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KAAWALOA STATION REPORTS
CONTENTS
Cochran Forbes............................ .......................................1833
Cochran F orbes........ . „ . ............. ............... .............. ..
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Cochran Forbes............ .................................... ................ 1835
Unsigned (Fo rbes).......................... .................... .......... .1836
Cochran Fo r b e s ......................... ........... ...1837
Unsigned (Fo rbes).......... ................ ............................ .. .1838
�Report of the S tatio n a t Kaawaloa
for the Year ending June 1 s t , 1833
The m ission are aware o f the d i f f i c u l t i e s under w hich the
labours of th is statio n have been conducted during the past y ear One of the m issionaries i n i l l h e a l t h most of the time & the
other en tire ly Ignorant of the language & customs of the p e o p le .
For the most part the duties of the p u lp it have b een d isch a rg ed by
M essrs. Thurston & Bishop from K a i l u a .
During the f a l l & w in t e r of
1832 they v i s i t e d us 2 sabs, out of 3 for the purpose of p reaching
to the n a t iv e s .
In th e ir absence the meetings were conducted by Mr.
Ruggles or one o f the natives most competent.
After the f i r s t of
January Mr. F . preached occasio n ally .
The Lord’ s supper has been re g u la rly adm inistered - i n July 14
were re ceiv ed to the communion & so f a r as we have had opportunity
of observing have m aintained their p r o fe s s io n .
Other candidates have
stood propounded for more than a y e a r , but have not yet b e e n r e c e iv e d
as much caution was deemed necessary .
general are w e ll known to a l l .
The reasons of w h ich b eing
During the year one member has been
suspended for d rin kin g ardent sp ir its & 3 others s t i l l rem ain unre
stored t h o ’ one of them gives good evidence of his humble p e n ite n c e .
To that there s t i l l remain 79 members in f u l l stan d in g .
Since the
commencement of the S ta tio n have been r e c e iv e d 85 members in a l l
3 have d ie d leaving good evidence of t h e ir C h ristian h o p e .
Of marriages 117 were celebrated the la s t year & the marriage
contract appears to b e regarded with solemnity & c a re .
Of the state of r e l ig io n among the people we have l i t t l e to say
that is very encouraging.
We fear for t h e p ie t y of some who bear
the name of Christ and lament that the state of r e lig io u s f e e lin g is
fa r below what we wish to see i t
The reason why more have not
�Kaawaloa
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b e e n a d m it t e d to C h r i s t i a n communion h a s n o t b een owing to a w ant
o f d e s i r e on t h e i r p a r t .
F o r w h i le we b e l i e v e a fe w a r e s i n c e r e l y
- I n q u ir i n g w hat th e y s h a l l do t o b e s a v e d ,
s t i l l w ere we t o e n c o u ra g e
a l l , h u n d red s p r o b a b ly w o u ld v i s i t u s e v e r y w eek w i t h t h e i r manaos
[ t h o u g h t s ] as empty a s the w in d , whose o n ly o b j e c t m a n i f e s t l y i s t o
g a i n our f a v o r & t o g e t i n t o th e ch .
The services of the sabbath have been much more t h in ly atten d
ed sin ce the death of the C h ie f.
has also had g r e a t
( ! ) influence i n decreasing the numbers that
attend the house of God.
the le a s t & n o n e
The ab o lishin g of Kapu meetings
But between two e v il s we should always choose
can doubt ( ! ) the e v il tendency kapu meetings on
the p lan on w hich they have been conducted h ere to fo re[ . ]
Schools for teachers have been m aintained in which we in stru cted
personally 4 days out o f the w eek in r e a d i n g with geog. & mapping &
found at our exam ination that our labour was not lost as many of the
scholars h ad made respectabl
geog.
e p ro gress, e s p e c ia lly i n a r i t h . &
Besides these schools Mrs. Ruggles had a school o f females
who made decent p ro g re ss.
while her h e a lth perm itted.
Mrs. F also attended a class of ch ildren
We are happy to acknowledge the services
of D r . Chapin in teaching a school of teachers for near 3 months
besides fu rn is h in g our statio n with a complete set of maps w hich was
to us a g r e a t
thing h im s e l f .
( ! ) r e l i e f as Mr. Ruggles was too fe e b le to do any
Of th e other schools we have l i t t l e to say except it
be that they s t i l l hang together and have been the means of teaching
some to r e a d [. ]
But lament that the number of readers do not increase
that we can perce iv e and in many schools there is a m anifest declen
sio n .
T h eir demand for books is much decreased.
At our la st general
examination in may [!] we v is it e d every school as near as p ra ctica b le
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for the purpose of a sce rtainin g the number of readers and s t ir r in g
them u p , we found only about 1 ,3 0 0 readers among 36 sc ho o ls.
This
exam ination does not include Kau or the south point of the Is la n d
where there are about 5 ,0 0 0 inhabitants 25 schools & probably 1 ,2 0 0
readers.
