w. «:*: m. 9< mm \ Ti^^.: ) 'h \ I L I B R.ARY OF THE U N IVER5ITY Of ILLI NOIS A LETTER FROM THE RIGHT REV. ALFRED WILLIS, ^i$i)op of Honoltilu, TO ALL FRIENDS op THE HAWAIIAN MISSION, A BALANCE SHEET OF ACCOUNTS FOE THE YEAES 1874, 1875, AND PART OF 1876. I LONDON : PRINTED BY W. KNOTT, 26, BROOKE STREET, HOLBORN, E.G. 1877. A LETTER, (inc. My Dear Friends, I have allowed a longer time to elapse without sending you a second report of the Mission than I ever intended. But the truth is, the months have flown by, and left so little to record, beyond that of an uneventful round of work, and changes have followed one another so rapidly, that there would have been very little satisfaction in expressing an opinion on passing events, or even attempting to put them on record, when a change of circum- stances might have entirely altered the aspect of affairs before my letter was in type. Before the close of last year, I had, however, resolved on sending you a report of the last two years, with a balance-sheet of the receipts and expenditure of the fund with which your generosity has supplied me, and had already commenced my letter, when the sad intelligence reached the Islands of the decease of Miss Sellon, to whom this Mission is so deeply indebted. The position in which the Mission is left by her departure is a very serious one, and I can only trust that, when the circumstances are fully known, new friends may come forward to sustain a Mission for which she did so much. Her munificence saved the Mission from collapse after the resignation of the See by my predecessor. Bishop Staley, before I was consecrated to it. At that time she made herself responsible for the sum of £400 per annum to the Mission funds for five years, and this noble contribution has been the mainstay of the Special Fund, on which I have chiefly depended for fulfilling my obligations to the Clergy, and for defraying the general expenses of the Mission. Bat this is not the only loss the Mission sustains. You are aware that there are on these Islands two most excellent institutions, both founded by Miss Sellon, and carried on by the Devonport Sisters — St. Andrew's Priory at Honolulu, and the School of St. Cross, Lahaina. If I could give you a description of the social condition of these Islands — the style of domestic life stiU followed by the majority of the natives, unchanged by their nominal Christianity, which provides not a single safeguard for feniale chastity; the deadness of the moral sense of the ordinary Hawaiian, his utter indifference to his daughter's prostitution — you would understand of what incalculable value these Schools are to the Hawaiian race. There are, I am thankful to say, Hawaiians who have risen out of this degradation, whose lives are pure, and who long for a better state of things, and bless the memory of Miss Sellon. They see that- the only hope of staying the present decrease of the population is by preserving the chastity of their daughters from violation ; and this can only be done by Boarding Schools, such as those which Miss Sellon has founded. The father of one of the pupils of St. Cross, of unblemished character, who has done credit to her training, and is now an assistant in the School, has told me frequently, that he wished his daughter to remain in the School until she shoidd be married. These few words, to which it is unnecessary to add more, will, I think, be sufficient to show you that no greater calamity could befal the Mission than the closing of one of these Schools. In con- sequence of Miss Sellon's decease, St. Cross can no longer be carried on by the Sisters. Sister Bertha, who has hitherto had charge of St. Andrew's Priory, has to return to England immediately, as Miss Sellon's successor ; and Eldress Phoebe has to come to Hono- lulu with Sister Mary Clara, to take the superintendence of St. Andrew's Priory. On January 8th, the day on which the sad tidings of Miss Sellon's death arrived, I learned to my sorrow that St. Cross must be given up, and the property sold. Happily, I had already appointed the Eev. S. H. Davis, who has hitherto been at Kona on Hawaii, to take charge of the Mission at Lahaina, which has been without a Pastor since the death, on St. Bartho- lomew's Day, of the Eev. C. Searle, whom I appointed in the previous April. It immediately