84 10 11779 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/22f74cd9c26ac2b843981e39a53408c4.pdf b83c3c8dacc7f8523cfc9d09845b2fed PDF Text Text Report of the Station . at Lahaina May 1848 At the general Meeting in 1846, the Mission located Mr. Forbes at Lahaina with special reference to seamen. He continued to labor among seamen & foreign residents, preaching twice each Sabbath till Oct. 1847. Then, having by correspondence, obtained the approbation of the Mission to return to the U. States, on account of sickness in his family, he emharked on board the A Z?3 H. Howland, as is already known to the Mission. Besides preaching & other labors for foreigners, he as­ sisted in a select school at the station, & also superintended a Sabbath "school embracing most of the children of Lahaina. He assisted some in preaching to the Natives. were very acceptable & useful. All his labors As neighbors & associates we valued them highly, & would fain have detained them; but they thought that duty plainly called them back to the land of their birth. Health &c We that remain to occupy the station continued in 1846, 1847, the usual round of labors which we have been engaged in for twelve years. We were not tired of our work, nor discour­ aged, & had no thought of deserting our post. Indeed it was hard tearing away from the people, at a time of more than or­ dinary interest. But Mrs. Baldwin's health failed very sudden­ ly in Aug. last. We removed to Mont Ball, with full confidence �1848 - 2 that the retirement there & the cool invigorating air would, soon restore her. In this we were disappointed; for tho' she did improve for a while, yet, by Jan.. of this year; the case seemed to be growing desperate; & with the advice of our Brn & Sisters whom we could consult, on the 21s^ of Jan. we left the station to try a change at Honolulu & to consult Physicians. The Physicians advised us to keep on.to Kau&i, which we did. We visited all the stations there, sometimes going by land sometimes by water - & had an exceedingly pleasant visit, the more so, as we had never seen the Island before, in the seven­ teen years we have been residents in this group. We had the benefit of Dr. Smith’s skill & kindness, residing a month in his family. The climate & everything there seemed favorable to Mrs. B ’s.. recovery & she has recovered to some extent, for which we would feel thankful. But the disease, which appears to be of a nervous character mainly, is not wholly removed^.] We have many anxieties about the case; but feel we can leave all the fuiure in the hands of Him who can & will do all things well[.) State of Religion & Congregation The ordinary course of labors was persued (I) at the station as long as we remained there; & we would hope the means of grace have been attended with a blessing. We have many signs, that light & truth are progressing, & that souls have been converted. The state of Religion was, during the whole of the past two years as favorable as at any former period, when there was no special outpouring of the Spirit. While residing at M t . Ball the pastor descended to the shore nearly every day in the week to aid fin the Select school & attend to other labors �1848 among the people. - 3 He also spent the whole of his Sabbaths there, so that his labors were not then essentially interrupted. We think we have seldom seen more encouragement to labor for the people than we have seen the past 2 years C O The meeting­ house has been uniformly well filled, both morning & evening, on the Sabbath - the people have all appeared attentive - more of the young have been steady attendants on divine worship hardened sinners have not always forgotten the house of God some such are perhaps regular attendants there - Dispisers ( i) of God & religion there are undoubtedly - but we have heard of none who speak out reproaches against relegion (I); & even of dispisers ( l) we would hope there are not a great number who do not sometimes find a place in the Sanctuary of GodC.J Revival Prom the commencement of the present year, there were many signs of an increasing interest- in the congregation at Lahaina. Our Meeting house will contain about 2000 people; & the two last sabbaths we were there, especially, it seemed'unusually crowded. It was the first time since the house was rebuilt, exceedingly that it seemed absolutely full. We felt .eja.ejp.e.a.siB.giy reluctant to leave the people at such a time - but there seemed no other way. Soon after our leaving, we: heard through natives, & letters from different members of the ch'h, that there was a still greater religious excitement among the people. ch'h seemed awake. The Some who had been far from righteousness were thoroughly awakened & confessed their sins to the con­ gregation to the astonishment of all. Meetings were held �1848 every day & have continued so to this day. - 4 The spirit of God has evidently been there, & is still at work; hut the pastor not having been at Lahaina would not decide how far the excitement has been the work of the Spirit of God, or what other elements have been mingled. We can tell better when we see whether it leaves the abiding fruits of the Spirit. Prom the time we left Brn Alex. & Hunt have preached on Wednesday & generally twice each Sabbath. They speak of a full house - good atten­ tion & much excitement among the ch'h & congregation - but did not mingle enough with the people to form an opinion of the state of feeling. David Malo has preached & attended meetings when his health has been such as to allow it. But since we have been absent, he has been very wll most of the time. Meeting House. Since our last general meeting, our meeting house has un­ dergone a thorough repair, or, more properly, it has been re­ built; two thirds only of the original wall being all that was left standing. One third was found defective, tottering & ready to fall & was built anew from the foundation - the roof was framed & raised anew & shingled - the galleries were re­ framed in a better style - & a steeple built which raises the bell some 60 feet from the ground - The whole building is con­ formed, as far as we were able to do it, to the general style of churches in the U. States. it was before. It is far more convenient than The building is finished except that it needs a new pulpit, flooring below, & seats above & below. The ex- �1848 - 5 pense Incurred thus far & paid, or nearly so, has been a little more than $4000 C.] $2000 more are necessary in order to com­ plete the building, nearly all of which Is already subscribedC.J $499 of that already paid, was contributed by the government from a legacy left by Auhea for such purposes [.} Of the remainder, nearly all, both of that which has been paid, & that to be raised, comes (not from chiefs) but from the common people, who have contributed it with great cheerfulness, besides what they have given in labor. All that they could accomplish by their own labor they have done. can be made. Of this no accurate estimate It would doubtless amount to several thousands more. Church The ch'h in Lahaina has not been increased, in numbers, since our last general meeting, or, at most, by only a few names. Only 11 have been added by profession, which was on the 4’t'il of April 1847. They were all from an out station. This small number, however, must not be understood as indicating a want of feeling in the chh, or among those out of the chh. The pastor does not think there has been less religious Interest than in former years. In the latter part of 1847 a considerable number of candidates were conversed with, with a view to their admission to the ch'h. Our being obliged to leave our post interupted ( !) the work. Probably as many as 200 may be admit­ ted to the ch'h in three or four months if there is an oppor­ tunity to attend to them. As to the character of the ch'h. There are members for �1848 whom we have no charity as Christians. live, hut are dead. - 6 They have a name to The mass of the ch'h however, I sincerely "believe, are the children of God - converted-truly pious. As large a proportion of them, I judge, to he truly converted as are found in what are called good ch'hs in the U. States; & believing this, I have never said, that I knew that only one in a hundred was pious. Inconsistencies we' often see in these Christians, who are so much like .grown up children ~ but not - a w - -<*g - -m u -v h - rfF & G ssa- -ja o -y greater perhaps than we sometimes see in good ministers of the Gospel, in the U. States.- I have more confidence in the piety of Hawaiian professers (I) of religion than I had ten years since. Not a few lessons have been taught me on this subject. I can name not a few, in my field, of vfhom I have thought it impossible, that they were pious - & yet they have proved to be the salt of the Earth, beyond the question of any body. Out Stations There are three outstations connected with Lahaina viz, Kahakuloa 20 miles N.E.; Island of Lanai 10 miles west; & Olualu 6 miles South. Between 250 & 300 members of the Lahaina ch'h reside at these outstations. The whole population con­ nected with these three outstations is not far from 1000 It is too a scattered population so that not more than half that number would be found ordinarily In the meetings at all these outstations. The population of Lahaina being 3500 & the congre­ gation large, there being also a bible class & 2 Sabbath Schools to be maintained, the, pastor has not thought best very often to leave the Station, to spend the Sabbath elsewhere. He has, however, aimed to spend about one Sabbath a year at each of these �1848 places. Each outstation has its own Native preacher. - 7 David Malo, who is our superintendent of schools, has visited the outstations at times; & we have an arrangement, by which two of the native brethren from Lahaina go to each outstation the last Sabbath in every month. This measure has done much to en­ lighten the out-districts, & to keep up a religious interest. It has done not a little good also to the ten or twelve individ­ uals who have made these visits, & who are the most pious & influential members of our ch'h. Four times in a year all the ch'h members from our outstations come to Lahaina to unite in celebrating the Lord's supper. Sabbath Schools &c There are sabbath schools at all our outstations. there are four. On Lanai All these are somewhat ineficient ( I) but Ai £ ka la (daily food) Sabbath School at Lahaina, after the morn­ ing service is more efficient. natives. It is conducted entirely by The Bible class at 1 P.M. consisting of 4 or 500 adults & children the pastor generally attends. pleted the Old Test, in course (.•] They have com­ But our most interesting Sabbath school is that of the children at 8 o clock Sab. morning then It was last year Superintended by Mr. Forbes, & i&SKsxjbii: num­ bered 500. With the increase of our day schools, it had in­ creased to about 600 when we left; & the house proving too small orders were left to divide it into two schools. It contains the mass of our children & youth, their work is to commit to memory & hear explained the Holy Scriptures; & if the school can be efficiently conducted, w§ may hope, that many, at least, of the pupils will be trained up to knowledge & usefulness. But, �1848 - 8 in order to fdoj this, they must have matter to learn - they must have hooks suited to Sab. schools, llhat Lahaina needs, every station needs; & it is to be hoped that this meeting will not separate, till they have secured the speedy publication of a series of Historical, Doctrinal & practical Sab. school question books, similar to those used in the U. States. Common Schools There are 5 common schools on Lanai, 2 at our South outsta­ tion; one at the North & 14 in the village of Lahaina, making 22 in the whole field. All these have increased more or less, in the number of scholars, the past year; or rather since the government took upon itself the sole support of the schools. The number of scholars in Lahaina schools has greatly increased [.] At the commencement of 1847, we had 10 schools in Lahaina. In that year two of them increased from 70 or 80 to 150 scholars each. Two others increased from 50 or 60 to 100 or more. These -fiW 4 were divided, each into two; so that now we have 14 schools instead of 10'. The 4 additional teachers were furnished from the first class of the Select School, which has now been taught at the station 2 & years. It has been conducted by the pastor, & Mr. Porbes assisted in it, till near the time of his departure for the U. States. All these schools are as ef­ ficient as their teachers are able to make them. But the great law of nature can never be broken, that the stream shall not rise higher than the fountain. The fountain In this case, can be raised as high as the Missionary is pleased, or is able to raise it. The want of knowledge, in our teachers, or of skill in communicating it, seems to be the great reason why a certain �1848 - 9 portion of their scholars do not make a much more rapid advance in knowledge. Till the last year, we have had no teachers who could he said to he thorough masters of the whole of Colburn's Sequel. All the teachers at Lahaina have 25 cts each per day - one or two have more. promptly paid. All the teachers of our field have been No debts are due to them, or to others on ac­ count of the schools. The avails of the labor tax, at Lahaina, in 1847, which is all devoted by law to the aid of schools, was $1257.62^r. Of this $197.80 were expended in building & repair­ ing school house, $809.30 in paying teachers, $230.51 was given to aid the schools of East Maui. Several new school houses have been erected at Lahaina the past year. The ten original schools have comfortable houses - the 4 new ones will soon have. Every house is furnished with a good clock, or soon will be, from the government fund; but floors & suitable writing desks are generally wanting, except in our cen*tral schoolhouse. Such conveniences are very desirable in all our schools; but we have never found materials substantial enough to make them. Our last public examination of schools was in Nov. 1847. It showed them somewhat in advance of what we had ever seen them before. We having been absent from our post, the school statis­ tics are left there; £c I can only state from memory, that the schools of Lahaina & Olualu furnished 837 schoolars (I); all of them neatly clothed; a large proportion of them in unbleached cotton, which our good Superintendent, who has been accustomed to wear cloth of of ( I) his own manufacture, had 'urged them to adopt, as the most durable & economical material for native �1848 clothing. - IfcO We think of urging all our native ladies to adopt the same kind of dress, & shall probably succeed, if our Mission­ ary ladies will only set them the example. The calico's & silks & satins of the natives £ of which they have too many, not too few) swallow up much of their means, which ought to be laid out in making good houses, educating their children, or in the cause of Benevolence. At the close of the above examinations, the same schools of Lahaina & one outstation united in a public celebration & feast, At which were present 1000 children, all of whom sat down to good substantial koa tables, made in the best style bf For­ eign carpenters, furnished with foreign plates, knives, forks $ &° & c } & loaded with the richest dainties the land affords; in chairs of foreign manufacture or settees of their own; & they had their all {.?] clothed parents for waiters. One native, a mere common native, once a missionary cook, set a line of tables himself 100 feet long killed a bullock & several hogs to supply it. His own eleven children were there, & their young ru muddy looking mother with them & his half dozen hired men, all hired by the year were there. The feast was honored by the presence of the Governor of Maui & the Missionary brethren of Lahaina-luna with their fami­ lies; & we all sat near the head of the table of the Mission­ ary cook. Lest any one, from the above, should think, that this native spends all his earnings in feasting I will add, that he is a hard laboring man - all his children are t&aQght to be in­ dustrious - A few years since, say ten, he could not have owned fifty dollars worth of property - now he has a competency, �1848 - 11 which, he has gathered by steady industry, notwithstanding he has a feeble constitution & is very often troubled with asthma & bleeding at the lungs. He clothes all his numerous family of children - they are always clothed - they are all sent to school - he has as good a house as many Americans £-J has given $150 to the repairs of the ch'h the last 2 years, & is pledged to give 100 or 150 more the present year. He is a mason by trade, has built many of our best'houses & has laid up the beautiful walls of our stone ch'h with his own hands. We have many natives among us who are industrious Sc thriving, & are be­ coming good & valuable members of society; the above individual is perhaps one of the best specimens of them all. But to return I would truly add, that all the tables at our feast, if set in one continuous line, could not have measured less than 12 or 1400 feet. Some of our respectable foreign residents, we after­ wards learned, had taken a post of observation in the upper where part of the ch'h, Tsdass: they could overlook the whole feast, & they were highly delighted. Previous to sitting down to this feast, all the schools were assembled in the ch'h & were addressed by the Governor & by the Missionaries present, & they then solemnly pledged them­ selves for ever to abandon all intoxicating drinks, tobacco smoking, cani playing, & other vices. with their teachers rose by schools About 1000 children, & assented to this pledge. Popery Since the fall of 1845, we have had a Papist priest at Lahaina, & lately 2 of them. out of their own little yard. the name of either of them. We seldom hear of their being I never found a native who knew I have thought this a little re­ markable, as Barenaba the Christian name of one, is easily �1848 articulated by natives. - 12 The name of the other I have never known myself, tho' their place is about 40 rods from my door$r Of their operations we know nothing at all, except that, when we have a religious meeting, they are likely to have one too When we examine our schools their school at Lahaina must be examined too. This course they persue ( i) merely to keep their followers & pupils out of our meetings & schools. I have often remarked, that I really had the appointment of all popish meetings & school examinations. A Bolling ( I) Alley adjoining their yard is their place of worship, tho1 a long uncouth build­ ing for such a purpose. How many they number among their fol­ lowers is more than we can say. The novelty which at first, occasioned some flocking to their meetings, is all gone; & I should be surprised to learn, that more than 15 or 20 ordinarily attended meeting with them on the Sabbath. They have few Po­ pish ceremonies, as far as I can learn; no sin pardoning, ex­ treme unction, or praying souls out of purgatory - & I am in­ clined to think, that they do not keep their candles burning ■ either by day or by night. How they reconcile these neglects with faithfulness to the souls of poor Hawaiians, I am utterly at a loss to tellC .J So far as I can learn, not an attempt has been made, in all these Islands, to get one poor Hawaiian out of Purgatoryi Ought not we Protestant Missionaries to report these soul neglecting priests to the Pope? I have never taken the attitude of opposition to them, as that would help them into notice. At first, I took great pains to expose their errors in my own pulpit but since then have only made occasionally an allusion to them. No member of a �1848 - 13 Protestant ch'h in my field, has joined them, & hut few who ever had anything to do with our meetings or schools. know to have left. Some I A young woman who lately left them said to me, that the priest asked her to go away with him alone to con­ fess her sins - She was afraid of him feared she should commit more sin there, than she should confess;' & so she left. Last year they had in all my field, four schools, if a few scholars without a teacher, or with a teacher who knows nothing could he called a school. The school at Lahaina is taught by the priest himself, & has dwindled down from 25 scholars to 8 or 10. The other 3 schools, at or® outstations, have had a name - but, probably for lack of teachers, I sus­ pect they have s&ifedom met, or had any school house to meet in. This is strictly true of the school on Lanai, where 15 children that constituted the school have now all returned to the Pro­ testant' school. Singing The art of Singing has made considerable & a very desirable progress, in our congregation the 2 past years. Several natives have contributed much to this end; & we are much indebted to Bro. C. B. Andrews, whom we induced the past year, to spend two £choir ?"] or three weeks in teaching our chMin {^children]. Most of the teachers- of our common schools, are singers £.) Singing is a part of the exercises of the school - Br A. visited the schools of the village to aid them in this art. Many of the scholars are coming forward well in this - some of them already belong to the choir. Ought not more pains to be taken to introduce singing into all the schools of the islands? Until the young are trained to this art, & trained too in great numbers, we cannot expect to have anything like decent singing in our Oon- �1848 - 14 gregations. I have statistics of births & deaths, for the past two years, in most of our field; If we had returned, as we expect­ ed to have done, to our station previous to gen. meeting, they would have been at hand. The deaths have not been numerous; but as far as known, have a little exceeded the births. Statistics of Lahaina Church May 1848 Whole number admitted on examination Do " Do Do " 1029 on Certificate 266 " on Examination & Certificate Admitted on Examination May 1/46 to May 1/47 ,T " Tl " 47 to do 48 On Certificate from May 46 to May 47 r. it » it 47 t o .i 1295 62 11 21 48 22 Whole no. Admitted past 2 years 116 Whole no. dismissed to other churches 157 Dismissed past 2 years 21 Whole no. degeased Whole N° do 204 two past years 18 Suspended in 2 years 14 Remain suspended 17 Excommunicated last year 5 Whole N° Excommunicated 59 Remain Excommunicated 34 Whole N° in regular Standing Do Do 883 of Children Baptized 1052 Do Do Do Do past year Marriages past two years 54 f 62 = Average Congregation on Sabbath 53 116 1800 CD. Baldwin} �REPORTS PROM IAHAINA, MAUI Station Report ” 11 Unsigned, Baldwin . . . . 1848 D. Baldwin . . . . ... 1849 Unsigned, Baldwin . . . . 1851 D. Baldwin . . . . 1853 (No Meeting 1850) Station Report " " ... Letter about above report D. Baldwin . . . . . . . 1853 Station Report Unsigned, Baldwin . 1854 » n 11 " . . Dwight Baldwin . . . . Abstract . 1855 D. B a l d w i n ............. ....1855 Report of Seamen's Chaplain .S.E. Bishop ............ .. 1855 Station Report D* Baldwin . . . . . . . Report of Seamen's Chaplain S.E. Bishop . . . . . Station Report D. Baldwin ............ ... 1859 « « " " 1858 . 1858 D. B a l d w i n ............. ... 1860 Abstract D. Baldwin . . . . . . . 1860 Report of Seamen's Chaplain S.E. B i s h o p ............ ... 1860 Report of Seamen's Chaplain (Abstract) Station Report Abstract S.E. B i s h o p ......... ..... 1860 Report of Seamen’s Chaplain (Abstract) Station Report Abstract Unsigned ......... ... S.E. Bishop . . . . . . Unsigned, Baldwin . . . 1861 1861 1862 " lr D. B a l d w i n ............ .... 1863 " " Unsigned, Baldwin . . . 1864 �Report of Lahaina Station. 1849 In commencing a report of the station for the year past, we come to the work with feelings ■with which we never did this work before. God's hand shd always he seen & felt in what is going on around us. But, the last six months, he has displayed it among us, in various providences, & in a way, that the stupid & careless could not but see & fear. Like all the members of this mission, I shall find it impossible to describe the successive scenes of affliction & distress whh have passed before our eyes & preyed on this people - impossible to give utterance to the feelings of sorrow upon sorrow -which have pressed on all the friends of this na­ tion, as wave after wave of desolation has swept over it. Who can tell the varied effects of these dispensations of Prov­ idence on this people, on their bodies, their minds, their families, plans & prospects - many a parent written childless many a house has sent all its occupants to the grave. The mor­ tality has been small compared with that of an Asiatic pesti­ lence - but heavier than at any previous time since the Gospel came. Who will attempt to fathom the meaning of the Omniscient in these his doings? How often have we triumphantly recounted the wonderful interpositions of God in behalf of this nation blessing efforts for their good I favoring the pious & the cause of righteousness - building up the institutions of religion in spite of enemies. But now we have him before us apparently pulling down what he h!ad builded up - blasting the long cherish­ ed hopes of this nation - destroying the garden in which we had �I hoped he delighted. feeble sense.” 1849 - 2 Still we will not "judge the Lord by It may toe the design of the Lord, even in these dark & trying times, & toy these mysterious means, to touild up & strengthen this nation, notwithstanding all has seemed so contrary to our wishes. At the close of our last gen. meeting, we returned to La­ haina. My first efforts were to do up a variety of ecclesiasti­ cal & other business which had lain undone & accumulated, during our absence of five months, from the station. This was scarcely accomplished when the Lord,was, unseen, preparing for us other labors & cares. In Aug. we had a pleasant visit from the U.S. Ship Independence whh had been at Hilo. We were pleased with the short acquaintance we had with the Commodore & his officers; & they seemed delighted with our dusty place. The sailors were quiet & orderly - they did honor to their country. In 100 who were on shore at once, only three got in­ toxicated; & that was on Cologne water or tobacco. We were gratified with such a visit & did not once suspect, that there was any "death in the pot'1. ■ They left us. Soon after, that Is, about the middle of Sept. letters reached us from Hilo announcing measles; &, at the same time, some cases of it appeared at Lahaina. This is a disease whh had shown great virulence, at particular times, &, in certain places; It was natural, therefore, for us all, on its appearance among such an ignorant & foolish nation as this, to be solicitous as to what it was to do among them. We warned - advised & did all we could to allay groundless fears. After witnessing a few cases, & nothing dangerous appearing, we �1849 - 3 ventured to assure the people, that, with suitable caution, all w&:igo well. A pretty universal attention was given to direct­ ions, & by the end of Oct. we considered, that our population of 3000 were safely conducted through the measles; & so far as our knowledge extended, not a single death had occurred from that disease. eight. All the deaths in the place in Oct. were only We hoped soon again to see our streets full of happy faces & cheerful voices. But no, the Lord had not done with his chastisements. Our people had now pretty universally abstained from their favorite dishes for more than a month. The danger from measles they deemed to be over; & they fell too eagerly at eating raw fish. Perhaps also their kindled appetites led to a too free indulgence in all kinds of vegetable & animal food. Unfortu­ nately, at that time of universal sickness, when food was not brot in from abroad, hundreds had little but animal food to eat - Another misfortune was, that one of the worst species of fish eaten in these islands, the Opelu, appeared, at that time, in great abundance in our waters. A diarrhea came over the people. Most of the population were affected with it - & some even struck with death before we were aware of its existence. It raged fearfully, though wonder­ fully under the control of medicines, where the producing causes were not continued. Nov. was a dreadful month - It saw 166 of Lahaina people laid in their graves. The disease, continued, in a degree, through Dec. & only disappeared gradually afterwards. The hooping ( l) cough came among us in Oct. proving fatal to great numbers of children - though �1849 it disappeared afterwards as suddenly as it came. - 4 And now, after all this breaking down of the people, in Dec. came a severe influenza whh affected the whole population, not except­ ing mission families. These diseases too gave rise to many other maladies, or increased their severity where they already existed. So that many sank away to the grave under a combination of diseases who might have withstood the power of any one of them. The very elements seemed to war against the people. Never before have we seen our rainy wintry storms commence so early. In Dec, when the consitutions & spirits of the people were broken, many prostrate, & influenza adding its uncomfor­ table weight, the rain was pouring, for almost the whole month, incessantly, melting down their adobie walls, & adobie & stone houses. One of our chh found her death under their falling hous e . And now when four successive afflictions had sent so many of this people to the grave, had so prostrated the strength & spirits of those that remained, & had cast such a black cloud over the'prospects of this whole nation, when, in short, no strength or courage were left to sustain themselves, in Jan. came a gen. letter from Boston demanding, that they not only sustain themselves, but sustain the Sandwich Island Mission too. Men can endure a vast amount of misfortune & disease & not be crashed or killed. But the keenest of all heaven's judgments, the most unendurable - the most unreasonable, is, that when one is reduced by misfortune & disease to their last extremity, to have their best friends talk of deserting them. We stood aghast, & wondered, in ourselves, what Job's messengers �1849 would next "bring to this withered & blighted race. God. had loaded the man of his children - 5 As if, when with sore disease, had taken away so far as human ken c^- reach, had blasted all his earthly hopes, as if this were not enough; but he must allow the devil to Influence the minds of his friends, & even of the wife of his bosom, that they might withdraw their aid, never more needed, & so add the climax to all his sorrows. How else can we account for the appearance of such a document on these shores, at such a crisis as this 1 In speaking thus far of the dealings of God with the people, it may easily be inferred what have been my labors for most of the year, lever before was my time given so exclusive-- ly to the medical wants of the poor people. It was, for months, the only subject whh pressed on me by night & by day. I felt, that, if I c* save their bodies now, at some future time, I might benefit their souls. When medicines for diarrhea were likely to fail, we used a tea made of fresh cocoanut fibres, & also one of guaver ( 1) leaves, both of whh are often very effectual in that disease. Many other articles are doubtless growing around whh we sh^- have found out, had we been driven to great extremities. Two competent physicians who have, for years, practised successfully at Lahaina, had left before the sickness, one for the U.S. - the other for California - a third who had practised much among the natives, was then almost devoured by the demon, intemperance. He is now in his grave. So that I felt, for the first £time}, in years, that what efforts I c^make to stay the ravages of disease among the people wd be �1849 nearly all the aid they c1^ receive. - 6 Many doubtless were saved by medicines administered but in the months of Oct. Nov. Dec ♦ & Jan. there were in Lahaina 329 deaths. Many are still lan­ guid & suffering & deaths are still more frequent than in times past. When we left the station in Jan. 1848, there was evident­ ly more than usual religious interest; & we heard more of the excitement after we left. Of this I spoke in my last report. We returned the latter part of June. The people never gave us more pleasant proofs, than at that time, of their joy at our return. Most of the adults of the village, as well as the children of the schools, came to express their aloha, each one bringing something for us to eat; so that, for a month or six weeks, we did not lack any of the good things whh the land pro­ duced. Their gifts were not so very valuable in themselves - but they seemed a sort of proof that they felt some kind of in­ terest in the aupuni o ke Akua. When we had leisure for more familiar intercourse with the people, as to real depth of religious feeling, in the chh or out of it, we did not dis­ cover any thing more than we had seen in years past. There were, however, a few individuals who had never before made any pretensions to seriousness who now appeared to be awake in re­ ligion. They have appeared well ever since, & give now substan­ tial proofs, that they are truly converted to God. A few weeks after our return, about 150, candidates of long standing, were propounded for the chh. Fifty two of these were received to the chh in Oct - & 38 more in Jan. of the present �1849 year. - 7 Never "before since the formation of the chh have so few cases of discipline occurred as during the past year. None have "been excommunicated - some 3 or 4 have been suspended for different offences - & a large proportion of those previously suspended have been restored to the fellowship of the chh. During the months when sickness prevailed, the congrega­ tion varied much according as sickness was more or less exten­ sive & severe. It often dwindled very low. It was not till a month or two past, that it has returned to near its former size. Attention to preaching has been pretty uniformly good. Still I might speak with other brethren of apathy in the chh & tell you, that the judgments of God have not waked the people up to righteousness, but incr§ased their stupidity. not believe that such has been the fact. But I do I do not believe, that God's dealings have diminished the piety of the chhs, nor . the value whh they set on the religion of Christ. The truth is there has been a deadness over the whole community - a tor­ pidity of body & soul; the natural & unavoidable effects of natural causes. Disease after disease banished buoyancy of Spirits & energy of body & mind - & their diminished strength has been spent on coffins & graves, watching the sick or search­ ing for remedies, when, in other circumstances, it might have been exerted in efforts to secure their own or others' wel­ fare for time or eternity. Palsied energies have appeared in all the employments of the people. The adobie walls of Lahaina almost universally lie where the rains of last Bee. iheft them their kihapais are nahelehele - plans of gain are abandoned as well as plans of doing goihg good to Souls. When their �1849 - 8 thoughts are necessarily absorbed, in personal wants & suffer­ ings & afflictions, how can they go out in acts of benevolence towards others ’ . Schools . We have now 12 schools in Lahaina & nine or ten at outstations. Mr. Steele who kept an Eng. school at Lahaina has had a shock of palsy & lost his voice. All these schools were suspended about three months on account of sickness - hut they have been resumed, & bid fair to prosper as in former times. Three of the school houses have been prostrated by the rains, & have not been rebuilt whh is a great inconvenience. The schools are not encumbered with any debts, & we hope the labor tax under the new law may be sufficient for their support in future. The schools have been visited by the superintendant & pastor; but no public examination of them has been held during the year. Except during the prevailing sickness, books have been in good demand. Notwithstanding the many months we were absent, about $200. were received in cash for books in /48 & has been credited on the books of the Depy. Papists. We have had two papist priests at Lahaina, & some times, I think, but one. They are perfectly quiet, & still in all their movements, if indeed they have any movements. They generally keep within their own yard, formerly a boiling ( 1) alley & disturb nobody. Our natives do not come into collision with them as at times, formerly; nor do the priests act as if they expected to make conquests. They keep up some kind of service on Sab. as I see half a dozen or more passing thither through our street. They have two schools in my field - one at Lahaina - one at Ukumehame - one in the Forth East part �1849 of the field Toeing now in Mr. indrews1 field. - 9 They had one on Lanai of 15 scholars who 106081116 papists mainly "because their protestant teacher was unfit for his place - after being left one or two years unvisited by the papist priest, they went in a body to our school. One of the priests said, two months since,, to an Englishman whom he mistook for a Frenchman, that they might not stay long. up. What said Mr. H. are you going to give The priest replied, "No. But protestants here have every thing & will have all in their own way. We can do nothing - & probably we shall be sent for.,r This probably referred to their operations in all the islands. We sometimes report improvements in houses, -lands, &c* But more houses have tumbled down at Lahaina the past year, than have been built ihsxgKsixysa; up - more fences have been laid level than have been built anew, more roads have been ruined than have been made - Our meeting house is just in the condition where it was a year ago, except that a debt of $600. has been paid - But all these lacks leave great room for improvement in time to come. Our people continue to supply the whaling fleet as far as their lands are capable - a Sugar mill is in good operation & many natives are preparing respectable fields of cane. Notwithstanding all the ravages of disease, some of the younger have life enough left to engage in foreign enterprise; or rather, I shd say, since disease is all the fashion, they have caught this new disease, the yellow fever, & have gone to California. Fifteen members of Lahaina chh have gone thither in four different vessels, & how many other natives I cannot say. A religious teacher appointed over them all, left this �1849 place, in the Plymouth on Teus. of this week. - 10 They were strong­ ly exhorted to carry with them wherever they might go, the Bible, the Sab. temperance, the fear & worship of Jehovah, that so they might secure his favor & blessing. Some of these may secure some wealth & become more useful - but for the mass we have many fears, lest they shd not become wealthy & happy but vicious idlers. We wd rather have kept them all at home - But that w^ not have been possible, after a dozen of our former mechanics a few months since poor & pinched, had spent the winter with us as gentlemen, not one at work, but all finels dressed, & at perfect leisure. One, at least, who brought two thousand from California had not enough to pay his passage back. To conclude, the past yr has been eminently one filled with events & rumors of events. The middle of July, all foreigners, at La­ haina, were fully armed, for several days & nights expecting, every momeht, that the natives w^ rise & slaughter them & take the kingdom, in imitation of the great kingdom of France. Even those sick in bed, lay with loaded pistols in their bosoms. This was a rumor merely, & not an event. crowded upon us, faster than even rumors. But real events have Never before has a year made greater changes in the face of Society & business. Our foreign population are nearly all gone - but not all to California. While vessel after vessel has filled for the gold regions, death has made his demands upon them as well as upon the natives. Several who have held high rank among that class, but who have stood entirely aloof from every thing connected with religion, have been called away, some of them suddenly, �1849 to test their sentiments & practices at the bar of God. influence has been evil. - 11 Their The ruin of souls & blasting of all earthly good has followed in their train. But they have done - ’’the wicked is driven away in his wickedness" - & none who are left behind take warning & seek a refuge. D. Baldwin April ll'k-11 1849 See statistics on next page. Statistics of Lahaina chh, April, 1849 Whole number admitted on examination 1119 Whole number admitted on certificate 307 Admitted past year, on examination 90 Admitted past year on certificate 22 Whole number admitted past yr, 112 Whole number dismissed to other chhs 222 Dismissed past year 48 Whole number deceased 363 Died the 126 jh st year Suspended the past year Remain suspended 5 20 Excommunicated the past year Whole number excommunicated 0 59 Remain excommunicated 33 Whole number in regular standing Whole number of children baptized, 762 1105 Baptized last year 53 Marriages last year 55 �Report of Lahaina Station, May, 1851. In reporting the station at Lahaina, we wd. mention, with gratitude to the Giver of all good, that a good measure of health has been allotted to us since the last meeting of the mission. Death has not been suffered to enter our windows; nor has sore & dangerous sickness fallen to our lot. The in­ valid of the family has, in some measure, recovered her health. For a large portion of the past year, she has "been able to oversee & direct her domestic concerns, sometimes too in the midst of a great amount of company, a work she C& not have done in either of the two preceding years. For all this we w^ he duly thankful, not only for the need a youthful family has of a mother’s care, hut for what she has been able to do for the people. Our two eldest children we have sent, the past year, to the United States. They sailed, with others of the mission, from Oahu, in the Bk Croton, on the 9th 0f D ec< 1850. We have letters from them, dated Raiatoa, Soc. Isis, where they touched & spent a few days, the first part of Jan. If they are prospered, we hope to hear of their safe arrival in the U. States, in two months more. Conn. They are destined .to Bridgeport, We have recd from our friends, in that place, many kind letters respecting the children, & some from entire strangers, encouraging us to send them; & also since'they heard of their sailing, expressing wishes for their safe arrival there. All these letters take it for granted, that there is a great nec­ essity for sending our children home for education & for other �1851 - 2 reasons - None of the writers seem.to have heard of the late Boston discovery, that the Sand. Isis is the "best place to train the children of the mission - nor even of the Sand. Isd dis­ covery of the same doctrine. Of the people of Lahaina, I w^- say the interval of two years, since our last general meeting, has been a time of mercy to them - No unusually sad changes have passed over them. Neither war pestilence nor famine have been sent upon them; & yet over 400 of the people of Lahaina village have been laid in the grave since our last general meeting. Since July 1849, we have had an accurate record of births & deaths kept for Lahaina & for other parts of the field. As we are watching now the destinies of the race we have toiled for so long, it may not be amiss to exhibit their prospects in this respect. The following is the account for Lahaina only, for the of 1849 Births Deaths July 4 28 Aug. 0 17 Sept. 1 16 Oct. 2 26 Nov. 3 8 Dec. 14 37 24 132 24 Total = Diminution in 6 mos. 108 (18 per mo. �1851 % 1850 Jan. Births 8 Deaths 25 1851 Births 10 Deaths 11 Feb. 3 12 Jan. March 7 18 Feb. 3 14 April 6 21 March 7 11 11 21 April 4 15 June 7 13 Total 24 July 11 24 Aug. 6 13 Sept. 7 16 16 22 6 18 Dec. ■ 11 9 Total = 99 May Oct. Nov. Diminution 12) 4) Summary. Births Deaths 24 132 99 212 212 99 113 S 108 51 24 27 (6--4 24 per m o , 24__________ 51 I per mo. Total 147 in 1 yr & 10 months 395 147 (Diminution in 22 mos. 248 In Olualu & Ukumehame, in 1850, Births 8, deaths 7. Three first mos. 1851, for Lanai, births 6, Deaths 6. The picture for Lahaina is a somewhat dark one, especially as the past winter has been the most decidedly favorable for health of any winter we have seen there. The number of births for the 22 mos. is to the deaths about as 1 to 2-g-; & in only one month in all the 22, did the births exceed the deaths. There is one favorable aspect in this report. The rate of diminution, for these 22 mos., has been gradually declining; showing that the ill effects of the measles has been passing �1851 - a off, & that the people are gaining vigor. The first 6 mos. of th.ese 2 2 , the diminution averaged 18 per mo. was 9-5/12 per mo. The next 12, it The last four, 6-f per mo, — In most of the months where there is an increased number of births, there is also an increased number of deaths, show­ ing that infants probably go to swell the number of deaths. I think a large portion of the children, born at the present time, die under one or two years old. One cause of this is the eagerness of parents, thatr their children shd live. As many are living childless, there seems to be an Increasing desire in those who have children to save them. They are more ready, therefore, to stuff them with food & medicines. I have known cases, where, without a single symptom of illness perhaps in the child, upon the mere word of a native doctor, that some mysterious disease lurked within, the anxious parent has allowed him to commence his therapeutic operations. The doctor’s word is always seen to be true; for the latent disease never fails to develop itself externally in a few days. There are many signs among us, that seem to show, that the native race is going out of existence. The want of proper dietetic knowledge, & dietetic rules, I judge to be the cause of the largest proportion of deaths among them, both as to adults & children. We can do something towards disseminating right Ideas among them. BuB we can probably do nothing whh will, In the end, tend so much to save the race, as to get them all, men, women, old & young into habits of regular employment. As before remarked, the two past years have been years of mercy to the people. We have had during most of these years, �1851 - £ the rains of heaven & the sunshine - & with a prevalence of health, all departments of labor have gone forward as usual. The productions of the earth w& have been abundant, had they not been carried off faster than the earth could bring them to maturity. Vessels after wessels have puured in upon Maui, till it seemed as if they w<3- carry off the soil itself. For about three months past only has there been any diminution in the number. Never before were there years in whh such an amount of temporal motives pressed on the people, to spur them on to in­ dustry. All kinds of labor meet with a plentiful reward. Un­ der all these motives, habits of industry are becoming more general, &, it is believed, the temporal condition of the people is improving, or, at least, of that portion of the people who are most under the influence of moral & religious instruc­ tion. But we have not seen their condition improved exactly in proportion to the amount of their money. Abundance of money does not always lead natives to improve their land, or to buy or lease lands, or build substantial houses. It much oftener appears in finery about their persons in more & finer horses, -in better saddles & bridles - Sometimes in pictures, daguer­ reotypes, &c. If we c* see the land filling with comfortable houses in foreign style, good convenient furniture introduced more rapidly, &, above all, education rising in proportion to increase of means among the people, we might have some hope for the Hawaiian race. But natives do not get most of the money whh comes into the country. movements. They are generally slow in their Multitudes who came to Califomia to get gold have failed of finding it & many of them have no better way than to �1851 keep on to the sunny islands. - % They are dipping into every kind of business whh promises to he lucrative. We have, at Lahaina, just as many new comers of this kind as can find employment, & others pass on to look further; so that what natives get is what they gather on a small scale. They are ready to demand high prices, & high wages; & often throw themselves out of employment by so doing. But there are very few of them that lay large plans for accumulating wealth. One obvious effect of the California trade has been, with us as in other parts of the islands, a vast increase in the price of produce. In many cases it bears three or four times its former value, & sometimes we have found it extremely difficult to procure the necessaries of life at any price. But this high demand for the products of the land we take it for granted, will, in the end, make such productions more plentiful; yet it is very doubtful whether they m i l ever return to their former prices. Wages have become high - in many cases enormously so. All who depend on native labor have had to exercise patience, as well as pay out money more freely then heretofore; but we do mourn most sincerely, that any shA have thought to make up for lack of native service by increasing the most effeminate & immoral class of all that we have in the land. Good immigrants we shall always be glad to see; men who will aid in laying a foundation for a pure & prosperous nation in the islands. But it is an ill omen that any of the most obstinate & hopeless of the heath­ en shd be brought in,' & that too when the non-execution of laws against immorality is proverbial among us. It may be asked what has been the effect on the chh & �1851 - <7 people, of our being brought into such close contact with other nations, & of all these new influences whh are brought to bear on this people? It is not easy to describe the change whh has been already effected in our region, from being brought so near the U.S. & the whole world too, we may say, that we feel the movements of their steamers, railroads & telegraphs, almost as if they were among us; much less can we predict the influences whh these causes will exert In years to come. Some of our chh & people have already found their graves in the U. States. Others have been given to the Sea monsters between the islands & California. Our most dissipated foreigners caught the impulse for gold very early & made a universal rush. Many of them sunk; at once be­ neath the fiery flood of rum whh were pouring over that land, & some still remain there, a pest to any part of the world where their presence is. A merchant of Lahaina, in some respects, a very worthy man, & fifteen others, mostly Americans, went to the bottom probably without a moment's warning, in the Schooner whh carried them. So much for the cost of Mammon's service. So far as the influence of all these was evil, we & our people are delivered from it. But then disappointed hopes & the disgust of many with ill success, or with vice, has brought down upon us a greater host of foreigners than love of gold took away - some worthy men #10 will do something for the benefit of the nation, & others just such as we wd gladly see taken off by another c yellow fever epidemic, as the auri sagra fames is called. eign influence mostly of the Janerican kind, has greatly in- For­ �1851 - r8 creased the two years past in my field, & still more on other parts of Maui, & it bids fair to make farther advances in years to come. ' As before remarked, a ready market & high prices have given an impulse to industry among the native population, such as they have never had before. avarice will increase. With an increase of industry Many will be drawn away into that power ful vortex to their eternal undoing. Souls will be bartered for filthy lucre as in all enlightened countries. But still we have no reason to regret the prevalence of industrious habits. Industry & enterprise, among our people, will not, in the long run, injure the nation, or the kingdom of God, in the nation. They will furnish the means of temporal comfort, & the means of sustaining the institutions of the Gospel; & we shall have no more to fear from the avarice whh accompanies Industry & enterprise than from the covetousness whh are found with Indo­ lence, poverty & want, & whh make up so large a share of the evils in a heathen land. As to the Influence of the new state of things on the chh, some worldly minded members have doubtless become more worldly minded. The love of gain too may have taken too deep a hold of the minds of some real Christians, & chilled their zeal in the cause of religion. But in regard to the great mass of our chh members, I cannot believe that the tone of their piety has been lowered the past two years; on the contrary, I W& hope, that a very large share of them have been learning that most difficult, & yet most necessary, of all Christian lessons, viz. how to be active in the things of the world, &, at the same time, zealous in the things of religion; how to ,rbe diligent �1851 in business & fervent in Spirit, serving the Lord." mass out of the chh, & especially the young it - @ As to the seem, that regular secular employments are a great advance towards Christian­ izing as well as civilizing them. Industrious habits, even when they lead to love of filthy lucre, m i l not make the impenitent so deaf to the calls of the Gospel as will indolence & the thousand forms of lealea o Hawaii nei. Pres. Dwight said, "he never knew but one lazy man converted, & he became industrious from the day of his conversion”. Our meetings, on Sabbath & week days, have been kept up with interest, both at Lahaina, & at our two outstations; & there are Sabbath Schools & Bible classes at all these places, maintained, of course, at the outstations entirely by natives. We have made some progress in repairing the chh at Lahaina. The upper part of the chh is now filled with convenient seats whh is doubtless one reason why our congregation has filled up some the past year. At both the meetings, at Lahaina, on Sab­ bath, we usually have a full congregation. We have, in the last two years, procured a good seraphina, whh, since our children left for the U.S. is played by a native. The singing is main­ tained by the natives, & is spoken of by visitors, from abroad, as respectable. Concerts for prayer. The monthly concert, for the conversion of the world, is observed, the first monday of each month at Lahaina & at each of our out stations; & we also keep the last monday of the month as a concert of prayer for the extinction of slavery in the U. States, & throughout the world. A goodly number attend each of these concerts, & they are, we trust, not wholly uninterested in the respective objects of each. �1851 - 3.0 New Meeting Houses. Two new meeting houses have been completed, the past year, on Lanai; one of stone whh has been some years in building; & one a thatched building erect to supply the place of one blown down by a storm during the year. The Church. The chh, at Lahaina Station, is not materially different in size from what it was when reported, at the general meet­ ing, two years ago. Only 63 have been admitted to the chh in two years; among them was one of our own children, the daughter who has left for the U. States. There are, however, on the island of Lanai, about 100 persons who are considered suitable candidates for admission to the chh; & about 50 more, at Lahaina & Olualu may be received before long. be in a revived state. high. The chh cannot be said to We all need a fresh unction from on But a goodly portion of the chh always exhibit a uniform & consistent zeal in the cause of Christ. Never before had we more proofs, in the chh generally, of an intelligent apprecia­ tion of the worth of the Gospel, as a remedy for their own evils, for those of the nation & the world; & there appears to be, of course, a steady determination to have the institutions of the Gospel maintained among them. In March 1850, the chh voted to support their own pastor, commencing with the year 1850. They had many fears lest they shd not be able to raise a salary Since that time, I have received from the chh & people $228.20 - My present expectations are to live on what the people raise for my support, & to aid my children In the U. / States, to some extent, from the same; or to make up the de- �1851 - ig. ficiency in some other way than by applying to the funds of the Board. I do not expect to receive any thing from the Board except such advantages as they grant alike to all. Yet I have not asked a dismission from them - It is not an easy thing for a 20 year old branch to separate from the parent stock & set up for independence. But I may do it before long, especially if the strong advocates for adhesion, sh1 ^- abandon the doctrine. Contributions. In Aug. 1849, $76.00 were raised for the relief of the French Protestant Misy Soc. In Sept. /49 - a donation was made to aid in erecting a chh on Lanai, $35.00 In 1850, the chh & people purchased & paid for lumber enough to floor & seat their meeting house Cost about $900.00 - but some of the funds were on hand pre­ viously. In 1851, they have attempted to collect $1000.00 to com­ plete the building. One half has been paid. The other half may come slowly. f The first week of each month, a collection is made whh has usually amounted to from $60 to $80.00 a month. The first collection of this kind wgs given to the French - the next to Lanai chh - several to pay $200.00 for the Seraphina of the chh. When not otherwise appropriated, it is understood to be devoted to a fund for the support of the pastor. The females of Lahaina are accustomed to meet quarterly to recite catechism or some other book whh they have learned, & to make a contribution. couragement of industry. It is properly a Society for the en­ It is doing good by bringing the �1851 12 younger under the influence of the older who are pious. Their contribution at a single meeting in 1849 was 19.12^ At two meetings, 1850 174 . 374- Two meetings in 1851, 195.871- Most of these donations are yet unappropriated. — The people gave our children $48.00 on their leaving for the U. States. At the Anti-Slavery- Concert, the last Mon. of each month, we always take up a collection to aid the Am. & Foreign Ant. S. Society. In 1850 we sent them $50.00. Since that time the collections monthly have been from $10. to $20. & we now have on hand for them over $125.00 - If those now In power in­ crease their efforts to blacken up the character of abolitionists, we shall try to increase our contributions. These are about the amount of our contributions to benevolent objects. We have given nothing to the theatre, the opera, nor to horseraces -not much to the circus - & nothing to Jenny Lind’s concerts, whh last we w^- cheerfully have patronized, had she come round our way. We have had no balls, nor celebrations, nor illuminations - not even Union Meetings or slave catchers among us, though we have had some of the "Fugitives from Service.” We have had no duels nor murders on Maui, whh is greatly to be wondered at, as many of our people & the haoles have been drunk on beer poisoned, it is said, with Cologne water & tobacco. I hope, we shall hear of no duels among the members we have sent to the Hawaiian Congress, nor fist fights in their sittings. It wd grieve us to have them descend to a level with Christian nations. With all our agricultural reputation, we have sent nobody to the world's Industrial Convention whh shows how sadly we are �1851 - IS behind the times. Schools. All our schools have gone on with, their usual prosperity, & no special interruption. None of our teachers have forsaken their work; & whenever a vacancy has occurred by the death of a teacher or otherwise, there have always been applications for the place. Considering the low rate of wages, (generally 25 cts per day) compared with what all other labor commands, this may appear strange; but the schools are not taught so many horn5 a day as some of us think desirable. The Kahukulas have reported all the schools; but I have not seen their reports. In the village of Lahaina we have 14 schools, (not counting a papist school, if Indeed there be one) The total number of scholars in all these schools Is 459 the regular attendance somewhat less. The following Is the number in different branches. In the alphabet Spellings 61, 121, Readers - 277 Writers - 183- Geography 326 Mental arithmetic 172 Cyphering - 150 Algebra - 7 Singing - 338 Child's arithmetic - 127 One of our Schools is without a house - whh we hope will not long be the case. �1851 - ia The Mission assigned me a work, designed mainly for schools, on history. My wish that we might have something of the kind for natives led me to undertake the task - I then hoped I c^ prepare it without much delay - hut on looking I found we had no "book of whh it w& answer to make a translation for natives. I sent to the U.S. for one - it came, "but was still less adapted to our wants - I then sent for the Jm. Encyclopaedia, with the aid of whh I have gone through the worst portion of ancient history. I have had many interruptions - "but hope I can, after a few months, give the printer a "brief ancient his­ tory, if the mission think it desirable. But I must ask them to lay the modern part on some one else. It is too pondersome a task for me in my situation. Statistics of the chh for 2 years. Whole number admitted on examination Whole number admitted on certificate, 1 yr. 1182 342 Admitted past 2 yrs on examination, 63- 57 Admitted past 2 years on certificate 35- 11 Whole number dismissed to other ehhs 247 Dismissed last two years to other chhs Whole number deceased 25- 15 474 Died last 2 years, to May l/51 67- 39 Suspended the last two years 8- Remain suspended Excommunicated last 2 yrs, 19 9- Whole number excommunicated 68 Remain Excommunicated 26 Whole number In regular standing 4 758 3 �1851 Whole number of children baptized, - IS 1183 Children baptized last 2 years, 78 - 47 Marriages last 2 years 105 - 42 If the word Excluded, introduced into the last form of chh statistics means the same as Excommunicated, it can be sub­ stituted for it. I did not us e it because, I ddid not recollect what meaning was supposed to be attached to it. Yours truly, D. Baldwin �To the Moderator of Genl Meeting, Assembled at Oahu Lahaina May 1 2 ^ 1853 Dear bro. I herewith forward my report of Lahaina- Station whh has been ready some days but I had no opportunity to Send it. I do not think of any thing omitted In my report, except that I sh^ have Spoken of the assignment made to me of a his­ torical chart & a history. I have done most of the work to­ wards preparing two historical charts, one of ancient, & the other of modern history. I shd have finished them, had I learned from Mr. Rogers, that they c<3- have been engraved. They are on a plain Scale, whh can easily be engraved. If the mission can provide for the engraving, I c^ finish them, & provide, as an accompaniment, a brief -outline, mostly questions. The two together, I think, w^ give our Schools a general know­ ledge of the course of history - Particular portions of history, or of interesting nations, C& be brought out as necessity, or our ability might warrant from time to time. That the Lord may be with & bless you in all things, Is the prayer of Your fr<3- & bro. D. Baldwin �Report of Lahaina Station May ls^ 1853. to Through, the goodness of God, we are able stillAreport ourselves alive, & in a good degree of health. illness has befallen us the past year. No serious Mrs. Baldwin has been much better the past year than in either of the four preceding years; & we are not without hope, that, by suitable means, she may entirely recover her health. We are also permitted to hear frequently of the continued welfare of our two children in the U. States. The climate there has proved beneficial to them; neither has been ill - both have gained in flesh & strength. Our daugh (I) is in Mt. Holyoke Sem. with plenty of Hawaiian company - our Son about entering College. I do not intend to write a very long Report this year. I made a full one last year; & as it was not used, at all, in the minutes, some of the facts will still answer for this year. One subject, fully reported there, will need some modification in this report, & that is the intemperance of our place. evil has greatly abated among us. This It is very rare, that we see a native intoxicated - & but few of the foreign residents are intoxicated openly - Still the steady drinking habits of many of them but too clearly Indicate what will ere long be their end - A number of this class, for filthy lucre, still pursue the illegal & cruel work of getting Seamen drunk; & a whole­ sale license in constant operation, among us has furnished the means. The govt officers do what they can to. bring offenders against the laws to the appointed punishment - I think, not much less that $1000 has been collected from foreign residents, in �1853 - 2 twelve monthts}, for illegal sale of ard. Spt. - Some 250 or 300 gals of ard Spt. from California has "been seized after it had "been' smuggled on shore, & the stringent laws of the nation carried into full effect on the heads of the operators. How much longer they will find it profitable to aid the devil, in this line, we cannot t§ll. The usual course of labours have been pursued at Lahaina, during the year, & also at the outstations; without any parti­ cular interruptions from sickness or other causes. The Gospel has been preached - congregations, on the- Sabbath, & on other days, have been as full as at former times, & have appeared attentive. We may hope, that Christians have grown in grace - have increased in knowledge & strength, & that some sinners have been converted. The part of our congregation whh excites most temptations fears is the youthful portion. They meet with many in such a place as Lahaina, & it is impossible, that many of them should not be affected by these snares. Besides regular preaching on the Sabbath, we have a child­ ren's Sab. School, an adult Sab. School, & a Bib. class for both, each Sabbath. As mentioned in former reports Lahaina is divided into nine Sections. In course of 1852, I met with each of these sections, chh members & all others who chose to come. IDn con­ nection with these meetings, I took a census of all the chh, intending to embrace those absent as well as those present According to my report of 1852, we shd now have, in regular standing, 690 members. The census I took would bring the chh within three of the same number, whh shows, that we have not �1853 reported too many members in past years. - 3 Still, of this num­ ber, probably not less than fifty are mostly abroad at other stations, & Islands - many of them, doubtless, ought to be transferred to other chhs. There has not been a great amount of discipline in the chh' the past year. A considerable number, however, remain sus­ pended, whose cases have not appeared clear enough to admit of their being restored, &, unless they are known to live in im­ morality, we have not thought best to cut them off entirely. Forty two were rec^ to the chh in Jan. last - 29 stand propounded, & about 100 more may be considered suitable candi­ dates to be received to the chh the present year. Schools. Our Schools were in operation the first six months of our misy year - during whh time I visited them all, meeting parents, & examining scholars. The next four or five months, they were all suspended for want of funds - They are now again revived & are, we hope, doing well. The kahukula has often visited & examined the schools, at the school houses. There have been two public examinations during the year, one in 1852 - t h e other, last March. At the last examination we found 442 connected Olualu with the 9 Lahaina Schools - 35 with 9h«.iu, & 26 with Ukumuhame Schools, making 503 scholars in all. At the close of the March examination, we held a Juvenile Temperance Celebration, & had a feast connected with it. Our meeting house was filled with teachers, Scholars, parents & others. The meeting was addressed by our police magistrate, who never used intoxicating drinks from childhood up - by the �1853 - 4 Rev. Mr. Alexander, myself, & six natives, including our two circuit Judges, John Richardson & Kamakau, our representative, Timoteo, the Kahukula, Upai, Local Judge Kenui, & one other. The music was appropriate & well performed. It was an occasion of interest - All the children of the Schools renewed their pledge to abstain from all intoxicating drinks, & from one thing that is even more absurd & filthy than rum, that is, tobacco. Romanism. I am not aware whether Catholics have kept up meetings, the past year, in Lahaina or not. For most of the time, I think, they have not had a priest residing there. Some sort of a school is continued, & they have also one at Ukumuhame, with a few Scholars. They do not seem to be attracting attendsxonrj. or making %ny efforts to gain proselytes. Mormonism. When the Moimons first came to Lahaina, in the fall of 1851 perhaps, they made great efforts, among foreigners only but never made but one convert. From that time, for nearly a year, they disappeared from Lahaina, working in the region of Wailuku, Kula, Koolau, &c. There they gained several who had been Scholars at Lahainaluna to their Sect - Having themselves a perfect acquaintance with all sorts of vileness, they have influenced a certain sort to join the Mormons. One of them worked long at Lahaina & prepared a few for Mormonism. In three successive Sabbaths, the foreign priest, who came to gather in the harvest, baptized 7, 20 & 3. Many of these, per­ haps all, were among the vilest of our population. The three last baptized were persons we had excommunicated from our chh for living, as we supposed, in licentious habits - They �1853 continued but a few Sabbaths with the Mormons. - 5 The priests used every kind of statement, among the people, whether true or false whh, they supposed, might aid their cause. At one time, they told the people they should work miracles as soon as they got the native language, told what an angel had informed them, what miracles had been wrought in other places, that Mr. Hunt & his chh at San Francisco had become Mormon, &c. &c. When they first came to Lahaina, they denied, that any such thing as polygamy existed at Salt Lake. Lately they justify it. One has said, that Jesus Christ had two wives, at least, perhaps many others; or, if not, that .he evidently lived with Martha & Mary, as wives without ever being formally married to them - another said, "As God had a Son, he, of course, had a wife, & many other child­ ren, doubtless - that he enjoyed the family relation the same as men did. All these & many other things were too much for our excommunicated persons. They came to an open rupture with the priests in their meetings, first disputed, then ridiculed & forsook them. Whether they had already gone the length of their tether, or whether the three apostates brought them into discredit, is not clear. From that time, we hear little said of Mormonism in Lahaina. Except the 30 baptized, at first, I know not, that any others have joined them. I look upon them only as a seive, to sift out the vilest dregs of the people, perhaps because God sees they are ripe for destruction. Benevolent Contributions. The chh of Lahaina voted to sustain their pastor - the Sum contributed for this object, at the monthly concerts, from genl meeting in 1852 to the present meeting, amounts to �1853 - 6 $509.85 - Lanai has contributed, for the same object, during the year, $23.50. Several hundreds have been collected & disbursed for work on the meeting house, whh is nearly completed. They have sent to the American & Foreign Anti Slavery Soc., at New York, $182 .40 during the year. For the Micronesian Mission they collected, & I paid over to Mr. Castle, $362.85. They will be willing, & probably able, to collect as much more, the present year, for sending the Gospel to the Marquesas islands. I hope, we shall send back Matunui, with, at least, two good native teachers; but if we do, we may have requests from other islands in that group, & of other groups for similar aid; & having put our hand to the plow, there may be no chance to look back till every Island, in this ocean, has the Gospel. We shA doubtless make up our minds to follow up the work we began last year. We shall never feel like refusing the lamp of life to any body that has a Soul, & especially when they come to us & beg for it. If sending the Gospel to Fatuhiva this year shA bring suppliants for Salvation from half a dozen other Islands, next year, & our resources sh^ prove insufficient, God can augment our resources or our example may rouse native chhs in Samoa, New Zealand, & other islands - There are hundreds of chhs in this ocean whh have piety, but it has not yet become working piety; & If the poverty of Polynesian chhs is not sufficient to convert Poly­ nesia, we must send for the wealth of American chhs, & for their Sons also. �1853 - 7 Our future. Nothing remains for me to Sp©ak of except a few words about the future. I hope the gen. meeting will have wisdom to select a suitable name for what was once called the Sand, island mission, though it matters less what name we go under than how we do the work of the Lord. I gladly join in the delibera­ tions of the meeting, were it practicable. As for myself, my dismission from the Board, on the basis of the 7th resolution, took effect Jan. 1. 1853. Of course I expect no aid from them unless I come to pinching poverty. As for my brethren, still dependent on the Board, I hold it wise for the Board to make liberal provision, that they may have less excuse for turning aside from their work. We must be sustained & have something to feed & educate our children. Mind uneducated sbA not be tol­ erated among us, in this age. I take a deep interest in Punahou School. (0 Dont transform it into a bubble that wonOlt do any body any good. A college (0 may grow up with necessity - but cant be manufactured as a ■ pair of shoes can. Let us still have Punahou a mission school. I care as much about the chr & habits of our children as I do their amount of knowledge. That School has been owned of God. We owe the teachers now there a debt of everlasting gratitude for their efforts & watchful care over our children, & I am glad that my own far off children remember school & teachers with deep affection. the School. I go for Sustaining -Mr. Dole & all now there in Mr. D. is eminently qualified to teach the class­ ics & other branches; he is known & read of all men for kindness �1853 forbearance & moderation. - 8 New modes of teaching will come up in these days of Improvement. Gan the present teachers at Punahou learn nothing of their neighbors? needs an additional teacher. But the School greatly When he comes, there will be no difficulty in determining his position in the School. He sh& be able to take the whole department of music & other branches. If one is not sent, the lack shA be supplied, as well as we are able, by such as are now in the islands. Yours as ever, D. Baldwin Statistics of Lahaina church, May 1. 1855. Whole nuntoer admitted on profession - 1224 Whole no. by certificate - 355 Past year by examination - 42 Past year by certificate, - 2 Whole no. past year - 44 Whole no. dismissed to other chhs - 268 Dismissed past year - 7 Whole no. deceased, - ' 509 Died past year - 17 Suspended past year - 8 Remain suspended - 36 Excommunicated past year - 2 Whole no. excommunicated - 81 Remain excommunicated (now in the field) - 27 Whole no. in regular standing - 690 Whole no. of children baptized - 1236 Baptized past year Marriages past year Average Sab. Congregation - 24 37 1200 �Report of Lahaina Station, for 1854 - May________ In presenting to the Mission a report of Lahaina Station, for the past year, it becomes us to Speak, with gratitude to the Giver of all good, for the amount of health he has granted to us during the year. Mrs. Baldwin has been among the in­ valids for about six years - but her health for the past year has been better than in either of the preceding five. The asthma, a frequent visitor in former years, has been less troublesome this (year) - At times, especially in winter, other troubles have taken its place. Our children, who are with us, have pretty uniformly enjoyed good health; & we have been per­ mitted to hear the Same frequently of the health of those in the U. States. Of the native population also in our field, we must say, they have been highly favored. The seasons of 1853, & thus far in 1854, have been uncommonly fine; & this is doubtless one reason why no serious diseases have prevailed among the people. We have not even had our customary influenzas in winter. Cases of severe fever or bowel complaints I have never found so rare in former years. The health of the people the last year, must be set down as one of the wonders of this part of the world; for indulgence of the appetite has been considered one great source of disease, & the past year has been proverbially one of plenty, especially in the line of fish. In the summer of 1853, the alalauwas began to fill our seas - they are still found, though not in so great abundance. During all that year, .a few hours w 1 ^ secure to a fisherman bushels of the sweet �1854 tasted fish. - 2 The common price of a canoe full was a dollar. Several other kinds of fish have abounded by turns, so that it has often been remarked, that the Lord was feeding the people as he did the children of Israel in the wilderness. These re­ marks on the health of the people are in accordance with the record we have kept of the mortality. In the district of La­ haina, in 1851, there were 148 deaths; in 1852, 159; in 1853, 121. And the census lately taken shows the population to be about the same as it was two years ago. - The births in those same years were, respectively, 92,76 & 84. The births & dealhhs, in the same district, for four mos. of the present year, are as follows '5 Jan. Born 4 - died 10 Feb. 8 - 4 Mar. 7 - 9 Ap.__________ 5________ -_______ 11 24 - 34 These have generally been the unhealthy months; & yet, at the rate of these four months, the mortality wd "be only about one hundred, the present year'. I have not accurate returns of births & deaths in our two out districts, Olualu & Lanai; but in both, births reported have exceeded deaths reported, for the three previous years. The population of Lanai, by the late census, is just about the same as it was in 1845 & 1846. From the small pox so fatal in its ravages in many places, we were mercifully preserved in a great measure. Considering that we c^- not be isolated, as c^ more remote districts, we �1854 did not expect so great an exemption from the plague. - 3 Prom the time the Charles Mallory arrd at Oahu, with a case of the small pox, we made up our minds that we must all grapple with the giant; & yet probably we had it from some other source. We looked around us immediately for means of renewing vaccina­ tion. As soon as we c^ obtain good vaccine matter, our two physicians went to vaccinating in earnest. They worked long & hard, & without pecuniary compensation; & the misy pastor scarcely did anything else, for five, or six months, but use his efforts to protect the people from the threatening destruc­ tion, he being one of the three subcommissioners, to manage such matters on Maui, Lanai & Molokai. Some have doubted whether vaccination w d protect Hawaiians. With us it proved far more effectual than the most sanguine expected. Considering how careless natives sometimes are in breaking kine pox pustules before they are matured, the reck­ less ( i) bathing of others whh w^ turn a kindly pustule to a shocking ulcer, & the diseases whh exist in some, our phy­ sicians expressed great astonishment, that the people were so much protected. Of 63 who were innoculated with small pox, only 5 broke out at all; & they but slightly. About twenty in­ dividuals, from Oahu, broke out in our midst, exposing, at each time, a larger or smaller family circle, not one of whom took the disease. ■unknown to us. proved fatal. But 9 of our people took the disease, in some way Most of these were light cases; but two of them These two, with 7, from Oahu, who died at the Lahaina pest house, were all the fatal cases whh occurred. Our whole list, including our own & those from abroad, were �1854 Of cases of genuine sm. pox - 4 21 cases of varioloid 7 Those who had it by innoculation 5_____________ Total 33 — 9 deaths. All who broke out among us were promptly removed out of town to the place provided for them. At first, we burned houses where it broke out; but finding, those exposed did not take the dis­ ease, the law was relaxed. fered most. The district of Hana on Maui suf­ There were 118 cases & 63 deaths - mostly papists & others of the very lowest order. 118 102 cases Kipahulu, add -- 63 27 Kaupo 29 17 Kahikinui 11 5 Hamakua 10 3 Wailuku 3 0 Waiokula 3 1 Lahaina 33 9 Total sm. pox on Maui -309 cases - 125 deaths. The first case whh occurred on Maui was at Lahaina June 23^ Our last case was well about the close of Oct. lingered a little longer. At Hana, it On Maui, the districts of Koolau, Makawao, Kula, Honuaula, Waikapu, Waihee, Waiehu & all the district from Lahaina to Kahakuloa together with the islands of Lanai & Molokai, escaped the disease entirely. They es­ caped by vaccination, & regular & constant fighting. In common with all the islands, our census was taken, by the govt, in Dec. last - probably a more reliable census than �1854 any previous one. - 5 The results are published. - I will only mention some, that relate to the missionary field. The -whole number of natives in Lahaina district is 2973. Of these 83 are half casts. men. In the same district are 27 China­ All other foreigners, including missionaries, their children, & a few foreigners in a district North of Lahaina, are 122 — making a total population of 3122. Of the native population — 238 are reckoned as papists - & 77 as Mormons - or Papists & Mormons 315 - Deduct 315 from 2973 & we have remaining 2658 who may, in a certain sense, be de­ nominated Protestants. We have a Papist priest some of the time - Of all our foreigners, a Mormon priest & his wife are all that belong to that sect. In Olualu is a population of 185 65 of them are under 20.. Catholics 0 Mormons 1. In Ukumehame are 209 - under 20 are 92. Protestants Catholics Mormon 136 - $2 1. On the island of Lanai are a population of 602 Summary Of these 515 are Protestants Lah. 3122 Ukum 309 Mormons 9- 10________ _ Olualu 185 602 Lanai_____ 602_________ 4118 in the whole field. Papists - 77 total. �1854 - 6 The usual round of misy labors has been pursued at Lahaina during the year, now past, with no other interruptions than those whh have been referred to. Two sermons have been preached on the Sabbath - a Sabbath School for children has been kept up one for adults in the Ai oka la Bible class also. a portion of the year, a The Sanctuary has been well filled on the Sabbath, & the attention of the congregation such as to afford a well grounded hope, that the truth is not proclaimed In vain. We think there is also an increasing interest in the instruction given in Sabbath Schools. At the Wed. lecture, whh Is held Wed. afternoon, the congregation is not so large, owing, doubt­ less, in part, to the numbers who are engaged in the business of the place. Our Monthly concerts, the first mon. of every month, are well attended; & the anti Slavery concerts for pray­ er, the last Mon. of each month, are about the Same. The com­ mencement of sending out missions to other islands of this ocean has given new interest to our concerts of prayer for missions. The pastor has preached occasionally at Olualu. He also goes twice a year to the island of Lanai, to look after the in­ terests of the chh there, & to administer the Sacrament to about 100 members of the chh who live on that island. In Oct. 1853, when he Visited the island for this purpose, their grass meet­ ing house had been levelled by a storm. We found a place for preaching & for the Lord's Supper, under the shady kou trees on the shore. The last Sab. of April, this year, was also spent on Lanai, for the same purpose. The people had -united, with �1854 - 7 commendable zeal, & erected a new house instead of the one whh. had blown down, & in a far better location. They have also selected a site for a stone chh, on the East side of the is­ land, & they have agreed to unite, the present year, in making a road over the summit of the island, so that the people of the opposite side may more easily reach the newly located meeting house, whenever a Missy visits them. The population, as before mentioned, is 602; & if they continue united, & attend, as they ought, to their temporal affairs, they might soon be in a situa­ tion to support a native pastor who sh^ devote himself wholly to them. Such a change w d be very desirable. The last Sab. of each month some of the leading chh members of Lahaina spend at Olualu & Lanai; but all these means do not supply their wants. They evidently need some controlling spirit among them every Sabbath, & during the week. For want of it, they fall into many collisions & broils whh hinder the v/ork of God among them. But they are scattered & poor, & whether they will ever be any better off in temporals, seems exceedingly doubtful. years ago, they made a great discovery. They found out that they c^ oarry horses over to their island on canoes. begged horses of their Lahaina friends; Three Some some bought them with fish;- others went to the mountains & burnt coal, till they c^own some sort of a beast. Horses are multiplying, & will soon have possession of the island, whether natives have plantations or not. They find they are a great convenience in travelling; & they often travel for the sake of giving exercise to the horse. From their manner of using the animal, one w^- think they had �found out an analogy between the horse on shore, & the old boards with whh they rode on the tops of the waves. We see many things in the foreign & native community around us whh are not as we cd wish they were. We have many foreigners who have no regard for the Sabbath - are never found in the house of God. They have not yet begun to see any reality in the Bible. Living to the lusts of the flesh will bury any man In darkness - Natives too, with the same principles, will fall into the same ways - Our butcher shops are open Sab. morning - eating houses have abundant custom, & the beer bottles are not wanting. other. As many sailors reel Sab. evening as any Our highest Govt authorities have ascertained one truth whh they have committed to memory; & that is, that it is absolutely necessary for us to commit all the sins whh are committed in Honolulu. Nor is Sab. breaking our only sin. There is, doubtless, much secret licentiousness;■& some are not ashamed of an open course of pollution. The signs by whh we see the existence of covered abominations makes our hearts sigh. But notwithstanding all that pains our hearts, we see signs of en­ couragement - The wicked show many signs of being reproved; & that they are often ashamed of a course whh they have not courage to forsake. limits. Even Sab. breaking is restrained in its We rarely see any one, in our village, on horseback, on the Sab. Horses are not used to carry people to the Sanctuary on Sabbath. Our whole village Is quiet, so much so, as often to call forth remarks from men of civilized lands (.) Some are bent on ruin; - & ruin they must follow till they find it. of the wicked falls on some such every year. The doom But we think, the �1854 - 9 number is increasing, every year, even among foreigners, of those who do reflect on the downward course of sin - who see that a sinning community can never he a prosperous one - who value a good name - & who set some value on the institutions of religion. The Gospel is a leaven of great power. Its power is seen in gradually moulding the mass of our native population under its influence, the -whole mass are certainly, though slowly, adopting the ha hits of civilized life. Christians we see "be­ coming more enlightened & consistent - more settled in Ghristian principles & better able to defend them; &, of course, more to be depended on for supporting the Gospel, & for taking a stand, ■under all circumstances, on the side of Christ. Some of the wicked are merely restrained by the means of grace. we hope, have been converted. Thirty seven have been received to the Lahaina chh since our last Gen. meeting. stand propounded; Others, Seven others - & from 100 to 150 others are candidates, a large proportion of whom may be received the coming year. The past six months have been considered a time of uncommon re­ ligious interest at Lahaina. Many who have been looked ono only as hardened sinners, who have shunned the pious, have ap­ parently changed their course - they frequent religious meetings have called on the miss’y, & profess to have abandoned their sins. Time must show ?fhether they are sincere, & their reforma­ tion one that will endure. Schools. We would speak of the schools in our field as in a prosper­ ous state. So they are; & yet, if our degree of advancement �1854 - 10 is to be judged of, by the state & efficiency of our schools, we shd not take a very high stand in the scale of civilization. The schools have done all the past year that cd have been ex­ pected of them; but not all whh we c^ have wished them to ac­ complish. In the first place, for 4 or 5 months of 1853, when small pox was flying as thick as flakes in a snow squall, we suspended all schools in Lahaina, in order to diminish, all we cd , the amount of intercourse among the people. When we found, dthat the mass of the people, though expose^, did not take small pox, we renewed the schools, & they have been steadily maintained till the present time; but I must add, in the second place, that for want of funds, for a large portion of the year, the schools have been kept but two days in the week, while scholars have been allowed to wander where they pleased four days, a sufficient time to lose all they cd gain in the two. Some of the common people seta proper value on education, & will pur­ chase it for their children at any price. people have low ideas on this subject* But the mass of the They can appreciate what will fill their bellies; but not "what will enlarge the minds of their children, & give them an influence among en­ lightened nations. If the people, without govt aid, are to take up the Schools, they will only take them up to let them die, & to let the nation die down into the grave with them. All, therefore, who wish the welfare, & perpetuity of the Hawaiian nation, will implore of the Legislature to make immediate, steady, & efficient provision for the common schools. If they will vote us the $5000., for schools, in 1854, whh they propose to give us, for a breakwater, whh might do us more hurt than �1854 good, we will ask no more. - 11 If they had given us, for 1853, the $4000, or, rather $6000, whh was sunk in a rotten scow, whh lies on our sand beach, a monument of the wisdom of some govt adviser, we c<3- have reported more progress. About $40,000 were laid out, In 1852, for two prison buildings, in Lahaina, whh are now about empty - If schools prosper, we shall not expect to use them much for Hawaiians;- $6000 more are to be appro­ priated to build a wall around them. Better have saved three fourths of the sum to create intellect among the young, whh wd soon make the nation look up. If govt will give us our share of what they are expending to raise a standing army to defend our coasts from fillibusters who are probably not yet born, there w^ be no lack of go-ahead in education, & we w^soon destroy all the food for fillibusters except what we are raising up in our brothels & grogships. We have in Lahaina eight common Protestant Schools, with a aggregate of 308 scholars. numbers 29. There Is one Papist School, whh We have also a select school of 41 scholars,: who are pursuing such branches as are taught in a higher class of schools in the U. States. iAt Olualu is a Protestant school with 26 scholars - another at Ukumehame with 33. At the latter place, two years since, the Papist school numbered nearly as many scholars as the Protestant. It is now suspended, for want of the legal number to make a school, ten only being found willing to attend it . At Lanai, there are 6 schools, (one of them Papist,) with about 100 scholars. �1854 - 12. The whole number of Schools, therefore, in my field is 18 viz. 16 Protestant & 2 Papist. pist 49. Protestant Scholars 408 - Pa­ I am not aware, that the Papist Schools have any other books than those furnished them by the Protestant Missionary; but they have never applied to him for any part of the Holy Scrptures. In 1853, we had two examinations of all our Schools, & the Papists always examine theirs whenever we do ours. At the last examination, whh was in Dec., #5 held a public celebra­ tion of the schools whh was followed by a feast. Some of the Scholars of the select school gave us specimens of their compo­ sition & declamation. It was attended by the Minister of Pub­ lic Instruction, Our Chief Justice, the Governor (,) teachers of the Seminary, Native Judges, & others, who made appropriate addresses, to teachers, Scholars & parents. Our meeting house was crowded; & both the occastion & the exercises awakened gr§at interest & were calculated to do good. On this public oc­ casion, the Schools showed their Improvement in nothing so much as In music. One of the Scholars played the Seraphina. We have now nine who can do it. The best singing was by the Selected Choir, mostly teachers & Scholars; but some hymns were given out to the whole body of the Schools, & it w^- seem, that almost all attendants on ( t) our Schools have become more or less acquainted with the art of singing. Benevolent Contributions. So far as giving to benevolent objects is a sign of sincer­ ity in religion, the chh of Lahaina perhaps give as much proof of being true-hearted Christians as most Chhs in more enlight- �1854 ened countries. There are no chiefs among them. the island is, by birth, a common native. - 13 The Gov. of There are none that can be called rich among them; but though poor, they live in a market town, & often have more means at their disposal than falls to the lot of poor men in more remote ds|itricts. When they do have means, many, at least, seem to take delight in giving to any object whh helps forward the cause of Christ. In former years, they have raised considerable, each year, for repairing their own church. this object. In 1853, they raised nothing for But the present year, it will call for aid again, as the work is to be completed, & they have already a man at work to paint the inside. The chh commenced the work of supporting their own pastor the first day of 1850 - They supported him for two years, ex­ pecting him to be dismissed from the American Board, but as he was not dismissed, the pastor fell back, in 1852, again on the funds of the Jm. Board, & received no salary, that year, from the people. He had requested anew a dismission, from the Am, Board, as was mentioned in his last Report, whh dismission was received in March, dating from Jan. l3^ 1853. In order to raise a salary for the pastor, the chh & people have taken up a contribution, during the monthly concert week of each month. a month. This generally varies from 40 to 60 dollars For the year 1853, it amounted to $578.25 - The Treasury of the Society having had a surplus left in it the year previous, they were able, in 1853, to pay the stipulated salary of 1000 dollars. They will also be able to pay the same sum in 1854, without any other means than that raised by their �1854 monthly contributions. - 14 The sum raised during the five months of the currSnt year already past, amounts to 306.50 - In Nov. 1853* $348.00 were raised for missions in the Pacific Ocean, & forwarded to the Treasr of the Haw. Miss. Soc. A contribu­ tion has been taken up at the Ant. S. Concert, & $60. forwarded, +■: '' for the year, to t'lie' Am. & For. Ant. S. Society. %\ The women of L&haina have two meetings a year, at each of whh a collection is'"t'aken up. The one in Aug. /53 & Jan. /54 amounted to $225.00, whh was devoted to different objects, ac­ cording to their direction - $100 of this was sent to our two children in the U. States - $73. sent to purchase a melodeon for Hawaiian children to practise on - & the balance devoted to future repairs on the native meeting house of Lahaina. Seventy five dollars were contributed for a church in Kau. $75.00 The people have also lately undertaken to raise $200.00 for a permanent building for Mr. Lyman's boarding School at Hilo. This collection is not yet completed. They are also trying to raise a still larger sum for re­ building their own Sectional meeting houses in Lahaina. For the central house, which is also used for the Select School, they have already raised $300. This is to be expended in tearing off the ti-leaf thatch, & covering it with Shingles. This work, with other repairs whh the building will require, will doubtless cost some f*600. or $800. There are also six other buildings on whh much labor & money must be expended. These houses are mainly for sectional religious meetings, where different divisions of the chh & people can meet without the �1854 - 15 necessity of using the School houses. The amount of the above contributions, then, is ~ For 1853, for pastor, $578.25 For the Haw. Miss. Soc. Anti Slavery Soc. 348.00 - 60.00 Women's Contributions Contributed in 1853, 225.00_____ $1511.25 Contributed 5 first mos. of 1854, Support of Pastor, $306.50 Hilo B. School house,200.00 Chh in Kau___ Total in 5 mos. 1854 75/90 = $581.50 Statistics of Chh. Whole no. admitted on Profession, Whole no. adm^- on certificate 1261 368 Past year by examination 37 Past year by certificate 13 Whole no. past year 50 Whole no. dismissed to other chhs Dismissed past year 273 5 Whole no. deceased 524 Died the past year 15 Suspended past year Remain Suspended, Excommunicated past year, Whole no. excommunicated 6 31 0 81 �1854 Remain excommunicated - - 23 Whole no. in regular standing - 740 Whole no. of children baptized - 1285 Baptized past year - 49 Marriages past year - 45 Average Oong. on Sabbath - 1200 (D. Baldwin) 16 �Report of Lahaina Station May, 1855. In regard to labors at this station, the past year has been a broken year. My health became poor soon after general meeting In 1854; & was so much so in Sept. that I was obliged to desist from preaching. I still attended to the other cares & labors of the station, till the end of Nov. when I embarked for Kauai, to try the effect of rest & freedom from care. The experiment was beneficial. I spent about six weeks on Kauai, & at Punahou, & returned Jan. 13"kk, to Lahaina, with health much Improved. I have gained in health, & ability to 1 abor,r gradually from that time to this, but very slowly - with many admonitions, not to "do with my might," but rather to let my moderation ^e kncwn. The brethren of Lahainaluna did most of the preaching in my absence, or rather from the time I was un­ able to preach till I felt myself able again in Feb. For most of the time since Feb. I have been able to preach, & have not appeared to sustain much injury from it. The health of Mrs. Baldwin has been better the past year than in most of previous years, with many times of exception. Our children who are in the islands have enjoyed uniformly good health. The same also has been true of those who reside in the U. States. Though we speak of our own Illness, we do not forget, that we have constantly cause of gratitude & praise to God. While speaking on the subject of health, I w d add, that the past has been peculiarly a year of health among the native �185& population. - 2 During a residence of twenty years at Lahaina, I do not think there has ever been sixteen successive months when health has so universally prevailed among natives,, as it has, in all my field, frcrn the beginning of /54 to the present time. An accurate account of deaths in Lahaina shows this - In 1851, there were 148 deaths - in 1852, 159 deaths - in 1853, 121 - in 1854, 108 C O average for each month w d be for 51, lSi/3 - 52, 13l/4 - 53, 10+ - 54, 9 a month, while the population of Lahaina has remained all the while about the same. The births for the same years are 92,67,84, & 95. The births & deaths, each month, thro. 54, in the district of Lahaina, with a population of about 3000 are as follows. Born died born died Jan. 4 - 10 July 12 Feb. 8 - 4 Aug. 1 0 - 6 Mar. 7 9 Sept. 6 Ap. 5 Oct. 8 - 1 0 Nov. 4 May - - 1 1 - 8 8 June________ 9____ -_____ 8____ Dec._______ 14 Total 1854 = 95 - 9 - 14 - 9 - 10 - 108 My returns from the two outdistricts of Lanai & Olualu are imperfect. The births at Lahaina the first four months of 1855 exceed born died the 'deaths - Jan. 13 - 12 Feb. 5 Mar. 5 - 1 2 Ap. - 1 11 - 6 34 - 31 �1855 - 3 The usual round, of labours has been pursued at the station, & outstations, except that week day meetings have oftener been conducted by natives; & they have sometimes conducted the meet­ ings on the Sabbath. The children's Sab. School, at 8 Sab. morning has fallen off to some extent - partly because the only convenient hour to hold It is an hour, at whh I can never attend; partly also because our day schools have had many interruptions; & still another reason has been, that many of our day schools are taught by young teachers, who do not exert the religious influence, whh is exerted by older teach­ ers. Our adult Sab. .School has greatly felt the need of the Ai oka l a . For lack of it, I have given out, to the school, the Ui by Mr. Armstrong. Neither the interest, nor size of our Sab. congregations, or week day meetings seems to have diminished. We have gen­ erally pretty full assemblies on the Sabbath both forenoon & afternoon - those who profess to be pious, & some others are generally present at the Wed. lecture, & also at the monthly & anti Slavery concerts. There is always good attention to the preaching of the word, & there are many proofs, that preaching is not in vain. There are those that show no Interest in religion - who show, that they have never relinquished their ruling lusts & Others, who are notoriously wicked, who are pretty uniformly in the house of God; & occasionally such wish to have their names enrolled among the serious. On a much larger number who have been moral, the Gospel appears to be exerting gradually its transforming power . �1855 - 4 Eighty have been admitted, the past year, to the chh, & a goodly number appear to stand fair as candidates to be ad­ mitted the present year. Our schools have been prosperous under the management of a faithful superintendent. An English school was commenced about a year since, with 40 or 60 scholars, & was taught in one of the rooms of the palace. The two last quarters were under the new act, for the encouragement of Eng. schools. Pour hundred dollars were paid by the people to the teacher, for the two quarters; &, according to the law, the teacher redd the same amount from' the govt. The teacher was a lady. She succeeded very well in communicating English to the native children, though she scarcely knew a word of the Hawaiian. She was from California, & has now returned thither; so that we are, at present, desti­ tute of an English teacher. Meeting Houses. The native chh, at Lahaina, has undergone some repairs the past year; but it is greatly in need of still more. The steeple leaks badly, & has for years, so that some of its timbers have become unsound, & the structure is no longer safe. The plan is to tear it all down, & rebuild it the present year. Our house for chh prayer meetings, &c. has a thatched roof whh has become very leaky. was to put a shingled roof on it. The plan, at first adopted, But the chh have just voted, that the walls are too old fashioned to be tolerated in these go-ahead days. So they are all to be torn down, the present month, (May,) & to be rebuilt from the fouhdation, at an expense �1855 perhaps of $2000. 5 Two sectional meeting houses have been built, the past year, in Lahaina. progress. - Three others are now in The past winter has been one of storms, & long con­ tinued rains. As the heavens have poured down torrents of water, our adobie houses & fences have turned into unsightly piles of mud & rubbish; so that, hereafter, Lahaina people will build their fences & houses with wood or stone. A stone meeting house is also in progress on the East side of Lanai, whh, we hope, will be completed the present year, ■ Benevolent Contributions, There seems to be, in the chh, a disposition to aid benevolent objects as far as they have the ability - The most discouraging thing, in this matter, Is the little skill & energy the people have for getting means; & their economy, in using what they get, may well be compared to that of little children. but little. l^ Their money too often goes for that whh profits them The collections made at the monthly concerts, the mon. In each month, whh goes to the support of the pastor amounted to $5713,43-J in 1854. The Salary of the pastor is $ 1000,00 — Collected, same way, l3^ four mos. of 1855 — 224,25 Women's collection, Aug. 1854 & March, 1855 — 218.18-§ Sent to Am. & For, Ant. S. Soc. Jan. 1855 — Collected for repairs on Lah. native chh_______ -Carried over $ brought forward Contribution of Lah. chh to a meeting house in Kula, Lanai people, collected for a stone chh Beginning of Collection for chh m'g house Contribution for Lah. Section meeting houses in cash Total $ 108,00 169.70 1433.57i 1433.57^ 200,00 400,00 440,00 450,00 2923,57t �1855 The labor expended voluntarily, on these houses, by members of the chh & others, cannot easily be estimated f .J) Popery. Popery, with us, seems to be a system whh has about worn itself out, & now attracts the attention of nobody. it never did gain much attention. In fact, They have a school in La­ haina, taught mostly, I think, by the padre, though, much of the time, no priest resides there. One thing, however, they have whh is new. ceived a bell, & huhg it up in a kukui tree. They have re­ Some poor faith­ ful native rings it, every morning & evening, at about sunrise & sunset; for what purpose, I have never been able to learn. It rings also at other hours, on the Sabbath. Their meetings are held, inhere they always have been, in an old adobie Bowl­ ing alley. I heard, six mos. ago, on Oahu, that they were about to build a Cathedral, at Lahaina, 100 feet long. We have heard nothing said about it at Lahaina. On the Census taken Dec. 1853, the Papists were 238 in number. Some of the names I knew as men who belonged on a dis­ tant part of the island. How far they made up this number, by gathering in proselytes from outdistricts of the island, I am unable to s a y . Mormons. There Is a Mormon priest at Lahaina vfho is a shoemaker by trade. When they commenced operations there, some years since, quite a number of the lowest class of the natives joined them - also three excommunicated persons of our chh. three soon left them in disgust. Those By the census, Dec. 1853, �1855 they numbered 77. now. - 7 I do not think they have half that number The priest does not practice according to his preaching; for he preaches the duty of taking a multiplicity of wives, while he says he has taken but one himself; for he says, his wife pre­ fers, that he sh^ not marry another. He speaks of polygamy as a Christian duty, but once acknowledged, that some good Christian ?fives of the present generation found it a hard doc­ trine to submit to. A more perfect generation may come when it will be very easy. For many reasons, the Mormons can never make much advance, with their peculiar system, unless they can form an independent community by themselves. Their customs run counter to the laws of every Christian nation, &, therefore, in order to carry out their principles, they must have a secluded or independent location, in whh they can manage both chh & state. There is no doubt, that they have searched for such a place on these islands . Whether they have pitched upon the spot I cannot say; but numbers of their priests have been over to Lanai, & they have hired a land there, of one of the chiefs. A few foreigners & perhaps natives have gone to live there; they have sown wheat whh, they say, is doing well. whh the peelua has eaten up. They have planted Irish potatoes I know not, that they have built even a grass hut; but they have begun to talk about the City of Joseph, in the valley of Ephraim. If they shd choose Lanai, for agriculture & a city, it w& display about as much wisdom as they have shown in the formation of their creed. �1855 8 Statistics of Lahaina Chh., May l3^ 1855 Whole number admitted on profession, 1541 Whole no. on certificate - 378 Past year by examination - 80 Past year by certificate - 10 Whole no. past year - 90 Whole no. dismissed to other chhs Dismissed past year - 10 Whole number deceased - 530 Died past year - 6 Suspended past year - 11 Remain Suspended - 28 Excommunicated past year - l Whole no. excommunicated - 82 Remain excommunicated - 22 Whole no. in regular standing / Whole no. of children baptized - 830 - 1342 Baptized past year - 57 - 41 Marriages past year . 283 . Dwight Baldwin Pastor at Lahaina. �Abstract of the Report of CD, Baldwin] Lahaina Station, May 1. 1855.__________ Owing to ill health* the pastor has been able to preach only about half the year. His lack of service* in this respect* has been made up by the teachers of Lahainaluna Seminary. year has been one of unusual health among the people. The There has been no prevailing disease* & deaths have been less frequent than in any preceding year - births a little more frequent than of late years. In the district of Lahaina* pop. 3000* there were in 1854* 95 births* 108 deaths. In the first four mos. of 1855* the births exceeded the deaths. There have been about the usual amount of labors* at the station & outstations. The Sab. congregations* at Lahaina* both forenoon & afternoon* have been full - the Wed. lecture* missionary & anti Slavery concerts well attended. Schools have prospered - An English school of 60 scholars has been maintained at Lahaina* through the year. Meeting Houses. The native church at Lahaina has under­ gone some repairs the past year. The Steeple needs rebuilding. Two section meeting houses have been built - three others are in progress - also a stone church on the Island of Lanai. Benevolent Contributions V Monthly Con. Contributions 1854 for Support of pastor, $713.00 Same 4 mos. of 1855* 224.00 Collections at two women's m'gs, 218.00 �Abstract 1855 - Contribution for Am. & For. Ant. Slavery Soc. 5-08.00 Collected for Repairs on Meeting house, 169.00 Confc. for- a Meeting house in Kula, 200.00 Lanai people collected for a stone chh, 400.00 Con. for a house for chh prayer meetings, 440.00 For Section meeting houses ____ - Total Contributions Popery - 2 ____________ 450.00____ $2922. — There is a papist chh at Lahaina - Popery excites no attention - appears to be on the wane. Mormons - There is a Mormon priest, who makes shoes - & preaches polygamy. He has a few followers, among natives only. �I Report of S.E. Bishop, Seamen's Chaplain, Lahaina, 1855 J The Seamen's Chaplain at Lahaina has to report with grati­ tude to God, that in continued good health, he has "been able to perform the duties of his charge without interruption. Preaching has been maintained every Sabbath morning in the Bethel, except on a few Sabbaths when the severity of the weather & the impassable condition of the street prevented the congre­ gation from assembling. During that large porti-on of the year while no ships were in port, the attendance varied from 15 to 30. During Shipping season the house was well filled, and with a larger proportion of common seamen than during previous seasons. A regular Exercise in the Scriptures has been held with a few children of our congregation each Sabbath P.M. In addition, a visit has been regularly made to the Am. Hospital at 4-§- or 5 P.M. & a Bible Class or Preaching service held if convenient, or the work confined to individual conversation. A few times the Chaplain has preached in P.M. on board of Ships in the harbour, on one occasion 75 Seamen & officers were present. These are the most interesting & apparently effective services held. But they are attended with great difficulties, 6 only with much effort can the opportunity be secured without failure. Were the harbor small & smooth, it would be easier both to gather the hearers, obtain the ship, & conduct the services. Too few foreigners in Lahaina "call upon the name of the Lord,” to make a church organization among us practicable. Nor while the sickness of the missionary to the natives prevents his attendance, can even a prayer meeting be sustained. Thus �Bishop - 1855 - 2 deprived of the support of the love & sympathy of a church, & for months without hearing the voice of prayer from any brother in our own tongue, the chaplain must find a substitute for these means of grace in the special help of God, & the prayers of his brethren elsewhere asking this In his behalf. A large & indispensable part of the work consists in indi­ vidual intercourse with seamen. They must be sought in the street, in the Reading Room, on the beach, in the hospital, their confidence gained, their feelings, characters wants, in­ quired into, advice given them, & the Gospel preached to them. I consider this the most Important & fruitful, as well as laborious part of my work. are full of interest. The incidents connected therewith The most impressible subjects of this influence are the steady, prospering men, the young sailors fresh from home, & the sick. Yet often will a word in season affect the hardened & the dissolute. It has been my duty the past year to commit to the grave many who died in the Hospital. Several of these gave good evi­ dence before death of repentance & faith in the Saviour, who knew him not when they came there, while in one instance a good profession of some years standing closed in a triumphant death. The sailor in a strange land, alone perhaps dying, without a gentle hand to comfort him, is peculiarly accessible to the influences of the Gospel. Less so, is the sailor long detained with slighter ailments among the temptations of the beach & corrupted by them. The Portuguese Spanish & French sailors with Germans & Swedes, foim interesting subjects of missionary effort. An �Bishop - 1855_- 3 acquafi}ntance with their language is wanting to do them the good desired. But tracts & Bibles are largely distributed to them, & will be preserved & prized by them, while no spiritual tyrant is at hand to take them away. The social & moral state, of our town is about what it has been. A time is looked forward to with hope, but distant we fear, when the commerce we enjoy shall have created an indus­ trious, enterprizing intelligent Foreign community, such as might be sustained by the fostering of such a trade as we have. Then we shall have an organized body of Christians [.] will flourish. among us. Schools Good social & domestic influences will prevail Vice shall be made ashamed. But as yet, our society is in an unformed state, & the vile, & abandoned feel but little rebuked by Its elevated & restraining influences. So much the more need for the Gospel to work both on shore men & seamen. In conclusion, It may be said, the experience of the past year adds to the conviction that a good work is going on among sailors, slowly but with certainty - that religion is growing in regard that gradually more humane & rational views are gaining ground respecting their treatment, & that a day is at hand when they shall with the rest of mankind honor God & be blessed of him. [On back) Report of S.E. Bishop Seam. Chaplain Lahaina £The date 1855 was given to this report due to the reference to the illness of the missionary (Mr / D." Baldwin )'.J �At a meeting of the native chh & Soc. held at the native chh, in Lahaina, Feb. 22d - 1858, held to consult respecting the chh, the roof of whh[which] has just been taken off by a whirlwind, it was voted, First, That as half the roof still remains, we wd[would], in future, hold our meetings there. 2. That the bell be carried to Upai's yard & so hung up, that it may be rung, 3. That a Separation be made of shingles, boards, & timber whh may be used in rebuilding the chh, & such as cannot be so[?] used, That the latter may be sold. 4. Kahook'ano Sd[said] that the Halealo [page is torn off here]...some of the timbers who[torn]...out; upon whh Timoteo,[torn]...were chosen[torn]...Com. to j Sell to Kahookano, for Halealoha, such timber as the former can spare[torn]... latter may need. 5. Voted to do the selecting to-day, the native carpenters being judges of what are good & bad timers, board, &c. 6. It was moved by Moku, &.passed, that each of the 6 larger apanas raise, as Soon as they can, for repairing the chh, $200 & each of the three smaller ap.’s $100. - 7. Chose Kahookano, Kenui & Upai, a building Committee, TtComite hana hale", to see to all the work of repairing itfig chh, to make contracts, procure mater­ ials, &c. 8. Voted that it devolve on the building Com. to decide what means are neces­ sary to be used to preserve the pulpit, seats, &c. While the house is without a roof. 0. Voted that on Gens.[?] morn, all the 9 apanas come together to do what the Com, hana hale may decide necessary for the above purpose. 10. Voted, to choose Rev. D,[torri] [Baldwin] to keep all monies [torn]... pair of the chh. TeusT!]. Dec. 28th. The Lah. chh & Soc. met to deli[torn, probably deliberate] on the unfinished work of the meeting house, Voted to accept of Mr. Chamberlain's offer to do all the remaining work of the chh for $300, viz. the clock tower of the Chh steeple, & blinds & cleise shutters Glass windows for to the bell tower - also a wheel & hangings for the bell, & other needful work on the steeple - finish & paint the upper ceiling of the chh - repair the pulpit gallery, &c, also repair seats, make new ones, repair windows & whatever is ne­ cessary to put the chh in complete repair. The Treasr. D. Baldwin, made a report of all the money received & expended in [torn] [re]pair [of] the chh, how much paid to [torn]...All pd[!] to carpenters & assistants [torn]...[2]3.37-| - $300 more complete the work. Voted also to �£ahai4§;|i-85'8l give [torn] old koa shingles of the meeting house to Kahookano for $70. The same [torn]...applied to dimim.sh[torn]... debt [of] $234, whh the chh & Soc. owe[d] him for work 'On Hale Aloha. [End] [Unsigned] �Report of Lahaina Station, May, 19th 1858. Owing to ill health, the advice of physicians, & with the consent of the mission, the pastor of Lahaina chh & his wife have made a visit to the U. States. Jan. 2 6 ^ , They embarked, at Honolulu, 1856, in the Bark Bhering, with Mr. & Miss Sarah Clark, as a part of the passengers; & they arrd at New London, Ct. May 22 ^ - after an absence from that country of more than 25 years. • They visited friends In various States of the Union, until Nov. 5 1857, utien they, in company with their daughter Abbie & Miss. Mary Parker, left New York, in the Steamer, for the Sand. Islands, by way of the Isthmus & California, having ( i) about 1200 fellow passengers. They had the company of Dr. Arm­ strong & Wm. D. Alexander, from San Francisco to the Isis, in the Fanny Major, & arr^ at Honolulu, Jan. 2^- 1858, & at La­ haina Jan. 13th.. They enjoyed their visit highly; it seemed very short; but they are glad to find themselves seated down at home once more, in the midst of Hawaiian friends, & in the midst of misy work. Both of them improved much in health by the visit & by rest from labor, & both feel richly compensated for all the privation of voyaging &c. by all the new things they have had opportunity of seeing, as well as by meeting relatives & friends & renewing our acquaintance with them. Six days before we left New York, our eldest son, with his wife, left Boston, In the ship Eliza & Ella, for these Isis. They arr'3- at Honolulu, March 8 "kh^ & a t Lahaina, Mar. 18th, so that our family after the separation of two children, for eight years, & ourselves �1858 - 2 for two, have been all united, together again, for whh we w d praise the Great Giver of every good. Rev. Mr. Pogue acted as Pastor, in the absence of the pastor, & it will devolve on him, therefore, to report the labors of the station for two thirds of the past year. I wd say, however, that Mr. Poguers labors, consisting mainly in preaching the word, were highly acceptable to the chh & people of Lahaina, as were those of the brn. who assisted him. The congregation appeared to have been well kept up, & we found, on our return, much that was interesting among the people, nothing more so than the evident conversion of the only Son of our Gov.; whom we had left an amiable, but a dissipated & wicked young man. The prayers of a devotedly pious grand mother had perhaps been answered in his sudden conversion, & preparation for heaven. He exhibited, in all his conversation, a wonderful maturity of Christian character. We were hoping for great good, especially among our youth, from his zeal & faithful­ ness, when God took him away, by a very Sudden death, about two & a half months after he showed his first signs of seriousness. We hope there have been other conversions, especially among the young; & some also among those older, who will hold out to the end. But in regard to Schools, a Supply of books, Sab. Schools & c . we c^ not but see, that the station had suffered some, from not having had a misy to reside among them. There is much that is interesting among those in the chh & out of it. We do not call it a revival; but we hope, that It may result in the Salvation of many souls. �1858 - 3 I have preached almost every Sabbath, & generally twice each Sab.; but Mr* Pogue has often preached one part of the day, since our return; & I have occasionally had help from the other brn. I have been somewhat cautious In entering again upon the labors of the station, lest I sh^- overdo. but little pastoral work as yet. I have attended to But I do not perceive, that any labor, thus far, has been an injury to me. We have met with a great loss In the unroofing of our chh. On the 2 0 th of Feb. last, during a severe Southern blow, a violent whirlwind, whh spared nothing in its course, demolished the steeple of the chh & the half of the roof opposite to the steeple end, piling the wreck of both In one common mass on the East side of the house. The timbers of the house were mostly Hawaiian & were broken up very badly. The bell, whh fell a hundred feet from the place where it hung, was uninjured. Thankful (Ve] were, that nobody was Injured in this catastrophe. We have searched the resources of the Islands to procure tim­ bers to repair the chh; but cannot find them - We have therefore sent an order for all the timbers we need to PugetTs Sound. It will be some months before we can receive them, & some months more before our house can be enclosed. We have several smaller meeting houses in Lahaina, but no one will accommodate our con­ gregation; so we continue to meet in our wrecked sanctuary, notwithstanding, under our burning sun, it is an inconvenient place for preacher & hearers. chh will be about $3000. The whole cost of repairing the We shall make a great effort to raise one half the sum the present year, so that we shall hardly be /■' able to do what w§- otherwise be our share for missions in the �1858 - 4 Pacific. Our two outstations have also the work of building them­ selves meeting houses the present year. That of Lanai has nearly completed the walls of a stone chh on the East side of the Island. They have had with them, for three years, a young graduate of Lahainaluna, as a preacher. He seems to be doing pretty well - has lately been licensed, & may, in due time, be ordained over the chh there, if he gains the full con­ fidence of the people. The other outstation (Olualu) have their stone meeting house in a good state of forwardness. They are exceedingly poor, but there seems, of late, to be a waking up among them. Bro. Pogue has lately spent two Sabbaths among them. Schools. The number of pupils in our Schools has greatly diminished from what it was a few years since. Pupils are generally young the older ones having left School, perhaps because they get employment easier than in former years. We have lately held a public examination of all our schools; the Pres, of the Board of Education has made us a visit, & we hope, our Schools will do better. Our children's Sab. School Cha’so] been suspended for want of a house. Mormonism This absurd & polluted Sect seems to have vanished from among u s . �1858 - 5 Popery The Papists have built a large ohh in Lahaina. wooden building & makes an imposing appearance. finished entirely inside. It is a It is not yet Whether they will be able to fill it.with proselytes is yet to be seen. They are making greater efforts, among the people, than they have ever made before. They attack our chh members wherever they meet them, & all others, of course. Pour of our suspended members, deep in in­ iquity, have been persuaded to join them - & one has gone to them who was not suspended, giving as a reason for going that awaawa things were not kapu, among papists, & they had no contribu­ tions there. The Papist school has 14 scholars. Oontributions. During all our absence from Lahaina, the chh continued their monthly contribution, whh amounted to about $1100 for two years, & whh went for the benefit of the pastor. continue it for the same purpose. They still They have expended much on their Section meeting houses, but are now bending all their efforts to raise money for the repair of the chh. They ex­ pect to raise $ 1 0 0 0 each year for the support of their pastor; but how the deficiency is to be made up the present year is not yet clear. I have made no estimate of labor on their sectional meeting houses. It w d amount to some thousands. The central one, intended for chh meetings, &c. & called Halealoha, Is a noble building about 30 ft by 60. In Feb. the chh collected between one & two hundred dollars, whh they laid out for clothing or cloth, with whh they filled two or three boxes, & �1858 - 6 forwarded them to Mr. Castle at Honolulu. Statistics of ohh & c . Whole number admA to ch. on profession, 1370 I/'/hole number admA on Certificate 419 Past year on profession 6 Mr. Pogue admitted in two years 27 Past year on certificate 16 Total past year 22 Whole no. dismissed 292 Dismissed past year 6 Total deceased 544 Deceased past year Whole no. excluded Excluded past year 9 91 0 Remain excluded, 40 (suspended) Now in regular standing 822 Total/ children baptized 1407 Baptized past year 41 Marriages by Mr. Bishop fr. May l/57 to same /58 By pastor 28 34 6 Mr. Pogue's not included. These statistics built on preceding Report. A census pf chh. makes it about a hundred less. Born Lahaina, 1856 66 »______ 1857_________ 87_______ The truth somewhere between Deaths Excessof deaths 114 48 155 ________ 46___________ _ Diminution in 2 yrs = 94 Made good from other districts. D. Baldwin �{"Report of S.E* Bishop, Seamen's Chaplain, Lahaina, May 1858J The work of the Seamen's Chaplain at Lahaina has been varied little by any extraordinary incidents. Yet there are many things of interest to be noticed in connection with it. First, Labors among Seamen. These have consisted of the regular Sabbath services at the Bethel, occasional preaching at the U.S. Hospital, occasional visits to ships in port, inter­ course with seamen in the street, on the beach, at the Hospital, and at my own house, and the bestowal of Bibles, testaments, religious books, and tracts. About thirty ships were visited the past year. In our spa­ cious roadstead this is attended with difficulty and expense, but seemed a very effective way of getting at the people, and leading them to attend church & visit my study. Books were chiefly distributed at my own house; many most interesting in­ terviews were held with the pious, the penitent, the awakened, the troubled and oppressed. French sought books. Many Portuguese, Spanish and During the Season of ships the Reading Room has been supplied with papers and served to attract many Seamen into the vicinity of the Bethel. The attendance there of sailors has been small, although as good as in former years. Labor at the Hospital has been profitable, although not favored in the conversion of any soul there the past year that I know. There have been several deaths out of the large no. of patients., but chiefly Portuguese & Catholics. Preaching has re­ ceived good attention, when not too often repeated. But sailors become fearfully demoralized by a Stay of a few weeks or months in Lahaina, amid the gross temptations existing there. �Bishop - 1858 - 2 Many who at first were friendly, "become sullen & hard in a short time under the influence of evil companions. At the present time there are several young men in the Hospital of an unusually & often the prayer meeting respectable character, -who attend the Bethel r e g u l a r l y , a p ­ pear to "be under some concern, though perhaps not deep. The moral condition of seamen of all classes from Captains down, is generally a most deplorable one. The evils practiced are so immense, it seems almost a desperate undertaking to reform it."" Much might doubtless be done by lopping off evil branches; but nothing except a powerful work of the Gospel can reach the root. The state of religion in our foreign community has been low. Perhaps some faint streaks of light could of late be per­ ceived amid the darkness. There has been a marked increase of attendance at the Chapel the past few months - and lately a more serious attention to preaching was to be noticed. Since the return of Dr. Baldwin & family, weekly prayer meetings have been sustained, chiefly by three families, with a few others oc­ casionally attending. We have enjoyed some good & lively seasons in that way, especially since the news of the Lord's work in America has reached us & lent more hope to our efforts for good. We have a fine melodeon in the Chapel, and now a number of excellent singers, with the aid of a superior organist, so that our praises sound loud & clear if not fervent - not struggling for life as formerly. A small Sabbath School class has been taught comprising the children of white families in town. A good library for their use has been provided by the exertions of Mrs. Baldwin while in �Bishop - 1858 - 3 the States. The character of Society in L. is slowly improving. I may instance the fact that when I first arrived in L. 5§ years since, there were hut two church going families "beside those of the missionaries & now there are five such. The obstacles to moral & religious progress are immense. Yet we do not despair. Vice on one side, & self-vs. irreligion on the other hold our people entrenched from the Truth. Lord has power to beat down all these their strongholds. He come speedily among us in power. The May �Report of Lahaina Station, Mgy, 1859. By Rev. D„ Baldwin In making our report to the Association, for the year past, we feel, that we have great occasion to bless the Lord, for the measure of health we have been permitted to enjoy. nesses have been, in a good measure, removed. Former ill­ No great or dis­ tressing sickness has come upon us; nor has our number been dimin ished by death. Instead of this, one has been added to our fam­ ily circle, the beginning of a new generation, a generation which we hope & pray may be more devoted to the Lord's service than any of the generations of their fathers. The usual round of ministerial & pastoral labors has been pursued at the Station. There has been regular preaching on the Sabbath, & on other days. Whenever I have been absent on the Sabbath, my place has generally been supplied by one of the brn from Lahainaluna, or by their assistant teacher. The destruc­ tion of our meeting house, which 1 mentioned last year, & the unfinished state of our Hale aloha, (the church & prayer meet­ ing house,) broke up our Sabbath Schools, in some measure, for 1858. But we have recommenced them in 1859; &, for lack of our Ai o ka L a , we have adopted Clark on the Promises, as our regular Sabbath School book. Our Wed. afternoon lecture is de­ voted to an explanation of the seven verses, which form the lesson for the ensuing Sabath (I). During the year, I have spent one Sabbath at Olualu, & two at Lanai; & administered the Lord's Supper, each time, at the latter place. I should have gone to both places much often- er, had it not been for the total lack, In either place, of a �1859 - 2 house of worship, a lack whh we hope to see supplied, before the close of the present year. Besides the ordinary labors of the station, the past year has been filled with extra-ordinary work & care, beyond any other mis'y year we have seen, except the year 1853, when we were contending with the small pox. When I arrived at Lahaina, from the U. States, in Jan. 1858, I found, that Prince Lot had taken possession of the road, leading directly to the front of our native church, which had been travelled as a road, probably from 1800 or earlier, &, from that time, down to the present day. It led through the premises whh he had leased to the jAm- erican Consul, & whh he fancied w d be more valuable without the road. I found the whole congregation travelling to the chh, through a narrow, round about way, in which the dirt was trodden up like an ash heap, by the tramping of horses. This road led the people to the side & back of the house; but the Prince & his lawyer told us, that the hot, dirty, indirect road was all sufficient for our purpose. There was much sensation among our people, on account of this; but they knew not what to do. They soon, however, held a meeting, & voted to return to the road, & travel It, till they were regularly ejected by law. The Prince then brought an action against certain individuals, for tres­ pass, & "for injuring the flowers & other ornamental trees," as they passed through to meeting. Some of our people were so con­ scientious & tender hearted to chiefs, that they wd not pass that road, even after a vote had been passed by the congregation. The case was tried at Honolulu, in Oct. of last year, before the judges of the Supreme Court; but it was not till the present month, (May) /59, that we have received a decision in favor, of �1859 the road. - 3 I mentioned, in my report of last year, the destruc­ tion of our chh, "by a whirlwind, Feb. 20ttL 1858. do without a house of worship. We could not Through all the summer & fall, we held our Sabbath meetings, within the naked walls, under the open canopy of heaven. But we felt compelled to rebuild the chh before the rains of winter shd set in; & yet it seemed a work entirely beyond our means. ing funds. We set our chh teachers to collect­ Most of the writing & planning devolved upon me. As there were no timbers in the Islands, suitable for the roof, we sent an order to Pugetfs Sound, & recd a noble set of tim­ bers from thence in July. Other materials, whh were, at the time, in the forests of California & Maine, came along in due time. We procured two foreign carpenters from Oahu, & furnished four native carpenters to work with them. They began the work, the middle of Sept. & before the first storm of winter, the building was well enclosed. In a few days less than a year, from the time the chh was thrown down , the whole work of re­ pairing was complete, except the inside painting, whh is not yet done. The building is one of great strength - 1400 lbs of iron hold the frame work together. We had many fears of the effect whh the taxation, necessary to repair the chh, w^- have on .the people, just at the time when the Papist chh was complete & they were besetting chh members & all others, on every side, t join them. A few may have gone to the Papists on that account. But, in general, the chh & others have contributed, for this ob­ ject, with great cheerfulness. From the end of March /58, to the end of Sp. /59, or in �1859 13 mos. the natives of Lahaina contributed $2874. - 4 One hundred & nineteen dollars ($119) were raised from the sale of old lum­ ber - Near $400. were given by foreigners * including mission­ aries - & $910. were borrowed. materials & work, $4304. So that we have paid out., for The whole cost, thus far, has been about $4700 - so that we have a debt, (including $ 1 0 0 0 . of bor­ rowed money & interest) of about $1300. When the work of the house was finished, our debt was over $ 2 0 0 0 - but, on the 31st of March, we had a formal dedication of the house, &, on that day, took up a collection of $716. Outstations. We have two outstations connected with Lahaina, Lanai and Olualu. At each of these we have finished the walls of a good substantial stone meeting house. Ihen the people are a little more in funds, each of these is to be shingled and floored, and will be very convenient places of worship. A native preacher was stationed at Lanai, but did not get along well with the people, and so Lanai falls back upon our hands. them as often as we are able. We shall visit Some one of Lahaina church teachers visits Olualu every Sabbath. Schools. Our schools are in as prosperous a state as they have ever; been. In November last our faithful kahukula, Upai, died. His death was a great loss to the schools, but a greater to the church, and cause of Christ. He was an active and zealous Christian. Our son, Dwight, took the English school in the fall, which now consists of seventy or eighty scholars. He has since been �1859 appointed kahukula for the district. - 5 I need not describe the schools particularly, as they are all to be remodelled under the new code of laws. Our kahukula leads the music of the congregation, and has had several classes of pupils on the melodeon. He thinks the natives are apt scholars in music. Revival. I mentioned, in the report of last year, an unusual reli­ gious excitement among the natives. and went on increasing for months. It was then in progress, For a time it seemed as though the most wicked and thoughtless of our population would all be converted. At many of our prayer meetings, not a word of exhortation was heard from any except the notoriously wicked, ■which exhortations they brought out in confessing their sins. There were always more persons ready to expose the blackness of their lives, than we had time to hear. Among them were two deaf and dumb persons, who always showed as much zeal as any others in addressing the congregation.. This was a scene of things altogether new to us,- and we hardly knew to what It would grow. We looked steadily at all who professed to have found the Saviour, for a year or more, and, on the first Sabbath in April, of this year, 103 of them were received to the church. A few other candidates remain in Lahaina, and many in Olualu. I mentioned our addoption ( I) of "Clark on the Promises” , or the^Olelo Hoopomaikai", as a Sabbath-school book. This little book was gathered by Mrs. Baldwin, from the Hawaiian scriptures, and printed, by the American Tract Soc., for the Sand. Islands Mission. Only 1000 copies were printed, which �1859 - 6 have been received in good order; but the plates are laid up in the Tract house, and a larger edition can be printed at any time, if it is thought desirable, or the plates themselves can be sent to the Islands. Popery. The papists have made a greater show at Lahaina the past year than ever before, and perhaps have made some real progress. Instead of an old bowling alley, for a church, they have erected quite a handsome edifice, 70 or 80 feet in length - finished, in fanciful style, by French mechanics; and it is said to have been built at the expense of the French govt. They have put two bells, of three hundred pounds each, in the tower of the church, with which they ma&e a terrible noise. Their church was dedicated on the 8 ^ of last September, and all the papists of Maui, and many of Oahu, with the bishop and priests, were assembled together. Our people laughed at their mummery, and they did not seem to gain many proselytes. Still it was a trying providence to us, that their house was made attractive, while ours lay all in ruins. spared no pains to gain followers. The papists have Some few members of our church, who have been long suspended, and two or three who were not suspended, have gone over to them making six or eight in all. Some young men and others flock to their house, out of curiosity, and it is impossible, at present, to say how many proselytes they have gained. Of the 103 received to our church, three or four had been members of the papist church. Mor monism. It is well knoiTO. that the mormons selected a land, on �1859 - 7 Lanai, which was to "become the New Jerusalem of the Sand. Isles, and Lanai was to he spared when all the other islands were swallowed up in the ocean. Famine soon scattered most of the saints to the four winds, but a remnant still remain, strong in the faith; fully believing, that parched up Lanai will yet monopolize all the markets of the Islands, and supply, with vegetables, all the ships of the ocean. In the art of lying they cannot be out done. Temperance. The efforts of our rulers to fasten grog shops on Lahaina, and make ardent spirit free to natives throughout the Islands, produced a deep sensation among our people. They regard these efforts as nothing less than efforts, blindly made of course, to ruin the Hawaiian race. The attitude of the chiefs on this and other subjects, led the church of Lahaina to call for a monthly day of fasting and prayer. The last Friday of every month has, for a long time, been devoted to this ob§ect - that of supplicating for the con­ version of the rulers of the nation. The idea, that any article of the Hawaiian Constitution is violated, by an extra fine on those who sell intoxicating drinks to natives, or even by a total prohibition, Is, to all our people, simply ridiculous; unless it can be proved, that rum is a real blessing to the Hawaiian race. If our rulers, who are trembling for the safety of the consitution, choose to put the controversy on this footing, let us, the people, join issue with them, and the sooner the battle is begun, the better. If Judge Lee, who drew up the constitution, did not understand it, we may well �8 1859 despair of its being comprehended by our school boys. Benevolent Contributions. Contributions of natives for meeting house'in 12 mos. ,r for support of pastor " $2874. ” 800. 3 boxes of cloth & clothing, for Marquesas Isles 150. 