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HONOLULU (KAWAIAHAO) STATION REPORTS
CONTENTS
Unsigned fragment [Bingham].............................. .......... . [1830's]
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[1831]
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,. .1833
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Unsigned medical report[ Judd]................... . —
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Unsigned [Bingham]..................... ..................... ..1836
Unsigned[Bingham]....... ............................... ........ . .1837
Tinker, R ......... ............ ............................. .
1837
Unsigned [Tinker]............ ...... ............ .......... ........ .1838
Unsigned [Bingham]............... ......................... . —
Unsigned draft [Bingham]........................ . —
..... .1839
......... ...... 1840
Unsigned [Armstrong]........... ............... ........... ......... 1841
Armstrong, R ........ ....... ................. ......... ...... . —
.1842
Armstrong, R ...... ........... ...... .............................. 1842-43
Armstrong, R ............. ............. . —
.-......... ............ 1843-44
Armstrong, R ......... ........ ............................ .
Armstrong, R.............. ............. ............ ........... .
.1846(2 years)
1846-48
Unsigned[Clark]................................. ........ ......... 1849
Unsigned [Clark]............................ ........... ........... 1851
Unsigned[Clark]...................... .......... ...................1852
Unsigned abstract[Glark]............. ........ ......... ........... 1852
Unsigned [Clark]................... -........... ........ ........... 1853
Unsigned [Clark]......... .............. ......... ....... .......... [1854]
Unsigned [Clark]............. ...... ....... ............. ......... .1855
Unsigned abstract........ ...... ................................... [1855 ]
Armstrong, R........... ................. . —
..... ........ ........ 1856
Unsignedf Clark] .......... ................ ........... ......... .
.1857
Unsigned abstract[Clark]...................... ...... .......... ... 1860
Clark, E. abstract......... ...... ................................ 1861
Unsigned church statistics................... ..... ............ .
.1862
Unsigned [Clark]........... ........................ ............... 1862
Unsigned [Clark].......... .......... ....... .......................1863
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�Honolulu, Station Report fragment, 1830’s
. . . chosen him § his service § his salvation, whose sincerityt i m e ^ temptation must prove but none of these have yet been
brought forward or propounded for admission, as we usually
allow years of trial before receiving to membership those who
profess repentance § hope § appear to live reformed lives.
The admissions to the church during the year have been 20. -18 natives § two foreign residents, Mssrs* Colcord ^ Anderson,
both of whom appear to take a decided stand in the cause of
temperance, § religion in the midst of Honolulu even in troublous
times.
An application was made to Mr. C.' purchase of him a
large iron pot]for the purpose of distilling rum.
would not sell it for that purpose.
had their relation remove
gold.
He said he
Some of our members have
lillegible]
fill:’it with
and have been organized with other into a church at the
other station on this island, at W'aialua one of them: 'Kuo'Koa,
being interested with the office of deacon.
He with Laanui have
proved themselves efficient missionary helpers § coadjutors
of Mr. Emerson,
§ have shewn that native chri:stians are capable,
of doing good in extending the infloience of Christian institu
tions in their own country'.
We have had more occasion the last y'eaT to. e^ceycj.se the dis
cipline of the church, the las-t year that^sicy heretofoxe ^ owing
in part as we believe to •[the s'uccessive cargoes of rum int'lros
duced among the people, and the leisure given to sell, and the
inducements- held-out to use it by wiclcedness in high places.
One of our members has been ■excommunicated the motJon for
excision proposed -in church meeting without a dissenting voice,
FourJ?]
others have been suspended from the communion two of
whom on apparent repentance have been restored, and t.-wo -who were
previotisly suspended have also been restored one of -whom is
known to the Mission gennerally', Samuel
M i l l s » 'Wb-O though
he does not give all the e-yidence of decided piety, that could
be desired, yet having reformed, and made a full § B.umble
public confession, and given as good evidence of repentance
as at any- former period, of his life or whi.le in America
where he was baptized it was judged best after long trial to
restore him to the fellowship and privileges of the church f|
�Honolulu, 1830’s
p. 2
the affectionate
[?] fulness of h.is brethren whom he had ex
ceedingly grieved.
Religious meetings distinct from the ordinary public
preaching and ordinances at the church.
The monthly concert prayer meeting for the conversion of the
world, with the natives at the church, and for the same object
in English at Mr.
.
The monthly concert for Sabbath schools,
at Mr. Johntones, and the monthly concert for seamen at the
reading rooms some of us usually attend § assist. A weekly
meeting for ourselves § foreign residents at on Wed., are at
Mr. Chamberlain’s, -- a quarterly,
[?] ■ at Mr. Clarks --
a monthly meeting of the church, for business
The Friday
improvement.
been continued in the female part
of which thevefs^ada^ystem of attending to the scriptures has
been
J[?J
§ the members have usually been assisted by Mrs. B.
Bible classes § sabbath schools
An
[?J of about 400 have attended to the verse a day system,
meeting at 8 o clock sabbath morning, partly at the church' §
partly a schoolhouse in the Ivicinity] of the village,
these have
been attended by Mr. Clark § Dr. Judd.
At each place a bible class on Thursday has been attended,
where the subject of the Wednesday lecture was reyiewed,
§ the
Ninau hoike in some cases I?] forming part of the lesson.
These
classes have been attended by Mssrs B. § C,
A sabbath school of about 5 0 who I sic’
] lesson h-as- been to
convert to memory a page a week, of the N e w Testasijent -v. th,a^s has
been instructed by Mr, Cha-mberlain, at 2 p.m.
Mr. Rogers and others have paid some attention to children
on the sabbath.
Mr,
§ Mrs. Johnstone hav^e had the sabbath,
school of children in some sense a branch of our missionary work,
distinct.from the Oahu Charity school tho the same pupils are
embraced.
Station Schools |c
A station school for teachexs -^as commenced soen ,a;fteT the
last general m.eeting § continued till Oct,' - t. Attendance i^'Xegula'r
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p
average about 40 studie reading. Arithmetic Geography, opened
again in March, first lesson in Geometry introduced.
The school was much embarrassed, for want of a suitable
home -- which the scholars are now correcting for themselves,
who will need the last year appropriations from the mission ^
perhap.s -more to aid them in finishing it,
Mr. Clark aided by
Dr. J. have the charge of this station school.
Another station school house of earth bricks is in building
by the natives, who have contributed liberally in natives labor
and money for its erection.
Dimension 54 feet by 30, walls 11
feet high.
Mrs. Judd has had a class of 24 women, whom she had read the
scripture once a week -- Mr. Bingham another class of 67 for
reading the scriptures, reciting the Ninau Hoike, §c.The sisters
of the station have engaged also in a Maternal association
embracing those female members of the church who sustain the re
lationship of mothers.
Labors abroad -Mr. Clark has held a meeting twice in the J?] most of the
year, cong. fr. 5 0 to 200, has preached some sabbaths at Waikiki,
about 17 at Esp., at W'aipio ^ two at Wailua {?] 5 at Kauai .-The congregation at Ewa, not exceed 300 .or 400., during this
[?]
haunaele [panic, commotion]
Perhaps more would attend at
Waiawa, where at present th:ere is more good order, by no suita
ble house of worship.
Mr. Bingham spent about a week at W'ailua,
has preached once at Ewa, § once at Kolau.
tour of this island and
J?J
Dr, J. ha,s made the
Wailuku on Maui,
Admissions to the Church during the year
2Q,
Suspended from the com 4 two of whom have been restored
two previously suspended, restored
One has been excommunicated Whole no, admitted to the church
do, do.
#
Died
Removed
Excom.
229
15
5
1 “ leaving
2 08
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p
Average of the readers who appeared at the several exam
inations -Palikolau
2.44
Waikiki
1.32
Honolulu
6.79
Ewa
2.56
13.11
Marriages
71
Contributions. --
couple.
Monthly Con.
Outfit for Marquesas Mission
84.50
cash
66,50
in supplies
Cash for schoolhouse
Total,
[?]
bution for new
151.00
355.00
=
5.06
the contri
.[?] of the gospel commenced [?J
348,12
cash
. .6.6...50
supplies
414.62
Adding ca±i for schoolhouse
which is part in aid of the mission
. 35.5..0.0
769.62
�Report of the Station at Honolulu [l83lj
The oause of religion has heen gradually advancing at this station
since the last general report.
The n u m h e r o f serious inquirers & hope
ful converts have greatly increased.
more thronged.
Our meetings were prohahly never
Several meeting houses have "been erected in different
parts of the Island & dedicated to the worship of God.
In most or all
of them public worship is regularly conducted hy native members of the
church.
Our congregation at this place has so much increased^ that a
separate meeting has heen held for those who could not find admission
to the meeting house.
Numher received to the church since the last General Meeting 40.
IWiole number received at the station 106.
Deaths 5.
Expelled or dismissed none.
Propoimded 30.
The nuniber of scholars in our schools has considerably increased
during the period under review & very perceptible improvement has been
made in reading & writing.
school 5^443.
Schools 250.
Alphabet & Spelling 4^893.
Teachers 250.
Readers in
Whole number of scholars
10^336.
The ladies of the mission have spent considerable time in instruct
ing with good incouragement.
Something has been, done in the way of
raising the qualifications of teachers, & some improvement m.ade in the
examinations which.'promise to be useful.
Marriages 437
Some changes have taken place in the political affairs■of the
nation, which have a very favourable bearing upon the cause of morality
& religion at this station.
For the operations of the press see report of the printing commit
tee.
y
Mr. Shepard's health has been declining.
The health of other
members of the station has been for the most part comfortable.
�[Honolulu 1832]
The general labors of the station have heen carried on as usual..
Our assemhlies on the sahbath have embraced from 1,000 to 4 thousand
hearers.
Other more private meetings both male & female have been well
attended.
During the year .preaching has been m:aintained ten or twelve
sabbaths in other parts of the island under very favourable circumstance.
The number of,persons who give evidence of external reformation
has considerably increased during the year.
to our church at every commimion season.
to the church during the year is
Additions have been made
The whole number admitted
[no figure given] . Fow, stand pro
pounded [no figure givenj
Our school operations have gone on very much as in times past.
There has been a considerable increase in the number of learners on
the island, & especially in the number of readers.
At our last exam-
ination 6^26.
An Interesting school of children under the superintendance of
the females of the mission has been kept up at this station.
consists of about 200 children.
The school
They are taught on the monatorial
plan, & have made good progress in reading & y/riting.
commenced Geography & natural history.
Some have also
The school bids fair to be
highly us eful.
The number of marriages at this station since June 15, 1831 has
amotmted to 384 couple.
Of these 11 individuals are foreigners,.
marriage of foreigners has occasioned us.considerable trouble.
The
We have
endeavoiored in all cases to adhere as strictly as possible to the
regulations adopted at our. last meeting.
For the operations of the press see report of the printing
#
Committee.
The two catholic priests, who have caused us so much soli
citude left this place in the Waverly Dec^-24.
out for the purpose by the chiefs.
The vessel was fitted
�Report of the Station at Honolulu 1833
The work of the mission in the various d.epartments of labor which
fall to this station have been carried forward, during the year t h o '
we had some illness and some untoward circumstances of anxiety (?)
& embarrassment.
•The arduous duties of the general secular agency of the mission
have been discharged by Mr. Chamberlain, & he has also paid some atten
tion to schools,
. More than ordinary attention to the medical department has been
given by Dr. Judd, on account of having more convenient rooms & having
relinquished the intention of preaching -
He has also devoted some
attention to schools, to engraving & teaching music, & to the verse
learners, a part of whom he meets between the first & second bell for
morning services - on the sabbath - & in connexion with Mr. J<.
to the drawing of maps Mr. Shepard tho feeble & declining has been associated with Mr.
Rogers, in carrying on the printing which this year amounts to more than
9 million pages -
Mr. Rogers has moreover superintended the binding
which has very much increased its operations as facilities and demands
have multiplied!
Mr. & Mrs. Johnstone have been engaged in schools, and [are^
now engaged chiefly in the instruction of the Oahu Charily School for
the instruction ot the children of foreigners containing about 50
pupils.
English preaching at the station has amounted to about 2 sermons
in a week chiefly by Messrs Armstrong Tinker and Alexander.
From three to four sermons a week in the native language have
m
'been preached, chiefly by Messrs Bingham & Clark,
Mr. Clark preached
about 5 months at Waialua, and Mr.- B; labored a: week' at Kauai, when
there appeared to be a work of the Lord in progress. -
Mr, Clark
�Honolulu 1853
2
.
.
lias a part of the year has ( I) preached, attended a bihle c l a s s &
the Ai o ka la on three different days weekly in the rear of the
village of Honolulu.
A few small publications have been prepared (?), as the Buke
a^a m u a , the Ai o ka la, the Olelo no ka mare ana & The A Nuugi^fe
The Psalms from the 25^ to the 75^.^ have been translated, & the
first book of Kings begun, tho much labor is yet to be bestowed on
these before they can be ready for the press.
Dr. Judd has translated the epistle of James, to a Koble Land in
the Brittish Parlamant ( l).
.
Schools
Since the Western, Northwestern, and. Northern districts have,
been set of to Vi/aialua station including about 10,000 inhabitants &
■
, ^ s.
half the territory of ,-bhe.idand , -:■>
only, the Eastern,
the remaining three district
two Southern containing about 20,000 inhabitants
are regarded as belonging particularly to Honolulu Station.
The register of the annual examination of the schools in these
districts about three months subsequent to the unfortunate effects
from
High
authority to relax the restraints upon folly and
wickedness shows the folowing ( l) i-esult[?].
Pal:jJs:oolau, & Waikiki on the Eastern end of the Island
9S5 readers, 725 unable to read = 1650 learners -
1111 Molowa [lazy]
Honolulu - 1498 readers, 106 unable to read =
learners, 246 Molowa
From Honolulu to Barber's Point
677 readers - 333 unable to read ^ 1010 learners - 682 Molowa
Station
3100 readers - 1195 unable to read - 4295 learners 2039 fallen
off
Of those connected with the schools 440 were under the more im
mediate instruction of the members of the mission families, besides
�Honolulu 1833
3.
besides those called poalima, poaha and Ai o ka la.
The school of teachers commencing with 170, and ending 114 was instructed
a part of the time by Messrs Armstrong, Judd, Chamberlain, & Johnstone - and a
part of the time chiefly by Messrs Clark & Chamberlain, Tinker[?’] has rendered
kind assistance there;: - They were taught reading writing, Arithmetic & Geography,
There have been different classes of children, & of women, taught at different':,
times by different individuals in which most of the sisters have taken a part,
Mrs. Clark, Mrs. Armstrong, Mrs. Alexander, Mrs. Tinker, Mrs. Johnstone, Mrs.
Chamberlain, Mrs. Judd & Mrs. Bingham.
At the last examination Mrs. Clark presented
9 infant children of the mis
sionaries - Mrs, Judd 25 native children, taught in writing arithmetic & geography
A 70 women[!].
Mrs.
Bingham presented 61 children & 75 women - Dr. Judd 25
smgers
the king, & Kinau',: Mr. & Mrs. Johnston*'s[!] school were not examined.
including
They are
taught in English « from 4 to 7 hours-a."'day-and a considerable part of them attend
on[an] English preaching and Sabbath school instruction.
The building, they occupy, was built by subssription at the
expense of 2,000 doll. It has a steeple and bell; is of stone; well
finished and furnished, with comfortable seats and a pulpit -affording pleasant accommodations for public worship for foreigners.
Mr. Johnson [sic] has the offer from ■£her;tTus.f.e.es'.of'the s.ch.QQi^
of a salary of 500 doll, as the means of his support, that he may be
exclus'.ively devoted to its interests.
Persons who attend the exercise of Ai oka la at. Honolulu wey-e
at one 'tiine,vabout year after it commenced, - was 180 0- -- It is now
about 600 -- should our political excitement cease^ the number will
probably' ixLcrease.
1163 persons are reported as having forsaken the use of tobacco.
State of the church
8
Admis'sions during the year
It
V.
Deaths
"
Children baptized
3
u
30
Deaths among bapti.zed children
whole number
11
It
209
12
u
11
106
It
It
6
. The church, appears to stand hej: ground. . They aneet .weekly for
prayer among themselves,
T>ro have, been suspended,
irregular walk.
§ two have made confessions, for
�Ii.QP,ol,ulu 1835.;
Marriages
p_ 4
286 --
besides those celebrated by Gov, Adams §
otherwise.
Cash contributions, for a bell $200, about $100 for schoolhouses,
§ $2 80 for Missionary purposes particularly to aid the Marquesan
Mission.
10 doll, of which met the pecuniary expense of printing
the A. 'NuuhiVa.
The contributions for the bell and for Missionary
purposes are committed to M. Chamberlain of which he has an account on
the books of the mission.
The arrival of Rev. Mr. Diell as Caplainjsic] to seamen is,
matter of congratulations.
�HONOLULU 1834
[Note at top o£ page illegible.]
Translations
The principle labor in this department, has been a thorough
revisal
[sic] o£ the revised translation of Matthew, a careful in
spection of the translations of the latter half of the New Testament
^ more particularly 8 of Pauls Epistles for the New Edition now in
press.
a revision in part of John § Luke, a careful revisal of the
translation of Judges a laborious revisal of a [?]
§ large additions, a revisal of part of an [?]
preparation of several new ones.
for the [?]
with many
hymns^ with the
work in hand-
agreeably with the joint views of Messrs Richards § Bingham and the
approval of the printing committee the translation of 13 chapters
o'f first book of kings'
§ the preparation of a Marquesan spelling
book, of 8 pages a few hand bill tracts[?3
§ some alterations, much
less- than could Be wished, to a grammar of the Language,
Xn spea,king of these preparations for the press it may Jbe]
proper to say that the I,?]
assisSed in the
illegible^
work.
are assumed by Dr, Judd who has also
The rest of these labors .[next ^ew words
§ explain of what has been done to 1 kings by Mr» Clark --
have(!falien chiefly on Mr, B. who has usuallypreachedd 2 a week when
M t . Clark has been at Honolulu^, § 3 times
has preaclied at a
distance.
Seamans’ chapel r e a & ^ g rooms have been erected at this place ^
proven to be successful.
\?e still hope the Inext few words illegible]
will ultimately
be useful, though it has yet fully assumed what was expected at the
out set,
I't appears to us-, § probably to the people, to be a kind of half
way' zone between, the world^
§ that holy devotedness to the things of
God § heaven which Missionaries ought unceasingly to inculcate.
There are now 11 professors of religion at this palce, deemed
orthodox, who are not connected with us § two or three others, w h o ■
are not regarded as orthodox.
The apparent conformity of some to
the world, in some respects § their claims on the privileges pf the
Lord's table with us, have o'ccassioned us some solicitude § make the
�Honolulu 1834
advice o£ the mission desirable on that subject.
p. 2
We invite all who love
our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity;', who are members of his churches
in regular standing, and whose lives adorn their proffessio.ns.
Parties for cards § dancing, § the entertainments of the theater,
opened at this place, at which the king § company is himself ^ the
urgency with which foreigners maintain the trade in ardent spirits
invite the attention, advice § sympathy of our brethern from abroad.
We are here unanimous in objecting to the traffic, in ardent
spirits, and the use of them as a drink -- and have made some efforts
to combine with our own the influence of foreigners friendly to the
temperance cause, and we hope the exertions made in this cause by
Mr. Diell who is obtaining individual signers to the pledge of abstin
ence, will be the means of much good.
Very great obstacles, by the change in the government have been
thrown in way of the temperance measures adopted by the more sober
part of the natives, both chiefs and people but their temperance
society is not discouraged, and it is hoped it will live till satan
yields his iron grasp and the people are delivered from- his power.
�Report of medical labors for the Station at Honolulu.
These were continued as usual for about 6 weeks after the conclusion of our
last Annual Meeting until the 27th of August when they were interrupted by calls
from distant stations and only resumed for a few days at a time
part of January, a period of more than four months.
until the early
During this period a visit
was made to Hilo via Lahaina & Kawaihae, To Lahaina and to Waialua.
The last half of the year has been employed in direct labors for the benefit
of the natives in Honolulu, where sickness & death in all their forms have been
making fearful progress.
Ne-aeeeaafe-feas-beei^ept-ei-fehe-iiuiBfee?[T] The patients
have been numerous and the services they have rendered including (Detail) Several
important [
?
] operations have been well appreciated by multitudes.
It is
desirable that something more systematic be done to save this dying people.
(Detail)
No labor worth speaking of have been bestowed on foreigners, during the year
half a dozen [
?
].
I have taught no schools.
Foreigners, no schools.
[The
preceeding paragraph was "X’ed" out on the original manuscript].
The work on Anatomy has been prepared, tho the
[in pencil, very hard to
read] information received from Dr. Chapin that he^iad interested himself in the
S ■S''/
business of procuring cuts for the work & that they would be ready for the
briVrg -fnewhich might [
] Missionaries;’’. They have not however been received.
The work on Temperance has been partly reviewed.
As heretofore I have attend
ed to reading the first proofs of work, done in the Printing Office-., when I have
been at home.
[Unsigned, not dated]
[Probagj^ Judd, 1830’s]
il. 1 § 3 6
�Honolulu 1835
Church
No admissions
though a few 7 have been suspended from com
munion and one o£ these restored on evidence o£ repentence.
The rest have all professed repentance, but have not yet
given sufficient evidence to entitle them to a seat the Lord^s
t ab 1 e .
Two others in the train of the Princess, now at Lahaina are
not in regular standing, Kanauna has been more that a [sic]
r
suspended, tho he made such professions of repentance before
he left this place, as led to the hope that he might be restored,
His wife has since proved herself unworthy the communion from
which I have recently learned she has been debased [?] at that
place.
The church has suffered much the last year from the ravages
of death.
Nine of our members have died.
Several of them active
and particularly valued members -- All apparently in the fa-ith
of the gospel.
Three from other churches have died at this place, who also
gave evidence that their hope of heaven was not without foundation.
181
Marriages
1115
Readers
New Testament
I
have carefully reviewed M. Richards translation of Mark,
have made a new traslation of Luke, and seen Matthew safely
conducted through the press, § read a proff of one third of
Mark.
Have paid.some attention to Mr. Thurstons translation
of John,
and devoted much labor to the first half of the
Epistle to Romans, both to facilitate its preparation, for the
current edition of the New Testament, § to supply the' -ai o' ka
la, which the ill health of Mr. Baldwin led him to request me
to prepare in his stead, even t h o ’ I should omit or postpone
some other assignments
With his request however I could
hardly have complied, had I not supposed that every hour I
devoted to it was aiding another object which the Mission have
in view, a new edition of the N btv Testament,
T have endeavored
to be two months ahead with the ai o ka la, that it -might
�Honolulu 1835
P* 2
reach the stations abroad in season,. [?] the Kumu I have had the
use o£ the improved translation by Mssrs Thurston § Bishop,
§
have studied the pages o£ Professor Stuart and endeavored to
follow'at a respectful distance in the wake of that able
expositor.
In this laborious service, I have been kindly en
couraged to go on, particularly by Mr. Bishop.
As to the Old Testament I have done little more than attend
carefully to the proofs of Judges § Ruth § first § 2 Samuel,
since the last general meeting I have done but little to the
grammar, on which I intend to bestow special attention as soon
as the Hymns § the New Testament shall cease to claim my
principal care, aside from the duties of Pastor,
#
�Report o£ Station
at
Honolulu
June 1836
The progress in the various departments o£ labors, § the
succession o£ changes at this station for last missionary year,
have been much of the same character § style as in former years,
the kinci of service, many, the changes various § frequent,
§
the progress in the good work by the blessings of God gradually
onward tho less rapid than we could wish.
We have been allowed to shake hands with a missionary who
crossed the Rocky mountains to seek out the fort on the Banks
of the Columbia, § to greet the friends from Europe who are
visiting in their own vessel the inhabitants of various islands
in the great Pacific, and laboring for their conversion to God,
^ who are still endeavoring to cooperate with the laborers in
this field.
Preaching has been maintained as usual'.
preached 3 times a week.
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native
35
English
Mr. Bingham has usually
Mr. Tinker as.follows.
He, with various other laborers, has edited 2.3 numbers of the
Kumu Hawaii.
Our congregation, especially since Jan. has been very large.
.Sometimes supposed to be 4. 000.
Average f©r the year 2000 to
2500 .
The protracted meeting in last week of Jan. was well attended.
We have reason to believe the spirit of God was present,
that much.good was accomplished.
