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CONTENTS
For July. tSUO.
American Ship H Hornet" Burnt
Third Report Hawaiian Evangelical
Alumni at Punahou
New Foreign Policy in China
Kditor's Table
."
A Frenchman's li»ca*tif Putit:tui.sm
Earthquake at Sea
lla*. Dr. Anderson's l*Srt well Letter
Wrvca of the •'John H'wlij"
Address of Rev. F. S. aUalqf
Marine .Journal, .V'-

Association

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THE FRIEND,
JFJI.Y Z, 18011.

American Clipper Ship "Hornet" Burnt
at Sea. 43 Days in an Open Boat.

The following letter was addressed by
Captain Josiah A. Mitchell to A. Caldwell,
Ksq., U. S. Consul at Honolulu :
LafaHOKUOS, Hawaii,

i

Monday, .ItiiH- 18, 18li(i.j

By the mail of to-day 1 am just able to
inform you of the loss (by fire at sea) of the
American ship Hornet, under my command.
on the 3d of May last, in lat. 2 ° N., lon.
lon 112 30 W., bound from New York for
San Francisco. In the Providence of God
I was permitted to land at this place, on the
afternoon of the 15th instant, after being 43
days in the boat, with two passengers, eleven
men and third officer, (fifteen in all,) all in
a starving condition. The Consul at Hilo
has already kindly and prbmptly relieved
me of the men, which I trust will add much
to my recovery. I am very weak, and shall
require sone days of quiet rest to recover
some vitality before moving fromsSere. We
were obliged to leave the ship in haste, the
first officer taking eight of the crew in one
quarter bout, the second officer and six men
going in the other quarter boat. The boats
were together nineteen days before separating, at which time we divided what few remaining stores we had and parted company.
I trust they may have been picked up, and
not left to the sufferings we endured. Annexed I furnish the names of those in the
boat with me : Mr. Samuel Ferguson and
Mr. Henry Ferguson, passengers; J. S.
'Ptiomas, third officer; and the following
seamen : Henry Morris, Joseph Williams,
Peter Smith, C. H. Haartman, Antonio Cas-

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iero,

Turner, Thomas F. Tate, James Cox, John
Campbell.
The vessel was consigned to Messrs. Geo.
Howes & Co., Sin Francisco. Mr. Thomas,
third officer, tind the seamen, have arrived
in a vessel from Ililo. We fear the other
two boats will never be heard from, unless
they providentially fell in with some vessel.
We regret our limits will not allow us to
publish a full narrative of particulars.

OFTHE
BTOHAREFD

Hawaiian Evangelical Association.
We render our Report for the year ending May 31, 1866. with thankfulness to
God for the prosperity He has thus tar

vouchsafed us.
II

iiiip

l!e|»!trliilrnl.

RECEIPTS.

Our Treasurer's Report shows a very
gratifying increase in the benevolence of
our Churches. The total of our receipts
this year exceeds last year's by $1311 03;
and, even adding to last year's sum that
which was the result of a special effort for
the A. B. C. F. M., and this year's receipts
from home sources exceed by $467 15. It
is also interesting to notice the contributions
from our young Mission Churches in Micronesia, made principally in cocoanut oil—
valued last year at $63 32, and this year at
$80 60; and this does not include contributions made directly by them to the American
Board.
The following table shows our receipts
during the three years since our organiza-

In Rev. J. Kekela's letter to President
Lincoln, as translated by Mr. E. P. Bond,
Mr. Kekela is made to say, " I gave my
boat for the stranger's life." There is doubtless some error in this ; for, in a letter to
Hey. L. Smith, D. D., dated June 15, 1864,
and printed in the Hawaiian language, in
the Hokuloa of February, 1864, Mr. Kekela says that on the 13th of January, hearing that the Chief, Mato, who held Mr.
Whalon captive, had said if a boat was given
in ransom he would release the white man,
he immediately told his own
tona, that he might offer his boat with all its tion :
•
furniture. The next morning, however, Home Mission! lo Haw.Board, $
Publications
Tahitona gave Mato a gun, which was ac- rMucatinn
" "'•
»
OeneralFond, "
Mr.
ransom,
and
Whalon
was
recepted in
••
Fur. Missions "
leased.