3,824 No estimate of native labor on their chh. Statistics. Whole No. admitted on. profession It tt ri tr certificate Past year n u 1473 461 IT tl profession 103 tl It certificate 42 Total past year 145 Whole No. dismissed 296 " " " past year 4 Total deceased 558 Deceased past year 14 Excluded past year 7 Remain excluded 42 Now In regular standing 942 Total children baptized 1469 Baptized past year 62 Marriages past year 38 Births & Deaths of Lahaina. Born Died 185 6 66 114 1857 - 87 133 -1858 - 69 103 Olualu, 1858 Born Died 4 - 1 1 �Report for Lahaina Station, May , 1860 The past year has been, at Lahaina, generally, a year- of health. The only exceptions, whh need be mentioned, are a felver, whh prevailed somewhat, for a month or two in the spring of 1859, & a species of elephantiasis, affecting mostly the & face aisui hands, of ufoh there have been many troublesome cases during the last two years. Both these diseases have often proved obstinate, but neither has often proved fatal. Me have had an unusual number of deaths in the chh, mainly because there have been an unusual number in the chh, who were enfeebled by age, or by frequent attacks of disease. In the mission family, we have had our usual amount of health, & more strength for labor than we had any reason to expect. The Pastor has been able to preach twice every sabbath, & to conduct the adiilt Sab, school; leaving the children's Sab, school to the management of the natives. He has also attended all the weekly & monthly prayer meetings, & occasion­ ally visited the two outstations. Our Congregations, at the station, have been full & always attentive; & we may hope, that, by all the means used, some good has been accomplished. Mrs. B., though feeble has generally been able to attend a select meeting of females, held on Prid. of each week. They pray for such an outpouring of God's Spfebit, as shall break up all the great fountains of wickedness whh are pouring pollution over the whole nation. Our good people mourn sincerely, that so many in authority, are not, In any sense, "nursing fathers" to the chh of God. �1860 - 2 We have had, at Lahaina, during the past year, a royal tragedy, of a most singular character, of whh probably all have heard. On the night of Sept. ll^k 1859, the King, probably through jealousy, shot his private SecY, through the chest. Prom that day to March 2 7 ^h i860, almost seven months, the wound­ ed man lay there patiently on his back apparently wasting away. His case excited the sympathies of many. It threw a gloom over our whole community; but the saddest part of the gloom was the danger to the morals of the place, from the visitors it brought, & the immense impulse given to the work of our abominable grog­ shops . Wickedness, too often seen In high places, sometimes unconcealed & unblushing, & a thousand chanels by whh It makes its sure & deadly way to all parts of the nation, have led the chh, at Lahaina, to set apart the last Prid. of each month, as a day of fasting & prayer; Wickedness in men of rank is es­ pecially corrupting & ruinous to the young. The wicked are put into office, the last place where immorality shA be found our laws, intended to restrain evil, too often lie as a dead letter; &, with such a state of things, what but speedy ruin lies before the -whole nation, unless God shall interpose to save it I W^ it not be well for every chh, in the Islands, to have frequent days of fasting & prayer, to intercede for our rulers? Meetings for parents. Of all subjects brought before the people, by the pastor, for two year past, none have been insisted on more frequently, than those whh might aid parents in training aright their child- �1860 ren. - 3 The great desideratum in Hawaiian Society is the rearing up of well ordered families. We often see pious parents with vicious children; & we have mothers among us -who have had 10, 12, 16, & 18 children each, who are now almost as desolate as those who have had none; & we have one who has h o m e 36 child­ ren, & has now hut one left. Hawaiian parents are more ignorant of the economy of the human body even, than they are of proper moral training. When I found some of the grossest errors, on this subject, prevailing among the people, I called a meeting of parents to correct them. We afterwards held several similar meetings, in whh various matters were discussed with some ad­ vantage, I trust, to the people. Debt for Rebuilding chh. I reported, last year, the rebuilding of our chh. work was completed previous to the last general meeting. The whole But so heavy a work could not be accomplished by so poor a people, without borrowed funds. At that time, they owed, for borrowed money, building materials, freight, &c. over $2000. besides some hundreds whh w^- be due on the pastor’s salary. The people have shown a commendable zeal, In paying up these debts. The idea of being free from debt, after being so heavily encumbered, was to them a delightful one. was paid of the chh debt. In Ap. last, the last dollar They have also nearly paid a small debt, due on Hale Aloha. The whole cost of rebuilding the chh has been $4741. in cash besides native labDi?. About $400. of this was contributed by foreigners, mostly of Lahaina & Honolulu; leaving $4341. to be paid by the people themselves. When we commenced the work, �1860 it was a mystery where the means were to finish it. - 4 But all the means have been furnished voluntarily, & meet cheerfully; & God has verified to the people his promise, ’'Give, & it shall be given, good measure,11 &c. God has more than repaid them for all that they have given to his cause. When we were in the States, they had no market for most of their produce. The past year, their crops have been abundant, & the demand has been greater than they could supply. Prom Dec. ls_b 59 to Ap. 1 st, of this year, 6000 brls of Lahaina sweet potatoes were sent to California. These were all purchased at $1. a brl. Between one & two thousand brls more have been sold to whale ships, at Lahaina, Kawaihae, & Honolulu; some of them at $1.25 a brl. because they had become so scarce. All this looks as if the Lord intended to help the people out in a good cause. There is no probability, that there will be a similar demand for their produce in any year to come. They have been scattering & increasing; & their increased means have given an Impulse to industry & more liberal expenditures. Some are getting better houses, more furniture &, of course, better saddles. One pious man, who has been most liberal to the chh, rides to meeting in a Boston carriage, another in one made In Lah. We now have, In the place, eleven carriages of all descriptions, owned mostly by foreigners, Including a milk cart. I need not add, that when means are at hand, that the ladies improve their dresses, & some of ours have lately come out to meeting, in those latest & greatest wonders from en­ lightened lands. �1860 - 5 Schools The native schools of Lahaina & the district have had a thorough overhauling under our new Kahu kula D. Dwight Baldwin. The Protestant schools have been reduced, in number, from 6 or 7, to 3 schools, containing now 173 pupils. Inefficient teach­ ers have been dropped, & the scholars given to those of better qualifications. The Papist school has on their list 45 scholars. Our central school house, called Hale Aloha, has been fitted up, in good style, by the Govt, for the English school, at an ex­ pense of $600. - The number of scholars has been Increased, the past year, from 40 or 50 to 140. Besides the Principal, there are 3 assislsant teachers, & two side recitation rooms. The whole reminds one more of a good Boston school house than any thing I have met in the Islands. The branches taught are Reading, writing, spelling, & speaking the English language, also arith­ metic, Geography, Oomposition & Declamation. is also given to vocal music. Much attention Out of school, some 30 or 40 of the children & youth have been taught to play on the melodeon; an art, in whh their progress, to a certain extent, at least, is as rapid as that of almost any American scholars. Our son, David Dwight, is Agent for a new & superior kind of melodeons ( I), made in New Haven, Oonn. He has imported a considerable number, & several of our native as well as our foreign families have been supplied with them. Popery I mentioned, last year, the completion of the papist chh, some 50 feet by 70 or 80. This has proved far more acceptable as a place of worship, than the old bowling alley, where the �1860 disciples had to kneel in the dirt. - 6 How far their unhounded efforts have succeeded, in gaining converts, I cannot say. I think but few have joined them, & those only of the lowest grade, & of very suspicious moral characters. The whole number who have belonged to the Lahaina chh, & have gone to the Pa­ pists, from the beginning, is twenty one, (21). Some of these had long been excommunicated - a greater number were on our sus­ pended list, - & a few were in regular standing, when they left us. Of these 21, one has lately been restored to our chh. Pour papist members, on the last sab., renounced popery, & requested to be considered candidates for our chh. The Papists of Lahaina meet morning & evening, of most days, & no pains are spared to retain their naaupo followers. the poor natives groan over so many genuflexions. But Even the powerful solace of tobacco cannot reconcile them to aching knees. They have in front of their new chh a little kapuahi more attractive than the chh itself, where a few coals are prepared, as holy water Is Inside of the chh. When the time comes for meeting, they first gather round the coals, & raise a glorious cloud of tobacco incense. They puff at the foul to­ bacco pipe, till they reach the chh door. I have seen one hand lay hold of the door handle, while the other slipped the pipe into the pocket. Smoking is not deemed proper in such a sacred place 1 We cannot see why. I cd report fehitt mormonism, with us, is dead; but that a set of men, mostly from other places, still cling to sun-burnt, parched up Eanai, the picture of desolation. They are ashamed to leave; & so they insist most pertinaciously, that Lanai Is �1860 - 7 to "be the happy New Jerusalem of the saints & that all the other Islands are soon to'be buried in the Ocean. A very few only are to escape, when this deluge of God’s wrath is poured out, & they some of the vilest dregs of the land. D . Baldwin Chh Statistics, Lahaina, May 1 4 ^ 1860 Whole no. admitted on profession, on Certificate, Past Year on profession on Certificate Total past year 1504 468 31 7 38 Whole no. dismissed, 305 Dismissed past year, 9 Total deceased 587 Deceased past year 29 Excluded past year 10 Remain Excluded 33 Now in regular standing, Total children baptised 970 1519 Baptised, past year 50 Marriages past year 40 �1860 Births & deaths May 1/59 to May l/60 Mos. of the year. deaths Births Lah. Oloalu, outstation Bir ths Deaths 0 3 May/59 - 11 - 12 - June - 6 - 18 - 0 - 0 July - 12 - 10 - 1 - 0 Aug. - 9 - 12 ' - 1 - 1 Sept. - 3 - 10 -■ 1 - 2 Oct. - 8 - 16 - 0 - 2 Nov. - 4 - 12 - 1 - 2 Dec. - ' 8 - 10 - 2 - 1 Jan. - 2 - 11 - 0 9 0 Feb. - 6 - 9 - 1 - 0 Mar . - 1 - 13 - 3 - 1 8 - 6 - 1 - 0 - 78 - 139 - 11 Lah. 1856 ~ 66 - 114 1857 - 87 - 133 69 _ 103 1860 Ap. Total 1858 - 12 D o . Oloalu -■ — ------ 1858 -4 11 - 8 �Lahaina Report. [Abstract I860] There has been a good degree of health, during the year, in the mission family, & among the native population. There have been some cases of fever, & also a species of elephant­ iasis , very difficult to cure. The usual round of missionary labor has been performed. In addition to these, the last Prid. of every month has been observed, by the chh, as a day of fasting & prayer for the con­ version of our rulers. A select weekly meeting of females have also prayed for the same object. Meetings have been held for parents to teach them to rear up healthy & virtuous families. We have many mothers among us who have lost all, or nearly all, their children. Rebuilding the Meeting House. The rebuilding of thqir chh has cost the people, in cash, $><3341. besides $400. contributed by foreigners, mostly of Hono­ lulu & Lahaina; & excliislve of all their labor contributed. The Lord has verified to them his promise, "Give & it shall be given". Necessity gave a spur to industry, & an unexpected market was opened for their produce. In four months, more than $6000. worth of potatoes was furnished by them, for the Calif­ ornia market. Schools. All our native schools have xmgDesxxE improved the past year. The English school of Lahaina has been increased to 140 pupils, & is conducted after the model of the best Am­ erican Schools. I Popery. Papists have been zealous & active, but have lost rather than gained during the past year. �1860 - 2 God has given us many signs of reviving his work among us, hut we have not yet seen the windowp of heaven opened. Church Statistics. Whole no. admitted on profession, tf " on 0ertificate Past year on profession ,r 1504 468 31 certificate Total past year 7 38 Whole no. dismissed 305 Dismissed past year 9 Total deceased 587 Deceased past year 29 Excluded past year 10 Now in regular standing 970 . Total children baptized 1519 Baptized past year Marriages past year, by pastor Births at Lahaina during the year, Deaths " " 50 40 78 139 Births at Oloalu, the year 11 Deaths 12 11 " COn hack] Abstract of Station Report Lahaina, D. Baldwin 1860 �Report of Labors at Lahaina by S . E. Bishop, Chaplain to Seamen. 1859-60 In presenting this report of labors during the past year, acknowledgements of peculiar gratitude should first be rendered to God for the signal mercies in the experience of which the Chaplain returned to his post of labor just one year ago, the 13th of May, from an absence of ten months on a visit with his family to California and the Atlantic States, laden with the rich memories of many social and spiritual enjoyments, and many enlargements of experience. During that absence, Rev. C. B. Andrews of Lahainaluna supplied the'Chaplain's place in his pulpit and otherwise. His earnest labor infused fresh life' Into these services, crea­ ting an interest which has not ceased to be felt. My Sabbath labors have proceeded through the year without interruption, save one Sabbath of absence at Molokai In Febru­ ary last. To the other services, an Evening Service at the Bethel has been added since last October. The attendance at the Bethel has been good, shewing a large increase upon the earlier years of my ministrations there. In the absence of ships, the average congregation is about 40. During Shipping seasons, it sometimes exceeded 100. The Tues­ day evening prayer meetings have shewn a marked increase of interest. The attendance is from 15 to 20. present from the Seamen's Hospital. Some are usually A Sabbath-School for white children has been regularly held by Mrs. Bishop. Labors among Seamen. Nearly all of the 90 ships that have �Bishop - 1859-60 2 lain in port have been personally visited by the Chaplain and multitudes of Seamen invited to the Bethel, and exhorted to seek Salvation. These visits have generally been welcomed; and have been fruitful of visits in return to the Chaplain's study; where many have been counselled - some prayed with - and many Bibles, testaments, books and tracts have been distributed to them. Many cases of peculiar interest have come to view. Es­ pecially so, are those repeated instances of pious sailors, maintaining a Christian conversation among ungodly and profane shipmates, and commanding the respect of all, while winning some to the side of religion. Some of these persons were subjects of grace during the late Revival In the United States. Labors at the U.S. Hospital for Seamen. A service has been held at the Hospital every Sabbath 5, P.M. at i/faich there have been from 15 to 20 usually present. There has been a constant and stimulating call to comfort, counsel, & exhort the sick. Five have been buried by me, two of whom died in hope of salvation through the Redeemer. Many who have recovered and gone forth have seemed to bear with them deep and serious impressions from Divine truth. The interest of our Public Worship, has been augmented materially by good singing, for which much praise is due to-the aid of Mr. D. D. Baldwin’s services. The organization of a Church from our Foreign Community, has not yet been judged to be an expedient measure. There are two native churches, to which several of our congregation be­ long. The whole number of professi[njg Christians Is very small, while our community is subject to constant changes. �Bishop - 1859-60 3 These facts would render the organization of a church very difficult. Morals of our Foreign Community. While our people as a whole, are growing better, at least externally, there are many wicked, who are growing worse. The general decline of business has diminished the illegal liquor traffic. natives Is a i d to increase* Lahaina. The sale of beer to Temperance is the great need of We need a strictly enforced prohibition of the sale of all that intoxicates. The diminution of trade at Lahaina is the most prominent feature of change. The business done with Whalers is less than half of what It was five years ago. All business interests have E’ohsequently declined, and many of our Foreign Residents are leaving. Hence will result a diminished support of the Gospel and of attendance on its public ministrations. The amount contributed by Foreign Residents to various objects connected with our work is as follows. For Support of Chaplain For Chapel Expenses $185. 60. $125. has also been given for the maintenance of the Reading Room for Seamen, which was established last year at an expense of $160. previously contributed. It remains to report the Boarding School for Native Female Children under the care of Mrs. Bishop with the aid of Miss Abby F. Johnson. In the family have been received since Jan'y 1st, 11 promising native and half-caste girls, from 5 to 7 years of age. Their bills, $100. per annum are paid, in part by �Bishop - 1850-60 - 4 parents, and in part by the liberality of Foreign Residents. Their schooling is conducted in the English language, in the use of which they are making good progress, while learning the decent and desirable habits of a Christian household. The work Is one of much labor, but as we hope, of most valuable fruits. �A b s t r a c t o f R e p o r t o f ILiLbprs a t -tfee Lahaina, for 1859-60-, by S .E. Bishop Chaplain to Seamen at that port. The Chaplain, resumed, his labors, just one year ago, May 13th, having experienced many mercies during ten months of ab­ sence with his family in the Atlantic States. Owing to the earnest labors of Rev. C. B. Andrews, fresh life was infused into the work during his absence. The Usual Sabbath services.have been continued, with but one interruption during the year. The attendance has increased An evening service has been sustained since last October. A Sabbath-School for white children has been taught by M r s . B. The weekly prayer meetings have been well attended with a marked increase of interest. The same has been the case with the Sabbath services at the Hospital. Of the ninety ships that have visited the port, the maj­ ority have been visited. Many Seamen have visited the Chaplain Business in Lahaina has declined with the diminution of the whaling fleet. Great changes in the Foreign Community are threatened. By Residents, $185., has been contributed to the Chaplain' support the past year. $60., for Bethel Expenses - and $125. for the maintenance of the Reading Room for Seamen. Since January 1st, a Boarding School for young native fe­ male Children has been maintained by M r s . Bishop, with 11 pu­ pils. One half of their support is furnished by the benevo­ lence of foreign residents. �Abstract of Lahaina Station Report, 1861 The past has been a year of many mercies. The mission family have enjoyed their usual health, & it has been a year of health among the people. No epidemic disease has appeared ' among them, except a light form of the measles whh has been confined to young children, & never proved fatal. All the usual labors of the station have heen performed, without interruption, during the year. These have consisted in two sermons each sab.; also a Sab. School for children, & another for adults; a Wed. lecture, a monthly Concert the first & last monday of each mo., besides whh, in each of the nine different sections of our village, a prayer meeting has been held, at daylight, every morning. These means of grace have not been without a blessing. have seen many signs of the Spirit's working among us. We About forty, we hope, have been converted, though none of them have, as yet, been propounded for the church. Oases of discipline have been more frequent than in most previous years. these have been old offenders. Some of Iniquity has abounded around, & has infected some wlho have vowed to be the Lord's. Benevolent Contributions. The monthly concert collection is usually about $60. goes to the Pastor's salary. Remainder made up by special con­ tributions, three such, in the year, amounted to $499.50. for Micronesia $125. Hanging new Bell, $50. butions about $1550. Society in debt for a new bell $406. Box Sum of all contri­ 4~ Gov This tax for Lahaina & district, to be pd in cash, $7000.+ �Abstract 1861 Schools well looked after, &doing well. Births in Lah. last 12 mos. 78 Deaths during same period, 87. Oloalu same time, Births Do " Lah. 1860, births Do. " deaths - - 10 - 10 78. deaths 139. Oloalu, ” births, 11. Do. deaths 12. u - 2 �Lahaina - Seamen's Chaplain {Abstract 18611). S. E. Bishop About 60 ships at Lahaina the year past. The reduced trade has diminished the foreign population as well as the number of seamen, and opportunity for gospel labors are lessened. The average congregation on the Sabbath has been about 35. Weekly Prayer meeting well sustained}., also the services at the Hospital Sabbath P.M. Five deaths at the Hospital, in two of which there was de­ lightful evidence of salvation. Some interesting tokens have been found, of the work of the Holy Spirit, converting and sanctifying the hearts of sailors while at sea, making some of them faithful witnesses for Christ in the midst of wickedness. Mrs. Bishop's boarding school for Hawaiian female children, opened January 1860, has prospered. The number of pupils for last six months was 13, aged from 5 to 9 years. Their progress in the civilization of the Family, and in order and purity of habit, has been very marked, as well as in school studies. English Is habitually used by them. �An Abstract of the Lahaina Mis'y Station Report, for the Minutes of the Hawaiian Evang, Association. May, 1862. The health of the mission family has been better than in some years previous. All the usual labors of the station have been attended to, without interruption, during the year, & our two outstations have been visited. The last two months of the year have been spent by the Pastor, in a voyage to the Marquesas Isis, at the request of the Directors of the Haw. Missy Soc. Meanwhile, the pulpit at Lahaina was supplied by the Teacher of Lahainaluna & the Rev. J. Bicknell. The past year has been one of general health among the people. We have, however, lost an unusual number of our church members. During the 13 mos. now reported, 39 have died. This increased mortality has been owing, mainly to the fact, that one half of our chh, lil^e their Pastor, are getting to be old men & women. Of those who have died, are the three best of our chh teachers, Kaiwioni, Timoteo Keaweiwi, and Akula Moku - All these were shining ornaments of the chh, fathers in Israel, leaders of the people. ■army. They were tried & faithful veterans in Christ's We mourn their absence, & look around, in vain, for some to fill their places. Births & deaths in all Lahaina & Oloalu for the last 13 mos. as follows, Lah - Oloalja., Births 58 " 6 - Deaths 139 ” 5 We have had, at times, pleasing evidence, that the Spt of God was among us. There have been some interesting conversions, �Abstract 1862 - 2 & some of the subjects have united with the chh. Besides our ordinary meetings, we have established a weekly prayer meeting for youth & boys, & a similar one for girls & young women, both of whh seem to promise great good. Benevolent Contributions. Formerly the chh of Lahaina maintained a regular monthly contribution. This year it has been irregular from want of means. Whaleships, formerly the chief dependence of Lahaina, have nearly ceased to visit us. $560. The people are embarrassed. They have paid of the Pastor's salary for 1861; nothing on 1862. They have also paid, this year, the debt for their bell, viz. $475. ■ They gave $50. or $60. to the blind preacher from Hivaoa, & have sent a box to the Marquesas mission. The people of Lahaina are now turning their attention to the culture of sugar cane, which, in time, may prove a source, of income. [Unsigned but presumedly Dr. Baldwin^ �Report of Lahaina Station May 15 1863 - by D. Baldwin A year once seemed a long time to us all; but the years are growing shorter. They fly swifter. It seems but as yesterday, that I was looking at the missionary work in Fatuhiva. turned, found you gathered at the .^Anniversary here. We re­ And now behold the time has arrived, for another general meeting, fflhere has the year gone? Fled forever; swifter than a weaver's shuttle, but not like the weaver's shuttle, to come back again. "Well, if our i/iears must fly We'll keep their end in shight (I)" - and try to be grateful for all the good they bring us. The past has been a year of many mercies, to the mission family at Lahaina. own health has improved, certainly in some respects. My My wife too, who had been for many years, subject to wearisome nightly attacks of asthma, has been now for one and a half years, free from it, cured by a medicine wh. all the world may have. In the mean time she has been gaining in flesh and strength, so that she has quite renew§d her youth. Our children have been spared thus far, and their children seem to be thriving, growing up as we hope and pray, to be future helpers in the cause of the Redeemer. We have no greater ambition for them, than that they should be helpers in his work. Miss. Labors. The usual course of labors has been pursued, at the station, without interruption, during'the year. Two sermons have been preached each Sabbath, in wh. work I have often had the assis- �1863 tance of Messers Pogue and Aholo of Lahainaluna. - 2 Pour times in the year I have preached, and administered the sacrament to that section of our church, wh. is at Oloalu, seven miles south of Lahaina. A Sabbath school for the children of Lahaina.held Sabbath morning, has been managed by my son, and native teachers; and one for adults at noon, I have attended myself. Our week day meetings have been, the mon. concert, the first Monday, and the Antislavery Concert, the last Monday of the month. The Wednesday lecture, and the Saturday church prayer meeting. All these have been attended by myself at 4 oclock P.M. The females also have 2 or 3 prayer meetings each week wh. are generally attendee by Mrs. Baldwin. Besides these there are prayer meetings, at each of the nine Section meeting houses, of Lahaina, held at sunrise every day; attended by only a few, but serving generally as a nucleus, the most pious, of each section, together. Attendance on meetings Where there are so many meetings through the Sabbath, and through all the days of the week, it is impossible for church members generally, to attend them all, even if they were dis­ posed to do so. The morning prayer meetings are thinly attended, for many reasons 1st They are seldom made interesting on the part of those who conduct them. 2d Of all hours in the early morning is the time, when those who work out in this hot climate, should be on their lands. Many are hired by the month, and cannot atten[dj[ week day meetings. 3Q Its cannot be denied, that religion is at a. low ebb, amg. most of our community. An outpouring of God's spirit wld. fill �1863 - 3 up these meetings, without hindering any of the business of the place. At our mon. concerts, and weekly prayer meetings, we always expect about 100 individuals; wh is sometimes increased to 150, including some youth and children from the schools. If to these we add a large number confined at home by age and infirm­ ity, and others who are detained to care for thefmj, and their children, others again who can not leave their work, and some of the pious also, who are absent on other islands, say, 100 for all these, we may call this the "Kingdom of God" at Lahaina. Of most of these I have grt. confidence, that they will hold on their way, and abide by the ark, till they get through the wil­ derness of this world, into the land of Canaan. Of our congregations on the Sab. I'need say but little. They have been rather increasing in size and Interest, for the last 2 years; but we have not yet got back, so full a congre­ gation, as we had previous to the destruction of our church, at the commencement of 1858. That was to us a dark day. On Sat. at noon, a whirlwind demolished the steple ( I), and roof of the church. On Mon. we commenced carrying the timber and lime rubbish, out side the walls. There was no other building in the place, where we could hold our services; and, therefore, unsuitable as were the naked walls for the purpose, we were com­ pelled to hold our meetings there for almost a year, before we could get a new roof over our heads. The pulpit was left. A mat was raised over the preacher, and the people took refuge from the burning sun, as well as they cld. under the still standing galleries. Such as had little love for the house of God were �1863 - 4 sure to stay at home. The tide of more open immorality, wh. commenced ahout 1855, was, at that time, exerting a deliterious influence on the. people, and even invading the church. But probably that wh. produced the most depressing influence of all, and lost us many friends, was our calling for large sums every week, in order to rebuild the church. The church and people pay^dd, for this pur­ pose, in about 2 years, $4300.00; and this too, while their resourses ( I) from the visits of whale ships, (their only market formerly) were diminishing constantly, to almost nothing. Al­ most all Hawaiians can willingly bear heavy contributions, for sensual gratifications, and for a new fashion; and those whose hearts the Lord has turned, will give cheerfully for the support of religion, when they have the means. Dr. Anderson's visit On the morning of March 10n we had the pleasure of welcoming to our home, Dr. Anderson, and family, for an hour or two, and they took breakfast with us. They were on their way to Hawaii. Apr. 30" they reached our place again, on their return fr. Ha­ waii; and after attending the examination and exhibition at L. luna, he devoted himself to the interests of Lahaina. were busy days. They Sab. May 8^- was our regular communion season. Dr. Anderson addressed the congregation in the morning; it was somewhat increased by individuals fr. Oloalu, Kanapali, and scholars fr. L. Luna. All were deeply interested In the Luna nui, who had spent more than 40 years in sending out missionar­ ies, and had now come to see, what were the fruits; Interested too, in all he had to say of the countries he had visited. In - �1863 the afternoon, he assisted at our communion. - 5 On Mond. at 10 A.M. he addressed the children of Lahaina schools - a t 8 P.M. attended our Mon. concert, and made further communications on missions; at a dinner party at evening at our son D. Dwight's, Dr. A. baptized his 3 children. On Tues. we visited the La­ haina sugar Mill; on our return went over the Catholic church; finished up our talking, and, the same eve, Dr. A. and his family, embarked for Oahu. good. His visit has done us and the people As long as they live, they/ will remember'"the .good man with a white head,'1 as a little girl of 4 years called him. Results of misy. labor. This is a heading, always expected in our reports, but nothing is more difficult or uncertain, than, at the close of a year, or even a series of years, to recount the fruits of o.ur labors. They must not be judged of by the number we have re­ ceived into the ch. nor by the hopeful candidates we may have, by the amt. of contributions, nor always by the numbers who are ready to hear the word. In such a vin[e]yard as this, the most promising fruit, often proves blasted in the end; and on the contrary, we often find, that some seed w h . w e have sown is springing up unto everlasting life, in places where we had not dared to hope for any good. We need always to keep in mind, that the Word of God is not of our manufacture. It was made in heaven, and sent down to earth, quick and powerful, and wonderfully adapted to convict and convert sinners. If used right, and accompanied by prayer for the Spi’rit of God, we should always expect to see the enlighten- �1863 - 6 ing and purifying power of the Gospel. While the Gospel has "been preached, and all the ordinary means of grace used, a goodly number of our ch. have seemed in earnest, praying for the out pouring of the Spirit of God, well knowing, that we need the spirit's influence, more than our thirsty plains ever needed the showers of heaven. At times we have hoped, that God was about to revive his work, But hopeful appearances have passed away, and wickedness in some of its forms, has prevailed to an extent we have never seen It before. Still we wld. not feel that our labors have been in vain. In the midst of the contest vto. Is always going on amg. us between light and darkness, between purity and polution, the preaching of the Gospel has doubtless, done much to enlighten, and strengthen and embolden the pious, in their warfare against sin; and we may hope, that, in a thousand ways unknown to us, it tends to check the progress of iniquity, and make the wicked ashamed of their downward course. But, besides these general effects of the word, we are sometimes permitted the joy of see­ ing the truth, made effectual to the salvation of some individ­ uals . In the year 1858, the most dissolute and depraved young man in all Lahaina, become converted, showing that God's grace is omnipotent here, as everywhere. He came out, not as a young convert, but as a full grown Christian. Without waiting for an invitation, he went fr. one part of Lahaina to the other, ad­ dressing all classes, but always most in earnest with his former companions in sin. It was the beginning fxff a grt. excitement, as the fruit of wh. in Apr. /59, we gathered 103 into the chh. �1863 Most of them had heen the dregs of the place. - 7 Some of them are bright examples of piety to this day; and some have turned back, to be dregs again. Christian earnestness. That young man was a noble specimen of I thought I had in him a real helper. But God had higher labors for him. Two short months was his whole Christian career, when death came suddenly upon him. For nearly 3 months, just past, we have had among us an Interesting case of piety, in a youth 16 years of age. When yet a child, he exhibited a character of mature reflection, and conscientiousness, often reproving his father for his irregularities. As he grew older, the uniform sedateness of his char­ acter seemed rather remarkable. He was quick to learn, and was an Interesting and promising scholar of the English school. Early the present year, he was taken with bleeding at the lungs. This followed by a cough, wh. soon after confined him to his room, and to his bed. His pious feelings were early known to his mother, who was his constant companion; but did not attract our attention, till within 2 or 3 weeks of his death, wh. occured ( I), the 12'tl1 of May. At first he expressed a strong desire to live, and rejoin his school. As disease advanced, he showed entire resignation to the will of God. His sense of God’s goodness, his expressions of love to the Savior, his love for prayer, the interest he.took, to the last, in his parents, his companions, and his schoolmates, and the absence of all fear of death, were such as showed us, that the grace of God had pre­ pared him for a higher sphere of action. This Is the 3d case within as many years, of children in our schools, who have first shown clear evidence of piety on their dying bed; and we some­ times reason with ourselves, that if God is preparing some dying children for death, may it not be, that he is preparing others �1863 - 8 to live, to labor for Christ, & perhaps to preaoh his everlast­ ing Gospel? In contrast to these cases of living piety let me fmenjtion the case of the oldest living member in our Ch. Daniel II, once a licensed preacher on E. Maui, Mr, Richard's right hand man in the ch. twice a judge under Kam III Hoapili1s favorite, for more than 36 years having adorned his profession in Lah. ch. now lying there on his last sick bed, in a little grass hut by the side of the road, more prostrate with old age, than by any disease. He is 74 years of age, in full possession of all his mental faculties, full of faith, and of the Holy Ghost, desiring, waiting, longing to depart to be with Christ, but still praying earnestly, that God wld. raise up the young, to fill the places of those that are going. Half a mile from this spot, the next oldest member of Lah. ch. is confined to his house, Kuakainauna, about the same age; once the second native doctor in the Islands. Hhen he professed religion he gave up the practise of medicine. He has been 35 years a consistent- Christian, much respected by chiefs and people. His faculties are now grtly decayed, his hearing im­ paired, & his stay with us can not be long. Statistics and state of the chh. Previous to the last year, there was no list of Lah. ch. except the simple list of those received by profession, or by certificate, in the order of their admission. On this were marked all deaths that occured ( I), and dismissions given. But as the names had Increased to more than 2000, it was diffi­ cult, often, to find names so as to mark deaths and dismissions, & often exceedingly difficult to determinate between names which �1863 were alike. - 9 I have therefore been compelled the past year, to arrange the records, dividing the ch. into 12 geographical sections, by wh. means, keeping the records will become, here­ after, more simple and easy.. No deaths had been entered on the book, during the 2 years of my absence, and many others had been omitted, for various reasons; so that, after investigating the history of every menber, instead of 649 deaths, as reported last year, I must now report 868; 45 of wh., however, have occured ( i) within the last 12 months. There have been admitted into our ch. fr. the commence ment, on profession 1543, on certificate 518, or 2061 in all; deduct from this 339 dism^ & 868 deceased, and we shd have 854 living members; or as in my new list, 848. Deducting f r . this 211, for members of outstations, will leave 614 for Lah. Deduct fr. this, 37 deaths and dismissions the few past mos. 88 who are absent on various parts of the Islands, 78, whom I have marked as very doubtfull members, and 30 who have from the commencement gone to the Papists and we shall have for members in regular standing, at Lah. 376, or 545 for the whole ch. 48 of these, at Lah. are sick, and unable to attend meeting. Many of the sick are old and. infirm, some are blind - nearly all of them, have about finished their work upon earth - they belong to a generation that is passing off the stage. Of the state of feeling in the ch. little need be said. Of those that now constitute the ch. there is a goodly number who give evidence that they are attached to the cause of Christ as large a proportion, perhaps, of true believers, as will be found in most American churches. But they are not very inteli- gent ( !), and are not well educated. Grace they may have, but �1863 gifts are scarce. - 10 There is more hope that they will get to heaven themselves, than that they will take many along with them. They are in no way fitted to be 'leaders in the ch. Within the last 6 years, we have lost about 300 members. Amg. them were not only many good men and women, but our ablest section teachers, champions for the truth; they themselves known and read by all men. A few of these, dated their piety fr. the days of Mr. Richards; but most of them were out of the revival of 38 and 40, born again in times of grt. excitement, and they have been the best, and most useful of all that have turned to the Lord, amg. us; so that we, of all others, have least reason to fear animal (?) excitement. have a few T/iho are promising. If spared, they will in time become fathers and mothers in Israel. ly here, within a few years. Of younger members, we Times have changed rapid­ Religion is less popular now, than formerly, with a worthless rabble; & more of a conviction with those who have character and ability enough to form an opinion. Of converts to Christ now are likely to be modified in their character. May we not hope that hereafter they will be more self denying, efficient, and given to work for Christ, such as the times demand. Let us pray for an outpouring of God's spirit, without wh. nothing can be accomplished. Nothing else can stay the tide of iniquity, & multiply the helpers we need. C ontri but ions Formerly the sole resource of the ch. people for raising money, & procuring such necessaries as they could not produce themselves, was the semi-annual visits of whaleships. These �1863 - whale ships numbered fr. 1 or 200 to 3 or 400 in a year. 11 In those days, we took up a monthly collection, applied mostly to the support of the pastor, and special contributions to aid other objects, as often as we thought best. But whale ships failed us, oil was pumped out of the earth; the few ships wh. came into the ocean, found other places to recruit in. Our monthly contributions first became irregular, and afterwords ( I) were omitted altogether, simply because they amounted to nothing. all contributions. We did not, however, think best to omit In July /62 $262.00 were contributed towards the Pastor's salary of 1861, then greatly in arrears, - $70. more were given before the end of the year. Jan. l" /63 $390.00 were collected, wh. made about $400.00 for /62 - The remainder of our living for /62 is supposed to be pd. by the special grants of the Board. May 21 of this year $252. (?) were col. towards the salary of /63. Thus within 12 mons. $942. were coll. by special efforts, for this object. They have also pd. $42. for necessary repairs on the ch. and #100. more, in a lawsuit, to defend one of our section meet­ ing houses. They commenced a collection to aid L.Luna Sem. - but it was deferred to wait for better times. We have not "dispersed a- broad", but we hope the time will come, when we can do our share in spreading the knowledge of the Gospel over the Pacific. The people of Lah. are now engaged in an enterprise to them, entirely new, - that of cultivating the sugar cane. Sugar Go. was formed 2 years since, and a mill ordered. A Why it �1863 did not come till /63 is a mystery. - 12 A borrowed mill is now taking off the crop, and it is hoped that the large steam mill of the Co. will commence its opperations ( I), before the end of June. Other Denominations A few observations may be appropriate, concerning other denominations amg. us, and, 1. Papists. Until /57, the Papists in Lah. worshipped in an old dobie Bowling alley, quite too dirty to be respectable. In /57 the French Govt, built them a ch. It is a wooden building, about 70 by 40, neatly done off with slips, and hung around with a beautiful set of pictures, decorated too, with an alter ( I), and a sufficient amt. of images inside; besides a life size image of the virgin Mary, and the infant Savior in her arms, wh. are placed high up in frt. of the ch. - the first objects-wh. meet your eye, as you approach the place. With all these attractions, and a plenty of beguiling lies, the papists have made more headway in their new house, than they made in the old Bowling alley. Their ordinary congregation may number about 100, and their every day school has on the list 74 scholars. 2. Reformed Catholics This, as all are aware, is a new sect, imported, the present year, from England. Coming, as we were told, they did fr. the body of the English Ch. we ex­ pected in them, something like what we had seen in Episcopalians in our own country. In this, some who were prepared to welcome them, spy, they are disappointed. They call themselves Refd �1863 - 13 Gath, and claim an affiliation with Catholics, or Papists, rather than with Protestants. Their representative in Lah. said in his sermon, the 2d Sabbath of his residence there, There are but 2 sects of Christians in the Is. the Catholics with a few errors, and our ch. - all others who are laboring here, are impostors & deceivers, misleading the people, giving them a Jewish Sab. & c . He is rept. as saying in a private conversation "we were all impostors, and liars,” Such denunciations w&. of course excuse us, by Christs rule, fr. any special intercourse with them, and must excuse me f r . any further account of their op­ erations amg. us. A few have been confirmed - curiosity drew many out to their meetings at first - but, as yet, they do not seem to be in high favor with the natives. They have commenced a girls school, wh. is to be taught by a young lady; and, it is said, are soon to have a boy's school, under the care of a master. 3. sect at Lah. Mormons. I am not aware that we have any of this In the South part of Lanai is the place wh. they have fixed on as the New Jerusalem. not informed. How many there are, I am I only know that the population of the Isd. wh for many years has been abt. 600, was in /60, 649. meetings on the Sab. be their leader. They hold Capt. Gibson, as he is called, is sd. to I cannot learn that he labors much to proselyte the people to Mormonism, he seems to be engaged mostly in agri­ culture, raising poultry and sheep, and in trafficking with the natives. He has leased lands of the Govt. & cheifs ( i), and, I suspect, will soon have the resources of the island, under �1863 - 14 his control. Marriages I have married during the year, 30 couple. Schools The English school at Lah. has numbered abt. 70. It is taught by my son D. Dwight, who Is also superintendent of schools for the whole district, reaching 20 miles North, and 9 South of Lah. In Lah. there are 5 native Protestant schools, numbering in all 207 scholars - 1 Papist school, 74 scholars - has in­ creased the past year, somewhat, at the expense of one of our schools. At Oloalu a Protestant school 30 scholars, a Papist school, 11 scholars, On Lanai 5 schools, with about 140 scholars. The one in the district, where the Mormans reside, has 70 pupils, and is taught by one of our people. Births and deaths in the whole field In Lah. fr. May l"/62 to May l"/63, there have been 61 births, and 116 deaths. At Oloalu during 9 mos. of the year, there were 7 births, 11 deaths. At Lanai in /62, there were 6 births, gl deaths. Lah. Oloalu Births Deaths 61 116 7 11 Lanai______ 6__________ 21 74 148 �1863 - 15 After looking thus far over the history and statistics of the past year, it is natural to turn our thoughts to the future prospects, of the people, and nation. We may often find the future of a nation in their past history, or in their present character. So of this nation. As health or disease prevails,, as their morality is more or less pure, as the religion of the country is real, or degenerates Into a mere formalism, as the Political management is wisdom, or chicanery, so may we augur prosperity and hapiness ( I),, or degredation & woe, as the future lot of this people. Notwithstanding all that has been done, & all the hopes that have been raised for this nation, still we must allow, there are many dark clouds, hanging, over them. ing people, are all around us. and it Is not wise to do so. The signs of a wast­ We cannot shut our eyes to them, If the rulers and people, as a body, even now cd. be filled with wisdom fr. above, the road seems still open for them to take an honorable & elevated place among the nations of the earth. mus.t be in God. But will they be wise? Our hopes When we remember how many prayers have been offered for the nation, we will trust, that the clouds will scatter, and a remnant be saved. I might stop here with my report, but I have not reported all my labors, nor even the most troubelsome (I) of them. In the division of the Bible for revision, the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Job were assigned to me. I have looked over a small portion of these books, enough, however, to see that they have been translated with grt. care; but still need a revision, before another edition of the Bible is issued. I could have �1863 - 16 taken hold of this work with grt, pleasure, hut I have found most of my leisure during the year, swallowed up in a work of more immediate importance. The one to wh. I have already alluded, namely, remodeling the Records of the Chh. To learn the history ( ■ of all the members of the ch. - there present location, and standing,so as to give faithful statistics, I have found to be a task far grter. than I ever anticipated. There is also another work, wh. has taken up still more of my time, and been more exhausting and troubelsome (l), namely, attending to the medical wants of the people. Of all the 32 years, wh, I have spent on missionary ground, in no one have I devoted so much time to medical labor, as during the past year. Our only physician, holds an office under govt. wh. requires him to be absent for weeks, and even mons. at a time. Meanwhile both foreigners and natives call on me daily, to pre­ scribe for their diseases. Of all ordinary complaints, every community has its share; we all have to deal with them, they occupy but little time. But we have some more formidable diseases amg. us. Much of my time during the 2 past years, has been spent in attending to the two diseases wh. follow licentious living. In fact for the past 2 years, - that is, since the enact­ ment of the law, on prostitution - I have had more patients of this class, than in all the 30 previous years of my missionary life put together. I do not consider the prevalence of this disease, owing entirely to the law. They are rather the legi­ timate fruits of a lax system of execution of law, w h . may be almost said to have had its beginning, about the year 1855, when some who were apptd. gaurdians ( l) to the law, were its �1863 greatest violators. When the mission first commenced Its opperations amg. this people, perhaps •§• of the people were afflicted with what we call "scrofulous ulcers", - some of them had them even fr. head to foot. But the wisdom of our physi­ cians taught us so to deal with them, that they have "been almost "banished fr. the land. About the year 1845, our physicians decided that the venereal disease, scarsely ( I) any longer, had an existance (I) in the nation. We were beginiBig (I) to think, that the blood of the nation, was in a measure purified, that we shd. hereafter see an increase of population, and all the blessed fruits of pure morality. A few years after, it was said that there was a fresh im­ portation of this disease fr. the French In Tahiti. may not be so. This may or But fr. whatever source it comes, one thing is certain, that we have going the rounds in these Islands, the disease of more virulent type, and more dreadful In its conse­ quences, than some of us have ever seen before. So far as my observation extends, the most afflicting circumstance connected with this is, that its victims are almost universally fr. amg. the young. It Is owing, no doubt, in a grt. measure, to the l prevalence of these diseases, that we see a diminution of births in these Islands, and a quickened pace given to mortal­ ity. The worst forms wh. I have seen of this disease, come fr . the rural districts of our Island. If all parts of the group, are as much afflicted with this, as the Island of Maui would seem to be, a large portion of this people must go out of existance ( 1). We can only hope, that a t>emnant will be saved, to perpetuate the �1863 - 18 race. I will now mention another formidable disease, wh. is. comparatively new - amg. the people; I mean the disease called the "Mai Pake" and wh. Dr. Hildebrand supposes is the Asiatic Leprosy. 15 years ago, the only case I had of this disease under my care, was the father of the present queen, who died in 1854. When I returned fr. the U.S. In 1858, 6 or 8 similar cases applied to me for help. might be at Lahaina 15. Last year, I supposed there 2 mons. ago, I collected the names of all who had the disease, and found they numbered pO. - 21 women, 49 men. This disease commences by a reddening, and a thicken­ ing of the skin of the face and forehead, and the back of the hands. Generally the progress is slow, sometimes 2 or 3 years scarsely ( l) making any difference in the appearance, but pro­ gress is sure, it holds on its course, and will sooner or later make the Individual miserable & helpless, and carry him to the grave. For 5 years, I have sought for remedies, and tried various experiments, but all v/ith out much success. 3 years ago, I wrote to Dr. Jane for a large quantity of Alterative, wh. I have tried thoroughly on some cases of long standing, and some more recent. It produces some effect on the disease, often seems to improve it; but still it holds on its course uncured. The first grt. question as to this disease is, what are its causes? We have many Chinamen amg. us, and though it is called Mai Pake, none of them have it, neither Europeans, nor Amer­ icans, nor their children born in this country, have taken this disease. Whatever, therefore, may be its causes, it �1863 seems to be peculiar to the Hawaiians, 19 I have supposed that the causes may be eating raw fish, as well as fish that are more or less poisonous. The Opelu abounds amg. us, and always becomes poisonous, after lying several hours. Want of cleanly habits, and of well aired houses may also contribute to the same result; and undoubtedly exposure to burn­ ing s m , has more or less to do with it. .Another important question in regard to it, wh. the learned Doctors must settle, is, whether it is contagious? There is already, grt. alarm about it, amg. the people; many of its victims are amg. our best people. There are so many fears and prejudices on the subject, that more advanced cases, stay away fr. the house of God, or sit down out side the door; while others who have had the disease a shorter period, are found in all our meetings. For my part, I see very little proof, that the disease is contagious. Of the 60 names wh. I have collected, 14 are living 2 In a house, leaving 46 individuals, living in the midst of as many families, fr. 1 to 10 years each, without com­ municating the disease to any of them. If our learned physicians will wake up, and investigate this new disease, they may teach us our duties in regard to it, and confer a grt blessing on the Hawaiian people. # Statistics of Lah. Church Admited. C O it on profession certificate Past year on profession 1543 618 6 �1863 - £Past year on] " " " certificate 25 Total past year 31 " dismissed 339 Dismissed past year 4 Total num. deceased 868 Deceased past year Excluded " " 45 7 Now in regular standing 645 Total children baptised 1631 Baptised past year 21 Marraiges 30 " Of these now in regular standing, 464 belong to Lah. 101 to Oloalu, and 77 to the Is.' of Lanai. U 20 �^Baldwin} • Report of Lah. Station, year ending, June 1. 1864. Another mis'y year has fled away forever - gone with all Its labors & Its cares - its doings all to be reviewed by Him who presides over all things. It has carried with It, into eternity, many of the people, who must each give up a solemn account of himself to God. Sad to think, how many of those who are"cailed away, go apparently without any preparation to meet their God I They have lived after the flesh, while they lived; have sought pleasure of the world, & lived all their days in pain, & then gone down to the grave with the full load of their sins upon them, without hope, because without God in the world. Through the mercy of God, myself & companion are still spared, & have had, the past year, even more health & strength than in some previous years,' to pursue the work committed to our hands. Our children too have all been spared, though some of them have been exposed to great danger - the Lord alone, in the time of peril, opened a way of escape, for which we w^praise his great & holy name. The Lord has also, the past year, added three to the number of our grandchildren, making seven in all; & so far as we know, they are all well & prospering. The past year has been, with me, an exceedingly busy one. A pretty large share of ray time has been necessarily spent in the practice of medicine. We have around us a village of 2 or 3000 natives, & many forreigners ( l); all, of course, liable to their share of sickness. For the last two years, we have had but one foreign physician at Lahaina; & he, being the Circuit Judge of �1864 - 2 the Island, was often absent for weeks & even months together. He has lately left L. & become physician to the King. Under these circumstances, foreigners pretty universally resort to the only medical help that is left as some of them did before. Sickness among foreigners usually consumes more time than we can often allow to natives. We have had no epidemic disease among the people, unless I may mention fevers among children, in the summer & fall of T63 - These have not often been pro­ tracted cases & never fatal. Some diseases, however, have greatly increased, in number & virulence, among the people, for the last 5 or 10 years. attend licentious habits. This Is especially true of diseases that It is awfully alarming to see what multitudes of our youth are perishing before the deadly power of sin. Among the deaths at Lahaina, since our last Gen. m'g, 10 were from this new scourge of the race, which is now called leprosy. Most of them were our worst cases. year,. 60 cases of the disease. genuine leprosy, or T1Mai Pake". places. I reported, last Probably about 50 of them were A few have removed to other We have two or three new cases. The whole list of those among us who now have the complaint, as far as I have been able to collect it, comprises about 50. I have spent much time upon this unfortunate class of patients; & I expect to give them much attention in time to come, whether with or without any success, in the way of during, time alone must determine. We think we have gained much by debarring those who have this disease from our religious assemblies, & by isolating them, as far as possible, in the family. The papists still allow them in �1864 - 3 their meetings. Misy Labors. The usual routine of misy labor has been pursued, at La­ haina, without interruption, during the year. There has been preaching twice on the Sab. a Sab. school for children, another for adults; a'Wed. meeting, a Sat. chh prayer meeting, & the usual monthly concerts, besides whh I have frequently met the people at their section meetinghouses. Once in each three months, I have spent a Sab. at Oloalu, & administered the Communion there. c^- have wished. I have visited Lanai., but not as often as I A graduate of Lahainaluna has conducted the meetings at the only chh building on the Island; & the leading chh members have held meetings on the Sab., more or less regular­ ly, at four other places, because the people are widely scattered over the whole Island. If it be asked, what are the good results of our labors? I w d answer, that we cannot, at the end of the year, gather up the fruits of labor, as the husbandman does the fruits' of his sowing. The germ planted in the heart one year, often requires long after years of watering & nursing to bring it to maturity. Though we all rejoice in seeing immediate effects from our efforts, yet we shd also rejoice in seeing good results from years long past & almost forgotten - Evangelical truth attended by the Spt from on high must always do good. buried long in dust," &c. "Though seed lie It is, no doubt, owing mainly to the public ministrations of the word, that there is, among us, a general respect for the institutions of the Gospel. I have not yet met, in this land, with a native who w^ deliberately own, �1864 - 4 that the days of heathen darkness were better than the days of Gospel light. If there be such, they must be among the lowest dregs of the land, & such generally show their hatred of the Gospel by their works rather than confess it in words. We generally speak of the state of religion among us as low. But this term will not apply to all the chh. Though there are many who ten years ago, made a fair profession of piety, & who have, one after another, turned back to the world, & prac­ tice openly sins which they never did forsake, yet there is a goodly portion of the chh who stand fast In the faith, who give cheering evidence, that they are born from above. They love the courts of the Lord's house/ - do not neglect the reading of the Bible, & are evidently from year to year growing in knowledge & in grace. Some of these, especially among the women, are persons eminent for prayer; & when I look upon them, I think, that God has not forsaken the earth, & has not forsaken the Hawaiian race. inefficient at best. Most Hawaiian Christians are inactive & We have occasionally the satisfaction of seeing one of the inactive kind wakened up into new life & energy. The most active man now in our chh was probably con­ verted a few years since, after being, for many years, worthy member. an un­ Therefore dont give up hypocrites in Sion. We have had no special outpouring of the Spt, but we think we have seen some true convers^ions. ceived to the chh during the year. Twenty two have been re­ About half a dozen of these were youth brought up In strictly pious families, where they have had more watchful care than is found in many native families. They have not been known to be in any immorality, & have been interested attendants on all our Sab. Schools, & re- �1864 ligious meetings for many years. - 5 They come into the chh under much the same circumstances as most of the children of the mission have "been received. May they prove equally worthy of a place in Christ’s house I Of the mass of those -who are outside the chh I need say* but little. Some of them are regular attendants at the house of God, &, therefore, we may hope, that they will, at some day, be brought into the fold of Christ. Others are but seldom found sitting under the sound of the Gospel, & the prospect for such Is, that they will soon forsake it altogether. Of the great mass of the unconverted, we have too much said evidence, that, for the last ten years, they have been sinking deeper & deeper in moral turpitude. The bad examples of some in high places, the responsibility of executing the salutary laws of the land, sometimes entrusted to those who cannot govern their own pas­ sions, &, as a consequence, the almost universal neglect to en­ force those wholesome laws whh were made to help, in purifying the land, all these warn us of the downward tendency of morals in this land. The Gospel has created a public sentiment among the people whh keeps the external of society decent, even whole vice is rampant - but outward decency will never save the nation, if the fires of sin are allowed to burn at its vitals. Licentious­ ness is common, & the victims of its terrible diseases are mul­ tiplying, especially among the young. The Sab. Is the great conservative influence in the land, tending to preserve a pure morality, & to keep up the fear of God before the minds of the people. It does more than any other institution to stamp the �1864 name of Christian on the nation. - 6 The Sab. is usually with us a quiet day, owing to the presence of so many who love the Holy Sab. Ife see no canoes abroad upon the ocean - no carts rolling through the streets as on other days - but few horses moving no stores or shops open, & none of the markets open, except the beef markets early in the morning. And yet any kind of business whh a man may wish to do on the Sab. he may do without let or hindrance from the laws. I have not heard of a prosecution for violation of the Sab. laws for very many years. Doubtless many avail themselves of this license whh wicked rulers give them. But it is a mercy, that they hide their deeds away where they will not offend the eyes of Sab. keepers. They lasso their cattle in the mts - take rides or journies where they are not known, & in stealing God's time, follow, in some degree, the same course they wd in stealing their neighbor's property. Schools. Our schools were all in a state of prosperity, when, about 4 mos. since, the Board of Education appointed a new Kahukula, viz. the Gov. of the Isl. & all Haw. schools were suspended, under the pretense, that they were $200. In debt. He has been asking of the people contributions for continuing the schools, & has probably obtained $2 or 300. We cannot foretell the fu­ ture, but we strongly suspect, that the schools either will not be recommenced, or If they are, it will be to make them depend entirely on the voluntary contributions of the people. Our school for teaching natives English consists of over 50 scholars, Mr. & Mrs. Mason's Boarding school of 26 girls �1864 was imported into Lahaina from Honolulu. - 7 They have also a school of 20 or more boys. There seems to he among our people, an increasing desire fo the establishment of Boarding Schools; but whether there will be among parents,, the thrift & economy to defray promptly even a small part of the expense of their children's education, remains to be seen. English Ohh. They have given us a better clergyman for this chh than formerly; but natives do not flock to them much. Papists. Our Papists hold their own pretty well - do not seem to gain or lose much. The conviction is becoming more & more deep, every year, among our people, that Popery is a dark system. A member of their own chh sd to the priest at Lahaina, not long since, "He mea lapuwale keia pule ana a kakou la Petero ma; e aho kakou e pule pololei aku 1 ke Akua." See Note # last page. Mormons. The Mormon settlement on the South part of Lanai has dispersed within the past 3 mos. Some returning to their old homes on Hawaii, & elsewhere; Others perhaps compelled to find a home, wherever they could. Marriages by D. Baldwin during yr. Births in Lah. repd in 1863,' 61. Oloalu 1863 - Births 7 Lahaina 1864 - Births 62 Oloalu Deaths Births 14 29 Deatha 116. Deaths 131 Deaths 23 11 �1864 - 8 Contributions. Contributed for support of Pastor --- For Kauwealoha at Uapou ” 362.00 150. Kaukau 20. Past salary of Bell ringer 55. Contributed for supt of Com. Schools, For painting chh 200. — 50. Waihee chh--------------------------- --------- 25. | 862. Statistics of chh, 1864 Admitted on Prof. " Certificate Past year on Prof. " " Cert. Total past year Dismd to other chhs " past year Deceased " 1565 524 22 8 30 344 5 899 past year 31 Excluded past year 11 Now in regular standing 622 Children baptised " past year Marriages past year 1661 30 29 Note #. As to the number of the Papists at Lahaina, they furnish about 75 voters in the whole district from Ukumehame to Lah. in­ clusive. In all the district there may be 200 papists; & their congregation (the only one on West Maui) may ordinarily on the Sab. number 100. They are generally among the most ignorant & �1864 9 degraded of the people. During the past year, three who have heen members of the Papist chh., have been recO- to our chh. The Papist priest has., the last year, shown more zeal in schools than ever before. Their school numbers 70, & has two active young men for teachers. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mission Station Reports - Maui Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mission Station Reports - Maui - Lahaina - Lanai - 1848-1864 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1848, 1849, 1851, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/2604052bdc80f20e656d10a757d646be.pdf 07e65f4db607dc247a67ac348b9d5d93 PDF Text Text WAILUKU STATION REPORT CONTENTS Unsigned (Green) ..................... .... 1833 J. S. Green and R. Tinker .................. 1834 Unsigned (Green) ........................... 1836 Unsigned (On back: read by Mrs. Armstrong).. 1837 R. Armstrong.............. ................ 1838 Unsigned (Armstrong) ............... ....... 1839 �Wailuku, Maui June 1833 Station taken August 15, 1832 Circumstances when taken. We were cordially recieved (!) and entered immediately upon the labors of the station. There had never been a meeting house here, and for some weeks we worshiped ( !) in a large ranai [lanai: a shed; porch] . For a few Sabbaths the people assembled in great numbers, say 3,000, but after ascertaining that the gospel could be heard every Sabbath, many soon became weary and absented themselves. We found the schools in rather a low state, having no school house and their teachers being indolent. We soon examined the schools of Wailuku and the neighboring villages and found some 600 readers (?). The church consisted of seven members. Labors performed during the year. Preaching on the Sabbath has been regularly performed, also on Wednesdays. For two or three months the Wednesday lecture has been changed to a kind of bible class. Monthly concert has been observed. This with a meeting of the church on Saturday evenings is all the meetings which we have sustained at Wailuku. We have instructed a bible class of some 50 or 60 individuals who have all instructed in Sabbath School between the services on the Sabbath. On Sabbath mornings we have had a school of some 150 children. Of Schools we have taught some 100 teachers in reading and Geography. Many of them have made good improvement. schools is, we think, improving slowly. The state of Many are learning to read tho' the number at our last examination was nearly the same as when we arrived, 631 being the number of readers, exclusive of those under our immediate instruction. �2. Wailuku Report 1833 I have attended nearly all the funerals in the neighborhood of Wailuku, in all thirty nine. Of marriages I have solemnized 139. The statements above have referende to Wailuku and the villages in the immediate vicinity. The field committed to my care embraces the entire part of the Island called East Maui. late census 23,764. Number of inhabitants according to the I have been unable to visit the schools on this part of the Island except 2 or 3 villages some 10 or 15 miles distant where I examined about 1000 readers. I cannot report special attention to religion at my station, tho' I hope in the case of a few, there is a growing interest in attending on the means of grace. We greatly need help. Summary. Church. 9 members 2 added this year. Schools 631 readers - com Schools 100 in geography 39 funerals 139 marriages [Unsigned] [On b ack:] Wailuku Station Report - 1833. Mr. Green. �Wailuku Maui May 19, 1834. In presenting the annual report of the labors performed at this station during the past year, grateful mention should be made of the mercy of God in favoring us generally with comfortable health, especially for his signal Interposition in rescuing one of our number from the very jaws of death, and in restoring him to a state of soundness. In consequence of his fall, Mr. Green was laid aside for three Sabbath[s] . With this exception nothing has occured ( !) to interupt ( !) our labors, some account of which we now present! I. Schools . At the commencement of the missionary year, we designed to expend much of our strength in the business of instructing our station school and we hoped to reap much fruit from this department of our labor. ted. In this respect, however, we have been sorely disappoin­ Our design of benefiting teachers, and their wives (?) many of whom had previously removed to this place, has proved nearly abortive in consequence of having no place for teaching. however has been done. Something A school of children has been taught, and some sixty teachers of both sexes have been under a course of instruction a part of the year. are brightening. Our prospects in regard to our station school Our school house Is nearly completed, and we hope to redeem the time which seems to have been nearly lost. The state of schools generally, on East Maui, is much as hereto­ fore reported. Since the last general meeting a tour of the island has been made for the purpose of examining schools and preaching the gospel. was 2884. The number of readers who were then enrolled in our schools Pew children are in the habit of frequenting school. Teachers are illy qualified for their business, and the state of our schools calls loudly for some change. �Wailuku Maui 1834 2. II Preaching the gospel. \ Our pulpit at Wailuku has been regularly supplied during the year on the Sabbath, Wednesdays, and the first Monday in each month. In addition, considerable itinerary labor has been performed. In making tours for examing schools forty (40) sermons have been preached [Waikapu] and at Hamakua loa, Hamakuapoko, Waihee, Waiehu and Waikepu more than one hundred times during the year, have we proclaimed the "glad tidings of great joy", designed for all people. On Sabbath evenings Mr. Tinker has commonly preached in English to some half dozen foreigners exclusive of our families. III Extra Meetings In addition to these stated means of grace, preaching Sabbath morning to Children, at 11 o.c. A.M. and 4 P.M., we have continued the Bible class exercises (?) on the afternoon of the Sabbath, in which we have explained the verse a day system to the teachers in our Sabbath school. We have recently met our people on the after­ noon of fridays, each week, to explain to them the sacred oracles. On tuesdays of each week, we have met the old people, have prayed with them, read to them the word of God, explained its meaning, and besought them to become holy. 233 6 We have during the year solemnized 239 marriages, and attended 3 242 50 funerals. Gladly would we now speak of the conversion of sinners and the upbuilding of the church. But on this subject we have little to say which will cheer the hearts of our brethren. We fear the church, tho' small, presents a fearful obstacle to the descent of the Holy Spirit. A dreadful state of apathy seems to pervade the church, which we fear will remain unbroken till the light of eternity discloses their real �3 Wailuku Maui 1834 character and unalterable condition. give intimation of Spiritual life. Some three or four members Two members have been admitted during the year, one native, and Mr. Murin (?), an English resident. Tho’ we can speak of nothing particularly cheering, yet we would say that for some two or three months past there has been our considerable increase of xxx congregations xxx on the Sabbath. We hope too that there is rather an increasing attention to the preached gospel, and some few seem to be enquiring the way to heaven. Pray for us that God would shed down upon us the dews of his Spirit, and bring multitudes to the Savior’s feet. J.S. Green R . Tinker 2884 242 50 2 11 readers marriages funerals added to the church during the year church members in all �Wailuku, Maui, May 26, 1836. The familiar line of Hewers beautiful missionary hym ( !) "And only man is vile" - has frequently been on my tongue, as I have walked from my study to the house of God, or to call upon some of our poor people. The sweet air of Wailuku, and the extensive pros­ pect on either hand - the enchanting mountain scenery near us to the west, - the ocean and the grand, distant "Hale o ka la" ( !) to the east - the smiling villages to the south and to the north, the unfailing streams of sweet water which meander thro the midst of waving vegetation, all show plainly that God, on His part, has done all that could reasonably be asked to make this the very garden of delights. How painful the reflection, that man, the last a n d best of the works of God, should pollute, by his sin and folly, all that is fair in the works of his benevolent Creator. To make this field what God would have it, to render it in a moral point of view as interesting as it is in a natural, is the object for which we are toiling. What we have been enabled to do the past year, we will now briefly report. We premise, that the past year has been In some respects, a year of mercy to our poor people. There has been less sickness, and fewer deaths among them, than there were the last year. No accurate account of the births and deaths has been kept; they have probably been nearly equal. God, in dealing thus kindly with our people is calling upon us to labor with our might to save them from the agonies of the second death. The increase of labours has also, we trust, proved an unspeakable blessing to all who have been dis­ posed to listen to instruction. One of us, however, has been pre­ vented from doing all that he had it in his heart to do, in conse­ quence of much secular care in providing for himself and family, a �2. Wailuku, Maui, 1836 comfortable habitation. We hope soon to be relieved from care of this kind that we may be able to show more conclusively after another year, the superior advantage of united, to insolated ( !) [insulated ?] labor at a missionary station. 1. Improvement of the people as physical and social beings. On this subject we can only say, the march of improve­ ment is exceedingly slow. Though some of the people are waking up to a sense of their destitute circumstances, very little is actually doing to better their condition. Of the greater part, we need scarcely say that they seem perfectly contented to remain as they have always been, scarcely a grade above the swine they feed, so far as habits of living are concerned. We do not say that we ought, as a mission, to do more than we now do to improve the habits of the people at large, tho’ we think that candidates for church mem­ bership should have special instruction relative to their duty on this subject; - but we cannot refrain from expressing our belief, that unless the rising generation are better trained than their fathers, there is very little hope that religious institutions will long be perpetrated. 2. Manufactory of cloth &c. In this department though we cannot report having done great things, yet we have done too much to yield to discourage­ ment. Indeed we have been agreeably disappointed in witnessing the diligence and perseverance of those females who have been instructed in spinning. One class of seven or eight has been dismissed, who are in the opinion of Miss Brown, capable of teaching others to spin. They have also learned to knit. course of instruction. Another class is now in a The quantity of cloth which Miss Brown has �Wailuku, Maui 1836 3. woven, for she has done the weaving hitherto - is as follows: 1st piece 2nd Do 3d Do She has yarn on hand for some yds — __ Do _ _ _ _ _ D o _____ _ would yds more, which/have been woven had she not accompanied Mr. Armstrong to this place the last of April. The great difficulty connected with this subject seems to be that those who learn to spin are likely to lose the benefit for want of encouragement after leaving school. They are destitute of wheels, and if they had them, they have no place to spin. Would it not be best for us, as a mission, to take the business into our own hands purchase cotton, instruct females to spin, and afterward pay them from the. product of their own industry? We are of the opinion that we shall soon be obliged to adopt this course, or relinquish all hopes of benefiting the people by teaching them to manufacture cloth. 3. Translations. Second Chronicles has been reviewed since general meeting, and printed, and the assignments then made to us have been performed, and also printed. 4. Marriages. There have been 139 marriages solemnized at this station, and at other places on East Maui, since the last general meeting. 5. Preaching the gospel. This we have made our great business. The preaching of the gospel has been maintained at our Station every Sabbath, dur­ ing the year. Also our Wednesday lecture, monthly concert, and other occasional meetings. We have of late, observed the second monday �Wailuku Maui 1836 4 in the month to pray for the blessing of God on sabbath school in­ struction, and the third to unite in praying that God would smile upon the means employed to train up youth for the ministry. On Wednesdays of late, one of us has been out to Waihee, four miles distant, visited the schools there, and preached. At Haiku, preach­ ing has been maintained, when neither of us has been absent from home, nearly every Sabbath, and occasionally we have preached at Ham akuapoko on our way home from Haiku, In October one of us, accompanied by Mr. Clark made the tour of East Maui. We spent nearly a week in examining schools, and preaching the gospel from village to village. the island. Quite recently Bartimeas has made the tour of He was absent from Wailuku eight Sabbaths, held meetings wherever he could find means, and conversed familiarly with all whom he saw. W e cannot but hope that good will result from these itinerating labors. Our congregations on the Sabbath have been much as last year both at Wailuku and Haiku, and a good degree of atten­ tion, at the time, is paid to the preaching of the gospel, will be the result remains to be seen. What May it finally be seen that our labors in the Lord are not in vain. 6. State of the church, additions &c. We have had no case of discipline in our little church, the past year, though our hearts are pained with evidence, which their lives too plainly furnish, of the unsoundness of the profession \ of several. A protracted meeting of the church of nearly a week has been held, during the year, and of late more than usual labor has been bestowed upon them. On a part of the church, the influ­ ence seems to have been happy, but the case of others seems more hopeless than any other class of sinners to whom we preach the gospel. The seal of perdition seems affixed to them, and we might �Wailuku Maui 1836 5. as well weep over the dead. God grant that the churches may he saved from the intrusion of others of like character. The Savior it has seemed to us o f late, is in a Special manner near to us and waiting to shed down upon us the influences of the Holy Spirit, but all we can say will not arouse some part of the church, nor induce them to lift a finger to save their perishing fellow men around them from perdition. Indeed we greatly fear that some of them are living in the habitual commission of known sin; and we do not expect to live long without trouble of the kind which has afflicted our brethren at other stations. We can however report more favorably of several individuals of our church. They appear to be humble, prayerful, con- sistant followers of the Lord Jesus Christ and seem disposed to be co-workers with us in building up His cause. In January last three individuals, one from Haiku, were admitted to the church. None stand propounded, but several have, of late excited our hopes that they are the children of God. There seems also to be a growing solemnity on the minds of a class of our people. We cannot but hope that the Savior is about to pour upon us a blessing. May we be prepared to welcome the Holy Spirit, and that He may be shed down upon us in copious effusions we entreat our brethren "to pray for us." [Unsigned. J.S. Green's handwriting] �Wailuku. Ap. 1837 In presenting the report of Wailuku station for the past year, the first sentiment which arises in our minds is one of gratitude to the God of our mercies fore we have prospered - His good hand has been upon us & there­ We have had no sickness of consequence at our station during the year: Neither has there been much sickness or great mortality among our people - The season however has been unusually dry & we are in danger of suffering some inconvenience in consequence. The church On our return from Genl Meeting the church was not in as en­ couraging a state as could be wished. The King and chiefs being at the station, occasioned much destraction ( !) of mind, & presented some snares in the way of our professing Christians - Lukewarmness in some and spiritual death in others were apparent while one came forward voluntarily and acknowledged himself guilty of drinking brandy with King singing meles for him, and some other sins of less consequence thus violating his own pledge, & bringing disgrace upon himself as a christian - But as the confession was voluntarily made & with evidence of penitence, he was not suspended from the church. This affair however was overruled for good not only to the individual concerned, who has appeared much better since than before his fall, but to the ch. generally - It occasioned some awakening & heart others searching, and fears lest xxxx might fall into the same temptation so that from that time to the present there has been rather an in­ creasing spirit of prayer, zeal & activity in our church. Most of our church members are active labouring men & women & chiefly of the poorer class, and on the whole the church at Wailuku may be regarded as in a prosperous state - It has been greatly revived & strengthened �Wailuku 1837 2. [protracted] by two pro-meetings held during the year of which we shall speak presently - During the year 11 individuals have been received to the communion of the church, one of whom is a young girl of 13 or 14 years old. One case of discipline only has occured ( !) during the year. A man from Kaawaloa, a member of Mr. Elys church, who had removed to Haiku some 4 years ago, where his out deportment not only entitled him to a good standing in the church but procured for him an unusual degree of our confidence, was proved at the close of our. pro. meeting in Nov. to have been guilty of adultery more than two years ago, in repeated instances - Considering all the circumstances of the case, he was severely dealt with but I am happy to say there is some evi­ dence of sincere repentance in him at present - He has evidently suffered sever[e]ly in discipline, even to mar[r]ing his countenance, and affecting his health. We hope therefore to see the way clear ere long to restore him to his place in the church - I mention this case because several of the brethren are acquainted with the man & may feel an interest in it Labours The public labours of the station has been as follows - A a Sab. school at 8. o'c A. M. sermon sabbath morning and another and another at 11 o 'clock^with a Bible class at 1 o'clock, and a catechetical lecture at 4, with occasionally an english sermon in the evening - A school of adults to study the ai o Ka la & read the Kumu Hawaii has been regularly held on Wed. afternoon & closed with a lecture on the verses for the week Since the 1st of Nov. morning prayer meetings have been held at day break, which have been well attended & been highly useful A church meeting has also been regularly held every Sat. evening. Mrs. A. has also held a meeting for women on friday & monday. �Wailuku 3 1837 The out-station at Haiku has been, pretty regularly supplied with preaching &c, during the year - We have generally gone there alter­ nately & preached once or twice on the sabbath, attended a Bible class & a sabbath school & preached once or twice on our way home The state of the people at Haiku is encouraging - One individual from there has been recently recd to the church at Wailuku and others appear to be under the evident influence of divine truth One or two more will probably soon be recd to the fellowship of the church - The importance of the outpost is enhansed ( !) by the fact of Mr. Smith's settling there which will no doubt occasion some influx of population into the neighberhood ( !) & moreover Mr. Smith avows it as his intention to do every thing in his power to aid our work & bring the people under the influence of the Gospel - The congregations both at Wailuku and Haiku have been much the same this year as they were last - respectably large At our other out station Honuaula we have done something, though not very much - Since Pikenini has been at the head of affairs there, the aspect of things has greatly changed for the better A new native meeting-house & (I think) 7 stone or doby school-houses have been built, all of which are daily occupied with schools - The meeting house is well filled on the sabbath when there is any one to preach & the sabbath school is large - Bartimeus has done most of the labour at this place and occasionally also gone to Haiku. His services we think are very acceptable to the people & highly useful. The monthly concert has been pretty well attended at our station during the year, & we think it has been very useful in the manner in which it has been conducted - We have laboured in this meeting mainly to urge upon professing Christians their obligations to be �Wailuku 4. 1837 co-workers with us and with our Master in building up his Kingdom We have insisted upon works as necessary to salvation, and urged our people to do what they could for the cause of Him who bought them with his blood - A proposition was made to those who could work, to devote the 1st monday in the month to labour in some way or other to benefit the cause. The proposition was acceeded to by a number & they have continued to labour cheerfully every concert-day since They talk of building a stone meeting house in this way The concert for schools has also been observed at the station, & has been a season of interest. Schools - Our station schools during the year have been as follows 1. Adult male school, or school for teachers. The number who attended about 30; no efforts were made to enlarge it as we thought best not to employ a great deal of time & labour on this class of persons - Some of the scholars made commendable progress in Geogra­ phy, arithmetic, Nat. history, composition &c, and read regularly the Kumu Hawaii as a school exercise. From the 1st of Aug. to Dec. this school met twice a day & since that only once, owing to the cares of building, & the superintendence of a large childrens school, of which w e shall now speak. 2. On our return from Genl Meeting in July, a free consultation was held with our chiefs in reference to the interest of schools, and as they expressed a willingness to co-operate in any measures we should take - all the children in Wailuku old enough to go to school were assembled & in the presence of the chiefs their names enrolled on the school book & the duty of attending regularly on the duties of the school enjoined upon them by the chiefs; with this �Wailuku 5. 1837 the childrens school commenced in July & no difficulty has been experienced since in keeping them together. The number enrolled is 245, and the average attendance quite as good as could be expected in all weathers. But of this school a class of 18 lads was selected, who have been taught in a separate house with reference to their entering the High School. These boys form a very interesting class, and ten of them at least we think of transferring to the High School in July - Another class of 15 girls equally or perhaps more promising were placed under the immediate instruction of one of the graduates from the H. school, who until he was obliged to leave for a season did at least what he could for their improvement. Both these select classes are well initiated in the study of Geography, arithmetic, Nat. His. and the scripture catechisms, &c, and only need proper advantages to make as fine scholars as will ever be needed in this nation In all the childrens school, besides the select classes, there are about__who can read the common elementary books, commit the verse a day & the catechisms, the remainder are in various stages of pro­ gress from the a to the heluhelu maoli [perhaps: a, meaning the be­ ginning of the alphabet; heluhelu: to read; maoli: true, genuine. Hence, from the beginning reader to the real, good reader] Our ladies have been able to [do] something though not very much in the way of teaching during the year. For a part of the year Mrs. Green devoted some time to the adult females, while Mrs. Armstrong took charge, for a season of an interesting class of little girls. It will be seen that the schools just mentioned, embraces after all but a small portion of the population of Wailuku. The great mass of persons who once knew how to read a little & some of them well, �Wailuku 6 1837 were seen to have forsaken their books in a great measure & of course, their little knowledge fast waning. To prevent if possible this evil in month of March a general school was commenced under the special care of our chief (Kawailepolepo) which has met on every Wednesday afternoon & embraces all both male & female who know the alphabet Punctual attendance to this school is required by the chief who calls the roll regularly & marks the absentees. Those who can read, use the Kumu Hawaii & the ai o ka la & those who cannot are furnished with some elementary book. (chils school on Wednesday) Of Schools in general on E. Maui, we have not much to say that is encouraging. In most places there are either no schools at all or they exist merely in name. But in a few places there have been during the year schools of considerable value - At Waihee, through the influence of the chief (Kaauwai), a childrens school embracing all the children of the land has been sustained during most of the year. There is there also a Wednesday school for adults similar to that at Wailuku. It is proper to remark too that this individual has manifested during the year a very commendable interest in schools, not only on his own land, but being the Governors agent has also been devising plans for the interest of school generally on E. Maui And the interest appears to be growing - It was principally through his agency that a law has been eneacted requiring all children on the island over 4 years of age to attend school, and exempting those who are devoted to teaching from work on the lands - The utility of this law remains to be tested, but so far it has operated favourably Its utility will of course depend almost entirely on us The schools also in Haiku have been kept up during the year & �Wailuku 1837 7. * some improvement made in reading by a considerable number of children & others. In the month of Nov. 5 graduates from the High School were located on E. Maui as school teachers - One at Wailuku, one at Koo- lau, one at Hana, another at Kaupo & another at Honuaula; what success [not] these men have had in teaching is/definitely known to us, as we have not visited them since they took their stations. reports we judge they have done something. But from their own The one at Koolau reports 7 boys as having learned to read fluently & attended to some other branches, a little. the High School. The one at Honuaula reports 8 as being ready for And the one at Wailuku was industrious as long as health allowed him to teach - is very inefficient however - From the other two we have no definite report. Books - The demand for books during the year has been such that we have not been at a l l able to meet it. been both too few & two small - Our supplies of books have We have also been much embarrassed in not being able to obtain in due season such books as were printed, and therefore, we would recommend the whole business of the printing committee, of the bindery, distribution of books &c, be a subject of deliberation at this general meeting. Two pro. meetings have been held at Wailuku during the year: one during the 1st The week of Nov. the other the last week in March - At the former Bros Parker & Smith were present & assisted in the exercises - Their labours were timely and will not soon be forgotten by our people - This meeting was well attended, continued 6 days and was productive of great good - There is reason to believe that some souls were truly awakened converted & saved; say for we do not know - How many we cannot �8. The last pro. meeting was not intended to embrace the multitude, but merely the church, & the more serious part of the community; But notwithstanding the notice, three or four hundred attended, & we have never seen at Wailuku seasons of deeper solemnity than were some of these meetings - The seriousness of a number continues , & we hope will till they are perfected in Christ - The children and the aged have both received special attention in these meetings - the children particularly - It has moved our sympathies to contemplate a group of 40 or 50 aged men & women, attending these meetings & apparently feeling after God if peradventure they might find him in their old age - One of them spoke out of a sudden in one of our meetings & said I have lived In the reign of Kalaiopu & I have been with Kamehameha, and behold here I am now in the Kingdom of Christ - They were bad this is good, I shall follow Jesus. Translations During the year the Hymns for children have been reviewed, a small work on surveying nearly translated, and the translation of Joshua revised and the remaining chapters translated, and the book of Daniel translated in part. A new doby school-house has been built at the station, 50 ft by 28 ft & furnished with writing desks, seats, glass-windows; is a convenient house & cost the Board about $100 ? It books at their nominal price The people of our neighborhood have during the year worked out 128$ towards procuring a bell for the meeting-house. During the year there have been 90 marriages solemnized at our station & 4 children baptised and deaths. No account has been kept of births �Wailuku Maui 9. 1837 In th e month of August I made a tour around E. Mau i with Governor Hoapili & his suite. The object was to revive the schools, have school-houses erected, & proclaim school & marriage laws - The school law in regard to children is in force and is no doubt useful. The new marriage law is that none but old people shall marry who cannot read - The old man was in good spirits & seemed to be resolute in urging the business of education - We have followed up his proclama­ tion closely since & have not married any young folk who cannot read; On the whole it is thought that the tour did good. The tobacco law on Maui is no more, and we have nothing to lament that it is so: To inflict heavy penalties on the people of one island for smoking tobacco, while chiefs & people of another church members as well as others continued to do so, and yet all under the same government, could have no tendency to secure the con­ fidence of the people in their chiefs, nor enable them to reconcile the conduct of professing Christians with such a law: the law did not keep down the vice, & could not. And besides, There is however a pretty strong public sentiment still on Maui against tobacco: None of our teachers or church members use it that we are aware of & many others abstain from it - This public sentiment is better than law - It may be proper here to call your attention once more to the destitution of E. Maui - It will be remembered that our station is really on West Maui, and now may be considered as having only one man to attend to the appropriate missy work of the station. The Seminary about to go into operation is for the benefit of the islands generally & will occupy the whole time of its teacher. So that E. Maui with a population of some 20,000 has really no missionary; and the people are so remote that even when there are two men at Wal- �Wailuku Maui 1837 10. luku, we cannot preach to them more than once or twice a year Consider then her claim in the distribution of your men [Un sig n e d ] [On b ack:] Report of Wailuku Station 1837 read by Mrs. Armstrong �Report of Wailuku Station from June 1st 1837 to June 1st 1838 In presenting this report, it will be understood that it con­ tains merely an account of what has been attempted & effected in my department of labour, during the year. The reports of the Sem­ inary & cloth establishments, are distinct & will give a statement of what has been doing in those divisions of our work. When I look back upon the past year, the first & most spontan­ eous sentiment of my bosom, is gratitude to the Father of mercies, for the countless & rich blessings, He has bestowed upon myself, my family & my people. With the exception of Mrs. A's confinement & occasional but temporary ill turns of Miss Brown, no sickness has visited our dwelling during the twelve months past. Not a single Sabbath have I been unable to discharge the solemn & heavy duties which have devolved upon me. Neither have we needed any good thing for the sustenance & comfort of the body. Our cup of blessings has been full during the whole year but especially the latter part of it, with scarcely a drop of bitterness intermixed, and I can truly say I have never felt called upon more strongly to exercise gratitude to God & to trust Him for the future. But while this has been the case with ourselves & most of our people It has been otherwise with a great many of our neighbours. Since the month of January there has been an unusual amount of sickness about us, and also an unusual number of deaths. Besides the common complaints among natives, an epidemic of a somewhat pecu­ liar character has prevailed & proved fatal in a number of instances. The symptoms are swelling of the whole body, attended with fever & ( !) after the desease ( !) has made some progress, a dysentary. On account of this sickness an unusual portion of my time has been �Wailuku - 1838 2. devoted to the medical wants of the people. During the summer months we were much favoured with the prof. [professional? ] practice of Dr. Lafon, who did much good in the way of healing, but as the natives by his practice acquired increased confidence in our medi­ cines, a great amount of this sort of business was thrown on my hands after the Dr. left. While speaking of the sickness & mortality of our people, I may as well mention here the death of a worthy & beloved member of our church; I mean Kawailepolepo. He died on the 13th of Feb. after a tedious illness, of several months and left behind him a dying testimony to the truth, power & preciousness of the Gospel. His last intelligible words to me were lanakila au [perhaps: I have come off victorious] ; and these are in perfect accordance with all he said and wrote during his long illness. To me his end was more like that of a civilized Christian of exalted piety, than that of any native I have yet witnessed. As to the progress of civilization and industry among our people, I cannot speak very favourably. Indeed I have regarded it as im­ possible for the people to make much substantial improvement in these respects until there is some favourable change in the government, & therefore have not spent much time in teaching the people the arts & usages of civilized life nor in urging them to be industrious in labour while there is so poor a prospect of labours being rewarded. I can say however, that there is less idleness about us than there used to be. Between schools, meetings, labour for the cause of benevolence generally, & labour on their lands, the most of those under our influence are occupied the greater part of the time. �Wailuku - 1838 3. Schools - Teachers &c , Let me here mention the bounderies of our school district. It extends to the Koolau line on the N . E. side of the island & to the dividing line of Kaupo & Kahikinui on the S.W. By mutual agreement all the other districts of E. Maui belong to Hana station; Our boun- deries then include Hamakualoa, Hamakuapoko, Haliimaele ( !), Makaoao ( !), Kula, Honuaula, Kahikinui, Waikapu, Wailuku, Waiehu & Waihee. In our immediate neighberhood ( !) that is from Wakapu ( !) to Waihee, there are now 5 good doby school houses, four of which are about 50 ft. by 28, and the fifth about 15 by 30. In Honuaula there are seven school houses, built of stone and mud & though not first rate, are much more substantial & comfortable than grass houses. There is also a neat doby school house at Hamakuapoko, & a pretty good supply of good thatched houses in the other districts built by order of the governor two years ago. Schools have been sustained in all these houses during the year, with a good deal of regularity & in some of them with much efficiency. The schools are chiefly composed of children, except on Wednesdays & Sabbaths when all classes & ages turn out. What progress the children have made in knowledge, may be in some measure ascertained from the following table taken from our last examinations Whole number Readers Geo'y Wailuku ) Waiehu ) 367 250 Waihee ) Waikapu ) Hamakualoa ) & that region)506 249 Honuaula &50 766 350 1425 65 . — Dont Helu naau Helu Kamalii read 100 150 202 — 75 257 — — 200 �Wailuku - 1838 4. We have no report from Kula nor Kahikinui & therefore cannot tell with any degree of accuracy how many children can read in these districts but there is a considerable number. The above table is not quite accurate in another respect - be­ cause it only includes those who have attended examination, while it is well known that many children from one cause or another have absented themselves from examinations As to adult scholars, I cannot report with much precision, having no very accurate returns from the outer districts this season. In our immediate neighborhood however, that is, from Waikapu to Waihee, there are according to a late examination 569 adults who may be called respectable readers & many of them have a slight acquaintance with geography, arithmatic ( !), writing &c. In Hamakualoa & that region there are about as many more according to former examinations. These with the adult readers of Kula, Honuaula & Kahikinui, I w d say at a rough estimate amount to about 1800. I think however this is rather below than above the truth According to this estimate then we have in all of children & adults about 2700 readers within our bounds, exclusive of the dis­ tricts connected with Hana Station. This is an increase of more than one half within the last 3 years. This increase is mainly to be attributed to the impulse given to our schools by the teachers from the High School. Of these we have had eight employed most of the year & have now two more just entering upon their labours. With one exception these teachers have acquited ( !) themselves in such a manner as not only to meet our approbation, but to enlist my affections for them & increase my interest in the institution where they have been educated. What �5. Wailuku - 1838 better testimony do we need to convince us of the utility & impor­ tance of the High School than the successful efforts of these teachers. In my opinion the benefits already confered ( !) & daily acruing ( !) to the nation from the labours of these teachers is more than wd be the discovery of a mine of gold on one of the islands. They are doing more to raise up, enlighten & improve the native society than all the laws & rulers in the land. Shall we not then hold on to the High School in the face of all dangers, & hope for still happier fruits from it by & by? ( !) But the exception above mentioned is one of a distressing char­ acter. It is the case of [a] young man named Elemakeele [or Ele- makule] who was located at Haiku, where for a season he laboured with an energy & perseverence which soon gained him great popularity & influence over a large section of E. Maui; But he went up too quick, reeled & fell to a depth of disgrace & shamefully proportioned to the height of his elevation. He has since however professed repentance & is now allowed to teach again in a subordinate capacity in the school of another We have a school at our station for adult teachers from the remote districts, chiefly taught by the graduates & is very useful. These common teachers alternate in coming to the school & change every two months. Mrs. Armstrong has had a school for women twice a week during part of the year and once a week of late I have done almost nothing by way of direct school teaching during the year except a singing school which I taught with no little success for about 3 months of the year & a night school about 2 months for the teachers; But I have kept a constant supervision of �Wailuku - 1838 all the school operations at the station. My practice has been to visit & open the school every morning with singing & prayer & a short address to the children & at the close of the school to visit it again, hear the catechism, look over matters &c. We have suffered some embarrassment for want of funds to support native teachers. They are all poor, & so devoted to teaching & so cut off from the ordinary methods of getting a support except in the mere article of food, that they must have aid from some quarter or give up their schools & go to other business. They have needed houses & clothing for themselves & families most of any thing & as to houses they are now comfortable. We have called upon our people to aid them & they have cheerfully done so in such articles of produce as they possess, but the difficulty has been to convert such produce into cloth. Still however it has been a great help. For examples sake, I think it important that our teachers be clad decently & live decently & moreover If industrious they are worthy of this at least. I have paid out during the year to teachers, in cloth, books, money & other articles, about $80, they have recd about $40 worth from the church & people - Considerable part of the above sum however has gone to the teachers within the bounds of Hana station. I have of late succeeded in procuring some valuable lots of land for the teachers & am encouraging them to devote part of their time to farming, by way of getting a support. Potatoe ( !) crops a fail in Lahaina & so they may r^ise this article with profit for the shipping. Books We have recd during the year for Wailuku & Hana Stations probably not far from $650 worth of book ( !), net value. These books have �Wailuku - 1838 7. been chiefly given by the quantity on credit, & the majority still remain unpaid for. They have brought/in more than a supply of native provisions not only for all our families, but also for the Seminary. I think the book-debts in our immediate neighberhood ( !) will furnish the Seminary with food for the current year, unless there is a great scarcity of which there is some probability. I would remark again that the books however indispensible oc­ casion a good deal of perplexity. facts. 1. This arises from the following The books in my opinion should not be withheld from the people because they cannot pay for them in any article which can be converted into money or to defraying the expenses of the printing department. Moreover they should be given to those who will be most likely to profit by them. 2. The most of our books go into the hands of those who have nothing to give in return for them but native produce for which we have no market, and moreover the principal part of them are children who find it difficult to pay for them in any thing whatever. 3. Yet such is the state of our treasury that I feel bound to dispose of the books in such a way as to save the funds in every possible way, but how can I turn them to any such account? 4. They bring upon us many things which we do not really need, but consume because we have them, & get them for books. 5. Our yearly allowance is now so small that I cannot al low more credit to the printing department, than would equal the sum I should expend for articles of native produce had I no books. 6. I have not time to keep my book account as it should be kept & therefore there is some loss on this account. have done; I have therefore concluded to do as I That is the best I can. We have received at the station during the year not far from $300 worth of native produce. �8. Wailuku - 1838 Marriages We have married during the year 156 couple, that is 64 couple more than we married last year with all E. Maui in our bounds. From ( !) such a fact one might almost hazzard a hope that the progress of de­ population would be somewhat checked. Sabbath Schools In the sabbath school at Wailuku there are 550 children - aver­ age attendance about 500 casionally 700. But we have often had above 600 & oc­ In the Sab. school at Haiku there have been counted 550 children but as many come a long distance & it is often stormy I should not think the avarage ( !) attendence ( !) over 400. At Ho- nuaulu there are about 250 children in the Sabbath [School] . Kula & Kahikinui I have no regular returns - From In all our bounds there are 1300 or 1400 children in the sabbath schools. How many adults attend Sab-school ( !) I cannot tell,but the number is consider­ able: at Wailuku as many as 500. As to the benefits derived from these sabbath schools we have every reason to speak favourably. ly & positively. They are beneficial both negative­ They prevent mischief & do good. 44 Sabbath school scholars have been received to the communion of the church during the last 2 months - A number of others give evidence of piety & will I hope be recd soon to the same holy fellowship. The schools are well attended & popular. Bible classes Bible classes have been regularly held at Wailuku & all the outposts. In these we have used the Huliano & the ai o ka la. pious school teachers & other church members conduct them in our absence. These also are well attended & popular. Our �Wailuku - 1838 9. Public labours My ordinary public labours have been as follows. On Sabbath, a semon at sunrise - Sabbath school at 8 o'clock which I always visit - address the children from 10 till half after, sermon again at 11. Bible class at 1, catechetical lecture at 4. My ordinary week day public labours have consisted in attending a meeting every morning at day break, lecturing on Wednesday after­ noon, monthly concert for the world & another for our schools & Seminaries, a church meeting every friday, an anxious meeting 4 evenings in the week, since February and for the last 3 months a great deal of conversation with individuals - Sometimes setting ( !) in the meeting house for this purpose 6 hours in the day. But besides these I have attempted to perform some labours which may be called extraordinary ting &c. Such as protracted meetings, itinera­ I have laboured at 10 protracted meetings during the year - 4 at Wailuku, two of wh. were for the benefit of people from remote places - 2 at Haiku, 1 at Honuaula, 1 at Lahainaluna, 1 at Lahainalalo & 1 at Molokai. Itinerating - At 3 of them laboured single handed I have preached occasionally also at Haiku & Honuaula during the year & have deeply lamented my inability to go oftener to th ese places. In these labours I have derived important & often timely aid from Mr. Green who has always been ready to give me a helping hand when he could. Attendance at the house of God on the Sabbath & other days has been far greater during the year, than it has for several years past. We have no meeting houses large enough to hold the people, so that at Wailuku & Haiku we have commenced operations to build new & �Wailuku - 1838 better ones. Church During the year there have been recd to the full communion of our church 279 persons of whom one only was recd by letter. whole number now in regular standing is 309. has occured ( !) during the year. The One case of discipline One under censure last year re­ stored - One died - Eighty children baptised. Ch & people contributed $250 for various objects. As to the state of the church I will merely say that the few members with which we began the year have generally appeared well and those recently received, present very much such an external deportment as you would expect of babes in Christ. I trust many of our flock know by experience what it is to be filled with the Holy Ghost & to agonize for perishing souls all they have seen appear as they ought. But some do not after Since January there has been a high state of religious feeling among most of our members. May it ever continue so. Translations The tract on Popery assigned me at last Gen1 Meeting, has not been fully prepared. The reason is that after writing several chap­ ters on that subject in the form of a dialogue & sending them to Mr. Tinker according to his own request for the K. Hawaii - H e informed me that the printing committee did not think it expedient to print any thing on that subject at present & returned the manuscript. So it was dropt ( !). I will say however that it seems to me expedient to publish & circulate most industriously on the subject of Popery now, while the evil is at a distance. A stitch in time often saves nine. �11 Wailuku - 1838 According to a vote, of the Maui meeting in April, the first 10 chapters of Ezekiel were assigned to me for translation & to be accomplished soon as possible. I have made a beginning & gone through the first 4 chapters - hope to accomplish what I can towards preparing the whole within the specified time. Revival This report is already so long that I have scarcely room to do justice to this part of it. And yet it is desirable that a particu­ lar account of every part of this blessed work be given, so as to enable us to compare the appearances in different places & thus percive ( !) the identity or diversity of the work. Shortly after our return from Genl. Meeting last June it was evident that there was a hearing ear & a desire for the word of life abroad among our people. Meetings began to be fully attended & many came to inquire what they should do; But the impressions of the people did not seem to be deep & positive as they should be. Things continued much in this state, with perhaps a little increase of feeling until about the first of December, when prospects began to grow a little more bright; An increase of feeling was manifest in our morning meetings & in private conversation. The first of Jany was observed by our congregation, those out as well as those within the church, as a day of fasting & prayer, and it was a truly solemn day. A large number attended the several meetings & much feeling was exhibited. Some members of the church began to quake & two of our oldest & best men, proposed to absent themselves from the communion of the Lords supper on the following Sabbath, in view of their unworthiness; One of them threw himself back on his seat in a church meeting and said "I have no religion & the whole popu- �Wailuku - 1838 12. lation might as well go to the Lord's table as I." Prayer now began to be offered by the church with much fervour & perseverence & the work from this time assumed a more decided form We had before this been hoping for a revival, but now we felt that we had one on hand - We had till then held our morning meetings in a large school house but were now obliged to go to the meeting house in order to get room & many of our meetings presented a scene of sobbing & weeping. Crowds came to tell thoughts, but in very many cases they were not the dry, made up trifles, they used to bring, which one could not hear without pain. They seemed to come from the heart & the whole demeanor indicated solemnity of feeling & concern of mind. I now speak of particular cases - The last week in January we held a protracted meeting of six days continuance & it was a precious season. Meetings were full attentive & solemn throughout & when we came to converse with them individually, it was evident that the sword of the spirit had lad ( !) open many a heart & left it bleeding. Four or five hundred then professed to be seeking their salvation through Christ, & I hope, not a few were really so - After this meeting, the work gradually spread in every direction, until no neighbourhood was left unmoved; A spirit of inquiry was abroad every where & the descent of the Holy Spirit was the most common topic of conversation so far as I heard. I held prod Meetings in March at Haiku & Honuaula & was much gratified with the appearances among the people. Nearly all who could, came to the meetings & the mass of the people seemed to be deeply Impressed with divine truth. A strong disposition to weep aloud was manifested at some of our meetings but as it was met with prompt disapprobation, there were few cases of extravagance of this �Wailuku - 1838 13. kind; yet many could not suppress the inward gushings of their hearts and would pour them out in tears. Many wept none & yet seemed to he more deeply convicted of sin than those who did & in fact my judgement ( !) led me constantly to guard the people against supposing that strong emotions and weeping were necessarily connected with true re­ pentance, By the first of April it might he said that the excitement had extended all over our hounds and so it continues till this day. At the out stations however, it has been increasing much of late. That is, many new cases of awakening occured ( !), so that many hun­ dreds of all classes ages & sexes, profess to have turned from the error of their way. Time alone can tell how many have really done so After all we have not received many out of so great a number who profess repentance to the privileges of the church. Only 244. This may seem strange after what we have said of the extent of the excitement; But whether we have proceeded on wrong principles or not, we have been honest in our caution. None have been received without some knowledge of their private character & manner of life, repeated conversations with myself & then all passed a careful examination befor ( !) Mr. Green & myself in which we spent two solid weeks, about the whole of our time. During this time we examined some 800 or more, taking the names of such as we made up our minds to baptise & reject­ ing the others for the time being. Some of the reasons which have operated on my mind, to produce caution in receiving members to the church, I will mention -1. The people are easily excited on the subject of religon, and their affec­ tions easily moved by sympathy, so that having learned the prominent practical truths of the gospel, it is easy for them to appear & talk & feel like a penitent person, when a little time, or a slight ac- �14. Wailuku - 1838 quaintanc e with their every day conduct, may show that the work is not that of God's spirit - 2- We have not yet had time to know much about the majority of those who have come to us exhibiting marks of repentence ( !) - 3. In a number of instances, on inquiring into the private conduct of those we have thought well of, we have been con­ vinced that their fruits were not such as a good tree w d bear. With all the favorable appearances they have exhibited, they have been found defective in honesty, purity - reverence for God or some such thing 4. If they are God's children they will not fall away by being looked at a little longer, especially while enjoying the means of grace. 5. The history of excitement in the Islands is calculated to produce caution. 6. A corrupt church is a great curse to any country & the greater the church the greater the curse. As to measures, I merely remark, that all we have used or en­ d w couraged, is to call upon those who were ready to choose Christ to manifest it either by rising or going into a separate house for con­ versation & prayer - We have not encouraged the old thought telling plan, but have appointed in its stead set times for conversation with persons from particular lands taking them in rotation. We have employed many of the older church members to great advan[ta]ge in carrying on the work. Some of them have laboured with much success & much to my satisfaction - Bartimeus has been & is now especially useful I might mention more particulars, but this we deem sufficient to give you some idea of what has been going on at our station during the past year. Blessed year ! M [a]y it never be forgotten - Let �Wailuku - 1838 heaven & earth rejoice over what the Saviour has done since our last General Meeting. Let our confidence in him & our love for Him b e increased to the end of time. Let our hearts too swell with the hope that all heathen nations may yet see what we now see & rejoice as we now rejoice R. Armstrong �Report of Wailuku Station [Armstrong] [1839] At the close of another missionary year, I find myself & family in the enjoyment of all those blessings & comforts, which a Kind Providence has been wont to bestow in former years. So uninterrupted has been the stream of our mercies and so few our afflictions, that we feel like speaking of nothing hut the goodness of our heavenly Father. Yet we have not been entirely free from trials during the past year. Mrs. Armstrong, besides her confinement, had an ill turn in November during my absence at Oahu, and in the latter part of August, I took cold on my lungs wh confined me to my bed about a week & laid me aside from preaching for ten sabbaths. It pleased my Gracious Lord however to heal my desease ( !), & restore to me my usual ability to labour in his vineyard. During my illness Bro. Green kindly took my place in the pulpit & thus preaching has been sustained regularly at the station during the year. Two sermons and a lecture on sabbath, a discourse on Wed­ nesday, an address or lecture every morning, preaching occasionally at the outstations, two prod [protracted] meetings, labours at monthly concerts, conferences &c have been about the amount of my public preaching, when not interrupted by sickness. The church No inconsiderable portion of my time has been occupied with the church, in attending to cases of discipline, instructing, counselling & watching over it. There have been received into the Wailuku church since its first organization 497 members. Of these 6 have died & 4 have been excommunicated, leaving now in our society 487. — 200 have been received during the past year, and about 50 more stand �Wailuku - 1839 2. propounded. Connected with the church there are 153 baptised children. ___ [No number given] baptised during the past year. There have been in all eight cases requiring the discipline of the church during the year - viz. Five for adultery, two for quarrel­ ing, and one for smoking tobacco contrary to his vows. Three of the adulterers have been cut off, two appear sincerely penitent, indeed their case was not an aggravated one, and the other three persons have been restored on confession of their fault. As to the spiritual state of the church I have no reason to speak discouragingly of it. That there are many who have not the root of the matter in them I have sad reason to fear, but of others my hopes are bright that they have chosen the good part which shall not [be] taken from them. To assist in the management of church affairs, seven of the most substantial members have been selected, though not publicly & formally consecrated to the work. These individuals have been of essential service to me in my supervision of the church and I hope in a short time to have them so trained, that we shall feel justified in formally ordaining them as elders. I meet all the ch. members in the parish of Wailuku proper, twice every week, for the purpose of giving instruction in regard to the various branches of Christian duty or holy living & have used with advan[ta]ge a small tract on self examination printed at Lahaina, as a text book. If any of the brethren are not acquainted with this little tract, I would recommend it to their notice General attention to religion We can hardly be said to have had a revival during the past year, �Wailuku - 1839 3 especially when we compare the state of feeling among our people with what it was the previous year, but still attention to religion has been much more general during the past than any previous year; times too there has been considerable excitement. at Nothing is more evident than that the Gospel has gained ground greatly in some parts of our field of late. I know of no land from Kahikinui on the one side to Koolau on the other, where the people generally are not atten­ tive in some degree to the concerns of religion, while open vice is surprisingly rare. This is remarked by many, & it is well it is so, for we have almost no magistracy now on E. Maui. Schools I have had but little to do with schools directly during the year except church schools and a class in Theology. had 3 a week; of the latter two. Of the former I have The Theological class with me has attended chiefly to the study of the old Testament, and for a season to moral philosophy, until the class requested me to stop lecturing until there could be some of it printed, which is now about to be done. In teaching the Bible, it has been my object to continue as far as possible the critical with the practical & thus enable the pupils to understand & teach the word of God. This has been a pleasing part of my work during the year, and it seems to me time that something more efficient were done in this de­ partment. Have we not young men in our churches, of sufficient tallents ( !), prudence & piety to become teachers of religion? can doubt but that we have? Who Ought not some of them be in a state of training to aid us cultivating the vineyard & sustain the work when e we shall have c^ased from our labours? �Wailuku - 1839 4. In addition to this I have endeavored to devote an hour a day to my two oldest children, but a great deal of the time I could not command even this much time for them. The common native schools at the station and throughout our field, are in about as prosperous a state as they have been - perhaps a little ( !) more so in some places. School houses are in a tollerable condition generally and but few children do not attend school. The following table will exhibit a pretty correct view of the number & progress of the children in the schools. Name of district Hamakualoa Hamakua'poko Kula Honuaula Kahiklnui Makaoao (! ) Hallimalie Waikapu Wailuku Waihee & Waiehu N o. of Readers dont Helu He. geogr­ chiln read Kama- na- aphy well lii in school au 236 28 151 62 387 74 82 16 62 20 144 50 224 224 274 50 84 200 70 284 55 25 27 60 35 27 36 44 8 20 13 33 80 20 26 50 100 44 64 58 143 70 200 30 35 59 100 65 79 42 980 646 534 1626 346 237 No. of schools 10 12 7 3 1 1 2 3 2 41 The above statistics do not Include all the children within our bounds, but only such as have been reported at examinations. The teachers say there are a considerable number, who have not attended the examinations, who have attended schools; Poverty, sickness or some other cause have kept them from appearing on these occasions. The teachers from the High school have been thrown very much on their own efforts for support during the past year, and on this ac­ count they have been obliged to neglect their schools in some degree, in order to seek a support for themselves and families; But on the whole they have done as well as could be expected & some of them are in the way of getting a comfortable support by their own indus- �Wailuku - 1839 5. try & a little help from their scholars. Out stations Of these, we have three, one at Haiku, one at Kula and another at Honuaula. That at Haiku is the most important & flourishing. The people there have by their own voluntary efforts, put up a noble stone meetinghouse 96 feet by 42, & will soon, I hope, have it finished & ready for dedication to the worship of God. If any good missy is adrift & wishes a place to work in the Lord’s vineyard, let him look towards Haiku. While your attention is directed to that region I will mention, pious that two xxxxxxxx & industrious foreigners, (Messrs McLane & Miner.) have taken a lease of acres of land on Makaoao ( !) & are attempt­ ing the cultivation of cane & some other things. They have not much capital to go on with, but still the wilderness & solitary place begins already to look glad about them, and I hope a little time, will show to the natives a fair specimen of what industry & enter­ prise can do & how desirable it is that these things should be encour­ aged. Secular labours Of these I have had an unusual share during the past year. Giving out books, administering to the sick, superintending the building of two stone meeting houses, & some attention to the King's business in regard to planting cane, and things of this nature have made sad inroads upon my time & strength & at times almost exhausted not only my strength, but my patience. Still it is good to have some­ thing to exercise the body, & prevent one from taking the gout or dispepsia. One is partially rewarded too for such labours in the gratification derived from seeing something going on. calm is very monotonous & tedious. To live in a �Wailuku 1839 6. Industry among our people I am glad to be able to report something favorable for once on this head. There has been more actual labour performed during the last at Wailuku than any previous year since my connection was formed with that people. This has been chiefly owing to two causes. 1. [house] new meeting/and 2. The King’s arrangements for planting cane. Our The new meeting house is 100 feet by 52, two stories, or rather with a gallery. collected. The walls are nearly finished & part of the timber The materials are brought together entirely by carts and oxen and all the work from first to last is being done by natives; and done voluntarily. No chief, Konohiki, or magistrate has exerted any authority in urging (?) on the work, except that two of the headmen found themselves pilikia [in trouble] in getting along & turned on the paahao [The system of work under the Hawaiian Government in which the common people worked out their taxes] a couple of days to get coral, but even in these cases, public notice was given that no man would be fined in case he did not attend on these days to the work of the meeting house. It was somewhat difficult to convince the people, even the most intelligent, at first that such a work could be done without the influence & authority of the chiefs, but now they are as­ tonished at the rapid progress of it & the ease with which it has been accomplished. it. Only 30 men and boys have in fact had much to do with 20 men volunteered to build the wall & 10 men & boys to drive the oxen, provided they were supplied with food. A contribution of food was brought in every week for this purpose & this is all the compensa­ tion the workmen have had. Two native carpenters have done the car­ penter work so far gratis & one at Lahaina, has offered to finish the house if no foreign carpenter is allowed to assist. The congregation s have rai^ed about $100. & the King contributed $50. for the purpose of �Wailuku - 1839 7 . purchasing materials to finish while Kekuanaoa & Hoapili have trans­ ported 3,000 ft of lumber from Honolulu to Wailuku without expense. Bro. Ives also has contributed $100. and Bro. Conde $50 to the building So that on the. whole w e have the prospect of a new & spacious meeting [house] before long. In regard to the cane I w d simply say that the King has given out small lots of land, from one to two acres, to individuals for the cultivation of cane. When the cane is ripe, the Kings ( !) finds all the apparatus for manufacturing & when manufactured takes the half. Of his half one fifth is regarded as the tax due to the aupuni [govern­ ment] & the remaining four fifths is his compensation for the manu­ facture. These cane cultivators are released from all other demands of every description on the part of the chiefs. So far the concern works well tendency there can be no question. Of its success & beneficial A few individuals, perhaps 3 or 4, who entered into the arrangement, have proved to be unfaithful, partly owing perhaps to inveterate habits of indolence & partly to an impression that the King will not fulfil his engagement. A serious difficulty has been to get seed cane & on this account some have failed to plant all their land in the proper season, having first to purchase the pulapula [seed cane] & then carry it on their backes ( !) several miles, but with all this difficulty about 80 acres have been planted & is growing beautifully. engaged in the work. There are altogether -____ men One of the most serious difficulties in the business is to secure their confidence in the King's word, & thus prevent discouragement. They frquently inquire whether it is not all a mea hoopunipuni [treachery; a deceitful thing] . Much will depend upon the King's fulfilling his engagement. In consideration of my attention to the work, the King has en­ �Wailuku - 1839 8. gaged to have what cane I have cultivated, manufactured at his mill without further charge. Prom what we have seen during the past to say nothing of previous years, I am satisfied, that natives have in them all t h e elements of industry, enterprise & skill and only need proper encouragement to develop as fine specimens of human nature as can any where he found. ( !) All that is said about there being incurably & intollerably indolent, is to my ears perfect trash. Any man will be both indolent & Ignorant, if he finds it to be his interest to be so. I neglected to mention in the proper place the number of Marriages & baptisms during the year. Of marriages I have solemnized 102 and baptised 77 children making in all 153 children belonging to our church by baptism on the faith of their parents. Efforts for the support of the gospel Besides building their meeting house our people have occasionally aided the Female Seminary in work, especially in roofing the large building, a dining hall, & hospital, & doing some other things of miner ( !) consequence, and in addition have planted 4 acres of cane for the support of their pastor, of which they now have the care. I hope from this to derive nearly if not entirely, my support, after the produce has become available. [Unsigned ] [Mr. Armstrong’s handwriting] [On b ack: ] Wailuku Station report 1839. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Mission Station Reports - Maui - Wailuku - 1833-1839 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833, 1834, 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/d6cc59dbb95151f9d4f6592e41b954b0.pdf 0286800fde1b31dfae63482215a7ad66 PDF Text Text WAILUKU STATION REPORTS CONTENTS Unsigned (Armstrong)................................... 1840 J o n a t h a n Green...................................... . .184 1 J o n a t h a n Green ............ .................. .. 1 84 2 Ephriam Clark................. ........ ................. 184 4 Unsigned (Clark)........... .......................... .1846 Unsigned (Clark) . ................... ........... ...... 1846 Ephraim Clark........ ...... .............. ..............1847 Unsigned (Clark)............... .................. l84 6-l84 8 ( 2 yr s .) Daniel Conde..... . .................................... 184 9 Edward Bailey .................................. .. 1850-1851 ( 2 yr.) Edward Bailey.... .......... .......................... 1852 Daniel Conde............ ...... ....................... 1852 Unsigned (Conde)..................... ....... ......... .1853 (see note at end for date) Edward Bailey....... ................. ...... ....... .. 1854 Unsigned (Conde)............... ........... ............ 1855 Daniel Conde............ ...Abstract of Report........ 1855 W. P. Alexander......... .......... ................... 1 7 5 8 W . P. Alexander................................... . . . . 1 8 5 8 John Pogue........................Statistics.......... 1859 'Unsigned. .............................. l861 John P o gue ............................ ................. 18 6 0 Unsigned (W. P. Alexander)............................ l86l Unsigned (W . P. Alexander) .......... ....... ......... 1862 W. P . Alexander ............ ............ ...............1862 Unsigned (W . P. Alexander)................. .......... 1863 �REPORT OF WAI LUKU STATION [1840] Labours among the people. I have been enabled to pre ach during the year without any inter­ ruption whatever. For this privilege, let me here express my grati­ tude to Him whom I serve in the Gospel of his Son. On the Sabbath I have usually preached three times, or performed labour equivolent to that. The Sabbath afternoon exercise is frequently, I may say usually conversational, or rather catechetical but is quite as ex­ hausting and more protracted than a sermon or lecture. Our lecture on Wednesday has been kept up as usual & pretty well attended. I have preached a good deal, tho. not very regularly at our 3 outstations and there the routine of exercises are about the same as when at Wailuku. During the year I have held 3 church meetings every week; one on Wed. before lecture; one on sat. at 4 o'clock P.M. and one on the Sabbath. This is more than I ever attempted to do for the church in any previous [year] . But less than this considering the number of members in the church & their lack of knowledge, I did not feel willing to attempt. What can a church of 700 natives, even supposing it to possess an ordinary amount of piety, - a church collected from a people so characteristically unstable, so destitute of education & moral discipline, so prone to evil, & so ready to relapse into the pit of heathenism whence they have just been rescued, but the constant pressure of divine truth, under the sacred influence of God's Holy Spirit? In these church meetings my chief aim has been, to indoctri­ nate those present. They were therefore conducted much in the form of schools, lessons having been given out each week to prepare for the following Besides these I have during the last half of the year held 2 �Wailuku - 1840 2. select religious schools during each week, one for the more intelli­ gent young men in the church, held on Wednesdays & Saturday mornings. Subjects of study the Old Tes. history and the Proverbs of Solomon. In the latter, the natives take an unusual degree of interest. The other is for young females chiefly ch. members. They have recently commenced on the Kuhi-Kuhi, or Fisk & Abbots questions. This class contains about 40. We have also a Bible class for the poe Koho, as they are called, [poe: company of people; koho: to choose generally; select without regard to number] This is held on Sabbath morning previous to the 11 o'clock service. The Sab. school for children at Wailuku continues to be well at­ tended & interesting. from 500; The avarage ( !) number of children is not far sometimes it amounts to 600. In no part of my labours do. I feel a more animating interest than in this school of children. Here lies the hope of Zion's (?) future prosperity in our parish & the Saviour has afforded us good encouragement, that our labour for these children shall not be in vain. Some of the largest of them afford comfortable evidence that they have chosen the good part which shall not be taken from them, while the majority of them are increas­ ing In a knowledge of divine truth. At our 3 principal outstations there are also, Sab. schools for children which are well attended & Interesting. In all the Sab. schools within our limits, there are at a rough estimate 1500 or 1600 children. But we shall speak of these more properly under the head of Common schools for children These schools are in much the same state as when reported a year ago. That is, childrens schools have been kept up pretty regularly �Wailuku 5. 1840 in all the districts, although most of them are of such a character as scarcely to promise any good. The teachers generally are not competent either to instruct or to govern children & most parents are very indifferent as to the education of their children. The introduction of the new code of laws have made some disturbance in our schools, by calling away the graduates of the Seminary to be luna paahao’s [luna: overseer; paahao: system of work under the Haw'n Government in which the common people worked out their taxes] . The crisis however seems to be past & the schools go on as usual. One [or] two things may here be mentioned as having a life giving effect upon our schools - 1st On a certain day, all the parents who could be induced to attend a public meeting on the subject of schools, were convened; Several speeches were made to them by native orators, the most prominent of whom was the well known & indefatigable blind preacher Bartimeus. Several simple laws touching the subject of schools were submited ( !), publicly & freely discussed for several hours, & then passed by vote. By this arrangement a school committee- was choesen ( !) for each large district, whose duty it is to assist in collecting the children, to visit & converse with parents, punish children or parents who violated the law, which themselves had enacted & take an active part in all that concerns the childrens school. This committee is chosen from our most active & benevolent men & serves without compensation. 2. Another measure attended with good effect regular quarterly examinations. In these we have endevoured ( !) to be thorough, generally occupying 3 days with the schools in our immediate parish, & closing with as full a meeting as we could collect of parents & children & the subject of schools pressed upon their attention, not only by myself, but by native speakers. 