https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/2604052bdc80f20e656d10a757d646be.pdf 07e65f4db607dc247a67ac348b9d5d93 PDF Text Text WAILUKU STATION REPORT CONTENTS Unsigned (Green) ..................... .... 1833 J. S. Green and R. Tinker .................. 1834 Unsigned (Green) ........................... 1836 Unsigned (On back: read by Mrs. Armstrong).. 1837 R. Armstrong.............. ................ 1838 Unsigned (Armstrong) ............... ....... 1839 �Wailuku, Maui June 1833 Station taken August 15, 1832 Circumstances when taken. We were cordially recieved (!) and entered immediately upon the labors of the station. There had never been a meeting house here, and for some weeks we worshiped ( !) in a large ranai [lanai: a shed; porch] . For a few Sabbaths the people assembled in great numbers, say 3,000, but after ascertaining that the gospel could be heard every Sabbath, many soon became weary and absented themselves. We found the schools in rather a low state, having no school house and their teachers being indolent. We soon examined the schools of Wailuku and the neighboring villages and found some 600 readers (?). The church consisted of seven members. Labors performed during the year. Preaching on the Sabbath has been regularly performed, also on Wednesdays. For two or three months the Wednesday lecture has been changed to a kind of bible class. Monthly concert has been observed. This with a meeting of the church on Saturday evenings is all the meetings which we have sustained at Wailuku. We have instructed a bible class of some 50 or 60 individuals who have all instructed in Sabbath School between the services on the Sabbath. On Sabbath mornings we have had a school of some 150 children. Of Schools we have taught some 100 teachers in reading and Geography. Many of them have made good improvement. schools is, we think, improving slowly. The state of Many are learning to read tho' the number at our last examination was nearly the same as when we arrived, 631 being the number of readers, exclusive of those under our immediate instruction. �2. Wailuku Report 1833 I have attended nearly all the funerals in the neighborhood of Wailuku, in all thirty nine. Of marriages I have solemnized 139. The statements above have referende to Wailuku and the villages in the immediate vicinity. The field committed to my care embraces the entire part of the Island called East Maui. late census 23,764. Number of inhabitants according to the I have been unable to visit the schools on this part of the Island except 2 or 3 villages some 10 or 15 miles distant where I examined about 1000 readers. I cannot report special attention to religion at my station, tho' I hope in the case of a few, there is a growing interest in attending on the means of grace. We greatly need help. Summary. Church. 9 members 2 added this year. Schools 631 readers - com Schools 100 in geography 39 funerals 139 marriages [Unsigned] [On b ack:] Wailuku Station Report - 1833. Mr. Green. �Wailuku Maui May 19, 1834. In presenting the annual report of the labors performed at this station during the past year, grateful mention should be made of the mercy of God in favoring us generally with comfortable health, especially for his signal Interposition in rescuing one of our number from the very jaws of death, and in restoring him to a state of soundness. In consequence of his fall, Mr. Green was laid aside for three Sabbath[s] . With this exception nothing has occured ( !) to interupt ( !) our labors, some account of which we now present! I. Schools . At the commencement of the missionary year, we designed to expend much of our strength in the business of instructing our station school and we hoped to reap much fruit from this department of our labor. ted. In this respect, however, we have been sorely disappoin­ Our design of benefiting teachers, and their wives (?) many of whom had previously removed to this place, has proved nearly abortive in consequence of having no place for teaching. however has been done. Something A school of children has been taught, and some sixty teachers of both sexes have been under a course of instruction a part of the year. are brightening. Our prospects in regard to our station school Our school house Is nearly completed, and we hope to redeem the time which seems to have been nearly lost. The state of schools generally, on East Maui, is much as hereto­ fore reported. Since the last general meeting a tour of the island has been made for the purpose of examining schools and preaching the gospel. was 2884. The number of readers who were then enrolled in our schools Pew children are in the habit of frequenting school. Teachers are illy qualified for their business, and the state of our schools calls loudly for some change. �Wailuku Maui 1834 2. II Preaching the gospel. \ Our pulpit at Wailuku has been regularly supplied during the year on the Sabbath, Wednesdays, and the first Monday in each month. In addition, considerable itinerary labor has been performed. In making tours for examing schools forty (40) sermons have been preached [Waikapu] and at Hamakua loa, Hamakuapoko, Waihee, Waiehu and Waikepu more than one hundred times during the year, have we proclaimed the "glad tidings of great joy", designed for all people. On Sabbath evenings Mr. Tinker has commonly preached in English to some half dozen foreigners exclusive of our families. III Extra Meetings In addition to these stated means of grace, preaching Sabbath morning to Children, at 11 o.c. A.M. and 4 P.M., we have continued the Bible class exercises (?) on the afternoon of the Sabbath, in which we have explained the verse a day system to the teachers in our Sabbath school. We have recently met our people on the after­ noon of fridays, each week, to explain to them the sacred oracles. On tuesdays of each week, we have met the old people, have prayed with them, read to them the word of God, explained its meaning, and besought them to become holy. 233 6 We have during the year solemnized 239 marriages, and attended 3 242 50 funerals. Gladly would we now speak of the conversion of sinners and the upbuilding of the church. But on this subject we have little to say which will cheer the hearts of our brethren. We fear the church, tho' small, presents a fearful obstacle to the descent of the Holy Spirit. A dreadful state of apathy seems to pervade the church, which we fear will remain unbroken till the light of eternity discloses their real �3 Wailuku Maui 1834 character and unalterable condition. give intimation of Spiritual life. Some three or four members Two members have been admitted during the year, one native, and Mr. Murin (?), an English resident. Tho’ we can speak of nothing particularly cheering, yet we would say that for some two or three months past there has been our considerable increase of xxx congregations xxx on the Sabbath. We hope too that there is rather an increasing attention to the preached gospel, and some few seem to be enquiring the way to heaven. Pray for us that God would shed down upon us the dews of his Spirit, and bring multitudes to the Savior’s feet. J.S. Green R . Tinker 2884 242 50 2 11 readers marriages funerals added to the church during the year church members in all �Wailuku, Maui, May 26, 1836. The familiar line of Hewers beautiful missionary hym ( !) "And only man is vile" - has frequently been on my tongue, as I have walked from my study to the house of God, or to call upon some of our poor people. The sweet air of Wailuku, and the extensive pros­ pect on either hand - the enchanting mountain scenery near us to the west, - the ocean and the grand, distant "Hale o ka la" ( !) to the east - the smiling villages to the south and to the north, the unfailing streams of sweet water which meander thro the midst of waving vegetation, all show plainly that God, on His part, has done all that could reasonably be asked to make this the very garden of delights. How painful the reflection, that man, the last a n d best of the works of God, should pollute, by his sin and folly, all that is fair in the works of his benevolent Creator. To make this field what God would have it, to render it in a moral point of view as interesting as it is in a natural, is the object for which we are toiling. What we have been enabled to do the past year, we will now briefly report. We premise, that the past year has been In some respects, a year of mercy to our poor people. There has been less sickness, and fewer deaths among them, than there were the last year. No accurate account of the births and deaths has been kept; they have probably been nearly equal. God, in dealing thus kindly with our people is calling upon us to labor with our might to save them from the agonies of the second death. The increase of labours has also, we trust, proved an unspeakable blessing to all who have been dis­ posed to listen to instruction. One of us, however, has been pre­ vented from doing all that he had it in his heart to do, in conse­ quence of much secular care in providing for himself and family, a �2. Wailuku, Maui, 1836 comfortable habitation. We hope soon to be relieved from care of this kind that we may be able to show more conclusively after another year, the superior advantage of united, to insolated ( !) [insulated ?] labor at a missionary station. 