occurred to me that Mr. and Mrs. Davis would carry on the institution. I have therefore become the purchaser, and have made arrangements so that the School will pass into their hands, without any break, or even temporary dismissal of the scholars. This is eminently satisfactory, and I cannot but recognize the guidance of the Divine Head of the Church, in so overruling events as to make it possible for the institution to be saved. But at the same time I must put before you that this transaction is one which exhausts my already impoverished treasury, and this is a most serious and anxious matter in view of the greatly diminished income that will flow into it, unless the amount of contributions is very much enlarged. I have, however, full confidence that when the position of the Mission is realised, a new sympathy will be awakened, and funds will be forthcoming to relieve me from my present anxiety. But this hope may prove illusory. Let me, therefore, earnestly beg of all who are subscribers not to wait till the end of the year before paying their subscriptions, but bear in mind that at the end of each quarter I have obligations to meet for which I depend on the Special Pund. My hope is that an endowment for the See may soon be raised. I am about to issue an appeal in this behalf, which I trust will meet with a liberal response. The endowment fund, however, must not be allowed to interfere with subscriptions to the Special Pund for the current expenses of the Mission. ^„ u,uc My belief remains unshaken, in spite of the croaking of adversaries and lukewarm friends, that there is a future in store for the Church in these Islands, although at present we see but little fruit of our labours. Even now, in this day of sorrow and gloom, the edges of the dark cloud are bright with promise of the future. But before that future can be realized, and the Church gathers the population of these Islands into her bosom, two things are needful. First, the Church must be put on a wider and broader basis than it is at present ; and secondly, we must have a body of Clergy, who by long residence in the Islands, and familiarity with the language and characteristics of the people, can have that sympathy with them which is necessary before any real influence with them can be hoped for. But neither of these can be attained without increased funds. To take the second point first, change, change, change, has been the lot of this Mission from its outset, and still continues, as a com- parison of the names of my fellow-workers published in my last printed letter with those of my present staff will too plainly testify. One cause of these changes has been the great amount of uncertainty attaching to stipends, which are necessarily made dependent partly on local subscriptions. I do not think that this cause would have operated by itself, were it not for our neighbourhood to the Colonies, and the inducement which they oifer to men to labour among their own countrymen and under their own flag. There is, doubtless, an isolation in these Islands, and a want of sympathy with their work on the part of a large number of the residents, which to many minds is a very great trial ; and, though there are no physical privations to be endured, as in a northern clim^ate, makes it none the less necessary for any who would do real work here in the Master's service to be ready to endure hardness. What I mean will become more clear to you, when I come to discuss the second point I mentioned — the necessity of placing the Mission on a broader basis. In my last letter I gave you a sketch of the points that we occupy in the Islands, together with a map, from which you would judge how small, comparatively, is the area in which the Church is as yet represented. Since then there has been but little alteration. The buildings I was then contemplating at Waialua, on Oahu, have been erected, and the School at Kapalana on the outskirts of Honolulu opened. I have not yet been able to commence a Mission at Waiohinu, on the Island of Hawaii, where our presence is much desired. But I can report a movement in Kohala in the north of the Island, to obtain the ministrations of the Church. An American Clergyman is now in correspondence with me, who wiU, I hope, be eventually appointed to one of these districts. Now, if you will