3. Another �4. Wailuku - 1840 means of keeping up an interest in our schools, have been school feasts. We have had these annually at the close of the examination, and no part of the school system is more popular than this. Notice having been given out previously, the parents & children prepare their own food, & after the school exercises, addresses &c, all sit down on the grass together [and partake xx] of their rude repast. While on the subject of schools it may be well here to state the result of a consultation with the King & some of the chiefs at Lahaina, in reference to the schools generally on Sat. the 2d of the present month - Messrs Andrews, Clark, Richards, & myself were present. The subject had been discussed in some degree by the chiefs previously, & some few laws had been written down by Bro. Richards, with a view to their being revised & adopted when the council of the nation should convene. The King entered into the subject, therefore, with interest & expressed a willingness to make provision by law, for the common schools of the nation, I cannot but hope that the government will take hold of this subject with a strong hand & do something ef­ ficiently for the general diffusion of knowledge in the islands. Report of Schools at Wailuku [This is a printed form filled in.] May, 184 . [At top is written :] Wailuku [Makawao] station includes also Kahikinui, Honuaula, Kula, Haliimaile, Makauao, Ham. loa, Ham. Poko. Examination & when No. of Apr. 1, 1840 chil. in No. of No. of Av. no. No. No. in No. in the whole schools teach- atten- read- mental writter field ers dance ers arith. arith 2000 30 45 1000 750 700 50 No. of chil. enrolled 1600 ____ ___________ ______ t A [ ____ __ ____ _______________ _ bottom written:] The above statistics are the best I can make from my data, but they are not accurate, & it is extremely difficult to procure accurate returns from the schools. �5. Wailuku - 1840 Church organized, on the Pres, plan [in pencil] The statistics of the Wailuku church are as follows Whole number recd to ch. on examination _________ 691 22 Whole number on certificate Recd the past year on examination 192 Recd on certificate 9 Whole number recd the past year 207 Whole number dismissed to other churches 5 Dismissed the past year 4 Whole number deceased 18 Deceased the past year 10 Suspended the past year 12 Remain suspended 9 Whole number excommunicated 3 Excommunicated the past year 2 Remain excommunicated 3 Whole number in regular standing 681 Whole number of children baptised 226 70 Bapd the past year 190 Marriages the past year Average congregation 1600 The general state of the church may be in some degree judged of from the above table. The tendency has been to stupidity & that is the root of all evil, Satan gains an easy victory over the soul that is dozing or fast asleep, while the wakeful are enabled to resist him at every point. For general objects of benevolence our church have attempted but �Wailuku - 1840 6. little during the past year, their entire efforts of this kind having been directed to finishing two stone meeting houses. For this object they raised about $200, besides an immense amount of work - One meeting house (that at Haiku) is completed - The one at Wailuku, I hope, will be during the summer. The cane concern The planters on their part have done well. A fine crop of cane has been grown, but how much either the King or the planters will be benefited. ( !) by it, remains to be known. The whole concern has been badly managed on the part of the King or rather his agents. Contrary to the advise ( !) of both myself & Mr. Richards a chinaman has been employed at an immense disadvantage to the King to manufacture the cane into sugar; But the chinaman has as yet but very little preparation made for his work & will not grind a stock of cane for months to come, while the cane is rotting on the ground. The mistake in the whole bus­ iness was leaving any condition to be fulfiled ( !) by the King; who does not seem to be much of a business man, especially at particular times, and moreover his numerous councillors are too much like himself. In regard to the works assigned me by the Mission, I cannot report much progress. The letter to Princeton Semy . has not been written, in consequence of my having mislaid the letter received from t h e n c e , & did not find it until within a few weeks since. The tract on Romanism has been written & sent to press, but not yet distributed that I know of. A little more than 100 pages of the moral Philosophy has been prepared & some 80 pages printed at Lahainaluna. I might have accomplished much more in the way of writing but for want of a convenient study, which I have never enjoyed until lately �Wailuku - 1840 7. Secular labours & cares have made sad havoc of my time & strength during the year. attention; The workmen on the meeting houses needed constant The provision of the materials also cost no small trouble, but the greatest effort of all was to keep the church in the spirit of the work. During the late winter season, there has been much sickness in our region & some days I could do little else but administer to the wants of the suffering The last item of labour I shall mention, is the instruction of my own children & this I do not so much for the purpose of telling you what I have been doing, as of bringing the subject again distinctly before all our minds. My plan has been to devote the time from 10 till 12 o'clock, five days in the week to my 3 oldest children. Gould this plan be carried out, something considerable might be effected but the misfortune has been that about half the days in the year the school was either broken up entirely or broken in upon sadly, by other cares & labours. The children are therefore very inadequately instructed & are suffering in consequence. But my case is not a singular one. So far as I know, it is very similar to that of all my brethren on Maui who have children of a suit­ able age to learn to read. the same condition. Many children on other islands may be in It has therefore become a question with me, whether some of our brethren should not at once . set apart for this work of instructing our children. [Unsigned; in Armstrong's writing] �Station Report Wailuku. Maui for the year ending May 1841. Changes at the station. In July, soon after general meeting of last year, the station suffered greatly in the removal of Mr. Armstrong, pastor the pster, to Honolulu, to assist in the labors of that important post, during the absence of Mr. Bingham to the United States. About the same time Mr. Bailey arrived at Wailuku to assist the acting pastor either in the parish or Seminary as might be deemed expedient. After free con­ sultation both Mr. Bailey and the pastor [thought] it best that there should be no change during the year in the superintending and instruct­ ing of the School - that Mr. Green’s relation to the institution should continue, and in addition that he should perform so far as able, the duties of pastor and teacher to the church, and congregation - that Mr. Bailey should occupy the house of Mr. Armstrong, should teach the sta­ tion school, superintend the schools throughout our field, and answer the calls of the people for medical aid. A report of his labors will be presented. Result of these changes, Health &c Assent to the arrangement made by the Committee for the supply of the pulpit at Honolulu was yielded by the brethren at Wailuku on the ground that the good of the cause demanded the sacrifice of private feeling. Though Satan has many emissaries and devoted servants at Wailuku, yet he may not has ( !) as many strong holds as at Honolulu. There seemed to be no possibility of supplying Mr. Bingham's post without weakening some out station, a na manao ia, he pono loa he limaikailea ma ka hoeuli, ia manawa pilikia i pakele ai ka moku i ka nalu, a i hooholo pono ia; no laila, na haawiia mai o Limaikaika e hona hohoolua. �2. Wailuku - 1841 That the station at Wailuku would suffer from this arrangement there could be no doubt. The station school and the schools generally have doubtless received more attention than they would have done had Mr. Armstrong remained, and Mr. Bailey returned to Kohala. They have been conducted with efficiency, and are in a prosperous state. The loss which has been sustained by the changes are connected with pastoral labors. Had other things been equal, it was impossible for me as the successor of Mr. Armstrong, to enter at once into all his plans of labor. Besides my attention being divided and bestowed upon two distinct objects I have been unable to perform many labors which the interests of the people obviously demand. Scarcely have I been able to visit the sick and the dying, though unless at a distance, I have always endeav­ oured to do so. To make any thing like pastoral visits, has been out of my power, nor have I deemed it expedient on account of my connexion with the Seminary to admit the people to my house unless on business of great importance. The health of the members of the station with the exception of Mrs. Green, has been almost uniformly good, for which we desire to record our tribute of praise to God. Mrs. Green has been laid asside ( !) most of the year from direct labors among the people, and has done but little for the pupils of the Seminary. Public labors. These by the blessing of God have been uninterrupted, and to an amount nearly as greatas formerly. terrupted by ill health. No Sabbath’s labors have been in­ Morning, noon and evening the people have had �Wailuku - 1841 3. opportunity to listen to the messages of God. So also on Wednesday of each week, and at funerals of which there have been many during the year Two lectures each week have been preached as formerly, at Waikapu. The season of monthly concert for the conversion of the world, for seminaries & schools, and for the enslaved have been observed. had no regular protracted meeting during the year. We have The week previous to our quarterly communion however, public labors have been considerably multiplied. Two Bible classes have been conducted on the Sabbath. One by Mr. Bailey with the professedly enquiring part of the congregation at 9 O.C. [O 'clock] the other by the pastor with the church soon after the close of the 11 O.C. service. Sabbath schools have been uniformly conducted, and with considerable efficiency. A large number of children house have assembled at the ----- of God on sabbath morning, at Wailuku, and 7 have been taught the word of God, and the ui no ka olelo a he Akua [questions concerning the promises of God] - a little tract of more value than all the volumes produced by the united, boasted wisdom of Egypt, Greece and Rome. At the close of the school, the children of the sabbath school have united with the pupils of the Seminary in a short exercise of singing and prayer, and have either been questioned from the catechism, or listened to a short exhortation. the sabbath school for children is very large, At Haiku also Mr. Bailey and the pastor have spent some six sabbaths at that out station, and have always been delighted at the number of the children whom we have ad­ dressed. I think no station on the islands affords so many facilities for instructing children as Wailuku. Would that a children's minister were located in our field ! A theological class which Mr. Armstrong assisted to instruct the last year, has received some attention. During a part of the year, �Wailuku 1841 4. they received instruction twice a week. I have been through the gospels with them after the manner of Newcombs Harmony. spared to return to Wailuku, to resume this labor. I hope, if From this class, several have gone out occasionally to destitute places to communicate the knowledge which they have gained from studying the Bible. In this way, some five or six of our out stations have been visited, and the people, in a measure instructed. Bartimea has received a temporary license and is now laboring with much fidelity among the destitute at a considerable distance from the station. I designed that he should have when been fully licensed, perhaps ordained, but have seen no time ------ it could well be done. Translations - Assignments &c The church history which at the last general meeting, was assigned me for revision, I have thoroughly revised, greatly enlarged, and near­ ly completed. An edition of 3,000 has been put to press at Lahainaluna. Fourteen sheets are in type, and If we are spared, it will be carried through the press as soon as possible after general meeting. probably make a book of some 250 pages. It will Peter Parley’s Universal history was commenced with the design of translating it speedily, but on con­ sulting Mr. Dibble who had used it somewhat in the Seminary, I laid it asside ( !). It is too puirile in our opinion. A better work may be selected, and assigned to some one for translation. The part of our foreign correspondence which was assigned me has been written. I have also addressed letters to some of the colleges and Theological Semi­ naries of the United States, also individuals, clerical and lay breth­ ren, on the amazingly important subject of the conversion of the world to Christ. - a part of our work second to no other, but one which, I fear, we are greatly neglecting. I would affectionately remind my brethren that we shall not be blood guiltless if we neglect to warn the �5. Wailuku - 1841 ministry and the churches of the United States of the criminality of refusing to obey the ascending commandxxxx of the Lord Jesus Christ and thus leaving unnumbered millions to perish. Statistics for the past year. Received to the Church 179 7 On Examination By letter Dismissed to sister Chh. Died Excommunicated Suspended Children baptised Marriages Attendance on the Sabbath 6 26 12 16 120 128 1500 State of the Congregation The attendance on the sabbath is much as it was the past year. Our house is well filled, sometimes to overflowing at mid day. usual, a much smaller congregation at sunrising, and evening. As The fail­ ure of the roof of our new meeting house, keeps us still in straitened circumstances. season. We hope to see the house completed in the course of the The Savior has hitherto saved us from the emissaries of Satan in the garb of a popish priest. Of late I hear that some native is making an effort to teach popery not far from us, but I think he has not much encouragement. and attentive. ledge. Our congregation has the reputation of being orderly I feel an assurance that the people are growing in know­ May the truth make them all free. More strength has been expended upon the church than upon all the people besides. Though I have been unable to visit the members of the church at their own houses excepting in seasons of affliction, yet I have spent much time with all of them who could meet me in the house of God, and all have been required to meet me there at least once a week. �Wailuku - 1841 There I have exhorted, warned, and encouraged the members of Christ's family. More than half my discourses have been directed to professed christians. We have a stated meeting of the church on Saturday evening. A part of the year we have had a special meeting on Wednesday afternoon previous to the public lecture, to study the word of God. I have also uniformly addressed the church at the close of my bible class on the Sabbath. On these occasions I have endeavored to use great plainness of speech; and I have sometimes felt that if persuasion and entreaty could avail, it should succeed in causing these professed disciples of Christ to glorify His adoreable ( !) name and to labor to build up His cause. The result of these labors with the church have been exceedingly various. A small number afford me great satisfaction. the seed seems to have fallen on good ground. glory of God. In their case They bear fruit to the They adorn their profession, are prayerful, humble, and in a good degree consciencious (!), seem disposed to do good, and they are training, I cannot doubt, for the kingdom of glory. I greatly rejoice in them, and find nothing more honorable and pleasant than aiding them as I am able in growing in grace. Of many others I have hope that they may be christians. True the evidence which they give (is rather negative) of their adoption into the family of the redeemer than positive. in doubt of them. I cannot but say that I stand The Savior may see his own blessed image stamped upon their souls, though faintly delineated the germ of endless life. He may see in their bosoms They are children and make slow progress in knowledge though constantly instructed. Still this may be consistent with genuine piety, though I should hardly dare to encourage such to hope, and should certainly refuse to admit those of this standing to church privileges, so prone are they to cherish a hope on the slightest evidence. There appears to have been some - perhaps many, of this �Wailuku - 1841 7. character and standing in the churches planted and watered by the hand of Paul. He had hope that some of his Hebrew brethren were christians, though they had need to be taught what were the first principles of the oracles of God, and were such as had need of milk, not strong meat. So it may be of some of these negative kind of Christians in the church at Wailuku and indeed in all our churches. God grant that many of whom we now stand in doubt, may be found stars in our crown of rejoicing in the day of Christ Jesus. Of others, and alas, not a few! I can form no other judgment than that they have a name that they live while they are dead. They do manage most of them and these are the individuals who of all others most severely try me to retain their standing in the church, but they ex­ hibit no evidence of being living, fruitful members of the living Vine. I know of no class in the community who seem to be in so fearful cir­ cumstances as these. When I look upon them, as in the house of God, or in the prayer meeting, I sometimes watch, with an aching heart, their vacant expression of countenance, and see how powerless the thunders of Sinai, or the melting accents of Calvary fall upon their leaden ears. I often think of the fearful language of our Lord, made perhaps to a similar class of men - "How can ye escape the damnation of hell?" Oh the fearful responsibilities of pastors everywhere - but especially at these islands. Yes, I cannot help thinking, a more solemn post than the most cautious among us has conceived it to be. Language is too injury poor to express the xxxxxxxx: which we may inflict upon the churches and upon individuals themselves, by admitting to the fold of Christ those who are unrenewed in the temper of their minds. And as we claim no knowledge of the character of our fellow men any farther than it is developed by their daily conduct, may we have patience to wait till �Wailuku - 1841 fruits of holiness shall abound to the glory of God. Of the 179 individuals admitted to the church at Wailuku, during the year, I remark, that they belong to different parts of our wide field from Kahlkinui to Hamakualoa. Nearly all profess to be the fruits of the late revival - have attended protracted meetings at Wailuku, or Haiku, or Honuaula. Many of them had conversed, and some of them re­ peatedly with Mr. Armstrong, and it is said of them that they have long appeared well. Though I carefully examined them as to the grounds of their hope in Christ, and evidence of adoption into His family, yet to my mind it is, I confess, a circumstance of considerable weight that for two and three years and long after the peculiar excitement which we have all witnessed had ceased, these individuals appear so well. Still they may appear no better than those who were admitted during the season of excitement. I shall watch the result, if spared, with deep interest. As pastor of the church at Wailuku during the past year, I can truly say, that as on the one hand, my richest enjoyments have had their source in the apparent humble piety of some of my native brethren, so on the other hand my deepest anguish has arisen from the unchristian, and shameful conduct of others. I have been particularly affected with the evidence which has been accumulating through the year, of the torpid state of conscience in the bosom of some members of the church, What can be done to teach conscience to do her office to speak authoritively so as to deter from approaching the ordinances of the Lord those who live in the habitual Indulgence of known and gross sin? (!) I am distressed also when I witness the death like indiference of christian parents in relation to their baptized children. Nothing can exceed the indiference manifested by most, and the few who can be aroused to some sense of its importance seem unable to make anything �9. Wailuku - 1841 like vigorous efforts. ing. I see nothing in the churches more deeply alarm­ To this cause I attribute in a great measure the fact that so far as I have heard, nearly all the children who have united with the churches, with the exception of most perhaps in our boarding schools , are falling into sin. They have never been trained to submit their wills to any being, and they seem determined to do as they will, though that will may directly oppose the will of their Creator and Judge. Hence the apparent ease with which they can break their covenant obligations, and rush headlong into sin the moment their inclinations are crossed. Some affecting examples of this have recently fallen under my eye, which I may mention in another connexion. What will become of speedily the nation unless there can be a change ---------(---) effected in re­ lation to domestic education? Can nothing be done to break up forever the old system of educating children by allowing them to follow the bent of their own inclination? Cannot there be adopted a better system of training their offspring? Mortality among the people I have not kept a record of the births and deaths which have occured ( !) at our station during the year. So far as my obligation goes, I should judge that the deaths have considerably exceeded the births. Thus also throughout our field. children. I have baptized 179 adults and 120 This includes not only nearly all the children of the 179 adults who have been admitted this year, also several adopted children, but the children also o f former members of the church throughout the field born this year. Another fact. There have been admitted to the church at Wailuku since the station was taken 870 individuals of all ages from the child to the very aged but the majority [of] persons in the prime of life. The number of baptized children from the first is �Wailuku - 1841 10. 366, considerably less than half as many children as adults. I hope, if spared, to ascertain more definitely the state of people in respect to the waning population. There has been no special sickness among the people in the vicinity of Wailuku the past year, but that they are wasting away, I have no doubt. Since the last meeting of the mission something more has been done to test the value of the experiment making at Wailuku in the cultivation of cane and the manufacturing of sugar. While Mr. Armstrong was with us, some 50 acres of cane were planted by the people on shares, besides a considerable quantity by orders of the king. This crop is now manu­ factured, and I allude to it in this report only as it has a bearing on the cause of Christ and the interests of the people at Wailuku. The advantages which may be supposed to accrue to the people from this source are the following. 1. Recognition of private rights. 2 Formation and increase of industrious habits. 3, Multiplication of the means of living, and as a consequence - of the means of doing good. all these respects something has been gained. In Though the king greatly failed in the punctual fulfilment of)his engagement with the people, yet the simple fact that he made an engagement with them shows that there has been a gain to the people. It is a kind of entering wedge which will ultimately lay open to them sources of high enjoyment. The formation and increase of industrious habits is another great advantage. Much labor in preparing the ground, planting, watering, and weeding cane, building, making roads, cutting wood, teaming &c has been performed during the year — too much of it alas - by criminals in paying their fines - still a good deal has been done honestly. the means of living has been another benefit. Multiplication of The acre men as they are called, have most of them done very well for themselves. Some have �11 Wailuku - 1841 . obtained 40 and even 50 dollars in trade, for their share of the profits, and I think that they will average $25. per acre. In all these respects there has been a gain to the people, and all these might be made to subserve the cause of Christ. On the other hand there have been many evils connected with the manufacturing establishment some necessarily so connected perhaps others - others owing to the fact that the business has most unhappily fallen into improper hands. four years. The Chinamen have the establishment for They have no Christian principle to restrain and guide them, and their influence cannot but be regarded as unfavorable to good morals. They are nearly inaccessible to the influence of the gospel having but a smattering of native, and less of the English language. The only one in whom we had any confidence, and who seemed to be a kind of chief among them recently committed suicide. They have gathered around them the refuse of society - much iniquity is practised in and about the establishment, and I have many fears that the evil will in­ crease. (General Improvement (and Future Prospects. In a field so extensive as the one which we are called to occupy and among a people so ignorant, and struggling with so many disabilities it is not easy to mark the progress of improvement during a single year. To look back several years, and compare the circumstances of the people now with their circumstances at that time, the change is striking I think there is a gradual, though slow, change going on - that there has been an improvement this year in the habits of some portion of the people. Not a few are becoming industrious, and seem ready to engage in any plans which promise to make them more comfortable. Still, there are many things painfully discouraging, especially in relation to the �12. Wailuku - 1841 female part of the community. They often assign as a reason for in­ dulging their indolent habits, that they have nothing to do. Some of them would probably labor, had they sufficient encouragement, but in multitudes of cases, their laziness, and love of sin is at the bottom. To mention the case of several young women - members of the church in whose welfare we have all taken much interest. have lived with Mr. Armstrong. labor. Two or more of them Mr. and Mrs. Bailey encouraged them to He employed them to teach the small children in school, and gave them regular wages. They were also encouraged to work at Mr. Bailey’s during their leisure hours. He built a loom for weaving mat­ ting, which works well, and having procured materials for matting, he employed them at this business. But they became sick of this business; one of them left her labor and school, and was found among the boys breaking cane for the mill. She needed more excitement than she found in the quiet yard of Mr. Bailey. She has since requested permission to be connected in marriage with a thoughtless impenitent boy, which being withheld, she has broken her covenant, and is suspended from the church. Another of whom we had still more hope, has for a similar reason abandoned the cause of Christ and is now in the hands of the luna kanawai [judge or magistrate] . I shall not [be] greatly surprised if they all come to a similar end. In regard to the prospects of the people, little can be said. In some respects they seem encouraging. We are at present favored with as good native help in schools, perhaps, as any of the brethren, and we hope ere long, to have comfortable houses for schools. We are building a ( !) adoby school house, and as soon as the meeting house Is finished, we design to convert the old one into school rooms. shall do in this department of labor. What we can, we So also in other departments �13 Wailuku - 1841 which promise to elevate the people in the all our hope is in God. of existence. But The gospel of Christ, I am more and more con­ vinced, is the grand instrument of elevating and saving the people. This instrument of the renovation of a perishing world, plied in faith with humble reliance on God, will save the soul, while it will lay ample foundation for the civilization of the most degraded. May we be enabled to honor God by a diligent use of the means which His wisdom has devised, while we rely with a child-like simplicity upon the pro­ mised aid of the Holy Spirit. J. S. Green Acting Pastor Whole no. admit on Exam. On certificate Past year on Examination certificate Whole no past year Whole dismissed Past year Whole deceased Past year Suspend past year Remain Suspended Excommunicated past year Whole in regular standing Whole baptised children Do past year Marriages past year Average attendant on the Sabbath 870 [no figure given] 179 7 186 28 6 44 26 16. 9 12 777 366 120 128 1500 �Station Report, Wailuku, Maui For the Year ending May 1842. Health. The hand of God has been upon the families of this station for good during the past year. Till January, all of us enjoyed our usual health, excepting the youngest child of Mr. Bailey. But scarce­ ly had Mr. Baldwin, who was send for on account of the sudden illness of this child, reached Wailuku, ere the disease was rebuked. Since January, the health of the acting pastor has been less firm than usual. For several sabbaths he was laid aside from his accustomed labors, and an absence from the station of about two weeks was submitted to in the hope of receiving permanent benefit. By the mercy of God he is now nearly recovered though less vigorous than before the attack. Mrs. Green has been, as usual, a great sufferer during much of the year. She is now as comfortable as could be expected. On the whole, we have much occasion to speak of the loving kindness and faithfulness of our Covenant keeping God. Labors. The labors of the station have been prosecuted with as much regularity and efficiency as the health of the members of the station has admitted. Schools. To speak of them in order we begin with Of the Female Seminary I need not speak, as Mr. Bailey will make a report of the State and prospects of this institution. I feel it a privilege, however, to say, that with the course which Mr. Bailey has pursued in reference to the Seminary, I am much gratified. All that could be done, so far as I can see, has been done to secure the object for founding such an institution; and as great improvement in the several branches of instruction communicated has been made as could have been expected. inary is unabated. I scarcely need say that my interest in this Sem­ I trust the mission will not cease to supplicate the blessing of God on its behalf, while they do all in their power to carry it forward. I earnestly request that my connexion as principal �Wailuku - 1842 2. of the Seminary may be dissolved by vote of the mission, and that Mr. Bailey may be confirmed in this office to which he was appointed tem­ porarily by the Trustees near the close of the last missionary year. Of common schools, I think I may say that they have been, on the whole, prosperous. I mean, prosperous for Hawaiian children’s schools. That any improvement has been made is to my mind more astonishing than that the improvement has not been more rapid. The qualifications of teachers and the little interest many of them take in the improvement of the children - the state of their school houses - the destitution of books and apparatus for teaching, the ungoverned habits of children and the deadly apathy of 9/10 of the parents, all all present an as­ pect of extreme discouragement. Yet something has been accomplished, all these discourageing ( !) circumstances to the contrary notwithstand ing. During the year there have been three public examinations of schools, besides a partial one conducted by David Malo for his own satisfaction as the Kahu of Schools on Maui. youth and children present was 1600. The average number of This is a considerably less number than the one reported by Mr. Bailey the last year. 2114, and 750 readers. He reported Prom inquiry and observation, I doubt whether there are now as many children, of a suitable age to attend school, in this field. There may be 2000 who might, and who do occasionally, attend school. The cause of this decrease may be found in the decrease of population by death, and removal to other places. A considerable number of youth have entered the marriage state, and, of course, have ceased to attend school. Statistics of schools in our field Houses Schools Teachers 30 39 60 �Wailuku - 1842 Scholars Examined Readers, Good Begin to read Alphabet Writers Arithmetic Geography 2000 1600 738 191 687 350 500 345 One thing unfavorable to the prosperity of schools in our field is the character of a considerable portion of the country. Kahikinui, Honuaula and Kula are greatly subject to distressing drought a consider­ able portion of the year, and parents and children wander here and there for a precarious subsistence. Schools, at such times, are nearly sus­ pended, and what little had been gained by the labors of half the year, is found to have been dissipated on their return. But nothing so re­ tards the progress of improvement as the increasing confusion and mis­ chief of the children during hours of school. The teachers seem wholly unable to maintain discipline, and they are well nigh discouraged. I have petitioned the chiefs and council of the nation to take this matter into consideration, and if possible, devise some method to put the schools into a b&tter state in this respect. To keep our number of teachers good, and to bring forward better qualified ones, a station school has been taught during the year by an industrious and well qualified graduate of the mission Seminary. He has had about 25 pupils, some of whom are quite forward. The pastor has had a class of adults pursuing studies preparatory to the work of evangelists. Of late they have been studying the Hull kanaka and the Moo-olelo Ekalisia. The class is making pleasing progress in these studies, and in the study of the Bible. Adults have also been encouraged to attend exhibitions, and read a verse each in the word of God. This several hundreds have done and in this way an interest is kept up among that class who can no longer be expected to attend schools �Wailuku ~ 1842 excepting on the Sabbath. Labors of the Sabbath. These have been continued as usual. Sabbath Schools on the morning of the Lord's day are well attended not only at Wailuku, but at 6 or 7 out stations. Bible classes have been conducted with efficiency and have been instrumental of good. The gospel has been preached at the station regularly, and occasionally at Hamakua and Honuaula. There has been no protracted meeting chiefly because of the unfinished state of our meeting house. Several of the class who are pursuing a course preparatory to taking a license have gone out occasionally; and as they were able, have communicated instruction to their benighted and dying brethren. Bartimea, the partially blind man, well known to most of the brethren as an able, and devoted and popular Christian labour(er), after a full and thorough examination in presence of the whole chh, and with their cordial approbation, has been licensed to preach the gospel, and will now go out and labor in this capacity where his services may be most needed. He seems full of the Holy Ghost, and speaks with power. May many men of this stamp be raised up to perpetuate religious institu­ tions at these islands. The pastor has made one tour round the island, preaching as he went from village to village. examining schools. So also on his tours for In these several ways, at home and abroad, much good seed has been sown, which by the blessing of God may produce fruit to life everlasting. The congregation on the Sabbath has not been quite so large as in former years, though there has not been any great falling off. In November last, one of our people who had been to Honolulu, and while there had been baptised by the Romanists, began to make a noise in the neighborhood of the station. He began to have meetings in his own house, and drew away some 20 or 30. I believe these meetings are continued, though there is no noise made about him or his meetings. Our good �Wailuku - 1842 5. brother Bartemea has preached the gospel faithfully to him, and I have had one interview with him. The congregations on the Sabbath have been attentive - sometimes peculiarly solemn. Sixty two individuals from the world have been added to the church, and seventy two children baptized. duals have been excluded, and eight suspended. Nine indivi­ Fifteen members have died. Since the last general meeting the people have taken down the roof of the meeting house, and with the assistance of Mr. Bailey, they have put on a good one. This was a heavy job, and considerable dis­ couragement was doubtless felt. But they are much gratified with their new roof, and they are now about to take hold and finish their house. Eighty nine marriages have been celebrated during the year. The people are still decreasing in the vicinity of Wailuku. The appointment made me by the Committee of Correspondence at the last general meeting, has been fulfilled; and the works assigned me for translation have been completed and printed. There has been an unusual demand for books during the year. I have given away a large number of testaments, and several entire Bibles, and there is still a loud call. I could not in conscience withhold the New Testament from the children and youth who were destitute, and who came to me earnestly requesting it, though they had nothing to pay for it. Our people are forming a bible society. Some 50 dollars have been subscribed. The work on the meeting house has taken so much of the time and strength of the people in the immediate vicinity of the station, that little has been done for benevolent objects the past year. has been contributed to the Seminary in fish and kapa. Something �Wailuku - 1842 6. On the whole, we who occupy the station at Wailuku feel that we have much occasion for gratitude to God for His goodness to us & to the people. Many of the members of the chh are brethren beloved in Christ Jesus, bear His image and glorify His name. We hope they will be our crown of rejoicing in the great day of account. cause us much concern. Others are a grief, and But on a review of the labors & trials of the year, a feeling of gratitude predominates, and we call upon our breth­ ren to bless God on our behalf while they beseech Him to build up His kingdom more gloriously by our humble instrumentality. Statistics of Wailuku Station. Whole No. ad. to the Chh. on Examination On certificate Past year on Examination Past year on Certificate Whole No. Past year Whole No. dismissed to other chhs Dismissed the past year Whole No disceased ( !) Disceased past year Suspended past year Remain suspended Excommunicated the past year Whole No. Excommunicated Whole in regular standing Baptized past year Marriages past year Whole No of baptised children Average congregation on the Sabbath 932 [no figure given] 62 6 68 34 6 59 15 8 7 9 [no figure given] 823 72 89 438 1200 Respectfully submitted J.S. Green �Report of Wailuku Station May 1844 The last Report of this Station was presented to the Gen. Meeting by Mr. Green, whose connection with Wailuku Station ceased the early part of the year 1843. I removed to Wailuku with my family, agree­ able to the vote of Gen. Meeting, June 14, 1843. I had, for some time before, partially supplied the pulpit on the sabbath. The field of Wailuku embraces the teritory ( !) between Waihee on West Maui & Kahikinui on East Maui inclusive. The districts of Hama- kua & Kula formerly connected with this station are now under the care of Mr. Green. 180 members of the Wailuku church belonging to these two districts were formed into a separate church by their former pastor, Mr. Green, before my removal to Wailuku. creased to about 400. The same church has now in­ In addition to the Female Seminary, Mr. Bailey consented to take charge of the dispensary for the S [t] ation. The charge of the church & common schools devolved on me. 1. Pastoral labors. N o material change was made in the pastoral labors of the S [t] ation. The labors of the sabbath consist of a sermon at sun rise in the morning, & at 10 1/2 oclock A.M. & at 3 1/2 oclock P.M., & a Bible class at 1 oclock. Mr. Bailey takes charge of the children’s sabbath school of the station. In addition to these labors of the sabbath, 4 meetings are attended regularly during the week, 2 at the station, & 2 in neigh­ boring villages. Also 2 Monthly concerts every month. At the restoration of the Government, a thanksgiving was observed in a strictly religious manner. A good impression was evidently made, & considerable interest excited on the subject of religion. Some of our best men observed, that it was like a pule hoomau. [continuing prayer or worship] There has been a good degree of interest on the subject of re­ �Wailuku - 1844 2. ligion during most of the year. Some hundreds, who regard themselves as the poe koho [chosen people] , have been conversed with in private. 90 have been admitted to the church & 41 stand propounded. There has ( !) cut been several cases of discipline, but none have been entirely xxxx off. Some attempt was made for a time in our part of the island, to revive a form of idolartry ( !) under the pretended sanction of the king. One member was suspended from the church for joining in the delusion. A company of Romanists have also been making strenuous efforts to aid the cause of the Pope. I hear of none, except the ignorant & the vicious, who have been led into the snare. Our last communion sabbath was ob­ served by them as a day of public feasting. A thatched house of worship, which they had erected with much labor, was burned down soon after com­ pleted. It was said to have taken fire from the burning of a small building near, which took fire from ahi buka [ahi baka: fire tobacco] . Of the truth of this, I have not positive proof. It is certain, how­ ever, that smoking was universal in those who lived about the house, & who worshiped ( !) in it. I have made three visits to Honuaula, the out station recently occupied by the lamented Bartimeus, & administered the sacriment ( !) each time to that part of the Wailuku church. On the second week in Jany. we held a protracted meeting at the station, commending on Wednesday & closing with the Lord's supper on the sabbath. People were present from all parts of the field. meetings were full & the audience attentive. days during the meeting. The Mr. Green assisted two A good impression was made, & we hope, some wanderers reclaimed & some souls converted. A few who sustain important civil offices, some of them excluded church members, are seeking to regain their standing, & give some evidence of repentance. �Wailuku - 1844 We have been called to part during the year with some of our most useful church members. Bartimeus, whose praise is in all the churches, was called to his rest in September. A brief memoir of his life in English by Mr. Green is now in the press at Lahainaluna. A few months after his death, Poehe, one of the most useful sisters of the church, who held an important station in the female Seminary, was called to leave her charge. She died a peaceful death. And in February, Hawaii, an aged man, but a most active & useful officer of the church, was suddenly removed by death. He was greatly beloved by his different pastors, & by all who knew him. The contributions of the church & people for benevolent objects, mainly for the meeting house/ in Hana have amounted to $112.14. does not include late contributions for support of pastor. This This has been nearly all cash. Early in April, a church meeting was held without any suggestion from me, & resolutions adopted, drawn up by a member of the church, of which the following is a translation: ’’Wailuku Maui April 8, 1844 Resolutions adopted by the church included in the terratory ( !) from Waihee to Kahikinui. 1. That we decline the support received by Mr. Clark from the Missionary Society of America, & that this church of Wailuku unite together to supply all his wants in this thing & that thing, which he needs for his support. 2. That his support from America be sent to those places, where the name of the Saviour has not been known. 3. That collectors be appointed in different parts of the dis­ trict, whose duty it shall be to take charge of the property contri- �Wailuku - 1844 4. buted by the church. 4. That certain persons be appointed to stir up the people to this work, & that the collections be made 4 times a year. 5. That the contributions at the monthly concert & contributions for other definite objects be kept distinct from what is contributed for the support of the pastor. 6. That the names of all, who assent to these propositions be attached to this engagement, entered into by this church, & that it be the duty of the collectors to take down the names. 7. In this manner, shall each one give, each according to his ability, some $1.00, some 50 cts, some 25 cts, some 121/2 & some 6 cents, according as each one receive from the highest to the lowest, so shall he give. 8. To carry out these resolutions is the great thing, for it it [is] an important work, & a work by which both our country & ourselves will be benefitted.” These resolutions were discussed at a full meeting of the church at considerable length, & unanimously adopted, collectors chosen &c. I encouraged them to go on. I cannot but hope a beginning will be made towards supporting their own pastor. It is time some experiments were made. More than $50. have been raised. The effort of the people of Hamakua & Kula to support their pastor is very encouraging thus far, & promises to be successful. I believe the effort will do the people good, both in a temporal & spiritual point of view. It will be attended with considerable labor & perplexity on the part of pastors. But does not the good of the cause demand the labor & sacrifice on our part? �Wailuku - 1844 5. Statistics of the church. Whole number admitted to the church on examination 1,170 On certificate 55. Past year on examination 90. certificate 12. Whole number past year 102. other churches 254. Whole no. dismissed to Dismissed the past year 30. Deceased past year 17. Suspended past year 9. Excommunicated past year none. main excommunicated unknown. Past year on Whole no. deceased 86. Remain suspended 6. Whole no. excommunicated unknown. Re­ Whole No. in regular standing 885. Whole No. of children baptised 652. Baptised the past year 186. of children deceased unknown. Deceased past year unknown. Marriages past year 109. Whole no. Avarage ( !) number of congregation on the sabbath 1200. The church at Makawao under the pastoral care of Mr. Green con­ tains about 400 members, 180 of which were formerly connected with the church at Wailuku. Schools . The number of schools connected with the station is 25. been in pretty constant operation during the year. They have There has been 2 examinations. Some advance has been made in the number of scholars & the in/efficiency of schools since last year. But there is yet much want­ ing to make the schools what they ought to be. There is a deficiency in maps, stationary & some kinds of school books; & some of the teach­ ers are wanting in qualification & energy. But there is, I think, an increasing interest in schools. The labor of examining schools - attending to the wants of the teachers, - supplying schools with books, - keeping account of avails &c &c, is a heavy call upon the time & patience of the pastor. A few scholars have been sent to the Seminary, & a few more have been sent to �Wailuku - 1844 Mr. Rice's school at Hana. In the month of March, a convention of teachers assembled at Wai­ luku from all parts of the island. Nearly 100 teachers were present. The object of the convention was to consult together respecting the hemahema [need] of schools, the pilikia [troubles] of teachers &c &c. The convention continued in cession ( !) 4 days & was conducted with the strictest order & propriety. An association of teachers for Maui & the adjacent islands of Molokai & Lanai was formed to meet once a year. A memorial to Government was drawn up, & various other matters in re­ lation to schools were discussed. Mr. Bailey or myself was present most of the time, & aided by our remarks & suggestions. Statistics of schools. Number of schools & teachers 25. Readers 492. Writers 45. Whole number of scholars 808. Geography 110. Mental Arithmetic 270. Written Arithmetic 45. The above report does not, of course, include that part of the Wailuku field now under the charge of Mr. Green. Respectfully submitted E.W. Clark �Report of Station - May 1846 [Wailuku] There has been no sudden, or very marked change in the state of things in my field since our last Gen. Meeting. has evidently been on the advance. The cause of religion The same means have been employed as in former years to carry forward the work & with equal success. The meetings on the sabbath have been well attended. consisted of three meetings besides the ai o ka la. also attended a Sabbath school. These have Mr. Bailey has Besides the Sabbath, a meeting has been attended regularly 4 days in the week & sometimes 5, besides church fasts & meetings with church lunas. ferent places. These meetings have been in dif­ I have visited 3 times a year the out post at Honuaula & administered the Lord's supper to the church in that part of the field. Kaili a graduate of the Seminary & a very capable man has been employed as a regular helper at this out post. a year as compensation. He now receives $50. I have 8 or 10 other lunas who have charge of separate districts, & who render important aid in various ways. A protracted meeting of several days was held in January. results were very happy. The Several back sliders, persons of much influence came forward & made public confession, & have since appeared well. seemed also to be the commencement of a revival. It A large number of hoomolokas [hoomaloka: unbeliever], papists & others have since that time professed to turn to the pono [right] , & have come to me to con­ verse upon the concerns of the soul. I have conversed individually with more than 200, & could have conversed with many more if time could have been devoted to it. A more than usual interest is still manifested in different parts of the field. The movements of the papists seem to have become almost extinct within the boundaries of my field. The leading man among them recently �2. Wailuku - 1846 died, & I hear of no catholic meetings. their professed adherance ( !) to popery. Many have openly renounced But should special efforts he made by the foreign priests an interest would doubtless be again excited. The party have never had very many adherents on the island of Maui. During the year closing May 1844, 92 persons were admitted to the church on profession 25 by letter. 18 suspended - 11 Restored 7 dis­ missed to other churches - 11 deaths - Making an increase of 70 to the church. 67 children baptised. During the year ending at the present time 121 admitted on profession - 21 by letter - 40 restored - 32 suspended - 17 dismissed to other churches - 10 deaths. members. Making an increase of the church of 123 55 stand propounded for admission. 125 children baptised. At the time of our last Gen. Meeting efforts had just been com­ menced to raise a support for the pastor. The amount raised for this object up to Jany 1845 about 9 months was 275 dollars, mostly in money. This was credited to the Board. The following year 1845 more systematic efforts were made to raise a definite sum $450. the support allowed to a missionary & his wife. This sum was raised & acknowledged to the agent at the close of the year. Upwards of $50. besides was raised by monthly concert contribu­ tions for other objects. These sums were contributed almost entirely by church members, & with very little paipai-ing [arousing] on my part. Collections continue to be made both for support of pastor & other objects. past year. About $40. in cash has been received for Bibles the �Wailuku - 1846 3. Statistics of church Whole number on profession 1383 Whole number on Certificate 81. Two past years on examination 213. Certificate 26. Whole n o. two past years 239 Whole number dismissed to other churches 277 years 23 Whole No. deceased 107 past years 50 Restored 51 no. children baptised 844 186. Two past Two past years 21. Set aside two Whole no. in regular standing 1078 Two past years 192 Whole Marriages 2 past years Average congregation 8 or xxxxxxxx 1,000. [Unsigned; but handwriting & style of E.W. Clark] �Report of Wailuku Station May 1846 The cause of religion has evidently been on the advance in my field since our last Gen. Meeting. Much the same means have been employ­ ed to carry forward the work as in former years, & with similar success. More attention, however, has been given to the systematic study of the Bible, & apparently with very good effects. At the request of some of our more intelligent church members, part of the meetings on the Sab­ bath have been devoted to catehetical ( !) lectures on the Old Testament. The meetings on the sabbath have been well attended. ted of three meetings, besides the ai o ka la. attended a Sabbath School. These have consis­ Mr. Bailey has also Besides the meetings on the Sabbath, 4 meetings have been regularly attended during the week & sometimes 5 in different places, In addition to occasional meetings with church lunas, & meetings with inquirers. I have visited three times a year the out post at Honuaula & ad­ ministered the Lord's Supper to the church in this part of the field. Haili a graduate of the Seminary, & a very good man has been employed as a regular helper at this outpost. Wailuku church as compensation. regular license to preach. He now receives $50. a year from the It is desirable he should have a more Other parts of the field are placed under the watch of different church lunas, who render important aid in various ways. A protracted meeting of several days was held in Jany. results were apparently very happy. The Several back-sliders, persons of much influence, came forward & made public confessions, & have since appeared well. It seemed to be the commencement of a revival. A large number of hoomolokas [hoomalokas?: unbelievers] , papist & others, who were regarded as paakiki [obstinate; unyielding] have professed to turn to the pono [the right], & have come to me to converse & make �Wailuku - 1846 2. known their determination to serve the Lord. external change. They exhibit at least an I have conversed individually with more than 200. A more than usual interest is still manifested in different parts of the field. The movements of the papists seem to have become almost extinct in my field. The leading man among them recently died, & I have heard of no meetings of late. ence to popery. Many have openly renounced their professed adher­ The number of professed papists has never been very great on the island of Maui. During the year closing April 1845, 92 persons were admitted to the church on profession & 5 by letter. 18 set aside for misconduct - 11 previously set aside restored 7 dismissed to other churches - 11 deaths. Making an increase of the church over dismissions &c of 70 members. 67 children baptised. During the year ending April 1846, 121 have been admitted to the church on profession - 21 by letter - 40 restored to fellowship - 32 set aside - 17 dismissed to other churches - 10 deaths. increase of the church on the whole of 123. of 193. Increase for the two years 55 now stand propounded for admission. the past year. Making an 125 children baptised The two past years 192. At the time of our last Gen. Meeting, efforts had just been com­ menced to raise a support for the pastor. The amount raised for this object up to Jany 1845, about 9 months, was $275. mostly in money. This was acknowledged to the agents & credited to the Board. The following year commencing Jany 1845, more systematic efforts were made to raise a definite sum. $450. was fixed upon as being the support allowed to a missionary & his wife not including children. This sum was raised & acknowledged to the Agents at the close of the year. Upwards of $50. besides was raised by monthly concert contribution; �3. Wailuku - 1846 for other objects. These sums were contributed entirely by church members, & with very little paipai-ing [arousing; putting in mind] on my part. Bibles. About $40. in cash has been received the past year for Collections continue to be made for support of pastor & other objects. Statistics of the church. Whole number on profession 1383. past years on examination 213. past years 239. Do. on certificate 81. On certificate 26. Two Whole number two Whole number dismissed to other churches 277. to other churches two past years 23. ceased two past years 21. Whole number deceased 107. Dismissed De­ Set aside from church two past years 50. Restored to fellowship two past years 51. Whole number in regular standing 1078. children baptised 844. Whole number of Baptised two past years 192. Marriages two past years 186 couple Average congregation 600 to 1000. Schools. Schools have been under the care of Government agents. attended two or three examinations a year. I have As in former years, the attendance has been irregular, & no very rapid advance has been made. The teachers have received compensation in part from government funds & in part from the parents. The compensation, however, has been small & not well paid in all cases. The labor of supplying schools with books, maps, stationary &c, & collecting pay for them has been no small one. Statistics in part Teachers 15. of writers 144. Number of scholars 633. No. in Geography 13 0. No. in written Arithmetic 39. No. of readers 346. No Arithmetic No. in mental 235. �4. Wailuku - 1846 The districts of Honuaula & Kahikinui are not included in the above This would make the whole number about half as many more. Unsigned; but the handwriting and style of E.W. Clark] �Wailuku Aug. 10, 1847. Dear Bro. Chamberlain, I herewith send you the Statistics of the church & schools at this station for the past year. have the ability to make them. They are as full as I I have no means of ascertaining cor­ rectly the number of persons set aside from the church before I came to Wailuku. I have, therefore, only put down the number set aside the past year. The records are imperfect with regard to the excommunicated & restored; & it is difficult to keep them correct. & restored several times, or more than once. Some are set aside And It is not easy to make a distinction between suspension & excommunication. All who are set aside remain out of the church until they give signs of repentance & amendment. They are then restored. I have/had but one form since I have been here. Some are set aside for more serious offences than others, but all are restored on repen­ tance & reformation. I have set aside 21 & restored 10 the past year. Our churches are some of them so large & extend over so large a terratory ( !), it is difficult to keep all the statistics correct. I think the deaths in this field must be more than have been reported to me. We are all as usual at this station - have had a pleasant visit [Chamberlain] from Martha Ann & J a m e s , & should be happy to see their parents here. ^ How is your health these days? I should be happy to hear from you when you are able to write. Mrs. C. joins in love to all Yours affecly E.W. Clark �Wailuku - 1847 - Letter to L. Chamberlain Church Statistics [Copied from Printed Form enclosed in letter] Year ending May 1, 1847 Wailuku Whole no. on examination On certificate Past two years on examination Past 2 years on certificate Whole no. past 2 years Whole no. dismissed to other churches Dismissed last 2 years Whole No. deceased Died last two years Suspended last two years Remain suspended Whole no. in regular standing Whole number of baptised children Baptised last 2 years Marriages last 2 years Average congregation on the Sabbath 1526 100 124 19 143 298 21 120 13 21 11 1176 936 92 60 800 Statistics of Schools connected with Wailuku Station [Copied from separate sheet enclosed in letter] No. of schools No. of teachers Whole no. of scholars Readers Writers Arithmetic Geography Letters & Spelling 27 27 878 411 163 367 256 467 [E.W. Clark] �Report of Wailuku Station from May 1846 to May 1848 The usual labors of the station have been continued without ma­ terial interruption from sickness or other causes. My own labors, as here tofore, have consisted in preaching & catechetical instruction, three or four times on the Sabbath, three times on week days, school once a week, occasional prayer meetings, funerals, marriages, church discipline, assisting in superintending schools, selling school books, writing occasionally for the Elele, writing letters &c &c. The out- station at Honuaula has been visited three times a year, & the Lord's supper administered. An additional service in English has been recent ly added to the labors of the sabbath, at the request of a few foreign ers, who wished to attend an English service with their children. Its continuance will depend on time, health & other circumstances. Mrs. 0. has attended a female meeting once a week. A sabbath school has also been conducted by Mr. Bailey. Two protracted meetings have been held, since our last Gen. Meet­ ing at the commencement of each year. The results have been favorable though there has been no special revival in my field during the past two years. Attendance on public worship has varied with the weather & other circumstances, though there has been no special falling off from past years. The admissions to the church the last two years have been less, & the deaths & removals greater than the two previous years The cases of discipline about as in former years. advance in religious knowledge. There is a gradual A few appear to be growing Christians & afford their pastor much help by their example & prayers. Much at­ tention has been given to the systematic study of the Bible. Kaili, who was laboring at Honuaula at the time of our last Gen. �Wailuku - 1848 2. Meeting, has been licensed to preach the Gospel, & continues to labor at that out-post with acceptance & usefulness. One person, Daniela Ii, has also been licensed in Mr. Green’s field according to the rules of our association. An interesting temperance celebration was held in July last. Between 500 & 600 children pledged themselves to total abstinence from all that intoxicates. Property, industry & civilization are increasing. About 15 carts are owned by natives in my field, with two or three yoke of cattle to each. Respectable clothing is becoming universal. houses is small. sils &c. Improvement in There is more improvement in furniture, cooking uten­ Many of the people own cattle & horses. But the people are yet, as a general thing, indolent & improvident. The stimulus of a fee simple title to land, & other incouragements ( !) are greatly need­ ed to arouse them to continued industry. We have in our field a few native carpenters, & one or two blacksmiths & shoe makers, who apply themselves with commendable diligence to their occupations. Contributions. Contributions for religious & benevolent objects for the two last years have increased about $225.00 over the contributions of the two previous years. The following is the amount contributed the two past years: For the support of Preaching Monthly Concert contribution For reroofing Meeting house Total $337.61 47.29 618.28 $1003.18 Of the above sum contributed for the support of preaching, $200. have been forwarded to the Deposatory ( !), & $103.73 have been paid to Kaili, the native preacher at Honuaula - leaving on hand $33.38. �3. Wailuku - 1848 Of the Monthly concert contribution $22.75 have been given to the New Caledonia Mission - leaving on hand $24.54. The contribution for the meeting house has not yet been expended, but is now on interest in the Government treasury. A much larger sum has been subscribed but not yet paid in. The above contributions have all been in cash except a trifling amount in articles for family use. A small amount of labor has been performed on Meeting Houses &c not included in the above. Statistics of church. 2 last May 1848 years May 1847 Whole number on examination Whole number on certificate On examination On certificate Whole number Whole number dismissed to other churches Dismissed Whole No. deceased Died Suspended Remain suspended Excommunicated Whole number excommunicated Remain excommunicated Whole No. in regular standing Whole no. of baptised children Baptised Marriages Average congregation on the Sabbath 1507 100 124 19 143 298 21 120 13 21 11 [No figure] " ii " " 1176 936 92 60 800 1518 1518 114 114 11 135 14 33 25 168 310 310 12 33 154 154 34 47 19 40 11 22. [No figur e] " " ii ii 1134 962 26 52 800 1134 962 118 112 800 The whole number of exclusions since I took charge of the church June 1843, five years ago, is 102. ing the excess of exclusions 14. The whole number restored is 88, leav­ Part of those restored, however, were excluded before I took charge of the church. It will be seen by the above statistics, that the number of deaths in the church the last year exceeds by 8 the number of children baptised. This is a pretty sure indication that the people are diminishing. fact seems to be indicated also by the diminution in the number of This �Wailuku -1848 4. marriages from year to year. Schools. The state of schools is much the same as in former years. teachers, however, are now regularly paid. The Old debts are also all paid off, & there is a small fund on hand, which the Kahukula [one having charge of schools] is employing in building & repairing school houses. Some attempt has been made to introduce manual labor, but it is attended with difficulties. An English school has been taught at Wailuku the past year by a foreigner by the name of Page. white children. He has about 30 scholars, mostly half He is paid mainly by foreigners, & receives a salary of $500. or more. A well qualified, pious teacher would receive good encouragement, & have a very important field of usefulness. Several are anxious to get such a teacher. Statistics of schools July 1847 No. of Schools 27 No. of teachers 27 Whole No. of scholars 878 Readers 411 Writers 163 Arithmetic 367 Geography 256 Letters & spelling 467 The Roman Catholic Schools contain about 100 scholars. [Unnsigned, but handwriting of E.W. Clark]. �Report of Wailuku Station for 1848 to April 1849 It will be recollected that at our last Gen. Meeting in May /48 my location was changed by a vote of the Mission from Hana to Wailuku. Said change was not effected, however, till the first of September following, when the house designed for our use was first vacated by our predecessor - Sickness and so forth having prevented the removal of his family to Honolulu whither his location had also been changed by the same meeting. I have therefore occupied my present field of labor only seven months. But during this period, short as it is, the allotments of Providence to us as a family and to the people of our charge have been peculiar and deeply affecting. can never be effaced from our minds. Their rem[em]brance Every recurrence to the sa/d & mournful events causes our hearts to bend afresh. On the morning of the 17th of December death entered our little but till then unbroken circle - and snatched from our embrace youngest our beloved child. By her peculiar loveliness - being endowed naturly ( !) with a very gentle and affectionate disposition she had entwined her self ( !) in the fondest affections of the whole family - Every member thereof experienced real pleasure and constantly sought every opportunity to contribute to her happiness. Her untimely removal has proved a sad affliction to us all - not to be appriciated ( !) fully by any except those those ( !) who have been called in the providence of God to taste or same bitter cup. concerned. The Lord has done It however for the good of all We would therefore submit with christian resignation to his rightious ( !) dispositions - praying that this and all other reverses allotted us here below may work out for us a far more ex­ ceeding and eternal weight of Glory in the world to come. In common with the inhabitants of other parts of the Islands �2. Wailuku - 1849 the native population of our field have also suffered much. les, hooping ( The meas- ) cough & Influenza have prevailed extensively and ! proved fatal, as elsewhere, in very many instances. Large numbers from all classes have been suddenly called from time into eternity most of them perhaps unprepared for the dread ordeal throught ( !) which they have passed. improved state of health. The present aspect of things indicate an It is manifest however that a great many are suffering from extreme debility resulting from the sicknesses through which they have passed. Among this class deaths continue to rather occur at/short intervals. It may not be extravagant to anticipate that there will be as many deaths in our field during the current year as there have been during the past even if no new diseases are intro­ duced into the Islands. We cannot refrain from thinking that future prospects xxxxxxx with regard to our people are dark and portentous. The people most of them at least - seem to have but little resolution left to shake off & resist disease or to better their condition even where health and a good degree of strength are enjoyed. Very many will never rally again and resume their various occupations with the energy & perseverance whh they formerly exhibited. The dreadful mortality and sufferings of the past six months have induced a feeling of despondency which they will not be able to surmount. Poor afflicted people! It is sad to witness so many things - many of which are beyond human control - that seem to threaten their speedy extinction. Their present condition and future prospects should awaken as they no doubt do - our deepest sympathy and to arouse us to make every effort in our power [to] promote their Spiritual & Eternal welfare. By the late census it appears that there is a population in my field at the present time of 4113 souls. And that there have been 402 deaths & but 67 births. �3. Wailuku - 1849 There are some/schools including all the districts of our field & Schollars. About schools are able to read. of the schollars ( !) connected with these All these schools have been in operation during the year with the exception of a few months when sickness was most prevalent. There has been but one public examination of the schools during the past year. This was attended by the Minister of public instruction from who m we have had two interesting and profitable visits since we removed to our new field of labor. The concert of prayer for the teachers and their respective schools have been observed on the second monday of every months ( !) weather rendered it impracticable. except when sickness and bad It has been our practice to secure the attendance of as many of the teachers & schollars at these meetings as possible. On commencing my labors among the people prospects were very flattering. Our meetings not only on the Sabbath but on other days devoted to religious exercises were fully attended. This encouraging state of things continued nearly two months when the diseases which have prevailed so generally in the Island began to rage with great violence, laying the people prostrate and spreading a dark cloud over all our former cheering prospects. The result was that some of our meetings were suspended and those which were continued were very poorly attended. As sickness abated and health returned our congrega­ tions began to increase in size and interest - Still there is not yet so good an attendance as formerly. I can say but little with regard to the members of the chh as I am, as yet, but partially acquainted with their daily walk by personal observation. Still the most of those with whom I have met oftenest appear to be consistent christians - some eminently pious. We have �4. Wailuku - 1849 had occasion to excind hut four during the 7 months which have elapsed. There are doubtless others who ought to have been disposed of in a similar way but their crimes have not been detected, at least, by their Pastor. I have visited far & near and from house to house in all the dis­ tricts except Kahikinui. Have held many neighborhood meetings, conver­ sed personally with hundreds both chh members and others about the concerns of their souls. I have preached usually twice on the Sab­ bath once at the Station & once at some one of the out posts, besides conducting an exercise in the Ai o ka la immediately after the fore­ noon meeting. During the week I have attended some 4 or 5 meetings usually in different parts of the field. prayer has been uniformly observed. The monthly concert for So was the publick fast appointed by Mr. Green in reference to the prevailing sickness. The contrabutions ( !) of the chh during the time under review have not be[en] so great as in some former years. to sickness. This has been owing While they enjoyed health the chh contributed for the Support of their Pastor from 5 to 34 dollars per month. sickness commenced they have contributed but little. Since the It is hoped that they will do better in future if prospered with health. Both before and after the their ( !) sickness the people performed a great deal of labor on the public roads. Much remains to be done however befor ( !) the roads are what they should be. Bro Bailey has had the entire charge of the Sabbath school. He has also preached almost every Sabbath Afternoon at the Station it being my practice to hold a meeting at some one of the out posts at that time. Mrs. C. has held a religious meeting with the females of the church and others every week except when prevented by ill health �5. Wailuku - 1849 in the family. Miss Ogden occasionally supplying her place at such times. It is due to the church and people in our field to say that they have been very kind and attentive to their Pastor and his family since he commenced M s labors among them. Statistics Whole No. on pro. of faith in Christ 1573 By certificate 122 By examination past year 55 By certificate 8 Whole number dismissed to other chhs 319 " past year 9 Whole N. deceased 212 " past year 58 Restored past year 50 Whole No. excommunicated [no figure given] " past year 18 Remain excommunicated [no figure given] Whole No. in regular standing 1262 " " Children baptised 979 " " past year 17 Marriages past year 73 Contrabutions ( !) To repair meeting house $144.87 Monthly donations (Sup. of Pastor) 65.00 Marriage fees __ 9.25 Total 219.12 Population Deaths in 1848 Births " 4113 402 67 D.T. Conde �E. Baileys' Report for 1850 & 51 Health. [Wailuku] Since the last General Meeting we have had considerable sick­ ness in our family, but through the kindness of our Heavenly Father we have all been preserved. A life of confinement and care seems to have been the cause of our ill health. Repair of house. I have been prevented by various causes, among which ill health and want of carpenters are principal, from making the re­ pairs on my house for which I requested an appropriation of 1000 dollars at the last meeting. Of the 1000 dollars granted 915 have already been expended for materials, leaving 85 dollars with which to do the work. This I hope to have accomplished soon after my return. Purchase of Seminary land, and transfer of Seminary buildings . As the land formerly occupied by the Female Seminary reverted to Govt. by the terms of the grant, when the Boarding School was dismissed I purchased a fee simple title to that and also to my house lot and appurtenances. It will be recollected that at the last General Meeting a commit­ tee was chosen to correspond with the Prudential Committee in relation to the transfer of the Seminary buildings and apparatus to me. That committee wrote making the proposal and giving their reasons why such a transfer should be made. The reply of the Prudential Committee you have all seen in their printed letter. They were not ready to make such transfer without more light, and indeed to judge from their state­ ment they were truly in the dark on the Subject. I replied giving them my reason for not accompanying the proposal with a request for a release, viz, that before committing myself I wished to know what means I was to have for carrying on my school as my case was somewhat singular, not being provided for by the 7th Resolution in their proposal. �Wailuku - 1851 2. I could not pay rent for the School buildings and apparatus the whole benefit of which to me would be merely a school room, and that, as the buildings were in such close proximity to our dwellings we might be able to avoid the annoyances to which we would be subject were the buildings at the disposal of others than ourselves. As the buildings would be of no pecuniary value to me, and judging from past experience would be a heavy bill of cost I proposed to the Committee to retain the ownership of them themselves, merely giving me the use of a school room. Their answer you have seen passing buildings, apparatus and all into my hands with the provisions specified. see they will be merely a bill of cost to me, So far as I now the only benefit being exemption from annoyance, and the use of a school room, should I be able to resume my school. In the course of the above correspondence I requested a release from the Board, which was granted. School. In accordance with the vote of last General meeting we dis­ missed the Female Seminary on our return, and so soon as a building could be got ready I commenced an English School. This was on the 26th of June 1849. The school consisted of about half natives, and half mixed races. I had intended to have four terms of eleven weeks each in the year but owing to interruptions from sickness the year was not completed till July 50, 1850. The number of pupils averaged a little more than 40. The tuition for the first year was 18 dollars for each pupil. After the first year it was raised to 24 dollars for each pupil. There was in general a readiness to pay tuition - only one man having refused to pay his subscription. I had expected the school would fall away, and that few would be likely to hold out after the novelty �Wailuku - 1851 3. of the thing had passed away. But I found myself in the main mistaken, as very few left for that reason, and when I was obliged to relinquish the School by ill health its prospects were never fairer. On the 21st of Aug. 1850 I commenced again and continued till Sept. 19 when I was taken sick and was not able to resume school again till Jan. 1, 1850. But this proved too soon and continued but four weeks when I was again prostrated. As the doctors all concur in advising me not to reenter my school room at present, I have not ventured to do so as yet, but hope by active employment eventually to regain sufficient vigor to recommence my school. These interruptions following ill success in attempts to sustain an English School formerly have greatly disheartened the par­ ents. There is however a school now in operation which I should think bids fair to be well attended. The main branch taught in the School was the English language; and as subsidiary to it I taught some geography and arithmetic, writing &c . Reading, pronouncing, spelling, translating, forming sentences & writing were the main business of the school. There was some progress made but it was rather constant than rapid, and would require sev­ eral years of close application to make the pupils master of the language. Several months are sometimes requisite to enable them even to distinguish all the English sounds and a long practice is necessary to enable them to form the organs to pronounce them. Their previous habits also, being formed by lack of discipline render/ their progress much slower than it otherwise would be. The only element in their character which would ensure success are an intense desire to acquire �Wailuku - 1851 4. the language resulting from their thorough conviction of the benefit of such acquisition. The discipline of the school is decidedly difficult. Both teacher and pupils wish as far as possible to dispense with the native language so that moral suasion cannot be brought to bear as as ( !) much as is desirable on the pupils. The corrupt moral character, and almost total lack of restraint with which many enter the school render a great part of the efforts made to benefit them useless, and add vastly to the labour of the teach­ er while they detract materially from his success. Inertness of mind is another great obstacle in the way. On the whole whoever would teach Hawaiians the English language must lay in a large stock of patience, and if he would be successful a long supply of enthusiasm. Respectfully Submitted E. Bailey �[Wailuku Report - Bailey, 1852] The state of my health has prevented me from resuming my school the present year. My family have also been afflicted with severe sickness. Mrs. Bailey's health has been far from firm. There being no other labour of a strictly missionary, and at the same time active character in which I could engage in the field in which I am located I have been engaged principally during the year now past in repairing my house - performing a part of the labour myself, in Superintending work on the roads, and the building of a bridge across h e Wailuku Stream, and in surveying and causing to be surveyed native t kuleanas in this and the adjacent fields. In this latter work I ex­ pect to be employed for the balance of the present year. At the same time I have continued to perform whatever missionary work came in my way as usual. Few day[s] pass when I am at home in which I am not called to administer medicine. I have had charge of the Sabbath-School, which I hope has not been entirely without profit. A contribution is taken up monthly in this School to be applied to whatever objects of benevolence the donors wish it applied. In the last three months a little more than ten dollars have been raised which is to be applied to the exploration of Micronesia. Want of the Ni or question book has been one great obstacle in my way in this department. I have also on all occasions when the privilege has been extended to me been ready to speak to the people on God's behalf as heretofore. Should I find at the end of the year that my health would be likely to allow it I shall hope to resume my old employment of teach­ ing . I am permitted also to do something for the native schools in the �Wailuku - 1852 2. district, the condition of which may be learned from the Report of the Minister of Public Instruction. The School houses being in a very bad condition, and the funds insufficient to repair them properly I have pointed the people to the law making provision for such deficiency and they have gone about to build up the School houses again and have also in some cases assumed in part the pay of the teachers till the govern­ ment funds Shall again accumulate. I am sorry to say that the deficiency of funds has arisen in the first place from a generous distribution by the former Treasurer among his friends, and 2 d, from an over liberal spirit in the present Kahu kula and trustees - giving pay to the teachers without any regard to the state of the Supply. I hope however that no school will be wholly suspended in consequence. A School for teachers is much needed at Wailuku, and will no doubt be established so soon as there is a prospect that it can be sustained. Although I have not been able personally to teach an English school I am glad to be able to report so much success in providing substitutes. As my associate has reported Dr. Rae of Geological noto­ riety has been practicing on the stony intellects of some 20 to 40 pupils till within a month or two. I cannot say much for his success. Mrs. Gower has taught an English school one term composed of our own children with those in the care of Miss Ogden, and two half casts, (!) This school may be continued for a time. Mrs. Gower being an excellent lady, long practised in the art of teaching her school could not fail to be exceeding[ l y ] useful. It is however desired to continue it as it has been somewhat select. I said I had been employed in repairing my house. The appropria- �3. Wailuku - 1852 tion formerly made for that object was all applied I think before last Gen. Meet. and I think I stated that I had no means of paying my work­ men. know. But I went to work and of course got deeply in debt as our agents I hope however to pay it off in due season without asking help from the funds of the Board. As it is difficult to subsist comfortably without the means of living I have without any conscientious scruples allowed those who employed me to feed and clothe myself and family while I continue in their employ. E. Bailey May , 1852 �[Wailuku] Report May — - 1852 Another year of my missionary labors among a once barbarous and idolatrous but now humane and Christianized people, is terminated and numbered with which have preceeded. That part of its history which I am expected to report on this occasion may be presented in the fol­ lowing order. Health. Our family - it is true has not enjoyed uninterrupted health - every member thereof having been more or less indisposed at times yet no protracted or alarming sickness has existed in our dwelling any part of the past year. Notwithstanding therefore we consider ourselves as having been highly favoured of Providence, And for it would be truly greatfull ( !). It is probable that we enjoy more vigor in our present location than we used to at Hana. With regard to my people neither general health nor prevailing sickness has existed long at a time. nation of both. There has been a frequent alter& Disordered Stomache (!) colds attended with cough and violent head ache have been the most comon ( !) indispositions. I judge that deaths have not been frequent for a population like ours but the exact percentage I am unable to state. They have occured (!) among all classes, but chiefly among the aged. Of infants there do not seem to be many. General appearances indicate that our population like that of the Islands generally, is gradually diminishing. An actual calculation if made would doubtless corroberate ( !) this opin­ ion. As far as medicines and medical attendance are necessary for the healing of sickness and disease our people are as well favoured as those of any other section. There are two regular Physicians of whom the indisposed can obtain assistance. And if they are unable or un­ willing to render the compensation required they can obtain gratuitous �Wailuku - 1852 2. help from their foreign Teachers. But what is most needed to augment thier ( !) numbers and prolong thier ( !) existence is a higher mate of life and uninterrupted health. esti­ This would accomplish more for these purposes than any amount of medical prescriptions, A people that regard life and death - sickness and health with a stoic indiference ( !) so caracteristic ( !) of the Hawaiians, can hardly fail of becoming extinct in a short time. Thence the importance of hastening the progress of religion and civilization among all classes. The tendency of these influences is not only to prevent pernicious indul­ gences but also to make life agreeable, besides increasing a sense of duty to use all suitable means to render it long and healthy. Physical improvement. Something has been accomplished in this line by the people or rather by government thro’ the people. An exellent (! ) Bridge has been recently constructed over the Wailuku river at an ex­ pense exceeding 1000 $ exclusive, I presume of the native labor of erecting the Stone Butments ( !). has been greatly improved. The road also in both direction ( !) The inhabitants of Waiehu & Waihee in the north west part of my field can now visit Wailuku, Kalepolepo, Kahului Makawao, and Kula, with oxcarts and beasts of burden with ease. This must be advantageous to them, as in most of these places they can find a ready market for thier "Pai ai" [a bundle of pounded taro done up in ti leaves] which is produced in large quantities. A good deal of labour and expense have also been bestowed on the road leading to Lahaina, but subsequent rains, it is said have nearly or quite nulified ( !) the improvements made in that locality. The repairs of our meeting house progress slowly although begun more than a year since much remains to be done. The work has been retarded for the want of materials and on account of dilatoriness in the workmen. The roof and nearly all the floor are completed, �Wailuku - 1852 3. together with some 12 or 14 pews. The workmanship is good. We hope that ere long we shall have our house of worship repaired and entirely finished. There is probably enough subscribed to defray all expenses but as money is scarce, payments at present are "few and far between". The Meeting houses of Waihee and Honuaula have also been repaired and thatched anew, the past year. That of the latter place, however was recently demolished by a powerfull ( !) wind shortly after the Sabbath congregation had closed their exercises & retired ------- from within its walls. A very timely escape. They are now devising means to erect a more permanent and substantial building. A Planter has offered to put up a house for $500$ on condition that he be allowed to select their Preacher - being rather jealous of the person now acting in that capacity & against whom he does not hesitate to circu­ late bitter things. But I doubt whether he is the man to secure thier assent to any such proposition, however favorable of view. They have a heavy job before them. It will cost them much effort and sacrifise ( !) to complete it. They must have help from some quarter, for they are poor in this world's goods and few in number. Their Wailuku friends will doubtless Contribute liberally for the object. Altho' something has been effected by our people the past year in the way of internal improvement there remains very much to be done in order to remedy the defects every where existing. The general appear­ ance of Wailuku and vicinity is slovenly and by no means does justice to the degree of wealth and intelligence which the inhabitants are known to possess. buildings. Most of the dwelling houses are thacthed ( !) Some in a very leaky condition — What adobie houses there are, present a dilapidated appearance and realy ( !) furnish no more �Wailuku - 1852 4. comfortable residence than the former. But one very considerable blemish which never fails to attract the attention of both resident and stranger consists in numerous remains of mud walls scattered about the neighborhood and in the country. Nothing is more calculated to give the impression right or rong ( !) that advancement has ceased and that decay and ruin have begun thier ( !) work. What a waste of time and physical strength have these sphemoral structures occasioned. How much better if the operators had been permitted to lounge in idle­ ness or required to produce works which would have been a real benefit and a lasting ornament to the place. There is one consoling thought in regard to these mememtoes of by gone folly which is that they can not last for ages in thier present state. Even if the hand of man disdains to remove them the rains of heaven will ere long do it. The dimunution ( !) effected in this way is very perceptible since we came to dwell among them. A few more years and the destruction will be complete. If by that time the existing houses shall have been replaced by permanent structures and the cultivated lands secured from the Intrusion and depredation of animals, now enjoying unrestrained liberty - by dur­ able fences, Wailuku will be considered a desirable place of residence and perhaps now it will compare in this respect with most others on the Islands to good advantage. Very little has been done in the way of building and repairing schoolhouses the past year. from actual decay. Some of these buildings have fallen down Others from the efect ( !) of strong winds. there are many in a very open and leaky condition. While Inclement and precarious wether ( !) which has prevailed a great deal during the year is probably the reason why more has not ben ( !) accomplished in this �Wailuku - 1852 department. 5. When the dry season returned the Officers on whom the business devolves will doubtless remedy these deficiencies. Intemperance. In the Winter and spring of /51 Some foreigners at Kalepolepo and vicinity were in the practice of given ( !) or selling to natives Alchoholic ( !) drinks in which both the givers and receivers occasionly ( !) and perhaps habitually indulged to intoxication. For some time drunkenness, as far as Hawaiians were concerned, was confined to nonprofessors. temptation. Afterwards members of the ch'h yeilded ( !) to the Whereby they disgraced themselves and brought great repro[a] ch upon the cause which they professedly espoused at the time of thier uniting with the people of God. The same vice broke out at Kahului likewise but at a somewhat later date. Natives often obtain intoxicating beverage and sometimes they were found drunk conducting (!) in a most shamefully manner. Several chh members were of the number. Finaly (!) the authorities interposed and the plague was stayed in a measure. Very recently it has begun to show itself again. some seen intoxicated especially foreigners. Occasionly ( !) The use of ardent spirits as a drink is an indiscribable ( !) evil And were it to prevail among the native population the consequences would be awfull ( !) !. Error Labourers in the Lords vinyard always expect to meet with more wherever or less obstacles of this kind xxxxxxx they prosecute thier work. It is an old and often tried practice of the enemy to sow tares in the fields already furnished with the good seed. For some time he has been trying by means of Popery to harden the irreligious against the truth and to over turn the faith of Christians. But finding that he is not likely to accomplish all his designs by this means, he is now trying the adaptation of Mormonism to his purpose. �6. Wailuku - 1852 It may be that he will not find this latter expedient any more successful! ( !) than the former. Romanism is on the decline. many children have returned to protestant schools. Very And the adults connected with that sect are either sinking into a profound sleep or returning to our meetings - some have recently joined the class of In­ quirers. Its pulse beats feebly and its existence is scarcely per­ ceptible, But Mormonism for the time being is more prosperous. One year ago it had no existence in our regeon ( !) as a society. Its propagators had not obtained a single follower to my knowledge. At present they may have somewhat less than a hundred within the bounds of our field. But those who embrace the error do not appear bigoted. They manifest less sincerity in thier profession than the generallity ( !) of Catholics. Thier organization appears to be very imperfect. The members are scattering destitute of mutual Sympathy & hence without any tie to constitute them a whole. Many after being baptized are as indiferent ( !) and isolated as before. Some appostatize almost as soon as they have been recieved ( !) . Such to a general observer seem to be some of thier characteristics. Whether as a religious sect it is destined to have much sway or even a permanent existence among the Hawaiians is quite doubtful. As yet they have no house of worship nor has there to my knowledge been the least incipient step taken towards the erection of one. Scripture and experience teach that devine ( !) influence and larg[e] expenditures of money aside from persevereing ( !) labor are necessary f o r the conversion of this people to the truth and thier establishment in the practice thereof. How then can a system of error like Mormonism prosper among these Hawaiians unassisted by either of the above co­ operations? �Wailuku - 1852 Schools 7. There are 25 common schools & 699 schollars ( !) of the pro- testant order. 7 schools and 161 schollars of the Catholic order in our feild ( !). All the protestant schools are supplied with teachers some one and others 2 apeice ( !) according to the number of pupils; and they have all been in operation during the past year. I am not aware that any System of manual labor has been connected with either of them. The usual portion of both fore & after noon being devoted to mental acquisition. Several public examinations have been held. On these occasions the improvement of the schollars in their respective studies is not - it must be acknowledged - perceptible to a spectator ( !) nor to the official Superintendant if we may judge from the character of his address at such times. Their proficiency however may be as great as ought to be expected considering the disadvantages under which they rise from infancy. They are not brought up to habits of order self respect and obedience to superiors at home. Hence their atten­ dance at school as far as the acquisition of useful knowledge is con­ cerned must be little else than a n ominal affair. It may be owing to this that there is perhaps no country where so little benefit present & prospective accrues from the same amount of money devoted to common schools as in this. Still it might be hazzardous ( !) to other great and important interests to dispense with these institutions although the good which they produce is mostly negative. But while we hear­ tily wish thier continuence ( !) we cannot but desire, that they might be so improved and conducted as to prepare the rising generation to become intelligent and prosperous subjects of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Dr. Rae's English school for natives and half castes, alluded to in my last years report, has been disbanded after being in operation a part of the past year. �8. Wailuku - 1852 It was not for the want of patronage that the Dr. relinquished the school (altho it was never conducted with sufficient tact and energy to make it profitable to the supporters) but on account of its inter­ fering with his medical practice to which he gave the preference there is now no English school in Wailuku for the many children and (!) youth of that region both native and half cast^whose parents are de- sirious ( !) that they should acquire the English language. Would that some one could recommence this Institution and carry it on with the ability and perseverance which its importance demands. There is per­ haps no station in the Islands possessing better facillities ( !) of all kinds for such a school than that at Wailuku. Not to improve them cannot be otherwise than a great loss. Aside from the benifit ( !) accruing to the children and youth of the school it would have an important bearing on the community arround (! ) in awakening and perpetuating a proper degree of attention to the education of the rising generation generally. Labors I have endeavoured to labor assiduously for the wellfare ( !) of the chh, and people residing within my field although with less apparent success than could be wished considering the great numbers who heed not the warnings and threatnings ( !) of the gospel including all of every class that entirely neglect the great salvation, compared with those who afford comfortable evidences of having become new crea­ tures in christ, the past year my mind instructively recalls the lamentation of the Prophet "Who hath believed our report and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed" Still I hope the great day of final accounts will show that I have not labored in vain nor spent my strength for naught. I have usually had 3 and more recently 4 religious exer­ cises on the Sabbath. Two for preaching - one for explaining the weekly lesson in the Ai O Ka La, and one for teaching a class of adults �9. Wailuku - 1852 in the Bible. These two exercises are held during the interval of devine worship which with us is three hours and a half in length. They are designed for all who wish to attend. Besides these Sabbath duties it has been my common practice to attend from 3 to 4 religious meetings during each week in different parts of my field. To these may be added the stated observance of the monthly concert of prayer for the conversion of the world. This latter exercise is held not only by those of us near the station meeting house but also by those in the vicinity of the several preaching stations. At all the school examinations except those of Honuaula I have been present and assisted as oppertunity ( !) offered. The furn ishing of native Books to children and adults and of medicines to the sick has also recieved due attention. business is often arduous and consumes much time. This latter Still the Pastor's usefulness is promoted by attending to these matters himself otherwise it would be important to transfer them to other hands. State of religion &c For some months previous to the commencement of the past Missionary year the discovery of Gold in California and the great demand for Hawaiian produce made a deep impression on our people. They became thoroughly imbued with the spirit of speculation. Some left for the gold regions to make a fortune in diging ( !) for the precious metal. But most of them men and women old and young left for Kula to cultivate Potatoes. time. There they spent most of thier The means of grace were neglected - personal piety declined and worldliness took full possession of the soul. Although in the mean time Church members and others contributed liberally of thier money for various benevolent purposes. Still the oppertunity then existing for acquiring property with great rapidity seemed to anihilate the �10 . Wailuku - 1852 soul of religion. But when the demand for these vegitables ( !) subsi­ ded as it did sudenly (!) leaving many in debt and with nothing to pay thier creditors, There was a favorable reaction in regard to thier religious state. They returned home resumed thier seats in the house of God and began again to attend to the wants of the soul. Since that religion has occupied a more prominent place in thier thoughts and among thier daily avocations. where ever held. Meetings have been pretty well attended In Waihee there has been unusual interest most of the year - perhaps it might be said that the people of that District have for months been enjoying a precious revival. become pious. Many profess to have Backsliders and excommunicated chh members not a few have confessed thier guilt & resolved to recommence the service of Christ. There are some in all parts of the feild (! they shall do to be saved. ) inquiring what May these tokens for good prove to be the genuine effects of the Spirits presence reproving of sin of righteous­ ness and of judgement. Soon after the commencement of the past year we were under the necesity ( !) of excluding a large number from the privileges of the -church for drunkenness &c other immoralities. But it is a pleasing thought that some of these have already returned & been restored together with others of long standing. A number have also been received on profession for the first time. Those added to the chh somewhat exceed the number excluded. a small [increase? ] Contributions. There has therefore been the past year. We never designedly use any means calculated to excite pride Ambition or fear in order to obtain the greatest possible amount from the people for benevolent objects - but we afford them every facility to act in regard to these matters according to the Saviors ["] let thy injunction. When thou doest alms xx not xxxx left hand know what �Wailuku - 11. 1852 thy right hand doeth". A little set apart for the Lords service with the spirit here inculcated may and doubtless will accomplish more last­ ing good than a large amount contributed to avoid censure or court human applause. Our custom is simply this. It may not be the best but as it is not offered as a thing to be coppied ( !) it will do no injury to mention it. On the Sabbath before communion and especially on fast day preparatory to the observance of that holy ordinance the church and people are informed that a collection will be taken up immediately after the supper is concluded and that Plates will be passed arround for the purpose. They are also reminded of thier duty to be benevolent from the example of Christ who became poor that they might be made rich - of the privilege likewise from his own saying that it is mor e blessed to give than to receive and of their obligations from the fact that the Gospel and its kindred institutions have all been brought here and sustained among them to thier everlasting benefit, solely at the expense of the American chhs. They are therefore re­ quested to come to the Lords table prepared to give to his cause with a willing mind according as God may have prospered them in thier basket and store. The donations of the past Missionary year amount in all to $467.08. All but 150$ of this sum was given for my support. But as donors were influenced by the consideration that I had written for my release and as the committee declined granting my re­ quest I advised the chh to devote It to thier Meeting house which they readily did as they were then considerably in debt for Lumber &c. Our people have been quite destitute of money the past year. There being no market for their produce they have not been [able] to obtain much. This accounts for their contributions being less than those of the preceeding year when money was plenty and easily obtained. �Wai luku - 1852 12 . Cencus ( !)_ of the Church. On the arival ( !) of the last General letter I proceeded to acertain ( !) the actual church members in my field from Waihee to Honuaula inclusive as requested by the Prudential Com. The plan for accomplishing the object was adopted. The result I presume is very nearly correct although it falls considerably short of the estimate diduced ( !) from the old baisis ( !). It is as follows Members in regular standing 705 Remain excommunicated 73 From other fields 16 Whole No in regular standing according to the old basis Difference 916 Recd on profession past year 64 211 " by letter from other chhs Excluded past year Restored 2 40 " " 7 Dismissed " " 1 Deaths in chh 13 Chil baptized past year 22 Marraiges ( !) 87 " " D. T. Conde �Wailuku - The Pastor has studiously devoted himself to Missionary labors among the people of his charge. He has preached twice on the Sabbath besides instructing a large Bible class during the inter­ mission. He has lectured usually in the afternoon of three days every week and observed the monthly concert on the first Monday of the month. He has also taught a small English School five days in a week from 9 AM to 1 P.M in whh the studies pursued have been latin Ancient His­ tory Arithmetic - Geography - Grammar &c&c. The attendance of the people on the preached Word and other re­ ligious exercises has been usually good Except at one or two out posts of whh there are five in different parts of the field. no Special revival. There has been Some, it is hoped, however, have devoted themselves to the Lord the past year Seventy four of whom have united with the church. The people have d to Several as follows [Hawaiian Missionary] For the H. M. Society 95.25. contrib[ u t e ] For Support of Pastor 187.49. For repairing Meeting house 182.69 And for assistant Preacher at distant outpost 40.71 - In all 506.14. One new Meeting house has also been erected and two others commenced. All of a per­ manent character. Owing to an unusual amount of Stormy weather during the winter & Spring months there has been much sickness in the shape of Influenza and coughfs ( !). Both the Pastors family and his people have suffered considerably from these causes. Statistics Whole No on profession " " by Certificate Past year by Examination " " " Certificate Whole No past year " " D ismissed to other chh Dismissed past year Whole No Deceased past year 990 19 74 3 77 Unknown 9 �2. Whole Wo. in regular Standing Children baptised past year Marriages past year 758 23 122 [Unsigned] " [See "Extracts from the Minutes of the General Meetings, p. 10. This indicates it is for the year 1853, by Mr. Conde] �E. Baileys Report to the brethren of the Sandwich Islands Missionary Association written in May 30, 1854 Dear Brethren Through the kindness of our Heavenly Father I am permitted to report that the life, health & prosperity of myself and family are all continued to this present time. True my own health has not been of a kind to permit me to follow my chosen avocation of Teacher, nor has that of my wife been of that vigorous kind as to enable her to perform active missionary labour, but we have been exempt from distress­ ing sickness. I would also record with thankfulness that tho' laid aside from my former occupation I am yet enabled to spend so nearly my whole time in efforts for the welfare of Hawaii nei in things both temporal and spiritual. Of the former class are my labours to settle land claims for which I receive of the Land Commission my principal means of support, and which occupies a large share of my time. Also my efforts in the healing art, which, though somewhat em­ pirical nevertheless cost some time & trouble. I devoted one solid month to the business of vaccination, not to speak of weeks and days besides in getting it fairly a going ( !) and finishing up with those who kept aloof till the fear of small pox brought them to their senses - or rather perhaps drove them out of them. Of the latter class are my labours in Sabbath School which I have always attended while at home, and which has been quite inter­ esting. It is composed of the scholars of the day schools who are expected to commit during the week 7 verses in Proverbs to recite �Wailuku - 1854 in concert on the Sabbath. 2. Each school recites by itself & the teachers are expected to attend also, as those who habitually stay away are considered immoral and unfit for their business. Those schools are uniformly found to appear best at examinations who give the best attendance and are best prepared at Sabbath Schools. I have also preached the gospel wherever I have gone, and when­ ever I have had an opportunity. Another field in which I have labored and which has had many of my thoughts as well as prayers is the day schools of which I am Kahu [person in charge] in a part of the district & Treasurer for the whole. I cannot report so well of them as I wish - the school houses are poor and unfurnished - the teachers are not all of them so talented or so well educated, or so upright as I wish - the parents do not help their children always in the right direction, but I think I may say good is done, and the children are much better with the schools than without them. But they still need the foster care of the mission or they go down. Mormonism has given some trouble, and Popery some. They have both stretched things beyond their measure somewhat and have felt and are feeling something of the recoil. In the first place the Mormons applied to the Minister of Pub. Inst. for an appriation ( !) as the papists had, but did not get it. Then they pretended to keep up a Kula hanai [kula: school; hanai: nourished by them] - which has passed away - and they are quiet. The three Catholic Schools have been reduced to one for lack of pupils, and a desperate attempt is making to sustain the remain­ ing one by over zealous makua hanais [foster fathers] endeavoring to claim children to whom they had no legal right. Respectfully Submitted E. Bailey �Report of Wailuku Station May 1855 Although it is generally known by the brethren, still it may not be improper to allude to the fact first of all, that Mrs. Conde the partner of my joys and sorrows during almost 19 years of mission­ ary life, is no more. On the evening of the 30th of March the Master, whom she had served with sincere affection, for some 25 years, called her away from this world of sin and suffering to one of pur­ ity and eternal felicity and where the wicked cease from troubling & the weary be at rest. The patience & resignation with whh she endured her last sickness - the love and attachment whh she mani­ fested for the Savior as the one altogether love and as her only hope of salvation - the joy she expressed in the prospect of soon beholding his face in peace and the sweet words of consolation and advice, she addressed to her Husband & children, at different times, and especially on the eve of her departure, impress our minds with the goodness of God and the happifying effect of the gospel, while they authorize the comforting belief that her exit - although a great loss to those immediately concerned is great gain to her. Having entered God's kingdom on high, we would not call her back if we could, for there she sweetly rests from all her labors and sorrows. The Husband is bereaved of an excellent companion & the children of an affectionate & careful Mother. But we believe that God can and will make the affliction a great and lasting benefit to our souls. He gave & he hath taken away and blessed be his name. As a family he has begun to gather us to himself. [again ?] he has visited us on this errand. will be taken next is only known to him. Once and gain Whh of the survivors It is my daily prayer that, through his abundant grace in Jesus Christ, each and all may be �Wailuku - 1855 ready for the great change. And it is my privilege to state that about two months before their Mother's death, my two Daughters, Susan & Paulina, after a season of great anxiety for their salva­ tion, took their places at the feet of Jesus choosing that good part whh shall not be taken from them. My son Saml also still cher­ ishes the hope whh he first began to indulge during the last revival in Punahou School. Often did they all unite in social prayer around the sick bed of their now departed mother. The soothing & comfortas well as hers ing effect of these exercises on their minds/was very considerable. I feel therefore that my afflictions are mingled with many mercies. Labors . During the greater part of the past year my labors among the people have been similar to those of preceding years. I have preached regularly at the Station on sabbath forenoon and in the afternoon at the Outposts. The usual meetings on week days have also been sustained Altho for several months I was not able to attend them in person on account of sickness in the family. Besides my labors at home I have had the pleasure of visiting twice my old people on East Maui. quest. Both times at their earnest re­ In July they wrote a letter, urging me to come to their aid. While I was considering whether it would be expedient to comply with their request, a committee came and renewed the invitation. fore went. I there­ On reaching the southern border of the field I commenced preaching in their school houses to great numbers until I arrived at the Station Meeting house. 4 days continuance. There I tarried and held a meeting of Great many attended. It was a solemn assembly. The word of God fell with power upon the heart and conscience. members were revived. Chh Many who had been set aside came back, pro­ fessing repentance and a goodly number were hopefully converted. A few months after the above meeting the people of Kipahulu, sent a deputation, inviting me to visit them. Before I could get �Wailuku - 1855 ready to go, they wrote urging me to come as soon as possible that the people were hungry for the bread of life among them I found it even so. days - 4 exercises each day. ent. Oh arriving The meeting there, was continued 4 The Spirit of God was evidently pres­ A more solemn - interesting meeting I never attended. About January I was invited by the people of East Maui to make them a third visit. But Mrs. Conde being sick at that time I did not go - nor have I been there since. But favorable news have reached us from time to time from that region - They anticipate the arrival of their new Teac(h)ers among them with great pleasure. According to my own observation and that of our chh Lunas, both the Catholics and Mormons have diminished the past year. Each of the two Sects have but one place of worship In our field. olics have but one School And the Mormons none at all. The Cath­ Many of the latter class have migrated to Ranai [Lanai], where, as you have al­ ready heard, they are trying to form a community purely their own. Our chh & people have not been blessed with anything that might be called a revival the past year ceived on profession. And but very few have been re­ But a greater degree of harmony has prevailed than in the year previous. Kaauwai, however, made an attempt to induce the people of Waihee to leave the Wailuku church and form themselves into an Indepen[d]ant ( !) one, with himself as their Teacher. Assuring them that I had consented to the arrangement, Many were led astray. But on learning that I was not in favor of any such decision - that they had been deceived - they all came back except 3 leaders, who were subsequently dropped from our Communion for disorderly conduct. Since that there has been no disturbance. On the contrary the chh generally walk together in peace and brotherly �Wailuku - 1855 love as far as I am able to judge. have been well attended. All our Sabbath meetings especially, The week, day meetings not so well. But the chh members generally are deficient in regard to contributing for the support of their Pastor and for the common objects of benevolence. Daring the year 1854 they have contributed as follows 346.71 69.75 For Support of Pastor For foreign Missions For Meeting House in Honuaula Whole N o on profession Whole No by letter Past year by examination Past year by letter Whole No. past year Whole No Dismissed Dismissed past year Whole number deceased Died past year Suspended past year Remain Suspended Excom. past year Whole No excom. Remain Excom. Whole No irregular standig Whole No of chil. baptized Baptized past year Marriages past year 250.00 655.46 1660 58 2 60 7 12 29 6 1255 14 30 [Unsigned] [On back:] Wailuku 1855 Conde Rep. [in pencil] paha [perhaps] �Abstract of Report 1854 Wailuku. [1855] The Pastor is bereaved of an excellent companion and his children of an affectionate and careful mother. is her everlasting gain. But their loss After serving her Lord & Master some 25 years - 19 of them in the Missionary cause - with ardent devotion, she departed this life on the 30th of March with a full assurance of being forever with the Saviour. Some two months before her death and after a season of deep anxiety for their souls, two daughters one 13 the other 15 years of age took their places at the feet of Jesus - choosing that good part which shall not be taken from them. An older brother also, still cherishes the hope whh he first indulged in the late revival in Punahou school. With affliction the Lord has mingled much mercy. Besides his ordinary labors - Ministerial and pastoral - among his own people the Pastor has, during the past year, held a protracted meeting of 4 days continuance in two different places in his old field of labor, on East Maui. results. Both meetings were attended with happy The Spirit of God was present. Back sliders were reclaimed and a large number of the impenitent were hopefully converted. The chh there are waiting the arrival of their New Teacher among them with high anticipations. In the opinion of the Pastor corroborated by that of the chh officers generally, Catholicism and Mormonism in his field have His declined considerably the past year. xxxxx people have not been blessed with a revival but a greater degree of harmony has existed than in the year previous. have been well attended. The Sabbath day meetings generally, Not so the week day meetings. �Wailuku - Abstract 1855 The contributions of the chh & people for the[year] 1854 are as follows For Support of Pastor For foreign Missions For Meeting house & assistant Preacher in Honuaula Mr. Conde No. 7 $346.71 69.75 250.00 - $666.46 �Annual Report of W.P. Alexander to the Ev a n g e l ical Association - May 1857 I spent eight months in the cool retreat of Ulupalakua and found the climate and active employment very famorable to the health of all my family. On the sabbaths I preached alternately at Keawakapu, Keokea, Kanaio and Auwahi, besides holding an English meeting at my houses attended by all the foreigners in the neighborhood. I hope the seed sown, has not been sown in vain. In the month of Nov. the church of Wailuku sent me a call to become their pastor, & having obtained a release from my engagement to superintend the Torbert Plantation for three years, I accepted the call & commenced my labors there on Thanksgiving day, which was the 25 of Dec. During the last week of Jan. we held a protracted meeting, in which I was assisted by Messrs Armstrong, Pogue, Andrews, Kaukau & W.O. Baldwin, During this meeting I was installed as pastor of the church. The church which had been in a stupid and distracted state seemed to be revived, some backsliders returned with penitence & we were encouraged to hope for a shower of blessing upon the people. These hopes have not been fully realized. The people continue to come out in larger numbers to meeting on the sabbath, but very few attend our weekly meetings. life. There is a great want of spiritual A great majority of the members of the church care very little for any of the ordinances of God's house, and evidently have only a name to live while they are dead. During the few months that I have been with them, I have been more deeply impressed than ever with the truth that Paul may plant & Apollos water but God only can give the increase. I found a strong feeling of hostility in a large portion of the �Wailuku - 1857 church, to some of the ruling Elders, and at my suggestion, they all resigned and a new election was made & harmony restored. That portion of the Wailuku parish which comprises Honuaula & Kahikinui has been organized into a district church and I hope ere long they will have a pastor living among them to break unto them the bread of life. I shall continue to exercise the pastoral over them until they are thus supplied. The remainder of the parish from Kamaalaea to Waihee is so accessable ( !) that I am able to visit every part of it weekly. On the sabbath I preach twice at the station & once a week on week days at Waihee, Waiehu, Waikapu & Kamaalaea - We also have union meetings for the whole congregation on Wednesdays & Saturdays at the station. The people do not turn out well to meetings on week­ days, their worldly cares absorb their attention. I think if they valued the gospel aright, they could so arrange their business as to be able to attend. Soon after my arrival among the people, it became evident that we needed more seats in the meeting house & they have made contribu­ tions for this purpose & that inconvenience will soon be remedied. The people have contributed liberally for the Kingdom of God considering their poverty since I became their pastor. Their con­ tributions during the past 4 or 5 months has been as follows $ C for erecting pews in station meeting house 198.00 for building meetinghouse at Honuaula 236.00 33.00 for Foreign Missions Shares in the Morning Star 5.50 Support of pastor 290.00 Support of Teacher at Honuaula 50.00 to procure house for him 23.50 Making in all $ 836.00 The people though very poor, have resources & might be com­ fortable with a little effort. They have excellent soil & their �Wailuku - 1857 3. kuleanas ought to abound with the valuable products of the country, whereas they are so overrun by cattle & horses that they can culti­ vate nothing which these animals will eat. They are beginning to awake to the importance of making fences and I hope they will soon be able to turn their fertile lands, now lying waste, to good account again. Mormonism is dying out. Those who were its earnest leaders for­ merly seem to have lost all their interest in it & I have met with none who seem ready to plead its cause. Popery possesses more vitality & seems pretty firmly rooted in part of the field & it will probably maintain the struggle till Great Babylon is overthrown. I have attended one examination of the schools & feel much en­ couraged with the interest taken in the cause of education. But I need not enter into specifications as Bro Bailey will report this department to you. I will close this report by giving a table of the usual church statistics. And I would remark that I cannot find quite two thirds of those reported in good standing in former years. I have had the Lunas write down the names of all now living in the several districts. They say that many have removed to other parts of the islands where they are living as men of the world, having abandoned their pro­ fession as christians. I will therefore take these lists reported by the lunas as the basis of my report of statistics. �Wailuku - 1857 Statistics of church of_________ _____________ Wailuku Recd past year on profession " 1 [ no figure] certificate 4 Total past year Honuaula 300 4 301 Dismissed past year 302, 2 Excluded past year 8 2 Whole no. in regular standing 664 Children Bapd past year 23 Married past year 13 Contributions Wailuku for Pastors Support Foreign Missions 300 14 $ C 290.00 Honuaula 33.00 Morning Star 5.50 Church erection 198.00 Other objects $ C 236.00 73.50 Total [not given] [Unsigned] [On back:] Report of W.P. Alexander from Wailuku Church 1857 �Station Report - Wailuku May 1858 On returning home from our general Meeting last June, I found the ancient heathenish hula, which had met such favor in the metro­ polis, had been revived at Wailuku during my absence & some of the church members had joined in its carousals. Although these persons were possessed of rank & influence, yet being lifeless branches, they had long injured the vitality of the church, & the opportunity of lopping them off was not neglected. Indeed, I have often found it necessary throughout the year to use the pruning hook. There is so little spiritual life among the people, that they fall an easy prey before every form of temptation. The sin, emphatically called the sin of the land, has swallowed up the most of those who have wandered. Intemperance stands next on the list of destroyers. We have a clan of drunkards who glory in their achievements & make their boast of the church members whom they have induced to drink with them. Sometimes they get their liquor from Lahaina, sometimes they get cologne or brandied peaches from merchants nearer home, sometimes they resort to fermented potatoes & ti or to their ancient drug, the awa. This last article is extensively cultivated by authority of the state. among the young. Gambling too is on the increase, especially Many spend whole nights of feverish excitement under the fascination of cards. Five of our church members have been seduced by its charms & wandered from us. As is common in other countries, gambling fraternizes with other vices and drags them in its train. In order that I might get acquainted with my people & know who are church members & how they are living, I divided the whole church into thirty classes & appointed a class leader for each class, whose duty it is to see & converse with every individual in his class once �Wailuku - 1858 2. a month & report to the pastor. By the assistance of these helpers I have had a complete catalogue made out of all the church members known in the field, and am gradually becoming acquainted with them. There is a great deal of indifference to religion on the part of many professors of religion. We have, however, some praying men and women, who hear with joy of the wonderful work of grace in pro­ gress among the American churches & who are pleading with God that the same cloud of blessings may be extended & pour down a shower on the Hawaiian churches. Our religious meetings on the sabbath are better attended than they were last year, but still only a few can be induced to lay aside their business & attend regularly on week days. We have made some progress in improving our houses of worship, during the year. We have added a board floor to the stone meeting house of Waihee, & also doors & windows, so that it is now a com­ fortable house of worship. It is there that I usually preach on sabbath afternoon to a congregation varying from 100 to 300 persons. We have also erected 40 additional pews in our station meetinghouse, so that our whole congregation are now comfortably seated. During the past year, they have contributed in cash for various objects, as follows, Viz for meetinghouses 328.00 " Church Bell 100.00 " Pastor's salary 500.00 " Foreign Missions 58.00 $ 986.00 My associate, Mr. Bailey embarked for the U.S the latter part of January to recruit his health & see his aged parents once more, & also meet his sister from the Zulu Mission now in the U.S. Since �3. Wailuku - 1858 that time the care of the schools have devolved on me. They are in a flourishing condition; but to accomplish all that we ought to expect from them, we must have better teachers. What the teachers lack is not so much knowledge, as tact & disposition to do their best. We want men who love their work whose hearts are in it, men ( !) who will get the affections of their pupils, & arrouse them to activity. In the month of August we were visited by a severe epidemic, which seized upon the whole population, almost without exception & which in many cases proved fatal. Such visitations, however, do not seem to arrouse the people atall ( !) to attend to religion. I have visited the church of Honuaula three times during the year & administered the ordinances. of piety among them. They walk orderly & have some warmth They are struggling to finish their stone meetinghouse at Keawakapu & they have almost got the roof completed. They are much attached to Nueku, a licensed preacher who is laboring among them & would be glad to have him ordained as their pastor. I think he gives promise of becoming a very valuable helper in our work. The next mail from Maui will probably bring me Nueku's report which I had hoped to embody in this. I cannot now tell how much the people have contributed towards his support & for foreign missions & for their meeting house. These items together with the church statistics for Honuaula I will add when they come to hand. In the month of September I visited Molokai in accordance with the vote of this association & administered the church ordinances. The church then appeared to be i n a vigorous healthy state, having a bench of able Lunas, who seemed well united in the Master's work. I rejoice that there is now a prospect, that one of our sons is soon expected to join us in our work & become their pastor, to go �Wailuku - 1858 in & out before them & break unto them the bread of life. On the 12th inst I met with a clerical council at Lahainaluna, when we examined & licensed four young men to preach the gospel, who I trust will become burning & shining lights in Polynesia. Church Statistics of Wailuku church for the year 1858 - made out Dec. 1858. Received during the year on certificate " " Profession Total past year Dismissed past year Deceased " Excluded ” 8 3 11 3 [no figure] 18 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Restored Now in regular standing Children Baptized p a s t year Marriages " 4 [no figure] 7 39 Contributions for 1858 Support of pastor Foreign Missions Meeting H ouse at Wailuku " " W a i h ee " " Waikapu Bell at Waikapu to Meeting house at Koloa, Kauai " Lahaina Total [Unsigned] [On b ack:] Statistics of church at Wailuku Rev. W.P. Alexander 455.00 53.00 241.00 107.25 355.25 100.00 31.00 15.00 1357.50 �Wailuku May 1858. Statistics of the Wailuku Church Received the past year on profession " " 5 certificate 6 Dismissed past year to other churches 5 Deceased " 36 Restored " 1 Excluded the past year 47 Now in regular standing 575 Children Baptized past year 12 Marriages 41 " Contributions past year Pator's salary Foreign Missions Meeting Houses Church Bell $500.00 58.00 528.00 100.00 986. 00 Statistics of the Honuaula Church Received the past year on Profession " " 1 Certificate 0 Dismissed the past year 1 Excluded 2 " Now in regular standing 242 6 Children Baptized past year Contributions the past year Salary of native preacher Erecting meetinghouse Total contributions $134.62 246.00 $380.62 �Report of the Church at Wailuku for 1859-60. The great part of the field included in this church is a Moral wilderness - A dark cloud hangs over the church. For more than a year the people have not had a Pastor to watch over, & guide them. When the Pastor left for the States he committed the affairs of the Church to my hands with the understanding that I would not be able to do much for the people. vacation of the Seminary At the Commencement of the long in 1859, I removed my family to Wailuku & occupied the Parsonage, labouring for the people some six or seven weeks. Since that I have gone over, when my duties at the Seminary would permit, to preach, & ad­ minister the communion. Mr. Aholo, the assistant Teacher of the Seminary, has occupied the pulpit frequently, with profit we hope to the people - He is very popular among the people of Wailuku, & deservedly so - He preaches well digested sermons - And sermons which are appreciated by the people. The rest of the preaching has been done by graduates from the Seminary living in that field. Among whom were Manasa - Kuamoana, who/is an Elder in the Church, & Mikalemi Mr. Bailey has also preached, but not often - The Pulpit has also been supplied one Sabbath each by Mr. Andrews, Mr. Baldwin of Lahaina & Mr. Cooke of Hono­ lulu. Mrs. Bailey has kept up a weekly meeting among the femails[!], which has done good. There is one bright spot in the field, are awake. The Meetings are full, & interesting. Waikapu. The People there During the year they have received a bell from the States which sends forth its merry voice to call the people to the house of God morning by morning. On the Sabbath afternoon, & at other times. The Romanists have a strong hold in this field. the Sabbath is quite as large if not/larger than ours. church. thing. Their congregation on The Mormons also have a They keep up service every Sabbath, tho very few attend as a general It is sad to know that a great majority of the people living in the field do not attend the house of God on the Sabbath day, nor at other times. The afternoon service at the Station is very small - A mere handfull. day meetings, so far as I can learn, are very poorly attended. The week It is a cause of grief to behold the change which has taken place in this field during the 15 years past. Islands. Fifteen years ago Wailuku was one of the bright spots on the Its church was prosperous. How different now. It almost seems as if the majority of the people were given/up to a reprobate mind to work out their own distinction[!]. The Pastor on his return will find his hands full, & more than full of work - May the Lord bless his labours among them, the waters to break out in the Wilderness, & & again cause Streams in the desert - May the parched ground be come a pool & the thirsty land springs of water, that the de- �Wailuku 1859-60 2. sert may rejoice and blossom as the rose. During the absence of the Pastor the communion oft h e Lords Supper has been ad­ ministered five times, to other churches. 14 persons have been suspended - 4 have been dismissed 10 children have been baptized[!]. $176.93 have been con­ tributed for the Pastor. Kahale, one of the Elders of the church reports having recv'd $110.42 for the following objects - For the church $72.87 1/2. ringing bell $13. For Fatuhiwa $10. Expenses of Lord Supper $4 :12 [?] For For foreign lands $10.42. The Schools in the district are in a prosperous State. The Kahukula is an ef­ ficient. man - Has the Confidence of the Teachers, & pupils under him, 4[ ? ] is doing a good work. Respectfully Submitted John F. Pogue [Written on other side]: Report of Wailuku Rev. J.F. Pogue 1860 �Wailuku May 21st 1859 Moderator of the H. Evan. Asso. The following are the statistics the church at Wailuku for 1858 left by Bro. Alexander. Re cv ’d during the year on Profession " " " " by Certificate Dismissed " " " Deceased " " " Excluded " " Restored " " Now in regular standing Children Baptized past year Marriages " " Contributions for support of Pastor past year " Foreign Missions ” Meeting house at Wailuku " " " Waihee " " " Waikapu " for Bell at Waikapu " Meeting house at Koloa " " " " Lahaina Total Contributions A true Copy John F. Pogue 3 9 12 [no figure] 18 4 [no figure] 7 39 $455.00 53.00 241.00 107.25 355.25 100.00 31.00 15.00 $ 1,357.50 �Abstract of the (1861 /) Wailuku Station Report___________ ____ The past year has been period of unusual interest at Wailuku. About the close of Oct. it became manifest that the Spirit of God was moving on the hearts of the people. Both the church & congregation have been quickened in seeking after God. Backsliders have been re­ claimed, hypocrites alarmed & led to repentance & many who had acquired a notorious celebrity from wickedness have turned to the Lord. The good work is still going on. Still many stand aloof from all religion & press on madly the road to death There are nine district schools in the parish, all flourishing comprising 400 scholars - One of these is a popish school having 37 pupils, less than a tenth of the whole Wailuku possesses rich natural resources, yet the people & [are] too poor to develope them, & in the midst of means of wealth, they live in poverty Notwithstanding their deep poverty they give very liberally for the erection of houses of public worship & for the support and spread of the gospel - Besides a large amount of labor performed, they have contributed in cash since the first of June 1860 $1,366.00 for the above objects. Church statistics Received past year on profession " " certificate Total past year Dismissed past year Deceased " Restored ” Excluded " Now in regular standing Children Baptized past year Marriages past year 39 8 47 3 24 30 23 531 6 21 [Unsigned] �(Wailuku Station - 1860) An abstract of the Station at Wailuku The Pastor of the Church has been absent from his people more than a year - J.F. Pogue has been the acting Pastor - low state feasts - The Church is in a The ways of Zion mourn because few come up to her solemn There is one bright spot in the field - Waikapu - ings there are well attended a strong hold in the Field - The People are awake - The Meet­ Romanism has There [are] also some Mormons - The people have contributed for different objects the sum of $287.35 The Schools in the District are prosperous John F. Pogue �Station Report of Wailuku Maul May 1861. After being absent from my people for eighteen months, I reached Wailuku on the 5th of June last. people: I was very cordially received by the stolid Many, however, manifested a --------, stupid indifference. I resumed my labors , deeply impressed with the low state of piety among the people, feeling that God only, who raised up the dry bones in the valley of vision could quicken us again. At our communion season in July, a month after my return, we excluded 16 persons from the fellow­ ship of the church, for various offences, such as entire neglect of religion, adultery, having joined the Papists or Mormons: the majority of the church seemed to be sunk in a slumbering stupidty; yet there were a few who mourned over the desolations of Zion & prayed earnestly for a revival. About the close of Oct we were cheered with evidence that an unseen power was moving on the hearts of the people. The morning prayer meetings, which had been greatly neglected, were attended by increased numbers and there was an evident increase In the numbers, who attended all our regular meetings for worship. Backsliders would rise spontan­ eously in our meetings for prayer and conference & confessing their wanderings, ask an interest in the prayers of God’s people. Some of the most careless, wild & profligate were seized with conviction of sin & concern for their soul's salvation. It is worthy of remark, that a large proportion of these were the children of godly parents, who seemed to have broken away from all restraints & sold themselves to work iniquity; bat "The mercy of the L ord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him & his righteousness to children's children." He is faithful to his covenant. �Wailuku 1861 Christians began to pray as I had not before heard them, at Wailuku. Many fair professors of religion, who had been living in sin known only to God, were constrained to come forward & confess their wicked­ ness & beg the prayers of their brethren. The brethren of the church & the awakened were drawn together, and together they sought the Lord. They met together for prayer & exortation three times a day for weeks in succession & they would sometimes protract the afternoon meeting till 8 or 9 o'clock at night, and indeed, for a while, they continued all n ight in prayer & mutual exhortations. Fearing evil would spring up in the night meetings I advised their discontinuance. Young converts, of their own accord, diligently sought out their former companions in wickedness & labored to bring them to Christ. The brethren went in companies of 2, 3, 4 or 5 and visited every house, without distinction, whether of professed Christians, papists or mor­ mons or of whatever character, would converse & pray with them, read the scriptures to them & urge them to attend the meetings for public worship. Multitudes have thus been brought under the influence of the gospel, who live far up the valleys & ravines among the birds and wild goats of the mountains, who were quite inaccessable ( !) to the pastor. A wonderful change has come over the whole community. We no longer hear the whistle & other sounds, by night, with which the votaries of pleasure were wont to call each other. reign, the fear of God rests on the inhabitants. Order & quiet Some of the most distinguished leaders of the licentious, who were notorious as dis­ turbers of the peace whenever they were found are now clothed & in their right minds, sitting at the feet of Jesus. The first indications of the awakening appeared at Waih.ee, where there had hitherto appeared less spiritual life, than in any other section of my field. I do not know of any special measures having �Wailuku 1861 3. preceded the awakening, & I can ascribe it only to the sovereign grace of God. The influence soon extended all over ray field, and during the past six months, dawn prayer meetings at 8 or 10 different places have been kept up every morning by joyful assemblies, who are glad to hear each other say "Let us go into the house of the Lord." The inhabi­ tants of one hamlet have gone to another saying "Let us go speedily to pray before the Lord & to seek the Lord of hosts," to which they have cheerfully responded "I will go also." Many, I fear, like Lot's wife, have been awakened to flee, who have not been converted;- many have been moved by sympathy, seeing others seeking the Lord, while in fact they have had no real concern for sal­ vation. Yet I bless God for his mercy & for his wonderful works among us. The increase of religious interest among my people has naturally led to a large increase of my labors among them - I have been favored with more vigorous health than in former years, so that I have rarely failed to fill an appointment. I attend the dawn prayer meetings when I can; sabbath morning at 8 o'clock attend Children's Sabbath school at the station; at 1/2 past ten preach to the great congregation, after which a goodly number wait to recite the Ai o ka la, which is often more profitable than the sermon. In the afternoon I go out to an outpost at Waihee or Waiehu, at which time the people meet in Apanas at 8 or 10 different places, the meetings are conducted by the Elders or persons invited by them. All who are interested in studying the Bible in my field are invited to attend a Bible Class at the Station on Wednesday & a lecture on Saturday. The remaining days of the week, are occupied in visiting the various districts, where the people meet me to receive instruction �4. Wailuku 1861 & where I have spent much time in personal conversation with enquirers I trust a large number have indeed turned to the Lord. At the begin­ ning of the year, I urged the people to undertake the work of reading the whole Bible through annually. I think a large number are now engaged in this work, & I hope it will become a permanent institution among us. The pious women have been as active as the men, in their efforts to rouse the careless & lead souls to Christ. Mrs. Alexander has ac­ complished a good deal in visiting from house to house, She has also attended the female poalima [Friday] prayer meeting at the Station & at out posts. The work still continues. The people hear the word gladly & it is a pleasant work to preach to them. Satan, however, still holds his sway over very many. The period of awakening has been marked by increased zeal among the mormons and papists & there are many others who are still things. carnal & mind earthly The marriage covenant is often violated. There are many married persons whose partners are yet living, who have separated & taken manuahi [free; adulterous] partners, contrary to the laws of God and man. Many when sick resort to the doctors of Baal, who ad­ minister their drugs with incantations to the ancient idols of the land. An excellent essay on this subject was read before our Presby­ tery last April, which I hope the Hawaiian Tract Society will publish & scatter among the people. S. M. Kamakau, once a teacher in the Seminary of L a h a i aluna, was n cut off from our church, three years ago for perjury. His talents & position gave him great influence over the people of Waihee, the dis­ trict where he lived. This influence, in the good providence of God, is now effectually broken. He joined the Papists & gave us much an­ �Wailuku 1861 5. noyance by his efforts to get possession of our Meetinghouse at Wai­ hee. This has broken the spell by which he held the people & they now view him as a public enemy. He, who said to the sea, "hitherto shalt thou come but no further & here shall thy proud waves be stayed" is able to abase those that walk in pride. The experience, we have had in reference to the meetinghouse of Waihee, has led us to apply for a church charter, that we may be able to hold our church property with more security. Our schools are in a flourishing state. 