1. Improvement of the people as physical and social beings. On this subject we can only say, the march of improve­ ment is exceedingly slow. Though some of the people are waking up to a sense of their destitute circumstances, very little is actually doing to better their condition. Of the greater part, we need scarcely say that they seem perfectly contented to remain as they have always been, scarcely a grade above the swine they feed, so far as habits of living are concerned. We do not say that we ought, as a mission, to do more than we now do to improve the habits of the people at large, tho’ we think that candidates for church mem­ bership should have special instruction relative to their duty on this subject; - but we cannot refrain from expressing our belief, that unless the rising generation are better trained than their fathers, there is very little hope that religious institutions will long be perpetrated. 2. Manufactory of cloth &c. In this department though we cannot report having done great things, yet we have done too much to yield to discourage­ ment. Indeed we have been agreeably disappointed in witnessing the diligence and perseverance of those females who have been instructed in spinning. One class of seven or eight has been dismissed, who are in the opinion of Miss Brown, capable of teaching others to spin. They have also learned to knit. course of instruction. Another class is now in a The quantity of cloth which Miss Brown has �Wailuku, Maui 1836 3. woven, for she has done the weaving hitherto - is as follows: 1st piece 2nd Do 3d Do She has yarn on hand for some yds — __ Do _ _ _ _ _ D o _____ _ would yds more, which/have been woven had she not accompanied Mr. Armstrong to this place the last of April. The great difficulty connected with this subject seems to be that those who learn to spin are likely to lose the benefit for want of encouragement after leaving school. They are destitute of wheels, and if they had them, they have no place to spin. Would it not be best for us, as a mission, to take the business into our own hands purchase cotton, instruct females to spin, and afterward pay them from the. product of their own industry? We are of the opinion that we shall soon be obliged to adopt this course, or relinquish all hopes of benefiting the people by teaching them to manufacture cloth. 3. Translations. Second Chronicles has been reviewed since general meeting, and printed, and the assignments then made to us have been performed, and also printed. 4. Marriages. There have been 139 marriages solemnized at this station, and at other places on East Maui, since the last general meeting. 5. Preaching the gospel. This we have made our great business. The preaching of the gospel has been maintained at our Station every Sabbath, dur­ ing the year. Also our Wednesday lecture, monthly concert, and other occasional meetings. We have of late, observed the second monday �Wailuku Maui 1836 4 in the month to pray for the blessing of God on sabbath school in­ struction, and the third to unite in praying that God would smile upon the means employed to train up youth for the ministry. On Wednesdays of late, one of us has been out to Waihee, four miles distant, visited the schools there, and preached. At Haiku, preach­ ing has been maintained, when neither of us has been absent from home, nearly every Sabbath, and occasionally we have preached at Ham akuapoko on our way home from Haiku, In October one of us, accompanied by Mr. Clark made the tour of East Maui. We spent nearly a week in examining schools, and preaching the gospel from village to village. the island. Quite recently Bartimeas has made the tour of He was absent from Wailuku eight Sabbaths, held meetings wherever he could find means, and conversed familiarly with all whom he saw. W e cannot but hope that good will result from these itinerating labors. Our congregations on the Sabbath have been much as last year both at Wailuku and Haiku, and a good degree of atten­ tion, at the time, is paid to the preaching of the gospel, will be the result remains to be seen. What May it finally be seen that our labors in the Lord are not in vain. 6. State of the church, additions &c. We have had no case of discipline in our little church, the past year, though our hearts are pained with evidence, which their lives too plainly furnish, of the unsoundness of the profession \ of several. A protracted meeting of the church of nearly a week has been held, during the year, and of late more than usual labor has been bestowed upon them. On a part of the church, the influ­ ence seems to have been happy, but the case of others seems more hopeless than any other class of sinners to whom we preach the gospel. The seal of perdition seems affixed to them, and we might �Wailuku Maui 1836 5. as well weep over the dead. God grant that the churches may he saved from the intrusion of others of like character. The Savior it has seemed to us o f late, is in a Special manner near to us and waiting to shed down upon us the influences of the Holy Spirit, but all we can say will not arouse some part of the church, nor induce them to lift a finger to save their perishing fellow men around them from perdition. Indeed we greatly fear that some of them are living in the habitual commission of known sin; and we do not expect to live long without trouble of the kind which has afflicted our brethren at other stations. We can however report more favorably of several individuals of our church. They appear to be humble, prayerful, con- sistant followers of the Lord Jesus Christ and seem disposed to be co-workers with us in building up His cause. In January last three individuals, one from Haiku, were admitted to the church. None stand propounded, but several have, of late excited our hopes that they are the children of God. There seems also to be a growing solemnity on the minds of a class of our people. We cannot but hope that the Savior is about to pour upon us a blessing. May we be prepared to welcome the Holy Spirit, and that He may be shed down upon us in copious effusions we entreat our brethren "to pray for us." [Unsigned. J.S. Green's handwriting] �Wailuku. Ap. 1837 In presenting the report of Wailuku station for the past year, the first sentiment which arises in our minds is one of gratitude to the God of our mercies fore we have prospered - His good hand has been upon us & there­ We have had no sickness of consequence at our station during the year: Neither has there been much sickness or great mortality among our people - The season however has been unusually dry & we are in danger of suffering some inconvenience in consequence. The church On our return from Genl Meeting the church was not in as en­ couraging a state as could be wished. The King and chiefs being at the station, occasioned much destraction ( !) of mind, & presented some snares in the way of our professing Christians - Lukewarmness in some and spiritual death in others were apparent while one came forward voluntarily and acknowledged himself guilty of drinking brandy with King singing meles for him, and some other sins of less consequence thus violating his own pledge, & bringing disgrace upon himself as a christian - But as the confession was voluntarily made & with evidence of penitence, he was not suspended from the church. This affair however was overruled for good not only to the individual concerned, who has appeared much better since than before his fall, but to the ch. generally - It occasioned some awakening & heart others searching, and fears lest xxxx might fall into the same temptation so that from that time to the present there has been rather an in­ creasing spirit of prayer, zeal & activity in our church. Most of our church members are active labouring men & women & chiefly of the poorer class, and on the whole the church at Wailuku may be regarded as in a prosperous state - It has been greatly revived & strengthened �Wailuku 1837 2. [protracted] by two pro-meetings held during the year of which we shall speak presently - During the year 11 individuals have been received to the communion of the church, one of whom is a young girl of 13 or 14 years