https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/446da62d9b673f54490a338fb7ce51ea.pdf e01f801252ee838a0bed3f9385ba59c3 PDF Text Text r •• - U N P U B L I S H E D Records of a General Meeting of the Sandwich Islands Mission Held at Honolulu, 1823. CCopied from the original found in the vault of the iifawaiian Mission Children’s Society, January, 1942. - M. SchleifJ �rt 2. Records of a General Meeting of the Sandwich islands Mission Held at Honolulu, 1823. ClnsertJ Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Cp.ll Thurston Ellis Bingham Richards Bishop Dr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Blatchely Goodrich Ely Ruggles Chamberlain & Mr. Loomis At a meeting of the brethren of the mission on Monday Sept 8th 1823. Mr. Bingham was chosen moderator and Levi Chamberlain Secy. Resolved that it is desirable to hold a prayer meeting this evening with reference to the important business about to come before the mission and that at the close of it the report of the Com. for the satisfactory distribution of means of support shall be read. Resolved that there be a meeting tomorrow at 9 o'cl, to attend to the reading of the report of the Deputation for explog. Hawaii. Adjourned Tuesday Sept 9th. Being assembled agreeably to the fore­ going resolution, & the meeting having been opened by pray­ tp.2} er by Mr Ellis, Mr. Bishop proceeded to the reading of C/».a3 report of the DeputationAfor exploring Hawaii. Agreed not to act upon this report nor upon the report of the Committee for the satisfactory distribution of the means of support at the meeting. Meeting for business adjourned to 2 o’clock this afternoon. �Cl823j Insert 3 The adjourned meeting having been opened by prayer by Mr. Goodrich the report of the committee for the satisfact­ ory distribution of the means of support was-again read & accepted for further investigation & consideration. Motioned & seconded that the several articles of the report be acted upon separately. Discussed the 1st and 2nd article, and passed them separately. Adjourned to § after 7 this evening. Met according to adjournment and discussed & accepted Zp-3l the 3 & 4th articles & then adjournment to 9 o ’clockAto­ morrow morning. Wednesday Sept. 10th Met according to adjournment. The meeting having been opened by addressing the throne of grace for divine direction proceeded to the discussion of the 5th article - after discussing it for some time and not agreeing, the meeting was adjourned for half an hour - being assembled again not agreeing to pass it in the original form, it was motioned & agreed to pass It by for the present & act upon the remaining articles. Discussed the remaining art­ icles & unanimously accepted them and adjourned to 2 o'clock. Met according to adjournment. The 5th article In en amended form was brought forward & read, and unanimously passed. I*Hi Proceeded to the choice by balot CsicJ of an ^igent to superintend the depository. chosen. Levi Chamberlain was unanimously �ri825l Insert 4 Motioned that Hawaii be occupied by establishing one or b more stations thereon as soon as circumstances will admit & passed. Motioned that 4 persons be employed to occupy Hawaii. Unanimously passed. Motioned that Kalrua & Waiakea be the places to be occupied. Unanimously passed. Motioned that the persons be chosen by balot CsicJ. Elected Rev. Asa Thurston, Rev. Artemas Bishop, Mr. Joseph Goodrich, Mr. James Ely to be the persons to occupy the two stations. Adjourned until immediately after tea. Met according to adjournment. Voted to reconsider the choice of Mr. Ely as one of the persons Ato occupy Hawaii owing to Mr. E. CsicJ decided pre­ ference for Tauwal & his dissatisfaction with his election for Hawaii. Resolved to proceed to the choice of a fourth person for Hawaii to be permanently settled there or remove ss the ad­ vantages of the mission at large may require. After much conversation upon the foregoing motion & not coming to any­ thing decisive on the subject voted to adjourn to 6 o ’clock tomorrow morning. Thursday Sept 11th. Met according to adjournment the meeting having been opened by prayer proceeded to the dis­ cussion of the subject CofU last evening, viz. the choice of a fourth person. Voted that the offer of br. Ruggles to be �(18231 Insert 5 stationed at Walakea with an ordained missionary for one year & a half or two years as hia health may admit or cir­ cumstances require to assist in the settlement of that stat­ ion be accepted. Adjourned to 9 o'clock. A Cp.6j ^ Met according to adjournment. Conversed upon the propriety of the doctors Csl<0 comply­ ing with the request of the king to go up to Maui to render medical aid to the kings Csic} mother now ill. Voted that Dr. Blatchely be recommended to comply with the request upon condition of his not being absent from this place many days. Motioned that the questions concerning the location of Hawaii be postponed for the present & passed. Adjourned. Friday Sept 12. At an adjourned meeting after looking to the throne of grace for divine guidance the following resolu­ tions were discussed & unanimously passed. It shall be deemed proper, that each family should enjoy Clnsert a suitable dwelling house, or that which shall be equal to it in anv other suitable accommodations for cooking & washing - & that each handwrit ingest at ion should be accommodated with a bell or laome substitute for calling together a school or