§
At this oneeting, the resident
missionaries were kindly assisted by Mssrs- Smith, Emerson, Parker,
Wheeler,
§ Lee, § several lay brethern.
repeatedly filled to overflowing
Our laTge church was
Good attention appeared to
be gxven to the word.
Several natives distinguised themse.lyes by the force § p r o
priety of their appeals to their countrymen, among whom were
Bartimeus, John Ti § Kekapala.
Several have represented thejij---
selves as having chosen Christ for their saTior at this period §
�Honolulu 1836
p.
givent.themselves to him.
[?] must decide whether their choice
§ surrender, has been cordial
happy.
Church members.
Number admitted during the year by examination § profession
of faith 39.
By letter from other churches[?] 18
Lahaina
7
Hilo
4
Kailua
1
Kaawaloa
1
Waimea
1
Lahainaluna
4
Two from Hilo, § one from L a
haina, recommended, have not been re
ceived.
The whole number received this year 57 The whole number on profession
from the onissionary church
268
6
by letter from native church’V'.1,8"
292
Deceased the last
4
Excommunicated
3
Dismissed § united to
other ch.:
Suspended
16
4 -- 3 for ad.^ § one for idolatry-
Of the seven who stood suspended at the last General Meeting
2 have been excommunicated, 2 restored, three have made profes
sions of penitence and reformation but are still suspended from
communion.
Present number suspended 7.
made confession.
All profess penitence.
all have
including also 2 excommunicated m e m b e r s .
One of the excommunicated members, gave some evidence of
repentance § reformation, was soon laid on a sick bed § died,
without being formally restored.
One of the excommunicated persons seems to remain stout
�Honolulu 1836
p. 3
hearted § rebellious, § is to us as a heatheii man, § publican.
Church
On profession from June 1835 to 1836
Whole no. on proof
Transferred from Miss. Ch.
Rec. by letter last year
Whole no by recommendation
from other church
Whole no. receid
Propounded
Died last year
Whole no deceased
Dismissed to other churches
Excom last year
IVhole no ex
Suspended
Goodstanding
Child baptism this year
Whole No. chil Bap
Ch died last
Ch. died Whole No.
24
292
2
4
30
25
3
4
7
226
22
168
4
22
Marriages --
258
39
26 8
6
18
Schools
Examined April 1836 = 2665
Hon.
)
Men 791.
§ Moan)
lua
Women 949
Boys 119
girls. 252 = 2111
.Re.aders
Honolulu - - Honolulu aina
743)
467)
Moanalua - Waikiki - -
305
.554.
1210
2069
Mrs. Dimonds girls school
45
Mrs. Halls girls school
50
Dr. Judd Boys school
)
taught by native teachers )
56
Mrs. Tinkers Wome n ’
's class of readers in the Kumu
38
Mr. Chamberlain's Sabbath School 1244 average number of atten-^
dance, from 2 to 4 p.m.
#
Mr. Bingham’s Bible class 250
�Honolulu Station Report
for the year Ending May 1, 1837
By the gracious aid of our unfailing helper the labors of this Station in
its multiplied departments has been gradually carried forward during the very
short but interesting missionary year, and every department has been attended
with such success as to cheer the hearts of the laborers in their'.toil, to extend
obvious benefits to the people, and to demand a special :tribute to the glory of
God on whose blessing, all the desirable results of of[!] our plans & exertions,
exclusively defends.
His blessing has been granted, amidst our toils, changes, &
affections , and we have more encouragement to trust in him, commit our way to
him, roll our burdens on him, & to spend & be spent for him, than at the commence
ment of the year.
Feeble then as our strength is
compared the the[!] demand, on
our care & toil, we would thank God & take courage.
Preaching at the station
The ordinary course of preaching , has been three’sermons a week by Mr.
Bingham chiefly [here?], & by Mr. Tinker, chiefly it'at,Waikiki- & Moanalua out
posts, & a
2 By
Smith, usually [?] the children within the bounds of this
district which extends .from the Eastern end of the island to Moanalua about 20
miles, and embraces a population of about 13,000 souls.
The principal congregation at Honolulu may be estimated at 2500, which
usually gives attention to the preached word & ordinances, of Christ.[Note:
On
the original manuscript,'■.this line had an "X'-’ over it.]
Soon after the general meeting Mr. Bingham made a tour of this island with
his family, occupying four weeks, preaching as he had opportunity, on which tour
a protracted meeting was held at Waianee[!], attended , by Messrs [Bishop?]
Emerson & Bingham, where less missionary exertion had been made than in any other
part of this island.
This was it is believed attended with obvious go.od[?] to
the people there.
In that lonely district Mrs. B. was attacked with alanmng illness arid after a
few days was brought on a litter[bed]
across the mountains to Ewa, then on a
canoe to this place.
Mr. Tinker spent a week in making the tour of this island in company with
two of our church members, held more than 20 meetings, at which, from 30 to 300
people attended.
He also with his family made a tour of Kauai during the months
of August & Sfeptemher preaching;?as opportunity offered.
Mr. Bingham was required to visit Kauai, where with his family he was absent
�Honolulu 1837
8[?[ weeks.
2.
These tours with the illness of his family have occupied about one
third of the time from the close of the last gen. m.[meeting] to commencement of
the present[?], but
a part
of that period not devoted to direct labor among
the people was occupied in preparing, or assisting to prepare several documents
connected with Brother Richards visit to the United States, a memorial on the
subject of political economy[?], & Letter of instructors to Mr. R.’. & a letter of
introduction to the Board stating the objects of the visit & soliciting their
kind cooperation.
Since his return, he has reviewed 6 forms of the Hymn book with music, &
prepared the same hymns for printing without
notes, with the title of Himeni
Hilea, with an introductory essay or epistle to the ['. ?’ ] designed to show the
nature, and object of the book and &[!] to teack and encourage the people to use
it advantageously, as a help in the service of God and in preparation for heaven.
[The preceeding paragraph was "X’ed” out on the original manuscript.]
with a table [
?
] out hymns
neatly printed in an edition
[
? "
]
to- the''character, has been
of 10,000 cop. 24 mo. & can be afforded to the
purchase for the small consideration of 25 cents.
toil of preparing
This work
The compiler feels that the
these little works for the nation, has been a pleasure & a
privilege, of no ordinary value,' & he has watched them through the press with
■'
much care & vigilence, with the cheery hope that with the blessing of God, They
would prove an [
?
] & valuable [
?
] in the hand,of every missionary in
these islands, in leading the people directly, pleasurably & entirely to Christ,
& contesting them heartily & undistainingly in his service.
admit no human, that would not afford some [
?
He has endeavored to
] of useful light[?] to the
understanding, some evangelica;i’ motives to the seat, and some means of expressing
[
?
] feeling in honor of God, & not a line that could not be [ ? ] with
■.tolerable
ease, S'not a syllable that must cross a consonant in order to find
utterance on its proper note.
In the last edition the names of several tunes are often named for some hymn,
but always one of them accounts with the tune printed with the hymn, & much care
has been taken that the style’ . 'of the hymn,& the tune should agree otherwise
book[?] would prove unsatisfactory.
There may be more exceptions.
'^Feeling
that the Masons Missionary hymn was not sufficiently tender & compassionate for
a lamentation over the ruin of milions[?] of
[
’’?
] be hastily sketched an-:',
other which be brought more nearly adapted in tenderness to Aloha ko na mauna,
that of [
?
], but' then, unwilling to bring it competition with his, even to
its exclusion ‘ ’"especially as that was already known,the new one was laid wholly
�Honolulu 1837
3.
•
aside till the new missionary [* This section ’^X'ed" out;
also, a page seems to
be missing here.]
He has attended to other proof reading, to considerable extent, & translated
about 3/5 of the Book of Leviticus, which has'it^ put in type, and made some ad
vance in the Hawaiian Grammar in English & translated about 3/5 of the book of
Leviticus which has been put in type, having been reviewed by Mr. Bishop.
[Unsigned]
[Bingham]
[Written on the back]; Report
of
Honolulu Station
May 1837
�Tinker's Report
[1837]
The Editor of the Kumu Hawaii has been hindered in his work from
the want of paper.
Only 13 numbers of the Kumu Hawaii, and 5 of the
Kumu Kamalii have been issued since the first of last June.
He has
edited also the minutes of the Gen Meeting for .1836j/an^^the minutes
of the Hawaiian Association from its first formation in 182
in].
[not filled
Also Catalogues of Books in the libraries of the Sandwich Islands
Mission and the Maternal Association,
A portion of time has been
devoted t o ,the printing of the Missionary Circular and reading proof
sheets of some other works.
He tes preached ordinarily twice on the Sabbaths & at other times
in tour of the Island &c as follows .
At Waikiki
12v
” Honolulu
16 - Chiefly during the absence of the pastor.
. A Kaneohe
9
^iMoanalua .
4
Ewa
3
Circuit of Oahu 20
At. Kauai.
13
77
English
__8^
85
Attended 12 funerals, one of them for a foreigner drowned in the
harbor by intemperance.
He has attended three protracted meetings one at Waimea,, Kauai,
in Aug. last
one at Honolulu in Feb. —
one at Kaneohe in March.
Mr. Tinker and family were absent on a visit at Kauai in Augt and
September.
He made the tour of the Island, and visited some parts of
it several times, preaching as there was opportunity.
He also made ,t^e tour of Oahu in December in company .with two
�Tinker 1837
native members of the church of Honolulu.
meetings consisting of from 3 0 to 300^
He held more than twenty
and was employed in the
Circuit one week.
Prom December to the present time he has been subject to interrup
tion in his labors by inflamed eyes - a part of the time entirely laid
aside - the rest of it^ able to read and write more or less.
Honolulu j May
, 1837.
Tinker
,
�Mr. Tinker’s Report, for the
delegate meeting of 1838, at Laiiainaluna..
Hindered during the.year past hy weak,eyes.
Edited 26 nuniTDers of the Kumu Hawaii,
7 numbers of the Kumu Kamalii, which has been discontinued
for want of fund s.
Taupht a school of 11 weeks, for missionaries children.
Visited Molokai, Maui, and Lanai.
Protracted meetings, ^ present at three, Honolulu, E?/a, and Laie.
Preaching.
Vfed. Lecture
12
for I.tr. Diell
11__
In native, at Waikiki . .
Honolulu . .
for Itr. Smith . . .
Kaneohe
. .
Laie^
...
Ewa . . . .
Nuuanu . . .
Waialae . . .
Moanalua . .
Waialua . . .
Molokai . . . .
Kanapari . .
Wailuku . . . 1
23
24
14
11
10
8
8
9
4
2
2
3.
2
98
121
Married . . 11 couple.
Appointments
Translation.
Glass of iihiskey, done by the hand of Mr. Thurston.
Correspondence.
Temperance.
Letter to Amherst College . . . .
I4r. A. Bullard . . . .
Mr. Delevan, (for ^.:l!ack
'
No report ready . . . . During the year
Nuuanu has ceased and perished, and the
Honolulu have been shut, except two. liquor sold, a:nd the ninnber of drinkers
Written
Written
of knowledge)
not written.
the Distillery at
grog shops at
The quantity of
not known.
�1 Congregation Honolulu 1839
In the good providence of God the undiminished labor of the Station
have been carried through another year with little variation from the
ordinary routine which is generally pretty well understood.
The lord
graciously working with us, and as we trust securing to himself the
glory if any good has been accomplished by our instrumentality.
The plan an[d] nature of the preaching
has embraced perhaps more
than an ordinary share of what may be termed strong meat, the higher
doctrines and duties of the Christian, and prepared with some reference
to a work a Christian doctrine for the pop.[ulation].
The duty of Christian Churches is to sustain the preaching and
R gospel, and to send it to the Heathen has been most destinctly[sic]
insisted on, and not without its apparent effect.
frugality, and liberality
Industry, ener[g]y,
have been urg[e]d together apparently tp
good advantage.
A great increase of attention has been given to agriculture and
manufacturing especially in reference to the sugar cane.
A great amount
of unusual labor has been bestowed in opening, widening, straightening
and arranging the streets of the town, and alterations of many buildings
for that purpose and gradually labor has been expended in''raising the
walls o£ a coral church, to the height of about 20 feet from the
foundation.
=f'=
‘-r-_ •
It should perhaps be distinctly stated about 3 years ago,
agreeably with the wishes of the missionaries § the leading members
of the native congregations, a general meeting of the district was
called to see what could be done towards building 9. permanent
church, such as Kaahumanu § Kraimoku had contemplated but were
�Honolulu 1839
2.
ma,ble to accQjiiplish, - - A t
this meeting the king distinguished
himself for his liherality, offered 300 0 doll in cash § expressed
his wish that the people would kokua.
to freely'.
This was generally assented
It was the .wish of the missionaries that the whole amount
o£ lahor to he perforjiied by native hands he as -voluntary gfrfheir
contnrihtitions in cash now-,
This has heen to. some extent the fact,
th.o the chi-e^s have.- taken the direction,
if th.ey own it apply a portion of the
§ feeling that they might
lillegibl.ej'
to that object
ins.tead o,f building ;fortsI?i!' ships, bridges, and dykes for fish
ponds.
They' have done so freely, § also occasionally the labors of
a,bout IQQQ jrien who axe regarded as -minute onen, soldiers, or the
domestics or retinue of the chief's.. W'e do not think this would be
the best way, § I -regxet that my proposition to take a subscription
for stone,
timber-,. ^ for labor, as well as; for cash among the.
common people was not aceeded to, tho^ the reason for it was the king
and ch.iefs preferred to give Ji,llegibleJ that time, of t.h.eir
people whfch. they believed mejiibers' '/■' entitled to,
I supposed
th.is would with, theiy own § the peoples, voluntary contributions
of the people would early' accomplish the object which was
.generally decided desirable j, § which w.puld be a public benefit,
as really § many tim.es extensively as as Isic] would be a fort,
a ship of war, needed for th.e defense of the country or the
. dignity of the sovereign.
The. effort G9,rr±.ed out successfully th.exe is no reasonable
doubt ^ would ha've a liappy influence on th.e courage,' confidence
and efficiency of the people in .xespect to other great and
important plans xequixing the sacrifice of money -and labox.
Nay
while toiling at this object there is no diminution of the
dispostion
§ ability of the people to do for th.emse.lves, for
their pastor, their schools,
for foreign objects of benevolence^
�Honolulu 1839
3.
but an obvious increase.
This would appear from the promptness
with which a proposition was met this year to send a printing ^
binding establishment to the Oregon Territory with other suitable
supplies the past year.
It may be remembered here too that
though the house 144 feet long ^ 78 [?] wide, it is at least 12
feet shorter than the chiefs were pretty firmly resolved to have
it, but which in deference to our united wishes, ^ compassion to
the preacher whose voice was expected to fill it they condescended
to take off.
It may also be stated that the governor knowing the general
wishes of the king § chiefs, said "Ina aole nui ka hale a me ka
maikai aole au e hana.*'
[The following in Leyi Chamberlain's hand]:
The stone squarers have been paid
25^ per-day
The native masons from 12 to 32,
50 cents
The foreign masons,
1 50
"
The foreign, carpenter
who is engaged to employ § teach natives.
It has been my desire for several years to have the people to provide
the means of support for their own preacher & to send the gospel too to the
heathen.
The latter I have been able to plead, with less embarrassment than
the former because I do it with less appearance of personal interest, &
because it the object is in one sense more imperiously necessary, more
commanding when properly understood, & more likely to pass unnoticed if not
isisted on by
pointed out.
the preacher & the means and opportunity for acting on it
I could urge the
object too th^more exclusively on
the principles of benevolence, & because I believe that if the people can
be made to feel that the gospel is of great value to the heathen abroad.
It could easily be inferred to be worth its cost to themselves.
�Honolulu 1839
4.
In practice tQO I peycej,.ye
in tJie cause"' o|' cliarity
.15, about .^s. e^s.j ,tp cajjy a pg^nt
conside'r.a'ble 'amouiit'
wKich can be
appreciated by' even dull m i n d s , as one of, very s-mall consideration
tji.e reasons for which are far less striking.
Some years ago, two of the families of the methodist mission
sojourning here about 8 months occupied the house of Paahana,
which was rented at 25 a day
for about 10 0 days making the
Is'ic] a little more than 20 dall,
I proposed to the members of our
church to make a contribution to pay Paahana this sum, 10 doll
we-re.'soon paid him 'which he without putting in his pocket donated
at once to the building of the church
is not yet paid,
but most, of the remainder
The church, members could perh,aps reason in this
way, which/'why should I give a real or a
to paahana,
for
wh.at he could very well afford to allow the missionaries gratis?
A, few months ago I proposed to th,e church § congregation to
.repeat .thef^. donation the Oregon Mission
send them sugar
molasses, salt §c, together with a printing § bi.riding establish
ment
wh.at amount of supplies it was
to send, § after
Mr, Hall had made a selection of the press and all the articles
he. 'deemed necessary to commence the work of printing § binding
in the, Oregon
,were.:'set before the eyes of the people as matters
of great i^pojrtance to be sent/
Ab.out .'50. families
[?] paid
for the press § one. font of type.
About 5 0 menrsubscribed for
parts a § general contributions and :1±e parts [illegLbieT printing supplies to the
am"^ .of 444 Doll,
complete
making the printings and bindery establishment
There was howeYer a remainder I?J of paper 119 Doll
Doll ch.arged to' my personal account with the expectation that
the monthly concert contributions should cover it.
In getting subscribers to this ob.ject I called on Kinau, who
was- confined to hi®: house with sick eyes, § asked her howsmuch
�Honolulu 1839
5,
she was going to give in she said perhaps 5 dol. I replied others?
not in her rank § standing
a me
[?]
give that, who?
Well how much should I give
A pehea lo o vitoria 2 paha?
given that, 0 wai?
0
0 Kenia, Kealoha,
”10 paha” , ”pono no” . --
I said a very little woman has
Daiimana'’ -- A pahea lo ka pono o ke kaika-
mahine? -- ’’Papalua hoi peha" ’Aer;u'a.rp;ono” thus she gave 14
doll for this object of commanding i-mportance than the whole
church, had done the same sum for an obj'ect analo^gous and im
portant hut of far less moment.
My conclusion is that in order to
call for the proper degree of energy ^ the proper kind of feeling
among the people ohjects, great, noble, § p:^actibable should be
often set before theTii, § tha,'t th.eir vigorous § successful effort
to accomplish is a grand preparation for undertaking another.
l^d'le iinproveTijents in agriculture, in the streets, of the town
9-,nd
labors the constitution'of a permanent church, and efforts
to s-end a press § th.e gospel to 'heathen people have not neglected
this pastor, but have fu>j;nished him with .means of support to the
amount of, about 8'QQ. doll., § have planted about 10 acres of cane, ■:
. ,th.e 'avails of first', crop of which are in a measure pledged for a
pi,Her clock, while the succeeding are. expected to be for the sup
port .of th.e pastor here or for the cause of be.n.evo.lence more
generally.
I have usually made i,t a point also in the dispersal of books v
to. get' the full V9,lue P:tt.a,ch.ed to them by th.e mission, believing
tha.t this is an equitable way in which the people can be
called to dimi^'sh, one very considerable item of. expense to the
mission,
'X have paid into the depository on the Bible Society
account' 4 8 doll c'osti. for. books sold.
I have also paid for every
article, drawn from the. ’depository during the last missionary
year.
These facts will show that a missionary of the Board may
�Honolulu 1839
6.
so manage his affairs as not to prevent the Board (by his drafts)
from sending another laborer into the field.
better way or not is another question.
in these days of experimenting.
have a fair trial.
Whether this is the
It is worthy of an experiment
§ I am inclined to hope it may
It affords at least the people the opportunity
of doing what the tenor of the gospel requires of them for the
of their Christian teacher [,?] and at the same tione does not subject
th.e missionary to that unpleasant uncertainty as to the perman
ency of support which must attend at present an active reliance on
the people :solely or
on his own hand s .
In connexion with this,
independant of the Board's pledge of an economical support so
far a.s- needed,
I have alluded to the liberality of Kinau, to the Oregon
Mission,
I might add that h.er .subscription to this stone church
no w is but was 40 0 doll in cash,' for the adobe church for Mr S.
congregation 2Q.Q.,
church’
Fe ^deeply feel' her loss as a member of our
congregation and as a pillar of the nation, ^ those of
h.er frjends who looked at her as a pilot, who had guided the ship
in a terrible §torm where '.it was. every hour liable to founder
or go to th.e. bottom, will, be-.touched tenderly to see her high
h-opes’ cut shorty § h.ersel'f called suddenly away by death, just as
th,e peaceful port was so invitingly opening before her.
But
i^hile she has left the. vessel to. encounter dangers near shore,
we trust she has h.erself entered the port of
eternal peace,
§
that, .her prudence, piety, and consistent Christian course will
still exert a happy influence to secure the further improvements
needed in the la¥s
the administration of the government.
The
emba,'r'ra$'§mentS' to which, the n.ation is. exposed arising from the
■inj.udicious attempts of the Ilomission' Jsic] to establish Pvomanism
here,' § the unbending decision of Kinau § her predecessor § to
■
�Honolulu 1839
7.
prevent it, we do hope in the mercy of God will not be great or
of long continuance but still the extremely hasty measures of the
French nation, from exportee representatives,
in extorting from
the defenseless Tahitions the sum of 3.000 doll under a blockade,
and a threat of war, blood shed and conflagration,
soon to
apprehend that a similar policy here would subject the people §
the mission, ^ the friends of the mission here to great evils.
God can indeed avert the sharks.
The visit of the Fly Capt. Eliot was on the whole pleasant.
It seemed to be the policy of the commander to conciliate all
contending parties.
Whether his advice to Kinau to give Mr
[?]
F. Pelly a good title to a peice of ground which then affirmed
that
of Capt. Hinkley, § whether her compliance, which
[End of pg. 4 of original manuscript.
Page 5 seems to be missing.
Next
line begins page 6 of original manuscript.]
was very highly commended was the wisest course, is not quite clear, because
it virtually goes to sanction an unjust claim to the soil set up by strangers
in similar cases.
This is a d[?] &c.
Elliot & Capt. [?] urged by allmeans the release of the natives who were
under punishment for hoomanakii [idolatry, image worship] in adhering to the
rites of Romanism.
The chiefs replied, ."our teachers have given us the same
advice,but hoomanakii is contrary to the laws of God and of the king & we
know not what to do with the offenders but to punish them."
Since this
visit we have seen the remarks of a voyage connected with the American
Sequoia Com. Kennedy, concerning his visit here, whose influence was some
what similar to that of Elliot.
state some things
As the writer has taken the liberty to
witl:j(nore than the insinuation that he secured his
information fronjme, and as has been rather liberal in his
of the
mission generally I ma^llude to them and I give my views in brief to my
brethern in another place...
[The last two pages are written in pencil, very dim.]
�Report for the
first congregation at Honolulu
MAY,
1840
(Note from the transcriber:
What follows is a draft in Bingham's
hand, with many places crossed out or overwritten.
The final
copy, if any, has not been located in HMCS collections.)
Soon after our last general meeting, this place was
agitated and thrown with consternation and distress by the
hostile measures, and imperious of demands on this government by
an of officers of the French, requiring a deposit of 20,000
dollars in his hands, and a declaration that the Catholic
Religion should be free in these islands, and a location granted
for a catholic church to be administered by priests of their own
nation, threatening to commence hostilities on the nation & to
bring the evils of the war on the missionaries who might be
supposed to have influenced the government, or to have been the
authors of the insults offered to France.
These demands could not be resisted with safety, & though
unreasonable and injurious they were complied with, and a further
concession perhaps equally injurious to the native was made to
admit the French to bring wine & Brandy into the country by
paying the small duty of 5 percent, though,a law had been passed
prohibiting the importation of ardent spirits except for medical
& mechanical purposes.
Then the assessment of damages for the detention of the
Clementine, which brought hither the expelled catholics increased
the embarrassment of the nation.
The people were appalled as by
an unexpected earthquake shock, and, as a body, thrown into a
state of confusion unfavorable to religious impressions & moral
improvement.
The minds of many appeared to be unhinged which
gave satan a great advantage.
The agitation of war has uniformly
been unfavorable to morals & religion.
The work on the meeting
house was suspended and special efforts made to '^'ay the demands
both new or old which pressed on the nation.
The attention of
the Gov. was also directed to the creation of a boarding school
for the chldren of the chiefs which has been completed & opened
with encouraging pupils.
