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Henry Obookiah Sunday, February 18, 1968 A.D.
All island church.et-of ""'hatntt dmommatfon-are urged
to � Sund.a!. Fcbnun ts_ :n. �·Henry Obooliah Sunday:·
Tht Haw.au Cound1 of C,;hunlw-.s h;1s cooper.ucd with us in
,mding om ma1tri.als rn all thdr mem�r churches so that
the� nu,. aharc. t-Kh """"itb their own C()rlgfe-ptions, in this
n-�l. AftN 1.U, Opulahaia w.u not jus.t the lirsL Hawaiian
�adonatist; he wa, the fin.I Ha"'-aii;in Chriuian-tbe
lf)ffltual fmdath<'I' o1 all Christians hn-c.
At Kaw.arah•o Cllu1ch, Rn,. Abraham Akaka will lead the
,en,,u al 10:JO a.m. m honor of the 7oung man who.u name
luu lw�n nu/JFn1ed at tlu- lluto1-k church with a painting and
• f>W9""· Bolh will � on dilplrr, on 1h01 Su.nd•y.
b.u headed the \Voman·s Board
Bed.) Ling of �wai.lh:10
..
"Ltis for (:ornwall 1;1rojecL The aim "-"35 to mak.e at least
500 non-ptti.Juilble lcu from aJJ the islands to be tak.en to
Com"'·all for thc»c who C'omc 10 honor Opuk.ahaia. Kawaiahao
mothn-5 made O\CT a hundl"m leh by tl1emsch·es. Many other
churcho lun--c brrn sharing m this project. \\'ananalua Church,
Hana, it!nt a foi from tach membrr of iu woman'5 group.
1...ay men a.s wtll a� ,,,omen from Kalau�pa sent leis from
their church. \\"e """ ,bell I�
�ck, wool ,ccch. nuL>
m.a.n� oth"s. TilC' \'ale Club of Ha..·aii is sending a lei to be
J>Ul on lhc gr.n·c by l.ht- Yale rcpresen1atives in Cornwall.
Each pt'nOn at the Cornwall event who rccci\·es a lei will be
ask.ro to srnd a card or note to the per.son who gave the lei
whose name aptXars on the rag aru:cha.l. In this way, m:iny
can Wre in the hh1oric occasion, C\-·tn ..-ithout bdng there
au
Modern Opukahaias
JI', asked lh, Rro. John Mulholland,
Chaplain of lhe Kamehamrha Schools, lo
tell the FRJEA'D something about th,
Sclrool', Deput.ati()tl Team.1. Heu is his
rrpfy:
The deputation teams al the Kameha
meha Schoob grew out of the type o/
service that many churches have on Youth
Sunday and other occ.uions ":hen young
people are speakers. Col. Harold W. Kent,
Pr�dent of 1M- Kamehameha Schools at
the time, suggested that these very fine
youth s,rvice, should be he.lrd by people
in other communitie:s. The Reverend Ste•
phm L De.ha, Ch,ipJ.ain, ,et up the ar
rangffl)M)I.J for other islands and "";th the
Reverend John F. Mulholland, arranged
Ior the first visiu. The Re\·erend William
Ka.LIU., who is now pastor o( Lihue Union
Church, was a member of the very fint
team to go out.
lnclutkd in OUT C()flfeunu Yearbook
au lluse namt", of people now in lrain
,ng Jo, ChTistian vocations as students in
Colleit'S and Theo{ogiaJ/ Seminarit:s.
The q11tJ.tian for every church to a.sic
it�lf. as Voc/01 Fred BuuhmeyeT once
pul it, i1: "Has you-, c-hurch raised up
CJ many ,,unistnJ a.J it has used up1'' JVe
Ja/lde theJe 1oung men and the churcheJ
in tht'Je Ulantu 11Jho have helped to rai.Je
//um up.
From Cm.tn.l Union Church: Frank A.
