https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/76d2c32eaf3a33d6e9eaccacd3bff9e6.pdf 49cade8f1d4baceb323349669ceff7f5 PDF Text Text WAIALUA STATION REPORTS J.S. Emerson........... ........................... 1833 Unsigned (Emerson)............... .................. 1834 J.S. Emerson........................................ 1835 J.S. Emerson............... ................ ....... 1836 J.s. Emerson ........................... ............ 1837 J.S. Emerson . . . . . . . . . . . ................... .1838 J.S. Emerson . .............. ........................1839 J.S. Emerson . . . . . . . . . .......................... .1840 J.S. Emerson ..............................1841 . Unsigned (Emerson)......... ........................1842 A.B. Smith. .......................................... 1843 Unsigned (Edwin Locke)..............................1843 E.W. Clark and W.P. Alexander (cert. of J.S.E.’s account)1843 Unsigned (A.B. Smith) ............ ............... .....1844 Unsigned (Wilcox) . . . ............................. 1846 * Unsigned (Emerson) ................................... 1848 Unsigned ("Gulick's Report") . . . . . ............... .1848 Unsigned (“Report of P.J. Gulick") ................... 1849 J.S. Emerson . ............................. ......... 1849 P.J. Gulic k ............. ............ ............. 1851 J.S. Emerson . . . ................... ........... . . 1851 J.S. Emerson ........................... . ........... 1852 Unsigned (J.S. Emerson) (Abstract) ......... . . . . . 1852 P.J. Gulick ................................... ..... 1853 J.S. Emerson ............................. .......... 1853 J.S. Emerson............... ........................ 1854 Unsigned (“Report of P.J. Gulick")............. ..... 1854 P.J. Gulick (Letter to General Meeting) ............. 1855 J.S. Emerson . . ..................................... 1855 Unsigned (Emerson) ....................... .......... 1856 J.S. Emerson....... ................ . . ........... .1857 J.S. Emerson ("Brief Report") ....................... .1860 J.S. Emerson (Abstract) ................................. 1861 J.S. Emerson (Abstract for Waeanae /sic/) W a i a n a e 1861 Unsigned (Emerson) (Report for Waianae) ........... ..1862 Unsigned (Emerson) W aialu a . ................ ......... 1862 Unsigned (Emerson) . ........................... ..... 1863 Unsigned (Emerson) (Report for Waianae)............... .1863 Unsigned (Emerson) Wai a l u a ....................... ... 1865 * 1847 report, in form of letter to Chamberlain from Emerson has been added. Includes statistics. �Report of the Station at Waialua Oahu for 1832-3 The Station at W. was commenced in July of the last year. Mrs. Emerson & myself were conveyed to our station in a native vessel, we | arrived at W . in less than 24 hours from Honolulu. Mr. Clarke ( !) & family of the Honolulu station, went across the Island to Waialua the week before, with the intention of spending a few months at W. with us, at least till we might become some what acquainted with the language. Shortly after our arrival two native houses were erected gratuitously by the people for our accommodation on a healthy spot near a good spring of water - The climate at this station is some what cooler than at Honolulu, the thermometer in the cooler season is often down to sixty & a few times as low as 58 in the morning; perhaps averaging 65 in the morning & 78 or 80 at noon - This is probably 5 degrees cooler than at Honolulu Mr. Clarkes family remained with us. five months, untill the 11 th of Decr , himself also being there nearly all of the time & per­ forming the publick ( !) duties of the station - The missionary work performed during the year has been preaching the gospel, teaching & superintending schools, distributing native books & administering medicine to the sick Preaching the Gospel - Mr. C. commenced with preaching two sermons on the Sabbath one in the morning & the other in the evening, with an intermediate exercise which consisted of the explanation of the seven verses for the week prayer &c - beside these he lectured on Wednesday & attended a bible class on thursday - these exercises have been continued through the year, except the bible class on thursday this has been discontinued - Two station schools have been continued with but little inter­ ruption through the year & a third one for about four months - The �2. first, is a school for male teachers which commenced with 70 or 80 teachers. This was continued with one sett ( !) of scholars during 4 1/2 months by Mr. C. & myself - the branches taught were reading, writing geography & Arithmetiek. This school has been continued the remainder of the year with an other sett of teach ers. Mrs. C . commenced a school of 30 or forty female teachers in which she taught reading, Geog. & arithmetick - This school has been continued the remainder of the year by Mrs. Emerson - And for the last four months Mrs. E. has had a select school of about 40 children. school promises more than either of our schools for adults. This A sing­ ing school has also been kept up at our station a good part of the year The number of people connected with Waialua Station is acording (! ) to the Geography Belong to the schools Readers -- — ------Marriages ---------- 7,400 5,000 1,600 76 Nearly all the readers & multitudes who can not read are reported as getting the seven verses for the week - The Sabbath School for adults of Waialua varies from 250 to 600 - The sabbath school for children which Mrs. Emerson superintends varies from 80 to 100 scholars As to the moral & religious condition of the people at W. nothing very encouraging can be mentioned - A respectful attention at least is paid to the missionary & to the gospel. has varied from 600 to 1500 or 2000. The congregation For a number of months at first it gradually diminished but for a few months past it has considerably increased. There is no chch. yet formed at W. - there are 6 or 7 members of the Chch. at Honolulu dwelling there; & perhaps there are 20 other persons who give as good evidence of piety as could reasonably be �Waialua 1833 required for admission to the chch. The influence of the chch. members at this station has been obviously very good; & so also has been that of a very considerable number of teachers - While nearly all the people of Waienae ( !) & several lands up Kolau ( !) have turned back to drunkn ess ( !), gambling, adultery, & idleness, not a land has revolted where the teacher dwelt with the people & stood firm on the side of the truth - This shows that the moral influence of good native teachers is not small The preaching of the gospel on the sabbath has been confined to the Meeting house at Waialua & the people who attend are generally from the more immediate vicinity of the chch. although a few attend regularly from the distance of 8 or 10 miles - The remote parts of the field have been visited twice during the year; the schools ex­ amined & the gospel preached to the people; beside this occasional lectures have been preached at some distance from the station - these lectures have always tended to increase the congregation on the sab­ bath - In one instance a lecture was preached in a neighbourhood, where but 9 came to the adult sabbath school the sabbath before but the sabbath after there were 40 from that neighbourhood in the school & at least that number at chch. In another instance the increase of attendance on the sabbath occasioned by a lecture during the week was from 10 to 30. From these circumstances I feel encouraged to hope that if the gospel could be carried out into the remote vilages ( !) from week to week, it would tend greatly to promote the attendance upon the means of grace on the sabbath Want of another labourer - This necessity does not arise so much from the multitude of the people in the field; (although there are eight thousand, at least 3 times as many as one missionary can �Waialua 1833 influence to any extent, located as they are, in vilages along a coast of 60 miles in extent.) But the necessity of an additional labourer arises more from the location of the field, its comparative importance & the distance of the Missionary family from any other field - We at Waialua are 30 miles from Honolulu by land, & some times we can not go to H. by land because of a large rain which may have swelled the stream to make it impassable even by natives, for two or three days - The access to H. from Waialua by sea is not so easy or so short as from Lahaina to H . 1-1/2 to 3 or 4 days. The former occupying from This circumstance renders it very desirable that one family should not without imperious necessity be left at this distance from any other Missionary family - Again 1500 of the people are located at Waienae a distance of 20 or 30 miles from Waialua, a place inaccessable except on foot, but very much needing the frequent visits of the Missionary The people at Waialua have made frequent calls for books & med­ icine & wish frequent conversation with the missionary - If one missionary must be doctor, book seller, teacher, preacher &c for all this people - he will stand in great danger of loosing ( !) his health, if nothing worse - & what is perhaps worse he will be in danger of loosing all habits of study & close mental exertion. I hope therefore not to be left long without an associate. Waialua May 1833 J . S. Emerson �Report of the Waialua Station for June 1834. In returning from the general meeting last June the station at Waialua presented but a cheerless aspect. The meeting house which it was hoped would be nearly or quite finished stood as It was left in May, the frame only put up. The teachers, who had been expected to build them houses & prepare a spot of kalo ground from which to procure their food while attending the station school, had done nothing to either. And what was still worse, schools had ceased to have the name of existence, & about 1/3 of the teachers with a still larger proportion of the people had apparently given themselves up to drunkness ( !) & idleness & to commit all manner of uncleanness with greediness. Some time however in the month of July that portion of the teachers who had not altogether forsaken us were collected to­ gether, & a school of about fifty male teachers with 10 or 15 promis­ ing young men was commenced, making in all upwards of 60 scholars. This school continued some what prosperous with but little interrup­ tion for five months. During the same period Mrs. E. instructed two schools of about 40 scholars each one for adult females, who had been teachers, & the other for children who could read our schools were continued from two to three hours four days in the week. In addition to her other schools Mrs. E. taught a sewing school for twenty female for three months 2 afternoons in the week - In this sewing school were made about 200 shirts & pantaloons for which the women obtained as compensation each a calico or cotton gown - We had also a singing school once & sometimes twice each week, with about 20 or 25 scholars Our schools were all closed about the middle of November with an examination & suspended for the rest of the year for the want of a school house, our school house being that which was built for Mr. Clarkes ( !) dwelling house, & which it became necessary to use as a �Waialua 1834 2. work-shop. In the month of Septr our new meeting house was finished, & dedicated, at which time also a Church was organized consisting of 16 members, 5 of whom were from the Honolulu Church & the remaining eleven were recd by examination - The exercises of that occasion were protracted for 6 six successive days including the the ( !) sabbath Mr. Bingham was present & preached daily were also held morning & evening - praymeetings ( !) the remainder of the time being principally occupied in conversation with candidates for chch. member­ ship & others - Although I am not able to state any instances of hopeful conversion as the result of this occasion, yet I am confident that the good influence of it has not ceased to the present time. The congregation has been larger since than before & some have appeared at least more interested in the concerns of religion than before - (?) We have had communion seasons also in Decr & in March, at the latter of which our chch. recd an accession of five members Mr. Clarke was present at the two last communions & aided in the examination of the candidates as Mr. B. also did at the organization of the Chch. Our religious exercises have been during the year, on Sabbath morning a sermon, at midday a rehearsal of the 7 verses for the week together with questions & explanations of the same, & towards evening an exposition of a few verses of scripture with practical remarks on the same. I commenced with the year at the Epistle to the Romans & take the book in course. On Wednesday we also have an expository lecture following at the present the order of Judsons & Union ques­ tions, we are now in the2 d Vol. On friday P.M. is a recapitulation of the Wednesday lecture with questions in the form of a Bible class. At all our publick religious exercises except on sabbath morning, all �Waialua 1834 3. the congregation who have the New Test. bring it, & all together turn with the teacher to the passages of Scrip. that are quoted for illus­ tration - from this practice some have become quite expert in turn­ ing over the pages of their Bibles. In addition to these meetings for all there is also a kind of moral society of perhaps 200 members which I meet every monday month­ ly concert days only excepted. This society recite the Ninau-hoike hear explanations & answer questions on the same. Our morning service on the sabbath varies in point of numbers from 600 to 1000 & our number at the Ai o ka la from 350 to 600, at one time a few months since nearly 700 were present at Waialua - A few also meet on the Sabbath at a few places up Koolau to recite the Ai o ka la - but the number is quite small Mrs. E. has also had a sabbath school during the year of from 60 to 100 children - she also meets the female members of the chch usually on tuesday afternoons in a prayer meeting. Her sabbath school has been much increased in numbers & in in­ terest by the little one page tracts with cuts - which are given scholars as a reward for attendance each of these tracts has been committed to memory by all the scholars in addition to other exercises. As to the general affairs of the station; it will be recollected that the Waialua station embraces all the west & N.W. portions of the Island, commencing with Waianae & extending round to Kaawa on the Koolau side a distance on the shore of not far from 60 miles. It embraces in territory not far from 1/2 the land on the Island, & a population probably of nearly 9 thousand people. During the year past nothing has been done for Waianae; I have not visited the district because of the difficulty of access to the place from Waialua, in part; but more especially from the assurance I had from others that there was no hope of benefitting that people at present by merely an �Waialua 183 4 . occasional visit. . 4. The chief of that district has twice during the year encamped for nearly a week at a time within a few rods of us, drank her rum & carried on in her own style. We have at four differ­ ent times invited her to tea but she has never yet deigned to show us her head. - The people of that district have no schools of late & wish for none - They say that when their chief forsakes her sins they will theirs & not before. The people of Koolau have apparently divided themselves off into two parties, the one of which is for order the other for confusion latter however being much the larger of the two. the The former class are many of them occasional attendants at meeting at Waialua; perhaps there are 100; 30 or 40 of whom come a distance of 20 miles or more as often as every third sabbath. Of the disorderly party, the major­ ity are as inaccessible to the Missionary as wild goats. On a visit up Koolau some eight weeks since I found whole vilages almost entirely deserted, the inhabitants concealed among the grass & rocks for no other reason than that I had appointed a meeting & invited them to attend. In one instance a vilage of 50 or more people were all dis­ persed, nothing but a single pig tied to a post & a few loose ones were apparently left behind. The district of Waialua is perhaps under as good management so far as the influence of the chiefs is concerned as any part of the Island. Adultery, theft, rum-drinking, sabbath-breaking, & sorcery are crimes, which are punished by the Chief; penalty - several weeks hard labour; or banishment from the district. In consequence of this law some 30 or 40 persons have left the district during the year; & 100 or more better characters have moved into the district. Here I would mention a few facts in proof that the residence of a Missionary at Waialua has not made the people lazy & negligent of their lands - Within the last 12 or thirteen months there have �5. Waialua 1834 been carried from the Waialua district to The Chief at Honolulu 4 vessel loads of Poe, fish & hogs, there has been an other vessel load given to the King & his company & about a sixth vessel load was provided for the Princess & her train - There have also been paid two money taxes amounting in all to not less than 1100 or 1200 dollars; a vessel has been refitted at an expense of at least 1200 dollars which is paid for - 144 dollars have also been paid for the purchase of a bell; & not less than 4000 or 5000 kapas have been fur­ nished for the chiefs - This has all been done within the space of 12 or 13 months & I might add that not less than two or 3 acres of also been been ( !) dug anew & planted - The year t of provisions & money paid over to the chiefs was less than half this amount. There have also been erected not less than 30 new native houses within 1/4 of a mile of the Church, most of them built by persons who have moved in from other districts who have moved in to enjoy the privileges of the gospel & the protection of good & wholesome laws As to schools taught by natives we have had none during the year & of course have had no examinations as an examination without a school would be but a farce. In the month of April last however we did collect together the readers for a general examination of them. 464 only attended 357 of whom were from the district of Waialua & the remaining 107 from Koolau, one only from the district of W aianae Last year there were more than twice as many at the general examina­ tion. There have been but 29 marriages at the station during the past year - the year previous there were 76 - of course cases of adultery have been during the last year in comparison with the year before not far from that proportion inverted that 76 the past year to 29 the �Waialua 1834 6. year before, i.e. nearly 3 cases the past year to one the year before The desirableness of other labours in this field will of course be mentioned in an other connection (Unsigned, J.S. Emerson) �Report of the Waialua Station for the year ending June 1st 1835. On returning from the last general meeting we found the meeting­ house filled with people for three or four successive sabbaths; & felt at first a little rejoiced to see it. But soon learned the cause of their returning to the house of God to be, the threat of a high fine in case of absence from publick worship on the sabbath. The threat was soon removed, & the house almost as thin as ever. Two schools were collected & commenced the last of July, one of about 120 children, the other of about 50 men formerly teachers with the exception of a few. About 100 in the childrens school were ig­ norant of the alphabet. For a few months at first the school was entirely under my care, & was taught as far as circumstances would admit on an infant school plan. The scholars made good proficiency so long as I instructed them; the school also increased in numbers & interest, & fully satisfied me that a system of infant school in­ struction can be commenced carried on & made as successful at Waialua as in Boston or any where else. For the want of other accommodations our schools were taught in the meeting-house untill the last of Septr when a new school-house was finished into which a part of the scholars of the childre n s-school 4 were removed - The division thus occasioned rather diminished the number of attendants although the school was sustained with a good degree of interest untill the close of the first term, of four months, when both the schools were suspended for 2 weeks. The Second term continued 5 months untill the first of May - schools not quite so full as the first term, but more progress was made in knowledge especially in the school of adults - During this term Mrs. E. has had a school of about 60 young women & also a singing school, �Waialua 1835 the former 4 & the latter 2 days each week - There have been no schools taught by natives during the past year except those under my daily supervision, untill within the past 3 or 4 months. Since then a few schools have been taught one morning each week; & one or two schools for children have been taught 3 or 4 mornings in the week. As to improvements - We have finished a decent doby school house - very near our own door, the walls of which were laid up be­ fore the last meeting - The house is rather coarsely fitted up with seats & benches & has a few glass windows. far from 36 dollars - It cost the Mission not One other school house has been built In native style; beyond this improvement in respect to school houses has con­ sisted entirely in pulling down some of those which ought not to stand The gospel has been preached, during the year, as usual at the station, on the sabbaths, on Wednesdays & fridays. A children’s sabbath-school embracing about 150 children has been kept up by Mrs. E. during the year & attended with interest by the children - Mrs. E. has also had a weekly meeting attended by the female members of the church During the year I have made 2 visits up Koolau & preached the gos­ pel from vilage to vilage days; & the latter 8 days. The first time I was absent from home 3 The congregations were all small; & those who wished to be on the side of truth, appeared much disheartened. Have visited Waianae once in company with B r . Smith & formally ceded that district to him so that any account of the people will rather come into his report than mine. We have held at Waialua one protracted meeting which commenced March 25th & continued 5 days including the Sabbath - The meeting was commenced with quite too small a degree of preparation both on �Waialua 1835 3* the part of the pastor & the people; yet we trust that the influences of God’s Spirit were imparted in some degree to give efficacy to His Word spoken by the brethren, who visited us. Brethren Tinker & Smith were present during the meeting except that Br. S. left on Saturday noon. As to the results of the meeting it is much easier to speak in general terms, than to say who were benefitted or to say confidently that any souls were converted during or since the meeting. There were however some evidences of the presence of God’s Spirit - The ears of many were opened, some appeared to have some correct views of their own hearts - & a few of the church members appeared to have their hope shaken - These impressions were obviously deepened by the meeting held two weeks later at Ewa, which was atten­ ded by 40 or 50 of those from Waialua who appeared the most interest­ ed in the meeting at Waialua, & we trust that both church members and others have been benefitted. To give an instance of the influence of the meeting on a church member. Shortly after our return from Ewa, I called on Laanui, one of the earliest converts to the Xn faith in the Islands, with the enquiry, if he could not consistently with his health dispense with the use of tobacco. He replied that tobacco was of no advantage to his health; but if he should leave off the use of it, what then? It would not secure his salvation, & of that he at present had no hope. He said he had been trying to examine his heart, & to give himself unreservedly to the Saviour, but that he found himself full of sin, there was no forsaking it; his heart was wedded to it; & so he despaired of salvation. also appears more happy. Laanui has since abandoned his tobacco, he This confession coming from a chief & a chch. member strengthened me much in the belief that God's word had �W a i a l u a 1 8 3 5 taken some effect at that time. As to general improvements at the Station; there has (been) a gradual advance in a variety of respects - some of the houses have been improved in neatness, some few have been built in a better style; & not less than 2 miles of good doby fence has been erected for the security of cultivated lands. Last month we commenced a monthly concert contribution; the avails of which for the present are to be devoted to the improvement of schools & school-houses among ourselves - The first contribution amounted to about $20. N one have been recd to our church during the year; but there have been 2 deaths of chch. members, leaving our present number in the chch. but 19. Number of marriages during the year 62 - last year, but 27. Total number of births in the district of Waialua alone during the past 10 months 37, deaths 115. deaths of children 45 69 - of adults Such is the account as kept by Laanui & with considerable care yet it may not be perfectly correct. Total number of readers present at our last hoike 925. This shows more nearly the interest felt in schools than it does the actual number of readers. J.S. Emerson �Report of the Waialua Station, May, 1836. We returned last year from our annual meeting, a few days before its close; our voyage was 18 hours from Honolulu by sea. - Shortly after our return, we were engage(d) in our accustomed labours Our station schools have been conducted with perhaps more appar­ ent improvement, on the part of the pupils, during the past, than any preceding year of our residence at the station - This has been owing in part to a more minute division of classes; & in part to the im­ proved qualification of the teachers. We have in person spent less time in teaching during this than any preceding year, but have spent more time in superintendance of schools. Mrs. E. has been some what hindered from labour in schools by ill helath ( !) - & I have had part of the time other & extra en­ gagements I have attended three protracted meetings of a week each - made three preaching tours up Koolau, & made a visit of 7 or 8 days with my family at Honolulu & Ewa (!). A number of weeks have also been spent in writing the Ai o ka la - & a considerable of time in trans­ lating it. (The translation made at Mr. Chamberlains request, or suggestion, has been forwarded by him to the Rooms in Boston -) I have also spent part of a week on an elementary primer, which is now in use among the children. These various little engagements, connected with ordinary labours, have helped much to increase the rapid flight of the year. Our school for adult teachers continued about 10 months, em­ braced on an average 40 scholars; about 10 of whom have been through or nearly through the second part of the Helunaau, besides attending to Geography some-what & also to the Hoike Holoholona - Four of this number are expecting to enter the High School this summer - �Waialua 1836 Our children’s schools, under our superintendance at Kawailoa, embrace upwards of 100 children & a few adult females - these schools are under our weekly & sometimes daily inspection, yet taught by 5 men to whom we have given some compensation - In these schools, 30 have learned to read, during the year, & many others have mad( e ) some progress in Geog. Arithmetick & the knowledge of Animals. These are all the schools there have been In the district of Waialua during the year, excepting perhaps a school of a few month(s) at Mananui, for children - In the district of Koolau I have paid a teacher in part for 4 or 5 months labour at Waimea, where there has been no school for years - There has also been a some what success­ ful teacher at Pupukea, also at Puumaluu, also at Kahuku, & Haula ( !), but on the great majority of lands up Koolau, as well as at Waialua, there has no child learned to read for two years or more The following is the list of readers at our last Hoiki which took place the first of the present month Readers from Koolau 453 ) total readers " from Waialua 459 ) Total number of children who have learned to read during the past year Persons familiar with the multiplication table Marriages during the year Births in the District of Waialua only, deaths in ” decrease of population 912 70 151 71 24 67 43 (2 deaths to one birth) As to the births & deaths, probably all have not been reported but in all cases where the deaths have been reported the births have also been — -Persons recd into the church the past year are 3 two by profession & on(e) by letter Whole number recd 24 died two dismissed to other churches, one Present number of chch. members 21 Stand propounded for admission nine - �Waialua 1836 3. Mrs. E. has taught a singing school for adults a part of the year, & also a singing school for children - she has also held meetings with the females once & some times twice per week - she also taught a school for adult females a few months only During the year I have expended for school in all $150.00 beside many b ooks given away Expended in cloth as compensation to teachers - In cloth & money for building a school house, plastering & glazing it, & flooring & seating one apartment sufficient to accommodate 20 writers . . Total expended for schools 34.89 112.31 147.20 One of the three protracted meetings alluded to above, was held at Waialua on the last of March last; & continued for seven days The house was filled five times per day by persons who heard with apparent interest. About one thousand of those present were strangers, from other stations, so that but a few comparitively ( !), from Waialua were present during the regular services. Yet some of those who did attend we think were deeply interested in the truth. have been savingly benefited. A few we hope The apparent excitement among the people of this Station was much greater at a period of one two & three weeks after the close of the meeting than at any time during its progress. Our congregation on the Sabbath & at all other meet­ ings has very much increased - Our number at morning prayer meetings, which we hold daily at sunrise, is now about 200; it was formerly from 50 to 100 Among those, who have been hopefully benefitted by the protracted meeting, are two boys one perhaps 16 or 17 years old & the other not more than 8 or 9. A number of other children, both male & female, have been evidently more or less awakened to a sense of sin. In view of what we have seen, we feel deeply condemned for the little faith we have exercised in relation to the early conversion of native �Waialua 1836 4. children, & the feeble efforts made to that end. Quite a number of the yeouth ( !), who have come to us to confess their sins & ask counsel, have said that they have often heard the word of God & trembled under it, but, when they returned to their homes, they soon mingled with the thoughtless, & forgot what they had heard. But lately the word of God had followed them, & they did not now want to forget it. Not only have our meetings been filled up in consequence of the protracted meeting, but our schools have been more punctually attended, than for a long time before. Gould we have a teacher to commence at the present time a boarding School at our station I think we should find no difficulty in obtaining as many bright & interesting children as would be desired to enter it, on terms as promising as could be expected The following is an estimate of property at the Waialua station belonging to the Am. Board One house for mission family Two houses for native families One school house - - - - - - - - Sugar mill & boiler Meat cattle, two cows & two calves Carpenters & Joiners tools Total Furniture Native books in the depository do do do do $ 150 100 100 Cost Pres value $ 1,000 1,000 100 100 112 90 90 25 50 50 . 50 1,467 [2!] 