The death of Madam Boki gave occasion
for the unsettled feelings of many of the common people to show
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�themselves in the irregularity[?] of kumakena [grief] & folly
which required the restraint of the police.
I went among the
crowd on a sabhath evening at her door and was astonished to see
the degree of levity, & dis[?] which appeared among a part to [?]
on the solemness of the sorrow, on the solemnity of the occasion,
& the [?] of life.
In addressing those thus engaged I considered
myself speaking to those or encouraged by those who were
beginning to attend the catholic service.
I spent an hour
attempting to restore order, & was in a good measure successful.
Hoapili afterwards used his influence and authority to
the [sic] stop the excessive wailing.
At the funeral the
catholic priest Mr. Walsh was placed by my side in the procession
but on arriving in front of the pulpit with his [?] hat & [?]
hastened to the distance of 60 rods and after the sermon joined
the procession again at a distance from the church.
Deeming special efforts necessary to save the people from
going over in numbers to romanism we held several protracted
meetings for their good at the center of the station, & one the
valley of Nuuanu.
These were all attended with a blessing, and
followed with apparently good results, tho not as powerful as
some former meetings had been.
The business of selecting & and
[sic] examining candidates for the fellow of the church and
receiving them after a long proba^tion has been continued much in
same way as for two years preceeding, and on Sep 1. 124 were
admitted on profesion
Dec. 2.88
March 1, 62
April
[?]
50
This last with another member of the church, both unmarried men
attached themselves to the Methodist Mission family for four
years.
Another member who had just been received by letter from
the church at Kailua, enlisted for 3 years at 10 doll per month
in the service of the hudson Bay Com as a l a b o r e r ^ on the
Columbia leaving his wife here with herBrother.
[Bingham has
crossed out this last,]
Besides the ordinary pulpit and pastoral duties of the
station, I have united with Brother Smith in sustaining an
evening service at the seamens chapel since the failure of Mr.
Diell's health with the exception of Brother Tinkers attendance
there & three sabbaths supplied by the Methodists.
The
attendance there has always been somewhat encouraging.
We should notice with thankfulness the pleasant visit of
the United States E. I. Squadron to this place the officers of
which several of whom appeared to be influenced by the gospel
exerted a good influence.
Also the visit of the Methodist
missionary family bound to the Oregon Territory, who were
cheerfully welcomed here, & spent two or three weeks with us,
making & leaving a good impression.
We were on personal
acquaintance better pleased with the s u p e r i n t e n d a n t , Mr. Lee as a
serious, wise, & energetic pioneer and evangelical preacher than
we had expected to be.
He seemed very sanguine in the hope of
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�teaching the wasting tribes of the poor indians to take care of
themselves, so as to avoid starvation & disease induced byextreme poverty, & of conveying to them by means of schools &
preaching, the saving knowledge of Christ.
Two of our people
attached themselves with my advice to the family as laborers,
expecting to serve 4 years.
Another member of the church, Ulu,
who had just been received by letter from Kailua, enlisted in the
service of the Hudson Bay Company for 3 years on the Columbia at
10 per month, leaving his wife here in the care of her brother.
[This is the same incident reported earlier, and crossed out by
the a u t h o r ,]
[Written in pencil following statistical t a b l e ] :
Sam. J. Mills [presumably a Hawaiian who had taken this
name] it is known was examined prior to the last gen. meeting —
During the last year he made repeated efforts to get
married to a woman who had lived with a foreigner
who left
this place with the squadron — but not finding any missionary or
chief who would marry him him [sic] both parties repaired to
Lahaina where they were married as we have heard by Mr. B. on the
authority of the king — returned to this place sick, employed a
native doctor & then died — without giving evidence of repentence,
(CENTER)Importance —
Besides the progress of delusion through the efforts of
Rome, the alteration of a class of people in the district has
been
by the pretentions of two psuedo Messiahs.
The girl
lepopo who organized in the
vicinity was soon found to be a
vile imposter, a malefactor and came to nought.
The 2d Ka Hoano,
claims to be Messia.
& those who have (listened) to him pretend
that their diseases when reported to him are relieved by him or
by the power of God.
Through him much like the case of the faith
Doctors of [illegible]
I had one [illegible] with him and his
attendants 40 or 50 in number — He seemed dull, ignorant and
without system or plan.
Whether he was partially deranged &
believing himself to be what he pretended to be, or whether he
was wickedly endeavoring to decieve I could not decide.
There
was no evidence of his efforts to patronize
or arrange [?] vice
or
[illegible], — But the Gov. thought it advisable to call him
& his adherents to account, advise & admonish them but so far as
I know did not condemn them to any punishment, & in this he [had]
reason to believe he would have our approbation.
Especially as
Papal Idolatry cannot be restrained by law, we could not see how
the idolatry encouraged by this impostor or any other could be
consistently punished by law, unless it resulted in the violation
of the just rights of the people.
Little danger is apprehended
from his exertions.
I asked him in the presence of the people
whether he believed himself to be the Messia the king of the
Jews.
He replied He hanu wau nona a wa loaa iau kona inoa.
With
this concession I supposed he would do little harm.
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�Report for the 1st Church at
Honolulu
May,
1840
■p
!h
O 3 O
ft rH
<D 0 CX3
Statistical Table
iH
O
a 0
o o
•H K (Average congregation
+J
cd
Reed the[!] fellowship on ex.
CO
i)n certif.
Whole no ree d [?]
f=i
o
o
r--p
275
26
301
Dismiss ed
13
Deceased
24
Suspen - [!]
13
Remain suspended
10
Ex.
1
Child’^. Baptised
Bap.
Children deceased
Marriages
R e e d . on e x a m .
on certificate
0)
-P
6
o
<4-1 00
(=!
*H
0) a
d
0 •H
P 00
!=l cu
0)
o
1500
Total
109
7
73
1075
87
1163
Dismissed to other[!]
66
Deceased
86 [?]
RefflaiH-sttSpended-[!]
10[!]
Excom.
18
Regular standing
990
Children Baptised
440
Children deceased
44
, ^ ^ jA ¥ e * = a g e - e e H g i= e g a % i e ii - [ ! ]
1 5 G Q [ !]
[.i n p e n c i 1 ] ;
50 candidates
�Report of the first church and congregation in Honolulu [1841]
It will be recollected that a connnittee was appointed at our last general
meeting to take measures to supply Mr. Binghams place, during his absence on a
visit to the U. States on the proposition of this committee, after due consider
ation.
I left Wailuku with my family on the.27th of July in the schooner Clarion
and arrived at the place the next day.
Five days after the Brig Flora sailed
for the U. States, bearing away among others the precious freight of Mr. Binghamf
and family, Mr. Thurston
and
'Children and my own dear child, / my firstborn the
beginning of my strength - my Caroline.
I need scarcely say, (for some of you
have passed through like scene) that this was a season of traial[!] to us, yea,
a season never to be forgotten whil^emory lasts, or the heart of a father or a
mother continues to beat within our breasts,.
We loved the people of our charge
in the Wailuku parish, and we were not aware of the strength of our attachment,
until we came to part, although it was expected to be but for a season.
In return
we received every demonstration of confidence and affection that a poor and
simple-hearted people could give.
If it had been possible, it seemed as though
they would have plucked out their eyes and given them unto us.
The trial of part
ing with our people coming so close in connection with the severance of parting
with our daughter, we found to be as much as we could bear, and indeed it was not
until the lapse of a few days that I found myself in a proper state of mind to
take hold of my proper missionary work.
The church
The first object of attention after I commenced labour was the church.
Much dis
order at that time prevailed, many cases calling for discipline were reported to
me within: a few days after my assuming the pastoral charge;there seemed to be a
fearful tendency among the members to break out in,:open iniquity, regardless of
god or man.
I attempted at first to manage cases of discipline in church meetings,
as this had been the practice of the church, but soon found that it required a
more skillful moderator than I was to keep order.
The uproar of the meeting
seemed to be at times as great a scandal as that of the offender to be tried.
A
committee of the church including 9 natives, Mr. Chamberlain and Dr. Judd, was
therefore appointed to manage all church business and report when prepared.
Three
of these, I should say, includipg Dr. Judd, had been previously apart as deacons,
but not with the view attending to cases of discipline.
Having our committee
organised we met regularly once a week while the business of the church required
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2.
it and when business was prepared it was reported to the church and any member
was allowed to express his opinion upon it, but no vote was taken as a general
thing.
The results of our proceedings in regard to discipline may be seen by
reference to the statistical table at the end of this report, but it may be proper
here to state a few disconnected facts in regard to this church, by way of show
ing its present condition and explaining some of its proceedings.
1.
The evil that have disturbed its peace and prosperity.
These are principally
such as drinking intoxicating drinks of various kinds, cards, puhenehene, adultery
lying and quarreling.
As usual these gregarious evils have herded together and
combined their strength to break through all moral restraints, and send trouble,
and confusion through the church of God.
Among other intoxicating drinks, wine
has done some mischief in this church during the past year.
Several members were
found during the fall months to be intoxicated upon it, or what they received
as wine.
This led to an investigation .o.f the subject.
A full meeting of the
church was called, which was attended by Dr. Wood, Mr, Brinsmade and Mr, Jarves,
and a letter was read to the meeting from Dr. Wood, and Messrs. Brinsmade and
Ladd, certifying that in their opinion, not one third of the liquor that's brought
here and sold for wine has a drop of wine in it, and expressing the probability
that a native rarely purchases real wine at the stores.
It is nothing but a
composition of ardent spirit mixed with various deleterious[!] drugs.
The result
of this meeting, I think was happy; The Governor was present and took part in
the discipline and since that time I have not heard of his drinking wine.
He
declined taking even a glass, it is said, with the gentlemen of the Vincennes,
after her return from Hawaii.
It was the general opinion of those who spoke at
this meeting, that natives cannot take wine without too much and the only safe
course is to leave it off altogether, and yet it is hard to make them see the
impropriety of it while they know it is daily used by very prominent and active
Christians from enlightened lands.
Tobacco continues to be used by a ,considrable number in this church and I
am sorry to say, I have had but little success in my attempts [to] dissuade those
who use it to leave.
I preached on the subject several times, besides presenting
it occasionally in connection with other topics.
Several meetings also were held
for. the express purpose of discussing the merits and demerits of the vile weed,
and I have heard of some who from that time ceased to smoke entirely, but there
appeared to be danger of the things becoming a root of bitterness in the church
producing angry contention, seisur[!], and pharisaical pride on the one side and
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3.
complaints of persecution on the other, and on the whole it seemed to me best
to bring the'-:fecussi6h'' to. a close, after giving my most solemn, and earnest
advice to all to leave off entirely the use of luxury which has done incalculable
evil to the Hawaiian race, without one single redeeming quality to recommend it.
Before leaving the subject of the evils that have disturbed this church, I
would just state that Mokuiki (a member of this ch.[urch].
Then under censure)
who was poisoned by her husband Kamanawa and Lonopuakau, for which crime they were
executed on the scaffold in last was tempted to take the poison through
her love
of awa, an evil against which she had|just been faithfully and solemnly warned, and
from which she had repeatedly pledged her word to abstain.
So true is it that sin
when it hath conceived bringeth forth death.
2,
Labour for the welfare of the church.
Observing during the fall months, a dis
tressing wrecklessness among church members in regard to open immorality, and a
general prevalence of stupidity in regard to divine things, I had the church divid
ed into ten classes, one of which I met everyday for 5 days each week, so as to
enable me to see every member once in two weeks and say a word to each in regard
to his own state.
These classes met in rotation regularly for several months until
a bad cold obliged me to lay them aside.
The were conducted simply as Bible class,
were well attended, the roll being called each day and absentees marked, and since
they were commenced the church has appeared much better as a body that it did
before.
3.
I have received no persons to the fellowship’ of the church since my labours
here commenced, except such as were left propounded by Mr Bingham.
4.
One or two cases of discipline may deserve special notice, particularly that
of the Governor of this island and Kekauluohi, as their cases have attracted un
usual notice.
The facts in the case were these.
In the month of Oct. while the
chiefs were all assembled at this place, the husband of Kekauluohi, accused his
wife of unlawful intimacy with Kekuanaoa.
The subject was investigated by the
King and council, assisted by Mr. Richards, which investigation continued for
several days.
The result was that the accused were both acquited[!], the evidence
not appearing sufficient to convict.either of them.
A few days after this the
Governor told me, although he had been acquited by the Judges, yet in the sight '
of the Judge of all the earth he was guilty, that several months previous to
that time he had commit[!] the abominable act of which he had been suspected.
Kekauluohi made the same confession voluntarily though it was done in writing.
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4.
and on the next day returned to Maui.
The Governor came before the session, and
acknowled[l] his transgression and expressed a willingness to submit humbly to such
discipline as the ch.[urch] might think proper.
On the next Sabbath he made a
confession before the church, which was accepted and no further proceedings were
held on his case.
The case of Kekauluohi being unharrassed by difficulties with
her husband, was not so easily disposed of, and was in consequence held in sus
pense for some time, until her scandelous[!] conduct at the Kings feast in January,
rendered suspence no longer necessary, and laid her under the censure, which
rests upon her at this time,
5.
Number of cases of discipline.
The number of cases of discipline during
the year I am not able to state with accuracy; because there have been some cases
reported to me from other islands, which we have not been able to act upon for want
of a knoledge[!] of the fact relating to the respective cases, but it may be put
down between 60 and 70, including the suspended and excommunicated.
Of these 26,
have been restored on confession of their sin and tollerabl^[!] satisfactory evi
dence of repenten:ce.
I have been in the habit of appointing seasons for confer
ence and prayer with those who wandered from the fold, and for several months met
them regularly every Monday morning. But few,of the above number have cast off
all restraints given themselves up to work iniquity with greediness, although':
some did so for a short season.
Indeed I know of none who are taking that down
ward course now, although most of them do not afford much ground to hope that they
are persistent or that they have any part or lot in the matter.
It was my fear
that many would go over to the Romanists, but I have not heard of one’s 'doing so.
Labour for those out of the church.
Seeing the mass of the people in the parish exposed to so many temptations,
and especially to the deadly heresy of Rome, and withal deep and heavy clouds of
darkness resting yet upon the minds of the multitude I have attempted to carry out
a system of religious instruction which should embrace all of every age, sex and j
-class'sAo feel any '^-concern for the welfare of their souls.
The classes into which
the church was divided I have mentioned; The same method has been pursued with the
hooikakas.
I have taken the names of all who wish to be regarded as on the Lords
side have divided them into 10 classes, 5 for the males and 5\for;'the females,
taking the men on the makaainana week and the women on the paahao week, and meeting
a class each day for 5 days in the week.
This enables me to get round[!] all in
the parish once in two weeks, brings me into close and familiar conversation with
these catechisms enables me to ascertain their amount of knowledge to impart in
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'
5.
struction in a familiar way, and as the cases seem to require.
These schools are
all- conducted simply as Bible classes, for reading and expouriding':the -word of God.
Old people who cannot read come and listen.
ees marked.
The roll is always called and absent
Those who are slack in attending have their names struck off.
This
system of schools has occasioned a considerable demand for the Scriptures especial
ly the N. Testament.
The ten schools of hooikaikas contain about 950 scholars.
Efforts against Romanism.
Besides the tract which was published soon after our General Meeting, and
occasional preaching on the subject, I delivered a course of lectures (holding
two a week) during the month of August and September.
The exercise was pretty
well attended not only by the people of my own charge, but also many of Mr..Smiths;
and many who attended seemed to be very deeply impressed with the abominations of
that Mother of harlots.
The tract has been pretty generally read in this quarter.
If I were asked what the Romanists have been doing in this vicinity during the
past year, I should hardly know what reply to make.
For several months after I
came down here, there was some excitement on the subject, many ran to and fro,
and said lo here! and lo there! the disciples of the French priests as well as the
priests themselves were bold and active, and their meetings
[The rest of the report seems to be missing.]
�Report of the 1st church and congregation
Honolulu [1841]
Average congregation
Rec*^ to fellowship on ex.’^
Bisfflisse4 0n Gertif.^®
Whrdle no. rec^ past year
Whole no, dismissed to
other ch.s
2000
92
[The following paragraph was written
lengthwise on the original manu
script].
7
99
I made two tours of the island and
assisted Bro. Emerson in one pro*^
70[?]
meeting in Koolau.
A protracted
meeting was held in this congr^
Dismissed past year
5
Whole no. deceased
97
during the 1st week of Jan. results
Deceased past year
14
on the whole good.
Suspended the past year
.60
able to attend a female meeting on
Remain suspended
34
friday [i-Jcduring the year.
Excom.'^ past year
10
meetings have been sustained regular
Whole no. excom<^
28
ly through'-,the year. [End]
Remain excom.'^
26
Whole no. in regular
standing
Whole no. of chil? baptised
Morning
No report of Mr. Binghams
1031
511
Baptised past year
71
Marriages the past’
jyear
80
Whole no. rec^ on exn
Mrs. A. has been
1167
the amount
Miscellaneous items
The first day of the year was observed as a day of thanksgiving to God and was an
interesting day.
The annual concert of prayer for schools and colleges in Feb. was
observed by this church.
My health during the winter months suffered very seriously from a severe cold on my
lungs and the old standing pain in my left side
We are preparing for our 2'^ annual
School celebration intending to embrace adults as well as children.
This creates a
demand for books at the present time.
Contributions.have not thought it expediant[!] to urge this church and
congregation to attempt much during the year by;"way of contributio?i, except for the
purpose of completing their stone meetinghouse.
This work I consider as not only
having the first claim upon them, but as being moretthan sufficient for the means
at their disposal.
We are all acthally suffering and none more than the preacher,
for want of a better house, in .-wh.[ich] to meet on the Sabbath. T6w.a;j4.s'6 this work
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Miscellaneous items
2.
there have been subscrided[!] 'Tf^'thiir./’■] the past 3 months, something more than
$22.000,[!] of which $700 have been collected by myself.
by the King and Auhea.
$12.00.00[!] subscribed
Besides this a little over $30 were contributed in money at
monthly concerts, and a considerable amount in vegetables for the comfort of our
families.
How much I cannot tell.
The Exploring Squadron of the U.S. arrived here in Oct. and spent nearly 3
months.
Ive had much pleasant intercourse with capt. Wilkes and his officers,
particularly capt. Hudson of the Peacock, who I believe won the confidence and
affection of us all, by his Christian deportment.
But I am sorry to say, the in
fluence of many connected with that concern, was decidedly bad on this community.
I have had but little to do with secular affairs during the past year.
Some atten
tion to the new meeting house and occasional calls from the sick during Dr. Juds[!]
absence
besides the necessary provi^^ding for my own family make
up.
[End of report]
[Written on a separate, loose sheet]:
Honolulu
1st Gong R. Armstrong
1841
�Report of the first church and congregation in Honolulu. [1842]
Through the kindness of our heavenly Father we are brought in peace & safety,
as a family, to the close of another year.
Since my last report my health has been
rather better than it has been for four years past.
I have had no cough & but very
little of the pain in my left side which troubled me for several years.
This I
\/attribiite mainly to our simple cause viz. a liberal use of cold water, in other
words a shower bath every night just before retiring to bed & accompanied by a
good scrubbing with a coarse towel.
After continuing this practice for a year
pretty regularly, it has become a luxury a§ well as a means of healthy
Labours
My routine of labours week after week with some slight variations has been as
follows, On Sabbath visit Sabbath School of children conducted by Mr. Knapp at
half past 8,
. preach at half past 9:^ hold a catechectical School of hooikaikas,
at 11; preach again at half past 2; and frequently hold a short church meeting,
at the close of afternoon service.
On monday, I have usually devoted most of
the day to the Nonanona, reading proof, & preparing the matter & on monday after
noon meet a class of hooikMkas. On tuesdays, met the hooikaikas of the first &
second::apanas for conversation & instruction, visited what I could, attend to
cases of discipline“'&c[!].
On Wednesday, preached at or before sunrise, attend
ed a school of hooikaikas of the 3d apana & preached at Waikiki in the afternoon
& usual prayer meeting in the evening.On thursday, laboured in some way among the
children, in holding religious or temperance meetings & sometimes preached in
Manoa valley;
On friday afternnoon held a meeting in Nuuanu, & began my prepara
tions for the Sabbath, torwhich I have devoted most of Saturday.
The great:work on the stone meeting \ho,use has interfered very materially with
ssvstbI
my labours as preacher & pastor. Indeed for
months, until the walls were
finished, it required my personal superintendance a large portion of each day.
In the division of the labour of the house with Dr. Judd, the collection of the
money & superintendance of the native forces fell to my lot, & I can say without
dissimulation that I have had my fill of meeting house building.
We have often
been at our wits end in regard to the work, for want of means to complete it,
but by the good hand of God upon us, we have been prospered beyond our expecta
tions, & hope in a short time to make those walls resound with praises & thanks
giving to the adorable God, for whose honour they have been erected.
�Honolulu [1842]
.
2.
CatechuHiens
Of these I have nearly 1000 on my list, & my plan has been this year as it
was last , to divide them into classes, & meet them in rotation for conference &
instruction.
Most of them appear to be steady people & truly serious.
Their
improvements in Christian knowledge for the past year is quite commendable, &
their desire for the tilings; of the Spirit, keeps up better than I anticipated.
They are generally anxious to make a profession of religion & many of them I have
no doubt are worthy of that privilege; but they will loose nothing by a protract
ed probation, provided they are diligently watched over & instructed.
Indeed it
is a melancholy fact, according to my observation,that natives are more favorably
situated for receiving instruction while they are catechumens, than while members
of the church.
When admited[!] to church fellowship, they are too apt to feel
that they have attained to so high a degree of perfection that it is no longer
necessary to strive after knowledge as they once did.
They have got their
diploma and graduated & why should they be [!] any longer be regarded as babes in
Christ?
I have been held back also in receiving members to the church by the consider
ation that I may not remain as pastor of the church much longer & it is desirable
as far as practicable, that persons should be inducted to the privileges of the
church by the person as to their pastor.
Temperance efforts.
I have laid out more time & effort on this subject during the past year, than
during any previous year of my missy, life; for the obvious reason that the evil
of intemperance, [?] seemed to increase to such a degree, as to carry away both
the church & the state over the precipice of ruin.
.
The class of natives most
addicted to the use of intoxicating substances & of course most exposed to danger
is the chiefs and those about them. I have therefore laid out all my strenght[!]
in endeavoring to bring the entire church & congregation to teetotal privileges,
& even to abstinence from the use of tobacco.
To this end, I have preached on
the subject several times in the great congregation but more especially on week
days;, have held several temperance meetings for the congregation generally, and
during the winter months met the chiefs & persons in authority every Sabbath
evening, principally for the purpose of influencing their minds on this subject.
What success has attended these efforts time alone can tell..
cannot speak with any degree of confidence.
In regard to this I
But we have formed two temperance
societies on the pledge of teetolatism, one of children & another of adults.
That of children embraces over 700 members & includes a pledge of abstinence from
�Honolulu [1842]
3.
[the] very thing that intoxicates as an article of luxury.
Tobacco is included
in the childrens pledge, as it is evident that the use of that vile weed in
children,especially native children who are under no controul[!], if it does not':
actually produce intoxication, it certainly creates an appetitg
for unnatural
stimulants & prepares the way for the use of substances which can never be used
with safety, unless as medicines.
In the adult temperance Society there are two forms to the pledge; the
one includes tobacco & the other does not.
This is the only difference.
But I
am happy to add that the list of the tobacco smokers is growing smaller & smallir.
Quite a number during the past year have been persuaded to give it up & I think
with
prudent & energetic measures, the church might in a little while be entire
ly rid of it, without making it a matter of discipline.
Wine is included in both pledges, & I have no hesitation in saying that with
the natives there is no great difference between the use of wine & brandy.
probability is that the wine of commerce in
The
part of the world is little else
than a mixture of ardent spirit with some deleterious[!] drugs.
Romanism
For the past year the movements of the papists in this region have been rather
Silent, but probably not less efficient than formerly.
I have not heard of many
joining them, which a considerable number of their initiated converts have join
ed our congregation.
their names.
How many I cannot now tell, as I did not keep a list of
The fact is, although they profess to have forsaken the papists & '
come over on our side, they are generally so ignorant & bewildered in their views
of Christianity that are[!]:hot very hopeful subjects to work upon, & I have
purposely avoided making much of their conversion to our views, lest they be
lifted
up with vanity.
Two of our church members, one of whom was under censure, have gone over to
that party,during the year.