Chong, at the t:nivenity of Hawaii; Rkh
ard C. Gordon at Andover Newton 1neo
logical Seminary, �•on Centre, M...a.
chu..tta; Eldredge Mitchell Ill, Yanlton
College, Yankton. South Dakota,
From Fint Chine>c Cbwcli, Honolulu:
Grant S. C. Lee, Fuller Theological Semi
nary, Pasadena, California.
From Mak.ik.i Christian Cbucch, Hooo
h,lu: Larry Mam.iya, Union Theological
The deputation teams are composed of
four young people who have written talks
about a common theme. They usually arc
a singing group as well They plan the
entire service and when the service L5 per•
fonnr<I. for a Hawaiian corlgrcgation, one
of the team members usually reads a Ha
waiian scripture. During the past few
yean a total of four teams have gone out
each year: one each to Kauai, Maui and
Hawaii, and one to Lanai and Molokai.
This year's team to Kauai (see picture)
is typia.l of the teams of the past ycan.
It is composed of:
Seminary, New York City; Ronald A. Na.
gata, Princeton Theological Seminary,
Princeton, New Jersey.
From \Vailuku Union Church, \Vailuku,
Maui: Charles M. Savage, Ando\·er New•
ton Theological Seminary; William N.
Sa1--age, University of Chicago Divinity
School (These two men arc brothers.)
F r o m Kaimu.ki Evangelical Church·
Mainard G. H. Tom and Vernon Tom,
both at F u 1 J e r Thcolog1cal Seminary.
(These are brothers also.)
From ,vaimca Christian Church, Wai
mea, Kauai: Taka,hi Yamashita Bangor
Theological School. Bangor, �fai�e.
Ronald Fujiyoshi, son of Rev. and Mn.
Oonald Fujiyoshi of Honolulu. is the
product of many of our churches and
acboo1s. He is in his Senior Year at
Chicago Theological Seminary.
There is no such thing as a ..typical
theological itudcnt" from Hawaii, but
1
Kawaiahao Church will
be l�e scene of a special
service on February 18
a,t 10:30 in honor of rhe
fust Haw41ii1n Christia"·
Students of K"meh41m,.
ha Schools will carry the
portrait of Op1,k1 hoia In
procession al the stirr
of !he service. Among
those present wlll be
Doctor Joseph Bevildl c•
qua of our Hawaii Con.
ference, Rev. Seido Oga.
wa of the Hawaii Council
of Churches, Mr. Weir
Stuart of Auburn Semi
nc1ry. Kawaiahao Svnddly
School children and Doc
tor Abraham Akakdl will
present a Dramatic Read
ing and Tableaux of
scenes from the life of
Opukahaia. Prayer will
be_ offerrd by Tyron,
Reinhardt of Kameh1m,.
ha Schools. D,acon Ezra
Kanoho will lead the
litany and Deacon Louis
Grace will give lhe Ha•
waiidln Meditalion.
Edwarda H.isegawa, a member of the
Hoolehua, l\.folokai church, is the fift h
member of her family to be on a dcputa•
Lion team.
Paul Cathcart, a junior, lives in Ewa
Beach but his family :ittends Kawaiahao
Church.
Shirleen Beppu is a member of the Uni
versity Baptist Church, but lives in Hauula
,...-here her family usually attends Hauula
Hawaiian Church.
Harold \Vat.son of Honolulu is a mcm•
bcr of St. Peter', Episcopal Church.
The chaperone for this team is Mr.
T)TOne Reinhardt who is serving his in
ternship at 11te Kameh:uneha Schools and
will graduate from Andover Newton Theo
log1cal Seminary in Uay. Mr. Reinhardt
1s :1. graduate of The Kamehameha. Schoob
.3.nd was himself on deputation teams in
both his junior and senior yean.
The teams nrc willing to sµeak ot ony
church to which they are invited Call or
write us at the school and we'll try to co
ordinate the visit of the team with your
church's open dates.
Aloha pumehana,
John F. Mulholland
Lawrence Kaaloc
h u kai Kamakawi•
woole is surely the
most Hawaiian of
our present ''mode r n Opukahaias".
