https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/30c227ea24b52ff891ecbfb7178da844.pdf 09facf3746736fe851f7ca27d5814993 PDF Text Text Molokai Station Reports, No. 2, 1839 -1863 Table of Contents Seventh Annual Report of the Station at Kaluaaha - 1839, Hitchcock Report of the Station at Kaluaaha p.2-4 1840, Hitchcock p. 5 - 7 1841, p. 8 - 1 5 1842, " p. 16 - 23 1843, p. 24 - 28 1844, p. 29 - 34 1844, P. J. Gulick p. 35- 38 1846, p. 39 - 40 1846, Hitchcock p. 41 - 4 1847, Hitchcock letter to Chamberlain, p. 47a Report of the Station at Kaluaaha, May 1849 - May 1851, Samuel. G. Dwight Abstract Abstract Report o f the Church on Molokai Abstract Report of the Molokai Church Abstract Abstract of Report for Molokai 1851, Hitchcock 1852, Samuel G. Dwight 1852, Hitchcock 1852, Hitchcock 1852 & 1853, Samuel G. Dwight 1853, C. B. Andrews 1853 - 1854, C..B. Andrews 1854, Samuel G. Dwight 1855, C. B. Andrews 1855, Hitchcock 1856, C. B. Andrews 1855 or 1856, Hitchcock 1857, Samuel G. Dwight 1858- 1859, A. O. Forbes 1859, A. O. Forbes 1860, A. 1861, A. Report of the Presbytery of Maui and Molokai,1862 Report of Molokai Station 1863, A. O. Forbes O. Forbes 1863, A. O. Forbes 0. Forbes Abstract of Report of Molokai Station, 1871, unsigned p. 48 -51 p. 52 - 57 p. 58 p. 59 - 66 p. 67 p. 68 - 70 p. 71 - 74 p. 75 - 78 p. 79 - 81 p. 82 - 83 p. 84 - 85 p. 86 - 87 p. 88 p. 89 - 91 p. 91a- 91b p. 92 - 95 p. p. p. p. 96 - 97 98 - 100 101 -103 104 -106 p. 107 Revised & corrected 5/99 �[1839] [Hitchcock] Seventh Anual ( !) Report of the Station at Kaluaaha Seven years have elapsed since the establishment in all of which goodness and mercy have followed us. Though in none of them have we been free from the chastizing hand of our heavenly father. Even before the station was taken the health of Mrs. H.s -------- ------ poor. ( !) It became more so for two successive years. Until in the merciful providence of God partial relief was obtained. Though far from well she has been more or less comfortable from that time up to the middle of the present year. Since this time her disease has been more active; and she is at present suffer[ing] much from debility. In the month of december ( !) last a daughter was added to our little family; but to our great grief and disappointment was taken away by death after eight days esquisite(!)suffering. an event which has manifestly contributed a share to the increased indisposition under which she (?) now labours but an event in which notwithstanding we have clearly seen the love and kindness of God. And for which I hope we have felt unfeigned gratitude. The labours of the Pastor have suffered an interruption this year as in previous years from his necessary absence. W e were called to Lahaina by the sickness of my sister which occu­ pied nearly 4 weeks - and subsequently to the same place for medical aid for our family which occupied nearly three months so that nearly one third of the year has been spent away from the station. The effects of this interruption have been highly prejudicial to the interests of the people. A manifest retrogation in the work - a falling off in the interest which existed in the minds of the people on all the subjects to which their attention had been called. Were the interruptions of this kind of occasional or unfrequent occurrence they would require little attention as the loss to our cause would be trifling - But as they may be looked for to a greater or less extent every year/as it seems to me they should not be suffered to exist (?) but from imposs­ ibility to prevent them. Our (?) labours at the station may be expected to be curtailed at least three months in the year on an average including both families until until ( !) such time as the island be supplied with a physician. This fact of it self would go far toward making it apparent that a physician should be allowed us; but when the great facilities which the island affords for the usefulness of another family, no doubt as to the necessity, expediency, humanity, or economy of the subject existed in the minds of the present occupants of the field. It is therefore our sincere and earnest request that the Mission in the general letter to the rooms, call for two more physicians, with a view (?) to the supply of Molokai, and that the call be made in such a manner as to effect if possible the great (?) object. The pastoral labours of the year have been so much like �Hitchcock - Kaluaaha, Molokai 1839 - 2. those of former years that a distinct account does not seem to be called for Several unforeseen causes have prevented me from engaging in extraordinary (?) means for good of the people of my charge. The principle of them has been the morbid state of my vocal organs The attention to the concerns of the soul has become much less earnest and general than it was the previous year. Still it is much better than at any time previous to that year. A Manifest improvement in ability to understand and appreciate, and yield to the controul of divine truth exists among the people. And though as we have passed through the various stages of our labour for the good of the population we have many a time sighed deeply on account of the smallness of good achieved (?) yet looking back on the whole thus far we find abundant occasion to praise god ( !) for the striking contrast between our people now - and what they were when we first landed among them. We feel confident that our labours though comparatively limited and ineficient ( !) have not been in vain in the Lord. I grieve that I am unable to report progress to the cause of public benevolence to as pleasing amount as many of my breth­ ren have been able to do - But my inability in the case should be charged to the peculiar circumstances rather than to the in­ disposition of the people. True (?) I am no political econo­ mist but it seems to me perfectly evident that if I were I should be utterly unable to devise how the people on Molokai in their present (?) circumstances could do much either for the support of their own teachers or for foreign objects. They are kind to us and manifest a willingness ,to do what they can for our support. But their disabilities are so many and great as to preclude the possibility of doing much. Still beside furnishing our families with most of our vege­ tables gratuitously and furnishing most of the timber for Bro Munn[ '] s buildings - they have contributed for the high school thirty dollars or nearly. Tapas to the amount of about thirty dollars more have been contributed by the maternal association for the benefit of the poor. Of the schools I shall say nothing as to report them falls to Bro Munn. We have two associations one for males and the other for females - the former consist[s] of all the members of the church, and all those out of the church who are willing to be called upon to labour for or contribute to the cause of benevolence. This association meet ( !) once in two weeks, and are ( !) mostly instructed in their duties as parents, and members of society. �Hitchcock-Kaluaaha, Molokai 1839 -3 The Maternal association over which Mrs. Munn and Hitchcock have presided has been In a more prosperous condition this year than in any previous one. It meets regularly on friday of evy (?) other week - The exercises at the meetings are reading the scriptures and conversation by the sisters on such subjects as [are] most necessary to be presented to Hawaiian females. The children meet with their mothers once in four weeks. One great object pressed upon the association has been care for the poor, infirm and sick. And we are hapy ( !) to say there has been a most pleasing improvement In this respect. Committees have been appointed to seek out the poor, and sick and those suffering without ability to aid themselves and to confer upon them the charities of the association - and extend to them the care which their circumstances required as far as practicable The result of their labours they are required to report to their teachers from time to time - The association numbers from 150 to 2 0 0 . Beside the above meetings the ladies at the station have a regular meeting once in two weeks with the female members of the church. Members admitted to the church the past year on profession - - - - - - - - - - - - 59 Do received in previous years - - - - - - - - - - 221 Whole number received - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 280 Died the past year - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2 Died in all - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4 Dismissed to other churches - - - - - - - - - - - 3 Cases of discipline in all - - - - - - - - - - - 7 Whole number of excommunications - - - - - - - - 4 one for neglect of providing for his family 2 for adultery one for covetousness, dishonesty, destitution of Christian character, and contempt of the authority of the church Members now in good standing — — — — — — — — — — — 269 Baptized infants - the present year - - - - - - 104 Died - - - - in all - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3 Total of Baptized infants - - - - - - - - - - - 151 Marriages the past year - - - - - - - - - - - - 38 Married in former years - - - - - - - - - - - - 338 Sum total of marriages - - - - - - - - - - - - - 417 Present population of the island 4903 Former (?) census 1835-6 - - - - - - - - - 6000 Decrease - - - - - - - - - - ------1097 ? 7 lands populations-- 6 - 3 7 --- Males ---333 females 304 children ---222 (?) Average number of congregation on the Sabbath---------------- from 700 to 1000 �[Hitchcock] Report of the Station at Kaluaaha - 1839 [1840] The missionaries in their report are again enabled to record the mercies and superintending care of God, which has been mani­ fested in the general health and prosperity which they have ex­ perienced. While we have not been entirely free from illness of body, some of the members of the members ( !) of the station have enjoyed better health this year than last. Nor has any hard (?) sickness been permitted to disturb our operations. The labour of the pastor has been the past much as in former years. Preaching twice on the sabbath, attending a bible class of 20 girls before meeting in the morning; and the Adult sabbath school immediately after the morning service. The monthly concert has been regularly attended. Preaching on Wednesday afternoon. Meeting of the church on Saturday - and part of the time an adult bible class on tuesday - every other friday a meeting with the Men[']s Benevolent Society has been held. For about half of the year a bible class daily with the above mentioned girls - with which singing has been connected. Visiting from house [to house] has been practiced to considerable extent to gether ( !) with preaching the gospel by the way side. Owing to ill health the pastor has on 4 sabbaths not preached at all - and four Sabbaths has preached but once. The maternal and benevolent association has been vigour(s)ly sustained during the year under the superintendence of the ladies of the station. It numbers nearly 150 members who have done credit to the society by the readiness with which they have con­ tributed to the relief of the poor, the attention they have given to the sick, and the improvement they have made in the knowledge and practice of the duties of their sex. Not supposing when we left home that there would be a general meeting we have not the amount of what this society have contributed to benevolent pur­ poses. We regard it however as among the most efficacious instru­ ments for promoting the good of the people which we have been able to put in operation. We have a. Men's Benevolent Society Embracing all the male members of the church and all others who are disposed to join. But few join who do not give more [or] less evidence of being Christians. The contributions of this Society to the objects of charity consists of wood at the monthly concert - and gratuitous labour in building and repairing schoolhouses and houses for wor­ ship. The Amount of their contributions I have not at hand. The Society meet every two weeks at least as many as live within a convenient distance and when there is no other business of importance the time is occupied by Reading the scriptures - a verse or two each who is able - and exposition by myself. During the year we have had two protracted meetings - one at Kalaupapa and the other at the station. The former continued only three days owing to the failure of my voice. We were �Hitchcock - Kaluaaha - 1840 however most evidently favoured by the presence and influence of Him who alone can convince of sin and convert the soul. And there Is reason to hope that several found pardon at the time and will finally be found among the ransomed in heaven. Several date their awakening and conversion to God at that time, some of whom I think have been a (?) The continued meeting at the station was held in the fall was attended [by] Brethren Andrews and Armstrong and was in some respects the most interesting season of the kind we ever had. The house was full during the whole of the meeting which was from Wednesday until monday - the attention never better although the people were much pressed with want of food and many of them were from a distance. The impression left by the meeting was deep and has been decidedly beneficial - several instances of hopeful conversion have occurred in consequence of and we have great occa­ sion for thankfulness to God and to those brethren who lent us their aid on the occasion. I could have been ( !) wished that the number of conversions had been greater still the blessings attending the meeting are so many and obvious that we shall be anxious to have such seasons as frequently as the providence of God will allow. The church now consists of 320 members having received an addition of 63 during the past year. 8 have died during the year and 12 in all. The number of excommunicated suspended & restored I cannot state as I [do not] have them by me. It may however be stated in general that very few gross offences have occurred - and that the conduct of the church in general has been as consistent and free from reproach as in former years. Some of the members have appeared much awake and have exerted a salutary influence arround them. But many while they walk orderly in view of the world are too careless and worldly and asleep. Of those members that have died this year three or four have left highly satisfactory evidence of being ripe for a better world, while of the others nothing has appeared inconsistent with their Christian character. None are now propounded for the church but there are several who are regarded as proper candidates and will probably be re­ ceived soon. As to the State of the people in general there has been no improvement the past year so far as religion and morality are concerned. Our congregations on the sabbath has ( !) on an aver­ age been smaller than any former year. The young have fallen off greatly to that but comparatively few now are seen in the house of God. It has been owing to the almost entire licence that has been given to vice since the establishment of the new laws, and even the laws themselves have formed so great a part of the subject of thought and conversation as to leave little room for anything else. Another cause of the increased indifference in the mass of �Kaluaaha - 1840 3 the people has been the change of landholders. Hoopiliwahine has been the owner of the island but it now belongs to the King who has apportioned most of it out to his hulu manus many of whom probably could not be more grieviously offended than for their tenants to malama i ka pono Still there is no cause for discouragement.Truth has un­ doubtedly a deeper place in the minds even of those who reject it than it ever has before. The consequences of rejecting the gospel and living in a course of sin [are] better understood. The middle aged and more advanced in life are more easily inter­ ested in conversation about their souls - Frequently while con­ versing with one individual by the way side others have drawn nigh and listened with attention and seriousness. I know not on the whole that the means of grace have been better received by the people in any former year. According to a vote of last general meeting a comfortable dwelling house has been put up for Miss Brown who has remove(d) to the station and commenced her operations in part. A work house of 40 feet by 18 has been contracted for for 25 dollars and partly put up. The Mission are hereby requested to make an appropriation of 50 dollars to cover the expense of the building as she cannot put up looms until the house be completed. Owing to not putting on the roof of our school house well after standing 5 years it has fallen down and we are now destitute of a house for the large station school. Our people have just finished a a (! ) meeting house 20 miles distant from the station and have been unable to the house as soon as would be desireable ( !). Mr. Munn has hired it done for about 30 dollars which is very cheap. Should we depend upon the church for doing it it would not be finished before fall - I therefore have to request an appropriation of 30 dollars to defray the expense of rebuilding the house that the Schools may be resumed in it as soon as possible. My dwelling house is in suffering condition for want of repair the Roof needs painting - It leaks and the walls becoming Injured. I applied for an appropriation last year but did not receive (?) one. -I now renew the request that 50 (?) dollars be allowed me from the building fund in order to defray the expense of painting repairing the roof - and putting up a Ranai in front of the house which is needed. (Hitchcock) �Report of the Station Kaluaaha -[1841] [Hitchcock] The Missionaries at this station have renewed occasion to speak of the lovingkindness of the Lord.Though we have been much of the time in poor health, jet we have been mercifully preserved, from protracted and severe sickness; and the year has passed away without being upon us any distressing calamity. And never have we had more occasion to exclaim What shall we render unto the Lord for all his benefits. Would that our zeal, and faithfulness and efficiency in his work had been more pro­ portioned to the high obligations under which his great mercies have laid us. Owing to ill health less pastoral labour has been performed this than any former year. By the advice of the physician I did not preach during the first 7 months of the year. During this period a general oversight of the church and interests of the station was most I could do. The services of the Sabbath were conducted chiefly by Bro Munn, and native members of the church. Sermons written either by the pastor or some other member of the Mission were usually read in the forenoon, and in the afternoon Mr. Munn frequently addressed the people himself. After the close of the sermon I usually spoke about 10 minutes in application of the subject to the assembly. So that though I did [hot] preach formally I was not entirely silenced. I found no benefit from ceasing to preach - owing to this and being otherwise unwell it was thought best to consult the physician again, accordingly in the month of December I came to Honolulu. By the advice of several physicians I commenced a new regimen and after the stay of a few days returned to my station. I immediately Increased my labours - and in about a month was enabled to perform all the services on the Sabbath which I have continued to do ever since. This is a blessing for which I praise [the Lord] not more on my own account than in behalf of my poor people who seemed truly thankful for the removal of the long dearth of the word with which they had been afflicted. The value which they attach to the ministry is in itself no small compensation for the labour of exercising it among them. My labours in the Sabbath school have been continued but with altogether less exercise of voice than formerly. Indeed I have done little else than barely to superintend. The Adult school embracing most of the church members, and some out of the church has been constantly attended by myself. In this school bro Munn has usually assisted. Beside the adult/school I have had a school of young girls who have recited in the Ai o ka la. This school has consisted of about 30. During the former part of the year the plan of xxxxx exercises was to hear each individual separately recite her 7 verses. Then employ the most �Hitchcock Kaluaaha 1841 - 2. forward scholar to catechise the rest, on the verses recited, and then to ask questions myself by way of explanation and ap­ plication - We have usually sung a hymn after which I have ap­ pointed one or two of the scholars to lead in a prayermeeting ( !) and have myself withdrawn. These prayermeetings of the girls were for a Season conducted with propriety - and were profitable. But they finally became less serious, and were discontinued; laterly ( !) I have closed the school by prayer. They have usually recited with accuracy and during the year have treasured up an amount of divine truth which can scarcely fail of being of great service to them through life. An hour before the commencement of the afternoon exercise this school together with school of Mrs. Munn have for several months past met in my study to read the scriptures in course. Alltogether ( !) they are about 50. They are all good readers and seem to understand what they read. After reading each one or two verses, one of the girls has questioned them in review of the chapter they have read they looking on the book [.] After this they have closed their books and I have questioned them upon the principle topics about which they have been read­ ing which exercise has fully shown that they have been inat­ tentive. This school has usually been closed with singing and prayer. After which the whole school has gone to the after­ noon meeting. It has also been the practice to have each scholar to repeat the text of the morning and give an account of the principle thoughts in the sermon. Beside the verses of the ai o ka la these scholars have met in my study five mornings in the week before school to recite the scripture the oldest class have committed six verses each day which with the ai o ka la has made seven; making for each scholar 43 verses each week and 2236 for the year beside these the church members belonging to the class have met with me each Saturday morning and recited each one or more verses as they have chosen (?). The younger members of the class have committed daily 4 verses beside the Ai o ka la making for each week 31 verses and for the [year] 1612. These added to those committed by the older scholars amount for the whole school during the year, alowing ( !) the school to average 40 scholars [,] 153920 verses. To commit so much scripture to memory must necessarily have retrenched (?) much from time which would have other wise ( !) been spent by the children either in Idleness or something worse. Beside committing their 5 verses of scripture each day the younger scholars have for the greater part of the year attended day school both forenoon and afternoon. And for several months past the older schoolars ( !) spend four [or] five hours a day in spinning - so that during the year they have had had ( !) but comparatively little time for Idleness, and the commission of sin. The weekly Wednesday lecture has been as statedly observed as my health would allow, and when I have been unable to preach the meetings have been conducted by my Associate or the natives. �Hitchcock - Kaluaaha 1841 3. - I have divested (?) considerable time at these meetings in lecturing on the nature and evils of Romanism. Meetings of the church have been statedly held on Saturday evening. The congregation on the sabbath, though respectable considering the small population within a suitable distance, has been less on the whole this year than ever before. The average number In the morning has not been over 7 hundred, and in the afternoon about three hundred. Many of these are children of the schools it being a rule in all the schools that the scholars attend meeting on the Sabbath and those of the station school twice. The Sabbath school is large averaging over three hundred and all attend meeting so that the average number of Adults at the morning service is not more than 400; and it would not have been so large had it not consisted in part of people from some of the distant out posts. The people from Halawa (?) a dis­ tance of 12 miles much of which consists of deep ravines have been at the station (?) every 4 weeks - Those of Moakea a dis­ tance of nine miles have not failed to be present every other Sabbath. Those of Wailau on the windward side of the island have frequently been present once in two sabbaths though their path to the station lies over a pali thousands of feet high and through a rocky beded ( !) torrent much of the way - from all these places the people usually come on Saturday and return on Monday. From the more distant out posts Pelekunu, Kalaupapapa, ( !) and Kalae there have been none present at the station, except on sacramental occasion[s]. The fact that the congrega­ tion on the Sabbath has been smaller the past than in former years does not show that there has been a proportioned decrease of interest on the subject of religion. Much of the interest manifested heretofore has been only apparent. The Island has until the year now past been owned by individuals whose influ­ ence has been more or less favourable to the peoples attending the house of God. Hoopili has always had a powerful [influence] over the people of Molokai [.] This and most of the other re­ ligious restraints under which the mass have acted have not [been] exerted the year past. The people have found by experience that they can neglect going to meeting on the Sabbath without incurring the displeasure of any they fear to offend. They are mostly under the controul of the hulumanus who are now the land holders of the island. To set loose to the pono is probably a recommendation of the common people to their Naku aina instead of being as it formerly was a discredit. The consequence has been a general falling off from the congregation on the Sabbath [of] all those who have not attended from worthier motives than pleasing the chiefs. While as a general thing those who have (?) ever given evidnce of loving the house of God have con­ tinued to do so, and a goodly number have been added to the number of such during the year so that though the audience is less numerous than formerly it has been more decent, orderly, and attentive. As a general thing, also the people seem more disposed to listen to conversation, and appeal In reference to the welfare of their souls than ever before. So that the mis­ sionary commencing religious conversation will draw others around him in xxxxxx places where a few years ago they would have fled �Hitchcock Kaluaaha 1841 - 4. from his presence. And frequently during the year have I sighed in spirit as I have looked on the field ready for the harvest with no strength to thrust in the sickle. The church during the year has been in a lamentably cold and fruitless state. And several members, some of whom were of the highest standing have been guilty of aggravated offences. A small number have however seemed not to have lost the spirit of prayer - or their former (?) in the blessed cause. These have acted as a constant and highly salutary constraint on the less devoted (?) by which many have no doubt been pre­ served from falling into sin. Though a diminution of feeling and interest in the church cannot be excused yet the causes which have promoted it are obvious. They have had much less instruction, and a far less variety of means used for their spiritual welfare than in former years owing to the incapacity of the missionary to impart in­ struction. Another fruitful source of the low estate of religion in the church has been the change in the civil affairs of the nation. When the new laws came Into use it was necessary that executors (?) be chosen. Most of these on Molokai have been members of the church. And these have not been able to attend to their new duties to their satisfaction without releasing their attention to religion - and some of them not without doing violence to their sacred profession. Many have exposed them­ selves to church sensure ( !) from their dishonest exactions, and unjust procedings ( !) in the discharge of their duties, so miserably (?) had they carried the laws Into execution that on an inquiry's being made before the church scarce an item (?) in the law had not been overreached - or carried to positive oppression. The matter was settled in church meeting by the prin­ ciple offenders confessing their and by all promising here­ after to go no farther In their exactions of the people than the law of taxation requires. The distress and anxiety that many have felt less they should fail to get their tax money in due season has operated not very favourably on the minds of many of the church. Other causes might be why religious feeling is so low among us Especially It would not be giving a fair account of the matter were we to neglect to ascribe much that has been in desireable, in the church to our own unfaithfulness and want of the proper spirit. Though our Outward man has been such that we could do little by Active labour for the benefit of the vineyard of the Lord; yet had the inward man been what it ever ought to be, much more, doubtless would have been done for averting that state of the church of which we complain. But while we mourn over the low state of feeling which exists in the church, yet have we reasons for gratitude that God has preserved it from any considerable defection. No case has called for final exclusion from the church the year past. But few cases of suspension have occurred and only four for the higher offenses, two of whom have been restored. �Hitchcock Kaluaaha 1841 - 5. The outposts have been looked to as far as our circumstances would permit. That at Halawa containing above 500 souls and rising of 30 church members has had stated worship on the Sab­ bath conducted by members of the church. It has a large Sab­ bath school and a some what ( !) efficient teacher. The head man, who has been very active in doing good to his people and in helping forward the cause has lost his sight and has been otherwise ill for a long time in consequence of which the cause of religion has been less prosperous. Moakea which contains a population of from 3 to 4 hundred is under the care of an efficient and active member of the church, and the good cause has been as prosperous there as in other part[s] of the field perhaps more so. The distance is nine miles from the station yet many have attended meeting at the latter place every other Sabbath. An adult school has been kept up among them, quite a number of them have committed to memory the confession of Faith - The Sabbath school as well as the day school have been more prosperous than could have been expected considering their limited means. They are about putting up a commodious stone meeting house the stone and tim­ ber for which are chiefly collected. Kalamaula a post 20 miles west of the station and embracing a population about 700 has had no native missionary but has been supplied on the Sabbath by the brethren alternately. Dur­ ing a part of the year the attendance has been very encouraging; afterward much less so - and later still it has been better. There are only 5 church members two of which have been added the past year. These were the subjects of the great revival. A large dobie meeting house capable of containing 800 people has been finished the past year by the contributions of the whole church. This post is much exposed to catholic invasion from its remoteness from the station and the great ignorance of the people. A native catholict ( !) has been over the ground and obtained some followers - Probably very many would go over to that destructive sect were there any one qualified for the work of soliciting them. Kalaupapa nearly oposite ( !) Kalamaula on the windward side of the island with a population of about 700 Has a very active, pious though not very competent teacher. There are rising of 30 members of the church and a number who give more or less evidence of having saving faith in christ ( !). They have regu­ lar exercises on the sabbath, and the state of religion among them is as good as could be expected considering their distance from the station, the three thousand feet pali between It and us, and the incapacity of the teacher to carry them on in know­ ledge - Sabbath and day schools have been kept up as well as the means would admit, and on the whole a religious influence which though small compared [to] what is desirable ( !), is invaluable