I t is very m anifest that schools w i l l do but l i t t l e
good
t i l l we can give them Teachers who have read beyond the papa [pi-a-pa
alphabet, or elementary lessons]
& who can have some encouragement
& some inducement to take the care o f a school on them.
Probably no Statio n on the Islan d s is worse situ a ted f o r access
to the people than i s Kaawaloa.
There is no way o f g ettin g from
v illa g e to v il l a g e south o f the bay, but i n canoes, unless we climb
over vast shaggy beds of la v a , and the people mostly coming under
our charge are strewed along a shore probably 40 miles i n length
( ! ),
besides some 5 ,0 0 0 who l iv e on the south point of the I s l a n d almost
inaccessible unless one go and re sid e among them*
Accordingly we
think th at one o f us should constantly occupy ( ! ) Kau or the south
point wh i c h is to be reached only by a v essel or i n a canoe by a
journey of 36 hours which w i l l leave a population of 5 or 6 ,0 0 0
souls scattered i n v illa g e s along a coast of 30 or 40 m i l e s , over
whom he can exert but a very in d ire ct in f l u e n c e , owing to the above
h in dran ce, but a small portion of the people allotted to Kaawaloa
statio n has h ith e rto come d ir e c t ly under M issionary i n f l u e n c e .
Pro
bably 1000 may be s a i d to come d ir e c tly under M issionary in flu en ce
which leaves 9 or 1 0 ,0 0 0 d estitu te as the wh o le d i s t r i c t includes
about 10 or 1 2 ,0 0 0 so u ls.
Of those who reside near round us we can
see the m anifest improvement both moral & n a t u r a l .
others.
G Forbes
But not so w ith
�Report of the labors at the S tatio n
of Kaawaloa during the year ending
June 1st 1834
God i n h is inscrutable providence,
soon a fte r the commencement of
the l a s t year seemed to he saying to our beloved associates that t h e i r
labors at these Islands were near an end,
Not long a fte r our return
from la st gen. m eeting, M r, R ! s h e a lth became so fe e b le th at he began
se rio u sly to meditate a departure from the I s l a n d s .
The fe a r that he
would b e able to do but l i t t l e more ac tu al la b o r, prevented our mak
ing those arrangements we had prem editated,
that w a s , that e ith e r he
or I w ith the fam ily should spend 3 or 4 months at Kau.
So we con
tented ourselves w ith m aintaining the labors of the S t a t io n w it h in
our more immediate re a c h , which were the supply of the p u lp it at
Kaawaloa twice every sab.
and a lecture on Wednesday b e s id es a v i s i t
once in a month or oftener to a n outpost ten or
12
m iles o f f at
K e a lia and m aintaining statio n schools.
I n the month of November we were called to r e a l i z e
we had a n tic ip a te d —
( ! ) what
th eir departure from the scene of t h e ir labors
& from the people to whom they f e l t themselves ardently atta ch ed.
To a l l th is was a t r i a l , and to none perhaps greater than to th e ir
associates who f e l t themselves e n tire ly incompetent fo r the labors
of the whole s t a t io n .
But we fe l t twas God who spoke and twas ours
to obey & leave consequences w ith h im .
We then in v ite d the Brethren
from K a ilu a to renew their v is it s to Kaawaloa once i n three weeks
which they did from the f i r s t of January fo r the purpose of allowing
me to m aintain the outpost we had already e s ta b lis h e d .
About th e same t im e we commenced a d a y l i g h t p r a y e r m e e tin g w hich
h as b een k e p t up e v e r s i n c e and I t h i n k w i t h d e c i d e d a d v a n ta g e to
our s o u l s .
Twas u s u a l l y a t t e n d e d b y t o r c h l i g h t as t h e p e o p le w is h e d
to go t o p l a n t i n g b e f o r e s u n r i s e .
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On th e 5th of Jany. commenced also a protracted m eeting which
was continued
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days without interm ission having fiv e services every
day, on that occasion Brothers Thurston & Bishop from K a ilu a & Baldw in
from Waimea favored us w ith their a s s is t a n c e .
Some Souls i n the c h .
appeared to h e aroused - & a few without gave evidence a fte r w a r d s ,
in
v is it i n g from house to house that the S p ir it was at work i n t h e ir
h e a rts .
One man referred ( !) to the very n ig h t , about the close of
the m e e t in g , when he s a i d he was so tro ub led that he could not s le e p .
I have marked him since & see him always present at our Meetings r a in
or sh ine , late or e a r ly , tho'
to a t t e n d ch.
Xt [C h r is t J .
the nativ es say he never or ra r e ly used
His w alk is sober & consistent & he thinks he loves
S t i l l I do not think there was anything to j u s t i f y
the use of the term r e v iv a l in the technical ap p licatio n o f i t .