look at the map, and consider that the Congregational system has been so thoroughly organised through the Islands, that every little village has its church and native minister, supported by the people, it will be clear to you what a delicate mission is entrusted to the Church. For whilst on the one hand we long to impart to them the fulness of the Gospel, which they have only imperfectly received, great care has to be taken lest we weaken the hold of the people upon such truth as they already have. It is weak enough already, and the influence of the foreigners amongst them is in the direction of a general indifference to religion. It is not the present generation that will be brought into the Church. But if we could plant Schools throughout the Islands, the rising generation might be trained in purer morals, and a truer knowledge of the way of life. If there are any who still entertain the idea, which I trust is exploded, that the Church should not enter into fields already occupied by other forms of Christianity, all I can say is. Come and see for yourself what these other forms are, and what is their result, and you wiU no longer wish to qualify the command of our Saviour to His Apostles, to go into all the word. As an organi- zation, Congregationalism here is admirable, but it has no elements of self-perpetuation, and as a system it is rotten to the core. It is no longer under the control of the American Missionaries who planted it. Its ministers are men of no training, and, with few exceptions, of no character. Tlie discourses delivered from their pulpits are mostly on political topics. Their communions are marked by a shocking irreverence, and in some places molasses and water are still substituted for wine. As a moral agent it is powerless to improve the people. The Puritan strictness which originally inveighed against the use of tobacco and spirits, as a sin equally reprehensible with adultery, has had no other result than to cause the native to commit adultery with as easy a conscience as he smokes his pipe and drinks his gin when he can get it. The attempt of the Puritan missionaries to enforce these tabus of tobacco and rum upon the natives as ordinances of the Gospel, while they could not restrain their own children, encouraged the people in hypocrisy, and the real blight on the life of the nation went on unchecked. To this day the ancient unnatural custom which allows a woman to have two husbands, a custom which lies at the root of the rapid decline of the race, is connived at. Men who are known to be guilty of it are held in honour, and are among the deacons of the native churches. Whilst Congregationalism is thus powerless to regenerate the nation, and seems almost to have abandoned the effort, the belief in the gods their fathers worshipped, which was never wholly given up, is re-asserting itself, and the kahunas, in whom the office, an hereditary one, of priest and doctor is combined, are exercising an increasing influence over the native mind. Where they are not believed in, they are feared. The belief that they have the power of j^raying to death lies at the root of this fear, and if, as I have very little doubt, they have, at least in former times, accomplished the death of their victims by secret poisoning or other means, it can be no matter of surprise that this fear should be deeply rooted. There is no doubt that in old times the kahunas had considerable skill both in medicine and surgery, and it is much to be regretted that their uses of the herbs of the country was not carefully investigated and treasured up. The knowledge that they possessed is now nearly all lost ; or if the properties of a plant continue to be known, the present kahunas are either ignorant of the mode of preparation, or of the proportions in which it should be administered. In such hands the practice of medicine is often attended with fatal results. Nevertheless, the natives have more faith in their own kahunas than in the foreign practitioner. The kahunas, for the sake of their own credit, make a very convenient division of diseases into native and foreign. They allow that the foreign disease requires the foreign doctor. When a patient dies, the friends are consoled by the comforting assurance that he had two diseases, and, though cured of the native complaint, he had