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Smith....................... ...... .................................. .1863 �Station 1st Report May 1858 Statistics of the Church Whole No. R e cd on profession 2466 Whole No. r e c d on Certificate 782 Past year on profession 116 Past year on certificate 32 Total past y ear 148 Whole No. dismissed 450 Dismissed past:year 13 Total deceased 1389 Deceased past year 26 Excluded past year 11 Now in regu l a r Standing 815 Total 758 children Baptized baptized the past year Marriages 39 past year 21 Benevolence Support of Pastor Repairs on the Improvements Contributed towards $ 6 6 3 . 8 7 -1/2 Station Meeting house, & its enclosure on out Station m e e t i n g houses for foreign mission, p urchasing including 100,00 $76 a Boat for the Brethren Marquesas 450,00 at the 308,25 Total $ 1 2 2 2 , 1 2 -1/2 �1858 2/ (K a u m a k a p i l i ) 2. Health. The health ing the y e a r the past. We Suffered of the was The Sickness was inhabitants reduced to Say, to a mere fraction the f ever, which first of Jan. for Several 3d. of Asthma years Revival er meetings, months ship Islands have ion on the the by about 19/20 But I am happy fatal; at that time. attacked with an int e r m i t t a n t low. been & less less others Our cong r e g a t i o n & reduced me q uite the 1838, Season frequent violent, than last year, we were were favoured with unusually engaged in pray to house. of the great revival 9, a re Scenes at & 40. in October, we received 116 to the fellow­ church. like a revival # K u i h e la n i , our bellman Kapohaku I was dur­ about the middle Sabbaths. proved from house in the years nothing Kapalama for Several & our church members my audience: on/the Sabbath at Island for two weeks. & happily reminded communion of the during & in visiting forcibly At our this all good past. v i v a l of religion, these pretty & ingathering in 18 5 7 . For Several We were have been g e n e r a l ,p r ostrating if any, /58 held me 3 weeks, My attacks very has in common with visited Simulta n e o u s l y that very few cases, About & family however Infl u e n z a , an Epidemic which of last July. We of my s e l f have both & his wife 1 6 th Kaumakapili upon the church I Sincerely wish us at the present is very attentive & Sexton recently Sailed of March. Church among & ch.luna died This that every & Kahuwahine Star Mission. has thus church though preached. a ch. Luna of the Gospel. for the M a r quesas is the 4th couple who on a foreign & congregation to the word in the faith on the Morning time; And the far been have Miss- gone from reflex influance very Salutary. had a m i s s i o n a r y in the field, or �1858 3/(Kaumakapili ) a candidate preparing to go. Schools. We have 5 native expected, considering to the English has been Smith three was appear as well a number common terms good which of the as could Schools Since have applied who have could this last year. last general improvement. not be received, there -- of pupils & joined the go Mrs. meeting Her number graduated be brightest S c h o l a r s (S u p e r i n t e n d a n t ) K a h u kula thinks in the have made Many & t has Royal because the full . Our Sabbath School the boys who Bethel The from 40 to 50 -- Several School. School Schools. kept School the children ranged that quite a (illegible) has Schools, are Sabbath from their & Bible learning School. they & their the Morning Star have been lesson raised raised only 76$ c o n nected in that School $19 towards towards to the Missions K a w a i h a o ( !) raised a little more paid for the interesting. Many of also w i t h the has been different us. children parents have been English, Their lesson with Our native class paying the Morning for at the Marquesas. then we Star -- a Boat to Send The children did -- & the two But by at congregations Boat. Mormonism There are 6 foreign One of them told me that time. Books. Small (All he; He was He had Manual Mormon in n a t i v e ). or teachers on the 26 of April, then in his which Priests acting bundle as that they were Islands. all on O a h u at C a l p o r t e u r (! ), p e d l i n g ( !) Mormon a Mormon Bible, he Said had been written I asked now on the him w h e t h e r the Book of Mormon, by one of the by Peter or Paul? but by a Mr Pratt of Brigham Young's Apostles. Said & a 12 Apostles. Neither, Said I, are there �1858 4/(Kaumakapi1i) more than 12 apostles, its apostles. There Last fall, three times, long me asking it, into an epistolary to have made, that any of my congregation have Popery. I think that Popery Honolulu the professed to among the natives, house leave of worship, report is founded Hula. The more for hula regularity, the Schools hula drums have joined has been kept up in Nuuanu & zeal, have had their than good to draw which They I am not aware the past year. among the them; but mor e native in have It is r e p o r t e d their presen t but w h e t h e r meeting. but (with The good Subjects, valley the year any of the vacations; had any day of rest, the past, district I am not aware the exception to be is more legitimate tendency is to evil & only evil, for usefulness than here, that derived by the I can divine. with Schools; of the w h e t h e r of a pecuniary, character, votaries but talk of demolishing or moral its in of no on my hands, during Cathedral; or- He then w r o t e me a Protestants. a physical qualifies two as r e c o r d e d him no reply. have joined a large has I know not. promptness, or any of its wrote me conceive converts; them to the Church obviously wish i n g not gained ground Papists & of building Since our last general Government, has them & return in fact, I could & I made A few perhaps that the Smith, I had wor k about 2,000 Every apostles. I declined. But importance, in all, past year. But of questions, controversy. of far more its to preach Mormonism, & therefore a variety Said he; of John to my congregation. result from I considered Yes, is no church w i t h o u t begging permission letter, profess are there? one of them by the name the N. Testament, that would then the Sabbath) , Hawaiian a literary For its & it e m p h a t i c a l l y d i s ­ or for happiness hereafter. �1858 5/ ( Kaumakapil i ) Progress. It is very expensive the poor people Again, make get the means multitudes a Short Several the while -- & in many living or an aunt. But when I often wonder, cases but how it comes perpetual to build houses; buted more comfortable during the last able their friends conclude they return; an 12 months all uncle any peopl e p o o r ; & for benev o l e n t to do much as objects; they do. e m b a r a s s m e n t s , Some few are & my ch. & to Stop or daughter, to make how they do. before d o So little that they are & I often w o n d e r to See a Son is enough But n o t w i t h s t a n d i n g these good as they it is years our people to pass Islands, or Sister, kind of living not why as well they get here on a brother, This in Honolulu of living come from the other visit. months living & congregation have for b e n e v o l e n t objects, able contri­ than they did the y e a r before. (Paragraph Personal extent crossed out) labours. of my ability. I have p r e a c h e d & Bible Lunas class; every It has ye a r as Miss. I have a regular Saturday e x c e ption The past yea r for me to visit on account of my extra -- writ i n g no Small & attended t h u r s day(! ) meeting off the Morning letters, for the of three Sabbaths & recording the Annual benefit of the portion has to the in January, to the Sabbath School & a meeting with my ch. among this afternoon. Fitting writ i n g ferances(!) commanded the not been p racticable Society. & journals With in S e a s o n & out of Season; twice on the Sabbath, I did last, ionaries, laboured been labours Star twice them Report, of my time as Sec. of the a yea r with churches extracts -- all H. Miss­ in a book for future printing Hawaiian the peo p l e re- from letters these have & Strength. one of expe r i m e n t in M i s s i o n a r y work, here �1858 6/(Kaumakapi1i ) in the Pacific, the H. Miss. Special both Society, Committee apparent by the A.B.C.F.M.; Success & of the Special have taken has been hold with fully equal the Board of Directors Committee. The good faith, love to our most tions. But for reasons best known Boston, w i t h o u t waiting to hear of Success last Oct. Miss. that they could not operate work, Morning (Sentences next was, u n expected & Startling arrival of another gave capt. the. Special Capt. return to await the new here, the Special & Send decided of th -- thank us H. for rum­ their Miss, Brown, for two One of t h e s e Sudden in Dr. Andersons the M. Star Committee Star & committed & unexpected to the Special along By the good opportunity. d i scharged (permission to the Marquesas But before entirely transfers they had r e c e i v e d from Capt. harbour power) to -- but on her they had time or ill to hear the M . Star i n t o the hands reports is explained, Mission, Committee, unfavo urable at Rio lie in this Moore, is of Capt. for three years. u nder/an envelop(!) We had heard of the Capt. from Boston. Captain, & perhaps Committee from the West, & the Packet must letter to the M icronesian first Prudential Committee w e re/managing well taken out of their hands, C apt. Mo ore they in Committee." from the of the Morning Seek a n o t h e r John W. news to be her commander, The next mail whether "Special Committee transfered & our expecta­ Directors their mistake & immediately to the & zeal, or otherwise, the & crossed out) cease the them; Star & all, that on the return would till to Serve Directors Sanguine Prudential through S o c i e t y ---So they a c k n o wledged our w illingness The to the of for which & also of the of the he has them to read 1st Mate, J e n i r o ( !) , & of a letter Moore; by a clause, Sent, & pass whom or two which unwill i n g n e s s of the �7/(Kaumakapi1i ) under writers under the 1858 to renew the command of Capt. little, when we read of Some good people that to have the minds fortune to make Boston, he This work But all named in Boston were that (illegible) Capt. is painfully of Gentlemen the acquaintance dismissed key from the of Capt. & another man I think will explain Board of Directors the the names of the officers, M. Society, Prudential from for Cor. Committee were theirs; & ladies, Moore for very that the minds who previous had to the M i s ­ to his to take the leaving command they organized. Marquesas painfully the C o m m i t t e e . (viz) the Charter that we in just one week had appointed act through dispatch from the &c -- that our j u d g e m e n t Now to Back out honorably, except that we of the Board of Directors impressed & that they could not to hear of our acts, Star to the transfer of the M i s s i o n a r y On reading i n other words; Secretary, of Directors the wrong this Board they m u s t the M o r n i n g day of her arrival from Boston. Why the Morning Special Messrs Committee Castle Star has rectors, So & Clark perhaps in the Special therefore been to the Sole the explanitory ( !) clause. have pass not a Suitable man to the Special H. here letter, is a p pointed right p l a c e . " not want reports She was impressed b e f o r e the S a i l ­ Moore was is in the man w hile Star. Same diffed(!) these general "the wrong man the vessel vessel. Therefore of the M. Moore. in the above ing of the Morning Star, command Insurance Seriously My So Suddently care of Capt. can Solve; fear is, Committee, but Brown, the is a p r o b l e m which in the Board I am the o ffensive of the Special from I have not as y e t that as & d e l i b erately come r e s i g n , my a p p o i n t m e n t as one transfered to the of D i ­ disciple; conclusion, Committee, Seen & to I to decline �1858 8/(Kaumakapi1i ) being As a candidate the strongs these for reelection. Prudential judgement, Islands, the Special Committee have qualifications I would Committee confidence &c to do business r e s p e c tfully for the year unbounded nominate in Br Arms for them here him as my S u c c e s s o r at in to come. Respectfully S u b m i t t e d L. (Written on the back of the last page, sideways): Smith Honolulu Station May 1858 2d Report �Smith Honolulu Station Soon after our last general must Suspend m y labours bour entirely. neighbors, I resolved Accordingly Major, Capt. John on the for rather a trip from care my church very m a t e r i a l l y Mr. David who m Some vited me N. during long, all the Hawley, to make I visited of Spending their annual present were From Sacramento, where City. me I took ex c e e d i n g l y comfortable while were doing number but little had just cares of my c o n s e quently my health there I needed family, & i m p roved house, when in the Br. in San there kindly in­ I had the p l e a s u r e & family The M e t h o d i s t very with in that city. country. Corwin Francisco, at San Episcopal Jose. brethren were at that time. I attended Several One A bout 80 of their pu b l i c meet interesting. I Spent a week with They were Fanny We arrived Rest was wha t are acquainted, C o n f e r a n c e (!) very la­ of my on board of the passage. Merchant at his of their number were present. ings, which to I Francisco. I left the behind; one Sabbath with holding & cease of my family & Some I embarked toil. about considerably in Sacramento that voyage. it my home Sabbath to me down but very p l e a s a n t . a Hardware of the brethren obvious California. & incessant & congregation it was to San 1st day of September = 22 days freedom 1859 or else break 9th of August, Paty, Our passage was meeting, therefore to take on the Report_____May for a time; By the advice 2 Church glad rail Some road & Stage 12 or 15 natives to See me, I was with to Coloma them. in the mining gone off over the & did all of these their business. More Some dry Season than 30 miles, Creek, Islands. in their p ower It was hills, & Irish to make & they half of their to wor k with �2/Honolulu foreigners, where On hearing Spend the there was a plenty of water. of my arrival, Several lot of t r a c t s , all of which The native miners They Spend The honest of them came over to See me, & Sabbath. I carried with me a few Bibles, it. 1859 2d c h u r ch (K a u m a k a p i l i ) for food in that & kind neighbours. at tempt to they were very live pretty well, their money foreigners Testaments, but they Speak And w h e n e v e r call a meeting & take Sides with A.M. I preached to quite children; & the natives di scourse to them; being present, this about very the exercise was as fast as highly legs come get along, & immediately men at 10 , w omen I interp r e t e d the heads interesting rich. they On the Sabbath, of foreigners, quite & a of them as foreigners the natives. a congregation Liras, are not getting any Black crowd them out of their claims, Books, glad to receive. and clothing vicinity, Hymn & of the to the w hite faces. In the being afternoon present, Feeble as tions, back I preache d & interpreted I was, it was to the natives, the a real in the wilderness, heads of the & Some discourse treat to be able who appeared 20 f oreigners So to them. to address glad congrega­ to hear the w o r d preached. After Grass the Sabbath, Valley, of natives; bad that the books & Nevada I took passage city. but they were There I expected & went to Auburn, to have met So far off in the mountains, I could not go to them..One & tracts which in a Stage I had left, of the men & carried came another & the road So & Saw me, to them, & took t o g ather with my aloha. From Nevada "Rough & Ready" City -- I took Stage for Marys v i l l e- -- passed "Tom Buctoo" (! ) & other large mining lot through towns. �3 / Honolulu 2d church At Marys ville, 1859 (K a u m a k a p i l i ) I took the Boat to Sacramento, & thence on to San Francisco. I visited ors -- the young & called on Rev. On the 5th Associ a t i o n bodies college J. D. at Oakland, Strong of October the Synod of California met My health was much climate, So many of the benefited California, City of San e m b r a c e i n g ( !) about 20 clergymen. coming a c q u a i n t e d with & the Francisco, General the I was highly favored Clergymen of California. by v o y a g e i n g (!), & Rest from my Miss i o n a r y of the p r o f e s s ­ & family. of Alta in the Saw Several cares journeying, & labours two in b e ­ change for the S h o r t of period of 3 1/4 months. The California climate operated like a bracing tonic my phsical system & I received upon^a youthful Spring & vigor, which was proof positive, that if I could have prolonged my visit Some renewed my health I have was nia; & on my return, For Several meetings!, years (one the I ought past, district to tained. Mornings; very to remark quite district, They were & they Pastoral Labours pastoral labour this year as than quite three months formerly. during my visit to I Califor­ I had done, & rest. my people day meetings) church were have I resolved not to over work myself as tired, ing the past year, held. as much a little more but to Stop when I might & Strength a g a i n . not performed absent 10 or 12 months have in which few of those however, active, the Some always taken a part. t h u r s d a y ( !) meetings, have visiting favoured with conducted I have that & the meetings held a great many p r o t r a c t e d during my absence, from house the to house, afternoon to preach meetings for been Lunas & from on the Sabbath were well one Dur­ Sus­ them Sabbath themselves. of �4/Honolulu Kekela 2d church & Nuuhiva Since my return church; Since have been from the At our communion on hand in January, there has have five for Several district native Years one Quite past in Honolulu, ing, have admired & its Smith I refer has to Mr. taught three couragement & Success. Two classes have Mr. Morris During left, as well been made in Some examinations as & ex­ & died a few weeks has but few, prevailed ago, the y e a r c o m p aratively Speak­ & the different Armstrongs terms Her number & entered taught in Report. School of 10 weeks of pupils the branches Royal each, with has averaged School, her usual from under the 40 en­ to 50 tuition of Beckwith. her last term, & She has three or four months ain. doing it. number of Scholars, Schools, Sickened though English Mrs. interest by the auditors. a disease which Suburbs, been has & one or two of the School intermittent fever; died with have an i mprovement of our best teachers, the For the religious to the Schools Schools, which been very much with these past. houses; have Keomaka, received & congregation. of the School hibitions 23 persons were been no Special Native We & a s s isted me o c c a s i o n a l l y Coast. Season that time in the church 1859 (K a u m a k a p i l i ) She was Sus p e n d e d teaching afflicted with for the She may begin present. again, a bad cold, & Sore A fter a vacation though it is S o m e w h a t throat of uncert­ �5/Hon o l u l u 2d church 1859 (K a u m a k a p i l i ) Mormonism! The Mormon not aware Priests, I think, that that Sect meet in the bounds have all any where left the now, Islands; & I am for public w o r ship, with­ of my parish. Hula! The Hula has our petition agai n s t The been to the Prince, & if I have of opinion have Spent considerable been properly between I understand Lot, to be posted relic It would t o the counsellors, & w here wha t tenacity they can of all good citizens time there in discussing has of h e athenism been a wide Subject; d i f f e r a n c e ( !) is hereafter be a ma t t e r of Some Palace yard, c o n v e niently where & how be c o n ­ Satisfaction benefit Shew to foreign Should pass to his Majesty the Special to heathenism; abominati ons the on the Subject. could have they hold on the old heathen up, two Houses that this confined & their times; all the to Honolulu. it was & the protestations notwithstanding it. Legislature fined kept up in Honolulu another year, to me, & Prince of it at all visitors, unwilling they with are that away. Popery! For Some time past the Catholic effort to proselyte my whole have gone from house on the Sabbath, to Meeting; have is no Salvation of the church to house, the Streets assured have been making & c o n g r egation they have Stoped & enquired Catholic the church; & that he will all Lunas mistaken; no one has They & others they were that Peter allow a des p e r a t e to Popery. of them where them that they were out of the kingdom of heaven, Priests if in going that there the to enter keys there, �6/Hon o l u l u who does 2d church not join The y e a r Setting forth test a n t i s m breathe forth as church they have been Romish printing doctrines them, I presume, They the difficulty can t o g a t h e r ( !) in an unmarried ible w o r s h i p e r s , weeks ago, And to Stone than issued all, forward arrival to this that State, in the minds Papis t s , male & be more & live of course, that thereby all & accept- to the w ord two or three doubts on that up. they Sent their tract distributors of God. & female, holy agreeably of the And & p r e sented one I have heard to the to each person they did the Same as doors they en at the church. The Lord only know what will I do not apprehend, be overcome by them, however, be the At our last general result & led away from the meeting It is not y e t ready of their p r e s e n t that our intelligent, Ai me. pam p h l e t s for the looked their pamphlet on c e l i b a c y , Some on the Sabbath, house to pass, those who marry be cleared crown of my church tered the how it comes p r e s u m e i n g (!) Subject w o u l d & Luther, these of the natives that might exist qu erying they Calvin in printing u ndoubtedly natives, of God; pamphlets day of triumph. Anticipating herd up P r o ­ rest of us. the minds reinforcement. These Spirit against object with to prepare & holding & hypocracy. the was & c irculating pamphlets, & traditions, & all large their &c &c. Bishop time, of their Catholic a most an a t h a m a t i z i n g Green, grand at this time the the as a System of falsehood A rmstrong, One past, 1859 (K a u m a k a p i l i ) the Ai oka truth it is people will in Jesus. La 0 ka La for for the press. as praying efforts The 1860, Subjects was are a s s igned all to arranged �7 /Honolulu 2d church & con s i d e r a b l e Shall be able ember. Series But, thought has been expended upon them, to get it ready for the printer, Should of tracts or it maybe 1859 (Kaumakapil i ) the brethren against prepared prefer Romanism, to use the Ai & I presume b y the first the funds I of S e p t ­ in p r i n t i n g o ka la can stop w h e r e a it is ; for 1 8 6 1 . Statistics W h o l e N o . o n profession " 2489 on certificate 810 Past y e a r on profession 23 Past y e a r on certificate 28 Total past yea r 51 Whole N o . dismissed 452 D i s m i s s e d t h e p a s t year Total 2 deceased 1413 Deceased the past year 24 Excluded the past year 9 Now in r e g u l a r standing Total children Baptized Marriages 832 baptized 768 the past year " " 10 " 15 C ontributions Supp o r t of Pastor $800,00 F o r e i g n Missions Home Missions houses &c. - repairs 285,00 on our own meeting 200,00 Total =$1285,00 (Unsigned) (L. Smith) �L. Smith Honolulu 2d Church Station Report May 1860 We have nothing very remarkable to report at this time. As a family we have enjoyed our usual health & Strength during the year; for which I trust we feel thankful. The past year, like many of its predecessors, has been one of trial. Indeed, those of us, who-live here in Honolulu, are always surrounded with divers tempta­ tions; especially in the fall & Shipping Seasons, when the circus, theatre, grog & beer Shops, & houses of ill fame are the order of the day, & hence we need to be constantly on the watch tower* lest we be overcome of evil. Hula. The hula drums have but Seldom been heard the past year. They cannot af­ ford to pay a tax of $10 pr. day to government, for this heathen recreation; & my impressionsis that they Seldom meet, unless Some foreigner comes along, who will pay the license, in order to be entertained per(!) an hour with the old Hawaiian hula. Popery. The Popish Priests have been unwearied in their efforts during the year to undermine the truth as recorded in the Bible. Their attacks upon Protestant ministers, & Missionaries have been bold, impudent, & disgraceful. liars, deceivers, usurpers, & blind leaders of the blind. They call us They have issued tracts monthly, & distributed them gratuitously among my people; but they have been So full of wormwood & gall; have contained So many palpable falsehoods & inconsisten­ cies* that they have persuaded very few, if any, that the Roman Catholic religion is better than the Protestant. It is amuseing(!) to See how hard they labour to put down the Bible, & yet cite text after text from this very Book to prove the truth of their own doctrines. �1860 2/Honolulu 2d Church (Kaumakapili) The fact also that they withhold from the people, what they call the true Bible, is enough to convince all candid persons, that they are not to be believed or trusted, as honest Christian men. The articles published in the "Hoku Loa" exposing the errors of Romanism, together with Several Tracts, which have been issued by our Tract Society during the year, have done much good among the reading & thinking people on this Island. Loss of dwelling house! Among the trials to which we, as a family, have been call­ ed the past year, is the loss of/our dwelling house in town by fire. On the 28th of July last, at half past 3 o clock in the morning, a fire broke out at the top of the cook room, & before the fire companies could get water to put out the flames, the fire communicated with the main building & consumed the whole of it. The house was occupyed(!) at the time by Mrs. Von Pfister, at a rent of $30 per month, The rent of that house, had been, for Several years, no inconsiderable part our of Support, Carpenters & masons with whom I consulted at the time, told m e , that another house equal to that could not be built Short of $3,000. There was no insurance on the house, & of courses it was a total loss. About the Same time, the Superintendant of government Schools rolled over his wheel, & required all the native children in Honolulu, who were learning the Eng­ lish language, to go to the Royal School for instruction. Smiths native School of 40 Scholars, from This took away Mrs. which we received a part of our Support for Several years. Again, Some of our best & most reliable church members, who have always been ready to every good word & work, have become So old & infirm & poor that they give one half less towards Support of Pastor than formerly. Again, there are Scores in the church, who do nothing towards the Support of the gospel, either at Home or abroad. Hence it is that our means of Support, as well as contributions for bene­ volent objects have diminshed about one half during the last 12 months. �3/Honolulu 2d church (Kaumakapili) 1860 The Nominal Salary for the Support of Pastor at Kaumakapili $1,000 a year. But our annual expenses for the last 5 years including repairs, has been nearer two thousand than one. In 1855, my people contributed for Support of pastor $920- 1000$ minus - $ 80 In 1856 " " " 750 " " 244 In 1857 " " " 634 " " 366 In 1858 " " " 664 " " 336 In 1859 " " " 570 " " 430 When we ceased applying to the Board for a part of our Support in 1855, we did not expect that our people would give us a full Support. But we hoped that the avails of property in our possession, which we had received from the Board, together with our personal efforts in School keeping & the like, would enable us to get along, without further aid from the American churches. It is by no means pleasant to apprehend, that before another annual meeting, we may be involved in debt to the amount of 4 , or 5 hundred dollars. On the other hand, it is very unpleasant to feel obliged to apply again to the A. Board for assistance, while they are So heavily burdened with an accumulating debt on their hands. If the New Advisory Committee will give us Some good & wholesome advice under these embarrassing circumstances, we Shall feel very much obliged to them. State of the Church; labours of the Pastor, &c. We have had no previous revival of religion, & great ingathering of Souls into the church at Kaumakapili the past year. But we have been busy in our Masters work, & have endeavored to do good as we have had opportunity. We have preached twice on the Sabbath, besides attending to the Sabbath School & Bible Class. The Pastor has attended a regular weekly meeting Thursday mornings, a meeting with the church lunas every Saturday P.M.; monthly concerts, marriages, �4/Honolulu 2d church (Kaumakapili) 1860 funerals, visiting the Sick &c &c. For Several months past, there has been an unusual interest in Spiritual things on the Koolau Side of this Island; our people have heard the Sound of the Still Small voice as it came up over the pali, & Several have been over, & attended Some of the prayer meetings, & have been Spiritually refreshed; returned again with zeal, to Stir up their brethren, Saying, "let us repent, & do work, meet for repentance, for the Lord is at hand." After consultation with my church lunas, we decided to visit the people throught (!) our parish by districts; hold one day meetings in each district, & thus try to prepare our minds to entertain the heavenly visitor. We proposed to commence our visiting, meetings, &c in the district of Moanalua. On Tuesday the Lunas & others, go two & two, from house to house, & visit every family in the district, & talk & pray with the people, about their personal Sal­ vation. And on Thursday of the Same week, assemble the people at the School house, & Spend the day in religious exercises. Tuesday & Thursday. The following week do the Same at Kalihi both on The next week Do. Do. at Kapalama. The 4th week hold Said meetings in Nuuanu valley, & the 5th week invite all the districts to come in & help visit our half of the town of Honolulu on Tuesday; & on Thursday & Friday hold a protracted meeting of 2 days in the meeting house. This work has all been done, & the encouragement has been So great, that the church members are going over the ground the 2d time without the cooperation of their pastor, who is now engaged in the business of general meeting. On Monday & Tuesday, the 7th & 8th inst I conversed with about 50 persons; Some of whom were obviously quite Serious, & Said that they were resolved to re­ nounce their Sins, take up the cross & follow Christ. In this visiting from house to house, quite a number of church members from other churches, on the neighbouring Islands, have been found, who had hid their �5/Honoluitu 2d church (Kaumakapili) 1860 light under beds & bushels but who have now come forward & wish to unite us in the work of Saving Souls. The demand for Testatments & hymn books has very much increased of late. In Short, we hope the Spirit of the Lord is in the Church & Congregation, & we pray that he may not be grieved to depart & leave us to perish in our Sins, because of our unbelief. Schools. There are 5 native district Schools within the bounds of my parish, averaging about 40 Scholars each. The School houses are good framed buildings, furnished with Seats, benches & black boards. The teachers are competent & faith­ ful, & the Schools are in a prosperous State. Sabbath School. Schools have been Our Sabbath School numbers 170, & the Bible Class 50. unusually interesting for a few months past. These The "Ui" is the book used by the children, & is well adapted to fortify their minds against Popery. The adults are reading by course in Matthew — 7 verses per week. I frequently take the 7 verses as the theme of my forenoon discourse; this adds much interest to the Bible Class. "Ai ofka La"! Agreeably to the wishes expressed in general meeting last year, I revised one of the old "Ai o ka L a 's" & Sent it on to N. York to the agents of the Tract Society, requesting them to print us an Edition of 10,000 & forward them to us by the first good opportunity. I understand that brethren Clark & Alexander read the proof Sheets last fall, They ought therefore to have been here long ere this, But as no advices have come to hand concerning them, our apprehension now is, that they must have been consumed by the fire in the Tract house last fall. The Ai o ka La for 1861 was also assigned to me to prepare & forward to be published by the Tract Society. It is now nearly ready for the press. The title �6/Honolulu 2d church (Kaumakapili) 1860 of the book is, "Mooolelo no Kristo." (!) (ie) the "Advent, Life, miracles, para­ bles & death of Christ." Immediately after the close of this general meeting, I will revise & forwarded(!) it on to N. York, unless the brethren Shall request me to Stop & do nothing further about it. I do not know however, who will be there to read the proof Sheets. Freshets.We have had two or three freshets in Nuuanu this Spring, which have carried away two bridges, and discommoded the people there very much. On the night of the 2d of March, the water rose So high, that it broke down the Stone arched bridge near the residance(!) of A.B. Bates Esqr & also cut off the water pipes which carry the water into town. The bridge near Mrs. Johnstone's was also car­ ried off at the Same time. A temporary wooden bridge, Strong enough for horses & carriages, was immediate­ ly erected on the Nuuanu Street, the water pipe repaired; & the Road Supervisor was collecting materials at his leisure to put up another permanent bridge next Summer. But on Sabbath morning, the 29th of April, another Sudden & astonishing fresh­ et occured, the highest & most powerful that has been known here for a long time. I think that a large water Spout must have broken upon the hills near the pari; for without the least warning, the water came rushing down as it it had just burst from a large pond or lake & Swept every thing in its course. Just as I was about to mount my horse, at 9 o clock, to go to church, news came that the Bridge was gone, & the water So high that it was impracticable to cross the Stream. I looked over to the Stream which passes down near Mrs. Johnstones, & that too was rushing, foaming, & roaring frightfully. get to town that day. lic worship. I at once concluded that I could not The people in town who assembled, conducted their own pub­ �7/Honolulu 2d church (Kaumakapili) 1860 Contributions Support of Pastor $570,87-1/2 To assist Br. Lyons in ch. building 25,00 To assist Br. Parkers people 31,25 To assist the people of Hana 20,00 For Sexton & Ch. repairs 30,00 Foreign Missions 125,37-1/2 Total = Statistics of the Church Whole No. Recd. on profession " " " " certificate Past year on profession " " " certificate $802,50 Hon 2d 2484 866 None 56 Total past year 56 Whole No. dismissed 468 Dismissed past year 16 Total deceased 1440 Deceased past year 27 Excluded past year 22 Now in regular Standing 823 Total children baptized 774 Baptized past year 6 Marriages " 61 " (Written on the bottom of the last page, sideways); Honolulu 2d Church Station Report May 1,860 Respectfully Submitted L Smith �Honolulu 2d Church May 1860 The past year like many of its predecessors, has been one of trial. Indeed, those of us who live here in Honolulu, are always Surrounded with divers temptations especially in the fall & Shipping Seasons, when the circus,theatre, grog & beer shop & houses of ill fame are the order of the day: & hence we need to be the watch tower, lest we Popery. constantly on be overcome of evil. The priests have been unwearied in their efforts to proselyte our people to the Romish faith. Their attacks upon the protestant ministers have been bold, im­ pudent & disgraceful. They call us liars, deceivers, usurpers, the blind. & blind leaders of It is amusing to See how hard they labour to persuade the natives, that the Bible is not true; & yet cite text after text from this very Book to prove their own doctrines. The articles published monthly in the "Hoku" exposing the error of Romanism, to­ gether with several tracts which have been issued by our Tract Society during the year, have done much good among the people of Oahu. Loss of dwelling house. On the morning of the 28th of July/59 at half past 3 o' clock, a fire broke out at the top of the cook room, which Soon communicated with the main building, & consumed the whole house. that another house as good as that, and dollars. Church. Carpenters & masons informed me could not be built for less than three thous­ There was no insurance on the house & of course it was a total loss. There have been no additions to the church, on profession, the past year. BUt there are Some hopeful indications of late, that the Spirit of God is in the midst of us, convincing of sin, & c. way to Zion. Some 50 persons profess to be in giving the The demand fer (sic) Testaments & Hymn Books has very much increased of late. Schools . each. There are five native schools in the parish, averaging 40 Scholars The teachers are competent & faithful & the Schools prosperous. Sabbath Schools. Bible Class. There are 170 children in the Sabbath School, & 50 adults in the These Schools have been unusually interesting for several months past. �Smith, Honolulu Station report, 1860 2 The Ui is the book used by the children, & is well adapted to fortify their minds against Popery. Ai O ka La for 1861. This is nearly ready for the press; the title of which is, "Mooolelo no Kristo," Freshets. There have been two freshets this Spring in Nuuanu Valley, which have carried off two bridges, & discommoded the people there very much. The first was on the night of the 2d of March; & the Second was Sabbath morning, the 29th of April. The Streams were So high that it was impracticable to cross them to church that day. Contributions of the people in cash the past year $802.50 to go �Honolulu 2d Church Station Report May 1861 The mission family located at this Station, have occasion for gratitude to God, for the good degree of health & Strength with which they have been favoured Since our last annual meeting. The precious revival of religion with which they & their people have been blessed, has vary considerably increased the pastors la­ bours, & Sometimes it Seemed that he would Sink under them. But by the grace of God he has been enabled to preach, exhort labour, much as in the great revival Season Some 20 years ago. The church lunas have rendered much efficient aid in conducting religious meetings. Both Mrs. Smith & myself however, have been reminded that we are frail mortal creatures. Mrs. Smith has been Strongly threatened with a return of her old com­ plaint, which confined her to her couch for Several years. She is convalescent again now, though Still quite feeble. Some four weeks ago, a large & very painful carbuncle Started up on my back, just below the left Shoulder blade & for Several days threatened the dissolution of Soul & body, which had dwelt together in harmonious union for more than half a century. My flesh & Strength were clamerous(!) for Secession. But believing that prompt & energetic measures were necessary to arrest the belligerents, & re­ store peace & health, I called in the aid of a Skilful(!) physician, & confered with old & experienced nurses, & in about ten days the Seceding movements were ar­ rested, & the loud & clamerous voices of the fire eaters for an underground con­ federacy were hushed, & pledges for the continued union of Soul & body have been renewed, & the prospects for another Short/campaign are flattering; though the Federal Union, & the Mortal constitution of Soul & body have been much impaired, & are less to be relied upon than in former years. Pastoral Labours In addition to two regular Sermons on the Sabbath, & attending to a Sabbath School �1861 2/Honolulu 2d church (Kaumakapili) & Bible Class at noon as formerly Br Clark & myself have held alternate, union, Sabbath evening Meetings; (ie) My people go & attend his meeting at Kawaiahao one Sabbath evening; & the next Sab. eve. his people come to our meeting at Kau­ makapili When the weather has been good, my house has been full to overflowing. Many of the Papists & Mormons have attended these union eve. meetings; & the atten­ tion of a goodly number of them has been arrested; & they have become regular atten­ dants with us on the Sabbath, & also on week days, & Some 25, or 30 of them I trust have become hopefully converted. Pule hoomau. My people have held what they call a pule hoomau, every thursday(!), the year round. These meetings are held alternately at five different places; (viz) at Moanalua, Kalihi, Kapalama, Nuuanu, & at Kaumakapili. The practice has been, for the Lunas to visit the district on Tuesday, & talk & prays with every family & thus prepare the way for the meeting on Thursday. I have usually preached a Sermon, or expounded Some portion of Scripture at 10 A.M. in all these meetings; & after a Short intermission, they would reassemble & hold a prayer & conference meeting among themselves. These meetings were very interesting last fall & winter, but of late, they have become Some what formal, & less interesting, though well attended. Tour of Oahu In September last, I made a tour of this Island, in company with ten native lunas, there being a representative of one or more from every church on Oahu. were two weeks in making the tour. We The object in taking So many men with me, was to visit as much as practicable from house to house among the Papists & others, who would not come out to public meetings. The native brethren were very zealous, & improved every opportunity in going from house to house, & I am happy to State that the Spirit & blessing of God Seemed to accompany our efforts all around the Island. Backsliders & impenitent Sinners arose & confessed their Sins, at every �3/Honolulu 2d church (Kaumakapili) Station. 1861 Indeed, this has been a year for Backsliders, & wanderers/to come out from their hiding places, confess their Sins, & express a wish to return to the fellowship of the church. One man, who apostalized from the protestant faith, went & joined the Mormons Some two years ago, became a priest of that order, made & baptized 200 converts, was arrested in his career last January; came before us & confessed his wicked & hypocritical conduct, & begged to be restored. I told him that if he was truly penitent, he would use every lawful effort to undiceive(!) his morman disciples, & persuade them to come to our meetings where they would hear the gospel faithfully preached. I am happy to s a y that thus far, he has been very zealously Success­ ful in persuading that class & also other impenitent Sinners to come to our meetings. Three or 4 Pake!s have attended our meetings, & been apparently quite interest­ ed; though,from private conversation with them, it is obvious that they are la= mantably(!) ignorant of the true God, & the way of life through Jesus Christ. Concert week of Prayer As requested by the Evangelical Christendom, & other Christians in Europe, we observed the 2d week in Jan./61 as a week of prayer & praise to Almighty God, & the Holy Spirit was obviously with us, to revive, quicken & lead Sinners to re­ pentance. Our meetings were two hours long daly(!), from 11 till 1. allowed to Speak or pray over 5 minutes at a time. No one was The church members became So interested in these meetings, that they resolved to continue them every eve­ ning for a while; & they have continued them even to the present time. Church Meetings. I hold a meeting regularly with my church Lunas, every Satur­ day P.M.; at which time I enquire whether any brother or Sister have wandered? Who are dangerously ill? & who have died? At this meeting we attend to cases of �4/Honolulu 2d church (Kaumakapili) 1861 ch. discipline; talk with backsliders, & Sometimes I read & expound portions of Scripture. Popery. The papists have no Sympathy with revivals of religion, & the out pouring of the Holy Spirit upon the hearts of men, convincing them of Sin, or righteous­ ness, & of a judgement to come. ingathering into that church. A revival Season therefore is not the time for Their time for making converts is when protestants are Stupid, indifferent, & worldly minded. During the year past, the protestants in this city have been So watchful, prayerful , & zealous in going from house to house, that I think we have gained at least 4 to their one. The Priests however have continued to issue their monthly paper, full of Jesuistical hate towards protestants, & of palpable falsehoods, perversion of Scripture texts, & for the most part, harping upon one & the Same Subject; that the Papal Church is the only true church; & that all others who differ from them in Sentiment, or practice are thieves & robbers. led astray by I do not think that any honest enquirer after truth will be their papers. They have Said & done a great deal the year past, to draw me & my people into a News paper controversy with them. Several Spirited articles have been Sent to me by native protestants for the "Hoku Loa", but I have Suppressed them all. I would as Soon Stop & debate with the yelping ours that bark & Snap at us as we pass along the Streets, at to enter upon a controversory(!) with them. They do not recognize our Bible as the word of God, nor our ministers as the ministers of the gospel of Christ; nor our churches as the churches of Christ. use therefore to enter a News paper controversy with them? Of what possible The Lord Suffers them to live in the midst of us, & I trust he has Some good end to accomplish by it. Hula. The Revival has had a powerful effect, for the time being, in breaking up this relic of heathenism. Nearly all the ringleaders, both men & women, have been �5/Honolulu 2d church (Kaumakapili) hopefully converted. 1861 Last fall, in the midst of our revival, His Magesty(!) the King; & prince Lot, proposed to have a Hula, as usual, at Moanalua, on one Sat evening. But they were greatly Surprised to See what a change had come over their Servants, but especially their favorite/dancers. Several of the Papists were on hand, ready to Serve them. But Kaakau, the Kings favorite dancer, who had united with the church, under a Solemn pledge that She would have nothing further to do with the Hula, had purposly(!) absented her­ self that day, in order to escape the Snare. The King Sent for her three or four times during the evening, but She was not at home. About 11 o clock, presuming the Hula was over, Kaakau went home & went to bed. But it was not long, ere another messenger came & found her. She resisted him for Some time; but was fi­ nally told that her time had come, if She did not go. self & went into the presence of his Magesty. So She arose, dressed her­ She expressed her wish to be ex­ cused from dancing, for She had forsaken her Sins, & united with the church. The King told her there was no Sin in dancing, if She did not violate the 7th command ent(! ) & by his Stern, commanding voice, he persuaded her to Stand up & make a few of her polite & graceful turns in his Royal presence; he then dismissed the assembly & returnd(!) to Honolulu. I have not heard that either the King, or Prince Lot have Since attempted to get up a Hula at Moanalua or elsewhere. Church Building. One of the effects of our revival upon the people is to engage in building Meeting houses at out Stations. Hitherto they have used the government School houses, but it is difficult often times to be accommodated in those houses, without interfering with the Schools. The people at Moanalua, Kalihi, & in Nuu­ anu valley have each resolved to build themselves a house of religious worship, & they have begun in good earnest to collect funds for that purpose. "Ai o ka La.” The ai o ka la which was assigned me for 1862, has been ready Several �6/Honolulu 2d church (Kaumakapili) 1861 months for the press. We expected that the A. Tract Society would furnish us funds to print it. Br Castle wrote to the agent of that Society in N. York last February; but as yet, they have made us no reply. The presumption is that like the A. Board, & other benevolent Institutions, that Society is embarrassed for want of funds, in consequence of the Secession movements, & civil war now in the States. I am not aware that we have any funds in the printing department that can be appropriated for that purpose. I see no prospect therefore that the Ai O ka La will be printed this year, unless we request the Hawaiian Bible & Tract Society to do it for us, with a pledge to refund the money to the Society, either by the Sale of the Books, or by direct contributions. Hoku Loa. As one of the executive committee for publishing the Hoku Loa, the past year, it may be well for me to make a few remarks on that Subject. The following vote was passed by this association one year ago. ''Voted, that in the view of this association, a religious News Paper Should be Sustained in the Hawaiian language." I favoured this vote; & my impression is that the Hoku Loa has been worth far more to my people than it has cost them. They have taken about 260 copies & paid for them! Br Parker has been the principal Editor & I have been the proof reader. I have furnished Some Missionary intelligence, & written Some brief articles about the revival on Oahu. Besides this it has devolved on me to collect funds to pay Mr. Whitney; Quarterly Bills. Soon after this association adjourned last year, one of the Committee Said to me, "How about the Hoku Loa? Where are you gding to get funds to print it? must have funds to purchase the paper, pay the printer &c. You I will See Mr. Whitney, Said he, & See on what terms he will print three or four thousand copies monthly, �7/Honolulu 2d church (Kaumakapili) 1861 & forward them to the brethren through the mail. But I will not be responsible for a Single dollar of money." My reply was, "I have confidence in my Missionary Brethren, that whatever number they Shall order, they will be responsible for. ier for one year." And I will act as financ­ So I wrote immediately to each brother asking him, how many copies of Hoku Loa, Buke II he would order, & be responsible for the pay? Some of the brethren Seemed to understand, that the Hoku Loa has no funds to begin with, & of course none to fall back upon; & if Sustained at all, it must be by Subscription. Accordingly, they Sent on their order for the paper, with provision to call on Castle & Cooke for the pay. If all the brethren had done the Same, it would have been a great relief to the financial department. I most Sincerely hope that we Shall continue the Hoku Loa another year. I am willing to labour with the Editor, in furnishing matter, reading proof Sheets, & distibuting the paper. among my own people. And I will be responsible for all that I may distribute If the other brethren will do the Same, we Shall have no difficulty in Sustaining the Paper another year. Contributions in cash Support of Pastor $ 830,50 Sexton, lighting the church — church repairs &c Repairs on Kapalama church 60.00 46.00 Towards building a church at Kalihi 278.00 Towards building a ch. at Moanalua 210.00 To assist in repairing the ch. at Hana 21.25 To assist in building a ch. at Kipahulu 10.00 To " " 22.25 To " " repairs on the ch. at Hauula " a ch. at Makua, Waianae 10.00 Foreign Missions 180.00 Total $1668,00 �8/Honolulu 2d church (Kaumakapili) 1861 Statistics Whole No. on profession " " " certificate Past year on profession " " " certificate 2724 915 240 49 Restored past year 108 Total past year 397 Whole No. dismissed 479 Dismissed past year 11 Total deceased 1468 Deceased past year 28 Excluded past year 5 Now in regular Standing 1186 Total children baptized 804 Baptized past year 30 Marriages past year 48 (Unsigned) (L. Smith) �Honolulu 2d Church Smith . L The Mission family located at this station have occasion for gratitude to God for a good degree of health & Strength w i t h which they have been favored Since our last annual meeting. The precious revival of religion with which they and their people have been blessed, has very considerably increased the labours of the pastor, & at times he has felt that he Should Sink under them. But by the grace of God he has been en- abled to preach, exhort & labour, much as in the great revival Season Some 20 years ago. Several of the leading church members have rendered very efficient aid in conducting religious meetings. Thursday meetings. Besides our regular meetings on the Sabbath for preach­ ing, bible class & Sabbath Schools, my people have held a week day meeting every Thursday the year round. These meetings have been held alternately at five different places; (viz) Moanalua, Kalihi, Kapalama and Kaumakapili. Tour of Oahu. panied by In September last I made a tour of this Island, accom­ ten native lunas, one or more from each church on Oahu. They were very zealous, and improved every opportunity in visiting from house to house, & urging the people to come out to the public meetings.; accompany our efforts all around the Island. & the blessing of God seemed to Backsliders & impenitent Sinners arose and confessed their Sins at every Station. Concert week of pray er. We observed the 2d week in January, as a week of prayer and praise to Almighty God; and the Holy Spirit was obviously with us to revive, quicken and lead Sinners to repentance. The church members became so in­ terested in those meetings, that they have continued them every evening since, even to the present time. Popery. The Priests have had no sympathy with our revival of religion. They have continued to issue their monthly paper, full of Jesuitical hate towards Protestants, often asserting the most palpable falsehoods, & for the most part harping upon one and the Same Subject, (viz) that the Papal church is the only true church, and that all who may differ from them in Sentiment or practice, are theives �Smith, For the minutes [1861] Honolulu 2 and robbers ! They have said much to draw me & my people into the News Paper con­ troversy with them. But they do not recognize our Bible as the word of God, nor our ministers as ministers of Christ; nor our churches as the churches of Christ. Of what possible use therefore to enter a News Paper controversy with them? Some 25 or 30 of their people have been hopefully converted during the past year, and have united with our church. Hula. ing The revival has had a powerful effect, for the time being, in break­ up this relic of heathenism. Nearly all the ringleaders, both men & women, have been hopefully converted, & united with Schools. the church. Our common Schools, our Sabbath Schools, and a large Bible dlass have been very interesting the year past. Ai O ka La. This little book, which was assigned me for 1862 has been ready several months, for the press. A letter has been sent to the A Tract Society in N. York asking a grant of a thousand dollars to print it. But as they make us no reply, the presumption is that they are embarrassed for want of funds. Hoku Loa. The following vote was passed by this association one year ago. "voted, that in the view of this association a religious News Paper Should be in the Hawaiian language." I favored this vote. & paid for them. Sustained My people have taken 260 copies And my impression is, that this paper has been worth far more to them than it has cost. Some of the brethren understood distinctly, that the Hoku Loa had no funds to begin with, & of course had none to fall back Sustained at all it must be Sustained by Subscription. upon, and if Accordingly, they Sent on their request for the paper, with an order on Castle & Cooke for the pay. If all the brethren had done the Same, it would have been a great relief to the financial department. Contributions in Cash For Support of pastor For the Hawaiian Miss. Society To other benevolent objects $830.50 180.00 657.50 Total $1668.00 �Smith, Honolulu [1861] for the minutes Statistics Whole No . on profession " " " Certificate - Past year on profession " " " 2724 914 240 certificate 49 Restored past year 108 Total past year 397 Whole No. dismissed - 479 Dismissed past year - 11 Tot&l Deceased ---- 1468 Deceased past year ---- 28 Excluded past year ----- 5 Now in regular standing 1186 Total children baptised Baptised past year ---Marriages past year --- 804 30 48 �May 1862 Honolulu 2d, Station Report The Revival of 1860 & 61 has not continued till the present time; though the good effects of that refreshing Season are Still obvious among us. A daily evening prayer meeting was established by our church lunas, at the close of the week of prayer in January 1861, which has been continued unto the present time. The alternate union Sabbath evening meetings, commenced by Br Clark & Myself in the fall of 1860 have been kept up till the present time. (But not feeling able to preach three times on the Sabbath, My Sabbath afternoon meetings are conducted by the lunas, when I am expected to preach in the evening.) One reason why I wish to continue our Sabbath evening meetings, is the fact, that quite a number of people in Honolulu come out to our meetings in the evening, who/do not attend during the day. Politics. My church & congregation have interested themselves more this year in politics, than every before. The first week in January, they exhibited far more zeal than knowledge, in the Election of their Representatives. Instead of uniting & concentrating their votes on four worthy candidates; they run for a great number & were entirely defeated. Whereas the Papists, who are trained to have no mind of their own; but to think just as their priest thinks; & to do just what he commands them to do, were united in their candidates, & carried the election. I trust the Protestants in Honolulu have learned a lesson, which will make them wiser in future. Since the opening of the Legislature on the 2d inst., they have Sent in Sev­ eral petitions to the house of Representatives, praying that Some of the laws en­ acted in 1859 & 60 may be repealed, firmly believing that they are a Shame & curse to the nation; & praying also that no law be enacted, allowing either foreigners �2/Honolulu 2d church (Kaumakapili) 1862 or natives to make Rum on these Islands. Schools. Our common Schools are five in number. Two of the teachers have been dismissed during the year, for immoral conduct; & their places Supplied by better men. Our Schools have held on their way as well as could be expected, consider­ ing the age, infirmaties, & character of the nominal president of the Board of Education. Our Sabbath School, & Bible class have been teresting the year past. o well attended, & unusually in­ The Ui is the book used in the Sabbath School & the Ai ka L a in the Bible class. I would remark here, that the Papists are petitioning the Legislature to re­ model the School Laws -- asking that a Roman Catholic be one of the Board of Education; that the boys & girls be taught in different Schools, the School money be divided, &c &c — — Let us, Brethren, be exhorted to pray much these days for the two houses of the Legislature, that they do all they can, with the embarrassed State of their treasury, to Support & encourage our Schools & Institutions of learning; & that they by no means yield to the petitions & wishes of the Man of Sin. Popery. Unwearied efforts are constantly made by the Priests, to proselyte the members of my congregation to popery. much upon us the past year. own antidote with itself. But I am not aware that they have gained Their News Paper = the "Hae Kiritiano," carries its I certainly was never So disgusted with any paper, which professes to advocate Christianity, as I am with that. Its grand effort is to point out the faults of Protestants, their News Papers, their ministers, their acts of benevolence &c &c. But in vain do we look to them for any thing as a Substitute, which is at all satisfactory to us. They find fault with our Bible, but they do not present us �3/Honolulu 2d church (Kaumakapili) with a better one. 1862 They Say nothing about the way of life, by repentance(!) for Sin & faith in our Lord Jesus Christ; I find no chapters, or paragraphs, or exhort­ ations, in their Paper on industry; honesty, temperance, chastity, observing the Sabbath, nothing Said about Revivals of Religion, or the influances(!) of the Holy Spirit in leading men to repentance; & no items of domestic or foreign News. Sure I am that their Paper, is poorly calculated to draw away the disciples of Christ from the faith of the gospel. Still it is true that occasionally a man or a woman, goes out from us, & joins the Papists; Simply because they were not of us; for had they been of us, they no doubt would have continued with us. Mortality. We have not been Visited this year with a Sweeping epidemic; though there have been a good many deaths; far more I apprehend than births. We have buried 43 church members, but have baptized only 9 children during the year. -The influenza, accompanied by an intermittant(!) fever, is very prevalent at the present time; it has proved fatal in quite a number of cases among the natives. Abatement of Moral evils. His Majesty in his late address before the Legislature used the following lang­ uage --"It is gratifying to find by the Report of the Chief Justice, that in the Summary of Offences(!), there has been a decided diminution. This especially ap­ pears to be the case in Some locality, of that class of offenses which are of a demoralizing nature."He then proceeds to mention the instrumentality which have brought about the reformation. But in my humble estimation, the one which Stands at the head of the list, he has omited(!) to mention, (viz) the great falling of of(!) whale Ships. If the grand Source of practical licentiousness is removed, no marvel, if the Streams of iniquity begin to dry up. �4/Honolulu 2d church (Kaumakapili) 1862 Ecclesiastical Association For Several years there has been a clerical association on Oahu, embraceing(!) both foreign & native pastors, who have met twice a year. These meetings have been very interesting to us foreign pastors; but as they have been conducted in the English language, with the exception of the Essays read by the native breth­ ren, the meetings of course were not very interesting to them. Soon after our last general meeting, Several of us resolved that we must have an Ecclesiastical organization, to be conducted in the Hawaiian language. Accordingly, a Notice was published in the Hae Hawaii, & the Hoku Loa, in­ viting each pastor of a Hawaiian church, with five native delegates, to meet at Hauula on the 10th of S e p t for the purpose of organizing an Ecclesiastical associ­ ation for mutual improvement. The meeting was well attended, & was organized by appointing Br. Emerson chair­ man, & S. Kahoohalahala Scribe. A Constitution was draughted, discussed & adopted; & the Association is called “He Ahahui o na Ekalesia maoli ma Oahu." The persons belonging to this are the pastors of the native churches on Oahu, together with clergymen who understand the native language; & 5 delegates from each of the Native churches, to be elected from time to time. The Object of this association is the Spiritual welfare of the churches rep­ resented; to exhort & encourage each other in acts of benevolence, & to instruct Hawaiian pastors & deacons how to conduct the affairs of the church of Christ. The meetings of this Association are to be held twice a year, (viz) In Feb­ ruary & September. The first meeting continued three days, & was highly interesting to all the Native brethren; & closed with the observance of the Lords Supper. The Second meeting was held in the 2d church of Honolulu at Kaumakapili, from the 11th to the 13th of February. �5/Honolulu 2d church (Kaumakapili) It was opened by a Sermon from Br. Emerson — 1862 text — 2 Timothy, 2:3 "Thou therefore, endure hardness as a good Soldier of Jesus Christ." During the meeting , Essays were read on Subjects previously assigned, & the pastors gave a brief account of their churches & Schools. One of the Subjects presented by the committee of Overtures was, "The pro­ priety of appointing a native treasurer of the funds contributed for foreign Missions. This overture was presented & warmly discussed by Some of the native brethren. They Said they had received letters from the native Missionaries, complaining that Some of the articles Sent them by our Secular agents, were of no Service to them; (for instance) the Shoes Sent are So Small they cannot wear them; & Some­ times the Salmon is tainted & they cannot eat it. The argument for appointing a native treasurer was; — that a native in pur­ chasing Shoes would know what Shoes will fit; & he would also know the differance (i) between good & poor Salmon. But, after explaining to them the modus operandi of our Secular agents in puting(!) up the orders of the Missionaries; & that Salmon Sometimes Springs a leak on the passage, & having lost its pickle, it Soon becomes tainted & unfit to eat; &c &c — the Overturns was disposed of by appointing a Committee of four to confer with the Secular agents, at the time of puting up the annual Supplies; (viz) Messrs Clark Naone of Kawaiahao; & Messrs Smith & Solomona of Kaumakapili. As we kept open doors, quite a number of church members & others attended our meetings; and listened with deep interest to the Essays read, & the discussion of the various Subjects brought before the meeting. Out of meeting the remark was often made, this is Something entirely New to us; it is like a family School, where parents are are(!) teaching their children. The Committee on assignments brought forward Some 14 or 15 different Subjects, which were given out to the pastors & delegates, to be prepared, & read before the �6/Honolulu 2d church (Kaumakapili) 1862 association at its next meetings to be held at Kaneohe next September. On the third day of this meeting, the exercises closed by the observance of the Lords Supper. I think Such meetings are calculated to do good to all who attend; & that the church and people where the meetings are held, will feel amply regarded for their trouble & hospitality in entertaining the members of the association. Hoku Loa. At the meeting of this association last year, I expressed a willing­ ness to assist Dr Parker in editing the Hoku Loa during its 3d year, providing the brethren would be responsible for the pay of the Papers they Should order. But for Some reason or other, Br. Parker has left me to Serve as Sole Editor. Br. Lyons has kindly furnished a hymn for each of the 12 numbers. win wrote an article for Several papers about the American war. Br. Bald­ Two or three of our Ecclesiastical Associations have furnished the minutes of their meetings for this paper. But the Brethren Natives formerly wrote considerable for this paper; but Since the Kuokoa & pakipika have been printed, they have Sent their communications to those papers. There is only one number more to be printed to complete the IIld volume of the Hoku Loa. The question now arrises,(!) Shall we publish the Hoku Loa another year? Have the two papers just alluded to, become So popular & useful to the people, that there is no necessity for continuing our Missionary & religious News Paper? I do not know that the Board of Directors of either of those Papers, will be will­ ing to print our Missionary letters, & communications from Marquesas, & Micro­ nesia; for they Resolved, at the commencement, that they would be indipendant(!), & not publish, or advocate the cause of any religious Sect or denomination. It will be a very great loss to our churches, & the cause of foreign miss­ ions, if all the letters from the Missionaries, & the doings of the Directors are �7/Honolulu 2d church (Kaumakapili) 1862 to be Suppressed, & filed away in the archives of the Hawaiian Miss, Society. It has been Suggested that as a Substitute for the Hoku Loa, the Hawaiian Bible & Tract Society be requested to print a Small Missionary pamphlet, Some two or three times a year; or as often as we may have important Missionary intelli­ gence to communicate. I am inclined to favor this idea, prodding the Directors of that Society will give their approbation. very(!) few tracts have been printed by that Society the year past; not for want of funds, but for want of Suitable tracts to print. The Edition of the Hoku Loa this year is 3 ,000; the cost of which is $45 per month or $540 for the year. Some of the brethren have paid for their papers in full — Some in part; & Some nothing at all as yet. There is now about $150;00 due for that paper. Statistics Whole No. on profession On certificate Past year on profession " " " certificate Total past year 2765 961 41 47 88 Whole No. dismissed 494 Dismissed past year 15 Total deceased 1511 Deceased past year 43 Excluded past year 20 Now in regular Standing 1196 Total children baptized 813 Baptized past year Marriages past year 9 42 �8/Honolulu 2d church (Kaumakapili) 1862 Contributions Support of Pastor $ 700,00 Foreign Missions 100,00 To aid in building meeting houses in our own, & in other fields at these Islands 500,00 For Sexton, highting(!) the church, & repairs on the church &c Total = ______80,50 $1380,50 (Unsigned) (L. Smith) �Station Report May 1863 The health of the mission family at Honolulu 2d Station, has been about as usual the past year. Old age however is obviously corning over the pastor; this appears in the di­ minution of his general Strength; in the imperfection of his eye Sight, & in an increased difficulty of hearing. — — in age & infirmities Still he has not advanced quite far enough to adopt the language of Solomon in the 12th chapter of Ecclesiastes, & Say that he takes ho further Satisfaction in the affairs of this life. During our great revival in 1838-9&40 it was my privilege to conduct three public meetings on the Sabbath, besides Superintending a large Sabbath School; a daily morning prayer meeting, & a daily afternoon conference meeting, besides talking personally with enquirers till 9 o clock almost every evening. But this was more than 20 years ago. Now, I can by no means perform Such an amount of labour. Indeed, it is not necessary that I should; for we have quite a number of Lunas, & other church members who assist meetings, & who are often times very edifying & instructive to their audiances(! ). During the past year, unless favored with aid by a brother from Some other Station, I have preached twice on the Sabbath, besides Superintending the Sabbath School & Bible class. At Moanalua, Kalihi, Kapalama, & Maemae, religious meetings are held every Sabbath P.M. conducted by Some of our Lunas; this accounts for the differance(!) between our forenoon & afternoon congregations at the Station. Some Sabbaths I go out to these district meetings myself, & leave the meeting in the church with the Lunas. A daily eveing prayer meeting has been kept up at the Station ever Since the concert week of prayer in Jan. 1861. Last year & year before, the average attendance �2/(Kaumakapili) 1863 ranged from 150 to 300. But in this time of general Stupidity, it varies from 50 to 150. Daily morning meetings are held at the 4 District meeting houses above alluded to. I hold a meeting every Saturday P.M. with my church Lunas, at which time I make enquiries after the church members; whether any have died during the week/or have fallen into Sin? or have taken French leave & gone off to join any of the other Sects? We also attend to cases of church discipline; & when not otherwise employ­ ed, I expound Some portion of Scripture. Last fall & winter there was considerable Sickness among the people, & So few attended our regular Thursday meetings, that we Suspended them for a time. But we have recently revived them again, with the hope that we Shall have health, Strength & Zeal to continue them as heretofore. Schools. We have 5 district Schools, embracing about 230 Scholars. Each School School (!) has a good framed School house; the teachers have done well the past year, & the children have made commendable progress in their Studies. - The Papists have one School of 32 Scholars at Moanalua; & 2 in Honolulu, number­ ing children (!). The Reformed Catholics have two Schools, but I do not know the number of their pupils. Sabbath School. Our Sabbath School averages from 120 to 150, & is doing as well as could be expected, considering the want of Suitable Sabbath School Books. I have an adult Bible class of about 40. The Ai O ka La, which was printed by the A. Tract Society in 1860 has Served us for 2 years. parents & children, are now trsing the "Ui". But our entire School, both The Ui treats upon Several very im­ portant practical Subjects, Some of which ought to be thoroughly expounded to the �3 / (Kaumakapili) 1863 people just at this time, when forms & cermonies are So much talked of in this community. I therefore Select the more important Subjects, & make them the found­ ation of my remarks Sabbath Mornings; & then go into the Bible class & Sabbath School & explain the Subjects all over to them again. The Ui will answer our purpose for the present, but we deeply feel the need of a Sabbath School book, better adapted to the children & youth, than any we have ever yet had. Revival, ingathering &c . We have had no revival of religion the year past; no outpouring of the Spirit; no inquirers Monday mornings to talk about the interests of their Souls; & no in­ gathering into the church of young convents. On the other hand, we have had no great defection in the church; no combination & out burst of Sin, Such as a revival of the Hula, or of Rum drinking, gambling, returning again to idolatry & the like. Our Lunas, & a goodly number of the church members have been regular in their attendance upon the means of grace; but a majority of the church have apparently been Stupid & indifferent to the great interests of their Souls, & the Souls of others; We greatly need a refreshing from the presence of the Lord. Famine. For Some time past, there has been a great Scarcity of food for natives in Honolulu, In times of plenty it is Said that 50 cents will feed a native for a week, & $2 will pay for his board a month. On Some of the plantations, foreigners employ native labourers for $6 per month & board them; or for $8 per month & they board themselves. But of late. Several natives have told me that 50 cents will not purchase one Satisfactory meal for themselves & family. Where people live from hand to mouth, �4/(Kaumakapili) 1863 as most of this people do in Honolulu, times of Scarcity come very hard upon them. And hence a great falling off in their benevolent contributions. Those who live in districts where Sugar, wheat, Rice & Cotton are cultivated may be far better able to contribute for benevolent objects, than those who live in Honolulu, where few Ships now touch for Supplies, compared with years gone by. Improvements. But notwithstanding the poverty of the Mass — it is obvious that Some who live in & around Honolulu are in comfortable circumstances. New framed buildings multiply among them yearly; their yards are enclosed with fences, plant­ ed with trees, vegitables(!) & flowers, & every thing exhibits quite a civilized appearance. Dress, Manners &c. The church going people generally dress well; Some few perhaps may be rather extravigant(!) in dress. Others, I presume, do not attend church at all, for the want of Suitable clothing. Some children excuse themselves from attending the Sabbath School for want of clothes Suitable for the occasion. I think however that there are very few parents or children, who cannot command Suitable clothing to attend public worship on the Sabbath, if they have a desire So to do. Many of our people are very respectable & polite in their deportment, whether in the house of God, or on their farms or in the work Shop, or in the Streets; as most foreign visitors do testify. Decrease of Population. I called the other day upon Mr Low, at the Office of Public Instruction, to as­ certain what is the comparative differance(!) of Births & deaths throught(!) the Islands, as reported to him by the government agents. And according to his re­ �5/ (Kaumakapil i) 1863 cords, in the year 1862, there were about two deaths to one birth, throughout the Islands. In Some districts a little more, & in Some a fraction less. In the District of Honolulu, which extends from Moanalua & Maunalua, the number of deaths in 1862, were 608; while the Births were only 344 a fraction less than 2 deaths to 1 birth. In the 2d church of Honolulu, there have been over 50 deaths the year past, while the number of children who have been baptized during that period, is less than 20. The decrease of the natives is truly alarming! Papists. We have been less annoyed by the French Papists this year than formerly; & probably for two reasons. First; we have had no Religious Newspaper for them to oppose & ridicule in their "Hai Kiritiano." & Secondly; they have been Zealous­ ly engaged in a Newspaper controversy with the "English Reformed Catholics." Very few if any of our church members have gone over to the Papists the past year. Occasionally one, who does not wish to aid in Supporting the Institutions of the Gospel, will "Secede" "repudiate" his debts & obligations to the church, & go off to the Papists. English Reformed Catholics This Sect have come & established themselves at Honolulu, Since our last general meeting. Having heard that they were comeing(!), we most Sincerely hoped that they would cooperate with us in carrying forward the work of civilization & christianity, which has been in progress, here for the last 40 years. But to our astonishment they ignore what has been done by the protestant Mission; & even decline meeting with us in a monthly concert of prayer for the heathen. They have organized a church, embraceing(!) Several persons, who formerly pro­ fessed to be Episcopalians; & they have gathered in Some* who never before pro­ �6/ (Kaumakapili) fessed to be pious. 1863 The King & Queen, & Several foreigners, who heretofore, but Seldom, if ever, attended public worship, are among their first ripe, gathered, confirmed fruits. Bishop Staly(Staley) & Staff, profess to have far more Sympathy with the Pa­ pists than with us; though I Should judge from their Newspaper Correspondence, that the Papists have no more charity for them, than they have for us. Their code of morals is quite different from that of the protestant Missionaries, who have So long preoccupyed(!) this field. They teach both by precept & example, that the christian religion does not cur­ tail their earthy pleasures & amusements. They give & attend balls; engage in theatrical amusements; ride out for pleasure on the Sabbath; attend dinner part­ ies on the Sabbath, &c &c. With these avowed Sentiments & practices, they have made vigerous(!) & perserving efforts to proselyte Some of the best families in the Kaumakapili church, but So far as I know, with little or no Success. The Bishop has organized the ladies of that church into a Society, with the ostensible object of Staying the tide of depopulation. Paying no regard to previous church organizations & labours among this people, they consider the entire city of Honolulu & its Suburbs as their Missionary field. In committees of two or three* they visit from house to house, enquiring of the people, who of them profess to be Christians* & who do not? have been baptized, & who have not? families? Who of their children What the prospects are of an increase in their And whether they are not willing to go at once & join the "Reformed Catholic Church?" But it is obvious that one very Special object of the ladies Society is, to be on hand, like the "Egyptian midw ives," not to kill the male children, but to Save all, both male & female, & to help nurse them for a time; & by all means, per­ suade the parents to carry them to the Cathedral for baptism. �7/ (Kaumakapili) 1863 But with all their disinterested benevolence, zeal, & pains taking(!); Several of their new born, adopted infants, have already gone to their graves!! It is not yet obvious, that the rising generation in this city are hereafter to live, a move, & have their being, in accordance with the dictates of this dog­ matical Sect. In the providence of God, they have been permited(!) to come & establish them­ selves among us; but whether for the best good of this people or not, time will Show. James Says, "Blessed is the man, who endureth temptation, for when he is tried, he Shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him." Native Assistant. It may be well for me to mention in my Report, that I feel the need of Some assistance in the work that devolves upon me at this Station. have before remarked, old age & infirmaties are coming upon me. As I Much of my time a Strength is occupyed in general, miscellaneous work; trustee meetings; meetings of the Advisory Committee; meetings of the Board of Missionary Directors; Corres­ pondence with our foreign Missionaries; & with Missionary candidates; & in looking after the Supplies of the Missionaries, whenever the Morning Star is about to leave for the Marquesas & Micronisian(!) Missions &c &c. It has been Suggested to me that I take a licentiate for a year, & teach him theology; & let him assist me in conference & prayer meetings, & preach a part of the time on the Sabbath. I like the Suggestion, & perhaps I may do So, pro­ viding arrangements can be made for his Support; & it shall not interfere with the new organization, which may take place among us at this general meeting. Census of the church During the month of April, I took considerable pains to ascertain the number of �8 / (Kaumakapili) 1863 church members now living, connected with the 2d Honolulu church; & also their whereabouts. This people have no certain dwelling place; they are given to change; & some of them change their residance(!) So often, that they are ashamed to call on their pastors for letters of dismission & recommendation to other churches. Some go expecting to return again in a few days or weeks; but by the importunity of friends, they prolong their visit to months & years. And hence the difficulty of keeping church records Strictly accurate. I have no hesitation in Stating the number, who have been received to the 2d church in Honolulu, on profession of their faith in Christ; So also of those who have been received by letter from other churches; I know how many have taken let­ ters of dismission & recommendation to other churches. But my record of deaths may be quite too Small. Of those who have gone to California, to Columbia River, or have Shiped(!) on whalers, or merchantmen, or who emigrate to other Islands without letters; Some Six months, a year or 5 years afterward we may hear that they are dead. In calling the church Roll at this time, more than 100 are missing or lost. We can now account for only 1,006; & of this number. 128 are off on other Is­ lands, or living in other parishes without letters of dismission; leaving only 878 at home. And about 1/4th of this number are either aged, blind, Sick & poor; or Stupid, indifferent, & inefficient helpers. So that 650 is as many as we can rely upon for any material aid in the Support of the Institutions of the gospel. Cash Contributions Support of pastor Foreign missions To assist in rebuilding Lahainaluaa $ 630.00 305.50 85.122 / 1 �9/(Kaumakapil i) 1863 For the Kiholo Meeting house, Hawaii 30.00 For Services of Sexton 30,00 Repairs on the church at the Station 104.00 Total =$11184.62-1/2 Statistics of the Church Whole No. received on profession " " " " 2765 certificate 980 Past year on profession " " " 1863 None certificate 19 Total past year 19 Whole No. dismissed 508 Dismissed the past year 14 Total deceased 1562 Deceased the past year 51 Excluded 15 Now connected with the Church 1006 Total No. of children baptized 830 Baptized the past year 17 Marriages " 29 " " (Unsigned) (L. 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Title A name given to the resource Mission Station Reports - Oahu - Honolulu - 1858-1863 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/792d6071685c9acb57d4c37754966c01.pdf 52a243dd1b76d6e5e302b8a72f8f1c88 PDF Text Text HONOLULU (KAWAIAHAO) STATION REPORTS CONTENTS Unsigned fragment [Bingham].............................. .......... . [1830's] Unsigned [Bingham]............ ......................... ....... .. — [1831] Unsigned [Bingham].......... ............ ................... — ..... [1832] Unsigned [Bingham]............ ......... . — — ..... . — ...... . ,. .1833 Unsigned[Bingham]............. ............. ............... ....... 1834 Unsigned medical report[ Judd]................... . — ................[1830's] Unsigned[Bingham]................ ..... ......... ........... ..1835 Unsigned [Bingham]..................... ..................... ..1836 Unsigned[Bingham]....... ............................... ........ . .1837 Tinker, R ......... ............ ............................. . 1837 Unsigned [Tinker]............ ...... ............ .......... ........ .1838 Unsigned [Bingham]............... ......................... . — Unsigned draft [Bingham]........................ . — ..... .1839 ......... ...... 1840 Unsigned [Armstrong]........... ............... ........... ......... 1841 Armstrong, R ........ ....... ................. ......... ...... . — .1842 Armstrong, R ...... ........... ...... .............................. 1842-43 Armstrong, R ............. ............. . — .-......... ............ 1843-44 Armstrong, R ......... ........ ............................ . Armstrong, R.............. ............. ............ ........... . .1846(2 years) 1846-48 Unsigned[Clark]................................. ........ ......... 1849 Unsigned [Clark]............................ ........... ........... 1851 Unsigned[Clark]...................... .......... ...................1852 Unsigned abstract[Glark]............. ........ ......... ........... 1852 Unsigned [Clark]................... -........... ........ ........... 1853 Unsigned [Clark]......... .............. ......... ....... .......... [1854] Unsigned [Clark]............. ...... ....... ............. ......... .1855 Unsigned abstract........ ...... ................................... [1855 ] Armstrong, R........... ................. . — ..... ........ ........ 1856 Unsignedf Clark] .......... ................ ........... ......... . .1857 Unsigned abstract[Clark]...................... ...... .......... ... 1860 Clark, E. abstract......... ...... ................................ 1861 Unsigned church statistics................... ..... ............ . .1862 Unsigned [Clark]........... ........................ ............... 1862 Unsigned [Clark].......... .......... ....... .......................1863 , '^ C ’ro (xra wdrO ^ ^-huiru^ u^luch k/M/e- bem IrCpofvH, �Honolulu, Station Report fragment, 1830’s . . . chosen him § his service § his salvation, whose sincerityt i m e ^ temptation must prove but none of these have yet been brought forward or propounded for admission, as we usually allow years of trial before receiving to membership those who profess repentance § hope § appear to live reformed lives. The admissions to the church during the year have been 20. -18 natives § two foreign residents, Mssrs* Colcord ^ Anderson, both of whom appear to take a decided stand in the cause of temperance, § religion in the midst of Honolulu even in troublous times. An application was made to Mr. C.' purchase of him a large iron pot]for the purpose of distilling rum. would not sell it for that purpose. had their relation remove gold. He said he Some of our members have lillegible] fill:’it with and have been organized with other into a church at the other station on this island, at W'aialua one of them: 'Kuo'Koa, being interested with the office of deacon. He with Laanui have proved themselves efficient missionary helpers § coadjutors of Mr. Emerson, § have shewn that native chri:stians are capable, of doing good in extending the infloience of Christian institu­ tions in their own country'. We have had more occasion the last y'eaT to. e^ceycj.se the dis­ cipline of the church, the las-t year that^sicy heretofoxe ^ owing in part as we believe to •[the s'uccessive cargoes of rum int'lros duced among the people, and the leisure given to sell, and the inducements- held-out to use it by wiclcedness in high places. One of our members has been ■excommunicated the motJon for excision proposed -in church meeting without a dissenting voice, FourJ?] others have been suspended from the communion two of whom on apparent repentance have been restored, and t.-wo -who were previotisly suspended have also been restored one of -whom is known to the Mission gennerally', Samuel M i l l s » 'Wb-O though he does not give all the e-yidence of decided piety, that could be desired, yet having reformed, and made a full § B.umble public confession, and given as good evidence of repentance as at any- former period, of his life or whi.le in America where he was baptized it was judged best after long trial to restore him to the fellowship and privileges of the church f| �Honolulu, 1830’s p. 2 the affectionate [?] fulness of h.is brethren whom he had ex­ ceedingly grieved. Religious meetings distinct from the ordinary public preaching and ordinances at the church. The monthly concert prayer meeting for the conversion of the world, with the natives at the church, and for the same object in English at Mr. . The monthly concert for Sabbath schools, at Mr. Johntones, and the monthly concert for seamen at the reading rooms some of us usually attend § assist. A weekly meeting for ourselves § foreign residents at on Wed., are at Mr. Chamberlain’s, -- a quarterly, [?] ■ at Mr. Clarks -- a monthly meeting of the church, for business The Friday improvement. been continued in the female part of which thevefs^ada^ystem of attending to the scriptures has been J[?J § the members have usually been assisted by Mrs. B. Bible classes § sabbath schools An [?J of about 400 have attended to the verse a day system, meeting at 8 o clock sabbath morning, partly at the church' § partly a schoolhouse in the Ivicinity] of the village, these have been attended by Mr. Clark § Dr. Judd. At each place a bible class on Thursday has been attended, where the subject of the Wednesday lecture was reyiewed, § the Ninau hoike in some cases I?] forming part of the lesson. These classes have been attended by Mssrs B. § C, A sabbath school of about 5 0 who I sic’ ] lesson h-as- been to convert to memory a page a week, of the N e w Testasijent -v. th,a^s has been instructed by Mr, Cha-mberlain, at 2 p.m. Mr. Rogers and others have paid some attention to children on the sabbath. Mr, § Mrs. Johnstone hav^e had the sabbath, school of children in some sense a branch of our missionary work, distinct.from the Oahu Charity school tho the same pupils are embraced. Station Schools |c A station school for teachexs -^as commenced soen ,a;fteT the last general m.eeting § continued till Oct,' - t. Attendance i^'Xegula'r �Honolulu 1830's p average about 40 studie reading. Arithmetic Geography, opened again in March, first lesson in Geometry introduced. The school was much embarrassed, for want of a suitable home -- which the scholars are now correcting for themselves, who will need the last year appropriations from the mission ^ perhap.s -more to aid them in finishing it, Mr. Clark aided by Dr. J. have the charge of this station school. Another station school house of earth bricks is in building by the natives, who have contributed liberally in natives labor and money for its erection. Dimension 54 feet by 30, walls 11 feet high. Mrs. Judd has had a class of 24 women, whom she had read the scripture once a week -- Mr. Bingham another class of 67 for reading the scriptures, reciting the Ninau Hoike, §c.The sisters of the station have engaged also in a Maternal association embracing those female members of the church who sustain the re­ lationship of mothers. Labors abroad -Mr. Clark has held a meeting twice in the J?] most of the year, cong. fr. 5 0 to 200, has preached some sabbaths at Waikiki, about 17 at Esp., at W'aipio ^ two at Wailua {?] 5 at Kauai .-The congregation at Ewa, not exceed 300 .or 400., during this [?] haunaele [panic, commotion] Perhaps more would attend at Waiawa, where at present th:ere is more good order, by no suita­ ble house of worship. Mr. Bingham spent about a week at W'ailua, has preached once at Ewa, § once at Kolau. tour of this island and J?J Dr, J. ha,s made the Wailuku on Maui, Admissions to the Church during the year 2Q, Suspended from the com 4 two of whom have been restored two previously suspended, restored One has been excommunicated Whole no, admitted to the church do, do. # Died Removed Excom. 229 15 5 1 “ leaving 2 08 �Honolulu 1830’s p Average of the readers who appeared at the several exam­ inations -Palikolau 2.44 Waikiki 1.32 Honolulu 6.79 Ewa 2.56 13.11 Marriages 71 Contributions. -- couple. Monthly Con. Outfit for Marquesas Mission 84.50 cash 66,50 in supplies Cash for schoolhouse Total, [?] bution for new 151.00 355.00 = 5.06 the contri­ .[?] of the gospel commenced [?J 348,12 cash . .6.6...50 supplies 414.62 Adding ca±i for schoolhouse which is part in aid of the mission . 35.5..0.0 769.62 �Report of the Station at Honolulu [l83lj The oause of religion has heen gradually advancing at this station since the last general report. The n u m h e r o f serious inquirers & hope­ ful converts have greatly increased. more thronged. Our meetings were prohahly never Several meeting houses have "been erected in different parts of the Island & dedicated to the worship of God. In most or all of them public worship is regularly conducted hy native members of the church. Our congregation at this place has so much increased^ that a separate meeting has heen held for those who could not find admission to the meeting house. Numher received to the church since the last General Meeting 40. IWiole number received at the station 106. Deaths 5. Expelled or dismissed none. Propoimded 30. The nuniber of scholars in our schools has considerably increased during the period under review & very perceptible improvement has been made in reading & writing. school 5^443. Schools 250. Alphabet & Spelling 4^893. Teachers 250. Readers in Whole number of scholars 10^336. The ladies of the mission have spent considerable time in instruct­ ing with good incouragement. Something has been, done in the way of raising the qualifications of teachers, & some improvement m.ade in the examinations which.'promise to be useful. Marriages 437 Some changes have taken place in the political affairs■of the nation, which have a very favourable bearing upon the cause of morality & religion at this station. For the operations of the press see report of the printing commit­ tee. y Mr. Shepard's health has been declining. The health of other members of the station has been for the most part comfortable. �[Honolulu 1832] The general labors of the station have heen carried on as usual.. Our assemhlies on the sahbath have embraced from 1,000 to 4 thousand hearers. Other more private meetings both male & female have been well attended. During the year .preaching has been m:aintained ten or twelve sabbaths in other parts of the island under very favourable circumstance. The number of,persons who give evidence of external reformation has considerably increased during the year. to our church at every commimion season. to the church during the year is Additions have been made The whole number admitted [no figure given] . Fow, stand pro­ pounded [no figure givenj Our school operations have gone on very much as in times past. There has been a considerable increase in the number of learners on the island, & especially in the number of readers. At our last exam- ination 6^26. An Interesting school of children under the superintendance of the females of the mission has been kept up at this station. consists of about 200 children. The school They are taught on the monatorial plan, & have made good progress in reading & y/riting. commenced Geography & natural history. Some have also The school bids fair to be highly us eful. The number of marriages at this station since June 15, 1831 has amotmted to 384 couple. Of these 11 individuals are foreigners,. marriage of foreigners has occasioned us.considerable trouble. The We have endeavoiored in all cases to adhere as strictly as possible to the regulations adopted at our. last meeting. For the operations of the press see report of the printing # Committee. The two catholic priests, who have caused us so much soli­ citude left this place in the Waverly Dec^-24. out for the purpose by the chiefs. The vessel was fitted �Report of the Station at Honolulu 1833 The work of the mission in the various d.epartments of labor which fall to this station have been carried forward, during the year t h o ' we had some illness and some untoward circumstances of anxiety (?) & embarrassment. •The arduous duties of the general secular agency of the mission have been discharged by Mr. Chamberlain, & he has also paid some atten­ tion to schools, . More than ordinary attention to the medical department has been given by Dr. Judd, on account of having more convenient rooms & having relinquished the intention of preaching - He has also devoted some attention to schools, to engraving & teaching music, & to the verse learners, a part of whom he meets between the first & second bell for morning services - on the sabbath - & in connexion with Mr. J<. to the drawing of maps Mr. Shepard tho feeble & declining has been associated with Mr. Rogers, in carrying on the printing which this year amounts to more than 9 million pages - Mr. Rogers has moreover superintended the binding which has very much increased its operations as facilities and demands have multiplied! Mr. & Mrs. Johnstone have been engaged in schools, and [are^ now engaged chiefly in the instruction of the Oahu Charily School for the instruction ot the children of foreigners containing about 50 pupils. English preaching at the station has amounted to about 2 sermons in a week chiefly by Messrs Armstrong Tinker and Alexander. From three to four sermons a week in the native language have m 'been preached, chiefly by Messrs Bingham & Clark, Mr. Clark preached about 5 months at Waialua, and Mr.- B; labored a: week' at Kauai, when there appeared to be a work of the Lord in progress. - Mr, Clark �Honolulu 1853 2 . . lias a part of the year has ( I) preached, attended a bihle c l a s s & the Ai o ka la on three different days weekly in the rear of the village of Honolulu. A few small publications have been prepared (?), as the Buke a^a m u a , the Ai o ka la, the Olelo no ka mare ana & The A Nuugi^fe The Psalms from the 25^ to the 75^.^ have been translated, & the first book of Kings begun, tho much labor is yet to be bestowed on these before they can be ready for the press. Dr. Judd has translated the epistle of James, to a Koble Land in the Brittish Parlamant ( l). . Schools Since the Western, Northwestern, and. Northern districts have, been set of to Vi/aialua station including about 10,000 inhabitants & ■ , ^ s. half the territory of ,-bhe.idand , -:■> only, the Eastern, the remaining three district two Southern containing about 20,000 inhabitants are regarded as belonging particularly to Honolulu Station. The register of the annual examination of the schools in these districts about three months subsequent to the unfortunate effects from High authority to relax the restraints upon folly and wickedness shows the folowing ( l) i-esult[?]. Pal:jJs:oolau, & Waikiki on the Eastern end of the Island 9S5 readers, 725 unable to read = 1650 learners - 1111 Molowa [lazy] Honolulu - 1498 readers, 106 unable to read = learners, 246 Molowa From Honolulu to Barber's Point 677 readers - 333 unable to read ^ 1010 learners - 682 Molowa Station 3100 readers - 1195 unable to read - 4295 learners 2039 fallen off Of those connected with the schools 440 were under the more im­ mediate instruction of the members of the mission families, besides �Honolulu 1833 3. besides those called poalima, poaha and Ai o ka la. The school of teachers commencing with 170, and ending 114 was instructed a part of the time by Messrs Armstrong, Judd, Chamberlain, & Johnstone - and a part of the time chiefly by Messrs Clark & Chamberlain, Tinker[?’] has rendered kind assistance there;: - They were taught reading writing, Arithmetic & Geography, There have been different classes of children, & of women, taught at different':, times by different individuals in which most of the sisters have taken a part, Mrs. Clark, Mrs. Armstrong, Mrs. Alexander, Mrs. Tinker, Mrs. Johnstone, Mrs. Chamberlain, Mrs. Judd & Mrs. Bingham. At the last examination Mrs. Clark presented 9 infant children of the mis­ sionaries - Mrs, Judd 25 native children, taught in writing arithmetic & geography A 70 women[!]. Mrs. Bingham presented 61 children & 75 women - Dr. Judd 25 smgers the king, & Kinau',: Mr. & Mrs. Johnston*'s[!] school were not examined. including They are taught in English « from 4 to 7 hours-a."'day-and a considerable part of them attend on[an] English preaching and Sabbath school instruction. The building, they occupy, was built by subssription at the expense of 2,000 doll. It has a steeple and bell; is of stone; well finished and furnished, with comfortable seats and a pulpit -affording pleasant accommodations for public worship for foreigners. Mr. Johnson [sic] has the offer from ■£her;tTus.f.e.es'.of'the s.ch.QQi^ of a salary of 500 doll, as the means of his support, that he may be exclus'.ively devoted to its interests. Persons who attend the exercise of Ai oka la at. Honolulu wey-e at one 'tiine,vabout year after it commenced, - was 180 0- -- It is now about 600 -- should our political excitement cease^ the number will probably' ixLcrease. 1163 persons are reported as having forsaken the use of tobacco. State of the church 8 Admis'sions during the year It V. Deaths " Children baptized 3 u 30 Deaths among bapti.zed children whole number 11 It 209 12 u 11 106 It It 6 . The church, appears to stand hej: ground. . They aneet .weekly for prayer among themselves, T>ro have, been suspended, irregular walk. § two have made confessions, for �Ii.QP,ol,ulu 1835.; Marriages p_ 4 286 -- besides those celebrated by Gov, Adams § otherwise. Cash contributions, for a bell $200, about $100 for schoolhouses, § $2 80 for Missionary purposes particularly to aid the Marquesan Mission. 10 doll, of which met the pecuniary expense of printing the A. 'NuuhiVa. The contributions for the bell and for Missionary purposes are committed to M. Chamberlain of which he has an account on the books of the mission. The arrival of Rev. Mr. Diell as Caplainjsic] to seamen is, matter of congratulations. �HONOLULU 1834 [Note at top o£ page illegible.] Translations The principle labor in this department, has been a thorough revisal [sic] o£ the revised translation of Matthew, a careful in­ spection of the translations of the latter half of the New Testament ^ more particularly 8 of Pauls Epistles for the New Edition now in press. a revision in part of John § Luke, a careful revisal of the translation of Judges a laborious revisal of a [?] § large additions, a revisal of part of an [?] preparation of several new ones. for the [?] with many hymns^ with the work in hand- agreeably with the joint views of Messrs Richards § Bingham and the approval of the printing committee the translation of 13 chapters o'f first book of kings' § the preparation of a Marquesan spelling book, of 8 pages a few hand bill tracts[?3 § some alterations, much less- than could Be wished, to a grammar of the Language, Xn spea,king of these preparations for the press it may Jbe] proper to say that the I,?] assisSed in the illegible^ work. are assumed by Dr, Judd who has also The rest of these labors .[next ^ew words § explain of what has been done to 1 kings by Mr» Clark -- have(!falien chiefly on Mr, B. who has usuallypreachedd 2 a week when M t . Clark has been at Honolulu^, § 3 times has preaclied at a distance. Seamans’ chapel r e a & ^ g rooms have been erected at this place ^ proven to be successful. \?e still hope the Inext few words illegible] will ultimately be useful, though it has yet fully assumed what was expected at the out set, I't appears to us-, § probably to the people, to be a kind of half­ way' zone between, the world^ § that holy devotedness to the things of God § heaven which Missionaries ought unceasingly to inculcate. There are now 11 professors of religion at this palce, deemed orthodox, who are not connected with us § two or three others, w h o ■ are not regarded as orthodox. The apparent conformity of some to the world, in some respects § their claims on the privileges pf the Lord's table with us, have o'ccassioned us some solicitude § make the �Honolulu 1834 advice o£ the mission desirable on that subject. p. 2 We invite all who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity;', who are members of his churches in regular standing, and whose lives adorn their proffessio.ns. Parties for cards § dancing, § the entertainments of the theater, opened at this place, at which the king § company is himself ^ the urgency with which foreigners maintain the trade in ardent spirits invite the attention, advice § sympathy of our brethern from abroad. We are here unanimous in objecting to the traffic, in ardent spirits, and the use of them as a drink -- and have made some efforts to combine with our own the influence of foreigners friendly to the temperance cause, and we hope the exertions made in this cause by Mr. Diell who is obtaining individual signers to the pledge of abstin­ ence, will be the means of much good. Very great obstacles, by the change in the government have been thrown in way of the temperance measures adopted by the more sober part of the natives, both chiefs and people but their temperance society is not discouraged, and it is hoped it will live till satan yields his iron grasp and the people are delivered from- his power. �Report of medical labors for the Station at Honolulu. These were continued as usual for about 6 weeks after the conclusion of our last Annual Meeting until the 27th of August when they were interrupted by calls from distant stations and only resumed for a few days at a time part of January, a period of more than four months. until the early During this period a visit was made to Hilo via Lahaina & Kawaihae, To Lahaina and to Waialua. The last half of the year has been employed in direct labors for the benefit of the natives in Honolulu, where sickness & death in all their forms have been making fearful progress. Ne-aeeeaafe-feas-beei^ept-ei-fehe-iiuiBfee?[T] The patients have been numerous and the services they have rendered including (Detail) Several important [ ? ] operations have been well appreciated by multitudes. It is desirable that something more systematic be done to save this dying people. (Detail) No labor worth speaking of have been bestowed on foreigners, during the year half a dozen [ ? ]. I have taught no schools. Foreigners, no schools. [The preceeding paragraph was "X’ed" out on the original manuscript]. The work on Anatomy has been prepared, tho the [in pencil, very hard to read] information received from Dr. Chapin that he^iad interested himself in the S ■S''/ business of procuring cuts for the work & that they would be ready for the briVrg -fnewhich might [ ] Missionaries;’’. They have not however been received. The work on Temperance has been partly reviewed. As heretofore I have attend­ ed to reading the first proofs of work, done in the Printing Office-., when I have been at home. [Unsigned, not dated] [Probagj^ Judd, 1830’s] il. 1 § 3 6 �Honolulu 1835 Church No admissions though a few 7 have been suspended from com­ munion and one o£ these restored on evidence o£ repentence. The rest have all professed repentance, but have not yet given sufficient evidence to entitle them to a seat the Lord^s t ab 1 e . Two others in the train of the Princess, now at Lahaina are not in regular standing, Kanauna has been more that a [sic] r suspended, tho he made such professions of repentance before he left this place, as led to the hope that he might be restored, His wife has since proved herself unworthy the communion from which I have recently learned she has been debased [?] at that place. The church has suffered much the last year from the ravages of death. Nine of our members have died. Several of them active and particularly valued members -- All apparently in the fa-ith of the gospel. Three from other churches have died at this place, who also gave evidence that their hope of heaven was not without foundation. 181 Marriages 1115 Readers New Testament I have carefully reviewed M. Richards translation of Mark, have made a new traslation of Luke, and seen Matthew safely conducted through the press, § read a proff of one third of Mark. Have paid.some attention to Mr. Thurstons translation of John, and devoted much labor to the first half of the Epistle to Romans, both to facilitate its preparation, for the current edition of the New Testament, § to supply the' -ai o' ka la, which the ill health of Mr. Baldwin led him to request me to prepare in his stead, even t h o ’ I should omit or postpone some other assignments With his request however I could hardly have complied, had I not supposed that every hour I devoted to it was aiding another object which the Mission have in view, a new edition of the N btv Testament, T have endeavored to be two months ahead with the ai o ka la, that it -might �Honolulu 1835 P* 2 reach the stations abroad in season,. [?] the Kumu I have had the use o£ the improved translation by Mssrs Thurston § Bishop, § have studied the pages o£ Professor Stuart and endeavored to follow'at a respectful distance in the wake of that able expositor. In this laborious service, I have been kindly en­ couraged to go on, particularly by Mr. Bishop. As to the Old Testament I have done little more than attend carefully to the proofs of Judges § Ruth § first § 2 Samuel, since the last general meeting I have done but little to the grammar, on which I intend to bestow special attention as soon as the Hymns § the New Testament shall cease to claim my principal care, aside from the duties of Pastor, # �Report o£ Station at Honolulu June 1836 The progress in the various departments o£ labors, § the succession o£ changes at this station for last missionary year, have been much of the same character § style as in former years, the kinci of service, many, the changes various § frequent, § the progress in the good work by the blessings of God gradually onward tho less rapid than we could wish. We have been allowed to shake hands with a missionary who crossed the Rocky mountains to seek out the fort on the Banks of the Columbia, § to greet the friends from Europe who are visiting in their own vessel the inhabitants of various islands in the great Pacific, and laboring for their conversion to God, ^ who are still endeavoring to cooperate with the laborers in this field. Preaching has been maintained as usual'. preached 3 times a week. 82 native 35 English Mr. Bingham has usually Mr. Tinker as.follows. He, with various other laborers, has edited 2.3 numbers of the Kumu Hawaii. Our congregation, especially since Jan. has been very large. .Sometimes supposed to be 4. 000. Average f©r the year 2000 to 2500 . The protracted meeting in last week of Jan. was well attended. We have reason to believe the spirit of God was present, that much.good was accomplished. § At this oneeting, the resident missionaries were kindly assisted by Mssrs- Smith, Emerson, Parker, Wheeler, § Lee, § several lay brethern. repeatedly filled to overflowing Our laTge church was Good attention appeared to be gxven to the word. Several natives distinguised themse.lyes by the force § p r o ­ priety of their appeals to their countrymen, among whom were Bartimeus, John Ti § Kekapala. Several have represented thejij--- selves as having chosen Christ for their saTior at this period § �Honolulu 1836 p. givent.themselves to him. [?] must decide whether their choice § surrender, has been cordial happy. Church members. Number admitted during the year by examination § profession of faith 39. By letter from other churches[?] 