old. One case of discipline only has occured ( !) during the year. A man from Kaawaloa, a member of Mr. Elys church, who had removed to Haiku some 4 years ago, where his out deportment not only entitled him to a good standing in the church but procured for him an unusual degree of our confidence, was proved at the close of our. pro. meeting in Nov. to have been guilty of adultery more than two years ago, in repeated instances - Considering all the circumstances of the case, he was severely dealt with but I am happy to say there is some evi­ dence of sincere repentance in him at present - He has evidently suffered sever[e]ly in discipline, even to mar[r]ing his countenance, and affecting his health. We hope therefore to see the way clear ere long to restore him to his place in the church - I mention this case because several of the brethren are acquainted with the man & may feel an interest in it Labours The public labours of the station has been as follows - A a Sab. school at 8. o'c A. M. sermon sabbath morning and another and another at 11 o 'clock^with a Bible class at 1 o'clock, and a catechetical lecture at 4, with occasionally an english sermon in the evening - A school of adults to study the ai o Ka la & read the Kumu Hawaii has been regularly held on Wed. afternoon & closed with a lecture on the verses for the week Since the 1st of Nov. morning prayer meetings have been held at day break, which have been well attended & been highly useful A church meeting has also been regularly held every Sat. evening. Mrs. A. has also held a meeting for women on friday & monday. �Wailuku 3 1837 The out-station at Haiku has been, pretty regularly supplied with preaching &c, during the year - We have generally gone there alter­ nately & preached once or twice on the sabbath, attended a Bible class & a sabbath school & preached once or twice on our way home The state of the people at Haiku is encouraging - One individual from there has been recently recd to the church at Wailuku and others appear to be under the evident influence of divine truth One or two more will probably soon be recd to the fellowship of the church - The importance of the outpost is enhansed ( !) by the fact of Mr. Smith's settling there which will no doubt occasion some influx of population into the neighberhood ( !) & moreover Mr. Smith avows it as his intention to do every thing in his power to aid our work & bring the people under the influence of the Gospel - The congregations both at Wailuku and Haiku have been much the same this year as they were last - respectably large At our other out station Honuaula we have done something, though not very much - Since Pikenini has been at the head of affairs there, the aspect of things has greatly changed for the better A new native meeting-house & (I think) 7 stone or doby school-houses have been built, all of which are daily occupied with schools - The meeting house is well filled on the sabbath when there is any one to preach & the sabbath school is large - Bartimeus has done most of the labour at this place and occasionally also gone to Haiku. His services we think are very acceptable to the people & highly useful. The monthly concert has been pretty well attended at our station during the year, & we think it has been very useful in the manner in which it has been conducted - We have laboured in this meeting mainly to urge upon professing Christians their obligations to be �Wailuku 4. 1837 co-workers with us and with our Master in building up his Kingdom We have insisted upon works as necessary to salvation, and urged our people to do what they could for the cause of Him who bought them with his blood - A proposition was made to those who could work, to devote the 1st monday in the month to labour in some way or other to benefit the cause. The proposition was acceeded to by a number & they have continued to labour cheerfully every concert-day since They talk of building a stone meeting house in this way The concert for schools has also been observed at the station, & has been a season of interest. Schools - Our station schools during the year have been as follows 1. Adult male school, or school for teachers. The number who attended about 30; no efforts were made to enlarge it as we thought best not to employ a great deal of time & labour on this class of persons - Some of the scholars made commendable progress in Geogra­ phy, arithmetic, Nat. history, composition &c, and read regularly the Kumu Hawaii as a school exercise. From the 1st of Aug. to Dec. this school met twice a day & since that only once, owing to the cares of building, & the superintendence of a large childrens school, of which w e shall now speak. 2. On our return from Genl Meeting in July, a free consultation was held with our chiefs in reference to the interest of schools, and as they expressed a willingness to co-operate in any measures we should take - all the children in Wailuku old enough to go to school were assembled & in the presence of the chiefs their names enrolled on the school book & the duty of attending regularly on the duties of the school enjoined upon them by the chiefs; with this �Wailuku 5. 1837 the childrens school commenced in July & no difficulty has been experienced since in keeping them together. The number enrolled is 245, and the average attendance quite as good as could be expected in all weathers. But of this school a class of 18 lads was selected, who have been taught in a separate house with reference to their entering the High School. These boys form a very interesting class, and ten of them at least we think of transferring to the High School in July - Another class of 15 girls equally or perhaps more promising were placed under the immediate instruction of one of the graduates from the H. school, who until he was obliged to leave for a season did at least what he could for their improvement. Both these select classes are well initiated in the study of Geography, arithmetic, Nat. His. and the scripture catechisms, &c, and only need proper advantages to make as fine scholars as will ever be needed in this nation In all the childrens school, besides the select classes, there are about__who can read the common elementary books, commit the verse a day & the catechisms, the remainder are in various stages of pro­ gress from the a to the heluhelu maoli [perhaps: a, meaning the be­ ginning of the alphabet; heluhelu: to read; maoli: true, genuine. Hence, from the beginning reader to the real, good reader] Our ladies have been able to [do] something though not very much in the way of teaching during the year. For a part of the year Mrs. Green devoted some time to the adult females, while Mrs. Armstrong took charge, for a season of an interesting class of little girls. It will be seen that the schools just mentioned, embraces after all but a small portion of the population of Wailuku. The great mass of persons who once knew how to read a little & some of them well, �Wailuku 6 1837 were seen to have forsaken their books in a great measure & of course, their little knowledge fast waning. To prevent if possible this evil in month of March a general school was commenced under the special care of our chief (Kawailepolepo) which has met on every Wednesday afternoon & embraces all both male & female who know the alphabet Punctual attendance to this school is required by the chief who calls the roll regularly & marks the absentees. Those who can read, use the Kumu Hawaii & the ai o ka la & those who cannot are furnished with some elementary book. (chils school on Wednesday) Of Schools in general on E. Maui, we have not much to say that is encouraging. In most places there are either no schools at all or they exist merely in name. But in a few places there have been during the year schools of considerable value - At Waihee, through the influence of the chief (Kaauwai), a childrens school embracing all the children of the land has been sustained during most of the year. There is there also a Wednesday school for adults similar to that at Wailuku. It is proper to remark too that this individual has manifested during the year a very commendable interest in schools, not only on his own land, but being the Governors agent has also been devising plans for the interest of school generally on E. Maui And the interest appears to be growing - It was principally through his agency that a law has been eneacted requiring all children on the island over 4 years of age to attend school, and exempting those who are devoted to teaching from work on the lands - The utility of this law remains to be tested, but so far it has operated favourably Its utility will of course depend almost entirely on us The schools also in Haiku have been kept up during the