400 pupils. We have 9 containing They all learn to read & write & get a good deal of knowledge of arithmetic & geography & nearly all learn to sing. By aid of the teachers, I get a large part of the pupils into my sabbath school & I esteem this part of my labors very important & hope they will not be bestowed in vain. A great desideratum with us is some means of giving profitable employment to all the people. resources. We live in the midst of great natural We have hundreds of acres of very fertile soil, that might be easily irrigated by our perennial streams that burst forth from our mountain glens; yet we produce almost nothing except kalo. We might produce & export a thousand tons of sugar annually, from land that now yields nothing scarcely but indigo oi [sharp] & other noxious weeds, and our rivers would furnish all the power needed to give motion to the machinery. But the people are too poor to erect machinery & they must wait till the prospect of gain attracts capitalists to their aid. The deep poverty of the people has abounded to the riches of their liberality, for in regard to many, to their power, I bear record, yea and beyond their power, they willingly contribute for the work of the Lord. I am unable to estimate a great part of their liberality in labor to build & complete our various houses of worship. The �Wailuku 1861 amount contributed in cash during the year has been as follows, for Church erection & repairs Pastor's Salary Sexton Foreign Missions $778.00 $500.00 36.00 52.00 1366.00 By mutual consent, a meeting of the pastors & ministers of Maui & Molokai was held at Lahaina, on the 7th of Aug. last. After free conference on the state of the churches under our care, and the im­ portance of adopting efficient measures to raise up & qualify laborers to supply the destitute portions of our field & carry on the work when our labors are finished, we were unanimously of opinion, that though we had hitherto managed our ecclesiastical affairs harmoneously ( !), without much system, yet that permanent peace & purity can not be secured for our churches without order, and that no order can be main­ tained without authority, laws & a set of officers to execute them. The only question as to what form of ecclesiastical organization we should adopt, was between Congregationalism and Presbyterianism, and we were unanimously of opinion, that for a people partially enlight­ ened, like the Hawaiians, Presbyterianism is decidedly the best form of government. We therefore organized the Presbytery of Maui & Molo­ kai, and resolved to take the Plan of government and book of discipline of the Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A. as our guide, until we have time to digest & adopt a system of our own. Thus, I trust, we have consummated a bond of union to preserve order and symmetry in the house of God, which will e[n]able us to to ( !) concentrate our efforts to supply the destitute in our field & which will will ( !) afford a school for training young men for the work of the ministry. But I need not enlarge on this part of my re­ port, as our stated Clerk will rehearse to you the measures we have taken for raising up a native ministry. �Wailuku 1861 In the month of Oct. bro. Forbes and I made the tour of East Maui preaching to the destitute of Kahikinui, Kaupo, Kipahulu, Hana & Koolau. We located Menase, a licensed preacher, at Mokulau in Kaupo, where he is laboring with great acceptance. We also have Kaono a licentiate laboring in Koolau; the central point at the Hana Station is still without a preacher. after his own heart. The Lord raise up & send them a pastor We administered the Lord's Supper and attended to matters of Church discipline in Kaupo, Hana & Koolau. Our Presby­ tery has directed that distinct churches be organized at Kaupo & Koo­ lau. We found a good deal of religious interest among the people at Hana & Koolau. Church Statistics 39 8 47 3 24 30 23 531 6 21 Received past year on profession " certificate " Total past year Dismissed past year Deceased past year Restored past year Excluded past year Now in regular standing Children baptized past year Marriages [Unsigned] [W.P. Alexander] �Abstract of Wailuku Station Report May 1862 -- The past year has been very healthy, no fatal disease or epidemic has prevailed. Many children have had the measles & mumps, but all recovered; yet the deaths have been 83 and only 66 births, which shows that the nation is wasting away. There has been a great scarcity of money, no market for poi & beef. Great efforts are being made to produce a more certain ex­ port, for this purpose many are planting rice & sugar cane. The congregation are disposed to engage the support of one Hawaiian Missionary to a pagan land. D. Kapali a ruling elder of the church was ordained in March, by the presbytery of Maui & Molokai as an evangelist to Micronesia. The presbytery now has eight candidates for the ministry under its care & there will probably be yearly additions to this number. Thus the way is preparing to go forth & possess the vast fields of paganism spread out on this ocean. No special revival of religion during the year, yet there are many pulsations of life in the church; the leaven of the gospel is grad­ ually pervading the whole mass. A Mr. Gibson, a new apostle of Mormonism has been laboring to rally that division of the enemy's post, but his efforts will prove abortive. Common schools are improving, the teachers are better & the pupils make more proficiency than ever before. �Abs. Wailuku 1862 Contributions $ C 361.00 Pastors Salary Foreign Missions 86.00 Church Repairs " 245.00 Clock 22.00 Sexton 30.00 Monument for Dr. Armstrong)1 0 5 . 2 by the school children ) — $ 756.50 Church Statistics 54 Recd, on profession the past year certificate Whole number received Dismissed " 8 " 62 " 2 19 Deceased Excluded 8 Restored 4 Now in regular standing 568 Children baptised the past year 17 Marriages 20 " [Unsigned] [W. P . Al exander] �Station Report, Wailuku Maui, May 1862. The fields have been fruitful & the herds have yielded increase & yet the people of Wailuku, who are both pastoral & agricultural, have complained more of pecuniary destitution than ever before. Although their two staple products kalo & beef have yielded abundantly, the mar­ ket has failed them. Hitherto they found a ready market for these in the great sugar plantations of Makawao & the irish potatoe fields of Kula, a continued draught for three successive years has greatly crippled the former & the latter have been almost abandoned, because whaleships ceased to come & purchase their crops. This has left the people without the means to pay their taxes or accomplish any thing that required money. Necessity has been laid upon them to produce something to exchange for which they could find a market & I doubt not the embarrassment they now suffer will lead to a much more prosper­ ous condition. Some have commenced the culture of rice & others of sugar cane & there is a general disposition to enclose their lands with sub­ stantial fences. We have two small sugar mills now in the field & another with superior machinery is being erected, some capitalists are making arrangements to erect a fourth. We also have two flour mills, whose machinery is carried by water power, for manufacturing the wheat of East Maui, one of which is being greatly enlarged and improved. All these things tend to increase the motives for active industry. May we not expect the people will become more thrifty - more virtuous & more godly? Perhaps increased industry may turn the tide of depopulation & the nation again recover strength & become an abiding monument of the power of the gospel to purify & save. �2 There have been in my field 66 births & 83 deaths since our General meeting last year, and when we remember that the past year has been unusually healthy, we cannot fail to see indications that the nation is wasting away. Foreigners, however, are steadily increasing, they have almost doubled with us during the past year. The attention of my people has been turned to the great work of evangelizing the world more than usual during the past year. We were favored with a visit from Dr. Gulick of Micronesia and afterwards from Kapohaku of the Marquesas Islands. The graphic descriptions these breathren presented of heathenism & the missionary efforts in those regions made a powerful impression upon the people. Oh that these impressions could be fixed like photographic pictures, but they are too much like pictures on a mirror, that disappear when the object painted is removed. Our monthly concert for prayer for the spread of the gospel has been kept up though generally it is thinly attended A very interesting meeting of the presbytery of Maui & Molokai was held at Wailuku in the month of March, when D. Kapali, one of our ruling Elders, and who for four years had been a teacher of one of the district schools, was ordained as an evangist ( !) to carry the gospel to Micronesia. Kapali is much beloved by the people. Some of them were so impressed by the exercises of the day that that ( !) they spent most of the succeeding night in prayer & I think a new link has been formed between the hearts of the people and the work of missions. They have been discussing the question, whether they shall not under­ take to support one missionary in the foreign field, & I hope they will do it. They had their hearts set on selecting Kapali for their mission­ ary but the Secretary of the Hawaiian Missionary Society selected �Wailuku - 1862 3. him for the Sabbath School of Mr. Lacy's Church at San Francisco. I hope this good example will be followed by many others in that highly favored land. We are in the midst of the pagan tribes of the Pacific, we have many pious young men who are anxious to carry the gospel to these tribes, they are already masters of one of the Polynesian dia­ lects which makes the acquisition of kindred dialects an easy work, they are accustomed to the food, climate & manners of the inhabitants, but our churches are not able to send the number that are ready to go & that ought to go. May we not hope that while we raise up & train the men, our continental neighbors will furnish the means. There are now eight candidates for the ministry under the care of the presbytery of Maui & Molokai & there will probably be yearly additions to this number, but we have not fields for them to labor in here. Is not the Master beckoning us onward to possess the vast fields that are lying waste? tidings I am sorry I cannot report cheering - - - - . of the work of the Lord in converting souls. There are still many who profess to have turned to the Lord, who are not church members, but who wish to be. It is hard to discriminate. The love of many seems to have waxed cold. people are impulsive. At one time religion is the chief concern, and then anon it is almost forgotten. off of religious zeal. Our There has been a great falling Our meetings on the sabbath are still well attended, this is also true sometimes on week days, yet our meetings on week days are often thinly attended. This arises however, in some degree, from increased diligence in secular labors. In July 45 persons who had been previously propounded were received to the fellowship of the church & since then we have received eight others. I know of only one defection among the large number received to the church last year. Some of them give very cheering evidence that they have indeed �4. Wailuku - 1862 been born again. My labors during the year have been very similar to that of former years. Sabbath morning at 9 o'clock, I attend a sabbath school of children, then preach at the station, after which I have a Bible Class of adults, and in the afternoon I preach at an out station at which time meetings for exhortation and prayer are held at five other places in my field: these meetings are conducted by the elders of the church or young men who are in a course of training for the ministry. On Wednesdays & saturdays I have delivered a course of lectures on the parables & miracles of our Lord, & am now taking the gospel of Matthew in course in one of these meetings & the Book of Daniel in the other. On thursday afternoon I preach at an outstation. The meeting for prayer at dawn is kept up at seven different places in my field. much good. I attend these meetings occasionally & I think they do Sometimes they are crowded & sometimes very few attend. Mrs. Alexander has meetings with the women on frydays ( !) in different parts of the field. At these meetings, in addition to the religious exercises they have manufactured several handsome bedquilts to aid the cause of missions. There has been a convocation of Mormons, from Hawaii to Kauai, held at Wailuku during the year. A Mr. Gibson, a new apostle from Great Salt Lake, called them together & raised several hundred dollars by selling, not indulgences, but commissions as officers of various ranks among the Latter Day Saints. I have no means of knowing what are the real aims of Gibson, but suppose they have been connected with the expectation that the great southern rebellion in the U.S.A. would prove successful & I shall expect he will disappear from among us, when all hope of the rebels are �Wailuku - 1862 extinguished. 5. He is now conducting the Mormon interests on Lanai. The Mormon excitement which he roused at Wailuku has passed away & Mormonism itself seems to he dying out. The common schools in my field are improving. We have an abler set of teachers than ever before, for which we are indebted to the Seminary at Lahainaluna. The children very generally make proficiency in reading, writing, arithmetic, geography & singing. D uring the past year they have committed to memory the Shorter Catechism & recited it to me at the Sabbath School. The past year has been the most quiet & orderly that I have witnessed at Wailuku. There have been no special outbreaks of iniquity, resulting I hope from the fact that the leaven of the gospel is more & more per­ vading the mass of the people In regard to the revision of the Bible for a new Edition. Pentateuch is the portion assigned to Bro Baldwin & myself. The We are each going over it seperately ( !) & intend to arrange the notes of our corrections when we get through in readiness to lay it before the whole Committee. This we hope to have ready during the present year. Contributions Church Statistics R e c 'd on prof. past year " certificate " Whole no. recd " Dismissed " Deceased " Excluded " Restored " Now in regular standing Children Baptized past year Marriages " 54 8 62 2 19 8 4 568 17 20 Pastor's Salary Foreign Missions Church Repairs " Clock Sexton $ C 361.00 86.00 245.00 2 2 .0 0 30.00 $ 744.00 Which is $622.00 less than last year Respectfully submitted W.P. Alexander �June 1863 Wailuku Station Report The Wailuku church was organized in Aug. 1832 by the Rev. J.S. Green who continued to be their pastor till July 1, 1836, when Rev. R. Armstrong became their pastor, in which relation he continued till 1843, when Rev. E.W. Clark was appointed as his successor by the Hawaiian Association & he commenced his labors as pastor June 18, 1843, which he continued to perform till Aug. 1848 - In Oct. 1848 Rev. D.T. Conde, by appointment of the Hawaiian Association became pastor in which relation he continued till Oct. 1856 Nov. 15, 1856 the present pastor accepted a unanimous call of the church to become their pastor & was regularly installed Jan. 21, 1857. On the 19th of April 1857 the church at Honuaula was organized distinct church. It had hitherto constituted a into a/part of the Wailuku church & when organized it consisted of 298 members who were for this purpose dismissed from the church of Wailuku, and Oct. 14, 1860 S.W. Nueku was ordained by the Presbytery of Maui & Molokai as assistant Pastor of the Ch of Honuaula. The whole number of persons who have been received into the church of Wailuku from the beginning on examination is 1957 the whole number on certificate " 106 of deaths 860 " dismissed to other churches 509 " who remain excluded 164 " Now in good standing males females 282) 248) 530 About one half of all that have been received into the church during the 31 years since it was organized have died; of the 60 who were received during the first five years only four remain in the district, & 40 have died. Of the 164 who remain excluded, 25 have become papists, & 16 are Mormons. �Wailuku 1863 2. The past year has been apparently a period, of health, no alarming sickness has swept over the land & yet while the number of births in Wailuku district has been 45, there have "been 97 deaths, more than double the number of births. There Is however an alarming disorder extending among us, I refer to the Mai Pake [leprosy] ; the number affected with this loathsome disease has more than doubled during the past year. We have reason to believe the disease is contagious & efficient measures ought to be taken to isolate it, Sc if possible expel it from the country. The agricultural interests of Wailuku have received a great impetus during the past year. Hitherto kalo has been the great staple indeed our district has produced almost nothing else, while more than 2000 acres of fertile land, that may be irrigated by the four perennial streams that rush down through the Mtn gorges, have lain waste. The fence builder now is at work & the plowman - Hundreds of acres are being prepared for sugar cane & there is a prospect that the export from the district will hereafter be counted by several thousands of tons of sugar. The facility with which the people can acquire property has been greatly increased & many of them will doubtless become wealthy. foreign element is also rapidly increasing among us. The A very respect­ able congregation can now be collected to worship God in the Eng. language & it is expected that Rev. C .B . Andrews, who has made arrange­ ments to move into the district will preach to this congregation. Prosperity in temporal good things has always been dangerous to a people’s spiritual interests; the aspiration of the venerable Apostle was judicious "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest pros­ per & be in health, even as thy soul prospereth” 3 John 2. To have �Wailuku 1863 3. the soul's prosperity of the people keep pace with their material accumulations will require increasing vigilance & labor on the part of their pastors. We must see to it that they consecrate themselves & their all to the Lord & that their benevolent instincts are not extinguished by increasing selfishness. During the past year the peo­ ple of Wailuku have been stirred to active benevolent effort on two occasions, first when they heard the wail from Lahainaluna that the much loved Seminary was consumed with fire, their liberality showed how deeply they were moved. Again when they heard the Directors of the Hawaiian Board of Missions had resolved to recommend that the Marquesas Mission be recalled from the lack of means to carry on the work, they came nobly to their help us". "The poor we always have with We shall never lack suitable channels in which their benevolent e[n]terprise may flow, let us be on the alert to train & guide them aright in this matter. Although we have not enjoyed a revival of religion during the past year, yet the religious interest of the people has not declined. Our meetings on the sabbath continue to be well attended, but the great increase of agriculture has diminished the assemblies at our week day meetings. I think the church is growing in knowledge & strength. Our schools were never as prosperous as now & there is no part of my work that I enjoy more than laboring in the children's sabbath school. Mormonism is on the decline [,] Popery in statu quo, & the new religion, the Reformed Catholic finds no favor among us, except among a few Englishmen who live among us. The contributions during the past year have been as follows �Wailuku 1863 4 For the cause of Missions Pastor's Salary Reroofing the Pastor's house Church repairs Lahainaluna Seminary $353.00 300.00 219.12 1/2 45.25 249.18 3/4 Total $1166.56 1/4 Church Statistics Whole number received on Profession " " Past year on 1957 Certificate 106 Profession 00 8 Certificate 8 Total past year Whole No Dismissed 509 7 Dismissed past year Total Deceased 860 Deceased past year 17 Excluded past year 4 Now in regular standing 530 Total children Baptized 1153 Baptized past year Marriages 4 " 23 [Unsigned; W.P. Alexander] [lnsert on small piece of paper:] The Committee for revising the translation of the Bible, assigned the Pentateuch to me. through with Genesis and a part of Exodus - I have gone � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mission Station Reports - Maui Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mission Station Reports - Maui - Wailuku - 1840-1863 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1840, 1841, 1842, 1844, 1846, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/71985c2ebf1ab645b0dd171f20763be8.pdf 0ed00b36cbe2481fa1acbcf1b9ac43f0 PDF Text Text CONTENTS All dated 1871 Lahainaluna Seminary - -Unsigned L a h a i n a ---------------- -Unsigned K e o k e a --------(Maui)---- Unsigned Kealakeakua --(Hawaii)-- Unsigned Abstract of Hilo report -Andrews, C . B. �Lahainaluna Seminary [on side of page] L-luna Sem. Has continued in operation as in past years. There have been two discouragements. viz the falling of some of the buildings, & the sickness & death of some of it's (!) pupils. 82 scholars have been connected with the Sem during the year, 12 have completed the usual course & leave, besides 5 of last year's graduates who remained during the year & studied Theology. Two important changes have been resolved on by the trustees of the institution to take effect this year viz, In view of the large expenditure for food, each scholar is to provide for his own support henceforth. 2 .ndly The English language is to be introduced as one branch of attainment, by the scholars. It is hoped, that both of these changes will add greatly to the efficiency (!) of the Institution, in educating its pupuls. (!) [Unsigned] �1871 Lahaina Mission family h as enjoyed better health than in former years. is in aprosperous The church (!) state. has increased in numbers by about 70 additions, & 100 more maybe considered suitable candidates for admission during this year. Drunkeness prevalent heretofore in the village has decreased, & other vices seem diminishing. The chh. has assumed it's (!) pastor's support, & has contributed liberally for their Meeting House, the Anti-Slavery Soc. for Micronesia, & are much interested in the prospective Mission to the Marquesus. It is ped these calls for the gospel will come from more Isles of this pacific Romanism sits very inactive in this field. Not so Mormonism. I t ’s (!) priest's began efficient operations last year with partial success among the vilest population but have suspended most of them. Schools were suspended about the close of 1852 for lack of funds but are now in successful operation again. [Unsigned] �Keokea This church was organized during the past year of 97 members from other churches. They called David Maro, & on the 2nd of Sept. last he was or- dained & installed as their pastor. The chh . is very promising. Located in the region which supplies the whaling fleet with I. potatoes, it comprises many enterprising natives. Since organization 115 new members have been added. There are 4 school (!) is (!) the district. Two new Stone M. houses are in process of erection one at Keokea, the other at the seaport adjacent lepolepo. There are no Mormons or Romanists in the field. [Unsigned] �Kealakeakua [on side of page] South Kona Hawaii The past year has been one of privation & labor by the pastor Mr. Paris. on account of the delapidated condition of the dwelling & M.Houses & the disbanded state of the chh . But his labors in many villages have been blest & the religious engagedness there reawakened is peculiarly refreshing, while other places seem very dead. There is hope however, that a blessing will bepoured (!) eventually upon all the field under continued culture hereafter. The work for sometime to come must nescessarily (!) be the rebuilding of wastes & dilapidations & c o llecting the scattered & wandering. The Meeting Houses are in process of rebuilding, $555.00 have been collected for the one at Kealakekua, $100.00 give n at Mon. Con. $140.00 for pastor's support, $700.00 subscribed for next year. There is hope that this field will with present &prospective (!) labor yield good fruit hereafter. [Unsigned] �[Hilo 1871] Abstract of Hilo Report. General temporal improvements move steadily forward. Nearly every child of suitable age is gathered into School. Seven new meeting houses built +2 others repaired at an expense of 2000 dollars. Many smaller houses conference ze (?) for prayer erected in various parts of the field? Poperey has little power & few adherents in Hilo & Puna. Efforts have been made for the poor of seamen - 130 arrivals of ships & other vessels during the year. Tours through Hilo & Puna have been made as usual viz. three in each district. The Church has been peaceful, active & prosperous. Reviving influences have spread over v ast parts of the field & not a few hopefully converted. The Annual Convention of delegates, & the juvenile temperence anniversaries were well attended & sustained. Sabbath Schools embrace all the children & large numbers of adults. Contributions. A.B.C.F .M. Hawaiian M. Soc'y Am. Tract Soc'y Am.? Soc.Christian Union Am. Sea. Fr'd Soc'y Am. Bible Soc'y . Am. T e m . U n i o n Am. For.Anti Slavery Soc'y [Unsigned] [on back : C.B.Andrews Hilo $1000, 200 100 100 100 100 100 100 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mission Station Reports - Maui Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mission Station Reports - Maui / Hawaii - Various - 1871 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1871 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/da2c82021deb69ba843bd9e14a20f078.pdf e97ddddaf7c0699b64d4b68211f15285 PDF Text Text M O L O K A I S T A T I O N R E P O R T S 1 8 5 3 - 1 8 4 9 �P R E F A C E These reports of the American mission at Kaluaaha, Molokai, during the 1830's and 1840's, were prepared by the missionaries stationed there for the General Meet­ ings, usually held at Honolulu. Summaries of these reports appeared in the Extracts from the Minutes of the General Meetings, which were printed for the use of the members of the Mission only. As there is a dearth of historical material on Molokai, it was thought wise to have these manuscripts copied. The originals are in the archives of the Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society. Through the cooperation of the University of Hawaii and Mr. George P. Cooke of Molokai, three copies have been made by a university student, Mr. Bert N. Nishimura. One copy will be placed in the library of the University, one in the Hawaiian Mis­ sion Children's Society library, and one in the private library of Mr. Cooke. The typescripts have been proof-read by Mr, Nishimura and Miss Bernice Judd. June 4, 1937 �T A B L E OP C O N T E N T S Report of the Station at Kaluaaha, Molokai from the 7th of Nov. 1832 to June 1st 1833 ................................................... Report of the Mission Station at Molokai for the year ending June 1st 1834 11 Annual Report of the Station at Kaluaaha 1835 15 Report of the Station Kaluaaha for 1836-7 ..........18 Report in part of Molokai Station for the year 1837-8 ............ 22 Report of Station of Kaluaha [sic] 1848 Statistics of Kaluaaha for 1847-8 .. . . . . . . 24 . 33 Report of Kaluaaha 1848-9 ............. ............34 Statisticks [sic] �4 Report of the Station at Kaluaaha Molokai from the 7th of Nov. 1832 to June 1st 1833. In pursuance brethren of your note, at the last general meeting I with my family embarked for Molokai on the of last november [sic] and on the same day took the station assigned m e . The name of the place selected for the station is Kalua_aha, about 12 miles west of the east point and nearly in the centre [sic] of the population residing on the south side of the Island. The climate is cool owing to the trade wind which by which [sic] it is almost constantly fanned. For two month [sic] after our arrival there was an abundance of rain since [sic] that time there has been much less. Much of the time has not been uncomfortable in the open sun— and much of the time too thick clothes, have been comfortable. If we may judge from from [sic] the Influence of the climate on our selves thus far we are prepared to pronounce it perfectly healthy. Neither myself or wife [sic] has ever enjoyed bet­ ter health than since we have lived there— and the same if I mistake not has been, the fact with Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong. The station is about 20 miles from Lahaina and in fair view of this harbour. About a mile and a half east of the station is fine [sic] harbour [sic] for native vessels and good walking from the landing to the house. On our arrival at the station we found a commodious native house on the spot we had previously selected for the purpose as also a good house for our natives both built by the people. Kaluaha [sic] belongs to Hoopiliiwahine who encouraged us to select it as a site for a station. We were accompanied by Auhea the principal owner of the island. She was very kind, and charged the people to regard us as their teachers, listen to our instructions and cleave to the pono. [sic:right] She gave strict orders to supply us with such food as we needed if it grew on the island. Taro for our table has accordingly been every day furnished us free of expense. As also much of the food for our natives. The people received us very cordially-— and as is usual and is unusual manifested their good feelings presents [sic] in abundance. For several months past presents have been rare the people having probably learned that their Aloha may be exhibited in a cheaper way. Moral & Religious state of the people— -Previous to our arrival there had been but three sermons preached on the is­ land and these but a month or two before. The first by Brother Andrews, the 2nd- by myself, and the third by Brother Spaulding. Many and ---- probably most of the people never have heard �a sermon before our arrival, and could of course have pos­ sessed little more more [sic] knowledge of the christian religion than what they had gathered from the few hooks that had been distributed among them. The gods having been destroyed they were destitute of any— and I presume there were few exceptions indeed to the truth of the general remark that the people were as com­ pletely ignorant of the true god as''they were forty years ago. I n fact most of the inhabitants of one of the most populous districts on the Island soon after the station was taken actually returned to their old way-— they have since been reclaimed. At first our congregations were full. It is evident however that the people were many of them at least induced to attend from motives of curiosity--for once the novelty has ceased much fewer attend. at [sic] first there were present on the Sabbath from 1500 to 2000— at present the average number is about a thousand. Congregation— attendance— Meeting house At first as we had no meeting house we met under laaualas [sic] in front of our dwelling house. Here we were much disturbed by the wind and rain--in about two months a meetinghouse was finished 30 feet by 120. For several sabbaths the people were unable to get seats inside of the house and many were obliged to sit without . The congregation however soon grew smaller and were soon ac­ commodated with seats in the house. At present the house : on the sabbath is not filled. For sometime however the num­ ber has been about stationary at 1000. Several causes might be assigned for the decrease of the congregation. At first the people came from a great distance-— who after the novelty of seeing the newcomers had ceased had not motives sufficient to continue. Many no doubt from the fact that they were fatigued with sitting— but more I apprehend from not being permitted by the people in the neighbourhood [sic] to smoke in or about the houses on the -sabbath. Religious exercises— we have had two sermons on the sab­ bath, a written one In the morning— an extemporaneous one in the afternoon. For sometime fee intermission between the two services was less than half an hour that those at a distancem i g h t return home before night and at the same time stay to both exercises. This expedient of keeping them together at the afternoon service and we hold this service now at 4 oclock. Though fewer people attend than before, those who do attend attend willingly and give much better attention. Before the morning service Mrs. H [sic] has a sabbath school consisting of about 90 children— 30 or forty of whom recite the 7 verses for the week, and [sic] seem to be �6 somewhat fond of attending. We have also a sabbath school for adults in the inter­ val of the morning evening [sic] services--consisting of about 200 scholars, each of whom recites the 7 verses with great accuracy-— at least with very few exceptions. After recitation they are questioned as to the meaning of the les­ son- -and after this upon the leading points in the morning sermon. At present they manifest a good degree of interest in these exercises and can this interest be kept up, much good may be expected to be the result. We had for a time a third meeting on the sabbath after dark--safe [some?] of which were very solemn and would have been continued had it not been apprehended that evening meet­ ings would throw new temptations in the way of the people. The only religious meetings we have during the week is preaching Wednesday [sic] afternoons at which there are usual­ ly present from 100 to 200. Imediately [sic] before this meeting Mrs. H has a female meeting of from 1 to 200 the [sic] exercises this meeting prayer--singing— all the women who are. able to read read each a passage of scripture and are questioned as to its meaning. On Saturday evening we have a prayer meeting for pro­ fessors of religion. The effect of Religious instruction upon the people, thus far has been scarcely perceptible. The great mass ap­ pear as yet to have no definite views either of their own character or that of God. And what is worse many and I know not but most of them are utterly indifferent in regard to both. For in my visits I have found but I have found [sic] but sorry evidence of their regard to a knowledge of the pono. Soon after the commencement of the station & for several weeks succeeding they were truly assiduous [sic] in their efforts to convince us they were proud flocked in in [sic] great numbers with their thoughts, and seemed proud of con­ fessing their former sins with all their aggravations in order that present innocence and goodness of heart might appear the more consicuous. [sic] Formerly we were adult­ erers and theives and murderers but at present we are good have great desires for the pono seemed to be the almost universal sentiment. Finding us however incredulous on this point, they sudenly [sic] changed their ground and would for a time have us believe that they were almost everything bad. Finally as neither these professions of goodness nor of bad­ ness had the effect of making us believe they were saints, most of them desisted and of late we have been troubled with comparatively few of their manoos. To the general remark however that religious instruc­ tion has had scarce any perceptible effect there [are] some excep­ tions. There are are [sic] a goodly number of very attentive, �7 sirious, [sic] and well disposed hearers of the truth, most of these have comparatively correct views of the plan some manifest considerable anxiety for their souls, three or four give no little evidence of possessing the spirit of Christ. The [sic] are a great encouragement to us in our work give [sic] us some assurance that our labour [sic] is not in vain in the Lord. Schools. Of these there are 38[?] on the island. [sic] at the time they were examined by Brothers Andrews and Green they were thought to be in as flourishing a state as that those [sic] of any of the islands. We have had two general examinations the next week after our arrival and the other on the 15th of last month. At the former we examined a few over 2000. At the latter though every school on the island was present we examined less than 1900. Of these 1687 were nominal readers. Matt 150 Mar 133. Luk. 231. Oih. 781 Rom 47. Gal. 42. Pet 39 Ninau 84 Josu 105 Josep 24-— Nahelu 38, Hal 66. The remainder in the Pa Kamalii and in the P. Maoli. 69 in arithmetic 112 in writing on slates. [sic] Of the nominal readers one third at least cannot read at all— one third can read with difficulty and the other third with considerable ---- fluency. Probably 500 hundred [sic] or about 1/15th of the whole population can read with considerable ease. The schools are manifestly on the decline. They have ceased to be a novelty. Teachers are chiefish, indolent and ignorant and have little or no influence. No authority on the island to make either them or the scholars attend to their duty. The order of the chiefs which from superstitious fears probably induced the people to frequent the schools formerly has lost its power. The result is a falling of [sic] from the study of the palapala. The schools at the stations are three: A school of children consisting of from 80 to 100 scholars taught by Mrs. H 5 days in a week each school [sic] occupies between two and three hours. She has native assistants. Most of the scho­ lars have been uniform in their attendance and as easily governed as the same number would have been in our native land. When the school commenced there were 25 readers. These have made good improvement in reading and most of them write a fair and legible hand on the slate and have commenced arith­ metic. Thirty 5 [sic] can read with ease who when the school commenced could not read at all and many of whom did not know the letters. Nothing seems necessary to give success to this schools [sic] but books to keep up the interest of the children. The idea of commencing in a new book is very pleasing to them. �Beside this [sic] Mrs. H has a school for adult females consisting of between 20 and thirty--they have read and stud­ ied geography. This school has been holder [held?] four days in the week. A very few of them have done well. I have a school for the teachers. There are between 50 and 60 schoolars[sic]— they have attended to reading— study of geography from the map— and to the helu kamalii. Some of them have done credit to themselves. both [sic] by their conduct attention and good improvement while others have not requalized [sic] themselves in either. In order that the school may become an eficient [sic] one it highly [sic] necessary that provisions be made for the support of the scholars while at school— many of them can provide no food and of course will not attend. Could a small quantity of land be devoted to the benefit of the school on which the scholars could erect houses and where they might cultivate some food, their constant attention to school would be secured until it should be proper to send them back to their places to teach and then the houses could be occupied by others. Books On this subject I am unable to report as definitely as I could wish. I think on the whole that the demand for books has been as great as we could have expected. W e have given out more than our proportion of the stock o n hand. For many of them we have received in return potatoes, taro, onions, pia wood by the stick fowls, eggs, mats, tapa, pairs [sic] small jobs of work &c of these we have kept no account. We have paid in books for a stone study 40 dolls, for stone wall 25 and for stone for a dwelling house 40 have paid for work also 30 yards of cloth at 5 cents per yard. Have sold 7 testaments for cost. These I could sell to the best advantage. And could I get them should prefer them for trade with the natives to cloth— as I came came [sic] here with a view of supplying the people with the bread of life. And though it may be a pecuniaryxxxxxx ad­ vantage to sell the new testament for cost only If [sic] I can procure them and they request them for labour I should not dare refuse them. Out Stations. Of these there may be t w o -one is about 150 miles west of Kaluaha [sic]--and the other perhaps 12 miles east. The one at the east is accessible either in canoes or on horseback. As near as we could learrn there will be a congregation of between 6 and 700. They have a meeting house now that will contain nearly or quite 500 people it is hansomely [sic] walled in with stone and surrounded on two sides by an ex­ tensive Ranai Both the house and ranai are frequently filled. [sic] �9 A member of the church owns land there and and [sic] is now engaged in building a station house and expects preachin there soon. As the meeting house is to [sic] small and not in the most convenient spot for the people, they are about to build a larger, and on a more eligible spot. This as an outstation is especially important as it is accessible by the people of the east side of the island who otherwise can not have the preaching of the word it being extremely [hard?] to getat them. The members of the church hold meeting there now on the sabbath— and have a sabbath school. The place for the other out station is about 12 or thir­ teen miles from Kaluaha [sic] were it as easy of access as the other it would be nearly as important. But access to/it is very difficult any way— when there is any wind it is unsafe to go by water and when there is not it is very tedious. The route to it by land is nearer, the path however is inter­ cepted by tremendous precipices— the whole surface- of the earth seems like an ocean instantaneously solidified while thrown into palis by the wind and storm. Brother A and myself however left home at 8 oclock in the morning and arrived there about three in the afternoon. The name of the land is Halawa belonging to Hoopiliwahine. It is a beautiful deep valley half a mile wide at the ocean runs back two miles and a half and is watered by a large and delightful stream of fresh water which falls from the mountains at the other end in two grand and beauti­ ful cataracts one of which rushes over a perpendicular de­ cent of more than 500 feet into a deep cole [sic] and crys­ tal lake of 30 or forty yards in diameter. The stream which issues from this lake is suff. for extensive machinery--it is so situated as to be easily drawn of [!] by sluices into the taro plots. These [sic] valley is principally laid out in these small rectangular plots which when viewed from the pre­ cipices which impend three thousand feet above loose [sic] the features of reality and assume those of the most enchanting romance. Were this really made an out station we might expect a congregation of 500 or 600 or even more. Many and ---- in­ deed most of which do not enjoy the means of grace--The people would come in canoes from the north side of the island who are not precluded from the sanctuary. The people would imediately [sic] erect both a dwelling and meeting house. Could these out stations be occupied it would it would [sic] put the preaching of the gospel within the [reach?] of nearly or quite the whole population of the island. To the station on the west one might ride Saturday after­ noon, and return early monday [sic] morning. To the other, owing to the difficulty of access to it will probably be ad­ visable to spend several weeks at a time. �10 Population— From a census recently taken by the teach ers there are at least 6000 inhabitants on the island. the returns amounting to upwards of 5700--to which are to be added the people of 5 lands from which returns have not been received. Since brother A has been with us he has had a singing school to which he has devoted 3 evenings in the week and which has been of essential service not only as a foundation of sacred musick, [sic] but in convincing the natives that by persever­ ance they may arrive to respectable attainments in this de­ lightful science. Very few cases of open immorality have come to our ears. Soon after the station was taken some measures were addapted [sic] to discourage smoking. Those who were willing to forsake it were requested to come and enroll their names in a cataloge [sic] kept for the purpose. All the most res­ pectable part came forward— I do not know how many probably 200. Since this time I have not seen an individual smoking on the island. Though no doubt that many do. In conclusion I cannot conclude this report without re­ marking brethren which you that the station brethren [sic] that you have assigned me is one of great importants [sic] and is on many accounts a very desirable one. The island is highly fruitful--producing most of the articles of food required in a family--the people are friendly— so situated as to be able all them [sic] to hear the word of God--and though we have not the example or authority of the good Chiefs to aid us-— we have not the indiference [sic] the cupidity--or the opposition of the head ones to hinder us--and though we have not access to foreign ship and foreign men to obtain the things which we might wish from them yet [sic] is an am­ ple equivalent that they have not access to us to corrupt, lead astray, and ruin our people. I wish therefore to say that I am thankful in being placed in a field where there are so few obstacles to the success of well devoted efforts to the salvation of sinners and so may so well adapted to secure that success— request­ ing Brethren that we may have the sympathy and aid of your prayer in the labour you have assigned us I submit the Report. H. R. Hitchcock June 1833 Station at Waimea Morokai 1833 — oo— �11 Report of the mission Station at Molokai for the year ending June 1st 1834 [sic] In giving in these report /or the past year [in pencil: the missionaries] at Kaluaaha station would first of all notice with unfeigned gratitude the merciful providence of God which has allotted to the greater part of their number such a degree of health as to be enabled to attend constantly to the duties of the station. But while we rejoice in the prosperous hand of [in pen­ cil: God] toward us in this respect we can but feel humbled under the hand of the same infinitely wise and righteous pro­ vidence which has deprived one of our number of health, and thus dissapointed [sic] her hopes of engaging as she expected in the work of the Lord. --- -- ---- On returning from the last General Meeting we were happy to find the state of our people much more favourable [sic] than we had anticipated. The meetings on the sabbath which before we left for general meeting had become thin, were on our return much fuller, and have continued so ever since. And we thought that we discovered an increase of attachment arising out of our short absence. We heard of no disorder among our people which we could have probably prevented had we been with them. According to a resolution of the Association a church w as been [sic] organized on the first sabbath in august [ sic] consisting of 12 native members— 7 of whom were members from other churches, the remainder were received on profession of their faith. After the organization of the churc h the sacra­ ment of the Lord supper was administered for the first time on on [sic] the island. The scene was solemn and interesting. Religious exercises. Besides the two principle exercises on the sabbath, we have for the greater part of the time held station meetings weekly at two of the distant districts at which meetings we have usually had a good audience and sometimes very solemn attention; these together with the sabbath and Wednesday [sic] sermons make five for the week. Besides a weekly church meeting we have also a weekly meeting for. conference and prayer with all who please to attend. -- ---- --- ------- ------- --- --- ------ [sic] We have two sabbath schools; one for adults, and one for children— -the latter consisting of not far from one hundred, thirty or forty of whom recite reguarly [sic] the verses for the week according to the verse a day system. The school for adults consists from one hundred to --- one hundred and fifty, who also recite the same. About thirty of this number meet at our house every evening to recite the verse for the day to ask questions upon it and to unite in prayer. This meeting has been found very profitable. Beside [sic] this the �sabbath school, after the recitation of the 7 verses and exa­ mined on the sermon of the preceeding sabbath morning— as well as the one to which they have just been listening; in this exercise they manifest a decided interest and such are the encouragements resulting from it that we shall probably con­ tinue it. The missionaries had for some time had --- ---- been think­ ing of a protracted meeting, our feelings were decideded, [sic] and warmly engaged in their favour--from the wonder effects we had known to result from these by the [sic], divine blessing in our Native land. we [sic] wished to give them a trial at our station. But were kept from it partly from a fact that it would be a new measure in the introduction of which we prefered [sic] others should go before us— partly from fear that the result might not prove salutary in this field, and partly from the circumstances of our people which at that time seemed to afford no convenient opportunity for it. The two first of these obstacles were soon hapily [sic] removed by the reception of a letter from one of the brethren [sic] from Hido stating that they had in fact held such a meeting and that it had been an instrument in the hands of the spirit of special good to souls. Whereupon we resolved to apoint [sic] one— which we did to comence [sic] on the 25th of March. From the time in which the apointment [sic] was made untill [sic] the meeting, -- --- we trust that if the influ­ ences of the holy Ghost were indispensible to the success of such meetings in our own land. They certainly could be no less so here— and we hope that ours was made the subject of frequent and ardent prayer that our own hearts might be in some measure prepared to conduct such a meeting in a proper manner and that the people might be benifited [sic] by it. The meeting commenced, and was continued --- two days and well attended. When Brothers Richard and Spaulding ar­ rived from Lahaina, Brother S preached once and returned to L. Brother Richards continued with us during the meeting which lasted five days. We would wish to notice in this place our obligations to him for the very important aid he afforded. The assembly were [sic] usually numerous and attentive; No measures were adopted to awaken feeling aside from preaching the word, singing, prayer and private conversation. It was soon however discovered that there were several under apparent­ ly genuine conviction. I had forgotten to say that we had instituted a morning prayer meeting. The attendance and appearance of the people at these meetings together with the feelings of our own hearts had caused us to say that the di­ vine Spirit was in the midst of us, some days before the protracted meetings [sic] commenced. These meetings still con­ tinue, are well attended and are highly useful. �Not long after the commencement of the meeting as I observed above it was discovered that several were labouring under a sense of th eir sinfulness. A sermon by Brother R on the Nature of Repentance was the ---------- apparently directmeans, of this state of things. At an examination of a few, on sabbath evening respecting the sermon, it was found that several conversed more like awakened, [sic] or convicted sin­ ners in our own land than any that we had before heard. -- in this state of things we discontinued the protracted meeting— we-have since seen more of its effects than while it was in progress. From ten to fifteen all of whom had before given us no evidence of a change of heart seem more so far as we have been able to judge by the -------- -- ------------ their appearance, words, and actions to be the subjects of the re­ ceiving influences of the Holy Spirit. Most of these are from the class of the moral, better instructed. But there are are [sic] several cases of hopeful convesion [conversion] the subjects of which before the protracted meeting were either very ignorant in comparison with others, or very im­ moral and opposed to the pono. So obvious is the change in the conduct of one especially, that it can hardly be associ­ ated for on any other ground than that of his having been taught by the Holy Spirit. On the whole the obvious results of our meeting have been such as greatly to encourage us— and to induce us to have another as soon circumstances [sic] will, and to reccommened [sic] their adoption as far as practicable [sic] at every station in the mission. Schools— we have had three day schools at the station for most of the time during the past year all of which have made as good proficiency as considering the time, and means devoted to them would allow us to expect. One of these schools is for teachers and consists of about 40 males, and six fe­ males. These have studied Geography, Coulburns Arithmetic and writing-— and they have been taught on an average 10 hours per week. - The second is a school taught by Brother Smith for adults consisting on an average of 24 scholars— who have attended to reading, writing, and mental arithmetic. The third is a school for children, taught by Mrs. H. containing rising of eighty scholars— the average number has been perhaps 75 during the year. This school consists of three classes. The first if [sic] which containing 25 read, write, cypher on the slate— recite in mental arithmetic, and recite the verse of scripture for the day. The second class containing about the same number read write on slates and answer question in mental arithmetic and recite also the verse of scripture. The third class embrace those that are unable to read. �14 We would remark with regard to our station schools that we have advanced about as far as we can untill [sic] we are furnished with a school house--and that of course a good house is of as much importance as the instruction of the children of the station. To attempt to benefit the people without such a house is a fruitless attempt. Of our native schools we have nothing to say, except that they are entirely down . We have during the year given them attention except to attend two General examination at [sic] the first of which there were present 1000— or nearly that-at the other something more than 12 hundred. Besides this we have encouraged them to purchase books and have sold a good many. We are of the opinion that no more good can re­ sult from these schools on Molokai untill [sic] we can procure better schoolhouses and better qualified teachers. A singing school has been established consisting of about 50 learners and their proficiency has been such as to en­ courage us to hope that by suitable attention they will be­ come good singers. Maried [sic] during the year 69 couples Baptized during the year adults 5 Children 9 In conclusion your missionaries have much reason to mourn that more good has not been accomplished by their labours during the past year for we feel that had we had more love to God— more compassion for sinners— more faith, zeal, and self-denial much more would have been done. But while we mourn over our own deficiency and unfruit fulness, we would give Glory to God that he has in any measure owned and blessed our imperfect labours--and give us much reason to hope that they have not been in vain in the Lord. outposts 2 at which we have preached occasionally preached [sic] during the year. one 20 miles distant, the other 12. Station report Molokai' — oo— �15 Anual [Annual] Report of the Station at Kaluaaha [1835] In making this report the missionary at Kaluaaha, would first notice with unfeigned thankfulness the kind hand of God toward himself and family the past year in giving him such a degree of health that without interruption he has been permitted to preach the gospel to his precious but ignorant and dying flock--and especially in recovering his companion from an illness from which we had begun to dispair of relief. For these mercies we are confident the brethren of the mis­ sion will unite with us sincere praise to. God. [sic] Much of my time the past year has been unavoidably devoted to secular concerns such as the superintendence of buildings. As the result of this we have completed a subs­ tantial stone schoolhouse— thatched roof— 54 ft. by 26 inside— plastered and whitewashed outside and in with good writing forms and glazed. An excellent dwelling house is nearly finished and a meetinghouse commenced and the walls already raised to the heighth of nine feet. The Station Schools have met the past year with consi­ derable interruption partly from the illness of Mrs. H and partly from the scholars being engaged in building the school­ house. Since the completion of the house however special efforts have been made to revive the childrens school. These efforts have been successful beyond our expectations. The school now numbers 170 scholars— is perhaps the average 2 5 1 attendance. I have the sole superintendence of it, and de­ vote from two to three hours dayly [sic] in it 5 days in the week. The scholars are highly interested and make rapid improvements. Native Schools have not depreciated since the last ge­ neral Meet. Some things respecting them are even more en­ couraging than formerly at the late semianual [sic] examina­ tion there were present 1300 a greater proportion than for­ merly were able to read and ------ some with, and some with­ out difficulty. There were too a greater number of children present than usual on such occasions. There are much more frequent calls for children's books than I have b efore wit­ nessed since my residence on the island. Had we the proper books children's schools might now probably be established in most of the districts on the island. May we not there­ fore hope that books will be speedily provided. Religious Exercises have also been somewhat modified by circumstances. We have had fewer meetings during the week away from the obvious cause that we have one less la­ s tation than we had last year from the �16 bourer in the field and also that one who is left has had so much other business to attend to. Two sermons and two sabbath schools each consisting of from 100 to 150, on the sabbath a daily morning meeting at which I usually expound the scriptures in course and which has been attended on an average by more than 120 hearers— a bible class of from 20 to 50 most of the evenings in the week; the sermon on Wednesday--a church meeting on Satur­ day— the monthly concert together with an occasional meet­ ing- at an outpost are the amount of our religious labours the past year. If we except occasional visiting the people. The result of these labours tho decidedly favourable has been less so than we had fondly hoped it would be. We are grieved when we must say that there is of late a falling off in the congregation on the Sabbath, and that we have not experienced those special influences of the Divine spirit of God which alone can convert the heart of Hawaiians. There are however a few whom we hope are not unprofitable hearers of the truth— and for whom we entertain strong hopes as being the children of God. These we hope soon to admit to the fellowship of the church. Members received into the church the past year Disceased [sic] — — — ----- — ---- ---- Members of the church now in good standing Children Baptized during the year Marriages 11 1 21 9 82 An associate. I wish simply to remark on this subject that my desire for a fellow labourer, and my views of the propriety of my having one remain unchanged as also those the separeting [sic] system which was adopted at the last meeting. Brethren, " two are better than one." we shll [sic] have no body whom we can consult with, who in sickness can sympathise [sic] with or afford us that assistance which we need and which most of our brethren of the mission have. No one of you if he wishes to visit a brother, or if his family is sick need expose his life on the ocean in a frail canoe. My heart faints within me when I contemplate those, who began to hear the word of God when Brother Smith was with us but who are now as much deprived of the privilege as though there was no missionary on the island or nearly so. Were another brother stationed with me beside the great privilege of social enjoyment which would be confered [sic] on us I should be at liberty at least much of the time to carry the gospel to those who would be glad of it but are now deprived of it. The population in the vicinity of the station Is dense and presents a field altogether too import­ ant to be entrusted to the case of a single individual es­ pecially as much of his time, instead of being devoted di­ rectly to ministerial labours, is taken up with the care of schools and of his own family. But the circumstances of the �17 station are well known to the mission. I leave you to decide whether, if a member of the mission is this session to be stationed as an associate with another, any station has a stronger claim than Kaluaaha; and whether we shall or shall not be denied those social joys and privileges to which you yourselves have access; but on which our happiness and usefulness too as much depend as do that of our brethren. House of worship. One has been commenced and the walls nearly up ninety feet by 42 outside and walls are three feet thick and are to be 12 feet high, the roof to be thatched it is laid up in mud and grass and is thus far the best piece of native masonry that l have seen. The whole island are engaged in building it. The natives will find stones, lime for plastering and timber— and do all the work except what requires a carpenter- -and perhaps for a few days a mason: [sic] In a word the people will do all that can be done by them. The boards and glass and carpenter they cannot procure on account of frequent rains and it will be necessary for us to have glass windows as shutter merely in a rain storm would keep out the light as well as the rain--shall need 2 boxes. The natives will not be able to make the doors as there is no timber on the island suitable. The roof will need to be framed as there is no timber on the island long enough with­ out piecing. A good carpenter might possible do all the work in two months. That part of the building which the natives cannot meet will probable not be far from the following 2 boxes of glass at 10 dolls per box size 8 by 10 $20.00 500 feet of boards suitable for doors & sashes, pulpits &c $25 to 50.00 10 lbs. nails at 25 cents per lb 2.50 Putty and paint perhaps 3.00 2 1 /2 months work of carpenter at 30--35 ----dolls for month exclusive of board 87.00 Trimmings for doors 5 .00 $14,700 I therefore hereby petition the mission that that part of the expense of the above mentioned building which the natives cannot defray be defrayed, on my order, out of the funds of the American as something [sic] of a drawback on the above amount I would state that a schoolhouse for which I was alowed [sic] by the mission 100 dolls has cost the misson less than ten should you please to add to the remaining ninety one hundred dollars more it will enable me to finish the house of God, and thus render what is now fast wearing out of my lungs a much more easy task. My health has already suffered, ---much from preaching in an open leaky and very windy native house. �.18 In concluding this report I cannot but crave the prayers of the brethren of the mission that that [sic] the present year may not pass away without the descent of the Holy Spirit in the midst of us--and that we may have the ability and the disposition to labour faithfully in the cause of our common master with the end [written at the bottom of the sheet:] Praying that you may have the Divine presence at the meeting I remain dear brethren your unworthy fellow labourer H. R. Hitchcock June 1 1835 Station Report Kaluaaha June 1835 — oo— Report of the Station Kaluaha [sic] for 1836-37 . In this Report the first thing to be noticed is the good­ ness of God to the missionaries. Though it has been a year of more than unusual ill health to them yet they have experienced in a wonderful degree of the restoring mercy of God. So that now the health of our family are in better health [sic] than we were at the last general meeting. Having been absent one third of the year to obtain medical aid for my family the affairs of the station have necessarily been less effectually attended to than could have been wished. And my account of its prosperity must be less encouraging than I had fondly hoped. Glad would I be to narrate a powerful revival but this we have not experienced. Still we are not entirely destitute of evidence that the Lord has been with us. Our sanctuary on the Lords day has born [!] witness that the dispensatons of the truth has not been lost. There has usually been a full assembly many of whom seemed concerned to know what to do to be saved. Preaching has been enjoyed twice on the sabbath and once during the week. No additions have been made to the church not because I have supposed that none were qualified for it; but because it was not prudent for me to attend to it at the time --------. designed. Had I not been prevented by ill health several would have been received in March. These I now regard as candidates to be received at our next communion season. It is a cheering fact that the attention of the people �19 to religion has not diminished, and .that there has been a gradual but visible improvement in the understandings and consciences, and habits o f many of the congregation. Beside preaching on the sabbath a sabbath school for adults has been kept up consisting of from 100 to 300 most of whom have recited the verses of the ai okala. This school owing to the disease of my throat I have not always attended. When absent myself the natives themselves have conducted it. The Sabbath school for children has been in constant operation through the year. It has averaged at least five hundred scholars. Of these not far from 150 recite the 7 verses for the week. The remainder are catechised by the teachers. After the recitation is through I have usually made it a point to address the whole school myself. Some times in a short and familiar sermon— some times by the re­ hearsal some [sic] bible story and immediately questioning them on what I have said and applying it to their consciences, In these exercises I have never found it difficult to secure the attention of the children or to interest them. Though the superintendence of this school h a s laxed my vocal powers beyond their ability I have viewed the matter of such importance as to be unable to find it to be my duty to desist. May god provide suitable teachers for this school and reduce it to such order as to promote in the highest sense the good of the young immortals of which it is composed. The day school for children has been kept up 8 months out of the year. It has been interrupted three months by tearing down and rebuilding the schoolhouse. It has averaged about 240 scholars-— 100 of readers--50 write [sic] about 80 In the Helunaau [Arithmetic] and from twenty to 30 study geo­ graphy. A large proportion of the others can pronounce words of one to four syllables--and there are but few who do not know their letters. The proficiency of the scholars the past year has been greater than in any former one. Since my return from Lahaina I have generally spent from three to four hours of my forenoons for five days in the week in the school. It has been uncommonly orderly and easily managed considering the great number and the age of the scholars, by far the great­ er part of them being under 8 years of age. Five of the boys are prepared for entering the High school and are expecting to enter the term now about to commence. Though god in his providence has seen fit to interrupt me greatly in my labours this year yet I have cause for unfeigned gratitude that he has given me such a promising field for usefulness at this school. While my attention has been chiefly given to the school at the station, the schools for children throughout the island have not been entirely neglected. We have held two general examinations for them the year past and have sold them many books and otherwise encouraged them . At the first examined [sic] �20 more than nine hundred children, and at the last eleven hund­ red. The children of proper age for attending school through­ out the island were nearly all of them present probably not more than 100 more could have been found. Almost all them [sic] have attended such schools as they have had statedly. [sic] The schools as a general thing have been a mere name and the children have made little or no improvement. But the fact that they have been induced to go so steadly [sic] under such unfavourable circumstances shows [sic] conclusively that had we the suitable means nearly every child on the island might be. kept constantly in school. At two of the schools laud­ able improvement has been made. The one at Halawa a pleasant and populous valley at the northeast end of the island numbers 140 scholars 67 of whom can read - - - - with tolerable ease. Of the school at Wailua containing 60 or more, not more than three or four of whom could read at the commencement of the year, thirty two now read intelligibly. Of the eleven hundred examined at the last ------- ------- examination 260 at least are able to read, which, considering that this is the first year any thing has been done for them as a body and that with but few exceptions their teachers have been utterly incomptent [sic] speaks loudly in favour of their ability to learn when they shall have the suitable means. Three permanent schoolhouses are about to be built one at Halawa, one at Wailua and one at Kamaloo. The two last places are in opposite directions from the station one four and the other five miles distant. These houses when finished will embrace six hundred and sixty of the eleven hundred in­ cluding those at the station school. The importance that these schools be furnished with competent and faithful teachers can be measured by nothing less than the salvations of the hun­ dreds who now stand ready to enter them. At all of the above places a teacher would be comfortably situated. A schoolhouse 112 feet long and 26 wide has been completed this year at an expense to the mission of only about 40 dollars. Nothing but benches and suitable forms for writing are wanting to ac­ comodate at least three hundred scholars. At Kalaupapa a populous district on the windward side of the island and about thirty miles from the station a school of 160 scholars might be collected immediately were there a teacher to superintend it. At Kalamaula 20 miles west of the station one embracing at least 100 scholars might be put in­ to successful operation. These two schools together with the one at the station and the three others above mentioned would take in 920 scholars. One American teacher to each would be a benefit to the children too great to be estimated in this life. sic Allow me then to reccomend^to the mission to make as speedy provisions as possible for the supply of these schools with teachers from America. The blessed opportunity which God in his providence has p u t into the hands of Christians of educating almost the whole mass of the children of these island [!] �21 and thus of forming their consciences as well as of raising them from their present degradation cannot I am sure meet with neglect. If five more suitable teachers are sent to Molokai the generation that are now [sic] coming on the stage will be rescued from ignorance and very many of them from death eternal. Everything depends on striking the blow now if we would reclaim these children from black ignorance and save the nation. It will not do until we can raise up native teachers for before this can be done the present generation of children now so prepared for being instructed will be forever out of the influence of schools and prepared to exert a more deadly influence on their children than their parents are now exerting on them. Beside native teachers cannot the [sic] exegences of the case. The children must be governed and kept under a salutary disipline [sic] in order to reap advantage from schools. Prom what we know of native character no teacher can be expected to do this. They may be and even are indispensible auxiliaries to the missionary teacher; but labouring alone they can scarcely be expected to have any great influence over the scholars for good. I do therefore ardently desire the mission to lay the subject of children schools in these islands more distinctly before the Board and in such tones as will convince every pious soul in the land of its amazing importance and allow them no longer to sleep over it except under the pressure of the terrible responsibility of refusing to gather for God so promising a harvest as this. I suppose that there are at this moment more than twenty thousand children on these islands who are ready this day to enter schools were there any to teach them. But as it is more than fifteen thousand of this number must remain in their ignorance until the op­ portunity for enlightening them has passed away. 0 that at our meeting of 34 we had all felt more deeply on this subject and so ordered our speech to the churches that instead of the thirty two only who have obeyed Gods voice [sic] and come to xxxxxxxxxx our assistance, three hundred might have been now on the ground ready to commence the too long neglected work of rescuing these children from sin, and the nation from ruin. I ask 6 more teachers for Molokai and assign as a reason that a school of from 100 to 150 children is this moment ready for each of them. These children if not supplied with teachers must remain ignorant and probably baffle all efforts that can be made for their salvation. Three of the teachers might have respectable congregations on the sabbath which renders it important that they should be licensed to preach. One should by all means be a physician. Whatever value may be attached to missionary labour on Molokai one third of it may be fairly deducted an account of our having no physician at hand. One third of my time the past year has been spent away from the station which would have been saved to it had �22 there been a physician on the island. Besides saving us from exposing ourselves on the water, a physician would be nearly as useful as a teacher and perhaps more so than ifhedid not understand medicine, as his practice would occupy but a small part of his time. I would include in the wants of Molokai a well educated physician. Owing to reasons which are obvious to the mission the Boarding school which was contemplated and for which money was voted at the last General meeting has not been put in operation. I still feel however that it is highly important that one should be commenced as soon as practical. The facts that we have so many children in our immediate vicinity that they are all poor and that we a r e secluded entirely from the bad influences of seaports are obvious arguments in my mind that we should have such a school. I hope as soon as the station school can be taken off my hands to commence boarding the scholars. I design for the high school. Hoping and praying that effectual measures may be taken by the mission to institute a permanent school of the kind at the station. Report of Molokai station 1837 Station report Kaluaaha 1837 Report in part of Molokai Station for the year 1837-8 admitted to the church on letter 2 " " profession 14 Baptized adults 14 " children 9 Whole number members in good standing 49 Marriages . 18 Scholars at the childrens station school 270 Scholars in all the schools 1061 Propounded for admission into the church 175 H R Hitchcock To the Chairman of the Delegate meeting Lahaina Molokai Hitchcock 1858 �Report of the Schools & progress Civilization on the island of Molokai May 1848 There is a school in every village on the island that can enroll 14 or 15 scholars. The number of schools are [in pencil over it: is] 19 taught by 31 teachers including the Gen. Superintendent. There are 1200 scholars. Of these two schools alone are professedly Romish which report 14 & 18 as their number of Schollars.[sic] But even one of these for lack of a popish teacher of sufficient attainment to instruct has employed one of our good men for its teacher, one of the early schollars [sic] of Lahainaluna who has the testament read and prays in school & even goes so far as I learned to my surprise as to hold his Sab. School & require his schol­ lars [sic] to commit to memory our "ai o Ka la." no one for­ bidding him. There has been an average daily attendance of 3/4th of the schollars [sic] of all the schools since Janu­ ary last, & where the weather was not inclement, almost all attend daily. But while the machinery is complete & in operation, Ed­ ucation is retarded by the lack of competent teachers. Out of all our teachers at the last Gen. Meeting, 12 were toler­ ably competent to teach. Since then 3 of the 12 have fallen into adultery. The best one has been taken by the Gov. for Judge. One not the most forward in book knowledge, but on whom was our main dependence to direct a large school & be its spiritual guide as well as a minister for their parents has been removed apparently by the will of Providence to be a Kahu Kula for the Female Seminary of Wailuku. We have [in pencil: a] plenty of indifferent teachers, but only a few competent ones left. To make up the deficiency of competent teachers I still continue my normal school, collecting all the teachers two separate months in each year, to instruct them more perfectly in their labors & practical duties. There was a small debt owing the teachers at the close of last year but now they carefully paid up. [sic] The schollars [sic] have taken up this year the system of labor recommended by the acting Minister of Public Instru ction, & I can see a rapid increase of industry among them. The boys divide themselves into companies, & work together for hire or in cultivation of food & in other productive la­ bor & with the direction of a superintendent & their teachers divide the proffits [sic] equitably among the laborers. The girls out of school hours work & on Friday of each week bring together & show their handy work, thatching, cord, hats, mats, sewing, knitting &c, the amount of which is noted down by the teacher each one's to her name. This plan received great efficiency at the station by the attendance & over sight of the mission ladies who inspect their labor. �24 Besides the common schools, the select school of Miss Brown has been continued during the past two years, the skill acquired in knitting & spinning by the schollars [sic] has acted like leaven in dough among their associates in prompt­ ing them to try to learn to spin & knit. Every girl wants to knit & if there was a barrel of yarn & a quantum suffecit [!] of needles it would be used up speed­ ily. Since the increase of industry among the schollars [sic] books have more been called for & paid for promptly. The system of trusting out books & especially school books is nearly done with. The domestic and social comforts of the people are not decreasing. I think they would compare well with what I have observed at other stations. The main improvement is in the cleanliness of houses. The health of the people has not been as good the past two years as previously. The deaths have been 80 more than the births during the year 1847. Many even of the most en­ lightened prefer the medical treatment of the native quacks to death itself to civilized medicine. The increase of industry has been more observable among the children than among the adult population. The older people seem to retain their old habits of working & lying still alternately. I have lately taken the census of the island & to get it more accurately have registered the names of the men, wo­ men & children. The whole population amounts to 4626. Report of Schools &c of Molokai by C. B. Andrews May 1848 — oo— Report of Station of Kaluaha 1848 [in pencil] In making to the meeting our Report for the two years past the missionaries at Kaluaaha are happy to say that they have been years of unusual prosperity so far as our own health, and circumstances are concerned. Good [in pencil; ness and] mercy have followed us. None of us have been visited with severe and wasting sickness and few have been our interrup­ tions in our work from ill health. during [sic] the two years, only one or two sabbaths have I been prevented by illness from preaching. surely [sic] in view of,the divine goodness and care we should feel more and more deeply our obligations to love obedience and praise. �Condition of our field The island is divided into six parishes or congregations and these into smaller sections. At each of the parishes there is now a comfortable meeting house except Moakea. [ !] where the house of worship has recently fallen down. Since l ast general meeting and principally during the last year meeting houses have been built in Kalaupapa, Wailau, Pelekunu, (Puahonui and Kameloo. Three others, one at Halawa, one at Moakea [ !] and one at Kawela are in building. So that ere long we shall have the happiness to see a permanent and commodious place of worship in every principal district of the island. Labours at the station and Principal out posts. The labours [sic] at the station have varied but little if any these two years past from former years if we except a meeting for the professedly serious on tuesday [sic] which has been kept up constantly. The sabbath is always opened by the brethren of the church who live within a convenient distance, by a prayer meeting in the house of God at early dawn. At 1/2 past 8 the children to the number of between 300 and 400 hundred [sic] have their school full half of the number and perps [sic] more than half, recite the 7 verses of the Ai o Ka la. This school is always attended by Mr. Andrews when he is at the station, when he is away the su­ perintendence devolves upon a member of the church, who I am glad to say performs the duties of his office with un­ usual faithfulness and ability. This school, after the ex­ planation of the lesson and exhortation to the children is closed by singing ( in which nearly the whole school join without a discordant note,) and prayer, where the children all repair directly to the meeting house, and the forenoon service begins and lasts 1 1/4 hours. The morning service is immediately followed by the adult sabbath school which embraces all the members of the church and as many others as an average is not probably less than 200. Bro. A [sic] su­ perintends this school when at home; when not the duty de­ volves on me. Connected with the services of this school is an examination of the sermon; questions are proposed by the preacher and answered simultaneously by all who feel dis­ posed. This is a very interesting part of the school and has resulted in great good in creating an attention to the sermon and in giving the preacher a fresh opportunity to ap­ ply more particularly and to press more closely the prominent doctrines and duties brought in the discourse. This adult school has continued from the very infancy of the station without interruption, and many are the members who have not failed at each school to recite from memory their seven verses of the ai o ka la, and who of course have each, during �26 the 15 years past, recited more than 4000 verses of the bible. No one means of grace next to the preaching of the gospel, has had so powerful an effect on the moral and religious cha­ racter of our people ---- as this school. Carrying the daily food about with them in their works, [sic] and journeyin g s , an untold amount of time has been rescued from being worse than lost, and employed in studying the word of life. After an intermission of 1 1/2 hour the [sic] all the children together with as many adults as please, meet for the afternoon sabbath school. The exercises of the scholars in this school are reading the testament in course 10 verses each sabbath. Each one usually reads the 10 verses several times over, so that the sentiments of the lessons become fa­ miliar. After reading each teacher examines his class on what they have read. After which, I go over the whole ground catichise and apply the lesson to the circumstances of the school. All is closed by singing and prayer when the whole school again repair to the sanctuary for the afternoon ser­ vice. This service which usually lasts less than an hour and closes at 1/2 past 3 is last of the public exercises of the sabbath. The people return home and hold social conference and prayer meetings. During the whole of the two years past there has been no decrease in the congregation for the most part of the last year there has been an increase both in the former and latter part of the day. In no previous year has the afternoon service been so well attended. The congregation at Kaluaaha embraces all the people six miles east and the same number of miles west of the station; so that a consider­ able part of it come from the distance of 6 miles. The monthly concert for prayer and contribution for be­ nevolent .purposes has been steadily attended and has been altogether one of the most interesting and best attended week­ day meetings we have had. We have made an effort to have the people present there [sic] offerings to Lord on the day of meeting instead of any time during the month or year as they have formerly done. In that we have in a good measure suc­ ceeded and have found it a manifest improvement upon the old plan as the contributions have nearly doubled, and the people' s interest in the meetings has been greatly enlarged. The do­ nations great or small of each one are noted down at the time they are presented so that I have at the end of the year not only a clear view of the amount of each month but the names of all the contributors. I write down usually more than 200 donors at the monthly concert at the station, beside nearly a hundred at a near outpost where I am in the habit of hold­ ing the monthly concert before sunrise. As soon as convenient the lunas at the different outposts either bring or send in the amount contributed at their respective places which I carefully enter into the monthly concert book. I am glad to be able to say that while the people contribute more in amount they do it with less effort in our part and more cheerfully and out of an enlightened view of duty. The children of the �27 schools are getting into the habit of giving the fruits of their own labour to the lord and it is exerting a happy in­ fluence on their character. Parents are taught not only theilr own duty in reference to giving to the cause of benevolence but that it is a sacred duty to bring up their children as far as they are able to habits of liberality. On tuesday [sic] afternoon a meeting has been held for inquiries. From fifty to 100 have usually attended. Several of these have during the two years given satisfactory evidence of conversion and have united with the church, Many continue to attend without showing marks of piety sufficiently clear to admit of much hope. The course of instruction in this meeting has much of the time been an explanation and appli­ cation of the doctrines contained in the articles of faith in the church, which they have as a general thing committed to memory. This meeting has afforded a good opportunity to distinguish between the really anxious and those who assume concern for their souls from sinister motives. The Wednesday lecture has been well attended though less so than the monthly concert and some other meetings. When present myself I have lectured on Matthew in course usually devoting one lecture to one Paragraph or subject of discourse. We have advanced to the 10th chapter which is now nearly fi­ nished. It gives a better opportunity to declare all the counsel of God than preaching from issolated [sic] texts. On thursday [sic] at 5 oclock [sic] we have preaching at Kamaloo an outpost about 5 miles distant from the station. Here they have during the last year completed a stone meeting house 40 feet by 24 inside with a good panel door and windows. The house is always well filled. It is in the vicinity of the schoolhouse and the scholars of the school form a part of the congregation. At this outpost there has been an un­ usual attention to religion for several months past. Several excommunicated members have given evidence of repentance and a goodly number of the impenitent [?] are actively engaged in seeking the salvation salvation [sic] of their souls. The papists have several disciples at Kamaloo several of which [sic] have during last two years forsaken them and come over to us— one is now a useful member of the church. The people from this district always attend meeting at the station on the sabbath. On Friday preaching is held at Waialua an outpost a district six miles east of Kaluaaha. The attendance here is not usually so good as Kamaloo and there is at present no serious attentions [sic] to religion. The children of the school are always present at the meetings. This district come to the station to meeting on the sabbath stay to both meetings and return in the evening. We regard the distance as to [sic] great, and have resolved to set them off to Honouli a district 3 miles further east, so that will, when the arrangement is completed have only half as far to travel to the house of God. The subject of discourse at Kaluaaha, Ka­ maloo and Wailua has been the same so that the whole congre- �28 gation listen to the same instruction as which is much the same as if they have been assembled in one meeting as they do on the sabbath. On Saturday evening is the general meeting of the mem­ bers of the church within three each [sic] miles each way from the station. This meeting is second to no other one in importance or in the influence exerted upon the state of morals and religion. As the instruction is always designed to be adapted to the existing circumstances of the people and opportunity is had for being more particular in applying truth and in exposing sin than even in regular preaching. I am sorry to say that this meeting is more thinly attended than it should be though it numbers more than 100. Out posts of the 4 outstations I have laboured only at two at at [sic] these, together with Bro. Andrews. One of us have always been present at Moakea at least once a month. Frequently we have gone on Saturday to Halawa, three or four miles beyond, held meeting with the people there on Sat [sic] evening and sab [sic] morning, and than returned followed by the people to Moakea the place for public worship. The exercises at on the sabbath are the same as at Kaluaaha with the exception of the afternoon sab school of the children. The meeting house 72 feet 24 inside, is always comfortably and frequently densely filled. The house is only of two years standing but owing to some defect in the roof it has fallen down. This may be regarded as a favour [sic] in providence as it was not in a situation to accomodate in the best ------ manner the population. Halawa having to ascend a pali nearly 100 feet high to get to it beside walking three or 4 miles further after they get up. Hereafter the meeting house is to be removed farther west to as was observed above Waialu a and the people of Halawa will form a congregation by themselves. The sacrament as administered 3 times a year at Moakea.[s ic] The members are above 200. The other principle out post is Kalae. This embraces a wide teritory [sic]. Indeed all the western section of the island. The branch of the church at this out post numbers somewhat over 200 members in regular standing. I have spent in company with my family about one 4th [sic] part of the year at Kalae. We have there a good dwelling house and meeting house which will seat from six to seven hundred people, and which is ordinaraly [sic] crowded. The place being about 2500 feet above the level of the sea. It is a fine retreat from the sultry climate of the seaside, where we not only are in the midst of our work but in circumstances to improve our healt h . At this outpost as at Moakea the Sacrament Is administered 3 times a year. Of the other two stations Pelekunu and Wailau on the windward side of the island I leave to the report of my assistant, who has had the only care of them since he has �29 been in the field. [sic] and merely remark that in the former place especially the word of good has seemed to take root and to flourish like the vegetation of nature in their fruit­ ful valley. Out of a population of about 100 there some 40 church members almost all the people are serious and live in peace and contribute willingly to the building up of the redeemers Kingdom abroad. I should say much more about these two outposts, but I hope to hear a full report from their Pastor. Female department of labour. This has been more vigor­ ously and efficiently sustained the past two years than for many previous years. Mrs. H has succeeded in getting a sys­ tem of instruction and supervision established among the women, which already begins to show excellent fruit and which will doubtless, if her life and health are spared show much more. On Thursday of every other week she holds what is called the mothers meeting, or society. The conditions of membership of this meeting are cleanliness of person, Industry--Faithful care of family--neatness in house &c. There are similar meet­ ings in all the principal districts of the island of which the one at the station is regarded as the parent. Over each is placed lunas whose vigilance and faithfulness under the instructions of Mrs. H, has a decidedly salutary influence in their places. Beside this Mrs. H has a weekly school for teachers-— in which she explains to them in chapter or a part of a chap­ ter of the bible. The next day all these teachers meet with as many women as can be prevailed with to attend, and repeat as nearly as she can the explanations given the day before. so that in many, if not in all the districts of the island the women have schools for reading the word of God. In con­ nexion [sic] with the mothers meeting or I might say the meet­ ing itself is a society for the relief of the poor which makes semi-anual [sic] donations for that object, and this embraces all the districts of the island so that the call for the con­ tribution of the poor is as much expected as the pay for salary or for the monthly concerts. Scores of those sick and help­ less have been clothed and made comparatively comfortable. Mrs. H has also a meeting with the women on friday [sic] afternoon to which all come who please. Our women are before the men in every good work and show more decided ----- attatchment to the saviour and it is much owing to the influence which religion possesses over them that the other sex are as faithful and steafast [sic] as these. A little labour [sic] expended on the former seems to be much more effectual than a much ---- greater amount expended on the latter. State of religion. If a uniformly good attendence on public worship, and observance of the means of grace and a �30 liberal contribution for the support of the gospel among them­ selves and for its spread in other lands together with a con­ siderable increase of the church be indictave [ !] of prosperity --- than has religion been in a prosperous state among us for these two years past. But Blessed be God we have more satisfactory evidence of the prosperity of cause especially for the last year. In the Increased activity and prayerful­ ness prayerfulness [sic] of professors of religion, and in the increase of attention to the concerns of the soul among the impenitent. For the last 12 months past, our congrega­ tion on the sabbath has been unusually full and has contained many young men and women who before were not in the habit of being present. The congregation in the afternoon has been nearly as full as that of the morning. About 4 months ago and simultaneously with the same thing at Honolulu and Lahaina Several [sic] church members at Kalua­ aha were found praying together in the house of God in the after part of the night. The meeting was soon attended by several fallen church members and some others who seemed to be deeply impressed with their guilt. The Bell [sic] rings frequently at 3 in the morning and always before or at 4. Thinking that rising so long before day might do more hurt than good I proposed that the bell be rung later but they felt hurt at the proposal. There is now w hat may be called a revival in Halawa, Wailau, Pelekunu, and in all most every district on the island there is an unusual interest manifested in the means of grace. So that although the actual conversion of souls is a hidden matter yet we have great grounds to hope that not a few have been thus converted and are now on the way to heaven. At Halawa some six weeks ago at a meeting for the anxious, I found nearly 100 who professed to b e seeking salvation. [sic] And Christians earnestly engaged in praying for them. At Wailau I have been informed only two remain careless in the whole village. At Pelekunu the work has been silently progressing for many months and nearly all the inhabitants of the valley are either professing Christians or are more or less serious. I know not that any - - - - - stand aloof from the Pono. At Kalaupapa there has for most of the time since last general meeting been a pleasing attention to religion and some few members of the church have been awake [sic] in the work of the ---- Lord. At Kalae the attention to religion was greater last year than it has been this there were [sic] last year several hope­ ful conversions at that post. Kaluakoe the most distant part of the island has been visited with the special influences of the spirit. The school teacher and his wife has [sic] been most engaged and the result has been that they are now surrounded by a little band of praying souls. So distant are they from the station and so �31 small is the number that we have never visited them but once. and they rarely can come under the sound of our voices. At our last residence at Kalae, they however in mass came and sp ent several days that they might hear the word of God, Temperance. It is known to the brethren all the children of Molokai of suitable age to attend school are banded together in a juvenile temperance society in which they pledged to ab­ stain wholly and forever from all intoxicating drink from the use of tobacco and from the practice of gambling. This society has its aniversary [sic] on new years day of each year. These two years past this aniversary [sic] has been unusually interest ing connected as it has been with the general examination of schools and with the convocation of --- parents and children and members of the church at Kaluaaha from all parts of the island. The aniversary [sic] of 47 was signalized by the presence of king and suit[!] our lamented Brother Richards and several of the brothers from Maui. The one of 48 though not graced with the nobility of the nation as its predecessor was was the most interesting on the whole of any we have ever had. Report of these aniversaries so far as the children are con­ cerned belongs to the department of my associate. A s I should dwell longer upon them I will only remark that the benefit to the cause of education, Religion, morality and civilization has [sic] been obvious and greater as to give them a place among our most powerful means of usefulness. desire of getting into the church [sic] In conclusion I would say that there -- has been -- evi­ dently an advance made upward by the people of our charge these two years past. The more the Sanctions, and claims, and duties of religion are understood by the people the better ---- days are ----- prized. In the case of our people we are convinced that Religion is in no danger of being forsaken on account of the burdens it imposes upon the professors. But on the contrary it is a pleasing fact that the people are of their own accord involving their values in labours [sic] and sacrifices, and expences [sic] for its support which they would not do had it no hold upon their affections. Beside the support of Bro Andrews which they have more than done thus far and monthly contributions for missionary objects, and frequent donations [to] the poor, they are making up the work of building their meeting houses. In every principal district of the island they either have now or soon will have a commodious house of worship plaster ed and whitewashed with doors and glass windows all secured by lock and key from the intrusion of the quadrapeds which have been would [?] infest our sanctuaries in former days. Pour of these are exclusive for the public worship of God: meeting houses in the strict sense of the term while several are used for the double purpose of meetings and schools. �32 Native helps. Beside our pukus and common lunas we have one whom we about one year ago set apart for the work of the ministry so far as it can be performed by the native mind in its present state. He has a charge assigned him consisting of a parish embracing nearly or quite 1000 souls has a salary of 40 dollars in trade [?] per year and is giving great promise of extensive usefulness and had we 3 or 4 more like him we should not hesitate to intrust them a larger share in our labours and responsibility. But we have no more like him. But intend when we return to invest one more with the privi­ lege of preaching formally the word of God and with the over­ sight of the congregation in which he lives. I would here take occasion to remark that though on Molokai we could not without disaster to the cause dispense with the aid of such native help as we have yet when -- asked when in consequence of a good supply of native preachers and pastors Molokai will no longer need the presence of foreign missionaries I answer decidedly that the twilight of that auspicious morn has not yet appeared. The possibility of native born ministers of the gospel being able to sustain and carry on the institutions of religion and education which now exists lies far down in the blank darkness of night and he who fancies it to within 10, 20, or 30 years of our door is doomed to certain disap­ pointment. No hope could be more visionary and were it in­ dulged without the danger of defeating the arrival of the desired period at all. It might be passed over without notice But when it is made the ground of the enquiry by our patrons how soon we can release them from the task of send [sic] more missionaries to this field it deserves to be exposed in its true light. Any diminution of missionary influence in our field would be felt in a retrograde movement of every interest which we hold dear. But were this influence to be removed -------and every where within the period of 20 or even 30 years no other result could follow but the loss of all that has been done and the blotting out at no distant day of the last trace of piety among the people. I state not the arguments upon which I found these assertions. But have no fear that the assertions themselves are capable of being disproved. I there­ fore deeply regret that any favourable response should be made to the demands of the board as to the time when they may withdraw support of the mission at these islands. �33 Statistics of Kaluaaha for 1847-8 Whole number received on examination 1125 certificate 37 on exam--2 past years 162 letter 4 Whole no. 2 past years 168 dismissed to other churches 37 past 2 years 5 Whole number died 150 2 past years 45 Whole number suspended Remain suspended 30 Whole no. excommunicated 24 Remain ex 20 Whole no. in regular standing 10.25 [sic] Whole no. baptized children 5.51 [sic] Baptize 2 past years 114 Mariages [sic] last two years 115 Average congregation 752 Contributions monthly amt avails in cash for 1 1/4 years now past cash 40.50 Support of Pastor in cash 411.83 For the poor 75.00 Building meetinhouses [sic] 1200.00 Eleles taken 400 - - --------400 Books sold for cash about 150 doll 150 Whole amount �34 Report of Kaluaaha 1848-9 1. The Missionaries. Our circumstances the past year have been much as formerly. Our healths have been usually good, at least so much so as to enable us to go on with our ordinary work; & on the whole the year has been prosperous. Though Mr. H's health the latter part of it has been poor. From December to February while the call for all sorts of mission­ ary labor were [sic] more frequent & loud than ever we were unable to respond to them as we could wish. In reviewing the mercies of the year we see renewed cause for gratitude to the Great Bestower, while on the other hand, we deeply regret that these mercies have been so poorly appreciated. 2d Our Missionary Labors 1 st Preaching the Gospel. Usually there have been 5 ser­ mons each week, i.e. two on the Sabbath at the Station, one on Wednesday at the same place, one at Kamaloo on Thursday & one on Friday at Waialua. These meetings have of course been interrupted when the missionaries have been away at the out stations Kalae & Halava. [sic] It has been the design to preach to the congregation of the latter place at least once a month, while at the former they have had preaching about 10 Sabbaths during the year. Another interruption to the regular course of preaching has been the prevailing sick­ ness, which disabled the people from attending meetings. For the first 10 months of the year 48, little transpired to prevent the frequent & uninterupted [sic] preaching of the word. 2d Meetings for other purposes. One has been held statedly on Tuesday at the station for those professing to be serious. The course of instruction pursued at this meeting has been that of the catechetical kind followed by direct & pointed remarks, suggested by the circumstances of the individuals present. 2d The usual Saturday evening meeting for the mem­ bers of the church at which the time has been occupied in singing, prayer & a lecture designed to impress Christian experience & practice. 3. The Mother's biweekly meeting. At this meeting which consists of a select number of females who, as a condition of belonging to it, obligate themselves to cleanliness in their persons & houses & to industrious habits, Mrs. H. usual­ ly reads with them the scriptures & imparts such instruction as their circumstances require. There are I believe more than 100 belonging to this meeting, most of whom are usually present. 4 thl y T h e F r i d a y meeting which is held every other week & which is attended by all who are disposed to come. Mrs. H. makes it a point to attend this meeting as often as possible, & it affords her a fine opportunity -- --- of exert­ ing a good influence over the female part of the congregation. �35 5thly Besides the two above mentioned Mrs. H. has a weekly meeting with a class of female teachers. With these she reads & explains a passage of Scripture or rather a chapter & on the morrow these teachers assemble as many women as they can induce to come & impart to them the knowledge, as well as they are able, they received the day before. Lastly the Monthly Concert for Prayer. Of these we have usually attended two each month. One at Kamaloo before Sun­ rise in the morning. The people have usually been together praying before we have arived. [sic] Our time at this meeting is mostly occupied in registering the names of the numerous donors who are sitting with their gifts in their hands. This feeing done we lecture them on the necessities of a sinful & heathen world. The monthly concert at the station, which is one of our best attended & most interesting weekly meetings is held late in the afternoon, after having received & credited the donations to their respective givers, which last work occupies most of the afternoon. This much for our religious meetings. 3d Labor in schools, 1st Sabbath Schools. Of these we have 3 each sabbath. One before meeting in the forenoon en­ tirely for children. one directly after the morning sermon for adults only, & one at 1/2 past 1 P.M. for adults & child­ ren united. The school for children since Mr. An­ drews left has been superintended by Mr. Dwight. It was very prosperous up to the time the sickness intervened & for several months nearly destroyed it. The adult school consists of chh [sic] members & whoever else is disposed to attend. In this --- school the 7 verses of the Ai o ka la are recited from memory. Questions are asked & explanati o ns given on both on the sermon & the lesson. The school is closed by prayer. The third school is for reading the Bible, reciting the ca­ techism, singging [sic] &c. All three of the schools were full & prosperous before the sickness & are now regaining their former good condition. 2dly Common Schools To these we have been able to devote but little time the past year-less perhaps than in any former year of our residence on the island. All we have been able to do has been to have an eye upon them & to counsel the teachers & Lunas. Gladly would we have given more attention to this important part of our work, but our hands have been full of other more pressing business. Besides the above missionary labors, our time has not been unfrequently occupied in the care of & administering medicine to the sick; giving out books; settling difficulties between the offended & the offending; in taking care of the herd; repairing houses, walls & other fixtures about the premises. 4. The condition of our Field. (1) Religlous At our last Gen. Meet. a revival was in progress in nearly every part of the island. It commenced several months before & continued �36 with much decrease of interest for several months after. The features of this revival were in some respects different & more satisfactory than those which have characterized former religious excitements among us. One peculiarity was an un­ usual concern of Christians for others & the making of efforts to extend the revival to all parts of the island. Several of the brethren, when the awakening commenced, felt constrained to visit another village for the purpose of endeavoring to awaken the people. This endeavor the Holy Spirit favored, & the result was a general attention of that village to the concerns of eternity & the hopeful conversions of some 30 individuals. The brethren of this village in their turn formed the plan of going around the island for the purpose of convers­ ing with Christians & the wicked striving to awaken them to activity & concern about their souls. On our return from Gen. Meet. we found this company of itinerant missionaries at the station. Their report of the enterprize [sic] was truly encouraging & such as to leave little ground to doubt that they had been under the guidance of the Spirit of God. From that time the people of the most distant & unfrequented part of the island became anxious for their souls, & the conse­ quence has been the addition to the ch'h [sic] of some 18 or 20 from a district which has never but once been visited by the missionaries. & From [sic] all the accounts we can get (for they are more than 40 miles distant from the station) they are adorning their profession as might be expected. Molokai could not limit their desire to extend the Gospel & the brethren of Wailau actually came to the determination, if their missionaries would give it their sanction, to construct a small schooner in which they might go from island to island on purpose to promote the cause of Religion, & in which they might transport to market the produce contributed for the monthly concert. They had actually commenced executing their plan when sickness laid them asside [sic] not only from this, but from all other engagements. It is thought that the professed converts have more generally held out than in former revivals, which is another pleasing peculiarity of the work. At all events no doubt can exist that during the time embraced in this religious excitement many were born again--or that the angels have had occasion to rejoice at the repentance of many who up to that time were living wholly estranged from God. Coincident with the genuineness of this revival are the facts that in every part of the island houses of worship were at the time & have ----- been since unusually well filled, & that the cause of benevolence & efforts to support the Gos­ pel have never been so prosperous. More than 300 were propounded for admission to the ch'h. [sic] Very few of these tho' they were on trial --- several months have gone back & most of them have been received. Another pleasing & striking peculiarity of the revival is the number of young people whom it has --------- brought out from the ranks of the world. �57 Since it has ceased [it] has evidently been more vigorous, & has held a more powerful sway over the whole island than at any previoud time. There has been but little cause for the exercise of ch'h [sic] discipline. Indeed from Jan 48 to the end of that year not one instance of overt sin was brought before the ch'h or was known to have been committed by any of its members. Christians have seemed, at least many of them, to have had an unusual spirit of prayer and our hearts have been encouraged at the evident increase of piety, if not in the ch'h [sic] as a whole, yet in many of its members. It must still be confessed that the Molokai ch'h is a ch'h of Hawaiians, i.e. a ch'h of weak, ignorant, short sighted, erring, half civilized, suffering Christians. To this remark there are indeed exceptions, but with regard to the mass the remark is by no means a libel on their characters. [sic] & while on the one hand we can but admire & praise God at the readiness of their obedience to the precepts of the Gospel when clearly comprehended, on the other we are pained to per­ ceive the exceedingly limited nature of their knowledge of truth, & the consequent frequent failure in many to live up to its requirements. We are tried with them much the same manner only perhaps in a greater degree, as we should be with a congregation of small children who tho' on the whole they gave evidence that they are Christians, yet in their plays & intercourse with each other, either did not know or forgot the application of Gospel rules to the regulations of their conduct & as in the case of the children the heart of the enlightened christian would be pained at many inconsistencies, in the innumerable conflicts which their pride & selfishness would produce, so in the case of the Molokai, & I presume most other native Christians, much occurs to discourage & wound the feelings of the missionary while at the same time they are so different from what they formerly were, or even from what their impenitent & ungodly neighbors now are, as to foster in the breast the fond hope that though they are weak babes in Christ, still that they are babes; & that by a constant & faithful supply of milk of the word they will become if not strong men in this world yet strong men in that which is to come. Another year's experience has only served to strengthen my former conviction that the religious state of the people is by no means high enough t o allow the hope that were the missionaries to leave the work, there could or would be any advance. It is to be feared that our Patrons at home are laboring under the idea that the cause of Religion here has attained that high position where it may be left to itself, not only without hazzard [sic] of losing ground but with high hopes of its upward progress. If the influence of the missionaries on this island has been indispensable to the success which the Gospel has thus far had, the same influence must be continued to secure its future success. There is noother influence on the ground which could sus­ tain it. The ch'h at these islands is yet in the earlier �3B stages of its pupilage & treating it as having nearly passed its minority is the sure way to its ruin. The short relaxa­ tion caused by the present sickness in the regular preaching of the gospel & in the use of the usual means of Grace, has but too plainly proved that under God the prosperity & even the existence of true Religion here must necessarily for a great while to come depend on the faithful prosecution of missionary work. We dwell the longer on this subject as it is one as important as the maintenance of our ground on these islands which seems to be jeopardized by many of the mission­ aries leaving the field. We rejoice to say under this head that Popery has during, the year made no advance o n our island. It probably has lost ground. No less than five or six of its most respectable adherents have united with our ch'h. A goodly number of their children attend protestant schools. They have been visited by a priest once during the year. He forbade them to attend our schools, but his orders have in some instances been disregarded. Equally pleasing is it to state that Paganism tho' not dead is dying as has been evinced by the rare instances of the people resorting to their old incantations & supersticious [sic] practices for the re­ covery of health. In the late distressing sickness several individuals indeed have been suspended for employing heathen doctors. But the wonder is how the number could have been so small, when we consider their distressing situation & the powerful impressions which come by education & habit has [sic] upon a partially civilized people. 2dly Morals. There has been a considerable advance made in the morality of the island the year past. With the excep­ tion of a few cases of theft, most of which have escaped de­ tection, the year 48 knew not that I am aware of a single prosecution for crime, & but comparatively few cases of liti­ gation or civil ----- suits. This state of things was so remarkable that it was a common remark that the judge had little or nothing to do & was of no use. No instance of in­ temperance has come to our knowledge. The use of tobaco [sic] continues to be as unpopular as ever & breaches of the Sabbath by natives have been almost unknown altho' some foreign res­ idents or visitors have set them an example to the contrary. These foreigners have in some instances been fined. There are now on the whole island but 5 prisoners for crime & it is doubtful whether one of these was guilty. 3d Industry We are not able to report as much progress in this department as we could wish. In no one virtue per­ haps are our natives more deficient than in this. It is a painful fact that the great majority labor only to a sufficient amount to keep themselves from nakedness & starvation. Their heavy taxes force most of them to extra exertions. But steady systematic labor which looks forward towards a competency is extremely rare. Not that they are incapable of industry. This is not true. Place them in circumstances where labor would be reasonably repaid & no men would be more able or �willing to work. But such are their present circumstances that it is extremely difficult for them to break off from their old ------ beaten course & go forward in well directed labors for obtaining property. If o n for instance needs a house how great are the difficulties of getting one decent to live in & how strong the tendency of those difficulties to lead him either to dwell year after year in his leaky & half prostrate house, or to build another of not much better quality. The tim ber must be sought & shouldered or dragged by his own hands the distance of miles. It is a long job & cannot be otherwise & operates seriously against industry. Again with the mass of what must be. called farmers what in­ citement or encouragement have they to free industry - - - while the utmost proceeds of their labours are eaten up by the exorbitant taxes which they are obliged to pay to the Landholders & the Government? When notice was first given two years ago, that the lands were to be made over to the occupants, & they were told to send in each man his claim, an immediate spur was given to labor, & many without delay commenced fencing in & improving their little homesteads. But since month after month has passed & they are no nearer to receiving their lands than when the [sic] sent in their claims, the incitement to industry has ceased. Only let Government assign to the people the lands for which they have claims on record & industry would spring up like grass after the showers. While as things now are it cannot prosper. The women of Molokai, carry on quite a trade with Lahaina & Honolulu in hats. Thousands of these are anually [sic] made but the great difficulty is that they avail but little, first because their husbands eat up much of the income while peddling them out & next, that what little is obtained is actually laid out to purchase food or pay taxes, which the labor of the man should have supplied. No aspect of the nation looks darker or more hopeless than the present state of industry & it is surprising that the encouragements to a change, for the better in this respect, which are in the power of the government to grant, are so slow In forthcom­ ing. The missionaries, & perhaps it may be said religion itself cannot materially improve the state of industry while the present obstacles to it exist. 4th Of the Social conditions of the people little need be said after what has been said of their industry. It can­ not be expected, that, when there is so little effective labor, social & domestic comfort, to any great amount can exist. The persons, dress, houses, furniture of the mass have improved but little the past year. Very few -- are the families who have suitable apartments for either domestic comfort or purity. It is true that more decency in this. particular is found than was to [sic] found years ago. Still so far are the people from our views of social & domestic happiness, as to render the difference easily discernable. �In a few families we are happy to ----- see a more civilized, way of life. These are a great comfort to us. In some houses are to be found civilized beds, tables, chairs, cooking uten­ sils & other furniture. But much more concern seems to be felt by the people in general to put what they can spare on their backs, in the form of fine & expensive clothing than to furnish their house's or Increase their domestic comforts. 5th Health Most of our anual [sic] reports have been able to speak more favorably on this subject than those from the other islands. Fewer deaths & more births have occured with us than any other part of the group. This report will not probably fall behind in the record of sickness & death. No former year has been like this in frequent cases of mor­ tality & in the small number of birth even before the epi­ demic set it. This commenced with us about the same time as at the other stations. At first it excited but little attention or alarm. The measles made their appearance & left without any fatal consequences for several weeks, when an obstinate disease of the bowels was added in the majority of the cases & death began his work. This continued for two months, in which time [in pencil: 371] [or 311?] of the population were carried off or more than one in every .[sic] Halava [sic] the largest valley on the island & where there were m ore than 4 0 0 inhabitants lost one in six of the whole. Never were a poor people more unprepared for so terrible a scourge. Their miserable houses, the unwanted rains & winds & floods; their destitution of proper food & medicine; the insufficiency of well ones to take care of the sick; Their i n domitable ------ apetite [sic] for fish & recklessness in respect of diet, all combined to favor the ravages of disease & death. The diarrhoe [sic] had not subsided before the most distres­ sing (perhaps whooping) cough set in, which owing to the al­ ready emaciated frames of multitudes greatly helped forward the work of death. The sickness has been very fatal to the aged & infirm, to females near confinement or just after & by far the greater part of the children born the latter part of the year have been carried off. So that of the very few births which have taken place during the year probably but a very small portion are now alive, Deaths were still fre­ quent during the months of January & February, so that the percentage of Death must ------ be considerably greater than it was when the census was taken, & now tho the prevailing diseases are over very many who had escaped death will doubt­ less soon become its victims in consequence of coughs & con­ sumptions which those diseases have occasioned. In connec­ tion with the ravages of the pestilence it may not be impro­ per to notice those of the storm. Never have we known on Molokai two months Of such sunless days as these of the last two of the year. /Clouds & darkness literally over­ spread the heavens. The bellowing of the winds the h e a v y roar of the ocean & the gloomy sound of the mighty rains kept concert with the groans of the dying & the moanings of �the bereaved. We have nearly experienced storms & rains before, the flood which so nearly destroyed Br. P [ogue] was a dreadful one but with us it did not compare in violence or destruct­ iveness with the one of December last. After a constant & powerful rain of many hours between midnight & morning the mountain torrent like an avalanch [sic] rushed down upon us. It had gorgue [gorged] out for itself a new & deep gulph [sic] whose large rocks & heavy stones, it bore like feathers on its foaming surge & piled them in hugh [sic] masses in the rear of our dwellings. So heavy & violent was the rush that it broke to pieces a strong gate before Miss Browne's door; burst open her cook room door carried away the opposite wall, & bore off on its bosom nearly every thing in the room. In this critical condition Miss B, was forced out in the drench­ ing rain & the stream to cry for help. Meanwhile both flood & rain increased & her whole premises were in danger of being overwhelmed, & her self of being carried away. The natives who ran to her relief brought constant reports that the wa­ ters were increasing rapidly between us. The goods were re­ moved by the kindness of the natives to Mr. Dwight's house & the current so far turned off as to prevent its tearing down hers. Meanwhile it had wreanched [sic] of [sic] the strong iron hinges from a new gate in Mr. D's yard, torn the strong & deep set posts out of the ground & passing through his yard filled his cellar & buried with gravel & stones a new flower garden which he had with great care been making. Owing to very thick stone wall in the rear Mr. Hitchcock's premises were comparitively [sic] safe, tho' his cellar began to fill & a powerful stream ran through one of his rooms. With returning day the the [sic] rain ceased & with it the torrent; but the light only revealed the devestations of the night. A broad area back of our house had been deeply covered with stones & nearly ruined. A deep & frightful gorge has been dug between us & our nearest neighbors. The whole course of the water had, by the filling up of the old channel, turned directly upon us. The flats below us were under water. The walls around the premises had been prostrated in many places & one newly built to defend Miss Browne had been most of it either carried off or buried under a new accumulation of stones. Boards which had been used for defenses had been buried, stones in great quantities had been deposited on our gardens. A new & deep ditch cut alon [g] side within a few inches of our Bell house, & our boat, which had been made fast the night before in a small harbor near by, had parted all its cables & drifted on the bosom of the tide, onto the wall of the fish pond. In fine nature had assumed a dreary aspect. The ces­ sation of these troubles was barely long enough to enable us to prepare for a fresh attack, or for several repeated attacks of the crazy elements. By a perseverance unusual in natives we succeeded in fortifying our premises by an �42 embankment of stones & in opening a new channel for succeed­ ing torrents, which soon made their appearance in rappid [sic] succession. One of these demolished the kitchen of Mr. Dwight's house, & had we not been better prepared for it, would have been nearly as devastating as the first. No re­ membrance is had by the oldest persons on the island of any flood like these. It has changed the face of the land & new & deep water courses now exist where there were none before; while the old ones are so enlarged as to be scarcely known. The rains finally ceased, but the winds were not pacified, but long & dreary weeks they continued to howl & keep old ocean in a foam. Never has intercourse between us & Maui been so long interrupted. This state of the weather en­ hanced the severity of the other judgments of God. Not only have the people suffered in their persons, but very serious­ ly in their property. At Halawa & Honouli the people had labored hard to provide themselves meeting houses. At the the latter place they have just got ---- their thatch when sickness prevented their doing anything more to secure it, & the consequence has been its utter demolition by the flood. The walls of the one at Halawa were as fine a specimen of native masonry as the islands could produce & were all pre­ pared for the roof. They are now a heap of ruins! Three schoolhouses between the station & Halava [!] have also been demolished--two of them entirely, one of them nearly so, so that now there is no house either for schools or public worships between the two places. Several other school­ houses partly built have been destroyed. So discouraged & weak are the people that there can be little hope of their soon reconstructing these buildings. Owing to the very un­ favorable state of the weather & the inability of the people very little plating has been done. The food of most is exhausted & there has already been much suffering from hun­ ger. Many have been driven to the mountains in pursuit of roots as the only relief from starvation. During the sick­ ness we supplied with medicine, rice, pia [arrow root], bread & molasses all who applied for them & many who did not & no small relief has we hope been given to the distressed & afflicted. It is to be regretted that the sick many times refused our help or did not abide by the instructions given. But most cases where our medicine could be seasonably given & when our directions were followed resulted in a cure. Long must the nation suffer from the effects of this remarkable visitation of God. We should have said that owing to the unusual inability of the people to attend, our meetings on the Sabbath were nearly abandoned & all other meetings entire­ ly so for several weeks. It was not until February that our sanctuary became again filled & our religious meetings at­ tended. The meetings even now are not so well attended as they were before the sickness, partly because very many are still feeble & scarcely able to get out, & partly no doubt from some having during the sickness formed the habit of �staying away. The children's not [sic] being generally gathered into schools during the week is another cause why our congregations are smaller than formerly. Exertions for the support of the Gospel among themselves. During the first nine months 48 of the people contributed [in pencil: $280.66] in cash for the salary of the mission­ aries, a sum considerably in advance of what they have con­ tributed for this purpose in any former year & it can be truly said that the payment of this sum was made with a promptness & cheerfulness before unknown. After long experience they seem to have learned that the Gospel is a personal as well as public good & that a few cents paid annually for its sup­ port was not money thrown away. The ease & cheerfulness with which they have contributed this much for our support, while it defends us from the imputation of oppression in calling --- -- upon them for it, shows conclusively the benefit which it confers upon themselves. One thing is plain. Poor & desti­ tute & degraded as ---- are many of our people are, what they have contributed for the support of the Gospel has not made them more so. So many are the advantages which have already resulted to the people themselves from a voluntary contribu­ tion for the support of the Gospel, that it would be hazzardous [sic] to their best interests both temporal & spiritual to relieve them from the burden. But contributions in money are far from being the only, or the greatest sacrifices they have made for the enjoyment of religion. They have been re­ markably alive & self-denying in erecting large & pleasant places of worship. 