18 Lahaina 7 Hilo 4 Kailua 1 Kaawaloa 1 Waimea 1 Lahainaluna 4 Two from Hilo, § one from L a ­ haina, recommended, have not been re­ ceived. The whole number received this year 57 The whole number on profession from the onissionary church 268 6 by letter from native church’V'.1,8" 292 Deceased the last 4 Excommunicated 3 Dismissed § united to other ch.: Suspended 16 4 -- 3 for ad.^ § one for idolatry- Of the seven who stood suspended at the last General Meeting 2 have been excommunicated, 2 restored, three have made profes­ sions of penitence and reformation but are still suspended from communion. Present number suspended 7. made confession. All profess penitence. all have including also 2 excommunicated m e m b e r s . One of the excommunicated members, gave some evidence of repentance § reformation, was soon laid on a sick bed § died, without being formally restored. One of the excommunicated persons seems to remain stout­ �Honolulu 1836 p. 3 hearted § rebellious, § is to us as a heatheii man, § publican. Church On profession from June 1835 to 1836 Whole no. on proof Transferred from Miss. Ch. Rec. by letter last year Whole no by recommendation from other church Whole no. receid Propounded Died last year Whole no deceased Dismissed to other churches Excom last year IVhole no ex Suspended Goodstanding Child baptism this year Whole No. chil Bap Ch died last Ch. died Whole No. 24 292 2 4 30 25 3 4 7 226 22 168 4 22 Marriages -- 258 39 26 8 6 18 Schools Examined April 1836 = 2665 Hon. ) Men 791. § Moan) lua Women 949 Boys 119 girls. 252 = 2111 .Re.aders Honolulu - - Honolulu aina 743) 467) Moanalua - Waikiki - - 305 .554. 1210 2069 Mrs. Dimonds girls school 45 Mrs. Halls girls school 50 Dr. Judd Boys school ) taught by native teachers ) 56 Mrs. Tinkers Wome n ’ 's class of readers in the Kumu 38 Mr. Chamberlain's Sabbath School 1244 average number of atten-^ dance, from 2 to 4 p.m. # Mr. Bingham’s Bible class 250 �Honolulu Station Report for the year Ending May 1, 1837 By the gracious aid of our unfailing helper the labors of this Station in its multiplied departments has been gradually carried forward during the very short but interesting missionary year, and every department has been attended with such success as to cheer the hearts of the laborers in their'.toil, to extend obvious benefits to the people, and to demand a special :tribute to the glory of God on whose blessing, all the desirable results of of[!] our plans & exertions, exclusively defends. His blessing has been granted, amidst our toils, changes, & affections , and we have more encouragement to trust in him, commit our way to him, roll our burdens on him, & to spend & be spent for him, than at the commence­ ment of the year. Feeble then as our strength is compared the the[!] demand, on our care & toil, we would thank God & take courage. Preaching at the station The ordinary course of preaching , has been three’sermons a week by Mr. Bingham chiefly [here?], & by Mr. Tinker, chiefly it'at,Waikiki- & Moanalua out posts, & a 2 By Smith, usually [?] the children within the bounds of this district which extends .from the Eastern end of the island to Moanalua about 20 miles, and embraces a population of about 13,000 souls. The principal congregation at Honolulu may be estimated at 2500, which usually gives attention to the preached word & ordinances, of Christ.[Note: On the original manuscript,'■.this line had an "X'-’ over it.] Soon after the general meeting Mr. Bingham made a tour of this island with his family, occupying four weeks, preaching as he had opportunity, on which tour a protracted meeting was held at Waianee[!], attended , by Messrs [Bishop?] Emerson & Bingham, where less missionary exertion had been made than in any other part of this island. This was it is believed attended with obvious go.od[?] to the people there. In that lonely district Mrs. B. was attacked with alanmng illness arid after a few days was brought on a litter[bed] across the mountains to Ewa, then on a canoe to this place. Mr. Tinker spent a week in making the tour of this island in company with two of our church members, held more than 20 meetings, at which, from 30 to 300 people attended. He also with his family made a tour of Kauai during the months of August & Sfeptemher preaching;?as opportunity offered. Mr. Bingham was required to visit Kauai, where with his family he was absent �Honolulu 1837 8[?[ weeks. 2. These tours with the illness of his family have occupied about one third of the time from the close of the last gen. m.[meeting] to commencement of the present[?], but a part of that period not devoted to direct labor among the people was occupied in preparing, or assisting to prepare several documents connected with Brother Richards visit to the United States, a memorial on the subject of political economy[?], & Letter of instructors to Mr. R.’. & a letter of introduction to the Board stating the objects of the visit & soliciting their kind cooperation. Since his return, he has reviewed 6 forms of the Hymn book with music, & prepared the same hymns for printing without notes, with the title of Himeni Hilea, with an introductory essay or epistle to the ['. ?’ ] designed to show the nature, and object of the book and &[!] to teack and encourage the people to use it advantageously, as a help in the service of God and in preparation for heaven. [The preceeding paragraph was "X’ed” out on the original manuscript.] with a table [ ? ] out hymns neatly printed in an edition [ ? " ] to- the''character, has been of 10,000 cop. 24 mo. & can be afforded to the purchase for the small consideration of 25 cents. toil of preparing This work The compiler feels that the these little works for the nation, has been a pleasure & a privilege, of no ordinary value,' & he has watched them through the press with ■' much care & vigilence, with the cheery hope that with the blessing of God, They would prove an [ ? ] & valuable [ ? ] in the hand,of every missionary in these islands, in leading the people directly, pleasurably & entirely to Christ, & contesting them heartily & undistainingly in his service. admit no human, that would not afford some [ ? He has endeavored to ] of useful light[?] to the understanding, some evangelica;i’ motives to the seat, and some means of expressing [ ? ] feeling in honor of God, & not a line that could not be [ ? ] with ■.tolerable ease, S'not a syllable that must cross a consonant in order to find utterance on its proper note. In the last edition the names of several tunes are often named for some hymn, but always one of them accounts with the tune printed with the hymn, & much care has been taken that the style’ . 'of the hymn,& the tune should agree otherwise book[?] would prove unsatisfactory. There may be more exceptions. '^Feeling that the Masons Missionary hymn was not sufficiently tender & compassionate for a lamentation over the ruin of milions[?] of [ ’’? ] be hastily sketched an-:', other which be brought more nearly adapted in tenderness to Aloha ko na mauna, that of [ ? ], but' then, unwilling to bring it competition with his, even to its exclusion ‘ ’"especially as that was already known,the new one was laid wholly �Honolulu 1837 3. • aside till the new missionary [* This section ’^X'ed" out; also, a page seems to be missing here.] He has attended to other proof reading, to considerable extent, & translated about 3/5 of the Book of Leviticus, which has'it^ put in type, and made some ad­ vance in the Hawaiian Grammar in English & translated about 3/5 of the book of Leviticus which has been put in type, having been reviewed by Mr. Bishop. [Unsigned] [Bingham] [Written on the back]; Report of Honolulu Station May 1837 �Tinker's Report [1837] The Editor of the Kumu Hawaii has been hindered in his work from the want of paper. Only 13 numbers of the Kumu Hawaii, and 5 of the Kumu Kamalii have been issued since the first of last June. He has edited also the minutes of the Gen Meeting for .1836j/an^^the minutes of the Hawaiian Association from its first formation in 182 in]. [not filled Also Catalogues of Books in the libraries of the Sandwich Islands Mission and the Maternal Association, A portion of time has been devoted t o ,the printing of the Missionary Circular and reading proof sheets of some other works. He tes preached ordinarily twice on the Sabbaths & at other times in tour of the Island &c as follows . At Waikiki 12v ” Honolulu 16 - Chiefly during the absence of the pastor. . A Kaneohe 9 ^iMoanalua . 4 Ewa 3 Circuit of Oahu 20 At. Kauai. 13 77 English __8^ 85 Attended 12 funerals, one of them for a foreigner drowned in the harbor by intemperance. He has attended three protracted meetings one at Waimea,, Kauai, in Aug. last one at Honolulu in Feb. — one at Kaneohe in March. Mr. Tinker and family were absent on a visit at Kauai in Augt and September. He made the tour of the Island, and visited some parts of it several times, preaching as there was opportunity. He also made ,t^e tour of Oahu in December in company .with two �Tinker 1837 native members of the church of Honolulu. meetings consisting of from 3 0 to 300^ He held more than twenty and was employed in the Circuit one week. Prom December to the present time he has been subject to interrup­ tion in his labors by inflamed eyes - a part of the time entirely laid aside - the rest of it^ able to read and write more or less. Honolulu j May , 1837. Tinker , �Mr. Tinker’s Report, for the delegate meeting of 1838, at Laiiainaluna.. Hindered during the.year past hy weak,eyes. Edited 26 nuniTDers of the Kumu Hawaii, 7 numbers of the Kumu Kamalii, which has been discontinued for want of fund s. Taupht a school of 11 weeks, for missionaries children. Visited Molokai, Maui, and Lanai. Protracted meetings, ^ present at three, Honolulu, E?/a, and Laie. Preaching. Vfed. Lecture 12 for I.tr. Diell 11__ In native, at Waikiki . . Honolulu . . for Itr. Smith . . . Kaneohe . . Laie^ ... Ewa . . . . Nuuanu . . . Waialae . . . Moanalua . . Waialua . . . Molokai . . . . Kanapari . . Wailuku . . . 1 23 24 14 11 10 8 8 9 4 2 2 3. 2 98 121 Married . . 11 couple. Appointments Translation. Glass of iihiskey, done by the hand of Mr. Thurston. Correspondence. Temperance. Letter to Amherst College . . . . I4r. A. Bullard . . . . Mr. Delevan, (for ^.:l!ack ' No report ready . . . . During the year Nuuanu has ceased and perished, and the Honolulu have been shut, except two. liquor sold, a:nd the ninnber of drinkers Written Written of knowledge) not written. the Distillery at grog shops at The quantity of not known. �1 Congregation Honolulu 1839 In the good providence of God the undiminished labor of the Station have been carried through another year with little variation from the ordinary routine which is generally pretty well understood. The lord graciously working with us, and as we trust securing to himself the glory if any good has been accomplished by our instrumentality. The plan an[d] nature of the preaching has embraced perhaps more than an ordinary share of what may be termed strong meat, the higher doctrines and duties of the Christian, and prepared with some reference to a work a Christian doctrine for the pop.[ulation]. The duty of Christian Churches is to sustain the preaching and R gospel, and to send it to the Heathen has been most destinctly[sic] insisted on, and not without its apparent effect. frugality, and liberality Industry, ener[g]y, have been urg[e]d together apparently tp good advantage. A great increase of attention has been given to agriculture and manufacturing especially in reference to the sugar cane. A great amount of unusual labor has been bestowed in opening, widening, straightening and arranging the streets of the town, and alterations of many buildings for that purpose and gradually labor has been expended in''raising the walls o£ a coral church, to the height of about 20 feet from the foundation. =f'= ‘-r-_ • It should perhaps be distinctly stated about 3 years ago, agreeably with the wishes of the missionaries § the leading members of the native congregations, a general meeting of the district was called to see what could be done towards building 9. permanent church, such as Kaahumanu § Kraimoku had contemplated but were �Honolulu 1839 2. ma,ble to accQjiiplish, - - A t this meeting the king distinguished himself for his liherality, offered 300 0 doll in cash § expressed his wish that the people would kokua. to freely'. This was generally assented It was the .wish of the missionaries that the whole amount o£ lahor to he perforjiied by native hands he as -voluntary gfrfheir contnrihtitions in cash now-, This has heen to. some extent the fact, th.o the chi-e^s have.- taken the direction, if th.ey own it apply a portion of the § feeling that they might lillegibl.ej' to that object ins.tead o,f building ;fortsI?i!' ships, bridges, and dykes for fish ponds. They' have done so freely, § also occasionally the labors of a,bout IQQQ jrien who axe regarded as -minute onen, soldiers, or the domestics or retinue of the chief's.. W'e do not think this would be the best way, § I -regxet that my proposition to take a subscription for stone, timber-,. ^ for labor, as well as; for cash among the. common people was not aceeded to, tho^ the reason for it was the king and ch.iefs preferred to give Ji,llegibleJ that time, of t.h.eir people whfch. they believed mejiibers' '/■' entitled to, I supposed th.is would with, theiy own § the peoples, voluntary contributions of the people would early' accomplish the object which was .generally decided desirable j, § which w.puld be a public benefit, as really § many tim.es extensively as as Isic] would be a fort, a ship of war, needed for th.e defense of the country or the . dignity of the sovereign. The. effort G9,rr±.ed out successfully th.exe is no reasonable doubt ^ would ha've a liappy influence on th.e courage,' confidence and efficiency of the people in .xespect to other great and important plans xequixing the sacrifice of money -and labox. Nay while toiling at this object there is no diminution of the dispostion § ability of the people to do for th.emse.lves, for their pastor, their schools, for foreign objects of benevolence^ �Honolulu 1839 3. but an obvious increase. This would appear from the promptness with which a proposition was met this year to send a printing ^ binding establishment to the Oregon Territory with other suitable supplies the past year. It may be remembered here too that though the house 144 feet long ^ 78 [?] wide, it is at least 12 feet shorter than the chiefs were pretty firmly resolved to have it, but which in deference to our united wishes, ^ compassion to the preacher whose voice was expected to fill it they condescended to take off. It may also be stated that the governor knowing the general wishes of the king § chiefs, said "Ina aole nui ka hale a me ka maikai aole au e hana.*' [The following in Leyi Chamberlain's hand]: The stone squarers have been paid 25^ per-day The native masons from 12 to 32, 50 cents The foreign masons, 1 50 " The foreign, carpenter who is engaged to employ § teach natives. It has been my desire for several years to have the people to provide the means of support for their own preacher & to send the gospel too to the heathen. The latter I have been able to plead, with less embarrassment than the former because I do it with less appearance of personal interest, & because it the object is in one sense more imperiously necessary, more commanding when properly understood, & more likely to pass unnoticed if not isisted on by pointed out. the preacher & the means and opportunity for acting on it I could urge the object too th^more exclusively on the principles of benevolence, & because I believe that if the people can be made to feel that the gospel is of great value to the heathen abroad. It could easily be inferred to be worth its cost to themselves. �Honolulu 1839 4. In practice tQO I peycej,.ye in tJie cause"' o|' cliarity .15, about .^s. e^s.j ,tp cajjy a pg^nt conside'r.a'ble 'amouiit' wKich can be appreciated by' even dull m i n d s , as one of, very s-mall consideration tji.e reasons for which are far less striking. Some years ago, two of the families of the methodist mission sojourning here about 8 months occupied the house of Paahana, which was rented at 25 a day for about 10 0 days making the Is'ic] a little more than 20 dall, I proposed to the members of our church to make a contribution to pay Paahana this sum, 10 doll we-re.'soon paid him 'which he without putting in his pocket donated at once to the building of the church is not yet paid, but most, of the remainder The church, members could perh,aps reason in this way, which/'why should I give a real or a to paahana, for wh.at he could very well afford to allow the missionaries gratis? A, few months ago I proposed to th,e church § congregation to .repeat .thef^. donation the Oregon Mission send them sugar molasses, salt §c, together with a printing § bi.riding establish­ ment wh.at amount of supplies it was to send, § after Mr, Hall had made a selection of the press and all the articles he. 'deemed necessary to commence the work of printing § binding in the, Oregon ,were.:'set before the eyes of the people as matters of great i^pojrtance to be sent/ Ab.out .'50. families [?] paid for the press § one. font of type. About 5 0 menrsubscribed for parts a § general contributions and :1±e parts [illegLbieT printing supplies to the am"^ .of 444 Doll, complete making the printings and bindery establishment There was howeYer a remainder I?J of paper 119 Doll Doll ch.arged to' my personal account with the expectation that the monthly concert contributions should cover it. In getting subscribers to this ob.ject I called on Kinau, who was- confined to hi®: house with sick eyes, § asked her howsmuch �Honolulu 1839 5, she was going to give in she said perhaps 5 dol. I replied others? not in her rank § standing a me [?] give that, who? Well how much should I give A pehea lo o vitoria 2 paha? given that, 0 wai? 0 0 Kenia, Kealoha, ”10 paha” , ”pono no” . -- I said a very little woman has Daiimana'’ -- A pahea lo ka pono o ke kaika- mahine? -- ’’Papalua hoi peha" ’Aer;u'a.rp;ono” thus she gave 14 doll for this object of commanding i-mportance than the whole church, had done the same sum for an obj'ect analo^gous and im­ portant hut of far less moment. My conclusion is that in order to call for the proper degree of energy ^ the proper kind of feeling among the people ohjects, great, noble, § p:^actibable should be often set before theTii, § tha,'t th.eir vigorous § successful effort to accomplish is a grand preparation for undertaking another. l^d'le iinproveTijents in agriculture, in the streets, of the town 9-,nd labors the constitution'of a permanent church, and efforts to s-end a press § th.e gospel to 'heathen people have not neglected this pastor, but have fu>j;nished him with .means of support to the amount of, about 8'QQ. doll., § have planted about 10 acres of cane, ■: . ,th.e 'avails of first', crop of which are in a measure pledged for a pi,Her clock, while the succeeding are. expected to be for the sup­ port .of th.e pastor here or for the cause of be.n.evo.lence more generally. I have usually made i,t a point also in the dispersal of books v to. get' the full V9,lue P:tt.a,ch.ed to them by th.e mission, believing tha.t this is an equitable way in which the people can be called to dimi^'sh, one very considerable item of. expense to the mission, 'X have paid into the depository on the Bible Society account' 4 8 doll c'osti. for. books sold. I have also paid for every article, drawn from the. ’depository during the last missionary year. These facts will show that a missionary of the Board may �Honolulu 1839 6. so manage his affairs as not to prevent the Board (by his drafts) from sending another laborer into the field. better way or not is another question. in these days of experimenting. have a fair trial. Whether this is the It is worthy of an experiment § I am inclined to hope it may It affords at least the people the opportunity of doing what the tenor of the gospel requires of them for the of their Christian teacher [,?] and at the same tione does not subject th.e missionary to that unpleasant uncertainty as to the perman­ ency of support which must attend at present an active reliance on the people :solely or on his own hand s . In connexion with this, independant of the Board's pledge of an economical support so far a.s- needed, I have alluded to the liberality of Kinau, to the Oregon Mission, I might add that h.er .subscription to this stone church no w is but was 40 0 doll in cash,' for the adobe church for Mr S. congregation 2Q.Q., church’ Fe ^deeply feel' her loss as a member of our congregation and as a pillar of the nation, ^ those of h.er frjends who looked at her as a pilot, who had guided the ship in a terrible §torm where '.it was. every hour liable to founder or go to th.e. bottom, will, be-.touched tenderly to see her high h-opes’ cut shorty § h.ersel'f called suddenly away by death, just as th,e peaceful port was so invitingly opening before her. But i^hile she has left the. vessel to. encounter dangers near shore, we trust she has h.erself entered the port of eternal peace, § that, .her prudence, piety, and consistent Christian course will still exert a happy influence to secure the further improvements needed in the la¥s the administration of the government. The emba,'r'ra$'§mentS' to which, the n.ation is. exposed arising from the ■inj.udicious attempts of the Ilomission' Jsic] to establish Pvomanism here,' § the unbending decision of Kinau § her predecessor § to ■ �Honolulu 1839 7. prevent it, we do hope in the mercy of God will not be great or of long continuance but still the extremely hasty measures of the French nation, from exportee representatives, in extorting from the defenseless Tahitions the sum of 3.000 doll under a blockade, and a threat of war, blood shed and conflagration, soon to apprehend that a similar policy here would subject the people § the mission, ^ the friends of the mission here to great evils. God can indeed avert the sharks. The visit of the Fly Capt. Eliot was on the whole pleasant. It seemed to be the policy of the commander to conciliate all contending parties. Whether his advice to Kinau to give Mr [?] F. Pelly a good title to a peice of ground which then affirmed that of Capt. Hinkley, § whether her compliance, which [End of pg. 4 of original manuscript. Page 5 seems to be missing. Next line begins page 6 of original manuscript.] was very highly commended was the wisest course, is not quite clear, because it virtually goes to sanction an unjust claim to the soil set up by strangers in similar cases. This is a d[?] &c. Elliot & Capt. [?] urged by allmeans the release of the natives who were under punishment for hoomanakii [idolatry, image worship] in adhering to the rites of Romanism. The chiefs replied, ."our teachers have given us the same advice,but hoomanakii is contrary to the laws of God and of the king & we know not what to do with the offenders but to punish them." Since this visit we have seen the remarks of a voyage connected with the American Sequoia Com. Kennedy, concerning his visit here, whose influence was some­ what similar to that of Elliot. state some things As the writer has taken the liberty to witl:j(nore than the insinuation that he secured his information fronjme, and as has been rather liberal in his of the mission generally I ma^llude to them and I give my views in brief to my brethern in another place... [The last two pages are written in pencil, very dim.] �Report for the first congregation at Honolulu MAY, 1840 (Note from the transcriber: What follows is a draft in Bingham's hand, with many places crossed out or overwritten. The final copy, if any, has not been located in HMCS collections.) Soon after our last general meeting, this place was agitated and thrown with consternation and distress by the hostile measures, and imperious of demands on this government by an of officers of the French, requiring a deposit of 20,000 dollars in his hands, and a declaration that the Catholic Religion should be free in these islands, and a location granted for a catholic church to be administered by priests of their own nation, threatening to commence hostilities on the nation & to bring the evils of the war on the missionaries who might be supposed to have influenced the government, or to have been the authors of the insults offered to France. These demands could not be resisted with safety, & though unreasonable and injurious they were complied with, and a further concession perhaps equally injurious to the native was made to admit the French to bring wine & Brandy into the country by paying the small duty of 5 percent, though,a law had been passed prohibiting the importation of ardent spirits except for medical & mechanical purposes. Then the assessment of damages for the detention of the Clementine, which brought hither the expelled catholics increased the embarrassment of the nation. The people were appalled as by an unexpected earthquake shock, and, as a body, thrown into a state of confusion unfavorable to religious impressions & moral improvement. The minds of many appeared to be unhinged which gave satan a great advantage. The agitation of war has uniformly been unfavorable to morals & religion. The work on the meeting house was suspended and special efforts made to '^'ay the demands both new or old which pressed on the nation. The attention of the Gov. was also directed to the creation of a boarding school for the chldren of the chiefs which has been completed & opened with encouraging pupils. The death of Madam Boki gave occasion for the unsettled feelings of many of the common people to show - 1 - �themselves in the irregularity[?] of kumakena [grief] & folly which required the restraint of the police. I went among the crowd on a sabhath evening at her door and was astonished to see the degree of levity, & dis[?] which appeared among a part to [?] on the solemness of the sorrow, on the solemnity of the occasion, & the [?] of life. In addressing those thus engaged I considered myself speaking to those or encouraged by those who were beginning to attend the catholic service. I spent an hour attempting to restore order, & was in a good measure successful. Hoapili afterwards used his influence and authority to the [sic] stop the excessive wailing. At the funeral the catholic priest Mr. Walsh was placed by my side in the procession but on arriving in front of the pulpit with his [?] hat & [?] hastened to the distance of 60 rods and after the sermon joined the procession again at a distance from the church. Deeming special efforts necessary to save the people from going over in numbers to romanism we held several protracted meetings for their good at the center of the station, & one the valley of Nuuanu. These were all attended with a blessing, and followed with apparently good results, tho not as powerful as some former meetings had been. The business of selecting & and [sic] examining candidates for the fellow of the church and receiving them after a long proba^tion has been continued much in same way as for two years preceeding, and on Sep 1. 124 were admitted on profesion Dec. 2.88 March 1, 62 April [?] 50 This last with another member of the church, both unmarried men attached themselves to the Methodist Mission family for four years. Another member who had just been received by letter from the church at Kailua, enlisted for 3 years at 10 doll per month in the service of the hudson Bay Com as a l a b o r e r ^ on the Columbia leaving his wife here with herBrother. [Bingham has crossed out this last,] Besides the ordinary pulpit and pastoral duties of the station, I have united with Brother Smith in sustaining an evening service at the seamens chapel since the failure of Mr. Diell's health with the exception of Brother Tinkers attendance there & three sabbaths supplied by the Methodists. The attendance there has always been somewhat encouraging. We should notice with thankfulness the pleasant visit of the United States E. I. Squadron to this place the officers of which several of whom appeared to be influenced by the gospel exerted a good influence. Also the visit of the Methodist missionary family bound to the Oregon Territory, who were cheerfully welcomed here, & spent two or three weeks with us, making & leaving a good impression. We were on personal acquaintance better pleased with the s u p e r i n t e n d a n t , Mr. Lee as a serious, wise, & energetic pioneer and evangelical preacher than we had expected to be. He seemed very sanguine in the hope of - 2 - �teaching the wasting tribes of the poor indians to take care of themselves, so as to avoid starvation & disease induced byextreme poverty, & of conveying to them by means of schools & preaching, the saving knowledge of Christ. Two of our people attached themselves with my advice to the family as laborers, expecting to serve 4 years. Another member of the church, Ulu, who had just been received by letter from Kailua, enlisted in the service of the Hudson Bay Company for 3 years on the Columbia at 10 per month, leaving his wife here in the care of her brother. [This is the same incident reported earlier, and crossed out by the a u t h o r ,] [Written in pencil following statistical t a b l e ] : Sam. J. Mills [presumably a Hawaiian who had taken this name] it is known was examined prior to the last gen. meeting — During the last year he made repeated efforts to get married to a woman who had lived with a foreigner who left this place with the squadron — but not finding any missionary or chief who would marry him him [sic] both parties repaired to Lahaina where they were married as we have heard by Mr. B. on the authority of the king — returned to this place sick, employed a native doctor & then died — without giving evidence of repentence, (CENTER)Importance — Besides the progress of delusion through the efforts of Rome, the alteration of a class of people in the district has been by the pretentions of two psuedo Messiahs. The girl lepopo who organized in the vicinity was soon found to be a vile imposter, a malefactor and came to nought. The 2d Ka Hoano, claims to be Messia. & those who have (listened) to him pretend that their diseases when reported to him are relieved by him or by the power of God. Through him much like the case of the faith Doctors of [illegible] I had one [illegible] with him and his attendants 40 or 50 in number — He seemed dull, ignorant and without system or plan. Whether he was partially deranged & believing himself to be what he pretended to be, or whether he was wickedly endeavoring to decieve I could not decide. There was no evidence of his efforts to patronize or arrange [?] vice or [illegible], — But the Gov. thought it advisable to call him & his adherents to account, advise & admonish them but so far as I know did not condemn them to any punishment, & in this he [had] reason to believe he would have our approbation. Especially as Papal Idolatry cannot be restrained by law, we could not see how the idolatry encouraged by this impostor or any other could be consistently punished by law, unless it resulted in the violation of the just rights of the people. Little danger is apprehended from his exertions. I asked him in the presence of the people whether he believed himself to be the Messia the king of the Jews. He replied He hanu wau nona a wa loaa iau kona inoa. With this concession I supposed he would do little harm. - 3 - �Report for the 1st Church at Honolulu May, 1840 ■p !h O 3 O ft rH <D 0 CX3 Statistical Table iH O a 0 o o •H K (Average congregation +J cd Reed the[!] fellowship on ex. CO i)n certif. Whole no ree d [?] f=i o o r--p 275 26 301 Dismiss ed 13 Deceased 24 Suspen - [!] 13 Remain suspended 10 Ex. 1 Child’^. Baptised Bap. Children deceased Marriages R e e d . on e x a m . on certificate 0) -P 6 o <4-1 00 (=! *H 0) a d 0 •H P 00 !=l cu 0) o 1500 Total 109 7 73 1075 87 1163 Dismissed to other[!] 66 Deceased 86 [?] RefflaiH-sttSpended-[!] 10[!] Excom. 18 Regular standing 990 Children Baptised 440 Children deceased 44 , ^ ^ jA ¥ e * = a g e - e e H g i= e g a % i e ii - [ ! ] 1 5 G Q [ !] [.i n p e n c i 1 ] ; 50 candidates �Report of the first church and congregation in Honolulu [1841] It will be recollected that a connnittee was appointed at our last general meeting to take measures to supply Mr. Binghams place, during his absence on a visit to the U. States on the proposition of this committee, after due consider­ ation. I left Wailuku with my family on the.27th of July in the schooner Clarion and arrived at the place the next day. Five days after the Brig Flora sailed for the U. States, bearing away among others the precious freight of Mr. Binghamf and family, Mr. Thurston and 'Children and my own dear child, / my firstborn the beginning of my strength - my Caroline. I need scarcely say, (for some of you have passed through like scene) that this was a season of traial[!] to us, yea, a season never to be forgotten whil^emory lasts, or the heart of a father or a mother continues to beat within our breasts,. We loved the people of our charge in the Wailuku parish, and we were not aware of the strength of our attachment, until we came to part, although it was expected to be but for a season. In return we received every demonstration of confidence and affection that a poor and simple-hearted people could give. If it had been possible, it seemed as though they would have plucked out their eyes and given them unto us. The trial of part­ ing with our people coming so close in connection with the severance of parting with our daughter, we found to be as much as we could bear, and indeed it was not until the lapse of a few days that I found myself in a proper state of mind to take hold of my proper missionary work. The church The first object of attention after I commenced labour was the church. Much dis­ order at that time prevailed, many cases calling for discipline were reported to me within: a few days after my assuming the pastoral charge;there seemed to be a fearful tendency among the members to break out in,:open iniquity, regardless of god or man. I attempted at first to manage cases of discipline in church meetings, as this had been the practice of the church, but soon found that it required a more skillful moderator than I was to keep order. The uproar of the meeting seemed to be at times as great a scandal as that of the offender to be tried. A committee of the church including 9 natives, Mr. Chamberlain and Dr. Judd, was therefore appointed to manage all church business and report when prepared. Three of these, I should say, includipg Dr. Judd, had been previously apart as deacons, but not with the view attending to cases of discipline. Having our committee organised we met regularly once a week while the business of the church required �Honolulu [1841] 2. it and when business was prepared it was reported to the church and any member was allowed to express his opinion upon it, but no vote was taken as a general thing. The results of our proceedings in regard to discipline may be seen by reference to the statistical table at the end of this report, but it may be proper here to state a few disconnected facts in regard to this church, by way of show­ ing its present condition and explaining some of its proceedings. 1. The evil that have disturbed its peace and prosperity. These are principally such as drinking intoxicating drinks of various kinds, cards, puhenehene, adultery lying and quarreling. As usual these gregarious evils have herded together and combined their strength to break through all moral restraints, and send trouble, and confusion through the church of God. Among other intoxicating drinks, wine has done some mischief in this church during the past year. Several members were found during the fall months to be intoxicated upon it, or what they received as wine. This led to an investigation .o.f the subject. A full meeting of the church was called, which was attended by Dr. Wood, Mr, Brinsmade and Mr, Jarves, and a letter was read to the meeting from Dr. Wood, and Messrs. Brinsmade and Ladd, certifying that in their opinion, not one third of the liquor that's brought here and sold for wine has a drop of wine in it, and expressing the probability that a native rarely purchases real wine at the stores. It is nothing but a composition of ardent spirit mixed with various deleterious[!] drugs. The result of this meeting, I think was happy; The Governor was present and took part in the discipline and since that time I have not heard of his drinking wine. He declined taking even a glass, it is said, with the gentlemen of the Vincennes, after her return from Hawaii. It was the general opinion of those who spoke at this meeting, that natives cannot take wine without too much and the only safe course is to leave it off altogether, and yet it is hard to make them see the impropriety of it while they know it is daily used by very prominent and active Christians from enlightened lands. Tobacco continues to be used by a ,considrable number in this church and I am sorry to say, I have had but little success in my attempts [to] dissuade those who use it to leave. I preached on the subject several times, besides presenting it occasionally in connection with other topics. Several meetings also were held for. the express purpose of discussing the merits and demerits of the vile weed, and I have heard of some who from that time ceased to smoke entirely, but there appeared to be danger of the things becoming a root of bitterness in the church producing angry contention, seisur[!], and pharisaical pride on the one side and �Honolulu [1841] 3. complaints of persecution on the other, and on the whole it seemed to me best to bring the'-:fecussi6h'' to. a close, after giving my most solemn, and earnest advice to all to leave off entirely the use of luxury which has done incalculable evil to the Hawaiian race, without one single redeeming quality to recommend it. Before leaving the subject of the evils that have disturbed this church, I would just state that Mokuiki (a member of this ch.[urch]. Then under censure) who was poisoned by her husband Kamanawa and Lonopuakau, for which crime they were executed on the scaffold in last was tempted to take the poison through her love of awa, an evil against which she had|just been faithfully and solemnly warned, and from which she had repeatedly pledged her word to abstain. So true is it that sin when it hath conceived bringeth forth death. 2, Labour for the welfare of the church. Observing during the fall months, a dis­ tressing wrecklessness among church members in regard to open immorality, and a general prevalence of stupidity in regard to divine things, I had the church divid­ ed into ten classes, one of which I met everyday for 5 days each week, so as to enable me to see every member once in two weeks and say a word to each in regard to his own state. These classes met in rotation regularly for several months until a bad cold obliged me to lay them aside. The were conducted simply as Bible class, were well attended, the roll being called each day and absentees marked, and since they were commenced the church has appeared much better as a body that it did before. 3. I have received no persons to the fellowship’ of the church since my labours here commenced, except such as were left propounded by Mr Bingham. 4. One or two cases of discipline may deserve special notice, particularly that of the Governor of this island and Kekauluohi, as their cases have attracted un­ usual notice. The facts in the case were these. In the month of Oct. while the chiefs were all assembled at this place, the husband of Kekauluohi, accused his wife of unlawful intimacy with Kekuanaoa. The subject was investigated by the King and council, assisted by Mr. Richards, which investigation continued for several days. The result was that the accused were both acquited[!], the evidence not appearing sufficient to convict.either of them. A few days after this the Governor told me, although he had been acquited by the Judges, yet in the sight ' of the Judge of all the earth he was guilty, that several months previous to that time he had commit[!] the abominable act of which he had been suspected. Kekauluohi made the same confession voluntarily though it was done in writing. �Honolulu [1841] 4. and on the next day returned to Maui. The Governor came before the session, and acknowled[l] his transgression and expressed a willingness to submit humbly to such discipline as the ch.[urch] might think proper. On the next Sabbath he made a confession before the church, which was accepted and no further proceedings were held on his case. The case of Kekauluohi being unharrassed by difficulties with her husband, was not so easily disposed of, and was in consequence held in sus­ pense for some time, until her scandelous[!] conduct at the Kings feast in January, rendered suspence no longer necessary, and laid her under the censure, which rests upon her at this time, 5. Number of cases of discipline. The number of cases of discipline during the year I am not able to state with accuracy; because there have been some cases reported to me from other islands, which we have not been able to act upon for want of a knoledge[!] of the fact relating to the respective cases, but it may be put down between 60 and 70, including the suspended and excommunicated. Of these 26, have been restored on confession of their sin and tollerabl^[!] satisfactory evi­ dence of repenten:ce. I have been in the habit of appointing seasons for confer­ ence and prayer with those who wandered from the fold, and for several months met them regularly every Monday morning. But few,of the above number have cast off all restraints given themselves up to work iniquity with greediness, although': some did so for a short season. Indeed I know of none who are taking that down­ ward course now, although most of them do not afford much ground to hope that they are persistent or that they have any part or lot in the matter. It was my fear that many would go over to the Romanists, but I have not heard of one’s 'doing so. Labour for those out of the church. Seeing the mass of the people in the parish exposed to so many temptations, and especially to the deadly heresy of Rome, and withal deep and heavy clouds of darkness resting yet upon the minds of the multitude I have attempted to carry out a system of religious instruction which should embrace all of every age, sex and j -class'sAo feel any '^-concern for the welfare of their souls. The classes into which the church was divided I have mentioned; The same method has been pursued with the hooikakas. I have taken the names of all who wish to be regarded as on the Lords side have divided them into 10 classes, 5 for the males and 5\for;'the females, taking the men on the makaainana week and the women on the paahao week, and meeting a class each day for 5 days in the week. This enables me to get round[!] all in the parish once in two weeks, brings me into close and familiar conversation with these catechisms enables me to ascertain their amount of knowledge to impart in­ �Honolulu [1841] ' 5. struction in a familiar way, and as the cases seem to require. These schools are all- conducted simply as Bible classes, for reading and expouriding':the -word of God. Old people who cannot read come and listen. ees marked. The roll is always called and absent­ Those who are slack in attending have their names struck off. This system of schools has occasioned a considerable demand for the Scriptures especial­ ly the N. Testament. The ten schools of hooikaikas contain about 950 scholars. Efforts against Romanism. Besides the tract which was published soon after our General Meeting, and occasional preaching on the subject, I delivered a course of lectures (holding two a week) during the month of August and September. The exercise was pretty well attended not only by the people of my own charge, but also many of Mr..Smiths; and many who attended seemed to be very deeply impressed with the abominations of that Mother of harlots. The tract has been pretty generally read in this quarter. If I were asked what the Romanists have been doing in this vicinity during the past year, I should hardly know what reply to make. For several months after I came down here, there was some excitement on the subject, many ran to and fro, and said lo here! and lo there! the disciples of the French priests as well as the priests themselves were bold and active, and their meetings [The rest of the report seems to be missing.] �Report of the 1st church and congregation Honolulu [1841] Average congregation Rec*^ to fellowship on ex.’^ Bisfflisse4 0n Gertif.^® Whrdle no. rec^ past year Whole no, dismissed to other ch.s 2000 92 [The following paragraph was written lengthwise on the original manu­ script]. 7 99 I made two tours of the island and assisted Bro. Emerson in one pro*^ 70[?] meeting in Koolau. A protracted meeting was held in this congr^ Dismissed past year 5 Whole no. deceased 97 during the 1st week of Jan. results Deceased past year 14 on the whole good. Suspended the past year .60 able to attend a female meeting on Remain suspended 34 friday [i-Jcduring the year. Excom.'^ past year 10 meetings have been sustained regular­ Whole no. excom<^ 28 ly through'-,the year. [End] Remain excom.'^ 26 Whole no. in regular standing Whole no. of chil? baptised Morning No report of Mr. Binghams 1031 511 Baptised past year 71 Marriages the past’ jyear 80 Whole no. rec^ on exn Mrs. A. has been 1167 the amount Miscellaneous items The first day of the year was observed as a day of thanksgiving to God and was an interesting day. The annual concert of prayer for schools and colleges in Feb. was observed by this church. My health during the winter months suffered very seriously from a severe cold on my lungs and the old standing pain in my left side We are preparing for our 2'^ annual School celebration intending to embrace adults as well as children. This creates a demand for books at the present time. Contributions.have not thought it expediant[!] to urge this church and congregation to attempt much during the year by;"way of contributio?i, except for the purpose of completing their stone meetinghouse. This work I consider as not only having the first claim upon them, but as being moretthan sufficient for the means at their disposal. We are all acthally suffering and none more than the preacher, for want of a better house, in .-wh.[ich] to meet on the Sabbath. T6w.a;j4.s'6 this work �Honolulu [1841] Miscellaneous items 2. there have been subscrided[!] 'Tf^'thiir./’■] the past 3 months, something more than $22.000,[!] of which $700 have been collected by myself. by the King and Auhea. $12.00.00[!] subscribed Besides this a little over $30 were contributed in money at monthly concerts, and a considerable amount in vegetables for the comfort of our families. How much I cannot tell. The Exploring Squadron of the U.S. arrived here in Oct. and spent nearly 3 months. Ive had much pleasant intercourse with capt. Wilkes and his officers, particularly capt. Hudson of the Peacock, who I believe won the confidence and affection of us all, by his Christian deportment. But I am sorry to say, the in­ fluence of many connected with that concern, was decidedly bad on this community. I have had but little to do with secular affairs during the past year. Some atten­ tion to the new meeting house and occasional calls from the sick during Dr. Juds[!] absence besides the necessary provi^^ding for my own family make up. [End of report] [Written on a separate, loose sheet]: Honolulu 1st Gong R. Armstrong 1841 �Report of the first church and congregation in Honolulu. [1842] Through the kindness of our heavenly Father we are brought in peace & safety, as a family, to the close of another year. Since my last report my health has been rather better than it has been for four years past. I have had no cough & but very little of the pain in my left side which troubled me for several years. This I \/attribiite mainly to our simple cause viz. a liberal use of cold water, in other words a shower bath every night just before retiring to bed & accompanied by a good scrubbing with a coarse towel. After continuing this practice for a year pretty regularly, it has become a luxury a§ well as a means of healthy Labours My routine of labours week after week with some slight variations has been as follows, On Sabbath visit Sabbath School of children conducted by Mr. Knapp at half past 8, . preach at half past 9:^ hold a catechectical School of hooikaikas, at 11; preach again at half past 2; and frequently hold a short church meeting, at the close of afternoon service. On monday, I have usually devoted most of the day to the Nonanona, reading proof, & preparing the matter & on monday after­ noon meet a class of hooikMkas. On tuesdays, met the hooikaikas of the first & second::apanas for conversation & instruction, visited what I could, attend to cases of discipline“'&c[!]. On Wednesday, preached at or before sunrise, attend­ ed a school of hooikaikas of the 3d apana & preached at Waikiki in the afternoon & usual prayer meeting in the evening.On thursday, laboured in some way among the children, in holding religious or temperance meetings & sometimes preached in Manoa valley; On friday afternnoon held a meeting in Nuuanu, & began my prepara­ tions for the Sabbath, torwhich I have devoted most of Saturday. The great:work on the stone meeting \ho,use has interfered very materially with ssvstbI my labours as preacher & pastor. Indeed for months, until the walls were finished, it required my personal superintendance a large portion of each day. In the division of the labour of the house with Dr. Judd, the collection of the money & superintendance of the native forces fell to my lot, & I can say without dissimulation that I have had my fill of meeting house building. We have often been at our wits end in regard to the work, for want of means to complete it, but by the good hand of God upon us, we have been prospered beyond our expecta­ tions, & hope in a short time to make those walls resound with praises & thanks­ giving to the adorable God, for whose honour they have been erected. �Honolulu [1842] . 2. CatechuHiens Of these I have nearly 1000 on my list, & my plan has been this year as it was last , to divide them into classes, & meet them in rotation for conference & instruction. Most of them appear to be steady people & truly serious. Their improvements in Christian knowledge for the past year is quite commendable, & their desire for the tilings; of the Spirit, keeps up better than I anticipated. They are generally anxious to make a profession of religion & many of them I have no doubt are worthy of that privilege; but they will loose nothing by a protract­ ed probation, provided they are diligently watched over & instructed. Indeed it is a melancholy fact, according to my observation,that natives are more favorably situated for receiving instruction while they are catechumens, than while members of the church. When admited[!] to church fellowship, they are too apt to feel that they have attained to so high a degree of perfection that it is no longer necessary to strive after knowledge as they once did. They have got their diploma and graduated & why should they be [!] any longer be regarded as babes in Christ? I have been held back also in receiving members to the church by the consider­ ation that I may not remain as pastor of the church much longer & it is desirable as far as practicable, that persons should be inducted to the privileges of the church by the person as to their pastor. Temperance efforts. I have laid out more time & effort on this subject during the past year, than during any previous year of my missy, life; for the obvious reason that the evil of intemperance, [?] seemed to increase to such a degree, as to carry away both the church & the state over the precipice of ruin. . The class of natives most addicted to the use of intoxicating substances & of course most exposed to danger is the chiefs and those about them. I have therefore laid out all my strenght[!] in endeavoring to bring the entire church & congregation to teetotal privileges, & even to abstinence from the use of tobacco. To this end, I have preached on the subject several times in the great congregation but more especially on week days;, have held several temperance meetings for the congregation generally, and during the winter months met the chiefs & persons in authority every Sabbath evening, principally for the purpose of influencing their minds on this subject. What success has attended these efforts time alone can tell.. cannot speak with any degree of confidence. In regard to this I But we have formed two temperance societies on the pledge of teetolatism, one of children & another of adults. That of children embraces over 700 members & includes a pledge of abstinence from �Honolulu [1842] 3. [the] very thing that intoxicates as an article of luxury. Tobacco is included in the childrens pledge, as it is evident that the use of that vile weed in children,especially native children who are under no controul[!], if it does not': actually produce intoxication, it certainly creates an appetitg for unnatural stimulants & prepares the way for the use of substances which can never be used with safety, unless as medicines. In the adult temperance Society there are two forms to the pledge; the one includes tobacco & the other does not. This is the only difference. But I am happy to add that the list of the tobacco smokers is growing smaller & smallir. Quite a number during the past year have been persuaded to give it up & I think with prudent & energetic measures, the church might in a little while be entire­ ly rid of it, without making it a matter of discipline. Wine is included in both pledges, & I have no hesitation in saying that with the natives there is no great difference between the use of wine & brandy. probability is that the wine of commerce in The part of the world is little else than a mixture of ardent spirit with some deleterious[!] drugs. Romanism For the past year the movements of the papists in this region have been rather Silent, but probably not less efficient than formerly. I have not heard of many joining them, which a considerable number of their initiated converts have join­ ed our congregation. their names. How many I cannot now tell, as I did not keep a list of The fact is, although they profess to have forsaken the papists & ' come over on our side, they are generally so ignorant & bewildered in their views of Christianity that are[!]:hot very hopeful subjects to work upon, & I have purposely avoided making much of their conversion to our views, lest they be lifted up with vanity. Two of our church members, one of whom was under censure, have gone over to that party,during the year. They went out from us I suppose, because they were not of us. John li, our school agent for Oahu has met with the same difficulties from the priests during the year as formerly. He has uniformly found them arrogant, haughty, disorganizing & no friend to the school system wh.[ich] the law proposes. I have not.thought it best to make many very direct efforts against Romanism during the year., though I have preached on the subject occasionally, and alluded to it directly & frequently in the pulpit, ksjyou are all aware too I have publish­ ed also a few articles on the subject in the Nonanona. But most of my efforts �Honolulu [1842] 4, have 136611 direct6d to bringning the whole population as much as possible under religious instruction & influence, believing that a mind stored with Christian knowledge & a heart established with grace are the strongest bulwarks against any heresy whatever. In expounding the catechism before my adult Sab. School of 600 catechumens every Sab. morning, I havekept the heresy of Rome constantly in view and endeavor­ ed to show in a simple & clear manner the difference between that heresy & the true gospel. May it not be, that this is one reason why God has permited[!] Romanists to come in among, in order that his own precious word may be more care­ fully studied & treasure of wisdom drawn out of it, which might have lain conceal­ ed for ages, but for these dangers that threaten the church? Another important means of opposing Romanism is t h e d i s b r i b u t i o n of the new Testament. I have made it a rule of late to furnish a copy to every individual who could & would read it, pay or no pay. About all our share of the last edition has been given out & the demand is yet considerable. The Nonanona. This small affair has occupied some of my leisure moments & oh .the whole very pleasantly. I have had a little difficulty in editing it as I anticipated, rather more so. Some of the brethren have been very kind in furnishing matter for it, while others have done nothing at all. Contributions from natives have been abundant, but not so valuable as to justy[!] the publishing of many of them & those which have been published have cost more than half as much labour to pre­ pare them for the press as to prepare the same amount of original matter. have so far 3.000 copies struck off, & they are nearly all called for. We Whether the paper is to be continued after the present year or not; whether it should be altered in its character, or sold for a higher or a lower price will be for the General Meeting to determine. I think it will nearly sustain itself on Oahu, tho. I have not received the amount of receipts for the different stations. , Some of the brethren have paid in advance for their subscriptions. Protracted meetings. We have had no general protracted meeting during the year; not because we did not dpsire one but for want of a suitable house to meet in. Instead of a general pro.*^ meeting for all the parish, I held during the winter months two & three ' ■ days meetings in all the large apanas. results happy. were well attended, and the Many who had long been dead in tresspasses & sins, absenting themselves from the house of God & indulging in beastly vices, were waked[!] up, �Honolulu [1842] 5. brought out,& now are ^receiving instruction in the hooikaika classes. Since these small protracted meetings, the church has been in a better state, and the congre­ gation considerably increased. But my jealousy of the pretentions of natives to be on the Lords side does not diminish & these professed converts, are only put into the ranks where they must undergo a considerable drilling before they are allowed to be enrolled as the soldiers of the captain of our Salvation. Besides the small pro'i meetings, I have assisted Bro. Emerson in a meeting of 5 days at his station in August & Bro. Smith in one in February, & went to the assistance of Bro. Parker in one, but was called away after preaching one sermon. Mrs. Armstrong has been able to do more for the natives during the past year than she has for several previous years. better health. This is owing to her having enjoyed She has kept up a regular friday meeting for females which has been well attended & interesting. It is a great measure-owing to the influence of this meeting, that leis & other gaudy & costly articles of dress are becoming unfashionable in the congregation, & industry & cleanliness on the advance. She has also visited the native females a good deal at. their houses. Concerts The monthly concert for prayer for the convers-|;ion of the world has been regular­ ly observed, & the afternoon of the third Sabbath in each month has been observed as a season of conference and prayer in behalf of Schools throughout the islands. The first day of January was abserved[!] as a day of thanksgiving to God & was a good day among us. The text on that occasion was ^Choose ye this day whom ye will serve.” & &[!] the congregation urged to make a new choice. If any had tried the service of God & found it a hard service, let them go & serve Baal; let them aside & say so. Let them come out & avow their sentiments. But if any were ready to say,The Lord he is God & him will we serve, them come & humbly covenant afresh with him. I have heard that season refered to by persons both in & out of the church-very frequently, as a.season of great good to their souls, & some Y'ery wicked persons from that day have been serious &■ attentive to divine things. m ContributiorS to benevolent objects. These have been as they were during the year previous, almost exclusively confin­ ed to the stone meeting house, & for this object about $lBOO. has been collected on the subscription of the previous year. given by the King & Kekauluohi. Twelve hundred dollars of this was �Honolulu [1842] 6. The Church. T.he following table will'give the statistics of it. Average congregation 2000 Received to fellowship on exam^ 39 Whole number rec 94 Whole no. dismissed to other churches Dismissed past year 34 Excom*^ past year 70 Received to fellowship on certificate past year Whole number excomA 72 1 Whole no. deceased 117 Deceased past year 20 Suspended past year 39 6 Remain excom'^ 82 Whole number in regular standing 1075 Whole no. of children baptised 545 Baptised past year 34 Marriages past year Whole no. rec'^ on exaii£- 61 1237 The cases of discipline which have occured have been chiefly through ihv . temperance. During the former part of the year, the church was in a state of spiritual Ijpl sloth, but about the commencement of the civil year, a better day began to dawn upon us. Meetings began to be full & solemn, prayer frequent & earnest & mutual confessions of delinquency in duty, common. Since that period, cases of disci­ pline have been more rare, & the general state of the church,more encouraging. P .S . 'Ha^e-taaghfe-Hulikefflaka-feka¥=efet-hisfe©£=y-twe-d:ays-eaeh-week. I have tought[i] two schools during part of the year, besides those mentioned: one in moral philosophy at the fort, and another in church history. been intere^sting & useful while continued. Rich^^ Armstrong [On back]: Richf Armstrong report 1842 Both have �Report of the first church, and congregation in Honolulu 1842-43 The review of any portion of our past life is well calculated to fill the mind with solemn reflections. Gratitude for mercies enjoyed, humiliation in view of time misspent, duties neglected, opportunities misimproved § resolutions of future amendment spon­ taneously arise ^ clustre [f] around the heart, while the mind reverts to the events of the past. During the year that is now to be reviewed, the good hand of God has been upon me § mine; we have not all however enjoyed uninterupted health./'^ At the close of our last Gen. Meeting our second daughter was dangerously sick, but recovered § has since been pretty well. During the past rainy season Mrs. Armstrong has suffered much from the old nervous com­ plaint in her head; this was greatly aggravated by a fall from a waggon[i^-cin the month of December. have been gradually growing Since that time her symptoms more alarming § about the first of April she became entirely prostrate. The distress in her head becamefso great as to threaten congestion of the brain apoplexy or s'ome kindred disease. But by prompt § powerful remedies, ^ constant care this desasterous I!] result has been prevented § she is now comparatively •ccDifortable 1 - , though unable to endure even the care of her family. The physicians advise that measures be taken to recruit her general health § before the meeting closes I may have occasion to lay this subject before you ^ ask your advice. Labours. My labours during the past year have varied but little from those of the previous year. I have been enabled to preach twice on the Sabbath without interruption; to visit the Sabbath School for child­ ren under the care of Mr. Knapp pretty regularly; to hold a Sabbath School of adult' cat’echuiriens myself after the morning service, § some­ times meet with the church or a portion of it, at/.the close of the afternoon service. During week days I have attended the usual cons':' certs for prayer, preached on Wednesday morning at the Station re ­ gularly, and at Waikiki, ¥aialae, Wailupe, Manoa, Nuuanu, and Pauoa., pretty regularly., besides attending a series of district meeting for the particular benefit of the church of which I shall say more when I come to speak of the church in particular. My labours have been considerably increased during the year by �Honolulu.1842-43 2. calls for medicine § attention to the sick, which in former years did not devolve on the pastor of this station. These calls have at times made very serious inroads upon my time § drawn so heavily upon my strength as to compel me to say my burden is greater than I can bear. To attend to all the calls for medicine where it is gratuitously given amidst such a mass of people as we have in H o n o ­ lulu, § where there are so many causes of desease[!], it may be. well imagined to be a considerable labour, § yet I confess that I have often regreted[!] that these calls were not more frequent § timely. I have mqt with many cases which proved fatal apparently from their negle];£]t or from relying on native medicine when a simple remedy in the outset might have saved the patient. The Nonanona This little periodical has cost me a trifle more labour during the present year than it did during the year previous; the increase has been chiefly owing to the fact that native contributions have been more ‘ abundant; all these whether good bad or indifferent must be read over in order to ascertain which is most worthy of publica­ tion § when the best were selected they must often be copied before they could be handed to the printer; I was also favored some by the assistance of a native during the first year, which I have not had during the present year. We have also issued a few pages more matter in the 2d vol. than was contained in the first. In regard to "the usefulness of the paper the brethren can judge as well as I . It doubt­ less could be rendered more interesting § valuable by more labour ^ time devoted to it, and especially if we had it in our power to get suitable engraving done. thing much to be regreted. Of this we have no prospect at present, a The only objection I have heard against the paper is its' n a m e ; one member of the mission not now on the is­ land, thought' it a’ subject :of sufficient importance has as you are aware brought out all the resources of his wit, sarcasm § argumenta­ tion to have the name changed ^ has expressed no doubt that it would be changed when the brethren come to deliberate upon it. Ail I would say is if the meeting has any sympathy with those views § do not re­ gard the circumstance of a mere name as too little to require five minutes attention, let it be changed. I have not the slightest ob­ jection to any name that will suit my brethren. So far as I know �Honolulu 1842-43 3. however the name is popular with the natives ^ in my view is not liable to the objections which have been brought against it. Should the paper be continued, it will probably be more convenient to issue it in a little different form. But as an offset to these additional labours § cares, I would mention that the work on the new meeting house was brought to a close about the 1st of July § on the 21 day of that month the house^ was dedicated to the worship of Almightly[!] exercises'.' ' . tion. God with appropriate That was an interesting § joyful day to the congrega­ We had now come to a place of rest after a long § tiresome struggle; many had predicted that the house never would be even roof­ ed, but now we, saw it so far finished, as to afford comfortable § neat accommodations to the congregation, § I trust there were many grateful hearts came up to present their offering before the Lord on that day. The first stone of the hous'e was laid Sep. 18, 1838 § the work was finished as we now see it July 2, 1842. That is 5 years^ 9 daysf!]. The cost of the house as,nearly as we can ascertain from the general data:at our command was $30.000[]]. The whole amount is now paid except about $120, which is already subscribed § only remains to be collected. Without galleries [?] it is rather small for the congre­ gation; during the past winter season it was uncomfortably filled with hearers, but whether the congregations will ever be able to erect galleries [?] , or whether it is to remain so large as to need them are matters of considerable doubt. enough. As it is just now there is room In my view the plan of the house was drawn on a scale too magnificent for the resources of the congregation; the basement story is of some service, but by no means sufficient to justify what it cos-t. To finish the house in a style according with the original --.I plan will require a great deal of labour § expense | the mans lot is not to be envied who has it to do and yet it should be done forthwith as it may never be easier to have it done than now. The only addition­ al circumstance I would mention in regard to the house is that on the day of dedication the King arose before the whole assembly § present­ ed a deed of it to the church which worships in it § to those of like faith who shall come hereafter. Temperance. I have not thought it necessary to present this subject before �Honolulu 1842-43 4. the minds of my people so frequently during the present as during the previous year; for the simple reason that there has been very little intemperance abroad in the native community. Public senti­ ment among natives has been So firmly set against all intoxicating substances since the Kings:rref o r m , that it only needs to be kept where it was in order to expel the evil from society. Perhaps there has never been a year in which there was so little intoxica­ tion among the natives; among them, yet there has been here & there a case and some have been punished for crimes commited while under the influence of rum. ed to an alarming extent, Among foreigners the evil has prevail­ tho perhaps not more so than in former years. During the fall months we held a number of temperance meetings both for adults & for children; attended & addressed. tion of the some of these the King & primier[!] They we also present at our annual celebra­ ’cold w a t e r ’ armies on the 27 of October, 1400 children & youth congregated in Mr. Smiths meeting house, after an hour & a half spent in hearing addresses, ing the praises of cold water &c[!], when about dialogue, & sing­ they marched in two double lines to the music of the Governors hand to our old Meeting house & partook of a sumptuous feast apparently with good relish & good cheer. No one present could think that any thing more stimulating than wholesome food & cold water was needed to give life & h a p pi­ ness to Hawaian[!] youth. Several foreign residents & strangers were present who seemed to be much gratified with the scene. I would only add that so far as I have been able to ascertain, but few of these children & youth have broken their pledges, not even in smoking tobacco which is i n c l u d e d i n the childrens pledge. There have been however some cases of violation & there may be , ; , others of which I am not aware. I would only add on this point that when t h e ’British commission issued a n o t i c e :offering to license a limited number of grog shops I felt it my duty to address them on the subject, advocating the doctrine that the traffic in ardent spirit ought to be entirely abolished. The first draught of the letter is here before me & any one may read it who chooses. �Honolulu 1842-43 5. Romanism. The subject has excited but little interest for some time past. The visit of the Embuscade seemed for a season to encourage & streingthen the Romish[!] boast great things, party very greatly & they were heard to but I have not heard of any accessions to their numbers nor any enlargement of their operations. On the contrary there have been some cases of conversion external at least to Pro­ testantism & I should think the attendance on their services on the Sabbath is generally small. But the priests are very active & leave no means untried wither fair or foul to propagate the religion of the pope. In order to counteract this heresy I have pursued the same course essentially as I did last year, that is endeavour as far as possible to bring the entire population in this field under the influence of divine truth, more especially by a liberal distri­ bution of the N. Testament & other bookstand keeping up weekly re­ ligious meetings in all the large districts. Protracted me e t i n g ( The first week in January was devoted to a serious[!:J of religious exercises in which I was assisted by brethren Alexander, L. Hitchcock [!] . It was a season of much interest & profit. The congregation was larger thro’ughout. Parker & the interest was well sustained The result was a more general & solemn attention to the concerns of the soul in the congregation than we had witnessed for along season; meetings became well attended even to overflowing; many careless sinners began to consider their ways & call upon God and the church because more engaged in the conversion of souls deed, In­ the greatest 'benefit of the Meeting seemed to be its good in­ fluence on the church. We had a very encouaging state of things until the middle of F eb­ ruary when the political trouble of the land b e g a n ’:to engross the public mind. From that time to the present, the interest of our people in the .things of religion has been declining; the congrega-' , tion has decreased some, and there have been a number of cases re­ quiring discipline in the church. On the whole the influence of the political change has been very unfavorable & I fear its',evil ' effects are not at an end. Quite a number of our church members �Honolulu 1842-43 6. are soldiers & now under the training of British officers they are circumstances of great temptation; the life’ of a soldier in any country is hardly compatable with that of a Christian. But the most disasterous influence we have lately felt has arisen from the abrogation of the law of the native government which required the illicit intercourse of unmarried persons to be punished. This event filled us all with surprise and alarm and we have melancholy evi­ dence that our alarm was not without foundation. We hear of whole companies lately plunging into u n cleanness[!] in the most unb l ush­ ing manner & no notice is taken of it by the authorities. Boat! . loads of women are said to go to & from ships in the harbour & the \n offingi^'at pleasure without any fear from the law. If this state of, things is to continue what but ruin, hangs over this poor nation? immediate & inevitable ruin Their prospect was dark before but this event adds' maiiy 'shades to' the darnessT it m.ake it darkness which may be f e l t . But the Lord knoweth them that are his; his elect cannot be lost; when iniquity comes in like a flood the Lord can lift up a standard against it & may we not hope that he will? He pities the poor & the oppressed & if his people cry unto him will he not hear? for years past, One thing is certain & has been growing more so the Lords work in these islands is not'-.to be sus­ tained by human laws nor by the influence of rules. These props are being taken away & the power of truth alone is left to sustain the cause of righteousness. Native ministry. The order taken^n this subject at our last meeting I have not for­ gotten; indeed no subject has been more frequently on my mind during the year; but I havdnot undertaken to instinct any persons parti-^' cularly with a view to their being helpers in publishing the gospel principally for two reasons, tion & 2. 1. The temporary nature of my loca­ the want of suitable helps[!] in the form of books. We have at least 3 Or 4 men connected with this congregation of con­ siderable promise as helpers in preaching & it is high time they were in a state of training, but I have not yet seen my. way clear to commence the work for the reasons stated. In my view this is a subject of great importance at the present time & ought to receive the most careful consideration at this meeting. �Honolulu 1842-43 7. The church. Its condition as to numbers may be known from the following statistical table. Average congregation 2000 Whole no. 1631 rec^ on examination Whole no. on certificate 81 Whole number rec'? past year on exam’^ 394 Past year on certificate 39 Whole no. past year 433 Whole no. dismissed to other churches 80 Dismissed the past year Whole no. 8 deceased 142 Deceased past year 25 Suspended past year 24 Remain suspended 22 Excom4 past year [!] Whole no. excommunicated 34 Remain excommunicated - 30 Whole number in regular standing Whole no. 1431 • of children baptised 628 Baptised past year - 83 Marriages past year 97 The contributions of the church to various benevolent objects including what has been given towards the meeting house during the year has been not far from $400 in cash. We have partly supported a native preacher at Waianae & done considerable towards supporting school teachers. I have endeavoured to give systematic instruction to the church by dividing it into classes & meeting these classes weekly. This has cost me great labour but so far as I can judge it has tended greatly to the edification of the church. has 'been the catechism; Our -principal textbook we were about commencing the Pilgrims Progress when I was obliged to relinquish these labours about the 1st of April in consequence of sickness in my family. Mrs. Armstrong has been able to meet with the women of the church usually once a week during the year. As to the state of religion in the church I would say that it �Honolulu 1842-43 8. is far very far from what it should be. During the fall & winter months as I have stated there was much life in the church; saw it appear better. I never But of late it has not generally appeared so well tho we have had no general defection, nor much open iniquity. Since the strange abrogation of the law regulating the intercourse of unmarried persons which has filled the breasts of all the ’ friends of order & purity in this community with amazement & concern, a certain class has stepped forth from their lurking places & litterally glory in their shame. in .boats, to the ships, They go through the streets, go drawing iniquity as with a cart rope & fear not the face of God or man. That the church will escape when this iniquity comes in like a flood is hardly to be expected; but our hope^s that the Lord who has hitherto been our strength & deliverer of the people in years that are past, will pouir out his spirit upon his church & make it the salt of the land, banners to the ungodly, terrible as an army with & more powerful than all the restraints of human law. A work on domestic & political economy was assigned to me last year. A considerable amount of material for the work has been col­ lected & it could soon be made ready for the press should it be deemed expedient to prosecute; But I have had some doubts whether such a work is so loudly called for as to justify the expenditure of the funds necessary to publish it. I made the tour of Oahu twice during the year. In concluding this report I would say a word inregard to the re­ lation which I sustain to this church & congregation. menced labouring here, 18 months or at most two years were spoken of as the probable time of Mr. Binghams absence, my continuance here. When I com­ & consequently of It is now almost three years since his de--.:;’: parture & a good deal of uncertainty yet hangs over his return es­ pecially as to the time. be done in the case? settled, The question then arises, what is best to I feel much the inconvenience of having un­ as it were away from house, mere temporary supply. and labouring so long as a It is uncomfortable for my family and has an injurious effect upon my'labours as all my plans must be of a temporary nature. I cannot look upon the church nor manage it as though it were my own nor can the church look upon me as its �Honolulu 1842-43 proper pastor. 9 I wish therefore to submit the subject to the con­ sideration of Genl Meeting, & ask either to have a permanent loca­ tion here,or be restored to my::former field of labour. May 11, , 1843. Rich? Armstrong �Report of the first church &7congregation in Honolulu May 1843-44. At the close of our last General Meeting the hand of the Lord was upon my family. Mrs. Armstrong & our dear babe were both ill. But a voyage to Kauai in the month of June & another to Maui & Hawaii in July and August had a decidedly beneficial effect upon the symptoms of Mrs. Armstrong, and no good opportunity having occured to make her contemplate a voyage to the United States.that project was abandoned. During our absence at the windward, our children were scattered in the midst of kind friends, that Mr. A. might go free from care; all prospered except the babe who was in the'cafe of Mrs. Bishop; notwithstanding her unceasing vigilence, & utmost efforts to restore him he continued feeble, owing to the irritation of his bowels from teething. He was brought home & continued to suffer until the 28th of October when he was removed by death, as we trust to a bright­ er & happier world than this, on the same day with our lamented brother Locke, While we , with a circle of sympathising friends were assembled in my house weep­ ing over our dead, a messenger entered announcing the sudden & unexpected depart­ ure of that worthy brother. That was a season of grief & sadness to all at the station, to my family in particular, but I trust our affliction has not passed off without leaving some abiding salutary impressions. Labours. My labours for'-.the past twelve months may be arranged under the following heads. Labours as Pastor, as Editor, Superintendent’r.of schools & Keep­ er of the Dispensary, 1. Pastoral labours. I have preached, as usual, twice on the Sabbath, gen­ erally visited the Sabbath school for children, which for the past year has been mostly in the care of Mr. Hall, and also the Sabbath schools for small children under the instructions of native teachers; after the morning service I have uni­ formly kept a school:?for the instruction of catechumens, of whom there are sev­ eral hundreds on my list, but a small proportions of them however who give any evidence of a work of grace in the heart, and after the afternoon services on the Sabbath, I have frequently & may generally held a meeting either for a portion of the church, or for the lunas of the church, The object which is to question them on the sermons of the day, explain & enforce their truths more fully, & stir them up to faithfulness in the Masters work. On week days my plan has been to attend the monthly concert, lecture on Wed­ nesday morning at the station, at Waikiki in the afternoon, & frequently at Waialae, Wailupe, and Maunalua on the same day; on Thursday afternoon I have held a meeting at Manoa & on friday afternoon in the valley of Nuuanu or Pauoa. These �Honolulu 1843-44 ' 2. weekly meetings have been tollerably[!] well attended, though at times they have run very low; attention to them, though laborious, is essential to the support of the congregation & the dissemination of truth among the people. .My congregation on the Sabbath has not varied perceptably from what it has been in former years. From December till March the meeting house was well filled on Sab. morning, & sometimes uncomfortably filled. of them are Larger meeting houses or more much needed in Honolulu as well as more men':to labour for the thou­ sands of degraded & wandering sons & daughters of Hawaii who are collected in this village & vicinity.. Not over 4,000 at the most are in the habit of attend­ ing any house for public worship on the Sabbath and yet there are statedly not far from 12.000 people within the bounds of these two parishes. Verily the har­ vest is plenteous but the labourers are few. 2. Editorial labours. During my absence at the windward for some two months I was indebted to the kindness of Mr. L. Smith for sustaining the Nonanona, for this he has my grateful acknowledgements. Of the third volume 3000 copies were issued, each containing 136 pages, that is eight pages of new matter more than was contained in the volume of the previous year. The whole number of impressions sent out from the press during the year was 408,000. More valuable matter has come to hand during the past [year] than during any previous year. Contributions of natives have been abundant & though it cannot but have a good effect upon the mind of the writers, to exercise their pens in;;writing for publication, yet it costs no little time & patience to read them all over, & separate the chaff from the wheat. Very few native compositions are suitable to be placed in':the print­ ers hands until they are carefully revised & in many instances copied or abridged. So far as I am able to judge, among those who read the Nonanona at all, the in­ terest in it increases, & I cannot but hope that some good is done by it, but I must repeat my lamentation of last year that it has not been in my power to be­ stow upon it that amount of labour & attention which I wished & by which it might be made vastly more interesting, attractive & efficient that it ever has been. As 1 intend to request the mission to relieve me,if possible, of the care of the Dispensary, I hope during the current year to [be] able to do more for the Nona­ nona. Whether it shall be continued as at present or increased in size, or how much money the mission think best to sink upon it, may very properly be a subject for the mission to deliberate upon. At present, its income does not cover the cost. �Honolulu 1843-44 3. 3. Care of the Dispensory [!] & distributing medicines To compound all the medicines which required it & prepare them for use; to meet all the orders sent in from the different stations, & seek in the village for such medicines as were not in thelpispensory & above all to attend to the calls of the sick & dying in a population so dense & so liable to desease[!{]' as that in Honolulu, has taken up no inconsiderable portion of my time & has inter­ fered not a little with other important labours. Though this is a haven of bus­ iness for which I have no disrelish, but rather take pleasure in it, yet consider­ ing how it interferes with my labours as pastor & editor, I think it has better be[!] transfered to one of the secular brethren at the station. Since the first of April I have received important assistance in the medical department from Mrv Rogers, who has taken hold with a promptness, & skill which in my view en­ titles him to an appointment forthwith, as Keeper of the Dispensory, in preference to any other man at the station. 4. Care of schools. Owing to the enfeebled health of Mr. Knapp & my ab- scence to the windward the schools in this parish received but little attention, • during the former part of the miss. year. Consequently they languished greatly & continued to grow worse & worse until some of them had barely a nominal exist­ ence. The chief cause of their decline was neglect, mismanagement, & incompe­ tency on the part of those whose business it was to manage the c:o'hcern. Qur Kahu Kula John li, who then held the office is an excellent man, & might have made a good school'inspector, had not his mind not been so distracted by other important public-affairs & be called to travel in person from one end of the kingdom to the other frequently on government business. Satisfied that the schools were suffer­ ing, in his hands he concluded to resign his commission & in March, Keikenui, a man of intelligence, active piety, and much re|spected was appointed in his stead. Thus far the new Kahukula has done well with the exception of one or two mistakes, which were easily rectified & the schools in this parish are in a better'condition now than they have been for a long time. We never could muster since my residence in Honolulu, more than about 700 children at an examination until our last in April, when 1160 scholars were reported. But I am sorry to say since then there has been some falling off. The new Kahukula, being without experience, especially in the Keeping of ac­ counts, I have felt it my duty to render him all the assistance in my power, & in idP past have undertaken more than ever before to see that the school operations in my own district were properly managed. To this end I have kept the accounts with the teachers, assisted in settling them; seeing that suitable teachers are em- �4. Honolulu 1843-44 ployed & unworthy ones dismissed- With my cooperation the Kahukula seems well pleased & in fact so far seems unwilling to take-any important measure without first constilting me. I hope he is disposed to take this course with all the ' - brethren on Oahu for without our vigorous cooperation, there is little hope that the schools will succeed. The worth of a school Inspector is too complica­ ted, & difficult on this island to be sustained & carried forward successfully by any native unassisted. To avoid collision with the Roman Catholics, to exert a sufficiently powerful influence over parents & children to induce them to favor the schools, to raise funds, pay teachers & keep a regular.& correct account, re­ quires qualifications which no native can yet be expected to possess & I have * little hope that government will succeed in the business of education at present unless the services of some suitable foreigner shall be secured to stand at the head of the whole business of common school instruction in the islands. Romanism. Of the workings of this heresy I have seen but little for twelve months past & more. Whatever the priests .& their followers have done in this , field has been done silently & unobtrusively. I have not thought it necessary to say much to my people or publish much in the Nonanona on the subject. At an examination of the Catholic Schools in April, collectfed from Maunalua to Moanalua, our Kahukula told me he counted 190 children, while at the examinations in Mr. Smiths meeting house & mine about the same time, there were over 1700 child^ ran. This however may not be sufficient data on which to calculate the relative strength of the Protestant and Romish[!] parties in this vicinity.’ Tempprance. The amount of my efforts to promote temperance or rather total ab­ stinence, has been to unite in the annual celebration of the two cold water arm-^ ies of Honolulu, on the 26th of October last. That was a day of high excitement and deep interest among our young folks.and a powerful impulse was given to:the cause of cold water, but as the events of that day have already been published I need not dwell upon them here. How much intemperate drinking has been c'arried on _ ■ ■ '■■-tell; secretly in Honolulu' I cannot^but in public I have seen no instance of drunkenness among natives for a year, liquid. have I heard of many cases of even tasting the fiery Among foreigners however, I am sorry to say, my soul has often sickened at witnessing their beastly intoxication, & hearing their horrid revelry. Public morals. At the close of our last general meeting, the state of public morals in Honoluluwas most alarming. Some old residents & visitors gave it as �5 ,. Honolulu 1843-44 their opinion that vice had not appeared more rampant, bold & shameless since the days of absolute heathenism, than it did in May & June last. This was mainly owing to the iniquitous course pursued by the British commission. But how our hearts ought to leap for joy that those days of darkness have passed away. in his kind & holy Providence sent us relie:^ blessed be his name. God The restor­ ation of the government "Ito the native chiefs, by Rear Admiral Thomas on 31 of July, an event I had not the happiness to witness, will not soon be forgotten by the friends of this nation. With the restoration of the government, order, quietness, and the general tone of public morals was restored. Scenes of de­ bauchery, revelry, and Sabbath desecration, in a great measure disappeared before the authority of the laws which once more lifted up their voice. I may just remark in passing that our intercourse with Admiral Thomas, who remained here over 7 months, was uniformly pleasant.& familiar and on the eve of his departure the brethren of this station felt it to be their duty to express to him in writing, their gratification with his conduct & their obligations for his kindness, which was handsomely responded to in a letter which together with the one addressed to him, is present and can be read by any one who chooses. Protracted Meetings. I assisted Mr. Smith in a protracted meeting in Decem­ ber and Mr. Bishop in another in March for one day & was assisted by both these brethren together with Mr. Hitchcock.in a meeting of four days in January. In all these meetings I felt my own soul benefited,'and^ no doubt the great day will reveal many salutary impressions made during these delightful exercises. The re- suit of the meeting in my congregation was^^manifest awakening in the church; and the hopeful conversion of some sinners from the error of their way. It was de­ lightful to see scores of sleeping church members waking up, confessing their sins & returning to duty; to see'-"wanderers returning & hardened rebels against God considering their ways. During the months of December, January, February & March, the congregations both on Sabbath & week days, were large & a pleasing interest in divine things continued. Zion prospered,for the Lord was in the midst of her. Since the first of April, I am sorry to say this interest has been on the decline and now we are in a very stupid state. Benevolent Contributions. This congregation has been in the habit of contri­ buting something monthly & at special seasons for benevolent objects for years past, but on the first of January last I made some efforts to induce the people of my charge to contribute according to their ability, a specified sum in money, �6. Honolulu 1843-44 on every Sabbath preceding the monthly concert. The plan for taking the collect­ ion is a very simple one, & makes very little confusion or delay. Thirteen col- ■ lectors are selected, each furnished with a large card, a pencil & a small pill­ box for the money; these take their stations in different parts of the house and during the singing of the second hymn, the contributions are handed to them, the names of the contributors written down & the sum given by each. By these cards at the end of the year, it can be easily ascertained who have given to the Lords treasury & how much. Since the first of January, $106,12 have been collected in cash & handed in to Mr. Chamberlain, to constitute a part of the sum allowed by the Board for the support of the pastor of the 1st church in HOnolulu. Eight dollars were on hand previous to January, this sum added to $22,50 contributed to the meeting house at Molokai & $22,50 to the contemplated meeting house at Hana, makes $159.12. Besides this remaining debt oii the meeting house of $134,50[?] has been paid off, and $20, given by our Governor for an Accordion for the use of the choir which makes in all $313,62 cause of Christ in the islands. paid in money by the congregation for the This sum is much smaller than it should be, but it is all I have been enabled to draw forth. tact, it would be much larger than it is. Perhaps if I had more faith, zeal & This church is able to support its pastor & I hope it can be induced to do it & more too before long. Church Statistics. I'Jhole number addec^to the church on ex^? 1715 On certificate- 132 Past year on examination 102 Past year on certificate 51 Whole number past year 153 Whole no. dismissed to other churches 99 Dismissed the past year 19 I'/hole number deceased 196 Deceased past year 54 Suspended past year 66 Remain suspended 55 Excom4 past year '’ Whole no. excom^ 34 Remain excom^ 30 Whole number in regular standing Whole number of children baptised 1477 649 Baptised the past year Whole no. of children deceased 21 [ ] �7^ Honolulu 1843-44 Deceased past year [ Marriages past year M >d CO -P' ^ 3 M rfi-i O ] 107? Average number of cong^} on Sabbath 2000 P OQ Additional items. Mrs. Armstrong has been enabled to sustain a meeting for native females on friday of each week during most of the year. It has been well attended & ap­ parently very useful in various respects, expecially upon the domestic habits and care of children among the mothers. Our old meeting house has been sold to government for $400, which sum is now on interest, with a view to finishing the new meeting house whenever the work may be re—commenced. Several new district meeting houses and school houses are much needed in dif­ ferent parts of this field. I have not fulfilled all the appointments assigned to me, for want of time; my office as editor, requiring all the leisure time I have had for writing. I have had too many irons in the fire, for my own comfort or success in the several branches of work assigned to me. Respectfully submited[!] Richard Armstrong �Report of the first church & congregation in Honolulu, read before General Meeting of the mission, May 1846, including 2 years. Nothing of very striking importance has occured in the history of myself my people or my labours, since our last Gehl. Meeting. We have moved on in our work at a moderate pace & in the ordinary way never affecting any thing great, nor yet ceasing to do something. Mrs. Armstrong has not generally enjoyed good health; at times her old com­ plaint has occasioned her great suffering; but we have reason for gratitude, that she has been able so much of the time to be about & attend to her domestic af-fairs, & also attend a weekly meeting of native females,, though her illness has been a serious obstacle to my labour among the people. Two of our little daughters have also at different times been brought very S T-C M low by sickness, but by Gods blessing on the remedies used, their lives have been both spared & they are now in good health. ^ 0) Between the months of March and June of 1845, the distressing influenza which prevailed over our islands, prostrated our entire population, ourselves among the ■5 rest, so that for some days we found it difficult to obtain even the necessaries 'o [!] of life, get any domestic, help, or even help ourselves. It was a time of great & geh'eral distress, & many natives died, tho. not so many as might have been ■expected. The epidemic having passed away, the population generally was left in \—I ft *rH a a feeble & pitiful state, from which they did not recover for a long time. ft but my general impression is that the deaths far exceed the births." In my church ^ that ^ place, that I see no evidence of a decrease of population.. On the contrary there I may remark here, that I have no register of births & deaths in my field, is certainly the fact. Yet such is the tide of emmigration-. to this has been probably an increase. ^ Labours. My labours for the last two years have not varied materially from I what they were in former years. By the tender mercy of our God, I have been en- abled to labour on with but little interruption from sickness or any other cause. ■p cd •H Pastoral & ministerial labours. Two sermons on the Sabbath, a lecture on g g on[!] Wednesday morning at this place, and another at Waikiki on Wed?[!] afternoon, ^ pi occasionally extending my labours on the same day along the coast some 10 miles -P * ^ i=i •H g to Waialae, Wailupe & Maunalua, a lecture on thursday occasionally at Manoa valley, & on friday afternoon generally in the valley of Nuuanu - these have made up the sum of my weekly preaching. More recently my labours on the secular days of the week have been turned to expounding the Old Testament from the beginning in ^ S course, as the congregation reads it in course. in the sequel. But I shall refer to this again �Honolulu May 1846 2. I have also attended a Sabbath School either for children or adults or both on the Sabbath, & also a meeting for consultation with my elders, between the forenoon & afternoon services. Our Sabbath School for children has not flourished for the last year or more, owing mainly as I suppose to the want of that SuperiritaSance' of the common Schools, which is essential to sustaining"';' an interest in the Sabbath school. Such Superintendance we have not been able to afford, & hence the interests of the children have suffered greatly in my field, since the death of our lamented Bro. Knapp. The Sabbath school for adults continued under the superintendance of Mr. Chamberlain, as long as his health permited[!] him to labour at all; his place was then taken by Mr. Dimond for a season, until the commencement of the present year when the plan of the school and the hour for exercises were both changed; adults & children have since been both brought together immediately after morning service, to recite the daily food, and hear an exposition of it. In this exercise I have been assisted by Judge'-^Andrews, Mr. Hall, & Mr. Cooke, the first catechising the adults boys & Mr. Cooke those of the girls. C 5 feel grateful for it. Mr. Hall hearing the lessons of the This aid has been timely and important & I IN the girls school Mr. Cooke has employed the services of several of the young ladies under his care with advantage. This exercise I re­ gards as a very important means of grace; as the seven verses for the week are very generally commited[ !] to memory, and in the examination of them an opportu^:: nity is afforded to all present to ask questions freely, or present difficulties, or suggest inferences, there is reason to believe that a knowledge of Gods word is rapidly increase, and impressions are made of a most permanent & salutary kind. Indeed there is little danger that Gods word will return unto him void, it con­ stantly studied with a serious and prayerful mind. I have only to lament that many of my people take but little interest in this delightful & profitable ex­ ercise. A poartion of my congregation have been in the habit of reading a chapter or two in the Bible every day in course, for several years; but the excellent prac­ tice did not extend to the people generally, until within two months past, when it became some what general, & it is now the most encouraging symptom I see':among my people. The plan is to|read a chapter a day in course commencing with the Old Testament, and at our Sabbath afternoon and district meetings throughtthe week, questions are asked & remarks made on the chapters that have been read during the days preceding. In this exercise many of the people are much interested, and many of our discussions have been intensely interesting, and profitable. No part �Honolulu May 1846 3. of my work recently has afforded more gratification than this. One important re­ sult is, our increased ability to read & comprehend, what is read. Could a Bible reading spirit be kept up & extended among the natives, the happiest effects must follow/ it would improve their minds as well as their hearts; promote their hap­ piness in this word[world]las ;well as in the world to come, & be the best antidote to the poisonous heresy' of Rome now spreading around us. I will only add on this point that this Bible reading spirit has created an increased demand for that holy book beyond what it has been for several years past. I have disposed of all the 1st vol. of the 0. Testament that we have on hands, at 25c. a piece, & quite a number of copies of the whole Bible. During the year 1845 I made an attempt to have my people generally read the Pilgrims Progress, reading it with them myself & expounding it at our weekly meeting; but my success was only partial. For some reaseSn or other but a small portion of the congregation could be induced to take hold of it, although those who did, became- more & more interested as they advanced to the class. That work seems to be a little forward of the presfent state of the native mind, but I have no doubt of its being yet a popular book & it will exert a great influence. Its influence on those who have read it is apparent even inttheir prayers. Editorial labours. Three thousand copies of the Nonanona were issued from the press up till the last of March 1845; at that time the name of the paper was changed, but-its character has remained essentially the same, with the exception that it was enlarged to 8 pages while formerly it contained ordinarily only 4 pages; & the price was raised among those who were able to pay the amount of its real cost. The alteration in the number of pages was owing mainly to the demand so generally felt for the new laws, & other government matter which ought to be thrown before the public in the native language. In consideration of enlarging the paper, the government gave one hundred dollars towards its support during ^ last year & will do the same this year, besides the private subscriptions of the rulers. In my congregation the paper has been very generally paid for, it avails last year amounted to [$]293.50 Native writers contribute largely for the Elele, :'.8c it is very desirable that they be encouraged to do so but, while many of their pieces are well written & contain valuable matter, most of them are of a contrary character, & if published at all, need to be first wrought over before going to the printer, which is a great labour. Many valuable articles are thrown away merely because they are so badly written, or on such poor paper, or contain so much extraneous matter, as to �Honolulu May 1846 4. “be unsuitable for the paper until re-written & corrected. To several of the brethren I feel much indebted for aid in furnishing suit­ able articles for the paper; but the brethren generally have contributed less during the last year then they did.'.in former years. With the care of a large church in a place of great temptation and distract­ ion; with the care of a large family & a feeble wife.& not always enjoying good health myself I have had serious doublts whether it was my duty to continue to edit this periodical, which of course must be done at the expense of other and very important departments, and hastily & superficially done fe¥-the-Hiesfe-pai=t.['!] Andjit would be a relief to me if another & more suitable person could be found to assume the editorship can do. t H - i I & carry it on more efficiently than I Nothing but a sense of the imperative need of some such periodical & the hope of doing some good thereby has induced me to sustain it. Common Schools. Our school districts extends from Maunalua on the coast to the S. Eastward to the fort in Honolulu. Within these bounds including the vallies[!] there are 20 schools containing about 800 scholars. Owing to the pres­ sure of other labours I have not been able to give them much attention, & they have not accomplished what is desirable by any means. Our Kahukula,Keikenui is a good man & does the best he can, but it is a work for which he is by no means competent unaided. He has been a good deal embarrassed for want of means to pay the teachers, repair the schools houses or build new ones; and also to obtain teachers for moderate wages, there being in Honolulu, more lucrative situations open to them. We very much need a suitable missionary teacher devoted solely to the common schools in Honolulu & its vicinity & I know of no situation where one could be more useful. Ought not one to be set out for this express purpose? Of Roman catholic Schools within my field there are so far as I can learn 4; including the school at the seat of their operations in Honolulu^including School at chapel in H.[!] & containing about t$0[l] 88 scholars. managed or what is tought[!] in them I am unable to say. How they are Mr. Maigret keeps a high school, as I understand of 8 scholars. Work on meeting house. So large and inconvenient was the house in its former unfinished state, that the welfare of the congregation as well as that of the minister evidently demanded some farther inprovements as soon as they could be made, but a want of funds was the great obstacle, until $1,000. was placed at my disposal for this object by the late primier[!]