year & �Wailuku 1837 7. * some improvement made in reading by a considerable number of children & others. In the month of Nov. 5 graduates from the High School were located on E. Maui as school teachers - One at Wailuku, one at Koo- lau, one at Hana, another at Kaupo & another at Honuaula; what success [not] these men have had in teaching is/definitely known to us, as we have not visited them since they took their stations. reports we judge they have done something. But from their own The one at Koolau reports 7 boys as having learned to read fluently & attended to some other branches, a little. the High School. The one at Honuaula reports 8 as being ready for And the one at Wailuku was industrious as long as health allowed him to teach - is very inefficient however - From the other two we have no definite report. Books - The demand for books during the year has been such that we have not been at a l l able to meet it. been both too few & two small - Our supplies of books have We have also been much embarrassed in not being able to obtain in due season such books as were printed, and therefore, we would recommend the whole business of the printing committee, of the bindery, distribution of books &c, be a subject of deliberation at this general meeting. Two pro. meetings have been held at Wailuku during the year: one during the 1st The week of Nov. the other the last week in March - At the former Bros Parker & Smith were present & assisted in the exercises - Their labours were timely and will not soon be forgotten by our people - This meeting was well attended, continued 6 days and was productive of great good - There is reason to believe that some souls were truly awakened converted & saved; say for we do not know - How many we cannot �8. The last pro. meeting was not intended to embrace the multitude, but merely the church, & the more serious part of the community; But notwithstanding the notice, three or four hundred attended, & we have never seen at Wailuku seasons of deeper solemnity than were some of these meetings - The seriousness of a number continues , & we hope will till they are perfected in Christ - The children and the aged have both received special attention in these meetings - the children particularly - It has moved our sympathies to contemplate a group of 40 or 50 aged men & women, attending these meetings & apparently feeling after God if peradventure they might find him in their old age - One of them spoke out of a sudden in one of our meetings & said I have lived In the reign of Kalaiopu & I have been with Kamehameha, and behold here I am now in the Kingdom of Christ - They were bad this is good, I shall follow Jesus. Translations During the year the Hymns for children have been reviewed, a small work on surveying nearly translated, and the translation of Joshua revised and the remaining chapters translated, and the book of Daniel translated in part. A new doby school-house has been built at the station, 50 ft by 28 ft & furnished with writing desks, seats, glass-windows; is a convenient house & cost the Board about $100 ? It books at their nominal price The people of our neighborhood have during the year worked out 128$ towards procuring a bell for the meeting-house. During the year there have been 90 marriages solemnized at our station & 4 children baptised and deaths. No account has been kept of births �Wailuku Maui 9. 1837 In th e month of August I made a tour around E. Mau i with Governor Hoapili & his suite. The object was to revive the schools, have school-houses erected, & proclaim school & marriage laws - The school law in regard to children is in force and is no doubt useful. The new marriage law is that none but old people shall marry who cannot read - The old man was in good spirits & seemed to be resolute in urging the business of education - We have followed up his proclama­ tion closely since & have not married any young folk who cannot read; On the whole it is thought that the tour did good. The tobacco law on Maui is no more, and we have nothing to lament that it is so: To inflict heavy penalties on the people of one island for smoking tobacco, while chiefs & people of another church members as well as others continued to do so, and yet all under the same government, could have no tendency to secure the con­ fidence of the people in their chiefs, nor enable them to reconcile the conduct of professing Christians with such a law: the law did not keep down the vice, & could not. And besides, There is however a pretty strong public sentiment still on Maui against tobacco: None of our teachers or church members use it that we are aware of & many others abstain from it - This public sentiment is better than law - It may be proper here to call your attention once more to the destitution of E. Maui - It will be remembered that our station is really on West Maui, and now may be considered as having only one man to attend to the appropriate missy work of the station. The Seminary about to go into operation is for the benefit of the islands generally & will occupy the whole time of its teacher. So that E. Maui with a population of some 20,000 has really no missionary; and the people are so remote that even when there are two men at Wal- �Wailuku Maui 1837 10. luku, we cannot preach to them more than once or twice a year Consider then her claim in the distribution of your men [Un sig n e d ] [On b ack:] Report of Wailuku Station 1837 read by Mrs. Armstrong �Report of Wailuku Station from June 1st 1837 to June 1st 1838 In presenting this report, it will be understood that it con­ tains merely an account of what has been attempted & effected in my department of labour, during the year. The reports of the Sem­ inary & cloth establishments, are distinct & will give a statement of what has been doing in those divisions of our work. When I look back upon the past year, the first & most spontan­ eous sentiment of my bosom, is gratitude to the Father of mercies, for the countless & rich blessings, He has bestowed upon myself, my family & my people. With the exception of Mrs. A's confinement & occasional but temporary ill turns of Miss Brown, no sickness has visited our dwelling during the twelve months past. Not a single Sabbath have I been unable to discharge the solemn & heavy duties which have devolved upon me. Neither have we needed any good thing for the sustenance & comfort of the body. Our cup of blessings has been full during the whole year but especially the latter part of it, with scarcely a drop of bitterness intermixed, and I can truly say I have never felt called upon more strongly to exercise gratitude to God & to trust Him for the future. But while this has been the case with ourselves & most of our people It has been otherwise with a great many of our neighbours. Since the month of January there has been an unusual amount of sickness about us, and also an unusual number of deaths. Besides the common complaints among natives, an epidemic of a somewhat pecu­ liar character has prevailed & proved fatal in a number of instances. The symptoms are swelling of the whole body, attended with fever & ( !) after the desease ( !) has made some progress, a dysentary. On account of this sickness an unusual portion of my time has been �Wailuku - 1838 2. devoted to the medical wants of the people. During the summer months we were much favoured with the prof. [professional? ] practice of Dr. Lafon, who did much good in the way of healing, but as the natives by his practice acquired increased confidence in our medi­ cines, a great amount of this sort of business was thrown on my hands after the Dr. left. While speaking of the sickness & mortality of our people, I may as well mention here the death of a worthy & beloved member of our church; I mean Kawailepolepo. He died on the 13th of Feb. after a tedious illness, of several months and left behind him a dying testimony to the truth, power & preciousness of the Gospel. His last intelligible words to me were lanakila au [perhaps: I have come off victorious] ; and these are in perfect accordance with all he said and wrote during his long illness. To me his end was more like that of a civilized Christian of exalted piety, than that of any native I have yet witnessed. As to the progress of civilization and industry among our people, I cannot speak very favourably. Indeed I have regarded it as im­ possible for the people to make much substantial improvement in these respects until there is some favourable change in the government, & therefore have not spent much time in teaching the people the arts & usages of civilized life nor in urging them to be industrious in labour while there is so poor a prospect of labours being rewarded. I can say however, that there is