passage on board of a while Ship to Lahaina, & thence over land & by
canoe to Hana.
I returned again Somewhat recruited, having been absent nearly
three weeks.
Mrs. Smith has not enjoyed So firm health Since our arrival at these Islands,
as during the last 9. or 10. months while nursing her infant son.
For this two fold favour, we have felt exceedingly grateful, & we indulged the
fond hope that we Should be permitted to train him for future usefulness in the
church of Christ on earth.
But God's ways are not as our ways.
For in his wise
providence he has caused a heavy wave of affliction to pass over us, by removing
our precious boy from time into eternity. —
On Wednesday the 27th ult, he ac
companied his mother to the maternal meeting, apparently well; but, as Brother
Armstrong remarked at his funeral, he returned home from that meeting to die!
That night he was taken with a diarrhaea(!) or dysenterry(!), which defied all
medical prescription.
The disease raged with little or no abatement till half
past 11. o.clock on Saturday night, a little more than three days & nights, when
the little Sufferer ceased to breathe.
us in this unexpected bereavement.
The hand of the Lord is very obvious to
His Sickness & death was not occasioned by
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the carelessness or neglect of his parents.
We have no reflections to make for being located at Some out post, far re
moved from medical aid, & kind & Sympathizing friends.
We dwell in the midst of
friends, & had the counsel & advice of three Skilful(!) physicians.
But the number
of his months & days were determined by the Lord & beyond these bounds he could
not pass.
"The Lord gave & the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord."
Schools
We have held three public examinations of Schools during the year.
first was in July, the Second in Oct & the third in March.
children enrolled during the year is 601.
ance is 427.
The
The whole number of
The average number of regular attend
The number of deaths among the children of the Schools is 6.
For further particulars of a Statistical nature, See the Schedule filled out
[at the three Several examinations.
At the examination in Oct, we devoted the most of three days, concluding with
a dialogue, two orations & a few pieces of vocal music.
appeared more promising than on that occasion.
Our Schools have never
On the fourth day, or the day
following the examination, we united with the Schools in the 1st_ parish, & formed
a procession & marched tip to Pauoa & had a public dinner.
children on that occasion, & about as many adults.
We mustered about 500.
The King & Chiefs joined the
procession & feast; & at the close the King & Auhea addressed the youthful con
gregation with much apparent interest.
Our Schools have flagged(!) Some the last quarter, owing to the fact that the
government have been Slack in paying the teachers.
I very much apprehend that
unless we missionaries keep our Shoulders at the wheel for years to come, the
Schools will ere long entirely run down.
The powers that be can enact laws for the benefit of Schools; but of what use
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are law s without efficient agents to execute them?
I taught a writing School for three months Soon after our last Gen Meeting,
which made commendable proficiency.
Our Sabbath Schools have embraced about the Same number of Scholars as have
attended the day Schools.
Brother Dimond has Superintended the Sabbath School
for boys, in the School house,
I have had the Superintendance of the girls in
the meeting house, except about 30. of the most intelligent who have met with
Mrs. Smith in my Study.
I have also a Bible class of from 30. to 90. who have
met regularly at one o clock.
Substitute the Ui.
This class I propose to Suspend for the present &
I Shall probably have a class of five or Six hundred in the
Ui.
Besides her class in the Sabbath School, Mrs. Smith has held a weekly female
prayer meeting on Friday P.M.
She has also visited more or less from house to
house in the village; & in the month of Jany , by the aid of Some of the more
active female church members, She Sought out the destitute, aged, infirm & help
less, & contributed in clothing & native tapa to their immediate wants & neces
sities.
Church
The first five or Six months of this last year was a time of Spiritual de
clension in our church.
And while the influences of the Holy Spirit Seemed to be
withheld, the Spirit of iniquity prevailed in the hearts of a portion of the
professed friends of Christ.
The consequence was that a considerable number
wounded the Saviour in the house of his friends, & have fallen under church dis
cipline.
Perhaps I lack in gospel, charity, & labour under a mistaken view of
things in ruling , or taking care of the Church of God.[A hundred or more were on
the list of church discipline during the first half of the year.
Clouds & dark
ness hung over us.] But my opinion was & Still is, that if a pastor wished the
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blessing of God upon the church & people under his pastoral care, he must not
connive at the Sins of the professed friends of Christ.
The time of God's winking at Sin is passed, & he now commandeth all men, (not
even excepting hypocrites in the church) to repent.
If I made a mistake in re
ceiving certain persons to the church; that can be no apology for making another
Still/more fatal to the cause of Cht by conniving at their known & aggravating
Sins.
The leaven of iniquity indulged in one member, will Soon infuse itself
through the whole body, & a State of Spiritual apathy will come over the church
more to be dreaded than death itself.
The children of Israel fled before their enemies because of the Sin of Achan;
but as Soon as he was publicly disciplined & punished, the Lord interposed again
for his people Israel.
The little bark which was carrying Jonah across the Sea contrary to the will
of the Lord, was pursued by a tempest, until they cast the disobedient prophet
over board, & then the Sea ceased from her raging.
Paul wrote to the Corrinthian(!) Church, & commanded them not to eat, or keep
company w ith a man who was called a brother, providing he was guilty of open &
known Sin.
It is very trying to a pastor to be obliged to excommunicate, or even Suspend
the professed followers of Christ; but Still/more trying to retain them in the
church, & have their unchristian/conduct & influence Spreading like the plague &
paralizing the whole church.
Experience, as well as the word of God, has con
vinced me that the path of duty is the faith of peace & prosperity, as it respects church discipline.
For, while with an aching heart we were engaged in
this all important work;
"Methought I heard the Saviour Say,
Dismiss thy fears, the ark is mine.
The winter Season has been Sharp,
But Spring Shall all its wastes repair."
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Protracted Meetings
At the close of the fall Shipping in Decbr I commenced a Series of protracted
meetings of 3. days each to be held in different parts of my field.
The first
we held at Moanalua; the Second at Kalihi; the third at Kapalama; the fourth at
Pauoa & the 5th & last at the Station,
This last was continued Six days.
The
neighbourhood meetings had all been more or less blessed & the way was well pre
pared for the meeting of the whole parish.
Br. Armstrong assisted me in this meeting & I think it was on the whole, the
best protracted meeting that we have ever had at our Station.
There was not So
much animal excitement & noise as during the revival of 1838 & 39.
But apparently
far more enlightened & Sober conviction for Sin as committed against a holy God.
The church as a body were quite waked up & appeared to feel both for themselves
& others.
Those who have been called hoikaikas Since 1838 Seemed to obtain new
views & a fresh unction from on high; & of this class I have propounded 306. to
be held on probation five or Six months at least before they are admitted to the
fellowship of the church.
There has also been quite a Shaking among the dry bones.
At least 200. have
come forth from their hiding places for the first time, as the fruits of our
protracted meetings, & Subsequent evening conference meetings, held in different
parts of the village; Some of whom giver very Satisfactory evidence of the work
of the Holy Spirit upon their hearts.
But I have thought it advisable not to
propound any of this class at present.
Thirty, who had formerly belonged to my congregation, but who had wandered
after the Beast & false prophet, have returned during & Since our protracted
meetings; Some few of these appear truly penitent for the Sin of idolatry & other
accompanying vices.
But the most of them have returned with all the confusion of
him who Saw men as trees walking.
I am fully convinced that Popery is a delusion,
more fatal if possible than heathenism itself.
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Some 30. or 40. also who were under church discipline have been restored
again to the fellowship of the church as the fruit 6f our Meetings.
And 15. or
20. others are expressing penitence & a wish to be restored previous to our next
communion Season.
Temperance
We have recently made Some efforts among the children & youth on the Subject of
Temperance.
530 have signed the pledge of total abstinence from all intoxicating
liquors & drugs, not excepting even that most delicious, & most difficult to aban
don of all narcotics, (viz) tobacco!
I have not yet called a temperance meeting for our adults; though I probably
Shall, Soon after the close of the General Meeting.
I do not apprehend that Such
a Society will be of any material benefit for our church; for we have ever acted
on the Strictest principles of temperance ever Since its first organization.
But
it may be of Some use to the cause at large; it may help to Strenghten the King &
Chiefs to abide by their pledge - And it may help to dry up the fountains of in
temperance in this wicked village.
Prayer Meetings
Daily morning prayer meetings have been held at the Station during the year.
I
usually attend on Sabbath, Wednesday & monthly concert mornings.
We hold a weekly church cession & prayer meeting every Saturday P.M. at which
time all cases for church discipline are reported & acted upon.
Contributions
Our people have contributed this year as follows.
For Church bell
To aid in building the Stone Church at Waialua
$ 80:00
38:00
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Do. to aid the Stone ch. at Kaneohe
$ 86:25
For contingent expenses
23:00
Total =
$227:25
Conclusion
In conclusion I remark that the year past has been with us one of trials —
Sorrow & of joy.
of
On the whole, we think the cause of truth & righteousness has
gained ground, & we are encouraged to hope that the coining year will witness
Still greater triumphs of truth in this village & its vicinity.
Statistics
Whole No. admitted to the church on examination
Do, on certificate
Total received =
Received past year on examination
Do on certificate
Total recd past year =
Whole No. dismissed to other churches
Do. past year
Whole No. deceased
D o . past year
Suspended past year
Remain suspended
Excommunicated the past year
Whole No. excommunicated
Remain excommunicated
Whole No. in regular standing
Candidates propounded
Whole No. children baptized
Do. past year
1458
56
1514
184
18
202
72
20
112
35
53
23
50
138
160
1201
306
327
75
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Marriages the past year
Number of children & youth who have joined the
Temperance Society
Average No. congregation on the Sabbath
530
1500
Contributions for Church bell
Do. to aid in building the Waialua ch.
Do. "
" "
"
" Kaneohe ch.
For contingent expenses
Total =
$ 80:00
38:00
86:25
23:00
$227:25
L. Smith
(Written on back of last page, sideways):
L . Smith report
Honolulu 1842
�6th Annual Report —
Hololulu(2)(!) May 1843
For about Six months Subsequently to our last general meeting, I enjoyed my
usual health & Strength & performed the duties of a missionary, pastor & physi
cian &c. to the best of my ability.
During the last Six months I have been more
or less unwell, especially during the months of January; & February, & was obliged
to call for medical aid Several times.
I am however about as well as usual at
the present time.
Mrs. Smith has been unusually feeble during the year, & is So Still.
On the
9th of Apr il She gave birth to a daughter who Survived only 48 hours.
The dealings of our Heavenly Father with us in referance(!) to our children
are quite mysterious & unintelligible.
This is the fourth child which God put into our hands & taken again unto him
self within as many years.
We have the unspeakable consolation however of believ
ing that they are taken from the evils of time to the bliss of heaven; & though
bereaved & Sadly disappointed, we would not dare to recall them again if we could
Our Lord & Master Sees the end from the beginning, & undoubtedly does all things
well.
Tour of Oahu
The last week in November, I made a tour of this Island -- & laboured four days
including the Sabbath at Kolau(!) in company with brother A.B. Smith.
were kind & attentive, & I trust it was a profitable Season to many.
The people
We re
stored ten persons to the church who had previously been excommunicated, receiv
ed 14. on profession of their faith in Christ, propounded 20 more, baptized 16.
children & administered the Lords Supper. -- The people there desire & very much
need a good missionary to be located among them.
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Schools
The children & youth appeared well at the examination in August & also in Octo
ber.
At the October examination there were 607. present.
My opinion then was,
that our Shools(!) never had appeared better; & my fear now is, that they will
never appear So well again.# During the last Six months the government have ta
ken two or three of our best qualified & most efficient teachers into their em
ployment; & not only So, they have been very remiss in paying those whom they
have not removed; & hence they have laboured with empty Stomachs & heavy hearts.
Parents have lost Some of their zeal in sending their children regularly to
School, & the lunas have partaken of the Same lethargy.
As to the effect of the recent political revolution upon the Schools & ris
ing generation, my brethren can prognosticate as well as myself.
#At the January examination very few children were present, it being a very rainy
day -- And on account of Mrs. Smiths illness, I was not able to attend the April
examination.
But of this I am confidant, the number of children in our Schools is
diminishing.
Temperance
In addition to our church, who have pledged themselves to abstain from all intoxi
cating liquors & drugs, we have the names of about 600 children, making in all over
2,000.
On the 27th of Oct the cold water army, embracing both children & adults
from the 1st & 2d congregations in this village, held a temperance celebration.
The occasion was one of much interest to all who were present; & it was confident
ly believed that the cause of Temperance received an impulse on that day of last
ing benefit.
Very few cases as yet have come to my knowledge either of parents
or children having returned to the use of intoxicating liquors or drugs.
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Church
It will be remembered that over three hundred Stood propounded at our last gene
ral meeting; these & a few others have been admitted to the church during the
year.
I have not held a protracted meeting the year past, though; the church were
anxious to hold Such a meeting, & at one time began to make preparations(!) for
it.
My ill health was the grand obstacle in the way, —
I felt that I could not
Sustain the extra labours of Such a meeting.
During the last three or four months, a distressing apathy & Spiritual insen
sibility has come over the church & congregation. Such as has not existed before
Since the Station was commenced Six years ago.
The recent political revolution
has contributed largely in diverting the minds of the people from things Spirit
ual & divine, to things earthly, Sensual & devlish.
It is impossible to foretell how Sad & desolating the revolution & all its
concomitant circumstances will be upon the church & people in this village & its
vicinity.
The great mass are So much like children, that it takes but little to
turn them from the path of d u t y . A nd when one of the important laws of the land
is annulled, many take it for granted that all law is dead.
Consequently other
crimes besides adultery are breaking forth on every Side; Such as drinking awa,
card playing, & gambling in a variety of ways.
If this State of things Shall
long continue, the cultivation of lands will be neglected & a famine will ensue.
Some church members have already begun to touch, taste & handle forbidden objects;
& there is much reason to apprehend that the pastors on Oahu will have much painful
work to do the current year.
My only hope that any will Stand fast is in the Lord.
If he has a people here, he will cut Short the reign of the man of Sin for his own
elects Sake.
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Contributions
Our people have done Something the year past in the way of contributions.
Their
first art of this kind was to aid the government, then in debt, by rethatching
the Station School house worth $40;00
(2d)
Aid in building a Stone church on Molokai to the amount of $80:00.
At
the commencement of the present year, I proposed to them that they do Something
this year to aid their missionary in building a Small dobie house at the entrance
of Nuanu(!) valley, as a retreat for us during the hot Summer months.
A goodly
number of them appeared to appreciate the object, & they have already contribu
ted to the amount of ($100:00) one hundred dollars; 75. of which is in cash.
We
do not intend to ask aid from either the building, or medical department, though
our grand object is the promotion of health, & to avoid if possible, & to avoid
if possible(!) the necessity of Spending time & money in voyaging for health.
The distance from our residence in the village is not over a mile & a half —
yet the differance(!) in the temperature is very considerable.
Moreover I can
attend to my missionary labours while residing there with but little inconvenience.
I have Said thus much that the brethren may understand our object, ways, means,
& ends in the matter.
Our people have also contributed this year for the Support of the communion
table to the amount of --- $24:00.
Statistical Table
Whole No. Recd on examination —
Do. on certificate
Total recd to this church
Received the past year on examination
1818
89
1907
360
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Do. on certificate
33(?)
Whole No. past year
393
Whole No. dismissed to other churches
91
Do. the past year
19
Whole No. deceased
159
Deceased the past year
47
Suspended the past year
70
Remain suspended
23
Excommunicated past year
16
Excommunicated persons restored past year
16
Whole No. Excommunicated
154
Remain Excommunicated
106
Whole No. in regular Standing
1528
Whole No. children baptised
397
Baptised the past year
70
Marriages the past year
105
Average No. of congregation from
1200
Thatching Station S. house
ntributions For Molokai Meetinghouse
To aid the pastor in building a cottage in Nuanu valley
o Support the Lords table
T
Total =
to
1500
$ 40:00
80:00
100:00
24:00
$244:00
(Unsigned)
(L. Smith)
�2d parish
Station Report
Honolulu May 1844
At our last general meeting, both the political & moral aspect of affairs in
this village was dark & portentous.
And had not the providence of God interposed
in behalf of this people, they might have been, ere this, in as lamantable(!) a
condition as the Society Islanders now are.
But thanks to the God of Christian
Missions, in an unexpected hour, he Sent us deliverance from the hand of the
usurper & oppressor.
Some of the brethren may not have had as much to weep over during the past
year, as the legitimate fruits of the doings of the British Commission, as I
have had.
It is natural to Suppose that those who reside here at the centre of
operations will be more Sensibly & materially affected by the revolutions to &
fro, than those who live at remote Stations.
Sad as the account is which I am about to relate, it is not worse than what
I anticipated at our last Gen Meeting.
Pastoral Labours
My regular pastoral labours have been much as in former years.
I have preach
ed two Sermons every Sabbath, besides attending to a Sabbath School from 8. to 9.
o clock Sabbath mornings.
Have preached a lecture every Wednesday either at the
Station, or at Some one of the School houses in the parish; have held a church
prayer meeting every Saturday P.M. —
Observed the Monthly concert —
& during
the present year, have had a School five days every other week with as many differant(!) portions of my parishioners, for the reading & expounding of the Ai o
ka La.
I have assisted in five protracted meetings, one of which was held at Koloa
on a neighbouring Island.
The one at my own Station was held the first week in December.
This meeting
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was very opportune, as it respects quite a number in the church.
The example
of high handed iniquity, bold presumption & defiance of the laws of the land,
had been So thoroughly infused into the minds of the people in this village,
that the church also had become Sadly infected with it.
Many had ceased to call
upon the name of the Lord; & the Spirit of the world, which worketh death, was
rapidly Setting down upon the vitals of the church.
The duty of Christians to confess their Sins one to another, & to pray one
for another was early introduced into the meeting; & before it closed, many were
ready to confess publicly their Sins, both of omission & commission, & to enter
anew into covenant with God.
Some confessed that for three or four months they
had lived in the entire neglect of Secret & family prayer; that their attendance
at the house of God was a cold formality, & that they were on the very point of
abandoning the Subject altogether.
To Some of this class, as well as to others,
who were mourning over the desolations of Zion, the meeting was apparently very
much blessed.
But notwithstanding all the moral influances(!) which have been
brought to bear upon their minds the past year, Such as the regular preaching of
the word of God, & the administration of Gospel ordinances - the visiting of the
people from house to house by the elders & others; a protracted meeting; district
meetings; St Schools for the reading & expounding of the daily food, Still we have
been constrained to perform the painful task of excommunicating 122. from the
church; & 40. others are now Suspended most of whom give little or no evidence
of repentance for their Sins, or a disposition to return to the duties & privi
leges of the church.
The following are among the more prominent sins, which have led to the excision
of So many, & of which others also are now under church discipline; (viz) adultery,
fornication, keeping houses of assignation, rum drinking -- awa drinking —
bacco Smoking —
gambling —
Stealing —
to
quarrelling -- & going after the Beast.
�1844
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Present State of the church
There is no Special interest among the church & people at this time, though a
portion of the church appear very well.
A great many are Sick.
Some are pro
posing to Serve both God & Mammon, & have imbibed the Spirit of those, who be
lieve that gain is godliness.
And in becoming wise above what is written, they
are obviously forsaking God, the fountain of living waters, & hewing out to them
selves broken cisterns, which can hold no water.
Indeed, the present is a time
to try mens Souls, & naught but the Special grace of God will prevent these
Hawaiian Christians from being overcome & led astray by the anti Christian prin
ciples & practices daily exhibited before their eyes.
Schools
Our Schools have had their trials too, their ebbing & flowing the year past.
At their quarterly examination last July, just before the Restoration, their num
ber was reduced one half -- At the examination in October about 2/3 of the usual
number were present.
But the interest usually manifested on Such occasions was
greatly diminished.
During the winter term, Kapoookamoku, a graduate from the Seminary, & our
principal teacher at the Station, was taken Sick with rapid consumption, & has
recently died.
He was a good native teacher, & we feel his loss very much. —
One grand cause for the decline & inefficiency of our Schools the year past, has
arisen from the fact that the teachers have not been able to perform the duties of
the School room without the means necessary for a comfortable Subsistance.
They
have enjoyed the warm influences of the Sun, the refreshing breezes of heaven, &
the former & latter rain, in common with other men in the employ of government;
but receiving little or nothing for their Services, their barrel of meal & cruise
of oil failed, & Some of them have had nothing to eat for days & weelks together,
except as they begged from their friends.
I have heard no complaint from the
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police, the Scribes -- the militla, or the Sailors; but the poor School teachers
have complained, & I am Sure if I had been one of their number, I should have
abandoned my School long ago.
—
About the 1st of March John Ii was removed
from the office of Kahu Kula, & Keikenui was appointed in his place.
Since that
time the Schools have very much revived, the teachers have received Some of their
pay for past Services, & like every other new broom this Seems to Sweep clean for
the present.
But Such are my present apprehensions, that I shall not be at all
disappointed Should there be another reaction within Six months more disasterous
to the Schools than any that has hitherto occurred.
Our Sabbath School has been kept up during the year & the attendance of the
children & youth has been modified very much by the day School (ie) when the
one has been well attended, the other has been also; & vice versa.
Subsequently to our pro. meeting a number of the children & youth & Some of
the adults have expressed considerable Seriousness & have been attentive to the
means of grace, but whether any of them have been really converted to Christ is
not very obvious at present.
Popery
There has been considerable running to & from the catholics during the year, both
by parents & children.
At the time of our pro meeting, Several returned from them to our congregation,
but like most others who fall out by the way, they go limping & halting, & give
little or no evidence of ever having made their peace with God.
When Keikenui was appointed Kahu Kula & had published aabroad that neither the
parents or children would be taxed hereafter for the Support of the teachers, Some
ten or a dozen children carryback to our Schools.
Nothing can be more obvious than
that the great majority of those who go to the catholics; go because they are un
willing to deny themselves according to the command of Christ.
Rather than re
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nounce their Sins, or contribute in the least for the Support of Schools, or the
cause of Christ, they will go off & join the catholics.
I have not kept debt & credit with them; but my impression is that they have
gained upon us a little this year, in point of numbers.
Death
The messenger of death has visited this church 64. times during the year, & has
removed
Some of our most devoted & consistant Christians.
A good proportion of
them have less Satisfactory evidence behind that they were prepared for their
great & last change.
Zakaio Neau, one of the elders of the church, is among the
number, who died triumphing(?) over the monster death.
He was one of the rare
cases among Hawaiian Christians, who have not fallen out by the way, & for a
time at least, partaken of forbidden fruit.
every good word & work.
He was always at his post, ready for
"The Memory of the Just," Says Solomon, "is blessed."
The fact that a goodly number have died in the faith, & that others remain
Steadfast, & in Some good degree are consistant in their daily lives, is a power
ful impetus to impell us forward in the work of preaching Christ & his gospel,
notwithstanding the fickle mindedness & instability of others, as well as the
many obstacles with which we have to contend.
Health
My own health & that of Mrs. Smith has been much the last as during Several of
the preceding years.
Wants
It is necessary for the preservation, as well as the comfort of our dwelling
house, that it be rethatched this Summer.
We therefore ask that the Sum of $30;00
may be appropriated to our Station for that use.
Or $300;00 for the purpose of
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1844
boarding & Shingling the roof.
Statistical Table
Whole No. received on examination
1818
Whole No. recd on certificate
177
Past year on examination
0
Past year on certificate
61
Whole number past year
.
61
Whole Mo. dismissed to other churches
98
Dismissed the passed (!) year
15
Whole No. deceased
222
Deceased the past year
64
Suspended the past year
180
Remain Suspended
Excommunicated past year
40
.
122
Whole No. excommunicated
277
Remain excomnunicated
210
Whole No. in regular Standing
Whole No. children baptized(!)
Baptized the past year
Marriages the past year
Average congregation
1425
406
9
148
1200
(Unsigned)
(L. Smith)
�Honolulu 2d Parish
May/46
Station Report for 1845 & 6.
In making out a report for two years, I would mention first of all, that we
have great occasion for gratitude to our Heavenly Father for the good measure of
health which we we(! ) have enjoyed.
Mrs. Smith's health in particular has been
better than during any other two years Since our arrival at the Islands 13 years
ago.
Our daughter Emma was seized with a violent attack of the dysenterry(!) last
December, which held her on the borders of the grave for two weeks; but the Lord
was better to us than our fears, rebuked the disease, raised her up again - & She
is now in the enjoyment of perfect health.
As it respects myself, I have been able to perform the duties of the Sanctuary
regularly on the Sabbath, with the exception of two or three Sabbaths during the
Influenza in the month of April 1845 besides attending to the almost inummerable
calls of the Sick, attending meetings & two Singing Schools every week.
I perceive however that I am by no means able to perform the amount of mission
ary labour now that I did Some five or Six years ago.
During most of the year 1845 I was very much depressed in Spirit -Some of the causes which operated unfavourably upon my mind I will mention.
First.
The apparent ingratitude of the Hawaiian government for all that the A.
Board & this mission have done to christianze & civilize this nation.
Nearly
Seven hundred thousand dollars have been gratuitously expended for the good of
this people, besides the gratuitous Services of this whole mission for more than
a quarter of a century.
But Strange marvelous as it must appear to every benevo
lent of philanthropic mind for two or three years this government have required
us to pay duties on all our goods imported, whether for our own support, or for
the Support of our printing press & for Schools - books & even for the medicines
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1845/6
which we have So freely given to the Sick & dying.
And until within three or four months, the prospect has been that we Should
be obliged to prosecute our work & labour of love among this people by continuing
to pay the regular duties at the custom house upon all our goods imported, that
the mercantile gentlemens pay upon their goods, besides paying rent for our build
ing lots, taxes for our herds, horses &c.
The laws are not yet made public, but report now Says that we are to be excus
ed from paying duties -- taxes, rents &c.
Another, thing which weighed heavily on my mind was the apparent want of interest
on the part of government in our common Schools.
points of observation.
This was obvious from various
1st Their neglecting to pay the best qualified teachers,
(graduated from the Seminary) their Stipulated wages; in other words, paying them
only 25, or 50 cts pr. month, instead of $5 pr. month.
The fact too that a Series of Editorials were issued in the Polynesian, that
celebrated, infallible government organ, recommending to Substitutes the English
language for the native in the common Schools, was demonstration proof positive
that their regard for the native Schools was nearly at an end.
And indeed the provision in the new laws for the Support of School masters,
in my estimation is by no means Sufficient to meet the exigencies of the case.
How School teachers can live here without part money for their Services, where
every thing in the market commands the cash, is what I cannot understand.
But
Still I will hope for the best.
Another daily, distressing & incontrovertible fact before my mind was the
rapid depopulation of the people around me —
there being at least, 20 deaths to
one birth So far as I could judge.
Another fact was the increase of grog Shops & houses of ill fame throught(!)
our v illage.
And as a necessary consequence, there was a rushing in of a certain
class of people from all the Islands —
but especially of young females whose ob-
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ject was to plunge into these Sinks of vice & abomination.
Another fact, peculiarly trying to pastors heart was, that a considerable num
ber of professing Christians were overcome of evil & returned again to the beg
garly elements of this vain work.
Lastly -- the Epidemic Influenza, which made Such Sad work last year throughout
the Islands, Seemed to paralize all our energies, & for Several months it Seemed
as if our day of probation was rapidly drawing to a close.
All these dark & portentous clouds hovering around us for months, not only
my courage, but my health began to fail —
I felt like hanging my harp on the
willows, & taking up Jeremiahs lamentation, "0 that my head were waters, & mine
eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day & night for this wayward people,
& for this Sinking dying nation.
In the month of Sept I took a trip to the windward, visited all the families
on Hawaii, & made a Short call, both going & coming, upon the families at Lahaina
& Lahainaluna.
Since my return, my health & Spirits have been rather better.
Protracted Meetings
In the fall & winter of 1844 &5 I held Several protracted meetings of two or
three days each -- one at Pauoa- —
meeting house at the Station.
of Souls.
one at Nuuanu —
These meetings were apparently blessed to the good
But about the 1st of April the Epidemic Influenza came over us & pre
vailed almost universally.
I presume that not one in 40 escaped.
Its effect upon the mind were very disasterous.
couraged —
one at Kapalama, & one in the
deaths were daily occurring.
Every one appeared to be dis
For two months there was on an average
in my church one death every day (ie) within 60 days, I recorded 60 deaths in my
church; besides the great number of deaths among non church members —
Strangers.
Our meetings on the Sabbath dwindled to a mere handful.
children &
Three Sabbaths
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we had no meeting at all.
This was indeed a dark & gloomy time with us.
Besides the pro meetings above named in my own field, I have laboured two or
three days with Br. Bishop in a pro meeting at Waianae —
in his meeting two or three months ago —
& also with Br. Armstrong
This meeting I trust was blessed to Some
of my people two or three hundred of whom attended pretty regularly during the
meeting.
Since that time, I have held conversational meetings & Schools
weekly
with those who were disposed to attend, & I have hope for a few that they are
Seeking in earnest the Salvation of their Souls.
Church
Although the last two years has been a time to try mens Souls here at the
metropolis, Still a goodly number of the professed followers of Christ have stood
fast, & evinced an attachment to the cause of Christ, which the waves of civilized
abomination have not been able to wash away or undermine.
They have not deserted
their posts as Soldiers of the cross of Christ; their Seats have been regularly
occupyed(!) in the Sanctuary on the Sabbaths; they have attended the daily prayer
meetings -- weekly church meetings & monthly concerts, & have been ready to every
good word & work.
-- But I can by no means Say this of all.
Numbers have been
unstable as the wind, & have Shown very conclusively that their hopes for eternity
are built on the Sand.
Some have gone after the Beast & False Prophet; others
have gone after a Species of Idolatry; while others Still have become perfectly
Atheistual, & have renounced all their belief in the existance of a God!! —
I
mention these facts to Show how rapidly things are matureing(!) here where we are
Surrounded with civilized, legalized, & christianized grog Shops, & hotels & bil
liard rooms, & bowling allies, with all their accustomed & accompanying licentiouness.
Sin & death have made large inroads into my church during the last two years;
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65 were excommunicated the 1st & 53 this last year. = (118 in all)
73 deaths the
1st & 68 this last year. = (141 in all)
31 were dismissed the 1st & 28 this last year. = (59 in all)
So that the total
diminution of this 2d church during the last two years, by defection, deaths &
dismission to other churches is 318.
On the other hand, during these two years we have received on profession the
1st year 72 & this last year 27. = (99 in all) & 36 have joined us by letter dur
ing the two years from other churches.
by letter 135.
So that we have received on profession &
This Sum taken from 318 leaves a dead loss of 183.
Contributions for Support of Pastor &c.
In Jan 1845 our church commenced contributing Something more or less, accord
ing to their ability or disposition, towards the Support of their pastor.
But the
Influenza left Such a blight on the minds & bodies of hundreds, that they gave
nothing last year.
The Sum total which I received last year amounted to $200.
In addition to this however, they rethatched the meeting house —
a job con
sidered worth at least 150 dollarsThey have also contributed recently to the amount of fourteen or fifteen dol
lars to aid in repairing the meeting house at Waialua.
But all this is a Small
Sum in comparison with what they might & ought to have done, to Support the insti
tution of religion among them.
Schools
Our Schools continued during /44, & about half of the year /45 much as usual;
the teachers frequently complaining that they could get little or nothing for their
services.
In the month of July /45 all the best teachers in my parish, & Several in
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1845/6
Brother Armstrongs, entered into a written agreement, & resolution that unless
they could be paid for past Services, & have a pledge from Govnt of regular pay
in future, they would abandon their Schools.
But on the 1st Monday in August,
they received no more Satisfaction than before —
received 25 cts.
those entitled to $5 pr. month,
They again informed the Kahu Kula, that they could not, &
Should not keep School any longer unless they could have pay regularly.
He begged
them to hoomanawanui one month longer, & Said, he would join them in a written
resolution, that if the Govrrt would not grant funds to Support the Schools, he &
they would all abandon the Schools toegther.
hold on one month longer.
The teachers therefore agreed to
They prepared a joint resolution, Subscribed their
names to it, & Sent it to the powers that be, but obtained no Satisfactory reply.
On the first Monday in Sept the teachers convened as usual to receive their pay
for past Services -- & to ascertain on what terms they were to labour in future.
But as heretofore, they received each 25 cts for his month's Services.
When lo,
& Behold, the Kahu Kula had been behind the curtain & obtained new light -- had
broken his resolution, turned a Summerset(!), & began to abuse the teachers because
they would not work for nothing & live on wind & water.
Whereupon, all the graduates & Several other good teachers - in all, about 20
in my field, abandoned their Schools.
The Kahu Kula then appointed Some of the older Scholars as teachers, & as
their wages was about 1/2 what the nominal wages of the graduates had been, it ap
peared that he thought he had made a fine exchange.
But at the recent examination
of our Schools on the 13th of April, it must have been obvious to the Kahu Kula
himself as well as to every other one present, that the Schools had gained literally nothing; but had lost immensely Since last September.
numbered between five & Six hundred.
Formerly our Schools
Now only 294.
When these monitorial teachers were appointed, all the other Scholars immediate
ly left the Schools; the remainder have had neither fear or respect for these ig
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noramus pedagogues, & hence the Schools have made progress in any thing else ra
ther than a knowledge of School books.
haunaele for the last eight months.
The Station School has been a perfect
They have broken down the gate/to the School
house yard, destroyed all their writing desks, Spoiled the School masters table
& Seat; broken out over 100 lights of glass; converted the house into a gymna
sium for Swinging & playing ball, & I have been expecting that the house itself
would Soon be down.
I regret that I cannot report more favourably in referance(!) to common
Schools, Still I think they have flourished as well as could be expected, con
sidering the man & means that have been employed.
Ai o ka La
Since the first of January I have had a School of adults in the Ai o ka la on the
Sabbath, embracing about 150; who have apparently taken a lively interest in the
lessons as they have come along.
Popery
As it respects popery -- there has been considerable running to & from.
Some ten
or twelve of my church have gone after the Beast during the last two years —
about the Same number have come back.
Quite a number of children at Moanalua &
Kalihi are reported as having renounced the cathalic(!)
to ours.
&
Schools, & returned again
The adults who return from that System of lies & deception are generally
as unstable as water, & appear to have lost all Sense of Sin, & fear of God, if
they ever had any.
A pretty large reinforcement of priests have recently come to
hand, but I know not how, or where they are to be located.
The prospect now is
that we Shall have a hand Struggle as a Mission, with the man of Sin.
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Visits to, & labours at Waialua
During the Month of Dec/45 I Spent a Sabbath at Waialua, & administered the
ordinances of the Lords Supper to that church.
The morning congregation was Said
to be pretty large for that place, containing Some 250 or 300 persons perhaps.
One man was received to the church on profession; one by letter; one formerly cut
off was restored; Six or eight were Suspended; Eight children were baptized (!); &
ten couple were married.
About the middle of February, I went with my family to Waialua & Spent about
a week with Br. & Sister Wilcox; at which time my Sympathies became quite enlist
ed in behalf of that poor dilapidated meeting house.
On my return, I resolved to
raise the Sum of $200. if practicable, among the foreign residents -- natives, &
missionaries in Honolulu to aid in repairing that house.
This Sum I have raised,
160. dollars of which I laid out for lumber for beams, furring, lathe, nails —
glass &c -- & Sent round on a Govnt vessell (!), freight free, I then took over
with me three carpenters to put on that roof, one of whom was taken Sick the third
day after our arrival —
& died after an illness of nine days.
The other two Suc
ceeded in putting on the roof Strong , as we think.
I hear that the Governor has been over & Superintended the thatching of the
house.
The way of the Lord being thus prepared, I hope we Shall be able, during
this meeting, to locate one of our clerical brethren there.
Appropriation
We request the General Meeting to grant us an appropriation this year of ($35)
thirty five dollars to enable us to rethatch our hale hookipa, & also the house of
our domestics.
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Statistical Table
Whole No. recd on examination
1917
Whole No.
" certificate
213
Past two years on examination
99
Past two years on certificate
36
Whole No. past two years
135
Whole No. dismissed to other churches
157
Dismissed the two past years
59
"
Whole No. deceased
363
Deceased the two past years
141
Suspended the past two years
108
Remain Suspended
24
Excommunicated the past two years
118
Whole No. Excommunicated
395
Remain Excommunicated
304
Whole No. in regular Standing
1217
Whole No. children baptized
437
Baptized the past two years
31
Marriages the past two years
252
Average congregation
from
800
to
1000
(Unsigned)
(Written on back of last page, sideways):
Mr. Lowell Smith's
Report May 1846
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Nuuanu, Sept. 29, 1847
Dear Br. Chamberlain,
On the 3d page of this Sheet, I have
made out the Statistics of this 2nd church to come down to
May 1st, 1847. which you will understand without any explan
ation from me. -As to our school statistics — I do not know that I can
furnish you with anything better than what was published in
the Elele the 1st of last June. You will find a brief account
after (
) — No. of schools — their location, the names
of all the teachers — the number of Scholars — their studies
etc., etc. on the 37th & 38th pages after enclosed Elele. I
think this examination took place the last of April, or first
of May — Our schools have been a 100 pr. ct. better than last
year than the year before last.
Y ours truly,
L. Smith
Statistics of the 2nd Hon. Church, May 1, 1847
Whole No. Rec. on examination
------------------- 1948
Whole No. "
on certificate -------------- ----263
Past year on examination---- -----------------31
Past year on certificate
----- — ----- -----50
Whole No. the past y e a r --------- -------------81
Whole No. dismissed to other churches ---------183
Dismissed the past y e a r -----------------------26
Whole No. deceased----- ------ — -------------—
419
Deceased past year ----------- -— ---------- ---56
Suspended the past y e a r --------------------- —
42
Remain suspended --------------- --------------16
Excommunicated the past year — ----- ------- — 35
Whole No. excommunicated---- -— ---- --------- —
430
Remain excommunicated — ----------------------305
Whole No. in regular standing------------- ---- 1288
Whole N o. of children baptized --- ---- — ------562 #
Baptized past y e a r -- ----------------- -------28
Marriages the past year ------------------ ---190
Average congregation ----- ----------------- ---1,000
#
She number of baptized children for two or three years
past has been 100 too small.
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KAUMAKAPILI
L . Smith............ .................. .................................. 1858
L. Smith.... ................ ................ .........................
.1859
L.Smith...... ......... ................................ .................1860
L. Smith, extract........ ................................................ 1860
L. Smith............................... ..... .............................1861
L. Smith, extract............................... ..........................1861
L. Smith................... ........................ ................ .... 1862
L. Smith....................... ...... .................................. .1863
�Station
1st
Report
May 1858
Statistics of the Church
Whole
No.
R e cd on profession
2466
Whole
No.
r e c d on Certificate
782
Past year
on profession
116
Past year
on certificate
32
Total
past y ear
148
Whole
No.
dismissed
450
Dismissed
past:year
13
Total
deceased
1389
Deceased
past year
26
Excluded
past year
11
Now in regu l a r Standing
815
Total
758
children
Baptized
baptized
the past year
Marriages
39
past year
21
Benevolence
Support
of Pastor
Repairs
on the
Improvements
Contributed
towards
$ 6 6 3 . 8 7 -1/2
Station Meeting
house,
& its
enclosure
on out Station m e e t i n g houses
for foreign mission,
p urchasing
including
100,00
$76
a Boat for the Brethren
Marquesas
450,00
at the
308,25
Total
$ 1 2 2 2 , 1 2 -1/2
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2.
Health.
The health
ing the y e a r
the
past.
We Suffered
of the
was
The Sickness was
inhabitants
reduced
to Say,
to a mere fraction
the
f ever, which
first of Jan.
for Several
3d.
of Asthma
years
Revival
er meetings,
months
ship
Islands
have
ion on the
the
by
about
19/20
But
I am happy
fatal; at that time.
attacked with
an int e r m i t t a n t
low.
been
& less
less
others
Our cong r e g a t i o n
& reduced me q uite
the
1838,
Season
frequent
violent,
than
last year,
we were
were
favoured with
unusually engaged
in pray
to house.
of the great revival
9,
a re
Scenes
at
& 40.
in October,
we received
116 to the
fellow
church.
like a revival
# K u i h e la n i , our bellman
Kapohaku
I was
dur
about the middle
Sabbaths.
proved
from house
in the years
nothing
Kapalama
for Several
& our church members
my audience: on/the Sabbath
at
Island
for two weeks.
& happily reminded
communion
of the
during
& in visiting
forcibly
At our
this
all
good
past.
v i v a l of religion,
these
pretty
& ingathering in 18 5 7 .
For Several
We were
have
been
g e n e r a l ,p r ostrating
if any,
/58
held me 3 weeks,
My attacks
very
has
in common with
visited
Simulta n e o u s l y
that very few cases,
About
& family
however
Infl u e n z a , an Epidemic which
of last July.
We
of my s e l f
have both
& his wife
1 6 th
Kaumakapili
upon the church
I Sincerely wish
us at the present
is very attentive
& Sexton
recently
Sailed
of March.
Church
among
& ch.luna
died
This
that every
& Kahuwahine
Star
Mission.
has thus
church
though
preached.
a ch.
Luna
of the Gospel.
for the M a r quesas
is the 4th couple who
on a foreign
& congregation
to the word
in the faith
on the Morning
time;
And the
far been
have
Miss-
gone from
reflex
influance
very Salutary.
had a m i s s i o n a r y
in the field,
or
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a candidate
preparing
to go.
Schools.
We have 5 native
expected,
considering
to the
English
has been
Smith
three
was
appear as well
a number
common
terms
good
which
of the
as
could
Schools
Since
have applied who
have
could
this
last year.
last general
improvement.
not be received,
there
--
of pupils
& joined the
go
Mrs.
meeting
Her number
graduated
be
brightest S c h o l a r s
(S u p e r i n t e n d a n t ) K a h u kula thinks
in the
have made
Many
& t
has
Royal
because
the
full .
Our Sabbath
School
the boys who
Bethel
The
from 40 to 50 -- Several
School.
School
Schools.
kept School
the children
ranged
that quite
a (illegible)
has
Schools,
are
Sabbath
from their
& Bible
learning
School.
they & their
the Morning
Star
have been
lesson
raised
raised
only
76$
c o n nected
in that School
$19
towards
towards
to the Missions
K a w a i h a o ( !) raised a little more
paid for the
interesting.
Many
of
also w i t h the
has
been
different
us.
children
parents
have been
English,
Their
lesson with
Our native
class
paying
the Morning
for
at the Marquesas.
then we
Star --
a Boat to Send
The children
did -- & the two
But
by
at
congregations
Boat.
Mormonism
There
are
6 foreign
One of them told me
that time.
Books.
Small
(All
he;
He was
He had
Manual
Mormon
in n a t i v e ).
or teachers
on the 26 of April,
then
in his
which
Priests
acting
bundle
as
that they were
Islands.
all
on
O a h u at
C a l p o r t e u r (! ), p e d l i n g ( !) Mormon
a Mormon
Bible,
he Said had been written
I asked
now on the
him w h e t h e r
the Book
of Mormon,
by one of the
by Peter or Paul?
but by a Mr Pratt of Brigham Young's
Apostles.
Said
& a
12 Apostles.
Neither,
Said
I,
are
there
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more
than
12 apostles,
its apostles.
There
Last fall,
three
times,
long
me
asking
it,
into an epistolary
to have made,
that any of my
congregation
have
Popery.
I think that Popery
Honolulu
the
professed
to
among the
natives,
house
leave
of worship,
report
is founded
Hula.
The
more
for
hula
regularity,
the Schools
hula drums
have
joined
has been
kept up in Nuuanu
& zeal,
have had their
than
good
to draw
which
They
I am not aware
the past year.
among
the
them;
but mor e
native
in
have
It is r e p o r t e d
their presen t
but w h e t h e r
meeting.
but
(with
The good
Subjects,
valley
the year
any of the
vacations;
had any day of rest,
the
past,
district
I am not aware
the exception
to be
is more
legitimate
tendency
is to evil
& only evil,
for usefulness
than
here,
that
derived by the
I can
divine.
with
Schools;
of the
w h e t h e r of a pecuniary,
character,
votaries
but
talk of demolishing
or moral
its
in
of no
on my hands,
during
Cathedral;
or-
He then w r o t e me a
Protestants.
a physical
qualifies
two
as r e c o r d e d
him no reply.
have joined
a large
has
I know not.
promptness,
or any of its
wrote me
conceive
converts;
them
to the
Church
obviously wish i n g
not gained ground
Papists
& of building
Since our last general
Government,
has
them & return
in fact,
I could
& I made
A few perhaps
that the
Smith,
I had wor k
about 2,000
Every
apostles.
I declined.
But
importance,
in all,
past year.
But
of questions,
controversy.
of far more
its
to preach Mormonism,
& therefore
a variety
Said he;
of John
to my congregation.
result from
I considered
Yes,
is no church w i t h o u t
begging permission
letter,
profess
are there?
one of them by the name
the N. Testament,
that would
then
the
Sabbath) ,
Hawaiian
a literary
For
its
& it e m p h a t i c a l l y d i s
or for happiness
hereafter.
�1858
5/ ( Kaumakapil i )
Progress.
It is very expensive
the poor people
Again,
make
get the means
multitudes
a Short
Several
the while
-- & in many
living
or an aunt.
But when
I often wonder,
cases
but how it comes
perpetual
to build
houses;
buted more
comfortable
during
the
last
able
their friends
conclude
they return;
an
12 months
all
uncle
any peopl e p o o r ; &
for benev o l e n t
to do much
as
objects;
they
do.
e m b a r a s s m e n t s , Some few are
& my ch.
&
to Stop
or daughter,
to make
how
they do.
before
d o So little
that they are
& I often w o n d e r
to See
a Son
is enough
But n o t w i t h s t a n d i n g these
good
as
they
it is years
our people
to pass
Islands,
or Sister,
kind of living
not why
as well
they get here
on a brother,
This
in Honolulu
of living
come from the other
visit.
months
living
& congregation
have
for b e n e v o l e n t objects,
able
contri
than
they
did the y e a r before.
(Paragraph
Personal
extent
crossed out)
labours.
of my ability.
I have p r e a c h e d
& Bible
Lunas
class;
every
It has
ye a r as
Miss.
I have
a regular
Saturday
e x c e ption
The past yea r
for me
to visit
on account of my extra
-- writ i n g
no Small
& attended
t h u r s day(! ) meeting
off the Morning
letters,
for the
of three Sabbaths
& recording
the Annual
benefit of the
portion
has
to the
in January,
to the Sabbath
School
& a meeting with
my
ch.
among
this
afternoon.
Fitting
writ i n g
ferances(!)
commanded
the
not been p racticable
Society.
& journals
With
in S e a s o n & out of Season;
twice on the Sabbath,
I did last,
ionaries,
laboured
been
labours
Star twice
them
Report,
of my time
as Sec.
of
the
a yea r with
churches
extracts
--
all
H.
Miss
in a book for future
printing
Hawaiian
the peo p l e
re-
from letters
these
have
& Strength.
one of expe r i m e n t
in M i s s i o n a r y work,
here
�1858
6/(Kaumakapi1i )
in the Pacific,
the H. Miss.
Special
both
Society,
Committee
apparent
by the A.B.C.F.M.;
Success
& of the Special
have taken
has been
hold with
fully equal
the Board of Directors
Committee.
The
good faith,
love
to our most
tions.
But for reasons
best known
Boston,
w i t h o u t waiting
to hear of Success
last Oct.
Miss.
that they could not operate
work,
Morning
(Sentences
next
was,
u n expected
& Startling
arrival
of another
gave
capt.
the. Special
Capt.
return
to await the new
here,
the
Special
& Send
decided
of th
-- thank
us
H.
for
rum
their Miss,
Brown,
for two
One of t h e s e Sudden
in Dr. Andersons
the M.
Star
Committee
Star
& committed
& unexpected
to the Special
along By the
good opportunity.
d i scharged
(permission
to the Marquesas
But before
entirely
transfers
they had r e c e i v e d from Capt.
harbour
power)
to
-- but on her
they had time
or ill
to hear
the M . Star
i n t o the hands
reports
is explained,
Mission,
Committee,
unfavo urable
at Rio
lie in this
Moore,
is
of Capt.
for three years.
u nder/an envelop(!)
We had heard of the
Capt.
from Boston.
Captain,
& perhaps
Committee
from the West,
& the Packet must
letter to the M icronesian
first
Prudential
Committee w e re/managing well
taken out of their hands,
C apt. Mo ore
they
in
Committee."
from the
of the Morning
Seek a n o t h e r
John W.
news
to be her commander,
The next mail
whether
"Special
Committee
transfered
& our
expecta
Directors
their mistake
& immediately
to the
& zeal,
or otherwise,
the
&
crossed out)
cease
the
them;
Star & all,
that on the return
would
till
to Serve
Directors
Sanguine
Prudential
through
S o c i e t y ---So they a c k n o wledged
our w illingness
The
to the
of
for
which
& also
of the
of the
he has
them to read
1st Mate,
J e n i r o ( !) , & of a letter
Moore;
by a clause,
Sent,
& pass
whom
or two which
unwill i n g n e s s
of the
�7/(Kaumakapi1i )
under writers
under the
1858
to renew the
command
of Capt.
little,
when
we read
of Some
good
people
that
to have the minds
fortune
to make
Boston,
he
This
work
But all
named
in Boston were
that
(illegible)
Capt.
is
painfully
of Gentlemen
the acquaintance
dismissed
key
from the
of Capt.
& another man
I think will
explain
Board of Directors
the
the names
of the officers,
M. Society,
Prudential
from
for Cor.
Committee were
theirs;
& ladies,
Moore
for very
that the minds
who
previous
had
to
the M i s
to his
to take
the
leaving
command
they organized.
Marquesas
painfully
the
C o m m i t t e e . (viz)
the
Charter
that we
in just
one week
had appointed
act through
dispatch
from the
&c --
that our j u d g e m e n t
Now to Back out honorably,
except that we
of the
Board of Directors
impressed
& that they could not
to hear of our acts,
Star to the
transfer of the M i s s i o n a r y
On reading
i n other words;
Secretary,
of Directors
the wrong
this
Board
they m u s t
the M o r n i n g
day of her arrival
from Boston.
Why the Morning
Special
Messrs
Committee
Castle
Star has
rectors,
So
& Clark
perhaps
in the Special
therefore
been
to the Sole
the explanitory ( !) clause.
have
pass
not a Suitable man
to the Special
H.
here
letter,
is a p pointed
right p l a c e . "
not want
reports
She was
impressed b e f o r e the S a i l
Moore was
is in the
man
w hile
Star.
Same
diffed(!)
these
general
"the wrong man
the
vessel
vessel.
Therefore
of the M.
Moore.
in the above
ing of the Morning Star,
command
Insurance
Seriously
My
So Suddently
care
of Capt.
can Solve;
fear
is,
Committee,
but
Brown,
the
is a p r o b l e m which
in the
Board
I am the o ffensive
of the Special
from
I have not as y e t
that as
& d e l i b erately come
r e s i g n , my a p p o i n t m e n t as one
transfered
to the
of D i
disciple;
conclusion,
Committee,
Seen
& to
I
to
decline
�1858
8/(Kaumakapi1i )
being
As
a candidate
the
strongs
these
for reelection.
Prudential
judgement,
Islands,
the Special
Committee
have
qualifications
I would
Committee
confidence
&c to do business
r e s p e c tfully
for the year
unbounded
nominate
in Br Arms
for them
here
him as my S u c c e s s o r
at
in
to come.
Respectfully S u b m i t t e d
L.
(Written
on
the
back of the
last page,
sideways):
Smith
Honolulu
Station
May 1858
2d
Report
�Smith
Honolulu
Station
Soon
after
our last general
must Suspend m y labours
bour entirely.
neighbors,
I resolved
Accordingly
Major,
Capt.
John
on
the
for
rather
a trip
from care
my church
very m a t e r i a l l y
Mr.
David
who m Some
vited me
N.
during
long,
all
the
Hawley,
to make
I visited
of Spending
their
annual
present
were
From Sacramento,
where
City.
me
I took
ex c e e d i n g l y
comfortable while
were
doing
number
but little
had just
cares
of my
c o n s e quently my health
there
I needed
family,
&
i m p roved
house, when
in the
Br.
in San
there
kindly
in
I had the p l e a s u r e
& family
The M e t h o d i s t
very
with
in that city.
country.
Corwin
Francisco,
at San
Episcopal
Jose.
brethren were
at that time.
I attended Several
One
A bout
80
of their pu b l i c meet
interesting.
I Spent a week with
They were
Fanny
We arrived
Rest was wha t
are acquainted,
C o n f e r a n c e (!)
very
la
of my
on board of the
passage.
Merchant
at his
of their number were present.
ings, which
to
I
Francisco.
I left the
behind;
one Sabbath with
holding
& cease
of my family & Some
I embarked
toil.
about considerably
in Sacramento
that
voyage.
it my home
Sabbath
to me
down
but very p l e a s a n t .
a Hardware
of the brethren
obvious
California.
& incessant
& congregation
it was
to San
1st day of September = 22 days
freedom
1859
or else break
9th of August,
Paty,
Our passage was
meeting,
therefore
to take
on the
Report_____May
for a time;
By the advice
2 Church
glad
rail
Some
road & Stage
12 or 15 natives
to See me,
I was with
to Coloma
them.
in the mining
gone off over the
& did all
of these
their
business.
More
Some
dry Season
than
30 miles,
Creek,
Islands.
in their p ower
It was
hills,
& Irish
to make
& they
half of their
to wor k with
�2/Honolulu
foreigners,
where
On hearing
Spend the
there was
a plenty of water.
of my arrival,
Several
lot of t r a c t s , all
of which
The native miners
They Spend
The
honest
of them came
over to See me,
&
Sabbath.
I carried with me a few Bibles,
it.
1859
2d c h u r ch (K a u m a k a p i l i )
for food
in that
& kind neighbours.
at tempt to
they were
very
live pretty well,
their money
foreigners
Testaments,
but they
Speak
And w h e n e v e r
call
a meeting
& take Sides with
A.M.
I preached
to quite
children;
& the
natives
di scourse
to them;
being present,
this
about
very
the
exercise was
as fast as
highly
legs
come
get
along,
&
immediately
men
at 10
, w omen
I interp r e t e d the heads
interesting
rich.
they
On the Sabbath,
of foreigners,
quite
& a
of them as
foreigners
the natives.
a congregation
Liras,
are not getting
any Black
crowd them out of their claims,
Books,
glad to receive.
and clothing
vicinity,
Hymn
&
of the
to the w hite
faces.
In the
being
afternoon
present,
Feeble
as
tions,
back
I preache d
& interpreted
I was,
it was
to the natives,
the
a real
in the wilderness,
heads
of the
& Some
discourse
treat to be able
who
appeared
20 f oreigners
So
to them.
to address
glad
congrega
to hear
the w o r d
preached.
After
Grass
the Sabbath,
Valley,
of natives;
bad that
the books
& Nevada
I took passage
city.
but they were
There
I expected
& went to Auburn,
to have met
So far off in the mountains,
I could not go to them..One
& tracts which
in a Stage
I had
left,
of the men
& carried
came
another
& the
road So
& Saw me,
to them,
& took
t o g ather with
my aloha.
From Nevada
"Rough
& Ready"
City
--
I took Stage
for Marys v i l l e- -- passed
"Tom Buctoo" (! )
& other large mining
lot
through
towns.
�3 / Honolulu
2d church
At Marys
ville,
1859
(K a u m a k a p i l i )
I took
the Boat to Sacramento,
& thence
on
to San
Francisco.
I visited
ors
--
the young
& called on Rev.
On the 5th
Associ a t i o n
bodies
college
J.
D.
at Oakland,
Strong
of October the Synod
of California met
My health was much
climate,
So many of the
benefited
California,
City of San
e m b r a c e i n g ( !) about 20 clergymen.
coming a c q u a i n t e d with
& the
Francisco,
General
the
I was
highly favored
Clergymen
of California.
by v o y a g e i n g (!),
& Rest from my Miss i o n a r y
of the p r o f e s s
& family.
of Alta
in the
Saw Several
cares
journeying,
& labours
two
in b e
change
for the S h o r t
of
period
of 3 1/4 months.
The California climate operated like a bracing tonic
my phsical system & I received
upon^a youthful Spring & vigor, which was proof positive, that if I
could have
prolonged my visit Some
renewed my
health
I have
was
nia;
& on my return,
For Several
meetings!,
years
(one
the
I ought
past,
district to
tained.
Mornings;
very
to remark
quite
district,
They were
& they
Pastoral
Labours
pastoral
labour this year as
than
quite
three months
formerly.
during my visit to
I
Califor
I had
done,
& rest.
my people
day meetings)
church were
have
I resolved not to over work myself as
tired,
ing the past year,
held.
as much
a little more
but to Stop when
I might
& Strength a g a i n .
not performed
absent
10 or 12 months
have
in which
few of those
however,
active,
the
Some
always
taken
a part.
t h u r s d a y ( !) meetings, have
visiting
favoured with
conducted
I have
that
& the meetings
held a great many p r o t r a c t e d
during my absence,
from house
the
to house,
afternoon
to preach
meetings
for
been
Lunas
& from
on the Sabbath were well
one
Dur
Sus
them Sabbath
themselves.
of
�4/Honolulu
Kekela
2d church
& Nuuhiva
Since my return
church;
Since
have been
from the
At our communion
on hand
in January,
there
has
have five
for Several
district native
Years
one
Quite
past
in Honolulu,
ing,
have
admired
& its
Smith
I refer
has
to Mr.
taught three
couragement
& Success.
Two
classes
have
Mr.
Morris
During
left,
as well
been made
in Some
examinations
as
& ex
& died a few weeks
has
but few,
prevailed
ago,
the y e a r
c o m p aratively
Speak
& the
different
Armstrongs
terms
Her number
& entered
taught
in
Report.
School
of 10 weeks
of pupils
the
branches
Royal
each, with
has
averaged
School,
her
usual
from
under the
40
en
to 50
tuition
of
Beckwith.
her last term,
& She
has
three
or four months
ain.
doing
it.
number of Scholars,
Schools,
Sickened
though
English
Mrs.
interest
by the auditors.
a disease which
Suburbs,
been
has
& one or two of the School
intermittent fever;
died with
have
an i mprovement
of our best teachers,
the
For the
religious
to the
Schools
Schools, which
been very much
with
these
past.
houses;
have
Keomaka,
received
& congregation.
of the School
hibitions
23 persons were
been no Special
Native
We
& a s s isted me o c c a s i o n a l l y
Coast.
Season
that time
in the church
1859
(K a u m a k a p i l i )
She was
Sus p e n d e d teaching
afflicted with
for the
She may begin
present.
again,
a bad
cold,
& Sore
A fter a vacation
though
it is S o m e w h a t
throat
of
uncert
�5/Hon o l u l u
2d church
1859
(K a u m a k a p i l i )
Mormonism!
The Mormon
not aware
Priests,
I think,
that that Sect meet
in the bounds
have
all
any where
left the
now,
Islands;
& I am
for public w o r ship,
with
of my parish.
Hula!
The
Hula
has
our petition
agai n s t
The
been
to the Prince,
& if I have
of opinion
have Spent considerable
been properly
between
I understand
Lot,
to be
posted
relic
It would
t o the
counsellors,
& w here
wha t tenacity
they can
of all
good
citizens
time
there
in discussing
has
of h e athenism
been a wide
Subject;
d i f f e r a n c e ( !)
is hereafter
be a ma t t e r of Some
Palace yard,
c o n v e niently
where
& how
be c o n
Satisfaction
benefit
Shew to foreign
Should pass
to
his Majesty
the Special
to heathenism;
abominati ons
the
on the Subject.
could have
they hold on
the old heathen
up,
two Houses
that this
confined
& their
times;
all
the
to Honolulu.
it was
& the protestations
notwithstanding
it.
Legislature
fined
kept up in Honolulu another year,
to me,
& Prince
of it at all
visitors,
unwilling
they
with
are
that
away.
Popery!
For Some
time
past the
Catholic
effort to proselyte my whole
have
gone
from house
on the Sabbath,
to Meeting;
have
is no Salvation
of the
church
to house,
the Streets
assured
have been making
& c o n g r egation
they have Stoped
& enquired
Catholic
the
church;
& that he will
all
Lunas
mistaken;
no one
has
They
& others
they were
that Peter
allow
a des p e r a t e
to Popery.
of them where
them that they were
out of the
kingdom of heaven,
Priests
if
in
going
that there
the
to enter
keys
there,
�6/Hon o l u l u
who
does
2d church
not join
The y e a r
Setting
forth
test a n t i s m
breathe
forth
as
church
they have been
Romish
printing
doctrines
them,
I presume,
They
the
difficulty
can
t o g a t h e r ( !) in an unmarried
ible w o r s h i p e r s ,
weeks
ago,
And to
Stone
than
issued
all,
forward
arrival
to this
that
State,
in the minds
Papis t s , male
& be more
& live
of course,
that thereby
all
& accept-
to the w ord
two or three
doubts
on
that
up.
they Sent their tract distributors
of God.
& female,
holy
agreeably
of the
And
& p r e sented one
I have
heard
to the
to each person
they
did
the Same
as
doors
they en
at the
church.
The Lord
only
know what will
I do not apprehend,
be overcome
by them,
however,
be the
At our last
general
result
& led away from the
meeting
It is not y e t ready
of their p r e s e n t
that our intelligent,
Ai
me.
pam p h l e t s
for the
looked
their pamphlet on c e l i b a c y , Some
on the Sabbath,
house
to pass,
those who marry
be cleared
crown
of my church
tered the
how it comes
p r e s u m e i n g (!)
Subject w o u l d
& Luther,
these
of the natives
that might exist
qu erying
they
Calvin
in printing
u ndoubtedly
natives,
of God;
pamphlets
day of triumph.
Anticipating
herd
up P r o
rest of us.
the minds
reinforcement.
These
Spirit against
object with
to prepare
& holding
& hypocracy.
the
was
& c irculating pamphlets,
& traditions,
& all
large
their
&c &c.
Bishop
time,
of their
Catholic
a most an a t h a m a t i z i n g
Green,
grand
at this
time
the
the
as a System of falsehood
A rmstrong,
One
past,
1859
(K a u m a k a p i l i )
the Ai
oka
truth
it is
people will
in Jesus.
La
0 ka La for
for the press.
as
praying
efforts
The
1860,
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2d church
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of tracts
or it maybe
1859
(Kaumakapil i )
the brethren
against
prepared
prefer
Romanism,
to use
the Ai
& I presume
b y the first
the
funds
I
of S e p t
in p r i n t i n g
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it is ;
for 1 8 6 1 .
Statistics
W h o l e N o . o n profession
"
2489
on certificate
810
Past y e a r
on profession
23
Past y e a r
on certificate
28
Total
past yea r
51
Whole
N o . dismissed
452
D i s m i s s e d t h e p a s t year
Total
2
deceased
1413
Deceased
the
past year
24
Excluded
the past year
9
Now
in r e g u l a r standing
Total
children
Baptized
Marriages
832
baptized
768
the past year
"
"
10
"
15
C ontributions
Supp o r t of Pastor
$800,00
F o r e i g n Missions
Home Missions
houses
&c.
- repairs
285,00
on
our own meeting
200,00
Total
=$1285,00
(Unsigned)
(L.
Smith)
�L. Smith
Honolulu 2d Church
Station Report
May 1860
We have nothing very remarkable to report at this time.
As a family we have enjoyed our usual health & Strength during the year;
for which I trust we feel thankful.
The past year, like many of its predecessors, has been one of trial.
Indeed,
those of us, who-live here in Honolulu, are always surrounded with divers tempta
tions; especially in the fall & Shipping Seasons, when the circus, theatre, grog &
beer Shops, & houses of ill fame are the order of the day, & hence we need to be
constantly on the watch tower* lest we be overcome of evil.
Hula.
The hula drums have but Seldom been heard the past year.
They cannot af
ford to pay a tax of $10 pr. day to government, for this heathen recreation; & my
impressionsis that they Seldom meet, unless Some foreigner comes along, who will
pay the license, in order to be entertained per(!) an hour with the old Hawaiian
hula.
Popery.
The Popish Priests have been unwearied in their efforts during the year
to undermine the truth as recorded in the Bible.
Their attacks upon Protestant
ministers, & Missionaries have been bold, impudent, & disgraceful.
liars, deceivers, usurpers, & blind leaders of the blind.
They call us
They have issued tracts
monthly, & distributed them gratuitously among my people; but they have been So
full of wormwood & gall; have contained So many palpable falsehoods & inconsisten
cies* that they have persuaded very few, if any, that the Roman Catholic religion
is better than the Protestant.
It is amuseing(!) to See how hard they labour to put down the Bible, & yet
cite text after text from this very Book to prove the truth of their own doctrines.
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The fact also that they withhold from the people, what they call the true Bible,
is enough to convince all candid persons, that they are not to be believed or
trusted, as honest Christian men.
The articles published in the "Hoku Loa" exposing the errors of Romanism,
together with Several Tracts, which have been issued by our Tract Society during
the year, have done much good among the reading & thinking people on this Island.
Loss of dwelling house! Among the trials to which we, as a family, have been call
ed the past year, is the loss of/our dwelling house in town by fire.
On the 28th
of July last, at half past 3 o clock in the morning, a fire broke out at the top
of the cook room, & before the fire companies could get water to put out the flames,
the fire communicated with the main building & consumed the whole of it.
The house was occupyed(!) at the time by Mrs. Von Pfister, at a rent of $30 per
month,
The rent of that house, had been, for Several years, no inconsiderable part
our of Support,
Carpenters & masons with whom I consulted at the time, told m e ,
that another house equal to that could not be built Short of $3,000.
There was
no insurance on the house, & of courses it was a total loss.
About the Same time, the Superintendant of government Schools rolled over his
wheel, & required all the native children in Honolulu, who were learning the Eng
lish language, to go to the Royal School for instruction.
Smiths native School of 40 Scholars, from
This took away Mrs.
which we received a part of our Support
for Several years.
Again, Some of our best & most reliable church members, who have always been
ready to every good word & work, have become So old & infirm & poor that they give
one half less towards Support of Pastor than formerly.
Again, there are Scores in
the church, who do nothing towards the Support of the gospel, either at Home or
abroad.
Hence it is that our means of Support, as well as contributions for bene
volent objects have diminshed about one half during the last 12 months.
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1860
The Nominal Salary for the Support of Pastor at Kaumakapili $1,000 a year.
But our annual expenses for the last 5 years including repairs, has been nearer
two thousand than one.
In 1855, my people contributed for Support of pastor $920-
1000$ minus - $ 80
In 1856
"
"
"
750
"
"
244
In 1857
"
"
"
634
"
"
366
In 1858
"
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664
"
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336
In 1859
"
"
"
570
"
"
430
When we ceased applying to the Board for a part of our Support in 1855, we
did not expect that our people would give us a full Support.
But we hoped that
the avails of property in our possession, which we had received from the Board,
together with our personal efforts in School keeping & the like, would enable us
to get along, without further aid from the American churches.
It is by no means pleasant to apprehend, that before another annual meeting,
we may be involved in debt to the amount of 4 , or 5 hundred dollars.
On the
other hand, it is very unpleasant to feel obliged to apply again to the A. Board
for assistance, while they are So heavily burdened with an accumulating debt on
their hands.
If the New Advisory Committee will give us Some good & wholesome
advice under these embarrassing circumstances, we Shall feel very much obliged to
them.
State of the Church; labours of the Pastor, &c.
We have had no previous revival
of religion, & great ingathering of Souls into the church at Kaumakapili the past
year.
But we have been busy in our Masters work, & have endeavored to do good as
we have had opportunity.
We have preached twice on the Sabbath, besides attending to the Sabbath School
& Bible Class.
The Pastor has attended a regular weekly meeting Thursday mornings,
a meeting with the church lunas every Saturday P.M.; monthly concerts, marriages,
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1860
funerals, visiting the Sick &c &c.
For Several months past, there has been an unusual interest in Spiritual
things on the Koolau Side of this Island; our people have heard the Sound of the
Still Small voice as it came up over the pali, & Several have been over, & attended
Some of the prayer meetings, & have been Spiritually refreshed; returned again
with zeal, to Stir up their brethren, Saying,
"let us repent, & do work, meet for
repentance, for the Lord is at hand."
After consultation with my church lunas, we decided to visit the people throught
(!) our parish by districts; hold one day meetings in each district, & thus try to
prepare our minds to entertain the heavenly visitor.
We proposed to commence our visiting, meetings, &c in the district of Moanalua.
On Tuesday the Lunas & others, go two & two, from house to house, & visit every
family in the district, & talk & pray with the people, about their personal Sal
vation.
And on Thursday of the Same week, assemble the people at the School house, & Spend
the day in religious exercises.
Tuesday & Thursday.
The following week do the Same at Kalihi both on
The next week Do. Do. at Kapalama.
The 4th week hold Said
meetings in Nuuanu valley, & the 5th week invite all the districts to come in &
help visit our half of the town of Honolulu on Tuesday; & on Thursday & Friday
hold a protracted meeting of 2 days in the meeting house.
This work has all been done, & the encouragement has been So great, that the
church members are going over the ground the 2d time without the cooperation of
their pastor, who is now engaged in the business of general meeting.
On Monday & Tuesday, the 7th & 8th inst I conversed with about 50 persons;
Some of whom were obviously quite Serious, & Said that they were resolved to re
nounce their Sins, take up the cross & follow Christ.
In this visiting from house to house, quite a number of church members from
other churches, on the neighbouring Islands, have been found, who had hid their
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1860
light under beds & bushels but who have now come forward & wish to unite us in
the work of Saving Souls.
The demand for Testatments & hymn books has very much increased of late.
In
Short, we hope the Spirit of the Lord is in the Church & Congregation, & we pray
that he may not be grieved to depart & leave us to perish in our Sins, because of
our unbelief.
Schools.
There are 5 native district Schools within the bounds of my parish,
averaging about 40 Scholars each.
The School houses are good framed buildings,
furnished with Seats, benches & black boards.
The teachers are competent & faith
ful, & the Schools are in a prosperous State.
Sabbath School.
Schools have been
Our Sabbath School numbers 170, & the Bible Class 50.
unusually interesting for a few months past.
These
The "Ui" is the
book used by the children, & is well adapted to fortify their minds against Popery.
The adults are reading by course in Matthew —
7 verses per week.
I frequently
take the 7 verses as the theme of my forenoon discourse; this adds much interest to
the Bible Class.
"Ai ofka La"!
Agreeably to the wishes expressed in general meeting last year, I
revised one of the old "Ai o ka L a 's" & Sent it on to N. York to the agents of
the Tract Society, requesting them to print us an Edition of 10,000 & forward them
to us by the first good opportunity.
I understand that brethren Clark & Alexander
read the proof Sheets last fall, They ought therefore to have been here long ere
this, But as no advices have come to hand concerning them, our apprehension now
is, that they must have been consumed by the fire in the Tract house last fall.
The Ai o ka La for 1861 was also assigned to me to prepare & forward to be
published by the Tract Society.
It is now nearly ready for the press.
The title
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1860
of the book is, "Mooolelo no Kristo." (!) (ie) the "Advent, Life, miracles, para
bles & death of Christ."
Immediately after the close of this general meeting, I will revise & forwarded(!) it on to N. York, unless the brethren Shall request me to Stop & do nothing
further about it.
I do not know however, who will be there to read the proof Sheets.
Freshets.We have had two or three freshets in Nuuanu this Spring, which have carried away two bridges, and discommoded the people there very much.
On the night of
the 2d of March, the water rose So high, that it broke down the Stone arched
bridge near the residance(!) of A.B. Bates Esqr & also cut off the water pipes
which carry the water into town.
The bridge near Mrs. Johnstone's was also car
ried off at the Same time.
A temporary wooden bridge, Strong enough for horses & carriages, was immediate
ly erected on the Nuuanu Street, the water pipe repaired; & the Road Supervisor was
collecting materials at his leisure to put up another permanent bridge next Summer.
But on Sabbath morning, the 29th of April, another Sudden & astonishing fresh
et occured, the highest & most powerful that has been known here for a long time.
I think that a large water Spout must have broken upon the hills near the
pari; for without the least warning, the water came rushing down as it it had just
burst from a large pond or lake & Swept every thing in its course.
Just as I was about to mount my horse, at 9 o clock, to go to church, news
came that the Bridge was gone, & the water So high that it was impracticable to
cross the Stream.
I looked over to the Stream which passes down near Mrs. Johnstones, & that too
was rushing, foaming, & roaring frightfully.
get to town that day.
lic worship.
I at once concluded that I could not
The people in town who assembled, conducted their own pub
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1860
Contributions
Support of Pastor
$570,87-1/2
To assist Br. Lyons in ch. building
25,00
To assist Br. Parkers people
31,25
To assist the people of Hana
20,00
For Sexton & Ch. repairs
30,00
Foreign Missions
125,37-1/2
Total =
Statistics of the Church
Whole No. Recd. on profession
"
"
"
"
certificate
Past year on profession
"
"
"
certificate
$802,50
Hon 2d
2484
866
None
56
Total past year
56
Whole No. dismissed
468
Dismissed past year
16
Total deceased
1440
Deceased past year
27
Excluded past year
22
Now in regular Standing
823
Total children baptized
774
Baptized past year
6
Marriages "
61
"
(Written on the bottom of the last page,
sideways); Honolulu 2d Church
Station Report May 1,860
Respectfully Submitted
L Smith
�Honolulu
2d Church
May 1860
The past year like many of its predecessors, has been one of trial.
Indeed,
those of us who live here in Honolulu, are always Surrounded with divers temptations
especially in the fall & Shipping Seasons, when the circus,theatre, grog & beer shop
& houses of ill fame are the order of the day: & hence we need to be
the watch tower, lest we
Popery.
constantly on
be overcome of evil.
The priests have been unwearied in their efforts to proselyte our people to
the Romish faith.
Their
attacks upon the protestant ministers have been bold, im
pudent & disgraceful. They call us liars, deceivers, usurpers,
the blind.
& blind leaders of
It is amusing to See how hard they labour to persuade the natives, that
the Bible is not true; & yet cite
text after text from this very Book to prove
their own doctrines.
The articles published monthly in the "Hoku" exposing the error of Romanism, to
gether with several tracts which have been issued by our Tract Society during the
year, have done much good among the people of Oahu.
Loss of dwelling house.
On the morning of the 28th of July/59 at half past 3 o'
clock, a fire broke out at the top of the cook room, which Soon communicated with
the main building, & consumed the whole house.
that another house as good as that,
and dollars.
Church.
Carpenters & masons informed me
could not be built for less than three thous
There was no insurance on the house & of course it was a total loss.
There have been no additions to the church, on profession, the past year.
BUt there are Some hopeful indications of late, that the Spirit of God is in the
midst of us, convincing of sin, & c.
way to Zion.
Some 50 persons profess to be in giving the
The demand fer (sic) Testaments & Hymn Books has very much increased
of late.
Schools .
each.
There are five native schools in the parish, averaging 40 Scholars
The teachers are competent & faithful & the Schools prosperous.
Sabbath Schools.
Bible Class.
There are 170 children in the Sabbath School, & 50 adults in the
These Schools have been unusually interesting for several months past.
�Smith,
Honolulu
Station report, 1860
2
The Ui is the book used by the children, & is well adapted to fortify their minds
against Popery.
Ai O ka La for 1861.
This is nearly ready for the press;
the title of which is,
"Mooolelo no Kristo,"
Freshets.
There have been two freshets this Spring in Nuuanu Valley, which have
carried off two bridges, & discommoded the people there very much.
The first was
on the night of the 2d of March; & the Second was Sabbath morning, the 29th of
April.
The Streams were So high that it was
impracticable to cross them
to church that day.
Contributions of the people in cash the past year
$802.50
to go
�Honolulu 2d Church
Station Report
May 1861
The mission family located at this Station, have occasion for gratitude to
God, for the good degree of health & Strength with which they have been favoured
Since our last annual meeting.
The precious revival of religion with which they
& their people have been blessed, has vary considerably increased the pastors la
bours, & Sometimes it Seemed that he would Sink under them.
But by the grace of
God he has been enabled to preach, exhort labour, much as in the great revival
Season Some 20 years ago.
The church lunas have rendered much efficient aid in
conducting religious meetings.
Both Mrs. Smith & myself however, have been reminded that we are frail mortal
creatures.
Mrs. Smith has been Strongly threatened with a return of her old com
plaint, which confined her to her couch for Several years. She is convalescent
again now, though Still quite feeble.
Some four weeks ago, a large & very painful carbuncle Started up on my back,
just below the left Shoulder blade & for Several days threatened the dissolution
of Soul & body, which had dwelt together in harmonious union for more than half
a century.
My flesh & Strength were clamerous(!) for Secession.
But believing
that prompt & energetic measures were necessary to arrest the belligerents, & re
store peace & health, I called in the aid of a Skilful(!) physician, & confered
with old & experienced nurses, & in about ten days the Seceding movements were ar
rested, & the loud & clamerous voices of the fire eaters for an underground con
federacy were hushed, & pledges for the continued union of Soul & body have been
renewed, & the prospects for another Short/campaign are flattering; though the
Federal Union, & the Mortal constitution of Soul & body have been much impaired,
& are less to be relied upon than in former years.
Pastoral Labours
In addition to two regular Sermons on the Sabbath, & attending to a Sabbath School
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& Bible Class at noon as formerly Br Clark & myself have held alternate, union,
Sabbath evening Meetings; (ie) My people go & attend his meeting at Kawaiahao
one Sabbath evening; & the next Sab. eve. his people come to our meeting at Kau
makapili
When the weather has been good, my house has been full to overflowing.
Many of the Papists & Mormons have attended these union eve. meetings; & the atten
tion of a goodly number of them has been arrested; & they have become regular atten
dants with us on the Sabbath, & also on week days, & Some 25, or 30 of them I trust
have become hopefully converted.
Pule hoomau. My people have held what they call a pule hoomau, every thursday(!), the year round.
These meetings are held alternately at five different
places; (viz) at Moanalua, Kalihi, Kapalama, Nuuanu, & at Kaumakapili.
The practice has been, for the Lunas to visit the district on Tuesday, & talk
& prays with every family & thus prepare the way for the meeting on Thursday.
I
have usually preached a Sermon, or expounded Some portion of Scripture at 10 A.M.
in all these meetings; & after a Short intermission, they would reassemble &
hold a prayer & conference meeting
among themselves.
These meetings were very
interesting last fall & winter, but of late, they have become Some what formal, &
less interesting, though well attended.
Tour of Oahu
In September last, I made a tour of this Island, in company with ten native
lunas, there being a representative of one or more from every church on Oahu.
were two weeks in making the tour.
We
The object in taking So many men with me, was
to visit as much as practicable from house to house among the Papists & others, who
would not come out to public meetings.
The native brethren were very zealous, &
improved every opportunity in going from house to house, & I am happy to State
that the Spirit & blessing of God Seemed to accompany our efforts all around the
Island.
Backsliders & impenitent Sinners arose & confessed their Sins, at every
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Station.
1861
Indeed, this has been a year for Backsliders, & wanderers/to come out
from their hiding places, confess their Sins, & express a wish to return to the
fellowship of the church.
One man, who apostalized from the protestant faith, went & joined the Mormons
Some two years ago, became a priest of that order, made & baptized 200 converts,
was arrested in his career last January; came before us & confessed his wicked
& hypocritical conduct, & begged to be restored.
I told him that if he was truly
penitent, he would use every lawful effort to undiceive(!) his morman disciples, &
persuade them to come to our meetings where they would hear the gospel faithfully
preached.
I am happy to s a y that thus far, he has been very zealously Success
ful in persuading that class & also other impenitent Sinners to come to our meetings.
Three or 4 Pake!s have attended our meetings, & been apparently quite interest
ed; though,from private conversation with them, it is obvious that they are la=
mantably(!) ignorant of the true God, & the way of life through Jesus Christ.
Concert week of Prayer
As requested by the Evangelical Christendom, & other Christians in Europe,
we observed the 2d week in Jan./61 as a week of prayer & praise to Almighty God,
& the Holy Spirit was obviously with us, to revive, quicken & lead Sinners to re
pentance.
Our meetings were two hours long daly(!), from 11 till 1.
allowed to Speak or pray
over 5 minutes at a time.
No one was
The church members became
So interested in these meetings, that they resolved to continue them every eve
ning for a while; & they have continued them even to the present time.
Church Meetings.
I hold a meeting regularly with my church Lunas, every Satur
day P.M.; at which time I enquire whether any brother or Sister have wandered?
Who are dangerously ill? & who have died?
At this meeting we attend to cases of
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1861
ch. discipline; talk with backsliders, & Sometimes I read & expound portions of
Scripture.
Popery.
The papists have no Sympathy with revivals of religion, & the out pouring
of the Holy Spirit upon the hearts of men, convincing them of Sin, or righteous
ness, & of a judgement to come.
ingathering into that church.
A revival Season therefore is not the time for
Their time for making converts is when protestants
are Stupid, indifferent, & worldly minded.
During the year past, the protestants
in this city have been So watchful, prayerful , & zealous in going from house to
house, that I think we have gained at least 4 to their one.
The Priests however
have continued to issue their monthly paper, full of Jesuistical hate towards
protestants, & of palpable falsehoods, perversion of Scripture texts, & for the
most part, harping upon one & the Same Subject; that the Papal Church is the only
true church; & that all others who differ from them in Sentiment, or practice are
thieves & robbers.
led astray by
I do not think that any honest enquirer after truth will be
their papers.
They have Said & done a great deal the year past, to draw me & my people into
a News paper controversy with them.
Several Spirited articles have been Sent to
me by native protestants for the "Hoku Loa", but I have Suppressed them all.
I
would as Soon Stop & debate with the yelping ours that bark & Snap at us as we
pass along the Streets, at to enter upon a controversory(!) with them.
They do
not recognize our Bible as the word of God, nor our ministers as the ministers of
the gospel of Christ; nor our churches as the churches of Christ.
use therefore to enter a News paper controversy with them?
Of what possible
The Lord Suffers them
to live in the midst of us, & I trust he has Some good end to accomplish by it.
Hula.
The Revival has had a powerful effect, for the time being, in breaking up
this relic of heathenism.
Nearly all the ringleaders, both men & women, have been
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hopefully converted.
1861
Last fall, in the midst of our revival, His Magesty(!) the
King; & prince Lot, proposed to have a Hula, as usual, at Moanalua, on one Sat
evening.
But they were greatly Surprised to See what a change had come over their
Servants, but especially their favorite/dancers.
Several of the Papists were on hand, ready to Serve them.
But Kaakau, the
Kings favorite dancer, who had united with the church, under a Solemn pledge that
She would have nothing further to do with the Hula, had purposly(!) absented her
self that day, in order to escape the Snare.
The King Sent for her three or four
times during the evening, but She was not at home.
About 11 o clock, presuming
the Hula was over, Kaakau went home & went to bed.
But it was not long, ere
another messenger came & found her.
She resisted him for Some time; but was fi
nally told that her time had come, if She did not go.
self & went into the presence of his Magesty.
So She arose, dressed her
She expressed her wish to be ex
cused from dancing, for She had forsaken her Sins, & united with the church.
The
King told her there was no Sin in dancing, if She did not violate the 7th command ent(! ) & by his Stern, commanding voice, he persuaded her to Stand up & make a
few of her polite & graceful turns in his Royal presence; he then dismissed the
assembly & returnd(!) to Honolulu.
I have not heard that either the King, or
Prince Lot have Since attempted to get up a Hula at Moanalua or elsewhere.
Church Building.
One of the effects of our revival upon the people is to engage
in building Meeting houses at out Stations.
Hitherto they have used the government
School houses, but it is difficult often times to be accommodated in those houses,
without interfering with the Schools.
The people at Moanalua, Kalihi, & in Nuu
anu valley have each resolved to build themselves a house of religious worship, &
they have begun in good earnest to collect funds for that purpose.
"Ai o ka La.”
The ai o ka la which was assigned me for 1862, has been ready Several
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1861
months for the press.
We expected that the A. Tract Society would furnish us funds to print it.
Br Castle wrote to the agent of that Society in N. York last February; but as
yet, they have made us no reply.
The presumption is that like the A. Board, &
other benevolent Institutions, that Society is embarrassed for want of funds,
in consequence of the Secession movements, & civil war now in the States.
I am not aware that we have any funds in the printing department that can be
appropriated for that purpose.
I see no prospect therefore that the Ai O ka La
will be printed this year, unless we request the Hawaiian Bible & Tract Society to
do it for us, with a pledge to refund the money to the Society, either by the Sale
of the Books, or by direct contributions.
Hoku Loa.
As one of the executive committee for publishing the Hoku Loa, the
past year, it may be well for me to make a few remarks on that Subject.
The following vote was passed by this association one year ago.
''Voted, that in the view of this association, a religious News Paper Should
be Sustained in the Hawaiian language."
I favoured this vote; & my impression is that the Hoku Loa has been worth far
more to my people than it has cost them.
They have taken about 260 copies & paid
for them!
Br Parker has been the principal Editor & I have been the proof reader.
I
have furnished Some Missionary intelligence, & written Some brief articles about
the revival on Oahu.
Besides this it has devolved on me to collect funds to pay
Mr. Whitney; Quarterly Bills.
Soon after this association adjourned last year, one of the Committee Said to
me, "How about the Hoku Loa?
Where are you gding to get funds to print it?
must have funds to purchase the paper, pay the printer &c.