This correction is due to Kekela, lost he
seem to those who are intimately acquainted
with the facts to have assumed more credit
for generosity than he could properly claim.

The examination, exhibition and
other exercises took place at Oahu College,
agreeable to public notice which had been
given. We regret that our limited space
will not permit us to notice these exercises
as we have been wont to do in former years.
They all passed off creditably to teachers
and pupils. We had iptended to make
some remarks on the state of the College,
but shall defer them until the publication of
the Quarter-century Catalogue of teachers,
trustees and pupils, which is now in preparaFerris,
Frederic
Neil
tion.
Clough,
John

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HONOLULU, JULY 2, 1806.

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70 87
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80
tit 41 1.870,
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8« »060*18 3,806 11

$3,608 86 $4,446 69 $6,167 73
For. Missions from Micronesia,
03 82
80 60
Directly to Am. DM, from Haw. Churches, 842 88
$6,36-3 80 $5,888 3!

LIBRARY.

We have, during the year, received very
valuable donations of copies of the early
issues of the Mission press on these Islands,
all of which are carefully bound for preservation. We trust friends having books and
documents relating to the Missionary work,
particularly in the Pacific Ocean, will remember this Library. It now numbers
nearly two hundred volumes.
HOME MISSIONS,

One Hawaiian has been ordained on Ha->
waii, one on Maui, two on Oahu and one
on Kauai, making now a total of twenty
ordained Hawaiian pastors.
We are happy to report that Rev. Thos. G.
Thurston has, at the instance of this Board,
returned to hi« nativ land, and has rom,->

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1866.

aaaanasr SJavv awataiiaiii? aiiu their way hiiher. Wo were happy to remit
to ihe Bible Society the sum of $308 84,
at Waituku.
We bre, sluriug in* year past, sustained ihe result of the sale of Bibles ar.d TestaWe have also on the wuy from the
A Oaatiaa* ataataar Missiouary at Huuapepe, ments.
American Tract Society, New York, two
avauiu, ami aaiotb«r at Xiihau, ami wr
assisted two pastors ou Mam. The Key. thousand Kumumua Hou and three thouaaaraarjwal aaaSJaW*