1,340 50 50 1,427 Ike\mua Oihana Skeleton maps & Nothing more worth naming As to books sold during the year I have kept no account except of Testaments slates & Newspapers. I have charged out about 200 testaments 50 slates & 100 Newspapers most of which will in �Waialua 1836 5. due time be paid in to Mr. Chamberlain in lumber fire-wood &c I have given away no books during the year except to a few teachers & some very small children & a few invalids - & yet the demand for books has never been greater than the last few months I could sell I presume 500 more testaments, in a week for mater ials, that would cost the natives more than a dollar/ for each testa ment J.S. Emerson �Waialua Station Report for May 1837. The past year with us at Waialua, has been a short one, yet replete with mercies - Our health has been generally good, & that of our little ones, for which unfeigned gratitude is due to our kind Preserver. Health of the natives has been as good as usual; there has not been to my knowledge any prevailing epidemick among them, & had no record been kept at the station a very healthy time. I should have pronounced it But from a record of births & deaths kept by Laanui, I find the following results Station Wailua Births Deaths of Deaths of Young Old Old Total population 2400________Children young men women men women_______ For the year 1836 For the first 3 months of 1837 34 32 10 8 8 10 10 3 14 5 24 3 90 29 From this table the deaths of Children under 14 or 15 years of age appear to average the number of births - thus making a generation of men in that district but 14 or 15 years - & all the deaths of indi­ viduals beyond that age to be a diminution of the population - And yet Waialua for aught I know is about as healthy as any station on the Islands. Labours - In entering upon the labours of the past year our childrens schools received our first attention. Of these we then had but two of any efficiency besides the one at the station; & all of them some what diminished in interest & in numbers during our ab­ sence at the general meeting. During the year we have added 7 to the number of our childrens schools, - so that we have at the present time ten schools for children, that have more or less efficiency These are scattered along a coast of 40 miles or more - Our teachers, who are engaged in instructing these schools, have been obtained by �2. Waialua 1837 breaking up the station school for teachers, which had been attended by the same individuals about one half of the time for four years Our efforts at the station have also been mainly for the children So that our efforts, & those of the teachers in our employ, have been specially directed to the children. There have also been schools for adults attended by a few, one half day per week; but of such schools little of course can be expected, & as their teachers generally know but little more than the scholars, little need be said of them. As to the childrens schools, the one at the station has averaged perhaps 120 scholars, whole number during the year not less than 160 This school I have superintended & instructed three hours a day, for the first seven months of the year, assisted by teachers raised up at the station; & since the first of Septr last we have also had a graduate of the High School, who has been good help & has done well. The past three months the School has been wholly in his care, as protracted meetings & labours resulting from them have made too large a demand upon my time & strength to admit of any attention to the school except to communicate to them religious instruction. At our station school, have been taught reading writing, Colborns mental Arith. & part of the Sequel Geography, punctuation & the sounds of the foreign letters. (There are at the Station two boys of about 14 years of age that I think would do honour to them­ selves & to the High-School, if they may be permitted to enter this summer .) Of the schools taught by native teachers, I can conscienciously say that some of the teachers have done themselves much credit both in collecting & keeping to gether their scholars & also in hastening them forward in the art of reading &c. In one school at Kahuku a number have made very commendable �Waialua 1837 3. progress in Arith. & Geog. equally well. Another at Haula ( !) has done almost In one school, at Punaluu, commenced about 9 months since with rising 70 scholars, none of whom could read, about one half of them now read respectably; & quite a number are familiar with the multiplication table. At Mokulaia ( !) there was but one youth a year since who could read, & this notwithstanding they had had a school, as they said, for the children - but for two years or more n o one had learned to read; & there was no fair prospect that any one would learn, under the instruction then enjoyed. When our teacher from Lahaina arrived, I visited that people proposing to send them the teacher who had formerly assisted me in the station school. er. About 20 persons expressed a desire for a teach­ The question was then asked who will furnish him food - head men soon engaged to do that. his house? The The next question was where was One was soon pointed out for him - A subscription was then raised to purchase him clothing & also for his tax money; & in the end enough was subscribed by a poor & ignorant people to make the native teacher & his family comfortable a good part of the year That teacher has now been labouring with a school of 72 children all regular attendants for seven months past - about 40 of those children have now become readers & several have made very considerable progress in Geog. & Arithmetiek. On the whole I think that although I have done less than usual in communicating instruction in schools; yet from the improved qualification of the teachers more has been accomplished In the instruction of children than in any previous year since the station was taken - �4. Waialua 1837 Time of the Examination learned to Total of Readers in Familiar with the mult . table read since children School last exam. August 1836 271 167 70 601 Nov. 1836 284 213 91 619 Feb. 1837 238 150 30 647 213 191 Total 250 average Adult Headers 623 average Probable number of children at the station of a suitable age to attend school 1000 or more Preaching of the Gospel. The ordinary exercises on the Sabbath have been two sermons one sabbath school for children, & an other for adults. Beside this there has been a weekly lecture on Wednesday at the station & occa­ sional lectures on thursday & friday in remote vilages. A morning prayer-meeting has also been attended at the station most of the year comm( en )cing at or before sunrise; & has been to me one of the most profitable & encouraging meetings I have attended. The ordinary con­ gregation on the sabbath has been 1000 or more in the morning & nearly the same number in the afternoon Childrens sabbath school has been attended in the morning by from 200 to 400 children; adult sabbath school in the afternoon by from 400 to 1000. Sabbath Schools are also conducted by native teachers in the district of Koolau, in 4 different places & attended ordinarily by 200 or 300 children. Besides making three tours in the district of Koolau for the purpose of preaching & examining schools, I have spent four weeks of the past year in protracted meetings, held at each of the stations. These seasons have been very profitable to myself & to those of our �Waialua 1837 5. people, who attended. The protracted meeting at Waialua commenced oh the 7th of March - Brethren Bishop the meeting - Parker & Smith assisted in The season was to us & to our people deeply interest­ ing; & as we trust has been productive of results of infinite value to several immortal souls. We have been thronged for weeks with those, who appear to be more or less deeply affected with divine truth; & of some we have pleasing evidence, that they have been born of the Spirit. Among those who appear to be truely ( !) converted I am happy to number the teacher obtained from the High School. Perhaps I am deceived in him, yet my hopes are much raised on his account. There is a great apparent change in the appearance of many; & some who gave as I thought rather doubtful evidence of piety shortly after the protracted meeting a year since, now appear to be obviously on the Lords side; although they still refer to that period as the time, when they turned to the Lord. The evident presence of the Spirit with us during the meeting & since to the time of our leaving them, & the great change apparent in the lives & conversation of a few lead me to feel, that protracted meetings, judiciously, & prayerfully conducted are a very desirable means of grace among this people; whose minds as they often say are like a sieve; truth & impressions are easily lost - They behold their natural fare, but soon forget unless they look & look often & for a long time At our last general meeting 8 individuals stood propounded for the chch. These were all recd in August; & at the present time 10 more stand propounded for admission - �6 Waialua 1837 Station 1836-7 Waialua The last year Marriages Whole no. ad. to chch. on examination Whole no. on certif. Recommended to other chch. Died Susp ended Excommunicated Now in good standing Ad. on ex. the past year Ad. on certif. Excom. Candidates Suspended died Children b ap Total bap. child. Bap. children died 46 27 6 1 2 0 0 24 8 0 0 10 0 0 10 34 4 The number of marriages as will be obvious is very small. is I can not decide - . Why this It has been repeatedly stated to me, that Some of the head men forbid women to marry men of another land, unless the man will come & live with the woman - But that this is the fact in many cases I can not certify. Deaths of baptized children are fewer than of unbaptized children This fact speaks loudly as to the reason for the great mortality among native childrens Miscellaneous labours The Ai o ka la, which was assigned me last general meeting, was written & prepared in due season. The printing of it might have been commenced in October, had there been paper on which to print it. Beside the Ai o ka la, the Kumumua has been revised & enlarged in size Improvements During the year past, a number of patches of road have been made, which considerably facilitate our access to some remote parts of the station & to Waianae. The pali between Waialua & Waianae, which formerly rendered the latter place inaccessible from Waialua �W a ia lu a 1 8 3 7 7. except on foot, has been so improved that a horse can be rode up & down it without difficulty. The time now necessary to be occupied in travelling from Waialua to Waianae is not more than 4 or 5 hours, on horseback. There have also been three pieces of road made between Waialua & the station at Kaneohe, which are valuable in facilitating the journey between the two stations. The whole distance which is 40 miles or more can now be passed over in 8 or 9 hours, or less if need be. Hat making from the native palm leaf has been carried on. Buildings During the past year we have put up a good doby house 41 feet by 21 with three rooms two of which are lathed & plastered but without floor & will furnish a tolerably comfortable accommodation for a family for a number of years. The location of a teacher & su- perintendant of schools at the station, I am happy to say need not necessarily incur any very material expense in building for a number of years. School house - The Chief & people are now sensible of the necessity of building a school house for the teacher who may be located there They have by individual subscription secured the dobies & all the timbers necessary for the roof & window & door frames; & last monday a subscription was raised to defray the expense of the glass, benches, floor &c. We hope by means of contributions thus raised, with but very little help from funds of the Board, to secure a large well finished & permanent school house. Laanui has engaged to furnish the glass; & is much interested in the project. There is, at the present time, a good preparation at Waialua for a teacher to commence the instruction & superintendance of schools under circumstances highly advantagious ( !). There have been 5 native school houses built in different parts of the station the past year. �Waialua 1837 8 Desirableness of a Missionary in the district of Koolau. From Kahuku to Kaawa is a distance of about 15 or 16 miles, & contains a population of rising 2,000 souls; & so easy of access that their doors can all be passed in less than two hours on horseback. One half or more of this population live within 1/2 hours ride on horse back or canoe each way from the centre, which would be Haula, a thickly settled & pleasant place; where there is a comfortable harbour for small vessels. The people are anxious for a missionary. 1526 persons have made a formal petition for a missionary to dwell among them. There are advantages connected with this station, that would be enjoyed in few others. The location would be central between the station at Waialua & that at Kaneohe, about 20 miles from each. 2 The expense to support it would be small. As a vessel must be anually chartered to carry supplies to the station at Kaneohe, it may touch at Haula & land supplies or take in articles of freight without necessarily incurring a 3 days detention - The missionary would have his people near him, & could see them all, often & easily. 4 The land is all or nearly so under chiefs who are favourable to our cause & members of the chch. at Honolulu. 5 There is, at the present, time, a very favour(able) state of feel­ ing among the people & could a missionary be located among them - I should hope that he would soon reap a harvest of souls. If this pe­ tition can not be granted now I hope that it will be before long. As to Mrs. E's labours. When we returned from the last general meeting she resumed her labours in two singing schools - one for children & the other for adults — in each of which she spent a part �Waialua 1837 9. of two afternoons every week for 5 months - She has also held a weekly meeting with the female members of the chch; & a meeting every alternate week with the mothers - The Childrens' sabbath School has also been mainly under her care As to the expenses incurred the station - I will just mention that native articles of food, such as kalo, potatoes, pork & fish, ( !) bananas &c have never since the first year of our residense at the station cost any thing to the A. Board. the land given by the chief. They have been raised on fish is often given as a present. J.S. Emerson �Report of Waialua Station for 1838. The past year has been one of much labour at this station additional strength has called for enlarged plans & new modes of operation, so that none of us find occasion to say that we have not had enough to do. (Locke) The labours in the schools have mainly devolved on Mr. L. & also the care of building the school-house &c - Since the first few months I have not assisted at all in the childrens schools - except as I have attended the examination & assisted in them - I have however taught a class of 15 or 20 in Chch. history one hour per day for four or five months, previous to our protracted meetings. The morning prayer meeting has been attended by myself about 2/5 of the year - that meeting was suspended except 2 mornings in the week for 4 or 5 months previous to January & the school in Chch. History occupied the same hour. Besid(e) the morning prayer meeting I have held lectures out in different parts of the field as I have had opportunity. to the station. Preaching on the sabbath has been mainly confined I however spent four sabbaths at Laie while the pulpit at Waialua was supplied by Bro. Bingham in Aug. & Sept. from whom & his family we enjoyed a pleasant visit of four weeks. Extra efforts. We have had since January three protracted meetings within the boundaries of the station - one of six days at Waialua - attended by Brethren Bishop, Smith & Parker, - one of five days at Laie at­ tended by Bro. Tinker & myself - & one of five days at Kahana where I was assisted by Chch. members only. The results of these meetings have been interesting; deeply so to to ( !) myself & to the people. Some hundreds I trust have turned to the Lord; but how many time or eternity must show. The work of the Lord however has by no means �Waialua 1838 2 been confined to these meetings, some date their conversion at one period, & at an other through almost every month in the year. Some of all ages, & in every section the districts belonging to the station appear to he subjects of grace - The last meeting at Kahana has appeared to be more marked & general in its effects than any previous one I have attended - & many with whom I have conversed appear well The number recd to the chch. the past year is 127, most of whom experienced a change of heart previous to our last anual ( !) meeting but a few of them since the protracted meeting in January - 166 are now propounded for Chch. membership & perhaps a few more will be before our next communion. We feel that the Lord has wrought a great work for this people, & while we give him praise, we feel that the multitudes yet in the gall of bitterness call for our unceasing efforts, & prayers. The following are the statistics of the Chch. & marriages. Marriages from May 1, 1837 to May 15, 1838 -- ------------------64 Total recd to C h c h . -- - - - ------ -----159 Red past year - - - - - - - - - - - - 127 Recd by certifficate past year - - - - - - 3 Cut o f f ------ --- ------- - - - - - - 1 Suspended - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 Restored - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 Total died - - - - - - - - - - - - — - 3 died past year - -------1 Total children baptized - - - - - - - - - 120 Candidates for chch. membership - - - - 166 Children baptized the past year - - - 86 Our people are apparently increasing in their desire to do good as they increase in their efforts to become so - The(y) have made some contributions of kapas for the High School, also 100 or 120 in cash at the mo. concert besides building the school house by voluntary effort. What they have done is much, considering the fact that they have not been accustomed to give, & that what they give is in almost �Waialua 1838 3. every instance their own hard earnings & not the fruit of other men’s industry. Waialua May 15, 1838 J.S. Emerson Mr. L. will make the rem. of the report - �Report of the Waialua Station for the year ending May 1st 1839. The station at Waialua has now been occupied seven years; each successive year of which period has furnished new & increasing occa­ sion for thanks-giving & praise to God. The families have indeed been visited with some sickness at the station, yet our chastisements have been fewer & much less severe than our offences - Our people too have been visited with an unusual degree of sickness, especially during the past few months, & deaths have been rather numerous. Yet while God has thus afflicted, while many have gone down to the grave, & in most instances unprepared as we have feared, others, dead in trespasses & sins, have been awaked to newness of life. While justice has been executed upon some, grace hath much more abounded toward others. The common routine of labours has been carried on at the sta­ tion with but little interruption either from sickness in our families, or absence from our field. The word of God has been repeatedly preached in all the vilages of any magnitude in this division of the Island, & to some extent from house to house. I have been repeatedly through the district of Koolau & once to Waianae, preaching from vilage to vilage. Meet­ ings at the station have been uniformly attended three times and the sabbath, besides the sabbath School & bible class; Meetings have also been held on Wednesday afternoon & for about 2/3 of the year, morning meetings have been attended every morning, the other th ird of the year, they have been attended on sabbath & monday mornings. The Sabbath school & bible class or ai o ka la have been conducted most of the year by Mr. Locke alone, who has also made repeated ex­ cursions to Koolau & other parts of the field to conduct religious meetings. �Waialua 183 9 2 Protracted meetings. Of these there have been six within the limits of the field since the first of May last. One of 5 days at Kahana, an other at Kahuku also at Waianae in June, in Sept. one at Waimea, in Decr one a t Haula & in Feb one at the station - All these meetings except the last named, were about 5 days in duration & con­ ducted entirely by the missionary & native assistants; the meeting at the station in February was conducted by the assistance of Br. Smith & the members at the station. These meetings were all attended & followed with obvious manifestations of divine power; numbers who are now giving pleasing evidence of piety refer to one or the other of these meetings & to the efforts that followed them as the period of their spiritual birth-day. Indeed I think there has not been a month, or more than one during the year that has not been referred to by numbers as the period when they gave their hearts to the Lord. The past has been a year of salvation to many of our people. Attendance on publick worship has generally been good; better than during any year previous; - some times 1800 or 2000 present; but ordinarily from 1200 to 1500. Marriages the past year have been fewer than any year except one since the station was taken, only 47 in all. Births in 1838 of the whole. 64, Deaths 143 - decrease of population 79, or 1/50 Births & deaths are not taken for all the population, (two or three lands failed to report,) but for a population of about 4,500 or perhaps 5,000. Recd to the chch the past year 202 from the world ” " " 3 by certificate Total recd during the year 205 In the chch. before 156 Total rec to the chch from the first 361 ) 361 Died the past year 1 - in all 4 ) Dismissed to other chchs ) 26 past year 7 in all 11 ) Excommunicated the past ) year for adultery 5 ) " for lying & fraud 2 ) Now suspended - - - - - 4 ) chch. ___________________________________ 33 5 Now in good standing in the �Waialua 1839 3. Children baptised the past year 142 - in all 258 children baptized as persons recd to the chch. Only 4/5 as many Some adopted chil­ dren included among the baptized - children of chch. members given to those out of the chch - not baptized. Benevolent contributions. Our people have contributed during the year in cash & cash articles. $ cts For the erection of the 2d Honolulu chch 84.00 For the High School - - - perhaps - 20.00 For Support of Native teachers 125.00 For foreign missions - - - - - - 25.00 For purchase of a bell-in part year before 100.00 For support in part of their pastor 62.00 Total about 416.00 There are now propounded fo r the chch. 203 individuals, & some others give more or less evidence of piety. All who have been recd to the chch. were first conversed with privately & often times under circumstances best calculated as I supposed to bring out the true feelings of the heart & prevent the possibility of one person’s listening to the story of an other so as to copy it - The candidates for chch-membership have also generally been named to the chch. several days previous to their being publickly propounded before the congregation — & during this interim any chch. member having aught against either of the contemplated candidates might come to me pri­ vately & enter his complaint, in which case the contemplated candidate would be dropped off of the list if the complaint was found on enquiry to be worthy of special notice. In this way many sins that would otherwise have been concealed have been brought out, & confusion in the chch. anticipated. But with all my care I have not been able to prevent some few unworthy guests from creeping into the chch. motto on this subject is go forward, but make haste slowly - (So long as I am a local preacher & my congregation local, I see no My �Waialua 1839 4 reason why I should baptize converts at once as they did on the day of pentacost, as Philip did the Eunuch, or as Paul did in a few cases, even allowing that I have as good descernment of spirits as they, unless it be that baptism is a saving ordinance Mrs. E. has had a singing school one or two evenings per week about half of the year There is also a maternal association conducted by the ladies together which promises good to the native mothers meets every alternate week - This association One thing that angers ( !) well in re­ spect to our children is that their vices are becoming more tangible & better understood than formerly - of course there Is more hope of applying successfully the remedy to the disease. Report respecting schools will be read by Mr. Locke. Respectfully Submitted - J.S. Emerson �Report of Waialua Station (1840) In reviewing the events of the past year the missionaries at the Waialua Station feel much occasion for gratitude & much for humility; for gratitude that our health has been in general good, & that we have been enabled to do some thing with a design to glorify God & save men, although what we may seem to have accomplished is far less than in some previous years. We feel occasion for humility, that we have done so little, that our good intentions of service have been so often apparently frustrated, & that on the whole there has so little of which we can speak with confidence (been) accomplished in the advancement of the Redeemer’s kingdom. Some of our time perhaps far too much has been spent in looking on to watch the motions of providence; & perhaps in waiting for a favourable oportunity ( !) to do some thing, which should have been done without waiting. During the year there have been among the people connected with the station, (a few lands not included in the estimate) 56 births & 185 deaths, & 58 marriages. Whole no. recd to chch Reed past year Whole no. removed Removed past year Total deaths deaths past year Total cut off Cut off last year Total transferred to other Chchs do past year Now in the chch. Children baptized Baptized the past year Suspended from chch. 533 207 59 40 8 4 33 30 18 6 474 378 102 12 There have be(en) 1/3 as many children baptized as there are adults in the church, many however of these are adopted children. We have had no protracted meetings during the year within the limits of the station; partly owing to unexpected delay in erecting a house of worship in the Koolau district where a meeting was con- �Waialua 1840 2. templated, & partly to a famine in some parts of the district. At the station there have been a succession of events that rendered a protracted meeting unadvisable. 1. There was a panic occasioned by the turning of many to the Catholicks, that quite unfitted the people to profit by a meeting. 2. The people have been scattered much of the time trying to col­ lect mony ( !) to pay up arrearages in their taxes. 3. The discipline of a few chch. members, whose avarice, cupidity & head strong passions have had a peculiar chance for developement ( !), occasioned some talk & perhaps a little surprise that great charac­ ters were subject to the discipline of the church. These & like cir­ cumstances seemed to render extra means of grace ill timed & forced at any period during the year. The state of the church is somewhat different from what it has ever been in former years. The numbers in the church have tended to some extent to diminish the idea of individual responsibility. There is less prayerfulness than at some former times - Some also who were supposed as standing at the door of the church but were not admitted & neither were likely to be, went over to the Catholicks because they could not get into the chch. Some were led to wander after the beast, whose worship they had formerly regarded as idolatry; & others gazed & wondered what would be the result of those things, who ought to have gone directly to the throne of grace. There has one individual from our church gone to follow the catholicks; & he was converted to their faith by a miracle of healing performed on himself, so report says. The miracle consisted in in ( !) curing a sudden head ache, by means of prayer & bathing the head in cold water. �Waialua 1840 3 Among our people perhaps 100 or 150 have gone over to the Catholicks, some followed them a few weeks, & then forsook them, others still are numbered with them, but do not attend their meetings as formerly - Some who were once very zealous for the pope forsook that faith because they did not like to kneel on dirty mats, others forsook them because they did not get cloth &c as they expected to do. While the catholick religion is to be regarded as a dreadful evil, I think it is not to be looked upon as an evil which can have no good connected with it. ties from our churches. - It opens a sluice-way to let off impuri­ it will tend to unmask hypocrites, & draw the line of demarkation between the friends & the enemies of God It will humble us in view of our own impotency & show us where our dependance is - It will make us more watchful & prayerful - it will tend to remove the secular arm from the church, & make religion stand on its own intrinsic merits. Discipline in the church has cost more time & has been more trying to feelings than in all the preceding years since the organization of the church at the station. There are unquestionably some dry limbs in the church, to pluck them off & purify the whole body will be a labour of time & patience. The past has been a year of new things, a year to try moral principle. Laws against rum, awa, idolatry, Kakauing,(tatooing ?) gambling & the like have been laid aside & people have been left to act main­ ly as conscience, caprice or fashion might influence them to do. Of course many of those, who had no moral principle have fallen into the vortex & made ship-wreck of better professions, if not of better hopes. Circulation of the Scriptures - Books the past year have been very little called for; a few bibles, perhaps 20 have been sold & �Waialua 1840 4. perhaps ten testaments. People appear to think that the monstrous sum of $2.50 for a bibl e is more than they can raise, & so they generally will make no effort to obtain one. Benevolent contributions during the year have been few about $150. have been contributed for the the ( !) support of the native teachers & about $50. for a bell - Also some ten or 15 acres of beans have been planted & cultivated for the building of a stone church at the station, but nearly all of the beans have been ruined grech? a part by the green ( !) worm & a part by a blast. Presents & contributions for my support have been very few & small As to improvements - A good plank bridge has been erected over the large stream between Ewa & Waialua - I have spent 15 days or more in accomplishing it & in improving the road at various points on the way. A blacksmiths forge has also been put in operation at the sta­ tion, & a native youth has for the past ten months been successfully employed in learning the trade. It is hoped that in two years the period agreed upon for his apprenticeship, he will be a somewhat, skilful blacksmith. Several ploughs have been made, & put in some­ what successful operation by the blacksmith, & we hope soon to see more made on an improved pattern. Some incipient measures have been taken toward the erection of a stone church at the station, but our progress has as yet been slow. We have a new bell ready for use & paid for by the people. But there is only a small degree of interest at present manifested to­ ward objects of general interest & improvement. J .S. Emerson �Statisticks Waialua Station 1841 556 20 Whole no admitted to chch. on examination On certificate 4 past year on examination 4 on certif. past year 8 Whole no. past year 26 6 Whole no dismissed to other chchs. Dismissed past year 18 Whole no. Deceased 10 deceased past year 56 Suspended past year 36 R em. suspended 49 Excomd past year 82 Whole no Excom 77 Rem. Excom - 416 Whole no in Reg. Standing 382 Whole no of children baptized 16 Baptized past year 15 Whole no of children deceased Decd 44 600 44 past year Marriages past year Average congregation No. propounded for the chch - �Report of Station at Waialua. (1841) N ear the close of our last general meeting I obtained permission of absence to visit Kauai. This visit protracted my absence from the statio(n) to about six weeks in all. On returning I found Brother Locke just recovering from a severe & somewhat protracted illness So that our station had been for a long time destitute of Missionary labour; & while men slept the enemy sowed tares. The chch. was obviously in a cold state especially that portion of it residing in the district of Koolau. The drinking of the chiefs was the watchword for stupid ones to follow. A few out of the chch. fermented their potatoes & melons & sugar cane with their ohias, & intoxicated themselves, some few chch. members followed, & so the rage for drink increased that in two months about 60 of the chch. had been guilty of the beastly sin of intoxication, - & as to those out of the chch. I suppose that the number was very small who had not intoxicated themselves. It seemed as though almost the whole mass of the people were mad/ & anxious to take vengeance upon themselves In one instance I saw a company of about a dozen drink down several gallons of their nausiating ( !) mixture - They appeared to practice great fortitude & endurance while the(y) poured a pint each of the mixture down their throats About 2 hours later, returning from a visit among the people I saw this same company apparently as silly & foolish as they could well endure - This wide spread drunkness ( !) & debauchery prepared those who had been guilty of it to a great extent to be ashamed to appear before me or be seen in our meetings - So the catholicks found a company prepared for them by the great destroyer. The health of our families has been as good as usual, although �Waialua - 1841 2 the ladies at the station have suffered some what from ill health My own health has been uniformly good till near the close of February, when I was violently attacked with a fever, which laid me aside from my labours for 7 or 8 weeks, most of which time I was confined to my bed. Through a kind Providence my health & strength are now restored, almost equal to what they were before. Improvements - There have been erected during the year several school-houses for the aupuni & 4 or five Catholick meeting or schoolhouse(s) all within the limits of the station. There has also been a road made within the past few weeks entirely round the west end of the Island - So that horses can now pass from Waialua to Waianae, & the Gospel be carried to the latter people with much more dispatch than formerly. As to labours, directly missionary, if the amount of them are to be reckoned from the apparent results, I can say but little There has been no protracted meeting at the station except one of 4 or 5 days designed especially for the church - There has however been a meeting of 6 days at Haula in which Bro. Armstrong assisted me three days - this meeting was more obviously beneficial in calling up the attention of the people to the salvation of their souls than the former meeting. Several stupid ones in the church were aroused, some suspended ones came back with confessions, & a few who before paid no atten­ tion to religion professed to turn to the Lord. Our ordinary religious exercises have consisted of three services on the sabbath, besides the ai o ka la & sabbath School, of which Mr. Locke has attended - the latter We have also had daily morning prayer meetings in various places beside a Wednesday & Saturday even­ ing meeting for the chch. - The latter of which has been suspended �3. Waialua - 1841 since I was taken ill - Repeated tours have been made through the districts of Koolau & part of Waianae - & part of the year meetings have been held every week in some of the school districts remote from us. Attendance on publick worship has not been good gregation at the station sabbath morning about 600 - Average con­ meetings at the villages remote sometimes pretty well attended, at other times not so well; more frequently the latter, unless the people are collected by a special effort - In some places, it seems to have become almost the understanding, that those out of the chch. are not expected to attend meetings except on the sabbath, unless they are candidates for chch. membership - But such is not the fact in all places Statisticks. No census of the people, - no record of births & deaths that I could \otain. Marriages 44 couple. Recd to chch past year 4 by prof. & 4 by letter - 8 Died 13 - cut off 49; suspended 34, - dismissed to other chchs 8 Restored to fellowship 28, of whom 4 had been excommunicated & 22 suspended. There are now propounded for the chch - 44 - Of those now suspended 17 are expected to be restored next communion number recd into the chch 576 cut off 82 Whole Whole no. of deaths 18 - whole no. Whole no. transfered to other chchs. -— Now in the chch & not under discipline 416 26 Children baptized the past year 16 in all 382. Benevolent contributions - These have been very few, & appro­ priated almost entirely to the support of the schools - A little has been contributed toward our contemplated meeting house. We, more than a year since, planted several acres of beans hoping �Waialua 1841 4. to realize a crop that might help us procure lumber &c for that object; but the worms blasted our hopes - At the present we have procured our lime & cut the wood to burn it, & several of the most important stones have been obtained for the comers & jams; & we have about 150 men engaged to work in divisions, one day each makaainana (laboring class) week, till the house is erected. Our house may be a long time in the erection but we hope to build a good one, & to do it as fast as our means & strength will permit. Catholicks. Of these the number is increasing both at the station & through the field - The past year three have left our church to join them, & one went out from us last year, 4 in all, who were in good standing in the chch. the Catholicks to them - Of suspended members 6 have gone to Of excommunicated persons 10 or 12 have gone over So that of those who have been chch members, not far from 20 have gone to the Catholicks. Reasons, that such persons have given for leaving us, are like the following - Their friends are all with the catholicks, & therefore they can receive no favours from them, so long as they do not join them - if hungrey or sick or naked, they can receive no sympathy if they stand opposed - One is sick, he has no one to take care of him; the Catholick comes along & promises him salvation, & restoration to health if he will join them. One has the promise of influence, power, or many presents if he will join them, & so some are taken with guile. Two, of the four who left the chch. to join the catholicks were sick, & submitted to baptism from the priest on promise of restora­ tion to health - But both are dead. One however, before her death, came back to us, renouncing all faith in or fellowship with them. She said that they prayed for her 8 days at first, &, as her sickness did not at all abate, the catholicks ceased to pray for her; but, �Waialua 1841 5 after the lapse of several weeks, they procured some rum, & when under its influence prayed again for her - This filled her with disgust, she told their priest that she had no confidence in them, & so left them & came back to us with repentance & confession - She apparently died in the faith & hopes of the Gospel. As to the numbers, out of the chch. who have gone to the catho­ licks I can form no correct estimate. Many, who call themselves our people, have gone occasionally to a catholick meeting, & many go no where - In some places 1/2 or more of the people occasionally flock after that party - & in two or three villages of from 50 to 100 or 150 people all with two or three exceptions are said to have joined them. And here let me say, that these three villages, which have turned altogether to the pope, lay between other larger vilages ( !), & in such positions as rendered it easy for the people to attend meeting, by going a short distance, say a mile or so to meet with a larger collection of people for worship. But few only went, & the result has proved that as they were ignorant & voluntarily so, they were also fit subjects to be led away after the beast whose business it is to destroy. At the present time I presume that 1/4 part at least of our people might be reckoned on the side of the Catholicks, & 1/4 of them as indifferent to any thing - leaving perhaps & perhaps less as 2 / 1 caring for the pono; or at least professing so to do. Methods by which the people have been won over by the Catholicks. 1. By promises of healing Many have been induced to go after them by a promise that if bap­ tized by them their diseases should be healed as a consequent ( !). But in case the patient did not chance soon to recover, the fault has always been wisely attached to some other cause than the want of �Waialua 1841 6. power in th e priest; either the patient had not faith, or had some reserved sin, or his friends were hereticks, or some thing else. One sick man turned to them on promise of being healed, but after "baptism was no better be no better - It was then said that his wife must turn, or he would she turned - but he was still sick - if he had not a father - It was then asked They said he must turn also - but after the father turned, the children were called for & then all his de­ pendants they all turned to save the poor mans life; but lo he died after all - Yet they were assured of this, that his soul would be saved 2. Another way of making proselytes is by making presents, of clothes, cloth &c. These are some times given out to adults & children to induce them to join their party. 3. Our schools & school laws have been made a means of souring the minds of parents & persuading them to fly under their wing for reffuge ( !). The length of the schools, having two per day; paying the teachers, & compelling the children to work for them have all had their influence in this matter. Multitudes, both of parents & children, have left us because they, by so doing, could escape the work for the teacher. At Honolulu this law has never been inforced, as funds have been furnished from other sources for the support of schools; & this will easily account in part for the fact that a far smaller proportion of the people there have gone to the Catholicks than on other parts of the Island. Another circumstance may also be stated relative to schools. The catholicks have taught some of their teachers to repeat a prayer in Italian - this they are parot like ( !) teaching the children, who are all highly delighted with the idea of saying something that others can not say, & that in a foreign language. �Waialua 1841 . 