They went out from us I suppose, because they were
not of us.
John li, our school agent for Oahu has met with the same difficulties from
the priests during the year as formerly.
He has uniformly found them arrogant,
haughty, disorganizing & no friend to the school system wh.[ich] the law proposes.
I have not.thought it best to make many very direct efforts against Romanism
during the year., though I have preached on the subject occasionally, and alluded
to it directly & frequently in the pulpit, ksjyou are all aware too I have publish
ed also a few articles on the subject in the Nonanona.
But most of my efforts
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4,
have 136611 direct6d to bringning the whole population as much as possible under
religious instruction & influence, believing that a mind stored with Christian
knowledge & a heart established with grace are the strongest bulwarks against any
heresy whatever.
In expounding the catechism before my adult Sab. School of 600 catechumens
every Sab. morning, I havekept the heresy of Rome constantly in view and endeavor
ed
to show in a simple & clear manner the difference between that heresy & the
true gospel.
May it not be, that this is one reason why God has permited[!]
Romanists to come in among, in order that his own precious word may be more care
fully studied & treasure of wisdom drawn out of it, which might have lain conceal
ed for ages, but for these dangers that threaten the church?
Another important means of opposing Romanism is t h e d i s b r i b u t i o n of
the new Testament.
I have made it a rule of late to furnish a copy to every
individual who could & would read it, pay or no pay.
About all our share of the
last edition has been given out & the demand is yet considerable.
The Nonanona.
This small affair has occupied some of my leisure moments & oh .the whole very
pleasantly.
I have had a little difficulty in editing it as I anticipated,
rather more so.
Some of the brethren have been very kind in furnishing matter
for it, while others have done nothing at all.
Contributions from natives have
been abundant, but not so valuable as to justy[!] the publishing of many of them
& those which have been published have cost more than half as much labour to pre
pare them for the press as to prepare the same amount of original matter.
have so far 3.000 copies struck off, & they are nearly all called for.
We
Whether
the paper is to be continued after the present year or not; whether it should be
altered in its character, or sold for a higher or a lower price will be for the
General Meeting to determine.
I think it will nearly sustain itself on Oahu,
tho. I have not received the amount of receipts for the different stations.
,
Some
of the brethren have paid in advance for their subscriptions.
Protracted meetings.
We have had no general protracted meeting during the year; not because we did
not dpsire one but for want of a suitable house to meet in.
Instead of a general
pro.*^ meeting for all the parish, I held during the winter months two & three ' ■
days meetings in all the large apanas.
results happy.
were well attended, and the
Many who had long been dead in tresspasses & sins, absenting
themselves from the house of God & indulging in beastly vices, were waked[!] up,
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brought out,& now are ^receiving
instruction in the hooikaika classes.
Since these
small protracted meetings, the church has been in a better state, and the congre
gation considerably increased.
But my jealousy of the pretentions of natives to
be on the Lords side does not diminish & these professed converts, are only put
into the ranks where they must undergo a considerable drilling before they are
allowed to be enrolled as the soldiers of the captain of our Salvation.
Besides the small pro'i meetings, I have assisted Bro. Emerson in a meeting of
5 days at his station in August & Bro. Smith in one in February, & went to the
assistance of Bro. Parker in one, but was called away after preaching one sermon.
Mrs. Armstrong has been able to do more for the natives during the past year
than she has for several previous years.
better health.
This is owing to her having enjoyed
She has kept up a regular friday meeting for females which has
been well attended & interesting.
It is a great measure-owing to the influence
of this meeting, that leis & other gaudy & costly articles of dress are becoming
unfashionable in the congregation, & industry & cleanliness on the advance.
She
has also visited the native females a good deal at. their houses.
Concerts
The monthly concert for prayer for the convers-|;ion of the world has been regular
ly observed, & the afternoon of the third Sabbath in each month has been observed
as a season of conference and prayer in behalf of Schools throughout the islands.
The first day of January was abserved[!] as a day of thanksgiving to God &
was a good day among us.
The text on that occasion was ^Choose ye this day whom
ye will serve.” & &[!] the congregation urged to make a new choice.
If any had
tried the service of God & found it a hard service, let them go & serve Baal; let
them aside & say so.
Let them come out & avow their sentiments.
But if any were
ready to say,The Lord he is God & him will we serve, them come & humbly covenant
afresh with him.
I have heard that season refered to by persons both in & out of
the church-very frequently, as a.season of great good to their souls, & some
Y'ery wicked persons from that day have been serious &■ attentive to divine things.
m
ContributiorS to benevolent objects.
These have been as they were during the year previous, almost exclusively confin
ed to the stone meeting house, & for this object about $lBOO. has been collected
on the subscription of the previous year.
given by the King & Kekauluohi.
Twelve hundred dollars of this was
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The Church.
T.he following table will'give the statistics of it.
Average congregation
2000
Received to fellowship on
exam^
39
Whole number rec
94
Whole no. dismissed to other
churches
Dismissed past year
34
Excom*^ past year
70
Received to fellowship on
certificate
past year
Whole number excomA
72
1
Whole no. deceased
117
Deceased past year
20
Suspended past year
39
6
Remain excom'^
82
Whole number in regular
standing
1075
Whole no. of children
baptised
545
Baptised past year
34
Marriages past year
Whole no. rec'^ on exaii£-
61
1237
The cases of discipline which have occured have been chiefly through ihv
.
temperance.
During the former part of the year, the church was in a state of spiritual
Ijpl
sloth, but about the commencement of the civil year, a better day began to dawn
upon us.
Meetings began to be full & solemn, prayer frequent & earnest & mutual
confessions of delinquency in duty, common.
Since that period, cases of disci
pline have been more rare, & the general state of the church,more encouraging.
P .S . 'Ha^e-taaghfe-Hulikefflaka-feka¥=efet-hisfe©£=y-twe-d:ays-eaeh-week.
I have tought[i] two schools during part of the year, besides those mentioned:
one in moral philosophy at the fort, and another in church history.
been intere^sting & useful while continued.
Rich^^ Armstrong
[On back]:
Richf Armstrong
report
1842
Both have
�Report of the first church, and congregation in Honolulu
1842-43
The review of any portion of our past life is well calculated
to fill the mind with solemn reflections.
Gratitude for mercies
enjoyed, humiliation in view of time misspent, duties neglected,
opportunities misimproved § resolutions of future amendment spon
taneously arise ^ clustre [f] around the heart, while the mind
reverts to the events of the past.
During the year that is now
to be reviewed, the good hand of God has been upon me § mine; we
have not all however enjoyed uninterupted health./'^
At the close
of our last Gen. Meeting our second daughter was dangerously sick,
but recovered § has since been pretty well.
During the past rainy
season Mrs. Armstrong has suffered much from the old nervous com
plaint in her head; this was greatly aggravated by a fall from a
waggon[i^-cin the month of December.
have been gradually growing
Since that time her symptoms
more alarming § about the first of April
she became entirely prostrate.
The distress in her head becamefso
great as to threaten congestion of the brain apoplexy or s'ome kindred
disease.
But by prompt § powerful remedies, ^ constant care this
desasterous I!] result has been prevented § she is now comparatively
•ccDifortable
1 - , though unable to endure even the care of her family.
The physicians advise that measures be taken to recruit her general
health § before the meeting closes I may have occasion to lay this
subject before you ^ ask your advice.
Labours.
My labours during the past year have varied but little from those
of the previous year.
I have been enabled to preach twice on the
Sabbath without interruption; to visit the Sabbath School for child
ren under the care of Mr. Knapp pretty regularly; to hold a Sabbath
School of adult' cat’echuiriens myself after the morning service, § some
times meet with the church or a portion of it, at/.the close of the
afternoon service.
During week days I have attended the usual cons':'
certs for prayer, preached on Wednesday morning at the Station re
gularly, and at Waikiki, ¥aialae, Wailupe, Manoa, Nuuanu, and Pauoa.,
pretty regularly., besides attending a series of district meeting for
the particular benefit of the church of which I shall say more when
I come to speak of the church in particular.
My labours have been considerably increased during the year by
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2.
calls for medicine § attention to the sick, which in former years
did not devolve on the pastor of this station.
These calls have
at times made very serious inroads upon my time § drawn so heavily
upon my strength as to compel me to say my burden is greater than I
can bear.
To attend to all the calls for medicine where it is
gratuitously given amidst such a mass of people as we have in H o n o
lulu, § where there are so many causes of desease[!], it may be.
well imagined to be a considerable labour, § yet I confess that I
have often regreted[!] that these calls were not more frequent §
timely.
I have mqt with many cases which proved fatal apparently
from their negle];£]t or from relying on native medicine when a
simple remedy in the outset might have saved the patient.
The Nonanona
This little periodical has cost me a trifle more labour during
the present year than it did during the year previous; the increase
has been chiefly owing to the fact that native contributions have
been more ‘ abundant; all these whether good bad or indifferent must
be read over in order to ascertain which is most worthy of publica
tion § when the best were selected they must often be copied before
they could be handed to the printer; I was also favored some by the
assistance of a native during the first year, which I have not had
during the present year.
We have also issued a few pages more matter
in the 2d vol. than was contained in the first.
In regard to "the
usefulness of the paper the brethren can judge as well as I . It doubt
less could be rendered more interesting § valuable by more labour ^
time devoted to it, and especially if we had it in our power to get
suitable engraving done.
thing much to be regreted.
Of this we have no prospect at present,
a
The only objection I have heard against
the paper is its' n a m e ; one member of the mission not now on the is
land, thought' it a’ subject :of sufficient importance has as you are
aware brought out all the resources of his wit, sarcasm § argumenta
tion to have the name changed ^ has expressed no doubt that it would
be changed when the brethren come to deliberate upon it.
Ail I would
say is if the meeting has any sympathy with those views § do not re
gard the circumstance of a mere name as too little to require five
minutes attention, let it be changed.
I have not the slightest ob
jection to any name that will suit my brethren.
So far as I know
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3.
however the name is popular with the natives ^ in my view is not
liable to the objections which have been brought against it.
Should
the paper be continued, it will probably be more convenient to issue
it in a little different form.
But as an offset to these additional labours § cares, I would
mention that the work on the new meeting house was brought to a
close about the 1st of July § on the 21 day of that month the house^
was dedicated to the worship of Almightly[!]
exercises'.' ' .
tion.
God with appropriate
That was an interesting § joyful day to the congrega
We had now come to a place of rest after a long § tiresome
struggle; many had predicted that the house never would be even roof
ed, but now we, saw it so far finished, as to afford comfortable § neat
accommodations to the congregation, § I trust there were many grateful
hearts came up to present their offering before the Lord on that day.
The first stone of the hous'e was laid Sep. 18, 1838 § the work was
finished as we now see it July 2, 1842.
That is 5 years^ 9 daysf!].
The cost of the house as,nearly as we can ascertain from the general
data:at our command was $30.000[]].
The whole amount is now paid
except about $120, which is already subscribed § only remains to be
collected.
Without galleries
[?] it is rather small for the congre
gation; during the past winter season it was uncomfortably filled with
hearers, but whether the congregations will ever be able to erect
galleries
[?] , or whether it is to remain so large as to need them
are matters of considerable doubt.
enough.
As it is just now there is room
In my view the plan of the house was drawn on a scale too
magnificent for the resources of the congregation; the basement story
is of some service, but by no means sufficient to justify what it
cos-t.
To finish the house in a style according with the original
--.I
plan will require a great deal of labour § expense | the mans lot is
not to be envied who has it to do and yet it should be done forthwith
as it may never be easier to have it done than now.
The only addition
al circumstance I would mention in regard to the house is that on the
day of dedication the King arose before the whole assembly § present
ed a deed of it to the church which worships in it § to those of like
faith who shall come hereafter.
Temperance.
I have not thought it necessary to present this subject before
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4.
the minds of my people so frequently during the present as during
the previous year;
for the simple reason that there has been very
little intemperance abroad in the native community.
Public senti
ment among natives has been So firmly set against all intoxicating
substances since the Kings:rref o r m , that it only needs to be kept
where it was in order to expel the evil from society.
Perhaps
there has never been a year in which there was so little intoxica
tion among the natives;
among them,
yet there has been here & there a case
and some have been punished for crimes commited while
under the influence of rum.
ed to an alarming extent,
Among foreigners the evil has prevail
tho perhaps not more so than in former
years.
During the fall months we held a number of temperance meetings
both for adults & for children;
attended & addressed.
tion of the
some of these the King & primier[!]
They we also present at our annual celebra
’cold w a t e r ’ armies on the 27 of October,
1400 children & youth congregated in Mr.
Smiths meeting house,
after an hour & a half spent in hearing addresses,
ing the praises of cold water &c[!],
when about
dialogue,
&
sing
they marched in two double
lines to the music of the Governors hand to our old Meeting house &
partook of a sumptuous feast apparently with good relish & good
cheer.
No one present could think that any thing more stimulating
than wholesome food & cold water was needed to give life & h a p pi
ness to Hawaian[!]
youth.
Several foreign residents & strangers
were present who seemed to be much gratified with the scene.
I
would only add that so far as I have been able to ascertain,
but
few of these children & youth have broken their pledges,
not even
in smoking tobacco which is i n c l u d e d i n the childrens pledge.
There have been however some cases of violation & there may be , ; ,
others of which I am not aware.
I would only add on this point that when t h e ’British commission
issued a n o t i c e :offering to license a limited number of grog shops
I felt it my duty to address them on the subject,
advocating the
doctrine that the traffic in ardent spirit ought to be entirely
abolished.
The first draught of the letter is here before me & any
one may read it who chooses.
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5.
Romanism.
The subject has excited but little interest for some time past.
The visit of the Embuscade seemed for a season to encourage &
streingthen the Romish[!]
boast great things,
party very greatly & they were heard to
but I have not heard of any accessions to their
numbers nor any enlargement of their operations.
On the contrary
there have been some cases of conversion external at least to Pro
testantism & I should think the attendance on their services on the
Sabbath is generally small.
But the priests are very active & leave
no means untried wither fair or foul to propagate the religion of
the pope.
In order to counteract this heresy I have pursued the
same course essentially as I did last year,
that is endeavour as
far as possible to bring the entire population in this field under
the influence of divine truth, more especially by a liberal distri
bution of the N. Testament & other bookstand keeping up weekly re
ligious meetings in all the large districts.
Protracted me e t i n g (
The first week in January was devoted to a serious[!:J of religious
exercises in which I was assisted by brethren Alexander,
L.
Hitchcock [!] .
It was a season of much interest & profit.
The congregation was larger
thro’ughout.
Parker &
the interest was well sustained
The result was a more general & solemn attention to
the concerns of the soul in the congregation than we had witnessed
for along season; meetings became well attended even to overflowing;
many careless sinners began to consider their ways & call upon God
and the church because more engaged in the conversion of souls
deed,
In
the greatest 'benefit of the Meeting seemed to be its good in
fluence on the church.
We had a very encouaging state of things until the middle of F eb
ruary when the political trouble of the land b e g a n ’:to engross the
public mind.
From that time to the present,
the interest of our
people in the .things of religion has been declining;
the congrega-' ,
tion has decreased some, and there have been a number of cases re
quiring discipline in the church.
On the whole the influence of
the political change has been very unfavorable & I fear its',evil '
effects are not at an end.
Quite a number of our church members
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6.
are soldiers & now under the training of British officers they are
circumstances of great temptation;
the life’ of a soldier in any
country is hardly compatable with that of a Christian.
But the
most disasterous influence we have lately felt has arisen from the
abrogation of the law of the native government which required the
illicit intercourse of unmarried persons to be punished.
This event
filled us all with surprise and alarm and we have melancholy evi
dence that our alarm was not without foundation.
We hear of whole
companies lately plunging into u n cleanness[!] in the most unb l ush
ing manner & no notice is taken of it by the authorities.
Boat! .
loads of women are said to go to & from ships in the harbour & the
\n
offingi^'at pleasure without any fear from the law.
If this state of,
things is to continue what but ruin,
hangs over this poor nation?
immediate & inevitable ruin
Their prospect was dark before but
this event adds' maiiy 'shades to' the darnessT it m.ake it darkness
which may be f e l t .
But the Lord knoweth them that are his;
his
elect cannot be lost; when iniquity comes in like a flood the Lord
can lift up
a standard against it & may we not hope that he will?
He pities the poor & the oppressed & if his people cry unto him
will he not hear?
for years past,
One thing is certain & has been growing more so
the Lords work in these islands is not'-.to be sus
tained by human laws nor by the influence of rules.
These props
are being taken away & the power of truth alone is left to sustain
the cause of righteousness.
Native ministry.
The order taken^n this subject at our last meeting I have not for
gotten;
indeed no subject has been more frequently on my mind during
the year;
but I havdnot undertaken to instinct any persons parti-^'
cularly with a view to their being helpers in publishing the gospel
principally for two reasons,
tion & 2.
1.
The temporary nature of my loca
the want of suitable helps[!]
in the form of books.
We
have at least 3 Or 4 men connected with this congregation of con
siderable promise as helpers in preaching & it is high time they
were in a state of training,
but I have not yet seen my. way clear
to commence the work for the reasons stated. In my view this is a
subject of great importance at the
present
time & ought to receive
the most careful consideration at this meeting.
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7.
The church.
Its condition as to numbers may be known from the following
statistical table.
Average congregation
2000
Whole no.
1631
rec^ on examination
Whole no. on certificate
81
Whole number rec'? past year on exam’^
394
Past year on certificate
39
Whole no.
past year
433
Whole no.
dismissed to other churches
80
Dismissed the past year Whole no.
8
deceased
142
Deceased past year
25
Suspended past year
24
Remain suspended
22
Excom4 past year
[!]
Whole no.
excommunicated
34
Remain excommunicated -
30
Whole number in regular standing
Whole no.
1431 •
of children baptised
628
Baptised past year -
83
Marriages past year
97
The contributions of the church to various benevolent objects
including what has been given towards the meeting house during the
year has been not far from $400 in cash.
We have partly supported
a native preacher at Waianae & done considerable towards supporting
school teachers.
I have endeavoured to give systematic instruction to the church
by dividing it into classes & meeting these classes weekly.
This
has cost me great labour but so far as I can judge it has tended
greatly to the edification of the church.
has 'been the catechism;
Our -principal textbook
we were about commencing the Pilgrims
Progress when I was obliged to relinquish these labours about the
1st of April in consequence of sickness in my family.
Mrs. Armstrong has been able to meet with the women of the
church usually once a week during the year.
As to the state of religion in the church I would say that it
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8.
is far very far from what it should be.
During the fall & winter
months as I have stated there was much life in the church;
saw it appear better.
I never
But of late it has not generally appeared so
well tho we have had no general defection,
nor much open iniquity.
Since the strange abrogation of the law regulating the intercourse
of unmarried persons which has filled the breasts of all the
’
friends of order & purity in this community with amazement & concern,
a certain class has stepped forth from their lurking places & litterally
glory in their shame.
in .boats, to the ships,
They go through the streets,
go
drawing iniquity as with a cart rope & fear
not the face of God or man.
That the church will escape when this
iniquity comes in like a flood is hardly to be expected;
but our
hope^s that the Lord who has hitherto been our strength & deliverer
of the people in years that are past,
will pouir out his spirit upon
his church & make it the salt of the land,
banners to the ungodly,
terrible as an army with
& more powerful than all the restraints of
human law.
A work on domestic & political economy was assigned to me last
year.
A considerable amount of material for the work has been col
lected & it could soon be made ready for the press should it be
deemed expedient to prosecute;
But I have had some doubts whether
such a work is so loudly called for as to justify the expenditure
of the funds necessary to publish it.
I made the tour of Oahu twice during the year.
In concluding this report I would say a word inregard to the re
lation which I sustain to this church & congregation.
menced labouring here,
18 months or at most two years were spoken
of as the probable time of Mr. Binghams absence,
my continuance here.
When I com
& consequently of
It is now almost three years since his de--.:;’:
parture & a good deal of uncertainty yet hangs over his return es
pecially as to the time.
be done in the case?
settled,
The question then arises, what is best to
I feel much the inconvenience of having un
as it were away from house,
mere temporary supply.
and labouring so long as a
It is uncomfortable for my family and has
an injurious effect upon my'labours as all my plans must be of a
temporary nature.
I cannot look upon the church nor manage it as
though it were my own nor can the church look upon me as its
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proper pastor.
9
I wish therefore to submit the subject to the con
sideration of Genl Meeting,
& ask either to have a permanent loca
tion here,or be restored to my::former field of labour.
May 11,
,
1843.
Rich? Armstrong
�Report of the first church &7congregation in Honolulu
May 1843-44.
At the close of our last General Meeting the hand of the Lord was upon my
family.
Mrs. Armstrong & our dear babe were both ill. But a voyage to Kauai in
the month of June & another to Maui & Hawaii in July and August had a decidedly
beneficial effect upon the symptoms of Mrs. Armstrong, and no good opportunity
having occured to make her contemplate a voyage to the United States.that project
was abandoned.
During our absence at the windward, our children were scattered
in the midst of kind friends, that Mr. A. might go free from care; all prospered
except the babe who was in the'cafe of Mrs. Bishop; notwithstanding her unceasing
vigilence, & utmost efforts to restore him he continued feeble, owing to the
irritation of his bowels from teething. He was brought home & continued to suffer
until the 28th of October when he was removed by death, as we trust to a bright
er & happier world than this, on the same day with our lamented brother Locke,
While we , with a circle of sympathising friends were assembled in my house weep
ing over our dead, a messenger entered announcing the sudden & unexpected depart
ure of that worthy brother.
That was a season of grief & sadness to all at the
station, to my family in particular, but I trust our affliction has not passed
off without leaving some abiding salutary impressions.
Labours. My labours for'-.the past twelve months may be arranged under the
following heads.
Labours as Pastor, as Editor, Superintendent’r.of schools & Keep
er of the Dispensary,
1.
Pastoral labours. I have preached, as usual, twice on the Sabbath, gen
erally visited the Sabbath school for children, which for the past year has been
mostly in the care of Mr. Hall, and also the Sabbath schools for small children
under the instructions of native teachers; after the morning service I have uni
formly kept a school:?for the
instruction of catechumens, of whom there are sev
eral hundreds on my list, but a small proportions of them however who give any
evidence of a work of grace in the heart, and after the afternoon services on the
Sabbath, I have frequently & may generally held a meeting either for a portion of
the church, or for the lunas of the church, The object which is to question them
on the sermons of the day, explain & enforce their truths more fully, & stir them
up to faithfulness in the Masters work.
On week days my plan has been to attend the monthly concert, lecture on Wed
nesday morning at the station, at Waikiki in the afternoon, & frequently at Waialae, Wailupe, and Maunalua on the same day; on Thursday afternoon I have held a
meeting at Manoa & on friday afternoon in the valley of Nuuanu or Pauoa.
These
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2.
weekly meetings have been tollerably[!] well attended, though at times they have
run very low; attention to them, though laborious, is essential to the support of
the congregation & the dissemination of truth among the people.
.My congregation on the Sabbath has not varied perceptably from what it has
been in former years.
From December till March the meeting house was well filled
on Sab. morning, & sometimes uncomfortably filled.
of them are
Larger meeting houses or more
much needed in Honolulu as well as more men':to labour for the thou
sands of degraded & wandering sons & daughters of Hawaii who are collected in
this village & vicinity..
Not over 4,000 at the most are in the habit of attend
ing any house for public worship on the Sabbath and yet there are statedly not
far from 12.000 people within the bounds of these two parishes.
Verily the har
vest is plenteous but the labourers are few.
2.
Editorial labours. During my absence at the windward for some two months
I was indebted to the kindness of Mr. L. Smith for sustaining the Nonanona, for
this he has my grateful acknowledgements.
Of the third volume 3000 copies were
issued, each containing 136 pages, that is eight pages of new matter more than
was contained in the volume of the previous year.
The whole number of impressions
sent out from the press during the year was 408,000.
More valuable matter has
come to hand during the past [year] than during any previous year.
Contributions
of natives have been abundant & though it cannot but have a good effect upon the
mind of the writers, to exercise their pens in;;writing for publication, yet it
costs no little time & patience to read them all over, & separate the chaff from
the wheat.
Very few native compositions are suitable to be placed in':the print
ers hands until they are carefully revised & in many instances copied or abridged.
So far as I am able to judge, among those who read the Nonanona at all, the in
terest in it increases, & I cannot but hope that some good is done by it, but I
must repeat my lamentation of last year that it has not been in my power to be
stow upon it that amount of labour & attention which I wished & by which it might
be made vastly more interesting, attractive & efficient that it ever has been.