• . ":::
The son of Mr. and
t
M rs , William Ka- '
makawiwoolc, Law
rence graduated
/rom Kam Sch oolthis is his yearbook
;., • •
•--•
picture-and went
on to the University of Hawaii from
which he graduated in 1965. At .P!esc�t
he is at the Pacific School of Rehg1on rn
Bereley majoring in ReHgious Education.
He is a member of Kawaiahao CJ1urch.
�Modern Opukahaia
Robert Lindsey
When Opukah3ia J e £ t
these islands for New Eng13.nd he was about 16
old. By the time he ha set•
tied in Cornwall and had
taken up his studies at the
Foreign Mi55ion School, he
was in his early nvcntics.
Robert Lind5ey, youngcu
De ac o n of our lmiola
Church on the Big lsl:ind,
who goes to Cornwall to
n=prescnt Opuknhaia as well
as the young men and wom
en of today's 1-lawaii, is
just 19 ycan old, a student
at the University of Hawaii,
Hilo Campus. Robert, the
son of 1hc late Mr. Robert
Lindsey Sr., and of Mrs
Hannah LinWcy, is a graduate of K:unch:uncha School.
Often when Imiola Churrh has been without a preacher
Robert has filled the pulpit so ably that the church members
have said, "He is ;1S �ood a preacher as any we've had-ordained
or not." Imiola Church is paying Robert's way on the Cornwall
Pilgrimage in order that the people or New England may be
aware that the "Opukahaia Spirit" is still alive in our churches,
that we arc still producing young people or conviction and faith.
Robert ha!. bee-n asked to preach at the: Goshen Con grcga•
tional Church on Sunday morning, February 18. This is a church
which played a large part in Lhe life of Opukahaia, and is the
church m which Hiram Bingham and Asa Thurston, pioneer
miisionarics to H:twaii, were ordained just before leaving for
the islands.
In the ahcrnoon, Robert will share in the commemorative
scr,.·ices in Cornwall Church as well as Ill the ceremonies at the
grave it.self. He will ny back 10 Hilo in tune for classes Tuesday
morning.
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Hundreds of 1n'l'ff1flOM like this one havt been 5ent out to people, not
ontr U'I H.tw1,1, but 111 OYtr the country. This Is yours! Many friends
hlv& 1ridiuttd that thty wdJ be pl1nn1n9 to attend one of the thl'ff cert•
mcwu11,. We know af 11 least two �pie who ue planning lo be at two:
the one ,n Honofo:.t arid the one 11 Ke.tlakt'kual Among replies received is
�� ',:r�::�:�op�!Yrt�."tn�::��b1?�f�,y•,�;e', �;;:.
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Phofogr,phs u �II 11 lfodts •nd IN1\l'Lt!!s will !w taken af etch of lht
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three c.rtmon::ts.
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��PILGRl:O.£AGE
t{a-.,. I ia tha
-;"s!:: � �iah is
that ....., Too ertta"P"t • claim ? P.r•
ot is. Ma)b, I a>uld not I'""-, it ii
to, bat. I promi1e �. I would
I
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WI,, will bc th• modem pilgrims on
a,u· Cornwall U"ek? �ot quite to apcct;t•
culaT a cca:npany as Chauctt•s �-d:
Anni< Kanah,le of Kaumakapili Church
is P"I{; L,hua Kawai. Eth<I Andrade
and Rohen Lind,,y of lm,ola 011 th, Big
llia.od; Charles Black_ ,.,11 �nt th<
.
Juwaiian Mmion Ch,Jdr,:n s Society. He
hopet to mtt1 with IOffit' of bis Nr"
England "a,wins" while 1u:·, there. Edi ,�
Wolfr malihini from Massachu�u,., is
mu.i,,g the ,,,uimrntal journey back 10
\be- cm,etr:ry wht� sh" stood once .u a
,.,..ng minister 20 yon ap--!ong befone
the dreamed she would one day be ,n
ulandcr d. a sort 1ie....11.