7 Some of our teachers are very anxious to be taught English, that they may seem to be as knowing as the Catholicks. 4. An other method by which the Catholicks gain proselytes is by fabricating & circulating slanderous reports, & falsehoods. One day, it is reported that all the chiefs have turned catho­ licks - & so many make haste to be on the strong side - An other day, we are called the murderers of Batchelot; in connection with Kinau - That we are oppressors of the people, taking away their rights, depriving them of sources of gratification & happiness such as they have a right to, & begging away the little property that they may have, to feed our-selves, are a standing every day charges. Even the little children are catechized by the priest as follows. Do we come & beg your fowls? To which they reply in concert, n o . Do we beg your money; your kapas; fish &c &c. we sell our book to you? former teachers do so? All reply, no. No, you give them without pay. Do Did your No, they begged ours, & sold theirs. Such is the style in which I am told the children are sometimes catechized to create & confirm their prejudices against us. 5. Indulgences form an other method of drawing men after them - Absence from meeting on the sabbath is no fault if the individual attends on great occasions - Many sins, the very ones to which this people are prone are not very great matters, Occasional intoxication, habitual use of tobacco, lying & adultery are not very great matters, at least, are easily got over by them. An other way of gaining prosylites is 6. By taking sides with the makaainanas against law or with law, & brow beating the chiefs into compliance with their' wishes. Many ignorant ones are fully persuaded that there is great power in the poe Berani from the fact that they carry their points so well, if not �Waialua 1 841 8. by artifice, by threats. Since the vacation in our schools commenced, about the middle of April, our children have gone in great numbers to the Catholicks, from one school 12 or 14 & from an other 15, & from others more or less - Probably in all not less than 50 of our children went over to their instruction during a vacation of about 2 weeks - The number of children now claimed by the catholicks & of a suitable age to go to school is from 100 to 200, perhaps less than 150. One alarming fact is that of those who go over to the Catholicks but few can be reached again by our instructions, they will not come to our meet­ ings or our schools, & some of them have said they were forbidden to enter our houses, or have any thing to do with us. Only a few weeks instruction in their schools seems to give both adults & children a spirit of defiance, & in some instances of enmity that it is very painful to witness. To human appearance the great mass of the ungodly in our region are about going over to the side of the Pope - Both the schools & the church need the watch & care of several persons wholy ( !) devoted to the work of taking care of them. In our field there are about 5500 people, perhaps more, scattered in villages along a coast of from 40 to 45 miles. Were there no wolves in the field one shepherd could do much for them, but while there are two foreign catholicks & many native ones who have been trained to their arts of deception & falsehood, many hands to labour many eyes to see, & many tongues to speak in the behalf of the Gospel of X st seem imperiously needed. We came to this meeting in strong hopes that the brethren would be able to locate one more missionary on this Island & at this time; & at Waiono in the District of Koolau seemed to be the place to locate him - This would be nearly midway between Br. Parker & ourselves �Waialua 1841 9 about 22 miles from us & 17 or 18 from him - At Waiono there is now a meeting house, large enough to hold 700 or 800 people, & not half a mile from it, is a Catholick house &, as I am informed, the priests a are about to locate one of their number there, & to build a stone house for his accommodation. If an efficient man could be located there to take care of the chch & the schools, more assistance could be afforded from our station in looking after & teaching the people (e?) of Waianae than heretofore. We trust that if there be any new brethren to locate at this meeting, the claims of Koolau & the pe­ culiar crises that threatens us will not be overlooked, or disregarded. Let it be remembered that the Catholicks have already five schools & five preaching posts within the limits of the station. J.S. Emerson �Report of Waialua Station, May 1842 On the 10th of June last year I returned to the station in improved health, & in high hopes of accomplishing much during the year for the good of the people. A slight rheumatick affection, which then existed in one of my knees soon increased, so as to lay me aside from most of my labour for two or three weeks. The health of the members of the station has In general been pretty good, subject however to some interruptions in the case of all the members of the station* And in no case has death entered our dwellings but once during the ten years in which this station has been ocupied, ( !) & that within the past year. On the 15th of Novr Br Lockes eldest child, his only son was removed suddenly from us by drowning. The stroke was a heavy one, but we hope it has not been entirely lost upon us either parents or children. State of the Church Congregation on the sabbath has been rather small, & week day meetings thinly attended. The congregation from July to Novr was some what larger than during the remainder of the year - but has again some what increased during the past five weeks. Our seasons of communion at the station have been three in number all of which have been seasons of a good degree of interest. In November I united with Br. Bishop In a meeting at Waianae which was protracted through several days, & closed with the organi­ zation of a chch. embracing those who were then members of his church & also of mine resident in the district of Waianae. Twenty of my church members were then dismissed to unite with that chch. & two others have since recd certificates to unite with the same chch. making in all 22. I also had a communion season with the chch. members in Kolau ( !) on the last sabbath in April. The number of members in that district nearly all of whom were then present at the communion is 208. These �Waialua 1842 2. although not formally separated from the church at Waialua will hence forward regard themselves as a distinct church, & have their communions at Haula or near the centre of the district. During the year I have recd in all to the church 112 individuals by profession & 3 by letter of those recd from the world 50 were pro­ pounded previous to the last general meeting; & a large portion of these who have been recd to the chch. refer their conversion to the Lord to a period of one or two years. There has been but one protracted meeting in our field during the year & that was conducted by Br. Armstrong almost entirely, dur­ ing the time I was confined by rheumatism in my bunk, Br. Bishop kindly assisted him one day. Meetings have been held regularly at the station on the sabbath & on w ednesdays, & daily morning prayer meetings have been attended by a few. During the year I have made 6 visits among the people of Koolau & preached to them four sabbaths. Schools. These during the past year have fallen under my super­ vision; Br. L. by mutual agreement, having taken other parts of the labour to be performed at the station. The number of our schools is 16. examinations about 550. No. of scholars present at our The examinations of schools have been 4. The appearance of most of the schools, & the advancement in knowledge in some has been rather encouraging. Teachers have recd better pay for their services than ever before, & have in most instances per­ formed the task of teaching with increased fidelity - There are however to this remark one or two exceptions Labours - During the first six months of the year I taught a school for teachers & more advanced scholars one hour each morning & also on saturday afternoon. The branches to which I attended were �Waialua 1842 review of Arithmetick, both mental & written performed in connection; also sacred Geography & the making of maps both ancient & modern for their own use. This school after about six months continuance with frequent interruptions was given up from inability on my part to attend to it any longer. The meeting house which has heretofore been spoken of by way of anticipation was taken hold of in earnest shortly after the close of our last general meeting. Wood for burning lime had been cut & coral dug during the year previous. The work of building was commenced in Aug. last to be performed by apanas under the superintendance of one foreigner. But it was soon found that this would be a long, costly & perplexing business. It was therefore agreed on on the part of the church, that the work should be done by hire & paid for by their monthly contributions of 25 cts each for the men & 12-1 2 / for the women. Accordingly the foreigner & ten men were employed to perform the building of the stone work, collecting & preparing materials &c. The dimentions ( !) of the house are 99 feet by 49, walls 2 feet thick & 18 high. The work of erecting the walls was all performed within the space of 18 weeks after the foundation was laid. Our old meeting house was taken down in January last, the timber of which has been well used for our new roof; & has made a saving of some 500 or more dollars. The house is now finished so far as was contemplated for the present, except the ceiling, which we expect to lathe & plaster. materials for this work are now in a good state of forwardness. The The house is ventilated by eleven windows all excepting one of 60 lights each 8 by 10 glass. It has also 6 doors all of which are made in �Waialua 1842 workman like style. The house is so constructed that if a gallery may at any future time be needed, it can he put in without any change or remodeling of the house, & will he sufficiently ventilated by the top part of the windows. About 1/3 of the house is floored, a plat­ form erected as a pulpit & seats sufficient to seat 100 persons are already erected. The cost of the house thus far, including only board, nails, & hired labour amounts to $1026. Voluntary labour in- cluding timber, lime, wood, also, thatching &c. would amount to not less than $1000 or more. Of the funds already expended for which cash has been paid have been raised in part as follows. Contributed by the 2d Chch in Honolulu - - - do by the Chch in Ewa - - - - - - - - - - - do by the chch in Waianae - - - - - - - - - do by Br. Whitney do by br. Gulick - - - - - - - - - - - - - - do by chch in Waialua past year in cash & articles exchanged for materials for build. cash formerly contributed & on hand at com. of year Amounting in all to Leaving a debt not yet paid of $82.00 38.00 15.00 61.00 50.00 230.67 53 .31 $529.98 $519.72 The cost of plastering &c overhead as contemplated will increase the debt to about $600.00 Of this debt Mr. Lock(e) & myself will probably cancel about about ( !) $100. leaving the people to pay $500. This debt they have frequently said was their own, & that they intended to pay it as fast as they could, but time must show the promptness with which they will fulfill their engagement. This work of building has been a very great tax upon my time, & has prevented much of the year almost all study & labour of a more improving character. Besides the work of building the meeting house, I have made an addition of two sleeping rooms to my own house, for which I obtained a grant from the mission of 100 dollars the last year. The rooms are now finished & cost $200; for which I am now in debt at the �Waialua 1842 depository $100. Assistance Br. Locke has uniformly taken charge of the sabbath school when at the station, & has also conducted the worship of the congre­ gation in case of my absence or ill health. Mrs. E. has a part of the year as health & other circumstances would permit met with the mothers at the Station & has also taught a singing school for adults & children. Shortly after our return to the station Br. & Sister Rice came & spent nearly three months in our family - Sister R. rendered very kind assistance in the instruction of our children, & in aiding both our families at a season when aid was peculiarly needed. Br. R. taught a class in the English language, & a part of the time an other class in the Helu Kamalii one hour per day. Their assistance in our families was in many respects very timely, & in all respects fraternal. Catholicks They have apparently been gaining influence among our people the past year, & have added considerably to their numbers. Their influence has apparently diminished in some parts of the field dur­ ing the past few months, while it has increased in an other part. They have now w ithin the limits of our field six meeting houses & 8 schools. Their number of scholars present at their examination in July last was 257, since then they may possibly have increased to 300 or near that number. So that they have now about 1/3 of all the children in the field; & probably the number of people who profess to follow them is nearly equal in proportion. But perhaps more of these should be reckoned as infidels than as papists. There is now in the field one catholick priest, & frequent visits have been made during the year by two or three others. �6. Waialua 1842 Methods which they have adopted the past year for making pros­ elytes ( !) are some what varied from the methods adopted the year previous. 1. They have of late, been more gregarious in their habits than formerly. A large portion of the whole company of their disciples go from one portion of a district to an other to spend the sabbath; & thus by changing the locality of their meetings from one place to an other, they attract attention make a display of numbers & get some prosolytes. Bound together as they are by pledges of mutual hospitality, they find no want of food wherever they may be among their own people so long as the food in the place may last them. An other popular way of making prosolytes is baptizing & naming the children. Every child that is bapatemad claims as god-parent every older person that may bear the same name. So that be he where he may, he may call on his father ma ka inoa for food, raiment or entertainment for some days, without any liability to fault-finding on their part. An other method of promoting their cause is by holding an anual (!) feast on the sabbath to which all persons are invited except those who are actually at work as a penalty for their transgressions. a great distance to procure their means to aid in the feast. Some go One man I saw driving a male of the goats without blemish 12 or 14 miles, which he said was to be used at the feast; another in company was driving a male of the swine without blemish which he said was to be used in the same way. A youth told me that that ( !) his father furnished a boy with $2 & a hen & a pai of poi for the same feast; a tax heavier than he ever before paid for the support of the gospel & of schools & all other benevolent objects all together. One boy, �7 Waialua 1842 when asked why he wished to go to the catholick’s school replied, "Ono ka puaa", (good the pig), meaning the great gratification he enjoyed in partaking at the liberal feast. Another device of the Catholicks appears to be a committee of vigilance, who are on the lookout . If there are any sick among us who are neglected, any children who are not in our schools; any persons who regard themselves unjustly accused of fault or crime, all such persons are immediately sought out & commended to the kind & parental care of the fraternity & priesthood. The vanity of the natives is a circumstance that makes any attention bestowed upon those who are inclined to leave us, as like­ ly at least to injure as to help us. It has been said that some natives would be willing to be hung if thousands would be willing to come & look on; so here if a common native can attract much attention & become the subject of remark in consequence of his going to the catholicks, he has a strong motive to do so. Whether therefore to go & attempt to look up those who wander after the beast or let them alone is oftentimes a question that is quite perplexing Want of an additional missionary in Koolau Catholicks then are becoming numerous, the soil is the richest & most productive in the island, place 20 miles removed from any station, population 2000 or more people now in an unsettled state of feeling, a new meeting house has lately been erected for the people, & are in expectation of a missionary. While we have much occasion for humility in view of the evils that have existed among us we have also occasion to speak of mercy & kindness from the Lord. Schools are improved in character, chchurch ( !) purified, & some few at least brought to the knowledge of the saviour. �Waialua 1842 Statisticks 675 23 112 3 48 24 28 10 8 16 25 86 520 472 90 28 16 550 357 162 208 178 94 Whole no. admitted to Chc h .from th e first Whole no on certificate Admitted past year on examin. Admitted past year on certif. Whole no Dismissed Dismissed past year Whole no. deceased Deceased past year Suspended past year Remain suspended Excom. past year Remain excomd Whole no in reg standing Whole no bap. children Baptized past year couple married past year No. of schools No. of scholars Readers Geography Writers Mental Arithmetick Coulborn Writers Arithmetick (Unsigned; J.S. Emerson) �(Waialua 1843 A.B. Smith) The past year has been one of severe trial: to the station at Waialua. The Lord's hand has been laid heavily upon that station & one who was here with us in health & vigor a year ago has been snatched from us in an unexpected manner & we have been called to mingle our tears over her untimely grave. We have been reminded that health & strength are no security against the assaults of disease & death & that the weak & feeble who have apparently been long on the borders of the grave, may notwithstanding outlive the most healthy & robust. It is the Lord's doings& it becomes us to be dumb with silence & open not our mouth, because he has done it. It is indeed a mysterious Providence which we may not be able to interpret, but it is a consolation to know that the event was ordered by him who guides all things with unerring wisdom. The loss we have sustained is great indeed & cannot be easily repaired, but while it is such a loss to us & to her family, we are o confident that death to her was unspeakable gain. Her life was one of uncommon blamelessness & yet her excellences were by no means of a negative character. Positive excellences were combined in just proportions so as to render her character one of uncommon symmetry. The mild & gentle graces of the gospel, meekness, humility, gentle­ ness, patience & modesty, shone brightly in her character, but at the same time they were mingled with an uncommon degree of firmness, decision, energy & perseverence. Her moral feelings too had been judiciously cultivated, so as to avoid on the one hand a blame-able laxness & on the other a sickly conscientiousness which rendered her piety solid & consistent & gave her an elevated, unbending & digni­ fied sense of moral rectitude. With a character combining such qualities & blended in such just proportions, she was enabled to �Waialua - 1843 - A.B. Smith exercise complete control over herself & act with calmness & consider­ ation under the most trying & agitating circumstances. Her cours ( !) was silent & unpretending & her left hand knew not what her right hand was doing. None but those who were the most intimately acquain­ ted with her knew her real worth or the amount of her labors & the good she was accomplishing. In all her labors, she pondered well her steps, decided with judgment & discretion on her course of duty, & pursued her course with a steady, unwavering perseverance toward the accomplishment of her object. Such was her character while in health, & when disease was fixed upon her & all her powers were brought into requisition to endure the bodily suffereings under wh. she languished, she was still calm & tranquil & looked up to her heavenly Father with sweet submission to his will. When death was in full prospect before her & her expectation of life was cut off, tho' maternal feeling was evidently strong & her little ones the ? burden of her anxiety, still she felt to leave the event with God, calmly & composedly trusting in him. The memory is sweet. sight of the Lord. Thus she lived & thus she died. The death we doubt not was precious in the I can contemplate her character & the scenes of her sickness & death only with admiration. She was ripe for heaven & we can now think of her only as a saint in light, enjoying the full vision of God & the Lamb. But this Providence of God has made a painful breach upon us, which is felt most deeply by the bereaved husband & the little motherless ones. It is a case which calls for our united sympathies & prayers. The labors of the station must necessarily be interrupted by this Providence. It is greatly to be regretted that the labors of the School which have been prosecuted with so much energy & zeal & �Waialua 1843 - A.B. Smith 3. evident success, should be suspended at a time when its prospects are more promising & flattering than at any time hitherto. It is to be hoped that the mission will take this subject into consideration & devise some means to keep the school in operation. You will I trust pardon me for saying thus ( !) much on a sub­ ject which may not be considered as properly belonging to my report, but the subject once introduced I knew not how to say less. With regard to my own labors, the mission are aware of the cir­ cumstances under which we were located at Waialua. At that time we were not considered members of this mission, but purely sojourning invalids awaiting the decision of the Board as to the expediency of our remaining here or return to the United States. Under such cir­ cumstances it will not be surprising if I have not been able to accomplish as much as my brethren. As to health I know not that there has been any any (!) material change. Mrs. Smith has at times been very low & feeble & ready to give up all hope but she is at present in quite as good health as she was a year ago. she is feeble & has the prospect of remaining so. Still My own health was good during the autumn, but the wet season has caused a return of my difficulty, which has led me to fear that the time is not far distant when I may be wholly unable to preach. When I went to the station immediately after the last general meeting I knew scarcely any thing of the language & was almost en­ tirely unable to communicate with the people. I commenced preaching however, immediately after Mr. Emerson left, writing one sermon each week & conducting the other exercises extemporaneously. I have been able usually to preach twice on the Sabbath, tho' of late it has been attended with much fatigue & local irritation. I have also had a regular meeting on Wednesday besides other occasional �Waialua 1 8 4 3 A .B . S m ith meetings during the week. As to the results of these efforts it cannot be expected that very much would be accomplished by any one so little acquainted with the language of the people. You will not therefore be disappointed that I have no revivals of religion to report & no extensive admis­ sions to the church. When I commenced my labors the state of the church seemed to be very low - The usual congregation on the sab­ bath did not exceed 160 or 200. A large number of church members were under censure & then manifested a spirit wholly unbecoming the gospel of Christ. of the year. Such was the state of things during the first part For several months past there has been an evident im­ provement in the state of things. The congregation has increased to 300 & upwards, so that I should judge that the avarage ( !) for the whole year would not fall short of 300 - The appearance of the con­ gregation has also improved & better attention has been paid to the preached word. tive hearers. Still the people as a whole are far from being atten­ While there are some who evidently hear with atten­ tion & profit, there are a much greater number who either hear not at all, or hear without treasuring up the word & profiting thereby. Of the cases under censure in the church a few of them have been restored, but the greater part of them manifested no signs of repentance & have been cut off from church fellowship - The number of excommunications during the year has perhaps been unusually were large. There have been 41 in all. All except 12 of them xxx under suspension when I commenced my labors at the station. munion in Nov. 9 new cases occurred. At the com­ These persons have manifested a peculiar hardness of heart & in some cases contempt of the church & the word of God & they were accordingly cut off at the last com­ munion. The 3 other cases occurred at Koolau & were of such an ag- �W aialua - 1843 - A. B . Smith 5. gravated nature as to render excommunication the only proper step in the case - These are all that have occurred in that part of the church during the year. It is the understanding with the natives that the church at Koolau is separate from the one at Waialua, tho' the records have not been kept separately - I have been able to do scarcely any thing during the year for that part of the field & should we be alone at the station during the coming year it will be still more difficult for me to leave home so as to labor at all for that people. It is to be hoped therefore that an arrangement will be made to provide for the wants of that field in some other way. The meeting house occupied considerable of my attention during the first part of the year. The lathing, plastering &c remained to be done when I went to the station. cated on the 28th of Sept. The meeting house was dedi­ Mr. Bishop performed the exercises on the occasion & a series of meetings were continued till the Sab. following. The amount expended by myself in finishing the Meeting H ouse, including the expense of transporting the property rec’d from the people to Honolulu is $ 141.04. Receipts from all sources for the liquidation of this debt $112.90, leaving 28.14 due to me. of $25.19 previously contracted has also been paid. A debt The whole amount rec'd. therefore is 138.09, not one fourth of which can be considered as the donation of the people. The prospect therefore that the people will contribute to liquidate the debt is very small. It has been found necessary to expend something upon the dwelling house during the past year. The cook room was originally some 3 feet or more lower than the rest of the house, causing Mrs. S. a most serious inconvenience in her feeble state of health. By the �Waialua 1843 - A.B. Smith advice of the secular agent this difficulty has been obviated, the room rebuilt & the floor put on a level with the rest of the house. Most of the plastering remains to be done: $31. have been expended, to cover which, finish the house, make other repairs &c $100. will be needed. The following are the statistics of the church 1843 Wh. No on Ex. 695 On Cert. 27 Exam past yr 20 Cert. past yr 5 Wh. No. past yr 25 Wh No Dis’d 56 Dis. past yr 8 Wh. No. Deceased 40 Died past yr 12 Exc'd past yr 41 Wh. No Exc'd 148 R em Exc'd 117 No. in Reg. Standing 509 Wh. No. Childn Bap 494 Bap past yr 22 Marriages 35 Avg. Cong. 300 The number of children in the schools is . How the schools compare with former years I am of course unable to say. One thing is very certain. The schools are far from being what they should be, yet perhaps they are all that could be expected from such teachers. Some new teachers are very much needed. There are now 3 schools destitute of any teacher & doubtless others would be va­ cated if there were better teachers to be obtained. The operations of the Catholics have not excited much attention among the people during the year. So far as I am able to judge their numbers have not increased, but remain about the same as they were a year ago. Some few have left them in Koolau & two of our own church members who had fallen into sin, have gone over to them. A.B. Smith �(Waialua 1843) | The past like the previous year has been one of affliction to me. Care, anxiety & sorrow such as I knew not before, though mingled with many unmerited favors & blessings have been my portion. Mrs. L. a few weeks after our return from Gen Meet last year was attacked with disease which after two months of suffering & during much of the time very severe suffering removed her to a better world. This is not perhaps the time or place to speak of my departed companion. knew her. Nor is it necessary that I should do so to those who Her memory will ever be fondly cherished by all her friends & her record is on high. My loss & that of my motherless girls is great. - I had almost said, irreparable. God did not however leave us without consolation & assistance in that dark hour. But with that kindness which ever tembers (tempers ?) the wind to the shorn lamb & provides from (for ?) us in a way chosen by himself he sent kind & dear friends to our help. Br & Sister Rowell reached the Isles on the 21 of Sept & were permitted to be with their sister during the last two weeks of her life. & have remained with us till the present time doing all in their power to supply the loss we have all sustained. I have done less for the people at large during the past than in former year owing to my circumstances which have confind ( !) me more closely at home. Sabbath School This has been superintended as usual. It has been thinly attended the past as the previous year though the number of children who have attended has been as great in proportion to the whole number of people who have attended meeting as in former years interest has been manifested in the exercises. But a small degree of Some knowledge of Bible history has been acquired & perhaps some truth lodged in the �2. Waialua 1843 minds of the scholars which at some future day may with Gods blessing spring up like good seed & bring forth fruit. Boarding School The number of boys at present is 22 one of whom is absent h a v i n g most unfortunately had one of his hands so badly crushed in the sugar mill as to render amputation necessary. The school has shared largely in the loss which the station has sustained during the year. devoted to it, No small part of Mrs Ls time haveing ( !) been While she had health. In consequence of my circum­ stances I have been compelled to neglect the boys almost entirely except during their school hours not having labored with them as formerly & not being able to devote time to their management & direc­ tion except generly ( !) out of school. The boys have evidently suffered some in consequence of this neglect. Not perhaps more than ought to have been expected but enough to show that to make the most & the best of their time & attention should be devoted to them out of as well as in school. Our secular or manual labor department has notwithstanding been on the whole more prosperous than in any previous year. When the out standing crop shall all have been gathered in & the cane all manu­ factured unless more than usual expense shall be required to accom­ plish the work, we shall not only have paid all our expenses for the past year which including costs of mill, casks (?), transportation, commission &c will have amounted to 1000 Dolls. but we shall have nearly or quite enough on hand probably to pay the current expenses of the school during the coming year. Rev. Rowell has spent about one hour in a day with the boys in school during the past 5 or 6 months. ing. Has taught writing & sing­ He has also done much in other ways to assist in the care & �Waialua 1843 management of the school & but for his presence & assistance it must (?) (for) some months since have been neglected. As I cannot in my present circumstances do my duty to my child­ ren & justice to the school I have come to the reluctant conclusion to request that my place in the school may for the present be sup­ plied by some other members of the Mission. I am hoping to receive by the first opportunity from home a reply to a request of mine for permission to visit the U.S. should the Mission think it my duty. The brethren will take such action in the case as they think proper. (Unsigned; Edwin Locke) Waialua May 1843 �This may certify, That, we, the undersigned, at the earnest request of Mr. Emerson, have made a thorough examination of his accounts with the meeting house at Waialua. We have found the accounts complicated. But we find no evidence that any thing is not charged to the meeting house w h i c h ought/to b e charged. On the contrary, there is evidence that it was Mr. E ’s design to keep a correct & fair account. In adjusting his accounts a few errors crept in some in favor of Mr. E. & some against him, w h i c h w e r e m anifestly unintentional. Mr. E. does not consider his accounts w i t h the meet- ing house as fully settled. have been discovered, He is ready to mak e any corrections w h i c h or which may, hereafter, b e discovered. the wh o l e w e are ready to bea r testimony, On that we cannot f i n d any shadow of evidence of dishonesty in M r . E ' s transactions w i t h the ch u r c h & people at Waialua. E.W. Clark W.P. Alexander Lahainaluna F eby 6 , 1843. �(Waialua 1844) In making our report of the Station at Waialua for the year past, we are again called upon to speak of the afflictive dispen­ sations of Divine Providence. One of our number who was here with us a year ago, in whose bereavement we were then called to sympathize, & whosesociety we then hoped to enjoy again after a season of separa­ tion, has been called to join the society of the blessed above. His loss is deeply felt at the station. A kind, affectionate & sympathizing brother & neighbor has been taken from us. He had en­ deared himself to us by the manifestation of a noble & generous dis­ position & the intercourse we had together was of a peculiarly plea­ sant character. His death has thrown a kind of loneliness & desola­ tion over the station which cannot easily be removed. The society of the little ones however has in some measure relieved our own feelo ing of l/neliness, still that house & establishment which was once full of life & activity, is now desolate as the grave. Its present condition can but fill one's min d with mournful recollections. The School which has been deprived of its teacher, has of course been disbanded. general meeting. No labor was performed in the school after the last The boys however remained on the premises till August, when they were dismissed & went to their homes. One of them is said to be employed in a Popish school in Koolau, two of them have been married &. none have become teachers in our schools. It is to be regretted that they could not have been further advanced before the school should have been broken up in order that they might have been employed as teachers - Most of them however were too young to be thus employed. The lands belonging to the school are in the hands of a foreigner with whom Mr. Locke made a contract, but it is not desirable that he should remain on them after, his year shall have expired. �2. Waialua 1844 The question will doubtless come up during the meeting, whether another teacher can be located there or if this be not practicable, the only remaining question is, what disposition shall be made of the lands &c belonging to the school? In respect to my own department, I would say that we have for the most past during the year enjoyed comfortable health. of Mrs. Smith is on the whole somewhat improved. The health I have been able to preach twice on the sabbath during the year, except for a few sab­ baths in the winter when my lungs were so much affected by a cold as to render it impracticable. My bronchial difficulty however still remains, & necessarily limits my labors in preaching to a moderate amount. The church at Waialua has been divided during the past year. 271 members have been dismissed to form the church at Koolau which has been the past year under the care of Mr. Parker. ing members some have stood fast; others have fallen. Of the remain­ The time of the restoration was distinguished not perhaps by a rejoicing that the kingdom was restored, for there seemed to be little joy in that event, but by a throwing off of restraint & giving themselves up to the gratification of their vitiated appetites. usual method of producing intoxication. practices nion. They resorted to their Some went back to heathenish Consequently 47 were suspended at the subsequent commu­ Of these, 8 have been restored & one excommunicated. The re­ mainder are not seen at the house of God, show no signs of repen­ tance & have all the marks of barren fig-trees - but it was thought best to let them alone this year also, & dig about them &c, & if they bear fruit, well; but if not, then after that, cut them down There has been no special interest among the people during the �5. Waialua 1844 year - The congregation has varied from 250 to 300 - casions there may have been more. On extra oc­ In respect to the Catholics, they seem to be pursuing their labors quietly & attend to their own busi­ ness - None as I am able to learn have gone over to them since I have been at the station. The fact is that the principal part of the people who were not connected with the families belonging to the protestant church, had gone to the Catholics previously - Some excommunicated church members who had previously gone over to them have returned, attend our meetings & manifest a desire to be restored to the church - There are a considerable number of excommunicated persons who are desirous of being restored, but I wish for more evi­ dence that they are the true children of God. The Statistics of the church are as follows. 