3 of these have been dedicated since Gen. Meeting. One of them is 60 feet by thirty--stone laid up in mud-mortar, plastered & whitewashed; with substantial roof pannel [sic] doors, glass windows & fine clean mats. The whole of this was done by their own labor & expense, with the exception of a few dollars & now it is delightful to meet with them & see how they enjoy the fruits of their labors. In Pelekuna [ !] & Wailau, two deep dismal vallies with only about 100 or 150 inhabitants each, by dint of hard labor they have each a house of the same kind, but of less size: & the cleanliness & pleasantness of these sanctuaries of God, com­ pared with the miserable habitations of the people, allure many to public worship who otherwise would probably not at­ tend. Following on in the same direction on the Kolau side y o u come to Puahonui [!] with its 50 inhabitants & neatly plas­ tered stone meeting house. After two unsuccessful endeavours to finish this house on account of the rains which destroyed their work as fast they made it, they --- as the last means resorted to special prayer that the rains might be so far restrained as to enable them to complete God’s house. This prayer was answered to the letter & they met with no more hinderance [sic] to the work till it was completed. After they had --- got the roof on another insurmountable obstacle presented itself to the full realization of their wishes. It �was the want of lime to plaster the house. No lime stone was to b e found in its region, or ever had been. What could they do but to call upon Him who has in His hand the treasures of the deep. This they did in solemn united prayer & the next morning a sufficiency of lime stone lay ---- on the beach, like the mana around the Camp of Israel, with which they soon prepared the material for plastering their house. The people of Halava [sic] at great labor & toil had finished the walls of a meeting house 60 by 30 feet & 12 or 13 high, had the timbers all prepared & were about to put on the roof, when the pestilence disabled them from doing more until the flood demolished the house. They are not however discouraged but are determined to rebuild the house In a more favorable location. The work is now going on & probably e'er another freshnet will be completed. At Honouli a house of the same ---- dimension had been got under roof but through some defect in the work it was unable to withstand the unparalleled rains of the season, & it fell, carrying with it sorro w & discouragement to the hearts of the poor people who had la­ bored so hard in putting it up. They will not probably re­ build it without aid as death has greatly thinned their ranks & disease & weakness abounds [sic] among the remainder. The house could not have been built on hire for less than $300 cash. Several other houses of worship have been commenced the year past, & will - - - - it is hoped during this one be finished: so that, if we may judge of the value of the people put in the Gospel & the ordinances by the sacrifices which they have voluntarily & cheerfully made for its support, it will not appear small. It may be added as illustrative of the samething, that without even the suggestion from us they have in several districts, that when there were no schoolhouses, put up houses for prayer meetings. In one land they have two of these, one for promiscuous meetings & one for females exclusively. Cause of Benevolence Up to the time of the general sick­ ness, the donations at Monthly concert had exceeded those of any former years. The average receipts per month have been for 1848 33 1/2 dollars. The system of giving monthly for the spread of the Gospel abroad has become established through­ out the island. This has been done slowly & by degrees. The means by which it has been brought about has been keeping frequently before the mind the state of the heathen world, & the imperative duty of all chrisstians [sic] to labor to send unto others the great blessings of the Gospel, which they themselves enjoy. It is a usual practice to devote the sermon of the afternoon previous to the monthly concert the subject of giving for the spread of the Gospel. The monthly concert meetings are made as interesting as possible by ing the contributions to their respective donors, by reporting to the meeting the amount received the last month, By [sic] relating missionary news & anecdotes of heathen usages & by pointing out on the fine missionary maps, which adorn our �45 meeting house, the location of the scenes which are described. Not only are the members of the church taught that they can­ not maintain a Christian character while they neglect contri­ buting for the spread of the Gospel; but more are encouraged to hope that they are prepared for entering the chh [!] who do not engage in the same work. We have also endeavored to im­ press upon parents the duty of teaching the children to give & the children of the schools have done no small part towards what has been raised the past year, The different lunas are instruct ed to keep the subject constantly before their various apanas & the people are encouraged to bring their gifts to the meeting instead of waiting till a future day. Care has been taken to inform the people that their contributions have been laid out according to their wishes. Appropriations of the funds have usually been made at the monthly concert by the vote, or rather by the consent of all present to propositions made by the missionaries. Of the contributions for the past year (48) 40 d ollars have been given for a scolorsh ip [!] at Lahaina Luna 50 dollards to the Home Miss Soc o f U.S . to help support Mr. Atkinson & 300 dollars to the American Board. One hundred of which is to constitute the King An [ sic] honorary member of the board 2 dollars. As usual the Mothers' meeting has made contributions fo r the poor in the vicinity. Owing to causes which need not here be mentioned the amount for the year has fallen short of what it was the last. Although it is not less than 15 [in pencil] dollars. I had forgotten to say, while on the subject of the people for the support of the Gospel at home, that we have remitted pay for salary the last 3 months of the year in consequence of the sickness & much has been done at monthly concert in consequence of the same although the case of the poor widow has been presented to show that few or none are too poor as to be unable to give something for the spread of the Gospel. Schools & Education We are sorry to say that our report for the past year must be lacking in that interest, which has heretofore characterized this department of our labors. The schools up to the time of the pestilence were in much the same state of prosperity as they had been in former years so far as teaching is concerened; & unusual preparations were being made for a more brilliant [sic]. Puali inuwai than we had ever known, & had not the sickness prevented, our hopes would pro­ bably have been realized. We have had 17 schools taught by 29 or 30 teachers at the price of 25 cents a day embracing between 11 & 1200 children & have had but one examination during the year the statistics of which we are not able to give. Our teachers tho' equally paid, even to an ignorant woman, are by no means of equal qualifications. A few of them are -- as good as can be found any where in the group, while the greater part, tho' better than none, & the best that could be got, are unqualified for their duties to say the least. The paying so many teachers so high wages, & the failure of the Lunakula's to exercise a proper watch over them & care over the avails of the Pahaa [!] resulted at the end of the year in the heavy debt [Paahao: system of work under the Hawn. govt. in which the common people worked out their taxes] �of [in pencil: $300 or 400] dollars. Of course the schools have had to rest, as it would have been folly to have kept them up without the means of paying the teachers. The Superintendant whose administration brought all this evil upon us, tho' the best that could be had at the time was less qualified for his office than he was thought to be. The teachers as a general thing have been permitted to keep their own accounts, as to the number of days they have taught, & as to the pay they have received, & there is reason to suppose that in some cases, if not in many there has been dishonesty practiced. A new superintendent, in many respects superior to his prede­ cessor has been appointed The debt by stopping the schools & purchasing goods cheap & selling them to the creditor teacher at the market price has been discharged & some of the schools have been recommenced. The number of teachers has been diminish­ ed & the ways of some of the remainder reduced so that it is to be hoped we shall hereafter avoid falling into debt & be able to keep the schools in operation the whole term. Some districts are wholly destitute of schoolhouses. When the children of Molokai will recover from the injury so long a freedom from the salutary restraints of a school has done them we cannot say; but so obvious have been the evils that we shall hereafter endeavour, so far as we are able, to prevent the recurrence of the same evils again. Hawaiian children, with very few exceptions have no government at home, & the Hoomaha Kula is but another name for relief from all moral & religious restraint. As always before, so still, our schools suffer greatly from the want of properly qualified teachers. Were this difficulty removed it would do more for the interest of schools than all other means put together: & whereever a [sic] he should be regarded as with his weight in gold. For further particulars of our schools I must refer you to the minister of Instruction. Only one of all the teachers have [!] died during the year. Soon after writing the above, the Governor gave orders to his Luna on Molokai, who had been taking quarterly payments of the people for the Paahao, to do so no more, but to require pay at once for the full year, this will operate very unfavour­ ably for our schools at least this year as all the cash that could be raised has been required to cancel the debt. There has been little labor done these many months past, & the labor of the Paahao at present cannot be made available, to any very great extent, to the payment of teachers this year. Most of the men will try hard to get 1/2 a [sic] dollar [sic] for three months & when the 3 months are out they ---- will be more unwilling than ever to return to the Paahao, so that the greater part would pay the cash for the whole year if allowed to do it part -- at a time, whereas but few can & fewer will pay in advance for tire whole year -- ------- -- -- -- & it is our opinion that ----- Paahao of Molokai at $2 cash for the year will go farther in the support of schools than the whole could do if paid in Labor. "school vacation" �47 Native Helpers These consist in members of the ch'h [sic] called pukus & lunas, & have not been different the past year from former ones. So important is the aid offered by them that it would be impossible without them to go forward with our work with success. As a usual thing they are truly good men & willing to labor for the cause. Besides these lunas we have 3 native ------- preachers one of whom was licensed two years ago. He has thus far shown himself worthy of the confidence reposed in him. He h as a field of 120 or 30 ch'h members & a congregation of two. He is beloved & respected by the people & had the ch'hs [sic] of Hawaii a sufficiency of such preachers it would be a good blessing. Kanakaokai, a graduate of the first class of the high school, & who has spent many years at Kalaupapa; & by whose activity & faithful- - [sic] labors that people have been raised from a state of the greatest darkness & stupidity, to a high stand among the native Christ­ ians, was examined last summer by Brethren Alexander, Andrews & ourselves, & a license was given him to preach the Gospel. Lokomaikai, a man of first rate mind & hopeful piety, but of no school education, tho' not licensed, is engaged in the same labors as the others, & promises to be an efficient fellow laborer. God has greatly afflicted him. His wife, with whom he had lived for many years in the greatest harmony & affection, was seized with with [sic] a disease in the head. She became deranged, & while he was asleep, escaped & has not been seen since. Several weeks after her departure a person appearing insane was seen by several & search was made hoping to find her, but the search has discovered ------- not the least trace of her. Her loss is a great detriment to the ch'h under their care. She was a kind & pleasant person & had secured to an unwonted degree the affections of the people & an influence over the females of the place. The native preachers are not expected to spend all their time in laboring for the Spiritual good of the people. It has. been thought that being obliged to labor for a part of their support would tend to lessen the temptations to sin, which so thickly beset the idle everywhere, but especially of this land. And as idleness is perhaps now the greatest sin in the church. It was hoped that the example of their teachers in the kalo patch, a potato field, or with their net in the ocean, would render more respectable what by common consent has been regarded as a disgrace to the luna, from the King downward to the lowest. They are paid 50 dollars in trade a year. This is sufficient to clothe themselves & families, while they are to procure their own food by their own industry. Four of our most efficient & esteemed lunas ---- have died the past year, & it is confidently hoped now are enjoying in Heaven the fruits of the blessed religion they so long labored to extend to others. Secular Matters The Herd This consists of 12 head [sic] of all sizes & �4© ages. On account of the severe laws for damage the care of the herd has become more troublesome & expensive than formerly. Until of late we have paid the Kahu $1.50 a month we now pay him $2.50. The time is near at hand when we must have a sepa­ rate pasture for our cattle ---- or be obliged to dispose of them which last is becoming more & more difficult to do. There are numerous herds in our vicinity & if no other difficulty occur [sic] that of want of food for them all will be an in­ surmountable one to their remaining where they are. The mount­ ain part of Kaluaaha should in some way -- be procured from the Government without delay, It can be converted into pasture with as little disturbance to the people as any other tract of land. We would request therefore that measures be taken to secure it for the mission herd. Will not the government sell it & take pay in cattle? Or will they not lease it for a reason able price for 50 years. Mission Premises These during the year have suffered con­ siderable damage by the floods & rains. Our yards & cattle lotts [sic] are surrounded by stone walls laid up in mud & cannot stand long continued & violent rains. A valuable lot of Mr. Dwight has been much injured by a deposit of sand & stones from the mountain, as also has his door yard. Necessity has been laid upon us to be at considerable expense in defending our­ selves from similar damages. We have built a breakwater con­ sisting of a stone wall 9 feet wide 3 feet high & [sic] feet long at the expense of 75 cents the fathom. This wall to render it effectual must have considerable work done on it. The following are the items Paid for turning off water in another direction $2.00. For building wall n ear [?] our house to keep off water $1.00. For making Miss M Browne’s wall $5.25. For walls round Mr. Dwight's- premises $16.50. [sic] for [sic] fathoms of breakwater. Our houses require repairs. Miss Browne's was partly torn down by by [sic] the flood. It needs thatching immediate­ ly & will cost at least $12.00. Mr. Hitchcock's house has leaked badly these several years & cannot be longer left with­ out shingling withou t greater expense than can be saved by delay. The frame of the roof is native timber & has probably become injured already to a degree which should not have been allowed. Another year’s soaking will we fear so rot the frame that it will have to be made new. Our house at Kalae also needs thatching & a roof for the cook house together with some other trifling repairs. We therefore ask for the purpose of defraying the above expenses. The following sums 1. For walls & water carriers 2. For Mr. Dwight!s house 3. For Miss Browne's house 4. For Mr. Hitchcock's house 5. For the Kalae house �Statisti cks [sic] Whole num. added to ch'h by con. do do do do certificate Received the past year by Profession do do do Certificate Whole number received past year Dismissed to other ch'hs " This year Whole no. Deceased " " do Last year Suspended Last year Remain Suspended Excommunicated Last year Whole numb [sic] Excommunicated Remaining " Whole number in good standing Whole number of children Baptized Average Congregation Marriages_____ Benevolence Salary from May 1848 to March 49 ------------ --- ------- ------" " May 1848 to March 49 " " the poor " For building chhs Census Number of inhabitants now living Number died since Jan 1 st 1848 do do by measles &c Died in 16 months 1 i n -9 1401 40 276 3 279 45 8 235 85 40 36 0 24 16 1129 750 52 $ 280.66 $ 280.66 15.00 [in pencil] $ 900.00 3821 453 371 by the sickness 1 in 10 1/2 � 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 - Molokai 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 - Molokai - 1833-1849 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837, 1838, 1848, 1849 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/30c227ea24b52ff891ecbfb7178da844.pdf 09facf3746736fe851f7ca27d5814993 PDF Text Text Molokai Station Reports, No. 2, 1839 -1863 Table of Contents Seventh Annual Report of the Station at Kaluaaha - 1839, Hitchcock Report of the Station at Kaluaaha p.2-4 1840, Hitchcock p. 5 - 7 1841, p. 8 - 1 5 1842, " p. 16 - 23 1843, p. 24 - 28 1844, p. 29 - 34 1844, P. J. Gulick p. 35- 38 1846, p. 39 - 40 1846, Hitchcock p. 41 - 4 1847, Hitchcock letter to Chamberlain, p. 47a Report of the Station at Kaluaaha, May 1849 - May 1851, Samuel. G. Dwight Abstract Abstract Report o f the Church on Molokai Abstract Report of the Molokai Church Abstract Abstract of Report for Molokai 1851, Hitchcock 1852, Samuel G. Dwight 1852, Hitchcock 1852, Hitchcock 1852 & 1853, Samuel G. Dwight 1853, C. B. Andrews 1853 - 1854, C..B. Andrews 1854, Samuel G. Dwight 1855, C. B. Andrews 1855, Hitchcock 1856, C. B. Andrews 1855 or 1856, Hitchcock 1857, Samuel G. Dwight 1858- 1859, A. O. Forbes 1859, A. O. Forbes 1860, A. 1861, A. Report of the Presbytery of Maui and Molokai,1862 Report of Molokai Station 1863, A. O. Forbes O. Forbes 1863, A. O. Forbes 0. Forbes Abstract of Report of Molokai Station, 1871, unsigned p. 48 -51 p. 52 - 57 p. 58 p. 59 - 66 p. 67 p. 68 - 70 p. 71 - 74 p. 75 - 78 p. 79 - 81 p. 82 - 83 p. 84 - 85 p. 86 - 87 p. 88 p. 89 - 91 p. 91a- 91b p. 92 - 95 p. p. p. p. 96 - 97 98 - 100 101 -103 104 -106 p. 107 Revised & corrected 5/99 �[1839] [Hitchcock] Seventh Anual ( !) Report of the Station at Kaluaaha Seven years have elapsed since the establishment in all of which goodness and mercy have followed us. Though in none of them have we been free from the chastizing hand of our heavenly father. Even before the station was taken the health of Mrs. H.s -------- ------ poor. ( !) It became more so for two successive years. Until in the merciful providence of God partial relief was obtained. Though far from well she has been more or less comfortable from that time up to the middle of the present year. Since this time her disease has been more active; and she is at present suffer[ing] much from debility. In the month of december ( !) last a daughter was added to our little family; but to our great grief and disappointment was taken away by death after eight days esquisite(!)suffering. an event which has manifestly contributed a share to the increased indisposition under which she (?) now labours but an event in which notwithstanding we have clearly seen the love and kindness of God. And for which I hope we have felt unfeigned gratitude. The labours of the Pastor have suffered an interruption this year as in previous years from his necessary absence. W e were called to Lahaina by the sickness of my sister which occu­ pied nearly 4 weeks - and subsequently to the same place for medical aid for our family which occupied nearly three months so that nearly one third of the year has been spent away from the station. The effects of this interruption have been highly prejudicial to the interests of the people. A manifest retrogation in the work - a falling off in the interest which existed in the minds of the people on all the subjects to which their attention had been called. Were the interruptions of this kind of occasional or unfrequent occurrence they would require little attention as the loss to our cause would be trifling - But as they may be looked for to a greater or less extent every year/as it seems to me they should not be suffered to exist (?) but from imposs­ ibility to prevent them. Our (?) labours at the station may be expected to be curtailed at least three months in the year on an average including both families until until ( !) such time as the island be supplied with a physician. This fact of it self would go far toward making it apparent that a physician should be allowed us; but when the great facilities which the island affords for the usefulness of another family, no doubt as to the necessity, expediency, humanity, or economy of the subject existed in the minds of the present occupants of the field. It is therefore our sincere and earnest request that the Mission in the general letter to the rooms, call for two more physicians, with a view (?) to the supply of Molokai, and that the call be made in such a manner as to effect if possible the great (?) object. The pastoral labours of the year have been so much like �Hitchcock - Kaluaaha, Molokai 1839 - 2. those of former years that a distinct account does not seem to be called for Several unforeseen causes have prevented me from engaging in extraordinary (?) means for good of the people of my charge. The principle of them has been the morbid state of my vocal organs The attention to the concerns of the soul has become much less earnest and general than it was the previous year. Still it is much better than at any time previous to that year. A Manifest improvement in ability to understand and appreciate, and yield to the controul of divine truth exists among the people. And though as we have passed through the various stages of our labour for the good of the population we have many a time sighed deeply on account of the smallness of good achieved (?) yet looking back on the whole thus far we find abundant occasion to praise god ( !) for the striking contrast between our people now - and what they were when we first landed among them. We feel confident that our labours though comparatively limited and ineficient ( !) have not been in vain in the Lord. I grieve that I am unable to report progress to the cause of public benevolence to as pleasing amount as many of my breth­ ren have been able to do - But my inability in the case should be charged to the peculiar circumstances rather than to the in­ disposition of the people. True (?) I am no political econo­ mist but it seems to me perfectly evident that if I were I should be utterly unable to devise how the people on Molokai in their present (?) circumstances could do much either for the support of their own teachers or for foreign objects. They are kind to us and manifest a willingness ,to do what they can for our support. But their disabilities are so many and great as to preclude the possibility of doing much. Still beside furnishing our families with most of our vege­ tables gratuitously and furnishing most of the timber for Bro Munn[ '] s buildings - they have contributed for the high school thirty dollars or nearly. Tapas to the amount of about thirty dollars more have been contributed by the maternal association for the benefit of the poor. Of the schools I shall say nothing as to report them falls to Bro Munn. We have two associations one for males and the other for females - the former consist[s] of all the members of the church, and all those out of the church who are willing to be called upon to labour for or contribute to the cause of benevolence. This association meet ( !) once in two weeks, and are ( !) mostly instructed in their duties as parents, and members of society. �Hitchcock-Kaluaaha, Molokai 1839 -3 The Maternal association over which Mrs. Munn and Hitchcock have presided has been In a more prosperous condition this year than in any previous one. It meets regularly on friday of evy (?) other week - The exercises at the meetings are reading the scriptures and conversation by the sisters on such subjects as [are] most necessary to be presented to Hawaiian females. The children meet with their mothers once in four weeks. One great object pressed upon the association has been care for the poor, infirm and sick. And we are hapy ( !) to say there has been a most pleasing improvement In this respect. Committees have been appointed to seek out the poor, and sick and those suffering without ability to aid themselves and to confer upon them the charities of the association - and extend to them the care which their circumstances required as far as practicable The result of their labours they are required to report to their teachers from time to time - The association numbers from 150 to 2 0 0 . Beside the above meetings the ladies at the station have a regular meeting once in two weeks with the female members of the church. Members admitted to the church the past year on profession - - - - - - - - - - - - 59 Do received in previous years - - - - - - - - - - 221 Whole number received - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 280 Died the past year - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2 Died in all - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4 Dismissed to other churches - - - - - - - - - - - 3 Cases of discipline in all - - - - - - - - - - - 7 Whole number of excommunications - - - - - - - - 4 one for neglect of providing for his family 2 for adultery one for covetousness, dishonesty, destitution of Christian character, and contempt of the authority of the church Members now in good standing — — — — — — — — — — — 269 Baptized infants - the present year - - - - - - 104 Died - - - - in all - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3 Total of Baptized infants - - - - - - - - - - - 151 Marriages the past year - - - - - - - - - - - - 38 Married in former years - - - - - - - - - - - - 338 Sum total of marriages - - - - - - - - - - - - - 417 Present population of the island 4903 Former (?) census 1835-6 - - - - - - - - - 6000 Decrease - - - - - - - - - - ------1097 ? 7 lands populations-- 6 - 3 7 --- Males ---333 females 304 children ---222 (?) Average number of congregation on the Sabbath---------------- from 700 to 1000 �[Hitchcock] Report of the Station at Kaluaaha - 1839 [1840] The missionaries in their report are again enabled to record the mercies and superintending care of God, which has been mani­ fested in the general health and prosperity which they have ex­ perienced. While we have not been entirely free from illness of body, some of the members of the members ( !) of the station have enjoyed better health this year than last. Nor has any hard (?) sickness been permitted to disturb our operations. The labour of the pastor has been the past much as in former years. Preaching twice on the sabbath, attending a bible class of 20 girls before meeting in the morning; and the Adult sabbath school immediately after the morning service. The monthly concert has been regularly attended. Preaching on Wednesday afternoon. Meeting of the church on Saturday - and part of the time an adult bible class on tuesday - every other friday a meeting with the Men[']s Benevolent Society has been held. For about half of the year a bible class daily with the above mentioned girls - with which singing has been connected. Visiting from house [to house] has been practiced to considerable extent to gether ( !) with preaching the gospel by the way side. Owing to ill health the pastor has on 4 sabbaths not preached at all - and four Sabbaths has preached but once. The maternal and benevolent association has been vigour(s)ly sustained during the year under the superintendence of the ladies of the station. It numbers nearly 150 members who have done credit to the society by the readiness with which they have con­ tributed to the relief of the poor, the attention they have given to the sick, and the improvement they have made in the knowledge and practice of the duties of their sex. Not supposing when we left home that there would be a general meeting we have not the amount of what this society have contributed to benevolent pur­ poses. We regard it however as among the most efficacious instru­ ments for promoting the good of the people which we have been able to put in operation. We have a. Men's Benevolent Society Embracing all the male members of the church and all others who are disposed to join. But few join who do not give more [or] less evidence of being Christians. The contributions of this Society to the objects of charity consists of wood at the monthly concert - and gratuitous labour in building and repairing schoolhouses and houses for wor­ ship. The Amount of their contributions I have not at hand. The Society meet every two weeks at least as many as live within a convenient distance and when there is no other business of importance the time is occupied by Reading the scriptures - a verse or two each who is able - and exposition by myself. During the year we have had two protracted meetings - one at Kalaupapa and the other at the station. The former continued only three days owing to the failure of my voice. We were �Hitchcock - Kaluaaha - 1840 however most evidently favoured by the presence and influence of Him who alone can convince of sin and convert the soul. And there Is reason to hope that several found pardon at the time and will finally be found among the ransomed in heaven. Several date their awakening and conversion to God at that time, some of whom I think have been a (?) The continued meeting at the station was held in the fall was attended [by] Brethren Andrews and Armstrong and was in some respects the most interesting season of the kind we ever had. The house was full during the whole of the meeting which was from Wednesday until monday - the attention never better although the people were much pressed with want of food and many of them were from a distance. The impression left by the meeting was deep and has been decidedly beneficial - several instances of hopeful conversion have occurred in consequence of and we have great occa­ sion for thankfulness to God and to those brethren who lent us their aid on the occasion. I could have been ( !) wished that the number of conversions had been greater still the blessings attending the meeting are so many and obvious that we shall be anxious to have such seasons as frequently as the providence of God will allow. The church now consists of 320 members having received an addition of 63 during the past year. 8 have died during the year and 12 in all. The number of excommunicated suspended & restored I cannot state as I [do not] have them by me. It may however be stated in general that very few gross offences have occurred - and that the conduct of the church in general has been as consistent and free from reproach as in former years. Some of the members have appeared much awake and have exerted a salutary influence arround them. But many while they walk orderly in view of the world are too careless and worldly and asleep. Of those members that have died this year three or four have left highly satisfactory evidence of being ripe for a better world, while of the others nothing has appeared inconsistent with their Christian character. None are now propounded for the church but there are several who are regarded as proper candidates and will probably be re­ ceived soon. As to the State of the people in general there has been no improvement the past year so far as religion and morality are concerned. Our congregations on the sabbath has ( !) on an aver­ age been smaller than any former year. The young have fallen off greatly to that but comparatively few now are seen in the house of God. It has been owing to the almost entire licence that has been given to vice since the establishment of the new laws, and even the laws themselves have formed so great a part of the subject of thought and conversation as to leave little room for anything else. Another cause of the increased indifference in the mass of �Kaluaaha - 1840 3 the people has been the change of landholders. Hoopiliwahine has been the owner of the island but it now belongs to the King who has apportioned most of it out to his hulu manus many of whom probably could not be more grieviously offended than for their tenants to malama i ka pono Still there is no cause for discouragement.Truth has un­ doubtedly a deeper place in the minds even of those who reject it than it ever has before. The consequences of rejecting the gospel and living in a course of sin [are] better understood. The middle aged and more advanced in life are more easily inter­ ested in conversation about their souls - Frequently while con­ versing with one individual by the way side others have drawn nigh and listened with attention and seriousness. I know not on the whole that the means of grace have been better received by the people in any former year. According to a vote of last general meeting a comfortable dwelling house has been put up for Miss Brown who has remove(d) to the station and commenced her operations in part. A work house of 40 feet by 18 has been contracted for for 25 dollars and partly put up. The Mission are hereby requested to make an appropriation of 50 dollars to cover the expense of the building as she cannot put up looms until the house be completed. Owing to not putting on the roof of our school house well after standing 5 years it has fallen down and we are now destitute of a house for the large station school. Our people have just finished a a (! ) meeting house 20 miles distant from the station and have been unable to the house as soon as would be desireable ( !). Mr. Munn has hired it done for about 30 dollars which is very cheap. Should we depend upon the church for doing it it would not be finished before fall - I therefore have to request an appropriation of 30 dollars to defray the expense of rebuilding the house that the Schools may be resumed in it as soon as possible. My dwelling house is in suffering condition for want of repair the Roof needs painting - It leaks and the walls becoming Injured. I applied for an appropriation last year but did not receive (?) one. -I now renew the request that 50 (?) dollars be allowed me from the building fund in order to defray the expense of painting repairing the roof - and putting up a Ranai in front of the house which is needed. (Hitchcock) �Report of the Station Kaluaaha -[1841] [Hitchcock] The Missionaries at this station have renewed occasion to speak of the lovingkindness of the Lord.Though we have been much of the time in poor health, jet we have been mercifully preserved, from protracted and severe sickness; and the year has passed away without being upon us any distressing calamity. And never have we had more occasion to exclaim What shall we render unto the Lord for all his benefits. Would that our zeal, and faithfulness and efficiency in his work had been more pro­ portioned to the high obligations under which his great mercies have laid us. Owing to ill health less pastoral labour has been performed this than any former year. By the advice of the physician I did not preach during the first 7 months of the year. During this period a general oversight of the church and interests of the station was most I could do. The services of the Sabbath were conducted chiefly by Bro Munn, and native members of the church. Sermons written either by the pastor or some other member of the Mission were usually read in the forenoon, and in the afternoon Mr. Munn frequently addressed the people himself. After the close of the sermon I usually spoke about 10 minutes in application of the subject to the assembly. So that though I did [hot] preach formally I was not entirely silenced. I found no benefit from ceasing to preach - owing to this and being otherwise unwell it was thought best to consult the physician again, accordingly in the month of December I came to Honolulu. By the advice of several physicians I commenced a new regimen and after the stay of a few days returned to my station. I immediately Increased my labours - and in about a month was enabled to perform all the services on the Sabbath which I have continued to do ever since. This is a blessing for which I praise [the Lord] not more on my own account than in behalf of my poor people who seemed truly thankful for the removal of the long dearth of the word with which they had been afflicted. The value which they attach to the ministry is in itself no small compensation for the labour of exercising it among them. My labours in the Sabbath school have been continued but with altogether less exercise of voice than formerly. Indeed I have done little else than barely to superintend. The Adult school embracing most of the church members, and some out of the church has been constantly attended by myself. In this school bro Munn has usually assisted. Beside the adult/school I have had a school of young girls who have recited in the Ai o ka la. This school has consisted of about 30. During the former part of the year the plan of xxxxx exercises was to hear each individual separately recite her 7 verses. Then employ the most �Hitchcock Kaluaaha 1841 - 2. forward scholar to catechise the rest, on the verses recited, and then to ask questions myself by way of explanation and ap­ plication - We have usually sung a hymn after which I have ap­ pointed one or two of the scholars to lead in a prayermeeting ( !) and have myself withdrawn. These prayermeetings of the girls were for a Season conducted with propriety - and were profitable. But they finally became less serious, and were discontinued; laterly ( !) I have closed the school by prayer. They have usually recited with accuracy and during the year have treasured up an amount of divine truth which can scarcely fail of being of great service to them through life. An hour before the commencement of the afternoon exercise this school together with school of Mrs. Munn have for several months past met in my study to read the scriptures in course. Alltogether ( !) they are about 50. They are all good readers and seem to understand what they read. After reading each one or two verses, one of the girls has questioned them in review of the chapter they have read they looking on the book [.] After this they have closed their books and I have questioned them upon the principle topics about which they have been read­ ing which exercise has fully shown that they have been inat­ tentive. This school has usually been closed with singing and prayer. After which the whole school has gone to the after­ noon meeting. It has also been the practice to have each scholar to repeat the text of the morning and give an account of the principle thoughts in the sermon. Beside the verses of the ai o ka la these scholars have met in my study five mornings in the week before school to recite the scripture the oldest class have committed six verses each day which with the ai o ka la has made seven; making for each scholar 43 verses each week and 2236 for the year beside these the church members belonging to the class have met with me each Saturday morning and recited each one or more verses as they have chosen (?). The younger members of the class have committed daily 4 verses beside the Ai o ka la making for each week 31 verses and for the [year] 1612. These added to those committed by the older scholars amount for the whole school during the year, alowing ( !) the school to average 40 scholars [,] 153920 verses. To commit so much scripture to memory must necessarily have retrenched (?) much from time which would have other wise ( !) been spent by the children either in Idleness or something worse. Beside committing their 5 verses of scripture each day the younger scholars have for the greater part of the year attended day school both forenoon and afternoon. And for several months past the older schoolars ( !) spend four [or] five hours a day in spinning - so that during the year they have had had ( !) but comparatively little time for Idleness, and the commission of sin. The weekly Wednesday lecture has been as statedly observed as my health would allow, and when I have been unable to preach the meetings have been conducted by my Associate or the natives. �Hitchcock - Kaluaaha 1841 3. - I have divested (?) considerable time at these meetings in lecturing on the nature and evils of Romanism. Meetings of the church have been statedly held on Saturday evening. The congregation on the sabbath, though respectable considering the small population within a suitable distance, has been less on the whole this year than ever before. The average number In the morning has not been over 7 hundred, and in the afternoon about three hundred. Many of these are children of the schools it being a rule in all the schools that the scholars attend meeting on the Sabbath and those of the station school twice. The Sabbath school is large averaging over three hundred and all attend meeting so that the average number of Adults at the morning service is not more than 400; and it would not have been so large had it not consisted in part of people from some of the distant out posts. The people from Halawa (?) a dis­ tance of 12 miles much of which consists of deep ravines have been at the station (?) every 4 weeks - Those of Moakea a dis­ tance of nine miles have not failed to be present every other Sabbath. Those of Wailau on the windward side of the island have frequently been present once in two sabbaths though their path to the station lies over a pali thousands of feet high and through a rocky beded ( !) torrent much of the way - from all these places the people usually come on Saturday and return on Monday. From the more distant out posts Pelekunu, Kalaupapapa, ( !) and Kalae there have been none present at the station, except on sacramental occasion[s]. The fact that the congrega­ tion on the Sabbath has been smaller the past than in former years does not show that there has been a proportioned decrease of interest on the subject of religion. Much of the interest manifested heretofore has been only apparent. The Island has until the year now past been owned by individuals whose influ­ ence has been more or less favourable to the peoples attending the house of God. Hoopili has always had a powerful [influence] over the people of Molokai [.] This and most of the other re­ ligious restraints under which the mass have acted have not [been] exerted the year past. The people have found by experience that they can neglect going to meeting on the Sabbath without incurring the displeasure of any they fear to offend. They are mostly under the controul of the hulumanus who are now the land holders of the island. To set loose to the pono is probably a recommendation of the common people to their Naku aina instead of being as it formerly was a discredit. The consequence has been a general falling off from the congregation on the Sabbath [of] all those who have not attended from worthier motives than pleasing the chiefs. While as a general thing those who have (?) ever given evidnce of loving the house of God have con­ tinued to do so, and a goodly number have been added to the number of such during the year so that though the audience is less numerous than formerly it has been more decent, orderly, and attentive. As a general thing, also the people seem more disposed to listen to conversation, and appeal In reference to the welfare of their souls than ever before. So that the mis­ sionary commencing religious conversation will draw others around him in xxxxxx places where a few years ago they would have fled �Hitchcock Kaluaaha 1841 - 4. from his presence. And frequently during the year have I sighed in spirit as I have looked on the field ready for the harvest with no strength to thrust in the sickle. The church during the year has been in a lamentably cold and fruitless state. And several members, some of whom were of the highest standing have been guilty of aggravated offences. A small number have however seemed not to have lost the spirit of prayer - or their former (?) in the blessed cause. These have acted as a constant and highly salutary constraint on the less devoted (?) by which many have no doubt been pre­ served from falling into sin. Though a diminution of feeling and interest in the church cannot be excused yet the causes which have promoted it are obvious. They have had much less instruction, and a far less variety of means used for their spiritual welfare than in former years owing to the incapacity of the missionary to impart in­ struction. Another fruitful source of the low estate of religion in the church has been the change in the civil affairs of the nation. When the new laws came Into use it was necessary that executors (?) be chosen. Most of these on Molokai have been members of the church. And these have not been able to attend to their new duties to their satisfaction without releasing their attention to religion - and some of them not without doing violence to their sacred profession. Many have exposed them­ selves to church sensure ( !) from their dishonest exactions, and unjust procedings ( !) in the discharge of their duties, so miserably (?) had they carried the laws Into execution that on an inquiry's being made before the church scarce an item (?) in the law had not been overreached - or carried to positive oppression. The matter was settled in church meeting by the prin­ ciple offenders confessing their and by all promising here­ after to go no farther In their exactions of the people than the law of taxation requires. The distress and anxiety that many have felt less they should fail to get their tax money in due season has operated not very favourably on the minds of many of the church. Other causes might be why religious feeling is so low among us Especially It would not be giving a fair account of the matter were we to neglect to ascribe much that has been in desireable, in the church to our own unfaithfulness and want of the proper spirit. Though our Outward man has been such that we could do little by Active labour for the benefit of the vineyard of the Lord; yet had the inward man been what it ever ought to be, much more, doubtless would have been done for averting that state of the church of which we complain. But while we mourn over the low state of feeling which exists in the church, yet have we reasons for gratitude that God has preserved it from any considerable defection. No case has called for final exclusion from the church the year past. But few cases of suspension have occurred and only four for the higher offenses, two of whom have been restored. �Hitchcock Kaluaaha 1841 - 5. The outposts have been looked to as far as our circumstances would permit. That at Halawa containing above 500 souls and rising of 30 church members has had stated worship on the Sab­ bath conducted by members of the church. It has a large Sab­ bath school and a some what ( !) efficient teacher. The head man, who has been very active in doing good to his people and in helping forward the cause has lost his sight and has been otherwise ill for a long time in consequence of which the cause of religion has been less prosperous. Moakea which contains a population of from 3 to 4 hundred is under the care of an efficient and active member of the church, and the good cause has been as prosperous there as in other part[s] of the field perhaps more so. The distance is nine miles from the station yet many have attended meeting at the latter place every other Sabbath. An adult school has been kept up among them, quite a number of them have committed to memory the confession of Faith - The Sabbath school as well as the day school have been more prosperous than could have been expected considering their limited means. They are about putting up a commodious stone meeting house the stone and tim­ ber for which are chiefly collected. Kalamaula a post 20 miles west of the station and embracing a population about 700 has had no native missionary but has been supplied on the Sabbath by the brethren alternately. Dur­ ing a part of the year the attendance has been very encouraging; afterward much less so - and later still it has been better. There are only 5 church members two of which have been added the past year. These were the subjects of the great revival. A large dobie meeting house capable of containing 800 people has been finished the past year by the contributions of the whole church. This post is much exposed to catholic invasion from its remoteness from the station and the great ignorance of the people. A native catholict ( !) has been over the ground and obtained some followers - Probably very many would go over to that destructive sect were there any one qualified for the work of soliciting them. Kalaupapa nearly oposite ( !) Kalamaula on the windward side of the island with a population of about 700 Has a very active, pious though not very competent teacher. There are rising of 30 members of the church and a number who give more or less evidence of having saving faith in christ ( !). They have regu­ lar exercises on the sabbath, and the state of religion among them is as good as could be expected considering their distance from the station, the three thousand feet pali between It and us, and the incapacity of the teacher to carry them on in know­ ledge - Sabbath and day schools have been kept up as well as the means would admit, and on the whole a religious influence which though small compared [to] what is desirable ( !), is invaluable and a matter of devout thankfulness to the blessed Spirrit ( !) from whom it has been received. There are consider­ able comfortable accommodations for a family there a large �Hitchcock - - Kaluaaha 1841 - 6 . native house walled in - The meeting house is large. This post is more exposed to danger than any other part of the field. The catholick (!) have entrenched (?) themselves there, and already number about 30 (?) exercising (?) all the malice and hostility to the protestants usual to the followers of the man of sin. They are as yet only natives, and they of the darkest, and lowest and most ignorant kind. Still facts show that they have been much more apt to learn the peculiar principles of popery, than those of the pure gospel of Christ. The leader, who can neither read nor write, was formerly teacher of the heathen custom [of] hugging to death called Lua - a work for which his huge muscular, and bear (?) like appearance must have eminently qualified him. When that horrid work was abolished by the destruction of idolatry; he was for many years as wide awake in seeking celebrity through the pono hou [new right] as he had been under pono kahiko [old right]; and when the station was taken he was soon discovered as a zealous hoikaika - He continued to labour to get into the church without success until within about two years ago he got wind of the catholics and out of revenge probably went over to them. At any rate his becoming a catholic is called by the natives who are acquainted with him a mea Hoohuakeo [a thing stubbornly bent on wickedness] . At first little notice was taken of the matter, we heard frequently of the poe Pope [ Catholics?] at Kalaupapa but concluded that one so perfectly ignorant could not make much headway in leading the people astray. Some of the members of the church proposed that we send and bring him to the station and encourage him to hope to be received into church at no distant day being quite confident that such a course would annihilate popery at once. We came finally to the conclusion to visit Kalaupapa mainly to do what we could to break up the young Society. After arriving there and inquiring where the popish teachers were we were informed that they were waiting for an invitation to call upon us. The distance by water from the station is between 50 or 60 miles - much of it on the wind­ ward side of the island. The weather had been pleasant for a long time and the sea quiet, but on the morning appointed for starting things seemed somewhat threatening. The wind began to rise, dark clouds to lower over the direction we were to go. But the canoes being all ready we ( !) it was resolved to go ahead. Accordingly Brother Munn with all his family Miss Brown and myself and a crew of five or six natives set off and arrived at Halawa where we spent the night. The badness of the weather increased during the night and the surf had become so high that the natives thought it not safe to proceed. We on the whole however concluded to go forward, and so pushed out into the open sea. We had been out but a short time when the rain over­ took us, and before we found a landing place we were very un­ comfortably situated. We landed in a deep ravine about noon, and after having (?) talked to the people [and] taken a little refreshment, put out again to sea and reached the place where we lodged, sometime before night. The rain continued - our clothing were wet and no means of drying them very quick. We rose in the morning the rains falling plentifully, the wind blowing, and the surf roaring tremendously - and the word was that we could not get out, on account of the volume of the surf �Kaluaaha - 1841 and that the purport was that it would he more and more diffi­ culty and that if we did not escape immediately we might be shut up for weeks and perhaps months for when the surf once gets up for the winter season it is impossible for canoes to get through it for a long season [.] But as we had but little clothing with us, and still less food that the ladies could eat, it was not safe to remain where we were, and to retreat to the right hand or left or backward was not possible. The least evil therefore was to attempt to get out once more over the constantly dashing and raging surf and pursue our watery way onward. The canoes were accordingly got in readiness as soon as possible, and with the exception of the one on which I was to go, with much danger of filling were shoved through for ( !) a long time no interim was found in the rolling breakers to allow my canoe to put out, and when the natives attempted to go, we only got to the point at which the angry surge broke and were overwhelmed and driven back. The natives for a while insisted that it would be useless to try again to get out, and advised me to stay ashore. But my company were all floating beyong the surf with all my food and clothing, except what I had on which were saturated with salt water. For them to come to my relief was impossible and for me to get out of the deep gully any other way than over the roaring surf seemed equally impossible - and the sea was becoming every moment more and more perilous and when it would be safer no one could tell so that I was not long in deciding to make another attempt to get out in which we bearly ( !) succeeded. One second of time later would have covered us again with the deep. Having all got be­ yond the surf our condition became more alarming than it had been while confined in the abyss from which we had escaped. There we had terra firma at least. But now we were out on the ocean troubled into mountain waves the rain darkening the shore and the wind high and irregular. There was no possible landing place but the one to which we were going and that several miles distant. An attempt to have have ( !) escape[d] from the vio­ lence of the waves by getting ashore would have been death. The canoe on which I sat could have been easily transported by two men, perfectly open [ ,] and Neptune in his billowing boat seemed scarcely less defended from the yawning deep than my­ self. We were however mercifully preserved and landed in safety - Had a conference with the leaders of the papal party who confessed that they were hewa [ wrong] and promised before many witnesses to have nothing more to [do] with Romanism. This however they had no intention to fulfil and as soon as convenient one of them repaired to Honolulu to get further instructions how to proceed. At a subsequent meeting with them I had a fine opportunity which I did not fail to improve to illustrate one indispensible ingredient in popery from the flat breach of promise of which its leaders there before me was convicted by the whole assembly. �[On Back] Appendage to M r . Hitchcock's Station report 1841 Kaluaaha Whole No added to the church examination Whole No on letter Past year on exam " " on certificate 371 17 32 3 Whole no past year 35 Whole Num dismissed to other churches 11 Dismissed the past year1 Suspended past year Remain Suspended Excommunicated past year 14 10 0 Whole num ex 9 Remain ex 7 Whole Num in Reg. Standing 342 Whole numb children baptized 170 Baptized the past year Whole number of children deceased Deceased past year Marriages past year ------------- (no figure) 17 (no figure) 49 Whole num Deceased Deceased the past year 18 6 �Kaluaaha Ap 26 - 1842 H itchcock] [ Dear Brethren. It would have afforded me pleasure to have reported in person the state of this station. But pleasant as this would have been, duty has plainly forbidden it. And even now I shall not be able to send you so particular a statement of our condition as I could wish, owing to the pressure of more important business. The year has been marked with mysterious providences (?) My com­ panion over whose dying bed for a few sad hours I stood in anguish has been raised up and her lamented associate, in the midst of high hopes of long usefulness, and from the bosom of her now desolate (?) family has from the same bed ascended to her eternal rest. Had I time I should indulge my feelings in remarking upon the severity of ourloss in that humble, noiseless yet eminent Saint. [Mrs. Munn.] I can only say that her death has made a breach in our circle, and a wound in our hearts which we little expect can ever be heald ( !). The health of Mrs. H. during the year has on the whole been more feeble this year than it has been before, still she has been permitted to over see her domestic concerns - and to exert no little influence on the female society about us. My own health, as though my Heavenly father had graduated it with special reference to the feebleness of my family and the reduction of our numbers in the removal of our associates, has been better than usual so that I have had as few interruptions from labour on acount ( !) of personal illness as in almost any past year since I have been at the station. More of my time has been devoted to secular business this year than either my own inclination, or the good of the people would have alowed ( !), had there not been an imperious call for It in the circumstances of my family. Mrs. H ’s protracted weakness and the faint prospect of her getting better without change resolved us to try a residence in a cooler climate which we hapily ( !) found at a distance of less than two miles from the station, directly back on the mountain. For the purpose of making a trial a tempory ( !) house was put up without cost by the members of the church, the superintendence of which broke in for a month upon my professional work. The result of the change was altogether more favourable than we had dared to hope for - so that, from not being able to walk but a very few steps, Mrs. H. in three weeks began to ramble at considerable distances from the house. And her strength increased so rapidly that our expectation of returning health were ( !) high. Circumstances however made it duty to leave the mountain and only a few days of care, and excitement and more labour than she had been accus­ tomed to, brought her down, and induced a new disorder from which we almost despair of her recovery. The weather had become so wet and stormy that a better house became indispensible ( !). This took much of my time for two months. When this was completed Mrs. H. was again carried to the mountain where she experienced a change for the better in her health - Three trials of the Retreat have all resulted favourably and fully compensate for the time and expense which the house has cost. It is a good native house and will do for several years. I may also remark that the bracing air of the mountain has been one means of my own uniform health the last half of the year. We feel thankful that so good a remedy for our health has been discovered. And do wish that all �Kaluaaha - Hitchcock 1842 2. our brethren worn down and exhausted by the heat of a seaside residence could try the mountain air. The average difference in the thermometer is probably about 12 degrees - with even a greater difference in Salu­ brity of the air and the beauty of the scenery. The Labours of my own particular department have been some what different this year. Soon after our return from general meeting, I instituted several catechetical meetings in different parts of the con­ gregation which I attended weekly until our removal to the mountain made it impossible to attend longer. In these meetings, principally composed of adults the "Ano o Ke Akua" was made the text book. After hearing them read I have questioned them on the various points contained in the lesson, and improved the good opportunity presented to apply truth to their consciences - The afternoons of Mondays and Thursdays were devoted to this work. Good has accrued from these meetings though much less than would have [been] done could I have continued them. I hope to commence them again as soon as my circumstances will allow. Another new feature in my work the past year has been preaching on the Sabbath at the out posts distant each way from the station about 6 miles. I have been induced to adopt this plan from the fact that many more will hear the Gospel on the Sabbath. Very few from those places attend meeting at the station. The most from unwillingness to endure the fatigue of walking so far, but many from old age, bodily in­ firmity, or confinement with children. But by establishing meetings in their own neighbourhood most of them hear the word of God. During the winter I have left the congregation at the station in the afternoon to the deacons - who so far as I have been able to learn have conducted the services with propriety and order. But since the length of the day has allowed I have returned in season for the afternoon meeting and have either preached myself - or superintended the exercises. Obvious good has already resulted from the plan. My labours on the Sabbath during the year in addition to the above have consisted in a short lecture to the children of the Sabbath school at nine. Sermon at ten - and expounding the lesson of the Ai o ka la to the adult Sabbath school at 12 oclock. In addition to the Wednesday lecture which ha 3 been kept up as usual I have held a meeting for those who were formerly scholars in the station school. "A meeting for fathers” has also been established, and consists of a large number of male adults who by becoming members of the meeting obligate themselves to more care in training up and providing for their families. It is designed to be a counterpart of the "Mother's meeting", which Mrs. H. has remoddled ( !), and which now consists only of select individuals chosen from the old meeting - individuals whose houses are neat, whose children are in a good degree under parental control, and who actually exhibit advance in family order. These meetings are held semimonthly and on thursday - the old Mothers Meeting is still continued on Friday and its members transfered ( !) to the new as they give evidence of being prepared for it. We are encouraged to hope that much good both to the bodies and souls of the people will result from these meetings. The females suffer much the loss of Sister Munn who had begun to be an efficient helper in that department of labour. The female meetings are now mostly continued by themselves. �Kaluaaha - Hitchcock - 1842 3. A meeting for the professedly serious is held on friday afternoon in which the members are catechized on the doctrines and duties of our religion. These meetings are extremely interesting, have already re­ sulted in good, and they give much encouragement of increasing useful­ ness. The church prayermeetings Saturday afternoon have been regularly kept up. And nearly half of the year also a prayer meeting with the diciplined (!) or suspended members. I have had two protracted meetings and another is appointed for next week. The first was at Kalamaula at which I preached 6 times. There was good attention - but the meeting was thinly attended owing to famine, popery, and infidelity all which combine for the ruin [of] the souls of that portion of the island. The meeting however has done good not only in discovering to the people the wiles of the man of sin but in awakening some it is hoped to their own condition as sinners. At the close of the first sermon, those who viewed popery as a dangerous delusion and were determined to avoid any connexion with it were re­ quested to rise. All present rose. Of course there were no papists present. The second meeting was held at the station. It commenced on Wed­ nesday and closed on Monday morning. It consisted of 13 meetings all of which were well attended beside one meeting for the anxious at which there were present about 200. Never have we had a protracted meeting better sustained by the people. The house was filled at the commence­ ment and continued so w ith but little variation until the close. The attention paid to preaching evinced the presence of an influence more than human moving upon the minds of the congregation. I take this op­ portunity to express the cause I have for Gratitude to brother Andrews who notwithstanding the great pressure of his business came to our help and laboured hard in preaching the word/. The labours of the meeting could not have been sustained but for his efficient help. What the results of this meeting will be cannot now be foreseen. But we have never held one of the kind that gave greater promise of good. In addition to the above labours I have for at least 4 months of the year spent from one to two hours a day four or five days in the week with my children in school. If they continue with us the coming year more of my time must unavoidably be devoted to their instruction. Three months at least have been spent at Maunaoluolu where I have slept with my family nights, making a constant demand on my time for going and returning. Much of the best part of the day has gone before I am able to get down to the station - and frequently I am obliged to return early on account of the rain. The state of the congregation of the Sabbath has been better this year than it has been the two past ones. There has been a more uniform attendance on the means of Grace, and a greater willingness in the people to receive instruction. Our meeting house has always been suf­ ficiently full for the comfort of the audience and frequently quite crowded. And it has been composed less than usual of people from the out stations - the average number has been from 700 to 800. �Kaluaaha - Hitchcock - 1842 4. At an outpost 10 miles distant there has been a state of things approaching to a Revival during most of the year and there are a goodly number who give evidence more or less satisfactory of having become real christians. They have attended meeting at the station twice a month. At Waialua about 6 miles distant and where there has been preaching once in two Sabbaths there is now an unusual attention to the concerns of the soul. Two have been received to the church and several others profess to have chosen the Saviour for their portion. On the whole though the adult part of the so numerous in this year as in some that have be hoped that real attention to the interests greater except during the Season of the Great congregation has not been gone by, still it is to of eternity has never been Revival. I cannot report great numbers added to the church during the year. The many deceptions practiced upon myself and most of the brethren in the great ingatherings of former years have begot in me a fear of admitting as members of the family of Christ any who have not shown the fruits of repentance by a long term of trial. The folowing ( !) statistics will show the present state of the church compared with last year. Whole number added on examination — on certificate — added the past year on examination on certificate whole number added the past year Whole number dismissed to other churches — dismissed the past year — Whole number deceased Deceased the past year — Suspended the past year — Remain suspended — Excommunicated the past year — Remain excommunicated — Whole number in Regular standing -Whole number of children baptized — Baptized the past year — Whole number of children deceased ' Children deceased the past year Mariages ( !) the past year — Average number of the congregation — 395 20 24 3 27 14 3 28 10 22 29 0 7 337 225 55 [no figure] " " 24 750 By comparing this with my Report last Gen. meeting it appears that the number now in regular standing is less by five than it was then. Death has made greater inroads in the church this year than ever before. And of the 29 who remain suspended few of them are for gross offenses and it is hoped that many will soon be restored. Four stand propounded and there are others who will be added to the numbers as opportunity shall offer to attend to their examination. There are perhaps nearly 200 who profess repentance - most of whom are new cases whose attention has but recently been arrested. How �Kaluaaha - Hitchcock - 1842 many of these will be saved, or give evidence of conversion a future day will decide, but we have reason to bless God that so many have aroused from their stupid slumbers and begin at least to attend on the means of salvation. The Sabbath schools at the station are as follows. Childrens school at nine A .M. Average number about 380 - perhaps four hundred. Nearly half of whom recite the "Ai o ka la". They are in three divisions, and after the recitation they all assemble in one school and I lecture them from a quarter to a half an hour which is all the instruction they have; as the teachers do nothing but hear their recitations. At three oclock the children belonging to the station school and those who can read from the other schools meet to repeat the text and to read the scriptures in course. Some fifty girls have in this way made consider­ able progress. I have not been able to pay but little attention to them But I find it to be a more profitable way of their employing their time even though they have none but native teachers than to spend the sabbath in play or idleness. Our adult sabbath school is much as usual consists of all the members of the church and many others. It has been a means of great good and to attend to its duties is one of the severest tests of the attachment to the Pono. The department of common schools must be reported as in no flourish­ ing condition. With all my other cares, a bare supervision the most superficial, is all that It has been possible for me to give to them. It has caused me much pain of mind that I could do no more for the numerous and interesting children who compose our station school es­ pecially. It has been Impossible to give them even what religious in­ struction they have needed, to say nothing of other things. Still the little attention I have been able to give them has been better than nothing - it has kept them together. The practice of committing scrip­ ture to memory has been continued and no doubt much good will eventually result from it. At an examination of all the schools held in february last and con­ tinued for three days there were present Boys 483 Girls 435 Whole number present at examination 918 Whole number present at examination 1841 839 Whole number of scholars absent 152 Whole numbers of scholars on the Island 1070 Whole number who can read without spelling 469 Whole number of writers 102 Whole number in Arithmetic 285 In Geography 158 Schools 15 Teachers from Lahainaluna 11 Whole number of teachers 19 The Station School Scholars present at examination 274 absent 14 whole number 288 �Kaluaaha - Hitchcock Readers Arithmetic Geography Writing Hoike A Kule Teachers from Lahainaluna Female teachers - 1842 160 100 90 67 34 2 2 The mission will readily perceive that the department of schools on Molokai must necessarily remain at a stand at least if not retrograde until the place of Brother Munn is supplied. As family, and pastoral, and other labours are more abundant than I can perform well. Contributions of the church to benevolent objects are necessarily very small owing in part to the fact that our church consists only of common people who have no property, and mostly to the fact that we have no market where the natives can turn the products of their industry into money. They have however done something. They have contributed in cash for the Sacrament --$21.00 In labour for us about — 12.00 In wood — at least -15.00 In timber for meeting house — 50.00 In meats — 10.00 In fish &c — 2.00 In Net bags -about two -2.00 In all ---------------------- --$ 112.00 This account of contribution probably falls short of what they have actually done as I have not the means of determining precisely the value of wood and timber collected for the Meeting house. The amount would have been much more than it is, If I could have superintended their labours and laid out work for them. But this I have been unable to do. I must close this Report with a reference to our wants in men and money. With regard to an associate for the present year I have but little hope of obtaining one. Should there however in the providence of God be a man to locate or even to dispose of for this year If I were a disinterested judge I seriously question whether there is a station where that individual is more needed or would be more useful than here. If my own continuance in usefulness is worth preserving; it can be preserved humanly speaking only by a seasonable supply of help. To say that "you. must leave undone what you cannot do" would be like saying to a fond parent; do as much as you can toward providing for your children and let the rest go undone when owing to his weakness they were suffering from hunger. In both cases strength would be taxed to the utmost. Missionary work cannot be left undone. It must be done - and will be done while the Missionary can articulate, or totter on his cane to the house of God. I am aware that other brethren need help - and I cannot say much as I would on my own behalf - because I feel for them but there is one consideration which I hope the Meeting will weigh those brethren are young and in health, with healthy families and probably have less in hand than there is to do at an old station. I have desired that If Mr. Smith from Oregon stays in the Mission and it be not against his mind that he be located here for the present year �Kaluaaha - Hitchcock - 1842 7. There is perhaps no better spot to pursue the knowledge of the language and he would be able to relieve me of the superintendence of schools But I submit the case to the brethren. I have but little if any ex­ pectation that Brother Munn will return. Should any thing be written to the Board about another Reinforcement do not fail to press the subject of supplying Bro Munn's place should he not return with a clergyman, and of sending immediately two families for Kalauapapa; Efforts are already making to get a Popish priest there I should have stated before, that all possible efforts are making for the spread of popery. The emissaries of the priests are besieging all the villages distant from the station and succeed in making di­ sciples, all of whom may be regarded as so many returned to a delusion and idolatry worse than the old which the nation has forsaken. O how much we need more help to oppose the darkness by the light of God's word. In conection ( !) with these remarks I would express my opinion that the "Nonanona" has done good and that it should by no means be discon­ tinued. I have used most of those sent me this year in the school because I supposed they would be more useful there than else where. I shall make unwonted efforts to get more money for them this year, and I think I shall succeed. I will pay for fifty copies for the school and get all the subscribers I can beside. While on this subject I would suggest that "Nevins on Popery" be assigned to a translator and printed at the expense of the tract society as soon as possible. I feel much concern for the high school. As it seems to me very few (if any other) posts in the mission are too precious to be sacri­ ficed if need be to keep it up and carry it on efficiently. At a full meeting of the trustees in January a plan was voted to be recommended to the meeting which gave high promise of securing a man for the Seminary (?). That plan proposed Brothers Armstrong, Lyman or Alex­ ander as candidates - Providence has shown that the former cannot be had - But I have heard no sufficient reason addn e e d to convince me that either of the others may not be had. Let Bro Lyman Be removed to the Seminary and his place at least for the present be filled by Bro Wilcox or Bro Alexander - and his place supplied for the present by broth J. Just regard this paragraph as a parenthesis in the Report to which you will give only that attention which it merits. Owing to the great pressure of business on my hands the past year I have not completed the translation assigned me - but shall resume it as soon as possible. The letter I was appointed to write to the Madrass Mission has not been written owing to a mistake. I did not receive the Minutes until after I had written to Auburn Seminary, which I supposed was assigned to me. There must have been a mistake in the Minutes, as I was present when the assignments to correspondents were made, and Auburn was assigned to me which I fulfilled accordingly - But have not sent �8. Kaluaaha - Hitchcock - 1842 the letter as the minutes assigned it to Bro Dibble. and can be sent if Bro D . has not sent his. It is now by me In making appropriations the mission will remember that all our children are over five and under ten. We must send David away to school and an additional allowance will need to be made for the expense of tuition which cannot be less than 25 dollars if the school is at Lahainaluna the expence for his board will also need to be defrayed by an aditional ( !) grant unless he can be boarded for what he now draws after the expense of clothing is deducted. We must have if possible the sum of 50 dollars the present year for repairs to our dwelling house. The grant of last year for the purpose could not be laid out owing to the impossibility of getting a carpenter. There is now a prospect of getting one, and the work must be done or the house will suffer much. The grant of last of last ( !) year - was not all received from the vessel - 100 feet of Boards were not delivered by the captain of the vessel - much of the remainder of the grant has been expended upon the house on the mountain and should to ( !) be paid out of the Medical department as much as a voyage to the coast for health. What remains of the grant will no more than cover the additional repairs which the year’s delay has rendered necessary, so that 50 dol­ lars is the least that can be got along with. Brother Munns House needs attention. An expense of 5 dollars will keep it in its present state of repair for the year. If neglected the injury to the house will much exceed that amount. Therefore [!] ask for the following grants For repairs for dwelling house From Med. Dep. for Mountain house to ballance ( !) the portion of last years grant For Repairs to Br Munns house Respectfully submitted P.S. $50.00 50.00 5.00 H R Hitchcock Should it again be impossible to procure a carpenter the grant if made will not be called for. [On back: H. R. Hitchcock report 1842 Station Report Kaluaaha 1842 1 �[H i t c h c o c k ] Kaluaaha May 1843 Dear Brethren of the Mission. It is [a] matter of disappointment to me that I am un able to send you any thing but a miniature Report of this station for the past year, as perhaps no year in its history has been more fruitful in interesting events. But sudden sickness in my family, and my own ill health have prevented me from writing a full report. From Gen Meeting 1842 up to December of the same year nothing occured ( !) either in my own situation or that of my family to interrupt me in my work and in no period of my missionary life have I been able to do more or with more success. In December the illness of Mrs H obliged us to leave the station, to which we did [not] return till March had nearly past. Since then though I have not been sick yet I have felt myself nearer the invalid list than I have for these many years past. David now l ies on a sick bed. He has had a course of fever but through the goodness of God he is convallescing. I am happy to state that our visit to Honolulu has proved a decided benefit to the health of Mrs H whose health is we hope per­ manently improved. For these mercies our Dear brethren will unite with us in rendering devout thanks giving to God. The state of Religion has been unusually interesting on Molokai for nearly 2 years past. Great numbers have forsaken ? sins and subscribed with their hands to the Lord of hosts. A Series of protracted meetings was commenced about a year ago which resulted in the awakening, and I doubt not in the conversion of many. The work has not ceased though it is not as marked now as it has been. During our long absence from the station, the influences of the Spirit were mani­ fested among the people not only in keeping those who had previously turned to the lord from going back; but in greatly increasing the num­ bers of inquirers. Of these nearly 1000 are on my books. The church has had a prosperous year. Christians have seemed to understand and to discharge their duties better than before. Altogether more harmony and less contention than is common has characterized the church this year, and in proportion to its numbers fewer cases of dis­ cipline have occured(!). And considerable additions have been made to it of such as It is hoped will be saved. The Adult Sabbath school has been much better attended than ever before. Many more comitt ( !) to memory the seven verses for the week And the catechism is now being learned in every part of the island. The average number of attendants on this School at the station is about 200 - and Schools of the same sort are established all over the island. The children’s sab school remains much as it has been in past years - and has averaged between 350 and 400 I suppose. Considerable attention has been given to singing and a good number of the children can sing pretty well. On the Department of schools I can scarcely report at all. They have been almost entirely under the management of the native teachers. I have not the number of scholars at our last examination not being able �Kaluaaha May 1843 - Hitchcock 2. to attend from sickness. I know however that the general prosperity of the schools for the past year has been as great as perhaps any pre­ vious year. And have no hesitation in believing that education has ad­ vanced as fast. Nearly all the children go to schools more or less good - and are under the general influence of the station and are re­ ceiving religious instruction. The school at the station has averaged during the year more than 200 and many of the scholars are well prepared to enter the High school. Four scholars of the Seminary have graduated, one of them has returned to Molokai and I am expecting the others. But I Understand that the condition on which they stay is that they can get such wages as suits them, and ordinary wages will not probably suit them. I would suggest to the Mission whether every scholar who has the benefit of the seminary shall not previous to his entrance be required to give bond for the amount of his expenses to the Mission to be paid to the treasurer of the institution within a reasonable time after he graduates - unless he shall return to the Missionary who sent him and teach for such pay as the people are able to make - We have not much money on Molokai and if the teachers stick for a great price we cannot em[ploy] them. The graduates should be content with such living as they can get at the places from which they were sent to school until some little remuneration at least has been made/ the Mission for the expense of their education. I much deprecate the Influence of employing the Lords treasure to educate men for the mere purpose of better enabling them to take care of themselves. Will not the committee on overtures put this subject on the list? I shall take a written obligation of the scholars about to enter from this island to teach school on this island at least three years - and for such pay as we can get for them. And I hope that no one will be allowed to enter without coming under some similar obligation. My plan of labour for the year has been as follows Lecturing the childrens Sab. school at 9 sab. morn, preach at ten. Expound the Sab School lesson of the Adult School at 12, and preach at l/2 past three. This I have been enabled to follow and with but little interruption. The Monthly concert has been attended - a meeting on the same day of the week for a portion of the enquirers - another for another portion of the same class on teusday ( !) at a distance (?) usual lecture on Wednesday - Thursday and friday each a meeting for enquirers and on Saturday meeting of the church. The last friday of every month has been designed for the union of all the enquirers throughout the island. And Every other thursday a day for the meeting of the parents association which has been remoddled ( !) the past year. The above has been My plan of labour. I was enabled to adhere to it to a good degree until we left for Honolulu from which time I have not been able to resume it. The meetings have however been carried on by native members - The female meetings are continued as usual. On the whole, we have reason to bless God that a more perceptible advance in the religious, moral and social condition of our people has [been] exerted this year than in any other year since our conexion ( !) with them. The unstable character of our present house of worship; the probab­ ility that no future time would afford us greater facilities for building than the present; and above all the fact that great numbers are precluded from the house of God on the Sabbath who have a desire to to ( !) enter it in consequence of the want of room has made the duty plain to build �Kaluaaha May 1843 - Hitchcock 3. a permanent and larger house. The subject has been had in view for these several years. Not much has been done until the present one. It has been commenced - the materials are mostly collected and the stone work about one fourth or a little more up. And if the Lord enables me to give the work any considerable degree of superintendence we shall probably dedicate the house to the Lord on the first day of January next. I wish to state to the mission that as little delay as is possible should be had in finishing the house because our present house will not accommodate the people who come to meeting on the Sabbath. I cannot finish by the first of January without involving a debt of at least 100 dollars for which I must become responsible. Probably the debt must be more. It will Somewhat diminish it if the mission will allow me the avails of what books I may sell and also of some few articles of furniture of Mr Munn’s the Account of which will be but little, but will all help - and if turned in this way will, While it aids the cause save the trouble of transfer to the depository books. If the mission will allow me the Books and what few articles of Bro Mun’s ( !) remain here for sale it will be received by me with great thankfulness - I present the request — We are saving all from our own stipend we can for the purpose - Last year we gave 30 dollars. Our people are supremely poor. They have done well thus far. I had hoped not to be under the necessity of calling for an ap­ propriation this year. But I find I must. Our ? condition the dangerous nature of the passage to Lahaina, the frequency of our being necessitated to go over, and our friends to come to us for sick­ ness or other purposes, renders it absolutely indispensible that we be provided with as safe conveyance as the circumstances of the case admit. Our canoe leaks and if fast falling, I would not go on it now if the case were not urgent. When it may give way and be entirely unsafe to go over on cannot be told though it may be very soon. A canoe will cost from 100 to 150 dollars. I beg the mission to allow me to purchase one as soon and as cheap as one can be found, and draw upon the treasury to not above 150 dollars. I have my eye on one which I think will suit us - which will be cheap as 150 dollars. I need not remind the brethren of the urgent need the station stands in of more labourers, and I am confident that if it be a practible thing you will assign us a clerical associate at your present meeting. If no you will not fail to represent the necessities of the station to the Prudential committee in its true light. Should mission­ aries arive the present year (it maybe blindness) but I conscienciously think that no station has claims for help equally strong as this. Nor is there one in more danger or being given up unless it Is reinforced. While I have health I am willing to use all my strength - but my health fails and how long it will allow me to sustain even poorly as I now do the interests of the station. Dont fail to give us the first minister who comes. It may add years to my life and preserve the station from overthrow. With regard to salary if I mistake not Bro told me that the salary's commencing or including the past year would depend on the pleasure of the �4 Kaluaaha May 1843 - Hitchcock Mission. For certain reasons I would prefer that my stipend for the last year be regarded as salary - My accounts are so involved with the Meeting house that it will give them more simplicity, as the property gone Into the meeting house, so far as I am concerned remains still mission property - whereas if it was my own, the case will he different I will put my requests for help to gether. 1 For the Meeting house the entire avails of Book for the current year. 2 For the same what few articles of Mr Munn’s remain to be sold at the station. 3 For the station from 100 to 150 dollars (when I shall have found a canoe) - to purchase a canoe. Should I not succeed in getting one the money will not be called for. 4 An Associate without fail as soon as possible. The following table of Statistics Whole number of church members received on confession — Do By letter Do Recieved ( !) the past year on confession Do — — By letter — -Do Recieved the past year — — — — Whole number Dismissed to other churches — — The past year Whole number Deceased — — -— Past year Suspended the past year — — — Remain suspended — — — -Whole Number in regular standing — — — Whole number Baptized children — ----Baptized the past year Married the past year Average number congregation probably over Native schools cannot Report Station schools -22 scholars Contributions of the natives for the Meeting house cash 714 24 319 4 323 18 4 44 16 3 21 655 368 143 42 900 $ 276. Respectfully submitted H. R. Hitchcock. chairman of Gen Meeting I Should have said something in reference to our extra expenses for our children the past year. I was allowed for David 40 dollars the past year. him have been as follows. Clothing - - - - - - - - - - - - Board for about l/2 year at 37 1/2 c Travelling expenses to get him to Outfit for school - - - - - - - - My expences ( !) for - - - - - - - per week School - - - - $20.00 10.00 15.00 13.00 $58.00 �Kaluaaha May 1843 - Hitchcock Which is 18 dollars more than we have had allowed for him. Much the same is the case with Rexford Should there be a bill of expenses more, I hope that the Mission will make an appropriation to defray it. As I shall not be able to and still meet other unavoidable engagements - I think at least 15 dollars travelling expenses should be credited to my account in order to be equal. H R H (On back) Report of Kaluaaha for 1842-3. �Kaluaaha May 20 1844 [Hitchcock] In no former Report of this station have we had more urgent rea­ sons to begin with acknowledging the goodness of God to us and our people, than in the present. The first half of the year we experienced in our family unusual, hea[l]th and ability to labour, and the Lord caused his work to pros­ per in our hands; and his candle shone round about our tabernacle. And looking back on those months I have reason to be ashamed that I made ( '?) n o better returns to My Heavenly father for his great goodness in raising My dear companion from a long and distressing illness, in giving her so unexpected a degree of hea[l]th, in the continued heal[t]h of our children, and in my own ability to labour hard in his work. The last half of the year has been full of affliction. I have been visited with two severe fits of sickness from the last of which I have not yet fully recovered. It went further toward entirely breaking down my already feeble constitution than any thing ( !) I have ever before experienced. This sickness and the feeble health subsequently which I have ex­ perienced, together with an absence of six or seven weeks on a visit to Honolulu has resulted in at least 3 fourths of my former amount of labour being diminished. And such at present is the State of my health that my prospects for efficient labour are dark. But He that has often heard me when I have been in distress and been better to me than my fears may help me now and enable me again to do my wonted amount of labour . Pastoral labours have necessarily been less abundant this than in former years not only in consequence of sickness but mostly from the great pressure of other business connected with building the Meeting house. Until prevented with sickness and whenever able since the pastor has preached twice each Sabbath - besides lecturing the chil­ dren's sabbath school, and the adult school in the Ai o Ka la. The only weekly religious exercises he has attended have been the Wednesday Lecture and the Saturday meeting with the church. At the commencement of the year our congregations were unusually full and interesting. They continued so for two or three months when the effects of droping ( !) some of the means of Grace to give more attention to building began to appear in a diminution of the people at meeting on the Sabbath, and in a general state of coldness which gave us no little uneasiness. Still later in the year there was a sensible revival of feeling and disposition to attend on the preaching of the word until we left for our visit to Honolulu which being protracted longer than we intended and followed by a severe sickness resulted in another great falling of[f] in the congregation, and in a lower state of feeling than I have known here for several years. When I left for H my hopes were high - I am sorry to say that now though our number on the Sabbath is not small yet that there is very manifest a less disposition in the mass to attend public worship, and a general indif­ ference to the concerns of the soul. May the Great shepherd soon grant us a reviving and renovating influence. Sabbath Schools have been attended this year at the Station though �Kaluaaha May 20, 1844 - Hitchcock 2. by fewer children than in former years. This has been mostly owing to a carelessness on the part of the teachers in not calling to an account those who failed to attend. Formerly the rules of the day schools required the scholars to attend the Sabbath school and meeting on the Sabbath. These rules have become a dead letter in the and those children who prefer to spend the Sabbath in idleness or play have mostly deserted the school. Still many have attended and but for the want of adequate instruction would have made good progress in rel­ igious knowledge; as the verses of the Ai O Ka la have been committed to memory by many. Bro Gulic ( !) has of late taken charge of this school so that it may be hoped that the children will have hereafter more attention than it has been in my power to bestow upon them. Our Adult Sabbath s chool which includes the church members and the more serious part of those who are not members has been constantly kept up. There has been no sensible falling off in numbers during the y ear. There [are] usually present from 4 to 5 hundred. Propably ( !) 1/4 of them recite from memory the 7 verses of scripture for the week; and of the remainder, from five verses to one, and all have the oppertunity ( !) of hearing the lesson explained. I have depended as much, almost, upon this exercise for enlightening the mind, getting at the conscience, and regulating the practice of my people as upon formal preaching. And could not all three be attended to it would probably be well to omit the afternoon session (?) for the sake of the school. As yet however with the exceptions of seasons of seasons ( !) of sickness I have been able to attend to all three. This school has been more useful of late than formerly owing to the fact that we are on the most interesting part of the bible ( !). Bro Gulic ( ! ) since his arrival at the station has kindly aided me in preaching. Much of the time since he has been with us I have been either absent or unable to preach twice on the Sabbath. Mrs. Hitchcocks ( !) freedom from the great amount of care which she had when the children were with us, and an improved state of health has allowed her to spend much more time with the females than before for these several years - She has frequently met with the native Mothers Association, and with a larger number on friday. She has also organized societies in different parts of the congregation for reading the scrip­ tures, over each of which she has placed one or more native female teachers who has met with her class after having heard the lesson ex­ plained by Mrs H. and given it what instruction she could. Mrs H has not been able to be regular in these plans - being frequently prevented by ill health from attending. But she is confident that they have been attended with signal benifit ( !). Improvements. Our Main work the past year has been the errection of a permanent house of worship. Partial preparations had been made the year before, such as beginning to collect timber Stone and coral for lime. A little beginning had also been made in collecting funds. But at the commencement of the present year we had collected none of these articles in sufficient quantity to complete the work. Preparing most of the timber and getting it onto the ground from the distance of ten mile3 or more, procuring many of the stones for building, and some of the lime, Mason and Carpenter work have all been done within the compass �Kaluaaha May 20, 1844 - Hitchcock 3. of a year, beside collecting a considerable part of the funds. The house has been completed nearly two months. It Is 100 feet long by 50 broad outside; walls 2 1/2 feet thick and 18 feet high. It has a gallery 18 feet wide across the brea[d]th of the house, and is lathed with American lath and plastered over head somewhat arched. The thatch­ ing is pili maoli. It leaks but little; Has 4 doors three of which are 7 feet high and about as wide, and one of the ordinary size; 8 windows with each 50 lights of glass, and two others with 12 each. The cost of the house beside stone, lime timber, and gratuitous labour of the people has been between 800 and 900 dollars, probabably ( !) nearer the latter amount. It is an exceedingly pleasant one, and one easier to speak in I never saw. You will rejoice and praise the Lord with me brethren that at last I have at last a place to preach in where I shall have but little danger of injuring my throat. It is a luxury in my missionary enjoyment for which I hope I may ever be grateful. At the Out Station at Kalamaula a large thatched meetinghouse built in good style has been finished and dedecated ( !) this year. It holds about 800-. That portion of the church have been set off by themselves so that now they do not come but very occasionally to the Station. We have held but one protracted meeting this year, and that was at the dedication of the New Meetinghouse. Bro Andrews, and Alexander were the preachers to whom I am under great obligations for their truly faithful labours and the occasion. I am sorry to say that my own ill health had not only prevented my use of the means hitherto blessed for the proper preparation of the church, but it likewise prevented me during the Meeting from holding such meeting[s] and having such conversation with the people as success to the meeting demanded. Good was doubtless done though less apparent than at any former one we ever held. Some time in October a several days Meeting was held at the New Meeting house at Kalamaula which was well attended (.) Native Agency has been constantly employed at the various out posts and more distant placed of the island, and though of a feeble kind has been of Great use. Religious meetings conducted by Natives have existed in nine or ten places on the Sabbath. And the state of religion and morals at those places has been as encouraging during the year as from their circumstances could be expected. Still good native helpers is a desideratum in the opperations of the Station. And I know of no thing ( !) which would more surely promote the prosperity of the cause aside from the outpouring of the Spirit, than would a good supply of well qualified native preachers. Most cer­ tainly some means should without delay be adopted and vigorously pros­ ecuted to procure such indispensable help. Contributions of the church have been mostly for the Meetinghouse. In less than two years they have contributed for this purpose in cash �Kaluaaha May 20, 1844 - Hitchcock 4. not less than than ( !) five hundred dollars, and in labour and materials what, if it had been procured with money would have amounted to more than three times that sum. I have been gratified to see that so poor as our people are and as unfavourably as they are situated with regard to the market they have been so willing to contribute for this important work. We have a ballance on hand of 230 dollars - enough to purchase a bell, and an uncollected subscription of more than 50 dollars. And as the people have been aided from abroad, a part of the balance on hand will be appropriated to help build the meeting house at Hana - and the re­ mainder should none of it be needed to pay for the bell as I hope it will not be, will be devoted to a schoolhouse or some other benevolent object. If the Lord help us we shall be able to refund all the help we have received from abroad. On the subject of reinforcing the station, I cannot now say all I would be glad to say for want of time. I have written to Brethren Chamberlain & Armstrong on the subject and so far as those letters can throw light on it they can be refered ( !) to by the mission. I would hower [however] say that I am expecting one of the new brethren to be located at Kaluaaha, and as there is not a healthy sister at the station, the importance of having a married man must be obvious. You brethren are acquainted with the state of my health and need not that I tell you that both its preservation from being worse, and entirely sinking, to say nothing of its amendment, as well as the well­ being of a church of more than six hundred members depend very much under God on our having a helper to to ( !) share with me my labours and heavy cares. The precarious state of my hea[l]th, the frequency with which on that account\I am prevented from preaching, and the inability which it causes of exercising properly and efficiently the discipline of the church, were there no other reason would as [it] seems to me be suf­ ficient to make clear my claims for a fellow labourer in my department of the work. Since my illness I find that I cannot attend to but a small part of what is necessary to be done in church matters, and the cause of ben­ evolence in the people, because I am not able to paipai [prod] them, is going backward at a fearful ratio. It is painful for me to witness it and this again injures my health. I do something, and had I an associate I should be able to [do] more. As it now is the interests of the sta­ tion are by no means safe in my hands. But another reason why another family should be located here is that the population is abundant, and the work more than even two healthy ministers can do. With my present health, If I had another brother with me the whole island may hear the Gospel once at least in six weeks and most of it oftener. One hour and a quarter's ride to the east (?) is a congregation of 500 people. We might have preaching there at least every other Sabbath had we another man. At the distance of 4 hours to the west there is another congregation of at least 700. The people have laboured hard and put up a good house of worship also a house and ac­ commodations for us when we visit them, and are anxious to have frequent �Kaluaaha May 20, 1844 - Hitchcock preaching. It is my wish to have meetings there once at least in six weeks which could probably be done if we had another minister. As the ease now is we may not be able to preach there at all during the year. Shall it be so - shall those distant sheep Who have even no competent native Shepherd be left a pray [prey] to the devourer? There are more than 70 church members in that part of the field - and very many people who will never hear the Gospel unless it be carried to them - come to the station they cannot. One minister be he ever so strong cannot meet the wants of this people, two though one be partly an invalid will be a proportionate supply, if the school department which is one of rare promise be filled by a third as is now the case. I might answer the objections which some of the brethren unacquainted with circumstances in the case might make; but as these circumstances are known to many perhaps to most of the brethren I forbear, hoping that the meeting in deciding as to allowing us an associate will imagine for a moment my circumstances their own. Should building a third house be deemed an insurmountable objection by the brethren it is is ( !) not by us. We have too much evidence that the population of Molokai loudly calls for and can most advantageously employ at least three families. And any one at all acquainted with the situation of the field would see at once that If we can have but one more family it must be located at Kaluaaha, as at no out post could a family be comfortable alone. I am very anxious to have a man with a family as the ill health of the sisters of the Station presents doing good where it is always most appreciated is among the females. They are in one sense the most Im­ portant part of our charge. But if the fact of not having a house cause[s] the Mission not to locate here a married man, one of the single brethren will be received by us with open arms and he will be made as comfortable in our nice upper chambers as we can make him - so there will for the present be no occasion for building. We should expect also that a man and wife will stay with us until better accommodations should be provided for them. We could let them have two rooms. I know not that I need say more on this topic but leave the matter to the wisdom of the Mission who I am confident will give it all the consideration it demands. The roof of our house needs repairing as it leaks badly in some places. Our pantry Is flooded with every rain and the house is becoming injured very fast[.] It cannot be repaired short of 100 dollars [.] Probably it will cost more. If it should the balance can be brought into an appropriation for another year. I request therefore that the Mission will allow me 100 dollars for the purpose of reshingling a part of the house, and such other improve­ ments as are necessary to keep the rain out of our pantry and kitchen. It will take 5000 shingles hinges (?) boards &c. We have endured the rain in our house now more than a year The statistics of the church are as follows. �Kaluaaha May 20, 1844 6. - Hitchcock Whole number received on examination — — -on certificate — — — — — — Past year on ex Past year on certificate — — Whole number past year — — — — -Whole number dismissed — — -— — Dismissed the past year — — -— — Whole number Deceased — — — — — Deceased the past year Suspended the past year — — — — Remain suspended — — — — — — — Excommunicated past year — — — -Whole num ex — — — -_ _ _ _ Remain ex — -— — — -Whole number in regular standing — — — — Whole number of Baptized children — — — Baptized past year — -— — — — Deceased in the whole . not known Deceased past year . not known Marriages the past year — — -— — Average number of the congregation about 783 24 69 0 69 22 4 65 21 17 48 00 8 8 682 465 97 40 800 It was my intention to have sent a more finished Report, and I commenced it in season for the purpose but sickness interrupted and I have been obliged to write it in a hurry. I hope the brethren will ex­ cuse any errours it may contain. ( !) I have much more to say but cannot as I have not time or strength. I feel deeply on the subject of Punahou School - Have written my views as to what improvement it seems to me are called for without delay. I pray dear Brethren that our Blessed Master may be with you in your meetings and guid[e] your deliberations, and render profitable and joyful your communion with each other. I long to meet with you but my ill health forbids it. This Report is respectfully submitted by your Affection[ate] brother and fellow labourer H R Hitchcock [On back] Station Report - 1844 Kaluaaha �P. J. Gulick's Report, Kaluaaha, Molokai May - 1844 By an arrangement at the station the superintendence of the schools on Molokai, devolved on the writer. But the state of Mrs. Gullck's health, (who was very ill several months) the sickness & absence of Mr Hitchcock, together with the superintendence of the erection of a church edefice, which, owing to the absence of the pastor, required a portion of his time, have prevented the attention, & those systematic efforts, which would otherwise have been bestowed on this branch of missionary labor. From the time however, that we became settled, & sufficiently re­ leased from the duties above stated, I have been accustomed to meet twice, daily, with the station school. Owing to the want of a suitable house, & competent teachers, till very recently the boys only, have been taught in the forenoon, & the girls in the afternoon. The school is opened with prayer, accompanied with singing a hymn or reading a portion of Scripture, or both, & questions on the passage read, or on the fun­ damental doctrines of religion; and on Mondays, on the sermons of the preceding Sabbaths. Although it is not at present our privilege to report any striking results of our efforts to imbue the minds of the children & youth, with the principles of religion; still, in the more advanced, there is evi­ dent progress in the knowledge of the plan of salvation through a cruci­ fied Redeemer. And we are cheered by the hope, that to some of them, at least, this knowledge may yet prove a 'Savor of life unto life'. The number in the station school, though varying somewhat, was till recently about 150; a majority of 12 or 15 being boys. There are now in all, over 200, & the former house of worship, being occupied as a schoolhouse, & an additional teacher employed, both boys & girls meet twice a day for instruction. They are taught by 3 male teachers from the Sem. at Lahainaluna, & one female from the fem. Sem. at Wailuku. Owing to causes stated in the beginning of this report, no tour of the Island has been made, for the examination of schools, except by the superintendent appointed by G o v . t ; hence the state of the schools cannot be reported as accurately as is desirable. It is said, compared with former years, they are now in a less flourishing condition. And there is unquestionably, much room for improvement, both in teachers & pupils. About half the teachers are graduates from Lahainaluna Sem., and as well qualified to teach, as a majority who have enjoyed the same privileges; Still they succeed poorly, in the gov.t & discipline of schools. And yet it is true, their schools would not suffer by a com­ parison with those of their compeers, whose management I have observed on other Islands. And it must be admitted, that while the children are scarcely restrained at all, out of school, it is no easy task, to reduce them to order & decorum, & to keep them so, when in. The indifference of many parents, to the mental culture of their children; & their re­ luctance to have them corrected, tend to augment the difficulties, which, from the waywardness of ungoverned children naturally beset the teachers's path . But probably, the chief cause of the diminution of children in our schools, is, the relaxing of the law, requiring the attendance of chil- �P.J. Gulick’s Report, Kaluaaha 1844 2, dren from 4, to 14 years of age. And/yet, in consequence of the presence of the papists the relaxing of this law, seems necessary; lest those who are willing to live in ignorance , should go over to t h e m , where they can he assured of ample indulgeance ( !). I am however informed, that no more than 20 or 30 children, on Molokai, have left our schools from all the inducements the Papists have been able to offer. But doubtless many, & perhaps all, who are now enrolled as pupils, would be more regular & constant in their attendance, were the law requiring it enforced. As already stated I am unable to give statistics with perfect accu­ racy, W e had a gen.l examination in April. But it was rather a sickley ( !) time/; & being held at the station only, & many from sickness, & many more from infantile weakness were unable to attend. The no. present on that occasion, was 6 8 8 . But the whole no. enrolled on the lists of our 15 schools is 959. According to the best of my present in­ formation 420 have made some progress in arithmetic. 630 read with various degrees of facility. 329 are in the alphabet & spelling lessons. Sabbath School. More than 400 children, including a large majority of those on the Island who are able to come to the station, are connected with the Sab school which has long been maintained here. But many of them living from 5 to 1 2 , & some 2 0 , miles, distant, their attendance is quite ir­ regular. The more remote are expected to come only once in 4 weeks. Since Br, Hitchcock has been able to preach, somewhat regularly on the Sabbath, I have taken charge of this school, & meet with them an hour before the morning service; when I endeavor to explain to their understandings, and to impress on their conscience, the portions of Scripture which they may have committed through the week & recited on the Sabbath. It is the custom in the common schools that those who read with facility, commit to memory & recite each morning a verse of Scripture. And those who attend the Sabbath School, again rehearse the whole, Al­ though this exercise is often very imperfectly performed, yet by it, & the instructions which accompany it, it is believed, their knowledge of the Scriptures, is essentially promoted The state of my health has neither ( !) permitted me to labor vig­ orously, nor constantly; & I have been sometimes interrupted by the illness of my wife; still on the whole, my hindrances from causes of this kind, have been less, the past year, than the two last preceding. W hile br. Hitchcock has been able to labor, in addition to super­ intending the schools, I have, with few exceptions, preached, once on the Sabbath, & once during the week, either at the station, or at an outpost. Owing to his sickness, & absence, the care of the station devolved on me, nearly three months. During this period, I usually preached �P.J . Gulick’s Report, Kaluaaha - 1844 3. twice on the Sabbath, & on Wednesday afternoons; attended the monthly concert & a meeting with the church, Saturday eve. A part of the year, I have also, at their o n request, instructed a class of teachers of the adult Sab. school. I am however conscious, that my labors have been feebly & imper­ fectly performed; & I think considering br. Hitchcock’s state of health there is ample room for another missionary on this Island. And if one can be found, who is willing to take a new station some 25 miles west, and means also to make him comfortable there, I shall rejoice to see him in this field. But from some experience & 16 years observation, in this mission, I could neither ( !) vote for associating pastors, nor for locating another minister at Kaluaaha. For I am persuaded, that in a few years, at most, such an expenditure of strength & funds would be deemed unprofitable, & the plan relinquished. A word in regard to the accommodations of my family. It was known to the mission last year, that the house which we now ocoupy was in a dilapidated condition. Although a small sum has been expended on it, it is still far from a comfortable habitation. Nor, owing to its size, & original form, will it be practicable to make it a commodious, or de­ sirable habitation, for a family as large as mine. But it may be im­ proved, Every room in it leaks, & some of them badly. It therefore needs to be rethatched, & some joist, & other lumber furnished. The chimney, oven, & backhouse, need to be rebuilt entire. By the present condition of the chimney, all the mission property at the station, is in danger of being destroyed, as well as our furniture &c. — Possibly it is my duty, to ask an appropriation for erecting new buildings. But various considerations prevent my pursuing that course. I request however of the mission an appropriation of $40.00 which may cover the expense of so much as is indispensable at the above named repairs. All which is respectfully submitted P . J. Gulick. Statistics of schools 15 Schools 21 Teachers 630 Readers of whom 420 cipher 329 Are in the A.B.C. & spelling lessons. Total of pupils 959 About — 450 are girls and -- 509 are boys. A considerable no. have studied geography, & some, church history, but [I cannot] state how many. �P.J. Gulick's Report, Kaluaaha - 1844 P.S. I for the quested it this 4. have already, expended on the house we occupy, since the accounts past year were closed, $18.27/100. And we hope the sum re­ may cover this & what more we shall be compelled to expend on year. Were it possible to make it a desirable or commodious habitation, I should ask a much larger grant. But as it is, we had rather endure much inconvenience & discomfort than to spend time & funds in efforts to improve such an unimprovable concern. �P.J. Gulick’s Report. May. 1846 My labors, for two years past, have been of a pretty uniform char­ acter; & although owing to general & constant dibillty ( !), they have not been prosecuted with much vigor; yet through divine goodness, they have not been greatly interrupted by sickness. Beside superintending the station school, which I have usually met twice daily, I have preached generally, once in the week, & once on the Sabbath; & frequently expounded the Scriptures to a portion of the female members of the church. I have also superintended a morning Sab. school, for the children in the vicinity of our station; except in the absence of br. Hitchcock, when b r . Andrews took my place in the School. The pupils in some measure connected with this school, amt to 500. But some of them living quite remote, are seldom present except at communion seasons, wh. occur quarterly. In favorable weather, the no. in attendance is about 400[.] But some 40 or 60 of these, come from the out stations, by turns, only once in 4 weeks. This leaves but 350 who are consta[n] t in attendance, while the remaining 150 are occasionally there, making the ordinary no. about 400. — But owing to the pastor’s well directed efforts those who are absent, with many others too small to come to the station, meet in Sab schools, at their respective places, & are instructed by school teachers or other church members. Pupils who can read with facility, commit to memory the daily food; — & this is the custom in all the schools on Molokai, though less per­ fectly carried out, than we could wish — & recite it on the Sabbath. Many also have committed the 10 commandments, & the major part of the catechism. The smaller children, & others unable to read, commit hymns from the children’s hymn book. In the station school, the portion of Scripture committed the week preceding, is expounded to the pupils, on the Sabbath. The school containing 170 males, & 130 females, is divided, the boys only being assembled in the forenoon & the girls in the afternoon. The former are taught from 8 to 11 A.M. & the latter from 12 to 2 P.M. Both forenoon & afternoon, the school is opened with reading the Scriptures, singing & prayer; & occasionally brief exposition of Scrip­ ture & efforts to impress it upon the hearts of the pupils. And al­ though we cannot report, what is most of all to be desired, — that they appear to be generally under the sanctifying influence of the truth, yet many of them manifest an increasing knowledge of the Scriptures; especially of the great fundamental doctrine of justification by faith alone. -- They also in general appear to make commendable progress in their secular studies. The table below will show the no .s in the various stages of improvement. �P.J. Gulick's Report - 1846 2. Teachers. These although none of them, exactly what [I] could wish they were, & some of them very deficient, yet as a whole, are in advance of those with whom I have formerly been acquainted. And from the best information at command, I judge they are more regular & constant, at their appropriate work, than is customary with native teachers, In other parts of these islands. This may perhaps be owing to what I suppose is a fact, viz. that here they are more promptly and more liberally paid, than In the other islands. It may also be in a measure, the result of the interest which parents take, in the schools. In good measure through the influence of the church the parents are induced to pay one half the salery ( !) of the teachers. And as a natural consequence they begin to manifest considerable interest in the progress of their children. And the teacher who is specially deficient, or who frequently leaves his school without good reason, or does not advance his pupils in their studies, frequently finds some dificulty ( !), in keeping his post, & especially in collecting his pay. This is a pleasing indication, that the people are beginning to understand their rights, & to assert them. The present pay of school teachers on Molokai is I think, a suf­ ficient reward for their services. School-houses. In these we are quite behind the age. There Is not a good one on the island; nor even one to compare with those at several other stations. I think a few hundreds, of the funds raised there, would ["could" written above "would"] be very judiciously expend­ ed in fitting up one or two school houses. And that the influence of such a measure w.d be very salutary especially on the children & youth. Jan. 1, 1846 Total 14 22 1138 612 526 595 227 398 562 203 150 Schools Teachers Pupils Males Females Readers Have commenced writing --- Mental arithmetic Commit the Daily food Written Arithmetic Have studied geography 145 In the A.B.C. [On back] Report of Rev. P.J. Gulick May 16 - 1846 �Report of Molokai Station. 1846 -- [Hitchcock] In their report for the year past the missionaries of Molokai have renewed cause for gratitude to God for the health and general prosperity with which he has blessed us. While most of our number have been visited with occasional ill health, none have been ill for a long time, nor so ill as to lay us aside from our usual labours. Of the good things of this life we have had all things and abounded, and in the retrospedt we c can complain of nothing but our unworthiness of the great favours with which the year has been crowned. The means used for the benefit of the people are 1. Preaching. We have I believe had invariably two sermons on the Sabbath at the Station and frequently as many or more at other places. Bro Gulic ( !) has most of the time preached once in the week and oftener when the other brethren have been absent from the station. Bro Andrews has preached frequently either at Kaluaaha or else where. Preaching on Wednesday has been constant. 2. Sabbath Schools. Of these we have had three - two for children and one for adults. The morning school for children has been superintended by Bro Gulic ( !) who will give an account of it in his report. The adult school held Immediately after the forenoon service, and attended by all the members of the church and all others who are disposed most of whom recite from memory the ai a ka la, has been attended by the pastor in company with Bro Andrews. In this school after the recitation of the verses they are explained in the catichetical mode and applied in the most direct and faithful manner of which the teachers are capable, and here I would remark that I know of no exercise so full of promise of usefulness, aside from preaching as this. In the first place it forms employment of the very best kind for many who otherwise would be in­ cessantly engaged ma ka manao ike kino [ ? ] or what would be no better wasting their time in sleep. Besides the subjects come up in order without being selected for the occasion and the application of the word under such circumstances Is less liable to be regarded as the result of ill will or similar motives. So satisfied am I from long experience of the expediency and usefulness of requiring members of the church to commit to memory the Ai o Ka La that nothing would tempt me to dispense with it. Of the edition this year 1800 were sent to Molokai and more will be wanted before the end of the year. The third Sab school which is held one hour before the commencement of the afternoon service is superintended by the pastor. It includes as scholars all the children of the morning school and as many adults as choose to attend. The exercises of this school are simply reading ten verses of the scripture by course at a time, and three or four times over. By this course they have the whole xxxxx in part in their minds and are pretty well prepared to answer questions which are proposed to each class by its teacher. After the questioning of the teachers is through the pastor catechizes them on the whole and makes such use of It as the occasion requires. The school is usually closed by singing which is frequently good. That part of the school which cannot read meet in another room and chant hymns The commandments or other verses of scriptures, after this and before the school disbands they assemble with the others and form one School of between 300 or 400 scholars. Tw[o] objects are answered by this school; first it makes the scholars �Molokai Report 1846 - Hitchcock more familiar with the bible and secondly it keeps them constant in their attendance at the afternoon service so that whatever may be the state of the adults, we are always sure of a congregation of 300 or 400 Sab school scholars. I would here observe that the order of Sab schools at Kaluaaha is as far as practical pursued at the other stations on the island. A third means of benefitting the people is by watching over and regulating the interests of common schools. As the whole subject of schools will of course come into Mr Gulics ( !) Report I shall say nothing more of it here except that the controul ( !) of the schools has never passed from our hands but [we] are consulted on all subjects important to their welfare and no change is attempted without our consent. I would also say in general that the past year has been one of signal prosperity to the cause of common schools, on the island. Another means of seeking the welfare of our charge has been the Special care of the church. One meeting each week has been held for the direct purpose of instructing them. In this department may be in­ cluded a constant attention to the various complaints that arise between church members - In their difficulties they appeal to the missionaries and no small portion of our time is spent in seeing that justice is rendered to the ones to whom it is due. The administration of disci­ pline is a part of our [duties] more fraught with care than any other. Of this we have had much to do this year although perhaps fewer than usual cases of Suspension have been called for. A Meeting has been held weekly with those who profess to be serious. And a lecture each at two out posts has been preached with little in­ terruption during the year. The monthly concert has been kept up and has been one of our most interesting meetings. The usual female meetings Mrs H has kept up and attended herself as often as health would allow. One of her meetings is held on friday and embraces all who are disposed or can be induced to attend. Reading the bible and conversing on its meaning constitutes its principle ex­ ercise. The second female meeting assembles on thursday of every other week and includes only such as obligate themselves to pay particular attention to the care of their families - the neatness of their houses and the cleanliness of their persons. It is a Mother's Meeting though not confined to them. Its object is to promote domestic order and happiness. Beside these meetings Mrs H meets a company of female lunas and reads a chapter with them weekly, and gives them a familiar explanation of its contents, and they in their turn read the same with their respective classes and tell as much of its meaning as they can remember. More than usual attention has been given the past year to efforts for raising the natives from the miserable social condition and to get them in the way of providing houses and furniture and clothing more comfortable for themselves. In this department Bro Andrews especially has Laboured unweariedly - and as will be seen not without much en­ couraging success. The same may be said with regard to the practice �Molokai Report 1846 - Hitchcock of medicine the whole of which has devolved on him. And the success which has attended his treatment of the sick calls for gratitude to him who has blessed his efforts. I say less upon these things as they fall more properly within Bro A 's Report. Of family visitation but little has been done - such have been our circumstances that it has not been convenient. Considerable time has been spent at the out stations of Halawa and Kalae. The pastor has spent 7 weeks at the latter place with his family beside several other visits of three days each. The above are the principal labours performed at the station the past years. It remains to give some account of the doings of our people. They have been punctual an[d] constant in their attendance on divine worship on the sabbath our assemblies have been uniformly full, especially as a good part of the people come from a distance of six miles and many of them from 10 or 12. Week days meetings have also been better attended the past year than usual. The after noon Meeting on the Sabbath though less numerous than in the morning has without exception been well attended. So that judging of their love of the worship of God by the labour they endure to attend it, we must hope it to be not only sincere but on the advance. These observations apply also to the outstation where the difficulties of getting to meeting are in many instances even worse than at the station. The members of the church and nearly all the children who can read have committed to memory hundreds of verses of the scripture and listen­ ed to instruction from them in sabbath schools. This is a work I am happy to say considered by our people as indispensable to a good and consistent Christian character. And the steadiness with which most persevere in it is a pleasing evidence that it is xxx not an oppressive service. They have paid for the support of the gospel among them in part the past year and the cheerfulness and punctuality with which they have done it and the willingness which they manifest to continue to do what they can for our support are pleasing indications both of their sense of the value of the ordinances of religion and of their obligations to sustain them. Novel as the trial has been the past year we are hoping that their contributions to our support the current year will not fall short. By far the greater part have paid all or nearly all their pro­ portion - Many but a part and not a few none at all. Those who at the close of the year had not cancelled their subscription were not |not| (!) allowed to do so afterward. Their delinquencency ( !) was refered ( !) to God and their-own conscience. We have now addopted ( !) the plan of quarterly payments, whic h so divides the amount each individual is to pay as to enable him to do it with much less sense of burden. The result thus far this year has not been bad. Nearly one fourth of the sum re­ quired having been paid in. I am happy to be able to [say] that the experiment of requiring our people to support the gospel has thus far been attended by no xxxxxxxxxxx unhappy influence. There has been no Instance come to our knowledge of any ones forsaking his attendance on the preaching of the Gospel to avoid paying. Our Luna and a konohiki who �Molokai Report 1846 - Hitchcock 4 subscribed 4 dollars but paid just once commenced drinking awa and assigned as a reason his makau i ka uku and was of course suspended from communion. But he found himself miser­ able in his new chosen condition and came back before the next sacrament after having most willingly paid his portion of the salary. I am well convinced that no injury to our cause can accrue from receiving our support from our people. While It is equally plain that should we urge them to do much for the support of native teachers the effect would be to create carelessness if not disgust for the pono. Much better as It seems to me would it be for the missionaries to support the native preachers - so far as clothing is concerned out of our own salary. Our people have done something the past year for objects of benevolence. This has been voluntary - no mony ( !) has been required. The men have been exhorted to furnish at least one stick of wood at each monthly concert - and the women a mat each once in six months - or if they choose ahuawa string to the same amount. No one has been regarded as delinquent who has contributed this much Of course those who have prefered ( !) it have contributed money. We have a system of giving which works pretty well, and which by the future improvements which experience may suggest we hope will result in securing for the cause of God all that the people are able to give. Beside contributions at the monthly concerts the women especially are getting into the way of sys­ tematically contributing to the necessities of the poor. Each princi­ pal district constitutes a society for this object. They contribute potatoes or fowls or onions or money as they please. The produce of these contributions are carried to market gratuitously by some brother of the church and sold and the cloth given to the lunas of each district to distribute to the poor after submitting their claims claims ( !) to Mrs H who has the general superintendance of the whole. The charity of Kaluaaha district she gives out with her own hands. We intend to give more attention to this department of benevolence than circumstances have allowed us to do before and the success with our efforts in it have been crowned the past year gives encouraging promise that the people will abound more and more in this good work. Beside these direct contri­ butions the people have in progress two meetinghouses one designed to be lathed and plastered 78 feet by 30. The walls of this are completed and the tim[ber] mostly procured. This has been a great tax upon their time and should be regarded as forming no inconsiderable part of what the people do for the pono. The other house is 40 by 28 - and the timber is on the spot and the walls more than half up. Two hundred and ten Eleles [a newspaper, translated "Messengers"] have been taken on the island and nearly all paid for in cash. They have bought more books for cash (?) this year than in any previous one and done much more for the support of school teachers beside having pro­ vided more things for the comfort of their families. They many of them are free to own what has thus far been a fact that the more they have done for the pono the more prosperous have been their worldly affairs. I am happy to say also that there has been more attention given to mahi ai ana [ ] than formerly and consequently less complaint of destitution of comfortable food. �Molokai Report 1846 - Hitchcock.. .... 5 The contrast between the present condition of the people of Molokai and what it was before [this] station was commenced is great - and demonstrates the great power the Gospel possesses in ameliorating the darkness and/guilt, and poverty and sufferings of our race (?). And it is with unfei gned pleasure as well as gratitude to God that we have watched the progress of divine influence over the minds, and habits and circumstances of society about us. But while it would be wrong for us not [to] own what the Lord has wrought for us, nor to take encouragement from it, It would be no better not to acknowledge that much very much remains to be done. 14 years ago the whole field was overgrown with briars and thorns ar.d every hurtful plant. In their progress of these years much good seeds ( !) has been sown. The plants of righteousness have sprung up and presented different degrees of vigour and beauty still all have indicated the unfriendly soil in which they were planted. Christians on Molokai are like plants struggling up to maturity with little more than moonlight influence and are far very far from exhibiting that perfect verdure which appears In those who have had more and stronger light. On this account we are ever and anon pained by sights and sounds and deeds which did they exist in Christians of greater measures of light it would be difficult to recon­ cile with true religion. In particular the whole field of social and domestic order seems an almost an ( !) unbroken waste. Improvement in this department has been slow indeed and many years must pass away be­ fore Christianity and civilization shall constitute society into what we mean into families, or diffuse through it what we understand by domestic order and peace. This is only one of very many heartsickening aspects of the moral and religious condition of our field. So that while we on the one hand we rejoice and bless God that our people have risen so far up from the dreadful degregation in which we found them on the oth ( !) other we are admonished not to relax but if possible to increase our efforts If we or even our children would ever see them rescued en­ tirely from the deep dark pit of Ignorance and Sin. Statistics of the Station on Molokai From May 1844 — May 1846 Whole number admitted to the church on profession by letter Admitted on profession in 1845 in 1846 two past years do by letter Total 2 years past Whole number dismissed to other churches Dismissed the past 2 years Whole number deceased deceased the past 2 years Number suspended the 2 past years " Remain suspended Whole number excommunicated excommunicated 2 past years Whole number in Regular standing Whole number children baptized " Baptized 2 past years 957 33 120 54 174 9 183 32 12 105 40 19 31 23 15 766 619 152 �Molokai Report - Hitchcock Mariages ( !) the two years past Average congregation on the Sabbath Average number at the adult sab school Average number at the afternoon childrens sab school Average number At the church Meeting Do at the Wednesday Lecture Do at the Monthly concert Do at the Womens Meeting on friday Do at the Mothers Meeting Sermons preached by the pastor weekly during the year 117 700 300 400 150 200 100 80 75 143 Contributions to the Pono. Salary up to May 1st. cash For the poor For the Monthly concert Total Eleles taken Paid for Books Sold for cash 25 teachers at 25 dollars each Outlays of the people in Money for Religion and Education Population of Molokai Births year past Deaths In a population of 2867 there are males females $400 58.75 or 235 yds cloth 220.00 678.75 2.10 179 $100 $525 625.00 Whole amount $1313.75 4500 142 90 1515 1352 When I commenced writing this report I had forgotten that it should include the transactions of 2 years - consequently some things have been passed over which It may be well to mention here. A series of pro­ tracted meetings commencing somewhere in october 44 were held at the different stations all of which seem to have been blessed in a greater or less degree with the influences of the Holy Spirit. The one at Halawa especially was one of the most interesting of the kind ever held on the island - The congregation was full - and scarce a word seemed to fall to the ground useless. Christians became aroused from their palaka to an earnest and pleasing spirit of prayer - and to an unwonted concern for the impenitent. The consequence was that nearly all the assembly became concerned for their souls and for the time resolved to attend to their salvation. The fruits of this revival for such it may with pro­ priety be called, on the portion of our field in which it took place were truly salutary. Hundreds broke away from the outward sins in which they had been living. Many of these continue among the number of the pious - and no fewer than a hundred perhaps more of them have been ad­ mitted to the church while the general state of society in the region has shown a pleasing degree of improvement. Much the same may be said of the results of the protracted meeting held at Kalae soon after. The effects of these meetings continue to be seen yet. �Molokai Report - 1846 - Hitchcock 7 During the year just past we held no meeting of the kind. No ex­ traordinary means have been used and yet we have not been wholly desti­ tute of the special operations of the spirit. Two lands (?) both of which have stood aloof from the means of Grace and seemed to be almost hopeless have been induced to yield to the pono a few are it is hoped real converts. The subject of temperance will be noticed in Mr G!s report as the scholars of the school are the only subjects of direct efforts in that department of reform. Our church constituting de facto a temperance Society - on the tetotal plan. Some 10 or 12 have violated their pledge the past year but none I believe continue to do so, and most of them it is to be hoped are penitent. (On back) Molokai Report 1846 To be returned. �Kaluaaha Sept 25 - 1847 Dear Bro C[hamberlain] Your letter requesting me to send the statistics of this station I have not such. It came while I was at Mauna Olu and was not sent me. I had prepared a letter but it got mislaid. I have not the wherewith to make a correct statistical account of the station for 1846-7 - I am not able to say how many have been received to the church. So please make out your report without reference to this station. I can only say that the usual prosperity has attended us since the last gen. meeting. We retain a growing interest in the people in the means of grace and an undiminished perhaps increased willingness to do. all they can to support the gospel among themselves and to help spread it abroad. The people have thus far supported Bro Andrews - and their average monthly contribution for the spread of the gospel has been nearly twenty dollars. Besides this they have contributed considerable for the relief of their own poor. Books have never been in so great demand as in the present year. We have taken more cash for books than in any two previous years. Our church consists of rising of 800.in good standing - some 60 or 70 stand propounded for admission on the first Sab in January 1848. have no more numerous this than former years. than common The cases of dicipline There seems at present to be a more interest in the subject of religion and I cannot but hope that many souls are now living in obedience to the commands and preparing for heaven who a short time ago were in the broad road to death. Three meeting houses are in a state of progress and will I hope be finished before the end of the year. On the whole we have reason to praise God for the success which has attended us the year just end [!] I am sorry that I have not been able to make a correct report. hard not to be so hemahema again. Shall try The reason is the account as record of admissions have been made in the books of the different branch churches and in some cases without date. Your affectionate brother H. R. Hitchcock �[Dwight] Report May 1849 to May 1851 Dear Brethren of the Hawaiian Mission Two long & eventful years have sped their course leaving deep irrasable ( !) marks upon the features & the hearts of each member of the Mission as well as upon the islands we inhabit & the people for whom we labor. These years have been years of progress to all, years of severe trial to not a few, years of blessings to the many. As a mission & as individuals we should raise our ebenezer here, as, with heart reechoing the sentiments of our hearts, we exclaim, "Hitherto hath the Lord helped us." The diseases, that ravaged the islands two years ago, with such fatality as to leave scarcely a hope for the native race, have passed away & have been succeeded by general health, & abundant prosperity. The decrease of population has been in a measure stayed, & the births, for the last quarter ending in March have, for the first time since my connection with the mission, exceeded the number of deaths on the island of Molokai: so that were it not for the continual drain made on that island of the most hopeful part of the population to supply the wastes of Honolulu & Lahaina, we might report an actual increase of numbers thus far in 1851. The reserves (?) of the people have also largely in­ creased & they have surrounded themselves with many of the necessaries & comforts of civilized life which were unknown even by name to their ancestors. Their progress in these matters should cheer every philanthropic heart as evidence unmistakable that the poor people have advanced in intelligence & civilization - those twin handmaids of Religion. The houses lately constructed by the people are larger, more commodious, better furnished with doors windows & other conveniences, than those of former days. Many of the natives own houses & cattle, & more land is under cultivation now than has been in any two years together of late times. Very considerable progress has been made by all the people in attaining industrious habits. While the school children do more work than was ever done by the same number in these islands before, perhaps as much [as] is done by the children in the U.S. For the History of the Ch ’h. the present state of piety, Benevolence & other virtues, I would respectfully refer you to the report of my associate the pastor of the ch’h who will doubtless have something cheering to communicate while I lay before you a suscint [succinct ?] account of the duties that have fallen to my lot. 1 The Sick Of these several thousand cases have come under my care since my connection with this station. Those living within a mile or two of the station I have usually visited at their houses & occasionally & even more distant patients tho' it is to be feared these last have been neglected. In March 1850 after consultation with my associates it was determined to charge a small price for Medicine, enough at least to cover the expenses of this department. The plan has been in opera­ tion a year & we think has been beneficial to the natives. The amount realized by this plan has been $19.50. �Molokai Report - Dwight - 1851 2 2 Books In December 1849 The care of this department was handed over to me. I immediately opened an account with each of the School teachers, set­ ting a price on the books that they were by no means to alter, & allow­ ing them 12 1/2% on all they sold to the children. The amount to [be] handed in every quarter. This plan has worked well. The number of books sold has been more than doubled. The reciepts ( !) from that date up to the present time, including subscriptions to the Elele being "320.00. Of this sum $158.00 has been handed over to the Depository. 34.00 more been paid to Judge Andrews for Atlasses. $18.75 is due to La hainaluna for books kindly furnished by that institution & the remainder will be handed to the depository at the end of the current year. There are deficiencies in regard to books which I hope means may be taken to remedy. An Arithmatic (! ) of rules & principles is very much needed to carry the larger children arround (?) & to give the general principles of the science. Of atlasses not one remains. I succeeded in getting 290 in all from Judge Andrews 3/4 & they have aided me not a little; but the children are not supplied & they are all gone. A good geography & general history are greatly needed. The children are almost entirely ignorant of the history, condition, extent, charac­ ter, &c of these very nations where ships fill their harbors & whose sons occupy the high places in their government, & will be so I fear until the study of Geography & History become more generally branches of education in the common schools. 3 Aiding the Surveyors. In October last R. W. Meyer was sent by the land commission, to survey the Native claims on the island of Molokai. He brought a letter from the Pres. Hon. (?) Judge Lee, requesting Mr H. & myself to aid him in his work. Since then I have complied as far as possible with Mr. Lee's request. have aided in settling disputes, ascertaining boun­ daries, & taking testimony when necessary. My spare room has been at the surveyors disposal ever since he came to Molokai. 4 Law In last August a circuit Judge was appointed for the island of Molokai, by my recommendation. The Judge is a good man anxious to do right, but entirely unaquainted with this important business. It has been my plan to sit with & advise him in this new duty. Moreover I have held 4 times a week a school for the reading of the law, at which he & others have attended. It has become more & more evident to me since my connection with this matter, that no common native has yet attained to those powers of intellect & Judgment which are required to make a good, impartial & fearless judge. �Molokai Report - Dwight - 1851 5 Schools In January 1850 this department of labor fall ( !) to my care & on it/ my strength has been laid out. A t that time a debt of over 250 dollars had accumulated. This embarrases ( !) us. It has been my plan to spend one week at the end of each quarter in examining the schools. The sixth quarter has passed & the benefits of this plan are such that I hope to continue it to the end. After the last I divided 14- of the schools into 4 sections, appointing each section to meet me once in 4 weeks at a central school house. The objects of these meetings were 1st to make the children & teachers love their schools 2d to see their improvement & 3d to assist in attaining excellence in Elocution, Reading, & singing. This has been a fav orite plan with teachers, scholars, & parents. 7 times each week I have lectured to 3 classes of the larger children in Geography & history, & once a week I spend 2 hours with a school 4 miles from the station. The studies pursued in the schools are Reading, writing, spelling, mental & written Arithmetic, geography, Algebra, drawing, Elocution, & vocal music. Every child that can read is ex­ pected to learn the verses of the daily food & in this way more than 200,000 verses of scripture are fixed yearly in the memories of the Molokai children. A working school was established by my predecessors in this depart­ ment, & as it seemed to be exceedingly useful It has with a few modifica­ tions been continued up to the present time. How long this will be con­ tinued hereafter Is quite uncertain as the parents in one place are opposed to it & my associate has taken their side & thinks the time has come for it to b e broken up. My own opinion of its utility has not been changed. But there are tides of opposition which one cannot stem & therefore it is the path of wisdom perhaps, to yield to them. A new station school house to be built of lime & stone has been commenced this year. The corner stone was laid with appropriate cere­ monies April 30th ult. I have engaged two of the larger boys to aid the masen ( !) ------ employed- in its constructions that they might get a knowledge of this art & that they might not lose in their studies I teach them 5 evenings in the week 1 / hours. 