succumbed to the foreign! Mixed up with a bona-fide practice of such knowledge as they have on the part of some, there is a great deal of humbug and trading on superstition on the part of others. A mother consulted a kahuna — a veritable witch, the kahunas being of both sexes — about her sick baby, and was told to cut off a lock of her hair, and give it the ashes. The infant was choked. A member of our illustrious legislature, in many ways an intelligent man, who was suffering from a disordered liver, sent for a kahuna. He was told that his life was in imminent danger, and that he could never get well in his own house, because one of the uprights of his grass house ivas crooked. The sick man left immediately. Just as in England and America it is not the ignorant, but those who are at once intelligent and irreligious, who become the votaries of Spiritualism, and dupes of impostors; so here it is not only among those who have made the least advance from their original condition, and have no acquaintance with English, but quite as much among those who have had a fair education, and can speak our language, that superstition is rife. There is in human nature a principle of faith, which must have something to rest upon ; and if it be not guided by the truth, it must rest upon lies. The quickening of the intellect, and the acquisition of knowledge cannot save the soul from becoming the victim of "strong delusions, that it should believe a lie ;" and when we see Englishmen and Americans who have left the Faith sinking down to the spiritual level of the tribes of Central Africa, who, having no belief in a Supreme Being, are firm believers in sorcery and magic, the return of the Hawaiian to his superstition ought to be no matter of 8 surprise. It is the result of a one-sided education, whicli pays no regard to the training of the immortal spirit. Here is the work which the Church has to do; to set the feet of the rising generation upon the Eock of the true Faith, instead of the shifting sands. But to do this we need a wider organization than we have at present. "C>^ But notwithstanding the smallness of our numbers, and the many difficulties we have to contend with, our work is silently progressing. The Confirmations in 1875 and 1876 show an increase over those in 1873-1874 ; the numbers having been as follows : 1873, 1 4 ; 1874, 24 ; 1875, 28 -, 1876, 17. In these last two years, I have held 10 confirmations, 3 in Honolulu, 3 in Lahaina, 2 at Wailuku, 1 in South Koiia, and 1 at Waiohinu. The numbers confirmed in each place have been as follows : Honolulu, 30 ; Lahaina, 9 ; Wailuku, 4 ; South Kona, 1 ; Waiohinu, 1. The Confirmation at Waiohinu was of special interest, as being the first occasion that Confirmation had been administered, and the Holy Communion celebrated according to the Service of the Church of England, in that district. It is a somewhat tedious ride of 60 miles from South Kona to the viUage of Waiohinu, over a succession of lava flows of varying date that have poured out of the sides of Mauna Loa, for the first part of the way so ancient, that a fine forest of ohias, with a tangled undergrowth of ferns and creeping plants, has grown up upon it ; for the second part so comparatively recent, that it is either a waste howling wilderness without a vestige of vegetation, or else covered with but a scanty scrub. For the first part of the journey the traveller will often be kept cool by a copious shower-bath from the tall ferns that overhang the narrow path ; in the latter part there is not a particle of shade, and if there is no wind stirring, the heated air quivers over the black clinkers as over a brick-kiln, and makes the road sufficiently trying both to man and beast. I have visited Waiohinu several times, and generally have made the journey there in a day and a half from South Kona, passing the night in a native house, and return in one day, leaving Waiohinu at 5 a.m. and arriving at the parsonage at Kona about 8 or 9 p.m. This allows the animals about three hours rest out of fifteen, at spots where feed can be obtained. The first Confirmation at Waiohinu took place last Ascension Day. We have Mission premises here : a good house standing on a three- acre lot enclosed by a stone wall, but unfortunately no Missionary at present. In this house I hold service