less idleness about us than there used to be. Between schools, meetings, labour for the cause of benevolence generally, & labour on their lands, the most of those under our influence are occupied the greater part of the time. �Wailuku - 1838 3. Schools - Teachers &c , Let me here mention the bounderies of our school district. It extends to the Koolau line on the N . E. side of the island & to the dividing line of Kaupo & Kahikinui on the S.W. By mutual agreement all the other districts of E. Maui belong to Hana station; Our boun- deries then include Hamakualoa, Hamakuapoko, Haliimaele ( !), Makaoao ( !), Kula, Honuaula, Kahikinui, Waikapu, Wailuku, Waiehu & Waihee. In our immediate neighberhood ( !) that is from Wakapu ( !) to Waihee, there are now 5 good doby school houses, four of which are about 50 ft. by 28, and the fifth about 15 by 30. In Honuaula there are seven school houses, built of stone and mud & though not first rate, are much more substantial & comfortable than grass houses. There is also a neat doby school house at Hamakuapoko, & a pretty good supply of good thatched houses in the other districts built by order of the governor two years ago. Schools have been sustained in all these houses during the year, with a good deal of regularity & in some of them with much efficiency. The schools are chiefly composed of children, except on Wednesdays & Sabbaths when all classes & ages turn out. What progress the children have made in knowledge, may be in some measure ascertained from the following table taken from our last examinations Whole number Readers Geo'y Wailuku ) Waiehu ) 367 250 Waihee ) Waikapu ) Hamakualoa ) & that region)506 249 Honuaula &50 766 350 1425 65 . — Dont Helu naau Helu Kamalii read 100 150 202 — 75 257 — — 200 �Wailuku - 1838 4. We have no report from Kula nor Kahikinui & therefore cannot tell with any degree of accuracy how many children can read in these districts but there is a considerable number. The above table is not quite accurate in another respect - be­ cause it only includes those who have attended examination, while it is well known that many children from one cause or another have absented themselves from examinations As to adult scholars, I cannot report with much precision, having no very accurate returns from the outer districts this season. In our immediate neighborhood however, that is, from Waikapu to Waihee, there are according to a late examination 569 adults who may be called respectable readers & many of them have a slight acquaintance with geography, arithmatic ( !), writing &c. In Hamakualoa & that region there are about as many more according to former examinations. These with the adult readers of Kula, Honuaula & Kahikinui, I w d say at a rough estimate amount to about 1800. I think however this is rather below than above the truth According to this estimate then we have in all of children & adults about 2700 readers within our bounds, exclusive of the dis­ tricts connected with Hana Station. This is an increase of more than one half within the last 3 years. This increase is mainly to be attributed to the impulse given to our schools by the teachers from the High School. Of these we have had eight employed most of the year & have now two more just entering upon their labours. With one exception these teachers have acquited ( !) themselves in such a manner as not only to meet our approbation, but to enlist my affections for them & increase my interest in the institution where they have been educated. What �5. Wailuku - 1838 better testimony do we need to convince us of the utility & impor­ tance of the High School than the successful efforts of these teachers. In my opinion the benefits already confered ( !) & daily acruing ( !) to the nation from the labours of these teachers is more than wd be the discovery of a mine of gold on one of the islands. They are doing more to raise up, enlighten & improve the native society than all the laws & rulers in the land. Shall we not then hold on to the High School in the face of all dangers, & hope for still happier fruits from it by & by? ( !) But the exception above mentioned is one of a distressing char­ acter. It is the case of [a] young man named Elemakeele [or Ele- makule] who was located at Haiku, where for a season he laboured with an energy & perseverence which soon gained him great popularity & influence over a large section of E. Maui; But he went up too quick, reeled & fell to a depth of disgrace & shamefully proportioned to the height of his elevation. He has since however professed repentance & is now allowed to teach again in a subordinate capacity in the school of another We have a school at our station for adult teachers from the remote districts, chiefly taught by the graduates & is very useful. These common teachers alternate in coming to the school & change every two months. Mrs. Armstrong has had a school for women twice a week during part of the year and once a week of late I have done almost nothing by way of direct school teaching during the year except a singing school which I taught with no little success for about 3 months of the year & a night school about 2 months for the teachers; But I have kept a constant supervision of �Wailuku - 1838 all the school operations at the station. My practice has been to visit & open the school every morning with singing & prayer & a short address to the children & at the close of the school to visit it again, hear the catechism, look over matters &c. We have suffered some embarrassment for want of funds to support native teachers. They are all poor, & so devoted to teaching & so cut off from the ordinary methods of getting a support except in the mere article of food, that they must have aid from some quarter or give up their schools & go to other business. They have needed houses & clothing for themselves & families most of any thing & as to houses they are now comfortable. We have called upon our people to aid them & they have cheerfully done so in such articles of produce as they possess, but the difficulty has been to convert such produce into cloth. Still however it has been a great help. For examples sake, I think it important that our teachers be clad decently & live decently & moreover If industrious they are worthy of this at least. I have paid out during the year to teachers, in cloth, books, money & other articles, about $80, they have recd about $40 worth from the church & people - Considerable part of the above sum however has gone to the teachers within the bounds of Hana station. I have of late succeeded in procuring some valuable lots of land for the teachers & am encouraging them to devote part of their time to farming, by way of getting a support. Potatoe ( !) crops a fail in Lahaina & so they may r^ise this article with profit for the shipping. Books We have recd during the year for Wailuku & Hana Stations probably not far from $650 worth of book ( !), net value. These books have �Wailuku - 1838 7. been chiefly given by the quantity on credit, & the majority still remain unpaid for. They have brought/in more than a supply of native provisions not only for all our families, but also for the Seminary. I think the book-debts in our immediate neighberhood ( !) will furnish the Seminary with food for the current year, unless there is a great scarcity of which there is some probability. I would remark again that the books however indispensible oc­ casion a good deal of perplexity. facts. 1. This arises from the following The books in my opinion should not be withheld from the people because they cannot pay for them in any article which can be converted into money or to defraying the expenses of the printing department. Moreover they should be given to those who will be most likely to profit by them. 2. The most of our books go into the hands of those who have nothing to give in return for them but native produce for which we have no market, and moreover the principal part of them are children who find it difficult to pay for them in any thing whatever. 3. Yet such is the state of our treasury that I feel bound to dispose of the books in such a way as to save the funds in every possible way, but how can I turn them to any such account? 4. They bring upon us many things which we do not really need, but consume because we have them, & get them for books. 5. Our yearly allowance is now so small that I cannot al low more credit to the printing department, than would equal the sum I should expend for articles of native produce had I no books. 