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KOHALA STATION REPORTS
CONTENTS
Isaac Bliss.......... ......................1838
Isaac Bliss............... ....... .........1839
Isaac Bliss............. ........... .......1840
Unsigned (Isaac Bliss)........ ............ 1841
Elias Bond................................. 1842
Unsigned (E. Bond)................. ..1842 - 1843 (2 yrs.)
Elias Bond.... .................. .......... 1844
Elias Bond (Letter accompanying report).... 1844
Elias Bond......... ......... ..........
1845
Elias Bond..... .......................1846- 1847 (2 yrs.)
Elias Bond....... .......................
1848
Unsigned (E. Bond)............. ............1849
Unsigned (E. Bond) Abstract of report for... 1850
Unsigned (E. Bond) ...................... . 1851
(This report Is dated Jan. 1851, is a
report for the year 1850)
Unsigned (E. Bond).............. ............1851
Unsigned (E. Bond)Abstract of Kohala Church. 1851
Unsigned (E. Bond) ..... Statistics........ 1852
-Elias Bond ......................... .
1853
Unsigned (E. Bond).................. .......1854
Elias Bond (first page missing)............ 1855
Unsigned (E. Bond)................... .
1856
Elias Bond ................. ......... .
1858
Unsigned (E. Bond)............. ............ 1859
Elias Bond ............................
1860
Unsigned (E. Bond)......................... 1861
Unsigned (E. Bond) ........ ........... 1862-1863
�Nunulu
Kohala
May 7th 1838
In reviewing the past year we feel ourselves under obligations to
God for his many mercies towards us . When apparently near to death
God appeared for us and has restored us to health and strength - yet
in consequence of sickness - we were detained from entering on our
field of labour and did not arrive at this island until in Sept.
We
were still detained from entering in our labours for want of buildings
so that I was not able to remove my family to our appointed sphere of
labour until in Nov.
So that the present report embraces only a period
of 6 months.
Daring this time God has appeared in mercy for us -
Our meet
ings on the sabbath have been well attended - from 3500 to 4000 us
ually attend on the Sabbath in the morning - at first not more than
half of this number in the afternoon - but of late - the meetings have
been well attended through the day.
attended.
Sabbath schools have been well
Soon after I arrived the meetings began to become more
and more interesting & solemn -
God poured down his spirit upon us -
We have had two protracted meetings.
At the first a Church was or
ganized of 22 members from other Churches to which 15 more wore added
at the 2nd meeting 4 more were added from Waimea Church & 614 by pro
fession making in all 26 on recommendation from other Churches.
629
1
4
650
231
77
on profession of their faith
dismissed to join other churches
suspended for smoking tobacco
N ow in good standing
Children Baptized.
Married
Multitudes more profess to have turned to the Lord for which we
would give him the glory.
We have erected temporary native buildings for our present accomo
dation ( !) -
But being in a cold r a i n y ( !) region we feel in great
need of some permanent buildings - our Clothes - books &c are injuring
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in consequence of the dampness of our houses & besides I am fearful that
my house will fall before a long time in consequence of high winds.
We hope we shall be able to build soon - as to materials and facili
ties they are as good now as they ever will be - We think that we can
obtain stone near us - lime must be brought from the shore some 6 miles & sand still farther.
The sum necessary for building we are unable to
state I would here say that I have written to the Mission of Southern
Africa agreeable to appointment Isaac Bliss
�Report of the Church
At Kohala
[1839]
Since the commencement of the station at Kohala, which was
about one year & a half ago - we “have occasion of unfain [unfeigned
thanks, to the Giver of all blessings.
Our health has been good
almost without interruption, and God has poured out his Spirit in
our midst.
Early in the year of 1838 we felt that the Lord was in our
midst in power.
Meetings were thronged to overflowing.
Our meet
ing ( !) house which would accomodate about 4,000 was sometimes too
small; hundreds could not get into the house.
Solemnity & an inter
est was given to the preaching of the gospel.
And I trust many were
converted to God.
The interest continued until some time last sum
mer when the work declined.
Causes of the decline of the work
Many things have combined to retard the work of God & grieve
his Spirit - some things I will mention
1st
Want of deep feeling and faithfulness on the part of the mis
sionary himself 2nd
At the time the church was organized the Chief woman was not
received on a c c o u n t of some unchristian conduct & feeling mani
fested on her part.
She therefore neglected meetings herself & thus
by her example encouraged others to do the same 3
During last summer some difficulties existed in relation to our
selves & the Chief -
She endeavouring to thwart all our plans and
undertakings, which induced many to take the same stand while others
took an opposite course 4th
The famine that has existed for nearly a year past has had an
unfavourable bearing on the cause as the people mostly live at some
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distance from meeting & have hut a little or no food as formerly to
carry with them to meeting.
5
One cause has been.
The people have been much engaged in the
cultivation of tobacco, and almost without an exception those who
have engaged in this employment have forsaken the means of grace, &
are decidedly opposed to the truth 6th
Our meeting house has been prostrated by the wind, and we have
no place that will a ccommodate but a few people for meetings.
Besides these various causes the people are much scattered so
that unless there is some especial interest, it cannot be expected
that our meetings will be so much thronged as they were during the
revival Meetings
During the first part of the year from 3500 to 4000 attended
meetings on sabbath morning,, but probably not more than about 2,000
or 2,500 have been the average attendance on sabbath morning during
the year - there not being so many as that since the destruction of
the meeting house During the first part of the year I had a Bible class of adults
on sabbath morning using the ai o ka la, & preaching twice ~
Br.
Bailey having a sabbath school of Children during the intermission
between the morning & evening services.
But as the people live at
such a distance it was found that they did not generally get together
in season for the Bible class in the morning.
I have omitted it at
that time of the day & now have introduced the ai o_ ka la as the
text for the afternoon p u b l i c exercises.
The monthly concert has
been regularly attended, meetings on W ednesdays & a Church meeting
once a week either at the station or at their respective lands ~
conducted by themselves -
I have visited the different ( !) lands &
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h eld meetings in the several school houses throughout the field Discipline (!)
I have had several instances of discipline for various offences some for a d u l t e r y
deception -
- some for smoking tobacco - some for
One for stealing - others for stupidity.
I feel it to
he highly important that discipline should be promptly administered &
have intended to act accordingly.
ascertain
In order to
conduct of the different members living more
remote I have appointed one or more in each district, whose duty it
is to occasionally visit from house to house & to watch the conduct
of all in their respective districts - & report to me -
I have im
pressed upon them the wickedness of hiding the sins of others & they
have been made to feel it In a good measure Contributions &c
The Church have aided much in the support of the station During the past year they built a large school house at the place
we formerly occupied as a station -
They have also aided in removing
our station about 3 miles by taking down our houses and a teachers
house in all 4 houses & rebuilding them - also they carried our
effects - for us - which has been a great assistance -
They have
also supplied myself & family & domestics - with almost our entire
food & much of the food of our associates though it has been a season
of great scarcity of food.
Besides the above they have contributed
mats & some kapas &c Removal of station
When we first went to our field we selected a place deemed the
most eligible (eligible ?) for a station but in application to the
chief of the district & the Governor of the island, we were forbidden
in settling ( !) there; we were not allowed to go only at one place
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which was near the center of the field, but only a very few people
living near. us.
But (?) finding that next to nothing could be done
in schools at that place, and that we could not become acquainted
with the daily conduct of the people - we decided upon giving up
the station on condition that we could not obtain permission to
move.
Thus by taking a decisive stand we obtain permission to move
& have accordingly located ourselves at Ioli ( !) about 2 miles from
the windward shore.
Buildings
Though we obtained a grant the last year to build permanent
houses, yet we have been hindered and have not erected our permanent
buildings -
We have obtained our lumber &c -
Also we have got some
stone, but they will be of no use to us as they are at the old sta
tion.
We have been to but a little expense in any other respect.
We shall be in need of good buildings soon - as we have much wind &
at some seasons of the year considerable rain - and the native build
ings do not last long Statistics
Since the commencement of the station embracing a period of one
year & a half - the statistics are as follows viz
Whole Number
Marriages
Admitted to the Church
on Examination
do By letter
Dis. & joined other
Churches
Died
Suspended
Excommunicated
I n good standing
Children baptized
Restored
During the year
183
Married
106
772
71
Admitted on Ex
letter
149
46
21
9
62
7
750.
285
6
Joined other Churches
Died
Suspended
Excom
... Restored
Children baptized
Isaac Bliss
20
7
64
7
6
62
�Report of Kohala Station
for 1840
In reporting concerning the past year I am called upon to speak
of the mercies of an ever watchful Preserver, who has watc(h)ed over
us.
Though he has seen fit to visit us in this afflictive dispensa
tions by laying Mrs. Bliss on a bed of sickness and great pain - Yet
He was a kind Physician and raised her up again, showing that in
the absence of medical aid, He is a God who restores life.
At the
same time that my dear companion was thus visited with a fever Mr.
Bailey (who had not then left the station) was also visited in a
similar manner good.
Also my own health for some days was far from being
Thus we have great occasion to speak of the mercies of God
in restoring to us health & blessing us with a good degree of bodily
strength for the most of the time since - which has rendered our soli
tude more pleasant - though we have felt sometimes a degree of despon
dency & gloom in view of the great moral & temporal calamity of the
people - which has been left comparatively without any means of refor
mation.
Labour at the station
Comparatively but little has been done for the benefit ( !) of
the people.
Being alone & with a very imperfect knowledge of the lan
guage of the people, & having all the temporal concerns of a station
on my hands, I have done but little.
I have however, sustained meet
ings on the sabbath, The Monthly Concert, also a meeting on Wednesday,
& a Bible class & church meeting on Friday of each week - besides now
& then occasional meetings.
On the sabbath I have preached in my
feeble manner in the forenoon Then attended a sabbath school for chil
dren & then for the afternoon exercise I have used the daily food as
a text book conducted in some respect like a Bible Class.
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During some part of the year the meetings have been well attended
considering the want of a suitable place of worship.
Our house for
meetings is a very poorly built native building capable of holding
perhaps a little more than 2000 persons only one part of which leaks
so bad that in r a i n y ( !) seasons is unfit to be occupied This house has often been filled to almost suffocation & hundreds
unable to enter w ithin its enclosure -
During the first part of the
season however the meetings & schools were in a great measure broken
up for a few months by the heavy burdens laid upon the people by the
Governor.
The people, teachers & many of the children were ordered
away to Kawaihai ( !), to erect a large stone building for the Gov.
besides building one or two houses in Kohala for him.
While at the
work the people were obliged to be absent from their homes for weeks
together & consequently away on the Sabbath.
Before this burden was laid upon the people the sabbath school
began to be in a flourishing condition - but this circumstance came
near breaking It up.
But it has since revived & became fully attended
and for some time when it has not been r a i n y upwards of 500 have at
tended from sabbath to sabbath, sometimes upwards of 500, something
like 700 or more different children have received sabbath school In
struction.
But the average attendance during the whole year has not
been but little more than 300.
Schools
In the business of school teaching I have not done any thing
personally, I have endeavoured to persuade the people to sustain them
but they have been poorly sustained.
I have made one tour through
the field, being accompanied part of the time with Mrs. Bliss.
ing this tour I examined all the schools
not present.
Dur
Many of the children were
There were however present as follows 815 chil’n - of
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these there were readers - 459
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There were present at this examination
1506 adults of these there were readers
1094
I have endeavoured to ascertain something near the number of in
habitants in the field and the result has been as follows —
Children
2185
Adults
4286
Total
6471
Schools at the station
Mrs. Bliss has had a school of girls for the most part of the time
since her sickness which has numbered upwards of 50 scholars though
she has not usually ( !) had more than from 20 to 25 perhaps ordinarily.
A Graduate from the Seminary has a school for the boys - who has had
about the same number as the school of girls - though the average at
tendance perhaps would fall short of 20 - - The two schools have had
u pwards of 100 different scholars.
A much larger school however
probably might be sustained, if we had officiant ( !) teachers & if
the Government would encourage learning as there are more than 200
children In the bounds of the station school Religion
As to the state of religion I have not much to say - only it has
been much of the time low.
During the month of January last, there
was m u c h better attendance on meetings than had been previously which has kept up most of the time since -
Many also professed to
forsake their sins & turn to the Lord at that time - Some who had been
hardened ( !) smokers of tobacco forsook this vice & have attended
upon the means of grace since I am unable to say -
But how many have been truly converted
During the month of March Bro Coan & Lyons
came & held a protracted meeting of 6 days with us a large number of
people attended many of whom listened to the word preached with
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attention -
4.
The results of this meeting I leave to be ( !) seen
hereafter - & to be told In eternity - as I am unable to say whether
any or how many have been benefited —
statistics
In looking at the following statistics you will perceive that
large numbers have been received to the Church on Certificate -
A
greater part of these have been received from Waimea Church - consisting
of persons belonging to Kohala who have attended the meetings of the
Pastor of that Church & have been received there -
About 100 more
have been recommended from that church, but have not been received some of them have died & some have fell ( !) into open sin - while the
remainder never presented themselves to the church - and excepting a
very few of them I have not seen them though I have had their names for about 9 months,
I mention this that it may be seen that there
are more in this field who are called church members than what are
here enumerated 858
352
80
282
362
38
17
41
32
38
43
47
40
25
1065
342
57
89
About 2000
Whole number received on Examination
"
"
" Certificate
Received the past year on Examination
"
" ' "
" Certificate
Whole number received past year
Whole number dismissed to other Churches
Past year
"
"
Whole number deceased
past year
"
Suspended past year
Now suspended
Whole number Excommunicated
past year
"
Now Excommunicated
Now in regular standing
Whole number of Children Baptized
Past year
"
"
Marriages past year
Average congregation in pleasant wea
ther ( !)
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Many who are now out of the Church profess to have been converted,
but I hesitate in receiving them to the communion as I learn by experiance ( !) that many who profess piety probably are entire (?)
strangers to holiness Conclusion
In concluding this report I will submit the condition of the
people to Kohala to the consideration of the brethren In the mission and would appeal to their love for souls & the temporal & eternal
welfare of their fellow beings, to supply them with another Pastor
who shall be able to feed them & teach them the way of life -
I
would ask What can I do alone with an imperfect knowledge of the lan
guage among the thousands of Kohala?
You may be aware of the thousand
things that are demanded of one in my circumstances selling books dealing out medicine - & attending to this & that call &c - & Watching
over a Church of upwards of 1000 souls & in attending to this & that
difficulty -
And then of the 2000 or 3000 Children !! -
can be done for them?
I ask what
I would appeal to your benevolence to send them
another missionary - I would not call upon the ministers In America,
but I will look to a source where the people are better supplied with
ministers than a large portion of that favoured land is - & I would,
call upon you to consider this subject in view of meeting those thou
sands in eternity & knowing the liberal & enlarged views of this
mission I trust they will make a speedy & favourable response.
I . Bliss
�Report of Kohala Station for
May 1841
It will he recollected that at the last General Meeting that I
felt very unwilling to return to Kohala without an associate, conse
quently I was located at Molokai - and br. Baile
y ( !) at Kohala
but after the adjournment ( !) of the Gen. Meeting an arrangement ( !)
was made for Mr. Bailey to go to another station and leave Kohala
destitute of any missionary.
had made this arrangement.
to return to Kohala.
Of this I was notified by a committee who
I was then asked if I would not be willing
Though we had made all arrangements to go to
Molokai and had sent a part of our goods to that place, yet we felt
that it would be a serious loss and injury to the cause of the mission
to leave this large and interesting field destitute and feeling a
deep interest in behalf of this people, and hearing it reported that
if we did not return the Catholics intended to establish themselves
here, we felt it our duty to undergo the self denial of returning
alone -
We accordingly consulted with all the brethren then at Hono
lulu and others - and they unanimously approved of our returning,
assuring us that if we would sustain the station alone for a year or
two that we should probably in time have some associates Especially this was the opinion of Br. Bingham -
We accordingly
returned and w e feel an assurance that it was with the approbation of
that he 'has approved of our efforts for the advancement
the Lord of Missions, who has not left us without a witness of his
cause - and has sustained us in our solitude and comforted our hearts
in our labours in endeavouring to lay a more permanent foundation for
his Church in this place Feeling it important to permanently sustain this one of the
most important and largest stations on the islands and also feeling
It would be improvident to live longer in our thatched house, we thought
best to make arrangements for erecting a permanent house at the sta-
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tion agreeable to the vote and appropriation ( !) of 1838, but I was
told by the brethren at the depository that it would not be consistant ( !) to deliver to me that appropriation as I was located at Molo
kai.
I then consulted with various individuals - nearly all of whom
advised me to proceed to erect a house, presuming that the mission
would approve of the same and defray the expense, and all who have
visited us have decidedly expressed their opinion that we needed a
permanent and comfortable house and have approved of my course -
I
commenced collecting the materials during the latter part of Aug and in Jan. last it was so near finished that we moved into it.
I
cannot here refrain from noticing the kind hand of our heavenly
Father In furnishing us with a safe shelter just in the time he did
for in about 2 weeks after we took up our residence in our new house
(and before we had moved all our effects) we were visited with a
Kona wind which came nigh prostrating our old house.
It was so near
prostrated that we should not have felt safe to remain In it, but
should have had to flee to some other place in the storm had we not
been provided for in a firm house.
You are all aware that much time
and thought must necessarily be spent in secular employment while
building - and it has been peculiarly so here as all the materials
for the house were to be brought by the hand of natives at a great
distance —
But I have succeeded far better than my best expectations.
I found the natives ready to labour for a reasonable compensation and usually ( !) they laboured faithfully -
My thoughts have been also
much occupied in devising plans to obtain means for carry ( !) forward
the building being straightened in funds - But the Lord has prospered
me - and I have also been enabled to labour for the immediate benefit
of the Church.
I have sustained the meetings on the sabbath a sab
bath school - the monthly concert
a weekly lecture and a weekly
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Church meeting
I have also laboured to ascertain the daily walk of
the individuals of the Church, but it is impossible for one man to
know the daily conduct of the Church scattered abroad as this is.
I
have frequently enquired of the leading members of the Church concern
ing each individual and have thus found out much that was wrong in
the Church, but facts frequently show that it is difficult and im
possible to know all that is done.
It will be seen from the statistics that a large number have
been suspended.
Though the Church is now far from what I wish it
was, and many will still fall under, the curse of Meroz for not coming
up to the help of the Lord yet there has been a better state of feel
ing in the Church for three or four months past than previously to
that time.
There are a number of names on my list who profess to
have turned to the Lord & who are the regular attendants on the means
of grace, especially on the sabbath.
The meetings have not been so
fully attended for the most part of the year as formerly, though for
three months or more past there has been a better attendance - &
for about one month past there has been no place large enough to ac
comodate ( !) the congregation.
This is owing in part to the Increase
of children who have come out to attend the sabbath schools -
This
leads me to notice
Schools, both district & sabbath Schools
Previous to the enforcing the new school laws the district schools
became extinct.
The teachers were obliged to work for the chiefs &c -
and the children were scattered.
The sabbath school consequently
declined and I had on an average only about 175 children to the
Sabbath School previous to the revival of the daily schools.
But
since then it has much enlarged and I have now between 700 & 800
children present at a time, enough to require the whole mind and
�4.
energies of one missionary without preaching to the congregation at
large.
There are now collected in the daily schools upwards of 1100
children and many more ought to be gathered into school, for as near
as I can learn that many are detained from school who are required
to attend by law.
Some of them are kept away to be taxed & to work
and some are kept away because they have not been accustomed to send
children so young to school Here it requires all the energies of an able bodied & energetic
mind to visit these schools & get out the children to schools &c.
It requires more attention here than it would at an older station It is very difficult to find men who are suitable for trustees of the
several s c h o o l s a n d but a few of the teachers would be allowed to
teach at most of the older stations.
I have been desirous to have
a school for teachers - but I cannot find time to commence one myself
as yet But in reviewing the past year I feel encouraged to go on The state of things (?) are becoming more permanent and settled owing
in part at least to the fact that I have erected a permanent house.
The people' now feel that the matter is settled - that the station
is to be sustained
and they are collecting materials for a stone
meeting house - which will be a very heavy job at this place but very
important and by timely aid & encouragement I hope they will be able
to accomplish (it).
The following are the statistics of the Church
873 Whole No. received on Examination
362
Certificate
1235 Whol No. that have been received to
the Church
15 Received past year on Examination
10
Certificate
47 whole No. dismissed to other Churches
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69
22
375
403
57
10
39
677
356
19
103
5.
Past year
do
do
Whole No. deceased
Past year
"
Suspended past year
Remain suspended
Whole N o . Excom Past year
Remain Excom
Whole No. in regular standing
Whole No. of Children Baptized
Past year
Marriages past year
(Note on side:) Upwards of 30 individuals whose names are on record
a s in good standing have gone to other places to live s ome with
letters some without - some have been gone for- a long time but I
do not hear that they have been received therefor I, have numbered
them as in good standing here.
There are now in the church those who are not punctual in their
attendance on the means of grace though the proportion is not so large
as it has been, there has been a more punctual attendance of late
yet there are those who give evidence of want of love to the ordi
nances of God's house (Unsigned: Isaac Bliss)
�Kohala Apl. 30 1842
Report
It wd be unpardonable in me, in presenting you my first report,
were I to omit the distinct mention of the signal mercies with wh.
a Kind Providence has visited us during the period thro' w h . we have
occupied our present field of labor.
Of a truth, the good hand of the Lord has been upon us to bless
us with unwonted mercies,
Not only have our lives & our health been
made the objects of His continual care, but He has also b r o 't us
safely thro' severest trials, unforeseen, & to meet w h . we were utter
ly unprepared Thrown as we have been beyond human aid we have been constrained
to cast our care upon the Lord & he has been with us, a Friend & a
Brother to succour us, in the season of our deepest necessities - &
He has also we trust given us increasing desires & an increasing determi
nation to devote our energies to his service, among this needy people.
We entered our field of labor June 26 '41 accompanied, by Bro. Ives
who very kindly offered to aid us in our first efforts among the people
of Kohala.
He remained with us a fortnight (until called home by the
sickness of Mrs. I .) rendering both to us & to the cause very important
service With his aid I performed the tour of a portion of Kohala wh. was
afterwards completed in company with Bro Lyons'.
Of the comparative state of the schools at that time I was unprepared to form any estimate.
Fr. subsequent experience however I am
led to suppose that the number of scholars then said to be in attendance
was much greater than the facts wd warrant -
Nearly 1100 were reported
to be attending school, but subsequent examinations have shewed that
the teachers were wont to report the largest number that had at any
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time previously attended.
This statement may account for the apparent
diminution in the No. of pupils during the year.
Further experience will
enable me to speak with more confidence on this point, however.
The state of our Schools is low, whether more so than in past years,
I have no means of ascertaining.
Our great lack is in teachers compe
tent to the business of interesting & instructing the children.
Two
only of our teachers are graduates fr. the High School at L. luna & these
I am sorry to say are in no wise more successful than their Brn. in the
same employment, owing chiefly perhaps to their having become absorbed
in getting a living or rather getting money - perhaps.
The pittance al
lowed the teachers by the Gov’t is manifestly of little avail towards
t heir support, even were it always punctually
- but in this field,
very few of the teachers have been able to obtain it at all.
The vi
sit of the Kahukula fr. wh. we were expecting some good results, avail
ed us nothing.
As a last resort & indeed the only one in my power, I
established a Teachers' School about 4 months since, in the hope that
the character & interest of our schools might thus be elevated.
hope I think will not prove to have been a vain one.
This
The school embraces
our entire number of teachers & has so far sustained both its number
& interest undiminished.
It is held on Wed. & Sats of each week.
The studies are Arithmetic (Helu Naau) with the blackboard. Geogra
phy & "Noike Uhane” -
Most of our time is devoted to Arith.
In Geog
raphy we are straitened exceedingly both for want of atlases & also
for lack of a suitable geography.
This lack we shall feel more deeply
still in a school wh. I am about to open for qualifying some of our
most promising boys to become teachers, & enter the Boarding School
at Hilo.
Can any method be devised by the Brn. of the Miss. to supply
this lack wh. I am assured is widely felt?
About two months since
Mrs. Bond opened a school for the more promising girls of our vicinity.
�Kohala 1842
Its expediency I at first doubted, but our experience thus far h as
given us assurance that the labor will not be lost.
It was proposed
to rec. 20 pupils - but more came & begged to be be ( !) admitted until
the number was swelled to 40. Fr. these she selected about 30, who re
main, & most of them manifest a very laudable desire (to) be instructed
in their daily studies.
As many as 8 or 10 of these come 5, 6 & 8
miles daily, or rather 4 days in each week.
Studies pursued are Arith
metic, "Little Philosopher”, "Ai o ka la” & the Bible.
The statistics
of our schools I had forgotten to say are as follows
Whole
”
"
" "
”
"
no.
”
" #
l
”
"
Whole no. schools
Pupils
Teachers
Readers
Writers
Helu Kamalii
Helu Naau
-
31
882
45
399
110
242
73
# By ”Readers” I mean those who can read fluently in ordinary reading Of the state of religion with us, it can only be expected, that I
say it is dull, very dull.
Situated as this field has been for the
past 2 years, without any valuable pastoral labor bestowed upon it,
it wd indeed be strange were it otherwise.
The last year of my pre
decessor’s residence here was occupied entirely with building & un
initiated as I have been into the mysteries of the native tongue, it
cd hardly be supposed that my labors wd be of much avail.
I have how
ever performed 3 tours thro this field since the last Gen. Meet.
first two so far as I know were entirely unproductive of good.
meetings & examinations were very imperfect & fruitless.
hihia ( led astray, ?
The
Our
Cases of
) multiplied continually & none returned fr.
their wanderings to take shelter anew in the fold of God.
During this
last tour altho' the declension of the chh appeared much more alarming,
yet on the whole the state of things appeared more encouraging;
We
had several weeks previously established morning prayer meetings in
every land, & I doubt not the prayers of the people of God were heard -
�4
In some portions of the field Numbers returned to confess their sins
& seek admittance once more to the chh, both these who had never been
disciplined & those who had, & a large company of professed penitents
also met me, seeking to be enrolled among the people of God.
With the
help of Bro. Lyons who very generously offered to come over & help me,
I spent a day & a half in examining professed converts & fr. among
them we selected a portion for admission to the chh & They were ad
mitted on the 3d Sabb. of the present month profess repentance is daily increasing.
The number of those who
I meet a portion of them twice
each week & have established meetings twice a week in each land con
taining a school house, for the better accommodation of all.
The number of those who have fallen into hihla (for I cannot say
open sin in all cases) is large - both those who are still under a
course of discipline & those who have not been disciplined at all.
Of
the latter class there are some 2 or 3 hundred I sh judge l/2 of whom
are accused of tobacco smoking only. - & I confess to the Brn. my un
willingness to subject these to the rigor of chh. discipline, yet
something must be done, inasmuch as law exists & has existed for years,
forbidding this very thing & it cannot now be abolished.
the thing to be done?
Brn what is
Smoking tobacco, here is certainly productive of
many sins & the people know it - yet I have found may cases, -where this
filthy habit has been induced by the severe measures taken to prevent
it.
Our meetings at the station have been, on the whole, well attended.
On the Sabb. our house has uniformly been crowded (save in very stormy
weather) & usually, quite a company have been obliged to remain out
side.
The people have always given very good attention to the word
whether read or spoken.
It was only on the 1st Sabb. in Feb. that I
was able to commence preaching in native.
The delay was long - but was
�Kohala 1842
‘
unavoidable, (at least so it appeared to me),
5.
by reason of peculiar
providences wh. placed my time for 3 or 4 mos. beyond my own control.
Our Sabb. school we have recently reorganized, & divided into
classes, by wh. means an unusual interest has been excited in all
minds & new efficiency is imparted to the school as an instrument of
good.
Some of the pupils have committed & recited to me more than 80
verses of Scripture, in a week (besides attending School daily & re
citing its daily exercises) others have committed 40 & others 20, in
cited by the offer of Bibles, Tests (Testaments ?) &c. wh. offer I was
induced to make by the great destitution of the Word of God, among the
people & also by the resolution passed at the last Gen. Meet. recommend
ing the speedy supply of the schools with the Scriptures That some new effort was needed to create an interest in favor
of the Scriptures, evidence may be found in the fact that for the
first 4 or 5 month(s) after our settlement here, we had not more than
2
or 3 calls of any kind for the Bible or any portion of it.
For the
last 3 months, I am very glad to say an increased desire to, obtain
the Book of God has manifested itself - whether it is read much more than
formerly I do not know.
We have disposed of a great many books the
past year, but we do not, I regret to say, find a proper readiness to
pay anything for them.
Not deeming it expedient to give the books out
right to the people, lest they shd in consequence seem of little worth
to them & thus be worse than lost, I have reduced the prise of the Bible
Soc.’s books, to 1/3 of the former price & so rendered it easy for any
one to procure a book & pay for it, who desires to do so.
Whether
the neglect to pay the small sum required is my fault or theirs, I
can better decide when like my older brethren, I shall have had more
experience.
Our Mon. Concert has been very thinly attended the past y r .
We
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6.
1842
hope its recurrence in time to come, will call together more of the
Lord’s people, to pray for Zion’s increase -
Meetings have been estab
lished in every school house throughout the field Contributions at the Mon. Concert, have been nothing of conse
quence.
They were quite large as Mr. Bliss informed me, previously to
our coming hither, but for reasons wh. need not be mentioned here, I
have tho’t best to say nothing to the people until the present month.
We hope they will do something in future.
The new meetinghouse wh. has been so long in contemplation is in
no immediate prospect of being commenced.
Shd the matter be left en
tirely in the hands of Gov't, it is to be feared the stones destined to
constitute its walls will yet enjoy a long & undisturbed repose in their
native v a l l e y
s Romanism, so far as I know has made little effort & little progress
in this field.
I know of 1 or 2 converts only, made by some natives in
Lel e i o h o k u ’s train.
We have been favored with several visits fr.
the priests of our neighboring fields & have lived in constant expec
tation of seeing an Establishment formed at our side, but the Lord has
in great mercy kept this pernicious evil fr. our midst, during the days
of our extreme infancy in the language -
May He still keep this poor
people fr. the soul-destroying pestilence.
But tho free fr. Catholicism, we have not been without grievous
trials fr. without.
The chiefs of Hawaii have made our immediate vicinity their place
or rendezvous during 5 or 6 months past.
them has been extremely baleful.
The influence of a portion of
Numbers of our Chh. members & members
fr. other Chh.s in the train of the chiefs have fallen into gross sins Drunkness ( !), adultery & horse racing, were, for a season, every
day occurrences in our midst.
Leleiohoku being the ring-leader in
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1842
iniquity -
7.
But God. has delivered us fr. this Evil also -
We pray
it may not again return upon us —
In conclusion I can only add, we feel grateful, or try to, to the
gracious Providence that has bro't us hither to labor.
in our work.
We are happy
We know the work is a good one & that the Lord Jesus
Christ will yet reign in the hearts of this now ignorant & degraded
people, as he reigns in the redeemed hearts above,
spite of the mighty
obstacles wh. to our view now obstruct the progress of his Kingdom With this assurance, we hope to live & labor & die & repose our bones
beneath Hawaiian soil - if such be the will of God concerning us Respectfully submitted
E. Bond
975
373
124
14
138
51
2
82
8
3
316
3
48
41
866
355
27
57
1500
Whole No. added to the Chh. on Examination
Do. Do.
on Certificate
Do. past year on Examination
Do
Do on Certificate
Whole No. past year
Whole No dismissed ( !) to other Chhs.
dismissed past year
Whole No. deceased
Deceased past year
Suspended past year
Remain Suspended
Excommunicated past year
Whole No. Excomm.
Remain Excom.
Whole No. in regular standing
Whole No. Children Baptized
Bap. past year
Marriages past year
Average No. of congregation on the Sabb -
This table will be found to differ considerably fr. the report of
last year - All I can Say by way of excuse, if excuse is needed, is that
I have taken all the pains possible, by personal examination to render
a correct table of chh. statistics The estimate of the av. Congregation may be large. My impression
is however that it is small. Several gentlemen who have met with us
upon the Sabb. have concurred in the estimate I have given - Mr. Bliss
tho’t it larger, i.e. the Congregation E. Bond
�Report of the Station at Kohala Hawaii
1842-3
The Lord’s mercy has brought us to the end of another year.
H i s rich
favors have been, shed down upon us in all our various rela
tions; for wh. we owe Him unfailing gratitude & praise.
Zion also
has been made to rejoice, we trust, in her King. Her bulwarks we hope,
have been strengthened.
As a chh. we are not alive & awake, as the
Saviour’s cause demands of us - yet it can truly be said, we do not
all sleep, as hitherto.
Some, yea many, during the six mos. past,
have been very earnest in doing the work of the Lord among this
people,
So far as has been made evident to their understanding &
hearts.
For the first six mos. of the miss. year, we had little interest
manifested in the things of Christ's Kingdom.
A few indeed appeared
as inquirers for the way of life & our meetings on the Sabb. were full Yet in my tours among the people, rarely any came to meet with us save
the chh. members & very frequently, not all of these.
Meantime the
enemy were beginning to come in upon us to practice their seductions
upon this unwary people.
For the better keeping of the Lord's vine
yard, therefore, in this part of the field, at our quarterly meeting
for the Chh. lunas, in Oct.
we effected a division of our whole ter
ritory into seven districts - one to each Deacon & his sub-lunas, with
instructions to prosecute the Lord's work vigorously.
This, it is be
lieved they did, to the extent of their ability - & the consequences of
increased faithfulness were soon visible.
Tho' our regularly appointed
meetings have not been multiplied - voluntary meetings among the chh.
members have since been very frequent & very fully attended, & the
number of those who profess to be setting their faces Zionward, has
greatly increased.
�Kohala 1843
The Spirit of the Lord, we hope, is still with us, calling the
ungodly to repentance.
That scores turn fr, these calls to greater
hardness of heart & more bitter hatred towards the things of Christ's
Kingdom I hardly need add.
It has been so fr. the beginning & so I
doubt not it will be to the end - that wicked men turn light into dark
ness - the Savour of Life into a Savour of Death.
Since Oct. 300 have been added to the chh. - the larger portion
of them, the fruits of the present revival.
None of these have been
reed in less time than three mos. fr. their professed repentance for
sin & fr. their having been enrolled as penitents had been of fr, 5 & 6 mos. to a year’s standing -
Whilst some of them
Nearly 300 now stand
propounded to be recd if the Lord will, on the first Sabb. in April.
The appearance of those who have united with the chh. has been
in general, so far, beyond my expectation. Many of them appear greatly
interested, & engaged in the Savior's cause - but how many of them
all, will, at last be found at the right hand of the Judge is known
only to Him who sees all things fr. the beginning.
lasts to labor & pray for them -
We hope while life
It is His, to adjudge their final
destiny - & He will do it righteously.
The general character of this chh. is, I think, considerably better
than at any previous period of our acquaintance with its affairs.
More
of spiritual vigor & personal interest in religion is now apparent than
has been before witnessed.
vows chh.
There is less open violation of covenant
Most of the suspended have been recd anew into the bosom of the
Our meetings possess more of apparently hearty interest.
On the
Sabb. our meetings (tho’ very slightly diminished in number, for a
few Sabb. this the.influence of popery) have been very fully attended as have been several meetings on the Sabb. at our most distant outposts.
Morning meetings have been sustained in our various school houses
�Kohala
1843
during the year as have been also all our regular meetings Gases of discipline have been rare.
chh. have likewise been attended to.
Monthly contributions of the
The am't thus contributed during
the year, is according to a fair estimate about $230.00.
A portion
of this has been in food for my school, fish, kapas &c & the remain
der in work & building materials, for school houses.
Our Sabb. school has not been very flourishing during the year pastfr. want of time to devote to it.
The attendance has however been good -
For the first six mos. of the year the average attendance was 301 During the last six mos. the av. has been 546.
Schools.
To the cause of Education among this people, I have
devoted as much time & effort as has been in my power to give, consis tently with more important duties.
1st
My teachers' School has been continued thro' the year (with
two vacations rendered necessary by our peculiar situation) on the
same plan as during the last year, i.e. two schools pr. week, on
Weds & Sats. & with very satisfactory results in regard to some of our
teachers - whilst in regard to others, any am't of labor wd be in vain.
2d
A select school for boys - 14 in number -
This school I com
menced about eight mos. since, with two objects in view i.e. to prepare
boys for the school at Hilo & to prepare also some teachers for our own
immediate wants.
Preparatory to the commencement of the school we had one house
put up sufficiently large to contain 100 persons for a school house &
an occasional place for business meetings of the chh. - two sleeping
houses & two other houses - partly built by kokua & partly by purchase.
These accommodate us very well at present.
The school is necessarily
limited to a small number in consequence of my inability to care for a
larger number such as I shd like to be preparing for usefulness in
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1843
this field -
4.
These have been partly supported i.e. supplied with food,
calabashes &c by the chh. & wd have been, entirely, had circumstances
required it.
The boys labor a part of each day when labor is to be
supplied - for wh. they rec. a small compensation per. hour - & with the
avails of their labor, they purchase garments for themselves.
The progress of the pupils in the various branches of study to wh.
their attention has been directed, has been very commendable - so much
so that I feel amply rewarded for my labor on their behalf -
Our
studies have been Arithmetic, "Hoike Uhane", "Akiakamai" , "Mooolelo
Hawaii", "Ui", Compositions weekly, vocal music & daily recitations
in Scripture.
3d
Common schools.
These are 33 in number, embracing upwards
of a thousand pupils, under 39 teachers.
During the past year I have
had three local examinations of all the schools, & the Kahu Kula, for
this part of the Isl. has likewise had two general examinations.
There
has been some advance in Knowledge, tho' it is not possible that any
great progress can be made in some of our schools until we shall have
been supplied with some more intelligent teacher.
During the most of the year our schools have been kept in a pretty
good state.
The appointment of a new KahuKula has, so far, been very
greatly for our benefit.
The new Kahu has done every thing, here for
the cause of education, that cd be done - so far as I have been able to
perceive.
We "thank God” for this new acquisition & "take courage".
Catholic influence has had an unfavorable effect upon several of
our schools - yet we hope not a permanent one.
The sole tendency of
that scheme of abominations - popery - so far as developed among us,
h as been to hasten back the midnight darkness & the shame of pure heathenism.
They labor & injure the cause of education as at present
prosecuted, without offering any substitute whatever whereby to relieve
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5.
1843
the minds of the people fr. the gross darkness in wh. they are shrouded.
Whilst however the enemy labor to pluck up the foundation of vir
tue & knowledge, something is being done to enlarge these foundations
& to render them sufficiently permanent for the noble superstructure
wh. we believe the Almighty is designing yet to rear upon them for His
own glory & for this enthralled peoples’ salvation - physical as well
as spiritual.