on my visits. Hitherto I had been content with the bare room. It was necessary at least to have a decent arrangement for the Confirmation and Celebration which was to follow. I had nothing with me but the Eucharistic vessels. Travelling on horseback makes it impossibly to carry more than is absolutely necessary. The village lumber-yard furnished me with a plank of redwood cedar already planed on one side; this had only to be sawn in half, and I had the top of an altar six feet by two. To this it was easy to affix supports. The store supplied me with both red and green merino for altar frontal and dossal, and a good piece of linen for the white altar cloth ; so that there was an altar properly furnished for the solemnity. A few ferns and flowers hid the roughness of the cross, which stood on the altar ledge between a pair of kow candlesticks, which were lent. The room was decorated with fern wreaths and flowers, and over the altar a text drawn by my boy Polo ; but red ink is a very poor substitute for colours, which could not be obtained. The Confirmation, as I have said, took place on Ascension Day, in the presence of a small con- gregation. The next morning the newly- confirmed made her first Communion. I was accompanied by one of my scholars, Polo Kahaulelio, who is generally my companion on my journeys, and who is a communicant, and so there were two to commVinicate with the Celebrant. At Wailuku, the centre of the sugar-growing part of Maui, where there is a large number of foreign residents, the ministrations of Mr. Bridger are much appreciated, and his little Church is well attended. The Mission is more nearly self-supporting here than in any other part of the Islands. Once a fortnight Mr. Bridger holds a service at Ulupalakua, which necessitates between the morning and evening services a hot dusty ride of 20 miles, with the ascent or descent of 2000 feetj Ulupalakua being on a spur of the great mountain of Haleekala. At Lahaina the Mission has had a large share of sorrow. After the departure of Mr. Blundun for British Columbia, in the autumn of 1875, Lahaina was dependent on such ministrations as I could personally give, until Easter 1876. I then appointed the Eev. C. Searle, a Clergyman who had been living in these Islands for some years, but in separation from the Church. I found him anxious to return, but he was a long time before he could consent to the necessary ordeal. On the first Sunday of the new year he made a public renunciation of his error in the Cathedral, and was restored to our Communion. He was then keeping a school at Waimea, on Hawaii. This was now attached to the Mission. But the school not being successful, and the need of a Priest at Lahaina being very urgent, i committed the work there to him, and he entered on his duties in April, bringing with him his remaining Waimea scholars. He was a good preacher, and was beginning to make an impression on the young men especially. He had, however, but a short time in which to labour for the Church to which he had been restored. After a short but painful illness, he was taken from us on St. Bartholomew's Daj^, and was laid in the Cemeteiy by Mr. Bridger on the following day. It was a matter of thank- 10 fulness that he had been given time to testify his repentance for his schism before he received his summons, and that he died where he could be buried in consecrated ground. Two months after this, on October 29th, Mr. Henry Dickenson, the local magistrate, and an earnest member of the Church in Lahaina, was laid by his side. He was advanced in years, but I had left him a fortnight before in good health, to proceed to Hawaii, and on my return heard that he had sustained an injury from which he never rallied. Hearing of his illness, but not supposing the end was so near, Mr. Bridger had arranged to go over from "Wailuku, and Mr. Dickenson was looking forward to the Cele- bration of the Holy Communion, which would take place in his room. Mr. Bridger's visit was fixed for Sunday. On Saturday evening a great change had taken place, and it was doubtful whether he would last till the morning. Mr. Campbell, the owner of the Lahaina plantation, at once despatched a messenger to Wailuku. Although only 20 miles distant, for five miles the road winds tediously over a mountain, and it requires a good