\\DO d,r will be at Cornwall on the
_,,,.i Sunday ol February? It • 1 1 de
� on the weather. If thr thaw comes
u,d p,oplc can get throll{llh, can "ill be
uavc:ling u, Comwail from Vermont. �as•
...t,...,11:s, )'l.,. York, New Jeney. Mary•
llnd, :-;.,.. twnp,hine, Rhode Iiland a,
well as from all the churches of Litchfield
County rouod alx>ut. Representath--cs of
Ya)c Umvenity have promisc-d to comr,
u have people from Andovrr NC\.\·ton
Seminary and our own United Church
Board for World Ministries. We hope that
300 people will fill the little Comw,11
Church on the Vub.gc Green with an O\.'Cr•
flowing congreption-all wearing leis over
their .c:arves and <Wrrcoau!
The Haw.aii contingent will go leiden
de,,,, with bundneds of leis to pre,ent ..,
aloha gjfu to the peopl• of New England.
11,m,11 be flower lett from each of lh•
isla.ods, mmt ieu for thr ministcn who
•--all in the procession, aced, thcll, doth,
nut and asaorted other Jeis which ha-.·c
been made and given by the: people of our
cburcbcs hce. We'll take bright ned an
thuriwm-gifu Imm Floraleigh Gardens,
Hilo-to ma.kc a brilliant I.how against
the dnb February gray, and erisp Haw:u
iu macadunU. nuu to apatk up the Sun
diy baked bean dinner. Lugged along,
iJ we can get them aboard the pJa�. will
be two feather kahilis to put down in tht
stone-h,trd earth, onr at the head and one
at th, foot of Obookiah', grave.
A lonl' way to go----6())() miles in the
midst of the winter-for a man who,e
been dud and buried for 150 yean?
Foolish to ris1: the threat of a blizzard
•1hich might make it impouible for us to
ani\-e at all-so that we a.nd all our 1eia
migbt have 10 sit out lhe weekend stud:
iD MootreaJ 0t Ne-A-ark, New Jene')' ?
(Au,,,e!) Silly to be so conumed' about
• young man of whom many peop�en
in H.awa.ii! -ha�e never heard-for whom
-t people couldn't care leu. (Note.
wbeo Dr. Abe Aialta, a few years ago,
urged Opukahaia a. the p<n<>n to rep
f't!lent ow islands with a statue in St.at•
Uty lhll, Washingtoo, our o--n "'""
l<platon, many of th.ml, said, "Who'•
be ?" )
We lihouldn't -..,-.u1c time and money on
th< dead and Ilse past; we &hould be
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RARITY REPRINTED
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HENRY OBOOKIAH,
, 'A11YS QF UWIIYll.&t,.
pew ll•bm :
.,_._, 1.NJI.P •\" $,'?11\."'t \\IIIU"\"\
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few copiH of the urly editions of the M1malr1 rtrNin. _ This 1819 copy _Jh�s • Nt� Havtn
imprint. Ttrmifes have bt:en at work on the center secr,on. but the fron1tsp1tee ind lltle page
for1unitely were spared. Later ed111ons of tilt Memoir& wert tr,nsl•led into H1waii1n and Tht
Choct1w (lndi1n) l1ngu1ge.
\.I EMOIRS OF H E N RY OBOO
KIAH by Edwin Dwight. 150th
Anniversary Edition. Edited by
Edith H. Wolfe. Introduction by
Albertine Loomis (The Woman's
Board of Mi.s.sions, Hawaci Confor
ence of the United Church of
Christ, Honolulu.) 1 28 pp. Paper
back. 12 plates. $1.50
Reviewed by J obn L. Casteel
(DO<IM John Ca,tee/, author of lhe
best•seWng booh, Rediscovering Prayer,
hOJ stroed on the focullics of Union
Theological Seminary, ,\'ew York City
and Colgate Rochester Divinity Scflool.