You
I will See Mr. Whitney,
Said he, & See on what terms he will print three or four thousand copies monthly,
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1861
& forward them to the brethren through the mail.
But I will not be responsible
for a Single dollar of money."
My reply was, "I have confidence in my Missionary Brethren, that whatever
number they Shall order, they will be responsible for.
ier for one year."
And I will act as financ
So I wrote immediately to each brother asking him, how many
copies of Hoku Loa, Buke II he would order, & be responsible for the pay?
Some
of the brethren Seemed to understand, that the Hoku Loa has no funds to begin
with, & of course none to fall back upon; & if Sustained at all, it must be by
Subscription.
Accordingly, they Sent on their order for the paper, with provision
to call on Castle & Cooke for the pay.
If all the brethren had done the Same, it
would have been a great relief to the financial department.
I most Sincerely hope that we Shall continue the Hoku Loa another year.
I am
willing to labour with the Editor, in furnishing matter, reading proof Sheets, &
distibuting the paper.
among my own people.
And I will be responsible for all that I may distribute
If the other brethren will do the Same, we Shall have no
difficulty in Sustaining the Paper another year.
Contributions in cash
Support of Pastor
$ 830,50
Sexton, lighting the church —
church repairs &c
Repairs on Kapalama church
60.00
46.00
Towards building a church at Kalihi
278.00
Towards building a ch. at Moanalua
210.00
To assist in repairing the ch. at Hana
21.25
To assist in building a ch. at Kipahulu
10.00
To
"
"
22.25
To
"
" repairs on the ch. at Hauula
"
a ch. at Makua, Waianae
10.00
Foreign Missions
180.00
Total
$1668,00
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1861
Statistics
Whole No. on profession
"
"
"
certificate
Past year on profession
"
"
" certificate
2724
915
240
49
Restored past year
108
Total past year
397
Whole No. dismissed
479
Dismissed past year
11
Total deceased
1468
Deceased past year
28
Excluded past year
5
Now in regular Standing
1186
Total children baptized
804
Baptized past year
30
Marriages past year
48
(Unsigned)
(L. Smith)
�Honolulu 2d Church
Smith
.
L
The Mission family located at this station have occasion for gratitude to
God for a good degree of health & Strength w i t h which they have been favored Since
our last annual meeting.
The precious revival of religion with which they and their people have been
blessed, has very considerably increased the labours of the pastor, & at times he
has felt that he Should Sink under them.
But by the grace of God he has been en-
abled to preach, exhort & labour, much as in the great revival Season Some 20
years ago.
Several of the leading church members have rendered very efficient aid
in conducting religious meetings.
Thursday meetings.
Besides our regular meetings on the Sabbath for preach
ing, bible class & Sabbath Schools, my people have held a week day meeting every
Thursday the year round.
These meetings have been
held alternately at five different
places; (viz) Moanalua, Kalihi, Kapalama and Kaumakapili.
Tour of Oahu.
panied by
In September last I made a tour of this Island, accom
ten native lunas, one or more from each church on Oahu.
They were very
zealous, and improved every opportunity in visiting from house to house, & urging
the people to come out to the public meetings.;
accompany our efforts all around the Island.
& the blessing of God seemed to
Backsliders & impenitent Sinners arose
and confessed their Sins at every Station.
Concert week of pray er. We observed the 2d week in January, as a week of
prayer and
praise to Almighty God; and the Holy Spirit was obviously with us to
revive, quicken and lead Sinners to repentance.
The church members became so in
terested in those meetings, that they have continued them every evening since, even
to the present time.
Popery.
The Priests have had no sympathy with our revival of religion.
They have continued to issue their monthly paper, full of Jesuitical hate towards
Protestants, often asserting the most palpable falsehoods, & for the most part
harping upon one and the Same Subject, (viz) that the Papal church is the only true
church, and that all who may
differ from them in Sentiment or practice, are theives
�Smith,
For the minutes [1861]
Honolulu
2
and robbers !
They have said much to draw me & my people into the News Paper con
troversy with them.
But they do not recognize our Bible as the word of God, nor
our ministers as ministers of Christ; nor our churches as the churches of Christ.
Of what possible use therefore to enter a News Paper controversy with them?
Some
25 or 30 of their people have been hopefully converted during the past year, and
have united with our church.
Hula.
ing
The revival has had a powerful effect, for the time being, in break
up this relic of heathenism.
Nearly all the ringleaders, both men & women,
have been hopefully converted, & united with
Schools.
the church.
Our common Schools, our Sabbath Schools, and a large Bible dlass
have been very interesting the year past.
Ai O ka La.
This little book, which was assigned me for 1862 has been ready
several months, for the press.
A letter has been sent to the A Tract Society in
N. York asking a grant of a thousand dollars to print it.
But as they make us no
reply, the presumption is that they are embarrassed for want of funds.
Hoku Loa.
The following vote was passed by this association one year ago. "voted,
that in the view of this association a religious News Paper Should be
in the Hawaiian language." I favored this vote.
& paid for them.
Sustained
My people have taken 260 copies
And my impression is, that this paper has been worth far more to
them than it has cost.
Some of the brethren understood distinctly, that the Hoku
Loa had no funds to begin with, & of course had none to fall back
Sustained at all it must be Sustained by Subscription.
upon, and if
Accordingly, they Sent on
their request for the paper, with an order on Castle & Cooke for the pay.
If all
the brethren had done the Same, it would have been a great relief to the financial
department.
Contributions in Cash
For Support of pastor
For the Hawaiian Miss. Society
To other benevolent objects
$830.50
180.00
657.50
Total $1668.00
�Smith,
Honolulu
[1861]
for the minutes
Statistics
Whole No . on profession "
"
" Certificate -
Past year on profession
"
"
"
2724
914
240
certificate
49
Restored past year
108
Total past year
397
Whole No. dismissed
- 479
Dismissed past year
- 11
Tot&l Deceased ----
1468
Deceased past year ----
28
Excluded past year -----
5
Now in regular standing
1186
Total children baptised
Baptised past year ---Marriages past year ---
804
30
48
�May 1862
Honolulu 2d, Station Report
The Revival of 1860 & 61 has not continued till the present time;
though the
good effects of that refreshing Season are Still obvious among us.
A daily evening prayer meeting was established by our church lunas, at the
close of the week of prayer in January 1861, which has been continued unto the
present time.
The alternate union Sabbath evening meetings, commenced by Br Clark & Myself
in the fall of 1860 have been kept up till the present time. (But not feeling able
to preach three times on the Sabbath, My Sabbath afternoon meetings are conducted
by the lunas, when I am expected to preach in the evening.)
One reason why I wish to continue our Sabbath evening meetings, is the fact,
that quite a number of people in Honolulu come out to our meetings in the evening,
who/do not attend during the day.
Politics.
My church & congregation have interested themselves more this year in
politics, than every before.
The first week in January, they exhibited far more
zeal than knowledge, in the Election of their Representatives.
Instead of uniting & concentrating their votes on four worthy candidates; they
run for a great number & were entirely defeated.
Whereas the Papists, who are trained to have no mind of their own; but to
think just as their priest thinks; & to do just what he commands them to do, were
united in their candidates, & carried the election.
I trust the Protestants in Honolulu have learned a lesson, which will make them
wiser in future.
Since the opening of the Legislature on the 2d inst., they have Sent in Sev
eral petitions to the house of Representatives, praying that Some of the laws en
acted in 1859 & 60 may be repealed, firmly believing that they are a Shame & curse
to the nation; & praying also that no law be enacted, allowing either foreigners
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1862
or natives to make Rum on these Islands.
Schools.
Our common Schools are five in number.
Two of the teachers have been
dismissed during the year, for immoral conduct; & their places Supplied by better
men.
Our Schools have held on their way as well as could be expected, consider
ing the age, infirmaties, & character of the nominal president of the Board of
Education.
Our Sabbath School, & Bible class have been
teresting the year past.
o
well attended, & unusually in
The Ui is the book used in the Sabbath School & the Ai
ka L a in the Bible class.
I would remark here, that the Papists are petitioning the Legislature to re
model the School Laws -- asking that a Roman Catholic be one of the Board of
Education; that the boys & girls be taught in different Schools, the School money
be divided, &c &c —
—
Let us, Brethren, be exhorted to pray much these days for the two houses of
the Legislature, that they do all they can, with the embarrassed State of their
treasury, to Support & encourage our Schools & Institutions of learning; & that
they by no means yield to the petitions & wishes of the Man of Sin.
Popery.
Unwearied efforts are constantly made by the Priests, to proselyte the
members of my congregation to popery.
much upon us the past year.
own antidote with itself.
But I am not aware that they have gained
Their News Paper = the "Hae Kiritiano," carries its
I certainly was never So disgusted with any paper, which
professes to advocate Christianity, as I am with that.
Its grand effort is to
point out the faults of Protestants, their News Papers, their ministers, their
acts of benevolence &c &c.
But in vain do we look to them for any thing as a Substitute, which is at all
satisfactory to us.
They find fault with our Bible, but they do not present us
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with a better one.
1862
They Say nothing about the way of life, by repentance(!) for
Sin & faith in our Lord Jesus Christ;
I find no chapters, or paragraphs, or exhort
ations, in their Paper on industry; honesty, temperance, chastity, observing the
Sabbath, nothing Said about Revivals of Religion, or the influances(!) of the Holy
Spirit in leading men to repentance; & no items of domestic or foreign News.
Sure
I am that their Paper, is poorly calculated to draw away the disciples of Christ
from the faith of the gospel.
Still it is true that occasionally a man or a woman, goes out from us, & joins
the Papists; Simply because they were not of us; for had they been of us, they
no doubt would have continued with us.
Mortality.
We have not been Visited this year with a Sweeping epidemic; though
there have been a good many deaths; far more I apprehend than births.
We have
buried 43 church members, but have baptized only 9 children during the year. -The influenza, accompanied by an intermittant(!) fever, is very prevalent at the
present time; it has proved fatal in quite a number of cases among the natives.
Abatement of Moral evils.
His Majesty in his late address before the Legislature used the following lang
uage --"It is gratifying to find by the Report of the Chief Justice, that in the
Summary of Offences(!), there has been a decided diminution.
This especially ap
pears to be the case in Some locality, of that class of offenses which are of a
demoralizing nature."He then proceeds to mention the instrumentality which have
brought about the reformation.
But in my humble estimation, the one which Stands
at the head of the list, he has omited(!) to mention, (viz) the great falling of
of(!) whale Ships.
If the grand Source of practical licentiousness is removed,
no marvel, if the Streams of iniquity begin to dry up.
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1862
Ecclesiastical Association
For Several years there has been a clerical association on Oahu, embraceing(!)
both foreign & native pastors, who have met twice a year.
These meetings have
been very interesting to us foreign pastors; but as they have been conducted in
the English language, with the exception of the Essays read by the native breth
ren, the meetings of course were not very interesting to them.
Soon after our last general meeting, Several of us resolved that we must
have an Ecclesiastical organization, to be conducted in the Hawaiian language.
Accordingly, a Notice was published in the Hae Hawaii, & the Hoku Loa, in
viting each pastor of a Hawaiian church, with five native delegates, to meet at
Hauula on the 10th of S e p t
for the purpose of organizing an Ecclesiastical associ
ation for mutual improvement.
The meeting was well attended, & was organized by appointing Br. Emerson chair
man, & S. Kahoohalahala Scribe.
A Constitution was draughted, discussed & adopted; & the Association is called
“He Ahahui o na Ekalesia maoli ma Oahu."
The persons belonging to this are the pastors of the native churches on Oahu,
together with clergymen who understand the native language; & 5 delegates from
each of the Native churches, to be elected from time to time.
The Object of this association is the Spiritual welfare of the churches rep
resented; to exhort & encourage each other in acts of benevolence, & to instruct
Hawaiian pastors & deacons how to conduct the affairs of the church of Christ.
The meetings of this Association are to be held twice a year, (viz) In Feb
ruary & September.
The first meeting continued three days, & was highly interesting to all the
Native brethren; & closed with the observance of the Lords Supper.
The Second meeting was held in the 2d church of Honolulu at Kaumakapili, from
the 11th to the 13th of February.
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It was opened by a Sermon from Br. Emerson —
1862
text —
2 Timothy, 2:3 "Thou
therefore, endure hardness as a good Soldier of Jesus Christ."
During the meeting , Essays were read on Subjects previously assigned, & the
pastors gave a brief account of their churches & Schools.
One of the Subjects presented by the committee of Overtures was, "The pro
priety of appointing a native treasurer of the funds contributed for foreign
Missions.
This overture was presented & warmly discussed by Some of the native
brethren.
They Said they had received letters from the native Missionaries, complaining
that Some of the articles Sent them by our Secular agents, were of no Service to
them; (for instance) the Shoes Sent are So Small they cannot wear them; & Some
times the Salmon is tainted & they cannot eat it.
The argument for appointing a native treasurer was; —
that a native in pur
chasing Shoes would know what Shoes will fit; & he would also know the differance
(i) between good & poor Salmon.
But, after explaining to them the modus operandi of our Secular agents in
puting(!) up the orders of the Missionaries; & that Salmon Sometimes Springs a
leak on the passage, & having lost its pickle, it Soon becomes tainted & unfit
to eat; &c &c —
the Overturns was disposed of by appointing a Committee of four
to confer with the Secular agents, at the time of puting up the annual Supplies;
(viz) Messrs Clark
Naone of Kawaiahao; & Messrs Smith & Solomona of Kaumakapili.
As we kept open doors, quite a number of church members & others attended our
meetings; and listened with deep interest to the Essays read, & the discussion of
the various Subjects brought before the meeting.
Out of meeting the remark was often made, this is Something entirely New to
us; it is like a family School, where parents are are(!) teaching their children.
The Committee on assignments brought forward Some 14 or 15 different Subjects,
which were given out to the pastors & delegates, to be prepared, & read before the
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1862
association at its next meetings to be held at Kaneohe next September.
On the third day of this meeting, the exercises closed
by the observance of
the Lords Supper.
I think Such meetings are calculated to do good to all who attend; & that the
church and people where the meetings are held, will feel amply regarded for their
trouble & hospitality in entertaining the members of the association.
Hoku Loa.
At the meeting of this association last year, I expressed a willing
ness to assist Dr Parker in editing the Hoku Loa during its 3d year, providing
the brethren would be responsible for the pay of the Papers they Should order.
But for Some reason or other, Br. Parker has left me to Serve as Sole Editor.
Br. Lyons has kindly furnished a hymn for each of the 12 numbers.
win wrote an article for Several papers about the American war.
Br. Bald
Two or three of
our Ecclesiastical Associations have furnished the minutes of their meetings for
this paper.
But the Brethren
Natives formerly wrote considerable for this paper; but Since the Kuokoa &
pakipika have been printed, they have Sent their communications to those papers.
There is only one number more to be printed to complete the IIld volume of the
Hoku Loa.
The question now arrises,(!) Shall we publish the Hoku Loa another year?
Have
the two papers just alluded to, become So popular & useful to the people, that
there is no necessity for continuing our Missionary & religious News Paper?
I
do not know that the Board of Directors of either of those Papers, will be will
ing to print our Missionary letters, & communications from Marquesas, & Micro
nesia; for they Resolved, at the commencement, that they would be indipendant(!),
& not publish, or advocate the cause of any religious Sect or denomination.
It will be a very great loss to our churches, & the cause of foreign miss
ions, if all the letters from the Missionaries, & the doings of the Directors are
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1862
to be Suppressed, & filed away in the archives of the Hawaiian Miss, Society.
It has been Suggested that as a Substitute for the Hoku Loa, the Hawaiian
Bible & Tract Society be requested to print a Small Missionary pamphlet, Some two
or three times a year; or as often as we may have important Missionary intelli
gence to communicate.
I am inclined to favor this idea, prodding the Directors
of that Society will give their approbation.
very(!) few tracts have been printed
by that Society the year past; not for want of funds, but for want of Suitable
tracts to print.
The Edition of the Hoku Loa this year is 3 ,000; the cost of which is $45 per month
or $540 for the year.
Some of the brethren have paid for their papers in full —
Some in part; & Some nothing at all as yet.
There is now about $150;00 due
for that paper.
Statistics
Whole No. on profession
On certificate
Past year on profession
"
"
"
certificate
Total past year
2765
961
41
47
88
Whole No. dismissed
494
Dismissed past year
15
Total deceased
1511
Deceased past year
43
Excluded past year
20
Now in regular Standing
1196
Total children baptized
813
Baptized past year
Marriages past year
9
42
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1862
Contributions
Support of Pastor
$ 700,00
Foreign Missions
100,00
To aid in building meeting houses in our own, & in other fields
at these Islands
500,00
For Sexton, highting(!) the church, & repairs on the church &c
Total =
______80,50
$1380,50
(Unsigned)
(L. Smith)
�Station Report
May 1863
The health of the mission family at Honolulu 2d Station, has been about as
usual the past year.
Old age however is obviously corning over the pastor; this appears in the di
minution of his general Strength; in the imperfection of his eye Sight, & in an
increased difficulty of hearing. — —
in age & infirmities
Still he has not advanced quite far enough
to adopt the language of Solomon in the 12th chapter of
Ecclesiastes, & Say that he takes ho further Satisfaction in the affairs of this
life.
During our great revival in 1838-9&40 it was my privilege to conduct three
public meetings on the Sabbath, besides Superintending a large Sabbath School;
a daily morning prayer meeting, & a daily afternoon conference meeting, besides
talking personally with enquirers till 9 o clock almost every evening.
But this
was more than 20 years ago.
Now, I can by no means perform Such an amount of labour.
Indeed, it is not necessary that I should; for we have quite a number of Lunas,
& other church members who assist meetings, & who are often times very edifying &
instructive to their audiances(! ).
During the past year, unless favored with aid by a brother from Some other
Station, I have preached twice on the Sabbath, besides Superintending the Sabbath
School & Bible class.
At Moanalua, Kalihi, Kapalama, & Maemae, religious meetings are held every
Sabbath P.M. conducted by Some of our Lunas; this accounts for the differance(!)
between our forenoon & afternoon congregations at the Station.
Some Sabbaths I go out to these district meetings myself, & leave the meeting
in the church with the Lunas.
A daily eveing prayer meeting has been kept up at the Station ever Since the
concert week of prayer in Jan. 1861. Last year & year before, the average attendance
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1863
ranged from 150 to 300.
But in this time of general Stupidity, it varies from
50 to 150.
Daily morning meetings are held at the 4 District meeting houses above alluded
to.
I hold a meeting every Saturday P.M. with my church Lunas, at which time I make
enquiries after the church members; whether any have died during the week/or have
fallen into Sin? or have taken French leave & gone off to join any of the other
Sects?
We also attend to cases of church discipline; & when not otherwise employ
ed, I expound Some portion of Scripture.
Last fall & winter there was considerable Sickness among the people, & So
few attended our regular Thursday meetings, that we Suspended them for a time.
But
we have recently revived them again, with the hope that we Shall have health,
Strength & Zeal to continue them as heretofore.
Schools.
We have 5 district Schools, embracing about 230 Scholars.
Each School
School (!) has a good framed School house; the teachers have done well the past
year, & the children have made commendable progress in their Studies.
-
The Papists have one School of 32 Scholars at Moanalua; & 2 in Honolulu, number
ing
children (!).
The Reformed Catholics have two Schools, but I do not know the number of their
pupils.
Sabbath School.
Our Sabbath School averages from 120 to 150, & is doing as well
as could be expected, considering the want of Suitable Sabbath School Books.
I have an adult Bible class of about 40.
The Ai O ka La, which was printed by the
A. Tract Society in 1860 has Served us for 2 years.
parents & children, are now trsing the "Ui".
But our entire School, both
The Ui treats upon Several very im
portant practical Subjects, Some of which ought to be thoroughly expounded to the
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1863
people just at this time, when forms & cermonies are So much talked of in this
community.
I therefore Select the more important
Subjects, & make them the found
ation of my remarks Sabbath Mornings; & then go into the Bible class & Sabbath
School & explain the Subjects all over to them again.
The Ui will answer our purpose for the present, but we deeply feel the need of
a Sabbath School book, better adapted to the children & youth, than any we have
ever yet had.
Revival, ingathering &c .
We have had no revival of religion the year past; no outpouring of the Spirit; no
inquirers Monday mornings to talk about the interests of their Souls; & no in
gathering into the church of young convents.
On the other hand, we have had no great defection in the church; no combination
& out burst of Sin, Such as a revival of the Hula, or of Rum drinking, gambling,
returning again to idolatry & the like.
Our Lunas, & a goodly number of the church members have been regular in their
attendance upon the means of grace; but a majority of the church have apparently
been Stupid & indifferent to the great interests of their Souls, & the Souls of
others;
We greatly need a refreshing from the presence of the Lord.
Famine.
For Some time past, there has been a great Scarcity of food for natives
in Honolulu,
In times of plenty it is Said that 50 cents will feed a native for
a week, & $2 will pay for his board a month.
On Some of the plantations, foreigners employ native labourers for $6 per month
& board them; or for $8 per month & they board themselves.
But of late. Several natives have told me that 50 cents will not purchase one
Satisfactory meal for themselves & family.
Where people live from hand to mouth,
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1863
as most of this people do in Honolulu, times of Scarcity come very hard upon them.
And hence a great falling off in their benevolent contributions.
Those who live in districts where Sugar, wheat, Rice & Cotton are cultivated
may be far better able to contribute for benevolent objects, than those who live
in Honolulu, where few Ships now touch for Supplies, compared with years gone by.
Improvements.
But notwithstanding the poverty of the Mass —
it is obvious that
Some who live in & around Honolulu are in comfortable circumstances.
New framed
buildings multiply among them yearly; their yards are enclosed with fences, plant
ed with trees, vegitables(!) & flowers, & every thing exhibits quite a civilized
appearance.
Dress, Manners &c.
The church going people generally dress well; Some few perhaps
may be rather extravigant(!) in dress.
Others, I presume, do not attend church
at all, for the want of Suitable clothing.
Some children excuse themselves from attending the Sabbath School for want of
clothes Suitable for the occasion.
I think however that there are very few parents or children, who cannot command
Suitable clothing to attend public worship on the Sabbath, if they have a desire So
to do.
Many of our people are very respectable & polite in their deportment, whether
in the house of God, or on their farms or in the work Shop, or in the Streets; as
most foreign visitors do testify.
Decrease of Population.
I called the other day upon Mr Low, at the Office of Public Instruction, to as
certain what is the comparative differance(!) of Births & deaths throught(!) the
Islands, as reported to him by the government
agents.
And according to his re
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1863
cords, in the year 1862, there were about two deaths to one birth, throughout the
Islands.
In Some districts a little more, & in Some a fraction less.
In the District of Honolulu, which extends from Moanalua & Maunalua, the number
of deaths in 1862, were 608; while the Births were only 344 a fraction less than
2 deaths to 1 birth.
In the 2d church of Honolulu, there have been over 50 deaths the year past,
while the number of children who have been baptized during that period, is less
than 20.
The decrease of the natives is truly alarming!
Papists.
We have been less annoyed by the French Papists this year than formerly;
& probably for two reasons.
First; we have had no Religious Newspaper for them to
oppose & ridicule in their "Hai Kiritiano."
& Secondly; they have been Zealous
ly engaged in a Newspaper controversy with the "English Reformed Catholics." Very
few if any of our church members have gone over to the Papists the past year.
Occasionally one, who does not wish to aid in Supporting the Institutions of the
Gospel, will "Secede"
"repudiate" his debts & obligations to the church, & go
off to the Papists.
English Reformed Catholics
This Sect have come & established themselves at Honolulu, Since our last general
meeting.
Having heard that they were comeing(!), we most Sincerely hoped that
they would cooperate with us in carrying forward the work of civilization &
christianity, which has been in progress, here for the last 40 years.
But to our astonishment they ignore what has been done by the protestant
Mission; & even decline meeting with us in a monthly concert of prayer for the
heathen.
They have organized a church, embraceing(!) Several persons, who formerly pro
fessed to be Episcopalians; & they have gathered in Some* who never before pro
�6/ (Kaumakapili)
fessed to be pious.
1863
The King & Queen, & Several foreigners, who heretofore, but
Seldom, if ever, attended public worship, are among their first ripe, gathered,
confirmed fruits.
Bishop Staly(Staley) & Staff, profess to have far more Sympathy with the Pa
pists than with us; though I Should judge from their Newspaper Correspondence,
that the Papists have no more charity for them, than they have for us.
Their code of morals is quite different from that of the protestant Missionaries, who have So long preoccupyed(!) this field.
They teach both by precept & example, that the christian religion does not cur
tail their earthy pleasures & amusements.
They give & attend balls; engage in
theatrical amusements; ride out for pleasure on the Sabbath; attend dinner part
ies on the Sabbath, &c &c.
With these avowed Sentiments & practices, they have made vigerous(!) & perserving efforts to
proselyte Some of the best families in the Kaumakapili church,
but So far as I know, with little or no Success.
The Bishop has organized the ladies of that church into a Society, with the
ostensible object of Staying the tide of depopulation.
Paying no regard to previous church organizations & labours among this people,
they consider the entire city of Honolulu & its Suburbs as their Missionary field.
In committees of two or three* they visit from house to house, enquiring of the
people, who of them profess to be Christians* & who do not?
have been baptized, & who have not?
families?
Who of their children
What the prospects are of an increase in their
And whether they are not willing to go at once & join the "Reformed
Catholic Church?"
But it is obvious that one very Special object of the ladies Society is, to
be on hand, like the "Egyptian midw ives," not to kill the male children, but to
Save all, both male & female, & to help nurse them for a time; & by all means, per
suade the parents to carry them to the Cathedral for baptism.
�7/ (Kaumakapili)
1863
But with all their disinterested benevolence, zeal, & pains taking(!); Several
of their new born, adopted infants, have already gone to their graves!!
It is not yet obvious, that the rising generation in this city are hereafter
to live, a move, & have their being, in accordance with the dictates of this dog
matical Sect.
In the providence of God, they have been permited(!) to come & establish them
selves among us; but whether for the best good of this people or not, time will
Show.
James Says, "Blessed is the man, who endureth temptation, for when he is
tried, he Shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them
that love him."
Native Assistant.
It may be well for me to mention in my Report, that I feel the
need of Some assistance in the work that devolves upon me at this Station.
have before remarked, old age & infirmaties are coming upon me.
As I
Much of my time
a Strength is occupyed in general, miscellaneous work; trustee meetings; meetings
of the Advisory Committee; meetings of the Board of Missionary Directors; Corres
pondence with our foreign Missionaries; & with Missionary candidates; & in looking
after the Supplies of the Missionaries, whenever the Morning Star is about to
leave for the Marquesas & Micronisian(!) Missions &c &c.
It has been Suggested to me that I take a licentiate for a year, & teach him
theology;
& let him assist me in conference & prayer meetings, & preach a part
of the time on the Sabbath.
I like the Suggestion, & perhaps I may do So, pro
viding arrangements can be made for his Support; & it shall not interfere with the
new organization, which may take place among us at this general meeting.
Census of the church
During the month of April, I took considerable pains to ascertain the number of
�8 / (Kaumakapili)
1863
church members now living, connected with the 2d Honolulu church; & also their
whereabouts.
This people have no certain dwelling place; they are given to
change; & some of them change their residance(!) So often, that they are ashamed
to call on their pastors for letters of dismission & recommendation to other
churches.
Some go expecting to return again in a few days or weeks; but by the
importunity of friends, they prolong their visit to months & years.
And hence the
difficulty of keeping church records Strictly accurate.
I
have no hesitation in Stating the number, who have been received to the 2d
church in Honolulu, on profession of their faith in Christ; So also of those who
have been received by letter from other churches; I know how many have taken let
ters of dismission & recommendation to other churches.
But my record of deaths may be quite too Small.
Of those who have gone to California, to Columbia River, or have Shiped(!) on
whalers, or merchantmen, or who emigrate to other Islands without letters; Some
Six months,
a year or 5 years afterward we may hear that they are dead.
In calling the church Roll at this time, more than 100 are missing or lost.
We can now account for only 1,006; & of this number. 128 are off on other Is
lands, or living in other parishes without letters of dismission; leaving only 878
at home.
And about 1/4th of this number are either aged, blind, Sick & poor; or Stupid,
indifferent, & inefficient helpers.
So
that 650 is as many as we can rely upon for any material aid in the Support
of the Institutions of the gospel.
Cash Contributions
Support of pastor
Foreign missions
To assist in rebuilding Lahainaluaa
$ 630.00
305.50
85.122
/
1
�9/(Kaumakapil i)
1863
For the Kiholo Meeting house, Hawaii
30.00
For Services of Sexton
30,00
Repairs on the church at the Station
104.00
Total =$11184.62-1/2
Statistics of the Church
Whole No. received on profession
"
"
"
"
2765
certificate
980
Past year on profession
"
"
"
1863
None
certificate
19
Total past year
19
Whole No. dismissed
508
Dismissed the past year
14
Total deceased
1562
Deceased the past year
51
Excluded
15
Now connected with the Church
1006
Total No. of children baptized
830
Baptized the past year
17
Marriages "
29
"
"
(Unsigned)
(L. Smith)
(Written on the last page, sideways):
1863
June
Report of
Smith's church
or Kaumakapili
Honolulu
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HONOLULU (KAWAIAHAO) STATION REPORTS
CONTENTS
Unsigned fragment [Bingham].............................. .......... . [1830's]
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[1831]
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..... [1832]
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—
..... . —
...... .
,. .1833
Unsigned[Bingham]............. ............. ............... ....... 1834
Unsigned medical report[ Judd]................... . —
................[1830's]
Unsigned[Bingham]................ ..... ......... ........... ..1835
Unsigned [Bingham]..................... ..................... ..1836
Unsigned[Bingham]....... ............................... ........ . .1837
Tinker, R ......... ............ ............................. .
1837
Unsigned [Tinker]............ ...... ............ .......... ........ .1838
Unsigned [Bingham]............... ......................... . —
Unsigned draft [Bingham]........................ . —
..... .1839
......... ...... 1840
Unsigned [Armstrong]........... ............... ........... ......... 1841
Armstrong, R ........ ....... ................. ......... ...... . —
.1842
Armstrong, R ...... ........... ...... .............................. 1842-43
Armstrong, R ............. ............. . —
.-......... ............ 1843-44
Armstrong, R ......... ........ ............................ .
Armstrong, R.............. ............. ............ ........... .
.1846(2 years)
1846-48
Unsigned[Clark]................................. ........ ......... 1849
Unsigned [Clark]............................ ........... ........... 1851
Unsigned[Clark]...................... .......... ...................1852
Unsigned abstract[Glark]............. ........ ......... ........... 1852
Unsigned [Clark]................... -........... ........ ........... 1853
Unsigned [Clark]......... .............. ......... ....... .......... [1854]
Unsigned [Clark]............. ...... ....... ............. ......... .1855
Unsigned abstract........ ...... ................................... [1855 ]
Armstrong, R........... ................. . —
..... ........ ........ 1856
Unsignedf Clark] .......... ................ ........... ......... .
.1857
Unsigned abstract[Clark]...................... ...... .......... ... 1860
Clark, E. abstract......... ...... ................................ 1861
Unsigned church statistics................... ..... ............ .
.1862
Unsigned [Clark]........... ........................ ............... 1862
Unsigned [Clark].......... .......... ....... .......................1863
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. . . chosen him § his service § his salvation, whose sincerityt i m e ^ temptation must prove but none of these have yet been
brought forward or propounded for admission, as we usually
allow years of trial before receiving to membership those who
profess repentance § hope § appear to live reformed lives.
The admissions to the church during the year have been 20. -18 natives § two foreign residents, Mssrs* Colcord ^ Anderson,
both of whom appear to take a decided stand in the cause of
temperance, § religion in the midst of Honolulu even in troublous
times.
An application was made to Mr. C.' purchase of him a
large iron pot]for the purpose of distilling rum.
would not sell it for that purpose.
had their relation remove
gold.
He said he
Some of our members have
lillegible]
fill:’it with
and have been organized with other into a church at the
other station on this island, at W'aialua one of them: 'Kuo'Koa,
being interested with the office of deacon.
He with Laanui have
proved themselves efficient missionary helpers § coadjutors
of Mr. Emerson,
§ have shewn that native chri:stians are capable,
of doing good in extending the infloience of Christian institu
tions in their own country'.
We have had more occasion the last y'eaT to. e^ceycj.se the dis
cipline of the church, the las-t year that^sicy heretofoxe ^ owing
in part as we believe to •[the s'uccessive cargoes of rum int'lros
duced among the people, and the leisure given to sell, and the
inducements- held-out to use it by wiclcedness in high places.
One of our members has been ■excommunicated the motJon for
excision proposed -in church meeting without a dissenting voice,
FourJ?]
others have been suspended from the communion two of
whom on apparent repentance have been restored, and t.-wo -who were
previotisly suspended have also been restored one of -whom is
known to the Mission gennerally', Samuel
M i l l s » 'Wb-O though
he does not give all the e-yidence of decided piety, that could
be desired, yet having reformed, and made a full § B.umble
public confession, and given as good evidence of repentance
as at any- former period, of his life or whi.le in America
where he was baptized it was judged best after long trial to
restore him to the fellowship and privileges of the church f|
�Honolulu, 1830’s
p. 2
the affectionate
[?] fulness of h.is brethren whom he had ex
ceedingly grieved.
Religious meetings distinct from the ordinary public
preaching and ordinances at the church.
The monthly concert prayer meeting for the conversion of the
world, with the natives at the church, and for the same object
in English at Mr.
.
The monthly concert for Sabbath schools,
at Mr. Johntones, and the monthly concert for seamen at the
reading rooms some of us usually attend § assist. A weekly
meeting for ourselves § foreign residents at on Wed., are at
Mr. Chamberlain’s, -- a quarterly,
[?] ■ at Mr. Clarks --
a monthly meeting of the church, for business
The Friday
improvement.
been continued in the female part
of which thevefs^ada^ystem of attending to the scriptures has
been
J[?J
§ the members have usually been assisted by Mrs. B.
Bible classes § sabbath schools
An
[?J of about 400 have attended to the verse a day system,
meeting at 8 o clock sabbath morning, partly at the church' §
partly a schoolhouse in the Ivicinity] of the village,
these have
been attended by Mr. Clark § Dr. Judd.
At each place a bible class on Thursday has been attended,
where the subject of the Wednesday lecture was reyiewed,
§ the
Ninau hoike in some cases I?] forming part of the lesson.
These
classes have been attended by Mssrs B. § C,
A sabbath school of about 5 0 who I sic’
] lesson h-as- been to
convert to memory a page a week, of the N e w Testasijent -v. th,a^s has
been instructed by Mr, Cha-mberlain, at 2 p.m.
Mr. Rogers and others have paid some attention to children
on the sabbath.
Mr,
§ Mrs. Johnstone hav^e had the sabbath,
school of children in some sense a branch of our missionary work,
distinct.from the Oahu Charity school tho the same pupils are
embraced.
Station Schools |c
A station school for teachexs -^as commenced soen ,a;fteT the
last general m.eeting § continued till Oct,' - t. Attendance i^'Xegula'r
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p
average about 40 studie reading. Arithmetic Geography, opened
again in March, first lesson in Geometry introduced.
The school was much embarrassed, for want of a suitable
home -- which the scholars are now correcting for themselves,
who will need the last year appropriations from the mission ^
perhap.s -more to aid them in finishing it,
Mr. Clark aided by
Dr. J. have the charge of this station school.
Another station school house of earth bricks is in building
by the natives, who have contributed liberally in natives labor
and money for its erection.
Dimension 54 feet by 30, walls 11
feet high.
Mrs. Judd has had a class of 24 women, whom she had read the
scripture once a week -- Mr. Bingham another class of 67 for
reading the scriptures, reciting the Ninau Hoike, §c.The sisters
of the station have engaged also in a Maternal association
embracing those female members of the church who sustain the re
lationship of mothers.
Labors abroad -Mr. Clark has held a meeting twice in the J?] most of the
year, cong. fr. 5 0 to 200, has preached some sabbaths at Waikiki,
about 17 at Esp., at W'aipio ^ two at Wailua {?] 5 at Kauai .-The congregation at Ewa, not exceed 300 .or 400., during this
[?]
haunaele [panic, commotion]
Perhaps more would attend at
Waiawa, where at present th:ere is more good order, by no suita
ble house of worship.
Mr. Bingham spent about a week at W'ailua,
has preached once at Ewa, § once at Kolau.
tour of this island and
J?J
Dr, J. ha,s made the
Wailuku on Maui,
Admissions to the Church during the year
2Q,
Suspended from the com 4 two of whom have been restored
two previously suspended, restored
One has been excommunicated Whole no, admitted to the church
do, do.
#
Died
Removed
Excom.
229
15
5
1 “ leaving
2 08
�Honolulu 1830’s
p
Average of the readers who appeared at the several exam
inations -Palikolau
2.44
Waikiki
1.32
Honolulu
6.79
Ewa
2.56
13.11
Marriages
71
Contributions. --
couple.
Monthly Con.
Outfit for Marquesas Mission
84.50
cash
66,50
in supplies
Cash for schoolhouse
Total,
[?]
bution for new
151.00
355.00
=
5.06
the contri
.[?] of the gospel commenced [?J
348,12
cash
. .6.6...50
supplies
414.62
Adding ca±i for schoolhouse
which is part in aid of the mission
. 35.5..0.0
769.62
�Report of the Station at Honolulu [l83lj
The oause of religion has heen gradually advancing at this station
since the last general report.
The n u m h e r o f serious inquirers & hope
ful converts have greatly increased.
more thronged.
Our meetings were prohahly never
Several meeting houses have "been erected in different
parts of the Island & dedicated to the worship of God.
In most or all
of them public worship is regularly conducted hy native members of the
church.
Our congregation at this place has so much increased^ that a
separate meeting has heen held for those who could not find admission
to the meeting house.
Numher received to the church since the last General Meeting 40.
IWiole number received at the station 106.
Deaths 5.
Expelled or dismissed none.
Propoimded 30.
The nuniber of scholars in our schools has considerably increased
during the period under review & very perceptible improvement has been
made in reading & writing.
school 5^443.
Schools 250.
Alphabet & Spelling 4^893.
Teachers 250.
Readers in
Whole number of scholars
10^336.
The ladies of the mission have spent considerable time in instruct
ing with good incouragement.
Something has been, done in the way of
raising the qualifications of teachers, & some improvement m.ade in the
examinations which.'promise to be useful.
Marriages 437
Some changes have taken place in the political affairs■of the
nation, which have a very favourable bearing upon the cause of morality
& religion at this station.
For the operations of the press see report of the printing commit
tee.
y
Mr. Shepard's health has been declining.
The health of other
members of the station has been for the most part comfortable.
�[Honolulu 1832]
The general labors of the station have heen carried on as usual..
Our assemhlies on the sahbath have embraced from 1,000 to 4 thousand
hearers.
Other more private meetings both male & female have been well
attended.
During the year .preaching has been m:aintained ten or twelve
sabbaths in other parts of the island under very favourable circumstance.
The number of,persons who give evidence of external reformation
has considerably increased during the year.
to our church at every commimion season.
to the church during the year is
Additions have been made
The whole number admitted
[no figure given] . Fow, stand pro
pounded [no figure givenj
Our school operations have gone on very much as in times past.
There has been a considerable increase in the number of learners on
the island, & especially in the number of readers.
At our last exam-
ination 6^26.
An Interesting school of children under the superintendance of
the females of the mission has been kept up at this station.
consists of about 200 children.
The school
They are taught on the monatorial
plan, & have made good progress in reading & y/riting.
commenced Geography & natural history.
Some have also
The school bids fair to be
highly us eful.
The number of marriages at this station since June 15, 1831 has
amotmted to 384 couple.
Of these 11 individuals are foreigners,.
marriage of foreigners has occasioned us.considerable trouble.
The
We have
endeavoiored in all cases to adhere as strictly as possible to the
regulations adopted at our. last meeting.
For the operations of the press see report of the printing
#
Committee.
The two catholic priests, who have caused us so much soli
citude left this place in the Waverly Dec^-24.
out for the purpose by the chiefs.
The vessel was fitted
�Report of the Station at Honolulu 1833
The work of the mission in the various d.epartments of labor which
fall to this station have been carried forward, during the year t h o '
we had some illness and some untoward circumstances of anxiety (?)
& embarrassment.
•The arduous duties of the general secular agency of the mission
have been discharged by Mr. Chamberlain, & he has also paid some atten
tion to schools,
. More than ordinary attention to the medical department has been
given by Dr. Judd, on account of having more convenient rooms & having
relinquished the intention of preaching -
He has also devoted some
attention to schools, to engraving & teaching music, & to the verse
learners, a part of whom he meets between the first & second bell for
morning services - on the sabbath - & in connexion with Mr. J<.
to the drawing of maps Mr. Shepard tho feeble & declining has been associated with Mr.
Rogers, in carrying on the printing which this year amounts to more than
9 million pages -
Mr. Rogers has moreover superintended the binding
which has very much increased its operations as facilities and demands
have multiplied!
Mr. & Mrs. Johnstone have been engaged in schools, and [are^
now engaged chiefly in the instruction of the Oahu Charily School for
the instruction ot the children of foreigners containing about 50
pupils.
English preaching at the station has amounted to about 2 sermons
in a week chiefly by Messrs Armstrong Tinker and Alexander.
From three to four sermons a week in the native language have
m
'been preached, chiefly by Messrs Bingham & Clark,
Mr. Clark preached
about 5 months at Waialua, and Mr.- B; labored a: week' at Kauai, when
there appeared to be a work of the Lord in progress. -
Mr, Clark
�Honolulu 1853
2
.
.
lias a part of the year has ( I) preached, attended a bihle c l a s s &
the Ai o ka la on three different days weekly in the rear of the
village of Honolulu.
A few small publications have been prepared (?), as the Buke
a^a m u a , the Ai o ka la, the Olelo no ka mare ana & The A Nuugi^fe
The Psalms from the 25^ to the 75^.^ have been translated, & the
first book of Kings begun, tho much labor is yet to be bestowed on
these before they can be ready for the press.
Dr. Judd has translated the epistle of James, to a Koble Land in
the Brittish Parlamant ( l).
.
Schools
Since the Western, Northwestern, and. Northern districts have,
been set of to Vi/aialua station including about 10,000 inhabitants &
■
, ^ s.
half the territory of ,-bhe.idand , -:■>
only, the Eastern,
the remaining three district
two Southern containing about 20,000 inhabitants
are regarded as belonging particularly to Honolulu Station.
The register of the annual examination of the schools in these
districts about three months subsequent to the unfortunate effects
from
High
authority to relax the restraints upon folly and
wickedness shows the folowing ( l) i-esult[?].
Pal:jJs:oolau, & Waikiki on the Eastern end of the Island
9S5 readers, 725 unable to read = 1650 learners -
1111 Molowa [lazy]
Honolulu - 1498 readers, 106 unable to read =
learners, 246 Molowa
From Honolulu to Barber's Point
677 readers - 333 unable to read ^ 1010 learners - 682 Molowa
Station
3100 readers - 1195 unable to read - 4295 learners 2039 fallen
off
Of those connected with the schools 440 were under the more im
mediate instruction of the members of the mission families, besides
�Honolulu 1833
3.
besides those called poalima, poaha and Ai o ka la.
The school of teachers commencing with 170, and ending 114 was instructed
a part of the time by Messrs Armstrong, Judd, Chamberlain, & Johnstone - and a
part of the time chiefly by Messrs Clark & Chamberlain, Tinker[?’] has rendered
kind assistance there;: - They were taught reading writing, Arithmetic & Geography,
There have been different classes of children, & of women, taught at different':,
times by different individuals in which most of the sisters have taken a part,
Mrs. Clark, Mrs. Armstrong, Mrs. Alexander, Mrs. Tinker, Mrs. Johnstone, Mrs.
Chamberlain, Mrs. Judd & Mrs. Bingham.
At the last examination Mrs. Clark presented
9 infant children of the mis
sionaries - Mrs, Judd 25 native children, taught in writing arithmetic & geography
A 70 women[!].
Mrs.
Bingham presented 61 children & 75 women - Dr. Judd 25
smgers
the king, & Kinau',: Mr. & Mrs. Johnston*'s[!] school were not examined.
including
They are
taught in English « from 4 to 7 hours-a."'day-and a considerable part of them attend
on[an] English preaching and Sabbath school instruction.
The building, they occupy, was built by subssription at the
expense of 2,000 doll. It has a steeple and bell; is of stone; well
finished and furnished, with comfortable seats and a pulpit -affording pleasant accommodations for public worship for foreigners.
Mr. Johnson [sic] has the offer from ■£her;tTus.f.e.es'.of'the s.ch.QQi^
of a salary of 500 doll, as the means of his support, that he may be
exclus'.ively devoted to its interests.
Persons who attend the exercise of Ai oka la at. Honolulu wey-e
at one 'tiine,vabout year after it commenced, - was 180 0- -- It is now
about 600 -- should our political excitement cease^ the number will
probably' ixLcrease.
1163 persons are reported as having forsaken the use of tobacco.
State of the church
8
Admis'sions during the year
It
V.
Deaths
"
Children baptized
3
u
30
Deaths among bapti.zed children
whole number
11
It
209
12
u
11
106
It
It
6
. The church, appears to stand hej: ground. . They aneet .weekly for
prayer among themselves,
T>ro have, been suspended,
irregular walk.
§ two have made confessions, for
�Ii.QP,ol,ulu 1835.;
Marriages
p_ 4
286 --
besides those celebrated by Gov, Adams §
otherwise.
Cash contributions, for a bell $200, about $100 for schoolhouses,
§ $2 80 for Missionary purposes particularly to aid the Marquesan
Mission.
10 doll, of which met the pecuniary expense of printing
the A. 'NuuhiVa.
The contributions for the bell and for Missionary
purposes are committed to M. Chamberlain of which he has an account on
the books of the mission.
The arrival of Rev. Mr. Diell as Caplainjsic] to seamen is,
matter of congratulations.
�HONOLULU 1834
[Note at top o£ page illegible.]
Translations
The principle labor in this department, has been a thorough
revisal
[sic] o£ the revised translation of Matthew, a careful in
spection of the translations of the latter half of the New Testament
^ more particularly 8 of Pauls Epistles for the New Edition now in
press.
a revision in part of John § Luke, a careful revisal of the
translation of Judges a laborious revisal of a [?]
§ large additions, a revisal of part of an [?]
preparation of several new ones.
for the [?]
with many
hymns^ with the
work in hand-
agreeably with the joint views of Messrs Richards § Bingham and the
approval of the printing committee the translation of 13 chapters
o'f first book of kings'
§ the preparation of a Marquesan spelling
book, of 8 pages a few hand bill tracts[?3
§ some alterations, much
less- than could Be wished, to a grammar of the Language,
Xn spea,king of these preparations for the press it may Jbe]
proper to say that the I,?]
assisSed in the
illegible^
work.
are assumed by Dr, Judd who has also
The rest of these labors .[next ^ew words
§ explain of what has been done to 1 kings by Mr» Clark --
have(!falien chiefly on Mr, B. who has usuallypreachedd 2 a week when
M t . Clark has been at Honolulu^, § 3 times
has preaclied at a
distance.
Seamans’ chapel r e a & ^ g rooms have been erected at this place ^
proven to be successful.
\?e still hope the Inext few words illegible]
will ultimately
be useful, though it has yet fully assumed what was expected at the
out set,
I't appears to us-, § probably to the people, to be a kind of half
way' zone between, the world^
§ that holy devotedness to the things of
God § heaven which Missionaries ought unceasingly to inculcate.
There are now 11 professors of religion at this palce, deemed
orthodox, who are not connected with us § two or three others, w h o ■
are not regarded as orthodox.
The apparent conformity of some to
the world, in some respects § their claims on the privileges pf the
Lord's table with us, have o'ccassioned us some solicitude § make the
�Honolulu 1834
advice o£ the mission desirable on that subject.
p. 2
We invite all who love
our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity;', who are members of his churches
in regular standing, and whose lives adorn their proffessio.ns.
Parties for cards § dancing, § the entertainments of the theater,
opened at this place, at which the king § company is himself ^ the
urgency with which foreigners maintain the trade in ardent spirits
invite the attention, advice § sympathy of our brethern from abroad.
We are here unanimous in objecting to the traffic, in ardent
spirits, and the use of them as a drink -- and have made some efforts
to combine with our own the influence of foreigners friendly to the
temperance cause, and we hope the exertions made in this cause by
Mr. Diell who is obtaining individual signers to the pledge of abstin
ence, will be the means of much good.
Very great obstacles, by the change in the government have been
thrown in way of the temperance measures adopted by the more sober
part of the natives, both chiefs and people but their temperance
society is not discouraged, and it is hoped it will live till satan
yields his iron grasp and the people are delivered from- his power.
�Report of medical labors for the Station at Honolulu.
These were continued as usual for about 6 weeks after the conclusion of our
last Annual Meeting until the 27th of August when they were interrupted by calls
from distant stations and only resumed for a few days at a time
part of January, a period of more than four months.
until the early
During this period a visit
was made to Hilo via Lahaina & Kawaihae, To Lahaina and to Waialua.
The last half of the year has been employed in direct labors for the benefit
of the natives in Honolulu, where sickness & death in all their forms have been
making fearful progress.
Ne-aeeeaafe-feas-beei^ept-ei-fehe-iiuiBfee?[T] The patients
have been numerous and the services they have rendered including (Detail) Several
important [
?
] operations have been well appreciated by multitudes.
It is
desirable that something more systematic be done to save this dying people.
(Detail)
No labor worth speaking of have been bestowed on foreigners, during the year
half a dozen [
?
].
I have taught no schools.
Foreigners, no schools.
[The
preceeding paragraph was "X’ed" out on the original manuscript].
The work on Anatomy has been prepared, tho the
[in pencil, very hard to
read] information received from Dr. Chapin that he^iad interested himself in the
S ■S''/
business of procuring cuts for the work & that they would be ready for the
briVrg -fnewhich might [
] Missionaries;’’. They have not however been received.
The work on Temperance has been partly reviewed.
As heretofore I have attend
ed to reading the first proofs of work, done in the Printing Office-., when I have
been at home.
[Unsigned, not dated]
[Probagj^ Judd, 1830’s]
il. 1 § 3 6
�Honolulu 1835
Church
No admissions
though a few 7 have been suspended from com
munion and one o£ these restored on evidence o£ repentence.
The rest have all professed repentance, but have not yet
given sufficient evidence to entitle them to a seat the Lord^s
t ab 1 e .
Two others in the train of the Princess, now at Lahaina are
not in regular standing, Kanauna has been more that a [sic]
r
suspended, tho he made such professions of repentance before
he left this place, as led to the hope that he might be restored,
His wife has since proved herself unworthy the communion from
which I have recently learned she has been debased [?] at that
place.
The church has suffered much the last year from the ravages
of death.
Nine of our members have died.
Several of them active
and particularly valued members -- All apparently in the fa-ith
of the gospel.
Three from other churches have died at this place, who also
gave evidence that their hope of heaven was not without foundation.
181
Marriages
1115
Readers
New Testament
I
have carefully reviewed M. Richards translation of Mark,
have made a new traslation of Luke, and seen Matthew safely
conducted through the press, § read a proff of one third of
Mark.
Have paid.some attention to Mr. Thurstons translation
of John,
and devoted much labor to the first half of the
Epistle to Romans, both to facilitate its preparation, for the
current edition of the New Testament, § to supply the' -ai o' ka
la, which the ill health of Mr. Baldwin led him to request me
to prepare in his stead, even t h o ’ I should omit or postpone
some other assignments
With his request however I could
hardly have complied, had I not supposed that every hour I
devoted to it was aiding another object which the Mission have
in view, a new edition of the N btv Testament,
T have endeavored
to be two months ahead with the ai o ka la, that it -might
�Honolulu 1835
P* 2
reach the stations abroad in season,. [?] the Kumu I have had the
use o£ the improved translation by Mssrs Thurston § Bishop,
§
have studied the pages o£ Professor Stuart and endeavored to
follow'at a respectful distance in the wake of that able
expositor.
In this laborious service, I have been kindly en
couraged to go on, particularly by Mr. Bishop.
As to the Old Testament I have done little more than attend
carefully to the proofs of Judges § Ruth § first § 2 Samuel,
since the last general meeting I have done but little to the
grammar, on which I intend to bestow special attention as soon
as the Hymns § the New Testament shall cease to claim my
principal care, aside from the duties of Pastor,
#
�Report o£ Station
at
Honolulu
June 1836
The progress in the various departments o£ labors, § the
succession o£ changes at this station for last missionary year,
have been much of the same character § style as in former years,
the kinci of service, many, the changes various § frequent,
§
the progress in the good work by the blessings of God gradually
onward tho less rapid than we could wish.
We have been allowed to shake hands with a missionary who
crossed the Rocky mountains to seek out the fort on the Banks
of the Columbia, § to greet the friends from Europe who are
visiting in their own vessel the inhabitants of various islands
in the great Pacific, and laboring for their conversion to God,
^ who are still endeavoring to cooperate with the laborers in
this field.
Preaching has been maintained as usual'.
preached 3 times a week.
82
native
35
English
Mr. Bingham has usually
Mr. Tinker as.follows.
He, with various other laborers, has edited 2.3 numbers of the
Kumu Hawaii.
Our congregation, especially since Jan. has been very large.
.Sometimes supposed to be 4. 000.
Average f©r the year 2000 to
2500 .
The protracted meeting in last week of Jan. was well attended.
We have reason to believe the spirit of God was present,
that much.good was accomplished.
§
At this oneeting, the resident
missionaries were kindly assisted by Mssrs- Smith, Emerson, Parker,
Wheeler,
§ Lee, § several lay brethern.
repeatedly filled to overflowing
Our laTge church was
Good attention appeared to
be gxven to the word.
Several natives distinguised themse.lyes by the force § p r o
priety of their appeals to their countrymen, among whom were
Bartimeus, John Ti § Kekapala.
Several have represented thejij---
selves as having chosen Christ for their saTior at this period §
�Honolulu 1836
p.
givent.themselves to him.
[?] must decide whether their choice
§ surrender, has been cordial
happy.
Church members.
Number admitted during the year by examination § profession
of faith 39.
By letter from other churches[?] 18
Lahaina
7
Hilo
4
Kailua
1
Kaawaloa
1
Waimea
1
Lahainaluna
4
Two from Hilo, § one from L a
haina, recommended, have not been re
ceived.
The whole number received this year 57 The whole number on profession
from the onissionary church
268
6
by letter from native church’V'.1,8"
292
Deceased the last
4
Excommunicated
3
Dismissed § united to
other ch.:
Suspended
16
4 -- 3 for ad.^ § one for idolatry-
Of the seven who stood suspended at the last General Meeting
2 have been excommunicated, 2 restored, three have made profes
sions of penitence and reformation but are still suspended from
communion.
Present number suspended 7.
made confession.
All profess penitence.
all have
including also 2 excommunicated m e m b e r s .
One of the excommunicated members, gave some evidence of
repentance § reformation, was soon laid on a sick bed § died,
without being formally restored.
One of the excommunicated persons seems to remain stout
�Honolulu 1836
p. 3
hearted § rebellious, § is to us as a heatheii man, § publican.
Church
On profession from June 1835 to 1836
Whole no. on proof
Transferred from Miss. Ch.
Rec. by letter last year
Whole no by recommendation
from other church
Whole no. receid
Propounded
Died last year
Whole no deceased
Dismissed to other churches
Excom last year
IVhole no ex
Suspended
Goodstanding
Child baptism this year
Whole No. chil Bap
Ch died last
Ch. died Whole No.
24
292
2
4
30
25
3
4
7
226
22
168
4
22
Marriages --
258
39
26 8
6
18
Schools
Examined April 1836 = 2665
Hon.
)
Men 791.
§ Moan)
lua
Women 949
Boys 119
girls. 252 = 2111
.Re.aders
Honolulu - - Honolulu aina
743)
467)
Moanalua - Waikiki - -
305
.554.
1210
2069
Mrs. Dimonds girls school
45
Mrs. Halls girls school
50
Dr. Judd Boys school
)
taught by native teachers )
56
Mrs. Tinkers Wome n ’
's class of readers in the Kumu
38
Mr. Chamberlain's Sabbath School 1244 average number of atten-^
dance, from 2 to 4 p.m.
#
Mr. Bingham’s Bible class 250
�Honolulu Station Report
for the year Ending May 1, 1837
By the gracious aid of our unfailing helper the labors of this Station in
its multiplied departments has been gradually carried forward during the very
short but interesting missionary year, and every department has been attended
with such success as to cheer the hearts of the laborers in their'.toil, to extend
obvious benefits to the people, and to demand a special :tribute to the glory of
God on whose blessing, all the desirable results of of[!] our plans & exertions,
exclusively defends.
His blessing has been granted, amidst our toils, changes, &
affections , and we have more encouragement to trust in him, commit our way to
him, roll our burdens on him, & to spend & be spent for him, than at the commence
ment of the year.
Feeble then as our strength is
compared the the[!] demand, on
our care & toil, we would thank God & take courage.
Preaching at the station
The ordinary course of preaching , has been three’sermons a week by Mr.
Bingham chiefly [here?], & by Mr. Tinker, chiefly it'at,Waikiki- & Moanalua out
posts, & a
2 By
Smith, usually [?] the children within the bounds of this
district which extends .from the Eastern end of the island to Moanalua about 20
miles, and embraces a population of about 13,000 souls.
The principal congregation at Honolulu may be estimated at 2500, which
usually gives attention to the preached word & ordinances, of Christ.[Note:
On
the original manuscript,'■.this line had an "X'-’ over it.]
Soon after the general meeting Mr. Bingham made a tour of this island with
his family, occupying four weeks, preaching as he had opportunity, on which tour
a protracted meeting was held at Waianee[!], attended , by Messrs [Bishop?]
Emerson & Bingham, where less missionary exertion had been made than in any other
part of this island.
This was it is believed attended with obvious go.od[?] to
the people there.
In that lonely district Mrs. B. was attacked with alanmng illness arid after a
few days was brought on a litter[bed]
across the mountains to Ewa, then on a
canoe to this place.
Mr. Tinker spent a week in making the tour of this island in company with
two of our church members, held more than 20 meetings, at which, from 30 to 300
people attended.
He also with his family made a tour of Kauai during the months
of August & Sfeptemher preaching;?as opportunity offered.
Mr. Bingham was required to visit Kauai, where with his family he was absent
�Honolulu 1837
8[?[ weeks.
2.
These tours with the illness of his family have occupied about one
third of the time from the close of the last gen. m.[meeting] to commencement of
the present[?], but
a part
of that period not devoted to direct labor among
the people was occupied in preparing, or assisting to prepare several documents
connected with Brother Richards visit to the United States, a memorial on the
subject of political economy[?], & Letter of instructors to Mr. R.’. & a letter of
introduction to the Board stating the objects of the visit & soliciting their
kind cooperation.
Since his return, he has reviewed 6 forms of the Hymn book with music, &
prepared the same hymns for printing without
notes, with the title of Himeni
Hilea, with an introductory essay or epistle to the ['. ?’ ] designed to show the
nature, and object of the book and &[!] to teack and encourage the people to use
it advantageously, as a help in the service of God and in preparation for heaven.
[The preceeding paragraph was "X’ed” out on the original manuscript.]
with a table [
?
] out hymns
neatly printed in an edition
[
? "
]
to- the''character, has been
of 10,000 cop. 24 mo. & can be afforded to the
purchase for the small consideration of 25 cents.
toil of preparing
This work
The compiler feels that the
these little works for the nation, has been a pleasure & a
privilege, of no ordinary value,' & he has watched them through the press with
■'
much care & vigilence, with the cheery hope that with the blessing of God, They
would prove an [
?
] & valuable [
?
] in the hand,of every missionary in
these islands, in leading the people directly, pleasurably & entirely to Christ,
& contesting them heartily & undistainingly in his service.
admit no human, that would not afford some [
?
He has endeavored to
] of useful light[?] to the
understanding, some evangelica;i’ motives to the seat, and some means of expressing
[
?
] feeling in honor of God, & not a line that could not be [ ? ] with
■.tolerable
ease, S'not a syllable that must cross a consonant in order to find
utterance on its proper note.
In the last edition the names of several tunes are often named for some hymn,
but always one of them accounts with the tune printed with the hymn, & much care
has been taken that the style’ . 'of the hymn,& the tune should agree otherwise
book[?] would prove unsatisfactory.
There may be more exceptions.
'^Feeling
that the Masons Missionary hymn was not sufficiently tender & compassionate for
a lamentation over the ruin of milions[?] of
[
’’?
] be hastily sketched an-:',
other which be brought more nearly adapted in tenderness to Aloha ko na mauna,
that of [
?
], but' then, unwilling to bring it competition with his, even to
its exclusion ‘ ’"especially as that was already known,the new one was laid wholly
�Honolulu 1837
3.
•
aside till the new missionary [* This section ’^X'ed" out;
also, a page seems to
be missing here.]
He has attended to other proof reading, to considerable extent, & translated
about 3/5 of the Book of Leviticus, which has'it^ put in type, and made some ad
vance in the Hawaiian Grammar in English & translated about 3/5 of the book of
Leviticus which has been put in type, having been reviewed by Mr. Bishop.
[Unsigned]
[Bingham]
[Written on the back]; Report
of
Honolulu Station
May 1837
�Tinker's Report
[1837]
The Editor of the Kumu Hawaii has been hindered in his work from
the want of paper.
Only 13 numbers of the Kumu Hawaii, and 5 of the
Kumu Kamalii have been issued since the first of last June.
He has
edited also the minutes of the Gen Meeting for .1836j/an^^the minutes
of the Hawaiian Association from its first formation in 182
in].
[not filled
Also Catalogues of Books in the libraries of the Sandwich Islands
Mission and the Maternal Association,
A portion of time has been
devoted t o ,the printing of the Missionary Circular and reading proof
sheets of some other works.
He tes preached ordinarily twice on the Sabbaths & at other times
in tour of the Island &c as follows .
At Waikiki
12v
” Honolulu
16 - Chiefly during the absence of the pastor.
. A Kaneohe
9
^iMoanalua .
4
Ewa
3
Circuit of Oahu 20
At. Kauai.
13
77
English
__8^
85
Attended 12 funerals, one of them for a foreigner drowned in the
harbor by intemperance.
He has attended three protracted meetings one at Waimea,, Kauai,
in Aug. last
one at Honolulu in Feb. —
one at Kaneohe in March.
Mr. Tinker and family were absent on a visit at Kauai in Augt and
September.
He made the tour of the Island, and visited some parts of
it several times, preaching as there was opportunity.
He also made ,t^e tour of Oahu in December in company .with two
�Tinker 1837
native members of the church of Honolulu.
meetings consisting of from 3 0 to 300^
He held more than twenty
and was employed in the
Circuit one week.
Prom December to the present time he has been subject to interrup
tion in his labors by inflamed eyes - a part of the time entirely laid
aside - the rest of it^ able to read and write more or less.
Honolulu j May
, 1837.
Tinker
,
�Mr. Tinker’s Report, for the
delegate meeting of 1838, at Laiiainaluna..
Hindered during the.year past hy weak,eyes.
Edited 26 nuniTDers of the Kumu Hawaii,
7 numbers of the Kumu Kamalii, which has been discontinued
for want of fund s.
Taupht a school of 11 weeks, for missionaries children.
Visited Molokai, Maui, and Lanai.
Protracted meetings, ^ present at three, Honolulu, E?/a, and Laie.
Preaching.
Vfed. Lecture
12
for I.tr. Diell
11__
In native, at Waikiki . .
Honolulu . .
for Itr. Smith . . .
Kaneohe
. .
Laie^
...
Ewa . . . .
Nuuanu . . .
Waialae . . .
Moanalua . .
Waialua . . .
Molokai . . . .
Kanapari . .
Wailuku . . . 1
23
24
14
11
10
8
8
9
4
2
2
3.
2
98
121
Married . . 11 couple.
Appointments
Translation.
Glass of iihiskey, done by the hand of Mr. Thurston.
Correspondence.
Temperance.
Letter to Amherst College . . . .
I4r. A. Bullard . . . .
Mr. Delevan, (for ^.:l!ack
'
No report ready . . . . During the year
Nuuanu has ceased and perished, and the
Honolulu have been shut, except two. liquor sold, a:nd the ninnber of drinkers
Written
Written
of knowledge)
not written.
the Distillery at
grog shops at
The quantity of
not known.
�1 Congregation Honolulu 1839
In the good providence of God the undiminished labor of the Station
have been carried through another year with little variation from the
ordinary routine which is generally pretty well understood.
The lord
graciously working with us, and as we trust securing to himself the
glory if any good has been accomplished by our instrumentality.
The plan an[d] nature of the preaching
has embraced perhaps more
than an ordinary share of what may be termed strong meat, the higher
doctrines and duties of the Christian, and prepared with some reference
to a work a Christian doctrine for the pop.[ulation].
The duty of Christian Churches is to sustain the preaching and
R gospel, and to send it to the Heathen has been most destinctly[sic]
insisted on, and not without its apparent effect.
frugality, and liberality
Industry, ener[g]y,
have been urg[e]d together apparently tp
good advantage.
A great increase of attention has been given to agriculture and
manufacturing especially in reference to the sugar cane.
A great amount
of unusual labor has been bestowed in opening, widening, straightening
and arranging the streets of the town, and alterations of many buildings
for that purpose and gradually labor has been expended in''raising the
walls o£ a coral church, to the height of about 20 feet from the
foundation.
=f'=
‘-r-_ •
It should perhaps be distinctly stated about 3 years ago,
agreeably with the wishes of the missionaries § the leading members
of the native congregations, a general meeting of the district was
called to see what could be done towards building 9. permanent
church, such as Kaahumanu § Kraimoku had contemplated but were
�Honolulu 1839
2.
ma,ble to accQjiiplish, - - A t
this meeting the king distinguished
himself for his liherality, offered 300 0 doll in cash § expressed
his wish that the people would kokua.
to freely'.
This was generally assented
It was the .wish of the missionaries that the whole amount
o£ lahor to he perforjiied by native hands he as -voluntary gfrfheir
contnrihtitions in cash now-,
This has heen to. some extent the fact,
th.o the chi-e^s have.- taken the direction,
if th.ey own it apply a portion of the
§ feeling that they might
lillegibl.ej'
to that object
ins.tead o,f building ;fortsI?i!' ships, bridges, and dykes for fish
ponds.
They' have done so freely, § also occasionally the labors of
a,bout IQQQ jrien who axe regarded as -minute onen, soldiers, or the
domestics or retinue of the chief's.. W'e do not think this would be
the best way, § I -regxet that my proposition to take a subscription
for stone,
timber-,. ^ for labor, as well as; for cash among the.
common people was not aceeded to, tho^ the reason for it was the king
and ch.iefs preferred to give Ji,llegibleJ that time, of t.h.eir
people whfch. they believed mejiibers' '/■' entitled to,
I supposed
th.is would with, theiy own § the peoples, voluntary contributions
of the people would early' accomplish the object which was
.generally decided desirable j, § which w.puld be a public benefit,
as really § many tim.es extensively as as Isic] would be a fort,
a ship of war, needed for th.e defense of the country or the
. dignity of the sovereign.
The. effort G9,rr±.ed out successfully th.exe is no reasonable
doubt ^ would ha've a liappy influence on th.e courage,' confidence
and efficiency of the people in .xespect to other great and
important plans xequixing the sacrifice of money -and labox.
Nay
while toiling at this object there is no diminution of the
dispostion
§ ability of the people to do for th.emse.lves, for
their pastor, their schools,
for foreign objects of benevolence^
�Honolulu 1839
3.
but an obvious increase.
This would appear from the promptness
with which a proposition was met this year to send a printing ^
binding establishment to the Oregon Territory with other suitable
supplies the past year.
It may be remembered here too that
though the house 144 feet long ^ 78 [?] wide, it is at least 12
feet shorter than the chiefs were pretty firmly resolved to have
it, but which in deference to our united wishes, ^ compassion to
the preacher whose voice was expected to fill it they condescended
to take off.
It may also be stated that the governor knowing the general
wishes of the king § chiefs, said "Ina aole nui ka hale a me ka
maikai aole au e hana.*'
[The following in Leyi Chamberlain's hand]:
The stone squarers have been paid
25^ per-day
The native masons from 12 to 32,
50 cents
The foreign masons,
1 50
"
The foreign, carpenter
who is engaged to employ § teach natives.
It has been my desire for several years to have the people to provide
the means of support for their own preacher & to send the gospel too to the
heathen.
The latter I have been able to plead, with less embarrassment than
the former because I do it with less appearance of personal interest, &
because it the object is in one sense more imperiously necessary, more
commanding when properly understood, & more likely to pass unnoticed if not
isisted on by
pointed out.
the preacher & the means and opportunity for acting on it
I could urge the
object too th^more exclusively on
the principles of benevolence, & because I believe that if the people can
be made to feel that the gospel is of great value to the heathen abroad.
It could easily be inferred to be worth its cost to themselves.
�Honolulu 1839
4.
In practice tQO I peycej,.ye
in tJie cause"' o|' cliarity
.15, about .^s. e^s.j ,tp cajjy a pg^nt
conside'r.a'ble 'amouiit'
wKich can be
appreciated by' even dull m i n d s , as one of, very s-mall consideration
tji.e reasons for which are far less striking.
Some years ago, two of the families of the methodist mission
sojourning here about 8 months occupied the house of Paahana,
which was rented at 25 a day
for about 10 0 days making the
Is'ic] a little more than 20 dall,
I proposed to the members of our
church to make a contribution to pay Paahana this sum, 10 doll
we-re.'soon paid him 'which he without putting in his pocket donated
at once to the building of the church
is not yet paid,
but most, of the remainder
The church, members could perh,aps reason in this
way, which/'why should I give a real or a
to paahana,
for
wh.at he could very well afford to allow the missionaries gratis?
A, few months ago I proposed to th,e church § congregation to
.repeat .thef^. donation the Oregon Mission
send them sugar
molasses, salt §c, together with a printing § bi.riding establish
ment
wh.at amount of supplies it was
to send, § after
Mr, Hall had made a selection of the press and all the articles
he. 'deemed necessary to commence the work of printing § binding
in the, Oregon
,were.:'set before the eyes of the people as matters
of great i^pojrtance to be sent/
Ab.out .'50. families
[?] paid
for the press § one. font of type.
About 5 0 menrsubscribed for
parts a § general contributions and :1±e parts [illegLbieT printing supplies to the
am"^ .of 444 Doll,
complete
making the printings and bindery establishment
There was howeYer a remainder I?J of paper 119 Doll
Doll ch.arged to' my personal account with the expectation that
the monthly concert contributions should cover it.
In getting subscribers to this ob.ject I called on Kinau, who
was- confined to hi®: house with sick eyes, § asked her howsmuch
�Honolulu 1839
5,
she was going to give in she said perhaps 5 dol. I replied others?
not in her rank § standing
a me
[?]
give that, who?
Well how much should I give
A pehea lo o vitoria 2 paha?
given that, 0 wai?
0
0 Kenia, Kealoha,
”10 paha” , ”pono no” . --
I said a very little woman has
Daiimana'’ -- A pahea lo ka pono o ke kaika-
mahine? -- ’’Papalua hoi peha" ’Aer;u'a.rp;ono” thus she gave 14
doll for this object of commanding i-mportance than the whole
church, had done the same sum for an obj'ect analo^gous and im
portant hut of far less moment.
My conclusion is that in order to
call for the proper degree of energy ^ the proper kind of feeling
among the people ohjects, great, noble, § p:^actibable should be
often set before theTii, § tha,'t th.eir vigorous § successful effort
to accomplish is a grand preparation for undertaking another.
l^d'le iinproveTijents in agriculture, in the streets, of the town
9-,nd
labors the constitution'of a permanent church, and efforts
to s-end a press § th.e gospel to 'heathen people have not neglected
this pastor, but have fu>j;nished him with .means of support to the
amount of, about 8'QQ. doll., § have planted about 10 acres of cane, ■:
. ,th.e 'avails of first', crop of which are in a measure pledged for a
pi,Her clock, while the succeeding are. expected to be for the sup
port .of th.e pastor here or for the cause of be.n.evo.lence more
generally.
I have usually made i,t a point also in the dispersal of books v
to. get' the full V9,lue P:tt.a,ch.ed to them by th.e mission, believing
tha.t this is an equitable way in which the people can be
called to dimi^'sh, one very considerable item of. expense to the
mission,
'X have paid into the depository on the Bible Society
account' 4 8 doll c'osti. for. books sold.
I have also paid for every
article, drawn from the. ’depository during the last missionary
year.
These facts will show that a missionary of the Board may
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6.
so manage his affairs as not to prevent the Board (by his drafts)
from sending another laborer into the field.
better way or not is another question.
in these days of experimenting.
have a fair trial.
Whether this is the
It is worthy of an experiment
§ I am inclined to hope it may
It affords at least the people the opportunity
of doing what the tenor of the gospel requires of them for the
of their Christian teacher [,?] and at the same tione does not subject
th.e missionary to that unpleasant uncertainty as to the perman
ency of support which must attend at present an active reliance on
the people :solely or
on his own hand s .
In connexion with this,
independant of the Board's pledge of an economical support so
far a.s- needed,
I have alluded to the liberality of Kinau, to the Oregon
Mission,
I might add that h.er .subscription to this stone church
no w is but was 40 0 doll in cash,' for the adobe church for Mr S.
congregation 2Q.Q.,
church’
Fe ^deeply feel' her loss as a member of our
congregation and as a pillar of the nation, ^ those of
h.er frjends who looked at her as a pilot, who had guided the ship
in a terrible §torm where '.it was. every hour liable to founder
or go to th.e. bottom, will, be-.touched tenderly to see her high
h-opes’ cut shorty § h.ersel'f called suddenly away by death, just as
th,e peaceful port was so invitingly opening before her.
But
i^hile she has left the. vessel to. encounter dangers near shore,
we trust she has h.erself entered the port of
eternal peace,
§
that, .her prudence, piety, and consistent Christian course will
still exert a happy influence to secure the further improvements
needed in the la¥s
the administration of the government.
The
emba,'r'ra$'§mentS' to which, the n.ation is. exposed arising from the
■inj.udicious attempts of the Ilomission' Jsic] to establish Pvomanism
here,' § the unbending decision of Kinau § her predecessor § to
■
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7.
prevent it, we do hope in the mercy of God will not be great or
of long continuance but still the extremely hasty measures of the
French nation, from exportee representatives,
in extorting from
the defenseless Tahitions the sum of 3.000 doll under a blockade,
and a threat of war, blood shed and conflagration,
soon to
apprehend that a similar policy here would subject the people §
the mission, ^ the friends of the mission here to great evils.
God can indeed avert the sharks.
The visit of the Fly Capt. Eliot was on the whole pleasant.
It seemed to be the policy of the commander to conciliate all
contending parties.
Whether his advice to Kinau to give Mr
[?]
F. Pelly a good title to a peice of ground which then affirmed
that
of Capt. Hinkley, § whether her compliance, which
[End of pg. 4 of original manuscript.
Page 5 seems to be missing.
Next
line begins page 6 of original manuscript.]
was very highly commended was the wisest course, is not quite clear, because
it virtually goes to sanction an unjust claim to the soil set up by strangers
in similar cases.
This is a d[?] &c.
Elliot & Capt. [?] urged by allmeans the release of the natives who were
under punishment for hoomanakii [idolatry, image worship] in adhering to the
rites of Romanism.
The chiefs replied, ."our teachers have given us the same
advice,but hoomanakii is contrary to the laws of God and of the king & we
know not what to do with the offenders but to punish them."
Since this
visit we have seen the remarks of a voyage connected with the American
Sequoia Com. Kennedy, concerning his visit here, whose influence was some
what similar to that of Elliot.
state some things
As the writer has taken the liberty to
witl:j(nore than the insinuation that he secured his
information fronjme, and as has been rather liberal in his
of the
mission generally I ma^llude to them and I give my views in brief to my
brethern in another place...
[The last two pages are written in pencil, very dim.]
�Report for the
first congregation at Honolulu
MAY,
1840
(Note from the transcriber:
What follows is a draft in Bingham's
hand, with many places crossed out or overwritten.
The final
copy, if any, has not been located in HMCS collections.)
Soon after our last general meeting, this place was
agitated and thrown with consternation and distress by the
hostile measures, and imperious of demands on this government by
an of officers of the French, requiring a deposit of 20,000
dollars in his hands, and a declaration that the Catholic
Religion should be free in these islands, and a location granted
for a catholic church to be administered by priests of their own
nation, threatening to commence hostilities on the nation & to
bring the evils of the war on the missionaries who might be
supposed to have influenced the government, or to have been the
authors of the insults offered to France.
These demands could not be resisted with safety, & though
unreasonable and injurious they were complied with, and a further
concession perhaps equally injurious to the native was made to
admit the French to bring wine & Brandy into the country by
paying the small duty of 5 percent, though,a law had been passed
prohibiting the importation of ardent spirits except for medical
& mechanical purposes.
Then the assessment of damages for the detention of the
Clementine, which brought hither the expelled catholics increased
the embarrassment of the nation.
The people were appalled as by
an unexpected earthquake shock, and, as a body, thrown into a
state of confusion unfavorable to religious impressions & moral
improvement.
The minds of many appeared to be unhinged which
gave satan a great advantage.
The agitation of war has uniformly
been unfavorable to morals & religion.
The work on the meeting
house was suspended and special efforts made to '^'ay the demands
both new or old which pressed on the nation.
The attention of
the Gov. was also directed to the creation of a boarding school
for the chldren of the chiefs which has been completed & opened
with encouraging pupils.
The death of Madam Boki gave occasion
for the unsettled feelings of many of the common people to show
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�themselves in the irregularity[?] of kumakena [grief] & folly
which required the restraint of the police.
I went among the
crowd on a sabhath evening at her door and was astonished to see
the degree of levity, & dis[?] which appeared among a part to [?]
on the solemness of the sorrow, on the solemnity of the occasion,
& the [?] of life.
In addressing those thus engaged I considered
myself speaking to those or encouraged by those who were
beginning to attend the catholic service.
I spent an hour
attempting to restore order, & was in a good measure successful.
Hoapili afterwards used his influence and authority to
the [sic] stop the excessive wailing.
At the funeral the
catholic priest Mr. Walsh was placed by my side in the procession
but on arriving in front of the pulpit with his [?] hat & [?]
hastened to the distance of 60 rods and after the sermon joined
the procession again at a distance from the church.
Deeming special efforts necessary to save the people from
going over in numbers to romanism we held several protracted
meetings for their good at the center of the station, & one the
valley of Nuuanu.
These were all attended with a blessing, and
followed with apparently good results, tho not as powerful as
some former meetings had been.
The business of selecting & and
[sic] examining candidates for the fellow of the church and
receiving them after a long proba^tion has been continued much in
same way as for two years preceeding, and on Sep 1. 124 were
admitted on profesion
Dec. 2.88
March 1, 62
April
[?]
50
This last with another member of the church, both unmarried men
attached themselves to the Methodist Mission family for four
years.
Another member who had just been received by letter from
the church at Kailua, enlisted for 3 years at 10 doll per month
in the service of the hudson Bay Com as a l a b o r e r ^ on the
Columbia leaving his wife here with herBrother.
[Bingham has
crossed out this last,]
Besides the ordinary pulpit and pastoral duties of the
station, I have united with Brother Smith in sustaining an
evening service at the seamens chapel since the failure of Mr.
Diell's health with the exception of Brother Tinkers attendance
there & three sabbaths supplied by the Methodists.
The
attendance there has always been somewhat encouraging.
We should notice with thankfulness the pleasant visit of
the United States E. I. Squadron to this place the officers of
which several of whom appeared to be influenced by the gospel
exerted a good influence.
Also the visit of the Methodist
missionary family bound to the Oregon Territory, who were
cheerfully welcomed here, & spent two or three weeks with us,
making & leaving a good impression.
We were on personal
acquaintance better pleased with the s u p e r i n t e n d a n t , Mr. Lee as a
serious, wise, & energetic pioneer and evangelical preacher than
we had expected to be.
He seemed very sanguine in the hope of
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�teaching the wasting tribes of the poor indians to take care of
themselves, so as to avoid starvation & disease induced byextreme poverty, & of conveying to them by means of schools &
preaching, the saving knowledge of Christ.
Two of our people
attached themselves with my advice to the family as laborers,
expecting to serve 4 years.
Another member of the church, Ulu,
who had just been received by letter from Kailua, enlisted in the
service of the Hudson Bay Company for 3 years on the Columbia at
10 per month, leaving his wife here in the care of her brother.
[This is the same incident reported earlier, and crossed out by
the a u t h o r ,]
[Written in pencil following statistical t a b l e ] :
Sam. J. Mills [presumably a Hawaiian who had taken this
name] it is known was examined prior to the last gen. meeting —
During the last year he made repeated efforts to get
married to a woman who had lived with a foreigner
who left
this place with the squadron — but not finding any missionary or
chief who would marry him him [sic] both parties repaired to
Lahaina where they were married as we have heard by Mr. B. on the
authority of the king — returned to this place sick, employed a
native doctor & then died — without giving evidence of repentence,
(CENTER)Importance —
Besides the progress of delusion through the efforts of
Rome, the alteration of a class of people in the district has
been
by the pretentions of two psuedo Messiahs.
The girl
lepopo who organized in the
vicinity was soon found to be a
vile imposter, a malefactor and came to nought.
The 2d Ka Hoano,
claims to be Messia.
& those who have (listened) to him pretend
that their diseases when reported to him are relieved by him or
by the power of God.
Through him much like the case of the faith
Doctors of [illegible]
I had one [illegible] with him and his
attendants 40 or 50 in number — He seemed dull, ignorant and
without system or plan.
Whether he was partially deranged &
believing himself to be what he pretended to be, or whether he
was wickedly endeavoring to decieve I could not decide.
There
was no evidence of his efforts to patronize
or arrange [?] vice
or
[illegible], — But the Gov. thought it advisable to call him
& his adherents to account, advise & admonish them but so far as
I know did not condemn them to any punishment, & in this he [had]
reason to believe he would have our approbation.
Especially as
Papal Idolatry cannot be restrained by law, we could not see how
the idolatry encouraged by this impostor or any other could be
consistently punished by law, unless it resulted in the violation
of the just rights of the people.
Little danger is apprehended
from his exertions.
I asked him in the presence of the people
whether he believed himself to be the Messia the king of the
Jews.
He replied He hanu wau nona a wa loaa iau kona inoa.
With
this concession I supposed he would do little harm.
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�Report for the 1st Church at
Honolulu
May,
1840
■p
!h
O 3 O
ft rH
<D 0 CX3
Statistical Table
iH
O
a 0
o o
•H K (Average congregation
+J
cd
Reed the[!] fellowship on ex.
CO
i)n certif.
Whole no ree d [?]
f=i
o
o
r--p
275
26
301
Dismiss ed
13
Deceased
24
Suspen - [!]
13
Remain suspended
10
Ex.
1
Child’^. Baptised
Bap.
Children deceased
Marriages
R e e d . on e x a m .
on certificate
0)
-P
6
o
<4-1 00
(=!
*H
0) a
d
0 •H
P 00
!=l cu
0)
o
1500
Total
109
7
73
1075
87
1163
Dismissed to other[!]
66
Deceased
86 [?]
RefflaiH-sttSpended-[!]
10[!]
Excom.
18
Regular standing
990
Children Baptised
440
Children deceased
44
, ^ ^ jA ¥ e * = a g e - e e H g i= e g a % i e ii - [ ! ]
1 5 G Q [ !]
[.i n p e n c i 1 ] ;
50 candidates
�Report of the first church and congregation in Honolulu [1841]
It will be recollected that a connnittee was appointed at our last general
meeting to take measures to supply Mr. Binghams place, during his absence on a
visit to the U. States on the proposition of this committee, after due consider
ation.
I left Wailuku with my family on the.27th of July in the schooner Clarion
and arrived at the place the next day.
Five days after the Brig Flora sailed
for the U. States, bearing away among others the precious freight of Mr. Binghamf
and family, Mr. Thurston
and
'Children and my own dear child, / my firstborn the
beginning of my strength - my Caroline.
I need scarcely say, (for some of you
have passed through like scene) that this was a season of traial[!] to us, yea,
a season never to be forgotten whil^emory lasts, or the heart of a father or a
mother continues to beat within our breasts,.
We loved the people of our charge
in the Wailuku parish, and we were not aware of the strength of our attachment,
until we came to part, although it was expected to be but for a season.
In return
we received every demonstration of confidence and affection that a poor and
simple-hearted people could give.
If it had been possible, it seemed as though
they would have plucked out their eyes and given them unto us.
The trial of part
ing with our people coming so close in connection with the severance of parting
with our daughter, we found to be as much as we could bear, and indeed it was not
until the lapse of a few days that I found myself in a proper state of mind to
take hold of my proper missionary work.
The church
The first object of attention after I commenced labour was the church.
Much dis
order at that time prevailed, many cases calling for discipline were reported to
me within: a few days after my assuming the pastoral charge;there seemed to be a
fearful tendency among the members to break out in,:open iniquity, regardless of
god or man.
I attempted at first to manage cases of discipline in church meetings,
as this had been the practice of the church, but soon found that it required a
more skillful moderator than I was to keep order.
The uproar of the meeting
seemed to be at times as great a scandal as that of the offender to be tried.