As 1 intend to request the mission to relieve me,if possible, of the care of the
Dispensary, I hope during the current year to [be] able to do more for the Nona
nona.
Whether it shall be continued as at present or increased in size, or how
much money the mission think best to sink upon it, may very properly be a subject
for the mission to deliberate upon. At present, its income does not cover the
cost.
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3.
3.
Care of the Dispensory [!] & distributing medicines
To compound all the medicines which required it & prepare them for
use; to meet all the orders sent in from the different stations, & seek in the
village for such medicines as were not in thelpispensory & above all to attend to
the calls of the sick & dying in a population so dense & so liable to desease[!{]'
as that in Honolulu, has taken up no inconsiderable portion of my time & has inter
fered not a little with other important labours.
Though this is a haven of bus
iness for which I have no disrelish, but rather take pleasure in it, yet consider
ing
how it interferes with my labours as pastor & editor, I think it has better
be[!] transfered to one of the secular brethren at the station.
Since the first
of April I have received important assistance in the medical department from
Mrv Rogers, who has taken hold with a promptness, & skill which in my view en
titles him to an appointment forthwith, as Keeper of the Dispensory, in preference
to any other man at the station.
4.
Care of schools.
Owing to the enfeebled health of Mr. Knapp & my ab-
scence to the windward the schools in this parish received but little attention,
•
during the former part of the miss. year.
Consequently they languished greatly
& continued to grow worse & worse until some of them had barely a nominal exist
ence.
The chief cause of their decline was neglect, mismanagement, & incompe
tency on the part of those whose business it was to manage the c:o'hcern. Qur Kahu
Kula John li, who then held the office is an excellent man, & might have made a
good school'inspector, had not his mind not been so distracted by other important
public-affairs & be called to travel in person from one end of the kingdom to the
other frequently on government business.
Satisfied that the schools were suffer
ing, in his hands he concluded to resign his commission & in March, Keikenui, a
man of intelligence, active piety, and much re|spected was appointed in his stead.
Thus far the new Kahukula has done well with the exception of one or two mistakes,
which were easily rectified & the schools in this parish are in a better'condition
now than they have been for a long time.
We never could muster since my residence
in Honolulu, more than about 700 children at an examination until our last in
April, when 1160 scholars were reported.
But I am sorry to say since then there
has been some falling off.
The new Kahukula, being without experience, especially in the Keeping of ac
counts, I have felt it my duty to render him all the assistance in my power, & in
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past have undertaken more than ever before to see that the school operations in
my own district were properly managed.
To this end I have kept the accounts with
the teachers, assisted in settling them; seeing that suitable teachers are em-
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ployed & unworthy ones dismissed-
With my cooperation the Kahukula seems well
pleased & in fact so far seems unwilling to take-any important measure without
first constilting me.
I hope he is disposed to take this course with all the ' -
brethren on Oahu for without our vigorous cooperation, there is little hope
that the schools will succeed.
The worth of a school Inspector is too complica
ted, & difficult on this island to be sustained & carried forward successfully by
any native unassisted.
To avoid collision with the Roman Catholics, to exert a
sufficiently powerful influence over parents & children to induce them to favor
the schools, to raise funds, pay teachers & keep a regular.& correct account, re
quires qualifications which no native can yet be expected to possess & I have *
little hope that government will succeed in the business of education at present
unless the services of some suitable foreigner shall be secured to stand at the
head of the whole business of common school instruction in the islands.
Romanism. Of the workings of this heresy I have seen but little for twelve
months past & more.
Whatever the priests .& their followers have done in this
,
field has been done silently & unobtrusively. I have not thought it necessary to
say much to my people or publish much in the Nonanona on the subject.
At an
examination of the Catholic Schools in April, collectfed from Maunalua to Moanalua, our Kahukula told me he counted 190 children, while at the examinations in
Mr. Smiths meeting house & mine about the same time, there were over 1700 child^
ran.
This however may not be sufficient data on which to calculate the relative
strength of the Protestant and Romish[!] parties in this vicinity.’
Tempprance. The amount of my efforts to promote temperance or rather total ab
stinence, has been to unite in the annual celebration of the two cold water arm-^
ies of Honolulu, on the 26th of October last.
That was a day of high excitement
and deep interest among our young folks.and a powerful impulse was given to:the
cause of cold water, but as the events of that day have already been published I
need not dwell upon them here. How much intemperate drinking has been c'arried on
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'■■-tell;
secretly in Honolulu' I cannot^but in public I have seen no instance of drunkenness
among natives for a year,
liquid.
have I heard of many cases of even tasting the fiery
Among foreigners however, I am sorry to say, my soul has often sickened
at witnessing their beastly intoxication, & hearing their horrid revelry.
Public morals. At the close of our last general meeting, the state of public
morals in Honoluluwas most alarming.
Some old residents & visitors gave it as
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their opinion that vice had not appeared more rampant, bold & shameless since the
days of absolute heathenism, than it did in May & June last.
This was mainly
owing to the iniquitous course pursued by the British commission.
But how our
hearts ought to leap for joy that those days of darkness have passed away.
in his kind & holy Providence sent us relie:^ blessed be his name.
God
The restor
ation of the government "Ito the native chiefs, by Rear Admiral Thomas on 31 of
July, an event I had not the happiness to witness, will not soon be forgotten by
the friends of this nation.
With the restoration of the government, order,
quietness, and the general tone of public morals was restored.
Scenes of de
bauchery, revelry, and Sabbath desecration, in a great measure disappeared before
the authority of the laws which once more lifted up their voice.
I may just remark in passing that our intercourse with Admiral Thomas, who
remained here over 7 months, was uniformly pleasant.& familiar and on the eve of
his departure the brethren of this station felt it to be their duty to express to
him in writing, their gratification with his conduct & their obligations for his
kindness, which was handsomely responded to in a letter which together with the
one addressed to him, is present and can be read by any one who chooses.
Protracted Meetings. I assisted Mr. Smith in a protracted meeting in Decem
ber and Mr. Bishop in another in March for one day & was assisted by both these
brethren together with Mr. Hitchcock.in a meeting of four days in January.
In
all these meetings I felt my own soul benefited,'and^ no doubt the great day will
reveal many salutary impressions made during these delightful exercises.
The re-
suit of the meeting in my congregation was^^manifest awakening in the church; and
the hopeful conversion of some sinners from the error of their way.
It was de
lightful to see scores of sleeping church members waking up, confessing their sins & returning to duty; to see'-"wanderers returning & hardened rebels against God
considering their ways.
During the months of December, January, February & March,
the congregations both on Sabbath & week days, were large & a pleasing interest
in divine things continued.
Zion prospered,for the Lord was in the midst of her.
Since the first of April, I am sorry to say this interest has been on the decline
and now we are in a very stupid state.
Benevolent Contributions. This congregation has been in the habit of contri
buting something monthly & at special seasons for benevolent objects for years
past, but on the first of January last I made some efforts to induce the people
of my charge to contribute according to their ability, a specified sum in money,
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on every Sabbath preceding the monthly concert.
The plan for taking the collect
ion is a very simple one, & makes very little confusion or delay.
Thirteen col- ■
lectors are selected, each furnished with a large card, a pencil & a small pill
box for the money; these take their stations in different parts of the house and
during the singing of the second hymn, the contributions are handed to them, the
names of the contributors written down & the sum given by each.
By these cards
at the end of the year, it can be easily ascertained who have given to the Lords
treasury & how much.
Since the first of January, $106,12
have been collected in
cash & handed in to Mr. Chamberlain, to constitute a part of the sum allowed by
the Board for the support of the pastor of the 1st church in HOnolulu.
Eight
dollars were on hand previous to January, this sum added to $22,50 contributed to
the meeting house at Molokai & $22,50 to the contemplated meeting house at Hana,
makes $159.12.
Besides this remaining debt oii the meeting house of $134,50[?]
has been paid off, and $20, given by our Governor for an Accordion for the use of
the choir which makes in all $313,62
cause of Christ in the islands.
paid in money by the congregation for the
This sum is much smaller than it should be, but
it is all I have been enabled to draw forth.
tact, it would be much larger than it is.
Perhaps if I had more faith, zeal &
This church is able to support its
pastor & I hope it can be induced to do it & more too before long.
Church Statistics.
I'Jhole number addec^to the church on ex^?
1715
On certificate-
132
Past year on examination
102
Past year on certificate
51
Whole number past year
153
Whole no. dismissed to other churches
99
Dismissed the past year
19
I'/hole number deceased
196
Deceased past year
54
Suspended past year
66
Remain suspended
55
Excom4 past year
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Whole no. excom^
34
Remain excom^
30
Whole number in regular standing
Whole number of children baptised
1477
649
Baptised the past year
Whole no. of children deceased
21
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Deceased past year
[
Marriages past year
M >d
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107?
Average number of cong^} on Sabbath
2000
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Additional items.
Mrs. Armstrong has been enabled to sustain a meeting for native females on
friday of each week during most of the year.
It has been well attended & ap
parently very useful in various respects, expecially upon the domestic habits and
care of children among the mothers.
Our old meeting house has been sold to government for $400, which sum is now
on interest, with a view to finishing the new meeting house whenever the work may
be re—commenced.
Several new district meeting houses and school houses are much needed in dif
ferent parts of this field.
I have not fulfilled all the appointments assigned to me, for want of time;
my office as editor, requiring all the leisure time I have had for writing.
I
have had too many irons in the fire, for my own comfort or success in the several
branches of work assigned to me.
Respectfully submited[!]
Richard Armstrong
�Report of the first church & congregation in Honolulu, read before General
Meeting of the mission, May 1846, including 2 years.
Nothing of very striking importance has occured in the history of myself my
people or my labours, since our last Gehl. Meeting.
We have moved on in our work
at a moderate pace & in the ordinary way never affecting any thing great, nor yet
ceasing to do something.
Mrs. Armstrong has not generally enjoyed good health; at times her old com
plaint has occasioned her great suffering; but we have reason for gratitude, that
she has been able so much of the time to be about & attend to her domestic af-fairs, & also attend a weekly meeting of native females,, though her illness has
been a serious obstacle to my labour among the people.
Two of our little daughters have also at different times been brought very
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low by sickness, but by Gods blessing on the remedies used, their lives have been
both spared & they are now in good health.
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Between the months of March and June of 1845, the distressing influenza which
prevailed over our islands, prostrated our entire population, ourselves among the
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rest, so that for some days we found it difficult to obtain even the necessaries
'o
[!] of life, get any domestic, help, or even help ourselves.
It was a time of
great & geh'eral distress, & many natives died, tho. not so many as might have been
■expected.
The epidemic having passed away, the population generally was left in
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a
a feeble & pitiful state, from which they did not recover for a long time.
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but my general impression is that the deaths far exceed the births." In my church
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that
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place, that I see no evidence of a decrease of population.. On the contrary there
I may remark here, that I have no register of births & deaths in my field,
is certainly the fact.
Yet such is the tide of emmigration-.
to this
has been probably an increase.
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Labours. My labours for the last two years have not varied materially from
I
what they were in former years.
By the tender mercy of our God, I have been en-
abled to labour on with but little interruption from sickness or any other cause.
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Pastoral & ministerial labours. Two sermons on the Sabbath, a lecture on
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on[!] Wednesday morning at this place, and another at Waikiki on Wed?[!] afternoon,
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occasionally extending my labours on the same day along the coast some 10 miles
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to Waialae, Wailupe & Maunalua, a lecture on thursday occasionally at Manoa valley, & on friday afternoon generally in the valley of Nuuanu - these have made up
the sum of my weekly preaching.
More recently my labours on the secular days of
the week have been turned to expounding the Old Testament from the beginning in
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course, as the congregation reads it in course.
in the sequel.
But I shall refer to this again
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2.
I have also attended a Sabbath School either for children or adults or both
on the Sabbath, & also a meeting for consultation with my elders, between the
forenoon & afternoon services.
Our Sabbath School for children has not flourished for the last year or more,
owing mainly as I suppose to the want of that SuperiritaSance' of the common
Schools, which is essential to sustaining"';' an interest in the Sabbath school.
Such Superintendance we have not been able to afford, & hence the interests of
the children have suffered greatly in my field, since the death of our lamented
Bro. Knapp.
The Sabbath school for adults continued under the superintendance of Mr.
Chamberlain, as long as his health permited[!] him to labour at all; his place
was then taken by Mr. Dimond for a season, until the commencement of the present
year when the plan of the school and the hour for
exercises were
both changed; adults & children have since been both brought together immediately
after morning service, to recite the daily food, and hear an exposition of it.
In this exercise I have been assisted by Judge'-^Andrews, Mr. Hall, & Mr. Cooke,
the first catechising the adults
boys & Mr. Cooke those of the girls.
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feel grateful for it.
Mr. Hall hearing the lessons of the
This aid has been timely and important & I
IN the girls school Mr. Cooke has employed the services of
several of the young ladies under his care with advantage.
This exercise I re
gards as a very important means of grace; as the seven verses for the week are
very generally commited[ !] to memory, and in the examination of them an opportu^::
nity is afforded to all present to ask questions freely, or present difficulties,
or suggest inferences, there is reason to believe that a knowledge of Gods word
is rapidly increase, and impressions are made of a most permanent & salutary kind.
Indeed there is little danger that Gods word will return unto him void, it con
stantly studied with a serious and prayerful mind.
I have only to lament that
many of my people take but little interest in this delightful & profitable ex
ercise.
A poartion of my congregation have been in the habit of reading a chapter
or
two in the Bible every day in course, for several years; but the excellent prac
tice did not extend to the people generally, until within two months past, when
it became some what general, & it is now the most encouraging symptom I see':among
my people.
The plan is to|read a chapter a day in course commencing with the Old
Testament, and at our Sabbath afternoon and district meetings throughtthe week,
questions are asked & remarks made on the chapters that have been read during the
days preceding.
In this exercise many of the people are much interested, and
many of our discussions have been intensely interesting, and profitable.
No part
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3.
of my work recently has afforded more gratification than this.
One important re
sult is, our increased ability to read & comprehend, what is read.
Could a Bible
reading spirit be kept up & extended among the natives, the happiest effects must
follow/ it would improve their minds as well as their hearts; promote their hap
piness in this word[world]las ;well as in the world to come, & be the best antidote
to the poisonous heresy' of Rome now spreading around us.
I will only add on this point that this Bible reading spirit has created an
increased demand for that holy book beyond what it has been for several years
past.
I have disposed of all the 1st vol. of the 0. Testament that we have on
hands, at 25c. a piece, & quite a number of copies of the whole Bible.
During the year 1845 I made an attempt to have my people generally read the
Pilgrims Progress, reading it with them myself & expounding it at our weekly
meeting; but my success was only partial.
For some reaseSn or other but a small
portion of the congregation could be induced to take hold of it, although those
who did, became- more & more interested as they advanced to the class.
That work
seems to be a little forward of the presfent state of the native mind, but I have
no doubt of its being yet a popular book & it will exert a great influence.
Its
influence on those who have read it is apparent even inttheir prayers.
Editorial labours. Three thousand copies of the Nonanona were issued from
the press up till the last of March 1845; at that time the name of the paper was
changed, but-its character has remained essentially the same, with the exception
that it was enlarged to 8 pages while formerly it contained ordinarily only 4
pages; & the price was raised among those who were able to pay the amount of its
real cost.
The alteration in the number of pages was owing mainly to the demand
so generally felt for the new laws, & other government matter which ought to be
thrown before the public in the native language.
In consideration of enlarging
the paper, the government gave one hundred dollars towards its support during ^
last year & will do the same this year, besides the private subscriptions of the
rulers.
In my congregation the paper has been very generally paid for, it avails
last year amounted to [$]293.50
Native writers contribute largely for the Elele, :'.8c it is very desirable that
they be encouraged to do so but, while many of their pieces are well written &
contain valuable matter, most of them are of a contrary character, & if published
at all, need to be first wrought over before going to the printer, which is a
great labour.
Many valuable articles are thrown away merely because they are so
badly written, or on such poor paper, or contain so much extraneous matter, as to
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4.
“be unsuitable for the paper until re-written & corrected.
To several of the brethren I feel much indebted for aid in furnishing suit
able articles for the paper; but the brethren
generally have contributed less
during the last year then they did.'.in former years.
With the care of a large church in a place of great temptation and distract
ion; with the care of a large family & a feeble wife.& not always enjoying good
health myself I have had serious doublts whether it was my duty to continue to
edit this periodical, which of course must be done at the expense of other and
very important departments, and hastily & superficially done fe¥-the-Hiesfe-pai=t.['!]
Andjit would be a relief to me if another & more suitable person could be found
to assume the editorship
can do.
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& carry it on more efficiently than I
Nothing but a sense of the imperative need of some such periodical &
the hope of doing some good thereby has induced me to sustain it.
Common Schools. Our school districts extends from Maunalua on the coast to
the S. Eastward to the fort in Honolulu.
Within these bounds including the
vallies[!] there are 20 schools containing about 800 scholars.
Owing to the pres
sure of other labours I have not been able to give them much attention, & they
have not accomplished what is desirable by any means.
Our Kahukula,Keikenui is a
good man & does the best he can, but it is a work for which he is by no means
competent unaided.
He has been a good deal embarrassed for want of means to pay
the teachers, repair the schools houses or build new ones; and also to obtain
teachers for moderate wages, there being in Honolulu, more lucrative situations
open to them.
We very much need a suitable missionary teacher devoted solely to
the common schools in Honolulu & its vicinity & I know of no situation where one
could be more useful.
Ought not one to be set out for this express purpose?
Of Roman catholic Schools within my field there are so far as I can learn 4;
including the school at the seat of their operations in Honolulu^including
School at chapel in H.[!] & containing about t$0[l] 88 scholars.
managed or what is tought[!] in them I am unable to say.
How they are
Mr. Maigret keeps a
high school, as I understand of 8 scholars.
Work on meeting house. So large and inconvenient was the house in its former
unfinished state, that the welfare of the congregation as well as that of the
minister evidently demanded some farther inprovements as soon as they could be
made, but a want of funds was the great obstacle, until $1,000. was placed at my
disposal for this object by the late primier[!].
Encouraged by this our people
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5.
were inclined to proceed with the work, until the bills for all the improvements
inside & out amounted tQ-$2640.0D,-.'' Of this amount about $2100, have been paid
leaving a debt of $540, yet on the house.
But sufficient '[.funds] has'been sub
scribed or nearly so to cancel this, & we have yet five months credit ', in which
to collect the subscriptions.
The sum expended is considerable & a large propor
tion of it has come from the poor of the congregation, yetjit has been well spent
& the people seem'well satisfied.
My own comfort has been greatly promoted by ■
.
the improvements inside of the house, and the people hear the word with much
greater satisfaction than formerly.
Shortly after our last Genl. Meeting I laid the subject of ministerial sup
port before my people, according to a resolution of our body; teaching & inform
ing the duty & importance of doing what they could to relieve the American church
es of the burden of supporting their pastor.
The result was that from October
1844 till October 18457 $570, in'.cash was raised by the church & congregation for
the support of their pastor.
This sum has not been all handed in to the secular
agents, a part having been appropriated to liquidate the debt of our meeting house
& a part to repairs on my dwelling, the appropriation of 'last year not having
been sufficient to meet the expense.
Until the debt on the meeting house is can
celed, I do not intend calling on my people to do any thing of consequence for
the cause generaally or for my support.
Protracted Meeting. We have held small meetings at outstations[!] at different
stations with good results.
In the month of March last I was kindly & efficient
ly assisted in a meeting of four days continuance by Brothers Bishop, Parker, &
Smith.
The exercises commenced with prospect not the most encouraging; the con
gregation was large, but a want of solemn attention & a spirit of prayer was
manifest; so it continued until the third day, when the fallow ground began to
be broken up, & the spirit of the Lord seemed evidently to accompany the word
spoken.
At the close of the meeting, the solemnity & sobriety that rested on the
countenances of the people, the fervor of their prayers, & the fulness of our re
ligious assemblies, afforded evidence that our labours had not been in vain in the
Lord.
Many from the world professed a desire to be on the Lords side & are now
in a course of instruction; some of them at least I'hope will prove to be the
children of God.
Since this meeting our church, as a body has been more wakeful, & more inter
ested in divine things than it was before.
dead & worse than useless.
But many of its members are still
These have been my trouble & grief, and a great hind
rance to the more active & living members of the church.
The table of statistics
will show the number of cases of discipline that have occured during the last
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two years & also the number of admissions.
It will be seen that the former much
exceeds the latter; more have been set aside & remain so than have been received
from the world.
But it must not be infered from this circumstance that the church
has grown weaker or been retrograde; so far from this I am satisfied that were a
number more of the fruitless branches loped off, there would be more life & vigor
& health in the tree.
The small number of admissions for the last two years, only 48, is not for
the want of candidates; ofxthese;there are many & I hope some of them are the
Lords people, but experience has tought[!] me, to be careful more & more in admiting members to the privilege^Lf the church.
It is so distressingly common among
natives to appear well whileLn a state of probation, & then after being allowed
to make a public profession,after a season to fall away, that I see no way of
avoiding this so well as by
a long course of instruction and trial.
It has been said that in order to keep up-our congregations, it is necessary
to keep open the doors of the church & allow a stream from without to flow in,
but I have not found it so, for the last year & a half,
I have received none
from the world during that time & yet I do not see that the congregation has sen
sibly diminished, or at least if it has, the cause is rather to be found in our
recent practice of saparate[!] meetings at some of the outposts on the Sabbath,
than to the one mentioned above.
Premature admissions of persons not well in
structed, and consequently liable to conduct themselves very unworthily of a
Christian profession, has a tendency to lower the standard of Christian charact
er, make a profession of religion appear to be a matter of small importance, and
bring the church of Christ into disrepute.
But I think the sentiment is gaining
ground among my people that it is a great & solemn thing to take the vow^of God
upon them, & ought to be done with the greatest caution.
To extend & establish
this feeling is of great importance to the welfare of the church.
I will only add in regard to this church that I have never / yet considered
my relation to it as established.
The action of our lasl^General Meeting was not
of a nature to relieve me entirely from my embarrassment, especially as it was
not ratified or in any way acted upon by the association. In fact',: I have felt
since that proceeding much as I did before, that I was still only a stated[?]
supply, or pastor pro tempore, & should the proper pastor arrive, I should give
the church at once into his hands. I must say however, that I have considered ,_
this as disorderly & a disadvantage both to myself & this church & congregation.
In order to get effectively rid of a relation so embarrassing I was willing two
years ago, to surrender the pastorship into other hands & turn my attention to
other woTk.
I am still more willing to do so now, & should be truly
to be
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allowed to confine myself to:the schools, to my paper, & to other kindred objects
& be rid of a situation which has never 'been satisfactory to me, & in which I
have laboured with much disadvantage.
I would not leave the impression that it
would now be pleasiht to me to have my pastoral relation to this church pro
perly constituted; this in my opinion, ought to have been done long ago, or else
the church put into other hands, as things have been & now-are I would much ra
ther be rid of the pastorship altogether,
Yet the Lord has been pleased to give
me favor in the eyes of this church & people & in some degree to bless my poor
labours among them, more than I had reason to expect considering the disadvantages
under which I have laboured, for almost six years.
I have refered to a division of the congregation in the afternoon of the Sab
bath, holding several meetings in the different districts.
In sustaining these
meetings,! have received important aid from Messrs. Richards, L. Andrews & Rice,
Mr. R. has held a meeting regularly at Waikiki, on Sab. afternoon,-Mr. L. Andrews
at Nuuanu, & Mr. Rice at Manoa.
This gives the seed a broader cast[?] & brings
more souls under its influence than to have but one assembly & is a more effect
ual way of counteracting the spread of Romish[!] errors in our borders than to
centre our labours at one spot.
But^Lt renders the congregation at this place
quite meager on Sabbath afternoon.
On the hymn book now in press I have devoted considerable labour, mostly by
was of revising. Owing to constant pressure of other labours I have done but
little at writing original hymns.
Romanism. Recently there arrived at this place a reinforcement of papists,
making in all[f] now on the islands.
Of the movements of this wily enemy in my field I know but little; they are
quiet & unobtrusive at present in all their^perations.
are they asleep.