horse to accomplish the journey in less than three and a half hours. On the present occasion the messenger was well mounted. But natives have an uncommonly small share of common-sense. This man rode so hard over the level ground for the first ten miles, that his horse was done up when he reached tlie mountain. It was 2 a.m. when he reached Wailuku. Mr. Bridger started with all the expedition possible, and shortly before 9 a.m. reached the house where Mr. Dickenson was dying. As he came through Lahaina, the report was current that the spirit had fled : but he was just in time Eldress Phoebe, who had been watching all night, had already said the Commendatory Prayer, when she saw Mr. Bridger approaching. She ran down, and begged him to hasten up. "The poor sufferer knew Mr. Bridger, and with his feeble hands clasped in Mr. Bridger's, he joined in the Lord's Prayer. There was only time for the Prayer ol Consecration He was sinldng ra^^idly, and just after he had received the Blessed Sacrament, his sjjiiit departed as quietly and gently as a little child falls to sleep. It was very beautiful to witness such a happy death." The above is from a letter I received from Eldress Phoebe. And now Lahaina mourns the loss of this good Sister, who has been a true Sister of Mercy both to foreigners and natives in time of sickness for many years. Her removal to Honolulu with Sister Mary Clara has already been mentioned. On the death of Mr. Searle, the boys he had brought -with him from Waimea were removed to my own School in Honolidu, and the number of my boarders was raised to 34. The School is in a very satisfactory condition, and I owe a special debt of gratitude to those kind friends, who by contributing to the support of a scholar have enabled me to give a Christian education to lads 11 whom I could not otherwise have received. At Christmas I held a thorough examination of the School, receiving from the upper classes very creditable papers. The prizes were given on December 21st. The following account, that appeared in the Pacific Com- mercial Advertiser, written by a stranger to the School, will satisfy friends at home that our work is not wholly thrown away : — lOLANI COLLEGE. "On Thursday evening the distribution of prizes to the scholars of the Bishop's School commenced at seven p.m. The school-room had been put in quite a festive array by Chinese lanterns outside, and long wreaths of evergreens hung in festoons along the walls and ceiling ; and two flags, bearing the inscriptions, " Merry Christ- mas," and "Aloha oukou," gave evidence of the cosmopolitan character of the school. The audience was composed of many ladies and gentlemen, parents and friends of the boys, and a good number of natives, men and women, who had children at the school, and took a great interest in the proceedings, especially when the applause came in. " At the appointed time a large number of boys, perhaps 30 to 40, marched into the hall, and took their places near a platform erected at the end of the room on which Bishop Willis and Mr. Clark, the teacher, took their seats, near a table loaded with books all splendidly bound in gorgeous red or blue, and prizes were distributed for good conduct, progress, etc, etc., while the good Bishop accom- panied every gift with such a kindly look and a few words of praise, that we doubt not that this to many proved about the best and most valued prize of all. After the distribution the platform was cleared, and the exercises of the evening commenced with singing ; recitations and singing alternating. Specimens of drawing by the boys were handed around, and we must confess that some of those gave much promise of higher attainments. Some maps were especially well executed. The recitations were as a whole very well spoken, and where all did well it is difficult to discriminate. Several very lengthy pieces gave proof of a good cultivation of memory ; and we observed with pleasure that some native boys had made good advances in pronouncing the Queen's English. The palm of the evening's rhetorical exercises it appears was generally awarded to a little shaver who had to be placed upon a chair on the platform, Johnny Low. His gesticulations were free, easy, and quite natural, his elocution perfect, and the applause elicted was tremendous. The singing was thoroughly good in time, and the blending of the voices harmonious, and the boys themselves (all of them on the platform, upon which they jumped with surprising agility) enjoyed the per- formance hugely. The performance very appropriately closed with a native song, "Hawaii Ponoi," and the audience rose highly pleased with the evening's entertainment, and we only regret that many who were not there have lost some pleasant hours. 