A
committee of the church including 9 natives, Mr. Chamberlain and Dr. Judd, was
therefore appointed to manage all church business and report when prepared.
Three
of these, I should say, includipg Dr. Judd, had been previously apart as deacons,
but not with the view attending to cases of discipline.
Having our committee
organised we met regularly once a week while the business of the church required
�Honolulu [1841]
2.
it and when business was prepared it was reported to the church and any member
was allowed to express his opinion upon it, but no vote was taken as a general
thing.
The results of our proceedings in regard to discipline may be seen by
reference to the statistical table at the end of this report, but it may be proper
here to state a few disconnected facts in regard to this church, by way of show
ing its present condition and explaining some of its proceedings.
1.
The evil that have disturbed its peace and prosperity.
These are principally
such as drinking intoxicating drinks of various kinds, cards, puhenehene, adultery
lying and quarreling.
As usual these gregarious evils have herded together and
combined their strength to break through all moral restraints, and send trouble,
and confusion through the church of God.
Among other intoxicating drinks, wine
has done some mischief in this church during the past year.
Several members were
found during the fall months to be intoxicated upon it, or what they received
as wine.
This led to an investigation .o.f the subject.
A full meeting of the
church was called, which was attended by Dr. Wood, Mr, Brinsmade and Mr, Jarves,
and a letter was read to the meeting from Dr. Wood, and Messrs. Brinsmade and
Ladd, certifying that in their opinion, not one third of the liquor that's brought
here and sold for wine has a drop of wine in it, and expressing the probability
that a native rarely purchases real wine at the stores.
It is nothing but a
composition of ardent spirit mixed with various deleterious[!] drugs.
The result
of this meeting, I think was happy; The Governor was present and took part in
the discipline and since that time I have not heard of his drinking wine.
He
declined taking even a glass, it is said, with the gentlemen of the Vincennes,
after her return from Hawaii.
It was the general opinion of those who spoke at
this meeting, that natives cannot take wine without too much and the only safe
course is to leave it off altogether, and yet it is hard to make them see the
impropriety of it while they know it is daily used by very prominent and active
Christians from enlightened lands.
Tobacco continues to be used by a ,considrable number in this church and I
am sorry to say, I have had but little success in my attempts [to] dissuade those
who use it to leave.
I preached on the subject several times, besides presenting
it occasionally in connection with other topics.
Several meetings also were held
for. the express purpose of discussing the merits and demerits of the vile weed,
and I have heard of some who from that time ceased to smoke entirely, but there
appeared to be danger of the things becoming a root of bitterness in the church
producing angry contention, seisur[!], and pharisaical pride on the one side and
�Honolulu [1841]
3.
complaints of persecution on the other, and on the whole it seemed to me best
to bring the'-:fecussi6h'' to. a close, after giving my most solemn, and earnest
advice to all to leave off entirely the use of luxury which has done incalculable
evil to the Hawaiian race, without one single redeeming quality to recommend it.
Before leaving the subject of the evils that have disturbed this church, I
would just state that Mokuiki (a member of this ch.[urch].
Then under censure)
who was poisoned by her husband Kamanawa and Lonopuakau, for which crime they were
executed on the scaffold in last was tempted to take the poison through
her love
of awa, an evil against which she had|just been faithfully and solemnly warned, and
from which she had repeatedly pledged her word to abstain.
So true is it that sin
when it hath conceived bringeth forth death.
2,
Labour for the welfare of the church.
Observing during the fall months, a dis
tressing wrecklessness among church members in regard to open immorality, and a
general prevalence of stupidity in regard to divine things, I had the church divid
ed into ten classes, one of which I met everyday for 5 days each week, so as to
enable me to see every member once in two weeks and say a word to each in regard
to his own state.
These classes met in rotation regularly for several months until
a bad cold obliged me to lay them aside.
The were conducted simply as Bible class,
were well attended, the roll being called each day and absentees marked, and since
they were commenced the church has appeared much better as a body that it did
before.
3.
I have received no persons to the fellowship’ of the church since my labours
here commenced, except such as were left propounded by Mr Bingham.
4.
One or two cases of discipline may deserve special notice, particularly that
of the Governor of this island and Kekauluohi, as their cases have attracted un
usual notice.
The facts in the case were these.
In the month of Oct. while the
chiefs were all assembled at this place, the husband of Kekauluohi, accused his
wife of unlawful intimacy with Kekuanaoa.
The subject was investigated by the
King and council, assisted by Mr. Richards, which investigation continued for
several days.
The result was that the accused were both acquited[!], the evidence
not appearing sufficient to convict.either of them.
A few days after this the
Governor told me, although he had been acquited by the Judges, yet in the sight '
of the Judge of all the earth he was guilty, that several months previous to
that time he had commit[!] the abominable act of which he had been suspected.
Kekauluohi made the same confession voluntarily though it was done in writing.
�Honolulu [1841]
4.
and on the next day returned to Maui.
The Governor came before the session, and
acknowled[l] his transgression and expressed a willingness to submit humbly to such
discipline as the ch.[urch] might think proper.
On the next Sabbath he made a
confession before the church, which was accepted and no further proceedings were
held on his case.
The case of Kekauluohi being unharrassed by difficulties with
her husband, was not so easily disposed of, and was in consequence held in sus
pense for some time, until her scandelous[!] conduct at the Kings feast in January,
rendered suspence no longer necessary, and laid her under the censure, which
rests upon her at this time,
5.
Number of cases of discipline.
The number of cases of discipline during
the year I am not able to state with accuracy; because there have been some cases
reported to me from other islands, which we have not been able to act upon for want
of a knoledge[!] of the fact relating to the respective cases, but it may be put
down between 60 and 70, including the suspended and excommunicated.
Of these 26,
have been restored on confession of their sin and tollerabl^[!] satisfactory evi
dence of repenten:ce.
I have been in the habit of appointing seasons for confer
ence and prayer with those who wandered from the fold, and for several months met
them regularly every Monday morning. But few,of the above number have cast off
all restraints given themselves up to work iniquity with greediness, although':
some did so for a short season.
Indeed I know of none who are taking that down
ward course now, although most of them do not afford much ground to hope that they
are persistent or that they have any part or lot in the matter.
It was my fear
that many would go over to the Romanists, but I have not heard of one’s 'doing so.
Labour for those out of the church.
Seeing the mass of the people in the parish exposed to so many temptations,
and especially to the deadly heresy of Rome, and withal deep and heavy clouds of
darkness resting yet upon the minds of the multitude I have attempted to carry out
a system of religious instruction which should embrace all of every age, sex and j
-class'sAo feel any '^-concern for the welfare of their souls.
The classes into which
the church was divided I have mentioned; The same method has been pursued with the
hooikakas.
I have taken the names of all who wish to be regarded as on the Lords
side have divided them into 10 classes, 5 for the males and 5\for;'the females,
taking the men on the makaainana week and the women on the paahao week, and meeting
a class each day for 5 days in the week.
This enables me to get round[!] all in
the parish once in two weeks, brings me into close and familiar conversation with
these catechisms enables me to ascertain their amount of knowledge to impart in
�Honolulu [1841]
'
5.
struction in a familiar way, and as the cases seem to require.
These schools are
all- conducted simply as Bible classes, for reading and expouriding':the -word of God.
Old people who cannot read come and listen.
ees marked.
The roll is always called and absent
Those who are slack in attending have their names struck off.
This
system of schools has occasioned a considerable demand for the Scriptures especial
ly the N. Testament.
The ten schools of hooikaikas contain about 950 scholars.
Efforts against Romanism.
Besides the tract which was published soon after our General Meeting, and
occasional preaching on the subject, I delivered a course of lectures (holding
two a week) during the month of August and September.
The exercise was pretty
well attended not only by the people of my own charge, but also many of Mr..Smiths;
and many who attended seemed to be very deeply impressed with the abominations of
that Mother of harlots.
The tract has been pretty generally read in this quarter.
If I were asked what the Romanists have been doing in this vicinity during the
past year, I should hardly know what reply to make.
For several months after I
came down here, there was some excitement on the subject, many ran to and fro,
and said lo here! and lo there! the disciples of the French priests as well as the
priests themselves were bold and active, and their meetings
[The rest of the report seems to be missing.]
�Report of the 1st church and congregation
Honolulu [1841]
Average congregation
Rec*^ to fellowship on ex.’^
Bisfflisse4 0n Gertif.^®
Whrdle no. rec^ past year
Whole no, dismissed to
other ch.s
2000
92
[The following paragraph was written
lengthwise on the original manu
script].
7
99
I made two tours of the island and
assisted Bro. Emerson in one pro*^
70[?]
meeting in Koolau.
A protracted
meeting was held in this congr^
Dismissed past year
5
Whole no. deceased
97
during the 1st week of Jan. results
Deceased past year
14
on the whole good.
Suspended the past year
.60
able to attend a female meeting on
Remain suspended
34
friday [i-Jcduring the year.
Excom.'^ past year
10
meetings have been sustained regular
Whole no. excom<^
28
ly through'-,the year. [End]
Remain excom.'^
26
Whole no. in regular
standing
Whole no. of chil? baptised
Morning
No report of Mr. Binghams
1031
511
Baptised past year
71
Marriages the past’
jyear
80
Whole no. rec^ on exn
Mrs. A. has been
1167
the amount
Miscellaneous items
The first day of the year was observed as a day of thanksgiving to God and was an
interesting day.
The annual concert of prayer for schools and colleges in Feb. was
observed by this church.
My health during the winter months suffered very seriously from a severe cold on my
lungs and the old standing pain in my left side
We are preparing for our 2'^ annual
School celebration intending to embrace adults as well as children.
This creates a
demand for books at the present time.
Contributions.have not thought it expediant[!] to urge this church and
congregation to attempt much during the year by;"way of contributio?i, except for the
purpose of completing their stone meetinghouse.
This work I consider as not only
having the first claim upon them, but as being moretthan sufficient for the means
at their disposal.
We are all acthally suffering and none more than the preacher,
for want of a better house, in .-wh.[ich] to meet on the Sabbath. T6w.a;j4.s'6 this work
�Honolulu [1841]
Miscellaneous items
2.
there have been subscrided[!] 'Tf^'thiir./’■] the past 3 months, something more than
$22.000,[!] of which $700 have been collected by myself.
by the King and Auhea.
$12.00.00[!] subscribed
Besides this a little over $30 were contributed in money at
monthly concerts, and a considerable amount in vegetables for the comfort of our
families.
How much I cannot tell.
The Exploring Squadron of the U.S. arrived here in Oct. and spent nearly 3
months.
Ive had much pleasant intercourse with capt. Wilkes and his officers,
particularly capt. Hudson of the Peacock, who I believe won the confidence and
affection of us all, by his Christian deportment.
But I am sorry to say, the in
fluence of many connected with that concern, was decidedly bad on this community.
I have had but little to do with secular affairs during the past year.
Some atten
tion to the new meeting house and occasional calls from the sick during Dr. Juds[!]
absence
besides the necessary provi^^ding for my own family make
up.
[End of report]
[Written on a separate, loose sheet]:
Honolulu
1st Gong R. Armstrong
1841
�Report of the first church and congregation in Honolulu. [1842]
Through the kindness of our heavenly Father we are brought in peace & safety,
as a family, to the close of another year.
Since my last report my health has been
rather better than it has been for four years past.
I have had no cough & but very
little of the pain in my left side which troubled me for several years.
This I
\/attribiite mainly to our simple cause viz. a liberal use of cold water, in other
words a shower bath every night just before retiring to bed & accompanied by a
good scrubbing with a coarse towel.
After continuing this practice for a year
pretty regularly, it has become a luxury a§ well as a means of healthy
Labours
My routine of labours week after week with some slight variations has been as
follows, On Sabbath visit Sabbath School of children conducted by Mr. Knapp at
half past 8,
. preach at half past 9:^ hold a catechectical School of hooikaikas,
at 11; preach again at half past 2; and frequently hold a short church meeting,
at the close of afternoon service.
On monday, I have usually devoted most of
the day to the Nonanona, reading proof, & preparing the matter & on monday after
noon meet a class of hooikMkas. On tuesdays, met the hooikaikas of the first &
second::apanas for conversation & instruction, visited what I could, attend to
cases of discipline“'&c[!].
On Wednesday, preached at or before sunrise, attend
ed a school of hooikaikas of the 3d apana & preached at Waikiki in the afternoon
& usual prayer meeting in the evening.On thursday, laboured in some way among the
children, in holding religious or temperance meetings & sometimes preached in
Manoa valley;
On friday afternnoon held a meeting in Nuuanu, & began my prepara
tions for the Sabbath, torwhich I have devoted most of Saturday.
The great:work on the stone meeting \ho,use has interfered very materially with
ssvstbI
my labours as preacher & pastor. Indeed for
months, until the walls were
finished, it required my personal superintendance a large portion of each day.
In the division of the labour of the house with Dr. Judd, the collection of the
money & superintendance of the native forces fell to my lot, & I can say without
dissimulation that I have had my fill of meeting house building.
We have often
been at our wits end in regard to the work, for want of means to complete it,
but by the good hand of God upon us, we have been prospered beyond our expecta
tions, & hope in a short time to make those walls resound with praises & thanks
giving to the adorable God, for whose honour they have been erected.
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2.
CatechuHiens
Of these I have nearly 1000 on my list, & my plan has been this year as it
was last , to divide them into classes, & meet them in rotation for conference &
instruction.
Most of them appear to be steady people & truly serious.
Their
improvements in Christian knowledge for the past year is quite commendable, &
their desire for the tilings; of the Spirit, keeps up better than I anticipated.
They are generally anxious to make a profession of religion & many of them I have
no doubt are worthy of that privilege; but they will loose nothing by a protract
ed probation, provided they are diligently watched over & instructed.
Indeed it
is a melancholy fact, according to my observation,that natives are more favorably
situated for receiving instruction while they are catechumens, than while members
of the church.
When admited[!] to church fellowship, they are too apt to feel
that they have attained to so high a degree of perfection that it is no longer
necessary to strive after knowledge as they once did.
They have got their
diploma and graduated & why should they be [!] any longer be regarded as babes in
Christ?
I have been held back also in receiving members to the church by the consider
ation that I may not remain as pastor of the church much longer & it is desirable
as far as practicable, that persons should be inducted to the privileges of the
church by the person as to their pastor.
Temperance efforts.
I have laid out more time & effort on this subject during the past year, than
during any previous year of my missy, life; for the obvious reason that the evil
of intemperance, [?] seemed to increase to such a degree, as to carry away both
the church & the state over the precipice of ruin.
.
The class of natives most
addicted to the use of intoxicating substances & of course most exposed to danger
is the chiefs and those about them. I have therefore laid out all my strenght[!]
in endeavoring to bring the entire church & congregation to teetotal privileges,
& even to abstinence from the use of tobacco.
To this end, I have preached on
the subject several times in the great congregation but more especially on week
days;, have held several temperance meetings for the congregation generally, and
during the winter months met the chiefs & persons in authority every Sabbath
evening, principally for the purpose of influencing their minds on this subject.
What success has attended these efforts time alone can tell..
cannot speak with any degree of confidence.
In regard to this I
But we have formed two temperance
societies on the pledge of teetolatism, one of children & another of adults.
That of children embraces over 700 members & includes a pledge of abstinence from
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[the] very thing that intoxicates as an article of luxury.
Tobacco is included
in the childrens pledge, as it is evident that the use of that vile weed in
children,especially native children who are under no controul[!], if it does not':
actually produce intoxication, it certainly creates an appetitg
for unnatural
stimulants & prepares the way for the use of substances which can never be used
with safety, unless as medicines.
In the adult temperance Society there are two forms to the pledge; the
one includes tobacco & the other does not.
This is the only difference.
But I
am happy to add that the list of the tobacco smokers is growing smaller & smallir.
Quite a number during the past year have been persuaded to give it up & I think
with
prudent & energetic measures, the church might in a little while be entire
ly rid of it, without making it a matter of discipline.
Wine is included in both pledges, & I have no hesitation in saying that with
the natives there is no great difference between the use of wine & brandy.
probability is that the wine of commerce in
The
part of the world is little else
than a mixture of ardent spirit with some deleterious[!] drugs.
Romanism
For the past year the movements of the papists in this region have been rather
Silent, but probably not less efficient than formerly.
I have not heard of many
joining them, which a considerable number of their initiated converts have join
ed our congregation.
their names.
How many I cannot now tell, as I did not keep a list of
The fact is, although they profess to have forsaken the papists & '
come over on our side, they are generally so ignorant & bewildered in their views
of Christianity that are[!]:hot very hopeful subjects to work upon, & I have
purposely avoided making much of their conversion to our views, lest they be
lifted
up with vanity.
Two of our church members, one of whom was under censure, have gone over to
that party,during the year.
They went out from us I suppose, because they were
not of us.
John li, our school agent for Oahu has met with the same difficulties from
the priests during the year as formerly.
He has uniformly found them arrogant,
haughty, disorganizing & no friend to the school system wh.[ich] the law proposes.
I have not.thought it best to make many very direct efforts against Romanism
during the year., though I have preached on the subject occasionally, and alluded
to it directly & frequently in the pulpit, ksjyou are all aware too I have publish
ed also a few articles on the subject in the Nonanona.
But most of my efforts
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4,
have 136611 direct6d to bringning the whole population as much as possible under
religious instruction & influence, believing that a mind stored with Christian
knowledge & a heart established with grace are the strongest bulwarks against any
heresy whatever.
In expounding the catechism before my adult Sab. School of 600 catechumens
every Sab. morning, I havekept the heresy of Rome constantly in view and endeavor
ed
to show in a simple & clear manner the difference between that heresy & the
true gospel.
May it not be, that this is one reason why God has permited[!]
Romanists to come in among, in order that his own precious word may be more care
fully studied & treasure of wisdom drawn out of it, which might have lain conceal
ed for ages, but for these dangers that threaten the church?
Another important means of opposing Romanism is t h e d i s b r i b u t i o n of
the new Testament.
I have made it a rule of late to furnish a copy to every
individual who could & would read it, pay or no pay.
About all our share of the
last edition has been given out & the demand is yet considerable.
The Nonanona.
This small affair has occupied some of my leisure moments & oh .the whole very
pleasantly.
I have had a little difficulty in editing it as I anticipated,
rather more so.
Some of the brethren have been very kind in furnishing matter
for it, while others have done nothing at all.
Contributions from natives have
been abundant, but not so valuable as to justy[!] the publishing of many of them
& those which have been published have cost more than half as much labour to pre
pare them for the press as to prepare the same amount of original matter.
have so far 3.000 copies struck off, & they are nearly all called for.
We
Whether
the paper is to be continued after the present year or not; whether it should be
altered in its character, or sold for a higher or a lower price will be for the
General Meeting to determine.
I think it will nearly sustain itself on Oahu,
tho. I have not received the amount of receipts for the different stations.
,
Some
of the brethren have paid in advance for their subscriptions.
Protracted meetings.
We have had no general protracted meeting during the year; not because we did
not dpsire one but for want of a suitable house to meet in.
Instead of a general
pro.*^ meeting for all the parish, I held during the winter months two & three ' ■
days meetings in all the large apanas.
results happy.
were well attended, and the
Many who had long been dead in tresspasses & sins, absenting
themselves from the house of God & indulging in beastly vices, were waked[!] up,
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brought out,& now are ^receiving
instruction in the hooikaika classes.
Since these
small protracted meetings, the church has been in a better state, and the congre
gation considerably increased.
But my jealousy of the pretentions of natives to
be on the Lords side does not diminish & these professed converts, are only put
into the ranks where they must undergo a considerable drilling before they are
allowed to be enrolled as the soldiers of the captain of our Salvation.
Besides the small pro'i meetings, I have assisted Bro. Emerson in a meeting of
5 days at his station in August & Bro. Smith in one in February, & went to the
assistance of Bro. Parker in one, but was called away after preaching one sermon.
Mrs. Armstrong has been able to do more for the natives during the past year
than she has for several previous years.
better health.
This is owing to her having enjoyed
She has kept up a regular friday meeting for females which has
been well attended & interesting.
It is a great measure-owing to the influence
of this meeting, that leis & other gaudy & costly articles of dress are becoming
unfashionable in the congregation, & industry & cleanliness on the advance.
She
has also visited the native females a good deal at. their houses.
Concerts
The monthly concert for prayer for the convers-|;ion of the world has been regular
ly observed, & the afternoon of the third Sabbath in each month has been observed
as a season of conference and prayer in behalf of Schools throughout the islands.
The first day of January was abserved[!] as a day of thanksgiving to God &
was a good day among us.
The text on that occasion was ^Choose ye this day whom
ye will serve.” & &[!] the congregation urged to make a new choice.
If any had
tried the service of God & found it a hard service, let them go & serve Baal; let
them aside & say so.
Let them come out & avow their sentiments.
But if any were
ready to say,The Lord he is God & him will we serve, them come & humbly covenant
afresh with him.
I have heard that season refered to by persons both in & out of
the church-very frequently, as a.season of great good to their souls, & some
Y'ery wicked persons from that day have been serious &■ attentive to divine things.
m
ContributiorS to benevolent objects.
These have been as they were during the year previous, almost exclusively confin
ed to the stone meeting house, & for this object about $lBOO. has been collected
on the subscription of the previous year.
given by the King & Kekauluohi.
Twelve hundred dollars of this was
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The Church.
T.he following table will'give the statistics of it.
Average congregation
2000
Received to fellowship on
exam^
39
Whole number rec
94
Whole no. dismissed to other
churches
Dismissed past year
34
Excom*^ past year
70
Received to fellowship on
certificate
past year
Whole number excomA
72
1
Whole no. deceased
117
Deceased past year
20
Suspended past year
39
6
Remain excom'^
82
Whole number in regular
standing
1075
Whole no. of children
baptised
545
Baptised past year
34
Marriages past year
Whole no. rec'^ on exaii£-
61
1237
The cases of discipline which have occured have been chiefly through ihv
.
temperance.
During the former part of the year, the church was in a state of spiritual
Ijpl
sloth, but about the commencement of the civil year, a better day began to dawn
upon us.
Meetings began to be full & solemn, prayer frequent & earnest & mutual
confessions of delinquency in duty, common.
Since that period, cases of disci
pline have been more rare, & the general state of the church,more encouraging.
P .S . 'Ha^e-taaghfe-Hulikefflaka-feka¥=efet-hisfe©£=y-twe-d:ays-eaeh-week.
I have tought[i] two schools during part of the year, besides those mentioned:
one in moral philosophy at the fort, and another in church history.
been intere^sting & useful while continued.
Rich^^ Armstrong
[On back]:
Richf Armstrong
report
1842
Both have
�Report of the first church, and congregation in Honolulu
1842-43
The review of any portion of our past life is well calculated
to fill the mind with solemn reflections.
Gratitude for mercies
enjoyed, humiliation in view of time misspent, duties neglected,
opportunities misimproved § resolutions of future amendment spon
taneously arise ^ clustre [f] around the heart, while the mind
reverts to the events of the past.
During the year that is now
to be reviewed, the good hand of God has been upon me § mine; we
have not all however enjoyed uninterupted health./'^
At the close
of our last Gen. Meeting our second daughter was dangerously sick,
but recovered § has since been pretty well.
During the past rainy
season Mrs. Armstrong has suffered much from the old nervous com
plaint in her head; this was greatly aggravated by a fall from a
waggon[i^-cin the month of December.
have been gradually growing
Since that time her symptoms
more alarming § about the first of April
she became entirely prostrate.
The distress in her head becamefso
great as to threaten congestion of the brain apoplexy or s'ome kindred
disease.
But by prompt § powerful remedies, ^ constant care this
desasterous I!] result has been prevented § she is now comparatively
•ccDifortable
1 - , though unable to endure even the care of her family.
The physicians advise that measures be taken to recruit her general
health § before the meeting closes I may have occasion to lay this
subject before you ^ ask your advice.
Labours.
My labours during the past year have varied but little from those
of the previous year.
I have been enabled to preach twice on the
Sabbath without interruption; to visit the Sabbath School for child
ren under the care of Mr. Knapp pretty regularly; to hold a Sabbath
School of adult' cat’echuiriens myself after the morning service, § some
times meet with the church or a portion of it, at/.the close of the
afternoon service.
During week days I have attended the usual cons':'
certs for prayer, preached on Wednesday morning at the Station re
gularly, and at Waikiki, ¥aialae, Wailupe, Manoa, Nuuanu, and Pauoa.,
pretty regularly., besides attending a series of district meeting for
the particular benefit of the church of which I shall say more when
I come to speak of the church in particular.
My labours have been considerably increased during the year by
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calls for medicine § attention to the sick, which in former years
did not devolve on the pastor of this station.
These calls have
at times made very serious inroads upon my time § drawn so heavily
upon my strength as to compel me to say my burden is greater than I
can bear.
To attend to all the calls for medicine where it is
gratuitously given amidst such a mass of people as we have in H o n o
lulu, § where there are so many causes of desease[!], it may be.
well imagined to be a considerable labour, § yet I confess that I
have often regreted[!] that these calls were not more frequent §
timely.
I have mqt with many cases which proved fatal apparently
from their negle];£]t or from relying on native medicine when a
simple remedy in the outset might have saved the patient.
The Nonanona
This little periodical has cost me a trifle more labour during
the present year than it did during the year previous; the increase
has been chiefly owing to the fact that native contributions have
been more ‘ abundant; all these whether good bad or indifferent must
be read over in order to ascertain which is most worthy of publica
tion § when the best were selected they must often be copied before
they could be handed to the printer; I was also favored some by the
assistance of a native during the first year, which I have not had
during the present year.
We have also issued a few pages more matter
in the 2d vol. than was contained in the first.
In regard to "the
usefulness of the paper the brethren can judge as well as I . It doubt
less could be rendered more interesting § valuable by more labour ^
time devoted to it, and especially if we had it in our power to get
suitable engraving done.
thing much to be regreted.
Of this we have no prospect at present,
a
The only objection I have heard against
the paper is its' n a m e ; one member of the mission not now on the is
land, thought' it a’ subject :of sufficient importance has as you are
aware brought out all the resources of his wit, sarcasm § argumenta
tion to have the name changed ^ has expressed no doubt that it would
be changed when the brethren come to deliberate upon it.
Ail I would
say is if the meeting has any sympathy with those views § do not re
gard the circumstance of a mere name as too little to require five
minutes attention, let it be changed.
I have not the slightest ob
jection to any name that will suit my brethren.
So far as I know
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3.
however the name is popular with the natives ^ in my view is not
liable to the objections which have been brought against it.
Should
the paper be continued, it will probably be more convenient to issue
it in a little different form.
But as an offset to these additional labours § cares, I would
mention that the work on the new meeting house was brought to a
close about the 1st of July § on the 21 day of that month the house^
was dedicated to the worship of Almightly[!]
exercises'.' ' .
tion.
God with appropriate
That was an interesting § joyful day to the congrega
We had now come to a place of rest after a long § tiresome
struggle; many had predicted that the house never would be even roof
ed, but now we, saw it so far finished, as to afford comfortable § neat
accommodations to the congregation, § I trust there were many grateful
hearts came up to present their offering before the Lord on that day.
The first stone of the hous'e was laid Sep. 18, 1838 § the work was
finished as we now see it July 2, 1842.
That is 5 years^ 9 daysf!].
The cost of the house as,nearly as we can ascertain from the general
data:at our command was $30.000[]].
The whole amount is now paid
except about $120, which is already subscribed § only remains to be
collected.
Without galleries
[?] it is rather small for the congre
gation; during the past winter season it was uncomfortably filled with
hearers, but whether the congregations will ever be able to erect
galleries
[?] , or whether it is to remain so large as to need them
are matters of considerable doubt.
enough.
As it is just now there is room
In my view the plan of the house was drawn on a scale too
magnificent for the resources of the congregation; the basement story
is of some service, but by no means sufficient to justify what it
cos-t.
To finish the house in a style according with the original
--.I
plan will require a great deal of labour § expense | the mans lot is
not to be envied who has it to do and yet it should be done forthwith
as it may never be easier to have it done than now.
The only addition
al circumstance I would mention in regard to the house is that on the
day of dedication the King arose before the whole assembly § present
ed a deed of it to the church which worships in it § to those of like
faith who shall come hereafter.
Temperance.
I have not thought it necessary to present this subject before
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4.
the minds of my people so frequently during the present as during
the previous year;
for the simple reason that there has been very
little intemperance abroad in the native community.
Public senti
ment among natives has been So firmly set against all intoxicating
substances since the Kings:rref o r m , that it only needs to be kept
where it was in order to expel the evil from society.
Perhaps
there has never been a year in which there was so little intoxica
tion among the natives;
among them,
yet there has been here & there a case
and some have been punished for crimes commited while
under the influence of rum.
ed to an alarming extent,
Among foreigners the evil has prevail
tho perhaps not more so than in former
years.
During the fall months we held a number of temperance meetings
both for adults & for children;
attended & addressed.
tion of the
some of these the King & primier[!]
They we also present at our annual celebra
’cold w a t e r ’ armies on the 27 of October,
1400 children & youth congregated in Mr.
Smiths meeting house,
after an hour & a half spent in hearing addresses,
ing the praises of cold water &c[!],
when about
dialogue,
&
sing
they marched in two double
lines to the music of the Governors hand to our old Meeting house &
partook of a sumptuous feast apparently with good relish & good
cheer.
No one present could think that any thing more stimulating
than wholesome food & cold water was needed to give life & h a p pi
ness to Hawaian[!]
youth.
Several foreign residents & strangers
were present who seemed to be much gratified with the scene.
I
would only add that so far as I have been able to ascertain,
but
few of these children & youth have broken their pledges,
not even
in smoking tobacco which is i n c l u d e d i n the childrens pledge.
There have been however some cases of violation & there may be , ; ,
others of which I am not aware.
I would only add on this point that when t h e ’British commission
issued a n o t i c e :offering to license a limited number of grog shops
I felt it my duty to address them on the subject,
advocating the
doctrine that the traffic in ardent spirit ought to be entirely
abolished.
The first draught of the letter is here before me & any
one may read it who chooses.
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5.
Romanism.
The subject has excited but little interest for some time past.
The visit of the Embuscade seemed for a season to encourage &
streingthen the Romish[!]
boast great things,
party very greatly & they were heard to
but I have not heard of any accessions to their
numbers nor any enlargement of their operations.
On the contrary
there have been some cases of conversion external at least to Pro
testantism & I should think the attendance on their services on the
Sabbath is generally small.
But the priests are very active & leave
no means untried wither fair or foul to propagate the religion of
the pope.
In order to counteract this heresy I have pursued the
same course essentially as I did last year,
that is endeavour as
far as possible to bring the entire population in this field under
the influence of divine truth, more especially by a liberal distri
bution of the N. Testament & other bookstand keeping up weekly re
ligious meetings in all the large districts.
Protracted me e t i n g (
The first week in January was devoted to a serious[!:J of religious
exercises in which I was assisted by brethren Alexander,
L.
Hitchcock [!] .
It was a season of much interest & profit.
The congregation was larger
thro’ughout.
Parker &
the interest was well sustained
The result was a more general & solemn attention to
the concerns of the soul in the congregation than we had witnessed
for along season; meetings became well attended even to overflowing;
many careless sinners began to consider their ways & call upon God
and the church because more engaged in the conversion of souls
deed,
In
the greatest 'benefit of the Meeting seemed to be its good in
fluence on the church.
We had a very encouaging state of things until the middle of F eb
ruary when the political trouble of the land b e g a n ’:to engross the
public mind.
From that time to the present,
the interest of our
people in the .things of religion has been declining;
the congrega-' ,
tion has decreased some, and there have been a number of cases re
quiring discipline in the church.
On the whole the influence of
the political change has been very unfavorable & I fear its',evil '
effects are not at an end.
Quite a number of our church members
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6.
are soldiers & now under the training of British officers they are
circumstances of great temptation;
the life’ of a soldier in any
country is hardly compatable with that of a Christian.
But the
most disasterous influence we have lately felt has arisen from the
abrogation of the law of the native government which required the
illicit intercourse of unmarried persons to be punished.
This event
filled us all with surprise and alarm and we have melancholy evi
dence that our alarm was not without foundation.
We hear of whole
companies lately plunging into u n cleanness[!] in the most unb l ush
ing manner & no notice is taken of it by the authorities.
Boat! .
loads of women are said to go to & from ships in the harbour & the
\n
offingi^'at pleasure without any fear from the law.
If this state of,
things is to continue what but ruin,
hangs over this poor nation?
immediate & inevitable ruin
Their prospect was dark before but
this event adds' maiiy 'shades to' the darnessT it m.ake it darkness
which may be f e l t .
But the Lord knoweth them that are his;
his
elect cannot be lost; when iniquity comes in like a flood the Lord
can lift up
a standard against it & may we not hope that he will?
He pities the poor & the oppressed & if his people cry unto him
will he not hear?
for years past,
One thing is certain & has been growing more so
the Lords work in these islands is not'-.to be sus
tained by human laws nor by the influence of rules.
These props
are being taken away & the power of truth alone is left to sustain
the cause of righteousness.
Native ministry.
The order taken^n this subject at our last meeting I have not for
gotten;
indeed no subject has been more frequently on my mind during
the year;
but I havdnot undertaken to instinct any persons parti-^'
cularly with a view to their being helpers in publishing the gospel
principally for two reasons,
tion & 2.
1.
The temporary nature of my loca
the want of suitable helps[!]
in the form of books.
We
have at least 3 Or 4 men connected with this congregation of con
siderable promise as helpers in preaching & it is high time they
were in a state of training,
but I have not yet seen my. way clear
to commence the work for the reasons stated. In my view this is a
subject of great importance at the
present
time & ought to receive
the most careful consideration at this meeting.
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7.
The church.
Its condition as to numbers may be known from the following
statistical table.
Average congregation
2000
Whole no.
1631
rec^ on examination
Whole no. on certificate
81
Whole number rec'? past year on exam’^
394
Past year on certificate
39
Whole no.
past year
433
Whole no.
dismissed to other churches
80
Dismissed the past year Whole no.
8
deceased
142
Deceased past year
25
Suspended past year
24
Remain suspended
22
Excom4 past year
[!]
Whole no.
excommunicated
34
Remain excommunicated -
30
Whole number in regular standing
Whole no.
1431 •
of children baptised
628
Baptised past year -
83
Marriages past year
97
The contributions of the church to various benevolent objects
including what has been given towards the meeting house during the
year has been not far from $400 in cash.
We have partly supported
a native preacher at Waianae & done considerable towards supporting
school teachers.
I have endeavoured to give systematic instruction to the church
by dividing it into classes & meeting these classes weekly.
This
has cost me great labour but so far as I can judge it has tended
greatly to the edification of the church.
has 'been the catechism;
Our -principal textbook
we were about commencing the Pilgrims
Progress when I was obliged to relinquish these labours about the
1st of April in consequence of sickness in my family.
Mrs. Armstrong has been able to meet with the women of the
church usually once a week during the year.
As to the state of religion in the church I would say that it
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8.
is far very far from what it should be.
During the fall & winter
months as I have stated there was much life in the church;
saw it appear better.
I never
But of late it has not generally appeared so
well tho we have had no general defection,
nor much open iniquity.
Since the strange abrogation of the law regulating the intercourse
of unmarried persons which has filled the breasts of all the
’
friends of order & purity in this community with amazement & concern,
a certain class has stepped forth from their lurking places & litterally
glory in their shame.
in .boats, to the ships,
They go through the streets,
go
drawing iniquity as with a cart rope & fear
not the face of God or man.
That the church will escape when this
iniquity comes in like a flood is hardly to be expected;
but our
hope^s that the Lord who has hitherto been our strength & deliverer
of the people in years that are past,
will pouir out his spirit upon
his church & make it the salt of the land,
banners to the ungodly,
terrible as an army with
& more powerful than all the restraints of
human law.
A work on domestic & political economy was assigned to me last
year.
A considerable amount of material for the work has been col
lected & it could soon be made ready for the press should it be
deemed expedient to prosecute;
But I have had some doubts whether
such a work is so loudly called for as to justify the expenditure
of the funds necessary to publish it.
I made the tour of Oahu twice during the year.
In concluding this report I would say a word inregard to the re
lation which I sustain to this church & congregation.
menced labouring here,
18 months or at most two years were spoken
of as the probable time of Mr. Binghams absence,
my continuance here.
When I com
& consequently of
It is now almost three years since his de--.:;’:
parture & a good deal of uncertainty yet hangs over his return es
pecially as to the time.
be done in the case?
settled,
The question then arises, what is best to
I feel much the inconvenience of having un
as it were away from house,
mere temporary supply.
and labouring so long as a
It is uncomfortable for my family and has
an injurious effect upon my'labours as all my plans must be of a
temporary nature.
I cannot look upon the church nor manage it as
though it were my own nor can the church look upon me as its
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proper pastor.
9
I wish therefore to submit the subject to the con
sideration of Genl Meeting,
& ask either to have a permanent loca
tion here,or be restored to my::former field of labour.
May 11,
,
1843.
Rich? Armstrong
�Report of the first church &7congregation in Honolulu
May 1843-44.
At the close of our last General Meeting the hand of the Lord was upon my
family.
Mrs. Armstrong & our dear babe were both ill. But a voyage to Kauai in
the month of June & another to Maui & Hawaii in July and August had a decidedly
beneficial effect upon the symptoms of Mrs. Armstrong, and no good opportunity
having occured to make her contemplate a voyage to the United States.that project
was abandoned.
During our absence at the windward, our children were scattered
in the midst of kind friends, that Mr. A. might go free from care; all prospered
except the babe who was in the'cafe of Mrs. Bishop; notwithstanding her unceasing
vigilence, & utmost efforts to restore him he continued feeble, owing to the
irritation of his bowels from teething. He was brought home & continued to suffer
until the 28th of October when he was removed by death, as we trust to a bright
er & happier world than this, on the same day with our lamented brother Locke,
While we , with a circle of sympathising friends were assembled in my house weep
ing over our dead, a messenger entered announcing the sudden & unexpected depart
ure of that worthy brother.
That was a season of grief & sadness to all at the
station, to my family in particular, but I trust our affliction has not passed
off without leaving some abiding salutary impressions.
Labours. My labours for'-.the past twelve months may be arranged under the
following heads.
Labours as Pastor, as Editor, Superintendent’r.of schools & Keep
er of the Dispensary,
1.
Pastoral labours. I have preached, as usual, twice on the Sabbath, gen
erally visited the Sabbath school for children, which for the past year has been
mostly in the care of Mr. Hall, and also the Sabbath schools for small children
under the instructions of native teachers; after the morning service I have uni
formly kept a school:?for the
instruction of catechumens, of whom there are sev
eral hundreds on my list, but a small proportions of them however who give any
evidence of a work of grace in the heart, and after the afternoon services on the
Sabbath, I have frequently & may generally held a meeting either for a portion of
the church, or for the lunas of the church, The object which is to question them
on the sermons of the day, explain & enforce their truths more fully, & stir them
up to faithfulness in the Masters work.
On week days my plan has been to attend the monthly concert, lecture on Wed
nesday morning at the station, at Waikiki in the afternoon, & frequently at Waialae, Wailupe, and Maunalua on the same day; on Thursday afternoon I have held a
meeting at Manoa & on friday afternoon in the valley of Nuuanu or Pauoa.
These
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2.
weekly meetings have been tollerably[!] well attended, though at times they have
run very low; attention to them, though laborious, is essential to the support of
the congregation & the dissemination of truth among the people.
.My congregation on the Sabbath has not varied perceptably from what it has
been in former years.
From December till March the meeting house was well filled
on Sab. morning, & sometimes uncomfortably filled.
of them are
Larger meeting houses or more
much needed in Honolulu as well as more men':to labour for the thou
sands of degraded & wandering sons & daughters of Hawaii who are collected in
this village & vicinity..
Not over 4,000 at the most are in the habit of attend
ing any house for public worship on the Sabbath and yet there are statedly not
far from 12.000 people within the bounds of these two parishes.
Verily the har
vest is plenteous but the labourers are few.
2.
Editorial labours. During my absence at the windward for some two months
I was indebted to the kindness of Mr. L. Smith for sustaining the Nonanona, for
this he has my grateful acknowledgements.
Of the third volume 3000 copies were
issued, each containing 136 pages, that is eight pages of new matter more than
was contained in the volume of the previous year.
The whole number of impressions
sent out from the press during the year was 408,000.
More valuable matter has
come to hand during the past [year] than during any previous year.
Contributions
of natives have been abundant & though it cannot but have a good effect upon the
mind of the writers, to exercise their pens in;;writing for publication, yet it
costs no little time & patience to read them all over, & separate the chaff from
the wheat.
Very few native compositions are suitable to be placed in':the print
ers hands until they are carefully revised & in many instances copied or abridged.
So far as I am able to judge, among those who read the Nonanona at all, the in
terest in it increases, & I cannot but hope that some good is done by it, but I
must repeat my lamentation of last year that it has not been in my power to be
stow upon it that amount of labour & attention which I wished & by which it might
be made vastly more interesting, attractive & efficient that it ever has been.
As 1 intend to request the mission to relieve me,if possible, of the care of the
Dispensary, I hope during the current year to [be] able to do more for the Nona
nona.
Whether it shall be continued as at present or increased in size, or how
much money the mission think best to sink upon it, may very properly be a subject
for the mission to deliberate upon. At present, its income does not cover the
cost.
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3.
3.
Care of the Dispensory [!] & distributing medicines
To compound all the medicines which required it & prepare them for
use; to meet all the orders sent in from the different stations, & seek in the
village for such medicines as were not in thelpispensory & above all to attend to
the calls of the sick & dying in a population so dense & so liable to desease[!{]'
as that in Honolulu, has taken up no inconsiderable portion of my time & has inter
fered not a little with other important labours.
Though this is a haven of bus
iness for which I have no disrelish, but rather take pleasure in it, yet consider
ing
how it interferes with my labours as pastor & editor, I think it has better
be[!] transfered to one of the secular brethren at the station.
Since the first
of April I have received important assistance in the medical department from
Mrv Rogers, who has taken hold with a promptness, & skill which in my view en
titles him to an appointment forthwith, as Keeper of the Dispensory, in preference
to any other man at the station.
4.
Care of schools.
Owing to the enfeebled health of Mr. Knapp & my ab-
scence to the windward the schools in this parish received but little attention,
•
during the former part of the miss. year.
Consequently they languished greatly
& continued to grow worse & worse until some of them had barely a nominal exist
ence.
The chief cause of their decline was neglect, mismanagement, & incompe
tency on the part of those whose business it was to manage the c:o'hcern. Qur Kahu
Kula John li, who then held the office is an excellent man, & might have made a
good school'inspector, had not his mind not been so distracted by other important
public-affairs & be called to travel in person from one end of the kingdom to the
other frequently on government business.
Satisfied that the schools were suffer
ing, in his hands he concluded to resign his commission & in March, Keikenui, a
man of intelligence, active piety, and much re|spected was appointed in his stead.
Thus far the new Kahukula has done well with the exception of one or two mistakes,
which were easily rectified & the schools in this parish are in a better'condition
now than they have been for a long time.
We never could muster since my residence
in Honolulu, more than about 700 children at an examination until our last in
April, when 1160 scholars were reported.
But I am sorry to say since then there
has been some falling off.
The new Kahukula, being without experience, especially in the Keeping of ac
counts, I have felt it my duty to render him all the assistance in my power, & in
idP
past have undertaken more than ever before to see that the school operations in
my own district were properly managed.
To this end I have kept the accounts with
the teachers, assisted in settling them; seeing that suitable teachers are em-
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ployed & unworthy ones dismissed-
With my cooperation the Kahukula seems well
pleased & in fact so far seems unwilling to take-any important measure without
first constilting me.
I hope he is disposed to take this course with all the ' -
brethren on Oahu for without our vigorous cooperation, there is little hope
that the schools will succeed.
The worth of a school Inspector is too complica
ted, & difficult on this island to be sustained & carried forward successfully by
any native unassisted.
To avoid collision with the Roman Catholics, to exert a
sufficiently powerful influence over parents & children to induce them to favor
the schools, to raise funds, pay teachers & keep a regular.& correct account, re
quires qualifications which no native can yet be expected to possess & I have *
little hope that government will succeed in the business of education at present
unless the services of some suitable foreigner shall be secured to stand at the
head of the whole business of common school instruction in the islands.
Romanism. Of the workings of this heresy I have seen but little for twelve
months past & more.
Whatever the priests .& their followers have done in this
,
field has been done silently & unobtrusively. I have not thought it necessary to
say much to my people or publish much in the Nonanona on the subject.
At an
examination of the Catholic Schools in April, collectfed from Maunalua to Moanalua, our Kahukula told me he counted 190 children, while at the examinations in
Mr. Smiths meeting house & mine about the same time, there were over 1700 child^
ran.
This however may not be sufficient data on which to calculate the relative
strength of the Protestant and Romish[!] parties in this vicinity.’
Tempprance. The amount of my efforts to promote temperance or rather total ab
stinence, has been to unite in the annual celebration of the two cold water arm-^
ies of Honolulu, on the 26th of October last.
That was a day of high excitement
and deep interest among our young folks.and a powerful impulse was given to:the
cause of cold water, but as the events of that day have already been published I
need not dwell upon them here. How much intemperate drinking has been c'arried on
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'■■-tell;
secretly in Honolulu' I cannot^but in public I have seen no instance of drunkenness
among natives for a year,
liquid.
have I heard of many cases of even tasting the fiery
Among foreigners however, I am sorry to say, my soul has often sickened
at witnessing their beastly intoxication, & hearing their horrid revelry.
Public morals. At the close of our last general meeting, the state of public
morals in Honoluluwas most alarming.
Some old residents & visitors gave it as
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their opinion that vice had not appeared more rampant, bold & shameless since the
days of absolute heathenism, than it did in May & June last.
This was mainly
owing to the iniquitous course pursued by the British commission.
But how our
hearts ought to leap for joy that those days of darkness have passed away.
in his kind & holy Providence sent us relie:^ blessed be his name.
God
The restor
ation of the government "Ito the native chiefs, by Rear Admiral Thomas on 31 of
July, an event I had not the happiness to witness, will not soon be forgotten by
the friends of this nation.
With the restoration of the government, order,
quietness, and the general tone of public morals was restored.
Scenes of de
bauchery, revelry, and Sabbath desecration, in a great measure disappeared before
the authority of the laws which once more lifted up their voice.
I may just remark in passing that our intercourse with Admiral Thomas, who
remained here over 7 months, was uniformly pleasant.& familiar and on the eve of
his departure the brethren of this station felt it to be their duty to express to
him in writing, their gratification with his conduct & their obligations for his
kindness, which was handsomely responded to in a letter which together with the
one addressed to him, is present and can be read by any one who chooses.
Protracted Meetings. I assisted Mr. Smith in a protracted meeting in Decem
ber and Mr. Bishop in another in March for one day & was assisted by both these
brethren together with Mr. Hitchcock.in a meeting of four days in January.
In
all these meetings I felt my own soul benefited,'and^ no doubt the great day will
reveal many salutary impressions made during these delightful exercises.
The re-
suit of the meeting in my congregation was^^manifest awakening in the church; and
the hopeful conversion of some sinners from the error of their way.
It was de
lightful to see scores of sleeping church members waking up, confessing their sins & returning to duty; to see'-"wanderers returning & hardened rebels against God
considering their ways.
During the months of December, January, February & March,
the congregations both on Sabbath & week days, were large & a pleasing interest
in divine things continued.
Zion prospered,for the Lord was in the midst of her.
Since the first of April, I am sorry to say this interest has been on the decline
and now we are in a very stupid state.
Benevolent Contributions. This congregation has been in the habit of contri
buting something monthly & at special seasons for benevolent objects for years
past, but on the first of January last I made some efforts to induce the people
of my charge to contribute according to their ability, a specified sum in money,
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on every Sabbath preceding the monthly concert.
The plan for taking the collect
ion is a very simple one, & makes very little confusion or delay.
Thirteen col- ■
lectors are selected, each furnished with a large card, a pencil & a small pill
box for the money; these take their stations in different parts of the house and
during the singing of the second hymn, the contributions are handed to them, the
names of the contributors written down & the sum given by each.
By these cards
at the end of the year, it can be easily ascertained who have given to the Lords
treasury & how much.
Since the first of January, $106,12
have been collected in
cash & handed in to Mr. Chamberlain, to constitute a part of the sum allowed by
the Board for the support of the pastor of the 1st church in HOnolulu.
Eight
dollars were on hand previous to January, this sum added to $22,50 contributed to
the meeting house at Molokai & $22,50 to the contemplated meeting house at Hana,
makes $159.12.
Besides this remaining debt oii the meeting house of $134,50[?]
has been paid off, and $20, given by our Governor for an Accordion for the use of
the choir which makes in all $313,62
cause of Christ in the islands.
paid in money by the congregation for the
This sum is much smaller than it should be, but
it is all I have been enabled to draw forth.
tact, it would be much larger than it is.
Perhaps if I had more faith, zeal &
This church is able to support its
pastor & I hope it can be induced to do it & more too before long.
Church Statistics.
I'Jhole number addec^to the church on ex^?
1715
On certificate-
132
Past year on examination
102
Past year on certificate
51
Whole number past year
153
Whole no. dismissed to other churches
99
Dismissed the past year
19
I'/hole number deceased
196
Deceased past year
54
Suspended past year
66
Remain suspended
55
Excom4 past year
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Whole no. excom^
34
Remain excom^
30
Whole number in regular standing
Whole number of children baptised
1477
649
Baptised the past year
Whole no. of children deceased
21
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Deceased past year
[
Marriages past year
M >d
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107?
Average number of cong^} on Sabbath
2000
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Additional items.
Mrs. Armstrong has been enabled to sustain a meeting for native females on
friday of each week during most of the year.
It has been well attended & ap
parently very useful in various respects, expecially upon the domestic habits and
care of children among the mothers.
Our old meeting house has been sold to government for $400, which sum is now
on interest, with a view to finishing the new meeting house whenever the work may
be re—commenced.
Several new district meeting houses and school houses are much needed in dif
ferent parts of this field.
I have not fulfilled all the appointments assigned to me, for want of time;
my office as editor, requiring all the leisure time I have had for writing.
I
have had too many irons in the fire, for my own comfort or success in the several
branches of work assigned to me.
Respectfully submited[!]
Richard Armstrong
�Report of the first church & congregation in Honolulu, read before General
Meeting of the mission, May 1846, including 2 years.
Nothing of very striking importance has occured in the history of myself my
people or my labours, since our last Gehl. Meeting.
We have moved on in our work
at a moderate pace & in the ordinary way never affecting any thing great, nor yet
ceasing to do something.
Mrs. Armstrong has not generally enjoyed good health; at times her old com
plaint has occasioned her great suffering; but we have reason for gratitude, that
she has been able so much of the time to be about & attend to her domestic af-fairs, & also attend a weekly meeting of native females,, though her illness has
been a serious obstacle to my labour among the people.
Two of our little daughters have also at different times been brought very
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low by sickness, but by Gods blessing on the remedies used, their lives have been
both spared & they are now in good health.
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Between the months of March and June of 1845, the distressing influenza which
prevailed over our islands, prostrated our entire population, ourselves among the
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rest, so that for some days we found it difficult to obtain even the necessaries
'o
[!] of life, get any domestic, help, or even help ourselves.
It was a time of
great & geh'eral distress, & many natives died, tho. not so many as might have been
■expected.
The epidemic having passed away, the population generally was left in
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a
a feeble & pitiful state, from which they did not recover for a long time.
ft
but my general impression is that the deaths far exceed the births." In my church
^
that
^
place, that I see no evidence of a decrease of population.. On the contrary there
I may remark here, that I have no register of births & deaths in my field,
is certainly the fact.
Yet such is the tide of emmigration-.
to this
has been probably an increase.
^
Labours. My labours for the last two years have not varied materially from
I
what they were in former years.
By the tender mercy of our God, I have been en-
abled to labour on with but little interruption from sickness or any other cause.
■p
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Pastoral & ministerial labours. Two sermons on the Sabbath, a lecture on
g g
on[!] Wednesday morning at this place, and another at Waikiki on Wed?[!] afternoon,
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occasionally extending my labours on the same day along the coast some 10 miles
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to Waialae, Wailupe & Maunalua, a lecture on thursday occasionally at Manoa valley, & on friday afternoon generally in the valley of Nuuanu - these have made up
the sum of my weekly preaching.
More recently my labours on the secular days of
the week have been turned to expounding the Old Testament from the beginning in
^ S
course, as the congregation reads it in course.
in the sequel.
But I shall refer to this again
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2.
I have also attended a Sabbath School either for children or adults or both
on the Sabbath, & also a meeting for consultation with my elders, between the
forenoon & afternoon services.
Our Sabbath School for children has not flourished for the last year or more,
owing mainly as I suppose to the want of that SuperiritaSance' of the common
Schools, which is essential to sustaining"';' an interest in the Sabbath school.
Such Superintendance we have not been able to afford, & hence the interests of
the children have suffered greatly in my field, since the death of our lamented
Bro. Knapp.
The Sabbath school for adults continued under the superintendance of Mr.
Chamberlain, as long as his health permited[!] him to labour at all; his place
was then taken by Mr. Dimond for a season, until the commencement of the present
year when the plan of the school and the hour for
exercises were
both changed; adults & children have since been both brought together immediately
after morning service, to recite the daily food, and hear an exposition of it.
In this exercise I have been assisted by Judge'-^Andrews, Mr. Hall, & Mr. Cooke,
the first catechising the adults
boys & Mr. Cooke those of the girls.
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feel grateful for it.
Mr. Hall hearing the lessons of the
This aid has been timely and important & I
IN the girls school Mr. Cooke has employed the services of
several of the young ladies under his care with advantage.
This exercise I re
gards as a very important means of grace; as the seven verses for the week are
very generally commited[ !] to memory, and in the examination of them an opportu^::
nity is afforded to all present to ask questions freely, or present difficulties,
or suggest inferences, there is reason to believe that a knowledge of Gods word
is rapidly increase, and impressions are made of a most permanent & salutary kind.
Indeed there is little danger that Gods word will return unto him void, it con
stantly studied with a serious and prayerful mind.
I have only to lament that
many of my people take but little interest in this delightful & profitable ex
ercise.
A poartion of my congregation have been in the habit of reading a chapter
or
two in the Bible every day in course, for several years; but the excellent prac
tice did not extend to the people generally, until within two months past, when
it became some what general, & it is now the most encouraging symptom I see':among
my people.
The plan is to|read a chapter a day in course commencing with the Old
Testament, and at our Sabbath afternoon and district meetings throughtthe week,
questions are asked & remarks made on the chapters that have been read during the
days preceding.
In this exercise many of the people are much interested, and
many of our discussions have been intensely interesting, and profitable.
No part
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3.
of my work recently has afforded more gratification than this.
One important re
sult is, our increased ability to read & comprehend, what is read.
Could a Bible
reading spirit be kept up & extended among the natives, the happiest effects must
follow/ it would improve their minds as well as their hearts; promote their hap
piness in this word[world]las ;well as in the world to come, & be the best antidote
to the poisonous heresy' of Rome now spreading around us.
I will only add on this point that this Bible reading spirit has created an
increased demand for that holy book beyond what it has been for several years
past.
I have disposed of all the 1st vol. of the 0. Testament that we have on
hands, at 25c. a piece, & quite a number of copies of the whole Bible.
During the year 1845 I made an attempt to have my people generally read the
Pilgrims Progress, reading it with them myself & expounding it at our weekly
meeting; but my success was only partial.
For some reaseSn or other but a small
portion of the congregation could be induced to take hold of it, although those
who did, became- more & more interested as they advanced to the class.
That work
seems to be a little forward of the presfent state of the native mind, but I have
no doubt of its being yet a popular book & it will exert a great influence.
Its
influence on those who have read it is apparent even inttheir prayers.
Editorial labours. Three thousand copies of the Nonanona were issued from
the press up till the last of March 1845; at that time the name of the paper was
changed, but-its character has remained essentially the same, with the exception
that it was enlarged to 8 pages while formerly it contained ordinarily only 4
pages; & the price was raised among those who were able to pay the amount of its
real cost.
The alteration in the number of pages was owing mainly to the demand
so generally felt for the new laws, & other government matter which ought to be
thrown before the public in the native language.
In consideration of enlarging
the paper, the government gave one hundred dollars towards its support during ^
last year & will do the same this year, besides the private subscriptions of the
rulers.
In my congregation the paper has been very generally paid for, it avails
last year amounted to [$]293.50
Native writers contribute largely for the Elele, :'.8c it is very desirable that
they be encouraged to do so but, while many of their pieces are well written &
contain valuable matter, most of them are of a contrary character, & if published
at all, need to be first wrought over before going to the printer, which is a
great labour.
Many valuable articles are thrown away merely because they are so
badly written, or on such poor paper, or contain so much extraneous matter, as to
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4.
“be unsuitable for the paper until re-written & corrected.
To several of the brethren I feel much indebted for aid in furnishing suit
able articles for the paper; but the brethren
generally have contributed less
during the last year then they did.'.in former years.
With the care of a large church in a place of great temptation and distract
ion; with the care of a large family & a feeble wife.& not always enjoying good
health myself I have had serious doublts whether it was my duty to continue to
edit this periodical, which of course must be done at the expense of other and
very important departments, and hastily & superficially done fe¥-the-Hiesfe-pai=t.['!]
Andjit would be a relief to me if another & more suitable person could be found
to assume the editorship
can do.
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& carry it on more efficiently than I
Nothing but a sense of the imperative need of some such periodical &
the hope of doing some good thereby has induced me to sustain it.
Common Schools. Our school districts extends from Maunalua on the coast to
the S. Eastward to the fort in Honolulu.
Within these bounds including the
vallies[!] there are 20 schools containing about 800 scholars.
Owing to the pres
sure of other labours I have not been able to give them much attention, & they
have not accomplished what is desirable by any means.
Our Kahukula,Keikenui is a
good man & does the best he can, but it is a work for which he is by no means
competent unaided.
He has been a good deal embarrassed for want of means to pay
the teachers, repair the schools houses or build new ones; and also to obtain
teachers for moderate wages, there being in Honolulu, more lucrative situations
open to them.
We very much need a suitable missionary teacher devoted solely to
the common schools in Honolulu & its vicinity & I know of no situation where one
could be more useful.
Ought not one to be set out for this express purpose?
Of Roman catholic Schools within my field there are so far as I can learn 4;
including the school at the seat of their operations in Honolulu^including
School at chapel in H.[!] & containing about t$0[l] 88 scholars.
managed or what is tought[!] in them I am unable to say.
How they are
Mr. Maigret keeps a
high school, as I understand of 8 scholars.
Work on meeting house. So large and inconvenient was the house in its former
unfinished state, that the welfare of the congregation as well as that of the
minister evidently demanded some farther inprovements as soon as they could be
made, but a want of funds was the great obstacle, until $1,000. was placed at my
disposal for this object by the late primier[!].
Encouraged by this our people
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5.
were inclined to proceed with the work, until the bills for all the improvements
inside & out amounted tQ-$2640.0D,-.'' Of this amount about $2100, have been paid
leaving a debt of $540, yet on the house.
But sufficient '[.funds] has'been sub
scribed or nearly so to cancel this, & we have yet five months credit ', in which
to collect the subscriptions.
The sum expended is considerable & a large propor
tion of it has come from the poor of the congregation, yetjit has been well spent
& the people seem'well satisfied.
My own comfort has been greatly promoted by ■
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the improvements inside of the house, and the people hear the word with much
greater satisfaction than formerly.
Shortly after our last Genl. Meeting I laid the subject of ministerial sup
port before my people, according to a resolution of our body; teaching & inform
ing the duty & importance of doing what they could to relieve the American church
es of the burden of supporting their pastor.
The result was that from October
1844 till October 18457 $570, in'.cash was raised by the church & congregation for
the support of their pastor.
This sum has not been all handed in to the secular
agents, a part having been appropriated to liquidate the debt of our meeting house
& a part to repairs on my dwelling, the appropriation of 'last year not having
been sufficient to meet the expense.
Until the debt on the meeting house is can
celed, I do not intend calling on my people to do any thing of consequence for
the cause generaally or for my support.
Protracted Meeting. We have held small meetings at outstations[!] at different
stations with good results.
In the month of March last I was kindly & efficient
ly assisted in a meeting of four days continuance by Brothers Bishop, Parker, &
Smith.
The exercises commenced with prospect not the most encouraging; the con
gregation was large, but a want of solemn attention & a spirit of prayer was
manifest; so it continued until the third day, when the fallow ground began to
be broken up, & the spirit of the Lord seemed evidently to accompany the word
spoken.
At the close of the meeting, the solemnity & sobriety that rested on the
countenances of the people, the fervor of their prayers, & the fulness of our re
ligious assemblies, afforded evidence that our labours had not been in vain in the
Lord.
Many from the world professed a desire to be on the Lords side & are now
in a course of instruction; some of them at least I'hope will prove to be the
children of God.
Since this meeting our church, as a body has been more wakeful, & more inter
ested in divine things than it was before.
dead & worse than useless.
But many of its members are still
These have been my trouble & grief, and a great hind
rance to the more active & living members of the church.
The table of statistics
will show the number of cases of discipline that have occured during the last
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two years & also the number of admissions.
It will be seen that the former much
exceeds the latter; more have been set aside & remain so than have been received
from the world.
But it must not be infered from this circumstance that the church
has grown weaker or been retrograde; so far from this I am satisfied that were a
number more of the fruitless branches loped off, there would be more life & vigor
& health in the tree.
The small number of admissions for the last two years, only 48, is not for
the want of candidates; ofxthese;there are many & I hope some of them are the
Lords people, but experience has tought[!] me, to be careful more & more in admiting members to the privilege^Lf the church.
It is so distressingly common among
natives to appear well whileLn a state of probation, & then after being allowed
to make a public profession,after a season to fall away, that I see no way of
avoiding this so well as by
a long course of instruction and trial.
It has been said that in order to keep up-our congregations, it is necessary
to keep open the doors of the church & allow a stream from without to flow in,
but I have not found it so, for the last year & a half,
I have received none
from the world during that time & yet I do not see that the congregation has sen
sibly diminished, or at least if it has, the cause is rather to be found in our
recent practice of saparate[!] meetings at some of the outposts on the Sabbath,
than to the one mentioned above.
Premature admissions of persons not well in
structed, and consequently liable to conduct themselves very unworthily of a
Christian profession, has a tendency to lower the standard of Christian charact
er, make a profession of religion appear to be a matter of small importance, and
bring the church of Christ into disrepute.
But I think the sentiment is gaining
ground among my people that it is a great & solemn thing to take the vow^of God
upon them, & ought to be done with the greatest caution.
To extend & establish
this feeling is of great importance to the welfare of the church.
I will only add in regard to this church that I have never / yet considered
my relation to it as established.
The action of our lasl^General Meeting was not
of a nature to relieve me entirely from my embarrassment, especially as it was
not ratified or in any way acted upon by the association. In fact',: I have felt
since that proceeding much as I did before, that I was still only a stated[?]
supply, or pastor pro tempore, & should the proper pastor arrive, I should give
the church at once into his hands. I must say however, that I have considered ,_
this as disorderly & a disadvantage both to myself & this church & congregation.
In order to get effectively rid of a relation so embarrassing I was willing two
years ago, to surrender the pastorship into other hands & turn my attention to
other woTk.
I am still more willing to do so now, & should be truly
to be
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allowed to confine myself to:the schools, to my paper, & to other kindred objects
& be rid of a situation which has never 'been satisfactory to me, & in which I
have laboured with much disadvantage.
I would not leave the impression that it
would now be pleasiht to me to have my pastoral relation to this church pro
perly constituted; this in my opinion, ought to have been done long ago, or else
the church put into other hands, as things have been & now-are I would much ra
ther be rid of the pastorship altogether,
Yet the Lord has been pleased to give
me favor in the eyes of this church & people & in some degree to bless my poor
labours among them, more than I had reason to expect considering the disadvantages
under which I have laboured, for almost six years.
I have refered to a division of the congregation in the afternoon of the Sab
bath, holding several meetings in the different districts.
In sustaining these
meetings,! have received important aid from Messrs. Richards, L. Andrews & Rice,
Mr. R. has held a meeting regularly at Waikiki, on Sab. afternoon,-Mr. L. Andrews
at Nuuanu, & Mr. Rice at Manoa.
This gives the seed a broader cast[?] & brings
more souls under its influence than to have but one assembly & is a more effect
ual way of counteracting the spread of Romish[!] errors in our borders than to
centre our labours at one spot.
But^Lt renders the congregation at this place
quite meager on Sabbath afternoon.
On the hymn book now in press I have devoted considerable labour, mostly by
was of revising. Owing to constant pressure of other labours I have done but
little at writing original hymns.
Romanism. Recently there arrived at this place a reinforcement of papists,
making in all[f] now on the islands.
Of the movements of this wily enemy in my field I know but little; they are
quiet & unobtrusive at present in all their^perations.
are they asleep.
But they are not idle nor
One of their aims doubtless is now to gain the good will of the
govt, by an appearance of loyalty & friendship, &. they will no doubt make capital
out of existing difficulties with other & greater governments According to the reC
• cord of the Kahukula,-5iSfe‘ are^l53 protestant children on this island, & 910
of Roman catholic.
Temperance.
Since July 1844, we have had no temperance meeting among the natives
& but little done in that way, chiefly because there has been but little use made
among natives of intoxicating drinks.
the most part.
What has been used was done in secret for
But awa has been doing vast mischief; astonishing quantities of
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it have been brought into the market & found ready sale.
Within three months
past however, a check has been put upon the traffic & use of the stupifying root
by the authorities, no one being allowed to use it without permission from the
governor.
This practice was adopted by John li, while he was acting governor,
during the absence of his Excellency last winter to the windward.
Strenuous
efforts have been made here & elsewhere to have awa entirely abolished by law;
numerous & powerful appeals have been sent up to the legislature for this purpose,
but I fear after.all that this will not be done.
The prospect now is that heavy
restrictions will be laid upon it, confining it to be used as a medicine only.
But this will be far from furnishing a remedy for the evil.
Among foreigners much has been done & undonpe in regard to temperance within
the last two years.
At one time, about a year ago, the cause of teetotalism
seemed to be in a fair way to triamph[!] in Honolulu; but a sad reverse has taken
place & since I havejlived on the islands I have not seen darker prospects in re
gard to the temperance reformation, so far as foreigners are concerned, than
during the last 9 months.
Our teetotlers have about all gone back to their cups
& their last state is worse than the first.
How the late heavy restrictions on
the traffic will operate, remains to be seen', but I have not much hope'from'.this
~quarter.
The cause must be mainly sustained by public sentiment if sustained at
all.
Church statistics, for 2 years beginning May 1, 1844
Whole no received on examination
1763
on certificate
165
Rec^ past 2 years on certificate
33
Past 2 years on examination
48
Whole no. reed past 2 years
81
Do -
Whole no. dismissed to other churches
Dismissed past 2 years
Whole no. deceased
141
42
270
Deceased past 2 years
87
Suspended past 2 years
92
Remain suspended
38
I'Jhole no. excommunicated
34
Remain excommunicated
30
Whole no. in regular standing
1446
Whole no. of children baptised
703
Baptised last 2
years
54
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Marriages 2 past years
219
Average congregation on Sab. morg.
1500 to 2000
General Remarks. It will be perceived from the preceding table that the ntmiber dismissed to other churches during the past 2 years exceeds the number re
ceived to this church on certificate.
For this ther^ay be two reasons 1.
A
well known reluctance onjthe part of the pastor to have persons come from other
places & settle in Honolulu 2,
From several c a u s e s h a s been a partial re
action in regard to emigration to this place; & this is in my view a decidedly
favorable symptom.
The great influx of people from all parts of the islands to
the metropolis,is a great evil - it operates to the injury of the population
resident here & also of the emigrants-
Somejof my best & most industrious people
have assured me that every thing they can get is begged away from them by their
friends from other islands & that this is a most serious draw^back on their tem
poral prosperity.
Multitudes come to this place without having paid their pas
sage, they either pawn their clothes , or are retained on board the vessels until
their friends advance the mnoey for their redemption.
This of course is always
done though it occasion[!] poverty & distress to those ashore.
Having no settled house those from abroad go here & there among their friends
like a swarm of locusts, devouring as they go, until they are driven from neces
sity either to seek employment as a last resort,or fall into iniquity such as
prostitution or gambling, in order to support life.
Thus, they are in many in
stances constantly both receiving & imparting injury by coming t@5 this place.
But as I have said, the evil appears to be diminishing & I hope’
:this government
will ere long take jneasures to reduce the evil still morel
I ought to say however
that many of the natives are not tcbe blamed for coming to Honolulu; their cir
cumstances often almost compel them to go somewhere.
In remote places they find
it difficult to procure money to pay their taxes; have their lands taken from
them by their superiors, or are attached to hi'gh'.br ^iow chiefs whose business
calls them to this place & when once here they find many inducements to remain.
2.
Knowledge, civilization and general improvement have evidently advanced with
in the past 2 years in this field.
Good clothing, good houses, and domestic com
fort, have increased, but there is a great want of economy every where apparent.
Silks, satins, & other costly articles are distrssingly common among those who
are scarcely able to afford cotton cloth; who', live in miserable huts & have not
sufficient food.
Horses, saddles & equippage[!] for fiding are purchased for no
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other object than pleasure, which exhausts the resources of the purchasers &
leaves nothing for the supply of their real wants. Many a woman wears a splendid
silk shawl,while her children have not a change of garments, nor a slate or book.
This is a crying evil among my people.
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3.
There are in Honolulu a multitude of adverse influences, from foreigners of
low character.
The profanity, drunkenness, & disturbances in our streets the
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commitments to the fort & troubles in our courts of justice are generally from
men of this character.
From them the children in our streets learn the most dia
bolical language; by them our native females are seduced, our Sabbaths desecrated,
our constables bribed and our whole atmosphere is corrupted.
They support our
grog shops, and our houses of ill fame, and thus strengthen the cause of the
wicked on every hand.
these islands?
What but evil can result from the settling of such men on
There have settled among us some foreigners of good character;
they are sober, orderly & industrious; one here & there is pious; these exert a
good influence, but they are the minority I fear.
4.
This field greatly needs more labour, I mean in my department.
To superin
tend the schools, edit a paper, and take care of such a church in such a place is
too much for any one man.
The whole time of the pastor should if possible be
given to the church & people, to the single object of reviving & guiding souls
to Christ & heaven & another man might be well employed in the schools, editing
the paper & conducting other works through the press, as well as missionating[!f
"giDong the people.
5.
More needs to be done at this place in behalf of native females.
A great
many young women come:’- here from remote parts of the islands & are exposed to all
the temptations of money, gaity, & pleasure that the place affords; many of them
are ruined at once, & beyond recovery.
Mrs. Knapp has done much good among the girls of her school & Mrs. Armstrong
in her feebleness has done much to arouse & quicken the pious females & expecial^
ly the mothers, to their duty in their several relations.
Would that a thousand
fold more were done of a similar kind, for the daughters of Hawaii in this place.
Respectfully submited[!]
R. Armstrong.
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�Report of 1 st church & congregation in Honolulu from May 1846 to May 1848.
The history of our affairs- as a society, has not varied much during the last
two.[years], from what it was in former years.
We have experienced mercies and
judgements; a good degree of health has been afforded us, & yet we have been severly visited by sickness.
Our people suffered greatly & many died, during the
distressing epidemic, which prevailed in April & May of last year. During that
distressing period, it was often my melancholy duty to attend 3 and 4 funerals in
succession, without even leaving the grave yard.
Labours.
These have been much the same as those described in my reports of former years.
Preaching twice on the Sabbath, delivering from one to four lectures during the
week; attending the monthly concert on the first Monday of every month, usually
one or two Sabbath Schools on the Sabbath, a meeting for inquirers every thursday; & a School for my elders on Saturday have constituted the usual weekly rout
ine of my labours as pastor.
Bro? Hall & Cooke
have had the principal care of the children's Sabbath
School for children, which has flourished part of the time under review, & the
children made rapid advances in a knowledge of the holy Scriptures, some of them
reciting from 100 to 200 verses, from memory on successive Sabbath for a season.
Several young men & some young women connected with this Sabbath School have re
cently given considerable evidence that they have chosen Christ as their Saviour
& portion. But, I regret, to say that our childrens Sabbath School is now in a
declining state, mainly for want of efficient labour on the part of the pastor
and Superintendents.
The School in the ai o'ka la, has been held after the service on each Sabbath
morning, & has been conducted by Judge Andrews.
During the present year, it has
been mutually flourishing.
While our lamented Bro. Richards continued to labour, he preached every Sab
bath afternoon in Nuuanu valley & at the palace, on Sabbath evening, both of which
services were attended with good results.
The people in Nuuanu manifested the
deepest sympathy for him during his last sickness, & no part of our people seem
ed to fell[!] his loss more deeply, after his decease.
Judge Andrews has also assisted me a good dealTin preaching on the Sabbath, &
since the failure of Mr. . Richards in July last, has alternated with me in preach
ing in the palace, & in the congregation, every other Sabbath afternoon.
Bro. Rice has had charge of the meeting in Manoa valley, & I hope he will
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2.
present an account of his labours there before the meeting.
That is a very
flourishing part of my field.
A substantial Stone Meeting house has been erected there under the direction
of Bro. Rice intended also for a school house; and a dobie[adobe] building for
the same purposes at Waikiki.
These have cost a great deal of labour & care, but
we feel amply repaid for it all, in seeing the worth of the Lord prospering so
greatly in both of these districts.
While erecting the houses we feared they wd,
prove to be too large, but during the present year they have been well filled
with attentive worships, on Sabbath afternoons & frequently during the week.
A Stone meeting house is now in progress at Wailupe, on the coast,, east of
Dimond Hill.
That section of the parish:'is under the care of a pious native, who
is doing much good.
esteemed among them.
The congregation gives him a support & he seems to be much
His name is Q4iele['?].
Kaauwai has had the oversight of
Waikiki, and has been very active & energetic, tho. not always so prudent as
could be desired.'
Church discipline.
The cases of discipline in this church have been fewer during the two years
now under review, than during any former period of the same length; this no doubt
is owing to an increase of divine knowledge, a better understanding of the Gospel
system, & more maturity of Christian character in the church generally.
But one
or two cases of discipline have occured, of the most distressing nature; both in
high places, one of them in the State; the othe]^ in the church.
As to the former,
the individual, after about a years suspension ffom,tJie church, has been restored
on profession of repentence.
The latter deserved more notice; that is the case
of Keikenui ifeo'wfe licensed to preach the Gospel in the year 1845,
An interesting
field was assigned him, on the coast, to the eastward of IHmond Hill.
He entered
upon his labours with fair prospects of success; he was popular , & at once, a
large congregation, collected around him.
to conduct his labours with prudence.
He was abundent[!] in labours & seemed
But in the midst of his career & before he
had been six months at his post, the Spoiler came & cast him down.
The charms of
a young married woman led his heart astray & he was discovered on his trial to
have been guilty of nearly constant': criminal intercourse with her for six months
before it was discovered.
as a preacher.
All this time he was engaged in the most active labours
When accused of criminal conduct, he declared his innocence &
succeeded in evading detection for several months, although suspected by many
about.
When apprehended & brought before the magistrate he most solemnly pro--^':
tested his innocence calling God to witness, & holding his hand on the Bible.
He
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was equally bold in maintaining his integrity before the church, although la
boured with long & affectionately.[!]
He was pronounced guilty however before
the Judges & also bythe church, & since that time has confessed his sin in the
fullest manner.
So also has the woman who is not a church member.
Church Statistics for two years from May 1, 1846 to May 1, 1848.
Whole no. rec4 to this church on examc
1974
Whole no. rec"? on certificate
253
Rec^ past two years on examination
211
Rec^ past two years on certificate
88
Whole no. rec^ past two years
299
Whole no. dismissed to other churches
166
Dismissed past two years
25
Whole no. deceased
’[!]
Deceased past two years
[T]
Suspended past two years
^ 52
Whole no. in regular standing
1418
Whole no. of children baptised
774
Baptised past 2 years
71
Marriages past 2 years.
244.
Much stupidity has prevailed in. our church at times; meetings run low, and
all good works draged[!] heavily; the majority of our members seemed possed[!]
of a spirit of slumber & yet we have had no general outbreaking [of] iniquity--in
the church since we last met.
But I am happy to say this church has been copious
ly watered from on high during the present year & has been in a flourishing State.
Never since my first connection with it, has it appeared so well; so prayerful,
watchful, circumspect & active in doing good.
Forty six members who had been
under discipline, from 1 to 8 years, have been brought apparently to repentance
& restored to the fellowship of the church since the 1st of January, while the
cases of discipline during that time have been only five.
Revival.
For two years there has been a concert of prayer among the females of this
church, to pray for a revival, and during my absence to the windward in January,
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Mrs. Armstrong resolved to do what she could to awaken a spirit of prayer among
the female members of the church who attended her friday meetings.
seems to have been owned
& blessed of the Great Head of the church.
The effort
The meet
ings began^' to increase both in numbers & interest; a spirit of prayer was
•
awakened; more meetings were called for; the impenitent began to come in, and al
though the meeting was for females only, males came & begged the privileges of
attending,
among others His Majesty himself & several of the high chiefs. Here a
little disorder occured in one meeting, that is males & females both lead in
prayer; but as the leading men of the church got enlisted in the work, it natur
ally passed into their hands and so far as I know, all the proceedings of the
meetings were then done in decency & in order, unless meeting before daylight in
the miorning may be considered disorderly; but the males & females met in sepa
rate houses until the break of day when they united for a short season in pouring
out their hearts before God in the large church.
All this took place during my absence to the windward; on my return, how was
my heart rejoiced to behold the work of the Lord!
I landed on the Sabbath, dur
ing morning service & that large church was completely filled with immortal
beingsi listening to the words of eternal life, from the lips of Bro. Baldwin,
who was then at this place.
Daily meetings were in progress; hundreds of people
came out to them who appeared to be strangers to me.
gers in the house of God.
At least they were stran
Stillness rested upon those solemn assemblies; they
were large, but it was easy to preach, for all were eager to hear the word and
gave fixed attention to it.
A demand for the Scriptures among the people became
general & I sold more Bibles & testaments for cash in February & March than I did
the whole of the year 1847.
As this work commenced among the natives themselves with the assistance of
Mrs. Armstrong, so it has been mostly sustained by the elders & active members
of the church.
It was impossible for me to do more than preach to such multi
tudes & I did not attempt to do much more, but many of the church members have
been very zealous & efficient.
They seemed to be full of faiths of the Holy
Ghost, & took hold of the promises like wrestly[!] Jacobs.
The inquirers amounting to some hundreds are collected into classes & I have
been in the habit of meeting them once a week for prayer & instruction.
These
’'End of pg.2.of original manuscript. The followihg text was probably added by
Armstrong as an afterthought: In Dec. last at the request of the govt. I consent
ed to assist Mr. Young in the depatl[!] of public instruction until the present
meeting. [End of text]. This text appeared on the top of pg. 3 of the original
manuscript and was sectioned off from the rest of page.
�Hon.olu.lu May 1846 - May 1848
meetings are well attended & most interesting.
Common Schools.
The number of common schools in this district is 27; 21 of these are Pro
testant & six of them Catholic.
In the Protestant schools there are reported 976
scholar^s; in the Catholic 198.
In the Pro^testant schools there has been a decided advance in knowledge,
discipline., and general improvement during the two years past.
The teachers have
been promptly paid, & therefore more efficient than they formerly were.
Vocal
music has been successfully introduced into several of the schools, & is exerting
a very beneficial influence.
The exercise of singing is popular with; the child
ren, and, I think, advantageous to their health. Nothing but the want of suitable
teachers has prevented us from introducing it into all our schools, as a daily
school exercise.
A good many, I cannot say how many, of the;,yduth. in the schools have been de
cidedly serious during the revival & I am not without hope that they have chosen
the good part.
None however have been received to the fellowship of the church,
as fruits of this revival, either chidren, or adults.
During the past year the Pilgrims Progress & Moral Philosophy have been in
troduced to several of the schools & are popular books.
to have the Scriptures
d a ily
read
Care has also been taken
portions of them commited to memory.
The census has been taken from Maunalua to Moanalua, & amounts to 12.025[!].
This is propably[!] not far from correct.
Editorial labours.
Three thousand copies of the Elele Hawaii were issued, for the year, ending
April1st, 1847; during the year ending April 1st 1848.4,000 copies were issued.
In my field the paper has beoi popular and useful, & has been generally paid for in
cash.
By suitable efforts man;^ore subscribers might have been obtained in this
region, & the subscriptions collected; but time has been wanting for this & many
other good works & this has been left mainly to native agents.
The principal
reasons for suspending the paper for a season were my own inability to do it jus
tice with the care of the public schools on . my hands & the fact also that the
paper is a sinking concern; it falls far short of paying for itself & there the
subject should engage the attention of this meeting.
I hope however the paper
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will be resumed & carried on with vigor.
When I first undertook the editorship
of the Nonanona I had no expectation of continuing it more than a year or two;
but now I wd.[!] record it with gratitude to God that he has given me strength to
conduct a small paper for seven successive years without interruption.
I am sen
sible that the work has been imperfectly done, & yet I trust it has been the
means of some good to this poor people.
The revision of the Hulikanaka(Moral philosophy) has been completed & the work
printed & put in circulation.
It is now being introduced into our schools to
some extent & is a popular work with the teachers.
No other work was assigned by our last Genl. Meeting, but feeling much the
need of a catechism, more simple in its language, & more clear in its definitions,
I took the|.iberty to write one, & by consent of the Printing Committee, a small
edition has been issued from the press.
If approved, I would suggest that an
other edition be printed with proof texts in full.
This little work is in invi
tation of TLavels[?] exposition of the shorter catechism.
I have received from my congregation in cash, since our last Genl. Meeting,
the sum of $1660, which has been disposed of in the following various ways.
Paid off old debt on meet, house
Cil
Meeting house expencesyi^since that time
$540
140
Laid out on Cooke house & Study
400
Laid out on Meet, houses at Waikiki & Manoa -
300
Donation to Meet, house at Hana
Do.-
50
Meet, house at Waimea, Kauai
Do. t-o N. Caledonia mission
40
,
40
Cash on hand -
150
■$1660.
[in pencil]: [?]
40
Marriage fees are included in the above amount.
What cash I have on hand,
is being expended on our school houses, which are in a bad condition.
[in pencil]:
His Majesty has set on foot a subscription among his chiefs for furnishing
the tower[?]
on the Meeting house at a cost of $23,000[!]; while the common-
people in the congregation have resolved to order a large towefpf]
Unlock to
be placed in the tower when completed,-wh,wiH cost $500. [End of pencil writing]
R. Armstrong
�Report of Honolulu Station,
April 4, 1849
Owing to sickness in my family, my removal to Honolulu was delayed until the
30th of August. Until that time, my labors were continued as usual at Wailuku.
My labors at Honolulu were commenced on':the first sabbath in September, &
have been continued with out material interruption to the present time.
received occasional help from Bro. Armstrong & others.
usually attended a second service at Waikiki.
I have
At such times, I have
Two sabbaths have been spent at
the out station at Wailupe, & the Lord’s supper administered there.
That out
station embraces three or four villages between Dimond Hill & Bro. Parker's field,
with nearly 200 church members.
A native assistant has been employed there.
The out station at Manoa -, has
been under the charge of Bro. Rice, who has
regularly attended a meeting there.on Thursday & Sabbath afternoon, besides ad
ministering to the bodily maladies of the people at other times.
intendence a very good house of worship has been erected.
meetings with him in this valey[!].
more labor.
Under his super
I have attended a few
To Nuuanu, Pauoa & Waikiki I have extended
A regular weekly meeting has been held in these places, besides
occasional preaching at Waikiki on Sabbath afternoon.
attended a meeting in Nuanu[!] Sabbath afternoon.
Judge Andrews has lately
In about a month after my ar
rival here, Kaili, my faithful helper at Wailuku removed to Waikiki & conmienced
labor at that place.
He entered upon his work with much zeal & energy, & I was
counting much on his help, but in a few weeks his work was ended, & he joined his
former companions & fellow laborers Bartimeus, & Hawaii in a higher service.
Perhaps no Hawaiian promiseti greater usefulness as a preacher of the Gospel.
He
was frequently attended in his last sickness by Bro. Rice & myself, but nothing
could arrest the destroyer.
His end7 was peace & his memory is precious.
My labors have consisted of the usual services on the sabbath, three lectures
during the week at different places, a catechetical meetings on Thursday & a
theological class of church lunas on Saturday, besides meetings for the examina
tion of candidates for the church &c.
The week day meetings were much interrup
ted during the sickness, which has swept over the Islands.
This sickness greatly
weakened our hands, but trhe church is beginning to recover from the shock.
In
the course of a few month[!] more than one tenth of our church members were car
ried off embracing some of our most active & influential men.
Although much ef
fort was made to improve the chastisement in a spiritual point of view, little
impression seemed to [be] made on the minds of the people.
But there has been no
special defection, & meetings are again pretty well attended & in some parts of
�Honolulu 1849
2.
the field, a considelrable waking up.
On my arrival here I found some hundreds anxious to be admitted to the ex
ternal privileges of Christ's house, & our church lunas were urgent that they
should be received.
After spending some time in examining candidates 137 were
admitted.to the church in the month of October & during the last month 143 more
were admitted, making 280 since I have been here.
