Hawaiian Islands by C. P. Moon

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 28, 1902

Hawaiian Islands

By C. P. Moon

HONOLULU.—We have been here about a year, and are enjoying the work very much, although the visible results are few. Five Chinese boys have left us for the States since we came, and another expects to go on the next boat. Five of these six have united with our church, and all of them go to the States to connect with our schools, and thus prepare themselves that they may help carry this last message to their own people in China. We have spent most of our time this summer in tent work. We spent a few days canvassing for “Christ’s Object Lessons,” and sold our quota, and will try to do more if we have the time. Our school opened September 1, with about thirty students in attendance. There is a call for a school on one of the other islands, and some one from here may go to answer this call.

The island of Hawaii, which is about two hundred miles from here, has the largest active, as well as the largest extinct, volcano in the world. A five-foot tidal wave swept our shores, but did little damage. Our city has experienced one light earthquake shock—so light that few persons noticed it at all. Another island reported two slight earthquakes, but the “waters of our faith are not troubled.” We only see the fulfillment of prophecy in these things. Christ said, “When ye see all these things, know that it is near, even at the door.”

Our work is to give this message to a dying world. The harvest is great, and the laborers are few. Let us pray the Lord of the harvest that he will raise up more laborers, and give some a burden for the work in this field. Remember us who are already here, in your prayers, that our faith fail not, but that we may be as a city set on a hill which cannot be hid. C. P. MOON.