2 1 This school house is to be 37 1/2 by 25. The walls 12 feet high & to have 6 windows & a door. It will have a wood floor, seets ( !) desks, & other school room furniture so far as we can procure it. Mi ss Brown's school has been in successful operation most of the time under review & has been exceedingly useful to some 30 or 35 young ladies. Its discipline is admirable & two sets of the larger girls have been taught the act of knitting thoroughly. In September last a sewing school was established at Kaluaaha. To this purpose the mauka room in my house was appropriated. It was commenced with twelve girls, which number has been gradually increased to 25. They meet under the Superintendance of a most excellent native woman Peenahele (?), who had been for a long time in the employ of Mr �Molokai Report - Dwight - 1851 Andrews & my associates. The school meets 5 times a week & spends 2 hours a day in this very necessary feminine employment. In the 6 months they have been in this school, only one scholar has required punishment & for order, punctuality, neetness ( !) of person obedience this sewing school will compare well with any school I have seen. They are taught to cut out & make pants, vests, Sacks & shirts. The older scholars are now at work on a set of shirts with linen colars & bosoms that will be exhibited at the next examination. They have earned for themselves by their needles the sum of $37.12 1/2. It has been my hope when this school commenced to have had the aid of my Lady associates but in this, owing to the presure of duties & ill health upon them, I have been disappointed Statisticks ( !) of the Schools. Scholars 969. Teachers 29. Catholic scholars 56 Prot. do. 918. Cat. Schools 2. Prot. 17. Pay of Teachers pr quarter $320.00. First quarter $378.00 Readers 574. in Arithmetic 496. Geography, 494 Drawing 73. Writing 374. Elocution 430. Algebra 14. Sewing & Knitting 37. Vocal Music 430. Earnings of the Children from Jan 1850 to Mch 1851 $2268.12 1/2. 6 Marying ( !) Since the last gen. Meet. there have been 140 marriages performed on Molokai. . It has been customary to charge 25 cts for this ceremony & to hand the receipts over to Mrs Hitchcock for the poor. 7 Preaching lecturing &c In a strange language, with a stammering tongue & a limited number of words, the writer has engaged in this most important department of labor. In the two years under review he has addressed Sunday Schools 168 times & spoken from the pulpit in Hawaiian on 220 occasions, two of which were in dedecation ( !) of Houses for Worship. In these various labors, such health & strength as the Lord has vouschafed ( !) him have been expended & have been accompanied with so little perceptible fruit as to leave him almost discouraged. Feeling (?) however that while it is his duty to prepare the ground, to sow & watch the seed, the increase is in the hand of One abounding in might, holi­ ness, & wisdom, the writer would go on to the end of his course until it shall mercifully please His Lord to call him hence. With sentiments of esteem &c, this report is respectfully submitted to the mission by their fellow Laborer & servant Samuel G. Dwight Deaths from Jan 1st to March 31st 1851 Births " " " " “ (On back) Mr. Dwight’s Report. Molokai 1851 29 28. �Hitchcocks Report of Kaluaaha 1851. The direct missionary work of the Pastor and his companion have the past year met with more interruption than usual and con­ sequently less has been done. Soon after our return from General Meeting in 49 we began making preparation for repairs on house. The contract for the work was made, including an obligation on the part of the workmen to do it with dispatch, which obligation if faithfully fulfilled would have completed the works in at most 4 months where it was not completed in near a year from the time the contract was made. This long delay though mostly owing to the neglect of the workmen, was partly owing to want of lumber. Repair­ ing of the house had an injurious effect upon the health of Mrs. H. whose strength was not adequate to endure the noise and confusion and additional labour with which it was attended. As early as July she was taken with a nervous disease - in­ dicating tendency to paralasys ( !) . The malady increased untill ( !) we were constrained to go to Lahaina for medical aid. She was sub­ sequently somewhat relieved for a season, and our hopes that the disease was over come [overcome] quite sanguine yet the symptoms never entirely disappeared; and for the last 5 or six months they have greatly increased, and have made it exceedingly difficult to use her hand and to attend to her domestic affairs, the disease being attend[e]d with general debility — and a suffering of cold. Her illness has thrown the care of the domestic department of labour mostly on to my hands, and however imperfectly the duties of this department have been performed they have greatly interrupted the vigorous performance of those of my own particular sphere. These last for the past two years have consisted in preaching twice on the Sabbath, attendance at the adult Sab School held im­ mediately after the forenoon sermon, a Sab school for children held at 1/2 past 1 oclock - a meeting for the professedly serious on teusdy ( !) - the common wednesdy ( !) sermon, the same sermon on the two successive days one at Kamaloo, and one at Wailua. The Saturdy ( !) Prayermeeting, preceeded by a meeting of the officers of the church, has been constantly attended and made the occasion of a discourse amounting to a Short sermon on Christian duty and prac­ tice. Occasional sermons have been preached at the outstations Kalae [,] Kolaupapa ( !), Halawa and Moakea. The weekly meeting at Waialua (?) has been discontinued for the year past. Add to these labours that of the general supervision of the church and managing its discipline and you have all or nearly all the direct missionary work of the pastor. The balance of his time has been spent upon unavoidable secular and family cares. I would here state the way in which the above mentioned supervision of the church Lunas has been carried on. The plan of a monthly meeting of the church lunas on the Saturdy following the first Mondy of the month, has been in operation about one year. At these meetings we have had as a general thing a delegation from almost every district on the island, by which the affairs of the district are made known, and �Hitchcock's Report 1851 — 2 such measures taken with regard to them as the case requires. So far the meetings have greatly simplified the management of the church, and facilitated the extension of our influence in every part of the island. We have the countrepart of this meeting in a similar one of the chief or luna women from all parts of the island. This is a method which Mrs. H has devised and successfully employed to have her influence felt through all the districts. Little as the pastor has been able to do - still partly per­ haps owing to this little - partly to the indefatigable labours of my associate in the various departments which he has filled and partly owing to other arrangements of providence we are able to Report progress. Soon after General Meeting of 49 - a special prayermeeting for a revival of Religion was appointed in my study - this was known only to a few. The meetings were solemn. The brethren present confessed their sins one to another, and manifested much feeling for the impenitent. These meetings increased in interest and were soon opened to others beside professors - many flocked in. Chris­ tians prayed with intenseness of desire, and the influences of the Spirit were manifestly In the assembly. The attention increased and spread into other districts - and continued for several months and though many who professed to have turned to God have since shown their goodness was as the morning dew which passeth away [,] some I am happy to say give satisfactory evidence of having passed from death into life, and others still who have been numbered with the poe pono before come out more decidedly on the Lord[']s side. The influence of this little silent rain of divine grace has been a precious influence, not only as it regards the souls that were hopefully converted - but In having much deeper and more correct impression upon the people in general In favour of the doctrine of Salvation by grace alone. As the result of the excitement about 80 were added to the church in July 1850. There has on the whole been an Increase as it regards an attendance on the means of grace, not that the numbers who attend are greater, for the great dimunition of the inhabitants by death and other causes has rendered that impracticable; but in the con­ stancy of their attendance. Our morning and evening Services are more equally attended now than ever before and a much greater por­ tion than usual consists of such as in former years were not found in the house of God. Especially is this the case with the impen­ itent youth of both Sexes. Some progress seems also to have been made in the value which the people attach to the pono [right or morality] . Indeed in no one respect has the progress been greater. They have done much many years past for the support of the gospel among themselves in form of support of pastor, building meetinghouses and places of prayer. But for the two or three years past they have done more, and that more spontaneously. What they have contributed for salary has been given with little or no effort on my part and with a seeming conviction on the part of most of the contributors that it �Hitchcock’s Report 1851 — 3 was money well laid out so far as their own profit was concerned. But the salary of the pastor is hut a small part of the burden im­ posed upon them for the sake of supporting religion at home. A still greater burden has been the erection of planes of worship. And this they have done much in the same way as the same work is done in the United States, from a conviction that meeting houses are required for their good, and that they could not do without them — that they would be worth to them more than they would cost, and they have laboured to get them on the same principle as they have laboured to get houses for themselves. There are now two meeting houses one of costly native material and another of stone laid up in lime mortar, completed and in use. The one has been erected by the inhabitants of Pelekunu - who all told are not more than 150 men women and children. There ( !) house is excellently finished and furnished with doors [,] glass windows - and seated with chairs instead of seats. They have ordered a church bell for the house to cost 75 or 80 dollars. The people of Moakea are now worshiping ( !) in their new stone meetinghouse 60 feet 30 - put up In lime mortar glazed - with six windows - and for which they are out of debt. They are now collecting money for shingling and lathing and plastering and finishing the house in American style. The people of Halawa who had the misfortune at the time of the great sickness to have the new house they had just got ready for roofing washed down by the Kona floods have erected another of more durable character[.] The walls are up and the roofed ( !) shingled, and all the materials are on hand for completing the building except the floor. It will when completed cost about 1000 dollars besides their own labour in procuring timber [& ] lime from the distance of 5 miles by water and &c &c. Pull half of this sum has been already paid - and the remainder will probably be forth­ coming soon. The windows in this house are 6 with 25 or 30 lights each. The building of this house has not only not been koiwali [ ] but it has been done against many cautions on our part as to the evil of beginning to build without being able to finish. In the addition to the house they have ordered a bell not to exceed 175 dollars delivered at Halawa. The People at Kalaupapa who have but recently finished a stone house - 60 by 30 feet, are now engaged in collecting funds for a new and more durable one intending to devote the old one to the use of the school. They have a bell paid for which has cost them 170 (?) dollars - They have taken hold of the work of geting ( !) a good and permanent house with a strong hand and without some sad interposition providence prevent will probably carry it through. The meeting house the Station repairing at the expense of some 1600 dollars. The people of that district principally have subscribed for the object nearly 2100. Over 100 dollars of this has been subscribed by the children of the schools in the vicinity of the station. An other ( !) pleasing evidence of an increased extension (?) of religion in the minds of the people is their building houses for prayer and conferences, of which there are no less than 7 within �Hitchcock's Report 1851 — 4 half that distance each way from the station, and which are construct­ ed for the only purpose of enabling the people of the separate neighbourhoods to meet for prayer — Some of these houses are large and commodious - and all have been put up at the expense of no little labour, As all must perceive who reflect upon the great dif­ ficulty of building at the present time. Two of these houses have been recently dedicated and it was an occasion of unfeigned joy to the people - and experience has shown, that they were not mistaken as it regards the amount of Good to be derived (?) from them. I have been more particular on this head as it illustrates most satis­ factorily to my own mind the truth that there has been among my people an advance in their appreciation of religion. And that what they do for its support is done as freely and with as little constraint or urging as perhaps in any other land. Progress in this respect is progress indeed, greater than though the amount contri­ buted had been doubled but done by constraint. There has also been progress in our (?) field in the item of general benevolence or in liberality for the need and support of the Gospel abroad, and in providing for their own poor - and cheerfully responding to the various calls which are made for their help. The statistics will show a great increase in the amount con­ tributed for these purposes the two years past and not only their pastor but many others can bear them witness this They have done what they could and done it with a ready mind. Progress also has been made in house (?) condition and do­ mestic comfort. To this I could testify with more particularity than is necessary, as my associate Mr. Dwight will doubtless more than alude to it in his account of his labours. Sufice ( !) it for me to say that our congregation on the Sabbath is composed of persons better attired than ever before, rags and dirt being now rarely met with. Civilized habits are more prevalent - attention to child­ ren more common, and furniture in houses more abundant - the wants of the people have become more numerous - as have also the means of supplying them. I should not probably hazard the truth were I to say that five fold more [has] been expended in houses - furniture, comfortable clothing and other mercenary (?) things the past two years than in the same time previous. Of the schools of course I shall not be expected to speak as those come more properly into that of Bro. Dwight [the follow­ ing interlined in pencil] and as my other cares have prevented my knowing their condition. I wish merely to say in reference to them, that they must be in a most prosperous state if such a state is always the result of an unwavering devotion to their interest, of zeal well nigh enthusiastic - Pains indefatigable and of labour inormous. ( !) I can only add that progress has been made in the way of getting our support independent of the Board. In accordance with the sense of the Mission on the subject last general meeting, what �Hitchcock's Report 1851 — 5 little we have been able to get aside from our salary has been as judicially expended for liquidation of our debt as we know how. The herd on our return from Gen Meeting was found not large enough to give to each the number specified in the resolution - Still every dollars worth were sold and the avails sent in to the depository The balance of the herd ------------------------------- consisting only of 3 cows, 2 steers, 3 calves a year old and 3 unweaned we have appropriated to ourselves. [9 words crossed out] I had intend­ ed to have applied for dismission from the Board on the basis of the G M (?) Resolution as early as last january ( !), but as it be­ came indispensably necessary to repair our meeting house as soon as possible - and as I feared the people would be unable to raise the necessary funds over and above my salary, I was constrained to delay the application a year longer. I have written to have our present relation to the Board cease on the first of January next. I have taken this step both (?) realizing some of the danger -which it exposes my family to want. Especially as I am so infirm and my companion [in] so poor health. ------------- its being necessary the comming ( !) year for our family to Reside on the mountain at our outstation according to the advice of the physician on account of Mrs. H ill health, and as the house there needs repair before we can be comfortable or even safe there it becomes necessary to ask a grant of 100 dollars to be used as much of it as shall be needed in rendering the dwell­ ing there a proper one for invalids. I will conclude by a few statistics �Hitchcock's Report 1851 Received the past two years on examination 90 Whole num ber received on examination 1490 Whole number received from other churches 30 Whole number dismissed to other churches 50 Deseased (!)the past two years 68 Church members excluded desceased ( !) 0 Whole number --------- desceased ( !) in good standing 303 Whole Excluded the past 2 years 68 Remain excluded 68 Now in Regular Standing 1101 Decrease in the two years 28 Children baptized the past two years 30 35 Whole number children Baptized 671 Marriages the past year (no figure) Population of the field (no figure) Proportion who attend public worship 3/8 Stand Propounded for admission to the church 33 Contributions To salary the two years past To monthly concert from May 49 to Jan 50 To do for the year 1850 To do from Jany 51 to April inclusive Whole amount since last gen meeting To Mr. Bonds meetinghouse To the Poor To David Hitchcock Whole Amount contributed two years past in cash Expended In meeting houses Labour and cash Whole amount done for religious purposes 903.00 280.00 73 6 .00 276.00 1212.00 100.00 115.00 150.00 $ 2366.00 1300.00 3666.00 [[The following in pencil]] An other pleasing feature of Progress in religion, was the prompt and universal response given by government to observe a day of fasting and prayer in view of our difficulties with france ( !) and of the cholera then expected to visit our shores - The appoint­ ment arrived only 2 days before the time for meeting - yet not a but what assembled on that occasion for prayer - And the meeting at the Station was unusually great and solemn a grati­ fying sign of simple faith in the efficacy of prayer and in the power and willingness of God to save. An event which has not a little aggravated her illness was the departure and absence of our eldest son which took place in Nov 49 for the United States. The painful suspense with which we awaited his arrival in the United States and anxiety respecting his condition there, and the trials which he has experienced there ? ? greatly the painful nervous disorder which she is now suffering. �Abstract [Mr. Dwight, 1852] The writer has gone to housekeeping - Has had health & strength. Has preached 106 times on Sundays & 90 times on week days. Has visited the sick & taken for medicine $13.06 Expended $21.00 Has married 50 couple Has taught the schools which are generally improving Has reported (?) the completion of a fine new station school house at an. expense of to all parties $1357.63 3 sewing schools in operation with 50 scholars who have made 261 garments & earned $138.00 A great lack of school hooks Catholic schools increased on the whole Deaths on Molokai Births Excess of births 127 135 8 A considerable improvement in dwelling houses & general ad­ vancement in other temporal respects. Books Bible Miss (?) [On. back! (?) sold " " Mr. Dwight's Abstract report. 1852 $20.25 124.75 $145.00 �[Hitchcock] Report of Kaluaaha Station 1852 The missionaries have, as in all former reports, to speak of Mercies and Afflictions - The past year has been more than its predecessors frought with the latter. Mrs. H who was very unwell at the last general meeting is still so, and more so than- then. According to the advice of her physicians - as soon as we could after General meeting we took up our abode at Kalae. The pure cold and invigorating atmosphere and the greater freedom from care which we found there quickly wrought a sensible improvement in her health and could we have remained there as we intended to do the year around it would have done her an essential benefit. But we were forced to leave after having been there only 3 months - unusual amount of labour and care just previous to our leaving brought on the recurrence of her complaint and she has been getting on the whole more feeble ever since. In the month of October business called me me (sic) to Honolulu and being very unwell when I left home when I arrived here I was so ill as to prevent my return for several weeks during which time Mrs. H came. And had the benefit of medical advice which has helped retard the rapid progress her disease was then making. N o radical influence for the better seems as yet to have been exercised over her complaints. And she is n ow in a very feeble condition. My own health most of the year has been very bad. Living at Kalae and having to attend to the station at the same time was more than my strength could bear. This together with a more than ordinary share of trouble of mind at the time overcame and threw me on a sick bed. From the affects of this sickness I have not as yet recovered. �Hitchcock - Kaluaaha - Molokai - 1852 2 V The above being the case my labours the past year have been n i greatly interrupted and dim^shed; and of course then results proportionally small. The General Superintendence of the church preaching twice on the Sabbath and once or twice on week days together with an attendance on the adult Sabbath school occasionally visiting the sick and conversing with the people in their houses is all I have been able to do as a missionary since our last General Meeting. I have administered the Sacrament 12 times during the year. I have also preached ocasionally ( !) at Hoonouli and Halawa. Our field accordingly has the appearance of partial and de­ fective cultivation. The plants are not dead but feeble - the fruit has not been blasted but stinted and noxious vegetation and its ever abundant fruit have not run (?) out, and over come the good but have greatly injured its growth. The past year must be written d own as one of great Spiritual declension in the church. This is proved by our greatly diminished congregation on the Sabbath, and the greater diminution of week day meetings. As well as by the fact that during the year there have [been] no especial attention or awakening among those ouf of the church. Most of those received to the church during the year have been the hopeful converts of former years. thing is the increase of contention - Another mark of the same strife and litigation for which '52 has been remarkable in comparison with its predecessors So that the impression on the mind is that religion is lamentably, though (?), blessed be God, not desperately (?) low. The evidence of its xxxx low estate exists but I forbear to say more on the point. It would be arrogant in me to suppose that this state of things �Hitchcook - 3. Kaluaaha - Molokai - 1852 is wholly or perhaps mainly owing to the inability of the pastor to do the labour which a more desireable state would have required. Other causes for the declension have existed - such as an unusual direction of the minds of the people to their temporal concerns, and the unwonted facilities which have been furnished them to grati­ fy their worldly wishes. Almost for the first time have the people of our island known/ that they were anything else than serfs - or that that ( !) they could be the bonafide proprietors of lands houses and flocks and herds - Efforts more than a year ago to awake them up to this now welcome truth were well nigh fruitless. are awake and no mistake about it. But now they And so strong is the current which the discovery has given to their thoughts and pursuits that it has been in danger of sweeping away everything else - thus re­ ligion has suffered - settling their claims to land, getting money v to pay for their titles - and and ( !) contending for them when they have been disputed have left less time for attention to the more important concerns of the soul. But [what] ever may have been the causes - the fact exists that Religion on Molokai is uncommonly low. and is a matter calling for our deep humiliation - and for our ardent prayers and exertions for its improvement. Nor is the state of religion lower than usual. But as it seems to me the moral tone of the public mind has sunk many degrees below w h ere it formerly stood. As a proof of this we have only to notice things that are now tolerated that formerly would have ex­ cited concern among the people. at ( ! ) the seasoning ( ? ) - Formerly Parents were alarmed at Ball playing - marble roling ( ! ) of their children (-) now they seem not [to] be troubled at profane swearing. Profane oaths are common. Formerly Honolulu and Lahaina pleasures �Hitchcock - Kaluaaha - Molokai 1852 4. were tabu among us of late however the tabu has been removed, and horse riding on Saturdy ( !) and other days has been fast becoming the order of the day - Formerly it was a kind of municipal law from one end of our island to the other that the young of neither set should be allowed lest to visit Lahaina and Honolulu xxx they should become exposed to and familiar with the vices of those places. But now we have no such law and our youth have unrestrained intercourse with these places and access to all the temptations which they hold out to alure them. Once the children of the schools were docile and easily kept in subjection to the teachers and regulations of the schools - Now they are men — lawyers and who is Lord over them? But the low state of morals compared with former times is more clearly seen and felt than described. with ( !) bones are pained from the fact. Social improvement. Of this much might be said. But all ray But I shall only Remark in this Report that while the people in a few instances in a very few instances, have better houses - in more instances better furniture in more abundant and in almost all instances while their clothing is better; and that while in many respects their comforts are somewhat increased; still it is seriously doubted whether the facility for obtaining this increase of comforts has not engendered an extrava­ gance - and involved them in debts which cancel to say the least, if they do overbalance the good received. Within sight of our door are 5 stores where goods have during the year past or most of it been obtained on credit - which has made it extremely easy even for penyless ( !) natives to make purchases which they would have well dispensed with had cash only been demanded. So far as our experience goes the credit system has been a curse instead of a blessing to this people, and has retarded social improvement instead of increasing it. As this however �Hitchcock - Kaluaaha - Molokai - 1852 5 is a matter of opinion I would say no more, but leave it [interlined] the matter to the decision of those who may fee better acquainted with the general effects of credit upon a poor community. See page 8 [ interlined] [page 7, this typed copy] Religious services among the people - Houses for prayer have been erected for conference and prayer in various places and not a neighbour hood on Molokai is destitute of the places (? ) where Prayer is wont to be made usually before light or at early dawn. These prayer and confer ence meetings of the people among themselves I deem one of [the] best evidences of as well as the greatest security to the purity of real piety. And while they continue to be attended as well as they are now though religion may be less vigourous at seasons it cannot expire. Beside the houses for conference and prayer which have been built by the voluntary efforts of the people, much has been done in the way of providing permanent houses of worship in most of the principle out districts. In Halawa a permanent stone edifice has been erected mostly during the past year 30 feet by 60 which is not only a great ornament to the ? valley in which it stands but which is so far as I know the first one of the kind ever built by the unaided efforts of the people at any outstation in the group. It consists of stone laid up in lime mortar, is shingled with American shingles saturated in oil lathed and plastered - has six windows with 24 lights each a Divine (?) pulpit and galery ( !) and what is an including fact the expense of the whole has been defrayed by the people of Halawa except 260 dollars con­ tributed on the day of dedication but which sum was paid for by a feast which cost the people aided more than double the amount. I am not at present informed of the cash paid for this house but it cannot be much if any less I think than 1000 dollars. �Hitchcock - 6 Kaluaaha - Molokai - 1852 At Hono uli the people have collected over 100 dollars for the purpose of completing a similar House of worship in their village while the People at Kamaloo have reroofed their house at an expense of about 70 dollars cash. At Kaunakakai a large (?) house is being constructed also one in Wailau. The House of Kaluaaha needs reroofing for this more than 2000 dollars have been subscribed and 800 dollars paid in the past year. We can but award to the people a value to the Gospel and means of grace if we judge from the willingness with which they labour t© support them. Since the last Gen meeting I have applied to the Board for a dismission on the Basis of the 7th Resolution and have been dis­ missed accordingly. But as the pecuniary circumstances of our people are much more unfavorable than when I made the application alluded to I have been constrained to ask the Prudential Committee to allow me the privileges of the mission at least for the year 52 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -------. ( !) This request was regarded favourably and refered ( !) to the action of this meeting which action is expected to be refered ( !) again to them for their sanction. I have therefore to request you to continue my privileges as a missionary - during the year 52 in order to enable my people to repair our house of worship. It needs reroofing immediately as the rains are already greatly injuring the walls and to be delayed another rainy season would greatly endanger it. The people cannot raise money enough for the purpose in addition to my support - what I want is to use (?) out of the funds of the Board this year that what they pay for my support may be devoted to that object. I submit it for your consideration. On account of our continued ill health we were advised by some of our brethren and by our physicians to visit as soon as possible the U.S.A. In a letter Dated Dec 10-51 I applied to the prudential �Hitchcock - 7 Kaluaaha - Molokai - 1852 committee for permission to make such a visit which letter has been responded to in the kindest and most favorable manner. But as I cannot think of leaving my people without another to take my place in taking charge of them during our absence I would beg the mission to allow Mr. C.B. .Andrews to return to his old station. Should he do so the obstacle to our going so far as our people are concerned [would be removed]. I should have no anxiety in leaving them in the care of one who I am happy their to know has been so devoted to xxx welfare and whom they all love with so strong an affection. I have petitions signed by a great number of church members requesting him to be allowed to return to Molokai. In fact they have given him a loud and sincere call from one end of the island to the other. Will the mission acceed ( !) to their wishes, and thus put to rest the heavy anxieites of their now worn out and feeble pastor and alow ( !) him to leave them for a season feeling they are in the care of another fully able, and willing to break to them the bread of life. Our going to the U.S.A. seems now suspended upon your favour­ able reception of the petition herein presented. -------------------------------- ( ! ) The field consists of 12 congregations - Halawa, Wailau, Pelekuni, Kalaupapa, Kalae, --------- ( !) Kaluakoe - Kaunakai, Kawela, Kaluaaha, Honouli - These constitute the native meetings on the Sabbath. Mission­ ary Congregations are Kaluaaha - Hoonoule - Halawa, Pelekuu, Wailau Kalae. �Kaluaaha - Molokai Statistics of Molokai church for 1852. Admitted to the church the past year ” in all ” "by letter 1571 in all Dismissed to other churches in all Deceased past year 61 324 Remain Suspended 55 Remain in regular Standing Children "baptized the past year " 30 21 Deceased in all " 81 in all Stand propounded Contributions - past year for support of pastor 1095 41 712 43 $ 471.00 ” in cash for meetinghouses ”1809.00 ” cash at monthly concert ” 622.00 ” in all in cash past year ”2902.00 ” in Labour and materiel for meetinghouses permanent ”1000.00 at Monthly concert from 1847 to 1852 inclusive ”2498.72 ” �Mr. and. Mrs, Hitchcock both feeble during the year - so much as to render it necessary for them to relinquish for a season our labours and take a voyage of the United States as soon as convenient. No Epedimic (!)or Special sickness during the year on the other hand there have been fewer deaths and a more general state of health than usual. Efforts for the support of the gospel at home 1. for support of Pastor 2. cash Paid for meetinghouses Labour and materials for $471.50 1709.00 do 1000.00 In this estimate is not included the labour and material spent in the erection of houses for prayer and conference in several neighbourhood[s]. Contributed at the monthly concert cash $622.00 Popery Has actually gained no ground the past year. A few some 8 or ten individuals have [been] seduced by Mormonism. The church has neither diminished or increased during the past year - But its prosperity on the whole is a matter calling for gratitude to Him who has planted and thus far sustained it. General improvements have been greater perhaps than in any former year. �[S.G. Dwight's Report for 1852 & 1853] Dear Brethren of the Hawaiian Island’s Mission The close of another - - - - -- ( !) year of missionary labor, in this most fruitful field, makes my pleasing duty once more to tax your patience a few moments while briefly as may be, I recount the various incidents connected with the 5th year of my S o j o u r n among you. Some changes as you know have been made on Molokai. A new pastor has been temporarily appointed to oversee the church & it gives me no little pleasure to say that change has removed the friction that formerly cloged ( !) the wheels of labor. Soon after the separating of the Last Gen. Meeting The office of Treasurer of the School fund was at my request transfred ( !) by the Minister of Instruction to Mr. Andrews. This will make it his duty to report on the schools generally to your body. The only office I now hold in connection with schools is that of Trustee for Kaluaaha to which I was reelected in Dec. 1852 In my last report I had the pleasure of stating that a new (?), commodious school house for a Station school had been finished at an expense of about $1400.00 & was then ready for oc­ cupation. On Monday Aug 9th 1852 the school was opened with 88 Scholars 44 of each sex, & with the exception of 3 vacations of 2 weeks each has been --------- ( !) continued in operation ever since a period 37 weeks. There have been connected with this school, in that time 131 pupils of whom 2 have been expelled for bad conduct 8 have returned to their homes in other parts of the island, 3 have run away & gone to sea, 2 have been married & the remainder 116 attend it still: 24 being new ones just admitted. The School is popular. Many children desire to enter it that cannot some even from other Islands. In consequence of this desire the number of Pupils has always been larger than either the strength or ability of the teacher would justify. The branches taught In this school are English [,] reading, writing, spelling, ------- ( !) & speaking. To these 4 hours each day are devoted 2 by the female department & 2 by the male, Leav­ ing only 4 1/2 hours in which to teach the important branches of Arithmatic, Algebra, Geography, History, composition & Elocution a time entirely too short. �S. G. Dwight 1852-3 -- 2. The School is divided into two departments a Female & Male Department. The former assembling at 1/4 before 8 & continuing till Noon — The latter meeting at 12 1/2 P.M & continuing in session till before 5 [ .] This school in its native department owes no little of its efficiency to the Labors of Hooilo who has been a teacher in it from the commencement. The progress made by the Scholars In the English language has surpassed the expectations of their teacher. The pupils have read & translated the four Gospels & some chapters in the Acts of the Apostles. A few of the best scholars read the English with some readiness. At the last examination the 4 best readers were females. In all the other branches taught evident progress had been made. This was particularly true of Geography, history & Arithmatic ( !). Indeed considering the entire lack of text books & atlesses ( !) their progress in the two former was surprising. In the duties of this school the energies & strength of the writer have mainly been expended. He has however been permitted to preach o n the Sabbath 60 times to deliver during the week 25 lec­ tures to take care of the Sabbath Schools [,] to perform the last offices over the remains of 5 children & 7 adults. To unite in marriage 43 couple & to take some care of the sick — Tho his as­ sociate has relieved him from the burden of this department. It has also been his pleasant task to convey a large number of awards (?) to the people of this island & to put them in pos­ session of some hundreds of acres of land. Of the three sewing schools established on Molokai 2 years since, one only remains. One of the two was discontinued in conse­ quence of the ineficiency ( !) of the teacher [.] The second was continued on till the beginning of the present year when it died out. The third however thanks to the excellent Teacher at its head & to the efficient aid of Mrs. Andrews Is still flourishing. It contains 34 pupils. During the year there have been made in it 95 shirts, 14 pair of Pants, 5 vests, 5 Sacks, 4 quilted patchwork quilts, 3 pairs of Socks, 55 tight dresses & a number of other smaler ( !) articles. The pupils have earned for themselves $103.38. The working (?) school, as a department of the Molokai Schools has been in active operation during the year & the children have earned in it for themselves $2491.18 1/4 or about an average of $7.80 for each of the Boys who belong to it. The average number of Scholars in all the Schools of Molokai during the year has been 850 of these 28 are Roman Catholick ( !) Leaving the number of Protestant children 822. At the commencement of the year the R C had 3 schools at its close one only was in operation. �S.G. Dwight 1852-3 The deaths on Molokai during the year was 111 [.] births 102 an excess of the former of 9. 3 The The progress of the People in temporal things has been marked New & comfortable houses have been built Comforts have been multiplied. Increased Industry, frugality, & improved taste are among the cheering (?) evidences. On my Associate divolves the pleasing task of reporting the Spiritual state & benevolent efforts of the Chh of Molokai & ---( !) no doubt his report will be all that you can desire. As the People of this island/proposed voluntarily to support me I requested Messrs (?) Castle & Cooke to stop my salary from Jan 1 1853. To this request I presume they have with their usual promptness attended. The appropriation granted the last year to the writer of $100.00 has been entirely expended & the house he occupies still stands but tremblingly [ .] It needs to be thoroughly repaired & as it is absolutely necessary that It should be done soon or it will fall & as the writer has no other place in which to find a shelter for his weary head when the labors of the day are done & is quite unable to build a home now He would respectfully ask that a grant, leaving the ammount ( !) entirely to the wisdom of the Mission, might be made to repair the dwelling; Or, if they do not see fit to do this that the entire materials in the building be conveyed at a reasonable rate to him He being permitted to use them where they are till he might have means to remove them & build elsewhere (?). As the teaching in which he is engaged will not allow the writer to attend the Gen. Meet, he would respectfully submit the above report to its consideration (?) & with the earnest Prayer to the Protector of Missions, that He will bless its Deleberations ( !) & conduct it to those decissions ( !) that will tend (?) most to glorify His great Name, advance His cause in the Islands & shed abundant Mercy on each of its individual members [ .] Remain Their Affectionate Fellow laborer Samuel G. Dwight (On back): To the Moderater ( !) of the General Meeting Honolulu (Also): S. G. Dwights Report for 1852 & 3 Rec'd May 7th 1853 Read May 18, 1533 (1853) by Mr. Cooke �Report of the Church on Molokai May, 1853 [C.B. Andrews] 1st The report of the church of Molokai is very imperfect, owing to Mr. Hitchcock's leaving no data of affairs there while he su­ perintended them. When he sailed for the States he transferred the care of the church to me, but with no record of how many mem­ bers he had received into or dismissed from the church, - how many deaths had occurred, or children baptized. On this account no accurate statistics of the church could be made out. There was a very large addition to the church in July last, & many children baptized. & Religion has held its former ground,/I think, has advanced somewhat on most parts of the island during the year. There seems to be a contin u ed development of Christian character, more than would naturally be expected of people brought up in heathenism. This appears From attendance upon public & social worship. Never has this attendance been more general on Molokai, than during the past year. Nearly all of the people go to meeting on the Sabbath, & most of the church members are steady attendants at the smaller meetings for prayer & conferrence ( !) which are held almost daily in each village. I have wished sometimes that they would not have so many meetings, & indeed once tried to break up the appearently ( !) least important & least attended, but It raised such a breeze among the good people, that I was glad to get out of the dif­ ficulty, & let them have as many meetings as they wanted. Reflection since upon this point has convinced me that they are right. Hawaiians have few books & no taste for reading. By personal contact only of mind with living mind do they get any Intellectual activity or awakening of thought. Oral intercom­ munications at meetings supply with them the place of our books, newspapers, lectures, debates, & similar interchange of thoughts among our race. It is to them the levee, reading-room, & news­ paper depot of other nations. Nay In some sense, meetings are the Forum & Arcopagus of Hawaiians. Meetings they will have, & let them have them. There has been unusual religious engagedness in some of our villages. Our good old patriarch Job, who for the last few years has been our main prompter in building meeting & praying houses, conceived that the engagedness in religion was not symmetrical with the number of meeting houses, & accordingly took up the work of an evangelist, going from house to house & village to village, & doing the work that their pastor wanted to do. The effects of his ministrations were soon manifest, in increased attendance upon &, interest in the means of grace. Christians became more awakened, & some old & stiff irreligious ones professedly turned to the Lord. Christian development appears 2ndly In their Benevolent efforts. The contributions given & expended in buying cloth for the needy �2 Kaluaaha 1853 C.B. Andrews have amounted to nearly 100 dollars during the past year. is given to the agency carried on mostly by the women. This Our 2nd System of Benevolent effort is the Mon. Concert. Almost all church members & many others contribute to this. The contributions vary from a quarter to a penny's worth, but a rial each is a standard gift by the men & a four pence by the women monthly. The system has become stereotyped throughout the island & the average receipts from these contributions exceeds 50 dollars pr. month. When Kekela came & presented Micronesia & it's ( !) mission to us, it so stirred up the interest of the people that, although I was absent, a special contribution of 96 dollars & a quantity of clothing was given for that mission. When a certain luna brought me the Micronesian gift from a village where they have contributed largely each month, I told him "this is the same as Mon. Con. money. You have given so well heretofore that we will not take up a Contribution among you next month." He stared at me a little & then answered, "Nay, this is an entirely different thing. It is a Kokua Kau e, a special Aloha to Micronesia, called forth by what Ke Kela related from actual observation there. He will give next month as usual." True to his word, a contribution a little larger than usual was given the next month. We had a special pilikia at the Station which I feared would involve our Mon. Con. fund in bankruptcy. Immediately after last General Meeting Mr. H. began to reroof the meetinghouse with shingles before the money subscribed for the purpose was paid in. Their treasury failing, he with the Session of lunas agreed to lay hands on the Mon. Con. money, & replace it as subscriptions were paid in. But the outgoes for repairs proved to be many hundred dollars more than they had anticipated, & the money realized much less than the Subscriptions. When this new call came from the Marquessas ( !), we found no way appearing by which to recover 600 dollars of Mon. Con. funds from the Meeting House. Nearly all the available subscriptions were paid in, A few Sabbaths ago, with a heavy heart I presented the compound pilikia, of our meeting House being in debt to the fund which was given for sending the gospel to the isles of the ocean, thus turning into this house what was both given & now called for, to send the gospel to the Marquessas. The people awaked up, & as with the heart of one man, although they had given, some beyond their ability before, they made a levy upon themselves, the men giving $1.00 each, the women from a quarter to a half dollar each, & the children from a 4th (?) to l/2 a dollars each. Streams of money have been coming in from the drops & rills of the multitude while their pastor had only to receive & note it down. I come now with $360.00 in hand out of the $593.00 with the express injunction of the people, "Send teachers with it to Fatuhiva." �Kaluaaha 1853 C.B. Andrews 3. The remainder we hope to refund at some future day. This was the amount of Mon. Con. receipts previous to Nov. 1853, all which was invested in the meeting house by Mr. Hitchcock, before sailing to the States. The contributions have amounted, to 767.75 cts in all, which I have paid over to the H.M. Soc. treasurer. 3rdly The development of Christian character appears F r om their Increasing expendiature ( !) for building churches. In some villages where they have built before with Stone laid in clay, they are collecting funds for building better & more comely buildings. I did not find this out until lately & in some places disceraged ( !) their prosecuting such a purpose, being already comfortably supplied, & having other & greater necessities. In the poorest & most barren district of the island, the people have completed a stone building 30 ft long, have plastered it neatly within & without, & by dint of perseverance have finished it with windoes ( !) & doors, all, paid for. In one of the deep vallies ( !) on the windward side of the island where only 150 people live, they are struggling to build a framed Meeting house & shingle it, which will cost them 500 dollars before completion. At Kaluaaha, the Mission Station, the people have taxed them­ selves heavily to shingle their meeting house. Having subscribed largely when money for their produce was abundant, & paying those Subscriptions this year when the same brought little, the reroofing of their house has been a heavy draft upon them. But they have met the pilikia cheerfully, manfully, nobly. I hear them record, that of their ability & more than their ability, they have given for the House of God, & that his Tabernacle may abide among them. There has little comparatively been given for their pastor's support. According to a rule established by Mr. Hitchcock they are to give for this object, quarterly previous to each sacrament. The amount given in the two quarters already past is 166 dollars, which will probably be the measure for the next half of this year. To this report thus presented let me add a few items by way of Summary. 1s t False religions, on Molokai, save old pagan superstitions are nearly defunct. Romanism has scarcely a worshiper ( !) left there. It has but one school, with fewer scholars than the Govt demands & it is kept by a protestant, so that it exists only by sufferance from both sides. Mormonism made some shew a year ago, but has dwindled to nearly nothing, so that I pity & show kindness to the Mormon who dwells among us, as he Is a modest, amiable retiring man, but firm in his delusion. He & his wife started an English School among us, but it has long ago died a natural death. ndly 2. Industry & the price of labor & produce is decidedly increas­ ing. Since Kuleanas have come into allodial possession, few hired �Kaluaaha 1853 C.B. Andrews laborers can be heard of. 4. All have enough to do at home. 3rdly The progress of Refinement does not keep pace with that of Religion. With some exceptions they live in the same dirty houses that they ever have inhabited, wear their cloths as dirty except on Sundays to meeting, - their heads are as full of vermin & Kuaaina(,) women & children can still be seen picking & eating from each other's heads. There are not three native families on Molokai but what prefer to eat from the calibash ( !) with their fingers rather than endure the luxury of using, or the labor of washing plates, knives, & forks. Habit is second nature & upon many generations yet to come will these habits be enstamped. 4th Schools on Molokai exhibit progress & not retrogress in know­ ledge, discipline, & efficiency in educating the whole of the rising population. The teachers are all paid. No deb[t]s lie on hand for educational purposes, although the schools have been in opera­ tion during the year. Statistics will be found in the report of the Minister of Instruction. I will add to that report, that since it was made out, the catholic school as such distinctively, is extinct, there being not a Catholic school teacher on Molokai, & but few people who call themselves catholics. Work, industral (!) & proffitable ( !) labor is one part of practice in all of our schools, & there is an evident increase of industry in the rising generation, compared with that of those preceeding them. In conclusion, I would remark, that the state of Religion & Education among the people of Molokai is not discouraging. Vice is decreasing, & immorality yielding to better influences. The stupor of dark mindness ( !) is breaking, the vis inertiae yield­ ing to effort. There is no reason sufficient to justify the dropping effort, or for being discouraged in trying to invest this people with an atmosphere of purity, in place of the pollutions which have been breathed too long. If the Lord build the house the workman laboreth not in vain. "He that goeth forth & weeping beareth precious seed shall doubt­ less return with joy bringing his sheaves with him." C. B. Andrews �[C .B. Andrews] Report of Molokai. Church, During the years 1853. &, 4. The past year in its main features has not been marked differently from that preceeding. Religious interest has been much the same, in it's ( !) various developments of attendance upon public worship, benevolence, morality & education. The attendance upon public worship continues steady & upon the Sabbath is almost universal. On Sabbath morning, almost all of the people on Molokai go to meeting. Fewer attend in the afternoon, but as the larger congregations break up into little neighborhood meetings, there is again a third leaving the house & convening more informally to confer upon religious things. Then comes the endless series of little meetings through the w eek, some mixed, some for females only, but all considered by natives, as indispensible. I think also that bible reading both publicly & privately has increased upon the island. In the absence of the printed "ai o Ka la" , there has been a steady call for testaments, & for bibles & I hear frequently of the use of them. In connection with attendance upon public worship, church building is intimate. Our station meting ( !) house is completed, & through much pilikia is almost paid for. A few dollars only are owing to the masons who plastered the house. There is a debt however of 248 dolls for Mon. Con. money used by Mr. Hitchcock to pay for demands on the house when the treasury was empty. To meet this are the remains of the old subscription which if all paid would nearly cover it. But to meet the failure thereof, there are several cattle handed over on subscription & their increase will ultimately cover the debt. In Wailau a deep valley on the windward, the frame shingled & clapboarded building which the inhabitants determined in 1852 so heroically to put up, is completed & only 133 dollars are owing for it. This they hope to pay for in the next month, without calling upon their brethren at Lahaina to report church building on Molokai. It rises like a beautiful gem on an ascent in the green valley contrasting strongly with the thatch that surrounds it. The meeting house roof at Kalaupapa where the people have a bell has fallen down. The event was I believe a joyful one, for now they have resolved to put up a handsome stone building, laid up in lime mortar, instead of their present walls laid in mud. They asked me when consulting about rebuilding, if they could not call upon hoahanaus [fellow professors of religion] who were lanakila [strong] elsewhere, to help them. I answered that such calling might bring a little, but not half as much �C.B. Andrews Molokai Church 1853-54 2. as the cost of getting it. Bu t if they would call to the ground it would answer bountifully. If each man would cultivate a small patch of potatoes extra for their luakini [church] & each woman would make a set of sleeping kapa for the same purpose, their luakini would be com­ pleted & money left in the treasury. It took with enthusiasm, & now many of their kapas are ready for sale, & their potatoes for the meeting house are growing. An interesting event occurred last summer in one of the last holds of popery at Kalae. Twenty eight of them turned from Ro­ manism to the pono [right] & their first labor was to build a place for meeting, a house of prayer, which I was invited to consecrate. So thorough was their abandonment of popery, & the work of grace there, that six have lately been admitted to the church from that place. The people at Mapulehu near the Station, have felt themselves constrained to build a stone synagogue in place of their thatch house. A s the work was progressing their thatch house blew down which has stimulated their work of building, & they hope soon to meet in their new house. Church building on Molokai seems to have become a hobby, which the people ride the harder for having a little cold water thrown onto their projects. In connection with this topic I would say, that many have given good Hawaiian evidence of a change of heart. With great trembling the pastor has received into the church 260 since 1853 commenced besides restoring from 20 to 30 sus­ pended church members. 20 (?) have been suspended. The benevolent efforts of the people have not been eaqual ( !) to that of former years, but I have rather hoped, It was In con­ sequence of so much of their efforts being taken up at present in building meeting houses. From May of last year until Jan. of the present, $269.00 w e r e given to the Mon. Con. fund, & from Jan. to May, 1854 in­ clusive, $211.00. During 1853 $364.31 cts were given for Salary. Nearly $200.00 have been given for the same object the present year thus far. Another bell has been bought & now calls the people of Halawa to church, which is the 3rd now on the island, at an average cost of $180.00 [or $150? ] each. I cannot estimate the amount expended for religious purposes on Molokai during the year not being able to collect the amount given to different objects. The morality of religion is a test of it's ( !) genuineness in any place. With this for our guide religion for Molokai would suffer severely from criticism. There is a great deal of adultery on the island. I do not know whether it has increased in fre­ �Molokai Church 1853-54 C.B. Andrews 3. quency, or whether, what has always existed has gathered bold­ ness. Young men & girls both in, & hoping to get into the church, have had their guilt brought to light by it's ( !) natural con­ sequences. I have had occasion to go often during the past year & stay at out places on the island, & have had my heart pained in ferreting out this hewa [evil], & having it show itself even in church lunas. Sometimes I think there is no principle among them. All is outside show. I dare not confide in any one whose circumstances are in any respect liable to bring suspicion upon him. I have found too, one source of trust in finding out hihias [causes of trouble] has failed. The lunas themselves instead of bringing forward all cases of immorality to be sessioned, bring forward only such as cannot be conceiled ( !). I fear my brethren may find similar evil in their board of council, & perhaps a debth ( !) of immorality beneath the outside appearance of their members, such as they do not now anticipate. Stealing is the sin of the land next succeeding adultery. There is too little concience ( !) even among professedly religious natives upon this subject. This is however only a branch of an­ other sin viz. Hoopunipuni [deceitfulness] in all it's ( !) forms. Prevarication, misrepresentation & wicked deceiving are among the most rife of evils both in & out of our church, & it seems as if preaching would never touch the evil. It Is one of the sins that the law, except in case of per­ jury, does not touch. In peacebleness ( !) of living, I think there has been an improvement on Molokai during the past year. There has been but little of litigation, & no quarreling that I have known on the island. We have no rum drinking, save by a foreigner & half breed native who take a spree occasionally at Lahaina, & a most strict survellance ( !) develops but little use of tobacco among us. But an oddity has developed itself among us. About the beginning of the year, some one from Oahu, & at the same time one from Hawaii introduced tatooing among the Kuaainas [people of back country], & it took like tinder. Before many weeks were past, many hundred were tattooed more or less. I should like to know if this mania was confined to Molokai. Education as far as I could judge, Is about as it has been years past, save that there are fewer in comparison on the a.b. c. list, or rather, scholars read sooner than they did in the schools. The schools were suspended during the 3rd quarter of 1853 for lack of funds. �Molokai Church 1853-54 C.B. Andrews 4. Mormonism has gained some ground appearently ( !) on Molokai during the year, but I thing ( !) the gain has been trifling. They have made most strenuous efforts in prosolyting ( !), & boasted that they would soon subvert all our foundations. A French priest Gregory came & made a demonstration last month, but all of his professed followers collected from all the island made a sorry show, & proclaimed them to be nearly defunct. Another item of interest is the progress of industry. This on most parts of the island has been & is appearant ( !) for work is becoming the order of the day with most natives, whereas it was only an occasional matter in past years. The people are beginning to feel that the(y) must work to meet their increasing expendiature ( !). Especially is industry man­ ifest among the school children. The system of working begun many years ago among them, is becoming stereotyped among them as their greatest source of gain. The children at constant labor each day is my greatest encouragement for the future of Molokai. The health of our people has been usually good the past year. The besom of destruction which has swept Oahu of thousands, has not come nigh us. We have seen & heard of it at a distance but have been kept therefrom. I record it with deep thankfulness to God who has preserved us from the scourge. C . B . Andrews �[Kaluaaha - Dwight] [1854] To the Sandwich Island Mission Dear Brethren The close of another missionary year makes it my duty to lay before you a brief account of the labors, trials, changes & blessings that have left their traces upon the writer during the sixth year spent on the island of Molokai. Health & strength have been granted most abundantly by the Master to his servant, while mingled with some severe trials, his cup has been made to overflow with many unmerited blessings. So that in reviewing the year he can, like Samuel of old erect his pillar, & tell how truly the Lord hath been his Helper. In consequence of the fact that some [of] his Brethren in the mission felt bound to censure severely his conduct towards females, with the hope of removing this source of contention & also from the hopeless­ ness of ever again feeling towards an intellectual & refined female those sentiments which she would have a right to demand & without the exercise of which towards her she could not be happy as a wife, he resolved, after a severe struggle, to take a w ife from among the people for whom he was laboring. In carrying out this purpose he became engaged a year ago last April to a young woman connected with the English school. Circumstances beyond his control prevented the marriage till March 1854 when he was by the Rev. C. B. Andrews united to Anna only daughter of Mahoe of Mapulehu. Labors. The writer has been permitted to preach the Gospel during the year now past to attentive & often apparently interested congrega­ tions. The number of sermons preached during the year has been 75 The number of week day lectures 54. The Sick Since Mr Andrews has been stationed on Molokai the care of the sick has largely devolved upon him. Tho’ frequently when called upon, and especially during Mr As absences from the station it has been the writers priviledge ( !) to administer mentally & phisically ( !) to the sick & dying About 85 cases of sickness during the year have been under his care. Marriages During the past year the writer has performed the marriage ceremony for 41 couple. Eight of the parties had been members of the English school Among those married 2 were foreigners. The School. The English & Native school now completing its second year has absorbed the most of the time & strength of the writer. It has prospered greatly during the year. The pupils have, with a very few sad exceptions, been attentive, obedient, punctual in their attendance, &, as a consequence, made very considerable progress in the various branches in which they are instructed. The school has been in Session 45 weeks & there have been connected with the school during that time 64 female & 63 male pupils in all 127. �Molokai - Dwight - 1854 2. Of these 2 entered Lahainaluna in June last 2 are employed as teachers on Molokai 21 were dismissed at their own request 6 entered Mr s . Andrews' school, 9 were married, 2 have died, 3 ran away, 2 of them to go to sea, & 4 were expelled for bad conduct: Leaving in the school at this date 37 females & 41 males In all 78 pupils. The sewing school now completing its 4th year has been in success­ ful operation Commenced 4 years ago with 11 pupils it has gone on gradually increasing in numbers & efficiency. It now numbers 41 pupils who are daily instructed by two who were taught themselves to ply the needle in this school. Prom the commencement 92 have in it been instruc­ ted in this truly feminine accomplishment During this year the girls have earned ” " ” " Boys of Eng. School $168.06 394.37 $562.43 of nearly $5.00 each. In the School described above the writer spends very nearly 42 hours each week He is there from about 7 3/4 A.M. to 5 1/4 P.M. except an interval of about 20 minutes at noon Besides this translating & prepar­ ing materials occupies some 10 hours more. Of the other Schools on Molokai it will doubtless be the pleasing task of my associate to present a statement. Permit me to say they stand in advance of most of the schools of the same class on the other islands & with each a working school is connected in which about $2400.00 have been earned by the children. There is here as well as elsewhere a steady decrease among the children in the schools The rate of it being about 40 per Annum Since my connection with the schools the 1000 scholars has become 800 & this process is not yet stayed. Frequent testimonials are given of the benevolence of the people of Molokai. Not only is this seen in their contributing of their means to foreign objects; but also in their cheerfully & promptly assisting each other in their troubles thus fulfilling the law of Christ & bear­ ing one anothers burdens. Occasionally too, some unmistakable sign of advancement in the graces of the Christian, will be exhibited by them & this will throw its cheering influence around us & make us rejoicingly to see that here the years labors have not been altogether in vain in the Lord; but that the seed sown has in some cases fallen on good ground & is springing up & bearing its fragrant blossoms. But as this department belongs to another, the writer may not tarry in it. The intelligence, enterprise, foresight & industry of the Molokai people have increased during the year Several very nice houses have been erected, & Several more a [re] in the process of being erected. Quite a number of natives own cattle & several make very good butter It is pleasing to notice that the taste of the people is improving & that striking incongruities in personal appearance are less & less common. �Molokai - Dwight 1854 In addition to the labors already innumerated It has been the writers priviledge ( !) to protect the poor & friendless from the oppressions of the powerful To put a considerable number of acres of land into the hands of the natives and to put a large number of Land Commission awards into the hands of their owners. In these various labors the year under review has passed swiftly away having left behind its indestructible record & its various waves of influence to spread over the current of time & to bury themselves in the vast ocean of Eternity. Now while still aiming after higher attainments in holiness, a greater disregard of self & sublunary things, a more complete devoted ness to the work, whatever it may be, which the Lord may give him in the future, the writer, with sentiments of affection & fraternal regard towards his brethren generally, would subscribe himself. The Missions servant in the Lord Samuel G. Dwight �Report of Molokai Church from May 1854 to May 1855. [C.B. Andrews] There has been a sameness of character about this church during the past year. Our history during this period has been varied by few specialities. Therefore this report will be short. The special religious engagedness felt on this island the year previous has declined. It is not appearent ( !) that active vital piety became less, but that special desire of persons out of the church, to enter it & of the lunas to induct them therein, so often seen at these islands, lies dormant here, now. The immediate occasion of this was our sifting the practise of tobacco-smoking, a practice abjured in our covenant. The accusation came frequently to our ears that all of Molokai church, smoked most hypocritically in secret. Accordingly in a meeting of the sessions, the inquiry was started, how much of this was true & how much, slander. The idea was presented in a strong light to the lunas, & by them promulgated throughout the church, that the guilt of hypocrisy & deceit in smoking secretly was far greater than any wrong "per se" in the use of tobacco. In some places this was frankly acknowledged by all of the smokers rising & publicly telling their practice. In other places less ingenuous the lunas made shrewd guesses who did smoke, from the smell of the drug in their houses, clothes, & their breath. The disclosures showed that one quarter, & in some villages one half of the members of the church secretly smoked tobacco. Some who had been admitted since Mr. Hitchcock's absence, & many previously admitted to the church by him, said that they never stopped the use of tobacco when they entered the church, but the very day that they vowed to the Lord, "aole makou e puhi hou i kabaka" [we will not smoke tobacco again ] , they returned & deliberately smoked. As the pastor felt not called upon to dis­ cipline them, for smoking, w h e n by the very act of confession they refrained from the greater sin of hypocrisy, the propriety of coming to the table of the Lord was left to their own conceinces ( !), while they continued to break their covenant vows. In consequence, the communion in one or two places is very thinly attended, where one half of the church smoked tobacco, they understanding however, that there is no formal action against them, & their abstaining from the Sacrament is voluntary. Those who were propounded before the inquiry began, have been received, but as there was such manifest heartlessness & low views of vows to God there have been few recent applications for church membership & these have been postponed. This state of things has made little difference in the gen­ eral attendance upon religious meetings. It is in the aggregate not much less according to the population than i n past year. Almost all the people of Molokai attend meeting & have family prayers. �Molokai Church C.B. Andrews 2. Their outlays for religious purposes have not greatly dim­ inished. Meeting house building continues a hobby among the people. Several unfinished ones have been completed, others are progressing, & preparations are making to build others. It would be impossible to state how much had been expended on meeting houses & school houses on Molokai during the last year. The amount all told cannot be less than two thousand dollars. The people paid on the salary of their pastor during 1854, about 450 dollars(.) The amount of contributions to the Mon. Con. during the last 11. months has been $477. 14 cts(.) These three objects, Minister’s salary, Meeting house or "church erection", & Monthly Concert for sending the gospel to the heathen have been the three objects of collection & expendiature ( !) for religious purposes on Molokai (.) Mormonism & popery have not figured among us the past year. They appear like pagan & pope as represented by Bunyan, "grind­ ing" (?) against true religion for lack of other power. The strongest enemy now appearing against religion & it's ( !) pros­ perity among us is a Spirit of worldliness & money making which seems to absorb the minds of all classes. I was expecting to attend the meeting of the Association untill ( !) I heard that both vacancies in the stations heretofore occupied were provided for, & as I am not on any standing committees, my presence there would be of little consequence. Fully confiding in the wisdom which we trust, will be granted from on high to guide your deliberations I remain Yours Truly C. B. Andrews �Kaluaaha May 20 1855 [Hitchcock] Dear Brethren of the Mission. I am sorry that I am not to I had anticipated much pleasure after our long separation. But to the rough usage of the ocean be with you at this Annal ( !) meeting. in meeting you my dear fellow labours ( !) I dare not expose my very feeble health especially in a small Hawaiian. vessel. I have made you as good a Report in my letter to Bro Lyons which I have requested him to read to you as my poor pooniuniu (dizzy) head will allow - The staggers contracted on the Ocean pearl abide [with] me yet Especially should I like to be present at the anual ( !) meeting of The Hawaiian Missionary Society, an institution I and my people feel a deep interest [in] . I do hope that the annal ( I) meeting will be held in the King's Chapel, and at least one whole day and evening given to it in which both foreigners and natives shall take part. The mis­ sionary meeting held in the meeting house - the general meeting of 52 gave a wonderful impulse to the cause among our people. May I not re­ quest you to hold such a meeting again. The business and the speech es of the Society should be done in the native language as much as the the ( !) speeches in the Legislature as it seems to me, and it looks like a misnomer to call it a Hawaiian Missionary Society when none but foreigners have the transaction of its affairs. I suppose that no small part of the funds have been received from natives - I hope my people will do considerable - and would like to have them represented in the Society. They have chosen Kaluna the present chairman of the Legisla­ ture as their delegate and I hope there will be such arrangements of the anual ( !) meetings as will enable him and others to take a part if they desire to do so. It may have been more correct to have made this requests ( !) to the propur ( !) officers of the Society, But I write to the association to save writing so many letters. As to the condition of Molokai church Mr. Andrews will no doubt Report you in due form. I am happy to say that my dear people gave us a most hearty and joyful home welcome, and have done all they well could to show the sincerity of their aloha. The various meetings which on our return I found very thinly at­ tended are filling up and every thing ( !) but my ill health seems to indicate a growing and prosperous state of our church. I suppose the subject of Mr. Andrews Location will come up before the association. You will learn from him that he had. the intention of getting his support by teaching English. We could not ask for an as­ sociate at the expense of either the Board of the people after support­ ing us, yet nothing would be more agreeable to us than there ( !) society and what help bro A can render without damaging or interfering with his other business. We should deprecate the loss of there ( !) society very much should they be removed. And the more so as they �Letter to Brethren - Hitchcock 2. reciprocate our desires and have no wish to remove, but desire to stay. I hope they will he allowed to do so - Mr. A has expressed h i s willing­ ness to visit those places which I cannot - This will he a great fa­ vour to me and benefit to those places. Our people will make an effort to do something for a part of his support. They have resolved to let him have all they can raise beyond my salary. I feel deeply interested in the Oahu college. And I do hope that Parents of the Mission will as far as possible Educate there ( !) chil­ dren at Home rather than send them to the best colleges in the U.S.A. for tho the expense will not be much less, The advantages will be vastly greater as it seems to me. I have had experience on the subject - and had I ever so many sons to carry thro there ( ! ) education I would pre­ fer to do it here. Somehow American soil does not suit our tropical plants. They grow to ( !) fast there, and are in danger of growing out of shape and proper heighth and of bearing less fruit than do those which are suffered to grow and take root in there ( !) native soil The root will be more healthy - and the whole plant more vigorous. Rexford has determined to stick by Punahou if it has a class - I am confident that there would be not the least difficulty of getting an ample Endowment of Oahu college from the United States, if such an institution can have (?) Scholars. To Educate our own children on our own soil is a favourite idea of the people there. And the Sandwich island is regarded as the pet child of the American churches - no body but feels an interest in us. Praying that the Lord may be with you and grant you a pleasant meeting I am dear Brethren yours truly H R Hitchcock [On back] Rev. H.R. Hitchcock's Report for May 1855 �[ C .B. Andrews] Report of Molokai Church from May 1855 to May 1856. It devolves upon me to give this report, as the hand of God has bereft this people of their pastor, who, it was fondly hoped by all, would b r a k e ( !) to them the bread of life for many years to come. Well does he deserve the title of father to this church. He collected it from heathenism, fed & nurtured it. He wrought with energy while his day lasted, & had the tact to transfuse an unusual degree of that energy into those under his charge. All around the island, in the veneration, felt by the people for his memory, - in their activity & benevolence, in the abondance ( !) of their labors for the cause of Christ, in their readiness & forwardness in good works, the character of our brother Hitchcock lives & will live long, I trust, although he has passed on to the better world. He rests from his labors, & his works do follow him. Thank­ ful may any of us be, who at the close of life may have the work of his hands thus established, not having lived for naught. Upon the return of our brother from the States, a new activity was observable among the people, in their attention to religious things. This continued during the Summer months until he died, & although part of it may be ascribed to unusual vivacity on ac­ count of his return among them, & to some new mesures ( !) introduced, yet a part I trust arose from genuine engagedness in spiritual things, & lasts to this day. Nay, attention to religious things is decidedly increasing in some districts. In one village on the Kolau side of the island, which I late­ ly visited, I was surprised to find the whole population in the meeting house, the sick being almost the only ones excepted. There they sat, serious & attentive, no one seeming concious ( !) of what drew them there. I held four meetings with that same congregation on that Sabbath, & at the close of each, no one seemed ready to go away. The luna from there, had told me a few weeks before, that their meetings then were fully attended, but I had not given much thought to it. As I came away ten bibles were requested besides hymn book & testaments. At the beginning of this year, being requested by some of the lunas to adopt some new means for reawakening the people, after long consideration upon what would be judicious, I proposed the following viz. That they should devote simultaniously ( !) all over the is­ land, two of their morning meetings to reading the bible & con- �C.B. Andrews Molokai 1855-56 2 . versing familiarly & informally upon it's ( !) meaning. Wednes­ day & Sabbath morning meetings were to be set apart solely to this bible reading at each place of meeting, & all were to begin alike at Genesis. We have a general luna meeting once a month, estab­ lished by Mr. Hitchcock, on the 1st Friday after each Mon. Con. One feature of this bible reading is this. As this luna meeting is attended by at least one luna from each place of meeting, all the passages noted in the bible reading as needing explananion ( !), or pohihihi [puzzling] in their familiar dis­ cussions, are marked & brought up for explanation in this body of lunas by their pastor, & it has afforded me rich enjoyment to clear up the passages in question. Thus far the measure has progressed better than my hopes, & I feel all of the time, that an Increase of bible reading among this people is safe. I have felt uneasy many times at the undue time spent by them in meet­ ings, but this manner of spending them may not be unproffitable. ( !) The questions brought up in luna meeting, & points for explication, evince a very thorough study of the ground gone over. Some Shew ingenuity & acuteness, & all are not easily answered, for Inst, "what is meant by the Spirit of God brooding upon the face of the face ( !) of the waters" in the creation? What was the mark on Cain for the murder of Abel? Were the mountains at the time of the flood only fifteen cubits higher than the level earth? When Abraham deceived, & had a "wahine manuahi" [woman ] , & otherwise sinned as is recorded. why did God make him such a punahele [favorite]? Such & other like questions shewed that their reading was not a mere conning of words. �[Abstract] Molokai There has been a sameness of character about the church during the past year. No special religious engagedness. Almost all the people of Molokai attend meeting & have family prayers. Mormonism & Popery have not figured among us the past year. They appear like Pagan & Pope as represented by Bunyan "quivering” against true religion for lack of other power. The strongest enemy now appearing against religion & its prosperity among us is a spirit of worldliness & money making, which seems to absorb the minds of all classes. For contributions see Statistics. Mr. Hitchcock received a most hearty welcome back from his former people. [On back] Molokai Abstract No. 9 �Report of the Molokai Church [Dwight] [1857] In the month of June 1856 Rev C B Andrews left this church to enter upon new duties & relations at Lahainaluna Sinch ( !) which time the Molokai church has been without a p a s tor. The meetings on the Sabbath the ordinary weekly meetings the monthly concert & session meetings have been sustained as have also the Sabbath Schools Many of the adult members of the chh & most of the children able to read have committed to memory the Ai o ka la. The average attendance at the Sabbath meetings has been about 256. The church has been favoured with two visits from Rev R. Armstrong & one from Rev Mr Pogue at each of which the Sacrament was administered & at all 115 converts were admitted to the church & 89 suspended church members restored to communion It has been necessary to cut off from the communion of the church 1 deacon 1 Luna & 5 church member[s] for various sins At the meeting of the Session Jan 16th 1857 a committee of 5 was chosen of which Committee Rev R. Armstrong was chairman to write the committee of the Haw. Miss Association asking them to procure a pastor for this church At a subsequent meeting the letter was read to the church & approved. No response has as yet been received Mrs. Hitchcock has been spared to this church & tho' in feeble health has been abundant in labors to advance its interests of piety. Her meetings have been regularly & fully attended. Since the departure of Miss Browne ( !) Mrs H has been the only foreign female resident of Molokai . The progress of the people in knowledge & virtue has not been as marked as in some former years. The unexpected death of the Rev Mr Hitchcock the being without a pastor & the efforts of 2 or 3 Mormon Elders to drag down this people have tended to retard the aparant ( !) progress tho' not sufficient to avert it entirely. Still the Holy Spirit has not left Himself without a witness in these matters as well as in the additions to the church. Industry has advanced so also have the interprise ( !) & skill of the people. The houses are improving in size & the circle of comforts & conveniances ( !) by which the people have surrounded themselves has been enlarged. No pestilence has fallen on the island tho’ the deaths have exceeded somewhat the births during the year. The contributions to benevolent objects have not generally fallen off tho the contributors have diminished in number by death & removal to other islands The statistic table made up for the 2 years last past ending May 1 1857 will show a good degree of liberality In this poor people who �Report of Molokai Ch. - Dwight - 1857 2 out of their deep poverty do more for foreign Missions than many more highly favored churches in this & other lands. The schools have "been in session 40 weeks during each of the 2 years past & have c o st the government between 15 & $1600 dollars per Annum For the last 6 months no English school has been sustained The efficiency of these schools will compare favorably with those of any other district on these islands the number in attendance is about 600 of whom more than 3/4 can read, write, sing & cifer ( !). It may be proper to state that by a resolution of the Molokai church passed June 6 1856 Rev Samuel G. Dwight was restored to fellow­ ship with them, but he fearing this action might involve this church in difficulty with her sister churches at the islands, has not availed himself of the priviledges ( !) of communion. Hoping that the Lord may overrule all the counsels of the Haw. association to His glory & the good of His church Universal the above report is respectfully submitted by Samuel G Dwight Scribe of the Session of the Molokai Church. The Mormons have decreased in number since the census number about 75 So also the R. Catholics members they now they have but 2 meeting houses & few chh �1855 to 1856 May 1 to April 30 1798 55 1856 to 1857 Ma y 1st to April 30 1866 55 92 65 34 4 365 30 133 137 1250 92 44 10 421 36 145 207 1149 Contributions from May 1855 to May 1856 Pastors Foreign Church Church Other Support Miss Erec Erec Objects & Mr H's Cash Materials at Coat Price $805.18 $335.00 $1774.05 #615.00 #230.00 " " 1856 to " 1857 297.26 417.85 1697.06 1590.50 103.43 [On b ack]: Report of Molokai C h . By Mr. Dwi g h t 1857 34 56 About members 1 7 45 | are |missing Total $3759.23 4106.10 �Whole No of members on Profession Whole no of Members on Certificate Whole no past year Profession Whole no past year on Certificate Total past year No Dis to other Churches Dis past year Whole no. Dis Dead Past year Excluded past year Remain Excluded No. in Reg. Standing Whole No of Children Baptized Children Bap past yrs. Married �A. O. FORBES Abstract of report of Molokai Church 1858 - 9 The duties at Molokai were entered upon with many misgivings, yet, we trust with some degree of faith, & a feeling of entire dependence upon the strong arm of the Lord of Hosts. In October of 1858, within a month from the time of landing upon these shores the labors of the station at Molokai were commenced. the language was rapidly learned, so that by the early part of November, I was able to preach & converse with some degree of fluency. Things were in much confusion. running to weeds. The flock had run wild. The field was Yet, on the whole, the aspect of matters was more encouraging than was expected. The people warmly welcomed their new pastor, & we cannot hut feel that the Lord has helped us. The old, steadfast, leading mem­ bers of the church are rapidly passing away, & the generation now rising up are not what their fathers were. Their wildness & in­ difference to religion as a class, cause many painful hours to the missionary. Yet we have many excellent men & women. Some who are truly pillars in the church Our good Bro. Hitchcock's labors on this island are seen to follow him, & he being dead, yet speaks on Molokai. As yet, I have been slow in admitting to the church. The usual labors of the Sabbath have been attended to - viz - Sabbath School & two sermons, with a Bible class during the inter­ mission. § regular, The audiences increase in numbers, & are orderly, attentive, there are encouraging signs of increasing interest in religious things. Other weekly labors consist of a Wednesday after­ noon Lecture & prayer meeting & a Bible class on Saturday for the Deacons & Teachers. The monthly [concert] is observed and we endeavor to make it as interesting and profitable as possible. The first week of each month is devoted to Monthly concert meet­ ings & labors - on the first Friday of each month the contributions from each district of the island are brought together by appointed Lunas, or officers, & various business relating to the general interests of the Church is transacted. I have twice visited the Eastern end of the field, & once the Western - The windward side of the Island being almost inaccessible �Station report, Molok a i , 1858-59 . A. O. Forbes during the winter months, I have not yet been able to visit it. The schools, as a general thing, are flourishing; though of course susceptible of much improvement. Immorality has been greatly on the increase among out young pople for a few years past. Mormonism is, practically, dead. Popery is in the same condition, though there are indications that renewed & vigorous efforts will be made in that direction -Idolatry still exists among the natives, though mostly in secret. It occurs chiefly perhaps, in connection with the practice of the native doctors -The foreign element is increasing among us. About 20 foreigners [ ] are now settled on the island. The statistics of C hurch/membership I am not able to present this year. Con tributions Mo. Con. for 1858 -------- $141.00 Mo. Con. from Jan. 1859 to date------- 79.20 3/4 Arrears 85.00 of Mrs. H itchcock's salary Pastor’s salary ($800 per an. comm­ encing Jan 1st, 1859) 29 2.49 1/4 Total $597.70 On the 18th Nov .1858 - the installation of the Pastor took place. Messers D. Baldwin, W. O . Baldwin, Pogue, C. B. Andrews, Alexander & L. Andrews, officiating. It was a season of much interest. On the 21st. of Dec, 1858 , occurred the marriage of the Pastor to Miss M. J. Chamberlain at the residence of the brides mother in Honolulu, �[1859] [Anderson O . Forbes] Report of Molokai Church In presenting this, my first Report of labors on Molokai, I desire to record with devout gratitude, the loving kindness of our Heavenly Father In bringing me back to my native Shores to labor among this dear people * "Men, brethren, & fathers," It is with peculiar feelings that I stand here among you to take part in this ministry: - here, - - - - , on the self-same spot, & in the same old room endeared to me - -- ---. by many sweet associations -- --- ----, many hallowed recollections of Sacred Scenes, many an & ( !) embalmed memory of boyhood's days. You will forgive me if I take the liberty to -- - - - look back eleven years, to the time when, a thoughtless boy, as free of care & innocent of the world as the mountain bird, I played around these very walls & plucked the blossoms of the yellow flowered thorn that carpeted the ground, & which was at once the delight of the bright eyes, & the torment of the little bare feet that capered in gleeful troops around this house, or -------- strayed in childish wonder among the silent graves. The most Sacred associations of my life cluster around those days when parents & children --- gathered here in General Meeting. Impressions were then made upon my mind & heart whose power has never waned, & it is to a lecture of our good brother Coan delivered before one of those "children's meetings" that I trace the first distinct impressions of serious things on my heart. I have often thought, & cannot help think­ ing yet, that the Fathers & Mothers of this Mission cannot have an ad­ equate idea of the power with which the impressions of those days stamped themselves on the hearts & minds of their children. On some it would naturally make a greater impression than on others; but I can say with assurance that I have met none as yet of the Mission children who were old enough to remember those days, upon whom they have not left an impression, unique & lasting. Little did I then think that, with the lapse of a few short years, I should be standing here among you, a brother among brethren, a child among Fathers. Yet so it is. And it Is difficult at times to realize the fact. It seems like a dream. And the past - oh it is a sweet, blessed picture, framed in prayers of faith & songs of praise, hanging now within the halls of the upper sanctuary, & reflected back on bright, unfading tints upon many a heart here below. Two years ago, I had no more expectation of standing here now than of exploring the craters of the moon. But, suddenly & unexpectedly, the call came for Some one to take charge of the Church at Molokai. Sitting at my table in Princeton Seminary, a year ago last October, conning over a chapter in Hebrew, some one knocked at the door. Sup­ posing it to be one of our student bores who are always wasting their own & their fellow students' time instead of being at their studies, I did not answer. The knock was repeated. Half vexed, without stirring from my chair, I answered "Come In" - A third time the knock was heard. Thoroughly provoked, I arose, opened the door, & who should be there but the well remembered face & figure of Bro. Armstrong. Not more than ten minutes did he stay in my room, but that ten minutes was the turning point in my life. "We want a man at Molokai; come & help us." "Well, this is entirely a new idea to me. I must have time to think about it." �Molokai Report - 1859 - A.O. Forbes 2 "I’ll give you two weeks to make up your mind, & then I want the answer, for I am t o sail at that time for the Islands." "You shall have the answer then" - That was the conversation that passed between us on the subject. The two weeks passed - The matter was made a subject of prayer & consultation. [Footnote] The circum­ stances were remarkable. The Providence was a marked one - -In the last year of my theological course, a child of the Hawaiian Mission & a native of Hawaiian soil, just as I was seeking to know in what field the Master of the harvest would have me labor, the call came loudly from Hawaiian shores directly to me. What could I do but say "Lord, here am I. Send me" — [End footnote] At the end of the two weeks, Bro. Armstrong made his appearance again. "Well, what is your decision?" "I will go” The result was, that, in September of last year, my feet once more trod the soil of ray native land. You will bear with me when I add, that one of my first acts after landing here was to look for those same yellow flowered thorns that taught my boyish feet the force of the proverb "No rose without its thorns." 2 nd footnote] Page after page might be filled with the first impressions of the return. What changes, what vacancies, what novelties, what sadness, what joyful meetings & greetings with old friends & school­ mates. - the same, yet not the same - old & new, blended together, until it was hard to tell which feeling predominated - that of the stranger in a strange land, or of the wanderer returned to home & friends - [end 2nd footnote] And now, today, the quondam child & boy presents to you the report of the pastorate of Molokai from October of 1858, to the present date. The duties at Molokai were entered upon with many misgivings, yet, I trust, with Some degree of faith, & feeling of entire dependence upon the strong arm of the Lord of Hosts. In October of last year, within a month from the time of landing upon these shores, I commenced the labors of the station at Molokai. The first thing to be done was to become acquainted with the people & the wants of the field. The language was readily learned in a sufficient degree to enable me to preach to & converse with the people. I found things of course, in much confusion. The flock had run wild - the field had many weeds & briars. Yet there were many encouraging things, & I cannot but feel that the blessing of the Lord has been with us. It was found necessary to take hold with a firm hand. My plan has been to pursue an independent course, & by a mild, yet determined pressure, gradually to bring things back to their proper channels In this, my hands have been greatly strengthened by the training & influence of our deceased Bro. Hitchcock, whose works do follow him, & who, being dead yet speaketh. Mrs. Hitchcock & her son Edward, have also been right hand helpers in the Lord. Disorder has been to a great degree checked, & order & system restored. As a consequence, a new impulse Is evident in the church & among the people. Discipline has as yet been but sparingly resorted to, although �Molokai Report - 1859 - A.O. Forbes 3 there is much need of it. But it seemed the wiser course to he slow & cautious until I could get firmly established in the field, & feel that I had full command of the reins — Admissions to the Church on profession have, for the same reasons been delayed. Labors performed The usual labors of the Sabbath have been attended to - viz - the Sabbath School, & two Sermons, with the Ai-o-ka-la, or general Bible class during the intermission at noon. The attendance upon all these means of grace has gradually increased, until now, --- it is nearly double what it was at first. The religious life of the Church has been evidently quickened, & there are encouraging signs of awakening, both among Ch. members, & those outside Other weekly labors consist of a Wednesday afternoon lecture & prayer meeting, & a special Bible class on Saturday afternoons for the Deacons & Teachers -Monthly labors are those connected with the monthly concert, which generally occupy the greater part of the first week in the month — Besides four general monthly concerts on the Kona side of the island, the ( !) a general meeting of all the Lunas from the different districts of the island is held within that week, at which reports are called for of the births & deaths, & of the state of the districts — the contributions from the different districts are handed in, & the con­ tributions for support of Pastor & other objects also handed over. I have twice visited the Eastern end of the ------ field, & once, the western — The Koolau side of the island has not yet been visited as it is almost inaccessible except by boat, & that only in the summer months — The Communion has been administered twice — Schools — Having been so short a time in the field, & being fully occupied in the more direct duties of the pastorate, I am not prepared to say much on this subject -- There are some very good schools among us, & some very poor ones. But the influences that have been at work for the past few years among our young people, have been lamentable in their tendencies & effects — Immorality has been greatly on the increase among them — We can only labor & trust in the promises of our God for their salvation from utter destruction, both temporal & spiritual — I trust that another year will enable me to report more progress in this direction. Mormonism is practically dead among us, though, just before leaving, three of our Ch. members, were baptised in that faith by a native from Maui — Popery is also practically dead. There yet remain a dozen or two of its adherents but they have no meetings. �Molokai Report - 1859 - A.O. Forbes 4 Idolatry Still exists among the natives, & to an extent that is trying to our faith — The hula is not known among us. There have been some cases of drunkenness on awa & the sweet potatoe, which have however, been confined to one district of the island, Kalaupapa — The foreign element is increasing among us. About twenty foreigners are now settled on the island, some of them men of influence — Statistics The Church Statistics I have not been able yet to gather in a satis­ factory form. I can make very little out of the Church Records, & am endeavoring to begin "de novo". I cannot therefore present the usual statistics at this time — Contributions Arrears of Mrs Hitchcock’s salary Pastor’s salary $800. per. an. com. Jan. lst/59 Mo. Con. from Jan. 1859, to date. Mon Con. for 1858 — Total - 85.00 292.49-1/4 79.20-3/4 139.00 $595.70 �[A.O. Forbes 1860] Abstract of Report for Molokai The past year has been spent in efforts to bring the different parts of the field into active working order. While there are some dis­ couraging features in the work, yet, there is also much that is encour­ aging. The people are evidently decreasing - The usual labors have been performed - In December & January, a series of itinerant protracted meetings was held, extending through all the accessible parts of the field. Some religious Interest has been manifest, though no general awakening can be reported. Some backsliders have been reclaimed, & some hardened opposers have been brought to the foot of the cross. The people have manifested a commendable liberality & activity in furnishing & repairing houses of worship throughout the island. Two new churches have been completed & dedicated during the year, & seven others are in process of completion. The Mormons, under native leaders, have been making strenuous efforts, & have immersed a few. The Papists remain about as reported last year. Cash. Contributions To " " " " Kaluaaha Church Pulpit for same Monthly Concert Noa Pastors Salary - $400.00 78.00 242.50 33.12-1/2 725.00 $1478.62-1 2 / Cash - Total Other Contributions - In work &c on meeting houses, say One Box clothing &c for Noa - say - $500.00 20.00 $520.00 1478.62-1/2 $1998,62-1/2 Total Amt Statistics Whole no on Profession " " " Certificate Past year on Profession '' " certificate Total past year Whole no dismissed Dismissed past year Total deceased Deceased past year - 2038 65 103 5 108 50 3 461 20 - �Molokai Report - 1860 - A.O. Forbes Excluded past year 20 Remain excluded 214 Now in regular standing 1004 Total childn B a p t i s e d ____________________ Baptised past year 36 Marriages 31 - �[A.O. Forbes] Report of Molokai — toil. 1860-1 The past year has been one of exhausting & almost unremitted Yet our health has been spared to us for further labor. In ---- June of 1860, shortly after our return from the Annual Meeting of that year, a series of itinerant protracted meetings were held throughout the assessable parts of the island, & lasting four weeks. The pastor, accompanied by -- his elders, deacons, & deaconesses, to the number of 27, labored in each district of the island separately, beginning at the eastern end, & working over the whole Inhabited part of the island to the western end. It being the desire, & intention to reach, as far as possible, every Inhabitant within the circuit, a day was spent at each village, or apana, from which & in which as a central point, the native helpers, male & female, were sent out, generally two by two, to "Komo hale" & "paipai", or visit each house, & endeavor to converse & pray with, all the people. The forenoon of the day was spent thus, & in the afternoon, religious services were held at which all were assembled. The services being ended, an opportunity/was afforded during the remainder of the afternoon for conversa­ tion with inquirers & backsliders, as well as attending to cases of dis­ cipline. The meetings were all well attended, & it was a season of much enjoyment to all. Some good we hope was done, but no marked increase of religious interest was manifested. During this series of meetings, the pastor preached on an average ten times each week, & administered the Lords Supper at seven different places. On the second Tuesday of July, according to previous arrangement with one another, the pastors of Maui & Molokai met at Lahaina to organize an ecclesiastical body for the care of the churches within that field. After a harmonious meeting, the result of which was the formation of the Presbytery of Maui & Molokai, we returned to our respective stations. Shortly after that, Satanic influences seemed to be let loose upon Molokai to a greater extent than for a number of years before. The first manifestation was in the revival of potato drinking, & intoxication. The prickly pear, watermelon, ti root, all contributed to the liquors which our "civilised & christianised" Hawaiians of Molokai imbibed. Their orgies became, in some places, a nuisance to the neighborhood, & some in­ dividuals were prosecuted & fined by the native magistrate. Some of the leaders however, appealing to the circuit judge at Lahaina, the sentence was reversed, on some slight technicality, & the native judge admonished not to do so again. As a consequence, it was openly boasted that there was no check upon those demoralising ( !) practices, & we were left in heaviness of heart to contend as best we might, with an evil which pre­ vailed in some districts like an epidemic. The result was, however, favor­ able. Christian principle was tested, & quite a number of worthless professors were sifted out. The Lord shook us roughly, but the very shaking which sent all the refuse through the sieve, only brought out the more the brightness of the true metal. �Report of Molokai — 1860-61 — A.O. Forbes 2 The tide of evil spent itself, after the lapse of three or four months, & we have not been troubled with it in that form since. In October, the second meeting of our Pres, was held at Honuaula, to ordain Mr. S. Nueku as associate pastor with Bro. Alexander. After a pleasant & profitable meeting, I accompanied Bro. Alexander in a preach­ ing tour around East Maui. Returning to Molokai, in the latter part of October, the labors of the station were resumed, & have been pursued as usual, from district to district until the present time. In January last, through the activity & energy of Mr. E.G. Hitchcock, an extensive organization of cattle stealers was broken up, & some thirty persons are now paying the penalty in the chain gang. The organization comprised almost the whole of three districts, embracing Kaunakakai, Palaau, & Kalae, with few exceptions, either as authors, active partici­ pators, or subsequent & privy partakers. Of the number who were convicted, eight were church members, the rest were hoomalokas [ ] & Papists. Besides the active duties of the station, the building of our house, which has progressed slowly, & met with many interruptions, has taxed every energy, both physical & mental. On the second Tuesday of January last, our Pres. held its third meeting at Wailuku, where we found an interesting work of grace in progress. It was a season of precious things to us all. I remained a few days after the Pres. had adjourned, assisting Bro. Alexander in his meetings. Short­ ly after returning to Molokai, the Spirit of the Lord seemed to be stir­ ring among the people in one district contiguous to the Station. There was a manifest difference in the meetings, & in the earnest seriousness of inquirers, as well as an awakening of dry & dead professors. This has continued gradually, & gently spreading until now three districts are in an encouraging state. Our prayer is, that it may continue until the whole island shall become a fruitful field. The Lord has been gracious in granting to Mrs. Hitchcock a general measure of health which has enabled her to do much towards strengthening the pastor’s hands, & encouraging his heart. The people have manifested perhaps as much activity in contributions of labor & money to the work of the Lord in proportion to their decreas­ ing ability, as in former years. In accordance with the recommendation of the Am. Board, the Pres., through the Pastor, have stationed a licentiate (native) at Kalaupapa, to assist the pastor in the work on the windward side of the island. Thus far, he does well. �Report of Molokai -- 1860-61 - A.O. Forbes Statistics. Whole No. on Profession — " " " Certificate Past Year on Profession " " " Certificate Total past year Whole no. dismissed Dismissed past year Total deceased Deceased past year Excluded past year Now in regular standing Childn Bap. past Year Total Marriages (no figure given) Contributions Cash In labor &c - �1862 - 3 Report of the Presbytery of Maui and Molokai. At the last meeting of the aforesaid Presbytery, the Scribe was directed to prepare a report of their proceedings during the past year, to be read before this Body. During the past year, the number of the Churches in connection with this Presbytery was ten, viz., Kaluapapa, Kaluaaha, Kaan apali, Lahaina, Lahainaluna, Wailuku, Honuaula, Kaupo, Hana, and Koolau. Seven ministers have belonged to the Presbytery, viz. Rev. Messrs. Forbes, Baldwin, Pogue, Alexander, Nueku, and S.E. Bishop, who were pastors of churches, and Rev. C.B. Andrews, who was without a charge. Nine persons have been under the care of the Presbytery as licensed preachers or preparing to be licensed, viz. Messrs. Aholo, Manase, Moku, Kuaumoana, Kamakahiki, Naloloa, Mawae, Kahananui, and Kaono, the two last named of whom have during the year ceased to be under our care. The Quarterly meetings were sustained during the year with great regularity. They were held on the 16th and 17th of July at Lahaina, on the 22d & 23d of October at Hana, on the 14th and 15th of January at La­ hainaluna, and on the 17th and 18th of April at Honuaula. At each meeting the Sessions have continued for two days. Every pastor but one, Nueku, has attended three of the meetings. One, Mr. Alexander, has attended all. There has also been an average attendance of eight elders sent as delegates by their respective churches. At the last two meetings, the delegation was full from each of the ten churches. Of the persons under the care of the Presbytery, 2 have attended constantly, 3 at 3 of the meetings, two at 2, and one only once. There has usually been a consider­ able attendance of Elders and others from the different churches, who were not delegates. The attendance of the people of the places of meeting has likewise been large. Rev. E.W. Clark was present and took a seat as a Corresponding member at the meeting in July. The presence of Rev. Dr. Anderson at the meeting of April was hoped for by pastors and people and his detention upon Hawaii for one week later caused general disappoint­ ment . The regular exercises at the meetings have consisted in the reading of Quarterly reports of labors by the persons under the care of Presbytery, and the reading also of assignments by the same persons, also in the exam­ ination at each meeting of two of them in Theological knowledge and Rel­ igious Experience. Various Items of business have been disposed of, petitions acted upon, and Committees appointed for various purposes. After the close of the two last meetings, at Lahainaluna and Honuaula, the mem­ bers of Presbytery remained to assist in the consecration of the new houses of worship at those places. Of the Assignments read by the Licentiates, 21 in all have been presented during the year. They have embraced topics of Theology, Bible History, Christian experience, Exegesis, Hawaiian customs and opinions, Skeletons of Sermons, Economics and moral, religious and political duties. Many of them have exhibited much mental ability, reflection, and spiritual knowledge, while others have been as seriously deficient. The reading has �Report of the Presbytery of Maui and Molokai - 1862-3 2. been followed by vigorous criticism from the members of Presbytery, with farther development of the subject, as it might seem to require for general instruction, the elders present joining in with zeal, and often contribu­ ting valuable information on points of Hawaiian custom and opinion. These have constituted the most interesting portion of the exercises to those present, affording to their minds a healthy & powerful stimulus. At each meeting two of the Licentiates have undergone examination in Theology and experience. Nearly all have appeared creditably, while some have shown admirable proficiency and intelligence, and much that was in­ teresting and delightful in religious character has been displayed. At the last meeting Mr. Aholo of Lahainaluna Seminary was one of those ex­ amined, and displayed peculiar acumen, promptness, common sense and know­ ledge in solving knotty points in Theology. Mr. Aholo has been especially distinguished in his essays, some of which have been remodeled for the press . The Quarterly Reports of the preachers have given evidence of a good degree of activity and success in their work, and of progress on the whole in the churches where they labor. There has appeared to be an increasing appreciation of the value of their labors, yet the improvement of the churches in making good the sums pledged for their support, has been very small. Four of the churches, viz. Kalaupapa, Kaanapali, Kaupo and Koolau, have been supplied by Messrs. Kuaumoana, Moku, Manase, and Kamakahiki, at nominal salaries of $100 each. Of this amount, the Scribe believes that less than half has been paid, and that the main dependance of the preacher has been upon other sources than the voluntary contributions of the people, two being school teachers, one a school superintendent, while the remaining one has found lucrative employment as an Hon. Representative, and as a Tax-Collector. To this subject of the better support of preachers by the churches, especial attention has been paid by the Presbytery, and Committees appointed to write exhorting (?) and reproving the delinquent churches in respect thereof. Of the five persons named who are not settled as stated preachers, Mr. Aholo is engaged in his important post as an instructor at Lahainaluna Seminary, Naloloa who has been licensed only one year has been employed as teacher at Wailuku, and in preaching in Mr. Alexander's parish. Mawae having been dismissed from a small school in Nahiku for incapacity, having been licensed in 1858, and for several years declining in knowledge and mental activity, and having latterly engaged in trading, is about to ask to be dismissed from the care of Presbytery. Kahananui, who had been under the care of Presbytery for two years, but had never received licensure, was at the last meeting, dismised at his own request, upon the plea of being too much involved in secular cares to make proficiency in the requisite qualifications for the ministry. Kaono, who was preaching in the Koolau church, was at the July meeting, expelled from the care of Presbytery, xxxxxxxx and deprived of his licensure, for criminal conduct. There will therefore be but six persons under care of Presbytery at the next meeting, unless new ones should be found to be taken up. All of the present licentiates are graduates from Lahainaluna, except one, Kamakahiki, who has been a missionary at Ponape. The preacher stationed at Kaanapali church, J. Hunnewell Moku, presented before Presbytery an invitation received by him from Rev. B.W. �Report of the Presbytery of Maui and Molokai - 1862-3 3. Parker of Oahu, to supply the church at Waikane, in his field. An ad­ verse petition was thereupon presented by Kaanapali church, praying that he might stay with them. Certain serious obstacles to his usefulness which formerly existed there having been removed, the resolution of Presbytery was in accordance with the petition. The church then pre­ sented their petition that he should be ordained as their pastor, which was laid on the table, for reasons. The effect of these meetings has been valuable to the churches where held, and to all the churches in promoting mental and spiritual activity, in promoting a sense of union and mutual dependance, and interest in and esteem for the common calling and work. They have especially been of indispensable service to the young preachers, in quickening their minds and hearts, in stimulating their mental exertion, study of the Scriptures, spiritual culture, and devotion to their duties, and in generally rousing them out of the mental torpor that is almost sure to creep over those who are confined to intercourse with the ignorant & inactive minds of country districts. To the Missionary pastors, they have also been sea­ sons of refreshment and encouragement, and comforting fellowship with each other and the native brethren. There has been some correspondence with Associations of the Churches upon other islands, but how much, the Scribe is unable to report. �[A.O. Forbes] Report of Molokai Station. 1863 Another year of labor in our solitary field. It has been a year of unusual toil amid peculiar discouragements; as also of heavy struggle with foes from without & within. But the Lord's hand was in it all, & we trust we can now begin to see his wisdom in so ordering the events of the past year. Again we have reason to bless our Heavenly Father for almost uninterrupted health, & for strength sufficient to the discharge of duty. On returning to Molokai in June of last year, we found that Satan was at work. Drunkenness & revelry were on the increase, & it seemed for a time as though no check could be effectually applied. Daily, the votaries of intemperance swept furiously on horseback through our vil­ lage, -- ---------, with shouting & revelry. Nightly could be heard the yells of the riotous, & the shrill whistle of the vile. No attempt was made by the proper authorities to check the mad current. At last, even the people themselves could endure it no longer. Complaint be­ came so loud & frequent that the authorities at Lahaina found it neces­ sary to make a move. A new Sheriff was appointed, the old one removed, & in two weeks about a dozen leaders were arrested & fined — two of them $100 apiece, for making & furnishing intoxicating drinks, & the rest in smaller sums. The blow was effectual, & for three months past we have enjoyed our former peace & quiet. Our Judge was ready to do his duty, but the difficulty was in the local Sheriff, who was a worthless stick. There is reason to believe however, that ----- --- the fire is rather smouldered than extinguished. Some still drink, but secretly. The sweet potato, ti root, watermelon, sugar cane, & cactus fruit fur­ nished the materials for intoxication. Awa drinking & cultivation, with which we had been obliged to contend in former years, have meantime dropped almost out of sight. So far as we can ascertain, the immediate source of this outbreak may be traced to the fact that the people had formed an impression that they could manufacture & drink intoxicating beverages with impunity, so long as they made them of Hawaiian grown materials, & drank in their houses. The leaders boasted that they could not be convicted. "Kauwahi had told them that there was no law against it, & that he would clear them if they would appeal from any such con­ viction." Whether this was true or not, I cannot certainly say, but such an impression, & so widely spread, must have arisen from some source of apparent authority. -- ------- One thing is certain. The authority of the "Hoku Pakifika," & even of the "Polynesian", was quoted as on the side of the debauchees, & it was confidently proclaimed by some of the leaders, that the restrictions on the manufacture & sale of intoxicating drinks would be taken off at the next meeting of the Legislature. They seemed to feel that they had strong backers. During the excitement, it was very difficult to ascertain how far the members of the Church had joined in these carousals. On investigation since, however, we have been rejoiced to find that the defections were not so numberous as was feared. The leaders were chiefly - -- -------- -- --- --- ---- Papists & non-professors. The followers ditto, with the addition of a consider­ able sprinkling of Mormons. The proportion of Protestant Church members �Report of Molokai Station, 1863 - A.O. Forbes 2 was small. Ten were --------- excluded from the Ch., & there are about the same number in addition whose cases are still under advisement, for lack of positive evidence against them. During those months of carousal, the hula showed itself once or twice in one district, Kamalo, which was also the headquarters of the drinking. But the actors, not being able to show a license to practise in that district, nor to prove that they had imported the sanctified article under the authority of the "Reformed Catholic Church", soon found the place too hot for them, & disappeared. Idolatry & Witchcraft There seems to be good authority for believing that the actual worship of idols still exists among a very small number of the people. Kanehoalani is kept & worshipped at Kalae, & possibly others here & there, though it is very difficult to get any positive testimony as to the facts. Molokai has always been rather celebrated for sorcery. The Kahunas, or priests professing to exercise supernatural powers, are numerous, & the whole population are under their influence. We state these facts, not as anything new or rare in the history of this people, but as having ---- ------- risen to the surface more than in former years. The pastor has not yet met with a single native who does not firmly be­ lieve in the supernatural powers of these Kahunas. Even those who give every evidence of true simple-hearted piety, are still unable to eradi­ cate the impressions born in them & inwrought with their whole lives from earliest infancy. Many a rock, rent asunder by the action of the elements, ---- - --- ------ do they point out as split by the prayers of a Kahuna. It seems this is a favorite mode of testing their power before proclaim­ ing themselves as thoroughly prepared to practise their diabolical acts. Yet wherein are this poor people more superstitious in proportion to their light than multitudes in civilized lands now, to say nothing of a Bacon or a Cotton Mather of former days. Pastoral labors. The usual routine of pastoral labor has been performed. At the Station, this consists of the Sab. School & two sermons with a Bible Class in the interval at noon, the regular Wed. afternoon lecture, & Saturday morning meeting with the elders of the Church. Besides these, the first week of each month is devoted to a series of monthly concert meetings extending 8 miles in either direction from the Station. Our Sabbath School consists of about 130 children. The attendance & interest has been in general well sustained; especially since the in­ troduction of some of the Sabbath School Hymns & tunes which give such a charm to Sabbath Schools in the United States. Three tours have been made through the length of the island, accom­ panied with the usual labors of preaching, disciplining, examining can­ didates for Ch. membership, administering the Lord's supper, counselling, visiting the sick, settling quarrels, & c . On Saturday mornings, the elders within a distance of eight miles �Report of Molokai Station, 1863 - A.O. Forbes 3 in each direction assemble in the Pastor's study for the transaction of Ch. business. As far as time would permit, they have also studied Church History. On the first Friday in each month a general meeting of lunas or deacons & elders from the whole island is held. At these meetings, each luna brings in the contributions from his district towards Monthly Concert, & Pastor's salary. For a while, in the latter part of last year, there was much that was discouraging. Religious interest was at a low ebb. The people seemed dead to spiritual things, & ---- certain low foreigners of the baser sort, spared no pains to ----- ---- --- ---- overthrow the cause of the Lord. Sleepless nights & heavy hearted days were no uncommon thing then to the Pastor & his wife. But the Lord in mercy gave us strength to endure, & the result has been more cheering. Since the beginning of the present year, the clouds have broken away, & the people have begun to awake. The attendance on meetings has increased, & in some places, considerable interest has been manifested in spiritual things. The month of March was spent in a series of protracted meetings during which we enjoyed some precious seasons. Mrs. Forbes, in addition to the labors attendant upon the care of a large school, has been able generally to meet with the women of the station, for prayer & Bible reading, once a week, as also to afford much assistance in training our choir. Kuaumoana, the licentiate preacher in charge of the windward side of the island, has run well, & is a valuable man. He has however, been obliged to spend much of his time in teaching, in order to eke out a livelihood. Schools. The common schools, of which the Pastor has been the superintendent during the past year, have been prosperous. There are ten of these schools on the island, supplied with a good corps of teachers, & embracing 331 scholars, 189 boys, & 142 girls. Besides these, there is an English school for Hawaiians, at the station, embracing 55 pupils, 46 of whom are boys, & 9 girls. Mrs. Forbes has had the charge of this school since the beginning of the present year. The attendance has been good, & progress satisfactory in all. The whole number of scholars on the island is now 386 — 235 of whom are boys, & 151 girls. Mormonism & Popery make very little, stir. Nor have the "Reformed Catholics" seemed to think it worth while to undertake to reform the inhabitants of Molokai. We feel that we can praise God for his loving-kindness & take courage for the future. His strong arm & mightly hand have not failed us so far, & we can truly say it is precious to lean upon the arm that is stronger than ever. �[Molokai 1871] Abstract of report of Molokai Station Religion on Molokai is not in a discouraging state. Christian character is developing more than would naturally be expected of a heathen people. This is manifest from 1st Attendance upon public & social worship which has been uniformly good during the year. 2nd From their Benevolent Efforts. One hundred dollars have been given for the poor. Seven hudred(!) & sixty seven dollars have been given for missions, collected at the Mon. Con. & handed over to the H.M.Soc. Treasury. Between two & three thousand dollars have been raised & expended in building & repairing churches. These have allowed but little left for their pastors salary, viz one hundred sixty six. thus far the present year. Romanism & Mormenism(!) are nearly extinct on the Island. have been continued prosperously during the year. Schools Statistics of the church could not be made out on account of Mr. A. leaving no data of his labors during 1832. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mission Station Reports - Molokai 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 - Molokai - 1839-1871 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, 1846, 1847, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1871 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/0f9fa28da7df74ebca273f064838b7a8.pdf de75cac1ced72cc2b8d5628e86b2fcb5 PDF Text Text EWA STATION REPORTS L. S m i t h .............................................. 1 5 3 8 SCHEDULE OF SCHOOLS & TUITION (printed form) .......... 1835 L. S m i t h .......... ..................................1836 A. B i s h o p ............................................ 1837 A . Bishop . . . .......................... . 1838 A. Bishop ...................................... . 1839 Unsigned (A. Bishop) . . . . . . . . . ........ . . . 1840 Unsigned ( A. Bishop) . ................ . . . . . 1841 A. B i s h o p ............................................ 1842 Unsigned (A. Bishop Report) (Ewa & Waianae). . . . . 1842 Statistics for Ewa & Waianae)(Unsigned).................1843 A. Bishop ............................................1844 Statistics for Ewa & Waianae (Unsigned) .............. 1844 Unsigned (Ewa & Waianae) (for two y e a r s ) .............. 1846 Unsigned (A. Bishop) (Ewa & Waianae) (for two years) . . 1848 Statistics for Ewa & Waianae (Unsigned) (for two years) 1848 Unsigned (Ewa & Waianae) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849 Unsigned (A. Bishop) ...................................1851 Unsigned (Abstract of Ewa Report)............ . 1852(?) Unsigned (A. Bishop) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1852 Statistics (Unsigned) .................................1852 Unsigned (A. Bishop). ............. 1853 Statistics ( U n s i g n e d ) .............. ..................1853 Unsigned (A. Bishop) ...................................1854 Unsigned (“Report of A. Bishop”) . . . . . . . . . 1855 Unsigned (A. Bishop) . . . . . . . . . ................ 1857 Unsigned (marked Rev. A. Bishop) .......................1859 A. Bishop (Abstract of Ewa Report) .....................1860 A. Bishop (includes abstract) ........................ .1861 Statistics (Unsigned) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1862 Unsigned (A. Bishop) . . . . . ........................ .1863 * 1847 statistics added �Report of Ewa Station (1835) M y Brethren w i l l recollect that E w a was one of the n e w posts Selected at the last Gen-meeting. taken into the account — And w h e n all the circumstances are Such as the illness of Mrs. Smith, the abso­ lute necessity of my building a house before she could w i t h propriety be removed fro m Honolulu to that place — & moreover, there being no School house in the vicinity of the Station at that time, & but a very few people there w h o cared whether they ever h a d a teacher or School house, or any thing else that pertains to civilization or Christianity; I say, these things considered, y o u w i l l Still extend to us the h a n d of christian fellowship, though w e may not be able to report any thing of a very interesting character. The Spot Selected for the Station is at " a beautiful Steam of water; ? ", b y the Side of & but a Short distance from the r o a d which leads f r o m Honolulu to Waialua. There I have erected a d oby house - 40 ft. by 20, one Story high. By the way, Kinau ordered the people of Waia w a to put on a tii ( !) leaf roof as a token of her good will towa r d us & the cause in which we are engaged. She also furnished the house w i t h m a t s . For plastering we use d poho (a chalky white earth) ins t ead of lime, w h i c h proves to b e a very poor substitute. Four months elapsed b e fore the house was in a proper Situation for Mrs. Smith t o remove into it. During this time I was able to do b ut little for the people except what I could do o n t h e Sabbath. do n o t h i n g in Schools for the want of a School house. I could It was at least a month after our house was done before we h a d any thing that can be called a School house. On repairing to that field of labour, I found but a v e r y few who expressed any degree of Satisfaction that I h a d b e e n a p p o i n t e d their �Ewa 1835 teacher. The great mass were engaged in hulas - rioting & drunkenness & every other crime common upon these Islands. One thing which particularly amazed us for Several months was their perpetual h u l a s , accompanied by howlings & intonations apparently unearthly & inhuman. These continued until the tabu of the Chiefs was published about the first of J a n . no h u l a 's in our vicinity. Since that time there have been Previous to the tabu, they d r a n k - fought - killed & burnt houses - & Since the tabu, one person has h u n g himself ! One day w h e n travelling to explore the nakedness of the land, I Saw a heathen god wh i c h m y guide told me was an object of w o r s h i p at that time. It was a Small Stone dressed i n tapa, & m o u n t e d up o n a heap of Stones, Some 6 , or 8 ft. from the h i g h way. Ministerial Lab o u r s . My congregation on t h e Sabbath for the first 5. months did not exceed 150. & Some Sabbaths not over 1 0 0 . But f r o m that time to the present the congregation has been gradually increasing, & for a number of Sabbaths past f r o m 6 . to 7. hundred have assembled on Sabbath m o r n ­ ing. M y usual exercises Sunrise — 12/ oclock. on the Sabbaths have bee n — prayer m e e ting at preaching at 10. A.M. - Bible class or Ai o ka La class at F r o m 50 to 80 have usually attended this exercise. Preach­ ing again at 3. oclock P.M. I have preached a lecture every We dnesday P.M. at the S tation — & occasionally at other places on Thursday. W e have also observed the monthly c o n c e r t . This has b e e n an in­ teresting meeting to all who pay m u c h r e g a r d to Sacred things. F or Several concerts nothing was given as an evidence that they really wished Christs kingdom to come. I repeatedly alluded to the fact that praying Christians in America do n o t appear empty b e fore the Lor d when they assemble to pray, "thy k ingdom co m e . ” Four months ago, different individuals handed me their hapa u m i 's (10 cents) & h a p a walu's (12 1/2 �Ewa 1835 cents) to the amount of a dollar & a half. I then proposed to t h e m the propriety of giving w i t h a Special object in view. A n d as we have no comfortable place for the worship of God, I Suggested that it might be well for them to contribute of the product of their lands, & I would endeavour to convert it into articles to build a m eeting house. The next monthly concert they b rought in taro - p a i ’s (bundles) of n a tiv e food - bananas - fowls &e to the amount of $18:00, exchanged w i t h Mr. L a d ( !) & C o. for three boxes of glass. which I The next concert, w h i ch was the first monday in May - they contributed in articles above mentioned - & goats, turkies & ducks to the amount of $ 27.56. w h i c h I also exchanged with Mr. Lad & Co for glass & nails. I hav e not been able to visit much f r o m house to house & land to land. I have been to Waianai ( !) but once during the year, & that was the 13. of Jan. I was then accompanied by brother Eme r s o n who perhaps will gi v e y o u Some account of that expedition. I was gone f r o m home three days & two nights. We found the people in a most deplorable state of a l i e nation from everything that pertains to Salvation. The first P.M. after our arrival 23 persons in all assembled - a number of these were children. on the beach. The next morning about 70. assembled This was in Waianai village. the farther extremity of the island. under an old canoe house. We then p r o c e e d ed on to At 11. oclock we met 9. persons At 12. oclock we met 44. persons under the Skeleton of an old School house. By the way, this w a s the only Shadow of a School house or meeting house that I saw at Waianai A n d I traveled from one extremity of that district to t h e other. At 2. P.M. we met 25. persons in a house where there h a d just bee n a hula. At 4. P.M. we met 50 persons u pon the beach. We then proceeded to the farthest extremity of Waianai, called Makua - tarried over night �Ewa 1835 4. & the next morning we addressed Some 42 individuals who assembled together, Distributed among them a few tracts - Ai a ka L a 's &c - & then Set our faces homeward. On my arrival at Waianai, only 5. individuals assembled at a meeting which we appointed the day before. I made a Short prayer & with Sighs & groans for those poor degraded beings I Set out for the Station at Waiawa. Dark & forbiding ( !) as things were at Ewa, I can assure you it was very grateful to my feelings to return to that place — not Simply because there was my companion, but because there I met a few who Seemed glad to See me. I do not recollect of Seeing more than half a dozen in all Waianai who appeared to express any joy on account of our visit there. Schools. I commenced an evening Singing School the latter part of Oct. & admitted all who wished to attend. weeks — Some 30 attended for two or three That number however was Soon thribbled ( !) & 90 was the aver­ age number for Several months. The School afterwards increased to 120. About the first of Dec. I requested the School to Sing with me on the Sabbath. The novelty of the occasion called out Some 75. or 80 persons who had not before attended. The succeeding Sabbaths there was Still a greater increase. About this time I commenced an evening School for the recitation & explanation of the verse a day. F rom 30. - to 60. have attended this School, & I have reason to think it has done good. D e c . 18. first — I commenced a School among the children — The School Soon numbered 40. & afterwards 50 . 28 pupils at F orty has been the average number of regular attendants. About the Same time also I commenced a School for adults; permitted all to attend who wished to, bot h males & females. Some 30 attended for Several w e e k s ; - the number then gradually increased, & about the �Ewa 1835 5. middle of Feb. we could do nothing more than read round once before it was time to dismiss. I then divided the School & had them meet alter­ nately, the men one P.M. & the women the next. The number of males was from 60 to 70. . & the females from 40 to 50. The childrens School met five forenoons each week - & the adults, 4 . afternoons each week. On Wednesday afternoons the people assembled for religious worship, consequently no Schools for adults that day. The adult Schools have attended to nothing but reading & mental arithmetic as yet. They first read the Ninauhoike through, & then I introduced the Kumu Hawaii. By the way I remark that we have 155. Subscribers for the Kumu Hawaii at Ewa. My plan of hearing them read has been to question each Scholar concerning his verse immediately af­ ter he has done reading i t . Some of them have made good proficiency in reading & appear to read understandingly. Our greatest encouragement however is with the children. I think they have made as good proficiency all things considered, as any School I ever taught. In this School I have had 4. & 5 female assistants who have aided me in teaching them their reading & other lessons. The children then formed themselves into a circle & I questioned them on their lessons, & various other Subjects; & concluded each School by Singing & prayer. With Singing they have been very much pleased, & I think it has been a kind of load-Stone which has bound them together. I would advise all the brethren & Sisters to introduce this branch of Science into their childrens School, provided they have not already done it. I met my Singing School two evenings each week. think has made commendable improvement. This School I �Ewa 1835 6. From the fact that every thing at Ewa was inclined to fly off in a tangent, rather than revolve around the Standard of truth & love, I allowed any person to join the School, & have not as yet requested any one to leave it; though it is very evident that 1 2 / of the present number (1 20) would make better music than they all do. There have b e e n but two other Schools at Ewa during the year be­ sides those taught at the Station. Two young men residing at Honouliuli h a v e taught one School of children & one of adults. ment. These Schools have made considerable improve- Samuel has been the reading book of the adults. They had also an exercise in the Almanac; & it appeared at our examination or "hoike" recently held, that they could answer almost any question that could be asked from that b o o k . We have had but one hoike during the year, & that took place on the 2 0 . of May, & was composed of persons who had attended School & no others. Others would have gladly joined us as Scholars on that o occasion, but I told them they had no part nor lo t in the matter except as Spectators. The following is a list of the Scholars as they were examined. No. of children from Honouliuli Do of adults Total N o . of adult females at the Station Do of males Do of children Choir of Singers Total taught at the Station Total taught at Ewa 31 19 50 51 73 54 122 300 50 350 The labours of the Station Schools have principally devolved upon myself. Mrs. Smith’s health has been Such as not to warrant her in engaging very extensively in the public duties of the Station. Yet with gratitude to the author of Missions I would Say, She has been able for the last 5. months to meet generally with the females for prayer & �7. Ewa 1835 conversation every Friday — 60 - to 90. the number who attended has varied from It is Some three months Since She commenced a childrens Sabbath School And She has for the most part been able to attend public worship one half of the day on the Sabbath. She has also visited Some from house to house in our Immediate neighbourhood. The climate at Ewa has been very Congenial to her health; & So far as that is con­ cerned we think it providential that we were located at that Station. Protracted Meeting. We have held one protracted meeting, which commenced the 1 5 . of April last, & continued five days. And So far as we can judge, the meeting was blessed to the conversion of a few individuals. A number of persons who had not followed the king & others in all their out breaking vices, frequently gave us to understand that they were ready to join the Church w h ever one Should be organized at Ewa, & they wished to be remembered as candidates. Their daily appearance - & conversation & conduct however was that of a "Pharisee” & not of a Publican. We are happy to Say that a number of that class have been led to See the error of their ways & the vileness of their hearts by the blessing of God upon our protracted meeting. Many thanks are due to brothers Bingham, Tinker & Emerson for the assistance they rendered us on that occasion. We held 4. public meetings each d a y -- one at Sunrise - one at 10. A.M. - one at 3. P. M. & one at 7. in the evening]; besides meeting daily with the church members belonging to the church at Honolulu & also at Waialua. The Special influences of the Spirit were evidently in the congregation during the meeting, & also for Several weeks after the meeting closed. Our morning prayer meetings were continued till we left for this meeting. �8. Ewa 1835 It is perhaps impossible to Say who have & who have not repented & given themselves away unreservedly to the Saviour. Still there are Some 12 or 15 whom we shall not hesitate to admit to the church. Some few months hence, provided they give as much evidence of real piety then as now. A number of others give more or less evidence of repentance & faith in Jesus Christ. And there is still another class who date their experience back Several years, a part of whom a p p e a r tolerably well; y e t they Seem to know but little about the awful depravity of the heart. I am far from attributing the convertion ( !) of a Single person to myself or my brethren, independant of divine aid. My experience in other fields besides Ewa, has taught me that the real conversion of Souls to God is the Special work of the Holy Spirit. I am therefore prepared cheerfully & heartily to say "Not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy great name be all the glory", for the conversion of one or more at Ewa during the past year. But it is our privilege, brethren to bow with angels before God & praise & bless his holy name for his renovating goodness to the children of men. Marriages. I have Solemnized 54 marriages during the year. Deaths !! The people of Ewa are a dying people. I have not been able to obtain an exact account of all t h e deaths & births Since the last general meeting. But my impression is that there have been as many as 8 or 10 deaths to one birth. I have heard of but 4 births on W a i a w a during the year, & all of these children are dead. I have attended �Ewa 1835 9. about 2 0 funerals on that one la n d , & 16 of them were a d u l t s . Very few of those who have died ever applyed ( ! ) to us for medical a id . Here I remark that though I am a mere novice in the m edical l i n e , yet the Lord has abundantly blessed my feeble attempts to h e a l the S ic k . This among other things has been a powerful means of drawing the wicked around us & even into the house of public w orship. Ewa May 3 0 , 1835. L. Smith. �Ewa May 3 0 , 1 8 3 5 . (P rin ted Form F i l l e d In ) SCHEDULE OF SCHOOLS AND TUITION STATION Total number of scholars taught by the Missionary ( Ewa ) ( Waiawa)- Oahu Total number 3 0 0 . including 122 who attend a Sing in g School 2 ev e’ s per week M issionary Teacher Lowell Smith. Men 73 males Women 51 females C h ild ren 54 Attend to re ad in g , w r i t in g , geography and arithm etic. Reading & Arithmetic 129 N o. of weeks continuance of the school. Singing School 28 weeks, Adults & Childrens School, 20 w eeks. No. o f days in the week Singing School 2 e v e 's per week Adult S . 4 days per week Childrens Do. 5 " " No. of hours instruction per day. 4 hours per day Average number of Sabbath Sch o lars. Average number of B ibl e class Scholars. 