. Encouraged by this our people �Honolulu May 1846 5. were inclined to proceed with the work, until the bills for all the improvements inside & out amounted tQ-$2640.0D,-.'' Of this amount about $2100, have been paid leaving a debt of $540, yet on the house. But sufficient '[.funds] has'been sub­ scribed or nearly so to cancel this, & we have yet five months credit ', in which to collect the subscriptions. The sum expended is considerable & a large propor­ tion of it has come from the poor of the congregation, yetjit has been well spent & the people seem'well satisfied. My own comfort has been greatly promoted by ■ . the improvements inside of the house, and the people hear the word with much greater satisfaction than formerly. Shortly after our last Genl. Meeting I laid the subject of ministerial sup­ port before my people, according to a resolution of our body; teaching & inform­ ing the duty & importance of doing what they could to relieve the American church­ es of the burden of supporting their pastor. The result was that from October 1844 till October 18457 $570, in'.cash was raised by the church & congregation for the support of their pastor. This sum has not been all handed in to the secular agents, a part having been appropriated to liquidate the debt of our meeting house & a part to repairs on my dwelling, the appropriation of 'last year not having been sufficient to meet the expense. Until the debt on the meeting house is can­ celed, I do not intend calling on my people to do any thing of consequence for the cause generaally or for my support. Protracted Meeting. We have held small meetings at outstations[!] at different stations with good results. In the month of March last I was kindly & efficient­ ly assisted in a meeting of four days continuance by Brothers Bishop, Parker, & Smith. The exercises commenced with prospect not the most encouraging; the con­ gregation was large, but a want of solemn attention & a spirit of prayer was manifest; so it continued until the third day, when the fallow ground began to be broken up, & the spirit of the Lord seemed evidently to accompany the word spoken. At the close of the meeting, the solemnity & sobriety that rested on the countenances of the people, the fervor of their prayers, & the fulness of our re­ ligious assemblies, afforded evidence that our labours had not been in vain in the Lord. Many from the world professed a desire to be on the Lords side & are now in a course of instruction; some of them at least I'hope will prove to be the children of God. Since this meeting our church, as a body has been more wakeful, & more inter­ ested in divine things than it was before. dead & worse than useless. But many of its members are still These have been my trouble & grief, and a great hind­ rance to the more active & living members of the church. The table of statistics will show the number of cases of discipline that have occured during the last �5, Honolulu May 1846 two years & also the number of admissions. It will be seen that the former much exceeds the latter; more have been set aside & remain so than have been received from the world. But it must not be infered from this circumstance that the church has grown weaker or been retrograde; so far from this I am satisfied that were a number more of the fruitless branches loped off, there would be more life & vigor & health in the tree. The small number of admissions for the last two years, only 48, is not for the want of candidates; ofxthese;there are many & I hope some of them are the Lords people, but experience has tought[!] me, to be careful more & more in admiting members to the privilege^Lf the church. It is so distressingly common among natives to appear well whileLn a state of probation, & then after being allowed to make a public profession,after a season to fall away, that I see no way of avoiding this so well as by a long course of instruction and trial. It has been said that in order to keep up-our congregations, it is necessary to keep open the doors of the church & allow a stream from without to flow in, but I have not found it so, for the last year & a half, I have received none from the world during that time & yet I do not see that the congregation has sen­ sibly diminished, or at least if it has, the cause is rather to be found in our recent practice of saparate[!] meetings at some of the outposts on the Sabbath, than to the one mentioned above. Premature admissions of persons not well in­ structed, and consequently liable to conduct themselves very unworthily of a Christian profession, has a tendency to lower the standard of Christian charact­ er, make a profession of religion appear to be a matter of small importance, and bring the church of Christ into disrepute. But I think the sentiment is gaining ground among my people that it is a great & solemn thing to take the vow^of God upon them, & ought to be done with the greatest caution. To extend & establish this feeling is of great importance to the welfare of the church. I will only add in regard to this church that I have never / yet considered my relation to it as established. The action of our lasl^General Meeting was not of a nature to relieve me entirely from my embarrassment, especially as it was not ratified or in any way acted upon by the association. In fact',: I have felt since that proceeding much as I did before, that I was still only a stated[?] supply, or pastor pro tempore, & should the proper pastor arrive, I should give the church at once into his hands. I must say however, that I have considered ,_ this as disorderly & a disadvantage both to myself & this church & congregation. In order to get effectively rid of a relation so embarrassing I was willing two years ago, to surrender the pastorship into other hands & turn my attention to other woTk. I am still more willing to do so now, & should be truly to be �7. Hnolulu May 1846 allowed to confine myself to:the schools, to my paper, & to other kindred objects & be rid of a situation which has never 'been satisfactory to me, & in which I have laboured with much disadvantage. I would not leave the impression that it would now be pleasiht to me to have my pastoral relation to this church pro­ perly constituted; this in my opinion, ought to have been done long ago, or else the church put into other hands, as things have been & now-are I would much ra­ ther be rid of the pastorship altogether, Yet the Lord has been pleased to give me favor in the eyes of this church & people & in some degree to bless my poor labours among them, more than I had reason to expect considering the disadvantages under which I have laboured, for almost six years. I have refered to a division of the congregation in the afternoon of the Sab­ bath, holding several meetings in the different districts. In sustaining these meetings,! have received important aid from Messrs. Richards, L. Andrews & Rice, Mr. R. has held a meeting regularly at Waikiki, on Sab. afternoon,-Mr. L. Andrews at Nuuanu, & Mr. Rice at Manoa. This gives the seed a broader cast[?] & brings more souls under its influence than to have but one assembly & is a more effect­ ual way of counteracting the spread of Romish[!] errors in our borders than to centre our labours at one spot. But^Lt renders the congregation at this place quite meager on Sabbath afternoon. On the hymn book now in press I have devoted considerable labour, mostly by was of revising. Owing to constant pressure of other labours I have done but little at writing original hymns. Romanism. Recently there arrived at this place a reinforcement of papists, making in all[f] now on the islands. Of the movements of this wily enemy in my field I know but little; they are quiet & unobtrusive at present in all their^perations. are they asleep. But they are not idle nor One of their aims doubtless is now to gain the good will of the govt, by an appearance of loyalty & friendship, &. they will no doubt make capital out of existing difficulties with other & greater governments According to the reC • cord of the Kahukula,-5iSfe‘ are^l53 protestant children on this island, & 910 of Roman catholic. Temperance. Since July 1844, we have had no temperance meeting among the natives & but little done in that way, chiefly because there has been but little use made among natives of intoxicating drinks. the most part. What has been used was done in secret for But awa has been doing vast mischief; astonishing quantities of �8. Honolulu May 1846 it have been brought into the market & found ready sale. Within three months past however, a check has been put upon the traffic & use of the stupifying root by the authorities, no one being allowed to use it without permission from the governor. This practice was adopted by John li, while he was acting governor, during the absence of his Excellency last winter to the windward. Strenuous efforts have been made here & elsewhere to have awa entirely abolished by law; numerous & powerful appeals have been sent up to the legislature for this purpose, but I fear after.all that this will not be done. The prospect now is that heavy restrictions will be laid upon it, confining it to be used as a medicine only. But this will be far from furnishing a remedy for the evil. Among foreigners much has been done & undonpe in regard to temperance within the last two years. At one time, about a year ago, the cause of teetotalism seemed to be in a fair way to triamph[!] in Honolulu; but a sad reverse has taken place & since I havejlived on the islands I have not seen darker prospects in re­ gard to the temperance reformation, so far as foreigners are concerned, than during the last 9 months. Our teetotlers have about all gone back to their cups & their last state is worse than the first. How the late heavy restrictions on the traffic will operate, remains to be seen', but I have not much hope'from'.this ~quarter. The cause must be mainly sustained by public sentiment if sustained at all. Church statistics, for 2 years beginning May 1, 1844 Whole no received on examination 1763 on certificate 165 Rec^ past 2 years on certificate 33 Past 2 years on examination 48 Whole no. reed past 2 years 81 Do - Whole no. dismissed to other churches Dismissed past 2 years Whole no. deceased 141 42 270 Deceased past 2 years 87 Suspended past 2 years 92 Remain suspended 38 I'Jhole no. excommunicated 34 Remain excommunicated 30 Whole no. in regular standing 1446 Whole no. of children baptised 703 Baptised last 2 years 54 �Honolulu May 1846 Marriages 2 past years 219 Average congregation on Sab. morg. 1500 to 2000 General Remarks. It will be perceived from the preceding table that the ntmiber dismissed to other churches during the past 2 years exceeds the number re­ ceived to this church on certificate. For this ther^ay be two reasons 1. A well known reluctance onjthe part of the pastor to have persons come from other places & settle in Honolulu 2, From several c a u s e s h a s been a partial re­ action in regard to emigration to this place; & this is in my view a decidedly favorable symptom. The great influx of people from all parts of the islands to the metropolis,is a great evil - it operates to the injury of the population resident here & also of the emigrants- Somejof my best & most industrious people have assured me that every thing they can get is begged away from them by their friends from other islands & that this is a most serious draw^back on their tem­ poral prosperity. Multitudes come to this place without having paid their pas­ sage, they either pawn their clothes , or are retained on board the vessels until their friends advance the mnoey for their redemption. This of course is always done though it occasion[!] poverty & distress to those ashore. Having no settled house those from abroad go here & there among their friends like a swarm of locusts, devouring as they go, until they are driven from neces­ sity either to seek employment as a last resort,or fall into iniquity such as prostitution or gambling, in order to support life. Thus, they are in many in­ stances constantly both receiving & imparting injury by coming t@5 this place. But as I have said, the evil appears to be diminishing & I hope’ :this government will ere long take jneasures to reduce the evil still morel I ought to say however that many of the natives are not tcbe blamed for coming to Honolulu; their cir­ cumstances often almost compel them to go somewhere. In remote places they find it difficult to procure money to pay their taxes; have their lands taken from them by their superiors, or are attached to hi'gh'.br ^iow chiefs whose business calls them to this place & when once here they find many inducements to remain. 2. Knowledge, civilization and general improvement have evidently advanced with­ in the past 2 years in this field. Good clothing, good houses, and domestic com­ fort, have increased, but there is a great want of economy every where apparent. Silks, satins, & other costly articles are distrssingly common among those who are scarcely able to afford cotton cloth; who', live in miserable huts & have not sufficient food. Horses, saddles & equippage[!] for fiding are purchased for no �Honolulu May 1846 ’ other object than pleasure, which exhausts the resources of the purchasers & leaves nothing for the supply of their real wants. Many a woman wears a splendid silk shawl,while her children have not a change of garments, nor a slate or book. This is a crying evil among my people. S ^ O 3. There are in Honolulu a multitude of adverse influences, from foreigners of low character. The profanity, drunkenness, & disturbances in our streets the rt m ^ ^ ^ p 03 commitments to the fort & troubles in our courts of justice are generally from men of this character. From them the children in our streets learn the most dia­ bolical language; by them our native females are seduced, our Sabbaths desecrated, our constables bribed and our whole atmosphere is corrupted. They support our grog shops, and our houses of ill fame, and thus strengthen the cause of the wicked on every hand. these islands? What but evil can result from the settling of such men on There have settled among us some foreigners of good character; they are sober, orderly & industrious; one here & there is pious; these exert a good influence, but they are the minority I fear. 4. This field greatly needs more labour, I mean in my department. To superin­ tend the schools, edit a paper, and take care of such a church in such a place is too much for any one man. The whole time of the pastor should if possible be given to the church & people, to the single object of reviving & guiding souls to Christ & heaven & another man might be well employed in the schools, editing the paper & conducting other works through the press, as well as missionating[!f "giDong the people. 5. More needs to be done at this place in behalf of native females. A great many young women come:’- here from remote parts of the islands & are exposed to all the temptations of money, gaity, & pleasure that the place affords; many of them are ruined at once, & beyond recovery. Mrs. Knapp has done much good among the girls of her school & Mrs. Armstrong in her feebleness has done much to arouse & quicken the pious females & expecial^ ly the mothers, to their duty in their several relations. Would that a thousand fold more were done of a similar kind, for the daughters of Hawaii in this place. Respectfully submited[!] R. Armstrong. i-i ^ �Report of 1 st church & congregation in Honolulu from May 1846 to May 1848. The history of our affairs- as a society, has not varied much during the last two.[years], from what it was in former years. We have experienced mercies and judgements; a good degree of health has been afforded us, & yet we have been severly visited by sickness. Our people suffered greatly & many died, during the distressing epidemic, which prevailed in April & May of last year. During that distressing period, it was often my melancholy duty to attend 3 and 4 funerals in succession, without even leaving the grave yard. Labours. These have been much the same as those described in my reports of former years. Preaching twice on the Sabbath, delivering from one to four lectures during the week; attending the monthly concert on the first Monday of every month, usually one or two Sabbath Schools on the Sabbath, a meeting for inquirers every thursday; & a School for my elders on Saturday have constituted the usual weekly rout­ ine of my labours as pastor. Bro? Hall & Cooke have had the principal care of the children's Sabbath School for children, which has flourished part of the time under review, & the children made rapid advances in a knowledge of the holy Scriptures, some of them reciting from 100 to 200 verses, from memory on successive Sabbath for a season. Several young men & some young women connected with this Sabbath School have re­ cently given considerable evidence that they have chosen Christ as their Saviour & portion. But, I regret, to say that our childrens Sabbath School is now in a declining state, mainly for want of efficient labour on the part of the pastor and Superintendents. The School in the ai o'ka la, has been held after the service on each Sabbath morning, & has been conducted by Judge Andrews. During the present year, it has been mutually flourishing. While our lamented Bro. Richards continued to labour, he preached every Sab­ bath afternoon in Nuuanu valley & at the palace, on Sabbath evening, both of which services were attended with good results. The people in Nuuanu manifested the deepest sympathy for him during his last sickness, & no part of our people seem­ ed to fell[!] his loss more deeply, after his decease. Judge Andrews has also assisted me a good dealTin preaching on the Sabbath, & since the failure of Mr. . Richards in July last, has alternated with me in preach­ ing in the palace, & in the congregation, every other Sabbath afternoon. Bro. Rice has had charge of the meeting in Manoa valley, & I hope he will �Honolulu May 1848 - May 1848 2. present an account of his labours there before the meeting. That is a very flourishing part of my field. A substantial Stone Meeting house has been erected there under the direction of Bro. Rice intended also for a school house; and a dobie[adobe] building for the same purposes at Waikiki. These have cost a great deal of labour & care, but we feel amply repaid for it all, in seeing the worth of the Lord prospering so greatly in both of these districts. While erecting the houses we feared they wd, prove to be too large, but during the present year they have been well filled with attentive worships, on Sabbath afternoons & frequently during the week. A Stone meeting house is now in progress at Wailupe, on the coast,, east of Dimond Hill. That section of the parish:'is under the care of a pious native, who is doing much good. esteemed among them. The congregation gives him a support & he seems to be much His name is Q4iele['?]. Kaauwai has had the oversight of Waikiki, and has been very active & energetic, tho. not always so prudent as could be desired.' Church discipline. The cases of discipline in this church have been fewer during the two years now under review, than during any former period of the same length; this no doubt is owing to an increase of divine knowledge, a better understanding of the Gospel system, & more maturity of Christian character in the church generally. But one or two cases of discipline have occured, of the most distressing nature; both in high places, one of them in the State; the othe]^ in the church. As to the former, the individual, after about a years suspension ffom,tJie church, has been restored on profession of repentence. The latter deserved more notice; that is the case of Keikenui ifeo'wfe licensed to preach the Gospel in the year 1845, An interesting field was assigned him, on the coast, to the eastward of IHmond Hill. He entered upon his labours with fair prospects of success; he was popular , & at once, a large congregation, collected around him. to conduct his labours with prudence. He was abundent[!] in labours & seemed But in the midst of his career & before he had been six months at his post, the Spoiler came & cast him down. The charms of a young married woman led his heart astray & he was discovered on his trial to have been guilty of nearly constant': criminal intercourse with her for six months before it was discovered. as a preacher. All this time he was engaged in the most active labours When accused of criminal conduct, he declared his innocence & succeeded in evading detection for several months, although suspected by many about. When apprehended & brought before the magistrate he most solemnly pro--^': tested his innocence calling God to witness, & holding his hand on the Bible. He �3. Honolulu Majp 1846 - 1848 was equally bold in maintaining his integrity before the church, although la­ boured with long & affectionately.[!] He was pronounced guilty however before the Judges & also bythe church, & since that time has confessed his sin in the fullest manner. So also has the woman who is not a church member. Church Statistics for two years from May 1, 1846 to May 1, 1848. Whole no. rec4 to this church on examc 1974 Whole no. rec"? on certificate 253 Rec^ past two years on examination 211 Rec^ past two years on certificate 88 Whole no. rec^ past two years 299 Whole no. dismissed to other churches 166 Dismissed past two years 25 Whole no. deceased ’[!] Deceased past two years [T] Suspended past two years ^ 52 Whole no. in regular standing 1418 Whole no. of children baptised 774 Baptised past 2 years 71 Marriages past 2 years. 244. Much stupidity has prevailed in. our church at times; meetings run low, and all good works draged[!] heavily; the majority of our members seemed possed[!] of a spirit of slumber & yet we have had no general outbreaking [of] iniquity--in the church since we last met. But I am happy to say this church has been copious­ ly watered from on high during the present year & has been in a flourishing State. Never since my first connection with it, has it appeared so well; so prayerful, watchful, circumspect & active in doing good. Forty six members who had been under discipline, from 1 to 8 years, have been brought apparently to repentance & restored to the fellowship of the church since the 1st of January, while the cases of discipline during that time have been only five. Revival. For two years there has been a concert of prayer among the females of this church, to pray for a revival, and during my absence to the windward in January, �4. Honolulu May 1846 - May 1848 Mrs. Armstrong resolved to do what she could to awaken a spirit of prayer among the female members of the church who attended her friday meetings. seems to have been owned & blessed of the Great Head of the church. The effort The meet­ ings began^' to increase both in numbers & interest; a spirit of prayer was • awakened; more meetings were called for; the impenitent began to come in, and al­ though the meeting was for females only, males came & begged the privileges of attending, among others His Majesty himself & several of the high chiefs. Here a little disorder occured in one meeting, that is males & females both lead in prayer; but as the leading men of the church got enlisted in the work, it natur­ ally passed into their hands and so far as I know, all the proceedings of the meetings were then done in decency & in order, unless meeting before daylight in the miorning may be considered disorderly; but the males & females met in sepa­ rate houses until the break of day when they united for a short season in pouring out their hearts before God in the large church. All this took place during my absence to the windward; on my return, how was my heart rejoiced to behold the work of the Lord! I landed on the Sabbath, dur­ ing morning service & that large church was completely filled with immortal beingsi listening to the words of eternal life, from the lips of Bro. Baldwin, who was then at this place. Daily meetings were in progress; hundreds of people came out to them who appeared to be strangers to me. gers in the house of God. At least they were stran­ Stillness rested upon those solemn assemblies; they were large, but it was easy to preach, for all were eager to hear the word and gave fixed attention to it. A demand for the Scriptures among the people became general & I sold more Bibles & testaments for cash in February & March than I did the whole of the year 1847. As this work commenced among the natives themselves with the assistance of Mrs. Armstrong, so it has been mostly sustained by the elders & active members of the church. It was impossible for me to do more than preach to such multi­ tudes & I did not attempt to do much more, but many of the church members have been very zealous & efficient. They seemed to be full of faiths of the Holy Ghost, & took hold of the promises like wrestly[!] Jacobs. The inquirers amounting to some hundreds are collected into classes & I have been in the habit of meeting them once a week for prayer & instruction. These ’'End of pg.2.of original manuscript. The followihg text was probably added by Armstrong as an afterthought: In Dec. last at the request of the govt. I consent­ ed to assist Mr. Young in the depatl[!] of public instruction until the present meeting. [End of text]. This text appeared on the top of pg. 3 of the original manuscript and was sectioned off from the rest of page. �Hon.olu.lu May 1846 - May 1848 meetings are well attended & most interesting. Common Schools. The number of common schools in this district is 27; 21 of these are Pro­ testant & six of them Catholic. In the Protestant schools there are reported 976 scholar^s; in the Catholic 198. In the Pro^testant schools there has been a decided advance in knowledge, discipline., and general improvement during the two years past. The teachers have been promptly paid, & therefore more efficient than they formerly were. Vocal music has been successfully introduced into several of the schools, & is exerting a very beneficial influence. The exercise of singing is popular with; the child­ ren, and, I think, advantageous to their health. Nothing but the want of suitable teachers has prevented us from introducing it into all our schools, as a daily school exercise. A good many, I cannot say how many, of the;,yduth. in the schools have been de­ cidedly serious during the revival & I am not without hope that they have chosen the good part. None however have been received to the fellowship of the church, as fruits of this revival, either chidren, or adults. During the past year the Pilgrims Progress & Moral Philosophy have been in­ troduced to several of the schools & are popular books. to have the Scriptures d a ily read Care has also been taken portions of them commited to memory. The census has been taken from Maunalua to Moanalua, & amounts to 12.025[!]. This is propably[!] not far from correct. Editorial labours. Three thousand copies of the Elele Hawaii were issued, for the year, ending April1st, 1847; during the year ending April 1st 1848.4,000 copies were issued. In my field the paper has beoi popular and useful, & has been generally paid for in cash. By suitable efforts man;^ore subscribers might have been obtained in this region, & the subscriptions collected; but time has been wanting for this & many other good works & this has been left mainly to native agents. The principal reasons for suspending the paper for a season were my own inability to do it jus­ tice with the care of the public schools on . my hands & the fact also that the paper is a sinking concern; it falls far short of paying for itself & there the subject should engage the attention of this meeting. I hope however the paper �6. Honolulu May 1846 - May 1848 will be resumed & carried on with vigor. When I first undertook the editorship of the Nonanona I had no expectation of continuing it more than a year or two; but now I wd.[!] record it with gratitude to God that he has given me strength to conduct a small paper for seven successive years without interruption. I am sen­ sible that the work has been imperfectly done, & yet I trust it has been the means of some good to this poor people. The revision of the Hulikanaka(Moral philosophy) has been completed & the work printed & put in circulation. It is now being introduced into our schools to some extent & is a popular work with the teachers. No other work was assigned by our last Genl. Meeting, but feeling much the need of a catechism, more simple in its language, & more clear in its definitions, I took the|.iberty to write one, & by consent of the Printing Committee, a small edition has been issued from the press. If approved, I would suggest that an­ other edition be printed with proof texts in full. This little work is in invi­ tation of TLavels[?] exposition of the shorter catechism. I have received from my congregation in cash, since our last Genl. Meeting, the sum of $1660, which has been disposed of in the following various ways. Paid off old debt on meet, house Cil Meeting house expencesyi^since that time $540 140 Laid out on Cooke house & Study 400 Laid out on Meet, houses at Waikiki & Manoa - 300 Donation to Meet, house at Hana Do.- 50 Meet, house at Waimea, Kauai Do. t-o N. Caledonia mission 40 , 40 Cash on hand - 150 ■$1660. [in pencil]: [?] 40 Marriage fees are included in the above amount. What cash I have on hand, is being expended on our school houses, which are in a bad condition. [in pencil]: His Majesty has set on foot a subscription among his chiefs for furnishing the tower[?] on the Meeting house at a cost of $23,000[!]; while the common- people in the congregation have resolved to order a large towefpf] Unlock to be placed in the tower when completed,-wh,wiH cost $500. [End of pencil writing] R. Armstrong �Report of Honolulu Station, April 4, 1849 Owing to sickness in my family, my removal to Honolulu was delayed until the 30th of August. Until that time, my labors were continued as usual at Wailuku. My labors at Honolulu were commenced on':the first sabbath in September, & have been continued with out material interruption to the present time. received occasional help from Bro. Armstrong & others. usually attended a second service at Waikiki. I have At such times, I have Two sabbaths have been spent at the out station at Wailupe, & the Lord’s supper administered there. That out station embraces three or four villages between Dimond Hill & Bro. Parker's field, with nearly 200 church members. A native assistant has been employed there. The out station at Manoa -, has been under the charge of Bro. Rice, who has regularly attended a meeting there.on Thursday & Sabbath afternoon, besides ad­ ministering to the bodily maladies of the people at other times. intendence a very good house of worship has been erected. meetings with him in this valey[!]. more labor. Under his super­ I have attended a few To Nuuanu, Pauoa & Waikiki I have extended A regular weekly meeting has been held in these places, besides occasional preaching at Waikiki on Sabbath afternoon. attended a meeting in Nuanu[!] Sabbath afternoon. Judge Andrews has lately In about a month after my ar­ rival here, Kaili, my faithful helper at Wailuku removed to Waikiki & conmienced labor at that place. He entered upon his work with much zeal & energy, & I was counting much on his help, but in a few weeks his work was ended, & he joined his former companions & fellow laborers Bartimeus, & Hawaii in a higher service. Perhaps no Hawaiian promiseti greater usefulness as a preacher of the Gospel. He was frequently attended in his last sickness by Bro. Rice & myself, but nothing could arrest the destroyer. His end7 was peace & his memory is precious. My labors have consisted of the usual services on the sabbath, three lectures during the week at different places, a catechetical meetings on Thursday & a theological class of church lunas on Saturday, besides meetings for the examina­ tion of candidates for the church &c. The week day meetings were much interrup­ ted during the sickness, which has swept over the Islands. This sickness greatly weakened our hands, but trhe church is beginning to recover from the shock. In the course of a few month[!] more than one tenth of our church members were car­ ried off embracing some of our most active & influential men. Although much ef­ fort was made to improve the chastisement in a spiritual point of view, little impression seemed to [be] made on the minds of the people. But there has been no special defection, & meetings are again pretty well attended & in some parts of �Honolulu 1849 2. the field, a considelrable waking up. On my arrival here I found some hundreds anxious to be admitted to the ex­ ternal privileges of Christ's house, & our church lunas were urgent that they should be received. After spending some time in examining candidates 137 were admitted.to the church in the month of October & during the last month 143 more were admitted, making 280 since I have been here. Twenty six were admitted by Bro. Armstrong before I arrived, making 306 since the last Gen. Meeting. Taking out the number of deaths removals &c,the increase of the church the past year is 177. The subject of admission to the church has been attended with no little an­ xiety & difficulty. Part of the difficulty has arisen from':the want of a satis­ factory, personal acquaintance with the candidates, & a part from the urgent de­ sire of our best church lunas for the admission of candidates raising in the mind the painful fear that they do not understand the true nature of the new birth, & the spiritual character of the Christian church. I am more & more convinced that Hawaiian churches cannot be safely committed to the control of native pastors. It is not difficult to foresee the result. Nearly the whole population, especial­ ly all persons of distiction & importance would be admitted nominal members of the church, & these nominal members of distinction would soon have the affairs of the church all in their own way, & the church rendered subservient to the temporal interest of the State, & controled[ !]■ by its worldly minded members. formality or a total apostasy would ensue. A dead How important that the foreign past­ ors hold on, & carry out the work, which they have commenced. There have not been very many exclusions from the church since I have been here. Several have been under discipline. Some evils are to be contended with here which are not found in other parts of the Islands, such as procuring beef from the butcher's stalls on sabbath morning, going out in boats to tow in ships on the sabbath, letting horses to customers on the sabbath, bringing milk in to town &c. The three first[!] of these we do not hesitate to make tabu for church members unless it is in case of ships in distress. The last, bringing milk into town, although it often results in a serious breach of the sabbath, it is more difficult to regulate by any definite rules. regard as inadmissible. To carry milk about for sale, we Carrying it to regular customers is a more doubtful case, though attended with serious evil, when brought a considerable distance. We have reason to think a considerable part of the sabbath is sometimes occupied in going & returning, & the duties of the sabbath neglected. Whether stringent church rules should be adopted with regard to it is doubtful. �Honolulu 1849 3 On the whole, I have not found the labors of the station greater than I an­ ticipated, & my health has been quite as good, ig. not better than at Wailuku. Schools have been under the directon of Mr. Armstrong & Goodale. I must refer to them for statistices. Statistics of the church. In .examination past year 306 Whole No. on'.examination 2280 On Certificate past year 52 Whole No. on certificate 305 Dismissed to other churches past year 18 Whole No. dismissed to other churches 184 Deaths the past year 164 Whole No. of deaths 486 Excluded past year 14 . Restored past year 15 Whole No. remaining excluded [Crossed out] In regular standing - 1595 Children baptised past year 34 Whole No. of children baptised 636 Marriages past year 134 Average congregation ” 1200 in the field 1600 Contributions past year. For support of preaching - 275.19 Monthly Concert 64.98 39^§2 $ $ Paid to Native preachers 43.19 Repairs of Meeting house &c 43.33 $ 86.52 = [!] [1] 338.17 ________ 86.52 S46^ Q9 fl] $ 251.65 It will be seen from the above that the contributions of the people must be considerably increased, if they are to support their own pastor. But with system �Honolulu 1849 4. & proper effort on the part of the pastor, I have no doubt, that a support can be raised, without abridging materially the real comforts of the people. But in addition to the support of the pastor, our great meeting house must be kept in repair, & other contingent expenses sustained by the church, to say nothing of a balcony & a clock which are much needed. Whether, the people will come forward & continue to sustain all these necessary burdens is somewhat doubt­ ful, butl-X think they will be willing to make the effort. [Unsigned] [E.W. Clark] > H* M CO VO W o 3 o o c o CD rt M CQ rt O i-i o I-h CO rt P ft HO �Report of 1st Church Honolulu May 1, 1851. During the two jearsi which‘%ave intervened since our last Gen. Meeting, we have to sing of merices rather than judgements. We have not been visited by pestilence as in the year preceeding our last Gen. Meeting; & although the sword of war has. been brandished over us, not a hair of our heads has been injured. Order has reigned in our city & all kinds of industry have received a due re­ ward. The influx of foreigners to this place & tb-'rCalifornia has greatly in­ creased the demand for native labor & all kinds of native products. stimulus has been given to industry & civilization. An increased But with the good things of civilization such as an Agricultural Society, Atheneum, Chamber of Commerce &c[!], have come in also its attendant evils, a Theater, Circus, Beer shops &c &c. A good many have been swept into the vortex of avarice & dissipation. But our church members have in the main held on their way. The number of defections the past year is about the same as the year preceeding. Ten have been set aside for going over to the papists, giving as a reason, that their papist ^ konohikis threatened to turn them off their lands, if they did not. A few who have been connected with the papists have united, or are seeking admission to our church. The number of admissions^-to our church by profession the past year is 145, a less number than in some preceeding years. There has been no general re­ vival, but during part"of the year, more then usual attention at some of the out g stations. QJ - ^ 2 mo ^ ^ My own labors have been much as in former years. Two sermons & a Bible class on the Sabbath, & 4 meetings on week days in different parts of the field, Mr. Armstrong has often supplied my place here in the afternoon, & I have preach- o OJ g ed at one of the outstations[!]. Mr. Rice has attended meeting at Manoa as here- 4- ) “ QJ tofore, & Mr. Andrews at Nuanu[!]. A native assistant has had charge of the out OJ g station at Wailupe beyond Dimond hill. I have attended the celebration of the[?] O) ^ L o r d ’s supper there once a quarter. The coming & going of church members to & 0) ^ ^ from Honolulu has caused a good [deal] of labor & correspondence. This migratory ^ disposition of the people, I regard as a serious evil in the church. ^ ^ But it is not easy to correct it. 4-1 'g p; 0 -H 6 0) A large & substmtial meeting house at Wailupe has been nearly finished, one also at Nuuanu built’^'by subscription & superintended by Mr. Smith for the accommodation of members of both Societies. ^ ^ A house at Waikikiwaena finished during the past year has been rffiently blown down. Another is bsing built. In addition to these labors, some time has been given tcJ^writing & translating for the Elele & �Honolulu May 1, 1851 2. corresponding with the Board &c &c. A strong tide of worldliness has been setting in upon the church, but"a pretty good degree of liberality has tistics of contributions. kept up, as will be seen by the sta­ Besides supporting their pastor, they ha^e given more than twice as much for other objects as during the first year of my residence here. Those most deficient in liberality are chiefs & other persons most able to give;. To give, as they have received is a hard lesson for the rich to learn in all lands. A commencement has been made in this church on the new plan of supporting the Gospel proposed by the Board & sanctioned by our last Meeting. The subject- was braught[!] before the church immediately after our last Gen. Meeting. thousand-dollars was proposed as a salary. This was about the amount annually received from the Board including repairs of buildings &c. was appointed to aid in collecting & paying over the salary. has devolved mainlyion the Pastor. One A committee of three The labor, however, It was proposed that quarterly payments, amounting to 25 cts to each male & 12-| cts to a female be made through the church lunas- Th^unas were furnished with small blank books to record the names & the amount paid. was made out. By a little extra effort at the close of the year, the sum proposed The old & the feeble were not to be requested to pay. A good many failed to contribute regularly, & some well able have probably paid nothing. 5a stteh-easesy-ehureh-diseipiine-has-ftet-yet-been-resoafted-teT— bufe-it-fflay-be-seeessa¥y-ie-speeial-eases-[!]. Owing to the great rise in provisions, labor &c, the sum raifed is, by no means, an adequate salary for a large family at the pre­ sent time in Honolulu, including repairs of building Medical Services &c; but being allowed a few hundred dollars for repairs from previous contributions of the people, with soik small private resources, I have been able to sustain my family without any special embarrassment. On the whole, the experiment thus far has been as favorable both to Pastor & people as could be expected, & ^annot but think, that an important step has been taken in the right direction. This church for the two preceeding years,besides supporting their own pastor have paid di­ rectly into the treasury of the Board $140., besides $37. to French protestant mission & various sums for different house objects, as will appear in the statis­ tics of the two past years. I remark in conclusion, that I cannot but think, that the Mission ought to contemplate ere long reinforcing the field connected with the first church, in Honolulu. One man is quite inadequate to the labor which ought to be performed. The church now numbers about 2000 members; & the number of inhabitants & impor­ tance of the field is increasing. �3. Honolulu May 1, 1851 Intemperance is sweeping off one after another of our foreign population. few even of our church members have been drawn into the vortex. A It has been a more common thing than in former years to see natives intoxicated. With the com­ mencement of the present year, monthly temperance meeting were commenced with the design of waking up anew[ !].' public attention on this subject. The pledge has been circulated, and a large number of names obtained; a memorial also prepared for the legislation against reducing the duty on spirits. Statistics of the church. Received on examination the past year 145. Whole number-:on'.examination 2794. From . Whole number from other churches 442. other churches '23 Dismissed past year 51. Whole number dismissed 279. past year 62. Whole number deceased 622. Excluded past year 49. Restored past year 29. In regular standing 1990. 52. Deceased Children baptised Whole number of children baptised 732. Marriages 147 couples. Contributions. Support of Pastor 1000. American Board 50. Meeting House Waimea Kauai 50. Meeting House at Wailupe - 78.68 " " Waikiki 5.35 Nuanu-[!] 217.75 Bell & fixtures at Pauoa 60.00 Meeting houses at Manoa & Makiki 342.50 cCock in tower of Stone church 200.00 Native helper at Wailupe 87.52 '■$2091.80 The above sum has all been paid in money. Considerable labor has been be­ stowed on Meeting houses &c not included. For statistics of Schools &c[‘?] I must refer to the Report of Miiji.^^! of in­ struction. . [E.W.Xlark] [Unsigned] [Written on the other side of last page]: Report of Station at Honnolulu 1st church. �Report of Honolulu Station May 1 , 1852. The past year has been marked by no special changes. A good degree of health has prevailed at the Station both among the natives & the Mission families. Death has made no . inroads in our own families, but some of our efficient native helpers have been removed. In the month of October I was laid aside two or three sabbaths by sickness. Otherwise my health has been much as in years past, with some increase of infirmities. The habits & usages & vices of civilized life are increasing at Honolulu. While many are, becoming more confirmed in virtuous principles & habits, others are becoming more hardened - in unbeleif[!] & sin. This is the natural result of the increased intercourse with men of all shades of m©ral character. As a result of this increased intercourse, intemperance has probably gained a stonger hold of a certain class of natives. Rum drinking however, has seldom shown itself among the members of the church. One or two cases only of disci­ pline have occurred for this^cause. Our church is strictly a temperance society. In addition to our own efforts on this subject, A temipefahce society has been in native operation among the foreign population, though not without apposition from some of the would be temperate. For a short time, the native hula was strongly encouraged by persons high in rank. Several of our church members, principally females, fell in to the snare & were set aside from the church. Most of them have returned professing, repentance, & for several months, we have heard nothing of the hula. In the month of October, more than usual interest in religion began to be manifested, in':this field & in other parts of the Island. Protracted meetings were held in different places, & accompanied, as we have reason to think, with a blessing from above active part. In this work Waimalu & other native helpers took a zealous & Meetings were croweded[!], & many hoomalokas, popes, Mormons & backsliders professed conversion. tokens of divine influence. Vie have much reason to be grateful for these As the result of this work, many wanderers 'from other churches living here professed to return to the right way of the Lord. In Jany.[!], 27 such persons were restored to fellowship in this church & report­ ed to their several pastors. stored at the same time. other churches. Twenty four fallen members of this church were re­ In April, 28 more were restored - 6 of them being frc^ In Jany. & April 279 were also admitted on profession. A few of them are regarded as the fruits of the late revival, but most of them have been candidate a much longer time. Meetings continue to be well attended. Church lunas have rendered much help at the out stations, but none of them have received any compensation except �Honolulu 1852 2 Umalele at Wallupe. Mr. Rice has labored at Manoa as heretofore. house there has been recovered with shingle The meeting under his superintendence. The station at Wailupe beyond Dimond Hill has been visited 8 times during the year, 5 the Lord's supper administered there over a quarter. Meetings have been held at two other out stations over a week as heretofore; a occasionally[!] on sabbath afternoons when the pulpit here could be supplied by others. Our"large house has been occasionally crowded, & is usually well filled in the forenoon. The church now consists of more than 2000 members. Money has been much less plenty than during the preceeding year, & contribu­ tions have diminished somewhat, but not materially. A Missionary Society has been formed at this station auxiliary to the Hawaiian Missionary Society with good prospects. Money has been freely contri­ buted & several have offered themselves for the Missionary work. Contributions, Salary of Pastor 1000.00 Paid to Native preacher at Wailupe 92.00 Monthly concert to Hawaiian Miss. Society - 50.00 Society Auxiliary to H.M.Society - 88.00 Cash for Seraphina-- 200.00 Repairs on Stone Church Sweeping, communions &c. J 50.55 Meeting Houses at. out stations 390.18 Tower clock 282.37 $2153.10 Statistics Whole number on profession of church. 3073 Whole number by letter 533 Past year on profession 279 Past year by letter Whole number dismissed to other churches Dismissed past year Whole number deceased 91 332 53 694 Deceased past year 72 Excluded past year 59 Restored past year 100 �Honolulu 1852 3. Whole number in regular standing 2280 Whole number of children baptised 732 Baptised past year 46 Marriages past year 205 For statistic of schools see report of Minister of Public Instruction. Before closing, it is proper to say a word in regard to the wants of this station. The church here now embraces more than 2000 persons in regular standing. About one half of these live in Honolulu & its immediate vicinity. The remainder live mostly in what is called the 5th Apana, embracing Makiki, Manoa, Waikiki, Palolo & Kekaha'further to the eastward, extending about 12 or 15 miles'from Honolulu.. The communicants cannot all be accommodated in our large house at once. We, therefore divide, part commune in the forenoon, & part in the after­ noon. The lower part of our house is nearly full of communicants both parts of the day. Between two & three hundred commune at Wailupe about 8 miles from this. It is well known, that while in other parts of the IslandsJ the people are diminishing, they are increasing in Honolulu & vicinity. The above statistics show that 91 have been recMved to this church by letter , the pas^year, & 33 not in regular standing have been restored from other churches to this, making 124 from other churches the past year, while only 53 have been dismissed to other churches. In Honolulu, church members are exposed to greater temptations than in other places; greater influences also go out from this city to other parts of the Islands than fron any other place. The committee labors &c which necessarily come upon the pastor here are greater than.in any other place, which labors will be increased, if the Home Missionary pla-n of the Board goes into effect. These considerations make it a very important inquiry with this meeting, whether more strength shall not be afforded for carying[1] on the work at this post. I trust, the meeting will seriously consider this question in disposing of the strength now at their command. The idea of retaining more than 2000 church members in one fold, under one shepherd in the U. States, would be considered preposterous. Is it'- less so here? Are the sheep less disposed to stray? Do they require less vigilence & care & anxiety on the part of the shepherd? These remarks are submitted for the careful consideration of the meeting. [Unsigned] [Written on back of last page]: Mr. Clark’s Report 1st chh. 1852 �May 1, 1852 Honolulu 1st Church Both the vices & the virtues of civilized life are gaining strength in Hono­ lulu I During part of the year there has been unusual attention to religion in this parish & in other parts of the I-siahd, with much interest. Protracted meetings have been'attended Many backsliders have been reclaimed, & a goodly number have professed conversion. 279 have been admitted to the church the past year, a few are regarded as the fruits of the late revival, but most of them have been can­ didate a much longer time. Meetings continue to be well attended. •Two or three meeting houses at out stations have been repaired at consider­ able expense. A Missionary Society, Auxiliary to the Ife'jaiian Missionar^feociety, has been fomded mth en­ couraging prospects. Contributions. Salary of pastor - - $1000.00 Support of Native preacher - - 92.00 Paid to Hawaiian Missionary Society ” 138.00 for church Seraphina 200.00 Repairs on Stone church 50.55 Sexton &c Meeting houses at out stations 390.18 Tower clock - 282.37 $2153.10 Statistics of church Whole no. on profession - 3073 Whole no. by letter 533 Past year on profession 279 Past year by letter 91 Whole no. dismissed to other churches Dismissed past year " 332 - 53 Whole No. deceased 694 Deceased past year 72 Excluded past year 59 Restored past year 100 Whole No. in regular standing Whole No. of children baptised 2280 732 �Honolulu May 1, 1852 Baptised past year - - 46 Marriages past year 205 [End] [E.W. Clark] [Unsigned] [Written on the other side of the last page]: Abstract of Report 1st Church 1852 �Report of Kawaiohao[!], Honolulu. May 1, 1853. By Mr. Clark. My own time, the past year has been a good deal broken in upon by the voyage to Micronesia, & two or three weeks sickness after my return. Mr. Paris, Mr. Armstrong, & Mr. Rice, supplied my"place during my absence, for which they have the thanks of the Pastor & the people. The voyage which will be noticed in a- nother report occupied four & a half months. The communion service was attended before I left, both at Wailupe & Kawaiohao[!], & 164 persons previously propounded admitted to the fellowship of the church. A very commendable missionary spirit was manifested at the commencement of the year, awakened by the sailing of the Mission to Micronesia. In addition '■ to about $1000. in money, our people contributed a considerable amount in sup"-'. ’.plies for the vessel. The safe return of the Caroline added new impulse to the Missionary feeling. On the whole the year has been one of decided advance among our people. 1. The number of church members has increased over 300. 2. Religious meetings have been well attended, & a consequent increase in religious knowledge & stability of character. 3. An evident advance has been made in habits of civilization. 4. Objects of benevolence have received more efficient aid than during any previous year. In addition to supporting their own pastor, & liberal contributions to the Micronesia Mission, more than $3000. have been raised for building meeting houses. In the superintendance of this work Bro. Rice has rendered invaluable help. Three new & substantial meeting houses with shingle roofs have been put up, & mostly finished, & one or two others repaired, so that we shall soon have a good meeting house in every important district in the field, in addition to the stone church in Honolulu. Meetings are held in these houses on the afternoon of the Sabbath, & at other times during the week. In this way, the Gospel is brought within the reach of all, & a religious interest is kept up throughout the field. Valuable aid has been rendered in these meetings by Mr. Armstrong, Mr. Rice & others. Many of our native church members are active helpers in religious meet­ ings & in other ways. The statistics of the church & of contrib.utions will lafford some index of the religious interest during the year. No special defection or outbreak of wickedness has taken place. ance & sabbath breaking are making some inroads among us. Intemper­ Mormonism & popery, I �Honolulu, Kawaiahao May 1, 1853 2, think, have not made much advance during the year. Honolulu continues, to be a vortex which draws in many of the unwary youth of the Islands, & swallows them up in the giddy whirl of dissipation. But on the whole we have great reason for ' gratitude, that so many restraining influences are operating to prevent the pro­ gress of sin & death around us. for the future. We would praise God for past mercies & trust him His kingdom,though it meets with many opposing obstacles, is on­ ward, we trust, at these Islands, & throughout the world. Since writing the above, a new outbreak of the Mormon delusion has taken place in Honolulu. One or two converts fromerly[formerly] from Lahainaluna in connection with some of the Mormons from Salt Lake have made quite a stir for a week or two past, leading captive silly women & silly men too laden with divers lust, most of them from the dregs of Honolulu. They have been urged into the water on a sudden excitement, thus turning the solemn ordinance of baptism into a farce. One of their native kahunas wrote me a poKte request for the use of the Stone Church on thfe sabbath, that he might make known to the people the true Gos­ pel. It afforded me occasion to give a brief history of Mormonism, & a solemn warning against the delusion;' Statistics of Church. Whole No. on profession 3404 Whole No. by certificate 579 Past year by profession 331 Past year by certificate 46 Whole No. past year 377 Whole No. dismissed to Other churches 351 Dismissed past year 19 Whole No. deceased 759 Deceased past year 65 Excluded past year 41 Restored past year 57 Whole No. in regular standing 2528 Whole No. of children baptised 768 Baptised past year 36 Marriages past year 128 Contributions. Support of pastor ” of a native helper 1000.00 78.46 �3. Honolulu, Kawaiahao May 1, 1853 Foreign missions Aid to the poor of the church 966.00 9.26 Hearse, sixton, bread & wine '&c 103.75 Tower clock 367.00 Building & repairing churches 3154.53 $5679.00 The above includes only cash receipts. A considerable amount was contribu­ ted in provisions for the voyage to Micronesia & more than five hundred dollars in labor on Meeting Houses. The amount contributed for religious purposes thepast year far exceeds any previous year. This is owing partly to special & pressing calls. [Unsigned] [Written on the other side of the last page]: Honolulu 1st Church & Station Report Read by Mr. Clark May 18, 1853 # �Report May 1853[1854], The year commenced with the small pox. We could do little else but battle with this terrible scurge[.f] for several months. my field escaped its ravages. Scarcly[!] a house throughout For month after month, I was called to witness the most heart renching[!] scenes, such as I hope never again to witness. In five months we buried about 1/5 of our church, making more than 500“members, & among them some q|^ our most useful members. visiting from house to house. ed. Much of the Pastor's time was occupied in Most of the usual meetings, however, were sustain­ Some appeared well under the chastis:€m&t> & others seemed bewildered & knew ! not which way to turn. A few church members betook themselves to the lying vani­ ties of Romanism & Mormonisin, & were baptised just as they were going out of this world with the assurance that this was their only hope of salvation. As in former epidemics, a good deal of apathy existed on spiritual subjects, &, at our time, a very unhappy state of feeling was gaining control over the minds of the people & threatening to carry away all before it. Many, even among church members, instead of regarding the scurge as a judgement from heaven.for their sins, began to attribute it to human agency. [! ] fanned things. This feeling was dilligently by certain foreigners from whom we had reason to expect better It required no little effort to calm down this excited feeling, & turn the minds of the people in the right direction. On the whole, the final impres­ sion left by the calamity has not been, I think, unfavorable to spiritual pro­ gress. Since the abatement of the disease, meetings have been well attended. The great number of deaths, more than 500 in the church, besides many more out of it has diminished the number of hearers less than we should have expected. Sev­ eral recent meetings from the different apanas of my church & Bro. Smith’s have been quite fully attended, continuing nearly the whole day. The contributions also for religious purposes have somewhat increased upon former years, notwithstanding the diminution of our numbers, & the almost entire prostration of worldly business for several months in the year. The usual meetings have been kept up during the year, but I regret, that I have not more time & strength to devote to the interests of the church. seems impossible, while so many other labors are pressing upon my hands. But this The oversight of printing, binding & distribution of books has added greatly to my cares for some months past. I trust we shall have a helper in this department before very long, as the Special Committee many months ago, applied for one. # �2. [Honolulu] May [1854] Our church has diminished during the year nearly 400. The number of deaths by small pox was 516, just one fifh[fifth] of the whole number reported last year. The additions have been less than in the preceeding year. The present number as seen by the statistics is a littleoover 2000. The statistics of the church are as follows: Whole No. on Prof. 3580. 176. Whole NO. by certificate 620. Past year by certificate 41. to other churches 395. ceased past year 551. Whole No. past year.217. Dismissed past year 44. Excluded past year 52. in regular standing 2192. Past year on Prof. Whole No. dismissed Whole NO. deceasedjlSlO. Restored past year 33. Whole No. children baptised 798. De­ Whole No, Baptised past year 30. Marriages past year 235. Contributions Support of pastor' Native helper Foreign mission 1200.00 71.00 488.68 Meeting house at Waimea 70.00 Church expenses 44.62 Meeting houses in the field 4038.75 $5913.61 s fc ^<1 M CO Ln -P' [Unsigned] [E.W. Clark] W o 3 O M (=: M c M CO rt 9 n CO rt P3 rt HO 1=1 a> O i-{ rt �Station Report Honolulu May 1855. t t-ifi TiHtiii i H H i t i i i U H i ii H i iti iiii The only occurrence of unusual interest in’:this parish the last year is the death of his late majesty Kamehameha III, & the peaceful accession to the throne of his successor. These events engrosssed the minds, of the people for several weeks in this parsish[!] as well as in other parts of the Islands, but so far as I can learn, they were unattended with those exhibitions of heathenism & licen­ tiousness so common on such occasions in former years. About the usual amount of pastoral labor has been performed. Sabbath services,four meetings during the week have been attended. Besides the Pule hoomau meetings continuing during the whole day, have been held in different parts of Honolulu & vicinity. Mrs. C. has attended a meeting of females on Friday. The admissions to the church have been less & the exclusions more than for several previous years. The increase in the number excluded has been owing prin­ cipally to the enticements of the beer shops, which have become an intolerable nuisance in Honolulu. These shops, professing to sell a harmless drink, have drawn multitudes into the snare of intoxication. Our church has a little more than held its ownLn numbers during the past year. Eleven more have been dismis­ sed to other churches than the number received by letter, which shows that the people are going out from the Metropolis rather than coming in, as in former years. The statistics will show that the amount contributed for benevolent purposes falls short of the previous year. The chiefs & the more wealthy many of them are among our smallest contributors. Several meeting houses in the field have under­ gone important repairs, which have required a considerable outlay. Superintend­ ing these repairs imposes a pretty serious burden upon the pastor, in addition to the pecuniary aid which he is expected to furnish. Owing to the nummerous[!] calls on the pastors time for otherjlabors, the people are too much neglected. Statistics of Church Whole No. on Profession 3698 Whole No. by certificate 652 Past year by examination 118 Past year by certificate 32 Whole No. past year 150 Whole No. dis. to other churches 438 Dismissed past year Whole No. deceased 43 1339 �Sonolulu May 1855 Died past year 29 Set aside past year 101 Restored past year 26 Whole No. in regular standing 2195 Whole No. of children baptised 811 Baptised past year 14 Marriages past year 170 Contributions. Pastoral support 1200.00 Foreign Missions 102.00 Church erection &c. 2000.00 $3302.00 [Unsigned] [E.W. Clark] [Written on the other side-of the last page]: Honolulu 1st Church Station Report May 1855 �Honolulu 1st Church. The only occurrence of unusual interest in this parish the last year is the death of his late Majesty Kamehameha III, & the peaceful accession of his Suc­ cessor. These events were unattended with those exhibitions of heathenism & licentiousness so common on such occasions in former years. The usual meetings have been kept up & pretty well attended. a little more than held its own in numbers the past year. Our church has For statistics see tables. [End] [Unsigned; not dated] [E.W. Clark; 1855] [Written on the other side of the page]: JMo. iU Abstract Honolulu 1st Church �[Note: The following report-was not written in the hand of R. Armstrongs but the signature is his.] Station Report of 1st Church in Honolulu May 22, 1856 Mr. Clark the p^tor of this Church, having concluded tb'make a visit to the United State[!], left his church and people in my care in March last, leaving to arrange with Mr. Bishop to render such aid in the word, as we should unitedly agree upon. Accordingly I have usually preached Sabbath morning''s[!] and atten­ ded the Sabbath School, while Mr. B. has preached in the afternoon and attended several meetings at outstations during the week. The congregation's[!] have been much as in former years. The Sabbath School has been pretty well attended; and the School for Ai o Ka'la on Sabbath, has been kept up; not numerously attended however. Meeting for prayer during whole days have been frequently held in different parts of the field, and have been attend­ ed with good results. The greatest source of Mischief in the Church, has been drunkeness on beer, deterious[!] article to helth]!], as well as to morals; and I see no prospect of any decrease of the evil at present, still the cases of dicipline in the church ha-ve been less than half, of what they were, the year previous; while the number restored, has been double of what it was the year previous. So far as numbers are concerned, the church has little more than held its own during the year; the decrease by death, removals &c, come within four of balancing the increase. Statistics. Whole no reed.-on profession. " ■" " " Certificate past year by examination. " ” " " ” " " Certificate " reed past year no. dismissed to other Churches " past year ” of deaths " past year Set aside past year Restored past year Whole no. in regular standing 3746 669 48 17 65 438 20 1385 46 . 49 54 2199 Respectfully submited[!] R. Armstrong. Acting pastor. [Written on other side of last page]: Report of 1st Church Honolulu, May 1856 �Report May 1857 A report of Kawaiahao station for the past year can hardly be expected of me. My connection with the work here embraces only three months of the year. During my absence the preaching & pastoral labors were performed by Messrs. Armstrong & Bishop, upon whom I must depend to report their own labors, & the statejLf the church during my absence. My own^abors at Kawaiahao were resumed the first of Feby. A kind Providence guided us in all our wanderings while absent & returned us in safety tt^our post of labor. My own health was improved by the voyage & visit but Mrs. C.is still an invalid, & I fear her health will: not soon be restored, if ever. A brief account of my own labors, while absent, so far as they relate to the common cause may not be out of place here. My first attention after arriving in the States was given to the Missionary vessel, next to the Oahu College, & lastly to revising & correcting the proofs of the N. Test.[! ]. The committee did not take up the subject of the vessel until the arrival of Mr. Baldwin & myself in Boston. I was requested to draw up in'wfiting for the committee the strong reasons for such a vessel. It was thought at first there were serious objections, but the need of a vessel was accknowledged[!], & it was resolved to build such a vessel as was requested, & appeal to the children for funds. The effort was successful beyond any thing expected at the Missionary House. Before I left, the subject was exciting the deepest interest throughout the country. It was often spoken of as a most happy event in the progress of the Missionary work. A new impulse was given to the cause of [the] mission, especial­ ly among the children, & thus the rising generation were being trained to carry forward the work, when their fathers should rest from their labors. At the request of Dr. Anderson, I prepared a paper on the Oahu College for the committee. publication- From this & other materials. Dr. A. prepared a small pamphlet for They were ready to afford present aid, & to use their influence in favor of raising a fund for the college. peal to the public for contributions. They did not think it best then to ap­ The desire seemed to be to-secure the sum from a few rich individuals, if possible. I made some appeals to Mr. Hunnewell on the subject, but he did not seem quite prepared to say what he would do. urged him to establish a Hunnewell professorship. I hope Mr. Beckwith will be more successful. Dr. Anderson's advice to Mr. Baldwin & myself was to scatter light on the subject & wait in patience. I �[Honolulu] May 1857 2. On the 9th of July, I arrived in N. York the second time, & commenced my work there, & did not finish it until the night before I sailed for the Islands. I was in N.Y. most of the time from the 9th of July to the 20th of November. I made a few short excursions from the city'during that time to visit friends,to at­ tend the Missionary Jubilee,Meeting of the Board &c. getting out the Testament more than I expected. I fuund[found] the labor of Some corrections were made in the copy in the copy[!] before leaving here, & the references were all ready when I arrived in N. York; but after commencing printing, I found,:\in reading the proofs, the copy needed frequent corrections, additions & alterations too -many to be made in the proofs. This render^it necessary to make a thorough re:sfeion- of the copy before going to press; comparing it with the standard English copy used at the Bible House, verse for verse & with the Greek where^ver alterations seemed to be needed. This greatly enhanced the labor, but the copy was ready as fast as called for, though it sometimes required 12 hours sitting in a day. took then a longer time to prepare the plates than I'.expected. It There will ■ doubSess be defects in the work, but I trust it will be found more correct than any addition before published. left. The plates were nearly ready for press, when I Four thousand ce.pies were to be printed off immediately, & may be .expected here by an early opportunity. I forbear to remark on other matters relating to my visit as not appropriate to a station report. I would say, however, that I was very kindly received by the friends of Missions, & nothing.occurred to mar the pleasure of the visit except the feeble health of Mrs. Clarl. To one so long absent from the country, actively engaged in the foreign field, there was something peculiarly interesting in attending the large Missionary gatherings, or in witnessing the deep interested[!] manifested in the cause. It was indeed"sitting in heavenly places in Christ Jesus." I enjoyed also very much the intercourse with relatives & friends, & the visit to old familiar places after an absence of 29 years. had been made in the material prosperity of the country. A wonderful progress Progress also seemed to have made in religion, so far as related to public objects of benevolence, but whether there is more real piety in the countrythan when I left in proportion to the population is doubtful. I resumed my labors in Kawaiahao church on the first of February. Since that time there has been a gradual increase in attendence on public worship, & we have reason to think the Holy Spirit has been present to give efficacy to the truth. Mr. Armstrong has still rendered important aid in preaching, usually oc­ cupying the pulpit in the afternoon while I go to one of the outstations. �I^Honolulu] May 1857 3. At the conununion season on the first of April, thirty backsliders confessed their sins, & were restored, to communion, & more than 100 were propotinded as can­ didates for admission to the church. We have reason to think that Kawaiahao church, as well as the other churches in Honolulu, has been revived, & that a few mercy drops have fallen upon our city, wicked as it is. For this we would rejoice & give thanks to him with whom is the residue of the Spirit, [in pencil]: Our usual..weel^kday. [?]. -[End] .. Our lunas, most of them, continue to be active & efficient helpers. meetings with them on Saturday are well attended. My . It is a practical school of much importance both to them & to the church. 7 Some change has beepnade in the collection of funds for the support of the Gospel & other objects, which have resulted favorably thus far. We hear but little at present of the dance houses, hulas &c in Honolulu & vicinity,but there are still many pit falls to ensnare the unwary. A constant watchfulness is required on':the part of the pastor & church lunas to keep the enemy at bay, while we build the house of of[!] the Lord. We all need a new bap­ tism from on High. [Unsigned] [E;W. Clark] [Written on the back of original manuscript page 5]: Report of Honolulu 1st Church. �Abstract of Report Honolulu 1st Church [1860] The labors of Kawaxahao have been interrupted the past year by the absence of the pastor. He was away from'-.the flock 8-I months of the year, & has not much to report. Only 5 have been admitted by profession the past year, while 66 have died, so that the real number of the church is less than it was one year ago. Their ability to support the Gospel has diminshed still more than their numbers. This is owing partly to the increased expense of living in Honolulu, & partly to the great increase of artificial wants as civilization progresses. The interest in religion has apparently been increasing since the return of the pastor. Union meetings have been held in different parts of the field, & sometimes with a good deal of interest. mission to the church, sion. Forty five have been propounded for ad­ Som5 of'-these give pleasing evidence of recent conver­ With others, we trust, the spirit is striving. The present pastor, with his increasing age & numerous other cares is en­ tirely inadequate to the labors necessary"'.in this Metropolitan church. You will probably be called upon by the church to aid them in securing other labor in this important field. Contributions. 1000, Support of pastor 40. Native helpers 100, Foreign Missions 47. Sexton, repairs &c 340. Church erection, bell &c. $1527, April 20, 1860 Honolulu 1st Church Statistics Whole No. on profession Do " on certificate Past year on Profession ” " on Certificate Total past year 4012 762 5 12 17 Whole Ng. Dismissed 525 Dismissed past year 12 Total deceased 1588 �Honolulu 1860 Deceased past year 66 Excluded past year 29 Restored past year 20 Now in regular standing 2235 Total Children Baptised 763 Baptised past year 24 Marriages past year 83 [Unsigned] [E.W. Clark] [Written on the back of the last page] Honolulu 1st church Abstract of Report. �Honolulu 1st Church E.W. Clark Pastor In reviewing the past;year, we are called to speak o£ a f f l i c t ­ ions as well of mercies. One, who has long been identified with the interests of Christy's kindgdom in the Islands, § especially with the interests of this church, has been suddenly taken from us. Bro. Armstrong will no more mingle with us in our counsels § our labors. He has gone to be with the general assembly § church of the first born, whose names are written in heaven.” [!] But God has mingled mercies with judgements. He has indeed turned again our captivity § caused our hearts to sing for joy. Early in the Summer, we were encouraged by marked indications of the presence of the Spirit. forward, Lord. Many, who had long resisted the light, § confessed their sins, came § their determination to serve the Meetings were crowded ^ solemn.; a n ew moral § religious pect seemed to pervade the community. as’^^ec We have had the most s a t i s ­ factory evidence, that the Spirit of God has been at work on the hearts of the p e o p l e , § that many have been brought to a saving k n o w ­ ledge of Christ. As the fruits of this work, some hundreds have profe sse d their faith in Christ for the first time, § many wanderers have bee n r e ­ stored to the fellowship of the church. But among a people so easily moved by external circumstances, where sympathy § iimitation are so strong national characteristics, we mu^cexpect there will be m u c h chaff with the wheat. ”Man looketh on the outward appearance, but God looketh on the heart.” In July, 30 were added to the church by profession. ber, 161 In January, fession 323. 111. In April, In O c t o ­ 166; making in all by p r o ­ Restored to fellowship 161; Some of these have been long wanderers from the fold. More than half this number are from other churches long resident here. The whole number of additions to the church during the year by profession, by letter § by restoration has been 514. Most of these have been examined individually from two to three times by the pastor. Dismissions[dismissals], deaths § exclusions 117, making the net increase of the church 39 7. �2. Honolulu 1st Church [1861] Contributions These have been somewhat in advance of last year. Support of pastor 1200.00 Native helpers, sexton ^c 55.00 Church erection, repairs §c in our own field ” 407.00 " in other fields 40.00 Hawaiian Missionary So.ci-ety 153.70 Charity to the poor .......16.00 $1872.30 [1871. 70] Church Statistics Whole No. on profession ” ” certificate Past year on profession ” " certificate 4335 792 323 30 Total past year 353 Whole No. dismissed 555 Dismissed past year 40 Total deceased 1644 Deceased past year 66 Excluded past year 21 Restored past year :.161 No w in regular standing 2632 Total children baptised 819 Baptised past:year Marriages past year 56 118 .[Unsigned] M CO o: y w o r+ M H P M ;^:o CD r+ M O O Co l-i Hh r+ cn n r+ sa r+ c; H H* O n P �Church. Statistics. Whole number ori profession ” ” 4415 on certificate 809 Past year on profession ” ” 90 on certificate 17 Total past year 107 Dismissed to other churches past year Total dismissed 581 Deceased past year 67 Total deceased 1711 Excluded past year 48 Restored past year 19 Now in regular standing 2617 Children baptised past year Total " 31 ' 850 Marriages past year C 26 i 77 Contributions. Support of pastor i; For native helpers, sexton §c Church erection in our own field ” " in other fields 1200.00 45. 00 471.00 42.00 Church bells 395.00 Foreign Missions H Z . 00 $2265.50[2265.00] [Unsigned] XWritten on other s i d e ] ; 1st Church Honolulu ■ Abstr.aet [‘ !] Statistics' 1862 �Honolulu, Kawaiahao Church,. Station Report May 1862 The usual round of Missionary labors have been kept up at the Station the past year, but I am sorry to say with less f a v o r ­ able results than during the year proceeding, when we were visited with a refreshing from on high. Our Sabbath services besides a Sabbath School conducted by some of our Missionary children, have been preaching in the m o r n ­ ing § afternoon, a Bible class at noon, also a union m e e t ing in the evening during the year, held alternately at Kawaiahao makapili.y § Kau- These meetings have been less fully attended than last year. We have had one weekly lecture at the Station, § one week ly m e e t in g held in rotation at twelve different places including K a ­ waiahao. At all these outstations, comfortatile § substantial m e e t ­ ing houses have been erected, three of them during the past year, § about half of them are supplied with good bells. In addition to these meetings, meetings § among the most im.portant of the week, has bee:! our I'una meeting on Saturday. Part of the time of this meetixg has been occupied on a lesson in the new class book on Theology, § partly in church discipline, regulating 9 fher church matters. § in Our number of I'uhas has increased to about one hundred, taken from different parts of the field. number is more, it may be supposed, discipline. This than is necessary for efficient This increase has been owing partly to the strong des:Vr sire of the church that there should be a goodly number of these helpers in different parts of the fieldjl] parish, § partly to the consideration that these' lun'as are brought into closer c o n ne ct ­ ion with the pastor § into more active service, § under v..more p a r t i ­ cular instruction than others, therefore the greater the number, the more l i v i n g ,ractive members in the church. used the office of a deacon well, pujrchase# degree § great booldness{boldness?] "For they that have to themselves a good in the faith.” The number, how- ^vSrV must bS limited in so large’ ':^' church--.as 'this;^ ^or^efficieht'act.i.6n::-will. be. impeded,. , ,I.f .the whole .army could have the instruction # The rest of the quote following the-^pound sign(#) was w ritten in the left margin. �Honolulu, Kawaiahao May 1862 § discipline of the leaders, 2. it would be well, but this is not easily attained. Four communion seasons have been attended at Wailupe as usual. The portion o£ the church which attend communion at Kawaiahao are divided into two sections, occupying both forenoon § afternoon. The number of marriages attended is less than last year, the number of funerals about the same. Visiting from house to house has not been attempted by the pastor to any extent. This kind of pastoral watch § care, so far as performed at all, has been done by the church L u n a s , § by h o l d ­ ing meetings in different sections of the parish. Certain seasons have been devoted to -felking with inqurers[inquirers] at the pastors study. B e nev ole nc e. There has been a small increase in contributions :fo:r religious objects above the preceeding year. The e^cact amount expended on out- station Meeting Houses has not been ascertained, pass through the hands of the pastor. built § nearly finished. one of over 1000 lbs. cracked bell. as it does not all Three small houses have been One outstation bell has been procured, § for the Kawaiahao church to replace our old It is evident that the various calls for benevolence are met with greaterrdifficiltyf!] than a few years ago, owing to an increased scarcity of money. But many of our best church members hold on to the habit of giving a portion of their small gains to the service of the Lord. Some others give little or nothing. Ninety have been received to the church on profession the past year, 17 by letter 19 restored to fellowship, yet the church has not quite held its own owing to the num;ber of deaths, sals] , §c. dismissions [dismis­ The decrease has been 15. There has been an evident increase in':knowledge, stability § piety in about one third of the church, another third is nearly s t a ­ tionary, § another third is unstable or retrograde. There is probably an increasing class in Honolulu, § perhaps in other parts of the Islands, who are inclined to listen to the t e a c h ­ ings of unbelief § infidelity. set easy on such; The restraints of the Gospel do not § we must expect more § more hostility in the na^'. �Honolulu, Kawaiahao May 1862 3 tive mind, to evangelical teachings ^ especially' as. ;e;fficient Jn this direct ion „is afforded by increased intercourse Twitli fo.reign in-fidelity. The establishment of our Island Presbetery^ conference promises good to our cause. or rather church . The two m e e t i n g s , w h i c h ' have been held have been attended, we think, with, good re sults/ In regard to Bible 'Revision on wh ich the Comnj.itt.ee were en'^joined individually to report to this meeting, my spare time has been devoted to this work.. fully all the books Kings, T would say, m o s t of I haye been .over care-^ assigned to me excepting par t of the 1st B o o k of comparing in many cases with the original as well as w i t h the English translation. A good many minor corrections have been made, ^ others have been marked for further consideration. It is. ver y desirable there should be a full, meeting of the Committee' at the present Meeting of the Association^ Statistics of church.' Whole number on profession " on certificate Past year on profession ” " on certificate 4415 80. a 9.0 17 107, Total past year Dismissed to other churches past year 26. 581 Total dis-missed 67 Deceased past year 1711 Total deceased:' Excluded past year 48 Restored past year 19. N o w in regular standing Children baptised past year 2617 31 ■.850 Total 77 Marriages past year Contributions ^ ■ Support of pastor 12 0 0 For native helpers^ s e x t i o n l G ■' 45 Church, erection in our own field 471' �4^ Honolulu, Kawaiahao May 1862 CLurch. erection in otlier fields ^ 42,50 Church Bells Foreign Missions r-SaS/OO ' 'irZ-.'OO- $ 2265,50 lUnsigne.dJ :J;E,W, Clark] C/) r+ O CD ^<; ^ S O M H H CO o r+ 0\ CO O ffi Hh O y o fi: a �Report of Kawaiahao Station. Forty three years ago. Missionary labor was first commenced at this station. Here no church spire then greeted the Heavens, not even a framed or stone dwelling was then to be seen on the barren precincts of the present city. which n ow presents itself! How changed the external aspect, The inquiry naturally arises, is the change as great in a moral aspect? We can barely assert this. we can safely say, even in this respect, But forty three years has brought about a change such as has seldom been witnessed in any other part of the world in the same period of time. We cannot go into the evidences of this change from the b e ­ ginning. It has been gradual § steady. The past year is not an exception, though the onward progress is less marked than in some previous years. Perhaps in no year, so fgr as the native m i n d is concerned, have the foundations of our faith been so thoroughly sifted. Error in various shapes, has shown itself among us § b o l d ­ ly put forth its teachings. This has unsettled the minds turned some back to forsaken superstitions, stupidity upon others. ing ground. of a few, § brought indifference § But the true light, we trust, has been g a i n ­ Some have gone back, because they were not of us, others are more firmly established in the truth. The usual sabbath § week day meetings among the people have been sustained. The attendance has fallen off,',rwe think,: somewhat', part'-"/ *ly pef-h'aps froiii diminished population, § partly from growing in d i f ­ ference to religion among the less enlightened. drawn away to the new a o a o , which has come in. A few have been There has b een no special religious excitement, or turning to the p'o'no, as in some f or ­ mer years. But there is more independent thinking ^ discrimination among our good people, ed in the word of God. § their faith is becoming moxe firmly g r oun d­ While the chaff is being blown away, the good seed remains to the praise of G o d ’s grace. But few have been admitted to the church on the profession of faith the past year, § owing to deaths, exclusions §c, the church * has not held its own in numbers. The Sabbath School has-been kept up, conducted mostly by Mr. Livi[!] Chamberlain. The attendance has been pretty good, ing the number of other Sabbath Schools in the place. co nsider­ �[Honolulu] Kawaiahao [1863] 2. According to arrangements at our last Gen. Meeting, Mr. Henry H. Parker commenced his labors in connection with this church in August. He has afforded most efficient help both in the pulpit § various other ways. He has taken one half of the preaching on the Sabbath, besides attending weekday meetings at the outstations. The Sabbath day services have consisted of the usual morning § afternoon services at Kawaiahao, preaching ^ a Bible class, services at the outstations in the afternoon. - § A third service has sometimes been held on the premises of the Governor, who has n e a t ­ ly fitted up, a room for the purpose. ducted by one of us, This has sometimes been con- § sometimes by native lunas.. My own time on week days has been iau-ch occupied in the study. In revising the part of the Bible assigned to me, sheets, press, in reading proof in other labors oconnected with the book department § the Mr. Parker early commenced-visiting the church members their homes, taking the field in the order of the apanas, certain the number, standing, at to a s ­ character §c of the church members. The results so far'as numbers are concerned are embodied in the statistics. He finds a good many nominal church members, who give little evidence of piety, although perhaps not guilty of any overt act of wrong-doing.to subject the formal church censure. Our people have their ups § downs in religion as well as in other things. They are proverbially fickle, § like the A t h e n i a n s ,"Spend mu c h of their time, in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.” Any thing, that presents itself as a riuh'ou, whether it be in the form of an old heathen superstition newly revived, or in the form of a more civilized idol worship, will attract devotees time. for a The word of God faithfully preached § exemplified in the lives of its teachers can alone cure these vagaries. Contributions for religious purposes have been about the same as usual. But it requires a good deal of effort on the part of the pastor ^ church lunas to raise the funds necessary for current e x ­ penses, to say nothing of contributions for foreign objects. . The artificial wants of the people especially in Honolulu, faster ,than their mieans to meet these wants. increase This makes it more d i f­ ficult to secure voluntary offerings for the support of the Gospel. A strong.pressure on this subject has a tendency to drive some to seek a cheaper religion. �[Honolulu] Kawaiahao ]1863] 3,. Our people have taken hold of repairing their great church with a good deal o f S p i r i t , & some 500 or 600 dollars have been expended on these repairs. The repairs speak for themselves. They contributed also to-,aid in rebuilding the Seminary at Lahainaluna. Owing to these calls, the salary of the Pastor, at his own suggestion, has been reduced from 1200 to 1000 dollars. This sum VV or rather the same sum granted by the Board is now paid over to Mr. Parker. Whether it will be any easier to secure this usm than it has heretofore been to secure 1200 is doubtful. Contribu­ tions for foreign missions have been less than last year. Our Island church conference, continued with good results. tation at different stations. commenced last year, has been Semiannual meetings are held in ro­ The time is principally occupied in reading essays & disciplining important subjects connected with the interests of the churches. It affords a. good school for preparing our churchlunas to be efficient helpers in the work of the Gospel, as well as securing unity & efficency[!] to the churches It is proper here to say that during the last month, Mr. Parker having labored about nine months in connection with the church, it seemed proper that further steps shohid be taken in re­ lation to his remaining permanently as Pastor. At a meeting of the church lunas the subject was introduced & discussed, seemed to be the unanimous wish that he should remain. following Sabbath, & it On the a full meeting of the church was called, & after some explanations by the present pastor & Judge ‘iSL, it was voted unanimously that a call be extended to Mr. Parker to become pastqr of the church. Gov. Kekuanaoa, Judge f i , Naone, Makuia Kaawa were appointed a committee to prepare & present the call. At the same meeting, the present pastor verbally presented his request to be released from the Church as Pastor, but object­ ions were made to granting it until something further was know in regard to Mr. Parker's plans, & it was not urged. The Church ex­ pressed a willingness to refer the matter to this body. [Written on the bottom of this page, sideways]; 1863 June Report Station Kawaiahao Honolulu �[Honolulu] Kawaiahao [1863] Upon Bible Revision, 4. on which the Committee were to report individually to this meeting, I will say a few words. Rowell reported to the last meeting, New Testament, meeting, As Bro;. that he was engaged on the-- the committee, of Revision were directed, to "write to brethren Rowell & Dole, views of the body in regard to the work, by that clearly stating the & also make arrangements for the immediate prosecution of the revision of:'the whole of the Old Testament." The committee made arrangements for the revision of the Old Testament by dividing it otit as follows, - Pentateuch to Alexander Sen.[SeniLgr],- from Pentateuch to end of Chronicles to Clark,- from Chronicles to Psalms to Baldwin, from Psalms to Ezeakel[!] Psalms to L. Andrews & Parker, to Forbes, - Ezeakel, - Daniel & the minor Prophets to Alexander'TJtin.[Junior]. A letter was written to brethren Rowell & Dole, posal of this body. a copy/of whichis present, & at the dis­ Brother Rowell will report for himself. I have progressed with my own revision as far as Chronicles./ comparing the more doubtful places only with the original. A letter was received from Dr. Brigham written just before his death, which contains the following extract. There is another topic in which we feel much interest, family Hawaiian Bible electrotyped at our Bible House. topic which we have spoken or written before. a This is a I presume the translation is now so well settled that it can with all propriety be put into permanent form. Will you inform me what progress is made towards such an-nndertaking. We find that the Armenia[!] Bible electrotyped by us is^iked m u c h , very much in the Levant[?], Some Turks & Greeks as well as wealthy A r m e n i a n s ,purchase mainly from the beauty of workmanship. In the hope of hearing from some of you on the topics me nt i o n e d , I subscribe myself yurs[!] truly & fraternally J .C .Brigham S ecy & c • �[Honolulu] Kawaiahao [1863] Statistics of the Church Whole No on Profession " on Certificate 820 Past year on profession 12 " " 4427 ” 11 on Certificate 23 Total past year Whole No dismisged 604 Dismissed past year 23 1785 Whole No deceased Deceased past year 74 Exclude 50 past year Restored past year 23 I !] Now in regular standing 886 Total children baptised 36 'Baptised past year Marriages past year 60 Contributions, Repair of churches $ 600.00 Lahainaluna Seminary 206.75 Sexton & other church expenses 43.75 Foreign Missions 56.00 Pastoral support- 1075.00 $1981.50 [Written on the back of the last, page' 1863 June Kawaiahao Oahu Station Report � 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 - 1830-1863 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, 1846, 1847, 1849, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/f656d935836c472cecfce462ad50740c.pdf 153d807833d17465176852c489bbca3d PDF Text Text Kaneohe Station Reports Unsign e d . . . . . . . .................. . . . . . 1835 Benj. W. P a r k e r ....................... .............. 18 3 6 B.W. P a r k e r ......................................... 1838 U nsign e d ..................... ............... ......... 1839 Unsi g n e d (B.W. Parker) . . . . ......... ............ 1840 U nsi g n e d (B.W. Parker) .................. . . . . . 1841 Unsign e d (B.W. Parker) 1843 Statistics of chh Kaneohe . . . . . . . . . . . . 1843 Unsign e d (B.W. Parker) .............................. 1844 Statistics of chh at K a n e o h e ........... ............ 1844 * Unsign e d (B.W. Parker) ......... . . . . . . . . . 1846 U nsi g n e d (B.W. Parker) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1848 Unsign e d (B.W. Parker) . . . . ......... . . . . . 1849 B.W. Parker . . . . . . . ........... . . . . . . 1851 Statistics of the chh at K a n e o h e ......... ......... 1851 Unsign e d (Abstract ) . ................ . . . . . . 1852 Unsign e d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1852 Unsign e d (B.W. Parker) . . . ......... . . . . . . 1853 B.W. Parker ........................... .. ............. 1854 Unsigned (Kaneohe-Abstract of Report for Minutes) Unsigned (B.W, Parker) (Statistics of Kaneohe Church) Unsign e d (B.W. Parker) . . ........... . . . . . . 1855 B.W. Parker . . . . . . . .............. . . . . . 1856 Statistics of the church at K a n e o h e .............. 1856 U n s i g n e d (B.W. Parker) ..................... ......... 1857 U n s igned (B.W. Parker) ........................................1858 Statistics of Ch. at Kaneohe . . . . . . ......... .1858 Unsign e d (B.W. Parker) . . . . . ......... . . . . 1859? Statistics of Church at Kaneohe ................... .1859? Unsign e d (B.W. Parker) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1860 C h u r c h Statistics of Kaneohe Station . . . . . . . . 1861 Unsign e d (B.W. Parker) . . . . . . . . ........... .1862 �(Kaneohe 1835) The station at K - has been occupied about months (!). was in some respects an unpromising station. It A majority of the population had no desire for a missionary & the chiefs, who own that part of the island are not among those who desire their people to he instructed. At the commencement of this station there was no house of wor­ ship in that part of this island. Our services on the sabbath were for the first 3 months attended under a ranai. The frame of a meeting house had been standing for more than two years. Soon after this station was taken the meeting house was finished - 72 feet by 30. It was dedicated on the 31st of Nov ( !) & religious exercises conducted on Saturday sabbath & Monday by brethrens Bingham & emerson ( !). Religious services - On sabbath morning a prayer meeting has been kept up since the dedication of the meeting house, a childrens sabbath school has been attended immediately after the morning ser­ vice the usual attendance has been over 70 children - The ai o ka la has been attended by about 150 not including any of those in childrens school. Occasionally meetings have been held at places 6 or 8 miles from the station. Schools. There is no school house in the whole district of Pali Koolau & no school taught by native teachers. Three or four have been employed as helpers in the childrens school. But their help can scarcely be said to be of any service. Since the meeting house has been finished the stations schools have been kept in it. These have been �2. Kaneohe - 1835 1 A school for male adults 30 2 For adult females 30 3 For children 70 Thes(e) have been continued for about 6 months four days in a w e e k & about 2 hours in each school day. ably called for - Books have bee n consider­ Many more of some kinds might have been disposed of than I have been able to get. Toward the close of the year they have been much oftener called for than in the early part of the year. No church has been formed. There are only three members of a church in Koolau 2 females members of the Honolulu church & one male, a member of the church at Lahaina. There have been 87 marriages most of them within the last 2 months. The use of the native rum has made the condition of great part of the population exceedingly wretched. Five or six distilleries have b e e n employed almost the whole year to distill the tea ( !) root - About three weeks since they were all stoped ( !) by an order (of) the cheef ( !). Previous to this order some of the natives were breaking off f r o m drinking & attended schools & meetings. 3 �(1836) - (Kaneohe) On my return to the station at Kaneohe after the close of the last general meeting there were some things among the people more encourageing ( !) than the previous year. in the congregation on the sabbath the house was filled. There was a large increase For a succession of sabbaths Bothe ( !) the childrens & the adults Sabbath school was increased more than one half in number beyond what it h a d been the previous year. The congregation has been uniformaly ( !) as it w a s for the first five or six sabbaths at the commencement of the year it has however invariably been one third larger than it was the year previous to the last gen. meeting. Immediately after my return a childrens school was commenced and has been continued four days in a week three hours i n a day d u r ­ ing the year excepting two vacations of three weeks each. The aspect of this school has been more encourageing than it w a s the preceeding ( !) year. A much larger number have attended & have been m u c h more regular in their attendance - Previous to the last gen. meeting not more than 50 had attended and the average at t e n ­ dance h a d not b e e n more than 30. The present year more than 100 have been in the childrens school & the average attendance has been about 80. About twenty five of these can read. I have instructed a class of 12 lads connected with this school who beside reading the ikemua & huakeholoholona have attended to mental arithmetic & geography. At the examination of all the schools in A pril 365 children were present. Only a ver y small number of the children not connected with the station school can read probably not more than 4 or 5. Fro m one examination to another no progress is made among the children who are exclusive under the charge of n a tive teachers. It is painful to see mont(h) after month & year after year pass �Kaneohe 1836 2 away and no advancement made in teaching this important part of a missionaries charge. Such have been the demands of the chiefs on the people during the year past as to give very little opportunity for teaching adults. About thirty females have been connected have been taught in the childrens school a part of the year & about the same number of adults have been in school three days in a week for about three months. At the last general meeting I stated that there was no school house in that part of the island which comes under my particular care . During the year two very good native houses have been built & three or four are now building beside a station school house at Kaneohe. The demand for books has been much greater than the last year. There has been in some respects an encourageing reformation among the natives on that part of Oahu the last year. in ardent spirits is now very little known. Intemperance The rum distileries ( !) which for most of the year previous had been in active opperation ( !) have all been stoped ( !) with the exception of one. Many who had formerly been teachers but whom I never saw during the first year of my residence at the station have the past year returned to meet­ ings & schools. Prom some lands numbers now constantly find their way to the house of God on the sabbath when a year since not half u a doz. would attend a meeting appointed in their own neighborhood. This change has been in part & perhaps cheifly ( !) occasioned by a change in the owners of the lands. Religious instruction preaching &c have been as usual during the year, I have already stated that the sabbath congregation has been one third larger than it was the year preceeding ( !) the last �Kaneohe 1836 general meeting. 3. Prom 100 to 130 children have been in constant attendance in the childrens sabbath school - The year previous from 50 30 to --- ----. The sabbath school for adults in which the ai o ka la has been the lesson has numbered from 250 to 300 the year previous from 100 to 150. In the month of Oct. a protracted meeting was held commencing tuesday & closing monday - The meeting was attended by the brethren from all the stations on the island some being present the (whole) & others only a part of the meeting from the commencement to the close. The meeting was well attended Of the result of the meeting I cannot say any thing more than that a general permanent interest seems to have been excited by it. Prom that time to the present a more serious attention has been given to preaching than before. Many among the natives refer to this meeting as the time when they gave their hearts to the Lord but they do not give that evidence of conviction of sin & conversion which we wish to see. About 150 from this station attended the protracted meeting at Honolulu & more than 300 at Waialua. these meetings. Some were seriously impressed at both But I cannot speak with any degree of confidence of the conversion of this & that individual. ceived much religious instruction is certain. That they have re­ It is also certain that an open ear an attention to preaching and a mellowness of feel­ ing (inserted between lines & not too clearly legible:) wh at is desirable to see in a cong. has been the result. Of a very few I have hope that they are christians. has yet been organized at the station. N o church The way however seems to be open & I hope to have one formed without much delay. A register of births & deaths has been kept commencing January 6 �4. Kaneohe 1836 and is as follows Births Jan Feb. March April May Total 2 2 3 4 3 14 Deaths 7 8 3 6 14 38 The above is a register of births & death(s) on on ( !) a land of about eleven hundred people. A census of the whole population has also been taken the last year and is Census 4636, 351 less than in 1831 four years since. Respectfully submited ( !) Benj W Parker Kaneohe June 1st 1836 �Kaneohe May 19, 1838 Report The ordinary labours of the station have been continued dur­ ing the year without interruption. My labours on the sabbath have been three public services a bible class and a sabbath school. Wednesday afternoon a lecture and every thursday afternoon a meeting at two out stations alternating on one thursday at one place and on the next at the other. Buildings. A stone house has been built at the station the past year at an expense of about $1500. Schools - I have spent a portion of every week in schools till within the last six weeks other duties have made it necessary for me to leave this part of missionary work entirely with native teachers. Soon after the close of the last general meeting Mr. Baily ( !) went to the station & spent from two to three months with us and assisted us in schools. Soon after he left Miss M Smith came to the station and after a few weeks engaged in the childrens school. Since her return the school has been left entirely in the care of native teachers. Five native houses suitable for schools & meetings have been built the year past 500 people. They are large enough to hold from 400 to Only two lands in the whole district now remain desti­ tute of a house for schools and meetings - More than 100 dollars have been contributed in money for a bell. School teachers may I think be supported in future by contributions from the people. Extraordinary Labours; the year past. I have held two protracted meetings One at the station assisted by brethren Bingham & Smith the other was held 6 miles from the station without any help �2. except such as I had from three (?) church members. resulted from these meetings. Great good has For four months past there has been more interest on the subject of religion than I have ever seen them before. And there appears to be as much at the present time as I have seen during the last four months - Every head man in this district now professes to be on the Lords side. Till within the last two months not one of this class in the whole district have ever manifested any interest in the gospel - Not long since in returning from Honolulu I found the head man of land lying drunk in the road and a company of his men by the side of him in a like condition. Lord - He now gives evidence of having given his heart to the Another who has spent his sabbaths at the rum distillery instead of the house of God tho much nearer to the latter gives evidence of saving change. Another who has lived within a mile of the meeting house but never entered it till the sabbath previous to the last protracted meeting was converted at the protracted meeting & promises to be a shining Christian - He first discovered his feelings in a sermon during the protracted meeting - In which he interrupted the speaker & occupied about five minutes in expressing his own feelings. He was evidently prompted to speak from the fulness of his heart. His language plainly showed that the Holy Spirit had broken his heart. A large number who have been employed at the rum distillery have left it within the last two months & some give evidence of penitence - though about thirty still remain at the distillery carrying on the work & they say they shall not stop till they have directions from the king to do so. love to the Saviour. Some children give evidence of �Kaneohe 1838 Statistics 3* Admitted to Chh the past year 43. Baptisms of children 11. Marriages 60. Propounded 6 6 . Whole number of chh me m ­ bers 54 (59 ?). Kaneohe May 19 - 1838 B.W. Parker Miss Smith has been removed from Kaneohe by a vote of the meeting of this island. If this movement is confirmed by the delagate ( !) meeting I desire that they will station some one here who will supply her place. Miss Smith has spent about six months of the past year with us and assisted in the schools. We need the assistance of some one to share with us the labours of the station. I do not know that Miss Smith wish(es) her loca­ tion changed unless some one can be found to be put here in her place. She is at Lahaina & can be consulted as to her wishes. Benj W Parker Kaneohe May 22 1838 10 �Station Report (1839) Nothing has occured ( !) the past year to interrupt the usual labours of the station. We have been absent from the station t h r e e weeks in which time in company with bro Smith & family we went to Kauai made the tour of that island. Encouragement to labour in preaching teaching & the various missionary duties has been greater perhaps than in any previous year sin c e the Station was taken. Schools The only schools taught in the district the past year have been those for children. Of these there are twelve in the different parts of the district containing in all about 400 children. The teachers of these schools are freed from all taxes except the annual money tax of one dol l ar for their labour. They all receive some compensation About 100 dollars have been contributed during the year to pay the teachers of the childrens schools. Of this 20 dollars was money & the remainder in such articles as have been disposed of for clothing. At the monthly concert in April pr e v i o u s notice have been given that the contribution for that day would be for the teachers more than 60 dollars were contributed. 19 in money and remainder in fouls turkies pigs goats &c which have been sold at Honolulu. There have been three exhibitions of the schools the past year the last at the station when all the schools were present whole number of children present 304 less by 100 than would have been but for the mumps & other sickness which have been prevalent for the last two or three months. read tolerably well 150 of these can Many of them have attended to mental arithmetic & some have been through 10 chapters in Colburns some have attended to written arithmetic some to geography and a small class to the Little Philosopher. A school house has been built at the station and furnished with 11 �2 Kaneohe 1839 seats and writing benches which will seat about 100 schollars ( !) the work has been done by the voluntary contribution of the people the expense of lumber for finishing and the carpenters work has been mostly borne (by) the contributions from the people. Sabbath preaching &c The exercises of the sabbath have been a morning meeting at sunrise childrens sabbath school at 9 forenoon public meeting 1/2 past 10 Ai o ka la at 3 afternoon public meeting again 6 at 4 Number of children in the sabbath school has been about 156 the adults sabbath school from 300 to 400. Have had two protracted meetings the year past one was held at Waimanalo Oct. 10 miles from the station & continued six days was well attended and has apparently been the means of good. Since the meeting, many have been constant attendants at the station on the sabbath who were never in the habit of attending before. A number profess to have given their hearts to the Lord at this meeting, tho none have as yet been received to the church. The other meeting was held at the station in the month of Febaruary ( !), brethren Emerson and Smith were present & assisted in the meeting. It continued one week was well attended and I hope has been blessed to the salvation of some souls. Considerable interest was manifest in the childrens meeting and a number appear well thus far. Church the past year. Eighty five have been admitted to the church during Some of these date their conversion to a protracted meeting a year since others at different times longer since. viously admitted 54. 