But they are not idle nor
One of their aims doubtless is now to gain the good will of the
govt, by an appearance of loyalty & friendship, &. they will no doubt make capital
out of existing difficulties with other & greater governments According to the reC
• cord of the Kahukula,-5iSfe‘ are^l53 protestant children on this island, & 910
of Roman catholic.
Temperance.
Since July 1844, we have had no temperance meeting among the natives
& but little done in that way, chiefly because there has been but little use made
among natives of intoxicating drinks.
the most part.
What has been used was done in secret for
But awa has been doing vast mischief; astonishing quantities of
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it have been brought into the market & found ready sale.
Within three months
past however, a check has been put upon the traffic & use of the stupifying root
by the authorities, no one being allowed to use it without permission from the
governor.
This practice was adopted by John li, while he was acting governor,
during the absence of his Excellency last winter to the windward.
Strenuous
efforts have been made here & elsewhere to have awa entirely abolished by law;
numerous & powerful appeals have been sent up to the legislature for this purpose,
but I fear after.all that this will not be done.
The prospect now is that heavy
restrictions will be laid upon it, confining it to be used as a medicine only.
But this will be far from furnishing a remedy for the evil.
Among foreigners much has been done & undonpe in regard to temperance within
the last two years.
At one time, about a year ago, the cause of teetotalism
seemed to be in a fair way to triamph[!] in Honolulu; but a sad reverse has taken
place & since I havejlived on the islands I have not seen darker prospects in re
gard to the temperance reformation, so far as foreigners are concerned, than
during the last 9 months.
Our teetotlers have about all gone back to their cups
& their last state is worse than the first.
How the late heavy restrictions on
the traffic will operate, remains to be seen', but I have not much hope'from'.this
~quarter.
The cause must be mainly sustained by public sentiment if sustained at
all.
Church statistics, for 2 years beginning May 1, 1844
Whole no received on examination
1763
on certificate
165
Rec^ past 2 years on certificate
33
Past 2 years on examination
48
Whole no. reed past 2 years
81
Do -
Whole no. dismissed to other churches
Dismissed past 2 years
Whole no. deceased
141
42
270
Deceased past 2 years
87
Suspended past 2 years
92
Remain suspended
38
I'Jhole no. excommunicated
34
Remain excommunicated
30
Whole no. in regular standing
1446
Whole no. of children baptised
703
Baptised last 2
years
54
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Marriages 2 past years
219
Average congregation on Sab. morg.
1500 to 2000
General Remarks. It will be perceived from the preceding table that the ntmiber dismissed to other churches during the past 2 years exceeds the number re
ceived to this church on certificate.
For this ther^ay be two reasons 1.
A
well known reluctance onjthe part of the pastor to have persons come from other
places & settle in Honolulu 2,
From several c a u s e s h a s been a partial re
action in regard to emigration to this place; & this is in my view a decidedly
favorable symptom.
The great influx of people from all parts of the islands to
the metropolis,is a great evil - it operates to the injury of the population
resident here & also of the emigrants-
Somejof my best & most industrious people
have assured me that every thing they can get is begged away from them by their
friends from other islands & that this is a most serious draw^back on their tem
poral prosperity.
Multitudes come to this place without having paid their pas
sage, they either pawn their clothes , or are retained on board the vessels until
their friends advance the mnoey for their redemption.
This of course is always
done though it occasion[!] poverty & distress to those ashore.
Having no settled house those from abroad go here & there among their friends
like a swarm of locusts, devouring as they go, until they are driven from neces
sity either to seek employment as a last resort,or fall into iniquity such as
prostitution or gambling, in order to support life.
Thus, they are in many in
stances constantly both receiving & imparting injury by coming t@5 this place.
But as I have said, the evil appears to be diminishing & I hope’
:this government
will ere long take jneasures to reduce the evil still morel
I ought to say however
that many of the natives are not tcbe blamed for coming to Honolulu; their cir
cumstances often almost compel them to go somewhere.
In remote places they find
it difficult to procure money to pay their taxes; have their lands taken from
them by their superiors, or are attached to hi'gh'.br ^iow chiefs whose business
calls them to this place & when once here they find many inducements to remain.
2.
Knowledge, civilization and general improvement have evidently advanced with
in the past 2 years in this field.
Good clothing, good houses, and domestic com
fort, have increased, but there is a great want of economy every where apparent.
Silks, satins, & other costly articles are distrssingly common among those who
are scarcely able to afford cotton cloth; who', live in miserable huts & have not
sufficient food.
Horses, saddles & equippage[!] for fiding are purchased for no
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other object than pleasure, which exhausts the resources of the purchasers &
leaves nothing for the supply of their real wants. Many a woman wears a splendid
silk shawl,while her children have not a change of garments, nor a slate or book.
This is a crying evil among my people.
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3.
There are in Honolulu a multitude of adverse influences, from foreigners of
low character.
The profanity, drunkenness, & disturbances in our streets the
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commitments to the fort & troubles in our courts of justice are generally from
men of this character.
From them the children in our streets learn the most dia
bolical language; by them our native females are seduced, our Sabbaths desecrated,
our constables bribed and our whole atmosphere is corrupted.
They support our
grog shops, and our houses of ill fame, and thus strengthen the cause of the
wicked on every hand.
these islands?
What but evil can result from the settling of such men on
There have settled among us some foreigners of good character;
they are sober, orderly & industrious; one here & there is pious; these exert a
good influence, but they are the minority I fear.
4.
This field greatly needs more labour, I mean in my department.
To superin
tend the schools, edit a paper, and take care of such a church in such a place is
too much for any one man.
The whole time of the pastor should if possible be
given to the church & people, to the single object of reviving & guiding souls
to Christ & heaven & another man might be well employed in the schools, editing
the paper & conducting other works through the press, as well as missionating[!f
"giDong the people.
5.
More needs to be done at this place in behalf of native females.
A great
many young women come:’- here from remote parts of the islands & are exposed to all
the temptations of money, gaity, & pleasure that the place affords; many of them
are ruined at once, & beyond recovery.
Mrs. Knapp has done much good among the girls of her school & Mrs. Armstrong
in her feebleness has done much to arouse & quicken the pious females & expecial^
ly the mothers, to their duty in their several relations.
Would that a thousand
fold more were done of a similar kind, for the daughters of Hawaii in this place.
Respectfully submited[!]
R. Armstrong.
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�Report of 1 st church & congregation in Honolulu from May 1846 to May 1848.
The history of our affairs- as a society, has not varied much during the last
two.[years], from what it was in former years.
We have experienced mercies and
judgements; a good degree of health has been afforded us, & yet we have been severly visited by sickness.
Our people suffered greatly & many died, during the
distressing epidemic, which prevailed in April & May of last year. During that
distressing period, it was often my melancholy duty to attend 3 and 4 funerals in
succession, without even leaving the grave yard.
Labours.
These have been much the same as those described in my reports of former years.
Preaching twice on the Sabbath, delivering from one to four lectures during the
week; attending the monthly concert on the first Monday of every month, usually
one or two Sabbath Schools on the Sabbath, a meeting for inquirers every thursday; & a School for my elders on Saturday have constituted the usual weekly rout
ine of my labours as pastor.
Bro? Hall & Cooke
have had the principal care of the children's Sabbath
School for children, which has flourished part of the time under review, & the
children made rapid advances in a knowledge of the holy Scriptures, some of them
reciting from 100 to 200 verses, from memory on successive Sabbath for a season.
Several young men & some young women connected with this Sabbath School have re
cently given considerable evidence that they have chosen Christ as their Saviour
& portion. But, I regret, to say that our childrens Sabbath School is now in a
declining state, mainly for want of efficient labour on the part of the pastor
and Superintendents.
The School in the ai o'ka la, has been held after the service on each Sabbath
morning, & has been conducted by Judge Andrews.
During the present year, it has
been mutually flourishing.
While our lamented Bro. Richards continued to labour, he preached every Sab
bath afternoon in Nuuanu valley & at the palace, on Sabbath evening, both of which
services were attended with good results.
The people in Nuuanu manifested the
deepest sympathy for him during his last sickness, & no part of our people seem
ed to fell[!] his loss more deeply, after his decease.
Judge Andrews has also assisted me a good dealTin preaching on the Sabbath, &
since the failure of Mr. . Richards in July last, has alternated with me in preach
ing in the palace, & in the congregation, every other Sabbath afternoon.
Bro. Rice has had charge of the meeting in Manoa valley, & I hope he will
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2.
present an account of his labours there before the meeting.
That is a very
flourishing part of my field.
A substantial Stone Meeting house has been erected there under the direction
of Bro. Rice intended also for a school house; and a dobie[adobe] building for
the same purposes at Waikiki.
These have cost a great deal of labour & care, but
we feel amply repaid for it all, in seeing the worth of the Lord prospering so
greatly in both of these districts.
While erecting the houses we feared they wd,
prove to be too large, but during the present year they have been well filled
with attentive worships, on Sabbath afternoons & frequently during the week.
A Stone meeting house is now in progress at Wailupe, on the coast,, east of
Dimond Hill.
That section of the parish:'is under the care of a pious native, who
is doing much good.
esteemed among them.
The congregation gives him a support & he seems to be much
His name is Q4iele['?].
Kaauwai has had the oversight of
Waikiki, and has been very active & energetic, tho. not always so prudent as
could be desired.'
Church discipline.
The cases of discipline in this church have been fewer during the two years
now under review, than during any former period of the same length; this no doubt
is owing to an increase of divine knowledge, a better understanding of the Gospel
system, & more maturity of Christian character in the church generally.
But one
or two cases of discipline have occured, of the most distressing nature; both in
high places, one of them in the State; the othe]^ in the church.
As to the former,
the individual, after about a years suspension ffom,tJie church, has been restored
on profession of repentence.
The latter deserved more notice; that is the case
of Keikenui ifeo'wfe licensed to preach the Gospel in the year 1845,
An interesting
field was assigned him, on the coast, to the eastward of IHmond Hill.
He entered
upon his labours with fair prospects of success; he was popular , & at once, a
large congregation, collected around him.
to conduct his labours with prudence.
He was abundent[!] in labours & seemed
But in the midst of his career & before he
had been six months at his post, the Spoiler came & cast him down.
The charms of
a young married woman led his heart astray & he was discovered on his trial to
have been guilty of nearly constant': criminal intercourse with her for six months
before it was discovered.
as a preacher.
All this time he was engaged in the most active labours
When accused of criminal conduct, he declared his innocence &
succeeded in evading detection for several months, although suspected by many
about.
When apprehended & brought before the magistrate he most solemnly pro--^':
tested his innocence calling God to witness, & holding his hand on the Bible.
He
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was equally bold in maintaining his integrity before the church, although la
boured with long & affectionately.[!]
He was pronounced guilty however before
the Judges & also bythe church, & since that time has confessed his sin in the
fullest manner.
So also has the woman who is not a church member.
Church Statistics for two years from May 1, 1846 to May 1, 1848.
Whole no. rec4 to this church on examc
1974
Whole no. rec"? on certificate
253
Rec^ past two years on examination
211
Rec^ past two years on certificate
88
Whole no. rec^ past two years
299
Whole no. dismissed to other churches
166
Dismissed past two years
25
Whole no. deceased
’[!]
Deceased past two years
[T]
Suspended past two years
^ 52
Whole no. in regular standing
1418
Whole no. of children baptised
774
Baptised past 2 years
71
Marriages past 2 years.
244.
Much stupidity has prevailed in. our church at times; meetings run low, and
all good works draged[!] heavily; the majority of our members seemed possed[!]
of a spirit of slumber & yet we have had no general outbreaking [of] iniquity--in
the church since we last met.
But I am happy to say this church has been copious
ly watered from on high during the present year & has been in a flourishing State.
Never since my first connection with it, has it appeared so well; so prayerful,
watchful, circumspect & active in doing good.
Forty six members who had been
under discipline, from 1 to 8 years, have been brought apparently to repentance
& restored to the fellowship of the church since the 1st of January, while the
cases of discipline during that time have been only five.
Revival.
For two years there has been a concert of prayer among the females of this
church, to pray for a revival, and during my absence to the windward in January,
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Mrs. Armstrong resolved to do what she could to awaken a spirit of prayer among
the female members of the church who attended her friday meetings.
seems to have been owned
& blessed of the Great Head of the church.
The effort
The meet
ings began^' to increase both in numbers & interest; a spirit of prayer was
•
awakened; more meetings were called for; the impenitent began to come in, and al
though the meeting was for females only, males came & begged the privileges of
attending,
among others His Majesty himself & several of the high chiefs. Here a
little disorder occured in one meeting, that is males & females both lead in
prayer; but as the leading men of the church got enlisted in the work, it natur
ally passed into their hands and so far as I know, all the proceedings of the
meetings were then done in decency & in order, unless meeting before daylight in
the miorning may be considered disorderly; but the males & females met in sepa
rate houses until the break of day when they united for a short season in pouring
out their hearts before God in the large church.
All this took place during my absence to the windward; on my return, how was
my heart rejoiced to behold the work of the Lord!
I landed on the Sabbath, dur
ing morning service & that large church was completely filled with immortal
beingsi listening to the words of eternal life, from the lips of Bro. Baldwin,
who was then at this place.
Daily meetings were in progress; hundreds of people
came out to them who appeared to be strangers to me.
gers in the house of God.
At least they were stran
Stillness rested upon those solemn assemblies; they
were large, but it was easy to preach, for all were eager to hear the word and
gave fixed attention to it.
A demand for the Scriptures among the people became
general & I sold more Bibles & testaments for cash in February & March than I did
the whole of the year 1847.
As this work commenced among the natives themselves with the assistance of
Mrs. Armstrong, so it has been mostly sustained by the elders & active members
of the church.
It was impossible for me to do more than preach to such multi
tudes & I did not attempt to do much more, but many of the church members have
been very zealous & efficient.
They seemed to be full of faiths of the Holy
Ghost, & took hold of the promises like wrestly[!] Jacobs.
The inquirers amounting to some hundreds are collected into classes & I have
been in the habit of meeting them once a week for prayer & instruction.
These
’'End of pg.2.of original manuscript. The followihg text was probably added by
Armstrong as an afterthought: In Dec. last at the request of the govt. I consent
ed to assist Mr. Young in the depatl[!] of public instruction until the present
meeting. [End of text]. This text appeared on the top of pg. 3 of the original
manuscript and was sectioned off from the rest of page.
�Hon.olu.lu May 1846 - May 1848
meetings are well attended & most interesting.
Common Schools.
The number of common schools in this district is 27; 21 of these are Pro
testant & six of them Catholic.
In the Protestant schools there are reported 976
scholar^s; in the Catholic 198.
In the Pro^testant schools there has been a decided advance in knowledge,
discipline., and general improvement during the two years past.
The teachers have
been promptly paid, & therefore more efficient than they formerly were.
Vocal
music has been successfully introduced into several of the schools, & is exerting
a very beneficial influence.
The exercise of singing is popular with; the child
ren, and, I think, advantageous to their health. Nothing but the want of suitable
teachers has prevented us from introducing it into all our schools, as a daily
school exercise.
A good many, I cannot say how many, of the;,yduth. in the schools have been de
cidedly serious during the revival & I am not without hope that they have chosen
the good part.
None however have been received to the fellowship of the church,
as fruits of this revival, either chidren, or adults.
During the past year the Pilgrims Progress & Moral Philosophy have been in
troduced to several of the schools & are popular books.
to have the Scriptures
d a ily
read
Care has also been taken
portions of them commited to memory.
The census has been taken from Maunalua to Moanalua, & amounts to 12.025[!].
This is propably[!] not far from correct.
Editorial labours.
Three thousand copies of the Elele Hawaii were issued, for the year, ending
April1st, 1847; during the year ending April 1st 1848.4,000 copies were issued.
In my field the paper has beoi popular and useful, & has been generally paid for in
cash.
By suitable efforts man;^ore subscribers might have been obtained in this
region, & the subscriptions collected; but time has been wanting for this & many
other good works & this has been left mainly to native agents.
The principal
reasons for suspending the paper for a season were my own inability to do it jus
tice with the care of the public schools on . my hands & the fact also that the
paper is a sinking concern; it falls far short of paying for itself & there the
subject should engage the attention of this meeting.
I hope however the paper
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will be resumed & carried on with vigor.
When I first undertook the editorship
of the Nonanona I had no expectation of continuing it more than a year or two;
but now I wd.[!] record it with gratitude to God that he has given me strength to
conduct a small paper for seven successive years without interruption.
I am sen
sible that the work has been imperfectly done, & yet I trust it has been the
means of some good to this poor people.
The revision of the Hulikanaka(Moral philosophy) has been completed & the work
printed & put in circulation.
It is now being introduced into our schools to
some extent & is a popular work with the teachers.
No other work was assigned by our last Genl. Meeting, but feeling much the
need of a catechism, more simple in its language, & more clear in its definitions,
I took the|.iberty to write one, & by consent of the Printing Committee, a small
edition has been issued from the press.
If approved, I would suggest that an
other edition be printed with proof texts in full.
This little work is in invi
tation of TLavels[?] exposition of the shorter catechism.
I have received from my congregation in cash, since our last Genl. Meeting,
the sum of $1660, which has been disposed of in the following various ways.
Paid off old debt on meet, house
Cil
Meeting house expencesyi^since that time
$540
140
Laid out on Cooke house & Study
400
Laid out on Meet, houses at Waikiki & Manoa -
300
Donation to Meet, house at Hana
Do.-
50
Meet, house at Waimea, Kauai
Do. t-o N. Caledonia mission
40
,
40
Cash on hand -
150
■$1660.
[in pencil]: [?]
40
Marriage fees are included in the above amount.
What cash I have on hand,
is being expended on our school houses, which are in a bad condition.
[in pencil]:
His Majesty has set on foot a subscription among his chiefs for furnishing
the tower[?]
on the Meeting house at a cost of $23,000[!]; while the common-
people in the congregation have resolved to order a large towefpf]
Unlock to
be placed in the tower when completed,-wh,wiH cost $500. [End of pencil writing]
R. Armstrong
�Report of Honolulu Station,
April 4, 1849
Owing to sickness in my family, my removal to Honolulu was delayed until the
30th of August. Until that time, my labors were continued as usual at Wailuku.
My labors at Honolulu were commenced on':the first sabbath in September, &
have been continued with out material interruption to the present time.
received occasional help from Bro. Armstrong & others.
usually attended a second service at Waikiki.
I have
At such times, I have
Two sabbaths have been spent at
the out station at Wailupe, & the Lord’s supper administered there.
That out
station embraces three or four villages between Dimond Hill & Bro. Parker's field,
with nearly 200 church members.
A native assistant has been employed there.
The out station at Manoa -, has
been under the charge of Bro. Rice, who has
regularly attended a meeting there.on Thursday & Sabbath afternoon, besides ad
ministering to the bodily maladies of the people at other times.
intendence a very good house of worship has been erected.
meetings with him in this valey[!].
more labor.
Under his super
I have attended a few
To Nuuanu, Pauoa & Waikiki I have extended
A regular weekly meeting has been held in these places, besides
occasional preaching at Waikiki on Sabbath afternoon.
attended a meeting in Nuanu[!] Sabbath afternoon.
Judge Andrews has lately
In about a month after my ar
rival here, Kaili, my faithful helper at Wailuku removed to Waikiki & conmienced
labor at that place.
He entered upon his work with much zeal & energy, & I was
counting much on his help, but in a few weeks his work was ended, & he joined his
former companions & fellow laborers Bartimeus, & Hawaii in a higher service.
Perhaps no Hawaiian promiseti greater usefulness as a preacher of the Gospel.
He
was frequently attended in his last sickness by Bro. Rice & myself, but nothing
could arrest the destroyer.
His end7 was peace & his memory is precious.
My labors have consisted of the usual services on the sabbath, three lectures
during the week at different places, a catechetical meetings on Thursday & a
theological class of church lunas on Saturday, besides meetings for the examina
tion of candidates for the church &c.
The week day meetings were much interrup
ted during the sickness, which has swept over the Islands.
This sickness greatly
weakened our hands, but trhe church is beginning to recover from the shock.
In
the course of a few month[!] more than one tenth of our church members were car
ried off embracing some of our most active & influential men.
Although much ef
fort was made to improve the chastisement in a spiritual point of view, little
impression seemed to [be] made on the minds of the people.
But there has been no
special defection, & meetings are again pretty well attended & in some parts of
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2.
the field, a considelrable waking up.
On my arrival here I found some hundreds anxious to be admitted to the ex
ternal privileges of Christ's house, & our church lunas were urgent that they
should be received.
After spending some time in examining candidates 137 were
admitted.to the church in the month of October & during the last month 143 more
were admitted, making 280 since I have been here.
Twenty six were admitted by
Bro. Armstrong before I arrived, making 306 since the last Gen. Meeting.
Taking
out the number of deaths removals &c,the increase of the church the past year is
177.
The subject of admission to the church has been attended with no little an
xiety & difficulty.
Part of the difficulty has arisen from':the want of a satis
factory, personal acquaintance with the candidates, & a part from the urgent de
sire of our best church lunas for the admission of candidates raising in the mind
the painful fear that they do not understand the true nature of the new birth, &
the spiritual character of the Christian church.
I am more & more convinced that
Hawaiian churches cannot be safely committed to the control of native pastors.
It is not difficult to foresee the result.
Nearly the whole population, especial
ly all persons of distiction & importance would be admitted nominal
members of
the church, & these nominal members of distinction would soon have the affairs of
the church all in their own way, & the church rendered subservient to the temporal
interest of the State, & controled[ !]■ by its worldly minded members.
formality or a total apostasy would ensue.
A dead
How important that the foreign past
ors hold on, & carry out the work, which they have commenced.
There have not been very many exclusions from the church since I have been
here.
Several have been under discipline.
Some evils are to be contended with
here which are not found in other parts of the Islands, such as procuring beef
from the butcher's stalls on sabbath morning, going out in boats to tow in ships
on the sabbath, letting horses to customers on the sabbath, bringing milk in to
town &c.
The three first[!] of these we do not hesitate to make tabu for church
members unless it is in case of ships in distress.
The last, bringing milk into
town, although it often results in a serious breach of the sabbath, it is more
difficult to regulate by any definite rules.
regard as inadmissible.
To carry milk about for sale, we
Carrying it to regular customers is a more doubtful case,
though attended with serious evil, when brought a considerable distance.
We have
reason to think a considerable part of the sabbath is sometimes occupied in going
& returning, & the duties of the sabbath neglected.
Whether stringent church
rules should be adopted with regard to it is doubtful.
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3
On the whole, I have not found the labors of the station greater than I an
ticipated, & my health has been quite as good, ig. not better than at Wailuku.
Schools have been under the directon of Mr. Armstrong & Goodale.
I must
refer to them for statistices.
Statistics of the church.
In .examination past year
306
Whole No. on'.examination
2280
On Certificate past year
52
Whole No. on certificate
305
Dismissed to other churches past year
18
Whole No. dismissed to other churches
184
Deaths the past year
164
Whole No. of deaths
486
Excluded past year
14 .
Restored past year
15
Whole No. remaining excluded
[Crossed out]
In regular standing -
1595
Children baptised past year
34
Whole No. of children baptised
636
Marriages past year
134
Average congregation
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1200
in the field
1600
Contributions past year.
For support of preaching -
275.19
Monthly Concert
64.98
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$
$
Paid to Native preachers
43.19
Repairs of Meeting house &c
43.33
$ 86.52
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251.65
It will be seen from the above that the contributions of the people must be
considerably increased, if they are to support their own pastor.
But with system
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& proper effort on the part of the pastor, I have no doubt, that a support can be
raised, without abridging materially the real comforts of the people.
But in addition to the support of the pastor, our great meeting house must
be kept in repair, & other contingent expenses sustained by the church, to say
nothing of a balcony & a clock which are much needed.
Whether, the people will
come forward & continue to sustain all these necessary burdens is somewhat doubt
ful, butl-X think they will be willing to make the effort.
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�Report of 1st Church Honolulu
May 1, 1851.
During the two jearsi which‘%ave intervened since our last Gen. Meeting, we
have to sing of merices rather than judgements.
We have not been visited by
pestilence as in the year preceeding our last Gen. Meeting; & although the sword
of war has. been brandished over us, not a hair of our heads has been injured.
Order has reigned in our city & all kinds of industry have received a due re
ward.
The influx of foreigners to this place & tb-'rCalifornia has greatly in
creased the demand for native labor & all kinds of native products.
stimulus has been given to industry & civilization.
