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HAWAII ISLAND
Extracts from Hawaii Island Station Reports 1848
Paris, John D. - -Kau Station---------------------- p. 1
Coan, Titus, --Hilo Station------ ------------ -----p. 3
Lyman, David B --Hilo Boarding School-- ------- -—
Lyons, Lorenzo - -Waimea Station—
-p. 5
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6
Bond, Elias --Kohala station---------— ------------p. 9
Thurston, Asa - -Kailua Station------------- -------p.11
Ives, Mark --Kealakekua Station, includes Kealia--p.13
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HAWAII
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Station of Rev. J.D. Paris.
The desolating effects of the fires & famine of the two
previous years have ever since been felt.
They drew after them a
dark train of disease & death the marks of which are still visible.
But the good hand of God has been heaviest upon the pastor.
Lord put forth his hand & touched him.
The
He called his companion
up higher & to the rest of her heavenly home.
Though in tears &
desolateness & with a heart bleeding over his motherless daughters
& his cheerless abode the surviving husband & father can call to
remembrance the loving kindness & make mention of the tender mer
cies of God.
the field.
This heavy stroke compelled the pastor to retire from
His labors among his people have been confined to
occasional tours.
disadvantages -
Of course they have been performed under great
Still the pastor has been encouraged with the
evident & precious tokens of the Divine blessing upon them.
Com. Schools
Owing to decrease in population the protestant schools have
however
been reduced from 20 to 12. There is/evident improvement in the
manners both of teachers & pupils.
On the whole the schools are
doing more good than in former years.
Sab. Schools
These are 9 in number & well attended.
instances attend with their children.
Parents in many
The regular exercises
has been 7 verses of the "Daily Food" - together with a hymn in
concert - all committed to memory during the week.
Several of the
scholars have been hopefully converted.
Temperance
The children of the protestant families are nearly all
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associated in a temperance society, pledge to abstain from all
that can intoxicate.
To this pledge also are sworn all the church
members —
Benevolence.
The people of this remote & famished, & scathed & often
oppressed district are emphatically poor.
something.
Still they have done
They have cheerfully built 2 good thatched meeting
houses, & furnished them with doors, seats & rude pulpits.
They
have also built a bell house & suspended the bell generously sent
them by the Allen St. Church, New York.
They have also contributed
over one hundred dollars in goats, goat skins &c. for monthly
concert.
Civilization.
A manifest improvement is obvious in the clothing
of the people.
But few persons are now seen on the Sab. who are
not clothed in European dress.
There is also some improvement in
the structure of houses - with verandas & apartments - enclosed
yards & gardens.
There is too more cleanliness than formerly,
& many have provided themselves with a table & a few chairs, iron
pots, bowls, plates, knives, forks, &c.
Popery -
Decidedly on the decline.
& poorly attended.
Their meetings have been few
Many of their leading men have left them & are
among the enquirers at protestant meetings.
Some of these have
been received to the church.
State of religion.
The pastor was never more encouraged.
The Holy Spirit has
been poured down upon several districts strengthening the weak,
reclaiming the backslider, alarming the careless, & saving the lost.
Considering the great disadvantages under which the people have
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lived & the pastor has labored, the stability of very many church
members, the revived state of religious feeling, & the accession to
the cause of Christ from the ranks of the papists, are truly wonderful, honoring the pastor as the instrument but most magnifying the
grace of God.
Hilo Station of Rev. Titus Coan
Preliminary remarks.
This field is the largest & the most difficult of access
of all the stations.
The labors are mostly performed on periodical
tours, which are attended with great fatigue & peril, 6 made in
each district the past 2 yrs.
Not a year passes but some lives
are lost in crossing the mad streams that intersect at short inter
vals the whole northern section.
And the pastor would record with
gratitude the almost miraculous preservation which has so long
sustained him in his labors.
Com. Schools
Though not what the pastor could wish, they are more pros
perous than at some former periods.
Debts were due the teachers
to the amt. of more than $2000 - which of course discouraged the
teachers & injured the schools - A new school superintendent, how
ever, is rapidly securing the payment of these arrears.
Temperance
There have been 6 temperance celebrations at convenient places
throughout the field.
The 2600 children of the districts of Hilo
& Puna are pledged to abstain from all that can intoxicate.
In
this pledge the 6000 church members are also associated.
Benevolence
About $1,100 have been expended by the Ch. members in building
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& $200 more for repairs on
the one at the pastor's place of residence.
