That, however, abides distinctively Western, and in all probability will continue to do so.

For everything moves along Western lines. That is the type of the social, civic, and institutional training. The children of all races are taught in the English language,

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mingle together in the public schools, vie with one another in the advanced schools, and later on maintain business and professional relations in accordance with Western standards and in keeping with Western methods. The type of civilization will be distinctively Western. Will it be distinctively Christian?

The problem certainly is a complex one. For, in the first place, it calls for the organization and maintenance of churches for Anglo-Saxon residents. At the principal centers of population, such churches have already been established and are selfsustaining. But in the more sparsely settled sections church privileges can be maintained for Anglo-Saxons only through substantial financial aid, and in conjunction with religious effort in behalf of other races.

In the second place, the problem

calls for the reinforcement of about seventy churches among Hawaiians, representing the legacy of both duty and opportunity that has descended to the present generation from the missionary fathers. Many of these churches had the personal presence and stimulus for fifty years of devoted and large calibred men and women from New England whose impress yet remains. But not a few of these churches are in regions once thickly inhabited, but now decimated, so far as native Hawaiians are concerned.

The parallel is a close one between the present estate of some of these churches and that of churches of the descendants of the. Pilgrims in some of the hill-towns of New England. And the former quite as much as the latter require wise superintendence and financial aid.

In the third place, there have settled in Hawaii, to become a permanent element in the population, a considerable number of Portuguese and Spaniards. Not a few, and especially among the rising generation, gravitate the Protestantism, creating thus a call for trained leaders and financial backing.

In the fourth place, the bulk of the population is Oriental, and the problem of how to reach these Chinese, Japanese, and Coreans, with an effective evangelism, can be solved only by putting into the field superintendents and evangelists who know the language and are in touch with the genius of these several races. Το promote the establishment and maintenance of churches among AngloSaxons; to foster and enrich the material and spiritual development of