and a matter of devout thankfulness to the blessed Spirrit ( !) from whom it has been received. There are consider­ able comfortable accommodations for a family there a large �Hitchcock - - Kaluaaha 1841 - 6 . native house walled in - The meeting house is large. This post is more exposed to danger than any other part of the field. The catholick (!) have entrenched (?) themselves there, and already number about 30 (?) exercising (?) all the malice and hostility to the protestants usual to the followers of the man of sin. They are as yet only natives, and they of the darkest, and lowest and most ignorant kind. Still facts show that they have been much more apt to learn the peculiar principles of popery, than those of the pure gospel of Christ. The leader, who can neither read nor write, was formerly teacher of the heathen custom [of] hugging to death called Lua - a work for which his huge muscular, and bear (?) like appearance must have eminently qualified him. When that horrid work was abolished by the destruction of idolatry; he was for many years as wide awake in seeking celebrity through the pono hou [new right] as he had been under pono kahiko [old right]; and when the station was taken he was soon discovered as a zealous hoikaika - He continued to labour to get into the church without success until within about two years ago he got wind of the catholics and out of revenge probably went over to them. At any rate his becoming a catholic is called by the natives who are acquainted with him a mea Hoohuakeo [a thing stubbornly bent on wickedness] . At first little notice was taken of the matter, we heard frequently of the poe Pope [ Catholics?] at Kalaupapa but concluded that one so perfectly ignorant could not make much headway in leading the people astray. Some of the members of the church proposed that we send and bring him to the station and encourage him to hope to be received into church at no distant day being quite confident that such a course would annihilate popery at once. We came finally to the conclusion to visit Kalaupapa mainly to do what we could to break up the young Society. After arriving there and inquiring where the popish teachers were we were informed that they were waiting for an invitation to call upon us. The distance by water from the station is between 50 or 60 miles - much of it on the wind­ ward side of the island. The weather had been pleasant for a long time and the sea quiet, but on the morning appointed for starting things seemed somewhat threatening. The wind began to rise, dark clouds to lower over the direction we were to go. But the canoes being all ready we ( !) it was resolved to go ahead. Accordingly Brother Munn with all his family Miss Brown and myself and a crew of five or six natives set off and arrived at Halawa where we spent the night. The badness of the weather increased during the night and the surf had become so high that the natives thought it not safe to proceed. We on the whole however concluded to go forward, and so pushed out into the open sea. We had been out but a short time when the rain over­ took us, and before we found a landing place we were very un­ comfortably situated. We landed in a deep ravine about noon, and after having (?) talked to the people [and] taken a little refreshment, put out again to sea and reached the place where we lodged, sometime before night. The rain continued - our clothing were wet and no means of drying them very quick. We rose in the morning the rains falling plentifully, the wind blowing, and the surf roaring tremendously - and the word was that we could not get out, on account of the volume of the surf �Kaluaaha - 1841 and that the purport was that it would he more and more diffi­ culty and that if we did not escape immediately we might be shut up for weeks and perhaps months for when the surf once gets up for the winter season it is impossible for canoes to get through it for a long season [.] But as we had but little clothing with us, and still less food that the ladies could eat, it was not safe to remain where we were, and to retreat to the right hand or left or backward was not possible. The least evil therefore was to attempt to get out once more over the constantly dashing and raging surf and pursue our watery way onward. The canoes were accordingly got in readiness as soon as possible, and with the exception of the one on which I was to go, with much danger of filling were shoved through for ( !) a long time no interim was found in the rolling breakers to allow my canoe to put out, and when the natives attempted to go, we only got to the point at which the angry surge broke and were overwhelmed and driven back. The natives for a while insisted that it would be useless to try again to get out, and advised me to stay ashore. But my company were all floating beyong the surf with all my food and clothing, except what I had on which were saturated with salt water. For them to come to my relief was impossible and for me to get out of the deep gully any other way than over the roaring surf seemed equally impossible - and the sea was becoming every moment more and more perilous and when it would be safer no one could tell so that I was not long in deciding to make another attempt to get out in which we bearly ( !) succeeded. One second of time later would have covered us again with the deep. Having all got be­ yond the surf our condition became more alarming than it had been while confined in the abyss from which we had escaped. There we had terra firma at least. But now we were out on the ocean troubled into mountain waves the rain darkening the shore and the wind high and irregular. There was no possible landing place but the one to which we were going and that several miles distant. An attempt to have have ( !) escape[d] from the vio­ lence of the waves by getting ashore would have been death. The canoe on which I sat could have been easily transported by two men, perfectly open [ ,] and Neptune in his billowing boat seemed scarcely less defended from the yawning deep than my­ self. We were however mercifully preserved and landed in safety - Had a conference with the leaders of the papal party who confessed that they were hewa [ wrong] and promised before many witnesses to have nothing more to [do] with Romanism. This however they had no intention to fulfil and as soon as convenient one of them repaired to Honolulu to get further instructions how to proceed. At a subsequent meeting with them I had a fine opportunity which I did not fail to improve to illustrate one indispensible ingredient in popery from the flat breach of promise of which its leaders there before me was convicted by the whole assembly. �[On Back] Appendage to M r . Hitchcock's Station report 1841 Kaluaaha Whole No added to the church examination Whole No on letter Past year on exam " " on certificate 371 17 32 3 Whole no past year 35 Whole Num dismissed to other churches 11 Dismissed the past year1 Suspended past year Remain Suspended Excommunicated past year 14 10 0 Whole num ex 9 Remain ex 7 Whole Num in Reg. Standing 342 Whole numb children baptized 170 Baptized the past year Whole number of children deceased Deceased past year Marriages past year ------------- (no figure) 17 (no figure) 49 Whole num Deceased Deceased the past year 18 6 �Kaluaaha Ap 26 - 1842 H itchcock] [ Dear Brethren. It would have afforded me pleasure to have reported in person the state of this station. But pleasant as this would have been, duty has plainly forbidden it. And even now I shall not be able to send you so particular a statement of our condition as I could wish, owing to the pressure of more important business. The year has been marked with mysterious providences (?) My com­ panion over whose dying bed for a few sad hours I stood in anguish has been raised up and her lamented associate, in the midst of high hopes of long usefulness, and from the bosom of her now desolate (?) family has from the same bed ascended to her eternal rest. Had I time I should indulge my feelings in remarking upon the severity of ourloss in that humble, noiseless yet eminent Saint. [Mrs. Munn.] I can only say that her death has made a breach in our circle, and a wound in our hearts which we little expect can ever be heald ( !). The health of Mrs. H. during the year has on the whole been more feeble this year than it has been before, still she has been permitted to over see her domestic concerns - and to exert no little influence on the female society about us. My own health, as though my Heavenly father had graduated it with special reference to the feebleness of my family and the reduction of our numbers in the removal of our associates, has been better than usual so that I have had as few interruptions from labour on acount ( !) of personal illness as in almost any past year since I have been at the station. More of my time has been devoted to secular business this year than either my own inclination, or the good of the people would have alowed ( !), had there not been an imperious call for It in the circumstances of my family. Mrs. H ’s protracted weakness and the faint prospect of her getting better without change resolved us to try a residence in a cooler climate which we hapily ( !) found at a distance of less than two miles from the station, directly back on the mountain. For the purpose of making a trial a tempory ( !) house was put up without cost by the members of the church, the superintendence of which broke in for a month upon my professional work. The result of the change was altogether more favourable than we had dared to hope for - so that, from not being able to walk but a very few steps, Mrs. H. in three weeks began to ramble at considerable distances from the house. And her strength increased so rapidly that our expectation of returning health were ( !) high. Circumstances however made it duty to leave the mountain and only a few days of care, and excitement and more labour than she had been accus­ tomed to, brought her down, and induced a new disorder from which we almost despair of her recovery. The weather had become so wet and stormy that a better house became indispensible ( !). This took much of my time for two months. When this was completed Mrs. H. was again carried to the mountain where she experienced a change for the better in her health - Three trials of the Retreat have all resulted favourably and fully compensate for the time and expense which the house has cost. It is a good native house and will do for several years. I may also remark that the bracing air of the mountain has been one means of my own uniform health the last half of the year. We feel thankful that so good a remedy for our health has been discovered. And do wish that all �Kaluaaha - Hitchcock 1842 2. our brethren worn down and exhausted by the heat of a seaside residence could try the mountain air. The average difference in the thermometer is probably about 12 degrees - with even a greater difference in Salu­ brity of the air and the beauty of the scenery. The Labours of my own particular department have been some what different this year. Soon after our return from general meeting, I instituted several catechetical meetings in different parts of the con­ gregation which I attended weekly until our removal to the mountain made it impossible to attend longer. In these meetings, principally composed of adults the "Ano o Ke Akua" was made the text book. After hearing them read I have questioned them on the various points contained in the lesson, and improved the good opportunity presented to apply truth to their consciences - The afternoons of Mondays and Thursdays were devoted to this work. Good has accrued from these meetings though much less than would have [been] done could I have continued them. I hope to commence them again as soon as my circumstances will allow. Another new feature in my work the past year has been preaching on the Sabbath at the out posts distant each way from the station about 6 miles. I have been induced to adopt this plan from the fact that many more will hear the Gospel on the Sabbath. Very few from those places attend meeting at the station. The most from unwillingness to endure the fatigue of walking so far, but many from old age, bodily in­ firmity, or confinement with children. But by establishing meetings in their own neighbourhood most of them hear the word of God. During the winter I have left the congregation at the station in the afternoon to the deacons - who so far as I have been able to learn have conducted the services with propriety and order. But since the length of the day has allowed I have returned in season for the afternoon meeting and have either preached myself - or superintended the exercises. Obvious good has already resulted from the plan. My labours on the Sabbath during the year in addition to the above have consisted in a short lecture to the children of the Sabbath school at nine. Sermon at ten - and expounding the lesson of the Ai o ka la to the adult Sabbath school at 12 oclock. In addition to the Wednesday lecture which ha 3 been kept up as usual I have held a meeting for those who were formerly scholars in the station school. "A meeting for fathers” has also been established, and consists of a large number of male adults who by becoming members of the meeting obligate themselves to more care in training up and providing for their families. It is designed to be a counterpart of the "Mother's meeting", which Mrs. H. has remoddled ( !), and which now consists only of select individuals chosen from the old meeting - individuals whose houses are neat, whose children are in a good degree under parental control, and who actually exhibit advance in family order. These meetings are held semimonthly and on thursday - the old Mothers Meeting is still continued on Friday and its members transfered ( !) to the new as they give evidence of being prepared for it. We are encouraged to hope that much good both to the bodies and souls of the people will result from these meetings. The females suffer much the loss of Sister Munn who had begun to be an efficient helper in that department of labour. The female meetings are now mostly continued by themselves. �Kaluaaha - Hitchcock - 1842 3. A meeting for the professedly serious is held on friday afternoon in which the members are catechized on the doctrines and duties of our religion. These meetings are extremely interesting, have already re­ sulted in good, and they give much encouragement of increasing useful­ ness. The church prayermeetings Saturday afternoon have been regularly kept up. And nearly half of the year also a prayer meeting with the diciplined (!) or suspended members. I have had two protracted meetings and another is appointed for next week. The first was at Kalamaula at which I preached 6 times. There was good attention - but the meeting was thinly attended owing to famine, popery, and infidelity all which combine for the ruin [of] the souls of that portion of the island. The meeting however has done good not only in discovering to the people the wiles of the man of sin but in awakening some it is hoped to their own condition as sinners. At the close of the first sermon, those who viewed popery as a dangerous delusion and were determined to avoid any connexion with it were re­ quested to rise. All present rose. Of course there were no papists present. The second meeting was held at the station. It commenced on Wed­ nesday and closed on Monday morning. It consisted of 13 meetings all of which were well attended beside one meeting for the anxious at which there were present about 200. Never have we had a protracted meeting better sustained by the people. The house was filled at the commence­ ment and continued so w ith but little variation until the close. The attention paid to preaching evinced the presence of an influence more than human moving upon the minds of the congregation. I take this op­ portunity to express the cause I have for Gratitude to brother Andrews who notwithstanding the great pressure of his business came to our help and laboured hard in preaching the word/. The labours of the meeting could not have been sustained but for his efficient help. What the results of this meeting will be cannot now be foreseen. But we have never held one of the kind that gave greater promise of good. In addition to the above labours I have for at least 4 months of the year spent from one to two hours a day four or five days in the week with my children in school. If they continue with us the coming year more of my time must unavoidably be devoted to their instruction. Three months at least have been spent at Maunaoluolu where I have slept with my family nights, making a constant demand on my time for going and returning. Much of the best part of the day has gone before I am able to get down to the station - and frequently I am obliged to return early on account of the rain. The state of the congregation of the Sabbath has been better this year than it has been the two past ones. There has been a more uniform attendance on the means of Grace, and a greater willingness in the people to receive instruction. Our meeting house has always been suf­ ficiently full for the comfort of the audience and frequently quite crowded. And it has been composed less than usual of people from the out stations - the average number has been from 700 to 800. �Kaluaaha - Hitchcock - 1842 4. At an outpost 10 miles distant there has been a state of things approaching to a Revival during most of the year and there are a goodly number who give evidence more or less satisfactory of having become real christians. They have attended meeting at the station twice a month. At Waialua about 6 miles distant and where there has been preaching once in two Sabbaths there is now an unusual attention to the concerns of the soul. Two have been received to the church and several others profess to have chosen the Saviour for their portion. On the whole though the adult part of the so numerous in this year as in some that have be hoped that real attention to the interests greater except during the Season of the Great congregation has not been gone by, still it is to of eternity has never been Revival. I cannot report great numbers added to the church during the year. The many deceptions practiced upon myself and most of the brethren in the great ingatherings of former years have begot in me a fear of admitting as members of the family of Christ any who have not shown the fruits of repentance by a long term of trial. The folowing ( !) statistics will show the present state of the church compared with last year. Whole number added on examination — on certificate — added the past year on examination on certificate whole number added the past year Whole number dismissed to other churches — dismissed the past year — Whole number deceased Deceased the past year — Suspended the past year — Remain suspended — Excommunicated the past year — Remain excommunicated — Whole number in Regular standing -Whole number of children baptized — Baptized the past year — Whole number of children deceased ' Children deceased the past year Mariages ( !) the past year — Average number of the congregation — 395 20 24 3 27 14 3 28 10 22 29 0 7 337 225 55 [no figure] " " 24 750 By comparing this with my Report last Gen. meeting it appears that the number now in regular standing is less by five than it was then. Death has made greater inroads in the church this year than ever before. And of the 29 who remain suspended few of them are for gross offenses and it is hoped that many will soon be restored. Four stand propounded and there are others who will be added to the numbers as opportunity shall offer to attend to their examination. There are perhaps nearly 200 who profess repentance - most of whom are new cases whose attention has but recently been arrested. How �Kaluaaha - Hitchcock - 1842 many of these will be saved, or give evidence of conversion a future day will decide, but we have reason to bless God that so many have aroused from their stupid slumbers and begin at least to attend on the means of salvation. The Sabbath schools at the station are as follows. Childrens school at nine A .M. Average number about 380 - perhaps four hundred. Nearly half of whom recite the "Ai o ka la". They are in three divisions, and after the recitation they all assemble in one school and I lecture them from a quarter to a half an hour which is all the instruction they have; as the teachers do nothing but hear their recitations. At three oclock the children belonging to the station school and those who can read from the other schools meet to repeat the text and to read the scriptures in course. Some fifty girls have in this way made consider­ able progress. I have not been able to pay but little attention to them But I find it to be a more profitable way of their employing their time even though they have none but native teachers than to spend the sabbath in play or idleness. Our adult sabbath school is much as usual consists of all the members of the church and many others. It has been a means of great good and to attend to its duties is one of the severest tests of the attachment to the Pono. The department of common schools must be reported as in no flourish­ ing condition. With all my other cares, a bare supervision the most superficial, is all that It has been possible for me to give to them. It has caused me much pain of mind that I could do no more for the numerous and interesting children who compose our station school es­ pecially. It has been Impossible to give them even what religious in­ struction they have needed, to say nothing of other things. Still the little attention I have been able to give them has been better than nothing - it has kept them together. The practice of committing scrip­ ture to memory has been continued and no doubt much good will eventually result from it. At an examination of all the schools held in february last and con­ tinued for three days there were present Boys 483 Girls 435 Whole number present at examination 918 Whole number present at examination 1841 839 Whole number of scholars absent 152 Whole numbers of scholars on the Island 1070 Whole number who can read without spelling 469 Whole number of writers 102 Whole number in Arithmetic 285 In Geography 158 Schools 15 Teachers from Lahainaluna 11 Whole number of teachers 19 The Station School Scholars present at examination 274 absent 14 whole number 288 �Kaluaaha - Hitchcock Readers Arithmetic Geography Writing Hoike A Kule Teachers from Lahainaluna Female teachers - 1842 160 100 90 67 34 2 2 The mission will readily perceive that the department of schools on Molokai must necessarily remain at a stand at least if not retrograde until the place of Brother Munn is supplied. As family, and pastoral, and other labours are more abundant than I can perform well. Contributions of the church to benevolent objects are necessarily very small owing in part to the fact that our church consists only of common people who have no property, and mostly to the fact that we have no market where the natives can turn the products of their industry into money. They have however done something. They have contributed in cash for the Sacrament --$21.00 In labour for us about — 12.00 In wood — at least -15.00 In timber for meeting house — 50.00 In meats — 10.00 In fish &c — 2.00 In Net bags -about two -2.00 In all ---------------------- --$ 112.00 This account of contribution probably falls short of what they have actually done as I have not the means of determining precisely the value of wood and timber collected for the Meeting house. The amount would have been much more than it is, If I could have superintended their labours and laid out work for them. But this I have been unable to do. I must close this Report with a reference to our wants in men and money. With regard to an associate for the present year I have but little hope of obtaining one. Should there however in the providence of God be a man to locate or even to dispose of for this year If I were a disinterested judge I seriously question whether there is a station where that individual is more needed or would be more useful than here. If my own continuance in usefulness is worth preserving; it can be preserved humanly speaking only by a seasonable supply of help. To say that "you. must leave undone what you cannot do" would be like saying to a fond parent; do as much as you can toward providing for your children and let the rest go undone when owing to his weakness they were suffering from hunger. In both cases strength would be taxed to the utmost. Missionary work cannot be left undone. It must be done - and will be done while the Missionary can articulate, or totter on his cane to the house of God. I am aware that other brethren need help - and I cannot say much as I would on my own behalf - because I feel for them but there is one consideration which I hope the Meeting will weigh those brethren are young and in health, with healthy families and probably have less in hand than there is to do at an old station. I have desired that If Mr. Smith from Oregon stays in the Mission and it be not against his mind that he be located here for the present year �Kaluaaha - Hitchcock - 1842 7. There is perhaps no better spot to pursue the knowledge of the language and he would be able to relieve me of the superintendence of schools But I submit the case to the brethren. I have but little if any ex­ pectation that Brother Munn will return. Should any thing be written to the Board about another Reinforcement do not fail to press the subject of supplying Bro Munn's place should he not return with a clergyman, and of sending immediately two families for Kalauapapa; Efforts are already making to get a Popish priest there I should have stated before, that all possible efforts are making for the spread of popery. The emissaries of the priests are besieging all the villages distant from the station and succeed in making di­ sciples, all of whom may be regarded as so many returned to a delusion and idolatry worse than the old which the nation has forsaken. O how much we need more help to oppose the darkness by the light of God's word. In conection ( !) with these remarks I would express my opinion that the "Nonanona" has done good and that it should by no means be discon­ tinued. I have used most of those sent me this year in the school because I supposed they would be more useful there than else where. I shall make unwonted efforts to get more money for them this year, and I think I shall succeed. I will pay for fifty copies for the school and get all the subscribers I can beside. While on this subject I would suggest that "Nevins on Popery" be assigned to a translator and printed at the expense of the tract society as soon as possible. I feel much concern for the high school. As it seems to me very few (if any other) posts in the mission are too precious to be sacri­ ficed if need be to keep it up and carry it on efficiently. At a full meeting of the trustees in January a plan was voted to be recommended to the meeting which gave high promise of securing a man for the Seminary (?). That plan proposed Brothers Armstrong, Lyman or Alex­ ander as candidates - Providence has shown that the former cannot be had - But I have heard no sufficient reason addn e e d to convince me that either of the others may not be had. Let Bro Lyman Be removed to the Seminary and his place at least for the present be filled by Bro Wilcox or Bro Alexander - and his place supplied for the present by broth J. Just regard this paragraph as a parenthesis in the Report to which you will give only that attention which it merits. Owing to the great pressure of business on my hands the past year I have not completed the translation assigned me - but shall resume it as soon as possible. The letter I was appointed to write to the Madrass Mission has not been written owing to a mistake. I did not receive the Minutes until after I had written to Auburn Seminary, which I supposed was assigned to me. There must have been a mistake in the Minutes, as I was present when the assignments to correspondents were made, and Auburn was assigned to me which I fulfilled accordingly - But have not sent �8. Kaluaaha - Hitchcock - 1842 the letter as the minutes assigned it to Bro Dibble. and can be sent if Bro D . has not sent his. It is now by me In making appropriations the mission will remember that all our children are over five and under ten. We must send David away to school and an additional allowance will need to be made for the expense of tuition which cannot be less than 25 dollars if the school is at Lahainaluna the expence for his board will also need to be defrayed by an aditional ( !) grant unless he can be boarded for what he now draws after the expense of clothing is deducted. We must have if possible the sum of 50 dollars the present year for repairs to our dwelling house. The grant of last year for the purpose could not be laid out owing to the impossibility of getting a carpenter. There is now a prospect of getting one, and the work must be done or the house will suffer much. The grant of last of last ( !) year - was not all received from the vessel - 100 feet of Boards were not delivered by the captain of the vessel - much of the remainder of the grant has been expended upon the house on the mountain and should to ( !) be paid out of the Medical department as much as a voyage to the coast for health. What remains of the grant will no more than cover the additional repairs which the year’s delay has rendered necessary, so that 50 dol­ lars is the least that can be got along with. Brother Munns House needs attention. An expense of 5 dollars will keep it in its present state of repair for the year. If neglected the injury to the house will much exceed that amount. Therefore [!] ask for the following grants For repairs for dwelling house From Med. Dep. for Mountain house to ballance ( !) the portion of last years grant For Repairs to Br Munns house Respectfully submitted P.S. $50.00 50.00 5.00 H R Hitchcock Should it again be impossible to procure a carpenter the grant if made will not be called for. [On back: H. R. Hitchcock report 1842 Station Report Kaluaaha 1842 1 �[H i t c h c o c k ] Kaluaaha May 1843 Dear Brethren of the Mission. It is [a] matter of disappointment to me that I am un able to send you any thing but a miniature Report of this station for the past year, as perhaps no year in its history has been more fruitful in interesting events. But sudden sickness in my family, and my own ill health have prevented me from writing a full report. From Gen Meeting 1842 up to December of the same year nothing occured ( !) either in my own situation or that of my family to interrupt me in my work and in no period of my missionary life have I been able to do more or with more success. In December the illness of Mrs H obliged us to leave the station, to which we did [not] return till March had nearly past. Since then though I have not been sick yet I have felt myself nearer the invalid list than I have for these many years past. David now l ies on a sick bed. He has had a course of fever but through the goodness of God he is convallescing. I am happy to state that our visit to Honolulu has proved a decided benefit to the health of Mrs H whose health is we hope per­ manently improved. For these mercies our Dear brethren will unite with us in rendering devout thanks giving to God. The state of Religion has been unusually interesting on Molokai for nearly 2 years past. Great numbers have forsaken ? sins and subscribed with their hands to the Lord of hosts. A Series of protracted meetings was commenced about a year ago which resulted in the awakening, and I doubt not in the conversion of many. The work has not ceased though it is not as marked now as it has been. During our long absence from the station, the influences of the Spirit were mani­ fested among the people not only in keeping those who had previously turned to the lord from going back; but in greatly increasing the num­ bers of inquirers. Of these nearly 1000 are on my books. The church has had a prosperous year. Christians have seemed to understand and to discharge their duties better than before. Altogether more harmony and less contention than is common has characterized the church this year, and in proportion to its numbers fewer cases of dis­ cipline have occured(!). And considerable additions have been made to it of such as It is hoped will be saved. The Adult Sabbath school has been much better attended than ever before. Many more comitt ( !) to memory the seven verses for the week And the catechism is now being learned in every part of the island. The average number of attendants on this School at the station is about 