The pilgrims of Hawaii; their own story of their pilgrimage from New England and life work in the Sandwich Islands, now known as Hawaii; . f the English speak-ing missionaries. In 1863 the scope of the organization was enlarged,and from that time onward the Annual Assembly hasconsisted of the pastors, mostly Hawaiian, and of dele-gates from the several churches, and all conducted in theHawaiian language. The meetings of the Annual Association of thechurches and also of the Local Island Associations, arestill conducted in the Hawaiian language, as is these later years the several Eng
The pilgrims of Hawaii; their own story of their pilgrimage from New England and life work in the Sandwich Islands, now known as Hawaii; . f the English speak-ing missionaries. In 1863 the scope of the organization was enlarged,and from that time onward the Annual Assembly hasconsisted of the pastors, mostly Hawaiian, and of dele-gates from the several churches, and all conducted in theHawaiian language. The meetings of the Annual Association of thechurches and also of the Local Island Associations, arestill conducted in the Hawaiian language, as is these later years the several English-speaking Con-gregational Churches, as also the Japanese, Chinese, andPortuguese, of the Congregational order, have represen-tation in both the several Island Associations and in theAnnual Association, which latter combines all the Con-gregational Churches of the group. Ere long all the business and services of these Asso-ciations must be conducted in the only language com-mon to all, namely, the English. As in Turkey, so in Hawaii, the language question isthe gravest and most difficult problem to meet in theprogram of o s o M-l 13 XXXAGRICULTURE AMONG the pioneer missionaries was a farmer,Daniel Chamberlain, who came to instruct thenatives in agriculture and the rudiments ofmechanical arts, but he found little opportunity forhis services and remained only three years. The primitive Hawaiians had a system of agricul-ture unique in form and efficient in operation, furnish-ing, in favorable years, abundant food for the 150,000people who filled the land. Indeed, they had one sub-stantial vegetable, almost unknown in civilized lands,the taro or halo. This tuber, raised in flooded patches,wherever in low land perpetual running water couldbe led, constituted the staff of life for fully four-fifthsof the population. In 1835 the mission decided that Little can bedone (in agriculture) at present. Nevertheless we re-gard the subject as of suflScient importance to warrantus
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