An increased
But with the good things of
civilization such as an Agricultural Society, Atheneum, Chamber of Commerce &c[!],
have come in also its attendant evils, a Theater, Circus, Beer shops &c &c.
A
good many have been swept into the vortex of avarice & dissipation.
But our church members have in the main held on their way.
The number of
defections the past year is about the same as the year preceeding.
Ten have been
set aside for going over to the papists, giving as a reason, that their papist
^
konohikis threatened to turn them off their lands, if they did not.
A few who
have been connected with the papists have united, or are seeking admission to our
church.
The number of admissions^-to our church by profession the past year is
145, a less number than in some preceeding years.
There has been no general re
vival, but during part"of the year, more then usual attention at some of the out
g
stations.
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My own labors have been much as in former years.
Two sermons & a Bible
class on the Sabbath, & 4 meetings on week days in different parts of the field,
Mr. Armstrong has often supplied my place here in the afternoon, & I have preach-
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ed at one of the outstations[!].
Mr. Rice has attended meeting at Manoa as here-
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tofore, & Mr. Andrews at Nuanu[!].
A native assistant has had charge of the out
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station at Wailupe beyond Dimond hill. I have attended the celebration of the[?]
O)
^ L o r d ’s supper there once a quarter. The coming & going of church members to &
0)
^ ^ from Honolulu has caused a good [deal] of labor & correspondence. This migratory
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disposition of the people, I regard as a serious evil in the church.
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But it is
not easy to correct it.
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A large & substmtial meeting house at Wailupe has been nearly finished, one
also at Nuuanu built’^'by subscription & superintended by Mr. Smith for the accommodation of members of both Societies.
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A house at Waikikiwaena finished during
the past year has been rffiently blown down.
Another is bsing built.
In addition
to these labors, some time has been given tcJ^writing & translating for the Elele &
�Honolulu May 1, 1851
2.
corresponding with the Board &c &c.
A strong tide of worldliness has been setting in upon the church, but"a
pretty good degree of liberality has
tistics of contributions.
kept up, as will be seen by the sta
Besides supporting their pastor, they ha^e given more
than twice as much for other objects as during the first year of my residence
here.
Those most deficient in liberality are chiefs & other persons most able to
give;.
To give, as they have received is a hard lesson for the rich to learn in
all lands.
A commencement has been made in this church on the new plan of supporting
the Gospel proposed by the Board & sanctioned by our last Meeting.
The subject-
was braught[!] before the church immediately after our last Gen. Meeting.
thousand-dollars was proposed as a salary.
This was about the amount annually
received from the Board including repairs of buildings &c.
was appointed to aid in collecting & paying over the salary.
has devolved mainlyion the Pastor.
One
A committee of three
The labor, however,
It was proposed that quarterly payments,
amounting to 25 cts to each male & 12-| cts to a female be made through the church
lunas-
Th^unas were furnished with small blank books to record the names & the
amount paid.
was made out.
By a little extra effort at the close of the year, the sum proposed
The old & the feeble were not to be requested to pay.
A good many
failed to contribute regularly, & some well able have probably paid nothing.
5a
stteh-easesy-ehureh-diseipiine-has-ftet-yet-been-resoafted-teT— bufe-it-fflay-be-seeessa¥y-ie-speeial-eases-[!].
Owing to the great rise in provisions, labor &c,
the sum raifed is, by no means, an adequate salary for a large family at the pre
sent time in Honolulu, including repairs of building Medical Services &c; but
being allowed a few hundred dollars for repairs from previous contributions of
the people, with soik small private resources, I have been able to sustain my
family without any special embarrassment.
On the whole, the experiment thus far
has been as favorable both to Pastor & people as could be expected, & ^annot but
think, that an important step has been taken in the right direction.
This church
for the two preceeding years,besides supporting their own pastor have paid di
rectly into the treasury of the Board $140., besides $37. to French protestant
mission & various sums for different house objects, as will appear in the statis
tics of the two past years.
I remark in conclusion, that I cannot but think, that the Mission ought to
contemplate ere long reinforcing the field connected with the first church, in
Honolulu.
One man is quite inadequate to the labor which ought to be performed.
The church now numbers about 2000 members; & the number of inhabitants & impor
tance of the field is increasing.
�3.
Honolulu May 1, 1851
Intemperance is sweeping off one after another of our foreign population.
few even of our church members have been drawn into the vortex.
A
It has been a
more common thing than in former years to see natives intoxicated.
With the com
mencement of the present year, monthly temperance meeting were commenced with the
design of waking up anew[ !].' public attention on this subject.
The pledge has
been circulated, and a large number of names obtained; a memorial also prepared
for the legislation against reducing the duty on spirits.
Statistics of the church.
Received on examination the past year 145.
Whole number-:on'.examination 2794. From
. Whole number from other churches 442.
other churches '23
Dismissed past year 51.
Whole number dismissed 279.
past year 62.
Whole number deceased 622.
Excluded past year 49.
Restored past year 29.
In regular standing 1990.
52.
Deceased
Children baptised
Whole number of children baptised 732.
Marriages 147 couples.
Contributions.
Support of Pastor
1000.
American Board
50.
Meeting House Waimea Kauai
50.
Meeting House at Wailupe -
78.68
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Waikiki
5.35
Nuanu-[!]
217.75
Bell & fixtures at Pauoa
60.00
Meeting houses at Manoa & Makiki
342.50
cCock in tower of Stone church
200.00
Native helper at Wailupe
87.52
'■$2091.80
The above sum has all been paid in money.
Considerable labor has been be
stowed on Meeting houses &c not included.
For statistics of Schools &c[‘?] I must refer to the Report of Miiji.^^! of in
struction.
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[E.W.Xlark]
[Unsigned]
[Written on the other side of last page]:
Report of Station
at Honnolulu
1st church.
�Report of Honolulu Station May 1 , 1852.
The past year has been marked by no special changes.
A good degree of health
has prevailed at the Station both among the natives & the Mission families.
Death has made no . inroads in our own families, but some of our efficient native
helpers have been removed.
In the month of October I was laid aside two or
three sabbaths by sickness.
Otherwise my health has been much as in years past,
with some increase of infirmities.
The habits & usages & vices of civilized life are increasing at Honolulu.
While many are, becoming more confirmed in virtuous principles & habits, others
are becoming more hardened - in unbeleif[!] & sin.
This is the natural result of
the increased intercourse with men of all shades of m©ral character.
As a result of this increased intercourse, intemperance has probably gained
a stonger hold of a certain class of natives.
Rum drinking however, has seldom
shown itself among the members of the church.
One or two cases only of disci
pline have occurred for this^cause.
Our church is strictly a temperance society.
In addition to our own efforts on this subject, A temipefahce society has been in
native operation among the foreign population, though not without apposition from
some of the would be temperate.
For a short time, the native hula was strongly encouraged by persons high in
rank.
Several of our church members, principally females, fell in to the snare &
were set aside from the church.
Most of them have returned professing, repentance,
& for several months, we have heard nothing of the hula.
In the month of October, more than usual interest in religion began to be
manifested, in':this field & in other parts of the Island.
Protracted meetings
were held in different places, & accompanied, as we have reason to think, with a
blessing from above
active part.
In this work Waimalu & other native helpers took a zealous &
Meetings were croweded[!], & many hoomalokas, popes, Mormons &
backsliders professed conversion.
tokens of divine influence.
Vie have much reason to be grateful for these
As the result of this work, many wanderers 'from
other churches living here professed to return to the right way of the Lord.
In Jany.[!], 27 such persons were restored to fellowship in this church & report
ed to their several pastors.
stored at the same time.
other churches.
Twenty four fallen members of this church were re
In April, 28 more were restored - 6 of them being frc^
In Jany. & April 279 were also admitted on profession.
A few of
them are regarded as the fruits of the late revival, but most of them have been
candidate a much longer time.
Meetings continue to be well attended.
Church lunas have rendered much help
at the out stations, but none of them have received any compensation except
�Honolulu 1852
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Umalele at Wallupe.
Mr. Rice has labored at Manoa as heretofore.
house there has been recovered with shingle
The meeting
under his superintendence.
The
station at Wailupe beyond Dimond Hill has been visited 8 times during the year, 5
the Lord's supper administered there over a quarter.
Meetings have been held at
two other out stations over a week as heretofore; a occasionally[!] on sabbath
afternoons when the pulpit here could be supplied by others.
Our"large house has been occasionally crowded, & is usually well filled in
the forenoon.
The church now consists of more than 2000 members.
Money has been much less plenty than during the preceeding year, & contribu
tions have diminished somewhat, but not materially.
A Missionary Society has been formed at this station auxiliary to the
Hawaiian Missionary Society with good prospects.
Money has been freely contri
buted & several have offered themselves for the Missionary work.
Contributions,
Salary of Pastor
1000.00
Paid to Native preacher at Wailupe
92.00
Monthly concert to Hawaiian Miss. Society -
50.00
Society Auxiliary to H.M.Society -
88.00
Cash for Seraphina--
200.00
Repairs on Stone Church
Sweeping, communions &c.
J
50.55
Meeting Houses at. out stations
390.18
Tower clock
282.37
$2153.10
Statistics
Whole number on profession
of church.
3073
Whole number by letter
533
Past year on profession
279
Past year by letter
Whole number dismissed to other churches
Dismissed past year
Whole number deceased
91
332
53
694
Deceased past year
72
Excluded past year
59
Restored past year
100
�Honolulu 1852
3.
Whole number in regular standing
2280
Whole number of children baptised
732
Baptised past year
46
Marriages past year
205
For statistic of schools see report of Minister of Public Instruction.
Before closing, it is proper to say a word in regard to the wants of this
station.
The church here now embraces more than 2000 persons in regular standing.
About one half of these live in Honolulu & its immediate vicinity.
The remainder
live mostly in what is called the 5th Apana, embracing Makiki, Manoa, Waikiki,
Palolo & Kekaha'further to the eastward, extending about 12 or 15 miles'from
Honolulu.. The communicants cannot all be accommodated in our large house at
once.
We, therefore divide, part commune in the forenoon, & part in the after
noon.
The lower part of our house is nearly full of communicants both parts of
the day. Between two & three hundred commune at Wailupe about 8 miles from this.
It is well known, that while in other parts of the IslandsJ the people are
diminishing, they are increasing in Honolulu & vicinity.
The above statistics
show that 91 have been recMved to this church by letter , the pas^year, & 33 not
in regular standing have been restored from other churches to this, making 124
from other churches the past year, while only 53 have been dismissed to other
churches.
In Honolulu, church members are exposed to greater temptations than in
other places; greater influences also go out from this city to other parts of the
Islands than fron any other place.
The committee labors &c which necessarily come
upon the pastor here are greater than.in any other place, which labors will be
increased, if the Home Missionary pla-n of the Board goes into effect.
These considerations make it a very important inquiry with this meeting,
whether more strength shall not be afforded for carying[1] on the work at this
post.
I trust, the meeting will seriously consider this question in disposing of
the strength now at their command.
The idea of retaining more than 2000 church
members in one fold, under one shepherd in the U. States, would be considered
preposterous.
Is it'- less so here?
Are the sheep less disposed to stray?
Do
they require less vigilence & care & anxiety on the part of the shepherd?
These remarks are submitted for the careful consideration of the meeting.
[Unsigned]
[Written on back of last page]:
Mr. Clark’s Report 1st chh.
1852
�May 1, 1852
Honolulu 1st Church
Both the vices & the virtues of civilized life are gaining strength in Hono
lulu I
During part of the year there has been unusual attention to religion in this
parish & in other parts of the I-siahd,
with much interest.
Protracted meetings have been'attended
Many backsliders have been reclaimed, & a goodly number have
professed conversion.
279 have been admitted to the church the past year, a few
are regarded as the fruits of the late revival, but most of them have been can
didate a much longer time.
Meetings continue to be well attended.
•Two or three meeting houses at out stations have been repaired at consider
able expense.
A Missionary Society, Auxiliary to the Ife'jaiian Missionar^feociety, has been fomded mth en
couraging prospects.
Contributions.
Salary of pastor - -
$1000.00
Support of Native preacher - -
92.00
Paid to Hawaiian Missionary Society
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138.00
for church Seraphina
200.00
Repairs on Stone church
50.55
Sexton &c
Meeting houses at out stations
390.18
Tower clock -
282.37
$2153.10
Statistics of church
Whole no. on profession -
3073
Whole no. by letter
533
Past year on profession
279
Past year by letter
91
Whole no. dismissed to other churches
Dismissed past year
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332
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53
Whole No. deceased
694
Deceased past year
72
Excluded past year
59
Restored past year
100
Whole No. in regular standing
Whole No. of children baptised
2280
732
�Honolulu May 1, 1852
Baptised past year - -
46
Marriages past year
205
[End]
[E.W. Clark]
[Unsigned]
[Written on the other side of the last page]:
Abstract of
Report 1st Church
1852
�Report of Kawaiohao[!], Honolulu.
May 1, 1853.
By Mr. Clark.
My own time, the past year has been a good deal broken in upon by the voyage
to Micronesia, & two or three weeks sickness after my return.
Mr. Paris, Mr.
Armstrong, & Mr. Rice, supplied my"place during my absence, for which they have
the thanks of the Pastor & the people.
The voyage which will be noticed in a-
nother report occupied four & a half months.
The communion service was attended before I left, both at Wailupe & Kawaiohao[!], & 164 persons previously propounded admitted to the fellowship of the
church.
A very commendable missionary spirit was manifested at the commencement
of the year, awakened by the sailing of the Mission to Micronesia.
In addition '■
to about $1000. in money, our people contributed a considerable amount in sup"-'. ’.plies for the vessel.
The safe return of the Caroline added new impulse to the Missionary feeling.
On the whole the year has been one of decided advance among our people.
1.
The number of church members has increased over 300.
2.
Religious meetings have been well attended, & a consequent increase in
religious knowledge & stability of character.
3.
An evident advance has been made in habits of civilization.
4.
Objects of benevolence have received more efficient aid than during any
previous year.
In addition to supporting their own pastor, & liberal contributions to the
Micronesia Mission, more than $3000. have been raised for building meeting houses.
In the superintendance of this work Bro. Rice has rendered invaluable help.
Three new & substantial meeting houses with shingle roofs have been put up, &
mostly finished, & one or two others repaired, so that we shall soon have a good
meeting house in every important district in the field, in addition to the stone
church in Honolulu.
Meetings are held in these houses on the afternoon of the
Sabbath, & at other times during the week.
In this way, the Gospel is brought
within the reach of all, & a religious interest is kept up throughout the field.
Valuable aid has been rendered in these meetings by Mr. Armstrong, Mr. Rice &
others.
Many of our native church members are active helpers in religious meet
ings & in other ways.
The statistics of the church & of contrib.utions will lafford some index of the
religious interest during the year.
No special defection or outbreak of wickedness has taken place.
ance & sabbath breaking are making some inroads among us.
Intemper
Mormonism & popery, I
�Honolulu, Kawaiahao May 1, 1853
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think, have not made much advance during the year.
Honolulu continues, to be a
vortex which draws in many of the unwary youth of the Islands, & swallows them up
in the giddy whirl of dissipation.
But on the whole we have great reason for '
gratitude, that so many restraining influences are operating to prevent the pro
gress of sin & death around us.
for the future.
We would praise God for past mercies & trust him
His kingdom,though it meets with many opposing obstacles, is on
ward, we trust, at these Islands, & throughout the world.
Since writing the above, a new outbreak of the Mormon delusion has taken
place in Honolulu.
One or two converts fromerly[formerly] from Lahainaluna in
connection with some of the Mormons from Salt Lake have made quite a stir for a
week or two past, leading captive silly women & silly men too laden with divers
lust, most of them from the dregs of Honolulu.
They have been urged into the
water on a sudden excitement, thus turning the solemn ordinance of baptism into
a farce.
One of their native kahunas wrote me a poKte request for the use of the
Stone Church on thfe sabbath, that he might make known to the people the true Gos
pel.
It afforded me occasion to give a brief history of Mormonism, & a solemn
warning against the delusion;'
Statistics of Church.
Whole No. on profession
3404
Whole No. by certificate
579
Past year by profession
331
Past year by certificate
46
Whole No. past year
377
Whole No. dismissed to Other churches
351
Dismissed past year
19
Whole No. deceased
759
Deceased past year
65
Excluded past year
41
Restored past year
57
Whole No. in regular standing
2528
Whole No. of children baptised
768
Baptised past year
36
Marriages past year
128
Contributions.
Support of pastor
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of a native helper
1000.00
78.46
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Honolulu, Kawaiahao May 1, 1853
Foreign missions
Aid to the poor of the church
966.00
9.26
Hearse, sixton, bread & wine '&c
103.75
Tower clock
367.00
Building & repairing churches
3154.53
$5679.00
The above includes only cash receipts.
A considerable amount was contribu
ted in provisions for the voyage to Micronesia & more than five hundred dollars
in labor on Meeting Houses.
The amount contributed for religious purposes thepast year far exceeds any
previous year.
This is owing partly to special & pressing calls.
[Unsigned]
[Written on the other side of the last page]:
Honolulu 1st Church
& Station Report
Read by Mr. Clark
May 18, 1853
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�Report May 1853[1854],
The year commenced with the small pox.
We could do little else but battle
with this terrible scurge[.f] for several months.
my field escaped its ravages.
Scarcly[!] a house throughout
For month after month, I was called to witness the
most heart renching[!] scenes, such as I hope never again to witness.
In five
months we buried about 1/5 of our church, making more than 500“members, & among
them some q|^ our most useful members.
visiting from house to house.
ed.
Much of the Pastor's time was occupied in
Most of the usual meetings, however, were sustain
Some appeared well under the chastis:€m&t> & others seemed bewildered & knew
!
not which way to turn.
A few church members betook themselves to the lying vani
ties of Romanism & Mormonisin, & were baptised just as they were going out of this
world with the assurance that this was their only hope of salvation.
As in former epidemics, a good deal of apathy existed on spiritual subjects,
&, at our time, a very unhappy state of feeling was gaining control over the
minds of the people & threatening to carry away all before it.
Many, even among
church members, instead of regarding the scurge as a judgement from heaven.for
their sins, began to attribute it to human agency.
[! ] fanned
things.
This feeling was dilligently
by certain foreigners from whom we had reason to expect better
It required no little effort to calm down this excited feeling, & turn
the minds of the people in the right direction.
On the whole, the final impres
sion left by the calamity has not been, I think, unfavorable to spiritual pro
gress.
Since the abatement of the disease, meetings have been well attended.
The great number of deaths, more than 500 in the church, besides many more out of
it has diminished the number of hearers less than we should have expected.
Sev
eral recent meetings from the different apanas of my church & Bro. Smith’s have
been quite fully attended, continuing nearly the whole day.
The contributions also for religious purposes have somewhat increased upon
former years, notwithstanding the diminution of our numbers, & the almost entire
prostration of worldly business for several months in the year.
The usual meetings have been kept up during the year, but I regret, that I
have not more time & strength to devote to the interests of the church.
seems impossible, while so many other labors are pressing upon my hands.
But this
The
oversight of printing, binding & distribution of books has added greatly to my
cares for some months past.
I trust we shall have a helper in this department
before very long, as the Special Committee many months ago, applied for one.
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[Honolulu] May [1854]
Our church has diminished during the year nearly 400.
The number of deaths
by small pox was 516, just one fifh[fifth] of the whole number reported last
year.
The additions have been less than in the preceeding year.
The present
number as seen by the statistics is a littleoover 2000.
The statistics of the church are as follows:
Whole No. on Prof. 3580.
176.
Whole NO. by certificate 620.
Past year by certificate 41.
to other churches 395.
ceased past year 551.
Whole No. past year.217.
Dismissed past year 44.
Excluded past year 52.
in regular standing 2192.
Past year on Prof.
Whole No. dismissed
Whole NO. deceasedjlSlO.
Restored past year 33.
Whole No. children baptised 798.
De
Whole No,
Baptised past year
30.
Marriages past year 235.
Contributions
Support of pastor'
Native helper
Foreign mission
1200.00
71.00
488.68
Meeting house at Waimea
70.00
Church expenses
44.62
Meeting houses in the field
4038.75
$5913.61
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The only occurrence of unusual interest in’:this parish the last year is the
death of his late majesty Kamehameha III, & the peaceful accession to the throne
of his successor.
These events engrosssed the minds, of the people for several
weeks in this parsish[!] as well as in other parts of the Islands, but so far as
I can learn, they were unattended with those exhibitions of heathenism & licen
tiousness so common on such occasions in former years.
About the usual amount of pastoral labor has been performed.
Sabbath services,four meetings during the week have been attended.
Besides the
Pule hoomau
meetings continuing during the whole day, have been held in different parts of
Honolulu & vicinity.
Mrs. C. has attended a meeting of females on Friday.
The admissions to the church have been less & the exclusions more than for
several previous years.
The increase in the number excluded has been owing prin
cipally to the enticements of the beer shops, which have become an intolerable
nuisance in Honolulu.
These shops, professing to sell a harmless drink, have
drawn multitudes into the snare of intoxication.
Our church has a little more
than held its ownLn numbers during the past year.
Eleven more have been dismis
sed to other churches than the number received by letter, which shows that the
people are going out from the Metropolis rather than coming in, as in former
years.
The statistics will show that the amount contributed for benevolent purposes
falls short of the previous year.
The chiefs & the more wealthy many of them are
among our smallest contributors.
Several meeting houses in the field have under
gone important repairs, which have required a considerable outlay.
Superintend
ing these repairs imposes a pretty serious burden upon the pastor, in addition to
the pecuniary aid which he is expected to furnish.
Owing to the nummerous[!]
calls on the pastors time for otherjlabors, the people are too much neglected.
Statistics of Church
Whole No. on Profession
3698
Whole No. by certificate
652
Past year by examination
118
Past year by certificate
32
Whole No. past year
150
Whole No. dis. to other churches
438
Dismissed past year
Whole No. deceased
43
1339
�Sonolulu May 1855
Died past year
29
Set aside past year
101
Restored past year
26
Whole No. in regular standing
2195
Whole No. of children baptised
811
Baptised past year
14
Marriages past year
170
Contributions.
Pastoral support
1200.00
Foreign Missions
102.00
Church erection &c.
2000.00
$3302.00
[Unsigned]
[E.W. Clark]
[Written on the other side-of the last page]:
Honolulu 1st Church
Station Report
May 1855
�Honolulu 1st Church.
The only occurrence of unusual interest in this parish the last year is the
death of his late Majesty Kamehameha III, & the peaceful accession of his Suc
cessor.
These events were unattended with those exhibitions of heathenism &
licentiousness so common on such occasions in former years.
The usual meetings have been kept up & pretty well attended.
a little more than held its own in numbers the past year.
Our church has
For statistics see
tables.
[End]
[Unsigned; not dated]
[E.W. Clark; 1855]
[Written on the other side of the page]:
JMo. iU
Abstract Honolulu
1st Church
�[Note: The following report-was not written in the hand of R. Armstrongs but
the signature is his.]
Station Report of 1st Church in Honolulu May 22, 1856
Mr. Clark the p^tor of this Church, having concluded tb'make a visit to the
United State[!], left his church and people in my care in March last, leaving
to arrange with Mr. Bishop to render such aid in the word, as we should unitedly
agree upon.
Accordingly I have usually preached Sabbath morning''s[!] and atten
ded the Sabbath School, while Mr. B. has preached in the afternoon and attended
several meetings at outstations during the week.
The congregation's[!] have been much as in former years.
The Sabbath School
has been pretty well attended; and the School for Ai o Ka'la on Sabbath, has been
kept up; not numerously attended however.
Meeting for prayer during whole days
have been frequently held in different parts of the field, and have been attend
ed with good results.
The greatest source of Mischief in the Church,
has been drunkeness on beer,
deterious[!] article to helth]!], as well as to morals; and I see no prospect of
any decrease
of the evil at present, still the cases of dicipline in the church
ha-ve been less than half, of what they were, the year previous; while the number
restored, has been double of what it was the year previous.
So far as numbers
are concerned, the church has little more than held its own during the year; the
decrease by death, removals &c, come within four of balancing the increase.
Statistics.
Whole no reed.-on profession.
"
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"
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Certificate
past year by examination.
"
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"
”
"
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Certificate
" reed past year
no. dismissed to other Churches
"
past year
” of deaths
" past year
Set aside past year
Restored past year
Whole no. in regular standing
3746
669
48
17
65
438
20
1385
46
. 49
54
2199
Respectfully submited[!]