200 - and Schools of the same sort are established all over the island. The children’s sab school remains much as it has been in past years - and has averaged between 350 and 400 I suppose. Considerable attention has been given to singing and a good number of the children can sing pretty well. On the Department of schools I can scarcely report at all. They have been almost entirely under the management of the native teachers. I have not the number of scholars at our last examination not being able �Kaluaaha May 1843 - Hitchcock 2. to attend from sickness. I know however that the general prosperity of the schools for the past year has been as great as perhaps any pre­ vious year. And have no hesitation in believing that education has ad­ vanced as fast. Nearly all the children go to schools more or less good - and are under the general influence of the station and are re­ ceiving religious instruction. The school at the station has averaged during the year more than 200 and many of the scholars are well prepared to enter the High school. Four scholars of the Seminary have graduated, one of them has returned to Molokai and I am expecting the others. But I Understand that the condition on which they stay is that they can get such wages as suits them, and ordinary wages will not probably suit them. I would suggest to the Mission whether every scholar who has the benefit of the seminary shall not previous to his entrance be required to give bond for the amount of his expenses to the Mission to be paid to the treasurer of the institution within a reasonable time after he graduates - unless he shall return to the Missionary who sent him and teach for such pay as the people are able to make - We have not much money on Molokai and if the teachers stick for a great price we cannot em[ploy] them. The graduates should be content with such living as they can get at the places from which they were sent to school until some little remuneration at least has been made/ the Mission for the expense of their education. I much deprecate the Influence of employing the Lords treasure to educate men for the mere purpose of better enabling them to take care of themselves. Will not the committee on overtures put this subject on the list? I shall take a written obligation of the scholars about to enter from this island to teach school on this island at least three years - and for such pay as we can get for them. And I hope that no one will be allowed to enter without coming under some similar obligation. My plan of labour for the year has been as follows Lecturing the childrens Sab. school at 9 sab. morn, preach at ten. Expound the Sab School lesson of the Adult School at 12, and preach at l/2 past three. This I have been enabled to follow and with but little interruption. The Monthly concert has been attended - a meeting on the same day of the week for a portion of the enquirers - another for another portion of the same class on teusday ( !) at a distance (?) usual lecture on Wednesday - Thursday and friday each a meeting for enquirers and on Saturday meeting of the church. The last friday of every month has been designed for the union of all the enquirers throughout the island. And Every other thursday a day for the meeting of the parents association which has been remoddled ( !) the past year. The above has been My plan of labour. I was enabled to adhere to it to a good degree until we left for Honolulu from which time I have not been able to resume it. The meetings have however been carried on by native members - The female meetings are continued as usual. On the whole, we have reason to bless God that a more perceptible advance in the religious, moral and social condition of our people has [been] exerted this year than in any other year since our conexion ( !) with them. The unstable character of our present house of worship; the probab­ ility that no future time would afford us greater facilities for building than the present; and above all the fact that great numbers are precluded from the house of God on the Sabbath who have a desire to to ( !) enter it in consequence of the want of room has made the duty plain to build �Kaluaaha May 1843 - Hitchcock 3. a permanent and larger house. The subject has been had in view for these several years. Not much has been done until the present one. It has been commenced - the materials are mostly collected and the stone work about one fourth or a little more up. And if the Lord enables me to give the work any considerable degree of superintendence we shall probably dedicate the house to the Lord on the first day of January next. I wish to state to the mission that as little delay as is possible should be had in finishing the house because our present house will not accommodate the people who come to meeting on the Sabbath. I cannot finish by the first of January without involving a debt of at least 100 dollars for which I must become responsible. Probably the debt must be more. It will Somewhat diminish it if the mission will allow me the avails of what books I may sell and also of some few articles of furniture of Mr Munn’s the Account of which will be but little, but will all help - and if turned in this way will, While it aids the cause save the trouble of transfer to the depository books. If the mission will allow me the Books and what few articles of Bro Mun’s ( !) remain here for sale it will be received by me with great thankfulness - I present the request — We are saving all from our own stipend we can for the purpose - Last year we gave 30 dollars. Our people are supremely poor. They have done well thus far. I had hoped not to be under the necessity of calling for an ap­ propriation this year. But I find I must. Our ? condition the dangerous nature of the passage to Lahaina, the frequency of our being necessitated to go over, and our friends to come to us for sick­ ness or other purposes, renders it absolutely indispensible that we be provided with as safe conveyance as the circumstances of the case admit. Our canoe leaks and if fast falling, I would not go on it now if the case were not urgent. When it may give way and be entirely unsafe to go over on cannot be told though it may be very soon. A canoe will cost from 100 to 150 dollars. I beg the mission to allow me to purchase one as soon and as cheap as one can be found, and draw upon the treasury to not above 150 dollars. I have my eye on one which I think will suit us - which will be cheap as 150 dollars. I need not remind the brethren of the urgent need the station stands in of more labourers, and I am confident that if it be a practible thing you will assign us a clerical associate at your present meeting. If no you will not fail to represent the necessities of the station to the Prudential committee in its true light. Should mission­ aries arive the present year (it maybe blindness) but I conscienciously think that no station has claims for help equally strong as this. Nor is there one in more danger or being given up unless it Is reinforced. While I have health I am willing to use all my strength - but my health fails and how long it will allow me to sustain even poorly as I now do the interests of the station. Dont fail to give us the first minister who comes. It may add years to my life and preserve the station from overthrow. With regard to salary if I mistake not Bro told me that the salary's commencing or including the past year would depend on the pleasure of the �4 Kaluaaha May 1843 - Hitchcock Mission. For certain reasons I would prefer that my stipend for the last year be regarded as salary - My accounts are so involved with the Meeting house that it will give them more simplicity, as the property gone Into the meeting house, so far as I am concerned remains still mission property - whereas if it was my own, the case will he different I will put my requests for help to gether. 1 For the Meeting house the entire avails of Book for the current year. 2 For the same what few articles of Mr Munn’s remain to be sold at the station. 3 For the station from 100 to 150 dollars (when I shall have found a canoe) - to purchase a canoe. Should I not succeed in getting one the money will not be called for. 4 An Associate without fail as soon as possible. The following table of Statistics Whole number of church members received on confession — Do By letter Do Recieved ( !) the past year on confession Do — — By letter — -Do Recieved the past year — — — — Whole number Dismissed to other churches — — The past year Whole number Deceased — — -— Past year Suspended the past year — — — Remain suspended — — — -Whole Number in regular standing — — — Whole number Baptized children — ----Baptized the past year Married the past year Average number congregation probably over Native schools cannot Report Station schools -22 scholars Contributions of the natives for the Meeting house cash 714 24 319 4 323 18 4 44 16 3 21 655 368 143 42 900 $ 276. Respectfully submitted H. R. Hitchcock. chairman of Gen Meeting I Should have said something in reference to our extra expenses for our children the past year. I was allowed for David 40 dollars the past year. him have been as follows. Clothing - - - - - - - - - - - - Board for about l/2 year at 37 1/2 c Travelling expenses to get him to Outfit for school - - - - - - - - My expences ( !) for - - - - - - - per week School - - - - $20.00 10.00 15.00 13.00 $58.00 �Kaluaaha May 1843 - Hitchcock Which is 18 dollars more than we have had allowed for him. Much the same is the case with Rexford Should there be a bill of expenses more, I hope that the Mission will make an appropriation to defray it. As I shall not be able to and still meet other unavoidable engagements - I think at least 15 dollars travelling expenses should be credited to my account in order to be equal. H R H (On back) Report of Kaluaaha for 1842-3. �Kaluaaha May 20 1844 [Hitchcock] In no former Report of this station have we had more urgent rea­ sons to begin with acknowledging the goodness of God to us and our people, than in the present. The first half of the year we experienced in our family unusual, hea[l]th and ability to labour, and the Lord caused his work to pros­ per in our hands; and his candle shone round about our tabernacle. And looking back on those months I have reason to be ashamed that I made ( '?) n o better returns to My Heavenly father for his great goodness in raising My dear companion from a long and distressing illness, in giving her so unexpected a degree of hea[l]th, in the continued heal[t]h of our children, and in my own ability to labour hard in his work. The last half of the year has been full of affliction. I have been visited with two severe fits of sickness from the last of which I have not yet fully recovered. It went further toward entirely breaking down my already feeble constitution than any thing ( !) I have ever before experienced. This sickness and the feeble health subsequently which I have ex­ perienced, together with an absence of six or seven weeks on a visit to Honolulu has resulted in at least 3 fourths of my former amount of labour being diminished. And such at present is the State of my health that my prospects for efficient labour are dark. But He that has often heard me when I have been in distress and been better to me than my fears may help me now and enable me again to do my wonted amount of labour . Pastoral labours have necessarily been less abundant this than in former years not only in consequence of sickness but mostly from the great pressure of other business connected with building the Meeting house. Until prevented with sickness and whenever able since the pastor has preached twice each Sabbath - besides lecturing the chil­ dren's sabbath school, and the adult school in the Ai o Ka la. The only weekly religious exercises he has attended have been the Wednesday Lecture and the Saturday meeting with the church. At the commencement of the year our congregations were unusually full and interesting. They continued so for two or three months when the effects of droping ( !) some of the means of Grace to give more attention to building began to appear in a diminution of the people at meeting on the Sabbath, and in a general state of coldness which gave us no little uneasiness. Still later in the year there was a sensible revival of feeling and disposition to attend on the preaching of the word until we left for our visit to Honolulu which being protracted longer than we intended and followed by a severe sickness resulted in another great falling of[f] in the congregation, and in a lower state of feeling than I have known here for several years. When I left for H my hopes were high - I am sorry to say that now though our number on the Sabbath is not small yet that there is very manifest a less disposition in the mass to attend public worship, and a general indif­ ference to the concerns of the soul. May the Great shepherd soon grant us a reviving and renovating influence. Sabbath Schools have been attended this year at the Station though �Kaluaaha May 20, 1844 - Hitchcock 2. by fewer children than in former years. This has been mostly owing to a carelessness on the part of the teachers in not calling to an account those who failed to attend. Formerly the rules of the day schools required the scholars to attend the Sabbath school and meeting on the Sabbath. These rules have become a dead letter in the and those children who prefer to spend the Sabbath in idleness or play have mostly deserted the school. Still many have attended and but for the want of adequate instruction would have made good progress in rel­ igious knowledge; as the verses of the Ai O Ka la have been committed to memory by many. Bro Gulic ( !) has of late taken charge of this school so that it may be hoped that the children will have hereafter more attention than it has been in my power to bestow upon them. Our Adult Sabbath s chool which includes the church members and the more serious part of those who are not members has been constantly kept up. There has been no sensible falling off in numbers during the y ear. There [are] usually present from 4 to 5 hundred. Propably ( !) 1/4 of them recite from memory the 7 verses of scripture for the week; and of the remainder, from five verses to one, and all have the oppertunity ( !) of hearing the lesson explained. I have depended as much, almost, upon this exercise for enlightening the mind, getting at the conscience, and regulating the practice of my people as upon formal preaching. And could not all three be attended to it would probably be well to omit the afternoon session (?) for the sake of the school. As yet however with the exceptions of seasons of seasons ( !) of sickness I have been able to attend to all three. This school has been more useful of late than formerly owing to the fact that we are on the most interesting part of the bible ( !). Bro Gulic ( ! ) since his arrival at the station has kindly aided me in preaching. Much of the time since he has been with us I have been either absent or unable to preach twice on the Sabbath. Mrs. Hitchcocks ( !) freedom from the great amount of care which she had when the children were with us, and an improved state of health has allowed her to spend much more time with the females than before for these several years - She has frequently met with the native Mothers Association, and with a larger number on friday. She has also organized societies in different parts of the congregation for reading the scrip­ tures, over each of which she has placed one or more native female teachers who has met with her class after having heard the lesson ex­ plained by Mrs H. and given it what instruction she could. Mrs H has not been able to be regular in these plans - being frequently prevented by ill health from attending. But she is confident that they have been attended with signal benifit ( !). Improvements. Our Main work the past year has been the errection of a permanent house of worship. Partial preparations had been made the year before, such as beginning to collect timber Stone and coral for lime. A little beginning had also been made in collecting funds. But at the commencement of the present year we had collected none of these articles in sufficient quantity to complete the work. Preparing most of the timber and getting it onto the ground from the distance of ten mile3 or more, procuring many of the stones for building, and some of the lime, Mason and Carpenter work have all been done within the compass �Kaluaaha May 20, 1844 - Hitchcock 3. of a year, beside collecting a considerable part of the funds. The house has been completed nearly two months. It Is 100 feet long by 50 broad outside; walls 2 1/2 feet thick and 18 feet high. It has a gallery 18 feet wide across the brea[d]th of the house, and is lathed with American lath and plastered over head somewhat arched. The thatch­ ing is pili maoli. It leaks but little; Has 4 doors three of which are 7 feet high and about as wide, and one of the ordinary size; 8 windows with each 50 lights of glass, and two others with 12 each. The cost of the house beside stone, lime timber, and gratuitous labour of the people has been between 800 and 900 dollars, probabably ( !) nearer the latter amount. It is an exceedingly pleasant one, and one easier to speak in I never saw. You will rejoice and praise the Lord with me brethren that at last I have at last a place to preach in where I shall have but little danger of injuring my throat. It is a luxury in my missionary enjoyment for which I hope I may ever be grateful. At the Out Station at Kalamaula a large thatched meetinghouse built in good style has been finished and dedecated ( !) this year. It holds about 800-. That portion of the church have been set off by themselves so that now they do not come but very occasionally to the Station. We have held but one protracted meeting this year, and that was at the dedication of the New Meetinghouse. Bro Andrews, and Alexander were the preachers to whom I am under great obligations for their truly faithful labours and the occasion. I am sorry to say that my own ill health had not only prevented my use of the means hitherto blessed for the proper preparation of the church, but it likewise prevented me during the Meeting from holding such meeting[s] and having such conversation with the people as success to the meeting demanded. Good was doubtless done though less apparent than at any former one we ever held. Some time in October a several days Meeting was held at the New Meeting house at Kalamaula which was well attended (.) Native Agency has been constantly employed at the various out posts and more distant placed of the island, and though of a feeble kind has been of Great use. Religious meetings conducted by Natives have existed in nine or ten places on the Sabbath. And the state of religion and morals at those places has been as encouraging during the year as from their circumstances could be expected. Still good native helpers is a desideratum in the opperations of the Station. And I know of no thing ( !) which would more surely promote the prosperity of the cause aside from the outpouring of the Spirit, than would a good supply of well qualified native preachers. Most cer­ tainly some means should without delay be adopted and vigorously pros­ ecuted to procure such indispensable help. Contributions of the church have been mostly for the Meetinghouse. In less than two years they have contributed for this purpose in cash �Kaluaaha May 20, 1844 - Hitchcock 4. not less than than ( !) five hundred dollars, and in labour and materials what, if it had been procured with money would have amounted to more than three times that sum. I have been gratified to see that so poor as our people are and as unfavourably as they are situated with regard to the market they have been so willing to contribute for this important work. We have a ballance on hand of 230 dollars - enough to purchase a bell, and an uncollected subscription of more than 50 dollars. And as the people have been aided from abroad, a part of the balance on hand will be appropriated to help build the meeting house at Hana - and the re­ mainder should none of it be needed to pay for the bell as I hope it will not be, will be devoted to a schoolhouse or some other benevolent object. If the Lord help us we shall be able to refund all the help we have received from abroad. On the subject of reinforcing the station, I cannot now say all I would be glad to say for want of time. I have written to Brethren Chamberlain & Armstrong on the subject and so far as those letters can throw light on it they can be refered ( !) to by the mission. I would hower [however] say that I am expecting one of the new brethren to be located at Kaluaaha, and as there is not a healthy sister at the station, the importance of having a married man must be obvious. You brethren are acquainted with the state of my health and need not that I tell you that both its preservation from being worse, and entirely sinking, to say nothing of its amendment, as well as the well­ being of a church of more than six hundred members depend very much under God on our having a helper to to ( !) share with me my labours and heavy cares. The precarious state of my hea[l]th, the frequency with which on that account\I am prevented from preaching, and the inability which it causes of exercising properly and efficiently the discipline of the church, were there no other reason would as [it] seems to me be suf­ ficient to make clear my claims for a fellow labourer in my department of the work. Since my illness I find that I cannot attend to but a small part of what is necessary to be done in church matters, and the cause of ben­ evolence in the people, because I am not able to paipai [prod] them, is going backward at a fearful ratio. It is painful for me to witness it and this again injures my health. I do something, and had I an associate I should be able to [do] more. As it now is the interests of the sta­ tion are by no means safe in my hands. But another reason why another family should be located here is that the population is abundant, and the work more than even two healthy ministers can do. With my present health, If I had another brother with me the whole island may hear the Gospel once at least in six weeks and most of it oftener. One hour and a quarter's ride to the east (?) is a congregation of 500 people. We might have preaching there at least every other Sabbath had we another man. At the distance of 4 hours to the west there is another congregation of at least 700. The people have laboured hard and put up a good house of worship also a house and ac­ commodations for us when we visit them, and are anxious to have frequent �Kaluaaha May 20, 1844 - Hitchcock preaching. It is my wish to have meetings there once at least in six weeks which could probably be done if we had another minister. As the ease now is we may not be able to preach there at all during the year. Shall it be so - shall those distant sheep Who have even no competent native Shepherd be left a pray [prey] to the devourer? There are more than 70 church members in that part of the field - and very many people who will never hear the Gospel unless it be carried to them - come to the station they cannot. One minister be he ever so strong cannot meet the wants of this people, two though one be partly an invalid will be a proportionate supply, if the school department which is one of rare promise be filled by a third as is now the case. I might answer the objections which some of the brethren unacquainted with circumstances in the case might make; but as these circumstances are known to many perhaps to most of the brethren I forbear, hoping that the meeting in deciding as to allowing us an associate will imagine for a moment my circumstances their own. Should building a third house be deemed an insurmountable objection by the brethren it is is ( !) not by us. We have too much evidence that the population of Molokai loudly calls for and can most advantageously employ at least three families. And any one at all acquainted with the situation of the field would see at once that If we can have but one more family it must be located at Kaluaaha, as at no out post could a family be comfortable alone. I am very anxious to have a man with a family as the ill health of the sisters of the Station presents doing good where it is always most appreciated is among the females. They are in one sense the most Im­ portant part of our charge. But if the fact of not having a house cause[s] the Mission not to locate here a married man, one of the single brethren will be received by us with open arms and he will be made as comfortable in our nice upper chambers as we can make him - so there will for the present be no occasion for building. We should expect also that a man and wife will stay with us until better accommodations should be provided for them. We could let them have two rooms. I know not that I need say more on this topic but leave the matter to the wisdom of the Mission who I am confident will give it all the consideration it demands. The roof of our house needs repairing as it leaks badly in some places. Our pantry Is flooded with every rain and the house is becoming injured very fast[.] It cannot be repaired short of 100 dollars [.] Probably it will cost more. If it should the balance can be brought into an appropriation for another year. I request therefore that the Mission will allow me 100 dollars for the purpose of reshingling a part of the house, and such other improve­ ments as are necessary to keep the rain out of our pantry and kitchen. It will take 5000 shingles hinges (?) boards &c. We have endured the rain in our house now more than a year The statistics of the church are as follows. �Kaluaaha May 20, 1844 6. - Hitchcock Whole number received on examination — — -on certificate — — — — — — Past year on ex Past year on certificate — — Whole number past year — — — — -Whole number dismissed — — -— — Dismissed the past year — — -— — Whole number Deceased — — — — — Deceased the past year Suspended the past year — — — — Remain suspended — — — — — — — Excommunicated past year — — — -Whole num ex — — — -_ _ _ _ Remain ex — -— — — -Whole number in regular standing — — — — Whole number of Baptized children — — — Baptized past year — -— — — — Deceased in the whole . not known Deceased past year . not known Marriages the past year — — -— — Average number of the congregation about 783 24 69 0 69 22 4 65 21 17 48 00 8 8 682 465 97 40 800 It was my intention to have sent a more finished Report, and I commenced it in season for the purpose but sickness interrupted and I have been obliged to write it in a hurry. I hope the brethren will ex­ cuse any errours it may contain. ( !) I have much more to say but cannot as I have not time or strength. I feel deeply on the subject of Punahou School - Have written my views as to what improvement it seems to me are called for without delay. I pray dear Brethren that our Blessed Master may be with you in your meetings and guid[e] your deliberations, and render profitable and joyful your communion with each other. I long to meet with you but my ill health forbids it. This Report is respectfully submitted by your Affection[ate] brother and fellow labourer H R Hitchcock [On back] Station Report - 1844 Kaluaaha �P. J. Gulick's Report, Kaluaaha, Molokai May - 1844 By an arrangement at the station the superintendence of the schools on Molokai, devolved on the writer. But the state of Mrs. Gullck's health, (who was very ill several months) the sickness & absence of Mr Hitchcock, together with the superintendence of the erection of a church edefice, which, owing to the absence of the pastor, required a portion of his time, have prevented the attention, & those systematic efforts, which would otherwise have been bestowed on this branch of missionary labor. From the time however, that we became settled, & sufficiently re­ leased from the duties above stated, I have been accustomed to meet twice, daily, with the station school. Owing to the want of a suitable house, & competent teachers, till very recently the boys only, have been taught in the forenoon, & the girls in the afternoon. The school is opened with prayer, accompanied with singing a hymn or reading a portion of Scripture, or both, & questions on the passage read, or on the fun­ damental doctrines of religion; and on Mondays, on the sermons of the preceding Sabbaths. Although it is not at present our privilege to report any striking results of our efforts to imbue the minds of the children & youth, with the principles of religion; still, in the more advanced, there is evi­ dent progress in the knowledge of the plan of salvation through a cruci­ fied Redeemer. And we are cheered by the hope, that to some of them, at least, this knowledge may yet prove a 'Savor of life unto life'. The number in the station school, though varying somewhat, was till recently about 150; a majority of 12 or 15 being boys. There are now in all, over 200, & the former house of worship, being occupied as a schoolhouse, & an additional teacher employed, both boys & girls meet twice a day for instruction. They are taught by 3 male teachers from the Sem. at Lahainaluna, & one female from the fem. Sem. at Wailuku. Owing to causes stated in the beginning of this report, no tour of the Island has been made, for the examination of schools, except by the superintendent appointed by G o v . t ; hence the state of the schools cannot be reported as accurately as is desirable. It is said, compared with former years, they are now in a less flourishing condition. And there is unquestionably, much room for improvement, both in teachers & pupils. About half the teachers are graduates from Lahainaluna Sem., and as well qualified to teach, as a majority who have enjoyed the same privileges; Still they succeed poorly, in the gov.t & discipline of schools. And yet it is true, their schools would not suffer by a com­ parison with those of their compeers, whose management I have observed on other Islands. And it must be admitted, that while the children are scarcely restrained at all, out of school, it is no easy task, to reduce them to order & decorum, & to keep them so, when in. The indifference of many parents, to the mental culture of their children; & their re­ luctance to have them corrected, tend to augment the difficulties, which, from the waywardness of ungoverned children naturally beset the teachers's path . But probably, the chief cause of the diminution of children in our schools, is, the relaxing of the law, requiring the attendance of chil- �P.J. Gulick’s Report, Kaluaaha 1844 2, dren from 4, to 14 years of age. And/yet, in consequence of the presence of the papists the relaxing of this law, seems necessary; lest those who are willing to live in ignorance , should go over to t h e m , where they can he assured of ample indulgeance ( !). I am however informed, that no more than 20 or 30 children, on Molokai, have left our schools from all the inducements the Papists have been able to offer. But doubtless many, & perhaps all, who are now enrolled as pupils, would be more regular & constant in their attendance, were the law requiring it enforced. As already stated I am unable to give statistics with perfect accu­ racy, W e had a gen.l examination in April. But it was rather a sickley ( !) time/; & being held at the station only, & many from sickness, & many more from infantile weakness were unable to attend. The no. present on that occasion, was 6 8 8 . But the whole no. enrolled on the lists of our 15 schools is 959. According to the best of my present in­ formation 420 have made some progress in arithmetic. 630 read with various degrees of facility. 