5 In all 139 church members. Separated from the chh 9 - Pre­ Died the last year Present number 130 Children baptised 26 Number now propounded to the chh 48 1 2 �Kaneohe 1839 I 3. have preached during the year in differrent ( !) parts of the district on week days have spent much time in personal conversation with candidates for the church and those who profess to be serious. Have paid some attention to singing with a few twice a week during the year. Prom three to four months spent three hours a day in the childrens schools but other missionary labours would not admit my continuing this. There has been some improvement in the habits of living among the people - Nearly forty new houses have been built within half a mile of the meeting house the year past Most of them by those of the out portions of the district. Contributions at month(ly) concerts 180. Every monthly concert day has been spent in labor by a portion of the people the avails of this day given to some charitable object. Church members Admitted the past year Excommunicated past year 4 Died the Past year Propounded past year Whole number Schools Number of children Paid to teachers Monthly concert contribution Children Baptised Marriages Births Deaths Childrens sabbath school Adults verse a day 130 85 5 48 139 12 400 100 200 26 150 350 �(Kaneohe 1840 ) During the last year the labours of the station have been considerably interrupted by sickness. We have been obliged to be absent from the station about three months of past the year ( !). During the first half of the year the usual labours of the station were attended to without interruption. Congregations as large and schools as well attended and flourishing as at any former time. Schools. Of childrens schools there are ten in the district. Owing to causes which I could not controul I have visited them but twice the year past and the last time found said evidence that both schools and the people generally were in a low state more so than I had found them a t any time for two years previous to this. decreased both in number and interest. They had One reason probably is the want of suitable teachers and another that they have not suitable pay. The only graduate from the high school in the district had been appointed to an office in government and since that there has not been much teaching at the station. Sabbath schools have been larger the first six months of the year than the year preceeding ( !) morning, adults after-noon. The childrens is attended in the The hymn book huliana and Hawina Kama- lii and the books used in the childrens the ai o ka la in the adults. There has been an addition to the church of about 50 members the past year there have been no sad defections during the year tho not so much of the spirit of the gospel as there ought to be - We have had but one case of discipline during the year a member was ex­ communicated a few have been received by letter and a few dismissed to other churches none now propounded - A church meeting has been attended every Saturday afternoon which all the members all the m e m ­ bers ( !) invariably attend unless prevented by sickness or some other �Kaneohe 1840 urgent cause. Contributions by the church & people the last year 110 dollars. In addition to this a bell has been bought at 120 dollars paid for by the people. Every monthly concert day is devoted by the church & some of the people to labour for some benevolent object. Idolatry in another form has made its appearance during the year. A native professing himself to be the Messiah has driven (?) numbers after him by his declaring himself able to heal all sickness and diseases of those who would apply to him - Both he & his followers have been fine & put to work on the road but still continue the practice - M The king has leased a large tract of land at Kaneohe to a few natives - and though there was injustice done to the original land holders yet I have strong hope that it will eventually be a great advantage to place (?) - They have already several acres of cane planted have sent to the States for an iron sugar mill - They work with their own hands and employ natives at a meal a day cash - ? They also lease land in small quantities to natives they - They have applied to the king for permission to establish a road across the pali at their own expense passible for horses & mules and establish a toll to mee(t) (?) the expenses of the road - The work already commenced (Unsigned, Benj. W. Parker) �Report of Kaneohe Station (1841) The past year has been with us one of interruption in our mi s ­ sionary labours on account of ill health. Prom the 1st of April to November (seven months) we were obliged to be absent from the station. Pour months of this time was occupied in a voyage to the coast of Calafornia ( !). At our return to the station in Nov we found the people con­ siderably scatered ( !), sabbath congregations diminished sabbath schools very small the district schools all stoped ( !) and a few cases of defection in the church. The catholics seemed to have been untiring in their efforts to bring the people under their influence. They had appointed teachers buildt ( !) houses baptized such as were willing. One of the priests if not constantly residing there was always there on the sabbath usually spent two or three days of every week in some part of the district. At my return to the station my health was not confirmed and I could do little more than attend two services on the sabbath. For the last three months however I have been most of the time nearly well and have been able to preach on the sabbath, attend sabbath schools preach during the (week ?) in different parts of the field and pay some little attention to childrens schools. As might be expected there has been much less interest the past year than for the two or three preceeding ( !) years. (Note in margin of first page:) Meetings were kept up by Kuke during my absence and some interest sustained among the people. Church - The decline of interest in the church as well as out of it has been very apparent - None have been admitted by profession during the year. Three have been excommunicated and five suspended from communion - four admitted by letter from other churches and two 16 �Kaneohe - 1841 2. dismissed to another church in regular standing. Schools - Owing in part to the want of a suitable teacher there has been no school for children at the station during the greater part of the year and it has been the same throughout the district there have been no children(s) schools till the last three months when I tried to start them again and there are now in opperation ( !) nine schools for children including about 300 children considerably less than one half of the children in the district. one examination during the year present 250, There has been For the last three months I have had a school every week with the teachers and the prospect is that childrens schools will be prosperous again if some little attention can be paid to the superintendance of them by the missionary and some pay furnished for teachers - Nothing has been received by teachers from the provision made by the new law owing partly to the peculiar circumstances of the people & their readiness to make any thing an occasion for going to the Catholics. Probably one third or more of the people would utterly refuse to comply with the law and the collector could not collect fines of those who might absent themselves from pahao d a y s . (collection days ?) Catholicism One of the priests reside(s) in this part of the island most of the time. Their station is near us and they are inde- fatigable in their labours through the district visiting from vilage ( !) to village and house to house. The number baptized I am not able to state though I think more than one third of the people have gone to the catholics - They have built houses of worship on nearly every land in the district their largest house where they make their central point for that part of the island is near us. They have appointed native teachers for childrens schools though their schools are nothing more than a repeating after the teachers of some french �5 Kaneohe - 1841 or latin mumery ( !) - The causes that have influenced them are promised presents of cloth or some property of the like kind. that they restoration Another (!) to health, another the prospect of immedi­ ate admission to church membership - another to evade certain laws of the king and chiefs to which they do not wish to be subject. Statistics. Population of the district according to the census taken the last year - about 4000. dance 300 Number of schools 9 Children in atten­ Whole no. received to ch by prof. 198 - Do by letter 14 Last year none - by letter 4 - whole no died 11 missed to other churches 9 Last year 2. Last year 3, suspended last year 5 Whole no children baptized 82 tized decd 12 Last year 4 Last year 4 - Dis­ Whole no excommunicated 7 - Whole no in regular standing 195 - Last year 5 - Marriages 7 No of children bap­ Most of the marriages have been mostly performed out of the district. Benevolent operations - less has been done the last year than in the years preceeding - thirty dollars have been contributed in money, at the monthly concert and some thing more than that in dif­ ferent articles. A good native house has been built by the church for Kuke value of work 40 dollars - our meeting house has been rebuilt and rethatched by the ch members - but it is poor house and we are much in need of e a better - We b^gan to collect materials more than a year since b e ­ fore my sickness - but when I left the station the work stoped ( !) and nothing done since. Resolved that sum of money (Unsigned) (On b a c k :) Kaneohe M r . Parker 1841 �Kaneohe Station Report 1843 The past year has been w i t h us one of uninterrupted missionary labour at our station. Our health has been such that we could prosecute our missionary work and we have had an abundance of it on our hands and encouragement to do all our time and strength would allow u s . Schools - There are in the district connected with the station ten childrens schools taught by native teachers. Two of these are from the mission seminary and the others have been taught in a school at the station. The number of children in attendance at these schools is about 500 - Attending to branches usually taught in common schools. We greatly feel the need of more well qualified teachers. I have had a school a part of the year two days in a week for teachers - Our Sabbath school for children has numbered on an average 100 during the year. - Three school houses have been built by government the last year. Church - The church at this station now numbers a little more than 200 members in regular standing. W e have had no sad cases of de- fection during the year and but few of discipline. Three have been suspended during the year from the privileges of the church. We have a church meeting every Saturday afternoon and a sabbath school at the close of the sabbath morning service exclusively for the members of the church, which they almost all invariably attend. None have been admitted to the church by profession during the year, but a few stand propounded for admission. Congregation Our congregation on the sabbath for a part of the year has not been as large as in former years owing chiefly to the want of a convenient place of worship. We have met in a school house that will not hold more than 300 consequently many have been obliged �Kaneohe - 1843 2. to regain out of doors during the time of worship and some have staid away. Meeting_hou s e - But we are now happily releived ( !) by the com­ pletion of our new stone meeting house. The house is (space but no figures given) in length and wide with 8 glass windows 6 koa doors the walls and ceiling are plastered. The work on the house has been the voluntary effort of the church and people, though few beside church members have afforded much help. Contributions Contributions to the meeting house have been as follows 2d- church in Honolulu Mr Whitney Mr. Gulick Individuals 82.25 48.57 20. 9. The church at Kaneohe have contributed $40 in money during the year beside articles of native produce to about the same amount. Romanism - The Papists have in this field a considerable number of followers of a certain class. They are almost invariably from the most ignorant part of the people and from those who have come least under our influence - They have four school houses in different parts of the district, but they have not had much accession to to ( !) their numbers the last year. I am not able to give full and correct statistics of the schools. (Unsigned, B.W. Parker) 20 �Statistics of chh Kaneohe 1843 Whole number added to chh on examination Do on certificate 239 25 Past year on examination 0 Do on certificate 8 Whole number past year 8 Whole number dismissed to other chhs 4 Dismissed past year 0 Whole number deceased 27 Deceased past year 10 Suspended past year 3 Remain Suspended 8 Excommunicated past year 0 Whole number excommunicated 8 Remain excommunicated 8 Whole number in regular standing 217 Whole no children baptized 109 Baptized past year 10 Whole no children deceased 15 Deceased past year Marriages past year 1 47 �Kaneohe Station Report May 1844 Through the kind, hand of our Heavenly Father the mission family at this station have enjoyed uninterrupted health the past year and we have been able to pursue our missionary labours as in former years. No Sabbath has past ( !) without affording to the people of our charge the means of religious instruction and we have not been left without some evidence that our labours have been attended with good. Perhaps in no year since the station has been occupied has the attendance on meetings been better than during a considerable part of the past year. Our new meeting house had been finished just previous to the las t general meeting a work wh. had required much labour on the part of the people. But we have been blest in the deed and are more than com­ pensated for all the toil the house has cost us. The house was dedicated in Oct and a protracted meeting at the same time in which brothers Bishop & Smith assisted. From the time of the meeting and for several months succeeding it there was an increase in our Sabbath congregation and other meetings. Some of the church appeared to be truly awakened humbled convinced of their own sins. Expressions like these were somtimes ( !) heard from the mouths of professers "I fear for my own soul" " I am afraid of the judgement". Such expressions were from those who if any in the church are Christians probably these are the ones. 15 or 16 children seemed a goodell (!) interested at the time of the meeting and have continued to appear so to the present time. With these I have had a meeting every week up to the time of leaving for general meeting. Beside the meetings at the station, I have attended two pro­ tracted meetings in another part of the district and spent nearly a week in holding meetings in the Koolau district. Beside meetings on the sabbath and others at the station there �2. Kaneohe - 1844 are neighbourhood meetings in different parts of the district every week for preaching on catechetical instruction these meetings are attended by church members & others not usually exceeding 50 or 60 at a meeting. They are useful as a means of more intimate acquaintance with the state of the people and tend to keep up an interest on the Sabbath congregation. Church 20 have been received to the chh during the year by profession and 13 by letter from other churches. 11 have been sus­ pended and 5 excommunicated during the year 1 previously excom. restored - 4 dismissed to other churches and 2 have died during the year - A chh prayer meeting is held every Saturday at which 50 or 60 of those living nearest the station attend and at a sabbath school specially for chh members at at ( !) the close of the morning service nearly nearly ( !) all the chh attend. Contributions for benevolent objects have been taken in the church and 42 dollars in money contributed and 20 dollars in other articles which has been paid to meet the bills of the meeting house. Schools The no. of childrens schools in the district is 10 with 15 teachers and number at the present time 444 children. The statistics for schools will give the no. of readers writers &c. Most of the year the schools have been in a languishing condition owing to a want of care on the part of the school inspector and delinquency in paying the teachers their stipulated wages. Since the apointment ( !) of a new school inspector a better attendance has been secured and schools now promise to do well but how long they will continue to prosper it is impossible to say - The Kahu kula made the tour of the island in the month of April made some changes in the management of the schools. Dismissed some teachers and ap- �Kaneohe - 1844 pointed others 3. examined schools met the parents and aparently ( !) has exerted a good influence on parents teachers and children. A sabbath school for children has numbered 100 and an adults School 250 both of these I invariably attend the one before the other at the close of the morning service. I have had a singing school one after(noon) or evening in the week and on Saturday a school for all the teachers in the district. Catholicism - I do not think that they have gained in numbers during the past year. have returned. Some children have gone to them and others Some who have gone appear to be disgusted with what they see there and have refused to receive the right (rite) of baptism by the priest though repeatedly solicited to do so by h i m - They are collecting materials for a stone church but it is doubtful whether they proceed with the work. Koolau loa At the request of Mr. A B Smith I have had the past year the charge of the church and people at Haulau (Hauula) and the district of Koolau loa. It is but little that I have been able to do for that poor & destitute people have spent five or six sabbaths there the past year and nearly one week in holding meetings wi t h the people. About 60 members of this church have fallen into open sin mostly drinking during the early part of the year, and so far as I am able to judge the church and people of this district appear to have been in a declining state the past year - and though the attendance has been good on the f e w sabbaths I have been there yet there is an in­ difference and hardness among the people generally that I have not noticed in any other place. �Kaneohe - 1844 This field ought not to be overlooked should any new station be taken the present year. It i s in some respects an eligible place for the location of a missionary. There is a church a church ( !) of about 200 members and a population of 2000 or more all very access­ ible to a missionary located at Hauula. A few would be glad to receive a missionary among them and have expressed to me a hope that one would be located there. As to building furnishing supplies to a family &c it is as fabourably located as most of the out stations - the sabbath con­ gregations when I have been there the past year have been probably (or ) 700/800 - If connected with the station at Kaneohe it brings a pop­ ulation of at least 6000 under the care of one missionary and 2 churches and 20 schools which is a larger field than one can be expected to cultivate. What progress the papists have made here the past year I cannot say - the(y) have at least four pretty large houses of worship in the district/ some schools a priest there a goodelle (good deal ?) of the time. We hope at least the claims of this field for a teach­ er will be looked at should any new station be taken the present year. (Unsigned; B.W. Parker) �Kaneohe - 1844 5. Statistics of chh at Kaneohe Whole number received on examination " On certificate 259 38 Past year on examination 20 Past year on certificate 13 Whole no. past year 33 Whole no dismissed to other chhs 8 Dismissed past year 4 Whole no deceased 29 Deceased past year 2 Suspended past year Remain suspended 1. Ex c om. past year 11 19 5 Whole no excom 13 Remain excommunicated 12 Whole n o . in regular standing 230 Whole N o . of children baptized 117 Baptized past year Whole no. of children deceased Deceased past year Marriages past year 8 16 1 61 �Kaneohe Station Report 1846 W i t h devout grattitude ( !) to the giver of all good we may mention the uninterrupted health of the mission family at this sta­ tion. No sickness has entered our dwelling during the past two years. No interruption of our missionary w o r k from disease or death. W e have continued our missionary labours as in former years. The gospel has been statedly preached on the Sabbath in the house of God and from w e e k to week in the little villages in different parts of the field and to some extent fro m house to house. It has been an object to labour for every class of people as we could get access to t h e m for the increase of piety and knowled(g)e in the church members & for the conversion of sinners. Congregations. O u r Sabbath congregations have not d i m inished in numbers f r o m what they have b een in former years. Occasionally there has been a little falling of(f) in attendance owing to some local cause. Meetings in the w e e k held statedly in different villages are attended by members of the church and a few others usually from 40 to 50 in a meeting. during the year. The same persons being almost constant attendants But there has bee n no special religious interest in the congregation during the last two years. the No evidence of the ( !) Spirits presence in the church or congregation. Church church. The statistics will give the present number in the Only two have been admitted by profession during the last two years while a large number have been rem o v e d by death and ot h e r ­ wise. Contributions are taken up monthly in the church and they have expressed a willingness to contribute for the support of the gospel. 92.50 were contributed for that purpose during the year 1845 in �Kaneohe 1846 in money. 2. But the people are still poor and heavily taxed and unless some change more favourable to their condition takes place it is doubtful whether m u c h reliance can b e placed on their supporting the gospel among themselves. For the present year 1846 the c h u r c h have engaged to pay two dollars each male member and one dollar each female member one half in money and one half in native produce. This sum however is intended to be expended in flooring and seating the meeting house so far as (it) will go toward that object. Popery I a m not aware that the number who have papists has increased any during the last two years. making untiring efforts to advance their cause. are located permanently in this district. joined the Still they are Two preists ( !) They have o b t ained there a site from the government for a high school and are m a king prepara­ tions to put up permanent buildings. Their lumber is on the ground and a teacher stationed there for the school. stone church the past year. They have erected a I seldom make an appointment for a m e e t ­ ing in any part of the district but that the priest is at the same place the same day. If a church member is know(n ) to (be) under any any censure he is almost sure to be visited by the priest and solicited to join them. Not much can be said, of the social and civil improvement of the people. A few seem desirous of improving their social condition while the great part of the people seem satisfied to live in all the degredation of their former heathenism. They often see m on the very verge of their former idolatry and ready to relapse into it. The horse road over the pali at Nuuanu promises advantage to the people on the no r t h side of Oahu. to be a great The transportation of native produce on a seaco(a)st of more than 40 miles in extent 2 8 �Kaneohe 1846 3. is over this r o a d . And since it has been made passable for horses and mules considerable of the transportation is made by these animals and will be likely to increase. The growing selling and drinking of awa has very much increased the past year beyond what it has been in former years. W ithin the last 2 months however it appears to have been checked. Old natives games & songs such as hiaka puhene pone noa have been frequent among some of the people, but card playing is more common among almost all classes than any other kind of games. Statistics of Church at Kaneohe Whole Ho. admitted to church on examination Admitted 2 past years on examination 261 2 Whole no deceased 54 Deceased past 2 years 25 Suspended past 2 years Remain suspended 6 18 Excommunicated past 2 years Whole no. excommunicated 7 20 Whole no in regular standing 212 Whole no of children baptized 136 Baptized past 2 years 19 Average congregation on the Sabbath 400 Marriages past 2 years 146 The above table of statistics shews some diminution in the number of church members . Several have been removed by death and other causes while few have been received for the last three or four years. Many church members from other places are living in this district some permanently others on a visit of 2 & 3 years some with letters �Kaneohe 1846 4. from the pastor of the church to which they belong but most of them without any letter. They usually present themselves at communion season, but are seldom seen at any other time either on the Sabbath or the weekday meeting. Statistics of Schools May 1846 No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. of children in the whole field of boys of girls of schools of teachers of readers of writers in geography in mental arithmetic in written arithmetic 753 432 321 28 28 281 173 163 218 181 The above statistics are from the examination in April last. Only a small part of the children in the district have regularly attended school the past year. Most of the parents have but little interest in the attendance of their children at school. The native super in­ tendance as hitherto conducted appears to be entirely inadequate to sustain an interest in schools. The teachers generally appear to be inefficient and uninterested in their employment. Almost all the school houses are entirely unfit for the purposes of teaching. Very few native books have been dispo(s)ed of of late in this district. A little more than 100 of the Elele are taken. A regester ( !) of births & Deaths at Kaneohe among a population of 1000 inhabitants. 1840 "41 "42 "43 "44 "45 Deaths " " " " " 59 45 30 60 55 65 The regester is for five years in succession. "41 "42 "43 "44 "45 1840 " n " " " Births 21 22 17 19 23 24 By comparing the census recently taken by the government col­ lector with that taken in former years, it is evident that there is some diminution of the people though it does not appear to be very �5. rapid. The register shows an excess of the number of deaths during the year 1845 over that of any previous year occasioned by the epidemic which prevailed throughout the islands in april of that year. No census of the entire population of the districts connected with this station has been taken of late. The whole number is not far from 6000 as appears from the books of the government collecttor ( !). Statistics of the church at Hauula Whole no admitted to chh on examination Admitted last 2 years on examination Whole no desceased ( !) Desceased ( !) past 2 years Suspended past 2 years Remain suspended Excommunicated past 2 years Remain excommunicated Whole no. in regular standing Whole no of children baptised Baptised 2 past years Average congregation on Sabbath 286 00 __ __ 4 24 6 13 269 10 500 The church at Hauula have built a good thatch meeting house the last year. They have also contributed $16.00 to pay for a small communion set and meet the ordinary expenses of the church. Number of Catholic schools in the district No of Children enrolled No in attendance 12 380 112 Koohulukea a graduate of the Sem at L. luna and member of Mr. Dibble's theological class has lived a p rt of the year in this dis­ trict conducted meetings on the Sabbath and afforded help in the Miss'y work. (Unsigned; B.W. Parker) �Statistics of the Church at Kaneohe, 1846-47 Whole number on e x a m i n a t i o n ---------- 275 " " on c e r t i f i c a t e --------43 Past year on examination — ---------- — 14 on certificate --------5 Whole number past y e a r -------------19 Whole number dismissed to other churches 20 past year -----" " deceased ------ --61 died last year --------7 Suspended last year ----------------1 Remain suspended ----- — ---------13 Excommunicated last year----------- 1 Whole number excommunicated-- -----24 Remain excommunicated---- ----20 Whole number in regular standing ---- 224 Whole number of children b a p . ------- 139 Baptized last year ----------- ---3 Marriages last y e a r --------------- 41 On back: B. W. Parker Sept 24, 1847 Addressed: Mr. Levi Chamberlain Honolulu �Report of Kaneohe Station 1848 In presenting a report of this station and the missionary labours for the last two years it is proper to acknowledge with gratitude to our Heavenly. Father the enjoyment of almost uninterrupted health in the Mission family here. Our various missionary work among the people has been continued very much as in years past and apparently with as much success as at any former period. The labours of a single sabbath and a single week may be taken as a specimen of what our labours ordinarily are among the people. the sabbath there Is a morning prayer meeting at sunrise. On A childrens sabbath school at the ringing of the first bell a sermon at eleven at the close of this service a sabbath school for adults whi c h consists of church members and such others as wish to attend. in the afternoon. ing prayer meeting. A sermon again I always attend all these services except the morn­ This is usually conducted by natives. Our ordinary weekly meetings have been a church prayer meeting every Saturday afternoon for prayer. a lecture on Wednesday, the monthly concept A meeting one afternoon in a week, for those who profess to be serious and wish to inqure and converse on the subject of re­ ligion. There (are) one or two meetings during the week at places a little remote from the station. A daily morning prayer meeting is kept up at the station by the natives. I have taught once a week for a considerable part of the time a school for native teachers. Also a singing school one day in a week and, once In a week a school for lunas in the church. This is about the amount of my own teaching. Church — Of the state of the church for the past 2 years I have nothing of very special interest to report. The statistics will shew �Kaneohe Station Report 1848 2. some accessions and but few cases of defection. The statistics for 45 and part of /47 were forwarded last year as requested and the table n o w presented is for one year. year by profession. cated. 20 have been admitted the last Only one has been suspended and no one excommuni­ I cannot report a general revival of religion in the church or among the people But for the last four months there has been an unusual interest in attending meetings. Our congregations has in­ creased on the sabbath nearly one quarter from what it ha d been for a year previous. Frequent meetings have been held during the week for preaching conference conversation and prayer and have b e e n well attended both by church members and others. Many out of the church profess to be on the Lords side. A new congregation has been assembled on the Sabbath in this district in a part of it too far from the station for the people to attend meeting there. region. There (are) 1000 or 1200 people living in the I have occasionally spent a sabbath there and frequently held meetings an a week day in that region. There is a good attendance at meeting and just at the present time an unusual interest among the people. I have lately spent three days there holding meetings ing with the people. convers As many as two hundred express a desire to be on the Lords side and unite themselves with the church. been propounded for admission. Eight have The church members have collected the timber and are ready to build a meeting house. The native teacher and preacher for this congregation is Koaehulikea a graduate of the Semi­ nary at Lahainaluna. The people there are to pay fifty dollars a year towards his support. This cong. has been for a part of the year under the care of N aiapaahai but he has lately left. Schools -- Native schools for children have been kept up and �Kaneohe Station Report 1848 5. in pretty successful operation for the last year and a half. A debt to the teachers of considerable amount had been contracted under the old system but it was paid off soon after Mr. Richards entered the Office (of) Instruction, and no debt has been contracted till within the last few months. The avails of the kings paahao days have been enough to pay all the teachers till within a few months past when it was found that the avails from this source decreased to one half of what they had been and in consequence of this a debt was found to be again accumulating but by a little attention on the part of the Luna auhau the avails of the paahao are again increased and the debt is nearly paid off. The general state of the schools has been far better during the past eighteen months than ever before since they have been under the care of government. culty with the Catholics. There has been very little diffi­ Teachers have be e n paid promptly and the attendance of children has generally been pretty good. Singing has been introduced into some of the schools with a good degree of interest and success. It is a very desirable branch to be taught in the native schools when suitable teachers can be obtained. The schools have be e n examined as often as once in three months and once in the year all the schools have been brought together for an annual examination and at the close of the examination the parents and children have united in a feast. Much interest has b e e n manifested by parents xxxxxxxxxxxx teachers and schollars in getting up these cele­ brations and a large amount of money expended for dress and for such articles as will enable them to have the feast in a style somewhat approximating to c ivilization. In this way many of the articles of civilized life have been introduced into the district among the people. Some things among a few of the people indicate a little approach �4 toward civilized life. As many as 100 tables have be e n bought within the last two years by the natives in this district. chairs and other articles of household furniture. More than 200 A few are getting small herds of cattle and many now carry their produce to market on donkies mules horses, and bullocks instead of their own shoulders as formerly. A great advantage will be derived to this district and to all the north side of the island of Oahu from the road now making by govern­ ment over the Pali. Pro m the month of Oct last till the present time about seventy natives have b e e n employed on this road. W h e n completed, it will very much facilitate the communication between this district and Honolulu and make the transportation of produce and merchandise easy. This is the more to be v alued as the access to some parts of this side of the island by sea is not very good. The almost entire travel of the natives on the north side of the island for a seacost ( !) of 40 miles is over this Pali. Catholicism Two Roman catholic priests are located in this district. One a teacher for their High School. in the district. They have built a frame house on the land granted them by government for a school. the Sabbath. They have one stone meeting house They have two places of worship on One at their stone chapel the other at their school. The(y) have several childrens schools in the district but they appear to be much inferior to protestant schools in the qualifications of teachers books. the progress of the schollars and in their supply of I am not aware that the papists have made any special progress for the last two years. and some have left them. A few natives have occasionally gone to them Quite a number have recently left them in �5 that part of the district when our new congregation are ( !) es­ tablished. The school commenced in april last w i t h 17 children. are hoarded at the seminary. The schollars They are taught the French language. They intend to take in 200 children, these are to be selected from all the islands. The present number 17 are from Koolau and Koolauloa. Young boys are selected for schollars. Contributions for benevolent objects The church has done something the past two years in this department of christian duty in evry ( !) month. 350.50 Dlls. A contribution has (been) taken on the first sabbath They have contributed in money the last two years The above sum has been chiefly expended in flooring and seating the meeting house. Besides this amount contributed in money some work has been done to build houses for meetings (in) the out it districts the amount of/$50.00. Whole contributed past 2 years in cash $400.00. (The following is in pencil on a separate sheet, and presumably refers to Koaehulikea, see page 2): This man appears to be acceptable to the people and useful amon g them. He has no license from an ecclesiastical body to preach and it does not seem to me that it would increase his usefulness among the people or make him any more acceptable to them to give h i m a license, a t present. The congregation receive and hear him gladly no w and very cheerfully contribute to his support. Still if other teachers simi­ larly situated and of the like character and standing with this ma n are licensed it may be best to license him. "Lay hands suddenly on no man. Let them first be proved.” (Unsigned; B.W. Parker) �Kaneohe Station Report 1849 On returning to our station at the close of last general meet­ ing we found a more than usual interest among the people of the dis­ trict on the subject of religion. Our congregation on the sabbath was considerably increased in numbers. well attended. Meetings on week days were Sabbath schools bible classes meetings for conversa­ tion and prayer were well filled by apparently interested listeners and learners. Many of the church members seemed to be revived anew and some afforded much help by visiting from house to house and hold­ ing meetings with a few individuals in places remote from the station. This interest continued through the summer and till the month of October when the prevailing sickness made its appearance and immed­ iately prostrated almost the entire population of the district. In common with other parts of the islands it has been a year of sickness suffering and death among the natives of this district. From the month of October to January 1st the missionary work was done ex­ cept to visit from house to house hood administer medicine sick and suffering. from neighbourhood to neighbour­ furnish such comforts as we could to the All our meetings and schools were suspended except one and sometimes two services on the sabbath and these were (by) attended only/a very small number not usually more than 40 or 50. For the last two months our congregation has been increasing people recovering the but at all our meetings the number in attendance is much less than it was previous to the sickness. Benevolent Efforts At the beginning of the year we hoped to do much in this depart­ ment of missionary work and both the church and others seemed more willing to take hold of this subject than they have ever been before but the sickness has retarded this as well as almost every other part 3 8 �Kaneohe 1849 of our work. 2. The whole amount of contribution for the year may be estimated at four hundred dollars. Of this sum 205 dollars are in money and the remainder cheifly ( !) on meeting houses i n different parts of the district. They money has been expended in flooring and seating the meeting house. Improvement in Civilization I cannot report much progress in civilization during the past year. I have some hope that the sickness and suffering of the last year will effectually teach them some things about the necessity of civilized conveniences and civilized habits which they have been slow to learn heretofore. ment in these things. Some are disposed to seek after improve­ A few are trying to get better houses and to furnish them after the manner of civilized families. Some are grad­ ually increasing in their means of living better than they have done. A few own small herds of cattle most of the produce is carried to market either by boats or by horses mules & c instead of the former way on the neck of the natives. But there are many difficulties in (i n ) the way of any very rapid improvement/these things Schools The schools in this district have never been in so flourishing a state as they were during the first part of the year. Books have been more called for than in any previous year since the station has been occupied. bible New Testament extent. Those most in demand have been the whole hymnbook and all the school books to some Singing has been a popular and profitable department in some of the common schools. We have a large and good quire ( !) at the station led by a native on the Sabbath. It consists mostly of child­ ren and young persons. Manual labour was introduced into most of the childrens schools at the beginning of the last year. The plan promised well. Profit­ �3. able employment w a s found both for boys and girls and the system of labour continued till the suspension of the schools on accoun t of the sickness. During the prevailing epidemic all schools were suspended and have only recently commenced again and w i t h less vigour than b e ­ fore the sickness. The prevailing diseases of the past year have been f a t a l among the native children. Many under the age of two years have died. There has been on the part of many natives a disposition to relapse into idolatry during the prevailing sickness. It has been practiced cheifly ( !) in connexion with native doctors. The sickness and death were asscribed ( !) to some of the ancient Hawaiian divini­ ties and in many cases to the practice of sorcery. Sacrifices were required to effect a cure and drugs employed to expel the evil or devil from the afflicted persons. The power of native doctors over many of the people is very great and their ability to kill or cure by the practice of sorcery is much confided in. Popery - I am not aware that any progress has been made by the Romanists the past year. The priests were active during sickness not to administer healing medicines or comforts for the body but to prosalyte ( !) the sick & dying to their faith, and perform extreme unction. Then the priests told them if they died it would be well w i t h them and if they recovered after having received extreme unction there would be no loss. intreties (! . ) But few however if any yielded to their They have not probably gained any in numbers during the year. There are two congregations on the sabbath in the district beside the one at the station. One is under the care of a native licensed to preach by the association at our last general meeting. and people to whom he ministers support him. The church The attendance on the 4 0 �Kaneohe 1849 Sabbath is good. 4. Another congregation at the other extremity of the district is under the care of a native church member. The number who attend is not large. Church Statistics Received On examination past year Whole no. on examination Dismissed past year Whole no dismissed Deceased past year Whole no deceased Excluded past year Whole no remaining excluded In regular standing Children bapti(zed) last year Whole no baptized Marriages last year Average congregation Av erage no who attend Meeting in the field 36 326 3 22 27 90 1 22 203 2 151 37 450 900 Population According to the vote of the last general meeting the census was taken in the month of January. is 2813. The whole population of the district By a census of the same district taken in the year 1832 and published in the first geography printed by the mission the popu­ lation of the district was at that time 4987. If the census of each year is correct the number of inhabitants is less in 1849 than it was in 1832 by 2174. The decrease has been more rapid for the last three or four years than previous to that time and the decrease will u n ­ doubtedly be more rapid hereafter than it has yet been. The late sickness has prepared the way for such a decrease and other diseases will cut them of(f) more rapidly than heretofore. During the three months of the present year already past the number of deaths has been greater than in the same length of time in any previous year excepting the months of the late epidemics. �Kaneohe 1849 5. The whole number of deaths during 1848 was 368, the number of births the same year, 5 1 . A grant of $200. was made at the general meeting in 1848 for building. It has been expended as follows for a native frame house cook house Other repairs Whole amount Remaining unexpended 75 60 25 160 200 $ 40 (Unsigned; B.W. Parker) 4 2 �Kaneohe Station Report May 1851 Through the kindness of our Heavenly Father the mission family at this station have enjoyed almost uninterrupted health since the last Gen Meeting. Our labors among the people of our charge have been attended to as in previous years, and the Lord has remembered them in mercy. wasting sickness has been sent among them. Wo No pestilence to prostrate and cut them off in large numbers as in some previous years of our missionary labor among them - various meetings for instruction, schools, Sabbath Schools & Preaching have been attended to much as in former years - and it is not necessary to mention them particularly - I cannot report a general and extensive revival of religion during any part of the last two years, though we have not been without encourage­ ment - and hope some have turned to the Lord, There has been no de­ fection in the church - though there has been less interest in reli­ gion among a large part of the church members than in some former years, and it has required more and constant effort on the part of the Pastor to keep up an interest among them specially in weekly meet­ ing than formerly - Sabbath congregation\ have been well attended, and good attention given to preaching. There are in the field two out stations, occupied by two native licensed preachers - one a graduate of Lahainaluna and licensed to preach at our last gen Meeting. of Lahaina and Molokai. The other was licensed by the brethren They are both useful laborers. They re ­ ceive their support from the people among whom they labor. In both places the people wish these men to be ordained and desire me to present their request to the brethren of the Mission. They are will­ ing to assume their entire support and give them considerally more �Kaneohe 1851 2. than they now receive in case they are ordained. There are probably as many as eight hundred or Nine Hundred Inhabitants in each of these two places. In one of the congregations there are One Hundred and twenty five church members - in the other Fifty Six. I visit them as often as once in three months and sometimes oftener. The whole amount of contributions among the people in the year 1850 was $681.00 - this amount was contributed in money and has been expended in shingling the meeting house, excepting what has been paid to native preachers & $90 paid towards building a native church at one of the out stations. We shingled the roof of our station meeting house last year at an expense of a little more than $1000. Our house is floored has permanent slips all done at the expense of the church & people. There is something due but it will be paid during the present year if the Lord prospers us. Schools - Children's schools have been kept up usually well attended for the past two years - During the winter 1849 we lost several new and good school houses in the district by the destructive gales of that year. They were rebuilt during the past summer but another severe gale in the month of January last again prostrated several of our houses among them our station school house and adobie building well lighted and seated and with desks that had stood about fourteen years. These disasters have retarded our schools and require much labor & expense to replace them - Our schools are not supplied with so good teachers as they ought to have through they are not contented with the same wages they have formerly had. Romanism - I am not aware that the Papists have increased any in number for the last two years. the district. There are considerable numbers in Their seminary is in this district said to contain �Kaneohe 1851 3. Thirty Boys taken from the different Islands. There are two Foreign teachers in the Seminary - They have a permanent building. They have collected or (are) collecting materials for a perma­ nent church at their station. Improvements - Some improvement is made in civilization - a few build better houses and more permanent ones than they have for­ merly had - A few have bought lands with fee simple titles and a considerable number have received their awards from the land C ommission. Their means of acquiring wealth have greatly increased but it is (a) matter of regret that they are prodigal of what they acquire and are so little disposed to expend their means in what is really serviceable to themselves and families. There has not been time to see what beneficial effects the granting them their lands in fee simple will have on them. It is to be hoped that the influence of it will be to make them more indus­ trious and more disposed to improve their condition, ers are settling in the district. A few foreign­ Some have obtained land. Probab­ ly as many as 8 or 10 thousand acres have been disposed of by sale or lease to foreigners within the the ( !) last two years. Res Submitted B.W. Parker �Statistics of the chh at Kaneohe Received past year on examination Hhole number received on examination 58 398 Whole number received from other churches 56 Whole number dismissed to other churches 26 Deceased the past year 9 Church members excluded deceased past year (__) Vi/hole number deceased in good standing 106 Excluded past year 4 Whole number remaining excluded Now in regular standing 29 326 Children baptized past year Whole number baptized 7 157 Marriages past year 59 Population in the field (__ ) Proportion who attend public worship ( (Part of 1851 Report) ) �Kaneohe Station Report (1852) We have pursued our Missionary work at this station the last year without any special interruption. In no year of our missionary Residence there, has there been more interest among the people in attending meetings both on the Sabbath and occasional meetings, than the past year. It has be e n so nearly the whole year. In the month of March however an influenza prevailed very generally among the people. Some died of the disease, and since that sickness our con­ gregations on the Sabbath and other meetings have not been so well attended as during the preceeding ( !) part of the year. occasional protracted meetings We have had in different parts of the field, be­ ginning soon after our return from the last General Meeting. These have sometimes been held by the request and always with the concur­ rence of the people in the place where they have been held - and have been invariably well attended - They have usually been con­ tinued not more than two days sometimes three or four. W e have three places of meeting on the Sabbath - or three permanent congrega­ tions. One at Waimanalo, the extreme part of the field joining Mr. Clarke's ( !) field. H ere is a land of about 700 people. A church of 134 members, connected with the congregation at this place. The church and people have supported their native preacher for the last two years - have collected the materials for a stone meeting house. But they sustained a great loss in the death of their native preacher who died about two months since. He was useful - much esteemed and confided in by the people among whom he lived. is a great loss - The death of such men We know of no one to take his pla c e . A nother congregation on the Sabbath is in another extreme/ part of the field, joining Mr. Emerson's district. About 1000 people live in this part �Kaneohe - 1852 2 of the district - They have a native preacher who is acceptable to the people and useful among them. for the Micronesian Mission - He is willing to be a Candidate As a graduate of Lahainaluna - been licenced to preach - has a family. It must be for the brethren to decide whether natives occupying such fields should be taken from them. I know of no suitable person to supply his place if he should be removed. I visit these two out stations as often as once in three months, and oftener when my place on the Sabbath at Kaneohe can be supplied. There is a church at this station of 112 members. They have built the last year a framed meeting house at an expense of $350. There is at the present time a g ood degree of interest among the people in this part of the field. I attended a meeting of two days continuance the week before I came up to general meeting. It was on a land where I have never been able to have such a meeting before. It was on the same land where the Roman Catholic Seminary is located and within half a mile of it. spots in the islands. It is perhaps one of the darkest There is now a meeting held every thursday on the land and they are building a house for meetings. At Kaneohe our meetings have been better attended than during a considerable part of the last year both on the Sabbath and on week days. For a few weeks previous to Gen. meeting however there has been some falling off both on the sabbath and occasional meet­ ings . The church members have generally been interested in all our meetings. There have been very few cases of discipline in the church for the last year. Catholicism. Quite a number of natives in this district have left the Roman Catholics the last year, and I know of not more than three or four individuals that have gone to them during the year. �Kaneohe - 1852 3. One of these was a suspended church member. Mormonism. This system of error has been introduced into ( !) this district the last year. Two mormans (foreigners) have been living a considerable part of the year in this field. Their first public labour was baptizing more than 20 individuals on one land in a part of the field remote from the station none of them church members. They deceived the people. And in less than three months all that joined them returned to our meetings with the exception of two and they have now no followers in the field to my knowledge. The two Mormans (foreigners) still live in the district one of them constantly the other a part of the time. They are now trying to teach the English language to such children as will go to them, hoping no doubt to secure an influence among the natives. Schools. Childrens schools have not been so well sustained the past as some other years chiefly for the want of suitable teachers and houses. Statistics of church &c Kaneohe May 1852 Received on examination past year Whole No. Dismissed last year Whole No Dismissed Died past year Whole No deceased Admitted past year on Certificate Whole No. " " Suspended past year Remain Suspended Excommunicated past year Whole no Excom. Remain " Whole No in Regular standing Children baptized past year Whole No children baptized Marriages past year Average Congregation on the Sabbath " No who attend meeting in field Benevolent efforts - 84 682 2 28 9 115 11 67 " " 24 21 4 13 15 172 4 6 800 900 Our Statistics will show what has been done by the church for the past year in this department. Most of the church �Kaneohe 1852 4. members and a few others contribute cheerfully systemmatticaly ( !) and liberally according to their ability. The contributions have been given for the erection completion and repair of meeting houses for the support of native preachers and the monthly concert contribution to the Micronesian Mission. Contributions from Ch. at Kaneohe Contributed at Monthly concert " for support of native preachers " for matereals $100. 130. ( !) and work on meeting houses 527.60 W hole amount cont. for the year $ 757.60 51 �Kaneohe - Abstract 1852 Kaneohe Station Report - Abstract. We have pursued our labours in the Missionary work at this station the last year without any special interruption. In no year of our residence there has there been more interest among the people in attending Meetings than the past year. We have had oc- casional protracted meetings in different parts of the field. We have three permanent congregations on the Sabbath. One at Waimanalo a land of about 700 inhabitants and a church of 134 members. Another congregation is at Waikane among a population of 1000 people and and ( !) a church of 112 members. These two congregations have been under the care of native preachers. Catholicism. Quite a number of natives in this district have left the Roman Catholics the last year. Mormonism This system of error has been introduced into this district the last year. They baptized twenty individuals, but within two months they all left the Mormon teacher and came back — Schools Childrens schools have not been so well attended the past year as in some previous years. There (are) 10 childrens schools in the district. Contributions. W hole amount At Monthly concert 100 For support of two native preachers For Materials and work on Meeting houses Whole amt 130 527.60 $ 757.60 $757.60. �May 1853 Kaneohe Station R e p o r t . My Missionary work has been the last year so much like that of previous years already often reported that I need not again mention par­ ticulars. I have failed to preach about four sabbaths during the year and this was occasioned by the fever which prevailed in the islands the last summer. I had a severe attack of it and all my family also had it. With the exception of this sickness the voice of health has been heard in our dwelling. Among our people too sickness has been less and deaths less frequent than in some former years. One of our most influential members of society however was sudden­ ly and unexpectedly taken from us after a short sickness. He was the judge of the district for several years an active member of the c h u r c h and a useful member of the community. He did more for the support of the gospel at home and for sending it abroad than an(y) other one in the district. There has been among the people generally in the district a good degree of interest in religious meetings. been usually well filled on the sabbath. Our house of w orship has And at occasional meetings on week days the attendeance ( !) of church members and others has usually been good. We have three separate congregations on the sabbath, viz Kaneohe Waikane under the care of a native preacher\ & at Waimanalo. The later ( !) has had no stated religious teacher for a little more than a year, but is greatly in need of one and a suitable man would be well supported among them. At both these out stations when I visit them and spend a sabbath the congregations are as large and perhaps larger than that at the station. Church. The whole number of church members in the district and in­ cluded in the three congregations at Kaneohe Waikane & Waimanalo is about �Kaneohe 1853 2. 700. There There have been a few cases of discipline during the year. appears to be no disposition on the part of church members and not much among those out of the church to go either to popery or to Mormonism, and although there has been and is still a considerable large number of papists in the district, yet I am sure there is a gradual drawing of(f) from them - As to Mormonism the priest often residing a year or more in the district and trying various ways to proselyte without any success has left the place. He did baptize a few in one part of the field but they all soon left him and I knowof but one of his disciples no w left in the field and that a foreigner. The preist ( !) several times called on me always ready (to) introduce his favourite subject often loud and boisterous in his language. "I know that Mormonism is true. I know that it is of God. You had better be careful how (you) prejudice these natives against Mormonism. that you'll be damned. infant Baptism. I know Shew me one passage in the bible that teaches Shew me one passage that teaches the validity of Bap­ tism administered by sprinkling within doors.” I know not how soon they may make further efforts or with what success. Contributions for benevolent Objects. A Mission Society Auxiliary to the Hawaiian Miss Soc has been formed and $200 paid in as an annual Contributed at Monthly concert " Meeting houses subscription 200 $ 169.35 600. Support of Pastor 118.25 to the poor 1 5 __ Whole amount cont. Add for native preachers $ 1102.60 140_____ 1242.60 5 3 �3. So small a sum has been contributed the past year for the support of pastor because of debts previously contracted for work on Meeting houses, the present year there will be a considerable larger sum contribu­ ted for the support of pastor, Number of childrens schools in the field 12 - No. of children in sabbath schools 150 No. of adults in sabbath school, 300 No of those who attend Meeting on the sabbath in the field 800. A stone Meeting house has been begun at Waimanalo. Some contri­ (been) butions have/made for small permanent houses of worship in different parts of the field. (Unsigned; B.W. Parker) �(1854) I have no report to make of my missionary work at this station the past year. I have been here less than three months during the year; and, while here, able to do little more than preach on the Sabbath to such as assemble. There is but little prospect that my injured limb will be so far restored as to allow of my performing the labors of the station very soon, if ever, as I have formerly done. I can only see and hear the desolation made in the field by long absences by the ravages of the small-pox, and by advantage taken of my absence and of my present disa­ bility, by Papal and Mormon priests. 600 in this district died of small­ pox, about 150 of whom were chh. members. have joined the Catholics and Mormons. Several other church members With my former ability to travel, visit, and labor, I should have great hope that the church and people would be again revived, and the wastes in a measure repaired; but I have the prospect of doing but very little missionary work in this field. I feel that duty to the church and people here require me to state to the Mission that I cannot do the work that ought to be done in this district. It requires travel and visiting, and thi s I cannot do. So far as I have had the advice and opinion of physicians I cannot expect to recover entirely from the effects of this injury; but with great care I may hope after a long time to have a comfortable use of my limb again. The physician at Tahiti who first attended i t, told me I probably should not be entirely well of it, and that for two years I could not expect to have a tolerable use of it. It is now ten months since the injury was received, and I am not yet able to dispense with the use of crutches. Still It Is very slowly improving. It has been, and is, a very great affliction; but the hand of the Lord is in it. I wrote to Dr. Smith and Dr. Baldwin, hoping to have some prescription and advice from them, and I still hope to have. # (Footnote) Dr. Smith �2. has written me a kind advisory letter. I may add that the present arrangement for my support is, under existing circumstances, inadequate. my people the present year. I am expected to get $500 from Owing to the state of things among the church and people, which I have already stated, and to my own inability to labor, the prospect is, that very little will be received this year towards my own support from the people, and I ask the Mission to provide for the deficiency occasioned by unforseen ( !) events. If church statistics are desired, I can send them, also the little amount contri­ buted for the year, and any other items desired, if there are to be any printed minutes. I will add that if the Mission can furnish an adequate supply for this station I feel it my duty to say to them that I shall not stand in the way of their doing so. B.W. Parker Kaneohe, May 1854. �Kaneohe Abstract of Report for Minutes The past year has been one of declension in the church and congre­ gation on the subject of religion. There have been more cases of discipline in the church than in any previous year. Whole amount of contribution from the church for different ob­ jects $629.80. Mormonism has a few adherents, but mostly of the baser sort. Popery - much as in former years. Native schools very low. Little interest in them among parents, teachers, or children. A flourishing school for teaching native children the English Language was commenced in January. It has more than sixty scholars. (Unsigned) �Statistics of Kaneohe Church. Whole no admitted on profession Whole no by certificate Past year by examination Past year by certificate Whole no past year Whole no. dismissed to other chhs. Dismissed past year Whole no disceased ( !) Died past year Suspended past year Remain suspended Excommunicated past year Whole no. excommunicated Remain excommunicated Whole no in regular standing Whole no of children baptized Baptized past year Married past year Average congregation on the sabbath 785 69 " " " 18 " 253 150 3 5 " 25 9 429 197 6 11 Very little missionary work has been done at this station the past year. The Pastor has been absent from his field of labour nine months. During his absence the Mormons came in and made some converts . The Papal priest too was active in his efforts to induce chh. members to turn papists. About 600 died of small-pox in this district the last year, about 150 of whom were chh. members. pastor $150. Contributed for the support of At monthly concert $60, and to the Missionary Society about $150. Owing in part to the absence of the missionary the congregations have much diminished and there has been no special interest in religion during the year. (Unsigned; B.W. Parker) 5 8 �Kaneohe Station Report (1855) For about one half of the last year I have been unable to do much missionary work in my field. twice on the Sabbath. I could only preach once and sometimes I could not travel over the district at all. The injury which I received while at Tahiti confined me to the use of crutches in walking, for about one year. I, however, gradually recov­ ered, and the last few months have been able to travel a n d labor, to considerable extent, as formerly. The condition of my field at the time of my return to it, a few weeks before the last meeting of the mission was truly s a d. I had been absent from the Station nearly one year. It was the year of the prevalence of the small pox. It had made great and sad devastations among the population of this district. Every pos­ sible advantage had been taken of my absence by Catholic and Mormon priests, and some church members had joined, chiefly in the time of the small pox. But it was not until I had recovered, and was able to visit all parts of the field, that I was fully aware of the extent of the desolation made by the pestilence. gregations on the Sabbath small. Meetings were thinly attended. Con­ Many houses were left without an in­ habitant; and of those who survived, many of them had relapsed into a state of indifference and stupidity, from which there seemed to be little hope that they would ever be recovered. I have little that is encourageing ( !) to report of the state of religion, education, morals, or civilization during the year past. For some part of the year intemperance has been considerably prevalent in some parts of the district, by the use of intoxicating liquors, ob­ tained sometimes from Honolulu, and sometimes procured by the fermen­ tation of native produce. The late king spent some six weeks or two He months in the district, a little previous to his death. H e took up his �2. residence with the Catholic Priest. Many of the people, including a considerable number of church members, would go where the king was, to the feast, the horse race, the hula, and to the Catholic meeting on the Sabbath. I can say little of interest as to the state of the church the past year. Some have fallen away. and backslidden ( !). day or the Sabbath. Others have declined, Some seldom attend meeting, either on the week Still a part remain firm and cdnstant in their attendance on the means of grace. Our contributions to the different benevolent objects have not been as large as in some former years. the year is $629.80. The whole amount contributed for This included pay for a native preacher, monthly coneert contributions, support of pastor, missionary Society, and meet­ ing house. Beside this considerable work has been done on one meeting house in the district. finished. It is of stone, and has a shingle roof, nearly My labors are now much as formerly. On the Sabbath, a school for children, two public services, and a meeting at evening, at some school house away from the station. The monthly concert is regularly attended, also a lecture Wednesday afternoon, at the Station, church prayer meeting Saturday afternoon, and usually two meetings in the week at some place away from the Station. Occasionally a Sabbath is spent at an out station. Our native schools have been but indifferently attended the past year. Neither parents or teachers manifest scarcely any interest in them, and the children have little If any more. Men of any ability and energy care very little about teaching for the usual wages, when they can get three or four times that sum by other labor. In January and English school was begun, and the first quarter there were forty children in attendance. The second term has begun with over sixty scholars. 60 �Kaneohe 1855 Statistics of the Church in Kaneohe. Whole no. on profession 806 Whole no. by certificate 73 Past year on examination 21 Past year by certificate 6 Whole no. past year 27 Whole no. dismissed to other churches 28 Dismissed past year 3 Whole no. deceased 276 Deceased past year 11 Suspended past year 4 Remain suspended 3 Excommunicated past year 17 Whole no. excommunicated 58 Remain excommunicated 25 Whole no. in regular standing 508 Whole no. of children baptized 208 Baptized past year 11 Marriages past year 45 (Unsigned) (On back:) Report from Kaneohe 1855 Rev. B.W. Parker �Kaneohe Station Report 1856. The missionary work in my field has been performed the past year much as in former ones. Preaching on the sabbath attending meetings on week d a y s , teaching, visiting, attending to the native schools, and the various et cetera of missionary work have occupied a great portion (of) my t i m e . In addition to my ordinary Mission work I have taught the English school for native children for two terms. This has necessarily kept me from some other labours among the people. only way I could do. But it seemed to be the The school must either be given up after it had been successfully begun or I must teach it temporarily at least. Of the state of religion in the church and congregations in my field I have little of interest to r e p o r t . vival of religion among our people. We have had no general re ­ There seems rather to have been a decline of religious interest both in the church and congregations. Meetings both on the sabbath and week days have not been as well atten­ ded as in some former years. A worldly spirit has prevailed and in some cases a disposition to relapse into heathen practises ( !), There has been no great defection in the church, and the cases of suspension and excommunication have been less than in the year previous. xSeven have been added to the church during the year. Contributions have (been) made during the year mostly by church members as follows For support of Missionary Monthly concert Missionary Society Native preacher Meeting house Whole amount of contributions $380. 90.88 65. 100. 600. $ 1235.88 This amount is somewhat over two dollars on an average for every member in the church. This amount was contributed in money only. In 62 �2. addition to this some work has been done by church members on meeting and school houses, but no estimate is made of the amount of the work. About one half of the above amount or $600 dollars was contributed by a small portion of the church a t an out station for their meeting house. They have built a stone house shingle roof nent slips throughout. floored and perma­ The work has been most cheerfully done by the natives in that part (of) the field superintended by native teacher - a graduate of the last class of Lahainaluna. At our other out station a house is greatly needed but as yet the church members there do not seem ready to take hold of the work efficiently. The native teacher in this part of the field is not well adapted to help on the work of building. Schools - Native schools for children have been better attended and more prosperous than during the previous year. This ow ing to a better age viz better school houses and and ( !) some better teachers than we have formerly had. The English school for Hawaiian children has had an average of sixty scholars for the year past. There appears to be no diminution of interest either on the part of parents or children in the school. Mormonism. It has had some adherents in this field. priests foreigners have resided there One or two But most of their followers have left them the last year, I know of only one place where they attempt to have a meeting now and that is attended by very few of the natives. Popery. I am not aware that there is any increase in the number of Papists though probably their number is as great as it has been at any previous time. I think about one third of the population in the district are papists. Their school to have merely a nominal existence. anything. High school located near us appears I can not learn as they are doing They have I have been told but very few scholars in their 63 �Kaneohe 1856 Seminary. But they have in their number two or three rather intelligent and energetic natives that gives them some advantage. Of the progress of the people in this field in civilization and general improvement I have nothing encourageing to report. little i f any advance from year to year. have been. I see very Their houses are much as they Their way of living sleeping eating talking acting and not is much as years ago. Morals - The inhabitants of this district would perhaps generally be considered moral in their external conduct. grossly immoral. They regard the Sabbath. They are not apparently There are occasional cases of drunkenness by the beer obtained at Honolulu and by the collogne ( !) which i s pretty freely used by some as a drink. There is disposition among some to go after native doctors, doctors who pretend to some superhuman power. They perform wonderful cures god that causes the disease cast out the evil and the more ignorant and vicious and d e ­ graded the doctor is the more he seems to be esteemed and sought after by some of the natives. The Chinese are becoming considerably numerous around. That portion of them called the coolies are scattered about over the district. Occasionally some of them find their way to the house of God on the Sabbath. But they seem to be almost shut out from the means of salvation. What can we do to benefit them? But what we most need for ourselves and for our church and congre­ gation our schools and our people generally, is an abundant outpouring of the Spirit of God. B.W. Parker �Kaneohe Statistics of the church at Kaneohe. (1856) Whole no. on profession. Whole no by certificate Past year by examination Past year by certificate Whole no. past year. Whole no. dismissed to other chhs. Dismissed past year Whole no. deceased. Died past year Suspended past year. Remain Suspended Excomed past year Whole no. excommunicated Remain excommunicated Whole no. in regular standing Whole no of children baptized Baptized past year Marriages past year. 808 77 7 4 11 31 3 285 9 6 5 2 60 28 500 221 13 34 (Unsigned; B.W. Parker) �Kaneohe Station Report 1857 My labours at the station have been continued the past year without interruption. They have been much the same as in former years and I need not report the particular meetings and other work. There has been no Special interest among the people in attending or meetings on the Sabbath as on week days but rather a falling off in attendance from what it has been in former years. Congregations on the Sabbath have been small not exceeding on an average 200. And meetings on week days attended by few usually not more than 25 or 50 persons. There are meetings at two out stations on the Sabbath con­ ducted by natives but the attendance small. Church. We have had no general interest in the church during the year. The cases of discipline have been probably more than in any former year. Eighteen have been added by profession. Contributions. These have been taken up usual(ly) the past year for missions, for the support of pastor and native preacher and for meetings ( !) houses. And as much contributed as could be reasonably (be) expected considering the habits of the people, the small number in the church and their extreme poverty. The whole for all purposes contributed is $768.75. Beside this there has been some work on school houses and meeting houses, the amount not estimated. At one of the out stations the church has finished a permanent house of worship stone with shingle roof floored and furnished with slips throughout. The whole cost of the house of the house ( !) some over $1000 beside native work. It was dedicated in July la s t . Schools. Native schools for children have been as good and perhaps better in attendance and progress than in former years. have better school houses and some better native teachers than We �2. Kaneohe 1857 formerly, and this has helped to improve the schools. The English school for native children is continued. third year it has been kept. This is the Of late the number of children has dim­ inished and only about 30 at present attend. The parents feel it to be too great a burden to continue to pay a tuition. The progress of the children is not rapid but some do make advancement in acquiring the Eng language. Morals. There has been more than usual open immorality in some parts of the district the last year, drinking, native dances gambling quarrelling. One most shocking murder of a native man. This state of things has been owing in part to an ignorant inefficient\ district judge unworthy and unfit for any office. He has been lately removed and w e hope a better man put in his place. Improvement in Civilization. I do not see much advance in civi­ lized habits and general improvement from year to year. In general the natives live in the same little dirty grass unfurnished huts that they did twenty years ago. With very few exceptions they seem to be as indolent shiftless improvident as they were when we first took the station. The population has diminished in number one third during the twenty two years we have lived at the station. And such are their habits and ways of living that the result must be their entire extinc­ tion. In my view there is no more hope for them as a people that they will live recover a(nd) flourish than there is that a man in the last stages of consumption will recover and again become a strong and healthy man. There is a possibility in either case and some reason to hope. At least so long as there is life it is to be watched over and provided for. �3 Mormonism flourished some for a time but is I believe entirely extinct. Popery has i t s usual number of adherents but not making any advance i n numbers. (Unsigned, B.W. Parker) Statistics of Church at Kaneohe. Whole no. on profession 826 On certificate 82 Past year on profession 18 On certificate 5 Total past year 23 Whole no. dismissed to other churches 37 dismissed past year 6 Whole number deceased 296 deceased past year 11 Excluded past year 26 Remain excluded Whole number in regular standing 480 Whole no. of children baptized 226 Baptized past year 5 Marriages past year 10 Contributions past year. At Monthly Concert For Pastor For two native teachers ” Meeting houses Children for Morning Star Missionary Society Whole amount of Contributions $ 94.75 360 85 299 10. 20. "768.75 �Kaneohe Station Report 1858 My labours at the Station have been continued the past year and conducted much as in former years. But it has been a year o f less interest among the people than previous years. Our congregations have diminished and the number of those who attend any weekly religious meetings is very small. Stupidity indifference to all religious instruction and to all the interests of the soul and to the interests of Christs Kingdom seem to have settled down on almost the whole church and people. In no year have we had so many cases of discipline in the church. Several reasons might be assigned for this diminished interest, but prominent among them is the reviving of the old system of heathen hulas. They appear to be established on almost every land in the district. They are attended by great numbers both of parents and children, church members as well as those out of the church. are There schools for instructing the children and youth in the native song and dance. The hulas are kept up day and night. And it is surprising to see with what eagerness those from wh o m we have long hoped for b e t ­ ter things have gone back to these heathenish customs. Native schools have diminished in numbers and attendance small. Little interest is felt among parents and scarcely any more among teachers or s c h o l l a r s ! ( . T ) hey leave the school to go to the hula. The English school for native children is continued. in its fourth year. It is now And though not as large as formerly yet there is a good degree of interest in the school manifested bot h b y parents and children. And their progress in acquiring the English language has certainly been very encourageing. Two formerly members of the school are now promising s c h o l a r s in the Royal School in Honolulu. �Kaneohe 1858 It is somewhat dis c o u r a g i n g that some of the children have sickened and died. Six of the best most advanced and most promising schollars have died, three of them the last year. I have thought that continued confinement for native children for from four to five hours every day tends to bring on disease. It is matter of frequent remark among n a ­ tives that so many died from the English school. I have two out stations to each of which I devote one Sabbath in a month leaving the congregation at the station with natives. It has seemed necessary to do this the past year to save any f r o m falling into the temptations that beset them. A prevailing epedemic swept over the district in the month of July. It suddenly prostrated almost all the people. ually recovered f r o m it in the course of a month. births few and the natives rapidly decrease. if any slow. But most grad­ Deaths are frequent Progress in improvement At present the natives complain of a famine little food, small means for obtaining the conveniences and comforts of civilized life. But amid all the discouragements we have mercies and much to be (!) thankfull for - Our Sabbaths and sanctuary privileges have been con­ tinued to us. Our weekly church prayer meetings conferences and lec­ tures have not been entirely forsaken. And few of the church stand fast, and offer some resistance to the downward current. Something has been done to support the gospel at home and send it to the desti­ tute. And there are some who will throug( h) the grace of God endure to the end and so be saved. Mormonism has entirely gone out I know of no natives in the district who adhere to it. Popery is much as in years past. It has a strong hold here and has some little additions chiefly from suspended and disaffected church members. (Unsigned; B.W. Parker) �Statistics of Ch. at Kaneohe (1858) 290 50 20 4 24 Whole no ad. on exm. On certificate Past year on exm. Past year on certificate Whole no past year 19 Whole no. diss. to other chhs. 63 Whole no deceased 3 Died last year 1 Susp. last year 11 Remain Suspended 0 Excom. last year 19 Remain excommunicated 222 Whole no in regular standing 149 Whole no of baptized children 11 Baptzd last year 42 Marriages last year 450 Average Gong on Sah V �[Kaneohe Report]. Missionary work has been continued at this station the last year without interruption. Labors have been much the same as in former years; preaching twice on the Sabbath; attending meetings in different parts of the field on week days. We have three places of worship on the Sabbath; one at the Station; another about ten miles in one di­ rection; the third about the same distance in another direction. At the two out stations I have preached one Sabbath in each month during the year. Our regular week day meetings for the past year have been, one at the station every Wednesday afternoon; Thursday and Friday afternoons in other places, Saturday afternoon a church meeting, and the monthly concerts. I have to report that the numbers attending meetings both on the Sabbath and other days have considerably dimin­ ished the past year. Parents, children, an d many church members have become very negligent in their attendance at all religious meetings. Our congregation on the Sabbath does not average more than one hundred I think, and almost invariably on week days very few attend at any place. The same may be said of schools. interest. natives. They decline in numbers and I may say the same too of improvement generally among the They are less industrious, and less disposed to improve the habits of civilized life. The question will arise what has occasioned so great a falling off among the natives in this part of the field. There are some very obvious reasons for it. There is a torrent of iniquity from some source flowing over us more destructive than the Hawaiian lava flow; for it destroys souls. I will state some of what seem to me to be the causes of a dim­ inution of interest in religion, and education, and in almost every �2. Kaneohe thing that is u se fu l and important. I And f i r s t I w i l l mention the prevalence of the H u la s . The extent to w h ich they are carried on, and the patronage they re ceive is exert­ ing a most inju rio u s influence among the p e o p le . Great numbers are drawn to them; p a r e n ts, c h ild r e n , and church members go to see the dance, and hear the so n g s. Teachers are employed to in s tru c t the young. School for practicing the song and the dance, and, at t im e s , public e x h ib it io n s , when great multitudes are brought to g eth er, and the whole day spent in hearing the songs, fe a s t in g and dancing. The whole in flu e n ce of the Hulas is most i n ju r io u s , d e m o ra lizin g , and degrading; the dress o f the performers, the dance, and the song are a l l o f the same debasing tendency. So numerous were they becoming, and so numerously attended by almost every class o f persons, c h ild re n from the schools, church members, males and fem ales, that I f e l t i t to be duty to atten d them and the year p ast, I have attended a number of the H u l a s . The dress of the dancers i s most shameful, th eir movements abom inable, songs o f a lasciv io u s character. I have u s u a lly , but not alw ays, been able to get a h e a rin g ; they would stop the dance, In two instances and l i s t e n to remarks. they were induced to stop i t e n t ir e ly , At other p la ces they would continue th e ir performance, me and th e ir and a l l l e f t . and sa id to "You have your dance, d iffe re n t somewhat from o urs, and we have o u r s ." I t is w e ll fo r the missionary to go . The tendency i s to prevent some n a tiv e s from frequenting them; they do not w is h to be seen a t these p lac es, and, it w i l l , or to have i t known that they a tte n d the H u la s , in d iffe r e n t w ay s, operate as a check upon them. we can have but l i t t l e hope th at, so long as the Hula is p atronized by the Highest a u th o r ities in the i s l a n d s , among th e common p eople. Though that they w i l l be checked �Kaneohe 3. It is matter of regret that it has received in any w a y approbation of the national Legislature. Licensed in Honolulu, it will not he confined to Honolulu, nor in any way suppress them in other places. Gould it he that those legislating for the good of the Hawaiian nation were ignorant of the nature and tendency of the Hulas ! In the reliable history of the Hawaiian nation we have their character given in the following language. Mr. Bingham in his history says, "The whole arrangement and process of their old Hulas were designed to promote lasciviousness, and, of course, the practise of them could not flourish in modest communities. They had been in­ terwoven too, with their superstitions, and made subservient to the honor of their Gods, and their rulers either living or departed and deified." Mr. Dibble in his history says, "Of all the sports that took their zest and charm from lewd, and vile associations, the most prominent, perhaps, was the dance. Girls were the actresses. Their motions were anything but graceful, and often very revolting. Every variety of song was rehearsed, and acted, even the most vile and lascivious, and the action always corresponded with the sense, and there were connected with them such exhibitions of licentiousness and abomination as must forever remain untold." Mr. Jarvis, in his his­ tory says, "The dances or hula were of various character; sometimes interspersed w i t h chants relating to the achievments ( !) of the past or present rulers, or in honor of the Gods. Though they were commonly practised in honor of the Gods, or for the amusement of the chiefs. The dances of the professional dancers consisted in a variety of u n ­ couth motions and twistings of the body, of too lascivious a nature to bear description, and were generally preparatory to brutal revels. Their costumes were in conformity w i t h their actions." �Kaneohe 4. Such is the historical account of the hula. with what we see of them as now revived. It agrees well And it has been publicly asserted that they are more objectionable as now practised than they were in the times of the deepest heathen darkness. They are a system of iniquity that is only evil, idolatrous, tending to promote licen­ tiousness, to foster idleness, and ignorance, to produce famine, pov­ erty, disease and death, and now it is licensed. When that act r e ­ ceives the signature, the death warrant of many souls will be signed, and the death of the Hawaiian race rapidly hastened. 2. I mention another injurious influence over the people in this field. The extensive practise of native doctors. It has been here formerly, but not so extensive, so open, and so heathenish as at pre­ sent. At least, I have not known it. I was induced to inquire more into this system, from finding church members among the licensed doc­ tors; Also, that it was quite common for church members, when sick, to commit themselves to the care of native doctor, and have all the juglery of their system practised over them, such as casting lots, to know whether the sickness will terminate in death, or restoration, prayers to the dead, and offerings to their old heathen deities. We have had several eases of discipline in the church of members, who have engaged in this system, and who have gone thoroughly into all the vile practices, of native doctors. I requested a native to write for my use some account of the present practise of these doctors. And the following is a translation of a part of what he wrote. Practising medicine in the Hawaiian nation, after the manner of pagan nations, is a permanent thing. From the arrival of Bingham and company to the present time it is continued. Because, both the common people and chiefs are mistaken, and desire this practice. A 75 �5. good profession indeed, but here is the evil, idolatry and prayers to the dead, calling upon the sun, the east and the west, the dead an­ cestors of the night, and men now living to labor together in this work. In practising, the native doctors cast lots. purpose, pebbles, or kapa, or rope. They use for this When the doctor begins, he has present the sick person, and the one who has the care of the sick, prepares his lots, points out where is death, and where life, inquires whether the present sickness is occasioned by the influence of d e a d ancestors, or whether by the the ( !) sorcery of some mischievous living person. If the result of the lot is favorable, the doctor begins his practice, if unfavorable he leaves the patient because the Gods of medicine will not lend their aid in this case. doctors they offer prayers. In this work of the Having collected in one heap the pebbles or other things they have used in casting lots they cover them with tapa and spread forth their hands and pray thus "Ye dead ancestors males - that know their pebbles that know this sickness - that know the sickness grant power - give life that this sickness m ay be cured, that it may be cured by me a mere male that takes care of your medi­ cines life. Ye dead ancestors - mothers look upon us - give power, give Then follows an invocation of heathen Gods by their names - Ku - Lono - Pele - Hiekka - and Jehovah the father of heaven, and the father of earth give life give power. It is said there are sixty native doctors - men and women - licensed - having a printed certificate their whole practice is a base imposition upon their credulity - tends to foster among the natives ignorance - superstition & idolatry and hastens their death 3. I mention as another source of evil among the natives in this dis­ trict the facility with which they obtain intoxicating drinks. sometimes return drunk from the beer shops in Honolulu. They A few weeks �Kaneohe 6. since a native female, church member came to me and said, that while in Honolulu she was enticed into one of these shops, drank and was intoxicated. our field. Such instances are not uncommon among the natives in They also make it by fermentation - get up a feast and have a drunken revel. During the past few month[s] two distilleries have been in operation among us making rum fr o m the ”ti" root. This however is the work of foreigners, and most of the products of these distilleries are brought to Honolulu. I have not been them for these dis­ tilleries are far up in the mountains, in unfrequented places - the rum transported to Honolulu by night. Our natives are not allowed to approach these places, - they say - they are my informants, but the fact that rum is distilled there has lately come out in the course of a trial before the Supreme Court in a case between two foreigners living in that section. I am told one of the manufacturers has said - only let him have six months in which to prosecute the business, and he will have acquired an ample fortune. 4. I mention as another influence for evil popery - The papists are making more vigorous efforts in this portion of their field - than at any time before, and seem inspired with ne w hopes - working with renewed strength. I know not why it is, unless the declension among protest- ants - the tendency to dissipation and a return to heathen practise, is favorable to their cause. Within the past year they have established a congregation on the Sabbath close by the protestant place of worship, at an out-station a place where they never had services before - and on a land where are not ten papist(s) probably - They assemble here from all parts of the district going eight or ten miles to this place of worship. They are active to get disaffected church members and disciplined members from the protestants also church members who come 11 �7. from abroad strangers - are sought and drawn away to the papists - They are active in the distribution of their tracts and pamphlets issued from their press in Honolulu - They are distributed gratuitous­ ly to protestants - particularly to the more influential or important and disciplined members are certain to be furnished with them, These tracts are on various subjects introduction progress, struggles Islands from the year 1827 dow n. persecutions of popery in these Some of them contain a journal of their labors at different stations on the different Islands - They give a history of the letters written f r o m the priests one on the Celibacy of the Priests The apostles were not married - nor their successors in the first centuries nor are their true successors at the present time. Consequently protestant missionaries in these Islands are not the successors of the Apostles lulu they are published in the newspapers as arriving at Hono­ Lahaina Christ - etc with wife and children they are not ministers of Another is on trans Substantiation - The emblems are the very body and blood of Christ - for he said this is my body The protestant teachers have deceived the Hawaiians in representing them as only symbols. Some of the tracts are reviews of the different Hawaiian publications on popery Hae - The Catechism Nona Nona - Hele- In one they give an account of the proceedings in Gen M eeting of the Protestant Mission. They are written wit h great confidence, much spirit & with a zeal worthy of a better cause - contain many misrepresentations - much that is false - but well calculated to deceive the ignorant. to one point - All tend The Roman Catholick church is the only true church, and there is no salvation out of it. The mystery of iniquity is at work - only he who now letteth, will let, until he be taken out of the way. �Kaneohe 8. There is at the present time a famine on this part of the Island a result of the growing evils above mentioned - There has been no prevailing sickness during the year but the number of deaths has been unusually large. But I may add that a portion of the church stand firm - and true to their profession have no fellowship wi t h the unfruitful works of darkness - and these mostly constitute our congregation on the Sab­ bath - and are ready for every good word and work. The contributions the past year for all objects amount to $508. The only school for/native children is continued. constant attendance is twenty five. The number in Their progress is g o o d . (Unsigned; B.W. Parker) 11 �Statistics of Church at Kaneohe (1859?) Whole N o . on profession On Certificate Past year on profession On certificate Total past year Whole no. dismissed Dismissed past year Total deceased Deceased past year Excluded past year Remain Excluded N o w in regular standing Total children baptized Baptized past year Marriages 831 85 4 3 7 43 6 320 13 25 69 399 235 7 14 �Kaneohe Station Report 1860 Our last annual report presented a dark picture of the state of religion morality and improvement in this District. valent, the making and drinking of rum abounded. the grosest ( !) idolatry. Hulas were pre­ Some had relapsed into As a consequence of this state of things, our congregations on the Sabbath h a d very much diminished, our week day meetings very thinly attended. The sabbath was neglected and in various ways lamentably desecrated and a general stupidity a moral and spiritual death spread over almost all the people. This state of things was much the same on our return fro m last general meeting. The heathen idola­ trous hulas were continued in all that region in their full strength till the first of August when the new civil code of laws went into ef­ fect in which is a law licensing the Hula but confing it to Honolulu. They were then entirely suppressed. I am not aware that there has been one in the district since the first of August, indeed I am sure there has not been. For this we feel grateful to God. Rum and Intemperance Would that I could report the same of the manufacture and use of intoxicating liquors, but this evil has not been stoped ( !) and perhaps not very essentially checked. is carried to Honolulu. Rum is distilled, sold, given away. It It has been distilled since the n e w law passed at the last session of the legislature went into effect* It seems evidently to be patronized or at least encouraged by those in authority. Two or three instances may be mentioned to show that it is so. eigner, one of the distillers furnished rum to a native. ecuted before the police justice. A for­ He was pros­ It was a plain case that it had been furnished to the native as complained of, but because of some little technicality in the form of trial the foreigner was cleared. case was that of the distiller. Another He had been watched by the police and �Kaneohe 1860 2. was finally detected with his horses loaded with kegs of rum, taking them to Honolulu in the night. The spirits were secured. turer was prosecuted and tried before the Supreme Court. isted as to the facts in the case. The manufac­ Ho doubt ex­ But a flaw was found by w hich the distiller could be cleared, and he was so. Another case is that of two foreigners distilling since the new law enacted by the last legislature went into effect. to avoid detection. They had their distilling far back in the mountains A native informed of them. Several of the police with a foreigner at their head were conducted to the distillery. found there two foreigners in the very act of distilling. They At the ap­ proach of the police they both fled to the mountain, and instead of pursuing and taking them the constables all went into the distillery. helped themselves freely to the native rum there found, returned home, and no further efforts have been made to arrest the distillers. The manufacturers I am told furnish the article gratuitously to the more important persons in the community such as the local judge the collector of the district, important lawyers &c, thereby securing the favour of those whom they otherwise would fear. very general among the natives. I do not think the use of it is Some drink it. The bia (beer ?) found at the grog shops in Honolulu is drunk to some extent by the n a ­ tives here. There is at the present time less drinking than there was a few months ago. Some I know who were addicted to it a few months ago are entirely reformed and thus far stand firm against the enticements that surround them. But it is easy to see that while the making intox­ icating liquors is favoured or winked at by those whose business it is to put a stop to it, it will continue to be used. Popery. Never were the papists more active in this field and so far, as I can learn over all Oahu than the last year. Every individual they �5. can induce to join them of every character and condition, they do. Their chief efforts have been, 1 By the use of tracts and papers freely gratuitously distributed. These tracts are issued and often given to protestants on the Sabbath at or in the region of our meeting house, as the people go and return from the meeting. I have just seen one of their regular series entitled the ’’Christian Banner". It was written by Kamakau who in this paper, professed to have lately become a convert to popery. He has evidently been thoroughly instructed by the Jesuit priests in the matter of this paper, but written by a native of so much ability and enfluence as the author has, it is I think calculated to do great injury to the cause of truth. 2. They are indefatigable in their efforts among the sick and those apparently near to death where there is any hope that they may be con­ verted to popery before they die. They visit, either the priest or his agent, the sick and try to persuade them to receive Roman Catholic baptism and extreme unction. The following is an instance. A few weeks ago in a part of my field an aged man who had been an exemplary church member for more than twenty years, was taken sick and they thought not likely to live. see him. A daughter who was a papist came over from Honolulu to Her first wish was to attempt his conversion to popery. was old, sick, and feeble. He She was imperative promissing ( !) and threatning ( !), and he finally yielded. The priest was sent for, ad­ ministered baptism and the blessing of a happy death. As soon as a native told what occured ( !) there I took my horse rode to the house, found the man sick, and his daughter sitting by. After inquiring about his sickness, some conversation followed as to what I had heard of his becoming a papist. He said h e h a d done so under the influence of what had been said to him. I then reminded him of the truths of G o d ’s word �Kaneohe 1860 that he h a d long heard and professed t© love and obey, and assured him that no priest could help hi m in the hour of his extremity, none but Christ could take away his sins. After some further conversation he confessed that he h a d been induced to yield to the strong xxxxxxxxxxx so licitations of the papists, but that he now remounced them. He took hold of his beads and cross and striped ( !) them from his neck, and threw them aside. Upon this his daughter broke out in the most insolent language, saying to him if you renounce Catholicism you are no longer my father, nor I your daughter, and other violent language. said she to a boy who stood by, I go to Honolulu. all gently replied to her, that is with you. former kumu (teacher). Get my horse The father heard it I shall stand fast to my He recovered from his sickness and is a con­ sistent Christian and constant attendant at our meetings. 3 They make efforts to proselyte by establishing meetings in every village where are meetings for protestant worship. If there is any unusual interest in a place, any special effort made they are sure to come along side and get up a meeting. By the side of our ne w house of worship at our out station, they have erected a little grass house ap­ parently for no other reason than to have a house as near as possible to ours. Their success has not been very great the past year. Their accessions have been only from a few suspended disaffected church members. These they readily receive in all cases, I think. I think more have left in this district than have joined them the past year - but I beleive ( !) they have great hope that they will yet possess the power on Oahu at least, and should the day come when any of the highest native cheefs ( !) join them there they will receive great accessions to their numbers. Church at Waikane. tion. We have built a new house of worship at an out sta- It is a neat substantial building seated throughout with permanent �sl ips. Cost $ 1 ,150. I regard the district as no w well supplied with permanent houses of worship. I do not see why they should not last till the last generation of natives shall have passed away. preached at this out station died a few weeks ago. The native who We have now no native preacher i n this district. Benevolent contributions. The ability of this people to contribute is very limited. The entire support of a foreign pastor is entirely out of the question, by the church, and should it be increased to double its present number they could not be relied on to support institutions of the gospel among them owing to their deep poverty. And it is evident they always will be poor, for they have no way by w(h)ieh to improve themselves in wealth, no means no habits of e ndustry and economy and improvement. So that as long as a foreign pastor occupies the station he must be supported mainly from a board. Contributions the past year as follows For the support of pastor Monthly concert Meeting house at Waikane " " " Koloa $322 115 60 40 $537 The money contributed at Monthly concert has mostly b e e n used to pay the expenses of the new house at Waikane. The house is not yet all paid for. Schools. The English school is kept up though with less interest among the parents, and a smaller attendance, than in former years. It must soon be classed among things that have been. The native schools have been improved from what they were in former years. Sabbath schools both for adults and children are attended and both parents and children are much interested in the exercises and I think profited by them. We use the new testament, facts of the old Testament and the catechism in these schools. �Kaneohe 1860 Revival. 6. We have had for a part of the year an unusual interest among our people in religion. The Spirit of God has most evidently been in our midst awakening sinners and converting them to God and reviving many of the church and Congregation backsliders to repentance restoring those who had wandered. We have been constrained to say it is the L o r d 's doing and is marvelous in our eyes. The work began at a time and in a way and among a class of persons where we least expected it. Those who to human appearance were the least hopeful were the first to be inter­ ested. The work was more among the young though not confined to them. The work was marked by more deep seriousness deeper conviction of sin than I have ever known among natives before I think. And those who first found the Saviour, soon manifested a strong desire for those who had been their companions in sin. They immediately began to visit talk with them on the soul's salvation and pray with them, get them to meeting on the Sabbath and to the prayer meetings. God seemed to bless our labours and the interest increased and spread. hope that many have been truly converted to God. fast and that too under manifold temptations. I have great They do thus far stand The enem ies have been busy all the time trying to lead them astray, the wicked bo t h foreigners and natives and half casts try to lead them back into sin, they laugh at them, tell them they soon will return to their old habits, they put the bottle to their mouths and solicit them to drink again wit h them the intoxicating cup. But by the help of God they have so far as I can ascertain always resisted the temptations. Fifteen have been admitted to the church but somewhere about forty are propounded for admission. There were no very special effort s made among the people before the interest began. prayer meeting. members. Soon after the last general meeting we began a morning It was attended by some fifteen or more mostly church The number gradually increased to 25 and 30. The early �Kaneohe 1860 7. mourning ( !) hour devoted to their meeting was spent in prayer reading a portion of scripture and remarks on the passage read. case of awakening known was at this morning meeting. The first About the same time October perhaps it was there were some rather remarkable deaths among us. Two occured ( !) very near together and very sudden. They were both men in fine health and in the prime of life, and they had both been noted for their unbelieving wicked disipated ( !) course of life. Some among the natives seemed to feel that the hand of God was in this, and that h e was speaking to them . About the same time a girl of some 18 years died just by us, I had for some time missed her from the school & meetings. On inquiry I found she had gone to Honolulu to stay. went to see her. Apparently she could live but a little while. I Of this she was fully aware, and said I am now reaping the reward of my doings, and said she I am afraid t o die. Why are you afraid to die? She then gave her history for the last few months. She ha d been enticed from her home induced by the hope of a little money to go to Honolulu to take care of the room of a foreigner sweep it and make his bed and had been living in sin, and now was reaping the reward of her doings. I am afraid to die. She did die shortly after this, though not till she had been repeatedly exhorted to look by faith to the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. Before she died she did profess to have made full confession of all her sins to Christ with true repentance, and expressed the hope that her sins were pardoned through Hi s atoning blood. These deaths were made the occasion of solemn warning to the people and were not without some effect. Church discipline was more carefully attended to. There was good reason to believe that there was iniquity among the church members. They were preached to, exhorted to remove all stumbling blocks. were some s a d developements ( !) of sin among the church members. There The �Kaneohe 1860 8 girl above mentioned was the child of a church member. taken to Honolulu by a church member. She ha d been The house in which she was kept was a church member's house rented to foreigners, and the girl furnished for their room. of our church. The church member who did this was a member He at first evaded it, tried to justify himself, but finally admitted that his house was the source of abominable iniquity, but plead that he was doing only what was the common practice in Ho­ nolulu. The good and the ba d there were in this way. There has been much earnest prayer on the part of some in the church frequent neighborhood prayer meetings of a few individuals. Sometimes a day set apart especially for prayer. visiting from house to house, tracts distributed. blessed such means to the salvation of souls. needed on licentiousness. There has been much God seems to have A tract is greatly One that shall speak out God's truth on that sin, truth that shall burn as an ove/n, truth that shall be as the fire and the oven hammer, truth that shall expose and rebuke that sin as it deserves. Let one be written in Hawaiian and English too for these islands. Something should be done or our youth, our churches, our nation will go speedily down to the gates of death. It is truly encourage- ing ( !) to see the interest there is at the present time among the people in our region and it seems to be increasing and spreading. The attention to preaching to conversation on the soul's salvation is unusual. The last Sabbath before coming to this meeting I spent at the out station where our new house is. the aisle crowded many out doors. It was filled to overflowing, It is so/on week days. commencement of our session I went home one afternoon. morning I attended an early meeting. Since the The next There were I suppose sixty or more present, almost every eye fixed, and every ear attentive and / �Kaneohe 1860 9. open to hear language and thirsting for the bread of life. There are at least 500 perhaps 500 in the district who profess to he on the L o r d ’s side. They desire baptism and admission to the church of Christ. A great portion of them among the younger part of the com­ munity. Many of them never (were) untill ( !) the present revival of religion interested on the subject of their soul’s salvation. Shall they all be admitted to the church. What doth hinder them to be baptized? 