R. Armstrong.
Acting pastor.
[Written on other side of last page]:
Report of 1st Church
Honolulu,
May 1856
�Report May 1857
A report of Kawaiahao station for the past year can hardly be expected of me.
My connection with the work here embraces only three months of the year.
During
my absence the preaching & pastoral labors were performed by Messrs. Armstrong &
Bishop, upon whom I must depend to report their own labors, & the statejLf the
church during my absence.
My own^abors at Kawaiahao were resumed the first of Feby.
A kind Providence
guided us in all our wanderings while absent & returned us in safety tt^our post
of labor.
My own health was improved by the voyage & visit but Mrs. C.is still
an invalid, & I fear her health will: not soon be restored, if ever.
A brief account of my own labors, while absent, so far as they relate to the
common cause may not be out of place here.
My first attention after arriving in the States was given to the Missionary
vessel, next to the Oahu College, & lastly to revising & correcting the proofs of
the N. Test.[! ].
The committee did not take up the subject of the vessel until the arrival of
Mr. Baldwin & myself in Boston.
I was requested to draw up in'wfiting for the
committee the strong reasons for such a vessel.
It was thought at first there
were serious objections, but the need of a vessel was accknowledged[!], & it was
resolved to build such a vessel as was requested, & appeal to the children for
funds.
The effort was successful beyond any thing expected at the Missionary
House.
Before I left, the subject was exciting the deepest interest throughout
the country.
It was often spoken of as a most happy event in the progress of the
Missionary work.
A new impulse was given to the cause of [the] mission, especial
ly among the children, & thus the rising generation were being trained to carry
forward the work, when their fathers should rest from their labors.
At the request of Dr. Anderson, I prepared a paper on the Oahu College for
the committee.
publication-
From this & other materials. Dr. A. prepared a small pamphlet for
They were ready to afford present aid, & to use their influence in
favor of raising a fund for the college.
peal to the public for contributions.
They did not think it best then to ap
The desire seemed to be to-secure the sum
from a few rich individuals, if possible.
I made some appeals to Mr. Hunnewell
on the subject, but he did not seem quite prepared to say what he would do.
urged him to establish a Hunnewell professorship.
I hope Mr. Beckwith will be
more successful. Dr. Anderson's advice to Mr. Baldwin & myself was to scatter
light on the subject & wait in patience.
I
�[Honolulu] May 1857
2.
On the 9th of July, I arrived in N. York the second time, & commenced my
work there, & did not finish it until the night before I sailed for the Islands.
I was in N.Y. most of the time from the 9th of July to the 20th of November.
I
made a few short excursions from the city'during that time to visit friends,to at
tend the Missionary Jubilee,Meeting of the Board &c.
getting out the Testament more than I expected.
I fuund[found] the labor of
Some corrections were made in
the copy in the copy[!] before leaving here, & the references were all ready when
I arrived in N. York; but after commencing printing, I found,:\in reading the
proofs, the copy needed frequent corrections, additions & alterations too -many
to be made in the proofs.
This render^it necessary to make a thorough re:sfeion-
of the copy before going to press; comparing it with the standard English copy
used at the Bible House, verse for verse & with the Greek where^ver alterations
seemed to be needed.
This greatly enhanced the labor, but the copy was ready as
fast as called for, though it sometimes required 12 hours sitting in a day.
took then
a longer time to prepare the plates than I'.expected.
It
There will
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doubSess be defects in the work, but I trust it will be found more correct than
any addition before published.
left.
The plates were nearly ready for press, when I
Four thousand ce.pies were to be printed off immediately, & may be .expected
here by an early opportunity.
I forbear to remark on other matters relating to my visit as not appropriate
to a station report.
I would say, however, that I was very kindly received by the friends of
Missions, & nothing.occurred to mar the pleasure of the visit except the feeble
health of Mrs. Clarl. To one so long absent from the country, actively engaged
in the foreign field, there was something peculiarly interesting in attending the
large Missionary gatherings, or in witnessing the deep interested[!] manifested
in the cause.
It was indeed"sitting in heavenly places in Christ Jesus."
I enjoyed also very much the intercourse with relatives & friends, & the
visit to old familiar places after an absence of 29 years.
had been made in the material prosperity of the country.
A wonderful progress
Progress also seemed to
have made in religion, so far as related to public objects of benevolence, but
whether there is more real piety in the countrythan when I left in proportion to
the population is doubtful.
I resumed my labors in Kawaiahao church on the first of February.
Since
that time there has been a gradual increase in attendence on public worship, &
we have reason to think the Holy Spirit has been present to give efficacy to the
truth.
Mr. Armstrong has still rendered important aid in preaching, usually oc
cupying the pulpit in the afternoon while I go to one of the outstations.
�I^Honolulu] May 1857
3.
At the conununion season on the first of April, thirty backsliders confessed
their sins, & were restored, to communion, & more than 100 were propotinded as can
didates for admission to the church.
We have reason to think that Kawaiahao
church, as well as the other churches in Honolulu, has been revived, & that a few
mercy drops have fallen upon our city, wicked as it is.
For this we would rejoice
& give thanks to him with whom is the residue of the Spirit, [in pencil]:
Our
usual..weel^kday. [?]. -[End] ..
Our lunas, most of them, continue to be active & efficient helpers.
meetings with them on Saturday are well attended.
My .
It is a practical school of
much importance both to them & to the church.
7
Some change has beepnade in the collection of funds for the support of the
Gospel & other objects, which have resulted favorably thus far.
We hear but little at present of the dance houses, hulas &c in Honolulu &
vicinity,but there are still many pit falls to ensnare the unwary.
A constant
watchfulness is required on':the part of the pastor & church lunas to keep the
enemy at bay, while we build the house of of[!] the Lord.
We all need a new bap
tism from on High.
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[Written on the back of original manuscript page 5]:
Report of Honolulu
1st Church.
�Abstract of Report
Honolulu 1st Church [1860]
The labors of Kawaxahao have been interrupted the past year by the absence
of the pastor.
He was away from'-.the flock 8-I months of the year, & has not much
to report.
Only 5 have been admitted by profession the past year, while 66 have died,
so that the real number of the church is less than it was one year ago.
Their
ability to support the Gospel has diminshed still more than their numbers.
This
is owing partly to the increased expense of living in Honolulu, & partly to the
great increase of artificial wants as civilization progresses.
The interest in religion has apparently been increasing since the return of
the pastor.
Union meetings have been held in different parts of the field, &
sometimes with a good deal of interest.
mission to the church,
sion.
Forty five have been propounded for ad
Som5 of'-these give pleasing evidence of recent conver
With others, we trust, the spirit is striving.
The present pastor, with his increasing age & numerous other cares is en
tirely inadequate to the labors necessary"'.in this Metropolitan church.
You will
probably be called upon by the church to aid them in securing other labor in this
important field.
Contributions.
1000,
Support of pastor
40.
Native helpers
100,
Foreign Missions
47.
Sexton, repairs &c
340.
Church erection, bell &c.
$1527,
April 20, 1860
Honolulu 1st Church
Statistics
Whole No. on profession
Do
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on certificate
Past year on Profession
”
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on Certificate
Total past year
4012
762
5
12
17
Whole Ng. Dismissed
525
Dismissed past year
12
Total deceased
1588
�Honolulu 1860
Deceased past year
66
Excluded past year
29
Restored past year
20
Now in regular standing
2235
Total Children Baptised
763
Baptised past year
24
Marriages past year
83
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[E.W. Clark]
[Written on the back of the last page]
Honolulu 1st church
Abstract of Report.
�Honolulu 1st Church
E.W.
Clark
Pastor
In reviewing the past;year, we are called to speak o£ a f f l i c t
ions as well of mercies.
One, who has long been identified with the interests of Christy's
kindgdom in the Islands,
§ especially with the interests of this
church, has been suddenly taken from us.
Bro. Armstrong will no
more mingle with us in our counsels § our labors.
He has
gone to
be with the general assembly § church of the first born, whose names
are written in heaven.” [!]
But God has mingled mercies with judgements.
He has indeed
turned again our captivity § caused our hearts to sing for joy.
Early in the Summer, we were encouraged by marked indications of the
presence of the Spirit.
forward,
Lord.
Many, who had long resisted the light,
§ confessed their sins,
came
§ their determination to serve the
Meetings were crowded ^ solemn.; a n ew moral § religious
pect seemed to pervade the community.
as’^^ec
We have had the most s a t i s
factory evidence, that the Spirit of God has been at work on the
hearts of the p e o p l e , § that many have been brought to a saving k n o w
ledge of Christ.
As the fruits of this work,
some hundreds have profe sse d their
faith in Christ for the first time,
§ many wanderers have bee n r e
stored to the fellowship of the church.
But among a people so
easily moved by external circumstances, where sympathy § iimitation
are so strong national characteristics, we mu^cexpect there will be
m u c h chaff with the wheat.
”Man looketh on the outward appearance,
but God looketh on the heart.”
In July, 30 were added to the church by profession.
ber,
161
In January,
fession 323.
111.
In April,
In O c t o
166; making in all by p r o
Restored to fellowship 161; Some of these have been
long wanderers from the fold.
More than half this number are from
other churches long resident here.
The whole number of additions to
the church during the year by profession, by letter § by restoration
has been 514.
Most of these have been examined individually from
two to three times by the pastor.
Dismissions[dismissals], deaths
§ exclusions 117, making the net increase of the church 39 7.
�2.
Honolulu 1st Church [1861]
Contributions
These have been somewhat in advance of last year.
Support of pastor
1200.00
Native helpers, sexton ^c
55.00
Church erection, repairs §c in our
own field
”
407.00
" in other fields
40.00
Hawaiian Missionary So.ci-ety
153.70
Charity to the poor
.......16.00
$1872.30 [1871. 70]
Church Statistics
Whole No. on profession
”
”
certificate
Past year on profession
”
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certificate
4335
792
323
30
Total past year
353
Whole No.
dismissed
555
Dismissed past year
40
Total deceased
1644
Deceased past year
66
Excluded past year
21
Restored past year
:.161
No w in regular standing
2632
Total children baptised
819
Baptised past:year
Marriages past year
56
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Whole number ori profession
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809
Past year on profession
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17
Total past year
107
Dismissed to other churches past
year
Total dismissed
581
Deceased past year
67
Total deceased
1711
Excluded past year
48
Restored past year
19
Now in regular standing
2617
Children baptised past year
Total
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Marriages past year
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77
Contributions.
Support of pastor
i;
For native helpers, sexton §c
Church erection in our own field
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1200.00
45. 00
471.00
42.00
Church bells
395.00
Foreign Missions
H Z . 00
$2265.50[2265.00]
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Statistics' 1862
�Honolulu, Kawaiahao Church,.
Station Report
May 1862
The usual round of Missionary labors have been kept up at
the Station the past year, but I am sorry to say with less f a v o r
able results than during the year proceeding, when we were visited
with a refreshing from on high.
Our Sabbath services
besides a Sabbath School conducted by
some of our Missionary children, have been preaching in the m o r n
ing § afternoon,
a Bible class at noon,
also a union m e e t ing in
the evening during the year, held alternately at Kawaiahao
makapili.y
§ Kau-
These meetings have been less fully attended than last
year.
We have had one weekly lecture at the Station,
§ one week ly
m e e t in g held in rotation at twelve different places including K a
waiahao.
At all these outstations,
comfortatile § substantial m e e t
ing houses have been erected, three of them during the past year,
§ about half of them are supplied with good bells.
In addition to these meetings,
meetings
§ among the most im.portant
of the week, has bee:! our I'una meeting on Saturday.
Part
of the time of this meetixg has been occupied on a lesson in the
new class book on Theology,
§ partly in church discipline,
regulating 9 fher church matters.
§ in
Our number of I'uhas has increased
to about one hundred, taken from different parts of the field.
number is more, it may be supposed,
discipline.
This
than is necessary for efficient
This increase has been owing partly to the strong des:Vr
sire of the church that there should be a goodly number of these
helpers in different parts of the fieldjl] parish,
§ partly to
the consideration that these' lun'as are brought into closer c o n ne ct
ion with the pastor § into more active service,
§ under v..more p a r t i
cular instruction than others, therefore the greater the number,
the more l i v i n g ,ractive members in the church.
used the office of a deacon well, pujrchase#
degree § great booldness{boldness?]
"For they that have
to themselves a good
in the faith.”
The number, how-
^vSrV must bS limited in so large’
':^' church--.as 'this;^ ^or^efficieht'act.i.6n::-will. be. impeded,. , ,I.f .the whole .army could have the instruction
#
The rest of the quote following the-^pound sign(#) was w ritten
in the left margin.
�Honolulu, Kawaiahao May 1862
§ discipline of the leaders,
2.
it would be well, but this is not
easily attained.
Four communion seasons have been attended at Wailupe as usual.
The portion o£ the church which attend communion at Kawaiahao are
divided into two sections, occupying both forenoon § afternoon.
The number of marriages attended is less than last year,
the
number of funerals about the same.
Visiting from house to house has not been attempted by the
pastor to any extent.
This kind of pastoral watch § care, so far
as performed at all, has been done by the church L u n a s , § by h o l d
ing meetings
in different sections of the parish.
Certain seasons
have been devoted to -felking with inqurers[inquirers]
at the pastors
study.
B e nev ole nc e.
There has been a small increase in contributions :fo:r religious
objects above the preceeding year.
The e^cact amount expended on out-
station Meeting Houses has not been ascertained,
pass through the hands of the pastor.
built
§ nearly finished.
one of over 1000 lbs.
cracked bell.
as it does not all
Three small houses have been
One outstation bell has been procured,
§
for the Kawaiahao church to replace our old
It is evident that the various
calls for benevolence
are met with greaterrdifficiltyf!] than a few years ago, owing to an
increased scarcity of money.
But many of our best church members
hold on to the habit of giving a portion of their small gains to the
service of the Lord.
Some others give little or nothing.
Ninety have been received to the church on profession the past
year,
17 by letter 19 restored to fellowship, yet the church has not
quite held its own owing to the num;ber of deaths,
sals] , §c.
dismissions [dismis
The decrease has been 15.
There has been an evident increase in':knowledge, stability §
piety in about one third of the church, another third is nearly s t a
tionary,
§ another third is unstable or retrograde.
There is probably an increasing class in Honolulu,
§ perhaps
in
other parts of the Islands, who are inclined to listen to the t e a c h
ings of unbelief § infidelity.
set easy on such;
The restraints of the Gospel do not
§ we must expect more § more hostility in the na^'.
�Honolulu, Kawaiahao May 1862
3
tive mind, to evangelical teachings ^ especially' as. ;e;fficient
Jn
this direct ion „is afforded by increased intercourse Twitli fo.reign in-fidelity.
The establishment of our Island Presbetery^
conference promises good to our cause.
or rather church .
The two m e e t i n g s , w h i c h '
have been held have been attended, we think, with, good re sults/
In regard to Bible 'Revision on wh ich the Comnj.itt.ee were en'^joined individually to report to this meeting,
my spare time has been devoted to this work..
fully all the books
Kings,
T would say, m o s t of
I haye been .over care-^
assigned to me excepting par t of the 1st B o o k of
comparing in many cases with the original as well as w i t h the
English translation.
A good many minor corrections have been made,
^ others have been marked for further consideration.
It is. ver y
desirable there should be a full, meeting of the Committee' at the
present Meeting of the Association^
Statistics of church.'
Whole number on profession
"
on certificate
Past year on profession
”
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on certificate
4415
80. a
9.0
17
107,
Total past year
Dismissed to other churches past year
26.
581
Total dis-missed
67
Deceased past year
1711
Total deceased:'
Excluded past year
48
Restored past year
19.
N o w in regular standing
Children baptised past year
2617
31
■.850
Total
77
Marriages past year
Contributions ^ ■
Support of pastor
12 0 0
For native helpers^ s e x t i o n l G
■' 45
Church, erection in our own field
471'
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CLurch. erection in otlier fields
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42,50
Church Bells
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Forty three years ago. Missionary labor was first commenced at
this station.
Here no church spire then greeted the Heavens, not
even a framed or stone dwelling was then to be seen on the barren
precincts of the present city.
which n ow presents itself!
How changed the external aspect,
The inquiry naturally arises, is the
change as great in a moral aspect?
We can barely assert this.
we can safely say, even in this respect,
But
forty three years has
brought about a change such as has seldom been witnessed in any
other part of the world in the same period of time.
We cannot go into the evidences of this change from the b e
ginning.
It has been gradual § steady.
The past year is not an
exception, though the onward progress is less marked than in some
previous years.
Perhaps in no year, so fgr as the native m i n d is
concerned, have the foundations of our faith been so thoroughly
sifted.
Error in various shapes, has shown itself among us § b o l d
ly put forth its teachings.
This has unsettled the minds
turned some back to forsaken superstitions,
stupidity upon others.
ing ground.
of a few,
§ brought indifference §
But the true light, we trust, has been g a i n
Some have gone back, because they were not of us, others
are more firmly established in the truth.
The usual sabbath § week day meetings among the people have been
sustained.
The attendance has fallen off,',rwe think,: somewhat', part'-"/
*ly pef-h'aps froiii diminished population,
§ partly from growing in d i f
ference to religion among the less enlightened.
drawn away to the new a o a o , which has come in.
A few have been
There has b een no
special religious excitement, or turning to the p'o'no, as in some f or
mer years.
But there is more independent thinking ^ discrimination
among our good people,
ed in the word of God.
§ their faith is becoming moxe firmly g r oun d
While the chaff is being blown away, the
good seed remains to the praise of G o d ’s grace.
But few have been admitted to the church on the profession of
faith the past year,
§ owing to deaths, exclusions
§c, the church *
has not held its own in numbers.
The Sabbath School has-been kept up, conducted mostly by Mr.
Livi[!]
Chamberlain.
The attendance has been pretty good,
ing the number of other Sabbath Schools in the place.
co nsider
�[Honolulu] Kawaiahao
[1863]
2.
According to arrangements at our last Gen. Meeting, Mr. Henry
H. Parker commenced his labors in connection with this church in
August.
He has afforded most efficient help both in the pulpit §
various other ways.
He has taken one half of the preaching on the
Sabbath, besides attending weekday meetings at the outstations.
The Sabbath day services have consisted of the usual morning §
afternoon services at Kawaiahao, preaching ^ a Bible class,
services at the outstations in the afternoon.
- §
A third service has
sometimes been held on the premises of the Governor, who has n e a t
ly fitted up, a room for the purpose.
ducted by one of us,
This has sometimes been con-
§ sometimes by native lunas..
My own time on week days has been iau-ch occupied in the study.
In revising the part of the Bible assigned to me,
sheets,
press,
in reading proof
in other labors oconnected with the book department
§ the
Mr. Parker early commenced-visiting the church members
their homes, taking the field in the order of the apanas,
certain the number, standing,
at
to a s
character §c of the church members.
The results so far'as numbers are concerned are embodied in the
statistics.
He finds a good many nominal church members, who give
little evidence of piety,
although perhaps not guilty of any overt
act of wrong-doing.to subject the formal church censure.
Our people
have their ups § downs in religion as well as in other things.
They are proverbially fickle,
§ like the A t h e n i a n s ,"Spend mu c h of
their time, in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new
thing.”
Any thing, that presents itself as a riuh'ou, whether it be
in the form of an old heathen superstition newly revived, or in the
form of a more civilized idol worship, will attract devotees
time.
for a
The word of God faithfully preached § exemplified in the lives
of its teachers can alone cure these vagaries.
Contributions for religious purposes have been about the same as usual.
But it requires a good deal of effort on the part of the
pastor ^ church lunas to raise the funds necessary for current e x
penses, to say nothing of contributions for foreign objects. . The
artificial wants of the people especially in Honolulu,
faster ,than their mieans to meet these wants.
increase
This makes
it more d i f
ficult to secure voluntary offerings for the support of the Gospel.
A strong.pressure on this subject has a tendency to drive some to
seek a cheaper religion.
�[Honolulu]
Kawaiahao
]1863]
3,.
Our people have taken hold of repairing their great church
with a good deal o f S p i r i t ,
& some 500 or 600 dollars have been
expended on these repairs.
The repairs speak for themselves.
They contributed also to-,aid in rebuilding the Seminary at Lahainaluna.
Owing to these calls,
the salary of the Pastor,
at his own
suggestion,
has been reduced from 1200 to 1000 dollars.
This sum
VV
or rather the same sum granted by the Board is now paid over to
Mr. Parker.
Whether it will be any easier to secure this usm
than it has heretofore been to secure 1200 is doubtful.
Contribu
tions for foreign missions have been less than last year.
Our Island church conference,
continued with good results.
tation at different stations.
commenced last year,
has been
Semiannual meetings are held in ro
The time is principally occupied
in reading essays & disciplining important subjects connected
with the interests of the churches.
It affords a. good school for
preparing our churchlunas to be efficient helpers in the work of
the Gospel,
as well as securing unity & efficency[!] to the
churches It is proper here to say that during the last month, Mr.
Parker having labored about nine months in connection with the
church,
it seemed proper that further steps shohid be taken in re
lation to his remaining permanently as Pastor.
At a meeting of
the church lunas the subject was introduced & discussed,
seemed to be the unanimous wish that he should remain.
following Sabbath,
&
it
On the
a full meeting of the church was called,
&
after some explanations by the present pastor & Judge ‘iSL, it was
voted unanimously that a call be extended to Mr. Parker to become
pastqr of the church.
Gov. Kekuanaoa,
Judge f i , Naone, Makuia
Kaawa were appointed a committee to prepare & present the call.
At the same meeting,
the present pastor verbally presented
his request to be released from the Church as Pastor,
but object
ions were made to granting it until something further was know in
regard to Mr. Parker's plans,
& it was not urged.
The Church ex
pressed a willingness to refer the matter to this body.
[Written on the bottom of this page,
sideways];
1863
June
Report Station
Kawaiahao Honolulu
�[Honolulu]
Kawaiahao
[1863]
Upon Bible Revision,
4.
on which the Committee were to report
individually to this meeting,
I will say a few words.
Rowell reported to the last meeting,
New Testament,
meeting,
As Bro;.
that he was engaged on the--
the committee, of Revision were directed,
to "write to brethren Rowell & Dole,
views of the body in regard to the work,
by that
clearly stating the
& also make arrangements
for the immediate prosecution of the revision of:'the whole of the
Old Testament."
The committee made arrangements for the revision of the Old
Testament by dividing it otit as follows,
- Pentateuch to Alexander
Sen.[SeniLgr],- from Pentateuch to end of Chronicles to Clark,- from
Chronicles to Psalms to Baldwin,
from Psalms to Ezeakel[!]
Psalms to L. Andrews & Parker,
to Forbes,
- Ezeakel,
-
Daniel & the
minor Prophets to Alexander'TJtin.[Junior]. A letter was written to
brethren Rowell & Dole,
posal of this body.
a copy/of whichis present,
& at the dis
Brother Rowell will report for himself.
I have progressed with my own revision as far as Chronicles./
comparing the more doubtful places only with the original.
A letter was received from Dr. Brigham written just before
his death,
which contains the following extract.
There is another topic in which we feel much interest,
family Hawaiian Bible electrotyped at our Bible House.
topic which we have spoken or written before.
a
This is a
I presume the
translation is now so well settled that it can with all propriety
be put into permanent form.
Will you inform me what progress is
made towards such an-nndertaking.
We find that the Armenia[!]
Bible electrotyped by us is^iked m u c h , very much in the Levant[?],
Some Turks & Greeks as well as wealthy A r m e n i a n s ,purchase mainly
from the beauty of workmanship.
In the hope of hearing from some
of you on the topics me nt i o n e d , I subscribe myself yurs[!]
truly & fraternally
J .C .Brigham
S ecy & c
•
�[Honolulu]
Kawaiahao
[1863]
Statistics of the Church
Whole No on Profession
"
on Certificate
820
Past year on profession
12
"
"
4427
”
11
on Certificate
23
Total past year
Whole No dismisged
604
Dismissed past year
23
1785
Whole No deceased
Deceased past year
74
Exclude
50
past year
Restored past year
23
I !]
Now in regular standing
886
Total children baptised
36
'Baptised past year
Marriages past year
60
Contributions,
Repair of churches
$ 600.00
Lahainaluna Seminary
206.75
Sexton & other church expenses
43.75
Foreign Missions
56.00
Pastoral support-
1075.00
$1981.50
[Written on the back of the last, page'
1863
June
Kawaiahao Oahu
Station Report
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