329 are in the alphabet & spelling lessons. Sabbath School. More than 400 children, including a large majority of those on the Island who are able to come to the station, are connected with the Sab school which has long been maintained here. But many of them living from 5 to 1 2 , & some 2 0 , miles, distant, their attendance is quite ir­ regular. The more remote are expected to come only once in 4 weeks. Since Br, Hitchcock has been able to preach, somewhat regularly on the Sabbath, I have taken charge of this school, & meet with them an hour before the morning service; when I endeavor to explain to their understandings, and to impress on their conscience, the portions of Scripture which they may have committed through the week & recited on the Sabbath. It is the custom in the common schools that those who read with facility, commit to memory & recite each morning a verse of Scripture. And those who attend the Sabbath School, again rehearse the whole, Al­ though this exercise is often very imperfectly performed, yet by it, & the instructions which accompany it, it is believed, their knowledge of the Scriptures, is essentially promoted The state of my health has neither ( !) permitted me to labor vig­ orously, nor constantly; & I have been sometimes interrupted by the illness of my wife; still on the whole, my hindrances from causes of this kind, have been less, the past year, than the two last preceding. W hile br. Hitchcock has been able to labor, in addition to super­ intending the schools, I have, with few exceptions, preached, once on the Sabbath, & once during the week, either at the station, or at an outpost. Owing to his sickness, & absence, the care of the station devolved on me, nearly three months. During this period, I usually preached �P.J . Gulick’s Report, Kaluaaha - 1844 3. twice on the Sabbath, & on Wednesday afternoons; attended the monthly concert & a meeting with the church, Saturday eve. A part of the year, I have also, at their o n request, instructed a class of teachers of the adult Sab. school. I am however conscious, that my labors have been feebly & imper­ fectly performed; & I think considering br. Hitchcock’s state of health there is ample room for another missionary on this Island. And if one can be found, who is willing to take a new station some 25 miles west, and means also to make him comfortable there, I shall rejoice to see him in this field. But from some experience & 16 years observation, in this mission, I could neither ( !) vote for associating pastors, nor for locating another minister at Kaluaaha. For I am persuaded, that in a few years, at most, such an expenditure of strength & funds would be deemed unprofitable, & the plan relinquished. A word in regard to the accommodations of my family. It was known to the mission last year, that the house which we now ocoupy was in a dilapidated condition. Although a small sum has been expended on it, it is still far from a comfortable habitation. Nor, owing to its size, & original form, will it be practicable to make it a commodious, or de­ sirable habitation, for a family as large as mine. But it may be im­ proved, Every room in it leaks, & some of them badly. It therefore needs to be rethatched, & some joist, & other lumber furnished. The chimney, oven, & backhouse, need to be rebuilt entire. By the present condition of the chimney, all the mission property at the station, is in danger of being destroyed, as well as our furniture &c. — Possibly it is my duty, to ask an appropriation for erecting new buildings. But various considerations prevent my pursuing that course. I request however of the mission an appropriation of $40.00 which may cover the expense of so much as is indispensable at the above named repairs. All which is respectfully submitted P . J. Gulick. Statistics of schools 15 Schools 21 Teachers 630 Readers of whom 420 cipher 329 Are in the A.B.C. & spelling lessons. Total of pupils 959 About — 450 are girls and -- 509 are boys. A considerable no. have studied geography, & some, church history, but [I cannot] state how many. �P.J. Gulick's Report, Kaluaaha - 1844 P.S. I for the quested it this 4. have already, expended on the house we occupy, since the accounts past year were closed, $18.27/100. And we hope the sum re­ may cover this & what more we shall be compelled to expend on year. Were it possible to make it a desirable or commodious habitation, I should ask a much larger grant. But as it is, we had rather endure much inconvenience & discomfort than to spend time & funds in efforts to improve such an unimprovable concern. �P.J. Gulick’s Report. May. 1846 My labors, for two years past, have been of a pretty uniform char­ acter; & although owing to general & constant dibillty ( !), they have not been prosecuted with much vigor; yet through divine goodness, they have not been greatly interrupted by sickness. Beside superintending the station school, which I have usually met twice daily, I have preached generally, once in the week, & once on the Sabbath; & frequently expounded the Scriptures to a portion of the female members of the church. I have also superintended a morning Sab. school, for the children in the vicinity of our station; except in the absence of br. Hitchcock, when b r . Andrews took my place in the School. The pupils in some measure connected with this school, amt to 500. But some of them living quite remote, are seldom present except at communion seasons, wh. occur quarterly. In favorable weather, the no. in attendance is about 400[.] But some 40 or 60 of these, come from the out stations, by turns, only once in 4 weeks. This leaves but 350 who are consta[n] t in attendance, while the remaining 150 are occasionally there, making the ordinary no. about 400. — But owing to the pastor’s well directed efforts those who are absent, with many others too small to come to the station, meet in Sab schools, at their respective places, & are instructed by school teachers or other church members. Pupils who can read with facility, commit to memory the daily food; — & this is the custom in all the schools on Molokai, though less per­ fectly carried out, than we could wish — & recite it on the Sabbath. Many also have committed the 10 commandments, & the major part of the catechism. The smaller children, & others unable to read, commit hymns from the children’s hymn book. In the station school, the portion of Scripture committed the week preceding, is expounded to the pupils, on the Sabbath. The school containing 170 males, & 130 females, is divided, the boys only being assembled in the forenoon & the girls in the afternoon. The former are taught from 8 to 11 A.M. & the latter from 12 to 2 P.M. Both forenoon & afternoon, the school is opened with reading the Scriptures, singing & prayer; & occasionally brief exposition of Scrip­ ture & efforts to impress it upon the hearts of the pupils. And al­ though we cannot report, what is most of all to be desired, — that they appear to be generally under the sanctifying influence of the truth, yet many of them manifest an increasing knowledge of the Scriptures; especially of the great fundamental doctrine of justification by faith alone. -- They also in general appear to make commendable progress in their secular studies. The table below will show the no .s in the various stages of improvement. �P.J. Gulick's Report - 1846 2. Teachers. These although none of them, exactly what [I] could wish they were, & some of them very deficient, yet as a whole, are in advance of those with whom I have formerly been acquainted. And from the best information at command, I judge they are more regular & constant, at their appropriate work, than is customary with native teachers, In other parts of these islands. This may perhaps be owing to what I suppose is a fact, viz. that here they are more promptly and more liberally paid, than In the other islands. It may also be in a measure, the result of the interest which parents take, in the schools. In good measure through the influence of the church the parents are induced to pay one half the salery ( !) of the teachers. And as a natural consequence they begin to manifest considerable interest in the progress of their children. And the teacher who is specially deficient, or who frequently leaves his school without good reason, or does not advance his pupils in their studies, frequently finds some dificulty ( !), in keeping his post, & especially in collecting his pay. This is a pleasing indication, that the people are beginning to understand their rights, & to assert them. The present pay of school teachers on Molokai is I think, a suf­ ficient reward for their services. School-houses. In these we are quite behind the age. There Is not a good one on the island; nor even one to compare with those at several other stations. I think a few hundreds, of the funds raised there, would ["could" written above "would"] be very judiciously expend­ ed in fitting up one or two school houses. And that the influence of such a measure w.d be very salutary especially on the children & youth. Jan. 1, 1846 Total 14 22 1138 612 526 595 227 398 562 203 150 Schools Teachers Pupils Males Females Readers Have commenced writing --- Mental arithmetic Commit the Daily food Written Arithmetic Have studied geography 145 In the A.B.C. [On back] Report of Rev. P.J. Gulick May 16 - 1846 �Report of Molokai Station. 1846 -- [Hitchcock] In their report for the year past the missionaries of Molokai have renewed cause for gratitude to God for the health and general prosperity with which he has blessed us. While most of our number have been visited with occasional ill health, none have been ill for a long time, nor so ill as to lay us aside from our usual labours. Of the good things of this life we have had all things and abounded, and in the retrospedt we c can complain of nothing but our unworthiness of the great favours with which the year has been crowned. The means used for the benefit of the people are 1. Preaching. We have I believe had invariably two sermons on the Sabbath at the Station and frequently as many or more at other places. Bro Gulic ( !) has most of the time preached once in the week and oftener when the other brethren have been absent from the station. Bro Andrews has preached frequently either at Kaluaaha or else where. Preaching on Wednesday has been constant. 2. Sabbath Schools. Of these we have had three - two for children and one for adults. The morning school for children has been superintended by Bro Gulic ( !) who will give an account of it in his report. The adult school held Immediately after the forenoon service, and attended by all the members of the church and all others who are disposed most of whom recite from memory the ai a ka la, has been attended by the pastor in company with Bro Andrews. In this school after the recitation of the verses they are explained in the catichetical mode and applied in the most direct and faithful manner of which the teachers are capable, and here I would remark that I know of no exercise so full of promise of usefulness, aside from preaching as this. In the first place it forms employment of the very best kind for many who otherwise would be in­ cessantly engaged ma ka manao ike kino [ ? ] or what would be no better wasting their time in sleep. Besides the subjects come up in order without being selected for the occasion and the application of the word under such circumstances Is less liable to be regarded as the result of ill will or similar motives. So satisfied am I from long experience of the expediency and usefulness of requiring members of the church to commit to memory the Ai o Ka La that nothing would tempt me to dispense with it. Of the edition this year 1800 were sent to Molokai and more will be wanted before the end of the year. The third Sab school which is held one hour before the commencement of the afternoon service is superintended by the pastor. It includes as scholars all the children of the morning school and as many adults as choose to attend. The exercises of this school are simply reading ten verses of the scripture by course at a time, and three or four times over. By this course they have the whole xxxxx in part in their minds and are pretty well prepared to answer questions which are proposed to each class by its teacher. After the questioning of the teachers is through the pastor catechizes them on the whole and makes such use of It as the occasion requires. The school is usually closed by singing which is frequently good. That part of the school which cannot read meet in another room and chant hymns The commandments or other verses of scriptures, after this and before the school disbands they assemble with the others and form one School of between 300 or 400 scholars. Tw[o] objects are answered by this school; first it makes the scholars �Molokai Report 1846 - Hitchcock more familiar with the bible and secondly it keeps them constant in their attendance at the afternoon service so that whatever may be the state of the adults, we are always sure of a congregation of 300 or 400 Sab school scholars. I would here observe that the order of Sab schools at Kaluaaha is as far as practical pursued at the other stations on the island. A third means of benefitting the people is by watching over and regulating the interests of common schools. As the whole subject of schools will of course come into Mr Gulics ( !) Report I shall say nothing more of it here except that the controul ( !) of the schools has never passed from our hands but [we] are consulted on all subjects important to their welfare and no change is attempted without our consent. I would also say in general that the past year has been one of signal prosperity to the cause of common schools, on the island. Another means of seeking the welfare of our charge has been the Special care of the church. One meeting each week has been held for the direct purpose of instructing them. In this department may be in­ cluded a constant attention to the various complaints that arise between church members - In their difficulties they appeal to the missionaries and no small portion of our time is spent in seeing that justice is rendered to the ones to whom it is due. The administration of disci­ pline is a part of our [duties] more fraught with care than any other. Of this we have had much to do this year although perhaps fewer than usual cases of Suspension have been called for. A Meeting has been held weekly with those who profess to be serious. And a lecture each at two out posts has been preached with little in­ terruption during the year. The monthly concert has been kept up and has been one of our most interesting meetings. The usual female meetings Mrs H has kept up and attended herself as often as health would allow. One of her meetings is held on friday and embraces all who are disposed or can be induced to attend. Reading the bible and conversing on its meaning constitutes its principle ex­ ercise. The second female meeting assembles on thursday of every other week and includes only such as obligate themselves to pay particular attention to the care of their families - the neatness of their houses and the cleanliness of their persons. It is a Mother's Meeting though not confined to them. Its object is to promote domestic order and happiness. Beside these meetings Mrs H meets a company of female lunas and reads a chapter with them weekly, and gives them a familiar explanation of its contents, and they in their turn read the same with their respective classes and tell as much of its meaning as they can remember. More than usual attention has been given the past year to efforts for raising the natives from the miserable social condition and to get them in the way of providing houses and furniture and clothing more comfortable for themselves. In this department Bro Andrews especially has Laboured unweariedly - and as will be seen not without much en­ couraging success. The same may be said with regard to the practice �Molokai Report 1846 - Hitchcock of medicine the whole of which has devolved on him. And the success which has attended his treatment of the sick calls for gratitude to him who has blessed his efforts. I say less upon these things as they fall more properly within Bro A 's Report. Of family visitation but little has been done - such have been our circumstances that it has not been convenient. Considerable time has been spent at the out stations of Halawa and Kalae. The pastor has spent 7 weeks at the latter place with his family beside several other visits of three days each. The above are the principal labours performed at the station the past years. It remains to give some account of the doings of our people. They have been punctual an[d] constant in their attendance on divine worship on the sabbath our assemblies have been uniformly full, especially as a good part of the people come from a distance of six miles and many of them from 10 or 12. Week days meetings have also been better attended the past year than usual. The after noon Meeting on the Sabbath though less numerous than in the morning has without exception been well attended. So that judging of their love of the worship of God by the labour they endure to attend it, we must hope it to be not only sincere but on the advance. These observations apply also to the outstation where the difficulties of getting to meeting are in many instances even worse than at the station. The members of the church and nearly all the children who can read have committed to memory hundreds of verses of the scripture and listen­ ed to instruction from them in sabbath schools. This is a work I am happy to say considered by our people as indispensable to a good and consistent Christian character. And the steadiness with which most persevere in it is a pleasing evidence that it is xxx not an oppressive service. They have paid for the support of the gospel among them in part the past year and the cheerfulness and punctuality with which they have done it and the willingness which they manifest to continue to do what they can for our support are pleasing indications both of their sense of the value of the ordinances of religion and of their obligations to sustain them. Novel as the trial has been the past year we are hoping that their contributions to our support the current year will not fall short. By far the greater part have paid all or nearly all their pro­ portion - Many but a part and not a few none at all. Those who at the close of the year had not cancelled their subscription were not |not| (!) allowed to do so afterward. Their delinquencency ( !) was refered ( !) to God and their-own conscience. We have now addopted ( !) the plan of quarterly payments, whic h so divides the amount each individual is to pay as to enable him to do it with much less sense of burden. The result thus far this year has not been bad. Nearly one fourth of the sum re­ quired having been paid in. I am happy to be able to [say] that the experiment of requiring our people to support the gospel has thus far been attended by no xxxxxxxxxxx unhappy influence. There has been no Instance come to our knowledge of any ones forsaking his attendance on the preaching of the Gospel to avoid paying. Our Luna and a konohiki who �Molokai Report 1846 - Hitchcock 4 subscribed 4 dollars but paid just once commenced drinking awa and assigned as a reason his makau i ka uku and was of course suspended from communion. But he found himself miser­ able in his new chosen condition and came back before the next sacrament after having most willingly paid his portion of the salary. I am well convinced that no injury to our cause can accrue from receiving our support from our people. While It is equally plain that should we urge them to do much for the support of native teachers the effect would be to create carelessness if not disgust for the pono. Much better as It seems to me would it be for the missionaries to support the native preachers - so far as clothing is concerned out of our own salary. Our people have done something the past year for objects of benevolence. This has been voluntary - no mony ( !) has been required. The men have been exhorted to furnish at least one stick of wood at each monthly concert - and the women a mat each once in six months - or if they choose ahuawa string to the same amount. No one has been regarded as delinquent who has contributed this much Of course those who have prefered ( !) it have contributed money. We have a system of giving which works pretty well, and which by the future improvements which experience may suggest we hope will result in securing for the cause of God all that the people are able to give. Beside contributions at the monthly concerts the women especially are getting into the way of sys­ tematically contributing to the necessities of the poor. Each princi­ pal district constitutes a society for this object. They contribute potatoes or fowls or onions or money as they please. The produce of these contributions are carried to market gratuitously by some brother of the church and sold and the cloth given to the lunas of each district to distribute to the poor after submitting their claims claims ( !) to Mrs H who has the general superintendance of the whole. The charity of Kaluaaha district she gives out with her own hands. We intend to give more attention to this department of benevolence than circumstances have allowed us to do before and the success with our efforts in it have been crowned the past year gives encouraging promise that the people will abound more and more in this good work. Beside these direct contri­ butions the people have in progress two meetinghouses one designed to be lathed and plastered 78 feet by 30. The walls of this are completed and the tim[ber] mostly procured. This has been a great tax upon their time and should be regarded as forming no inconsiderable part of what the people do for the pono. The other house is 40 by 28 - and the timber is on the spot and the walls more than half up. Two hundred and ten Eleles [a newspaper, translated "Messengers"] have been taken on the island and nearly all paid for in cash. They have bought more books for cash (?) this year than in any previous one and done much more for the support of school teachers beside having pro­ vided more things for the comfort of their families. They many of them are free to own what has thus far been a fact that the more they have done for the pono the more prosperous have been their worldly affairs. I am happy to say also that there has been more attention given to mahi ai ana [ ] than formerly and consequently less complaint of destitution of comfortable food. �Molokai Report 1846 - Hitchcock.. .... 5 The contrast between the present condition of the people of Molokai and what it was before [this] station was commenced is great - and demonstrates the great power the Gospel possesses in ameliorating the darkness and/guilt, and poverty and sufferings of our race (?). And it is with unfei gned pleasure as well as gratitude to God that we have watched the progress of divine influence over the minds, and habits and circumstances of society about us. But while it would be wrong for us not [to] own what the Lord has wrought for us, nor to take encouragement from it, It would be no better not to acknowledge that much very much remains to be done. 14 years ago the whole field was overgrown with briars and thorns ar.d every hurtful plant. In their progress of these years much good seeds ( !) has been sown. The plants of righteousness have sprung up and presented different degrees of vigour and beauty still all have indicated the unfriendly soil in which they were planted. Christians on Molokai are like plants struggling up to maturity with little more than moonlight influence and are far very far from exhibiting that perfect verdure which appears In those who have had more and stronger light. On this account we are ever and anon pained by sights and sounds and deeds which did they exist in Christians of greater measures of light it would be difficult to recon­ cile with true religion. In particular the whole field of social and domestic order seems an almost an ( !) unbroken waste. Improvement in this department has been slow indeed and many years must pass away be­ fore Christianity and civilization shall constitute society into what we mean into families, or diffuse through it what we understand by domestic order and peace. This is only one of very many heartsickening aspects of the moral and religious condition of our field. So that while we on the one hand we rejoice and bless God that our people have risen so far up from the dreadful degregation in which we found them on the oth ( !) other we are admonished not to relax but if possible to increase our efforts If we or even our children would ever see them rescued en­ tirely from the deep dark pit of Ignorance and Sin. Statistics of the Station on Molokai From May 1844 — May 1846 Whole number admitted to the church on profession by letter Admitted on profession in 1845 in 1846 two past years do by letter Total 2 years past Whole number dismissed to other churches Dismissed the past 2 years Whole number deceased deceased the past 2 years Number suspended the 2 past years " Remain suspended Whole number excommunicated excommunicated 2 past years Whole number in Regular standing Whole number children baptized " Baptized 2 past years 957 33 120 54 174 9 183 32 12 105 40 19 31 23 15 766 619 152 �Molokai Report - Hitchcock Mariages ( !) the two years past Average congregation on the Sabbath Average number at the adult sab school Average number at the afternoon childrens sab school Average number At the church Meeting Do at the Wednesday Lecture Do at the Monthly concert Do at the Womens Meeting on friday Do at the Mothers Meeting Sermons preached by the pastor weekly during the year 117 700 300 400 150 200 100 80 75 143 Contributions to the Pono. Salary up to May 1st. cash For the poor For the Monthly concert Total Eleles taken Paid for Books Sold for cash 25 teachers at 25 dollars each Outlays of the people in Money for Religion and Education Population of Molokai Births year past Deaths In a population of 2867 there are males females $400 58.75 or 235 yds cloth 220.00 678.75 2.10 179 $100 $525 625.00 Whole amount $1313.75 4500 142 90 1515 1352 When I commenced writing this report I had forgotten that it should include the transactions of 2 years - consequently some things have been passed over which It may be well to mention here. A series of pro­ tracted meetings commencing somewhere in october 44 were held at the different stations all of which seem to have been blessed in a greater or less degree with the influences of the Holy Spirit. The one at Halawa especially was one of the most interesting of the kind ever held on the island - The congregation was full - and scarce a word seemed to fall to the ground useless. Christians became aroused from their palaka to an earnest and pleasing spirit of prayer - and to an unwonted concern for the impenitent. The consequence was that nearly all the assembly became concerned for their souls and for the time resolved to attend to their salvation. The fruits of this revival for such it may with pro­ priety be called, on the portion of our field in which it took place were truly salutary. Hundreds broke away from the outward sins in which they had been living. Many of these continue among the number of the pious - and no fewer than a hundred perhaps more of them have been ad­ mitted to the church while the general state of society in the region has shown a pleasing degree of improvement. Much the same may be said of the results of the protracted meeting held at Kalae soon after. The effects of these meetings continue to be seen yet. �Molokai Report - 1846 - Hitchcock 7 During the year just past we held no meeting of the kind. No ex­ traordinary means have been used and yet we have not been wholly desti­ tute of the special operations of the spirit. Two lands (?) both of which have stood aloof from the means of Grace and seemed to be almost hopeless have been induced to yield to the pono a few are it is hoped real converts. The subject of temperance will be noticed in Mr G!s report as the scholars of the school are the only subjects of direct efforts in that department of reform. Our church constituting de facto a temperance Society - on the tetotal plan. Some 10 or 12 have violated their pledge the past year but none I believe continue to do so, and most of them it is to be hoped are penitent. (On back) Molokai Report 1846 To be returned. �Kaluaaha Sept 25 - 1847 Dear Bro C[hamberlain] Your letter requesting me to send the statistics of this station I have not such. It came while I was at Mauna Olu and was not sent me. I had prepared a letter but it got mislaid. I have not the wherewith to make a correct statistical account of the station for 1846-7 - I am not able to say how many have been received to the church. So please make out your report without reference to this station. I can only say that the usual prosperity has attended us since the last gen. meeting. We retain a growing interest in the people in the means of grace and an undiminished perhaps increased willingness to do. all they can to support the gospel among themselves and to help spread it abroad. The people have thus far supported Bro Andrews - and their average monthly contribution for the spread of the gospel has been nearly twenty dollars. Besides this they have contributed considerable for the relief of their own poor. Books have never been in so great demand as in the present year. We have taken more cash for books than in any two previous years. Our church consists of rising of 800.in good standing - some 60 or 70 stand propounded for admission on the first Sab in January 1848. have no more numerous this than former years. than common The cases of dicipline There seems at present to be a more interest in the subject of religion and I cannot but hope that many souls are now living in obedience to the commands and preparing for heaven who a short time ago were in the broad road to death. Three meeting houses are in a state of progress and will I hope be finished before the end of the year. On the whole we have reason to praise God for the success which has attended us the year just end [!] I am sorry that I have not been able to make a correct report. hard not to be so hemahema again. Shall try The reason is the account as record of admissions have been made in the books of the different branch churches and in some cases without date. Your affectionate brother H. R. Hitchcock �[Dwight] Report May 1849 to May 1851 Dear Brethren of the Hawaiian Mission Two long & eventful years have sped their course leaving deep irrasable ( !) marks upon the features & the hearts of each member of the Mission as well as upon the islands we inhabit & the people for whom we labor. These years have been years of progress to all, years of severe trial to not a few, years of blessings to the many. As a mission & as individuals we should raise our ebenezer here, as, with heart reechoing the sentiments of our hearts, we exclaim, "Hitherto hath the Lord helped us." The diseases, that ravaged the islands two years ago, with such fatality as to leave scarcely a hope for the native race, have passed away & have been succeeded by general health, & abundant prosperity. The decrease of population has been in a measure stayed, & the births, for the last quarter ending in March have, for the first time since my connection with the mission, exceeded the number of deaths on the island of Molokai: so that were it not for the continual drain made on that island of the most hopeful part of the population to supply the wastes of Honolulu & Lahaina, we might report an actual increase of numbers thus far in 1851. The reserves (?) of the people have also largely in­ creased & they have surrounded themselves with many of the necessaries & comforts of civilized life which were unknown even by name to their ancestors. Their progress in these matters should cheer every philanthropic heart as evidence unmistakable that the poor people have advanced in intelligence & civilization - those twin handmaids of Religion. The houses lately constructed by the people are larger, more commodious, better furnished with doors windows & other conveniences, than those of former days. Many of the natives own houses & cattle, & more land is under cultivation now than has been in any two years together of late times. Very considerable progress has been made by all the people in attaining industrious habits. While the school children do more work than was ever done by the same number in these islands before, perhaps as much [as] is done by the children in the U.S. For the History of the Ch ’h. the present state of piety, Benevolence & other virtues, I would respectfully refer you to the report of my associate the pastor of the ch’h who will doubtless have something cheering to communicate while I lay before you a suscint [succinct ?] account of the duties that have fallen to my lot. 1 The Sick Of these several thousand cases have come under my care since my connection with this station. Those living within a mile or two of the station I have usually visited at their houses & occasionally & even more distant patients tho' it is to be feared these last have been neglected. In March 1850 after consultation with my associates it was determined to charge a small price for Medicine, enough at least to cover the expenses of this department. The plan has been in opera­ tion a year & we think has been beneficial to the natives. The amount realized by this plan has been $19.50. �Molokai Report - Dwight - 1851 2 2 Books In December 1849 The care of this department was handed over to me. I immediately opened an account with each of the School teachers, set­ ting a price on the books that they were by no means to alter, & allow­ ing them 12 1/2% on all they sold to the children. The amount to [be] handed in every quarter. This plan has worked well. The number of books sold has been more than doubled. The reciepts ( !) from that date up to the present time, including subscriptions to the Elele being "320.00. Of this sum $158.00 has been handed over to the Depository. 