6. I have not time to keep my book account as it should be kept & therefore there is some loss on this account. have done; I have therefore concluded to do as I That is the best I can. We have received at the station during the year not far from $300 worth of native produce. �8. Wailuku - 1838 Marriages We have married during the year 156 couple, that is 64 couple more than we married last year with all E. Maui in our bounds. From ( !) such a fact one might almost hazzard a hope that the progress of de­ population would be somewhat checked. Sabbath Schools In the sabbath school at Wailuku there are 550 children - aver­ age attendance about 500 casionally 700. But we have often had above 600 & oc­ In the Sab. school at Haiku there have been counted 550 children but as many come a long distance & it is often stormy I should not think the avarage ( !) attendence ( !) over 400. At Ho- nuaulu there are about 250 children in the Sabbath [School] . Kula & Kahikinui I have no regular returns - From In all our bounds there are 1300 or 1400 children in the sabbath schools. How many adults attend Sab-school ( !) I cannot tell,but the number is consider­ able: at Wailuku as many as 500. As to the benefits derived from these sabbath schools we have every reason to speak favourably. ly & positively. They are beneficial both negative­ They prevent mischief & do good. 44 Sabbath school scholars have been received to the communion of the church during the last 2 months - A number of others give evidence of piety & will I hope be recd soon to the same holy fellowship. The schools are well attended & popular. Bible classes Bible classes have been regularly held at Wailuku & all the outposts. In these we have used the Huliano & the ai o ka la. pious school teachers & other church members conduct them in our absence. These also are well attended & popular. Our �Wailuku - 1838 9. Public labours My ordinary public labours have been as follows. On Sabbath, a semon at sunrise - Sabbath school at 8 o'clock which I always visit - address the children from 10 till half after, sermon again at 11. Bible class at 1, catechetical lecture at 4. My ordinary week day public labours have consisted in attending a meeting every morning at day break, lecturing on Wednesday after­ noon, monthly concert for the world & another for our schools & Seminaries, a church meeting every friday, an anxious meeting 4 evenings in the week, since February and for the last 3 months a great deal of conversation with individuals - Sometimes setting ( !) in the meeting house for this purpose 6 hours in the day. But besides these I have attempted to perform some labours which may be called extraordinary ting &c. Such as protracted meetings, itinera­ I have laboured at 10 protracted meetings during the year - 4 at Wailuku, two of wh. were for the benefit of people from remote places - 2 at Haiku, 1 at Honuaula, 1 at Lahainaluna, 1 at Lahainalalo & 1 at Molokai. Itinerating - At 3 of them laboured single handed I have preached occasionally also at Haiku & Honuaula during the year & have deeply lamented my inability to go oftener to th ese places. In these labours I have derived important & often timely aid from Mr. Green who has always been ready to give me a helping hand when he could. Attendance at the house of God on the Sabbath & other days has been far greater during the year, than it has for several years past. We have no meeting houses large enough to hold the people, so that at Wailuku & Haiku we have commenced operations to build new & �Wailuku - 1838 better ones. Church During the year there have been recd to the full communion of our church 279 persons of whom one only was recd by letter. whole number now in regular standing is 309. has occured ( !) during the year. The One case of discipline One under censure last year re­ stored - One died - Eighty children baptised. Ch & people contributed $250 for various objects. As to the state of the church I will merely say that the few members with which we began the year have generally appeared well and those recently received, present very much such an external deportment as you would expect of babes in Christ. I trust many of our flock know by experience what it is to be filled with the Holy Ghost & to agonize for perishing souls all they have seen appear as they ought. But some do not after Since January there has been a high state of religious feeling among most of our members. May it ever continue so. Translations The tract on Popery assigned me at last Gen1 Meeting, has not been fully prepared. The reason is that after writing several chap­ ters on that subject in the form of a dialogue & sending them to Mr. Tinker according to his own request for the K. Hawaii - H e informed me that the printing committee did not think it expedient to print any thing on that subject at present & returned the manuscript. So it was dropt ( !). I will say however that it seems to me expedient to publish & circulate most industriously on the subject of Popery now, while the evil is at a distance. A stitch in time often saves nine. �11 Wailuku - 1838 According to a vote, of the Maui meeting in April, the first 10 chapters of Ezekiel were assigned to me for translation & to be accomplished soon as possible. I have made a beginning & gone through the first 4 chapters - hope to accomplish what I can towards preparing the whole within the specified time. Revival This report is already so long that I have scarcely room to do justice to this part of it. And yet it is desirable that a particu­ lar account of every part of this blessed work be given, so as to enable us to compare the appearances in different places & thus percive ( !) the identity or diversity of the work. Shortly after our return from Genl. Meeting last June it was evident that there was a hearing ear & a desire for the word of life abroad among our people. Meetings began to be fully attended & many came to inquire what they should do; But the impressions of the people did not seem to be deep & positive as they should be. Things continued much in this state, with perhaps a little increase of feeling until about the first of December, when prospects began to grow a little more bright; An increase of feeling was manifest in our morning meetings & in private conversation. The first of Jany was observed by our congregation, those out as well as those within the church, as a day of fasting & prayer, and it was a truly solemn day. A large number attended the several meetings & much feeling was exhibited. Some members of the church began to quake & two of our oldest & best men, proposed to absent themselves from the communion of the Lords supper on the following Sabbath, in view of their unworthiness; One of them threw himself back on his seat in a church meeting and said "I have no religion & the whole popu- �Wailuku - 1838 12. lation might as well go to the Lord's table as I." Prayer now began to be offered by the church with much fervour & perseverence & the work from this time assumed a more decided form We had before this been hoping for a revival, but now we felt that we had one on hand - We had till then held our morning meetings in a large school house but were now obliged to go to the meeting house in order to get room & many of our meetings presented a scene of sobbing & weeping. Crowds came to tell thoughts, but in very many cases they were not the dry, made up trifles, they used to bring, which one could not hear without pain. They seemed to come from the heart & the whole demeanor indicated solemnity of feeling & concern of mind. I now speak of particular cases - The last week in January we held a protracted meeting of six days continuance & it was a precious season. Meetings were full attentive & solemn throughout & when we came to converse with them individually, it was evident that the sword of the spirit had lad ( !) open many a heart & left it bleeding. Four or five hundred then professed to be seeking their salvation through Christ, & I hope, not a few were really so - After this meeting, the work gradually spread in every direction, until no neighbourhood was left unmoved; A spirit of inquiry was abroad every where & the descent of the Holy Spirit was the most common topic of conversation so far as I heard. I held prod Meetings in March at Haiku & Honuaula & was much gratified with the appearances among the people. Nearly all who could, came to the meetings & the mass of the people seemed to be deeply Impressed with divine truth. A strong disposition to weep aloud was manifested at some of our meetings but as it was met with prompt disapprobation, there were few cases of extravagance of this �Wailuku - 1838 13. kind; yet many could not suppress the inward gushings of their hearts and would pour them out in tears. Many wept none & yet seemed to he more deeply convicted of sin than those who did & in fact my judgement ( !) led me constantly to guard the people against supposing that strong emotions