Twenty six were admitted by
Bro. Armstrong before I arrived, making 306 since the last Gen. Meeting.
Taking
out the number of deaths removals &c,the increase of the church the past year is
177.
The subject of admission to the church has been attended with no little an
xiety & difficulty.
Part of the difficulty has arisen from':the want of a satis
factory, personal acquaintance with the candidates, & a part from the urgent de
sire of our best church lunas for the admission of candidates raising in the mind
the painful fear that they do not understand the true nature of the new birth, &
the spiritual character of the Christian church.
I am more & more convinced that
Hawaiian churches cannot be safely committed to the control of native pastors.
It is not difficult to foresee the result.
Nearly the whole population, especial
ly all persons of distiction & importance would be admitted nominal
members of
the church, & these nominal members of distinction would soon have the affairs of
the church all in their own way, & the church rendered subservient to the temporal
interest of the State, & controled[ !]■ by its worldly minded members.
formality or a total apostasy would ensue.
A dead
How important that the foreign past
ors hold on, & carry out the work, which they have commenced.
There have not been very many exclusions from the church since I have been
here.
Several have been under discipline.
Some evils are to be contended with
here which are not found in other parts of the Islands, such as procuring beef
from the butcher's stalls on sabbath morning, going out in boats to tow in ships
on the sabbath, letting horses to customers on the sabbath, bringing milk in to
town &c.
The three first[!] of these we do not hesitate to make tabu for church
members unless it is in case of ships in distress.
The last, bringing milk into
town, although it often results in a serious breach of the sabbath, it is more
difficult to regulate by any definite rules.
regard as inadmissible.
To carry milk about for sale, we
Carrying it to regular customers is a more doubtful case,
though attended with serious evil, when brought a considerable distance.
We have
reason to think a considerable part of the sabbath is sometimes occupied in going
& returning, & the duties of the sabbath neglected.
Whether stringent church
rules should be adopted with regard to it is doubtful.
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3
On the whole, I have not found the labors of the station greater than I an
ticipated, & my health has been quite as good, ig. not better than at Wailuku.
Schools have been under the directon of Mr. Armstrong & Goodale.
I must
refer to them for statistices.
Statistics of the church.
In .examination past year
306
Whole No. on'.examination
2280
On Certificate past year
52
Whole No. on certificate
305
Dismissed to other churches past year
18
Whole No. dismissed to other churches
184
Deaths the past year
164
Whole No. of deaths
486
Excluded past year
14 .
Restored past year
15
Whole No. remaining excluded
[Crossed out]
In regular standing -
1595
Children baptised past year
34
Whole No. of children baptised
636
Marriages past year
134
Average congregation
”
1200
in the field
1600
Contributions past year.
For support of preaching -
275.19
Monthly Concert
64.98
39^§2
$
$
Paid to Native preachers
43.19
Repairs of Meeting house &c
43.33
$ 86.52
=
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338.17
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86.52
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$
251.65
It will be seen from the above that the contributions of the people must be
considerably increased, if they are to support their own pastor.
But with system
�Honolulu 1849
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& proper effort on the part of the pastor, I have no doubt, that a support can be
raised, without abridging materially the real comforts of the people.
But in addition to the support of the pastor, our great meeting house must
be kept in repair, & other contingent expenses sustained by the church, to say
nothing of a balcony & a clock which are much needed.
Whether, the people will
come forward & continue to sustain all these necessary burdens is somewhat doubt
ful, butl-X think they will be willing to make the effort.
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�Report of 1st Church Honolulu
May 1, 1851.
During the two jearsi which‘%ave intervened since our last Gen. Meeting, we
have to sing of merices rather than judgements.
We have not been visited by
pestilence as in the year preceeding our last Gen. Meeting; & although the sword
of war has. been brandished over us, not a hair of our heads has been injured.
Order has reigned in our city & all kinds of industry have received a due re
ward.
The influx of foreigners to this place & tb-'rCalifornia has greatly in
creased the demand for native labor & all kinds of native products.
stimulus has been given to industry & civilization.
An increased
But with the good things of
civilization such as an Agricultural Society, Atheneum, Chamber of Commerce &c[!],
have come in also its attendant evils, a Theater, Circus, Beer shops &c &c.
A
good many have been swept into the vortex of avarice & dissipation.
But our church members have in the main held on their way.
The number of
defections the past year is about the same as the year preceeding.
Ten have been
set aside for going over to the papists, giving as a reason, that their papist
^
konohikis threatened to turn them off their lands, if they did not.
A few who
have been connected with the papists have united, or are seeking admission to our
church.
The number of admissions^-to our church by profession the past year is
145, a less number than in some preceeding years.
There has been no general re
vival, but during part"of the year, more then usual attention at some of the out
g
stations.
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My own labors have been much as in former years.
Two sermons & a Bible
class on the Sabbath, & 4 meetings on week days in different parts of the field,
Mr. Armstrong has often supplied my place here in the afternoon, & I have preach-
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g
ed at one of the outstations[!].
Mr. Rice has attended meeting at Manoa as here-
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tofore, & Mr. Andrews at Nuanu[!].
A native assistant has had charge of the out
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station at Wailupe beyond Dimond hill. I have attended the celebration of the[?]
O)
^ L o r d ’s supper there once a quarter. The coming & going of church members to &
0)
^ ^ from Honolulu has caused a good [deal] of labor & correspondence. This migratory
^
disposition of the people, I regard as a serious evil in the church.
^ ^
But it is
not easy to correct it.
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A large & substmtial meeting house at Wailupe has been nearly finished, one
also at Nuuanu built’^'by subscription & superintended by Mr. Smith for the accommodation of members of both Societies.
^
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A house at Waikikiwaena finished during
the past year has been rffiently blown down.
Another is bsing built.
In addition
to these labors, some time has been given tcJ^writing & translating for the Elele &
�Honolulu May 1, 1851
2.
corresponding with the Board &c &c.
A strong tide of worldliness has been setting in upon the church, but"a
pretty good degree of liberality has
tistics of contributions.
kept up, as will be seen by the sta
Besides supporting their pastor, they ha^e given more
than twice as much for other objects as during the first year of my residence
here.
Those most deficient in liberality are chiefs & other persons most able to
give;.
To give, as they have received is a hard lesson for the rich to learn in
all lands.
A commencement has been made in this church on the new plan of supporting
the Gospel proposed by the Board & sanctioned by our last Meeting.
The subject-
was braught[!] before the church immediately after our last Gen. Meeting.
thousand-dollars was proposed as a salary.
This was about the amount annually
received from the Board including repairs of buildings &c.
was appointed to aid in collecting & paying over the salary.
has devolved mainlyion the Pastor.
One
A committee of three
The labor, however,
It was proposed that quarterly payments,
amounting to 25 cts to each male & 12-| cts to a female be made through the church
lunas-
Th^unas were furnished with small blank books to record the names & the
amount paid.
was made out.
By a little extra effort at the close of the year, the sum proposed
The old & the feeble were not to be requested to pay.
A good many
failed to contribute regularly, & some well able have probably paid nothing.
5a
stteh-easesy-ehureh-diseipiine-has-ftet-yet-been-resoafted-teT— bufe-it-fflay-be-seeessa¥y-ie-speeial-eases-[!].
Owing to the great rise in provisions, labor &c,
the sum raifed is, by no means, an adequate salary for a large family at the pre
sent time in Honolulu, including repairs of building Medical Services &c; but
being allowed a few hundred dollars for repairs from previous contributions of
the people, with soik small private resources, I have been able to sustain my
family without any special embarrassment.
On the whole, the experiment thus far
has been as favorable both to Pastor & people as could be expected, & ^annot but
think, that an important step has been taken in the right direction.
This church
for the two preceeding years,besides supporting their own pastor have paid di
rectly into the treasury of the Board $140., besides $37. to French protestant
mission & various sums for different house objects, as will appear in the statis
tics of the two past years.
I remark in conclusion, that I cannot but think, that the Mission ought to
contemplate ere long reinforcing the field connected with the first church, in
Honolulu.
One man is quite inadequate to the labor which ought to be performed.
The church now numbers about 2000 members; & the number of inhabitants & impor
tance of the field is increasing.
�3.
Honolulu May 1, 1851
Intemperance is sweeping off one after another of our foreign population.
few even of our church members have been drawn into the vortex.
A
It has been a
more common thing than in former years to see natives intoxicated.
With the com
mencement of the present year, monthly temperance meeting were commenced with the
design of waking up anew[ !].' public attention on this subject.
The pledge has
been circulated, and a large number of names obtained; a memorial also prepared
for the legislation against reducing the duty on spirits.
Statistics of the church.
Received on examination the past year 145.
Whole number-:on'.examination 2794. From
. Whole number from other churches 442.
other churches '23
Dismissed past year 51.
Whole number dismissed 279.
past year 62.
Whole number deceased 622.
Excluded past year 49.
Restored past year 29.
In regular standing 1990.
52.
Deceased
Children baptised
Whole number of children baptised 732.
Marriages 147 couples.
Contributions.
Support of Pastor
1000.
American Board
50.
Meeting House Waimea Kauai
50.
Meeting House at Wailupe -
78.68
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Waikiki
5.35
Nuanu-[!]
217.75
Bell & fixtures at Pauoa
60.00
Meeting houses at Manoa & Makiki
342.50
cCock in tower of Stone church
200.00
Native helper at Wailupe
87.52
'■$2091.80
The above sum has all been paid in money.
Considerable labor has been be
stowed on Meeting houses &c not included.
For statistics of Schools &c[‘?] I must refer to the Report of Miiji.^^! of in
struction.
.
[E.W.Xlark]
[Unsigned]
[Written on the other side of last page]:
Report of Station
at Honnolulu
1st church.
�Report of Honolulu Station May 1 , 1852.
The past year has been marked by no special changes.
A good degree of health
has prevailed at the Station both among the natives & the Mission families.
Death has made no . inroads in our own families, but some of our efficient native
helpers have been removed.
In the month of October I was laid aside two or
three sabbaths by sickness.
Otherwise my health has been much as in years past,
with some increase of infirmities.
The habits & usages & vices of civilized life are increasing at Honolulu.
While many are, becoming more confirmed in virtuous principles & habits, others
are becoming more hardened - in unbeleif[!] & sin.
This is the natural result of
the increased intercourse with men of all shades of m©ral character.
As a result of this increased intercourse, intemperance has probably gained
a stonger hold of a certain class of natives.
Rum drinking however, has seldom
shown itself among the members of the church.
One or two cases only of disci
pline have occurred for this^cause.
Our church is strictly a temperance society.
In addition to our own efforts on this subject, A temipefahce society has been in
native operation among the foreign population, though not without apposition from
some of the would be temperate.
For a short time, the native hula was strongly encouraged by persons high in
rank.
Several of our church members, principally females, fell in to the snare &
were set aside from the church.
Most of them have returned professing, repentance,
& for several months, we have heard nothing of the hula.
In the month of October, more than usual interest in religion began to be
manifested, in':this field & in other parts of the Island.
Protracted meetings
were held in different places, & accompanied, as we have reason to think, with a
blessing from above
active part.
In this work Waimalu & other native helpers took a zealous &
Meetings were croweded[!], & many hoomalokas, popes, Mormons &
backsliders professed conversion.
tokens of divine influence.
Vie have much reason to be grateful for these
As the result of this work, many wanderers 'from
other churches living here professed to return to the right way of the Lord.
In Jany.[!], 27 such persons were restored to fellowship in this church & report
ed to their several pastors.
stored at the same time.
other churches.
Twenty four fallen members of this church were re
In April, 28 more were restored - 6 of them being frc^
In Jany. & April 279 were also admitted on profession.
A few of
them are regarded as the fruits of the late revival, but most of them have been
candidate a much longer time.
Meetings continue to be well attended.
Church lunas have rendered much help
at the out stations, but none of them have received any compensation except
�Honolulu 1852
2
Umalele at Wallupe.
Mr. Rice has labored at Manoa as heretofore.
house there has been recovered with shingle
The meeting
under his superintendence.
The
station at Wailupe beyond Dimond Hill has been visited 8 times during the year, 5
the Lord's supper administered there over a quarter.
Meetings have been held at
two other out stations over a week as heretofore; a occasionally[!] on sabbath
afternoons when the pulpit here could be supplied by others.
Our"large house has been occasionally crowded, & is usually well filled in
the forenoon.
The church now consists of more than 2000 members.
Money has been much less plenty than during the preceeding year, & contribu
tions have diminished somewhat, but not materially.
A Missionary Society has been formed at this station auxiliary to the
Hawaiian Missionary Society with good prospects.
Money has been freely contri
buted & several have offered themselves for the Missionary work.
Contributions,
Salary of Pastor
1000.00
Paid to Native preacher at Wailupe
92.00
Monthly concert to Hawaiian Miss. Society -
50.00
Society Auxiliary to H.M.Society -
88.00
Cash for Seraphina--
200.00
Repairs on Stone Church
Sweeping, communions &c.
J
50.55
Meeting Houses at. out stations
390.18
Tower clock
282.37
$2153.10
Statistics
Whole number on profession
of church.
3073
Whole number by letter
533
Past year on profession
279
Past year by letter
Whole number dismissed to other churches
Dismissed past year
Whole number deceased
91
332
53
694
Deceased past year
72
Excluded past year
59
Restored past year
100
�Honolulu 1852
3.
Whole number in regular standing
2280
Whole number of children baptised
732
Baptised past year
46
Marriages past year
205
For statistic of schools see report of Minister of Public Instruction.
Before closing, it is proper to say a word in regard to the wants of this
station.
The church here now embraces more than 2000 persons in regular standing.
About one half of these live in Honolulu & its immediate vicinity.
The remainder
live mostly in what is called the 5th Apana, embracing Makiki, Manoa, Waikiki,
Palolo & Kekaha'further to the eastward, extending about 12 or 15 miles'from
Honolulu.. The communicants cannot all be accommodated in our large house at
once.
We, therefore divide, part commune in the forenoon, & part in the after
noon.
The lower part of our house is nearly full of communicants both parts of
the day. Between two & three hundred commune at Wailupe about 8 miles from this.
It is well known, that while in other parts of the IslandsJ the people are
diminishing, they are increasing in Honolulu & vicinity.
The above statistics
show that 91 have been recMved to this church by letter , the pas^year, & 33 not
in regular standing have been restored from other churches to this, making 124
from other churches the past year, while only 53 have been dismissed to other
churches.
In Honolulu, church members are exposed to greater temptations than in
other places; greater influences also go out from this city to other parts of the
Islands than fron any other place.
The committee labors &c which necessarily come
upon the pastor here are greater than.in any other place, which labors will be
increased, if the Home Missionary pla-n of the Board goes into effect.
These considerations make it a very important inquiry with this meeting,
whether more strength shall not be afforded for carying[1] on the work at this
post.
I trust, the meeting will seriously consider this question in disposing of
the strength now at their command.
The idea of retaining more than 2000 church
members in one fold, under one shepherd in the U. States, would be considered
preposterous.
Is it'- less so here?
Are the sheep less disposed to stray?
Do
they require less vigilence & care & anxiety on the part of the shepherd?
These remarks are submitted for the careful consideration of the meeting.
[Unsigned]
[Written on back of last page]:
Mr. Clark’s Report 1st chh.
1852
�May 1, 1852
Honolulu 1st Church
Both the vices & the virtues of civilized life are gaining strength in Hono
lulu I
During part of the year there has been unusual attention to religion in this
parish & in other parts of the I-siahd,
with much interest.
Protracted meetings have been'attended
Many backsliders have been reclaimed, & a goodly number have
professed conversion.
279 have been admitted to the church the past year, a few
are regarded as the fruits of the late revival, but most of them have been can
didate a much longer time.
Meetings continue to be well attended.
•Two or three meeting houses at out stations have been repaired at consider
able expense.
A Missionary Society, Auxiliary to the Ife'jaiian Missionar^feociety, has been fomded mth en
couraging prospects.
Contributions.
Salary of pastor - -
$1000.00
Support of Native preacher - -
92.00
Paid to Hawaiian Missionary Society
”
138.00
for church Seraphina
200.00
Repairs on Stone church
50.55
Sexton &c
Meeting houses at out stations
390.18
Tower clock -
282.37
$2153.10
Statistics of church
Whole no. on profession -
3073
Whole no. by letter
533
Past year on profession
279
Past year by letter
91
Whole no. dismissed to other churches
Dismissed past year
"
332
-
53
Whole No. deceased
694
Deceased past year
72
Excluded past year
59
Restored past year
100
Whole No. in regular standing
Whole No. of children baptised
2280
732
�Honolulu May 1, 1852
Baptised past year - -
46
Marriages past year
205
[End]
[E.W. Clark]
[Unsigned]
[Written on the other side of the last page]:
Abstract of
Report 1st Church
1852
�Report of Kawaiohao[!], Honolulu.
May 1, 1853.
By Mr. Clark.
My own time, the past year has been a good deal broken in upon by the voyage
to Micronesia, & two or three weeks sickness after my return.
Mr. Paris, Mr.
Armstrong, & Mr. Rice, supplied my"place during my absence, for which they have
the thanks of the Pastor & the people.
The voyage which will be noticed in a-
nother report occupied four & a half months.
The communion service was attended before I left, both at Wailupe & Kawaiohao[!], & 164 persons previously propounded admitted to the fellowship of the
church.
A very commendable missionary spirit was manifested at the commencement
of the year, awakened by the sailing of the Mission to Micronesia.
In addition '■
to about $1000. in money, our people contributed a considerable amount in sup"-'. ’.plies for the vessel.
The safe return of the Caroline added new impulse to the Missionary feeling.
On the whole the year has been one of decided advance among our people.
1.
The number of church members has increased over 300.
2.
Religious meetings have been well attended, & a consequent increase in
religious knowledge & stability of character.
3.
An evident advance has been made in habits of civilization.
4.
Objects of benevolence have received more efficient aid than during any
previous year.
In addition to supporting their own pastor, & liberal contributions to the
Micronesia Mission, more than $3000. have been raised for building meeting houses.
In the superintendance of this work Bro. Rice has rendered invaluable help.
Three new & substantial meeting houses with shingle roofs have been put up, &
mostly finished, & one or two others repaired, so that we shall soon have a good
meeting house in every important district in the field, in addition to the stone
church in Honolulu.
Meetings are held in these houses on the afternoon of the
Sabbath, & at other times during the week.
In this way, the Gospel is brought
within the reach of all, & a religious interest is kept up throughout the field.
Valuable aid has been rendered in these meetings by Mr. Armstrong, Mr. Rice &
others.
Many of our native church members are active helpers in religious meet
ings & in other ways.
The statistics of the church & of contrib.utions will lafford some index of the
religious interest during the year.
No special defection or outbreak of wickedness has taken place.
ance & sabbath breaking are making some inroads among us.
Intemper
Mormonism & popery, I
�Honolulu, Kawaiahao May 1, 1853
2,
think, have not made much advance during the year.
Honolulu continues, to be a
vortex which draws in many of the unwary youth of the Islands, & swallows them up
in the giddy whirl of dissipation.
But on the whole we have great reason for '
gratitude, that so many restraining influences are operating to prevent the pro
gress of sin & death around us.
for the future.
We would praise God for past mercies & trust him
His kingdom,though it meets with many opposing obstacles, is on
ward, we trust, at these Islands, & throughout the world.
Since writing the above, a new outbreak of the Mormon delusion has taken
place in Honolulu.
One or two converts fromerly[formerly] from Lahainaluna in
connection with some of the Mormons from Salt Lake have made quite a stir for a
week or two past, leading captive silly women & silly men too laden with divers
lust, most of them from the dregs of Honolulu.
They have been urged into the
water on a sudden excitement, thus turning the solemn ordinance of baptism into
a farce.
One of their native kahunas wrote me a poKte request for the use of the
Stone Church on thfe sabbath, that he might make known to the people the true Gos
pel.
It afforded me occasion to give a brief history of Mormonism, & a solemn
warning against the delusion;'
Statistics of Church.
Whole No. on profession
3404
Whole No. by certificate
579
Past year by profession
331
Past year by certificate
46
Whole No. past year
377
Whole No. dismissed to Other churches
351
Dismissed past year
19
Whole No. deceased
759
Deceased past year
65
Excluded past year
41
Restored past year
57
Whole No. in regular standing
2528
Whole No. of children baptised
768
Baptised past year
36
Marriages past year
128
Contributions.
Support of pastor
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of a native helper
1000.00
78.46
�3.
Honolulu, Kawaiahao May 1, 1853
Foreign missions
Aid to the poor of the church
966.00
9.26
Hearse, sixton, bread & wine '&c
103.75
Tower clock
367.00
Building & repairing churches
3154.53
$5679.00
The above includes only cash receipts.
A considerable amount was contribu
ted in provisions for the voyage to Micronesia & more than five hundred dollars
in labor on Meeting Houses.
The amount contributed for religious purposes thepast year far exceeds any
previous year.
This is owing partly to special & pressing calls.
[Unsigned]
[Written on the other side of the last page]:
Honolulu 1st Church
& Station Report
Read by Mr. Clark
May 18, 1853
#
�Report May 1853[1854],
The year commenced with the small pox.
We could do little else but battle
with this terrible scurge[.f] for several months.
my field escaped its ravages.
Scarcly[!] a house throughout
For month after month, I was called to witness the
most heart renching[!] scenes, such as I hope never again to witness.
In five
months we buried about 1/5 of our church, making more than 500“members, & among
them some q|^ our most useful members.
visiting from house to house.
ed.
Much of the Pastor's time was occupied in
Most of the usual meetings, however, were sustain
Some appeared well under the chastis:€m&t> & others seemed bewildered & knew
!
not which way to turn.
A few church members betook themselves to the lying vani
ties of Romanism & Mormonisin, & were baptised just as they were going out of this
world with the assurance that this was their only hope of salvation.
As in former epidemics, a good deal of apathy existed on spiritual subjects,
&, at our time, a very unhappy state of feeling was gaining control over the
minds of the people & threatening to carry away all before it.
Many, even among
church members, instead of regarding the scurge as a judgement from heaven.for
their sins, began to attribute it to human agency.
[! ] fanned
things.
This feeling was dilligently
by certain foreigners from whom we had reason to expect better
It required no little effort to calm down this excited feeling, & turn
the minds of the people in the right direction.
On the whole, the final impres
sion left by the calamity has not been, I think, unfavorable to spiritual pro
gress.
Since the abatement of the disease, meetings have been well attended.
The great number of deaths, more than 500 in the church, besides many more out of
it has diminished the number of hearers less than we should have expected.
Sev
eral recent meetings from the different apanas of my church & Bro. Smith’s have
been quite fully attended, continuing nearly the whole day.
The contributions also for religious purposes have somewhat increased upon
former years, notwithstanding the diminution of our numbers, & the almost entire
prostration of worldly business for several months in the year.
The usual meetings have been kept up during the year, but I regret, that I
have not more time & strength to devote to the interests of the church.
seems impossible, while so many other labors are pressing upon my hands.
But this
The
oversight of printing, binding & distribution of books has added greatly to my
cares for some months past.
I trust we shall have a helper in this department
before very long, as the Special Committee many months ago, applied for one.
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[Honolulu] May [1854]
Our church has diminished during the year nearly 400.
The number of deaths
by small pox was 516, just one fifh[fifth] of the whole number reported last
year.
The additions have been less than in the preceeding year.
The present
number as seen by the statistics is a littleoover 2000.
The statistics of the church are as follows:
Whole No. on Prof. 3580.
176.
Whole NO. by certificate 620.
Past year by certificate 41.
to other churches 395.
ceased past year 551.
Whole No. past year.217.
Dismissed past year 44.
Excluded past year 52.
in regular standing 2192.
Past year on Prof.
Whole No. dismissed
Whole NO. deceasedjlSlO.
Restored past year 33.
Whole No. children baptised 798.
De
Whole No,
Baptised past year
30.
Marriages past year 235.
Contributions
Support of pastor'
Native helper
Foreign mission
1200.00
71.00
488.68
Meeting house at Waimea
70.00
Church expenses
44.62
Meeting houses in the field
4038.75
$5913.61
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The only occurrence of unusual interest in’:this parish the last year is the
death of his late majesty Kamehameha III, & the peaceful accession to the throne
of his successor.
These events engrosssed the minds, of the people for several
weeks in this parsish[!] as well as in other parts of the Islands, but so far as
I can learn, they were unattended with those exhibitions of heathenism & licen
tiousness so common on such occasions in former years.
About the usual amount of pastoral labor has been performed.
Sabbath services,four meetings during the week have been attended.
Besides the
Pule hoomau
meetings continuing during the whole day, have been held in different parts of
Honolulu & vicinity.
Mrs. C. has attended a meeting of females on Friday.
The admissions to the church have been less & the exclusions more than for
several previous years.
The increase in the number excluded has been owing prin
cipally to the enticements of the beer shops, which have become an intolerable
nuisance in Honolulu.
These shops, professing to sell a harmless drink, have
drawn multitudes into the snare of intoxication.
Our church has a little more
than held its ownLn numbers during the past year.
Eleven more have been dismis
sed to other churches than the number received by letter, which shows that the
people are going out from the Metropolis rather than coming in, as in former
years.
The statistics will show that the amount contributed for benevolent purposes
falls short of the previous year.
The chiefs & the more wealthy many of them are
among our smallest contributors.
Several meeting houses in the field have under
gone important repairs, which have required a considerable outlay.
Superintend
ing these repairs imposes a pretty serious burden upon the pastor, in addition to
the pecuniary aid which he is expected to furnish.
Owing to the nummerous[!]
calls on the pastors time for otherjlabors, the people are too much neglected.
Statistics of Church
Whole No. on Profession
3698
Whole No. by certificate
652
Past year by examination
118
Past year by certificate
32
Whole No. past year
150
Whole No. dis. to other churches
438
Dismissed past year
Whole No. deceased
43
1339
�Sonolulu May 1855
Died past year
29
Set aside past year
101
Restored past year
26
Whole No. in regular standing
2195
Whole No. of children baptised
811
Baptised past year
14
Marriages past year
170
Contributions.
Pastoral support
1200.00
Foreign Missions
102.00
Church erection &c.
2000.00
$3302.00
[Unsigned]
[E.W. Clark]
[Written on the other side-of the last page]:
Honolulu 1st Church
Station Report
May 1855
�Honolulu 1st Church.
The only occurrence of unusual interest in this parish the last year is the
death of his late Majesty Kamehameha III, & the peaceful accession of his Suc
cessor.
These events were unattended with those exhibitions of heathenism &
licentiousness so common on such occasions in former years.
The usual meetings have been kept up & pretty well attended.
a little more than held its own in numbers the past year.
Our church has
For statistics see
tables.
[End]
[Unsigned; not dated]
[E.W. Clark; 1855]
[Written on the other side of the page]:
JMo. iU
Abstract Honolulu
1st Church
�[Note: The following report-was not written in the hand of R. Armstrongs but
the signature is his.]
Station Report of 1st Church in Honolulu May 22, 1856
Mr. Clark the p^tor of this Church, having concluded tb'make a visit to the
United State[!], left his church and people in my care in March last, leaving
to arrange with Mr. Bishop to render such aid in the word, as we should unitedly
agree upon.
Accordingly I have usually preached Sabbath morning''s[!] and atten
ded the Sabbath School, while Mr. B. has preached in the afternoon and attended
several meetings at outstations during the week.
The congregation's[!] have been much as in former years.
The Sabbath School
has been pretty well attended; and the School for Ai o Ka'la on Sabbath, has been
kept up; not numerously attended however.
Meeting for prayer during whole days
have been frequently held in different parts of the field, and have been attend
ed with good results.
The greatest source of Mischief in the Church,
has been drunkeness on beer,
deterious[!] article to helth]!], as well as to morals; and I see no prospect of
any decrease
of the evil at present, still the cases of dicipline in the church
ha-ve been less than half, of what they were, the year previous; while the number
restored, has been double of what it was the year previous.
So far as numbers
are concerned, the church has little more than held its own during the year; the
decrease by death, removals &c, come within four of balancing the increase.
Statistics.
Whole no reed.-on profession.
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Certificate
past year by examination.
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Certificate
" reed past year
no. dismissed to other Churches
"
past year
” of deaths
" past year
Set aside past year
Restored past year
Whole no. in regular standing
3746
669
48
17
65
438
20
1385
46
. 49
54
2199
Respectfully submited[!]
R. Armstrong.
Acting pastor.
[Written on other side of last page]:
Report of 1st Church
Honolulu,
May 1856
�Report May 1857
A report of Kawaiahao station for the past year can hardly be expected of me.
My connection with the work here embraces only three months of the year.
During
my absence the preaching & pastoral labors were performed by Messrs. Armstrong &
Bishop, upon whom I must depend to report their own labors, & the statejLf the
church during my absence.
My own^abors at Kawaiahao were resumed the first of Feby.
A kind Providence
guided us in all our wanderings while absent & returned us in safety tt^our post
of labor.
My own health was improved by the voyage & visit but Mrs. C.is still
an invalid, & I fear her health will: not soon be restored, if ever.
A brief account of my own labors, while absent, so far as they relate to the
common cause may not be out of place here.
My first attention after arriving in the States was given to the Missionary
vessel, next to the Oahu College, & lastly to revising & correcting the proofs of
the N. Test.[! ].
The committee did not take up the subject of the vessel until the arrival of
Mr. Baldwin & myself in Boston.
I was requested to draw up in'wfiting for the
committee the strong reasons for such a vessel.
It was thought at first there
were serious objections, but the need of a vessel was accknowledged[!], & it was
resolved to build such a vessel as was requested, & appeal to the children for
funds.
The effort was successful beyond any thing expected at the Missionary
House.
Before I left, the subject was exciting the deepest interest throughout
the country.
It was often spoken of as a most happy event in the progress of the
Missionary work.
A new impulse was given to the cause of [the] mission, especial
ly among the children, & thus the rising generation were being trained to carry
forward the work, when their fathers should rest from their labors.
At the request of Dr. Anderson, I prepared a paper on the Oahu College for
the committee.
publication-
From this & other materials. Dr. A. prepared a small pamphlet for
They were ready to afford present aid, & to use their influence in
favor of raising a fund for the college.
peal to the public for contributions.
They did not think it best then to ap
The desire seemed to be to-secure the sum
from a few rich individuals, if possible.
I made some appeals to Mr. Hunnewell
on the subject, but he did not seem quite prepared to say what he would do.
urged him to establish a Hunnewell professorship.
I hope Mr. Beckwith will be
more successful. Dr. Anderson's advice to Mr. Baldwin & myself was to scatter
light on the subject & wait in patience.
I
�[Honolulu] May 1857
2.
On the 9th of July, I arrived in N. York the second time, & commenced my
work there, & did not finish it until the night before I sailed for the Islands.
I was in N.Y. most of the time from the 9th of July to the 20th of November.
I
made a few short excursions from the city'during that time to visit friends,to at
tend the Missionary Jubilee,Meeting of the Board &c.
getting out the Testament more than I expected.
I fuund[found] the labor of
Some corrections were made in
the copy in the copy[!] before leaving here, & the references were all ready when
I arrived in N. York; but after commencing printing, I found,:\in reading the
proofs, the copy needed frequent corrections, additions & alterations too -many
to be made in the proofs.
This render^it necessary to make a thorough re:sfeion-
of the copy before going to press; comparing it with the standard English copy
used at the Bible House, verse for verse & with the Greek where^ver alterations
seemed to be needed.
This greatly enhanced the labor, but the copy was ready as
fast as called for, though it sometimes required 12 hours sitting in a day.
took then
a longer time to prepare the plates than I'.expected.
It
There will
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doubSess be defects in the work, but I trust it will be found more correct than
any addition before published.
left.
The plates were nearly ready for press, when I
Four thousand ce.pies were to be printed off immediately, & may be .expected
here by an early opportunity.
I forbear to remark on other matters relating to my visit as not appropriate
to a station report.
I would say, however, that I was very kindly received by the friends of
Missions, & nothing.occurred to mar the pleasure of the visit except the feeble
health of Mrs. Clarl. To one so long absent from the country, actively engaged
in the foreign field, there was something peculiarly interesting in attending the
large Missionary gatherings, or in witnessing the deep interested[!] manifested
in the cause.
It was indeed"sitting in heavenly places in Christ Jesus."
I enjoyed also very much the intercourse with relatives & friends, & the
visit to old familiar places after an absence of 29 years.
had been made in the material prosperity of the country.
A wonderful progress
Progress also seemed to
have made in religion, so far as related to public objects of benevolence, but
whether there is more real piety in the countrythan when I left in proportion to
the population is doubtful.
I resumed my labors in Kawaiahao church on the first of February.
Since
that time there has been a gradual increase in attendence on public worship, &
we have reason to think the Holy Spirit has been present to give efficacy to the
truth.
Mr. Armstrong has still rendered important aid in preaching, usually oc
cupying the pulpit in the afternoon while I go to one of the outstations.
�I^Honolulu] May 1857
3.
At the conununion season on the first of April, thirty backsliders confessed
their sins, & were restored, to communion, & more than 100 were propotinded as can
didates for admission to the church.
We have reason to think that Kawaiahao
church, as well as the other churches in Honolulu, has been revived, & that a few
mercy drops have fallen upon our city, wicked as it is.
For this we would rejoice
& give thanks to him with whom is the residue of the Spirit, [in pencil]:
Our
usual..weel^kday. [?]. -[End] ..
Our lunas, most of them, continue to be active & efficient helpers.
meetings with them on Saturday are well attended.
My .
It is a practical school of
much importance both to them & to the church.
7
Some change has beepnade in the collection of funds for the support of the
Gospel & other objects, which have resulted favorably thus far.
We hear but little at present of the dance houses, hulas &c in Honolulu &
vicinity,but there are still many pit falls to ensnare the unwary.
A constant
watchfulness is required on':the part of the pastor & church lunas to keep the
enemy at bay, while we build the house of of[!] the Lord.
We all need a new bap
tism from on High.
[Unsigned]
[E;W. Clark]
[Written on the back of original manuscript page 5]:
Report of Honolulu
1st Church.
�Abstract of Report
Honolulu 1st Church [1860]
The labors of Kawaxahao have been interrupted the past year by the absence
of the pastor.
He was away from'-.the flock 8-I months of the year, & has not much
to report.
Only 5 have been admitted by profession the past year, while 66 have died,
so that the real number of the church is less than it was one year ago.
Their
ability to support the Gospel has diminshed still more than their numbers.
This
is owing partly to the increased expense of living in Honolulu, & partly to the
great increase of artificial wants as civilization progresses.
The interest in religion has apparently been increasing since the return of
the pastor.
Union meetings have been held in different parts of the field, &
sometimes with a good deal of interest.
mission to the church,
sion.
Forty five have been propounded for ad
Som5 of'-these give pleasing evidence of recent conver
With others, we trust, the spirit is striving.
The present pastor, with his increasing age & numerous other cares is en
tirely inadequate to the labors necessary"'.in this Metropolitan church.
You will
probably be called upon by the church to aid them in securing other labor in this
important field.
Contributions.
1000,
Support of pastor
40.
Native helpers
100,
Foreign Missions
47.
Sexton, repairs &c
340.
Church erection, bell &c.
$1527,
April 20, 1860
Honolulu 1st Church
Statistics
Whole No. on profession
Do
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on certificate
Past year on Profession
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on Certificate
Total past year
4012
762
5
12
17
Whole Ng. Dismissed
525
Dismissed past year
12
Total deceased
1588
�Honolulu 1860
Deceased past year
66
Excluded past year
29
Restored past year
20
Now in regular standing
2235
Total Children Baptised
763
Baptised past year
24
Marriages past year
83
[Unsigned]
[E.W. Clark]
[Written on the back of the last page]
Honolulu 1st church
Abstract of Report.
�Honolulu 1st Church
E.W.
Clark
Pastor
In reviewing the past;year, we are called to speak o£ a f f l i c t
ions as well of mercies.
One, who has long been identified with the interests of Christy's
kindgdom in the Islands,
§ especially with the interests of this
church, has been suddenly taken from us.
Bro. Armstrong will no
more mingle with us in our counsels § our labors.
He has
gone to
be with the general assembly § church of the first born, whose names
are written in heaven.” [!]
But God has mingled mercies with judgements.
He has indeed
turned again our captivity § caused our hearts to sing for joy.
Early in the Summer, we were encouraged by marked indications of the
presence of the Spirit.
forward,
Lord.
Many, who had long resisted the light,
§ confessed their sins,
came
§ their determination to serve the
Meetings were crowded ^ solemn.; a n ew moral § religious
pect seemed to pervade the community.
as’^^ec
We have had the most s a t i s
factory evidence, that the Spirit of God has been at work on the
hearts of the p e o p l e , § that many have been brought to a saving k n o w
ledge of Christ.
As the fruits of this work,
some hundreds have profe sse d their
faith in Christ for the first time,
§ many wanderers have bee n r e
stored to the fellowship of the church.
But among a people so
easily moved by external circumstances, where sympathy § iimitation
are so strong national characteristics, we mu^cexpect there will be
m u c h chaff with the wheat.
”Man looketh on the outward appearance,
but God looketh on the heart.”
In July, 30 were added to the church by profession.
ber,
161
In January,
fession 323.
111.
In April,
In O c t o
166; making in all by p r o
Restored to fellowship 161; Some of these have been
long wanderers from the fold.
More than half this number are from
other churches long resident here.
The whole number of additions to
the church during the year by profession, by letter § by restoration
has been 514.
Most of these have been examined individually from
two to three times by the pastor.
Dismissions[dismissals], deaths
§ exclusions 117, making the net increase of the church 39 7.
�2.
Honolulu 1st Church [1861]
Contributions
These have been somewhat in advance of last year.
Support of pastor
1200.00
Native helpers, sexton ^c
55.00
Church erection, repairs §c in our
own field
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407.00
" in other fields
40.00
Hawaiian Missionary So.ci-ety
153.70
Charity to the poor
.......16.00
$1872.30 [1871. 70]
Church Statistics
Whole No. on profession
”
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certificate
Past year on profession
”
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certificate
4335
792
323
30
Total past year
353
Whole No.
dismissed
555
Dismissed past year
40
Total deceased
1644
Deceased past year
66
Excluded past year
21
Restored past year
:.161
No w in regular standing
2632
Total children baptised
819
Baptised past:year
Marriages past year
56
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Whole number ori profession
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809
Past year on profession
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Total past year
107
Dismissed to other churches past
year
Total dismissed
581
Deceased past year
67
Total deceased
1711
Excluded past year
48
Restored past year
19
Now in regular standing
2617
Children baptised past year
Total
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850
Marriages past year
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77
Contributions.
Support of pastor
i;
For native helpers, sexton §c
Church erection in our own field
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1200.00
45. 00
471.00
42.00
Church bells
395.00
Foreign Missions
H Z . 00
$2265.50[2265.00]
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1st Church Honolulu
■ Abstr.aet [‘
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Statistics' 1862
�Honolulu, Kawaiahao Church,.
Station Report
May 1862
The usual round of Missionary labors have been kept up at
the Station the past year, but I am sorry to say with less f a v o r
able results than during the year proceeding, when we were visited
with a refreshing from on high.
Our Sabbath services
besides a Sabbath School conducted by
some of our Missionary children, have been preaching in the m o r n
ing § afternoon,
a Bible class at noon,
also a union m e e t ing in
the evening during the year, held alternately at Kawaiahao
makapili.y
§ Kau-
These meetings have been less fully attended than last
year.
We have had one weekly lecture at the Station,
§ one week ly
m e e t in g held in rotation at twelve different places including K a
waiahao.
At all these outstations,
comfortatile § substantial m e e t
ing houses have been erected, three of them during the past year,
§ about half of them are supplied with good bells.
In addition to these meetings,
meetings
§ among the most im.portant
of the week, has bee:! our I'una meeting on Saturday.
Part
of the time of this meetixg has been occupied on a lesson in the
new class book on Theology,
§ partly in church discipline,
regulating 9 fher church matters.
§ in
Our number of I'uhas has increased
to about one hundred, taken from different parts of the field.
number is more, it may be supposed,
discipline.
This
than is necessary for efficient
This increase has been owing partly to the strong des:Vr
sire of the church that there should be a goodly number of these
helpers in different parts of the fieldjl] parish,
§ partly to
the consideration that these' lun'as are brought into closer c o n ne ct
ion with the pastor § into more active service,
§ under v..more p a r t i
cular instruction than others, therefore the greater the number,
the more l i v i n g ,ractive members in the church.
used the office of a deacon well, pujrchase#
degree § great booldness{boldness?]
"For they that have
to themselves a good
in the faith.”
The number, how-
^vSrV must bS limited in so large’
':^' church--.as 'this;^ ^or^efficieht'act.i.6n::-will. be. impeded,. , ,I.f .the whole .army could have the instruction
#
The rest of the quote following the-^pound sign(#) was w ritten
in the left margin.
�Honolulu, Kawaiahao May 1862
§ discipline of the leaders,
2.
it would be well, but this is not
easily attained.
Four communion seasons have been attended at Wailupe as usual.
The portion o£ the church which attend communion at Kawaiahao are
divided into two sections, occupying both forenoon § afternoon.
The number of marriages attended is less than last year,
the
number of funerals about the same.
Visiting from house to house has not been attempted by the
pastor to any extent.
This kind of pastoral watch § care, so far
as performed at all, has been done by the church L u n a s , § by h o l d
ing meetings
in different sections of the parish.
Certain seasons
have been devoted to -felking with inqurers[inquirers]
at the pastors
study.
B e nev ole nc e.
There has been a small increase in contributions :fo:r religious
objects above the preceeding year.
The e^cact amount expended on out-
station Meeting Houses has not been ascertained,
pass through the hands of the pastor.
built
§ nearly finished.
one of over 1000 lbs.
cracked bell.
as it does not all
Three small houses have been
One outstation bell has been procured,
§
for the Kawaiahao church to replace our old
It is evident that the various
calls for benevolence
are met with greaterrdifficiltyf!] than a few years ago, owing to an
increased scarcity of money.
But many of our best church members
hold on to the habit of giving a portion of their small gains to the
service of the Lord.
Some others give little or nothing.
Ninety have been received to the church on profession the past
year,
17 by letter 19 restored to fellowship, yet the church has not
quite held its own owing to the num;ber of deaths,
sals] , §c.
dismissions [dismis
The decrease has been 15.
There has been an evident increase in':knowledge, stability §
piety in about one third of the church, another third is nearly s t a
tionary,
§ another third is unstable or retrograde.
There is probably an increasing class in Honolulu,
§ perhaps
in
other parts of the Islands, who are inclined to listen to the t e a c h
ings of unbelief § infidelity.
set easy on such;
The restraints of the Gospel do not
§ we must expect more § more hostility in the na^'.
�Honolulu, Kawaiahao May 1862
3
tive mind, to evangelical teachings ^ especially' as. ;e;fficient
Jn
this direct ion „is afforded by increased intercourse Twitli fo.reign in-fidelity.
The establishment of our Island Presbetery^
conference promises good to our cause.
or rather church .
The two m e e t i n g s , w h i c h '
have been held have been attended, we think, with, good re sults/
In regard to Bible 'Revision on wh ich the Comnj.itt.ee were en'^joined individually to report to this meeting,
my spare time has been devoted to this work..
fully all the books
Kings,
T would say, m o s t of
I haye been .over care-^
assigned to me excepting par t of the 1st B o o k of
comparing in many cases with the original as well as w i t h the
English translation.
A good many minor corrections have been made,
^ others have been marked for further consideration.
It is. ver y
desirable there should be a full, meeting of the Committee' at the
present Meeting of the Association^
Statistics of church.'
Whole number on profession
"
on certificate
Past year on profession
”
"
on certificate
4415
80. a
9.0
17
107,
Total past year
Dismissed to other churches past year
26.
581
Total dis-missed
67
Deceased past year
1711
Total deceased:'
Excluded past year
48
Restored past year
19.
N o w in regular standing
Children baptised past year
2617
31
■.850
Total
77
Marriages past year
Contributions ^ ■
Support of pastor
12 0 0
For native helpers^ s e x t i o n l G
■' 45
Church, erection in our own field
471'
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�Report of Kawaiahao Station.
Forty three years ago. Missionary labor was first commenced at
this station.
Here no church spire then greeted the Heavens, not
even a framed or stone dwelling was then to be seen on the barren
precincts of the present city.
which n ow presents itself!
How changed the external aspect,
The inquiry naturally arises, is the
change as great in a moral aspect?
We can barely assert this.
we can safely say, even in this respect,
But
forty three years has
brought about a change such as has seldom been witnessed in any
other part of the world in the same period of time.
We cannot go into the evidences of this change from the b e
ginning.
It has been gradual § steady.
The past year is not an
exception, though the onward progress is less marked than in some
previous years.
Perhaps in no year, so fgr as the native m i n d is
concerned, have the foundations of our faith been so thoroughly
sifted.
Error in various shapes, has shown itself among us § b o l d
ly put forth its teachings.
This has unsettled the minds
turned some back to forsaken superstitions,
stupidity upon others.
ing ground.
of a few,
§ brought indifference §
But the true light, we trust, has been g a i n
Some have gone back, because they were not of us, others
are more firmly established in the truth.
The usual sabbath § week day meetings among the people have been
sustained.
The attendance has fallen off,',rwe think,: somewhat', part'-"/
*ly pef-h'aps froiii diminished population,
§ partly from growing in d i f
ference to religion among the less enlightened.
drawn away to the new a o a o , which has come in.
A few have been
There has b een no
special religious excitement, or turning to the p'o'no, as in some f or
mer years.
But there is more independent thinking ^ discrimination
among our good people,
ed in the word of God.
§ their faith is becoming moxe firmly g r oun d
While the chaff is being blown away, the
good seed remains to the praise of G o d ’s grace.
But few have been admitted to the church on the profession of
faith the past year,
§ owing to deaths, exclusions
§c, the church *
has not held its own in numbers.
The Sabbath School has-been kept up, conducted mostly by Mr.
Livi[!]
Chamberlain.
The attendance has been pretty good,
ing the number of other Sabbath Schools in the place.
co nsider
�[Honolulu] Kawaiahao
[1863]
2.
According to arrangements at our last Gen. Meeting, Mr. Henry
H. Parker commenced his labors in connection with this church in
August.
He has afforded most efficient help both in the pulpit §
various other ways.
He has taken one half of the preaching on the
Sabbath, besides attending weekday meetings at the outstations.
The Sabbath day services have consisted of the usual morning §
afternoon services at Kawaiahao, preaching ^ a Bible class,
services at the outstations in the afternoon.
- §
A third service has
sometimes been held on the premises of the Governor, who has n e a t
ly fitted up, a room for the purpose.
ducted by one of us,
This has sometimes been con-
§ sometimes by native lunas..
My own time on week days has been iau-ch occupied in the study.
In revising the part of the Bible assigned to me,
sheets,
press,
in reading proof
in other labors oconnected with the book department
§ the
Mr. Parker early commenced-visiting the church members
their homes, taking the field in the order of the apanas,
certain the number, standing,
at
to a s
character §c of the church members.
The results so far'as numbers are concerned are embodied in the
statistics.
He finds a good many nominal church members, who give
little evidence of piety,
although perhaps not guilty of any overt
act of wrong-doing.to subject the formal church censure.
Our people
have their ups § downs in religion as well as in other things.
They are proverbially fickle,
§ like the A t h e n i a n s ,"Spend mu c h of
their time, in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new
thing.”
Any thing, that presents itself as a riuh'ou, whether it be
in the form of an old heathen superstition newly revived, or in the
form of a more civilized idol worship, will attract devotees
time.
for a
The word of God faithfully preached § exemplified in the lives
of its teachers can alone cure these vagaries.
Contributions for religious purposes have been about the same as usual.
But it requires a good deal of effort on the part of the
pastor ^ church lunas to raise the funds necessary for current e x
penses, to say nothing of contributions for foreign objects. . The
artificial wants of the people especially in Honolulu,
faster ,than their mieans to meet these wants.
increase
This makes
it more d i f
ficult to secure voluntary offerings for the support of the Gospel.
A strong.pressure on this subject has a tendency to drive some to
seek a cheaper religion.
�[Honolulu]
Kawaiahao
]1863]
3,.
Our people have taken hold of repairing their great church
with a good deal o f S p i r i t ,
& some 500 or 600 dollars have been
expended on these repairs.
The repairs speak for themselves.
They contributed also to-,aid in rebuilding the Seminary at Lahainaluna.
Owing to these calls,
the salary of the Pastor,
at his own
suggestion,
has been reduced from 1200 to 1000 dollars.
This sum
VV
or rather the same sum granted by the Board is now paid over to
Mr. Parker.
Whether it will be any easier to secure this usm
than it has heretofore been to secure 1200 is doubtful.
Contribu
tions for foreign missions have been less than last year.
Our Island church conference,
continued with good results.
tation at different stations.
commenced last year,
has been
Semiannual meetings are held in ro
The time is principally occupied
in reading essays & disciplining important subjects connected
with the interests of the churches.
It affords a. good school for
preparing our churchlunas to be efficient helpers in the work of
the Gospel,
as well as securing unity & efficency[!] to the
churches It is proper here to say that during the last month, Mr.
Parker having labored about nine months in connection with the
church,
it seemed proper that further steps shohid be taken in re
lation to his remaining permanently as Pastor.
At a meeting of
the church lunas the subject was introduced & discussed,
seemed to be the unanimous wish that he should remain.
following Sabbath,
&
it
On the
a full meeting of the church was called,
&
after some explanations by the present pastor & Judge ‘iSL, it was
voted unanimously that a call be extended to Mr. Parker to become
pastqr of the church.
Gov. Kekuanaoa,
Judge f i , Naone, Makuia
Kaawa were appointed a committee to prepare & present the call.
At the same meeting,
the present pastor verbally presented
his request to be released from the Church as Pastor,
but object
ions were made to granting it until something further was know in
regard to Mr. Parker's plans,
& it was not urged.
The Church ex
pressed a willingness to refer the matter to this body.
[Written on the bottom of this page,
sideways];
1863
June
Report Station
Kawaiahao Honolulu
�[Honolulu]
Kawaiahao
[1863]
Upon Bible Revision,
4.
on which the Committee were to report
individually to this meeting,
I will say a few words.
Rowell reported to the last meeting,
New Testament,
meeting,
As Bro;.
that he was engaged on the--
the committee, of Revision were directed,
to "write to brethren Rowell & Dole,
views of the body in regard to the work,
by that
clearly stating the
& also make arrangements
for the immediate prosecution of the revision of:'the whole of the
Old Testament."
The committee made arrangements for the revision of the Old
Testament by dividing it otit as follows,
- Pentateuch to Alexander
Sen.[SeniLgr],- from Pentateuch to end of Chronicles to Clark,- from
Chronicles to Psalms to Baldwin,
from Psalms to Ezeakel[!]
Psalms to L. Andrews & Parker,
to Forbes,
- Ezeakel,
-
Daniel & the
minor Prophets to Alexander'TJtin.[Junior]. A letter was written to
brethren Rowell & Dole,
posal of this body.
a copy/of whichis present,
& at the dis
Brother Rowell will report for himself.
I have progressed with my own revision as far as Chronicles./
comparing the more doubtful places only with the original.
A letter was received from Dr. Brigham written just before
his death,
which contains the following extract.
There is another topic in which we feel much interest,
family Hawaiian Bible electrotyped at our Bible House.
topic which we have spoken or written before.
a
This is a
I presume the
translation is now so well settled that it can with all propriety
be put into permanent form.
Will you inform me what progress is
made towards such an-nndertaking.
We find that the Armenia[!]
Bible electrotyped by us is^iked m u c h , very much in the Levant[?],
Some Turks & Greeks as well as wealthy A r m e n i a n s ,purchase mainly
from the beauty of workmanship.
In the hope of hearing from some
of you on the topics me nt i o n e d , I subscribe myself yurs[!]
truly & fraternally
J .C .Brigham
S ecy & c
•
�[Honolulu]
Kawaiahao
[1863]
Statistics of the Church
Whole No on Profession
"
on Certificate
820
Past year on profession
12
"
"
4427
”
11
on Certificate
23
Total past year
Whole No dismisged
604
Dismissed past year
23
1785
Whole No deceased
Deceased past year
74
Exclude
50
past year
Restored past year
23
I !]
Now in regular standing
886
Total children baptised
36
'Baptised past year
Marriages past year
60
Contributions,
Repair of churches
$ 600.00
Lahainaluna Seminary
206.75
Sexton & other church expenses
43.75
Foreign Missions
56.00
Pastoral support-
1075.00
$1981.50
[Written on the back of the last, page'
1863
June
Kawaiahao Oahu
Station Report
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Kaneohe Station Reports
Unsign e d . . . . . . .
.................. . . . . . 1835
Benj. W. P a r k e r ....................... .............. 18 3 6
B.W. P a r k e r ......................................... 1838
U nsign e d ..................... ............... ......... 1839
Unsi g n e d (B.W. Parker) . . . .
......... ............ 1840
U nsi g n e d (B.W. Parker) .................. . . . . . 1841
Unsign e d (B.W. Parker)
1843
Statistics of chh Kaneohe
. . . . . . . . . . . . 1843
Unsign e d (B.W. Parker) .............................. 1844
Statistics of chh at K a n e o h e ........... ............ 1844
* Unsign e d (B.W. Parker) ......... . . . . . . . . . 1846
U nsi g n e d (B.W. Parker) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1848
Unsign e d (B.W. Parker) . . . .
......... . . . . . 1849
B.W. Parker
. . . . . . .
...........
. . . . . . 1851
Statistics of the chh at K a n e o h e ......... ......... 1851
Unsign e d (Abstract ) . ................ . . . . . . 1852
Unsign e d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1852
Unsign e d (B.W. Parker) . . . ......... . . . . . . 1853
B.W. Parker ........................... .. ............. 1854
Unsigned (Kaneohe-Abstract of Report for Minutes)
Unsigned (B.W, Parker) (Statistics of Kaneohe Church)
Unsign e d (B.W. Parker) . . ...........
. . . . . . 1855
B.W. Parker
. . . . . . .
.............. . . . . . 1856
Statistics of the church at K a n e o h e .............. 1856
U n s i g n e d (B.W. Parker) ..................... ......... 1857
U n s igned (B.W. Parker) ........................................1858
Statistics of Ch. at Kaneohe . . . . . .
......... .1858
Unsign e d (B.W. Parker) . . . . .
......... . . . . 1859?
Statistics of Church at Kaneohe
................... .1859?
Unsign e d (B.W. Parker) . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . 1860
C h u r c h Statistics of Kaneohe Station . . . . . . . . 1861
Unsign e d (B.W. Parker) . . . . . . . .
........... .1862
�(Kaneohe
1835)
The station at K - has been occupied about months (!).
was in some respects an unpromising station.
It
A majority of the
population had no desire for a missionary & the chiefs, who own
that part of the island are not among those who desire their people
to he instructed.
At the commencement of this station there was no house of wor
ship in that part of this island.
Our services on the sabbath
were for the first 3 months attended under a ranai.
The frame of
a meeting house had been standing for more than two years.
Soon
after this station was taken the meeting house was finished - 72
feet by 30.
It was dedicated on the 31st of Nov ( !) & religious
exercises conducted on Saturday sabbath & Monday by brethrens
Bingham & emerson ( !).
Religious services -
On sabbath morning a prayer meeting has
been kept up since the dedication of the meeting house, a childrens
sabbath school has been attended immediately after the morning ser
vice the usual attendance has been over 70 children -
The ai o ka
la has been attended by about 150 not including any of those in
childrens school.
Occasionally meetings have been held at places 6 or 8 miles
from the station.
Schools.
There is no school house in the whole district of
Pali Koolau & no school taught by native teachers.
Three or four
have been employed as helpers in the childrens school.
But their
help can scarcely be said to be of any service.
Since the meeting house has been finished the stations schools
have been kept in it.
These have been
�2.
Kaneohe - 1835
1
A school for male adults
30
2
For adult females
30
3
For children
70
Thes(e) have been continued for about 6 months four days in a
w e e k & about 2 hours in each school day.
ably called for -
Books have bee n consider
Many more of some kinds might have been disposed
of than I have been able to get.
Toward the close of the year they
have been much oftener called for than in the early part of the
year.
No church has been formed.
There are only three members
of a
church in Koolau 2 females members of the Honolulu church & one
male,
a member of the church at Lahaina.
There have been 87 marriages most of them within the last 2
months.
The use of the native rum has made the condition of great part
of the population exceedingly wretched.
Five or six distilleries
have b e e n employed almost the whole year to distill the tea ( !)
root -
About three weeks since they were all stoped ( !) by an order
(of) the cheef ( !).
Previous to this order some of the natives
were breaking off f r o m drinking & attended schools & meetings.
3
�(1836)
-
(Kaneohe)
On my return to the station at Kaneohe after the close of the
last general meeting there were some things among the people more
encourageing ( !) than the previous year.
in the congregation on the sabbath the house was filled.
There was a large increase
For a succession of sabbaths
Bothe ( !) the childrens & the adults Sabbath
school was increased more than one half in number beyond what it
h a d been the previous year.
The congregation has been uniformaly
( !)
as it w a s for the first five or six sabbaths at the commencement
of the year it has however invariably been one third larger than it
was the year previous to the last gen. meeting.
Immediately after my return a childrens school was commenced
and has been continued four days in a week three hours i n a day d u r
ing the year excepting two vacations of three weeks each.
The
aspect of this school has been more encourageing than it w a s the
preceeding ( !) year.
A much larger number have attended & have
been m u c h more regular in their attendance -
Previous to the last
gen. meeting not more than 50 had attended and the average at t e n
dance h a d not b e e n more than 30.
The present year more than 100
have been in the childrens school & the average attendance has been
about 80.
About twenty five of these can read.
I have instructed
a class of 12 lads connected with this school who beside reading
the ikemua & huakeholoholona have attended to mental arithmetic &
geography.
At the examination of all the schools in A pril 365
children were present.
Only a ver y small number of the children
not connected with the station school can read probably not more than
4 or 5.
Fro m one examination to another no progress is made among
the children who are exclusive under the charge of n a tive teachers.
It is painful to see mont(h) after month & year after year pass
�Kaneohe 1836
2
away and no advancement made in teaching this important part of a
missionaries charge.
Such have been the demands of the chiefs on the people during
the year past as to give very little opportunity for teaching adults.
About thirty females have been connected have been taught in the
childrens school a part of the year & about the same number of adults
have been in school three days in a week for about three months.
At the last general meeting I stated that there was no school
house in that part of the island which comes under my particular
care
.
During the year two very good native houses have been
built & three or four are now building beside a station school house
at Kaneohe.
The demand for books has been much greater than the
last year.
There has been in some respects an encourageing reformation
among the natives on that part of Oahu the last year.
in ardent spirits is now very little known.
Intemperance
The rum distileries
( !)
which for most of the year previous had been in active opperation ( !)
have all been stoped ( !) with the exception of one.
Many who had
formerly been teachers but whom I never saw during the first year
of my residence at the station have the past year returned to meet
ings & schools.
Prom some lands numbers now constantly find their
way to the house of God on the sabbath when a year since not half
u
a doz. would attend a meeting appointed in their own neighborhood.
This change has been in part & perhaps cheifly ( !) occasioned by
a change in the owners of the lands.
Religious instruction preaching &c have been as usual during
the year,
I have already stated that the sabbath congregation has
been one third larger than it was the year preceeding ( !) the last
�Kaneohe 1836
general meeting.
3.
Prom 100 to 130 children have been in constant
attendance in the childrens sabbath school - The year previous from
50
30 to --- ----. The sabbath school for adults in which the ai o ka
la has been the lesson has numbered from 250 to 300 the year previous
from 100 to 150.
In the month of Oct. a protracted meeting was held commencing
tuesday & closing monday -
The meeting was attended by the brethren
from all the stations on the island some being present the (whole)
& others only a part of the meeting from the commencement to the close.
The meeting was well attended
Of the result of the meeting
I cannot say any thing more than that a general permanent interest
seems to have been excited by it.
Prom that time to the present a
more serious attention has been given to preaching than before.
Many among the natives refer to this meeting as the time when they
gave their hearts to the Lord but they do not give that evidence of
conviction of sin & conversion which we wish to see.
About 150
from this station attended the protracted meeting at Honolulu &
more than 300 at Waialua.
these meetings.
Some were seriously impressed at both
But I cannot speak with any degree of confidence
of the conversion of this & that individual.
ceived much religious instruction is certain.
That they have re
It is also certain
that an open ear an attention to preaching and a mellowness of feel
ing (inserted between lines & not too clearly legible:) wh at is
desirable to see in a cong. has been the result.
Of a very few I have hope that they are christians.
has yet been organized at the station.
N o church
The way however seems to be
open & I hope to have one formed without much delay.
A register of births & deaths has been kept commencing January
6
�4.
Kaneohe 1836
and is as follows
Births
Jan
Feb.
March
April
May
Total
2
2
3
4
3
14
Deaths
7
8
3
6
14
38
The above is a register of births & death(s) on on ( !) a land
of about eleven hundred people.
A census of the whole population has also been taken the last
year and is
Census 4636, 351 less than in 1831 four years since.
Respectfully submited ( !)
Benj W Parker
Kaneohe
June 1st 1836
�Kaneohe May 19, 1838
Report
The ordinary labours of the station have been continued dur
ing the year without interruption.
My labours on the sabbath have
been three public services a bible class and a sabbath school.
Wednesday afternoon a lecture and every thursday afternoon a meeting
at two out stations alternating on one thursday at one place and on
the next at the other.
Buildings.
A stone house has been built at the station the
past year at an expense of about $1500.
Schools -
I have spent a portion of every week in schools
till within the last six weeks other duties have made it necessary
for me to leave this part of missionary work entirely with native
teachers.
Soon after the close of the last general meeting Mr. Baily ( !)
went to the station & spent from two to three months with us and
assisted us in schools.
Soon after he left Miss M Smith came to
the station and after a few weeks engaged in the childrens school.
Since her return the school has been left entirely in the care of
native teachers.
Five native houses suitable for schools & meetings have been
built the year past 500 people.
They are large enough to hold from 400 to
Only two lands in the whole district now remain desti
tute of a house for schools and meetings -
More than 100 dollars
have been contributed in money for a bell.
School teachers may I
think be supported in future by contributions from the people.
Extraordinary Labours;
the year past.
I have held two protracted meetings
One at the station assisted by brethren Bingham &
Smith the other was held 6 miles from the station without any help
�2.
except such as I had from three (?) church members.
resulted from these meetings.
Great good has
For four months past there has been
more interest on the subject of religion than I have ever seen
them before.
And there appears to be as much at the present time
as I have seen during the last four months -
Every head man in
this district now professes to be on the Lords side.
Till within
the last two months not one of this class in the whole district
have ever manifested any interest in the gospel -
Not long since
in returning from Honolulu I found the head man of land lying drunk
in the road and a company of his men by the side of him in a like
condition.
Lord -
He now gives evidence of having given his heart to the
Another who has spent his sabbaths at the rum distillery
instead of the house of God tho much nearer to the latter gives
evidence of saving change.
Another who has lived within a mile of
the meeting house but never entered it till the sabbath previous to
the last protracted meeting was converted at the protracted meeting
& promises to be a shining Christian -
He first discovered his
feelings in a sermon during the protracted meeting - In which he
interrupted the speaker & occupied about five minutes in expressing
his own feelings.
He was evidently prompted to speak from the
fulness of his heart.
His language plainly showed that the Holy
Spirit had broken his heart.
A large number who have been employed at the rum distillery
have left it within the last two months & some give evidence of
penitence - though about thirty still remain at the distillery
carrying on the work & they say they shall not stop till they have
directions from the king to do so.
love to the Saviour.
Some children give evidence of
�Kaneohe 1838
Statistics
3*
Admitted to Chh the past year 43.
Baptisms of children 11.
Marriages 60.
Propounded 6 6 .
Whole number of chh me m
bers 54 (59 ?).
Kaneohe May 19 - 1838
B.W. Parker
Miss Smith has been removed from Kaneohe by a vote of the
meeting of this island.
If this movement is confirmed by the
delagate ( !) meeting I desire that they will station some one here
who will supply her place.
Miss Smith has spent about six months
of the past year with us and assisted in the schools.
We need the assistance of some one to share with us the labours
of the station.
I do not know that Miss Smith wish(es) her loca
tion changed unless some one can be found to be put here in her
place.
She is at Lahaina & can be consulted as to her wishes.
Benj W Parker
Kaneohe May 22
1838
10
�Station Report
(1839)
Nothing has occured ( !) the past year to interrupt the usual
labours of the station.
We have been absent from the station t h r e e
weeks in which time in company with bro Smith & family we went to
Kauai made the tour of that island.
Encouragement to labour in
preaching teaching & the various missionary duties has been greater
perhaps than in any previous year sin c e the Station was taken.
Schools
The only schools taught in the district the past year
have been those for children.
Of these there are twelve in the
different parts of the district containing in all about 400 children.
The teachers of these schools are freed from all taxes except the
annual money tax of one dol l ar
for their labour.
They all receive some compensation
About 100 dollars have been contributed during
the year to pay the teachers of the childrens schools.
Of this 20 dollars was money & the remainder in such articles
as have been disposed of for clothing.
At the monthly concert in
April pr e v i o u s notice have been given that the contribution for that
day would be for the teachers more than 60 dollars were contributed.
19 in money and remainder in fouls turkies pigs goats &c which have
been sold at Honolulu.
There have been three exhibitions of the
schools the past year the last at the station when all the schools
were present whole number of children present 304 less by 100 than
would have been but for the mumps & other sickness which have been
prevalent for the last two or three months.
read tolerably well
150 of these can
Many of them have attended to mental arithmetic
& some have been through 10 chapters in Colburns some have attended
to written arithmetic some to geography and a small class to the
Little Philosopher.
A school house has been built at the station and furnished with
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Kaneohe 1839
seats and writing benches which will seat about 100 schollars ( !)
the work has been done by the voluntary contribution of the people
the expense of lumber for finishing and the carpenters work has been
mostly borne (by) the contributions from the people.
Sabbath preaching &c
The exercises of the sabbath have been a morning
meeting at sunrise childrens sabbath school at 9 forenoon public
meeting 1/2 past 10 Ai o ka la at 3 afternoon public meeting again
6
at 4 Number of children in the sabbath school has been about 156 the
adults sabbath school from 300 to 400.
Have had two protracted meetings the year past one was held at
Waimanalo Oct. 10 miles from the station & continued six days was
well attended and has apparently been the means of good.
Since the
meeting, many have been constant attendants at the station on the
sabbath who were never in the habit of attending before.
A number
profess to have given their hearts to the Lord at this meeting, tho
none have as yet been received to the church.
The other meeting was held at the station in the month of Febaruary ( !), brethren Emerson and Smith were present & assisted in the
meeting.
It continued one week was well attended and I hope has been
blessed to the salvation of some souls.
Considerable interest was
manifest in the childrens meeting and a number appear well thus far.
Church
the past year.
Eighty five have been admitted to the church during
Some of these date their conversion to a protracted
meeting a year since others at different times longer since.
viously admitted 54.
5
In all 139 church members.
Separated from the chh 9 -
Pre
Died the last year
Present number 130
Children baptised 26
Number now propounded to the chh 48
1
2
�Kaneohe 1839
I
3.
have preached during the year in differrent ( !) parts of the
district on week days have spent much time in personal conversation
with candidates for the church and those who profess to be serious.
Have paid some attention to singing with a few twice a week during
the year.
Prom three to four months spent three hours a day in the
childrens schools but other missionary labours would not admit my
continuing this.
There has been some improvement in the habits of living among
the people - Nearly forty new houses have been built within half a
mile of the meeting house the year past
Most of them by those of
the out portions of the district.
Contributions at month(ly) concerts 180.
Every monthly concert
day has been spent in labor by a portion of the people the avails
of this day given to some charitable object.
Church members
Admitted the past year
Excommunicated past year 4
Died the Past year
Propounded past year
Whole number
Schools
Number of children
Paid to teachers
Monthly concert contribution
Children Baptised
Marriages
Births
Deaths
Childrens sabbath school
Adults verse a day
130
85
5
48
139
12
400
100
200
26
150
350
�(Kaneohe
1840 )
During the last year the labours of the station have been
considerably interrupted by sickness.
We have been obliged to be
absent from the station about three months of past the year ( !).
During the first half of the year the usual labours of the station
were attended to without interruption.
Congregations as large and
schools as well attended and flourishing as at any former time.
Schools.
Of childrens schools there are ten in the district.
Owing to causes which I could not controul I have visited them but
twice the year past and the last time found said evidence that both
schools and the people generally were in a low state more so than I
had found them a t any time for two years previous to this.
decreased both in number and interest.
They had
One reason probably is the
want of suitable teachers and another that they have not suitable
pay.
The only graduate from the high school in the district had
been appointed to an office in government and since that there has
not been much teaching at the station.
Sabbath schools have been larger the first six months of the
year than the year preceeding ( !)
morning, adults after-noon.
The childrens is attended in the
The hymn book huliana and Hawina Kama-
lii and the books used in the childrens the ai o ka la in the adults.
There has been an addition to the church of about 50 members
the past year
there have been no sad defections during the year tho
not so much of the spirit of the gospel as there ought to be -
We
have had but one case of discipline during the year a member was ex
communicated
a few have been received by letter and a few dismissed
to other churches
none now propounded -
A church meeting has been
attended every Saturday afternoon which all the members all the m e m
bers ( !) invariably attend unless prevented by sickness or some other
�Kaneohe 1840
urgent cause.
Contributions by the church & people the last year 110 dollars.
In addition to this a bell has been bought at 120 dollars paid for
by the people.
Every monthly concert day is devoted by the church
& some of the people to labour for some benevolent object.
Idolatry in another form has made its appearance during the year.
A native professing himself to be the Messiah has driven (?) numbers
after him by his declaring himself able to heal all sickness and
diseases of those who would apply to him -
Both he & his followers
have been fine & put to work on the road but still continue the
practice - M
The king has leased a large tract of land at Kaneohe to a few
natives - and though there was injustice done to the original land
holders yet I have strong hope that it will eventually be a great
advantage to
place (?)
-
They have already several acres of
cane planted have sent to the States for an iron sugar mill -
They
work with their own hands and employ natives at a meal a day cash - ?
They also lease land in small quantities to natives they -
They have
applied to the king for permission to establish a road across the
pali at their own expense passible for horses & mules and establish a
toll to mee(t) (?) the expenses of the road -
The work already commenced
(Unsigned, Benj. W. Parker)
�Report of Kaneohe Station (1841)
The past year has been with us one of interruption in our mi s
sionary labours on account of ill health.
Prom the 1st of April to
November (seven months) we were obliged to be absent from the station.
Pour months of this time was occupied in a voyage to the coast of
Calafornia ( !).
At our return to the station in Nov we found the people con
siderably scatered ( !), sabbath congregations diminished sabbath
schools very small the district schools all stoped ( !) and a few
cases of defection in the church.
The catholics seemed to have been
untiring in their efforts to bring the people under their influence.
They had appointed teachers buildt ( !) houses baptized such as were
willing.
One of the priests if not constantly residing there was
always there on the sabbath usually spent two or three days of every
week in some part of the district.
At my return to the station my health was not confirmed and I
could do little more than attend two services on the sabbath.
For
the last three months however I have been most of the time nearly
well and have been able to preach on the sabbath, attend sabbath
schools
preach during the (week ?) in different parts of the field
and pay some little attention to childrens schools.
As might be
expected there has been much less interest the past year than for the
two or three preceeding ( !) years.
(Note in margin of first page:)
Meetings were kept up by Kuke
during my absence and some interest sustained among the people.
Church - The decline of interest in the church as well as out
of it has been very apparent - None have been admitted by profession
during the year.
Three have been excommunicated and five suspended
from communion - four admitted by letter from other churches and two
16
�Kaneohe - 1841
2.
dismissed to another church in regular standing.
Schools -
Owing in part to the want of a suitable teacher there
has been no school for children at the station during the greater
part of the year and it has been the same throughout the district
there have been no children(s) schools till the last three months
when I tried to start them again and there are now in opperation ( !)
nine schools for children including about 300 children considerably
less than one half of the children in the district.
one examination during the year present 250,
There has been
For the last three
months I have had a school every week with the teachers and the
prospect is that childrens schools will be prosperous again if some
little attention can be paid to the superintendance of them by the
missionary and some pay furnished for teachers -
Nothing has been
received by teachers from the provision made by the new law owing
partly to the peculiar circumstances of the people & their readiness
to make any thing an occasion for going to the Catholics.
Probably
one third or more of the people would utterly refuse to comply with
the law and the collector could not collect fines of those who might
absent themselves from pahao d a y s . (collection days ?)
Catholicism
One of the priests reside(s) in this part of the
island most of the time.
Their station is near us and they are inde-
fatigable in their labours through the district visiting from vilage
( !) to village and house to house.
The number baptized I am not able
to state though I think more than one third of the people have gone
to the catholics -
They have built houses of worship on nearly
every land in the district
their largest house where they make their
central point for that part of the island is near us.
They have
appointed native teachers for childrens schools though their schools
are nothing more than a repeating after the teachers of some french
�5
Kaneohe - 1841
or latin mumery ( !) - The causes that have influenced them are
promised presents of cloth or some property of the like kind.
that they restoration
Another
(!) to health, another the prospect of immedi
ate admission to church membership - another to evade certain laws
of the king and chiefs to which they do not wish to be subject.
Statistics.
Population of the district according to the census taken
the last year - about 4000.
dance 300
Number of schools 9
Children in atten
Whole no. received to ch by prof. 198 - Do by letter 14
Last year none - by letter 4 - whole no died 11
missed to other churches 9
Last year 2.
Last year 3, suspended last year 5
Whole no children baptized 82 tized decd 12
Last year 4
Last year 4 -
Dis
Whole no excommunicated 7 -
Whole no in regular standing 195 -
Last year 5 -
Marriages 7
No of children bap
Most of the marriages have
been mostly performed out of the district.
Benevolent operations -
less has been done the last year than
in the years preceeding - thirty dollars have been contributed in
money, at the monthly concert and some thing more than that in dif
ferent articles.
A good native house has been built by the church for Kuke value
of work 40 dollars - our meeting house has been rebuilt and rethatched
by the ch members - but it is poor house and we are much in need of
e
a better - We b^gan to collect materials more than a year since b e
fore my sickness - but when I left the station the work stoped ( !)
and nothing done since.
Resolved that sum of money
(Unsigned)
(On b a c k :)
Kaneohe
M r . Parker
1841
�Kaneohe Station Report 1843
The past year has been w i t h us one of uninterrupted missionary
labour at our station.
Our health has been such that we could
prosecute our missionary work and we have had an abundance of it
on our hands and encouragement to do all our time and strength would
allow u s .
Schools -
There are in the district connected with the station
ten childrens schools taught by native teachers.
Two of these are
from the mission seminary and the others have been taught in a school
at the station.
The number of children in attendance at these schools
is about 500 -
Attending to branches usually taught in common schools.
We greatly feel the need of more well qualified teachers.
I have had
a school a part of the year two days in a week for teachers -
Our
Sabbath school for children has numbered on an average 100 during
the year. -
Three school houses have been built by government the
last year.
Church -
The church at this station now numbers a little more
than 200 members in regular standing.
W e have had no sad cases of de-
fection during the year and but few of discipline.
Three have been
suspended during the year from the privileges of the church.
We have
a church meeting every Saturday afternoon and a sabbath school at
the close of the sabbath morning service exclusively for the members
of the church, which they almost all invariably attend.
None have
been admitted to the church by profession during the year, but a few
stand propounded for admission.
Congregation
Our congregation on the sabbath for a part of the
year has not been as large as in former years owing chiefly to the
want of a convenient place of worship.
We have met in a school house
that will not hold more than 300 consequently many have been obliged
�Kaneohe - 1843
2.
to regain out of doors during the time of worship and some have staid
away.
Meeting_hou s e -
But we are now happily releived ( !) by the com
pletion of our new stone meeting house.
The house is
(space but no
figures given) in length and wide with 8 glass windows 6 koa doors the walls and ceiling are plastered.
The work on the house has been the voluntary effort of the church
and people, though few beside church members have afforded much help.
Contributions
Contributions to the meeting house have been
as follows
2d- church in Honolulu
Mr Whitney
Mr. Gulick
Individuals
82.25
48.57
20.
9.
The church at Kaneohe have contributed $40 in money during the
year beside articles of native produce to about the same amount.
Romanism -
The Papists have in this field a considerable number
of followers of a certain class.
They are almost invariably from the
most ignorant part of the people and from those who have come least
under our influence -
They have four school houses in different
parts of the district, but they have not had much accession to to ( !)
their numbers the last year.
I am not able to give full and correct statistics of the schools.
(Unsigned, B.W. Parker)
20
�Statistics of chh Kaneohe 1843
Whole number added to chh on examination
Do on certificate
239
25
Past year on examination
0
Do on certificate
8
Whole number past year
8
Whole number dismissed to other chhs
4
Dismissed past year
0
Whole number deceased
27
Deceased past year
10
Suspended past year
3
Remain Suspended
8
Excommunicated past year
0
Whole number excommunicated
8
Remain excommunicated
8
Whole number in regular standing
217
Whole no children baptized
109
Baptized past year
10
Whole no children deceased
15
Deceased past year
Marriages past year
1
47
�Kaneohe Station Report
May 1844
Through the kind, hand of our Heavenly Father the mission family
at this station have enjoyed uninterrupted health the past year and
we have been able to pursue our missionary labours as in former years.
No Sabbath has past ( !) without affording to the people of our charge
the means of religious instruction and we have not been left without
some evidence that our labours have been attended with good.
Perhaps
in no year since the station has been occupied has the attendance on
meetings been better than during a considerable part of the past year.
Our new meeting house had been finished just previous to the las t
general meeting a work wh. had required much labour on the part of
the people.
But we have been blest in the deed and are more than com
pensated for all the toil the house has cost us.
The house was
dedicated in Oct and a protracted meeting at the same time in which
brothers Bishop & Smith assisted.
From the time of the meeting and
for several months succeeding it there was an increase in our Sabbath
congregation and other meetings.
Some of the church appeared to be
truly awakened humbled convinced of their own sins.
Expressions like
these were somtimes ( !) heard from the mouths of professers "I fear
for my own soul"
" I am afraid of the judgement".
Such expressions
were from those who if any in the church are Christians probably these
are the ones.
15 or 16 children seemed a goodell (!) interested at
the time of the meeting and have continued to appear so to the present
time.
With these I have had a meeting every week up to the time of
leaving for general meeting.
Beside the meetings at the station, I have attended two pro
tracted meetings in another part of the district and spent nearly
a week in holding meetings in the Koolau district.
Beside meetings on the sabbath and others at the station there
�2.
Kaneohe - 1844
are neighbourhood meetings in different parts of the district every
week for preaching on catechetical instruction
these meetings are
attended by church members & others not usually exceeding 50 or 60
at a meeting.
They are useful as a means of more intimate acquaintance
with the state of the people and tend to keep up an interest on the
Sabbath congregation.
Church
20 have been received to the chh during the year by
profession and 13 by letter from other churches.
11 have been sus
pended and 5 excommunicated during the year 1 previously excom.
restored - 4 dismissed to other churches and 2 have died during the
year -
A chh prayer meeting is held every Saturday at which 50 or 60
of those living nearest the station attend and at a sabbath school
specially for chh members at at ( !) the close of the morning service
nearly nearly ( !) all the chh attend.
Contributions for benevolent objects have been taken in the
church and 42 dollars in money contributed and 20 dollars in other
articles which has been paid to meet the bills of the meeting house.
Schools
The no. of childrens schools in the district is 10
with 15 teachers and number at the present time 444 children.
The statistics for schools will give the no. of readers writers &c.
Most of the year the schools have been in a languishing condition
owing to a want of care on the part of the school inspector and
delinquency in paying the teachers their stipulated wages.
Since
the apointment ( !) of a new school inspector a better attendance has
been secured and schools now promise to do well but how long they
will continue to prosper it is impossible to say -
The Kahu kula
made the tour of the island in the month of April made some changes
in the management of the schools.
Dismissed some teachers and ap-
�Kaneohe - 1844
pointed others
3.
examined schools
met the parents and aparently ( !)
has exerted a good influence on parents teachers and children.
A sabbath school for children has numbered 100 and an adults
School 250 both of these I invariably attend the one before the other
at the close of the morning service.
I have had a singing school one after(noon) or evening in the
week and on Saturday a school for all the teachers in the district.
Catholicism -
I do not think that they have gained in numbers
during the past year.
have returned.
Some children have gone to them and others
Some who have gone appear to be disgusted with what
they see there and have refused to receive the right (rite) of baptism
by the priest though repeatedly solicited to do so by h i m -
They are
collecting materials for a stone church but it is doubtful whether
they proceed with the work.
Koolau loa
At the request of Mr. A B Smith I have had the past year the
charge of the church and people at Haulau (Hauula) and the district
of Koolau loa.
It is but little that I have been able to do for
that poor & destitute people
have spent five or six sabbaths there
the past year and nearly one week in holding meetings wi t h the people.
About 60 members of this church have fallen into open sin mostly
drinking during the early part of the year, and so far as I am able
to judge the church and people of this district appear to have been
in a declining state the past year - and though the attendance has
been good on the f e w sabbaths I have been there yet there is an in
difference and hardness among the people generally that I have not
noticed in any other place.
�Kaneohe - 1844
This field ought not to be overlooked should any new station
be taken the present year.
It i s in some respects an eligible place
for the location of a missionary.
There is a church a church ( !) of
about 200 members and a population of 2000 or more all very access
ible to a missionary located at Hauula.
A few would be glad to receive a missionary among them and have
expressed to me a hope that one would be located there.
As to building furnishing supplies to a family &c it is as
fabourably located as most of the out stations -
the sabbath con
gregations when I have been there the past year have been probably
(or )
700/800 - If connected with the station at Kaneohe it brings a pop
ulation of at least 6000 under the care of one missionary and 2 churches
and 20 schools which is a larger field than one can be expected to
cultivate.
What progress the papists have made here the past year I cannot
say - the(y) have at least four pretty large houses of worship in
the district/ some schools a priest there a goodelle (good deal ?)
of the time.
We hope at least the claims of this field for a teach
er will be looked at should any new station be taken the present
year.
(Unsigned; B.W. Parker)
�Kaneohe - 1844
5.
Statistics of chh at Kaneohe
Whole number received on examination
"
On certificate
259
38
Past year on examination
20
Past year on certificate
13
Whole no. past year
33
Whole no dismissed to other chhs
8
Dismissed past year
4
Whole no deceased
29
Deceased past year
2
Suspended past year
Remain suspended
1.
Ex c om. past year
11
19
5
Whole no excom
13
Remain excommunicated
12
Whole n o . in regular standing
230
Whole N o . of children baptized
117
Baptized past year
Whole no. of children deceased
Deceased past year
Marriages past year
8
16
1
61
�Kaneohe Station Report 1846
W i t h devout grattitude ( !) to the giver of all good we may
mention the uninterrupted health of the mission family at this sta
tion.
No sickness has entered our dwelling during the past two years.
No interruption of our missionary w o r k from disease or death.
W e have continued our missionary labours as in former years.
The gospel has been statedly preached on the Sabbath in the house of
God and from w e e k to week in the little villages in different parts
of the field and to some extent fro m house to house.
It has been
an object to labour for every class of people as we could get access
to t h e m for the increase of piety and knowled(g)e in the church
members & for the conversion of sinners.
Congregations.
O u r Sabbath congregations have not d i m inished in
numbers f r o m what they have b een in former years.
Occasionally there
has been a little falling of(f) in attendance owing to some local
cause.
Meetings in the w e e k held statedly in different villages
are attended by members of the church and a few others usually from
40 to 50 in a meeting.
during the year.
The same persons being almost constant attendants
But there has bee n no special religious interest
in the congregation during the last two years.
the
No evidence of the
( !) Spirits presence in the church or congregation.
Church
church.
The statistics will give the present number in the
Only two have been admitted by profession during the last
two years while a large number have been rem o v e d by death and ot h e r
wise.
Contributions are taken up monthly in the church and they have
expressed a willingness to contribute for the support of the gospel.
92.50 were contributed for that purpose during the year 1845 in
�Kaneohe 1846
in money.
2.
But the people are still poor and heavily taxed and unless
some change more favourable to their condition takes place it
is
doubtful whether m u c h reliance can b e placed on their supporting the
gospel among themselves.
For the present year 1846 the c h u r c h have
engaged to pay two dollars
each male member and one dollar each
female member one half in money and one half in native produce.
This
sum however is intended to be expended in flooring and seating the
meeting house so far as (it) will go toward that object.
Popery
I a m not aware that the number who have
papists has increased any during the last two years.
making untiring efforts to advance their cause.
are located permanently in this district.
joined the
Still they are
Two preists
( !)
They have o b t ained there
a site from the government for a high school and are m a king prepara
tions to put up permanent buildings.
Their lumber is on the ground
and a teacher stationed there for the
school.
stone church the past year.
They have erected a
I seldom make an appointment for a m e e t
ing in any part of the district but that the priest is at the same
place the same day.
If a church member is know(n ) to (be) under any
any censure he is almost sure to be visited by the priest and solicited to join them.
Not much can be said, of the social and civil improvement of the
people.
A few seem desirous of improving their social condition
while the great part of the people seem satisfied to live in all the
degredation of their former heathenism.
They often see m on the very
verge of their former idolatry and ready to relapse into it.