34.00 more been paid to Judge Andrews for Atlasses. $18.75 is due to La hainaluna for books kindly furnished by that institution & the remainder will be handed to the depository at the end of the current year. There are deficiencies in regard to books which I hope means may be taken to remedy. An Arithmatic (! ) of rules & principles is very much needed to carry the larger children arround (?) & to give the general principles of the science. Of atlasses not one remains. I succeeded in getting 290 in all from Judge Andrews 3/4 & they have aided me not a little; but the children are not supplied & they are all gone. A good geography & general history are greatly needed. The children are almost entirely ignorant of the history, condition, extent, charac­ ter, &c of these very nations where ships fill their harbors & whose sons occupy the high places in their government, & will be so I fear until the study of Geography & History become more generally branches of education in the common schools. 3 Aiding the Surveyors. In October last R. W. Meyer was sent by the land commission, to survey the Native claims on the island of Molokai. He brought a letter from the Pres. Hon. (?) Judge Lee, requesting Mr H. & myself to aid him in his work. Since then I have complied as far as possible with Mr. Lee's request. have aided in settling disputes, ascertaining boun­ daries, & taking testimony when necessary. My spare room has been at the surveyors disposal ever since he came to Molokai. 4 Law In last August a circuit Judge was appointed for the island of Molokai, by my recommendation. The Judge is a good man anxious to do right, but entirely unaquainted with this important business. It has been my plan to sit with & advise him in this new duty. Moreover I have held 4 times a week a school for the reading of the law, at which he & others have attended. It has become more & more evident to me since my connection with this matter, that no common native has yet attained to those powers of intellect & Judgment which are required to make a good, impartial & fearless judge. �Molokai Report - Dwight - 1851 5 Schools In January 1850 this department of labor fall ( !) to my care & on it/ my strength has been laid out. A t that time a debt of over 250 dollars had accumulated. This embarrases ( !) us. It has been my plan to spend one week at the end of each quarter in examining the schools. The sixth quarter has passed & the benefits of this plan are such that I hope to continue it to the end. After the last I divided 14- of the schools into 4 sections, appointing each section to meet me once in 4 weeks at a central school house. The objects of these meetings were 1st to make the children & teachers love their schools 2d to see their improvement & 3d to assist in attaining excellence in Elocution, Reading, & singing. This has been a fav orite plan with teachers, scholars, & parents. 7 times each week I have lectured to 3 classes of the larger children in Geography & history, & once a week I spend 2 hours with a school 4 miles from the station. The studies pursued in the schools are Reading, writing, spelling, mental & written Arithmetic, geography, Algebra, drawing, Elocution, & vocal music. Every child that can read is ex­ pected to learn the verses of the daily food & in this way more than 200,000 verses of scripture are fixed yearly in the memories of the Molokai children. A working school was established by my predecessors in this depart­ ment, & as it seemed to be exceedingly useful It has with a few modifica­ tions been continued up to the present time. How long this will be con­ tinued hereafter Is quite uncertain as the parents in one place are opposed to it & my associate has taken their side & thinks the time has come for it to b e broken up. My own opinion of its utility has not been changed. But there are tides of opposition which one cannot stem & therefore it is the path of wisdom perhaps, to yield to them. A new station school house to be built of lime & stone has been commenced this year. The corner stone was laid with appropriate cere­ monies April 30th ult. I have engaged two of the larger boys to aid the masen ( !) ------ employed- in its constructions that they might get a knowledge of this art & that they might not lose in their studies I teach them 5 evenings in the week 1 / hours. 2 1 This school house is to be 37 1/2 by 25. The walls 12 feet high & to have 6 windows & a door. It will have a wood floor, seets ( !) desks, & other school room furniture so far as we can procure it. Mi ss Brown's school has been in successful operation most of the time under review & has been exceedingly useful to some 30 or 35 young ladies. Its discipline is admirable & two sets of the larger girls have been taught the act of knitting thoroughly. In September last a sewing school was established at Kaluaaha. To this purpose the mauka room in my house was appropriated. It was commenced with twelve girls, which number has been gradually increased to 25. They meet under the Superintendance of a most excellent native woman Peenahele (?), who had been for a long time in the employ of Mr �Molokai Report - Dwight - 1851 Andrews & my associates. The school meets 5 times a week & spends 2 hours a day in this very necessary feminine employment. In the 6 months they have been in this school, only one scholar has required punishment & for order, punctuality, neetness ( !) of person obedience this sewing school will compare well with any school I have seen. They are taught to cut out & make pants, vests, Sacks & shirts. The older scholars are now at work on a set of shirts with linen colars & bosoms that will be exhibited at the next examination. They have earned for themselves by their needles the sum of $37.12 1/2. It has been my hope when this school commenced to have had the aid of my Lady associates but in this, owing to the presure of duties & ill health upon them, I have been disappointed Statisticks ( !) of the Schools. Scholars 969. Teachers 29. Catholic scholars 56 Prot. do. 918. Cat. Schools 2. Prot. 17. Pay of Teachers pr quarter $320.00. First quarter $378.00 Readers 574. in Arithmetic 496. Geography, 494 Drawing 73. Writing 374. Elocution 430. Algebra 14. Sewing & Knitting 37. Vocal Music 430. Earnings of the Children from Jan 1850 to Mch 1851 $2268.12 1/2. 6 Marying ( !) Since the last gen. Meet. there have been 140 marriages performed on Molokai. . It has been customary to charge 25 cts for this ceremony & to hand the receipts over to Mrs Hitchcock for the poor. 7 Preaching lecturing &c In a strange language, with a stammering tongue & a limited number of words, the writer has engaged in this most important department of labor. In the two years under review he has addressed Sunday Schools 168 times & spoken from the pulpit in Hawaiian on 220 occasions, two of which were in dedecation ( !) of Houses for Worship. In these various labors, such health & strength as the Lord has vouschafed ( !) him have been expended & have been accompanied with so little perceptible fruit as to leave him almost discouraged. Feeling (?) however that while it is his duty to prepare the ground, to sow & watch the seed, the increase is in the hand of One abounding in might, holi­ ness, & wisdom, the writer would go on to the end of his course until it shall mercifully please His Lord to call him hence. With sentiments of esteem &c, this report is respectfully submitted to the mission by their fellow Laborer & servant Samuel G. Dwight Deaths from Jan 1st to March 31st 1851 Births " " " " “ (On back) Mr. Dwight’s Report. Molokai 1851 29 28. �Hitchcocks Report of Kaluaaha 1851. The direct missionary work of the Pastor and his companion have the past year met with more interruption than usual and con­ sequently less has been done. Soon after our return from General Meeting in 49 we began making preparation for repairs on house. The contract for the work was made, including an obligation on the part of the workmen to do it with dispatch, which obligation if faithfully fulfilled would have completed the works in at most 4 months where it was not completed in near a year from the time the contract was made. This long delay though mostly owing to the neglect of the workmen, was partly owing to want of lumber. Repair­ ing of the house had an injurious effect upon the health of Mrs. H. whose strength was not adequate to endure the noise and confusion and additional labour with which it was attended. As early as July she was taken with a nervous disease - in­ dicating tendency to paralasys ( !) . The malady increased untill ( !) we were constrained to go to Lahaina for medical aid. She was sub­ sequently somewhat relieved for a season, and our hopes that the disease was over come [overcome] quite sanguine yet the symptoms never entirely disappeared; and for the last 5 or six months they have greatly increased, and have made it exceedingly difficult to use her hand and to attend to her domestic affairs, the disease being attend[e]d with general debility — and a suffering of cold. Her illness has thrown the care of the domestic department of labour mostly on to my hands, and however imperfectly the duties of this department have been performed they have greatly interrupted the vigorous performance of those of my own particular sphere. These last for the past two years have consisted in preaching twice on the Sabbath, attendance at the adult Sab School held im­ mediately after the forenoon sermon, a Sab school for children held at 1/2 past 1 oclock - a meeting for the professedly serious on teusdy ( !) - the common wednesdy ( !) sermon, the same sermon on the two successive days one at Kamaloo, and one at Wailua. The Saturdy ( !) Prayermeeting, preceeded by a meeting of the officers of the church, has been constantly attended and made the occasion of a discourse amounting to a Short sermon on Christian duty and prac­ tice. Occasional sermons have been preached at the outstations Kalae [,] Kolaupapa ( !), Halawa and Moakea. The weekly meeting at Waialua (?) has been discontinued for the year past. Add to these labours that of the general supervision of the church and managing its discipline and you have all or nearly all the direct missionary work of the pastor. The balance of his time has been spent upon unavoidable secular and family cares. I would here state the way in which the above mentioned supervision of the church Lunas has been carried on. The plan of a monthly meeting of the church lunas on the Saturdy following the first Mondy of the month, has been in operation about one year. At these meetings we have had as a general thing a delegation from almost every district on the island, by which the affairs of the district are made known, and �Hitchcock's Report 1851 — 2 such measures taken with regard to them as the case requires. So far the meetings have greatly simplified the management of the church, and facilitated the extension of our influence in every part of the island. We have the countrepart of this meeting in a similar one of the chief or luna women from all parts of the island. This is a method which Mrs. H has devised and successfully employed to have her influence felt through all the districts. Little as the pastor has been able to do - still partly per­ haps owing to this little - partly to the indefatigable labours of my associate in the various departments which he has filled and partly owing to other arrangements of providence we are able to Report progress. Soon after General Meeting of 49 - a special prayermeeting for a revival of Religion was appointed in my study - this was known only to a few. The meetings were solemn. The brethren present confessed their sins one to another, and manifested much feeling for the impenitent. These meetings increased in interest and were soon opened to others beside professors - many flocked in. Chris­ tians prayed with intenseness of desire, and the influences of the Spirit were manifestly In the assembly. The attention increased and spread into other districts - and continued for several months and though many who professed to have turned to God have since shown their goodness was as the morning dew which passeth away [,] some I am happy to say give satisfactory evidence of having passed from death into life, and others still who have been numbered with the poe pono before come out more decidedly on the Lord[']s side. The influence of this little silent rain of divine grace has been a precious influence, not only as it regards the souls that were hopefully converted - but In having much deeper and more correct impression upon the people in general In favour of the doctrine of Salvation by grace alone. As the result of the excitement about 80 were added to the church in July 1850. There has on the whole been an Increase as it regards an attendance on the means of grace, not that the numbers who attend are greater, for the great dimunition of the inhabitants by death and other causes has rendered that impracticable; but in the con­ stancy of their attendance. Our morning and evening Services are more equally attended now than ever before and a much greater por­ tion than usual consists of such as in former years were not found in the house of God. Especially is this the case with the impen­ itent youth of both Sexes. Some progress seems also to have been made in the value which the people attach to the pono [right or morality] . Indeed in no one respect has the progress been greater. They have done much many years past for the support of the gospel among themselves in form of support of pastor, building meetinghouses and places of prayer. But for the two or three years past they have done more, and that more spontaneously. What they have contributed for salary has been given with little or no effort on my part and with a seeming conviction on the part of most of the contributors that it �Hitchcock’s Report 1851 — 3 was money well laid out so far as their own profit was concerned. But the salary of the pastor is hut a small part of the burden im­ posed upon them for the sake of supporting religion at home. A still greater burden has been the erection of planes of worship. And this they have done much in the same way as the same work is done in the United States, from a conviction that meeting houses are required for their good, and that they could not do without them — that they would be worth to them more than they would cost, and they have laboured to get them on the same principle as they have laboured to get houses for themselves. There are now two meeting houses one of costly native material and another of stone laid up in lime mortar, completed and in use. The one has been erected by the inhabitants of Pelekunu - who all told are not more than 150 men women and children. There ( !) house is excellently finished and furnished with doors [,] glass windows - and seated with chairs instead of seats. They have ordered a church bell for the house to cost 75 or 80 dollars. The people of Moakea are now worshiping ( !) in their new stone meetinghouse 60 feet 30 - put up In lime mortar glazed - with six windows - and for which they are out of debt. They are now collecting money for shingling and lathing and plastering and finishing the house in American style. The people of Halawa who had the misfortune at the time of the great sickness to have the new house they had just got ready for roofing washed down by the Kona floods have erected another of more durable character[.] The walls are up and the roofed ( !) shingled, and all the materials are on hand for completing the building except the floor. It will when completed cost about 1000 dollars besides their own labour in procuring timber [& ] lime from the distance of 5 miles by water and &c &c. Pull half of this sum has been already paid - and the remainder will probably be forth­ coming soon. The windows in this house are 6 with 25 or 30 lights each. The building of this house has not only not been koiwali [ ] but it has been done against many cautions on our part as to the evil of beginning to build without being able to finish. In the addition to the house they have ordered a bell not to exceed 175 dollars delivered at Halawa. The People at Kalaupapa who have but recently finished a stone house - 60 by 30 feet, are now engaged in collecting funds for a new and more durable one intending to devote the old one to the use of the school. They have a bell paid for which has cost them 170 (?) dollars - They have taken hold of the work of geting ( !) a good and permanent house with a strong hand and without some sad interposition providence prevent will probably carry it through. The meeting house the Station repairing at the expense of some 1600 dollars. The people of that district principally have subscribed for the object nearly 2100. Over 100 dollars of this has been subscribed by the children of the schools in the vicinity of the station. An other ( !) pleasing evidence of an increased extension (?) of religion in the minds of the people is their building houses for prayer and conferences, of which there are no less than 7 within �Hitchcock's Report 1851 — 4 half that distance each way from the station, and which are construct­ ed for the only purpose of enabling the people of the separate neighbourhoods to meet for prayer — Some of these houses are large and commodious - and all have been put up at the expense of no little labour, As all must perceive who reflect upon the great dif­ ficulty of building at the present time. Two of these houses have been recently dedicated and it was an occasion of unfeigned joy to the people - and experience has shown, that they were not mistaken as it regards the amount of Good to be derived (?) from them. I have been more particular on this head as it illustrates most satis­ factorily to my own mind the truth that there has been among my people an advance in their appreciation of religion. And that what they do for its support is done as freely and with as little constraint or urging as perhaps in any other land. Progress in this respect is progress indeed, greater than though the amount contri­ buted had been doubled but done by constraint. There has also been progress in our (?) field in the item of general benevolence or in liberality for the need and support of the Gospel abroad, and in providing for their own poor - and cheerfully responding to the various calls which are made for their help. The statistics will show a great increase in the amount con­ tributed for these purposes the two years past and not only their pastor but many others can bear them witness this They have done what they could and done it with a ready mind. Progress also has been made in house (?) condition and do­ mestic comfort. To this I could testify with more particularity than is necessary, as my associate Mr. Dwight will doubtless more than alude to it in his account of his labours. Sufice ( !) it for me to say that our congregation on the Sabbath is composed of persons better attired than ever before, rags and dirt being now rarely met with. Civilized habits are more prevalent - attention to child­ ren more common, and furniture in houses more abundant - the wants of the people have become more numerous - as have also the means of supplying them. I should not probably hazard the truth were I to say that five fold more [has] been expended in houses - furniture, comfortable clothing and other mercenary (?) things the past two years than in the same time previous. Of the schools of course I shall not be expected to speak as those come more properly into that of Bro. Dwight [the follow­ ing interlined in pencil] and as my other cares have prevented my knowing their condition. I wish merely to say in reference to them, that they must be in a most prosperous state if such a state is always the result of an unwavering devotion to their interest, of zeal well nigh enthusiastic - Pains indefatigable and of labour inormous. ( !) I can only add that progress has been made in the way of getting our support independent of the Board. In accordance with the sense of the Mission on the subject last general meeting, what �Hitchcock's Report 1851 — 5 little we have been able to get aside from our salary has been as judicially expended for liquidation of our debt as we know how. The herd on our return from Gen Meeting was found not large enough to give to each the number specified in the resolution - Still every dollars worth were sold and the avails sent in to the depository The balance of the herd ------------------------------- consisting only of 3 cows, 2 steers, 3 calves a year old and 3 unweaned we have appropriated to ourselves. [9 words crossed out] I had intend­ ed to have applied for dismission from the Board on the basis of the G M (?) Resolution as early as last january ( !), but as it be­ came indispensably necessary to repair our meeting house as soon as possible - and as I feared the people would be unable to raise the necessary funds over and above my salary, I was constrained to delay the application a year longer. I have written to have our present relation to the Board cease on the first of January next. I have taken this step both (?) realizing some of the danger -which it exposes my family to want. Especially as I am so infirm and my companion [in] so poor health. ------------- its being necessary the comming ( !) year for our family to Reside on the mountain at our outstation according to the advice of the physician on account of Mrs. H ill health, and as the house there needs repair before we can be comfortable or even safe there it becomes necessary to ask a grant of 100 dollars to be used as much of it as shall be needed in rendering the dwell­ ing there a proper one for invalids. I will conclude by a few statistics �Hitchcock's Report 1851 Received the past two years on examination 90 Whole num ber received on examination 1490 Whole number received from other churches 30 Whole number dismissed to other churches 50 Deseased (!)the past two years 68 Church members excluded desceased ( !) 0 Whole number --------- desceased ( !) in good standing 303 Whole Excluded the past 2 years 68 Remain excluded 68 Now in Regular Standing 1101 Decrease in the two years 28 Children baptized the past two years 30 35 Whole number children Baptized 671 Marriages the past year (no figure) Population of the field (no figure) Proportion who attend public worship 3/8 Stand Propounded for admission to the church 33 Contributions To salary the two years past To monthly concert from May 49 to Jan 50 To do for the year 1850 To do from Jany 51 to April inclusive Whole amount since last gen meeting To Mr. Bonds meetinghouse To the Poor To David Hitchcock Whole Amount contributed two years past in cash Expended In meeting houses Labour and cash Whole amount done for religious purposes 903.00 280.00 73 6 .00 276.00 1212.00 100.00 115.00 150.00 $ 2366.00 1300.00 3666.00 [[The following in pencil]] An other pleasing feature of Progress in religion, was the prompt and universal response given by government to observe a day of fasting and prayer in view of our difficulties with france ( !) and of the cholera then expected to visit our shores - The appoint­ ment arrived only 2 days before the time for meeting - yet not a but what assembled on that occasion for prayer - And the meeting at the Station was unusually great and solemn a grati­ fying sign of simple faith in the efficacy of prayer and in the power and willingness of God to save. An event which has not a little aggravated her illness was the departure and absence of our eldest son which took place in Nov 49 for the United States. The painful suspense with which we awaited his arrival in the United States and anxiety respecting his condition there, and the trials which he has experienced there ? ? greatly the painful nervous disorder which she is now suffering. �Abstract [Mr. Dwight, 1852] The writer has gone to housekeeping - Has had health & strength. Has preached 106 times on Sundays & 90 times on week days. Has visited the sick & taken for medicine $13.06 Expended $21.00 Has married 50 couple Has taught the schools which are generally improving Has reported (?) the completion of a fine new station school house at an. expense of to all parties $1357.63 3 sewing schools in operation with 50 scholars who have made 261 garments & earned $138.00 A great lack of school hooks Catholic schools increased on the whole Deaths on Molokai Births Excess of births 127 135 8 A considerable improvement in dwelling houses & general ad­ vancement in other temporal respects. Books Bible Miss (?) [On. back! (?) sold " " Mr. Dwight's Abstract report. 1852 $20.25 124.75 $145.00 �[Hitchcock] Report of Kaluaaha Station 1852 The missionaries have, as in all former reports, to speak of Mercies and Afflictions - The past year has been more than its predecessors frought with the latter. Mrs. H who was very unwell at the last general meeting is still so, and more so than- then. According to the advice of her physicians - as soon as we could after General meeting we took up our abode at Kalae. The pure cold and invigorating atmosphere and the greater freedom from care which we found there quickly wrought a sensible improvement in her health and could we have remained there as we intended to do the year around it would have done her an essential benefit. But we were forced to leave after having been there only 3 months - unusual amount of labour and care just previous to our leaving brought on the recurrence of her complaint and she has been getting on the whole more feeble ever since. In the month of October business called me me (sic) to Honolulu and being very unwell when I left home when I arrived here I was so ill as to prevent my return for several weeks during which time Mrs. H came. And had the benefit of medical advice which has helped retard the rapid progress her disease was then making. N o radical influence for the better seems as yet to have been exercised over her complaints. And she is n ow in a very feeble condition. My own health most of the year has been very bad. Living at Kalae and having to attend to the station at the same time was more than my strength could bear. This together with a more than ordinary share of trouble of mind at the time overcame and threw me on a sick bed. From the affects of this sickness I have not as yet recovered. �Hitchcock - Kaluaaha - Molokai - 1852 2 V The above being the case my labours the past year have been n i greatly interrupted and dim^shed; and of course then results proportionally small. The General Superintendence of the church preaching twice on the Sabbath and once or twice on week days together with an attendance on the adult Sabbath school occasionally visiting the sick and conversing with the people in their houses is all I have been able to do as a missionary since our last General Meeting. I have administered the Sacrament 12 times during the year. I have also preached ocasionally ( !) at Hoonouli and Halawa. Our field accordingly has the appearance of partial and de­ fective cultivation. The plants are not dead but feeble - the fruit has not been blasted but stinted and noxious vegetation and its ever abundant fruit have not run (?) out, and over come the good but have greatly injured its growth. The past year must be written d own as one of great Spiritual declension in the church. This is proved by our greatly diminished congregation on the Sabbath, and the greater diminution of week day meetings. As well as by the fact that during the year there have [been] no especial attention or awakening among those ouf of the church. Most of those received to the church during the year have been the hopeful converts of former years. thing is the increase of contention - Another mark of the same strife and litigation for which '52 has been remarkable in comparison with its predecessors So that the impression on the mind is that religion is lamentably, though (?), blessed be God, not desperately (?) low. The evidence of its xxxx low estate exists but I forbear to say more on the point. It would be arrogant in me to suppose that this state of things �Hitchcook - 3. Kaluaaha - Molokai - 1852 is wholly or perhaps mainly owing to the inability of the pastor to do the labour which a more desireable state would have required. Other causes for the declension have existed - such as an unusual direction of the minds of the people to their temporal concerns, and the unwonted facilities which have been furnished them to grati­ fy their worldly wishes. Almost for the first time have the people of our island known/ that they were anything else than serfs - or that that ( !) they could be the bonafide proprietors of lands houses and flocks and herds - Efforts more than a year ago to awake them up to this now welcome truth were well nigh fruitless. are awake and no mistake about it. But now they And so strong is the current which the discovery has given to their thoughts and pursuits that it has been in danger of sweeping away everything else - thus re­ ligion has suffered - settling their claims to land, getting money v to pay for their titles - and and ( !) contending for them when they have been disputed have left less time for attention to the more important concerns of the soul. But [what] ever may have been the causes - the fact exists that Religion on Molokai is uncommonly low. and is a matter calling for our deep humiliation - and for our ardent prayers and exertions for its improvement. Nor is the state of religion lower than usual. But as it seems to me the moral tone of the public mind has sunk many degrees below w h ere it formerly stood. As a proof of this we have only to notice things that are now tolerated that formerly would have ex­ cited concern among the people. at ( ! ) the seasoning ( ? ) - Formerly Parents were alarmed at Ball playing - marble roling ( ! ) of their children (-) now they seem not [to] be troubled at profane swearing. Profane oaths are common. Formerly Honolulu and Lahaina pleasures �Hitchcock - Kaluaaha - Molokai 1852 4. were tabu among us of late however the tabu has been removed, and horse riding on Saturdy ( !) and other days has been fast becoming the order of the day - Formerly it was a kind of municipal law from one end of our island to the other that the young of neither set should be allowed lest to visit Lahaina and Honolulu xxx they should become exposed to and familiar with the vices of those places. But now we have no such law and our youth have unrestrained intercourse with these places and access to all the temptations which they hold out to alure them. Once the children of the schools were docile and easily kept in subjection to the teachers and regulations of the schools - Now they are men — lawyers and who is Lord over them? But the low state of morals compared with former times is more clearly seen and felt than described. with ( !) bones are pained from the fact. Social improvement. Of this much might be said. But all ray But I shall only Remark in this Report that while the people in a few instances in a very few instances, have better houses - in more instances better furniture in more abundant and in almost all instances while their clothing is better; and that while in many respects their comforts are somewhat increased; still it is seriously doubted whether the facility for obtaining this increase of comforts has not engendered an extrava­ gance - and involved them in debts which cancel to say the least, if they do overbalance the good received. Within sight of our door are 5 stores where goods have during the year past or most of it been obtained on credit - which has made it extremely easy even for penyless ( !) natives to make purchases which they would have well dispensed with had cash only been demanded. So far as our experience goes the credit system has been a curse instead of a blessing to this people, and has retarded social improvement instead of increasing it. As this however �Hitchcock - Kaluaaha - Molokai - 1852 5 is a matter of opinion I would say no more, but leave it [interlined] the matter to the decision of those who may fee better acquainted with the general effects of credit upon a poor community. See page 8 [ interlined] [page 7, this typed copy] Religious services among the people - Houses for prayer have been erected for conference and prayer in various places and not a neighbour hood on Molokai is