1860 Statistics, of the church at Kaneohe Whole number received on profession On certificate Past year on profession On certificate Total past year Whole number dismissed Total -------- past year dismissed Total deceased Deceased past year Excluded past year Remain excluded Now in regular standing Total children baptized Baptized past year Marriages Contributions (Not signed, B.W. Parker) (On back:) Report of Kaneohe Ch 1860 B.W. Parker 846 90 15 5 20 51 8 327 4 15 38 9 285 1 18 $537. �Church Statistics of Kaneohe Station Whole number admitted on profession " " " on certificate Past year on profession on certificate Total past year Whole number dismissed Dismissed past year Total deceased Deceased past year Excluded past year Remain excluded Now in regular standing Total children baptized Baptized past year Marriages past year (1861) 904 96 58 6 64 51 " 338 11 11 431 288 3 12 (Unsigned; B.W. Parker) �Statistics of the Church Kaneohe 1862 Whole number - on profession , H Certificate, Past year on profession, ” " Certificate Total past year Whole number dismissed, Dismissed past year Total deceased Deceased past year Excluded past year Now in regular standing Total children baptized Baptized past year Marriages Congregation on the Sabbath Contributions past year 922 98 18 2 20 55 4 354 16 15 420 293 5 14 100 $500 In surveying my field and looking back on the Mission work of the past year preparatory to reporting to the Annual Meeting a gloomy picture of this portion of the Hawaiian race presents itself. And such a picture I must present to this meeting if I report at all. It is true the usual amount of missionary work has been done the past year. Not a sabbath has passed but the doors of the house of God have been opened for worship, instruction has been given, the gospel of Christ preached. Week day meetings have been attended nearly every week in different parts of the district. Schools for the Instruction of children have been continued the whole year. But why then so dark a picture of the field, of the missionary and of the prospects of the people? I mention first the rapid decrease of the population of this district. From year to year it is becoming more and more apparent that the natives are wasting away, the race hasting to extinction. The gospel does not save them from this rapid decay. It does not prove a remedy for those vices those national and social evils that are hastening their extinction. It is to me very plain that a great portion of the natives �2. are less interested than in former years in all that will improve them physically mentally and morally, they are less interested in those things which are for the best good of the young, for the im­ provement of their children. They are less interested in all that will save them. The past year in my field there has been a great falling off among church members and others from the Sabbath Services. The con­ gregation on the Sabbath has been very small not probably averageing over 100. Yet In the district there is a population of 2700 and there are over 400 church members, in the field and none of this population live more than 10 miles from the station, and a majority of them re­ side within 3 or 4 miles of the Station. of church members from Sabbath to Sabbath Where then are the hundreds plainly at their houses too indolent too indifferent to go to meeting or - they are visiting or travelling on the Sabbath. attended by very few. Meetings on other days of the week are And here I may mention that most of those who seemed two years since to be awakened and some we hoped were truly converted have fallen away left all meetings and this is true both of those who were received to the church and those who were not. But while there has been such a marked neglect of attendance on public and social worship there has been an increase of immorality Sabbath breaking, card-playing, horse rac ing - drinking awa feasting for - the dead, a revival of some old heathen customs and none are more forward in such immoral practises than a portion of the church m e mbers. Among the dark prospects that came over my mission field is the progress of popery among the people. I do not say that popery is in the ascendancy in this district or on the whole island of Oahu certain­ ly not numerically and yet there are plain and strong indications �Kaneohe 18 62 3. that the in flu en c e and the power is w ith them and t h e ir p a r ty . Was not the r e s u lt of the electio n of representatives in January not only i n t h is d is t r ic t bu t over the whole is la n d of Oahu a most s ig n i­ f i c a n t fact and this too so soon after the great r e l ig io u s interest we have had over the whole island? Here was a great moral question presented to the people a question whether the n atio n sh a ll liv e and prosper under the influ en ce of light & lib e r t y or whether i t sh a ll be enveloped in papal & pagan d arkness. of the papal party is rum s e llin g tiousness e le c t e d . elec ted. Sabbath breaking In every d is t r ic t the candidate In every d is t r ic t the rum-making the abbettor ( ! ) of the law fo r l ic e n ­ the advocate for entire change of the school system is Who cast those seven votes to elect a papal p r ie s t chaplain for the house o f representatives? W ith one exception they were probably a l l east by the members from Oahu. The weekly newspaper supported by the papal party and t h e ir ad­ herents has i f I am r ig h t l y informed a larger l i s t of subscribers on the isla n d of Oahu than the paper supported by the p r o te s ta n t s . The papal high school at Ohuimanu on th is is la n d has of la te been making some advances - A few weeks ago for the f i r s t had a public examination of the sc ho o l. time they The teaching of the E n g lis h language has a prominent place in the instructio n of the sc h o la rs . On the day of examination they gave public n o tic e that th e ir Seminary now received the patronage of the Haw aiian Government. N a tiv e c h ild ­ ren are taken In to the school as boarding scholars fre e of a l l expense to t h e ir parents. The desire of the parents to have their children taught E n g lis h and th eir being taken there f r e e of a ll ex­ pense is an inducement to some protestants to send to the school. Some effo rts have been made to separate between the c h aff and the wheat and some measures used to keep the church members up to �4. what appears to be the bible standard of Christian duty. names It has been my practise to call the ------- of the church members of the Sabbath to ascertain who are absent and those not at meeting on the Sabbath who live within a reasonable distance of the place of worship have been visited either sabbath evening or on Monday. They may have been absent from sickness, if so they require a pastoral visit, if absent from indifference only the(y) have been conversed with admonished exhorted not to forsake the house of God on the Sab­ bath, and those who persist in staying away without any reason have been suspended from the church. Church members are exhorted to attend the stated weekly meetings regularly such as the Wednesday afternoon lecture church meeting, monthly concert &c. Saturday afternoon At some of these meetings the list of church members is called over the absent inquired after for exhorted sent admonished as the case may require, but with all the efforts made the attendance at the weekly meetings is small. An early morning meeting is held daily at the station whi c h I always attend but the number who go is small varying from ten to twenty. All the church are expected to be present at the season prepara­ tory to communion and if absent from the preparatory meeting without any excuse in some cases they have been set aside at the approaching communion. This however has not been done till after repeated instruc­ tion on the duty of all making special effort if necessary to attend the meeting preparatory to the celebration of the Lords Supper. Nor have any been suspended for such absence except where they have had no or the most trivial excuse. It is true by using such measures our congregation on communion sabbath is only about as large as on other sabbaths. And some are kept away who would attend on this one �5. meeting the communion but seldom any other either Sabbath or week day. Such measures have caused dissatisfaction and disaffection on the part of Some Schools The English school for native children has been con­ tinued - the average\ attendance for the year has been 25 children. The parents are unwilling to pay the tuition. Doubtfull whether it will be continued though the progress of the scolars ( !) in acquiring the English language is such as to encourage its continuance. A few of the parents wish the school to be kept and will send to some English school. The papists will take them to their schools without any tuition. The native schools have been kept during the year four in n u m ­ ber with abou(t) 100 scholars. There is a sabbath school at the station attended by about 50 children. We have no sabbath school for adults. Considerable effort has been made to induce the natives to be more industrious, to cultivate the soil more and particularly to try the culture of rice. natives. It is such kind of work as is well adapted to Foreigners too have be(gun) the cultivation of rice in this district extensively and it was hoped that their example would stim ­ ed ulate the natives to cultivate their own lands, but most of them choose to hire themselves to the foreigner at low wages and put their lands into the hands of foreigners for a few dollars rather than cultivate and improve them themselves. Contributions. Every month contributions have been taken for foreign Missions and I have placed into the treasurer of the Hawaiian Missionary Society one hundred and twenty five dollars. The church have also contributed for the support of pastor & some other objects. The amount contributed during the year for different objects is five hundred dollars ($500.) (Unsigned; B.W. Parker) 9 5 � 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 - Kaneohe - 1835-1862 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1835, 1836, 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1843, 1844, 1846, 1848, 1849, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/76d2c32eaf3a33d6e9eaccacd3bff9e6.pdf 49cade8f1d4baceb323349669ceff7f5 PDF Text Text WAIALUA STATION REPORTS J.S. Emerson........... ........................... 1833 Unsigned (Emerson)............... .................. 1834 J.S. Emerson........................................ 1835 J.S. Emerson............... ................ ....... 1836 J.s. Emerson ........................... ............ 1837 J.S. Emerson . . . . . . . . . . . ................... .1838 J.S. Emerson . .............. ........................1839 J.S. Emerson . . . . . . . . . .......................... .1840 J.S. Emerson ..............................1841 . Unsigned (Emerson)......... ........................1842 A.B. Smith. .......................................... 1843 Unsigned (Edwin Locke)..............................1843 E.W. Clark and W.P. Alexander (cert. of J.S.E.’s account)1843 Unsigned (A.B. Smith) ............ ............... .....1844 Unsigned (Wilcox) . . . ............................. 1846 * Unsigned (Emerson) ................................... 1848 Unsigned ("Gulick's Report") . . . . . ............... .1848 Unsigned (“Report of P.J. Gulick") ................... 1849 J.S. Emerson . ............................. ......... 1849 P.J. Gulic k ............. ............ ............. 1851 J.S. Emerson . . . ................... ........... . . 1851 J.S. Emerson ........................... . ........... 1852 Unsigned (J.S. Emerson) (Abstract) ......... . . . . . 1852 P.J. Gulick ................................... ..... 1853 J.S. Emerson ............................. .......... 1853 J.S. Emerson............... ........................ 1854 Unsigned (“Report of P.J. Gulick")............. ..... 1854 P.J. Gulick (Letter to General Meeting) ............. 1855 J.S. Emerson . . ..................................... 1855 Unsigned (Emerson) ....................... .......... 1856 J.S. Emerson....... ................ . . ........... .1857 J.S. Emerson ("Brief Report") ....................... .1860 J.S. Emerson (Abstract) ................................. 1861 J.S. Emerson (Abstract for Waeanae /sic/) W a i a n a e 1861 Unsigned (Emerson) (Report for Waianae) ........... ..1862 Unsigned (Emerson) W aialu a . ................ ......... 1862 Unsigned (Emerson) . ........................... ..... 1863 Unsigned (Emerson) (Report for Waianae)............... .1863 Unsigned (Emerson) Wai a l u a ....................... ... 1865 * 1847 report, in form of letter to Chamberlain from Emerson has been added. Includes statistics. �Report of the Station at Waialua Oahu for 1832-3 The Station at W. was commenced in July of the last year. Mrs. Emerson & myself were conveyed to our station in a native vessel, we | arrived at W . in less than 24 hours from Honolulu. Mr. Clarke ( !) & family of the Honolulu station, went across the Island to Waialua the week before, with the intention of spending a few months at W. with us, at least till we might become some what acquainted with the language. Shortly after our arrival two native houses were erected gratuitously by the people for our accommodation on a healthy spot near a good spring of water - The climate at this station is some what cooler than at Honolulu, the thermometer in the cooler season is often down to sixty & a few times as low as 58 in the morning; perhaps averaging 65 in the morning & 78 or 80 at noon - This is probably 5 degrees cooler than at Honolulu Mr. Clarkes family remained with us. five months, untill the 11 th of Decr , himself also being there nearly all of the time & per­ forming the publick ( !) duties of the station - The missionary work performed during the year has been preaching the gospel, teaching & superintending schools, distributing native books & administering medicine to the sick Preaching the Gospel - Mr. C. commenced with preaching two sermons on the Sabbath one in the morning & the other in the evening, with an intermediate exercise which consisted of the explanation of the seven verses for the week prayer &c - beside these he lectured on Wednesday & attended a bible class on thursday - these exercises have been continued through the year, except the bible class on thursday this has been discontinued - Two station schools have been continued with but little inter­ ruption through the year & a third one for about four months - The �2. first, is a school for male teachers which commenced with 70 or 80 teachers. This was continued with one sett ( !) of scholars during 4 1/2 months by Mr. C. & myself - the branches taught were reading, writing geography & Arithmetiek. This school has been continued the remainder of the year with an other sett of teach ers. Mrs. C . commenced a school of 30 or forty female teachers in which she taught reading, Geog. & arithmetick - This school has been continued the remainder of the year by Mrs. Emerson - And for the last four months Mrs. E. has had a select school of about 40 children. school promises more than either of our schools for adults. This A sing­ ing school has also been kept up at our station a good part of the year The number of people connected with Waialua Station is acording (! ) to the Geography Belong to the schools Readers -- — ------Marriages ---------- 7,400 5,000 1,600 76 Nearly all the readers & multitudes who can not read are reported as getting the seven verses for the week - The Sabbath School for adults of Waialua varies from 250 to 600 - The sabbath school for children which Mrs. Emerson superintends varies from 80 to 100 scholars As to the moral & religious condition of the people at W. nothing very encouraging can be mentioned - A respectful attention at least is paid to the missionary & to the gospel. has varied from 600 to 1500 or 2000. The congregation For a number of months at first it gradually diminished but for a few months past it has considerably increased. There is no chch. yet formed at W. - there are 6 or 7 members of the Chch. at Honolulu dwelling there; & perhaps there are 20 other persons who give as good evidence of piety as could reasonably be �Waialua 1833 required for admission to the chch. The influence of the chch. members at this station has been obviously very good; & so also has been that of a very considerable number of teachers - While nearly all the people of Waienae ( !) & several lands up Kolau ( !) have turned back to drunkn ess ( !), gambling, adultery, & idleness, not a land has revolted where the teacher dwelt with the people & stood firm on the side of the truth - This shows that the moral influence of good native teachers is not small The preaching of the gospel on the sabbath has been confined to the Meeting house at Waialua & the people who attend are generally from the more immediate vicinity of the chch. although a few attend regularly from the distance of 8 or 10 miles - The remote parts of the field have been visited twice during the year; the schools ex­ amined & the gospel preached to the people; beside this occasional lectures have been preached at some distance from the station - these lectures have always tended to increase the congregation on the sab­ bath - In one instance a lecture was preached in a neighbourhood, where but 9 came to the adult sabbath school the sabbath before but the sabbath after there were 40 from that neighbourhood in the school & at least that number at chch. In another instance the increase of attendance on the sabbath occasioned by a lecture during the week was from 10 to 30. From these circumstances I feel encouraged to hope that if the gospel could be carried out into the remote vilages ( !) from week to week, it would tend greatly to promote the attendance upon the means of grace on the sabbath Want of another labourer - This necessity does not arise so much from the multitude of the people in the field; (although there are eight thousand, at least 3 times as many as one missionary can �Waialua 1833 influence to any extent, located as they are, in vilages along a coast of 60 miles in extent.) But the necessity of an additional labourer arises more from the location of the field, its comparative importance & the distance of the Missionary family from any other field - We at Waialua are 30 miles from Honolulu by land, & some times we can not go to H. by land because of a large rain which may have swelled the stream to make it impassable even by natives, for two or three days - The access to H. from Waialua by sea is not so easy or so short as from Lahaina to H . 1-1/2 to 3 or 4 days. The former occupying from This circumstance renders it very desirable that one family should not without imperious necessity be left at this distance from any other Missionary family - Again 1500 of the people are located at Waienae a distance of 20 or 30 miles from Waialua, a place inaccessable except on foot, but very much needing the frequent visits of the Missionary The people at Waialua have made frequent calls for books & med­ icine & wish frequent conversation with the missionary - If one missionary must be doctor, book seller, teacher, preacher &c for all this people - he will stand in great danger of loosing ( !) his health, if nothing worse - & what is perhaps worse he will be in danger of loosing all habits of study & close mental exertion. I hope therefore not to be left long without an associate. Waialua May 1833 J . S. Emerson �Report of the Waialua Station for June 1834. In returning from the general meeting last June the station at Waialua presented but a cheerless aspect. The meeting house which it was hoped would be nearly or quite finished stood as It was left in May, the frame only put up. The teachers, who had been expected to build them houses & prepare a spot of kalo ground from which to procure their food while attending the station school, had done nothing to either. And what was still worse, schools had ceased to have the name of existence, & about 1/3 of the teachers with a still larger proportion of the people had apparently given themselves up to drunkness ( !) & idleness & to commit all manner of uncleanness with greediness. Some time however in the month of July that portion of the teachers who had not altogether forsaken us were collected to­ gether, & a school of about fifty male teachers with 10 or 15 promis­ ing young men was commenced, making in all upwards of 60 scholars. This school continued some what prosperous with but little interrup­ tion for five months. During the same period Mrs. E. instructed two schools of about 40 scholars each one for adult females, who had been teachers, & the other for children who could read our schools were continued from two to three hours four days in the week. In addition to her other schools Mrs. E. taught a sewing school for twenty female for three months 2 afternoons in the week - In this sewing school were made about 200 shirts & pantaloons for which the women obtained as compensation each a calico or cotton gown - We had also a singing school once & sometimes twice each week, with about 20 or 25 scholars Our schools were all closed about the middle of November with an examination & suspended for the rest of the year for the want of a school house, our school house being that which was built for Mr. Clarkes ( !) dwelling house, & which it became necessary to use as a �Waialua 1834 2. work-shop. In the month of Septr our new meeting house was finished, & dedicated, at which time also a Church was organized consisting of 16 members, 5 of whom were from the Honolulu Church & the remaining eleven were recd by examination - The exercises of that occasion were protracted for 6 six successive days including the the ( !) sabbath Mr. Bingham was present & preached daily were also held morning & evening - praymeetings ( !) the remainder of the time being principally occupied in conversation with candidates for chch. member­ ship & others - Although I am not able to state any instances of hopeful conversion as the result of this occasion, yet I am confident that the good influence of it has not ceased to the present time. The congregation has been larger since than before & some have appeared at least more interested in the concerns of religion than before - (?) We have had communion seasons also in Decr & in March, at the latter of which our chch. recd an accession of five members Mr. Clarke was present at the two last communions & aided in the examination of the candidates as Mr. B. also did at the organization of the Chch. Our religious exercises have been during the year, on Sabbath morning a sermon, at midday a rehearsal of the 7 verses for the week together with questions & explanations of the same, & towards evening an exposition of a few verses of scripture with practical remarks on the same. I commenced with the year at the Epistle to the Romans & take the book in course. On Wednesday we also have an expository lecture following at the present the order of Judsons & Union ques­ tions, we are now in the2 d Vol. On friday P.M. is a recapitulation of the Wednesday lecture with questions in the form of a Bible class. At all our publick religious exercises except on sabbath morning, all �Waialua 1834 3. the congregation who have the New Test. bring it, & all together turn with the teacher to the passages of Scrip. that are quoted for illus­ tration - from this practice some have become quite expert in turn­ ing over the pages of their Bibles. In addition to these meetings for all there is also a kind of moral society of perhaps 200 members which I meet every monday month­ ly concert days only excepted. This society recite the Ninau-hoike hear explanations & answer questions on the same. Our morning service on the sabbath varies in point of numbers from 600 to 1000 & our number at the Ai o ka la from 350 to 600, at one time a few months since nearly 700 were present at Waialua - A few also meet on the Sabbath at a few places up Koolau to recite the Ai o ka la - but the number is quite small Mrs. E. has also had a sabbath school during the year of from 60 to 100 children - she also meets the female members of the chch usually on tuesday afternoons in a prayer meeting. Her sabbath school has been much increased in numbers & in in­ terest by the little one page tracts with cuts - which are given scholars as a reward for attendance each of these tracts has been committed to memory by all the scholars in addition to other exercises. As to the general affairs of the station; it will be recollected that the Waialua station embraces all the west & N.W. portions of the Island, commencing with Waianae & extending round to Kaawa on the Koolau side a distance on the shore of not far from 60 miles. It embraces in territory not far from 1/2 the land on the Island, & a population probably of nearly 9 thousand people. During the year past nothing has been done for Waianae; I have not visited the district because of the difficulty of access to the place from Waialua, in part; but more especially from the assurance I had from others that there was no hope of benefitting that people at present by merely an �Waialua 183 4 . occasional visit. . 4. The chief of that district has twice during the year encamped for nearly a week at a time within a few rods of us, drank her rum & carried on in her own style. We have at four differ­ ent times invited her to tea but she has never yet deigned to show us her head. - The people of that district have no schools of late & wish for none - They say that when their chief forsakes her sins they will theirs & not before. The people of Koolau have apparently divided themselves off into two parties, the one of which is for order the other for confusion latter however being much the larger of the two. the The former class are many of them occasional attendants at meeting at Waialua; perhaps there are 100; 30 or 40 of whom come a distance of 20 miles or more as often as every third sabbath. Of the disorderly party, the major­ ity are as inaccessible to the Missionary as wild goats. On a visit up Koolau some eight weeks since I found whole vilages almost entirely deserted, the inhabitants concealed among the grass & rocks for no other reason than that I had appointed a meeting & invited them to attend. In one instance a vilage of 50 or more people were all dis­ persed, nothing but a single pig tied to a post & a few loose ones were apparently left behind. The district of Waialua is perhaps under as good management so far as the influence of the chiefs is concerned as any part of the Island. Adultery, theft, rum-drinking, sabbath-breaking, & sorcery are crimes, which are punished by the Chief; penalty - several weeks hard labour; or banishment from the district. In consequence of this law some 30 or 40 persons have left the district during the year; & 100 or more better characters have moved into the district. Here I would mention a few facts in proof that the residence of a Missionary at Waialua has not made the people lazy & negligent of their lands - Within the last 12 or thirteen months there have �5. Waialua 1834 been carried from the Waialua district to The Chief at Honolulu 4 vessel loads of Poe, fish & hogs, there has been an other vessel load given to the King & his company & about a sixth vessel load was provided for the Princess & her train - There have also been paid two money taxes amounting in all to not less than 1100 or 1200 dollars; a vessel has been refitted at an expense of at least 1200 dollars which is paid for - 144 dollars have also been paid for the purchase of a bell; & not less than 4000 or 5000 kapas have been fur­ nished for the chiefs - This has all been done within the space of 12 or 13 months & I might add that not less than two or 3 acres of also been been ( !) dug anew & planted - The year t of provisions & money paid over to the chiefs was less than half this amount. There have also been erected not less than 30 new native houses within 1/4 of a mile of the Church, most of them built by persons who have moved in from other districts who have moved in to enjoy the privileges of the gospel & the protection of good & wholesome laws As to schools taught by natives we have had none during the year & of course have had no examinations as an examination without a school would be but a farce. In the month of April last however we did collect together the readers for a general examination of them. 464 only attended 357 of whom were from the district of Waialua & the remaining 107 from Koolau, one only from the district of W aianae Last year there were more than twice as many at the general examina­ tion. There have been but 29 marriages at the station during the past year - the year previous there were 76 - of course cases of adultery have been during the last year in comparison with the year before not far from that proportion inverted that 76 the past year to 29 the �Waialua 1834 6. year before, i.e. nearly 3 cases the past year to one the year before The desirableness of other labours in this field will of course be mentioned in an other connection (Unsigned, J.S. Emerson) �Report of the Waialua Station for the year ending June 1st 1835. On returning from the last general meeting we found the meeting­ house filled with people for three or four successive sabbaths; & felt at first a little rejoiced to see it. But soon learned the cause of their returning to the house of God to be, the threat of a high fine in case of absence from publick worship on the sabbath. The threat was soon removed, & the house almost as thin as ever. Two schools were collected & commenced the last of July, one of about 120 children, the other of about 50 men formerly teachers with the exception of a few. About 100 in the childrens school were ig­ norant of the alphabet. For a few months at first the school was entirely under my care, & was taught as far as circumstances would admit on an infant school plan. The scholars made good proficiency so long as I instructed them; the school also increased in numbers & interest, & fully satisfied me that a system of infant school in­ struction can be commenced carried on & made as successful at Waialua as in Boston or any where else. For the want of other accommodations our schools were taught in the meeting-house untill the last of Septr when a new school-house was finished into which a part of the scholars of the childre n s-school 4 were removed - The division thus occasioned rather diminished the number of attendants although the school was sustained with a good degree of interest untill the close of the first term, of four months, when both the schools were suspended for 2 weeks. The Second term continued 5 months untill the first of May - schools not quite so full as the first term, but more progress was made in knowledge especially in the school of adults - During this term Mrs. E. has had a school of about 60 young women & also a singing school, �Waialua 1835 the former 4 & the latter 2 days each week - There have been no schools taught by natives during the past year except those under my daily supervision, untill within the past 3 or 4 months. Since then a few schools have been taught one morning each week; & one or two schools for children have been taught 3 or 4 mornings in the week. As to improvements - We have finished a decent doby school house - very near our own door, the walls of which were laid up be­ fore the last meeting - The house is rather coarsely fitted up with seats & benches & has a few glass windows. far from 36 dollars - It cost the Mission not One other school house has been built In native style; beyond this improvement in respect to school houses has con­ sisted entirely in pulling down some of those which ought not to stand The gospel has been preached, during the year, as usual at the station, on the sabbaths, on Wednesdays & fridays. A children’s sabbath-school embracing about 150 children has been kept up by Mrs. E. during the year & attended with interest by the children - Mrs. E. has also had a weekly meeting attended by the female members of the church During the year I have made 2 visits up Koolau & preached the gos­ pel from vilage to vilage days; & the latter 8 days. The first time I was absent from home 3 The congregations were all small; & those who wished to be on the side of truth, appeared much disheartened. Have visited Waianae once in company with B r . Smith & formally ceded that district to him so that any account of the people will rather come into his report than mine. We have held at Waialua one protracted meeting which commenced March 25th & continued 5 days including the Sabbath - The meeting was commenced with quite too small a degree of preparation both on �Waialua 1835 3* the part of the pastor & the people; yet we trust that the influences of God’s Spirit were imparted in some degree to give efficacy to His Word spoken by the brethren, who visited us. Brethren Tinker & Smith were present during the meeting except that Br. S. left on Saturday noon. As to the results of the meeting it is much easier to speak in general terms, than to say who were benefitted or to say confidently that any souls were converted during or since the meeting. There were however some evidences of the presence of God’s Spirit - The ears of many were opened, some appeared to have some correct views of their own hearts - & a few of the church members appeared to have their hope shaken - These impressions were obviously deepened by the meeting held two weeks later at Ewa, which was atten­ ded by 40 or 50 of those from Waialua who appeared the most interest­ ed in the meeting at Waialua, & we trust that both church members and others have been benefitted. To give an instance of the influence of the meeting on a church member. Shortly after our return from Ewa, I called on Laanui, one of the earliest converts to the Xn faith in the Islands, with the enquiry, if he could not consistently with his health dispense with the use of tobacco. He replied that tobacco was of no advantage to his health; but if he should leave off the use of it, what then? It would not secure his salvation, & of that he at present had no hope. He said he had been trying to examine his heart, & to give himself unreservedly to the Saviour, but that he found himself full of sin, there was no forsaking it; his heart was wedded to it; & so he despaired of salvation. also appears more happy. Laanui has since abandoned his tobacco, he This confession coming from a chief & a chch. member strengthened me much in the belief that God's word had �W a i a l u a 1 8 3 5 taken some effect at that time. As to general improvements at the Station; there has (been) a gradual advance in a variety of respects - some of the houses have been improved in neatness, some few have been built in a better style; & not less than 2 miles of good doby fence has been erected for the security of cultivated lands. Last month we commenced a monthly concert contribution; the avails of which for the present are to be devoted to the improvement of schools & school-houses among ourselves - The first contribution amounted to about $20. N one have been recd to our church during the year; but there have been 2 deaths of chch. members, leaving our present number in the chch. but 19. Number of marriages during the year 62 - last year, but 27. Total number of births in the district of Waialua alone during the past 10 months 37, deaths 115. deaths of children 45 69 - of adults Such is the account as kept by Laanui & with considerable care yet it may not be perfectly correct. Total number of readers present at our last hoike 925. This shows more nearly the interest felt in schools than it does the actual number of readers. J.S. Emerson �Report of the Waialua Station, May, 1836. We returned last year from our annual meeting, a few days before its close; our voyage was 18 hours from Honolulu by sea. - Shortly after our return, we were engage(d) in our accustomed labours Our station schools have been conducted with perhaps more appar­ ent improvement, on the part of the pupils, during the past, than any preceding year of our residence at the station - This has been owing in part to a more minute division of classes; & in part to the im­ proved qualification of the teachers. We have in person spent less time in teaching during this than any preceding year, but have spent more time in superintendance of schools. Mrs. E. has been some what hindered from labour in schools by ill helath ( !) - & I have had part of the time other & extra en­ gagements I have attended three protracted meetings of a week each - made three preaching tours up Koolau, & made a visit of 7 or 8 days with my family at Honolulu & Ewa (!). A number of weeks have also been spent in writing the Ai o ka la - & a considerable of time in trans­ lating it. (The translation made at Mr. Chamberlains request, or suggestion, has been forwarded by him to the Rooms in Boston -) I have also spent part of a week on an elementary primer, which is now in use among the children. These various little engagements, connected with ordinary labours, have helped much to increase the rapid flight of the year. Our school for adult teachers continued about 10 months, em­ braced on an average 40 scholars; about 10 of whom have been through or nearly through the second part of the Helunaau, besides attending to Geography some-what & also to the Hoike Holoholona - Four of this number are expecting to enter the High School this summer - �Waialua 1836 Our children’s schools, under our superintendance at Kawailoa, embrace upwards of 100 children & a few adult females - these schools are under our weekly & sometimes daily inspection, yet taught by 5 men to whom we have given some compensation - In these schools, 30 have learned to read, during the year, & many others have mad( e ) some progress in Geog. Arithmetick & the knowledge of Animals. These are all the schools there have been In the district of Waialua during the year, excepting perhaps a school of a few month(s) at Mananui, for children - In the district of Koolau I have paid a teacher in part for 4 or 5 months labour at Waimea, where there has been no school for years - There has also been a some what success­ ful teacher at Pupukea, also at Puumaluu, also at Kahuku, & Haula ( !), but on the great majority of lands up Koolau, as well as at Waialua, there has no child learned to read for two years or more The following is the list of readers at our last Hoiki which took place the first of the present month Readers from Koolau 453 ) total readers " from Waialua 459 ) Total number of children who have learned to read during the past year Persons familiar with the multiplication table Marriages during the year Births in the District of Waialua only, deaths in ” decrease of population 912 70 151 71 24 67 43 (2 deaths to one birth) As to the births & deaths, probably all have not been reported but in all cases where the deaths have been reported the births have also been — -Persons recd into the church the past year are 3 two by profession & on(e) by letter Whole number recd 24 died two dismissed to other churches, one Present number of chch. members 21 Stand propounded for admission nine - �Waialua 1836 3. Mrs. E. has taught a singing school for adults a part of the year, & also a singing school for children - she has also held meetings with the females once & some times twice per week - she also taught a school for adult females a few months only During the year I have expended for school in all $150.00 beside many b ooks given away Expended in cloth as compensation to teachers - In cloth & money for building a school house, plastering & glazing it, & flooring & seating one apartment sufficient to accommodate 20 writers . . Total expended for schools 34.89 112.31 147.20 One of the three protracted meetings alluded to above, was held at Waialua on the last of March last; & continued for seven days The house was filled five times per day by persons who heard with apparent interest. About one thousand of those present were strangers, from other stations, so that but a few comparitively ( !), from Waialua were present during the regular services. Yet some of those who did attend we think were deeply interested in the truth. have been savingly benefited. A few we hope The apparent excitement among the people of this Station was much greater at a period of one two & three weeks after the close of the meeting than at any time during its progress. Our congregation on the Sabbath & at all other meet­ ings has very much increased - Our number at morning prayer meetings, which we hold daily at sunrise, is now about 200; it was formerly from 50 to 100 Among those, who have been hopefully benefitted by the protracted meeting, are two boys one perhaps 16 or 17 years old & the other not more than 8 or 9. A number of other children, both male & female, have been evidently more or less awakened to a sense of sin. In view of what we have seen, we feel deeply condemned for the little faith we have exercised in relation to the early conversion of native �Waialua 1836 4. children, & the feeble efforts made to that end. Quite a number of the yeouth ( !), who have come to us to confess their sins & ask counsel, have said that they have often heard the word of God & trembled under it, but, when they returned to their homes, they soon mingled with the thoughtless, & forgot what they had heard. But lately the word of God had followed them, & they did not now want to forget it. Not only have our meetings been filled up in consequence of the protracted meeting, but our schools have been more punctually attended, than for a long time before. Gould we have a teacher to commence at the present time a boarding School at our station I think we should find no difficulty in obtaining as many bright & interesting children as would be desired to enter it, on terms as promising as could be expected The following is an estimate of property at the Waialua station belonging to the Am. Board One house for mission family Two houses for native families One school house - - - - - - - - Sugar mill & boiler Meat cattle, two cows & two calves Carpenters & Joiners tools Total Furniture Native books in the depository do do do do $ 150 100 100 Cost Pres value $ 1,000 1,000 100 100 112 90 90 25 50 50 . 50 1,467 [2!] 1,340 50 50 1,427 Ike\mua Oihana Skeleton maps & Nothing more worth naming As to books sold during the year I have kept no account except of Testaments slates & Newspapers. I have charged out about 200 testaments 50 slates & 100 Newspapers most of which will in �Waialua 1836 5. due time be paid in to Mr. Chamberlain in lumber fire-wood &c I have given away no books during the year except to a few teachers & some very small children & a few invalids - & yet the demand for books has never been greater than the last few months I could sell I presume 500 more testaments, in a week for mater ials, that would cost the natives more than a dollar/ for each testa ment J.S. Emerson �Waialua Station Report for May 1837. The past year with us at Waialua, has been a short one, yet replete with mercies - Our health has been generally good, & that of our little ones, for which unfeigned gratitude is due to our kind Preserver. Health of the natives has been as good as usual; there has not been to my knowledge any prevailing epidemick among them, & had no record been kept at the station a very healthy time. I should have pronounced it But from a record of births & deaths kept by Laanui, I find the following results Station Wailua Births Deaths of Deaths of Young Old Old Total population 2400________Children young men women men women_______ For the year 1836 For the first 3 months of 1837 34 32 10 8 8 10 10 3 14 5 24 3 90 29 From this table the deaths of Children under 14 or 15 years of age appear to average the number of births - thus making a generation of men in that district but 14 or 15 years - & all the deaths of indi­ viduals beyond that age to be a diminution of the population - And yet Waialua for aught I know is about as healthy as any station on the Islands. Labours - In entering upon the labours of the past year our childrens schools received our first attention. Of these we then had but two of any efficiency besides the one at the station; & all of them some what diminished in interest & in numbers during our ab­ sence at the general meeting. During the year we have added 7 to the number of our childrens schools, - so that we have at the present time ten schools for children, that have more or less efficiency These are scattered along a coast of 40 miles or more - Our teachers, who are engaged in instructing these schools, have been obtained by �2. Waialua 1837 breaking up the station school for teachers, which had been attended by the same individuals about one half of the time for four years Our efforts at the station have also been mainly for the children So that our efforts, & those of the teachers in our employ, have been specially directed to the children. There have also been schools for adults attended by a few, one half day per week; but of such schools little of course can be expected, & as their teachers generally know but little more than the scholars, little need be said of them. As to the childrens schools, the one at the station has averaged perhaps 120 scholars, whole number during the year not less than 160 This school I have superintended & instructed three hours a day, for the first seven months of the year, assisted by teachers raised up at the station; & since the first of Septr last we have also had a graduate of the High School, who has been good help & has done well. The past three months the School has been wholly in his care, as protracted meetings & labours resulting from them have made too large a demand upon my time & strength to admit of any attention to the school except to communicate to them religious instruction. At our station school, have been taught reading writing, Colborns mental Arith. & part of the Sequel Geography, punctuation & the sounds of the foreign letters. (There are at the Station two boys of about 14 years of age that I think would do honour to them­ selves & to the High-School, if they may be permitted to enter this summer .) Of the schools taught by native teachers, I can conscienciously say that some of the teachers have done themselves much credit both in collecting & keeping to gether their scholars & also in hastening them forward in the art of reading &c. In one school at Kahuku a number have made very commendable �Waialua 1837 3. progress in Arith. & Geog. equally well. Another at Haula ( !) has done almost In one school, at Punaluu, commenced about 9 months since with rising 70 scholars, none of whom could read, about one half of them now read respectably; & quite a number are familiar with the multiplication table. At Mokulaia ( !) there was but one youth a year since who could read, & this notwithstanding they had had a school, as they said, for the children - but for two years or more n o one had learned to read; & there was no fair prospect that any one would learn, under the instruction then enjoyed. When our teacher from Lahaina arrived, I visited that people proposing to send them the teacher who had formerly assisted me in the station school. er. About 20 persons expressed a desire for a teach­ The question was then asked who will furnish him food - head men soon engaged to do that. his house? The The next question was where was One was soon pointed out for him - A subscription was then raised to purchase him clothing & also for his tax money; & in the end enough was subscribed by a poor & ignorant people to make the native teacher & his family comfortable a good part of the year That teacher has now been labouring with a school of 72 children all regular attendants for seven months past - about 40 of those children have now become readers & several have made very considerable progress in Geog. & Arithmetiek. On the whole I think that although I have done less than usual in communicating instruction in schools; yet from the improved qualification of the teachers more has been accomplished In the instruction of children than in any previous year since the station was taken - �4. Waialua 1837 Time of the Examination learned to Total of Readers in Familiar with the mult . table read since children School last exam. August 1836 271 167 70 601 Nov. 1836 284 213 91 619 Feb. 1837 238 150 30 647 213 191 Total 250 average Adult Headers 623 average Probable number of children at the station of a suitable age to attend school 1000 or more Preaching of the Gospel. The ordinary exercises on the Sabbath have been two sermons one sabbath school for children, & an other for adults. Beside this there has been a weekly lecture on Wednesday at the station & occa­ sional lectures on thursday & friday in remote vilages. A morning prayer-meeting has also been attended at the station most of the year comm( en )cing at or before sunrise; & has been to me one of the most profitable & encouraging meetings I have attended. The ordinary con­ gregation on the sabbath has been 1000 or more in the morning & nearly the same number in the afternoon Childrens sabbath school has been attended in the morning by from 200 to 400 children; adult sabbath school in the afternoon by from 400 to 1000. Sabbath Schools are also conducted by native teachers in the district of Koolau, in 4 different places & attended ordinarily by 200 or 300 children. Besides making three tours in the district of Koolau for the purpose of preaching & examining schools, I have spent four weeks of the past year in protracted meetings, held at each of the stations. These seasons have been very profitable to myself & to those of our �Waialua 1837 5. people, who attended. The protracted meeting at Waialua commenced oh the 7th of March - Brethren Bishop the meeting - Parker & Smith assisted in The season was to us & to our people deeply interest­ ing; & as we trust has been productive of results of infinite value to several immortal souls. We have been thronged for weeks with those, who appear to be more or less deeply affected with divine truth; & of some we have pleasing evidence, that they have been born of the Spirit. Among those who appear to be truely ( !) converted I am happy to number the teacher obtained from the High School. Perhaps I am deceived in him, yet my hopes are much raised on his account. There is a great apparent change in the appearance of many; & some who gave as I thought rather doubtful evidence of piety shortly after the protracted meeting a year since, now appear to be obviously on the Lords side; although they still refer to that period as the time, when they turned to the Lord. The evident presence of the Spirit with us during the meeting & since to the time of our leaving them, & the great change apparent in the lives & conversation of a few lead me to feel, that protracted meetings, judiciously, & prayerfully conducted are a very desirable means of grace among this people; whose minds as they often say are like a sieve; truth & impressions are easily lost - They behold their natural fare, but soon forget unless they look & look often & for a long time At our last general meeting 8 individuals stood propounded for the chch. These were all recd in August; & at the present time 10 more stand propounded for admission - �6 Waialua 1837 Station 1836-7 Waialua The last year Marriages Whole no. ad. to chch. on examination Whole no. on certif. Recommended to other chch. Died Susp ended Excommunicated Now in good standing Ad. on ex. the past year Ad. on certif. Excom. Candidates Suspended died Children b ap Total bap. child. Bap. children died 46 27 6 1 2 0 0 24 8 0 0 10 0 0 10 34 4 The number of marriages as will be obvious is very small. is I can not decide - . Why this It has been repeatedly stated to me, that Some of the head men forbid women to marry men of another land, unless the man will come & live with the woman - But that this is the fact in many cases I can not certify. Deaths of baptized children are fewer than of unbaptized children This fact speaks loudly as to the reason for the great mortality among native childrens Miscellaneous labours The Ai o ka la, which was assigned me last general meeting, was written & prepared in due season. The printing of it might have been commenced in October, had there been paper on which to print it. Beside the Ai o ka la, the Kumumua has been revised & enlarged in size Improvements During the year past, a number of patches of road have been made, which considerably facilitate our access to some remote parts of the station & to Waianae. The pali between Waialua & Waianae, which formerly rendered the latter place inaccessible from Waialua �W a ia lu a 1 8 3 7 7. except on foot, has been so improved that a horse can be rode up & down it without difficulty. The time now necessary to be occupied in travelling from Waialua to Waianae is not more than 4 or 5 hours, on horseback. There have also been three pieces of road made between Waialua & the station at Kaneohe, which are valuable in facilitating the journey between the two stations. The whole distance which is 40 miles or more can now be passed over in 8 or 9 hours, or less if need be. Hat making from the native palm leaf has been carried on. Buildings During the past year we have put up a good doby house 41 feet by 21 with three rooms two of which are lathed & plastered but without floor & will furnish a tolerably comfortable accommodation for a family for a number of years. The location of a teacher & su- perintendant of schools at the station, I am happy to say need not necessarily incur any very material expense in building for a number of years. School house - The Chief & people are now sensible of the necessity of building a school house for the teacher who may be located there They have by individual subscription secured the dobies & all the timbers necessary for the roof & window & door frames; & last monday a subscription was raised to defray the expense of the glass, benches, floor &c. We hope by means of contributions thus raised, with but very little help from funds of the Board, to secure a large well finished & permanent school house. Laanui has engaged to furnish the glass; & is much interested in the project. There is, at the present time, a good preparation at Waialua for a teacher to commence the instruction & superintendance of schools under circumstances highly advantagious ( !). There have been 5 native school houses built in different parts of the station the past year. �Waialua 1837 8 Desirableness of a Missionary in the district of Koolau. From Kahuku to Kaawa is a distance of about 15 or 16 miles, & contains a population of rising 2,000 souls; & so easy of access that their doors can all be passed in less than two hours on horseback. One half or more of this population live within 1/2 hours ride on horse back or canoe each way from the centre, which would be Haula, a thickly settled & pleasant place; where there is a comfortable harbour for small vessels. The people are anxious for a missionary. 1526 persons have made a formal petition for a missionary to dwell among them. There are advantages connected with this station, that would be enjoyed in few others. The location would be central between the station at Waialua & that at Kaneohe, about 20 miles from each. 2 The expense to support it would be small. As a vessel must be anually chartered to carry supplies to the station at Kaneohe, it may touch at Haula & land supplies or take in articles of freight without necessarily incurring a 3 days detention - The missionary would have his people near him, & could see them all, often & easily. 4 The land is all or nearly so under chiefs who are favourable to our cause & members of the chch. at Honolulu. 5 There is, at the present, time, a very favour(able) state of feel­ ing among the people & could a missionary be located among them - I should hope that he would soon reap a harvest of souls. If this pe­ tition can not be granted now I hope that it will be before long. As to Mrs. E's labours. When we returned from the last general meeting she resumed her labours in two singing schools - one for children & the other for adults — in each of which she spent a part �Waialua 1837 9. of two afternoons every week for 5 months - She has also held a weekly meeting with the female members of the chch; & a meeting every alternate week with the mothers - The Childrens' sabbath School has also been mainly under her care As to the expenses incurred the station - I will just mention that native articles of food, such as kalo, potatoes, pork & fish, ( !) bananas &c have never since the first year of our residense at the station cost any thing to the A. Board. the land given by the chief. They have been raised on fish is often given as a present. J.S. Emerson �Report of Waialua Station for 1838. The past year has been one of much labour at this station additional strength has called for enlarged plans & new modes of operation, so that none of us find occasion to say that we have not had enough to do. (Locke) The labours in the schools have mainly devolved on Mr. L. & also the care of building the school-house &c - Since the first few months I have not assisted at all in the childrens schools - except as I have attended the examination & assisted in them - I have however taught a class of 15 or 20 in Chch. history one hour per day for four or five months, previous to our protracted meetings. The morning prayer meeting has been attended by myself about 2/5 of the year - that meeting was suspended except 2 mornings in the week for 4 or 5 months previous to January & the school in Chch. History occupied the same hour. Besid(e) the morning prayer meeting I have held lectures out in different parts of the field as I have had opportunity. to the station. Preaching on the sabbath has been mainly confined I however spent four sabbaths at Laie while the pulpit at Waialua was supplied by Bro. Bingham in Aug. & Sept. from whom & his family we enjoyed a pleasant visit of four weeks. Extra efforts. We have had since January three protracted meetings within the boundaries of the station - one of six days at Waialua - attended by Brethren Bishop, Smith & Parker, - one of five days at Laie at­ tended by Bro. Tinker & myself - & one of five days at Kahana where I was assisted by Chch. members only. The results of these meetings have been interesting; deeply so to to ( !) myself & to the people. Some hundreds I trust have turned to the Lord; but how many time or eternity must show. The work of the Lord however has by no means �Waialua 1838 2 been confined to these meetings, some date their conversion at one period, & at an other through almost every month in the year. Some of all ages, & in every section the districts belonging to the station appear to he subjects of grace - The last meeting at Kahana has appeared to be more marked & general in its effects than any previous one I have attended - & many with whom I have conversed appear well The number recd to the chch. the past year is 127, most of whom experienced a change of heart previous to our last anual ( !) meeting but a few of them since the protracted meeting in January - 166 are now propounded for Chch. membership & perhaps a few more will be before our next communion. We feel that the Lord has wrought a great work for this people, & while we give him praise, we feel that the multitudes yet in the gall of bitterness call for our unceasing efforts, & prayers. The following are the statistics of the Chch. & marriages. Marriages from May 1, 1837 to May 15, 1838 -- ------------------64 Total recd to C h c h . -- - - - ------ -----159 Red past year - - - - - - - - - - - - 127 Recd by certifficate past year - - - - - - 3 Cut o f f ------ --- ------- - - - - - - 1 Suspended - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 Restored - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 Total died - - - - - - - - - - - - — - 3 died past year - -------1 Total children baptized - - - - - - - - - 120 Candidates for chch. membership - - - - 166 Children baptized the past year - - - 86 Our people are apparently increasing in their desire to do good as they increase in their efforts to become so - The(y) have made some contributions of kapas for the High School, also 100 or 120 in cash at the mo. concert besides building the school house by voluntary effort. What they have done is much, considering the fact that they have not been accustomed to give, & that what they give is in almost �Waialua 1838 3. every instance their own hard earnings & not the fruit of other men’s industry. Waialua May 15, 1838 J.S. Emerson Mr. L. will make the rem. of the report - �Report of the Waialua Station for the year ending May 1st 1839. The station at Waialua has now been occupied seven years; each successive year of which period has furnished new & increasing occa­ sion for thanks-giving & praise to God. The families have indeed been visited with some sickness at the station, yet our chastisements have been fewer & much less severe than our offences - Our people too have been visited with an unusual degree of sickness, especially during the past few months, & deaths have been rather numerous. Yet while God has thus afflicted, while many have gone down to the grave, & in most instances unprepared as we have feared, others, dead in trespasses & sins, have been awaked to newness of life. While justice has been executed upon some, grace hath much more abounded toward others. The common routine of labours has been carried on at the sta­ tion with but little interruption either from sickness in our families, or absence from our field. The word of God has been repeatedly preached in all the vilages of any magnitude in this division of the Island, & to some extent from house to house. I have been repeatedly through the district of Koolau & once to Waianae, preaching from vilage to vilage. Meet­ ings at the station have been uniformly attended three times and the sabbath, besides the sabbath School & bible class; Meetings have also been held on Wednesday afternoon & for about 2/3 of the year, morning meetings have been attended every morning, the other th ird of the year, they have been attended on sabbath & monday mornings. The Sabbath school & bible class or ai o ka la have been conducted most of the year by Mr. Locke alone, who has also made repeated ex­ cursions to Koolau & other parts of the field to conduct religious meetings. �Waialua 183 9 2 Protracted meetings. Of these there have been six within the limits of the field since the first of May last. One of 5 days at Kahana, an other at Kahuku also at Waianae in June, in Sept. one at Waimea, in Decr one a t Haula & in Feb one at the station - All these meetings except the last named, were about 5 days in duration & con­ ducted entirely by the missionary & native assistants; the meeting at the station in February was conducted by the assistance of Br. Smith & the members at the station. These meetings were all attended & followed with obvious manifestations of divine power; numbers who are now giving pleasing evidence of piety refer to one or the other of these meetings & to the efforts that followed them as the period of their spiritual birth-day. Indeed I think there has not been a month, or more than one during the year that has not been referred to by numbers as the period when they gave their hearts to the Lord. The past has been a year of salvation to many of our people. Attendance on publick worship has generally been good; better than during any year previous; - some times 1800 or 2000 present; but ordinarily from 1200 to 1500. Marriages the past year have been fewer than any year except one since the station was taken, only 47 in all. Births in 1838 of the whole. 64, Deaths 143 - decrease of population 79, or 1/50 Births & deaths are not taken for all the population, (two or three lands failed to report,) but for a population of about 4,500 or perhaps 5,000. Recd to the chch the past year 202 from the world ” " " 3 by certificate Total recd during the year 205 In the chch. before 156 Total rec to the chch from the first 361 ) 361 Died the past year 1 - in all 4 ) Dismissed to other chchs ) 26 past year 7 in all 11 ) Excommunicated the past ) year for adultery 5 ) " for lying & fraud 2 ) Now suspended - - - - - 4 ) chch. ___________________________________ 33 5 Now in good standing in the �Waialua 1839 3. Children baptised the past year 142 - in all 258 children baptized as persons recd to the chch. Only 4/5 as many Some adopted chil­ dren included among the baptized - children of chch. members given to those out of the chch - not baptized. Benevolent contributions. Our people have contributed during the year in cash & cash articles. $ cts For the erection of the 2d Honolulu chch 84.00 For the High School - - - perhaps - 20.00 For Support of Native teachers 125.00 For foreign missions - - - - - - 25.00 For purchase of a bell-in part year before 100.00 For support in part of their pastor 62.00 Total about 416.00 There are now propounded fo r the chch. 203 individuals, & some others give more or less evidence of piety. All who have been recd to the chch. were first conversed with privately & often times under circumstances best calculated as I supposed to bring out the true feelings of the heart & prevent the possibility of one person’s listening to the story of an other so as to copy it - The candidates for chch-membership have also generally been named to the chch. several days previous to their being publickly propounded before the congregation — & during this interim any chch. member having aught against either of the contemplated candidates might come to me pri­ vately & enter his complaint, in which case the contemplated candidate would be dropped off of the list if the complaint was found on enquiry to be worthy of special notice. In this way many sins that would otherwise have been concealed have been brought out, & confusion in the chch. anticipated. But with all my care I have not been able to prevent some few unworthy guests from creeping into the chch. motto on this subject is go forward, but make haste slowly - (So long as I am a local preacher & my congregation local, I see no My �Waialua 1839 4 reason why I should baptize converts at once as they did on the day of pentacost, as Philip did the Eunuch, or as Paul did in a few cases, even allowing that I have as good descernment of spirits as they, unless it be that baptism is a saving ordinance Mrs. E. has had a singing school one or two evenings per week about half of the year There is also a maternal association conducted by the ladies together which promises good to the native mothers meets every alternate week - This association One thing that angers ( !) well in re­ spect to our children is that their vices are becoming more tangible & better understood than formerly - of course there Is more hope of applying successfully the remedy to the disease. Report respecting schools will be read by Mr. Locke. Respectfully Submitted - J.S. Emerson �Report of Waialua Station (1840) In reviewing the events of the past year the missionaries at the Waialua Station feel much occasion for gratitude & much for humility; for gratitude that our health has been in general good, & that we have been enabled to do some thing with a design to glorify God & save men, although what we may seem to have accomplished is far less than in some previous years. We feel occasion for humility, that we have done so little, that our good intentions of service have been so often apparently frustrated, & that on the whole there has so little of which we can speak with confidence (been) accomplished in the advancement of the Redeemer’s kingdom. Some of our time perhaps far too much has been spent in looking on to watch the motions of providence; & perhaps in waiting for a favourable oportunity ( !) to do some thing, which should have been done without waiting. During the year there have been among the people connected with the station, (a few lands not included in the estimate) 56 births & 185 deaths, & 58 marriages. Whole no. recd to chch Reed past year Whole no. removed Removed past year Total deaths deaths past year Total cut off Cut off last year Total transferred to other Chchs do past year Now in the chch. Children baptized Baptized the past year Suspended from chch. 533 207 59 40 8 4 33 30 18 6 474 378 102 12 There have be(en) 1/3 as many children baptized as there are adults in the church, many however of these are adopted children. We have had no protracted meetings during the year within the limits of the station; partly owing to unexpected delay in erecting a house of worship in the Koolau district where a meeting was con- �Waialua 1840 2. templated, & partly to a famine in some parts of the district. At the station there have been a succession of events that rendered a protracted meeting unadvisable. 1. There was a panic occasioned by the turning of many to the Catholicks, that quite unfitted the people to profit by a meeting. 2. The people have been scattered much of the time trying to col­ lect mony ( !) to pay up arrearages in their taxes. 3. The discipline of a few chch. members, whose avarice, cupidity & head strong passions have had a peculiar chance for developement ( !), occasioned some talk & perhaps a little surprise that great charac­ ters were subject to the discipline of the church. These & like cir­ cumstances seemed to render extra means of grace ill timed & forced at any period during the year. The state of the church is somewhat different from what it has ever been in former years. The numbers in the church have tended to some extent to diminish the idea of individual responsibility. There is less prayerfulness than at some former times - Some also who were supposed as standing at the door of the church but were not admitted & neither were likely to be, went over to the Catholicks because they could not get into the chch. Some were led to wander after the beast, whose worship they had formerly regarded as idolatry; & others gazed & wondered what would be the result of those things, who ought to have gone directly to the throne of grace. There has one individual from our church gone to follow the catholicks; & he was converted to their faith by a miracle of healing performed on himself, so report says. The miracle consisted in in ( !) curing a sudden head ache, by means of prayer & bathing the head in cold water. �Waialua 1840 3 Among our people perhaps 100 or 150 have gone over to the Catholicks, some followed them a few weeks, & then forsook them, others still are numbered with them, but do not attend their meetings as formerly - Some who were once very zealous for the pope forsook that faith because they did not like to kneel on dirty mats, others forsook them because they did not get cloth &c as they expected to do. While the catholick religion is to be regarded as a dreadful evil, I think it is not to be looked upon as an evil which can have no good connected with it. ties from our churches. - It opens a sluice-way to let off impuri­ it will tend to unmask hypocrites, & draw the line of demarkation between the friends & the enemies of God It will humble us in view of our own impotency & show us where our dependance is - It will make us more watchful & prayerful - it will tend to remove the secular arm from the church, & make religion stand on its own intrinsic merits. Discipline in the church has cost more time & has been more trying to feelings than in all the preceding years since the organization of the church at the station. There are unquestionably some dry limbs in the church, to pluck them off & purify the whole body will be a labour of time & patience. The past has been a year of new things, a year to try moral principle. Laws against rum, awa, idolatry, Kakauing,(tatooing ?) gambling & the like have been laid aside & people have been left to act main­ ly as conscience, caprice or fashion might influence them to do. Of course many of those, who had no moral principle have fallen into the vortex & made ship-wreck of better professions, if not of better hopes. Circulation of the Scriptures - Books the past year have been very little called for; a few bibles, perhaps 20 have been sold & �Waialua 1840 4. perhaps ten testaments. People appear to think that the monstrous sum of $2.50 for a bibl e is more than they can raise, & so they generally will make no effort to obtain one. Benevolent contributions during the year have been few about $150. have been contributed for the the ( !) support of the native teachers & about $50. for a bell - Also some ten or 15 acres of beans have been planted & cultivated for the building of a stone church at the station, but nearly all of the beans have been ruined grech? a part by the green ( !) worm & a part by a blast. Presents & contributions for my support have been very few & small As to improvements - A good plank bridge has been erected over the large stream between Ewa & Waialua - I have spent 15 days or more in accomplishing it & in improving the road at various points on the way. A blacksmiths forge has also been put in operation at the sta­ tion, & a native youth has for the past ten months been successfully employed in learning the trade. It is hoped that in two years the period agreed upon for his apprenticeship, he will be a somewhat, skilful blacksmith. Several ploughs have been made, & put in some­ what successful operation by the blacksmith, & we hope soon to see more made on an improved pattern. Some incipient measures have been taken toward the erection of a stone church at the station, but our progress has as yet been slow. We have a new bell ready for use & paid for by the people. But there is only a small degree of interest at present manifested to­ ward objects of general interest & improvement. J .S. Emerson �Statisticks Waialua Station 1841 556 20 Whole no admitted to chch. on examination On certificate 4 past year on examination 4 on certif. past year 8 Whole no. past year 26 6 Whole no dismissed to other chchs. Dismissed past year 18 Whole no. Deceased 10 deceased past year 56 Suspended past year 36 R em. suspended 49 Excomd past year 82 Whole no Excom 77 Rem. Excom - 416 Whole no in Reg. Standing 382 Whole no of children baptized 16 Baptized past year 15 Whole no of children deceased Decd 44 600 44 past year Marriages past year Average congregation No. propounded for the chch - �Report of Station at Waialua. (1841) N ear the close of our last general meeting I obtained permission of absence to visit Kauai. This visit protracted my absence from the statio(n) to about six weeks in all. On returning I found Brother Locke just recovering from a severe & somewhat protracted illness So that our station had been for a long time destitute of Missionary labour; & while men slept the enemy sowed tares. The chch. was obviously in a cold state especially that portion of it residing in the district of Koolau. The drinking of the chiefs was the watchword for stupid ones to follow. A few out of the chch. fermented their potatoes & melons & sugar cane with their ohias, & intoxicated themselves, some few chch. members followed, & so the rage for drink increased that in two months about 60 of the chch. had been guilty of the beastly sin of intoxication, - & as to those out of the chch. I suppose that the number was very small who had not intoxicated themselves. It seemed as though almost the whole mass of the people were mad/ & anxious to take vengeance upon themselves In one instance I saw a company of about a dozen drink down several gallons of their nausiating ( !) mixture - They appeared to practice great fortitude & endurance while the(y) poured a pint each of the mixture down their throats About 2 hours later, returning from a visit among the people I saw this same company apparently as silly & foolish as they could well endure - This wide spread drunkness ( !) & debauchery prepared those who had been guilty of it to a great extent to be ashamed to appear before me or be seen in our meetings - So the catholicks found a company prepared for them by the great destroyer. The health of our families has been as good as usual, although �Waialua - 1841 2 the ladies at the station have suffered some what from ill health My own health has been uniformly good till near the close of February, when I was violently attacked with a fever, which laid me aside from my labours for 7 or 8 weeks, most of which time I was confined to my bed. Through a kind Providence my health & strength are now restored, almost equal to what they were before. Improvements - There have been erected during the year several school-houses for the aupuni & 4 or five Catholick meeting or schoolhouse(s) all within the limits of the station. There has also been a road made within the past few weeks entirely round the west end of the Island - So that horses can now pass from Waialua to Waianae, & the Gospel be carried to the latter people with much more dispatch than formerly. As to labours, directly missionary, if the amount of them are to be reckoned from the apparent results, I can say but little There has been no protracted meeting at the station except one of 4 or 5 days designed especially for the church - There has however been a meeting of 6 days at Haula in which Bro. Armstrong assisted me three days - this meeting was more obviously beneficial in calling up the attention of the people to the salvation of their souls than the former meeting. Several stupid ones in the church were aroused, some suspended ones came back with confessions, & a few who before paid no atten­ tion to religion professed to turn to the Lord. Our ordinary religious exercises have consisted of three services on the sabbath, besides the ai o ka la & sabbath School, of which Mr. Locke has attended - the latter We have also had daily morning prayer meetings in various places beside a Wednesday & Saturday even­ ing meeting for the chch. - The latter of which has been suspended �3. Waialua - 1841 since I was taken ill - Repeated tours have been made through the districts of Koolau & part of Waianae - & part of the year meetings have been held every week in some of the school districts remote from us. Attendance on publick worship has not been good gregation at the station sabbath morning about 600 - Average con­ meetings at the villages remote sometimes pretty well attended, at other times not so well; more frequently the latter, unless the people are collected by a special effort - In some places, it seems to have become almost the understanding, that those out of the chch. are not expected to attend meetings except on the sabbath, unless they are candidates for chch. membership - But such is not the fact in all places Statisticks. No census of the people, - no record of births & deaths that I could \otain. Marriages 44 couple. Recd to chch past year 4 by prof. & 4 by letter - 8 Died 13 - cut off 49; suspended 34, - dismissed to other chchs 8 Restored to fellowship 28, of whom 4 had been excommunicated & 22 suspended. There are now propounded for the chch - 44 - Of those now suspended 17 are expected to be restored next communion number recd into the chch 576 cut off 82 Whole Whole no. of deaths 18 - whole no. Whole no. transfered to other chchs. -— Now in the chch & not under discipline 416 26 Children baptized the past year 16 in all 382. Benevolent contributions - These have been very few, & appro­ priated almost entirely to the support of the schools - A little has been contributed toward our contemplated meeting house. We, more than a year since, planted several acres of beans hoping �Waialua 1841 4. to realize a crop that might help us procure lumber &c for that object; but the worms blasted our hopes - At the present we have procured our lime & cut the wood to burn it, & several of the most important stones have been obtained for the comers & jams; & we have about 150 men engaged to work in divisions, one day each makaainana (laboring class) week, till the house is erected. Our house may be a long time in the erection but we hope to build a good one, & to do it as fast as our means & strength will permit. Catholicks. Of these the number is increasing both at the station & through the field - The past year three have left our church to join them, & one went out from us last year, 4 in all, who were in good standing in the chch. the Catholicks to them - Of suspended members 6 have gone to Of excommunicated persons 10 or 12 have gone over So that of those who have been chch members, not far from 20 have gone to the Catholicks. Reasons, that such persons have given for leaving us, are like the following - Their friends are all with the catholicks, & therefore they can receive no favours from them, so long as they do not join them - if hungrey or sick or naked, they can receive no sympathy if they stand opposed - One is sick, he has no one to take care of him; the Catholick comes along & promises him salvation, & restoration to health if he will join them. One has the promise of influence, power, or many presents if he will join them, & so some are taken with guile. Two, of the four who left the chch. to join the catholicks were sick, & submitted to baptism from the priest on promise of restora­ tion to health - But both are dead. One however, before her death, came back to us, renouncing all faith in or fellowship with them. She said that they prayed for her 8 days at first, &, as her sickness did not at all abate, the catholicks ceased to pray for her; but, �Waialua 1841 5 after the lapse of several weeks, they procured some rum, & when under its influence prayed again for her - This filled her with disgust, she told their priest that she had no confidence in them, & so left them & came back to us with repentance & confession - She apparently died in the faith & hopes of the Gospel. As to the numbers, out of the chch. who have gone to the catho­ licks I can form no correct estimate. Many, who call themselves our people, have gone occasionally to a catholick meeting, & many go no where - In some places 1/2 or more of the people occasionally flock after that party - & in two or three villages of from 50 to 100 or 150 people all with two or three exceptions are said to have joined them. And here let me say, that these three villages, which have turned altogether to the pope, lay between other larger vilages ( !), & in such positions as rendered it easy for the people to attend meeting, by going a short distance, say a mile or so to meet with a larger collection of people for worship. But few only went, & the result has proved that as they were ignorant & voluntarily so, they were also fit subjects to be led away after the beast whose business it is to destroy. At the present time I presume that 1/4 part at least of our people might be reckoned on the side of the Catholicks, & 1/4 of them as indifferent to any thing - leaving perhaps & perhaps less as 2 / 1 caring for the pono; or at least professing so to do. Methods by which the people have been won over by the Catholicks. 1. By promises of healing Many have been induced to go after them by a promise that if bap­ tized by them their diseases should be healed as a consequent ( !). But in case the patient did not chance soon to recover, the fault has always been wisely attached to some other cause than the want of �Waialua 1841 6. power in th e priest; either the patient had not faith, or had some reserved sin, or his friends were hereticks, or some thing else. One sick man turned to them on promise of being healed, but after "baptism was no better be no better - It was then said that his wife must turn, or he would she turned - but he was still sick - if he had not a father - It was then asked They said he must turn also - but after the father turned, the children were called for & then all his de­ pendants they all turned to save the poor mans life; but lo he died after all - Yet they were assured of this, that his soul would be saved 2. Another way of making proselytes is by making presents, of clothes, cloth &c. These are some times given out to adults & children to induce them to join their party. 3. Our schools & school laws have been made a means of souring the minds of parents & persuading them to fly under their wing for reffuge ( !). The length of the schools, having two per day; paying the teachers, & compelling the children to work for them have all had their influence in this matter. Multitudes, both of parents & children, have left us because they, by so doing, could escape the work for the teacher. At Honolulu this law has never been inforced, as funds have been furnished from other sources for the support of schools; & this will easily account in part for the fact that a far smaller proportion of the people there have gone to the Catholicks than on other parts of the Island. Another circumstance may also be stated relative to schools. The catholicks have taught some of their teachers to repeat a prayer in Italian - this they are parot like ( !) teaching the children, who are all highly delighted with the idea of saying something that others can not say, & that in a foreign language. �Waialua 1841 . 7 Some of our teachers are very anxious to be taught English, that they may seem to be as knowing as the Catholicks. 4. An other method by which the Catholicks gain proselytes is by fabricating & circulating slanderous reports, & falsehoods. One day, it is reported that all the chiefs have turned catho­ licks - & so many make haste to be on the strong side - An other day, we are called the murderers of Batchelot; in connection with Kinau - That we are oppressors of the people, taking away their rights, depriving them of sources of gratification & happiness such as they have a right to, & begging away the little property that they may have, to feed our-selves, are a standing every day charges. Even the little children are catechized by the priest as follows. Do we come & beg your fowls? To which they reply in concert, n o . Do we beg your money; your kapas; fish &c &c. we sell our book to you? former teachers do so? All reply, no. No, you give them without pay. Do Did your No, they begged ours, & sold theirs. Such is the style in which I am told the children are sometimes catechized to create & confirm their prejudices against us. 5. Indulgences form an other method of drawing men after them - Absence from meeting on the sabbath is no fault if the individual attends on great occasions - Many sins, the very ones to which this people are prone are not very great matters, Occasional intoxication, habitual use of tobacco, lying & adultery are not very great matters, at least, are easily got over by them. An other way of gaining prosylites is 6. By taking sides with the makaainanas against law or with law, & brow beating the chiefs into compliance with their' wishes. Many ignorant ones are fully persuaded that there is great power in the poe Berani from the fact that they carry their points so well, if not �Waialua 1 841 8. by artifice, by threats. Since the vacation in our schools commenced, about the middle of April, our children have gone in great numbers to the Catholicks, from one school 12 or 14 & from an other 15, & from others more or less - Probably in all not less than 50 of our children went over to their instruction during a vacation of about 2 weeks - The number of children now claimed by the catholicks & of a suitable age to go to school is from 100 to 200, perhaps less than 150. One alarming fact is that of those who go over to the Catholicks but few can be reached again by our instructions, they will not come to our meet­ ings or our schools, & some of them have said they were forbidden to enter our houses, or have any thing to do with us. Only a few weeks instruction in their schools seems to give both adults & children a spirit of defiance, & in some instances of enmity that it is very painful to witness. To human appearance the great mass of the ungodly in our region are about going over to the side of the Pope - Both the schools & the church need the watch & care of several persons wholy ( !) devoted to the work of taking care of them. In our field there are about 5500 people, perhaps more, scattered in villages along a coast of from 40 to 45 miles. Were there no wolves in the field one shepherd could do much for them, but while there are two foreign catholicks & many native ones who have been trained to their arts of deception & falsehood, many hands to labour many eyes to see, & many tongues to speak in the behalf of the Gospel of X st seem imperiously needed. We came to this meeting in strong hopes that the brethren would be able to locate one more missionary on this Island & at this time; & at Waiono in the District of Koolau seemed to be the place to locate him - This would be nearly midway between Br. Parker & ourselves �Waialua 1841 9 about 22 miles from us & 17 or 18 from him - At Waiono there is now a meeting house, large enough to hold 700 or 800 people, & not half a mile from it, is a Catholick house &, as I am informed, the priests a are about to locate one of their number there, & to build a stone house for his accommodation. If an efficient man could be located there to take care of the chch & the schools, more assistance could be afforded from our station in looking after & teaching the people (e?) of Waianae than heretofore. We trust that if there be any new brethren to locate at this meeting, the claims of Koolau & the pe­ culiar crises that threatens us will not be overlooked, or disregarded. Let it be remembered that the Catholicks have already five schools & five preaching posts within the limits of the station. J.S. Emerson �Report of Waialua Station, May 1842 On the 10th of June last year I returned to the station in improved health, & in high hopes of accomplishing much during the year for the good of the people. A slight rheumatick affection, which then existed in one of my knees soon increased, so as to lay me aside from most of my labour for two or three weeks. The health of the members of the station has In general been pretty good, subject however to some interruptions in the case of all the members of the station* And in no case has death entered our dwellings but once during the ten years in which this station has been ocupied, ( !) & that within the past year. On the 15th of Novr Br Lockes eldest child, his only son was removed suddenly from us by drowning. The stroke was a heavy one, but we hope it has not been entirely lost upon us either parents or children. State of the Church Congregation on the sabbath has been rather small, & week day meetings thinly attended. The congregation from July to Novr was some what larger than during the remainder of the year - but has again some what increased during the past five weeks. Our seasons of communion at the station have been three in number all of which have been seasons of a good degree of interest. In November I united with Br. Bishop In a meeting at Waianae which was protracted through several days, & closed with the organi­ zation of a chch. embracing those who were then members of his church & also of mine resident in the district of Waianae. Twenty of my church members were then dismissed to unite with that chch. & two others have since recd certificates to unite with the same chch. making in all 22. I also had a communion season with the chch. members in Kolau ( !) on the last sabbath in April. The number of members in that district nearly all of whom were then present at the communion is 208. These �Waialua 1842 2. although not formally separated from the church at Waialua will hence forward regard themselves as a distinct church, & have their communions at Haula or near the centre of the district. During the year I have recd in all to the church 112 individuals by profession & 3 by letter of those recd from the world 50 were pro­ pounded previous to the last general meeting; & a large portion of these who have been recd to the chch. refer their conversion to the Lord to a period of one or two years. There has been but one protracted meeting in our field during the year & that was conducted by Br. Armstrong almost entirely, dur­ ing the time I was confined by rheumatism in my bunk, Br. Bishop kindly assisted him one day. Meetings have been held regularly at the station on the sabbath & on w ednesdays, & daily morning prayer meetings have been attended by a few. During the year I have made 6 visits among the people of Koolau & preached to them four sabbaths. Schools. These during the past year have fallen under my super­ vision; Br. L. by mutual agreement, having taken other parts of the labour to be performed at the station. The number of our schools is 16. examinations about 550. No. of scholars present at our The examinations of schools have been 4. The appearance of most of the schools, & the advancement in knowledge in some has been rather encouraging. Teachers have recd better pay for their services than ever before, & have in most instances per­ formed the task of teaching with increased fidelity - There are however to this remark one or two exceptions Labours - During the first six months of the year I taught a school for teachers & more advanced scholars one hour each morning & also on saturday afternoon. The branches to which I attended were �Waialua 1842 review of Arithmetick, both mental & written performed in connection; also sacred Geography & the making of maps both ancient & modern for their own use. This school after about six months continuance with frequent interruptions was given up from inability on my part to attend to it any longer. The meeting house which has heretofore been spoken of by way of anticipation was taken hold of in earnest shortly after the close of our last general meeting. Wood for burning lime had been cut & coral dug during the year previous. The work of building was commenced in Aug. last to be performed by apanas under the superintendance of one foreigner. But it was soon found that this would be a long, costly & perplexing business. It was therefore agreed on on the part of the church, that the work should be done by hire & paid for by their monthly contributions of 25 cts each for the men & 12-1 2 / for the women. Accordingly the foreigner & ten men were employed to perform the building of the stone work, collecting & preparing materials &c. The dimentions ( !) of the house are 99 feet by 49, walls 2 feet thick & 18 high. The work of erecting the walls was all performed within the space of 18 weeks after the foundation was laid. Our old meeting house was taken down in January last, the timber of which has been well used for our new roof; & has made a saving of some 500 or more dollars. The house is now finished so far as was contemplated for the present, except the ceiling, which we expect to lathe & plaster. materials for this work are now in a good state of forwardness. The The house is ventilated by eleven windows all excepting one of 60 lights each 8 by 10 glass. It has also 6 doors all of which are made in �Waialua 1842 workman like style. The house is so constructed that if a gallery may at any future time be needed, it can he put in without any change or remodeling of the house, & will he sufficiently ventilated by the top part of the windows. About 1/3 of the house is floored, a plat­ form erected as a pulpit & seats sufficient to seat 100 persons are already erected. The cost of the house thus far, including only board, nails, & hired labour amounts to $1026. Voluntary labour in- cluding timber, lime, wood, also, thatching &c. would amount to not less than $1000 or more. Of the funds already expended for which cash has been paid have been raised in part as follows. Contributed by the 2d Chch in Honolulu - - - do by the Chch in Ewa - - - - - - - - - - - do by the chch in Waianae - - - - - - - - - do by Br. Whitney do by br. Gulick - - - - - - - - - - - - - - do by chch in Waialua past year in cash & articles exchanged for materials for build. cash formerly contributed & on hand at com. of year Amounting in all to Leaving a debt not yet paid of $82.00 38.00 15.00 61.00 50.00 230.67 53 .31 $529.98 $519.72 The cost of plastering &c overhead as contemplated will increase the debt to about $600.00 Of this debt Mr. Lock(e) & myself will probably cancel about about ( !) $100. leaving the people to pay $500. This debt they have frequently said was their own, & that they intended to pay it as fast as they could, but time must show the promptness with which they will fulfill their engagement. This work of building has been a very great tax upon my time, & has prevented much of the year almost all study & labour of a more improving character. Besides the work of building the meeting house, I have made an addition of two sleeping rooms to my own house, for which I obtained a grant from the mission of 100 dollars the last year. The rooms are now finished & cost $200; for which I am now in debt at the �Waialua 1842 depository $100. Assistance Br. Locke has uniformly taken charge of the sabbath school when at the station, & has also conducted the worship of the congre­ gation in case of my absence or ill health. Mrs. E. has a part of the year as health & other circumstances would permit met with the mothers at the Station & has also taught a singing school for adults & children. Shortly after our return to the station Br. & Sister Rice came & spent nearly three months in our family - Sister R. rendered very kind assistance in the instruction of our children, & in aiding both our families at a season when aid was peculiarly needed. Br. R. taught a class in the English language, & a part of the time an other class in the Helu Kamalii one hour per day. Their assistance in our families was in many respects very timely, & in all respects fraternal. Catholicks They have apparently been gaining influence among our people the past year, & have added considerably to their numbers. Their influence has apparently diminished in some parts of the field dur­ ing the past few months, while it has increased in an other part. They have now w ithin the limits of our field six meeting houses & 8 schools. Their number of scholars present at their examination in July last was 257, since then they may possibly have increased to 300 or near that number. So that they have now about 1/3 of all the children in the field; & probably the number of people who profess to follow them is nearly equal in proportion. But perhaps more of these should be reckoned as infidels than as papists. There is now in the field one catholick priest, & frequent visits have been made during the year by two or three others. �6. Waialua 1842 Methods which they have adopted the past year for making pros­ elytes ( !) are some what varied from the methods adopted the year previous. 1. They have of late, been more gregarious in their habits than formerly. A large portion of the whole company of their disciples go from one portion of a district to an other to spend the sabbath; & thus by changing the locality of their meetings from one place to an other, they attract attention make a display of numbers & get some prosolytes. Bound together as they are by pledges of mutual hospitality, they find no want of food wherever they may be among their own people so long as the food in the place may last them. An other popular way of making prosolytes is baptizing & naming the children. Every child that is bapatemad claims as god-parent every older person that may bear the same name. So that be he where he may, he may call on his father ma ka inoa for food, raiment or entertainment for some days, without any liability to fault-finding on their part. An other method of promoting their cause is by holding an anual (!) feast on the sabbath to which all persons are invited except those who are actually at work as a penalty for their transgressions. a great distance to procure their means to aid in the feast. Some go One man I saw driving a male of the goats without blemish 12 or 14 miles, which he said was to be used at the feast; another in company was driving a male of the swine without blemish which he said was to be used in the same way. A youth told me that that ( !) his father furnished a boy with $2 & a hen & a pai of poi for the same feast; a tax heavier than he ever before paid for the support of the gospel & of schools & all other benevolent objects all together. One boy, �7 Waialua 1842 when asked why he wished to go to the catholick’s school replied, "Ono ka puaa", (good the pig), meaning the great gratification he enjoyed in partaking at the liberal feast. Another device of the Catholicks appears to be a committee of vigilance, who are on the lookout . If there are any sick among us who are neglected, any children who are not in our schools; any persons who regard themselves unjustly accused of fault or crime, all such persons are immediately sought out & commended to the kind & parental care of the fraternity & priesthood. The vanity of the natives is a circumstance that makes any attention bestowed upon those who are inclined to leave us, as like­ ly at least to injure as to help us. It has been said that some natives would be willing to be hung if thousands would be willing to come & look on; so here if a common native can attract much attention & become the subject of remark in consequence of his going to the catholicks, he has a strong motive to do so. Whether therefore to go & attempt to look up those who wander after the beast or let them alone is oftentimes a question that is quite perplexing Want of an additional missionary in Koolau Catholicks then are becoming numerous, the soil is the richest & most productive in the island, place 20 miles removed from any station, population 2000 or more people now in an unsettled state of feeling, a new meeting house has lately been erected for the people, & are in expectation of a missionary. While we have much occasion for humility in view of the evils that have existed among us we have also occasion to speak of mercy & kindness from the Lord. Schools are improved in character, chchurch ( !) purified, & some few at least brought to the knowledge of the saviour. �Waialua 1842 Statisticks 675 23 112 3 48 24 28 10 8 16 25 86 520 472 90 28 16 550 357 162 208 178 94 Whole no. admitted to Chc h .from th e first Whole no on certificate Admitted past year on examin. Admitted past year on certif. Whole no Dismissed Dismissed past year Whole no. deceased Deceased past year Suspended past year Remain suspended Excom. past year Remain excomd Whole no in reg standing Whole no bap. children Baptized past year couple married past year No. of schools No. of scholars Readers Geography Writers Mental Arithmetick Coulborn Writers Arithmetick (Unsigned; J.S. Emerson) �(Waialua 1843 A.B. Smith) The past year has been one of severe trial: to the station at Waialua. The Lord's hand has been laid heavily upon that station & one who was here with us in health & vigor a year ago has been snatched from us in an unexpected manner & we have been called to mingle our tears over her untimely grave. We have been reminded that health & strength are no security against the assaults of disease & death & that the weak & feeble who have apparently been long on the borders of the grave, may notwithstanding outlive the most healthy & robust. It is the Lord's doings& it becomes us to be dumb with silence & open not our mouth, because he has done it. It is indeed a mysterious Providence which we may not be able to interpret, but it is a consolation to know that the event was ordered by him who guides all things with unerring wisdom. The loss we have sustained is great indeed & cannot be easily repaired, but while it is such a loss to us & to her family, we are o confident that death to her was unspeakable gain. Her life was one of uncommon blamelessness & yet her excellences were by no means of a negative character. Positive excellences were combined in just proportions so as to render her character one of uncommon symmetry. The mild & gentle graces of the gospel, meekness, humility, gentle­ ness, patience & modesty, shone brightly in her character, but at the same time they were mingled with an uncommon degree of firmness, decision, energy & perseverence. Her moral feelings too had been judiciously cultivated, so as to avoid on the one hand a blame-able laxness & on the other a sickly conscientiousness which rendered her piety solid & consistent & gave her an elevated, unbending & digni­ fied sense of moral rectitude. With a character combining such qualities & blended in such just proportions, she was enabled to �Waialua - 1843 - A.B. Smith exercise complete control over herself & act with calmness & consider­ ation under the most trying & agitating circumstances. Her cours ( !) was silent & unpretending & her left hand knew not what her right hand was doing. None but those who were the most intimately acquain­ ted with her knew her real worth or the amount of her labors & the good she was accomplishing. In all her labors, she pondered well her steps, decided with judgment & discretion on her course of duty, & pursued her course with a steady, unwavering perseverance toward the accomplishment of her object. Such was her character while in health, & when disease was fixed upon her & all her powers were brought into requisition to endure the bodily suffereings under wh. she languished, she was still calm & tranquil & looked up to her heavenly Father with sweet submission to his will. When death was in full prospect before her & her expectation of life was cut off, tho' maternal feeling was evidently strong & her little ones the ? burden of her anxiety, still she felt to leave the event with God, calmly & composedly trusting in him. The memory is sweet. sight of the Lord. Thus she lived & thus she died. The death we doubt not was precious in the I can contemplate her character & the scenes of her sickness & death only with admiration. She was ripe for heaven & we can now think of her only as a saint in light, enjoying the full vision of God & the Lamb. But this Providence of God has made a painful breach upon us, which is felt most deeply by the bereaved husband & the little motherless ones. It is a case which calls for our united sympathies & prayers. The labors of the station must necessarily be interrupted by this Providence. It is greatly to be regretted that the labors of the School which have been prosecuted with so much energy & zeal & �Waialua 1843 - A.B. Smith 3. evident success, should be suspended at a time when its prospects are more promising & flattering than at any time hitherto. It is to be hoped that the mission will take this subject into consideration & devise some means to keep the school in operation. You will I trust pardon me for saying thus ( !) much on a sub­ ject which may not be considered as properly belonging to my report, but the subject once introduced I knew not how to say less. With regard to my own labors, the mission are aware of the cir­ cumstances under which we were located at Waialua. At that time we were not considered members of this mission, but purely sojourning invalids awaiting the decision of the Board as to the expediency of our remaining here or return to the United States. Under such cir­ cumstances it will not be surprising if I have not been able to accomplish as much as my brethren. As to health I know not that there has been any any (!) material change. Mrs. Smith has at times been very low & feeble & ready to give up all hope but she is at present in quite as good health as she was a year ago. she is feeble & has the prospect of remaining so. Still My own health was good during the autumn, but the wet season has caused a return of my difficulty, which has led me to fear that the time is not far distant when I may be wholly unable to preach. When I went to the station immediately after the last general meeting I knew scarcely any thing of the language & was almost en­ tirely unable to communicate with the people. I commenced preaching however, immediately after Mr. Emerson left, writing one sermon each week & conducting the other exercises extemporaneously. I have been able usually to preach twice on the Sabbath, tho' of late it has been attended with much fatigue & local irritation. I have also had a regular meeting on Wednesday besides other occasional �Waialua 1 8 4 3 A .B . S m ith meetings during the week. As to the results of these efforts it cannot be expected that very much would be accomplished by any one so little acquainted with the language of the people. You will not therefore be disappointed that I have no revivals of religion to report & no extensive admis­ sions to the church. When I commenced my labors the state of the church seemed to be very low - The usual congregation on the sab­ bath did not exceed 160 or 200. A large number of church members were under censure & then manifested a spirit wholly unbecoming the gospel of Christ. of the year. Such was the state of things during the first part For several months past there has been an evident im­ provement in the state of things. The congregation has increased to 300 & upwards, so that I should judge that the avarage ( !) for the whole year would not fall short of 300 - The appearance of the con­ gregation has also improved & better attention has been paid to the preached word. tive hearers. Still the people as a whole are far from being atten­ While there are some who evidently hear with atten­ tion & profit, there are a much greater number who either hear not at all, or hear without treasuring up the word & profiting thereby. Of the cases under censure in the church a few of them have been restored, but the greater part of them manifested no signs of repentance & have been cut off from church fellowship - The number of excommunications during the year has perhaps been unusually were large. There have been 41 in all. All except 12 of them xxx under suspension when I commenced my labors at the station. munion in Nov. 9 new cases occurred. At the com­ These persons have manifested a peculiar hardness of heart & in some cases contempt of the church & the word of God & they were accordingly cut off at the last com­ munion. The 3 other cases occurred at Koolau & were of such an ag- �W aialua - 1843 - A. B . Smith 5. gravated nature as to render excommunication the only proper step in the case - These are all that have occurred in that part of the church during the year. It is the understanding with the natives that the church at Koolau is separate from the one at Waialua, tho' the records have not been kept separately - I have been able to do scarcely any thing during the year for that part of the field & should we be alone at the station during the coming year it will be still more difficult for me to leave home so as to labor at all for that people. It is to be hoped therefore that an arrangement will be made to provide for the wants of that field in some other way. The meeting house occupied considerable of my attention during the first part of the year. The lathing, plastering &c remained to be done when I went to the station. cated on the 28th of Sept. The meeting house was dedi­ Mr. Bishop performed the exercises on the occasion & a series of meetings were continued till the Sab. following. The amount expended by myself in finishing the Meeting H ouse, including the expense of transporting the property rec’d from the people to Honolulu is $ 141.04. Receipts from all sources for the liquidation of this debt $112.90, leaving 28.14 due to me. of $25.19 previously contracted has also been paid. A debt The whole amount rec'd. therefore is 138.09, not one fourth of which can be considered as the donation of the people. The prospect therefore that the people will contribute to liquidate the debt is very small. It has been found necessary to expend something upon the dwelling house during the past year. The cook room was originally some 3 feet or more lower than the rest of the house, causing Mrs. S. a most serious inconvenience in her feeble state of health. By the �Waialua 1843 - A.B. Smith advice of the secular agent this difficulty has been obviated, the room rebuilt & the floor put on a level with the rest of the house. Most of the plastering remains to be done: $31. have been expended, to cover which, finish the house, make other repairs &c $100. will be needed. The following are the statistics of the church 1843 Wh. No on Ex. 695 On Cert. 27 Exam past yr 20 Cert. past yr 5 Wh. No. past yr 25 Wh No Dis’d 56 Dis. past yr 8 Wh. No. Deceased 40 Died past yr 12 Exc'd past yr 41 Wh. No Exc'd 148 R em Exc'd 117 No. in Reg. Standing 509 Wh. No. Childn Bap 494 Bap past yr 22 Marriages 35 Avg. Cong. 300 The number of children in the schools is . How the schools compare with former years I am of course unable to say. One thing is very certain. The schools are far from being what they should be, yet perhaps they are all that could be expected from such teachers. Some new teachers are very much needed. There are now 3 schools destitute of any teacher & doubtless others would be va­ cated if there were better teachers to be obtained. The operations of the Catholics have not excited much attention among the people during the year. So far as I am able to judge their numbers have not increased, but remain about the same as they were a year ago. Some few have left them in Koolau & two of our own church members who had fallen into sin, have gone over to them. A.B. Smith �(Waialua 1843) | The past like the previous year has been one of affliction to me. Care, anxiety & sorrow such as I knew not before, though mingled with many unmerited favors & blessings have been my portion. Mrs. L. a few weeks after our return from Gen Meet last year was attacked with disease which after two months of suffering & during much of the time very severe suffering removed her to a better world. This is not perhaps the time or place to speak of my departed companion. knew her. Nor is it necessary that I should do so to those who Her memory will ever be fondly cherished by all her friends & her record is on high. My loss & that of my motherless girls is great. - I had almost said, irreparable. God did not however leave us without consolation & assistance in that dark hour. But with that kindness which ever tembers (tempers ?) the wind to the shorn lamb & provides from (for ?) us in a way chosen by himself he sent kind & dear friends to our help. Br & Sister Rowell reached the Isles on the 21 of Sept & were permitted to be with their sister during the last two weeks of her life. & have remained with us till the present time doing all in their power to supply the loss we have all sustained. I have done less for the people at large during the past than in former year owing to my circumstances which have confind ( !) me more closely at home. Sabbath School This has been superintended as usual. It has been thinly attended the past as the previous year though the number of children who have attended has been as great in proportion to the whole number of people who have attended meeting as in former years interest has been manifested in the exercises. But a small degree of Some knowledge of Bible history has been acquired & perhaps some truth lodged in the �2. Waialua 1843 minds of the scholars which at some future day may with Gods blessing spring up like good seed & bring forth fruit. Boarding School The number of boys at present is 22 one of whom is absent h a v i n g most unfortunately had one of his hands so badly crushed in the sugar mill as to render amputation necessary. The school has shared largely in the loss which the station has sustained during the year. devoted to it, No small part of Mrs Ls time haveing ( !) been While she had health. In consequence of my circum­ stances I have been compelled to neglect the boys almost entirely except during their school hours not having labored with them as formerly & not being able to devote time to their management & direc­ tion except generly ( !) out of school. The boys have evidently suffered some in consequence of this neglect. Not perhaps more than ought to have been expected but enough to show that to make the most & the best of their time & attention should be devoted to them out of as well as in school. Our secular or manual labor department has notwithstanding been on the whole more prosperous than in any previous year. When the out standing crop shall all have been gathered in & the cane all manu­ factured unless more than usual expense shall be required to accom­ plish the work, we shall not only have paid all our expenses for the past year which including costs of mill, casks (?), transportation, commission &c will have amounted to 1000 Dolls. but we shall have nearly or quite enough on hand probably to pay the current expenses of the school during the coming year. Rev. Rowell has spent about one hour in a day with the boys in school during the past 5 or 6 months. ing. Has taught writing & sing­ He has also done much in other ways to assist in the care & �Waialua 1843 management of the school & but for his presence & assistance it must (?) (for) some months since have been neglected. As I cannot in my present circumstances do my duty to my child­ ren & justice to the school I have come to the reluctant conclusion to request that my place in the school may for the present be sup­ plied by some other members of the Mission. I am hoping to receive by the first opportunity from home a reply to a request of mine for permission to visit the U.S. should the Mission think it my duty. The brethren will take such action in the case as they think proper. (Unsigned; Edwin Locke) Waialua May 1843 �This may certify, That, we, the undersigned, at the earnest request of Mr. Emerson, have made a thorough examination of his accounts with the meeting house at Waialua. We have found the accounts complicated. But we find no evidence that any thing is not charged to the meeting house w h i c h ought/to b e charged. On the contrary, there is evidence that it was Mr. E ’s design to keep a correct & fair account. In adjusting his accounts a few errors crept in some in favor of Mr. E. & some against him, w h i c h w e r e m anifestly unintentional. Mr. E. does not consider his accounts w i t h the meet- ing house as fully settled. have been discovered, He is ready to mak e any corrections w h i c h or which may, hereafter, b e discovered. the wh o l e w e are ready to bea r testimony, On that we cannot f i n d any shadow of evidence of dishonesty in M r . E ' s transactions w i t h the ch u r c h & people at Waialua. E.W. Clark W.P. Alexander Lahainaluna F eby 6 , 1843. �(Waialua 1844) In making our report of the Station at Waialua for the year past, we are again called upon to speak of the afflictive dispen­ sations of Divine Providence. One of our number who was here with us a year ago, in whose bereavement we were then called to sympathize, & whosesociety we then hoped to enjoy again after a season of separa­ tion, has been called to join the society of the blessed above. His loss is deeply felt at the station. A kind, affectionate & sympathizing brother & neighbor has been taken from us. He had en­ deared himself to us by the manifestation of a noble & generous dis­ position & the intercourse we had together was of a peculiarly plea­ sant character. His death has thrown a kind of loneliness & desola­ tion over the station which cannot easily be removed. The society of the little ones however has in some measure relieved our own feelo ing of l/neliness, still that house & establishment which was once full of life & activity, is now desolate as the grave. Its present condition can but fill one's min d with mournful recollections. The School which has been deprived of its teacher, has of course been disbanded. general meeting. No labor was performed in the school after the last The boys however remained on the premises till August, when they were dismissed & went to their homes. One of them is said to be employed in a Popish school in Koolau, two of them have been married &. none have become teachers in our schools. It is to be regretted that they could not have been further advanced before the school should have been broken up in order that they might have been employed as teachers - Most of them however were too young to be thus employed. The lands belonging to the school are in the hands of a foreigner with whom Mr. Locke made a contract, but it is not desirable that he should remain on them after, his year shall have expired. �2. Waialua 1844 The question will doubtless come up during the meeting, whether another teacher can be located there or if this be not practicable, the only remaining question is, what disposition shall be made of the lands &c belonging to the school? In respect to my own department, I would say that we have for the most past during the year enjoyed comfortable health. of Mrs. Smith is on the whole somewhat improved. The health I have been able to preach twice on the sabbath during the year, except for a few sab­ baths in the winter when my lungs were so much affected by a cold as to render it impracticable. My bronchial difficulty however still remains, & necessarily limits my labors in preaching to a moderate amount. The church at Waialua has been divided during the past year. 271 members have been dismissed to form the church at Koolau which has been the past year under the care of Mr. Parker. ing members some have stood fast; others have fallen. Of the remain­ The time of the restoration was distinguished not perhaps by a rejoicing that the kingdom was restored, for there seemed to be little joy in that event, but by a throwing off of restraint & giving themselves up to the gratification of their vitiated appetites. usual method of producing intoxication. practices nion. They resorted to their Some went back to heathenish Consequently 47 were suspended at the subsequent commu­ Of these, 8 have been restored & one excommunicated. The re­ mainder are not seen at the house of God, show no signs of repen­ tance & have all the marks of barren fig-trees - but it was thought best to let them alone this year also, & dig about them &c, & if they bear fruit, well; but if not, then after that, cut them down There has been no special interest among the people during the �5. Waialua 1844 year - The congregation has varied from 250 to 300 - casions there may have been more. On extra oc­ In respect to the Catholics, they seem to be pursuing their labors quietly & attend to their own busi­ ness - None as I am able to learn have gone over to them since I have been at the station. The fact is that the principal part of the people who were not connected with the families belonging to the protestant church, had gone to the Catholics previously - Some excommunicated church members who had previously gone over to them have returned, attend our meetings & manifest a desire to be restored to the church - There are a considerable number of excommunicated persons who are desirous of being restored, but I wish for more evi­ dence that they are the true children of God. The Statistics of the church are as follows. 