Great credit certainly, is due for the efforts made the past year,
by this people, for the benefit of the rising generation.
Not less
than 24 permanent stone school houses have been commenced & the most
of them are already finished & occupied.
The word of God has also
been introduced into our Schools, the past year, so far as has been
practicable - & the proportion of scholars able to read it has consider
ably increased.
In regard to the general influence of papacy among us, little need
be said -
The system boasts, & with unquestionable truth of its un-
changeableness thro’ all the periods of its existence.
We find it
therefore in Hawaii, at the present time, just what history assures
us it has been, in the past centuries of its existence - the steadfast
opposer of all advancement in knowledge, both human & divine.
The only converts they have yet secured in Kohala as far as my
knowledge extends, I can with truth declare are the incorrigible opposers of our schools, the contemners of the law of the land & the known
friends of all vice - the persons, who, I doubt not, wd rejoice to
whelp anew & forever, this entire people in all the horrors & abomina
tions of the moral midnight fr wh. they have been so hopefully & happily
emerging.
The new movement in behalf of our schools i.e. the erection of
substantial houses for their accommodation has given to popery most of
�6.
its converts in this field.
Determined not to aid in this good work,
they escaped to the enemy for shelter, taking their children with them whom they were more than willing to rob of the benefits of school, that
they might go back & live unrebuked in the most degrading ignorance &
in the shameless commissions of every brutal vice.
One fact, in relation to the popish converts, is worthy of men
tion, being indicative, I imagine of the real nature & tendency of the
system —
I refer to the fact that they have built their houses for
meetings, without exception, at the farthest possible remove fr, the
light of knowledge & civilization - going back into the wilderness
almost as far as any vestige of human life is found.
They have built
several of these houses tho' none of them are large.
The progress of this system has not been rapid or great, as yet The pri(e)st fr. Waimea has made quite frequent visits of late & bap
tized some.
I am unable to state the number -
memb. have gone over to them.
A very few of our chh.
Perhaps 10 or 12 - not more; & these all,
I think without exception, hihia -
We have reason to bless God that the
mass of the chh. stand firm in the truth
We pray that He may still
keep them.
The means used to secure converts.
Native converts who have been
taught by the priests, continually itinerate in great number - thro'
the field.
These present all possible motives but good ones, to the
minds of this credulous people -
assuring them that the fish will cease
to bite at their hooks & their food also to grow unless they speedily
abandon us & turn to the God of the papists.
That these & many similar
stories have an effect upon many minds, none need doubt who knows any
thing of that greedy credulity (wh. swallows as strict verity, all the
dogmas of the Romish chh. tho’ equally opposed to reason & their own
senses) existing in the most enlightened papist communities & individ
uals to be found on earth.
Yet we know the truth is mightier than all
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1843
7.
error combined & that it will ultimately establish itself in the minds
even of this benighted race - tho' perhaps not without a severely con
tested struggle for the mastery.
Church Statistics
1378
412
467
81
548
60
9
118
36
32
168
8
60
20
1419
418
61
72
1500'
Whole no. added on Exam
Do
on Certif.
Do
past year on Ex.
on Cer.
Bo
Whole No. past year
Whole No. dismissed to &c.
Dismissed past year
Whole no. deceased
Deceased past year
Suspended past year
Remain suspended
Excomd past year
Whole no. Excomd Remain Excommunicated
Whole no. in reg. stand’g
Whole no . of children Bapt
Bapt. past year
Marriages past year
Av. no. of the Sabb. Cong.
Statistics of Common Schools
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
NO.
of
of
of
of
of
in
Schools
Teachers
Scholars
Readers
Writers
Arithmetic
33
39
1144
585
210
400
This is the result of my last local examination, in Dec. '42.
At the general examination of the Kahu-Kula in the present no. (March)
1000 pupils were present - some having (been) detained by the distance
& the rain.
(Unsigned; E. Bond)
�Report of the Station at Kohala
(1844)
The year just passed has, since its commencement, been, to us, as
individuals, as well as in our relations to this people, one of prettyconstant & at times of severe trial.
We have, however, to acknowledge, much of ordinary & extraordinary
bounties from our Heavenly Father wh. have tended to remind us continu
ally, that in Him, both temporally & spiritually, "we live & move &
have our being."
At the period of our leaving our Station for the last Gen, Meet
ing, there was an unusual apparent interest among this people
the things of Christ’s Kingdom.
in
This interest was continued with per
haps a slight abatement, until after our return from Honolulu,
Meet
ings were fully attended & the members of the chh, seemed, in general,
awake to duty.
But little more than a month had, however, elapsed sub
sequent to our return, ere a succession of rains, the like of wh, we
had never before seen, set in & continued with almost no intermission
for more than six months.
The natural consequence was the cutting off,
for a long time, of almost, all intercourse between myself & the people,
both in meetings & at other times.
Our Sabbaths, too were uniformly so unpleasant as to prevent the
large assemblages of the people, from all portions of the field, wh, we
had previously been wont to enjoy; & we were repeatedly unable to hold
any regular services in the house of God, in consequence of the dilapi
dated condition of the building & the inadequate shelter it afforded in
our season of cold & rain.
Thro' the Divine goodness I have been able to perform the usual
amount of ordinary labor among the people, tho' not without a somewhat
unusual amount of drenchings,
Four tours have been made throughout the
field, attending, as in years past, to the state of the chh,, preaching,
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1844
examining schools etc.
In one of these tours, performed in Dec. five days were spent,
in as many different portions of the field, in meetings for fasting &
prayer - without, however, any visibly encouraging results.
The at
tendance upon these meetings was good, save at one post, where, in con
sequence of there being no house in wh. to meet, we were obliged to
meet out of doors exposed to the inclement winds & weather.
The Church.
As may be easily inferred fr. what has been said above, the pre
sent state of this chh. is any thing but cheering - & for the most part
its members manifest but little desire for better times.
It is however
gladdening to know that a few of our lands, form exceptions to the
general stupor wh. prevails.
Our chh. lunas report the usual meetings to have been regularly
sustained in all our school houses save two or three, tho' in the grea
ter portion of them the attendance has been very small.
The smallness of our Sabb. congregations has already been noticed & perhaps it is but just for me to add in reference thereto, that the
absence of opportunities during the past year, to assemble, frequently
as usual, & the want likewise of a suitable shelter under wh. to as
semble, may perhaps be considered as two of the natural causes wh.
have operated most powerfully to produce this state of things & to dim
inish, in general, a proper interest, in things pertaining to religion.
But besides these, an irresistible, & to multitudes, a fatal tide of
emigration to Oahu, has been throughout the year, sweeping away hundreds
of the most hopeful portions of this community - both of the chh. &
also of our schools & to me I confess, this is the most discouraging &
alarming of all the unfavorable influences with wh. we have had to con
tend hitherto The entrance & operations of popery also have tended, specially
during the former part of the year, to keep portions of our people
�Kohala
3.
1844
from their usual attendance upon the preaching of the Gospel.
Disc ipline
Cases of discipline have, the past year been somewhat more fre
quent than in either ,of the two previous years of my labors here - tho'
not so much more frequent, as the subjoined table of statistics wd
indicate.
With very few exceptions, the excommunications & many of the sus
pensions, were cases of long standing.
Nearly all (9/10) of the for
mer, were cases suspended by my predecessor more than three years since
& during this time they have been waited on, with repeated exhortations
to repentance (when they have been accessible), until it was found
worse than vain to exercise longer forbearance towards them.
We have
still remaining, perhaps a hundred similar cases, yet to be cared for persons whom I have never seen - some of them living, at present in
Honolulu, some in Lahaina & others still, in this part of Hawaii.
On recurring to our chh. Records, I find the names of 15 among
the excommunicated, who have deserted us since the entrance of popery
among us, & gone to the foe.
These are the only names, who have thus
apostatized free fr. chh. censure & these are represented as living in
open violation of covenant vows now & as having lived in secret violation
of those vows, previously to their leaving us.
It may not be improper for me to say, in connexion with this sub
ject, that we are helplessly & hopelessly subject to incessant trouble
in this chh. in consequence of the established practice of disciplining
for the use of tobacco.
On reference to our books this is found to be
the cause, directly or indirectly, of the great mass of the cases of
discipline administered fr. the organization of the chh.
In taking,
indifferently 154 cases fr. the list of chh. members 75 of these are
distinctly stated to have been for tobacco I Yet large as this ratio is,
�3 a.
[To be read where marked on page 3]
How many of the censured members of this chh. have gone into
the delusions of popery I am unable to state.
is that few have thus gone.
My impression however
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1844
4.
I hope I may be pardoned for saying that it wd not probably be very
difficult to find a Hawaiian chh. in wh. the cases of discipline for
the use of the same article, bears, at least, twice this proportion
to the whole number !!
For the sake of true religion in these Islands it were most de
voutly to be wished that that work of zealous supererogation - making
that, sin, wh. in the judgment of God's word & in the honest belief
of 99/100 of the enlightened Christian community is no sin - had never
been performed.
Then had these infant chhs of dark Hawaii, never been
made to groan under a heavier yoke than Christian men,
in Christian
lands are able to bear; & some of those who ”watch" over this wayward
people, wd have been spared the unhappy increase of labor & trial, occasioned by laws wh. now can neither be shaken off or evaded.
Additions
Of additions to this chh. we have had very few, since the last
Gen. Meeting - about 40 in all.
The mass of additions stated in the
table of statistics occurred previously to that time, tho' within the
current Missn year.
A class of inquirers - catechumens - 150 - 200 has attended upon
the meetings appointed for them, fr. time to time during the year,
but it has not been deemed advisable to receive many of them into fel
lowship with the chh. in our present low estate.
Sabbath School .
Our Sabb. school has been regularly sustained thro’ the year,
tho' the same unfavorable influences, wh. have affected other departments
of labor, have borne equally upon this.
The average number of pupils during the year has been but little
more than two hundred.
Our Sabb. School is held after the A.M. service & the labor of it
�K ohala 1844
5.
falls entirely upon myself -
After the P.M. Service, immediately, we
have, now, a Bible class for such as live in the vicinity & choose to
attend.
This class has been established several months.
of the more intelligent males usually remain ted in the exercise.
A few only
these appear interes
Our text book is the Catechism in Hawaiian.
Schools.
The number of our common schools is one less than the number last
reported - two small schools in the same neighbourhood having been
united.
Of all these, there have been four examinations, the past year,
viz, two general examinations by the Kahukula
myself .
& two local E x ’s by
At the general examinations a larger number of pupils was
present than is indicated in this report.
Yet the number here stated
is far greater than has constantly attended our schools during the
larger part of the year.
The appearance of the schools indicates, in the examinations, some
advance in knowledge & general intelligence.
Such is my impression -
tho' as to numbers I am unable to say whether we have advanced or retro
graded in knowledge, as Bro. Cooke omitted the larger portion of our
school statistics in the last years "Minutes” .
The whole number of pupils in our schools, it will be perceived
has somewhat diminished.
The causes of this decrease have inciden
tally been referred to already, viz, a general declension of the peo
ple in relation to all elevating enterprise -
The strong tide of emi
gration hence to Oahu wh. has taken off many, particularly of the more
advanced pupils; & finally, the operations of papacy among us.
This latter-cause has perhaps operated indirectly more than di
rectly.
Thus far it has actually taken away to its own fatal embraces,
few of our children (& most heartily do I regard this a matter of un
affected gratitude towards God) - yet by shielding these taken & their
�Kohala
1844
parents fr. the penalty of the law, & thus openly & with impunity
putting at defiance all the authorities of the Gov’t. the priests &
their disciples have excited a most direful influence upon this people
& set before them an example wh. if followed unrestrainedly, must
speedily reduce all law & all authority to a mere nullity save indeed
as they themselves turn them to account as instruments of proselytism
in favor of their own pernicious dogmas.
Following the unhappy examples set before them, the children have
in great numbers forsaken all r egular attendance upon schools, & the
parents in like manner have suffered the walls of several stone school
houses to stand a year unroofed & crumble in pieces, because forsooth
there is no authority to coerce them to labor & finish the work.
The
Kahu-kula has indeed repeatedly commanded the work to be done not to
speak of my own repeated exhortations to the same effect, yet whilst
they see others, in their midst, trampling with impunity upon all law,
& countenanced by a foreign priest, nay ordered by the priest so to do,
how can it be expected that they will do otherwise I
On the whole so far as is now perceived, until wholesome laws
already existing or hereafter to exist, shall be made to be equally
respected by all, no matter of what name or condition, we may hang our
hopes for Hawaiian schools, here in Kohala, upon our Kukuis, to be
blown about in our ever sweeping blasts - as well as upon efforts for
their benefit.
Fruition, I conceive will about as speedily be real
ized in the former case as in the latter.
Our school for teachers has been continued as usual during the
year - two sessions having been held each week - on Wed. & Sat.
Within
two months, however, we have had but one session per week; & shall have
no more than this probably until the labor on our meeting house shall
have been completed -
Studies have been chiefly confined to arithmetic
�Kohala
7.
1844
& geography with the Atlas.
The Select School of boys wh. I commenced nearly two years since,
has been in successful operation thro' the year.
The number of pupils
has been but 12, as no more cd he found during the former part of the
year, such as I chose to receive.
Soon after the last Gen. Meet. five of our boys entered at Hilo
& two became teachers in our own Schools Studies -
Mental & written arithmetic topographical geography,
Hawaiian,History, Natural Theology, daily recitations & Catechism &
Scripture, composition & vocal music.
At least two hours labor are
required per day, of each pupil.
The amount of my own time devoted to the school depends entirely
upon the amount & nature of other demands upon my time & attention.
Whatever time can be saved fr. other more urgent duties is given to
it.
I have, fr. the commencement of the school had the services of a
native teacher who has been fully qualified to discharge the duties re
quired of him.
N o small amount of difficulty & trial has beset us, the year past.
Early in its progress the native teacher was convicted of forgery &
his connexion with the school was necessarily dissolved.
We thought
ourselves highly favored, however, in obtaining a very promising stu
dent fr. Hilo to fill his place.
The latter proved himself very capa
ble & very useful for a short season, when to our great sorrow, he fell,
or rather deliberately went into the sin of fornication & became lost
to us & to the cause of truth & virtue in these islands.
After much trouble & perplexity a graduate fr. the Missn Semy
was procured to assist us.
He left the Semy under circumstances, not
the most favorable for his reputation tho' not under positive censure;
�Kohala
1844
yet as the question was one of life & death to the school, & as the
latter idea was not congenial with our notions, he was employed - &
thus far does well.
The morals of the pupils have not been unaffected by the unhappy
events thro' wh. we have been passing.
Strange indeed had they been.
Yet n o one of them has, as yet committed any overt act of opposition
to our rules.
Fr. the first, the small number of pupils, has enabled
me to keep them constantly under my own notice; & they have even mani
fested a good degree of docility in all respects.
i
In consequence of the circumstances above named & also of the
scarcity of food through the larger portion of this field, caused in
part by the superabundance of rain & in part by worms, it fell to my
lot to purchase a large proportion of the food for the boys during
several months -
They are now supplied as before, by the contributions
of chh. members.
Owing to these obstacles in our way & to the increased demands
upon my time, of a more indispensable nature, wh. Providence has been
making for most of the past year, it has not been without the utmost
effort & some doubt that it has been kept in operation.
Yet this branch of effort has so come to be part & parcel of my
duties towards this people & likewise to add so much to my own happiness
that the idea of abandoning these pupils to return again to their former
habits of life, unorderly & only sensual, is very painful & difficult
to be entertained.
Meeting House
We have suffered extremely in this field for lack of a suitable
shelter under wh. to worship God.
suffered & not we alone.
The whole cause of Christ here has
,
I had been waiting & hoping that some measures wd be taken by
�Kohala
1844
Gov’t & the people to begin to provide us a house; but had waited two
years & a half in vain.
And after having preached six mos. in the
rain & finding the papists also coming in upon us, I proposed as the
only alternative, to provide means for the erection of the house, on
condition that the timber, shd without delay, be hewn & drawn down to
the spot for building.
$600 at least will be required to render the
house suitable for meetings.
This must be paid in cash or its product.
There is no money here & nothing so far as I can devise, by w h .
th$ people can raise it.
The freight of all articles procurable, here,
wd be much more than their marketable value in Lahaina or Hon. save
perhaps the single article of fire wood - & the nearest point at w h .
this can be obtained is 12 or 14 miles fr. the place of shipping We are clearly a poor people here in Kohala, having need of much
& yet possessing nothing.
However, if God will, we hope, in due season
to have a house for His service.
The character of the house proposed, is like that in Hilo , viz, a
substantial frame, thatched; with a v e r a n
dah all around.
An agreement
has been made with a foreigner to erect the frame & the timber & other
materials are nearly all upon the spot.
Contributions.
The labor of the chh. members upon materials for the meeting house
hitherto, is its chief item.
low estimate is $250.
This together with food &c recd, at a
The food consumed by the school.
Popery.
In my last report popery cd hardly be said to have entered this
field, in earnest.
During the year past however its operations have
been prosecuted with much zeal - Specially during the former part of it
& the new things said & done by them (the priests) attracted much atten
-tion & drew many after that abominable system of the Adversary, as
Spectators & some as adherents to its image worship & false doctrines.
�Kohala
1844
10.
The novelty of the thing now seems for the present to have passed
away &, so far as appears, little is now said or tho't of it.
The mass of those who have called themselves by the name of the
"Beast” are persons who have never associated with us & with whom of
course, I have never had any personal intercourse.
They are represen
ted as living in the habitual commission of since forbidden by the
Gospel & as being very naaupo [ignorant; dark-minded] in general.
Some
of them have been publicly convicted & sentenced for adultery - & yet
so far as is known, their standing as papists has not been at all af
fected by their crimes.
We have as yet, no priest permanently attached to this field; but
we have been abundantly favored with the services of the priests fr.
Waimea & Kailua & also with one visit fr. the priest of Kau.
To the
latter two Gov. Adams gave permission to erect a meeting house directly
by the side of ours - wh. unless an overruling Providence shall favor
ably interpose, will be a source of perpetual & most unhappy distur
bance to the quiet & harmony of our weekly worship.
We are not without some hope that our new neighbours may be kept
fr. blocking up our doors, at least, the consent of our Christian
Govr. thereto notwithstanding !
Respectfully Submitted
E. Bond
�Koh a la
1844
....... ..
..........
................ — ------------ ------ 1 1 .
Statistics of theChh.
Whole No. recd on Examn
Do
do on Certife
Recd past year on Examn.
do
do on Certif.
Whole number past yr.
Whole no. dismissed
Past year
do
Whole no. deceased
Deceased past yr.
Suspended so do
Remain Suspended
Excomd past year
Whole no. Excomd
Remain Excomd
Whole no in regular Stang
Whole no Children baptd
Past year
do
Marriages past year
Average No. of Comgn
1670
445
297
27
324
94
34
177
53
54
102
126
197
148
1575
552
173
74
750
School Statistics
Whole
Do
do
do
do
do
no
"
"
"
”
”
of Schools
Teachers
Pupils
in Reading
in Arithmetic
in Writing
32
35
731
453
453
77
�[Accompanying Station Report of 1844]
Kohala
Apl. 15, 1844
Dear Brethren,
It being inexpedient for me to associate personally with
y ou this year in Gen. Meet. Suffer me to take this method of saying a
few words to you on the subject of the new reinforcement, now expected
fr. the U.S.
Until recently , I had not the remotest intention of troubling you
with a word of mine on this subject & indeed shd not now, were our own
individual happiness alone, to be consulted.
those of a mere private nature constrain me -
But higher interests than
So I write.
The claim of the cause of Christ in this portion of Hawaii, to
the services of one of the new Brn. may not perhaps have any thing
peculiar to itself in distinction fr. that of several other portions
of our common field.
Nevertheless its claim is an urgent one - & more
urgent now than it ever can be at any future period, unless help is now
afforded.
My impression is that a crisis big with good or evil is
rapidly forming in the affairs of this people; & to take suitable ad
vantage of this state of affairs we need a more efficient instrumen
tality than is now available, in this field.
Something more must be
done for these 6000 or 7000 souls scattered over these hills & shores,
than has yet been done.
in their behalf.
But little in fact has yet been attempted
They are heathen still - the mass of them - without
God & without hope having really no true apprehensions of their rela
tions to God or of Salvation thro’ Jesus Christ.
Our own labors are perhaps nearly to the extent of our ability,
tho’ not to the extent of our desires & not a tithe moreover of the
efforts demanded by the necessities of the people.
We are but single
handed; & the sum total of our labors is unavoidably small - very small
�Letter from E. Bond accompanying Report of 1844
in consequence.
2.
On this account too, we often labor at great disad
vantage both to ourselves & to others, wh. we most sensibly feel but
wh. we have no power to remedy.
Again, whatever is to be done here shd be attempted without delay.
The leaven of popery - that too fatal extinguisher of all hope, In
behalf of its proselytes for time & Eternity - has been zealously &
widely infused, the past year & is beginning to work.
Under God, the
progress of this iniquity may in a great measure be stayed & the prey
snatched fr. its very teeth -
But to human view it can only be done
effectually, now, before its victims are, beyond delivery, fast in its
fatal embraces.
We have no priest here permanently yet - but shd probably have
had one ere this had not the heavy hand of the Almighty probably sunk
freight
that
of moral pestilence in the depths of ocean. By that in
scrutable act He has granted us a short respite fr. the presence of
marshalled foe.
We need ability to improve it.
The papists take great care to get the children under their influ
ence.
They know that their hopes as well as ours, depend upon the ris
ing generation.
But the children of this field are very nearly all,
at this moment, under our influence.
To keep them so is the great
desideratum - but how can one individual whose whole time & energies,
cannot serve a half of the demands of this large chh. do all this?
But independently of papist movements, we need some one devoted
to our schools & we must have some one soon or we may throw to the
winds our hopes for this people.
1st
We need a vigorous system of common schools, in w h . to
enlighten & train to the love of knowledge & virtue these hundreds of
y outh about us, so rapidly coming forward to maturity & active life.
2d
We need -
The Cause of Christ needs an efficient high school
�3.
Letter 1844
in this field, sufficiently large & attractive for all its promising
young men.
We are suffering every day for lack of such a school.
Our young
men of premise are leaving us to be poisoned & doubly ruined in the
pestilential atmosphere of the metropolis.
These we wish to retain
& we can retain them by engaging them in the pursuit of knowledge &
in preparation for honor & usefulness among their own countrymen.
I have the germ of such a school, now in existence - but it is
doubtful, much as I desire it, if by any possible effort it can long
d
be sustained as it now exists - yet it sh
not perish I feel assured -
Then we need another preaching post - 6 or 8 miles fr. this where
a large congregation
easily be gathered weekly to hear the word of
life All these we need & much more wh. you ean imagine more readily
than I can here recount them.
I have said nothing of a Separate Sta
tion to be erected here in this district.
That question wd be better
determined, perhaps after consultation on the ground & with those who
appreciate the wants of this people.
Truly yrs,
With aff
E. Bond.
�Report of the Station in Kohala for 1845
Nothing very peculiar has marked our history during the past year.
The blessings of Divine Providence have been abundantly vouchsafed to
us, without any untoward occurrences to interrupt materially the ordi
nary prosecution of our work.
The church has enjoyed usual quiet, tho’ the convincing & convert
ing energies of the Holy Spirit have been wanting to build us up.
During the former part of the year we suffered greatly from lack of a
house of worship.
Our meetings on the Sabb. were under the broad hea
vens; & as we were always exposed to violent winds, with the addition
of either hot sun or rain the number of those who formed our congre
gation was very small - rarely exceeding two or three hundred.
On
the first Sabb. in Sept. however, just six months after the first blow
of the carpenters axe was struck, we assembled beneath the frame of
our new house.
A part of the end exposed to the wind was thatched so
as to afford us a very partial shelter, & there we began the services
of the Lord’s Sanctuary.
From that time the congregation increased
until our house was so far finished as to afford us a comfortable place
of worship.
Since then (Novr ) the house has been filled every Sabb.
with an orderly & attentive assembly of worshippers - of from 800 to
1000 souls.
As will be seen in the accompanying table of statistics this chh.
has decreased in numbers during the two years past, Very few additions have been made during this period, whilst in
1844 more than 200 were cut off from the chh. whom we regarded as hope
lessly lost to a religious life.
These were chiefly cases of those who
had been absent from Kohala from two to six years without having given
any intimation of their places of abode or of their manner of life.
�2.
In relation to a great part of this number, we could learn nothing,
whilst many of them we knew, were on other islands unconnected with
any chh. & leading lives of ungodliness.
It was only after long delay,
patient consideration & prayer for Divine guidance, that they were cut
off fr, the fold of the Redeemer. Yet our perplexity is not at an end
with the erasure of their names from the records of the chh.
The root
of the evil still exists, & probably will exist, in the unsettled
habits of the people.
A great portion of the entire population of K o-
hala nei is perfectly nomadize in the modes of life - & there is great
reason to fear that at no distant day, but a small remnant of this chh.
& people will be left upon the soil.
I have no sufficient statistical data upon which to base a correct
calculation of the decrease of our population during any one year neither an estimate of the cause of the decrease.
But from casual ob
servation made from time to time & the limited data furnished by our
chh. Records, I am satisfied that the almost sole cause of decrease in
this population is Emigration.
My impression is that there is little
if any diminution of the population c a u s
ed by the preponderance of deaths
over births.
In some of the lands of this district, the number of chh.
members has diminished one half, whilst very few have been cut off by
death or by discipline.
The ordinary means of grace have been observe among us as usual
during the year past.
I have performed three tours over the whole
field, discharging the usual duties attendant upon such excursions.
The contributions of the chh. for benevolent purposes have been
used towards our house of worship.
it would be difficult to determine.
The amount contributed in work
The labour has been drawing tim
ber, thatching the house & enclosing it with a spacious stone wall
of 160 ft square painted with lime.
The contributions in other ways,
�Kohala
3.
1845
have been in such articles chiefly, as as ( !) could most readily he
obtained here.
All the cash given by the chh, towards our house amounts to but
$40.
Several hundreds, were subscribed by them but the nominal value
of all subscriptions yet paid is about $200.
The available value
however has been trifling owing to want of a market for articles bro't
in.
Our new meeting house, to which reference is made above is an
unusually strong framed house thatched on the roof with cane leaf &
mat tied on the sides & ends with ki leaf.
Its size is 86 x 45 ft.
with a lanai all around it of 6 ft in width.
The house has four large
doors, 12 windows of 35 panes 8 x 10 glass each & is well floored.
The end exposed to the wind is likewise ceiled up on the inside with
boards, as is likewise 34’ft. of the sides & a portion of the beams
overhead.
The house is entirely filled with settees in number 130 - of a
uniform length made by these who occupy them or purchased of native
manufacturers at $6 each.
Thro' the kind agency of Mr. Cheever who visited the islands in
1844 we have at the time of writing this report (April) - just received
the valuable present of a b ell weighing 210 lbs, for which a bell house
is already in progress.
The whole expenditure for the house has been about $1600, nearly
one half of which has been paid in cash.
We have recd much unexpected
aid in our work both from the friends of the Redeemer in the islands
& from friends likewise in the U.S.
Those Bren. who have had experience in the matter of building such
houses on these islands will understand all that is meant when I say
that the labor has been exceedingly arduous, particularly that required
�Kohala
1845
4.
in drawing the large timber which is not to be had at a less distance
than 8 to 12 miles; & in situations so inaccessibly cut up by preci
pitous ravines, that human muscles alone could be set to the task.
The drawing of some single sticks cost us two, three & four days of
labor with fr. 80 to 100 men.
Added to the ordinary difficulties which
lay in our way, a distressing scarcity of food pressed us sorely for
3 or 4 months - besides wh. in time of our most urgent necessity the
leveling epidemic of April had to be encountered entire population for three weeks.
It prostrated the
But out of all our troubles the
Lord delivered us & at length He set our feet in a large place.
The ameliorating influence which a clean & orderly house of wor
ship has exerted upon the demeanour & external appearance of our people
on the Sabb. is almost incredible.
The improvement has been very rap
id as well as great - so that it is with difficulty that I can realize
that my ministrations are now to the same people with whom I sat in the
dirt but six months since.
How, at length, on the Sabb day, we can
urge a very respectable claim to fraternity with decent people.
I may add that a superior native meeting house has been erected
at an outpost of this Station, in the past year.
Our Sabb. school has been continued as usual thro' the year.
It
now numbers nearly 300 pupils - more or less of whom recite portions
of Scripture & hymns, committed daily to memory.
Of our public schools I have but little to say, having had almost
nothing to do with them for the greater part of the year.
The Gov't,
or its officers have manifested a fixed determination to swindle our
teachers out of the fraction of their just dues, which, after many
unfair deductions, they finally receive annually, from the Kahukula & there is no redress.
Our teachers have sought redress - but public
pledges are vain, since the public ear is closed to the calls of its
�Kohala
1845
5.
defrauded
i gnoble
poor.
After hoping in vain for a long time, that
the teachers would receive at least the shadow of justice I did not
feel it my duty to be found fighting against the "powers" that "are
ordained of God” & hence I relinquished, tho’ reluctantly, the foster
ing care over the schools which I had endeavoured according to the
best of my ability to exercise.
On the same ground some of the best
of the teachers abandoned their schools - for none of us could doubt,
that whatever may be the professions of the Gov't its policy actually
pursued, is to crush the common school, unless indeed teachers can be
fed on straw & find themselves in that.
still pursue their gainless work.
A portion of the teachers
Of our 31 school districts, 12
have been for the greater part of the year without school, or teachers;
and the remaining 19, save two or three, are schools only in name.
The children of the district generally, receive no instruction whatever,
as very few of them attend any school.
The teachers' school which had been under my care nearly or quite
four years, was discontinued for a season in April last - in conse
quence of the pressure of other labor.
It has not been resumed for
reasons connected with those mentioned above.
My select School of boys has been sustained as usual with 13
pupils.
Owing however to other cares I have been able for the larger
part of the year to devote very little attention to it.
A native
teacher has had the chief control of its exercises.
Popery has made no noise & no proselytes during the year -
We
have rarely been visited by a priest & heard little said in any way of
that crafty scheme of Satan.
E. Bond
�Kohala
1845
Statistics
Whole nub er rec'd on Examination
P "
"
"
on Certificate
Past year on Examination
"
"
Certificate
Whole number past year
Whole number dismd to other chh.
"
"
"
past year
Whole number deceased
"
"
past year
Suspended past year
Remain Suspended
Excommunicated past year
1673
468
- - 17
17
130
13
268
58
52
127
25
Whole number excomd
312
Remain excomd
270
Whole number in regular Standing
"
"
children baptized
"
1164
618
Baptized past year
30
Marriages past year
50
�Report of the Station In Kohala - 1846-7
Daring the period of two years embraced in this report, nothing
has occurred to render it a period peculiarly marked by circumstances,
either prosperous or adverse.
Our course may be said to have held in
between these two extremes in a state which, tho' by no means to be
desired as best, is notwithstanding better than that of the worse ex
treme.
We have to record our new obligations to God, that tho' He has
not vouchsafed to us, in any extraordinary measure, the converting
operations of His Holy Spirit, He has nevertheless not left us without
evidence that our labours have not been utterly in vain, either as
regards the temporal or the Spiritual Interests of our people,
A gradual but steady progress towards a better condition in both
respects is clearly perceptible, among them or I wrongly judge.
At
the same time however it must be acknowledged that great numbers of
our population seem more than willing to live & die as their fathers
lived & died before them.
They appear to see nothing desirable in the
work & truth of God & they seek no fellowship therewith.
The light indeed
shines, but it penetrates not the murky darkness of their souls.
They
remain & doubtless many of them will remain to the end, children of the
night not of the day - not of light - but of darkness.
From the desolating incursions of wicked men & devils, which in
years gone have occurred to mar the peace & well-being of the community
in general & of the chh. in particular, the Lord has preserved us during
the period now under review.
Ho instance has been witnessed of those
paroxysms of savage frenzy which in other years have occasionally
developed themselves in scenes of revelry, intoxication & licentious
ness,
The articles ordinarily used for the production of intoxicating
substances have been devoted to their legitimate uses.
So the strin-
�Kohala
1847
2.
gent laws against the production & use of intoxicating liquors, we,
are, under God, undebted for the almost perfect freedom we have latter
ly enjoyed from the developments ( !) of these vices in our midst.
The institutions of Religion have been conducted as usual.
the means of grace there has been a regular & full attendance.
Upon
Our
house of worship has uniformly been filled by the Sabb. by a well-clad
& orderly congregation & this not less on our frequent stormy & incle
ment Sabb. than on those which are ordinarily esteemed more favorable
for attendance upon the house of God.
Something like a fixed habit
of honoring the Sabb. appears to have been formed & a permanent regard
for the stated ordinances of religion implanted in the hearts of the
people.
The chh. have contributed for Foreign Missns during the past year
$515 - about one third of which has been given in cash.
The remainder
has been in rope of native manufacture & cloth at the usual market
value.
From the whole amount, we shall have realized in cash - after
the disposal of a balance still on hand - about $350.
Of this sum a
part has been remitted to the Treasurer of the Am, Board & other
Societies & the balance will be forwarded upon the first suitable
opportunity.
In our endeavours to convert the contributions of the chh. into
cash an enormous percentage is unavoidably lost owing to the disadvan
tageous situation we occupy with reference to markets.
But even this
discouraging process & result are beyond question to be preferred the best interests of the people considered - to inaction on the im
portant subject of Christian benevolence.
A Sabb. School of 600 - 700 children & youth has afforded a
pleasant & profitable field of labor during the period referred to.
Great numbers of the pupils have frequented our meetings for in
quiry.
With the exception of 6 or 8 individuals however, none have
�Kohala
1847
3.
been received to the fellowship of the chh.
My convictions are deep
& strong that the admission of children to our chhs. in large numbers,
is at best, a hazardous experiment.
thing, it has verified this opinion.
If past experience has proved any
The reasons, are obvious & need
here no repetition.
Our public schools for a part of the time have been prosperous But not particularly so during the latter half of the year just closed.
Our Kahukula early proved himself unworthy of the trust reposed in him
& his occupancy of the office of Kahu has operated unfavorably upon
the interests of education in the district.
Owing to the protracted
illness of Mr. Richards a better man cd not readily be procured to fill
that office.
The number of pupils present at the final examination
for the year was nearly a thousand; & more than that number were pre
sent at a feast held on the last day of the year - at which also were
present several hundreds of adults.
My own school of boys has continued as in previous years, tho'
it has been impossible for me to devote to it so much of my own time
& attention as I once could, & would still gladly do, were it in my
power.
The school is always under my own eye, however, & immediate
superintendance.
It has numbered during the year 17 pupils - 12 of
whom are still with me.
As to schools generally, further remark hardly appears necessary.
Their character is sufficiently well understood by all.
That this is
essentially the same here as elsewhere on the islands, may be taken
for. granted.
The difficulties of past years are those with which we
still contend - tho’ they are becoming less & less formidable, with
gratitude we may add
indifference of parents to the subject of
Education, Destitution of suitable houses, Want of order in the Schools
themselves, Lack of discipline, Imperfect qualifications of teachers,
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1847
.
4
are however obstacles to the complete success of Hawaiian schools wh.
will not speedily or easily be surmounted.
To toil & that in hope,
God has made ours & we may not devote reluctant energies to the work,
tho’ He give the victory & the fruition only to those who come after us.
The cause of popery has made no advances whatever, so far as I
have been able to ascertain, during the two years last past.
A priest
(for a portion of the time two priests) has been stationed here for
most of the time.
children.
He has been engaged in teaching a small school of
He seems to be a remarkably quiet specimen of (Jesuitism.
But I know little about him.
We have never met.
I endeavour to pur
sue a straight course, neither going out of my way to avoid or to
attack him.
I consider it no part of my duty to call that system of
error or its teachers into notice, by making them, subjects of special
inquiry or of special hostility in my labors among the people.
The
cause has lost its novelty here & my impression is that their numbers
are decidedly less now than two years since.
They have three small
schools in the district in which, at the examination in December, there
were about 50. pupils'.
One of the teachers is himself a child & the
other two have no legal qualifications to teach.
The Kahukula assures
me that he gave them commissions because he feared the wrath of the
priest, who shook his fist at him & made some threats in case he re
fused licenses!
In conclusion it may be added that nothing untoward has occurred
to interrupt our labor among the people, since our last report.
The course pursued in our work has been similar to that of former
years, as has also the amount of labor bestowed upon our people.
God’s mercy has hitherto upheld & strengthened us & to the praise
of His great name, we would here erect our Ebenezer.
E. Bond
�Kohala
1847
Statistics of the Church in Kohala - 1846-7
Whole number recd on Examination
"
"
by letter
Past two years " on examination
"
"
" " by letter
Whole number
" past two years
”
"
dismissed to other chhs.
Past two years ”
"
"
Whole number deceased
Past two years deceased
W hole number Suspended past two years
Remain Suspended
Exeommunicated past two years
Whole number excommunicated
Remain Excommunicated
Whole number in regular Standing
"
”
children baptized
Past two years
"
Couples married past two years
Average congregation
"
Statistics of Public
1765
536
92
68
160
169
39
370
102
85
96
52
354
297
13 69
766
148
136
900
Schools in Kohala 1846-7
Whole number of schools
"
"
Teachers
"
"
pupils enrolled
"
"
present at examn in De c . 1847
"
"
in Kumu Mua
"
"
Readers
"
"
in Atlas
"
"
in Helu Naau
"
"
Helu Kakau
"
"
in Spelling
"
"
Geography
26
30
1164
872
321
550
241
499
146
35
50
�Dear Bro.
The statistics of this chh. for 1846 are as follows
1697
504
24
36
60
152
Whole no. rec. on Examination
"
"
"
" Certificate
Past year on Exam "
"
" Certif
Whole no. past year
" "
dismissed other churches
Past year
Whole no. died
Past year
Suspended past year
Remain suspended
Excommunicated past year
Whole no. excom.
Remain
"
Whole no. in regular standing
"
children baptised
Past year
22
309
41
57
90
42
344
298
1352
696
78
With this goes a report to the secretaries of the Board wh. please f o r .d .
In it
is contained the forgoing table of statistics, but I suppose you are designing (?)
to make out a table in form - hence I send the same statements to you
The treatment we rec.d by the officers of the "Hope" wd bespeak of the shame
ful violations of God's law, I hope will not soon be forgotten.
want of food was all a lie.
- I found more than a dozen bundles of food in the
hold when our frt (freight ?) was nearly all discharged.
The box of soap and keg
of nails I have been unable to get fr. Kawaihae hitherto.
and are not willing to go away with the canoes now.
the course of the year.
The pretence of
Our people are fishing
Hope to get it sometime in
But it is rather too late in the day to
expect us to
endure quietly such lack of management fr. these coastal vessels.
mind to get the officers of the "Hope"
I had 1/2 a
prosecuted for a violation of the statute
law - but they w.d lie the matter out of sight - I suppose - so it w.d be of no use
to meddle with it.