destitute of the places (? ) where Prayer is wont to be made usually before light or at early dawn. These prayer and confer ence meetings of the people among themselves I deem one of [the] best evidences of as well as the greatest security to the purity of real piety. And while they continue to be attended as well as they are now though religion may be less vigourous at seasons it cannot expire. Beside the houses for conference and prayer which have been built by the voluntary efforts of the people, much has been done in the way of providing permanent houses of worship in most of the principle out districts. In Halawa a permanent stone edifice has been erected mostly during the past year 30 feet by 60 which is not only a great ornament to the ? valley in which it stands but which is so far as I know the first one of the kind ever built by the unaided efforts of the people at any outstation in the group. It consists of stone laid up in lime mortar, is shingled with American shingles saturated in oil lathed and plastered - has six windows with 24 lights each a Divine (?) pulpit and galery ( !) and what is an including fact the expense of the whole has been defrayed by the people of Halawa except 260 dollars con­ tributed on the day of dedication but which sum was paid for by a feast which cost the people aided more than double the amount. I am not at present informed of the cash paid for this house but it cannot be much if any less I think than 1000 dollars. �Hitchcock - 6 Kaluaaha - Molokai - 1852 At Hono uli the people have collected over 100 dollars for the purpose of completing a similar House of worship in their village while the People at Kamaloo have reroofed their house at an expense of about 70 dollars cash. At Kaunakakai a large (?) house is being constructed also one in Wailau. The House of Kaluaaha needs reroofing for this more than 2000 dollars have been subscribed and 800 dollars paid in the past year. We can but award to the people a value to the Gospel and means of grace if we judge from the willingness with which they labour t© support them. Since the last Gen meeting I have applied to the Board for a dismission on the Basis of the 7th Resolution and have been dis­ missed accordingly. But as the pecuniary circumstances of our people are much more unfavorable than when I made the application alluded to I have been constrained to ask the Prudential Committee to allow me the privileges of the mission at least for the year 52 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------. ( !) This request was regarded favourably and refered ( !) to the action of this meeting which action is expected to be refered ( !) again to them for their sanction. I have therefore to request you to continue my privileges as a missionary - during the year 52 in order to enable my people to repair our house of worship. It needs reroofing immediately as the rains are already greatly injuring the walls and to be delayed another rainy season would greatly endanger it. The people cannot raise money enough for the purpose in addition to my support - what I want is to use (?) out of the funds of the Board this year that what they pay for my support may be devoted to that object. I submit it for your consideration. On account of our continued ill health we were advised by some of our brethren and by our physicians to visit as soon as possible the U.S.A. In a letter Dated Dec 10-51 I applied to the prudential �Hitchcock - 7 Kaluaaha - Molokai - 1852 committee for permission to make such a visit which letter has been responded to in the kindest and most favorable manner. But as I cannot think of leaving my people without another to take my place in taking charge of them during our absence I would beg the mission to allow Mr. C.B. .Andrews to return to his old station. Should he do so the obstacle to our going so far as our people are concerned [would be removed]. I should have no anxiety in leaving them in the care of one who I am happy their to know has been so devoted to xxx welfare and whom they all love with so strong an affection. I have petitions signed by a great number of church members requesting him to be allowed to return to Molokai. In fact they have given him a loud and sincere call from one end of the island to the other. Will the mission acceed ( !) to their wishes, and thus put to rest the heavy anxieites of their now worn out and feeble pastor and alow ( !) him to leave them for a season feeling they are in the care of another fully able, and willing to break to them the bread of life. Our going to the U.S.A. seems now suspended upon your favour­ able reception of the petition herein presented. -------------------------------- ( ! ) The field consists of 12 congregations - Halawa, Wailau, Pelekuni, Kalaupapa, Kalae, --------- ( !) Kaluakoe - Kaunakai, Kawela, Kaluaaha, Honouli - These constitute the native meetings on the Sabbath. Mission­ ary Congregations are Kaluaaha - Hoonoule - Halawa, Pelekuu, Wailau Kalae. �Kaluaaha - Molokai Statistics of Molokai church for 1852. Admitted to the church the past year ” in all ” "by letter 1571 in all Dismissed to other churches in all Deceased past year 61 324 Remain Suspended 55 Remain in regular Standing Children "baptized the past year " 30 21 Deceased in all " 81 in all Stand propounded Contributions - past year for support of pastor 1095 41 712 43 $ 471.00 ” in cash for meetinghouses ”1809.00 ” cash at monthly concert ” 622.00 ” in all in cash past year ”2902.00 ” in Labour and materiel for meetinghouses permanent ”1000.00 at Monthly concert from 1847 to 1852 inclusive ”2498.72 ” �Mr. and. Mrs, Hitchcock both feeble during the year - so much as to render it necessary for them to relinquish for a season our labours and take a voyage of the United States as soon as convenient. No Epedimic (!)or Special sickness during the year on the other hand there have been fewer deaths and a more general state of health than usual. Efforts for the support of the gospel at home 1. for support of Pastor 2. cash Paid for meetinghouses Labour and materials for $471.50 1709.00 do 1000.00 In this estimate is not included the labour and material spent in the erection of houses for prayer and conference in several neighbourhood[s]. Contributed at the monthly concert cash $622.00 Popery Has actually gained no ground the past year. A few some 8 or ten individuals have [been] seduced by Mormonism. The church has neither diminished or increased during the past year - But its prosperity on the whole is a matter calling for gratitude to Him who has planted and thus far sustained it. General improvements have been greater perhaps than in any former year. �[S.G. Dwight's Report for 1852 & 1853] Dear Brethren of the Hawaiian Island’s Mission The close of another - - - - -- ( !) year of missionary labor, in this most fruitful field, makes my pleasing duty once more to tax your patience a few moments while briefly as may be, I recount the various incidents connected with the 5th year of my S o j o u r n among you. Some changes as you know have been made on Molokai. A new pastor has been temporarily appointed to oversee the church & it gives me no little pleasure to say that change has removed the friction that formerly cloged ( !) the wheels of labor. Soon after the separating of the Last Gen. Meeting The office of Treasurer of the School fund was at my request transfred ( !) by the Minister of Instruction to Mr. Andrews. This will make it his duty to report on the schools generally to your body. The only office I now hold in connection with schools is that of Trustee for Kaluaaha to which I was reelected in Dec. 1852 In my last report I had the pleasure of stating that a new (?), commodious school house for a Station school had been finished at an expense of about $1400.00 & was then ready for oc­ cupation. On Monday Aug 9th 1852 the school was opened with 88 Scholars 44 of each sex, & with the exception of 3 vacations of 2 weeks each has been --------- ( !) continued in operation ever since a period 37 weeks. There have been connected with this school, in that time 131 pupils of whom 2 have been expelled for bad conduct 8 have returned to their homes in other parts of the island, 3 have run away & gone to sea, 2 have been married & the remainder 116 attend it still: 24 being new ones just admitted. The School is popular. Many children desire to enter it that cannot some even from other Islands. In consequence of this desire the number of Pupils has always been larger than either the strength or ability of the teacher would justify. The branches taught In this school are English [,] reading, writing, spelling, ------- ( !) & speaking. To these 4 hours each day are devoted 2 by the female department & 2 by the male, Leav­ ing only 4 1/2 hours in which to teach the important branches of Arithmatic, Algebra, Geography, History, composition & Elocution a time entirely too short. �S. G. Dwight 1852-3 -- 2. The School is divided into two departments a Female & Male Department. The former assembling at 1/4 before 8 & continuing till Noon — The latter meeting at 12 1/2 P.M & continuing in session till before 5 [ .] This school in its native department owes no little of its efficiency to the Labors of Hooilo who has been a teacher in it from the commencement. The progress made by the Scholars In the English language has surpassed the expectations of their teacher. The pupils have read & translated the four Gospels & some chapters in the Acts of the Apostles. A few of the best scholars read the English with some readiness. At the last examination the 4 best readers were females. In all the other branches taught evident progress had been made. This was particularly true of Geography, history & Arithmatic ( !). Indeed considering the entire lack of text books & atlesses ( !) their progress in the two former was surprising. In the duties of this school the energies & strength of the writer have mainly been expended. He has however been permitted to preach o n the Sabbath 60 times to deliver during the week 25 lec­ tures to take care of the Sabbath Schools [,] to perform the last offices over the remains of 5 children & 7 adults. To unite in marriage 43 couple & to take some care of the sick — Tho his as­ sociate has relieved him from the burden of this department. It has also been his pleasant task to convey a large number of awards (?) to the people of this island & to put them in pos­ session of some hundreds of acres of land. Of the three sewing schools established on Molokai 2 years since, one only remains. One of the two was discontinued in conse­ quence of the ineficiency ( !) of the teacher [.] The second was continued on till the beginning of the present year when it died out. The third however thanks to the excellent Teacher at its head & to the efficient aid of Mrs. Andrews Is still flourishing. It contains 34 pupils. During the year there have been made in it 95 shirts, 14 pair of Pants, 5 vests, 5 Sacks, 4 quilted patchwork quilts, 3 pairs of Socks, 55 tight dresses & a number of other smaler ( !) articles. The pupils have earned for themselves $103.38. The working (?) school, as a department of the Molokai Schools has been in active operation during the year & the children have earned in it for themselves $2491.18 1/4 or about an average of $7.80 for each of the Boys who belong to it. The average number of Scholars in all the Schools of Molokai during the year has been 850 of these 28 are Roman Catholick ( !) Leaving the number of Protestant children 822. At the commencement of the year the R C had 3 schools at its close one only was in operation. �S.G. Dwight 1852-3 The deaths on Molokai during the year was 111 [.] births 102 an excess of the former of 9. 3 The The progress of the People in temporal things has been marked New & comfortable houses have been built Comforts have been multiplied. Increased Industry, frugality, & improved taste are among the cheering (?) evidences. On my Associate divolves the pleasing task of reporting the Spiritual state & benevolent efforts of the Chh of Molokai & ---( !) no doubt his report will be all that you can desire. As the People of this island/proposed voluntarily to support me I requested Messrs (?) Castle & Cooke to stop my salary from Jan 1 1853. To this request I presume they have with their usual promptness attended. The appropriation granted the last year to the writer of $100.00 has been entirely expended & the house he occupies still stands but tremblingly [ .] It needs to be thoroughly repaired & as it is absolutely necessary that It should be done soon or it will fall & as the writer has no other place in which to find a shelter for his weary head when the labors of the day are done & is quite unable to build a home now He would respectfully ask that a grant, leaving the ammount ( !) entirely to the wisdom of the Mission, might be made to repair the dwelling; Or, if they do not see fit to do this that the entire materials in the building be conveyed at a reasonable rate to him He being permitted to use them where they are till he might have means to remove them & build elsewhere (?). As the teaching in which he is engaged will not allow the writer to attend the Gen. Meet, he would respectfully submit the above report to its consideration (?) & with the earnest Prayer to the Protector of Missions, that He will bless its Deleberations ( !) & conduct it to those decissions ( !) that will tend (?) most to glorify His great Name, advance His cause in the Islands & shed abundant Mercy on each of its individual members [ .] Remain Their Affectionate Fellow laborer Samuel G. Dwight (On back): To the Moderater ( !) of the General Meeting Honolulu (Also): S. G. Dwights Report for 1852 & 3 Rec'd May 7th 1853 Read May 18, 1533 (1853) by Mr. Cooke �Report of the Church on Molokai May, 1853 [C.B. Andrews] 1st The report of the church of Molokai is very imperfect, owing to Mr. Hitchcock's leaving no data of affairs there while he su­ perintended them. When he sailed for the States he transferred the care of the church to me, but with no record of how many mem­ bers he had received into or dismissed from the church, - how many deaths had occurred, or children baptized. On this account no accurate statistics of the church could be made out. There was a very large addition to the church in July last, & many children baptized. & Religion has held its former ground,/I think, has advanced somewhat on most parts of the island during the year. There seems to be a contin u ed development of Christian character, more than would naturally be expected of people brought up in heathenism. This appears From attendance upon public & social worship. Never has this attendance been more general on Molokai, than during the past year. Nearly all of the people go to meeting on the Sabbath, & most of the church members are steady attendants at the smaller meetings for prayer & conferrence ( !) which are held almost daily in each village. I have wished sometimes that they would not have so many meetings, & indeed once tried to break up the appearently ( !) least important & least attended, but It raised such a breeze among the good people, that I was glad to get out of the dif­ ficulty, & let them have as many meetings as they wanted. Reflection since upon this point has convinced me that they are right. Hawaiians have few books & no taste for reading. By personal contact only of mind with living mind do they get any Intellectual activity or awakening of thought. Oral intercom­ munications at meetings supply with them the place of our books, newspapers, lectures, debates, & similar interchange of thoughts among our race. It is to them the levee, reading-room, & news­ paper depot of other nations. Nay In some sense, meetings are the Forum & Arcopagus of Hawaiians. Meetings they will have, & let them have them. There has been unusual religious engagedness in some of our villages. Our good old patriarch Job, who for the last few years has been our main prompter in building meeting & praying houses, conceived that the engagedness in religion was not symmetrical with the number of meeting houses, & accordingly took up the work of an evangelist, going from house to house & village to village, & doing the work that their pastor wanted to do. The effects of his ministrations were soon manifest, in increased attendance upon &, interest in the means of grace. Christians became more awakened, & some old & stiff irreligious ones professedly turned to the Lord. Christian development appears 2ndly In their Benevolent efforts. The contributions given & expended in buying cloth for the needy �2 Kaluaaha 1853 C.B. Andrews have amounted to nearly 100 dollars during the past year. is given to the agency carried on mostly by the women. This Our 2nd System of Benevolent effort is the Mon. Concert. Almost all church members & many others contribute to this. The contributions vary from a quarter to a penny's worth, but a rial each is a standard gift by the men & a four pence by the women monthly. The system has become stereotyped throughout the island & the average receipts from these contributions exceeds 50 dollars pr. month. When Kekela came & presented Micronesia & it's ( !) mission to us, it so stirred up the interest of the people that, although I was absent, a special contribution of 96 dollars & a quantity of clothing was given for that mission. When a certain luna brought me the Micronesian gift from a village where they have contributed largely each month, I told him "this is the same as Mon. Con. money. You have given so well heretofore that we will not take up a Contribution among you next month." He stared at me a little & then answered, "Nay, this is an entirely different thing. It is a Kokua Kau e, a special Aloha to Micronesia, called forth by what Ke Kela related from actual observation there. He will give next month as usual." True to his word, a contribution a little larger than usual was given the next month. We had a special pilikia at the Station which I feared would involve our Mon. Con. fund in bankruptcy. Immediately after last General Meeting Mr. H. began to reroof the meetinghouse with shingles before the money subscribed for the purpose was paid in. Their treasury failing, he with the Session of lunas agreed to lay hands on the Mon. Con. money, & replace it as subscriptions were paid in. But the outgoes for repairs proved to be many hundred dollars more than they had anticipated, & the money realized much less than the Subscriptions. When this new call came from the Marquessas ( !), we found no way appearing by which to recover 600 dollars of Mon. Con. funds from the Meeting House. Nearly all the available subscriptions were paid in, A few Sabbaths ago, with a heavy heart I presented the compound pilikia, of our meeting House being in debt to the fund which was given for sending the gospel to the isles of the ocean, thus turning into this house what was both given & now called for, to send the gospel to the Marquessas. The people awaked up, & as with the heart of one man, although they had given, some beyond their ability before, they made a levy upon themselves, the men giving $1.00 each, the women from a quarter to a half dollar each, & the children from a 4th (?) to l/2 a dollars each. Streams of money have been coming in from the drops & rills of the multitude while their pastor had only to receive & note it down. I come now with $360.00 in hand out of the $593.00 with the express injunction of the people, "Send teachers with it to Fatuhiva." �Kaluaaha 1853 C.B. Andrews 3. The remainder we hope to refund at some future day. This was the amount of Mon. Con. receipts previous to Nov. 1853, all which was invested in the meeting house by Mr. Hitchcock, before sailing to the States. The contributions have amounted, to 767.75 cts in all, which I have paid over to the H.M. Soc. treasurer. 3rdly The development of Christian character appears F r om their Increasing expendiature ( !) for building churches. In some villages where they have built before with Stone laid in clay, they are collecting funds for building better & more comely buildings. I did not find this out until lately & in some places disceraged ( !) their prosecuting such a purpose, being already comfortably supplied, & having other & greater necessities. In the poorest & most barren district of the island, the people have completed a stone building 30 ft long, have plastered it neatly within & without, & by dint of perseverance have finished it with windoes ( !) & doors, all, paid for. In one of the deep vallies ( !) on the windward side of the island where only 150 people live, they are struggling to build a framed Meeting house & shingle it, which will cost them 500 dollars before completion. At Kaluaaha, the Mission Station, the people have taxed them­ selves heavily to shingle their meeting house. Having subscribed largely when money for their produce was abundant, & paying those Subscriptions this year when the same brought little, the reroofing of their house has been a heavy draft upon them. But they have met the pilikia cheerfully, manfully, nobly. I hear them record, that of their ability & more than their ability, they have given for the House of God, & that his Tabernacle may abide among them. There has little comparatively been given for their pastor's support. According to a rule established by Mr. Hitchcock they are to give for this object, quarterly previous to each sacrament. The amount given in the two quarters already past is 166 dollars, which will probably be the measure for the next half of this year. To this report thus presented let me add a few items by way of Summary. 1s t False religions, on Molokai, save old pagan superstitions are nearly defunct. Romanism has scarcely a worshiper ( !) left there. It has but one school, with fewer scholars than the Govt demands & it is kept by a protestant, so that it exists only by sufferance from both sides. Mormonism made some shew a year ago, but has dwindled to nearly nothing, so that I pity & show kindness to the Mormon who dwells among us, as he Is a modest, amiable retiring man, but firm in his delusion. He & his wife started an English School among us, but it has long ago died a natural death. ndly 2. Industry & the price of labor & produce is decidedly increas­ ing. Since Kuleanas have come into allodial possession, few hired �Kaluaaha 1853 C.B. Andrews laborers can be heard of. 4. All have enough to do at home. 3rdly The progress of Refinement does not keep pace with that of Religion. With some exceptions they live in the same dirty houses that they ever have inhabited, wear their cloths as dirty except on Sundays to meeting, - their heads are as full of vermin & Kuaaina(,) women & children can still be seen picking & eating from each other's heads. There are not three native families on Molokai but what prefer to eat from the calibash ( !) with their fingers rather than endure the luxury of using, or the labor of washing plates, knives, & forks. Habit is second nature & upon many generations yet to come will these habits be enstamped. 4th Schools on Molokai exhibit progress & not retrogress in know­ ledge, discipline, & efficiency in educating the whole of the rising population. The teachers are all paid. No deb[t]s lie on hand for educational purposes, although the schools have been in opera­ tion during the year. Statistics will be found in the report of the Minister of Instruction. I will add to that report, that since it was made out, the catholic school as such distinctively, is extinct, there being not a Catholic school teacher on Molokai, & but few people who call themselves catholics. Work, industral (!) & proffitable ( !) labor is one part of practice in all of our schools, & there is an evident increase of industry in the rising generation, compared with that of those preceeding them. In conclusion, I would remark, that the state of Religion & Education among the people of Molokai is not discouraging. Vice is decreasing, & immorality yielding to better influences. The stupor of dark mindness ( !) is breaking, the vis inertiae yield­ ing to effort. There is no reason sufficient to justify the dropping effort, or for being discouraged in trying to invest this people with an atmosphere of purity, in place of the pollutions which have been breathed too long. If the Lord build the house the workman laboreth not in vain. "He that goeth forth & weeping beareth precious seed shall doubt­ less return with joy bringing his sheaves with him." C. B. Andrews �[C .B. Andrews] Report of Molokai. Church, During the years 1853. &, 4. The past year in its main features has not been marked differently from that preceeding. Religious interest has been much the same, in it's ( !) various developments of attendance upon public worship, benevolence, morality & education. The attendance upon public worship continues steady & upon the Sabbath is almost universal. On Sabbath morning, almost all of the people on Molokai go to meeting. Fewer attend in the afternoon, but as the larger congregations break up into little neighborhood meetings, there is again a third leaving the house & convening more informally to confer upon religious things. Then comes the endless series of little meetings through the w eek, some mixed, some for females only, but all considered by natives, as indispensible. I think also that bible reading both publicly & privately has increased upon the island. In the absence of the printed "ai o Ka la" , there has been a steady call for testaments, & for bibles & I hear frequently of the use of them. In connection with attendance upon public worship, church building is intimate. Our station meting ( !) house is completed, & through much pilikia is almost paid for. A few dollars only are owing to the masons who plastered the house. There is a debt however of 248 dolls for Mon. Con. money used by Mr. Hitchcock to pay for demands on the house when the treasury was empty. To meet this are the remains of the old subscription which if all paid would nearly cover it. But to meet the failure thereof, there are several cattle handed over on subscription & their increase will ultimately cover the debt. In Wailau a deep valley on the windward, the frame shingled & clapboarded building which the inhabitants determined in 1852 so heroically to put up, is completed & only 133 dollars are owing for it. This they hope to pay for in the next month, without calling upon their brethren at Lahaina to report church building on Molokai. It rises like a beautiful gem on an ascent in the green valley contrasting strongly with the thatch that surrounds it. The meeting house roof at Kalaupapa where the people have a bell has fallen down. The event was I believe a joyful one, for now they have resolved to put up a handsome stone building, laid up in lime mortar, instead of their present walls laid in mud. They asked me when consulting about rebuilding, if they could not call upon hoahanaus [fellow professors of religion] who were lanakila [strong] elsewhere, to help them. I answered that such calling might bring a little, but not half as much �C.B. Andrews Molokai Church 1853-54 2. as the cost of getting it. Bu t if they would call to the ground it would answer bountifully. If each man would cultivate a small patch of potatoes extra for their luakini [church] & each woman would make a set of sleeping kapa for the same purpose, their luakini would be com­ pleted & money left in the treasury. It took with enthusiasm, & now many of their kapas are ready for sale, & their potatoes for the meeting house are growing. An interesting event occurred last summer in one of the last holds of popery at Kalae. Twenty eight of them turned from Ro­ manism to the pono [right] & their first labor was to build a place for meeting, a house of prayer, which I was invited to consecrate. So thorough was their abandonment of popery, & the work of grace there, that six have lately been admitted to the church from that place. The people at Mapulehu near the Station, have felt themselves constrained to build a stone synagogue in place of their thatch house. A s the work was progressing their thatch house blew down which has stimulated their work of building, & they hope soon to meet in their new house. Church building on Molokai seems to have become a hobby, which the people ride the harder for having a little cold water thrown onto their projects. In connection with this topic I would say, that many have given good Hawaiian evidence of a change of heart. With great trembling the pastor has received into the church 260 since 1853 commenced besides restoring from 20 to 30 sus­ pended church members. 