695 Whole no. ad. on Examination 30 On certificate ___Past year on Exam 3 Past year on certificate 3 Whole no. past year 333 Whole no. Dismissed 277 Dismissed past year 42 Whole no. Deceased 2 Deceased past year 59 Suspended past year 50 Remain suspended 3 Excomd past year 151 Whole no. Excomd 120 Remain Excom'd 180 Whole no in regular standing Whole No children baptized 500 - past year 6 Marriages past year 32 - Avarage ( !) congregation 275 The schools during the past year have many of them been in a low condition for want of teachers - To remedy this evil several of the oldest & best scholars in the schools have been selected & em­ ployed as teachers. In this way the number of schools has been somewhat increased & tho’ these teachers are poorly qualified, it �Waialua 1844 will doubtless be much better to employ them than to have none. Still it is very desirable that there should be an increase of well qualified teachers in the field. There are now 11 schools all sup­ plied with teachers & the number of scholars in all is 293. The statistics will be found in the accompanying schedule Altho' the new kahu seems to engage in his work with zeal, there yet remains a difficulty in finding the means to pay the teach­ ers from the fact th at the foreign Treasury department secures almost the whole of the gov’t funds for other purposes, so that what is allowed for the support of schools is not sufficient for the purpose. Unless something is done by the gov’t to remedy this evil, the schools will inevitably suffer. In regard to pay which the teachers receive, they complain that it is only makani (wind; breeze). (Unsigned; Marked on back:) A. B. Smith Report 1844 Report of Schools at Waialua May, 1844. (Copied from printed form, filled in) 1844 293 163 130 11 11 293 187 143 138 153 133 No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of Number No. of No. of No. in Number Number children in the whole boys girls schools teachers of children enrolled readers writers Geo’phy in Mental Arithmetic in Written Arithmetic �(Waialua 1846) By a vote of the Mission in Gen. Meet. of 1844 we received an invitation to remove from Hilo to Waialua and take charge of the Manual Labor Boarding School which had been suspended by the death of our lamented Bro. Locke in Oct. previous. of Aug. and arrived at Honolulu the 11th. We left Hilo the 9th Removed to Waialua about the last of Sept. and put our house and house-hold stuff in order. Things being adjusted the Trustees of the School met at our house to consult in reference to it and their unanimous advice was that under existing circumstances it would for the present be better not to revive the school but rather that we labor among the people at large with a view to their spiritual good. In Nov. following the meetings on the Sab. - then the only ones in existence - came unsolicited and refusing a denial into my hands. I soon after revived the Wed. meet­ ings and subsequently established a 4 o ’clock meet. on Saturday afternoons. A weekly female prayer meeting at our house was also established and conducted by Mrs. W. Visited among the people, at­ tended funerals and held meetings at out-posts. Received help from the pastors and others at Honolulu and there was evidently a little waking up of the people during the winter. About the middle of February following not having the meetings at the station to look after, I opened two day-schools one for the teachers of the common schools, the other for the largest scholars attending the common schools at the station. Continued to visit some among the people and hold meetings at out-posts. Naau Helu Kakau Huli Kanaka ’c. Geog. Studies pursued by my scholars Helu Reading Writing Sacred Geography Huli In June last I resumed the meetings at the station and have kept them up with the exception of the Saturday meetings till the present time. The 2 schools also till within the last few �2 Waialua 1846 weeks h ave been continued, tho only 4 days in a week. Owing to the increase of other labors they have been suspended of late Common Schools These have been chiefly looked after with the exception of supplying them with books &c by the Kahukula. I have been present at the examinations at the station where most of the schools exhibited and have once been out with him to attend examinations abroad. In a little more than a year he has made 4 circuits. The no. of schools within the present circumscribed limits of this field is 16 In this no. are included schools of the Romanists 5 The no of scholars according to the report of their teachers Nos. present at recent exam, of their schools Nos. present at exam. of Protestant Schools Fluent readers in Prot. Schools In Helu Naau - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- -- -- -- -- -- - Helu Kamalii - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Writing - - - -- 58 164 Indifferent readers - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Geog. - - - - 74 274 Not present - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Helu Kakau - - - - - 110 - - - - - - - - - - - - -- 51 138 93 42 139 106 There has been one Roman Catholic school broken up during the last year and united with the Protestant School. Ten scholars left another of their schools at one time and joined the Protestant. A teacher of another of their schools came to me to procure for his own use the Old Test. which I gave him. He expressed a desire that his scholars also who were readers should procure the Old Test. for a reading book in School. I told him I would give It them if they �3. Waialua 1846 would come for it. their coming. But probably an older and harder head prevented Have since seen and talked with this same teacher and he appears to be decidedly leaning towards protestantism. recently attended some of our meetings on the Sab. He has Owing to the in­ efficiency of the teachers in their schools, the Kahukula has recently reduced their pay to 61/4 cts. per day. Oh. Statistics, &c. Since the Gen. Meet. in May of 1844 there have been three com­ munion seasons of the Ch. at Waialua. The first in March 1845 the 2d in June and the third in Dec. - brother Lowell Smith officiating at the last. During the same period i.e. since Gen. Meet. in May of 1844 till present time have been excom. The no. of suspended church mem, for same time Of the suspended there have been restored to the ch. Of those excommunicated restored to the ch. No. dismissed to and received by letter from other churches is not known Whole number on examination Recvd. to the ch. from the world Whole no. received on certificate Remain suspended from the ch. at present time No. of ch. members who died during 1845 No. of children baptized since Gen. Meet in 1844 N o. of ch. members now in regular standing Average no. attending meetings at station Sab. morn. No. of inhabitants within the district of Waialua No. of deaths in 1845 within the district No. of births during the same time (On sheet pasted on:) Whole no. received to the Church on Examination Whole no received on certificate Past year on examination On certificate past year Whole no past year Whole no. dismissed to other churches Past year Whole no. deceased is about Deceased the past year Suspended past 2 years Remain suspended Excommunicated the last 2 years Whole no. excommunicated Remain excommunicated Whole no. in regular standing Whole no. of children baptized Baptized-past 2 years Average congregation on the Sabbath 29 16 15 0 696 1 32 16 11 14 141 200 1539 105 16 696 32 1 2 3 333 0 58 11 16 16 29 180 119 141 514 14 200 �Waialua 1846 In N o v . last weekly morning prayer meetings to about the n o . of 15 were established to be held simultaneously in various parts of the field. A year ago last winter there seemed to be a little waking up of the ch. and an increase in the size of our congregations on the Sabbath. But this was of short continuance. For the last 4 months however I think there has been a little reviving. Within this time we have had Wed. meetings at our house specially designed for those who enquire the way to Zion with faces thitherward. attended these enquiry meetings is rising of 30. The no. who have A few of them cut off from ch. fellowship in former years, but most of them from the world. A few of them manifested real seriousness. Two or 3 of them living at a distance and not usually attending meetings were first aroused at the protracted meeting at Waianae which followed the dedication of the new house of worship there. A no. who have not heretofore attended meetings on the Sabbath have for 2 or 3 months attended. Probably some of the brethren had they been acquainted with these individuals who have called themselves inquirers might have been in favor of their being received to the church. As it is, however, there being no pastor, some, who perhaps belong to the Israel of God, are not gathered. Meet. House On going to Waialua we found one half of the meet. house at the station a mass of ruins and the other half filled with rubbish the windows dashed in by stones and if not thorny and nettles, yet. the castor oil bean springing up within the crumbling walls. The The stone had cried out of the wall and the beam out of the timber had answered it; and from the ridgepole to the foundation revolt had been the order of the day, except that a part of the walls, �Waialua 1846 like Judah, and Benjamin, remains. In order to prevent the remainder of the house from being blown down by the winds of the approaching winter we induced the people to thatch the open end of the house had the rubbish removed and they made it a comfortable place for meetings. As all the circumstances relative to Waialua meeting house are generally known by the members of this mission I need not enlarge. Suffice it then to say that the house has been built tho’ in troublous times. How long and how hard has been the tug of collecting the materials and setting up the house I will not say but of the aid rendered us by persons abroad I am bound to speak with gratitude. The Pastor of the 2d native ch. in Honolulu supplied our lack by raising money in Honolulu and purchasing materials for the house to the amount of 155 dollars which he got shipped round on a government vessel free of charge. Many of the Foreign Residents contributed liberally and some of the Brethren of this Mission. Also the ch. at Ewa the 2d ch. in Honolulu and the church at Kanapali. The above said individual also engaged carpenters and went to W. with them and took hold with his own hands in getting up the house - Also persuaded the Governor to go over and thatch the house which he did - taking 80 men and women with him. These all aided in the work and with the people of Waialua accomplished it in two days. The thatching lathing and plastering yet remain. The lath are on the spot and there yet remains the collecting of the coral and the wood for burning it. A few weeks more, and what remains will I trust have been accomplished. It is due to the King and to the governor to say that most of the timber was drawn on paahao days given by them. It is very apparent that but for aid rendered from abroad the work would never have been done. Still the people of Waialua, principally the ch. have given in cash between 50 and 60 �Waialua 1846 dollars. 6. About 50 more may be needed to finish, it. A great burden is now removed from our minds and we cannot but hope that a brighter day has begun to dawn on Waialua - that when a devoted pastor shall be found to go out and come in before that people and feed them with the bread of life many who now wander as lost sheep will be restored to the fold of the Good Shepherd, and many who never belonged to that fold will be drawn into it with the cords of love. As Israel importuned Samuel for a King that they might be like the nations around them, so the people are clamorous in their prayers to the Lord that he will give them a real Kahunapule (priest; preacher; pastor). Thus they pray - E haawi mai oe i e a kahunapul/ no makou. Ua loaa i/ makou heia wahi kumuao wale no. (Unsigned but marked on back:) Mr. Wilcox’s Report, May 1846 �Waialua, Oct. 1847 Dear Bro. Chamberlain. In a note rec'd from you a few days since you wish statistics of Chch, etc. but in consequence of my records of Koolau station being left at the station & there having been no statistics published for 1846 - I can give but a very meager statement for Koolau. Waialua stands thus at the present time. Waialua Haula or Koolau 700 5 4 4 342 55 5 47 32 9 184 174 530 16 27 400 233 450 whole no. ad. church on exon cert. past year on Ex. on certif. whole no past year whole dismissed other chcs. dismissed past year died died past year Susp. past year Rem. Susp. Excom. past year Whole no. Excom. Rem. excom. Now in regular standing Children baptised past year children died past year married past year Average cong. Children attending schools Waialua protestants on the list at examination papist on the list at examination Koolau protestants on the list at examination papist on the list n at examination 304 272 65 56 346 289 129 90 The marriages at both stations are thrown together in the table. �2 1847 \ The prospects of the people are improving, attention to the preached word encouraging, books a good deal enquired for - & much better paid for than in the years past Contributions for building chches paying for a native ministry & during the past year would in the whole field be more than $125. We have one native helper devoted to preaching & ex­ horting the people. He has been in the field about 3 months & thus far promises well. He is from the Sem. at Lahainaluna & his wife is from the Sem. at Wailuku & both are among the best beloved in the schools. A want of good school houses is a great draw-back upon our schools. The cause of papacy is for the past year on the decline among us - Qui te a number both of parents & children have left their congergations & schools and returned to us. Their complaint is they gain no knowledge among the papists & have no books to read. Within the past year we hope their have been some conver­ sions from sin to Holiness for which we bless the lord. Your brother in haste J.S. Emerson. �Station Report, Waialua presented May 11, 1848 In accordance with the vote of Gen. Meeting two years since, I made due arrangements for leaving Lahainaluna, & on the seventh of July, w i t h my family embarked for Waialua where we arrived the fol­ lowing morning, & were kindly recd by bro. & Sister Wilcox; who were in waiting for their departure for their Station on Kauai. Our feelings, in coming back to Waialua, were any other than sanguine. A s we approached the place a sense of gloom & sadness came over us, of which we were unwilling to speak & yet could not but feel. "Can these dry bones live” was our feeling, kindred to that of the faithless prophet. look strangely at us. A few stragglers on the shore seemed to Our anchor was thrown down & no one had yet come near us; quite unlike our reception by the unclad natives of the same place fourteen years before. a hard battle before us. I thought that I could read in this Soon a few boys came along side in small canoes, by whom we sent to Lanui, the chief, to provide for us breakfast. This gave things a little start. the river to our station. Soon we were on. our way up Here almost the first object that met my eye was an old grey headed man, an excommunicate from the church, filling his calabash by the side of the river. His eye merily glanced upon us, & then he returned from the bank of the river with the same apparent indifference as though we had been his known & personal enemies. Arriving at Lanui's, we soon found that he appeared kind & friendly, & had provided for us an ample breakfast; which however we were soon constrained to leave (or carry with us) & follow bro. & Sister Wilcox to their home, whom we had supposed too much lumbered �Waialua 1848 up to be in circumstances to accommodate us. to look after our baggage. offered gratuitous aid. After dinner we began Men were ready to help us, but none Old times had passed away. After two nights spent at B r . Wilcox's our house was tenantable & we entered it: but it was a sorry looking home to Mrs. E ., quite unlike the place we had left but four years before. - Yet it was our home, & we re- solved to make the best of it. The sabbath soon arrived - & I preached in the morning to about 300 people, a congregation, as Bro. W. informed me, almost twice as large as usual. The afternoon cong. was 175. For successive sabbaths there was no falling off; but rather an increase in the numbers, this was en­ couraging. And indeed we soon found that the apparent distance at which the people held themselves was not occasioned by the coldness that we thought was visible. They had long been kept at a distance, & the idea that they could be met with mutual cordiality by their pastor, had long been forgotton ( !). Many times after we heard this remark "God has heard our prayers & returned to us our pastor” . This feeling we have since been fully satisfied was not without sincerity. There was in many hearts a deep feeling of attachment to those who had been with them from the beginning. Although much occupied in constructing places for books medi­ cines &c ; I made occasional excursions to Waialee, Kawaihapai & Waimea; & on all occasions found encouragement. The people were not dead; but the wise & the foolish were sleeping together. After visiting Waialee repeatedly the people from Kahuku came down on a sabbath afternoon & gave me a large congregation. At which time a number now profess to have given their hearts to the Savior. who had for a long time been debared ( !) the privilege of the Many, �3. W aia lu a 1848 Lords t a b l e , came forward with words of penitence & promises to serve the Lord. I d id not however f e e l in h aste to c r e d it the pro­ fe s s io n s of but few of those who seemed to be coming up out of a s l eep of y e a r s . The subject of a communion for the Chch. at W aialua often came up to mind but w a s defered ( ! ) fo r about three months, & they had had no Com. for s ix months p revious. The dread of the r e s p o n s ib il it ie s of th e occasion was one reason for the d e l a y . October the communion season was h e ld , In a fter conversing in d iv id u a l l y w ith each member of th e Church, & every one under d i s c i p l i n e , & a l l out of th e Chch. who might desire to speak w it h me about t h e ir souls concerns. The effe c t of the occasion was happy, as also was that of the communion se aso n . Many new faces were seen in the house of God; many old associations revived; & some became from that reason p er­ manent attendants on r e lig io u s worship who befo re were strangers to the house of God. The names of many a t this time were announced as p rofessedly penitent fo r th e ir departures from duty, as professed follow ers of C h rist , & as resolved to re tu rn to the f a i t h & obedience of the Gospel. D uring the f i r s t year after my return to the s t a t io n , but one was r e cd to the Church by pro fessio n ; quite a number however of those, who h ad formerly b een p rofessors, were restored to the bosom of the Church. - many o f whom have since w alked orderly among u s , & have apparently honored th eir pro fessio n . Our congregations at W aialua have been on the in c re a se , during the past two y e a r s , & y et so slow has been the increase & so regular that we could hardly t e l l the sab­ baths when the greatest increase took p la c e ; or the pleasant sab­ baths when there were no new faces in the congregation. Our congre­ gations are now about 500 in the morning, & 400 in the afternoon at the s t a t io n ; - there are also meetings h eld re g u la rly at seven or �Waialua 1848 eight other places in the field embracing a number several times as large as that which meets at the station. I could not say that there has been a great revival of religion at our station during the past two years, & yet there has been an upward progress that is truly pleasing. - Divine truth has been listened to with increased attention by increasing numbers both morning & evening of the Sabbath, as well as on lecture days & monthly concerts; - a disposition also to contribute & to labor for the pro- motion of objects of benevolence has greatly increased; - all of which are more encouraging than would have been any great & genral ( ! ) rush, that might continue for a few months & then subside. Koolauloa. There are now in Koolauloa two separate Chchs. whose centres are Haula & Kahuku; eight miles distant from each other, & the former is twenty miles from the station at W aialua. The church at Kahuku was not organized till the first Sabbath in April last, but had a separate communion in the month of Decr previous. With these two churches I have spent seventeen or eighteen sabbaths during the past year & ten months. Bro. Gulick also has spent with them four or five sabbaths besides repeated sabbaths & parts of sabbaths spent at Waialee. On my first visit to Haula ( !) I met a very large congregation, many more than their meeting-house could contain; - & on all pleas­ ant sabbaths since, when due notice has been given, the attendance in the morning has been uniformly large; & repeatedly so large, that the school house has been filled with a congregation of children while the meeting house was filled with adult worshippers. The interest in religious meetings i n Koolau is apparently very good, & increasingly so. More persons have been recd to those chchs. than to the Waialua chch. - not perhaps however because there is more piety there than �Waialua 5. 1848 at Waialua, but it may be, because the pastor, having a less perfect knowledge of their private habits & manner of life is less able to reasonably oppose or deferr their admission to the chch. Native helpers. Of these we have in Koolau two, besides the leaders of sevral (! ) divisions or neighbourhoods in the field, of these there are about forty, who conduct morning prayer meetings &c. These two native helpers are both graduates from the Theol. class in the Seminary in 1847. Their names are Kekela &. NUiapaakai. The former is located at Kahuku, & is doing good; the latter is just commencing his labors at Laie, where there is much need of such labor as he is able to perform. I hope that these two men will be licensed to preach the gospel by the Hawaiian Association or by brethren present before we break up. The religious interest in Koolau, as well as Waialua, has been on the increase during the past year. Morning prayer meetings in nearly all the neighborhoods have been well attended. The Bible has been a good deal called for & many are reading it through in course. The Elele & school books generally have been much called for. Statistics of the church. The statistics of the churches - I unite in one as it is not easy to report in form & correctly without so doing. Whole no. ad. on examination " " " by letter - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Admitted the past two years on exam. ” 773. 60. 71. the past two years on certif. - - - - 19 Dismissed -in all to other chchs. - - - - - - 65 Dismissed the past 2 years 10 �6. Waialua 1848 Died in all 103 Died past two years - - - - - - - - - - - - - 27 Now in regular standing - - - - - - - - - - - 461 Whole no of children baptized - - - - - - - - 618 Baptized the past two years - - - - - - - - - 76 Marriages the past 2 years - - - - - - - - - 78 Average congregations " Waialua " ---- ----------------- -- " Kahuku " - - - - - - - " Haula " - - - - - - - - - --- ___ - - 500 200 450 Contributions. Our three Chchs. are but a small band, among the smallest of the Hawaiian Chchs. & but a short time since they were very back­ ward to hear the preached gospel; there has been however a pleasing improvement in their disposition to act as well as to hear. Contributions during the two past years have been as follows. From Koolau cash Waialua " Koolau & Waialua for S.N.E. " forKekela " In all cash from both fields $65.80 420.68 20.00 45.66 552.14 There have also been contributed in labor, materials for building a meeting house in Koolau, which materials are on hand about $100. Work performed at Kahuku for Kekela & the meeting house at that place $50.00. Work, at Waialua in getting wood, lime for meeting house & thatch­ ing a room for a vestry in all $200. $350. Whole amount of contributions in the field, not including $662, handed me by Mr. Wilcox & $5.87 by Rev. L. Smith $902.14 of the cash con­ tributed, $420.68 have been expended in repairs on the meeting house �Waialua 1848 7. at W. which is now floored & partially seated, the rest, except what was contributed for S .N.E. & Kekela, is in the form of materials for the erection of a permanent church at Haula in Koolau. The contributions at Waialua have altogether exceeded my expec­ tations; as that portion of the Church has contributed, during the past two weeks to cancel a debt for the last repairs on the meeting house a sum of$ . 0 2 1 I indulge the hope that some of our people are beginning to feel that poverty is not induced by giving in support of benevolent objects, but the contrary. Of the truth of this they have of late had several striking illustrations. One chch. member, under discipline, had with held his contribu­ tions, & had successfully persuaded others to do likewise. This man has recently had his buildings all destroyed by fire with everything he posse(sse)d. Another individual of opposite character, who had contributed in cash about $18. for the meeting house, found all his plans were prospering; this man, in order to pay up the debt standing against them, contributed only a few days since $350 in addition to former contributions. His neighbours see in these two cases, as well as in a multitude of others, that the Lord prospers those who seek intelligently the promotion of his kingdom in the earth. The prompt­ ness with which this debt has been paid up has greatly relieved & cheered my mind. Labors. Much of the time I have given all who wished to converse with me in the district of Waialua a chance to do it once per month. Of this opportunity some two hundred persons have been in the habit of avail­ ing themselves. To this labor a good portion of three days has gen- erally been devoted each month; & it has not been without its ad- �Waialua vantages. 1848 8.------- When practable ( !) I have had a school 1 1/2 hours each week, in which I have read & explained the Hawaiian laws to the people. This school has been much desired by a few of the more intelligent portion of the people. It has been attended Wednesday P.M. previous to the stated Wednesday lecture. During the past four months I have made eight tours in the dis­ trict of Koolau, for preaching & attending protracted meetings examining schools &c. I have also spent twelve days during this time in conversing with the people individually in respect to their spiritual condition. I am of the opinion that frequent, close & pointed conversation with individuals, in respect to their feelings, habits & hopes are, in connection with the preaching of the gospel of very great impor­ tance in rousing the attention of the careless & the stupid. Communion seasons, of which we have twelve per year in three chchs. are seasons of great labor & exhaustion; - as I am in the habit of conversing individually with each member of the chch. during the week previous to the communion. This season is made the more laborious, from the necessity that is put upon me to withstand a torrent of urging & pressing arguments from our deacons for large & speedy additions to the church. One said, standing before me in an eloquent atitude ( !), "Was not Saul, the son (of) Kish, a wicked man up to the time when Samuel annointed him with oil; & did he not immediately receive another heart & be­ come another man; why then not expect that men will become better by being baptized & recd . to the church?" I find no argument against making natives pastors of chchs. so strong as this one, the utter impossibility of their being able to say no, when importuned to make great additions to the chch. Meetings for prayer have been �9. Waialua 1848 held, the past year in many neighbourhoods, every morning; the fe­ males in many cases meeting by themselves & the males by themselves. Mrs. E. has held a monthly meeting with all the female super­ intendents of prayer meetings, & they in turn have held weekly meetings for prayer & exhortation which have been productive of much good. Schools. the schools in Waialua will be reported by Bro. Gu- lick & also his other labors, respecting which it becomes me here to say that his labors in conducting meetings at the out posts, & preaching at the station, in case of my absence & at other times as health would permit has often been very timely & desireable ( !). Schools in Koolau have been of an improved order of late, & the teachers, getting better pay than formerly, are coming up to their work with an increase of strength. There are in Koolau thir­ teen protestant schools, & five papist schools - protestant scholars 385, papist do. 90, prot. readers 190 papist do. 52; prot. writers 130, papist do. 20; protest in written Arithmetic 111, papist do. 31. Protestant Algebra 50, Papist do none. papist none. Protestant singers 58, The pay o f teachers is in proportion to their qualifi­ cations to teach & the number of their scholars. Nearly all the protestant teachers are paid 25 cts. per day, but not more than one of the papist teachers receives more than 122 cts. - & no one of them could probably pass an examination such as would meet the requirements of the law. Of the protestant teachers, five are from the Seminary at Lahainaluna, the rest were taught in the field. The schools of the papists are all small, & a large number of the children nominally belonging to them are very young, really too young to be in school. �Waialua 1848 Schools & temperance celebrations. Of these we have had five in the field during the past two years, two at Waialua, two at Haula in Koolau & one at Kahuku. The feasts at Waialua were very pleasant seasons, the latter, which was attended in February last, far surpassing in the exhibition of comforts & conveniences for furnishing a table the former, & showing a progress onward & upward in civilization. The feasts at Haula also were of an encouraging character, showing that the people have resources & ability, whenever they may set about the accomplish ment of an object. Tables, chairs, plates, knives, forks, bowls, spoons, tumblers, mugs &c &c. all seemed to be at hand & abundant. But the exhibition of their table furniture at the last celebration much exceeded that of the year previous. A range of tables, not less than four hundred or 500 feet in length, was well furnished with an abundance of crockery & glass ware, displaying a good degree of taste & skill both in selection & arrangement & order of the fur­ niture, as well as the richness & variety of the vivands (viands ?). Some of the tables cost fifteen dollars each; & the whole amount expended by the people in procuring these articles of furniture & clothing for themselves & children for this occasion was estimated at several thousand dollars. There were also on the ground & tied near the place of feasting between 400 & 500 horses & animals of the horse kind, nearly all of which were rode on to the ground by natives who owned them. The cellebration ( !) at Kahuku was encouraging, displayed a good amount of effort to improve their furniture dress &c. The effect of these cellebrations will be in all cases to aid forward the cause of civilization & refinement, by creating wants such as the rude barbarian does not feel & is slow to cherish. It is by �Waialua 1848 impulses, such, as these, this people will be lead to use tables, plates, knives, forks, spoons, tumblers, pots, kettles &c. all of which at the outset are to them useless articles, only in the way; & when the feast is over most of them will be laid aside to rust or not, as useless trash. Without new wants are created, industry can hardly be expected to increase to a very great extent; for who will work without a motive? There needs however in my opinion much vigilance on the part of the missionary to prevent their celebrations from running into an ext(r)eme. At the last celebration at Haula, I noticed an elegant youth, dressed in the perfection of good taste, from the ribbon in the shoe to the white glove. I marveled to know where he could deposit his rich attire after the occasion was passed. A few days later, I called at the home, where the youth lived, to ad­ minister medicine to a poor sick woman. 