Tho'
I
think those of us who watered d id f i n d our own s o u ls r e fr e s h e d ,
while we could not but lament to see many of our ch. members apparently
as sound asleep as Satan could w ish to have them -
Our good ch ief
Kap io lan i c h a ra c te r is tic a lly entered into the s p ir it of our meeting
with h e r whole so u l & went from house to house to talk to them about
their s o u ls .
The good e ffe c ts of our meeting were so v i s i b l e that we
determined on another in may,
( ! ) which owing to the d is ta n c e most
of the people h ad to come & the sc arcity o f p ro v is io n , & c .
only 4 d a y s.
was continued
The attendance was not so crowded as the f i r s t meeting
th o ’ encouraging, & the church members seemed to f e e l more ——The r e g u la r labors of th e s t a t io n have been 2 sermons on S a b . a sab.
school, a meeting at n ig h t , a lecture on Wednesday - A sermon
down a t the sea on Friday
( ! ) - a meeting f o r ch. members every s a t .
and another meeting on Sat. n ig h t besides our statio n sc ho o ls, which
have been re g u la rly m aintained.
We have made an e f f o r t to c o llec t
I n th e children as well as Teachers; when we came away l e f t a childrens
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school In K a p l o l a n i’ s charge o f about 70 ch ild ren from 4 to 14 years
of age -
Children are the most promising w it h us -
Our n a tiv e
tho' not d isco u rag ing , are not so encouraging as we w is h —
for books has not dim inished much —
schools
The demand
At our la st exam ination found
the number of readers to be about 1500 —
None were examined who
could n o t re ad any portion to which they might be pointed —
The
Teachers school Is v ery important w it h us and the Kau Teachers liv e
so f a r o f f that it was w ith d i f f ic u l t y I could p re v a il on them to
leave t h e ir fam ilies &c to attend School.
I hope the meeting w i l l
so dispose of us that I s h a l l be at lib e r t y to spend some months at
Kau w it h my fam ily this y e a r .
I t is m anifest to a l l , acquainted w ith
the lim its of the s t a t io n t h a t , one Missionary is very f a r from the
proper proportion for that f i e l d —
There ought to be a llo t t e d to
that f i e l d at least two able bodied as w e ll as able h earted men —
There have been no admissions to the ch. during the past year —
One has been excommunicated and two suspended w ith in the current year.
There are a number on what the natives c a l l the hoo ik aik a [to make
strong]
l i s t many of wh om appear better than the body of those i n the
ch. which has made me a f r a i d
( ! ) to admit them, lest they should
partake of the sleepy s p irit m anifested by some ch . members —
Two
or three children have been baptized and 80 marriages by m yself —
many by B r . Ruggles I am not able to s a y , perhaps 30 or 4 0 .
C Forbes
#
(in p e n c i l ) :
There [a re] now four on suspension
How
�Report of Kaawaloa Statio n for 1835
The Lord has been m erciful to us during the past year i n per
m ittin g us to m aintain the labors of the Statio n w ith only s lig h t
interruptio ns on account o f i l l h e a lth —
We have both b e e n b le s s e d
w ith usual h e a lth .
Preaching has been m aintained as usual twice on the Sabbath,
besides a third meeting at which the lead ing subjects
of the two
previous sermons were u su a lly c a lle d up & urged afresh e ith e r by
m yself or some of the most competent natives —
A re g u la r lecture
on Wednesday has b een preached during the year and fre q u en tly a sermon on Friday
( ! ) at an outpost from three to 5 miles o f f —
Our
monthly concert also has been uniformly kept up w ith in t e r e s t &
p r o fit as we th in k .
At that season contributions are brought in
once i n three months, of t a p a s , & c . —
This course has not been
long in operation b u t thus fa r they have done w ell & I was going to
say according to th e ir a b i l i t y , but that would not be true as I
f i n d by reference to the l i s t that more has been given by the poor
& labo rin g class than by c h ie fs & those who liv e at e a s e [.]
Our Sabbath School also has been more promising w i t h i n the
la st
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months since we altered the time from 12 o'clock to 9 in the
morning and making some other a lte r a tio n s .
Our present number of
sabbath scholars is about 300 adults & 100 ch ild ren who commit the
a i o ka la reg ularly t h o ' perhaps many of them very im p erfectly .
Schools
The Statio n Schools have been m aintained 4 days i n the week &
about 3 hours a day for most o f the y e a r.
Mrs. F . has b e e n able
most o f the year to attend to a class of g ir ls perhaps 14 years o ld ,
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wh o have made commendable progress i n read in g w r it in g , arithm etic
& Geography & s i n g in g .
The smaller c h ild r e n , I took under my
charge, a ss is te d by natives -- In my school there were
150
ch ildren from 4 years old to 14 d ivid ed o ff under 12 teachers a l l
in one house.