Be so good as to tell me if you know of any vessel bound to U.S. soon. I
wish to send a small box or two.
July 26 [1847]
With this I send a box for Mr. Chamberlain.
Will Br. Hall
c h ’g the amt. to my a/c & o b l i g e . Heard from Kealakekua on the 21 int.
Castle ma then there waiting a vessel sailed the 6th int.
this.
If he is in Hon.
!!!
Bro.
May be off on
will Bro. H be so good as to say to him, let that draft
remain undrawn till I write again.
We are all as usual
Very
aff. & hastily
yr
E Bond
�Report of the station in Kohala for 1848
Both with the missy & the people of Kohala the year 1848 has been
emphatically a year of blessings & chastisings.
The ingredients
of joy & sorrow have each entered in unusually large proportion,
into the combination of Providences which forms the history of the
period now under review.
For the former part of the year we cd speak of uninterrupted
success in the prosecution of the work which God had committed to
our hands.
In domestic relations as well as abroad with the people nothing
untoward occurred to check the steady, tho' indeed slow, progress
of affairs onward towards the ultimate object of our labors & our
prayers.
Since July however, rains, excessive, beyond anything in
our past experience in this district, & continued to the close of
the year, have considerably impeded the successful execution of
our plans; & since Oct. all departments of enterprise, throughout
the district have been utterly prostrate.
Our state has been that
of being & suffering rather than that of doing.
Like a noble ship
with all her canvass spread to the prosperous gales of Heaven sudden
ly thrown upon her beam ends & left an unmanageable wreck, so it
was with this district & our labors, upon the introduction of the
measles.
All Kohala was a hospital & literally every inhabitant was
a patient therein.
The discharge of such offices as were indispen
sably necessary to sustain life were not as is usual In seasons of
sickness thrown upon the well - for none such were to be found but upon those who had sufficient strength spared to drag themselves
thro' such services for a brief season - until others could in turn
relieve them.
In houses where all were exhausted & helpless, extreme
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1848
suffering & death, were the consequences.
But it is unnecessary that I detail the history of the period
embraced between Oct. & the close of the year.
It is but too well
known to you all, written as it has been by the hand of the destroy
er in characters too vivid & mournful to be soon effaced or forgotten
by any of us.
I only add that to visiting & caring for the sick all the time
at my command was devoted until the entrance of the disease into our
own family forbade my leaving them to administer to the necessities
of others.
Church
In the time specified above, death has made extensive ravages
in this chh.
130 have deceased during the year, chiefly within 2
or 3 months.
Some of these beyond a doubt, are now in Heaven -
thro' atoning blood conquerous, tho’ in the unequal conflict they
fell.
They were the bright & shining lights of our chh. & district -
adorning the Gospel of God their saviour by well ordered lives &
a godly conversation.
We feel their departure to be our loss, yet we cannot regret
the event which has brought to them eternal gain Of the salvation of others of those who have exchanged worl(d)s
in the year our hope is quite as sanguine as it could be for the
great mass of the professed followers of Christ, whether on these
Islands, or in lands which boast a larger measure of civilization &
general refinement Whilst of still a third class of those who have gone, it must
be confessed, the hope that they have entered Heaven is no stronger
than it wd be in the death of multitudes in all nominally Christian
lands who have a name to live, whilst, judged by the Gospel standard,
�Kohala 1848
they must he pronounced, dead.
There has been nothing peculiarly deserving of remark in the
spiritual condition of this chh. during the past year, unless indeed
it he the humiliating fact of our remissness in the discharge of
solemn obligations to our Lord & Master.
No special influences of the H . Spirit have been vouchsafed
to us.
A few indeed & but a few have been recd to this branch of
the chh, on profession - but they were cases of long standing in
the list of inquirers.
Others likewise of long previous standing
among the inquirers have continued to frequent the meetings appointed
for their benefit - to the number of about 200.
These D. V . will
gradually be bro't into the chh, if they shall prove steadfast in
their present purpose of seeking the truth as it is in Jesus,
The amount of discipline demanded this past year in the chh.
has been about the same as has been usual with us in years past.
We would record herein our gratitude to God, that although He has
not granted us the. reviving influences of His Spirit, He has never
theless, not forsaken us utterly as by our unfaithfulness in His
service we have tempted Him to do.
The interest of the chh. in good things has by no means ceased
to be or to be felt - as our congregations & the general attention
to means of grace have abundantly testified.
It must however be
confessed with shame & humiliation that many of our people who live
within very convenient distances from the House of God, are seldom
seen within its walls, whilst others on the contrary though living
at remote distances come up regularly to worship in the courts of
Jehovah.
Our meetings have been sustained as usual during the year viz. the meeting at the Station & at three outposts on the Sabb -
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1848
......
together with two prayer meetings on each week, the Mon. Concert
female prayer meetings & morning prayer meetings in several districts,
until the general prostration by disease in Oct.
Our contributions for missionary purposes have amounted to $300
in the year, about one half o f which was bestowed in cash.
tion of the goods contributed still remains on hand.
A por
The cash
realized hitherto has all been remitted to its destination according
to vote of the chh, chiefly through the Board,
We should have raised a larger sum had not the sickness rendered
our plans abortive.
Our Sabb, school has been large & interesting, tho’ the average
has not been as large quite as during the previous year.
It has
been nearly 400 notwithstanding the unusual number of rainy & incle
ment Sabbaths.
Our text books have been the Bible & Himeni Hoolea.
A Bible class on the Sabb. after the P.M. servicewas sustained
during the former half of the year.
Since then, circumstances be
yond our control have caused its suspension Schools
During the first nine months of the year, our schools gave
evidence of steady advance towards the end proposed in their main
tenance.
The f ormer, annually increasing debt of $1000 which for years
lay like an incubus upon all our educational interests, paralyzing ( !)
the energies of our teachers & discouraging us all, has been liqui
dated & the receipts from the poalua tax have sufficed for an ample
& punctual remuneration of our teachers & for as many school houses
as our necessities have demanded, besides leaving a large balance
in the hands of the authorities.
Seven new school houses of stone with mud mortar have been
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5.
1 84
8
erected; & besides, considerable repairs upon several others, three
additional bouses have been commenced.
The character of these newly
built houses is somewhat in advance of our school houses in past
years.
None save stone houses are now built & the extreme difficulty
of procuring coral, alone prevents our using lime instead of mud for
mortar.
Several of our new houses are furnished with doors, lock
& key & slatted window frames , whilst inside they are neatly matted
both on the sides & floor & provided with tables & seats.
Black
boards are found yet but in about one half of the houses.
The rev
enue of poalua ought in my opinion, to be applied to purchase at
least a part of the furniture absolutely essential to the success
ful management of any school.
The parents & pupils w d in such case
unite to purchase the remaining part.
The pupils have far more generally been supplied with books
in the past year, than ever before.
Some entire schools have planted
food, others have brought wood - others food supplied by their par
ents, to purchase books, besides engaging for a portion of the day
in whatever work has offered, for a moderate remuneration.
In this way several schools have procured black boards as well
as books & some are now seeking the means to procure chests for the
safe keeping of their books when not in use.
The great desideratum with us is a supply of competent teachers.
We are not without the expectation that this difficulty will gradually
diminish under the present school laws, efficiently executed as they
are by our excellent Kahukula.
Under his supervision the standard of qualification required
of candidates for the teachers' office has been very considerably
elevated & will bear a still greater elevation ere it reaches in
fact, the requirements of the law.
�Kohala
1848
6.
To the literal demands of the law, the standard must speedily
he raised or our schools will flag & die.
They cannot remain sta
tionary whilst progress attaches to all things else; & to the fact
that we have been willing to leave the schools of our district sta
tionary, is to be ascribed their almost utter good-for-nothingness
as places of education, in former years.
For two years past we have been gradually superceding the old
set of teachers & supplying their places with those better qualified
to set as instructors ( !) of the rising generation.
But the supply
of suitable teachers is so inadequate, that the removal of all the
old & illiterate incumbents will require time.
One half of the present number of our teachers have gone out
from my own little school, most of them having had the subsequent
advantages afforded by an attendance of a year or more in the excel
lent High School of our Island,
And to this latter institution we
are clearly to depend for our future supply of teachers - taken in
connection with our own individual efforts.
The Semy at Lahaina-
luna can supply but a small fraction of the number needed & even if
the small number who are graduates at that school, but few remain
in the employment of teaching, so far as my observation has extended.
Vocal music has been introduced into four of our schools with
some considerable success - Indeed with vastly greater success than
I should have dared to anticipate.
This branch of study shews itself
a civilizer & moral cultivator not less among these half-fledged
Hawaiians, than among the wild shoots of the matured civilization of
our native land.
I should rejoice were we able to introduce it as
a regular study in all our schools.
That the time will come, &
that ere long, when we shall be able thus to do I doubt not.
A further remark I add with reference to the personal tidiness
�Kohala
7.
1848
of teachers & pupils in our schools.
Efforts made to secure more
regard to personal appearance, have not proved in vain.
Marked ad-
vance
d has been made in this particular unless I greatly err -
But
not so great, that there remains no room for further progress in
this particular, by any means.
Justice requires me to say of our Kahukula, that he is a most
indefatigable officer.
He shrinks at no labor however troublesome or
toilsome, that promises good to the schools of Kohala.
For the meagre sum of $20 (a sum I am ashamed to mention in
the same category with his name) it is verily believed he performs
more hard labor than any public office of the district, altho' the
salary of the latter is $100 or $150.
That incorrigible curse of
the Hawaiian -.viz i n e r t i a , which all specifics hitherto applied
have utterly failed to exorcise from the nation, & save here & there
an insulated case, from the individual, has neither part nor lot in
his person.
And without any designed effort to eulogize Kahu - a
species of employment upon which I have neither the inward nor the
outward call to enter - I may add & with heartfelt gratitude to
God, that he is a modest man -
a species of the genus h om o (I hardly
need say to my Brn.) almost as rarely to be discovered on Hawaiian
-territory, as the gems which enrich the soil of Golconda or Brazil.
Of our present school system, I wish to speak, briefly as I may.
It works well in our district & continues to recommend itself by
its admirable simplicity & adaptedness to the wants of the people.
Both Protestants & Papists have, under its authority, all the
liberty laws can give, in their respective spheres of effort.
So
far as my knowledge extends no dissatisfaction is felt on either
side, with its actual operation in Kohala - though I confess that
I have no special acquaintance with the views of the priest stationed
�Koh a l a
1848
8.
in the district, having never h a d the honor of meeting the gentle
man & having never been called to meddle in the papist’s affairs
in any way, since they first commenced operations in that section
of the Islands.
They had 3 schools in K ohala, but at the present
time, they have but two & the prospect now is, if the laws are fair
ly administered, that they will not be able to sustain another for
some time to come.
My conviction is that there ought not to be any essential
change made in the present school laws - I mean soon.
We need time
to give a full & fair trial to the present laws & to demonstrate
their inadequacy ere they shall be amended either for better or
worse.
A slightly defective system of public education is surely
preferable to one that is altered so frequently as net to allow time
to d e v e l o p either its excellencies or its faults, fully & fairly.
If God will I trust those in authority may hold on to Hawaiian
rights & neither curtail or elongate a single syllable of the present
laws to favor or gratify any individuals or factions of men.
For one, were the responsibility resting on me, rather than
amend a single section of the present laws to suit the obtrusive &
insolent demands of any party of men, I
see the whole Hawaiian
system of education leveled with the dust.
As it is, in its integrity & under the perfect control of Ha
waiian authorities, it is (a) mighty instrument for good to the race
& be the national existence
prolonged to a greater or less extent,
it may be made a vastly more effective engine for blessing this
people than it has hitherto proved - God’s added favor always pre
supposed.
Of the existence of my own little school this is the seventh
year.
It was continued as usual until Oct. & since that time to the
�Kohala
1848
.
9
end of the year, three several attempts were made to commence
studies anew, with as many failures, caused by new accessions of
disease.
The school has been sustained only with the utmost diffi
culty incessantly driven as I have been during the entire year with
other duties.
Had we any other source whence to expect a supply of teachers
for the schools of the district I should not have regarded it as a
part of my duty to continue it, since it has been impossible to pro
cure any assistant without depriving some one of the public schools
of his services.
The number of pupils connected with the school during the year
has been 27.
None of these entered the high school in Hilo, in Sept.
last - 3 were dismissed on account of sickness, 5 for general lack of
promise.
The remaining 10 are still with me.
The support of the pupils might easily be provided by their own
efforts, but for the fact of my inability to superintend any syste
matic labor.
The annual expense of the school, independent ( !) of teachers
wages is about $300 in goods equal to about $175 in cash.
The sale
of books belonging to the Missn supplies a part of the food consumed
by the boys, that article being the circulating medium of the dis
trict.
In concluding this portion of my remarks, I should add that a
good deal of advantage has accrued to our schools from the visits
of the Minister of Pub. Instruction, during the year.
It is by no
means too much to say, that he effected more of actual good for edu
cation & good morals by the labor of two days in K ohala, than he
could have accomplished by as many months spent in correspondence
with reference to the topics acted upon.
My earnest hope is that Bro. Armstrongs visits may be at least
�Kohala
1 0 .
1848
annually repeated.
General remarks
One chief source of trial to us in our labors among the people
has ever been the utter lack of anything bearing the slightest re
semblance to true independence of character.
The most insignificant
species of brute creation will Instinctively defend itself from in
jury, with a spirit which inspires us with a regard for its rights,
if not with respect for its being, albeit its corporeal dimensions
may not be of sufficient magnitude to attract particular attention.
But ages of gross oppression had robbed the Hawaiian of that admirable
characteristic of the brute creation - suitable regard for Its own
rights - ere yet the Gospel of Jesus Christ came hither to pour its
blessed light upon the eyes of the blind & to proclaim true liberty
to every captive soul.
More than a quarter of a century has elapsed
since the messengers of the cross first preached the religion of
Christ to this people, & the present condition of the Hawaiian na
tion Indubitably testifies that this period has not been passed, by
the religious teachers of the people in slothful inactivity - and yet
the Hawaiian may learn of the ant - the ( m a n ? ) of the brute - re
spect for himself & his Individual rights.
To preach liberty to
Hawaiians & to labor with the ability God has given me, to inspire
them with respect for their own, as well as others' rights, I have
ever conceived to be a part of my commission as a Christian teacher.
Frequent collisions with the petty authorities of the district and
also occasional controversies with the higher authorities of our
Island have been the undesirable result of the course it has appeared
to be my duty to pursue, in efforts to benefit our people.
I am glad to say have not been the only results.
But these
Our people, unless
I am deceived, are beginning to know & to appreciate their chartered
�Kohala
1848
11
privileges & to understand likewise the means of obtaining redress
for their grievances, when attempts are made to wrest these privil
eges from them. The Gov't when appealed to has, I am glad to say,
evinced during the past year, the most laudable readiness to aid our
people in their legal efforts to protect themselves from the oppres
sive measures of their petty lunas & it has granted redress for
grievances, the complaint of which, two years since would have re
ceived not the slightest notice.
It needs no lengthened process of argumentation to assume us
that -whilst men remain either physically or mentally enslaved, they
are incapacitated for making any considerable advances in civiliza
tion or Christianity.
To be efficient Christians Hawaiians must
first be made free men.
This high privilege is accorded by their
Gov't to all its subjects - but the inferior officers of the land,
wield a powerful influence, over the people, hostile alike to justice
& freedom.
Submission the most abject, to all sorts of oppression,
had become so much a matter of course to Hawaiians, that it is only
with extreme difficulty that they are led now to feel & assert a
freeman's rights.
Whether some of our Ecclesiastical laws or regulations have not
tended rather to repress a spirit of genuine independence in Hawaiian
Christians, than to elevate the man in them, is an inquiry deserving
of serious consideration.
It can surely be of little ultimate ad
vantage to the cause of Christian freedom that we shackle these
spiritual children of ours with burdens which neither we nor our
fathers have ever been able to bear.
For ourselves, moreover to
retard in any measure, the very work which we are professedly labor
ing to hasten to its ultimate results & that too in the speediest
manner, indicates little of the w i s d o m which is from above.
�Kohala
12.
1848
God speed the day of deliverance from every species of thral
dom & oppression, to the Hawaiian race Some progress has been made during the year towards a final
adjustment of the land claims held by the people of our district.
The evidence thereon was taken in Sept. last.
At the special re
quest of the Land Commission, I consented to aid in that service,
with the hope that the speedy settlement of these claims would oper
ate favorably upon the interests of the people.
It w d free them
from the power of the Konohikis who are little better to Hawaiians,
than the task masters of the Israelites were to them, during their
sojourn in Egypt.
The possession of a fee simple title would like
wise secure the natives from much of the injustice now practised by
the Lunaauhaus.
That it would operate also as a new incentive to industry,
there is perhaps some hope, tho' it must be confessed that the latter
result can be looked for to any considerable extent only with many
misgivings Popery
The state of popish interests in Kohala I can represent only
from my daily observation of their operations.
upon which to rely.
I have no statistics
The priest who formerly resides in the district
was transferred in the former part of the year to some other sphere
of labor & one of a new reinforcement was designated to his vacated
post.
The latter is a young man & very active among the people.
During the months of sickness, he was busy applying his holy water
to the persons of all such as would consent to receive it, assuring
them that such only as submitted to its application would recover He had a few medicines, as was said, during the later weeks of general
disease, but he steadfastly refused them to all who would not consent
�Koliala
1848
13.
to be baptized into the chh. of Rome.
He said they might & would
die.
The papists as has been said have two schools in operation in
our field embracing about 60 or 70 pupils.
They have children be
sides scattered thro' the district in small numbers, who are obliged
to attend the established schools of the land.
I have never deemed it. any part of my duty to meddle In their
affairs unless indeed at times #ien they have encroached upon our
rights.
We have however had no trouble with the papists.
Our Kahu
Kula is judicious & the law is plain.
Events which have in the Providence of God transpired upon the
European continent, have not been without their influences for good,
morever even in our remote district.
Priestly insolence received a
check therefrom from which it is earnestly hoped there may not soon
be a recovery -
But after all it is not in man, priest or laic that
the cause of truth is to stand or fall in these Islands.
He whose
we are & whom we have vowed to serve, will care for His own cause
& His own people here, if we shall prove ourselves good men & true,
to this end.
There has (been) little if any increase in the number of pa
pists in Kohala in the year past.
has been none.
I am not prepared to say that there
That there are no more papists however in the field,
than there were three or four years since, I hazard nothing in as
serting.
What the activity & energy of the present occupant of the
popish station in the district is to effect remains to be seen.
That he will do all that human vigilance & unremitted toil aided by
higher evil influences can effect cannot be doubted.
But God rules.
The Earth is His & the fulness thereof & The gates of Hell shall
�Kohala
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never p revail against His chh.
This we know, & hence may never
despond even tho’ the scourge of Rome should again be commissioned
to sweep ever us, as it swept (over) our fathers.
punishment.
Our sins deserve
And why should a living man complain, a man for the
punishment of his sins.
Tho' God slay us, may it b e o u r s
to
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us to do Kohala Decr. 31
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Statistics of the church In Kohala
for the year ending Dec 31, 1848
1791
547
26
11
37
188
19
500
130
23
80
23
377
307
1264
793
27
80
900
1600
Whole number recd on Examination
Whole no. recd by letter
Past year on Exam
Past year by letter
All recd past year
All dismissed to other chhs.
Dism. past year
Whole no. deceased
Deceased past year
Susp. past year
Remain suspended
Excom. past year
Whole no. excom.
Remain Excom.
Whole n o . in regular standing
Whole no. children Baptized
Bapt. past year
Couples married past year
Average Congregation at the station
Av. congregation in the field
Statistics of Protestant public schools
in Kohala for 1848
1116
1029
383
649
581
233
280
287
60
3
20
Pupils enrolled
Present at examin.
In letters & spelling
In reading
Mental Arithmetic
Written Arithmetic
Geography
Writing
Vocal music
No. of Examinations
N o . schools
�Report of the station in Kohala, Hawaii, for 1849
The year 1849 like its immediate predecessor has been marked
as a year of disease & death & of much consequent interruption in
the missionary work.
The deaths occasioned by measles in Jan. & the first half of
Feb. were as many as in the last month & a half of 1848.
Subsequent
to the middle of Feb. new eases of measles were very few.
The di
sease however left multitudes of the people in an enfeebled condi
tion, so that they either sunk gradually to the grave in consequence
or else were carried off by an attack of Influenza wh. occurred as
an epidemic shortly after our return fr. Gen. Meet'g in May.
Dur
ing the entire year there has been no period of ordinary healthful
ness among us.
We have suffered fr, repeated attacks of Epidemic
Influenza & fr. prevailing fevers almost continually.
The number
of deaths has not been quite as large however as that reported for
1848.
The protracted suffering under disease has operated unfavorably
upon the people physically & mentally, & it ought perhaps to be
added, morally.
The little spirit of enterprise wh. was in process
of development has manifestly recd a check, as has also a previous
ly improving condition of social & domestic life.
In many, a list
less, care for nothing spirit seems to have been engendered, with
regard not only to the conditions of life, but also to life itself.
This however, is not true of all.
Notwithstanding the draw
backs on our prosperity with wh. an Infinitely Wise & Gracious Prov
idence has afflicted us, some progress it is hoped has been made
in the work wh. God has given us to do - & results, so far as they
cd be expected under the circumstances, have not been wanting for
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our encouragement.
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It is not however to be concealed, even fr.
ourselves that a vast work is yet to be done here, ere Hawaii nei
can fairly be inscribed among those nations who hold the lowest
rank even, in the scale of civilization I.e. if by the term civili
zation is to be understood any thing positive.
That this people
are not as they once were is clear - that they have been elevated
vastly above their formerly purely savage state & that towards
a bitter, even a civilized state is equally plain & this, if one is
hard pressed for an imposing & agreeable colouring to his picture,
may be called a state of negative civilization.
But if to the term
you attach the usual positive idea, & regard it as involving an
initiation, however partial, into the practise of the habits &
manners of regular life, nothing is plainer than that it cannot be
predicated of this people - as a people.
What acts, what comforts of even a tolerably well regulated
life, can be said to have been acquired by this people.
The task
of naming one, the acquisition of wh. can be claimed for more than
here & there an insulated individual, is a task we shd not readily
impose on ourselves.
Whether we are even to behold any considerably advanced state
of civilization amongst the Hawaiian race has In the providence of
God become extremely problematical.
A nation twice decimated or
nearly so, in two successive years - & with all the agencies of decay
still in vigorous action, hardly promises much for the future.
If
all we may effect by our labors, under God, in years to come, so
far as civilization is concerned, shall amount to much more than a
bare holding on to results wh. we have already realized, we shall
have cause I apprehend for fervent gratitude to God & partake of
a most happy disappointment.
The sinking condition of the native
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race will inevitably operate with an increasingly adverse influence
upon the cause wh. we & many good men with us are laboring & praying
to advance.
The Christianization of the Hawaiians it is matter of common
notoriety has outstripped its civilization & strangely enough Mis
sionaries have been held accountable for this supposed anomalous &
faulty state of things, & stigmatized as narrow & bigoted in their
views & teachings, because forsooth it exists.
But it may safely be
assumed as an incontrovertible fact, that this result of Missy labor,
here witnessed, instead of being faulty & unnatural, Is the only
order in wh. Providence develops a sound & healthful civilization.
The Bible comes first with its authoritative & solemn claims
upon each individual man.
And it is one of the most blessed charac
teristics of this holy Book, that Its chief behests, weighty tho'
they are as Eternity & involving interests vast as infinity, can yet
be comprehended by the mind & obeyed by the heart of a savage; al
beit he might be months or years even mastering the first idea of
civilized life.
The simplest teachings of the Gospel once believingly received,
they become the corner stone of civilization upon wh. may be reared
a symmetrical & enduring superstructure.
Such a superstructure we might with the Divine blessing yet
behold in these fair Islands, but so far as the aboriginal race is
concerned, the material is wasting away too rapidly to admit our
indulging in any so pleasing anticipations.
The foundation has been
laid, the arts & comforts of systematized life are beginning to appear
& when we have said that, we have said all that can now be averred,
& probably nearly all we shall ever be able to aver of civilization
among native Hawaiians - Because
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1st death is cutting short our work prematurely, but 2d if it
were otherwise the continually augmenting influx of foreigners,
w d of itself, in the existing state of things be sufficient to
seal the destiny of this people, as to its further social elevation An intelligent & enterprising foreigner settling on the Islands
will inevitably create about himself an atmosphere of intelligence
& enterprise - & that by the shortest & surest method.
That method
is manifestly associating with himself foreign laborers.
The Gov't
may by conservative legal enactments, such as now exist, oppose
temporary obstacles to the immediate immigration of foreign labor
ers on an extensive scale, but these enactments will prove but tem
porary, in their influence.
The intelligent labor wh. will be de
manded - wh. is now demanded - will be h a d .
Neither in agricultural,
mechanical or mercantile enterprises can any substantial dependence
be placed upon the native population.
Notoriously the Hawaiian has
little vigor & altogether extremely little efficiency of character.
He lacks the fixedness of purpose & the resoluteness wh. alone wd
enable him to compete with the haole (foreigner) in object of pursuit,
& hence as a bulrush before the wind, so he bows before the indomiwill
table energy, the iron will of his foreign competition - coveting
rather the place of a menial, laboring to aggrandize his master,
rather than assume the labors & responsibilities of any independent
enterprise w h . might bring wealth & honor to himself.
national character.
fact -
Such is the
We may, as we do, deplore the existence of the
We may we we have - & God helping us, as we will, labor to
improve this undesirable condition of the race, but, my Brethren,
we shall never effect any radical change in Hawaiian character &
condition.
The very elements necessary to such improvement are not
possessed - the stamina in wh. alone the glory of manhood can inhere
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(are ?) is ( !) wanting & neither nature nor grace will ever create
it. (them ?)
( !)
To these unwilling conclusions we are forced by the daily oper
ations of God’s providence, before our eyes & we must yield to them
whether we w d or n o t .
Now It strikes me, Brn., as essential to our highest usefulness
in all time to come, that we fully & definitely apprehend the posi
tion we now occupy, with its relations both to the past & the future.
The history of the past we know -
It has been written by the finger
of Providence & spread out before our eyes.
We have only to study
it & be made wiser & better for the present & the future.
In our present position there is surely nothing wh. ought to dis
courage us, in our work.
So teaches the past - & neither, to the
eye of faith, does the future reveal ought to enfeeble the Christian
soldier in his toils or send decay to the vigor of his hope.
The
remembrance of the past shd strengthen for the events of the future.
Under God this Missn has accomplished a work on these Islands, the
magnitude & consequences of wh. ho finite mind can fully comprehend Yet the purposes of God concerning the Islands are by no means exe
cuted.
An enterprise is yet to be prosecuted & achieved here, wh.
whether regarded in itself merely or in its relations, is to surpass
the work already effected, whilst it will demand at our hands, we
may be sure, no less of self-denial & faith, resolution & zeal, than
we have hitherto had in exercise.
For years yet to come it is to cost us no slight effort coupled
with no feeble measure of faith, to sustain our hopes & hold up our
work & ourselves in our work.
With our people sinking rapidly to
the grave, despite every effort of human skill - our cherished ex
pectations disappointed - the house of God gradually deserted -
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ourselves & our stations solitary, it will be indeed marvellous if
at times our hearts despond not & our zeal never flags.
And when
besides all this we shall be called to fight oyer again with an
ungodly foreign race, the battles for truth & righteousness wh.
have already been fought with the native heathen population & in an
important sense now, we shall have need to keep a fast hold of the
great Captain of our Salvation lest we faint ere our work is done.
This struggle we are to sustain, but it is to be in Christ’s name
& His is to be the glory of the final issue.
enabled to quit ourselves like men !
to be destroyed ~
May we in this work be
The foundations surely, are not
As the Jews saw the glory of their former temple
laid waste, so we are to behold the superstructure first reared upon
the foundation of the apostles & prophets, in these Islands decay but the foundation will never be moved.
Better materials are to be
built upon it, and these are to form a more symmetrical & a more per
fect spiritual temple, to the glory of God.
As individuals we may be gathered to our people & with them be
quietly at rest in the' soil of our adoption, ere the "top stone” of
the Kingdom shall be bro't forth - but as God lives our children
shall hear resounding fr. Kau to Kauai the shoutings of "grace,
grace unto it”
Connected with our history for 1849 is an event wh. brought
sadness to all our hearts On the morning of the 21 Dec. the Sanctuary of God, wh. we had
occupied but four short years was swept fr. us by a violent gale fr.
the S.W .
The stroke fell with a desolating power upon our hearts.
were totally unprepared for the afflictive dispensation.
We
The frame
was of very large timber & as we believed, unusually strong - bidding
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fair to stand for a century yet to come, sheltering & blessing those
who might remain to worship God in His earthly courts.
But our ex
pectations are disappointed - our hopes are overthrown & we are be
reaved, desolate, forsaken - & so is Zion, the heritage of God.
To human view so vital a point in all the interests pertaining
to the Redeemer's Kingdom, wh. have been committed to our care, in
this district, cd not have been touched besides.
The house was the
central point around wh. clustered the affections & the hopes of
those who love God, throughout the district & - I need not add, it
afforded the most effectual medium of communication possible, with
our people.
In its loss a dark cloud is thrown across our future,
for The right arm of the Missy is paralyzed, & hope labors heavily
in fulfilling its appointed mission.
Yet we may not distrust the lovingkindness of the Lord.
He
who has bro't us thro' six troubles, will, if for His glory, bring
us out of the seventh -
The future must reveal -what the present
cannot tell us of His purposes.
Just one week after the fall of our house, we met & cleared
away fr. the floor the broken timbers & rubbish -
Then we sat down
there; & on the spot where we had been expecting, on the next Sabb.
but one, to unite in commemorating afresh the love of our crucified
Savior - we prayed
ted.
wept remembering M o n - Zion desolate & afflic
There also we consulted & resolved, with help fr. God to com
mence the preparation of materials for a new house, without delay.
In building our former sanctuary we had solicited aid fr. others now we determined to go forward, trusting in our own resources &
in God, whose are the silver & gold, & who, if we shall need it, will
not fail to move some hearts to aid us in this toilsome enterprise.
Since that meeting nearly two months have now elapsed & hitherto
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Providence seems not to have smiled upon our efforts to prosecute
our work.
With one exception all of the 8 or 10 days.then set apart,
in these two months, to dive for coral (of wh. our lime is to he
burned) have been such as to forbid all attempts to engage in that
employment - so that instead of having at this momen t, the whole of
our lime prepared, as we designed to have, we have but just begun
to gather the coral.
Epidemic disease also has again invaded our
people & death is doing its office, carrying scores to the grave.
The result of our efforts & our plans, are therefore alone with God.
It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
The annual history of our Church is soon told.
We have enjoyed
no seasons of reviving fr. on high, neither has there been any in
stance of sudden &. general declension among us .
In the diminished
average of our Sabb. congregations however, the fact of a gradual
decline of spiritual interest, is but too plainly read.
Our house has in good weather, been comfortably filled, but it
has rarely been crowded as in years past,
and likewise on stormy
sabbaths we have.always had a respectable audience, but not the large
congregations wh. in previous years loved to brave the storm & wait
upon God in His house.
The average attendance in our Sabb. School has likewise been
less than on the preceding year.
It has not reached an average of
300 during the past year.
In the matter of chh. discipline we have accomplished about as
much as usual - probably not so much as the highest good of the chh.
has required - yet all that has seemed to be demanded fr. time to
time, all things considered In the department of benevolence, we have done more than in
any previous year.
Our contributions have amounted to $441.16,
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Of this sum $ 1 6 1 . 1 2 1
has been given for Missy
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purposes & $280.04 for the support of the Pastor.
This last mentioned
sum, it shd be added, has been contributed -within the last seven
months of the year.
It is the result of our first effort to sustain
our own religious institutions Our Educational interests made some advance it is hoped, during
the year, tho' the progress has been extremely small compared with
that of previous years.
The truth is, our strength has been chiefly
expended this year in getting our schools back to the position in w h .
the measles found them in Oct. 1848, & in the struggle to hold them
there.
As has been said, sickness & death have made successive
breaches upon us, taking away many of our children & youth, laying
aside our teachers for longer or shorter periods, & sending one of
the most promising of them to the grave.
In addition to all this the gale wh, prostrated our meeting
house, destroyed 5 stone school houses & the only two thatched school
houses of the district.
The schools usually taught in these houses
will suffer much f r . the necessary delay in rebuilding.
Our Kahukula has held on his way, the same faithful & inde
fatigable laborer as In previous years.
To his vigilant care &
guardianship the schools owe chiefly, whatever of good they may have
been made to accomplish for our children & youth during the year.
Popery still retains its hold among us.
If however it has made
any essential progress, among this population, I have been unable to
ascertain the fact.-
The priest appears to be busy in his work, but
finds it no easy task I suspect, to arouse the minds of the people
to the claims of that species of canonized heathenism wh. he teaches.
Were he engaged in a better work, I wd bid him God speed.
As it is,
�[Abstract of Report for 1850]
Kohala
The Missionary at this station has labored under great embarrass
ments, the past year, in consequence of not having a place of worship
that could contain the people.
Hence, in a measure, the difficulty
of exciting anything like a general enterprise among the people.
Hence too, in part, the low ebb at which religious interests have
stood through the year.
During the former half of the year his la
bors were quite as frequently interrupted by prevailing diseases &
by excessive rains, as in 1849.
Deaths were frequent.
Ere the end
of June 200 of the people had been carried off.
The people have advanced in industry & in acquisition of proper
ty,
A market accessible to the larger part of the population has af
forded a channel for the disposal of any amount of produce & operated
as a wholesome stimulus to labor,
Whilst earnestly engaged in seek
ing the things of this world, those who bear the name of Christ have
not ceased to remember that the claims of their Lord & Master were
still upon themselves & their acquisitions.
Their contributions for
the advancement of Christ’s Kingdom have amounted, during the year,
to $800 in cash.
The schools hold on their way, gradually, it is believed, im
proving in efficiency, though decreasing in numbers.
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I trust the Lord has better things than the prevalence of popery,
in store for this people & that this may appear in His own good
time by the total & final banishment fr. the Islds of that system
of abominations.
[Unsigned; E. Bond]
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1851
Report of the Station in Kohala, Hawaii —
In our report for the year 1850 but little can be said of
progress in the Missy work.
been been ( !) made.
Apparently little or no advance has
The tide of our affairs has by no means run
smoothly & pleasantly on, as it has been our joy to report in some
of the by-gone years.
Interruptions & disappointments have beset
our way - mingled indeed, it must be added with manifold mercies
that demand a never ceasing tribute of thanksgiving at our hands.
If of matters purely secular, this report were to speak, it
might, with truth be said that a liberal measure of success has
crowned our exertions.
A market accessible to the larger part of
our population, has afforded a profitable channel for the disposal
of any amount of produce, & operated as a continual & wholesome
stimulus to labor, throughout the district.
That good will result from the quickened industry of the people
we cannot doubt, even tho' for a season, here, as in all lands un
der heaven, the increase of wealth cause a large measure of evil
to be mixed with the good.
One excellent & important result of the
prosperous state of our temporal affairs, is the purchase of lands
by individuals, for their own improvement - a result which with
God’s blessing Is to produce further & most important benefits to
the
the individual & thenation. Indeed we can have little hope of further
essential progress in the social condition of Hawaiians, unless they
can be brought to occupy some position superior to that which they
now hold - as virtual servants or serfs of their Landlords.
Serfs
they will inevitably be & nothing better, as to the mass, so long as
they are as they now are & ever have been, in an important sense,
under the authority of these unprincipled & despotic chiefs.
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speak with, all soberness & with due consideration in saying unprin
cipled & despotic, f or such the chiefs of this nation are, with two
or three noble exceptions that serve but to Show in a clearer light
the incorrigible & hopeless wickedness of their class - & this too shame were it to be said - of even those who have a name & place
amidst the host of God’s elect.
From the power of these despots,
if God will, our people must be rescued.
otherwise.
They perish inevitably,
They may indeed perish with a title to the soil they
occupy in their hands -
But .there will then remain the consoling
assurance that they died freemen - not slaves !
During the former 1/2 of the year our labors were quite as fre
quently & as extensively interrupted by prevailing diseases & by
excessive rains - as in 1849.
desolation unchecked.
Death meantime pursued his work of
Ere the end of June, 200 of our people had
fallen - trophies of the fell Destroyer’s power.
Subsequently a
greater degree of healthfulness has prevailed & the ordinary avoca
tions of life have been discharged with no unusual hindrances The duties of the year have been discharged under disadvanta
geous circumstances & it must be added in truth, with far less of
personal enjoyment than in years past.
A great amount of effort
has been needful to effect the least important objects.
All that
has by God’s help been done has seemed but as a handful of corn
cast upon the broad expanse of waters - quickly gone - perished from
the sight.
Thus to. sense -
again after many days.
To faith alone the seed shall spring
Lord, increase our faith !
Save for a brief interval in 1844 we have never been destitute
of a place of some sort in which to assemble & worship God together,
until the past year.
Acting simultaneously upon the masses gathered
from all parts of the field, as in former years it was my delightful
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privilege to do, & that too under the most favorable circumstances,
the Missy work in all its branches was ever light & ever welcomed.
But the scene h a s changed & sorely we feel it.
Like the coals of a
cheerful fire, swept suddenly from the hearth-stone & scattered to
the winds, so we now lie separated - expiring.
God only knows if ever again these dry bones shall be re-united revive & live.
On the usual quarterly tours meetings have been, in many of
the divisions, but thinly attended - whilst on the Sabb. no induce
ment has existed to draw persons from a distance to the station
meeting - since not 1/2 of those living in its immediate vicinity have
been able to get access to the house in which our services have been
held, the house admitting of no more than 200 when crowded.
Hence
in a measure the exceeding difficulty of exciting any thing like a
general interest in any enterprise among our people.
Hence too in part, the low ebb at which religious interests
have stood thro’ the year.
N ot that there has been n o regard for spiritual things - or
that the Sabb. has been generally trodden under foot - or that there
has occurred any thing like an outbreaking of iniquity & a conse
quent defection from the truth among the people of God -
Nothing
of this kind has occurred; & yet the love of many has waxed cold.
In a portion of the divisions of our district, as already in
timated, the means of grace have been poorly sustained - & generally,
the high prices offered for the productions of the soil, have but
too successfully held out temptations to our chh. mem
bers to look more earnestly upon things seen & temporal, than upon
those unseen & eternal.
It Is pleasant however, amid other & unfavorable indications
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to record the fact that whilst so earnestly engaged in seeking the
things of this -world, those who hear the name of Christ, have not
ceased to remember that the claims of their Lord & Master were still
upon themselves & upon their acquisitions.