20 (?) have been suspended. The benevolent efforts of the people have not been eaqual ( !) to that of former years, but I have rather hoped, It was In con­ sequence of so much of their efforts being taken up at present in building meeting houses. From May of last year until Jan. of the present, $269.00 w e r e given to the Mon. Con. fund, & from Jan. to May, 1854 in­ clusive, $211.00. During 1853 $364.31 cts were given for Salary. Nearly $200.00 have been given for the same object the present year thus far. Another bell has been bought & now calls the people of Halawa to church, which is the 3rd now on the island, at an average cost of $180.00 [or $150? ] each. I cannot estimate the amount expended for religious purposes on Molokai during the year not being able to collect the amount given to different objects. The morality of religion is a test of it's ( !) genuineness in any place. With this for our guide religion for Molokai would suffer severely from criticism. There is a great deal of adultery on the island. I do not know whether it has increased in fre­ �Molokai Church 1853-54 C.B. Andrews 3. quency, or whether, what has always existed has gathered bold­ ness. Young men & girls both in, & hoping to get into the church, have had their guilt brought to light by it's ( !) natural con­ sequences. I have had occasion to go often during the past year & stay at out places on the island, & have had my heart pained in ferreting out this hewa [evil], & having it show itself even in church lunas. Sometimes I think there is no principle among them. All is outside show. I dare not confide in any one whose circumstances are in any respect liable to bring suspicion upon him. I have found too, one source of trust in finding out hihias [causes of trouble] has failed. The lunas themselves instead of bringing forward all cases of immorality to be sessioned, bring forward only such as cannot be conceiled ( !). I fear my brethren may find similar evil in their board of council, & perhaps a debth ( !) of immorality beneath the outside appearance of their members, such as they do not now anticipate. Stealing is the sin of the land next succeeding adultery. There is too little concience ( !) even among professedly religious natives upon this subject. This is however only a branch of an­ other sin viz. Hoopunipuni [deceitfulness] in all it's ( !) forms. Prevarication, misrepresentation & wicked deceiving are among the most rife of evils both in & out of our church, & it seems as if preaching would never touch the evil. It Is one of the sins that the law, except in case of per­ jury, does not touch. In peacebleness ( !) of living, I think there has been an improvement on Molokai during the past year. There has been but little of litigation, & no quarreling that I have known on the island. We have no rum drinking, save by a foreigner & half breed native who take a spree occasionally at Lahaina, & a most strict survellance ( !) develops but little use of tobacco among us. But an oddity has developed itself among us. About the beginning of the year, some one from Oahu, & at the same time one from Hawaii introduced tatooing among the Kuaainas [people of back country], & it took like tinder. Before many weeks were past, many hundred were tattooed more or less. I should like to know if this mania was confined to Molokai. Education as far as I could judge, Is about as it has been years past, save that there are fewer in comparison on the a.b. c. list, or rather, scholars read sooner than they did in the schools. The schools were suspended during the 3rd quarter of 1853 for lack of funds. �Molokai Church 1853-54 C.B. Andrews 4. Mormonism has gained some ground appearently ( !) on Molokai during the year, but I thing ( !) the gain has been trifling. They have made most strenuous efforts in prosolyting ( !), & boasted that they would soon subvert all our foundations. A French priest Gregory came & made a demonstration last month, but all of his professed followers collected from all the island made a sorry show, & proclaimed them to be nearly defunct. Another item of interest is the progress of industry. This on most parts of the island has been & is appearant ( !) for work is becoming the order of the day with most natives, whereas it was only an occasional matter in past years. The people are beginning to feel that the(y) must work to meet their increasing expendiature ( !). Especially is industry man­ ifest among the school children. The system of working begun many years ago among them, is becoming stereotyped among them as their greatest source of gain. The children at constant labor each day is my greatest encouragement for the future of Molokai. The health of our people has been usually good the past year. The besom of destruction which has swept Oahu of thousands, has not come nigh us. We have seen & heard of it at a distance but have been kept therefrom. I record it with deep thankfulness to God who has preserved us from the scourge. C . B . Andrews �[Kaluaaha - Dwight] [1854] To the Sandwich Island Mission Dear Brethren The close of another missionary year makes it my duty to lay before you a brief account of the labors, trials, changes & blessings that have left their traces upon the writer during the sixth year spent on the island of Molokai. Health & strength have been granted most abundantly by the Master to his servant, while mingled with some severe trials, his cup has been made to overflow with many unmerited blessings. So that in reviewing the year he can, like Samuel of old erect his pillar, & tell how truly the Lord hath been his Helper. In consequence of the fact that some [of] his Brethren in the mission felt bound to censure severely his conduct towards females, with the hope of removing this source of contention & also from the hopeless­ ness of ever again feeling towards an intellectual & refined female those sentiments which she would have a right to demand & without the exercise of which towards her she could not be happy as a wife, he resolved, after a severe struggle, to take a w ife from among the people for whom he was laboring. In carrying out this purpose he became engaged a year ago last April to a young woman connected with the English school. Circumstances beyond his control prevented the marriage till March 1854 when he was by the Rev. C. B. Andrews united to Anna only daughter of Mahoe of Mapulehu. Labors. The writer has been permitted to preach the Gospel during the year now past to attentive & often apparently interested congrega­ tions. The number of sermons preached during the year has been 75 The number of week day lectures 54. The Sick Since Mr Andrews has been stationed on Molokai the care of the sick has largely devolved upon him. Tho’ frequently when called upon, and especially during Mr As absences from the station it has been the writers priviledge ( !) to administer mentally & phisically ( !) to the sick & dying About 85 cases of sickness during the year have been under his care. Marriages During the past year the writer has performed the marriage ceremony for 41 couple. Eight of the parties had been members of the English school Among those married 2 were foreigners. The School. The English & Native school now completing its second year has absorbed the most of the time & strength of the writer. It has prospered greatly during the year. The pupils have, with a very few sad exceptions, been attentive, obedient, punctual in their attendance, &, as a consequence, made very considerable progress in the various branches in which they are instructed. The school has been in Session 45 weeks & there have been connected with the school during that time 64 female & 63 male pupils in all 127. �Molokai - Dwight - 1854 2. Of these 2 entered Lahainaluna in June last 2 are employed as teachers on Molokai 21 were dismissed at their own request 6 entered Mr s . Andrews' school, 9 were married, 2 have died, 3 ran away, 2 of them to go to sea, & 4 were expelled for bad conduct: Leaving in the school at this date 37 females & 41 males In all 78 pupils. The sewing school now completing its 4th year has been in success­ ful operation Commenced 4 years ago with 11 pupils it has gone on gradually increasing in numbers & efficiency. It now numbers 41 pupils who are daily instructed by two who were taught themselves to ply the needle in this school. Prom the commencement 92 have in it been instruc­ ted in this truly feminine accomplishment During this year the girls have earned ” " ” " Boys of Eng. School $168.06 394.37 $562.43 of nearly $5.00 each. In the School described above the writer spends very nearly 42 hours each week He is there from about 7 3/4 A.M. to 5 1/4 P.M. except an interval of about 20 minutes at noon Besides this translating & prepar­ ing materials occupies some 10 hours more. Of the other Schools on Molokai it will doubtless be the pleasing task of my associate to present a statement. Permit me to say they stand in advance of most of the schools of the same class on the other islands & with each a working school is connected in which about $2400.00 have been earned by the children. There is here as well as elsewhere a steady decrease among the children in the schools The rate of it being about 40 per Annum Since my connection with the schools the 1000 scholars has become 800 & this process is not yet stayed. Frequent testimonials are given of the benevolence of the people of Molokai. Not only is this seen in their contributing of their means to foreign objects; but also in their cheerfully & promptly assisting each other in their troubles thus fulfilling the law of Christ & bear­ ing one anothers burdens. Occasionally too, some unmistakable sign of advancement in the graces of the Christian, will be exhibited by them & this will throw its cheering influence around us & make us rejoicingly to see that here the years labors have not been altogether in vain in the Lord; but that the seed sown has in some cases fallen on good ground & is springing up & bearing its fragrant blossoms. But as this department belongs to another, the writer may not tarry in it. The intelligence, enterprise, foresight & industry of the Molokai people have increased during the year Several very nice houses have been erected, & Several more a [re] in the process of being erected. Quite a number of natives own cattle & several make very good butter It is pleasing to notice that the taste of the people is improving & that striking incongruities in personal appearance are less & less common. �Molokai - Dwight 1854 In addition to the labors already innumerated It has been the writers priviledge ( !) to protect the poor & friendless from the oppressions of the powerful To put a considerable number of acres of land into the hands of the natives and to put a large number of Land Commission awards into the hands of their owners. In these various labors the year under review has passed swiftly away having left behind its indestructible record & its various waves of influence to spread over the current of time & to bury themselves in the vast ocean of Eternity. Now while still aiming after higher attainments in holiness, a greater disregard of self & sublunary things, a more complete devoted ness to the work, whatever it may be, which the Lord may give him in the future, the writer, with sentiments of affection & fraternal regard towards his brethren generally, would subscribe himself. The Missions servant in the Lord Samuel G. Dwight �Report of Molokai Church from May 1854 to May 1855. [C.B. Andrews] There has been a sameness of character about this church during the past year. Our history during this period has been varied by few specialities. Therefore this report will be short. The special religious engagedness felt on this island the year previous has declined. It is not appearent ( !) that active vital piety became less, but that special desire of persons out of the church, to enter it & of the lunas to induct them therein, so often seen at these islands, lies dormant here, now. The immediate occasion of this was our sifting the practise of tobacco-smoking, a practice abjured in our covenant. The accusation came frequently to our ears that all of Molokai church, smoked most hypocritically in secret. Accordingly in a meeting of the sessions, the inquiry was started, how much of this was true & how much, slander. The idea was presented in a strong light to the lunas, & by them promulgated throughout the church, that the guilt of hypocrisy & deceit in smoking secretly was far greater than any wrong "per se" in the use of tobacco. In some places this was frankly acknowledged by all of the smokers rising & publicly telling their practice. In other places less ingenuous the lunas made shrewd guesses who did smoke, from the smell of the drug in their houses, clothes, & their breath. The disclosures showed that one quarter, & in some villages one half of the members of the church secretly smoked tobacco. Some who had been admitted since Mr. Hitchcock's absence, & many previously admitted to the church by him, said that they never stopped the use of tobacco when they entered the church, but the very day that they vowed to the Lord, "aole makou e puhi hou i kabaka" [we will not smoke tobacco again ] , they returned & deliberately smoked. As the pastor felt not called upon to dis­ cipline them, for smoking, w h e n by the very act of confession they refrained from the greater sin of hypocrisy, the propriety of coming to the table of the Lord was left to their own conceinces ( !), while they continued to break their covenant vows. In consequence, the communion in one or two places is very thinly attended, where one half of the church smoked tobacco, they understanding however, that there is no formal action against them, & their abstaining from the Sacrament is voluntary. Those who were propounded before the inquiry began, have been received, but as there was such manifest heartlessness & low views of vows to God there have been few recent applications for church membership & these have been postponed. This state of things has made little difference in the gen­ eral attendance upon religious meetings. It is in the aggregate not much less according to the population than i n past year. Almost all the people of Molokai attend meeting & have family prayers. �Molokai Church C.B. Andrews 2. Their outlays for religious purposes have not greatly dim­ inished. Meeting house building continues a hobby among the people. Several unfinished ones have been completed, others are progressing, & preparations are making to build others. It would be impossible to state how much had been expended on meeting houses & school houses on Molokai during the last year. The amount all told cannot be less than two thousand dollars. The people paid on the salary of their pastor during 1854, about 450 dollars(.) The amount of contributions to the Mon. Con. during the last 11. months has been $477. 14 cts(.) These three objects, Minister’s salary, Meeting house or "church erection", & Monthly Concert for sending the gospel to the heathen have been the three objects of collection & expendiature ( !) for religious purposes on Molokai (.) Mormonism & popery have not figured among us the past year. They appear like pagan & pope as represented by Bunyan, "grind­ ing" (?) against true religion for lack of other power. The strongest enemy now appearing against religion & it's ( !) pros­ perity among us is a Spirit of worldliness & money making which seems to absorb the minds of all classes. I was expecting to attend the meeting of the Association untill ( !) I heard that both vacancies in the stations heretofore occupied were provided for, & as I am not on any standing committees, my presence there would be of little consequence. Fully confiding in the wisdom which we trust, will be granted from on high to guide your deliberations I remain Yours Truly C. B. Andrews �Kaluaaha May 20 1855 [Hitchcock] Dear Brethren of the Mission. I am sorry that I am not to I had anticipated much pleasure after our long separation. But to the rough usage of the ocean be with you at this Annal ( !) meeting. in meeting you my dear fellow labours ( !) I dare not expose my very feeble health especially in a small Hawaiian. vessel. I have made you as good a Report in my letter to Bro Lyons which I have requested him to read to you as my poor pooniuniu (dizzy) head will allow - The staggers contracted on the Ocean pearl abide [with] me yet Especially should I like to be present at the anual ( !) meeting of The Hawaiian Missionary Society, an institution I and my people feel a deep interest [in] . I do hope that the annal ( I) meeting will be held in the King's Chapel, and at least one whole day and evening given to it in which both foreigners and natives shall take part. The mis­ sionary meeting held in the meeting house - the general meeting of 52 gave a wonderful impulse to the cause among our people. May I not re­ quest you to hold such a meeting again. The business and the speech es of the Society should be done in the native language as much as the the ( !) speeches in the Legislature as it seems to me, and it looks like a misnomer to call it a Hawaiian Missionary Society when none but foreigners have the transaction of its affairs. I suppose that no small part of the funds have been received from natives - I hope my people will do considerable - and would like to have them represented in the Society. They have chosen Kaluna the present chairman of the Legisla­ ture as their delegate and I hope there will be such arrangements of the anual ( !) meetings as will enable him and others to take a part if they desire to do so. It may have been more correct to have made this requests ( !) to the propur ( !) officers of the Society, But I write to the association to save writing so many letters. As to the condition of Molokai church Mr. Andrews will no doubt Report you in due form. I am happy to say that my dear people gave us a most hearty and joyful home welcome, and have done all they well could to show the sincerity of their aloha. The various meetings which on our return I found very thinly at­ tended are filling up and every thing ( !) but my ill health seems to indicate a growing and prosperous state of our church. I suppose the subject of Mr. Andrews Location will come up before the association. You will learn from him that he had. the intention of getting his support by teaching English. We could not ask for an as­ sociate at the expense of either the Board of the people after support­ ing us, yet nothing would be more agreeable to us than there ( !) society and what help bro A can render without damaging or interfering with his other business. We should deprecate the loss of there ( !) society very much should they be removed. And the more so as they �Letter to Brethren - Hitchcock 2. reciprocate our desires and have no wish to remove, but desire to stay. I hope they will he allowed to do so - Mr. A has expressed h i s willing­ ness to visit those places which I cannot - This will he a great fa­ vour to me and benefit to those places. Our people will make an effort to do something for a part of his support. They have resolved to let him have all they can raise beyond my salary. I feel deeply interested in the Oahu college. And I do hope that Parents of the Mission will as far as possible Educate there ( !) chil­ dren at Home rather than send them to the best colleges in the U.S.A. for tho the expense will not be much less, The advantages will be vastly greater as it seems to me. I have had experience on the subject - and had I ever so many sons to carry thro there ( ! ) education I would pre­ fer to do it here. Somehow American soil does not suit our tropical plants. They grow to ( !) fast there, and are in danger of growing out of shape and proper heighth and of bearing less fruit than do those which are suffered to grow and take root in there ( !) native soil The root will be more healthy - and the whole plant more vigorous. Rexford has determined to stick by Punahou if it has a class - I am confident that there would be not the least difficulty of getting an ample Endowment of Oahu college from the United States, if such an institution can have (?) Scholars. To Educate our own children on our own soil is a favourite idea of the people there. And the Sandwich island is regarded as the pet child of the American churches - no body but feels an interest in us. Praying that the Lord may be with you and grant you a pleasant meeting I am dear Brethren yours truly H R Hitchcock [On back] Rev. H.R. Hitchcock's Report for May 1855 �[ C .B. Andrews] Report of Molokai Church from May 1855 to May 1856. It devolves upon me to give this report, as the hand of God has bereft this people of their pastor, who, it was fondly hoped by all, would b r a k e ( !) to them the bread of life for many years to come. Well does he deserve the title of father to this church. He collected it from heathenism, fed & nurtured it. He wrought with energy while his day lasted, & had the tact to transfuse an unusual degree of that energy into those under his charge. All around the island, in the veneration, felt by the people for his memory, - in their activity & benevolence, in the abondance ( !) of their labors for the cause of Christ, in their readiness & forwardness in good works, the character of our brother Hitchcock lives & will live long, I trust, although he has passed on to the better world. He rests from his labors, & his works do follow him. Thank­ ful may any of us be, who at the close of life may have the work of his hands thus established, not having lived for naught. Upon the return of our brother from the States, a new activity was observable among the people, in their attention to religious things. This continued during the Summer months until he died, & although part of it may be ascribed to unusual vivacity on ac­ count of his return among them, & to some new mesures ( !) introduced, yet a part I trust arose from genuine engagedness in spiritual things, & lasts to this day. Nay, attention to religious things is decidedly increasing in some districts. In one village on the Kolau side of the island, which I late­ ly visited, I was surprised to find the whole population in the meeting house, the sick being almost the only ones excepted. There they sat, serious & attentive, no one seeming concious ( !) of what drew them there. I held four meetings with that same congregation on that Sabbath, & at the close of each, no one seemed ready to go away. The luna from there, had told me a few weeks before, that their meetings then were fully attended, but I had not given much thought to it. As I came away ten bibles were requested besides hymn book & testaments. At the beginning of this year, being requested by some of the lunas to adopt some new means for reawakening the people, after long consideration upon what would be judicious, I proposed the following viz. That they should devote simultaniously ( !) all over the is­ land, two of their morning meetings to reading the bible & con- �C.B. Andrews Molokai 1855-56 2 . versing familiarly & informally upon it's ( !) meaning. Wednes­ day & Sabbath morning meetings were to be set apart solely to this bible reading at each place of meeting, & all were to begin alike at Genesis. We have a general luna meeting once a month, estab­ lished by Mr. Hitchcock, on the 1st Friday after each Mon. Con. One feature of this bible reading is this. As this luna meeting is attended by at least one luna from each place of meeting, all the passages noted in the bible reading as needing explananion ( !), or pohihihi [puzzling] in their familiar dis­ cussions, are marked & brought up for explanation in this body of lunas by their pastor, & it has afforded me rich enjoyment to clear up the passages in question. Thus far the measure has progressed better than my hopes, & I feel all of the time, that an Increase of bible reading among this people is safe. I have felt uneasy many times at the undue time spent by them in meet­ ings, but this manner of spending them may not be unproffitable. ( !) The questions brought up in luna meeting, & points for explication, evince a very thorough study of the ground gone over. Some Shew ingenuity & acuteness, & all are not easily answered, for Inst, "what is meant by the Spirit of God brooding upon the face of the face ( !) of the waters" in the creation? What was the mark on Cain for the murder of Abel? Were the mountains at the time of the flood only fifteen cubits higher than the level earth? When Abraham deceived, & had a "wahine manuahi" [woman ] , & otherwise sinned as is recorded. why did God make him such a punahele [favorite]? Such & other like questions shewed that their reading was not a mere conning of words. �[Abstract] Molokai There has been a sameness of character about the church during the past year. No special religious engagedness. Almost all the people of Molokai attend meeting & have family prayers. Mormonism & Popery have not figured among us the past year. They appear like Pagan & Pope as represented by Bunyan "quivering” against true religion for lack of other power. The strongest enemy now appearing against religion & its prosperity among us is a spirit of worldliness & money making, which seems to absorb the minds of all classes. For contributions see Statistics. Mr. Hitchcock received a most hearty welcome back from his former people. [On back] Molokai Abstract No. 9 �Report of the Molokai Church [Dwight] [1857] In the month of June 1856 Rev C B Andrews left this church to enter upon new duties & relations at Lahainaluna Sinch ( !) which time the Molokai church has been without a p a s tor. The meetings on the Sabbath the ordinary weekly meetings the monthly concert & session meetings have been sustained as have also the Sabbath Schools Many of the adult members of the chh & most of the children able to read have committed to memory the Ai o ka la. The average attendance at the Sabbath meetings has been about 256. The church has been favoured with two visits from Rev R. Armstrong & one from Rev Mr Pogue at each of which the Sacrament was administered & at all 115 converts were admitted to the church & 89 suspended church members restored to communion It has been necessary to cut off from the communion of the church 1 deacon 1 Luna & 5 church member[s] for various sins At the meeting of the Session Jan 16th 1857 a committee of 5 was chosen of which Committee Rev R. Armstrong was chairman to write the committee of the Haw. Miss Association asking them to procure a pastor for this church At a subsequent meeting the letter was read to the church & approved. No response has as yet been received Mrs. Hitchcock has been spared to this church & tho' in feeble health has been abundant in labors to advance its interests of piety. Her meetings have been regularly & fully attended. Since the departure of Miss Browne ( !) Mrs H has been the only foreign female resident of Molokai . The progress of the people in knowledge & virtue has not been as marked as in some former years. The unexpected death of the Rev Mr Hitchcock the being without a pastor & the efforts of 2 or 3 Mormon Elders to drag down this people have tended to retard the aparant ( !) progress tho' not sufficient to avert it entirely. Still the Holy Spirit has not left Himself without a witness in these matters as well as in the additions to the church. Industry has advanced so also have the interprise ( !) & skill of the people. The houses are improving in size & the circle of comforts & conveniances ( !) by which the people have surrounded themselves has been enlarged. No pestilence has fallen on the island tho’ the deaths have exceeded somewhat the births during the year. The contributions to benevolent objects have not generally fallen off tho the contributors have diminished in number by death & removal to other islands The statistic table made up for the 2 years last past ending May 1 1857 will show a good degree of liberality In this poor people who �Report of Molokai Ch. - Dwight - 1857 2 out of their deep poverty do more for foreign Missions than many more highly favored churches in this & other lands. The schools have "been in session 40 weeks during each of the 2 years past & have c o st the government between 15 & $1600 dollars per Annum For the last 6 months no English school has been sustained The efficiency of these schools will compare favorably with those of any other district on these islands the number in attendance is about 600 of whom more than 3/4 can read, write, sing & cifer ( !). It may be proper to state that by a resolution of the Molokai church passed June 6 1856 Rev Samuel G. Dwight was restored to fellow­ ship with them, but he fearing this action might involve this church in difficulty with her sister churches at the islands, has not availed himself of the priviledges ( !) of communion. Hoping that the Lord may overrule all the counsels of the Haw. association to His glory & the good of His church Universal the above report is respectfully submitted by Samuel G Dwight Scribe of the Session of the Molokai Church. The Mormons have decreased in number since the census number about 75 So also the R. Catholics members they now they have but 2 meeting houses & few chh �1855 to 1856 May 1 to April 30 1798 55 1856 to 1857 Ma y 1st to April 30 1866 55 92 65 34 4 365 30 133 137 1250 92 44 10 421 36 145 207 1149 Contributions from May 1855 to May 1856 Pastors Foreign Church Church Other Support Miss Erec Erec Objects & Mr H's Cash Materials at Coat Price $805.18 $335.00 $1774.05 #615.00 #230.00 " " 1856 to " 1857 297.26 417.85 1697.06 1590.50 103.43 [On b ack]: Report of Molokai C h . By Mr. Dwi g h t 1857 34 56 About members 1 7 45 | are |missing Total $3759.23 4106.10 �Whole No of members on Profession Whole no of Members on Certificate Whole no past year Profession Whole no past year on Certificate Total past year No Dis to other Churches Dis past year Whole no. Dis Dead Past year Excluded past year Remain Excluded No. in Reg. Standing Whole No of Children Baptized Children Bap past yrs. Married �A. O. FORBES Abstract of report of Molokai Church 1858 - 9 The duties at Molokai were entered upon with many misgivings, yet, we trust with some degree of faith, & a feeling of entire dependence upon the strong arm of the Lord of Hosts. In October of 1858, within a month from the time of landing upon these shores the labors of the station at Molokai were commenced. the language was rapidly learned, so that by the early part of November, I was able to preach & converse with some degree of fluency. Things were in much confusion. running to weeds. The flock had run wild. The field was Yet, on the whole, the aspect of matters was more encouraging than was expected. The people warmly welcomed their new pastor, & we cannot hut feel that the Lord has helped us. The old, steadfast, leading mem­ bers of the church are rapidly passing away, & the generation now rising up are not what their fathers were. Their wildness & in­ difference to religion as a class, cause many painful hours to the missionary. Yet we have many excellent men & women. Some who are truly pillars in the church Our good Bro. Hitchcock's labors on this island are seen to follow him, & he being dead, yet speaks on Molokai. As yet, I have been slow in admitting to the church. The usual labors of the Sabbath have been attended to - viz - Sabbath School & two sermons, with a Bible class during the inter­ mission. § regular, The audiences increase in numbers, & are orderly, attentive, there are encouraging signs of increasing interest in religious things. Other weekly labors consist of a Wednesday after­ noon Lecture & prayer meeting & a Bible class on Saturday for the Deacons & Teachers. The monthly [concert] is observed and we endeavor to make it as interesting and profitable as possible. The first week of each month is devoted to Monthly concert meet­ ings & labors - on the first Friday of each month the contributions from each district of the island are brought together by appointed Lunas, or officers, & various business relating to the general interests of the Church is transacted. I have twice visited the Eastern end of the field, & once the Western - The windward side of the Island being almost inaccessible �Station report, Molok a i , 1858-59 . A. O. Forbes during the winter months, I have not yet been able to visit it. The schools, as a general thing, are flourishing; though of course susceptible of much improvement. Immorality has been greatly on the increase among out young pople for a few years past. Mormonism is, practically, dead. Popery is in the same condition, though there are indications that renewed & vigorous efforts will be made in that direction -Idolatry still exists among the natives, though mostly in secret. It occurs chiefly perhaps, in connection with the practice of the native doctors -The foreign element is increasing among us. About 20 foreigners [ ] are now settled on the island. The statistics of C hurch/membership I am not able to present this year. Con tributions Mo. Con. for 1858 -------- $141.00 Mo. Con. from Jan. 1859 to date------- 79.20 3/4 Arrears 85.00 of Mrs. H itchcock's salary Pastor’s salary ($800 per an. comm­ encing Jan 1st, 1859) 29 2.49 1/4 Total $597.70 On the 18th Nov .1858 - the installation of the Pastor took place. Messers D. Baldwin, W. O . Baldwin, Pogue, C. B. Andrews, Alexander & L. Andrews, officiating. It was a season of much interest. On the 21st. of Dec, 1858 , occurred the marriage of the Pastor to Miss M. J. Chamberlain at the residence of the brides mother in Honolulu, �[1859] [Anderson O . Forbes] Report of Molokai Church In presenting this, my first Report of labors on Molokai, I desire to record with devout gratitude, the loving kindness of our Heavenly Father In bringing me back to my native Shores to labor among this dear people * "Men, brethren, & fathers," It is with peculiar feelings that I stand here among you to take part in this ministry: - here, - - - - , on the self-same spot, & in the same old room endeared to me - -- ---. by many sweet associations -- --- ----, many hallowed recollections of Sacred Scenes, many an & ( !) embalmed memory of boyhood's days. You will forgive me if I take the liberty to -- - - - look back eleven years, to the time when, a thoughtless boy, as free of care & innocent of the world as the mountain bird, I played around these very walls & plucked the blossoms of the yellow flowered thorn that carpeted the ground, & which was at once the delight of the bright eyes, & the torment of the little bare feet that capered in gleeful troops around this house, or -------- strayed in childish wonder among the silent graves. The most Sacred associations of my life cluster around those days when parents & children --- gathered here in General Meeting. Impressions were then made upon my mind & heart whose power has never waned, & it is to a lecture of our good brother Coan delivered before one of those "children's meetings" that I trace the first distinct impressions of serious things on my heart. I have often thought, & cannot help think­ ing yet, that the Fathers & Mothers of this Mission cannot have an ad­ equate idea of the power with which the impressions of those days stamped themselves on the hearts & minds of their children. On some it would naturally make a greater impression than on others; but I can say with assurance that I have met none as yet of the Mission children who were old enough to remember those days, upon whom they have not left an impression, unique & lasting. Little did I then think that, with the lapse of a few short years, I should be standing here among you, a brother among brethren, a child among Fathers. Yet so it is. And it Is difficult at times to realize the fact. It seems like a dream. And the past - oh it is a sweet, blessed picture, framed in prayers of faith & songs of praise, hanging now within the halls of the upper sanctuary, & reflected back on bright, unfading tints upon many a heart here below. Two years ago, I had no more expectation of standing here now than of exploring the craters of the moon. But, suddenly & unexpectedly, the call came for Some one to take charge of the Church at Molokai. Sitting at my table in Princeton Seminary, a year ago last October, conning over a chapter in Hebrew, some one knocked at the door. Sup­ posing it to be one of our student bores who are always wasting their own & their fellow students' time instead of being at their studies, I did not answer. The knock was repeated. Half vexed, without stirring from my chair, I answered "Come In" - A third time the knock was heard. Thoroughly provoked, I arose, opened the door, & who should be there but the well remembered face & figure of Bro. Armstrong. Not more than ten minutes did he stay in my room, but that ten minutes was the turning point in my life. "We want a man at Molokai; come & help us." "Well, this is entirely a new idea to me. I must have time to think about it." �Molokai Report - 1859 - A.O. Forbes 2 "I’ll give you two weeks to make up your mind, & then I want the answer, for I am t o sail at that time for the Islands." "You shall have the answer then" - That was the conversation that passed between us on the subject. The two weeks passed - The matter was made a subject of prayer & consultation. [Footnote] The circum­ stances were remarkable. The Providence was a marked one - -In the last year of my theological course, a child of the Hawaiian Mission & a native of Hawaiian soil, just as I was seeking to know in what field the Master of the harvest would have me labor, the call came loudly from Hawaiian shores directly to me. What could I do but say "Lord, here am I. Send me" — [End footnote] At the end of the two weeks, Bro. Armstrong made his appearance again. "Well, what is your decision?" "I will go” The result was, that, in September of last year, my feet once more trod the soil of ray native land. You will bear with me when I add, that one of my first acts after landing here was to look for those same yellow flowered thorns that taught my boyish feet the force of the proverb "No rose without its thorns." 