I-le first encountered the stc,ry of Henry
Obookiah while he wa.s (>a.slor of lhe
Con�egotional Church at Sharon, Con•
nect,c111, a town near Cornwall, the place
where Obookiah had studied, died a11d
was buried. At presrnt Doctor Casteel
servn OJ General Secretary of the Council
for Lay Life and ll'ork of lhe U11iled
Church of Chri,i.)
1ne rcisnUng of this little book, on thr
150th annjvenary of Henry Obook.iah'•
death, may lt=ad the reader to ask ques
tions.
What ungun.,,cd potentiality in human
beings makes po»iblc the tr.rnsfonnation
of a 1tom:•age youth, in Jcu than a decade,
into a Christi.an gentleman, admired and
loved by all who knrw him, both for the
purity and grace of his spirit and the
gentleness and nobility of hi1 manner?
By what fortune is a he cast up ;,, New
England where, popular not.ions to the
worrying about the living and the pres-
ent ? Jr you arc thinking along th01e lines,
perhaps you are right.
But then again, per haps not. When I
(�linwd on /141,� I)
contrary, hospitality to the str.mgcr and
rcspon1ibility for his wdfan.--physical,
m c n t a I omd spiritual-were tnkcn for
grant�d as Christian duty; omd where time
allowed the pursuit of learning and the
cnrichrnent of the mind as godly pursuits
in their own right ?
"What w:u the source of that yearning
to deliver his �pie Crom wonhip of
ido!J th:,,t burned in the youth, before he
had &Carccly heard of Christianity, and
th.it Ns own convcnion only rlarified and
brought to a consuming fire?
And by what providence did his death
at the .i.ge to twenty six-his dying words
befog, .. I've lost my time-I've lost my
time!"-spring Joo1e a band of mission
aries and of missionary support thaL
brought about-as far ;u humanly pos•
siblc-thc very deliverance of his people
for which he JO much longed ?
Things don't happen 1his way in our
world today-or JO we think. The false
fictions of novel oi.n<l screen :,,bout what
happened in Hawaii leave little place for
questions like these Vet we live in a world
where t.he1oe arc the life-or-death questions
for all n1ankind. Who wiU dchvcr us Crom
our idolatries ? Where will we find t h e
fortunate shores where the Christian hope
may be born afUn for us, and the new
venture of hclpmg all mankind come to
k n o w , love and s e r v e Gocl can be
launched?
Henry Obookia.h's story is very much
the unfinis. hed story of our world, o u r
day- and we had bctcer read it and pon
der,' lest we, too, come to the l:ut lament:
,.We've lost our time - we, ve lost our
time!"
�Sesquicentennial Plans
rILGRIMAG£
H•woiu,,. h7'fflU to b" SUJ1g at all the snvica induded
•·Nu 01,,� "S.viour, Lale • Shepherd Uad Us<# and Fath ':'
L-,tmr "'HAMri Alolu,.... "Aloha Ot," wlule not a h:ymn, 111111
br nmg by all the rONf1Cptrons because "Aloha Oe'' wue
""'°"& ltrnry OpuA:aha,o's dying a:ords.
Cornwall oUO"I aloha to pilgrims.: A Jeuu from Mn. Cal•
houn o£ the Cornw;all church S.3)'3i that ..People jo Cornwall
ue eagerly -•aiting to bt hospitable, so 1 hope }'OU uc offering
£rtt btds to all co�n."
Mn. Calhoun adds the thought: "\Ve \'isu:Ui.zc this occa•
,ioo as 10mctbing cnryonc in the churc.h can get belund. \Ve
have 10 many things to DfKUC about-Vietnam, mervn ()·es,
uillf), in cegr.uion etc. ad infinitum-that it rcaJJy is refreshing
10 have a oon-conuovcnia.l J'rojectl"
Maik IN from th< islan of Hawaii will be given to each
,nini,ter atttnding th, srrviet: at Cornwall. Now the problem
...
u to pt-rst1ade t�r Co,,nutin,t YanA:res tlu:l tht1e are not
,...,1e of pouan "'1!