Their contributions for
the advancement of Christ’s Kingdom, have amounted during the year
to $800 in cash. The larger proportion of this sum has been given
re-erection
to aid in the of our house of worship. Nothing has
been collected towards the support of the pastor - it having been
tho’t unadvisable to distract the minds of the people by placing
too many objects at the same time before them.
I am now by no means
satisfied that this was not an erroneous view of the whole matter.
The amount of chh. discipline exercised has been in nothing re
markable.
Doubtless the well-being of the chh. would have required
more thorough & efficient action in this line, but the careless
manner in which a portion of our number do, or rather leave undone,
much of the business essential to the purity of our chhs. places it
out of our power to prosecute a radical & systematic course of dis
cipline, however essential we may regard it to the vital interests
of truth among us.
Several years since, we undertook a thorough expurgation of this
chh. called thereto by the stern voice of duty.
But after having sus
pended & excommunicated some 500 delinquents, the larger portion of
whom h a d been on our list of absentees for years, we learned to our
dismay that some of them were In good standing & some were lunas in
other chh. on the Islands I We have now on our hands another array
of names embracing several scores of absentees, whose suspension or
excision the voice both of expediency & duty demands.
proceed.
not stand.
Our hands are tied.
But we cannot
A Kingdom divided against itself can
Many of these individuals are reported & doubtless truly
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so, as in communion with the chh. where they reside - but inquiries
tho' repeated time & again, have entirely failed to procure any
response from the Pastors of those chhs Were it "expedient” as it is "lawful” I w d utter a solemn pro
test against this slovenly way of getting along with our chh. busi
ness.
If our Master’s work is worth the doing it is worth doing well.
In our last report mention was made of the then recent loss of
our house of worship & of plans formed for its speedy re-erection.
To what was then said after the lapse of more than a year, little can
be added.
Not a stone of our house is yet laid! We have had enough
of plans - but hitherto they have proved only human - not divine God has put them all to nought.
He has sent disease & death - floods
& tempests - snatching from our grasp the lime stone which piece by
piece & with extreme labor had been obtained from 5 & 4 fathoms of
water & in the most inclement weather - all to teach us what we
ought always to have remembered; & now I trust shall never forget
that it is of Himself - not of man, to will & to work.
What He in
Infinite wisdom has willed & shall deign to work for us thro1 our
own instrumentality or that of others He in His own good time will
indicate.
Meantime under Him, we shall try to complete the gathering
of our materials & proceed as He in His providence may direct to
rear the walls of a new house for His praise & glory.
We may not
fail here to recognize the loving-kindness of God to us-ward the
more remarkable taken in its connexion with the adverse dealings of
His providence with us previously noticed.
Whilst thwarting our
plans & efforts here, He has stirred the hearts of many of Zion's
friends & ours to remember us in our adversity & to shew their sym
pathy by imparting generously of their substance for our relief Without the slightest intentional hint of any desire for ex
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traneous aid it has freely - generously come both from different
parts of these Islands & from parts of our native land - tho* to
what extent I am unable to state, having recd no definite advices
with reference to the am't to be expected from U.S.
But however
large the am’t to be recd from our father land - no demonstration
of sympathy with us in our calamity, have fallen more delightfully
upon our ears or come home with a warmer welcome to our hearts - &
none will be more affectionately or more gratefully garnered in the
store houses of memory, than those that have come to us from several
of our sister chhs of Hawaii nei - a 1000 fold the Lord restore their
seasonable sympathies & their fraternal benefactions into their own
bosons Of our schools little need be said - since nothing new or of
special promise can be said of them.
They hold on their way gradu
ally, it is believed, improving in efficiency tho' decreasing in
numbers.
Of Popery too I say little - for we may live along upon what
we have already said in time past.
These several years we have had
Popery in articulo mortis (all but dead ?) in some of our fields yet instead of the thing dead, buried & epitaphed, we may have this
year, if report says truly, Popery redivivus, & rejoicing in its
vigor.
With a single stride, from the doors of its sepulchre, it
seats itself firmly In the councils of the nation before our aston
ished vision I Of this hydra headed monster therefore I neither
predicate nor prophecy aught.
It has an end to answer on these Is
lands & till that end be accomplished, it will survive & work Enough for us if it but teach us lessons of wisdom & inspire us with
a becoming Zeal in our Master’s work.
�Koh ala
1850
-
All recd on Examination
"
Letter
Past two years Exam.
"
"
Letter
All past two years
All dismissed t o other chhs
"
Past two years
All deceased
"
Past two years
Suspended past two years
Remain Suspended
Excomd past two years
All Excomd
Remain excomd
All now in regular Standing
All childn baptized
Past two years "
Couples married past two years
1806
586
15
39
54
251
63
677
177
36
24
36
413
337
1103
819
26
166
Statistics of schools for 1850
Whole no Prot. schools
Teachers
Pupils
Readers
Writers
Arithmetic
Geography
Deaths in the field 1850
Births
"
"
Catholic Schools
Pupils in do
19
19
843
524
296
453
146
300
122
2
49
(Unsigned; E. Bond)
�Report of the Station in Kohala for the year
1851
The past year has been remarkable for the dryness & salubrity
of the atmosphere.
No previous year of our abode in the district has
been at all similar to it in this respect. The absence of a portion
ordinarily
of our/superabundant rains has added to life fresh sources of enjoy
ment throughout the entire period - & the diminution of suffering &
death in consequence has been marked - as the table of statistics will
shew But tho’ in the Divine Goodness, the year has been singularly
favorable for health & general comfort - it has not passed without its
share of disappointed hopes - particularly in worldly matters.
The
year 1850 left the people in the midst of unexampled prosperity; &
with brighter prospects, the commencement of the past year found them.
But their sanguine expectations were doomed to utter disappointment & all,' as none can' doubt, in the wisdom & paternal goodness of a Hea
venly Father.
Great preparations were made to supply the expected de
mand f or produce -
Never, since our knowledge of Hawaiian affairs had
so great an amount of labor been expended on the soil - But at the time
of harvest, came the rumor that no produce cd be sold.
The stagnation
of business in California & the consequent depression of affairs in
the great wants of the Islands destroyed the demand - & left the crop
of thousands of barrels to rot in ground.
The prostration of trade was sudden & so total that vegetables wh.
had a short time previous been steadily sold at $6 to $8 the barrel
were not worth taking to the shore.
Relying with confidence upon the continuance of the demand for
their produce, multitudes of the people had been tempted more or less
deeply into debt - & the ill effects of their subsequent inability to
�Kohala
1851
pay, has proved a source of much trouble to numbers of our people At the present time the ability of this people to contribute to the
cause of benevolence & to the maintenance of our religious institutions
is exceedingly limited - though doubtless larger hearts w d find larger
means, than most are supposed to possess.
It may safely be presumed however, that tho' in mere pecuniary
interests, many were losers by the trying vicissitudes in the affairs
of the past year ~ the loss sustained was vastly less than the gain
secured.
The people were getting wild with prosperity - beside them
selves with the flood of money wh. was pouring in upon them almost
without effort.
Men who in the entire course of their lives had never
been able to claim the ownership of an aggregate of $10 in cash, now
counted their hundreds.
Every where & at all times the sole all-en
grossing theme of conversation was the price pr bbl. of potatoes &
onions.
It was so on the Sabb. day even, the moment they were out of
the house of God & no exhortations cd stay the downward, tendency.
But things impossible with men are possible with God.
He had a lesson
to teach us - a lesson we had need to learn - & sure I am that no
lover of Zion's welfare in these Islands can regret its having been
taught us so opportunely as it was.
We certainly need have no fears
for the result.
The King & suite visited Kohala in Novr .
or 3 weeks.
He remained there 2
For once I felt to thank God for Hawaiian m olowa [indif-
ference, laziness ?].
Upon the mass of the population the presence of
the King produced an extremely slight sensation.
In the minds of the
more substantial of our people a thorough disgust was excited; whilst
with a certain but small class of the community, iniquity f r . a royal
cup, was drunk in as water.
foreign companion
The King, two young chiefs & their worthy
- it must be acknowledged spared no pains to set be
�Kohala
1851
3.
fore the people of the district the advantages of rum drinking & of
the most unblushing beastly licentiousness.
Not a single decent man,
so far as I saw or learned, was in the company.
Together, they consti
tuted a living nuisance - a moving pestilence, defiling & destroying
every good thing in their march.
The Lord vouchsafe to the nation a c hief magistrate & an heir ex
curse
pectant whose presence shall not curse with the mildew of corruption,
whatever it overshadows Of our schools little of fresh interest can be added to past
reports -
They hold on their way with gradually decreasing numbers
as in times gone by.
All idea of further advance in interest & effi
ciency is forbidden by the lack of books - particularly of a good
Georgraphy & accompanying atlas.
A new edition also of the Elements of
astronomy w d be a valuable acquisition & perhaps a very limited &
judicious selection of some other Elementary books.
Unless we can
have these books provided, specially the Geography & Atlas, it is
idle to expect any thing in the way of improvement in the character
of our Public Schools.
The "working system" introduced two or three three ( !) years since
into our schools, halving with us, had its day of usefulness, has spent
its strength for present good & is now upon the shelf - doubtless
however to be revived again with profit at some future day My own little school has been continued thro' the year The church has slept on thro" another year in its lukewarmness.
A few of our number give indications of life - but there has been noth
ing like a deep or general interest in the great concerns of the soul.
Several inquirers of long standing have been admitted to chh. privil
eges - And we have to acknowledge with praise to God, another year’s
preservation from grass & outbreaking sins - tho’ temptations in high
�4.
Kohala 1851
places & in low places have beset the members of the chh. they have
been kept by Divine powers from falling & thereby bringing reproach
upon the cause of the Redeemer.
About the usual amount of discipline has been exercised.
More
perhaps would have been required by a spirit of strict obedience to
the teachings of the word of God; but whilst so many of our churches
persist in the rejection of every thing approaching a system of interchurch discipline, it is impossible for others, how much soever dispos e d
to do so, to preserve obedience to any law human or divine.
is, it need not be reiterated, no option in the case.
There
One might sup
pose that the somewhat startling disclosures of the last Gen. Meet’g
in regard to the condition of some of our churches, might possibly
excite a suspicion that we were in need of something like a system of
inter- church discipline - but so far as appears hitherto, no such
suspicion was excited.
And hence our statistics are still as in years
gone by to no inconsiderable extent a pious humbug upon the community.
The ordinances of the Gospel have been sustained among us, as in
previous years.
Four meetings besides that at the station have been
regularly held on the Sabb. at places convenient for the population;
& these have been well attended.
At the station a thatched house of worship about 60 ft. long has
been erected to answer our necessities until better accommodations
can be had.
Our contributions for the year have amounted to $744.83 in cash of which sum $297 were for foreign (& domestic) missionary purposes $191.13 for a new house of worship & $256.70 for the support of the
pastor. (Note:)
new meetg house.
This additional to the labor of preparation for the
The sum contributed for our support was considerably
larger than this - but as we were able thro' the blessing of God to
�Kohala
1851
5.
get thro' the year without the whole am’t & were moreover not unwilling
that our people shd know that we were not particularly greedy of
gain at their expense we preferred that the am ’t shd stand as it now
does - for our support.
I am pained to report for the second time that a stone of our new
house of worship has not yet been laid.
build I know not -
How soon we shall begin to
We are at length ready to have the work entered
upon without delay & if a Kind Providence shall send us a man to com
mence the work immediately after the close of our meeting, we may
hope to serve God once more in His earthly courts, ere the current
year has passed away -
But I, have made so many calculations only to
be disappointed & indulged so many hopes only to be indefinitely de
ferred, that I have no anxiety to for
m
new plans or to fasten new hopes
upon the uncertain events of the future.
& do it as we can -
We shall do what we can
Per the rest we leave it with Him who knows our
necessities & those of His cause better than we know them ourselves.
I trust few of our Brn. living away fr. the centers of business& obliged to depend for labor of preparation upon natives will be called
to rebuild their Houses of worship.
It was a great task In 1844 - but
vastly greated & in all respects more trying in 1852 Our Sabb school, it shd have been added above has continued as
usual thro' the year.
Our only text books are the O. & N. Testaments
& the Hymn book.
In regard to Popery, but few words are needed,
stationed in the district.
field -
No priest is
One makes an occasional tour thro' this
But no stir of any kind has been made & I have heard of no
accession to their ranks.
So far as I have had occasion to know the
characters of those who call themselves the "Poe Pope", they appear
�Kohala
1851
6
,
quite friendly & come as readily to me for aid in cases of difficul
ty, as do our own people, & quite as readily receive me into their
houses.
They have two small schools numbering at the present time "between
30 & 40 pupils.
(Unsigned; E . Bond)
�Abstract of Kohala Church for 1851
The past year has been remarkable for the dryness & salubrity of
the atmosphere, & for the good health of the people.
The year 1850
was a period of great prosperity in worldly matters - the past one
of disappointed hopes & prospects —
adversity has followed prosperity
& all as, as none can doubt, in the wisdom & paternal goodness of God.
The consequence has been that the ability of the people to contribute
to the cause of benevolence, is exceedingly limited.
Adversity in
worldly prospects, has tended to stem the flood of worldliness, whose
injurious effects was too manifest on the piety of God's people.
Schools
ports -
N othing of special interest can be added to past re
They are suffering for want of suitable school books; & while
this is the case much improvement cannot be expected.
The working
system, introduced two or three years ago, has spent its strength.
The private school of the pastor has been continued through the
year.
The Church
warmness.
This has slept on through another year in its luke
Yet there have been some indications of spiritual life,
& a few have been added to the church.
The ordinances of the Gospel
have been sustained, as in previous years.
Pour meetings held on the
Sabbath, besides that at the station - these have been well attended.
Benevolence - The contributions for the year have amounted to
$744.83 in cash -
Of this sum $297.were for foreign (& domestic)
missionary purposes -
$191.13 for a new house of worship; & $256.70
for the support of the pastor.
The pastor is pained to report for the second time that not a
stone of the new meeting house has been laid; the work might be commenced immediately if a suitable workman could be obtained.
Papacy. No priest is stationed in the district.
One makes an
occasional tour through the field but no stir has been made - Their
adherents are not strongly prejudiced in favour of the Man of Sin.
[Unsigned; E. Bond]
�Statistics [Kohala, 1852]
Church
Whole number recd on Exn
do
by letter
Past year on Exn
do by letter
Whole number past year
" dismissed to other chhs
Past year
do
Whole number deceased
Past year
"
"
Suspended
Remain
"
Past year Excommunicated
Whole number
"
Remain
"
Whole number in reg. stand'g
”
children Baptized
Past year
”
” couples married
Average congregation
1830
598
24
12
36
258
7
703
26
22
18
36
449
370
1079
879
60
73
250
Schools
Number of Prot. Schools
Whole number pupils
Readers
Writers
Arithmetic
Geography
Vocal music
28
832
529
485
485
288
123
Births in the field
Deaths
"
"
110
128
�Kohala
1853
The year now past means to us two phases of unusual prosperity -
It has been a period
It has also been a season of trial & per
plexity As a church we have much to remember with devout thankfulness.
We have been graciously kept by our Lord & Master fr. internal dissentions & fr. the aggressive efforts of the enemy without.
In look
ing back thro the entire period, cheering evidence of substantial ad
vancement in wholesome views of truth & in a practical r e
a d i n e s s to
comply with its demands is very obvious to my own mind.
My own labors have not been extended so generally & frequently
to the portions of the field as usual, owing to the cares & entangle
ments of building, both a house for the Lord & one for our own use
under Him -
My own lack of service has however been partially - per
haps entirely made up by the increased zeal & activity of
members of the chh. in all portions of the field.
In consequence
of the work on our house of worship, our people have been much with
me, & thro' them, I have had a particular knowledge of the state of
affairs within our limits In the month of August we were graciously visited by the influand
ences of the Holy Spirit, to an extent andin a manner not for a long
season, felt among this people.
An unusual gathering into meetings -
a spirit of earnest prayer & a greatly awakened interest in the study
of God’s Word - were the first indications we had of a revived condi
tion of affairs in our midst.
I know not that this precious visit of
God’s Spirit had any relation to any immediate efforts of ours - but
possibly a well sustained Bible class - a series of particular dis
courses which the Providence of God seemed to demand - united with
�Kohala -
1853
2
the active zeal of our people in sustaining the out-station Meetings immediately preceding, for some time - had some relation thereto.
But this matters little to us save in the fact that we are curious,
when possible, to trace effects to their causes either final or instru
mental or both.
God knows all however & that may suffice us, who see
but thro' a glass darkly, at best.
Our meetings for inquiring were thronged subsequent to a tour in
August & preceding the usual season of communion -
But 66 however
were recd to the chh. during the year, on profession & yet truth comp e l s me to state that the mass of those who professed to be seeking
the way of life, appeared remarkably well
so well, that for the first
time in 13 years I was able to speak of heartfelt & earnest delight
in 3 or 4 laborious days of conference with this class of our people.
The meetings were solemn & the replies to Interrogations were in a
large measure drawn from the word of God & of course intelligent.
The old cut & dried formulas of "pule me ka mihi" & such like, for once
were forgotten & it was because they had been forgotten that I cd
feel assurance of some reality in the work I was doing.
Since the commencement of the current year we have recd- 59 to
the chh., additional to those previously mentioned as the result of
the reviving in our midst.
T he contributions of t h e chh. for the year were Missy purposes
Pastor’s Support
For Meet’g house
$358.00 )
666.00 )
559.00 )
=
$1583.00
in cash -
In addition, a sum not yet appropriated of about $100 & constant work,
bringing timber, sand, fire wood for lime burning, stones &c &c one
day in each week, for the necessities of the Lord’s House In the latter part of June the small pox was introduced fr. Hono
lulu.
With God's blessing we were enabled to hedge in & confine the
�Kohala 1853
disease so effectually that but seven persons fell victims to it
in this part of the district -
18 others died in that portion border
ing on Kawaihae, making 25 in all.
On this subject I have made a report
to the Royal Health Commission.
The Small pox was the immediate precursor of another disease
whose distinctive power seems greater just in proportion to its abom
inable absurdity - I mean Mormonism.
It made priests immediately of
one of our chh. members then recently excommunicated for living with
another man's wife in adultery; & of a young villain who fled fr.
Honolulu to evade punishment for forgery - & of several others of like
character & these with several of like feather bro’t fr. Maui, together
with several foreigners, have been diligent in the work of making
proselytes.
Their chief measures are a vilif y i n g of the Missionaries -
promises of healing the sick & promises of relieving the people of
taxes.
The latter promise they bid fair to redeem, if they go on as
they began, making priests by scores & forties ! The recent census of
this district gives in all, Mormons 248
Papists
2859 giving 3413 as the entire census -
Since Jan 1. there has been
no special change I judge.
328
Protestants
The papists & Mormons have been having a
battle on their own account in consequence, of the turning of the
former in considerable number to the latter.
It is a curious fact to
be noted, that many of the Mormon Converts turn "just for the fun of
it" as they say baptized.
They are coaxed until tired & then consent to be
With the exception of exposing the delusion to our people
I have, personally, had little to do with it -
because reasoning &
warning, where absurdity & bare faced falsehood are more than evident
to all minds, seem out of place.
As to the coaxing people to be re
ligious or to be called Calvinists in distinction fr. Papists or
Mormons, I have no gift in that direction, not having so learned
�Kohala
1853
4.
Christ. Mormonism is one of the facts of the cycle to wh. we belong an Anti-type of corresponding facts in previous cycles of human af
fairs.
Its very absurdity appears to be Its chief merit whereby it
commends itself to many, perhaps most minds.
A mince of the Spiritual
& sensual it possesses a delicious flavor for the palates of sensual
natures & in this but follows Mohammedanism, the refined systems of
Paganism & not doubtfully Romanism.
It will have Its day as its types
had in their day - & when we see it gathering Its converts by thousands in Great Britain, Prussia, & U. States, we need not wonder that
amongst these credulous Hawaiian children it makes considerable
progress -
Six or eight of our chh. members have been drawn off by
the agency of friends, to this delusion Nothing special need be said of Popery holds its own.
It presume it about
Some of our professed converts of the past year were
fr. that party, but not enough probably to affect any essential di
minution in their numbers - Popery seems to have become one of the
excrescences ( !)
fixed on the body politic & we may safely presume it will
not soon be eradicated.
Our schools are miserably low & we may as well write it down as
a standing item in all future reports - until a change comes - that
our Kohala schools are hopelessly past reviving until we can have some
books - some more books Our House of worship is not finished -
I wish it were.
But
somehow it has from the beginning, been an up-hill work - in more
than an ordinary sense.
The elements have contended with us for the
materials & then for their composition in the walls of the house Something is wrong -
What is it?
Has been my frequent inquiring &
my motives have undergone repeated examinations in vain -
I don’t
feel at liberty to be discouraged & yield the contest in despair, so
long as a gracious God shall give me health - & so we hold on -
�Koh ala
1853
faint, yet pursuing.
Perhaps the time will come by & by -
time - to favor us in this onerous enterprise.
Gods own
Brethren pray for us -
I send accompanying this report two tables relating to the sub
ject of licentiousness in the chh. & in the entire district.
The
latter I made out fr. the poorly kept records of our district Justice
as far back as they extend, the former is as perfect as any human
Records can be - taken fr. our Chh. Records.
These tables show demonstrably that 1st
The sin of licentious
ness is decreasing among this (i.e. of this district) people - 2d
that it is decreasing in the chh..
3d- that the proportion of overt
impurity in the Chh. is less than that in the community generally say what scoffers may -
The proportion in t h e chh. for the first six
reported years after its organization was one suspension in every 65
chh. members - whilst in the last five reported years it has been but
one in 106 -
Or in first 7 years 1 in 59 -
In 2d 7 years 1 in 107.
Figures speak for themselves - say what Jesuits or Ten Eyck,
it id genus omne - may Hawaiians have in fact sufficient dause of reproach in this
business & there is no necessity of slanderously adding more.
I have written the Board on this subject & forwarded the tables knowing that it w d not be possible, for me to meet with you - this
year E. Bond
Church Statistics
1919
On profession
647
On certificate
66
Past year on- profession
”
on certificate
18
84
Whole number past year
331
Dismissed to other chhs
19
"
Past year
802
Deceased
68
”
Past year
4
Suspended past year
1853
Remain Suspended
Excommunicated p. year
Whole number Excomd
Remain excomd
Whole no. in regular
Stand'g
Children Baptised
Past year
"
Couples married p. year
Av. congregation
11
2
459
366
1055
941
42
52
250
�Convictions by the Justice of North Kohala Tear
Adultery
&
fornication
1848
1849
1850
1851
1852
1853
Years
Whole number
in the Chh.
Suspended
Drinking
intoxicating
breaking compositions
Offences
42
41
52
95
23
15
77
72
50
33
26
2:4
Sabbath
All other
0
si
Tattooing
&
knocking
out teeth
11
9
15
12
17
11
10
10
5
1840
1841
1842
1843
677
866
1424
1575
25
# 9
17
21
1844 1845
No
Report 1164
31
13
1846
No
Rep't
24
1847
1848
1369
1264
24
13
1849
No
Rep't
9
V
o
Sundries
12
21
20
30
67
12
6
Quarreling
1850
1851
1852
1853
1103
1079
1038
1055
18
13
6
3
#
1841 was the year of our arrival - There was no such thing as proper discipline pos
sible & the same cause - ignorance of the language operated tho’ in a decreasing ratio ,
in the two- following years Since my connection with the Chh. not a case of proved licentiousness has passed without
formal suspension from the privileges of the chh.
In first seven years proportion
In second "
"
"
1
1
in 59
" 107
chh members
"
d
�Kohala
1854
The year 1854 now past has been marked by nothing of special
interest in the history of our affairs -
The Lord has been gra
cious to us & by His mercy we are hitherto b r o 't to erect our Ebenezer - & recognizing His paternal guidance & care all the year thro'.
The year has been a season of unbroken physical toil, to the pas
tor & to those of the flock who, in addition to the name of Christian,
have also had sufficient love to Christ to move their hands in His
service. W d
it were possible to speak of the majority of the Chh.
as thus practically shewing their union to the Head - but truth to
tell, it is now as it was in 1845 - only the small minority who bear
to Christ & the Interests of His Kingdom sufficient attachment, to
lead them to share in its cares or venture one drop of sweat in its
service.
In January the Chh. commenced a system of mutual visitation rather of general visitation, throughout the district.
Those chh.
members deemed fitted in character for the profitable exercise of
the employment, were selected on the first of each month, two & two,
to go thro’ every land In the district distributing tracts, conversing
& praying with every family.
This was followed during the first half
of the year with no permanent marked results however so far as known Some however were thus stirred up for the time being, to more
diligence in Christian duty & particularly in searching the word of
God.
During the latter part of the year there has been but little
spiritual life indicated amongst those called by the name of Christ.
Yet no outbreaking sin of any sort has been suffered to trouble our
Z i on - or to make inroads upon the peace & order of the community.
The contributions of the chh. have been less than during the pre
vious year - tho' more than we had reason to anticipate - considering
the extreme scarcity of money —
�Kohala
2
1854
.
The sum of contributions for the year is $1038.51, viz Pastor’s Support
Meet’g House
Monthly Concert
$525.121
2
/
360.91
152.48
The work also has been continued on our House of worship as before In May last - after a trying delay of 8 months during wh. time
we sought in vain for a carpenter - the Lord graciously sent two
carpenters to our aid - to prosecute the work on the House.
Both ,
were employed for 4 months & one, constantly since that time so that
I am enabled to report the House in a state approaching completion.
Our progress is however slow at best, owing to delays & interrup
tions wh. none can well appreciate, who have been accustomed to the
conveniences & facilities afforded in all such enterprises, by the
permanent appointments of all settled & civilized communities.
We are now hoping to enter our house early in the latter part
of the year, if God will.
Of our Schools, I need only say, that they are continued as
usual - tho’ still-suffering the want of books.
They are almost en
tirely directed by our faithful Kahu - my time not sufficing for any
material services in their behalf Papists - make no stir - but continue on as usual.
however suffered some loss by the efforts of Mormonism.
system or scheme of evil has had a special favor for us.
They have
This latter
During the
year we have had always two & usually 5 & sometimes 7 foreign priests
busily employed here, besides fr. 2 to 4 native priests.
They have
made some additional converts yet but few compared with the efforts
put forth & none so far as my knowledge extends have been proselyted
by the foreign priests - wh. has been true fr. the beginning.
The
native priests alone appear to have the skill requisite to make
Mormons -
The numbers who adhere to this name are very nearly the
�Kohala
3.
1854
same as those reported last year, some having forsaken them & others
having died or left the Island.
S t a t i s t i c s of
Church
On profession
On certificate
Past year on professn
Past year on Certife
Whole number past year
Dismissed to other Chhs.
Dismissed past year
Deceased
Deceased past yr
Suspended past year
Remain suspended
Excommunicated past year
Whole number Excommunicated
Remain ExcomdWhole number Regular
Standing
Children baptized
Baptized past year
Marriages past year
Av. congregation
2025
695
106
48
154
353
22
850
48
14
14
28
487
474
1129
1013
72
63
250
[Unsigned, but marked on front sheet:
E. Bonds Report for 1854]
�[Kohala 1855, first page missing]
to any good purpose is lessened.
;
.
The cause of Christ in this ocean, needs something more than
the exhibition of a fitful beneficence.
It demands a steady tide
of contributions poured from hearts whose deep springs are habitual
ly moved by unaffected love to God & to souls.
W e would strive to enkindle a zeal in this good work - but to
be reliable it must be a zeal with Knowledge.
people then, the Knowledge.
Give us, for our
Then only may we demand & expect a zeal
according to Knowledge - a Christian & enduring zeal which will
honor God & instrumentally save men.
The Am. Board could hardly afford to dispense with the "Missy
Herald” & rely upon the scanty fragments of Missy intelligence to
be gleaned, by the churches, from the religious & secular papers of
the day - & yet they could better afford that, than we can to leave
our people without a definite & tolerably extensive acquaintance
with Missionary operations of the present day -
Not less with those
of other lands than these of our own If as has been suggested, an occasional Missy paper be published
& scattered abroad amongst our chh. members, say quarterly or to the
a m ’t of four numbers per year, something will have been done towards
obviating the serious evils of the past -
But let us bear in mind
Brn, that if we are really intent upon bringing our people up to the
help of the Lord, in the Missy branch of His service, such a paper
should be regarded but a beginning of better things, an earnest of
larger hopes for the future.
May not something good In this line of things, be expected, as
the result of your, collective wisdom - during the present or coming
year?
God grant it.
E. Bond
�o
Kohal a 1855
Statistics of Kohala Church
for the year 1855 —
2057
Recd on profession
714
"
on Certificate
”
past year on profn
"
"
"
Certifie
21
55
Whole number past yr.
Dismissed to other Chhs
"
52
392
17
past year
891
Deceased
30
past year
"
3
Remain suspended
3
Suspended
"
Excommunicated past yr.
27
Whole number E x c omd
529
Remain Excomd
415
Whole number in
)
Regular Standing)
1072
Children Baptized
1074
"
Marriages
"
past yr.
"
Average Congregation
"
61
47
300
�Kohala
The past year has yielded little to be noted as matter of in
terest in our history.
The Divine goodness has indeed been to us-
ward as free & abundant as in the years which, preceded this & most
gladly would I record the fact, if fact it were, of our. having made
some suitable return, by a corresponding diligence & faithfulness
in our Master's service.
But this I am not able to say -
We have in
truth passed a year noted & marred by an unusual stupidity - es
pecially its latter half of 1856 -
In contributing for the support
of the Gospel both at home & abroad, the Chh. has not perhaps fallen
below its wonted measure, but in personal attendance upon the means
of grace there has been a state of marked declension - not indeed so
apparent at the Station save in a very general desertion of the Lord'
s
House in the P.M. - but very marked at all our out station services Bat this, I must say to the praise of God's grace, has neither re
sulted from, nor ended in the indulgence of any prevailing species of
open wickedness.
From all sorts of outbreaking sins the good Lord
has yet another year delivered us -
Blessed be His holy name.
The class of professed inquirers has numbered between one &
two hundred, but the prevailing spirit of apathy in the chh. was
apparent in ihs effects: upon the inquirers & I could not feel it duty
all things considered, to receive any into the fold of the Good Shep
herd During the latter part of this period there have been indications of better things than we have seen during the greater part of
the year After careful inquiry, I- cannot ascertain that Mormonism has
made a single convert in this District for months past -
Many have
dropped away from them, after patiently looking for some great &
�Kohala 1857
2.
promised worldly advantage, till weary & disappointed - in vain.
Popery has been revived & put on new strength in the remote
border of the District adjoining Kawaihae & four of our chh. members relatives of the prime mover in the revival - have fallen away to that
error.
In other portions of the field the condition of Popery is
much the same as it has been in years past - in a quiescent & grad
ually wasting state We have one candidate for service in Micronesia -
A young man
who was a member of the first class in my school, having entered in
1842 -
He subsequently entered the Semy at Hilo & since leaving that
school he has been employed in teaching - a short season in Honolulu,
but for most of the time in this District.
He is not one of our
"Smart" Hawaiians - but is reliable, if an unblemished character of
14 years can justify such language.
None of the Hawaiian sins have
ever been charged upon him - but if they had been, I hesitate not
to say that I never cd conscientiously recommend him to go amongst
the heathen as a teacher & guide.
He is a modest young man & I hope
will have mental ballast sufficient with God's grace to enable him
to maintain a humble bearing, in passing thro’ the ordeal necessary
for his new & honorable work -
but if not, we of white skin & more
Knowledge must not be surprised as tho' any new thing had happened
unto us - since we have frequently been witnesses to a little ex
cusable elevation in some of our favored Brn. who have been to gather
fresh inspiration from the wisdom & wonders of our father land &
returned to tell our open ears of the same Luhian's wife bears a character free fr. any gross blemishes,
having never been connected with any scandalous vices so far as is
known.
She is rather a wife for her husband, than In herself promis
ing to make an energetic missionary - Yet in thus saying, I by no
�Kohala
1857
3.
means intend any disparagement.
I speak thus fully, as I shall not
he present to present my tho’ts to the Brn. in Gen. Meet'g I may be allowed a word regarding the recent letter fr. the
Missy House -
I read the letter with unbounded astonishment asking
myself all the while "Whence came these extraordinary views & pro
ceedings"?
The wisdom of the Missy House has assuredly tripped this
time - & unless I utterly mistake the characters of the Br n . they,
assembled in Gen. Meet'g will not fail to say so emphatically ~
I
think It ought to be understood by this time in Boston as well as
at the Sand. Islands, that, God helping, we who know best our own
circumstances & necessities can manage them without any unsought
directions, whether in the form of peremptory commands or authorita
tive suggestions.
If the Prud. Comm, wish our love & respect, let
them tread carefully upon ground, not theirs but ours In this most extraordinary manner they can if they will grossly
outrage all sense of right & propriety, by ejecting long tried &
faithful Brn. f r . their own agency, but they cannot meddle with our
chhs. & our Missy Society & our Ecclesiastical affairs with Impunity
or I am a stranger to the sentiments of my Brn.
I confess that this
letter fr. the Missy House, has filled me with unbounded amazement Shall I speak inadvisedly if I say, with no slight degree of indigna
tion.
Whence have sprung these singularly erratic proceedings, I
again inquire?
Contributions in cash for 1856 by this Chh.
Hanai Kumu [Pastor’s support]
Mahina Hou [Monthly Concert]
S.S. children for Missy Ship
Domestic "
"
Total
For Chh. Statistics - See over
$ 477.00
259.00
70.00
20.00
$ 826.00
�Kohala
1857
S tatistic s
R e c d on P r o f e s s i o n
"
- W h o le num ber
C e rtific ate
"
P
"
"
fo r
1856
2057
720
rofn past year
C e rtif.
W h o le num ber
"
6
"
6
D ism issed
Past year
412
"
W ho le n o .
deceased
Past year
"
"
"
20
916
25
Suspended
R e m a in
11
"
8
E x c o m m u n ic a te d P a s t y e a r
"
16
W hole n o .
544
R e m a in Excom d
428
W h o l e num ber i n r e g u l a r
Stand' g
1013
C h ild n B a p t iz e d
Past year
"
M arriages p ast y ea r
Av.
co n g re g atio n a t
1130
56
55
S tatio n
475
�K oh ala Report
1858
In
lo o k in g hack upon the c o u rse
n o th in g
sp ec ia lly notew orthy,
to h e p u t dow n i n a R e p o r t
A fe w w o r d s ,
goodness
to
to us
how ever,
ward as
s m ite u s , y e t
o f events d u r in g
a f f e c t i n g the
I
m ust a t
a fa m ily .
le ast record in
He h a s i n d e e d
p ra ise
seen f i t
the p a t e r n a l h a n d t h a t d e a l t t h e b l o w ,
the w ound i t s e l f h a d made -
num ber &
t h e r e b y ga ve us n e w cau se f o r
th e p u b l i c
He
left
also
erectin g
of
G o d 's
i n w is d o m
has
to u s
g raciou sly
an unbroken
o ur E b e n e z e r
to H i s
-
s i x m onths th e p a s t o r was e n t i r e l y t a k e n f r .
serv ic e s
of the San ctuary excep ted - by s ic k n e ss
The t h i r d
q uarterly
to u r w as n e c e s s a r i l y
h is
work
in h is
o m it t e d &
am ount o f o t h e r p a s t o r a l l a b o r u s u a l l y a c c o m p l i s h e d i n
a year
appears
-
For n e a r ly
fa m ily
cause of r e l i g i o n ,
-
h o u n d up
p ra ise
the p a s t y e a r ,
a larg e
th e c o u r s e
of
-
A lto g e th e r the year has been p a s s e d i n q u ie t n e s s
in d o le n c e &
- perhaps
s p i r i t u a l s l u g g i s h n e s s /w o u l d more p r e c i s e l y
express
in
the
truth As
num bers.
a p e o p le & a s
The
a chh.
stream w h ic h ever sets
slo u g h - H o n o lu lu - appears
the y e a r
p a s t & am ongst
unsung” ,
are
T h is
strange
& by the
our g r e a t H a w a i i a n
to h av e d e e p e n e d & e n l a r g e d i t s e l f w i t h i n
the many who l e a v e us
if
a new e v i l under
any one
"u n w e p t u n h o n o r e d &
th e p e o p l e
our H a w a iia n
exp e c ta tio n
f o r w ho se
of
sake he. f o r s o o k h i s
jo y fully
l a b o r e d i n th e
- &
G ospel of Jesus
w ou ld i n
lo n g
se e in g h im s e lf
s p i r i t u a l c h i l d r e n whom h e h a s b e g o t t e n
fa re he has
sun & I t
of us K u a a i n a p a s t o r s h a d n o t
b r a c e d h i m s e l f h a r d u p to t h e
d e s e r t e d by
to w a r d s
in
some w hose lo s s we g r e a t l y r e g r e t & v a i n l y d e p l o r e .
i s n o t h ow e v er
deed be
we a re v e r y s e n s i b l y d i m i n i s h i n g
sin ce
grad ually
earth ly a l l fo r w hose w e l
C h rist.
�Kohala 1858
2.
Y e t we may w e l l
leav e
these
thin gs
in
s p e c i a l l y may we be r e c o n c i l e d to t h i s ,
w aste
of
our c o u n t r y p o p u l a t i o n s ,
the M a s t e r 's
in v iew of
the p o r t e n t o u s
th e a g e n c y o f w ic k e d r u l e r s h a n g s
spiritu ally
c h ild less,
be
c u r s e d by th o s e
God s h a l l
leav e
th e f o r e s h a d o w e d
ev ils
be more b l e s s e d an h u n d r e d f o l d t h a n t h o s e
-
Perhaps
thousands
members
are
sifted
law h as
b e e n at o nce the m ea su re & t h e p ro p o f the m o r a l i t y
a n ta g o n istic
w h i c h i s to t r y
fo r sa k e H is
own.
to
e v e r y m a n 's
G o d 's
pursue
la w & th u s
w o rk o f w h a t
The e l e c t w i l l
But I w i l l not
For
feared.
th is
surely
co n trib u tio n s & c h h . s t a t i s t i c s
th e
sort
e n d u re
d isc u ssio n
Th e
c iv il
o f too
our la w s more &
c risis
i t is.
to t h e
is
h asten in g
God w i l l n o t
end -
-
s e e th e
E.
our
But v ery o b v io u s ly
a r e at w ork wh i c h a r e g r a d u a l l y b r i n g i n g
m ore to b e
of
to
ou r common g o o d o u r c h h .
as t h e y h ave n e v e r y e t b e e n .
many o f o ur p e o p l e , i t may j u s t l y b e
ag encies
fo r
The
th e n a t i o n t o
n um ber w i t h t h e ir
to b e
c lo ud
over the n a t i o n .
ju d ic ia lly
in auth ority & su ffer
come u p o n u s , w i l l
&
i n many r e s p e c t s M e l a n c h o l y
w h ic h t h r o '
if
hands
Bond
o th e r h a l f
sheet.