The horse road over the pali at Nuuanu promises
advantage to the people on the no r t h side of Oahu.
to be a great
The transportation
of native produce on a seaco(a)st of more than 40 miles in extent
2 8
�Kaneohe 1846
3.
is over this r o a d .
And since it has been made passable for horses
and mules considerable of the transportation is made by these animals
and will be likely to increase.
The growing selling and drinking of awa has very much increased
the past year beyond what it has been in former years.
W ithin the
last 2 months however it appears to have been checked.
Old natives
games & songs such as hiaka puhene pone noa
have been frequent among some of the
people, but card playing is more common among almost all classes than
any other kind of games.
Statistics of Church at Kaneohe
Whole Ho. admitted to church on
examination
Admitted 2 past years on examination
261
2
Whole no deceased
54
Deceased past 2 years
25
Suspended past 2 years
Remain suspended
6
18
Excommunicated past 2 years
Whole no. excommunicated
7
20
Whole no in regular standing
212
Whole no of children baptized
136
Baptized past 2 years
19
Average congregation on the Sabbath
400
Marriages past 2 years
146
The above table of statistics shews some diminution in the number
of church members .
Several have been removed by death and other
causes while few have been received for the last three or four years.
Many church members from other places are living in this district
some permanently others on a visit of 2 & 3 years some with letters
�Kaneohe 1846
4.
from the pastor of the church to which they belong but most of them
without any letter.
They usually present themselves at communion
season, but are seldom seen at any other time either on the Sabbath
or the weekday meeting.
Statistics of Schools May 1846
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
of children in the whole field
of boys
of girls
of schools
of teachers
of readers
of writers
in geography
in mental arithmetic
in written arithmetic
753
432
321
28
28
281
173
163
218
181
The above statistics are from the examination in April last.
Only
a small part of the children in the district have regularly attended
school the past year.
Most of the parents have but little interest
in the attendance of their children at school.
The native super in
tendance as hitherto conducted appears to be entirely inadequate to
sustain an interest in schools.
The teachers generally appear to be
inefficient and uninterested in their employment.
Almost all the
school houses are entirely unfit for the purposes of teaching.
Very few native books have been dispo(s)ed of of late in this
district.
A little more than 100 of the Elele are taken.
A regester ( !) of births & Deaths at Kaneohe among a population
of 1000 inhabitants.
1840
"41
"42
"43
"44
"45
Deaths
"
"
"
"
"
59
45
30
60
55
65
The regester is for five years in succession.
"41
"42
"43
"44
"45
1840
"
n
"
"
"
Births
21
22
17
19
23
24
By comparing the census recently taken by the government col
lector with that taken in former years, it is evident that there is
some diminution of the people though it does not appear to be very
�5.
rapid.
The register shows an excess of the number of deaths during
the year 1845 over that of any previous year occasioned by the epidemic which prevailed throughout the islands in april of that year.
No census of the entire population of the districts connected
with this station has been taken of late.
The whole number is not
far from 6000 as appears from the books of the government collecttor
( !).
Statistics of the church at Hauula
Whole no admitted to chh on examination
Admitted last 2 years on examination
Whole no desceased ( !)
Desceased ( !) past 2 years
Suspended past 2 years
Remain suspended
Excommunicated past 2 years
Remain excommunicated
Whole no. in regular standing
Whole no of children baptised
Baptised 2 past years
Average congregation on Sabbath
286
00
__
__
4
24
6
13
269
10
500
The church at Hauula have built a good thatch meeting house the
last year.
They have also contributed $16.00 to pay for a small
communion set and meet the ordinary expenses of the church.
Number of Catholic schools in the district
No of Children enrolled
No in attendance
12
380
112
Koohulukea a graduate of the Sem at L. luna and member of Mr.
Dibble's theological class has lived a p rt of the year in this dis
trict conducted meetings on the Sabbath and afforded help in the
Miss'y work.
(Unsigned;
B.W. Parker)
�Statistics of the Church at Kaneohe, 1846-47
Whole number on e x a m i n a t i o n ---------- 275
"
"
on c e r t i f i c a t e --------43
Past year on examination — ---------- —
14
on certificate --------5
Whole number past y e a r -------------19
Whole number dismissed to other churches 20
past year -----"
"
deceased
------ --61
died last year --------7
Suspended last year ----------------1
Remain suspended
----- — ---------13
Excommunicated last year----------- 1
Whole number excommunicated-- -----24
Remain excommunicated---- ----20
Whole number in regular standing ---- 224
Whole number of children b a p . ------- 139
Baptized last year ----------- ---3
Marriages last y e a r --------------- 41
On back:
B. W. Parker
Sept 24, 1847
Addressed:
Mr. Levi Chamberlain
Honolulu
�Report of Kaneohe Station 1848
In presenting a report of this station and the missionary labours
for the last two years it is proper to acknowledge with gratitude to
our Heavenly. Father the enjoyment of almost uninterrupted health
in the Mission family here.
Our various missionary work among the
people has been continued very much as in years past and apparently
with as much success as at any former period.
The labours of a single sabbath and a single week may be taken as
a specimen of what our labours ordinarily are among the people.
the sabbath there Is a morning prayer meeting at sunrise.
On
A childrens
sabbath school at the ringing of the first bell a sermon at eleven
at the close of this service a sabbath school for adults whi c h consists
of church members and such others as wish to attend.
in the afternoon.
ing prayer meeting.
A sermon again
I always attend all these services except the morn
This is usually conducted by natives.
Our ordinary weekly meetings have been a church prayer meeting
every Saturday afternoon
for prayer.
a lecture on Wednesday, the monthly concept
A meeting one afternoon in a week, for those who profess
to be serious and wish to inqure and converse on the subject of re
ligion.
There (are) one or two meetings during the week at places a
little remote from the station.
A daily morning prayer meeting is kept
up at the station by the natives.
I have taught once a week for a considerable part of the time a
school for native teachers.
Also a singing school one day in a week
and, once In a week a school for lunas in the church.
This is about
the amount of my own teaching.
Church —
Of the state of the church for the past 2 years I have
nothing of very special interest to report.
The statistics will shew
�Kaneohe Station Report 1848
2.
some accessions and but few cases of defection.
The statistics for
45 and part of /47 were forwarded last year as requested and the
table n o w presented is for one year.
year by profession.
cated.
20 have been admitted the last
Only one has been suspended and no one excommuni
I cannot report a general revival of religion in the church
or among the people But for the last four months there has been an
unusual interest in attending meetings.
Our congregations has in
creased on the sabbath nearly one quarter from what it ha d been for
a year previous.
Frequent meetings have been held during the week
for preaching conference conversation and prayer and have b e e n well
attended both by church members and others.
Many out of the church
profess to be on the Lords side.
A new congregation has been assembled on the Sabbath in this
district in a part of it too far from the station for the people to
attend meeting there.
region.
There (are) 1000 or 1200 people living in the
I have occasionally spent a sabbath there and frequently held
meetings an a week day in that region.
There is a good attendance at
meeting and just at the present time an unusual interest among the
people.
I have lately spent three days there holding meetings
ing with the people.
convers
As many as two hundred express a desire to be
on the Lords side and unite themselves with the church.
been propounded for admission.
Eight have
The church members have collected the
timber and are ready to build a meeting house.
The native teacher and
preacher for this congregation is Koaehulikea a graduate of the Semi
nary at Lahainaluna.
The people there are to pay fifty dollars a
year towards his support.
This cong. has been for a part of the year
under the care of N aiapaahai but he has lately left.
Schools --
Native schools for children have been kept up and
�Kaneohe Station Report 1848
5.
in pretty successful operation for the last year and a half.
A debt
to the teachers of considerable amount had been contracted under the
old system but it was paid off soon after Mr. Richards entered the
Office (of) Instruction, and no debt has been contracted till within
the last few months.
The avails of the kings paahao days have been
enough to pay all the teachers till within a few months past when it
was found that the avails from this source decreased to one half of
what they had been and in consequence of this a debt was found to be
again accumulating but by a little attention on the part of the
Luna auhau the avails of the paahao are again increased and the debt
is nearly paid off.
The general state of the schools has been far
better during the past eighteen months than ever before since they have
been under the care of government.
culty with the Catholics.
There has been very little diffi
Teachers have be e n paid promptly and the
attendance of children has generally been pretty good.
Singing has
been introduced into some of the schools with a good degree of interest
and success.
It is a very desirable branch to be taught in the native
schools when suitable teachers can be obtained.
The schools have be e n examined as often as once in three months
and once in the year all the schools have been brought together for an
annual examination and at the close of the examination the parents and
children have united in a feast.
Much interest has b e e n manifested by
parents xxxxxxxxxxxx teachers and schollars in getting up these cele
brations and a large amount of money expended for dress and for such
articles as will enable them to have the feast in a style somewhat
approximating to c ivilization.
In this way many of the articles of
civilized life have been introduced into the district among the
people.
Some things among a few of the people indicate a little approach
�4
toward civilized life.
As many as 100 tables have be e n bought within
the last two years by the natives in this district.
chairs and other articles of household furniture.
More than 200
A few are getting
small herds of cattle and many now carry their produce to market on
donkies mules horses, and bullocks instead of their own shoulders as
formerly.
A great advantage will be derived to this district and to all
the north side of the island of Oahu from the road now making by govern
ment over the Pali.
Pro m the month of Oct last till the present time
about seventy natives have b e e n employed on this road.
W h e n completed,
it will very much facilitate the communication between this district
and Honolulu and make the transportation of produce and merchandise
easy.
This is the more to be v alued as the access to some parts of
this side of the island by sea is not very good.
The almost entire
travel of the natives on the north side of the island for a seacost ( !)
of 40 miles is over this Pali.
Catholicism
Two Roman catholic priests are located in this district.
One a teacher for their High School.
in the district.
They have built a frame house on the land granted
them by government for a school.
the Sabbath.
They have one stone meeting house
They have two places of worship on
One at their stone chapel the other at their school.
The(y) have several childrens schools in the district but they
appear to be much inferior to protestant schools in the qualifications
of teachers
books.
the progress of the schollars and in their supply of
I am not aware that the papists have made any special progress
for the last two years.
and some have left them.
A few natives have occasionally gone to them
Quite a number have recently left them in
�5
that part of the district when our new congregation are ( !) es
tablished.
The school commenced in april last w i t h 17 children.
are hoarded at the seminary.
The schollars
They are taught the French language.
They intend to take in 200 children, these are to be selected from
all the islands.
The present number 17 are from Koolau and Koolauloa.
Young boys are selected for schollars.
Contributions for benevolent objects
The church has done something the past two years in this department
of christian duty
in evry ( !) month.
350.50 Dlls.
A contribution has (been) taken on the first sabbath
They have contributed in money the last two years
The above sum has been chiefly expended in flooring and
seating the meeting house.
Besides this amount contributed in money
some work has been done to build houses for meetings (in) the out
it
districts the amount of/$50.00. Whole contributed past 2 years in
cash $400.00.
(The following is in pencil on a separate sheet, and presumably refers
to Koaehulikea, see page 2):
This man appears to be acceptable to the people and useful amon g
them. He has no license from an ecclesiastical body to preach and it
does not seem to me that it would increase his usefulness among the
people or make him any more acceptable to them to give h i m a license,
a t present. The congregation receive and hear him gladly no w and very
cheerfully contribute to his support. Still if other teachers simi
larly situated and of the like character and standing with this ma n
are licensed it may be best to license him.
"Lay hands suddenly on no man.
Let them first be proved.”
(Unsigned; B.W. Parker)
�Kaneohe Station Report 1849
On returning to our station at the close of last general meet
ing we found a more than usual interest among the people of the dis
trict on the subject of religion.
Our congregation on the sabbath
was considerably increased in numbers.
well attended.
Meetings on week days were
Sabbath schools bible classes meetings for conversa
tion and prayer were well filled by apparently interested listeners
and learners.
Many of the church members seemed to be revived anew
and some afforded much help by visiting from house to house and hold
ing meetings with a few individuals in places remote from the station.
This interest continued through the summer and till the month of
October when the prevailing sickness made its appearance and immed
iately prostrated almost the entire population of the district.
In common with other parts of the islands it has been a year of
sickness suffering and death among the natives of this district.
From
the month of October to January 1st the missionary work was done ex
cept to visit from house to house
hood
administer medicine
sick and suffering.
from neighbourhood to neighbour
furnish such comforts as we could to the
All our meetings and schools were suspended
except one and sometimes two services on the sabbath and these were
(by)
attended only/a very small number not usually more than 40 or 50.
For the last two months our congregation has been increasing
people recovering
the
but at all our meetings the number in attendance
is much less than it was previous to the sickness.
Benevolent Efforts
At the beginning of the year we hoped to do much in this depart
ment of missionary work and both the church and others seemed more
willing to take hold of this subject than they have ever been before
but the sickness has retarded this as well as almost every other part
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�Kaneohe
1849
of our work.
2.
The whole amount of contribution for the year may be
estimated at four hundred dollars.
Of this sum 205 dollars are in
money and the remainder cheifly ( !) on meeting houses i n different
parts of the district.
They money has been expended in flooring and
seating the meeting house.
Improvement in Civilization
I cannot report much progress in civilization during the past
year.
I have some hope that the sickness and suffering of the last
year will effectually teach them some things about the necessity of
civilized conveniences and civilized habits which they have been
slow to learn heretofore.
ment in these things.
Some are disposed to seek after improve
A few are trying to get better houses and to
furnish them after the manner of civilized families.
Some are grad
ually increasing in their means of living better than they have done.
A few own small herds of cattle
most of the produce is carried to
market either by boats or by horses mules & c instead of the former
way on the neck of the natives.
But there are many difficulties in
(i n )
the way of any very rapid improvement/these things
Schools
The schools in this district have never been in so
flourishing a state as they were during the first part of the year.
Books have been more called for than in any previous year since the
station has been occupied.
bible
New Testament
extent.
Those most in demand have been the whole
hymnbook
and all the school books to some
Singing has been a popular and profitable department in some
of the common schools.
We have a large and good quire ( !) at the
station led by a native on the Sabbath.
It consists mostly of child
ren and young persons.
Manual labour was introduced into most of the childrens schools
at the beginning of the last year.
The plan promised well.
Profit
�3.
able employment w a s found both for boys and girls and the system of
labour continued till the suspension of the schools on accoun t of the
sickness.
During the prevailing epidemic all schools were suspended
and have only recently commenced again and w i t h less vigour than b e
fore the sickness.
The prevailing diseases of the past year have
been f a t a l among the native children.
Many under the age of two years
have died.
There has been on the part of many natives a disposition to
relapse into idolatry during the prevailing sickness.
It has been
practiced cheifly ( !) in connexion with native doctors.
The sickness
and death were asscribed ( !) to some of the ancient Hawaiian divini
ties and in many cases to the practice of sorcery.
Sacrifices were
required to effect a cure and drugs employed to expel the evil or
devil from the afflicted persons.
The power of native doctors over
many of the people is very great and their ability to kill or cure by
the practice of sorcery is much confided in.
Popery -
I am not aware that any progress has been made by the
Romanists the past year.
The priests were active during sickness
not to administer healing medicines or comforts for the body but to
prosalyte ( !) the sick & dying to their faith, and perform extreme
unction.
Then the priests told them if they died it would be well
w i t h them and if they recovered after having received extreme unction
there would be no loss.
intreties (!
.
)
But few however if any yielded to their
They have not probably gained any in numbers during
the year.
There are two congregations on the sabbath in the district beside
the one at the station.
One is under the care of a native licensed
to preach by the association at our last general meeting.
and people to whom he ministers support him.
The church
The attendance on the
4 0
�Kaneohe
1849
Sabbath is good.
4.
Another congregation at the other extremity of the
district is under the care of a native church member.
The number who
attend is not large.
Church Statistics
Received
On examination past year
Whole no. on examination
Dismissed past year
Whole no dismissed
Deceased past year
Whole no deceased
Excluded past year
Whole no remaining excluded
In regular standing
Children bapti(zed) last year
Whole no baptized
Marriages last year
Average congregation
Av erage no who attend
Meeting in the field
36
326
3
22
27
90
1
22
203
2
151
37
450
900
Population
According to the vote of the last general meeting the census
was taken in the month of January.
is 2813.
The whole population of the district
By a census of the same district taken in the year 1832
and published in the first geography printed by the mission the popu
lation of the district was at that time 4987.
If the census of each
year is correct the number of inhabitants is less in 1849 than it was
in 1832 by 2174.
The decrease has been more rapid for the last three
or four years than previous to that time and the decrease will u n
doubtedly be more rapid hereafter than it has yet been.
The late
sickness has prepared the way for such a decrease and other diseases
will cut them of(f) more rapidly than heretofore.
During the three
months of the present year already past the number of deaths has been
greater than in the same length of time in any previous year excepting the months of the late epidemics.
�Kaneohe
1849
5.
The whole number of deaths during 1848 was 368, the number of
births the same year, 5 1 .
A grant of $200. was made at the general meeting in 1848 for
building.
It has been expended as follows
for a native frame house
cook house
Other repairs
Whole amount
Remaining unexpended
75
60
25
160
200
$ 40
(Unsigned; B.W. Parker)
4 2
�Kaneohe Station Report
May 1851
Through the kindness of our Heavenly Father the mission family at this
station have enjoyed almost uninterrupted health since the last Gen
Meeting.
Our labors among the people of our charge have been attended to
as in previous years, and the Lord has remembered them in mercy.
wasting sickness has been sent among them.
Wo
No pestilence to prostrate
and cut them off in large numbers as in some previous years of our
missionary labor among them - various meetings for instruction, schools,
Sabbath Schools & Preaching have been attended to much as in former
years - and it is not necessary to mention them particularly -
I
cannot report a general and extensive revival of religion during any
part of the last two years, though we have not been without encourage
ment - and hope some have turned to the Lord,
There has been no de
fection in the church - though there has been less interest in reli
gion among a large part of the church members than in some former
years, and it has required more and constant effort on the part of the
Pastor to keep up an interest among them specially in weekly meet
ing than formerly -
Sabbath congregation\ have been well attended,
and good attention given to preaching.
There are in the field two out stations, occupied by two native
licensed preachers - one a graduate of Lahainaluna and licensed to
preach at our last gen Meeting.
of Lahaina and Molokai.
The other was licensed by the brethren
They are both useful laborers.
They re
ceive their support from the people among whom they labor.
In both
places the people wish these men to be ordained and desire me to
present their request to the brethren of the Mission.
They are will
ing to assume their entire support and give them considerally more
�Kaneohe
1851
2.
than they now receive in case they are ordained.
There are probably
as many as eight hundred or Nine Hundred Inhabitants in each of these
two places.
In one of the congregations there are One Hundred and
twenty five church members - in the other Fifty Six.
I visit them as
often as once in three months and sometimes oftener.
The whole amount of contributions among the people in the year
1850 was $681.00 -
this amount was contributed in money and has been
expended in shingling the meeting house, excepting what has been paid
to native preachers & $90 paid towards building a native church at
one of the out stations.
We shingled the roof of our station meeting
house last year at an expense of a little more than $1000.
Our house
is floored has permanent slips all done at the expense of the church
& people.
There is something due but it will be paid during the
present year if the Lord prospers us.
Schools -
Children's schools have been kept up usually well
attended for the past two years -
During the winter 1849 we lost
several new and good school houses in the district by the destructive
gales of that year.
They were rebuilt during the past summer but another severe gale
in the month of January last again prostrated several of our houses
among them our station school house and adobie building well lighted
and seated and with desks that had stood about fourteen years.
These disasters have retarded our schools and require much labor &
expense to replace them -
Our schools are not supplied with so good
teachers as they ought to have through they are not contented with
the same wages they have formerly had.
Romanism -
I am not aware that the Papists have increased any
in number for the last two years.
the district.
There are considerable numbers in
Their seminary is in this district said to contain
�Kaneohe 1851
3.
Thirty Boys taken from the different Islands.
There are two Foreign
teachers in the Seminary - They have a permanent building.
They have collected or (are) collecting materials for a perma
nent church at their station.
Improvements -
Some improvement is made in civilization - a
few build better houses and more permanent ones than they have for
merly had -
A few have bought lands with fee simple titles and a
considerable number have received their awards from the land C ommission.
Their means of acquiring wealth have greatly increased
but it is (a) matter of regret that they are prodigal of what they
acquire and are so little disposed to expend their means in what is
really serviceable to themselves and families.
There has not been time to see what beneficial effects the
granting them their lands in fee simple will have on them.
It is
to be hoped that the influence of it will be to make them more indus
trious and more disposed to improve their condition,
ers are settling in the district.
A few foreign
Some have obtained land.
Probab
ly as many as 8 or 10 thousand acres have been disposed of by sale
or lease to foreigners within the the ( !) last two years.
Res Submitted
B.W. Parker
�Statistics of the chh at Kaneohe
Received past year on examination
Hhole number received on examination
58
398
Whole number received from other churches
56
Whole number dismissed to other churches
26
Deceased the past year
9
Church members excluded deceased past year
(__)
Vi/hole number deceased in good standing
106
Excluded past year
4
Whole number remaining excluded
Now in regular standing
29
326
Children baptized past year
Whole number baptized
7
157
Marriages past year
59
Population in the field
(__ )
Proportion who attend public worship
(
(Part of 1851 Report)
)
�Kaneohe Station Report (1852)
We have pursued our Missionary work at this station the last
year without any special interruption.
In no year of our missionary
Residence there, has there been more interest among the people in
attending meetings both on the Sabbath and occasional meetings, than
the past year.
It has be e n so nearly the whole year.
In the month
of March however an influenza prevailed very generally among the
people.
Some died of the disease, and since that sickness our con
gregations on the Sabbath and other meetings have not been so well
attended as during the preceeding ( !) part of the year.
occasional protracted meetings
We have had
in different parts of the field, be
ginning soon after our return from the last General Meeting.
These
have sometimes been held by the request and always with the concur
rence of the people in the place where they have been held - and
have been invariably well attended -
They have usually been con
tinued not more than two days sometimes three or four.
W e have
three places of meeting on the Sabbath - or three permanent congrega
tions.
One at Waimanalo, the extreme part of the field joining Mr.
Clarke's ( !) field.
H ere is a land of about 700 people.
A church
of 134 members, connected with the congregation at this place.
The
church and people have supported their native preacher for the last
two years - have collected the materials for a stone meeting house.
But they sustained a great loss in the death of their native preacher
who died about two months since.
He was useful - much esteemed and
confided in by the people among whom he lived.
is a great loss -
The death of such men
We know of no one to take his pla c e . A nother
congregation on the Sabbath is in another extreme/ part of the field,
joining Mr. Emerson's district.
About 1000 people live in this part
�Kaneohe - 1852
2
of the district -
They have a native preacher who is acceptable to
the people and useful among them.
for the Micronesian Mission -
He is willing to be a Candidate
As a graduate of Lahainaluna - been
licenced to preach - has a family.
It must be for the brethren to
decide whether natives occupying such fields should be taken from
them.
I know of no suitable person to supply his place if he should
be removed.
I visit these two out stations as often as once in three
months, and oftener when my place on the Sabbath at Kaneohe can be
supplied.
There is a church at this station of 112 members.
They
have built the last year a framed meeting house at an expense of $350.
There is at the present time a g ood degree of interest among the
people in this part of the field.
I attended a meeting of two days
continuance the week before I came up to general meeting.
It was
on a land where I have never been able to have such a meeting before.
It was on the same land where the Roman Catholic Seminary is located
and within half a mile of it.
spots in the islands.
It is perhaps one of the darkest
There is now a meeting held every thursday
on the land and they are building a house for meetings.
At Kaneohe our meetings have
been better attended than
during a considerable part of the last year both on the Sabbath and
on week days.
For a few weeks previous to Gen. meeting however there
has been some falling off both on the sabbath and occasional meet
ings .
The church members have generally been interested in all our
meetings.
There have been very few cases of discipline in the church
for the last year.
Catholicism.
Quite a number of natives in this district have
left the Roman Catholics the last year, and I know of not more than
three or four individuals that have gone to them during the year.
�Kaneohe - 1852
3.
One of these was a suspended church member.
Mormonism.
This system of error has been introduced into
( !)
this district the last year.
Two mormans (foreigners) have been
living a considerable part of the year in this field.
Their first
public labour was baptizing more than 20 individuals on one land in
a part of the field remote from the station none of them church
members.
They deceived the people.
And in less than three months
all that joined them returned to our meetings with the exception of
two and they have now no followers in the field to my knowledge.
The two Mormans (foreigners) still live in the district one of
them constantly the other a part of the time.
They are now trying to
teach the English language to such children as will go to them, hoping
no doubt to secure an influence among the natives.
Schools.
Childrens schools have not been so well sustained the
past as some other years chiefly for the want of suitable teachers and
houses.
Statistics of church &c Kaneohe May 1852
Received on examination past year
Whole No.
Dismissed last year
Whole No Dismissed
Died past year
Whole No deceased
Admitted past year on Certificate
Whole No.
"
"
Suspended past year
Remain Suspended
Excommunicated past year
Whole no Excom.
Remain
"
Whole No in Regular standing
Children baptized past year
Whole No children baptized
Marriages past year
Average Congregation on the Sabbath
"
No who attend meeting in field
Benevolent efforts -
84
682
2
28
9
115
11
67
"
"
24
21
4 13
15
172
4 6
800
900
Our Statistics will show what has been done
by the church for the past year in this department.
Most of the church
�Kaneohe
1852
4.
members and a few others contribute cheerfully systemmatticaly ( !)
and liberally according to their ability.
The contributions have been given for the erection
completion
and repair of meeting houses for the support of native preachers and
the monthly concert contribution to the Micronesian Mission.
Contributions from Ch. at Kaneohe
Contributed at Monthly concert
"
for support of native preachers
"
for matereals
$100.
130.
( !) and work on meeting houses 527.60
W hole amount cont. for the year
$ 757.60
51
�Kaneohe - Abstract 1852
Kaneohe Station Report - Abstract.
We have pursued our labours in the Missionary work at this
station the last year without any special interruption.
In no year
of our residence there has there been more interest among the
people in attending Meetings than the past year.
We have had oc-
casional protracted meetings in different parts of the field.
We have three permanent congregations on the Sabbath.
One at
Waimanalo a land of about 700 inhabitants and a church of 134 members.
Another congregation is at Waikane among a population of 1000 people
and and ( !) a church of 112 members.
These two congregations have
been under the care of native preachers.
Catholicism.
Quite a
number of natives in this district have left the Roman Catholics
the last year.
Mormonism
This system of error has been introduced into this
district the last year.
They baptized twenty individuals, but within
two months they all left the Mormon teacher and came back —
Schools
Childrens schools have not been so well attended the past year as
in some previous years.
There (are) 10 childrens schools in the
district.
Contributions.
W hole amount
At Monthly concert
100
For support of two native
preachers
For Materials and work on
Meeting houses
Whole amt
130
527.60
$
757.60
$757.60.
�May 1853
Kaneohe Station R e p o r t .
My Missionary work has been the last year so much like that of
previous years already often reported that I need not again mention par
ticulars.
I have failed to preach about four sabbaths during the year
and this was occasioned by the fever which prevailed in the islands the
last summer.
I had a severe attack of it and all my family also had it.
With the exception of this sickness the voice of health has been heard
in our dwelling.
Among our people too sickness has been less and deaths
less frequent than in some former years.
One of our most influential members of society however was sudden
ly and unexpectedly taken from us after a short sickness.
He was the
judge of the district for several years an active member of the c h u r c h and a useful member of the community.
He did more for the support of
the gospel at home and for sending it abroad than an(y) other one in the
district.
There has been among the people generally in the district a
good degree of interest in religious meetings.
been usually well filled on the sabbath.
Our house of w orship has
And at occasional meetings
on week days the attendeance ( !) of church members and others has usually
been good.
We have three separate congregations on the sabbath, viz Kaneohe
Waikane under the care of a native preacher\ & at Waimanalo.
The
later ( !) has had no stated religious teacher for a little more than
a year, but is greatly in need of one and a suitable man would be well
supported among them.
At both these out stations when I visit them and
spend a sabbath the congregations are as large and perhaps larger than
that at the station.
Church.
The whole number of church members in the district and in
cluded in the three congregations at Kaneohe Waikane & Waimanalo is about
�Kaneohe 1853
2.
700.
There
There have been a few cases of discipline during the year.
appears to be no disposition on the part of church members and not much
among those out of the church to go either to popery or to Mormonism,
and although there has been and is still a considerable large number of
papists in the district, yet I am sure there is a gradual drawing of(f)
from them -
As to Mormonism the priest often residing a year or more
in the district and trying various ways to proselyte without any
success has left the place.
He did baptize a few in one part of the field but they all soon left
him and I knowof but one of his disciples no w left in the field and that a
foreigner.
The preist ( !) several times called on me always ready (to)
introduce his favourite subject often loud and boisterous in his language.
"I know that Mormonism is true.
I know that it is of God.
You had better
be careful how (you) prejudice these natives against Mormonism.
that you'll be damned.
infant Baptism.
I know
Shew me one passage in the bible that teaches
Shew me one passage that teaches the validity of Bap
tism administered by sprinkling within doors.”
I know not how soon they
may make further efforts or with what success.
Contributions for benevolent Objects.
A Mission Society Auxiliary to the Hawaiian Miss Soc has been
formed and $200 paid in as an annual
Contributed at Monthly concert
"
Meeting houses
subscription
200
$
169.35
600.
Support of Pastor
118.25
to the poor
1 5 __
Whole amount cont.
Add for native preachers
$ 1102.60
140_____
1242.60
5 3
�3.
So small a sum has been contributed the past year for the support
of pastor because of debts previously contracted for work on Meeting houses, the present year there will be a considerable larger sum contribu
ted for the support of pastor,
Number of childrens schools in the field 12 - No. of children in
sabbath schools 150
No. of adults in sabbath school, 300
No of those
who attend Meeting on the sabbath in the field 800.
A stone Meeting house has been begun at Waimanalo.
Some contri
(been)
butions have/made for small permanent houses of worship in different
parts of the field.
(Unsigned; B.W. Parker)
�(1854)
I have no report to make of my missionary work at this station
the past year.
I have been here less than three months during the year;
and, while here, able to do little more than preach on the Sabbath to
such as assemble.
There is but little prospect that my injured limb will be so far
restored as to allow of my performing the labors of the station very
soon, if ever, as I have formerly done.
I can only see and hear the
desolation made in the field by long absences by the ravages of the
small-pox, and by advantage taken of my absence and of my present disa
bility, by Papal and Mormon priests.
600 in this district died of small
pox, about 150 of whom were chh. members.
have joined the Catholics and Mormons.
Several other church members
With my former ability to travel,
visit, and labor, I should have great hope that the church and people
would be again revived, and the wastes in a measure repaired; but I have
the prospect of doing but very little missionary work in this field.
I
feel that duty to the church and people here require me to state to the
Mission that I cannot do the work that ought to be done in this district.
It requires travel and visiting, and thi s I cannot do.
So far as I have had the advice and opinion of physicians I cannot
expect to recover entirely from the effects of this injury; but with
great care I may hope after a long time to have a comfortable use of my
limb again.
The physician at Tahiti who first attended i t, told me I
probably should not be entirely well of it, and that for two years I
could not expect to have a tolerable use of it.
It is now ten months
since the injury was received, and I am not yet able to dispense with
the use of crutches.
Still It Is very slowly improving.
It has been,
and is, a very great affliction; but the hand of the Lord is in it.
I wrote to Dr. Smith and Dr. Baldwin, hoping to have some prescription
and advice from them, and I still hope to have. # (Footnote)
Dr. Smith
�2.
has written me a kind advisory letter.
I may add that the present arrangement for my support is, under
existing circumstances, inadequate.
my people the present year.
I am expected to get $500 from
Owing to the state of things among the church
and people, which I have already stated, and to my own inability to
labor, the prospect is, that very little will be received this year
towards my own support from the people, and I ask the Mission to provide
for the deficiency occasioned by unforseen ( !) events.
If church
statistics are desired, I can send them, also the little amount contri
buted for the year, and any other items desired,
if there are to be any
printed minutes.
I will add that if the Mission can furnish an adequate supply for
this station I feel it my duty to say to them that I shall not stand in
the way of their doing so.
B.W. Parker
Kaneohe, May 1854.
�Kaneohe
Abstract of Report for Minutes
The past year has been one of declension in the church and congre
gation on the subject of religion.
There have been more cases of discipline in the church than in
any previous year.
Whole amount of contribution from the church for different ob
jects $629.80.
Mormonism has a few adherents, but mostly of the baser sort.
Popery - much as in former years.
Native schools very low.
Little interest in them among parents,
teachers, or children.
A flourishing school for teaching native children the English
Language was commenced in January.
It has more than sixty scholars.
(Unsigned)
�Statistics of Kaneohe Church.
Whole no admitted on profession
Whole no by certificate
Past year by examination
Past year by certificate
Whole no past year
Whole no. dismissed to other chhs.
Dismissed past year
Whole no disceased ( !)
Died past year
Suspended past year
Remain suspended
Excommunicated past year
Whole no. excommunicated
Remain excommunicated
Whole no in regular standing
Whole no of children baptized
Baptized past year
Married past year
Average congregation on the sabbath
785
69
"
"
"
18
"
253
150
3
5
"
25
9
429
197
6
11
Very little missionary work has been done at this station the past
year.
The Pastor has been absent from his field of labour nine months.
During his absence the Mormons came in and made some converts .
The
Papal priest too was active in his efforts to induce chh. members to turn
papists.
About 600 died of small-pox in this district the last year,
about 150 of whom were chh. members.
pastor $150.
Contributed for the support of
At monthly concert $60, and to the Missionary Society
about $150.
Owing in part to the absence of the missionary the congregations
have much diminished and there has been no special interest in religion
during the year.
(Unsigned; B.W. Parker)
5 8
�Kaneohe Station Report (1855)
For about one half of the last year I have been unable to do much
missionary work in my field.
twice on the Sabbath.
I could only preach once and sometimes
I could not travel over the district at all.
The injury which I received while at Tahiti confined me to the use of
crutches in walking, for about one year.
I, however, gradually recov
ered, and the last few months have been able to travel a n d labor, to
considerable extent, as formerly.
The condition of my field at the time
of my return to it, a few weeks before the last meeting of the mission
was truly s a d.
I had been absent from the Station nearly one year.
It was the year of the prevalence of the small pox.
It had made great
and sad devastations among the population of this district.
Every pos
sible advantage had been taken of my absence by Catholic and Mormon
priests, and some church members had joined, chiefly in the time of the
small pox.
But it was not until I had recovered, and was able to visit
all parts of the field, that I was fully aware of the extent of the
desolation made by the pestilence.
gregations on the Sabbath small.
Meetings were thinly attended.
Con
Many houses were left without an in
habitant; and of those who survived, many of them had relapsed into a
state of indifference and stupidity, from which there seemed to be
little hope that they would ever be recovered.
I have little that is encourageing ( !) to report of the state of
religion, education, morals, or civilization during the year past.
For some part of the year intemperance has been considerably prevalent
in some parts of the district, by the use of intoxicating liquors, ob
tained sometimes from Honolulu, and sometimes procured by the fermen
tation of native produce.
The late king spent some six weeks or two
He
months in the district, a little previous to his death. H e took up his
�2.
residence with the Catholic Priest.
Many of the people,
including a
considerable number of church members, would go where the king was,
to the feast, the horse race, the hula, and to the Catholic meeting
on the Sabbath.
I can say little of interest as to the state of the
church the past year.
Some have fallen away.
and backslidden ( !).
day or the Sabbath.
Others have declined,
Some seldom attend meeting, either on the week
Still a part remain firm and cdnstant in their
attendance on the means of grace.
Our contributions to the different benevolent objects have not
been as large as in some former years.
the year is $629.80.
The whole amount contributed for
This included pay for a native preacher, monthly
coneert contributions, support of pastor, missionary Society, and meet
ing house.
Beside this considerable work has been done on one meeting
house in the district.
finished.
It is of stone, and has a shingle roof, nearly
My labors are now much as formerly.
On the Sabbath, a school
for children, two public services, and a meeting at evening, at some
school house away from the station.
The monthly concert is regularly
attended, also a lecture Wednesday afternoon, at the Station, church
prayer meeting Saturday afternoon, and usually two meetings in the week
at some place away from the Station.
Occasionally a Sabbath is spent at
an out station.
Our native schools have been but indifferently attended the past
year.
Neither parents or teachers manifest scarcely any interest in them,
and the children have little If any more.
Men of any ability and energy
care very little about teaching for the usual wages, when they can get
three or four times that sum by other labor.
In January and English
school was begun, and the first quarter there were forty children in
attendance.
The second term has begun with over sixty scholars.
60
�Kaneohe 1855
Statistics of the Church in Kaneohe.
Whole no. on profession
806
Whole no. by certificate
73
Past year on examination
21
Past year by certificate
6
Whole no. past year
27
Whole no. dismissed to other churches
28
Dismissed past year
3
Whole no. deceased
276
Deceased past year
11
Suspended past year
4
Remain suspended
3
Excommunicated past year
17
Whole no. excommunicated
58
Remain excommunicated
25
Whole no. in regular standing
508
Whole no. of children baptized
208
Baptized past year
11
Marriages past year
45
(Unsigned)
(On back:)
Report
from Kaneohe 1855
Rev. B.W. Parker
�Kaneohe Station Report 1856.
The missionary work in my field has been performed the past year
much as in former ones.
Preaching on the sabbath attending meetings on
week d a y s , teaching, visiting, attending to the native schools, and the
various et cetera of missionary work have occupied a great portion (of)
my t i m e .
In addition to my ordinary Mission work I have taught the English
school for native children for two terms.
This has necessarily kept
me from some other labours among the people.
only way I could do.
But it seemed to be the
The school must either be given up after it had
been successfully begun or I must teach it temporarily at least.
Of the state of religion in the church and congregations in my
field I have little of interest to r e p o r t .
vival of religion among our people.
We have had no general re
There seems rather to have been a
decline of religious interest both in the church and congregations.
Meetings both on the sabbath and week days have not been as well atten
ded as in some former years.
A worldly spirit has prevailed and in
some cases a disposition to relapse into heathen practises
( !),
There
has been no great defection in the church, and the cases of suspension
and excommunication have been less than in the year previous.
xSeven
have been added to the church during the year.
Contributions have (been) made during the year mostly by church
members as follows
For support of Missionary
Monthly concert
Missionary Society
Native preacher
Meeting house
Whole amount of contributions
$380.
90.88
65.
100.
600.
$ 1235.88
This amount is somewhat over two dollars on an average for every
member in the church.
This amount was contributed in money only.
In
62
�2.
addition to this some work has been done by church members on meeting
and school houses, but no estimate is made of the amount of the work.
About one half of the above amount or $600 dollars was contributed
by a small portion of the church a t an out station for their meeting
house.
They have built a stone house shingle roof
nent slips throughout.
floored and perma
The work has been most cheerfully done by the
natives in that part (of) the field superintended by native teacher - a
graduate of the last class of Lahainaluna.
At our other out station a house is greatly needed but as yet the
church members there do not seem ready to take hold of the work efficiently.
The native teacher in this part of the field is not well adapted to
help on the work of building.
Schools -
Native schools for children have been better attended
and more prosperous than during the previous year.
This ow ing to a
better age viz better school houses and and ( !) some better teachers than
we have formerly had.
The English school for Hawaiian children has had
an average of sixty scholars for the year past.
There appears to be no
diminution of interest either on the part of parents or children in the
school.
Mormonism.
It has had some adherents in this field.
priests foreigners
have resided there
One or two
But most of their followers have
left them the last year, I know of only one place where they attempt to
have a meeting now and that is attended by very few of the natives.
Popery.
I am not aware that there is any increase in the number
of Papists though probably their number is as great as it has been at
any previous time.
I think about one third of the population in the
district are papists.
Their school
to have merely a nominal existence.
anything.
High school
located near us appears
I can not learn as they are doing
They have I have been told but very few scholars in their
63
�Kaneohe
1856
Seminary.
But they have in their number two or three rather intelligent
and energetic natives that gives them some advantage.
Of the progress of the people in this field in civilization and
general improvement I have nothing encourageing to report.
little i f any advance from year to year.
have been.
I see very
Their houses are much as they
Their way of living sleeping eating talking acting and not
is much as years ago.
Morals -
The inhabitants of this district would perhaps generally
be considered moral in their external conduct.
grossly immoral.
They regard the Sabbath.
They are not apparently
There are occasional cases
of drunkenness by the beer obtained at Honolulu and by the collogne ( !)
which i s pretty freely used by some as a drink.
There is disposition
among some to go after native doctors, doctors who pretend to some
superhuman power.
They perform wonderful cures
god that causes the disease
cast out the evil
and the more ignorant and vicious and d e
graded the doctor is the more he seems to be esteemed and sought after
by some of the natives.
The Chinese are becoming considerably numerous around.
That portion
of them called the coolies are scattered about over the district.
Occasionally some of them find their way to the house of God on the
Sabbath.
But they seem to be almost shut out from the means of salvation.
What can we do to benefit them?
But what we most need for ourselves and for our church and congre
gation our schools and our people generally, is an abundant outpouring
of the Spirit of God.
B.W. Parker
�Kaneohe
Statistics of the church
at Kaneohe.
(1856)
Whole no. on profession.
Whole no by certificate
Past year by examination
Past year by certificate
Whole no. past year.
Whole no. dismissed to other chhs.
Dismissed past year
Whole no. deceased.
Died past year
Suspended past year.
Remain Suspended
Excomed past year
Whole no. excommunicated
Remain excommunicated
Whole no. in regular standing
Whole no of children baptized
Baptized past year
Marriages past year.
808
77
7
4
11
31
3
285
9
6
5
2
60
28
500
221
13
34
(Unsigned; B.W. Parker)
�Kaneohe Station Report 1857
My labours at the station have been continued the past year
without interruption.
They have been much the same as in former years
and I need not report the particular meetings and other work.
There has been no Special interest among the people in attending
or
meetings on the Sabbath as on week days but rather a falling off in
attendance from what it has been in former years.
Congregations on
the Sabbath have been small not exceeding on an average 200.
And
meetings on week days attended by few usually not more than 25 or 50
persons.
There are meetings at two out stations on the Sabbath con
ducted by natives but the attendance small.
Church. We have had no general interest in the church during the
year.
The cases of discipline have been probably more than in any
former year.
Eighteen have been added by profession.
Contributions.
These have been taken up usual(ly) the past year
for missions, for the support of pastor and native preacher and for
meetings ( !) houses.
And as much contributed as could be reasonably
(be) expected considering the habits of the people, the small number
in the church and their extreme poverty.
The whole for all purposes
contributed is $768.75.
Beside this there has been some work on school houses and meeting
houses, the amount not estimated.
At one of the out stations the church
has finished a permanent house of worship stone with shingle roof
floored and furnished with slips throughout.
The whole cost of the
house of the house ( !) some over $1000 beside native work.
It was
dedicated in July la s t .
Schools.
Native schools for children have been as good and
perhaps better in attendance and progress than in former years.
have better school houses and some better native teachers than
We
�2.
Kaneohe 1857
formerly, and this has helped to improve the schools.
The English school for native children is continued.
third year it has been kept.
This is the
Of late the number of children has dim
inished and only about 30 at present attend.
The parents feel it to
be too great a burden to continue to pay a tuition.
The progress of
the children is not rapid but some do make advancement in acquiring
the Eng language.
Morals.
There has been more than usual open immorality in some
parts of the district the last year, drinking, native dances gambling
quarrelling.
One most shocking murder of a native man.
This state of
things has been owing in part to an ignorant inefficient\ district
judge unworthy and unfit for any office.
He has been lately removed
and w e hope a better man put in his place.
Improvement in Civilization.
I do not see much advance in civi
lized habits and general improvement from year to year.
In general
the natives live in the same little dirty grass unfurnished huts that
they did twenty years ago.
With very few exceptions they seem to be
as indolent shiftless improvident as they were when we first took the
station. The population has diminished in number one third during the
twenty two years we have lived at the station.
And such are their
habits and ways of living that the result must be their entire extinc
tion.
In my view there is no more hope for them as a people that they
will live recover a(nd) flourish than there is that a man in the last
stages of consumption will recover and again become a strong and healthy
man.
There is a possibility in either case and some reason to hope.
At least so long as there is life it is to be watched over and provided
for.
�3
Mormonism flourished some for a time but is I believe entirely
extinct.
Popery has i t s usual number of adherents but not making any
advance i n numbers.
(Unsigned, B.W. Parker)
Statistics of Church at Kaneohe.
Whole no. on profession
826
On certificate
82
Past year on profession
18
On certificate
5
Total past year
23
Whole no. dismissed to other churches 37
dismissed past year
6
Whole number deceased
296
deceased past year
11
Excluded past year
26
Remain excluded
Whole number in regular standing
480
Whole no. of children baptized
226
Baptized past year
5
Marriages past year
10
Contributions past year.
At Monthly Concert
For Pastor
For two native teachers
” Meeting houses
Children for Morning Star
Missionary Society
Whole amount of Contributions
$ 94.75
360
85
299
10.
20.
"768.75
�Kaneohe Station Report 1858
My labours at the Station have been continued the past year
and conducted much as in former years.
But it has been a year o f less interest among the people than
previous years.
Our congregations have diminished and the number of
those who attend any weekly religious meetings is very small.
Stupidity
indifference to all religious instruction and to all the interests of
the soul and to the interests of Christs Kingdom seem to have settled
down on almost the whole church and people.
In no year have we had
so many cases of discipline in the church.
Several reasons might be assigned for this diminished interest,
but prominent among them is the reviving of the old system of heathen
hulas.
They appear to be established on almost every land in the
district.
They are attended by great numbers both of parents and
children, church members as well as those out of the church.
are
There
schools for instructing the children and youth in the native song
and dance.
The hulas are kept up day and night.
And it is surprising
to see with what eagerness those from wh o m we have long hoped for b e t
ter things have gone back to these heathenish customs.
Native schools have diminished in numbers and attendance small.
Little interest is felt among parents and scarcely any more among
teachers or s c h o l l a r s !
(
.
T
) hey leave the school to go to the hula.
The English school for native children is continued.
in its fourth year.
It is now
And though not as large as formerly yet there is
a good degree of interest in the school manifested bot h b y parents
and children.
And their progress in acquiring the English language
has certainly been very encourageing.
Two formerly members of the
school are now promising s c h o l a r s in the Royal School in Honolulu.
�Kaneohe 1858
It is somewhat dis c o u r a g i n g that some of the children have sickened
and died.
Six of the best most advanced and most promising schollars
have died, three of them the last year.
I have thought that continued
confinement for native children for from four to five hours every day
tends to bring on disease.
It is matter of frequent remark among n a
tives that so many died from the English school.
I have two out stations to each of which I devote one Sabbath in
a month leaving the congregation at the station with natives.
It has
seemed necessary to do this the past year to save any f r o m falling into
the temptations that beset them.
A prevailing epedemic swept over the district in the month of
July.
It suddenly prostrated almost all the people.
ually recovered f r o m it in the course of a month.
births few and the natives rapidly decrease.
if any slow.
But most grad
Deaths are frequent
Progress in improvement
At present the natives complain of a famine little food,
small means for obtaining the conveniences and comforts of civilized
life.
But amid all the discouragements we have mercies and much to be
(!)
thankfull for - Our Sabbaths and sanctuary privileges have been con
tinued to us.
Our weekly church prayer meetings conferences and lec
tures have not been entirely forsaken.
And few of the church stand
fast, and offer some resistance to the downward current.
Something
has been done to support the gospel at home and send it to the desti
tute.
And there are some who will throug(
h) the grace of God endure to
the end and so be saved.
Mormonism has entirely gone out
I know of no natives in the
district who adhere to it.
Popery is much as in years past.
It has a strong hold here and
has some little additions chiefly from suspended and disaffected church
members.
(Unsigned; B.W. Parker)
�Statistics of Ch. at Kaneohe (1858)
290
50
20
4
24
Whole no ad. on exm.
On certificate
Past year on exm.
Past year on certificate
Whole no past year
19
Whole no. diss. to other chhs.
63 Whole no deceased
3 Died last year
1 Susp. last year
11 Remain Suspended
0 Excom. last year
19 Remain excommunicated
222
Whole no in regular standing
149 Whole no of baptized children
11 Baptzd last year
42 Marriages last year
450 Average Gong on Sah
V
�[Kaneohe Report].
Missionary work has been continued at this station the last year
without interruption.
Labors have been much the same as in former
years; preaching twice on the Sabbath; attending meetings in different
parts of the field on week days.
We have three places of worship on
the Sabbath; one at the Station; another about ten miles in one di
rection; the third about the same distance in another direction.
At
the two out stations I have preached one Sabbath in each month during
the year.
Our regular week day meetings for the past year have been,
one at the station every Wednesday afternoon; Thursday and Friday
afternoons in other places, Saturday afternoon a church meeting, and
the monthly concerts.
I have to report that the numbers attending
meetings both on the Sabbath and other days have considerably dimin
ished the past year.
Parents, children, an d many church members have
become very negligent in their attendance at all religious meetings.
Our congregation on the Sabbath does not average more than one hundred
I think, and almost invariably on week days very few attend at any
place.
The same may be said of schools.
interest.
natives.
They decline in numbers and
I may say the same too of improvement generally among the
They are less industrious, and less disposed to improve the
habits of civilized life.
The question will arise what has occasioned
so great a falling off among the natives in this part of the field.
There are some very obvious reasons for it.
There is a torrent of
iniquity from some source flowing over us more destructive than the
Hawaiian lava flow; for it destroys souls.
I will state some of what seem to me to be the causes of a dim
inution of interest in religion, and education, and in almost every
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thing that is u se fu l and important.
I
And f i r s t I w i l l mention the prevalence of the H u la s .
The extent
to w h ich they are carried on, and the patronage they re ceive is exert
ing a most inju rio u s influence among the p e o p le .
Great numbers are
drawn to them; p a r e n ts, c h ild r e n , and church members go to see the
dance,
and hear the so n g s.
Teachers are employed to in s tru c t the young.
School for practicing the song and the dance, and, at t im e s , public
e x h ib it io n s , when
great multitudes are brought to g eth er, and the whole
day spent in hearing the songs, fe a s t in g and dancing.
The whole in flu e n ce of the Hulas is most i n ju r io u s , d e m o ra lizin g ,
and degrading; the dress o f the performers, the dance,
and the song
are a l l o f the same debasing tendency.
So numerous were they becoming, and so numerously attended by
almost every class o f persons, c h ild re n from the schools, church
members, males and fem ales, that I f e l t i t to be duty to atten d them
and the year p ast, I have attended a number of the H u l a s .
The dress
of the dancers i s most shameful, th eir movements abom inable,
songs o f a lasciv io u s character.
I have u s u a lly , but not alw ays, been
able to get a h e a rin g ; they would stop the dance,
In two instances
and l i s t e n to remarks.
they were induced to stop i t e n t ir e ly ,
At other p la ces they would continue th e ir performance,
me
and th e ir
and a l l l e f t .
and sa id to
"You have your dance, d iffe re n t somewhat from o urs, and we have
o u r s ."
I t is w e ll fo r the missionary to go .
The tendency i s to
prevent some n a tiv e s from frequenting them; they do not w is h to be
seen a t these p lac es,
and, it w i l l ,
or to have i t known that they a tte n d the H u la s ,
in d iffe r e n t w ay s, operate as a check upon them.
we can have but l i t t l e hope th at,
so long as the Hula is p atronized
by the Highest a u th o r ities in the i s l a n d s ,
among th e common p eople.
Though
that they w i l l be checked
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3.
It is matter of regret that it has received in any w a y approbation
of the national Legislature.
Licensed in Honolulu, it will not he
confined to Honolulu, nor in any way suppress them in other places.
Gould it he that those legislating for the good of the Hawaiian nation
were ignorant of the nature and tendency of the Hulas !
In the reliable history of the Hawaiian nation we have their
character given in the following language.
Mr. Bingham in his
history says, "The whole arrangement and process of their old Hulas
were designed to promote lasciviousness, and, of course, the practise
of them could not flourish in modest communities.
They had been in
terwoven too, with their superstitions, and made subservient to the
honor of their Gods, and their rulers either living or departed and
deified."
Mr. Dibble in his history says, "Of all the sports that
took their zest and charm from lewd, and vile associations, the most
prominent, perhaps, was the dance.
Girls were the actresses.
Their
motions were anything but graceful, and often very revolting.
Every
variety of song was rehearsed, and acted, even the most vile and
lascivious, and the action always corresponded with the sense, and
there were connected with them such exhibitions of licentiousness and
abomination as must forever remain untold."
Mr. Jarvis, in his his
tory says, "The dances or hula were of various character; sometimes
interspersed w i t h chants relating to the achievments ( !) of the past
or present rulers, or in honor of the Gods.
Though they were commonly
practised in honor of the Gods, or for the amusement of the chiefs.
The dances of the professional dancers consisted in a variety of u n
couth motions and twistings of the body, of too lascivious a nature
to bear description, and were generally preparatory to brutal revels.
Their costumes were in conformity w i t h their actions."
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4.
Such is the historical account of the hula.
with what we see of them as now revived.
It agrees well
And it has been publicly
asserted that they are more objectionable as now practised than they
were in the times of the deepest heathen darkness.
They are a system
of iniquity that is only evil, idolatrous, tending to promote licen
tiousness, to foster idleness, and ignorance, to produce famine, pov
erty, disease and death, and now it is licensed.
When that act r e
ceives the signature, the death warrant of many souls will be signed,
and the death of the Hawaiian race rapidly hastened.
2.
I mention another injurious influence over the people in this
field.
The extensive practise of native doctors.
It has been here
formerly, but not so extensive, so open, and so heathenish as at pre
sent.
At least, I have not known it.
I was induced to inquire more
into this system, from finding church members among the licensed doc
tors; Also, that it was quite common for church members, when sick, to
commit themselves to the care of native doctor, and have all the
juglery of their system practised over them, such as casting lots, to
know whether the sickness will terminate in death, or restoration,
prayers to the dead, and offerings to their old heathen deities.
We have had several eases of discipline in the church of members, who
have engaged in this system, and who have gone thoroughly into all
the vile practices, of native doctors.
I requested a native to write
for my use some account of the present practise of these doctors.
And
the following is a translation of a part of what he wrote.
Practising medicine in the Hawaiian nation, after the manner of
pagan nations, is a permanent thing.
From the arrival of Bingham
and company to the present time it is continued.
Because, both the
common people and chiefs are mistaken, and desire this practice.
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good profession indeed, but here is the evil, idolatry and prayers to
the dead, calling upon the sun, the east and the west, the dead an
cestors of the night, and men now living to labor together in this
work.
In practising, the native doctors cast lots.
purpose, pebbles, or kapa, or rope.
They use for this
When the doctor begins, he has
present the sick person, and the one who has the care of the sick,
prepares his lots, points out where is death, and where life, inquires
whether the present sickness is occasioned by the influence of d e a d
ancestors, or whether by the the ( !) sorcery of some mischievous living
person.
If the result of the lot is favorable, the doctor begins his
practice, if unfavorable he leaves the patient because the Gods of
medicine will not lend their aid in this case.
doctors they offer prayers.
In this work of the
Having collected in one heap the pebbles
or other things they have used in casting lots they cover them with
tapa and spread forth their hands and pray thus "Ye dead ancestors males - that know their pebbles that know this sickness - that know
the sickness grant power - give life that this sickness m ay be cured,
that it may be cured by me a mere male that takes care of your medi
cines life.
Ye dead ancestors - mothers look upon us - give power, give
Then follows an invocation of heathen Gods by their names -
Ku - Lono - Pele - Hiekka - and Jehovah the father of heaven, and the
father of earth give life give power.
It is said there are sixty native
doctors - men and women - licensed - having a printed certificate their whole practice is a base imposition upon their credulity - tends
to foster among the natives ignorance - superstition & idolatry and
hastens their death 3.
I mention as another source of evil among the natives in this dis
trict the facility with which they obtain intoxicating drinks.
sometimes return drunk from the beer shops in Honolulu.
They
A few weeks
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6.
since a native female,
church member came to me and said, that while
in Honolulu she was enticed into one of these shops, drank and was
intoxicated.
our field.
Such instances are not uncommon among the natives in
They also make it by fermentation - get up a feast and have
a drunken revel.
During the past few month[s] two distilleries have
been in operation among us making rum fr o m the ”ti" root.
This however
is the work of foreigners, and most of the products of these distilleries are brought to Honolulu.
I have not been them for these dis
tilleries are far up in the mountains, in unfrequented places - the rum
transported to Honolulu by night.
Our natives are not allowed to
approach these places, - they say - they are my informants, but the
fact that rum is distilled there has lately come out in the course of
a trial before the Supreme Court in a case between two foreigners
living in that section.
I am told one of the manufacturers has said -
only let him have six months in which to prosecute the business, and
he will have acquired an ample fortune.
4.
I mention as another influence for evil popery -
The papists are
making more vigorous efforts in this portion of their field - than at
any time before, and seem inspired with ne w hopes - working with renewed
strength.
I know not why it is, unless the declension among protest-
ants - the tendency to dissipation and a return to heathen practise,
is favorable to their cause.
Within the past year they have established
a congregation on the Sabbath close by the protestant place of worship,
at an out-station a place where they never had services before - and
on a land where are not ten papist(s) probably -
They assemble here
from all parts of the district going eight or ten miles to this place
of worship.
They are active to get disaffected church members and
disciplined members from the protestants
also church members who come
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from abroad
strangers - are sought and drawn away to the papists -
They are active in the distribution of their tracts and pamphlets
issued from their press in Honolulu -
They are distributed gratuitous
ly to protestants - particularly to the more influential or important and disciplined members are certain to be furnished with them, These tracts are on various subjects introduction
progress, struggles
Islands from the year 1827 dow n.
persecutions
of popery in these
Some of them contain a journal of
their labors at different stations
on the different Islands -
They give a history of the
letters written f r o m the priests
one on the Celibacy of the Priests
The
apostles were not married - nor their successors in the first centuries
nor are their true successors at the present time.
Consequently
protestant missionaries in these Islands are not the successors of the
Apostles lulu
they are published in the newspapers as arriving at Hono
Lahaina
Christ -
etc
with wife and children they are not ministers of
Another is on trans Substantiation -
The emblems are the
very body and blood of Christ - for he said this is my body
The
protestant teachers have deceived the Hawaiians in representing them
as only symbols.
Some of the tracts are reviews of the different
Hawaiian publications on popery Hae -
The Catechism Nona Nona - Hele-
In one they give an account of the proceedings in Gen M eeting
of the Protestant Mission.
They are written wit h great confidence, much spirit & with a
zeal worthy of a better cause - contain many misrepresentations - much
that is false - but well calculated to deceive the ignorant.
to one point -
All tend
The Roman Catholick church is the only true church,
and there is no salvation out of it.
The mystery of iniquity is at
work - only he who now letteth, will let, until he be taken out of
the way.
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8.
There is at the present time a famine on this part of the Island a result of the growing evils above mentioned -
There has been no
prevailing sickness during the year but the number of deaths has been
unusually large.
But I may add that a portion of the church stand firm - and true
to their profession have no fellowship wi t h the unfruitful works of
darkness - and these mostly constitute our congregation on the Sab
bath - and are ready for every good word and work.
The contributions the past year for all objects amount to $508.
The only school for/native children is continued.
constant attendance is twenty five.
The number in
Their progress is g o o d .
(Unsigned; B.W. Parker)
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�Statistics of Church at Kaneohe (1859?)
Whole N o . on profession
On Certificate
Past year on profession
On certificate
Total past year
Whole no. dismissed
Dismissed past year
Total deceased
Deceased past year
Excluded past year
Remain Excluded
N o w in regular standing
Total children baptized
Baptized past year
Marriages
831
85
4
3
7
43
6
320
13
25
69
399
235
7
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Our last annual report presented a dark picture of the state of
religion morality and improvement in this District.
valent, the making and drinking of rum abounded.
the grosest ( !) idolatry.
Hulas were pre
Some had relapsed into
As a consequence of this state of things,
our congregations on the Sabbath h a d very much diminished, our week day
meetings very thinly attended.
The sabbath was neglected and in various
ways lamentably desecrated and a general stupidity a moral and spiritual
death spread over almost all the people.
This state of things was much
the same on our return fro m last general meeting.
The heathen idola
trous hulas were continued in all that region in their full strength
till the first of August when the new civil code of laws went into ef
fect in which is a law licensing the Hula but confing it to Honolulu.
They were then entirely suppressed.
I am not aware that there has been
one in the district since the first of August, indeed I am sure there
has not been.
For this we feel grateful to God.
Rum and Intemperance
Would that I could report the same of the manufacture and use of
intoxicating liquors, but this evil has not been stoped ( !) and perhaps
not very essentially checked.
is carried to Honolulu.
Rum is distilled, sold, given away.
It
It has been distilled since the n e w law passed
at the last session of the legislature went into effect*
It seems
evidently to be patronized or at least encouraged by those in authority.
Two or three instances may be mentioned to show that it is so.
eigner, one of the distillers furnished rum to a native.
ecuted before the police justice.
A for
He was pros
It was a plain case that it had been
furnished to the native as complained of, but because of some little
technicality in the form of trial the foreigner was cleared.
case was that of the distiller.
Another
He had been watched by the police and
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2.
was finally detected with his horses loaded with kegs of rum, taking
them to Honolulu in the night.
The spirits were secured.
turer was prosecuted and tried before the Supreme Court.
isted as to the facts in the case.
The manufac
Ho doubt ex
But a flaw was found by w hich the
distiller could be cleared, and he was so.
Another case is that of two
foreigners distilling since the new law enacted by the last legislature
went into effect.
to avoid detection.
They had their distilling far back in the mountains
A native informed of them.
Several of the police
with a foreigner at their head were conducted to the distillery.
found there two foreigners in the very act of distilling.
They
At the
ap
proach of the police they both fled to the mountain, and instead of
pursuing and taking them the constables all went into the distillery.
helped themselves freely to the native rum there found, returned home,
and no further efforts have been made to arrest the distillers.
The
manufacturers I am told furnish the article gratuitously to the more
important persons in the community such as the local judge the collector
of the district, important lawyers &c, thereby securing the favour of
those whom they otherwise would fear.
very general among the natives.
I do not think the use of it is
Some drink it.
The bia (beer ?)
found at the grog shops in Honolulu is drunk to some extent by the n a
tives here.
There is at the present time less drinking than there was
a few months ago.
Some I know who were addicted to it a few months ago
are entirely reformed and thus far stand firm against the enticements
that surround them.
But it is easy to see that while the making intox
icating liquors is favoured or winked at by those whose business it is
to put a stop to it, it will continue to be used.
Popery.
Never were the papists more active in this field and so far,
as I can learn over all Oahu than the last year.
Every individual they
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can induce to join them of every character and condition, they do.
Their chief efforts have been,
1
By the use of tracts and papers freely gratuitously distributed.
These tracts are issued and often given to protestants on the Sabbath
at or in the region of our meeting house, as the people go and return
from the meeting.
I have just seen one of their regular series entitled
the ’’Christian Banner".
It was written by Kamakau who in this paper,
professed to have lately become a convert to popery.
He has evidently
been thoroughly instructed by the Jesuit priests in the matter of this
paper, but written by a native of so much ability and enfluence as
the author has, it is I think calculated to do great injury to the cause
of truth.
2.
They are indefatigable in their efforts among the sick and those
apparently near to death where there is any hope that they may be con
verted to popery before they die.
They visit, either the priest or his
agent, the sick and try to persuade them to receive Roman Catholic
baptism and extreme unction.
The following is an instance.
A few weeks
ago in a part of my field an aged man who had been an exemplary church
member for more than twenty years, was taken sick and they thought not
likely to live.
see him.
A daughter who was a papist came over from Honolulu to
Her first wish was to attempt his conversion to popery.
was old, sick, and feeble.
He
She was imperative promissing ( !) and
threatning ( !), and he finally yielded.
The priest was sent for, ad
ministered baptism and the blessing of a happy death.
As soon as a
native told what occured ( !) there I took my horse rode to the house,
found the man sick, and his daughter sitting by.
After inquiring about
his sickness, some conversation followed as to what I had heard of his
becoming a papist.
He said h e h a d done so under the influence of what
had been said to him.
I then reminded him of the truths of G o d ’s word
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that he h a d long heard and professed t© love and obey, and assured him
that no priest could help hi m in the hour of his extremity, none but
Christ could take away his sins.
After some further conversation he
confessed that he h a d been induced to yield to the strong xxxxxxxxxxx
so licitations of the papists, but that he now remounced them.
He took
hold of his beads and cross and striped ( !) them from his neck, and
threw them aside.
Upon this his daughter broke out in the most insolent
language, saying to him if you renounce Catholicism you are no longer my
father, nor I your daughter, and other violent language.
said she to a boy who stood by, I go to Honolulu.
all gently replied to her, that is with you.
former kumu (teacher).
Get my horse
The father heard it
I shall stand fast to my
He recovered from his sickness and is a con
sistent Christian and constant attendant at our meetings.
3
They make efforts to proselyte by establishing meetings in every
village where are meetings for protestant worship.
If there is any
unusual interest in a place, any special effort made they are sure to
come along side and get up a meeting.
By the side of our ne w house of
worship at our out station, they have erected a little grass house ap
parently for no other reason than to have a house as near as possible
to ours.
Their success has not been very great the past year.
Their
accessions have been only from a few suspended disaffected church members.
These they readily receive in all cases, I think.
I think more have
left in this district than have joined them the past year - but I beleive
( !) they have great hope that they will yet possess the power on Oahu
at least, and should the day come when any of the highest native cheefs
( !) join them there they will receive great accessions to their numbers.
Church at Waikane.
tion.
We have built a new house of worship at an out sta-
It is a neat substantial building seated throughout with permanent
�sl ips.
Cost $ 1 ,150.
I regard the district as no w well supplied with
permanent houses of worship.
I do not see why they should not last till
the last generation of natives shall have passed away.
preached at this out station died a few weeks ago.
The native who
We have now no native
preacher i n this district.
Benevolent contributions.
The ability of this people to contribute is very limited.
The
entire support of a foreign pastor is entirely out of the question, by
the church, and should it be increased to double its present number they
could not be relied on to support institutions of the gospel among them
owing to their deep poverty.
And it is evident they always will be
poor, for they have no way by w(h)ieh to improve themselves in wealth,
no means no habits of e ndustry and economy and improvement.
So that as
long as a foreign pastor occupies the station he must be supported
mainly from a board.
Contributions the past year as follows
For the support of pastor
Monthly concert
Meeting house at Waikane
"
"
" Koloa
$322
115
60
40
$537
The money contributed at Monthly concert has mostly b e e n used to
pay the expenses of the new house at Waikane.
The house is not yet all
paid for.
Schools.
The English school is kept up though with less interest among
the parents, and a smaller attendance, than in former years.
It must
soon be classed among things that have been.
The native schools have been improved from what they were in former
years.
Sabbath schools both for adults and children are attended and
both parents and children are much interested in the exercises and I
think profited by them.
We use the new testament, facts of the old
Testament and the catechism in these schools.
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Revival.
6.
We have had for a part of the year an unusual interest among
our people in religion.
The Spirit of God has most evidently been in
our midst awakening sinners and converting them to God and reviving
many of the church and Congregation backsliders to repentance restoring
those who had wandered.
We have been constrained to say it is the L o r d 's
doing and is marvelous in our eyes.
The work began at a time and in a
way and among a class of persons where we least expected it.
Those who
to human appearance were the least hopeful were the first to be inter
ested.
The work was more among the young though not confined to them.
The work was marked by more deep seriousness deeper conviction of sin
than I have ever known among natives before I think.
And those who
first found the Saviour, soon manifested a strong desire for those who
had been their companions in sin.
They immediately began to visit
talk with them on the soul's salvation and pray with them, get them to
meeting on the Sabbath and to the prayer meetings.
God seemed to
bless our labours and the interest increased and spread.
hope that many have been truly converted to God.
fast and that too under manifold temptations.
I have great
They do thus far stand
The enem ies have been
busy all the time trying to lead them astray, the wicked bo t h foreigners
and natives and half casts try to lead them back into sin, they laugh
at them, tell them they soon will return to their old habits, they put
the bottle to their mouths and solicit them to drink again wit h them
the intoxicating cup.
But by the help of God they have so far as I can
ascertain always resisted the temptations.
Fifteen have been admitted
to the church but somewhere about forty are propounded for admission.
There were no very special effort s made among the people before the
interest began.
prayer meeting.
members.
Soon after the last general meeting we began a morning
It was attended by some fifteen or more mostly church
The number gradually increased to 25 and 30.
The early
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mourning ( !) hour devoted to their meeting was spent in prayer reading
a portion of scripture and remarks on the passage read.
case of awakening known was at this morning meeting.
The first
About the same
time October perhaps it was there were some rather remarkable deaths
among us.
Two occured ( !) very near together and very sudden.
They
were both men in fine health and in the prime of life, and they had both
been noted for their unbelieving wicked disipated ( !) course of life.
Some among the natives seemed to feel that the hand of God was in this,
and that h e was speaking to them . About the same time a girl of some 18
years died just by us, I had for some time missed her from the school
& meetings.
On inquiry I found she had gone to Honolulu to stay.
went to see her.
Apparently she could live but a little while.
I
Of
this she was fully aware, and said I am now reaping the reward of my
doings,
and said she I am afraid t o die.
Why are you afraid to die?
She then gave her history for the last few months.
She ha d been enticed
from her home induced by the hope of a little money to go to Honolulu
to take care of the room of a foreigner sweep it and make his bed and
had been living in sin, and now was reaping the reward of her doings.
I am afraid to die.
She did die shortly after this, though not till she
had been repeatedly exhorted to look by faith to the Lamb of God who
takes away the sin of the world.
Before she died she did profess to
have made full confession of all her sins to Christ with true repentance,
and expressed the hope that her sins were pardoned through Hi s atoning
blood.
These deaths were made the occasion of solemn warning to the
people and were not without some effect.
Church discipline was more carefully attended to.
There was good
reason to believe that there was iniquity among the church members.
They were preached to, exhorted to remove all stumbling blocks.
were some s a d developements ( !) of sin among the church members.
There
The
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girl above mentioned was the child of a church member.
taken to Honolulu by a church member.
She ha d been
The house in which she was
kept was a church member's house rented to foreigners, and the girl
furnished for their room.
of our church.
The church member who did this was a member
He at first evaded it, tried to justify himself, but
finally admitted that his house was the source of abominable iniquity,
but plead that he was doing only what was the common practice in Ho
nolulu.
The good and the ba d there were in this way.
There has been much earnest prayer on the part of some in the
church frequent neighborhood prayer meetings of a few individuals.
Sometimes a day set apart especially for prayer.
visiting from house to house, tracts distributed.
blessed such means to the salvation of souls.
needed on licentiousness.
There has been much
God seems to have
A tract is greatly
One that shall speak out God's truth on
that sin, truth that shall burn as an ove/n, truth that shall be as
the fire and the oven hammer, truth that shall expose and rebuke that
sin as it deserves.
Let one be written in Hawaiian and English too
for these islands.
Something should be done or our youth, our churches, our nation
will go speedily down to the gates of death.
It is truly encourage-
ing ( !) to see the interest there is at the present time among the
people in our region and it seems to be increasing and spreading.
The attention to preaching to conversation on the soul's salvation is
unusual.
The last Sabbath before coming to this meeting I spent at
the out station where our new house is.
the aisle crowded many out doors.
It was filled to overflowing,
It is so/on week days.
commencement of our session I went home one afternoon.
morning I attended an early meeting.
Since the
The next
There were I suppose sixty or
more present, almost every eye fixed, and every ear attentive and
/
�Kaneohe 1860
9.
open to hear language and thirsting for the bread of life.
There
are at least 500 perhaps 500 in the district who profess to he on
the L o r d ’s side.
They desire baptism and admission to the church of
Christ.
A great portion of them among the younger part of the com
munity.
Many of them never (were) untill ( !) the present revival
of religion interested on the subject of their soul’s salvation.
Shall they all be admitted to the church.
What doth hinder them to
be baptized?
1860
Statistics, of the church at Kaneohe
Whole number received on profession
On certificate
Past year on profession
On certificate
Total past year
Whole number dismissed
Total -------- past year
dismissed
Total deceased
Deceased past year
Excluded past year
Remain excluded
Now in regular standing
Total children baptized
Baptized past year
Marriages
Contributions
(Not signed, B.W. Parker)
(On back:)
Report of
Kaneohe Ch 1860
B.W. Parker
846
90
15
5
20
51
8
327
4
15
38 9
285
1
18
$537.
�Church Statistics of Kaneohe Station
Whole number admitted on profession
"
"
"
on certificate
Past year on profession
on certificate
Total past year
Whole number dismissed
Dismissed past year
Total deceased
Deceased past year
Excluded past year
Remain excluded
Now in regular standing
Total children baptized
Baptized past year
Marriages past year
(1861)
904
96
58
6
64
51
"
338
11
11
431
288
3
12
(Unsigned; B.W. Parker)
�Statistics of the Church Kaneohe 1862
Whole number - on profession ,
H
Certificate,
Past year on profession,
”
"
Certificate
Total past year
Whole number dismissed,
Dismissed past year
Total deceased
Deceased past year
Excluded past year
Now in regular standing
Total children baptized
Baptized past year
Marriages
Congregation on the Sabbath
Contributions past year
922
98
18
2
20
55
4
354
16
15
420
293
5
14
100
$500
In surveying my field and looking back on the Mission work
of the past year preparatory to reporting to the Annual Meeting a
gloomy picture of this portion of the Hawaiian race presents itself.
And such a picture I must present to this meeting if I report at all.
It is true the usual amount of missionary work has been done
the past year.
Not a sabbath has passed but the doors of the house
of God have been opened for worship, instruction has been given,
the gospel of Christ preached.
Week day meetings have been attended
nearly every week in different parts of the district.
Schools for the
Instruction of children have been continued the whole year.
But why then so dark a picture of the field, of the missionary
and of the prospects of the people?
I mention first the rapid decrease of the population of this
district.
From year to year it is becoming more and more apparent
that the natives are wasting away, the race hasting to extinction.
The gospel does not save them from this rapid decay.
It does not
prove a remedy for those vices those national and social evils that
are hastening their extinction.
It is to me very plain that a great portion of the natives
�2.
are less interested than in former years in all that will improve
them physically mentally and morally, they are less interested in
those things which are for the best good of the young, for the im
provement of their children.
They are less interested in all that
will save them.
The past year in my field there has been a great falling off
among church members and others from the Sabbath Services.
The con
gregation on the Sabbath has been very small not probably averageing
over 100.
Yet In the district there is a population of 2700 and there
are over 400 church members, in the field and none of this population
live more than 10 miles from the station, and a majority of them re
side within 3 or 4 miles of the Station.
of church members from Sabbath to Sabbath
Where then are the hundreds
plainly at their houses
too indolent too indifferent to go to meeting or - they are visiting
or travelling on the Sabbath.
attended by very few.
Meetings on other days of the week are
And here I may mention that most of those who
seemed two years since to be awakened and some we hoped were truly
converted have fallen away left all meetings and this is true both
of those who were received to the church and those who were not.
But while there has been such a marked neglect of attendance
on public and social worship there has been an increase of immorality
Sabbath breaking, card-playing, horse rac ing - drinking awa feasting
for - the dead, a revival of some old heathen customs and none are
more forward in such immoral practises than a portion of the church
m e mbers.
Among the dark prospects that came over my mission field is the
progress of popery among the people.
I do not say that popery is in
the ascendancy in this district or on the whole island of Oahu certain
ly not numerically and yet there are plain and strong indications
�Kaneohe 18 62
3.
that the in flu en c e and the power is w ith them and t h e ir p a r ty .
Was
not the r e s u lt of the electio n of representatives in January not
only i n t h is d is t r ic t bu t over the whole is la n d of Oahu a most s ig n i
f i c a n t fact and this too so soon after the great r e l ig io u s interest
we have had over the whole island?
Here was a great moral question
presented to the people a question whether the n atio n sh a ll liv e and
prosper under the influ en ce of light & lib e r t y or whether i t sh a ll be
enveloped in papal & pagan d arkness.
of the papal party is
rum s e llin g
tiousness
e le c t e d .
elec ted.
Sabbath breaking
In every d is t r ic t the candidate
In every d is t r ic t the rum-making
the abbettor
( ! ) of the law fo r l ic e n
the advocate for entire change of the school system is
Who cast those seven votes to elect a papal p r ie s t chaplain
for the house o f representatives?
W ith one exception they were
probably a l l east by the members from Oahu.
The weekly newspaper supported by the papal party and t h e ir ad
herents has i f I am r ig h t l y informed a larger l i s t of subscribers
on the isla n d of Oahu than the paper supported by the p r o te s ta n t s .
The papal high school at Ohuimanu on th is is la n d has of la te
been making some advances -
A few weeks ago for the f i r s t
had a public examination of the sc ho o l.
time they
The teaching of the E n g lis h
language has a prominent place in the instructio n of the sc h o la rs .
On the day of examination they gave public n o tic e that th e ir Seminary
now received the patronage of the Haw aiian Government.
N a tiv e c h ild
ren are taken In to the school as boarding scholars fre e of a l l
expense to t h e ir parents.
The desire of the parents to have their
children taught E n g lis h and th eir being taken there f r e e of a ll ex
pense is an inducement to some protestants to send to the school.
Some effo rts have been made to separate between the c h aff and
the wheat and some measures used to keep the church members up to
�4.
what appears to be the bible standard of Christian duty.
names
It has been my practise to call the ------- of the church members
of the Sabbath to ascertain who are absent and those not at meeting
on the Sabbath who live within a reasonable distance of the place
of worship have been visited either sabbath evening or on Monday.
They may have been absent from sickness, if so they require a pastoral
visit, if absent from indifference only the(y) have been conversed
with admonished exhorted not to forsake the house of God on the Sab
bath, and those who persist in staying away without any reason have
been suspended from the church.
Church members are exhorted to attend the stated weekly meetings
regularly such as the Wednesday afternoon lecture
church meeting, monthly concert &c.
Saturday afternoon
At some of these meetings the
list of church members is called over the absent inquired after
for
exhorted
sent
admonished as the case may require, but with all the
efforts made the attendance at the weekly meetings is small.
An early morning meeting is held daily at the station whi c h I
always attend but the number who go is small varying from ten to
twenty.
All the church are expected to be present at the season prepara
tory to communion and if absent from the preparatory meeting without
any excuse in some cases they have been set aside at the approaching
communion.
This however has not been done till after repeated instruc
tion on the duty of all making special effort if necessary to attend
the meeting preparatory to the celebration of the Lords Supper.
Nor have any been suspended for such absence except where they have
had no or the most trivial excuse.
It is true by using such measures
our congregation on communion sabbath is only about as large as on
other sabbaths.
And some are kept away who would attend on this one
�5.
meeting the communion but seldom any other either Sabbath or week
day.
Such measures have caused dissatisfaction and disaffection on
the part of Some
Schools
The English school for native children has been con
tinued - the average\ attendance for the year has been 25 children.
The parents are unwilling to pay the tuition.
Doubtfull whether it
will be continued though the progress of the scolars ( !) in acquiring
the English language is such as to encourage its continuance.
A
few of the parents wish the school to be kept and will send to some
English school.
The papists will take them to their schools without
any tuition.
The native schools have been kept during the year four in n u m
ber with abou(t) 100 scholars.
There is a sabbath school at the
station attended by about 50 children.
We have no sabbath school for
adults.
Considerable effort has been made to induce the natives to be
more industrious, to cultivate the soil more and particularly to try
the culture of rice.
natives.
It is such kind of work as is well adapted to
Foreigners too have be(gun) the cultivation of rice in this
district extensively and it was hoped that their example would stim
ed
ulate the natives to cultivate their own lands, but most of them
choose to hire themselves to the foreigner at low wages and put their
lands into the hands of foreigners for a few dollars rather than
cultivate and improve them themselves.
Contributions.
Every month contributions have been taken for
foreign Missions and I have placed into the treasurer of the Hawaiian
Missionary Society one hundred and twenty five dollars.
The church
have also contributed for the support of pastor & some other objects.
The amount contributed during the year for different objects
is five hundred dollars ($500.)
(Unsigned; B.W. Parker)
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WAIALUA STATION REPORTS
J.S. Emerson........... ........................... 1833
Unsigned (Emerson)............... .................. 1834
J.S. Emerson........................................ 1835
J.S. Emerson............... ................ ....... 1836
J.s. Emerson ........................... ............ 1837
J.S. Emerson . . . . . . . . . . . ................... .1838
J.S. Emerson . .............. ........................1839
J.S. Emerson . . . . . . . . .
.......................... .1840
J.S. Emerson
..............................1841
. Unsigned (Emerson)......... ........................1842
A.B. Smith. .......................................... 1843
Unsigned (Edwin Locke)..............................1843
E.W. Clark and W.P. Alexander (cert. of J.S.E.’s account)1843
Unsigned (A.B. Smith) ............ ............... .....1844
Unsigned (Wilcox) . . .
............................. 1846
* Unsigned (Emerson) ................................... 1848
Unsigned ("Gulick's Report") . . . . . ............... .1848
Unsigned (“Report of P.J. Gulick") ................... 1849
J.S. Emerson . ............................. ......... 1849
P.J. Gulic k ............. ............ ............. 1851
J.S. Emerson . . . ................... ........... . . 1851
J.S. Emerson ........................... . ........... 1852
Unsigned (J.S. Emerson) (Abstract) ......... . . . . . 1852
P.J. Gulick ................................... ..... 1853
J.S. Emerson ............................. .......... 1853
J.S. Emerson............... ........................ 1854
Unsigned (“Report of P.J. Gulick")............. ..... 1854
P.J. Gulick (Letter to General Meeting)
............. 1855
J.S. Emerson . . ..................................... 1855
Unsigned (Emerson) ....................... .......... 1856
J.S. Emerson....... ................ . . ........... .1857
J.S. Emerson ("Brief Report") ....................... .1860
J.S. Emerson (Abstract) ................................. 1861
J.S. Emerson (Abstract for Waeanae /sic/) W a i a n a e 1861
Unsigned (Emerson) (Report for Waianae)
........... ..1862
Unsigned (Emerson) W aialu a . ................ ......... 1862
Unsigned (Emerson) . ........................... ..... 1863
Unsigned (Emerson) (Report for Waianae)............... .1863
Unsigned (Emerson) Wai a l u a ....................... ... 1865
* 1847 report, in form of letter to Chamberlain
from Emerson has been added. Includes statistics.
�Report of the Station at Waialua Oahu for 1832-3
The Station at W. was commenced in July of the last year.
Mrs.
Emerson & myself were conveyed to our station in a native vessel, we
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arrived at W . in less than 24 hours from Honolulu.
Mr. Clarke ( !)
& family of the Honolulu station, went across the Island to Waialua
the week before, with the intention of spending a few months at W.
with us, at least till we might become some what acquainted with the
language.
Shortly after our arrival two native houses were erected
gratuitously by the people for our accommodation on a healthy spot
near a good spring of water -
The climate at this station is some
what cooler than at Honolulu, the thermometer in the cooler season
is often down to sixty & a few times as low as 58 in the morning;
perhaps averaging 65
in the morning & 78
or 80
at noon -
This
is probably 5 degrees cooler than at Honolulu Mr. Clarkes family remained with us. five months, untill the
11 th of Decr , himself also being there nearly all of the time & per
forming the publick ( !) duties of the station -
The missionary work
performed during the year has been preaching the gospel, teaching &
superintending schools, distributing native books & administering
medicine to the sick Preaching the Gospel -
Mr. C. commenced with preaching two
sermons on the Sabbath one in the morning & the other in the evening,
with an intermediate exercise which consisted of the explanation of
the seven verses for the week prayer &c - beside these he lectured
on Wednesday & attended a bible class on thursday -
these exercises
have been continued through the year, except the bible class on
thursday
this has been discontinued -
Two station schools have been continued with but little inter
ruption through the year & a third one for about four months -
The
�2.
first, is a school for male teachers which commenced with 70 or 80
teachers.
This was continued with one sett ( !) of scholars during
4 1/2 months by Mr. C. & myself -
the branches taught were reading,
writing geography & Arithmetiek.
This school has been continued
the remainder of the year with an other sett of teach ers.
Mrs. C .
commenced a school of 30 or forty female teachers in which she
taught reading, Geog. & arithmetick -
This school has been continued
the remainder of the year by Mrs. Emerson -
And for the last four
months Mrs. E. has had a select school of about 40 children.
school promises more than either of our schools for adults.
This
A sing
ing school has also been kept up at our station a good part of the
year The number of people connected with Waialua Station is acording (! )
to the Geography Belong to the schools
Readers -- — ------Marriages ----------
7,400
5,000
1,600
76
Nearly all the readers & multitudes who can not read are reported
as getting the seven verses for the week -
The Sabbath School for
adults of Waialua varies from 250 to 600 -
The sabbath school for
children which Mrs. Emerson superintends varies from 80 to 100
scholars As to the moral & religious condition of the people at W.
nothing very encouraging can be mentioned -
A respectful attention
at least is paid to the missionary & to the gospel.
has varied from 600 to 1500 or 2000.
The congregation
For a number of months at first
it gradually diminished but for a few months past it has considerably
increased.
There is no chch. yet formed at W. - there are 6 or 7 members
of the Chch. at Honolulu dwelling there; & perhaps there are 20 other
persons who give as good evidence of piety as could reasonably be
�Waialua 1833
required for admission to the chch.