a congregation, with a spy glass, a quadrant and navigator, a timepiece, - An encyclo­ pedia or some valuable dictionary of the arts, a chest of tools, - A universal gazeteer and atlas - and Scott's Bible Provided that in the order of procuring their order their comparative necessity shall be duly considered. - �CL8231 Insert 6 Also that each station shall at liberty to decide for itself the expediency of living in separate family's & cooking & washing at separate fires - and to make any regula­ tion for itself, not repugnant to our general rules. Voted that Mrs. Ruggles be allowed to draw 14 dollars from the Depository in consequence of the donation from her brother designed for herself being paid into the Treasury of the Board. CEnd of insert^ Voted that a committee of three be appointed to prepare and bring forward business to be acted upon at future meet­ ings. Made choice by nomination of Mr. Bingham, Mr. Thurston, & Mr. Loomis. Adjourned. Sept. 18th. Voted that the station at Jionoruru be allow­ ed to proceed In the building of the stone house across the way contiguous to the printing house. Monday Septr. 29. Met to consult what measures it Is best to adopt in regard to Hawaii. by Mr Stewart. Meeting opened by prayer Voted that brother Thurston be requested to make choice of one of the two stations to be occupied on Hawaii. Mr. T. having signified his willingness to be stat­ ioned at K fKallual consequently passed the following C O voted that with the consent & full approbation of Mr. Thurston Cp.Jl he be appointed to occupy Kalrua for^the ensuing year with a view to the reconsidering of his location after that term �(18250 Insert 7 if he shall request it. Adjourned till 2 o'ck. Met according to adjournment. Meeting opened by prayer by Mr. Thurston..... .................. A motion to reconsider the vote in the mission resolved to occupy two stations on Hawaii was presented & negatived. Ad journed...................... . Met Wednesday evening Oct. 1st...... Meeting opened by prayer by Mr. Goodrich. Voted that the brethren designated for Hawaii constitute a committee to de­ vise a plan for their own distribution. Adjourned to 9 o ’ck tomorrow. £Oct. 2, 1823} Met according to adjournment. Meeting opened by prayer by Mr. Bishop. The brethren designated for Hewall not agreeing as to the manner to distrlLP.^ buting their number,^therefore motioned that the mission pro­ ceed to assign Mr. Bishop & Mr. Goodrich to tfteli- respective stations by balot Cslc} The balot Csicl being taken Mr. Bishop was assigned to Walakea and Mr. Goodrich to Kairua. Voted that Dr. Blatchely be requested & allowed to make his choice of a station either at Kairua, Lahaina, or Honoruru, where he shall suppose he can best subserve the Inter­ ests of the mission for the present year. Voted that Mr. Ely be allowed to choose his station. Adjourned to 2 o'clock. �fl825j Inaert 8 Voted that the misaion approve of Mr. Ely1a choice of Tauwai. Voted/ that Dr. Blatchely be requested to give an explan'ation pt wh#t he^has st^ggested as to unfavorable stories. Voted that Mr. Bishop be this committee. Adjourned. Met Friday Oct. 3. ttee of ways & means. Attended to the report of the commi­ Voted to accept the report. Adjourned. Met Thursday evening Octr. 9th Voted to reconsider the motion respecting the location of Messrs. Bishop & Goodrich. adjourned to 9 o ‘clk tomorrow morng. Friday Oct. 10th. Met according to adjournment. Voted to assign Mr. Bishop to Kairua. Voted that the thanks of the mission be presented to brother & sister Ruggles for the voluntary & liberal offer of their services to assist in planting a station at Walakea, begging to decline accepting the offer on account of our intp.iO ability to comply ^with the terms of it. Voted, that should Br & Sister Ruggles feel at liberty to offer their services towards planting a station at Waiakea in company with Br. Goodrich, receiving such aid as may be offered from this or from any other station, & as the �r 0.8251 Insert 9 brethren may think adequate to the establishment of that station, - that offer would be gratefully accepted. Voted that Mr. Goodrich be assigned to Welakea. Br. Ruggles having offered hlnself on satisfactory terms to assist In planting a station on Hawaii:- Voted that he be appointed to lalakea for a year & an half or two years in connexion with Mr. G. as his health may admit or circumstances # require. Voted that we approve of a contemplated exchange of Cf>• '"O stations for a few months between Mr. Bishop & Mr. Ely. cp-'O Met Oct. 15. evening. The report of the Deputation for Exploring Hawaii was again presented and accepted. Voted that a Committee of two be appointed to receive the report, minutes & journals of the deputation appointed for ex­ ploring Hawaii, & from those prepare a narrative of the tour, embodying the best information on the subjects of their inquiry with a view to its being frwd. to the London Miss. Soc. & to the American Board. Voted that Mr. Ellis & Mr. Bingham be this committee. Adjourned. �Report of the Committee for the Distribution Of the Meens of Supoort Cl823J The committee appointed to recommend some method for the satisfactory distribution of donations & other means of support, beg leave to recommend the following resolutions, founded on standing rules of the Board, "that at every miss­ ionary station, the earnings of the members of the mission, end all moneys & atlcles Cslcl of different kinds, received by them or any of them directly from the funds of the Board, or In way of donation, shall, constitute common stock, from which they shall severally draw their support, in such pro­ portion & \inder such regulations, as may from time to be Csicl found desirable & be approved by the Board or Pruden­ tial Committee. All the members of the mission shall feel it an indispensable duty to practice the strictest economy.” Res.1st That a depository be established at this place, to which shall belong all the earnings of the different members of the mission, all the supplies sent out by the Board, and all the undivided, & common property of the Mission. Res.2ndly That an agent shall be appointed, whose duty It shall be to superintend the depository, to procure supplies fdf* it & distribute said supplies, according to rules to be here­ after adopted. Res.3dly That it be the duty of each station to transmit to the agent a quarterly account of the state of its supplies, of its wants & its prospects. This quarterly report shall em­ brace in sepparate CsicJ Items, an account of expenses for H �ri825l Insert 11 building, and repairing houses, making fences, labour not em- Lp,zj Cp.2] braced in the foregoing particulars, fuel, purchases from ships, fresh meat of every kind, vegitables Cslc3, and mis­ cellaneous articles. In the seme report shall be embraced a list of all necessary articles of support received from the natives & from foreign visitants designed for the use of the station. Res.4thly That whenever supplies shall be received at any station, unless such supplies are nescessary Csic3 for the immediate use of the station, an account shall be transmitted to the general agent, and the supplies shall be considered as belong ing to the depository, although they may not be removed, un­ less directed by the agent for the necessary supply of other stations. Res.5thly That all donations made to individuals shall be enjoyed by the individual for whom they were designed, unless by his grossed own choice they shall be placed in the depository; provided out on origin- however that all necessary articles of provision shall be al} considered as belonging to common stock. It shall moreover be the duty of every individual receiving presents in connect ion with the quarterly report of his station, to transmit a general inventory of such things as can be regarded as art­ icles of support: and no individual shall draw on the depos­ itory for such or similar articles as he shall have received in private donation, without giving an account of what he out has received. C^nd of crossed/paragraph} ^Insert! Resolved 5th that all donations made to individuals of the mission in money, clothing, merchandize, furniture and �Cl823] Insert 12 utensils, necessary articles of provision, comforts & luxur­ ies, may be enjoyed by the individuals for whom they were specially designed and applied to any purpose, not incompat­ ible with the rules and instructions of the Boerd or Pru. Com. and the members thus receiving donations shall give our general agent such an account of them as may be needful to guide him In the due distribution of the general means of support - making a distinction between articles Intended as general support, & mere tokens of personal regard, p ^ d of insert] Res. 6thly That it shall be the duty of the general agent after re­ ceiving the quarterly reports of the several stations, to send immediate supplies sofar as he is able, and at all other times it shall be his duty as far as possible to anticipate the wants of the several stations, so as to preclude the dan­ ger of eny stations being left destitute.A Res.7thly That whenever supplies are received from America or are purchased here, of whatever kind they may be, the agent shall as soon as he is able, make a general & equable divi­ sion of the articles, having respect to the supplies pre­ viously sent to the different stations, to the wants of the stations & to the means which they may have for supplying themselves. In all cases where the agent is unable to make such a division with satisfaction to himself, it shall be his duty to inform the station what Is in the depository: and in addition to this it shall be his duty to transmit annually to all the stations a particular account of the de­ pository also an account of the general expenses of the dlf- �C1885J Insert 15 ferent stations and of the pecuniary state of the whole misI slon. Res.8thly That In fixing th6 price on the articles sent to the different stations, no reference shall be had to the estimate made in America, hut to the cost or value here. Res.9thly Each station shall have the privilege of purchasing its own supplies udien destitute, and it shall be the duty of each station to improve all highly favourable opportunities to procure supplies for the mission, provided however that when­ ever the business can be rafered to the general agent it shall be done, and no drafts shall be made on the Board ex­ cept by the agent unless It is absolutely necessary and when­ ever orders are given by others the agent shall be immediately informed thereof.-— � 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 Sandwich Islands Mission Meeting Minutes 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 Sandwich Islands Mission Meeting Minutes - 1823 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1823