�Kohala
1858
3.
K oh ala 1 8 5 8
Church S t a t is t ic s
W h o l e R e c d on p r o f e s s i o n
W h o l e num ber on C e r t i f i c a t e
P a s t y e a r on p r o f e s s i o n
"
"
C e rtific ate
"
"
W ho le num ber
W h o l e num ber d is m d to o t h e r chhs
P ast year
"
W h o le num ber d e c e a s e d
Past year
"
Suspended
R e m a in
"
E x c o m m u n ic a te d p a s t y e a r
"
W hole num ber
"
R e m ain
W h o l e num ber i n r e g . S t a n d i n g
"
C h ild re n b a p t iz e d
Past year
"
M arriages past y ear
A v e r a g e C o n g r e g a t io n
Co n t r i b u t i o n s
M o n th ly c o n ce rt
P a s t o r ’ s Salary
Purchase of b e ll
For p art of a house fo r
m e e t ’ gs
2113
741
17
7
24
490
39
964
18
-
in cash fo r
9
7
18
582
450
943
1215
39
26
375
1858
$ 4 2 7 .0 0 )
6 0 7 .5 0 )
3 6 6 .5 0 )
Total
)
1 5 0 .0 0 .)
$ 1 5 5 1 .0 0
�R e p o r t o f K o h a la
f o r the y e a r
1859
Few H a w a iia n M is s io n a r ie s
years,
t h e h o p es
& p r o m is e s
p erh a p s, have fo u n d in
o f th e p a s t
T h e r e r e m a in s h o w e v e r i n t h e m id s t
c o n so la tio n a r is in g
wh.
past,
for
these apparent f a i l u r e s ,
w h a t h as f a i l e d
W ith u s ,
or e v e n t s
-
in th is
way,
of
w h ilst
the
M a ste r’ s w ork,
the
serv ice
lo o k in g b a c k u p o n the
- not w ith o u t r e g r e t
to b e a c c o m p l is h e d - t h a t I w d g a t h e r f r e s h v i g o r
f o r w h a t o f tim e & d u t y s t i l l r e m a in s
the y ea r has
to m e .
i n no w ay b e e n m a r ke d by im p o r t a n t
Yet I wd f a i n h o p e ,
added its
i n th e
f o r s u b s t a n t i a l advance i n
& p a r t i c u l a r l y u p o n th e y e a r now c l o s e d ,
& r e n e w e d hopes
in g
I t is
lapse
s a tisfa c to rily v e r i f ie d .
fr o m a n e n l a r g e d e x p e r i e n c e
s u r e ly shd be a v a ila b le
s t ill befo re us.
of
the
quota o f v a l u a b le
it has
iss u e s
n o t p a s s e d away w i t h o u t h a v
e x p e r i e n c e to
the
stock p r e v io u s ly
in s to r e .
I
shd ,
speak of e x p e r ie n c e in
e v e r y it e m of
we l a b o r .
W ith o u t
the m is s io n a r y
l a r g e s t m e a n in g - i n c l u d i n g ,
a thorough a cq u a in ta n c e
th is,
can b e
I
am more & more
p ro d u c tiv e
m a t t e r , w i t h how l a r g e &
may b e
its
o f but
s e l f - d e n y in g
w i t h th e p e o p l e
satisfie d
th e
as
it
f o r whom
effo rts
of
l i m i t e d p erm a n e n t r e s u l t s ,
a p ro d ig ality
no
o f d e v o t io n they
put fo r th .
J u s t i n p r o p o r t i o n as
the w eak p o i n t s
r e m a in d i s c o v e r e d or u n a p p r e c i a t e d ,
in
in the
ju st
enem y’ s d e f e n s e s ,
t h a t p r o p o r t i o n our
a t t a c k s w i l l p r o v e In a d e q u a t e & a b o r t i v e .
The s k i l l f u l
s u r g e o n owes h i s
c o m p r e h e n s io n o f h i s
e ffe c tiv e ly ,
s u b je c t.
r e p u t a t i o n to h i s
H is k n i f e
because u n d e rsta n d in g ly
in
is
m in u t e & t h o r o u g h
w ield ed fe a r le s s ly &
o p e ra tio n s w here
ig n o ran c e
& c a r e l e s s n e s s w d be d e a t h .
M uch more I
a p p r e h e n d shd
th e
sp iritu al
surgeon the M is s io n a r y
-
�Kohala
alth o
1859
in d eed h is
of a thought
p ersonal rep u tatio n ,
- yet for h is
& f o r h u m a n ity ’ s s a k e ,
h im se lf
as
to h i m s e l f , may
M aster' s sake,
as w e l l ,
he
shd
fo r
the
know h i s
sake
seem u n w o r t h y
of H is
p e o p le
as w e l l as
-
He may i n d e e d lo o k down w i t h a p i t y i n g eye upon t h e i r
h e may s m ile , at t h e i r , s u p e r s t i t i o n s
t i a n h isto ry
still
ity
of 4 0 y e a r s ,
at th eir
of th eir
v ic io u s
liv e s
se rv ic e &
If
p it
p it & w i t h p atien t
&
( !) &
the m ir y
clay,
c a r e fa th o m i t s
he m ust,
a m easure o f c o n f i d e n c e I
days
speak & years
Of t h is ,
years
as
gone by &
b le hope
If
more
effectually
to
it.
Tim e h a s b e e n ,
in q u iry .
c d so h a v e
c e rtain ty ,
I
late,
a ffirm e d .
allo w
T h a t my
l a n g u a g e , w as
t h r e a d my w a y t h r o '
o f some o t h e r t h i n g s ,
c h o o se r a t h e r
thro'
m ore o f my p eo p le &
in
the
su ffic ie n t
their w e l f a r e
th e a v e n u e s
- that
le ad in g
surely t h o 't .
"B u t
t e a c h w isdo m ” .
of a b il it y yet
a cq u isitio n s.
exp lo re
serio u s
i n my l a b o r s f o r
w ith t o le r a b le
d r a w them
of
o f hope
to t h e i r h e a r t s ,
L o r d 's
has b e e n w it h m e,
to a f f o r d go o d g r o u n d s
to
sen su al
& come t h u s ,
o f t h o s e who a re
as w i t h t h e i r
e n able
in d ig
but n e v e r th e le ss
depths,
p eo p le,
s u c h as to
terrib le
o b v io u sly
th is
i t w as
a h o ly
s o u l s , he wd f a i n
aw fu l
a m ore th an u sually
a c q u ain ta n c e w it h
the
do,
a C h ris
sp iritu a l l i f e ,
w i t h a n u n g r u d g i n g d e v o t i o n to h i s
thus k n o w our p e o p l e " ?
me to c o n f e s s ,
when w i t h
lo ath e
t h i s he may i n d e e d ,
u n d e rsta n d the c o n d itio n & n e c e s s it ie s
"D o I
of th eir
s t r o n g m eat - h e may f e e l
a n u n q u e n c h a b l e l o v e to t h e i r
the h o rrib le
w eaknesses
- he may mourn ,t h a t w i t h
c o n d itio n s
p r a c t i c es
- all
h e m u st know them -
fr.
the
demand o n ly m i l k & n o t
n atio n
cause,
to
the
to b e
thus t o a p p l y
to t h e i r h e a r t s
feel
less
p o sitiv e
than in
c h e e r e d on i n my w o r k b y t h e hum
be g a i n e d ,
grace
I
t h a n by any c o n f i d e n c e
o f God,
I may b e
the p r e c i o u s
& co n scien ces,
su ffered
truths
in past
to l e a r n
of salv ation
d iv id in g
to e a c h a
-
�Koh a la
1859
p o rtio n
in
3.
due s e a s o n , my l a r g e s t
d e sire s w i l l have been f u l l y
g ra ti
fie d .
For
the p resent, w h ilst
there i s
little
to
a d esire
to r e f o r m
v e r y m eager
is
it
I
the
in th is
to u s ,
causes
constantly
B u t am I w ro ng I n
to
peo p le.
o f th e p e o p l e
in
so c ia l
that
our
is
fu lly
one
life ,
h ab itu a l
in
c au s e
em ploym ents,
as
& m ethods
w h ere
do n o t
life
to
expect.
strength strength
s h d be
success
p ro fess
surro un din gs
to c o m p r e h e n d .
in
the
consequent
to
in
th eir
pe
our work?
in in d iv id u a l
ac
o f tho’t we a r e h e a v e n w i d e
t h i n g s we c d n o t
i f we
Y e t we c an d o u b t l e s s m in g l e
& in terest
& l e a r n more o f
of
i n f l u e n c e upon
d e v o t e d & our
In these
-
Nor
are b e
c o m p a r a t iv e i n s u l a t i o n
i n d o m e s t ic
are
a sh a r p tw o - e d g e d
o f Im p e r f e c t s u c c e s s
so we s h a l l r e m a i n .
their d a il y
v aluab le
& a d m i n i s t e r more p e r f e c t l y
w d g e t down to t h e H a w a i i a n l e v e l .
more f r e e l y
o f h is
I
d e sire
c o m m u n ic a t io n s
w here the h ig h e s t
our h e a r t s ,
the
expected.
s u c h as we h a v e a r i g h t
fa ilu re ,
q u ir e m e n t s & i n c a p a c i t y f o r
a b o v e th e m , &
p ow er
to w h o s e g o o d we a re
to u n d e r s t a n d
c u liar n e c e s s it ie s ,
Its
o f so much w e a k n e s s ,
s u p p o s in g
wd hope
p r e a c h in g & l a b o r
little
a Sam son sho rn
cheer
22 years
these very in a d e q u a te
common c o m p la in t i n t h e
i n d i c a t e d by e f f e c t s
the
True
For these
as w e l l as w i t h
that
o f a q u a r t e r c e n t u r y 's
fo u nd - of th is m e a s u r a b l e
fa ilu re
thankful fo r ,
i t m ust b e c o n f e s s e d ,
d i s t r i c t a lon e
o f th e H a w a iia n
not
A ll
m id s t
so uls,
But the r e s u l t s
is m a t t e r o f
seem s r a t h e r ,
ought
th eir
t h a t th e t r u t h h a s h a d b u t too
sw ord is
It
It
liv e s
to b e
compared w i t h w h a t w e m ig h t r e a s o n a b l y h a v e
p r a c t ic a l results
my B r n .
every th in g
p r e a c h e d to t h i s p e o p le & I
& save
liv e s.
suppose,
w aile d -
statedly
to b l e s s
th eir
is
afford real sa tisfa c tio n -
t h e G o s p e l h as b e e n
w ith
there
o u r s e l v e s more
in th eir
th e ir m a n ifo ld p i l i k i a s
lo w them w i t h a more p a t e r n a l ' c a r e & b e s t o w w i t h l e s s
& fol
of s t i n t ,
our
�Kohala
1859
s y m p ath ie s,
as t h o s e w i t h th em r a t h e r
In the
said ,
l i t t l e here
th a t
our p e o p l e
o u r k n o w le d g e
slept
err.
-
Whoever h a s
people
am ongst- them - w i t h
w il l not
fa il
to
w it h m e, t h a t ,
in
s u b j e c t I .m a y
im ita tio n
a l l th in gs
to
its
sp iritu a l in terests
- &
of h is
there is
than k fuln ess
graces
th e f o l d ,
under
agree
God,
we h a v e n e e d ,
greater M aster,
to be c o m e
so m e.
to b e
n e ith e r has
said .
T h e r e h as
t h e r e b e e n m ore t h a n
No r o o t
of b itte rn e ss
s p r i n g u p & t r o u b l e us & fo r t h i s
as f o r
o f the y e a r , we w d r e c o r d h e r e w i t h
all
our u n fe ig n e d
to God -
I n the m atter
of b e n e f i c e n c e ,
has n o t retrograded -
d e p a r tm e n t o f C h r i s t i a n
very
"t i g h t ” - yet not
o f means
it
c a n o n ly b e
W o u l d I w er e a b l e
th is
p e o p le
-
little
of d e fe c tio n & d i s c i p l i n e .
t h e a b o u n d i n g m e r c ie s
or who h as
Church,
the u s u a l
b e e n s u f f e r e d to
la ck in g
them i n t h e i r
such s u r e ly w i l l
g u a r d our p eo p le
of
has
its
the
in
in d e e d but w it h w a k e fu l e a r s ,
b e e n no r e v i v i n g
amount
but not
l i s t e n e d to p r i v a t e
i f b y any m eans we may s a v e
Of
in
c lo s e d eyes
g re at A po stle &
a l l m en,
fo r
in adverten tly
on e v e r y s i d e n o w v i s i t
o f the
th e m .
But c e r t a i n l y n o t
on s h i p b o a r d or o n s h o r e ,
we wd e f f e c t u a l l y
the w o lv e s w h .
over
th e much t h o ’ t ,
our i n t e r e s t
com prehend my m e a n in g
if
those
f e e l & t a l k o v er t h e f a c t t h a t we a r e
c o n v e r s a t i o n among h i s
fr.
in
of t h e m s e lv e s & i n
p e c u lia r n e c e ss itie s
than as
s a i d as w e l l as
p e r t a i n i n g , to t h i s
say ing
in
4.
duty.
that the
r e p o r t some a d v a n c e
T r u e our money m a r k e t h a s
suffic ien tly
to p u r c h a s e f r e e l y
to
said
so,
chh.
in
been
as to h a v e d e p r i v e d t h e
th e m a t e r i a l s
fo r
o u tw a r d a d v a n c e
ment .
As w i t h
chhs
in
other lands,
so a ls o w i t h u s ,
the. a d v a n c e
h i g h e r & m ore b e c o m in g s t a n d a r d o f C h r i s t i a n b e n e f i c e n c e ,
o b jec t
s t i l l in the fu tu re
to b e
sought
-
A g lo r io u s
is
to a
an
co n su m m atio n
�Kohal a
1859
5.
i n d e e d longed fo r
fr.
the
& prayed f o r ;
y e t w i t h th e eye o f f a i t h
to p o f P i s g a h are w e s u f f e r e d to l u x u r i a t e
a lo n e
in the
&
go o dly
prospect.
The f o o t i n g s
up o f our a n n u a l c o n t r i b u t i o n s t o t h e
-the R e d e em e r p a i n f u l l y
o f d u t y & much l e s s
in g
th u s
great
is
lo w ,
i n no sense up to t h e
to a s i m p l e a p p r e h e n s i o n
co-workers w i t h G o d ,
end fo r w h .
giv in g
shew t h a t we a re
ato n in g
in
s e c u r in g
b l o o d was
of
calls
o f th e p r i v i l e g e
as
shed.
as n on e w i l l d o u b t .
cause
of be
s p e e d i l y a s m ay b e ,
Our p r e s e n t s t a n d a r d
The t u b e o f
the
of
our m e te r h a r d l y
in-
*
d ic a te s
more than " S t i n g y "
C h r i s t d i e d - to s c o r e s
lu x u r ie s
to p an d e r t o
- one r e a l f o r
of d o lla r s
a p e r i s h i n g w o r l d f o r whom
fo r p erso n al g r a t if ic a t io n & fo r
depraved n a t u r e s .
W ith th e d iv in e b le s s in g upon f a i t h f u l
u nreason able
surely to hope
in
the s c a l e
of h a b i t u a l b e n e f i c e n c e s , t o
of
s im p le
in g
the
duty;
m en ts
p o in t
on our g l a s s )
o v er th e c a r n a l m a n ,
wh.
Tim e was when I
to " g e n e r o u s "
one
fr.
the b a t t l e
of the f i n a l
t h a t we m ig h t a t
B u t t h a t h o p e no
decrease
is
in
e sp e c ia lly
renders
i t more & more d i f f i c u l t
the w ord
of l i f e
& thus
excite
the
-
some f u t u r e
exists.
le av in g
case w it h
a d e sire
our S . W .
F am ine a l s o ,
to
consequent
attend
In
A
a v e ry
to r e a c h t h e p e o p l e w i t h
i n t h e i r m in d s
in s tru c tio n s .
lo nger
o ur p o p u l a t i o n ,
p o rtio n ,
f r e q u e n t l y upon i t s
see
of a t o l e r a b l y w e l l o r g a n i z e d & c i v i l
church g o e r s .
sp arsely s e t t le d co u n try , as
of
to h e r a l d u n i v e r s a l v i c t o r y
c h e rish e d th e hope
g rad ua l but very p alp ab le
as
- the p oint
grace.
e x h ib it the spectacle
i z e d com m unity o f
are
th e re in ,
seem
b r o 't u p ,
a l l hope
t i l l w e may b e h o l d i t
re jo ic e
A t t e n d a n c e u po n means o f
p erio d ,
"e q u ita b le "
to h e r a d o r a b l e H e a d , r a i s e d
of t h e N ew J e r u s a l e m &
t r iu m p h s
chhs may b y & b y , b e
e v e n i f we m u s t d e s p a ir in g ly fo r e g o
C h u r c h ’ s lo v e
(t h e b o i l i n g
t h a t our
e f f o r t , i t does n o t
part
�Kohala 1859
8
H e n c e i t w as c o n s i d e r e d
sm aller
i n d im e n s io n the
th a t
less
c a t i o n a l as w e l l
se r ie s
a re lig io u s
m ason.
several others
o n l y a w a it
Some of t h e h o u s e s
wood th r o u g h o u t .
fo ur
of v i e w ,
of stone
l a i d up
one h a l f
the
E x t e r n a l annoyances
& never
can b e
th e p r o g r e s s
others
so lo n g as th e f l e s h
defrayed f r .
of l a t e y e a r s ,
in c r e a s in g
p o s i t i o n among us
10 o f t h e s e
is
of
& the d e v i l r e m a i n
to
su b je c t
c la s s
to a s p e c i e s
e q u iv o c a l & t r y i n g
the d o c t r i n e s
no p o s s i b i l i t y
of g r a c e .
in the
m em bers,
They c a n n o t b e
S in c e
c o n sists
how ever,
liv e s
c o n stitu te
can
touched
w h ilst
of those
the
be
"fa s t"
o l d fogy-
they wd n a t u r
seek a s p e ed ier passage in t o
v ic io u s
I
them a s
w ea rie d out b y
K o h a l a p a s t o r - u po n w h o se m i n i s t r a t i o n s
a t t e n d - must n e e d s
of
extrem e.
of re g a rd in g
The c l a s s
y o u n g H a w a i i a n s , c h i e f l y , w ho se p a t i e n c e ,
ally
of
f a i n h o p e to my B r n .
of bastard chh.
im m e d ia t e ly a b o u t m e .
o th e r h a n d t h e r e i s
is m o f t h e
the
e r e c t e d h as b e e n .
w i t h t h e o r d i n a r y k i n d o f la b o r b e s t o w e d u p o n u n b e l i e v e r s ,
in
of
o f th e t r u t h .
r e f e r to a c o n s t a n t l y
lie v e rs
In
any c h h .
a n n o y a n c e u n i q u e i n k i n d & q u i t e unknow n I w
on t h e
of
by t h e v o l u n t a r y s u b s c r i p t i o n s
- T h e s e a r e n e v e r w a n t i n g to
We h o w e v e r h av e b e e n
c o u n t 8 or
is n e arly
C arpenter &
in lim e &
expense i s
as one h a l f o f e a c h h o u s e h i t h e r t o
w hose
other
a
in
to $ 7 5 0 p e r h o u s e .
the
I
One
the movements o f t h e
The o th e r s w i l l
re sist
erectin g
but n e at & not u n t a s t e f u l
Treasurer.
C h rist,
an edu
in
h
t
o
b
of th e p u b lic sc h o o l f u n d r e m a in in g i n th e h ands
peo p le,
w a y ,fo r
se rv ic e .
we a r e
o c c u p ie d d a i l y .
be b u i l t
the
s a tisfa c to rily ,
The c o s t a v e r a g e s f r . $ 5 0 0
t h e e r e c t i o n of t h e f i r s t
a b alance
are
p oint
&
in t h is
be g i v e n to a h i g h e r
p la in ,
Two h a v e b e e n c o m p le t e d &
- &
t h e y wd be
of ou r p e o p l e v ery
of s m a ll s c h o o l h o u s e s ,
sty le.
done
as i n
s im p le r t h e b u i l d i n g
burdenso m e
one w h o se tim e & s t r e n g t h ought t o
To m eet t h e w ants
the
.
the v i s i b l e
a fo rm id a b le
chh.
im p e d im e n t
�Kohala 1859
7
m em bers fo rm
m eetin g s
members
to t h e
a c irc u it
fo r
th e
on t h e S a b b & f r .
go t h r o '
the
g reat duty
c o n tin u a l sup ply
t im e
fie ld ,
of th e ir
to t i m e ,
two
& two
liv e s.
c o n sid e ratio n .
The r e v i v i n g
a lon e
th in k can s o lv e
it.
-
Several years
3 s m a l l m ee tin g h o u s e s
w here
als
regu lar S a b b .
were
sity ,
in
in
to e x h o r t & a r o u s e
in flu e n c e s
s in c e
th is
th e l o c a l i t i e s
w it h a p eop le
lik e
F o r once h o w e v e r ,
a v aluab le
- a f f o r d i n g o p p o r t u n it y
wh.
has
v ie w in g
saved g reat n e e d le ss
I st
for
n e ig h b o r h o o d s w it h o u t
2d
in the b e lie f
in
such b u ild in g s
so ber
l e d to t h i s
th a t under
expended in
in g
e r e c t e d im p o se s u p o n t h e
e xistin g
th is
em
s e r v e d us
se c o n d thought
such.
had l e f t
w h o le
c i r c u m s t a n c e s , m oney i n v e s t e d
o th er p a r t s
put up - s i n c e
of the
Pastor
unfreq uen ted d i s t r i c t .
- c d b e m uch
great h arv est
a new care w it h ev er
s p e c ie s
any r e a s o n a b le m an.
s m a ll r e p a i r i n g
these
field
- &
- i n the fa c t th a t e v e r y new b u i l d
d r u d g e r y a d d e d to a n am ount o f t h i s
t id y - k e e p in g & the
is
- d is tin c tiv e ly
of p o p u latio n , w h .
w it h the p a s t o r )
s a tisfy
t im e
c o n c l u s i o n w er e f o u n d
as w e h a d b e e n d e s i g n i n g to
(p e r s o n a lly ,
to
of n e c e s
an i n h a b i t a n t .
3d
su ffic ie n t
th e s t a t i o n
We r e s o l v e d on r e
w er e n o t n e e d f u l f o r th e h i g h e s t g o o d o f t h e p e o p le
more p r o f i t a b l y
erect
purpose m a te ri
c o m p u lso ry t a r d i n e s s
expense & t r o u b l e .
in the constant decrease
th is
slo w - s in c e
the g r o u n d , to b u i l d us m e e t in g h o u s e s
Th e r e a s o n s w h .
S p irit
c h h . r e s o l v e d to
poor & w i t h o u t r e s o u r c e s ,
p h a t i c a l l y m o n ey .
purpose
t h e p e o p le
o f the H o ly
For
b u t p r o g r e s s w as
th is,
sta tio n
p e o p le b e more
most rem ote f r .
s e rv ic e s a r e s u s t a i n e d .
p art c o l l e c t e d ;
out
h a s b e e n a q u e s t i o n o f m u ch &
s e rio u s
M e e tin g Houses
5
some o f our m ore a p p r o v e d
" How can t h i s
e f f e c t u a lly & s a v in g ly r e a c h e d "?
I
of t h e
.
of
se rv ic e
in c re a sin g
already
q u ite
The p rin tin g ,- g l a z i n g ,
a l l f a l l u p o n h im i n e v i t a b l y
in
�Kohala 1859
on ly ,
6.
u p o n a lo n g s e a s o n o f d r o u g h t has
itse lf,
as
it
in retard in g
the c a s e
ness,
is
e v e ry w ho leso m e
- perhaps I
i t begets
n eglect
every w here,
turn,
of our p eo p le ,
thin g
good.
so
Itse lf
- the
But t h i s
p e o p l e can b y no m eans
of
are w it h
these
is,
no t
slo thfu l
o r d in a n c e s
as
be t r u t h f u l l y c a l l e d
to &
to
that
o r d in a n c e s
agent
a la rg e part
f o r m id a b l e o b s t a c l e s
o f t h e t r u t h - & my w on der
so m any s h d v a l u e
shewn
freq u en tly
o ffs p rin g
e v ils
s m a l l an h a b i t u a l a t t e n d a n c e u p o n t h e
but ra th e r that
as i s
o f w anton I n d i f f e r e n c e
Both these
e v er r e c u r r i n g & m ost
perm anent pro gress
be
e n te rp rise .
a sp irit
D ist.
d iso rg a n ize r & a p ow erful
shd say g e n e rally
in it s
o f every
a great
i n a part o f the
the
there
of t h e
th e y
shd
G ospel,
se e m to d o .
a church- g oing
p eo p le.
At the three
be
added fo r
o ut p o s t s
the a t t e n d a n c e i s
t r u t h ’ s s a k e th a t
t h e s e m e e t in g s
t h o s e who l i v e
are a ls o v e r y few -
sm a ll w h i l s t ,
w ith in
A t th e S t a t i o n
2 or 3 m i l e s
o ur S a b b .
h a v e a v e r a g e d a n a t t e n d a n c e a b o u t as u s u a l l y n u m e r o u s .
S c h o o l a t t h e s t a t i o n num bers 2 1 0
n um ber f o u n d i n t h e
school a t
O ur w e e k ly m e e t in g s
than
usual
in terest,
o f late,
Th ese
P .M .
P .M .
c ise s
A .M .
&
Sabb.
any one
i .e .
that is
of
s e r v ic e s
O ur S a b b .
t h e h ig h e st
t im e .
i n o u r Im m e d iate v i c i n i t y
W ith a tte n tiv e h e a r e r s .
& Sat.
p u p ils
i t m ust
h a v e b e e n o f m ore
as i s i n d i c a t e d b y a h o u s e w e l l f i l l e d
serv ices
a r e p r a y e r m e e t in g s
(a f t e r the
i n the M e e t ’ g H o u s e ) b e s i d e s
clo se
of the
on W e d .
general
a fe m ale prayer m e e tin g
exer
on F r i d a y
P .M .
A s to
able
th eir
for
the f i e l d i n g e n e r a l , w h a t u n a p p l i e d m eans
s tir rin g
own
up the p e o p l e
s o u l s , I know n o t .
(H e h a s made 5 t o u r s
past y ea r)
Our c h h .
a v a il
to l i s t e n t o t h e G o s p e l & c a r e
B e sid e s
th e P a s t o r
are . y e t
thro'
Lunas w it h a fe w
th e u s u a l
the
e n tire
fo r
q u arterly tours
d i s t r i c t d u rin g
of
the
o f t h e more C a p a b l e o f o u r C h h .
�Koh al a
in
1859
9
t h e i r p a t h chh-wards
c o n d u c i v e to
fo r
success
h e r e , w here t h e y are k n o w n ,
in their
proud
t h e r e n o t b e i n g known e i t h e r
v io u sly ,
are no h i n d r a n c e
Now to a l l
of Hawn - c h u r c h ly
P ara d ise
ec c le siastic a l
N .,
no S . ,
them i n
dragnet
no E . ,
its
in to
no b l a c k ,
God,
flo ck,
in in s ta n ta n e o u s
th e y
in to
o b
very
the b o r d e r ,
the g r e a t
"k n o w s n o
in stan tan eo u sly
en clo ses
c a n mum ble
a re t r a n s f o r m e d f r .
the
-
s in s
- the
- & q u ic k e r than the p r i e s t
create h is
s h e e p & p u t w i t h th e
I b e lie v e
Once a c r o s s
no w h it e
it
of t h e i r d e s i r e s .
S p i r i t u a l Eldo rado
a m b itio n .
d im e n s io n s
th e p o t e n t w o rd s w h .
the
fr u itio n
th eir
o f ' my good B r o . w i t h a c h a r i t y w h .
no W . ,
ample
in s ta n t
fin d
to go e l s e w h e r e
f o r g o o d or f o r e v i l
to t h e
s u c h K o h a l a S o u t h is
e n te rp rise
they
goats
Good S h e p h e r d ' s f o l d .
c o n v e rsio n - b u t
Now
b a p t is m a l r e g e n e r a t i o n
or r e g e n e r a t i o n e f f e c t e d e i t h e r b y the u n c o n s e c r a t e d m a n i p u l a t i o n s
of
a p lain
p r o t e s t a n t m is s y ,
sim p le p ro testan t
tio n
-
fo rth
chh.
is
T h en a g a i n t h e s e
left
( t o u se
or by
surely,
defence,
liv e
we f o r y e a r s
in ste a d ,
&
so
of t h e
members
that
to u n t i e
chh.
class
-
a g ain st
are
thence
T h o s e who
return h it h e r
- a
company - t h e n l i v e s
in t o
th is
chh.
co n sta n tly
them &
as
tim e
thus
so
do,
d iv id e d
our M a s t e r 's w ork & h o u s e .
cease.
they
But
we w er e
f e w among us
th is have
i n t h i s most u n s a t i s f a c t o r y m a n n e r .
even i n
as
cu t t h e k n o t w e f o u n d
r e f e r r e d to b u t w d lo n g e r e
a most unw elcom e d u t y th u s
fa st
grew u p o n u s ,
H a d we n e g l e c t e d so t o
E d u c atio n
concep
to " s l i d e " .
th e s u p p l y w d i n
s e rio u sly ,
in
chh.
a
A s a m a tte r o f n e c e s s a r y s e l f
p eo p le
t h a t the num bers
e n te rp risin g
of th is
i n th e
abode,
g raceless
to d i e d .
r e c d these
c o m p e l l e d to s h u t our d o o r s
ou rselv es u n a b le
of t h e i r
law less,
c a m e , h o p in g n o t u n r e a s o n a b l y ,
fin d in g ,
once f a i r l y
a n e x p r e s s i v e m odern p h r a s e )
m o th erless,
d e c l a r i n g - so to
a lto g e t h e r beyond o r d in a r y
converts
c l a i m K o h a l a N o r t h as t h e p l a c e
fatherless,
the f o r m u l a o f a d m i s s i o n i n t o
It
been
is
a p p e a r a n c e to s eem
But B r n , what
can b e
done?
�Kohala 1859
10.
O ur p u b l i c
s c h o o ls num ber 1 5 - one h a l f ,
w er e r e p o r t e d 19 y e a r s a g o .
about
450
years
past
there has
been a constant
in the
character
in these scho o ls.
on,
an a c t i v e
- o n ly one t h i r d
The p u p i l s
in te r e st
w as h o w e v e r c h i e f l y
to a f f o r d no
Scho o ls,
T h is
I
v ery
o w ing
c d o n ce r e p o r t .
process
In
lo w l e v e l .
in c it e d by
th in g .
over to th e s o l e
eral
the p r i e s t s
c are
o v e r s i g h t - was
S in c e S e p t.
w i t h th e
I
of d e t e r io r a t io n g o in g
Sept.
it
the s c h o o l s
agents
D ist.
stead ily
p o s i t i o n to w h .
of
w ere v e r y
of
sen sitive
c o m p la in t
Our t e a c h e r s
school w h .
I
our a r r l a t t h e I s l a n d s ,
to
our e d u c a t i o n a l
more e f f i c i e n t
every
them
fo r
apparatus
g o o d to
end I have t h r i c e v i s i t e d
o f each in
I
commenced I n
all
c o n ju n c tio n w it h
am m ost t h a n k f u l t o r e p o r t
Th ey h a v e n o t
& wh.
in
tu rn in g
in d eed r e g a in e d
th e y o nce h a d a t t a i n e d , b u t n e v e r t h e l e s s
c o n d itio n .
the
th a t w i l l h ardly b e r e p e a t e d .
one c h e e r i n g r e s u l t
i n a m ore h o p e f u l
ever s in c e
d e c rie d
- h a v e i n d e e d t h e m o st g e n
To t h i s
on t h e a d v a n c e .
any
at t h a t tim e &
& had a tho ro ugh e xa m in a tio n
t h e K a h u k u l a - A n d as
after
causes
p urpo se u n d e r G o d o f m a k in g I t
sch o o ls
cd n o t b e
ch ild ren in
h ave d e v o t e d m uch t im e
the
them as
fr.
a gross b lu n d e r
c h i l d r e n & our w h o le
l a s t u p o n r e s u m in g
in te rfe re n c e w it h t h e i r r i g h t s .
to f i n d
of n a t i v e
our
several
to an i l l - j u d g e d p u r p o s e on t h e M i s s i o n a r y 's
c o m p la in o f u n f a i r
The w i t h d r a w a l s
For
are
T h e ir d e p r e s s e d c o n d i t i o n
p a p i s t s who m ig h t h av e
r e a s o n to
as m any as
in th e s e scho o ls
p u r p o s e was fo r m e d a t a tim e w h e n p a p i s t s
& w ere
has
ta u g h t
i n ou r e d u c a t i o n a l a f f a i r s
t h a t t h e y h a d s u n k to a
part
as many as
nearly ,
1842
the
were never
- the n e x t y e a r
w ith o c c asio n al in te rm issio n s
b e e n c o n t i n u e d - was r e v i v e d i n
Oct.
last
& has been
a t t e n d e d w i t h an I n t e r e s t n e v e r e q u a l l e d i n p a s t y e a r s .
A p o rtio n of
a n e n e r g y & an
our t e a c h e r s h a v e t a k e n h o l d o f t h e i r
in te re st
d u tie s
such a s I h a v e n e v e r w i t n e s s e d i n
w ith
th e D i s t .
�Kohala 1859
before.
11.
In a ll
H im who h a s
of
th is
I
crow ned
fe e l greatly encouraged & I
(o u r )
feeble
e ffo rts w ith
trust
than k ful
to
so h o p e f u l a m e a s u r e
Success.
I
p ublic
speak as
a Hawn M i s s i o n a r y
s c h o o ls & Hawn t e a c h e r s
to h i s B r n . who know w h a t Hawn
of
s u c h s c h o o ls
i n n o d a n g e r o f u n d e r s t a n d i n g more
in the
than
is
i n t e n d e d to b e
As a lre a d y r e p o r t e d a b o v e ,
our o l d Hawn h o u s e s w i t h n e a t
tho ro u ghly b u i l t
i n every
re p a ir s necessary fo r
Books
w ill
carefu lly
a
c o m p lain t
are but
lo o k o v er the
r e n & y o u t h , w i l l n e e d no
200
the H u in a H e l u
ty p o g ra p h ic al
may l o o k f o r
stone,
illy
-
some
W hoever
to Hawn
e x p l a n a t i o n o f my m e a n i n g .
c re d it o f
c h iefly
-
in a d e q u a te
a d a p t e d to H a w a i i a n m in d s
o n ly g e o g r a p h y a c c e s s i b l e
our M i s s n P r e s s ,
most
o rd in a ry
of a v a r ie t y of books
(A r it h m e t ic )
errors
o f w o o d or
c a n o n ly b e r e p e a t e d - w h i l s t
fu rther
m o r e o v e r no t g r e a t l y t o t h e
a w o r k as
e d ific es
super
c e n t u r y & more to come i f n e e d b e
o f our y o u t h ,
f e w we h a v e ,
we are g r a d u a l l y
p a r tic u la r & d e s ig n e d w it h the
h alf
- The s t a n d i n g
to t h e n e c e s s i t i e s
of the
conveyed
la n g u a g e a b o v e u s e d .
S c h o o l H ouses
se d in g
are & who w i l l be
that
ch ild
It
so
is
s m a ll
s h d be d i s f i g u r e d b y m ore t h a n
i n th e
fig u re s
-
But D o u b tless
im provem ent to t h e m a t te r o f p r o o f r e a d i n g
i n t im e
we
to
com e.
E n g lish
School in
in
th is
our D i s t r i c t .
d ire c tio n .
e d u c a tio n f o r
g iv e
far
able
e d u c a t i o n - We hav e n o E n g l i s h
H a w a i i a n s m ay b e ,
as t h e m a sses
there
fo r
b e e n made to i n t r o d u c e
th is
fo r
p e o p le a r e
p r e s e n t tim e I
concerned,
- & th e r e s u l t
the E n g l i s h
any
a p u r e l y Hawn
am a w a r e ,
o r d i n a r i l y g o o d s e n s e to t h e w i n d s .
of t h i s
o th e r w is e
at
in
ev er b e e n any a t t e m p t made
To avow a d e c i d e d p r e f e r e n c e
ones r e p u t a t i o n
to t h i n k
N e ith e r h a s
in stru c tio n g iv e n
so
I have never been
of the e ffo r t s
exte n siv e ly
Yet
to
In to
wh. have
th e
already
programme o f
�Kohala 1 859
H a w a iia n
the
S tu d y , h av e hut
study
w aiian s,
to b e ,
12
o f E n g l i s h may h a v e b e e n
tho’
liv in g
a K uaaln a,
to a g e n e r a l t r u t h ,
do n o t h e s i t a t e
t i a l b en efit
feeble
a p p r e c ia t io n of the
the n e w ly
a c q u ir e d f a c u l t y ,
to t h e s e
a h ig h e r
s t y le
sources
that, i t
w hat, I
do n o t m ea n to
of
g a in e d
th e E n g .
I
p a s s in g
& e n jo y m e n t
it a c tu a lly
co nfers
the v a lu e
-
u p o n any n ew e n t e r p r i s e
W h ilst
reaso n able
p ro m ise
of
of
it
to s u p e r s e d e
(b r a n c h
fast
?)
d u c iv e
to the
m ore h a d n o t
latter
class
if
b e lo n g t h e g r e a t b o d y o f E n g .
that
a n ew a c q u i s i t i o n by t h e b e n e f i t
tho' t
o f a n a tt e m p t
c o n v e n ie n c e
cap acity
such c a p a c i t y ,
of a u n i v e r s a l E n g .
Hawn p u b l i c
scho o ls
as
to b e
the G o v t
w ill
allow ,
the p e c u n i a r y
im p o ssib ility
is
a g ain st
enter
u po n
a d v a n ta g e to h i m .
of
argum ent
to
to d e p e n d u p o n t h e
the Hawn , but o n ly o f E n g .
o f study in
as the
p r e m is e
To t h i s
s u c c e s s fu lly & th is
A s we a r e not now s p e a k i n g
tin e d
known.
some h a d n o t
language & i f
the e x p e d i e n c y
is u s u a l l y
t h e a g e n t to p r o s e c u t e
it s
if
to
am ongst H a w a i i a n y o u t h .