The influence of the chch.
members at this station has been obviously very good; & so also has
been that of a very considerable number of teachers -
While nearly
all the people of Waienae ( !) & several lands up Kolau ( !) have
turned back to drunkn ess ( !), gambling, adultery, & idleness, not a
land has revolted where the teacher dwelt with the people & stood
firm on the side of the truth -
This shows that the moral influence
of good native teachers is not small The preaching of the gospel on the sabbath has been confined
to the Meeting house at Waialua & the people who attend are generally
from the more immediate vicinity of the chch. although a few attend
regularly from the distance of 8 or 10 miles -
The remote parts of
the field have been visited twice during the year; the schools ex
amined & the gospel preached to the people; beside this occasional
lectures have been preached at some distance from the station -
these
lectures have always tended to increase the congregation on the sab
bath -
In one instance a lecture was preached in a neighbourhood,
where but 9 came to the adult sabbath school the sabbath before but
the sabbath after there were 40 from that neighbourhood in the school
& at least that number at chch.
In another instance the increase of
attendance on the sabbath occasioned by a lecture during the week was
from 10 to 30.
From these circumstances I feel encouraged to hope
that if the gospel could be carried out into the remote vilages ( !)
from week to week, it would tend greatly to promote the attendance
upon the means of grace on the sabbath Want of another labourer -
This necessity does not arise so
much from the multitude of the people in the field; (although there
are eight thousand, at least 3 times as many as one missionary can
�Waialua 1833
influence to any extent, located as they are, in vilages along a
coast of 60 miles in extent.)
But the necessity of an additional
labourer arises more from the location of the field, its comparative
importance & the distance of the Missionary family from any other
field -
We at Waialua are 30 miles from Honolulu by land, & some
times we can not go to H. by land because of a large rain which may
have swelled the stream to make it impassable even by natives, for
two or three days -
The access to H. from Waialua by sea is not so
easy or so short as from Lahaina to H .
1-1/2 to 3 or 4 days.
The former occupying from
This circumstance renders it very desirable that
one family should not without imperious necessity be left at this
distance from any other Missionary family -
Again 1500 of the people
are located at Waienae a distance of 20 or 30 miles from Waialua,
a place inaccessable except on foot, but very much needing the
frequent visits of the Missionary The people at Waialua have made frequent calls for books & med
icine & wish frequent conversation with the missionary -
If one
missionary must be doctor, book seller, teacher, preacher &c for all
this people - he will stand in great danger of loosing ( !) his health,
if nothing worse - & what is perhaps worse he will be in danger of
loosing all habits of study & close mental exertion.
I hope therefore
not to be left long without an associate.
Waialua May 1833
J . S. Emerson
�Report of the Waialua Station for June 1834.
In returning from the general meeting last June the station at
Waialua presented but a cheerless aspect.
The meeting house which
it was hoped would be nearly or quite finished stood as It was left
in May, the frame only put up.
The teachers, who had been expected
to build them houses & prepare a spot of kalo ground from which to
procure their food while attending the station school, had done
nothing to either.
And what was still worse, schools had ceased to
have the name of existence, & about 1/3 of the teachers with a still
larger proportion of the people had apparently given themselves up to
drunkness ( !) & idleness & to commit all manner of uncleanness with
greediness.
Some time however in the month of July that portion of
the teachers who had not altogether forsaken us were collected to
gether, & a school of about fifty male teachers with 10 or 15 promis
ing young men was commenced, making in all upwards of 60 scholars.
This school continued some what prosperous with but little interrup
tion for five months.
During the same period Mrs. E. instructed two
schools of about 40 scholars each one for adult females, who had been
teachers, & the other for children who could read
our schools were
continued from two to three hours four days in the week.
In addition
to her other schools Mrs. E. taught a sewing school for twenty female
for three months 2 afternoons in the week -
In this sewing school
were made about 200 shirts & pantaloons for which the women obtained
as compensation each a calico or cotton gown -
We had also a singing
school once & sometimes twice each week, with about 20 or 25 scholars
Our schools were all closed about the middle of November with an
examination & suspended for the rest of the year for the want of a
school house, our school house being that which was built for Mr.
Clarkes ( !) dwelling house, & which it became necessary to use as a
�Waialua 1834
2.
work-shop.
In the month of Septr our new meeting house was finished, &
dedicated, at which time also a Church was organized consisting of
16 members, 5 of whom were from the Honolulu Church & the remaining
eleven were recd by examination -
The exercises of that occasion
were protracted for 6 six successive days including the the ( !)
sabbath
Mr. Bingham was present & preached daily
were also held morning & evening -
praymeetings ( !)
the remainder of the time being
principally occupied in conversation with candidates for chch. member
ship & others -
Although I am not able to state any instances of
hopeful conversion as the result of this occasion, yet I am confident
that the good influence of it has not ceased to the present time.
The congregation has been larger since than before & some have
appeared at least more interested in the concerns of religion than
before -
(?)
We have had communion seasons also in Decr & in March, at
the latter of which our chch. recd an accession of five members Mr. Clarke was present at the two last communions & aided in the
examination of the candidates as Mr. B. also did at the organization
of the Chch.
Our religious exercises have been during the year, on Sabbath
morning a sermon, at midday a rehearsal of the 7 verses for the week
together with questions & explanations of the same, & towards evening
an exposition of a few verses of scripture with practical remarks
on the same.
I commenced with the year at the Epistle to the Romans
& take the book in course.
On Wednesday we also have an expository
lecture following at the present the order of Judsons & Union ques
tions, we are now in the2
d
Vol.
On friday P.M. is a recapitulation
of the Wednesday lecture with questions in the form of a Bible class.
At all our publick religious exercises except on sabbath morning, all
�Waialua 1834
3.
the congregation who have the New Test. bring it, & all together turn
with the teacher to the passages of Scrip. that are quoted for illus
tration -
from this practice some have become quite expert in turn
ing over the pages of their Bibles.
In addition to these meetings for all there is also a kind of
moral society of perhaps 200 members which I meet every monday month
ly concert days only excepted.
This society recite the Ninau-hoike
hear explanations & answer questions on the same.
Our morning service on the sabbath varies in point of numbers
from 600 to 1000 & our number at the Ai o ka la from 350 to 600, at
one time a few months since nearly 700 were present at Waialua -
A
few also meet on the Sabbath at a few places up Koolau to recite the
Ai o ka la - but the number is quite small Mrs. E. has also had a sabbath school during the year of from
60 to 100 children -
she also meets the female members of the chch
usually on tuesday afternoons in a prayer meeting.
Her sabbath school has been much increased in numbers & in in
terest by the little one page tracts with cuts - which are given
scholars as a reward for attendance
each of these tracts has been
committed to memory by all the scholars in addition to other exercises.
As to the general affairs of the station; it will be recollected
that the Waialua station embraces all the west & N.W. portions of the
Island, commencing with Waianae & extending round to Kaawa on the
Koolau side a distance on the shore of not far from 60 miles.
It
embraces in territory not far from 1/2 the land on the Island, & a
population probably of nearly 9 thousand people.
During the year past
nothing has been done for Waianae; I have not visited the district
because of the difficulty of access to the place from Waialua, in
part; but more especially from the assurance I had from others that
there was no hope of benefitting that people at present by merely an
�Waialua 183
4
.
occasional visit.
.
4.
The chief of that district has twice during the
year encamped for nearly a week at a time within a few rods of us,
drank her rum & carried on in her own style.
We have at four differ
ent times invited her to tea but she has never yet deigned to show us
her head. -
The people of that district have no schools of late &
wish for none -
They say that when their chief forsakes her sins they
will theirs & not before.
The people of Koolau have apparently divided themselves off into
two parties, the one of which is for order the other for confusion
latter however being much the larger of the two.
the
The former class
are many of them occasional attendants at meeting at Waialua; perhaps
there are 100; 30 or 40 of whom come a distance of 20 miles or more
as often as every third sabbath.
Of the disorderly party, the major
ity are as inaccessible to the Missionary as wild goats.
On a visit
up Koolau some eight weeks since I found whole vilages almost entirely
deserted, the inhabitants concealed among the grass & rocks for no
other reason than that I had appointed a meeting & invited them to
attend.
In one instance a vilage of 50 or more people were all dis
persed, nothing but a single pig tied to a post & a few loose ones
were apparently left behind.
The district of Waialua is perhaps under as good management
so far as the influence of the chiefs is concerned as any part of the
Island.
Adultery, theft, rum-drinking, sabbath-breaking, & sorcery are
crimes, which are punished by the Chief; penalty - several weeks hard
labour; or banishment from the district.
In consequence of this law
some 30 or 40 persons have left the district during the year; & 100
or more better characters have moved into the district.
Here I would mention a few facts in proof that the residence of
a Missionary at Waialua has not made the people lazy & negligent of
their lands -
Within the last 12 or thirteen months there have
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Waialua 1834
been carried from the Waialua district to The Chief at Honolulu 4
vessel loads of Poe, fish & hogs, there has been an other vessel
load given to the King & his company & about a sixth vessel load
was provided for the Princess & her train -
There have also been
paid two money taxes amounting in all to not less than 1100 or 1200
dollars; a vessel has been refitted at an expense of at least 1200
dollars which is paid for -
144 dollars have also been paid for the
purchase of a bell; & not less than 4000 or 5000 kapas have been fur
nished for the chiefs -
This has all been done within the space of
12 or 13 months & I might add that not less than two or 3 acres of
also been been ( !) dug anew & planted -
The year
t of provisions & money paid over to the chiefs was
less than half this amount.
There have also been erected not less
than 30 new native houses within 1/4 of a mile of the Church, most of
them built by persons who have moved in from other districts who have
moved in to enjoy the privileges of the gospel & the protection of
good & wholesome laws As to schools taught by natives we have had none during the year
& of course have had no examinations as an examination without a
school would be but a farce.
In the month of April last however we
did collect together the readers for a general examination of them.
464 only attended 357 of whom were from the district of Waialua &
the remaining 107 from Koolau, one only from the district of W aianae Last year there were more than twice as many at the general examina
tion.
There have been but 29 marriages at the station during the past
year -
the year previous there were 76 -
of course cases of adultery
have been during the last year in comparison with the year before not
far from that proportion inverted that 76 the past year to 29 the
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year before, i.e. nearly 3 cases the past year to one the year before
The desirableness of other labours in this field will of course
be mentioned in an other connection (Unsigned, J.S. Emerson)
�Report of the Waialua Station for the year ending June 1st 1835.
On returning from the last general meeting we found the meeting
house filled with people for three or four successive sabbaths; &
felt at first a little rejoiced to see it.
But soon learned the cause
of their returning to the house of God to be, the threat of a high
fine in case of absence from publick worship on the sabbath.
The
threat was soon removed, & the house almost as thin as ever.
Two schools were collected & commenced the last of July, one of
about 120 children, the other of about 50 men formerly teachers with
the exception of a few.
About 100 in the childrens school were ig
norant of the alphabet.
For a few months at first the school was
entirely under my care, & was taught as far as circumstances would
admit on an infant school plan.
The scholars made good proficiency so
long as I instructed them; the school also increased in numbers &
interest, & fully satisfied me that a system of infant school in
struction can be commenced carried on & made as successful at Waialua
as in Boston or any where else.
For the want of other accommodations our schools were taught in
the meeting-house untill the last of Septr when a new school-house was
finished into which a part of the scholars of the childre
n s-school
4
were removed -
The division thus occasioned rather diminished the
number of attendants although the school was sustained with a good
degree of interest untill the close of the first term, of four months,
when both the schools were suspended for 2 weeks.
The Second term continued 5 months untill the first of May - schools
not quite so full as the first term, but more progress was made in
knowledge especially in the school of adults -
During this term Mrs.
E. has had a school of about 60 young women & also a singing school,
�Waialua 1835
the former 4 & the latter 2 days each week -
There have been no
schools taught by natives during the past year except those under
my daily supervision, untill within the past 3 or 4 months.
Since
then a few schools have been taught one morning each week; & one or
two schools for children have been taught 3 or 4 mornings in the week.
As to improvements -
We have finished a decent doby school
house - very near our own door, the walls of which were laid up be
fore the last meeting -
The house is rather coarsely fitted up with
seats & benches & has a few glass windows.
far from 36 dollars -
It cost the Mission not
One other school house has been built In native
style; beyond this improvement in respect to school houses has con
sisted entirely in pulling down some of those which ought not to
stand The gospel has been preached, during the year, as usual at the
station, on the sabbaths, on Wednesdays & fridays.
A children’s
sabbath-school embracing about 150 children has been kept up by Mrs.
E. during the year & attended with interest by the children -
Mrs.
E. has also had a weekly meeting attended by the female members of
the church During the year I have made 2 visits up Koolau & preached the gos
pel from vilage to vilage days; & the latter 8 days.
The first time I was absent from home 3
The congregations were all small; & those
who wished to be on the side of truth, appeared much disheartened.
Have visited Waianae once in company with B r . Smith & formally
ceded that district to him so that any account of the people will
rather come into his report than mine.
We have held at Waialua one protracted meeting which commenced
March 25th & continued 5 days including the Sabbath -
The meeting
was commenced with quite too small a degree of preparation both on
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the part of the pastor & the people; yet we trust that the influences
of God’s Spirit were imparted in some degree to give efficacy to His
Word spoken by the brethren, who visited us.
Brethren Tinker & Smith
were present during the meeting except that Br. S. left on Saturday
noon.
As to the results of the meeting it is much easier to speak in
general terms, than to say who were benefitted or to say confidently
that any souls were converted during or since the meeting.
There were however some evidences of the presence of God’s
Spirit -
The ears of many were opened, some appeared to have some
correct views of their own hearts - & a few of the church members
appeared to have their hope shaken -
These impressions were obviously
deepened by the meeting held two weeks later at Ewa, which was atten
ded by 40 or 50 of those from Waialua who appeared the most interest
ed in the meeting at Waialua, & we trust that both church members and
others have been benefitted.
To give an instance of the influence of the meeting on a church
member.
Shortly after our return from Ewa, I called on Laanui, one
of the earliest converts to the Xn faith in the Islands, with the
enquiry, if he could not consistently with his health dispense with
the use of tobacco.
He replied that tobacco was of no advantage to
his health; but if he should leave off the use of it, what then?
It would not secure his salvation, & of that he at present had no
hope.
He said he had been trying to examine his heart, & to give
himself unreservedly to the Saviour, but that he found himself full
of sin, there was no forsaking it; his heart was wedded to it; & so
he despaired of salvation.
also appears more happy.
Laanui has since abandoned his tobacco, he
This confession coming from a chief & a
chch. member strengthened me much in the belief that God's word had
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taken some effect at that time.
As to general improvements at the Station; there has (been) a
gradual advance in a variety of respects - some of the houses have
been improved in neatness, some few have been built in a better style;
& not less than 2 miles of good doby fence has been erected for the
security of cultivated lands.
Last month we commenced a monthly concert contribution; the
avails of which for the present are to be devoted to the improvement
of schools & school-houses among ourselves -
The first contribution
amounted to about $20.
N one have been recd to our church during the year; but there have
been 2 deaths of chch. members, leaving our present number in the
chch. but 19.
Number of marriages during the year 62 - last year, but 27.
Total number of births in the district of Waialua alone during
the past 10 months 37, deaths 115. deaths of children 45
69 -
of adults
Such is the account as kept by Laanui & with considerable care
yet it may not be perfectly correct.
Total number of readers present at our last hoike 925.
This
shows more nearly the interest felt in schools than it does the
actual number of readers.
J.S. Emerson
�Report of the Waialua Station,
May, 1836.
We returned last year from our annual meeting, a few days before
its close; our voyage was 18 hours from Honolulu by sea. -
Shortly
after our return, we were engage(d) in our accustomed labours Our station schools have been conducted with perhaps more appar
ent improvement, on the part of the pupils, during the past, than any
preceding year of our residence at the station -
This has been owing
in part to a more minute division of classes; & in part to the im
proved qualification of the teachers.
We have in person spent less time in teaching during this than
any preceding year, but have spent more time in superintendance of
schools.
Mrs. E. has been some what hindered from labour in schools
by ill helath ( !) - & I have had part of the time other & extra en
gagements I have attended three protracted meetings of a week each - made
three preaching tours up Koolau, & made a visit of 7 or 8 days with
my family at Honolulu & Ewa (!).
A number of weeks have also been
spent in writing the Ai o ka la - & a considerable of time in trans
lating it.
(The translation made at Mr. Chamberlains request, or
suggestion, has been forwarded by him to the Rooms in Boston -)
I
have also spent part of a week on an elementary primer, which is now
in use among the children.
These various little engagements, connected with ordinary labours,
have helped much to increase the rapid flight of the year.
Our school for adult teachers continued about 10 months, em
braced on an average 40 scholars; about 10 of whom have been through
or nearly through the second part of the Helunaau, besides attending
to Geography some-what & also to the Hoike Holoholona -
Four of this
number are expecting to enter the High School this summer -
�Waialua 1836
Our children’s schools, under our superintendance at Kawailoa,
embrace upwards of 100 children & a few adult females -
these schools
are under our weekly & sometimes daily inspection, yet taught by 5
men to whom we have given some compensation -
In these schools, 30
have learned to read, during the year, & many others have mad(
e ) some
progress in Geog. Arithmetick & the knowledge of Animals.
These are all the schools there have been In the district of
Waialua during the year, excepting perhaps a school of a few month(s)
at Mananui, for children -
In the district of Koolau I have paid a
teacher in part for 4 or 5 months labour at Waimea, where there has
been no school for years -
There has also been a some what success
ful teacher at Pupukea, also at Puumaluu, also at Kahuku, & Haula ( !),
but on the great majority of lands up Koolau, as well as at Waialua,
there has no child learned to read for two years or more The following is the list of readers at our last Hoiki which
took place the first of the present month
Readers from Koolau
453 ) total readers
"
from Waialua
459 )
Total number of children who have learned to
read during the past year
Persons familiar with the multiplication table
Marriages during the year
Births in the District of Waialua only,
deaths in
”
decrease of population
912
70
151
71
24
67
43 (2 deaths
to one birth)
As to the births & deaths, probably all have not been reported but
in all cases where the deaths have been reported the births have
also been — -Persons recd into the church the past year are 3
two by profession & on(e) by letter
Whole number recd 24 died two dismissed to other churches, one
Present number of chch. members 21
Stand propounded for admission nine -
�Waialua 1836
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Mrs. E. has taught a singing school for adults a part of the year,
& also a singing school for children - she has also held meetings
with the females once & some times twice per week - she also taught
a school for adult females a few months only During the year I have expended for school in all $150.00
beside many b ooks given away
Expended in cloth as compensation to teachers - In cloth & money for building a school house,
plastering & glazing it, & flooring & seating one
apartment sufficient to accommodate 20 writers . .
Total expended for schools
34.89
112.31
147.20
One of the three protracted meetings alluded to above, was held
at Waialua on the last of March last; & continued for seven days The house was filled five times per day by persons who heard with
apparent interest.
About one thousand of those present were strangers,
from other stations, so that but a few comparitively ( !), from Waialua
were present during the regular services.
Yet some of those who did
attend we think were deeply interested in the truth.
have been savingly benefited.
A few we hope
The apparent excitement among the
people of this Station was much greater at a period of one two &
three weeks after the close of the meeting than at any time during
its progress.
Our congregation on the Sabbath & at all other meet
ings has very much increased -
Our number at morning prayer meetings,
which we hold daily at sunrise, is now about 200; it was formerly
from 50 to 100 Among those, who have been hopefully benefitted by the protracted
meeting, are two boys one perhaps 16 or 17 years old & the other not
more than 8 or 9.
A number of other children, both male & female,
have been evidently more or less awakened to a sense of sin.
In view
of what we have seen, we feel deeply condemned for the little faith
we have exercised in relation to the early conversion of native
�Waialua 1836
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children, & the feeble efforts made to that end.
Quite a number of the yeouth ( !), who have come to us to confess
their sins & ask counsel, have said that they have often heard the
word of God & trembled under it, but, when they returned to their
homes, they soon mingled with the thoughtless, & forgot what they
had heard.
But lately the word of God had followed them, & they did
not now want to forget it.
Not only have our meetings been filled up in consequence of the
protracted meeting, but our schools have been more punctually attended,
than for a long time before.
Gould we have a teacher to commence at
the present time a boarding School at our station I think we should
find no difficulty in obtaining as many bright & interesting children
as would be desired to enter it, on terms as promising as could be
expected The following is an estimate of property at the Waialua station
belonging to the Am. Board One house for mission family
Two houses for native families
One school house - - - - - - - - Sugar mill & boiler
Meat cattle, two cows & two calves
Carpenters & Joiners tools
Total
Furniture
Native books in the depository
do
do
do
do
$
150
100
100
Cost Pres value
$
1,000
1,000
100
100
112
90
90
25
50
50 .
50
1,467 [2!]
1,340
50
50
1,427
Ike\mua
Oihana
Skeleton maps
& Nothing more worth naming
As to books sold during the year I have kept no account except
of Testaments slates & Newspapers.
I have charged out about
200 testaments
50 slates &
100 Newspapers most of which will in
�Waialua 1836
5.
due time be paid in to Mr. Chamberlain in lumber fire-wood &c I have given away no books during the year except to a few
teachers & some very small children & a few invalids - & yet the
demand for books has never been greater than the last few months
I could sell I presume 500 more testaments, in a week for mater
ials, that would cost the natives more than a dollar/ for each testa
ment J.S. Emerson
�Waialua Station Report for May 1837.
The past year with us at Waialua, has been a short one, yet
replete with mercies -
Our health has been generally good, & that
of our little ones, for which unfeigned gratitude is due to our kind
Preserver.
Health of the natives has been as good as usual; there
has not been to my knowledge any prevailing epidemick among them, &
had no record been kept at the station
a very healthy time.
I should have pronounced it
But from a record of births & deaths kept by
Laanui, I find the following results
Station Wailua Births Deaths of Deaths of Young Old Old
Total
population 2400________Children young men women men women_______
For the year
1836
For the first
3 months of
1837
34
32
10
8
8
10
10
3
14
5
24
3
90
29
From this table the deaths of Children under 14 or 15 years of age
appear to average the number of births - thus making a generation of
men in that district but 14 or 15 years - & all the deaths of indi
viduals beyond that age to be a diminution of the population -
And
yet Waialua for aught I know is about as healthy as any station on
the Islands.
Labours -
In entering upon the labours of the past year our
childrens schools received our first attention.
Of these we then had
but two of any efficiency besides the one at the station; & all of
them some what diminished in interest & in numbers during our ab
sence at the general meeting.
During the year we have added 7 to the
number of our childrens schools, - so that we have at the present
time ten schools for children, that have more or less efficiency These are scattered along a coast of 40 miles or more -
Our teachers,
who are engaged in instructing these schools, have been obtained by
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breaking up the station school for teachers, which had been attended
by the same individuals about one half of the time for four years Our efforts at the station have also been mainly for the children So that our efforts, & those of the teachers in our employ, have been
specially directed to the children.
There have also been schools for
adults attended by a few, one half day per week; but of such schools
little of course can be expected, & as their teachers generally know
but little more than the scholars, little need be said of them.
As to the childrens schools, the one at the station has averaged
perhaps 120 scholars, whole number during the year not less than 160 This school I have superintended & instructed three hours a day, for
the first seven months of the year, assisted by teachers raised up
at the station; & since the first of Septr last we have also had a
graduate of the High School, who has been good help & has done well.
The past three months the School has been wholly in his care, as
protracted meetings & labours resulting from them have made too
large a demand upon my time & strength to admit of any attention
to the school except to communicate to them religious instruction.
At our station school, have been taught reading writing,
Colborns mental Arith. & part of the Sequel Geography, punctuation &
the sounds of the foreign letters.
(There are at the Station two
boys of about 14 years of age that I think would do honour to them
selves & to the High-School, if they may be permitted to enter this
summer .)
Of the schools taught by native teachers, I can conscienciously
say that some of the teachers have done themselves much credit both
in collecting & keeping to gether their scholars & also in hastening
them forward in the art of reading &c.
In one school at Kahuku a number have made very commendable
�Waialua 1837
3.
progress in Arith. & Geog.
equally well.
Another at Haula ( !) has done almost
In one school, at Punaluu, commenced about 9 months
since with rising 70 scholars, none of whom could read, about one
half of them now read respectably; & quite a number are familiar with
the multiplication table.
At Mokulaia ( !) there was but one youth a year since who could
read, & this notwithstanding they had had a school, as they said, for
the children - but for two years or more n o one had learned to read;
& there was no fair prospect that any one would learn, under the
instruction then enjoyed.
When our teacher from Lahaina arrived, I visited that people
proposing to send them the teacher who had formerly assisted me in
the station school.
er.
About 20 persons expressed a desire for a teach
The question was then asked who will furnish him food -
head men soon engaged to do that.
his house?
The
The next question was where was
One was soon pointed out for him -
A subscription was
then raised to purchase him clothing & also for his tax money; &
in the end enough was subscribed by a poor & ignorant people to make
the native teacher & his family comfortable a good part of the year That teacher has now been labouring with a school of 72 children
all regular attendants for seven months past - about 40 of those
children have now become readers & several have made very considerable
progress in Geog. & Arithmetiek.
On the whole I think that although
I have done less than usual in communicating instruction in schools;
yet from the improved qualification of the teachers more has been
accomplished In the instruction of children than in any previous year
since the station was taken -
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Time of the
Examination
learned to Total of
Readers in Familiar with
the mult . table read since children
School
last exam.
August 1836
271
167
70
601
Nov. 1836
284
213
91
619
Feb. 1837
238
150
30
647
213
191
Total
250
average
Adult
Headers
623
average
Probable number of children at the
station of a suitable age to attend
school 1000 or more
Preaching of the Gospel.
The ordinary exercises on the Sabbath have been two sermons one sabbath school for children, & an other for adults.
Beside this
there has been a weekly lecture on Wednesday at the station & occa
sional lectures on thursday & friday in remote vilages.
A morning
prayer-meeting has also been attended at the station most of the year
comm( en )cing at or before sunrise; & has been to me one of the most
profitable & encouraging meetings I have attended. The ordinary con
gregation on the sabbath has been 1000 or more in the morning & nearly
the same number in the afternoon Childrens sabbath school has been attended in the morning by
from 200 to 400 children; adult sabbath school in the afternoon by
from 400 to 1000.
Sabbath Schools are also conducted by native
teachers in the district of Koolau, in 4 different places & attended
ordinarily by 200 or 300 children.
Besides making three tours in the district of Koolau for the
purpose of preaching & examining schools, I have spent four weeks of
the past year in protracted meetings, held at each of the stations.
These seasons have been very profitable to myself & to those of our
�Waialua 1837
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people, who attended.
The protracted meeting at Waialua commenced
oh the 7th of March -
Brethren Bishop
the meeting -
Parker & Smith assisted in
The season was to us & to our people deeply interest
ing; & as we trust has been productive of results of infinite value
to several immortal souls.
We have been thronged for weeks with
those, who appear to be more or less deeply affected with divine
truth; & of some we have pleasing evidence, that they have been born
of the Spirit.
Among those who appear to be truely ( !) converted I
am happy to number the teacher obtained from the High School.
Perhaps
I am deceived in him, yet my hopes are much raised on his account.
There is a great apparent change in the appearance of many; &
some who gave as I thought rather doubtful evidence of piety shortly
after the protracted meeting a year since, now appear to be obviously
on the Lords side; although they still refer to that period as the
time, when they turned to the Lord.
The evident presence of the Spirit with us during the meeting
& since to the time of our leaving them, & the great change apparent
in the lives & conversation of a few lead me to feel, that protracted
meetings, judiciously, & prayerfully conducted are a very desirable
means of grace among this people; whose minds as they often say are
like a sieve; truth & impressions are easily lost -
They behold their
natural fare, but soon forget unless they look & look often & for a
long time At our last general meeting 8 individuals stood propounded for
the chch.
These were all recd in August; & at the present time 10
more stand propounded for admission -
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Station
1836-7
Waialua
The last
year
Marriages
Whole no. ad. to
chch. on examination
Whole no. on certif.
Recommended to
other chch.
Died
Susp ended
Excommunicated
Now in good standing
Ad. on ex. the past
year
Ad. on certif.
Excom.
Candidates
Suspended
died
Children b ap
Total bap. child.
Bap. children died
46
27
6
1
2
0
0
24
8
0
0
10
0
0
10
34
4
The number of marriages as will be obvious is very small.
is I can not decide -
.
Why this
It has been repeatedly stated to me, that Some
of the head men forbid women to marry men of another land, unless the
man will come & live with the woman -
But that this is the fact in
many cases I can not certify.
Deaths of baptized children are fewer than of unbaptized children This fact speaks loudly as to the reason for the great mortality among
native childrens
Miscellaneous labours
The Ai o ka la, which was assigned me last general meeting,
was written & prepared in due season.
The printing of it might have
been commenced in October, had there been paper on which to print it.
Beside the Ai o ka la, the Kumumua has been revised & enlarged in
size Improvements
During the year past, a number of patches of road have been
made, which considerably facilitate our access to some remote parts
of the station & to Waianae.
The pali between Waialua & Waianae,
which formerly rendered the latter place inaccessible from Waialua
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except on foot, has been so improved that a horse can be rode up &
down it without difficulty.
The time now necessary to be occupied
in travelling from Waialua to Waianae is not more than 4 or 5 hours,
on horseback.
There have also been three pieces of road made between Waialua
& the station at Kaneohe, which are valuable in facilitating the
journey between the two stations.
The whole distance which is 40
miles or more can now be passed over in 8 or 9 hours, or less if
need be.
Hat making from the native palm leaf has been carried on.
Buildings
During the past year we have put up a good doby house
41 feet by 21 with three rooms two of which are lathed & plastered
but without floor & will furnish a tolerably comfortable accommodation
for a family for a number of years.
The location of a teacher & su-
perintendant of schools at the station, I am happy to say need not
necessarily incur any very material expense in building for a number
of years.
School house -
The Chief & people are now sensible of the necessity
of building a school house for the teacher who may be located there They have by individual subscription secured the dobies & all the
timbers necessary for the roof & window & door frames; & last monday
a subscription was raised to defray the expense of the glass, benches,
floor &c.
We hope by means of contributions thus raised, with but
very little help from funds of the Board, to secure a large well
finished & permanent school house.
Laanui has engaged to furnish
the glass; & is much interested in the project.
There is, at the
present time, a good preparation at Waialua for a teacher to commence
the instruction & superintendance of schools under circumstances
highly advantagious ( !).
There have been 5 native school houses
built in different parts of the station the past year.
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Desirableness of a Missionary in the district of Koolau.
From Kahuku to Kaawa is a distance of about 15 or 16 miles, &
contains a population of rising 2,000 souls; & so easy of access that
their doors can all be passed in less than two hours on horseback.
One half or more of this population live within 1/2 hours ride on
horse back or canoe each way from the centre, which would be Haula,
a thickly settled & pleasant place; where there is a comfortable
harbour for small vessels.
The people are anxious for a missionary.
1526 persons have made
a formal petition for a missionary to dwell among them.
There are advantages connected with this station, that would be
enjoyed in few others.
The location would be central between the station at Waialua &
that at Kaneohe, about 20 miles from each.
2
The expense to support it would be small.
As a vessel must be
anually chartered to carry supplies to the station at Kaneohe, it
may touch at Haula & land supplies or take in articles of freight
without necessarily incurring a
3
days detention -
The missionary would have his people near him, & could see them all,
often & easily.
4
The land is all or nearly so under chiefs who are favourable to
our cause & members of the chch. at Honolulu.
5
There is, at the present, time, a very favour(able) state of feel
ing among the people & could a missionary be located among them - I
should hope that he would soon reap a harvest of souls.
If this pe
tition can not be granted now I hope that it will be before long.
As to Mrs. E's labours.
When we returned from the last general
meeting she resumed her labours in two singing schools - one for
children & the other for adults — in each of which she spent a part
�Waialua 1837
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of two afternoons every week for 5 months -
She has also held a
weekly meeting with the female members of the chch; & a meeting every
alternate week with the mothers -
The Childrens' sabbath School has
also been mainly under her care As to the expenses incurred
the station - I will just mention
that native articles of food, such as kalo, potatoes, pork & fish,
( !)
bananas &c have never since the first year of our residense at the
station cost any thing to the A. Board.
the land given by the chief.
They have been raised on
fish is often given as a present.
J.S. Emerson
�Report of Waialua Station for 1838.
The past year has been one of much labour at this station additional strength has called for enlarged plans & new modes of
operation, so that none of us find occasion to say that we have not
had enough to do.
(Locke)
The labours in the schools have mainly devolved on Mr. L. &
also the care of building the school-house &c -
Since the first few
months I have not assisted at all in the childrens schools - except
as I have attended the examination & assisted in them -
I have
however taught a class of 15 or 20 in Chch. history one hour per day
for four or five months, previous to our protracted meetings.
The morning prayer meeting has been attended by myself about
2/5 of the year -
that meeting was suspended except 2 mornings in
the week for 4 or 5 months previous to January & the school in Chch.
History occupied the same hour.
Besid(e) the morning prayer meeting
I have held lectures out in different parts of the field as I have
had opportunity.
to the station.
Preaching on the sabbath has been mainly confined
I however spent four sabbaths at Laie while the
pulpit at Waialua was supplied by Bro. Bingham in Aug. & Sept. from
whom & his family we enjoyed a pleasant visit of four weeks.
Extra efforts.
We have had since January three protracted meetings within the
boundaries of the station -
one of six days at Waialua - attended
by Brethren Bishop, Smith & Parker, - one of five days at Laie at
tended by Bro. Tinker & myself - & one of five days at Kahana where
I was assisted by Chch. members only.
The results of these meetings
have been interesting; deeply so to to ( !) myself & to the people.
Some hundreds I trust have turned to the Lord; but how many time
or eternity must show.
The work of the Lord however has by no means
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been confined to these meetings, some date their conversion at one
period, & at an other through almost every month in the year.
Some of all ages, & in every section the districts belonging to
the station appear to he subjects of grace -
The last meeting at
Kahana has appeared to be more marked & general in its effects than
any previous one I have attended - & many with whom I have conversed
appear well The number recd to the chch. the past year is 127, most of whom
experienced a change of heart previous to our last anual ( !) meeting
but a few of them since the protracted meeting in January -
166
are now propounded for Chch. membership & perhaps a few more will be
before our next communion.
We feel that the Lord has wrought a great
work for this people, & while we give him praise, we feel that the
multitudes yet in the gall of bitterness call for our unceasing
efforts, & prayers.
The following are the statistics of the Chch. & marriages.
Marriages from May 1, 1837
to May 15, 1838
-- ------------------64
Total recd to C h c h . -- - - - ------ -----159
Red past year
- - - - - - - - - - - - 127
Recd by certifficate past year - - - - - - 3
Cut o f f ------ --- ------- - - - - - - 1
Suspended - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1
Restored - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1
Total died - - - - - - - - - - - - —
- 3
died past year - -------1
Total children baptized - - - - - - - - - 120
Candidates for chch. membership - - - - 166
Children baptized the past year - - - 86
Our people are apparently increasing in their desire to do good
as they increase in their efforts to become so -
The(y) have made
some contributions of kapas for the High School, also 100 or 120 in
cash at the mo. concert besides building the school house by voluntary
effort.
What they have done is much, considering the fact that they
have not been accustomed to give, & that what they give is in almost
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every instance their own hard earnings & not the fruit of other
men’s industry.
Waialua
May 15, 1838
J.S. Emerson
Mr. L. will make the rem. of the report -
�Report of the Waialua Station for the
year ending May 1st 1839.
The station at Waialua has now been occupied seven years; each
successive year of which period has furnished new & increasing occa
sion for thanks-giving & praise to God.
The families have indeed been
visited with some sickness at the station, yet our chastisements have
been fewer & much less severe than our offences -
Our people too
have been visited with an unusual degree of sickness, especially
during the past few months, & deaths have been rather numerous.
Yet while God has thus afflicted, while many have gone down to the
grave, & in most instances unprepared as we have feared, others,
dead in trespasses & sins, have been awaked to newness of life.
While justice has been executed upon some, grace hath much
more abounded toward others.
The common routine of labours has been carried on at the sta
tion with but little interruption either from sickness in our families,
or absence from our field.
The word of God has been repeatedly preached in all the vilages
of any magnitude in this division of the Island, & to some extent
from house to house.
I have been repeatedly through the district
of Koolau & once to Waianae, preaching from vilage to vilage.
Meet
ings at the station have been uniformly attended three times and the
sabbath, besides the sabbath School & bible class;
Meetings have
also been held on Wednesday afternoon & for about 2/3 of the year,
morning meetings have been attended every morning, the other th ird
of the year, they have been attended on sabbath & monday mornings.
The Sabbath school & bible class or ai o ka la have been conducted
most of the year by Mr. Locke alone, who has also made repeated ex
cursions to Koolau & other parts of the field to conduct religious
meetings.
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Protracted meetings.
Of these there have been six within the
limits of the field since the first of May last.
One of 5 days at
Kahana, an other at Kahuku also at Waianae in June, in Sept. one at
Waimea, in Decr one a t Haula & in Feb one at the station -
All these
meetings except the last named, were about 5 days in duration & con
ducted entirely by the missionary & native assistants; the meeting
at the station in February was conducted by the assistance of Br.
Smith & the members at the station.
These meetings were all attended
& followed with obvious manifestations of divine power; numbers who
are now giving pleasing evidence of piety refer to one or the other
of these meetings & to the efforts that followed them as the period
of their spiritual birth-day.
Indeed I think there has not been a
month, or more than one during the year that has not been referred to
by numbers as the period when they gave their hearts to the Lord.
The past has been a year of salvation to many of our people.
Attendance on publick worship has generally been good; better than
during any year previous; - some times 1800 or 2000 present; but
ordinarily from 1200 to 1500.
Marriages the past year have been fewer than any year except one since
the station was taken, only 47 in all.
Births in 1838
of the whole.
64, Deaths 143 - decrease of population 79, or 1/50
Births & deaths are not taken for all the population,
(two or three lands failed to report,) but for a population of about
4,500 or perhaps 5,000.
Recd to the chch the past year 202 from the world
”
"
"
3 by certificate
Total recd during the year
205
In the chch. before
156
Total rec to the chch from
the first
361 )
361
Died the past year 1 - in all
4 )
Dismissed to other chchs
)
26
past year 7 in all 11 )
Excommunicated the past
)
year for adultery
5 )
"
for lying & fraud
2 )
Now suspended - - - - - 4 )
chch.
___________________________________
33 5 Now in good standing in the
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Children baptised the past year 142 - in all 258
children baptized as persons recd to the chch.
Only 4/5 as many
Some adopted chil
dren included among the baptized - children of chch. members given
to those out of the chch - not baptized.
Benevolent contributions.
Our people have contributed during the year in cash & cash articles.
$ cts
For the erection of the 2d Honolulu chch
84.00
For the High School - - - perhaps - 20.00
For Support of Native teachers
125.00
For foreign missions - - - - - - 25.00
For purchase of a bell-in part
year before
100.00
For support in part of their pastor
62.00
Total about
416.00
There are now propounded fo r the chch. 203 individuals, &
some others give more or less evidence of piety.
All who have been
recd to the chch. were first conversed with privately & often times
under circumstances best calculated as I supposed to bring out the
true feelings of the heart & prevent the possibility of one person’s
listening to the story of an other so as to copy it -
The candidates
for chch-membership have also generally been named to the chch.
several days previous to their being publickly propounded before the
congregation — & during this interim any chch. member having aught
against either of the contemplated candidates might come to me pri
vately & enter his complaint, in which case the contemplated candidate
would be dropped off of the list if the complaint was found on
enquiry to be worthy of special notice.
In this way many sins that
would otherwise have been concealed have been brought out, & confusion
in the chch. anticipated.
But with all my care I have not been able
to prevent some few unworthy guests from creeping into the chch.
motto on this subject is go forward, but make haste slowly -
(So
long as I am a local preacher & my congregation local, I see no
My
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1839
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reason why I should baptize converts at once as they did on the day
of pentacost, as Philip did the Eunuch, or as Paul did in a few
cases, even allowing that I have as good descernment of spirits as
they, unless it be that baptism is a saving ordinance Mrs. E. has had a singing school one or two evenings per week
about half of the year There is also a maternal association conducted by the ladies
together which promises good to the native mothers meets every alternate week -
This association
One thing that angers ( !) well in re
spect to our children is that their vices are becoming more tangible
& better understood than formerly - of course there Is more hope of
applying successfully the remedy to the disease.
Report respecting schools will be read by Mr. Locke.
Respectfully Submitted - J.S. Emerson
�Report of Waialua Station
(1840)
In reviewing the events of the past year the missionaries at the
Waialua Station feel much occasion for gratitude & much for humility; for gratitude that our health has been in general good, & that we
have been enabled to do some thing with a design to glorify God &
save men, although what we may seem to have accomplished is far less
than in some previous years.
We feel occasion for humility, that we
have done so little, that our good intentions of service have been
so often apparently frustrated, & that on the whole there has so
little of which we can speak with confidence (been) accomplished in
the advancement of the Redeemer’s kingdom.
Some of our time perhaps
far too much has been spent in looking on to watch the motions of
providence; & perhaps in waiting for a favourable oportunity ( !) to do
some thing, which should have been done without waiting.
During the year there have been among the people connected with
the station, (a few lands not included in the estimate) 56 births &
185 deaths, & 58 marriages.
Whole no. recd to chch
Reed past year
Whole no. removed
Removed past year
Total deaths
deaths past year
Total cut off
Cut off last year
Total transferred to other Chchs
do past year
Now in the chch.
Children baptized
Baptized the past year
Suspended from chch.
533
207
59
40
8
4
33
30
18
6
474
378
102
12
There have be(en) 1/3 as many children baptized as there are adults
in the church, many however of these are adopted children.
We have had no protracted meetings during the year within the
limits of the station; partly owing to unexpected delay in erecting
a house of worship in the Koolau district where a meeting was con-
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2.
templated, & partly to a famine in some parts of the district.
At the station there have been a succession of events that
rendered a protracted meeting unadvisable.
1.
There was a panic occasioned by the turning of many to the
Catholicks, that quite unfitted the people to profit by a meeting.
2.
The people have been scattered much of the time trying to col
lect mony ( !) to pay up arrearages in their taxes.
3.
The discipline of a few chch. members, whose avarice, cupidity
& head strong passions have had a peculiar chance for developement ( !),
occasioned some talk & perhaps a little surprise that great charac
ters were subject to the discipline of the church.
These & like cir
cumstances seemed to render extra means of grace ill timed & forced
at any period during the year.
The state of the church is somewhat different from what it has
ever been in former years.
The numbers in the church have tended to
some extent to diminish the idea of individual responsibility.
There is less prayerfulness than at some former times -
Some also
who were supposed as standing at the door of the church but were not
admitted & neither were likely to be, went over to the Catholicks
because they could not get into the chch.
Some were led to wander
after the beast, whose worship they had formerly regarded as idolatry;
& others gazed & wondered what would be the result of those things,
who ought to have gone directly to the throne of grace.
There has one individual from our church gone to follow the
catholicks; & he was converted to their faith by a miracle of healing
performed on himself, so report says.
The miracle consisted in
in ( !) curing a sudden head ache, by means of prayer & bathing the
head in cold water.
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Among our people perhaps 100 or 150 have gone over to the Catholicks, some followed them a few weeks, & then forsook them, others
still are numbered with them, but do not attend their meetings as
formerly -
Some who were once very zealous for the pope forsook that
faith because they did not like to kneel on dirty mats, others forsook
them because they did not get cloth &c as they expected to do.
While the catholick religion is to be regarded as a dreadful
evil, I think it is not to be looked upon as an evil which can have
no good connected with it.
ties from our churches. -
It opens a sluice-way to let off impuri
it will tend to unmask hypocrites, & draw
the line of demarkation between the friends & the enemies of God It will humble us in view of our own impotency & show us where our
dependance is -
It will make us more watchful & prayerful - it will
tend to remove the secular arm from the church, & make religion
stand on its own intrinsic merits.
Discipline in the church has
cost more time & has been more trying to feelings than in all the
preceding years since the organization of the church at the station.
There are unquestionably some dry limbs in the church, to pluck them
off & purify the whole body will be a labour of time & patience.
The past has been a year of new things, a year to try moral
principle.
Laws against rum, awa, idolatry, Kakauing,(tatooing ?) gambling
& the like have been laid aside & people have been left to act main
ly as conscience, caprice or fashion might influence them to do.
Of
course many of those, who had no moral principle have fallen into
the vortex & made ship-wreck of better professions, if not of better
hopes.
Circulation of the Scriptures - Books the past year have been
very little called for; a few bibles, perhaps 20 have been sold &
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perhaps ten testaments.
People appear to think that the monstrous
sum of $2.50 for a bibl e is more than they can raise, & so they
generally will make no effort to obtain one.
Benevolent contributions during the year have been few about
$150. have been contributed for the the ( !) support of the native
teachers & about $50. for a bell -
Also some ten or 15 acres of
beans have been planted & cultivated for the building of a stone
church at the station, but nearly all of the beans have been ruined
grech?
a part by the green ( !) worm & a part by a blast.
Presents & contributions for my support have been very few &
small As to improvements -
A good plank bridge has been erected over
the large stream between Ewa & Waialua -
I have spent 15 days or
more in accomplishing it & in improving the road at various points
on the way.
A blacksmiths forge has also been put in operation at the sta
tion, & a native youth has for the past ten months been successfully
employed in learning the trade.
It is hoped that in two years the
period agreed upon for his apprenticeship, he will be a somewhat,
skilful blacksmith.
Several ploughs have been made, & put in some
what successful operation by the blacksmith, & we hope soon to see
more made on an improved pattern.
Some incipient measures have been taken toward the erection of
a stone church at the station, but our progress has as yet been slow.
We have a new bell ready for use & paid for by the people.
But
there is only a small degree of interest at present manifested to
ward objects of general interest & improvement.
J
.S. Emerson
�Statisticks Waialua Station 1841
556
20
Whole no admitted to chch. on examination
On certificate
4
past year on examination
4
on certif. past year
8
Whole no. past year
26
6
Whole no dismissed to other chchs.
Dismissed past year
18
Whole no. Deceased
10
deceased past year
56
Suspended past year
36
R em. suspended
49
Excomd past year
82
Whole no Excom
77
Rem. Excom -
416
Whole no in Reg. Standing
382
Whole no of children baptized
16
Baptized past year
15
Whole no of children deceased
Decd
44
600
44
past year
Marriages past year
Average congregation
No. propounded for the chch -
�Report of Station at Waialua.
(1841)
N ear the close of our last general meeting I obtained permission
of absence to visit Kauai.
This visit protracted my absence from the
statio(n) to about six weeks in all.
On returning I found Brother
Locke just recovering from a severe & somewhat protracted illness So that our station had been for a long time destitute of Missionary
labour; & while men slept the enemy sowed tares.
The chch. was obviously in a cold state especially that portion
of it residing in the district of Koolau.
The drinking of the chiefs
was the watchword for stupid ones to follow.
A few out of the chch.
fermented their potatoes & melons & sugar cane with their ohias, &
intoxicated themselves, some few chch. members followed, & so the
rage for drink increased that in two months about 60 of the chch. had
been guilty of the beastly sin of intoxication, - & as to those out
of the chch. I suppose that the number was very small who had not
intoxicated themselves.
It seemed as though almost the whole mass
of the people were mad/ & anxious to take vengeance upon themselves In one instance I saw a company of about a dozen drink down several
gallons of their nausiating ( !) mixture -
They appeared to practice
great fortitude & endurance while the(y) poured a pint each of the
mixture down their throats About 2 hours later, returning from a visit among the people I
saw this same company apparently as silly & foolish as they could
well endure -
This wide spread drunkness ( !) & debauchery prepared
those who had been guilty of it to a great extent to be ashamed to
appear before me or be seen in our meetings -
So the catholicks
found a company prepared for them by the great destroyer.
The health of our families has been as good as usual, although
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2
the ladies at the station have suffered some what from ill health My own health has been uniformly good till near the close of February,
when I was violently attacked with a fever, which laid me aside from
my labours for 7 or 8 weeks, most of which time I was confined to
my bed.
Through a kind Providence my health & strength are now
restored, almost equal to what they were before.
Improvements -
There have been erected during the year several
school-houses for the aupuni & 4 or five Catholick meeting or schoolhouse(s) all within the limits of the station.
There has also been
a road made within the past few weeks entirely round the west end
of the Island -
So that horses can now pass from Waialua to Waianae,
& the Gospel be carried to the latter people with much more dispatch
than formerly.
As to labours, directly missionary, if the amount of them are
to be reckoned from the apparent results, I can say but little There has been no protracted meeting at the station except one
of 4 or 5 days designed especially for the church -
There has however
been a meeting of 6 days at Haula in which Bro. Armstrong assisted me
three days -
this meeting was more obviously beneficial in calling
up the attention of the people to the salvation of their souls than
the former meeting.
Several stupid ones in the church were aroused, some suspended
ones came back with confessions, & a few who before paid no atten
tion to religion professed to turn to the Lord.
Our ordinary religious exercises have consisted of three services
on the sabbath, besides the ai o ka la & sabbath School,
of which Mr. Locke has attended -
the latter
We have also had daily morning
prayer meetings in various places beside a Wednesday & Saturday even
ing meeting for the chch. -
The latter of which has been suspended
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Waialua - 1841
since I was taken ill -
Repeated tours have been made through the
districts of Koolau & part of Waianae - & part of the year meetings
have been held every week in some of the school districts remote
from us.
Attendance on publick worship has not been good gregation at the station sabbath morning about 600 -
Average con
meetings at
the villages remote sometimes pretty well attended, at other times
not so well; more frequently the latter, unless the people are
collected by a special effort -
In some places, it seems to have
become almost the understanding, that those out of the chch. are not
expected to attend meetings except on the sabbath, unless they are
candidates for chch. membership -
But such is not the fact in all
places Statisticks.
No census of the people, - no record of births &
deaths that I could \otain.
Marriages 44 couple.
Recd to chch past year 4 by prof. & 4 by letter - 8
Died 13 - cut off 49; suspended 34, - dismissed to other chchs 8 Restored to fellowship 28, of whom 4 had been excommunicated & 22
suspended.
There are now propounded for the chch - 44 -
Of those now
suspended 17 are expected to be restored next communion number recd into the chch 576
cut off 82
Whole
Whole no. of deaths 18 - whole no.
Whole no. transfered to other chchs. -—
Now in the chch & not under discipline 416
26
Children baptized the past
year 16 in all 382.
Benevolent contributions -
These have been very few, & appro
priated almost entirely to the support of the schools -
A little
has been contributed toward our contemplated meeting house.
We, more than a year since, planted several acres of beans hoping
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to realize a crop that might help us procure lumber &c for that
object; but the worms blasted our hopes -
At the present we have
procured our lime & cut the wood to burn it, & several of the most
important stones have been obtained for the comers & jams; & we have
about 150 men engaged to work in divisions, one day each makaainana
(laboring class) week, till the house is erected.
Our house may be
a long time in the erection but we hope to build a good one, & to do
it as fast as our means & strength will permit.
Catholicks.
Of these the number is increasing both at the
station & through the field -
The past year three have left our church
to join them, & one went out from us last year, 4 in all, who were
in good standing in the chch.
the Catholicks to them -
Of suspended members 6 have gone to
Of excommunicated persons 10 or 12 have gone over
So that of those who have been chch members, not far from
20 have gone to the Catholicks.
Reasons, that such persons have given
for leaving us, are like the following -
Their friends are all with
the catholicks, & therefore they can receive no favours from them,
so long as they do not join them -
if hungrey or sick or naked, they
can receive no sympathy if they stand opposed -
One is sick, he has
no one to take care of him; the Catholick comes along & promises him
salvation, & restoration to health if he will join them.
One has
the promise of influence, power, or many presents if he will join
them, & so some are taken with guile.
Two, of the four who left the chch. to join the catholicks were
sick, & submitted to baptism from the priest on promise of restora
tion to health -
But both are dead.
One however, before her death,
came back to us, renouncing all faith in or fellowship with them.
She said that they prayed for her 8 days at first, &, as her sickness
did not at all abate, the catholicks ceased to pray for her; but,
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after the lapse of several weeks, they procured some rum, & when
under its influence prayed again for her -
This filled her with
disgust, she told their priest that she had no confidence in them, &
so left them & came back to us with repentance & confession -
She
apparently died in the faith & hopes of the Gospel.
As to the numbers, out of the chch. who have gone to the catho
licks I can form no correct estimate.
Many, who call themselves our
people, have gone occasionally to a catholick meeting, & many go no
where -
In some places 1/2 or more of the people occasionally flock
after that party - & in two or three villages of from 50 to 100 or 150
people all with two or three exceptions are said to have joined them.
And here let me say, that these three villages, which have turned
altogether to the pope, lay between other larger vilages ( !), & in
such positions as rendered it easy for the people to attend meeting,
by going a short distance, say a mile or so to meet with a larger
collection of people for worship.
But few only went, & the result
has proved that as they were ignorant & voluntarily so, they were also
fit subjects to be led away after the beast whose business it is to
destroy.
At the present time I presume that 1/4 part at least of our
people might be reckoned on the side of the Catholicks, & 1/4 of them
as indifferent to any thing - leaving perhaps
& perhaps less as
2
/
1
caring for the pono; or at least professing so to do.
Methods by which the people have been won over by the Catholicks.
1.
By promises of healing
Many have been induced to go after them by a promise that if bap
tized by them their diseases should be healed as a consequent ( !).
But in case the patient did not chance soon to recover, the fault
has always been wisely attached to some other cause than the want of
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power in th e priest; either the patient had not faith, or had some
reserved sin, or his friends were hereticks, or some thing else.
One
sick man turned to them on promise of being healed, but after "baptism
was no better be no better -
It was then said that his wife must turn, or he would
she turned - but he was still sick -
if he had not a father -
It was then asked
They said he must turn also -
but after
the father turned, the children were called for & then all his de
pendants they all turned to save the poor mans life; but lo he died
after all -
Yet they were assured of this, that his soul would be
saved 2.
Another way of making proselytes is by making presents, of clothes,
cloth &c.
These are some times given out to adults & children to
induce them to join their party.
3.
Our schools & school laws have been made a means of souring the
minds of parents & persuading them to fly under their wing for reffuge ( !).
The length of the schools, having two per day; paying the
teachers, & compelling the children to work for them have all had
their influence in this matter.
Multitudes, both of parents & children, have left us because
they, by so doing, could escape the work for the teacher.
At Honolulu
this law has never been inforced, as funds have been furnished from
other sources for the support of schools; & this will easily account
in part for the fact that a far smaller proportion of the people there
have gone to the Catholicks than on other parts of the Island.
Another circumstance may also be stated relative to schools.
The catholicks have taught some of their teachers to repeat a prayer
in Italian -
this they are parot like ( !) teaching the children,
who are all highly delighted with the idea of saying something that
others can not say, & that in a foreign language.
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Some of our teachers are very anxious to be taught English, that
they may seem to be as knowing as the Catholicks.
4.
An other method by which the Catholicks gain proselytes is by
fabricating & circulating slanderous reports, & falsehoods.
One day, it is reported that all the chiefs have turned catho
licks - & so many make haste to be on the strong side -
An other
day, we are called the murderers of Batchelot; in connection with
Kinau -
That we are oppressors of the people, taking away their
rights, depriving them of sources of gratification & happiness such
as they have a right to, & begging away the little property that they
may have, to feed our-selves, are a standing every day charges.
Even the little children are catechized by the priest as follows.
Do we come & beg your fowls?
To which they reply in concert, n o .
Do we beg your money; your kapas; fish &c &c.
we sell our book to you?
former teachers do so?
All reply, no.
No, you give them without pay.
Do
Did your
No, they begged ours, & sold theirs.
Such
is the style in which I am told the children are sometimes catechized
to create & confirm their prejudices against us.
5.
Indulgences form an other method of drawing men after them -
Absence from meeting on the sabbath is no fault if the individual
attends on great occasions -
Many sins, the very ones to which this
people are prone are not very great matters, Occasional intoxication,
habitual use of tobacco, lying & adultery are not very great matters,
at least, are easily got over by them.
An other way of gaining prosylites is
6.
By taking sides with the makaainanas against law or with law, &
brow beating the chiefs into compliance with their' wishes.
Many
ignorant ones are fully persuaded that there is great power in the
poe Berani from the fact that they carry their points so well, if not
�Waialua
1 841
8.
by artifice, by threats.
Since the vacation in our schools commenced, about the middle
of April, our children have gone in great numbers to the Catholicks,
from one school 12 or 14 & from an other 15, & from others more or
less -
Probably in all not less than 50 of our children went over
to their instruction during a vacation of about 2 weeks -
The number
of children now claimed by the catholicks & of a suitable age to go
to school is from 100 to 200, perhaps less than 150.
One alarming
fact is that of those who go over to the Catholicks but few can be
reached again by our instructions, they will not come to our meet
ings or our schools, & some of them have said they were forbidden to
enter our houses, or have any thing to do with us.
Only a few weeks
instruction in their schools seems to give both adults & children a
spirit of defiance, & in some instances of enmity that it is very
painful to witness.
To human appearance the great mass of the ungodly in our region
are about going over to the side of the Pope -
Both the schools &
the church need the watch & care of several persons wholy ( !) devoted
to the work of taking care of them.
In our field there are about
5500 people, perhaps more, scattered in villages along a coast of
from 40 to 45 miles.
Were there no wolves in the field one shepherd
could do much for them, but while there are two foreign catholicks &
many native ones who have been trained to their arts of deception &
falsehood, many hands to labour many eyes to see, & many tongues to
speak in the behalf of the Gospel of X st seem imperiously needed.
We came to this meeting in strong hopes that the brethren would be
able to locate one more missionary on this Island & at this time; &
at Waiono in the District of Koolau seemed to be the place to locate
him -
This would be nearly midway between Br. Parker & ourselves
�Waialua 1841
9
about 22 miles from us & 17 or 18 from him -
At Waiono there is now
a meeting house, large enough to hold 700 or 800 people, & not half
a mile from it, is a Catholick house &, as I am informed, the priests a
are about to locate one of their number there, & to build a stone
house for his accommodation.
If an efficient man could be located
there to take care of the chch & the schools, more assistance could
be afforded from our station in looking after & teaching the people
(e?)
of Waianae than heretofore. We trust that if there be any new
brethren to locate at this meeting, the claims of Koolau & the pe
culiar crises that threatens us will not be overlooked, or disregarded.
Let it be remembered that the Catholicks have already five schools
& five preaching posts within the limits of the station.
J.S. Emerson
�Report of Waialua Station, May 1842
On the 10th of June last year I returned to the station in
improved health, & in high hopes of accomplishing much during the year
for the good of the people.
A slight rheumatick affection, which
then existed in one of my knees soon increased, so as to lay me aside
from most of my labour for two or three weeks.
The health of the
members of the station has In general been pretty good, subject
however to some interruptions in the case of all the members of the
station*
And in no case has death entered our dwellings but once
during the ten years in which this station has been ocupied, ( !) &
that within the past year.
On the 15th of Novr Br Lockes eldest child, his only son was removed
suddenly from us by drowning.
The stroke was a heavy one, but we
hope it has not been entirely lost upon us either parents or children.
State of the Church
Congregation on the sabbath has been rather
small, & week day meetings thinly attended.
The congregation from
July to Novr was some what larger than during the remainder of the
year - but has again some what increased during the past five weeks.
Our seasons of communion at the station have been three in
number all of which have been seasons of a good degree of interest.
In November I united with Br. Bishop In a meeting at Waianae
which was protracted through several days, & closed with the organi
zation of a chch. embracing those who were then members of his church
& also of mine resident in the district of Waianae.
Twenty of my
church members were then dismissed to unite with that chch. & two
others have since recd certificates to unite with the same chch.
making in all 22.
I also had a communion season with the chch. members in Kolau ( !)
on the last sabbath in April.
The number of members in that district
nearly all of whom were then present at the communion is 208.
These
�Waialua 1842
2.
although not formally separated from the church at Waialua will
hence forward regard themselves as a distinct church, & have their
communions at Haula or near the centre of the district.
During the year I have recd in all to the church 112 individuals
by profession & 3 by letter of those recd from the world 50 were pro
pounded previous to the last general meeting; & a large portion of
these who have been recd to the chch. refer their conversion to the
Lord to a period of one or two years.
There has been but one protracted meeting in our field during
the year & that was conducted by Br. Armstrong almost entirely, dur
ing the time I was confined by rheumatism in my bunk, Br. Bishop
kindly assisted him one day.
Meetings have been held regularly at the station on the sabbath
& on w ednesdays, & daily morning prayer meetings have been attended
by a few.
During the year I have made 6 visits among the people of
Koolau & preached to them four sabbaths.
Schools.
These during the past year have fallen under my super
vision; Br. L. by mutual agreement, having taken other parts of the
labour to be performed at the station.
The number of our schools is 16.
examinations about 550.
No. of scholars present at our
The examinations of schools have been 4.
The appearance of most of the schools, & the advancement in knowledge
in some has been rather encouraging.
Teachers have recd better pay
for their services than ever before, & have in most instances per
formed the task of teaching with increased fidelity -
There are
however to this remark one or two exceptions Labours -
During the first six months of the year I taught a
school for teachers & more advanced scholars one hour each morning &
also on saturday afternoon.
The branches to which I attended were
�Waialua 1842
review of Arithmetick, both mental & written performed in connection;
also sacred Geography & the making of maps both ancient & modern for
their own use.
This school after about six months continuance with
frequent interruptions was given up from inability on my part to
attend to it any longer.
The meeting house which has heretofore been spoken of by way of
anticipation was taken hold of in earnest shortly after the close of
our last general meeting.
Wood for burning lime had been cut & coral
dug during the year previous.
The work of building was commenced
in Aug. last to be performed by apanas under the superintendance of
one foreigner.
But it was soon found that this would be a long,
costly & perplexing business.
It was therefore agreed on on the part
of the church, that the work should be done by hire & paid for by
their monthly contributions of 25 cts each for the men & 12-1
2
/ for the
women.
Accordingly the foreigner & ten men were employed to perform the
building of the stone work, collecting & preparing materials &c.
The dimentions ( !) of the house are 99 feet by 49, walls 2 feet thick
& 18 high.
The work of erecting the walls was all performed within the
space of 18 weeks after the foundation was laid.
Our old meeting
house was taken down in January last, the timber of which has been
well used for our new roof; & has made a saving of some 500 or more
dollars.
The house is now finished so far as was contemplated for the
present, except the ceiling, which we expect to lathe & plaster.
materials for this work are now in a good state of forwardness.
The
The
house is ventilated by eleven windows all excepting one of 60 lights
each 8 by 10 glass.
It has also 6 doors all of which are made in
�Waialua 1842
workman like style.
The house is so constructed that if a gallery
may at any future time be needed, it can he put in without any change
or remodeling of the house, & will he sufficiently ventilated by the
top part of the windows.
About 1/3 of the house is floored, a plat
form erected as a pulpit & seats sufficient to seat 100 persons are
already erected.
The cost of the house thus far, including only
board, nails, & hired labour amounts to $1026.
Voluntary labour in-
cluding timber, lime, wood, also, thatching &c. would amount to not
less than $1000 or more.
Of the funds already expended for which
cash has been paid have been raised in part as follows.
Contributed by the 2d Chch in Honolulu - - - do by the Chch in Ewa - - - - - - - - - - - do by the chch in Waianae - - - - - - - - - do by Br. Whitney
do by br. Gulick - - - - - - - - - - - - - - do by chch in Waialua past year in cash &
articles exchanged for materials for build.
cash formerly contributed & on hand
at com. of year
Amounting in all to
Leaving a debt not yet paid of
$82.00
38.00
15.00
61.00
50.00
230.67
53 .31
$529.98
$519.72
The cost of plastering &c overhead as contemplated will
increase the debt to about $600.00
Of this debt Mr. Lock(e) & myself
will probably cancel about about ( !) $100. leaving the people to pay
$500.
This debt they have frequently said was their own, & that they
intended to pay it as fast as they could, but time must show the
promptness with which they will fulfill their engagement.
This work of building has been a very great tax upon my time, &
has prevented much of the year almost all study & labour of a more
improving character.
Besides the work of building the meeting house, I have made an
addition of two sleeping rooms to my own house, for which I obtained
a grant from the mission of 100 dollars the last year.
The rooms
are now finished & cost $200; for which I am now in debt at the
�Waialua 1842
depository $100.
Assistance
Br. Locke has uniformly taken charge of the sabbath school
when at the station, & has also conducted the worship of the congre
gation in case of my absence or ill health.
Mrs. E. has a part of the year as health & other circumstances
would permit met with the mothers at the Station & has also taught a
singing school for adults & children.
Shortly after our return to the station Br. & Sister Rice came
& spent nearly three months in our family -
Sister R. rendered very
kind assistance in the instruction of our children, & in aiding both
our families at a season when aid was peculiarly needed.
Br. R.
taught a class in the English language, & a part of the time an other
class in the Helu Kamalii one hour per day.
Their assistance in our
families was in many respects very timely, & in all respects fraternal.
Catholicks
They have apparently been gaining influence among our people
the past year, & have added considerably to their numbers.
Their
influence has apparently diminished in some parts of the field dur
ing the past few months, while it has increased in an other part.
They have now w ithin the limits of our field six meeting houses
& 8 schools.
Their number of scholars present at their examination
in July last was 257, since then they may possibly have increased to
300 or near that number.
So that they have now about 1/3 of all the
children in the field; & probably the number of people who profess
to follow them is nearly equal in proportion.
But perhaps more of these
should be reckoned as infidels than as papists.
There is now in the field one catholick priest, & frequent visits
have been made during the year by two or three others.
�6.
Waialua 1842
Methods which they have adopted the past year for making pros
elytes ( !) are some what varied from the methods adopted the year
previous.
1.
They have of late, been more gregarious in their habits than
formerly.
A large portion of the whole company of their disciples
go from one portion of a district to an other to spend the sabbath;
& thus by changing the locality of their meetings from one place to
an other, they attract attention make a display of numbers & get some
prosolytes.
Bound together as they are by pledges of mutual hospitality,
they find no want of food wherever they may be among their own
people so long as the food in the place may last them.
An other popular way of making prosolytes is baptizing & naming
the children.
Every child that is bapatemad claims as god-parent
every older person that may bear the same name.
So that be he where
he may, he may call on his father ma ka inoa for food, raiment or
entertainment for some days, without any liability to fault-finding
on their part.
An other method of promoting their cause is by holding an anual (!)
feast on the sabbath to which all persons are invited except those who
are actually at work as a penalty for their transgressions.
a great distance to procure their means to aid in the feast.
Some go
One
man I saw driving a male of the goats without blemish 12 or 14 miles,
which he said was to be used at the feast; another in company was
driving a male of the swine without blemish which he said was to be
used in the same way.
A youth told me that that ( !) his father
furnished a boy with $2 & a hen & a pai of poi for the same feast; a
tax heavier than he ever before paid for the support of the gospel &
of schools & all other benevolent objects all together.
One boy,
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Waialua 1842
when asked why he wished to go to the catholick’s school replied,
"Ono ka puaa", (good the pig), meaning the great gratification he
enjoyed in partaking at the liberal feast.
Another device of the Catholicks appears to be a committee of
vigilance, who are on the lookout .
If there are any sick among
us who are neglected, any children who are not in our schools; any
persons who regard themselves unjustly accused of fault or crime,
all such persons are immediately sought out & commended to the kind
& parental care of the fraternity & priesthood.
The vanity of the natives is a circumstance that makes any
attention bestowed upon those who are inclined to leave us, as like
ly at least to injure as to help us.
It has been said that some
natives would be willing to be hung if thousands would be willing to
come & look on; so here if a common native can attract much attention
& become the subject of remark in consequence of his going to the
catholicks, he has a strong motive to do so.
Whether therefore to go
& attempt to look up those who wander after the beast or let them
alone is oftentimes a question that is quite perplexing Want of an additional missionary in Koolau
Catholicks then are becoming numerous, the soil is the richest
& most productive in the island, place 20 miles removed from any
station, population 2000 or more people now in an unsettled state of
feeling, a new meeting house has lately been erected for the people,
& are in expectation of a missionary.
While we have much occasion for humility in view of the evils
that have existed among us we have also occasion to speak of mercy &
kindness from the Lord.
Schools are improved in character, chchurch
( !) purified, & some few at least brought to the knowledge of the
saviour.
�Waialua
1842
Statisticks
675
23
112
3
48
24
28
10
8
16
25
86
520
472
90
28
16
550
357
162
208
178
94
Whole no. admitted to Chc h .from th e first
Whole no on certificate
Admitted past year on examin.
Admitted past year on certif.
Whole no Dismissed
Dismissed past year
Whole no. deceased
Deceased past year
Suspended past year
Remain suspended
Excom. past year
Remain excomd
Whole no in reg standing
Whole no bap. children
Baptized past year
couple married past year
No. of schools
No. of scholars
Readers
Geography
Writers
Mental Arithmetick Coulborn
Writers Arithmetick
(Unsigned; J.S. Emerson)
�(Waialua 1843 A.B. Smith)
The past year has been one of severe trial: to the station at
Waialua.
The Lord's hand has been laid heavily upon that station
& one who was here with us in health & vigor a year ago has been
snatched from us in an unexpected manner & we have been called to
mingle our tears over her untimely grave.
We have been reminded that
health & strength are no security against the assaults of disease &
death & that the weak & feeble who have apparently been long on the
borders of the grave, may notwithstanding outlive the most healthy
& robust.
It is the Lord's doings& it becomes us to be dumb with
silence & open not our mouth, because he has done it.
It is indeed
a mysterious Providence which we may not be able to interpret, but
it is a consolation to know that the event was ordered by him who
guides all things with unerring wisdom.
The loss we have sustained is great indeed & cannot be easily
repaired, but while it is such a loss to us & to her family, we are
o
confident that death to her was unspeakable gain. Her life was one
of uncommon blamelessness & yet her excellences were by no means of
a negative character.
Positive excellences were combined in just
proportions so as to render her character one of uncommon symmetry.
The mild & gentle graces of the gospel, meekness, humility, gentle
ness, patience & modesty, shone brightly in her character, but at the
same time they were mingled with an uncommon degree of firmness,
decision, energy & perseverence.
Her moral feelings too had been
judiciously cultivated, so as to avoid on the one hand a blame-able
laxness & on the other a sickly conscientiousness which rendered her
piety solid & consistent & gave her an elevated, unbending & digni
fied sense of moral rectitude.
With a character combining such
qualities & blended in such just proportions, she was enabled to
�Waialua - 1843 - A.B. Smith
exercise complete control over herself & act with calmness & consider
ation under the most trying & agitating circumstances.
Her cours ( !)
was silent & unpretending & her left hand knew not what her right
hand was doing.
None but those who were the most intimately acquain
ted with her knew her real worth or the amount of her labors & the
good she was accomplishing.
In all her labors, she pondered well
her steps, decided with judgment & discretion on her course of duty,
& pursued her course with a steady, unwavering perseverance toward
the accomplishment of her object.
Such was her character while in
health, & when disease was fixed upon her & all her powers were
brought into requisition to endure the bodily suffereings under wh.
she languished, she was still calm & tranquil & looked up to her
heavenly Father with sweet submission to his will.
When death was
in full prospect before her & her expectation of life was cut off,
tho' maternal feeling was evidently strong & her little ones the
?
burden of her anxiety, still she felt to leave the event with God,
calmly & composedly trusting in him.
The memory is sweet.
sight of the Lord.
Thus she lived & thus she died.
The death we doubt not was precious in the
I can contemplate her character & the scenes of
her sickness & death only with admiration.
She was ripe for heaven
& we can now think of her only as a saint in light, enjoying the full
vision of God & the Lamb.
But this Providence of God has made a painful breach upon us,
which is felt most deeply by the bereaved husband & the little
motherless ones.
It is a case which calls for our united sympathies
& prayers.
The labors of the station must necessarily be interrupted by
this Providence.
It is greatly to be regretted that the labors of
the School which have been prosecuted with so much energy & zeal &
�Waialua 1843 - A.B. Smith
3.
evident success, should be suspended at a time when its prospects
are more promising & flattering than at any time hitherto.
It is to
be hoped that the mission will take this subject into consideration
& devise some means to keep the school in operation.
You will I trust pardon me for saying thus ( !) much on a sub
ject which may not be considered as properly belonging to my report,
but the subject once introduced I knew not how to say less.
With regard to my own labors, the mission are aware of the cir
cumstances under which we were located at Waialua.
At that time we
were not considered members of this mission, but purely sojourning
invalids awaiting the decision of the Board as to the expediency of
our remaining here or return to the United States.
Under such cir
cumstances it will not be surprising if I have not been able to
accomplish as much as my brethren.
As to health I know not that
there has been any any (!) material change.
Mrs. Smith has at
times been very low & feeble & ready to give up all hope but she
is at present in quite as good health as she was a year ago.
she is feeble & has the prospect of remaining so.
Still
My own health was
good during the autumn, but the wet season has caused a return of
my difficulty, which has led me to fear that the time is not far
distant when I may be wholly unable to preach.
When I went to the station immediately after the last general
meeting I knew scarcely any thing of the language & was almost en
tirely unable to communicate with the people.
I commenced preaching
however, immediately after Mr. Emerson left, writing one sermon
each week & conducting the other exercises extemporaneously.
I
have been able usually to preach twice on the Sabbath, tho' of late
it has been attended with much fatigue & local irritation.
I have
also had a regular meeting on Wednesday besides other occasional
�Waialua 1 8 4 3
A .B . S m ith
meetings during the week.
As to the results of these efforts it cannot be expected that
very much would be accomplished by any one so little acquainted with
the language of the people.
You will not therefore be disappointed
that I have no revivals of religion to report & no extensive admis
sions to the church.
When
I commenced my labors the state of the
church seemed to be very low -
The usual congregation on the sab
bath did not exceed 160 or 200.
A large number of church members
were under censure & then manifested a spirit wholly unbecoming the
gospel of Christ.
of the year.
Such was the state of things during the first part
For several months past there has been an evident im
provement in the state of things.
The congregation has increased
to 300 & upwards, so that I should judge that the avarage ( !) for the
whole year would not fall short of 300 -
The appearance of the con
gregation has also improved & better attention has been paid to the
preached word.
tive hearers.
Still the people as a whole are far from being atten
While there are some who evidently hear with atten
tion & profit, there are a much greater number who either hear not
at all, or hear without treasuring up the word & profiting thereby.
Of the cases under censure in the church a few of them have
been restored, but the greater part of them manifested no signs of
repentance & have been cut off from church fellowship -
The number
of excommunications during the year has perhaps been unusually
were
large. There have been 41 in all. All except 12 of them xxx under
suspension when I commenced my labors at the station.
munion in Nov. 9 new cases occurred.
At the com
These persons have manifested
a peculiar hardness of heart & in some cases contempt of the church
& the word of God & they were accordingly cut off at the last com
munion.
The 3 other cases occurred at Koolau & were of such an ag-
�W aialua - 1843 - A. B . Smith
5.
gravated nature as to render excommunication the only proper step
in the case -
These are all that have occurred in that part of
the church during the year.
It is the understanding with the natives that the church at
Koolau is separate from the one at Waialua, tho' the records have not
been kept separately -
I have been able to do scarcely any thing
during the year for that part of the field & should we be alone at
the station during the coming year it will be still more difficult
for me to leave home so as to labor at all for that people.
It is
to be hoped therefore that an arrangement will be made to provide
for the wants of that field in some other way.
The meeting house occupied considerable of my attention during
the first part of the year.
The lathing, plastering &c remained
to be done when I went to the station.
cated on the 28th of Sept.
The meeting house was dedi
Mr. Bishop performed the exercises on
the occasion & a series of meetings were continued till the Sab.
following.
The amount expended by myself in finishing the Meeting H ouse,
including the expense of transporting the property rec’d from the
people to Honolulu is $ 141.04.
Receipts from all sources for the
liquidation of this debt $112.90, leaving 28.14 due to me.
of $25.19 previously contracted has also been paid.
A debt
The whole amount
rec'd. therefore is 138.09, not one fourth of which can be considered
as the donation of the people.
The prospect therefore that the people
will contribute to liquidate the debt is very small.
It has been found necessary to expend something upon the dwelling
house during the past year.
The cook room was originally some 3
feet or more lower than the rest of the house, causing Mrs. S. a
most serious inconvenience in her feeble state of health.
By the
�Waialua 1843 - A.B. Smith
advice of the secular agent this difficulty has been obviated, the
room rebuilt & the floor put on a level with the rest of the house.
Most of the plastering remains to be done:
$31. have been expended,
to cover which, finish the house, make other repairs &c $100. will
be needed.
The following are the statistics of the church
1843
Wh. No on Ex.
695
On Cert.
27
Exam past yr
20
Cert. past yr
5
Wh. No. past yr
25
Wh No Dis’d
56
Dis. past yr
8
Wh. No. Deceased
40
Died past yr
12
Exc'd past yr
41
Wh. No Exc'd
148
R em Exc'd
117
No. in Reg. Standing 509
Wh. No. Childn Bap
494
Bap past yr
22
Marriages
35
Avg. Cong.
300
The number of children in the schools is
.
How the
schools compare with former years I am of course unable to say.
One thing is very certain.
The schools are far from being what they
should be, yet perhaps they are all that could be expected from such
teachers.
Some new teachers are very much needed.
There are now
3 schools destitute of any teacher & doubtless others would be va
cated if there were better teachers to be obtained.
The operations of the Catholics have not excited much attention
among the people during the year.
So far as I am able to judge
their numbers have not increased, but remain about the same as they
were a year ago.
Some few have left them in Koolau & two of our own
church members who had fallen into sin, have gone over to them.
A.B. Smith
�(Waialua 1843)
|
The past like the previous year has been one of affliction to
me.
Care, anxiety & sorrow such as I knew not before, though mingled
with many unmerited favors & blessings have been my portion.
Mrs.
L. a few weeks after our return from Gen Meet last year was attacked
with disease which after two months of suffering & during much of
the time very severe suffering removed her to a better world.
This is not perhaps the time or place to speak of my departed
companion.
knew her.
Nor is it necessary that I should do so to those who
Her memory will ever be fondly cherished by all her friends
& her record is on high.
My loss & that of my motherless girls is
great. - I had almost said, irreparable.
God did not however leave
us without consolation & assistance in that dark hour.
But with that
kindness which ever tembers (tempers ?) the wind to the shorn lamb
& provides from (for ?) us in a way chosen by himself he sent kind
& dear friends to our help.
Br & Sister Rowell reached the Isles
on the 21 of Sept & were permitted to be with their sister during
the last two weeks of her life. & have remained with us till the
present time doing all in their power to supply the loss we have all
sustained.
I have done less for the people at large during the past than
in former year owing to my circumstances which have confind ( !) me
more closely at home.
Sabbath School This has been superintended as usual.
It has been thinly attended
the past as the previous year though the number of children who have
attended has been as great in proportion to the whole number of people
who have attended meeting as in former years
interest has been manifested in the exercises.
But a small degree of
Some knowledge of
Bible history has been acquired & perhaps some truth lodged in the
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minds of the scholars which at some future day may with Gods blessing
spring up like good seed & bring forth fruit.
Boarding School
The number of boys at present is 22 one of whom is absent
h a v i n g most unfortunately had one of his hands so badly crushed
in the sugar mill as to render amputation necessary.
The school
has shared largely in the loss which the station has sustained
during the year.
devoted to it,
No small part of Mrs Ls time haveing ( !) been
While she had health.
In consequence of my circum
stances I have been compelled to neglect the boys almost entirely
except during their school hours not having labored with them as
formerly & not being able to devote time to their management & direc
tion except generly ( !) out of school.
The boys have evidently
suffered some in consequence of this neglect.
Not perhaps more than
ought to have been expected but enough to show that to make the most
& the best of their time & attention should be devoted to them
out of as well as in school.
Our secular or manual labor department has notwithstanding been
on the whole more prosperous than in any previous year.
When the out
standing crop shall all have been gathered in & the cane all manu
factured unless more than usual expense shall be required to accom
plish the work, we shall not only have paid all our expenses for the
past year which including costs of mill, casks (?), transportation,
commission &c will have amounted to 1000 Dolls. but we shall have
nearly or quite enough on hand probably to pay the current expenses
of the school during the coming year.
Rev. Rowell has spent about one hour in a day with the boys
in school during the past 5 or 6 months.
ing.
Has taught writing & sing
He has also done much in other ways to assist in the care &
�Waialua
1843
management of the school & but for his presence & assistance it
must (?) (for) some months since have been neglected.
As I cannot in my present circumstances do my duty to my child
ren & justice to the school I have come to the reluctant conclusion
to request that my place in the school may for the present be sup
plied by some other members of the Mission.
I am hoping to receive by the first opportunity from home a
reply to a request of mine for permission to visit the U.S. should
the Mission think it my duty.
The brethren will take such action
in the case as they think proper.
(Unsigned; Edwin Locke)
Waialua May 1843
�This may certify,
That, we, the undersigned, at the earnest
request of Mr. Emerson, have made a thorough examination of his
accounts with the meeting house at Waialua.
We have found the
accounts complicated.
But we find no evidence that any thing is
not
charged to the meeting house w h i c h ought/to b e charged.
On the
contrary, there is evidence that it was Mr. E ’s design to keep a
correct & fair account.
In adjusting his accounts a few errors crept
in some in favor of Mr. E. & some against him, w h i c h w e r e m anifestly
unintentional.
Mr. E. does not consider his accounts w i t h the meet-
ing house as fully settled.
have been discovered,
He is ready to mak e any corrections w h i c h
or which may, hereafter, b e discovered.
the wh o l e w e are ready to bea r testimony,
On
that we cannot f i n d any
shadow of evidence of dishonesty in M r . E ' s transactions w i t h the
ch u r c h & people at Waialua.
E.W. Clark
W.P. Alexander
Lahainaluna F eby 6 , 1843.
�(Waialua 1844)
In making our report of the Station at Waialua for the year
past, we are again called upon to speak of the afflictive dispen
sations of Divine Providence.
One of our number who was here with us
a year ago, in whose bereavement we were then called to sympathize,
& whosesociety we then hoped to enjoy again after a season of separa
tion, has been called to join the society of the blessed above.
His loss is deeply felt at the station.
A kind, affectionate &
sympathizing brother & neighbor has been taken from us.
He had en
deared himself to us by the manifestation of a noble & generous dis
position & the intercourse we had together was of a peculiarly plea
sant character.
His death has thrown a kind of loneliness & desola
tion over the station which cannot easily be removed.
The society
of the little ones however has in some measure relieved our own feelo
ing of l/neliness, still that house & establishment which was once
full of life & activity, is now desolate as the grave.
Its present
condition can but fill one's min d with mournful recollections.
The School which has been deprived of its teacher, has of course
been disbanded.
general meeting.
No labor was performed in the school after the last
The boys however remained on the premises till
August, when they were dismissed & went to their homes.
One of them
is said to be employed in a Popish school in Koolau, two of them
have been married &. none have become teachers in our schools.
It
is to be regretted that they could not have been further advanced
before the school should have been broken up in order that they might
have been employed as teachers -
Most of them however were too young
to be thus employed.
The lands belonging to the school are in the hands of a foreigner
with whom Mr. Locke made a contract, but it is not desirable that
he should remain on them after, his year shall have expired.
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The question will doubtless come up during the meeting, whether
another teacher can be located there or if this be not practicable,
the only remaining question is, what disposition shall be made of the
lands &c belonging to the school?
In respect to my own department, I would say that we have for
the most past during the year enjoyed comfortable health.
of Mrs. Smith is on the whole somewhat improved.
The health
I have been able to
preach twice on the sabbath during the year, except for a few sab
baths in the winter when my lungs were so much affected by a cold as
to render it impracticable.
My bronchial difficulty however still
remains, & necessarily limits my labors in preaching to a moderate
amount.
The church at Waialua has been divided during the past year.
271 members have been dismissed to form the church at Koolau which
has been the past year under the care of Mr. Parker.
ing members some have stood fast; others have fallen.
Of the remain
The time of
the restoration was distinguished not perhaps by a rejoicing that the
kingdom was restored, for there seemed to be little joy in that event,
but by a throwing off of restraint & giving themselves up to the
gratification of their vitiated appetites.
usual method of producing intoxication.
practices nion.
They resorted to their
Some went back to heathenish
Consequently 47 were suspended at the subsequent commu
Of these, 8 have been restored & one excommunicated.
The re
mainder are not seen at the house of God, show no signs of repen
tance & have all the marks of barren fig-trees - but it was thought
best to let them alone this year also, & dig about them &c, & if they
bear fruit, well; but if not, then after that, cut them down There has been no special interest among the people during the
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year -
The congregation has varied from 250 to 300 -
casions there may have been more.
On extra oc
In respect to the Catholics, they
seem to be pursuing their labors quietly & attend to their own busi
ness -
None as I am able to learn have gone over to them since
I have been at the station.
The fact is that the principal part
of the people who were not connected with the families belonging to
the protestant church, had gone to the Catholics previously -
Some
excommunicated church members who had previously gone over to them
have returned, attend our meetings & manifest a desire to be restored
to the church -
There are a considerable number of excommunicated
persons who are desirous of being restored, but I wish for more evi
dence that they are the true children of God.
