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82 HONOLULU. Besides these schools there is a Theological College called The North Pacific Missionary Institute, presided over by Rev. Charles M. Hyde, D. D. This is a train- ing school for native postors, and the young misionary is taught not only theology, but how to live. With their families established in comfortable apartments, they learn how to keep a model home, a training which is of the greatest value to the future parish. Honolulu has been called “a city of missions,” and th- Hawaiian Islands certainly present a broad field for work with their mingled nationalities. The annual report of the Hawaiian Evangelical Asso- ciation for 1897 shows under its control twenty-one na- tive churches in Hawaii, seventeen on Maui and Molo- kia, ten on Oahu and seven on Kauai, with a total mem- bership of four thousand one hundred and sixty-seven. In the city of Honolulu the native churches of Kawaia- hao and Kaumaka are in a flourishing condition; and have over one thousand members. One of the most powerful agencies for good is the Central Union Church, which is : under the charge of the Rev. Douglas Birnie. A more active and religious body is scarcely to be found any- where in the United States. It has five hundred and twenty-three members and five hundred in the Sunday School. With the help of good friends it supports mis- | sions among the Hawaiians, Portuguese, Japanese and _ Chinese, not only in Hololulu, but in all parts of the isl- ands. Mr. Frank Damon, who has charge of the Chinese Mission, has been most successful in his work. ; The Chinese church has one pa ae and twenty-four 3 ~ 5 o .. com icbooks ce yn th 3 - tea > a a 7 * °-? SS * * welts hs mea asc: —* oe oS