Now w e e s t i m a t e
of
& hence
late y e a r s
strange
s m a t t e r in g t h e r e i n .
c o rre c tly u nderstand rep o rts m ade,
Students
a
it h a s in d u c e d a p a r t i a l r e s o r t
a f a i r e le m e n t a r y k n o w le d g e o f t h e
acq u ire d a to le ra b le
secured -
th e m t h r o ’
apprehend has r a r e ly b e e n
i t wd i n d e e d b e
say
or e v e n t o
o p e n e d to
As c o n s i d e r a b l e n u m bers hav e b e e n d e v o t e d o f
study
Yet I
substan
i n some i n s t a n c e s b e e n
of in te lle c tu a l p ro fit
o f m an i s
h as b e e n o f
I
treasures
or t h a t
some H a
as th e y are b e l ie v e d
sty le o f S c h o la rs h ip ,
lite ra ry
to
lik e ly
e s c a p e d my n o t i c e .
By b e n e f i t ,
advantage has n o t
Q u ite
s e r v ic e
exc e p tio n s,
a c o n v ic tio n
l e d t o a h ig h e r
o p in io n .
of essen tia l
these
to e x c e e d i n g l y f e w .
but t h a t i t has
th is
have n a t u r a l l y
to e x p r e s s
t h a t m ere m a t e r i a l
even,
c o n fir m e d me i n
the w ho le
th in g.
ed u c atio n d e s
a c o l l a t e r a l brance
i n t r o d u c e d o n l y as
it
is needless
to
itse lf
th e g r e a t &
con
To th e som ew hat
e x te n s iv e
�Kolia la
1859
13.
i n t r o d u c t i o n o f th e E n g .
ded fo r
But
the
one b r a n c h o f s t u d y m e r e l y ,
a c o n s id e r a b le p o r tio n
Th e Gov't d o u b t l e s s
W d th e
as
th e n w d p a s t
cap acity
study
p r o m is e
cd affo rt
of
of
it.
it !
I
cannot t h in k i t w d .
o f t h e Hawn m in d to p r o s e c u t e
a language a s
to s u c c e s s f u l r e s u l t s
th e E n g .
vernacular
afford
a d e q u a te c o m p en s a to r y f r u i t s ?
By C a p a c i t y we u n d e r s t a n d - the d i s p o s i t i o n or p u r p o s e
t h r o u g h w i t h t h e s t u d y & a ls o
the m en tal a b i l i t y
l a n g u a g e & make u s e
any c o n s i d e r a b l e u s e f u l
of it
T h is p e o p l e as
b u sin e ss
per?
fo r
is n o t o r i o u s
is
a p e o p le
W h ith e r
s h a l l we p a i n t
d e v o tin g t h e ir e n erg ies
w i t h the in d o m ita b le
to
to any
steady
purpose w h .
tho
- of
id le r s
c e n tu rie s w ere
c o m p a r a t iv e l y
A n d as
conquers
p aid fo r
th u s make i t
so m etim es
s p e a k of them as i n t e l l i g e n t
the m erest
lig e n t
or
s lu g g is h m en tally
farther f r .
c u rio sity ,
of
of th is
as p h y s i c a l l y .
to
tim e
The
spoken o f .
learn
p eo p le
- w hat
to
com
can b e
Strangers
& in q u isitiv e
the t r u t h .
I have yet
that
in
in tercou rse w it h E n g .
n o th in g
it
than w h .
said?
in d e e d
i n my
B eyo n d th e n a r r o w l i m i t s
th a t t h e y
are
an i n t e l
in q u isitiv e rac e .
Th e v e r y f a c t
had
o f H a w a iia n s
a fa rth in g s v a l u e .
a p ra c tic a l b le s sin g
are a s
judgm en t n o t h i n g i s
ever know n to p r o s
success?
at
few exce p tio n s n e e d not b e
&
W hat
We h a v e i n s t e a d a n a t i o n o f
H a w a iia n s
of
of fic k le m in d ,
who w it h o u t a s i n g l e m i s g i v i n g , w a s t e
dearly
the
end.
employment & p u r s u i n g
to m e n t a l c a p a c i t y o f t h e m a s se s
prehend E n g .
to go
ap p ro p riate
any c o n s i d e r a b l e num bers
The t h i n g w as n e v e r dream ed o f .
as
to
com m itted to p u r e l y n a t i v e m anagem ent was
q u id d lers
p ro v i
o f our c h i l d n & y o u t h p e c u n i a r i l y .
success w arrant
so d i f f i c u l t
to b e
the
6 0 or m ore y e a r s ,
d u rin g w h .
s p e a k in g f o r e i g n e r s ,
tim e t h e y h a v e
they have gathered
la n g u a g e b e y o n d a f e w o f t h e more
common w o r d s &
�Kohala
those
When
1859
14.
c h i e f l y p ro fan e & v i l e ,
is
a p o w e r f u l argum ent
c o m p ared w i t h th e p e o p l e o f some o f
a g a in st
the M ic r o n e s i a n I s l a n d s
as r e p o r t e d hy our M i s s i o n a r i e s
there
w it,
as much t h e i r i n f e r i o r
our H a w a iia n s
in te llig e n c e
as
appear
th e y
q u ite
(a r e )
c e rtain ly
By t h e s e &
c o n v i n c e d that f o r
s ta te d - I have never
a m o ngst u s ,
fe e lin g
e n c o u r a g e d th e
&
sim ila r
c o n sid e r a tio n s,
the n e c e s s it i e s
C o n d itio n s
fu lly
t h e i r own v e r n a c u l a r
w i t h th e l i m i t a t i o n s
in tr o d u c tio n of
e x p e r im e n t s
School in
sharp
in natural
th is
is
school
fa ilu re .
o f so h o p e l e s s
I s l a n d wd amply
& b est in te r e sts
the
above
an E n g .
a s s u r e d t h a t i t w d p ro v e a n i n e v i t a b l e
One g o o d E n g .
am p e r s u a d e d f o r
s p rig h tlin e ss
-
in m e c h a n ic a l s k i l l
or p r a c t i c a b l e ,
We c a n n o t a f f o r d to w a s t e t im e f o r
Character.
- fo r
th e mass o f H a w a i i a n s
o n ly language d e s ir a b l e
them .
a
su ffic e
I
of the p e o p l e .
& prospects o f the p e o p le .
Not reasoners.
Our p e o p le a r e
race.
O f th e
o f an u n r e a s o n i n g ,
s im p l e s t
an u n th in k in g
la n g u a g e
show s t h a t
S u c h a p e o p le c d h a r d l y be o t h e r w i s e
a purely
im p u l s i v e p e o p l e .
M o tiv e s ,
sav e t h o s e
Such,
o b se rv a tio n a ssu res us
im m e d ia t e ly s e n s u a l ,
p r e s e n t e d to t h e i r m inds & h e a r t s .
In
are very
is
slig h tly
fo r m e r y e a r s I
than
the f a c t .
felt,
when
in d u l g e d the
t h a t our p e o p l e w ere g r a d u a l l y fo r m in g u s e f u l & p r a i s e w o r t h y
h abits.
stance
But h ab it
in wh.
character
to
im p lie s
in h ere.
certain ly
some n u c l e u s
T h is
dev elo ps
F ix e d h ab its
of a d e s i r a b l e
to p o s s e s s .
Hence I
(t h a n )
a lso
they are of
form o f g e n e r a l i z a t i o n t h e
they n e v e r h a d an i d e a .
hope
as
fo r
it i s
in part
that
c l o t h e u p o n - some
central p illa r
of a l l
w ith great ta rd in e ss
& v a lu a b le k in d they
lo o k r a th e r
good h a b i t s .
to
sub
p o s i t i v e hum an
in H a w a iia n s.
c a n h a r d l y be s a i d
f o r go o d i m p u ls e s n o w , r a t h e r
The l a t t e r
a re n o t
to b e e x p e c t e d .
so g r e a t an amount o f
la b o r i s
Hence
r e q u ire d
in
�Kohala
1859
15
th eir b e h a lf,
to p r o d u c e e v e n the
least
p o ssib le
amount
.
o f good &
perm anent f r u i t .
N ot r e a d e r s
We
-
shd hardly expect
are t h e y .
tracts,
They h a v e th e " H a e " ,
a d d itio n al
to t h e
the t r a c t s p a r t i c u l a r l y ,
sh d b e made u n d e r
have
s u c h a p e o p l e to b e h a b i t u a l r e a d e r s .
catalogue
r e a d as
&
is
others
not r a r e l y
to b e
h a s b e e n very great
in q u ir e
those who r e c e i v e
th a t
that
To t h i s
The d i s t r i b u t i o n
extent
to w h .
they
end,
I
w i t h my
they
shd be
lunas
effected,
my d e s i r e
these p u b lic a tio n s
I h a v e made i t
c o m p a r a t iv e l y f e w
a p oint
others
of
The c o n c l u s i o n
c o p ie s
to
t h e more
is
a
are r e a d i n t e l l i
them .
c o n tro v ersial tracts
& th e H o k u l o a ” h a v e h a d m ore r e a d e r s
amongst t h e s m a l l c l a s s who may b e
spoken of
-
c o m p a r a t iv e
en te rp risin g .
Th e ite m s
a rtic le s
of new s a r e
r e m a in f o r
l o o k e d o v er i n ou r p a p e r s , b u t
th e l a r g e r
class u n e x p lo r e d .
so u g h t f o r b e y o n d t h o s e n e c e s s a r y f o r
I
r e g a r d to
w i t h one e x c e p t i o n ,
as to t h i s m a t t e r .
g en tly , by
ly a s
so uls.
o f our s c h o o l t e a c h e r s &
c o n v ic tio n
ch iefly
so lic itu d e
other agency le s t
To s a t i s f y t h i s d e s i r e
c o m p u ls o r y
but
In
c a s e w i t h m a t t e r g i v e n to n a t i v e
to know t h e
i n t e l l i g e n t & o b s e rv in g ,
at p r e s e n t m o n t h ly
& m onths i n n a t i v e h o u s e s u n b e s t o w e d & u n
th e
in v ario u s w a y s ,
Th e
them to
scattered abroad.
have b e e n r e a d .
little
s u c c e s s iv e num bers,
f o r w eeks
&
of H a w a iia n bo o ks.
I h a v e f e l t no
own h a n d s , u n w i l l i n g to t r u s t
to l i e
"H o k u lo a "
G o d , a b l e s s i n g to t h e i r
d is t r ib u t e d the
suffered
th e
Nor
s e rio u sly
D istric t,
doubt
fo r the
o f 3 5 0 0 more
if
th e
average ann u al sale
19 y e a r s
or l e s s
p urely
- T h is
Books
so lid e r
are n o t
e d u c a tio n a l p u r p o s e s .
of B ib le s
p a s t wd amount t e n c o p i e s t o
excludes
the
th e g r a t u i t o u s
e .g .
In th is
a p o p u latio n
d istrib u tio n
�Kohala
1 6.
1859
In d u str y w d Icd
A r e we as a p e o p le
rep ly
in the
a ffirm ativ e .
r e p l i e d w i t h some c o n f i d e n c e
h o w e v e r , w i t h the
alon e
w ere
is
but the
A few y e a rs
c o n d itio n ,
im provem ent was b u t
sin c e
I
a w h ile
a co m p u lso ry n e g a t i v e
past,
apparent
its
throughout
b ita n t
p ro du c e w h .
t h e d i s p o s i t i o n to
sense
greater
years
ago.
in
the
w ell
c o n f i n e th e m s e lv e s
in ev ery good p u r p o s e ,
extrem e.
In
so
to s t e a d y
in
some y e a r s we r e j o i c e
o f the l a z y
fit
la c k o f fo o d s u c c e e d s .
& the
all.
land l ie s
A n d th u s we l i v e
u n d e r a n i n t e r m i t t e n t f e v e r - now h o t &
t h is
I
So f a r as
am c o n v i n c e d
labo r,
- they are
A gain ,
neglected &
lik e
is
i n no
t h a n i t w as
o v er f l o u r i s h i n g
cared fo r & in abundance o f food fo r
a cc e ssio n
ju d g m e n t ,
at t h e p r e s e n t tim e am ongst t h e p e o p l e
As
d istric t
& b y exhor-
then p r e v a il e d .
my o b s e r v a t i o n e n a b l e s me to fo rm a c o r r e c t
that
the
character - in d u c e d pro
o f fa m in e w h . p r e c e d e d i t ,
fo r
t h a t we
A m ore g e n e r a l
b a b l y by the h a r d exp e rie n c e
C a lifo r n ia p rices
so
a cq u ain ta n c e
c iv iliza tio n .
te m p o r a r y i n
in du stry ?
sh d have
c h e r i s h e d i n tim e s
an i n d u s t r i o u s
c e r t a i n l y was f o r
of u s e fu l
W i t h my p r e s e n t r i p e r
The hope was
sure r o a d to
C u ltiv a tio n
-
p e o p le & t h e i r
allow ed o n e .
on th e
a d v a n c in g i n h a b i t s
fitfu l
farm s
comes
the
su ffe rin g
a p atien t
19
fo r
s u ffe rin g
a g a in sh iv e r in g
w ith co ld -
now s u r f e i t i n g w i t h f o o d & a g a i n p i n c h e d m ost p a i n f u l l y w i t h m e r c i
less
hunger.
One m ig h t n a t u r a l l y
fo r
a life
sup po se
o f u s e f u l w ork w d be
our H a w a iia n
civ iliza tio n .
that
im p o r te d f r .
the
latter,
t h o s e who e s c a p e
le arn
of
in H o no lulu.
a b u r ia l in
th e f i r s t
But
of
all
on b o a r d w h a l e r s
o c e a n - do o c c a s i o n a l l y r e t u r n to u s &
s t a y n o t to l i v e
some l i t t l e
th e g r e a t
Many o f o u r p e o p l e
rem ove to H o n o l u l u & n o t a f e w s h i p
Of the
at le a s t
o f the
i n d i v i d u a l who h a s
d isp o sitio n
centers
ages
for
of
do i n d e e d
the N o r t h .
t h a t m o st c r u e l o f g r a v e s so a l s o
s e am en ,
of
I
some who go to
have y e t
to
e v e r b r o ' t w i t h h im a r e a l
�17.
Kohala
1859
to h is
frien d s
or f o r h i m s e l f .
Those f r .
b r i n g w i t h them on t h e i r r e t u r n
it
is
lite rally
of la b o r.
rare
true
a fe w d o l l a r s
t h a t [they] b r i n g w i t h
t h o s e who h a v e
ly w it h their
so l e f t
us,
amongst u s ,
I
add that
th e
there
in m a t e r i a l s
b le ssin g
the
& f e e b l e hands
fa m ily ,
attended,
abandoned
For
but because
& I
I
in
m onths &
sheltered fr
th e y r e t u r n
at
of th eir
spare
tim e
en
scho o ls u n
so c ial & r e lig io u s
liv e
th e r a i n ,
-
a
p u l l up the
deso late,
short a l l
say curse
curses
I n s t e a d o f o c c u p y in g
t h e y o u ght - they
curse has
than
t h e y i n e v i t a b l y make
i n a m ost h e a t h e n i s h
- a n d a l l f o r a t h o u s a n d tim es w o r s e
or im p e r fe c tly
they
su ffic ie n c y
any o t h e r w is e
la n d s u n p l a n t e d , h o u s e s
& a b s o l u t e l y no' c o m fo r ts
& fo rlo r
n;
part
r e m a in as
th e g r e a t p u l u
th ey save n o t h in g p e c u n ia r il y w h il s t m o rally
E n tire ly
We h av e
or i n g r e a t
o f th e p e o p le
o f p u lu n e e d b y
a s i d e & go away f o r
s t y le
e n tirely
am ongst u s ,
i n g a t h e r i n g p u l u as
cast
ou r p e o p l e
to any g o o d p u r p o s e .
the san c tu ary fo rsaken &
p riv ile g e s
&
as
th in g be p o s s i b l e .
le a v in g
of
our p o p u l a t i o n d u r i n g t h e y e a r .
the g a t h e r i n g
if
perm anent
reason w i l l be u n d e rsto o d .
speak i n t e l l i g e n t l y .
th e h a b i t s
s o c ia l progress
to H a w a i i a n s ,
b le ssin g s
its
t h e r e w ere n o t p r e v i o u s l y a g r e a t
s u f f e r e d to in v a d e
not b ecause
tire
so lo n g as
As t h o ’
o f o b s t a c l e s to
been
settle
& s t r u c t u r e - b u t t h e s e w i l l n e v e r b e m uch i n
- a m ere n e g a t i v e q u a n t i t y
P ulu -
are very
sub stan tial
other resources
several d w e llin g h o u se s,
c r e a s e d i n num bers
are
in stan ces
e v e r r e t u r n to
s t a t e m e n t & a ls o
somewhat in t im a t e & h e n c e
u p & g o i n g up
fo re ig n
th e
is v ery l i t t l e
My a c q u a i n t a n c e w i t h the p e c u n i a r y &
r e g a r d as
- of bo th c lasses
frie n d s.
Wh e n t h e r e f o r e
I
- but
them no v a l u a b l e h a b i t s
A nd i t may be a d d e d o f b o t h t h a t
in wh.
th rift
the C i t y do n o w & t h e n
th a n n o t h i n g .
they lo se m uch.
w it h very
scanty fo o d
le n g th lo o k in g m ise ra b ly
do u bt n o t f e e l w o r s e th a n t h e y l o o k .
A ll
o ld
e x h o rta tio n
�Kohala
1859
to r e m a in
to il
18
in
c o m fo r t a b le homes &
on t h e i r
own la n d s
s o c ia l p riv ile g e s
G o d t h a t He h as
ever -
suffered
engaged i n
h av e gone f r .
M o rals.
in reports
th is
part
standard
fr.
th is
on u p o n
as t h e w i n d .
I
d ec eiv e
good,
o u rselv es
&
am most g r a t e f u l to
so p a r t i a l l y h o w
"T h e m o r a ls
I s no
others
suppose,
of
our p e o p l e a r e
"W h a t
state
d a n g e r l e s t we u n i n t e n t i o n a l l y
o f m o r a ls
as u n q u e s t i o n a b l y
it
surface.
I
ported f r .
o f n o th in g
e x i s t s w i t h u s as
c o n n e c t e d w i t h the s u b j e c t
of
A d e sire
the tru e m o r a l state
of
w a y s , made d i l i g e n t
I have
th e
in q u iry &
is
to t h o s e
d e p t h b e lo w the
lo o k in g b e n e a t h the
facts r e l a t e d
the g r e a te r th e
of fem ale
in E z e
a b o m in a t i o n s
e d u c a t i o n - as r e
- made n o
slig h t
im p r e s
was t h e r e b y e x c i t e d to know more f u l l y
our p e o p l e .
exten d b a c k thro
th is
is better
to us who l i v e
or l e s s
th e A s s o n l a s t y e a r
s i o n u p o n my m in d -
in q u irie s
so l i k e
The f u r t h e r the d i g g i n g ,
the M e e tin g
is,
v a s tly b e tter than i t
t h e i r p a i n s t a k i n g way to a g r e a t e r
D is c u ss io n s
term s u s u a l l y
amongst H a w a i i a n s
who d e l v e
v isio n -
good” has
I f we mean b y " g o o d " m e r e l y
little
surface of H a w a iia n S o c ie t y ,
as i t
our o n l y
o f m o r a l s may b e
t o o , by thus lo o s e ly u s in g
the s t a t e
can c o n c e i v e
fo rm s
s ig n ifica tio n .
& q u ite
of S o c i e t y
o n ly a s m a l l num ber
se e in g re p e a te d y e a r a f t e r y e a r
am ongst u s " ?
In th is
once w a s ;
But
of th e in q u ir y
there
Beyond q u e s t io n ,
it
I h a v e b e e n w o n t to
our I s l a n d s ,
r e g a r d e d as f i x e d
k i e l 's
&
of the D i s t .
c a lle d ” good"
c o m p a r a t iv e l y
surface
of steady
th eir r e l ig io u s
e v i l to d i s t u r
b us
of m o r a l s .
a c o n sid e ra tio n
truth fully
on t h e
id le
sure rew ards
c o lle c tin g p ulu - but
The D e c a l o g u e ,
& in fa llib le
than
as
to h o l d
th e
A l a r g e p r o p o r t i o n o f our S . W e s t e r n p o p u l a t i o n h a v e b e e n
m ore o r l e s s
l e d to
- is
& also
secure
To t h i s
carefu l
5 years
en d I
o b se rv a tio n .
have,
in
proper
In f a c t ,
these
or more -
gone c a r e f u l l y t h r o ’ .. e .g . w i t h th e f a m i l i e s
- the
stead ier
�Kohala
1859
19.
& m ore r e l i a b l e
first
in
part
o f th e p o p u l a t i o n - as n e e d h a r d l y
our im m ediate v i c i n i t y &
then furth er
solely
to the g r e a t n a t i o n a l t a i n t
radiu s
o f 2 m il e s
fr.
county d i s t r i c t , but
m other,
two f a m i l i e s
or b o t h o f w h .
repeated v io la tio n s
there
c o n c e r n in g
vows.
It
The l a r g e r p a r t
d is a g r e e m e n t
- & not
w ith l i f e
its e lf.
im m e d ia t e f r i e n d s
o f the
e v e r k n e w o f the
exposure
of
o t h e r w is e ?
I
c h h . member or
re n d e re d exposure
How l e t
years
p a rtie s
a frie n d s'
or a s k i l l f u l
lic e n tio u s
s c a t t e r e d to t h e f o u r w in d s
p l a t i o n t o an e t e r n i t y
speak of a l l
lie f
t h a t a s m a ll
w ere
s t i l l v irtu o u s.
sin c e
class
Few, I
at
that w it h in
if
can only
cease
the
- b u t who
circ u m sta n c e s
of p o l i c y
fa m ilie s
o ld a g e
is
-
wh.
19
- o m ittin g
i n f i n i t e l y worse
can n o t b u t
expressed w ith a ll
in
the
co n tem
t h i n k the
p ic tu re
c o n f i d e n c e my b e
o f our y o u n g u n m a r r i e d f e m a l e s
however extra v a g a n t
th e
i d e a may a p p e a r
l e d me m ost p a i n f u l l y b u t u n a v o i d a b l y
the r a d i u s , a f o r e s a i d ,
a H a w a i i a n g i r l a bo ve
am s u r e ,
I
have
t a k e n no
c o n v e r s a t i o n w i t h an i n t e l l i g e n t
least
Now,
to my B r n , my i n q u i r i e s
e xist
in
cases
c o n d u c t h a s m ean tim e b r o k e n u p &
o f l i v i n g woe - & I
A gain ,
a few y e a rs
to th e b e l i e f
or w hat
one or
by a H a w a i i a n -
stroke
gone i n
the age
there
does not
o f p u b e r t y who h a s n o t
fallen.
any g e t b e y o n d the p e r i o d o f s c h o o l a t t e n d a n c e
w ith u n s o ile d h ono r.
I
the
c a u s e d d o m e s t ic
mean where n o p e c u l i a r
sin c e h ad heads not a lready f a r
fo re ig n e r
la w h a s
la p se,
or
a l l these
i n t e r e s t e d more d i r e c t l y
i t b e rem em bered t h a t I
m o st u n i n v i t i n g .
the
of
c a s e s h a v e b e e n w e l l know n to
a n e c e ssity
e n t i r e l y th e s c o r e s w h .
is
e v id e n c e
o f them h av e h o w ev e r
these
in th is
e ith e r the f a t h e r
s e ld o m p e r p e t u a l b i c k e r i n g s , w h .
A ll
Talcing a
is tru e that
h a v e n o t b e e n o p e n ly k n o w n & most p e r h a p s ,
co g n izan c e .
-
are now l i v i n g ,
I have not s a t is fa c to r y
o f m arriage
said -
o f f , w it h reference
- lic e n tio u sn e ss
our own d w e l l i n g ,
be
g iv e fa c t s
d
c
in
e v id e n c e w h . wd s a t i s f y
�Kohala
1859
t h e most f a s t i d i o u s
on t h i s
The more Hawn s o c i a l
p oint.
& d o m e s t ic
life
opens up to
t h e m ore a p p a l l i n g t h e s c e n e b e c o m e s ; & t h i s ,
r e f e r e n c e to o v e r t
as m ig h t
no t
o n ly w i t h
or c o n c e a l e d l i c e n t i o u s [ n e s s ] ,
e a s i l y h e made to a p p e a r w er e t h i s
by
In f a c t ,
not
among a p e o p l e who h e r d b y d a y & b y n i g h t
s m a l l room - bo th s e x e s ,
a ll the w h ile ,
all
o f u n fa t h o m e d p o l l u t i o n may we
ages
- all
In v o lu n t a r ily d rin k in g
c o n d itio n s
i n the
n a t io n poured f o r t h f r .
hearts
a l i f e - l o n g d e v o t i o n to
e v e r y e v i l w ork?
cd a t r a c e
G o d th e
Gospel
same
c e n tio u s
th a t
C o rin th ia n s,
in flu en ces
of H is
Our p o p u l a t i o n ,
its
v a rio u s r e l a t io n s
the Is la n d s .
&
q u ie t.
are
on the
eral
Is la n d .
to
th a t
Oh,
of any o t h e r
surface
of
litig a tio n
o u t b r e a k in g
- not an in d iv id u a l
cut h i s h a i r
of
the
y o u ng
acts,
fo r m e r l y
as
teeth
pure
is
o ffic e rs
&
in
on
sm ooth
I b e lie v e
other D i s t .
lik e
a gen
any o f i t s m a n i f o l d
c h ief K in au ,
in flu e n ce &
o f the d i s t r i c t
or k n o c k e d out h i s
licen tio u s
is
we h a v e known n o t h i n g
o f d e b a u c h e r y - & a i d e d to o by th e
g racio u s
c o u n ty d i s t r i c t
in
li
preached Gospel !
fo u nd i n any
o f w ic k e d n e s s
or-,
less
fo r the
our d a i l y l i f e
than i s
itse lf
B u t p r a i s e d be
e m in e n t ly c a l c u l a t e d to aw aken t h e
or
a b o m i
- f o r by n o
i s no r e a s o n t o d o u b t ,
E v en at t h e d e a t h o f t h e l a t e
c ir c u m s t a n c e s
M other
a life
e n e r g i z e now t h i s
F o r many y e a r s
or p a r t i a l
fo rm s.
of su c h
We a r e f a v o r e d w i t h f a i t h f u l p u b l i c
less
of
s a v e d t h e more r e f i n e d b u t n o t
C e r t a in ly the
annoyed w ith
- the young,
stream s
of v ir t u e by p re s e r v e d .
there
as
one
A n g e lic p u r it y
can save H a w a ii n e i .
S p irit
in
o ld i n d e p r a v it y & h a r d e n e d by
w d corrupt und er t h e in f l u e n c e s
d i n a r y means
any m ea n s,
th e tim e & p l a c e
therefo r.
expect
w h a t depths
our v ie w ,
under
o l d Hawn S p i r i t
exam ple
of h is
e ith e r b u r n e d h is
face
or com m itted a n y o t h e r
i n vogue upon s u c h
o c c a sio n s.
�Kohala 1859
A ll
21.
t h i s may t r u l y b e s a id &
so may a l l
that.
R o m a n ism
is
tho ro u ghly awake,
It
i s m o reover a fo e n o t
error
among us
in
a ctiv e, v ig ila n t,
fan cy in g
i n the
ten y e a r s
cannot
av o id the b e l i e f
battle
lo n g to b e
of the
crise s
cio u s
past?
in
to b e
d esp ised .
& re p o rtin g
The
of H is
our m is s y w ork
We a r e
to b e
e v e r d y in g or d e a d ,
so easily.-
seems
contested.
In
to b e u p o n u s &
sure in
any e v e n t ,
m a n ly
if
s p e a k in g P o p e r y h a d
th e
cau se
& heart
of
t r u e to
h isto ry
fo r
advantages
o b je c t
o f our r a c e d e c l a r e
n e c te d w ith th e
C ap tiv ity
-
snare
p o ssib le "
Jews f r .
fact
one
O ur G r a
to m eet
lo se s
in
fo r t h e i r
It
of w o r s h i p ,
the h e rita g e
somewhat o f
presents
let
Yet
to
its
Hu
the
th e
eye
corrupt
the r e l i g i o u s
the p o r tio n
out
H a w a iia n s
feet?
&
th e w ork o f p r o s e l y t i n g
secure.
the d e p a r t u r e
it
w i l l n o t s u r p r i s e me
- p a rtic u la rly
How c an our f e e b l e
la id
a
& many o f i t s n o m in a l a d h e r e n t s .
truth can n ever
a v isib le
I
ourselves
o f f a l l e n man a s e e n God - A n d how d e s p e r a t e l y
man l u s t s
subtle
It
P ro te stan tism
amongs t H a w a iia n s
if
- n e it h e r m ore,
on t h e s e I s l a n d s .
g reatly how ever,
b e e n an
t h a t we h a v e im m e d ia t e ly b e f o r e u s
fo u gh t & h o tly
own p l a n t i n g
p restig e
they
it
there not
o ld d r a g o n d i e s n o t
to H im t h a t He w i l l n o t f o r s a k e u s
wh.
Has
L o r d a lo n e knows how much w is d o m & z e a l we n e e d
successfully .
very
subtle & u b iq u it o u s .
of Egypt
of
till
it
con
the
e s c a p e t h i s m ost
" W i t h God a l l t h i n g s
are
- & w hat n e e d we say or d e s i r e m ore?
Our w eapo n s a r e n o t i n d e e d c a r n a l - b u t
s p i r i t u a l ..
a r e m ig h t y t h i s
of t h e s t r o n g h o l d s
o f th e
adversary.
w i t h th e m .
He t h a t
We s u r e l y h a v e
battle
- v ic t o r y is
won.
.
.
God to the p u l l i n g , down
already
i s w i t h us
is
e v e r y t h i n g to
sure,
even
Yet.
more t h a n t h e y wh o
c h e e r us
tho'
it
are
on to t h e
may n o t b e
easily
�22.
Kohala 1859
I
said
b y m arriage
fr.
the
changes
that
P o p e r y w as
to a p a p i s t
& I
active.
have h e a r d
are u s u a l l y b r o t
to d r a w t h e i r
a s u b je c t
herence
of
-world - how many I h a v e no means
frien d s
re lativ e s
of
converts g a in e d
d e t e r m in in g
-
These
teasing o f f r i e n d s
th e m s e lv e s make i t
g iv e n i n h is
Wd that
have
ever b e e n w i s e r th a n t h e
our p e o p le
th e t r u t h .
c h i l d n of
a re fr e e ly c irc u la te d in the d i s t r i c t ,
little
r e a d as
p op ery not bec a u se
m oved upon f r .
a re our
sound re aso n s
w it h o u t b y
own.
ch ild n of
th is w orld
lig h t.
P a p ist
so f a r
others,
f e a r t h e sam e i s b u t
as
The H a w a i i a n
I
tracts
can l e a r n
c o n v e r t s , to
c o n v e r s io n - b u t b e c a u s e
some c o n s i d e r a t i o n s w h .
p e r s o n a l & u n a p p r e c ia b le by
ad
of t h e i r
but
in d u c e
h old
had a tith e
But the
&
a p o in t
t h e y r a r e l y d ro p h im t i l l h e h a s
in d is s e m in a t in g
th ith er & I
several
c h h . member
When f a i r l y
zeal
they a re
one
a fte r them .
to the P o p e .
&
lo st
about by in c e ssa n t
r e l a t i v e s who h a v i n g gone to p o p e r y
of
We h a v e
a b lin d
too t r u e
a re
im p u lse
o f many o f
p urely
lead s
ou r
h im
own
converts.
1859
S t a t is t ic s o f K oh ala Chh.
R e c d on P r o f e s s i o n
"
C e rtific ate
P a s t y e a r on P r o f e s s i o n
"
"
C e rtific a te
W h o le num ber p a s t y r
”
d is m d to o t h e r c h h .
"
past year
W h o le num ber d e c e a s e d
Past year
"
"
Suspended
R e m a in
"
E xc o m ^ p a s t y e a r
W h o le num ber excomd
R e m a in
"
W hole n um ber i n g o o d
s tan d in g
"
c h ild n b a p tise d
Past y ea r
”
M arriages past y e a r
A v . num ber o f c o n g r e g a
tio n
2136
748
23
7
30
503
13
992
28
9
9
9
591
446
934
1251
36
31
375
K oku a
in
cash
P a s t o r 's S a l a r y
M on. Concert
For B e ll
For School Houses
Total
$ 5 7 1 .1 8
3 1 2 .6 2
2 9 .2 5
4 4 4 .4 4
$ 1 3 5 7 .5 0
[ U n s i g n e d , b u t on b a c k : ]
K oh ala C hurch
1860
E l l a s Bond
Report f o r
1859
1 /4
1 /2
�1860 & 1
Report of Kohala
A 20th
annual report
common p l a c e s
recurrence
for
of M i s s y l i f e .
th a t
e ffic ie n t
fa v o rab le
the
do,
in the
s u p p o s it io n has
& fa ilu re
A n d not
s e lf- a b a s e m e n t b e f o r e G o d ,
what i t
C h rist
even u n d e r t h e m ost
& H is
s h o u ld h a v e b e e n
short
in th e least
of the p a s t ,
in v ie w
That
its
h as b e e n w r i t t e n
is
its
of th e p e r i o d a l l o t t e d
ir r e c o v e r a b ly gone -
c r o w d in g m em ories
fo r
a d m o n is h e d b y
se rv ic e ,
tim e r e m a in in g
h e must do q u i c k l y .
a c h ie v e m e n t s
can h u t h e
M a s t e r 's
of s u c c e s s
w arned that th e
t a u g h t by th e
One
to h e n um bered am o ng st t h e
la rg e r & b e t t e r p o rtio n
labo r
o f go o d & e v i l ,
He i s
is h a r d ly
h isto ry
for
etern ity .
- that w hat h e w ou ld
among t h e
is
that
le sso n s
o f b e c o m in g
o f t h e m eager r e c o r d o f h i s
c h u r c h - as n o t h i n g
- as n o t h i n g
com pared w it h
com pared w i t h w hat h e w o u l d
f a i n h a v e made i t !
And y e t that
a
c e n tu r y
in
one h a s
been
s u f f e r e d to
employ t h e f i f t h
the b l e s s e d w ork o f b e s e e c h i n g men to b e
to G o d , w h i l s t
it
& whom w e s e r v e .
A nd h e r e w o u ld we r a i s e
e r t o h a t h the L o r d h e l p e d u s .
h ealth
through a l l
the p a s t
h arm o n y w i t h t h e p e o p le
stacles
ledge
to h i n d e r
rec o n c iled
a f f o r d s no- g r o u n d o f s e l f - c o m p l a c e n c e ,
m a n d a n e x p r e s s i o n o f; e a r n e s t . t h a n k f u l n e s s
the
to the p r a i s e
&
&
our E b e n e z e r ,
granted r e la t io n s
of H is
does
de
we are
fo r h ith
vo uch safed u nb ro k en
s u f f e r e d no u n u s u a l l y
progress
of H is
to Him w h o s e
Th at He h a s
of
truth,
of u n i n t e r r u p t e d
fo rm id a b le
we w o u l d h e r e
o b
a ck n o w
a b o u n d in g g r a c e .
God h as n o t l e f t H i m s e l f w i t h o u t w i t n e s s m o r e o v e r am ongst
th is
p eo p le.
e f f o r t s m ade,
w ell- b e in g .
He h a s
e v e r b e s t o w e d a m ea su re
as w e l l f o r
In
th e m aterial
the g e n e r a l p rogress
of
of
s u c c e s s u p o n th e
as f o r t h e i r
events,
th is
sp iritu al
D istric t
�Kohala
has
1860 & 61
not been
e v e ry w h e r e
these
l e f t w ith o u t
a bo u t u s .
its
fu ll
good &
to t h e y e a r now c l o s e d ,
m e rc ie s, yet
l i k e m any o f i t s
A ltern ate
lig h ts
s u c c e s s io n across
co nstantly
h in d ran c e
extra o rd in ary
o n ly f o r
one a n o t h e r
is b e lie v e d
in
state
of
good of m a n i f o l d
its record is
our e x p e r i e n c e .
the w e a t h e r t h r o u g h the
t h e c o u n tr y f l o o d e d ,
a v a rie d
The c h i e f
e n tire y e a r .
& these
in clem en t,
greatly
The
In terru p ted s o c ia l
o rd in a ry e x e r c is e s
s c h o o ls h a v e b o t h ,
b e e n e n t ir e ly suspended f o r b r i e f
S a b b a t h s w e h a d no
s e rv ic e
of the p re v a ilin g ra in s
v io u s ly never known.
in
our H o u s e
- an e v e n t
Yet I
I n no
sin g le
the
o f t h e Sab~
cause.
v isit
us
& the
to b e
su c c essiv e
i n consequence
able
to s a y ,
or e s s e n t i a l l y
is
- y e t we h a v e b e e n
d e s c e n d e d upon u s .
of G o d , h a s
d isa p p o in te d .
Some d i v i s i o n s
that
in te rru p te d ,
o n ly p r o p e r t o
p r o m is e d more t h a n h a s ,
S p irit
In
in s ta n c e s ,
add that ap
C h e e rin g In d ic a t io n s
In fa c t , been r e a lize d .
We h a v e p r a y e d much & t o i l e d m uch to s e c u r e a b l e s s i n g f o r
p o p u latio n ;
in te r
l i k e o f w h ic h we h ad p r e
labors have not b een i n v a i n .
h o w e v e r h a v e at tim e s
th is
h a v e my l a b o r s b e e n m ore a b u n
or more c h e e r f u l l y b e s t o w e d & i t
these
& fo r two
of w
o r sh ip
am t h a n k f u l
[y e a r ]
in several
in te r v a ls
p a s t o r a l la b o r h a s n o t b e e n c u r t a i l e d
any c a u s e .
to g e th e r w ith
ev en f o r
a l s o b e e n u n f a v o r a b l y a f f e c t e d b y the same
d e e d w e e k ly m e e t in g s &
Ex
se n sib ly w ith th e r e g u la r it y & u se fu ln e s s
o f our v a r i o u s w e e k l y m e e t i n g s .
tire
that
our w o rk h a s h o w e v e r s p r u n g fro m the p r o v i d e n t i a l l y
course & in t e r fe r e d v e ry
p aren tly,
effected
Events h o p e fu l & untow ard have
n o t o r i o u s l y w in d y D i s t r i c t hav e
dant
it
i t has b e e n a year
co n tin ued heavy g a le s u n u s u a lly c o l d &
by
th e c h a n g e s
& shadow s h a v e p a s s e d I n som ew hat r a p i d
c e s s iv e r a in s h ave kept
b a t h have
in
predecessors
our h o r i z o n .
succeeded
la
share
A n d f o r t h e m ost p a r t ,
changes have b e e n fo r
As
one.