They appeared in te re s ted in t h e ir school and very few
of them f e l l o f f , notw ithstanding, I required them to renounce smok
i n g , promiscuous bathing & such lik e v ic e s .
We though [t] we had
s u ffic ie n t evidence that the small ch ild ren can be in t e r e s t e d and
in s tr u c te d .
schools ;
On the whole we f e l t much encouraged w ith our c h il d r e n 's
— Before that they never attended sabbath school n o r preach
ing but now most of them are present. —
Of other, schools I can say nothing encouraging simply because
there are no teachers f i t to conduct them in an encouraging manner One or two however have done pretty w e l l i n t h e ir schools & th eir
scholars manifest a desire to le a rn .
I have made no attempt to
enumerate a g ain the readers as i t is f o r the most part only a nomi
n a l th in g and but l i t t l e r e a l understanding of the progress of
schools can be learned from such statem ents. —
W ith in the la s t three months, K a p io la n I & Kamakau have v is it e d
Kau fo r the purpose of reviving schools there.
v is it,
I encouraged th eir
simply because I thought it the least of the two e v i l s ,
I .e .
bad schools b e tte r than none, as they s a id Kau was oki lo a [cut o ff
lo n g ; at a great d is t a n c e ? ]*
Tho I expect nothing from i t ,
except
it may b e the sa le of books w ill b e increased & perhaps here & there
one may le a rn to re a d w ith l i t t l e more effo rt that ( ! ) It would cost
him at home.
People are t i r e d of n a tiv e schools i n our part & I
d o n 't wonder at i t , fo r i n many places the teachers have b een as
tyrannical as the konohikis
Books
[head men] —
�3.
Kaawaloa
A l l the new books have been disposed o f .
150 Saml s - p rob.
500 or more ai o k a la — b esides some hundreds of other t r a c t s .
Also I have disposed of about 100 copies of the Kumu H a w a ii and there
have been many in q u ir ie s for the long promised, bound N . T e s t .
The oppressive taxes of the ch iefs however are urged by the people
as objections to pay tapas for books.
Of marriages I have celebrated 111 the past year & found some
of the same d i f f i c u l t i e s of which other Brethren complain.
The church
During the past year
who appear w e l l .
tracted m eetings.
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new members have been admitted to our chh.
Some of them we regard as the fru its of our proOthers have been longer se rio u s.
Three more
have b e en suspended and the three who stood suspended a year ago have
been excommunicated as they not only gave no signs of penitence
but had a l l indulged farth er in crim e.
we hope are w ith C h r is t .
dence.
Four have d ie d - two of whom
Of the other two we had not so good ev i
One member has been dism issed to Waimea - two to East Maui —
One to K a il u a , & one to Honolulu
We have now
66
members i n f u l l
communion, many of whom adorn t h e ir p ro fe ssio n and some of whom we
are sorry to c a l l professors —
Mrs. F . has also e s t a b lis h e d a
mother’ s Society which has h ad a salu tary e f f e c t . —
The truth i s we have bent most of our e ffo r t s the past year to
the b e n e fit of the ch ild ren who we perceived were growing up heathens
around u s , but being alone of course the tenth part of the f i e l d was
not cu ltiv a te d -C Forbes
�S tatio n R eport
Kaawaloa
June 1835
[ Printed Form, f i l l e d in in ink]
SCHEDULE OF SCHOOLS A
N
lD
TU ITION.
S ta tio n :
Kaawaloa
M issionary
Teacher
C. Forbes
Total number of
scholars taught by
the m issionary
200
Men
20
Women
20
Children
160
Attend to reading,
w r i t in g , geography
and a rith m etic.
100
No. of weeks contin
uance of the school
40
No. of days in the
week.
4
No. of hours in
stru ctio n per day.
3
Average number of
Sabbath Scholars
400
Average number of
Bible class Scholars
25
No. of nativ e teachers
15
Scholars under them
300
Adult Scholars
200
C h ild re n .
100
Largest n o . of readers
at any p u b lic examina
tio n .
Sabbath School scholars
under n a tiv e in s tr u c to r s ,
d o n ’ t know
a few
R .D . Forbes
�Report of Kaawaloa Statio n for the
Y ear ending June 1 s t ,
1836
I n presenting the report of the s t a t io n this year I s h a ll
have l i t t l e to o ffe r which w i l l m a teria lly d i f f e r from th a t of la st
year —
We have to acknowledge the goodness of God in fa v o r in g us w ith
h e a lth & so many opportunities of doing good. —
F ir s t the labors o f the S t a t io n .
The appropriate labors have
been much interrupted by necessary a tte n tio n to secular concerns
during most of the past y e a r.
usual.
Preaching
has been m aintained as
Two sermons on the Sabbath, a lecture on Wednesday and
frequently at an outpost on Friday ( ! ) —
The labors o f the Sabbath have been a S a b . School, of about
200 adults & 100 c h ild r e n ,
in the " ai o k a la " at 9 in the m orning,
occupying an hour & h a l f & sometimes more.