and weeping were necessarily connected with true re­ pentance, By the first of April it might he said that the excitement had extended all over our hounds and so it continues till this day. At the out stations however, it has been increasing much of late. That is, many new cases of awakening occured ( !), so that many hun­ dreds of all classes ages & sexes, profess to have turned from the error of their way. Time alone can tell how many have really done so After all we have not received many out of so great a number who profess repentance to the privileges of the church. Only 244. This may seem strange after what we have said of the extent of the excitement; But whether we have proceeded on wrong principles or not, we have been honest in our caution. None have been received without some knowledge of their private character & manner of life, repeated conversations with myself & then all passed a careful examination befor ( !) Mr. Green & myself in which we spent two solid weeks, about the whole of our time. During this time we examined some 800 or more, taking the names of such as we made up our minds to baptise & reject­ ing the others for the time being. Some of the reasons which have operated on my mind, to produce caution in receiving members to the church, I will mention -1. The people are easily excited on the subject of religon, and their affec­ tions easily moved by sympathy, so that having learned the prominent practical truths of the gospel, it is easy for them to appear & talk & feel like a penitent person, when a little time, or a slight ac- �14. Wailuku - 1838 quaintanc e with their every day conduct, may show that the work is not that of God's spirit - 2- We have not yet had time to know much about the majority of those who have come to us exhibiting marks of repentence ( !) - 3. In a number of instances, on inquiring into the private conduct of those we have thought well of, we have been con­ vinced that their fruits were not such as a good tree w d bear. With all the favorable appearances they have exhibited, they have been found defective in honesty, purity - reverence for God or some such thing 4. If they are God's children they will not fall away by being looked at a little longer, especially while enjoying the means of grace. 5. The history of excitement in the Islands is calculated to produce caution. 6. A corrupt church is a great curse to any country & the greater the church the greater the curse. As to measures, I merely remark, that all we have used or en­ d w couraged, is to call upon those who were ready to choose Christ to manifest it either by rising or going into a separate house for con­ versation & prayer - We have not encouraged the old thought telling plan, but have appointed in its stead set times for conversation with persons from particular lands taking them in rotation. We have employed many of the older church members to great advan[ta]ge in carrying on the work. Some of them have laboured with much success & much to my satisfaction - Bartimeus has been & is now especially useful I might mention more particulars, but this we deem sufficient to give you some idea of what has been going on at our station during the past year. Blessed year ! M [a]y it never be forgotten - Let �Wailuku - 1838 heaven & earth rejoice over what the Saviour has done since our last General Meeting. Let our confidence in him & our love for Him b e increased to the end of time. Let our hearts too swell with the hope that all heathen nations may yet see what we now see & rejoice as we now rejoice R. Armstrong �Report of Wailuku Station [Armstrong] [1839] At the close of another missionary year, I find myself & family in the enjoyment of all those blessings & comforts, which a Kind Providence has been wont to bestow in former years. So uninterrupted has been the stream of our mercies and so few our afflictions, that we feel like speaking of nothing hut the goodness of our heavenly Father. Yet we have not been entirely free from trials during the past year. Mrs. Armstrong, besides her confinement, had an ill turn in November during my absence at Oahu, and in the latter part of August, I took cold on my lungs wh confined me to my bed about a week & laid me aside from preaching for ten sabbaths. It pleased my Gracious Lord however to heal my desease ( !), & restore to me my usual ability to labour in his vineyard. During my illness Bro. Green kindly took my place in the pulpit & thus preaching has been sustained regularly at the station during the year. Two sermons and a lecture on sabbath, a discourse on Wed­ nesday, an address or lecture every morning, preaching occasionally at the outstations, two prod [protracted] meetings, labours at monthly concerts, conferences &c have been about the amount of my public preaching, when not interrupted by sickness. The church No inconsiderable portion of my time has been occupied with the church, in attending to cases of discipline, instructing, counselling & watching over it. There have been received into the Wailuku church since its first organization 497 members. Of these 6 have died & 4 have been excommunicated, leaving now in our society 487. — 200 have been received during the past year, and about 50 more stand �Wailuku - 1839 2. propounded. Connected with the church there are 153 baptised children. ___ [No number given] baptised during the past year. There have been in all eight cases requiring the discipline of the church during the year - viz. Five for adultery, two for quarrel­ ing, and one for smoking tobacco contrary to his vows. Three of the adulterers have been cut off, two appear sincerely penitent, indeed their case was not an aggravated one, and the other three persons have been restored on confession of their fault. As to the spiritual state of the church I have no reason to speak discouragingly of it. That there are many who have not the root of the matter in them I have sad reason to fear, but of others my hopes are bright that they have chosen the good part which shall not [be] taken from them. To assist in the management of church affairs, seven of the most substantial members have been selected, though not publicly & formally consecrated to the work. These individuals have been of essential service to me in my supervision of the church and I hope in a short time to have them so trained, that we shall feel justified in formally ordaining them as elders. I meet all the ch. members in the parish of Wailuku proper, twice every week, for the purpose of giving instruction in regard to the various branches of Christian duty or holy living & have used with advan[ta]ge a small tract on self examination printed at Lahaina, as a text book. If any of the brethren are not acquainted with this little tract, I would recommend it to their notice General attention to religion We can hardly be said to have had a revival during the past year, �Wailuku - 1839 3 especially when we compare the state of feeling among our people with what it was the previous year, but still attention to religion has been much more general during the past than any previous year; times too there has been considerable excitement. at Nothing is more evident than that the Gospel has gained ground greatly in some parts of our field of late. I know of no land from Kahikinui on the one side to Koolau on the other, where the people generally are not atten­ tive in some degree to the concerns of religion, while open vice is surprisingly rare. This is remarked by many, & it is well it is so, for we have almost no magistracy now on E. Maui. Schools I have had but little to do with schools directly during the year except church schools and a class in Theology. had 3 a week; of the latter two. Of the former I have The Theological class with me has attended chiefly to the study of the old Testament, and for a season to moral philosophy, until the class requested me to stop lecturing until there could be some of it printed, which is now about to be done. In teaching the Bible, it has been my object to continue as far as possible the critical with the practical & thus enable the pupils to understand & teach the word of God. This has been a pleasing part of my work during the year, and it seems to me time that something more efficient were done in this de­ partment. Have we not young men in our churches, of sufficient tallents ( !), prudence & piety to become teachers of religion? can doubt but that we have? Who Ought not some of them be in a state of training to aid us cultivating the vineyard & sustain the work when e we shall have c^ased from our labours? �Wailuku - 1839 4. In addition to this I have endeavored to devote an hour a day to my two oldest children, but a great deal of the time I could not command even