2 nd footnote] Page after page might be filled with the first impressions of the return. What changes, what vacancies, what novelties, what sadness, what joyful meetings & greetings with old friends & school­ mates. - the same, yet not the same - old & new, blended together, until it was hard to tell which feeling predominated - that of the stranger in a strange land, or of the wanderer returned to home & friends - [end 2nd footnote] And now, today, the quondam child & boy presents to you the report of the pastorate of Molokai from October of 1858, to the present date. The duties at Molokai were entered upon with many misgivings, yet, I trust, with Some degree of faith, & feeling of entire dependence upon the strong arm of the Lord of Hosts. In October of last year, within a month from the time of landing upon these shores, I commenced the labors of the station at Molokai. The first thing to be done was to become acquainted with the people & the wants of the field. The language was readily learned in a sufficient degree to enable me to preach to & converse with the people. I found things of course, in much confusion. The flock had run wild - the field had many weeds & briars. Yet there were many encouraging things, & I cannot but feel that the blessing of the Lord has been with us. It was found necessary to take hold with a firm hand. My plan has been to pursue an independent course, & by a mild, yet determined pressure, gradually to bring things back to their proper channels In this, my hands have been greatly strengthened by the training & influence of our deceased Bro. Hitchcock, whose works do follow him, & who, being dead yet speaketh. Mrs. Hitchcock & her son Edward, have also been right hand helpers in the Lord. Disorder has been to a great degree checked, & order & system restored. As a consequence, a new impulse Is evident in the church & among the people. Discipline has as yet been but sparingly resorted to, although �Molokai Report - 1859 - A.O. Forbes 3 there is much need of it. But it seemed the wiser course to he slow & cautious until I could get firmly established in the field, & feel that I had full command of the reins — Admissions to the Church on profession have, for the same reasons been delayed. Labors performed The usual labors of the Sabbath have been attended to - viz - the Sabbath School, & two Sermons, with the Ai-o-ka-la, or general Bible class during the intermission at noon. The attendance upon all these means of grace has gradually increased, until now, --- it is nearly double what it was at first. The religious life of the Church has been evidently quickened, & there are encouraging signs of awakening, both among Ch. members, & those outside Other weekly labors consist of a Wednesday afternoon lecture & prayer meeting, & a special Bible class on Saturday afternoons for the Deacons & Teachers -Monthly labors are those connected with the monthly concert, which generally occupy the greater part of the first week in the month — Besides four general monthly concerts on the Kona side of the island, the ( !) a general meeting of all the Lunas from the different districts of the island is held within that week, at which reports are called for of the births & deaths, & of the state of the districts — the contributions from the different districts are handed in, & the con­ tributions for support of Pastor & other objects also handed over. I have twice visited the Eastern end of the ------ field, & once, the western — The Koolau side of the island has not yet been visited as it is almost inaccessible except by boat, & that only in the summer months — The Communion has been administered twice — Schools — Having been so short a time in the field, & being fully occupied in the more direct duties of the pastorate, I am not prepared to say much on this subject -- There are some very good schools among us, & some very poor ones. But the influences that have been at work for the past few years among our young people, have been lamentable in their tendencies & effects — Immorality has been greatly on the increase among them — We can only labor & trust in the promises of our God for their salvation from utter destruction, both temporal & spiritual — I trust that another year will enable me to report more progress in this direction. Mormonism is practically dead among us, though, just before leaving, three of our Ch. members, were baptised in that faith by a native from Maui — Popery is also practically dead. There yet remain a dozen or two of its adherents but they have no meetings. �Molokai Report - 1859 - A.O. Forbes 4 Idolatry Still exists among the natives, & to an extent that is trying to our faith — The hula is not known among us. There have been some cases of drunkenness on awa & the sweet potatoe, which have however, been confined to one district of the island, Kalaupapa — The foreign element is increasing among us. About twenty foreigners are now settled on the island, some of them men of influence — Statistics The Church Statistics I have not been able yet to gather in a satis­ factory form. I can make very little out of the Church Records, & am endeavoring to begin "de novo". I cannot therefore present the usual statistics at this time — Contributions Arrears of Mrs Hitchcock’s salary Pastor’s salary $800. per. an. com. Jan. lst/59 Mo. Con. from Jan. 1859, to date. Mon Con. for 1858 — Total - 85.00 292.49-1/4 79.20-3/4 139.00 $595.70 �[A.O. Forbes 1860] Abstract of Report for Molokai The past year has been spent in efforts to bring the different parts of the field into active working order. While there are some dis­ couraging features in the work, yet, there is also much that is encour­ aging. The people are evidently decreasing - The usual labors have been performed - In December & January, a series of itinerant protracted meetings was held, extending through all the accessible parts of the field. Some religious Interest has been manifest, though no general awakening can be reported. Some backsliders have been reclaimed, & some hardened opposers have been brought to the foot of the cross. The people have manifested a commendable liberality & activity in furnishing & repairing houses of worship throughout the island. Two new churches have been completed & dedicated during the year, & seven others are in process of completion. The Mormons, under native leaders, have been making strenuous efforts, & have immersed a few. The Papists remain about as reported last year. Cash. Contributions To " " " " Kaluaaha Church Pulpit for same Monthly Concert Noa Pastors Salary - $400.00 78.00 242.50 33.12-1/2 725.00 $1478.62-1 2 / Cash - Total Other Contributions - In work &c on meeting houses, say One Box clothing &c for Noa - say - $500.00 20.00 $520.00 1478.62-1/2 $1998,62-1/2 Total Amt Statistics Whole no on Profession " " " Certificate Past year on Profession '' " certificate Total past year Whole no dismissed Dismissed past year Total deceased Deceased past year - 2038 65 103 5 108 50 3 461 20 - �Molokai Report - 1860 - A.O. Forbes Excluded past year 20 Remain excluded 214 Now in regular standing 1004 Total childn B a p t i s e d ____________________ Baptised past year 36 Marriages 31 - �[A.O. Forbes] Report of Molokai — toil. 1860-1 The past year has been one of exhausting & almost unremitted Yet our health has been spared to us for further labor. In ---- June of 1860, shortly after our return from the Annual Meeting of that year, a series of itinerant protracted meetings were held throughout the assessable parts of the island, & lasting four weeks. The pastor, accompanied by -- his elders, deacons, & deaconesses, to the number of 27, labored in each district of the island separately, beginning at the eastern end, & working over the whole Inhabited part of the island to the western end. It being the desire, & intention to reach, as far as possible, every Inhabitant within the circuit, a day was spent at each village, or apana, from which & in which as a central point, the native helpers, male & female, were sent out, generally two by two, to "Komo hale" & "paipai", or visit each house, & endeavor to converse & pray with, all the people. The forenoon of the day was spent thus, & in the afternoon, religious services were held at which all were assembled. The services being ended, an opportunity/was afforded during the remainder of the afternoon for conversa­ tion with inquirers & backsliders, as well as attending to cases of dis­ cipline. The meetings were all well attended, & it was a season of much enjoyment to all. Some good we hope was done, but no marked increase of religious interest was manifested. During this series of meetings, the pastor preached on an average ten times each week, & administered the Lords Supper at seven different places. On the second Tuesday of July, according to previous arrangement with one another, the pastors of Maui & Molokai met at Lahaina to organize an ecclesiastical body for the care of the churches within that field. After a harmonious meeting, the result of which was the formation of the Presbytery of Maui & Molokai, we returned to our respective stations. Shortly after that, Satanic influences seemed to be let loose upon Molokai to a greater extent than for a number of years before. The first manifestation was in the revival of potato drinking, & intoxication. The prickly pear, watermelon, ti root, all contributed to the liquors which our "civilised & christianised" Hawaiians of Molokai imbibed. Their orgies became, in some places, a nuisance to the neighborhood, & some in­ dividuals were prosecuted & fined by the native magistrate. Some of the leaders however, appealing to the circuit judge at Lahaina, the sentence was reversed, on some slight technicality, & the native judge admonished not to do so again. As a consequence, it was openly boasted that there was no check upon those demoralising ( !) practices, & we were left in heaviness of heart to contend as best we might, with an evil which pre­ vailed in some districts like an epidemic. The result was, however, favor­ able. Christian principle was tested, & quite a number of worthless professors were sifted out. The Lord shook us roughly, but the very shaking which sent all the refuse through the sieve, only brought out the more the brightness of the true metal. �Report of Molokai — 1860-61 — A.O. Forbes 2 The tide of evil spent itself, after the lapse of three or four months, & we have not been troubled with it in that form since. In October, the second meeting of our Pres, was held at Honuaula, to ordain Mr. S. Nueku as associate pastor with Bro. Alexander. After a pleasant & profitable meeting, I accompanied Bro. Alexander in a preach­ ing tour around East Maui. Returning to Molokai, in the latter part of October, the labors of the station were resumed, & have been pursued as usual, from district to district until the present time. In January last, through the activity & energy of Mr. E.G. Hitchcock, an extensive organization of cattle stealers was broken up, & some thirty persons are now paying the penalty in the chain gang. The organization comprised almost the whole of three districts, embracing Kaunakakai, Palaau, & Kalae, with few exceptions, either as authors, active partici­ pators, or subsequent & privy partakers. Of the number who were convicted, eight were church members, the rest were hoomalokas [ ] & Papists. Besides the active duties of the station, the building of our house, which has progressed slowly, & met with many interruptions, has taxed every energy, both physical & mental. On the second Tuesday of January last, our Pres. held its third meeting at Wailuku, where we found an interesting work of grace in progress. It was a season of precious things to us all. I remained a few days after the Pres. had adjourned, assisting Bro. Alexander in his meetings. Short­ ly after returning to Molokai, the Spirit of the Lord seemed to be stir­ ring among the people in one district contiguous to the Station. There was a manifest difference in the meetings, & in the earnest seriousness of inquirers, as well as an awakening of dry & dead professors. This has continued gradually, & gently spreading until now three districts are in an encouraging state. Our prayer is, that it may continue until the whole island shall become a fruitful field. The Lord has been gracious in granting to Mrs. Hitchcock a general measure of health which has enabled her to do much towards strengthening the pastor’s hands, & encouraging his heart. The people have manifested perhaps as much activity in contributions of labor & money to the work of the Lord in proportion to their decreas­ ing ability, as in former years. In accordance with the recommendation of the Am. Board, the Pres., through the Pastor, have stationed a licentiate (native) at Kalaupapa, to assist the pastor in the work on the windward side of the island. Thus far, he does well. �Report of Molokai -- 1860-61 - A.O. Forbes Statistics. Whole No. on Profession — " " " Certificate Past Year on Profession " " " Certificate Total past year Whole no. dismissed Dismissed past year Total deceased Deceased past year Excluded past year Now in regular standing Childn Bap. past Year Total Marriages (no figure given) Contributions Cash In labor &c - �1862 - 3 Report of the Presbytery of Maui and Molokai. At the last meeting of the aforesaid Presbytery, the Scribe was directed to prepare a report of their proceedings during the past year, to be read before this Body. During the past year, the number of the Churches in connection with this Presbytery was ten, viz., Kaluapapa, Kaluaaha, Kaan apali, Lahaina, Lahainaluna, Wailuku, Honuaula, Kaupo, Hana, and Koolau. Seven ministers have belonged to the Presbytery, viz. Rev. Messrs. Forbes, Baldwin, Pogue, Alexander, Nueku, and S.E. Bishop, who were pastors of churches, and Rev. C.B. Andrews, who was without a charge. Nine persons have been under the care of the Presbytery as licensed preachers or preparing to be licensed, viz. Messrs. Aholo, Manase, Moku, Kuaumoana, Kamakahiki, Naloloa, Mawae, Kahananui, and Kaono, the two last named of whom have during the year ceased to be under our care. The Quarterly meetings were sustained during the year with great regularity. They were held on the 16th and 17th of July at Lahaina, on the 22d & 23d of October at Hana, on the 14th and 15th of January at La­ hainaluna, and on the 17th and 18th of April at Honuaula. At each meeting the Sessions have continued for two days. Every pastor but one, Nueku, has attended three of the meetings. One, Mr. Alexander, has attended all. There has also been an average attendance of eight elders sent as delegates by their respective churches. At the last two meetings, the delegation was full from each of the ten churches. Of the persons under the care of the Presbytery, 2 have attended constantly, 3 at 3 of the meetings, two at 2, and one only once. There has usually been a consider­ able attendance of Elders and others from the different churches, who were not delegates. The attendance of the people of the places of meeting has likewise been large. Rev. E.W. Clark was present and took a seat as a Corresponding member at the meeting in July. The presence of Rev. Dr. Anderson at the meeting of April was hoped for by pastors and people and his detention upon Hawaii for one week later caused general disappoint­ ment . The regular exercises at the meetings have consisted in the reading of Quarterly reports of labors by the persons under the care of Presbytery, and the reading also of assignments by the same persons, also in the exam­ ination at each meeting of two of them in Theological knowledge and Rel­ igious Experience. Various Items of business have been disposed of, petitions acted upon, and Committees appointed for various purposes. After the close of the two last meetings, at Lahainaluna and Honuaula, the mem­ bers of Presbytery remained to assist in the consecration of the new houses of worship at those places. Of the Assignments read by the Licentiates, 21 in all have been presented during the year. They have embraced topics of Theology, Bible History, Christian experience, Exegesis, Hawaiian customs and opinions, Skeletons of Sermons, Economics and moral, religious and political duties. Many of them have exhibited much mental ability, reflection, and spiritual knowledge, while others have been as seriously deficient. The reading has �Report of the Presbytery of Maui and Molokai - 1862-3 2. been followed by vigorous criticism from the members of Presbytery, with farther development of the subject, as it might seem to require for general instruction, the elders present joining in with zeal, and often contribu­ ting valuable information on points of Hawaiian custom and opinion. These have constituted the most interesting portion of the exercises to those present, affording to their minds a healthy & powerful stimulus. At each meeting two of the Licentiates have undergone examination in Theology and experience. Nearly all have appeared creditably, while some have shown admirable proficiency and intelligence, and much that was in­ teresting and delightful in religious character has been displayed. At the last meeting Mr. Aholo of Lahainaluna Seminary was one of those ex­ amined, and displayed peculiar acumen, promptness, common sense and know­ ledge in solving knotty points in Theology. Mr. Aholo has been especially distinguished in his essays, some of which have been remodeled for the press . The Quarterly Reports of the preachers have given evidence of a good degree of activity and success in their work, and of progress on the whole in the churches where they labor. There has appeared to be an increasing appreciation of the value of their labors, yet the improvement of the churches in making good the sums pledged for their support, has been very small. Four of the churches, viz. Kalaupapa, Kaanapali, Kaupo and Koolau, have been supplied by Messrs. Kuaumoana, Moku, Manase, and Kamakahiki, at nominal salaries of $100 each. Of this amount, the Scribe believes that less than half has been paid, and that the main dependance of the preacher has been upon other sources than the voluntary contributions of the people, two being school teachers, one a school superintendent, while the remaining one has found lucrative employment as an Hon. Representative, and as a Tax-Collector. To this subject of the better support of preachers by the churches, especial attention has been paid by the Presbytery, and Committees appointed to write exhorting (?) and reproving the delinquent churches in respect thereof. Of the five persons named who are not settled as stated preachers, Mr. Aholo is engaged in his important post as an instructor at Lahainaluna Seminary, Naloloa who has been licensed only one year has been employed as teacher at Wailuku, and in preaching in Mr. Alexander's parish. Mawae having been dismissed from a small school in Nahiku for incapacity, having been licensed in 1858, and for several years declining in knowledge and mental activity, and having latterly engaged in trading, is about to ask to be dismissed from the care of Presbytery. Kahananui, who had been under the care of Presbytery for two years, but had never received licensure, was at the last meeting, dismised at his own request, upon the plea of being too much involved in secular cares to make proficiency in the requisite qualifications for the ministry. Kaono, who was preaching in the Koolau church, was at the July meeting, expelled from the care of Presbytery, xxxxxxxx and deprived of his licensure, for criminal conduct. There will therefore be but six persons under care of Presbytery at the next meeting, unless new ones should be found to be taken up. All of the present licentiates are graduates from Lahainaluna, except one, Kamakahiki, who has been a missionary at Ponape. The preacher stationed at Kaanapali church, J. Hunnewell Moku, presented before Presbytery an invitation received by him from Rev. B.W. �Report of the Presbytery of Maui and Molokai - 1862-3 3. Parker of Oahu, to supply the church at Waikane, in his field. An ad­ verse petition was thereupon presented by Kaanapali church, praying that he might stay with them. Certain serious obstacles to his usefulness which formerly existed there having been removed, the resolution of Presbytery was in accordance with the petition. The church then pre­ sented their petition that he should be ordained as their pastor, which was laid on the table, for reasons. The effect of these meetings has been valuable to the churches where held, and to all the churches in promoting mental and spiritual activity, in promoting a sense of union and mutual dependance, and interest in and esteem for the common calling and work. They have especially been of indispensable service to the young preachers, in quickening their minds and hearts, in stimulating their mental exertion, study of the Scriptures, spiritual culture, and devotion to their duties, and in generally rousing them out of the mental torpor that is almost sure to creep over those who are confined to intercourse with the ignorant & inactive minds of country districts. To the Missionary pastors, they have also been sea­ sons of refreshment and encouragement, and comforting fellowship with each other and the native brethren. There has been some correspondence with Associations of the Churches upon other islands, but how much, the Scribe is unable to report. �[A.O. Forbes] Report of Molokai Station. 1863 Another year of labor in our solitary field. It has been a year of unusual toil amid peculiar discouragements; as also of heavy struggle with foes from without & within. But the Lord's hand was in it all, & we trust we can now begin to see his wisdom in so ordering the events of the past year. Again we have reason to bless our Heavenly Father for almost uninterrupted health, & for strength sufficient to the discharge of duty. On returning to Molokai in June of last year, we found that Satan was at work. Drunkenness & revelry were on the increase, & it seemed for a time as though no check could be effectually applied. Daily, the votaries of intemperance swept furiously on horseback through our vil­ lage, -- ---------, with shouting & revelry. Nightly could be heard the yells of the riotous, & the shrill whistle of the vile. No attempt was made by the proper authorities to check the mad current. At last, even the people themselves could endure it no longer. Complaint be­ came so loud & frequent that the authorities at Lahaina found it neces­ sary to make a move. A new Sheriff was appointed, the old one removed, & in two weeks about a dozen leaders were arrested & fined — two of them $100 apiece, for making & furnishing intoxicating drinks, & the rest in smaller sums. The blow was effectual, & for three months past we have enjoyed our former peace & quiet. Our Judge was ready to do his duty, but the difficulty was in the local Sheriff, who was a worthless stick. There is reason to believe however, that ----- --- the fire is rather smouldered than extinguished. Some still drink, but secretly. The sweet potato, ti root, watermelon, sugar cane, & cactus fruit fur­ nished the materials for intoxication. Awa drinking & cultivation, with which we had been obliged to contend in former years, have meantime dropped almost out of sight. So far as we can ascertain, the immediate source of this outbreak may be traced to the fact that the people had formed an impression that they could manufacture & drink intoxicating beverages with impunity, so long as they made them of Hawaiian grown materials, & drank in their houses. The leaders boasted that they could not be convicted. "Kauwahi had told them that there was no law against it, & that he would clear them if they would appeal from any such con­ viction." Whether this was true or not, I cannot certainly say, but such an impression, & so widely spread, must have arisen from some source of apparent authority. -- ------- One thing is certain. The authority of the "Hoku Pakifika," & even of the "Polynesian", was quoted as on the side of the debauchees, & it was confidently proclaimed by some of the leaders, that the restrictions on the manufacture & sale of intoxicating drinks would be taken off at the next meeting of the Legislature. They seemed to feel that they had strong backers. During the excitement, it was very difficult to ascertain how far the members of the Church had joined in these carousals. On investigation since, however, we have been rejoiced to find that the defections were not so numberous as was feared. The leaders were chiefly - -- -------- -- --- --- ---- Papists & non-professors. The followers ditto, with the addition of a consider­ able sprinkling of Mormons. The proportion of Protestant Church members �Report of Molokai Station, 1863 - A.O. Forbes 2 was small. Ten were --------- excluded from the Ch., & there are about the same number in addition whose cases are still under advisement, for lack of positive evidence against them. During those months of carousal, the hula showed itself once or twice in one district, Kamalo, which was also the headquarters of the drinking. But the actors, not being able to show a license to practise in that district, nor to prove that they had imported the sanctified article under the authority of the "Reformed Catholic Church", soon found the place too hot for them, & disappeared. Idolatry & Witchcraft There seems to be good authority for believing that the actual worship of idols still exists among a very small number of the people. Kanehoalani is kept & worshipped at Kalae, & possibly others here & there, though it is very difficult to get any positive testimony as to the facts. Molokai has always been rather celebrated for sorcery. The Kahunas, or priests professing to exercise supernatural powers, are numerous, & the whole population are under their influence. We state these facts, not as anything new or rare in the history of this people, but as having ---- ------- risen to the surface more than in former years. The pastor has not yet met with a single native who does not firmly be­ lieve in the supernatural powers of these Kahunas. Even those who give every evidence of true simple-hearted piety, are still unable to eradi­ cate the impressions born in them & inwrought with their whole lives from earliest infancy. Many a rock, rent asunder by the action of the elements, ---- - --- ------ do they point out as split by the prayers of a Kahuna. It seems this is a favorite mode of testing their power before proclaim­ ing themselves as thoroughly prepared to practise their diabolical acts. Yet wherein are this poor people more superstitious in proportion to their light than multitudes in civilized lands now, to say nothing of a Bacon or a Cotton Mather of former days. Pastoral labors. The usual routine of pastoral labor has been performed. At the Station, this consists of the Sab. School & two sermons with a Bible Class in the interval at noon, the regular Wed. afternoon lecture, & Saturday morning meeting with the elders of the Church. Besides these, the first week of each month is devoted to a series of monthly concert meetings extending 8 miles in either direction from the Station. Our Sabbath School consists of about 130 children. The attendance & interest has been in general well sustained; especially since the in­ troduction of some of the Sabbath School Hymns & tunes which give such a charm to Sabbath Schools in the United States. Three tours have been made through the length of the island, accom­ panied with the usual labors of preaching, disciplining, examining can­ didates for Ch. membership, administering the Lord's supper, counselling, visiting the sick, settling quarrels, & c . On Saturday mornings, the elders within a distance of eight miles �Report of Molokai Station, 1863 - A.O. Forbes 3 in each direction assemble in the Pastor's study for the transaction of Ch. business. As far as time would permit, they have also studied Church History. On the first Friday in each month a general meeting of lunas or deacons & elders from the whole island is held. At these meetings, each luna brings in the contributions from his district towards Monthly Concert, & Pastor's salary. For a while, in the latter part of last year, there was much that was discouraging. Religious interest was at a low ebb. The people seemed dead to spiritual things, & ---- certain low foreigners of the baser sort, spared no pains to ----- ---- --- ---- overthrow the cause of the Lord. Sleepless nights & heavy hearted days were no uncommon thing then to the Pastor & his wife. But the Lord in mercy gave us strength to endure, & the result has been more cheering. Since the beginning of the present year, the clouds have broken away, & the people have begun to awake. The attendance on meetings has increased, & in some places, considerable interest has been manifested in spiritual things. The month of March was spent in a series of protracted meetings during which we enjoyed some precious seasons. Mrs. Forbes, in addition to the labors attendant upon the care of a large school, has been able generally to meet with the women of the station, for prayer & Bible reading, once a week, as also to afford much assistance in training our choir. Kuaumoana, the licentiate preacher in charge of the windward side of the island, has run well, & is a valuable man. He has however, been obliged to spend much of his time in teaching, in order to eke out a livelihood. Schools. The common schools, of which the Pastor has been the superintendent during the past year, have been prosperous. There are ten of these schools on the island, supplied with a good corps of teachers, & embracing 331 scholars, 189 boys, & 142 girls. Besides these, there is an English school for Hawaiians, at the station, embracing 55 pupils, 46 of whom are boys, & 9 girls. Mrs. Forbes has had the charge of this school since the beginning of the present year. The attendance has been good, & progress satisfactory in all. The whole number of scholars on the island is now 386 — 235 of whom are boys, & 151 girls. Mormonism & Popery make very little, stir. Nor have the "Reformed Catholics" seemed to think it worth while to undertake to reform the inhabitants of Molokai. We feel that we can praise God for his loving-kindness & take courage for the future. His strong arm & mightly hand have not failed us so far, & we can truly say it is precious to lean upon the arm that is stronger than ever. �[Molokai 1871] Abstract of report of Molokai Station Religion on Molokai is not in a discouraging state. Christian character is developing more than would naturally be expected of a heathen people. This is manifest from 1st Attendance upon public & social worship which has been uniformly good during the year. 2nd From their Benevolent Efforts. One hundred dollars have been given for the poor. Seven hudred(!) & sixty seven dollars have been given for missions, collected at the Mon. Con. & handed over to the H.M.Soc. Treasury. Between two & three thousand dollars have been raised & expended in building & repairing churches. These have allowed but little left for their pastors salary, viz one hundred sixty six. thus far the present year. Romanism & Mormenism(!) are nearly extinct on the Island. have been continued prosperously during the year. Schools Statistics of the church could not be made out on account of Mr. A. leaving no data of his labors during 1832. � 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/. 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