2.
of the
at tim es
th is
en
s eem ed r e a d y t o
No g e n e r a l b l e s s i n g h a s
f i e l d h a v e b e e n m ore t h a n
�Kohala 1860 & 61
u sually
in te r e ste d i n serio u s
t h e p e o p l e has
yet
in th is
th in gs;
C h rist.
wered,
but
a s m a ll p o r t i o n
o n l y of
w ay h o w e v e r , b e e n f a v o r a b l y a f f e c t e d .
t h e w o r d o f God s t a n d e t h s u r e .
Jesus
The p r o m is e s
A n d a l t h o u g h our p r a y e r s
assurance
t h a t God i s
- a c o v e n a n t- k e e p in g G o d .
& darkness
are
still
have not been f u l l y
a hearer &
answ erer
A nd t r u s t H im we w i l l ,
at tim e s ro un d- abo u t H i s
A nd
a r e y e a & Amen i n
ans
as we h av e l o n g e d to hav e th e m , we n e v e r t h e l e s s h a v e
c o m f o r t in g
er
3.
th e
of p r a y
t h o u g h c lo u d s
throne.
The C hu rc h
I n the
It
is
still
church w h ils t
true
that
in
we can n o t as
several
of
& as
No ro o t
tro uble
a
a revival,
d iv isio n s
m e e t in g s
consequence h av e been
C o n s i d e r a b l e num bers
p r o f e s s e d l y b e e n b r o u g h t to r e p e n t a n c e ,
r e c e i v e d in t o t h e
s a id report
our s m a l l e r
h a v e b e e n o f m ore than u s u a l i n t e r e s t
m ore than u s u a l l y w e l l a t t e n d e d .
just
a fe w
a lso
have
of whom h a v e b e e n
church.
of b it t e r n e s s h a s b e e n
u s & no more t h a n
suffered,
s p r in g in g up
t h e u s u a l am ount o f d i s c i p l i n e
to
has
been
called fo r .
B e n e fic e n ce
I n the F a t h e r l a n d we
o f b e n e fic e n c e
the
fact
o ut t h e
is
as
p urely
r
such.
e n te rp rise ,
The p a s t o r 's
scarcely
s t r i c t l y m a tte r s
p a l e o f th e c h h .
of C h ristia n
s h o u ld
It
Is
of chh.
a rare
adds h i s
s a la r y m oreover,
in te re st.
occurrence
m it e f o r
w h ic h claim s
speak of the
our
d isc h arg e
of w h ic h
ju stic e .
A nd y e t
reported -
rather
r a t h e r to b e r e g a r d e d sim p ly
our
o f the
one w i t h
o b jects
o r d in a r ily , w o u ld not be regarded
as com ing u n d e r t h i s h e a d - i t b e i n g
as
any
co n trib u tio n s.
elsew here
is
Y e t w i t h us
that
any one
duty & fa c t
custom h a s b e e n ,
so now i t
as
is
a debt the
an act
of
h e re w ith
�Kohala 1860 & 61
4.
P asto rs S alary
Mon. C oncert
Sc h o o l Houses
B e l l to w e r
Total
Two
sm all h o u s e s u s e d
j o i n t l y f o r m e e t in g s
f i n i s h e d d u r i n g the y e a r & two
c o m p le t e d as s o o n as the
others
two f i n i s h e d w e r e b u i l t ,
fo r
$450.
The f o u r h o u s e s
all
one a t
of t h i s
p rep ara tio n,
an e x p e n s e
to b e
to do th e w o r k .
of $8 1 5 & t h e other
descrip tio n h i t h e r t o
b u ilt
prove
scarce,
& we have l e a r n e d
fo r t h e
c o m p u ls o r y , b u t most unw elcom e l e s s o n t h a t we a r e a
m i s e r a b l y poor p e o p l e *
are d e s t it u t e
of
fo r p ec u n ia ry
su p p lies.
any e n t e r p r i s e ,
The
have been
our e x p e c t a t i o n s h a v e n o t b e e n f u l l y
Money h a s b e e n e x c e e d i n g l y
h u n d r e d t h tim e
& scho o ls
our n e c e s s i t i e s .
I n t h e m a tt er o f b u i l d i n g ,
m et.
are in
workm en s h a l l b e a b l e
The
am ply s u f f i c i e n t f o r
$ 4 6 7 .3 0
2 3 9 .6 0
6 8 7 .3 7
1 8 4 .0 0
$ 1 5 7 8 .2 7
Beyo n d any o t h e r
a ll resources
to
is
on t h e
to w h i c h w e may f u r n
Our o n ly a l t e r n a t i v e
a w a it i n
lesso n I repeat
d istric t
p a tie n c e
a harsh one,
is,
th e proceeds
but
I s l a n d we
in tim e
of n e e d ,
when h a r d up i n
of fu tu r e
effo rts.
doubtless n e e d f u l t o b e
learned.
If
now to t h i s
it be
o f the new school houses
added that
a t the
r e c e n tly com p leted,
s l a u g h t e r e d by a f e w c h h . m em bers, b e s i d e s
turkeys,
fo u ls,
fish
& p o i,
there w i l l
a c q u a in t e d w ith H a w a iia n p e c u l i a r i t i e s ,
betw een the
gross
two s t a t e m e n t s .
a little
life,
(e .g .
lik e
that
& that
even t h e
the greatest
amount
one
of p ig s ,
one u n
in c o n g ru ity
to c a r e f o r
of th e f e a s t
commonest
m erely to g r a t i f y
th e u s u a l
s u r e l y seem to a n y
th e f u t u r e
fo r
50 b u llo c k s w ere
both are s t r i c t l y
f o r e t h o u g h t w o u ld e a s i l y h a v e
th e i n d i v i d u a l o f
of
A nd y e t
Im p r o v id e n c e w h i c h l e a v e s
u p on an em ergency
entrance f e a s t
true.
The
itse lf &
spoken o f ,
fo r w h ic h
p ro v id e d ) w an to n ly s t r ip s
c o n v e n ie n c e s
a fo o lish
lo v e
& n e c e ssitie s
of d is p la y ,
is
even
�Kohala 1860 & 61
still
of
5.
c h a r g e a b l e u po n t h o s e i n
it.
the
That h a b it s
of
th is
as w e l l as
to
the d e v e l o p m e n t
progress
k in d
chh.
are a
C h r is t ia n character, need h ardly be
as w e l l as u p o n t h o s e
se rio u s h in d r a n c e
to
out
so c ia l
( ! ) of a s y m m e t r ic a l
said .
N a tiv e M in istry
V ario u s
c ir c u m s t a n c e s h a v e
w i t h more th a n
o rd in a ry
c o n sp ire d of
so lic itu d e ,
late
to c a l l a t t e n t i o n
to t h e s u b j e c t
of
a n ativ e
m in istry .
The n e c e s s i t y
o f some p r o v i s i o n
is g e n e r a lly
conceded.
other
And not
than that h it h e r t o
lie d
on,
m ost
s t r e n u o u s l y fr o m w it h o u t to s e e k n e e d e d s u p p l i e s
pressure
our c r i p p l e d c o n d i t i o n s t i l l more i m p e r a t i v e l y dem ands
a re
it
o n ly to b e
s im p ly to t a k e
u p o n God do w i t h i t
fo r these
the d u ties
of lab o rers,
as b e s t
su rely is
Th e
in c rease
w h ic h ,
chhs.
is
of God.
an e f f o r t
I f we f a i t h f u l l y
a t an e n d .
in c re a sin g
so f a r
as
We h a v e
appears,
therefore,
t h e raw m a t e r i a l i n h a n d &
we may i n
connected w it h t h is
ity
co nstantly
o b t a i n e d w i t h i n our own l i m i t s .
-mould s e e m ,
m in istry
th e
fr o m among
of
a s p e e d y & a n a m p le s u p p ly
a ls o
o n ly h a v e we b e e n u r g e d
t h e members
of
our own c h h s . b u t
re
laudable
to r e a r
d isch arge
e n te rp ris e ,
P a u l & A p o llo s
in re lia n c e
a n ativ e
ou r p a r t
our r e s p o n s ib il
can o n l y p l a n t &
To my m ind a l l t h i s
is
of
perfectly
w ater.
clear
-
as a t h e o r y .
As
to t h e p r a c t i c a l
m ore o b s c u r e .
in surm o u n table,
fessed,
a p p licatio n
D iffic u ltie s
in v e st
the
fact
there
cannot be fo u n d c a n d id ate s
It
is
T h is
s tra its.
alou s
altars.
i n th e h i s t o r y
d e ta ils,
t h e most f o r m i d a b l e &
s u b je c t.
f o r we are i n great
of it s
of C h ristia n
q u ite p o ssib le
n o th in g
can be
to hum an v i e w
i s most u n w i l l i n g l y
And c e r t a in ly
Chh.
su ffic ie n t
if
in
It
i s an anom
2 0 ,0 0 0
f o r th e
t h a t we may l a c k f a i t h
C h h . members
se rv ic e
in
con
of her
d ea lin g
�Kohala
1860 & 61
w ith th is
6
m atter.
How ever th a t may h e , I
I
resolv ed,
early
as made k n o w n ,
younger
in
One whom I
w i s h to
i n t h e y e a r to
say h e r e t h a t
f o r the
regarded
c an didates
My h o p e s
of my p u r p o s e ,
He c h e e r f u l l y
I
serv ic e.
But
U p o n my r e t u r n f r .
not
&
t e ll how.
the
the
6th at
p r o p o s e d to h im
the v a n it y
H ilo
in
Oct.
fr o m t h i s
over
W o u ld i t
our w ho le
the broadest
& at
life ,
c h a r ity
t h e same
tim e
is
fie ld ,
m en a r e v e r y l i t t l e
d istric t
c h i e f l y fr o m t h i s
fact.
our y o u n g men f o r
teachers
have n ever
d iv id u a l
secured u n t i l
of a l l
to r e t u r n &
liv e
&
is
to r e g a r d
Now,
In
It
& p o ssib ly
20 years
or f o r
w it h i n
our g r a d u a t e s
in h is
I
is
q u ite
as
the w o r k
that
life
our d e s t i t u t i o n
any &
the la st
of
to il
of h is
our y o u n g
of a
arises
in re arin g
ev ery other good w ork , we
two y e a r s ,
fr o m th e S e m in a r y a t
n a tiv e D i s t r i c t .
lo o k c a r e fu lly
of p rea c h in g
true,
of in cessa n t
of
A sad
jud g m e n t
o ffic e
th is
need
some s t a g e
six f e l l .
fo r the
I
Sacred O ffice
who h a v e b e e n i n
true I
the
p ro v e rb ia l.
f o r th e
each of the
to my v i e w .
ours,
length Ko
or M i s s y f o r
a t t r a c t e d t o w a r d t h e m onotonous
lik e
at
one i n d i v i d u a l who i n t h e
w illin g
in stru c tio n
t h e y o u ng man h a d f a l l e n .
at a l l f i t t e d
also
presents h im se lf
country
o f hum an h o p e s
w ere n o t to o p a i n f u l l y
fie l d & not
that
one P a s t o r
T h i s was my s e c o n d c a n d i d a t e
least
such
& to t h e p e o p l e ,
s a n g u in e
p ro v id in g
p reparatory course t h e r e t o ,
record.
soon f o u n d .
a c c e p t e d th e w o rk & p e r f o r m e d i t
a c c o r d i n g l y w er e q u i t e
h a l a n e i w o u ld b e h o n o r e d i n
so f a r
fr o m am ong our
at a p r o p e r t im e to g i v e h im s u c h t h e o l o g i c a l
as h e m ight n e e d .
M a s t e r 's
i n d iv id u al
C h ris tia n M in is tr y .
employment as w o u ld b e u s e f u l b o t h t o h i m s e l f
w ell.
an
duty,
as a h o p e f u l y o u n g man w as
s p e a k in g d e f i n i t e l y
d e sig n in g
as
a im to do my w ho le
s e e k i n g out s u i t a b l e
chh.. m em bers,
W ith o u t
.
As
a sin g le
in
Lah ain a lu n a ,
soon as
ou r y o u n g men
�Kohala
le a v e
&
(I
1860 & 61
7
the S e m i n a r y , th e y
w ish
it
seek
co uld he a d d e d )
some more c e n t r a l p l a c e
some more u s e f u l
c o u l d h e r e h e a f f o r d e d th e m .
rem ark,
it
Is c e r t a i n t h a t
r e t u r n h it h e r & hence
our d u e
cr y in g
out,
be f a i r l y
fin d
a tith e
to h e r
bouts
is
o f the
se rv ic e !
&
su b je c t,
done?
It
is
to p r o v id e
chh.
I
f i n d m y s e lf
ever &
a p a in fu l a lte r n a tiv e ,
cannot.
s im p ly b e c a u s e
class
fa ilin g
so b o o t l e s s w i t h a l
is none
as the
as r u n n i n g
must
co uld but
even to
c o n je c tu re
d u ties
so f u l l
of s o lic itu d e ,
re
to w a s t e
chh . n e g l e c t e d to
cares &
attem pt
th is
It
In
c a l l th e m
the wherea
o f y o u n g m en, my own c o n v i c t i o n
the arduous
there
the
anon
of valuab le m a t e r ia l,
a t P em berto n S q u a r e ,
But a l a s ,
among a l l
M is s y ,
o f the
s u p e r a b o u n d in g mass
of that la rg e
H a w a iia n
do n o t
A n d h o w e a s i l y & d e l i g h t f u l l y met i f we
em ploym ents,
that
o u r g r a d u a t e s fr o m the S e m in a r y
We w o u l d f a i n a v o i d i t b u t
p o r t e d to o u r f r i e n d s
secular
latter
the se rv ic e
"W h a t can h e
m et.
may h e as to
than
th is
t o us v i t a l
now p r e s e n t e d to u s .
employment
I w o u ld g l a d l y b e l i e v e our f a i l u r e
p r o p o r t io n f o r
I n v ie w o f th is
However i t
of re sid e n c e
assu red ly
d e v o lv in g upon the
so w e a r is o m e
to r a i s e up a c o m p e te n t H a w a i i a n
M in istry .
Th e m a t e r i a l
g iv e
th e
th e m selv es
when th e f e w who a r e
to t h i s w o r k a r e f o u n d ,
the n a t i o n a l v o r t e x o f d e f i l e m e n t
e x p e rie n c e
o f the
past.
a b l e to do a l l t h i n g s
to n e w l i f e
in
prayer &
We may n o t t h e r e f o r e
can
scanty &
how r a r e
i n e x o r a b l e r u l e w h i c h p r e m a t u r e ly sw eep s
in to
is
i s very
do a l l t h i n g s ,
fr o m among t h i s
W hat i s
to b e
& H is graciou s
Through C h r is t
even to t h e r e a r i n g
of
la rg e m a jo r ity
b e e n th e
o f th e f u t u r e ?
S p irit
is
God
a ro u s in g the C hh.
p re c io u s
se rv ic e .
s t r e n g t h e n in g u s , we
a m in istry fo r
A n d t h i s w i l l we d o ,
to
e x c e p t i o n s to
Such has
s e l f - c o n s e c r a t i o n to H i s
d e sp a ir.
p eo p le.
th e
& ru in !
th a t
the
w illin g
if
H is
God p e r m i t .
Chh.
�Kohala 1860 & 61
8.
E d u c atio n .
R e g a r d in g
in te re s t.
our s c h o o ls
little
is
i n c le m e n c y
of t h e w e a t h e r ,
& through the
In
Local d e s t it u t io n
w et,
lik e w ise
c o n se q u e n c e
of
the p u r s u it
of the
rem ark able
our s c h o o l s h a v e b e e n f r e q u e n t l y
e n tir e p er io d
tended.
has
of p a r tic u la r
The y e a r h as f u r n i s h e d a m arked i n s t a n c e
o f k n o w le d g e u n d e r d i f f i c u l t i e s .
rupted;
t o be r e p o r t e d ,
they have been v ery
of fo o d ,
c o n tr ib u te d it s
caused
fu ll
in part by
share,
in te r
th in ly
at
excessiv e
as u s u a l ,
to
the d i f
fic u lty .
A ft e r fo ur thorough,
each by i t s e l f ,
p e r s o n a l e x a m i n a t io n s
a reg ard fo r tr u th w i l l
any c o n s id e r a b le
advance f o r
the y e a r .
fu ln ess
t h a t u n d e r th e
s c h o o ls
have a c c o m p l is h e d a n y t h in g
p re v io u s
that
is
c o n d itio n .
a bo ut
vanced.
a l l th e y h a v e
in terest & r e s u lt s .
teachers
As
P i l g r i m 's
Progress
co n tin ued ,
is
no t &
c lasses
it
igm as t o them - and the
tia lly
as
a ffo rd e d m aterial
the m in ds
o f some at
scho o ls
ad
fo r u se fu l
least
o f th e
s c h o o l s , h a v e b e e n q u ic k e n e d t o n e w & h i g h e r
p o p u la r u s e ,
is
it
i s v e ry e v id e n t
o f no v a l u e w h a t e v e r .
They
fin d
It
of
It
same i n p a s s i n g may b e
c o u r s e of p u b l i c a t i o n
is
to my m i n d ,
an
e n tire
the p e o p l e .
in te llig e n t
a book of u n i n t e l l i g i b l e
to c o m p r e h e n s io n o f the m uch s i m p l e r
C r u s o e now i n
of
w ith g r a t ify in g
c a n n o t b e u n d e r s t o o d b y e v e n t h e m ore
of H a w a iia n s.
the
P r o g r e s s & A l e x a n d e r 's E v i d e n c e s ,
g e n e r a tio n i n advance of t h e m ental c a p a c it ie s
It
o f m uch t h a n k
T h e s e 3 or 4 h a v e p e r c e p t i b l y
teachers has been
of w h ic h ,
a bo o k for
a cause
e x c e p t i o n o f 3 or 4 o f o u r b e s t
done.
P i l g r i m 's
o f our p u b l i c
thought.
that
by means
is
a llo w me to r e p o r t
- e v en to th e m a in t e n a n c e
i n c o n n e c t i o n w i t h o th e r s t u d i e s h a v e
d isc u ssio n ,
It
scho o ls,
e x t r a o r d in a r ily untow ard c ir c u m s t a n c e s ,
W ith the
My S c h o o l f o r
h ardly
of the
en
said substan
story
o f R o binso n
i n th e H ae H a w a i i .
�Kohala
18 6 0
A fter
su b je c t,
9.
6 1
a l l t h e b la c k g u a rd ism
w i t h i n th e
m in d to r u n
narrow &
g iv in g
&
solely
last
fe w y e a r s ,
c h a n n e ls
stre n g th & no ble
own v e r n a c u l a r
for
(a s h a s b e e n t im e &
en feeb lin g
it
to w h ic h m i s s i o n a r i e s h a v e b e e n
co m p ellin g the H a w a iia n
a g a in r e it e r a t e d )
of a p u rita n th e o lo g y ,
e xp a n sio n ,
of some of th e r i c h & v a r i e d w orks
one o b s e r v e s
th e
first
th e
in s te a d
of
by t h e t r a n s l a t i o n i n t o
s c i e n c e w i t h w h i c h th e E n g l i s h a b o u n d s ,
terest that
in
it
in
lite r a tu r e &
i s w i t h no
& c o n tin ued
o rd in a ry i n
contact
of th e s e
m in d s w i t h some o f t h e v e r y
s im p l e s t & m ost a t t r a c t i v e w o r k s
the
literatu re.
e n tire range
w it h the
idea that
w i t h w h i c h they
sta n d in g
its
of E n g lish
rad ical h o s t ilit y
a re
id e n tifie d ,
of the c o n d i t i o n s
w ants,
is,
as
it
One can b u t b e
to m i s s i o n a r i e s
rather
its
in
im p r e s s e d
& the
cause,
th a n a n y t o l e r a b l e u n d e r
o f the H a w a i i a n m in d or s y m p ath y w i t h
ever h a s b e e n t h e m o v in g c a u s e
of a l l
th is
v itu p e ra tio n .
N ew & a t t r a c t i v e bo o k s
te lle c t u a l status
or ev en
be
of lig h t
are
i n d e e d dem an ded b y t h e p r e s e n t
o f our p e o p le ; yet
lite ra tu re
of good tendency c a n ,
of no s e r v ic e f o r p op u lar u s e .
h old
the t h r e a d o f the
ce p tio n s
e x t e n d e d w orks
n arratio n .
T h is
judgm ent
i s n e c e s s a r y to
effo rt w i l l n o t,
a s i d e , b e made & h e n c e no i n t e r e s t
such w o r k s .
o f h isto ry
i n my
Too much e f f o r t
in
can b e
rare
su sta in e d
The n e e d f u l i n t e l l e c t u a l v i g o r & t a s t e
are n o t
ex
in
yet
a tta in e d .
As p r e v i o u s l y
co n v e n ie n t,
scho o ls.
s t a t e d we h a v e b e e n pr e p a r in g a c l a s s
c o m f o r t a b l e & w i t h a l more
In th is
e n te rp rise
as
in
a i d , w e a r e c o m p e lle d to m ake h a s t e
a c t u a l m eans i n h a n d , w i l l
any p u r p o s e ,
th e agency
th e
a llo w .
c o lle c tio n &
of t h e P a s t o r ,
I
c i v i l i z e d houses fo r
every
o th e r
F rom d eb t
liq u id a tio n
in
our
d e m a n d in g p e c u n i a r y
s l o w l y - o n ly
pray to be
o f more
as f a s t
every
as
the
fo r m & f o r
o f w h ic h d e p e n d s u p o n
d e liv e re d ,
as f r o m t h e
�K o h ala
1860 &
k in d r e d ev ils
61
of p e s t i l e n c e
State
A score
& fa m in e .
of p r o s p e c t s
o f th e p e o p l e .
of. y e a r s h a s n e c e s s a r i l y
p o p u la tio n lik e
ours.
In
have b e e n very m arked.
c e rta in
im p o r ta n t
sim p lic ity
o f w h i c h w as
m alo - t h a t most u t i l i t a r i a n
of the p a s t .
in g
fu ll
so
in the
earthen f l o o r ,
through fo u r,
p eo p le &
to d e f e n d h i s p e o p le
h is
- these
- a community
face
of the e a r t h .
& greater
in
On t h e
- is
thin g
gather
o f m any m i l e s ,
- dare not
u p o n the
we h a v e
already
t h i n k o f c o m in g
can
We l i v e
civ illy & p o litic a lly ,
A ll
o p p re ssio n s
th e y c a n n o t get to t h e H o u s e
a m ile
s c h o o ls
e v e ry w h e r e .
The g r o s s
c o n g reg atio n s,
t h a t b y no p o s s i b i l i t y
as f r e e
& not u nfreq uently
A n d now i n s t e a d ,
"c iv ilize d ”
great & b e n e fic e n t
the
a
too,
w hose nam e was l e g i o n ,
in p u b lic w o rs h ip .
o f our p u b l i c
in te llig e n c e
c h e e rin g
of h a l f
se rv ic e
the
fr o m w h i c h c o s t th e M i s s i o n a r y h a l f
a horse,
w ith nerves
la w s
We s e e
se rv ic e s,
to o h a v e p a s s e d a w a y .
p e o p le w ell clothed. & w i t h a l
one h a l f days
best,
i n t h r e e- y a r ds o f b r o w n c o t t o n
c e a s e d to b e .
lik e w is e p ra c tis e d by la n d lo r d s ,
the r a i n & ,
1841.
s i t t i n g w i t h com m endable p a t i e n c e u p o n t h e
- th e se a ls o have
fr o m t h e d i s t a n c e
changes
t a s t e f u l l y set- o ff in c o m p arab le
t h r o u g h two p r o t r a c t e d
th a t w ith o u t
of
o f n a t u r e 's
e a r l y m o r n in g fr o m a c i r c u i t
a n e x t r a K ap a &
d e lic a te
these
not that
o f a l l human a p p en d a g e s
a r r a y e d somewhat more l u x u r i o u s l y ,
t im e
suit
am ong st a
A n d t h o s e n um erous S a b b a t h c o n g r e g a t io n s
on f o o t ,
or i n
respects
The K o h a l a o f 1 8 6 0 i s
The H a w a i i a n o f t h a t d a y , w i t h h i s
b e a u tifu l
i n d u c e d ch a n ges
changes
& in
also
the
th is w e
in
a
so
o f God
out I n
e n d u r e m ore t h a n
to o u n d e r
as
just
any p e o p l e
the h ig h e r
c o rresp o n ding
on t h e
character
of g e n e r a l
see & much more t h a t
is
c h a n g e s made b y p a s t .
other h a n d ,
in r e l a t in g
q u ite
as im p o r t a n t we f i n d b u t
�Kohala 1860 & 61
little ,
if
any,
11
in advance
We h a v e i n d e e d f i v e
t r ic t , hut
if
in the
any at a l l ,
houses
sty le
h u t the
are in no
sense
N e i t h e r a r e th e r e a l
abundant
than th o s e
o c c u p y in g
or s i x
of d o m e s tic
slig h te st
su p e rio r
c o m fo rts
to t h e
c o m fo r ts
p en siv e
tab les
&
And hence i t is
that I
in
p r o p e r ways t h e i r
or w i t h a n y t h in g
but
there
are
a lw ays
e n tire
is no s u i t a b l e
a great
- is
true
of n i c e
of
o f t h e more a m b it io u s
They i l l y
[ p la c e ]
of
th e
of a rtic le s
o nly are they
&
ex
peo p le.
fo u nd
d isc o u ra g e
taste,
of less
th e y
& b e sid e s
- an e x tra
ju d ic io u sly
w o u l d h a v e p r o c u r e d many r e a l c o m fo rts t h o '
o ut o f
them & t h u s
the p o s s e s s o r s ;
o f means w h i c h
to b e
accord w it h th e houses
i n w h i c h to k e ep
i n c o n v e n i e n c e to
lo w
fu rn itu re
w i t h p o s i t i v e r e g r e t & a lw a y s
them - A nd n o t
- a p o s it iv e w aste
sm all &
en o u g h f r o m a d d i n g
t h e y w er e p r o c u r e d b y a most i l l - j u d g e d e x p e n d i t u r e
vagance
sin c e .
- an o b je c t
a rtic les
class
has b e e n ,
a $40 bedstead
far
The same i s
d is
The d w e llin g
space in t h e
other s im ila r
purchase.
else i n
there
the
e s s e n t i a l l y m ore
earthen flo o r
regard a l l th is
i n t h e h o u s e s o f the p e o p le
life ,
E v id e n tly
th e in m a te s
w h i c h m e r e ly cum ber t h e h o u s e s
in
o f tw en ty y e a r s
of d o m e s t ic
of t h e h o u s e h o l d .
or s e t t e e s
gen erally ,
to t h o s e
upon the
lo o k e d at & never u se d by
life
p o ssib le progress.
or more o f the
s tan d in g
tim e s.
s m a ll w o o d e n d w e l l i n g s
then p o sse sse d .
one t h i r d
th a t c h e d house &
o f fo rm er
expended
p re te n tio u s
character.
B u t to s p e a k
we f i n d
th e
fin g e rs,
o f th e a c t u a l d o m e s t ic
common c a l a b a s h
g u iltle ss
p a r t - e v e ry w h e r e
mat i n
p o rtio n
a l l cases
serve i n
fo r m in g
o f th e o n e
life
of
th is
s t i l l the u n iv e r s a l fa m ily
of u n n e c e s s a r y
lie u
.
contact w ith w a t e r ,
of k n iv e s
the s o l d t a b l e .
p o p u la tio n ,
d ish &
f o r t h e most
& fo rks
- t h e g r o u n d or
The d a y
ended,
s m a ll room u n o c c u p i e d b y th e f a m i l y
that
calabashes
�Kohala
1 860 & 61
•
& baggage - n e ts,
& b u l l o c k &c & c
& fo r
all
ground,
th e
so le
rarely,
in th e
trunks,
the
p lace
fill
common d o r m it o r y f o r bo th, s e x e s
&
th e mat u p o n t h e damp
o f th e rows
every y a r d of
o f human b e i n g s ,
a v a ila b le space i n
o p p o r t u n it y of p r i v a c y f o r
p e r fo r m a n c e
s e c l u s i o n fr o m t h e
o f w h ic h n a t u r e
common g a z e .
itse lf
q u it e unknown.
H e n c e comes t h e e a r l y
p o ssib le ,
o f p r iv a t e d e v o tio n s
Nor can
such h a b i t ,
under e x is t in g
m in d s we are a " c i v i l i z e d "
A gain i n s o c ia l l i f e ,
p e o p le !
one i s
And yet
Perhaps i t
led
d a y , had free
k n o w le d g e
of h is
in
access?
whi c h t h e v i l e s t
a to lera tio n
members o f s o c i e t y .
By a
cularly
if
s in g u lar
is near
B u t u p o n p u r e l y m o ral
o f no e v i l p e r s o n i s
n o tw ith sta n d in g
brought
th e
of
all
if
courtesy.
there
i n t o what
e v e n to
th is
come t o my
or c o g n i z a n t
grounds,
of G o d 's
to b e a r u p o n t h is , r u i n o u s
it
as
& degrees have
th e v e r y b e s t
of id e a s ,
c o n scien tio u s
s ta y e d at the
lig h t
e .g .
c lasses
in v a sio n
smo kers w i t h i n t h e i r
th e P a s t o r
be
p u b lic
o n ly by
e v e r y name
s o c ia l in te rc o u r se ,
h o w e v e r f o u n d t h o s e w ho p r o f e s s
a d m issio n o f to bacco
or
of p e r s o n s h a s b e e n e x c l u d e d b e c a u s e
The v i c i o u s
in
th in gs
ou r
in c e r t a in respects,
The i n s t a n c e h a s n e v e r y e t
m o ral c h a r a c t e r .
as p e r f e c t
the a b a n d o n e d o f
craves
am ongst
to d o u b t
to t h e h e a l t h f u l c o n d i t i o n o f any c o m m u n ity,
H a w a iia n d w e llin g have n o t
or
co rru p tio n
in th e
[ is ]
serio u sly
h a s b e e n any c h a n g e w h a te v e r f o r t h e b e t t e r ,
v ita l
&
i s a thin g n e a r ly
in the nature o f
c ircum stan ces.
the h o u s e .
d icta tes
c
th e h a b i t
who,
a w o r d or a p r a y e r
o f H a w a i i a n c h i l d r e n & h e n c e to o t h e mou r n f u l f a d t h a t
C h h . m em bers,
fo r horses
sadd les & tra p p in g s
of the household,
resting
the slig h te st
any act
gear,
c o n stitu te s
co n d itio n s
b y no means
Not
cano e
12.
scruples
doors!
th e r e are
as to
And t h i s ,
th e
p a rti
of the f a c t s .
is w e l l known,
threshold.
the progress
On t h e c o n t r a r y ,
truth has been p e r s is t e n t ly
c
p ra c tic e & n o tw ith sta n d in g it s
�K oh al a- 1 8 6 0 &
e v ils
have been
in the
a re
persons
fic ie s
(if
soul
is
a ls o
of
in t o th e d o m e s t ic
fr ie n d s h ip ,
a fact
a so lita ry
of the C h h .
th e g a in s
i s more
life,
d a u g h t e r s to
& hardly
le w d l i v e s
if
that
th e e x c e p t io n s
less
To t h i s
common i s
or a t
l e a s t to
very rare
charges
day,
in
no p r a c t is e
to g i v e up
c o n v iv e at t h e i r
in d eed ,
but
la st
entrance
in the g a i n s .
that
they c an n o t be
fe w y e a r s ,
p e l l i n g me more & more f u l l y to b e l i e v e .
& n o th in g
the w o r ld .
super
are
the read in ess
th e y may s h a r e
a v o i d e d , my o b s e r v a t io n s w i t h i n t h e
letter;
& by
s lig h t e s t h e sita n c y to r e c e iv e
p ro stitu tio n .
so b e ,
These are s e r io u s
the
to t h e m ost
a l l who l o o k b e l o w t h e
e v e r m a n i f e s t th e
upon such l i v e s ,
c irc le &
character
e x c e p t io n e x i s t s ) in w h ic h p are n ts b o t h
of a d a u g h t e r 's
common;
o b n o x io u s
e q u a l l y b y th e Chh.
patent to
o f H a w a iia n s o c i a l
in d e e d
ex p e rie n c e d by a l l
of t h e m ost m o r a l l y
fr e e ly re c e iv e d
in tim a te r e la t io n s
It
13 .
so f r e q u e n t l y & n o t o r i o u s l y
com m unity,
still
6 1
The
h a v e b e e n com
charges
are t r u e
to
at t h i s moment w o u l d e x c i t e more u n i v e r s a l
or u n a f f e c t e d a s t o n i s h m e n t , i n c i r c l e s p u r e l y H a w a i i a n t h a n t h e
refusal
b y any p a r e n t to s h a r e i n t h e le w d d a u g h t e r s ' a c q u i s i t i o n s
- I m ean
such a r e f u s a l
T h e n to o d a u g h t e r s
liv in g
cesses
&
d is e a se are
braces
& cared fo r ,
life
adultero us
liv e s,
is
to th e
parental
t i l l n e w ly a c q u i r e d s t r e n g t h pr e p a r e s
career
- what
of
shame &
can we h o p e
n o t th e w ork o f
death.
But
ex
em
them f o r
enough.
o f a com m unity i n w h o se
t h e p r im a r y d e s t r u c t i o n i n m o rals
Surely it
when w orn do w n by
ever c o r d ia l l y r e c e iv e d
a r e e n tr a n c e upon th e
now s h a l l w e say
s p r i n g i n g p u r e l y fr o m m o r a l c o n s i d e r a t i o n s .
What
so c ial
a re p r a c t i c a l l y u nkn o w n?
a sin g le
g e n e r a t i o n to
educate
n a t i o n ’ s co n scien ce!
I n t o x i c a t i n g d rin k s
There i s
one t o p i c
u p o n w h ic h i t
i s g ra tify in g
to
s p e a k m ore
a
�Kohala
1860 & 61
h o p efu lly .
14.
F o r m ore than
t w e l v e y e a r s we h a v e b e e n
good p ro v id en c e
o f G o d , fr o m a l l
of
d r in k s.
in to x ic a tin g
p e o p l e he s u f f i c i e n t l y
In
For
th e e v i l s
th is
great
i n n e a r ly every
the p eo p le
of
th is
p erio d ,
i n s t a n c e by p e r s o n s
c e r t a i n n e ig h b o u r h o o d s
successful.
The p l a n s h a v e u n i f o r m l y b e e n
d iv id u a ls
c u rr e n t y e a r h a s
- i n no
s e c lu d e d r av in e s
lic
bud.
in g
these
a member
in
of
f r o m a b r o a d was b u s i l y
engaged,
t a n t f r o m the S t a t i o n ,
lead in g
u p o n fe r m e n t e d p o t a t o .
c a r r ie d
5 or
T h is
v ery f e w w e r e
on i n a d e e p r a v i n e
our
last,
chh.
6.
So m etim es
was
the
in iq u ity
in t o d r u n k e n
th e f a c t s ,
whe r e two f a m i l i e s
persons in v o lv e d
th is
a p p l i e d to t h i s
in t h i s
of $ 3 5 0 .
was
On
legal
And thus
ended,
chapter in the h i s t o r y of
p eo p le.
o ffen ce.
I
o n ly r e s i d e d .
tria l
another short
d is
as t h e b u s i n e s s
auth ority & a fte r
an a g g r e g a t e
the
a man
Upon in q u ir y
the p a r t i e s w ere w a t c h e d & a p p r e h e n d e d b y
in t o x ic a t in g as
in
excesses
Monday f o l l o w i n g ,
b y the D i v i n e b l e s s i n g ,
fro m
im m e d ia t e ly u p o n l a n d
on S a t u r d a y .
of
in
But f a i t h f u l pub
in fo r m e d me t h a t
our p e o p le
in
in
i n a n e ig h b o u r h o o d two m i l e s
aw are
fin e d
but
of
of la n d rem ote
to n i p
Oct.
in c ite
even p a rtia lly
l i m i t e d n um ber
tracts
God b e e n a b l e
U p o n my r e t u r n fr o m H i l o
- to
d i s c o v e r e d & b r o k e n up
a ttem p ts h a v e b e e n m ade.
u nd er
fro m th e v e s s e l ,
fro m a b r o a d
effo rt been
spread beyond a v e r y
& a g a in i n deso late
o ffic e rs h av e,
l e a r n e d that
any s u c h
c a s e s a v e o n e , more t h a n
h um an h a b i t a t i o n ,
a
a tte m p ts h a v e b e e n '
to a d rin k in g debauch ;
th e
the c o n ta g io n h ad
the use
b l e s s i n g we c a n n o t a s
no case t i l l
ere
in c id e n t upon
i n the
thankful.
repeated In stan ces w it h in
m ade - &
kept
There
Seven
proved
to b e
16
of them w er e members
of
Chh.
P rospects
W h at i s
the fu tu re
to do f o r
th is
p eo p le?
is
an in q u ir y
o ften
�Kohala
&
1860 & 61
15.
a n x io u sly re v o lv e d .
the
field ,
the
exp u lsio n
As to th e S o u t h e r n & W e s t e r n p o r t i o n s
the q u e s tio n b id s f a i r
o f the e n t i r e
h ave a s p e e d y s e t t l e m e n t
p o p u la tio n .
im m e d ia t e ly p r e c e d i n g t h e r e c e n t
our p o p u l a t i o n w as n e a r l y
to
D u r i n g the
c e n su s
th e r a t e
1 0 0 p e r ann u m .
Oahu.
The t o t a l of H a w a iia n s
d e c rease has
a lm o st e n t i r e l y
now i n
decrease,
- w it h fe w
the f i e l d
in
se v e n years
of d e c re ase
A nd t h i s
h a r d l y n e e d b e s a i d was c a u s e d by r e m o v a ls
to
of
it
e x c e p tio n s
is b u t
occurred in tho se parts
in
2745.
o f the
The
fie ld
j u s t r e f e r r ed t o .
The h e r d s
su ffered
of cattle
to ru n a t
& horses b e lo n g in g
large
of cattle
e n tire
scho o ls,
is
a ll p o ssib ility
of e xp u lsio n ,
but
now t o be
of co un try ,
oft
one i n s i g n i f i c a n t
r e c u rrin g
But th e
a v a ila b le
In
that
flo u rish in g
f a m in e - s t r i c k e n g a t h e r i n g
of
ch ild ren
or l e s s
of t h e D i s t r i c t ,
fo r
grazing
slig h t
of too
less
s u b je c t
la rg e
a
purposes, w il l doubtless h o ld
annual d e c r e a s e ,
fo r
g e n e ratio n s
to
community w i l l n e c e s s a r i l y r e m a in p o o r u n t i l t h e
a g ric u ltu ra l resources
greater
w ith la r g e r herds
of d ep o p u latio n .
d r o u g h ts & fa m in e s & by r e a s o n
p o p u latio n w it h but
co m e.