This e x ercise I have
sometimes thought more p ro fitab le to the people than form al preach
in g .
At eleven, a l l assemble fo r p reach in g , from 600 to 800 u s u a lly
U n io n Questions
a tte n d .
At 11/2 o'clock a B ible class in the huliano [ on the B ib le
Perhaps 50 on an average attend this e x e r c is e .
when 3 or 400 are u s u a lly p resen t.
At 3 p reaching a ga in
Schools four days in the week
fo r male & female children sp e c ia lly have been m ain tained .
c h ild r e n were gathered i n from
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The
years old to 16 or 18 and classed
according to t h e i r knowledge, w ithout any reference to age or stand
in g .
[
Some i n th e K umumua [
a primer] - some i n the ike mua
] - some i n n a t. h isto ry & a rith m e tic . —
a primer
These schools we always attended i n person and found i t neces
sary to take charge ourselves of the more advanced sc h o la rs .
Even
one who had spent 4 years at the h ig h school & came home w ith h is
diploma some
6
months ago found h im self so much p u zzle d by our
�Kaawaloa - 1836
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m ilk boy & other boys about 14 that he could not get along w ith
the class i n arithm etic.
Our school however has been but f lu c t u a t in g ,
averaging perhaps f i f t y or 60 sc h o la rs, sometimes as low as 35 or 40
& sometimes as h ig h as 80 or 9 0 .
We have never yet since my going
there had any house f i t to teach school i n .
But hope to make an
effo r t this year for a h o use, between the effo r ts of the people and
the assistance offered by the B o ard . —
A Tolerably comfortable meetinghouse has been erected and ded
icated the past year
so that our place of assembling on the sabbath
is now much more comfortable than fo rm erly. —
B esides the labors already mentioned I had a weekly m eeting of
the most inte restin g youth for improvement i n m usic, of which they
are extravagantly f o n d [ .]
Our schools also were also uniform ly
closed w ith sin gin g & prayer — A meeting every other S a t . n ig h t
w ith the chh.
M rs. F . also kept up a prayermeeting on Thursdays
and a mother’ s meeting on Friday every two w eeks.
m anifestly been attended w it h good.
( ! ) fo r females
This l a t t e r has
A few at least b e g in to f e e l
that t h e ir children hold a higher rank th an t h e ir dogs & cats and
are attem pting to t r a in them more lik e moral beings —
Our monthly concert has been re g u la r ly observed and I have t r ie d
to make i t a season of more than ordinary in t e r e s t .
S t i l l some w i l l
yet pray as i f it s only object were to render thanks fo r th eir lives
being protracted another month -- Once in three months we have a
c o llec tio n of such a r t ic le s as they can g iv e ,
as I d e s ir e d them to
f e e l that they had something to do in common w ith a l l C h ristia n s —
These a rticles are placed I n the hands of a chh. member.
One tour th ro ' Kau has been made during the year and many of
the ch ild ren there have b een co llec ted into school and appear as w ell
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as could, be expected under nativ e teach ers.
I have h e l d no examina
tions w ith reference ascertaining the number of readers as we u su ally
know about as much a fter examination as befo re where there is no
compulsion for them to a tte n d .
The church -—
During the year
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new communicants have been
added to our church and many more might have been., had t h e ir wishes
been regarded.
The people are anxious to get into the church and
I should fe e l encouraged indeed could I see equal evidence of th eir
an xiety to be u nited to C h rist.
But I consider the two things as
e n tire ly d istin c t among th is people & th erefo re have been a f r a i d to
admit more. -—
Baptism s.
Have b a p tized
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adults and
8
ch ild ren d u r in g the y e a r .
Have had no no ( ! ) new cases of serious d efe ctio n d u r in g the
past y e a r.
yet.
The three who stood suspended at that tim e, remain so
Some signs of repentance appear i n two of them.
w i l l probably have to be cut o ff -- one dism issed
The other
m arriages 8 0 .
[ C . Forbes' h an d w ritin g ]
[not signed]
�Report of the S ta tio n at Kaawaloa
for
__________the year ending A p r il 3 0th , 183 7________ __
We would here acknowledge the goodness of God to us during the
past y e a r .
L it t le serious interrup tio n occurred t i l l towards the
la st when the i l l h e a lth of Mrs. Forbes o bliged her to abandon a l l
effo r ts in schools.
For several months past she has not b een able
to engage in any duty req u irin g much e ffo r t of body of body ( ! )
or m ind.
I h a v e b een a b l e t o p r e a c h t w i c e e v e r y S ab b ath d u r i n g t h e y e a r ,
b e s i d e s s u p e r i n t e n d i n g a l a r g e sa b b ath
s c h o o l.