II fOU sub,aibc, to the United Church of Christ Sunday
BullCWt Scn·ict'. you will 6nd that the February 18 issue con•
ta.in.I mform;uion aboul Henry Oboo\ia.h which was ,,,,.riucn
by Dr. Da\·id :W. Stowe. Plcucd a, we arc to ha\·c the story of
our ,pecial Island boy told throughout the coumry, our Joy is Annie Kanahele, first Corn
soJDe'K"hat maned by the in.accuracies in tl\c article, See H will pilgrim, dresses fM
Connecticut winter weather.
you can ,pot them.
Female Opu.kahaias
Take Note:
A IChob.nhip is ava.ila.b1e for any female
student presetitly att.encUng the t.:nh.-enity
from du: Ruth C. Scudder Scholanhip
Fund, according to Mn. Harold W. Kent,
tcholanhip committee chairman.
The Scholanhip Committee ,'111 con
sider any female applicant on character,
,cholanhip, need of financial help, her
,crvicc to I.be Uni'wnity, and religious
interest.
11,e IC:holar&mp coruisu of a year's tui
tion plus the �tration fee at the Uni
�ty of Hawaii.
Anyone in1trestcd it asked to write for
an applicauon before March 15th to Mrs.
Harold W. Kmt, 1451 Ohwoke Strec�
Honolulu, Hawaii 96821 .
nu
��.:, ��!.��?o,.f�nr1�t ���
L·,.u,d (;lt..n-lt of Cltrul. ?JQJ f,,.'11...n11
Awft'W, H�ulu, H•.,.it, 'Jt4J7. Durnll,
!Ut'd fO PU rJl,ac#U, .-it,,._t ob/1,0fUM.
TKt HltNO ...tc.- ceatriwti Nl ,,J Id.a-,,
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av. DR. JOSUH J. W'JLACQUA
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CALLED: To Waiokcola Chu�h to
scn-·c :u pa.stor beginning March 1, Rev.
Robert E. Sanders of First Congregationa]
Church, Burbank, California.
BORN: To Rev. and Mn. Nelson Kwon
of Wa.ip::ahu Congrcgationa] Church, a
second son, Jon Mark, Janu::uy 29, 1968.
,,role aboul our plans to Rev. \ViUiam
Stone Coffin, Chaplain of Yale, who is
now in the forefront of the fight concern
ing the righl of protest a.galnst the �·ar
in Vietnam, I apologized for bot�enng
him with such matters as hononng a
long-dead Hawaiian lad when he was con
cerned about present.day young men from
all states who were foc-ing death. This is
what Chaplain Coffin wrote in his letter
of reply:
"I like the idea. of the pilgrimage. Per
haps it is predsdy i11 a world 011 its
mCTT'J way to hdl we should be cele
bTa.ting such good 1hi11gs as this."
Perhaps you do not agree with him
that oun is a world "on iu merry way
to heU", but at lc;ut you mu,t ildmit th3t
it is a world whlch is in cb.nger of break
ing its he3rt and losing it1 soul. In such
a world, this pilgri1n.ige lifts up before at
lea.st a £cw people "for one brief shining
moment" the lifo of a young man whose
quarter century on earth ,v:is a lime of
beauty, honor and inlegrity-3nd lasting
significa nee.
The purpose of our Cornwall pilgrim
age? To remind ourselves-the people or
New England-and all or you-that in the
Providence of God, c a c h man's life,
whether long or short, c:m count for good;
thnt the world u not in our hands, but in
God's. In 1968, a, in 1818, God is the
ruler yct.--e.w.
IN NEXT MONTH'S FRIEND :
hen Col'lgressv.om1n Pally I.ink got 10 Truk,
Mizp.ih H19h School 8•nd wu there to greer
her Many of the instruments ume from ovr
Wom•n·s Soard. We were there, 11 lent in spirit
-ot sound
ls the Makupuni Mahe?
IIIIUAeY - MAICH, 1961
SECOND Cl.ASS POSTAGE
PAID
AT HONOLULU, HAWAII
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VOlUME XIX
NUMBER 2
A PUBLICATION
Pilgrimage to Wintry Cornwall
" IVhan that llt,r,lle with his sho111es sole
The droghte of Marclu hath ptrced
to the rote . . .