- a n d th u s
fo u nd .
p o p u la tio n less
its
c u ltiv a tio n
w h e r e f o r m e r l y we h a d n i n e
The N o r t h e r n & E a s t e r n s e c t i o n s
to
of
ere f o r e i g n e r s
came i n to c o m p le te th e p r o c e s s
tract
them selv es,
t h r o u g h t h e m ost c u l p a b l e n e g l i g e n c e ,
h ad w e ll n ig h a n n ih ila t e d
commenced t h e w o r k
to n a t i v e s
extent,
of the D is t r ic t
by th e
a id
shall be
of f o r e i g n
develo ped
to a
C a p ita l,
Rom anism
We h a v e k n o w n b u t
past.
year,
The p r i e s t
little
of popery d u r in g
fo r m e r ly r e s i d e n t ,
s in c e w h i c h t im e t h e i r
a ffairs
d ie d
th e
sudden ly ,
tw e lv e m o n t h
early
h a v e r e m a in e d i n
i n th e
Status
quo.
C o n s i d e r a b l e num bers h o w e v e r o f t h o s e p r e v i o u s l y c o n n e c t e d w i t h
�Kohala
that
1860 & 61
Chh. have
I n th e
latter
part o f t h e y e a r ,
s i o n t o P r o t e s t a n t i s m & to a s p i r i t u a l
we h a v e , a f t e r
trance
life .
due p r o b a t i o n r e c e i v e d t o t h e
to our C h h . h a v e b e e n c o n s i s t e n t l y
w is h
to
e n te r t h e n c e , t h e r e
been
swept
hoods.
clean ,
But
it
at
least
is
Some o f
chh.
th is
class
and c o u ld th e
en
o p en ed to a l l who m ig h t
l i t t l e d o u b t bu t p o p e r y w o u l d h a v e
fro m o n e of i t s
m ost n um erous n e ig h b o u r -
h as no t y e t b e e n made c l e a r
good P r o t e s t a n t s , however true
p ro fessed conver
the
th a t
converse
p o o r R o m a n is t s make
of th is r u l e m ay b e
h eld.
A mere
transfer
of E c c l e s i a s t ic a l r e la t io n s has
t o me o f t h e
slig h te st
s i g n i f i c a n c e & as
a im to t r e a t
the m atter p r a c t ic a l l y .
C h a r it y h ad been renew ed i n h ea rt &
Chh.
as
still,
already
said ,
a f f o r d no c r e d i b l e
change & d o u b tless
o f w orship
D istric t
-
the
I n due
time
of
cause
life
of P r o te sta n tism ,
ju d g m e n t
we h a v e r e c e i v e d
of
to t h i s
w h ilst
others
o f any o t h e r th a n a m ere n o m i n a l
revert
to t h e i r
1 8 5 3 t h e num ber o f p a p i s t s
sin c e
seem ed
e v e r b e e n my
the
on p r o b a t i o n ,
these w i l l
was 3 2 8 i n a p o p u l a t i o n
[c h a n g e d ]
it h a s
Some who i n
are s t i l l
e v id e n c e
By t h e c e n su s
been e ssen tia lly
to
o th e r s
such,
ever
of 3 4 1 3 .
o ld h abits
in
th is
T h is p r o p o r t i o n h a s n o t
th a t
tim e ,
at
least
not
so f a r
as we
can ju d g e .
a dversely
�Koh al a 1860 & 61
17
.
S ta tistic s
K o h a la R e p o r t
1860
B e n e fic e n ce
P a s t o r ’ s Salary
M on. Concert
S c h o o l H o u ses
B e l l to w er
Total
Church
$ 4 6 7 .3 0
2 3 9 .6 0
6 8 7 .3 7
1 8 4 .0 0
$ 1 5 7 8 .2 7
P o p u la tio n
Of D i s t r i c t 1 8 5 3
Of these
H a w a iia n s
3397
.#
F o reign ers
16
Total
3413
Of D is t r ic t in 1860
Of these
H a w a iia n s
2745
F o reign ers
35
2780
#
In c lu d in g a dults
[ On b a c k : ]
E . B o n ds R ep o rt
f o r 1 8 6 0 & 61
R e c d May 7 , 1 8 6 1
& ch ild n
3413
Rec
"
on p r o f e s s i o n
C e rtific ate
" p a s t y e a r on p r o f n
"
c e rtific ate
"
"
Total
D i s m i s s e d to o th e r chhs
"
past year
"
Deceased
"
past year
Suspended "
R e m a in
Suspended
E x c o m m u n ic a t e d p a s t y r
W h o le num ber Excom d
R em ain
"
W ho le n o . i n r e g . S t a n d i n g
" C h ild re n b a p t i z e d
past y ea r
"
M arriages past y e a r
Average c o n g re g a tio n
P u p i l s i n Sabb S c h o o l
at t h e S t a t i o n
2171
762
35
. 14
49
550
47
1009
17
17
16
18
602
457
901
1282
31
30
375
200
�K oh ala Report
• 1861
The grace
o f C h r i s t i a n s u b m is s io n i s n o t r e a d i l y
e x e r c is e under
h im se lf.
a l l th e c ir c u m s t a n c e s
To see h i s
- to s e e
them l e a v i n g
or n o t commenced a n d m e e tin g h o u s e s ,
in
their
erectio n
i n w h i c h a Hawn M i s s i o n a r y f i n d s
p e o p l e w a s t i n g away b e f o r e h i s
in e x o r a b le n e c e s s it y
or r e p a i r s
- to
ere
pass
ers
thro'
it
- is beyond
o f my B r n .
are
peo p le
- p o o r i n m ore
c a t t l e & b y m en,
say some
so il
have
is
to s e e
e n tire ly ,
that
Of a l l b u sin e ss
in flu en ce
are i n
It
is
w ip e s
v a r io u s ways
d e p a r tm e n ts
fo r
th e
g r a zin g has
t h e wh o l e
some
oth
even t h a n
of t h is
th is
-
poor
to b e
of
able
to
sup plan ted c u lt iv a t io n
on our S . W . b o r d e r
p o p u latio n w i l l b e
of the f i e l d ,
ere
e n te rp r is e s
fiv e
in these Is la n d s
e v e ry v e s t i g e
of good f r .
r e t a i n e d as h e r d s m e n & a s
&
th e
cleaned o ff
years
I
of the
shall
know of n o n e,
so d e l e t e r i o u s u p o n th e Hawn p e o p l e
out
&
than t h a t .
sp eedily
engrafts
as
am ong t h e
laborers
d e g e n e r a t e Hawn s t o c k - m a k in g
t h e c h i l d r e n o f th e d e v i l t h a n b e f o r e .
gospel
as
than m y s e l f .
s m a ll rem nant
se v e r a l m ile s
of the b u s in e ss
u po n t h e a l r e a d y
control
o f t h o s e who
c o n c e r n i n g whom i t w d b e d e l i g h t f u l ,
Southern & W estern h a l f
g razing .
the u t t e r
s e n s e s t h a n one - t r a m p le d out b y h e r d s
passed & p ro bably sooner
whose
v a s t l y more p a i n f u l
th e 3 or 4 y e a r s p a s t
p ro sp ect now i s
e n tire
p ossessio n
w ith
one g o o d t h i n g .
W ith in
o f the
em phasis to
e v e n b e t t e r p r e p a r e d to t e s t i f y ,
of t h e s e t h i n g s
b y an
to a i d
school d i s t r i c t s
exp ression sad & d is h e a r t e n in g ,
B u t t h e r e a r e some t h i n g s
a n d one
takes
as i f
t h e y h av e b e e n a b l e
s e e w h o le
in ev itab ly
eyes
school houses u n f i n i s h e d
o n l y here & t h e r e a h o u s e r e m a in in g to g i v e
Sense o f d e s o la tio n w h.
c a l l e d in to
all
in
that
of
f e w who
the
several
fo r e ig n v ic e s
th em t e n f o l d more
T h o se t h i n g s
under fo re ig n
a re to a l l hum an a p p e a r a n c e s , e n t i r e l y b e y o n d t h e r e a c h of
In flu e n c e s.
P a s t o r a l l a b o r f o r many o f them i s
s im p l y an
�Kohala
1861
2.
im p o ssib ility ,
to
the
Chh.
sin c e
a c c e s s ib le e ith e r
after
i n m en , may b e &
all,
th e p r o m is e s
o fte n is
swept
of
away.
H im we may - we w i l l
among t h i s p e o p le
i n a ny other y ear
sin c e
1841 -
h a n d was
v io u s
of o u r M iss y l i f e ,
fo r
own d o m e s tic f l o c k .
Our g r a c i o u s
sure.
in
o m is s io n o f
& death in
h e a v y u po n u s .
Yet
but
In
in terru p tio n ,
a tour
in d u c e s
a l l H is
& for
the p a r t ic u la r
d y in g
taken
f o r us
w ith u s ,
c o n d itio n s
w ith
S p iritu a lly ,
to m ake,
I w as
as
in
in s te a d
of the
- all
th in g s
even th o '
of b e in g
able
o f the
last
o f th e
fie ld
tours
among th em ,
year are
w e l l as
as t o
a c q u a i n t a n c e w i t h the
of a ffa ir s
f o r the
t h e p e o p le
- in
-
th e
o f the y e a r .
p eo p le &
[b u t ]
lo o k e d to
the
also
w ith
m uch m ore
f o r more v a l u a
them.
th e r e h a s
early i n
first &
as
most t h a n k f u l ,
of d is t a n c e
i n m ore r e m o te p o r t i o n s
& f i n a l tours
in tercou rse
w as,
th e p r e
to g i v e
on the v e r g e
e v e r do ne
d e a lin g s
th is
a fe e lin g
A ny to ur p u t s h im up i n h i s
T h ere
all
s i c k & to t h e
sev eral days
God d i d - as He h a s
of t h e p a s t o r much more th e
the in it ia l
in
our f a m i l y .
one o f our num ber w as
o f t h e y e a r I w as a b l e
p a r t ic u l a r l y those
m in d
Trust
a fflic tio n s.
The l a s t t o u r
f i r s t , w ith o u t
c o n fid e n c e
(! ) q u a r t e r l y t o u r w i t h
p erh ap s h a v i n g r e a c h e d the a p o s t o l i c , a t t a in m e n t
to r e j o i c e
ble
en tirely
the c a r e , o f t h e
w e l l & we c a n p r a i s e H im f o r
not
ever
we h a d h a r d l y b e e n o b l i g e d
t h e two or t h r e e w ho l a y f o r
grave.
Our
has been le s s t h a n perhaps
s ic k n e s s
a season,
m uch o f our tim e & t h o t
h
g
us to
of
One
w as p r e v e n t e d b y
The L o r d 's
our
sure.
- & n e v e r know a d i s a p p o i n t m e n t .
labo r
of another,
God a r e
He i s
The p a s t o r a l
tim e
or
Hopes i n & f o r m e n , may be &
d i s a p p o i n t e d , b u t b l e s s e d by G o d .
h alf
to t h e M i s s y
Lunas.
A nd y e t ,
are
t h e y are h o t
b e e n n o t h i n g v e r y m arked among our p e o p l e .
the y e a r , & i n
th e l a t t e r
part
o f the p re v io u s
�Kohala 1861
year
but
w ere
q u it e
3
a reviving
in
a fe w m o n t h s .
M ost
the h o p e f u l
s u b je c ts
run w e ll &
that they
gate
that
For
the l a t t e r
part
how ever been kept f r .
ab ro a d nor a tt r a c t e d
in
d a ily
at t i m e s ,
th a t p u rg a to ria l
e p id e m ic
all
&
Some o f them s t i l l
we c a n o n ly
th e narrow
fire s
so o f t e n
safely
i t m ust i n
b e e n no
because
d e c id e
Heaven?
to t h e s e
h a v in g
never
s m a ll
s im p l y
t h e am ount o f
sensual d is c ip le s
the "b e t t e r w ay” &
covenant.
& never
sin
-
Y e t we
the
surer
T h i s we know
so d a r k .
our d y i n g p e o p le
them , u n d o n e b y
exist
One a lm o s t
fo r t h e ir b e n e f i t .
so d e e p
ac
i n d e e d b e e n known
a tte n tio n ,
o f th e e v e r l a s t i n g
- tho'
truth be
there has
in to
than
sw eep o v er
a s p a r k o f g r a c e may s t i l l
w ere a v a i l a b l e
them ,
e x i s t e d a more
These have n o t
i n m ere c h a r i t y
go - as w i t h
wh.
so c ia l l i f e
w ith wh.
le n g th get
sin
sin s
and y e t
Lamb o f God we w d f a i n d i r e c t
wd also
the y e a r
God o v er u s , w e h a v e
Who c a n s a t i s f a c t o r i l y
w a y - t h r o ’ the b l o o d
th e
co n tin ued
of ever h a v in g p a s s e d in t o
any c o n s i d e r a b l e
c an w e l l d i s p e n s e w i t h
fo r
it
d u rin g
to b e t o l d ,
good c a r e of
p ra c tise s.
life ,
the possessor at
c lean ses
is
th e y e a r t h e r e has
By the
all
of the u n i v e r s a l i t y .
w is h e s
of
i n d o m e s t ic
of i n i q u i t o u s
v ile n e ss
o f them t r u t h
o f the Hawn p o p u l a t i o n ,
k n o w l e d g e d th a t
amount
Yet
to e t e r n a l l i f e .
u s u a l a p a t h y among u s .
p o rtio n s
h ow ev er o f t h a t w o r k .
a f f o r d no e v id e n c e
lead s
of t h e D i s t .
of those r e cd in t o t h e C hh .
of some o t h e r s
say,
&
some s e c t i o n s
.
-
To
To H im we
- as w i t h th e m ,
to b e
s a v e d by u n m e r it e d g r a c e .
Our m e e t in g s
as d u r i n g the
on the
p r e v io u s
prayer m e e tin g s,
S a b b a t h h ave h a r d l y b e e n as
y e a r - & th e
p a rtic u la rly
for
same i s
the
true
latter h a lf
of
fu lly
attended
our w e e k l y
o f the
p erio d
under re v ie w Our S a b b .
S c h o o l h as
shown
an a v e r a g e
of n e a r l y 2 0 0 f o r
the
�Kohala
1862
year.
4
We s a d l y n e e d some books f o r
any?
is
thoh
t
gs .
u
a n i n q u i r y t h a t h as
the
ever &
ch ild n
S h a ll we
ever h ave
a g a in p ressed i t s e l f
u p o n my
Who c a n t e l l ?
C o n trib u tio n s h ave been about
as u s u a l - (S e e
la st
p a g e .)
S c h o o ls
There
feel
is
little
little
lik e
to b e
say ing
I n t h e l a s t two
said
any t h i n g
can
past
re p o rt
-
the c o n t i n u a n c e
very
averred -
existen ce,
i n m ore
are n e c e s s a r ily
storm s;
& then i n
favo rab le
in c lin a tio n
the
say,
is
v ery s m a l l ;
that
a large por
o f the y o u n g e r
classes,
tim e ,
our fr e q u e n t
ow ing to
other co n d itio n s
attend,
as I
a c t u a l l y m ade,
a r e m eager i n d e e d ,
as
are
because
attendance,
in c lin a tio n ,
a n d t h e a t t a in m e n t s
our q u a r t e r l y e x a m i n a t i o n s ,
of th eir
t h e num ber o f p u p i l s
th e y do n o t
w ea th er &
ca n n o t
The s c h o o l d i s t r i c t s
school,
i s m inus — So th a t t h e a c t u a l
of f a i r
S till
o f any c o n s i d e r a b l e p r o g r e s s
f a i r w e a t h e r , w hen a l l
c o n ju n c tio n
there
i n t im e s
th e c o n d i t i o n s
a p ublic
- f o r m uch of th e tim e
s c h o o l as
to s e c u r e
i n a t t e n d a n c e f o r much o f th e
that
o f the s c h o o l s
scho o ls.
o f the p u p i l s , e s p e c i a l l y those
not be
to
e ffic ie n c y
i n order
to s a y
season of d e p r e s s io n .
e xp e c tatio n
s p e c i f i e d b y la w to c o n s t i t u t e
tio n
a lo n g
our p u b l i c
so l a r g e
was a b l e
The t r u t h i s ,
fo r b id the
than one h a l f
I
Or r a t h e r I
to t h e m .
of my t e a c h e r s
B ut any a d v a n c e i n the
t r u t h f u l l y be
to th e m .
in regard
o f my r e p o r t s
w as some p r o g r e s s u p w a r d a f t e r
I
in re g ard
lim ite d
the
th u s
h ardly need
as
shown
in
can b e r e a d i l y
understood.
It
h as
b e e n w i t h me a q u e s t i o n o f much i n t e r e s t w i t h i n t h e
f e w m onths p a s t
- Have
t h i n g p erm anent
in
It
is
easy
to
our p u b l i c
s c h o o ls r e a l l y
the w ay o f a d v a n c e ,
say t h a t
th e y
a re more
w ith in
the
a c h i e v e d any
la st
ten years?
e f f i c i e n t now than th ey w ere
�Kohala
1861
then
But
-
satisfy
in
5.
q u ite
a n o t h e r t h i n g to g i v e
o urselves
or o th e r s
e x a m i n a t i o n , my b e l i e f
scho o ls
of t h i s
D ist.
T h e S c h o o l H o u se s
in g fa s t e r
in
are
t h a n the
m e tic ,
fo r
still
a dva n ce
The books
the h an ds
of th eir
d efin ite
future
-
c atio n al
sa g a c ity
still
And t h is
of
the p e o p l e
R e a d in g ,
sin c e .
are
leav
The t e a c h e r s
greater in v a r ie t y
& upon w h.
c o n t in u e
a l l care
c o n d itio n ten y e a rs
& yet
are no
eith e r
are th e p u b lic
& no
geography &
a rith
o f stu dies upon w h .
o f our y o u t h f u l H a w a i i a n s
of success;
th e y w i l l
W ith
in these p ro g re ss.
of p u p il s .
sk ill
wh.. w i l l
in no s in g l e p o int
c o n s t i t u t e th e r e n o w n e d t r i o
or l e s s
a s s u r e us
that
im provem ents
4 0 years past the
w i t h more
to
in
is
supposed fa c t .
i n d e e d im p r o v i n g ,
a r e m a in ly th e sam e more a bun dan t
o f th e
actu al data
is
e x e rc ise d
no p r o p h e t s ’ k e n
is
to b e e x e r c i s e d f o r
to o , n o tw ith sta n d in g
as
needed
an I n
the p ro fo u n d E d u
our Solom on o f the P o l y n e s i a n &
of h is
com
peers .
Beyond these
three s t u d i e s ,
a r e no r e a l l y u s e f u l b r a n c h e s
in
our S c h o o l s .
a c q u isitio n s
No
i n geom etry,
th e
teachers fo r
the
e x a m in e d i n
But
o p e ra tiv e
sham i s
there
their
e le m e n t a r y f o r m s ,
o f k n o w le d g e w h . r e c e i v e
more t h o r o u g h l y s u c h ,
a lg e b r a &c
e xa m in a tio n ,
as
is
still
i n an i n c r e a s i n g l y
than th e p r e t e n d e d
th o s e know who h a v e
i n th is
adverse r a t io
of t o l e r a b l y
in
looked
in to
p ro m ising boys
state & p u p ils
of
our l a r g e r
scho o ls.
our s c h o o l s
boys.
For
to y e a r
I
to
My
a cq u ain ta n c e
- affords
as to
several years
is
refer
- as
speak of a n u n in t e r r u p t e d
an e x c e l l e n t m edium o f c o m p a r is o n f r . y e a r
character of
c o m p a r is o n w h .
our s c h o o l s .
& m o rals now c o n n e c t e d w i t h t h e p u b l i c
in p a r t ic u l a r w ith the
&
a tte n tio n
som etim es b r o ’ t f o r w a r d b y
another fe a t u r e
s m a ll s c h o o l o f b o y s - n o t to
bers
there
such s t u d i e s .
to t h e d i s c o u r a g i n g p a u c i t y
in te lle c t
in
me
th e num
past
I
�Kohala
1861
6.
shd h a v e f o u n d i t
in
any
im p o s s i b l e
our l a r g e r boys
is
co n tin ually
In
e v e ry r e s p e c t ,
o f the
o th e r s e x )
T h is,
perhaps;
o f th is
c o n clu s io n is not
at a n e a r l i e r
in
character
the
th e
decay
decay
co n tin ued
In tellectu a l
class
present
s ta te m e n ts w i t h r e f e r e n c e
school
a n d the
o f boys
i n num bers
in
whom,
but a fe w years
(& the
same i s
very u n fa v o r
sin c e .
an o p i n i o n p e c u l i a r
to m y s e l f
h a v e r e p e a t e d l y h a d s im
other D i s t r i c t s .
a v o i d e d by s a y i n g
scho o ls.
c ap acity
as h i g h
o n ly m ethod p o s
tim e com pares
Islan d I
to
at
to r e c e i v e t h o s e ,
th a t p u p i l s
age t h a n f o r m e r l y & h e n c e the
of the
le av e
s e e m in g d e c a y
Such is n o t the f a c t w i t h us
does n o t
account
sa tisfa c to rily
fo r
the
i n m e n ta l c a p a c i t y .
On t h e w h o l e ,
abundant
m oderate.
little
b le ssin g
spread
fr.
And y e t ,
f o r our
let
it
be
for
co n fessed,
the f u t u r e ,
to t h e p e o p l e & d a r k n e s s
its
th e
p ale
too
over
s c h o o ls w e r e n e v e r more
as to t h e i r
them as e d u c a t i o n a l f o r c e s
as t h e y p r o m is e
to b e
reveal
w h i l s t my l a b o r s
or more h e a r t i l y b e s t o w e d , my h o p e s
& my e x p e c t a t i o n s
not
o ld e r
of ten years
my B r n .
or 3 n e w p u p i l s
shd h a v e r e j e c t e d ,
I m ig h t h a v e r e g a r d e d as
but f r .
T h is
&
th e
o f the
a b l y w i t h the sam e c l a s s
i .e .
of
o f k e e p i n g my s c h o o l in - o p e r a t io n i s
s in c e .
than 2
a d m is s io n
d ecreasin g ,
a m o m e n t's h e s i t a t i o n I
ila r
for
The average
w ith o u t
true
s e c u r e more
one y e a r h a d my r e q u ir e m e n t s
a s t a n d a r d as f o r m e r l y .
sib le
to
the
slig h tly
darkness w h .
that
p o o r as our
because
exceedin gly
sch o o ls
are
th e y a r e a n i n v a l u a b l e ,
cd be f e l t wd s p e e d i l y
l a n d , w i t h out t h e m .
v alu ed,
are
progress
it
is
A little
lig h t
Is
o n ly s u f f i c i e n t
to
exists.
.Poper y & Mormonism
I
deed I
have
shd
have
s c a r c e l y h e a r d o f - so q u i e t l y h a v e
they r e m a in e d .
s u p p o s e d t h a t Mormonism h a d becom e e x t i n c t
as
a
In
�Kohala
force
1861
among u s , but f o r a fe w
effo rts
that
7.
early in
th e y e a r
tim e I h a v e h e a r d
c o n v u lsiv e t h r o e s ,
to r e s u s c i t a t e
o f no movements
c a u s e d try v ig o r o u s
the defu n ct b o d y .
S in c e
connected w it h t h a t
stu p id
fo lly .
W ill
the B r n .
a l l o w me a s u g g e s t i o n ,
our B o o k s y stem o r
est be
l a c k o f sy stem ?
M r . W h it n e y
- a part
of
We n o w p u r c h a s e
These
as
as b e l o n g i n g to t h e Am. B i b l e
such accounts
of sale s
in s ig n ific a n c e
th e
of th e
account,
u n w illin g
&
to
if
sales.
I make
they b e
we h av e w i t h
To o b v ia t e
a rtic le s
the s a le s .
I
I
I
of
we r e c e i v e
e x p e c te d to r e p o r t
B o a r d Am .
Tract
regard the k e e p in g
on ero u s
But,
do so now t h a t
come to u s ,
c o n sid e rin g
feel bound
feel
of
the
to
in c re a sin g ly
our r e l a t i o n s
as
have
our o th e r m e r c h a n d i s e
on a / c w i t h C & C
changed
comes -
. or t h o ' them .
separate f r .
the
general
our B r n .
all d iffic u lt ie s ,
r e ta il
the books
p rices,
& so t h a t w h e n c h i l d r e n
shd b e d e l i v e r e d u s
so t h a t we p ay
our
own f r t
come a lo n g d i s t a n c e
& b rin g
at
some
not d e s i r e d ,
not f e e l c a l l e d
ou rselv es,
we m a y , n e v e r t h e l e s s d e l i v e r t h e b o o k s & y e t
a co m p ulso ry
to e x e r c i s e / c h a r i t y w hen n o t n e e d e d , b e c a u s e s a v i n g
by the
sales
Another th in g wh.
a unifo rm
one,
to keep w i t h any o n e ,
a s m a l l d is c o u n t f r .
[fre ig h t]
For
C o n sc ie n tio u sly ,
c h a r g e d to us
T h e n w e h av e no a / c
a /c
of our bo o ks
can r e a d i l y b e f o u n d .
S u p p o s e our books
that
a part
S o c y - Am.
as bey on d, m ea s u r e
c o n t i n u e to
a b e t t e r p lan
i .e .
t o u c h in g
e n tir e b o o k i n t e r
fo r m e r l y we a r e
Socy & Hawn B i b l e & T r a c t S o c y .
keep
C an n o t th e
o f G o v 't E d u c a t i o n a l B o a r d & a p a r t
th e P r i n t i n g D e p t .
sales
c o n clu sio n ,
e a s i l y p u t u p o n a s im p le & b e t t e r b a s i s & more s a t i s f a c t o r y
t h a n t h a t w h . now e x i s t s ?
fr.
in
p rice
o t h e r w i s e ..
o c c u r s to m e,
as
d e sira b le
-
f o r t h e bo o k s t h r o u g h o u t th e M i s s n -
There
T h is
sh d be
w ill
�Kohala
1861
o b v iate
the
chg
[c h a r g e ]
T h is
yet
cede
8
most unw elcom e s u s p i c i o n t h a t we at
a p ro fit
on b o o k s
th e p r e s e n t
their
the
a p p r o b a t io n
$
on p r o f n
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"
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"
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Chh.
of
the B r n .
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aw kw ard & burdensom e p r a c t i s e
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Kohala
1862 - 3
The r e c o r d of th e
than
&
usual
in
o f m e r c ie s
t w e lv e m o n th now c l o s i n g h a s b e e n more v a r i e d
character.
It
u n d e r th e g u i s e
sp eaks o f a b o u n d in g m e r c i e s
u n d isg u ise d
of a f f l i c t i o n s .
th is
v a r ie d d e a lin g w ou ld we reco g n ize
from le sso n s
It
m e a s u r e fr o m t h o s e
as
o m it t e d i n c o n s e q u e n c e
to urs
m e e t in g s
thro'
have b e e n
a b rie f
the
field
I
am a b l e
essen tia lly
of p re v io u s y e a r s
m o th e r fro m home fo r
three
i n no w is e
hand &
in
learn th ere
h o ly w i l l .
of thankfulness th a t
L a b o u r s of th e y e a r
n e c e ssa rily
a F a t h e r 's
o f n e w o b e d ie n c e to H i s
is m a t t e r
E q u ally
-
d iffe rin g
th e
in k in d
or
One t our h o w e v e r w as
of t h e
season in
to r e p o r t
absence
of t h e
the w i n t e r
a c t u a lly p erform ed.
s u s t a i n e d as u s u a l &
w ife &
- le a v in g but
As
a teachers
fo r
the r e s t ,
school every
W e d n e s d a y as t h r o ’ t h e p a s t 2 1 y e a r s .
The C h u r c h - h as
ze a l at
As
in
e x is t e d in
any tim e i n more th a n
p r e v io u s
a lu kew arm s t a t e ,
a chosen
r e p o r t s , how ever,
few ,
so i n t h i s
s p e a k o f the
c o n t i n u e d c ar e
f l o c k here &
in s u f f e r i n g no waives i n
fo r
It
th e
w ith
cause
peace & e n tic e
c lo th in g
ap p aren tly h as be en g a in e d d u r in g th e y e a r ,
that
its
sheeps'
If
members i n t o
s a v e d t h r o u g h the g r a c e
The a d d i t i o n s
to
the
of
the S a in t s ,
p a ra tio n fo r
entering
but
th a t
there
in t o r e l a t i o n s
The m e e t in g s u p o n S a b b a t h d a y s ,
to
enter
any o u t b r e a k i n g
at
in
sin s.
least
our L o r d & M a s t e r .
C hh. have b e e n fe w
t h e r e h a v e b e e n no m ore a p p l i c a n t s
lo w sh ip of
to
of t h e Good S h e p h e r d over H i s f e e b l e
its
much h a s b e e n
of t r u t h .
i s my p r i v i l e g e
& d istu rb
little
little
fo r
h as
as w e l l b e
seen.
Not
a d m is s io n to t h e f e l
seem ed l i t t l e
so f a r - r e a c h i n g &
at rem o te
v illa g e s
real pre
so
so lem n .
have been
�Kohala
62-3
as u s u a l
2.
su sta in e d by
t h e m ore i n t e l l i g e n t
s e r v ic e s has
of
Lunas
- r a t h e r as
few
th e r e
fr o m a r e p e t i t i o n
to make our
good b o o k s .
scho o ls
W ill
th e y
is
effic ie n t
o th e r parts
Isla n d s, yet
m uch l e s s
a t t a in m e n t s
of advance
ly
part
t h a n w e hav e
as m ost o f t h e m a r e ,
settled d is t r ic t s .
that
E arly
the
or
th r e e d a y s , h i t h e r t o .
tim e .
can p r o f i t a b l y be
We n e e d many
- b u t we per i s h i n g l y n e e d a
average
Our t e a c h e r s
of t h e i r
do n o t
o f the p u p i l s
a rig h t
i n d e e d as
- fo r
class
in
sh e w a n y v e r y
- certa in ly
to e x p e c t .
one of g r e a t t r i a l f o r
a ll
of
our sc h o o ls,
them a r e f r o m s p a r s e
in D e c . heavy r a i n s ,
c h i l d r e n to g e t to s c h o o l ,
less has been
v io le n t
gales
tim e
a p p lic a tio n s
age
A n d so f a r
to b e
I
has
s m a ll
tim e & h e n c e ,
of the teachers
much
t h a n m ig h t
su ffic ie n t
o n ly to f i l l
r e c d e v e r y t o l e r a b l y p r o m i s i n g bo y
fo u nd i n the
a select
f a l l e n belo w the u s u a l num ber.
fo r a d m i s s i o n
as now a p p e a r s ,
& c h a r a c t e r fo r
la b o r
of
I n tw e n ty two y e a r s my s m a ll b o a r d i n g
l i m i t e d to 1 4 p u p i l s
num ber to t w e l v e ; y e t
suitab le
d u r in g much o f t h i s
&
appeared.
F o r th e f i r s t
T h e r e w ere
has b e e n im p o ssib le f o r
a c c o m p l is h e d by th e
o th e r w is e have
scho o l,
It
in
sp irit
u n u s u a l c o l d set i n & h a v e c o n t i n u e d w i t h r a r e i n t e r m i s s i o n s
two
by
of s p e c i a l
reports.
our s c h o o l s
on the
The y e a r h o w e v e r h as b e e n
gathered
N o w here i n
said a g e n e r a l
ev er be p r o v i d e d ?
a r e n o t b e l o w the
co n siderable
already
o f p r e v io u s
or r a t h e r
A tten d a n ce upon th e se
in d ic a tio n s
little
H aw a iia n te ac h e rs,
of th e
turn
among u s up to t h e p r e s e n t
I n r e g a r d to s c h o o l s
thin gs
Lunas.
t h e r e b e e n w i t n e s s e d any
in e te r n a l t h i n g s ;
apart
in
as u s u a l i n p a s t y e a r s .
apathy has p r e v a i l e d
said ,
of the Chh.
p o r t i o n o f th e
been about
D i s t r i c t have
terest
the
p ub lic
s c h o o ls
e v e n so many a s
school lik e t h i s ,
in
1 2 bo ys
the
of a
the D i s t r i c t .
su itable
in age
w il l not h e r e a ft e r be
�Kohala
62-3
3.
o b t a i n a b l e f r o m th e
e n tire
fie ld .
G eneral State
The g e n e r a l a s p e c t
o f th e
of t h e
fie ld
fie ld
-
eith e r
c a l i n t e r e s t s , h as n o t b e e n p a r t i c u l a r l y
i n m o r a ls
c h eerin g
t h e r e p o r t f o r l a s t y e a r w o u ld answ er w e l l f o r
o f t h e k i n d s p e c u l i a r to H a w a i i a n s ,
thin nest
a p o lo g y f o r
co ncealm ent.
we f i n d t a k i n g r o o t among us
n e v e r g a i n e d any
fo o tin g
has
-
strip e
in g & reading
in c re a sin g
th e
"P a k ip lh i"
a r e members o f t h e Ch h .
ou r y o u n g men i n th e
m o st a c t i v e
in
I
ch h .
I
refer
We f i n d
our m id s t
It
en tire
th is
is
has
D ist.
refer
to
w ere no
the h a b i t u a l know n
a lso w ic k e d n ess
a s h a m e le s s
s le e p t h o s e
o u tsid e
surely
are
of the Chh.
p rises
to
If
that
the Lord
e n te rp r is e s
of deep r e g r e t
that
w h a t e v e r b y means
respect.
I t has
in
Our
fie ld
long been
estab lish m en t
of
as v i t a l to g o o d m o rals
& a d e s ira b le
so c ia l c o n d itio n
U n til
fru itless.
Now h o w ev e r i t
tation i n
progress
the p r e s e n t y e a r my aims
i s my p r i v i l e g e
among u s ,
e n te rp r is e
g a r d to t h e w e l l b e i n g o f
its
h ith e rto
th e r e s u l t s
fu lly
some s u c h e n t e r
& w is h e s
is
em p lo yees
answer
o f the
have been
to r e p o r t
th e s t o c k o f w h i c h i s
t r o l l e d b y g o o d m en & t h e
o u r
of w h ic h
s e e k th e
co m m u n ity .
( !)
-
ev er b e e n v e r y p oo r i n t h i s
a c h e r is h e d o bject
of t a k
aw ake &
th a t
But
p e o p le co uld a cq u ire d e s ir a b l e p h y s ic a l c o m fo r ts.
& has
of
in fid elity .
A nd w o u ld we c o u l d f e e l
lo n g b e e n w i t h me a s o u r c e
there
p re v io u sly
- one o f the f r u i t s
t h e y h a d no c o a d j u t o r s w i t h i n the p a l e
are H i s
to
u nd er the
by our fa s t - g r o w in g men - some o f whom
for t h e i r m a s t e r .
k n o w e t h them t h a t
Im m o ra lity
two or t h r e e y e a r s ,
a fo r m o f i n i q u i t y w h .
c o h a b i t a t i o n o f u n m a r r ie d p a r t i e s .
another
th is.
these
p h y si
a r e h e a r s a l of
a b o u n d e d & th a t
W ith in
among u s
or i n
a sugar P lan
ow ned or c o n
conducted w it h co n stan t
in
every r e s p e c t .
the hopes &
e xp ectatio n s
re
A nd
c h e r ish e d
�Kohala
62-3
4
in the commencement of the undertaking.
A n ev ent
of
a d iffe re n t
character
it
p a i n s me to r e c o r d h e r e .
In Dec.
l a s t w e w er e g r e a t l y
a f f l i c t e d by the
Ju stic e
- a r a r e man f o r h i s
post.
for
s t e r l in g good sense &
n e c t io n w it h q u e stio n s
I
have never
s io n s
fo r broad &
co n tin ually
an
w as
o pinio n
c o m p re h e n siv e v i e w s
co uld approach h im .
Judgm ent in con
d e c isio n
H is
d ec i
i n v ie w o f a l l t h e f a c t s
once d e l i b e r a t e l y made u p
- we n e v e r
saw.
w el l
come v e r y s l o w l y
& we w o u ld be
sile n t
D u r i n g the y e a r
b u ilt
a t an e x p e n s e
in
W it h a l he
It
th e
com
a b l o w fr o m w h i c h
But He d o e t h a l l
th in g s
th e r o d .
is
16 f t .
Square &
The w e a t h e r h a s b e e n s u c h a s
p a in tin g .
O th erw ise,
66 f t .
been
h ig h
to p r e v e n t
th e to w er h a s
lo n g
We a r e now a t w ork r e n o v a t i n g th e H o u s e i n t e r n a l l y
an e s t im a t e d e x p e n s e
on the S a b b .
e d o v er th e f i e l d
r o tatio n
ever.
s u b m is s iv e u n d e r
of $ 1 0 0 0 .
c o m p le t io n o f the
been fin is h e d .
&
if
d e a l t us
of
a new to w er to our H o u se o f W o r s h i p h a s
the upper ex tre m ity .
s e rv ic e s
to t h e w e l l b e i n g
the L o r d t o o k h im aw ay & t h u s
recovery w il l
at
of
an u n a f f e c t e d l y m odest man & to human v ie w th e most v a l u a b l e
m u n ity , Yet
the
so lid ity
f o r e i g n or n a t i v e who c o u l d u n s e t t l e h im
man among us & th e most n e c e s s a r y
to
ou r D i s t r i c t
com ing b e f o r e h im f o r
in d e p e n d e n tly ,
e v i d e n c e & th e i n d i v i d u a l ,
in
In d e e d fo r
s e e n t h e H a w a i i a n who
w ere made u p ,
death of
o f $ 7 0 0 or t h e r e a b o u t s
a re h e l d i n
- th e p a s t o r
the
taking
several
charge
-
Hence
school h o u ses
P a s t o r ’ s S alary
M o n th ly C o n c e r t
N ew Tower
Total
only
scatter
o f t h e s e m e e t in g s
Cash C o n trib u tio n s
1862
our
fo r
$ 4 2 4 .2 5
1 9 2 .4 3
2 3 5 .5 0
$ 8 5 2 .1 8
in
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62-3
Chh. Statistics
Recd
on p r o f e s s i o n
"
2269
C e rtific ate
"
past year
"
"
W hole
797
on p r o f n
on C e r t i f i .
no.
D ism isse d
past year
"
18
35
to o t h e r Chhs
"
17
past year
Deceased
597
15
1074
"
past y e a r
35
Susp ended past year
1
R e m a in S u s p e n d e d
3
E x c o m m u n ic a te d p a s t y r .
8
W ho le
n o . E xco m m u n ic a te d
R e m a in
W ho le
"
441
num ber i n r e g .
S tan d in g
C h ild re n B ap tize d
"
"
Average
951
1329
past year
M arriages
617
"
12
31
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at t h e S t a t i o n )
[U n s ig n e d ]
1863
Ju ne
Report
K oh ala
o f S ta tio n
H a w a ii
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