25 feet by twelve without partitions. The house was in size about The posts of the house/ were four & a half or five feet high; door at the end where I entered three & or four feet high. The house was covered with thatch, well smoked up by cooking food &c in the centre of the house. The bui(l)ding was inhabited by fourteen souls of men, besides cats & dogs many. There were no mats on the ground, inside of the house, except in a portion of the house, but the ground was covered by dry grass. A roll of mats however lay on one side of the building be­ sides a canoe & its furniture, with an abundance of calabashes & perhaps one or two trunks - The air in the building, as I remained in it ten or fifteen minutes created in me a pain in my head, & quite an uncomfortable feeling in my stomach, so foul was its charac­ ter; yet in this house lived that young man whose dress at the tem­ perance celebration was sufficiently splendid & rich to adorn the �Waialua 1848 palace of the King. If such celebrations could (be) closed up by an examination of the houses of the people & their internal arrangments ( !), I think that the happy effects of the same might be greatly increased. As to school houses. There was but one protestant school house in the district two years since, & that was a meeting house used for a school house. There are now seven good grass houses for schools, but furniture for the same is wanting. Papists. The papists have two meetings regularly in our field on sabbath days, one in the district of Waialua, & the other at Kaluanui in Koolau, nearly thirty miles apart. They occasionally meet at two or three other places, when the foreign priest passes through the field. The number who are accostomed ( !) to meet on the sabbath is now as I am informed very small, perhaps 50 or 100 at Waialua, & 100 or 125 in Koolau. They have ho decent house of worship in the k (!) field, & none of any kin\, that would accommodate over 100 persons. They have had the foundation of a stone house laid at Waialua for more than two years, but for the past two years I have seen no evidence of progress in the work. There has been a regular but very gradual decline in popish influence in our field for at least two years. Their foreign priests have not been popular, & were rather tolerated & endured than de­ sired by their own followers. I regard the present influence of the papists in our field as an evil but not without its advantages in this imperfect state. It makes the people more observing; they judge the professed teachers of religion as well as their disciples by their works. They also begin to feel the necessity of going to the Bible to learn truth & to see if the preacher builds on the foundation of the apostles & �Waialua 1848 13. prophets & not on his own. It is reported that there is a dissatisfaction with the Popish priest arising from an undue partiality shown by him in the confessional to the handsom(e) females, to the mortification of those who receive no kiss from him; but the truth of this I have not at­ tempted to trace out very largely. A few females give these unde­ sired attentions as the reason for leaving the papists. Other practices are rumored, not suitable to be reported here, that raised the disgust of some, who once were of their number. Time the revealer of secrets will make its own report on this subject. Secular labors. Of these I have found occasion for the performance of a great variety. When we returned to the post two years since cultivation, except in the kalo patches beyon(d) the reach of the cat(t)le, had been almost entirely laid aside; so that for many months the past year bananas, potatoes, melons &c. were not to be found in the district, & there was no prospect that there ever would be any again till some one made a move on the subject. Many of the people had left their lands, & others were on the point of leaving, as poverty only was before them. The pastor, in these circumstances, felt either compelled to see his parish given up to the entire ravages of wild cat( t) le, & be left without a people or else engage in efforts to procure them relief. The latter alternative was adopted; & after much time was expended, much writing performed, & many trials of feeling submited ( !) to, the people are now placed in a fair way to be protected in their rights. There is now a pound for estrays ready for use; &, what is better, there is a law made by the people themsleves taxing all catle ( !) & horses running at large, to aid in building enclosures. The people have also engaged to work two full �Waialua 1848 days per month on these inclosures; or, in case of absence, to pay 25 cts. for each days absence. The lord of the soil has also engaged to give two of his working days for the same object. The people are now engaged with a good degree of enthusiasm in erecting stone walls, of not less than ten of (or) fifteen miles in extent, to enclose their various plantations. If this work is completed Waialua will be greatly improved. The people, in some parts of the field, are beginning to think of the use of the plough. Fifteen yoke of steers have (been) sold to natives from the Mission heard ( !), & most of them are at this time in the progress of training, by drawing stones for fences. plough is already purchased by a native & ready for use. One When natives use their own ploughs on their own soil, there is hope that they will not all become hewers of wood & drawers of water, & herds­ men for foreigners. Untill the plough is thus used by them, their prospect of becoming their own masters is small. Our oven family. We have been generally blessed with health yet Mrs. E. has been a part of the time somewhat afflicted. We have sent to Hono­ lulu once only for a physician for a sick child, but in that case were disappointed in not being able to obtain one; yet God in mercy blessed our instrumentality & raised up the child then prostrate with disease. Our oldest son, after two years detention from study on account of disease in his eyes, took passage in the Abraham Howland with Br. Forbes & family for the U. States. was great, but duty was clear. The trial of parting with him This trial hew ever was much relieved by the pleasing & increasing evidence we were permited ( !) to enjoy, that he had truly given his heart to the Savior. On the 7th of �15. Waialua 1848 January, he & John Gulick united themselves to the native chch. at Waialua, a circumstance which I doubt not, has tended to increase the interest of the natives in them both. When Saml was about leav­ ing for the U. States the chch. members, at their own instance, made up a purse of $20. for his use in procuring articles to he regarded as a present from them. They now often speak of him with interest. My opinion is, that our children, if pious should unite to the chchs. of which their parents are pastors, & not to a mission chch. which, from the nature of the case, cannot not ( !) meet but once in one or two years. In conclusion I would record the goodness of God to us, at this station, during the past two years. While we have not been unvisited by sickness, death has not been allowed to enter our Missionary dwell­ ings. While our labours as missionaries have been attended with the blessing of God. I know of no period when the Influences of the Spirit have appeared to be more obviously & abidin(g)ly present with the people, yet working in a still & silent way, making it obvious that it was of God & not of man. As our congregation have been regularly in­ creasing in number, so have our contributions regularly increased in amount & our people advanced in industry & civilization. Our debts for meeting house &c have been paid up & every good work progresses. Intemperance has not been known in our field during the past two years - yet I have heard of awa having been raised & sold to the government officer in some quantities & used secretly by the lowest class of the people. �16. Waialua 1848 Statistics of the Chch. Ad. on Exam. By letter Ad. past 2 years by exam Do by letter Dis to other chchs. Do past 2 years Died in all Died past 2 years Now in reg. standing Lost or wandering Whole no. children paptized ( !) Bap. past 2 years Married past 2 years. Average cong. Waialua D o . Kahuku Haula 773 60 71 19 65 10 103 27 461 210 618 76 78 500 200 450 (Unsigned; J.S. Emerson) �Gulick's Report - Waialua, 1848 In reviewing the period that has elapsed since we last assembled here, it will he no tedious task to tell the amt of my missionary la­ bors. They have been few & feebly performed. Owing to causes beyond our control, it was not till the first of Aug. /46 that we reached our present station. And the effort required for moving & getting things in their proper places I found quite exhausting to my enfeebled system. And I had scarcely recovered from sickness occasioned by those efforts, ere an unusually rainy winter set in; & this bro't with it, rheumatism cough, & an increase of the bronchial disease, with wh. I have long been afflicted. And my history during the last winter has been sub­ stantially the same. Two of our children have also been visited with alarming illness. But through divine goodness, they were graciously spared to us. - For months in succession I have been unable to do anything worth naming. And even when more comfortable, I am so far worn out, rusted out or withered by disease, that I have very little energy & resolution either for mental or physical effort of any kind. I have however, during most of the time been able to preach a little; & exercise a limited superintendence of the schools in Waialua district. In all I have delivered 87 sermons & lectures, attended some funerals & prayer meetings; & the children's Sab. schools when health permitted. The schools In our district, tho by no means what we wish to see them, are doubtless doing much good, & I think are better sustained than they formerly were. The teachers are now promptly paid, & I be­ lieve to the full amt of their earning. There are a little rising 300 pupils on the Protestant teachers' list; but somewhat short of this in regular attendance. 50 pupils. There are also two popish schools with about The govt Superintendent is an honest, & good man, & himself �Waialua 1848 a teacher. 2. There are 9 schools & 7 other teachers, & 2 assistant teachers on half pay. A singing school is also taught by a graduate from Lahainaluna; & is exerting a good influence. During the year a substantial stone school house has been erected at the station, 60 feet by 30, & so far finished as to be useable tho quite incomplete. It has already cost about $200.- cash, beside a considerable amt of lumber & some work done by publick authority. To meet this expense, it was deemed necessary to suspend the schools 3 months, & devote the funds usually appropriated to paying teachers to that object. Another schoolhouse has been erected at an out station. The children that can read, generally commit a verse of Scripture daily, & recite it in school; & more than 100 are connected with the station Sab. school. Their attendance however, till latterly has been quite irregular; but for several weeks past there has been a very pleasing change in this respect. recite it at the Sab. school. Those pupils who commit Scripture And when able to be present I endeavor to expound the verses recited, & to impress the truth upon their minds. We have had annually a publick festival, about the beginning of the year designed chiefly tho not exclusively for the benefit of the children. On these, & other occasions it has been very gratifying to observe the clear indications of advancing civilization, & improvement in the social condition, of the people with whom we sojourn. These are apparent in the dress, & general appearance of the mass of the people, & more especially of the children. They appear also in the increase of their household furniture, the possession of cattle horses, &c. >• �3. Waialua 1848 Statistics 10 Teachers, including 2 assistants 7 ? X Schools 300 pupils 185 Readers 100 writers 180 In arithmetic 100 In geography 45 Scripture Geography Protestant Schools & teachers �Report of P.J. Gulick April 1849 Waialua, Oahu In reviewing the year past, we find very little worth recording, except an uninterrupted stream, of goodness & mercy, to us & ours, from the Giver of every good gift. When in His righteous dispensations, the rain descended, & the floods came, & li terally surrounded, & threatened to overwhelm us, He who sitteth upon the flood, said, hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; & here shall thy proud waves be stayed; hence we were neither swallowed up, nor seriously injured. And when the pestilence which walketh In darkness, & the destruc­ tion which wasted at noonday, on our right hand, & on our left, entered out dwelling, & had even prostrated one of our number, the same all powerful voice, of our great Benefactor arrested their progress; the victim was restored, and our 'olive plants' are still about us. May these unspeakable mercies, lead both them & their parents, to feel their increased obligations to honor & glorify Him, who hath bestowed them. Although our own steps have apparently, of a long season, been on the verge of the grave, which has as it were yawned to receive us, still our tottering feeble frames have been sustained, and our health, not greatly reduced below its ordinary level. And yet, so little direct missionary work, has either of us been able to do, that I cant imagine it has been for this, that our lives have been prolonged. During the prevalence of the epidemics (which as you are aware, was several months;) we, like many of our brethren, were chiefly oc­ cupied in efforts to supply the physical wants of our sick & dying neighbors. The scenes of suffering then witnessed, have led us in publick & private to make efforts to induce them to provide in time �2. Waialua 1849 of health, for emergencies of a similar nature. It seems apparent, that, unless they can be induced in stead of spending their money for silks & other superfluities, to lay it out in building comfortable houses, & in procuring food & raiment for themselves and families adap­ ted to their circumstances, a few more such visitations, would leave but a meager remnant of the nation. - The dispensations of Providence towards them, seem to say to each of us, with emphatic tone, What thou doest, (either for their bodies or their souls - 'do quickly', for the time to do them good, is gliding rapidly away; \ they will soon be beyond your reach. Our direct public efforts, in our Master's cause, may be summed up in a few words. Though not always able to preach, I have on an averag\ (!) delivered about one sermon weekly. In addition to this, I have usually superintended the station Sabbath school, have attended some 12 or 15 funerals, & various prayermeetings. During a considerable part of the year, I have also, held a weekly meeting with the children of 5 schools of our vicinity in our station school house. I usually spend about an hour with them in hearing them recite the catechism prepared by Mr. Armstrong, explaining it to them, and endeavoring to impress the fundamental truths therein contained, on their consciences. And from their proficiency in committing to memory, & their appar­ ent understanding of the subjects bro't to view, I have hope that some salutary impressions may be made on their minds, which will never be oblitterated; & that should they be spared a generation may be reared, which shall be far in advance of their fathers; in mental & moral culture. For a few months, I have had a school once a week for the teachers in our vicinity. Our time was spent in reading Moral Phil­ osophy correcting their errors & comments on that work. �Waialua 1849 3. During the prevalence of the epidemics, the schools were unavoid­ ably suspended. Except this, and a previous recess of two weeks, they have been in operation, & the teachers are promptly paid, & as I think to the full value of their services. And although they are not doing, nor qualified to do, all the school master should do; yet it is believed they are doing an important work, for the rising generation. And al­ though the children do not advance, as fast as we desire to see them, still that they do advance, I have no doubt. And that many of them, can readily answer questions, in arithmetic & geography which would have puzzled many who were teachers a few years since, I am equally sure. As to school houses, there is, in our district, but one that can sustain even a tolerable claim to that name; & that tho having substan­ tial walls, & a good thatched roof, has neither doors floor, nor seats; properly speaking. We should however have been able to report more favorably, in this particular, had there been suitable lumber for finishing the house, in market. Beams for a floor have been procured, funds are in hand for purchasing flooring &c; & an effort to raise more, for paying the car­ penter, & defraying other incidental expenses, has been commenced by cultivating the land in our enclosure. a bill of expense. But as yet, this has been only It is presumed however that some $40. or 50.00 will be realized from this source, in a few months. (Unsigned) �Waialua 1849 Statistics of schools Waialua 9 Schools 9 Teachers 325 Pupils total at last examination. 221 Readers 207 In arithmetic 145 In written geography 122 in Topographical do 100 Writers 35 Read in Huli kanaka viz Moral philosophy About 200 Have read in the Scriptures X Until they commenced the study of the catechism in school, the readers w were accustomed to commit a verse a day from the N. Testament. Teachers receive from 12 1/2 to 25 cts pr day for their services, either in cash, or articles at cash value. X Since the examination from which these statistics were gathered one school of 39 has been suspended the no. of scholars having fallen below 15 wh the law requires to constitute a school. including 77 pupils. There were 4 Popish schools But one of these of 19 pupils has been disbanded. In our station Sab. School there were a little rising 100 children. Some $200. or $300 on hand for building School houses. (Unsigned) (Gulick) �April 1849 Station report for Waialua, Oahu The past year has been to us a very eventful one. During its rapid flight we have passed through Scenes pleasant & cheering to our hearts, & others again deeply distressing & disheartening. Sick­ ness among the natives & in my own family has disarranged a large por­ tion of my plans; so that many things I fully intended to do have failed of accomplishment, while many others that I had no calculation for performing have been forced upon me. On returning home from our last General Meeting, we found our people in a good degree of readiness to attend to religious instruction. Congregations on the sabbath were full & attentive, & meetings, of two or three days continuance, were held at the request of the people in various parts of the field. These meetings were well attended; & were instrumental of bringing out to public worship quite a number of people, who had been stupid & unconcerned; & on the minds of some it is hoped that Divine truth has been set home with saving power. Much of my time during the first three or four months of the year was spent very pleasantly & I trust profitably among the people in Waialua & Koolau. B r . Gulick also being in better health than usual, labored as his health would allow. us. That was one of the spring seasons among The word of the Lord seemed to take effect. It was not like water spilled upon the ground, but like seed planted in a prepared soil. This pleasant state of things continued with increasing interest, till early in October, when a sudden check was put to our efforts in preach­ ing the gospel, & to many of our hearers a final period for hearing it. Sickness among the people & in my own family. Early in October, influenza, measles & whooping cough, made their A appearance almost simultaniously ( !) among our people; & in a short time prostrated their energies, so that meeting for public worship �Waialua 1849 - J.S. Emerson 2. were well nigh suspended for the want of attendants. Indeed all meet­ ings , except the regular services on the Sabbath, Wednesday lecture, monthly concert & Sabbath morning prayer meetings were entirely omitted, & these were thinly attended. The congregation during the winter was not more than one third as large as during the summer previous. Those who were well were very few, & all seemed needed to take care of the sick, both on the Sabbath & on week days; & their attentions were quite inadequate to the necessities of those prostrate by disease. The measles were generally followed by diarrhea, which frequently was neglected till past remedy. Many fell victims to its rage; others were reduced to a weak & feeble state, & lingered along till February, when the influenza made a new attack upon us; & very many, who were slowly recovering from debility, were soon laid prostrate in death. During the year 1848 298nof our people were called to their final account, & most of them during this period of sickness. Many others have died since the first of January last, but how many I am not able to state. Deaths are still occuring with more than ordinary frequency. By means of this protracted sickness much that was encouraging became less so; much that seemed well begun, must be begun over again. Up to the present time we have not got back to the favorable position in which we stood six months since. Our schools, that were suspended from Novr till February, are not yet as efficient as or as well attended as before. Neither are our meetings for publick worship as fully attended as in Sept. last. Stupidity & neglect, rather than wakefulness & attention, seem to have been induced by sickness & death. The period of sickness was one of much heaviness of heart, & of much labor. It created great heaviness of heart to see the house of God well nigh deserted, & no access to the people except as we dealt out medicines at our doors, or visited from house to house. The people �Waialua 1849 - J.S. Emerson 3. were allowed free access to us by day & by night, without any detriment to ourselves; & hundreds of the sick were visited at their homes, where the demonstrations of their gratitude were often truly gratifying. Both of the mission families have been visited with more or less illness during the year. Both Bro. & Sister Gulick have been repeatedly ill; - & I also have been admonished that I am mortal. But no pro­ tracted or severe attack of disease has called for a visit from the physician till the 24th of January last, when another was added to the number of our children. Since then & up to the present day Mrs. E . has been a sufferer, & most of the time confined to her bed. The active stage of her disease, phlegmasia solens, is now past; but a weakened system, a limb some what swelled, often painful & very much weakened, are still depriving her of the privilege of administering as formerly to the necessities of the family. Receptions to the Chch. The effects of the interest at the commencement of the year, have not wholy ( !) passed away. trust will endure. There are some precious fruits which we Quite a number of backsliders have been reclaimed; some chch. members that were inactive have been revived; & a number of whom we indulged doubts have become more decided in their religious characters; & others who never before appeared to have any interest in religion now pray. There have been recd to the chchs under my care by profession during the past year by certificate Restored to the fellowship of the chch. Present number of chch. members 151 12 47 610 Native helpers. Kekela, of whom mention was made last year, still labors at Kahuku, with fidelity & success. whom 87 are chch. members. The population of his field is but 331; of His influence over them is good; they �Waialua 1849 - J.S. Emerson 4. appear to love & respect him, & think they can support him. May last they have contributed for his support $48.17. Since He has also recd by the hand of Bro. Alexander from the students of the Seminary $10. & a like sum has also been contributed to Naua paakai, from the same source. Kekela & his wife are daily employed in teaching a singing & day School, from which employment they receive a portion of their support. Nauapaakai preaches at Hauula, & occasionally at other places in Koolau. He is doing well so far as has come to my knowledge. He & his wife are both employed in teaching schools a good portion of the time & from school teaching they obtain most of their means of support. The chch. at Hauula is now making an effort to erect a stone house for publick worship. They contributed in cash the past year mainly for that object $111.87. The walls of the house were commenced before the sickness, but have not been touched since. Timber & lime are ready for the completion of the frame work of the house. The chch. hopes to have the building up the present season. There are in the Hauula chch. 237 members; & the whole population of the field is 1216. Their contributions in cash the past year for the cause of Christ if averaged upon the entire population would amount to between 9 & 10 cts each. - If averaged upon the members of the chch. it would equal 47 cts. to each member/. Admissions to this chch by profession the past year 63 - & 47 have been restored to its fellowship. Waialua Chch. This embraces at the present time 286 members of whom 63 were received the past year by profession & 5 by letter. There have been restored to this Chch. 35 who were under discipline. Benevolent contributions - Cash contributed the past year in the District of Waialua for seating the meeting house $401.93. This nearly �Waialua 1849 - J.S . Emerson 5. covers the whole expense of the work, that remained to b e done at the close of the previous year. The entire population of the field over which this chch. is spread is 1690. of whom several hundred profess to he popists. The contributions of the past ten months if equalized upon the entire popu­ lation of Waialua would amount to 25 cts to each man woman & child. equalized upon the chch. it amounts to $1.40 for each member. If A large portion of the people in this field have paid their school tax in cash $2. each. Church discipline. The occasions for discipline in the chch. during the past year have not been numerous, in all eight, four of which were for giving or aiding in false testimony; a sin which is alarmingly prevalent among the Hawaiian people. Improvements. The flooring & seating our Meeting House at Waialua have added much to its appearance, & to t h e convenience of the worshipers. The house is now nearly fitted with made of N.W. boards & well put together; & all paid for by the people except one or two contributions by other friends. Many of these slips have been purchased by individuals for the accom­ odation of their families. The idea of owning each his own slip is very popular, & has aided much in raising the requisite funds to defray the expenses of the house. The idea also of each family always ap­ pearing in their own slip on the sabbath is pleasing to them as well as to their pastor. Little has been done for school-houses during the year, either in Waialua or Koolau. have been erected. Four or five grass ones of moderate value only That portion of the year in which the erection of school-houses was contemplated, was a season of sickness & a part of it was also the rainy season. We very much need ten or twelve good school houses in the field & also two houses for public worship. I �Waialua 1849 - J.S Emerson am happy to state that the materials for the erection of two of the former are on hand, & the business has been commenced. The meeting house at Hauula which is to be built of stone laid up in lime, it is hoped will be in a good state of forwardness during the present season. Popery. This evil has not apparently been on the increase, during the past year. Their Schools are two less than they were one year since; & one or two others would be droped ( !), if the Kahu-kula en­ forced the law that requires 15 scholars to entitle the teacher to pay from Government. A few of the papal teachers needing books have come to us for bibles & testaments. To one I gave 12 testaments on receiving a promise from him, that he would take care of them & daily teach his scholars to read in them. books. To this he readily made promise & took the But at the examination of schools, that soon followed, he apo­ logized for not bringing forward his testaments as the priest had taken possession of them, & locked them up in his chest. The teacher has since informed me that the books could not be returned to me, as the priest had distributed them around among his brethren, the priests, & several of them had become soiled by use. There is hope for the papal priests, if they are so anxious to get hold of the word of God for themselves to read, as to feel justified In taking without leave the property of others, that they may read it. The last report of schools in Koolau gives the following statistics Scholars in papal schools 58 Scholars in protestant Schools 329 Papal schools diminished in numbers past year 71 Protestant 17 do do do This decrease is in part occasioned by a tax levied on boys over 16 years of age for the support of schools - & nearly all such boys �Waialua 1849 - J.S. Emerson choose to leave school if they must pay a tax for its support. Schools in Waialua will he reported by Bro. Gulick. An. attempt at proselyting by a Jesuite. ( !) One of our deacons was very sick, the past winter & was supposed by many of his friends to be past recovery. One of them, a papist l (!) It was a rainy /ime, the streams reported his condition to the priest. (I) were greatly swolen & very rapid; a good time for meritorious action in the view of a jesuite. Our deacon lived on one side of a large & rapid stream & the papist priest on the other side. The Priest chose this as a good time for conquest, so he waded through the water & mud, & swimming the turbid stream, landed near the house of the deacon; &, all dripping wet, went in to convert him to popery. After some words of salutation, the priest expressed his great solicitude for the sal­ vation of the heretic; & proposed to baptize him that he might die happy & be saved. The deacon objected as he had been baptized. The priest insisted that his baptism would not save him as it was not administered by the right person, but by a heretic only; & in proof of his honesty & truth in thus saying alluded to his own clothing all soaking wet; & that nothing but love for his soul could have induced him, under such circumstances to come to baptize & save him. The deacon assured him that dying or living he was satisfied with his baptism & his Saviour & wished no other. The priest retired much grieved at the hard & unyielding character of our deacon. This fact is one of the many to show that Jesuites in these Isls . do attempt to proselyte; how much so ever they may complain of us, as guilty of it. General improvements. Some natives are getting possession of meat-cattle; yokes chains drags &c are in considerable use. Good stone walls are rising up in many places a substitute for old rotten adoby fences. Timber is now �Waialua 1849 - J.S. Emerson 8. drawn from the woods by oxen; which but a little time since was drawn by natives. Ploughs are enquired for - But upland cultivation has not yet been commenced with much vigor. Land is desired by many, but only one native has yet been able to procure any by purchase. There are now 4 or 5 boats running much of the time between W. & H. owned by the natives of Waialua. Is now very much out of fashion. Carrying burdens across the Land Industry is obviously increasing, but it increases slowly, & ability to obtain property has increased beyong the disposition to industry. Statistics of the Church 924 Whole no. admitted on Examination 72 Whole no. admitted on certificate 151 Ad. past year on exam. 12 Do on certificate 70 Dismissed to other chchs. 5 Do past year 155 Died in all 52 Died past year 610 Now in regular standing 654 Children baptized 36 Baptized past year 8 Disciplined the past year 35 Married the past year. 1500 Attendants on public worship in the field Statistics of Schools in Waialua & Koolau Number of Schools No. Scholars Boys Girls A. (Arithmetic) Spelling Reading Writing Mental Arith. Written do. Geography Moral Phil. Singing In Koolau 16 387 213 174 78 58 251 108 128 125 188 8 32 In Waialua 11 306 153 Total 27 693 366 153 97 192 404 205 320 118 306 �Waialua 1839 - J.S. Emerson Population 9. Births & Deaths Population of Waialua Jan. 49 1532 Pop of Koolau loa Jan. 1849 1689 Total in the field 324 Births in W. 1848 29 Births in K. 1848 28 Total births 57 Deaths in W. 1848 113 Deaths in K. 1848 185 Total of deaths in the two 298 Decrease in 1848 241 Average of deaths 1/11 J.S. Emerson �Mr. Gulick's (Report) 1851. The writer of this report has abundant cause of gratitude to the Giver of all good, for manifold mercies to himself & his family since we last met together. Then, we were deeply solicitous for the safety of a dear child, whose wasted & attenuated form, & general debility, had awakened the fears of his parents, & induced them to commit him to the care of a kind friend & a gracious Providence for a voyage to & residence in, a foreign land. We would now gratefully record, the distinguishing goodness of our heavenly Father, manifested in watching over that youth in his voyaging & journeying on the deceitful & tempestuous ocean, thro fog & frost, sleet rain & snow; thro desserts (! ) & forrests ( !), inhabbited ( !) by ferocious animals, & fierce trecherous ( !) & exasperated savages; by whom he was repeatedly plundered; & from whose violence, he was protected, not by human strength or wisdom, but by the Providential care of Him without whom not a sparrow falls to the ground. A little less than a year since, after more than two years absence, we were permitted again to embrace him, whom m any had deemed beyond the bounds of time; & with health, if not permanently restored, certainly wonderfully improved; & also, with the satisfaction derived from the fact, that, notwithstanding the debility with which he left, & which continued to some extent, in to the second year of his pilgrimage, & (up to that period, prevented any vigorous effort for his own support) still, by his own efforts, & after serious losses he had enough left, to more than cover all his expenses, from the time of his embarkation. We would also with deep gratitude, record the tender mercies of our covenant God, to another member of our family; who, without �Gulick (1851) asking aid from any human being, has been permitted to visit the father land, travel somewhat extensively in it, & return in less than a year, without a day’s sickness, or any serious accident. And also that we have been permitted to see still another of our no. publicly united to the household of faith. And although his health was so poor that we deemed it necessary to try the effect of a change of climate for its restoration, we trust even this will result in his good & the glory of our great Benefactor. And although we have had in our family probably more than our or­ dinary share of sickness still so far as is known death has not diminished our number, nor any chronic disease except in my own case, been permitted to fasten on our frames. But in regard to myself, & my helpmeet, tho infirmities, as well as the marks of age are multiplying upon us. Our strength & resolu­ tion for efforts, whether physical or mental, are failing together. Our labors as an assistant missy have been similar to those of years past, but somewhat, perhaps considerably, lessing ( !) quantity. I have usually preached once on the Sabbath, sometimes twice & occa­ sionally on a week day; beside attending the children's Sab. school, & ordinarily meeting weekly with the station day school, to catechise the children, on the verses of Scripture committed, & expound the same to them. The schools are, as you have heard in a condition by no means flourishing. And yet I think they are doing much good. The cause of their languishing is I think essentially the same that produces a similar condition in the common schools in rural districts in our native land, in the summer season; v iz the demand for the services of the children & the high wages which the teachers can command in other employment. The high prices of native produce have rendered the whole year harvest time, with this people. And although the wages �3. Gulick (1851) still, young men of enterprise could accumu­ late faster in other ways. During the past year the station school house has been floored & pretty well seated; & is now comfortable & pleasant house. The teachers are promptly (paid) at the end of every month & there are on hand some 200.00 of school funds. - Statistics as follows Schools 8. Whole no of scholars Readers 186. In mental arithmetic Written Arithmetic 139. Music 99. Geography Papal scholars about 276 179 145 50 Here permit me to say what I have often tho't. viz . that consider­ ing merely my direct efforts for the spiritual welfare of this people, were it not for the prejudice against miss.s returning to their native land I & my family might perhaps as well be in the U.S. as here. But since it is not only, in spiritual things, this people need instruc­ tion & example; & since from facts stated in the former part of this report, I am encouraged to hope, that through my representatives I may give to a portion of them a slight example of Yankee enterprise, based as I hope it may be, on Puritan principles; perhaps it may be well for me, to take the advice of Secretary Green & hold on here & see what the Lord will do for us, & with us. This on the whole we have resolved to do; & it affords us sincere pleasure, to be able so to do, without leaning on the funds of the Board for a support. Still, I w d here remark that as the land, most of i t ,at least wh. is connected with the premises we occupy & wh. we expected to have without expense under the 7th resolution, was given originally to support a manual labor school, wh. we neither have sustained nor can, has already cost me, in order to get it awarded to the Missn more than 80.00, & I �G U L CK (1851) 4 have engaged to pay 20.00 more for the same object, it seems to me proper that that amt. should be refunded to me. to the Missn . But I submit this Perhaps it ought to be stated in this connection that for the passage of my three sons to the U.S. no draught has ever been made on the funds of the Board; nor am I aware that anything has been drawn for the support of any of mine there except $60.00 for the eldest wh. may have been repaid by his guardian, as we are told he purposed to do It is perhaps due to the mission that I here introduce another subject, which however, I should have deemed quite unnecessary, had it not been for remarks in a letter & in privat(!) conversation from the moderator; in the latter urging that I adopt that course. I allude to my relation to the people of Waialua as their representative in the nation legislature. It was distinctly static, that by accepting this post, which may call me away 6 or 8 weeks from my station I have in his opinion lost my claim to all the privileges conveyed by the 7th resolution, under which I took a dismission from the Board. Now, while I shall not deny that during the session of the legislature my duties as a representative do somewhat conflict with the letter of the resolu­ tion, I can’t see that it does with the spirit of it. Nor can I see any just ground for a distinction wh. the above mentioned brother thinks he sees, between my helping the people to secure their rights by aid­ ing them to get just laws, & aiding them as others do to secure land ? by writing out their kuleanas, selling them land under the gov't surveying; or in overseeing roads, &c . Perhaps self Interest or some other wrong motive blinds me. This must be the case or he imagins ( !) there is a difference where there is none. also to your kind & candid consideration. P.J. Gulick May 17, 1851. I submit this �Waialua Station Report May 1851 (J.S. Emerson) We returned to our station at the close of Gen. Meeting in May 1849 encouraged by the improvement of Mrs. Emersons health that in time her lameness might be mainly removed. Hope also dawned upon us in relation to the temporal prospects of our people, with which we regarded our own permanent usefulness as closely connected. But there was one subject that pressed with a mountains weight upon our minds. Our third son had for five or six years given evidence of an organic affection of the heart, which from the time he had the measles in 1848 developed itself with fearful rapidity. The opinion of the physicians whom we consulted at Gen. Meeting abated nothing from our apprehensions. That we were to take the child away from all medical advice & from the midst of our brethren to die at a remote station with but few to sympathize with us was trying. But that he professed at the time to indulge no hope that he had given his heart to the Saviour created feelings of deep anxiety. But our Heavenly Father was better to us than our fears; although he did not alter the decision to take the child from us, he comforted our hearts with the belief that he was about to take him to himself. That mind which for months had been making the anxious enquiry "What shall I do to be saved?” Saviour?" "How shall I give my heart to the "How can I pray aright?" with declarations like the fol- lowing; I fear I do not pray aright; the Saviour seems to be far off; I fear I have never been born again; I do not feel that I am good enough to go to the Saviour; I would do any thing I could to please God, but. know not how to be reconciled to him" This same child, when panting for breath, & under