Then longen folJt. to goon on
pilgrimage, . • :•
-T� Canterbury Tales, Prologue
Geoffrey Chaucer, (IN0-1100)
TI-IE f a m o u s pilgrimage of which
Ch.1.:ucc:r wrote centuries ago was, of
coune, in the spring; it was, of counc,
to Canterbruy, England, and it wa!I, as
you may recall from your high school
English Lit class, made by a company of
religious folk, lay and clerical, who rode
on horaeback and were a long time jour•
neying. Included in lh1' Canterbwy com
pany were the Wife of Bath, a Monk, a
Pardontr, a Clerke., a "pauvre parson". a
Merchant ;a.lld �body called a .,Frank
lclevn "�nvt to mention an assortment of
• ;fcplcequ:illy hard to ,pell and dil14 _�unce.
(ha(J)i.l:gi:in&.agc will be rather different
�
•
dia, laroow li«rarr. one. �e r.hall
.
Ye- wann, IWlny Hawau for dully New
• DOt .in the springtime, but while
� still bolds the hill, and valltys in
!1!$grip of;,,,, and snow. We mall tr»·el,
� foor,or on bonebock, bui on winga;
i:D&l;ead of many clap and weeks a-going_,
I"" shall b,, there -.;1hin a matter of houn.
But, like the Canterbury Pilgrims, we go
on a journey of faith-well, at least, we
hope, a kind of faithfulness. It is a pil
grimage, if you will pcnnit us to use thal
overworked and overHVDed word, of
Aloha.
\Vhat am I talking about? The Pil
grimage to CornwaJJ, which will take some
half dozen of us from the Islands to a
little ..-illage in Connecticut, where I i c s
buried one whom we go, in the name of
Hawaii and all of you, to honor. \Ve hope,
if God pennies, to st.and by bis grave on
the 150th Anniversary of his death, Sun
day, February 18, 1968; to put our leis and
yours; on the stone in Cornwall cemetery,
which has for the past century and a half
weathered the New England storms and
sun.
Whose grave? His name as given on the
inscription is "Henry Obookiah / A Na
tive of Owhyhee." He was the first Hawai
ian Christian, and to him we all--e,•ery
one of w in these islands who has any
claim to that royal name-to him we "owe
a debt of love that we can only pay with
Jove."
If that sounds excessively sentimental
to you, I am sorry, but that is the un
sentimental fact: that without Henry Obo
okiah {Opukahaia iJ the Hawaiian spell
ing) this would be a different Hawaii
from the one we have now. If ever any
state owed its history to a smglc individ(Continutd on pag� JJ
- and to Kealakekua
THE CLIMAX of the special service
which will be held on Sunday afternoon,
February 18, beginning al 4 o'clock on the
shores of Kealakekua llay, will come when
a young Hawaiian boy wades into the
warm waters of the Pacific and swims out
to a waning boat. ll1is will remind the
people assembled there at Napoopoo of the
historic hour when Opukahaia swam out
to the sailing ship Triumph to begin his
long joumey from Hawaii to New Haven.
The name of the young swimmer will be
announced on the clay of the event.
In charge of the Napoopoo observancc5
arc Gilbert Mills of Haili Church and Rev.
Henry Iloshard of Mokuaikaua Church.
Many other ministers, laymen and youth
from Big Island Churches will share in
the ceremonies. Another important mo
ment of the aftemoon will come when
represenlal.tives of the churches of the
island place their leis on the monument
which marks the place of Opukahaia1s de
parture.
Those who attend-and all are most
cordially invited-arc urged to wear their
most colorful Hawaiian garb for the oc
casion. The pictures of this observance
,viii be sent back to New England so the
people there may 5ce what went on here
while they were trudging through the
Cornwall snow. We want the Yankees to
,•1ew our Hawait Nei at its loveliest 11nd
unplymouthrockicst.
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