For the support of the pastor a beginning was made first
in 1847 - The efforts are not yet as systematic or vigorous as it
is hoped they will hereafter be made.
The promptness & cheerful
ness with which many responded to the suggestion is greatly en
couraging.
The nominal am t. collected in trade & cash is $425.14 --
which reduced to cash value stands $317.50.
Civilization.
Industry & thrift are every where gaining upon indolence &
poverty -
Many frame houses have been erected.
Very many more
have been furnished with the ordinary articles of household furni
ture.
The people are every year getting up out of the dirt, sit
ting on chairs & at tables & making partitions & fences.
agricultural implements also are multiplying.
Their
Much attention also
has been paid to the improvement of roads.
Popery To all appearances this error has made no progress.
So
far as the pastor knows no accessions have been made, while numbers
have left them.
Very little zeal has been displayed on the part
either of the priest or his disciples.
thinly attended.
Their schools are a misnomer - not more than
one or two of them in operation.
is known.
Their meetings have been
But the wily nature of this foe
This quiescent state will not continue.
expects more active efforts in future.
The pastor
It is only a change of
policy - from the strong & belligerent to the quiet & flattering.
With the Lord on his side the pastor has nothing to fear.
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State of Religion.
The church has steadily progressed in knowledge & in
respect for the ordinances of the Gospel.
In common with other
churches this also has its share of the ignorant, the stupid, the
impulsive, the unstable, the decieving ( !) & the decieved.( !).
But in pleasing contrast are a large & increasing class of steadfast & growing Christians.
In the year 1847 a gradual work of
the spirit commenced which quietly yet powerfully extended over &
affected the whole field.
Many who were not aroused during the
great revival of precious memory were then led to inquire what
they must do to b e saved.
The pastor has been greatly assisted in
the labors at the station by Bro. Paris, the circumstances of whose
family compelled him to remove there in 1846.
During the tours of
the pastor the labors have wholly devolved on this Bro. & Bro
Lyman.
Hilo Boarding School - of Rev. D. B. Lyman.
The school is indebted to Dr. Maxwell of the U.S.S. Cyane
for his generous & skillful aid in a time of unusual sickness
in the summer of 1847.
With this exception the scholars & teachers
have enjoyed almost uninterrupted health -
There has been no
occasion to discipline for flagrant immorality.
Twenty five are members of the church.
By extra exertions
during their few leisure hours they have raised more than $50 for
foreign missions.
The expenses of the school have exceeded the
avails of the boys' labor $430.
been constantly employed.
But one assistant teacher has
The school suffers for want of land,
the quantity now available for cultivation being too small to
support the School.
Fifty six has been the average number of
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scholars for the 2 yrs past, only 13 of whom were connected with
the school previously to the
one member has died.
period of the last report.
Only
Sixteen have entered the L .luna S em’y. &
24 others engaged in teaching during the period of this report.
Waimea
Station of Rev. L* Lyons.
Preliminary Remarks.
The pastor lives remote from the body of his people, &
hence has the burden of his work at arm’s length.
But he has
to recount the goodness & loving kindness of God though His kind
hand has planted a thorn in his flesh.
He experienced a narrow
escape of drowning - inflamation & weakness of the eyes have for
3 yrs given him much pain & at times suspended him from his mission
ary work.
Sickness, too, of several weeks duration confined him
to his house -
But he has been raised up & preserved & has been
enabled to prosecute his labors.
Com. Schools.
Though under the supervision & patronage of the gov't yet
much of the care devolves on the missionary.
The superintendents
have on the whole done well - accomplishing much work for a trif
ling salary -
Twenty four teachers in the field, 6 of whom were
from L.luna -
Some of these 24 teachers are veterans in the ser
vice - teaching there 16 yrs ago.
All of them entered into an
agreement to cultivate the habits of civilized life.
vary from 12 1/2 to 25 cts per day.
Some of them have libraries con
taining all the books in the Hawaiian language a general thing decently clothed.
Their wages
Scholars are as
Thousands of verses of scrip
ture are committed by them to memory.
& are members of temperance societies.
They attend Sabbath schools
New school houses have been
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built in almost every district, and as [a] general thing of a
superior character to any previously built.
The pastor has
superint[end] ed the building of a permanent one at the station.
He has himself taught a school a few months for want' of a suitable
teacher -
He has taught the teachers one month at Waimea.