the exercise of almost constant pain; hungry & thirsty & yet unable to take but a morsel of food into his stomach; & fully assured that his days were drawing very near a close; in language very different from the above was heard to say, he envied �Waialua 1851 - Emerson 2. no one of those he saw in health around him; he was willing to he sick, he would not have one of God's plans in the least changed to accommo­ date him; God's law was right & good & he loved it. His character was holy, & he would love him although he should slay him. He had no other in heaven or on earth that he desired besides him, & that he would not wish to get well unless it was the Lord's will." The child left messages for his brothers, who were absent, & for the children at Punahou, expressive of his strong desire that they would early give their hearts to the Saviour; & when sinking in the arms of death, he repeatedly said that Christ was near & precious that he could trust his all in him. Such feelings expressed by our child during the few days & hours previous to his departure, more than removed that oppres­ sive weight of anxiety that we had long felt for him. It caused the tear that flowed spontaneous at his departure to be more the expres­ sion of gratitude for the grace bestowed than of grief for the loss of one we loved. May not this lesson be lost upon us & our surviving children. The general health of the families at the station has not been much unlike what was enjoyed in years previous. Bro. & Sister Gulick although feeble & frequently unable for a time to be about, have yet been able to do much for their family & Bro. G. has frequently preached on the sabboth a part or the whole of the day. In January 1850 I was laid aside from my labors several weeks by a severe attack of fever. Also in October last, I recd a fracture of the collar bone, which after being set, became displaced, & is now & will be likely to remain a permanent source of considerable inconvenience. But although our strength is weakened by the way our days are yet lengthened out, for which we have much occasion for gratitude. �Waialua 1851 - Emerson State of the chch. During the past two years there have been fewer additions to the chch, under my care than usual in previous years. Several protracted meetings of two or three days in continuance have been held in places somewhat remote from the station & to good purpose & there have been several instances of hopeful conversion. as a general thing prayer meetings & week day lectures have not been attended so numerously as at some former period, & more worldly mindedness has been apparent in the community generally. Meetings however on the sabbath have been generally pretty well attended & cases of open sin in the chch. have not been numerous. Many of the people feel that this is among their last chances to purchase land for themselves & their children, & therefore they feel justified in making exertions that they would not otherwise make; consequently they have been more frequently absent from Waialua & our place of worship on the sabbath & on lecture days than was usual in former times. It is to be hoped that this evil will not be perma­ nent. Settlement of a native pastor at Kahuku. Since our last Gen. Meeting, the portion of the chch. residing at Kahuku have united in the settlement of Rev. James Kekela as pastor over them, for whose support they have pledged $100. per year. This together with chch. lands & other facilities afforded him, it is hoped will give him at least an economical support. Kekela was ordained in Decr 1849 & has thus far sustained the pastoral relation to his chch. with that modest dignity that becomes him, & which gives promise of permanent usefulness. So far as I have been informed he gives good satisfaction to all who attend upon his ministry. But as he will wish to read you his own report, I will refrain from fruther comment upon his labors. �4. Waialua 1851 - Emerson Schools. These are at the present time less flourishing than in former years, the scholars forsake the schools at a younger age than formerly; all who become liable to pay the school tax with very few exceptions forsake the schools, & the teacher in consequence is left with younger scholars, makes himself fewer exertions to replenish his own mind with knowledge, & goes back down the hill of science which he ought constantly to strive to ascend. From repeated trials I feel that I hazzard nothing that there are but two natives in our field who at the present time could sustain a thorough examination in Mental Arithmetic. School books are much needed. I do not mean that the Ikemua, Kumumua, Helunaau &c are out of print, but that such books as would tend to stir up the slumbering energies of both teachers & scholars are not now in our schools. We must have in part at least a new set of school books, made in modern style & got up in better taste than former books, or this nation will go back, back, in its intellec­ tual attainments & our young men seek nothing higher than dexterity in lassoing a horse or a bullock. Let this Gov. expend a few of the thousands now devoted to the support of a large police, many members of which are of little or no service to the community in printing books for the schools & I would hope some permanent advantage to the schools as a consequent. While on the subject of schools & books I will suggest that the Ai o ka la for 1850 began to be both popular & useful with us before the close of the year & we hoped a reprint of the same thing for 1851 as our people desired to go over it again - but the present Ai o ka la is little sought & less used. Let our Aio ka la for 1852 be got up in better taste with covers & pictures some what in the style of the American Christian Almanac, & be sold to the people, not given away as a general thing & I shall hope good from it. While gold is among us what silver was & silver is as the stones of the street in �Waialua 1851 - Emerson 5. the estimation of the people, it can not be either wise or just to allow foreign Christians to supply our chchs. with books of any kind. Benevolent contributions in Waialua Between April 1849 & April 1850 Between April 1850 & April 1851 $225.68 1096.25 Disbursed as follows Lumber & repairs on meeting house 109.15 Contributed to Prot. Soc. in France 30.87 Towards the payment of a note to The A.B.C.F.M. 105.78 To the funds of the A.B.C.F.M. 100.00 To aid the Western Mission 17.69 To aid in shingl\ing our Meeting House 949.10 All paid in to the Depository Remaining in my hands 11.38 $ 1323.97 (1321.93) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) -$ 1312.59 This sum except a portion of the contribution to the Fr. Prot. Soc. was given entirely by the people in the district of Waialua. The portion of the chch residing in Koolau have contributed about $400 the past two years towards building for themselves a substantial stone chch. but as the money is in the hands of their superintendant I cannot state the exact sum. The work of building is now at a stand, not for the want of means but for want of a suitable person to carry on the work. The spirit of Christian liberality was perhaps never greater than at the present time. General improvement Although we can not speak of a high degree of interest in our sabbath or day schools, nor of much that can be called especial inter­ est in religion during the two past years, yet the temporal condition of many of the people has been greatly improved, & we hope that this improvement in temporal things may ultimately benefit their spiritual interests. During these 2 years natives in Waialua have purchased land in fee-simple which has been paid for to an expense of about $3,000. & more is bargained for; 130 Royal patents are granted to them �Waialua 1851 - Emerson 6. & at least 130 families particpate as owners in these lands, 7,000 or 8,000 acres. The purchase & pay for these lands is giving a spring to energy in various ways. The very effort called for to raise funds to pay for lands has made the individuals who have made such efforts both more able & willing to aid liberally in the promotion of benevo­ lent objects than others who have made less effort to procure lands for themselves & families. Support of the Gospel. Our people had commenced making quarterly contributions for the support of their pastor but it was thought best to concentrate their efforts the past & present year on the one object of re-roofing & shingling our meeting house. Therefore only one hundred dollars ap­ pears in the report as contributed for that object the past year. It is hoped that after the present year their contributions will be more substancial ( !). The population however of Waialua district is only about 1400 of whom perhaps 1/7 are papists & 1/7 more are indifferent to the gospel, & 2/7 more live at such a distance that they contemplate building a meeting-house for themselves & having the ordinances of religion sustained among them, which would leave 800 people all told connected with the society worshiping ( !) at Waialua. The population of Koolau is 1,500, of whom about 500 belong to Kekela's field, & 300 or 400 more are either indifferent or are papists, leaving but 600 or 700 interested people, including women & children connected with the outstation at Hauula. These are now engaged in building a meeting house which will require all or nearly all their contributions for three or 4 years to come. So that the prospects of our people for giving the half of a support to their pastor for several years to come Is rather uncertain. �Waialua 1851 - Emerson 7. Papists. At the present time the Papists have but one school supported by Govt in the district of Koolau & that has not had of late a sufficient number of scholars to claim a support for their teacher. They occasionally hold one meeting on the sabbath within the district. In Waialua there are two schools within the district belongingto the papists & about fifty scholars. But I am not aware that there has been any accession to their numbers for several years. They have a chapel in Waialua built of stone, & at a very considerable expense, only a small portion of which has been born by the people. J S Emerson May 1850 May 1 851 Recd past year on ex. Whole No. do Whole no. recd from other chchs Dismissed to other chchs. died past yr Chchm members excluded died past year Whole no. deceased in good stand • Excluded past year Remain Excluded Now in regular standing children baptized past year Whole no. bap. Marriages past year population of the field Attend public worship 24 948 81 150 47 --/// 8 __ 495 42 736 54 2400 1/2 16 964 92 59 * 40 /// 7 __ 466 10 746 44 2400 1/2 No. Schools Scholars Readers Writers Arithmetic Geography Music Koolau 8 276 186 139 179 145 99 Papal Schools Papal Scholars 1 50 Waialua Total 12 20 317 593 163 349 47 186 140 319 105 250 81 180 2 13 3 63 �Waialua Station Report read May 1852 It is now 20 years since the Waialua Station was commenced. These 20 years have developed many changes among the people; most for the better, but many apparently for the worse. The spirit of servile obedience has in a great degree departed; & men., if they move at all, now act from some other if not better motive than the mere will of those who were once Lords of the soil. There is now in the land much more cheerful & productive industry than then; more comfort; more wealth; & this wealth is obtained as a general thing more honorably & intelligently & more equally distribu­ ted than it then was. There is now more noble independance ( !) of mind less hypocrisy & much more intelligent, manly & efficient piety than then. On the contrary there is now much more open sabbath-breaking than then. He who then feared to feed his pig or fill his calabash with water because it was kapu day, has now learned to interpret the pas­ sage "the sabbath was made for man" liberally as to feel no hesita­ tion xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx in saddling his horse for a ride on the even­ ing of the Lord’s day. There is now more profanity, more filthy con­ versation in public places, more stealing, & more litigation than then Books are less sought now than then, but better read; Schools are less attended & yet scholars make more progress in the same length of time And what of all this; it is only saying that there is progress Where wheat grows well tares also will thrive. The Gospel proves a savour of life unto life to some & of death unto death to others. In reviewing the events of the past year we find many things for which to be grateful. Death has not visited our dwelling, nor, so far as we know, our children or near relatives. Neither have deaths among our people been as numerous as in past years. we have had sickness & pain. Yet in our family Mrs. Emerson's health has been feeble & Wm Schauffler has been a great sufferer from dyspepsia . As a last �Waialua - 1852 2. resort we have sent h i m on a whaling cruise to the North. Capt. Gelett, with w h o m you are all more or less acquainted, consented to take h i m into his cabin & allow h i m to do whatever his s t r ength would permit; hoping at the end of six or seven months to restore h i m to us in at least improved health. We regard it as an experiment but trem­ bl i n g l y hope it will prove favourable. We have also h a d under our roof since August last a foreigner who w a s drawn in a state of h e l p ­ lessness out of a house on fire & cast upon us rheumatic in every joint destitute of clothing & penny less drawn, & scorched w i t h the flame. ( !) Lasce r a t e d b y being He i s n o w better & we hope that his afflictions w i l l be of use to him. Our associates Bro. Gulick & family have enjoyed about their us u a l amount of health & strength; & Bro. G. has been able to render assistance on the sabbath & on other occasions, much as in former years. General improvements. During the past y e a r a n e w road has bee n opened in front of our meeting- h o u s e which has diminished our distance to Honolulu about 1/2 of a mile. Five substancial ( !) bridges also have b e e n thrown over the streams bet w e e n Waialua & Ewa, which relieve us f r o m the necessity of fording streams, & fro m the anxiety w e often have felt lest some of the streams be deep & impassible. A n e w road has also b e e n laid out through most of the district of Koolau which shortens in traveling some what & adds greatly the distance to the comfort in traveling - W h e n the remainder of the road is finished & other bridges are com­ pleted we shall h a v e a passible carriage road between Honolulu & Waialua. Indus try Our p e o p l e h a d some w h a t e n l a r g e d t heir plans f o r cul­ t i v a t i o n the past year, b u t the f l u c t u a t i o n in the m a r k e t & the u n ­ u s u a l d r o u g h t in the a u t u m n b l a s t e d m a n y of their fond e x p e c t a t i o n s of �Waialua 1852 3. large returns for their labor. A large number of acres of kalo were entirely ruined. School & meeting houses are much as they were at last Gen. Meet­ ing. But few of the school-houses are any thing like what they should be; & those that have been erected the two or three years past are built of such frail material & are so slightly put together that they are apt to stand only two or three years before they are blown to pieces. About twice the sum requisite for a framed house if expended on a good stone building & well laid up floored & seated would be good economy. The material for shingling our meeting-house at Waialua is now on hand & paid for & rising $100. are raised to defray the ex­ pense of shingling it; which job we hope will be completed the present season. It is also hoped that the meeting house at Hauula will be put up the present season as the people have concluded to work them­ selves on the house, & not depend on hiring. As to Schools. It may be said that a lack of competent teachers through the field has been a great draw-back on their success. And this incompetency both in the supply & the qualifications of the teach­ ers must remain, so long as they are not paid so much for their work as they can get in other employments. If the Govt, as has been done the past year, pay a half-breed $5. per day for superintending work on the road, it could hardly be expected that an intelligent native, every way as competent for the same business, would cheerfully teach school a month or a half of a month for the same $5. If the pay for catching a horse, which can be done in one or two hours, is 50¢ who but a dunce or a Christian of more than ordinary benevolence will teach school two days for the same 50 ¢ . Let teachers of schools be paid $20 of $30. per months or not employed, because incompetent, & we may soon have teachers in our schools competent to the work & �probably not before. School books have not been extensively called for. Atlasses & Bibles have appeared to be most in demand & of both we have failed to obtain a supply, the past year. The primary School book given me to make is not finished - but I will endeavour that it shall be, soon after the present meeting, if such is the pleasure of the brethren. Secular employments. The business of selling lands & superin­ tending the erection of bridges has ocupied ( !) some of my time the past as well as the previous year. up - It is however now nearly closed Some remuneration has been made me for these services, which I shall wish to report to the Mission or a Committee such as the Prudencial ( !) Committee in Boston have recommended, at a suitable time. I see my name placed among the corresponding members of the Mis­ sion, but for what reason or by whose authority I know not, as I have as yet held no correspondence with the Prud. Com. on the Subject. Papists. They have made no perceptible advance in our field during the past year, that has come to my knowledge; unless it be in the fact that they have succeeded by stratagem in introducing a protestant adhe vocate of rum & awa into the Legislature for us. But that the (honour­ able gentleman) will effect much we have but few fears as a large majority of the voters have put in a strong petition opposing his measures. The meeting house of the papists at Waialua, that has already been ten years & more in building, is far from completion. The work is mainly performed by two or three Frenchmen who appear to take things easy. The house is now occupied by a sugar mill. Catholic schools are not increasing in the number of their pupils or the extent of their acquisitions. Occasionally one of our people is drawn into their embrace, but rarely one who was hopeful as a Christian or a �W a i a l u a 1 8 5 5. 2 member of so c ie ty . But more frequently one of th eir number leaves to attend our meeting. State of Religion in our f i e l d . During the past f a l l & winter more than u su al in t e re s t was m ani­ fe s te d in social prayer meetings in a l l parts of the f i e l d . These meetings were attended at day break in the morning by very large numbers in every considerable v ilag e ( ! ) in the f i e l d , & many of the meetings s t i l l continue although w ith abated in t e r e s t . on the Pub l i c worship sabbath has been w e l l attended throughout the f i e l d . Protracted meetings have been h e ld in W aialua & in Hauula w ith a good degree of interest during the y e a r. That held at H auula in Feb­ ruary la st was w e l l s u s t a in e d , very solemn & appeared to b e productive of good. The communion season which was on the sabbath fo llo w in g the protracted meeting was remarked to be the most solemn occasion o f the k in d ever witnessed in the place. The Chch. at Hauula has been a part of the year under the care of H a i a , a graduate of Lahainaluna . But h is course has not been such as to encourage strong hopes of his success as a luna of the Chch. As to our Chch. lunas generally i t may b e sa id w ith few excep tio ns, that those who were once the most laboreous ( ! ) & su cce ssfu l now f i n d a variety of other o ffic e s that they are s o l ic it e d to f i l l , & an i n ­ competent support from any other quarter n a tu rally in c lin e s them to accept such o f f i c e s . So that the more laibore ous part of the labor of deacons is performed by at best second rate men in the Chch. We have re cd but few members to the chch. the past year in a ll 2 0 , by profession eleven & by letter 9 . A larger number are now pro­ pounded, which it is hoped may b e recd at a future seaso n . �Waialua 1852 6 Benevolent contributions At Mo. Concerts contributions to the A.B.C.F.M . for Western missions or $56.26 To complete the payment for lumber for the meeting house & frt (freight ?) to Waialua 716.59 Cash on hand to aid in completing the Shingling &c 108.00 Cash recd at Hauula to aid in the building of their meeting house 119.26 In all $ 1000.11 To complete the work of Shingling our meeting house we shall need at last $200. more. Many of our people have contributed liberally, con­ sidering their circumstances; & regarding the small number in our field we consider their contributions on the whole as good. But it is obviously the feeling of some that the Shingling of our meeting house is to be their last great effort; & when this is effected their contributions will be about at an end for life. Only a few have as yet begun to feel like taking up the work of supporting the Gospel among them. Statistics of Chchs. May 1852 Waialua Whole no ad. on examination Who l e no. on Cert. Ad. past year on Exam. Ad. past year on certif. Dismissed to other chch. past year Died past year Diciplined ( !) Now in regular standing Children baptized do past year Marriages past year The chchs united Hauula - — 3 6 2 8 4 270 ----10 8 3 11 9 9 21 11 481 —— 15 24 7 13 7 211 ---5 24 Statistics of Schools &c. No. of Schools No. of No. No. N o. in Scholars Readers Writers Arithmeti c Waialua Koolau Papist Waialua Papist Koolau Total Protestant Total Papist 7 11 2 2 20 4 225 280 57 32 505 87 150 176 35 22 326 57 133 144 17 15 277 32 140 156 44 19 296 23 �Waialua 1852 Statistics of Schools &c. Waialua Koolau Papist Waialua Papist Koolau Total Protestant Total Papist 7 No. in No. in Geography Singing 105 145 17 8 248 25 80 60 0 0 140 Born Died 37 17 37 20 4 57 J.S. Emerson in year �Waialua (Abstract, 1852, J.S. Emerson) But few deaths & not much sickness, the past year. General improvements. New roads have been made & 5 important & substancial bridges have been built at a cost of nearly $? ,000; the people are increasing their comforts & conveniences, & impliments ( !) for agriculture. Temperance. But one or two cases of intoxication have been heard of the past year in the district & they were among foreigners. Meeting houses. The materials have been collected & paid for to shingle the meeting-house at Waialua, & some new materials have been collected to build in Koolau. Common Schools. These have been about as in the previous year; lack of competent teachers, willing to work for small pay, has been an inconvenience. Papacy. This evil has made no perceptible progress; some have left its ranks to attend our meeting. Mormonism. Some 20 or 30 mo\stly rude young men were baptized by a Mormon priest quite a number of whom forsook him before sun-set & nearly all of the remainder did in a few days. Contributions. These are larger than in any former year. For the A.B.C.F.M. $56,26 To shingle the Meet. House in Waialua $824.59 - To build the Meet. House at Hauula $119.26. Sabboth Schools - have been held among the children & adults in all parts of the field; but have not been well sustained except In a few of the districts. The church, has been peaceful & harmonious, but few cases have called for discipline & several who were formerly wandering have been restored to the bosom of the chch. Prayer meetings have been held the greater part of the year in most of the neighbourhoods, & meetings of several days continuance in three different places. Several cases of hopeful conversion have occured. Statistics See report �(Waialua 1853) In reviewing the year past, I have very little to record, except an uninterrupted stream, of divine mercies to my family & myself; & which, at least on my part, have been entirely unmeritted. The various members of our family, with, & near us, not only, have enjoyed their accustomed share of health, but our hearts have often been gladdened, by reports, or rather letters, showing the prosperity of those now widely separated from us. When however, I speak of our accustomed health, it must not be forgotten, that I am of a long season, an invalid; a very feeble one, & without hope of any change for the better. This ma\y in good measure at least, account for the fact, that I have done very little, & therefore have a very brief report. I have usually been able to preach once on the Sabbath, either in Hawaiian, or English occasionally - in brother Emerson's absence twice; & in this case have sometimes delivered the Wednesday lecture. Have also had charge of the children's Sab. school till it was merged into the adult Sab. School; & have also had the superintendance of the common schools. Our common schools though far below what they should he, are I think, of great value, to those who are disposed to improve the ad­ vantages they afford. The Kahu, I believe is the best our community can furnish, & the teachers are most of them in advance of the people around them in intellectual culture, & not inferior in morals. The school funds have I think been faithfully collected & honestly appropriated to their legitimate objects. But they have not been suf­ ficient to keep the schools constantly in operation now to make any con­ siderable improvement/ in school houses, which however is greatly needed I have no statistics of schools, because it is found much easier to get them in a mass from the minister of Instruction whose reports at least from our field, are very carefully prepared. For want of funds, these schools have been suspended about two months, during the year. P.J. Gulick �Waialua Station Report for May 1853 . In reviewing the events of the past year, we find occasion to speak of comforts & of trials, of prosperity & of seeming adversity. No raging epidemic has been suffered to prevail amongst us. done only his usual work. Death has Pestilence & famine have not been known in the land; & yet the Lord has come near us, & more than once most vividiy re­ minded us of the uncertainty of life & of all our earthly hopes & ex­ pectations. The child, whom we reported last year as being on a voyage to the north for his health, had closed his voyage even before the date of our report. His strength at first seemed to be a little increased by being on ship-board; but, after two or three weeks, he began to sink; & in five weeks from the time he left Honolulu his spirit took its flight from earth. A few days before his death, Capt. Gelett informed him that he could not probably live many days. Upon which he set about doing up the work that he considered remaining for him to do. He dictated a fare­ well letter to his parents, brothers & sister, gave a few parting words of affection & counsel to each of the seamen, - enquired in respect to to the disposal of his body & gave his approbation - - being deposited in the ocean. He often desired the reading of the Scriptures & prayer; & expressed a regret that he had not publicly expressed his faith in Christ; a purpose he had intended to have executed at the time of our last General Meeting, had he not left home before. His hope in Christ appeared to be stable, & even joyful, as he approached the period of his departure. To the Captain he once said with a smile "I shall see the Saviour before you do." His end was peace. We feel his absence from us - Hopes are crushed & earthly plans are defeated. we allow ourselves to mourn or grieve. But we feel reproved if Our dear one has obtained a better inheritance than earth, & we feel our relation-ship to that better land strengthened by the transfer of a portion of our of(f)spring there. The health of our family has been about as usual. We have had �Waialua 1853 2. no occasion to call for the services of a physician till about foive ( !) weeks since, when in the act of watering a young horse I was caught by his taking fright in the noose of a rope attached to him & drawn with great violence over the top of an open well among stones rough\ & large, by which my right shoulder was fractured & I recd several contussions(!) from which I have not yet wholly recovered. But that I escaped with life is more wonderful to me than that I was hurt so much. For this deliverance we feel much occasion to thank & praise the Lord. As to my labors the past year the(y) have not been fewer nor less arduous than in former years. The erection of our stone church at Hau­ ula has called for much time & strength at that post, so that I have spent nearly 8 weeks there since our last General Meeting. In Kekela's field I have also spent several sabbaths & parts of sabbaths during his absence; & I regard his people as on the whole appearing verry ( !) well. I have done less than usual among the people at Waialua, the past year owing to the call for assistance in Koolau. Yet there has on the whole been a good degree of interest on the subject of religion through the whole field. Public worship on the sabbath has been well attended & morning prayer meetings have been common. Accessions to the Chch. by confession have been more numerous than in any one year for ten years, although most of those admitted the past year profess to have been on the Lord's side for one two or three years. Quite a number of those formerly cut off from the fellowship of the church have been restored to fellowship; so that, if the number who have died while under discipline be stricken out from that list, the remainder would be but few. General improvements. Our roads & bridges are such as to allow carts & wagons to pass & repass between Honolulu & Waialua; & the former are frequently em- �W a i a l u a 1853 3. ployed in carrying freight to market. Since many are becoming owners of the soil, carts & plows & cultivators & fields of corn are multiplying among us. Cultivation by the plow is 2 or three times as great as it was last year. Our meeting-house at Waialua has been shingled & put in good con­ dition since our last General Meeting & all expenses are paid, so that t h e eye rests upon it with a good degree of satisfaction. The walls of the meeting-house at Hauula have been laid up in good lime mortar, & covered with a very substancial roof. It has 12 good windows & three pannel ( !) doors; & the work of flooring the house with good pitch pine boards tongued & grooved in the U. States is going on. When the flooring is completed & the pulpit made there will be a debt of probably less than $200. The work of erecting this meeting house considering the distance of the people from their pastor has been carried on with a good degree of spirit. Schools The schools in Waialua & Koolau loa have appeared better the past year than in the year previous. In Koolau, of which I would more particularly speak, there has been more spirit among the teachers than in the year previous. But wh ile the schools are accomplishing a good & a great work, they are not doing all that is to be desired in the field. A teachers school or a school of a higher ( !) is very much to be desired. Heresies & delusions. The papists seem (?) to have had but one work in our field the past year; viz. the erection of a porch & steeple for a bell house, at the east end of their meeting house at Waialua. This work w a s so closed up that the(y) dedicated their house I was told on the 2d sabbath of the present month. For that occasion I am told that the bishop bought & slaughtered three oxen, & the natives bought a fourth beeve; while swine & turkies many were slaughtered by the residents �Waialua 1853 for the entertainment of all who went to the great feast; which they held on the Lords day; & to which they invited men of profane & intemperate habits to go & share with them. It is said that more than 600 strangers were present to partake of their repast. It was truly a great day to them; but not a day kept holy to the Lord , but the Lords day profaned to purposes of rioting & glutony. I am not aware that the papists have made any proselytes or that they have increased the number of their scholars or their schools the past year. Mormons. About a year & a half since the Mormons came into the district of Koolau loa & influenced several persons, mostly rude young men to be baptized by them. But their method of doing things was so slack, as they required no evidence of conversion, & not even a morral ( !) life as a qualification for baptism. Their converts soon doubted whether there was any virtue or utility in their baptism, & sacrament of the supper. The result was, their converts soon left them, all except Kauahi & perhaps one or two others. Kauahi finds he can live in violation of the seventh commandment, & yet be able to hold his head up among the Mormons. About 4 months since an attempt was made to convert the people of Waialua to their faith; & they soon baptized 20 or thirty young persons, most of whom are bullock catchers; but all of them so far as our knowledge ex­ tends, feel very doubtful whether they are made better by their immersion, & in this doubt we all agree, A Mormon priest in a dilemma. Three or four months since two Mormon priests called on me, requesting permission to preach in my pulpit &c. I enquired of them in respect to their doctrines, whether they believed in polygamy &c. & whether their prophet Brig­ ham Young had not more than one wife. They denied that polygamy was an article of their creed; & also any knowledge of Brigham �Waialua 185 3 5. Young's having more than one wife. slandered. But said that they were basely One month later, one of the same men called on me with a new comer. To the latter of whom I again put the question, if they did not believe in polygamy & practice it. yes with greatearnestness. To which he said He also said it was a doctrine of the Bible, & a practise approved by God, from the time of Abraham & Solomon down to the present time. I then asked the other Mormon, who, only one month before, had denied the existence of such a doc­ trine among them, what all this meant ! & what do you think was his reply. " O this is a new revelation, I did not know it before, but you will see more surprising things than these." It has been stated to me that an ex-Mormon has said, that it is or has been in the plans of the Mormons to take these Islands for themselves. We may yet find it true. Support of the Gospel As both of our chchs. were engaged in raising funds for meeting­ house purposes during the early part of the past year, the subject of supporting their pastor was not fully brought before the people till the last part of July, at which time the Waialua people agreed to raise $200 for the remainder of the year & Koolau Church $100. which was contributed. For the current year (1853) the people of Waialua have promised to raise $550. The Koolau people will probably raise about $100 only as they have a meeting-house debt to pay off. The contributions of our people for various benevolent objects may be said to be liberal; & all put together would be adequate to the support of their pastor, but that they will ever feel able to support their pastor without aid from other sources is hardly to be expected. Contributions of the people between May 1st 1852 & Decr 31 stand thus �6. Waialua 1853 $73.43 ) Waialua Chch Mo Concert 32.00 ) " Genl. Association 56.00 ) H Ladies do " Support of pastor " Contributions for Mauula Meet. H. " To liquidate debt of Waialua Meet. H. Hauula Chch. Mo. Concert " " Support of pastor " " Cost for their own Meet. $ 161.43 200.00 50.00 267.18 49.31 100.00 293.31 s n Total Contributio $ 1121.23 Schools Koolau Protestant Papal 9 1 284 24 183 ) 4 ) 40 58 44 Waialua Protestant Papal 7 2 187 45 124 ) 17 ) 36 43 Chch Statistics Added to Chch past year on examination " " by certif Dismissed to other chchs by letter Died past year Disciplined the past year Disciplined Restd the past year Bow in Regular Standing Children baptized past year 63 16 15 22 8 22 575 42 The first reading book for children has been finished & is in the hands of the printer. Br Gulick has assisted as usual (?) Resp. Submitted J .S. Emerson �Report of Waialua Station, May 1854 In attempting a report of labors for the year ending April 1854, we find occasion to speak of mercies & afflictions, of prosper­ ity & adversity. In our family we had no serious illness during the former part of the year, & till the latter part of March indulged the fond hope that we should pass through the year without occasion to call for a phisicions ( !) services. But in the latter part of March our little daughter was attacked by a pain in her hip accompanied by a slight fever, which both increased for several days; & at length became so severe as to render it expedient to send for a physician, who on a second visit pronounced it a hip disease, & for three subsequent visits he spoke of it as being of an alarming character which would probably terminate her life; after a protracted season of severe suffering Dr. Ford accompanied Dr. Judd on his third visit, yet both thought it inexpedient to operate upon the limb although both felt confident that an operation would be needed. & nights of painful anxiety. For a full month we suffered days Our child was sick, her anguish of body was much of the time excrusiating, & our hope of her recovery exceed­ ingly faint; we hardly dared to ask for her life. Her fitness to be recd to the bosom of the Saviour was our greatest anxiety. well nigh departed from us. Sleep The moans & shrieks of the child particu­ larly at night were much of the time heart-rending. We thought that our Heavenly Father was about to reclaim his own, & we said "Thy will be done." But about the 28th of April we found a slight relief in her symptons yet so slight that for nearly a week we did not allow our­ selves to indulge the belief that there was any real improvement. But on the 6th instant Dr. Judd accompanied by Dr. Ford made his 7th visit, & both for the first time pronounced the symptoms decidedly favorable & encouraged the hope that the child may recover. If the Lord may �Waialua 185 4 2. restore the child to health we hope it may be that she may glorify him in the earth. 