12 " Although this is our first acquaintance with lolani College, we have no hesitation in coming to the conclusion, judging from effect to cause, that it must be a most excellent institution, and of a superior character. Such a number of intelligent and open faces can perhaps but very seldom be found in one school. The face is the reflex of the mind, prominently so in youth, l^o cramming and no stuffing by force can ever reflect upon the face that intelli- gence which only comes when the mind fully grasps the subject, and as it were incorporates it with itself. " "We must sincerely congratulate the teachers on the success of their laborious life (teaching is hard work indeed), and the Bishop on the establishment of a school which in its cosmopolitan character must prove a great blessing to this country by sending forth the right kind of men to take our places. When we express our thanks for the pleasant evening's entertainment, and our hearty wishes for the recurrence of many more such distributions of prizes at lolani College by the hands of BishojD Willis and his assistants, we only utter the sentiments of all who were present on the evening of December 21st, 1876." The following is the Programme of the Eecitations, in which I have given the nationalities of the boys — BISHOP'S COLLEGE SCHOOL. Recitations — Christmas, 1876. Piece. Boy. Age. Kace. Gelert's Grave George Markham 16 Anglo- Hawaiian Flight of Xerxes George Smithies 13 »> >> Discovery of America, James Kaneholo 14 Americo-Hawaiian Montgomery The Young Orator Matthew Mannia 11 »> >> Village Blacksmith, E. Blaisdell 10 American Longfellow Defence of the Bridge, J. C. Searle 16 Australian MacoAilay The Brook, Tennyson John Holt 16 Anglo-Hawaiian The Sea, Procter George Greig 13 Anglo- Tahitian Gold, Hood Eben Low 12 Americo- Hawaiian Death of Montrose, Pol(, Kahaulelio 16 Hawaiian A ytoun A Bit of a Boy John Low 8 Americo- Hawaiian Hubert and Arthur, Polo K., k G. Smithies K. John The First Grief, Haleakala Kanohi 10 Hawaiian Mrs. Hemans 13 After the copy of my last letter had been forwarded, I found there were some errors in the Subscription List for 1874. I there- fore append to this letter the list of contributions received in 1874, 1875, and nine months of 1876, with balance sheets up to that date. I trust these will be found correct. If there are any errors, I shall be much obliged to any who will point them out to Francis Lowe, Esq., 2, Taniield Court, Temple, London, who succeeds the Eev. Walter Scott as my Commissary in England. Trusting that all who have so far supported this Mission will continue a liberal support, and not forget the Isles of the Sea in their supplications before the Throne of Grace, I remain. Faithfully yours in our Blessed Lord, ALFEED HONOLULU. MonolulUj Hawaiian Islands, January 29, 1877. u ^iottm Df Honolulu. EIGHT REV. ALFRED WILLIS. D.D., BISHOP. Island. Station. Clekgy. Lay Tsachers. Oahu Honolulu The Bishop, Bean. St. Andrcio's Eev. T. Blackburn, M.A., Cathedral Senior Priest Rev. A. Mackintosh, Pi^ecentor Waialua Mr. E. Hoare Maui Lahaina, Church of Holy Inno- cents Rev. S. H. Davis Wailuku, Church Rev. John Bridger Mr. W. Swan of the Good Shepherd Haiku Hawaii South Kona, Christ Church Waiohinu Kohala Mr. A. Sala EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. Bishop's College School. — A Boarding School. Principal, the Bishop. Assistants, St. Alban's College. — Principal, Alatan T. Atkinson, Esq Messrs. J. G. Trembeth and W. Green. St. Andkew's Priory. — A Boarding School for Girls, conducted by the Devonport Sisters of Mercy. St. Cross, Lahaina. — A Boarding School for Girls, conducted by the Rev. S. H. and Mrs. Davis. Assistant, Miss Mary K. Kahaulelio. I 15 Subscription List for the Year 1874. £ s. d. . £ s. d. Rer. M. Amphlett 1 Miss Eliza Willis . . 5 Rev. S. Arnott . 1 1 Miss Emily Willis . 5 Ven. Archdeacon Bicker Miss L. Willis . . 