School libraries greatly needed.
Temperance.
Church members & scholars are as usual pledged to abstain
from all that can intoxicate.
There are temperance celebrations
with the usual festivities &c.
Civilization - Constantly progressing, both indoors & outdoors,
in clothing, in. furniture, in houses, in manners, in the arts, in
property & employment.
There are tailors & tailoresses, hat braid
ers, shoe makers, sawyers & teamsters.
There are coffee planta
tions & flower gardens - & herds of cattle & horses, beside flocks
of sheep & goats.
There are carts & oxen under native management.
Natives are sometimes seen walking arm in arm, & others still
riding to church.
There are 150 families supplied with the native
newspaper - & that too generally paid for.
Benevolence
years.
In this there has been a decided advance on former
A beginning has been made to support the pastor.
At first
only 2 or 3 out of the 16 churches were ready to contribute.
From these small beginnings however all have been induced to contribute.
The results of systematic effort are $552 in the year
1847 - $40 of which are in cash, the remainder in marketable art
icles of trade.
The contributions for 1846 amounted to $228.
The
Church members have also erected 3. meeting houses - & furnished
them in whole or in part with mats, pulpits, & seats - & enclosed
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them with fences.
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They are now erecting & repairing others, &
have done something for the support of the poor.
Popery ~
Several years have elapsed since the introduction of
popery - & yet but 400 in all have been drawn into the net - 80
of whom have become proselytes the past 2 yrs.
& 5 or 6 chapels.
They have 5 schools
Their desciples ( !), children excepted., are
composed principally of apostates from the protestant church.
State of Religion.
The past 2 yrs. seemed to be God's time to
favor Z ion in this field.
A,powerful revival of religion has
blessed the church & rejoiced the pastor.
Places regarded as given
over & abandoned of God were the fields selected for the visitation
& display of the Spirit’s power.
Most of the subjects of the re
vival were hardened apostates, who before seemed to have been
joined to their idols.
Eyes that seemed held in eternal slumbers
were opened - deaf ears were unstopped, & hardened & frozen hearts
subdued & melted.
Names were restored to the catalogue of God's
people which the pastor thought he had erased forever, & seats in
the Sanctuary & at the Lord's table refilled whose vacancy had so
long & so hopelessly saddened the pastor's heart.
He has joyfully
rewelcomed to love & fellowship those over whom he had for years
yearned & prayed & labored, but whom he had no faith to reclaim.
As the result of the revival some 300 apostates were reclaimed &
restored to the church.
About' 100 profess repentance & faith among
those never connected with the church - 60 of whom have been ad
mitted, the remainder standing propounded for future reception.
Several of the above were formerly catholics.
& to Him be the glory.
ployed.
It is of the Lord
Only the ordinary means of grace were em
The pastor has received (! ) invaluable aid from his native
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helpers 15 of whom are constantly at work throughout his field.
Kohala
Station of Rev. E. Bond.
Nothing has occurred to render peculiar the period now under
review.
The pastor has been enabled to prosecute his labors almost
without interruption.
He once narrowly escaped sudden death, but
through the care of the great & good Shepherd the under-shepherd
was spared.
By most indefatigable efforts the new & comfortable
meeting house has been completed, & every Sabbath morning has
introduced him to a crowded sanctuary -
During the week & on tours
he has steadily toiled with none to molest or make him afraid.
Com. Schools.
Part of the time they have been prosperous.
fered in the hands of an unworthy Superintendent.
They have suf
Indifference of
parents to the subject of education - destitution of suitable school
houses - want of order & discipline in the schools, & imperfect
qualifications of teachers - are among the causes that operate all
over the Islands to paralize efforts to promote education.
Not
withstanding these obstacles the cause of education advances Nearly a thousand children were present at the examination at the
close of the year 1847, & more than that number at the feast held
on the last day of the year.
The select school of the pastor has continued as in previous
years -
It has numbered during the last year 17, 12 of whom are
still in the school.
Temperance.
The articles ordinarily used for the production of intoxi
cating drinks have been devoted to better uses.
To the stringent
laws against the manufacture & use of such drinks, the district is
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indebted under God to almost perfect freedom from them & their
concomitant evils.
Civilization.
A gradual but steady progress towards a better condition
in the temporal Interests of the people is clearly perceptible.
Still it is true as every where else there are large numbers who
seem more willing to live & die as their fathers lived & died b e
fore them.