695 Whole no. ad. on Examination 30 On certificate ___Past year on Exam 3 Past year on certificate 3 Whole no. past year 333 Whole no. Dismissed 277 Dismissed past year 42 Whole no. Deceased 2 Deceased past year 59 Suspended past year 50 Remain suspended 3 Excomd past year 151 Whole no. Excomd 120 Remain Excom'd 180 Whole no in regular standing Whole No children baptized 500 - past year 6 Marriages past year 32 - Avarage ( !) congregation 275 The schools during the past year have many of them been in a low condition for want of teachers - To remedy this evil several of the oldest & best scholars in the schools have been selected & em­ ployed as teachers. In this way the number of schools has been somewhat increased & tho’ these teachers are poorly qualified, it �Waialua 1844 will doubtless be much better to employ them than to have none. Still it is very desirable that there should be an increase of well qualified teachers in the field. There are now 11 schools all sup­ plied with teachers & the number of scholars in all is 293. The statistics will be found in the accompanying schedule Altho' the new kahu seems to engage in his work with zeal, there yet remains a difficulty in finding the means to pay the teach­ ers from the fact th at the foreign Treasury department secures almost the whole of the gov’t funds for other purposes, so that what is allowed for the support of schools is not sufficient for the purpose. Unless something is done by the gov’t to remedy this evil, the schools will inevitably suffer. In regard to pay which the teachers receive, they complain that it is only makani (wind; breeze). (Unsigned; Marked on back:) A. B. Smith Report 1844 Report of Schools at Waialua May, 1844. (Copied from printed form, filled in) 1844 293 163 130 11 11 293 187 143 138 153 133 No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of Number No. of No. of No. in Number Number children in the whole boys girls schools teachers of children enrolled readers writers Geo’phy in Mental Arithmetic in Written Arithmetic �(Waialua 1846) By a vote of the Mission in Gen. Meet. of 1844 we received an invitation to remove from Hilo to Waialua and take charge of the Manual Labor Boarding School which had been suspended by the death of our lamented Bro. Locke in Oct. previous. of Aug. and arrived at Honolulu the 11th. We left Hilo the 9th Removed to Waialua about the last of Sept. and put our house and house-hold stuff in order. Things being adjusted the Trustees of the School met at our house to consult in reference to it and their unanimous advice was that under existing circumstances it would for the present be better not to revive the school but rather that we labor among the people at large with a view to their spiritual good. In Nov. following the meetings on the Sab. - then the only ones in existence - came unsolicited and refusing a denial into my hands. I soon after revived the Wed. meet­ ings and subsequently established a 4 o ’clock meet. on Saturday afternoons. A weekly female prayer meeting at our house was also established and conducted by Mrs. W. Visited among the people, at­ tended funerals and held meetings at out-posts. Received help from the pastors and others at Honolulu and there was evidently a little waking up of the people during the winter. About the middle of February following not having the meetings at the station to look after, I opened two day-schools one for the teachers of the common schools, the other for the largest scholars attending the common schools at the station. Continued to visit some among the people and hold meetings at out-posts. Naau Helu Kakau Huli Kanaka ’c. Geog. Studies pursued by my scholars Helu Reading Writing Sacred Geography Huli In June last I resumed the meetings at the station and have kept them up with the exception of the Saturday meetings till the present time. The 2 schools also till within the last few �2 Waialua 1846 weeks h ave been continued, tho only 4 days in a week. Owing to the increase of other labors they have been suspended of late Common Schools These have been chiefly looked after with the exception of supplying them with books &c by the Kahukula. I have been present at the examinations at the station where most of the schools exhibited and have once been out with him to attend examinations abroad. In a little more than a year he has made 4 circuits. The no. of schools within the present circumscribed limits of this field is 16 In this no. are included schools of the Romanists 5 The no of scholars according to the report of their teachers Nos. present at recent exam, of their schools Nos. present at exam. of Protestant Schools Fluent readers in Prot. Schools In Helu Naau - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- -- -- -- -- -- - Helu Kamalii - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Writing - - - -- 58 164 Indifferent readers - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Geog. - - - - 74 274 Not present - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Helu Kakau - - - - - 110 - - - - - - - - - - - - -- 51 138 93 42 139 106 There has been one Roman Catholic school broken up during the last year and united with the Protestant School. Ten scholars left another of their schools at one time and joined the Protestant. A teacher of another of their schools came to me to procure for his own use the Old Test. which I gave him. He expressed a desire that his scholars also who were readers should procure the Old Test. for a reading book in School. I told him I would give It them if they �3. Waialua 1846 would come for it. their coming. But probably an older and harder head prevented Have since seen and talked with this same teacher and he appears to be decidedly leaning towards protestantism. recently attended some of our meetings on the Sab. He has Owing to the in­ efficiency of the teachers in their schools, the Kahukula has recently reduced their pay to 61/4 cts. per day. Oh. Statistics, &c. Since the Gen. Meet. in May of 1844 there have been three com­ munion seasons of the Ch. at Waialua. The first in March 1845 the 2d in June and the third in Dec. - brother Lowell Smith officiating at the last. During the same period i.e. since Gen. Meet. in May of 1844 till present time have been excom. The no. of suspended church mem, for same time Of the suspended there have been restored to the ch. Of those excommunicated restored to the ch. No. dismissed to and received by letter from other churches is not known Whole number on examination Recvd. to the ch. from the world Whole no. received on certificate Remain suspended from the ch. at present time No. of ch. members who died during 1845 No. of children baptized since Gen. Meet in 1844 N o. of ch. members now in regular standing Average no. attending meetings at station Sab. morn. No. of inhabitants within the district of Waialua No. of deaths in 1845 within the district No. of births during the same time (On sheet pasted on:) Whole no. received to the Church on Examination Whole no received on certificate Past year on examination On certificate past year Whole no past year Whole no. dismissed to other churches Past year Whole no. deceased is about Deceased the past year Suspended past 2 years Remain suspended Excommunicated the last 2 years Whole no. excommunicated Remain excommunicated Whole no. in regular standing Whole no. of children baptized Baptized-past 2 years Average congregation on the Sabbath 29 16 15 0 696 1 32 16 11 14 141 200 1539 105 16 696 32 1 2 3 333 0 58 11 16 16 29 180 119 141 514 14 200 �Waialua 1846 In N o v . last weekly morning prayer meetings to about the n o . of 15 were established to be held simultaneously in various parts of the field. A year ago last winter there seemed to be a little waking up of the ch. and an increase in the size of our congregations on the Sabbath. But this was of short continuance. For the last 4 months however I think there has been a little reviving. Within this time we have had Wed. meetings at our house specially designed for those who enquire the way to Zion with faces thitherward. attended these enquiry meetings is rising of 30. The no. who have A few of them cut off from ch. fellowship in former years, but most of them from the world. A few of them manifested real seriousness. Two or 3 of them living at a distance and not usually attending meetings were first aroused at the protracted meeting at Waianae which followed the dedication of the new house of worship there. A no. who have not heretofore attended meetings on the Sabbath have for 2 or 3 months attended. Probably some of the brethren had they been acquainted with these individuals who have called themselves inquirers might have been in favor of their being received to the church. As it is, however, there being no pastor, some, who perhaps belong to the Israel of God, are not gathered. Meet. House On going to Waialua we found one half of the meet. house at the station a mass of ruins and the other half filled with rubbish the windows dashed in by stones and if not thorny and nettles, yet. the castor oil bean springing up within the crumbling walls. The The stone had cried out of the wall and the beam out of the timber had answered it; and from the ridgepole to the foundation revolt had been the order of the day, except that a part of the walls, �Waialua 1846 like Judah, and Benjamin, remains. In order to prevent the remainder of the house from being blown down by the winds of the approaching winter we induced the people to thatch the open end of the house had the rubbish removed and they made it a comfortable place for meetings. As all the circumstances relative to Waialua meeting house are generally known by the members of this mission I need not enlarge. Suffice it then to say that the house has been built tho’ in troublous times. How long and how hard has been the tug of collecting the materials and setting up the house I will not say but of the aid rendered us by persons abroad I am bound to speak with gratitude. The Pastor of the 2d native ch. in Honolulu supplied our lack by raising money in Honolulu and purchasing materials for the house to the amount of 155 dollars which he got shipped round on a government vessel free of charge. Many of the Foreign Residents contributed liberally and some of the Brethren of this Mission. Also the ch. at Ewa the 2d ch. in Honolulu and the church at Kanapali. The above said individual also engaged carpenters and went to W. with them and took hold with his own hands in getting up the house - Also persuaded the Governor to go over and thatch the house which he did - taking 80 men and women with him. These all aided in the work and with the people of Waialua accomplished it in two days. The thatching lathing and plastering yet remain. The lath are on the spot and there yet remains the collecting of the coral and the wood for burning it. A few weeks more, and what remains will I trust have been accomplished. It is due to the King and to the governor to say that most of the timber was drawn on paahao days given by them. It is very apparent that but for aid rendered from abroad the work would never have been done. Still the people of Waialua, principally the ch. have given in cash between 50 and 60 �Waialua 1846 dollars. 6. About 50 more may be needed to finish, it. A great burden is now removed from our minds and we cannot but hope that a brighter day has begun to dawn on Waialua - that when a devoted pastor shall be found to go out and come in before that people and feed them with the bread of life many who now wander as lost sheep will be restored to the fold of the Good Shepherd, and many who never belonged to that fold will be drawn into it with the cords of love. As Israel importuned Samuel for a King that they might be like the nations around them, so the people are clamorous in their prayers to the Lord that he will give them a real Kahunapule (priest; preacher; pastor). Thus they pray - E haawi mai oe i e a kahunapul/ no makou. Ua loaa i/ makou heia wahi kumuao wale no. (Unsigned but marked on back:) Mr. Wilcox’s Report, May 1846 �Waialua, Oct. 1847 Dear Bro. Chamberlain. In a note rec'd from you a few days since you wish statistics of Chch, etc. but in consequence of my records of Koolau station being left at the station & there having been no statistics published for 1846 - I can give but a very meager statement for Koolau. Waialua stands thus at the present time. Waialua Haula or Koolau 700 5 4 4 342 55 5 47 32 9 184 174 530 16 27 400 233 450 whole no. ad. church on exon cert. past year on Ex. on certif. whole no past year whole dismissed other chcs. dismissed past year died died past year Susp. past year Rem. Susp. Excom. past year Whole no. Excom. Rem. excom. Now in regular standing Children baptised past year children died past year married past year Average cong. Children attending schools Waialua protestants on the list at examination papist on the list at examination Koolau protestants on the list at examination papist on the list n at examination 304 272 65 56 346 289 129 90 The marriages at both stations are thrown together in the table. �2 1847 \ The prospects of the people are improving, attention to the preached word encouraging, books a good deal enquired for - & much better paid for than in the years past Contributions for building chches paying for a native ministry & during the past year would in the whole field be more than $125. We have one native helper devoted to preaching & ex­ horting the people. He has been in the field about 3 months & thus far promises well. He is from the Sem. at Lahainaluna & his wife is from the Sem. at Wailuku & both are among the best beloved in the schools. A want of good school houses is a great draw-back upon our schools. The cause of papacy is for the past year on the decline among us - Qui te a number both of parents & children have left their congergations & schools and returned to us. Their complaint is they gain no knowledge among the papists & have no books to read. Within the past year we hope their have been some conver­ sions from sin to Holiness for which we bless the lord. Your brother in haste J.S. Emerson. �Station Report, Waialua presented May 11, 1848 In accordance with the vote of Gen. Meeting two years since, I made due arrangements for leaving Lahainaluna, & on the seventh of July, w i t h my family embarked for Waialua where we arrived the fol­ lowing morning, & were kindly recd by bro. & Sister Wilcox; who were in waiting for their departure for their Station on Kauai. Our feelings, in coming back to Waialua, were any other than sanguine. A s we approached the place a sense of gloom & sadness came over us, of which we were unwilling to speak & yet could not but feel. "Can these dry bones live” was our feeling, kindred to that of the faithless prophet. look strangely at us. A few stragglers on the shore seemed to Our anchor was thrown down & no one had yet come near us; quite unlike our reception by the unclad natives of the same place fourteen years before. a hard battle before us. I thought that I could read in this Soon a few boys came along side in small canoes, by whom we sent to Lanui, the chief, to provide for us breakfast. This gave things a little start. the river to our station. Soon we were on. our way up Here almost the first object that met my eye was an old grey headed man, an excommunicate from the church, filling his calabash by the side of the river. His eye merily glanced upon us, & then he returned from the bank of the river with the same apparent indifference as though we had been his known & personal enemies. Arriving at Lanui's, we soon found that he appeared kind & friendly, & had provided for us an ample breakfast; which however we were soon constrained to leave (or carry with us) & follow bro. & Sister Wilcox to their home, whom we had supposed too much lumbered �Waialua 1848 up to be in circumstances to accommodate us. to look after our baggage. offered gratuitous aid. After dinner we began Men were ready to help us, but none Old times had passed away. After two nights spent at B r . Wilcox's our house was tenantable & we entered it: but it was a sorry looking home to Mrs. E ., quite unlike the place we had left but four years before. - Yet it was our home, & we re- solved to make the best of it. The sabbath soon arrived - & I preached in the morning to about 300 people, a congregation, as Bro. W. informed me, almost twice as large as usual. The afternoon cong. was 175. For successive sabbaths there was no falling off; but rather an increase in the numbers, this was en­ couraging. And indeed we soon found that the apparent distance at which the people held themselves was not occasioned by the coldness that we thought was visible. They had long been kept at a distance, & the idea that they could be met with mutual cordiality by their pastor, had long been forgotton ( !). Many times after we heard this remark "God has heard our prayers & returned to us our pastor” . This feeling we have since been fully satisfied was not without sincerity. There was in many hearts a deep feeling of attachment to those who had been with them from the beginning. Although much occupied in constructing places for books medi­ cines &c ; I made occasional excursions to Waialee, Kawaihapai & Waimea; & on all occasions found encouragement. The people were not dead; but the wise & the foolish were sleeping together. After visiting Waialee repeatedly the people from Kahuku came down on a sabbath afternoon & gave me a large congregation. At which time a number now profess to have given their hearts to the Savior. who had for a long time been debared ( !) the privilege of the Many, �3. W aia lu a 1848 Lords t a b l e , came forward with words of penitence & promises to serve the Lord. I d id not however f e e l in h aste to c r e d it the pro­ fe s s io n s of but few of those who seemed to be coming up out of a s l eep of y e a r s . The subject of a communion for the Chch. at W aialua often came up to mind but w a s defered ( ! ) fo r about three months, & they had had no Com. for s ix months p revious. The dread of the r e s p o n s ib il it ie s of th e occasion was one reason for the d e l a y . October the communion season was h e ld , In a fter conversing in d iv id u a l l y w ith each member of th e Church, & every one under d i s c i p l i n e , & a l l out of th e Chch. who might desire to speak w it h me about t h e ir souls concerns. The effe c t of the occasion was happy, as also was that of the communion se aso n . Many new faces were seen in the house of God; many old associations revived; & some became from that reason p er­ manent attendants on r e lig io u s worship who befo re were strangers to the house of God. The names of many a t this time were announced as p rofessedly penitent fo r th e ir departures from duty, as professed follow ers of C h rist , & as resolved to re tu rn to the f a i t h & obedience of the Gospel. D uring the f i r s t year after my return to the s t a t io n , but one was r e cd to the Church by pro fessio n ; quite a number however of those, who h ad formerly b een p rofessors, were restored to the bosom of the Church. - many o f whom have since w alked orderly among u s , & have apparently honored th eir pro fessio n . Our congregations at W aialua have been on the in c re a se , during the past two y e a r s , & y et so slow has been the increase & so regular that we could hardly t e l l the sab­ baths when the greatest increase took p la c e ; or the pleasant sab­ baths when there were no new faces in the congregation. Our congre­ gations are now about 500 in the morning, & 400 in the afternoon at the s t a t io n ; - there are also meetings h eld re g u la rly at seven or �Waialua 1848 eight other places in the field embracing a number several times as large as that which meets at the station. I could not say that there has been a great revival of religion at our station during the past two years, & yet there has been an upward progress that is truly pleasing. - Divine truth has been listened to with increased attention by increasing numbers both morning & evening of the Sabbath, as well as on lecture days & monthly concerts; - a disposition also to contribute & to labor for the pro- motion of objects of benevolence has greatly increased; - all of which are more encouraging than would have been any great & genral ( ! ) rush, that might continue for a few months & then subside. Koolauloa. There are now in Koolauloa two separate Chchs. whose centres are Haula & Kahuku; eight miles distant from each other, & the former is twenty miles from the station at W aialua. The church at Kahuku was not organized till the first Sabbath in April last, but had a separate communion in the month of Decr previous. With these two churches I have spent seventeen or eighteen sabbaths during the past year & ten months. Bro. Gulick also has spent with them four or five sabbaths besides repeated sabbaths & parts of sabbaths spent at Waialee. On my first visit to Haula ( !) I met a very large congregation, many more than their meeting-house could contain; - & on all pleas­ ant sabbaths since, when due notice has been given, the attendance in the morning has been uniformly large; & repeatedly so large, that the school house has been filled with a congregation of children while the meeting house was filled with adult worshippers. The interest in religious meetings i n Koolau is apparently very good, & increasingly so. More persons have been recd to those chchs. than to the Waialua chch. - not perhaps however because there is more piety there than �Waialua 5. 1848 at Waialua, but it may be, because the pastor, having a less perfect knowledge of their private habits & manner of life is less able to reasonably oppose or deferr their admission to the chch. Native helpers. Of these we have in Koolau two, besides the leaders of sevral (! ) divisions or neighbourhoods in the field, of these there are about forty, who conduct morning prayer meetings &c. These two native helpers are both graduates from the Theol. class in the Seminary in 1847. Their names are Kekela &. NUiapaakai. The former is located at Kahuku, & is doing good; the latter is just commencing his labors at Laie, where there is much need of such labor as he is able to perform. I hope that these two men will be licensed to preach the gospel by the Hawaiian Association or by brethren present before we break up. The religious interest in Koolau, as well as Waialua, has been on the increase during the past year. Morning prayer meetings in nearly all the neighborhoods have been well attended. The Bible has been a good deal called for & many are reading it through in course. The Elele & school books generally have been much called for. Statistics of the church. The statistics of the churches - I unite in one as it is not easy to report in form & correctly without so doing. Whole no. ad. on examination " " " by letter - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Admitted the past two years on exam. ” 773. 60. 71. the past two years on certif. - - - - 19 Dismissed -in all to other chchs. - - - - - - 65 Dismissed the past 2 years 10 �6. Waialua 1848 Died in all 103 Died past two years - - - - - - - - - - - - - 27 Now in regular standing - - - - - - - - - - - 461 Whole no of children baptized - - - - - - - - 618 Baptized the past two years - - - - - - - - - 76 Marriages the past 2 years - - - - - - - - - 78 Average congregations " Waialua " ---- ----------------- -- " Kahuku " - - - - - - - " Haula " - - - - - - - - - --- ___ - - 500 200 450 Contributions. Our three Chchs. are but a small band, among the smallest of the Hawaiian Chchs. & but a short time since they were very back­ ward to hear the preached gospel; there has been however a pleasing improvement in their disposition to act as well as to hear. Contributions during the two past years have been as follows. From Koolau cash Waialua " Koolau & Waialua for S.N.E. " forKekela " In all cash from both fields $65.80 420.68 20.00 45.66 552.14 There have also been contributed in labor, materials for building a meeting house in Koolau, which materials are on hand about $100. Work performed at Kahuku for Kekela & the meeting house at that place $50.00. Work, at Waialua in getting wood, lime for meeting house & thatch­ ing a room for a vestry in all $200. $350. Whole amount of contributions in the field, not including $662, handed me by Mr. Wilcox & $5.87 by Rev. L. Smith $902.14 of the cash con­ tributed, $420.68 have been expended in repairs on the meeting house �Waialua 1848 7. at W. which is now floored & partially seated, the rest, except what was contributed for S .N.E. & Kekela, is in the form of materials for the erection of a permanent church at Haula in Koolau. The contributions at Waialua have altogether exceeded my expec­ tations; as that portion of the Church has contributed, during the past two weeks to cancel a debt for the last repairs on the meeting house a sum of$ . 0 2 1 I indulge the hope that some of our people are beginning to feel that poverty is not induced by giving in support of benevolent objects, but the contrary. Of the truth of this they have of late had several striking illustrations. One chch. member, under discipline, had with held his contribu­ tions, & had successfully persuaded others to do likewise. This man has recently had his buildings all destroyed by fire with everything he posse(sse)d. Another individual of opposite character, who had contributed in cash about $18. for the meeting house, found all his plans were prospering; this man, in order to pay up the debt standing against them, contributed only a few days since $350 in addition to former contributions. His neighbours see in these two cases, as well as in a multitude of others, that the Lord prospers those who seek intelligently the promotion of his kingdom in the earth. The prompt­ ness with which this debt has been paid up has greatly relieved & cheered my mind. Labors. Much of the time I have given all who wished to converse with me in the district of Waialua a chance to do it once per month. Of this opportunity some two hundred persons have been in the habit of avail­ ing themselves. To this labor a good portion of three days has gen- erally been devoted each month; & it has not been without its ad- �Waialua vantages. 1848 8.------- When practable ( !) I have had a school 1 1/2 hours each week, in which I have read & explained the Hawaiian laws to the people. This school has been much desired by a few of the more intelligent portion of the people. It has been attended Wednesday P.M. previous to the stated Wednesday lecture. During the past four months I have made eight tours in the dis­ trict of Koolau, for preaching & attending protracted meetings examining schools &c. I have also spent twelve days during this time in conversing with the people individually in respect to their spiritual condition. I am of the opinion that frequent, close & pointed conversation with individuals, in respect to their feelings, habits & hopes are, in connection with the preaching of the gospel of very great impor­ tance in rousing the attention of the careless & the stupid. Communion seasons, of which we have twelve per year in three chchs. are seasons of great labor & exhaustion; - as I am in the habit of conversing individually with each member of the chch. during the week previous to the communion. This season is made the more laborious, from the necessity that is put upon me to withstand a torrent of urging & pressing arguments from our deacons for large & speedy additions to the church. One said, standing before me in an eloquent atitude ( !), "Was not Saul, the son (of) Kish, a wicked man up to the time when Samuel annointed him with oil; & did he not immediately receive another heart & be­ come another man; why then not expect that men will become better by being baptized & recd . to the church?" I find no argument against making natives pastors of chchs. so strong as this one, the utter impossibility of their being able to say no, when importuned to make great additions to the chch. Meetings for prayer have been �9. Waialua 1848 held, the past year in many neighbourhoods, every morning; the fe­ males in many cases meeting by themselves & the males by themselves. Mrs. E. has held a monthly meeting with all the female super­ intendents of prayer meetings, & they in turn have held weekly meetings for prayer & exhortation which have been productive of much good. Schools. the schools in Waialua will be reported by Bro. Gu- lick & also his other labors, respecting which it becomes me here to say that his labors in conducting meetings at the out posts, & preaching at the station, in case of my absence & at other times as health would permit has often been very timely & desireable ( !). Schools in Koolau have been of an improved order of late, & the teachers, getting better pay than formerly, are coming up to their work with an increase of strength. There are in Koolau thir­ teen protestant schools, & five papist schools - protestant scholars 385, papist do. 90, prot. readers 190 papist do. 52; prot. writers 130, papist do. 20; protest in written Arithmetic 111, papist do. 31. Protestant Algebra 50, Papist do none. papist none. Protestant singers 58, The pay o f teachers is in proportion to their qualifi­ cations to teach & the number of their scholars. Nearly all the protestant teachers are paid 25 cts. per day, but not more than one of the papist teachers receives more than 122 cts. - & no one of them could probably pass an examination such as would meet the requirements of the law. Of the protestant teachers, five are from the Seminary at Lahainaluna, the rest were taught in the field. The schools of the papists are all small, & a large number of the children nominally belonging to them are very young, really too young to be in school. �Waialua 1848 Schools & temperance celebrations. Of these we have had five in the field during the past two years, two at Waialua, two at Haula in Koolau & one at Kahuku. The feasts at Waialua were very pleasant seasons, the latter, which was attended in February last, far surpassing in the exhibition of comforts & conveniences for furnishing a table the former, & showing a progress onward & upward in civilization. The feasts at Haula also were of an encouraging character, showing that the people have resources & ability, whenever they may set about the accomplish ment of an object. Tables, chairs, plates, knives, forks, bowls, spoons, tumblers, mugs &c &c. all seemed to be at hand & abundant. But the exhibition of their table furniture at the last celebration much exceeded that of the year previous. A range of tables, not less than four hundred or 500 feet in length, was well furnished with an abundance of crockery & glass ware, displaying a good degree of taste & skill both in selection & arrangement & order of the fur­ niture, as well as the richness & variety of the vivands (viands ?). Some of the tables cost fifteen dollars each; & the whole amount expended by the people in procuring these articles of furniture & clothing for themselves & children for this occasion was estimated at several thousand dollars. There were also on the ground & tied near the place of feasting between 400 & 500 horses & animals of the horse kind, nearly all of which were rode on to the ground by natives who owned them. The cellebration ( !) at Kahuku was encouraging, displayed a good amount of effort to improve their furniture dress &c. The effect of these cellebrations will be in all cases to aid forward the cause of civilization & refinement, by creating wants such as the rude barbarian does not feel & is slow to cherish. It is by �Waialua 1848 impulses, such, as these, this people will be lead to use tables, plates, knives, forks, spoons, tumblers, pots, kettles &c. all of which at the outset are to them useless articles, only in the way; & when the feast is over most of them will be laid aside to rust or not, as useless trash. Without new wants are created, industry can hardly be expected to increase to a very great extent; for who will work without a motive? There needs however in my opinion much vigilance on the part of the missionary to prevent their celebrations from running into an ext(r)eme. At the last celebration at Haula, I noticed an elegant youth, dressed in the perfection of good taste, from the ribbon in the shoe to the white glove. I marveled to know where he could deposit his rich attire after the occasion was passed. A few days later, I called at the home, where the youth lived, to ad­ minister medicine to a poor sick woman. 25 feet by twelve without partitions. The house was in size about The posts of the house/ were four & a half or five feet high; door at the end where I entered three & or four feet high. The house was covered with thatch, well smoked up by cooking food &c in the centre of the house. The bui(l)ding was inhabited by fourteen souls of men, besides cats & dogs many. There were no mats on the ground, inside of the house, except in a portion of the house, but the ground was covered by dry grass. A roll of mats however lay on one side of the building be­ sides a canoe & its furniture, with an abundance of calabashes & perhaps one or two trunks - The air in the building, as I remained in it ten or fifteen minutes created in me a pain in my head, & quite an uncomfortable feeling in my stomach, so foul was its charac­ ter; yet in this house lived that young man whose dress at the tem­ perance celebration was sufficiently splendid & rich to adorn the �Waialua 1848 palace of the King. If such celebrations could (be) closed up by an examination of the houses of the people & their internal arrangments ( !), I think that the happy effects of the same might be greatly increased. As to school houses. There was but one protestant school house in the district two years since, & that was a meeting house used for a school house. There are now seven good grass houses for schools, but furniture for the same is wanting. Papists. The papists have two meetings regularly in our field on sabbath days, one in the district of Waialua, & the other at Kaluanui in Koolau, nearly thirty miles apart. They occasionally meet at two or three other places, when the foreign priest passes through the field. The number who are accostomed ( !) to meet on the sabbath is now as I am informed very small, perhaps 50 or 100 at Waialua, & 100 or 125 in Koolau. They have ho decent house of worship in the k (!) field, & none of any kin\, that would accommodate over 100 persons. They have had the foundation of a stone house laid at Waialua for more than two years, but for the past two years I have seen no evidence of progress in the work. There has been a regular but very gradual decline in popish influence in our field for at least two years. Their foreign priests have not been popular, & were rather tolerated & endured than de­ sired by their own followers. I regard the present influence of the papists in our field as an evil but not without its advantages in this imperfect state. It makes the people more observing; they judge the professed teachers of religion as well as their disciples by their works. They also begin to feel the necessity of going to the Bible to learn truth & to see if the preacher builds on the foundation of the apostles & �Waialua 1848 13. prophets & not on his own. It is reported that there is a dissatisfaction with the Popish priest arising from an undue partiality shown by him in the confessional to the handsom(e) females, to the mortification of those who receive no kiss from him; but the truth of this I have not at­ tempted to trace out very largely. A few females give these unde­ sired attentions as the reason for leaving the papists. Other practices are rumored, not suitable to be reported here, that raised the disgust of some, who once were of their number. Time the revealer of secrets will make its own report on this subject. Secular labors. Of these I have found occasion for the performance of a great variety. When we returned to the post two years since cultivation, except in the kalo patches beyon(d) the reach of the cat(t)le, had been almost entirely laid aside; so that for many months the past year bananas, potatoes, melons &c. were not to be found in the district, & there was no prospect that there ever would be any again till some one made a move on the subject. Many of the people had left their lands, & others were on the point of leaving, as poverty only was before them. The pastor, in these circumstances, felt either compelled to see his parish given up to the entire ravages of wild cat( t) le, & be left without a people or else engage in efforts to procure them relief. The latter alternative was adopted; & after much time was expended, much writing performed, & many trials of feeling submited ( !) to, the people are now placed in a fair way to be protected in their rights. There is now a pound for estrays ready for use; &, what is better, there is a law made by the people themsleves taxing all catle ( !) & horses running at large, to aid in building enclosures. The people have also engaged to work two full �Waialua 1848 days per month on these inclosures; or, in case of absence, to pay 25 cts. for each days absence. The lord of the soil has also engaged to give two of his working days for the same object. The people are now engaged with a good degree of enthusiasm in erecting stone walls, of not less than ten of (or) fifteen miles in extent, to enclose their various plantations. If this work is completed Waialua will be greatly improved. The people, in some parts of the field, are beginning to think of the use of the plough. Fifteen yoke of steers have (been) sold to natives from the Mission heard ( !), & most of them are at this time in the progress of training, by drawing stones for fences. plough is already purchased by a native & ready for use. One When natives use their own ploughs on their own soil, there is hope that they will not all become hewers of wood & drawers of water, & herds­ men for foreigners. Untill the plough is thus used by them, their prospect of becoming their own masters is small. Our oven family. We have been generally blessed with health yet Mrs. E. has been a part of the time somewhat afflicted. We have sent to Hono­ lulu once only for a physician for a sick child, but in that case were disappointed in not being able to obtain one; yet God in mercy blessed our instrumentality & raised up the child then prostrate with disease. Our oldest son, after two years detention from study on account of disease in his eyes, took passage in the Abraham Howland with Br. Forbes & family for the U. States. was great, but duty was clear. The trial of parting with him This trial hew ever was much relieved by the pleasing & increasing evidence we were permited ( !) to enjoy, that he had truly given his heart to the Savior. On the 7th of �15. Waialua 1848 January, he & John Gulick united themselves to the native chch. at Waialua, a circumstance which I doubt not, has tended to increase the interest of the natives in them both. When Saml was about leav­ ing for the U. States the chch. members, at their own instance, made up a purse of $20. for his use in procuring articles to he regarded as a present from them. They now often speak of him with interest. My opinion is, that our children, if pious should unite to the chchs. of which their parents are pastors, & not to a mission chch. which, from the nature of the case, cannot not ( !) meet but once in one or two years. In conclusion I would record the goodness of God to us, at this station, during the past two years. While we have not been unvisited by sickness, death has not been allowed to enter our Missionary dwell­ ings. While our labours as missionaries have been attended with the blessing of God. I know of no period when the Influences of the Spirit have appeared to be more obviously & abidin(g)ly present with the people, yet working in a still & silent way, making it obvious that it was of God & not of man. As our congregation have been regularly in­ creasing in number, so have our contributions regularly increased in amount & our people advanced in industry & civilization. Our debts for meeting house &c have been paid up & every good work progresses. Intemperance has not been known in our field during the past two years - yet I have heard of awa having been raised & sold to the government officer in some quantities & used secretly by the lowest class of the people. �16. Waialua 1848 Statistics of the Chch. Ad. on Exam. By letter Ad. past 2 years by exam Do by letter Dis to other chchs. Do past 2 years Died in all Died past 2 years Now in reg. standing Lost or wandering Whole no. children paptized ( !) Bap. past 2 years Married past 2 years. Average cong. Waialua D o . Kahuku Haula 773 60 71 19 65 10 103 27 461 210 618 76 78 500 200 450 (Unsigned; J.S. Emerson) �Gulick's Report - Waialua, 1848 In reviewing the period that has elapsed since we last assembled here, it will he no tedious task to tell the amt of my missionary la­ bors. They have been few & feebly performed. Owing to causes beyond our control, it was not till the first of Aug. /46 that we reached our present station. And the effort required for moving & getting things in their proper places I found quite exhausting to my enfeebled system. And I had scarcely recovered from sickness occasioned by those efforts, ere an unusually rainy winter set in; & this bro't with it, rheumatism cough, & an increase of the bronchial disease, with wh. I have long been afflicted. And my history during the last winter has been sub­ stantially the same. Two of our children have also been visited with alarming illness. But through divine goodness, they were graciously spared to us. - For months in succession I have been unable to do anything worth naming. And even when more comfortable, I am so far worn out, rusted out or withered by disease, that I have very little energy & resolution either for mental or physical effort of any kind. I have however, during most of the time been able to preach a little; & exercise a limited superintendence of the schools in Waialua district. In all I have delivered 87 sermons & lectures, attended some funerals & prayer meetings; & the children's Sab. schools when health permitted. The schools In our district, tho by no means what we wish to see them, are doubtless doing much good, & I think are better sustained than they formerly were. The teachers are now promptly paid, & I be­ lieve to the full amt of their earning. There are a little rising 300 pupils on the Protestant teachers' list; but somewhat short of this in regular attendance. 50 pupils. There are also two popish schools with about The govt Superintendent is an honest, & good man, & himself �Waialua 1848 a teacher. 2. There are 9 schools & 7 other teachers, & 2 assistant teachers on half pay. A singing school is also taught by a graduate from Lahainaluna; & is exerting a good influence. During the year a substantial stone school house has been erected at the station, 60 feet by 30, & so far finished as to be useable tho quite incomplete. It has already cost about $200.- cash, beside a considerable amt of lumber & some work done by publick authority. To meet this expense, it was deemed necessary to suspend the schools 3 months, & devote the funds usually appropriated to paying teachers to that object. Another schoolhouse has been erected at an out station. The children that can read, generally commit a verse of Scripture daily, & recite it in school; & more than 100 are connected with the station Sab. school. Their attendance however, till latterly has been quite irregular; but for several weeks past there has been a very pleasing change in this respect. recite it at the Sab. school. Those pupils who commit Scripture And when able to be present I endeavor to expound the verses recited, & to impress the truth upon their minds. We have had annually a publick festival, about the beginning of the year designed chiefly tho not exclusively for the benefit of the children. On these, & other occasions it has been very gratifying to observe the clear indications of advancing civilization, & improvement in the social condition, of the people with whom we sojourn. These are apparent in the dress, & general appearance of the mass of the people, & more especially of the children. They appear also in the increase of their household furniture, the possession of cattle horses, &c. >• �3. Waialua 1848 Statistics 10 Teachers, including 2 assistants 7 ? X Schools 300 pupils 185 Readers 100 writers 180 In arithmetic 100 In geography 45 Scripture Geography Protestant Schools & teachers �Report of P.J. Gulick April 1849 Waialua, Oahu In reviewing the year past, we find very little worth recording, except an uninterrupted stream, of goodness & mercy, to us & ours, from the Giver of every good gift. When in His righteous dispensations, the rain descended, & the floods came, & li terally surrounded, & threatened to overwhelm us, He who sitteth upon the flood, said, hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; & here shall thy proud waves be stayed; hence we were neither swallowed up, nor seriously injured. And when the pestilence which walketh In darkness, & the destruc­ tion which wasted at noonday, on our right hand, & on our left, entered out dwelling, & had even prostrated one of our number, the same all powerful voice, of our great Benefactor arrested their progress; the victim was restored, and our 'olive plants' are still about us. May these unspeakable mercies, lead both them & their parents, to feel their increased obligations to honor & glorify Him, who hath bestowed them. Although our own steps have apparently, of a long season, been on the verge of the grave, which has as it were yawned to receive us, still our tottering feeble frames have been sustained, and our health, not greatly reduced below its ordinary level. And yet, so little direct missionary work, has either of us been able to do, that I cant imagine it has been for this, that our lives have been prolonged. During the prevalence of the epidemics (which as you are aware, was several months;) we, like many of our brethren, were chiefly oc­ cupied in efforts to supply the physical wants of our sick & dying neighbors. The scenes of suffering then witnessed, have led us in publick & private to make efforts to induce them to provide in time �2. Waialua 1849 of health, for emergencies of a similar nature. It seems apparent, that, unless they can be induced in stead of spending their money for silks & other superfluities, to lay it out in building comfortable houses, & in procuring food & raiment for themselves and families adap­ ted to their circumstances, a few more such visitations, would leave but a meager remnant of the nation. - The dispensations of Providence towards them, seem to say to each of us, with emphatic tone, What thou doest, (either for their bodies or their souls - 'do quickly', for the time to do them good, is gliding rapidly away; \ they will soon be beyond your reach. Our direct public efforts, in our Master's cause, may be summed up in a few words. Though not always able to preach, I have on an averag\ (!) delivered about one sermon weekly. In addition to this, I have usually superintended the station Sabbath school, have attended some 12 or 15 funerals, & various prayermeetings. During a considerable part of the year, I have also, held a weekly meeting with the children of 5 schools of our vicinity in our station school house. I usually spend about an hour with them in hearing them recite the catechism prepared by Mr. Armstrong, explaining it to them, and endeavoring to impress the fundamental truths therein contained, on their consciences. And from their proficiency in committing to memory, & their appar­ ent understanding of the subjects bro't to view, I have hope that some salutary impressions may be made on their minds, which will never be oblitterated; & that should they be spared a generation may be reared, which shall be far in advance of their fathers; in mental & moral culture. For a few months, I have had a school once a week for the teachers in our vicinity. Our time was spent in reading Moral Phil­ osophy correcting their errors & comments on that work. �Waialua 1849 3. During the prevalence of the epidemics, the schools were unavoid­ ably suspended. Except this, and a previous recess of two weeks, they have been in operation, & the teachers are promptly paid, & as I think to the full value of their services. And although they are not doing, nor qualified to do, all the school master should do; yet it is believed they are doing an important work, for the rising generation. And al­ though the children do not advance, as fast as we desire to see them, still that they do advance, I have no doubt. And that many of them, can readily answer questions, in arithmetic & geography which would have puzzled many who were teachers a few years since, I am equally sure. As to school houses, there is, in our district, but one that can sustain even a tolerable claim to that name; & that tho having substan­ tial walls, & a good thatched roof, has neither doors floor, nor seats; properly speaking. We should however have been able to report more favorably, in this particular, had there been suitable lumber for finishing the house, in market. Beams for a floor have been procured, funds are in hand for purchasing flooring &c; & an effort to raise more, for paying the car­ penter, & defraying other incidental expenses, has been commenced by cultivating the land in our enclosure. a bill of expense. But as yet, this has been only It is presumed however that some $40. or 50.00 will be realized from this source, in a few months. (Unsigned) �Waialua 1849 Statistics of schools Waialua 9 Schools 9 Teachers 325 Pupils total at last examination. 221 Readers 207 In arithmetic 145 In written geography 122 in Topographical do 100 Writers 35 Read in Huli kanaka viz Moral philosophy About 200 Have read in the Scriptures X Until they commenced the study of the catechism in school, the readers w were accustomed to commit a verse a day from the N. Testament. Teachers receive from 12 1/2 to 25 cts pr day for their services, either in cash, or articles at cash value. X Since the examination from which these statistics were gathered one school of 39 has been suspended the no. of scholars having fallen below 15 wh the law requires to constitute a school. including 77 pupils. There were 4 Popish schools But one of these of 19 pupils has been disbanded. In our station Sab. School there were a little rising 100 children. Some $200. or $300 on hand for building School houses. (Unsigned) (Gulick) �April 1849 Station report for Waialua, Oahu The past year has been to us a very eventful one. During its rapid flight we have passed through Scenes pleasant & cheering to our hearts, & others again deeply distressing & disheartening. Sick­ ness among the natives & in my own family has disarranged a large por­ tion of my plans; so that many things I fully intended to do have failed of accomplishment, while many others that I had no calculation for performing have been forced upon me. On returning home from our last General Meeting, we found our people in a good degree of readiness to attend to religious instruction. Congregations on the sabbath were full & attentive, & meetings, of two or three days continuance, were held at the request of the people in various parts of the field. These meetings were well attended; & were instrumental of bringing out to public worship quite a number of people, who had been stupid & unconcerned; & on the minds of some it is hoped that Divine truth has been set home with saving power. Much of my time during the first three or four months of the year was spent very pleasantly & I trust profitably among the people in Waialua & Koolau. B r . Gulick also being in better health than usual, labored as his health would allow. us. That was one of the spring seasons among The word of the Lord seemed to take effect. It was not like water spilled upon the ground, but like seed planted in a prepared soil. This pleasant state of things continued with increasing interest, till early in October, when a sudden check was put to our efforts in preach­ ing the gospel, & to many of our hearers a final period for hearing it. Sickness among the people & in my own family. Early in October, influenza, measles & whooping cough, made their A appearance almost simultaniously ( !) among our people; & in a short time prostrated their energies, so that meeting for public worship �Waialua 1849 - J.S. Emerson 2. were well nigh suspended for the want of attendants. Indeed all meet­ ings , except the regular services on the Sabbath, Wednesday lecture, monthly concert & Sabbath morning prayer meetings were entirely omitted, & these were thinly attended. The congregation during the winter was not more than one third as large as during the summer previous. Those who were well were very few, & all seemed needed to take care of the sick, both on the Sabbath & on week days; & their attentions were quite inadequate to the necessities of those prostrate by disease. The measles were generally followed by diarrhea, which frequently was neglected till past remedy. Many fell victims to its rage; others were reduced to a weak & feeble state, & lingered along till February, when the influenza made a new attack upon us; & very many, who were slowly recovering from debility, were soon laid prostrate in death. During the year 1848 298nof our people were called to their final account, & most of them during this period of sickness. Many others have died since the first of January last, but how many I am not able to state. Deaths are still occuring with more than ordinary frequency. By means of this protracted sickness much that was encouraging became less so; much that seemed well begun, must be begun over again. Up to the present time we have not got back to the favorable position in which we stood six months since. Our schools, that were suspended from Novr till February, are not yet as efficient as or as well attended as before. Neither are our meetings for publick worship as fully attended as in Sept. last. Stupidity & neglect, rather than wakefulness & attention, seem to have been induced by sickness & death. The period of sickness was one of much heaviness of heart, & of much labor. It created great heaviness of heart to see the house of God well nigh deserted, & no access to the people except as we dealt out medicines at our doors, or visited from house to house. The people �Waialua 1849 - J.S. Emerson 3. were allowed free access to us by day & by night, without any detriment to ourselves; & hundreds of the sick were visited at their homes, where the demonstrations of their gratitude were often truly gratifying. Both of the mission families have been visited with more or less illness during the year. Both Bro. & Sister Gulick have been repeatedly ill; - & I also have been admonished that I am mortal. But no pro­ tracted or severe attack of disease has called for a visit from the physician till the 24th of January last, when another was added to the number of our children. Since then & up to the present day Mrs. E . has been a sufferer, & most of the time confined to her bed. The active stage of her disease, phlegmasia solens, is now past; but a weakened system, a limb some what swelled, often painful & very much weakened, are still depriving her of the privilege of administering as formerly to the necessities of the family. Receptions to the Chch. The effects of the interest at the commencement of the year, have not wholy ( !) passed away. trust will endure. There are some precious fruits which we Quite a number of backsliders have been reclaimed; some chch. members that were inactive have been revived; & a number of whom we indulged doubts have become more decided in their religious characters; & others who never before appeared to have any interest in religion now pray. There have been recd to the chchs under my care by profession during the past year by certificate Restored to the fellowship of the chch. Present number of chch. members 151 12 47 610 Native helpers. Kekela, of whom mention was made last year, still labors at Kahuku, with fidelity & success. whom 87 are chch. members. The population of his field is but 331; of His influence over them is good; they �Waialua 1849 - J.S. Emerson 4. appear to love & respect him, & think they can support him. May last they have contributed for his support $48.17. Since He has also recd by the hand of Bro. Alexander from the students of the Seminary $10. & a like sum has also been contributed to Naua paakai, from the same source. Kekela & his wife are daily employed in teaching a singing & day School, from which employment they receive a portion of their support. Nauapaakai preaches at Hauula, & occasionally at other places in Koolau. He is doing well so far as has come to my knowledge. He & his wife are both employed in teaching schools a good portion of the time & from school teaching they obtain most of their means of support. The chch. at Hauula is now making an effort to erect a stone house for publick worship. They contributed in cash the past year mainly for that object $111.87. The walls of the house were commenced before the sickness, but have not been touched since. Timber & lime are ready for the completion of the frame work of the house. The chch. hopes to have the building up the present season. There are in the Hauula chch. 237 members; & the whole population of the field is 1216. Their contributions in cash the past year for the cause of Christ if averaged upon the entire population would amount to between 9 & 10 cts each. - If averaged upon the members of the chch. it would equal 47 cts. to each member/. Admissions to this chch by profession the past year 63 - & 47 have been restored to its fellowship. Waialua Chch. This embraces at the present time 286 members of whom 63 were received the past year by profession & 5 by letter. There have been restored to this Chch. 35 who were under discipline. Benevolent contributions - Cash contributed the past year in the District of Waialua for seating the meeting house $401.93. This nearly �Waialua 1849 - J.S . Emerson 5. covers the whole expense of the work, that remained to b e done at the close of the previous year. The entire population of the field over which this chch. is spread is 1690. of whom several hundred profess to he popists. The contributions of the past ten months if equalized upon the entire popu­ lation of Waialua would amount to 25 cts to each man woman & child. equalized upon the chch. it amounts to $1.40 for each member. If A large portion of the people in this field have paid their school tax in cash $2. each. Church discipline. The occasions for discipline in the chch. during the past year have not been numerous, in all eight, four of which were for giving or aiding in false testimony; a sin which is alarmingly prevalent among the Hawaiian people. Improvements. The flooring & seating our Meeting House at Waialua have added much to its appearance, & to t h e convenience of the worshipers. The house is now nearly fitted with made of N.W. boards & well put together; & all paid for by the people except one or two contributions by other friends. Many of these slips have been purchased by individuals for the accom­ odation of their families. The idea of owning each his own slip is very popular, & has aided much in raising the requisite funds to defray the expenses of the house. The idea also of each family always ap­ pearing in their own slip on the sabbath is pleasing to them as well as to their pastor. Little has been done for school-houses during the year, either in Waialua or Koolau. have been erected. Four or five grass ones of moderate value only That portion of the year in which the erection of school-houses was contemplated, was a season of sickness & a part of it was also the rainy season. We very much need ten or twelve good school houses in the field & also two houses for public worship. I �Waialua 1849 - J.S Emerson am happy to state that the materials for the erection of two of the former are on hand, & the business has been commenced. The meeting house at Hauula which is to be built of stone laid up in lime, it is hoped will be in a good state of forwardness during the present season. Popery. This evil has not apparently been on the increase, during the past year. Their Schools are two less than they were one year since; & one or two others would be droped ( !), if the Kahu-kula en­ forced the law that requires 15 scholars to entitle the teacher to pay from Government. A few of the papal teachers needing books have come to us for bibles & testaments. To one I gave 12 testaments on receiving a promise from him, that he would take care of them & daily teach his scholars to read in them. books. To this he readily made promise & took the But at the examination of schools, that soon followed, he apo­ logized for not bringing forward his testaments as the priest had taken possession of them, & locked them up in his chest. The teacher has since informed me that the books could not be returned to me, as the priest had distributed them around among his brethren, the priests, & several of them had become soiled by use. There is hope for the papal priests, if they are so anxious to get hold of the word of God for themselves to read, as to feel justified In taking without leave the property of others, that they may read it. The last report of schools in Koolau gives the following statistics Scholars in papal schools 58 Scholars in protestant Schools 329 Papal schools diminished in numbers past year 71 Protestant 17 do do do This decrease is in part occasioned by a tax levied on boys over 16 years of age for the support of schools - & nearly all such boys �Waialua 1849 - J.S. Emerson choose to leave school if they must pay a tax for its support. Schools in Waialua will he reported by Bro. Gulick. An. attempt at proselyting by a Jesuite. ( !) One of our deacons was very sick, the past winter & was supposed by many of his friends to be past recovery. One of them, a papist l (!) It was a rainy /ime, the streams reported his condition to the priest. (I) were greatly swolen & very rapid; a good time for meritorious action in the view of a jesuite. Our deacon lived on one side of a large & rapid stream & the papist priest on the other side. The Priest chose this as a good time for conquest, so he waded through the water & mud, & swimming the turbid stream, landed near the house of the deacon; &, all dripping wet, went in to convert him to popery. After some words of salutation, the priest expressed his great solicitude for the sal­ vation of the heretic; & proposed to baptize him that he might die happy & be saved. The deacon objected as he had been baptized. The priest insisted that his baptism would not save him as it was not administered by the right person, but by a heretic only; & in proof of his honesty & truth in thus saying alluded to his own clothing all soaking wet; & that nothing but love for his soul could have induced him, under such circumstances to come to baptize & save him. The deacon assured him that dying or living he was satisfied with his baptism & his Saviour & wished no other. The priest retired much grieved at the hard & unyielding character of our deacon. This fact is one of the many to show that Jesuites in these Isls . do attempt to proselyte; how much so ever they may complain of us, as guilty of it. General improvements. Some natives are getting possession of meat-cattle; yokes chains drags &c are in considerable use. Good stone walls are rising up in many places a substitute for old rotten adoby fences. Timber is now �Waialua 1849 - J.S. Emerson 8. drawn from the woods by oxen; which but a little time since was drawn by natives. Ploughs are enquired for - But upland cultivation has not yet been commenced with much vigor. Land is desired by many, but only one native has yet been able to procure any by purchase. There are now 4 or 5 boats running much of the time between W. & H. owned by the natives of Waialua. Is now very much out of fashion. Carrying burdens across the Land Industry is obviously increasing, but it increases slowly, & ability to obtain property has increased beyong the disposition to industry. Statistics of the Church 924 Whole no. admitted on Examination 72 Whole no. admitted on certificate 151 Ad. past year on exam. 12 Do on certificate 70 Dismissed to other chchs. 5 Do past year 155 Died in all 52 Died past year 610 Now in regular standing 654 Children baptized 36 Baptized past year 8 Disciplined the past year 35 Married the past year. 1500 Attendants on public worship in the field Statistics of Schools in Waialua & Koolau Number of Schools No. Scholars Boys Girls A. (Arithmetic) Spelling Reading Writing Mental Arith. Written do. Geography Moral Phil. Singing In Koolau 16 387 213 174 78 58 251 108 128 125 188 8 32 In Waialua 11 306 153 Total 27 693 366 153 97 192 404 205 320 118 306 �Waialua 1839 - J.S. Emerson Population 9. Births & Deaths Population of Waialua Jan. 49 1532 Pop of Koolau loa Jan. 1849 1689 Total in the field 324 Births in W. 1848 29 Births in K. 1848 28 Total births 57 Deaths in W. 1848 113 Deaths in K. 1848 185 Total of deaths in the two 298 Decrease in 1848 241 Average of deaths 1/11 J.S. Emerson �Mr. Gulick's (Report) 1851. The writer of this report has abundant cause of gratitude to the Giver of all good, for manifold mercies to himself & his family since we last met together. Then, we were deeply solicitous for the safety of a dear child, whose wasted & attenuated form, & general debility, had awakened the fears of his parents, & induced them to commit him to the care of a kind friend & a gracious Providence for a voyage to & residence in, a foreign land. We would now gratefully record, the distinguishing goodness of our heavenly Father, manifested in watching over that youth in his voyaging & journeying on the deceitful & tempestuous ocean, thro fog & frost, sleet rain & snow; thro desserts (! ) & forrests ( !), inhabbited ( !) by ferocious animals, & fierce trecherous ( !) & exasperated savages; by whom he was repeatedly plundered; & from whose violence, he was protected, not by human strength or wisdom, but by the Providential care of Him without whom not a sparrow falls to the ground. A little less than a year since, after more than two years absence, we were permitted again to embrace him, whom m any had deemed beyond the bounds of time; & with health, if not permanently restored, certainly wonderfully improved; & also, with the satisfaction derived from the fact, that, notwithstanding the debility with which he left, & which continued to some extent, in to the second year of his pilgrimage, & (up to that period, prevented any vigorous effort for his own support) still, by his own efforts, & after serious losses he had enough left, to more than cover all his expenses, from the time of his embarkation. We would also with deep gratitude, record the tender mercies of our covenant God, to another member of our family; who, without �Gulick (1851) asking aid from any human being, has been permitted to visit the father land, travel somewhat extensively in it, & return in less than a year, without a day’s sickness, or any serious accident. And also that we have been permitted to see still another of our no. publicly united to the household of faith. And although his health was so poor that we deemed it necessary to try the effect of a change of climate for its restoration, we trust even this will result in his good & the glory of our great Benefactor. And although we have had in our family probably more than our or­ dinary share of sickness still so far as is known death has not diminished our number, nor any chronic disease except in my own case, been permitted to fasten on our frames. But in regard to myself, & my helpmeet, tho infirmities, as well as the marks of age are multiplying upon us. Our strength & resolu­ tion for efforts, whether physical or mental, are failing together. Our labors as an assistant missy have been similar to those of years past, but somewhat, perhaps considerably, lessing ( !) quantity. I have usually preached once on the Sabbath, sometimes twice & occa­ sionally on a week day; beside attending the children's Sab. school, & ordinarily meeting weekly with the station day school, to catechise the children, on the verses of Scripture committed, & expound the same to them. The schools are, as you have heard in a condition by no means flourishing. And yet I think they are doing much good. The cause of their languishing is I think essentially the same that produces a similar condition in the common schools in rural districts in our native land, in the summer season; v iz the demand for the services of the children & the high wages which the teachers can command in other employment. The high prices of native produce have rendered the whole year harvest time, with this people. And although the wages �3. Gulick (1851) still, young men of enterprise could accumu­ late faster in other ways. During the past year the station school house has been floored & pretty well seated; & is now comfortable & pleasant house. The teachers are promptly (paid) at the end of every month & there are on hand some 200.00 of school funds. - Statistics as follows Schools 8. Whole no of scholars Readers 186. In mental arithmetic Written Arithmetic 139. Music 99. Geography Papal scholars about 276 179 145 50 Here permit me to say what I have often tho't. viz . that consider­ ing merely my direct efforts for the spiritual welfare of this people, were it not for the prejudice against miss.s returning to their native land I & my family might perhaps as well be in the U.S. as here. But since it is not only, in spiritual things, this people need instruc­ tion & example; & since from facts stated in the former part of this report, I am encouraged to hope, that through my representatives I may give to a portion of them a slight example of Yankee enterprise, based as I hope it may be, on Puritan principles; perhaps it may be well for me, to take the advice of Secretary Green & hold on here & see what the Lord will do for us, & with us. This on the whole we have resolved to do; & it affords us sincere pleasure, to be able so to do, without leaning on the funds of the Board for a support. Still, I w d here remark that as the land, most of i t ,at least wh. is connected with the premises we occupy & wh. we expected to have without expense under the 7th resolution, was given originally to support a manual labor school, wh. we neither have sustained nor can, has already cost me, in order to get it awarded to the Missn more than 80.00, & I �G U L CK (1851) 4 have engaged to pay 20.00 more for the same object, it seems to me proper that that amt. should be refunded to me. to the Missn . But I submit this Perhaps it ought to be stated in this connection that for the passage of my three sons to the U.S. no draught has ever been made on the funds of the Board; nor am I aware that anything has been drawn for the support of any of mine there except $60.00 for the eldest wh. may have been repaid by his guardian, as we are told he purposed to do It is perhaps due to the mission that I here introduce another subject, which however, I should have deemed quite unnecessary, had it not been for remarks in a letter & in privat(!) conversation from the moderator; in the latter urging that I adopt that course. I allude to my relation to the people of Waialua as their representative in the nation legislature. It was distinctly static, that by accepting this post, which may call me away 6 or 8 weeks from my station I have in his opinion lost my claim to all the privileges conveyed by the 7th resolution, under which I took a dismission from the Board. Now, while I shall not deny that during the session of the legislature my duties as a representative do somewhat conflict with the letter of the resolu­ tion, I can’t see that it does with the spirit of it. Nor can I see any just ground for a distinction wh. the above mentioned brother thinks he sees, between my helping the people to secure their rights by aid­ ing them to get just laws, & aiding them as others do to secure land ? by writing out their kuleanas, selling them land under the gov't surveying; or in overseeing roads, &c . Perhaps self Interest or some other wrong motive blinds me. This must be the case or he imagins ( !) there is a difference where there is none. also to your kind & candid consideration. P.J. Gulick May 17, 1851. I submit this �Waialua Station Report May 1851 (J.S. Emerson) We returned to our station at the close of Gen. Meeting in May 1849 encouraged by the improvement of Mrs. Emersons health that in time her lameness might be mainly removed. Hope also dawned upon us in relation to the temporal prospects of our people, with which we regarded our own permanent usefulness as closely connected. But there was one subject that pressed with a mountains weight upon our minds. Our third son had for five or six years given evidence of an organic affection of the heart, which from the time he had the measles in 1848 developed itself with fearful rapidity. The opinion of the physicians whom we consulted at Gen. Meeting abated nothing from our apprehensions. That we were to take the child away from all medical advice & from the midst of our brethren to die at a remote station with but few to sympathize with us was trying. But that he professed at the time to indulge no hope that he had given his heart to the Saviour created feelings of deep anxiety. But our Heavenly Father was better to us than our fears; although he did not alter the decision to take the child from us, he comforted our hearts with the belief that he was about to take him to himself. That mind which for months had been making the anxious enquiry "What shall I do to be saved?” Saviour?" "How shall I give my heart to the "How can I pray aright?" with declarations like the fol- lowing; I fear I do not pray aright; the Saviour seems to be far off; I fear I have never been born again; I do not feel that I am good enough to go to the Saviour; I would do any thing I could to please God, but. know not how to be reconciled to him" This same child, when panting for breath, & under the exercise of almost constant pain; hungry & thirsty & yet unable to take but a morsel of food into his stomach; & fully assured that his days were drawing very near a close; in language very different from the above was heard to say, he envied �Waialua 1851 - Emerson 2. no one of those he saw in health around him; he was willing to he sick, he would not have one of God's plans in the least changed to accommo­ date him; God's law was right & good & he loved it. His character was holy, & he would love him although he should slay him. He had no other in heaven or on earth that he desired besides him, & that he would not wish to get well unless it was the Lord's will." The child left messages for his brothers, who were absent, & for the children at Punahou, expressive of his strong desire that they would early give their hearts to the Saviour; & when sinking in the arms of death, he repeatedly said that Christ was near & precious that he could trust his all in him. Such feelings expressed by our child during the few days & hours previous to his departure, more than removed that oppres­ sive weight of anxiety that we had long felt for him. It caused the tear that flowed spontaneous at his departure to be more the expres­ sion of gratitude for the grace bestowed than of grief for the loss of one we loved. May not this lesson be lost upon us & our surviving children. The general health of the families at the station has not been much unlike what was enjoyed in years previous. Bro. & Sister Gulick although feeble & frequently unable for a time to be about, have yet been able to do much for their family & Bro. G. has frequently preached on the sabboth a part or the whole of the day. In January 1850 I was laid aside from my labors several weeks by a severe attack of fever. Also in October last, I recd a fracture of the collar bone, which after being set, became displaced, & is now & will be likely to remain a permanent source of considerable inconvenience. But although our strength is weakened by the way our days are yet lengthened out, for which we have much occasion for gratitude. �Waialua 1851 - Emerson State of the chch. During the past two years there have been fewer additions to the chch, under my care than usual in previous years. Several protracted meetings of two or three days in continuance have been held in places somewhat remote from the station & to good purpose & there have been several instances of hopeful conversion. as a general thing prayer meetings & week day lectures have not been attended so numerously as at some former period, & more worldly mindedness has been apparent in the community generally. Meetings however on the sabbath have been generally pretty well attended & cases of open sin in the chch. have not been numerous. Many of the people feel that this is among their last chances to purchase land for themselves & their children, & therefore they feel justified in making exertions that they would not otherwise make; consequently they have been more frequently absent from Waialua & our place of worship on the sabbath & on lecture days than was usual in former times. It is to be hoped that this evil will not be perma­ nent. Settlement of a native pastor at Kahuku. Since our last Gen. Meeting, the portion of the chch. residing at Kahuku have united in the settlement of Rev. James Kekela as pastor over them, for whose support they have pledged $100. per year. This together with chch. lands & other facilities afforded him, it is hoped will give him at least an economical support. Kekela was ordained in Decr 1849 & has thus far sustained the pastoral relation to his chch. with that modest dignity that becomes him, & which gives promise of permanent usefulness. So far as I have been informed he gives good satisfaction to all who attend upon his ministry. But as he will wish to read you his own report, I will refrain from fruther comment upon his labors. �4. Waialua 1851 - Emerson Schools. These are at the present time less flourishing than in former years, the scholars forsake the schools at a younger age than formerly; all who become liable to pay the school tax with very few exceptions forsake the schools, & the teacher in consequence is left with younger scholars, makes himself fewer exertions to replenish his own mind with knowledge, & goes back down the hill of science which he ought constantly to strive to ascend. From repeated trials I feel that I hazzard nothing that there are but two natives in our field who at the present time could sustain a thorough examination in Mental Arithmetic. School books are much needed. I do not mean that the Ikemua, Kumumua, Helunaau &c are out of print, but that such books as would tend to stir up the slumbering energies of both teachers & scholars are not now in our schools. We must have in part at least a new set of school books, made in modern style & got up in better taste than former books, or this nation will go back, back, in its intellec­ tual attainments & our young men seek nothing higher than dexterity in lassoing a horse or a bullock. Let this Gov. expend a few of the thousands now devoted to the support of a large police, many members of which are of little or no service to the community in printing books for the schools & I would hope some permanent advantage to the schools as a consequent. While on the subject of schools & books I will suggest that the Ai o ka la for 1850 began to be both popular & useful with us before the close of the year & we hoped a reprint of the same thing for 1851 as our people desired to go over it again - but the present Ai o ka la is little sought & less used. Let our Aio ka la for 1852 be got up in better taste with covers & pictures some what in the style of the American Christian Almanac, & be sold to the people, not given away as a general thing & I shall hope good from it. While gold is among us what silver was & silver is as the stones of the street in �Waialua 1851 - Emerson 5. the estimation of the people, it can not be either wise or just to allow foreign Christians to supply our chchs. with books of any kind. Benevolent contributions in Waialua Between April 1849 & April 1850 Between April 1850 & April 1851 $225.68 1096.25 Disbursed as follows Lumber & repairs on meeting house 109.15 Contributed to Prot. Soc. in France 30.87 Towards the payment of a note to The A.B.C.F.M. 105.78 To the funds of the A.B.C.F.M. 100.00 To aid the Western Mission 17.69 To aid in shingl\ing our Meeting House 949.10 All paid in to the Depository Remaining in my hands 11.38 $ 1323.97 (1321.93) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) -$ 1312.59 This sum except a portion of the contribution to the Fr. Prot. Soc. was given entirely by the people in the district of Waialua. The portion of the chch residing in Koolau have contributed about $400 the past two years towards building for themselves a substantial stone chch. but as the money is in the hands of their superintendant I cannot state the exact sum. The work of building is now at a stand, not for the want of means but for want of a suitable person to carry on the work. The spirit of Christian liberality was perhaps never greater than at the present time. General improvement Although we can not speak of a high degree of interest in our sabbath or day schools, nor of much that can be called especial inter­ est in religion during the two past years, yet the temporal condition of many of the people has been greatly improved, & we hope that this improvement in temporal things may ultimately benefit their spiritual interests. During these 2 years natives in Waialua have purchased land in fee-simple which has been paid for to an expense of about $3,000. & more is bargained for; 130 Royal patents are granted to them �Waialua 1851 - Emerson 6. & at least 130 families particpate as owners in these lands, 7,000 or 8,000 acres. The purchase & pay for these lands is giving a spring to energy in various ways. The very effort called for to raise funds to pay for lands has made the individuals who have made such efforts both more able & willing to aid liberally in the promotion of benevo­ lent objects than others who have made less effort to procure lands for themselves & families. Support of the Gospel. Our people had commenced making quarterly contributions for the support of their pastor but it was thought best to concentrate their efforts the past & present year on the one object of re-roofing & shingling our meeting house. Therefore only one hundred dollars ap­ pears in the report as contributed for that object the past year. It is hoped that after the present year their contributions will be more substancial ( !). The population however of Waialua district is only about 1400 of whom perhaps 1/7 are papists & 1/7 more are indifferent to the gospel, & 2/7 more live at such a distance that they contemplate building a meeting-house for themselves & having the ordinances of religion sustained among them, which would leave 800 people all told connected with the society worshiping ( !) at Waialua. The population of Koolau is 1,500, of whom about 500 belong to Kekela's field, & 300 or 400 more are either indifferent or are papists, leaving but 600 or 700 interested people, including women & children connected with the outstation at Hauula. These are now engaged in building a meeting house which will require all or nearly all their contributions for three or 4 years to come. So that the prospects of our people for giving the half of a support to their pastor for several years to come Is rather uncertain. �Waialua 1851 - Emerson 7. Papists. At the present time the Papists have but one school supported by Govt in the district of Koolau & that has not had of late a sufficient number of scholars to claim a support for their teacher. They occasionally hold one meeting on the sabbath within the district. In Waialua there are two schools within the district belongingto the papists & about fifty scholars. But I am not aware that there has been any accession to their numbers for several years. They have a chapel in Waialua built of stone, & at a very considerable expense, only a small portion of which has been born by the people. J S Emerson May 1850 May 1 851 Recd past year on ex. Whole No. do Whole no. recd from other chchs Dismissed to other chchs. died past yr Chchm members excluded died past year Whole no. deceased in good stand • Excluded past year Remain Excluded Now in regular standing children baptized past year Whole no. bap. Marriages past year population of the field Attend public worship 24 948 81 150 47 --/// 8 __ 495 42 736 54 2400 1/2 16 964 92 59 * 40 /// 7 __ 466 10 746 44 2400 1/2 No. Schools Scholars Readers Writers Arithmetic Geography Music Koolau 8 276 186 139 179 145 99 Papal Schools Papal Scholars 1 50 Waialua Total 12 20 317 593 163 349 47 186 140 319 105 250 81 180 2 13 3 63 �Waialua Station Report read May 1852 It is now 20 years since the Waialua Station was commenced. These 20 years have developed many changes among the people; most for the better, but many apparently for the worse. The spirit of servile obedience has in a great degree departed; & men., if they move at all, now act from some other if not better motive than the mere will of those who were once Lords of the soil. There is now in the land much more cheerful & productive industry than then; more comfort; more wealth; & this wealth is obtained as a general thing more honorably & intelligently & more equally distribu­ ted than it then was. There is now more noble independance ( !) of mind less hypocrisy & much more intelligent, manly & efficient piety than then. On the contrary there is now much more open sabbath-breaking than then. He who then feared to feed his pig or fill his calabash with water because it was kapu day, has now learned to interpret the pas­ sage "the sabbath was made for man" liberally as to feel no hesita­ tion xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx in saddling his horse for a ride on the even­ ing of the Lord’s day. There is now more profanity, more filthy con­ versation in public places, more stealing, & more litigation than then Books are less sought now than then, but better read; Schools are less attended & yet scholars make more progress in the same length of time And what of all this; it is only saying that there is progress Where wheat grows well tares also will thrive. The Gospel proves a savour of life unto life to some & of death unto death to others. In reviewing the events of the past year we find many things for which to be grateful. Death has not visited our dwelling, nor, so far as we know, our children or near relatives. Neither have deaths among our people been as numerous as in past years. we have had sickness & pain. Yet in our family Mrs. Emerson's health has been feeble & Wm Schauffler has been a great sufferer from dyspepsia . As a last �Waialua - 1852 2. resort we have sent h i m on a whaling cruise to the North. Capt. Gelett, with w h o m you are all more or less acquainted, consented to take h i m into his cabin & allow h i m to do whatever his s t r ength would permit; hoping at the end of six or seven months to restore h i m to us in at least improved health. We regard it as an experiment but trem­ bl i n g l y hope it will prove favourable. We have also h a d under our roof since August last a foreigner who w a s drawn in a state of h e l p ­ lessness out of a house on fire & cast upon us rheumatic in every joint destitute of clothing & penny less drawn, & scorched w i t h the flame. ( !) Lasce r a t e d b y being He i s n o w better & we hope that his afflictions w i l l be of use to him. Our associates Bro. Gulick & family have enjoyed about their us u a l amount of health & strength; & Bro. G. has been able to render assistance on the sabbath & on other occasions, much as in former years. General improvements. During the past y e a r a n e w road has bee n opened in front of our meeting- h o u s e which has diminished our distance to Honolulu about 1/2 of a mile. Five substancial ( !) bridges also have b e e n thrown over the streams bet w e e n Waialua & Ewa, which relieve us f r o m the necessity of fording streams, & fro m the anxiety w e often have felt lest some of the streams be deep & impassible. A n e w road has also b e e n laid out through most of the district of Koolau which shortens in traveling some what & adds greatly the distance to the comfort in traveling - W h e n the remainder of the road is finished & other bridges are com­ pleted we shall h a v e a passible carriage road between Honolulu & Waialua. Indus try Our p e o p l e h a d some w h a t e n l a r g e d t heir plans f o r cul­ t i v a t i o n the past year, b u t the f l u c t u a t i o n in the m a r k e t & the u n ­ u s u a l d r o u g h t in the a u t u m n b l a s t e d m a n y of their fond e x p e c t a t i o n s of �Waialua 1852 3. large returns for their labor. A large number of acres of kalo were entirely ruined. School & meeting houses are much as they were at last Gen. Meet­ ing. But few of the school-houses are any thing like what they should be; & those that have been erected the two or three years past are built of such frail material & are so slightly put together that they are apt to stand only two or three years before they are blown to pieces. About twice the sum requisite for a framed house if expended on a good stone building & well laid up floored & seated would be good economy. The material for shingling our meeting-house at Waialua is now on hand & paid for & rising $100. are raised to defray the ex­ pense of shingling it; which job we hope will be completed the present season. It is also hoped that the meeting house at Hauula will be put up the present season as the people have concluded to work them­ selves on the house, & not depend on hiring. As to Schools. It may be said that a lack of competent teachers through the field has been a great draw-back on their success. And this incompetency both in the supply & the qualifications of the teach­ ers must remain, so long as they are not paid so much for their work as they can get in other employments. If the Govt, as has been done the past year, pay a half-breed $5. per day for superintending work on the road, it could hardly be expected that an intelligent native, every way as competent for the same business, would cheerfully teach school a month or a half of a month for the same $5. If the pay for catching a horse, which can be done in one or two hours, is 50¢ who but a dunce or a Christian of more than ordinary benevolence will teach school two days for the same 50 ¢ . Let teachers of schools be paid $20 of $30. per months or not employed, because incompetent, & we may soon have teachers in our schools competent to the work & �probably not before. School books have not been extensively called for. Atlasses & Bibles have appeared to be most in demand & of both we have failed to obtain a supply, the past year. The primary School book given me to make is not finished - but I will endeavour that it shall be, soon after the present meeting, if such is the pleasure of the brethren. Secular employments. The business of selling lands & superin­ tending the erection of bridges has ocupied ( !) some of my time the past as well as the previous year. up - It is however now nearly closed Some remuneration has been made me for these services, which I shall wish to report to the Mission or a Committee such as the Prudencial ( !) Committee in Boston have recommended, at a suitable time. I see my name placed among the corresponding members of the Mis­ sion, but for what reason or by whose authority I know not, as I have as yet held no correspondence with the Prud. Com. on the Subject. Papists. They have made no perceptible advance in our field during the past year, that has come to my knowledge; unless it be in the fact that they have succeeded by stratagem in introducing a protestant adhe vocate of rum & awa into the Legislature for us. But that the (honour­ able gentleman) will effect much we have but few fears as a large majority of the voters have put in a strong petition opposing his measures. The meeting house of the papists at Waialua, that has already been ten years & more in building, is far from completion. The work is mainly performed by two or three Frenchmen who appear to take things easy. The house is now occupied by a sugar mill. Catholic schools are not increasing in the number of their pupils or the extent of their acquisitions. Occasionally one of our people is drawn into their embrace, but rarely one who was hopeful as a Christian or a �W a i a l u a 1 8 5 5. 