18th Nearly two weeks have passed since the above was written - appearances are not so favorable now as then the future is all in the dark in respect to her case. We feel that the Hand of the Lord is upon us; & hope to be benefited by the chastisement. Labours. The departure of Kekela to Fatuhiwa has thrown back under my pastoral care the Chch. at Kahuku, so that I have had the past year three chchs. to look after & eleven communion seasons to prepare for & attend. The Chch. at Hauula has had the services of Kuaia about of the 2 / 1 year & the Chch at Kahuku has been looked after to some extent by Haia, now a member of the Legislature. The Small Pox. This fearful disease commenced its ravages in Waialua early in the month of July, but was for a long time kept so much at bay by Kapus &c. that its progress was slow & its work was not done up till the close of 8 long months from the commencement. Nursing the sick, vaccinating & re-vaccinating the people many time over in some cases, receiving messages xx & giving advice in respect to the disease &c. consumed very much time for many months. But we have occasion for gratitude that our portion of Oahu was visited with less severity than any other portion of the Island. Deaths by small pox in Waialua were 201 & in Koolauloa 250 = 451 which is about 1/6 (?) of the whole population of the two dis­ tricts . During the prevalence of the Small Pox religious meetings were not so well attended as usual. Mary staid away from publick worship because they had been exposed to the disease & others from fears of exposure - Yet numbers during the year have been awakened to a sense of their condition & responsibility, as sinners against God; & quite �W a i a l u a 1 8 5 4 a number of backsliders have been restored to the fellowship of the Chch. The number of cases that have called for discipline in the chchs. the past year has been small, fewer than in most years. Popery has made no perceptible progress the past year unless It be that some 4 or five persons of our chch. when they supposed them­ selves dying consented to be baptized by the papal Priest, But all the converts made by the papists under such circumstances, are, so far as my knowledge extends, either in their graves at the present time or else in prison for violating the 7th commandment. Papal Schools in Koolau loa are now entirely extinct or suspended, & in the district of Waialua there is but one in existence. Mormons. A few people have at different times consented, both in Koolau & Waialua to be baptized by a Mormon priest, but they have with few exceptions returned to our meeting & said that they had com­ mitted an error. There is no regular meeting among the Mormons any where in our field; although several have been induced to meet with them on various occasions. Schools. ishing. The number of our schools as well as scholars is dimin­ We have now but 9 schools in Koolauloa & but 6 in Waialua. In two or three cases two schools have been merged into one for lack of scholars. During the prevalence of the Small Pox the major part of the schools were suspended so that our schools have not been very flourish­ ing during the year. Yet they have done something, & we hope more for the present year. Improvements. The plow, the hoe, the cart, the cultivator, & the ox-team &c are now a good deal relied on by natives for the cul­ tivation of the soil & for transportation of their produce & c . Carts are frequently running from Waialua to Honolulu. The old method of carrying burdens with the auamo (stick) upon the shoulder is now rare �Waialua 1854 except for a very short distance. The natives have plowed two or three times as much land the past year as any previous year, yet owing to the destructive ravages of the caterpillar & grub-worm their crops have failed to a great extent. Roads in Waialua are gradually improv­ ing & quite a number of the natives are increasing in wealth. State of Morals. While there have been but few cases of wayward­ ness in the chch. that called for action there has been a constant change going on, which shows that the people are getting under other influences besides what were exerted upon them in years past. Occa­ sionally we hear of the young man returning from Honolulu partially intoxicated. Some are learning the manly art of chewing tobacco, & others find out that to play cards & go to the theatre when at Honolulu well nigh allies them with royalty itself. The following statistics furnished me by our superintend(ant) of Schools for Waialua will indi­ cate a little the state of things. Adults who can not read 158. Adult/ readers in Waialua 726 Smokers 625 Drunkards 8 . Adults for­ eigners 28 of whom 17 are drunkards or drinkers of strong drink & 19 of them use tobacco - Things of this character are among the painful evidences that many of the influences now exerted on the Ha­ waiian youth are not such as the Christian can contemplate without pain. Religious state & prospects. There has been no general revival of religion in our field the past year, & yet there have been quite a number of cases, of awakening to the subject of religion in different parts of the field. There have been recd to the chchs. in all 124 members by profession & ten by letter, while seven have been dismissed to other chchs. & 146 have died leaving our present number nearly as it was one year since. The number of cases of disorderly walk requir­ ing discipline has been smaller than the number restored to the �Waialua 1854 communion of the Chch. Death has swept away the larger portion of those who were ever in the chch. & not now in fellowship only 8 or 10 of this number remain in Koolau & I think a smaller number in Waialua. Kahuku Chch. & people are rapidly decreasing in numbers by re­ movals to other places. The lands awarded to many are so small & so inadequate to their necessities, that they are disposed to either sell or abandon them & remove to other places. Many have already moved away & others are contemplating a removal. Hauula people remain much as they were a year since, except that many connected with the Society have been swept away by the Small Pox. At our last Gen. Meeting that people were collecting the materials to floor their new house of worship. This work has been done & paid for & nearly $300 are now collected for putting permanent seats into the building. Kuaia, a graduate of Lahaina-luna of one years standing has been laboring faithfully & successfully the major part of the year in that parish; & the chch. is expecting to settle him as their pastor so soon as the house of worship may be in decent order for the occasion. Population. Koolau 1214. The present population of Waialua is 1137, that of Decrease in Waialua in 6 years " " Koolauloa 395 475 The influx into the field has exceeded the migration to other fields It is probably that the next census will show a larger population In Waialua than in Koolau, as there are many causes at work in the latter place to drive the people away. Benevolent contributions. The sum contributed for the support of pastor For the support of native assistants For the Haw. Mis. Society For Meeting houses Total $573 205 143.47 650 $ 1557.47 of which �Waialua 1854 Missions 104.80 Sup. pastor Waialua contrd - $ 423 Meet. H. $ 30.00 Kahuku 50 9.00 100.00 Hauula 100 29.67 500.00 Hauula for native assistants Kahuku for do Whole n o . on profession $130. 75.00 Hauula Kahuku Waialua Whole no. on certif. Past year on ex Past year on cert. 52 34 38 5 0 5 Whole no past year Whole no. dismissed 0 Dismissed past year Whole no deceased died past year Suspended past year 65 19 62 2 4 Rem. Susp Excom past year Whole n o . ex Remain ex Now in Regular standing 261 188 277 11 5 13 No Ch. hap Bap. past year Married (?) past year (All together) 51 J.S. Emerson �Report of P.J. Gulick (Waialua) May 1854 In reviewing the past year, we are called upon to speak of chastisement, as well as m e r c i e s . - Our beloved son had recently left us, to complete his education in the father land; & the mail wh i c h brought the tidings of his safe arrival there, brought also the sad news of his brother's death; and that ere they were permitted to see, and embrace each other. Our dear Charles had been of a long period seriously afflicted with dyspepsy; and a few weeks previous to his death, h a d been more than usually ill. During this period, he would not recover; replied, live, a Christian friend had told him, she thought & asked h i m if he felt prepared to die. He "My hope is in Christ"; and added, that he h a d des ired to to do good, b u t that he was willing to die, if such were the wil l of God. P rom all we kno w of him, w e trust he is now, where the infirmities of a feeble body, will no longer impede the progress of his mental powers - in the society of angels, & spirits of the just made p e r ­ fect, & under the tuition of the great Teacher; whose praises he will never cease to sing. In regard to our labors, we have very little to report. usually preached once a week. occasionally, I have In the absence of brother Emerson, twice. I sometimes supply his place in the Sabbath school, which now includes, children a n d adults, & also, help to sustain a service in English w h i c h we have usually hel d Sabbath P.M. Have also as usual, had the superintendence of the common schools in Waialua district. Owing to the prevailing epidemic, there were but two terms of school in the year. And so many of the tax payers, have b e c o m e soldiers, constable & the like, & thereby become exempt from the school tax, �Waialua 1854 2. that they will not probably have funds to pay for more than two terms the current year. The kahu, is a faithful man; the best I think, that can be ob­ tained, in our district. The teachers, although by no means, such as we desire to see, are in general, among the best informed & most trust­ worthy in their respective neighborhoods. The schools, although poorly furnished with houses, teachers, books, & stationary, are still, I believe, accomplishing much good, by cultivating and enlarging the minds of the pupils, & thereby making them better citizens, & prepar­ ing them to understand & appreciate the Truth, which is able to make them wise unto salvation. I have given no statistics of schools, as these are accurately reported to the Minister of Instruction; & can be more easily obtained through him, than from station reports. (Unsigned) �Waialua May 1855 To the Genl Meet.g assembled at Honolulu Dear Brethren In reviewing the past year, I have very little of interest to report; at least, so far as my labors are concerned. A grateful acknowledgment, however, is due, to our gracious heavenly Father, for a constant succession of his distinguishing mercies to me & mine. To his paternal care we owe the preservation of our lives, the continued exercise of our reason, & the enjoyment of about our, or­ dinary share of health. But I need not inform you, that with regard to myself & Mrs. Gulick, this, has not been, at all times, sufficient to keep us from the bed of sickness. My wife's digestive (powers), organs, are so permanently enfeebled that she is obliged, almost continually, either to take medicin e , or to be on the road taking exercise & seeking a change of location. This, & the infirmities of age, & my own chronic disease have lessened even the ordinarily small amount of my public labors. I have however, usually preached once on the Sabath ( !), or assisted in sustaining religious exercises in English, at our station; & to some extent, superintended the schools of our district. For statistics of the schools, I refer to the report of the Min. of Instruction, as they are carefully rendered to him. I believe the common schools, are, with all their faults, worth sustaining. And from the experiment of a few months in which English was taught, I feel persuaded the young Hawaiians will acquire a know­ ledge of that language, faster than has usually been supposed. P.J. Gulick �Synopsis of Waialua Station Report. (1855 ) A usual degree of health has been enjoyed by the missionaries at the station - Mr. Emerson's little daughter still unable to walk & under the care of the physician. The two chchs of Waialua & Kahuku only are embraced in the Waialua report, their own. Hauula having a pastor of Mr. E. has performed the usual routine of missionary la- bors - administered the Lords Supper eight times in the field & three times at Hauula. Papists have made no apparent progress the past year - The Mormons have had some success in attracting the attention of the immorral ( !) & vicious. Health of the people unusually good - A small excess of deaths over the births. Improvements in temporal affairs making slow but steady progress but the progress in morals not so perceptible. Public worship has been pretty well attended on the sabbath day but not so well on week days. past year 15. Recd to the chch. by profession the No especial attention to religion. �Report of Waialua Station May 1855. In presenting the 22d report of the Waialua Station from its first occupancy, we find new occasion to speak of mercies & of afflic­ tions. Death has not been allowed the past year to enter the dwell­ ings of our families, although sickness has not departed from us. The little daughter, who was, reported last year as being afflicted with a hip disease, is still afflicted, unable to walk, &, sometimes, much pained. She now can sit up, ride out in her little carriage & often employ her hands in some manual labor; is generally cheerful & comfortable. The care anxiety & watching over her by day, &, often times, a large portion of the night have drawn largely upon the health & spirits of her mother, &, will be likely so to do for a long time to come. Pieces of bone of a small size are often discharged through various orifices in the thigh; & as yet there is no immediate prospect of a cure. A stiff hip joint is the best that can be hoped. The other members of our family have enjoyed about their usual degree of health. Our people also have been free from any prevailing or desolating epi­ demic, & a good degree of health has been enjoyed throughout the com­ munity. For all which unmerited favors we give thanks to our Heavenly Father. Division of the station. The report of the Waialua Station, so called, will hereafter be presented as two separate reports. The former, embracing Waialua & that portion of Koolauloa included in the parish formerly occupied by Kekela, whose centre is Kahuku, & the latter embracing the remainder of Koolauloa & extending from Laie to Kaawa ( !) a coast of about 12 or 13 miles embracing a population of about 780 in all - That part of the field connected with the Station at Waialua has a population at present of about 1552 of whom 1118 are in the district of Waialua. �W a i a l u a 1 8 5 5 The present Waialua station has a coast of about 30 miles, - a sparce population. & to do the work in this part of the vineyard we have generally one papal priest, & much of the time a mormon priest besides our own services. Preparatory to the division of my former field, I spent much of the time during the earlier part of the year at Hauula to make ready for the settlement of their new pastor. Their new & very desirable meeting house, which had been floored the year before, was fully seated with slips & the debts for the same with all the arrearages were squared off by the first of October last, at which time I arranged to attend their communion, as I supposed for the last time in the capacity of pastor. But at the close of the preparatory exercises for the communion, I was requested by a unanimous vote of the Chch. seconded by Kuaea their pastor elect to retain the relation of senior Pastor to the Chch. which I thought it on the whole expedient to do. Moses Kuaea was ordained & set apart to the work of the ministry at Hauula on the 18th of October last by a Council composed of nearly all of the members of the Oahu Clerical Association; & thus far he appears well in the work to which he is consecrated. He will doubtless read before you the Report of the Hauula Station. My statistics having been remodeled will now be confined to the field embracing the chchs. at Waialua & Kahuku combined. The chch. at Kahuku is now small, & has every prospect of rapidly decreasing, as the people are moving out of the region, & giving place to flocks & herds that are thrust in upon them. Probably no native pastor will ever be supported by that people here-after. Schools . These are diminishing throughout the field both In consequence of diminution in population & lack of suitable teachers, & also on account of an earlier forsaking of the schools than was customary in year past, & also on account of less attractive books �Waialua 1855 3. than were formerly provided for them. In Waialua there are two schools less than two years since; & in Koolau quite a number are so reduced that there are barely scholar enough to legalize them; & no one of our schools except perhaps one at Hauula is so far advanced as many of them were 5 years since. English Schools. Shortly after the close of our last convention one English School was commenced at Waialua & soon increased to 40 scholars - This school was kept for 5 months & then suspended for lack of a teacher - It is now revived again & it is hoped that it may become a permanent affair. A school room of good size has been fitted up with seats, benches, table, black-boards &c for the purpose. Arrangements were made with the people of Koolauloa to have an English school taught at Hauula, but after the most deffinite (! ) terms were agreed upon between the teacher & the people, the whole affair, like many other good projects fell through for the lack of some one to make it go. There is however a strong desire both in Koolau & Waialua for a knowledge of the English langauge. "All like the purchase, Pew the price will pay.” Heresies. The Mormons have made frequent visits to our field & have proselyted a number to their creed; Which so far as developed at Waialua consists mainly in two sentiments viz. Religious teachers not to be supported by a stipend; - & immersion a requisite for salvation The papists are much as they have been in years past. The papal priest told me a few weeks since that their numbers near his meeting­ house had by removals & death deminished to 1/3 of what they were 12 or 14 years since. In Koolauloa there is now no papal school; ten years since there were 6 or 7. years since there were 3 or 4. In Waialua there is now but one, 10 �Waialua 1855 4 Improvements. The sources of wealth are now accumulating the hands of common natives among us. Many natives can exhibit ox cart plow & one or two yoke of oxen trained to work. for beef are abundant. in Horses & cattle A few are making arrangements for better houses, & more for articles for display. But thus far it is very obvious that wealth does not promote benevolence nor yet piety among our people. able means was not When the amount of avail­ of what it now is the disposition to aid in the support of the Gospel & contribute to the cause of benevolence was much greater than it is of late. Neither does the possession of wealth aid in the promotion of self-respect or of good morals. He who can steal or commit adultery & pay up promptly his fine does not appear to lose much by his trans­ gression either in his own eyes or in the esteem of many around him. Neither does the possession of wealth make the natives neat. Wealth often creates or promotes extravagance, but rarely neatness Silks & broad-cloths, hats, bonnets, shoes & gloves will often be exhibited in consequence of wealth, but not neatness. The drudgery connected with habits of civilization is an intollerable ( !) burden to most Hawaiians, not to be endured except for a limited time, & for an occasion, after which the whole is generally laid aside like a gala dress. State of Religion. We have been favored with no especial revival of religion the past year. Only 10 have been added to the Chch. at Waialua by profession, & 5 at Kahuku in all 15, one of those united at W aialua is a foreigner Thomas King, who has at some former time sailed a schooner at the Isis. We have at Waialua about 35 foreigners, very few of whom give any evidence of love to Christ, his cause or his people. Neither are they in temporals much elevate d natives around them; with a few exceptions. above the �5. Waialua 1855 Contributions for the support of the Gospel, benevolence &c. Recd for my family support from the Paid Haia at Kahuku Waialua Mo Concert & Mens Associ. Female Association in Waialua Hauula Mo. Concert paid before Oct. Kahuku Mo Concert chchs past year (no figure given) In all $416.42 85.22 100.00 27.75 65.97 ___ 695.38 This is Exclusive of Contributions for Support of pastor &c at Hauula since October & Expenditures for their Meeting H. the past year. Statistics of Chchs 978 180 15 12 27 296 8 309 10 0 9 19 406 754 9 37 500 1552 Waialua Station Whole No on Prof Whole no. by Cert Past year by Prof Past year by Cert. Whole no. past year Whole no. Dis. to Chchs. Dismissed past year Whole no. Deceased Died past year Susp. past year Rem. Suspended Excom past year Whole no Ex. Rem. Excom Whole no in Reg Stand Whole no. Children baptized Bap. past year Marriages Avarage ( !) Cong. Population J.S. Emerson May 1855 �(The following was written in pencil on the back of the Waialua 1855 report) Death of the King— This was with us well nigh a great event. morning after his Majesty's decease. The A messenger arrived at Waialua with letters to the Judge of the District & others, announcing the event— The Judge immediately repaired to the house of the Missionary announcing the event & also his instructions from the Governor to send forth criers proclaiming that the kapus were at an end— & that it was propper (!) to (Kuiniho, Kakau i ka ili,) inu name oe oe. The missionary warned his brother the Judge in vain, & in vain instructed him to desist from such a foolish & sinful act, but to no purpose— he demanded also to see the letter— The criers were sent out— but after they had spread the liberty far & w i d e , a further examination of the letter showed clearly that the letter did not give any license but was intended to enforce the kapu so a new sett (!) of messengers were not to forbid the things before commanded. And, on the sabbath following, all concerned made their confession, the Judge among the rest. �Report for Waialua Station, May 1856 In presenting this our 24th Report since our first occupancy of the station at Waialua it is our privilege to acknowledge the receipts of many unwonted blessings from the hand of our Heavenly Father the past year. Unusual health has been enjoyed by our people; our family in general have been well; & our daughter, over whom her mother had watched day & night, with almost unceasing vigilance much of the time for two years, has lately so improved in general health as to allow her to come with her parents to this gathering, & to ride most of the way on horseback alone. Our eldest son after an absence of eight years in the father-land has returned to our embrace in good health & qualified as we trust to do good in some humble occupation His reason for leaving us, when he did was imperfect vision. His sight is now good. Missionary field. The settlement of Kekela at Kahuku & his sub­ sequent removal, & the consequent restoration of that chch to my care, as well as the more recent settlement of Kuaea at Hauula have occasioned an almost annual change in my statistics, necessary in order to suit the changing circumstances. In future the statistics of the Hauula Chch. willbbe given by Kuaea, & those of the Kahuku Chch. will be incorporated with those of Waialua. Labors The business of selling Govt lands is now at an end; none of much value remains unsold in the district; & an other Is ap­ pointed to attend to any future sales; for all which I am thankful. From many of my cares in connection with grazing & agriculture I find much relief, in the assistance of my son & expect that this relief will increase. My labors for the people have been much as in former years. When at the station I have uniformly had 3 services with the people on the sabbath, & often an extra meeting with the lunas of the chch. �Waialua 1856 During the week I uniformly hold a morning meeting on Wednesday & a catechetical school in the P.M. at the station & occasional meetings in other villages. I have spent 5 sabbaths at Kahuku & a number of week days; - have made three visits to Hauula spending the sabbath & the two or three preceding days at each visit. In my absence Bro. Gulick has conducted worship at the station the whole or a part of the day when well & at home. Samuel has also rendered some assistance in my absence, & has been frequently to Kahuku to aid in public worship Schools. Of these I can not report any thing more favorable than the Pres, of the Board of Ed. has done. Although the schools are kept up the qualifications of the teachers are not rising, nor is the number of the scholars Increasing, or the adaptation of their books to the end to be obtained. Our books on history both civil & Ecle- siastical, algebra, helu kamalii, & atlasses for the study of topical geography are not in our schools in Waialua or Koolauloa except a few parts of copies. But still our schools are doing good & must be continued till English Schools & English teachers can be substituted in their place. Of papal schools there is but one in Waialua & none in Koolauloa The one papal School in Waialua is taught by a female, & at the exam­ ination when I visited the school it had In all 13 scholars present, 3 of whom could read some & others were in monosyllables, but several of the younger ones were apparently under 4 years of age & knew only a part of the alphabet. The catholic priest strongly objected to my presence at the examination as it could not be for any good intent. It was the first time I had visited their school for many years; but if hereafter called upon to pay taxes for the support of native schools I shall be likely to claim the privilege of attending the examinations of the same whether they be papal or protestant. An English School has been in operation during nine months of the �Waialua 1856 past year under the tuition of Mr. W. Chamberlain, & has been quite popular among the natives. The attendance was from 40 to 50 scholars. The number of scholars in our native schools alone has been 115 added to the 50 in the Eng. School make in all 165 in a course of in ­ struction in Waialua. Five years ago there were 247 now 1/3 less. If the children in our native schools could all be brought into three English schools with good teachers, it would to me indicate progress in the right direction. General Improvemen t . Our people are doing some thing to improve their lands & increase their sources of wealth in flocks & herds, teams, carts, plows, &c. but the things to improve the mind & refine the taste are less sought than articles of mere show & ornament. But as the supply of one want makes way for two more to be supplied, so in the present case wants accumulate faster than the means to supply them. But this is only the sure indication of progress. State of Morals. Many things among us are far from what they should be, - far from what we would have them far from prosperous. Many do not keep the sabbath; some lie & steal, some commit adultery, some take false oaths, some contract debts without any apparent intention of paying them. Children are disobedient to their parents; parents neglect their child­ ren, & allow them to run at large with little or no restraint. Some parents, after solemnly promising to train up their children for the Lord, put them into other hands to get rid of the trouble of taking care of them. All of this is bad, far from what it should be; & what makes it appear worse is that, these evils are much more noticable ( !) now than they were 20 years ago. Then moral principle seemed to be in advance of a naked & uncivilized community. But civilization has ad­ vanced & now we expect much much more; & in reality we have it. We �W a i a l u a 1 8 5 6 4. have more strength of morral ( !) & religious character now than then; more by far who honestly & intelligently strive to keep the commands of God. The increase of wealth in Waialua the flocks & herds grazing upon the hills & plains & in the valleys belonging to perhaps a hundred different owners, & in a common pasture lay before the unprincipled a strong temptation to take & appropriate to themselves wealth that ten years since did not exist among them. As temptations multiply strength of character is proved. Hula, drinking rum &c to produce intoxication has for many years rarely occured in the district, common as in years past. Licenciousness is probably about as I fear it will long remain the Hawaiians crying sin, unless some more strenuous & efficient measures are taken to controll ( !) the young & produce habits of industry, economy & self-respect. Heresies. The papists are still In the land. They maintain their worship in one place only in Waialua & occasionally in one place in Koolau. But the number of those who ordinarily attend their worship is very small, probably less than 50. They have but one school of less than 20 scholars, where formerly they had ten schools & 150 or 200 scholars. The demeanor of the papal priest has of late been rather less arrogant than it was formerly; & he now virtually at least con­ fesses that his effort to revile protestants for taking up contri­ butions among the people for purposes of benevolence was not only un­ called for but suicidal. The Mormons are doing some thing among us - but nothing it is believed that strengthens any good cause. We have no expectation from present appearances that any thing but the chaff will be blown off & gathered in among them. They are not numerous, if increasing. �Waialua 1856 5. Progress of religion. On this topic we can not report any thing very encouraging the year past. Attendance on public worship on the sabbath has been pretty good especially at the morning service; but week day meetings have been thinly attended. worldliness have appeared among the people. Much luke-warmness & We have had nothing that could be called a revival of religion during the year. The young have been taken up to a great extent with horses & articles of gaiety; while Few the old have been striving to increase their wealth. Few have sought in earnest the way of life & salvation. We have recd to the fellowship of the Chch. but 11 & 5 of these by letter. 6 have been dismissed to other chchs. & 8 have died.- & 11 have been excommunicated from the fellowship of the chch. whole number now in regular standing is 390 Children baptized Our the past year 10 married 17 couple. The number of births in Waialua the past year has been 30 deaths 28 in Koolau (births ) 30 (deaths 50. A result in respect to popula­ tion altogether more favorable than has existed for many years. Contributions Our people have contributed the past year towards 44 their pastors support $ //3.13 of which $330.62 were contributed by the Chch at Waialua & the remainder by the Kahuku & Hauula Chchs. For Missions $78.15 Avails of books $19.12 & Elele $28. - $47.12 - & in addition to the above they have paid for school house & English teacher more than $300. Foreigners resident at the station about 30 sabbath keeping men. But few of whom are �Waialua Station Report for May, 1857. During the past year we, as a family & a station, have enjoyed at least an ordinary degree of health, & of other temporal blessings. The rains have come in their season & watered the earth abundantly & caused it to produce food both for man & beast; & the cry of famine or pestilence has not been heard among us. Industry & economy are increasing among the people; & as a consequent ( !) better habitations better enclosures, better agricultural implements, & more of them, are often to be found. Our people are now well nigh prepared for the enactment of a new law: viz. That “they, who cultivate fields, shall enclose them, or receive no damages for loss of crops," When fully prepared for such a law civilization & industry may be regarded as having made good progress. But progress in civilization generally has its attendant evils; The supply of one want creates two more; so that a liberal bestowment of goods in aid of benevolent objects often decreases in proportion as men’s worldly substance increases. Such has been the fact thus far to a greater or less extent with our people. This however is al­ most the inevitable consequent of progress. State of morals. Most of the people pay at least an external regard to the Sabbath & its institutions. A large portion of them abstain from labor, travelling &c. on the sabbath & attend public worship, at least occasionally. Yet some follow the example, so com­ monly set by foreigners, of making the sabbath their usual day for passing between Honolulu & Waialua. The hulahula, card-playing, adultery & drinking are now prac­ ticed with a considerable, degree of boldness by those whose taste it suits to follow them - they having high authority to back them up. But the number is not large of those who follow such practices. �Waialua 1857 2. The business of cultivating awa for commerce has lately been urged upon some of the people by authority from the Governor & His Royal Highness, Lot Kamehameha. The tool they selected to carry out their purpose over one whose influence has been greater in Waialua than that of any other native. But he now lies low in death. This morning his mortal remains were committed to the tomb. Tobacco patches are seen here & there growing with great luxurience. Coffee does not do well in our district & tea has not been tried to my knowledge. Whatever influence\ the missionary can judiciously use in re­ spect to either or all of these articles among the natives must be such as he can unhesitatingly use toward foreigners as well as natives. The cause of Christ has often been injured by straining at a gnat when the camel has been left in the dish. Schools. Our common schools although doing some thing are far inferior to what they were ten years ago. To obtain the books that we then had is impossible or others as good to supply their places To induce the young men, who are now taxed as men for all purposes of government, to attend school is beyond our power; & what is worse than all is the difficulty of obtaining a competent teacher for any one of our native schools. All among us, who are competent to teach, are wanted for more lucrative employments, such as judges, clerks, tax gatherers, cattle drivers, &c. &c. Then again, that the Govt should allow the wages of a teacher of English to be $800. per year, & that of a teacher of native to be at most but about $100. does not fall in very well with their notions of equality. teach our school at 25 of $600 per year. He that used to cts. per day is now a Judge with a salary Quite a contrast in the view of all* Unless some new arrangement can be made for our native schools, or some stronger �Waialua 1857 3. motive placed before those, who are competent to teach them, the progress must he retrograde. And I for one am well nigh\ persuaded that, if our native schools in Waialua were entirely suspended, & two competent teachers of English were placed here in their stead our prospects for a common education among the people would he better than they now are. English School. We have had one English school taught the past year, by Mr. W. Chamberlain - he has had about 50 pupils, &, although laboring under a serious disadvantage from deafness, his school is well & punctually attended by all his pupils, some of whom come daily 5 or 6 miles for instruction. While the native schools need their lunas to collect the children together, he has for almost two years found prompt attendance without any luna, & such was the experience of those who preceded him in that school I opened a school in English to be taught gratis for one month, admitting all children who did not attend Mr. C' s school. I had 50 scholars, & good attendance, & in some cases remarkable proficiency When the month was closed, Mr. Chamberlain recd quite an accession to his school as the result of my effort. Our native schools are now reduced to 3 or 4, where we had, 24 years since at least 16; & yet our population is about 1/2 as large as it was then. In September last we had a temperance celebration in connection with the examination of the English School, at which were rehearsed & sung, both in English & native, speeches & songs or hymns to the great interest of the community, of all classes, & creeds attending. This was followed by a very good repast, served up in good style & variety, & obviously attractive to the sharpened appetites of the many, who partook of the bounty. �Waialua 1857 4. Roads, Bridges, & Harbours. While improvements in many things are gradually advancing at the Isls . we are astonished at the short sighted policy of this Govt, which seems to confine all public improvements to the City of Honolulu. The Legislature appropriated the means for putting down an anchor in the Harbor of Waialua, & for repairing certain roads, very important to the progress of agriculture, & for the repair of bridges; but all to little effect; as he, with whom the appointment of supervision of roads is lodged, appoints no supervisors that we hear of, & leaves roads, bridges & harbors mainly as they were. While a goodly Siam must be expended for the war department, (better expended perhaps in killing bed-bugs & fleas) & another large sum, in filling up the sea, to provide for an exigency that will not soon arrive, if the country is not first laid open, by good roads, to the easy conveyance of produce to the market, Progress in civilization can never be great while facilities for inter-communication are poor, & inducements to agriculture small. Heresies. The spread & promotion of Mormonism. among us has cost for the past 4 or 5 years the efforts of two or three foreigners much of the time & a part of the time a larger number, together with the efforts of several young men of Hawaiian blood whose reputation for honesty chastity & truth has never been high. But the rise, progress, decline & fall of Mormonism among us might as well be written now as at any later date - were it worth any one's time to do it. They have no meetings of late in our districts, & no disciples who hold themselves ready to entertain them; & but here & there a stupid & stubborn one who will allow the name of Mormon to attach to him. Mr. Hyde’s & Kauahi's tract seems to have come in good time to finish up the work that was in progress before, viz. the developement ( !) of the rottenness �W a i a l u a 1857 5 of Mormonism. Popery is like a fire going out for the want of fuel. They have but one small school in the district of Wa i a l u a & none in Koolau. Their priest is a more quiet & peaceable, m a n than most of those who have b e e n among us, & perhaps on the whole good results f r o m his being among us. Incidents & labors of the year. I have made three visits to Hauula during the year & attended the communion there twice - Have been to Kahuku six or eight times & h a d four communion seasons there* Our religious exercises have b ee n as usual three on the sabbath, besides the sabbath school, wh i c h latter has of late been conducted by Samuel & his mother. We have h a d a meeting on Wednesday morning at the station, & a p art of the year one on thursday in some one of the School districts. M r . Gulick has often assisted i n the services when at the Station - Particularly in the E n g l i s h meeting, wh i c h has been uniformly attended at our house on Sabbath P.M. But he w ith his family has resided mos t of the year at P u n a h o u . The past year & the past w eek have b een marked by the death of Lot Kuok o aa a man of more than ordinary influence in the chch. & in t h e District of Waialua. He was a man of strong m i n d & persuasive eloquence & rarely f a i l e d to be found on the right side. He was of the old school & never could divert himself of the idea that the people were the property of the king & chiefs & bound to obey t hem in all things. Not a m o n t h before his d e a t h he pl e a d as an apology for having traveled f r o m Honolulu to Waialua some years since that the chiefs ordered him. to do it; & quoted thus "O k a mea hoolohe i ke hoolohe n o ia i ke Aku a " . ( 'lii �Waialua 1857 The chiefs have sustained a great loss to their influence as lords of the people in the death of Kuokoa; the chch. also will feel his loss. He was benevolent & kind industrious, & temperate & far in advance of most men of his age. Condition of the Chch. The past has been a year of pruning the vine & not of gathering in clusters among us. More individuals have been cut off from the chch. for fruitlessness than have been recd to it by profession of their faith; & most of those who have been cut off have been branches that for a long time have borne no fruit. 