this much time for them. The common native schools at the station and throughout our field, are in about as prosperous a state as they have been - perhaps a little ( !) more so in some places. School houses are in a tollerable condition generally and but few children do not attend school. The following table will exhibit a pretty correct view of the number & progress of the children in the schools. Name of district Hamakualoa Hamakua'poko Kula Honuaula Kahiklnui Makaoao (! ) Hallimalie Waikapu Wailuku Waihee & Waiehu N o. of Readers dont Helu He. geogr­ chiln read Kama- na- aphy well lii in school au 236 28 151 62 387 74 82 16 62 20 144 50 224 224 274 50 84 200 70 284 55 25 27 60 35 27 36 44 8 20 13 33 80 20 26 50 100 44 64 58 143 70 200 30 35 59 100 65 79 42 980 646 534 1626 346 237 No. of schools 10 12 7 3 1 1 2 3 2 41 The above statistics do not Include all the children within our bounds, but only such as have been reported at examinations. The teachers say there are a considerable number, who have not attended the examinations, who have attended schools; Poverty, sickness or some other cause have kept them from appearing on these occasions. The teachers from the High school have been thrown very much on their own efforts for support during the past year, and on this ac­ count they have been obliged to neglect their schools in some degree, in order to seek a support for themselves and families; But on the whole they have done as well as could be expected & some of them are in the way of getting a comfortable support by their own indus- �Wailuku - 1839 5. try & a little help from their scholars. Out stations Of these, we have three, one at Haiku, one at Kula and another at Honuaula. That at Haiku is the most important & flourishing. The people there have by their own voluntary efforts, put up a noble stone meetinghouse 96 feet by 42, & will soon, I hope, have it finished & ready for dedication to the worship of God. If any good missy is adrift & wishes a place to work in the Lord’s vineyard, let him look towards Haiku. While your attention is directed to that region I will mention, pious that two xxxxxxxx & industrious foreigners, (Messrs McLane & Miner.) have taken a lease of acres of land on Makaoao ( !) & are attempt­ ing the cultivation of cane & some other things. They have not much capital to go on with, but still the wilderness & solitary place begins already to look glad about them, and I hope a little time, will show to the natives a fair specimen of what industry & enter­ prise can do & how desirable it is that these things should be encour­ aged. Secular labours Of these I have had an unusual share during the past year. Giving out books, administering to the sick, superintending the building of two stone meeting houses, & some attention to the King's business in regard to planting cane, and things of this nature have made sad inroads upon my time & strength & at times almost exhausted not only my strength, but my patience. Still it is good to have some­ thing to exercise the body, & prevent one from taking the gout or dispepsia. One is partially rewarded too for such labours in the gratification derived from seeing something going on. calm is very monotonous & tedious. To live in a �Wailuku 1839 6. Industry among our people I am glad to be able to report something favorable for once on this head. There has been more actual labour performed during the last at Wailuku than any previous year since my connection was formed with that people. This has been chiefly owing to two causes. 1. [house] new meeting/and 2. The King’s arrangements for planting cane. Our The new meeting house is 100 feet by 52, two stories, or rather with a gallery. collected. The walls are nearly finished & part of the timber The materials are brought together entirely by carts and oxen and all the work from first to last is being done by natives; and done voluntarily. No chief, Konohiki, or magistrate has exerted any authority in urging (?) on the work, except that two of the headmen found themselves pilikia [in trouble] in getting along & turned on the paahao [The system of work under the Hawaiian Government in which the common people worked out their taxes] a couple of days to get coral, but even in these cases, public notice was given that no man would be fined in case he did not attend on these days to the work of the meeting house. It was somewhat difficult to convince the people, even the most intelligent, at first that such a work could be done without the influence & authority of the chiefs, but now they are as­ tonished at the rapid progress of it & the ease with which it has been accomplished. it. Only 30 men and boys have in fact had much to do with 20 men volunteered to build the wall & 10 men & boys to drive the oxen, provided they were supplied with food. A contribution of food was brought in every week for this purpose & this is all the compensa­ tion the workmen have had. Two native carpenters have done the car­ penter work so far gratis & one at Lahaina, has offered to finish the house if no foreign carpenter is allowed to assist. The congregation s have rai^ed about $100. & the King contributed $50. for the purpose of �Wailuku - 1839 7 . purchasing materials to finish while Kekuanaoa & Hoapili have trans­ ported 3,000 ft of lumber from Honolulu to Wailuku without expense. Bro. Ives also has contributed $100. and Bro. Conde $50 to the building So that on the. whole w e have the prospect of a new & spacious meeting [house] before long. In regard to the cane I w d simply say that the King has given out small lots of land, from one to two acres, to individuals for the cultivation of cane. When the cane is ripe, the Kings ( !) finds all the apparatus for manufacturing & when manufactured takes the half. Of his half one fifth is regarded as the tax due to the aupuni [govern­ ment] & the remaining four fifths is his compensation for the manu­ facture. These cane cultivators are released from all other demands of every description on the part of the chiefs. So far the concern works well tendency there can be no question. Of its success & beneficial A few individuals, perhaps 3 or 4, who entered into the arrangement, have proved to be unfaithful, partly owing perhaps to inveterate habits of indolence & partly to an impression that the King will not fulfil his engagement. A serious difficulty has been to get seed cane & on this account some have failed to plant all their land in the proper season, having first to purchase the pulapula [seed cane] & then carry it on their backes ( !) several miles, but with all this difficulty about 80 acres have been planted & is growing beautifully. engaged in the work. There are altogether -____ men One of the most serious difficulties in the business is to secure their confidence in the King's word, & thus prevent discouragement. They frquently inquire whether it is not all a mea hoopunipuni [treachery; a deceitful thing] . Much will depend upon the King's fulfilling his engagement. In consideration of my attention to the work, the King has en­ �Wailuku - 1839 8. gaged to have what cane I have cultivated, manufactured at his mill without further charge. Prom what we have seen during the past to say nothing of previous years, I am satisfied, that natives have in them all t h e elements of industry, enterprise & skill and only need proper encouragement to develop as fine specimens of human nature as can any where he found. ( !) All that is said about there being incurably & intollerably indolent, is to my ears perfect trash. Any man will be both indolent & Ignorant, if he finds it to be his interest to be so. I neglected to mention in the proper place the number of Marriages & baptisms during the year. Of marriages I have solemnized 102 and baptised 77 children making in all 153 children belonging to our church by baptism on the faith of their parents. Efforts for the support of the gospel Besides building their meeting house our people have occasionally aided the Female Seminary in work, especially in roofing the large building, a dining hall, & hospital, & doing some other things of miner ( !) consequence, and in addition have planted 4 acres of cane for the support of their pastor, of which they now have the care. I hope from this to derive nearly if not entirely, my support, after the produce has become available. [Unsigned ] [Mr. Armstrong’s handwriting] [On b ack: ] Wailuku Station report 1839. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mission Station Reports - Maui Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mission Station Reports - Maui - Wailuku - 1833-1839 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833, 1834, 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839