35 No. of n ative teachers. Scholars under them. Adult S c h o la rs. 2 C h ild re n . Largest n o . of readers at any p ub lic exam ination. Sabbath School scholars under native in s tr u c to r s . 75 Children 3 1 . Adults 19 1 4 3 adults at Ewa 85 children in a l l 180 - �May 1836. Station Report. Ewa. For Several months Subsequently to the last gen- meeting Mrs. Smith continued to gain Strength. She accustomed herself to riding horseback, & repeatedly rode perhaps a mile & a half upon a gallop. She continued her Sabbath School of children & occa- sionally took my place in the children's School during the week. She established a maternal meeting to meet once in two weeks & also a weekly female prayer meeting for all who could be induced to attend, though She has not been able to Sit up more than three or four hours at any one time during the year. Since the first of Jan. She has not been So well, & has not been able to endure much exercise. And for Several weeks past has been under the care of a physician. But I am happy to Say that She Is now apparently on the gaining hand again. My own health for the greater part of the year has been firm. I have been ill only one Sabbath; & then I was unable to preach in consequence of a violent attack of the quinsey. Schools. During the first half of the year the people of our district were almost constantly employed for the chiefs - making Salt - geting ( !) timber - wood, & money for their annual tax; which rendered, it impracticable on my-part to do justice to a School of adults. I have therefore had no School of adults during the year at the Station, except a Singing School - with which I have Spent an hour two evenings pr. week for the greater part of the year. I have had a School of children, numbering about 40, with whom I have met five forenoons per. week for the greater part of the year. The children have made commendable improvement, & I think my time has been well Spent while thus employed. There have been a few Schools �Ewa 1836 2. in the district of Ewa, taught by natives, though I d o not think much has been accomplished in them. On the 25. of May last we had an examination of all who have been connected with those Schools. Some 522. were present on the occasion - 200. or more of whom were children. On the w h o l e , they appeared much better than at any previous examination. Su ch is the present State of things with us that if I had given my assent, we might have had a thousand at the hoike. But I have no wish to encourage Such exhibitions. If the people do not attend School except a few days previous to the examina­ tion, they ought, in my view of the Subject, to he excluded from the examination, as Scholars. Religious Meetings. I have attended 18 public religious meetings at the Station weekly; (viz) a prayer meeting every morning at Sunrise - a meeting every evening to explain the verse for the day - except Saturday eve when I meet with the members of the church for conference & prayer. Five exercises on the Sabbath/ including the bible class. And a lecture every Wednesday P.M. I have attended three protracted meetings during, the year, One at Kaneohe in Oct. last - One at Honolulu the last of January & one at Waialua about the 20 .or 23d of March. For the want of a convenient place of worship, I have not called Such a meeting during the year at Ewa. A considerable number of Ewa people accompanied me to each of the above, named protracted meetings, a few of whom have since given very Satisfactory evidence of having become better men by what, they then heard & felt. �Ewa 1836 3. Monthly Concert. The monthly concert has usually been well attended, & Some few have contributed liberally on those occasions in aid of building a meeting house. By means of their contributions the last year, we have been enabled to obtain nearly glass - nails - & boards enough for our contemplated meeting house. Some 40, or 50 dollars have been contri­ buted also towards the carpenters bill. My congregation has not been very large during the year; though it has been gradually increasing of late. It has varied perhaps from 6 to 8 hundred Sabbath mornings. It is but recently that the people at Puloa & Haiawa have paid any external regard to the Sabbath. Now, in pleasant weather, we See Some 40 or 50 people coming up from Puloa in canoes on Sabbath morning. At present, I regard Kiolea, the head man at Puloa, as a humble & penitent man. I have more or less charity also for Kamalanai, the head man at Hal awa & I think they are exerting a happy influence over the people who reside upon those lands. Visits to Waia n a e . I have made two visits to Waianae during the year. was about the middle of August. The first I was then much more cordially re­ ceived than on a former visit the preceding year, an account of which, I gave at our last gen - meeting. On m y first visit, only about 70 Individuals could be persuaded to assemble for the worship of God. convened. But on my Second visit Some 250. Seven couple also presented themselves for marriage - a circumstance the more remarkable as the 7th commandment had been en­ tirely disregarded throughout that district. one seemed to be in the least hospitable - On my first visit, no But on the 2d visit, or my visit last August, things were materially different. man, Kapuiki, had become friendly. The head On my arrival, he presented me �4. Ewa 1836 with a Small house, neatly finished & well furnished with mats & Sleeping tapa, & said he had devoted that house to the priesthood. He then presented me with provisions in great abundance & i n a great variety. On my visit there in April last, the prospect was still more favourable. Kapuiki not only expressed considerable anxiety for his own Soul, but also for the people of that dark corner of Oahu. Some 7 or 8 hundred assembled Sabbath morning to listen to what might be said in favour of the pono. Since that time, a number have repeatedly come (!) over the pari - a distance of Some 20. miles, & attended meeting with us on the Sabbath at Waiawa. Kapuiki has also applied to me for some 250. or 300 school books. He is quite anxious to revive the Schools on the old plan. I Supply- ed him with the books, though I anticipate but very little good that will result from their labours. Shall fall into the ditch." "If the blind lead the blind both That district contains 1,654 inhabitants, & they need a teacher as much as any other dark corner of these Islands. "Whom Shall we Send, & who will go for us?" Census of Ewa & Waianae. Immediately after our return from the last gen- meeting; I took measures to number the people of Ewa & Waianae. We found the number of inhabitants on Ewa to b e 3,423. - a decrease of 592. in 4 years. The whole number at Waianae we found to be 1,654, a decrease of 214. in 4 yrs. It is indeed a lamentable fact that the decrease of those two districts is more than 8 hundred in 4. years. On the first of Jan. last a list of the births & deaths for the year 1835. was handed me from nearly all the lands on Ewa. And it appeared that there had been 130 deaths - & 41 b i r t h s - a decrease of 89. during the year. These facts are alarming & cause the mission- �5 Ewa 1836 aries at Ewa to feel that what they do must he done quickly. Organization of a Church. We organized a church at Ewa on the first Sabbath in Jan. Bingham & Emerson w e r e present on the occasion. Messrs Six persons, members of the Honolulu church, but residents at Ewa, removed their relation to that place. And 12 persons, 6 males & 6 females were admitted for the first time after a critical examination of the nature of their repentance & faith in the blood of atonement. Thirteen candidates had been propounded, but one of the most promising of them was removed by death, just before the church was organized. And not more than three weeks had elapsed after the organization of the church, before one of the Six from the Honolulu church was removed from us by death. Thus early did the Lord remind us that even church members hav e no abiding place on earth. The whole number therefore is Seventeen. (17.) We have had but one communion Season Subsequent to the organiza­ tion of the church, which occurred on the 3d of April. And we are happy to Say that thus far our little church have appeared to run well We meet them every Saturday evening for church conference & prayer, which we think has a good effect upon their minds in keeping them from Sinking into a careless & indifferent State; as well as from actual transgression. Baptism of Children. I have baptized 8 children - four of whom had been adopted by the individuals previous to their uniting with the church. Candidates. Four persons now Sta n d propounded to the church. A number of others give more or less evidence of having embraced the offers made to them in the gospel. �E wa 1836 6. Marriages Solemnized. I have Solemnized 78 marriages during the year. Kumu H a w a i i . I have 115. Subscribers for the Kumu Hawaii the present year. N ew T e s t a m e n t . The N e w Testament is at great demand w i t h us. than Probably n ot more of those who are earnestly desiring to obtain it, wil l be supplyed ( !) from the present edition. Hymn B o o k . The demand also for the Hymn Book about to be issued is very great. We feel the nee d also of a hymn boo k for children; & we earnestly hope that measures will be taken by this meeting to Supply the Stations w i t h hy m n books for children. (180 scholars in the Bible class) L. Smith. �Report for the Station at Ewa May 1, 1837 The present occupant at this station arrived with his family soon after the close of Gen. meeting in July of last year. of usefulness open & waiting for his labors. He found a door Two years had not elapsed since the station was first taken; & it was therefore to b e expected that the people would not be so much advanced in religious & book knowledge as at the older stations, and more expecially ( !) as the people of Ewa were just recovering from the sad declension into which their schools & their state of morals had fallen since the death of Kaahumanu. But there has been manifestly a gradual improvement upon the general face of society during the year. According to the last census, the district of Ewa contains 3,450 pe people, and they are all or nearly so within 5 or 6 miles of Waiawa as a center, so that it is in the power of every adult & child of a suitable age to avail themselves of the religious privileges no w en­ joyed at that place. have been various. The labors at the station during the last year The first and principal extra labor has been the superintending the building of a chapel. I was much relieved of the burden which this work could have occasioned me, had not most of the materials been prepared beforehand by Mr. Smith, so that I ha d only to step into his place and pursue the plan which he had marked out, availing myself of his direct agency at Honolulu which tended in no small degree to relieve the burden which otherwise would have borne upon me in carrying through the work. Not­ withstanding these favorable circumstances, my attention was necessarily directed to the work of building some portion of every day more or less while at home for more than 6 months. �Ewa 1837 2. The state of Religion at Ewa has been during the past year evi­ dently on the advance. The church tho small as a body, have been re­ markably united & in most cases have appeared well. Except two or three instances of private admonition there has been no case of discipline. During the last few months the male members, have been making laborious & special exertions to arouse the people to come out to the ordinances of the gospel, and their labors have been attended with favorable re­ sults. At the completion of the Chapel in February last, a protracted meeting was held at E w a. It was a solemn and interesting time, & we have reason to hope that several souls w ere converted on that occasion. I have a list of 30 or 40 persons who appear more or less clear in their religious experience, all or nearly all refer to that meeting as the occasion of their concern for salvation. Besides those there are upwards of a hundred who visit me weekly with the desire to ex­ press their views of of ( !) Christ and the w a y of salvation, concerning whom, I can only say they do not as yet give satisfactory evidence of conversion. There have been received 10 individuals into the church the past year, making in all 29 members n o w in good standing. There have been two examinations of schools at Ewa & three at Waianae during the year. During the former part of the year the people were so fully employed in building the chapel that I thought it not best to call them off to prepare for examination. The schools are quite backward, there are but few tolerable readers among the best schools, or even all the scholars of Ewa. A t Waianae there is a pecu­ liar destitution of books & of suitable qualifications in the teachers even to teach the veriest rudiments. I have made some effort to re- move the first difficulty, by sending them books w h e n e v e r application has been made for them. �3 Ewa 1837 The sabbath school in the Ai o ka la is flourishing and numbers 300 or more scholars. Two teachers from the High School have been employed during a great part of the year, one on stipulated wages & the other for want of the proper qualifications has received only occasional aid as his needs seemed to demand. Their attention has been confined to the children of both sexes, which now number about 150. The work of trans­ lating during the past year has been prosecuted with as much attention as my other avocations would admit. The greater part of the time devoted to it has been occupied in reviewing & preparing for the press the works of others. Besides these I have translated upwards of 100 pages of Bailey’s Algebra. It was my intention to have finished it, but other business coming in unexpectedly I was compelled to lay it aside, or have the press to stop for want of matter. One object of our removal to Ewa was the hope of benefiting the health of Mrs. Bishop in a cooler atmosphere than where we formerly resided, & wher e she might work in the garden & ride daily on horse­ back. This course has been strictly pursued during a great part of the year to the evident benefit of her health. She has not been able however to relax her diet, without in every instance suffering the return of distressing symptoms of dyspepsia. We shall feel it our duty in case Mr. Smith does not return to request permission to remain at Ewa, as it is probably that a return to our former field would be liable to bring on a return of the old complaint. A. Bishop Stated Supply For Ewa �Annual Report of the Station at Ewa For the year 1858 It will hardly h e expected that I shall he able during the few hours remaining for me to write to give a very extended review of the operations of the past year at the Ewa Station. A hasty scetch ( !) must he all that my time will allow. On the return of the windward brethren from general meeting to Hawaii, in July, I accompanied them on a visit to Kailua and Kaawaloa, taking Lahaina & Wailuku in my way. At which time I was absent from my charge three sabbaths; when my pulpit was supplied by the brethren from Honolulu. With the exception of 2 sabbaths, the one from illness & the other from absence at Waianae in April last, the pulpit at Ewa has been weekly & daily supplied with the preaching of the word during the past year. On my return fr o m Hawaii, my leisure hours were occupied in translations, book making, reviews of other works and proof reading until the end of the year, since which time the state of religious feeling among the people has claimed & occupied all my attention. Two hundred pages & upwards of Bailey's Algebra is no w translated and about 40 more remain to be finished, when the work will be ready for the reviewer. But as there is no prospect of any time the coming year to resume the work, I have concluded to forward the whole as it is to the hands of B r . Clark, who I presume has been waiting for it for some time past. There have been but two general examinations of the schools during the year, when they appeared to be on the increase both as to numbers and improvement. Since the revival of religion commenced in January, it was not thought advisable to assist the attention of teachers & scholars to a preparation for school examination. �2. Ewa 1838 A new school house of dobies has been completed here during the year. I t is 66 fe e t by 3 3 , p lastered & g l a z e d , w ith a thatched roof and contains seats & tables for 50 w riters and forms fo r who do not w r it e . as many more The extra expense above what was done by n ativ es amounts to about 2 0 0 d o l l a r s , one h a lf o f which was contributed by the m is sio n , in c lu siv e of what I gave from my own su p p lie s. The other h a lf has been mostly p a id by the people, and a small debt remains s t i l l to be p a id . The fo llow ing are the s t a t is t ic k s for the y ear. Marriages Admitted to the church this year No. of ch . members at the beginning of year D ie d Dismissed to other c h s. Now in good standing 73 329 28 1 4 352 The f i r s t admission of 18 took place in Augt 1 8 3 7 , and the second adm ission i n February 1 8 3 8 , when 21 were re c e iv e d . The th ir d and p r in ­ cipal season of admission occurred on the 6 th of the present month, when 2 9 7 were received from among the heathen to the fe llo w s h ip of the church. Scetch ( ! ) of the state of R e lig io n at Ewa. About the close of the year 1837, there began to e x is t some sense of the low state of r e lig io u s fe e lin g among u s , & prayer began to be offered more frequently for a general outpouring of the S p i r i t . On the last Friday of December, we set apart the day to f a s t i n g and prayer, in re feren c e to the coming y e a r , at which time confession of past sins was made, & supplications offered to God fo r a re v iv a l of R e lig io n among u s . At the beginning of the new y e a r , I attended the protracted meet­ ing at Honolulu together w it h about 150 of the Ewa peo ple , including �3. the church and the most serious persons among us. That was a refresh­ ing season to all of us, and we returned home prepared to begin more thoroughly than ever before the work of reform in our own & the hearts of sinners about us. Several interesting cases of awakening among sinners took pla c e during the month of January. At this time however there was nothing that could be denominated a general seriousness among the people. The Protracted meeting at Waialua which was attended by many from Ewa, was another means of stirring up the attention of this people. At our return from thence there were some 2 or 3 hundreds of inquirers to b e found among us. The sacramental season which followed, when 21 persons were received to the ch. was one of solemnity to all, and served greatly to deepen impressions. Immediatly after this, evening meetings for prayer and exhortation were instituted, which have been kept up every evening until the present time. The means which was used to arouse the attention of this people, seem to have been peculiarly blessed by the Holy Spirit. Especially in pouring out a Spirit of prayer upon the church, it became an easy thing to pray & preach, & in giving to the people a hearing ear, it has been a pleasant thing to meet with them often, to impart religious instruction. By means of these preparatory measures, and above all, by means of the Blessing of the Holy Spirit, there was an unusual seriousness & expectation upon the minds of the people, at the commencement of the Protracted meeting held here the last week in February. Their ears & hearts were open to receive the word of truth, and before the meeting closed, there was such a spirit of agonizing prayer poured out upon the church as I had never witnessed. A corresponding feeling was awakened through the whole congregation, and it became evident that of a truth ■the Spirit of God was with us. As the first fruits of this refreshing �Ewa 1838 season, there were enrolled 700 names the week following the meeting, all of whom professed to he seriously seeking the Lord. They were in all stages, of feeling, from those who were rejoicing in a well grounded hope of pardon & acceptance, down to the stupid & self-deceived hangeron, who has no sense of sin. This number was increased in a short time to nearly one thousand persons, by such as have since turned from their sins, and profess to have begun a new life. Out of the number thus brought in there were selected from time to time such as gave clear evidence of piety, and on the first sabbath of the present month, 291 persons were admitted to church fellowship, about one half of whom date their first true convictions since the beginning of the year. The work with us is still progressing, and we are daily hearing of interesting cases of turning to the Lord. Besides the daily ordinary means of grace used by us, there have been two protracted meetings held in the neighborhood of Waiawa during the month of April last. The first one was at Honouliuli 4 miles west of the meetinghouse, in a populous neighborhood which had never felt any special Interest in the new order of things, and where were residing several truly hardened characters, who used to exert a great influence on the side of evil. As the result of this meeting about 150 persons have embraced the side of Christianity who had never before come out to our meetings. They have been regular attendants ever since, and many of them give hopeful evidence of piety. The week following, we held a protracted meeting a(t) Waianae assisted by Dr. Judd of Honolulu. The meeting was well attended, and the only circumstance which we had to right was the crowd of people from Ewa which distracted in some measure the attention of the kamaainas from the solemnties of the occasion, by diverting their thoughts to the rites of hospitality. We however sought the blessing with strong �Ewa 1838 5 crying and tears and it came. It was a solemn & blessed season to ourselves & to the people of Waianae. Mrs. Bishop & I remained two days after its close to converse with such persons as desired to visit us, and make known their feelings. I conversed with nearl y 400 individuals, the greater proportion of whom professed to have been first awakened at that meeting. When I first came to Ewa, there was not a serious individual known to live at W aianae. Of all the districts on the Island, that was supposed to have felt the most influence adverse to the Gospel. If a missionary visited them, he was barely treated with respect, a few individuals would deign to give him a hearing. and The first indi­ cation of a favorable change in the aspect of things, was at the time of the dedication of the Ewa chapel, when 8 persons came over and attended the protracted meeting, and their attention became awakened to serious things. These became regular attendants upon the preaching at Ewa, their numbers gradually increasing as they came over every Saturday to spend the sabbath, until at the close of the year, they amounted to about 50. At the protracted meeting at Ewa on the last of February, they had increased to nearly 100 individuals who came over every saturday; the distance is about 15 miles across the mountain. The district of Waianae is at present in a very interesting state. The number of inquirers is large, and I am told that several have turned since we left. How m a ny of them will give evidence of true piety must be determined hereafter. I trust will never be forgotten. them the bread of life. An interest is awakened there that But they have no one to break unto Punihaole, a very good man, of Honolulu, who has been for some time their teacher is with them, and doubtless is faithful in doing good. But the people are needing a more efficient teacher, one who can lead them out and in before the Lord. As it is �Ewa 1838 hopeless to expect a missionary to reside among them, I would here apply for some efficient native to supply that place. Davida Malo offered me last year to come and live there in case he could get the consent of the Mission & chiefs. The mission had returned to their homes, and the approbation of brethren and chiefs of Maui not being then obtained, the matter has been deferred. I wish however to have the Mission take up the subject of a suitable supply for Waianae, and, if it can be accomplished, obtain Davida Malo for that station. The chiefs & missionaries of this island are In favor of the measure, and have given an invitation to Malo to come down and reside there. In case a supply can be obtained, arrangements also for his support must be made with the government, and the chief of the district now at Maui. One of the characteristicks of this wo r k of grace is the interest­ ing number of children who have become pious. There are with us upwards of 50 children belonging to Hooliliamanu's school who give cheering evidence of regenerate hearts. Prom the portentous cloud that hangs over the future destiny of this people, threatening them ex­ tinction, this, that so many of the children of these islands have recently become pious, hangs out before us a bright bow of promise. It encourages our hopes to believe that the leaven of salvation is being infused Into the rising generation, and that if we are found faithful this nation may yet be saved. There is another circumstance I ought to mention. The crowd that comes out on the sabbath has wholly overflowed our chapel & verandah so that large nos. of them are obliged to sit in the sun . The people are now collecting timber to make a spacious ranai in the yard of the chapel, where we expect to hold our meetings in fair weather, until such times as a more spacious building can be erected. A. Bishop �Ewa 1839 Report for the Station at E wa, May 1839 A kind and beneficient Providence has conferred upon the uncum- bents of this station, a good degree of health & an open door of us e ­ fulness during the past year. The direct preaching of the Gospel has been more abundant and more blessed than at any previous season either here or wherever else his lot has been cast. May the praise be to Him who inclines the ear to hear and opens the heart to receive the messages of Divine truth. At the commencement of the year just passed we were i n the midst of an extensive work of grace, which had been in operation with more or less power from the beginning of the civil year. Our daily meetings were thronged with solemn and listening hearers and on the sabbath no place could be found sufficiently capacious for the crowd that/ assembled until the erection of a spacious Lanai in the rear of the chapel which was completed in June. Since that time we have held our worship there during fair weather. There have been 2 admissions to the church during the past year. The first in May last, when 288 persons male & female were received into covenant relations wit h the Head of the Church, and in the following August a still larger number were admitted amounting to 454. Of these 2 admissions about 100 were from the district of Waianae, the remainder were of Ewa, with the exception of some few from other places then residing there. The first indications of a decline in the work of revival, were manifested in the falling off of some of the congregation, which con­ tinued gradually to diminish until it came down to its present station­ ary number, about 1500 in the morning and about 1000 in the afternoon. Daily evening meetings, however, were continued until the month of Jan'y �Ewa 1839 2. last, since which time we have returned to the former customary method of Wednesday afternoon preaching as the only stated meeting during the week for the congregation generally. The present state of religious feeling with us is low, altho there are a few cases of inquiries There are about 100 who stand propounded for admission to the church, the greater part of whom it is expected will be admitted at the next communion, and the remainder deferred until a future season, or perhaps dismissed from being candidates. I said, the present state of religious feeling is low, this however refers principally tho not exclusively to such as are out of the church. There is a good degree of religious attention among the poe hoahanau (those in the church) as a body, altho we stand in fear of some. Those who have been overtaken in gross sin, have been prompt­ ly disciplined, & either cut off or temporarily suspended from their church relationship. The effect of prompt discipline we think h a s been salutary, and will continue to be exercised as offences shall arise. Some of our greatest anxieties have been for the children in the church. Of the 40 received last year, 2 have been excinded & about a dozen suspended, part of whom have been again restored. Of the 20 members excommunicated none have been restored, and none have as yet given satisfactory evidence of true penitence. Upon the whole we feel that a great work of grace has been wrought for the people of Ewa and Waianae, which has already effected a great change upon the face of society, before unknown in those polluted dis­ tricts of Oahu. During the last 8 months we have enjoyed the presence of Mr. & us Mrs. Vanduzee, who have afforded xx valuable aid in the instruction of an interesting school of boys & girls. We have invited them to settle permanently at our station in the hope that our wishes will be sanctioned �Ewa 3 1839 by the mission. We propose to instruct a class of boys (in addition to the several branches of literature usually taught in boarding schools,) in the arts of cabinet making & the tanning of morocco leather. The hope is that our vicinity to a market will enable us to sell the productions of their manufacture, s o as to procure the means of support to the school independent of the funds of the Board. There is at the present time a sugar mill in building to go by water, on a scale sufficiently large to grind the cane of all the natives of the district who wish to cultivate it. It has been under­ taken not with a view to the emoluments of the business, which are altogether uncertain, but solely to encourage industry and enterprize among the people by affording them the opportunity to obtain the avails of their labors. The expenses of its erection are divided between Kekuanaoa and myself. The following are the statisticks of the station for the year. Marriages Church members at the beginning of the year Received by profession during the year Received by certificate Excommunicated Suspended & not yet restored Died Dismissed to other churches Remaining in good standing 65 64 742 2 - 808 20 12 6 5 = 43 765 Benevo lent Contributions to Mr. Smith's church 62.12 1/2 Do for school house, in liquidation of the debt 50.00 Contribution for teachers 90.00 Rebuilding of teacher's house Baptized the past year, Children Do in all Children 256 256 The schools are in a less flourishing condition than during the previous year. This was owing in part to the attention of the people & of the teachers being for a part of the time to the subject of re ­ ligious considerations, but principally we fear to the fact, that the �Ewa 1839 4. people have been called upon to support their school teachers. This fact we fear has had an unhappy influence upon the minds of ignorant pa­ rents. There is certainly a repugnance in their minds towards support­ ing their teachers. The station schools however have continued without interruption under the care of native graduates of the Seminary. The Sabbath school of Children conducted by Mrs. Bishop is in a flourishing condition. The weekly & monthly meetings of mothers have been kept up and vigorously sustained under the direction of Mrs. Bishop. The sabbath school in the Ai o ka la is large and flourishing containing on an average about 350 scholars. Only 2 examinations of the district schools have been held during the year. A. Bishop �Report of the Station of Ewa and Waianae for the year ending April 30th 1840 The labors of the past year at the station of Ewa embracing the district of Waianae have been performed without any interruption from ill health, and with the absence of your missionary from his field but one Sabbath. But he has wrought alone with his companion at a station embrac­ ing nearly 30 miles in extent, without any assistant in maintaining the schools. The consequence has been there has been but one district school in the whole parish except the one kept up at the station, by himself & Mrs. Bishop as the teachers. With the burden of school keeping on his hands he has not been able to travel and preach in different parts of his district as formerly, altho' for most of the year one weekly lecture has been kept up on fridays at some outpost, and. the district of Waianae has been visited every 2 or 3 months, on which occasions he has usually spent several days at a time at that place. The state of Religion, has been growing more encouraging through the year, tho’ no special religious awakening has occurred. A pleas­ ing and serious attention to the duties of religion has continued and been increasing on the part of a vast majority of the church; - the duties of private and family devotion have been kept up, but the scattered state of the population, and the distance from the the ( !) place- of public worship have prevented many from entire punctual atten­ dance to the public services of the sabbath, yet there has been no material diminution of the congregation during the year. There have been several hopeful conversions the past year of such as did not give evidence of piety during the late religous attention two years ago. Their admission to the privileges of Ch. membership �Ewa 1840 has been deferred for a season, sad experience having taught us not to depend on the fallacious appearances of the first profession a native may make of piety. cases of long standing. Those admitted during the year have been The Lord has been merciful to us in keeping so many stedfast, while numbers around and in the midst of us have grievously fallen into apo stacy. A prompt but kind discipline has been executed towards those who have relapsed into sin, by means of which many have been reclaimed before they had gone too far to give a hope of return to virtue. But it is painful to add that others who have been visited and exhorted to return, have but hardened themselves the more in sin, and cast off all restraint, and become sevenfold worse than ever. Upon such when the efforts to a restoration have wholly failed, the sentence of excommunication has been passed. But few only of those who have been, cut off from the church have returned to give God the glory. The effect however upon those remaining has been salu­ tary, and taught them the necessity of watchfulness and prayer as a prime means of preservation from falling away. A few weeks after the visit of the L'Artemise ( !) to this island I heard with surprize ( !) that a Catholic meeting was got up at Halava ( !) and another at Waimalu in Ewa and still another at Waianae, all of which were conducted by natives sent out by the Priest at Honolulu. Presently I heard that houses were erecting for the purpose of their worship. Many of the natives immediately became infatuated to run after them with greediness. But as they were such as had long fallen off from attendance at the Waiawa chapel, I saw no material diminu­ tion of my congregation. But the rage for smoking, the high promises of long life and a merry one to all who would turn to their party, y and above all the wonderful miraculous cures alleged to have been performed upon the sick, worked amazingly upon the imaginations of �Ewa 1840 3. this fickle people. The first case of any defection from our church was that of a woman at Waimalu sick of the dropsy in the chest. visited her in hope of reclaiming her from her delusion. I I found that she had been under the hands of the papal emmissary who had persuaded her that he could infallibly cure her if she would turn papist. consented, and he performed over her his mumories ( !). She Altho she was in the last stage of her disease, and unable to rise, she felt perfect­ ly confident that she should recover, and utterly refused to return again to protestantism. After using every persuasive in vain, and I was about to retire, I proposed to pray with her, but she said she did not wish it, and so I departed. The next day she was cut off by a vote of the ch. session, and before the following morning dawned up on her, she died. There have been several defections of a similar nature, but this was the most affecting of any. The usual m e t h o d is for the catholic to go to a person who is sick, and obtain permission to sprinkle him or her with holy water in the name of the Trinity and then pronounce the person cured. In the course of nature the person recovers, and is made to believe that it was done b y miracle. invariably becomes a catholic. hands. The individual Many have however died under their One of their leaders lately died at Waianae. It was confident­ ly asserted that he was not dead, but would return again to life on such a day. Out of shame, however, they buried him at midnight. He was a man, who in order to be like his priest, forsook his wife, and refused to give her any support, unless she would turn papist. The. woman is a credible member of my church, and is now released from any further solicitations of her former husband. The progress of papacy has been most rapid at Waianae, and has very much thinned the congregation. Some 100 or more became papists in the days of Kaahumanu, many of whom during the late revival there renounced their connextion �Ewa 1840 4. with that aoao (what one has been taught), and in due time joined our church. Some 6 or 8 of them have, during the year, gone back again to their old connexion, - the remainder stand firm as yet, and continue to appear well. And here I desire to solicit the attention of this meeting to the destitute condition of Waianae. It is doubtless owing in great part to the destitution of that place, that so many are turning to the Catholics. There is not a school in all that district, and no man suitably qualified has been found to take the post. tained, there is no means allowed for his support. Could one be obThe children there are numerous, and all growing up in total ignorance of letters. what shall be done. But Something must be devised for them, and a teacher must be stationed and supported there. We want one of our best edu­ cated men, a man of decided piety and good talents to take the lead in meetings. Otherwise the cause of Christ, so propitiously begun there must inevitably suffer and diminish. Almost the same destitution as to teachers, exists in Ewa. The only teacher we had at the station was taken last year by the king for a tax gatherer, and attorney for the district. His usefulness in that post, in superintending the konohikis, and seeing to the right ob­ servance of the new law on the part of the head men, and in preventing every species of oppression denounced by the law, has alone reconciled me to the measure. There is a teacher at Honouliuli a graduate of the Seminary, struggling for the pittance of a support, who has a daily school of about 30 children. He needs some patronage from the mission to enable him to get along. For the last 8 months, since the station teacher was taken away, Mrs. Bishop and I have kept up the school at the station. But with all my multiplied cares, it is too much, and cannot long continue. A teach- �Ewa 1840 er must be obtained and a support provided for him, or the school must cease. The members of the church have done something, and when properly organized, which is now we hope in the way of being effected, will do more. But it will be considerable time before the avails of their labor will be productive. Experience has taught us that there is no public spirit in the people to do of themselves without being closely inspected and urged on. We need at least 2 new teachers for Ewa and one for Waianae and they can doubtless be obtained, were the means for their support provided. government in this thing. We need the assistance and cooperation of the The only favor hitherto granted the teachers is an exemption from the king's paahao (system of work to pay off taxes), on this island, but I am informed that even this labor is insisted on at some of the islands. It becomes us while together to devise and earnestly recommend to the go v t . some approved plan for effecting this object. We can no longer expect that men will work for nothing. The people will not support them, for they know not the value of learning. If we neglect it, then we may as well fold up our hands and say at once let the schools go. this purpose. Permit me here to suggest a source of revenue for The usual annual expense of our gen. meetings is about $15,000 ($1500 ?). Were we to hold them only once in two years, then we might have $750.00 for each of those 2 years to be appropriated to the support of schools, wish (which) would allow about $5.00 to each station, a sum sufficient with the aid of the people & chiefs to keep 50 schools in operation, which are no w languishing or already out of existence. The church h a v e raised about $15.00 the past year for the support of schools., and about $100. towards paying for a bell. The cultivation of vegetables for the market has been mostly a failure, in consequence of their planing in exposed situations, where they have been destroyed �Ewa 1840 6. by the goats and wild hogs in the mountains. A piece of land for the monthly concert has been obtained, and will be enclosed as soon as it has been as yet effected. (Unsigned; A. Bishop) Statistics of the year for the Districts of Ewa and Waianae Whole no. received to the church on examination Whole no. on certificate - - - - - - - - - - R e ceived the past year on examination . . . . . Received on certificate - - none - - Whole no dismissed to other churches - - - - Dismissed the past y e a r - - - - - - - - - - - Whole no. deceased - - - - - - - - - - - - - Deceased the past year - - - - - - - - - - - Suspended the past year - — Restored, some of last year's suspension Remain suspended - - - - - - - -- 10 Whole no excommunicated - - - - - - - - - - - - Excommunicated the past year - - - - - - - - - Remain excommunicated - - - - - - - - - - - - - Whole no in regular standing - - - - Whole no of children baptized - - - - - - - - - Baptized the past y e a r - - - - - - - - - - - - - Marriages the past year - - - - - - - - - - - - Average congregation from 1,000 to 1,500\ 969 10 174 42 37 34 28 10 6 70 50 66 827 276 20 68 �Report of the Station of Ewa and Waianae for the year ending April 30 t h 1 8 4 1 . When the labors of a Station become regular, and the routine of duties assume a sameness from day to day, and from month to month, there is a liability of falling into the use of a certain set of phra­ ses, in rendering our reports from year to year, & As our labors are the same, or very nearly so, that they were during previous years, it will not be necessary to enumerate many minor items in our annual account to the mission. The continuance of our usual health calls for gratitude. I have been able to preach every sabbath, and every lecture day either at Ewa or Waianae without interruption. My visits to the latter place have been as often as every 2 or 3 months, when I usually spend several days in various missionary duties. While at home, almost all my spare time has been devoted to the revision & superintendence of the new edition of the Scri ptures. Pour protracted meetings have been held during the year, within the bounds of my field of labor, to wit, at Halawa, Waiawa, Honouli­ uli, and Waianae. They were all, with the exception of the one at Halawa, well attended, and solemn, and were followed by decidedly bene­ ficial effects. The frequent repetition of these meetings however in the same place, does not appear to me to b e attended with very striking effects, unless it be in a time of special seriousness among the people. Such meetings however continue to be popular, and prove beneficial or not in proportion to the spirit with which they are conducted. The state of religion during the past year has been on the whole encouraging. About the beginning of last July there were indications of a falling off to a considerable extent among the people of the �Ewa 1841 2. church and congregation, f r o m attendance on the ordinances of the sanctuary, and the social weekly m e e t i n g s . were indications of an incipient haunaele of drunkness At the sam e time there (disturbance; commotion), ( !) and riot, w h i c h had already commenced among the cath­ olics of the neighborhood, and was making its way into the families of m y congregation. Some 2 or 3 of m y chur c h had been detected in drink­ ing, tho not to entire intoxication. They were disciplined a c cording­ ly by suspension f r o m communion 3 months. But the alarm was raised. Information came that scenes of drunkenness were becoming rife through­ out the islands, and b e s i d e s .their own fermented drinks, pedlars were carrying bottles of rum f r o m the grog- shops of Honolulu into every h a m ­ let to seduce the simple people into sin. In this emergency the church agreed to appoint a day of fasting and prayer, and in the mean time our most able church members, including the elders, went out by two & two to every village and h o u s e in the region, conversed and pray e d w ith the people, and exhorted t h e m to return to attendance upon the meetings of the sabbath. W h e n the day of humiliation arrived, w e found a full and solemn congregation. formula of a confession and covenant, previously drawn out, The and adapted to the existing circumstances of t h e church, was read a n d r a tified by them, and as a closing exercise of the day, they all stood u p and r e ­ peated after me, the words of the same confession and c o v e n a n t . wh a t sincerity they renewed their vows, hearts. tears. With is known, to the searcher of W i t h us it was a solemn moment, and many were affected even to The immediate beneficial effects were, In the first place an entire sto p was put to the haunaele f r o m that day f o r t h through the bounds of my whole district of labor in Ewa and Waianae. W e h e a r d no more of drinking, except as individuals came to Honolulu & got In­ toxicated. �Ewa 1841 3. In the second place, the congregation immediately became enlarged to nearly double of its former numbers it soon became evident that the And the last, yet not least, Holy Spirit was in the midst of us. Many became deeply impressed, or professed to be so, many backsliders returned, and Several excommunicated ch. members visited me for the first time with professions of repentance. Altho a multitude of all classes have since proved that t h e y were not sincere, yet many have held on to the present time. None of the subjects of that season of grace have as yet been admitted to the church though many of them now stand propounded for the next communion. The interest felt by the multitude in that season of religious excitement, has passed by, and at present there prevails a lamentable coldness and neglect towards religious things. Within 6 weeks past, the numbers of our congregation have decreased perceptibly, some indeed through sickness and absence, but others doubtless from apathy & indifference. pensity. The story of the "cross of Christ", and salvation through h i m alone is becoming stale. It falls upon the ear, like an old story, whi c h has long ceased to be a novelty. their old habits, Sense. Such is their pro­ Many have turned b a c k again to and expressed their preference for the things of Still a goodly number hold on to the ways of the Lord, and are walking in garments white and clean. Romanism has made some stir in our neighborhood the past year, and received some accessions to their numbers. But a few of them only, and those whom we could well afford to spare, have passed over from the protestant ranks. Some half a dozen ch. members perhaps have during the year, apostatized to the ranks of papacy. But it is only the loss of religious influence that is regretted - the hope that they might have truly repented had they stayed with us, - but as to any evidence of piety they manifested in the church, they ha d long ceased �Ewa 1841 to show it. 4. Some few catholics who have been bapatem/a i a , have for­ saken their ranks and returned declaring the whole of Popery to be a delusion, and are n ow attendants on my preaching. In the district of Waianae there has been made a great diversion in favor of Popery. Nearly or quite one half of the people profess to have embraced the catholic party. It is hardly to be accounted for on any other principle but the ignorance of the people, and the special efforts w h i c h have been made by the priests to prejudice the minds of the people against the truth. The most effectual means which they have used to help their cause, is to raise opposition to the new school laws, under the promise that whoever becomes a catholic shall be free from all of its demands. It has been but too successful. congregations there continue to be good and attentive. Still our Our chapel has never been deserted when I or the elders of the Ewa ch. have visited the district. They are in most eminent need of a missionary, very desirous to obtain one. and are A missionary might expect to have a con­ gregation of nearly one thousand. Since the beginning of the present year, the schools have been flourishing, more so than at any time since I have resided at Ewa. This is to be attributed to the operation of the new school laws, which are decidedly beneficial. A certain class of advocates for the naaupo ( darkness; ignorance) are opposed to them, many of who m have organ­ ized themselves under the banner of Roman discipline. We are in great want of suitable teachers, such as can bear an examination according to law. As a temporary substitute we have employed others the present year, rather than to have the schools neglected. are fully adequate to teach the rudiments of instruction. They �Ewa 1841 5 Statistics for Ewa & Waianae Station For the year ending April 30, 1841. Whole no. received to the ch. on examination 1058 Whole no. on certificate 11 Received past year on examination - - - - - - - 89 Received past year on certificate 1 Whole no. received the past year 90 Whole no, dismissed to other churches - - - - - - 45 Dismissed the past year - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4 Whole no. deceased - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 58 Deceased the past year - - - - - - - - - -- _ _ _ _ 25 Suspended the past year - - - - - 13 Remain suspended, in all - - - - — - - - - - 12 Whole no. excommunicated - - - - - - - - - - - - - 91 Excom. the past year - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 21 Remain excommunicated, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 80 Whole no. in regular standing - - - - - - - - - 919 Whole no. of children baptized, 311 Baptized the past year - ------35 Marriages the past year - - - - - - - - - - - - - 56 No. of scholars In schools - - - - - - - - - - - 550 Average congregation - - - - - - - - - - 1000 to 1500 �Report for the Station of Ewa & Waianae May 1842. At the close of another year in the affairs of this mission, I have little else to record but the continued goodness of God to myself and family, and to the people of my charge. The continual renewing to us of Heaven's rich blessings, should have called forth fro m our hearts a corresponding return of grateful love and obedience to Him whose mercies have kept us. done it. But tho this is our duty, yet we have not There is at present a greater apathy in respect to religious concerns than I have ever known at Ewa at any previous time. This is apparent not in any numerous apostacies of the professedly religious more than on other years, or any triumphs of the ungodly over the cause of religion and virtue. It is manifested in a coldness and heartlessness which attends the performance of religious duties, and the readiness of profession to allow of trifling hindrances to keep them back from attending upon religious ordinances. Their strong at­ tachment to former habits of living, habits inconsistent with the duties of Christianity evinces the low state of moral feeling, among them. The Holy Spirit is not present with us in His convicting and converting influences, and I dont know that any persons have been con­ verted during the past year, but on the contrary some have fallen away, and are separated from the privileges of ch. membership. The greater part however of those who have-been cut off, are those who were in a state of suspension last year, but failing to manifest any signs of penitence, and wholly absenting themselves from the ordinances, were judged unfit to be considered any longer as church members in any sense. I have been enabled to preach uninterruptedly every sabbath and every Wednesday of the past year without: being prevented by sickness �Ewa 1842 2. or other causes and to visit my people once from house to house, but have had no protracted meetings at Ewa owing to the apathy of the people. But my main labors have been directed towards the revision of the Scriptures for the press and superintending their printing. In the month of October last, a set of costs for the Pilgrims Progress ar­ rived from the Am. Tr. Society, with an appropriation of funds for an edition in the Hawaiian language. This decided me at once to take hold of the translation of the work, but it proved a greater job than I had anticipated, and in order to complete it and attend also to the edition of the Bible now in press, I have been obliged to neglect much mission­ ary work among my people. The consequences of this have been felt in the coldness and apathy of religious feeling now so apparent. What our people have needed is to be often visited from house to house and collected together in social meetings in their several villages, a duty as well as privilege to the missionary from which I have been precluded by Biblical and literary labors during the greater part of the year. I have visited the district of Waianae as often as once in 6 weeks or 2 months through the year, and have usually spent with the people several days together. On the first day of October last, B r . Emerson and I met at Waianae, held a 3 day's meeting, formed a church consist­ ing of the members of our Ewa and Waialua chs. resident in Waianae. These consisted of 20 from the Waialua and 140 from the Ewa church, to which no. 20 have since been added from the world; making in all a church of 180 members. Pour of these have since deceased and 2 now stand suspended, leaving 174 members now in regular standing. During the greater part of the year, the religious meetings of that place have been conducted by Keikinui, a pious and intelligent �Ewa 1842 3 member of the 1st Honolulu church. He has approved himself worthy of our confidence by his dllegence ( !), prudence and zeal; and I would suggest, whether it may not he allowable to afford him a small pecu­ niary aid as an encouragement to enable him to labor free from em­ barrassment and anxiety as to his temporal wants. I hear or see very little of Popery of late in the bounds of Ewa and Waianae. Still It Is there, dormant indeed as the priests have gone in quest of another prey at other islands. The chapel at Waianae has not been opened for public worship for several months past. Sev­ eral of their followers as I am told have left them, and occasionally attend the Protestant worship, but the number is not great. One church member only who joined them has been restored, & one or two more are candidates for a restoration to their former standing. What we most want is the Spirit of God to be poured out upon the missionary and people, and then as in other places we should see the Standard of the Gospel elevated, and the wanderers returning. But alas ! it is our own indifference and sinfulness that the Spirit is grieved away. Were the Christians as they ought to be, we might see what is now witnessed on some parts of Hawaii and other places, a general returning from the delusions of Popery and every other species of irreligion. But Popery is not down among us, and nothing has been done at all adequate to put it down. It is only in statu quo, and making no perceptible advances. While the priests could continue to get up a breeze, and make fools believe that they were or had been persecuted, there were many who joined them. But as all their promises and pretentions to miracles have proved abortive, and no one has appeared to oppose the free toleration of their opinions, the eyes of many have been opened to see the nature of the imposture which has deluded them, and their ardor has cooled. S u c h I should judge is their present state. �Ewa 4 1842 But we need not count upon an easy victory. The manner of its in­ troduction at these islands may go to show us that it will not readily y i eld to the truth; and moreover that nothing else but the power of God can put it down from among us. This is the point at which we should aim continually, and by our prayers and labors endeavor to diffuse this feeling among our churches, that prayer and penitence on the part of Christians is the first prerequisite of a revival of Religion and the overthrow of Error. The contemplated addition and repairs to. our chapel has pro­ gressed but slowly during the year past. We have about 250 dollars subscribed and about half paid in, and as soon as a sufficient sum shall b e realized, the work will be resumed to a speedy completion. (Unsigned, but marked on back:) A. Bishop report 1842 �Ewa 1842 § Statisticks for Ewa & Waianae. May 1, 1842 Ewa Whole no. received to ch. on examination, Whole no. on Certificate, Received past year on examination, Do Do on certificate, Whole no. received the past year, Whole no. dismissed to other churches, Dismissed the past year Whole no deceased, Deceased the past year Suspended the past year Remain suspended, (9 of previous year) Whole no excommunicated, Excom. the past year Remain excommunicated, Whole no in regular standing, Whole no of children baptized, Baptized the past year, Marriages the past year, Average congregation, No.- of scholars in the schools, N o. of schools N o. of teachers Waianae 1209 20 17 160 151 20 5 160 156 180 - 193 — 149 83 in both p laces 20 5 9 2 18 2 - _ 113 - 22 102 875 174 369 13 58 13 47 at the 2 st a t i o n s . 1000 600 516 180 9 3 12 3 �Report of the Station at Ewa May 1, 1843. The station at Ewa has been sustained through the year as usual without any marked incident that calls for a prolonged report. The health of myself and wife has been good, and the Gospel has been preach­ ed by me either at Ewa or Waianae on every sabbath of the year except one when I attended a protracted meeting at Waialua. The Wednesday lecture and monthly concert has also been regularly sustained. My Biblical labors has been devoted to the revising of the Scriptures from the beginning of Isaiah to the end of Galations, and to the reading of the proof sheets of the same as they passed through the press to the end of the Gospel of Luke. most of my secular time. This labor has occupied I have felt this the more, since it has precluded me from visiting the destitute parts of the island to preach the Gospel as I had intended. My own people have also been neglected in consequence, and I have visited them at their houses but once through­ out. I have made six visits to Waianae during the year, and spent a sabbath with them at each time. As that is a stronghold of Catholics, the importance of spending as much of my time with them as I could spare has been realized. In Jan'y of the present year, the Waianae chapel was blown down in a gale of wind, as was also my own house at that place. Since that time, they have had no place of worship, except a lanai. The people however in their poverty, have subscribed $150.00 towards the erection of a new permanent building, and I have engaged to double the sum out of my own resources. The mater­ ials are now being collected, and the hope is entertained that it may be completed during the ensuing year. The schools of Ewa and Waianae under my inspection amount to 17, to wit, 14 at Ewa, and 3 at Waianae. They are in a more flour- �Ewa 1843 ishing condition th an formerly, and the teachers are better paid than in most other places. But there is a want of liberality on the part of parents in contributing towards the support of teachers. Should the Govt. withdraw its patronage, the schools would immediate­ ly go down, unless the means for the support of teachers could be derived from some other source. At the examination in Jany. the whole n o . of scholars in Ewa amounted to 662, including those who, on account of want of suitable clothing and of tender age did not attend; and at the examination in April, which I did not attend there were reported as present 538, and 150 at Waianae. There is much apathy with us still on the subject of religion, tho there is a goodly number of the church who walk worthily of the profession which they have made. Several who fell into sin, and were suspended, have returned of profession of repentance. The larger no. of those lately suspended belonged to one neighborhood, who a few weeks since were convicted of playing cards. most of them will soon be restored. It is expected that The discipline promptly exercised seems to have crushed the affa i r, at least for the present. We have been blessed with a few hopeful conversions during the past year, some of whom now stand propounded for ch. membership. The no. however is small compared with those who remain indifferent to their best interests. Death has been thinning the ranks of the church this year beyond that of any similar period of time past. the hope of the Saviour, Most of them have died in and I trust have rest in the Lord. Some have died suddenly, while a few have failed to give that comforting evidence of faith in their last moments, which is so cheering to their pastor and friends. By death, by excision, and removals there has been a diminution of those in regular standing in the church to the ! amount of 70 during the year. �Ewa 1843 3. In regard to the catholics, I have seen or heard little of them for the last twelvemonth, and have no data by which I can judge of their increase or decrease. some proselytes. I am told they are at work, and making A poor ignorant woman, a member of my church, in a remote part of the district, was baptized by a priest just before she died; and I have heard of 2 excommunicated members having joined them during the year, and tho they were deemed unworthy to b e members of a Christian church, I have no doubt they will make good papists. I have heard that they are much disappointed in their hopes from the aid of the French nation since the English have taken possession. What is to be the future condition of the Hawaiian Church of Christ, is a subject about w h ich I feel many anxious forebodings. The rulers of these islands are now the English, and they will doubt­ less make such alterations in the laws of the land as shall suit their convenience, without consulting the religious interests of the people. This they have already begun to do, and the immediate evil consequences are beginning t o be felt. Neither will any remonstrances of the Mission be of avail, otherwise than to rivet their purpose. Much as I feel that we shall experience better times under the Eng­ lish sway than could be hoped for under the French, still in its best aspects I can only view the late events which have transpired here as a heavy calamity which we have but just begun to feel. It becomes us now to buckle on all our armour, and prepare for a defen­ sive as well as an offensive combat with the enemy of souls. no longer put any trust in earthly power to help us. We must We can only look to God who is able to educe good out of what seems now as o n l y evil. After all I must confess that my fears are many, very many and great, that the extinction of this people is about to be sealed. Perhaps a just and retributive Providence has so deemed, as the �Ewa 1843 4. legitimate consequence of their sins. By the fixed laws of nature, indeed, it cannot he possible that a licentious people should long continue to flourish. Our only hope hitherto has been that they might he reclaimed, and by the grace of God become a virtuous people, and thus be preserved from extinction. Perhaps that hope was presumptu o u s . The seeds of licentiousness are so inbred into their very blood and marrow, their reclamation as a body would seem little short of a miracle. Of one thing we may be certain, that they have got their , and we too, should we attempt any interference with government measures. Under these impressions, I feel that it is good policy to act a firm but conciliatory part towards them, and not f ear to remonstrate whenever we feel that they are encroaching upon the interests of religion, however we may be repulsed in return. Truth is truth, and will carry power along with it, however unwelcome it may be as a guest. A. Bishop Statistics for Ewa and Waianae May 1, 1843 Whole no. received to church on examination W h o l e no. on certificate Received the past year on examination, Do. on certificate Whole no. received the past year Whole no. dismissed to other churches Dismissed the past year Whole no. removed without dismission Whole no. deceased Deceased the p ast year Suspended the past year Excommunicated the past year Remain excommunicated of past year Whole no In regular standing Whole no. of children baptized Marriages the past year Whole no. of children in the schools Average congregation Contributions for the chapel &c. Ewa Waianae 1 2 1 7 - 26 -23 160 8 6 6 14 6 205 7 12 30 113 2 32 1 26 1 28 28 796 180 381 25 49 662 150 1000 100 $ 100 $ 40 �Report of the Station at Ewa for the year ending April 30th 1844. The work of preaching and instruction has been carried on as usual by us throughout the year without interruption. The health of myself and wife has been good, with the exception of a severe rheu­ matic complaint in my left hip, which affected me through the cool season of winter, and did not leave me until the return of w a r m weather in the month of April. I was not laid aside however from preaching but two sabbaths, and though I visited my people in the time, and held meetings at different places of the district, and also at Waianae, yet it was with the greatest pain that I got about even on horseback. The state of religion among us us ( !) at present is more favor­ able than it was a year ago. Though there is still a great coldness and apathy on the part of some in the church, yet there are many who appear to be engaged in religion, and walk worthily of their profession as Christians. The no. of those finally cut off from the church is greater than those of any previous year, but the greater portion of these are delinquents of old standing who had long been labored with in a state of suspension in order to bring them back, but who persevering in impenitent courses, were a few months ago finally separated as incorrigible. They were mostly persons who appeared on their first falling into sin, desirous of returning to the bosom of the church upon amendment of life, but who finally proved, the hollowness of their professions, by becoming more and more indifferent to serious things, and were cut off. The improvement among us has consisted in a more punctual atten­ dance upon the ordinances of religion, and a more serious attention than formerly to its duties, of the community. on the part of the more serious portion A small increase of the congregation is also �Ewa 1844 2. perceptible. We have held two protracted meetings of four days each during the year, and with good effect. The first was held in the month of June, soon after our return from the General meeting, and the other on the last week in March, both of which were productive of much benefit in calling up attention to and awakening the conscience to reflection upon religious truth. Seventeen individuals have been admitted to the church during the year on examination, and three by certificate; - and there (are) about the same number of enquirers, as candidates on the list. The schools were in a languishing state for several months, and large numbers of children had left, some of whom from dissatisfaction in being required to assist their teachers, went over to the catho­ lics. But upon being visited by our new Superintendent, and all de­ mands upon parents and children being withdrawn, they have since mostly returned. as ever. The schools are now in as flourishing a condition The teachers have been promptly paid off and while the present state of things continue, there is no fear of reverses. My labors connected with the revision of the last edition of the Bible were completed during the latter part of last summer, and the first bound copy of the same greeted my eyes a few weeks after. My first researches in it were to look for errors in the copy as it stands. It may not be deemed a self gratulation to say that there are fewer mistakes than those of former editions, and a majority of these are typographical. Some of the mistakes and errors of the former, are I presume perpetuated in this edition which I regret, the more especially as it was my earnest and oft expressed desire that all such as were known to the brethren should be sent in, and they would have been carefully attended to. Whatever has failed to be corrected from this source the blame must be divided among us all, and the remainder I cheerfully take upon myself. Could I have had an associate to have gone over the same grounds separately, many of �Ewa 1844 3. the present errors of the Bible would have been detected, or could I have been near the press, I could have increased the number of proof readings, which would have removed most of the typographical errors. After all, those detected by me are small and sparce. The buildings under my direction at Waianae are nearly completed; - but not being able myself to be on the ground to superintend and direct the work, it has progressed with a tardy pace. The little cottage for a dwelling was completed early last year, at a cost of about $120.0 0 : The materials for finishing the chapel are mostly on the ground, and the building is now being thatched. I have already expended about $300.00, or perhaps more on the building, and It is calculated that perhaps $100 will be needed to finish the building. The above named sums have been raised out of the avails of the herd now in my possession. In addition to that, the people of Waianae have contributed $13 0 dollars, and the people of Ewa $42 more for the same object. In regard to popery among us, I hear but little, and that little goes to confirm the Impression that their progress in proselyting Is but slow. My opinion is that they are still on the increase, altho there i s not vitality enough in their religion as it exists among t h e natives to keep up a constant interest in their ceremonies. The(y) speedily tire of the farce, and were it not the silken thread of carnal pleasure connected with the profession of Popery, very few would endure it a day. Add to their tedious ceremonies the high morality of pure christianity, and the votaries of the papacy would speedily forsake the profession. As it is, they are not required to attend punctually at mass, except on certain high occasions, they are boastingly exempted from all pecuniary aid for the support of schools and religion, and their darling(?) pleasures & sins are winked at. This keeps them reconciled to the burdensome ceremonies. �EWA 1844 4. The decrease of population among us still continues, think in a less decelerated ratio than formerly. tho' I A f e w years of sober h a b i t s and external comforts, added to a healthy public senti­ ment, and better care of young children, would assist their downward course to extinction. Should w e ever arrive at this point and no untoward events awaken their former h e a t h e n i s h h a b i t s , it is hoped that the Race may be perpetuated to future ages, and they become in time an enlightened and christian community. A. Bishop M ay 16, 1844 Report of Schools at Ewa & Waianae May, 1844. (F r o m printed form, filled in) Ewa Examination, and when No. of children in t h e whole field No. o f boys No. of girls No. of schools No. of teachers Number of children enrolled Average number of attendance No. of readers No. of writers No. in G e o ’phy N umber in Mental Arithmetic Number in Written Arithmetic No. of deaths during the year May 1. Since the last to school. A. Bishop Apl/44 215 242 12 13 471 — -- Wai a nae Ap l /44 127 68 59 4 4 127 — 67 42 _ _ — — — _ _ 58 53 _ _ examination most o f the absentees have returned The above is taken f r o m the examination in April /44. There has been a falling off of about 200 scholars during the year. Many of them attending school did not come to the examination. . ' A. Bishop �Ewa 1844 5. Statistics for Ewa & Waianae May 1, 1844 Ewa Whole no. received to ch. on examination 1234 Whole no. on certificate 26 Received the past year on examination 17 Do Do on certificate 3 Whole no. received the past year 20 Whole no. dismissed to other c h s . 219 Dismissed the past year 14 Whole no. removed without dismission (in all) 40 Whole no. deceased 129 Deceased the past year 16 Suspended the past year 23 Remain suspended 10 Excommunicated the past year 57 Remain excommunicated (in all) 189 in both places Whole no. in regular standing 734 Whole no. of children baptized 395 Marriages the past year 55 in both places Whole no. of children in the schools 485 Average congregation 1000 Contributions for Waianae chapel $42 Waianae 28 160 2 2 3 1 10 i 1 2 2 180 30 127 400 130 �Report of the station of Ewa & Waianae for the 2 years Ending May 1, 1846 Since the last general meeting the duties of the stations at Ewa & Waianae have been administered without any interruption, with the exception of a few sabbaths of illness during the prevalence of the influenza in the months of April and June of last year. The state of religious apathy continued as heretofore for sev­ eral years past, down to the middle of last year, without anything remarkable to disturb the false security that pervaded the community. About the first of July last, I was visited by several inquirers, from Honouliuli a settlement on the western part of the district, who appeared anxious about their salvation. dication of anything special among my people. This was the first in­ Soon afterwards I was invited to spend a day at the place and meet the people in r e ­ ligious meetings. I went accordingly and we had a full house and attentive listeners. Several who attended from neighboring villages, requested that I would likewise spend a day in religious meetings with them. As I was desirous that the people should generally come out, I required that the invitation should come from them, and special effort be previously made to obtain their presence. As I had been so long discouraged with the slender attention paid to so­ cial religious meetings which I had appointed in the neighboring villages, I feared that without a special effort on the part o f the kamaainas, the appointment might prove a failure. But as I was happily seconded by my elders and other lunas, my appointments were all well attended, and the preaching was listened to with seriousness and some solemnity. My first efforts were mainly directed to the slum- bering ch. members. These however gradually began to awake to prayer and effort to arouse others. Daily prayer meetings were after a time �Ewa 1846 2 established in every village in the district, and where suitable houses for meetings were not to be found, new ones were in the course of a few months erected, and two days meetings were appointed at their dedication. These houses which exist in all the principal villages, are distinct from the school houses, and are consecrated exclusively to religious meetings. About the close of the year, a general seriousness pervaded the minds of the people throughout the district, the church was filled on the sabbath, and religious meet­ ings were thronged. Many backsliding professors were awakened, and (!) many apostates had publickly confessed their sins, and sought to be restored to the bosom of the church, The no. of inquirers from the ranks of the world now amounted to upwards of 200. But as there ap­ peared so little excitement, and everything went on so still, I had not dared to call it a revival. Nor have I yet ventured to give it that name; or scarcely to write much about it to my brethren, lest it should prove in the end a false illusion to the greater part of the young converts. I have all along preached to them the terms of the law, as well as the invitations and hopes of the Gospel - to lead them to a sense of sinfulness as well a s to faith in the blood of Jesus, but I fear that a great multitude of them, do not feel as deeply as they ought their utter unworthiness, notwithstanding their full and ample confessions with the lips. But it is not easy for this people to feel without animal excitement, which I have from the first guarded against, and as there have been scarcely any instances of falling away for n o w nearly a year, my hopes are more confirmed that their repentance and faith are sincere. Still I would hope with trembling, knowing as I do the fickle character of this people. Early in the month of December I appointed a 4 days meeting at Waiawa, which was well frequented, and attended with happy effects. �Ewa 1846 3 Since then the work has gradually extended into every part of m y field, even the most remote, and new cases of inquiry have been coming in every d a y , until the list has swelled to upwards of 500. I have an overflowing & attentive congregation on the sabbath, and some of the happiest moments of my life have been in the pulpit, and in the social meetings during the last few months. I have an effi­ cient & active company of elders, who are an invaluable help to me. Some of them I hope may yet become preachers of the Gospel. On the first sabbath in January I received 39 candidates into works of grace the church as the final fruits of the most of w h o m had been more or less interested in religions duties for some years previous, and were the first to come out on the side of the Lord. On the 12th of April last 48 more were received on the profession of their faith, besides several by certificate. I have recently learned for the first time that there are many persons long resident within the districts of Ewa and Waianae, who were ch. members on Hawaii previous to their migration to this island, and who came away without a pastoral letter, and have until recently remained in the ranks of infidelity. These are now desirous to return again to the bosom of the church. I would propose to the pastors on Hawaii, that they give certificates of membership to as many as shall apply for the same, while they are present at gen. meeting, leaving it with us who reside on this island, to receive them or not as they shall appear fitted, to again enter into the covenant vows. The probability is however that those only will apply who are really desirous to unite with the people of God. Since the commencement of the present work of grace, great num­ bers of backsliding ch. members, who have been for years in a state of separation from us, have professed repentance, and are now desirous �Ewa 1846 4 to return to the bosom of the church. Others, and not a few still remain unaffected with the present state of things; and to human appearances they will continue thus and die in their sins. Many catholic professors have also left their lying vanities, and are seen worshiping ( !) with us. The papal cause within our bounds appears to b e declining, and those who have not professedly forsaken them, appear to have lost their zeal towards popery, and seldom attend their meetings. The experiment to obtain contributions to the friends of the mission has been as successful as could have been anticipated. They are taken up after each communion season, and have averaged from $20. to 40.00, the latter being the largest sum contributed at any one time. The whole sum paid over to the agents down to the month of September last is $114.68. The contribution of Jany of the present year $23.00 was given to the Waialua chapel, and that of April the present year, $34.37 1/2is now on hand in season to effect some repairs about our chapel. The whole sum contributed by our people in cash during the past 2 years is $172.68. The church and congregation at Waiawa deserves a distinct notice. After an interval of three years from the time their chapel was blown down, a new adobie building, constructed after the model of that at Ewa, has been completed. The delay was occasioned princi­ pally by the want of a suitable leader on the ground to conduct the operations, as well as the low state of religious feeling among the people. As an illustration I will cite the instance of my applica­ tion to the Gov. for 6 days of hana aupuni (government work) for the people to bring timber from the mountains. The request was granted and proclamation made for them to. repair to the mountain on a certain day. The catholicks took the occasion to have a hana a u p u n i of their �Ewa 1846 5. own to bring stones for a wall, and gave out I think about 10 stones to each man as a day's work. As the stones were close at hand, the whole district with the exception of the members of the church went to the catholic's work, and even four of my own church members passed over to them on the occasion, in order to be rid of helping to build the Protestant chapel, and the government grant had well nigh proved a failure. Had it not been for the pecuniary aid I afforded, nothing could have been effected. The chapel was however finished and dedicated in Jany last, at an expense to me of $520,00, which includes a little more than half of the work put upon the house. At the time of the dedication I held a 4 days meeting assisted by Br, L. Smith, and closed with a communion season on the sabbath. This was the commencement of a very interesting work of grace which is now in progress in that district. Since that time I have visited them several times, and have been much encouraged by full and atten­ tive congregations not only on the sabbath but on all occasions at other times. The same is constantly reported of them by my elders & others who have visited them at different times. The no. of inquirers from the world who have been entered on the lists is now rising of 200, and the hearers on the sabbath fill the house. Great numbers of catholicks, have left their popery and are now regular worshippers with the protestants. Almost every one who left my church to j oin the papists have now returned, and it is reported that their congregation is reduced to but a few. The no of children in their schools both there and at Ewa amount o n to the protestant schools. to 1 in 6 of those attached Six years ago it was predicted by the catholic bishop who was lost in the Jose Marie, that in five years from that time Romanism would prevail here, and the protestant missionaries be sent away. But I have never known their cause so low as now since the year 1840. �Ewa 1846 6. N o w is the crisis when we should settle a good native preacher at Waianae. There is a good house for him which cost m e 120 dollars, and land has been promised by the g o v t . as soon as we shall settle a preacher. It is probably the most promising field now open for such a laborer in the islands, and I want the best man we can find for the post. It will be proper also for the mission to make some provision for his support, during a few of the first years of his settlement until his land shall become productive. The people will doubtless render him aid, principally in cultivating his land, but which cannot be available at once for his support. They also promise to contri­ bute money, but that cannot be relied on except as to help out the grant which we may vote him. These measures I would extend to any other part of the islands where suitable native preachers could be advantageously located. There is at least one other place on this island which has equal claims with Waianae, and that is Hauula in Koolau, now under the superintendance of Br. Parker, and of which it is said a large congregation is already gathered. Statistics for Ewa & Waianai Whole no. received on examination Whole no. on certificate Received the past 2 years on examination Do Do on certificate Whole no. received the past 2 years Whole no. dismissed to other chs Dismissed the past 2 years Whole no. deceased Deceased the 2 past years Suspended the 2 past years Remain suspended Excommunicated the past 2 years Remain excommunicated Whole no. in regular standing Whole no. of children baptized Marriages the 2 past years Whole no. of children in the schools Catholic schools (5 at Ewa, 2 at Waianae) Average congregation May 1, 1846 Ewa 1845 1846 1845 1846 1239 1326 38 28 31 37 160 165 6 9 87 6 5 2 3 11 12 2 95 224 229 4 5 3 1 4 154 184 20 15 -30 25 5 13 10 3 -6 4 4 — 1 2 5 — 2 1 4 861 162 948 171 — -— --including 47 71 places -226 635 ““ — — 104 47 800 1200 400 600 �Church statistics for Ewa & Waianae year ending May 1, 1847 Whole no. received on examination 193 Whole no. on certificate 82 176 411 155 45 11 456 166 *250 9 10 1 206 27 22 7 Suspended the past year 3 2 Remain suspended 3 2 150 6 4 1 144 7 Received the past year on examination " on certificate Whole no. received the past year Whole no. dissmissed to other chs. Dismissed the past year Whole no. deceased Deceased the past year Whole no. excommunicated Excommunicated the past year Remain excommunicated 1481 Whole no. in Regular standing 81 in Marriages the past year Whole no. of children in the schools " in Catholic schools Average congergation * numbers not clear. (prot) 339 10 (word not clear) 917 inin both districts 189 1200 400 �Report of the Station at Ewa & Waianae For the 2 years ending May 1, 1848 The duties pertaining to the station at Ewa have through the Divine blessing, been discharged during the 2 years past, without the interruption of a single week from ill health. For more than a year, there has been no special attention to Religion in my field. The Revival influences which I had the privilege to report at our last meeting, have ceased. Yet an encouraging attention to the worship of the Sabbath, and to all the religious meetings of the wee k days, and in particular to the. morning prayer meetings still continues. Some however who for a time gave hopeful indications of seriousness, and who partook of the sympathies of the religious feeling during the revival have fallen away. A few of these succeeded in getting into the church, and some of them are there still, but the greater part of them failed to give the evidence necessary to obtain church member­ ship, and are now where they began among the unbelievers. But the defection of all these has been attended with no disastrous reaction. The far greater part of those received for 2 or 5 years past, still hold on their way, and appear to run well. At no time since my re­ sidence at Ewa have I felt more encouraged to hope for ray people & the nation that Christianity may work out their preservation, than at the present. Could the causes of depopulation in the country be arrested and their upward progress in numbers be ascertained, I should not hesitate at once to declare that Christianity had obtained the victory over the evil that threatens to annihilate them. Already I can perceive the tendencies to this point, in the mental & physical improvement of the rising generation. In their flourishing schools, their civilized dress, their efforts to obtain the appurtenances of civilization in their houses, such as chairs, bedsteads, tables & �Ewa 1848 2. table furniture, and cooking utensils, the feeling of moral sense upon the community in a more elevated degree than formerly, and the pater­ nal watchfulness of parents over their children, imperfect as all these yet are, still they are indications for good. More than these their increasing & permanent regard for the ordinances of God's house, their reverent and fixed attention to God's truth, and the very few cases of ch. discipline are encouragements of still greater import. They testify to my mind that the time is not far distant, when the people will voluntarily assume to themselves the support of the Gospel. But to these favorable indications of religious pros­ perity, there are many cases of the reverse, and the church is yet far fro m being purified from unworthy members. They are there in our midst and to our sorrow, for the mass of them are evidently self-de­ ceived, and are therefore in a more hopeless condition than those who never made the profession of religion. But with their dead weight upon our hands, the church of Ewa was never in a more propitious state than at present. In all the indications of outward prosperity, of in­ creasing wealth and industry, and of personal security under the vigilant protection of a mild Christian government, we can add that of inward union brotherly fellowship, and an increasing spirit of liberality in contributing towards the support of the Gospel. During the 2 years just passed, the 2 churches of Ewa & Waianae, have raised and paid over into my hands for various religious purposes, more than a thousand dollars, and y e t the effort has by no means exhausted their ability to do. The schools of Ewa & Waianae are prosperous, and the teachers continue to be well paid. The children enrolled in Ewa are 734 Protestant and 110 Catholic, and in Waianae they amount to 179 protestant to 80 catholics, making a gain of 14 in the Protestant & 9 �Ewa 1848 3 in the Catholic schools over the no. enrolled last year. are kept up 9 mos in the year. The schools The actual advance of the scholars in the different branches of instruction, does not keep pace with the time in which they are taught. Still there is a small but perceptible advance from one examination to another in all the elementary branches of learning. The state of Religion at Waianae is very much the same as in Ewa. There is no special religious interest but much that is en­ couraging, and no retrograde movements. The watchword is onward in all my field. I have an efficient company of elders both at Waianae & Ewa, who afford me very valuable aid in all my labors, especially at the little mass-meetings held in the different villages of the dis­ trict. But it is their exemplary Christian influence which I most value. But I was speaking of Waianae. At my last visit there a few days since, I found a full and orderly congregation, both on Saturday, & the sabbath which was the season of their communion. Indeed my whole tarry there was but a succession of interesting religious ex­ ercises, during which their attention was well sustained to the end. It will be 2 years in August, since Waimalu removed there fr o m Lanai. I must say that my hopes in the experiment of a native preacher have been more than realized in this case. He has discharged in great part the duties of a pastor under my direction & subject to my approval, and for more than a year has performed the marriages in that district, by virtue of a license from the Governor. During the first year of his residence, he received $135.00 in cash of which 110 were contri­ buted by the people of Waianae exclusive of presents, and $25.00 by the people of Ewa. During the past year, he has received his whole support from the people of his charge, amounting to $120.00 in cash. When I engaged his services, I guaranteed to him $100 annually. But �Ewa 1848 4. as he has a large family, and moved then in quite destitute circum­ stances, I found it did not equal his need, and therefore allowed him the whole of what the people should contribute for h im over the above specified sum. During the past year the people of Ewa have erected a gallery in their chapel, at an expense of $762.00, the last of which was paid off 3 days ago. There is however a considerable sum yet to be paid in painting & finishing & plastering about the gallery windows. In conclusion, I beg to add briefly that my people are abundantly able to support me, & I hope that ere long they may be willing. At any rate we must gird up our minds to meet the crisis which is approaching when the patronage of the Am. churches will be withdrawn, and let not that day take us by surprize ( !), The subject of raising up native pastors too must be more thoroughly discussed at this meet­ ing that it has b e en done heretofore. I can see no reason why we may not begin now the attempt before it shall be so late that we shall be left by the chs of our native land, to shift for ourselves without the means of meeting the exigency. (Unsigned; A. Bishop) �Ewa 1848 . 5 Statistics for the Stations of Ewa & Waianae For the 2 years ending May 1, 1848 Ewa Waianae 1847 1848 1847 1848 1772 1904 193 251 82 92 182 184 411 132 155 58 45 10 11 2 Whole no. received during the year 456 142 166 60 Whole no. dismissed to other churches 250 262 9 13 10 12 2 2 206 246 27 30 22 45 7 3 Suspended the past year 3 4 2 12 Remain suspended 5 4 2 7 150 159 6 7 Excommunicated the past year 4 9 1 1 Remain excommunicated in all 104 111 7 1481 1558 339 392 81 57 10 23 Whole no. of children in protestant schools - 734 - 197 Do 110 - 88 Average congregation 1200 -- 400 Contributed for various purposes $349.87 1/2 $473 Whole no. received on examination Whole no. on certificate Received on examination during the year Do. on certificate Dismissed the past year Whole no. deceased Deceased the past year Whole no excommunicated Whole no. in regular standing Marriages the past year in Catholic schools $ 110.00 $ 120 �Report of Ewa & Waianae Ap ril 1, 1849 Brethren, This is perhaps the last time which I as a member of the Mission, shall he privileged to present a Report to a Gen. M eeting. yet I hope to continue my correspondence with you, And and the patrons of this mission at Boston, as heretofore. It had been my intention to begin \ the experiment of a parochial support on the first of Jany. of the present year, but the prevailing sickness at that time prevented the effort among my people until the first of the present month. During the Month of March subscriptions towards my support were ob­ tained among my people to the amount of 4 or 500 dollars, and altho I d o n ’t expect that all the subscribers will pay to the full amount of their subscriptions, yet during the past week of the present month were brought in as their first quarterly effort upwards of $100. in cash. So that I feel encouraged to go forward without apprehension. I wrote to the B oard in June last applying for a dismission from their service, and am daily expecting a reply granting the same on such terms as shall be settled by us with the Board at this present session. It is so far settled in our minds, that the experiment of a separate support will go on, as contemplated last year, independant of any ar­ rangements, should such fail of taking place between this Mission and the Board. The past has been a year of trials and sorrows among my people in I passing through scenes of sickness and d eath, beyond what/had ever witnessed. It was not merely that the Angel of D eath has been among us, for to his stroke all mortals are subject, but it was the affecting fact that the Hawaiian was singled out for slaughter in the presence of an alien population, who dwelt among them in fearless security, intact by the plague that was decimating the aborigines. It was the fact �Ewa 1849 2. that no means could be efficatious to save their lives, which proved effectual up o n foreigners, solely because of their unwillingness to submit to the regimen prescr i bed. a set of quacks & impostors, died in the deception. They preferred their native physicians to the drugs of their foreign teachers, and Many honorable exceptions are however to be noted enough indeed to give one full & daily employment for many months in prescribing & administering medicines. St ill they died around on every side, and the toll of the funeral bell was heard every day. Until that time I had clung with tenacity to the hope, that this people would even­ tually be preserved in their distinct nationality to future generations. I had believed that the power of Christianity was sufficient to deliver them not only from the thraldom of sin, but to rescue them from ex­ tinction. I confidently expected, therefore, that a stop wou l d even­ tually be made to their downward course, when they would begin again to increase upwards a purified generation through the power of religion. My faith in the power of Religion has not been shaken, It is sufficient to accomplish all this and more, but religion never interferes with the effect of natural laws in its operations. It purifies the heart, but leaves the body subject to the laws of being which govern the natural system. Now these people, having violated those natural laws, must suffer the penalties con s e q u e n t upon their error, whether knowingly or not, in the enfeeblement and premature death of their race. Christianity will doubtless prolong their brief existence as a people, but unless a speedy change of habits in living takes place, it cannot procure a final arrest of the inexorable laws of their being. Their present danger is, they may not survive the transition process, and like the tribes of North America\ , melt away before the vices of civilization & before they shall have obtained the means & skill to arrest the progress of disease & death. One more such a mortality as we have just passed through, and such an one may visit us under the form of small pox or Cholera; one �Ewa 3. 1849 more such a season would probably put it beyond, their power to pass in safety the crisis of their existence. How strikingly their former athletic frames & warlike habits contrast with their present enfee bled & effeminate bodies. all this been brought about? H o w has They were as licentious in ancient times as at the worst periods of their later existence. But the diseases incident to intercourse with vicious foreigners has brought about the present diseased condition of their bodies, & destroying their healthy procreative powers. There are no indications of improved health or habits that imply a possibility of their preservation from utter extinction as a pure Polynesian race. The only thing we can hope for is that a few whose blood has not been corrupted by disease, if such can be found, may by the purifying influence of faith, may in themselves and their descendants be preserved from that corruption of blood that is cutting short their lives. But to return to my field. Until the month of October the usual routine of things went on with their wonted results. Religious meet­ ings and schools were well attended, altho in religious things there was a gradual but perceptible declension. Still there was no outbreak of sin, b u t the creeping in of a more worldly Spirit than formerly. About the middle of Oct. the measles broke out and spread like wildfire. Suddenly the congregation diminished from 1200 to 40 or 50 on the sabbath day. All the schools were suspended, and I could not get together singers on the sabbath to form the skeleton of a quoir ( !). My own hea(l)th xxx however was good, and my time was fully occupied in administering to the sick & dying and in burying the dead. I forbear to relate particulars, these are familiar to us all, the progress and consequences of the sickness were the same with us as in other places. Burying the | dead was the great work, all other occupations were suspended, and people staggered about like walking corpses. During the 3 or 4 months of the �Ewa 1849 4. sickness, the deaths in my church at Ewa exceeded a 100, and those of Waianae were 45 a greater no. than had died since they were organized into a church. The mortality consequent upon that season of sickness has not wholly subsided to this day. I recorded no less than 9 deaths in my church during the month of March, and four have died the past w e e k of the present month. Since their recovery from sickness, the people have been in a more apathetic state of Religious feeling than before, and many have not returned to public worship at all, upon the plea of feeble health. About one fourth of the congregation is missing, from death, lingering illness, & religious apathy. It is within but a short time that my former hopes have revived that all is not lost, and that we still have a great work to do, and many souls to be saved through our instrumentality. must be done quickly. And what we have to do It may be that another season of mortality is at hand, and woe betide us if we suffer the blood of the dying to be found in our skirts. Census. The no of inhabitants in the district of Ewa on the first week in Jan. was 2386. Deaths during the year '48 Inhabitants in Waianae 232, Births, 26 922 Deaths in Waianae in '48, 91, Births Whole no of inhabitants in my field -- 11 3308 No of deaths 323 No of births 37 Proportion of deaths to the whole po pulation 1 to 10 1/4 & a portion over. The people of Waianae have continued to support Waimalu their preacher, who has continued faithful & useful to the present period among �Ewa them. 1849 5 Their contributions are rising of 100 dolls. for the year, besides the avails of his land given b y the govt. Besides supporting their preacher, the people of Waianae have raised $150.00 during the year for the purchase of a hell. The Ewa contributions are less than usual during the year, viz. for the chapel $100.00 & for the support of their pastor on the first of the present month, 145.00 dollars. Statistical Table for the 11 mos. ending Apr. 1, 1849 For the Station of Ewa & Waianae. Received on examination the past year, Whole n o . on examination Dismissed the past year Whole no dismissed Deceased the past 11 months Whole no deceased Excluded the past year Whole n o . remaining excluded In regular standing Children baptized the past year Whole no. baptized Marriages the past year Average congregation No of schools in the district No of protestant scholars in both places Catholic scholars in do Ewa Waianae 10 1914 18 290 771 356 8 167 1430 35 559 44 900 11 5 256 8 21 49 79 6 13 334 4 8 729 117 �Ewa Station Report & Statisticks for the Year 1851 During the past 2 years the services of the sanctuary at the Ewa Station have been maintained without any interruption, and w h e n I have been absent or unable to administer from illness, the services have been conducted by the leading members of the church. The cause of religion has been during the time not perceptibly advancing, and we have hardly been able to hold our own. The spirit of the world has cre pt into the/church, & the desire to acquire property has absorbed the minds of our people to the exclusion of the more serious concerns of the soul. The extraordinary rise in the price of every thing that is the production of native labor, has rendered the acquiring of money so easy that it has taken a strong hold upon the native mind, and in the same proportion loosened their attach­ ments to spiritual things. Their attendance on the morning services of the sabbath is usually good, but about one half of the church & congregation return home at noon to take their accustomed sieste ( !), & their distance from the chapel is too great to enable them to return to the afternoon service. I have long labored to induce them to break up that pernicious habit, but it is too deeply rooted to be easily eradicated. The weekly meet­ ings are but sparsely attended, as every man is so absorbed in his farm or his petty trafficing, as to be illy able to spare time towards atten­ dance on religious meetings on the week days. The question often arises in my own mind, whether this state of things is not partly the result of my own secular labors. And it has not been without many doubts and misgivings on my part whether I am in the path of duty to leave my pastoral labors for the purpose of survey­ ing. But all the physicians I have consulted concur in telling me that o frequent and persevering exercise is the only remedy that will restore �Ewa 1851 2. the healthy circulation of the fluids of my system. ated by my own experience for the last 10 months. This is corrobor­ And moreover I must also have an impelling motive to keep up the habit of exercise or I shall fail to take sufficient to benefit me. I have usually so arranged my labors at surveying, as to secure my attendance upon all the stated labors of the pulpit, but find myself unable to visit my people, and interest myself in their personal & spiritual welfare so much as form­ erly. There have been many deaths in our church during the 2 years past, and but few additions. But the great cause of decrease among us is the migratory habits of the people. Our church members wander off to other parts, without taking a dismission from the church, and thus become lost from all knowledge of their location, and in fact become absorbed again in the world. predicament. is not known. and uncertain. A large proportion of the Ewa church is in this They stand on my books as members but their whereabouts This renders all statisticks about their numbers incorrect I hesitate therefore about presenting any statistics, until a new enumeration of the church as it now exists be made out, which we purpose to do during the present year. Since my last report the station of Waianae has become disconnected from Ewa, and a pastor Stephen Waimalu has been ordained & installed over that ch. & congregation. This took place in September of last year. Waimalu is laboring successfully among that people, and as far as ap­ pears to their satisfaction. I have not any report from that station to present at this time, but would recommend that both he & Kekela be in­ vited to make a written statement of their fields & the progress of the work within their bounds. The question is continually recurring to my mind, Can anything further be done to effectually stay the progress of extinction that is, xxxxxx going on around us throughout the whole bounds of the Hawaiian �Ewa 1851 nation? 3. Are we to give them over as a doomed people? The connection has long been fastened on all our minds that this rapid diminution is the effect of moral causes, which have hitherto been in the power of the people to avert or accelerate, but which must soon pass even beyon d their power to arrest. Our sole reliance has formerly been upon the influence of the Gospel to effect, by purifying the hearts & morals of the community, and thus removing the causes that produce such deadly results. But hitherto even this has failed, except in some individual instances, while the mass of the nation is still marching wi t h rapid strides to its grave. But the stamina of life is now nearly exhausted, they have become so enfeebled by disease, and yet are so insensible to their destiny, that it is becoming almost hopeless to revive them. more vigorous race must soon take their place. A But it must be our effort to bring as many o f these yet alive as possible to the knowledge of the Saviour. And while the feeling of hope that once stimulated us to many enterprizes, that we supposed conducive to elevate them in the scale of civilization are crushed, yet despondency as to the salvation of many souls by our future labors, must not for a moment be cherished. Our past success, & the promises of the Saviour, are before our eyes, as stimulants to encourage us forward in all spiritual labors. I may have indulged, at times, too much in feelings of despondency, for my good or the good of my people. But God only knows how many hopes have been crushed, of whom I had expected better things than have been realized. But the thought of forsaking or remitting my work, has not been enter­ tained. I feel that I must labor here for their good the few years that remain for me to work. May the Lord prosper his own cause, & in his own time and manner. (Unsigned; A. Bishop) �Abstract of Ewa Report (1852 ?) There has been a gradual increase of interest in the concerns of Religion, during the past year, the congregation is larger than formerly, attention better, social religious meetings more frequent. Some fifty persons mostly young people have come out from the world, and profess to have taken the Lord Jesus as their Saviour. Some of these appear very well, others are not so clear in their Religious views. The individuals suspended from ch. priviliges for not attending the services of the sabbath, has had a good effect any ( !) many of them have been recently restored to their former standing. The per­ sons excinded for persisting in attendance upon the heathenish dances, mostly remain so, some have gone over to the Catholics, some have died, and others still profess repentance and wish to return to the bosom of the church. Contributions the p a s t year For support of pastor F o r Missions $150.00 including 9 mos. 90.00 In January last the people commenced preparation for raising $2,500.00 to shingle the church, and to assist the effort, the pastor relinquished any support for one year. �Report of the Station of Ewa, May 1852 There has been no special change in the state of Religion at Ewa, from what was reported the last year excep(t) a gradual increase of the congregation on the sabbath, and some hopeful cases of conversion, concerning which we are waiting for the fruits to appear and mature be ­ fore gathering them into the church. There have, therefore, been no additions to the church the last year, for the first time since my re­ sidence at the station. The persons now calling themselves "Hookaikas" are mostly young people, a class peculiarly exposed to temptation, and from w h o m in years past we have mostly suffered in instances of reli­ gious defection. There are now about 50 candidates mostly of this class who visit me weekly for religious instruction. There have been 2 seasons of sifting among my people during the year w hich have served to separate in some measure the wheat from the chaff. At our April communion of last year I gave out public notice that all persons habitually abstaining from public worship on the sabbath, would hereafter be excluded from communion. Directions were also given the the ( !) lunas of each a p a n a to search out all persons of this class and induce them if possible to return to their duty, and to make an account of all such as refused to attend public worship. These steps were attended with good effects upon many who acknowledged their sin, and returned once more to the house of God. Others who had deliberately made made ( !) up their minds to stay away, were publicly read off on the next communion day, a number amounting to nearly a hundred. Prom that day forward the good effects of the measure were apparent in calling the attention of the people to the duty of punctual attendance upon the ordinances of the gospel, and bringing numbers back to their sworn allegiance. �Ewa 1852 But another crisis was at hand more trying to us all than the last. The young cheifs ( !) who have been educated with so much care, and upon whom a brother & sister of this mission have sacrificed the flower of their days, & who had been admitted into the highest circles in Europe & America, came over to Ewa in August and set up the Hula. Now, this may seem to an unsuspicious mind to have been a small affair not de­ serving a serious notice before such an assembly as this. But if there are any who think thus, let them inquire more fully into the nature & prospect of a Hula, and they will find it a compound of all that is corrupting & debasing to the human mind. So much even that a mere state­ ment of its nature will not hear to "be written in English on paper. But to the Hawaiian m i n d the Hula is a very amusing and entertaining pastime. Despite all my warnings and entreaties whole neighborhoods turned out xxxxx either to witness & laugh at the song & dance, and among the rest many of our unstable church members. Many of these were afterwards re­ claimed & restored, but at the Oct. communion I was compelled to cut off from the church about 40 persons who stedfastly refused to forsake their favorite sport, with the young chiefs. How many souls have been ruined by that thoughtless measure, none can tell, but some of those then cut off have already died & gone to the eternal world in their inpenitence. But the worst part of the affair Is the corruption it has wrought upon the young, for whole families of all ages & both sexes frequented these sports, until they were finally broken up by the authorities, who were along while afraid to act, because of the high prestige of the young chiefs who threatened to shoot any one who attempted to interfere with their pleasures. As a corrollary to the affair, a whole neighborhood at Waikele the place of the Hulas, went off & joined the Catholicks, out of pure revenge for being disciplined, where they were received with open �Ewa 1852 3. arms, and the school of the place came well ni g h being broken up, by the parents taking their children with them, & to complete the tri­ umph, a Catholic school has been established on that spot as the legitimate fruits of the hula. The continual tendency of my system to suffer from a painful feeling of cold in the lower limbs, has induced me to continue fre­ quent and active exercise, principally surveying excursions. In this business, I have spent about 3 months from home during the year, but preaching on every sabbath to the people of the places of my labors. As the business of surveying is however about done up, some other active employment requiring travel on foot must be devised about home in order to wear away the cause of the complaint. The People of Ewa have contributed about 50 dolls quarterly towards my support, for the 3 communions of July, Oct. & Jany last, making $150. in all, But as they are now making an effort to raise 2500.00 dolls for roofing their chapel, I have voluntarily relinquished any further support from them for one year. The contributions for the monthly concert already raised by them since last Gen. Meeting, amount g gen Meeting. to $91 .00, which I expect to pay over at the ensuin ensuing (U nsigned; A. Bishop) �Statistics of Ewa for Year ending Apl. 30th 1852 Received on examination the past year, none Whole no. on examination 1916 Dismissed the past year 12 Whole no dismissed 317 Deceased the past year 20 Whole no deceased 420 Excluded the past year 130 Whole no remaining excluded 300 In regular standing 878 Children baptized the past year 6 Whole no baptized 568 Marriages the past year 53 Average congregation 600 N o of Protestant schools in the district " Catholic " " 8 No of Protestant scholars " 699 Catholic Whole no schools 17 169 32 Scholars 860 Births 36 Deaths 43 �Report of the Station at Ewa, for May 1853 In making my Report for the present year, I have first to account the Goodness of our Covenant God in graciously bringing together all the members of my family after a long separation of many years. I trust my brethren will sympathize with us in this kind providence as I hope to rejoice with them for similar blessings in future years. I feel now more than ever that these islands are my home, and that here I shall live till I am called home. I have also to record my acknowledgements to the Lord, in enabling us to procure the means of a livelihood without any support but from our own resources. In the be­ ginning of 1852 I voluntarily relinquished my salary which I had received from my people, for 1 year, and in Jany last I did the same for the pr esent year, in order the better to enable them to raise the means of covering & finishing off the church building, which has b e ­ come dilapidated. We have now nearly obtained the amount required to shingle the building, which we hope to accomplish during the ensuing summer. The state of religion among my people is encouraging, more so than at any time for 5 years past. The catholicks have been making stren­ uous efforts among the people, & have met with some success among a certain class of persons. They have depicted the religion of protes- tants as a money making scheme, and its teachers as wolves in sheep's clothing, who are only destroying the flock for the sake of the fleece. The recent attempt among us to raise money for church purposes, has given occasion to them to represent to the people that I am seeking only for their money, and not their sou l s salvation. To the poe hoomaloka (unbelieving people ), & the selfish & ignorant this has been an inducement to j oin the catholics, as they boast they will not call on their people to contribute money. Several members of my church, who �Ewa 2. 1853 never gave any thing for the gospel have left us and joined the Papists, while others who have been disciplined for immoral conduct have also gone the same way, & been received with open arms. But we have not been diminished by their desertion, on the contrary our congregation has steadily increased during the past year, many excluded members have returned on profession of repentance, while 65 from the world have joined us, and 40 more are propounded to be received in July next. There is also a goodly number of inquirers, many of whom will be received during the coming year. Since the first of June of last year, $209 have b e e n contributed to the Missionary Society at the monthly concert, and $91 paid over, the remainder has been retained, to meet the possible exigencies of the chapel, should it be called for, with the intention to refund it to the Society afterwards. Since July, they have raised upwards of $1,500 for the chapel, & will need as much more for the entire contem­ plated repairs. Preaching has b e en continued during nearly every Sabbath, since the last Gen. meeting, and a sabbath school has been well kept up, while the Ai o k a l a ’s lasted, since which time the school has been converted into a Bible class. Daily morning Prayer meetings have been held in nearly every apana of the district, and social religious meet­ ings have been frequently appointed in the different parts of my field, which have been attended with good effects. The schools have been prosperous, the nos of children have been on the decrease. In the station school at Waiawa, when I first went there to reside, there were upwards of sixty scholars. Now they number about twenty. But few of the families have any children of their own, and in that whole school district, I know of but 2 infants under a year old, in a population of about 150 persons. �Ewa 1853 3. Before closing this Report I wish to mention a few facts concern­ ing m y house. I wish it to continue as the property of the Board. It is the poorest house in the mission, and has cost the Board less than any other. For 10 years past or more, if my memory serves me I have not asked for a grant but once to put it in repair, and that was for only 50 dollars to rethatch it. But I have paid out every year more or less from my own money for its repairs. thatching & a fence. The past year I paid $200 for The present year I shall need to spend still more, but have not the means I possessed when engaged in surveying. The H ouse would not sell for much, if it should ever be disposed of, and for that reason I have never asked for a grant to shingle it, which would cost perhaps $1500. sum on a covering. But the walls are too poor to expend that I wish therefor to let the Board hold it, & keep it in repair while I use it, and when I shall leave, to relinquish it to my successor. But I shall need $3 or 400 the present year to put it into proper repair, and extend the fence around the yard. Possibly the most economical method after all would be to build a new house and take the materials of the old one to work into It. It might be done at a v very little advance upon the expense of a shingle covering upon the old walls. (Unsigned; A. Bishop) �Ewa 1853 4. Statistics of the Station at Ewa for A.D. 1853 Received on examination the past year 65 Whole no on examination 1981 Dismissed the past year 12 Whole no Dismissed 329 Deceased the past year 25 Whole no Deceased 445 Excluded the past year 34 Whole no remaining excluded 325 In regular standing 912 Children Baptized 10 Whole no Children baptized 578 Marriages the past year 52 Average congregation 800 Contributed to monthly concert $ 209 Do for repairing the church $1,500 �Report for Ewa Station, May 1854 The two prominent events of the last year, of our residence at Ewa, ar e the completion of the roof of our chapel, and the great mor­ tality among the people by the small p o x . After my return home in June of last year I set myself to com­ pleting the collections for finishing the roof of the chapel. At the close of the first sabbath in July, the people had made up $750.00 in addition to the $1756 previously contributed. On the arrival of the lumber in July, the work began and was finished in September follow­ ing at an expense of a little more than $2700.00. As the shingles are of shaved cedar, and the roof steep, it is estimated that it will stand good for 20 years. We were much indebted to Timoteo Keawuivi of Lahaina, for the last and crowning effort, towards which he contri­ buted $105 of his own money. I wish to record this testimony of my gratitude & that of my people, without which as it afterwards became evident, we should have failed and I should have become responsible for at least $500 without the hope of relief from the people. Another object also called for immediate & pressing attention on my return from Gen. Meeting, - the taking all precautionary measures to prevent the spread of the small pox. I procured vaccine matter from the physicians of Honolulu, and vaccinated some 1500 persons when I discovered that the matter was spurious, and tho many of the sores suppurated, yet they did not assume a proper form, or have a proper vaccine scar. In the mean time the mortality was fast spreading through the district and there were n o means to prevent its approach. The people seemed bewildered, and when one of them was taken down, against all warning the friends of the patient refused to separate, but declared they would stay by & die with them. It is not necessary that I go into a detail of that season of �Ewa 1854 2. sorrow & trial which we passed through, & from which I did not myself escape without feeling its influence in my own person. here, that not a house or family in Ewa escaped. families were cut off. separated by death. Let it suffice In m a n y cases, whole Husbands & wives parents & children, were The whole state of society became disorganized, almost every family was broken up. In the whole district between July and October inclusive, upwards of half of the people died and of those who escaped, many are still enfeebled in consequence. In the church we have lost upwards of 400 members, including several of my best men. We feel ourselves very much crippled in consequence. Many sad & affecting feelings, mingled with discouragement have followed my labors through the year, & that to a degree far beyond what I ever before suffered. But,the affliction was from the Lord, and this alone has reconciled me to the dispensation. try and prove us. It was doubtless sent to But it is sad to confess, that the people have not laid it to heart as a means of spiritual benefit. The whole state of society became for a while disorganized, both in family ties broken, and in property claims from contending h e i r s . For a few months after the sickness passed by, there was much secret & open vice, and much litigation to settle property claims. deplorable for a season. The effect upon religion was The Sabbath was not well observed, & few meetings but thinly attended, and immorality prevailed (hole in paper) things have now settled down to a calm much as formerly, except that there is much apathy prevailing on the subject of religion, as was the case after the measles in 1848. The contributions of the church during the past year are 1 For covering the chapel $600.00 2 For monthly concert, $120, Sixty of which I have been obliged to use In liquidating the school debt, &. there remains ? O.OO 3. By the Ewa A u x . Miss. Society, instituted on the 5th instant 30.00 4 For support of pastor 170.00 Total $ 920. (Unsigned; A. Bishop) �Ewa 1854 3. Statistics of the Church at Ewa, May 1854 Received on examination the past year 52 Whole no on examination 2033 Dismissed the past year 10 Whole no Dismissed 339 Deceased the past year 410 Whole no deceased 855 Excluded the past year 5 Whole no remaining excluded 328 In regular standing, resident members 370 Massing, residence unknown 151 Children Baptized past year 12 Whole no baptized 590 Marriages the past year 137 Average congregation 300 �Report for Ewa 1855 The events of the past year have been few and of no special interest in a religious point of view. The ordinary labors of the pastor have been continued, in the sabbath and week day preaching, the ordinances of the gospel have been regularly administered, rers have been instructed in the principles of Christianity, inqui­ and a small number have been admitted to the fellowship of the church. The state of religion however continues low, there has bee n a falling off from the former attendance upon the ordinances of the sabbath, and from the week-day meetings. This is to be attributed in part to the many removals of ch. members to other places, but mostly to de­ bilitated state of health which has pervaded the people since the time of the small pox. Altho there have been fewer deaths than usual, yet there has been no time when so many invalids existed among us as during the past year. All worldly enterprises among us have been suspended, so that food sufficient for the sustenance of the people has not been cultivated, and none for the market, except melons. This state of things has induced many people to remove to other places for the means of sustenance. My people have not only diminished, but the pastoral support has also diminished. I have depended for the past year upon personal effort mainly for the means of support. Early in October I commenced an English school with 43 scholars, all Hawaiians, and have continued it up to the present month with en­ couraging success. N on e of them had learned English previously to any extent, and I had to begin with them in the alphabet. They have made various progress, according to their-----?-----talent for acquiring the foreign sounds. One of them is reading in John, a class of 12 have j. nearly completed the reading of the Hawaiian Phrase Book, and the remainder are in various stages of progress in Webster's Spelling Book. �Ewa 2. 1855 The school has occupied most of the secular time I should have devoted to pastoral labors. But as it has been my only resource for the means of an adequate family support, I have felt myself justified in so doing, altho at a loss of spiritual benefit to the people. I have spent 5 hours each day in the school, and invariably with fatiguing results to the lungs, tho with interest to the mind. The experiment has thus far proved satisfactory to my mind, that the plan of teaching the English language to the rising generation is a feasible one, so far as giving them the power to read and speak the language in a broken but intelligible manner. The danger however is that the children will not persevere for a sufficient length of time to perfect themselves in a new language. I was not present last year during the time appointments were given out, and had proceeded some distance in the preparation of a Phrase Book, wh en I learned that Br. Smith had the appointment. I immediate­ ly offered to relinquish the text to him, but he insisted upon my going on and finishing it. The preparation of a New edition of the Eng. & Hawaiian Dictionary has been commenced, but since I began my school I have found but little time to persecute it, and it is uncertain when it will be ready for the press. It is a labor of more magnitude than I had contemplated. The contributions the past year have been smaller than in any previous year since they began to give for the support & spread of the gospel. This is to be attributed mainly to their present state of destitution, which is to be hoped will be but temporary. follows, viz For support of pastor For Haw. Missionary Society $150.00 93.00 They are as �Ewa 1855 3 The Statistics for May 18 5 5 Received on examination, past year Whole no. on examination 6 2339 Dismissed the past year 8 Whole no dismissed 347 Deceased the past year 12 Whole no. deceased 867 Excluded the past year 10 Whole no remaining excluded 330 In regular standing & in the field 362 Missing, residence unknown 160 Children baptized, past year 15 Whole no children baptized 605 Marriages past year 40 Average congregation 300 (Unsigned, but marked on back as the Report of A. Bishop) �Report of labors for the year ending May 1, 1857 Soon after the close of the anniversaries of last year, I embraced the earliest conveyance to Wailuku to fulfil the commission committed to me by this association. Soon after my arrival I embraced an oppor­ tunity to meet the lunas of Wailuku church, and opened to them the nature of my errand. They welcomed me kindly and bade me proceed to fulfil my duty as directed. On the sabbath morning I preached to them on the sub­ ject of christian love, and included the scriptural method of proceeding with offending members. After the sermon your resolutions were read to the assembled congre­ gation. After wh ich Br. Conde proposed to the church to rescind their proceedings towards B r . Bailey, which was accordingly done; when Br. B. arose and confessed to them his error in nearly the same manner as he had previously done in our presence. Br. Conde then arose, and very unexpectedly to all of us, resigned his office as their pastor. Thus terminated the Wailuku difficulty. I reported therefore to the brethren on my return that as Br. C. had fulfiled ( !) the conditions required by us, he would, I thought, be entitled to letters of recommendation to the churches in the U.S. as a member of our association in full standing, which were given him in our name by Br. Gulick. Until the return of Br. Clarke ( !) in January my labors were princi­ pally devoted to pastoral duties, in conjunction with B r . Armstrong, among the people worshiping in the Kawaiahao church. A s B r . A. had the pastoral care of the church, I shall leave with him the duty of making the re ­ port of my labors there. I will only add, that it was with me a labor of love, among that interesting people, from whom I have received many tokens of kindness, and no unpleasant event occurred during the time to mar the satisfaction I received. my associate & myself. Entire harmony also subsisted between �Ewa 1857 2. During that time I also paid a monthly visit to the people of my charge at Ewa, with whom I usually spend a few days including the Sabbath. Preaching and social meetings among that people have been kept up by Mahoe, a licensed preached from L. Luna, who has labored faithfully and successfully among them for the last year & a half. however, that the support I regret to add, given him by the people, has not been adequate to his services. There has been no special attention to religion in Ewa during the year. Several religious inquirers have appeared some of whom have been admitted to the ch. and others remain as candidates for membership. The attendance on public worship has not diminished, beyond the diminishing numbers of the people. There is a constant emigration from thence to other places, principally to Honolulu. influence now residing among them. off. There are but a few persons of My most reliable helpers have died The moral condition of the district has suffered some of. late in the erection of a dance house at Waikele, under the patronage as they say of the native official authorities, altho it is said those authorities disavow the patronage. At any rate the local authorities dare not in­ terfere to prevent the hula, but only send a delegate to maintain order. Popery has obtained a stronghold in that district, andmanages warily to pick up as many of my people as they can get, while under church censure. In many instances they have succeeded in aiding in that way of some unworthy church members. Setting aside the regret for our hopeless attempts for any further reclamation, it has been a relief to us rather than otherwise. On the other hand persons of their communion often leave them and come over to us. Of Mormonism I hear nothing in my field. It has never taken hold of any considerable portion of the people, so as to make up a congrega­ tion, and is reported now to be extinct. My impression is that deadly �Ewa 1857 3. imposture is dying out in these islands. Of the schools, that in the English language has been suspended, and will not he revived until sufficient funds for its support he provi­ ded. The Native schools are diminishing for want of children to keep up their number. There are but a few births in the district compared with the sea of married women, and of those born, the greater part die early Waiawa When I went to Ewa 21 years ago, the school of the single land of had 60 scholars in its school. Now that station school is only kept up, by the union of 3 other lands along wi t h Waiawa, and the no. of scholars amounts to about 30. through the district. A similar reduction of schools has taken place Ten years since there were 18 schools, where now we have only eight. In reference to the case of the press during the year, I have to inform you, that v e r y little has been done t h e past year for want of funds to print books. The only works printed were the completion of the Lena Hawaii, the Aiokala, and a Tract on Mormonism, with 3 other small tracts. These have been frequent calls for books which are out of print, and it has been a source of great regret that it devolved on me to announce the fact, while there were no means on hand to supply the de­ ficiency. There is a good supply of paper, and perhaps of type now nearly worn out, and scattered over the office all pellmell. The office is in inextricable disorder, but I had no means to remedy the disorder, and it continues as I found it. A considerable expense might refit it; by hiring a printer to go over the whole and collect the old type, and by purchasing some new fonts. But I think it would be better to dispose of the whole concern, and with the avails hire our printing done else­ where. Our native printers are slovenly & negligent, but beat up for - hi g h prices, as if they were good workmen. (Unsigned; A. Bishop) �Report of the church at Ewa. May 1859 In the return of another year of our existence as a Christian Association, it would give me great pleasure to report of progress being made in the conversion of souls, and the continued prosperity of the church under my care. But a good Providence has denied me that pleasure in my Report of the past year. I can only tell of the stationary condition of the people of Ewa, or rather, of their backward tendency when not progressing forward. For whe n there is no increase of a church by new accessions, and deaths are continu­ ally occurring among them, there is always a decrease of their num­ bers and spirituality. Two causes have mainly contributed to this state of things, viz, their destitution of a preacher during the greater part of the year, and the continuance of the idolatrous hulas among them. It is known that Mahoe left them last June for a mission to Micronesia, and his place was not supplied till the beginning of the present year, when Solomona from Lanai was called and settled there. Solomona is very acceptable to them, and they have pledged themselves to raise for h i m $200 per annum, which pledge they are fulfiling ( !). But he has been absent at Lanai since the month of March, and it is hoped his detention there by sickness In his family, will not discourage the people from continuing their attachment to him, for by their inquir­ ies about him I find they are anxious for his return to his labors. I have visited the people as often as I could make it convenient, spent several days at a visit. and The regular communion seasons have been observed, an d a pretty good turn out of the church has been obtained at such times. But I am pained to add, that at other times when I have visited them, there is great slackness of attendance on the ordinary services of the Sabbath, and that but very few of the �Ewa 2. 1859 irreligous ( !) portion of the people come out at all. The sabbath is with them a day of pleasure, and scarcely any access can be had of the message of the gospel to their hearing. Prayer meetings, have been regularly kept up by a few Christians in nearly all the apanas of the district, and regular appointments of weekly meetings have been made in the different parts of the field by the preacher, but they have been poorly attended by the ch. mem­ bers, and not at all by the worldly portion of the community, while the hulas in the same neighborhood have been fully attended by crowds. I have also attended at times the apana meetings, and could rejoice to do it more frequently, but my strength fails me when I attempt any extra labor. Even the fatigue of riding down to Ewa, usually unfits me for the duties of the Sabbath, and when I return from the brief labors of the pulpit with an aching head, the exhaustion of my system compels me to keep my couch for the rest of the day. And after my return home, a day's rest is required to restore my exhaus­ ted system. These peculiarities of my system often admonish me that my former vigor has left me, and every year is adding to this bodily weakness. Yet with this exception, my general health remains good, and free from disease. When I consider there is so much to be done by way of preaching and visiting the people, my heart prompts me to take hold of the work as in former days. me it cannot be accomplished. But the attempt convinces I feel that we are but a feeble band of laborers here on Oahu; that our best days have gone by. We are unable to cope with the power of the papal force arrayed against us on this island. We are in need of some strong men to take up the guantlet so defiantly thrown down, and carry the war into their midst. s I speak not so much in reference to the tracts which are s owing deadly errors through the length and breadth of the land, as to the con- �Ewa 1859 3. fldent efforts being made to induce our people to apostatize. They are laboring, not to bring sinners to repentance, but to make proselytes from the ranks of the protestant churches, and it must be confessed, that they have in my field been but too successful. It has become almost a matter of course that a church member under discipline is induced by persuasion to go over to the scarlet beast, and never return to the bosom of the church he has left. When I set aside a ch. member for immoral conduct, I usually feel that there is little hope of his returning again to repentance, as the catholicks beset him on every side, and he enters under their banner, receiving a full remittance of priestly absolution, and ready to begin anew a life of sin. But this is a painful subject, and we must try to meet it. Everywhere on this wide earth, whenever the gospel is preached, Rome has her emissaries to oppose it. time is short. But this is our consolation, her Already we hear the murmurings of the inter-necine war, which is destined to devour her "and burn her with fire” . But the day of her doom we know not, we only know that what is revealed will take place in God's own good time. We can only pray in the words of the slain martyrs, "How long, 0 Lord, how long !" Until that day arrive, let us withstand the insidious foe, and prevent as far as possible the ruin of the Hawaiian race by exposing the falsehoods of Rome. The whole fabric of her system is built upon a stupendous fraud, viz, that St. Peter founded the church at Rome, was the first pope, and inaugurated an apostolic succession which holds the keys of heaven, to admit to or shut out from paradise. And yet there is the most complete evidence that Peter was never at Rome. But for nearly 15 centuries that lie has prospered, and deluded its count­ less millions of adherents into perdition. " 0 arm of the Lord, �Ewa 1859 awake ! 4. It is useless to shut our eyes and say, as in years past, "The catholicks are making no advance," and thus remain willingly ignorant of the fact, that they are straining every effort to prose­ lyte, and that they are more or less successful with the class of natives who dislike a religion of heart purity, and prefer one of external forms. (Unsigned; marked "Rev. A. Bishop".) �Abstract of Ewa Report for May 1860. There have been no marked alterations to the duties of religion in this district during the past year. Nor have we suffered any reverses beyond those of former times. The preaching of the gos­ pel and the administration of the church ordinances have been regular in their season. The native preacher, Solomona, has been faithful to his work, on the sabbath and in visiting the people at their homes. His preaching has been blessed in the hopeful conversion of several, ten of whom have been accepted as candidates for immediate admission to the church. A gradual increase of hearers on the sab­ bath has followed his labors from the first. But the people are backward in fulfilling their engagements to pay in full his salary. Their contributions are about $150 per annum. Many of those who subscribed for his support, have died or removed from the place. The pastor has made semiquarterly visits to the people, spending a few days with them at each visit in preaching and in administering the ordinances. The people of the district are rapidly diminishing, and whole neighborhoods where in former years were numerous families and cul­ tivated lands, there are now no inhabitants, and the land is left to run (?) to waste. The fathers have died off, and the children wander into other parts, and there are none to fill their places. Popery has had much success in that district. There are now two new churches in Ewa, which are said to be tolerably frequented. They are supplied directly from Honolulu with priests. have also some of the schools. The papists All schools taught by papal teachers exclude the Bible and all protestant books from the classes, and make the chatecism ( !) the principal text book for the children. Being �Abstract Ewa 1860 2. nominally government free schools, protestant children are required to attend them. The schools are all suffering for the want of a better class of teachers. They are mostly an uneducated class, who have not enjoyed a proper training for the work. This defect calls for a speedy remedy. On the whole there is no occasion either for great discouragement for want of progress in Ewa, or of congratulation in view of advance­ ment. While the people are fading away, we have no other prospect before us, but a final extinction of the race, while the younger generation upon whom so much labor has been expended both moral & physical, continue to fall into sin, and remain strangers to renewing grace. Our hope is n o w to devote ourselves to the work of saving as many as possible while th e people remain. A. Bishop Statistics of the church at Ewa for May 1860 Received on examination the past year " on certificate Total past year Total deceased Deceased past year Members in regular standing Members in the field Absent Children Baptized past year Marriages Contributions for support of preacher " For missions 5 4 9 916 13 320 255 65 6 21 (no figure) (no figure) �Report of the church at Ewa, 1861 It w illbe recollected that at the close of our last meeting we delegated two of our brethren Messrs Parker & Coan to make a preaching tour of this island, and visit the churches. This tour w a s followed by others of the brethren in the same manner through the summer. They were accompanied by a number of their elders in the churches, some of them as precursors to visit among the people in their several neighborhoods, and stir them up to come out to hear the preached word. These were all listened to by throngs, multitudes of whom had long neglected the house of God, and had become practical heathens. These movements were the commencement of a revival of Religion in all parts of the island of which Ewa partook with the others. Religious meetings became frequent and full, the church waked from its long lethargy, backsliders returned from their wanderings into the bosom of the church by a public confession of their sins. Many papists and mormons renounced their errors, and professed the desire to seek salvation through the blood of Jesus. I made frequent visits to the place as often as my feeble health would permit, preached to the people, assembled and conversed with candidates for admission to the church. In all these labors I have been materially aided by the efficient labors of Solomona Kahoohalahala, their pre­ sent junior pastor. On the first sabbath in January last, we received 85 c andidates to church membership, and in April 14 more in all 99 persons. There are a few more remaining candidates who are hopefully converted, while many others are being passed over as not giving satisfactory evidence of conversion, have left their classes and cease to receive religious instruction. The religious excitement has passed over, but leaves a large �Ewa 1861 2. increase to the regular congregation on the Sabbath, and a more regular attendance on the meetings for prayer in the different neigh­ borhoods of the district. We look on these tokens for good as an indication of the continued merciful purpose of our Lord tow ards the degraded Hawaiian race, despite the many untoward indications of the people as a race to still cling to their ancient heathenish customs. It proves that but one power in the world is able to eradicate heath­ enism from the breast of one b o m in idolatry, that is christianity in the heart of the redeemed sinner. wealth cannot do it. effect it. Civilization, literature, or A mere external profession of religi on cannot In every unregenerate mind, however long removed from the temptations to heathenish practices, there lurks a secret fond­ ness to return to the old abominations when the temptation presents itself, until the heart is ren e w ed by the Holy Spirit, and sancti­ fied by the implantion (!) of the holy faith in the Redeemer. Every revival of true religion, is therefore a clear gain upon the domin­ ion of darkness, which education of itself cannot effect. At the beginning of the present year, the church of Ewa made out a unanimous call to Solomona to become their acting pastor, promising him a salary of $200 per annum, and wrote a request to the Oahu Evangelical association to ordain him. This being objected to by some of our members as extra constitutional for our association to ordain ministers, the brethren took up the case as individuals and formed an ordaining council of ministers and delegates of the churches for that purpose. 