10 have been cut off from the Waialua Chch. for long habits of negligence & indifference to the means of grace, & 16 from the Kahuku Chch. for drunkness ( !) hulahula & neglect of public worship, & 11 have been removed by death, in all 37. while only 13 have been recd to the chch, 2 by profession & 11 by letter. We have now in the chch. quite a number of aged & infirm people & a few drones. But we trust that the major part of our present number are on the Lords side & will be numbered with his jewels. Our last communion seasons were marked by more than an ordinary degree of interest & inspired hope that the Lord is about to revisit his people, A few individuals appear to be fervent in prayer. The table of statistics is appended. Whole No. Recd on profession Whole " by letter Recd past year by profession " " " by letter Total receipts the past year Whole No. dismissed to other chchs. " " " past year Whole " died Died the past year Suspended the past year Remain suspended Excommunicated the past year Remain excommunicated Whole no in regular standing Whole no. child baptized Baptized the past year Married the past year 991 196 3 11 14 371 0 245 11 — 26 56 365 767 3 9 �Waialua 1857 7. Support of Pastor &c. The people of my charge have contributed for my support the past year in all $211.50 about $18. of which was given by Kahuku chch. & the rest by Waialua Chch. nothing has been paid me by the chch. at Hauula. There has been contributed for Missions abroad $67.37 1/2 & Recently there has been handed me for Kekela cash $11. Cloth &c $7.00 The Chch. at Hauula consider themselves indebted to me rising $50. which they have requested the Mis. Soc. to cansel (!) as they are at present unable to do it. Proposition for future arrangements. It is my opinion that the later ( !) letter of Mr. Anderson, recommending that our native Chchs. be divided up & native pastors be settled over them, is founded in wisdom; & ought to receive our immediate attention. I can not obtain my support nor 1/3 part of if from the three chchs. with which I am connected. But if the people were released from all obligation to assist in my support, & were induced to Settle three native pastors in colleague with me. (I mean Kuaea for one of the three) I think I could do more good the rest of my days in aiding them in their duties & in preparing them to take the charge of the field, when it may be vacated by me, than by holding it alone so long as I have strength to do it. Waimalu also needs help very much at Waianae, & such help as I think I might render him were I in a condition to do it. I grant that I or any of my brethren can do all the work of our stations more easily alone than with a colleague. But that I think is not the point we should aim it ( !). It should be to prepare our field for native pastors & native pastors for our fields. If the A.B.C.F.M. will pay me $600. annually as a part of my support I will relinquish all claims upon the people for future support & devote myself more to preparing them for native pastors. Respectfully Submitted, J/ S. Emerson �Brief report of Waialua Station Feb. 24, 1860 On the eve of leaving the Isls. for a short visit to the U. States with Mrs. Emerson, I report briefly in respect to my station & labors the past 3/4 of a year. Our daily morning prayer meetings have been well sustained, our congregations on the sabbath have been larger than the two previous years. - The sabbath school managed by my son & Mrs. Emerson has been unusually well attended. Much of the time Mrs. E. has attended a meeting with the women on friday & attended one & sometimes two singing schools per week. The pastor has had a Theological School on Satur­ day afternoon most of the year - has had three communion seasons at Waialua, assisted the pastor at W aianae in sifting & reorganizing his Church. 5 days - visited the Chch. at Hauula twice, & made repeated attempts to gather together the scattered flock left by Kekela at Kahuku; but with poor success. While intemperance & adultery are increasing among the ungodly, the Lord has not left his people here without some tokens of his favor. Twenty seven have been added to the chch. by profession & nineteen by letter. Marriages have been 8 couple & deaths about twice as numerous as the births. 51 deaths & 25 births. My own health is much better than it was ten months since, although my nervous system has received a shock from which it has not fully recovered. Mrs. E. is also much worn down. We now hope to visit the U. States & to be absent from the Islands ten or eleven months. so clearly pointed out as now. A duty which we have never before seen May it be of the Lord, for good to us & to his cause. Emerson �Waialua 1860 Statistics of the Chch at Waialua Feb. 24, 1860. Whole No. on Prof recd to Chch. " " " Certif Past year on prof " " " Certif 1031 227 27 19 Total past year 46 Whole number dismissed 73 Dismissed the past year Total deceased 1 267 Deceased the past year 5 Excluded the past year 4 Remain excluded Now in reg. Standing 325 �(Abstract) Waialua, J.S. Emerson (1861) The church have enjoyed some revival, 84 added by profession, 6 by letter, & 20 restored to fellowship. Owing to the absence of the pastor, but 3 communions the past year. Contributions in cash fewer than usual, for pastor $193. - for mo concert $35. - $228. Habits of the people are improving. buildings improving. Industry is increasing & Demands for the products of the soil are small, Horses & meat cattle of little value. Schools - better attended than last year. attended. Sabbath Schools well Many of the youth have become hopefully pious. Our congregations are large on the sabbath - morning prayer meetings daily attended, & a meeting on Thursday is well filled, en­ quiry meetings are held every week. General intelligence slowly increasing - Christian character is becoming more reliable. A little increase in the population the past 4 years. Mormonism is dead; Papists diminished �Waeanae ( !) - J.S. Emerson (Abstract 1861) This church has been blessed with some revival the past year, & 78 have been added to their number, nearly all by their late pastor, Waimalu, who died in October last. The church is poor, ill-informed & but partially supplied with book(s) or periodicals, but in a more orderly & hopeful condition than a year ago. Contributions about $200, in part to support their former pastor & in part to liquidate their debts. They have erected a new meeting house in a remote school district, & are still in debt over $100. Sabbath & day schools are moderately useful. The church has had three conmunion seasons the past year; two since the death of their pastor. Their roads have been entirely neglected the past four years, & are very bad. Their property, - horses & cattle, almost valueless, & many will die for lack of food. They desire a native sub-pastor & may perhaps pay him $150. per year. �Report of Waiahae Station for May 1862. I have visited the Church at Waianae five times since our last General Meeting, ocupying ( !) five days in each visit. My labor with the church has consisted in stirring them up by preaching the gospel, conversing with them individually so far as I had opportunity, & ad­ ministering discipline when required. There are some good men in that Chch. but never having enjoyed the constant labor of an intelli­ gent pastor, they have not learned to bear the yoke & draw together in harmony. The Chch. has received no additions the past year, but several deaths have occured ( !) several dismissions & more excisions. There still remain quite a number on the list of members, who would probably be cut off if the lunas were more active & faithful in their duties. The dry branches intertwining with those that would otherwise bear fruit are a great evil in the Waianae Church. While with them in July last a report was brought to my ears that an apostate from brother Clarke’s ( !) Chch. had stated in Waianae & repeatedly, that there was not a native minister in the Sandwich Isls . who had not been guilty of adultery, &, as I understood it, while in the ministry. The statement did not seem to trouble the people much. But, for the honor of our native ministry, I felt bound to try & prove it false & slanderous, at least in its relation to Waianae. I first enquired of the Deacon - the ex-Judge of the district whether the re­ port so far as related to their former pastor were true. He said that such was the general belief, & yet there had never been any proof of it before the Ghch. I then sent for the supposed guilty woman, a church member, &, to my astonishment, she confessed all that had been reported of them. She professed penitence for her sin & a readiness to make a public confession before the church, which she did do the next sabbath. �2. Waianae 1862 This confession roused the anger of Waimalu’s sons, & they threatened the woman & also the pastor with legal prossecution ( !) for defaming the dead. Waimalu’s widow acknowledged that she had sus­ pected her husband of guilt, but he had constantly denied it. With this guilt resting upon him Waimalu administered the Lords supper & recd more than seventy to the Chch. but was taken with symptoms of paralysis in the midst of the exercise. The next day being relieved he went in-land to superintend the building of some stone wall, was siezed with a relapse & died before he could be got back to his house. The circumstances connected with Waimalu’s ministry, life & death suggest questions of vital importance, in relation to the placing of native pastors in full charge of churches, & suggest enquiries like this Ought any man who is even suspected of adultery while in the church to be ordained as a gospel minister in these Islands? The Church at Waianae have hired Koliko, one of Bro. Bishops divinity students, to labor among them for one year; & are to pay him $100 per year. He appears pretty well & I hope will be useful. The debt of the Chch. is mainly paid off but not entirely. people with few exceptions are poor. The Most of the land Is either sold, or under lease, to foreigners. Two or three smaller lands are under lease to natives. The people are generally living on the old konohiki (one man in charge, with others under him) system; & to get pasturage for their, worse than worthless, horses is the burden of their effort through the year. The population of the district is decreasing; schools are de­ creasing in numbers, although the teachers are trying to do all they can for their pupils. Sabbath schools are attended with some interest, but the number of attendants is small. �Waianae 1862 5 There is a goodly number of adults in this district w h o appear to prize the Wo r d of God, & listen to the instructions of the Sanctuary w i t h mu c h interest. What God has done for this people is n o t to b e lightly estimated, that he w i l l do more & better things is t o be h o p e d & praye d for. Statistics of the Chch, I have as yet failed to get. receive t h e m soon, enough for our minutes. But hope to �Report of Waialua Station May 1862 The past year with us has been more miscelanious ( !) than any year of our residence at the Isls. Returning from our journey to the U. States but just before our last General Meeting, both Mrs. E . & myself have found the work of two years thrown upon one. especially heavy upon the mother of many sons. This bears I have spent 49 days of the year in visiting the Chchs. at Waianae & Hauula; & all our churches have required increased attention from the fact that they were all increased by large additions the year before. The past year 8 have been recd to the Waialua chch. by profession & 7 by letter while 8 have died & 8 have been excommunicated & one has been restored to fellowship, so that our number is the same as at the beginning of the year. We have had a daily prayer meeting at the station & much of the time in several of the school districts connected with the station & on thursdays a lecture in some one of the school districts. day-meetings are usually rather thinly attended. But week Our reading of the Scriptures through in company is now in progress for the eighth time, & in my opinion is a valuable institution for our people. One of the chapters for the sabbath day; not unfrequently furnishes the text for one of the sermons on the Sabbath. Improvements. The past year our people have built no meeting houses, nor school houses, have purchased no bells, nor broken any. Neither have we started any new plantations, have constructed no new roads or bridges; & till within the past few weeks have not kept our old roads in repair. Our people have gone into no great excesses e ither of dances, bacchanalian revels, card playing or such like things. But there have been improvements. During the past few weeks our roads have been put into better �Waialua 1862 5 our mean horses met a like fate, So that we expect a somewhat improved breed of horses & cattle from this evil, & no thanks to man for the blessing. Our roads have within the past few weeks been very much improved so that a one or two horse team many now pass with ease in six or 7 hours between Honolulu & Waialua. We have the prospect of still greater improvements in roads & bridges so that we may hope to pass with much ease & safety between Honolulu & Hauula. Our population is not increasing unless it may be by immigration. Deaths the past year in Waialua 53 Births 36 - decrease 17; & perhaps about that number have entered the district during the year. Our chch. at Waialua has recd but 8 additions by profession, & 7 by letter, while 8 have been removed by death & 8 by discipline so that our number is about the same as it was one year ago. Deaths of those who have at any time been members of our church are 610 so far as is ascertained. My time has been much occupied in visits among the people & meetings with the different chchs. The Oahu Clerical association has met twice during the year, once at Hauula & once at Honolulu. Its meetings have been conducted with great harmony, & are productive of much good especially to those of us who live some what remote from the metropolis. The exercises are almost entirely in English, as three or four of our members do not understand the native language. In September, we formed a conference of Chchs for Oahu at Haaula, which had its second meeting at Honolulu, in February. The business of this conference, is conducted entirely in the native language, & is attended by five native delegates from each of the native Chchs. on the Island. No measure has been adopted on Oahu, which promises �Waialua 1862 2. repair than they have been in for two years before. A few natives have built them wooden houses some with shingled roofs, others are collecting materials to do the same. A few are trying experiments in rice, others in cotton, But the latter have generally been un­ successful. Our schools are about as they were a year ago both as to numbers & interest. The lack of suitable school-books is an obvious hindrance to their progress; & teachers do not seem to be in advance of those we had 15 or 20 years ago. The Sabbath School is receiving the kind & anxious attention of Mrs. Emerson, Samuel & Levi Chamberlain with some native teachers of classes. Although the number of scholars is much smaller than it should be, the influence of the school is very happy. The progress of our people in every desirable thing is slow & spasmodic. thing moves by impulses. Every One month we get up an Agricultural Society; & talk bravely of planting rice, cotton, coffee, Sugar &c. &c. but before three months are past, our society sleeps apparently the sleep of death, unless the missionary consents to be its soul & body too. We get up an effort to fence our cultivated lands & secure them from the depridation of cattle but the enthusiasm subsides when the job is half done, & so of a hundred other things. A nation, that is born in a day, will require generation to mature in. It was so with the Israelites, it mast be expected to be so of Hawaiians. The almost total lack of rain during the latter part of the year 1860 & all of 1861 has caused a great scarcity of food for man & for beast. But rains of late have been abundant & the beast of the field rejoice, while vegetable food for man is yet very scarce. But famine is not without its blessings. Our poor cattle were slaughtered by hundreds to prevent the starvation of many & some of �Waialua1862 4. so much toward enlightening & harnessing in to the work the lay mem­ bers of cur Chchs. as this. We hope that the conference will he long perpetuated & increase in usefulness. Trials & pleasures of the way. One of our Chch. members of 28 years standing, who has during this period withstood the temptations to which many others have yield­ ed, & on the whole conducted very well as a Christian, has, during the past few months, fallen into a quarrel with a brother in-law, a very small matter, but so contumacious, blind & deaf to all counsel has he shown himself that we were obliged to set him aside from the com­ munion. Upon this he has broken loose from every chord that bound him to his brethren; & he now acts like the man who became re-possessed of 7 unclean spirits instead of one. But it is possible he will yet come to his senses & be a better man than before. It was the deaf & dumb foul spirits that baffled the power of Christs disciples; & such are probably the hardest cases to be dealt with. The case allu­ ded to Is deaf to all instruction, but as he is not dumb, there is possible the more hope ------- that he will be brought to repentance. We have two other cases of a more interesting character, who left the Chch. & enlisted for Satan in connection with Keawehunahalo's rebellion. And one of them at the time declared he had enlisted to serve during the war. So he in a particular manner plunged into almost every excess of drunkness (! ), falsehood perjury & sabbathbreaking, speaking often great swelling words of vanity. But for the past few months both of these have been constant & interested hearers of the word & usually are found in the morning prayer-meeting, humble & apparently in their right mind sitting at the feet of Jesus. It is truly marvelous to see how the Spirit of God changes the tiger, the lion, & the swine to the docile & confiding lamb. One of them �Waialua 1862 says that while pride would not allow him to come & confess his sins, the sound of the church going bell was a dreadful sound to him, & while others went to the house of God he often went & read his Bible to try & atone for his neglects. Thanks to the Lord that some appar­ ently hardened rebels have a conscience within to trouble them. Bible reading. We are now reading the Bible through with our people the eighth time; &, almost every day, I find a chance to throw some light on the chapter for the day in a little gathering of our people. The amount of scripture knowledge obtained & the increasing ability to receive more manifested by our constant & daily Bible readers are to me circumstances of deep interest. The day of fasting & prayer appointed by the president of the U. States our annual thanksgiving & the day of fasting & prayer for schools & colleges were observed by many of our people with much interest. Our chch. has contributed the past year in cash, For Mo Concert Support of pastor In all $ 35.25 297.03 330.28 Beside this some small bundles have been sent to missionaries in the Marquesas Isls. Our contributions are small, & the people feel poor. The proper­ ty in which they abound & from which their means have been to a great extent obtained in former years, has the past year been of no value, & in many instances only a bill of expense. In the Chchs. under my care I find there is a very great negli­ gence among the members in bringing forward their children for bap­ tism. Perhaps the fault is in part my own, as I have uniformly refused to baptize those children that the parents intended to give away to their friends. I also have refused to baptize adopted children for �Waialua 1862 6. our church members when the form prescribed by the laws of the Kingdom to make adoption legal had not been complied with - As the duty of church members to have their children baptized is one in which we are generally agreed & yet our practice may be diverse I should like to be instructed on the subject by this body. Statistics of the Waialua Chch. 1862 Total received by Prof by letter Past year by prof by letter total total dismissed past year total died ” past year Excluded past year Now in reg - standing Children baptized Baptized past year Marriages Born in Waialua died 1123 230 8 7 15 73 0 282 8 8 408 705 1 14 36 53 �Report of Waialua Station, Oahu. May, 1863. The past year has been marked by no very extraordinary events to make it unlike the years that have gone before. We have had sick­ ness in our family; but death has not entered our dwelling. We are conscious that as we commence the thirity ( !) second year of our resi­ dence at the islands, we have not the elasticity of limb with which we entered the field, nor the buoyant hope of living to see around us a civilized, industrious, thriving congenial and homogenious race of people. ”The fathers where are they? ” book of church names is badly starred. The first thirty pages of my The first page contains but four names of living church members; and many pages are starred from top to bottom. Out of 1166 who have been registered as church members at least 622 are numbered with the dead. More than half have departed. There are now living 48 who have at different times, and for reasons that appeared sufficient at the time, been cut off from the fellow­ ship of the church. Of these 48, about twelve are now numbered with the Papists, and six or eight have joined the Mormon Fraternity. Of the rest some ten or twelve are frequently seen with us in the house of God on the Sabbath day. Many of those who joined the Papists did it to avoid all contributions for every religious object. Those who have united with the Mormons have done it knowing that with their habits of life they could never be expected to be fellowshiped ( !) by us. There are a number of names on our church book that we have neither excommunicated nor dismissed, and I have not learned their locality; although not numbered with the dead, we do not reckon them with the living; so in the table they will be unaccounted for. The past year I have spent ten Sabbaths away from Waialua, four with the church in Waianae, five with the church in Hauula, and one in Honolulu. My routine of labors has been much as in past years. �Waialua 1863 2. A morning prayer meeting every day in the week; usually two other meetings during the week, a lecture in some part of Waialua, and on Friday a lesson in scripture history at the station. On the Friday previous to the communion, we have a day of religious exercises, when all of the church in the district are expected to be present, and answer to their names. are very laborious. These preparatory meetings for the communions Sometimes the whole week is devoted to conversing a few minutes with each member of the church. Such personal conver­ sations are undesired and disagreeable only to those who are negligent & wandering. Our church has not been increased the past year, except by letter, either in Waialua, Waianae or Hauula. If there has been any progress among us in anything good it has been by growth in grace, or by the lopping off of dead or unfruitful branches. The winnowing process has been carried on somewhat extensively; and, we trust, to the advantage of all our churches. In this we have been especially aided by a company of very unclean Mormons, who by flattery and false­ hood are able to beguile unstable, ignorant and unfruitful professors of religion, and many who were once professors, but have apostatized. But so marked is the difference between our stable church members and the Mormon community, even the least among them, that all can tell a Mormon by his peculiar fruits. Papists. Our Papist neighbors embrace nominally about one fifth of the community. Iokeewe, their priest, is a Frenchman, naturally irascible, but now in poor health, and advanced in years. He improves, I think, as he grows older, and the little community of which he is the center is becoming a more staid, liberal, Intelligent and respectIble ( !) community than in former years; and, although as a community far below the Evangelical Protestants, in education, industry, wealth and business tact, yet they are far above the Mormons in Industry, morals, and every desirable trait. �Waialua 1863 Of the English Reformed Catholics we have hut few specimens; and, so far as we have seen them, they are well described by their own poet, - "Baptized infidels, the worse for mending, "Washed to fowler stains", confirmed in their sins, not purified from them. We can but marvel that the church of England, with all her knowledge and tact at finan­ ciering, could not have found among the millions of unevangelized pagans some spot on which to bestow her Christian liberality in some more praiseworthy manner, and on some more needy & promising people than they can find at these Isls . after the field has been so fully cultivated for more than one third of a century. But some men do not blush to reject Paul's good advice to the Corrinthians ( !) (2d 10:16) "To preach the gospel in the regions beyond, and not to boast in another man’s line of things, made ready to their hand." Population. The population of Waialua in 1854 was 1137, and in 1860 it was 1309; an increase by immigration of nearly 200. While in Koolauloa the population in 1854 was 1214, but is now less than that of Waialua. 62. The births in Waialua the past year were 41, deaths In no year have the births exceeded the deaths since 1853; but generally they have been only two thirds as numerous. Why has the population in Waialua increased, while it has decreased in every other rural district of the island, if not of the whole group? only one way to account for it. I have There is more land owned by common natives in Waialua than in any other district of Oahu; and the people are less oppressed by foreign land owners than in any other district; and so they increase by immigration faster than they decrease by excess of deaths above the births. Famine. Waialua is the granary of the west of Oahu. Its capa­ bilities for the production of kalo have not been fully tested of late years, nor are they likely soon to be, as the people do not calculate �4. Waialua 1863 to cultivate any more than they expect to find a good market for near home. Some portions of Waialua and a part of Koolau have suffered severely from drought the past three years. manner has lost its kalo crop for two years. Waimea in an especial They have used up their money in buying food, and are now in a state of great destitution. (Unsigned) �Report of Waianae Station (1863) The district of Waianae contains about 700 people at the present time, about one half of the number it contained twenty five or thirty years ago. The land is mainly adapted to grazing. Fifty or a hundred acres may be fit for kalo; and 500 for the plow in favorable seasons. The pasture land is divided into six or seven divissions ( !); and secured to as many parties or individuals on long lease or fee simple titles. These six or seven parties may be called the lords of the soil, and of the people; as they controll ( !) much of the time of the people in pay for the pasturage of their horses, of which they are very fond, and own a far too large number for their good. The kalo land of the d i s trict, as now cultivated, furnishes but little more food than Is consumed by the people. Fish and fungus are the principal commodities of export for the common people; and fishermen are pro­ verbially poor from ancient times. There are now two schools with about twenty five scholars apiece. There is a mission church, and two buildings for worship, and two places for meetings, about eight miles apart. Besides the mission church there is a company of Papists, not well organized, influential or industrious. There is also a company who call themselves Mormons. These consist generally of persons who have been cut off from the Protestant church for indifference to all its ordinances, or adultery, or both, and also of that class who, being very ignorant, have never been members of any church, and who are promised life, health and sal­ vation by joining the Mormons. This costs them little more than to submit to be immersed in water, an act which is not very trying to them in any way . The church of Waianae has been under a native pastor for ten or twelve years till the death of Waimalu in the year 1860. It was then �Waianae 1863 2. without a pastor except as I have attended its communious( ) four times ! per year, up to the present time. During the past year, ending in April last, they have had the services of a native licentiate, at one hundred dollars per annum. But, as the pay was so inadequate to his necessities, he had devoted more of his time to agriculture than to the cultivation of the people. The church hoped to get out of debt by giving little for the gospel, but it has been otherwise. They have now concluded to do without any pastoral labor between the communion seasons until they may again be in funds, which I fear will not soon take place. In the time of Waimalu there were nominally in the church between 200 & 300 members. Of these 277 have died; and, during the past two years, 33 have been cut off from the church. Sixty one who were once In the church are now living as excluded members. There are many aged persons still living in the church who are too feeble to go far to meeting, or contribute anything for the support of the gospel. The members who can be relied on for aid in supporting the gospel is probably less than one hundred. No additions have been made to the church during the past year, except that one has been restored to its communions. At the communion in October, 1862 19 were cut off, nearly all of them for living in a state of socialism in its fullest sense, and in which, as I afterwards learned, some of them had lived for many years. I have visited the church four times during the year; and spent nearly a week on each visit, holding a communion with the church, and meeting the people repeatedly in different parts of the district. There is little prospect of the population’s increasing for years to come, but the opposite, as no part of the district is suitable for an extensive sugar plantation. There are in Waianae, generally ten or twelve white or half white people who speak the English language. �Waianae 1863 3. But their influence is far from being favorable to religion. They need the labors of a good, faithful native pastor, and he to be helped by missionary visits, to secure his support, and help forward any good he may aim to accomplish. Wai­ alua Waia­ nae Whole number of church members on profession 1066 582 Whole number by certificate — 102 Received past year on profession of faith 0 1 " " by certificate 5 0 Whole number past year 5 1 " " dismissed to other churches 365 39 ’’ past year 0 16 " " died 333 277 " past year 13 16 — Suspended past year —— Excommunicated past year 9 33 Total excommunicated 88 61 Living do 48 Total in regular standing 348 160 Total children baptized 720 66 Children baptized past year 15 16 Married past year -10 Contributions for pastor $276.87 (Unsigned) Hauula 651 39 0 2 2 21 6 250 8 36 265 177 9 10 �Waialua June 1865 Report of J.S. Emerson’s labors. During the past year since June last I have partially supplied the pulpit at Waialua 16 sabbaths conducted 12 of the communions, & also attended the communions in Koolau loa at Hauula & Kahana. I have uniformly attended a reading & prayer meeting at sunrise on the Sabbath & conducted also Bible school Sabbath noon when at Waialua - I have attended somewhat to the medical wants of the people & visited some what among the people. My health is gradually improving but it is not such as would enable me to read with ease & correctness for any length of time in any language - There is as I think a slight paraly­ sis of both of the optic nerves which prevents ready & acute vision although It does not acquaint with the cause of the defect, or produce any pain in the organs of vision. A portion of my time - perhaps the largest has been ocupied ( !) in supervising some small matters connected with my family, but without much hand labor on my part - The Mormons have come into our field & done more to injure it than Bishop Staley & all his staff. But the low state of religion among the people - Horse racing, Gambling & card playing & the great lack of family religion & parental govt have troubled me more than all else - If family religion is neglected little else can avail to produce a reform. (Unsigned; done in pencil) � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mission Station Reports - Oahu Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mission Station Reports - Oahu - Waialua / Waianae - 1832-1865 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, 1846, 1848, 1849, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1865