Benevolence
The church have contributed for Foreign Missions during
1847 $515 - about one third in Cash the remaining two thirds in
articles of trade -
In reducing this to cash a great depreciation
in value takes place owing to the position of the field with re
spect to markets.
So that the actual available sum would fall much
below the amount mentioned.
But even this discouraging result is
in the pastor’s mind vastly preferable to inaction on the important
subject of Christian benevolence.
Popery.
This error has made no progress, & it is the decided im
pression of the pastor that the prosylites ( !) to that faith are
less in numbers than 2 yrs since.
There are but 3 small schools
in the whole district embracing but 50 pupils.
One of the teachers
Is but a child, & none of them have legal qualifications to teach.
The Superintendent gave them a commission only because he feared
the wrath of the priest who shook his fist at him & made threats
in case he refused a license I When the leopard changes his spots,,
then the "Beast" will cease to carry his peculiar mark.
�State of Religion.
There has been no revival - i.e. no general harvest -
Yet
the pastoral has all along been gathering into the Lord’s, store
house.
A flourishing sabbath school of more than 600 children &
youth has afforded a pleasant & profitable field of labor during
the period embraced in this report.
Great numbers of these have
attended the meeting for inquiry - some of whom have been admitted
to the Church.
The attendance on the Sabbath has been large not
withstanding frequent stormy & inclement weather on that day.
The
religious habits of the people are becoming fixed.
Kailua
Station of Rev. Asa Thurston.
Death hath again & again visited the station.
Suddenly &
most unexpectedly was Mrs. Andrews called to join her babes in
Heaven -
But it was not till after long lingering on the verge
of the grave that her fourth child followed her thither.
Dr.
Andrews & her first born son & only surviving child are alone
left of the once happy family.
been uninterrupted.
But the health of the pastor has
Sabbath & week days have found him in strength
& at his work both at the station & at the outposts.
Com. Schools.
These are in a prosperous state,, though they have been kept
up but half of the time for more than a year.
This suspension of
the schools was deemed necessary to diminish the debt due the
teachers.
The number of schorals ( !) has increased & more interest
is felt in the cause of education on the part both of parents &
children.
Temperance.
No report.
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There is a gradual advance in intelligence, civi
lization & moral principle.
There are no Chiefs now on the Island
to help or hinder the great work.
All the principal offices of
Gov’t are from the common people, who received ( !) their education
at the Mission Seminary at Lahainaluna.
his aid.
Such is the Governor &
Thus the people have an impressive example before them
of the advantages of education & good moral character.
This new
thing it is hoped will elevate both chiefs & common people - by
showing the former that they will not of course be rulers, & the
latter that they may by Intelligence & virtue attain to the high
est honors.
Benevolence.
The contributions during the year 1847 amounted to $104.72 —
$71.80 of which was for the support of the Gospel, mostly in money.
The amount is small, but small also is the ability of the people.
The good effected is not to be estimated in dollars & cents - but
rather in the disposition it cultivates to support their own re
ligious institutions.
Popery.
The pastor does not think this dangerous sect on the increase
in his field, though he presumes that they will rally again when
their new stone church is completed & adorned with images.
They
have 6 schools with 213 pupils - less than one fourth of the num
ber in the protestant schools.
State of Religion.
The Church was never more firm or energetic.
A revival
commenced in Dec. 1846 & continued to progress for 9 months.
hundred & thirty seven were received ( i) to the church as the
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Most of these as yet run well & stand
firm.. Thirty or forty are yet upon the list of inquirers.
Kealakekua including Kealia -
Station of Rev. Mark Ives.
The labors of the pastor have been very much interrupted.
First, sickness in his family took him two or three months from his
people.
Lastly his own health failed & he has been unable to preach
since Dec. of 1847 -
Still the Lord has been with him & in a good
measure blessed his labors.
Owing to ill health but a short report
was presented.
Com. Schools
These have improved during the year past.
An eight hundred
dollar debt due the teachers has been reduced to less than three
hundred - so that teachers have been more energetic, & the scholars
more zealous of improvement.
Civilization.
No report.
Benevolence - No report.
Popery - No report State of Religion.
For mor e than a year past the moral aspect has been cheering.
Meetings have been more fully attended - & many backsliders have
returned, about 50 of whom have been received ( !) back to church
fellowship -
Meetings on the Sab. have been sustained in 7 villages
attended by 11 or 12 hundred people.
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