The Statistics of the church are as follows.
695 Whole no. ad. on Examination
30 On certificate
___Past year on Exam
3 Past year on certificate
3 Whole no. past year
333 Whole no. Dismissed
277 Dismissed past year
42 Whole no. Deceased
2 Deceased past year
59 Suspended past year
50 Remain suspended
3 Excomd past year
151 Whole no. Excomd
120 Remain Excom'd
180 Whole no in regular standing
Whole No children baptized 500 - past year 6
Marriages past year
32 - Avarage ( !) congregation 275
The schools during the past year have many of them been in a
low condition for want of teachers -
To remedy this evil several of
the oldest & best scholars in the schools have been selected & em
ployed as teachers.
In this way the number of schools has been
somewhat increased & tho’ these teachers are poorly qualified, it
�Waialua 1844
will doubtless be much better to employ them than to have none.
Still it is very desirable that there should be an increase of well
qualified teachers in the field.
There are now 11 schools all sup
plied with teachers & the number of scholars in all is 293.
The
statistics will be found in the accompanying schedule Altho' the new kahu seems to engage in his work with zeal,
there yet remains a difficulty in finding the means to pay the teach
ers from the fact th at the foreign Treasury department secures almost
the whole of the gov’t funds for other purposes, so that what is
allowed for the support of schools is not sufficient for the purpose.
Unless something is done by the gov’t to remedy this evil, the schools
will inevitably suffer.
In regard to pay which the teachers receive,
they complain that it is only makani (wind; breeze).
(Unsigned; Marked on back:)
A. B. Smith
Report 1844
Report of Schools at Waialua May, 1844.
(Copied from printed form, filled in)
1844
293
163
130
11
11
293
187
143
138
153
133
No. of
No. of
No. of
No. of
No. of
Number
No. of
No. of
No. in
Number
Number
children in the whole
boys
girls
schools
teachers
of children enrolled
readers
writers
Geo’phy
in Mental Arithmetic
in Written Arithmetic
�(Waialua 1846)
By a vote of the Mission in Gen. Meet. of 1844 we received an
invitation to remove from Hilo to Waialua and take charge of the
Manual Labor Boarding School which had been suspended by the death
of our lamented Bro. Locke in Oct. previous.
of Aug. and arrived at Honolulu the 11th.
We left Hilo the 9th
Removed to Waialua about
the last of Sept. and put our house and house-hold stuff in order.
Things being adjusted the Trustees of the School met at our house to
consult in reference to it and their unanimous advice was that under
existing circumstances it would for the present be better not to
revive the school but rather that we labor among the people at large
with a view to their spiritual good.
In Nov. following the meetings
on the Sab. - then the only ones in existence - came unsolicited and
refusing a denial into my hands.
I soon after revived the Wed. meet
ings and subsequently established a 4 o ’clock meet. on Saturday
afternoons.
A weekly female prayer meeting at our house was also
established and conducted by Mrs. W.
Visited among the people, at
tended funerals and held meetings at out-posts.
Received help from
the pastors and others at Honolulu and there was evidently a little
waking up of the people during the winter.
About the middle of
February following not having the meetings at the station to look
after, I opened two day-schools one for the teachers of the common
schools, the other for the largest scholars attending the common
schools at the station.
Continued to visit some among the people and
hold meetings at out-posts.
Naau
Helu Kakau
Huli Kanaka
’c.
Geog.
Studies pursued by my scholars Helu
Reading
Writing
Sacred Geography
Huli
In June last I resumed the meetings at the station
and have kept them up with the exception of the Saturday meetings
till the present time.
The 2 schools also till within the last few
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Waialua 1846
weeks h ave been continued, tho only 4 days in a week.
Owing to the
increase of other labors they have been suspended of late
Common Schools
These have been chiefly looked after with the exception of
supplying them with books &c by the Kahukula.
I have been present
at the examinations at the station where most of the schools exhibited
and have once been out with him to attend examinations abroad.
In
a little more than a year he has made 4 circuits.
The no. of schools within the present circumscribed limits of
this field is
16
In this no. are included schools of the Romanists
5
The no of scholars according to the report of their
teachers
Nos. present at recent exam, of their schools
Nos. present at exam. of Protestant Schools
Fluent readers in Prot. Schools
In Helu Naau - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- -- -- -- --
-- -
Helu Kamalii - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Writing - - -
--
58
164
Indifferent readers - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Geog. - - - -
74
274
Not present - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Helu Kakau - - - - -
110
- - - - - - - -
- - - - --
51
138
93
42
139
106
There has been one Roman Catholic school broken up during the
last year and united with the Protestant School.
Ten scholars left
another of their schools at one time and joined the Protestant.
A
teacher of another of their schools came to me to procure for his
own use the Old Test. which I gave him.
He expressed a desire that
his scholars also who were readers should procure the Old Test. for
a reading book in School.
I told him I would give It them if they
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would come for it.
their coming.
But probably an older and harder head prevented
Have since seen and talked with this same teacher and
he appears to be decidedly leaning towards protestantism.
recently attended some of our meetings on the Sab.
He has
Owing to the in
efficiency of the teachers in their schools, the Kahukula has recently
reduced their pay to 61/4 cts. per day.
Oh. Statistics, &c.
Since the Gen. Meet. in May of 1844 there have been three com
munion seasons of the Ch. at Waialua.
The first in March 1845
the
2d in June and the third in Dec. - brother Lowell Smith officiating
at the last.
During the same period i.e.
since Gen. Meet. in May
of 1844 till present time have been excom.
The no. of suspended church mem, for same time
Of the suspended there have been restored to the ch.
Of those excommunicated restored to the ch.
No. dismissed to and received by letter from other churches
is not known
Whole number on examination
Recvd. to the ch. from the world
Whole no. received on certificate
Remain suspended from the ch. at present time
No. of ch. members who died during 1845
No. of children baptized since Gen. Meet in 1844
N o. of ch. members now in regular standing
Average no. attending meetings at station Sab. morn.
No. of inhabitants within the district of Waialua
No. of deaths in 1845 within the district
No. of births during the same time
(On sheet pasted on:)
Whole no. received to the Church on Examination
Whole no received on certificate
Past year on examination
On certificate past year
Whole no past year
Whole no. dismissed to other churches
Past year
Whole no. deceased is about
Deceased the past year
Suspended past 2 years
Remain suspended
Excommunicated the last 2 years
Whole no. excommunicated
Remain excommunicated
Whole no. in regular standing
Whole no. of children baptized
Baptized-past 2 years
Average congregation on the Sabbath
29
16
15
0
696
1
32
16
11
14
141
200
1539
105
16
696
32
1
2
3
333
0
58
11
16
16
29
180
119
141
514
14
200
�Waialua
1846
In N o v . last weekly morning prayer meetings to about the n o .
of 15 were established to be held simultaneously in various parts of
the field.
A year ago last winter there seemed to be a little waking up
of the ch. and an increase in the size of our congregations on the
Sabbath.
But this was of short continuance.
For the last 4 months
however I think there has been a little reviving.
Within this time
we have had Wed. meetings at our house specially designed for those
who enquire the way to Zion with faces thitherward.
attended these enquiry meetings is rising of 30.
The no. who have
A few of them cut
off from ch. fellowship in former years, but most of them from the
world.
A few of them manifested real seriousness.
Two or 3 of them
living at a distance and not usually attending meetings were first
aroused at the protracted meeting at Waianae which followed the
dedication of the new house of worship there.
A no. who have not
heretofore attended meetings on the Sabbath have for 2 or 3 months
attended.
Probably some of the brethren had they been acquainted
with these individuals who have called themselves inquirers might
have been in favor of their being received to the church.
As it is,
however, there being no pastor, some, who perhaps belong to the
Israel of God, are not gathered.
Meet. House
On going to Waialua we found one half of the meet. house at the
station a mass of ruins and the other half filled with rubbish the windows dashed in by stones and if not thorny and nettles, yet.
the castor oil bean springing up within the crumbling walls.
The
The stone had cried out of the wall and the beam out of the timber
had answered it; and from the ridgepole to the foundation revolt
had been the order of the day, except that a part of the walls,
�Waialua 1846
like Judah, and Benjamin, remains.
In order to prevent the remainder
of the house from being blown down by the winds of the approaching
winter we induced the people to thatch the open end of the house
had the rubbish removed and they made it a comfortable place for
meetings.
As all the circumstances relative to Waialua meeting house are
generally known by the members of this mission I need not enlarge.
Suffice it then to say that the house has been built tho’ in troublous
times.
How long and how hard has been the tug of collecting the
materials and setting up the house I will not say but of the aid
rendered us by persons abroad I am bound to speak with gratitude.
The Pastor of the 2d native ch. in Honolulu supplied our lack by
raising money in Honolulu and purchasing materials for the house to
the amount of 155 dollars which he got shipped round on a government
vessel free of charge.
Many of the Foreign Residents contributed
liberally and some of the Brethren of this Mission.
Also the ch. at
Ewa the 2d ch. in Honolulu and the church at Kanapali.
The above said individual also engaged carpenters and went to
W. with them and took hold with his own hands in getting up the
house -
Also persuaded the Governor to go over and thatch the house
which he did - taking 80 men and women with him.
These all aided
in the work and with the people of Waialua accomplished it in two
days.
The thatching
lathing
and plastering yet remain.
The lath
are on the spot and there yet remains the collecting of the coral
and the wood for burning it.
A few weeks more, and what remains will
I trust have been accomplished.
It is due to the King and to the
governor to say that most of the timber was drawn on paahao days
given by them.
It is very apparent that but for aid rendered from
abroad the work would never have been done.
Still the people of
Waialua, principally the ch. have given in cash between 50 and 60
�Waialua 1846
dollars.
6.
About 50 more may be needed to finish, it.
A great burden is now removed from our minds and we cannot but
hope that a brighter day has begun to dawn on Waialua - that when a
devoted pastor shall be found to go out and come in before that
people and feed them with the bread of life many who now wander as
lost sheep will be restored to the fold of the Good Shepherd, and
many who never belonged to that fold will be drawn into it with
the cords of love.
As Israel importuned Samuel for a King that they
might be like the nations around them, so the people are clamorous
in their prayers to the Lord that he will give them a real Kahunapule
(priest; preacher; pastor). Thus they pray - E haawi mai oe i
e
a
kahunapul/ no makou. Ua loaa i/ makou heia wahi kumuao wale no.
(Unsigned but marked on back:)
Mr. Wilcox’s
Report, May 1846
�Waialua, Oct. 1847
Dear Bro. Chamberlain.
In a note rec'd from you a few days since
you wish statistics of Chch, etc. but in consequence of my records
of Koolau station being left at the station & there having been
no statistics published for 1846 - I can give but a very meager
statement for Koolau.
Waialua stands thus at the present time.
Waialua
Haula
or
Koolau
700
5
4
4
342
55
5
47
32
9
184
174
530
16
27
400
233
450
whole no. ad. church on exon cert.
past year on Ex.
on certif.
whole no past year
whole dismissed other chcs.
dismissed past year
died
died past year
Susp. past year
Rem. Susp.
Excom. past year
Whole no. Excom.
Rem. excom.
Now in regular standing
Children baptised
past year
children died
past year
married past year
Average cong.
Children attending schools
Waialua protestants on the list
at examination
papist on the list
at examination
Koolau protestants on the list
at examination
papist on the list
n at examination
304
272
65
56
346
289
129
90
The marriages at both stations are thrown together in the table.
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1847
\
The prospects of the people are improving, attention to the
preached word encouraging, books a good deal enquired for - &
much better paid for than in the years past Contributions for building chches paying for a native ministry
&
during the past year would in the whole field be more than
$125.
We have one native helper devoted to preaching & ex
horting the people.
He has been in the field about 3 months
& thus far promises well.
He is from the Sem. at Lahainaluna & his wife is from the Sem.
at Wailuku & both are among the best beloved in the schools.
A want of good school houses is a great draw-back upon
our schools.
The cause of papacy is for the past year on the decline
among us -
Qui te a number both of parents & children have
left their congergations & schools and returned to us.
Their
complaint is they gain no knowledge among the papists & have
no books to read.
Within the past year we hope their have been some conver
sions from sin to Holiness for which we bless the lord.
Your brother in haste
J.S. Emerson.
�Station Report, Waialua
presented May 11, 1848
In accordance with the vote of Gen. Meeting two years since,
I made due arrangements for leaving Lahainaluna, & on the seventh of
July, w i t h my family embarked for Waialua where we arrived the fol
lowing morning, & were kindly recd by bro. & Sister Wilcox; who were
in waiting for their departure for their Station on Kauai.
Our feelings, in coming back to Waialua, were any other than
sanguine. A
s
we approached the place a sense of gloom & sadness came
over us, of which we were unwilling to speak & yet could not but
feel.
"Can these dry bones live” was our feeling, kindred to that
of the faithless prophet.
look strangely at us.
A few stragglers on the shore seemed to
Our anchor was thrown down & no one had yet
come near us; quite unlike our reception by the unclad natives of the
same place fourteen years before.
a hard battle before us.
I thought that I could read in this
Soon a few boys came along side in small
canoes, by whom we sent to Lanui, the chief, to provide for us
breakfast.
This gave things a little start.
the river to our station.
Soon we were on. our way up
Here almost the first object that met my
eye was an old grey headed man, an excommunicate from the church,
filling his calabash by the side of the river.
His eye merily
glanced upon us, & then he returned from the bank of the river with
the same apparent indifference as though we had been his known &
personal enemies.
Arriving at Lanui's, we soon found that he appeared kind &
friendly, & had provided for us an ample breakfast; which however we
were soon constrained to leave (or carry with us) & follow bro. &
Sister Wilcox to their home, whom we had supposed too much lumbered
�Waialua 1848
up to be in circumstances to accommodate us.
to look after our baggage.
offered gratuitous aid.
After dinner we began
Men were ready to help us, but none
Old times had passed away.
After two nights
spent at B r . Wilcox's our house was tenantable & we entered it:
but it was a sorry looking home to Mrs. E ., quite unlike the place
we had left but four years before. -
Yet it was our home, & we re-
solved to make the best of it.
The sabbath soon arrived - & I preached in the morning to about
300 people, a congregation, as Bro. W. informed me, almost twice as
large as usual.
The afternoon cong. was 175.
For successive sabbaths there was
no falling off; but rather an increase in the numbers, this was en
couraging.
And indeed we soon found that the apparent distance at
which the people held themselves was not occasioned by the coldness
that we thought was visible.
They had long been kept at a distance,
& the idea that they could be met with mutual cordiality by their
pastor, had long been forgotton ( !).
Many times after we heard this
remark "God has heard our prayers & returned to us our pastor” .
This feeling we have since been fully satisfied was not without
sincerity.
There was in many hearts a deep feeling of attachment to
those who had been with them from the beginning.
Although much occupied in constructing places for books medi
cines &c ; I made occasional excursions to Waialee, Kawaihapai &
Waimea; & on all occasions found encouragement.
The people were
not dead; but the wise & the foolish were sleeping together.
After
visiting Waialee repeatedly the people from Kahuku came down on a
sabbath afternoon & gave me a large congregation.
At which time a
number now profess to have given their hearts to the Savior.
who had for a long time been debared ( !) the privilege of the
Many,
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W aia lu a 1848
Lords t a b l e , came forward with words of penitence & promises to
serve the Lord.
I d id not however f e e l in h aste to c r e d it the pro
fe s s io n s of but few of those who seemed to be coming up out of a
s l eep of y e a r s .
The subject of a communion for the Chch. at W aialua
often came up to mind but w a s defered ( ! ) fo r about three months,
& they had had no Com. for s ix months p revious.
The dread of the
r e s p o n s ib il it ie s of th e occasion was one reason for the d e l a y .
October the communion season was h e ld ,
In
a fter conversing in d iv id u a l l y
w ith each member of th e Church, & every one under d i s c i p l i n e , & a l l
out of th e Chch. who might desire to speak w it h me about t h e ir souls
concerns.
The effe c t of the occasion was happy, as also was that of
the communion se aso n .
Many new faces were seen in the house of God;
many old associations revived; & some became from that reason p er
manent attendants on r e lig io u s worship who befo re were strangers to
the house of God.
The names of many a t this time were announced as
p rofessedly penitent fo r th e ir departures from duty, as professed
follow ers of C h rist , & as resolved to re tu rn to the f a i t h & obedience
of the Gospel.
D uring the f i r s t year after my return to the s t a t io n , but one
was r e cd to the Church by pro fessio n ;
quite a number however of those,
who h ad formerly b een p rofessors, were restored to the bosom of the
Church.
- many o f whom have since w alked orderly among u s , & have
apparently honored th eir pro fessio n .
Our congregations at W aialua
have been on the in c re a se , during the past two y e a r s , & y et so slow
has been the increase & so regular that we could hardly t e l l the sab
baths when the greatest increase took p la c e ;
or the pleasant sab
baths when there were no new faces in the congregation.
Our congre
gations are now about 500 in the morning, & 400 in the afternoon at
the s t a t io n ;
-
there are also meetings h eld re g u la rly at seven or
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eight other places in the field embracing a number several times as
large as that which meets at the station.
I could not say that there has been a great revival of religion
at our station during the past two years, & yet there has been an
upward progress that is truly pleasing. -
Divine truth has been
listened to with increased attention by increasing numbers both
morning & evening of the Sabbath, as well as on lecture days & monthly
concerts; -
a disposition also to contribute & to labor for the pro-
motion of objects of benevolence has greatly increased; -
all of
which are more encouraging than would have been any great & genral ( ! )
rush, that might continue for a few months & then subside.
Koolauloa.
There are now in Koolauloa two separate Chchs. whose centres
are Haula & Kahuku; eight miles distant from each other, & the
former is twenty miles from the station at W aialua.
The church at
Kahuku was not organized till the first Sabbath in April last, but
had a separate communion in the month of Decr previous.
With these
two churches I have spent seventeen or eighteen sabbaths during the
past year & ten months.
Bro. Gulick also has spent with them four
or five sabbaths besides repeated sabbaths & parts of sabbaths spent
at Waialee.
On my first visit to Haula ( !) I met a very large congregation,
many more than their meeting-house could contain; -
& on all pleas
ant sabbaths since, when due notice has been given, the attendance
in the morning has been uniformly large; & repeatedly so large, that
the school house has been filled with a congregation of children while
the meeting house was filled with adult worshippers.
The interest in
religious meetings i n Koolau is apparently very good, & increasingly
so.
More persons have been recd to those chchs. than to the Waialua
chch. -
not perhaps however because there is more piety there than
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5.
1848
at Waialua, but it may be, because the pastor, having a less perfect
knowledge of their private habits & manner of life is less able to
reasonably oppose or deferr their admission to the chch.
Native helpers.
Of these we have in Koolau two, besides the leaders of sevral (!
)
divisions or neighbourhoods in the field, of these there are about
forty, who conduct morning prayer meetings &c.
These two native
helpers are both graduates from the Theol. class in the Seminary in
1847.
Their names are Kekela &. NUiapaakai.
The former is located
at Kahuku, & is doing good; the latter is just commencing his labors
at Laie, where there is much need of such labor as he is able to
perform.
I hope that these two men will be licensed to preach the gospel
by the Hawaiian Association or by brethren present before we break
up.
The religious interest in Koolau, as well as Waialua, has been
on the increase during the past year.
Morning prayer meetings in
nearly all the neighborhoods have been well attended.
The Bible
has been a good deal called for & many are reading it through in
course.
The Elele & school books generally have been much called
for.
Statistics of the church.
The statistics of the churches -
I unite in one as it is not
easy to report in form & correctly without so doing.
Whole no. ad. on examination
"
"
"
by letter - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Admitted the past two years on exam.
”
773.
60.
71.
the past two years on certif. - - - -
19
Dismissed -in all to other chchs. - - - - - -
65
Dismissed the past 2 years
10
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Died in all
103
Died past two years - - - - - - - - - - - - -
27
Now in regular standing - - - - - - - - - - -
461
Whole no of children baptized - - - - - - - -
618
Baptized the past two years - - - - - - - - -
76
Marriages the past 2 years - - - - - - - - -
78
Average congregations
"
Waialua
" ---- ----------------- --
"
Kahuku
" - - - - - - -
"
Haula
" - - - - -
- - - -
---
___
- -
500
200
450
Contributions.
Our three Chchs. are but a small band, among the smallest of
the Hawaiian Chchs. & but a short time since they were very back
ward to hear the preached gospel; there has been however a pleasing
improvement in their disposition to act as well as to hear.
Contributions during the two past years have been as follows.
From Koolau cash
Waialua "
Koolau & Waialua for S.N.E.
"
forKekela
"
In all cash from both fields
$65.80
420.68
20.00
45.66
552.14
There have also been contributed in labor, materials for building a
meeting house in Koolau, which materials are on hand about
$100.
Work performed at Kahuku for Kekela & the meeting house at
that
place $50.00.
Work, at Waialua in getting wood, lime for meeting house & thatch
ing a room for a vestry
in all
$200.
$350.
Whole amount of contributions in the field, not including $662, handed
me by Mr. Wilcox & $5.87 by Rev. L. Smith
$902.14 of the cash con
tributed, $420.68 have been expended in repairs on the meeting house
�Waialua 1848
7.
at W. which is now floored & partially seated, the rest, except what
was contributed for S .N.E. & Kekela, is in the form of materials
for the erection of a permanent church at Haula in Koolau.
The contributions at Waialua have altogether exceeded my expec
tations; as that portion of the Church has contributed, during the
past two weeks to cancel a debt for the last repairs on the meeting
house a sum of$
.
0
2
1
I indulge the hope that some of our people are beginning to feel
that poverty is not induced by giving in support of benevolent objects,
but the contrary.
Of the truth of this they have of late had several
striking illustrations.
One chch. member, under discipline, had with held his contribu
tions, & had successfully persuaded others to do likewise.
This man
has recently had his buildings all destroyed by fire with everything
he posse(sse)d.
Another individual of opposite character, who had
contributed in cash about $18. for the meeting house, found all his
plans were prospering; this man, in order to pay up the debt standing
against them, contributed only a few days since $350 in addition to
former contributions.
His neighbours see in these two cases, as well
as in a multitude of others, that the Lord prospers those who seek
intelligently the promotion of his kingdom in the earth.
The prompt
ness with which this debt has been paid up has greatly relieved &
cheered my mind.
Labors.
Much of the time I have given all who wished to converse with me
in the district of Waialua a chance to do it once per month.
Of this
opportunity some two hundred persons have been in the habit of avail
ing themselves.
To this labor a good portion of three days has gen-
erally been devoted each month; & it has not been without its ad-
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vantages.
1848
8.-------
When practable ( !) I have had a school 1 1/2 hours each
week, in which I have read & explained the Hawaiian laws to the
people.
This school has been much desired by a few of the more
intelligent portion of the people.
It has been attended Wednesday
P.M. previous to the stated Wednesday lecture.
During the past four months I have made eight tours in the dis
trict of Koolau, for preaching & attending protracted meetings
examining schools &c.
I have also spent twelve days during this
time in conversing with the people individually in respect to their
spiritual condition.
I am of the opinion that frequent, close & pointed conversation
with individuals, in respect to their feelings, habits & hopes are,
in connection with the preaching of the gospel of very great impor
tance in rousing the attention of the careless & the stupid.
Communion seasons, of which we have twelve per year in three
chchs. are seasons of great labor & exhaustion; - as I am in the
habit of conversing individually with each member of the chch. during
the week previous to the communion.
This season is made the more laborious, from the necessity that
is put upon me to withstand a torrent of urging & pressing arguments
from our deacons for large & speedy additions to the church.
One
said, standing before me in an eloquent atitude ( !), "Was not Saul,
the son (of) Kish, a wicked man up to the time when Samuel annointed
him with oil; & did he not immediately receive another heart & be
come another man; why then not expect that men will become better by
being baptized & recd . to the church?"
I find no argument against
making natives pastors of chchs. so strong as this one, the utter
impossibility of their being able to say no, when importuned to
make great additions to the chch.
Meetings for prayer have been
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held, the past year in many neighbourhoods, every morning; the fe
males in many cases meeting by themselves & the males by themselves.
Mrs. E. has held a monthly meeting with all the female super
intendents of prayer meetings, & they in turn have held weekly
meetings for prayer & exhortation which have been productive of much
good.
Schools.
the schools in Waialua will be reported by Bro. Gu-
lick & also his other labors, respecting which it becomes me here
to say that his labors in conducting meetings at the out posts, &
preaching at the station, in case of my absence & at other times as
health would permit has often been very timely & desireable ( !).
Schools in Koolau have been of an improved order of late, &
the teachers, getting better pay than formerly, are coming up to
their work with an increase of strength.
There are in Koolau thir
teen protestant schools, & five papist schools - protestant scholars
385, papist do. 90, prot. readers 190 papist do. 52; prot. writers
130, papist do. 20; protest in written Arithmetic 111, papist do. 31.
Protestant Algebra 50, Papist do none.
papist none.
Protestant singers 58,
The pay o f teachers is in proportion to their qualifi
cations to teach & the number of their scholars.
Nearly all the protestant teachers are paid 25 cts. per day,
but not more than one of the papist teachers receives more than
122 cts. - & no one of them could probably pass an examination such
as would meet the requirements of the law.
Of the protestant teachers, five are from the Seminary at Lahainaluna, the rest were taught in the field.
The schools of the
papists are all small, & a large number of the children nominally
belonging to them are very young, really too young to be in school.
�Waialua 1848
Schools & temperance celebrations.
Of these we have had five in the field during the past two
years, two at Waialua, two at Haula in Koolau & one at Kahuku.
The feasts at Waialua were very pleasant seasons, the latter, which
was attended in February last, far surpassing in the exhibition
of comforts & conveniences for furnishing a table the former, &
showing a progress onward & upward in civilization.
The feasts at
Haula also were of an encouraging character, showing that the people
have resources & ability, whenever they may set about the accomplish
ment of an object.
Tables, chairs, plates, knives, forks, bowls,
spoons, tumblers, mugs &c &c. all seemed to be at hand & abundant.
But the exhibition of their table furniture at the last celebration
much exceeded that of the year previous.
A range of tables, not
less than four hundred or 500 feet in length, was well furnished
with an abundance of crockery & glass ware, displaying a good degree
of taste & skill both in selection & arrangement & order of the fur
niture, as well as the richness & variety of the vivands (viands ?).
Some of the tables cost fifteen dollars each; & the whole amount
expended by the people in procuring these articles of furniture &
clothing for themselves & children for this occasion was estimated
at several thousand dollars.
There were also on the ground & tied
near the place of feasting between 400 & 500 horses & animals
of the horse kind, nearly all of which were rode on to the ground
by natives who owned them.
The cellebration ( !) at Kahuku was encouraging, displayed a
good amount of effort to improve their furniture dress &c.
The
effect of these cellebrations will be in all cases to aid forward
the cause of civilization & refinement, by creating wants such as
the rude barbarian does not feel & is slow to cherish.
It is by
�Waialua 1848
impulses, such, as these, this people will be lead to use tables,
plates, knives, forks, spoons, tumblers, pots, kettles &c. all of
which at the outset are to them useless articles, only in the way;
& when the feast is over most of them will be laid aside to rust
or not, as useless trash.
Without new wants are created, industry can hardly be expected
to increase to a very great extent; for who will work without a
motive?
There needs however in my opinion much vigilance on the
part of the missionary to prevent their celebrations from running
into an ext(r)eme.
At the last celebration at Haula, I noticed an
elegant youth, dressed in the perfection of good taste, from the
ribbon in the shoe to the white glove.
I marveled to know where he
could deposit his rich attire after the occasion was passed.
A
few days later, I called at the home, where the youth lived, to ad
minister medicine to a poor sick woman.
25 feet by twelve without partitions.
The house was in size about
The posts of the house/ were
four & a half or five feet high; door at the end where I entered
three &
or four feet high.
The house was covered with thatch,
well smoked up by cooking food &c in the centre of the house.
The
bui(l)ding was inhabited by fourteen souls of men, besides cats
& dogs many.
There were no mats on the ground, inside of the house,
except in a portion of the house, but the ground was covered by dry
grass.
A roll of mats however lay on one side of the building be
sides a canoe & its furniture, with an abundance of calabashes &
perhaps one or two trunks -
The air in the building, as I remained
in it ten or fifteen minutes created in me a pain in my head, &
quite an uncomfortable feeling in my stomach, so foul was its charac
ter; yet in this house lived that young man whose dress at the tem
perance celebration was sufficiently splendid & rich to adorn the
�Waialua 1848
palace of the King.
If such celebrations could (be) closed up by an examination
of the houses of the people & their internal arrangments ( !), I
think that the happy effects of the same might be greatly increased.
As to school houses.
There was but one protestant school
house in the district two years since, & that was a meeting house
used for a school house.
There are now seven good grass houses for
schools, but furniture for the same is wanting.
Papists.
The papists have two meetings regularly in our field on sabbath
days, one in the district of Waialua, & the other at Kaluanui in
Koolau, nearly thirty miles apart.
They occasionally meet at two
or three other places, when the foreign priest passes through the
field.
The number who are accostomed ( !) to meet on the sabbath
is now as I am informed very small, perhaps 50 or 100 at Waialua, &
100 or 125 in Koolau.
They have ho decent house of worship in the
k (!)
field, & none of any kin\, that would accommodate over 100 persons.
They have had the foundation of a stone house laid at Waialua for
more than two years, but for the past two years I have seen no
evidence of progress in the work.
There has been a regular but very gradual decline in popish
influence in our field for at least two years.
Their foreign priests
have not been popular, & were rather tolerated & endured than de
sired by their own followers.
I regard the present influence of the papists in our field as
an evil but not without its advantages in this imperfect state.
It
makes the people more observing; they judge the professed teachers
of religion as well as their disciples by their works.
They also
begin to feel the necessity of going to the Bible to learn truth &
to see if the preacher builds on the foundation of the apostles &
�Waialua 1848
13.
prophets & not on his own.
It is reported that there is a dissatisfaction with the Popish
priest arising from an undue partiality shown by him in the confessional to the handsom(e) females, to the mortification of those
who receive no kiss from him; but the truth of this I have not at
tempted to trace out very largely.
A few females give these unde
sired attentions as the reason for leaving the papists.
Other practices are rumored, not suitable to be reported here,
that raised the disgust of some, who once were of their number.
Time the revealer of secrets will make its own report on this subject.
Secular labors.
Of these I have found occasion for the performance of a great
variety.
When we returned to the post two years since cultivation,
except in the kalo patches beyon(d) the reach of the cat(t)le, had been
almost entirely laid aside; so that for many months the past year
bananas, potatoes, melons &c. were not to be found in the district,
& there was no prospect that there ever would be any again till
some one made a move on the subject.
Many of the people had left
their lands, & others were on the point of leaving, as poverty only
was before them.
The pastor, in these circumstances, felt either
compelled to see his parish given up to the entire ravages of wild
cat(
t)
le, & be left without a people or else engage in efforts to
procure them relief.
The latter alternative was adopted; & after
much time was expended, much writing performed, & many trials of
feeling submited ( !) to, the people are now placed in a fair way to
be protected in their rights.
There is now a pound for estrays ready
for use; &, what is better, there is a law made by the people themsleves taxing all catle ( !) & horses running at large, to aid in
building enclosures.
The people have also engaged to work two full
�Waialua 1848
days per month on these inclosures; or, in case of absence, to pay
25 cts. for each days absence.
The lord of the soil has also engaged
to give two of his working days for the same object.
The people are
now engaged with a good degree of enthusiasm in erecting stone
walls, of not less than ten of (or) fifteen miles in extent, to
enclose their various plantations.
If this work is completed Waialua
will be greatly improved.
The people, in some parts of the field, are beginning to think
of the use of the plough.
Fifteen yoke of steers have (been) sold
to natives from the Mission heard
( !), & most of them are at this
time in the progress of training, by drawing stones for fences.
plough is already purchased by a native & ready for use.
One
When
natives use their own ploughs on their own soil, there is hope that
they will not all become hewers of wood & drawers of water, & herds
men for foreigners.
Untill the plough is thus used by them, their
prospect of becoming their own masters is small.
Our oven family.
We have been generally blessed with health yet Mrs. E. has
been a part of the time somewhat afflicted.
We have sent to Hono
lulu once only for a physician for a sick child, but in that case
were disappointed in not being able to obtain one; yet God in mercy
blessed our instrumentality & raised up the child then prostrate with
disease.
Our oldest son, after two years detention from study on account
of disease in his eyes, took passage in the Abraham Howland with Br.
Forbes & family for the U. States.
was great, but duty was clear.
The trial of parting with him
This trial hew ever was much relieved
by the pleasing & increasing evidence we were permited ( !) to enjoy,
that he had truly given his heart to the Savior.
On the 7th of
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January, he & John Gulick united themselves to the native chch. at
Waialua, a circumstance which I doubt not, has tended to increase
the interest of the natives in them both.
When Saml was about leav
ing for the U. States the chch. members, at their own instance, made
up a purse of $20. for his use in procuring articles to he regarded
as a present from them.
They now often speak of him with interest.
My opinion is, that our children, if pious should unite to the chchs.
of which their parents are pastors, & not to a mission chch. which,
from the nature of the case, cannot not ( !) meet but once in one or
two years.
In conclusion I would record the goodness of God to us, at this
station, during the past two years.
While we have not been unvisited
by sickness, death has not been allowed to enter our Missionary dwell
ings.
While our labours as missionaries have been attended with the
blessing of God.
I know of no period when the Influences of the Spirit
have appeared to be more obviously & abidin(g)ly present with the
people, yet working in a still & silent way, making it obvious that it
was of God & not of man.
As our congregation have been regularly in
creasing in number, so have our contributions regularly increased in
amount & our people advanced in industry & civilization.
Our debts for meeting house &c have been paid up & every good work
progresses.
Intemperance has not been known in our field during the
past two years - yet I have heard of awa having been raised & sold to
the government officer in some quantities & used secretly by the lowest
class of the people.
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Statistics of the Chch.
Ad. on Exam.
By letter
Ad. past 2 years by exam
Do by letter
Dis to other chchs.
Do past 2 years
Died in all
Died past 2 years
Now in reg. standing
Lost or wandering
Whole no. children paptized ( !)
Bap. past 2 years
Married past 2 years.
Average cong. Waialua
D o . Kahuku
Haula
773
60
71
19
65
10
103
27
461
210
618
76
78
500
200
450
(Unsigned; J.S. Emerson)
�Gulick's Report - Waialua, 1848
In reviewing the period that has elapsed since we last assembled
here, it will he no tedious task to tell the amt of my missionary la
bors.
They have been few & feebly performed.
Owing to causes beyond
our control, it was not till the first of Aug. /46 that we reached our
present station. And the effort required for moving & getting things
in their proper places I found quite exhausting to my enfeebled system.
And I had scarcely recovered from sickness occasioned by those efforts,
ere an unusually rainy winter set in; & this bro't with it, rheumatism
cough, & an increase of the bronchial disease, with wh. I have long
been afflicted.
And my history during the last winter has been sub
stantially the same.
Two of our children have also been visited with alarming illness.
But through divine goodness, they were graciously spared to us. -
For
months in succession I have been unable to do anything worth naming.
And even when more comfortable, I am so far worn out, rusted out
or withered by disease, that I have very little energy & resolution
either for mental or physical effort of any kind.
I have however,
during most of the time been able to preach a little; & exercise a
limited superintendence of the schools in Waialua district.
In all I
have delivered 87 sermons & lectures, attended some funerals & prayer
meetings; & the children's Sab. schools when health permitted. The schools In our district, tho by no means what we wish to see
them, are doubtless doing much good, & I think are better sustained
than they formerly were.
The teachers are now promptly paid, & I be
lieve to the full amt of their earning.
There are a little rising 300
pupils on the Protestant teachers' list; but somewhat short of this
in regular attendance.
50 pupils.
There are also two popish schools with about
The govt Superintendent is an honest, & good man, & himself
�Waialua 1848
a teacher.
2.
There are 9 schools & 7 other teachers, & 2 assistant
teachers on half pay.
A singing school is also taught by a graduate from Lahainaluna;
& is exerting a good influence.
During the year a substantial stone school house has been erected
at the station, 60 feet by 30, & so far finished as to be useable tho
quite incomplete.
It has already cost about $200.- cash, beside a
considerable amt of lumber & some work done by publick authority.
To
meet this expense, it was deemed necessary to suspend the schools 3
months, & devote the funds usually appropriated to paying teachers to
that object.
Another schoolhouse has been erected at an out station.
The children that can read, generally commit a verse of Scripture
daily, & recite it in school; & more than 100 are connected with the
station Sab. school.
Their attendance however, till latterly has been
quite irregular; but for several weeks past there has been a very
pleasing change in this respect.
recite it at the Sab. school.
Those pupils who commit Scripture
And when able to be present I endeavor
to expound the verses recited, & to impress the truth upon their minds.
We have had annually a publick festival, about the beginning of
the year designed chiefly tho not exclusively for the benefit of the
children.
On these, & other occasions it has been very gratifying to
observe the clear indications of advancing civilization, & improvement
in the social condition, of the people with whom we sojourn.
These
are apparent in the dress, & general appearance of the mass of the
people, & more especially of the children.
They appear also in the
increase of their household furniture, the possession of cattle horses,
&c.
>•
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Waialua 1848
Statistics
10 Teachers, including 2 assistants
7
? X Schools
300 pupils
185 Readers
100 writers
180 In arithmetic
100 In geography
45 Scripture Geography
Protestant
Schools &
teachers
�Report of P.J. Gulick April 1849
Waialua, Oahu
In reviewing the year past, we find very little worth recording,
except an uninterrupted stream, of goodness & mercy, to us & ours, from
the Giver of every good gift.
When in His righteous dispensations, the rain descended, & the
floods came, & li terally surrounded, & threatened to overwhelm us,
He who sitteth upon the flood, said, hitherto shalt thou come, but no
further; & here shall thy proud waves be stayed; hence we were neither
swallowed up, nor seriously injured.
And when the pestilence which walketh In darkness, & the destruc
tion which wasted at noonday, on our right hand, & on our left, entered
out dwelling, & had even prostrated one of our number, the same all
powerful voice, of our great Benefactor arrested their progress; the
victim was restored, and our 'olive plants' are still about us.
May these unspeakable mercies, lead both them & their parents, to feel
their increased obligations to honor & glorify Him, who hath bestowed
them.
Although our own steps have apparently, of a long season, been on
the verge of the grave, which has as it were yawned to receive us, still
our tottering feeble frames have been sustained, and our health, not
greatly reduced below its ordinary level.
And yet, so little direct
missionary work, has either of us been able to do, that I cant imagine
it has been for this, that our lives have been prolonged.
During the prevalence of the epidemics (which as you are aware,
was several months;) we, like many of our brethren, were chiefly oc
cupied in efforts to supply the physical wants of our sick & dying
neighbors.
The scenes of suffering then witnessed, have led us in
publick & private to make efforts to induce them to provide in time
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Waialua 1849
of health, for emergencies of a similar nature.
It seems apparent,
that, unless they can be induced in stead of spending their money for
silks & other superfluities, to lay it out in building comfortable
houses, & in procuring food & raiment for themselves and families adap
ted to their circumstances, a few more such visitations, would leave
but a meager remnant of the nation. -
The dispensations of Providence
towards them, seem to say to each of us, with emphatic tone, What
thou doest, (either for their bodies or their souls - 'do quickly',
for the time to do them good, is gliding rapidly away; \ they will soon
be beyond your reach. Our direct public efforts, in our Master's cause, may be summed up
in a few words.
Though not always able to preach, I have on an averag\ (!)
delivered about one sermon weekly.
In addition to this, I have usually
superintended the station Sabbath school, have attended some 12 or 15
funerals, & various prayermeetings.
During a considerable part of the year, I have also, held a weekly
meeting with the children of 5 schools of our vicinity in our station
school house.
I usually spend about an hour with them in hearing them
recite the catechism prepared by Mr. Armstrong, explaining it to them,
and endeavoring to impress the fundamental truths therein contained,
on their consciences.
And from their proficiency in committing to memory, & their appar
ent understanding of the subjects bro't to view, I have hope that some
salutary impressions may be made on their minds, which will never be
oblitterated; & that should they be spared a generation may be reared,
which shall be far in advance of their fathers; in mental & moral
culture.
For a few months, I have had a school once a week for the
teachers in our vicinity.
Our time was spent in reading Moral Phil
osophy correcting their errors & comments on that work.
�Waialua 1849
3.
During the prevalence of the epidemics, the schools were unavoid
ably suspended.
Except this, and a previous recess of two weeks, they
have been in operation, & the teachers are promptly paid, & as I think
to the full value of their services.
And although they are not doing,
nor qualified to do, all the school master should do; yet it is believed
they are doing an important work, for the rising generation.
And al
though the children do not advance, as fast as we desire to see them,
still that they do advance, I have no doubt.
And that many of them, can
readily answer questions, in arithmetic & geography which would have
puzzled many who were teachers a few years since, I am equally sure. As to school houses, there is, in our district, but one that can
sustain even a tolerable claim to that name; & that tho having substan
tial walls, & a good thatched roof, has neither doors floor, nor seats;
properly speaking.
We should however have been able to report more favorably, in this
particular, had there been suitable lumber for finishing the house,
in market.
Beams for a floor have been procured, funds are in hand for
purchasing flooring &c; & an effort to raise more, for paying the car
penter, & defraying other incidental expenses, has been commenced by
cultivating the land in our enclosure.
a bill of expense.
But as yet, this has been only
It is presumed however that some $40. or 50.00 will
be realized from this source, in a few months.
(Unsigned)
�Waialua 1849
Statistics of schools
Waialua
9 Schools
9 Teachers
325 Pupils total at last examination.
221 Readers
207 In arithmetic
145 In written geography
122 in Topographical do
100 Writers
35
Read in Huli kanaka viz Moral philosophy
About 200 Have read in the Scriptures X
Until they commenced the study of the catechism in school, the readers w
were accustomed to commit a verse a day from the N. Testament.
Teachers receive from 12 1/2 to 25 cts pr day for their services, either
in cash, or articles at cash value.
X Since the examination from which these statistics were gathered one
school of 39 has been suspended the no. of scholars having fallen below
15 wh the law requires to constitute a school.
including 77 pupils.
There were 4 Popish schools
But one of these of 19 pupils has been disbanded.
In our station Sab. School there were a little rising 100 children.
Some $200. or $300 on hand for building School houses.
(Unsigned) (Gulick)
�April 1849
Station report for Waialua, Oahu
The past year has been to us a very eventful one.
During its
rapid flight we have passed through Scenes pleasant & cheering to
our hearts, & others again deeply distressing & disheartening.
Sick
ness among the natives & in my own family has disarranged a large por
tion of my plans; so that many things I fully intended to do have
failed of accomplishment, while many others that I had no calculation
for performing have been forced upon me.
On returning home from our last General Meeting, we found our
people in a good degree of readiness to attend to religious instruction.
Congregations on the sabbath were full & attentive, & meetings, of two
or three days continuance, were held at the request of the people in
various parts of the field.
These meetings were well attended; &
were instrumental of bringing out to public worship quite a number of
people, who had been stupid & unconcerned; & on the minds of some
it is hoped that Divine truth has been set home with saving power.
Much of my time during the first three or four months of the year was
spent very pleasantly & I trust profitably among the people in Waialua
& Koolau.
B r . Gulick also being in better health than usual, labored
as his health would allow.
us.
That was one of the spring seasons among
The word of the Lord seemed to take effect.
It was not like water
spilled upon the ground, but like seed planted in a prepared soil.
This pleasant state of things continued with increasing interest, till
early in October, when a sudden check was put to our efforts in preach
ing the gospel, & to many of our hearers a final period for hearing it.
Sickness among the people & in my own family.
Early in October, influenza, measles & whooping cough, made their
A appearance almost simultaniously ( !) among our people; & in a short
time prostrated their energies, so that meeting for public worship
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J.S. Emerson
2.
were well nigh suspended for the want of attendants.
Indeed all meet
ings , except the regular services on the Sabbath, Wednesday lecture,
monthly concert & Sabbath morning prayer meetings were entirely omitted,
& these were thinly attended.
The congregation during the winter was
not more than one third as large as during the summer previous.
Those
who were well were very few, & all seemed needed to take care of the
sick, both on the Sabbath & on week days; & their attentions were quite
inadequate to the necessities of those prostrate by disease.
The
measles were generally followed by diarrhea, which frequently was
neglected till past remedy.
Many fell victims to its rage; others were
reduced to a weak & feeble state, & lingered along till February, when
the influenza made a new attack upon us; & very many, who were slowly
recovering from debility, were soon laid prostrate in death.
During the year 1848
298nof our people were called to their final
account, & most of them during this period of sickness.
Many others
have died since the first of January last, but how many I am not able
to state.
Deaths are still occuring with more than ordinary frequency.
By means of this protracted sickness much that was encouraging
became less so; much that seemed well begun, must be begun over again.
Up to the present time we have not got back to the favorable
position in which we stood six months since.
Our schools, that were
suspended from Novr till February, are not yet as efficient as or as
well attended as before.
Neither are our meetings for publick worship
as fully attended as in Sept. last.
Stupidity & neglect, rather than
wakefulness & attention, seem to have been induced by sickness & death.
The period of sickness was one of much heaviness of heart, & of
much labor.
It created great heaviness of heart to see the house of
God well nigh deserted, & no access to the people except as we dealt
out medicines at our doors, or visited from house to house.
The people
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3.
were allowed free access to us by day & by night, without any detriment
to ourselves; & hundreds of the sick were visited at their homes, where
the demonstrations of their gratitude were often truly gratifying.
Both of the mission families have been visited with more or less
illness during the year.
Both Bro. & Sister Gulick have been repeatedly
ill; - & I also have been admonished that I am mortal.
But no pro
tracted or severe attack of disease has called for a visit from the
physician till the 24th of January last, when another was added to
the number of our children.
Since then & up to the present day Mrs.
E . has been a sufferer, & most of the time confined to her bed.
The
active stage of her disease, phlegmasia solens, is now past; but a
weakened system, a limb some what swelled, often painful & very much
weakened, are still depriving her of the privilege of administering as
formerly to the necessities of the family.
Receptions to the Chch.
The effects of the interest at the commencement of the year, have
not wholy ( !) passed away.
trust will endure.
There are some precious fruits which we
Quite a number of backsliders have been reclaimed;
some chch. members that were inactive have been revived; & a number
of whom we indulged doubts have become more decided in their religious
characters; & others who never before appeared to have any interest in
religion now pray.
There have been recd to the chchs under my care
by profession during the past year
by certificate
Restored to the fellowship of the chch.
Present number of chch. members
151
12
47
610
Native helpers.
Kekela, of whom mention was made last year, still labors at Kahuku,
with fidelity & success.
whom 87 are chch. members.
The population of his field is but 331; of
His influence over them is good; they
�Waialua 1849 - J.S. Emerson
4.
appear to love & respect him, & think they can support him.
May last they have contributed for his support $48.17.
Since
He has also
recd by the hand of Bro. Alexander from the students of the Seminary
$10. & a like sum has also been contributed to Naua paakai, from the
same source.
Kekela & his wife are daily employed in teaching a singing & day
School, from which employment they receive a portion of their support.
Nauapaakai preaches at Hauula, & occasionally at other places in
Koolau.
He is doing well so far as has come to my knowledge.
He &
his wife are both employed in teaching schools a good portion of the
time & from school teaching they obtain most of their means of support.
The chch. at Hauula is now making an effort to erect a stone house
for publick worship.
They contributed in cash the past year mainly for
that object $111.87.
The walls of the house were commenced before the
sickness, but have not been touched since.
Timber & lime are ready for the completion of the frame work of
the house.
The chch. hopes to have the building up the present season.
There are in the Hauula chch. 237 members; & the whole population of
the field is 1216.
Their contributions in cash the past year for the
cause of Christ if averaged upon the entire population would amount to
between 9 & 10 cts each. -
If averaged upon the members of the chch.
it would equal 47 cts. to each member/.
Admissions to this chch by profession the past year 63 - & 47
have been restored to its fellowship.
Waialua Chch.
This embraces at the present time 286 members of
whom 63 were received the past year by profession & 5 by letter.
There
have been restored to this Chch. 35 who were under discipline.
Benevolent contributions - Cash contributed the past year in the
District of Waialua for seating the meeting house
$401.93.
This nearly
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5.
covers the whole expense of the work, that remained to b e done at
the close of the previous year.
The entire population of the field over which this chch. is
spread is 1690. of whom several hundred profess to he popists.
The
contributions of the past ten months if equalized upon the entire popu
lation of Waialua would amount to 25 cts to each man woman & child.
equalized upon the chch. it amounts to $1.40 for each member.
If
A
large portion of the people in this field have paid their school tax
in cash $2. each.
Church discipline.
The occasions for discipline in the chch.
during the past year have not been numerous, in all eight, four of which
were for giving or aiding in false testimony; a sin which is alarmingly
prevalent among the Hawaiian people.
Improvements.
The flooring & seating our Meeting House at Waialua
have added much to its appearance, & to t h e convenience of the worshipers.
The house is now nearly fitted with
made of N.W. boards &
well put together; & all paid for by the people except one or two
contributions by other friends.
Many of these slips have been purchased by individuals for the accom
odation of their families.
The idea of owning each his own slip is
very popular, & has aided much in raising the requisite funds to defray
the expenses of the house.
The idea also of each family always ap
pearing in their own slip on the sabbath is pleasing to them as well
as to their pastor.
Little has been done for school-houses during the year, either
in Waialua or Koolau.
have been erected.
Four or five grass ones of moderate value only
That portion of the year in which the erection of
school-houses was contemplated, was a season of sickness & a part of
it was also the rainy season.
We very much need ten or twelve good
school houses in the field & also two houses for public worship.
I
�Waialua 1849 - J.S Emerson
am happy to state that the materials for the erection of two of the
former are on hand, & the business has been commenced.
The meeting house at Hauula which is to be built of stone laid up
in lime, it is hoped will be in a good state of forwardness during the
present season.
Popery.
This evil has not apparently been on the increase, during
the past year.
Their Schools are two less than they were one year
since; & one or two others would be droped ( !), if the Kahu-kula en
forced the law that requires 15 scholars to entitle the teacher to pay
from Government.
A few of the papal teachers needing books have come
to us for bibles & testaments.
To one I gave 12 testaments on receiving
a promise from him, that he would take care of them & daily teach his
scholars to read in them.
books.
To this he readily made promise & took the
But at the examination of schools, that soon followed, he apo
logized for not bringing forward his testaments as the priest had taken
possession of them, & locked them up in his chest.
The teacher has
since informed me that the books could not be returned to me, as the
priest had distributed them around among his brethren, the priests, &
several of them had become soiled by use.
There is hope for the papal
priests, if they are so anxious to get hold of the word of God for
themselves to read, as to feel justified In taking without leave the
property of others, that they may read it.
The last report of schools
in Koolau gives the following statistics Scholars in papal schools
58
Scholars in protestant Schools
329
Papal schools diminished in numbers past year
71
Protestant
17
do
do
do
This decrease is in part occasioned by a tax levied on boys over
16 years of age for the support of schools - & nearly all such boys
�Waialua 1849 - J.S. Emerson
choose to leave school if they must pay a tax for its support.
Schools in Waialua will he reported by Bro. Gulick.
An. attempt at proselyting by a Jesuite. ( !)
One of our deacons was very sick, the past winter & was supposed
by many of his friends to be past recovery.
One of them, a papist
l (!)
It was a rainy /ime, the streams
reported his condition to the priest.
(I)
were greatly swolen & very rapid; a good time for meritorious action
in the view of a jesuite.
Our deacon lived on one side of a large &
rapid stream & the papist priest on the other side.
The Priest chose
this as a good time for conquest, so he waded through the water & mud,
& swimming the turbid stream, landed near the house of the deacon; &,
all dripping wet, went in to convert him to popery.
After some words
of salutation, the priest expressed his great solicitude for the sal
vation of the heretic; & proposed to baptize him that he might die
happy & be saved.
The deacon objected as he had been baptized.
The
priest insisted that his baptism would not save him as it was not
administered by the right person, but by a heretic only; & in proof
of his honesty & truth in thus saying alluded to his own clothing all
soaking wet; & that nothing but love for his soul could have induced
him, under such circumstances to come to baptize & save him.
The deacon assured him that dying or living he was satisfied with
his baptism & his Saviour & wished no other.
The priest retired much
grieved at the hard & unyielding character of our deacon.
This fact is one of the many to show that Jesuites in these Isls .
do attempt to proselyte; how much so ever they may complain of us, as
guilty of it.
General improvements.
Some natives are getting possession of meat-cattle; yokes chains
drags &c are in considerable use.
Good stone walls are rising up in
many places a substitute for old rotten adoby fences.
Timber is now
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8.
drawn from the woods by oxen; which but a little time since was drawn
by natives.
Ploughs are enquired for - But upland cultivation has not
yet been commenced with much vigor.
Land is desired by many, but only
one native has yet been able to procure any by purchase.
There are now 4 or 5 boats running much of the time between W.
& H. owned by the natives of Waialua.
Is now very much out of fashion.
Carrying burdens across the Land
Industry is obviously increasing, but
it increases slowly, & ability to obtain property has increased beyong
the disposition to industry.
Statistics of the Church
924 Whole no. admitted on Examination
72 Whole no. admitted on certificate
151 Ad. past year on exam.
12 Do on certificate
70 Dismissed to other chchs.
5 Do past year
155 Died in all
52 Died past year
610 Now in regular standing
654 Children baptized
36 Baptized past year
8
Disciplined the past year
35 Married the past year.
1500 Attendants on public worship in the field
Statistics of Schools in Waialua & Koolau
Number of Schools
No. Scholars
Boys
Girls
A. (Arithmetic)
Spelling
Reading
Writing
Mental Arith.
Written do.
Geography
Moral Phil.
Singing
In Koolau
16
387
213
174
78
58
251
108
128
125
188
8
32
In Waialua
11
306
153
Total
27
693
366
153
97
192
404
205
320
118
306
�Waialua 1839 - J.S. Emerson
Population
9.
Births & Deaths
Population of Waialua Jan. 49
1532
Pop of Koolau loa Jan. 1849
1689
Total in the field
324
Births in W. 1848
29
Births in K. 1848
28
Total births
57
Deaths in W. 1848
113
Deaths in K. 1848
185
Total of deaths in the two
298
Decrease in 1848
241
Average of deaths
1/11
J.S. Emerson
�Mr. Gulick's
(Report) 1851.
The writer of this report has abundant cause of gratitude to
the Giver of all good, for manifold mercies to himself & his family
since we last met together.
Then, we were deeply solicitous for the safety of a dear child,
whose wasted & attenuated form, & general debility, had awakened
the fears of his parents, & induced them to commit him to the care
of a kind friend & a gracious Providence for a voyage to & residence
in, a foreign land.
We would now gratefully record, the distinguishing goodness
of our heavenly Father, manifested in watching over that youth in
his voyaging & journeying on the deceitful & tempestuous ocean,
thro fog & frost, sleet rain & snow; thro desserts (! ) & forrests ( !),
inhabbited ( !) by ferocious animals, & fierce trecherous ( !) &
exasperated savages; by whom he was repeatedly plundered; & from
whose violence, he was protected, not by human strength or wisdom,
but by the Providential care of Him without whom not a sparrow
falls to the ground.
A little less than a year since, after more
than two years absence, we were permitted again to embrace him, whom
m any had deemed beyond the bounds of time; & with health, if not
permanently restored, certainly wonderfully improved; & also, with
the satisfaction derived from the fact, that, notwithstanding the
debility with which he left, & which continued to some extent, in
to the second year of his pilgrimage, & (up to that period, prevented
any vigorous effort for his own support) still, by his own efforts,
& after serious losses he had enough left, to more than cover all
his expenses, from the time of his embarkation.
We would also with deep gratitude, record the tender mercies
of our covenant God, to another member of our family; who, without
�Gulick (1851)
asking aid from any human being, has been permitted to visit the
father land, travel somewhat extensively in it, & return in less
than a year, without a day’s sickness, or any serious accident.
And also that we have been permitted to see still another of
our no. publicly united to the household of faith.
And although
his health was so poor that we deemed it necessary to try the
effect of a change of climate for its restoration, we trust even
this will result in his good & the glory of our great Benefactor.
And although we have had in our family probably more than our or
dinary share of sickness still so far as is known death has not
diminished our number, nor any chronic disease except in my own
case, been permitted to fasten on our frames.
But in regard to myself, & my helpmeet, tho infirmities, as well
as the marks of age are multiplying upon us.
Our strength & resolu
tion for efforts, whether physical or mental, are failing together. Our labors as an assistant missy have been similar to those of
years past, but somewhat, perhaps considerably, lessing ( !) quantity.
I have usually preached once on the Sabbath, sometimes twice & occa
sionally on a week day; beside attending the children's Sab. school,
& ordinarily meeting weekly with the station day school, to catechise
the children, on the verses of Scripture committed, & expound the same
to them.
The schools are, as you have heard in a condition by no means
flourishing.
And yet I think they are doing much good.
The cause of
their languishing is I think essentially the same that produces a
similar condition in the common schools in rural districts in our
native land, in the summer season; v iz the demand for the services of
the children & the high wages which the teachers can command in other
employment.
The high prices of native produce have rendered the
whole year harvest time, with this people.
And although the wages
�3.
Gulick (1851)
still, young men of enterprise could accumu
late faster in other ways.
During the past year the station school house has been floored &
pretty well seated; & is now comfortable & pleasant house.
The teachers are promptly (paid) at the end of every month &
there are on hand some 200.00 of school funds.
-
Statistics
as follows
Schools 8.
Whole no of scholars
Readers 186.
In mental arithmetic
Written Arithmetic 139.
Music 99.
Geography
Papal scholars about
276
179
145
50
Here permit me to say what I have often tho't. viz . that consider
ing merely my direct efforts for the spiritual welfare of this people,
were it not for the prejudice against miss.s returning to their native
land I & my family might perhaps as well be in the U.S. as here.
But
since it is not only, in spiritual things, this people need instruc
tion & example; & since from facts stated in the former part of this
report, I am encouraged to hope, that through my representatives I
may give to a portion of them a slight example of Yankee enterprise,
based as I hope it may be, on Puritan principles; perhaps it may be
well for me, to take the advice of Secretary Green & hold on here & see
what the Lord will do for us, & with us.
This on the whole we have
resolved to do; & it affords us sincere pleasure, to be able so to do,
without leaning on the funds of the Board for a support.
Still, I
w d here remark that as the land, most of i t ,at least wh. is connected
with the premises we occupy & wh. we expected to have without expense
under the 7th resolution, was given originally to support a manual
labor school, wh. we neither have sustained nor can, has already cost
me, in order to get it awarded to the Missn more than 80.00, & I
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4
have engaged to pay 20.00 more for the same object, it seems to me
proper that that amt. should be refunded to me.
to the Missn .
But I submit this
Perhaps it ought to be stated in this connection that
for the passage of my three sons to the U.S. no draught has ever been
made on the funds of the Board; nor am I aware that anything has been
drawn for the support of any of mine there except
$60.00 for the
eldest wh. may have been repaid by his guardian, as we are told he
purposed to do It is perhaps due to the mission that I here introduce another
subject, which however, I should have deemed quite unnecessary, had it
not been for remarks in a letter & in privat(!) conversation from the
moderator; in the latter urging that I adopt that course.
I allude
to my relation to the people of Waialua as their representative in the
nation legislature.
It was distinctly static, that by accepting this
post, which may call me away 6 or 8 weeks from my station I have in
his opinion lost my claim to all the privileges conveyed by the 7th
resolution, under which I took a dismission from the Board.
Now, while
I shall not deny that during the session of the legislature my duties
as a representative do somewhat conflict with the letter of the resolu
tion, I can’t see that it does with the spirit of it.
Nor can I see
any just ground for a distinction wh. the above mentioned brother thinks
he sees, between my helping the people to secure their rights by aid
ing them to get just laws, & aiding them as others do to secure land
?
by writing out their kuleanas, selling them land under the
gov't surveying; or in overseeing roads, &c . Perhaps self Interest
or some other wrong motive blinds me.
This must be the case or he
imagins ( !) there is a difference where there is none.
also to your kind & candid consideration.
P.J. Gulick
May 17, 1851.
I submit this
�Waialua Station Report May 1851
(J.S. Emerson)
We returned to our station at the close of Gen. Meeting in May
1849 encouraged by the improvement of Mrs. Emersons health that in
time her lameness might be mainly removed.
Hope also dawned upon us
in relation to the temporal prospects of our people, with which we
regarded our own permanent usefulness as closely connected.
But there was one subject that pressed with a mountains weight
upon our minds.
Our third son had for five or six years given evidence
of an organic affection of the heart, which from the time he had the
measles in 1848 developed itself with fearful rapidity.
The opinion
of the physicians whom we consulted at Gen. Meeting abated nothing
from our apprehensions.
That we were to take the child away from all
medical advice & from the midst of our brethren to die at a remote
station with but few to sympathize with us was trying.
But that he
professed at the time to indulge no hope that he had given his heart
to the Saviour created feelings of deep anxiety.
But our Heavenly
Father was better to us than our fears; although he did not alter the
decision to take the child from us, he comforted our hearts with the
belief that he was about to take him to himself.
That mind which for months had been making the anxious enquiry
"What shall I do to be saved?”
Saviour?"
"How shall I give my heart to the
"How can I pray aright?"
with declarations like the fol-
lowing; I fear I do not pray aright; the Saviour seems to be far off;
I fear I have never been born again; I do not feel that I am good enough
to go to the Saviour; I would do any thing I could to please God, but.
know not how to be reconciled to him"
This same child, when panting
for breath, & under the exercise of almost constant pain; hungry &
thirsty & yet unable to take but a morsel of food into his stomach;
& fully assured that his days were drawing very near a close; in
language very different from the above was heard to say, he envied
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no one of those he saw in health around him; he was willing to he sick,
he would not have one of God's plans in the least changed to accommo
date him; God's law was right & good & he loved it.
His character was
holy, & he would love him although he should slay him.
He had no
other in heaven or on earth that he desired besides him, & that he would
not wish to get well unless it was the Lord's will."
The child left
messages for his brothers, who were absent, & for the children at
Punahou, expressive of his strong desire that they would early give
their hearts to the Saviour; & when sinking in the arms of death, he
repeatedly said that Christ was near & precious that he could trust
his all in him.
Such feelings expressed by our child during the few
days & hours previous to his departure, more than removed that oppres
sive weight of anxiety that we had long felt for him.
It caused the
tear that flowed spontaneous at his departure to be more the expres
sion of gratitude for the grace bestowed than of grief for the loss
of one we loved.
May not this lesson be lost upon us & our surviving
children.
The general health of the families at the station has not been
much unlike what was enjoyed in years previous.
Bro. & Sister Gulick
although feeble & frequently unable for a time to be about, have yet
been able to do much for their family & Bro. G. has frequently preached
on the sabboth a part or the whole of the day.
In January 1850 I was
laid aside from my labors several weeks by a severe attack of fever.
Also in October last, I recd a fracture of the collar bone, which
after being set, became displaced, & is now & will be likely to remain
a permanent source of considerable inconvenience.
But although our
strength is weakened by the way our days are yet lengthened out, for
which we have much occasion for gratitude.
�Waialua 1851 - Emerson
State of the chch.
During the past two years there have been fewer additions to the
chch, under my care than usual in previous years.
Several protracted
meetings of two or three days in continuance have been held in places
somewhat remote from the station & to good purpose & there have been
several instances of hopeful conversion.
as a general
thing prayer meetings & week day lectures have not been attended so
numerously as at some former period, & more worldly mindedness has
been apparent in the community generally.
Meetings however on the
sabbath have been generally pretty well attended & cases of open sin
in the chch. have not been numerous.
Many of the people feel that this is among their last chances
to purchase land for themselves & their children, & therefore they
feel justified in making exertions that they would not otherwise make;
consequently they have been more frequently absent from Waialua &
our place of worship on the sabbath & on lecture days than was usual
in former times.
It is to be hoped that this evil will not be perma
nent.
Settlement of a native pastor at Kahuku.
Since our last Gen. Meeting, the portion of the chch. residing
at Kahuku have united in the settlement of Rev. James Kekela as pastor
over them, for whose support they have pledged $100. per year.
This
together with chch. lands & other facilities afforded him, it is hoped
will give him at least an economical support. Kekela was ordained in
Decr 1849 & has thus far sustained the pastoral relation to his chch.
with that modest dignity that becomes him, & which gives promise of
permanent usefulness.
So far as I have been informed he gives good
satisfaction to all who attend upon his ministry.
But as he will wish
to read you his own report, I will refrain from fruther comment upon
his labors.
�4.
Waialua 1851 - Emerson
Schools.
These are at the present time less flourishing than in
former years, the scholars forsake the schools at a younger age than
formerly; all who become liable to pay the school tax with very few
exceptions forsake the schools, & the teacher in consequence is left
with younger scholars, makes himself fewer exertions to replenish his
own mind with knowledge, & goes back down the hill of science which he
ought constantly to strive to ascend.
From repeated trials I feel
that I hazzard nothing that there are but two natives in our field
who at the present time could sustain a thorough examination in Mental
Arithmetic.
School books are much needed.
I do not mean that the
Ikemua, Kumumua, Helunaau &c are out of print, but that such books
as would tend to stir up the slumbering energies of both teachers &
scholars are not now in our schools.
We must have in part at least a
new set of school books, made in modern style & got up in better taste
than former books, or this nation will go back, back, in its intellec
tual attainments & our young men seek nothing higher than dexterity
in lassoing a horse or a bullock.
Let this Gov. expend a few of the
thousands now devoted to the support of a large police, many members of
which are of little or no service to the community in printing books
for the schools & I would hope some permanent advantage to the schools
as a consequent.
While on the subject of schools & books I will suggest that the
Ai o ka la for 1850 began to be both popular & useful with us before
the close of the year & we hoped a reprint of the same thing for
1851 as our people desired to go over it again - but the present Ai o
ka la is little sought & less used.
Let our Aio ka la for 1852 be got
up in better taste with covers & pictures some what in the style of
the American Christian Almanac, & be sold to the people, not given
away as a general thing & I shall hope good from it.
While gold is
among us what silver was & silver is as the stones of the street in
�Waialua 1851 - Emerson
5.
the estimation of the people, it can not be either wise or just to
allow foreign Christians to supply our chchs. with books of any kind.
Benevolent contributions in Waialua
Between April 1849 & April 1850
Between April 1850 & April 1851
$225.68
1096.25
Disbursed as follows
Lumber & repairs on meeting house
109.15
Contributed to Prot. Soc. in France
30.87
Towards the payment of a note to The
A.B.C.F.M.
105.78
To the funds of the A.B.C.F.M.
100.00
To aid the Western Mission
17.69
To aid in shingl\ing our Meeting
House
949.10
All paid in to the Depository
Remaining in my hands
11.38
$ 1323.97
(1321.93)
)
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)
)
)
)
)
)
-$ 1312.59
This sum except a portion of the contribution to the Fr. Prot. Soc.
was given entirely by the people in the district of Waialua.
The portion of the chch residing in Koolau have contributed about
$400 the past two years towards building for themselves a substantial
stone chch. but as the money is in the hands of their superintendant
I cannot state the exact sum.
The work of building is now at a stand,
not for the want of means but for want of a suitable person to carry
on the work.
The spirit of Christian liberality was perhaps never greater than
at the present time.
General improvement
Although we can not speak of a high degree of interest in our
sabbath or day schools, nor of much that can be called especial inter
est in religion during the two past years, yet the temporal condition
of many of the people has been greatly improved, & we hope that this
improvement in temporal things may ultimately benefit their spiritual
interests.
During these 2 years natives in Waialua have purchased
land in fee-simple which has been paid for to an expense of about
$3,000. & more is bargained for; 130 Royal patents are granted to them
�Waialua 1851 - Emerson
6.
& at least 130 families particpate as owners in these lands, 7,000
or 8,000 acres.
The purchase & pay for these lands is giving a spring
to energy in various ways.
The very effort called for to raise funds
to pay for lands has made the individuals who have made such efforts
both more able & willing to aid liberally in the promotion of benevo
lent objects than others who have made less effort to procure lands
for themselves & families.
Support of the Gospel.
Our people had commenced making quarterly contributions for the
support of their pastor but it was thought best to concentrate their
efforts the past & present year on the one object of re-roofing &
shingling our meeting house.
Therefore only one hundred dollars ap
pears in the report as contributed for that object the past year.
It
is hoped that after the present year their contributions will be more
substancial ( !).
The population however of Waialua district is only about 1400
of whom perhaps 1/7 are papists & 1/7 more are indifferent to the
gospel, & 2/7 more live at such a distance that they contemplate
building a meeting-house for themselves & having the ordinances of
religion sustained among them, which would leave 800 people all told
connected with the society worshiping ( !) at Waialua.
The population
of Koolau is 1,500, of whom about 500 belong to Kekela's field, & 300
or 400 more are either indifferent or are papists, leaving but 600
or 700 interested people, including women & children connected with
the outstation at Hauula.
These are now engaged in building a meeting
house which will require all or nearly all their contributions for
three or 4 years to come.
So that the prospects of our people for
giving the half of a support to their pastor for several years to come
Is rather uncertain.
�Waialua 1851 - Emerson
7.
Papists. At the present time the Papists have but one school
supported by Govt in the district of Koolau & that has not had of late
a sufficient number of scholars to claim a support for their teacher.
They occasionally hold one meeting on the sabbath within the district.
In Waialua there are two schools within the district belongingto the
papists & about fifty scholars.
But I am not aware that there has
been any accession to their numbers for several years.
They have a
chapel in Waialua built of stone, & at a very considerable expense,
only a small portion of which has been born by the people.
J S Emerson
May
1850
May
1 851
Recd past year on ex.
Whole No. do
Whole no. recd from other chchs
Dismissed to other chchs.
died past yr
Chchm members excluded died past year
Whole no. deceased in good stand •
Excluded past year
Remain Excluded
Now in regular standing
children baptized past year
Whole no. bap.
Marriages past year
population of the field
Attend public worship
24
948
81
150
47
--///
8
__
495
42
736
54
2400
1/2
16
964
92
59 *
40
///
7
__
466
10
746
44
2400
1/2
No. Schools
Scholars
Readers
Writers
Arithmetic
Geography
Music
Koolau
8
276
186
139
179
145
99
Papal Schools
Papal Scholars
1
50
Waialua Total
12
20
317
593
163
349
47
186
140
319
105
250
81
180
2
13
3
63
�Waialua Station Report read May 1852
It is now 20 years since the Waialua Station was commenced.
These 20
years have developed many changes among the people; most for the
better, but many apparently for the worse.
The spirit of servile
obedience has in a great degree departed; & men., if they move at all,
now act from some other if not better motive than the mere will of
those who were once Lords of the soil.
There is now in the land much more cheerful & productive industry
than then; more comfort; more wealth; & this wealth is obtained as a
general thing more honorably & intelligently & more equally distribu
ted than it then was.
There is now more noble independance ( !) of mind less hypocrisy &
much more intelligent, manly & efficient piety than then.
On the contrary there is now much more open sabbath-breaking than
then.
He who then feared to feed his pig or fill his calabash with
water because it was kapu day, has now learned to interpret the pas
sage "the sabbath was made for man" liberally as to feel no hesita
tion xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx in saddling his horse for a ride on the even
ing of the Lord’s day.
There is now more profanity, more filthy con
versation in public places, more stealing, & more litigation than then
Books are less sought now than then, but better read; Schools are less
attended & yet scholars make more progress in the same length of time
And what of all this; it is only saying that there is progress Where wheat grows well tares also will thrive.
The Gospel proves a
savour of life unto life to some & of death unto death to others.
In reviewing the events of the past year we find many things for
which to be grateful.
Death has not visited our dwelling, nor, so
far as we know, our children or near relatives.
Neither have deaths
among our people been as numerous as in past years.
we have had sickness & pain.
Yet in our family
Mrs. Emerson's health has been feeble &
Wm Schauffler has been a great sufferer from dyspepsia .
As a last
�Waialua - 1852
2.
resort we have sent h i m on a whaling cruise to the North.
Capt.
Gelett, with w h o m you are all more or less acquainted, consented to
take h i m into his cabin & allow h i m to do whatever his s t r ength would
permit; hoping at the end of six or seven months to restore h i m to us
in at least improved health.
We regard it as an experiment but trem
bl i n g l y hope it will prove favourable.
We have also h a d under our
roof since August last a foreigner who w a s drawn in a state of h e l p
lessness out of a house on fire & cast upon us rheumatic in every
joint destitute of clothing & penny less
drawn, & scorched w i t h the flame.
( !) Lasce r a t e d
b y being
He i s n o w better & we hope that
his afflictions w i l l be of use to him.
Our associates Bro. Gulick & family have enjoyed about their
us u a l amount of health & strength; & Bro. G. has been able to render
assistance on the sabbath & on other occasions, much as in former
years.
General improvements.
During the past y e a r a n e w road has bee n opened in front of our
meeting- h o u s e which has diminished our distance to Honolulu about 1/2
of a mile.
Five substancial
( !) bridges also have b e e n thrown
over
the streams bet w e e n Waialua & Ewa, which relieve us f r o m the necessity
of fording streams, & fro m the anxiety w e often have felt lest some
of the streams be deep & impassible.
A n e w road has also b e e n laid
out through most of the district of Koolau which shortens
in traveling some what & adds greatly
the distance
to the comfort in traveling -
W h e n the remainder of the road is finished & other bridges are com
pleted we shall h a v e a passible carriage road between Honolulu &
Waialua.
Indus try
Our p e o p l e h a d some w h a t e n l a r g e d t heir plans f o r
cul
t i v a t i o n the past year, b u t the f l u c t u a t i o n in the m a r k e t & the u n
u s u a l d r o u g h t in the a u t u m n b l a s t e d m a n y of their fond e x p e c t a t i o n s
of
�Waialua 1852
3.
large returns for their labor. A large number of acres of kalo were
entirely ruined.
School & meeting houses are much as they were at last Gen. Meet
ing.
But few of the school-houses are any thing like what they should
be; & those that have been erected the two or three years past are
built of such frail material & are so slightly put together that they
are apt to stand only two or three years before they are blown to
pieces.
About twice the sum requisite for a framed house if expended on
a good stone building & well laid up floored & seated would be good
economy.
The material for shingling our meeting-house at Waialua is
now on hand & paid for & rising $100. are raised to defray the ex
pense of shingling it; which job we hope will be completed the present
season.
It is also hoped that the meeting house at Hauula will be
put up the present season as the people have concluded to work them
selves on the house, & not depend on hiring.
As to Schools.
It may be said that a lack of competent teachers
through the field has been a great draw-back on their success.
And
this incompetency both in the supply & the qualifications of the teach
ers must remain, so long as they are not paid so much for their work
as they can get in other employments.
If the Govt, as has been done
the past year, pay a half-breed $5. per day for superintending work
on the road, it could hardly be expected that an intelligent native,
every way as competent for the same business, would cheerfully teach
school a month or a half of a month for the same $5.
If the pay for
catching a horse, which can be done in one or two hours, is 50¢
who
but a dunce or a Christian of more than ordinary benevolence will
teach school two days for the same 50 ¢ .
Let teachers of schools be
paid $20 of $30. per months or not employed, because incompetent, &
we may soon have teachers in our schools competent to the work &
�probably not before.
School books have not been extensively called for.
Atlasses &
Bibles have appeared to be most in demand & of both we have failed to
obtain a supply, the past year.
The primary School book given me to
make is not finished - but I will endeavour that it shall be, soon
after the present meeting, if such is the pleasure of the brethren.
Secular employments.
The business of selling lands & superin
tending the erection of bridges has ocupied ( !) some of my time the
past as well as the previous year.
up -
It is however now nearly closed
Some remuneration has been made me for these services, which I
shall wish to report to the Mission or a Committee such as the Prudencial ( !) Committee in Boston have recommended, at a suitable time.
I see my name placed among the corresponding members of the Mis
sion, but for what reason or by whose authority I know not, as I have
as yet held no correspondence with the Prud. Com. on the Subject.
Papists.
They have made no perceptible advance in our field during
the past year, that has come to my knowledge; unless it be in the fact
that they have succeeded by stratagem in introducing a protestant adhe
vocate of rum & awa into the Legislature for us. But that the (honour
able gentleman) will effect much we have but few fears as a large
majority of the voters have put in a strong petition opposing his
measures.
The meeting house of the papists at Waialua, that has already
been ten years & more in building, is far from completion.
The work
is mainly performed by two or three Frenchmen who appear to take things
easy.
The house is now occupied by a sugar mill.
Catholic schools
are not increasing in the number of their pupils or the extent of
their acquisitions.
Occasionally one of our people is drawn into
their embrace, but rarely one who was hopeful as a Christian or a
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member of so c ie ty .
But more frequently one of th eir number leaves to
attend our meeting.
State of Religion in our f i e l d .
During the past f a l l & winter more than u su al in t e re s t was m ani
fe s te d in social prayer meetings in a l l parts of the f i e l d .
These
meetings were attended at day break in the morning by very large
numbers in every considerable v ilag e ( ! ) in the f i e l d , & many of the
meetings s t i l l continue although w ith abated in t e r e s t .
on the
Pub l i c worship
sabbath has been w e l l attended throughout the f i e l d .
Protracted meetings have been h e ld in W aialua & in Hauula w ith a
good degree of interest during the y e a r.
That held at H auula in Feb
ruary la st was w e l l s u s t a in e d , very solemn & appeared to b e productive
of good.
The communion season which was on the sabbath fo llo w in g the
protracted meeting was remarked to be the most solemn occasion o f the
k in d ever witnessed in the place.
The Chch. at Hauula has been a part of the year under the care
of H a i a ,
a graduate of Lahainaluna .
But h is course has not been such
as to encourage strong hopes of his success as a luna of the Chch.
As to our Chch. lunas generally i t may b e sa id w ith few excep tio ns,
that those who were once the most laboreous
( ! ) & su cce ssfu l now f i n d
a variety of other o ffic e s that they are s o l ic it e d to f i l l ,
& an i n
competent support from any other quarter n a tu rally in c lin e s
them to
accept such o f f i c e s .
So that the more laibore ous part of the labor of
deacons is performed by at best second rate men in the Chch.
We have re cd but few members to the chch. the past year in a ll
2 0 , by profession eleven & by letter 9 .
A larger number are now pro
pounded, which it is hoped may b e recd at a future seaso n .
�Waialua 1852
6
Benevolent contributions
At Mo. Concerts contributions to the A.B.C.F.M
.
for Western missions
or
$56.26
To complete the payment for lumber for the
meeting house & frt (freight ?) to Waialua
716.59
Cash on hand to aid in completing the Shingling &c
108.00
Cash recd at Hauula to aid in the building of their
meeting house
119.26
In all
$
1000.11
To complete the work of Shingling our meeting house we shall need at
last $200. more.
Many of our people have contributed liberally, con
sidering their circumstances; & regarding the small number in our field
we consider their contributions on the whole as good.
But it is obviously the feeling of some that the Shingling of our
meeting house is to be their last great effort; & when this is effected
their contributions will be about at an end for life.
Only a few have
as yet begun to feel like taking up the work of supporting the Gospel
among them.
Statistics of Chchs.
May 1852
Waialua
Whole no ad. on examination
Who l e no. on Cert.
Ad. past year on Exam.
Ad. past year on certif.
Dismissed to other chch. past year
Died past year
Diciplined ( !)
Now in regular standing
Children baptized
do past year
Marriages past year
The chchs
united
Hauula
-
—
3
6
2
8
4
270
----10
8
3
11
9
9
21
11
481
——
15
24
7
13
7
211
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24
Statistics of
Schools &c.
No. of
Schools
No. of
No.
No.
N o. in
Scholars Readers Writers Arithmeti
c
Waialua
Koolau
Papist Waialua
Papist Koolau
Total Protestant
Total Papist
7
11
2
2
20
4
225
280
57
32
505
87
150
176
35
22
326
57
133
144
17
15
277
32
140
156
44
19
296
23
�Waialua 1852
Statistics of
Schools &c.
Waialua
Koolau
Papist Waialua
Papist Koolau
Total Protestant
Total Papist
7
No. in
No. in
Geography Singing
105
145
17
8
248
25
80
60
0
0
140
Born
Died
37
17
37
20
4
57
J.S. Emerson
in
year
�Waialua (Abstract, 1852, J.S. Emerson)
But few deaths & not much sickness, the past year.
General improvements. New roads have been made & 5 important &
substancial bridges have been built at a cost of nearly $? ,000; the
people are increasing their comforts & conveniences, & impliments ( !)
for agriculture.
Temperance. But one or two cases of intoxication have been heard
of the past year in the district & they were among foreigners.
Meeting houses. The materials have been collected & paid for to
shingle the meeting-house at Waialua, & some new materials have been
collected to build in Koolau.
Common Schools.
These have been about as in the previous year;
lack of competent teachers, willing to work for small pay, has been an
inconvenience.
Papacy. This evil has made no perceptible progress; some have left
its ranks to attend our meeting.
Mormonism. Some 20 or 30 mo\stly rude young men were baptized by
a Mormon priest quite a number of whom forsook him before sun-set &
nearly all of the remainder did in a few days.
Contributions. These are larger than in any former year. For the
A.B.C.F.M. $56,26
To shingle the Meet. House in Waialua $824.59 - To
build the Meet. House at Hauula $119.26.
Sabboth Schools - have been held among the children & adults in
all parts of the field; but have not been well sustained except In a few
of the districts.
The church, has been peaceful & harmonious, but few cases have
called for discipline & several who were formerly wandering have been
restored to the bosom of the chch.
Prayer meetings have been held the greater part of the year in
most of the neighbourhoods, & meetings of several days continuance in
three different places. Several cases of hopeful conversion have occured.
Statistics
See report
�(Waialua 1853)
In reviewing the year past, I have very little to record, except an
uninterrupted stream, of divine mercies to my family & myself; & which,
at least on my part, have been entirely unmeritted.
The various members of our family, with, & near us, not only, have
enjoyed their accustomed share of health, but our hearts have often been
gladdened, by reports, or rather letters, showing the prosperity of
those now widely separated from us.
When however, I speak of our accustomed health, it must not be
forgotten, that I am of a long season, an invalid; a very feeble one,
& without hope of any change for the better.
This ma\y in good measure at least, account for the fact, that I
have done very little, & therefore have a very brief report.
I have usually been able to preach once on the Sabbath, either in
Hawaiian, or English occasionally - in brother Emerson's absence twice;
& in this case have sometimes delivered the Wednesday lecture.
Have also
had charge of the children's Sab. school till it was merged into the
adult Sab. School; & have also had the superintendance of the common
schools.
Our common schools though far below what they should he, are
I think, of great value, to those who are disposed to improve the ad
vantages they afford.
The Kahu, I believe is the best our community can
furnish, & the teachers are most of them in advance of the people around
them in intellectual culture, & not inferior in morals.
The school funds have I think been faithfully collected & honestly
appropriated to their legitimate objects.
But they have not been suf
ficient to keep the schools constantly in operation now to make any con
siderable improvement/ in school houses, which however is greatly needed
I have no statistics of schools, because it is found much easier to
get them in a mass from the minister of Instruction whose reports at
least from our field, are very carefully prepared. For want of funds,
these schools have been suspended about two months, during the year.
P.J. Gulick
�Waialua Station Report for May 1853 .
In reviewing the events of the past year, we find occasion to
speak of comforts & of trials, of prosperity & of seeming adversity.
No raging epidemic has been suffered to prevail amongst us.
done only his usual work.
Death has
Pestilence & famine have not been known in the
land; & yet the Lord has come near us, & more than once most vividiy re
minded us of the uncertainty of life & of all our earthly hopes & ex
pectations.
The child, whom we reported last year as being on a voyage
to the north for his health, had closed his voyage even before the date
of our report.
His strength at first seemed to be a little increased by
being on ship-board; but, after two or three weeks, he began to sink;
& in five weeks from the time he left Honolulu his spirit took its flight
from earth.
A few days before his death, Capt. Gelett informed him that
he could not probably live many days.
Upon which he set about doing up
the work that he considered remaining for him to do.
He dictated a fare
well letter to his parents, brothers & sister, gave a few parting words
of affection & counsel to each of the seamen, - enquired in respect to
to
the disposal of his body & gave his approbation
- - being deposited
in the ocean.
He often desired the reading of the Scriptures & prayer;
& expressed a regret that he had not publicly expressed his faith in
Christ; a purpose he had intended to have executed at the time of our
last General Meeting, had he not left home before.
His hope in Christ
appeared to be stable, & even joyful, as he approached the period of his
departure.
To the Captain he once said with a smile "I shall see the
Saviour before you do."
His end was peace.
We feel his absence from us -
Hopes are crushed & earthly plans are defeated.
we allow ourselves to mourn or grieve.
But we feel reproved if
Our dear one has obtained a
better inheritance than earth, & we feel our relation-ship to that better
land strengthened by the transfer of a portion of our of(f)spring there.
The health of our family has been about as usual.
We have had
�Waialua 1853
2.
no occasion to call for the services of a physician till about foive ( !)
weeks since, when in the act of watering a young horse I was caught by
his taking fright in the noose of a rope attached to him & drawn with
great violence over the top of an open well among stones rough\ & large,
by which my right shoulder was fractured & I recd several contussions(!)
from which I have not yet wholly recovered.