Have p r e a c h e d once
e v e r y Wednesday ( !) a f t e r n o o n and f r e q u e n t l y on F r i d a y s
(!)
a t an
o ut p o s t , some t h r e e m i l e s o f f , b e s i d e s o c c a s i o n a l t o u r s when I
p r e a c h e d s e v e r a l t i m e s a day — Schools —
1st
Sabbath sc h o o l.
We have had g r e a t
( ! ) encouragement
from our sabbath school which has been flo u r is h in g a l l the y e a r .
I
have often thought i t a b e tte r opportunity for im pressing truth
on the mind than the occasions of formal p reaching.
had on an average ( ! )
200
adults and
200
We have u su ally
children who meet at
9
o ’ cl o
k i n the morning to re cite the d a ily fo o d , when appropriate ques
c
tions were asked & remarks made.
The sab school for adults &
c h ild ren has thus fa r b een merged i n one because we h ad no no ( ! )
one to d iv id e the labors & Mrs. Forbes was unable to a s s i s t most
of the y e a r .
I u su ally spent., i n s a b .
school, from an hour to an hour & h a lf
every sab b ath .
D uring th e interval between morning & afternoon s e r v ic e , I attend
�Kaawaloa - 1837
2
a B ib le class of about 60 in d iv id u a ls in the "H u lia n o " w hich make
four s e r v ic e s . —
Common Schools
Our station school consists c h ie f l y of c h ild r e n , from 4 to 14
years
of age and numbers 120 on the l i s t .
about 1 0 0 .
The average ( ! ) attendance
This school we deem much more promising than our former
adult schools.
Part of the time, it has been conducted tw ice and
part only once, two hours at a tim e.
For the la s t fo u r months I
have been obliged to commit i t p r in c ip a lly to n a t iv e s , merely v i s i t
ing it
once a d a y , owing to the feeble state of Mrs. F ' s h e a l t h .
Formerly, th is school numbered about 200 scholars but two branch
schools have since been e s t a b lis h e d , taught altogether by n a t iv e s ,
each of w hich numbers 50 or 60 ch ild r e n .
In our statio n school
the older boys & g i r l s study g eo g. mental a r i t h . & a few of them
w r i t in g .
Under
pretty w e l l .
8
years o f age there are about 20 who can read
Many others are just beg inn in g to re ad and many of them
only just in th e ir le tte rs -Besides the statio n schools, several schools i n other parts of
the f i e l d f o r children & adults have been kept u p .
I n these schools
many children have learned & are learning to re a d , b e s id e s those who
attend to geog.
[paper torn h ere]
. One teacher from the "H ig h School"
has spent about one year i n Kau & is doing good.
But he very much
needs the presence of a m issionary on the ground to d ire c t h is
labors & encourage them.
I have co n fine d my report p r in c ip a lly
to c h i l d r e n 's sc ho o ls, because we have confined most o f our effo rts
to those schools.
We have however h a d many adult schools a fte r the
old fa s h io n but they are worth very l i t t l e .
—
We f e e l much encouraged in laboring for the c h ild r e n .
The
�Kaawaloa
1837
3.
improvement is very m anifest and their minds expand w i t h the lig h t
they r e c e iv e whereas the adults remain stationary in the m ajority
of cases.
I have brought along 3 lads selected fo r the M issio n
Seminary & boarding school from the most promising of my sc h o la rs . —
Meetings -
F ir s t I have had a meeting fo r i mprovement in sacred
music once & sometimes twice a week which was w e ll attended & has
proved b e n e f i c i a l by promoting a taste at least for that s c ie n c e .
The meetings on Sabbath & Wednesday have already been m entioned.
On Friday
( ! ) evenings we u su ally have a meeting for sabbath school
teachers & c .
On Friday
( ! ) afternoon also we meet w it h th e parents
every other week together w it h th e ir
c h ild r e n , fo r the purpose of
stim ulating them i n domestic Improvement & fam ily government.
The
grand object is the proper education of their children & then as
subservient ( ! ) to t h a t , the judicious management of domestic a f f a i r s ,
v i z . that they disallow a l l obscene language, conduct, & even
gestures in the presence of the ch ild ren —
That they treat them as
r a t io n a l beings and instruct them by means of reasonable reproofs
& encouragements instead of kicks & c u f f s . — That they i n a l l
respects show more regard for th e ir children than fo r d o g s .
That they
pro h ib it promiscuous bathing and a l l going Into the water in a state
of n ud ity where exposed to public ( ! ) g a ze . —
That they b u i l d them
comfortable houses and p a r titio n o ff sleeping, apartments, and
allow no t promiscuous sleeping in th e ir h o u s e s.
a l l Id le lazy f i l t h y h abits & c .
paternal
so c iety .
quite encouraging,
[That] They abandon
Such i s the object proposed by our
I t proposes much & so f a r ,
our s u c c e s s , has been
th o ' not commensurate w ith our w is h e s .