2 member of so c ie ty . But more frequently one of th eir number leaves to attend our meeting. State of Religion in our f i e l d . During the past f a l l & winter more than u su al in t e re s t was m ani­ fe s te d in social prayer meetings in a l l parts of the f i e l d . These meetings were attended at day break in the morning by very large numbers in every considerable v ilag e ( ! ) in the f i e l d , & many of the meetings s t i l l continue although w ith abated in t e r e s t . on the Pub l i c worship sabbath has been w e l l attended throughout the f i e l d . Protracted meetings have been h e ld in W aialua & in Hauula w ith a good degree of interest during the y e a r. That held at H auula in Feb­ ruary la st was w e l l s u s t a in e d , very solemn & appeared to b e productive of good. The communion season which was on the sabbath fo llo w in g the protracted meeting was remarked to be the most solemn occasion o f the k in d ever witnessed in the place. The Chch. at Hauula has been a part of the year under the care of H a i a , a graduate of Lahainaluna . But h is course has not been such as to encourage strong hopes of his success as a luna of the Chch. As to our Chch. lunas generally i t may b e sa id w ith few excep tio ns, that those who were once the most laboreous ( ! ) & su cce ssfu l now f i n d a variety of other o ffic e s that they are s o l ic it e d to f i l l , & an i n ­ competent support from any other quarter n a tu rally in c lin e s them to accept such o f f i c e s . So that the more laibore ous part of the labor of deacons is performed by at best second rate men in the Chch. We have re cd but few members to the chch. the past year in a ll 2 0 , by profession eleven & by letter 9 . A larger number are now pro­ pounded, which it is hoped may b e recd at a future seaso n . �Waialua 1852 6 Benevolent contributions At Mo. Concerts contributions to the A.B.C.F.M . for Western missions or $56.26 To complete the payment for lumber for the meeting house & frt (freight ?) to Waialua 716.59 Cash on hand to aid in completing the Shingling &c 108.00 Cash recd at Hauula to aid in the building of their meeting house 119.26 In all $ 1000.11 To complete the work of Shingling our meeting house we shall need at last $200. more. Many of our people have contributed liberally, con­ sidering their circumstances; & regarding the small number in our field we consider their contributions on the whole as good. But it is obviously the feeling of some that the Shingling of our meeting house is to be their last great effort; & when this is effected their contributions will be about at an end for life. Only a few have as yet begun to feel like taking up the work of supporting the Gospel among them. Statistics of Chchs. May 1852 Waialua Whole no ad. on examination Who l e no. on Cert. Ad. past year on Exam. Ad. past year on certif. Dismissed to other chch. past year Died past year Diciplined ( !) Now in regular standing Children baptized do past year Marriages past year The chchs united Hauula - — 3 6 2 8 4 270 ----10 8 3 11 9 9 21 11 481 —— 15 24 7 13 7 211 ---5 24 Statistics of Schools &c. No. of Schools No. of No. No. N o. in Scholars Readers Writers Arithmeti c Waialua Koolau Papist Waialua Papist Koolau Total Protestant Total Papist 7 11 2 2 20 4 225 280 57 32 505 87 150 176 35 22 326 57 133 144 17 15 277 32 140 156 44 19 296 23 �Waialua 1852 Statistics of Schools &c. Waialua Koolau Papist Waialua Papist Koolau Total Protestant Total Papist 7 No. in No. in Geography Singing 105 145 17 8 248 25 80 60 0 0 140 Born Died 37 17 37 20 4 57 J.S. Emerson in year �Waialua (Abstract, 1852, J.S. Emerson) But few deaths & not much sickness, the past year. General improvements. New roads have been made & 5 important & substancial bridges have been built at a cost of nearly $? ,000; the people are increasing their comforts & conveniences, & impliments ( !) for agriculture. Temperance. But one or two cases of intoxication have been heard of the past year in the district & they were among foreigners. Meeting houses. The materials have been collected & paid for to shingle the meeting-house at Waialua, & some new materials have been collected to build in Koolau. Common Schools. These have been about as in the previous year; lack of competent teachers, willing to work for small pay, has been an inconvenience. Papacy. This evil has made no perceptible progress; some have left its ranks to attend our meeting. Mormonism. Some 20 or 30 mo\stly rude young men were baptized by a Mormon priest quite a number of whom forsook him before sun-set & nearly all of the remainder did in a few days. Contributions. These are larger than in any former year. For the A.B.C.F.M. $56,26 To shingle the Meet. House in Waialua $824.59 - To build the Meet. House at Hauula $119.26. Sabboth Schools - have been held among the children & adults in all parts of the field; but have not been well sustained except In a few of the districts. The church, has been peaceful & harmonious, but few cases have called for discipline & several who were formerly wandering have been restored to the bosom of the chch. Prayer meetings have been held the greater part of the year in most of the neighbourhoods, & meetings of several days continuance in three different places. Several cases of hopeful conversion have occured. Statistics See report �(Waialua 1853) In reviewing the year past, I have very little to record, except an uninterrupted stream, of divine mercies to my family & myself; & which, at least on my part, have been entirely unmeritted. The various members of our family, with, & near us, not only, have enjoyed their accustomed share of health, but our hearts have often been gladdened, by reports, or rather letters, showing the prosperity of those now widely separated from us. When however, I speak of our accustomed health, it must not be forgotten, that I am of a long season, an invalid; a very feeble one, & without hope of any change for the better. This ma\y in good measure at least, account for the fact, that I have done very little, & therefore have a very brief report. I have usually been able to preach once on the Sabbath, either in Hawaiian, or English occasionally - in brother Emerson's absence twice; & in this case have sometimes delivered the Wednesday lecture. Have also had charge of the children's Sab. school till it was merged into the adult Sab. School; & have also had the superintendance of the common schools. Our common schools though far below what they should he, are I think, of great value, to those who are disposed to improve the ad­ vantages they afford. The Kahu, I believe is the best our community can furnish, & the teachers are most of them in advance of the people around them in intellectual culture, & not inferior in morals. The school funds have I think been faithfully collected & honestly appropriated to their legitimate objects. But they have not been suf­ ficient to keep the schools constantly in operation now to make any con­ siderable improvement/ in school houses, which however is greatly needed I have no statistics of schools, because it is found much easier to get them in a mass from the minister of Instruction whose reports at least from our field, are very carefully prepared. For want of funds, these schools have been suspended about two months, during the year. P.J. Gulick �Waialua Station Report for May 1853 . In reviewing the events of the past year, we find occasion to speak of comforts & of trials, of prosperity & of seeming adversity. No raging epidemic has been suffered to prevail amongst us. done only his usual work. Death has Pestilence & famine have not been known in the land; & yet the Lord has come near us, & more than once most vividiy re­ minded us of the uncertainty of life & of all our earthly hopes & ex­ pectations. The child, whom we reported last year as being on a voyage to the north for his health, had closed his voyage even before the date of our report. His strength at first seemed to be a little increased by being on ship-board; but, after two or three weeks, he began to sink; & in five weeks from the time he left Honolulu his spirit took its flight from earth. A few days before his death, Capt. Gelett informed him that he could not probably live many days. Upon which he set about doing up the work that he considered remaining for him to do. He dictated a fare­ well letter to his parents, brothers & sister, gave a few parting words of affection & counsel to each of the seamen, - enquired in respect to to the disposal of his body & gave his approbation - - being deposited in the ocean. He often desired the reading of the Scriptures & prayer; & expressed a regret that he had not publicly expressed his faith in Christ; a purpose he had intended to have executed at the time of our last General Meeting, had he not left home before. His hope in Christ appeared to be stable, & even joyful, as he approached the period of his departure. To the Captain he once said with a smile "I shall see the Saviour before you do." His end was peace. We feel his absence from us - Hopes are crushed & earthly plans are defeated. we allow ourselves to mourn or grieve. But we feel reproved if Our dear one has obtained a better inheritance than earth, & we feel our relation-ship to that better land strengthened by the transfer of a portion of our of(f)spring there. The health of our family has been about as usual. We have had �Waialua 1853 2. no occasion to call for the services of a physician till about foive ( !) weeks since, when in the act of watering a young horse I was caught by his taking fright in the noose of a rope attached to him & drawn with great violence over the top of an open well among stones rough\ & large, by which my right shoulder was fractured & I recd several contussions(!) from which I have not yet wholly recovered. But that I escaped with life is more wonderful to me than that I was hurt so much. For this deliverance we feel much occasion to thank & praise the Lord. As to my labors the past year the(y) have not been fewer nor less arduous than in former years. The erection of our stone church at Hau­ ula has called for much time & strength at that post, so that I have spent nearly 8 weeks there since our last General Meeting. In Kekela's field I have also spent several sabbaths & parts of sabbaths during his absence; & I regard his people as on the whole appearing verry ( !) well. I have done less than usual among the people at Waialua, the past year owing to the call for assistance in Koolau. Yet there has on the whole been a good degree of interest on the subject of religion through the whole field. Public worship on the sabbath has been well attended & morning prayer meetings have been common. Accessions to the Chch. by confession have been more numerous than in any one year for ten years, although most of those admitted the past year profess to have been on the Lord's side for one two or three years. Quite a number of those formerly cut off from the fellowship of the church have been restored to fellowship; so that, if the number who have died while under discipline be stricken out from that list, the remainder would be but few. General improvements. Our roads & bridges are such as to allow carts & wagons to pass & repass between Honolulu & Waialua; & the former are frequently em- �W a i a l u a 1853 3. ployed in carrying freight to market. Since many are becoming owners of the soil, carts & plows & cultivators & fields of corn are multiplying among us. Cultivation by the plow is 2 or three times as great as it was last year. Our meeting-house at Waialua has been shingled & put in good con­ dition since our last General Meeting & all expenses are paid, so that t h e eye rests upon it with a good degree of satisfaction. The walls of the meeting-house at Hauula have been laid up in good lime mortar, & covered with a very substancial roof. It has 12 good windows & three pannel ( !) doors; & the work of flooring the house with good pitch pine boards tongued & grooved in the U. States is going on. When the flooring is completed & the pulpit made there will be a debt of probably less than $200. The work of erecting this meeting house considering the distance of the people from their pastor has been carried on with a good degree of spirit. Schools The schools in Waialua & Koolau loa have appeared better the past year than in the year previous. In Koolau, of which I would more particularly speak, there has been more spirit among the teachers than in the year previous. But wh ile the schools are accomplishing a good & a great work, they are not doing all that is to be desired in the field. A teachers school or a school of a higher ( !) is very much to be desired. Heresies & delusions. The papists seem (?) to have had but one work in our field the past year; viz. the erection of a porch & steeple for a bell house, at the east end of their meeting house at Waialua. This work w a s so closed up that the(y) dedicated their house I was told on the 2d sabbath of the present month. For that occasion I am told that the bishop bought & slaughtered three oxen, & the natives bought a fourth beeve; while swine & turkies many were slaughtered by the residents �Waialua 1853 for the entertainment of all who went to the great feast; which they held on the Lords day; & to which they invited men of profane & intemperate habits to go & share with them. It is said that more than 600 strangers were present to partake of their repast. It was truly a great day to them; but not a day kept holy to the Lord , but the Lords day profaned to purposes of rioting & glutony. I am not aware that the papists have made any proselytes or that they have increased the number of their scholars or their schools the past year. Mormons. About a year & a half since the Mormons came into the district of Koolau loa & influenced several persons, mostly rude young men to be baptized by them. But their method of doing things was so slack, as they required no evidence of conversion, & not even a morral ( !) life as a qualification for baptism. Their converts soon doubted whether there was any virtue or utility in their baptism, & sacrament of the supper. The result was, their converts soon left them, all except Kauahi & perhaps one or two others. Kauahi finds he can live in violation of the seventh commandment, & yet be able to hold his head up among the Mormons. About 4 months since an attempt was made to convert the people of Waialua to their faith; & they soon baptized 20 or thirty young persons, most of whom are bullock catchers; but all of them so far as our knowledge ex­ tends, feel very doubtful whether they are made better by their immersion, & in this doubt we all agree, A Mormon priest in a dilemma. Three or four months since two Mormon priests called on me, requesting permission to preach in my pulpit &c. I enquired of them in respect to their doctrines, whether they believed in polygamy &c. & whether their prophet Brig­ ham Young had not more than one wife. They denied that polygamy was an article of their creed; & also any knowledge of Brigham �Waialua 185 3 5. Young's having more than one wife. slandered. But said that they were basely One month later, one of the same men called on me with a new comer. To the latter of whom I again put the question, if they did not believe in polygamy & practice it. yes with greatearnestness. To which he said He also said it was a doctrine of the Bible, & a practise approved by God, from the time of Abraham & Solomon down to the present time. I then asked the other Mormon, who, only one month before, had denied the existence of such a doc­ trine among them, what all this meant ! & what do you think was his reply. " O this is a new revelation, I did not know it before, but you will see more surprising things than these." It has been stated to me that an ex-Mormon has said, that it is or has been in the plans of the Mormons to take these Islands for themselves. We may yet find it true. Support of the Gospel As both of our chchs. were engaged in raising funds for meeting­ house purposes during the early part of the past year, the subject of supporting their pastor was not fully brought before the people till the last part of July, at which time the Waialua people agreed to raise $200 for the remainder of the year & Koolau Church $100. which was contributed. For the current year (1853) the people of Waialua have promised to raise $550. The Koolau people will probably raise about $100 only as they have a meeting-house debt to pay off. The contributions of our people for various benevolent objects may be said to be liberal; & all put together would be adequate to the support of their pastor, but that they will ever feel able to support their pastor without aid from other sources is hardly to be expected. Contributions of the people between May 1st 1852 & Decr 31 stand thus �6. Waialua 1853 $73.43 ) Waialua Chch Mo Concert 32.00 ) " Genl. Association 56.00 ) H Ladies do " Support of pastor " Contributions for Mauula Meet. H. " To liquidate debt of Waialua Meet. H. Hauula Chch. Mo. Concert " " Support of pastor " " Cost for their own Meet. $ 161.43 200.00 50.00 267.18 49.31 100.00 293.31 s n Total Contributio $ 1121.23 Schools Koolau Protestant Papal 9 1 284 24 183 ) 4 ) 40 58 44 Waialua Protestant Papal 7 2 187 45 124 ) 17 ) 36 43 Chch Statistics Added to Chch past year on examination " " by certif Dismissed to other chchs by letter Died past year Disciplined the past year Disciplined Restd the past year Bow in Regular Standing Children baptized past year 63 16 15 22 8 22 575 42 The first reading book for children has been finished & is in the hands of the printer. Br Gulick has assisted as usual (?) Resp. Submitted J .S. Emerson �Report of Waialua Station, May 1854 In attempting a report of labors for the year ending April 1854, we find occasion to speak of mercies & afflictions, of prosper­ ity & adversity. In our family we had no serious illness during the former part of the year, & till the latter part of March indulged the fond hope that we should pass through the year without occasion to call for a phisicions ( !) services. But in the latter part of March our little daughter was attacked by a pain in her hip accompanied by a slight fever, which both increased for several days; & at length became so severe as to render it expedient to send for a physician, who on a second visit pronounced it a hip disease, & for three subsequent visits he spoke of it as being of an alarming character which would probably terminate her life; after a protracted season of severe suffering Dr. Ford accompanied Dr. Judd on his third visit, yet both thought it inexpedient to operate upon the limb although both felt confident that an operation would be needed. & nights of painful anxiety. For a full month we suffered days Our child was sick, her anguish of body was much of the time excrusiating, & our hope of her recovery exceed­ ingly faint; we hardly dared to ask for her life. Her fitness to be recd to the bosom of the Saviour was our greatest anxiety. well nigh departed from us. Sleep The moans & shrieks of the child particu­ larly at night were much of the time heart-rending. We thought that our Heavenly Father was about to reclaim his own, & we said "Thy will be done." But about the 28th of April we found a slight relief in her symptons yet so slight that for nearly a week we did not allow our­ selves to indulge the belief that there was any real improvement. But on the 6th instant Dr. Judd accompanied by Dr. Ford made his 7th visit, & both for the first time pronounced the symptoms decidedly favorable & encouraged the hope that the child may recover. If the Lord may �Waialua 185 4 2. restore the child to health we hope it may be that she may glorify him in the earth. 18th Nearly two weeks have passed since the above was written - appearances are not so favorable now as then the future is all in the dark in respect to her case. We feel that the Hand of the Lord is upon us; & hope to be benefited by the chastisement. Labours. The departure of Kekela to Fatuhiwa has thrown back under my pastoral care the Chch. at Kahuku, so that I have had the past year three chchs. to look after & eleven communion seasons to prepare for & attend. The Chch. at Hauula has had the services of Kuaia about of the 2 / 1 year & the Chch at Kahuku has been looked after to some extent by Haia, now a member of the Legislature. The Small Pox. This fearful disease commenced its ravages in Waialua early in the month of July, but was for a long time kept so much at bay by Kapus &c. that its progress was slow & its work was not done up till the close of 8 long months from the commencement. Nursing the sick, vaccinating & re-vaccinating the people many time over in some cases, receiving messages xx & giving advice in respect to the disease &c. consumed very much time for many months. But we have occasion for gratitude that our portion of Oahu was visited with less severity than any other portion of the Island. Deaths by small pox in Waialua were 201 & in Koolauloa 250 = 451 which is about 1/6 (?) of the whole population of the two dis­ tricts . During the prevalence of the Small Pox religious meetings were not so well attended as usual. Mary staid away from publick worship because they had been exposed to the disease & others from fears of exposure - Yet numbers during the year have been awakened to a sense of their condition & responsibility, as sinners against God; & quite �W a i a l u a 1 8 5 4 a number of backsliders have been restored to the fellowship of the Chch. The number of cases that have called for discipline in the chchs. the past year has been small, fewer than in most years. Popery has made no perceptible progress the past year unless It be that some 4 or five persons of our chch. when they supposed them­ selves dying consented to be baptized by the papal Priest, But all the converts made by the papists under such circumstances, are, so far as my knowledge extends, either in their graves at the present time or else in prison for violating the 7th commandment. Papal Schools in Koolau loa are now entirely extinct or suspended, & in the district of Waialua there is but one in existence. Mormons. A few people have at different times consented, both in Koolau & Waialua to be baptized by a Mormon priest, but they have with few exceptions returned to our meeting & said that they had com­ mitted an error. There is no regular meeting among the Mormons any where in our field; although several have been induced to meet with them on various occasions. Schools. ishing. The number of our schools as well as scholars is dimin­ We have now but 9 schools in Koolauloa & but 6 in Waialua. In two or three cases two schools have been merged into one for lack of scholars. During the prevalence of the Small Pox the major part of the schools were suspended so that our schools have not been very flourish­ ing during the year. Yet they have done something, & we hope more for the present year. Improvements. The plow, the hoe, the cart, the cultivator, & the ox-team &c are now a good deal relied on by natives for the cul­ tivation of the soil & for transportation of their produce & c . Carts are frequently running from Waialua to Honolulu. The old method of carrying burdens with the auamo (stick) upon the shoulder is now rare �Waialua 1854 except for a very short distance. The natives have plowed two or three times as much land the past year as any previous year, yet owing to the destructive ravages of the caterpillar & grub-worm their crops have failed to a great extent. Roads in Waialua are gradually improv­ ing & quite a number of the natives are increasing in wealth. State of Morals. While there have been but few cases of wayward­ ness in the chch. that called for action there has been a constant change going on, which shows that the people are getting under other influences besides what were exerted upon them in years past. Occa­ sionally we hear of the young man returning from Honolulu partially intoxicated. Some are learning the manly art of chewing tobacco, & others find out that to play cards & go to the theatre when at Honolulu well nigh allies them with royalty itself. The following statistics furnished me by our superintend(ant) of Schools for Waialua will indi­ cate a little the state of things. Adults who can not read 158. Adult/ readers in Waialua 726 Smokers 625 Drunkards 8 . Adults for­ eigners 28 of whom 17 are drunkards or drinkers of strong drink & 19 of them use tobacco - Things of this character are among the painful evidences that many of the influences now exerted on the Ha­ waiian youth are not such as the Christian can contemplate without pain. Religious state & prospects. There has been no general revival of religion in our field the past year, & yet there have been quite a number of cases, of awakening to the subject of religion in different parts of the field. There have been recd to the chchs. in all 124 members by profession & ten by letter, while seven have been dismissed to other chchs. & 146 have died leaving our present number nearly as it was one year since. The number of cases of disorderly walk requir­ ing discipline has been smaller than the number restored to the �Waialua 1854 communion of the Chch. Death has swept away the larger portion of those who were ever in the chch. & not now in fellowship only 8 or 10 of this number remain in Koolau & I think a smaller number in Waialua. Kahuku Chch. & people are rapidly decreasing in numbers by re­ movals to other places. The lands awarded to many are so small & so inadequate to their necessities, that they are disposed to either sell or abandon them & remove to other places. Many have already moved away & others are contemplating a removal. Hauula people remain much as they were a year since, except that many connected with the Society have been swept away by the Small Pox. At our last Gen. Meeting that people were collecting the materials to floor their new house of worship. This work has been done & paid for & nearly $300 are now collected for putting permanent seats into the building. Kuaia, a graduate of Lahaina-luna of one years standing has been laboring faithfully & successfully the major part of the year in that parish; & the chch. is expecting to settle him as their pastor so soon as the house of worship may be in decent order for the occasion. Population. Koolau 1214. The present population of Waialua is 1137, that of Decrease in Waialua in 6 years " " Koolauloa 395 475 The influx into the field has exceeded the migration to other fields It is probably that the next census will show a larger population In Waialua than in Koolau, as there are many causes at work in the latter place to drive the people away. Benevolent contributions. The sum contributed for the support of pastor For the support of native assistants For the Haw. Mis. Society For Meeting houses Total $573 205 143.47 650 $ 1557.47 of which �Waialua 1854 Missions 104.80 Sup. pastor Waialua contrd - $ 423 Meet. H. $ 30.00 Kahuku 50 9.00 100.00 Hauula 100 29.67 500.00 Hauula for native assistants Kahuku for do Whole n o . on profession $130. 75.00 Hauula Kahuku Waialua Whole no. on certif. Past year on ex Past year on cert. 52 34 38 5 0 5 Whole no past year Whole no. dismissed 0 Dismissed past year Whole no deceased died past year Suspended past year 65 19 62 2 4 Rem. Susp Excom past year Whole n o . ex Remain ex Now in Regular standing 261 188 277 11 5 13 No Ch. hap Bap. past year Married (?) past year (All together) 51 J.S. Emerson �Report of P.J. Gulick (Waialua) May 1854 In reviewing the past year, we are called upon to speak of chastisement, as well as m e r c i e s . - Our beloved son had recently left us, to complete his education in the father land; & the mail wh i c h brought the tidings of his safe arrival there, brought also the sad news of his brother's death; and that ere they were permitted to see, and embrace each other. Our dear Charles had been of a long period seriously afflicted with dyspepsy; and a few weeks previous to his death, h a d been more than usually ill. During this period, he would not recover; replied, live, a Christian friend had told him, she thought & asked h i m if he felt prepared to die. He "My hope is in Christ"; and added, that he h a d des ired to to do good, b u t that he was willing to die, if such were the wil l of God. P rom all we kno w of him, w e trust he is now, where the infirmities of a feeble body, will no longer impede the progress of his mental powers - in the society of angels, & spirits of the just made p e r ­ fect, & under the tuition of the great Teacher; whose praises he will never cease to sing. In regard to our labors, we have very little to report. usually preached once a week. occasionally, I have In the absence of brother Emerson, twice. I sometimes supply his place in the Sabbath school, which now includes, children a n d adults, & also, help to sustain a service in English w h i c h we have usually hel d Sabbath P.M. Have also as usual, had the superintendence of the common schools in Waialua district. Owing to the prevailing epidemic, there were but two terms of school in the year. And so many of the tax payers, have b e c o m e soldiers, constable & the like, & thereby become exempt from the school tax, �Waialua 1854 2. that they will not probably have funds to pay for more than two terms the current year. The kahu, is a faithful man; the best I think, that can be ob­ tained, in our district. The teachers, although by no means, such as we desire to see, are in general, among the best informed & most trust­ worthy in their respective neighborhoods. The schools, although poorly furnished with houses, teachers, books, & stationary, are still, I believe, accomplishing much good, by cultivating and enlarging the minds of the pupils, & thereby making them better citizens, & prepar­ ing them to understand & appreciate the Truth, which is able to make them wise unto salvation. I have given no statistics of schools, as these are accurately reported to the Minister of Instruction; & can be more easily obtained through him, than from station reports. (Unsigned) �Waialua May 1855 To the Genl Meet.g assembled at Honolulu Dear Brethren In reviewing the past year, I have very little of interest to report; at least, so far as my labors are concerned. A grateful acknowledgment, however, is due, to our gracious heavenly Father, for a constant succession of his distinguishing mercies to me & mine. To his paternal care we owe the preservation of our lives, the continued exercise of our reason, & the enjoyment of about our, or­ dinary share of health. But I need not inform you, that with regard to myself & Mrs. Gulick, this, has not been, at all times, sufficient to keep us from the bed of sickness. My wife's digestive (powers), organs, are so permanently enfeebled that she is obliged, almost continually, either to take medicin e , or to be on the road taking exercise & seeking a change of location. This, & the infirmities of age, & my own chronic disease have lessened even the ordinarily small amount of my public labors. I have however, usually preached once on the Sabath ( !), or assisted in sustaining religious exercises in English, at our station; & to some extent, superintended the schools of our district. For statistics of the schools, I refer to the report of the Min. of Instruction, as they are carefully rendered to him. I believe the common schools, are, with all their faults, worth sustaining. And from the experiment of a few months in which English was taught, I feel persuaded the young Hawaiians will acquire a know­ ledge of that language, faster than has usually been supposed. P.J. Gulick �Synopsis of Waialua Station Report. (1855 ) A usual degree of health has been enjoyed by the missionaries at the station - Mr. Emerson's little daughter still unable to walk & under the care of the physician. The two chchs of Waialua & Kahuku only are embraced in the Waialua report, their own. Hauula having a pastor of Mr. E. has performed the usual routine of missionary la- bors - administered the Lords Supper eight times in the field & three times at Hauula. Papists have made no apparent progress the past year - The Mormons have had some success in attracting the attention of the immorral ( !) & vicious. Health of the people unusually good - A small excess of deaths over the births. Improvements in temporal affairs making slow but steady progress but the progress in morals not so perceptible. Public worship has been pretty well attended on the sabbath day but not so well on week days. past year 15. Recd to the chch. by profession the No especial attention to religion. �Report of Waialua Station May 1855. In presenting the 22d report of the Waialua Station from its first occupancy, we find new occasion to speak of mercies & of afflic­ tions. Death has not been allowed the past year to enter the dwell­ ings of our families, although sickness has not departed from us. The little daughter, who was, reported last year as being afflicted with a hip disease, is still afflicted, unable to walk, &, sometimes, much pained. She now can sit up, ride out in her little carriage & often employ her hands in some manual labor; is generally cheerful & comfortable. The care anxiety & watching over her by day, &, often times, a large portion of the night have drawn largely upon the health & spirits of her mother, &, will be likely so to do for a long time to come. Pieces of bone of a small size are often discharged through various orifices in the thigh; & as yet there is no immediate prospect of a cure. A stiff hip joint is the best that can be hoped. The other members of our family have enjoyed about their usual degree of health. Our people also have been free from any prevailing or desolating epi­ demic, & a good degree of health has been enjoyed throughout the com­ munity. For all which unmerited favors we give thanks to our Heavenly Father. Division of the station. The report of the Waialua Station, so called, will hereafter be presented as two separate reports. The former, embracing Waialua & that portion of Koolauloa included in the parish formerly occupied by Kekela, whose centre is Kahuku, & the latter embracing the remainder of Koolauloa & extending from Laie to Kaawa ( !) a coast of about 12 or 13 miles embracing a population of about 780 in all - That part of the field connected with the Station at Waialua has a population at present of about 1552 of whom 1118 are in the district of Waialua. �W a i a l u a 1 8 5 5 The present Waialua station has a coast of about 30 miles, - a sparce population. & to do the work in this part of the vineyard we have generally one papal priest, & much of the time a mormon priest besides our own services. Preparatory to the division of my former field, I spent much of the time during the earlier part of the year at Hauula to make ready for the settlement of their new pastor. Their new & very desirable meeting house, which had been floored the year before, was fully seated with slips & the debts for the same with all the arrearages were squared off by the first of October last, at which time I arranged to attend their communion, as I supposed for the last time in the capacity of pastor. But at the close of the preparatory exercises for the communion, I was requested by a unanimous vote of the Chch. seconded by Kuaea their pastor elect to retain the relation of senior Pastor to the Chch. which I thought it on the whole expedient to do. Moses Kuaea was ordained & set apart to the work of the ministry at Hauula on the 18th of October last by a Council composed of nearly all of the members of the Oahu Clerical Association; & thus far he appears well in the work to which he is consecrated. He will doubtless read before you the Report of the Hauula Station. My statistics having been remodeled will now be confined to the field embracing the chchs. at Waialua & Kahuku combined. The chch. at Kahuku is now small, & has every prospect of rapidly decreasing, as the people are moving out of the region, & giving place to flocks & herds that are thrust in upon them. Probably no native pastor will ever be supported by that people here-after. Schools . These are diminishing throughout the field both In consequence of diminution in population & lack of suitable teachers, & also on account of an earlier forsaking of the schools than was customary in year past, & also on account of less attractive books �Waialua 1855 3. than were formerly provided for them. In Waialua there are two schools less than two years since; & in Koolau quite a number are so reduced that there are barely scholar enough to legalize them; & no one of our schools except perhaps one at Hauula is so far advanced as many of them were 5 years since. English Schools. Shortly after the close of our last convention one English School was commenced at Waialua & soon increased to 40 scholars - This school was kept for 5 months & then suspended for lack of a teacher - It is now revived again & it is hoped that it may become a permanent affair. A school room of good size has been fitted up with seats, benches, table, black-boards &c for the purpose. Arrangements were made with the people of Koolauloa to have an English school taught at Hauula, but after the most deffinite (! ) terms were agreed upon between the teacher & the people, the whole affair, like many other good projects fell through for the lack of some one to make it go. There is however a strong desire both in Koolau & Waialua for a knowledge of the English langauge. "All like the purchase, Pew the price will pay.” Heresies. The Mormons have made frequent visits to our field & have proselyted a number to their creed; Which so far as developed at Waialua consists mainly in two sentiments viz. Religious teachers not to be supported by a stipend; - & immersion a requisite for salvation The papists are much as they have been in years past. The papal priest told me a few weeks since that their numbers near his meeting­ house had by removals & death deminished to 1/3 of what they were 12 or 14 years since. In Koolauloa there is now no papal school; ten years since there were 6 or 7. years since there were 3 or 4. In Waialua there is now but one, 10 �Waialua 1855 4 Improvements. The sources of wealth are now accumulating the hands of common natives among us. Many natives can exhibit ox cart plow & one or two yoke of oxen trained to work. for beef are abundant. in Horses & cattle A few are making arrangements for better houses, & more for articles for display. But thus far it is very obvious that wealth does not promote benevolence nor yet piety among our people. able means was not When the amount of avail­ of what it now is the disposition to aid in the support of the Gospel & contribute to the cause of benevolence was much greater than it is of late. Neither does the possession of wealth aid in the promotion of self-respect or of good morals. He who can steal or commit adultery & pay up promptly his fine does not appear to lose much by his trans­ gression either in his own eyes or in the esteem of many around him. Neither does the possession of wealth make the natives neat. Wealth often creates or promotes extravagance, but rarely neatness Silks & broad-cloths, hats, bonnets, shoes & gloves will often be exhibited in consequence of wealth, but not neatness. The drudgery connected with habits of civilization is an intollerable ( !) burden to most Hawaiians, not to be endured except for a limited time, & for an occasion, after which the whole is generally laid aside like a gala dress. State of Religion. We have been favored with no especial revival of religion the past year. Only 10 have been added to the Chch. at Waialua by profession, & 5 at Kahuku in all 15, one of those united at W aialua is a foreigner Thomas King, who has at some former time sailed a schooner at the Isis. We have at Waialua about 35 foreigners, very few of whom give any evidence of love to Christ, his cause or his people. Neither are they in temporals much elevate d natives around them; with a few exceptions. above the �5. Waialua 1855 Contributions for the support of the Gospel, benevolence &c. Recd for my family support from the Paid Haia at Kahuku Waialua Mo Concert & Mens Associ. Female Association in Waialua Hauula Mo. Concert paid before Oct. Kahuku Mo Concert chchs past year (no figure given) In all $416.42 85.22 100.00 27.75 65.97 ___ 695.38 This is Exclusive of Contributions for Support of pastor &c at Hauula since October & Expenditures for their Meeting H. the past year. Statistics of Chchs 978 180 15 12 27 296 8 309 10 0 9 19 406 754 9 37 500 1552 Waialua Station Whole No on Prof Whole no. by Cert Past year by Prof Past year by Cert. Whole no. past year Whole no. Dis. to Chchs. Dismissed past year Whole no. Deceased Died past year Susp. past year Rem. Suspended Excom past year Whole no Ex. Rem. Excom Whole no in Reg Stand Whole no. Children baptized Bap. past year Marriages Avarage ( !) Cong. Population J.S. Emerson May 1855 �(The following was written in pencil on the back of the Waialua 1855 report) Death of the King— This was with us well nigh a great event. morning after his Majesty's decease. The A messenger arrived at Waialua with letters to the Judge of the District & others, announcing the event— The Judge immediately repaired to the house of the Missionary announcing the event & also his instructions from the Governor to send forth criers proclaiming that the kapus were at an end— & that it was propper (!) to (Kuiniho, Kakau i ka ili,) inu name oe oe. The missionary warned his brother the Judge in vain, & in vain instructed him to desist from such a foolish & sinful act, but to no purpose— he demanded also to see the letter— The criers were sent out— but after they had spread the liberty far & w i d e , a further examination of the letter showed clearly that the letter did not give any license but was intended to enforce the kapu so a new sett (!) of messengers were not to forbid the things before commanded. And, on the sabbath following, all concerned made their confession, the Judge among the rest. �Report for Waialua Station, May 1856 In presenting this our 24th Report since our first occupancy of the station at Waialua it is our privilege to acknowledge the receipts of many unwonted blessings from the hand of our Heavenly Father the past year. Unusual health has been enjoyed by our people; our family in general have been well; & our daughter, over whom her mother had watched day & night, with almost unceasing vigilance much of the time for two years, has lately so improved in general health as to allow her to come with her parents to this gathering, & to ride most of the way on horseback alone. Our eldest son after an absence of eight years in the father-land has returned to our embrace in good health & qualified as we trust to do good in some humble occupation His reason for leaving us, when he did was imperfect vision. His sight is now good. Missionary field. The settlement of Kekela at Kahuku & his sub­ sequent removal, & the consequent restoration of that chch to my care, as well as the more recent settlement of Kuaea at Hauula have occasioned an almost annual change in my statistics, necessary in order to suit the changing circumstances. In future the statistics of the Hauula Chch. willbbe given by Kuaea, & those of the Kahuku Chch. will be incorporated with those of Waialua. Labors The business of selling Govt lands is now at an end; none of much value remains unsold in the district; & an other Is ap­ pointed to attend to any future sales; for all which I am thankful. From many of my cares in connection with grazing & agriculture I find much relief, in the assistance of my son & expect that this relief will increase. My labors for the people have been much as in former years. When at the station I have uniformly had 3 services with the people on the sabbath, & often an extra meeting with the lunas of the chch. �Waialua 1856 During the week I uniformly hold a morning meeting on Wednesday & a catechetical school in the P.M. at the station & occasional meetings in other villages. I have spent 5 sabbaths at Kahuku & a number of week days; - have made three visits to Hauula spending the sabbath & the two or three preceding days at each visit. In my absence Bro. Gulick has conducted worship at the station the whole or a part of the day when well & at home. Samuel has also rendered some assistance in my absence, & has been frequently to Kahuku to aid in public worship Schools. Of these I can not report any thing more favorable than the Pres, of the Board of Ed. has done. Although the schools are kept up the qualifications of the teachers are not rising, nor is the number of the scholars Increasing, or the adaptation of their books to the end to be obtained. Our books on history both civil & Ecle- siastical, algebra, helu kamalii, & atlasses for the study of topical geography are not in our schools in Waialua or Koolauloa except a few parts of copies. But still our schools are doing good & must be continued till English Schools & English teachers can be substituted in their place. Of papal schools there is but one in Waialua & none in Koolauloa The one papal School in Waialua is taught by a female, & at the exam­ ination when I visited the school it had In all 13 scholars present, 3 of whom could read some & others were in monosyllables, but several of the younger ones were apparently under 4 years of age & knew only a part of the alphabet. The catholic priest strongly objected to my presence at the examination as it could not be for any good intent. It was the first time I had visited their school for many years; but if hereafter called upon to pay taxes for the support of native schools I shall be likely to claim the privilege of attending the examinations of the same whether they be papal or protestant. An English School has been in operation during nine months of the �Waialua 1856 past year under the tuition of Mr. W. Chamberlain, & has been quite popular among the natives. The attendance was from 40 to 50 scholars. The number of scholars in our native schools alone has been 115 added to the 50 in the Eng. School make in all 165 in a course of in ­ struction in Waialua. Five years ago there were 247 now 1/3 less. If the children in our native schools could all be brought into three English schools with good teachers, it would to me indicate progress in the right direction. General Improvemen t . Our people are doing some thing to improve their lands & increase their sources of wealth in flocks & herds, teams, carts, plows, &c. but the things to improve the mind & refine the taste are less sought than articles of mere show & ornament. But as the supply of one want makes way for two more to be supplied, so in the present case wants accumulate faster than the means to supply them. But this is only the sure indication of progress. State of Morals. Many things among us are far from what they should be, - far from what we would have them far from prosperous. Many do not keep the sabbath; some lie & steal, some commit adultery, some take false oaths, some contract debts without any apparent intention of paying them. Children are disobedient to their parents; parents neglect their child­ ren, & allow them to run at large with little or no restraint. Some parents, after solemnly promising to train up their children for the Lord, put them into other hands to get rid of the trouble of taking care of them. All of this is bad, far from what it should be; & what makes it appear worse is that, these evils are much more noticable ( !) now than they were 20 years ago. Then moral principle seemed to be in advance of a naked & uncivilized community. But civilization has ad­ vanced & now we expect much much more; & in reality we have it. We �W a i a l u a 1 8 5 6 4. have more strength of morral ( !) & religious character now than then; more by far who honestly & intelligently strive to keep the commands of God. The increase of wealth in Waialua the flocks & herds grazing upon the hills & plains & in the valleys belonging to perhaps a hundred different owners, & in a common pasture lay before the unprincipled a strong temptation to take & appropriate to themselves wealth that ten years since did not exist among them. As temptations multiply strength of character is proved. Hula, drinking rum &c to produce intoxication has for many years rarely occured in the district, common as in years past. Licenciousness is probably about as I fear it will long remain the Hawaiians crying sin, unless some more strenuous & efficient measures are taken to controll ( !) the young & produce habits of industry, economy & self-respect. Heresies. The papists are still In the land. They maintain their worship in one place only in Waialua & occasionally in one place in Koolau. But the number of those who ordinarily attend their worship is very small, probably less than 50. They have but one school of less than 20 scholars, where formerly they had ten schools & 150 or 200 scholars. The demeanor of the papal priest has of late been rather less arrogant than it was formerly; & he now virtually at least con­ fesses that his effort to revile protestants for taking up contri­ butions among the people for purposes of benevolence was not only un­ called for but suicidal. The Mormons are doing some thing among us - but nothing it is believed that strengthens any good cause. We have no expectation from present appearances that any thing but the chaff will be blown off & gathered in among them. They are not numerous, if increasing. �Waialua 1856 5. Progress of religion. On this topic we can not report any thing very encouraging the year past. Attendance on public worship on the sabbath has been pretty good especially at the morning service; but week day meetings have been thinly attended. worldliness have appeared among the people. Much luke-warmness & We have had nothing that could be called a revival of religion during the year. The young have been taken up to a great extent with horses & articles of gaiety; while Few the old have been striving to increase their wealth. Few have sought in earnest the way of life & salvation. We have recd to the fellowship of the Chch. but 11 & 5 of these by letter. 6 have been dismissed to other chchs. & 8 have died.- & 11 have been excommunicated from the fellowship of the chch. whole number now in regular standing is 390 Children baptized Our the past year 10 married 17 couple. The number of births in Waialua the past year has been 30 deaths 28 in Koolau (births ) 30 (deaths 50. A result in respect to popula­ tion altogether more favorable than has existed for many years. Contributions Our people have contributed the past year towards 44 their pastors support $ //3.13 of which $330.62 were contributed by the Chch at Waialua & the remainder by the Kahuku & Hauula Chchs. For Missions $78.15 Avails of books $19.12 & Elele $28. - $47.12 - & in addition to the above they have paid for school house & English teacher more than $300. Foreigners resident at the station about 30 sabbath keeping men. But few of whom are �Waialua Station Report for May, 1857. During the past year we, as a family & a station, have enjoyed at least an ordinary degree of health, & of other temporal blessings. The rains have come in their season & watered the earth abundantly & caused it to produce food both for man & beast; & the cry of famine or pestilence has not been heard among us. Industry & economy are increasing among the people; & as a consequent ( !) better habitations better enclosures, better agricultural implements, & more of them, are often to be found. Our people are now well nigh prepared for the enactment of a new law: viz. That “they, who cultivate fields, shall enclose them, or receive no damages for loss of crops," When fully prepared for such a law civilization & industry may be regarded as having made good progress. But progress in civilization generally has its attendant evils; The supply of one want creates two more; so that a liberal bestowment of goods in aid of benevolent objects often decreases in proportion as men’s worldly substance increases. Such has been the fact thus far to a greater or less extent with our people. This however is al­ most the inevitable consequent of progress. State of morals. Most of the people pay at least an external regard to the Sabbath & its institutions. A large portion of them abstain from labor, travelling &c. on the sabbath & attend public worship, at least occasionally. Yet some follow the example, so com­ monly set by foreigners, of making the sabbath their usual day for passing between Honolulu & Waialua. The hulahula, card-playing, adultery & drinking are now prac­ ticed with a considerable, degree of boldness by those whose taste it suits to follow them - they having high authority to back them up. But the number is not large of those who follow such practices. �Waialua 1857 2. The business of cultivating awa for commerce has lately been urged upon some of the people by authority from the Governor & His Royal Highness, Lot Kamehameha. The tool they selected to carry out their purpose over one whose influence has been greater in Waialua than that of any other native. But he now lies low in death. This morning his mortal remains were committed to the tomb. Tobacco patches are seen here & there growing with great luxurience. Coffee does not do well in our district & tea has not been tried to my knowledge. Whatever influence\ the missionary can judiciously use in re­ spect to either or all of these articles among the natives must be such as he can unhesitatingly use toward foreigners as well as natives. The cause of Christ has often been injured by straining at a gnat when the camel has been left in the dish. Schools. Our common schools although doing some thing are far inferior to what they were ten years ago. To obtain the books that we then had is impossible or others as good to supply their places To induce the young men, who are now taxed as men for all purposes of government, to attend school is beyond our power; & what is worse than all is the difficulty of obtaining a competent teacher for any one of our native schools. All among us, who are competent to teach, are wanted for more lucrative employments, such as judges, clerks, tax gatherers, cattle drivers, &c. &c. Then again, that the Govt should allow the wages of a teacher of English to be $800. per year, & that of a teacher of native to be at most but about $100. does not fall in very well with their notions of equality. teach our school at 25 of $600 per year. He that used to cts. per day is now a Judge with a salary Quite a contrast in the view of all* Unless some new arrangement can be made for our native schools, or some stronger �Waialua 1857 3. motive placed before those, who are competent to teach them, the progress must he retrograde. And I for one am well nigh\ persuaded that, if our native schools in Waialua were entirely suspended, & two competent teachers of English were placed here in their stead our prospects for a common education among the people would he better than they now are. English School. We have had one English school taught the past year, by Mr. W. Chamberlain - he has had about 50 pupils, &, although laboring under a serious disadvantage from deafness, his school is well & punctually attended by all his pupils, some of whom come daily 5 or 6 miles for instruction. While the native schools need their lunas to collect the children together, he has for almost two years found prompt attendance without any luna, & such was the experience of those who preceded him in that school I opened a school in English to be taught gratis for one month, admitting all children who did not attend Mr. C' s school. I had 50 scholars, & good attendance, & in some cases remarkable proficiency When the month was closed, Mr. Chamberlain recd quite an accession to his school as the result of my effort. Our native schools are now reduced to 3 or 4, where we had, 24 years since at least 16; & yet our population is about 1/2 as large as it was then. In September last we had a temperance celebration in connection with the examination of the English School, at which were rehearsed & sung, both in English & native, speeches & songs or hymns to the great interest of the community, of all classes, & creeds attending. This was followed by a very good repast, served up in good style & variety, & obviously attractive to the sharpened appetites of the many, who partook of the bounty. �Waialua 1857 4. Roads, Bridges, & Harbours. While improvements in many things are gradually advancing at the Isls . we are astonished at the short sighted policy of this Govt, which seems to confine all public improvements to the City of Honolulu. The Legislature appropriated the means for putting down an anchor in the Harbor of Waialua, & for repairing certain roads, very important to the progress of agriculture, & for the repair of bridges; but all to little effect; as he, with whom the appointment of supervision of roads is lodged, appoints no supervisors that we hear of, & leaves roads, bridges & harbors mainly as they were. While a goodly Siam must be expended for the war department, (better expended perhaps in killing bed-bugs & fleas) & another large sum, in filling up the sea, to provide for an exigency that will not soon arrive, if the country is not first laid open, by good roads, to the easy conveyance of produce to the market, Progress in civilization can never be great while facilities for inter-communication are poor, & inducements to agriculture small. Heresies. The spread & promotion of Mormonism. among us has cost for the past 4 or 5 years the efforts of two or three foreigners much of the time & a part of the time a larger number, together with the efforts of several young men of Hawaiian blood whose reputation for honesty chastity & truth has never been high. But the rise, progress, decline & fall of Mormonism among us might as well be written now as at any later date - were it worth any one's time to do it. They have no meetings of late in our districts, & no disciples who hold themselves ready to entertain them; & but here & there a stupid & stubborn one who will allow the name of Mormon to attach to him. Mr. Hyde’s & Kauahi's tract seems to have come in good time to finish up the work that was in progress before, viz. the developement ( !) of the rottenness �W a i a l u a 1857 5 of Mormonism. Popery is like a fire going out for the want of fuel. They have but one small school in the district of Wa i a l u a & none in Koolau. Their priest is a more quiet & peaceable, m a n than most of those who have b e e n among us, & perhaps on the whole good results f r o m his being among us. Incidents & labors of the year. I have made three visits to Hauula during the year & attended the communion there twice - Have been to Kahuku six or eight times & h a d four communion seasons there* Our religious exercises have b ee n as usual three on the sabbath, besides the sabbath school, wh i c h latter has of late been conducted by Samuel & his mother. We have h a d a meeting on Wednesday morning at the station, & a p art of the year one on thursday in some one of the School districts. M r . Gulick has often assisted i n the services when at the Station - Particularly in the E n g l i s h meeting, wh i c h has been uniformly attended at our house on Sabbath P.M. But he w ith his family has resided mos t of the year at P u n a h o u . The past year & the past w eek have b een marked by the death of Lot Kuok o aa a man of more than ordinary influence in the chch. & in t h e District of Waialua. He was a man of strong m i n d & persuasive eloquence & rarely f a i l e d to be found on the right side. He was of the old school & never could divert himself of the idea that the people were the property of the king & chiefs & bound to obey t hem in all things. Not a m o n t h before his d e a t h he pl e a d as an apology for having traveled f r o m Honolulu to Waialua some years since that the chiefs ordered him. to do it; & quoted thus "O k a mea hoolohe i ke hoolohe n o ia i ke Aku a " . ( 'lii �Waialua 1857 The chiefs have sustained a great loss to their influence as lords of the people in the death of Kuokoa; the chch. also will feel his loss. He was benevolent & kind industrious, & temperate & far in advance of most men of his age. Condition of the Chch. The past has been a year of pruning the vine & not of gathering in clusters among us. More individuals have been cut off from the chch. for fruitlessness than have been recd to it by profession of their faith; & most of those who have been cut off have been branches that for a long time have borne no fruit. 10 have been cut off from the Waialua Chch. for long habits of negligence & indifference to the means of grace, & 16 from the Kahuku Chch. for drunkness ( !) hulahula & neglect of public worship, & 11 have been removed by death, in all 37. while only 13 have been recd to the chch, 2 by profession & 11 by letter. We have now in the chch. quite a number of aged & infirm people & a few drones. But we trust that the major part of our present number are on the Lords side & will be numbered with his jewels. Our last communion seasons were marked by more than an ordinary degree of interest & inspired hope that the Lord is about to revisit his people, A few individuals appear to be fervent in prayer. The table of statistics is appended. Whole No. Recd on profession Whole " by letter Recd past year by profession " " " by letter Total receipts the past year Whole No. dismissed to other chchs. " " " past year Whole " died Died the past year Suspended the past year Remain suspended Excommunicated the past year Remain excommunicated Whole no in regular standing Whole no. child baptized Baptized the past year Married the past year 991 196 3 11 14 371 0 245 11 — 26 56 365 767 3 9 �Waialua 1857 7. Support of Pastor &c. The people of my charge have contributed for my support the past year in all $211.50 about $18. of which was given by Kahuku chch. & the rest by Waialua Chch. nothing has been paid me by the chch. at Hauula. There has been contributed for Missions abroad $67.37 1/2 & Recently there has been handed me for Kekela cash $11. Cloth &c $7.00 The Chch. at Hauula consider themselves indebted to me rising $50. which they have requested the Mis. Soc. to cansel (!) as they are at present unable to do it. Proposition for future arrangements. It is my opinion that the later ( !) letter of Mr. Anderson, recommending that our native Chchs. be divided up & native pastors be settled over them, is founded in wisdom; & ought to receive our immediate attention. I can not obtain my support nor 1/3 part of if from the three chchs. with which I am connected. But if the people were released from all obligation to assist in my support, & were induced to Settle three native pastors in colleague with me. (I mean Kuaea for one of the three) I think I could do more good the rest of my days in aiding them in their duties & in preparing them to take the charge of the field, when it may be vacated by me, than by holding it alone so long as I have strength to do it. Waimalu also needs help very much at Waianae, & such help as I think I might render him were I in a condition to do it. I grant that I or any of my brethren can do all the work of our stations more easily alone than with a colleague. But that I think is not the point we should aim it ( !). It should be to prepare our field for native pastors & native pastors for our fields. If the A.B.C.F.M. will pay me $600. annually as a part of my support I will relinquish all claims upon the people for future support & devote myself more to preparing them for native pastors. Respectfully Submitted, J/ S. Emerson �Brief report of Waialua Station Feb. 24, 1860 On the eve of leaving the Isls. for a short visit to the U. States with Mrs. Emerson, I report briefly in respect to my station & labors the past 3/4 of a year. Our daily morning prayer meetings have been well sustained, our congregations on the sabbath have been larger than the two previous years. - The sabbath school managed by my son & Mrs. Emerson has been unusually well attended. Much of the time Mrs. E. has attended a meeting with the women on friday & attended one & sometimes two singing schools per week. The pastor has had a Theological School on Satur­ day afternoon most of the year - has had three communion seasons at Waialua, assisted the pastor at W aianae in sifting & reorganizing his Church. 5 days - visited the Chch. at Hauula twice, & made repeated attempts to gather together the scattered flock left by Kekela at Kahuku; but with poor success. While intemperance & adultery are increasing among the ungodly, the Lord has not left his people here without some tokens of his favor. Twenty seven have been added to the chch. by profession & nineteen by letter. Marriages have been 8 couple & deaths about twice as numerous as the births. 51 deaths & 25 births. My own health is much better than it was ten months since, although my nervous system has received a shock from which it has not fully recovered. Mrs. E. is also much worn down. We now hope to visit the U. States & to be absent from the Islands ten or eleven months. so clearly pointed out as now. A duty which we have never before seen May it be of the Lord, for good to us & to his cause. Emerson �Waialua 1860 Statistics of the Chch at Waialua Feb. 24, 1860. Whole No. on Prof recd to Chch. " " " Certif Past year on prof " " " Certif 1031 227 27 19 Total past year 46 Whole number dismissed 73 Dismissed the past year Total deceased 1 267 Deceased the past year 5 Excluded the past year 4 Remain excluded Now in reg. Standing 325 �(Abstract) Waialua, J.S. Emerson (1861) The church have enjoyed some revival, 84 added by profession, 6 by letter, & 20 restored to fellowship. Owing to the absence of the pastor, but 3 communions the past year. Contributions in cash fewer than usual, for pastor $193. - for mo concert $35. - $228. Habits of the people are improving. buildings improving. Industry is increasing & Demands for the products of the soil are small, Horses & meat cattle of little value. Schools - better attended than last year. attended. Sabbath Schools well Many of the youth have become hopefully pious. Our congregations are large on the sabbath - morning prayer meetings daily attended, & a meeting on Thursday is well filled, en­ quiry meetings are held every week. General intelligence slowly increasing - Christian character is becoming more reliable. A little increase in the population the past 4 years. Mormonism is dead; Papists diminished �Waeanae ( !) - J.S. Emerson (Abstract 1861) This church has been blessed with some revival the past year, & 78 have been added to their number, nearly all by their late pastor, Waimalu, who died in October last. The church is poor, ill-informed & but partially supplied with book(s) or periodicals, but in a more orderly & hopeful condition than a year ago. Contributions about $200, in part to support their former pastor & in part to liquidate their debts. They have erected a new meeting house in a remote school district, & are still in debt over $100. Sabbath & day schools are moderately useful. The church has had three conmunion seasons the past year; two since the death of their pastor. Their roads have been entirely neglected the past four years, & are very bad. Their property, - horses & cattle, almost valueless, & many will die for lack of food. They desire a native sub-pastor & may perhaps pay him $150. per year. �Report of Waiahae Station for May 1862. I have visited the Church at Waianae five times since our last General Meeting, ocupying ( !) five days in each visit. My labor with the church has consisted in stirring them up by preaching the gospel, conversing with them individually so far as I had opportunity, & ad­ ministering discipline when required. There are some good men in that Chch. but never having enjoyed the constant labor of an intelli­ gent pastor, they have not learned to bear the yoke & draw together in harmony. The Chch. has received no additions the past year, but several deaths have occured ( !) several dismissions & more excisions. There still remain quite a number on the list of members, who would probably be cut off if the lunas were more active & faithful in their duties. The dry branches intertwining with those that would otherwise bear fruit are a great evil in the Waianae Church. While with them in July last a report was brought to my ears that an apostate from brother Clarke’s ( !) Chch. had stated in Waianae & repeatedly, that there was not a native minister in the Sandwich Isls . who had not been guilty of adultery, &, as I understood it, while in the ministry. The statement did not seem to trouble the people much. But, for the honor of our native ministry, I felt bound to try & prove it false & slanderous, at least in its relation to Waianae. I first enquired of the Deacon - the ex-Judge of the district whether the re­ port so far as related to their former pastor were true. He said that such was the general belief, & yet there had never been any proof of it before the Ghch. I then sent for the supposed guilty woman, a church member, &, to my astonishment, she confessed all that had been reported of them. She professed penitence for her sin & a readiness to make a public confession before the church, which she did do the next sabbath. �2. Waianae 1862 This confession roused the anger of Waimalu’s sons, & they threatened the woman & also the pastor with legal prossecution ( !) for defaming the dead. Waimalu’s widow acknowledged that she had sus­ pected her husband of guilt, but he had constantly denied it. With this guilt resting upon him Waimalu administered the Lords supper & recd more than seventy to the Chch. but was taken with symptoms of paralysis in the midst of the exercise. The next day being relieved he went in-land to superintend the building of some stone wall, was siezed with a relapse & died before he could be got back to his house. The circumstances connected with Waimalu’s ministry, life & death suggest questions of vital importance, in relation to the placing of native pastors in full charge of churches, & suggest enquiries like this Ought any man who is even suspected of adultery while in the church to be ordained as a gospel minister in these Islands? The Church at Waianae have hired Koliko, one of Bro. Bishops divinity students, to labor among them for one year; & are to pay him $100 per year. He appears pretty well & I hope will be useful. The debt of the Chch. is mainly paid off but not entirely. people with few exceptions are poor. The Most of the land Is either sold, or under lease, to foreigners. Two or three smaller lands are under lease to natives. The people are generally living on the old konohiki (one man in charge, with others under him) system; & to get pasturage for their, worse than worthless, horses is the burden of their effort through the year. The population of the district is decreasing; schools are de­ creasing in numbers, although the teachers are trying to do all they can for their pupils. Sabbath schools are attended with some interest, but the number of attendants is small. �Waianae 1862 5 There is a goodly number of adults in this district w h o appear to prize the Wo r d of God, & listen to the instructions of the Sanctuary w i t h mu c h interest. What God has done for this people is n o t to b e lightly estimated, that he w i l l do more & better things is t o be h o p e d & praye d for. Statistics of the Chch, I have as yet failed to get. receive t h e m soon, enough for our minutes. But hope to �Report of Waialua Station May 1862 The past year with us has been more miscelanious ( !) than any year of our residence at the Isls. Returning from our journey to the U. States but just before our last General Meeting, both Mrs. E . & myself have found the work of two years thrown upon one. especially heavy upon the mother of many sons. This bears I have spent 49 days of the year in visiting the Chchs. at Waianae & Hauula; & all our churches have required increased attention from the fact that they were all increased by large additions the year before. The past year 8 have been recd to the Waialua chch. by profession & 7 by letter while 8 have died & 8 have been excommunicated & one has been restored to fellowship, so that our number is the same as at the beginning of the year. We have had a daily prayer meeting at the station & much of the time in several of the school districts connected with the station & on thursdays a lecture in some one of the school districts. day-meetings are usually rather thinly attended. But week Our reading of the Scriptures through in company is now in progress for the eighth time, & in my opinion is a valuable institution for our people. One of the chapters for the sabbath day; not unfrequently furnishes the text for one of the sermons on the Sabbath. Improvements. The past year our people have built no meeting houses, nor school houses, have purchased no bells, nor broken any. Neither have we started any new plantations, have constructed no new roads or bridges; & till within the past few weeks have not kept our old roads in repair. Our people have gone into no great excesses e ither of dances, bacchanalian revels, card playing or such like things. But there have been improvements. During the past few weeks our roads have been put into better �Waialua 1862 5 our mean horses met a like fate, So that we expect a somewhat improved breed of horses & cattle from this evil, & no thanks to man for the blessing. Our roads have within the past few weeks been very much improved so that a one or two horse team many now pass with ease in six or 7 hours between Honolulu & Waialua. We have the prospect of still greater improvements in roads & bridges so that we may hope to pass with much ease & safety between Honolulu & Hauula. Our population is not increasing unless it may be by immigration. Deaths the past year in Waialua 53 Births 36 - decrease 17; & perhaps about that number have entered the district during the year. Our chch. at Waialua has recd but 8 additions by profession, & 7 by letter, while 8 have been removed by death & 8 by discipline so that our number is about the same as it was one year ago. Deaths of those who have at any time been members of our church are 610 so far as is ascertained. My time has been much occupied in visits among the people & meetings with the different chchs. The Oahu Clerical association has met twice during the year, once at Hauula & once at Honolulu. Its meetings have been conducted with great harmony, & are productive of much good especially to those of us who live some what remote from the metropolis. The exercises are almost entirely in English, as three or four of our members do not understand the native language. In September, we formed a conference of Chchs for Oahu at Haaula, which had its second meeting at Honolulu, in February. The business of this conference, is conducted entirely in the native language, & is attended by five native delegates from each of the native Chchs. on the Island. No measure has been adopted on Oahu, which promises �Waialua 1862 2. repair than they have been in for two years before. A few natives have built them wooden houses some with shingled roofs, others are collecting materials to do the same. A few are trying experiments in rice, others in cotton, But the latter have generally been un­ successful. Our schools are about as they were a year ago both as to numbers & interest. The lack of suitable school-books is an obvious hindrance to their progress; & teachers do not seem to be in advance of those we had 15 or 20 years ago. The Sabbath School is receiving the kind & anxious attention of Mrs. Emerson, Samuel & Levi Chamberlain with some native teachers of classes. Although the number of scholars is much smaller than it should be, the influence of the school is very happy. The progress of our people in every desirable thing is slow & spasmodic. thing moves by impulses. Every One month we get up an Agricultural Society; & talk bravely of planting rice, cotton, coffee, Sugar &c. &c. but before three months are past, our society sleeps apparently the sleep of death, unless the missionary consents to be its soul & body too. We get up an effort to fence our cultivated lands & secure them from the depridation of cattle but the enthusiasm subsides when the job is half done, & so of a hundred other things. A nation, that is born in a day, will require generation to mature in. It was so with the Israelites, it mast be expected to be so of Hawaiians. The almost total lack of rain during the latter part of the year 1860 & all of 1861 has caused a great scarcity of food for man & for beast. But rains of late have been abundant & the beast of the field rejoice, while vegetable food for man is yet very scarce. But famine is not without its blessings. Our poor cattle were slaughtered by hundreds to prevent the starvation of many & some of �Waialua1862 4. so much toward enlightening & harnessing in to the work the lay mem­ bers of cur Chchs. as this. We hope that the conference will he long perpetuated & increase in usefulness. Trials & pleasures of the way. One of our Chch. members of 28 years standing, who has during this period withstood the temptations to which many others have yield­ ed, & on the whole conducted very well as a Christian, has, during the past few months, fallen into a quarrel with a brother in-law, a very small matter, but so contumacious, blind & deaf to all counsel has he shown himself that we were obliged to set him aside from the com­ munion. Upon this he has broken loose from every chord that bound him to his brethren; & he now acts like the man who became re-possessed of 7 unclean spirits instead of one. But it is possible he will yet come to his senses & be a better man than before. It was the deaf & dumb foul spirits that baffled the power of Christs disciples; & such are probably the hardest cases to be dealt with. The case allu­ ded to Is deaf to all instruction, but as he is not dumb, there is possible the more hope ------- that he will be brought to repentance. We have two other cases of a more interesting character, who left the Chch. & enlisted for Satan in connection with Keawehunahalo's rebellion. And one of them at the time declared he had enlisted to serve during the war. So he in a particular manner plunged into almost every excess of drunkness (! ), falsehood perjury & sabbathbreaking, speaking often great swelling words of vanity. But for the past few months both of these have been constant & interested hearers of the word & usually are found in the morning prayer-meeting, humble & apparently in their right mind sitting at the feet of Jesus. It is truly marvelous to see how the Spirit of God changes the tiger, the lion, & the swine to the docile & confiding lamb. One of them �Waialua 1862 says that while pride would not allow him to come & confess his sins, the sound of the church going bell was a dreadful sound to him, & while others went to the house of God he often went & read his Bible to try & atone for his neglects. Thanks to the Lord that some appar­ ently hardened rebels have a conscience within to trouble them. Bible reading. We are now reading the Bible through with our people the eighth time; &, almost every day, I find a chance to throw some light on the chapter for the day in a little gathering of our people. The amount of scripture knowledge obtained & the increasing ability to receive more manifested by our constant & daily Bible readers are to me circumstances of deep interest. The day of fasting & prayer appointed by the president of the U. States our annual thanksgiving & the day of fasting & prayer for schools & colleges were observed by many of our people with much interest. Our chch. has contributed the past year in cash, For Mo Concert Support of pastor In all $ 35.25 297.03 330.28 Beside this some small bundles have been sent to missionaries in the Marquesas Isls. Our contributions are small, & the people feel poor. The proper­ ty in which they abound & from which their means have been to a great extent obtained in former years, has the past year been of no value, & in many instances only a bill of expense. In the Chchs. under my care I find there is a very great negli­ gence among the members in bringing forward their children for bap­ tism. Perhaps the fault is in part my own, as I have uniformly refused to baptize those children that the parents intended to give away to their friends. I also have refused to baptize adopted children for �Waialua 1862 6. our church members when the form prescribed by the laws of the Kingdom to make adoption legal had not been complied with - As the duty of church members to have their children baptized is one in which we are generally agreed & yet our practice may be diverse I should like to be instructed on the subject by this body. Statistics of the Waialua Chch. 1862 Total received by Prof by letter Past year by prof by letter total total dismissed past year total died ” past year Excluded past year Now in reg - standing Children baptized Baptized past year Marriages Born in Waialua died 1123 230 8 7 15 73 0 282 8 8 408 705 1 14 36 53 �Report of Waialua Station, Oahu. May, 1863. The past year has been marked by no very extraordinary events to make it unlike the years that have gone before. We have had sick­ ness in our family; but death has not entered our dwelling. We are conscious that as we commence the thirity ( !) second year of our resi­ dence at the islands, we have not the elasticity of limb with which we entered the field, nor the buoyant hope of living to see around us a civilized, industrious, thriving congenial and homogenious race of people. ”The fathers where are they? ” book of church names is badly starred. The first thirty pages of my The first page contains but four names of living church members; and many pages are starred from top to bottom. Out of 1166 who have been registered as church members at least 622 are numbered with the dead. More than half have departed. There are now living 48 who have at different times, and for reasons that appeared sufficient at the time, been cut off from the fellow­ ship of the church. Of these 48, about twelve are now numbered with the Papists, and six or eight have joined the Mormon Fraternity. Of the rest some ten or twelve are frequently seen with us in the house of God on the Sabbath day. Many of those who joined the Papists did it to avoid all contributions for every religious object. Those who have united with the Mormons have done it knowing that with their habits of life they could never be expected to be fellowshiped ( !) by us. There are a number of names on our church book that we have neither excommunicated nor dismissed, and I have not learned their locality; although not numbered with the dead, we do not reckon them with the living; so in the table they will be unaccounted for. The past year I have spent ten Sabbaths away from Waialua, four with the church in Waianae, five with the church in Hauula, and one in Honolulu. My routine of labors has been much as in past years. �Waialua 1863 2. A morning prayer meeting every day in the week; usually two other meetings during the week, a lecture in some part of Waialua, and on Friday a lesson in scripture history at the station. On the Friday previous to the communion, we have a day of religious exercises, when all of the church in the district are expected to be present, and answer to their names. are very laborious. These preparatory meetings for the communions Sometimes the whole week is devoted to conversing a few minutes with each member of the church. Such personal conver­ sations are undesired and disagreeable only to those who are negligent & wandering. Our church has not been increased the past year, except by letter, either in Waialua, Waianae or Hauula. If there has been any progress among us in anything good it has been by growth in grace, or by the lopping off of dead or unfruitful branches. The winnowing process has been carried on somewhat extensively; and, we trust, to the advantage of all our churches. In this we have been especially aided by a company of very unclean Mormons, who by flattery and false­ hood are able to beguile unstable, ignorant and unfruitful professors of religion, and many who were once professors, but have apostatized. But so marked is the difference between our stable church members and the Mormon community, even the least among them, that all can tell a Mormon by his peculiar fruits. Papists. Our Papist neighbors embrace nominally about one fifth of the community. Iokeewe, their priest, is a Frenchman, naturally irascible, but now in poor health, and advanced in years. He improves, I think, as he grows older, and the little community of which he is the center is becoming a more staid, liberal, Intelligent and respectIble ( !) community than in former years; and, although as a community far below the Evangelical Protestants, in education, industry, wealth and business tact, yet they are far above the Mormons in Industry, morals, and every desirable trait. �Waialua 1863 Of the English Reformed Catholics we have hut few specimens; and, so far as we have seen them, they are well described by their own poet, - "Baptized infidels, the worse for mending, "Washed to fowler stains", confirmed in their sins, not purified from them. We can but marvel that the church of England, with all her knowledge and tact at finan­ ciering, could not have found among the millions of unevangelized pagans some spot on which to bestow her Christian liberality in some more praiseworthy manner, and on some more needy & promising people than they can find at these Isls . after the field has been so fully cultivated for more than one third of a century. But some men do not blush to reject Paul's good advice to the Corrinthians ( !) (2d 10:16) "To preach the gospel in the regions beyond, and not to boast in another man’s line of things, made ready to their hand." Population. The population of Waialua in 1854 was 1137, and in 1860 it was 1309; an increase by immigration of nearly 200. While in Koolauloa the population in 1854 was 1214, but is now less than that of Waialua. 62. The births in Waialua the past year were 41, deaths In no year have the births exceeded the deaths since 1853; but generally they have been only two thirds as numerous. Why has the population in Waialua increased, while it has decreased in every other rural district of the island, if not of the whole group? only one way to account for it. I have There is more land owned by common natives in Waialua than in any other district of Oahu; and the people are less oppressed by foreign land owners than in any other district; and so they increase by immigration faster than they decrease by excess of deaths above the births. Famine. Waialua is the granary of the west of Oahu. Its capa­ bilities for the production of kalo have not been fully tested of late years, nor are they likely soon to be, as the people do not calculate �4. Waialua 1863 to cultivate any more than they expect to find a good market for near home. Some portions of Waialua and a part of Koolau have suffered severely from drought the past three years. manner has lost its kalo crop for two years. Waimea in an especial They have used up their money in buying food, and are now in a state of great destitution. (Unsigned) �Report of Waianae Station (1863) The district of Waianae contains about 700 people at the present time, about one half of the number it contained twenty five or thirty years ago. The land is mainly adapted to grazing. Fifty or a hundred acres may be fit for kalo; and 500 for the plow in favorable seasons. The pasture land is divided into six or seven divissions ( !); and secured to as many parties or individuals on long lease or fee simple titles. These six or seven parties may be called the lords of the soil, and of the people; as they controll ( !) much of the time of the people in pay for the pasturage of their horses, of which they are very fond, and own a far too large number for their good. The kalo land of the d i s trict, as now cultivated, furnishes but little more food than Is consumed by the people. Fish and fungus are the principal commodities of export for the common people; and fishermen are pro­ verbially poor from ancient times. There are now two schools with about twenty five scholars apiece. There is a mission church, and two buildings for worship, and two places for meetings, about eight miles apart. Besides the mission church there is a company of Papists, not well organized, influential or industrious. There is also a company who call themselves Mormons. These consist generally of persons who have been cut off from the Protestant church for indifference to all its ordinances, or adultery, or both, and also of that class who, being very ignorant, have never been members of any church, and who are promised life, health and sal­ vation by joining the Mormons. This costs them little more than to submit to be immersed in water, an act which is not very trying to them in any way . The church of Waianae has been under a native pastor for ten or twelve years till the death of Waimalu in the year 1860. It was then �Waianae 1863 2. without a pastor except as I have attended its communious( ) four times ! per year, up to the present time. During the past year, ending in April last, they have had the services of a native licentiate, at one hundred dollars per annum. But, as the pay was so inadequate to his necessities, he had devoted more of his time to agriculture than to the cultivation of the people. The church hoped to get out of debt by giving little for the gospel, but it has been otherwise. They have now concluded to do without any pastoral labor between the communion seasons until they may again be in funds, which I fear will not soon take place. In the time of Waimalu there were nominally in the church between 200 & 300 members. Of these 277 have died; and, during the past two years, 33 have been cut off from the church. Sixty one who were once In the church are now living as excluded members. There are many aged persons still living in the church who are too feeble to go far to meeting, or contribute anything for the support of the gospel. The members who can be relied on for aid in supporting the gospel is probably less than one hundred. No additions have been made to the church during the past year, except that one has been restored to its communions. At the communion in October, 1862 19 were cut off, nearly all of them for living in a state of socialism in its fullest sense, and in which, as I afterwards learned, some of them had lived for many years. I have visited the church four times during the year; and spent nearly a week on each visit, holding a communion with the church, and meeting the people repeatedly in different parts of the district. There is little prospect of the population’s increasing for years to come, but the opposite, as no part of the district is suitable for an extensive sugar plantation. There are in Waianae, generally ten or twelve white or half white people who speak the English language. �Waianae 1863 3. But their influence is far from being favorable to religion. They need the labors of a good, faithful native pastor, and he to be helped by missionary visits, to secure his support, and help forward any good he may aim to accomplish. Wai­ alua Waia­ nae Whole number of church members on profession 1066 582 Whole number by certificate — 102 Received past year on profession of faith 0 1 " " by certificate 5 0 Whole number past year 5 1 " " dismissed to other churches 365 39 ’’ past year 0 16 " " died 333 277 " past year 13 16 — Suspended past year —— Excommunicated past year 9 33 Total excommunicated 88 61 Living do 48 Total in regular standing 348 160 Total children baptized 720 66 Children baptized past year 15 16 Married past year -10 Contributions for pastor $276.87 (Unsigned) Hauula 651 39 0 2 2 21 6 250 8 36 265 177 9 10 �Waialua June 1865 Report of J.S. Emerson’s labors. During the past year since June last I have partially supplied the pulpit at Waialua 16 sabbaths conducted 12 of the communions, & also attended the communions in Koolau loa at Hauula & Kahana. I have uniformly attended a reading & prayer meeting at sunrise on the Sabbath & conducted also Bible school Sabbath noon when at Waialua - I have attended somewhat to the medical wants of the people & visited some what among the people. My health is gradually improving but it is not such as would enable me to read with ease & correctness for any length of time in any language - There is as I think a slight paraly­ sis of both of the optic nerves which prevents ready & acute vision although It does not acquaint with the cause of the defect, or produce any pain in the organs of vision. A portion of my time - perhaps the largest has been ocupied ( !) in supervising some small matters connected with my family, but without much hand labor on my part - The Mormons have come into our field & done more to injure it than Bishop Staley & all his staff. But the low state of religion among the people - Horse racing, Gambling & card playing & the great lack of family religion & parental govt have troubled me more than all else - If family religion is neglected little else can avail to produce a reform. (Unsigned; done in pencil) � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mission Station Reports - Oahu Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mission Station Reports - Oahu - Waialua / Waianae - 1832-1865 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, 1846, 1848, 1849, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1865 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/7ac7c3af4185cbe38c9087254c2d2f0f.pdf c486c23b4adaa84e4bf392a17a9aca53 PDF Text Text (1839) Original Ms in Hawaiian Mission Children Society's Library REPORT Dr. G. P. Judd to Sandwich Island Mission Besides the Editoriship of the Kumu Hawaii the main employment of my time the past year has been the practice of medicine. No regular journal of cases has been preserved or I might per­ haps fatigue you with their detail. All the usual variety of diseases Fevers, Inflamations, & what not, disorders of both the inner and outer man, have presented themselves at the Dispensary and received such aid as it was in our power to afford. A rather unusual number of Surgical cases have presented themselves— diseases of the Eye, Polypus, Tumors, Fractures Dislocations &c. The introduction of the Mumps by the Ship Rasselas has added my considerably to my labors owing to the fears of the people respec­ ting a new & unknown disease. These fears I endeavoredwithoutto allay success by the statement that we use little medical treatment for it in the U.S. b t I u soon found that in many instances the results were rather serious, owing to the influence of the inflammation on the general system & the giving away of the feebler organs. At the commencement of the year I took a young man ^ the Semiat nary six years, with a view to giving him instruction in the Medical art. slight He has obtained a^ knowledge of Anatomy from the study of the a small edition of which has been published Anatomia, ^and also some acquaintance with the more common Medicines and diseases. The method of giving instruction has been oral, the who had b �student retireing to his room immediately after each lecture or talk and committing it to writing on a slate, which after being corrected and amended he records in a book. This book he has pro­ vided with an index & uses as a book of reference, in doubtful cases. The names of Medicines and diseases so far as we have pro­ ceeded are in the Hawaiian language. Hoohano is competent to do common is what in our ^language a called giving out medicine, bleed, cup, dress wounds, open abscesses &c &c. Some attention has been likewise been bestowed in teaching him to read proof sheets, which he is now qualified to do with tolerable correctness, for which he is paid a small sum out of the appropri­ ation for the Printing Department, His board I have furnished at my own expense & have drawn about 25$ for his clothing from the Department. Whether this experiment will prove a successful one is yet quite uncertain, although thus far appearances are favorable. It has been an object with me not to oppose the practice of the native physicians in mass, but to endeavor by the best means in my power to correct and modify their practice so that it shall save, not kill the people. It is my intention if possible the coming year to make Hoohano acquainted with the native practice as it now exists and make him the agent for collecting facts on the subject. It is out of the question for us to think of putting down the native practice unless we will attend all the sick ourselves, since it is not human nature to be sick & die without seeking some means of �alleviation. The idea of improving the native doctors has there­ fore suggested itself to me as an exceedingly important one demanding immediate attention. Owing to want of Physicians in the village or to some other cause I have had an unusual number of calls from foreigners, many some of whom are enemies of the mission— ^persons of bad character and all fully aware that my services are gratuitous. During the year I have visited Kailua at the call of Dr. An­ drews and the family of Mr. Thurston. Also Lahainaluna where I spent 18or28 days, engaged partly in professional business & partly in lecturing on Anatomy on a select class of boys. Several urgent calls have also been made from Waialua and Kaneohe which received attention. Some time has been occupied during the year as interpreter and Translator for the government, an employment of much importance, al­ though attended with great difficulties. It is decidedly the most difficult station I was ever called on to fill and one I would if possible avoid, but without some constant intervention of this sort it is impossible to avoid constant trouble between chiefs & foreigners. The field ought not to be left unoccupied. I have had the Superintendence of the Childrens Sabbath School, in which I have been aided by Messrs Castle Cooke & Dimond, and Miss M. Smith. There is nothing peculiar in the manner of conducting this School which would render it worthy of notice. The number who actually, 83 181 since the first of Sept; last have^attended has varied from^to Sabbath 75. �(1839 & 1840) Original Ms in Hawaiian Mission Children Society's Library REPORT Dr. G. P. Judd to Sandwich Island Mission In reporting my labors the past year, I must for bear to dilate much on the several items owing to the late hour at which the pre­ paration of the Report is commenced. Medical Practice has been attended to ^every day and in ^ circumstances. It has been my object to place the common Office practice as much as pos­ sible into the hands of native assistants, and this has been atten­ ded with much encouraging success. Hoohano & Kalili have both rendered themselves useful the former however much the most so as his previous acquirements and habits of mental application render him much the best qualified for He has been laid aside since the first of April & the profession^. Kalili proves more expert, but less conscientious will die in the discharge of his duty and also averse to aply his mind to investigation. As soon as we became a little settled after the last Annual Meeting, I commenced the investigation of the native practice and by s the aid of these two assistants obtained from several native Drs the various doctrines and practices of the art which have come down through the legalizd channels mai ka wa kahiko mai. The result of these investigations have been embodied in their proper order and committed to writing in a Book kept for the purpose. These investigations occupied several weeks in the early part �of the year and have been continued as opportunity afforded. We also instituted a series of experimentx on native medicines which resulted pretty much as all experiments of the kind usually do. We found we could prepare from the native Gourd alone, or combined with Koali or Pipa and extract which would physic most delightfully & like Brandreths Pills to any amount which might be desirable. But their being no regular source whence the materials can be derived & the preparation of them being attended with some trouble, we have neglected to use them, it being easier to take from the shelves what was already at hand & good enough without seeking for any thing better. If however it is thought desirable to supply the stations with the article it can be done at a rate somewhat cheaper than similar foreign articles. About 3 q u a r t s ^ h v e n made a b during the year of which about half proved to have been damaged in boiling the gourds. The rest have been disposed of to advantage. I have been unable to prepare an account of the Native Practice in the English language. during The most of the investigations were conducted^ the visit of the Ships of War & while our house was thronged with company. Mr. Robert J. Morris of the Jno Adams was left in my family on the 11th of Oct. and died Nov 16th, 3 days subsequent to the death of our eldest son. Immediately after which I took the rest of the family to Maui in complyance with the request of the Trustees of the Wailuku Fem Sem. in order to investigate the causes of the sickness �which had proved fatal to many of the pupils in that Institution. On our arrival at Lahaina we learned that Mrs. Clarke was sick of fever, and having spent about 4 weeks at Lahainaluna, we proceded to Wailuku. The result of the examination may be gotten in the following letter to the Principal of the Sem. See Report 2 During the year I have made one visit to Ewa, two to Waialua and three to Kaneohe, but on the whole the health of the mission families ^at those stations has been good. 1 As to Lectures at Lahainaluna, I might observe that I found the views of the Principal were that the school was not in a state to profit by them. The work on Hygeae assigned me has been commenced. What I have written is on the management of children. Sugar Mill & plantations. for chiefs children Efforts to encourage. School House �(1840-1841) Printed in Fragments II, pp. 120-131 Original Ms in Hawaiian Mission Children Society's Library REPORT Dr. G. P. Judd to Sandwich Island Mission On reviewing my journal for the purpose of making out a report of my labors the past year I find the following points which I have selected as worthy of notice; and first, Medical practice. In common with other members of the medical staff I have attended the sick as cases have presented themselves, and most of the year without any assistant. Kalili left me in August. Hoohano died the last of June and The former was a valuable assistant both in the preparation of medicines and in prescribing for the Office patients; his death must therefore be regretted as a loss to his people. Kalili was not satisfied to spend his time so unprofit- ably to himself as to work without wages, and although I consider him an active promising youth I was not satisfied with his profi­ eventually ciency in the Medical art. This state of things^b r o u g h t about an amicable separation and the room which I had from the Bindery has been called for and given up to Mr Dimond. Besides Hoohano, several other native patients whose names are familiar to most of you have been removed by death. after an illness of three months. Laanuis wife, Kapihis wife, sick a long time, under my care two months: just before her death she was removed to a house near the residence of the Popish priests— to the cured. as was pretended— I called after the first ceremonies had been per- �formed and stated to the husband & family that what they had des­ cribed as having been done by the priest was only a rite of their religion & had nothing to do with medical practice. This created some surprise as they were all under the impression that the priest expected to cure her. This I denied and requested them to ask the priest next time he called if. what he had done was for the body or the soul, and pledged myself to confront and expose him if he pre­ tends to cure with his holy water, and I added that all his motive in extremis in visiting the sick^ was to make prosylites and procure bodies to be buried in their new graveyard. The priest did not however come in collision with me and the body was buried in our cemetery. Gases like the above are not very frequent in Honolulu where the priests dread exposure but the game is played in all other parts of the island with great success. Kapiolani, of whose holy life and estimable character I need not speak died on the 6 fecting. th inst under circumstances peculiarly af­ She came to Honolulu about the 20th of March by the advice of Dr. Andrews her Physician to be operated on for a cancer of the breast. She bore the operation, which was severe, without mani­ festing the least symptom of pain. Her breast as she afterwards expressed it was with Jesus, and so vivid was her sense of the Divine presence that she seemed to be almost unconscious of what she was suffering. She was ready to die, and equally ready to live if that were the will of God. �Both Dr. Woodd & Dr Fox surgeon of the Vincennes united in opinion with me that the disease was removed & we might expect a perfect cure. The wound healed kindly & at the end of a fortnight was really closed. She attended meetings & at the Poalima was very animated in her arguments with her sisters on the subject of their old superstitions about ghosts and pule anaana which she had determined to refute as long as her life should be spared her. About six weeks after the operation deeming my attendance no longer necessary I gave her permission to visit Maui as soon as she could procure a passage, and in preparation for leaving she took a long walk in the heat of the day which brought on a pain in the side. The next day Apl 29th she visited each of the missionaries at their houses including those from other islands. Erysipelous now made its appearance which after two or three days by Metastasis affected the brain and she sunk away into palsy and death. of Of the painful & protracted sickness and triumphant death^it Mrs. Castle what is unnecessary for me to say any thing in addition to^ has already been written & published. It was a consolation to me that her life was protracted until 10 days after my return from Hawaii. A large proportion of the Missionaries within my field have, required medical aid, and some are now on the list of invalids. have visited professionally the families I at Waialua seven times in the course of the year and Ewa once. Calls from foreigners for medical attendance have been few, and those generally among the poor not on the consuls hands. I ascribe �this to the confidence of the public in Dr. Wood. Englishman was under my care four weeks. One man, an His letter of thanks written in the height of animosity between the American & English Residents— I will read. No remarkable sickness among the people has prevailed the past year. The Chicken Pox and a slight influenza have appeared within a few weeks. The want of medicines has rendered it impossible for me to supply all the orders from the stations. There is a supply in the Gloucester. (Arrived 1841) 2nd Translating & interpreting. The calls for my services in these particulars have been frequent some part of the year, gen­ erally, by the government. I have usually been present at all important trials and the adjustment of difficulties between the government and foreigners. 3d Proof reading. Labors not very abundant in this department this h t 4year. Building Meeting house. This has occupied some of my time particularly in the early part of the year in connexion with Mr. Armstrong. About the time of Mr Binghams sailing a donation from the King of 7 lau Mamaki kapa was put into my hands for the purpose of procuring shingles. These had to be converted into ready money and men employed to manufacture them on this island. This agency called me away from home on two occasions for several days to hunt �for timber on the mountains back of Waialua Waipio and Ewa. The search proving in the end to be fruitless the shingles were pur­ chased in town, th 5 Church affairs. Some aid has been rendered Mr. Armstrong in cases of discipline &c in the former part of his resident at the station. 6th Improvement of the Soil. In the honeymoon of our zeal for develloping the resources of the country I thought it my duty to persuade Kekuanaoa to unite in partnership with a foreigner for the purpose of establishing a sugar manufactory in the vicinity of Honolulu, and I became engaged to act as Kekuanaoas agent in such a manner that all business between the parties was to be transacted through me, in order to avoid collision between them and secure to the best advantage the cooperation of both. Operations were com­ menced by enclosing the land procuring a Mill &c &c but the foreigner becoming sick of his prospects sold out to Kekuanaoa & the partner­ ship was dissolved. I have enclosed six acres and a half of land near the old Allen place which is being ploughed and I hope to have planted in the course of the summer and fall, th 7 U.S. Exploring Expeidition. In view of the objects of the Expedition and the claim we have made on our Government for the pro­ tection of ourselves and our families from proscription and outrage, it appeared to be the duty of the Mission to afford them every facility while at the islands Accordingly, at the suggestion of �Lt. Commandant Long that we would collect for the use of the Expedi­ tion, information respecting the islands and the operations of the Mission, a circular was addressed to each of the stations and public institutions which drew from the brethren a considerable number of documents which I embodied in one volume and in the name of the writer presented it to Commadore Wilkes on his arrival at Honolulu. He subsequently invited me to accompany him on an expedi­ tion to Mauna Loa which was expected to occupy six weeks. This invitation I accepted after a due consideration of the sub­ ject and consulting with several of the brethren, all of whom con­ curred with me in the opinion that it was my duty to go. Mr. Brins- made was also invited and made one of the party. While at Hawaii I endeavored to render myself useful in various ways, I acted as interpreter and directed the natives employed, about 600 in number and had the satisfaction of preventing or ami­ cably settling the. thousand difficulties which were naturally to be expected to be the consequence of throwing such a number of natives in the way of more than 70 foreigners of the ships company during a journey of 40 days in the mountains. I also collected specimens, attended to all the sick, lame & wounded both natives and foreigners and held meetings on the sabbath with the natives. While at Kilauea I narrowly escaped a horrible death by the merciful interposition of Providence. Let down by the hands of a native I had descended six or eight feet of the brim of a cooled caldron, 28 feet deep and 200 wide and crept along under a ledge �where I was crouched down on my feet collecting Peles hair, when the falling of a few stones warned me that an eruption was about to take place, and the next instant the bottom opened 50 feet from me like an immense bubble 8 or 10 feet in diameter and with a tremendous noise projected a column of lava to a height far above the bank or margin of the pit. The colour of this jet was of the most perfect crimson and the heat & glare too great for the eye to look on. I raised myself to an erect posture, turned my face to the wall with my hands upon a projecting ledge above me which I found it impossible to mount without assistance, nor could I resume my former position and retrace the way I came on account of the intense heat. Here I stood perfectly helpless. God heard my I had prayer. When^given up all, & resigned myself into His hand, Kalama appeared on the bank, put out his hands, seized mine, which enabled me by an extraordinary effort to throw myself out. It seems that at the moment of the eruption, the five natives who were with me ran off, but Kalama more bold than the rest bethought him­ self of me, and turned back only just in season for my rescue, for just as he approached the brink the accumulated flood having filled the inequalities of the bottom flowed directly under my feet. As I went over the ledge I felt that I was burnt and Kalamas face and ear were blistered by the heat radiated directly from below. On our return to Hilo I spent several days in paying off the natives, and as. there was only one surgeon attached to the Vincennes I took charge of the sick on board while he visited the volcano. I �also prescribed for the families at Hilo, and on my return visited the Female Seminary at Wailuku where there was an increase of sick­ ness at the time. At Lahaina and Lahainaluna also I found several persons waiting to avail themselves of my professional services. Perhaps I ought to add, that while in company with com. Wilkes I was treated with all the kindness and consideration which is due to a gentleman, a Christian and a missionary, both by the com. and all the officers and men under his command, and I am not without hope that a a favorable impression was made upon them. It may perhaps be satisfactory to some of the brethren to know that I went on this Expedition in no other capacity than as com­ panion of capt Wilkes and aid and director of the natives, having no other expectation of reward than a consciousness of doing good and serving our common cause, that circumstances which could not have been foreseen protracted my absence double the time which was calculated, that I embraced the first opportunity after the natives engaged in the expedition were discharged to return home in a native schooner, and that on the arrival of the Vincennes at Hono­ lulu I received a valuable present from Capt Wilkes under the positive restriction that it should be entirely at my own disposal and not a donation to the Boards. � 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 - 1839-1841 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1839, 1840, 1841 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/ac62e32928f529bfc3fe876eeb68c196.pdf 7a59b0749c56c85d1fc2bde66d14a8cd PDF Text Text P .2. Minutes of the Prudential Meetings of the Mission Family At a Meeting of the brethren composing the Mission to [p.l] the Sandwich Islands, on board the Brig Thaddeus, November 16, 1819, - Rev. Asa Thurston was chosen Chairman and Elisha Loomis Clerk Voted - That Capt. Daniel Chamberlain and Dr* Thomas Holman be a Committee to oversee the affairs of George P. » Tamoree. That the domestic concerns and Provisions of the Mission Family be committed to the care of Capt* Chamberlain, and that brothers Samuel Whitney and Samuel Ruggles be his Assistants. That the Medical Stores be committed to the care of Doct. Thomas Holman. That at our Meals all the Members of the Mission be present, if convenient, and take their seats in order; that a blessing be asked before the family is served;- and that no member leave the table until thanks are returned, except by leave of the Captain. [p.2] That the brethren of the Mission meet once a week for prudential purposes. - Adjourned. Nov.24. The brethren met according to agreement, and chose brother Bingham Chairman. The subject of Studies, to be pursued by the Missionaries during the voyage, was discussed. Conversation was also had respecting the administration of the Sacrament, but no vote was taken. �[1819-1820] p. 3 Nov.26,1819. At a Meeting of the brethren, It was voted that the Spirituous liquor, necessary for Thomas Hopoo, John Honoree, and William Tennooe be kept by brother Whitney, to be given to the above named persons, according to the direction of Dr. Holman. It is understood that the White Wine, divided among the members of the Mission, be only used as a Medicine The clothing for T. Hopoo, J. Honoree, and Wm Tennooe is to be kept by brother Whitaey, who shall distribute to them according to their necessities, and keep an account of the articles distributed. Dec.15,1819. Resolved That each member of the Mission be supplied with a dish and spoon which they are to keep in their posses­ sion." Resolved, That such of the brethern and sisters as chose have tea in the morning,instead of coffee, if it shall meet the approbation of Capt. Blanchard and that water gruel be made for those who wish, for supper. December 22, 1819. Resolved That It is expedient to observe the anniversary of the birth of our Saviour. [p.3] That Brothers Bingham, and Thurston be a committee to make arrangements for the celebration, and that they report in what manner the day bhall be observed. March 15,1820. Voted That the brethero^of the Mission be a Committee to sketch by-laws to be adopted and observed by this community. Several subjects partially discussed, and the meeting adjourned March 23,1820. The following by-laws having been under consideration for some time, were adopted this evenings the That Property furnished by the Christian public, either �[1820] P*4 in money or other articles of any kind, for the purposes of the Mission shall be at the disposal of the members jointly and subject to their vote. (In P. 6 [of Instructions]) The property acquired by the members jointly or by indi­ viduals of the body either by grant, barter, or earnings shall also be subject to the disposal of the members Jointly. (In p 6) The property thus furnished or acquired, either divided or undivided, shall be devoted to the general purposes of the mission, according to the tenor of our Instructions from the A. B. Com. F. M. and according to our own regulations, not incompatible with those instructions. (In Page 6) No member of this mission shall be entitled to use or allowed to appropriate such property divided or undivided, in bying [sic], selling, giving, or consuming, etc. in any manner incompatible with our general Instructions, or contrary to the voice of a majority of the members. (In Pages 6 & 7). Should any member withdraw from the service of the AmerBoard, or abandon the mission, or without material consent separate himself from the community, or for heresy or middemeanor be cut off from this church, he shall be considered, of course, as forfeiting all right to the patronage of the Board, and to the property of this community; - and that the holy cause may not suffer or be embarrassed by loss of property In such cases, r * if he shall have received a dividend of the property furnished by the Christian public, or acquired while under the patronage of the Board, he shall be bound to restore that dividend to the common stock, to be again at the disposal of the community. (In P. 3 and 5.) Should any member of this Mission persist in violating �[1820] P« 5 the regulations of the Prudential Committee, or the rules adopted by this body, such violation shall be considered as uncharitable, insubordination to rightful direction, and suf­ ficient ground for Christian Discipline. [p.5] (In P.5.) Should it be thought advisable by this body that one or more of the members should be separate from the rest, in order more happily or effectually to secure the benevolent object of our mission, such person, or persons, whether separated at their own request, by the consent of the mission, or by nomin­ ation or ballot, shall be subject to the same general rules, as to support and labor, and the application of property and talents, and receive his proper dividend from the common stock. No member shall be allowed to make a bargain, to bind his brethern,^without their consent; but a Com. may be appointed, with discretionary powers to buy and sell for the community. March 29,1820. Brother T. in the Chair. Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to purchase of the natives of Owhyhee, such articles as may be thought desirable and to do what trading is necessary. Resolved, That b'rother Chamberlain of our company and Mr. Honneywell of the Thaddeus be a Committee for this purpose. Kirooah bay, April 11, 1820. Voted that it is expedient that a part of our mission reside at this place. Voted that Rev. Mr. Thurston and Dr. Holman with their wives and Thomas Hopoo, and William Tennooe be left at this place. �r [1820] [p.6] p. 6 Village of Hanaroora, Woahoo, July 1st,1820. The branch of the Sandwich Mission established at this place met at the house of brother Bingham and resolved to send one of the members to Kirooah in Owhyhee to consult with the Missionaries at that place as to the expediency of making an establishment at Atooi and to transact other business. Brother Whitney was designated for this purpose. July 18th, 1820. < \ The brethern^met and after looking to God in prayer for direction passed the following resolutions; Resolved, That we deem it expedient to comply with the request of Tamoree and Homehome,.and to take a station at Atooi. Resolved, That we deem it expedient that brothers Whitney and Ruggles, with their wives, should shortly proceed thither end occupy it. Resolved, That we deem it expedient to comply with the request of Crymokee, and to send a teacher to Toeigh. Resolved, That brother Loomis, be designated to proceed thither as soon as it shall be convenient. July 22, 1820. [p.7] The brethern^met to consider the case of William Tennooe who by disorderly and wicked conduct had brought reproach upon the holy c&w&e of Missions. After effectionately admonishing the said William Tennooe and hearing from his own mouth his determination to continue in his present course of sin, the following resolution was unanimously adooted: Resolved, That William Tennooe be excommunicated from this Church. �[1831] [p.8] Monday, March 14th, 1831. St the request of Mr. Shepard, the brethern <6f the station at Honolulu met to take Into consideration his duty in reference to his health; and adopted the following resolution: Resolved, that while we regret to lose the important services of Mr. Shepard in the printing department, even for a little season, still in consideration of the affection of his lungs, and the apprehension that the trade winds and dust of Honolulu plains will be unfavorable to his cough, we there­ fore recommend, that he feel himself entirely relieved from the care of the office, and that he seek a more favorable [p.9] atmosphere at Lahaina, or Kailua as shall/ appear most desir- [p.9] able to himself; and that he simply hold himself at the dis­ posal of an alwise providence, and wait the intimation of the sovereign and adorable will of our gracious Redeemer, who directs all our affairs in Infinite goodness. The brethern present and who adopted the above resolution were the following! H. Bingham, E. W. Clark, G. P. Judd, Levi Chamberlain. Friday, March 18th, 1831. The brethern.of the station A viz: Messrs. Bingham, Clark, Judd, Shepard and Chamberlain met for the purpose of appointing one or more of their number to [P.10] take charge of for the present of the business of/ printing [p.10] and other business of the office instead of Mr. Shepard whose health is such as to require a suspension of his labors in that department. Voted that Mr. Clark take the oversight of the printing and that Dr. Judd take the oversight of the books. �[1831] p .8 M Honolulu, May 18, 1831. The brethern^of this station viz: Messrs. Bingham, Clark, Judd, Shepard and Chamberlain together with Mr. Whitney of the station at Kauai, met to consult as to the expediency of altering the place and times of the General Meeting, in consequence of information received from the Corresponding Secretary, of the intention of the Board to reenforce this Mission by additional helpers, whose arrival at the islands may be expected sometime in the course of this month; and recommended that the meeting be held at this place instead of Lahaina, and the time be as early in the month of June as possible. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sandwich Islands Mission Meeting Minutes Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sandwich Islands Mission Meeting Minutes - Prudential Meetings of the Mission Family - 1819-1820 and 1831 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1819, 1820, 1831 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/446da62d9b673f54490a338fb7ce51ea.pdf e01f801252ee838a0bed3f9385ba59c3 PDF Text Text r •• - U N P U B L I S H E D Records of a General Meeting of the Sandwich Islands Mission Held at Honolulu, 1823. CCopied from the original found in the vault of the iifawaiian Mission Children’s Society, January, 1942. - M. SchleifJ �rt 2. Records of a General Meeting of the Sandwich islands Mission Held at Honolulu, 1823. ClnsertJ Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Cp.ll Thurston Ellis Bingham Richards Bishop Dr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Blatchely Goodrich Ely Ruggles Chamberlain & Mr. Loomis At a meeting of the brethren of the mission on Monday Sept 8th 1823. Mr. Bingham was chosen moderator and Levi Chamberlain Secy. Resolved that it is desirable to hold a prayer meeting this evening with reference to the important business about to come before the mission and that at the close of it the report of the Com. for the satisfactory distribution of means of support shall be read. Resolved that there be a meeting tomorrow at 9 o'cl, to attend to the reading of the report of the Deputation for explog. Hawaii. Adjourned Tuesday Sept 9th. Being assembled agreeably to the fore­ going resolution, & the meeting having been opened by pray­ tp.2} er by Mr Ellis, Mr. Bishop proceeded to the reading of C/».a3 report of the DeputationAfor exploring Hawaii. Agreed not to act upon this report nor upon the report of the Committee for the satisfactory distribution of the means of support at the meeting. Meeting for business adjourned to 2 o’clock this afternoon. �Cl823j Insert 3 The adjourned meeting having been opened by prayer by Mr. Goodrich the report of the committee for the satisfact­ ory distribution of the means of support was-again read & accepted for further investigation & consideration. Motioned & seconded that the several articles of the report be acted upon separately. Discussed the 1st and 2nd article, and passed them separately. Adjourned to § after 7 this evening. Met according to adjournment and discussed & accepted Zp-3l the 3 & 4th articles & then adjournment to 9 o ’clockAto­ morrow morning. Wednesday Sept. 10th Met according to adjournment. The meeting having been opened by addressing the throne of grace for divine direction proceeded to the discussion of the 5th article - after discussing it for some time and not agreeing, the meeting was adjourned for half an hour - being assembled again not agreeing to pass it in the original form, it was motioned & agreed to pass It by for the present & act upon the remaining articles. Discussed the remaining art­ icles & unanimously accepted them and adjourned to 2 o'clock. Met according to adjournment. The 5th article In en amended form was brought forward & read, and unanimously passed. I*Hi Proceeded to the choice by balot CsicJ of an ^igent to superintend the depository. chosen. Levi Chamberlain was unanimously �ri825l Insert 4 Motioned that Hawaii be occupied by establishing one or b more stations thereon as soon as circumstances will admit & passed. Motioned that 4 persons be employed to occupy Hawaii. Unanimously passed. Motioned that Kalrua & Waiakea be the places to be occupied. Unanimously passed. Motioned that the persons be chosen by balot CsicJ. Elected Rev. Asa Thurston, Rev. Artemas Bishop, Mr. Joseph Goodrich, Mr. James Ely to be the persons to occupy the two stations. Adjourned until immediately after tea. Met according to adjournment. Voted to reconsider the choice of Mr. Ely as one of the persons Ato occupy Hawaii owing to Mr. E. CsicJ decided pre­ ference for Tauwal & his dissatisfaction with his election for Hawaii. Resolved to proceed to the choice of a fourth person for Hawaii to be permanently settled there or remove ss the ad­ vantages of the mission at large may require. After much conversation upon the foregoing motion & not coming to any­ thing decisive on the subject voted to adjourn to 6 o ’clock tomorrow morning. Thursday Sept 11th. Met according to adjournment the meeting having been opened by prayer proceeded to the dis­ cussion of the subject CofU last evening, viz. the choice of a fourth person. Voted that the offer of br. Ruggles to be �(18231 Insert 5 stationed at Walakea with an ordained missionary for one year & a half or two years as hia health may admit or cir­ cumstances require to assist in the settlement of that stat­ ion be accepted. Adjourned to 9 o'clock. A Cp.6j ^ Met according to adjournment. Conversed upon the propriety of the doctors Csl<0 comply­ ing with the request of the king to go up to Maui to render medical aid to the kings Csic} mother now ill. Voted that Dr. Blatchely be recommended to comply with the request upon condition of his not being absent from this place many days. Motioned that the questions concerning the location of Hawaii be postponed for the present & passed. Adjourned. Friday Sept 12. At an adjourned meeting after looking to the throne of grace for divine guidance the following resolu­ tions were discussed & unanimously passed. It shall be deemed proper, that each family should enjoy Clnsert a suitable dwelling house, or that which shall be equal to it in anv other suitable accommodations for cooking & washing - & that each handwrit ingest at ion should be accommodated with a bell or laome substitute for calling together a school or a congregation, with a spy glass, a quadrant and navigator, a timepiece, - An encyclo­ pedia or some valuable dictionary of the arts, a chest of tools, - A universal gazeteer and atlas - and Scott's Bible Provided that in the order of procuring their order their comparative necessity shall be duly considered. - �CL8231 Insert 6 Also that each station shall at liberty to decide for itself the expediency of living in separate family's & cooking & washing at separate fires - and to make any regula­ tion for itself, not repugnant to our general rules. Voted that Mrs. Ruggles be allowed to draw 14 dollars from the Depository in consequence of the donation from her brother designed for herself being paid into the Treasury of the Board. CEnd of insert^ Voted that a committee of three be appointed to prepare and bring forward business to be acted upon at future meet­ ings. Made choice by nomination of Mr. Bingham, Mr. Thurston, & Mr. Loomis. Adjourned. Sept. 18th. Voted that the station at Jionoruru be allow­ ed to proceed In the building of the stone house across the way contiguous to the printing house. Monday Septr. 29. Met to consult what measures it Is best to adopt in regard to Hawaii. by Mr Stewart. Meeting opened by prayer Voted that brother Thurston be requested to make choice of one of the two stations to be occupied on Hawaii. Mr. T. having signified his willingness to be stat­ ioned at K fKallual consequently passed the following C O voted that with the consent & full approbation of Mr. Thurston Cp.Jl he be appointed to occupy Kalrua for^the ensuing year with a view to the reconsidering of his location after that term �(18250 Insert 7 if he shall request it. Adjourned till 2 o'ck. Met according to adjournment. Meeting opened by prayer by Mr. Thurston..... .................. A motion to reconsider the vote in the mission resolved to occupy two stations on Hawaii was presented & negatived. Ad journed...................... . Met Wednesday evening Oct. 1st...... Meeting opened by prayer by Mr. Goodrich. Voted that the brethren designated for Hawaii constitute a committee to de­ vise a plan for their own distribution. Adjourned to 9 o ’ck tomorrow. £Oct. 2, 1823} Met according to adjournment. Meeting opened by prayer by Mr. Bishop. The brethren designated for Hewall not agreeing as to the manner to distrlLP.^ buting their number,^therefore motioned that the mission pro­ ceed to assign Mr. Bishop & Mr. Goodrich to tfteli- respective stations by balot Cslc} The balot Csicl being taken Mr. Bishop was assigned to Walakea and Mr. Goodrich to Kairua. Voted that Dr. Blatchely be requested & allowed to make his choice of a station either at Kairua, Lahaina, or Honoruru, where he shall suppose he can best subserve the Inter­ ests of the mission for the present year. Voted that Mr. Ely be allowed to choose his station. Adjourned to 2 o'clock. �fl825j Inaert 8 Voted that the misaion approve of Mr. Ely1a choice of Tauwai. Voted/ that Dr. Blatchely be requested to give an explan'ation pt wh#t he^has st^ggested as to unfavorable stories. Voted that Mr. Bishop be this committee. Adjourned. Met Friday Oct. 3. ttee of ways & means. Attended to the report of the commi­ Voted to accept the report. Adjourned. Met Thursday evening Octr. 9th Voted to reconsider the motion respecting the location of Messrs. Bishop & Goodrich. adjourned to 9 o ‘clk tomorrow morng. Friday Oct. 10th. Met according to adjournment. Voted to assign Mr. Bishop to Kairua. Voted that the thanks of the mission be presented to brother & sister Ruggles for the voluntary & liberal offer of their services to assist in planting a station at Walakea, begging to decline accepting the offer on account of our intp.iO ability to comply ^with the terms of it. Voted, that should Br & Sister Ruggles feel at liberty to offer their services towards planting a station at Waiakea in company with Br. Goodrich, receiving such aid as may be offered from this or from any other station, & as the �r 0.8251 Insert 9 brethren may think adequate to the establishment of that station, - that offer would be gratefully accepted. Voted that Mr. Goodrich be assigned to Welakea. Br. Ruggles having offered hlnself on satisfactory terms to assist In planting a station on Hawaii:- Voted that he be appointed to lalakea for a year & an half or two years in connexion with Mr. G. as his health may admit or circumstances # require. Voted that we approve of a contemplated exchange of Cf>• '"O stations for a few months between Mr. Bishop & Mr. Ely. cp-'O Met Oct. 15. evening. The report of the Deputation for Exploring Hawaii was again presented and accepted. Voted that a Committee of two be appointed to receive the report, minutes & journals of the deputation appointed for ex­ ploring Hawaii, & from those prepare a narrative of the tour, embodying the best information on the subjects of their inquiry with a view to its being frwd. to the London Miss. Soc. & to the American Board. Voted that Mr. Ellis & Mr. Bingham be this committee. Adjourned. �Report of the Committee for the Distribution Of the Meens of Supoort Cl823J The committee appointed to recommend some method for the satisfactory distribution of donations & other means of support, beg leave to recommend the following resolutions, founded on standing rules of the Board, "that at every miss­ ionary station, the earnings of the members of the mission, end all moneys & atlcles Cslcl of different kinds, received by them or any of them directly from the funds of the Board, or In way of donation, shall, constitute common stock, from which they shall severally draw their support, in such pro­ portion & \inder such regulations, as may from time to be Csicl found desirable & be approved by the Board or Pruden­ tial Committee. All the members of the mission shall feel it an indispensable duty to practice the strictest economy.” Res.1st That a depository be established at this place, to which shall belong all the earnings of the different members of the mission, all the supplies sent out by the Board, and all the undivided, & common property of the Mission. Res.2ndly That an agent shall be appointed, whose duty It shall be to superintend the depository, to procure supplies fdf* it & distribute said supplies, according to rules to be here­ after adopted. Res.3dly That it be the duty of each station to transmit to the agent a quarterly account of the state of its supplies, of its wants & its prospects. This quarterly report shall em­ brace in sepparate CsicJ Items, an account of expenses for H �ri825l Insert 11 building, and repairing houses, making fences, labour not em- Lp,zj Cp.2] braced in the foregoing particulars, fuel, purchases from ships, fresh meat of every kind, vegitables Cslc3, and mis­ cellaneous articles. In the seme report shall be embraced a list of all necessary articles of support received from the natives & from foreign visitants designed for the use of the station. Res.4thly That whenever supplies shall be received at any station, unless such supplies are nescessary Csic3 for the immediate use of the station, an account shall be transmitted to the general agent, and the supplies shall be considered as belong ing to the depository, although they may not be removed, un­ less directed by the agent for the necessary supply of other stations. Res.5thly That all donations made to individuals shall be enjoyed by the individual for whom they were designed, unless by his grossed own choice they shall be placed in the depository; provided out on origin- however that all necessary articles of provision shall be al} considered as belonging to common stock. It shall moreover be the duty of every individual receiving presents in connect ion with the quarterly report of his station, to transmit a general inventory of such things as can be regarded as art­ icles of support: and no individual shall draw on the depos­ itory for such or similar articles as he shall have received in private donation, without giving an account of what he out has received. C^nd of crossed/paragraph} ^Insert! Resolved 5th that all donations made to individuals of the mission in money, clothing, merchandize, furniture and �Cl823] Insert 12 utensils, necessary articles of provision, comforts & luxur­ ies, may be enjoyed by the individuals for whom they were specially designed and applied to any purpose, not incompat­ ible with the rules and instructions of the Boerd or Pru. Com. and the members thus receiving donations shall give our general agent such an account of them as may be needful to guide him In the due distribution of the general means of support - making a distinction between articles Intended as general support, & mere tokens of personal regard, p ^ d of insert] Res. 6thly That it shall be the duty of the general agent after re­ ceiving the quarterly reports of the several stations, to send immediate supplies sofar as he is able, and at all other times it shall be his duty as far as possible to anticipate the wants of the several stations, so as to preclude the dan­ ger of eny stations being left destitute.A Res.7thly That whenever supplies are received from America or are purchased here, of whatever kind they may be, the agent shall as soon as he is able, make a general & equable divi­ sion of the articles, having respect to the supplies pre­ viously sent to the different stations, to the wants of the stations & to the means which they may have for supplying themselves. In all cases where the agent is unable to make such a division with satisfaction to himself, it shall be his duty to inform the station what Is in the depository: and in addition to this it shall be his duty to transmit annually to all the stations a particular account of the de­ pository also an account of the general expenses of the dlf- �C1885J Insert 15 ferent stations and of the pecuniary state of the whole misI slon. Res.8thly That In fixing th6 price on the articles sent to the different stations, no reference shall be had to the estimate made in America, hut to the cost or value here. Res.9thly Each station shall have the privilege of purchasing its own supplies udien destitute, and it shall be the duty of each station to improve all highly favourable opportunities to procure supplies for the mission, provided however that when­ ever the business can be rafered to the general agent it shall be done, and no drafts shall be made on the Board ex­ cept by the agent unless It is absolutely necessary and when­ ever orders are given by others the agent shall be immediately informed thereof.-— � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sandwich Islands Mission Meeting Minutes Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sandwich Islands Mission Meeting Minutes - 1823 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1823 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/1b693867f005969d64d1e645e710d83d.pdf 1c2622ae678d250952281f6c498a76f7 PDF Text Text - U N P U B L I S H E D - "Minutes of General Meetings of the Mission” 1. May 16 - June 20, 1825, [Honolulu] 2. Sept. 23 - Oct. 20, 1826,[Kailua] 3 . Apr. 23 - May 3, 1828, [Honolulu] Copied from Original found in Archives, Hawaiian Board. Nov. 1909. �Honolulu M a y 16th 1825. Minutes of a General Meeting Several brethr en fro m the windward stations b e ing prov­ identially together at Honolulu it was thought desirable that their convention should be improved for the purposes of a General Meeting. Accordingly, having assembled on Monday evening May 16 1825 at the Mission house, present Rev. Messrs. Bingham, Stewart & Bishop, Messrs. Ely, Loomis & Chamberlain and Dr. B1sfcchely, they proceeded to organize the mee t i n g by choosing a Moder ator & Scribe. Ballots having been taken the choice was declared as follows Rev. H. Bingham, Moderator Levi Chamberlain, Scribe. The Moderator having taken the chair the meeting proceeded to the appointment of a committee of arrangements consisting of Messrs. C. S. Stewart, A. Bishop & Levi Chamberlain. The evening being nearly spent adjourned to tomorrow 2 o’ ck P. M. Tuesday May 17. Tuesday May 17. Being assembled according to adjournment the Committee of arrangements proposed the following question for consideration. "Is uniformity in the Hawaiian language expedient? and what are the best means it." of securing Upon this q uestion the following order was taken. Resolved 1st. That it is expedient in transferring words 8c prop e r names f r o m other languages to the Hawaiian to preserve their identity as far as the genius of the language �p. 11 [1825] will admit. Resolved 2nd. That a committee of three be appointed to correspond w i t h the different members of the Mission as to the expediency of establishing an uniformity in the orthog­ raphy of the Hawaiian language, and to submit to this meeting for their consideration propositions embracing the diffi­ culties now felt in spelling the language. For this com­ mittee made choice of Messrs. H. Bin g h a m C. S. Stewart Levi Chamberlain Adjourned to 2 o'ck tomorrow, Wednesday afternoon. Wednesday May 18th. Met according to adjournment, and u p o n the inquiry as to the expediency of p u b l i s h i n g a Scripture tract and C a t e c h i s m it was Resolved that a Scripture tract be published as soon as p r a c t i c a b l e , The resolve being unanimously accepted it was Voted that Brother B i n g h a m be requested to prepare one for the press. Resolved further that C a techism also be prepared end p u blished as soon as practicable. Adjourned to Thursday 19 9 o'ck A. M. Thursday May 19. Having assembled according to adjournment the subject of preparing a C a t echism was introduced and the following resolutions adopted. �[1825] P« 12 1st. Re s o l v e d that the Improved doctrinal Tahitian Ca techism be considered the basis of the one now to be prepared. 2. Re s o l v e d that a committee of three be appointed to prepare the Cat e c h i s m for the press. The Rev. Mr, Bingham Mr. Bishop & Mr. Loomis were first chosen and afterward Mr. Ely was added to their number. The subject of educating h e athen children, in the families of the mission, h a v i n g excited a good deal of interest among our number, It was ponsld;^iped of sufficient importance to receive the attention of the meeting; and accordingly the following resolution was introduced and accepted* R e s o l v e d that a Committee of three be appointed to report upo n the expediency of receiving and educating h e a t h e n children in the different families of the m i s s i o n in compliance wit h the wishes and appropriations of benevolent Individuals in America. Made choice for this Committee of the Rev. Messrs. Bingham, Stewart & Bishop. Adjourned to tomorrow m o rnlgg 9 o ’ck. Fr iday May 20th. Met according to adjournment, and the m e etin g h a v i n g been opened with prayer by Mr. Ely, the subject of inducting members into the church was proposed, and the following resolution was adopted. �r [1825] P. 13 Resolved that a Committee be appointed to Investi­ gate the subject, and report on the method, of Inducting Into the church converts to Christianity. Voted that this Committee consist of three persons, and made choice of the Messrs. Bingham, Thurston & Richards. [p.6] Upon the question, w h ich night is it most expedient and proper to keep in connexion wi t h the sabbath — Sabbath or Saturday night? no vote was taken, but it seemed to be the general opinion of the brethren, that Sabbath evening should be regarded as ho l y time, &, that in their instruction to the natives they should recommend the observance of Sabbath in preference to Saturday evening, but that in their own practice, they refrain as mu c h as possible from secular employments on Saturday evening. Adjournment to Monday morning at 9 o'ck. Monday May 23. Met in the afternoon various avocations preventing our assembling in the morning. The Committee to w h o m was referred the subject of edu­ cating h e a then children in the families of the Missionaries p r esented the following report whi c h was read and accepted. The Committee to w h o m was referred the subject [p.7] of educating h e a then children in the families of the missionaries beg leave to submit the following report. During the first years of the operations of the Mission about twenty children were received and instructed in the mi s sion families. The expenses of which, were, for the most part defrayed by the liberal contributions of foreigners at �[1825] p. 14 the islands, and b y the special patronage of King Taurauarii, H u ring his residence at Tauai his own native island* [ A few of that number have since bee n employed as useful teachers, some have died, some deserted, some have been dismissed for insubordination, and one remains who first received the name of Kenry Martyn, and was p l a c e d on the foundation of a Society of young ladies at Nantucket, but has since by their m request been called Abner Morse. No native female child remained long under the Missionary roof, or gave evidence of bfeing benefltted, materially, more than others who merely attended school: except, perhaps, Delia, who became the wife of Hopu. During the three last years of the operations of the Mission, there have been on an average about 15 boys, and occasionally, 2 or 3 girls conneoted w i t h the Mission fam­ ilies, rendering assistance, and receiving the rudiments of a Christian education; but in a very few instances has there be e n sufficient encouragement of their steady perseverance, to place them on the funds contributed by particular indi­ viduals or societies, for children to bear the names which the donors have designated. [sic] During the existance of the Mission, partial provision A has been made in America for about 35 children, to be supported and educated in the families of this Mission; and although this m e t h o d of benefitting the heathen is in many cases admirably suited to promote the design of Christian Missions; and although it m a y be desirable that the experi­ ment should be more fully tried at the Sandwich Islands; and �[1825] p. 15 that any member who should choose to pursue It, should be at liberty to appropriate to that object such donations as have been, or ma y be particularly designated for it; yet the Committee cannot, in the present state of the nation, recom­ mend, to any considerable extent, the m e thod of prosecuting the wor k of the Mission: but they w o uld propose that the efforts of both male and female members of the Mission to enlighten the nation, should, in general, p r o ceed on a much larger scale, involving less comparative expense than the pla n of boarding schools. O n these points the Mission are supported by the general sentiments of the missionaries in the South sea Islands, and by the deliberate advice of Messrs. Tyreman, Bennet & Ellis. In coming to this conclusion the committee have been influenced p a rticularly by the following considerations. 1. The very great expense which boarding schools In this country w o uld Involve, compared w i t h that of Ceylon, and compared with the expense of the common schools in this nation. 2. The unwillingness of the children, in general, to submit to the restraints of a civilized Christian family long enough to complete their education, so as to answer the reasonable expectations of their benefactos. 3. The superior claims of many chiefs to m i s sionary atten­ tion, and of other promising adults, who could not be em­ braced in a boarding school, and who ought hevertheless to be well instructed w i t h a view to their aid In the work of the mission as teachers. �[1825] 4, P. 16 The great demand of the whole n a tion for more widely diffused instructions, and the more publicly extensive preaching of the Gospel. 5. The exposure of our own offspring to the influence of the undesirable habits of native children to be trained up with them. The Committee wou l d therefore recommend, thet the benevolent individuals & societies who have ha d it in their hearts to do go o d in this way, and who with great kindness and w a r m solicitude have presented, and may wish to present their offerings to the L o r d for this particular purpose, be, made early acquainted wit h the present views of the mission on the subject; and w i t h the special thanks of the mission for their liberality, be, with a very few exceptions, re­ spectfully requested to transfer or direct their charity to the general support of this mission, or to the general objects or to any particular object embraced by the Board. Adjour ned to 2 o'clock tomorrow P. M. Tuesday May 24th. Met according to adjournment and the m e e tin g having been opened wit h prayer b y the Scribe the following resolution was p r esented and accepted. Re s o l v e d that in view of the importance of preparing a competent number of school masters, and assistant teachers among the people, promising youths shall be selected, at the different stations, and regularly educated in schools and classes for that purpose, so far as it shall be found p r a c ­ ticable by actual experiment. Upon the question "Is it expedient to retain the �[1825] p. 17 station at Waiakea with only the present means the Mission possess of mainta ining it, the following resolution was adopted. Resolved that the Mission decidedly approve of the maintenance of the station at Waiakea at least till Mr. Goodrich shall feel it desirable to leave it for a season. Adjourned to Thursday at 2 o ’elk P. M. Thursday May 26. Met according to adjournment. The m e eting having been opened with prayer by Mr. B i n g ­ h a m the following resolution was read and adopted. R e solved that in view of the information fro m the corresponding Secretary respecting the embarrassed state of the funds of the Board we will renew our engagement to practice the strictest economy in the use of our means of support; that we will study to diminish the expenses of the Mission, by inventing and adopting new methods of economy in the management of our affairs, and by scrupulously refraining fro m incurring the least item of expense to the Board not necessary for our health and usefulness; and that we will, moreover, endeavor to cherish in ourselves the feelings of more entire dependance on God for the daily supply of our wants; and while we look to our patrons and friends in America, for the continued means of imparting the knowledge of salvation to the perishing h e a then around, we will endeavor, gratefully and habitually, to praise the Author of every mercy for his past ki n d and providential care over all the members, and all the plans and objects �[1825] d . 18 of the Mission. Adjourned. Monday June 20th. Met to attend to unfinished business, present Messrs. Binghaip, Bishop & Ely, Dr. Blatchely, Mr. Loomis & Levi Chamberlain. The Committee appointed to correspond wi t h the different members of the M i s sion respecting the expediency of an uniformity in the orthography of the Hawaiian language sub­ m i t t e d the following view of the subject which was approved. The Committee appointed to correspond with the different members of the Mission respecting the expediency of an u n iformity in the orthography of the Hawaiian language beg leave to submit the following propositions embracing as they conceive the difficulties n o w felt in spelling the language* An alphabet waa adopted more than three years ago; which was intended to include all the letters necessary to express the different sounds in the language, and no more. It has been found h o w e v e r fro m careful attention, that b & d, though they are u s e d by a few natives in a certain class of words, may always wi t h strict propriety be supplied by others, w h ich better represent the sound most frequently h eard in the pronunciation of those words. v Sc w are use d interchangably. K Sc t, 1 & r, Some individuals use the k in the same w o r d in which t is more uniformly employed by the others. The same difference exists in reference to^other four letters. In order to effect an uniformity either the k or the t, the 1 or the r, the v or the w must be excluded from the �[1825] p. 19 Hawaiian Alphabet, or the orthography of each word in the language, in w h ich any one of these letters occurs, must be settled by discussion. The propositions which the Committee wish to submit to the brethren for their consideration and upon w h ich they request their decision after they shall have duly weighed the difficulties of the subject are the following. 1st. Shall b and d be retained in the Hawaiian Alphabet, or shall they be regarded as foreign letters, and be only us e d in spelling foreign words? 2. Shall k be excluded or shall t, or shall both be retained? 3. Shall 1 be excluded or shall r, or shall both be retained? 4* Shall v be excluded or shall w, or shall b o t h be retained? In the opinion of this Committee all the sounds in the Hawaiian alphabet except perhaps b & d are in good use nor do they think that the language can be fully represented without them, though it may possibly be found expedient to reject one class of the interchangable letters. Very few however, if any of the natives, seem to dis­ tinguish the difference b e tween the sound of k & t, 1 & r, or v 3c w. Many words at present, in w h ich r occurs, are, b y many, uniformly p r onounced as if w r itten wit h 1; and the same is true wit h respect to the k and t, & the v & w. It seems h i ghly desirable that a m e thod of spelling should be adopted, that shall remove the difficulties now felt, �p. 20 [1825] at least, so far as the writing of the language is concerned. The inconvenience attending the present method of spelling is obvious, fie is felt by every member of the Mission. Honoruru m a y be w r i tten four different ways, and is con­ stantly written two ways. Kaavaroa ma y be written eight, and is actually written three. Kealakekua may be written sixteen, and is uniformly wtitten three or four, and every word in the language, in whi c h letters occur that are used interchangably, may, by permutation, be written nearly as many different ways as the square of the whole number of Interchangable letters in the word. The difficulty hence arising does not terminate w i t h the limits of the Sendwich Islands. Communications are forwarded to America with this difference mark e d u p o n them; and the Boa r d in their p u b l i ­ cations have adopted a method of spelling w i dely different f ro m any of those now in use by the missionaries. An u niformity on the part of the Mission might possibly have a tendency to produce on the part of the Board the adoption of our method. There are indeed objections to settling the orthography by casting out of the Alphabet any one of the letters which have been inserted, though it is difficult to conceive how an uni formity amongst ourselves can be effected without it. T Tabu & lido which afford an instance of the use of b & d are T&bt' becanne. a in very common use or good acceptance^of the best English Dictionaries. R is exclusively used at the Society Islands & New Zeland [sic], b and d are bot h in use there. The books published by the Missionaries of the South sea Islands / n . �p. 21 [1825] will doubtless be Introduced into these islands; and the similarity of the languages of the different tribes inhab­ iting the isles of the vast Pacific will occasion a circu­ lation of the books p u b lished at each of the groups among the rest. It is therefore not only desirable that there should be an uniformity among the Missionaries of the Sand­ wich Islands but among all the Missionaries throughout all the group of isles in which the Polynesian language Is spoken. In settling the orthography of this language then these considerations should not be overlooked. Several books have been p u b lished by the M i ssion which include all the letters In question, & the natives are in constant practice of using them all in their various corres­ pondence wi t h one another, and with the Missionaries; and they would not easily be brought off fr o m the habit, or soon reconciled to the disuse of any of them. Many words, proper names & phrases spelt with b o t h the classes of letters have been transmitted In various communication both to England and America, and have been or m a y be made public; among w h i c h m a y be men t i o n e d the Journal of the Tour of Hawaii containing the names of all the important places on that island and many interesting expression of the natives in their own language, all written according to Mr. E l l i s ’ meth o d of spelling the language. It will soon be necessary to p u blish a new edition of the hymns, a revision of which must take place if a different orthography is adopted. Of these one half at least was furnished by Mr. Ellis and retains his spelling. Finally �[1625] p. 22 Mr. Ellis whose opinion u p o n this subject we regard as entitled to p a r ticular deference would not be in favor of discarding any of the letters n o w in use, unless possibly it might be b & d. A n d should he return, w o u l d probably print books independent of us; & therefore noit conform to our m e t h o d of spelling, should we fix up o n one at varience with his own. The Committee have endeavored to state some of the inconveniencies of the present meth o d of irregular spelling, and to represent some of the difficulties which see m to stand in the way of an uniformity. These propositions & considerations are respectfully submitted. H. Bingham, Moderator Levi Chamberlain Secy. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sandwich Islands Mission Meeting Minutes Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sandwich Islands Mission Meeting Minutes - 1825 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1825 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/ec9640c926217382de07226bb0691331.pdf a4f8334efadfd0d094abdd56c3aeae48 PDF Text Text - U N P U B L I S H E D - "Minutes of General Meetings of the Mission” 1. May 16 - June 20, 1825, [Honolulu] 2. Sept. 23 - Oct. 20, 1826,[Kailua] 3 . Apr. 23 - May 3, 1828, [Honolulu] Copied from Original found in Archives, Hawaiian Board. Nov. 1909. �[Kailua, Sept. 23-0ct. 20, 1826] Proceedings of a General Meeting of the Sandwich Island Mission held at Kailua Sept. 23rd 1826. Present the Rev. Messrs. Bingham, Thurston, Richards, Bishop & Ely, Mr. Joseph Goodrich and Levi Chamberlain. After prayer by the Rev. Mr. Bingham, the brethren pro­ ceeded to organize the meeting by choosing a Moderator and Scribe. The Rev. Asa Thurston, Moderator Levi Chamberlain, Scribe. On motion that a committee of overtures be appointed, voted that a Committee of three be chosen to arrange & present to the meeting subjects for their consideration & future deliberations. Made choice of the Rev. Messrs. Bingham, Richards & Ely. The Committee having had leave to retire, returned & presented the following resolutions which were unanimously adopted. 1. Resolved that we consider our services as missionaries pledged to the Church for life, and that we consider it irreg­ ular for any member of the mission to take any steps towards a removal from his post, until he have the approbation of his brethren. 2. Resolved that in order to justify the Mission in approving of the return of any member from this field to the Board they shall be able to assign reasons for it which in their opinion will be satisfactory to the American Board & the candid Christian public. �11826] p. 24 The following letter from Dr. Blatchely was read. Honolulu, Oahu, Sep. 11 1826. Dear Brethren, It is now more than a year since I became apprehensive from the state of my health that it would not be safe for me to remain in this climate a great while longer. I have since been quite convinced of the fact, and continue to be daily worried of the danger of deferring my departure for higher latitudes. Was it not for the desire to continue to discharge the duty for which I came hither towards those who are more particularly needing medical advice at the present time, I should without delay consider it expedient to improve a good opportunity that now exists to embark for the U. S. A. You are doubltess aware of the delicacy of that trying situation in which a decision of this nature in ones own case so reverts back upon himself, as to depend chiefly upon the expression of his own opinion. Mr. Loomis' case was the third respecting which I have been called upon to give my opinion respecting others; and I now give it respecting myself and ask for your united consid­ eration & opinion respecting the propriety or necessity and the time of my going. — Were I to go this season and by the present opportun­ ity Kalalmoku would need operating upon just before my embark­ ation, and when he would need it again the Peacock or Blossom would probably be here. The next operation he might need would not be needed probably under seven months from this time or nearly as soon we will hope that another physician will arrive �[1826] from America*. p« 25 For Mrs* Thurston I do not think I should be able to do more than others in the Mission could do to balance the hazard to my self of remaining here many months longer* As to Mr* Loomis, if he goes to the U. S. A. he will doubtless go soon and I shall not be needed here for him. Others may need a Physician, but you will recollect that my own health is now exceedingly poor, my constitution much impaired by the climate and when brought low I have no physician to administer to me, that I have a companion whom I hope never to leave in such a place as this. The uncertainty of an opportunity of a passage next spring makes me fear to delay, believing to spend another warm season at the islands will be exceeding dangerous. Yours respectfully Abm. Blatchely. P. S. If I knew that I should live noflonger for going than by staying here, I should still in my present state of health consider it my duty to go on Mrs. B.’s account. Upon the proposition, what order shall the mission take respecting Dr. Blatchely's communication, after considerable discussion of the subject and much consideration the following vote was passed: Voted that we adviee Dr. Blatchely to delay his sailing for the United Stdtes of America till some future opportunity and that the following letter be forwarded to him immediately. Kailua, Sept. 23rd 1826. Dear Brother Blatchely, We have the pleasure to inform you that the members �[1826] p. 26 of the mission first assembled at this place this morning for the transaction of business. We took the earliest opportunity therefore afforded us to consider the application made to us by you and handed to the meetihg by Mr. Chamberlain. The subject has occupied our attention ihe greater part of the day and as a vessel is to sail this evening to Lahaina we take the earliest opportunity to make our reply. In deliberating upon a subject of a nature so deli­ cate and yet so Important not only to ourselves but also to the interests of our patrons and the cause of missions in general, as well as to yourself and Mrs. Blatchely in particular, we trust we have brought our minds to the subject entirely divested of personal feeling, and deeply desirous of discharging our^duty to yourself and us and at the same time of satisfying the minds of the Christian public with the reasons of your return to your native land. -And here it is not improper for us to express the satisfaction which we feel in acknowledging your medical ser­ vices to us as a mission family during the three and a half years past. We trust that we are not insensible of the kind­ ness and prompt attention manifested by you in the capacity of physician to those of our number who have been afflicted with sickness since your embarkation at New Haven for these islands. It is our prayer to the God of all mercies that you may meet with a gracious reward, not only in this life with many and happy days enlivened and cheered by the smiles of His counten­ ance, but also with a crown of immortality in the end. — Your dear companion also shares in our fraternal �r [1826] confidence and love. p. 27 We regard her as a dear slater In Christ, to whom we are all abound by the tenderest ties of affection, t and from whom, (if the event should become necessary) 'we shall part with the liveliest emotions of regret and sorrow. We shall not cease to hope and pray for the fullest restoration of her health, & for a long and prosperous course of usefulness whereever her lot may be cast. These are the feelings, dear Sir, and these are the predominent sentiments of our minds with which we have taken up the consideration of the subject of your letter. As far as the facts relative to your case have been developed before us, [p.25] we have come to the unanimous opinion "that it would be better to defer your departure from these islands for the present.”. In expressing this opinion we have kept fully In sight the delicate state of your health as well as the desirableness that every proper measure should be taken for its restoration. But we do not despair as yet of a restoration at these islands; at least, if such measures be taken as appear to be practicable, of the return of such a comfortable state of health as will enable you to dwell with us another year, or If possible until the arrival of another physician from America. — In giving this opinion we also pledge ourselves to use such means as are prac­ ticable to render your situation more comforatble and healthy. Should you be disposed to tarry a while longer with us and make the proposed experiment, we hope to feel ourselves ready at any time hereafter when It shall become expedient for your return to give our entire approbation of the measure to our patrons in America, and recommend you to their favor and to the fellowship �[1826] p. 28 of the churches. But on the other hand, if with the enfeebled health of many members of the mission, as well as the condition of Kalaimoku before you, you shall still deem it necessary to depart immediately for your native land, and that upon your own responsibility, we here assure you that we will put no imped­ iments in your way, to prevent a favorable reception from the Board or the Christian public. — strate We will not only not remon­ upon the step, but we will further give to the Board in full such reasons for your departure as we have In our possession. Signed in behalf of the brethren of the S. I. Mission A.Thurston, Moderator. Adjourned to Monday morning 9 o’clk. Monday Sept. 25. Met according to adjournment, prayer by Mr. Richards. The meeting having been opened the following system of rules for the regulation of business at this and at future general meetings of the Sandwich Island Mission was unanimously adopted. — 1st. Resolved. When the members assembled for the general meeting of the Mission are ready to attend to business the old moderator or If absent the missionary at whose house they are convened shall call them to order, call for, receive and count the ballots for a Moderator & declare the person chosen. �r [1826] 2nd. p. 29 The moderator shall take the chair and call for the ballots for a Scribe. 3. The meeting shall then be opened by prayer by the moder­ ator, and daily opened and closed during the Sessions by him or some person at his request. [p.27] 4. It shall be the duty of the Scribe to take minutes of the proceedings of the meetings, to ready them when called for by the meeting, to record them for preservation; and during the interval between one general meeting and another, he shall, at the request of any two members, receive the votes of the members on any subject they may deem necessary to be decided before a general meeting can be conveniently assembled. 5* All elections shall be by ballot. 6. As soon as the meeting is organized and opened, a committee of overtures shall be chosen to prepare business for the meeting. 7. If any member shall be tardy at an adjourned meeting the moderator shall be at liberty to call for the reason of his delay. 8. The general practice, in deliberative bodies of addressing the moderator, shall be observed, but the moderator may address the meeting on the merits of any question. 9* Every motion except for adjournment shall be reduced to writing, if the moderator or any two members require it. 10* When a question is under debate no motion shall be made except for amendment — or the previous question — — The previous question is shall the main or for adjournment. to postpone question now be put. Ip.28] 11, No motion except for reconsideration shall be acted upon �[1826] p. 30 \ until seconded. A communication was read from Mr. Loomis, stating his inabil­ ity to superintend the printing business; and submitting an inquiry, whether it will not be for the interest of the mission, under existing circumstances, that he should make a voyage to the United States for the double purpose of benefitting his health, and of correcting the proof sheets of such publications as may be thought expedient to print immediately in the Hawaiian language. This letter of Mr. Loomis was accompanied by the following from Dr. Blatchely. (Copy) Honolulu, Oahu, Sept. 11 1826. Dear Sir, I have always considered your professional services, while the only printer In the field as an Indispensable branch of the operations of this mission. And I have for a considerable length of time anticipated with no small degree of solicitude what has already taken place; viz. a suspension of your labors in consequence of ill health. For several months after the first appearance of this I watched you in silence without communicating to you my opinion, that I might the more correctly judge of your symptoms and the progress of disease upon you while unaffected by any apprehensions of your [p.29] own. And since the state of your health has become a source of anxiety to yourself and subject of conversation with others, I am no less confirmed in the opinion which I expressed concerning it in a letter to the corresponding Secretary seven weeks ago, that you would never be able here even to superintend the printing L �[1826] p. 31 of one of the Gospels, Respecting your contemplated removal to Waiakea, It may perhaps refresh you to reside there a season free from care, but I have little or no confidence in its restoring you so completely as to supercede the necessity and advantage of some other measure. Should you go soon to the United States your health, in my opinion, might be quite restored. Yours respectfully, Abraham Blatchely Mr. E. Loomis. Upon the subject of Mr. Loomis communication the following order was taken. In consideration of the feeble and declining health of Mr. Loomis, and the little prospect we have of publishing one of the Gospels or any similar work here until another printer shall arrive, Voted that we deem it expedient for him with his family to undertake a voyage to the U. S. A. for the double purpose of benefitting his health and superintending the printing of books / for this mission under the direction of the A. B. C. F. M. Adjourned to 2 o'clock P. M. Having assembled according to adjournment it was unanimously resolved that a translation of the Gospel of Matthew be prepared with all possible despatch for publication. Voted that a committee of four be appointed to devise a plan for carrying the above resolution into effect. Made choice of the Rev. Messrs. Bingham, Thurston, Richards �[1826] p« 32 The committee having had leave to retire, returned after a short recess of the general business, and presented the following propositions which were accepted. 1st. Resolved that the establishment of the orthography of the foreign words adopted in the translation, the phraseology of certain phrases that frequently occur, and the terms for chapter, verse, faith, throne, tempt, genealogy etc. and the method of translating the compound greek characters Theta, Phi, Chi be referred to ftiose who have completed a translation of Matthew, to be agreed on before they leave this place including as far as may be the translation of the most difficult passages in the work. 2nd. Resolved that a Committee of two be appointed to pre­ pare a copy for the press and submit it to the approval of all the members of the mission who shall be present when prepared. Ballots being taken the Rev. Messrs. Bingham & Richards received a plurality & were chosen. In consequence of the kindness, liberality and cooperation of most of the principal chiefs in promoting the objects of the mission: Voted that the thanks of the mission be presented to Kaahumanu, Kauikeaouli, Nahienaena, Kalaimoku, Naihe, Kaplolanl, Hoapili, Hoapili-wahine, & Kapule for their liberality to the missionaries and their steady and efficient patronage of the cause of the mission. Voted that Mr. Bingham communicate the sense of the tabove vote to the persons therein named. Voted that Mr* Thurston express to Gov. Adams the thanks of the mission for his commendable conduct in causing to be erected �[1826] p. 33 at Kailua a large and commodious building for the public worship of God. Adjourned to 7 o’ck in the evening. [p.32] Met according to adjournment. The subject relating to the prosecution of translation in general with a view to put successive portions of scripture into the hands of the people till they shall receive the Bible entire, was held in discussion and it was voted that a committee of three be appointed to propose an assignment of the three Gospels Mark, Luke and JohPand other portions of Scripture to different members of the mission to be translated as fast as may be practicable. Chose the Rev. Messrs. Bingham, Richards and Bishop. Voted that a committee of three be appointed to report on the question What notice ought the Mission to take of calumny and opposition. , Made^choice of the Rev. Messrs. Bingham, Richards & Levi Chamberlain. Voted that a committee of three be appoihted to report on the question "How far may the missionaries properly advise the chiefs as to their duty in commercial, political & civil affairs?" Made choice of Rev. Messrs. Bishop, Ely & Goodrich. Adjourned to 9 o'ck tomorrow morning. Tuesday Sept. 26th. Met according to adjournment. Meeting opened by prayer by the Scribe* 0 [p*33] The following proposition was offered for consideration* "What measures ought the mission to take to provide for the future �[18263 p . 34 support,*education & well being of the children of the mission­ aries?" The subject excited much feeling and furnished occasion for a good deal of discussion and it was dismissed for the present by the following vote. "Deeply impressed with the difficulty of giving our children a proper education at the islands on account of the low state of society, the extreme pressure of missionary labors and a sacred regard to an economical appropriation of the funds of the Eoard: Voted that a committee of three be appointed to address our patrons on the subject of sending the children of the missionaries to our native land." Chose the Rev. Messrs. Richards Sc Bishop and Levi Chamberlain. Voted that a committee of two be appointed to report on the question. "In what manner may the more intelligent natives, members of the church the hopefully pious or seriously disposed chiefs and teachers be employed so as best to subserve the cause of instruction & godliness?" Chose for the committee Messrs. Ely Sc Ruggles. Adjourned to 3 o'ck P. M. Met according to adjournment & voted to adjourn till called together by the moderator. Having been called to business by the moderator at 7 o’ck in the evening the following report was presented & accepted. The Committee appointed to report on thd question "In what maimer may the more intelligent natives, members of the church etc. be employed so as best to subserve the cause of instruction & godliness?" beg leave to suggest the following resolutions. �[1826] 1st. p. 35 Resolved that we deem It expedient and very desirable in the present weak state of the mission that they avail them­ selves of the aid of the more intelligent, pious & seriously disposed chiefs and natives in teaching schools, visiting and addressing the people on religious subjects and in the correction of translations & religious tracts or other books for publication. 2nd. Resolved that every native teacher who is now employed, or shall hereefter be employed in teaching school shall be exam­ ined by the missionary within whose limits he is to teach & obtain from him a written certificate approving his qualifications and assigning him his work; and if he vioMte the instructions o f his missionary his certificate shall be forfeit. 3rd. Resolved that not native be allowed to convene a congregation and conduct a religious meeting till such person, shall have obtained the approbation of the missionary within whose limits he resides. Adjourned to Wednesday eve. 7. o'ck. " xS Wednesday Sept. 27. Met according to adjournment. Voted that Committee of one be appointed to draft three forms of certificates to be given to such persons respectively as are or may be from tiue to time employed by the mission as teachers or catechists. Chose the Rev. Mr. Richards. Adjourned to 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. �[1826] p. 36 Thursday Sept* 28th. Met for business at 12 o'ck A* M* Meeting opened by prayer by the moderator. The three foias of certificates referred to a committee of one to be drawn up were presented and being approved were ordered to be printed. Adjourned to 2 o'ck afternoon. The committee appointed to report on the question "How far may the missionaries properly advise the chiefs as to their duty in commercial, political & civil affairs", presented the follow­ ing report which was unanimously accepted. "The Committee appointed to report on the question, "How far may the missionaries properly advise the chiefs as to their duty In commercial, political and civil affairs?" request leave to state, that they have examined the subject and now lay before the brethren the following Report. 1st. Resolved that we consider ourselves required by our instructions as well as by the nature of our office as ChristianMissionaries to abstain like our Divine master from all inter­ meddling and interference with the political & party concerns of the nation. In the instructions delivered by Dr. Worcester to Messrs. B. T. & their associates they are enjoined: "As the kingdom of Christ to which you have the felicity to belong, and the Interests of which only you are to seek, is not of this world: like him you will withold yourselves entirely from all interference and intermeddling with the political affairs & party concerns of the nation or people among whom you reside, paying all proper respect �E&-5Z [1826] to the powers that be & rendering to all their dues. Again (Miss. Her. p. 108. Vol. 19 Inst, to reenforct.) You are to abstain from ell interference with the local and political views of the people.” The kingdom of Christ is not of this world, and it behooves a missionary to stand aloof from the private and and transient interests of chiefs & rulers. Inculcate the duties of justice, moderation & forbearance, truth & universal kindness. Do all in your power to make men of every class good wise & happy.” Let ifa be apparent that you have nothing to do with traffic or gain, that far nobler objects brought you from your native land, that you regard all the world has to offer as of very little value compared with the salvation of a single soul.” Perhaps little can be said by way of comment on the above, as these instructions ation. are so explicit as to require no explan­ We are in duty bound to our patrons and by the sacred character of our office not to assume even the appearance of any temporal authority or to act as magistrates in any case, or to intermeddle with the party concerns of chiefs & people, which have no relation to the Interest of religion. The choice of rulers & magistrates the levying & collecting of taxes, the apportioning out of the lands the buying & selling of chiefs & people either with foreigners or with each other and the manner of administering the government of the islands, together with the customs and usages of the country that are not in direct varience with the spirit and precepts of the Gospel are things with which we are not to interfere and over which we are not to attempt to exercise control. These are affairs which do not affect us as missionaries, nor are we to advise concerning them �[1826] p. 38 or of anything else except requested, when they do not interfere with the Gospel of the progress of civilization. 2nd. Resolved that we are moreover bound by our instructions and the nature of our office, to make known the whole word of God, especially its prohibitions and requirements, which effect the conscience or the well being of the soul, however opposed these prohibitions and requirements may be to the former customs & present practices of the people. "Your views" say the Prud. Com. "are not to be limited to a low or narrow scale, but you are to open your hearts wide, and set your mark high. You are to aim at nothing short of covering these islands with fruitful fields and pleasant dwellings and schools & churches and raising up the whole people to an elevated state of Christian civilization." Again, To obtain an adequate knowledge of the language of the people, to make them acquainted with letters, to give them the Bible with skill to read it; to turn them from their barbarous courses & habits, to introduce & get into extended operation & influence among them, the arts & instructions and usuages of civilized life and society; above all to convert them from their idolatries superstitions and vices to the living & redeeming God; his truth his laws, his ways of life, of virtue & glory." To effect this we are to preach the whole word of God and to keep back no part of it. Ezek. 3. 17. "Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel, therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me". This and the four following verses enjoin in the strongest terms the duty of ministers of the Gospel to be faithful in preaching the word of God without disguise or concealment, and �[1826] p. 39 declare the high & fearful responsibility of those who fail to discharge this high trust. The blood of souls lost through their unfaithfulness will be required at their hands. The example of Christ and his Apostles is the model upon which we are to form our manner of preaching. They hesitated not to declare in full [sic] the truth of God Before kings & rulers, to "reason of^temperance righteousness and a judgement [sic] to come", and to exhort them to repentance & amendment of life in order to obtain the Salvation of Christ. We are to specify the particular vices which are con­ demned by the law of God and enforce the necessity of forsaking them, both by precept and example. How deeply rooted soever may be the prejudice in favor of their vices, however interwoven they may be with their government, however sanctioned by antiquity we are not to cease lifting up our voices against them as the destroyers both of temporal peace and eternal happiness. At the same time our instructions are to go no father than exhortaion and advice. This must be done in the spirit of meekness and fiffectionate concern for the welfare of those whom we address. 3rd. Resolved that in perfect consistency with our instruct­ ions and the maintenance of our proper characters as Christian teachers we may give information end advice with respect to the "arts and institutions & usuages of eivililized life and society", and may use our influence to dlscountenaace every vice, and * encourage every virtue. It has been declared our instructions already quoted that a prominent object of our enterprise is to raise this people from their present degredation to a state of Christian civilization. �[1826] p. 40 In order to effect this purpose we are to encourage the intro­ duction of the civil and domestic arts and virtues. We are to teach them justice, prudence, humanity, and diligence in business, to inforce our instructions by setting before them proper motives and sanctions, and to illustrate our principles by practical and familiar examples. Whenever we are called upon by those in authority for Instruction or advice of a civil or political nature, then we may give it, showing our disinterestedness in so doing. In giving advice to chiefs and others asking it, a good and perfectly safe rule is, to adhere strictly to the word of God as authority, in all instances where it is applicable to the case, and where it is not explicit on the point of inquiry, it is proper to cite the usuages of Christian nations as authority for our opinions. Nor ought we to conceal from others what are our motives and designs. Viz, to produce an entire change in the former state of things in these islands and to aim at nothing short of raising up the whole people to an elevated state of Christian civilization. At the same time let it be distinctly known, that we seek not theirs but them: — that we wish not for their property or their lands or their kingdom. Let it be known that our object is solely to Instruct the people to give their hearts to God, and to submit cheerfully to the obedience of his laws. In regard to the preparing and establishing a code of laws for the regulation and government of these islands, the committee are of the opinion that we ought not to be indifferent to the kind & nature of the laws about to be promulgated. As members of the community, as teachers of the chiefs & people it will be our �[1826] p.41 duty to give information and advice as far as is necessary when asked so to do by the proper authorities. It will doubtless be the wish of the rulers of the nation to make their laws accord with and be founded upon the word and laws of God. Such being the case, it will be expected that we shall make known to them the laws of God, as well as the nature of those codes of laws that are adopted by Christian nations. The part then in our opinion that we are to take in regard to to a code of laws for this nation, is not^dictate what shall and what shall not be enacted but rather to explain the principles & designs of laws. We may also translate if necessary for their use such of the laws of foreign nations as may be applicable to the condition of this people, and to render them any other such assistance when requested as shall be consistent with our pro­ fession as Christian teachers. At the same time we are to leave entirely to the Rulers to adopt or reject such as they choose without our reference or attempt to procure the adoption of any law or set of laws. All which is respectfully submitted A. Bishop J. Goodrich James Ely.” Adjourned to 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. Friday Sept. 29. Met at 10 o’elk A. M. prayer by Mr. Bishop. Voted to adjourn till 7 o'clock in the evening. Met according to adjournment. �[18263 p. 42 Voted that a Committee of one be appointed to revise the hymns for republication in America under the direction of the Board. Appointed Mr. Bingham. Voted that a Committee of one b£ appointed to revise the Tracts 1, 2, 3, & 4, and that they be sent to America to be printed under the direction of the Board. Chose the Rev. Asa Thurston. The Committee appointed to propose an assignment of the three Gospels of Mark, Luke 3c John and other portions of the sacred Scriptures to be translated, reported the following arrangement. 1st. A translation of the account of the creation, of the flood and other important facts in the book of Genesis, be assigned to Messrs. Thurston and Bishop to be prepared in the form of a tract. 2nd. The story of Joseph to Mr. Ely for a tract. 3rd. The whole book of Genesis to Messrs. Thurston, Bishop & Ely. 4th. A sketch of Scripture history to Mr. Bingham to be prepared for a tract. 5th. Mark to Mr. Richards. 6th. John to Messrs. Thurston, Bishop & Ely. 7th. Luke to Messrs. Blnghm Sc Whitney. 8th. The Epistles of John to Mr. Goodrich. 9th. The prominent parts of Christ's sermon to be selected from the evangelist to Mr. Richards for a tract. Upon the subject of supplying the place of Mr. Loomis in the printing department the following motion was offered. �[182611 P » 45 Motioned that this mission will approve the voluntary offer of service on the part of any individual member to fill the vacancy in the printing department which Mr. Loomis’ removal from the islands will occasion. Adjourned to 9 o'ci tomorrow morning. Saturday Sept. 30th. Met according to adjournment; prayer by Mr. Richards. On resuming the subject of supplying Mr. Loomis' place in the print­ ing department of the mission the following resolution was pro­ posed and unanimously adopted. Resolved that our present arrangement for supplying Mr. Loomis' place as a printer be limited to the time of his return or to the arrival of another printer. Voted that the further discussion and the decision of this subject be deferred till Monday morning. Voted that a committee of four be chosen to report upon the proportion of Hawaiian books proper to be assigned to each station and the method of disposing of them to the people. The Committee chosen were the following: Messrs. Richards, Thurston, Ruggles and Chamberlain. After much discussion of the subject of marriage among the natives the following order was taken. Voted to appoint a committee of two to report on the question "What ground ought the missionaries to take respecting marriage among the natives?" Chose the Rev. Messrs. Bingham & Richards. Mr. Bingham having been requested to communicate some facts �[1826] P » 44 respecting the riot at Honolulu headed by the crew of the U. S. Schooner Dolphin read a history of that affair. Adjourned to 2 o’eft P. M. Met according to adjournment. Considerable time having been taken up in conversation on general subjects the Committee for apportioning the books for the differ­ ent stations and for fixing on a general method of disposing of them to the people, presented the following resolutions which were adopted. 1« Resolved that for a present arrangement Kauai be allowed one tenth of all the books printed except the First; Oahu, three tenths; Maui, two tenths; and Hawaii, four tenths. 2. Resolved that the new schools may be supplied gratuitously with the First book at the discretion of the missionary super­ intending them. 3rd. Resolved that we deem it expedient to exchange our other books for any of the produce of the islands that we can turn to good account, regulating the prices according to the value of the articles at the station where exchanged. Adjourned till monday morning 9 o ’ck. Monday October 2nd. Met according to adjournment. Resumed the subject of supplying Mr. Loomis' place as a printer, and Voted in order to forward the business of printing, the mission decidedly approve of Mr. Goodrich's removing from his present station to Honolulu: but if he shall not feel it proper to remove Immediately, Voted that we approve of his removal at �[1826] p. 45 some future period when other provision shall be made for Kilo or some of his present objections be removed. Adjourned to 2 o ’ck P. M. Met according to adjournment. Speht most of the afternoon in conversation respecting the propriety of selling books and other articles for Cash; the following vote was introduced but was not passed as it was thought the first part of it related to a principle which the mission have ever acted upon, and the second part was too restricted for some of the stations: Viz. Voted that the mission be at liberty to exchange with the natives or foreigners such articles as they may have at their disposal for any article of support which they need: but that it is not expedient at present to sell articles for cash except in peculiar cases. Adjourned to Wednesday morning, 9 o'ck. Wednesday, Octr. 4th. Met according to adjournment. The meeting having been opened by prayer by Mr. Bishop, the Committee appointed to report upon the question, "What notice ought the mission to take of calumny & opposition," presented a draft of their report which was read; and permission granted to defer the acceptance of it till a future meeting. Adjourned to 7 o'ck in the evening. Met according to adjournment. The evening was spent in conversation upon the question — "What ground ought the missionaries to take respecting marriages among the people." This subject having been referred to a �[1826] p. 46 committee, and that Committee not being prepared to report, the further consideration of it was deferred for the present. Adjourned to tomorrow 9 o'ck A, M. Thursday October 5th. Met according to adjournment, — prayer by the Scribe. The Committee appointed to report on the question, "What notice ought the mission to take of calumny & opposition," proposed the following resolution which were unanimously accepted. 1st. Resolved that every missionary ought studiously to avoid a personal controversy with any opposer, and to show the spirit of kindness and forbearance which the Gospel recommends in case of abuse in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves. 2nd. Resolved that in case of an attack particular or general, we will, in the exercise of the unalienable rights of self defense, aim to magnify our office, and vindicate the cause of God rather than to gain any personal advantage. 3rd. Resolved that while each conforms to the general principles of the mission, the cause of each shall be the cause of all, and as personal controversy should be avoided and the cause of the Gospel nott surrendered, it will be specially important that one support another. 4th. Resolved that in case our characters, our principles or practice be misrepresented in a manner calculated materially to injure, if not corrected the cause of Christianity, it will be our duty of course to plead that cause by a carefiul statement of facts, and by setting truth in the plainest possible light, especially before the chiefs and others interedted in the welfare �[1826] p. 47 of the nation. 5th. Resolved that a fair history of the opposition to the mission as well as of its labors and progress be transmitted to our patrons for their information and for the benefit of the common cause. 6th. Resolved that a circular be printed embracing the prominent facts relating to the principles, practice & progress of the mission for the Information of strangers and others particularly interested in the cause of improvement* Voted that we deem the enmity, insult, opposition & violence, recently exercised towards Mr. Bingham, as originating from enmity to our common cause, and therefore directed towards all our number; and with great pleasure tender him our sympathies, and pledge ourselves to defend him to the greatest extent of our ability from so ungrounded abuse. Voted that a Committee of one be appointed to prepare a joint letter to the Board embracing all the particulars on which we wish to address them. Chose Mr. Bingham. Voted an adjournment till called together by the moderator. Saturday October 7th. Met, and after addressing the throne of grace by prayer, the committee appointed to report upon the subject of solemnizing marriage among the people, presented the following report which was accepted. [p*49] The Committee appointed to report on the question, what ground ought the missionary to take respecting marriages among the people beg leave to propose the following brief resolutions not so much to display any new views as to secure a uniformity �[1826] p* 48 of practice. 1. Resolved that we make it a point of special concern to explain & enforce the marriage duties among the people; and when applied to by proper persons, to assist in solemnizing marriage with the consent of some chief either expressed in person or implied by a law regulating marriage* 2. Resolved that no marriage should be solemnized within the degrees of consanguinity or affinity forbidden by the word of God. 3. Resolved that it is not conformable with the Gospel for any man to have more than one wife, nor for any woman to have more than one husband at the same time* 4. Resolved that marriages contracted in a state of heathenism, and not now repugnant ot scripture rules, are of perpetual obligation without a new or formal ratification; but an acknowledgment from the parties that they consider themselves bound by Gospel rules, shall be required before either of the parties can be eligible for church membership. 5. Resolved In case one of the contracting parties was not a heathen, either Christian marriage or some good evidence of honorable marriage equivalent at least to a declaration from the parties that they have been truly bound by the marriage contract shall be required before their living together can be approved by the missionaries as regular, and before either of the parties can be eligible for church membership. 6. Resolved that marriages contracted between parties professing to follow the word of God in order to be approved as regular must be solemnized by some chief or missionary or by both �[1826] p. 49 In connexion & in presence of a competent number of witnesses. But if in violation of this rule the marriage be contracted according to the former custom of this country, it shall be con­ sidered binding unless Inconsistent with scripture rules: but if the parties desire a formal ratification, they may declare them­ selves to be man and wife before a missionary and witnesses, which declaration shall be recorded. This shall always be required before either of the parties is held up to public notice by the missionaries. 7th. Resolved that an aggrieved party Justly complaining of adultery or wilful desertion such as neither private instruct­ ion, the voice of the church, nor the civil authority can remedy, may by the consent of the proper authorties be married to another. 8. Resolved that the deserting cannot contract a new marriage conformable with the word of God untill the deserted be known to be fairly divorced. The committee appointed to address our patrons on the subject of sending the children of the missionaries to our native land reported the following address which was accepted. "We wish here to call the attention of our patrons to a subject which in our bosoms awakens the liveliest feelings and the tenderest anxieties. Those who are patents will pardon us if while writing we should for a moment seem to forget some of our other duties and fix our minds on the awful responsibilities of parents, responsibilities from which we can never be released by the fulfilment of any other duties however sacred, however Important or however binding they may be. The time has arrived with some of our children, when the �[1826] p. 50 foundation must be laid for their education, on which must depend all their future prospects, both for this world and the next. The common privilege of parents to select a suitable employment for their children, by which they may procure a livelihood and render themselves respectable and useful in society and then order the particulars of their education with reference to that employment; — this privilege is not ours. specially anxious that it should be. Neither do we feel We can with confidence & satisfaction recommend our children to the parental direction of those through whose faithfulness and provident care we have received all that we ourselves enjoy* To recommend them to your guardianship & direction is the object we now have in view. We do this that we may receive direction and advice from you as to the course we are to adopt respecting them. We know it would be your wish and ardent prayer that they should all become teachers and preachers to the heathen, and ornaments to the missionary character. We need not tell you that this would be the highest wish of our hearts; and could we see them in circumstances by which we might rationally expect they would be well prepared for the work, our warmest desires would be gratified, and we should be saved the painful necessity of addressing you on so delicate a subject. not But these are^the clrcvimstances of our children. Many of them have no associates unless we permit them to associate with the heathen, which indeed we cannot always prevent. Those who know the constant calls and interruptions & duties of the mission­ ary will not expect that they shall be every hour under their parents care. They are therefore from the moment they begin to �[1826] p. 51 prattle exposed to the contaminating influences of heathenish habits & vices, and for these they must almost as a matter of course contract a relish notwithstanding the utmost vigilence of the parents* Who does not know that the children of the same neighborhood and circle have the same general habits, manners, taste & language, even though there may be a difference in the characters of their parents. What good father does not charge his children to shun the society of the vicious as a mortal enemy? And no parent expects to succeed in training up his children in the right way unless he can secure for them good associates. A volume could not fully represent to our patrons the degrading influence which the habits of this people are calculated to exert, and which they really have over hundreds & hundreds who visit these islands from civil­ ized lands. But our fears do not end here. Where are the schools for and who shall be the teachers of our children? If it should be said we ought to teach them ourselves, we would enquire what parents in America are the teachers of their own children, and is it to be supposed that the missionary is of all men the most free from care and labor? But even could they receive a good education and escape the contaminating influence of the society, where is the sphere In which they are to act in after life? They cannot engage in mer­ cantile persuits [sic] as they will not be fitted for them nor enjoy advantages in that respect; they will have no encouragement to settle down on the soil as agriculturists, and if they should become mariners, where are their prospects? They will therefore �« [1826] P. 52 be in danger of sinking to a level with the natives, or what is worse to the condition of some of those who from enlightened lands have taken up a residence upon these shores. And then instead of being a blessing to the nation they will be a curse, — a grief & sorrow of heart to their parents and a reproach to the missionary name. Should it be urged that the establishment of a school at these islands would obviate the difficulties above mentioned, it taay still be asked, after all the expense of en­ dowing and supporting such an establishment, what is to become of the children when they shall have passed through the institution and entered upon the new and untried scenes of the world? In what business of life shall they engage to procure a support for them­ selves & be useful to society? If it be answered let them engage in the work of instructing the people, We reply, those whose hearts incline them to the work may properly enter upon it: but they will unavoidably be ignorant of many of the liberal arts and will not be as well qualified for extensive usefulness as persons educated in civilized lands. But it cannot be expected that £^1 will feel disposed to devote like their parents their lives & their all to the service of the heathen. There appear to us many objections to a seminary in this land; and not the least, the expense it would involve. To answer the design of such an institution, buildings must be erected for the purpose constructed & furnished differently from any other establishment in the islands. The most healthy situation must be chosen and the premises guarded by suitable enclosures, and the whole placed under the direction of a competent person whose time and attention must be exclusively devoted to the Instruction of �[1826] p. 53 the pupils in the institution. Such darkness hangs over the whole subject therefore while we see our children confined to these shores that we are com­ pelled to enquire whether they cannot be furnished with a home in the land of their fathers, not Were^our feelings strong on this subject, you will not suppose that we should seek the painful sacrifice of sundering those bonds by which our children are bound to our hearts. Some of us have friends who would gladly educate our children, others would render considerable assistance, but others must trust to the benevolence of strangers, — all however must be under the general direction of the Board. But we leave the subject with you, requesting that as soon as you have duly considered it, you would give your advice & direction.” ”Voted that we approve of Mr. Ruggles leaving Kauai in consequence of declining health and of joining the station at Waiakea whenever his health and other circumstances require it.” The following resolution was next proposed and accepted. Resolved that in consequence of the present weak state of the mission and the ill health of Mr. Whitney’s- family and his being left single handed, the mission decidedly approve of Mr. Whitney’s removal for a season to some of the other stations, if that should be agreeable to his views of duty. Voted to adjourn till call together by the moderator. Friday October 20th. Meeting was again called by the Moderator and opened with prayer by Mr. Ely. �r [1826] P» 54 Mr. Bishop was chosen Scribe Pro. tem. Mr. Richards stated to the meeting that circumstances would render it necessary for him to return to Lahaina early the next week and begged leave to resign his office as one of the committee to prepare a copy of the Gospel of Matthew for the press. His resignation was accepted and Messrs. Thurston & Bishop were appointed in his stead* Voted,that in case Dr. Blatchely should return to America before the next general meeting of the Mission the Moderator & standing Scribe be instructed to prepare a statement of Dr. B's case to be transmitted to the Board: the statement to embrace an account of the Dr’s illness his application to the brethren for their approbation of his proposed return, our vote upon the sub­ ject and such other reasons as may be in our possession that induced the Dr. to return at this time. [p.56] Voted also that by and with the advice of any two Brethren of different stations the Scribe be instructed to give information to the Brethren of the different stations of the place and time of our next meeting, and as far as possible the principal objects for which we shall meet after the first of June next. Adjourned to meet again at Oahu in June of next year. Concluded with prayer by Mr. Bishop. Asa Thurston Levi Chamberlain, Secretary. 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Apr. 23 - May 3, 1828, [Honolulu] Copied from Original found in Archives, Hawaiian Board. Nov. 1909. �p. 55 (p.57) Minutes of the third general meeting of the Sandwich Island Mission. On the 30th of March 1828 the Sandwich Island Mission was enlarged by the arrival of a Second reenforcement, sent out by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mis­ sion, consisting of sixteen individuals, comprising four ordained missionaries and their wives, a physician & print­ er and their wives, and four single females: viz. Lorrin Andrews Jonathan S. Green ordained missionaries, with their Ephraim W. Clark wives. Peter J. Gulick Gerrit P. Judd Physician, with his wife. Stephen Shepard, Printer, with his wife. Miss Maria C. Ogden \ Miss Mary Ward / C unmarried ladies. Miss Delia Stone a J Miss Maria Patten The Missionary Packet was despatched to Lahaina & Kai­ lua to Inform the brethren of the above accession to our numbers, and to request their attendance at Honolulu for the purposes of a general meeting. On the 19th of April Mr. & Mrs. Ely arrived from Kaawaloa in the ship Friends, and on the 22nd Mr. Bishop from Kailua, and Mr. & Mrs. Richards from Lahaina in the Packet. (p.58) Mr . Goodrich of the Hilo station was previously at Honolulu and Messrs. Bingham and Chamberlain permanent members of the station. �r (1828) p. 56 Organisation (sic) of the Meeting Honolulu, April 23rd 1828. The brethren having assembled this morning for the purpose of organising (sic) a meeting, Mr. Bingham at whose house were convened, called them to order, and directed them to bring in their votes for a moderator and scribe. Mr. Richards was chosen Moderator & Levi Chamberlain Scribe. The meeting was then opened with prayer by the moderator, and afterwards the moderator read the regulations adopted at the last general meeting respecting the manner of con­ ducting the meetings of the mission. The appointment of a committee of overtures was mo­ tioned to consist of three persons, and Hiram Bingham, A. Bishop and James Ely chosen to discharge the duties of it. Motion to adjournment being made and seconded, one o ’clock P. M. was the hour fixed on for reassembling and attending to the report of the committee of overtures. Met at 1 o ’ck, and the meeting opened with prayer by Mr. Bishop. The Committee of overtures presented their report of subjects as far as they had been able to consider them and place them in order, and communicated as follows: (p.59) 1st. Immediate supply of matter for printing. 2nd. The expediency of sending one of our number to the N. W. Coast of America in compliance with the Instructions of the Board. 3rd. If expedient, the appointment of the person. L they �( 1828) p . 57 4th. The location of the reenforcement. 5th. Location of printing presses. The senior missionaries feeling it desirable that the mem­ bers of the reenforcement should be formally accepted as fellow laborers, and their certificates from the Correspond­ ing Secretary of the Board, of their appointment to this mission having been read, the following resolution was pre­ sented & adopted. With devout thanksgivings to the Lord of Missions for his gracious Providence in bringing so seasonably to the aid of this mission the second large reenforcement, appoint­ ed and sent forth by the American Board as a new pledge of the Churches to support the cause of civilization and Christianity in the Sandwich Islands. Resolved that we who have been permitted earlier to (sic) engage in the tolls of this open and whitnlng/field cor­ dially receive them as fellow laborers and helpers In the cause of truth, and members of this mission, both proffer­ ing and inviting that friendly, faithful and constant co­ operation & support in our common cause which the nature of the work and the arduous duties of the office of the mis­ sionary invariably require, uniting affectionately now in the transactions of the present general meeting and hence­ forth in all the duties and privileges of the mission as the Lord shall direct. Adjourned to meet at half past 7 o*ck tomorrow morn­ ing. Thursday April 24th. Met according to adjournment, meeting opened by prayer by Mr. Gullck. Mr. Bingham having requested to be excused from serv- �(1828) p. 58 ing as a member of the Committee of overtures motioned that the gentleman who was next highest on the list should be re­ ceived in his stead: the motion was passed and Mr. «ndrews declared to be of the Committee instead of Mr. Bingham. Voted that the subject of the Immediate supply of mat­ ter for printing be connected with the subject of the lo­ cation of the printing presses and printer, and be considered at the time that that subject is taken up. Voted to refer the second subject on the list viz. "The expediency of sending one of our number to the N. W. Coast of America in compliance with the instructions of the Board," to a Committee of three: and made choice for this committee of Messrs. Bingham, Richards and Andrews. Voted that a Committee of three be appointed to attend to the 4th subject: viz. "The location of the reenforce­ ment", and made choice of Messrs. Chamberlain, Green and Bishop. In reference to the 5th subject viz. "Location of print­ ing presses & supply of matter for printing during the year"; Voted that it be referred to a committee of three, and made choice of Messrs, Ely, Richards & Andrews. Voted to adjourn to meet again at the call of the mod­ erator or Scribe. Being called together In the evening by the moderator and the meeting opened by prayer by bro. Andrews, the Com­ mittee to whom was referred the subject of the North West Coast, reported as follows! viz. The Committee appointed to consider "the expediency of sending one of our number to the ^orth W. Coast of America in compliance with the suggestions of the Board", beg leave �( 1828) p . 59 to reports 1st. That in the opinion of the committee it is inex­ pedient at present to make the survey proposed by the Board and for the following reasons, 1st. That from the best information obtained it does not appear that a survey could now with safety be so thoroughly made as at all to satisfy the Christian public. 2nd. No good opportunity of proceeding to the coast is at present known. 3rd. The field of labor is so widely open at these islands that in the present state of the mission all our strength is required here. 4th. Kaahumany. and several of the other chiefs have expressed an unwillingness that any individual should at present be removed from this field of labor. Ilnd. That in the opinion of the committee three persons should be appointed to investigate the subject more thor­ oughly, and whenever they shall consider the way to be open for such a survey, and the strength of the mission will ad­ mit, such individual or individuals be appointed for the purpose as the mission shall then deem proper. All which is respectfully submitted to the meeting H. Bingham L. Andrews W. Richards The votes for the Committee recommended in the above report being called for eholce was made of Messrs.Bingham, Clark & Green. �(1828) p. 60 In reference to the next subject proposed by the Com­ mittee of overtures; viz. "Distribution of Hawaiian books & tracts to the several stations and the sale of them": Voted that a Committee of three be appointed to report on the subject. For this Committee made choice of Messrs. Ely, Richards and Chamberlain. In regard to the next subject:viz. "The disposal of a house frame and lumber"; Voted a committee of three be ap­ pointed to report on this subject and made choice of Messrs. Richards, Chamberlain & Bishop. Voted to adjourn till called together by the moderator. Saturday April 26th. The brethren having been notifyed (sic) by the moderator assembled to attend to business: meeting was opened with prayer by Mr. Ely. The Committee to whom was referred the subject of the location of the presses, — printing etc. presented the fol* lowing report which was accepted. The committee appointed to consider and report on the "Lo­ cation of the printing presses and supply of matter for the presses during the year", beg leave to offer the following report. I. That the presses be located at Honolulu. II. In supplying matter for the presses they would recom­ mend the following publications. 1st. A fourth sheet for the hymns. 2nd. The remainder of Luke. 3rd. A historical tract from Genesis embracing the pe­ riod from the creation to the history of Joseph. 4th. A tract comprising the most important events In �(1828) p. 61 Exodus and Leviticus. 5th. A tract comprising the most important events re­ corded in Numbers & Deuteronomy. 6th. A historical tract from Joshua & Judges. 7th. One from the first and second books of Samuel and so much of the first of Kings as to complete the his­ tory of David. 8. One from the two books of Kings and two Books of Chronicles. 9. One from Ezra and Nehemiah. 10. The Book of Esther. 11. Psalms sufficient for two forms. 12. The Acts and Epistles. 13. A historical catechism. The Committee would recommend that two new elementary books be prepared for publication one to comprise the out­ lines of arithmetic and one the outlines of Geography. The above named publications to be printed in the follow­ ing order. 1. The last sheet of hymns to be ready by the first of May. 2. Luke, the third sheet to be ready by the 15th of 3 The tract from Genesis, the first sheet to be May. ready by the first of June. 4 Acts to follow Luke after which the Epistles in their order. 5 The tract from Exodus & Leviticus to follow the tract from Genesis. * Next the Psalms, after which the tracts from the old testament in order as mentioned above. �(1828) 6 p. 62 The historical catechism to he printed as soon as ready. The Committee would recommend the assignment of the following labors for the ensuing year. Mr. Bingham Last sheet of the hymns. — Luke, the his­ torical catechism & Psalms for 2 forms. Mr. Bishop One third of the tract from Genesis, half of Romans and the 1st Epistle to the Corinthians. Mr. Ely One third of the tract from Genesis, — Gala­ tians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colosslans, L.Thessalonians II.Thessalonians. Mr. Richards Tract from Exodus, and the Acts of the Apos­ tles . Mr. Thurston One third of the tract from Genesis, half of Romans & 2. Corinthians. Mr. Whitney half of Luke — 1. Timothy, 2 Timothy Titus & Philemon.— For the regulation of the presses the Committee would re­ commend that three persons be appointed to superintend the printing department whose business it shall be to make pro­ vision for the supply of type, paper etc. — proof sheets, — to examine in case of failure in the supply of matter previously assigned to make new arrangements for a supply, end to examine and direct In respect to any matter to be printed not previously assigned by the mission. All which is respectfully submitted Lorrin Andrews W. Richards James Ely. �(1828) p. 63 The appointment of a Committee for the purposes above expressed being approved, the ballots of the meeting were called for, and the following persons chosen H. Bingham, E. W. Clark & Wm. Richards. The Committee appointed to Investigate more thoroughly the subject of an exploring visit to the North lest Coast « presented the following report which was accepted. The Committee appointed to investigate more thoroughly the subject of attempting to explore some part of the North West Coast, particularly the region of the Columbie River with reference to the establishment of a mission there in conformity with the suggestions and wishes of the Board, beg leave to report. That in the opinion of the Committee the object is too important not to be kept steadily in view and that in order to act promptly as occasion may require an agent should be designated before the meeting is dissolved to hold himself in readiness to engage in that service as soon as in the opinion of the Committee a favorable opportunity 13 present­ ed. Respectfully submitted H. Bingham E. W. Clark J. S. Green Votes for an agent to hold himself in readiness to vis­ it the N. W. Coast as above recommended being called for the \ Rev. Jonathan S. Green was chosen. The Committee tc whcm wts referred the subject of location presented their report as follows: — which was accepted: viz The Committee to whom was referred the subject of the �( 1828) p. 64 location of the members of the late Reenforcement, report that It Is desirable to keep as near to the advice of the Prudential Committee on this subject as Is consistent with the present state of the mission and the wants of the sev­ eral stations. 1. Therefore Resolved, that Br. Gulick be recommended for the supply of Kauai. 2. That Br. Clark be recommended to remain at Oahu. 5. That Br. Andrews be recommended to reside at La- halna. 4. That In consequence of the appointment of Mr. Green to hold himself In readiness to visit the North West Coast of America, It is recommended that he select the place of his residence. 5. * 6. 7. That Dr. Judd be recommended to reside at Oahu. That Br. Shepard be stationed at Oahu. That the location of the unmarried ladies be re­ ferred to the Sisters of the Mission. All which is respectfully submitted A. Bishop J. S. Green L. Chamberlain. On the subject of collecting evidence in regard to the conduct of Lieut. Percival while at the islands. Voted that a Committee of three be appointed to collect evidence in ”f»gard to the conduct of Lieut. Percival while at the is­ lands agreeably to the request of the Corresponding Secy of the Board, and to make out a communication for the use of the Board to be forwarded by the first opportunity. �(1828) p. 65 Made choice for this Committee of Messrs. Bingham, Richards end Chamberlain. Adjourned till some business should be in readiness for the deliberations of the meeting, & to be called together by the Moderator. Monday April 28th. The meeting having been called together by the moderator and opened with prayer by Mr. Gulick, the Committee appointed to report on the distribution etc. of books, presented the following report, which was accepted. The Committee appointed to report respecting the Dis­ tribution and Sale of books, respectfully report. 1. That the station at Hilo be allowed 6/40; Kailua 7/40; — Kaawaloa 5/40; Lahaina 2/40; Honolulu 8/40 & Kauai 4/40. — 2. That the books be sold for money or any article of produce or manufacture which can be turned to good ac­ count. 3. That the books be charged to the station at the true cost which Is at present estimated at 1 1/3 cent per sheet, but that the rate of selling the books to the natives be six times what they are charged to the stations: Examp. the six half sheets of Luke when completed to be charged to the stations at four cents and to be sold at 24 or 25 cents. The committee would recommend that hymns be sold at 25 cents. 4th. That in the quarterly or annual accounts of each station an estimate be made of the real value of the books to the station. Submitted W. Richards James Ely L. Chamberlain �( 1828) p . 66 Upon the subject what course ought the missionaries to pursue with respect to the Jesuits the following resolution was adopted. Resolved that a Committee of three be appointed to inquire into the objects of the Jesuits now at this island, to collect all the information possible respecting their operations and to make out a communication on the subject for the information of the Board. Made choice of Messrs. Bingham, Clark & Chamberlain. On the subject "In what light should the testimony of natives In general be regarded"i Voted that a Committee of two be appointed to draft instructions to the standing committee for collections evi­ dence respecting the riot of the Dolphin, expressing also the views of the mission as to the value to be put upon the testimony of natives. Chose Messrs. Ely and Andrews. Adjourned to be called together whenever there shall be business. Tuesday April 29 1828. Met at the call of the moderator; meeting opened by prayer by Mr. Bingham. The Committee to whom was referred the subject of the house frame & lumber presented their report, which was ac­ cepted. The Committee appointed to report respecting the lum­ ber beg leave to recommend: 1st. That the house frame be offered to Mr. Thurston together with 4000 feet of boards & plank and all the other necessary appendages that are supplied. �( 1828) p . 67 2nd. That the 3500 already sent to Kauai be consid­ ered as the portion ef that station. 3rd. That 6000 feet be allowed to Honolulu for the purpose of finishing the buildings already in a state of forwardness. 4th. That the remainder estimated at 9000 feet be di­ vided among the remaining members of the mission: viz. Messrs. Bishop, Ely, Ruggles and Goodrich. 5th. That the shingles, clapboards & lathing be re­ served in the depository at the direction of the agent and to be delivered out to the members of the mission as their circumstances may require. All which is respectfully submitted W. Richards A. Bishop Levi Chamberlain On motion, Voted that a Committee of two be appointed to re­ port on the expediency of the mission’s requiring compensa­ tion for medical services rendered to foreigners & natives. Chose for this Committee Dr. Judd and Ltjvi Chamberlain. On the subject "How far ought the missionaries to go in advising and instructing the chiefs and people in order to comply with our instructions from the Board to get into extensive operation & influence, the arts and usages and in­ stitutions of civilized society: — Voted that the resolves passed at the General Meeting of the Mission held at Kailua be considered as the expression of the sentiments of this meeting on the subject. On motion Voted that a committee of three be appoint­ ed to report on the suggestions of the Board with respect �(1828) p. 68 to Mr. Clark’s labors among the foreigners and the treat­ ment of the mission towards foreigners resident in or oc­ casionally touching at the Islands. Chose Messrs. Binghair, Clark & Andrews Upon the question what matter shall be supplied for print­ ing in America for the use of the mission. Voted that the subject be referred to the committee for superintending the presses. On motion voted that a standing committee of three be appointed to attend to the subject as to what method shell be taken for securing a supply of paper type, ink, bind­ ing instruments and other materials for book making adequate to the anticipated wants of the nation. Made choice of Messrs. Bingham, Richards & Andrews, The Committee to vh om was referred the subject, In what light shall the testimony of natives in general be viewed, presented their report which was accepted. The Committee appointed to express to the standing Commit­ tee the opinion of the mission respecting the value of the testimony of the natives, beg leave to suggest the follow­ ing, as the result of long experience and close examination. 1 That when the natives are engaged in relating second hand stories, that Is, things that have been related to them by others, especially, if they take much interest in them: — when they give a relation of something out of the common order of things, or of uncommon occurrence, — when they speak of events for which they cannot well account, or, of an event of which they do not know the cause; — and especially, when they �( 1828) p . 69 relate that which In itself may border on the marvellous; like all Illiterate people, are very apt to exaggerate, and thus, in such cases their testimony should be admitted with extreme caution. But: 2ndly When the natives who have been instructed in the principles of the Christian religion; character and attributes of Jehovah; countability to him; the their ac­ who have taught the Scrip­ tural doctrine of future rewards and punishments; and in general, all the natives, when they make direct statements of what they have seen, and what they have not seen, — what they have heard and what they have not heard, and especially, when they are not Interested in deceiving; are worthy of the same confidence and their testimony should be considered of the seme value as that of tL3 middle class of people In England or the United States. 3rdly. The mission are led to this opinion, from the fact admitted by all jurists, that men of all countries end all conditions, unbiased or unfluenced (sic) by passion, prejudice or interest naturally speak truth rather than falsehood; — from the fact also, that those who have been instructed by the missionaries do as really understand the obligation to speak truth, and the evil conse­ quences of falsehood as taught In the word of God, as the middling classes of persons in civil­ ized countries; — and also from the fact that �(1828) P- 70 the missionaries in their intercourse & dealing with the natives, do not experience any incon­ venience from the want of veracity in them, than they do from the want of it in those who have been born and educated in Christian lands on civ­ ilized countries. Voted to adjourn to b© called together again at the dis­ cretion of the moderator. Friday May 2nd. Met this evening for business, meeting opened with prayer by Mr. Goodrich. The Committee appointed to report respecting compensa­ tion for medical services presented their report which was accepted. The Committee appointed to consider the subject of the expediency of the mission’s requiring compensation fcr med­ ical services beg leave to report, that in their opinion it will not be expedient to make a formal charge either for medicine or attendance, but that it will be proper to re­ ceive compensation when offered the amount to be regulated according to the discretion of the physician. Dated Oahu April 29th 1828 On motion Respectfully submitted by Voted that the mission will require no other compensation for the passage money of the four native youth’s who attended the reenforcement thati a diligent at­ tention to their duties as Christians among the people in such a manner as the missionaries shall approve. Voted that a Committee of three be appointed to give further advice to the native youths and to report their views to this �( 1828) p . 71 meeting. • Made choice of Messrs. Bingham, Richards and Andrews. Voted adjournment to be called together by the moderator. Saturday May 3rd. At 2 o'ck P. M. The meeting was called together for business & opened with prayer — The Scribe being necessarily absent brother Andrews was appoint­ ed Scribe pro tem. On motion Voted that a Committee of two be appointed to make out the annual report to be prepared by the first of September. Made choice of Messrs. Richards & Andrews. On motion Voted that a Committee of two be appointed to write a joint letter to the Board soon after this meeting. Chose Messrs. Bingham and Bishop for that Committee. On motion Voted that the Committee appointed to report on the suggestions of the Board with respect to Mr. Clark’s labors among the foreigners and the treatment of the mis­ sion towards foreigners resident in or occasionally touching at the islands, be discharged from their duty to report on the subject. Adjourned to meet at 7 o ’ck in the evening. Met according to adjournment meeting opened with prayer by the Scribe. The Committee appointed to give advice to the native youths respecting their employment presented the following report which was accepted; viz. The Committee appointed to propose a plen for the em­ ployment of the four native youths who accompanied the reenforcement so as to subserve the cause of the mission beg leave to recommend �(1628) p. 72 1st. That Henry Tahiti be advised to attach himself to the Printing Department in the same manner as Richard has done to board in a native family, be under the direc­ tion of ^r. Shepard and when sufficiently advance in the art be paid wages as the means of his support. 2nd. That Tyler be advised to apply himself to his art as shoe maker so as to give a good example of useful indus­ try & thus procure his own support. 3rd. That Mills be advised to remove to Maui Immedi­ ately and If agreeable to the young Princess attach himself to her school as Instructor under the direction of the mis­ sion there. 4th. That Phelps be advised to attach himself to the Medical Department as a student & assistant under the di­ rection of Dr. Judd, boarding in the family of a neighbor­ ing chief and rendering such service in the laborious parts of the Doctors practice as will afford him an opportunity to pursue the study of theology. Respectfully submitted, H. Bingham V?. Richards L. Andrews. On motion Voted fhat (sic) Doctor Judd, agreeably to the design expressed in his appointment, be allowed such facilities, as will enable him to prosecute the study of Theology, with a view to his preaching the Gospel. Adjourned sine die. Wm. Richards Moderator. Levi Chamberlain Secretary. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sandwich Islands Mission Meeting Minutes Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sandwich Islands Mission Meeting Minutes - 1828 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1828