But that I escaped with
life is more wonderful to me than that I was hurt so much.
For this
deliverance we feel much occasion to thank & praise the Lord.
As to my labors the past year the(y) have not been fewer nor less
arduous than in former years.
The erection of our stone church at Hau
ula has called for much time & strength at that post, so that I have
spent nearly 8 weeks there since our last General Meeting.
In Kekela's
field I have also spent several sabbaths & parts of sabbaths during his
absence; & I regard his people as on the whole appearing verry ( !)
well.
I have done less than usual among the people at Waialua, the past
year owing to the call for assistance in Koolau.
Yet there has on the
whole been a good degree of interest on the subject of religion through
the whole field.
Public worship on the sabbath has been well attended
& morning prayer meetings have been common.
Accessions to the Chch. by confession have been more numerous than
in any one year for ten years, although most of those admitted the past
year profess to have been on the Lord's side for one two or three years.
Quite a number of those formerly cut off from the fellowship of the
church have been restored to fellowship; so that, if the number who
have died while under discipline be stricken out from that list, the
remainder would be but few.
General improvements.
Our roads & bridges are such as to allow carts & wagons to pass
& repass between Honolulu & Waialua; & the former are frequently em-
�W a i a l u a 1853
3.
ployed in carrying freight to market.
Since many are becoming owners of
the soil, carts & plows & cultivators & fields of corn are multiplying
among us.
Cultivation by the plow is 2 or three times as great as it
was last year.
Our meeting-house at Waialua has been shingled & put in good con
dition since our last General Meeting & all expenses are paid, so that
t h e eye rests upon it with a good degree of satisfaction.
The walls of the meeting-house at Hauula have been laid up in good
lime mortar, & covered with a very substancial roof.
It has 12 good
windows & three pannel ( !) doors; & the work of flooring the house with
good pitch pine boards tongued & grooved in the U. States is going on.
When the flooring is completed & the pulpit made there will be a debt
of probably less than $200.
The work of erecting this meeting house
considering the distance of the people from their pastor has been carried
on with a good degree of spirit.
Schools
The schools in Waialua & Koolau loa have appeared better
the past year than in the year previous.
In Koolau, of which I would
more particularly speak, there has been more spirit among the teachers
than in the year previous.
But wh ile the schools are accomplishing a
good & a great work, they are not doing all that is to be desired in
the field.
A teachers school or a school of a higher
( !)
is very
much to be desired.
Heresies & delusions.
The papists seem (?) to have had but one
work in our field the past year; viz. the erection of a porch & steeple
for a bell house, at the east end of their meeting house at Waialua.
This work w a s so closed up that the(y) dedicated their house I was told
on the 2d sabbath of the present month.
For that occasion I am told that
the bishop bought & slaughtered three oxen, & the natives bought a fourth
beeve; while swine & turkies many were slaughtered by the residents
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for the entertainment of all who went to the great feast; which
they held on the Lords day; & to which they invited men of profane &
intemperate habits to go & share with them.
It is said that more
than 600 strangers were present to partake of their repast.
It
was truly a great day to them; but not a day kept holy to the Lord ,
but the Lords day profaned to purposes of rioting & glutony.
I
am not aware that the papists have made any proselytes or that they
have increased the number of their scholars or their schools the
past year.
Mormons. About a year & a half since the Mormons came into the
district of Koolau loa & influenced several persons, mostly rude
young men to be baptized by them.
But their method of doing things
was so slack, as they required no evidence of conversion, & not even
a morral ( !) life as a qualification for baptism.
Their converts
soon doubted whether there was any virtue or utility in their
baptism, & sacrament of the supper.
The result was, their converts
soon left them, all except Kauahi & perhaps one or two others.
Kauahi finds he can live in violation of the seventh commandment,
& yet be able to hold his head up among the Mormons.
About 4 months
since an attempt was made to convert the people of Waialua to their
faith; & they soon baptized 20 or thirty young persons, most of whom
are bullock catchers; but all of them so far as our knowledge ex
tends, feel very doubtful whether they are made better by their
immersion, & in this doubt we all agree,
A Mormon priest in a dilemma.
Three or four months since two
Mormon priests called on me, requesting permission to preach in
my pulpit &c.
I enquired of them in respect to their doctrines,
whether they believed in polygamy &c. & whether their prophet Brig
ham Young had not more than one wife.
They denied that polygamy
was an article of their creed; & also any knowledge of Brigham
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Young's having more than one wife.
slandered.
But said that they were basely
One month later, one of the same men called on me with
a new comer.
To the latter of whom I again put the question, if
they did not believe in polygamy & practice it.
yes with greatearnestness.
To which he said
He also said it was a doctrine of the
Bible, & a practise approved by God, from the time of Abraham &
Solomon down to the present time.
I then asked the other Mormon,
who, only one month before, had denied the existence of such a doc
trine among them, what all this meant ! & what do you think was
his reply.
" O this is a new revelation, I did not know it before,
but you will see more surprising things than these."
It has been stated to me that an ex-Mormon has said, that it is
or has been in the plans of the Mormons to take these Islands for
themselves.
We may yet find it true.
Support of the Gospel
As both of our chchs. were engaged in raising funds for meeting
house purposes during the early part of the past year, the subject
of supporting their pastor was not fully brought before the people
till the last part of July, at which time the Waialua people agreed
to raise $200 for the remainder of the year & Koolau Church $100.
which was contributed.
For the current year (1853) the people of Waialua have promised
to raise $550.
The Koolau people will probably raise about $100
only as they have a meeting-house debt to pay off.
The contributions
of our people for various benevolent objects may be said to be
liberal; & all put together would be adequate to the support of
their pastor, but that they will ever feel able to support their
pastor without aid from other sources is hardly to be expected.
Contributions of the people between May 1st 1852 & Decr 31
stand thus
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$73.43 )
Waialua Chch Mo Concert
32.00 )
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Genl. Association
56.00
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Ladies do
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Support of pastor
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Contributions for Mauula Meet. H.
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To liquidate debt of Waialua Meet. H.
Hauula Chch. Mo. Concert
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Support of pastor
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Cost for their own Meet.
$ 161.43
200.00
50.00
267.18
49.31
100.00
293.31
s
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Total Contributio
$ 1121.23
Schools
Koolau
Protestant
Papal
9
1
284
24
183 )
4 )
40
58
44
Waialua
Protestant
Papal
7
2
187
45
124 )
17 )
36
43
Chch Statistics
Added to Chch past year on examination
"
" by certif
Dismissed to other chchs by letter
Died past year
Disciplined the past year
Disciplined Restd the past year
Bow in Regular Standing
Children baptized past year
63
16
15
22
8
22
575
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The first reading book for children has been finished & is in the
hands of the printer.
Br Gulick has assisted as usual (?)
Resp. Submitted
J .S. Emerson
�Report of Waialua Station, May 1854
In attempting a report of labors for the year ending April
1854, we find occasion to speak of mercies & afflictions, of prosper
ity & adversity.
In our family we had no serious illness during the former part
of the year, & till the latter part of March indulged the fond hope
that we should pass through the year without occasion to call for a
phisicions ( !) services.
But in the latter part of March our little
daughter was attacked by a pain in her hip accompanied by a slight
fever, which both increased for several days; & at length became so
severe as to render it expedient to send for a physician, who on a
second visit pronounced it a hip disease, & for three subsequent visits
he spoke of it as being of an alarming character which would probably
terminate her life; after a protracted season of severe suffering Dr. Ford accompanied Dr. Judd on his third visit, yet both thought
it inexpedient to operate upon the limb although both felt confident
that an operation would be needed.
& nights of painful anxiety.
For a full month we suffered days
Our child was sick, her anguish of body
was much of the time excrusiating, & our hope of her recovery exceed
ingly faint; we hardly dared to ask for her life.
Her fitness to be
recd to the bosom of the Saviour was our greatest anxiety.
well nigh departed from us.
Sleep
The moans & shrieks of the child particu
larly at night were much of the time heart-rending.
We thought that
our Heavenly Father was about to reclaim his own, & we said "Thy will
be done."
But about the 28th of April we found a slight relief in her
symptons yet so slight that for nearly a week we did not allow our
selves to indulge the belief that there was any real improvement.
But
on the 6th instant Dr. Judd accompanied by Dr. Ford made his 7th visit,
& both for the first time pronounced the symptoms decidedly favorable
& encouraged the hope that the child may recover.
If the Lord may
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restore the child to health we hope it may be that she may glorify
him in the earth.
18th
Nearly two weeks have passed since the above was written -
appearances are not so favorable now as then the future is all in the
dark in respect to her case.
We feel that the Hand of the Lord is
upon us; & hope to be benefited by the chastisement.
Labours.
The departure of Kekela to Fatuhiwa has thrown back under my
pastoral care the Chch. at Kahuku, so that I have had the past year
three chchs. to look after & eleven communion seasons to prepare for &
attend.
The Chch. at Hauula has had the services of Kuaia about
of the
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year & the Chch at Kahuku has been looked after to some extent by
Haia, now a member of the Legislature.
The Small Pox.
This fearful disease commenced its ravages in
Waialua early in the month of July, but was for a long time kept so
much at bay by Kapus &c. that its progress was slow & its work was
not done up till the close of 8 long months from the commencement.
Nursing the sick, vaccinating & re-vaccinating the people many
time over in some cases, receiving messages xx & giving advice in
respect to the disease &c. consumed very much time for many months.
But we have occasion for gratitude that our portion of Oahu was visited
with less severity than any other portion of the Island.
Deaths by small pox in Waialua were 201 & in Koolauloa 250 =
451 which is about 1/6 (?) of the whole population of the two dis
tricts .
During the prevalence of the Small Pox religious meetings were
not so well attended as usual.
Mary staid away from publick worship
because they had been exposed to the disease & others from fears of
exposure -
Yet numbers during the year have been awakened to a sense
of their condition & responsibility, as sinners against God; & quite
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a number of backsliders have been restored to the fellowship of the
Chch.
The number of cases that have called for discipline in the chchs.
the past year has been small, fewer than in most years.
Popery has made no perceptible progress the past year unless It
be that some 4 or five persons of our chch. when they supposed them
selves dying consented to be baptized by the papal Priest,
But all
the converts made by the papists under such circumstances, are, so far
as my knowledge extends, either in their graves at the present time or
else in prison for violating the 7th commandment.
Papal Schools in
Koolau loa are now entirely extinct or suspended, & in the district
of Waialua there is but one in existence.
Mormons. A few people have at different times consented, both
in Koolau & Waialua to be baptized by a Mormon priest, but they have
with few exceptions returned to our meeting & said that they had com
mitted an error.
There is no regular meeting among the Mormons any
where in our field; although several have been induced to meet with
them on various occasions.
Schools.
ishing.
The number of our schools as well as scholars is dimin
We have now but 9 schools in Koolauloa & but 6 in Waialua.
In two or three cases two schools have been merged into one for lack
of scholars.
During the prevalence of the Small Pox the major part of the
schools were suspended so that our schools have not been very flourish
ing during the year.
Yet they have done something, & we hope more
for the present year.
Improvements.
The plow, the hoe, the cart, the cultivator, &
the ox-team &c are now a good deal relied on by natives for the cul
tivation of the soil & for transportation of their produce & c . Carts
are frequently running from Waialua to Honolulu.
The old method of
carrying burdens with the auamo (stick) upon the shoulder is now rare
�Waialua 1854
except for a very short distance.
The natives have plowed two or
three times as much land the past year as any previous year, yet owing
to the destructive ravages of the caterpillar & grub-worm their crops
have failed to a great extent.
Roads in Waialua are gradually improv
ing & quite a number of the natives are increasing in wealth.
State of Morals.
While there have been but few cases of wayward
ness in the chch. that called for action there has been a constant
change going on, which shows that the people are getting under other
influences besides what were exerted upon them in years past.
Occa
sionally we hear of the young man returning from Honolulu partially
intoxicated.
Some are learning the manly art of chewing tobacco, &
others find out that to play cards & go to the theatre when at Honolulu
well nigh allies them with royalty itself.
The following statistics
furnished me by our superintend(ant) of Schools for Waialua will indi
cate a little the state of things.
Adults who can not read 158.
Adult/ readers in Waialua 726
Smokers 625 Drunkards 8 .
Adults for
eigners 28 of whom 17 are drunkards or drinkers of strong drink &
19 of them use tobacco -
Things of this character are among the
painful evidences that many of the influences now exerted on the Ha
waiian youth are not such as the Christian can contemplate without
pain.
Religious state & prospects.
There has been no general revival
of religion in our field the past year, & yet there have been quite a
number of cases, of awakening to the subject of religion in different
parts of the field.
There have been recd to the chchs. in all 124
members by profession & ten by letter, while seven have been dismissed
to other chchs. & 146 have died leaving our present number nearly as
it was one year since.
The number of cases of disorderly walk requir
ing discipline has been smaller than the number restored to the
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communion of the Chch.
Death has swept away the larger portion of
those who were ever in the chch. & not now in fellowship only 8 or 10
of this number remain in Koolau & I think a smaller number in Waialua.
Kahuku Chch.
& people are rapidly decreasing in numbers by re
movals to other places.
The lands awarded to many are so small & so
inadequate to their necessities, that they are disposed to either sell
or abandon them & remove to other places.
Many have already moved
away & others are contemplating a removal.
Hauula people remain
much as they were a year since, except that many connected with the
Society have been swept away by the Small Pox.
At our last Gen.
Meeting that people were collecting the materials to floor their new
house of worship.
This work has been done & paid for & nearly $300
are now collected for putting permanent seats into the building.
Kuaia, a graduate of Lahaina-luna of one years standing has been
laboring faithfully & successfully the major part of the year in that
parish; & the chch. is expecting to settle him as their pastor so soon
as the house of worship may be in decent order for the occasion.
Population.
Koolau 1214.
The present population of Waialua is 1137, that of
Decrease in Waialua in 6 years
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Koolauloa
395
475
The influx into the field has exceeded the migration to other fields It is probably that the next census will show a larger population In
Waialua than in Koolau, as there are many causes at work in the latter
place to drive the people away.
Benevolent contributions.
The sum contributed for the support
of pastor
For the support of native assistants
For the Haw. Mis. Society
For Meeting houses
Total
$573
205
143.47
650
$ 1557.47 of which
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Missions
104.80
Sup. pastor
Waialua contrd - $ 423
Meet. H.
$ 30.00
Kahuku
50
9.00
100.00
Hauula
100
29.67
500.00
Hauula for native assistants
Kahuku
for
do
Whole n o . on
profession
$130.
75.00
Hauula
Kahuku
Waialua
Whole no. on
certif.
Past year on ex
Past year on cert.
52
34
38
5
0
5
Whole no past year
Whole no. dismissed
0
Dismissed past year
Whole no deceased
died past year
Suspended past year
65
19
62
2
4
Rem. Susp
Excom past year
Whole n o . ex
Remain ex
Now in Regular standing
261
188
277
11
5
13
No Ch. hap
Bap. past year
Married (?) past year
(All together)
51
J.S. Emerson
�Report of P.J. Gulick
(Waialua)
May 1854
In reviewing the past year, we are called upon to speak of
chastisement,
as well as m e r c i e s . -
Our beloved son had recently left us, to complete his education
in the father land; & the mail wh i c h brought the tidings of his safe
arrival there, brought also the sad news of his brother's death;
and that ere they were permitted to see, and embrace each other.
Our dear Charles had been of a long period seriously afflicted
with dyspepsy;
and a few weeks previous to his death, h a d been more
than usually ill.
During this period,
he would not recover;
replied,
live,
a Christian friend had told him,
she thought
& asked h i m if he felt prepared to die.
He
"My hope is in Christ"; and added, that he h a d des ired to
to do good, b u t that he was willing to die, if such were the
wil l of God.
P rom all we kno w of him, w e trust he is now, where the infirmities
of a feeble body, will no longer impede the progress of his mental
powers - in the society of angels, & spirits of the just made p e r
fect, & under the tuition of the great Teacher; whose praises he will
never cease to sing.
In regard to our labors, we have very little to report.
usually preached once a week.
occasionally,
I have
In the absence of brother Emerson,
twice.
I sometimes supply his place in the Sabbath school, which now
includes,
children a n d adults, & also, help to sustain a service in
English w h i c h we have usually hel d Sabbath P.M.
Have also as usual,
had the superintendence of the common schools in Waialua district.
Owing to the prevailing epidemic, there were but two terms of school
in the year.
And so many of the tax payers, have b e c o m e soldiers,
constable & the like, & thereby become exempt from the school tax,
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that they will not probably have funds to pay for more than two
terms the current year.
The kahu, is a faithful man; the best I think, that can be ob
tained, in our district.
The teachers, although by no means, such as
we desire to see, are in general, among the best informed & most trust
worthy in their respective neighborhoods.
The schools, although
poorly furnished with houses, teachers, books, & stationary, are still,
I believe, accomplishing much good, by cultivating and enlarging the
minds of the pupils, & thereby making them better citizens, & prepar
ing them to understand & appreciate the Truth, which is able to make
them wise unto salvation.
I have given no statistics of schools, as these are accurately
reported to the Minister of Instruction; & can be more easily obtained
through him, than from station reports.
(Unsigned)
�Waialua May 1855
To the Genl Meet.g
assembled at Honolulu
Dear Brethren
In reviewing the past year, I have very little
of interest to report; at least, so far as my labors are concerned.
A grateful acknowledgment, however, is due, to our gracious heavenly
Father, for a constant succession of his distinguishing mercies to
me & mine.
To his paternal care we owe the preservation of our lives, the
continued exercise of our reason, & the enjoyment of about our, or
dinary share of health.
But I need not inform you, that with regard to myself & Mrs.
Gulick, this, has not been, at all times, sufficient to keep us from
the bed of sickness.
My wife's digestive (powers), organs, are so
permanently enfeebled that she is obliged, almost continually, either
to take medicin e , or to be on the road taking exercise & seeking a
change of location.
This, & the infirmities of age, & my own chronic disease have
lessened even the ordinarily small amount of my public labors.
I have however, usually preached once on the Sabath ( !), or
assisted in sustaining religious exercises in English, at our station;
& to some extent, superintended the schools of our district.
For statistics of the schools, I refer to the report of the Min.
of Instruction, as they are carefully rendered to him.
I believe the common schools, are, with all their faults, worth
sustaining.
And from the experiment of a few months in which English
was taught, I feel persuaded the young Hawaiians will acquire a know
ledge of that language, faster than has usually been supposed.
P.J. Gulick
�Synopsis of Waialua Station Report.
(1855 )
A usual degree of health has been enjoyed by the missionaries
at the station - Mr. Emerson's little daughter still unable to walk
& under the care of the physician.
The two chchs of Waialua & Kahuku
only are embraced in the Waialua report,
their own.
Hauula having a pastor of
Mr. E. has performed the usual routine of missionary la-
bors - administered the Lords Supper eight times in the field & three
times at Hauula.
Papists have made no apparent progress the past year -
The
Mormons have had some success in attracting the attention of the immorral ( !) & vicious.
Health of the people unusually good - A small excess of deaths
over the births.
Improvements in temporal affairs making slow but steady progress
but the progress in morals not so perceptible.
Public worship has been pretty well attended on the sabbath day
but not so well on week days.
past year 15.
Recd to the chch. by profession the
No especial attention to religion.
�Report of Waialua Station May 1855.
In presenting the 22d report of the Waialua Station from its
first occupancy, we find new occasion to speak of mercies & of afflic
tions.
Death has not been allowed the past year to enter the dwell
ings of our families, although sickness has not departed from us.
The little daughter, who was, reported last year as being afflicted
with a hip disease, is still afflicted, unable to walk, &, sometimes,
much pained.
She now can sit up, ride out in her little carriage &
often employ her hands in some manual labor; is generally cheerful &
comfortable.
The care anxiety & watching over her by day, &, often
times, a large portion of the night have drawn largely upon the health
& spirits of her mother, &, will be likely so to do for a long time
to come.
Pieces of bone of a small size are often discharged through
various orifices in the thigh; & as yet there is no immediate prospect
of a cure.
A stiff hip joint is the best that can be hoped.
The other
members of our family have enjoyed about their usual degree of health.
Our people also have been free from any prevailing or desolating epi
demic, & a good degree of health has been enjoyed throughout the com
munity.
For all which unmerited favors we give thanks to our Heavenly
Father.
Division of the station.
The report of the Waialua Station, so called, will hereafter be
presented as two separate reports.
The former, embracing Waialua &
that portion of Koolauloa included in the parish formerly occupied
by Kekela, whose centre is Kahuku, & the latter embracing the remainder
of Koolauloa & extending from Laie to Kaawa ( !) a coast of about 12
or 13 miles embracing a population of about 780 in all -
That part
of the field connected with the Station at Waialua has a population
at present of about 1552 of whom 1118 are in the district of Waialua.
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The present Waialua station has a coast of about 30 miles, - a sparce
population. & to do the work in this part of the vineyard we have
generally one papal priest, & much of the time a mormon priest besides
our own services.
Preparatory to the division of my former field, I spent much of
the time during the earlier part of the year at Hauula to make ready
for the settlement of their new pastor.
Their new & very desirable
meeting house, which had been floored the year before, was fully
seated with slips & the debts for the same with all the arrearages
were squared off by the first of October last, at which time I arranged
to attend their communion, as I supposed for the last time in the
capacity of pastor.
But at the close of the preparatory exercises
for the communion, I was requested by a unanimous vote of the Chch.
seconded by Kuaea their pastor elect to retain the relation of senior
Pastor to the Chch. which I thought it on the whole expedient to do.
Moses Kuaea was ordained & set apart to the work of the ministry at
Hauula on the 18th of October last by a Council composed of nearly all
of the members of the Oahu Clerical Association; & thus far he appears
well in the work to which he is consecrated.
He will doubtless
read before you the Report of the Hauula Station.
My statistics having been remodeled will now be confined to the
field embracing the chchs. at Waialua & Kahuku combined.
The chch.
at Kahuku is now small, & has every prospect of rapidly decreasing, as
the people are moving out of the region, & giving place to flocks &
herds that are thrust in upon them.
Probably no native pastor will
ever be supported by that people here-after.
Schools .
These are diminishing throughout the field both In
consequence of diminution in population & lack of suitable teachers,
& also on account of an earlier forsaking of the schools than was
customary in year past, & also on account of less attractive books
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than were formerly provided for them.
In Waialua there are two schools less than two years since; &
in Koolau quite a number are so reduced that there are barely scholar
enough to legalize them; & no one of our schools except perhaps one
at Hauula is so far advanced as many of them were 5 years since.
English Schools.
Shortly after the close of our last convention
one English School was commenced at Waialua & soon increased to 40
scholars -
This school was kept for 5 months & then suspended for
lack of a teacher -
It is now revived again & it is hoped that it
may become a permanent affair.
A school room of good size has been
fitted up with seats, benches, table, black-boards &c for the purpose.
Arrangements were made with the people of Koolauloa to have an
English school taught at Hauula, but after the most deffinite (! )
terms were agreed upon between the teacher & the people, the whole
affair, like many other good projects fell through for the lack of
some one to make it go.
There is however a strong desire both in
Koolau & Waialua for a knowledge of the English langauge.
"All like
the purchase, Pew the price will pay.”
Heresies.
The Mormons have made frequent visits to our field &
have proselyted a number to their creed; Which so far as developed at
Waialua consists mainly in two sentiments viz. Religious teachers not
to be supported by a stipend; - & immersion a requisite for salvation
The papists are much as they have been in years past.
The papal
priest told me a few weeks since that their numbers near his meeting
house had by removals & death deminished to 1/3 of what they were 12
or 14 years since.
In Koolauloa there is now no papal school; ten
years since there were 6 or 7.
years since there were 3 or 4.
In Waialua there is now but one, 10
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Improvements.
The sources of wealth are now accumulating
the hands of common natives among us.
Many natives can exhibit ox
cart plow & one or two yoke of oxen trained to work.
for beef are abundant.
in
Horses & cattle
A few are making arrangements for better
houses, & more for articles for display.
But thus far it is very obvious that wealth does not promote
benevolence nor yet piety among our people.
able means was not
When the amount of avail
of what it now is the disposition to aid in the
support of the Gospel & contribute to the cause of benevolence was
much greater than it is of late.
Neither does the possession of wealth aid in the promotion of
self-respect or of good morals.
He who can steal or commit adultery
& pay up promptly his fine does not appear to lose much by his trans
gression either in his own eyes or in the esteem of many around him.
Neither does the possession of wealth make the natives neat.
Wealth often creates or promotes extravagance, but rarely neatness Silks & broad-cloths, hats, bonnets, shoes & gloves will often be
exhibited in consequence of wealth, but not neatness.
The drudgery
connected with habits of civilization is an intollerable ( !) burden
to most Hawaiians, not to be endured except for a limited time, &
for an occasion, after which the whole is generally laid aside like
a gala dress.
State of Religion.
We have been favored with no especial revival
of religion the past year.
Only 10 have been added to the Chch. at
Waialua by profession, & 5 at Kahuku in all 15, one of those united
at W aialua is a foreigner Thomas King, who has at some former time
sailed a schooner at the Isis.
We have at Waialua about 35 foreigners,
very few of whom give any evidence of love to Christ, his cause or
his people.
Neither are they in temporals much elevate d
natives around them; with a few exceptions.
above the
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Waialua 1855
Contributions for the support of the Gospel, benevolence &c.
Recd for my family support from the
Paid Haia at Kahuku
Waialua Mo Concert & Mens Associ.
Female Association in Waialua
Hauula Mo. Concert paid before Oct.
Kahuku Mo Concert
chchs past year
(no figure given)
In all
$416.42
85.22
100.00
27.75
65.97
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695.38
This is Exclusive of Contributions for Support of pastor &c at Hauula
since October & Expenditures for their Meeting H. the past year.
Statistics of Chchs
978
180
15
12
27
296
8
309
10
0
9
19
406
754
9
37
500
1552
Waialua Station
Whole No on Prof
Whole no. by Cert
Past year by Prof
Past year by Cert.
Whole no. past year
Whole no. Dis. to Chchs.
Dismissed past year
Whole no. Deceased
Died past year
Susp. past year
Rem. Suspended
Excom past year
Whole no Ex.
Rem. Excom
Whole no in Reg Stand
Whole no. Children baptized
Bap. past year
Marriages
Avarage ( !) Cong.
Population
J.S. Emerson
May 1855
�(The following was written in pencil on the back of the Waialua 1855
report)
Death of the King— This was with us well nigh a great event.
morning after his Majesty's decease.
The
A messenger arrived at Waialua
with letters to the Judge of the District & others, announcing the
event— The Judge immediately repaired to the house of the Missionary
announcing the event & also his instructions from the Governor to
send forth criers proclaiming that the kapus were at an end— & that
it was propper (!) to (Kuiniho, Kakau i ka ili,) inu name oe oe.
The missionary warned his brother the Judge in vain, & in vain
instructed him to desist from such a foolish & sinful act, but to no
purpose— he demanded also to see the letter—
The criers were sent out— but after they had spread the liberty
far & w i d e
, a further examination of the letter showed clearly
that the letter did not give any license but was intended to enforce
the kapu so a new sett (!) of messengers were not to forbid the things
before commanded.
And, on the sabbath following, all concerned made
their confession, the Judge among the rest.
�Report for Waialua Station, May 1856
In presenting this our 24th Report since our first occupancy
of the station at Waialua it is our privilege to acknowledge the
receipts of many unwonted blessings from the hand of our Heavenly
Father the past year.
Unusual health has been enjoyed by our people;
our family in general have been well; & our daughter, over whom her
mother had watched day & night, with almost unceasing vigilance much
of the time for two years, has lately so improved in general health
as to allow her to come with her parents to this gathering, & to ride
most of the way on horseback alone.
Our eldest son after an absence
of eight years in the father-land has returned to our embrace in good
health & qualified as we trust to do good in some humble occupation His reason for leaving us, when he did was imperfect vision.
His
sight is now good.
Missionary field.
The settlement of Kekela at Kahuku & his sub
sequent removal, & the consequent restoration of that chch to my
care, as well as the more recent settlement of Kuaea at Hauula have
occasioned an almost annual change in my statistics, necessary in
order to suit the changing circumstances.
In future the statistics
of the Hauula Chch. willbbe given by Kuaea, & those of the Kahuku
Chch. will be incorporated with those of Waialua.
Labors
The business of selling Govt lands is now at an end;
none of much value remains unsold in the district; & an other Is ap
pointed to attend to any future sales; for all which I am thankful.
From many of my cares in connection with grazing & agriculture I find
much relief, in the assistance of my son & expect that this relief
will increase.
My labors for the people have been much as in former years.
When at the station I have uniformly had 3 services with the people
on the sabbath, & often an extra meeting with the lunas of the chch.
�Waialua 1856
During the week I uniformly hold a morning meeting on Wednesday &
a catechetical school in the P.M. at the station & occasional meetings
in other villages.
I have spent 5 sabbaths at Kahuku & a number of
week days; - have made three visits to Hauula spending the sabbath &
the two or three preceding days at each visit.
In my absence Bro.
Gulick has conducted worship at the station the whole or a part of
the day when well & at home.
Samuel has also rendered some assistance
in my absence, & has been frequently to Kahuku to aid in public worship
Schools.
Of these I can not report any thing more favorable than
the Pres, of the Board of Ed. has done.
Although the schools are kept
up the qualifications of the teachers are not rising, nor is the
number of the scholars Increasing, or the adaptation of their books
to the end to be obtained.
Our books on history both civil & Ecle-
siastical, algebra, helu kamalii, & atlasses for the study of topical
geography are not in our schools in Waialua or Koolauloa except a
few parts of copies.
But still our schools are doing good & must be continued till
English Schools & English teachers can be substituted in their place.
Of papal schools there is but one in Waialua & none in Koolauloa The one papal School in Waialua is taught by a female, & at the exam
ination when I visited the school it had In all 13 scholars present, 3
of whom could read some & others were in monosyllables, but several
of the younger ones were apparently under 4 years of age & knew only
a part of the alphabet.
The catholic priest strongly objected to my
presence at the examination as it could not be for any good intent.
It was the first time I had visited their school for many years; but
if hereafter called upon to pay taxes for the support of native schools
I shall be likely to claim the privilege of attending the examinations
of the same whether they be papal or protestant.
An English School has been in operation during nine months of the
�Waialua 1856
past year under the tuition of Mr. W. Chamberlain, & has been quite
popular among the natives.
The attendance was from 40 to 50 scholars.
The number of scholars in our native schools alone has been 115 added to the 50 in the Eng. School make in all 165 in a course of in
struction in Waialua.
Five years ago there were 247 now 1/3 less.
If the children in our native schools could all be brought into
three English schools with good teachers, it would to me indicate
progress in the right direction.
General Improvemen t .
Our people are doing some thing to improve
their lands & increase their sources of wealth in flocks & herds,
teams, carts, plows, &c. but the things to improve the mind & refine
the taste are less sought than articles of mere show & ornament.
But
as the supply of one want makes way for two more to be supplied, so
in the present case wants accumulate faster than the means to supply
them.
But this is only the sure indication of progress.
State of Morals.
Many things among us are far from what they should be, - far from
what we would have them far from prosperous.
Many do not keep the
sabbath; some lie & steal, some commit adultery, some take false oaths,
some contract debts without any apparent intention of paying them.
Children are disobedient to their parents; parents neglect their child
ren, & allow them to run at large with little or no restraint.
Some
parents, after solemnly promising to train up their children for the
Lord, put them into other hands to get rid of the trouble of taking
care of them.
All of this is bad, far from what it should be; & what
makes it appear worse is that, these evils are much more noticable ( !)
now than they were 20 years ago.
Then moral principle seemed to be in
advance of a naked & uncivilized community.
But civilization has ad
vanced & now we expect much much more; & in reality we have it.
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have more strength of morral ( !) & religious character now than then;
more by far who honestly & intelligently strive to keep the commands
of God.
The increase of wealth in Waialua the flocks & herds grazing upon
the hills & plains & in the valleys belonging to perhaps a hundred
different owners, & in a common pasture lay before the unprincipled
a strong temptation to take & appropriate to themselves wealth that
ten years since did not exist among them.
As temptations multiply
strength of character is proved.
Hula, drinking rum &c to produce intoxication has for many years
rarely occured in the district,
common as in years past.
Licenciousness is probably about as
I fear it will long remain the Hawaiians
crying sin, unless some more strenuous & efficient measures are taken
to controll ( !) the young & produce habits of industry, economy &
self-respect.
Heresies.
The papists are still In the land.
They maintain their
worship in one place only in Waialua & occasionally in one place in
Koolau.
But the number of those who ordinarily attend their worship
is very small, probably less than 50.
They have but one school of
less than 20 scholars, where formerly they had ten schools & 150 or
200 scholars.
The demeanor of the papal priest has of late been rather
less arrogant than it was formerly; & he now virtually at least con
fesses that his effort to revile protestants for taking up contri
butions among the people for purposes of benevolence was not only un
called for but suicidal.
The Mormons are doing some thing among us - but nothing it is
believed that strengthens any good cause.
We have no expectation from
present appearances that any thing but the chaff will be blown off &
gathered in among them.
They are not numerous, if increasing.
�Waialua 1856
5.
Progress of religion.
On this topic we can not report any thing
very encouraging the year past.
Attendance on public worship on the
sabbath has been pretty good especially at the morning service; but
week day meetings have been thinly attended.
worldliness have appeared among the people.
Much luke-warmness &
We have had nothing that
could be called a revival of religion during the year.
The young have
been taken up to a great extent with horses & articles of gaiety; while
Few
the old have been striving to increase their wealth. Few have sought
in earnest the way of life & salvation.
We have recd to the fellowship of the Chch. but 11 & 5 of these
by letter.
6 have been dismissed to other chchs. & 8 have died.-
& 11 have been excommunicated from the fellowship of the chch.
whole number now in regular standing is 390 Children baptized
Our
the
past year 10 married 17 couple.
The number of births in Waialua the past year has been 30 deaths
28
in Koolau (births ) 30 (deaths 50.
A result in respect to popula
tion altogether more favorable than has existed for many years.
Contributions
Our people have contributed the past year towards
44
their pastors support $ //3.13 of which $330.62 were contributed by
the Chch at Waialua & the remainder by the Kahuku & Hauula Chchs. For Missions $78.15
Avails of books $19.12 & Elele $28. -
$47.12 -
& in addition to the above they have paid for school house & English
teacher more than $300.
Foreigners resident at the station about 30
sabbath keeping men.
But few of whom are
�Waialua Station Report for May, 1857.
During the past year we, as a family & a station, have enjoyed
at least an ordinary degree of health, & of other temporal blessings.
The rains have come in their season & watered the earth abundantly
& caused it to produce food both for man & beast; & the cry of famine
or pestilence has not been heard among us.
Industry & economy are
increasing among the people; & as a consequent ( !) better habitations
better enclosures, better agricultural implements, & more of them,
are often to be found.
Our people are now well nigh prepared for the
enactment of a new law: viz. That “they, who cultivate fields, shall
enclose them, or receive no damages for loss of crops,"
When fully
prepared for such a law civilization & industry may be regarded as
having made good progress.
But progress in civilization generally has its attendant evils;
The supply of one want creates two more; so that a liberal bestowment
of goods in aid of benevolent objects often decreases in proportion
as men’s worldly substance increases.
Such has been the fact thus
far to a greater or less extent with our people.
This however is al
most the inevitable consequent of progress.
State of morals.
Most of the people pay at least an external
regard to the Sabbath & its institutions.
A large portion of them
abstain from labor, travelling &c. on the sabbath & attend public worship, at least occasionally.
Yet some follow the example, so com
monly set by foreigners, of making the sabbath their usual day for
passing between Honolulu & Waialua.
The hulahula, card-playing, adultery & drinking are now prac
ticed with a considerable, degree of boldness by those whose taste
it suits to follow them - they having high authority to back them
up.
But the number is not large of those who follow such practices.
�Waialua 1857
2.
The business of cultivating awa for commerce has lately been
urged upon some of the people by authority from the Governor & His
Royal Highness, Lot Kamehameha.
The tool they selected to carry out
their purpose over one whose influence has been greater in Waialua
than that of any other native.
But he now lies low in death.
This
morning his mortal remains were committed to the tomb.
Tobacco patches are seen here & there growing with great luxurience.
Coffee does not do well in our district & tea has not been
tried to my knowledge.
Whatever influence\ the missionary can judiciously use in re
spect to either or all of these articles among the natives must be
such as he can unhesitatingly use toward foreigners as well as natives.
The cause of Christ has often been injured by straining at a gnat when
the camel has been left in the dish.
Schools.
Our common schools although doing some thing are far
inferior to what they were ten years ago.
To obtain the books that
we then had is impossible or others as good to supply their places To induce the young men, who are now taxed as men for all purposes
of government, to attend school is beyond our power; & what is worse
than all is the difficulty of obtaining a competent teacher for any
one of our native schools.
All among us, who are competent to teach,
are wanted for more lucrative employments, such as judges, clerks,
tax gatherers, cattle drivers, &c. &c.
Then again, that the Govt
should allow the wages of a teacher of English to be $800. per year,
& that of a teacher of native to be at most but about $100. does not
fall in very well with their notions of equality.
teach our school at 25
of $600 per year.
He that used to
cts. per day is now a Judge with a salary
Quite a contrast in the view of all*
Unless some
new arrangement can be made for our native schools, or some stronger
�Waialua 1857
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motive placed before those, who are competent to teach them, the
progress must he retrograde.
And I for one am well nigh\ persuaded
that, if our native schools in Waialua were entirely suspended, &
two competent teachers of English were placed here in their stead
our prospects for a common education among the people would he better
than they now are.
English School.
We have had one English school taught the
past year, by Mr. W. Chamberlain - he has had about 50 pupils, &,
although laboring under a serious disadvantage from deafness, his
school is well & punctually attended by all his pupils, some of whom
come daily 5 or 6 miles for instruction.
While the native schools
need their lunas to collect the children together, he has for almost
two years found prompt attendance without any luna, & such was the
experience of those who preceded him in that school I opened a school in English to be taught gratis for one month,
admitting all children who did not attend Mr. C' s school.
I had 50
scholars, & good attendance, & in some cases remarkable proficiency When the month was closed, Mr. Chamberlain recd quite an accession to
his school as the result of my effort.
Our native schools are now reduced to 3 or 4, where we had, 24
years since at least 16; & yet our population is about 1/2 as large
as it was then.
In September last we had a temperance celebration in connection
with the examination of the English School, at which were rehearsed
& sung, both in English & native, speeches & songs or hymns to the
great interest of the community, of all classes, & creeds attending.
This was followed by a very good repast, served up in good style &
variety, & obviously attractive to the sharpened appetites of the
many, who partook of the bounty.
�Waialua 1857
4.
Roads, Bridges, & Harbours.
While improvements in many things are gradually advancing at the
Isls . we are astonished at the short sighted policy of this Govt,
which seems to confine all public improvements to the City of Honolulu.
The Legislature appropriated the means for putting down an anchor in
the Harbor of Waialua, & for repairing certain roads, very important
to the progress of agriculture, & for the repair of bridges; but all
to little effect; as he, with whom the appointment of supervision
of roads is lodged, appoints no supervisors that we hear of, & leaves
roads, bridges & harbors mainly as they were. While a goodly Siam
must be expended for the war department, (better expended perhaps
in killing bed-bugs & fleas) & another large sum, in filling up the
sea, to provide for an exigency that will not soon arrive, if the
country is not first laid open, by good roads, to the easy conveyance
of produce to the market, Progress in civilization can never be great
while facilities for inter-communication are poor, & inducements to
agriculture small.
Heresies.
The spread & promotion of Mormonism. among us has cost
for the past 4 or 5 years the efforts of two or three foreigners much
of the time & a part of the time a larger number, together with the
efforts of several young men of Hawaiian blood whose reputation for
honesty chastity & truth has never been high.
But the rise, progress,
decline & fall of Mormonism among us might as well be written now as
at any later date - were it worth any one's time to do it.
They have
no meetings of late in our districts, & no disciples who hold themselves
ready to entertain them; & but here & there a stupid & stubborn one who
will allow the name of Mormon to attach to him.
Mr. Hyde’s & Kauahi's
tract seems to have come in good time to finish up the work that
was in progress before, viz. the developement ( !) of the rottenness
�W a i a l u a 1857
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of Mormonism.
Popery is like a fire going out for the want of fuel.
They have
but one small school in the district of Wa i a l u a & none in Koolau.
Their priest is a more quiet & peaceable, m a n than most of those who
have b e e n among us, & perhaps on the whole good results f r o m his being
among us.
Incidents & labors of the year.
I have made three visits to Hauula during the year & attended
the communion there twice - Have been to Kahuku six or eight times
& h a d four communion seasons there*
Our religious exercises have
b ee n as usual three on the sabbath, besides the sabbath school, wh i c h
latter has of late been conducted by Samuel & his mother.
We have
h a d a meeting on Wednesday morning at the station, & a p art of the year
one on thursday in some one of the School districts.
M r . Gulick has
often assisted i n the services when at the Station - Particularly in
the E n g l i s h meeting, wh i c h has been uniformly attended at our house
on Sabbath P.M.
But he w ith his family has resided mos t of the year
at P u n a h o u .
The past year & the past w eek have b een marked by the death of
Lot Kuok o aa a man of more than ordinary influence in the chch. &
in t h e District of Waialua.
He was a man of strong m i n d & persuasive
eloquence & rarely f a i l e d to be found on the right side.
He was of
the old school & never could divert himself of the idea that the people
were the property of the king & chiefs & bound to obey t hem in all
things.
Not a m o n t h before his d e a t h he pl e a d as an apology for having
traveled f r o m Honolulu to Waialua some years since that the chiefs
ordered him. to do it; & quoted thus "O k a mea hoolohe i ke
hoolohe n o ia i ke Aku a " . (
'lii
�Waialua
1857
The chiefs have sustained a great loss to their influence as lords of
the people in the death of Kuokoa; the chch. also will feel his loss.
He was benevolent & kind industrious, & temperate & far in advance of
most men of his age.
Condition of the Chch.
The past has been a year of pruning the
vine & not of gathering in clusters among us.
More individuals have
been cut off from the chch. for fruitlessness than have been recd to
it by profession of their faith; & most of those who have been cut
off have been branches that for a long time have borne no fruit.
10 have been cut off from the Waialua Chch. for long habits of negligence & indifference to the means of grace, & 16 from the Kahuku
Chch. for drunkness ( !) hulahula & neglect of public worship, & 11
have been removed by death, in all 37. while only 13 have been recd
to the chch, 2 by profession & 11 by letter.
We have now in the chch. quite a number of aged & infirm people
& a few drones.
But we trust that the major part of our present
number are on the Lords side & will be numbered with his jewels.
Our
last communion seasons were marked by more than an ordinary degree of
interest & inspired hope that the Lord is about to revisit his people,
A few individuals appear to be fervent in prayer.
The table of statistics is appended.
Whole No. Recd on profession
Whole "
by letter
Recd past year by profession
"
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by letter
Total receipts the past year
Whole No. dismissed to other chchs.
"
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past year
Whole " died
Died the past year
Suspended the past year
Remain suspended
Excommunicated the past year
Remain excommunicated
Whole no in regular standing
Whole no. child baptized
Baptized the past year
Married the past year
991
196
3
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14
371
0
245
11
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26
56
365
767
3
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7.
Support of Pastor &c.
The people of my charge have contributed for my support the past
year in all $211.50 about $18. of which was given by Kahuku chch. &
the rest by Waialua Chch. nothing has been paid me by the chch. at
Hauula.
There has been contributed for Missions abroad $67.37 1/2 &
Recently there has been handed me for Kekela cash $11.
Cloth &c $7.00
The Chch. at Hauula consider themselves indebted to me rising $50.
which they have requested the Mis. Soc. to cansel (!) as they are at
present unable to do it.
Proposition for future arrangements.
It is my opinion that the later ( !) letter of Mr. Anderson,
recommending that our native Chchs. be divided up & native pastors be
settled over them, is founded in wisdom; & ought to receive our immediate attention.
I can not obtain my support nor 1/3 part of if from
the three chchs. with which I am connected.
But if the people were
released from all obligation to assist in my support, & were induced
to Settle three native pastors in colleague with me. (I mean Kuaea
for one of the three) I think I could do more good the rest of my days
in aiding them in their duties & in preparing them to take the charge
of the field, when it may be vacated by me, than by holding it alone
so long as I have strength to do it.
Waimalu also needs help very
much at Waianae, & such help as I think I might render him were I
in a condition to do it.
I grant that I or any of my brethren can do
all the work of our stations more easily alone than with a colleague.
But that I think is not the point we should aim it ( !).
It should be
to prepare our field for native pastors & native pastors for our
fields.
If the A.B.C.F.M. will pay me $600. annually as a part of
my support I will relinquish all claims upon the people for future
support & devote myself more to preparing them for native pastors.
Respectfully Submitted,
J/ S. Emerson
�Brief report of Waialua Station
Feb. 24, 1860
On the eve of leaving the Isls. for a short visit to the U.
States with Mrs. Emerson, I report briefly in respect to my station
& labors the past 3/4 of a year.
Our daily morning prayer meetings have been well sustained, our
congregations on the sabbath have been larger than the two previous
years. -
The sabbath school managed by my son & Mrs. Emerson has been
unusually well attended.
Much of the time Mrs. E. has attended a
meeting with the women on friday & attended one & sometimes two singing
schools per week.
The pastor has had a Theological School on Satur
day afternoon most of the year - has had three communion seasons at
Waialua, assisted the pastor at W aianae in sifting & reorganizing his
Church. 5 days - visited the Chch. at Hauula twice, & made repeated
attempts to gather together the scattered flock left by Kekela at
Kahuku; but with poor success.
While intemperance & adultery are increasing among the ungodly,
the Lord has not left his people here without some tokens of his favor.
Twenty seven have been added to the chch. by profession & nineteen by
letter.
Marriages have been 8 couple & deaths about twice as numerous
as the births.
51 deaths & 25 births.
My own health is much better than it was ten months since, although
my nervous system has received a shock from which it has not fully
recovered.
Mrs. E. is also much worn down.
We now hope to visit the U. States & to be absent from the
Islands ten or eleven months.
so clearly pointed out as now.
A duty which we have never before seen
May it be of the Lord, for good to
us & to his cause.
Emerson
�Waialua 1860
Statistics of the Chch at Waialua
Feb. 24, 1860.
Whole No. on Prof recd to Chch.
"
"
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Certif
Past year on prof "
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Certif
1031
227
27
19
Total past year
46
Whole number dismissed
73
Dismissed the past year
Total deceased
1
267
Deceased the past year
5
Excluded the past year
4
Remain excluded
Now in reg. Standing
325
�(Abstract)
Waialua,
J.S. Emerson
(1861)
The church have enjoyed some revival, 84 added by profession,
6 by letter, & 20 restored to fellowship.
Owing to the absence of the pastor, but 3 communions the past
year.
Contributions in cash fewer than usual, for pastor $193. - for
mo concert $35. - $228.
Habits of the people are improving.
buildings improving.
Industry is increasing &
Demands for the products of the soil are small,
Horses & meat cattle of little value.
Schools - better attended than last year.
attended.
Sabbath Schools well
Many of the youth have become hopefully pious.
Our congregations are large on the sabbath - morning prayer
meetings daily attended, & a meeting on Thursday is well filled, en
quiry meetings are held every week.
General intelligence slowly increasing - Christian character is
becoming more reliable.
A little increase in the population the past
4 years.
Mormonism is dead; Papists diminished
�Waeanae ( !) - J.S. Emerson
(Abstract 1861)
This church has been blessed with some revival the past year,
& 78 have been added to their number, nearly all by their late
pastor, Waimalu, who died in October last.
The church is poor, ill-informed & but partially supplied with
book(s) or periodicals, but in a more orderly & hopeful condition than
a year ago.
Contributions about $200, in part to support their former pastor
& in part to liquidate their debts.
They have erected a new meeting
house in a remote school district, & are still in debt over $100.
Sabbath & day schools are moderately useful.
The church has had three conmunion seasons the past year; two
since the death of their pastor.
Their roads have been entirely neglected the past four years,
& are very bad.
Their property, - horses & cattle, almost valueless, & many will
die for lack of food.
They desire a native sub-pastor & may perhaps pay him $150. per
year.
�Report of Waiahae Station for May 1862.
I have visited the Church at Waianae five times since our last
General Meeting, ocupying ( !) five days in each visit.
My labor with
the church has consisted in stirring them up by preaching the gospel,
conversing with them individually so far as I had opportunity, & ad
ministering discipline when required.
There are some good men in
that Chch. but never having enjoyed the constant labor of an intelli
gent pastor, they have not learned to bear the yoke & draw together
in harmony.
The Chch. has received no additions the past year, but
several deaths have occured ( !) several dismissions & more excisions.
There still remain quite a number on the list of members, who would
probably be cut off if the lunas were more active & faithful in their
duties.
The dry branches intertwining with those that would otherwise
bear fruit are a great evil in the Waianae Church.
While with them in July last a report was brought to my ears that
an apostate from brother Clarke’s ( !) Chch. had stated in Waianae &
repeatedly, that there was not a native minister in the Sandwich Isls .
who had not been guilty of adultery, &, as I understood it, while in
the ministry.
The statement did not seem to trouble the people much.
But, for the honor of our native ministry, I felt bound to try & prove
it false & slanderous, at least in its relation to Waianae.
I first
enquired of the Deacon - the ex-Judge of the district whether the re
port so far as related to their former pastor were true.
He said that
such was the general belief, & yet there had never been any proof of
it before the Ghch.
I then sent for the supposed guilty woman, a
church member, &, to my astonishment, she confessed all that had been
reported of them.
She professed penitence for her sin & a readiness
to make a public confession before the church, which she did do the
next sabbath.
�2.
Waianae 1862
This confession roused the anger of Waimalu’s sons, & they
threatened the woman & also the pastor with legal prossecution ( !)
for defaming the dead.
Waimalu’s widow acknowledged that she had sus
pected her husband of guilt, but he had constantly denied it.
With this guilt resting upon him Waimalu administered the Lords
supper & recd more than seventy to the Chch. but was taken with
symptoms of paralysis in the midst of the exercise.
The next day
being relieved he went in-land to superintend the building of some
stone wall, was siezed with a relapse & died before he could be got
back to his house.
The circumstances connected with Waimalu’s ministry, life & death
suggest questions of vital importance, in relation to the placing of
native pastors in full charge of churches, & suggest enquiries like
this
Ought any man who is even suspected of adultery while in the
church to be ordained as a gospel minister in these Islands?
The Church at Waianae have hired Koliko, one of Bro. Bishops
divinity students, to labor among them for one year; & are to pay him
$100 per year.
He appears pretty well & I hope will be useful.
The debt of the Chch. is mainly paid off but not entirely.
people with few exceptions are poor.
The
Most of the land Is either sold,
or under lease, to foreigners.
Two or three smaller lands are under lease to natives.
The people
are generally living on the old konohiki (one man in charge, with
others under him) system; & to get pasturage for their, worse than
worthless, horses is the burden of their effort through the year.
The population of the district is decreasing; schools are de
creasing in numbers, although the teachers are trying to do all they
can for their pupils.
Sabbath schools are attended with some interest,
but the number of attendants is small.
�Waianae 1862
5
There is a goodly number of adults in this district w h o appear
to prize the Wo r d of God, & listen to the instructions of the Sanctuary
w i t h mu c h interest.
What God has done for this people is n o t to b e
lightly estimated, that he w i l l do more & better things is t o be h o p e d
& praye d for.
Statistics of the Chch, I have as yet failed to get.
receive t h e m soon,
enough for our minutes.
But hope to
�Report of Waialua Station May 1862
The past year with us has been more miscelanious ( !) than any
year of our residence at the Isls.
Returning from our journey to the
U. States but just before our last General Meeting, both Mrs. E . &
myself have found the work of two years thrown upon one.
especially heavy upon the mother of many sons.
This bears
I have spent 49 days
of the year in visiting the Chchs. at Waianae & Hauula; & all our
churches have required increased attention from the fact that they
were all increased by large additions the year before.
The past year
8 have been recd to the Waialua chch. by profession & 7 by letter while
8 have died & 8 have been excommunicated & one has been restored to
fellowship, so that our number is the same as at the beginning of the
year.
We have had a daily prayer meeting at the station & much of the
time in several of the school districts connected with the station & on
thursdays a lecture in some one of the school districts.
day-meetings are usually rather thinly attended.
But week
Our reading of the
Scriptures through in company is now in progress for the eighth time,
& in my opinion is a valuable institution for our people.
One of the
chapters for the sabbath day; not unfrequently furnishes the text for
one of the sermons on the Sabbath.
Improvements.
The past year our people have built no meeting houses, nor school
houses, have purchased no bells, nor broken any.
Neither have we
started any new plantations, have constructed no new roads or bridges;
& till within the past few weeks have not kept our old roads in repair.
Our people have gone into no great excesses
e ither of dances,
bacchanalian revels, card playing or such like things.
But there have
been improvements.
During the past few weeks our roads have been put into better
�Waialua 1862
5
our mean horses met a like fate, So that we expect a somewhat improved
breed of horses & cattle from this evil, & no thanks to man for the
blessing.
Our roads have within the past few weeks been very much improved
so that a one or two horse team many now pass with ease in six or 7
hours between Honolulu & Waialua.
We have the prospect of still
greater improvements in roads & bridges so that we may hope to pass
with much ease & safety between Honolulu & Hauula.
Our population is not increasing unless it may be by immigration.
Deaths the past year in Waialua 53
Births 36 - decrease 17; & perhaps
about that number have entered the district during the year.
Our chch. at Waialua has recd but 8 additions by profession, &
7 by letter, while 8 have been removed by death & 8 by discipline so
that our number is about the same as it was one year ago.
Deaths of those who have at any time been members of our church
are 610 so far as is ascertained.
My time has been much occupied in visits among the people &
meetings with the different chchs.
The Oahu Clerical association has met twice during the year,
once at Hauula & once at Honolulu.
Its meetings have been conducted
with great harmony, & are productive of much good especially to those
of us who live some what remote from the metropolis.
The exercises
are almost entirely in English, as three or four of our members do
not understand the native language.
In September, we formed a conference of Chchs for Oahu at Haaula,
which had its second meeting at Honolulu, in February.
The business
of this conference, is conducted entirely in the native language, &
is attended by five native delegates from each of the native Chchs.
on the Island.
No measure has been adopted on Oahu, which promises
�Waialua 1862
2.
repair than they have been in for two years before.
A few natives
have built them wooden houses some with shingled roofs, others are
collecting materials to do the same.
A few are trying experiments
in rice, others in cotton, But the latter have generally been un
successful.
Our schools are about as they were a year ago both as to numbers
& interest.
The lack of suitable school-books is an obvious hindrance
to their progress; & teachers do not seem to be in advance of those
we had 15 or 20 years ago.
The Sabbath School is receiving the kind & anxious attention of
Mrs. Emerson, Samuel & Levi Chamberlain with some native teachers of
classes.
Although the number of scholars is much smaller than it
should be, the influence of the school is very happy.
The progress
of our people in every desirable thing is slow & spasmodic.
thing moves by impulses.
Every
One month we get up an Agricultural Society;
& talk bravely of planting rice, cotton, coffee, Sugar &c. &c. but
before three months are past, our society sleeps apparently the sleep
of death, unless the missionary consents to be its soul & body too.
We get up an effort to fence our cultivated lands & secure them
from the depridation of cattle but the enthusiasm subsides when the
job is half done, & so of a hundred other things.
A nation, that is
born in a day, will require generation to mature in.
It was so with
the Israelites, it mast be expected to be so of Hawaiians.
The almost total lack of rain during the latter part of the year
1860 & all of 1861 has caused a great scarcity of food for man & for
beast.
But rains of late have been abundant & the beast of the field
rejoice, while vegetable food for man is yet very scarce.
But famine is not without its blessings.
Our poor cattle were
slaughtered by hundreds to prevent the starvation of many & some of
�Waialua1862
4.
so much toward enlightening & harnessing in to the work the lay mem
bers of cur Chchs. as this.
We hope that the conference will he
long perpetuated & increase in usefulness.
Trials & pleasures of the way.
One of our Chch. members of 28 years standing, who has during
this period withstood the temptations to which many others have yield
ed, & on the whole conducted very well as a Christian, has, during the
past few months, fallen into a quarrel with a brother in-law, a very
small matter, but so contumacious, blind & deaf to all counsel has
he shown himself that we were obliged to set him aside from the com
munion.
Upon this he has broken loose from every chord that bound him
to his brethren; & he now acts like the man who became re-possessed
of 7 unclean spirits instead of one.
But it is possible he will yet
come to his senses & be a better man than before.
It was the deaf &
dumb foul spirits that baffled the power of Christs disciples; &
such are probably the hardest cases to be dealt with.
The case allu
ded to Is deaf to all instruction, but as he is not dumb, there is
possible the more hope ------- that he will be brought to repentance.
We have two other cases of a more interesting character, who left
the Chch. & enlisted for Satan in connection with Keawehunahalo's
rebellion.
And one of them at the time declared he had enlisted to
serve during the war.
So he in a particular manner plunged into
almost every excess of drunkness (! ), falsehood perjury & sabbathbreaking, speaking often great swelling words of vanity.
But for the
past few months both of these have been constant & interested hearers
of the word & usually are found in the morning prayer-meeting, humble
& apparently in their right mind sitting at the feet of Jesus.
It
is truly marvelous to see how the Spirit of God changes the tiger,
the lion, & the swine to the docile & confiding lamb.
One of them
�Waialua 1862
says that while pride would not allow him to come & confess his sins,
the sound of the church going bell was a dreadful sound to him, &
while others went to the house of God he often went & read his Bible
to try & atone for his neglects.
Thanks to the Lord that some appar
ently hardened rebels have a conscience within to trouble them.
Bible reading.
We are now reading the Bible through with our
people the eighth time; &, almost every day, I find a chance to throw
some light on the chapter for the day in a little gathering of our
people.
The amount of scripture knowledge obtained & the increasing
ability to receive more manifested by our constant & daily Bible
readers are to me circumstances of deep interest.
The day of fasting & prayer appointed by the president of the
U. States our annual thanksgiving & the day of fasting & prayer for
schools & colleges were observed by many of our people with much
interest.
Our chch. has contributed the past year in cash,
For Mo Concert
Support of pastor
In all
$
35.25
297.03
330.28
Beside this some small bundles have been sent to missionaries in the
Marquesas Isls.
Our contributions are small, & the people feel poor.
The proper
ty in which they abound & from which their means have been to a great
extent obtained in former years, has the past year been of no value,
& in many instances only a bill of expense.
In the Chchs. under my care I find there is a very great negli
gence among the members in bringing forward their children for bap
tism.
Perhaps the fault is in part my own, as I have uniformly refused
to baptize those children that the parents intended to give away to
their friends.
I also have refused to baptize adopted children for
�Waialua 1862
6.
our church members when the form prescribed by the laws of the Kingdom
to make adoption legal had not been complied with -
As the duty of
church members to have their children baptized is one in which we
are generally agreed & yet our practice may be diverse I should like
to be instructed on the subject by this body.
Statistics of the Waialua Chch. 1862
Total received by Prof
by letter
Past year by prof
by letter
total
total dismissed
past year
total died
” past year
Excluded past year
Now in reg - standing
Children baptized
Baptized past year
Marriages
Born in Waialua
died
1123
230
8
7
15
73
0
282
8
8
408
705
1
14
36
53
�Report of Waialua Station, Oahu. May, 1863.
The past year has been marked by no very extraordinary events
to make it unlike the years that have gone before.
We have had sick
ness in our family; but death has not entered our dwelling.
We are
conscious that as we commence the thirity ( !) second year of our resi
dence at the islands, we have not the elasticity of limb with which
we entered the field, nor the buoyant hope of living to see around us
a civilized, industrious, thriving congenial and homogenious race of
people.
”The fathers where are they? ”
book of church names is badly starred.
The first thirty pages of my
The first page contains but
four names of living church members; and many pages are starred from
top to bottom.
Out of 1166 who have been registered as church members
at least 622 are numbered with the dead.
More than half have departed.
There are now living 48 who have at different times, and for reasons
that appeared sufficient at the time, been cut off from the fellow
ship of the church.
Of these 48, about twelve are now numbered with
the Papists, and six or eight have joined the Mormon Fraternity.
Of the rest some ten or twelve are frequently seen with us in the house
of God on the Sabbath day.
Many of those who joined the Papists did
it to avoid all contributions for every religious object.
Those who
have united with the Mormons have done it knowing that with their habits
of life they could never be expected to be fellowshiped ( !) by us.
There are a number of names on our church book that we have
neither excommunicated nor dismissed, and I have not learned their
locality; although not numbered with the dead, we do not reckon them
with the living; so in the table they will be unaccounted for.
The past year I have spent ten Sabbaths away from Waialua, four
with the church in Waianae, five with the church in Hauula, and one
in Honolulu.
My routine of labors has been much as in past years.
�Waialua 1863
2.
A morning prayer meeting every day in the week; usually two other
meetings during the week, a lecture in some part of Waialua, and on
Friday a lesson in scripture history at the station.
On the Friday
previous to the communion, we have a day of religious exercises, when
all of the church in the district are expected to be present, and
answer to their names.
are very laborious.
These preparatory meetings for the communions
Sometimes the whole week is devoted to conversing
a few minutes with each member of the church.
Such personal conver
sations are undesired and disagreeable only to those who are negligent
& wandering.
Our church has not been increased the past year, except
by letter, either in Waialua, Waianae or Hauula.
If there has been
any progress among us in anything good it has been by growth in grace,
or by the lopping off of dead or unfruitful branches.
The winnowing
process has been carried on somewhat extensively; and, we trust, to
the advantage of all our churches.
In this we have been especially
aided by a company of very unclean Mormons, who by flattery and false
hood are able to beguile unstable, ignorant and unfruitful professors
of religion, and many who were once professors, but have apostatized.
But so marked is the difference between our stable church members and
the Mormon community, even the least among them, that all can tell a
Mormon by his peculiar fruits.
Papists.
Our Papist neighbors embrace nominally about one fifth
of the community.
Iokeewe, their priest, is a Frenchman, naturally
irascible, but now in poor health, and advanced in years.
He improves,
I think, as he grows older, and the little community of which he is
the center is becoming a more staid, liberal, Intelligent and respectIble ( !) community than in former years; and, although as a community
far below the Evangelical Protestants, in education, industry, wealth
and business tact, yet they are far above the Mormons in Industry,
morals, and every desirable trait.
�Waialua 1863
Of the English Reformed Catholics we have hut few specimens; and,
so far as we have seen them, they are well described by their own
poet, -
"Baptized infidels, the worse for mending,
"Washed to fowler stains",
confirmed in their sins, not purified from them. We can but marvel
that the church of England, with all her knowledge and tact at finan
ciering, could not have found among the millions of unevangelized
pagans some spot on which to bestow her Christian liberality in some
more praiseworthy manner, and on some more needy & promising people
than they can find at these Isls . after the field has been so fully
cultivated for more than one third of a century.
But some men do not
blush to reject Paul's good advice to the Corrinthians ( !) (2d 10:16)
"To preach the gospel in the regions beyond, and not to boast in
another man’s line of things, made ready to their hand."
Population.
The population of Waialua in 1854 was 1137, and in
1860 it was 1309; an increase by immigration of nearly 200.
While
in Koolauloa the population in 1854 was 1214, but is now less than
that of Waialua.
62.
The births in Waialua the past year were 41, deaths
In no year have the births exceeded the deaths since 1853; but
generally they have been only two thirds as numerous.
Why has the
population in Waialua increased, while it has decreased in every other
rural district of the island, if not of the whole group?
only one way to account for it.
I have
There is more land owned by common
natives in Waialua than in any other district of Oahu; and the people
are less oppressed by foreign land owners than in any other district;
and so they increase by immigration faster than they decrease by excess
of deaths above the births.
Famine. Waialua is the granary of the west of Oahu.
Its capa
bilities for the production of kalo have not been fully tested of late
years, nor are they likely soon to be, as the people do not calculate
�4.
Waialua 1863
to cultivate any more than they expect to find a good market for near
home.
Some portions of Waialua and a part of Koolau have suffered
severely from drought the past three years.
manner has lost its kalo crop for two years.
Waimea in an especial
They have used up their
money in buying food, and are now in a state of great destitution.
(Unsigned)
�Report of Waianae Station (1863)
The district of Waianae contains about 700 people at the present
time, about one half of the number it contained twenty five or thirty
years ago.
The land is mainly adapted to grazing.
Fifty or a hundred
acres may be fit for kalo; and 500 for the plow in favorable seasons.
The pasture land is divided into six or seven divissions ( !);
and
secured to as many parties or individuals on long lease or fee simple
titles.
These six or seven parties may be called the lords of the
soil, and of the people; as they controll ( !) much of the time of the
people in pay for the pasturage of their horses, of which they are very
fond, and own a far too large number for their good.
The kalo land
of the d i s
trict, as now cultivated, furnishes but little more food
than Is consumed by the people.
Fish and fungus are the principal
commodities of export for the common people; and fishermen are pro
verbially poor from ancient times.
There are now two schools with about twenty five scholars apiece.
There is a mission church, and two buildings for worship, and two
places for meetings, about eight miles apart.
Besides the mission
church there is a company of Papists, not well organized, influential
or industrious.
There is also a company who call themselves Mormons.
These consist generally of persons who have been cut off from the
Protestant church for indifference to all its ordinances, or adultery,
or both, and also of that class who, being very ignorant, have never
been members of any church, and who are promised life, health and sal
vation by joining the Mormons.
This costs them little more than to
submit to be immersed in water, an act which is not very trying to
them in any way .
The church of Waianae has been under a native pastor for ten or
twelve years till the death of Waimalu in the year 1860.
It was then
�Waianae 1863
2.
without a pastor except as I have attended its communious(
) four times
!
per year, up to the present time.
During the past year, ending in
April last, they have had the services of a native licentiate, at
one hundred dollars per annum.
But, as the pay was so inadequate to
his necessities, he had devoted more of his time to agriculture than
to the cultivation of the people.
The church hoped to get out of debt
by giving little for the gospel, but it has been otherwise.
They have
now concluded to do without any pastoral labor between the communion
seasons until they may again be in funds, which I fear will not soon
take place.
In the time of Waimalu there were nominally in the church between
200 & 300 members.
Of these 277 have died; and, during the past two
years, 33 have been cut off from the church.
Sixty one who were once
In the church are now living as excluded members.
There are many
aged persons still living in the church who are too feeble to go far
to meeting, or contribute anything for the support of the gospel.
The members who can be relied on for aid in supporting the gospel is
probably less than one hundred.
No additions have been made to the
church during the past year, except that one has been restored to its
communions.
At the communion in October, 1862
19 were cut off, nearly
all of them for living in a state of socialism in its fullest sense,
and in which, as I afterwards learned, some of them had lived for many
years.
I have visited the church four times during the year; and spent
nearly a week on each visit, holding a communion with the church, and
meeting the people repeatedly in different parts of the district.
There is little prospect of the population’s increasing for years
to come, but the opposite, as no part of the district is suitable for
an extensive sugar plantation.
There are in Waianae, generally ten
or twelve white or half white people who speak the English language.
�Waianae
1863
3.
But their influence is far from being favorable to religion.
They need the labors of a good, faithful native pastor, and he
to be helped by missionary visits, to secure his support, and help
forward any good he may aim to accomplish.
Wai
alua
Waia
nae
Whole number of church members on profession 1066 582
Whole number by certificate
—
102
Received past year on profession of faith
0
1
"
"
by certificate
5
0
Whole number past year
5
1
"
" dismissed to other churches
365
39
’’
past year
0
16
"
"
died
333 277
"
past year
13
16
—
Suspended past year
——
Excommunicated past year
9
33
Total excommunicated
88
61
Living
do
48
Total in regular standing
348 160
Total children baptized
720
66
Children baptized past year
15
16
Married past year
-10
Contributions for pastor
$276.87
(Unsigned)
Hauula
651
39
0
2
2
21
6
250
8
36
265
177
9
10
�Waialua
June 1865
Report of J.S. Emerson’s labors.
During the past year since June last I have partially supplied
the pulpit at Waialua 16 sabbaths conducted 12 of the communions, &
also attended the communions in Koolau loa at Hauula & Kahana.
I
have uniformly attended a reading & prayer meeting at sunrise on the
Sabbath & conducted also Bible school Sabbath noon when at Waialua -
I
have attended somewhat to the medical wants of the people & visited
some what among the people.
My health is gradually improving but it
is not such as would enable me to read with ease & correctness for any
length of time in any language -
There is as I think a slight paraly
sis of both of the optic nerves which prevents ready & acute vision
although It does not acquaint with the cause of the defect, or produce
any pain in the organs of vision.
A portion of my time - perhaps the largest has been ocupied ( !) in
supervising some small matters connected with my family, but without
much hand labor on my part -
The Mormons have come into our field &
done more to injure it than Bishop Staley & all his staff.
But the
low state of religion among the people - Horse racing, Gambling &
card playing & the great lack of family religion & parental govt have
troubled me more than all else -
If family religion is neglected
little else can avail to produce a reform.
(Unsigned; done in pencil)
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REPORT
Dr. G. P. Judd to Sandwich
Island Mission
Besides the Editoriship of the Kumu Hawaii the main employment
of my time the past year has been the practice of medicine.
No regular journal of cases has been preserved or I might per
haps fatigue you with their detail.
All the usual variety of
diseases Fevers, Inflamations, & what not, disorders of both the
inner and outer man, have presented themselves at the Dispensary
and received such aid as it was in our power to afford.
A rather
unusual number of Surgical cases have presented themselves—
diseases of the Eye, Polypus, Tumors, Fractures Dislocations &c.
The introduction of the Mumps by the Ship Rasselas has added
my
considerably to my labors owing to the fears of the people respec
ting a new & unknown disease.
These fears I endeavoredwithoutto allay
success
by the statement that we use little medical treatment for it in
the U.S.
b
t
I
u soon found that in many instances the results were
rather serious, owing to the influence of the inflammation on the
general system & the giving away of the feebler organs.
At the commencement of the year I took a young man ^ the Semiat
nary six years, with a view to giving him instruction in the Medical
art.
slight
He has obtained a^ knowledge of Anatomy from the study of the
a small edition of which has been published
Anatomia, ^and also some acquaintance with the more common Medicines
and diseases.
The method of giving instruction has been oral, the
who had b
�student retireing to his room immediately after each lecture or
talk and committing it to writing on a slate, which after being
corrected and amended he records in a book.
This book he has pro
vided with an index & uses as a book of reference, in doubtful
cases.
The names of Medicines and diseases so far as we have pro
ceeded are in the Hawaiian language. Hoohano is competent to do
common
is
what in our ^language a called giving out medicine, bleed, cup,
dress wounds, open abscesses &c &c.
Some attention has been likewise been bestowed in teaching him
to read proof sheets, which he is now qualified to do with tolerable
correctness, for which he is paid a small sum out of the appropri
ation for the Printing Department,
His board I have furnished at my own expense & have drawn
about 25$ for his clothing from the Department.
Whether this experiment will prove a successful one is yet quite
uncertain, although thus far appearances are favorable.
It has been an object with me not to oppose the practice of the
native physicians in mass, but to endeavor by the best means in my
power to correct and modify their practice so that it shall save,
not kill the people.
It is my intention if possible the coming year
to make Hoohano acquainted with the native practice as it now exists
and make him the agent for collecting facts on the subject.
It is
out of the question for us to think of putting down the native
practice unless we will attend all the sick ourselves, since it is
not human nature to be sick & die without seeking some means of
�alleviation.
The idea of improving the native doctors has there
fore suggested itself to me as an exceedingly important one
demanding immediate attention.
Owing to want of Physicians in the village or to some other
cause I have had an unusual number of calls from foreigners, many
some
of whom are enemies of the mission— ^persons of bad character and
all fully aware that my services are gratuitous.
During the year I have visited Kailua at the call of Dr. An
drews and the family of Mr. Thurston.
Also Lahainaluna where I
spent 18or28 days, engaged partly in professional business & partly
in lecturing on Anatomy on a select class of boys.
Several urgent
calls have also been made from Waialua and Kaneohe which received
attention.
Some time has been occupied during the year as interpreter and
Translator for the government, an employment of much importance, al
though attended with great difficulties.
It is decidedly the most
difficult station I was ever called on to fill and one I would if
possible avoid, but without some constant intervention of this sort
it is impossible to avoid constant trouble between chiefs &
foreigners. The field ought not to be left unoccupied.
I have had the Superintendence of the Childrens Sabbath School,
in which I have been aided by Messrs Castle Cooke & Dimond, and
Miss M. Smith.
There is nothing peculiar in the manner of conducting
this School which would render it worthy of notice.
The number who
actually,
83 181 since the first of Sept; last
have^attended has varied from^to
Sabbath 75.
�(1839 & 1840)
Original Ms in
Hawaiian Mission Children Society's Library
REPORT
Dr. G. P. Judd to Sandwich
Island Mission
In reporting my labors the past year, I must for bear to dilate
much on the several items owing to the late hour at which the pre
paration of the Report is commenced.
Medical Practice
has been attended to ^every day and in ^ circumstances.
It has
been my object to place the common Office practice as much as pos
sible into the hands of native assistants, and this has been atten
ded with much encouraging success.
Hoohano & Kalili have both rendered themselves useful the
former however much the most so as his previous acquirements and
habits of mental application render him much the best qualified for
He has been laid aside since the first of April &
the profession^. Kalili proves more expert, but less conscientious
will die
in the discharge of his duty and also averse to aply his mind to
investigation.
As soon as we became a little settled after the last Annual
Meeting, I commenced the investigation of the native practice and by
s
the aid of these two assistants obtained from several native Drs
the various doctrines and practices of the art which have come down
through the legalizd channels mai ka wa kahiko mai.
The result of these investigations have been embodied in their
proper order and committed to writing in a Book kept for the purpose.
These investigations occupied several weeks in the early part
�of the year and have been continued as opportunity afforded.
We
also instituted a series of experimentx on native medicines which
resulted pretty much as all experiments of the kind usually do.
We
found we could prepare from the native Gourd alone, or combined
with Koali or Pipa and extract which would physic most delightfully
& like Brandreths Pills to any amount which might be desirable.
But their being no regular source whence the materials can be
derived & the preparation of them being attended with some trouble,
we have neglected to use them, it being easier to take from the
shelves what was already at hand & good enough without seeking for
any thing better.
If however it is thought desirable to supply the stations with
the article it can be done at a rate somewhat cheaper than similar
foreign articles.
About
3
q u a r t s
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n
made
a
b
during the year
of which about half proved to have been damaged in boiling the
gourds.
The rest have been disposed of to advantage.
I have been unable to prepare an account of the Native Practice
in the English language.
during
The most of the investigations were conducted^ the visit of
the Ships of War & while our house was thronged with company.
Mr. Robert J. Morris of the Jno Adams was left in my family on
the 11th of Oct. and died Nov 16th, 3 days subsequent to the death of
our eldest son.
Immediately after which I took the rest of the
family to Maui in complyance with the request of the Trustees of the
Wailuku Fem Sem. in order to investigate the causes of the sickness
�which had proved fatal to many of the pupils in that Institution.
On our arrival at Lahaina we learned that Mrs. Clarke was
sick of fever, and having spent about 4 weeks at Lahainaluna, we
proceded to Wailuku.
The result of the examination may be gotten
in the following letter to the Principal of the Sem.
See Report
2 During the year I have made one visit to Ewa, two to
Waialua and three to Kaneohe, but on the whole the health of
the mission families
^at those stations has been good.
1 As to Lectures at Lahainaluna, I might observe that I found
the views of the Principal were that the school was not in a state
to profit by them.
The work on Hygeae assigned me has been commenced.
What I
have written is on the management of children.
Sugar Mill & plantations.
for chiefs children
Efforts to encourage.
School House
�(1840-1841)
Printed in Fragments II, pp. 120-131
Original Ms in
Hawaiian Mission Children Society's Library
REPORT
Dr. G. P. Judd to Sandwich
Island Mission
On reviewing my journal for the purpose of making out a report
of my labors the past year I find the following points which I have
selected as worthy of notice; and first,
Medical practice.
In common with other members of the medical staff I have attended the sick as cases have presented themselves, and most of the
year without any assistant.
Kalili left me in August.
Hoohano died the last of June and
The former was a valuable assistant both
in the preparation of medicines and in prescribing for the Office
patients; his death must therefore be regretted as a loss to his
people.
Kalili was not satisfied to spend his time so unprofit-
ably to himself as to work without wages, and although I consider
him an active promising youth I was not satisfied with his profi
eventually
ciency in the Medical art. This state of things^b
r
o
u
g
h
t
about an amicable separation and the room which I had from the
Bindery has been called for and given up to Mr Dimond.
Besides Hoohano, several other native patients whose names are
familiar to most of you have been removed by death.
after an illness of three months.
Laanuis wife,
Kapihis wife, sick a long time,
under my care two months: just before her death she was removed to
a house near the residence of the Popish priests—
to the cured.
as was pretended—
I called after the first ceremonies had been per-
�formed and stated to the husband & family that what they had des
cribed as having been done by the priest was only a rite of their
religion & had nothing to do with medical practice.
This created
some surprise as they were all under the impression that the priest
expected to cure her.
This I denied and requested them to ask the
priest next time he called if. what he had done was for the body or
the soul, and pledged myself to confront and expose him if he pre
tends to cure with his holy water, and I added that all his motive
in extremis
in visiting the sick^ was to make prosylites and procure bodies to
be buried in their new graveyard.
The priest did not however come
in collision with me and the body was buried in our cemetery.
Gases
like the above are not very frequent in Honolulu where the priests
dread exposure but the game is played in all other parts of the
island with great success.
Kapiolani, of whose holy life and estimable character I need
not speak died on the 6
fecting.
th
inst under circumstances peculiarly af
She came to Honolulu about the 20th of March by the advice
of Dr. Andrews her Physician to be operated on for a cancer of the
breast.
She bore the operation, which was severe, without mani
festing the least symptom of pain.
Her breast as she afterwards
expressed it was with Jesus, and so vivid was her sense of the Divine
presence that she seemed to be almost unconscious of what she was
suffering.
She was ready to die, and equally ready to live if that
were the will of God.
�Both Dr. Woodd & Dr Fox surgeon of the Vincennes united in
opinion with me that the disease was removed & we might expect a
perfect cure.
The wound healed kindly & at the end of a fortnight
was really closed.
She attended meetings & at the Poalima was
very animated in her arguments with her sisters on the subject of
their old superstitions about ghosts and pule anaana which she had
determined to refute as long as her life should be spared her.
About six weeks after the operation deeming my attendance no longer
necessary I gave her permission to visit Maui as soon as she could
procure a passage, and in preparation for leaving she took a long
walk in the heat of the day which brought on a pain in the side.
The next day Apl 29th she visited each of the missionaries at their
houses including those from other islands.
Erysipelous now made
its appearance which after two or three days by Metastasis affected
the brain and she sunk away into palsy and death.
of
Of the painful & protracted sickness and triumphant death^it
Mrs. Castle
what
is unnecessary for me to say any thing in addition to^ has already
been written & published.
It was a consolation to me that her life was
protracted until 10 days after my return from Hawaii.
A large proportion of the Missionaries within my field have,
required medical aid, and some are now on the list of invalids.
have visited professionally the families
I
at Waialua seven times in
the course of the year and Ewa once.
Calls from foreigners for medical attendance have been few, and
those generally among the poor not on the consuls hands.
I ascribe
�this to the confidence of the public in Dr. Wood.
Englishman was under my care four weeks.
One man, an
His letter of thanks
written in the height of animosity between the American & English
Residents—
I will read.
No remarkable sickness among the people has prevailed the
past year.
The Chicken Pox and a slight influenza have appeared
within a few weeks.
The want of medicines has rendered it impossible for me to
supply all the orders from the stations.
There is a supply in the
Gloucester. (Arrived 1841)
2nd Translating & interpreting.
The calls for my services in
these particulars have been frequent some part of the year, gen
erally, by the government.
I have usually been present at all
important trials and the adjustment of difficulties between the
government and foreigners.
3d Proof reading.
Labors not very abundant in this department
this h
t
4year.
Building Meeting house. This has occupied some of my time
particularly in the early part of the year in connexion with Mr.
Armstrong.
About the time of Mr Binghams sailing a donation from
the King of 7 lau Mamaki kapa was put into my hands for the purpose
of procuring shingles.
These had to be converted into ready money
and men employed to manufacture them on this island.
This agency
called me away from home on two occasions for several days to hunt
�for timber on the mountains back of Waialua Waipio and Ewa.
The
search proving in the end to be fruitless the shingles were pur
chased in town,
th
5
Church affairs.
Some aid has been rendered Mr. Armstrong
in cases of discipline &c in the former part of his resident at
the station.
6th
Improvement of the Soil.
In the honeymoon of our zeal
for develloping the resources of the country I thought it my duty to
persuade Kekuanaoa to unite in partnership with a foreigner for the
purpose of establishing a sugar manufactory in the vicinity of
Honolulu, and I became engaged to act as Kekuanaoas agent in such a
manner that all business between the parties was to be transacted
through me, in order to avoid collision between them and secure to
the best advantage the cooperation of both.
Operations were com
menced by enclosing the land procuring a Mill &c &c but the foreigner
becoming sick of his prospects sold out to Kekuanaoa & the partner
ship was dissolved.
I have enclosed six acres and a half of land near the old Allen
place which is being ploughed and I hope to have planted in the
course of the summer and fall,
th
7
U.S. Exploring Expeidition.
In view of the objects of the
Expedition and the claim we have made on our Government for the pro
tection of ourselves and our families from proscription and outrage,
it appeared to be the duty of the Mission to afford them every
facility while at the islands Accordingly, at the suggestion of
�Lt. Commandant Long that we would collect for the use of the Expedi
tion, information respecting the islands and the operations of the
Mission, a circular was addressed to each of the stations and
public institutions which drew from the brethren a considerable
number of documents which I embodied in one volume and in the name
of the writer presented it to Commadore Wilkes on his arrival at
Honolulu.
He subsequently invited me to accompany him on an expedi
tion to Mauna Loa which was expected to occupy six weeks.
This invitation I accepted after a due consideration of the sub
ject and consulting with several of the brethren, all of whom con
curred with me in the opinion that it was my duty to go.
Mr. Brins-
made was also invited and made one of the party.
While at Hawaii I endeavored to render myself useful in various
ways, I acted as interpreter and directed the natives employed,
about 600 in number and had the satisfaction of preventing or ami
cably settling the. thousand difficulties which were naturally to
be expected to be the consequence of throwing such a number of
natives in the way of more than 70 foreigners of the ships company
during a journey of 40 days in the mountains.
I also collected
specimens, attended to all the sick, lame & wounded both natives
and foreigners and held meetings on the sabbath with the natives.
While at Kilauea I narrowly escaped a horrible death by the
merciful interposition of Providence.
Let down by the hands of a
native I had descended six or eight feet of the brim of a cooled
caldron, 28 feet deep and 200 wide and crept along under a ledge
�where I was crouched down on my feet collecting Peles hair, when
the falling of a few stones warned me that an eruption was about
to take place, and the next instant the bottom opened 50 feet from
me like an immense bubble 8 or 10 feet in diameter and with a
tremendous noise projected a column of lava to a height far above
the bank or margin of the pit.
The colour of this jet was of the
most perfect crimson and the heat & glare too great for the eye to
look on.
I raised myself to an erect posture, turned my face to
the wall with my hands upon a projecting ledge above me which I
found it impossible to mount without assistance, nor could I
resume my former position and retrace the way I came on account of
the intense heat. Here I stood perfectly helpless. God heard my
I had
prayer. When^given up all, & resigned myself into His hand,
Kalama appeared on the bank, put out his hands, seized mine, which
enabled me by an extraordinary effort to throw myself out.
It
seems that at the moment of the eruption, the five natives who were
with me ran off, but Kalama more bold than the rest bethought him
self of me, and turned back only just in season for my rescue, for
just as he approached the brink the accumulated flood having filled
the inequalities of the bottom flowed directly under my feet.
As
I went over the ledge I felt that I was burnt and Kalamas face and
ear were blistered by the heat radiated directly from below.
On our return to Hilo I spent several days in paying off the
natives, and as. there was only one surgeon attached to the Vincennes
I took charge of the sick on board while he visited the volcano.
I
�also prescribed for the families at Hilo, and on my return visited
the Female Seminary at Wailuku where there was an increase of sick
ness at the time.
At Lahaina and Lahainaluna also I found several
persons waiting to avail themselves of my professional services.
Perhaps I ought to add, that while in company with com. Wilkes
I was treated with all the kindness and consideration which is due
to a gentleman, a Christian and a missionary, both by the com. and
all the officers and men under his command, and I am not without
hope that a a favorable impression was made upon them.
It may perhaps be satisfactory to some of the brethren to know
that I went on this Expedition in no other capacity than as com
panion of capt Wilkes and aid and director of the natives, having
no other expectation of reward than a consciousness of doing good
and serving our common cause, that circumstances which could not
have been foreseen protracted my absence double the time which was
calculated, that I embraced the first opportunity after the natives
engaged in the expedition were discharged to return home in a
native schooner, and that on the arrival of the Vincennes at Hono
lulu I received a valuable present from Capt Wilkes under the
positive restriction that it should be entirely at my own disposal
and not a donation to the Boards.
�
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