Besides
this m eeting, Mrs. F . has also had a maternal meeting u s u a lly on the
Intervening Friday ( ! ) which was attended w ith go o d .
She has also
�Kaawaloa - 1837
4.
attended a weekly prayer meeting w ith the fem ales. —
Every Saturday night we have a prayer m eeting.
The monthly
concert has been always attended when contributions are made of
d i f f t articles.
Frequently at those seasons we have l i t t l e p ro trac t
ed meetings from Friday night to Monday n i g h t .
We th in k the Lord
has b le s s e d those m eetings.
During the eight weeks I spent here alo n e, w hile M rs. F . was
at Oahu under the hands of the P h y s ic ia n , I found much seriousness
prevalent among the y o u ths.
The meetings were solemn & many hardened
sinners confessed th e ir alarm.
A few I trust were b o m
a g a in —
Others under conviction seem w il l in g to do anything rather than submit
to C h r is t .
During the year I made one tour through Kau & preached
several times & examined the schools & c .
The Church
As already remarked the state of r e l ig io u s f e e lin g i n the chh.
& congregation has b e e n encouraging during the past y e a r , yet I have
f e l t at lib e rty to admit only a few of the many who d e s ir e adm ission.
Only 4 have been admitted during the past y e a r .
propounded.
as a luxury.
Nine others stand
No in t o x ic a tin g substance is used by any of the chh.
The use of wine - tobacco - ava & a ll such things are
re q u ired to be abandoned. --Three members were excommunicated la s t year soon a f t e r
our
return, two of whom now appear better than they ever d i d i n the chh.
Four now stand suspended f o r d i f f t o ffe n c e s , O n e of whom resides
at Honolulu & has never yet appeared f o r h is t r i a l .
The u su al e f
fe c t of chh. d is c ip l in e has been salu ta ry in almost every ca se .
Five have been dism issed to other churches during the year
2 to
H ilo - 1 to K ailua 2 to W ailuku and two under d is c ip l in e at la st
�Kaawaloa - 1837
5.
ge n . meeting have been r e sto r e d .
The Chh. now stands as follows
Total re c e iv e d from commencement
Now in re gular standing
-
110
- - - - - -
Excommunicated the past y ea r
-
D ie d during the past year
-
72
-
3
-
-
1
Now under d isc ip lin e
4.
R estored
2
R eceived
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4
Marriages & baptisms .
The number of marriages which I performed during the past year
was 6 7 .
Several other marriages were performed by b re th r e n i n my
absence.
I b a p tized d uring [ the past year]
6
children
4 adults
The average
( ! ) congregation a t Kaawaloa i n the morning i s about
800.
We have one schoolmaster who Is
a member of the church.
We employ 3 teachers who devote their w hole time to s c h o o ls .
Received at the S ta tio n during the la st year books as follows
On hand
Bound T ests.
- - - 1000
- 200
Helunaau f i r s t part
-
-
400
-
Bound hymn books
-
-
90
-
150
-
-
Huliano
- - - - - -
Samuela
-
Holoholona
- -
- -
-
-
Nehemi a
A io kala -
600
-
Geographies -
- -
-
- -
50
-
-
300
_
_
_
50
-
-
-
700
-
-
- - - - -
450
- -
none
- -
- -
-
-434
_
350
- -
370
-
�Kaawaloa - 1837
One house for M issionary —
value
-
-
$1000
Two or three out houses for natives &c -
-
$ 5 0
S ix or
-
$ 100
8
cows. 2 goats one horse 2 pigs
0
Forbes
�Report of Kaawaloa S ta tio n
for the year ending A p r il 3 1 ,
1838
The labors of the Statio n have been much interrup ted during
the past year by reason of i l l health i n our fa m ilie s —
On our return from Oahu the question of b u ild in g p resen ted i t s e l f
as the f i r s t year seemed the most appropriate season f o r b u i l d i n g .
A fter much d e lib e r a t io n i t was concluded that permanent b u ild in g s
could not be ju d icio u sly erected on the h i l l .
Mr. Van Duzee w ished
to complete h is b u ild in g during the f i r s t year and f o r t h is purpose
moved to the seaside in August that he might make preparations for
a permanent b u il d in g .
We made application to the Overseer (? ) of a land
who ch ee rfu lly granted each of us as much as we asked w hich was
a spot to b u il d a house & enclose a y a r d .
arations f o r b u il d in g .
We then commenced prep
The r e s u lt is M r. VanDuzee has e rected a
permanent b u ild in g of frame 24 x 36 fe e t one story h ig h ,
w ith t i le a f & surrounded by a v eran da.
estim ated at $ 4 0 0 .
covered
Expense of the whole is
Mr. Forbes has erected a stone d w e llin g one story
h ig h 24 x 40 feet in the clear w ith a stone cook house attached
20 x 14 feet in the c le a r .