10th of last April. The solemnities took place at Ewa on the We were all highly gratified by the very clear & satisfactory examination which the candidate underwent, and felt that he is a very promising accession to our native ministry. But for reasons of a prudential nature he was installed as sub pastor only for two years, w i t h the thought that perhaps after the lapse �Ewa 1861 3. of that time, he may be made more useful in some other pastorate after the manner o f bur methodist brethren. "Festina lente" (make haste slowly) is always a prudent maxim, but while we have no book of church government asserted (?) to by the churches, I know not how we can carry out the idea of a change of pastorales ( !) should the people desire to retain their old pastors to whom they have become attached. This ordaining by councils has always ap­ peared to me a lose method, where there is no book of record to hand down an authentic account of our acts to future years. How will it be known 20 years hence that an ordination took place at Ewa in April of 1861? Tis true it is on the church book of that place, but that book may be lost, and moreover it has not been authenticated by the officers of the council. Since the month of October I have taught a class of young men in the study of theology. They are mostly graduates of the Seminary and recommended to me by their pastors as suitable candidates for the ministry. After twice going through Br, Alexander's Book, and making them familiar on all the points contained in that work, w i t h refer­ ence to the proof texts, with an oral explanation, we took up the Bible, and went through the prophecies of Daniel and the Revelations. We have also read Genesis, wher e we propose to continue through the Pentateuch. One of my class Hapuku has gone as a missionary to the Marquesas Islands. I have h a d a large number of applications from others to be received as students, but have deferred to receive them until the present class is dismissed. It is at present uncertain whether my health and strength will permit me to undertake the instruction of another class in theology. And this brings up the subject of in- stituting a Theological school either at Lahaina or Hilo. I trust �Ewa 1861 this subject will be fully discussed and acted upon at this present meeting. Statistics of the church at Ewa, May 1861 Whole no on profession On certificate Received past year on profession " " on certificate Total past year Total deceased Deceased past year Excluded past year Now in regular standing Children baptized Baptized past year Marriages 2507 (no figure) 99 4 103 932 16 6 358 (no f i g u r e ) 13 30 Contributions in cash For support of native pastor For missions, (see Treasurer's account) $200 61 Abstract of the Ewa Report for May 1861. A. Bishop and S. Kahoohalohola, pastors. After the visit made by Kuaea and others to Ewa in July of last year, unequivocal evidences of a revival of religion appeared in that district. These religious impressions were multiplied and strengthen­ ed by the visits of the pastor and native assistant among the people, and by the preaching tours of other Oahu brethren. This good work resulted in the hopeful conversion of 100 or more persons, and by the return of many backsliding brethren to the bosom of the church. The good effects of the work are being evidenced by a large increase of the worshiping ( !) assembly on Lord's day, and by the multiplication and sustentation of prayer meetings in every part of the district, which are still kept up. During the year 9 9 persons have been received into the church. During the past year, the church has called and settled an assistant pastor, Solomona Kahoohalahola, with a salary of $200 per annum. He was ordained by a council of ministers and delegates �Ewa Abstract 1861 from the several native churches cm this island. These solemnities took place of ( ! ) the 10th day of April ult. The schools have been in a more languishing condition than in, former years, for the want of a vigilant superintendence. The n e w Kahukula, it is hoped, wi l l remedy these defects, as far as in his p ower. Since October last I have taught a theological class of four persons. Two of these have been licensed to preach the gospel, one of these, Hapukuj, has been sent as a missionary to the Marquesas Islands. The remaining three are still receiving lessons. These consist a t present in scripture readings, and oral criticisms on Waimanu the same. Near m y residence in xxxxxx I hold a religious meeting every sabbath afternoon, and preach to about & hundred people, in the chapel. But my health is still too feeble to engage m u c h in pastoral labors. A. Bishop �Statistics of the ch. at Ewa, Oahu, May 1, A.D. 1862 Whole no. received on Profession " " on certificate Past year on profession " on certificate Total past year 2508 (no figure) 11 4 15 Whole no. dismissed (no figure) Dismissed past year 2 Total deceased 941 Deceased past year 9 Ex c luded past year 1 Members in regular standing 317 Total children baptized 342 Baptized past year 12 Marriages the past year 21 �Station Report for Ewa, Oahu, 1863 I cannot divest myself of a feeling that this may he my last Report before this Association. of my missionary life. I have entered upon the forty first Many old associates with whom I met in the first General meeting have passed away before me, and only two or three of them are supposed to b e living in venerable old age. My own health is also too feeble to permit me to labor continuously in any department in the missionary calling. When I look back in reminiscence of past years, to the scenes of active life, while travelling on foot over the mountains and lavas of Hawaii, or skirt­ ing its shores by canoe, collecting together the people of each village passed, to preach to them the words of life, or weary and foot-sore, lay down at night within their hospitable grass cabins to rest; - or when I call to recollection the fifteen years I spent with my beloved associates, Bingham, Thurston and Richards, in translating and correcting for the press the Holy Scriptures into the Hawaiian language, I thank God that I have been sent hither, and been permitted to labor so long as I have in such a cause. This cause has never lost its hold upon my highest affections, and I have never been weary of my work, tho often disappointed in my hopes. Altho I esteem it the best work to which a man can be called, yet it has not been without its trials as well as joys. Its joys have consisted in preaching the Gospel unobstructed by external opposition to appreciative audiences, and in gathering converts into the church covenant. Its trials have arisen from the falling away of many of these into open or covert sin, walking unworthily as Christians, or passing over to another and reprobate faith. Ten years ago the church of Ewa consisted of more than eight hundred members in good standing, and about 20 elders as assistants �Ewa 1863 2. and fellow laborers in our social meetings. That year the small pox swept off a full half of the church at one swoop, during the three months of its prevalence. It took off the older people in most cases, and left the younger ones as orphans, to wander away in quest of homes. Great numbers came to Honolulu to fill up the void created here by the same disease. Thus this place was supplied its lack of numbers, at the expense of the adjacent country, already depleted. Those who remained on the land have never recovered their former population, but a constant downward tendency has ruled to the present time. After the pestilence had ceased, I collected the names of the surviving members, which amounted to between three & four hundred. That number has never increased, tho many have since b e e n added by new admissions. Since my removal to this place in Jan. 1856, there have been two native assistant pastors settled there. The former, Mahoe, was sent as a missionary to Micronesia, and in 1859, Solomona Kahooholahola came there as preacher from Lanai. He was ordained & installed as assistant pastor in April, 1861, the people pledging him an annual salary of $200. Sometime early last year, a report unfavorable to his moral character got into circulation, and tho no tangible proofs of/its truth appeared, it was believed by many who forsook their at­ tendance upon his ministry. Prom that time to the end of the year, it seemed to me that his usefulness among that people was ended. The congregation continued to diminish, and his salary fell more than $100 in arrears. At the communion in Jan. of the present year, I found only about 100 members of the church present, and their quart­ erly contribution was diminished to about $10.00 resigned his pastorate. Then Solomona At the meeting of the Oahu Association in Feb. last at this place, a list of accusations against him was handed up to us by two ch. members who had opposed him from the first. It �Ewa 1863 3 appeared that these accusations did not emanate from the church, either as a majority or minority. They all failed of being substa tiated, and the accused received an honorable acquittal, while his resignation was confirmed by u s . But the present state of religion is low more so than I have before known it, since the church was formed. I have often and earnestly desired to go among them once more, and visit the people from house to house, pray with them and constrain them to return again to their duty. In fact I did spend part of a day last April in so doing, and found it profitable to myself as well as the people; but my strength failed me on the first day. I found myself inadequate to carry it through, as too exciting and laborious for my pow e r s . I can now only commend them to God in my prayers, and continue my stated visits as heretofore. The past is the only year since I have been their pastor, in which no additions have been made to the church. Of the Ewa meeting house, the walls and roof remain good. will not need to be reshingled for many years. It But the doors, windows and plastering are much broken; a sad specimen of native neglect, without one to lead them in keeping their house in repair. My old dwelling house at Waiawa is also in a tumble-down state, and long past repair. One of the buildings however is in a better condition. Support of__a native ministry. The great problem how to perpetuate the institutions of Christianity among this partially civilized people, when their for­ eign teachers shall be removed, still remains to be solved. The most obvious and natural method, viz, to educate and ordain our best men for the ministry, is a process which we are imperfectly pursuing. This is the third year in which I have taught theological classes of picked young men. But the school has no regular organization and no �Ewa 1863 endowment. 4. The young men are obliged to pursue some business to obtain their support, and consequently are irregular in their atten­ dance. The result so far has been encourageing ( !), but the in­ struction they receive is not thorough. A school should b e so con­ ducted as to secure a regular attendance & a thorough training. Tis not yet ascertained that this poor and ignorant people, constantly decreasing in numbers, will be able and willing to render their native pastors an adequate & continued support. most difficult part of the problem. This is the By a spasmodic effort they can be induced to subscribe liberally to sustain an important object brought before them. But when called on for payment they are slow to respond, and many fail utterly to redeem their pledge. This has been my experience thus far, and both Mahoe and Kah o ohalahoola were compelled to leave their post at Ewa, for this reason. The same thing has recently occurred at Waianae to the preacher there employed. A part of this deficiency is owing to the want of persevering energy in the native mind, and partly in an insensibility to the ob­ ligation to fulfil a contract; and still another cause of the de­ ficiency is to be attributed (to) the constant diminution of the people, who are thus every year becoming less and less able to sup­ port a pastor. This is the great discouragement in view of the future prospects of the church on the question of self-support. The next question is, Will they be able to continue the system of self-support, in presence of the hostile sects of French and English Catholics? Those missions are liberally supported from a b ­ road, and the strong contrast has been repeatedly and successfully urged by the papists upon the minds of our people, that while they are laboring gratuitously, we are taxing them for money. This has �Ewa 1863 5. had its effect to alienate many ignorant minds from the protestant worship. Schools Since the death of Dr. Armstrong, and more especially since the retirement of Mr. Fuller as secretary of the Board of education, the management of the schools has been left mostly in the hands of the native superintendants. I am happy to he informed that the Ewa schools are not less prosperous than formerly, though that is not saying much. The primary schools do not turn out as good scholars with u s as they did formerly, because there is not that stimulus for the studies as once existed. A want of new and suitable books, adapted to the improved condition of the people is one great drawback. It is much the same thing in the schools over and over for years, and but very f e w new books have appeared for a long time. Since the government has assumed the entire control of the schools, the pro­ testant missionaries have, I fear, lost much of their interest in their management, and have relaxed their watchfulness over the pro­ gress of the pupils. The jealousy of the jesuits towards our influ­ ence over these schools, and the frequent interference of the French Commissioner in the papal interest, compelled the late lamented A r m ­ strong to take away all official influence from us, but while he lived he endeavored to supply that deficiency by his own watchful care. Since his death that care has been wanted beyond the routine of office duties. The N . Testament has been retained in the schools conducted by protestant teacher's as a reading book, but carefully excluded from those taught by papists. Religious instruction has been very much neglected in all these schools, the teachers having contented themselves with giving the usual lessons in reading, writing and arithmetic, while the moral improvement of the intellect has been neglected. When we take into consideration that these children re- �Ewa 1863 6 ceive little or no religious or moral instruction at their homes, and that their parents exert no authority over them to bring them to church after they arrive at a certain age, we need not wonder that a large part of the rising generation are growing up In a course but a little removed from the heathenism of their ancestors; nor that so many of the youth, especially the girls should be early led astray. I would here notice, that the enemies of Evangelical religion have diligently spread a columny that the Protestant missionaries are opposed to English schools for the people. We have ever favored instruction in English of those who can be benefitted by it. But experience has taught us the futility of such a smattering of English as can be obtained by a native in three or four years. It requires all the years of youth from Infancy to manhood, with a residence in an English speaking family, to enable a native to get acquainted with our copious language, so as to understand a common English book or newspaper. Even a correct pronunciation of English cannot be obtained by one whose organs were first exercised upon his own native tongue. The ground of our opposition to the disbanding of the native schools, rests on the fact, that imperfect as they are, there is nothing else that can give the means of any education at all. The education of the masses could not be accomplished through the medium of a foreign tongue. The subject must be taken in infancy, be separated from his own people, adopted into an English family, there kept until maturity. and To make such a work national, is a simple impossibility. But the great argument of our opponents rests on the assertion that there are no words in the Hawaiian tongue to Express European ideas; and the only way to infuse these ideas is to anglicize the nation. But this argument assumes as practicable what has never been accomplished, and never can be. The Romans attempted to Romanize �Ewa 1863 7. the languages of Gaul, Britain and Spain. The Norman conquerors tried a similar experiment upon the conquered Saxons. entire failures. They were all All that they did accomplish was the infusion of certain Latin and French words into the languages, by which they only became mod i f i e d but not extinct. Again, the advocates of anglicizing the nation seem net to have comprehended the true relative position of ideas and words. precede the words used to express them. Ideas I can illustrate this fact by calling our attention to a familiar case in our own language of recent date. It was a long time after the discovery of the Electric Telegraph, before a word was found to express the idea of a message flashed along its wires. message. phrase. gram. It was called a T elegraphic D espatch or But a word was wanting to express the thing without a Some one thought of a word, and called the message a Tele­ It flew with lightening speed around the world, and everybody felt that it was the long needed word. So in Hawaii nei, give a native a new idea, and he will soon find a word to express it in his own language and it will be understood without a definition; so flexible is his native tongue in taking in n e w words, as new ideas multiply among them. The whole question, stripped of its adjuncts, seems to be this: How are we to get European ideas into the Hawaiian mind? He cannot understand a foreign word until it has been interpreted to him in his mother tongue. If the idea to be conveyed is one not in his own language, he cannot comprehend it, without a roundabout process of explanation. c onvey it to him. The simple lesson in English reading cannot And I know of no process by which he can be made to comprehend an abstract European thought not in his own language. The only feasible process is to get a new idea into his min d , �8. independent of the foreign word which conveys the idea, before he can understand the meaning of the word. But this must be done through the medium of his own language. The result folows, that we must educate the masses through the medium of the mother tongue, as the only means of raising the n a tion into a christian civilization. The other method of anglicizing them would only result in partially educating a few, while the mul­ titude would be left in all their ancient ignorance & serfdom. The latter is the European, the former the American idea. I have been the more particular in vindicating our principles, because it constitutes one of the grave charges in Mr. Manly Hop­ k i n s ' History, that we are, "Setting our faces against English schools." I understand, moreover, that our friends of the English mission are pledged to carry out the programme to Anglecize the Hawaiian nation, as the only hopeful way to preserve it from extinction. Nothing can be more incorrect than Mr. Hopkins’ charge, since teaching Eng­ lish to the natives has ever been a portion of our system of instruc­ tion, wherever it has been practicable, viz, in family schools. It is a curious fact, suggestive of many reflections, how this little nation has attracted to its shores, so many discordant ele­ ments from the four quarters of the world, to rescue it from the grasp of puritanism. When it became known to the nations of Christen­ dom, that American Missionaries were building up a protestant church on these pleasant Hawaiian Islands, the Pope sent forth his emis­ saries to withstand us, backed by Fren ch guns and French Br andy. These have been but too successful in materially embarrassing our measures to enlighten and convert the nation, They have, however, not been without their uses in weeding out unworthy members from our churches, and in making us more circumspect in the presence of such �Ewa 1863 9. deadly enemies. Next came the Mormons, and travelled through the length and breadth of the land, to make proselytes to their delusive and im­ moral faith. It would be useless to ignore their success in leading astray large numbers to follow in their paths. Lastly, the son of the great and good Wilberforce, the redoubt­ able Bishop of Oxford, and the no less bigoted Marcly H opkins, took up the role and proclaimed through England that puritanism in Hawaii has proved a failure, and has only built up a church of hypocrites: and that the nation is dying out for want of a church eredted upon the true apostolic succession. Well, an apostolic Hierarchy is now being set up among us, whose design & expectation is to supercede us. To these it would seem we are only preparing the way for the advent of a purer dispensation; a church built on the apostolic foun­ dation, through the laying on of the hands of the "holy Bishop, by whom alone the Holy Spirit is given. They do not refuse to acknow­ ledge that we have done some good, but only as preparatory to the advent of a pure dispensation. And now, gentlemen, (these measures seem to say,) you will please to step aside, and give place to those whose episcopal descent is reckoned back through a long line of Roman pontifs to Peter the head of the Apostles. And though w e hold that the church of Rome has been wrong on some points of doctrine and practices, it is still the true parent church, which is to be per­ petuated through the coming ages when purified, from her errors. But while we acknowledge the Romanists as brethren, we cannot recog­ nize the Independents & presbyterians as a church at all, not having received Episcopal ordination. What the influence produced by these opposing sects upon the unsophisticated Hawaiian minds is, cannot be mistaken. To those �Ewa 1863 10. established in the faith, and accustomed to read the scriptures for themselves, the effect has been to confirm them in the truths. But to the masses, unaccustomed to reason for themselves, these conflict­ ing dogmas serve but to confuse their minds, unhinge their beliefs, and render them indifferent to the gospel faith. To such, one kind of religion is as good as another, provided they maintain a fair standing in their communion. With these obstructions before us, how can we wonder, that with the good measure of success obtained, verting the whole nation? that we have come short of con­ Such a boon has not been given to any Christian church in the days of their militant struggles. reserved for a purer and millennial period. That is It will be a happy thing for this little nation, if the cry from Rome, from Oxford and from Utah, "To the rescue", does not prove to be the digging of its grave. But I do not despair for Hawaii. A remnant will be spared, I fully believe, that shall multiply upward, and bear fruit in the coming millennium. But whether the future Hawaiian is to be of the pure Polynesian blood, or a miture with the Caucasian race, cannot be certainly predicted. Of this we may be assured that there will be a nation here, and the fruits of our present labors w ill influ­ ence the destinies of coming generations, whether of Hawaiian, Sem­ itic or Caucassian ( !) blood, or a due mixture of all. The question now before us is to solve the problem of self-sustaining religious institutions among a diminishing people, without knowing the terminus of their downward progress. Since penning the. foregoing a few weeks ago, I have visited the people of Ewa, in company with Dr. Anderson and family, and am happy to report a more hopeful condition of things among them. The Revd Mr. Bicknell has visited the field, spent two sabbaths there, and held meetings in every neighborhood, going from house to house �Ewa 1863 11. to seek for absenting members of the church. The congregation has increased in consequence, and the people are now uniting to make him out a call to become their pastor. They talk of only $150.00 a year, as the most which they can raise in their present broken state. I am satisfied, that is the most they can do at present, and until a better organization shall be effected. man to revive them if it can b e done. support, from some quarter. Mr. Bicknell is the But he must be aided in his I should not hesitate to commend him to the patronage of the Board, as a person worthy of their aid, until he can organize the means of a support in hiw own field. (Unsigned; A. Bishop) � 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 - Ewa / Waianae - 1835-1863 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1835, 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, 1846, 1848, 1849, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1857, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/93f99f8425971793bbd246b5817bd97a.pdf 99ba28fe3204c2517f0bc2a2cf186286 PDF Text Text HAUULA STATION REPORTS C O NTENTS M. Kuaea, Abstract.............................1861 Unsigned (M. K u a e a ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1862 �H auula M. Kuaea. [Abstract 1861] This church is under the united pastoral care of b r e t h r en E m e r ­ son & Kuaea. lier part There was a good degree of Christian energy in the e ar­ of the year, Congregations large, meetings frequent, & atten­ tion good. Contributions to shingle & repair the meeting-house at H a u u la were promptly made - the church has been peaceable & orderly. not unlike former years. Schools The sabbath school attended by a small number, w h o are regular attendants. near the close of last year, The church largely increased a few have been added, the present year. Mormonism not much known, & papacy exerting but little influence. Contributions of the people in cash the past yea r - - $ 1069.87 �Hauula Station report, May 1862 The Station at Hauula has been sustained the past y ear by the ordinary amount of pastoral labor. The public worship of the Sanctuary has b e e n uniformly maintained on the Sabbath, & daily m o r n i n g prayermeetings have been held at some of the places of gathering m ost of the year. The finishing & furnishing of the meeting house at the Station, wh i c h was nearly completed at the last general meeting, has been fully accomplished & paid for. So that we now have at Hauula the most spacious & well finished house on the windward side of Oahu. There is no debt on the church f o r the house, but there are funds, on hand, nearly sufficient to procure a bell, which has b e e n ordered. There have b een four communion seasons for the chch. the past year, w h i c h were attended by the joint pastors. These communion seasons ocupy ( !) each about five days of my time including travel to & f r o m Hauula, & involve more or less labor inversely to the amount of religious interest in the Church. There have been no additions to the Chch. at Hauula the p a s t year, except one by letter, 19 have been cut off from the chch, 13 dismissed to other c h c h s ., & 4 have died. Consequently our number of communicants is 35 less n o w than at the beginning of the year. The monies collected at this station the past year were as follows, For sup p o r t of pastor, For foreign missions " mee t i n g house at Kahana " Meeting house at Hauula In all $ 7 4 5 . 80 $134.55 47.12-1/2 35.00 529.12-1/2 of wh i c h $268 were contributed from wit h o u t the parish at a feast held at Hauula to pay off the debt for the meeting house. This feast was a splendid occasion, no doubt, about w h i c h much might b e written; but as the senior pastor was not present, he can only �2 Hauula 1862 say it was r e p o r t e d to be a grand affair, & money was h a n d e d in liber­ ally. The Chch. at Hauula, like many others, contains too m a n y members who give to benevolent objects from impulse & not from principle. They give where a display can be made in giving even where they withhold fro m a creditor his honest due. T h e communions of t h i s Chch. have b e e n thinly attended the past year. The pastor's salary has not been half paid, owing in part to the effort for the meeting-house, & in part to their inability to dispose of their produce, & in a larger degree to lack of interest. Changes. The past year four or five new & foreign families have entered this part of Koolau loa & are calculating on permanent resi­ dences among the people. Laie, the best land perhaps in Koolau loa, has b e e n purc hased by Capt. Howland & is occupied b y h i m & Mr. Spencer & their families. Dr. Ford w i t h one or two families is engaged largely in the cultivation of Rice at Punaluu. A Chinaman Aa - ki (?) owns Kahana. Mr. Wilder is in possession of Kaawa ( !), & Judge Moffit is at Kahuku. So that not far from 3/4 of the land in Koolau loa is owned by foreigners or is under lease to them. The native population is extensively employed in the s e r v ice of foreigners, as hired laborers, shepherds, cattle-drivers, cooks & stew a r d s , or else paying a partial service for t h e pasturage of their many, morse than worthless, horses. What wil l be the r e sult of this state of things time will develope. At present it is obvious that they are gradually losing t h e i r independance, & their ambition to cultivate the soil for themselves. Children are decreasing in numbers & are more rapidly leaving the schools to do service as shepherds & herdsmen. Between Waimea & Hauula there were ten years since 8 schools & ten �Hauula 1862 teachers where there are n o w but two teachers employed w i t h two schools each, to w h i c h they devote 12 hours per week. By a record of the past I see that in 1846 there were in Koolau loa 20 Schools & 396 scholars at the examinations; there are now but 3 or 4 teachers & less than 100 scholars. Probably the average daily attendance at school is not over 50 scholars as most, if not all, these schools are taught but 3 days per week. But 50 scholars daily when there were 17 years ago 300 ! Imp r o vements. making b ut few. W h i l e foreigners are making many, natives are Many of the houses that are built apparently by n a ­ tives are either on the foreigners land, or w i t h the foreigners capi­ tal, in whole or i n part, so that the foreigner has lien u p o n them, & can dispossess the native often at his pleasure, Every n o w & then a native sells his kuleana, er is generally the purchaser. if occasion presents. in which case the foreign­ Not unfrequently a native builds a house in his friends yard in the city, & as a consequent ( !) the kuleana must be sold to foot the bill & the family remove to Honolulu or its v icinity, the great Maelstom of the race. But I have bee n casting about for a bright point with w h i c h to close this report & here it is. Our people have to a great extent ceased f r o m litigation, what one judge in h i s court confirms the next above h i m is almost sure to destroy by his verdict & so the people have very generally concluded to leave off litigation & settle their wrongs in a cheaper & better way. Habits of the people. The number, who are suspected of living in adultery, is alarmingly great. the constaple But if the judge, the lawyer, & ( !) are supposed to be, & some of them are known to be, in the same category, it is not an easy matter to get laws executed, if we have any on the subject; - & where there is no civil law, it is not common for ignorant m e n to feel that there can be moral tr a n s ­ gression. It is beyond the ability of our people to conceive that, if �4. Haaula 18 62 it is right for the government to tax them to raise a p r e m i u m to b e paid to a certain class, who choose to live in the v i o l a t i o n of the commandment, 7th it should he wrong in t h e m to commit the same violation without a premium for doing it. The C h c h .organized at Kahuku in 1848 h a d in 1854 increased to 126 members under Kekela. But it now has no longer a name to live, & but few of its members are in good standing in any other church. Meetings are held with them, almost every sabbath by some one of our deacons; yet rarely more than 20 or 30 persons can be collected in any one place for worship; & on a week day rarely can more than ten or 15 be got together. Statistics Wh o l e no recd to the Chch on prof " " " on Certif " " past year on Prof " " past year on certif Total past year Total dismissed Dismissed the past year Total decea s e d Deceased the past yea r Excluded the past y e a r Now in regular standing T o t a l children b a p tized Baptized the past y e a r Marriages ” 644 37 0 1 1 73 13 242 4 19 262 168 3 13 (Unsigned) (M. Kuaea) �Kahuku Station [Abstract] Gen. Improvements. The people although m u c h cramped (?) in their circumstances & deprived of the greater portion of their lands have made commendable progress in industry & improvements. Benevolent efforts - A good stone w all about 1/ 10 of a m i l e / in l e ngth to aid in enclosing a parsonage - Also (?) a good framed Meetinghouse w i t h doors & w indows has been erected & p a i d for by the people - They have also paid their pastor in cash $117.75 for his support. Schools have been w e l l sustained But they have been r e p orted in the schools in Koolau. Popery - This evil has vanished f rom the field - there is no papal school & only one or two persons now in the field, who profess to be papists. State of religion - Attendance on public worship good - sabbath schools are attended wit h adults & children & are useful Meetings are attended on sabbath & on weekdays with success. � 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 - Hauula - 1861-1862 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1861, 1862 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/57627b8ca8e23cbd21f224686ce8fd08.pdf 265d10c94eac68972cbafd28c57514b6 PDF Text Text STATION REPORTS KAUMAKAPILI L . Smith.. 1838 L. Smith.. 1839 L. Smith.. 1840 L. Smith.. 1841 L. Smith 1842 L. Smith.. 1843 L. Smith.. 1844 L. Smith.. 1845/46 �(Kaumakapili ) Report of the Station at N.W.H. (Northwest Honolulu), May 21, 1838 At the close of our last general meeting, I resumed my labours again in the School at the Mission, assisted by Brother & Sister Cooke. I continued my connect­ ion: with that School till the examination in Oct.; though for the last six or eight weeks I was necessarily more or less absent to Superintend the erection of a dwelling house & School house at the new Station. It was obvious however at the examination on the 19th of Oct. that the Scholars had made far more improvement during those two terms than during the same length of time the preceeding year. Mr. & Mrs. Cooke now took the entire charge of the School & my whole time was devoted to the business of the new Station. I wanted remark (!), by the way, that I commenced preaching lectures in the neighbourhood of the new Station every Saturday P .M. as early as the month of August. Some 90, or 100 usually attended; though no special takers of seriousness appeared till after we removed to the Station. Our dwelling house & School house being finished, we removed & commenced oper­ ations there on the 19th of December. At 3 o'clock that P.M. the people assembled to dedicate the New School house to the Lord. Br. Bingham favoured us with an in­ teresting & appropriate sermon on the Occasion. The house which will hold about Six hundred was full, & some two or three hun­ dred out of doors. On the following Sabbath as many as eight or nine hundred were present, the most of whom had not been in the habit of attending meeting (!) at the mission chapel. I endeavoured from the commencement to make it clearly understood that I had been located at this part of the village to seek after those who did not at­ tend School or meeting at the mission, & that I did not wish Br. Bingham's haumanas to come to this place of worship, except a few who were ready to assist impenitent in labouring with the to attend upon the means of grace. �2/Northwest Honolulu (Kaumakapili) Brother Bingham appointed a protracted meeting to commence on the first of January. I advised the people in our part of the village to attend. Many of them did attend; & during the meeting Several church members were appointed to go from house to house through the village, & talk with those who would not attend the meeting. our neighbourhood. This visiting was blessed to Several hundred(?) cases in The meeting was also blessed to the awakening of many, & some few think they truly repented on that occasion. At the close of that meet­ ing I commenced morning meetings, & endeavoured to follow up the impressions of the meeting as far as practicable(! ). The Spirit of God has evidently been moving upon this congregation from the close of that pro- meeting to the present time. The congregation has also increased every week, till we now number a bout two thousand; 19/20 of whom did not attend upon the means of grace, previous to our labours at this new Station. Childrens School I commenced a School for the children & youth on the 9th of January; 114 child­ ren the first day. Efforts were made to call out all the children in this part of the village; & during the term some 460 were enrolled as Scholars of the School. Some 270 only proved to be regular in their attendance. sent however at our examination in April last 331. dress & manners , was truly encouraging. There were pre­ Their improvement in learning Owing to my abundant labours among the people, I was obliged to leave the School in the hands of native teachers. Kaio has had the principal charge of the School; he has been popular with the Scholars, & has given good satisfaction. I provided him with one male & five female assist­ ants who have also given good Satisfaction. �3/Northwest Honolulu (Kaumakapili) Protracted Meeting On the 19th of March I commenced a protracted meeting with the children & youth of the School. Brother & Sister Cooke also joined us with their pupils; in all a congregation of about 500. The meeting continued five days, & though many of them were rude & noisy at the commencement of the meeting, still they became quite sober under the plain & pointed exhibition of divine truth. Three female teachers & about 20 of the Scholars were hopefully converted at the time, & now Stand propounded for admission to the church. There are others quite serious & thoughtful, & perhaps penitent. The effect of the meeting upon Br. Cook's (!) School I know not. His report will probably inform the meeting on that point. Our School is somewhat diminished this present term, though the number is still quite too large for profit. I ought to have remarked ere this, that Brother Wilcox, providentially at this place, very kindly tendered his Services & taught a class in the School for Several weeks, & also assisted us in the childrens protracted meeting. Hours for School & c. The girls meet every A.M. at 9 o.clock, & the boys every P.M at half past 1. Each School is usually continued from 21/2 to 3. hours - five days in a week. Besides this they have a Sabbath School every Sabbath morning at 8. o.clock, which School I usually attend myself. Remark . I remark here that the parents very cheerfully contributed the last term for the support of the native teachers, & I think it will not be necessary to make any draughts hereafter from the de­ pository for the Support of teachers. �4/Northwest Honolulu (Kaumakapili) Ministerial Labours Since the first of January, I have attended five protracted meetings, one week each, The first was held at the Mission chapel at Honolulu — the Second at Waialua -- the third was a childrens meeting at this Station — the fourth at Kaneohe, & the fifth a meeting with the adults at this Station. During this meeting, Br. Bingham preached for me once & Br. Tinker twice. When at the Station, I have uniformly preached three Sermons every Sabbath -a lecture every Wednesday P.M. & preached a Sermon, or expounded Scripture at every morning meeting during the week. And I am happy to state that my labours have not been in vain. On returning from the meeting at Waialua, many of the people were anxious to converse with me; & I divided off the lands from Honolulu village to Moanalua into Small districts, or apana's (!), & set a part a day for each apana to call & con­ verse. The first time round about 1,000 persons came; & it was very obvious that the Spirit of God was Stiring with very many of them. Some were unquestionably on the old hoikaikaing (! ) ground, & had not the fear of God before their eyes. After a few weeks had elapsed I allowed the apanas to call again, & the number in­ creased this time to fifteen hundred; (ie) 500 more now wished to converse with me, who were at least indifferent & many of them violently opposed to religion & its ministers & professors but a few weeks before. the And since our protracted meeting last of April, I have conversed with them individually again, & m ore than 500 more have come out from their abodes of vice & profess to be Seriously inquiring the way to Zion. I have already remarked that 19/20 of of (!) these people were not in the habit of attending meeting formerly. The effect of our labours upon the people around us is quite obvious in sev­ eral respects. Several who made & vended(?) ardent spirits, & others who drank �5/Northwest Honolulu (Kaumakapili) it to great excess, have abandoned their vile habits & are now constant attendants upon the means of grace; & Some of them give evidence of penitence for sin. Truth having made such rapid progress in the minds of Some of the people, I thought it expedient to organize a church; & accordingly did so the first Sabbath in April. Twenty two persons, 12 males & 10 females were received by letter from Br. Bingham's Church — two from the church at Ewa, & one from Waimea on Kauai. Making 25 re­ ceived from other churches. Forty nine were also admitted on profession of their faith in Christ; making his in all a church of 74. Br. Bingham kindly favoured me with assistance on that interesting occasion. The following Sabbath April 8th I propounded — --------- — 106 & on the 22nd of April --— --- 56 & on the 6th of this month --- 84 & on the 13th " " " --- 102 & on the 20th " " " --- 85 So that there now stand propounded to this infant ch u r c h ------- 433. Some 25 of these are Scholars & teachers of the Station School. There are others who think they consecrated themselves to the Lord during our pro­ tracted meeting in April. I was much pleased with the Spirit of prayer that pre­ vailed among our church members during that meeting. I have never seen the like at any of the protracted meetings that I have attended on the Islands. from I felt very much Strengthened also myself the truth of God which reads, "The Lord’s arm is not Shortened that he cannot Save, nor his ear heavy that he cannot hear." Another passage of Scripture has weighed heavily upon my mind since we commenced at this Station (viz)"According to your faith be it unto you." We have abundant occasion for gratitude & humility before God for his loving �6/Northwest Honolulu (Kaumakapili) kindness to us at this new Station; & for his removing, in part at least, the mountains of obstacles that presented themselves to our minds one year ago. Nothing is too hard for the Almighty & with him, "all things are possible." Our congregation constantly increasing, we feel very much Straightened in our present place of worship. Not more than 1/3d of our usual congregation can be ac­ commodated in the School house. The people have built a ranai(!) in front of the School house, which will accommodate ten or twelve hundred in pleasant weather; & by standing in the door, the preacher may be heard by the most of them.But we all know that it is a great tax upon the preachers lungs to preach in the open air. Hundreds of men are ready to rise & build a doby meeting house forthwith; & would do so, were they not called to work for the chiefs. With our present/inconveniences. in view. We must hoomanawanui a while I take up a monthly collection with this object The value of the collections in March & April each exceeded $60. & the one for the present month was rising of a hundred dollars. The women contribute monthly in Sugar bags to the amount of 35. or 40. dollars. And Some 250. or 300. men go one day in a month into the vallies(!) to cultivate potatoes & beans & c. for the Shiping (!) market — building a house for the Lord. & hope to/realize Something in that way towards Some prefer to pay 12% or 25 cts in cash monthly. "Deo volante," we hope in due time to build a comfortable house of worship, not­ withstanding we are poor. Mrs. Smith is much better than at any former period since the failure of her health. She is able to visit some from house to house, & to hold a meeting once a week with the women & explain to them the duties devolving upon them as wives & mothers, as well as their duties & relations to God. The consequence is that there has already been a very considerable change in the external appearance of the fe­ male part of our congregation. About 500. females attend this meeting — between three & four hundred of them make a monthly contribution in Sugar bags* the product of their own industry. �7/NortfiWest Honolulu (Kaumakapili) Mrs. Smith also has a class in the Sabbath School Singing School I Spend an hour two afternoons p r . week in a Singing Schoo l About 80 Scholars. Marriages I have Solemnized about 50 marriages. Lowell Smith (Written on last page, sideways): Rev. L. Smith's report �(Honolulu 2d Parish) Station Report May 1839 (Kaumakapili) (1) Health, Our report concerning health the past year is favourable, & calls for devout acknowledgements to our Heavenly Father. My own health has been firm as usual, Mrs, Smith has not been so well for five years as during the year past. She has been able to walk from our place of residence to any part of the village, & even up to the families of the mission. March She gave birth to a Still born Son. On the last day of She is gaining Strength again now; is able to ride out in a carriage & it is hoped She will Soon be able to re­ sume her labours among the females, & in the Sabbath School, & to visit more or less from house to house as usual. (2) Congregation Since the awakening during the winter & Spring of 1838 our congregation on Sabbath mornings has uniformly been about 2,000. until within the last two months. Since that time there has been a great falling off from religious meetings, not only during the week, but also on the Sabbath. This I attribute, not to a desire to forsake the "pono," but to the prevailing epidemic in the place; & also the death of Kinau. been Sick with the mumps & influenza. The people have nearly all And Kinau1s death, instead of waking them up to be more attentive to meetings, & to do with their might what their hands find(?) to do, realizing that there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge in the grave whither (!) they, as a people are all fast going; it had an effect just the reverse. It has been very trying to me to See the tide thus Set back. But when I look at the Subject in all its bearings I am not so much Surprised that things have taken this retrograde course. It is natural that is should be so from the existing State of things. Sickness is regarded as a good excuse at all times for not attending public �2/(Kaumakapili) worship. And when a high chief dies, the people under him or her, die too; (ie) their houses & lands & taro patches & c are all liable to be taken from them & given to others. System No marvel then that the blood ceases to circulate, & the whole bemused a s with a paralysis. Signs of life however Still remain, among us, & we hope to recover Soon from our present Shock; though Sound & vigorous health is out of the question while the present State of government continues. Schools I Superintended the Station School myself last year two or three terms; but was oblige(!) to employ Some five or Six Assistant teachers; for we collected between four & five hundred ignorant, wandering children & youths; though only about one half of them became regular attendants. These made commendable improvement while I continued to Superintend them. But as the religious State of things became more & more interesting & my labours increased among the people, I gave up the School to Kaio; a man from the Seminary, who did well for two terms. He was then taken ill, & Palana, another from the Seminary took the Superintendance. He Succeeded well for one term; but for the last term he has had not more than 30. or 40 Scholars. One grand reason why the Scholars have forsaken the School, is the fact that they or their parents have been requested to make a contribution for the Support of the native teachers. Mrs. Smith & myself paid Some 60. or $70. from our own Stipend to Sustain the teachers till last fall. We were then obliged to withdraw our aid, & the School has been very inefficient Since that time. We most ardently desire that Some measures may be taken by the General Meeting at this cession(!) to Secure a Salary — for good, faithful, native teachers. Will not the King & chiefs obli­ gate themselves to do Something for teachers who ought to be patronized? Our Sabbath School which was So flourishing last year, has greatly diminished �3/(Kaumakapili ) in point of numbers. Mrs. Smith however has a very flourishing class of girls, 30 in all who are very regular in their attendance & have made good proficiency in their Sabbath S. lessons. I have also a bible class of 80 adults who take much interest in the verse a day System. I think of making another effort to revive the School at the close of this meet­ ing by teaching an hour or two daily myself. Ministerial Labours Besides preaching three times regularly on the Sabbath, attending a Sabbath School at 8 o .clock A.M. & a Bible class at 2. P.M. & occasionally preach in English at The Seamen’ s chapel; I have attended the morning prayer meeting almost daily the year round; & a regular church meeting every Saturday P.M. I have also attended three protracted meetings on this Island Since the first of January last. The first with Br. Bingham, the 2d with brother Emerson, & the 3d with brother Parker at their Several places of public worship. We have not held a protracted meeting at our Station the present year. Our present place of public worship being very inconvenient for Such a meeting; more over, those who wished, had the privilege of attending br. Bingham's meeting. There were Several hopeful conversions among us Soon after Bro. Bingham's meet­ ing; & two or three hundred persons came out to meeting in those days for the first time. The excitement however has by no means been So powerful & extensive this year as it was last. Still large numbers have been anxious to talk personally with me; & I have Spent such time in close personal conversation. I have conversed with more than 3,500 during the year & with many of them at three or four different times. Some of the natives abuse this kind of instruction, & often times, discover great guilt Still I know of no better way to teach them the way they Should go, or ascertain their minds on things pertaining to Salvation. In Some cases I have been decieved. But the Lord knoweth them that are his. �4 / (Kaumakapili) Church. The whole number admitted to the church Since its organization the 1st of April 1838 is 754. Thirty three of whom were recievedby letters from other churches & the remainder on profession of their faith in Christ. 20 Church members have died during the year! 13 have been dismissed to join other churches. Eleven have been excommunicated = 5. of them for adultery — bacco & lying exceedingly about it — one for Smoking to­ Two for weawea & lying — one for abusing & forsaking her husband, & two for intemperance & lying. Some two or three of these persons give more or less evidence of repentance. Three others are Suspended at the present time. died — Deducting therefore 20 who have 13 dismissed to other/churches -- 11 excommunicated & 3 Suspended, there remains 707 in regular Standing. Some 290 now Stand propounded. those admitted to the church. I have Baptized 188 children, the offspring of I have Solemnized during the year 116 marriages. I have a Singing School of about 50. Scholars who meet twice a week. Mrs. Smith has held a meeting regularly every Friday P.M. with the females -- from four to five hundred usually attend. She has also held a meeting with a portion of the female members of the church every Monday afternoon. One grand object which She has held up before them is industry & cleanliness both as it respects their persons & habitations. She appointed a visiting committee who have visited the habitation of every female ch. member & reported to her; which was a great advantage to her in her meetings. The good effects of these efforts are already obvious; though comparatively little has yet been accomplished compared with what yet remains to be done. Meeting house We have done Something towards building a dobie meeting house. When we commenced �5/ (Kaumakapili) it last year, we intended to have finished it before the rainy Season commenced. But being detained at least two months by the chiefs, after the dobies were all made, before they would decide where the house Should be located we were over­ taken with the rainy Season before we could get the walls up We commenced upon the plan of voluntary operations. & the roof covered. I, in the first place, Spread out the Subject before the church & congregation; & told them as near as I could, what the labour & expense would be of building a dobie meeting house. quired who were ready & willing to under take the work. unanimous I then in­ The church were very in their vote to arise & build at once. A Subscription paper was then circulated, & the ch members generally Subscrib­ ed $1, apiece. Some few Subscribed $2 — Some $3. — a few $5. One $15. one $20. & one $50. Some out of the church Subscribed $1. each. 12 1/2cts. Some 50 cts — Each one according to his ability & disposition. amounted to about $1,300. — Some 25. & Some The whole Subscription One thousand of which has already been collected; 1/2 perhaps in cash, & the other half in goats -- pigs- fowls — most of which Mr. Ladd has taken & paid us in lumber potatoes &c the nails — glass &c. The churches at Ewa & Waialua have contributed to aid us in this building. Ewa church has raised $62.12 1/2 cash for this object. in fowls — Waialua ch have contributed turkies(!), fish, tapas &c. to the amount of about $84. Besides this Br. Emerson contributed ten dollars — Br. Castle ten dollars — $25. Dr. Judd five dollars, Br. Parker $14.50. Br. Gulick 8 dollars. Ladd &Co. Br. Cooke ten dollars — Br. Knapp Br. Whitney proposes to give us an order of $50. on Sister Dimond has contributed a piece of cloth worth perhaps $5. & Mr.(?) Calkins $4. The contributions from those two churches & the brethren & Sisters mentioned, amount to $287.62 1/2 I employed men at Waialua to go into the mountains & cut the timbers for the roof, �6/(Kaumakapili) & deliver them upon the beach at that place. They have Since been brought round in vessels to Honolulu. As it respects the walls, each male ch member has made 40 dobies twice over. I say twice over; for in the first place we proposed to build the walls high enough to put in a gallery. But we found that the walls would not Sustain themselves; they began to crush about the doors & Windows; & moreover the heavy rains material­ ly injured the wa lls before we could get a roof on. We were of one mind to take the walls down & build them over again, leaving out the gallery. Hence I Say the burden of the walls has been to make 40 dobies twice over, & lay up the walls twice. The house is 125 ft. by 60 ft. inside, the walls are 13 ft. high. The roof & verandah are raised & the people have commenced thatching it; & we hope to have it completed ere long. Statistics Whole number recd to the church Since its organization----- ---- ----754 Recd . on profession within a year " by letter " 672 " 8 D i e d ---- ------------------------- — - - ---- ---------------------- 20 Dismissed to other churches 13 Excommunicated ------------- ------ --------------------------- . --- 11 Now Suspended ------ — 3 Now in good Standing — — — ~--- ------------------- --------- — — 707 Now Stand propounded ---------------------------------------------------- 290 Children Baptised -— --------- ------— — 189 Marriages Solemnized--- — 116 Bible C l a s s ----- -— — — ---- 80 Average S. School --------- ----- — 100 attendants Station School --------------— 70 during the year �7/ (Kaumak apili) (signed, in pe ncil): ( Lowel lSmith) (Written on last page, sideways): Honolulu 2nd Congregation �Station Report (Kaumakapili) In making out the third report of the Station at the N.W. part of Honolulu village, we have occasion to record the goodness of God as it respects health. Mrs. Smith who has been feeble the greater part of the time Since we came to the Islands, has been very much better for the last two years. Since her Second con­ finement & Second bereavement however, wh. occured on the 8th of Feb. last, She has not recovered her usual Strength; though She is comfortable & able to look after her domestic affairs & attend to her Sabbath School. I was unwell myself Some 8. or 10. days the first of Nov. in consequence of a violent attach of cholick. again. I Soon made a tour of Oahu wh very much revived me Except this Short interval, I have been enabled to-attend to the ordinary duties of the Station through the year. — As it respects the fruit of my labours in the conversion of Souls, I cannot report So favourably this year as I did last. The deep interest manifested in Spiritual & eternal things the first two years of our residence at this Station, had materially abated in the minds of our congrega­ tion previous to the last Gen Meeting. I attributed that unhappy State of things to two apparent causes; (viz), the mumps, a prevailing epidemic at that time, & the death of one or two of the high chiefs. Another circumstance wh has operated unfavourably upon Some of our ch & congregation this year, was the doings of the French Frigate, L Artimese Capt. Laplace; who arrived here on the 9th of July, Soon after tbe close of last Gen Meeting. As the unjust, illegal, belligerent & most oppressive conduct of Capt Laplace has been published by Br. Castle, & probably read by all this mission, I pass over this part of the Subject, & proceed to notice Some of its effects upon the people in our part of the field. The French, by the aid of a large frigate, having extorted permission from the �2/(Kaumakapili) S. Isls govt. to commence the catholic worship at Honolulu, there was a great an­ xiety on the part of the people; especially those who had not been enrolled as ch members, to go See the new teacher, & his mode of worship, & ascertain on what terms they might receive "bapatima", & be called good people. On the Sabbath, the 14th of July 1839 Capt Laplace & Some 200 of his men came on Shore & commenced public worship in the catholic religion in one of the Kings houses near the re­ sidence of the British consul. Mr. Walsh, an Irish Priest, who had been cloistered (?) up here for Several years, came forth in his Pontificial robes & officiated on the occasion, & administered a military mass. To see men worship with guns & Sword, & drums, & hear them mutter in an unknown tongue, was Something new. To know too that these belliggerent ( ! ) worshipers practiced little or no Self denial; that they drink wine, brandy & other inebria­ ting drinks, Smoke & chew tobacco according to their pleasure; that they bow & worship before images & pictures wh are Seen & temporal; that they discard the Bible as used by the American Missionaries; these & like considerations ignited in the minds of those who were wedded to their sins & unwilling to renounce them; & hence that class rushed after the Beast. And for Several Successive Sabbaths there was such jargon, confusion & uproar, beating on old tin pans, flying of kites, & hallooing of the rabble in the yard of the catholics, that the neighbours in the vicinity of this house of Dagon were very much amazed. To our Sorrow, we Soon ascertained that there were Some five or Six in our ch who were at heart one with the catholics. And like the goats of the forest they unceremoneously(!) leaped the fold of Christ & Joined themselves to the ranks of the worshipers of the virgin Mary. On hearing that one of our male ch members had gone to their meetings, I Sent for him to come & talk with me. He Sent back word that he Should not come; that his new teacher had told him it would be his death, if he Should come & inform me of his purpose to leave this c h & Society & Join them. I then went immediately to his residence, in company with Several ch_ �3/(Kaumakapili) members, & enquired into the reason of his unchristian conduct; of his violating his covenant vows; of his abandoning the Bible; of his ceasing to pray to God, & of his praying to the Virgin Mary &c? bacco. He Said it was because he/w ished to use to­ I asked him if his new teacher Smoked with him? no ia, alaila ua haawi mai i ka ipu ia makau. wine & brandy with you? He replied Ae, ua puhi I inquired further, Does he drink He replied "I mai la oia, ua pono no ke inu i ka waina, a me ka ruma a me ka Barani, aole nae pono ke inu a ona. I inquired what his (new teacher Said about his reading the Bible? He Said that he forbid it entirely, Saying, "If you do read the Bible G. will See you; & if I Should See you reading the Bible it will be your death." pray to G. now? He Said, no. What is your G. now? Said I, do you He replied, "tobacco." With all the arguments & entreaties that I could use, I could not persuade him to re­ turn to this church & congregation. So with 5. others, who without consideration leaped into the dark, I Sought them all out & laboured with them individually; but having made a league with the prince of darkness, they regarded themselves a s bound over forever. mai." They Said, "Ua ae makau mamuli o' ka Pope, nolaila aole e hiki ke hoi I asked them if they had not promised before G. & man that they would be the Servants of Jesus Christ, & work in communion & Fellowship with this church? They replied that they had, but, that they had Since consented to become catholics & that there was no discharge in this war. I ought here perhaps to remark that our church has elected a c h committee, consisting of 10 persons, who, together, with myself, look into all cases of ch discipline, & our decision, after having consulted all the parties concerned is regarded as the voice of the church. Our committee took up the case of these wandering & offending members, & came to the following conclusion concerning them. (1) Ua haalele lakou i ka olelo a ke Akua, o ke kauoha kahiko a me ke kauoha hou. He ku e hoino loa ia i ke Akua. (2) Ua hoopunipuni lakou; no ka mea, ua haalele lakou i ko lakou manaoio i ke �4/(Kaumakapili) Akua a me kana olelo; a ua uhai lakou i ko lakou berita me ke Akua, a me keia ekalesia no hoi; a he hoopunipuni ano e no ia. (3) Ua hoomana ku lakou ia Mari a a me na haipule e ae i ka lani. He hana ku e keia i ke kanawai mua o na kanawai he umi a ke Akua i haawi mai ai. Akua e ae imua o ko'u alo." "Aole ou Nolaila ua pili mai ka hewa o ka hoomanakii ia lakou. (4) Ua hele aku lakou no ka manao ma uhane. 0 ka baka, a me ka rama, a me ka barami, a me ka awa, a me na lei, a me ka lealea; oia ko lakou mau manao i ko lakou haalele ana i keia ekalesia. mea ku e i ke Akua." A "0 ka manao ma ke kino, he make ia; a he I mai ka palapala hemolele peneia(?); "Hele e aku la lakou mai o kakou aku, aka, aole loa lakou no kakou; no ka mea, ina lakou no kakou, ma ua noho lakou me kakou i maopopo ai, aole lakou a pau no kakou. I. John 2:19 No ia mau mea, ke manao nei kakou, he pono ke oki aku i ua poe la a eono a pau." Accordingly they were all excommunicated for the reasons above assigned. I am happy to State however that one of them Soon Saw her error & the awful mistake Wh She had made; & came back, confessed her Sin before the ch committee & also before the whole church, & She was restored. This occurred by the way before any of them had received "bapatema." Mr. Walsh, on ascertaining that one of them had returned, & that one or two others had Sent us their aloha, proceeded immediately & bapatema'd the remaining five & thus bound them fast. I lost no time in calling a ch meeting; & after exhibiting plainly the re­ quirements of the Bible, & pointing out Some of the more obvious errors of the Romish Church, I called upon every one by name, & inquired who was for Christ & who for the Pope? And there was no one who expressed a wish to join the catholics but all promptly Said they were on the Lord’s Side. And from that time until the present, I have heard of only one person in our ch inclined to Popery, & I have not Seen him as yet to talk with him on the Subject. The general Sentiment expressed by our ch members concerning the catholics is, �5/(Kaumakapili) that they are "he poe hewa, a he poe hoomanakii." Considerable of a number who attended meeting with us during the months of religious excitement, but who never gave evidence of true penitence, have gone to the catholics. Ten or twelve of this class have come back again; Some of them because they are required to kneel So much that their knees ache; others because they dirty their clothes, having no comfortable place to Sit or kneel except in the dirt. One woman on being asked why She had left our meeting & gone to the catholics replied, "when I went to Mr. Bingham's meeting house, I looked all around, but I Saw no God. God. So when I went into Mr. Smiths meeting house I Saw no But when I go to the pule Farani I See God; no ka mea, aia, ke kau mai la, ke ike maka nei au ia ia. I have been thus particular in mentioning Some of the obstacles thrown in our way Since last Gen Meeting, that the brethren at the out Stations may know Some­ thing of the wind & tide with which we have had to contend against. prospect of late grows Still darker. Kolau(!) & And the An imposter has recently arisen up at calls himself the Mesiah, & professes to be able to heal all manner of diseases with a word. And though he utterly fails in 49 cases out of 50 & perhaps 99 cases in a 100 So that the halt & the lame & the blind & the dumb & the deaf & the bald headed return with all their infirmaties & diseases upon them; yet So completely are Some of the natives under the influence of Satan, that they regard him as Superhuman, & able to do all things. Meeting house Our new dobie meetinghouse which was in progress at our last Gen Meeting, was dedi cated to the worship of the one only living & true God on the 29th of August. Br Bingham preached on the occasion to a large & attentive audience from Gen 28:17. "This is none other but the house of G. & this is the gate of heaven." It is a very pleasant building, easy for the Speaker, & will hold about 2,000 people. — �6/(Kaumakapili) On the following Sabbath, Sept. 1st we celebrated the Lord's Supper, at which time 267 were admitted to the fellowship of the church on profession of their faith in Christ. Several were Suspended & a number were excommunicated on that occasion. Protracted Meeting On the 16th of Sept. we commenced a pro meeting wh. continued one week. average congregation during the week was about 2,000. The Solemnity & a good degree of attention pervaded the assembly; though the feeling both on the part of the ch. & others was by no means So deep & pungent as on former occasions of the kind. Brethren Bingham, Emerson & Parker assisted me in the meeting. During the meeting a few who had been excommunicated & Some who were Suspended came forward & ex­ pressed penitence & a desire to return to the privileges of the ch. but the repentence of most of them was that which heeded to be repented of; for they Soon plung­ ed again into vice & plainly showed that the truth of G. had no place in their hearts. At the close of this meeting, I Set apart a day or two to converse with new cases, (ie) Such as had never told me their thoughts, & 150. persons presented themselves for the first time. I then proceeded to talk with those who had for­ merly been Solicitous, but had not give Satisfactory evidence of true penitence. I found that the meeting had been apparently blessed to a goodly number of this class. Such I propounded to the church. 171 to the church. And of the 1st Sabbath in March we recd On this occasion we restored three Suspended members, & one who had been excommunicated. We excommunicated 18. who had been for some time Suspended, & Suspended Several others for the common vices of the land. I observe here, that the conduct of many under ch. censure has been truly re­ markable the past year. Formerly if any one was Suspended for any one or more offences(!), he would frequently come to my house & feign repentance at least �7/(Kaumakapili) whether it were genuine or not. wise the past year. But with a few exceptions it has been far other­ When they have made up their minds to return to any one or more of their former vices, at that moment they renounce apparently all anxiety for their future character or Standing in the church. Ask them what their ob­ ject is in returning again to the practice of adultery, rum drinking, card play­ ing, rolling nine pins, Smoking tobacco, wearing leis; quarrelling with & for­ saking their husbands & wives, oppression &c? no ia oe." (or) "Aia no ia oukou. no ia oukou."!! And they imprudently reply, "Aia Ina i manao mai oukou e aki(?) mai ia'u, aia Ask them which they prefer, providing they cannot have both; their rum & brandy or their Standing in the ch? & leis, or their Standing in the ch? their cards — ninepins, tobacco to live peaceably with their companions ac­ cording to their marriage vows, & to deal justly & love mercy, or be removed from the church? And they reply that they are resolved to drink rum, play cards — Smoke tobacco, wear leis, forsake their husbands & their wives, & take away others lands whatever may be the consequence as it respects their future connection with the church. — In Such cases we have felt justified in Suspending them, & if they did not reform from one communion Season to another, we have cut them off from the church. whom Consequently we have excommunicated 43. during the year, four of have been restored. One of these four however (viz) Kalunaaina has been cut off the 2nd time. It is a lamentable fact, that he & nearly every other Chiefish character in our ch, & even those too who follow in the train of the chiefs give but little evidence of having the love of G . Shed(?) abroad in their hearts, or the fear of G. before their eyes, Schools At the commencement of last year, we were in debt to the depository over $100.00 & there being no appropriations for Schools from the funds of the mission, I thought �8/(Kaumakapili) we could not Support a native teacher. Schools has been trifling the year past. The contributions of parents to Sustain I resolved however to do what I could myself in this department, even if I neglected other important duties. But in our extremity the Lord was pleased to provide, & he opened the hearts of brother Ives & brother Cooke to make us a donation from their family appropriations. I immediately employed two teachers from the Seminary, (viz) Kaio & Kapooakamoku. The School flouished well the first term; the average number of Scholars being about 100 daily — the girls A.M. & the boys P.M. Towards the close of the term however, Kapooakamoku left the School St returned to the Seminary with Br. Clarke (!), on his return from China; & Kahoohano & Kalili Supplied his place till the examination which took place on the 25. of Oct. During the vacation, Kaio was taken Sick & has done nothing in the School Since that time. On the 2nd of Dec I commenced School again with Kahookui, the teacher for­ merly employed at Lahaina, to assist me. & has given good Satisfaction. He taught until our recent examination During the illness of Mrs. Smith, I was not able to attend to my class in the School, & Dr. Judd employed Kalama, the celebrated Scholar at the Seminary to teach in our School house for the term of a year & three months; with the understanding that each of his Scholars were to pay 25cts tuition pr. quarter; & the balance of his wages was to come out of the funds of the mission. ill. He commenced on the 2nd of March & taught 2 1/2 days & was then taken After an absence of about a week, he commenced again, & after teaching 8. or 10. days he was ill, & left the School again; & So he operated till the close of the term. And the consequence is, his class have been So irregular in their recitations that they are unwilling to pay their tuition. fail, but I apprehend I am Sorry to have him that he will not Succeed in teaching School, especially in our district. There never was a time when efficient Schools were more needed at these Is­ lands than the present. Blind leaders of the blind have obtained permission to do what they can to extinguish what light there is, & conduct the people back to �9/(Kaumakapili) ignorance, idolatry & all its accompanying abominations. Souls has come. The day to try many Ignorance, deception & hatred of the truth is their Strong hold Light, knowledge, truth & justice is our strong hold under God. We must Spare no pains to put the Bible into every family & teach them how to/read, & understand it. I do not know that funds can be appropriated by this mission for Support of Schools; but it is my earnest prayer that funds may be raised from Some quarter to Sustain our Schools vigorously the present year. And I hope, brethren, that this Subject will have a due Share of our deliberations during this meeting. I ought to remark however that there has been a School of Children at Kalihi for five or Six months, & the teacher has been compensated in part at least by brother Cooke. At our examination in April, the teacher came forward with 76 Scholars, Some of whom I Should think had made commendable proficiency. — There has been another School for children at Moanalua the last three or four months, & the teacher is nominally Sustained by the parents. district attended the April examination. occasion was 187. Do. of adults 236. Thirty Six children from that The whole number of children on that Making in all 423. We have had a childrens Sabbath School through the year, who have assembled at 8 0 .clock in the morning. Ninety (90) has been about the average number. Br. Dimond has had the charge of this School; & I have had a class of from 40. to 60. adults at the Same hour who have been reading Matthew by course. This has been rather a catechetual exercise, as I have called upon them to give the meaning of every verse as they read, & where they misapprehended the import, I have explained it to them. This has been a very profitable & interesting exercise to them. At the Same hour also, Mrs. Smith has had a class of about 30 girls in the Hawina Kamalii. This class has done remarkably well & given great Satisfaction to their teacher, till within the last 2 or 3 months. During this time Some of them have become very "palaka"& have left the School. I have also an Ai o ka la class of about 80. adults & a few of the youth who �10/(Kaumakapili) meet every Sabbath at 1. o . clock. I have also kept up the form(?) of a Singing School during the year, two hours pr. week. Pastoral labours Besides the regular routine of preaching two Sermons every Sabbath & attending to the Schools & Bible class above mentioned, I have alternated with Mr. Bingham in preaching in the Seamen’s Chapel Sabbath evenings Since Mr. Tinker left last fall. I have attended two protracted meetings; one at the Station & one with Mr. Bingham in his congregation. We have held morning prayer meetings daily through the year; these I attended re­ gularly myself till the 1st of Nov. Since then I have attended only on Sabbath mornings, Wednesday mornings, & the mornings of the monthly concert. We have held a regular ch meeting every Saturday P.M. through the year. Spirit of Enterprise The following are Some of the improvements that have been made in our neighbourhood & congregation during the last 2 1/2 years. When we first commenced at our Station there v/as no School house & no meeting house — grog shops. except Some five or Six There the people assembled, male & female, foreigners & natives & bowed together before the Shrine of intemperance, licentiousness & debauchery & practiced every evil work. Now there are no grog Shops in the neighbourhood -- we have a comfortable School house, & a Spacious & very pleasant meeting house. During the winter & Spring our people have built a respectable bridge across the Stream which comes down from Nuanu(! ), & passes but a few rods North of our meeting house. The bridge is about 100 ft. long & 12 ft. wide & Strong enough to cross with horses & carriages. Their contribution in labour, timbers & cash for the bridge �11/(Kaumakapili) amounts to $150. dollars. Some of the residents in the village contributed the plank & Spikes to cover it with; they also paid the carpenters bill. And with their aid also we have made three gates & four Small plank bridges & four or five Small Stone bridges, & thus we have opened a comfortable horse road to Kalihi; consequently those who wish to ride to Ewa or Waialua are now Spared the neces­ sity of wading through the arms of the Sea & the fish ponds. We hope the day is not far distant when a good carriage road will be built from Honolulu to Ewa. Something has been Said of late about making a carriage road up through the s valley of Nuanu, a continuation of the road wh. runs directly mauka from the Store of Ladd & Co. & passing a few rods east of our meeting house; & coming in­ to the old road a few rods east of the Mauka School house built by Mr. Hall. I understand also that Nahinu & Pikoi ma have already commenced cutting & blasting a road up the pari(!), hoping to make it passable for horses & mules. By a little encouragement from the chiefs & foreign residents, I think this con­ templated road may be made & I hope the enterprise of 1840 & 41. will bring it to pass. The external appearance of our congregation has materially changed also dur­ ing the two & half years of our residence among them. Their dirty & tattered tapa garments have been exchanged for clean white dresses, & instead of dissheveled hair & heathenish leis, they now generally wear hats & bonnets. A goodly number of our congregation have provided themselves with Seats & benches for the Sabbath. Some of the females have become quite Skilful (!) with the needle in making garments — Some are Skilful in braiding & Sewing bonnets, & nearly all can braid mats & Sugar bags, by wh_ means they obtain many comforts at the Store both for themselves & their families. A number of neat dobie dwellings have been built in our part of the village, & others are in progress. Those who live back in the country upon the lands, have been Slow to build permanent houses, knowing, as they did, that under the old �12/(Kaumakapili) dispensation they were liable to be striped of both houses & lands at any time. And whether their rights & privileges are really improved & more Secure under the new laws, & new governors, time will Show. Statistical Table Whole number recd to the chh on examination " " " on certificate Total received ------- — - - - — — — — — 1159 53 ------ -------------- 1212 Recd the past year on examination— 438 " " " " " certificate — 20 Whole number recd the past year______________________________________458 Whole number dismissed to other churches — Dismissed the passed year — Whole number deceased 30 1 7 45 Deceased the past y e a r ---- 25 Suspended the past year 51 Remain suspended 24 Whole number excommunicated " " past year Remain excommunicated 55 44 51 Whole number in regular Standing Candidates 1062 10 Whole number of children baptised 320 Baptised the past year 112 Baptised children deceased Marriages the past year No record 134 �13/(Kaumakapili) Average congregation 1500 Average number of Scholars at the Station School Do. " " at two district Schools 90 100 Average number in the Ai o ka la & Bible classes 130 Contributions in taro, potatoes, fowls & eggs for Schools $ 10:00 Contributions in vegetables for Support of pastor $ 10:00 Contributions in labour, lumber & cash for building a publick bridge --- $150:00 Contributions towards liquidating the debt of our Meeting house $200:00 Now in debt for the Meeting house $ 80:00 Whole number of contributions $450:00 (in pencil): 80.00 370 L . Smith. (Written on the back of the last page, sideways): Mr. Smith's Report Honolulu (in pencil): 1840 �Station Report N.W. Honolulu (Kaumakapili) May 12/41 At the close of our last Gen. meeting, I organized adult Schools in each of the 10. divisions of my parish for ch. members & others, for the purpose of Study­ ing, reading, & expounding the Bible. This plan was adopted in order if possible to counteract the influence of Romanism , which had planted its footsteps & raised its brazen front in the midst of us. "The weaponry of our warfare are not carnal." Darkness is to be overcome by light; ignorance by knowledge & error by truth. These Several Schools I met once in two weeks with but few interruptions till the first of Jan., when a Series of protracted meetings & other labours prevented me from attending them longer. These Schools, insconnection with a Series of lectures on Romanism delivered by Br. Armstrong, appeared to be blessed to that portion of the church who regu­ larly attended. Four however of our ch. have joined the catholics during the year. One who had been a long time Sick, professed to turn unto them in order to be healed* but died Soon after. The other three joined them in order to indulge in Sin, & drink in iniquity like water, & Still be called good people. Intemperance prevailed to an alarming extent for 3. or 4. months after our last Gen. meeting. ed. In this whirlpool a number of our church members were engulf­ It Seemed for a time as if the very elect would be Swept away by this enemy of all righteousness. A kind of mania Seemed to possess the minds of all classes, until Satan acted out himself in the person of two natives in Such a horrid deed, that the arm of Civil Justice Suspended them by the neck till they were dead! Kamanawa, a low chief had for Several months been living in adultery with another woman, & wished to put away his lawful wife & marry her. Lono, who for Several years had been Capt. of the Hoikaika told him how it could be effected. �2/Northwest Honolulu (Kaumakapili) They mingled poison with poison & gave it to her, which caused her death in a few hours. They were both Suspected, tried, & convicted, & on the 20th of Oct were executed upon a gallows erected upon the top of the fort, & in the presence of 10. or 12. thousand people. Brethren Armstrong, Emerson, & myself were pre­ sent on that awfully trying occasion. But though there have been from 20. to 30. grog Shops in the village from that time to the present, yet I have seldom seen a native intoxicated in the Streets Since that time. Tour to Hawaii Feeling much the need of relaxation & having never visited the Island of Hawaii, Mrs. S. & myself proposed to embrace the first good opportunity & go to that Is­ land. Accordingly on the 8th of July we embarked on board the Brig Clementine bound to Kawaihae. Had a comfortable passage — with Br. & Sister Lyons. Spent the 1st Sabbath at Waimea, Mrs. S. had purposed(!) to accompany me to Hilo across the land; but it was thought by our Waimea friends that the jaunt would be too much for her, consequently She Stoped(?) to try the efficacy of the Waimea cli­ mate, while I passed on to Hilo. After refreshing a few days with our kind friends at Byrons Bay, I proceeded in company with brother Wilcox to the new Sand hills & eruption of lava in Puna thence to Kilauea — & thence back to Hilo again, much gratified with beholding the works of creation & providence, & Sufficiently fast(?) sore & fatigued with my pedestrian journey to enjoy anew the hospitality of our beloved brethren & Sis ters at that place. After the Sabbath I returned again by the way of Laupahoehoe, narrowly es­ caping in two instances being overwhelmed beneathe(!) the rolling billows. On Wednesday arrived at Waimea having been absent from there just 2 weeks. On Friday, Set off in company with Mrs. Smith for Kohala. Spent the Sabbath with Br. & Sister Bliss; & on Monday returned to Kawaihae, expecting to take �3/Northwest Honolulu (Kaumakapili) passage that evening for Honolulu; but unfortunately for us, the vessel was de­ tained & we did not Sail till Saturday evening. We arrived at this place the next Monday morning, Aug. 10th, having been absent from our people one month & two days. Mrs. Smith's health has been about as usual the past year. My own health has not been good for the last 2. or 3. months, owing in part perhaps to a want of relaxation. Tour of Oahu The early part of Nov. I made a tour of Oahu, accompanied by 8. native ch. mem­ bers. I preached 26 times. Spent the Sabbath at Kaneohe & by the request of Mrs. Parker, (her husband not having returned from the coast), I administered the ordinance of the Lord's Supper to that church. interesting. The occasion was Solemn & I found things in rather a discouraging State however on the Kolau(!) Side of the Island at that time. Some had turned to Popery - & others had been drinking awa, potatoes & melons &c— Thanksgiving The 1 st day of Jan. we observed as a day of thanksgiving. My native congregation was as large on that occasion, as it usually is Sabbath mornings. After public worship, the people all retired quietly to their Several villages & homes, & par­ took of the bounties of a kind providence, & I did not hear of an instance of in­ toxication or improper conduct in consequence of the feast. — We missionaries contributed to a common Stock dinner, & had a Sociable, refreshing time; a time when we called to mind our thanksgiving days in the U. States; a time too when we felt to thank God & take courage, notwithstanding the obstacle that oppose themselves to the cause of Christ in which we are engaged. �4 /Northwest Honolulu (Kaumakapili) Protracted Meetings I Have laboured in three protracted meetings since the first of Jan.. The 1st was with Br. Armstrong the 1st week in Jan.y -- The 2d was in my own congregation the 1st week in February. I was favored with the assistance of Br. Armstrong & Emerson on that occasion. The 3d. was at Ewa with Br. Bishop the 1st of March. Brethren A. & B. will of course report concerning their respective meetings. As it respects our own meeting, every external circumstance was peculiarly favourable, & it was most obvious that the Spirit of God accompanied the word Spoken during the meeting, & for Several weeks afterwards. A number of the child­ ren were Serious & prayerful for a time, though I do not feel Satisfyed(!) that any of them were truly converted. Some of our ch. members were much engaged, others exhibited but little inter­ est in the meeting. Over 100 new cases came forward immediately to talk with me for the first time as the fruit of this meeting, numbers of whom appeared to be truly converted(?) of Sin; Some of whom appear well thus far; while others have gone back. The meeting was also blessed to a number who were under ch discipline at that time, & who have Since been restored to the fellowship of the church. A goodly number also who expressed hopes during the Great awakening two years ago, appeared well, & have since been propounded for admission to the church. I remark here that each morning meetings have been held at the Station through the year, conducted principally by the ch. members themselves. It has been my practice to attend every Sabbath, Wednesday & monthly concert mornings. Besides this we have a regular ch. meeting every Saturday P.M. Schools Our Schools for children have flourished far better this year than any previous year. The King's School law has operated favourably with us in two respects; 1st �5/Northwest Honolulu (Kaumakapili) It has greatly multiplied the number of children in our Schools; & 2d it employed a large number of teachers; but it has furnished no aid whatever in Supporting them. By the voluntary aid of Some of our ch members, & various donations from other Sources by making draughts from the depository which make us very much in debt there, we kept up the Schools till the April examination. Our people have contributed the year past about $90:00 for the Support of School teachers. They ought unquestionably to Sustain the whole expense; but I have not been able as yet to make them See & feel the extent of their obligations in this respect. At the public examination or celebration of Schools in Oct., we numbered only 255 children. The public dinner on that occasion had a very happy effect upon them, & also upon the parents. Consequently the number of children immediately increased, previous to the promulgation of the School law . So that at our ex­ amination in Jan. we numbered 393, & at our examination in April we numbered 470 — one half of whom are in the first rudiments, & the remaining half have made very commendable proficiency in a number of branches. (4 Schools & 9 teachers.) Our Schools are quite too large for profit. (ie) we need more S. houses & more teachers & also more funds for Sustaining them. My prayer last year was that funds might arise from Some quarter to Sustain our Schools vigorously. That prayer has been answered in part at least. I now prefer the Same petition again for the coming year, for, So far as our instrument­ ality is concerned, I see nothing of So great importance, or likely to be So effectual in Saving the nation from Romanism, idolatry & rui n as education, light, knowledge & a correct understanding of God's word. Let the Schools then be Sus­ tained among the children & youth; & let even the adults be encouraged to revive their Schools again, & learn Still more about the way & plan of Salvation. Our Sabbath Schools meet at 8. o. clock Sabbath mornings — about the Same �6/Northwest Honolulu (Kaumakapili) number attend who attend the day School. Br. Dimond has the charge of the Boys, & I take the charge of the girls, except about 30. of the more intelligent, who are in Mrs. Smiths class. Between the morning & afternoon Services I have a Bible class, this has been quite flourishing the most of the year. I have also kept up a kind of Singing School two hours pr. week during the year. Mrs. Smith has held a meeting with the women every Friday when health & other circumstances would permit. The number who have attended has varied from two to four hundred. The women have recently contributed $40:00 to aid in building a church at Waialua. Volume of Native Sermons I have Superintended the printing of a volume of 30. native Sermons. The edi­ tion is 5,000; & I trust they will be bound ready for distribution before this meeting Shall adjourn. to print. The volume has been greatly delayed for want of Sermons Several of the brethren appointed to write, did not Send in their manuscripts till a late hour; & others have not Sent in theirs yet. Only one Sermon has been rejected, & that because of its treating more or less on the Subject of infant baptism, the object having been to print the volume with the funds of the Tract Society. Should the brethren think it advisable to print another volume, I would re­ commend that we do it with the funds of the Board, that there be no obstacles in the way to our printing on any doctrines of the Bible, regarded by us as im­ portant. In conclusion I wish to remark that we have built a doby house 28 ft. by 20. for the purpose of accommodating our friends Gen_Meeting time, & other times when �7/Northwest Honolulu (Kaumakapili) they may providentially call upon us. Hitherto we have had no convenient lodging place for friends. The whole expense of the building is $240:00. Besides this we have been ob­ liged to rethatch our house for domestics, which cost $10:00. The Bill then which we wish to have footed from the Building fund is $250:00. Statistical Table Whole number recd to the church on examination Do " " on certificate — — Total Recd " 1274 62 1336 Recd past year on examination Do. - " on certificate Total recd past year 115 9 124 Whole No. dismissed to other churches 52 Dismissed the past year 22 Whole No. deceased 77 Deceased the past year 32 Suspended the past year 88 Remains Suspended 45 Whole No . excommunicated 88 Excommunicated past year 33 �8/Northwest Honolulu (Kaumakapili) Remain Excommunicated 68 Whole No. in regular Standing 1094 Candidates 187 Whole No. children baptised 353 Children baptised past year 33 Marriages past year 130 Average congregation 1500 ------------------------------ ---(!) Contribution of the ch. & people for Schools $ 90:00 Contribution of the females for Waialua meeting house $ 40:00 Contribution for an out fit of a native & wife for the Oregon Mission $ 20:00 Paid off our last years debt for our own meeting house $ 80:00 Total $230. Children Schools Number of Schools 4 Number of teachers 9 Whole number of Scholars 470 Average number of children who have attended School 360 L. Smith (Written on the back of the last page): Honolulu 2nd Cong.n 1841 Mr. Smith �Honolulu 2d Parish Station Report, May 1842 In presenting the 5th annual report of the Second parish & congregation in this village, we have occasion to bless the God of missions for the good degree of health with which we have been blessed the year past. My own health has been much as usual (ie) I have been enabled to fulfill the duties of my Station with very little interruption during the year. The last of March however I felt So much debilitated in consequence of a Series of protracted meetings held in different parts of my field Since last December, & other consequent labours of a Similar character, that I deemed it ex­ pedient to take a Short trip to Some one of the neighbouring Islands. Accord­ ingly I took passage on board of a while Ship to Lahaina, & thence over land & by canoe to Hana. I returned again Somewhat recruited, having been absent nearly three weeks. Mrs. Smith has not enjoyed So firm health Since our arrival at these Islands, as during the last 9. or 10. months while nursing her infant son. For this two fold favour, we have felt exceedingly grateful, & we indulged the fond hope that we Should be permitted to train him for future usefulness in the church of Christ on earth. But God's ways are not as our ways. For in his wise providence he has caused a heavy wave of affliction to pass over us, by removing our precious boy from time into eternity. — On Wednesday the 27th ult, he ac­ companied his mother to the maternal meeting, apparently well; but, as Brother Armstrong remarked at his funeral, he returned home from that meeting to die! That night he was taken with a diarrhaea(!) or dysenterry(!), which defied all medical prescription. The disease raged with little or no abatement till half past 11. o.clock on Saturday night, a little more than three days & nights, when the little Sufferer ceased to breathe. us in this unexpected bereavement. The hand of the Lord is very obvious to His Sickness & death was not occasioned by �2/Honolulu (Kaumakapili) the carelessness or neglect of his parents. We have no reflections to make for being located at Some out post, far re­ moved from medical aid, & kind & Sympathizing friends. We dwell in the midst of friends, & had the counsel & advice of three Skilful(!) physicians. But the number of his months & days were determined by the Lord & beyond these bounds he could not pass. "The Lord gave & the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord." Schools We have held three public examinations of Schools during the year. first was in July, the Second in Oct & the third in March. children enrolled during the year is 601. ance is 427. The The whole number of The average number of regular attend­ The number of deaths among the children of the Schools is 6. For further particulars of a Statistical nature, See the Schedule filled out [at the three Several examinations. At the examination in Oct, we devoted the most of three days, concluding with a dialogue, two orations & a few pieces of vocal music. appeared more promising than on that occasion. Our Schools have never On the fourth day, or the day following the examination, we united with the Schools in the 1st_ parish, & formed a procession & marched tip to Pauoa & had a public dinner. children on that occasion, & about as many adults. We mustered about 500. The King & Chiefs joined the procession & feast; & at the close the King & Auhea addressed the youthful con­ gregation with much apparent interest. Our Schools have flagged(!) Some the last quarter, owing to the fact that the government have been Slack in paying the teachers. I very much apprehend that unless we missionaries keep our Shoulders at the wheel for years to come, the Schools will ere long entirely run down. The powers that be can enact laws for the benefit of Schools; but of what use �3/Honolulu (Kaumakapili) 1842 are law s without efficient agents to execute them? I taught a writing School for three months Soon after our last Gen Meeting, which made commendable proficiency. Our Sabbath Schools have embraced about the Same number of Scholars as have attended the day Schools. Brother Dimond has Superintended the Sabbath School for boys, in the School house, I have had the Superintendance of the girls in the meeting house, except about 30. of the most intelligent who have met with Mrs. Smith in my Study. I have also a Bible class of from 30. to 90. who have met regularly at one o clock. Substitute the Ui. This class I propose to Suspend for the present & I Shall probably have a class of five or Six hundred in the Ui. Besides her class in the Sabbath School, Mrs. Smith has held a weekly female prayer meeting on Friday P.M. She has also visited more or less from house to house in the village; & in the month of Jany , by the aid of Some of the more active female church members, She Sought out the destitute, aged, infirm & help­ less, & contributed in clothing & native tapa to their immediate wants & neces­ sities. Church The first five or Six months of this last year was a time of Spiritual de­ clension in our church. And while the influences of the Holy Spirit Seemed to be withheld, the Spirit of iniquity prevailed in the hearts of a portion of the professed friends of Christ. The consequence was that a considerable number wounded the Saviour in the house of his friends, & have fallen under church dis­ cipline. Perhaps I lack in gospel, charity, & labour under a mistaken view of things in ruling , or taking care of the Church of God.[A hundred or more were on the list of church discipline during the first half of the year. Clouds & dark­ ness hung over us.] But my opinion was & Still is, that if a pastor wished the �4/Honolulu (Kaumakapili) 1842 blessing of God upon the church & people under his pastoral care, he must not connive at the Sins of the professed friends of Christ. The time of God's winking at Sin is passed, & he now commandeth all men, (not even excepting hypocrites in the church) to repent. If I made a mistake in re­ ceiving certain persons to the church; that can be no apology for making another Still/more fatal to the cause of Cht by conniving at their known & aggravating Sins. The leaven of iniquity indulged in one member, will Soon infuse itself through the whole body, & a State of Spiritual apathy will come over the church more to be dreaded than death itself. The children of Israel fled before their enemies because of the Sin of Achan; but as Soon as he was publicly disciplined & punished, the Lord interposed again for his people Israel. The little bark which was carrying Jonah across the Sea contrary to the will of the Lord, was pursued by a tempest, until they cast the disobedient prophet over board, & then the Sea ceased from her raging. Paul wrote to the Corrinthian(!) Church, & commanded them not to eat, or keep company w ith a man who was called a brother, providing he was guilty of open & known Sin. It is very trying to a pastor to be obliged to excommunicate, or even Suspend the professed followers of Christ; but Still/more trying to retain them in the church, & have their unchristian/conduct & influence Spreading like the plague & paralizing the whole church. Experience, as well as the word of God, has con­ vinced me that the path of duty is the faith of peace & prosperity, as it respects church discipline. For, while with an aching heart we were engaged in this all important work; "Methought I heard the Saviour Say, Dismiss thy fears, the ark is mine. The winter Season has been Sharp, But Spring Shall all its wastes repair." �5/Honolulu (Kaumakapili) 1842 Protracted Meetings At the close of the fall Shipping in Decbr I commenced a Series of protracted meetings of 3. days each to be held in different parts of my field. The first we held at Moanalua; the Second at Kalihi; the third at Kapalama; the fourth at Pauoa & the 5th & last at the Station, This last was continued Six days. The neighbourhood meetings had all been more or less blessed & the way was well pre­ pared for the meeting of the whole parish. Br. Armstrong assisted me in this meeting & I think it was on the whole, the best protracted meeting that we have ever had at our Station. There was not So much animal excitement & noise as during the revival of 1838 & 39. But apparently far more enlightened & Sober conviction for Sin as committed against a holy God. The church as a body were quite waked up & appeared to feel both for themselves & others. Those who have been called hoikaikas Since 1838 Seemed to obtain new views & a fresh unction from on high; & of this class I have propounded 306. to be held on probation five or Six months at least before they are admitted to the fellowship of the church. There has also been quite a Shaking among the dry bones. At least 200. have come forth from their hiding places for the first time, as the fruits of our protracted meetings, & Subsequent evening conference meetings, held in different parts of the village; Some of whom giver very Satisfactory evidence of the work of the Holy Spirit upon their hearts. But I have thought it advisable not to propound any of this class at present. Thirty, who had formerly belonged to my congregation, but who had wandered after the Beast & false prophet, have returned during & Since our protracted meetings; Some few of these appear truly penitent for the Sin of idolatry & other accompanying vices. But the most of them have returned with all the confusion of him who Saw men as trees walking. I am fully convinced that Popery is a delusion, more fatal if possible than heathenism itself. �6/Honolulu (Kaumakapili) 1842 Some 30. or 40. also who were under church discipline have been restored again to the fellowship of the church as the fruit 6f our Meetings. And 15. or 20. others are expressing penitence & a wish to be restored previous to our next communion Season. Temperance We have recently made Some efforts among the children & youth on the Subject of Temperance. 530 have signed the pledge of total abstinence from all intoxicating liquors & drugs, not excepting even that most delicious, & most difficult to aban­ don of all narcotics, (viz) tobacco! I have not yet called a temperance meeting for our adults; though I probably Shall, Soon after the close of the General Meeting. I do not apprehend that Such a Society will be of any material benefit for our church; for we have ever acted on the Strictest principles of temperance ever Since its first organization. But it may be of Some use to the cause at large; it may help to Strenghten the King & Chiefs to abide by their pledge - And it may help to dry up the fountains of in­ temperance in this wicked village. Prayer Meetings Daily morning prayer meetings have been held at the Station during the year. I usually attend on Sabbath, Wednesday & monthly concert mornings. We hold a weekly church cession & prayer meeting every Saturday P.M. at which time all cases for church discipline are reported & acted upon. Contributions Our people have contributed this year as follows. For Church bell To aid in building the Stone Church at Waialua $ 80:00 38:00 �7/Honolulu (Kaumakapili) 1842 Do. to aid the Stone ch. at Kaneohe $ 86:25 For contingent expenses 23:00 Total = $227:25 Conclusion In conclusion I remark that the year past has been with us one of trials — Sorrow & of joy. of On the whole, we think the cause of truth & righteousness has gained ground, & we are encouraged to hope that the coining year will witness Still greater triumphs of truth in this village & its vicinity. Statistics Whole No. admitted to the church on examination Do, on certificate Total received = Received past year on examination Do on certificate Total recd past year = Whole No. dismissed to other churches Do. past year Whole No. deceased D o . past year Suspended past year Remain suspended Excommunicated the past year Whole No. excommunicated Remain excommunicated Whole No. in regular standing Candidates propounded Whole No. children baptized Do. past year 1458 56 1514 184 18 202 72 20 112 35 53 23 50 138 160 1201 306 327 75 �8/Honolulu (Kaumakapili) Marriages the past year Number of children & youth who have joined the Temperance Society Average No. congregation on the Sabbath 530 1500 Contributions for Church bell Do. to aid in building the Waialua ch. Do. " " " " " Kaneohe ch. For contingent expenses Total = $ 80:00 38:00 86:25 23:00 $227:25 L. Smith (Written on back of last page, sideways): L . Smith report Honolulu 1842 �6th Annual Report — Hololulu(2)(!) May 1843 For about Six months Subsequently to our last general meeting, I enjoyed my usual health & Strength & performed the duties of a missionary, pastor & physi­ cian &c. to the best of my ability. During the last Six months I have been more or less unwell, especially during the months of January; & February, & was obliged to call for medical aid Several times. I am however about as well as usual at the present time. Mrs. Smith has been unusually feeble during the year, & is So Still. On the 9th of Apr il She gave birth to a daughter who Survived only 48 hours. The dealings of our Heavenly Father with us in referance(!) to our children are quite mysterious & unintelligible. This is the fourth child which God put into our hands & taken again unto him­ self within as many years. We have the unspeakable consolation however of believ ing that they are taken from the evils of time to the bliss of heaven; & though bereaved & Sadly disappointed, we would not dare to recall them again if we could Our Lord & Master Sees the end from the beginning, & undoubtedly does all things well. Tour of Oahu The last week in November, I made a tour of this Island -- & laboured four days including the Sabbath at Kolau(!) in company with brother A.B. Smith. were kind & attentive, & I trust it was a profitable Season to many. The people We re­ stored ten persons to the church who had previously been excommunicated, receiv­ ed 14. on profession of their faith in Christ, propounded 20 more, baptized 16. children & administered the Lords Supper. -- The people there desire & very much need a good missionary to be located among them. �2/Honolulu (Kaumakapili) 1843 Schools The children & youth appeared well at the examination in August & also in Octo­ ber. At the October examination there were 607. present. My opinion then was, that our Shools(!) never had appeared better; & my fear now is, that they will never appear So well again.# During the last Six months the government have ta­ ken two or three of our best qualified & most efficient teachers into their em­ ployment; & not only So, they have been very remiss in paying those whom they have not removed; & hence they have laboured with empty Stomachs & heavy hearts. Parents have lost Some of their zeal in sending their children regularly to School, & the lunas have partaken of the Same lethargy. As to the effect of the recent political revolution upon the Schools & ris­ ing generation, my brethren can prognosticate as well as myself. #At the January examination very few children were present, it being a very rainy day -- And on account of Mrs. Smiths illness, I was not able to attend the April examination. But of this I am confidant, the number of children in our Schools is diminishing. Temperance In addition to our church, who have pledged themselves to abstain from all intoxi­ cating liquors & drugs, we have the names of about 600 children, making in all over 2,000. On the 27th of Oct the cold water army, embracing both children & adults from the 1st & 2d congregations in this village, held a temperance celebration. The occasion was one of much interest to all who were present; & it was confident­ ly believed that the cause of Temperance received an impulse on that day of last­ ing benefit. Very few cases as yet have come to my knowledge either of parents or children having returned to the use of intoxicating liquors or drugs. �3/Honolulu (Kaumakapili) 1843 Church It will be remembered that over three hundred Stood propounded at our last gene­ ral meeting; these & a few others have been admitted to the church during the year. I have not held a protracted meeting the year past, though; the church were anxious to hold Such a meeting, & at one time began to make preparations(!) for it. My ill health was the grand obstacle in the way, — I felt that I could not Sustain the extra labours of Such a meeting. During the last three or four months, a distressing apathy & Spiritual insen­ sibility has come over the church & congregation. Such as has not existed before Since the Station was commenced Six years ago. The recent political revolution has contributed largely in diverting the minds of the people from things Spirit­ ual & divine, to things earthly, Sensual & devlish. It is impossible to foretell how Sad & desolating the revolution & all its concomitant circumstances will be upon the church & people in this village & its vicinity. The great mass are So much like children, that it takes but little to turn them from the path of d u t y . A nd when one of the important laws of the land is annulled, many take it for granted that all law is dead. Consequently other crimes besides adultery are breaking forth on every Side; Such as drinking awa, card playing, & gambling in a variety of ways. If this State of things Shall long continue, the cultivation of lands will be neglected & a famine will ensue. Some church members have already begun to touch, taste & handle forbidden objects; & there is much reason to apprehend that the pastors on Oahu will have much painful work to do the current year. My only hope that any will Stand fast is in the Lord. If he has a people here, he will cut Short the reign of the man of Sin for his own elects Sake. �4/Honolulu (Kaumakapili) 1843 Contributions Our people have done Something the year past in the way of contributions. Their first art of this kind was to aid the government, then in debt, by rethatching the Station School house worth $40;00 (2d) Aid in building a Stone church on Molokai to the amount of $80:00. At the commencement of the present year, I proposed to them that they do Something this year to aid their missionary in building a Small dobie house at the entrance of Nuanu(!) valley, as a retreat for us during the hot Summer months. A goodly number of them appeared to appreciate the object, & they have already contribu­ ted to the amount of ($100:00) one hundred dollars; 75. of which is in cash. We do not intend to ask aid from either the building, or medical department, though our grand object is the promotion of health, & to avoid if possible, & to avoid if possible(!) the necessity of Spending time & money in voyaging for health. The distance from our residence in the village is not over a mile & a half — yet the differance(!) in the temperature is very considerable. Moreover I can attend to my missionary labours while residing there with but little inconvenience. I have Said thus much that the brethren may understand our object, ways, means, & ends in the matter. Our people have also contributed this year for the Support of the communion table to the amount of --- $24:00. Statistical Table Whole No. Recd on examination — Do. on certificate Total recd to this church Received the past year on examination 1818 89 1907 360 �5/Honolulu (Kaumakapili) 1843 Do. on certificate 33(?) Whole No. past year 393 Whole No. dismissed to other churches 91 Do. the past year 19 Whole No. deceased 159 Deceased the past year 47 Suspended the past year 70 Remain suspended 23 Excommunicated past year 16 Excommunicated persons restored past year 16 Whole No. Excommunicated 154 Remain Excommunicated 106 Whole No. in regular Standing 1528 Whole No. children baptised 397 Baptised the past year 70 Marriages the past year 105 Average No. of congregation from 1200 Thatching Station S. house ntributions For Molokai Meetinghouse To aid the pastor in building a cottage in Nuanu valley o Support the Lords table T Total = to 1500 $ 40:00 80:00 100:00 24:00 $244:00 (Unsigned) (L. Smith) �2d parish Station Report Honolulu May 1844 At our last general meeting, both the political & moral aspect of affairs in this village was dark & portentous. And had not the providence of God interposed in behalf of this people, they might have been, ere this, in as lamantable(!) a condition as the Society Islanders now are. But thanks to the God of Christian Missions, in an unexpected hour, he Sent us deliverance from the hand of the usurper & oppressor. Some of the brethren may not have had as much to weep over during the past year, as the legitimate fruits of the doings of the British Commission, as I have had. It is natural to Suppose that those who reside here at the centre of operations will be more Sensibly & materially affected by the revolutions to & fro, than those who live at remote Stations. Sad as the account is which I am about to relate, it is not worse than what I anticipated at our last Gen Meeting. Pastoral Labours My regular pastoral labours have been much as in former years. I have preach­ ed two Sermons every Sabbath, besides attending to a Sabbath School from 8. to 9. o clock Sabbath mornings. Have preached a lecture every Wednesday either at the Station, or at Some one of the School houses in the parish; have held a church prayer meeting every Saturday P.M. — Observed the Monthly concert — & during the present year, have had a School five days every other week with as many differant(!) portions of my parishioners, for the reading & expounding of the Ai o ka La. I have assisted in five protracted meetings, one of which was held at Koloa on a neighbouring Island. The one at my own Station was held the first week in December. This meeting �2/Honolulu 2d Parish (Kaumakapili) 1844 was very opportune, as it respects quite a number in the church. The example of high handed iniquity, bold presumption & defiance of the laws of the land, had been So thoroughly infused into the minds of the people in this village, that the church also had become Sadly infected with it. Many had ceased to call upon the name of the Lord; & the Spirit of the world, which worketh death, was rapidly Setting down upon the vitals of the church. The duty of Christians to confess their Sins one to another, & to pray one for another was early introduced into the meeting; & before it closed, many were ready to confess publicly their Sins, both of omission & commission, & to enter anew into covenant with God. Some confessed that for three or four months they had lived in the entire neglect of Secret & family prayer; that their attendance at the house of God was a cold formality, & that they were on the very point of abandoning the Subject altogether. To Some of this class, as well as to others, who were mourning over the desolations of Zion, the meeting was apparently very much blessed. But notwithstanding all the moral influances(!) which have been brought to bear upon their minds the past year, Such as the regular preaching of the word of God, & the administration of Gospel ordinances - the visiting of the people from house to house by the elders & others; a protracted meeting; district meetings; St Schools for the reading & expounding of the daily food, Still we have been constrained to perform the painful task of excommunicating 122. from the church; & 40. others are now Suspended most of whom give little or no evidence of repentance for their Sins, or a disposition to return to the duties & privi­ leges of the church. The following are among the more prominent sins, which have led to the excision of So many, & of which others also are now under church discipline; (viz) adultery, fornication, keeping houses of assignation, rum drinking -- awa drinking — bacco Smoking — gambling — Stealing — to­ quarrelling -- & going after the Beast. �1844 3/Honolulu 2d Parish (Kaumakapili) Present State of the church There is no Special interest among the church & people at this time, though a portion of the church appear very well. A great many are Sick. Some are pro­ posing to Serve both God & Mammon, & have imbibed the Spirit of those, who be­ lieve that gain is godliness. And in becoming wise above what is written, they are obviously forsaking God, the fountain of living waters, & hewing out to them­ selves broken cisterns, which can hold no water. Indeed, the present is a time to try mens Souls, & naught but the Special grace of God will prevent these Hawaiian Christians from being overcome & led astray by the anti Christian prin­ ciples & practices daily exhibited before their eyes. Schools Our Schools have had their trials too, their ebbing & flowing the year past. At their quarterly examination last July, just before the Restoration, their num­ ber was reduced one half -- At the examination in October about 2/3 of the usual number were present. But the interest usually manifested on Such occasions was greatly diminished. During the winter term, Kapoookamoku, a graduate from the Seminary, & our principal teacher at the Station, was taken Sick with rapid consumption, & has recently died. He was a good native teacher, & we feel his loss very much. — One grand cause for the decline & inefficiency of our Schools the year past, has arisen from the fact that the teachers have not been able to perform the duties of the School room without the means necessary for a comfortable Subsistance. They have enjoyed the warm influences of the Sun, the refreshing breezes of heaven, & the former & latter rain, in common with other men in the employ of government; but receiving little or nothing for their Services, their barrel of meal & cruise of oil failed, & Some of them have had nothing to eat for days & weelks together, except as they begged from their friends. I have heard no complaint from the �4/Honolulu 2d Parish (Kaumakapili) 1844 police, the Scribes -- the militla, or the Sailors; but the poor School teachers have complained, & I am Sure if I had been one of their number, I should have abandoned my School long ago. — About the 1st of March John Ii was removed from the office of Kahu Kula, & Keikenui was appointed in his place. Since that time the Schools have very much revived, the teachers have received Some of their pay for past Services, & like every other new broom this Seems to Sweep clean for the present. But Such are my present apprehensions, that I shall not be at all disappointed Should there be another reaction within Six months more disasterous to the Schools than any that has hitherto occurred. Our Sabbath School has been kept up during the year & the attendance of the children & youth has been modified very much by the day School (ie) when the one has been well attended, the other has been also; & vice versa. Subsequently to our pro. meeting a number of the children & youth & Some of the adults have expressed considerable Seriousness & have been attentive to the means of grace, but whether any of them have been really converted to Christ is not very obvious at present. Popery There has been considerable running to & from the catholics during the year, both by parents & children. At the time of our pro meeting, Several returned from them to our congregation, but like most others who fall out by the way, they go limping & halting, & give little or no evidence of ever having made their peace with God. When Keikenui was appointed Kahu Kula & had published aabroad that neither the parents or children would be taxed hereafter for the Support of the teachers, Some ten or a dozen children carryback to our Schools. Nothing can be more obvious than that the great majority of those who go to the catholics; go because they are un­ willing to deny themselves according to the command of Christ. Rather than re­ �5/Honolulu 2d Parish (Kaumakapili) 1844 nounce their Sins, or contribute in the least for the Support of Schools, or the cause of Christ, they will go off & join the catholics. I have not kept debt & credit with them; but my impression is that they have gained upon us a little this year, in point of numbers. Death The messenger of death has visited this church 64. times during the year, & has removed Some of our most devoted & consistant Christians. A good proportion of them have less Satisfactory evidence behind that they were prepared for their great & last change. Zakaio Neau, one of the elders of the church, is among the number, who died triumphing(?) over the monster death. He was one of the rare cases among Hawaiian Christians, who have not fallen out by the way, & for a time at least, partaken of forbidden fruit. every good word & work. He was always at his post, ready for "The Memory of the Just," Says Solomon, "is blessed." The fact that a goodly number have died in the faith, & that others remain Steadfast, & in Some good degree are consistant in their daily lives, is a power­ ful impetus to impell us forward in the work of preaching Christ & his gospel, notwithstanding the fickle mindedness & instability of others, as well as the many obstacles with which we have to contend. Health My own health & that of Mrs. Smith has been much the last as during Several of the preceding years. Wants It is necessary for the preservation, as well as the comfort of our dwelling house, that it be rethatched this Summer. We therefore ask that the Sum of $30;00 may be appropriated to our Station for that use. Or $300;00 for the purpose of �6/Honolulu 2d Parish (Kaumakapili) 1844 boarding & Shingling the roof. Statistical Table Whole No. received on examination 1818 Whole No. recd on certificate 177 Past year on examination 0 Past year on certificate 61 Whole number past year . 61 Whole Mo. dismissed to other churches 98 Dismissed the passed (!) year 15 Whole No. deceased 222 Deceased the past year 64 Suspended the past year 180 Remain Suspended Excommunicated past year 40 . 122 Whole No. excommunicated 277 Remain excomnunicated 210 Whole No. in regular Standing Whole No. children baptized(!) Baptized the past year Marriages the past year Average congregation 1425 406 9 148 1200 (Unsigned) (L. Smith) �Honolulu 2d Parish May/46 Station Report for 1845 & 6. In making out a report for two years, I would mention first of all, that we have great occasion for gratitude to our Heavenly Father for the good measure of health which we we(! ) have enjoyed. Mrs. Smith's health in particular has been better than during any other two years Since our arrival at the Islands 13 years ago. Our daughter Emma was seized with a violent attack of the dysenterry(!) last December, which held her on the borders of the grave for two weeks; but the Lord was better to us than our fears, rebuked the disease, raised her up again - & She is now in the enjoyment of perfect health. As it respects myself, I have been able to perform the duties of the Sanctuary regularly on the Sabbath, with the exception of two or three Sabbaths during the Influenza in the month of April 1845 besides attending to the almost inummerable calls of the Sick, attending meetings & two Singing Schools every week. I perceive however that I am by no means able to perform the amount of mission­ ary labour now that I did Some five or Six years ago. During most of the year 1845 I was very much depressed in Spirit -Some of the causes which operated unfavourably upon my mind I will mention. First. The apparent ingratitude of the Hawaiian government for all that the A. Board & this mission have done to christianze & civilize this nation. Nearly Seven hundred thousand dollars have been gratuitously expended for the good of this people, besides the gratuitous Services of this whole mission for more than a quarter of a century. But Strange marvelous as it must appear to every benevo­ lent of philanthropic mind for two or three years this government have required us to pay duties on all our goods imported, whether for our own support, or for the Support of our printing press & for Schools - books & even for the medicines �2/Honolulu 2d Parish (Kaumakapili) 1845/6 which we have So freely given to the Sick & dying. And until within three or four months, the prospect has been that we Should be obliged to prosecute our work & labour of love among this people by continuing to pay the regular duties at the custom house upon all our goods imported, that the mercantile gentlemens pay upon their goods, besides paying rent for our build­ ing lots, taxes for our herds, horses &c. The laws are not yet made public, but report now Says that we are to be excus­ ed from paying duties -- taxes, rents &c. Another, thing which weighed heavily on my mind was the apparent want of interest on the part of government in our common Schools. points of observation. This was obvious from various 1st Their neglecting to pay the best qualified teachers, (graduated from the Seminary) their Stipulated wages; in other words, paying them only 25, or 50 cts pr. month, instead of $5 pr. month. The fact too that a Series of Editorials were issued in the Polynesian, that celebrated, infallible government organ, recommending to Substitutes the English language for the native in the common Schools, was demonstration proof positive that their regard for the native Schools was nearly at an end. And indeed the provision in the new laws for the Support of School masters, in my estimation is by no means Sufficient to meet the exigencies of the case. How School teachers can live here without part money for their Services, where every thing in the market commands the cash, is what I cannot understand. But Still I will hope for the best. Another daily, distressing & incontrovertible fact before my mind was the rapid depopulation of the people around me — there being at least, 20 deaths to one birth So far as I could judge. Another fact was the increase of grog Shops & houses of ill fame throught(!) our v illage. And as a necessary consequence, there was a rushing in of a certain class of people from all the Islands — but especially of young females whose ob- �1845/6 3/Honolulu 2d Parish (Kaumakapili) ject was to plunge into these Sinks of vice & abomination. Another fact, peculiarly trying to pastors heart was, that a considerable num­ ber of professing Christians were overcome of evil & returned again to the beg­ garly elements of this vain work. Lastly -- the Epidemic Influenza, which made Such Sad work last year throughout the Islands, Seemed to paralize all our energies, & for Several months it Seemed as if our day of probation was rapidly drawing to a close. All these dark & portentous clouds hovering around us for months, not only my courage, but my health began to fail — I felt like hanging my harp on the willows, & taking up Jeremiahs lamentation, "0 that my head were waters, & mine eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day & night for this wayward people, & for this Sinking dying nation. In the month of Sept I took a trip to the windward, visited all the families on Hawaii, & made a Short call, both going & coming, upon the families at Lahaina & Lahainaluna. Since my return, my health & Spirits have been rather better. Protracted Meetings In the fall & winter of 1844 &5 I held Several protracted meetings of two or three days each -- one at Pauoa- — meeting house at the Station. of Souls. one at Nuuanu — These meetings were apparently blessed to the good But about the 1st of April the Epidemic Influenza came over us & pre­ vailed almost universally. I presume that not one in 40 escaped. Its effect upon the mind were very disasterous. couraged — one at Kapalama, & one in the deaths were daily occurring. Every one appeared to be dis­ For two months there was on an average in my church one death every day (ie) within 60 days, I recorded 60 deaths in my church; besides the great number of deaths among non church members — Strangers. Our meetings on the Sabbath dwindled to a mere handful. children & Three Sabbaths �1845/6 4/Honolulu 2d Parish (Kaumakapili) we had no meeting at all. This was indeed a dark & gloomy time with us. Besides the pro meetings above named in my own field, I have laboured two or three days with Br. Bishop in a pro meeting at Waianae — in his meeting two or three months ago — & also with Br. Armstrong This meeting I trust was blessed to Some of my people two or three hundred of whom attended pretty regularly during the meeting. Since that time, I have held conversational meetings & Schools weekly with those who were disposed to attend, & I have hope for a few that they are Seeking in earnest the Salvation of their Souls. Church Although the last two years has been a time to try mens Souls here at the metropolis, Still a goodly number of the professed followers of Christ have stood fast, & evinced an attachment to the cause of Christ, which the waves of civilized abomination have not been able to wash away or undermine. They have not deserted their posts as Soldiers of the cross of Christ; their Seats have been regularly occupyed(!) in the Sanctuary on the Sabbaths; they have attended the daily prayer meetings -- weekly church meetings & monthly concerts, & have been ready to every good word & work. -- But I can by no means Say this of all. Numbers have been unstable as the wind, & have Shown very conclusively that their hopes for eternity are built on the Sand. Some have gone after the Beast & False Prophet; others have gone after a Species of Idolatry; while others Still have become perfectly Atheistual, & have renounced all their belief in the existance of a God!! — I mention these facts to Show how rapidly things are matureing(!) here where we are Surrounded with civilized, legalized, & christianized grog Shops, & hotels & bil­ liard rooms, & bowling allies, with all their accustomed & accompanying licentiouness. Sin & death have made large inroads into my church during the last two years; �1845/6 5/Honolulu 2d Parish (Kaumakapili) 65 were excommunicated the 1st & 53 this last year. = (118 in all) 73 deaths the 1st & 68 this last year. = (141 in all) 31 were dismissed the 1st & 28 this last year. = (59 in all) So that the total diminution of this 2d church during the last two years, by defection, deaths & dismission to other churches is 318. On the other hand, during these two years we have received on profession the 1st year 72 & this last year 27. = (99 in all) & 36 have joined us by letter dur­ ing the two years from other churches. by letter 135. So that we have received on profession & This Sum taken from 318 leaves a dead loss of 183. Contributions for Support of Pastor &c. In Jan 1845 our church commenced contributing Something more or less, accord­ ing to their ability or disposition, towards the Support of their pastor. But the Influenza left Such a blight on the minds & bodies of hundreds, that they gave nothing last year. The Sum total which I received last year amounted to $200. In addition to this however, they rethatched the meeting house — a job con­ sidered worth at least 150 dollarsThey have also contributed recently to the amount of fourteen or fifteen dol­ lars to aid in repairing the meeting house at Waialua. But all this is a Small Sum in comparison with what they might & ought to have done, to Support the insti­ tution of religion among them. Schools Our Schools continued during /44, & about half of the year /45 much as usual; the teachers frequently complaining that they could get little or nothing for their services. In the month of July /45 all the best teachers in my parish, & Several in �6/Honolulu 2d Parish (Kaumakapili) 1845/6 Brother Armstrongs, entered into a written agreement, & resolution that unless they could be paid for past Services, & have a pledge from Govnt of regular pay in future, they would abandon their Schools. But on the 1st Monday in August, they received no more Satisfaction than before — received 25 cts. those entitled to $5 pr. month, They again informed the Kahu Kula, that they could not, & Should not keep School any longer unless they could have pay regularly. He begged them to hoomanawanui one month longer, & Said, he would join them in a written resolution, that if the Govrrt would not grant funds to Support the Schools, he & they would all abandon the Schools toegther. hold on one month longer. The teachers therefore agreed to They prepared a joint resolution, Subscribed their names to it, & Sent it to the powers that be, but obtained no Satisfactory reply. On the first Monday in Sept the teachers convened as usual to receive their pay for past Services -- & to ascertain on what terms they were to labour in future. But as heretofore, they received each 25 cts for his month's Services. When lo, & Behold, the Kahu Kula had been behind the curtain & obtained new light -- had broken his resolution, turned a Summerset(!), & began to abuse the teachers because they would not work for nothing & live on wind & water. Whereupon, all the graduates & Several other good teachers - in all, about 20 in my field, abandoned their Schools. The Kahu Kula then appointed Some of the older Scholars as teachers, & as their wages was about 1/2 what the nominal wages of the graduates had been, it ap­ peared that he thought he had made a fine exchange. But at the recent examination of our Schools on the 13th of April, it must have been obvious to the Kahu Kula himself as well as to every other one present, that the Schools had gained literally nothing; but had lost immensely Since last September. numbered between five & Six hundred. Formerly our Schools Now only 294. When these monitorial teachers were appointed, all the other Scholars immediate­ ly left the Schools; the remainder have had neither fear or respect for these ig­ �7/Honolulu 2d Parish (Kaumakapili) 1845/6 noramus pedagogues, & hence the Schools have made progress in any thing else ra­ ther than a knowledge of School books. haunaele for the last eight months. The Station School has been a perfect They have broken down the gate/to the School house yard, destroyed all their writing desks, Spoiled the School masters table & Seat; broken out over 100 lights of glass; converted the house into a gymna­ sium for Swinging & playing ball, & I have been expecting that the house itself would Soon be down. I regret that I cannot report more favourably in referance(!) to common Schools, Still I think they have flourished as well as could be expected, con­ sidering the man & means that have been employed. Ai o ka La Since the first of January I have had a School of adults in the Ai o ka la on the Sabbath, embracing about 150; who have apparently taken a lively interest in the lessons as they have come along. Popery As it respects popery -- there has been considerable running to & from. Some ten or twelve of my church have gone after the Beast during the last two years — about the Same number have come back. Quite a number of children at Moanalua & Kalihi are reported as having renounced the cathalic(!) to ours. & Schools, & returned again The adults who return from that System of lies & deception are generally as unstable as water, & appear to have lost all Sense of Sin, & fear of God, if they ever had any. A pretty large reinforcement of priests have recently come to hand, but I know not how, or where they are to be located. The prospect now is that we Shall have a hand Struggle as a Mission, with the man of Sin. �1845/6 8/Honolulu 2d Parish (Kaumakapili) Visits to, & labours at Waialua During the Month of Dec/45 I Spent a Sabbath at Waialua, & administered the ordinances of the Lords Supper to that church. The morning congregation was Said to be pretty large for that place, containing Some 250 or 300 persons perhaps. One man was received to the church on profession; one by letter; one formerly cut off was restored; Six or eight were Suspended; Eight children were baptized (!); & ten couple were married. About the middle of February, I went with my family to Waialua & Spent about a week with Br. & Sister Wilcox; at which time my Sympathies became quite enlist­ ed in behalf of that poor dilapidated meeting house. On my return, I resolved to raise the Sum of $200. if practicable, among the foreign residents -- natives, & missionaries in Honolulu to aid in repairing that house. This Sum I have raised, 160. dollars of which I laid out for lumber for beams, furring, lathe, nails — glass &c -- & Sent round on a Govnt vessell (!), freight free, I then took over with me three carpenters to put on that roof, one of whom was taken Sick the third day after our arrival — & died after an illness of nine days. The other two Suc­ ceeded in putting on the roof Strong , as we think. I hear that the Governor has been over & Superintended the thatching of the house. The way of the Lord being thus prepared, I hope we Shall be able, during this meeting, to locate one of our clerical brethren there. Appropriation We request the General Meeting to grant us an appropriation this year of ($35) thirty five dollars to enable us to rethatch our hale hookipa, & also the house of our domestics. �9/Honolulu 2d Parish (Kaumakapili) 1845/6 Statistical Table Whole No. recd on examination 1917 Whole No. " certificate 213 Past two years on examination 99 Past two years on certificate 36 Whole No. past two years 135 Whole No. dismissed to other churches 157 Dismissed the two past years 59 " Whole No. deceased 363 Deceased the two past years 141 Suspended the past two years 108 Remain Suspended 24 Excommunicated the past two years 118 Whole No. Excommunicated 395 Remain Excommunicated 304 Whole No. in regular Standing 1217 Whole No. children baptized 437 Baptized the past two years 31 Marriages the past two years 252 Average congregation from 800 to 1000 (Unsigned) (Written on back of last page, sideways): Mr. Lowell Smith's Report May 1846 � 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 - Honolulu - 1838-1846 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, 1845, 1846 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/f7dc85c8f37d35d828a5b84a0a507829.pdf d0665beea788687644b64e314b4c4958 PDF Text Text Nuuanu, Sept. 29, 1847 Dear Br. Chamberlain, On the 3d page of this Sheet, I have made out the Statistics of this 2nd church to come down to May 1st, 1847. which you will understand without any explan­ ation from me. -As to our school statistics — I do not know that I can furnish you with anything better than what was published in the Elele the 1st of last June. You will find a brief account after ( ) — No. of schools — their location, the names of all the teachers — the number of Scholars — their studies etc., etc. on the 37th & 38th pages after enclosed Elele. I think this examination took place the last of April, or first of May — Our schools have been a 100 pr. ct. better than last year than the year before last. Y ours truly, L. Smith Statistics of the 2nd Hon. Church, May 1, 1847 Whole No. Rec. on examination ------------------- 1948 Whole No. " on certificate -------------- ----263 Past year on examination---- -----------------31 Past year on certificate ----- — ----- -----50 Whole No. the past y e a r --------- -------------81 Whole No. dismissed to other churches ---------183 Dismissed the past y e a r -----------------------26 Whole No. deceased----- ------ — -------------— 419 Deceased past year ----------- -— ---------- ---56 Suspended the past y e a r --------------------- — 42 Remain suspended --------------- --------------16 Excommunicated the past year — ----- ------- — 35 Whole No. excommunicated---- -— ---- --------- — 430 Remain excommunicated — ----------------------305 Whole No. in regular standing------------- ---- 1288 Whole N o. of children baptized --- ---- — ------562 # Baptized past y e a r -- ----------------- -------28 Marriages the past year ------------------ ---190 Average congregation ----- ----------------- ---1,000 # She number of baptized children for two or three years past has been 100 too small. � 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 - Honolulu - 1847 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1847