5 steth .... 5 Rev. W. L. Wigan . 10 Mrs. Bennett 2 6 Rev. A. Wilson . . 1 1 Rev. D. J. Boutflower . 1 1 Miss M. Wilson . . 10 6 Miss A. S. Bourne 5 The Misses Woodward . 1 Rev. G. S. Cuthbert . 10 6 Mrs. Yonge . . 2 A. G. Dowell, Esq. 1 Rev. E. Elwes, 1873 . 12 „ 1874 . 12 Miss Gardiner, from OFFERTORIES. ''The Net" . 5 15 J> >> >5 11 Braceborough 12 4 Rev. E, Gibson . 1 ,, Scholarship 20 Rev. E. F. Hay . 5 Beaulieu . 1 Miss Hammond 7 Cattistock . 3 3 2 Rt. Rev. Bishop Hobhouse 10 Cambridge, per Rev. E Mrs. Hopkins (per) 2 14 6 J. Smith . 1 10 4 Miss Ibbotson, for Schools 5 15 Hove, per R. M. Lowe, Esq. 3 Rev. H. M. Ingram 1 1 '5 }i 5> 4 12 6 Rev. C. E. Kennaway . 2 2 Kirk Ella . 1 Miss Lambert 1 Kirby Misperton . 1 Lord Lyt^ielton 1 Lincoln .... 2 7 Rev. W. Macgregor 1 1 Lancing College . 18 9 „ ,, Scholarship 20 Shottisham . 5 6 3 Rev. H. G. Meara 1 10 Stainton le Vale . 2 9 6 1873 10 Stamford 5 Miss Perceval 2 Wells Theological Col- ,. ,, for scholar 1 lege .... 8 9 „ (per) P. M. F. . 7 5 £681 6 H. W. Prescott, Esq. . Miss C. R. Raine Miss Sellon . 5 5 too Paid to the Bishop — Rev. F. Sterry . 2 From Wolverhampton, The Misses Strong 20 per Rev. R. Dunn 22 16' Rev. E. Thring . 5 From Hove, per R. M. Mrs. Tireman 1 Lowe, Esq. 2 Mr. T. Whitmore . 5 — 1873 5 £24 16 Rev E Willis 25 •«-V\> V a JLJ« T T 1XJ.1»3 • • 16 Subscription List for the Year 1875. £ s. d. £ s. d. Eev. GT. Ainslie . 1 1 Rev. H. G. Meara 1 10 Alverstoke . . 1 Marian W. D. Scholar Anon. . 5 5 ship . 20 Kev. S, Arnott 1 1 Mrs. Mitchell 16 Sir G. Baker 5 Miss Perceval 3 Rev. H. Bailey, D.I). 5 St. Peter's, Pimlico . 5 14 6 Mrs. Bennett 2 6 Mrs. Poole . . 3 Rev. C. A. Borrer 1 Rev. P. Potter . . 1 1 Bolton . 4 10 H. W. Prescott, Esq. 5 Miss A. S. Bourne 5 Miss C. R. Raine . 5 Rev. D. J. Boutflower 1 1 Rochester Local Fund . 84 19 Braceborough 16 Mrs. Salt . 2 >> 6 10 Major- General G. Sand „ Scholarship » 20 ham . 5 Burton . 3 3 Miss Sellon 300 Rev. F. Calder (repay- Miss Smith . 1 ment of passage money 25 Stamford St. Martin 5 Rev. Gr. S. Cuthbert 10 6 Rev. F. Sterry 2 Church Leech 1 Stoke St. Mary . 1 1 Rev. H. Daman . 3 Miss Strong . 10 Hon. Miss Dawnay 5 Miss Thorn . 2 6 A. G. Dowell, Esq. 1 1 Mrs. Tireman 1 Edinburgh . 5 Warkston 2 Rev. E. Elwes 12 Wells Theological Col Exeter, St. Sidwell's 1 1 lege Missionary As Mrs. Frere . 1 10 sociation . 36 7 6 A Friend 2 6 Wells Theological Col Miss Gardiner, from lege Offertory . 6 7 6 "The Net" . 10 Rev. E. WUlis 25 Rev. E. S. Gibson. 1 Mrs. Woodard 2 Mrs. Goodrich 10 Rev. T.Woodruff. 5 Rev. E. F. Hay . Rt.Rev. BishopHobhouse 5 10 £767 7 1 Mrs. Hopkins 2 17 12 4 3 9 Horsham and Arundel ■"* Miss Hulme . 5 Rev. H. M. Ingram 1 1 Paid to the Bishop- Rev. C. E. Kennaway 2 2 Rev. W. Turner . 2 Miss Lambert 1 1 Mrs. Watt, California 2 Lichfield 5 Wells theological Col R. M. Lowe, Esq. . 1 c lege Missionary As- Mrs. Lowe . 1 sociation (1874) 30 7 Miss Lowe . 3 A Widow's Mite (1874) 5 Lower Peover 6 1 6 7 Lord Lyttelton £39 7 Rev. W. Macgregor 1 > 20 1 „ Scholarship 17 Subsenpiion List from Jan. 1 to Sept, 30, 1876, £ s. d. £ s. d. Miss A, S. Bourne 5 Eev. E. C. Scobell. 1 1 Eev. D. J. Boutflower 1 1 MissSellon . 200 Braceborough 20 3 3 Miss Smith . 1 Right Rev. Bishop Hob Miss S. 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Mrs. Simeon 5 B. B 5 Per Miss Wright. Miss Wingate 10 Misses Collis 1 Rev. A. B. Skipworth... 2 6 Sermon preached at St. John's, Hampstead, by The Lord Bishop of Lichfield 26 18 9 Rev. G. A. Herklotz- OfFertory at St. Sa- viour's, Hampstead, on Day of Intercession ... 4 3 Manley & Kate Hopkins 5 Esq.— 2 2 1 Per Messrs. Barnetts, Hoares ds Co. Lady Franklin 20 A. B.Cobb 110 1876. Per Manley Hopkins, Esq.- Alfred Tennyson, Esq. 2 2 Misses Collis (per Miss Wright) 10 Mrs. Wingate (per do.) 5 Misses Wingate (per do.) 5 OflFertory at Wrangle Parish Church (per do.) 2 5 1 B. B 5 Mrs. Simeon ... ... 5 Manley & Kate Hopkins 5 Per Messrs. Barnetts, Hoares d; Co. A. B. Cobb, Esq. ... 1 1 u January to March, 1877. Per Manley Hopkins, Esq. — Alfred Tennyson, Esq. 2 2 Misses Collis (per Miss Wright) 10 Mrs. & Misses Wingate (per ditto) 10 In answer to appeal in the ^^Net." — Miss Twopenny ... 50 Miss Harriet Arrowsmith 5 Mrs. J. Bodenham ... 10 Miss A. Styar 10 G. (Staplehurst) ... 10 A. M. 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