The dw elling i s surrounded by a veranda
& the whole covered w ith ti l e a f , estim ated expense $ 6 5 0 .
tion of these b u ild in g s together w ith other cares
The erec-
inseparable from
moving to a new place and sickness in our fa m ilie s has much i n t e r
rupted our labors.
—
During the year Mr. VanDuzee has spent 2
months at K a ilu a .
In August M r. Forbes made the tour of Kau exam
in in g the schools & preaching a number of tim es.
�Kaawaloa - 1838
2.
[or ?]
I n October also Mr. Vanduzee & Forbes v is it e d Kau & examined
a ll the schools and preached a number of tim es.
Schools have not b e e n as e ffic ie n t as we could w i s h ,
owing to
the fa c t that it was im practicable to devote to them that labor they
n eeded.
Mr. Forbes had a se le ct school d uring the former part of
the y e a r, the Scholars of which made g r a t ify in g p ro g re ss.
.
Mr. Van-
duzee had a flo u r is h in g school at the sea also for some time but was
o blige d to disband i t for want of accommodations.
has also b e e n f l o u r is h in g . -
Our sabbath school
The[y] attend w e ll and seem a t t e n t iv e .
The other labors have b een u su ally 2 sermons on th e Sabbath
& fre q u en tly a meeting for children in the in t e r v a l.
f o r a d u lts at the close of the morning se rv ic e . —
at 9 in the morning.
A lecture on Wednesday.
evening for improvement in sacred m usic.
A sabbath school
One f o r c h ild ren
A school on Thursday
The monthly concert has been
regu la rly attended and contributions fo r support of schools or what
ever we deem most a d v isa b le .
I n th e month of December & January, a more than u s u a l solemnity
p re v a ile d among the people and on the f i r s t of Jany. a m eeting was
appointed to continue a number of d a y s .
Not a very larg e number
attended, but deep & solemn in te rest was m anifested and many were
awakened and a few professed to be converted.
I h e ld a sim ilar m eeting.
re sted as I th in k .
A short time a fte r
On these e ffo r ts the b le s s in g of God
An e n t ir e ly new state o f f e e l i n g has ex iste d
from that time to t h i s , much o f which we trust is the r e s u lt of the
holy S p i r i t ’ s in f l u e n c e .
at the s e a , but not
The people have erected a house fo r worship
s u ffic ie n t ly large fo r a l l .
We hope soon to have
a good school house & be able to enter on our labors w ith e ffe c t
& without the d istr ac tin g cares of the past y e a r .
I t w i l l be p er
�Kaawaloa - 1838
3
ceived from our report that the former locatio n of the statio n has
been abandoned and we have i n fact formed a new statio n , as to
lo c a t io n ,
tho'
among the same people.
some of the reasons for such a s t e p .
I t may be w e ll here to state
F ir st.
The decid ed o b jectio n
of many of the m ission a g ain st Mr. Vanduzee’ s b uilding on the h i l l
a [and ?] their referen ce of the change to our own d e c i s i o n , w hile
we p la in l y understood them i n private as recommending the change.
2nd
The g r e a t
( ! ) im probability of the v il l a g e on the h i l l
ever increasing much more.
On the contrary its decrease seemed
probabl e ; considering that N aih e ,
dead.
Kamakau old & feeble
the founder o f the v i l l a g e , was
(he is since dead) & K a p io la n i might d ie
or remove.
The m ajority of the n ativ es would be by that means
satisfied .
Besides the m ajority of them prefer the sh o re .
3 . The body of the people w i l l be more accessible to meetings on
the shore than on the h i l l .
The comparative population stands as
fo llo w s :
On the h i l l -
- -
- -
- -
At the sea on the same lands
- -
-
361
- - - - -
320
Whole population at the sea on both
sides the bay
1900 (? )
We b e lie v e we can i mmediately exert a much more exten siv e i n
flu ence on the people from the present centre of a c t io n than from
the h i l l .
In
changing the location therefore we had reference to
the fu tu r e re su lts b e lie v in g that in our short l i v e s , we are
bound to do what we attempt in the best manner.
moval, a very g r e a t
Since our r e
( ! ) change apparently has taken place among the
people for miles along the shore.
(? ) by w r itin g a tract on
I have f u l f i l l e d my appointment
�Kaawaloa - 1838
4.
As to schools we are not prepared to report anything d e f i n i t e .
The number of marriages celebrated , is
110
Relative; to church m atters,
I have admitted on exam ination
"
81
on le t t e r
"
1
Excommunicated
5
Dism issed
2
Deceased -
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Under d isc ip lin e at the present time
Baptisms
-
-
"
adults
-
children -
4
4
75
-
14
I have w ritten & sent a ll the le tters appointed me to w r i t e .
A con trib u tio n was made by our church fo r the H ilo b o a rd in g school
amounting to about$
0
6
in Hawaiian reckoning.
[Unsigned but in C. F o rb e s' handw riting]
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