fcuQan

YiN

J. Pbctur Greeu has accepted an appoiut-

sand Lira Kaumlii, for which we have paid
Home Missionary to assist rinu in tht'in $705 -IS. We have received from
his labors nt bleokeaaud Huelo ; aud Rev. tbe American Sabbath School Union,
Mr. i&ckuelj has been assisted at Ewa,, as through the Rev. E. T. Doane, a number of
sets of large Scripture pictures, which will
bar was also lost year.
be highly prized by our Subbath Schools.
aUIUCATUIiK.
The Tfwilogknl School, at Wailuku, We are also indebted to the American Tract
under the Rerv. W. P. Alexander, has been Society, New York, for a grant of one hunsmalt Scripture maps.
successlully continued, though with a dimin- dred sets ofwe
In April
commenced the publication of
ished number of students. Tw.o young
■ children's ilustrated newspaper, called the
who
cum
men.
hud
pieced two yeurs of study, Alivla, under the
editorship ol Key. O. H.
entered upon the third year. One of these
Gulick- Great paius have been taken to
has since found a field of labor at Hauuia, make
it attractive and useful. We have
Oahu. Ten new pupils have joined the
School during, tile year, one of whom has aery kindly been allowed to take copies of
died and another left The present number MM aal the nil-, st cuts of the American
Tract Societies. New York and Boston,
IB therefore nine.
with which to embellish the sheet, and we
Alexander
reports.
the
Mr.
recanting
expect soon to receive for it the finest quality
studies of tile veur
" We liave been once
paper, it is published monthly, at twen■I
over tile ground of the Evidences of Cinsyear, or four dollars for
tianity, Didactic Theology, ami Church ty-five rental a one
to
address. About four
copies
twenty
History, besides one lesson a week on Exe- thousand
have been put into circulation. We
gesis and one tnul Sermon and a Theologihope much immediate good from it to our
cal Lecture."
Our best and most ttilented youcy; men chilur: ii. and the bound volumes will in fuone of the most attractive of
should be carefully encouraged to enter this | ture years be
School, fat uur llome and foreign fields are Hawaiian books.
In the Gilbert Island dialect we have pubnot all filled. Some of our English.-speakan edition of five hundred of a Scriping Hawaiian and half-caste young men lished
ture catechism, a translation of the " Ui no
should be urged to heed these cads for minke Akua," by Rev. I. Mahoe. This is the
isterial labor.
The Female Sc/uxl established aj !uu, first atonal published in another than his native tongue by a Hawaiian. In the Ponape
wis, according to ihe action of hist June, dial,
ct we have republished a book of Scriptransferred to Waiulun, Onhn, in August.
ture aceedot.es anil a little hymn-book. We
The buildings were repaired and en- have also carried
through the press one
larged, as far as the funds at our disposal thousand each of the
of St. Luke
would allow, (luring August and September, j and the Acts of the Gospel translated
Apostles,
by
under Mr. O. H. Gulicks personal superinRev. A. A. Sturges into the Ponape dialect.
renileiico. In October new pupils began to ',
W. Clark is still engaged
be received, and by the close of the month I The Rev. E.
edition of the Hawaiian Bible,
on
the
new
the whole iiumher was thirty-seven. By
of
the lhh of January fifty girls had been re- which he hopes to complete by the close
from
himself
of
his
Having
1566.
learned
Hawaii
15, Maui to, Oahu
ceived from
Id, Kauai 3, and from Micronesia I—the readiness to remain in New York, and preand carry through the press such
daughter of one of our Hawaiian Mission- pare
works
as the Hawaiian Board may desire,
aries. This is as many as the moneys at
requested him, after the completion
we
have
present granted will allow us to support.
an
Miss Lizzie Lyons' fairhful services have of the Bible, to first engage in preparing
which was
illustrated
Bible
Dictionary,
been secured during tie past year, and she
commenced some time since by Rev. E.
will remain for the year to come.
Bond ; and before the close of another year
There is much Co encourage us regarding we
bope to lie able to forward to him for
the girls in this institution ; but we would
Text
urge all who are interested in it to pray for publication the MSS of the Bible
than half comBook,
which
is
more
already
n{
the Holy Spirit's infln- I
laTger measures
ence among them, that the main object of its ! pleted by Rev. B. W. Parker.
The R«t. J. F. Pogue has accepted the
establishment, and of all our labors for it,
to devote himself as far as possiproposition
may he more fully and certainly secured.
ble to the preparation of books, and thus the
PUBLICATIONS.
failure of his health at Lahainaluna promWe have, during the year, published the ises to be a great gain to our work. He
Sabbath School Question Book, called the hopes ere long to have so far recovered his
" tTiEartialii," spoken of in our last Report health as to be able to enter upon literary
aainftnw. Its adaptation to a felt need is labors, when we trust he will commence the
shown by our baring already disposed of preparation of some of the Commentaries so
about haw rhe editionoV two ihoosand. We much needed by oar ministers and bible
Is*** republished the Ui no Iw Akna" in j students.
"
a* edition of three thousand, and also five
We hare in the press a new Scripture
tragw
—c*>
ISoa. 4, 6 and 7.
*"»»«l
"<
Question Book, adapted to quite young
._*—' »*• Ainaritnii BiMe Society we scholars. We have also in readiness for
*■?•*•••* •*• Its—wnd Hawaiian- publication at these Islands another number
"•**
and a mmber are on of "OleloAoLiilii," biographies of OpukaEafTPsfc Ttmmtm,
roeot

a*

a

,

:

:

'

,
,
'

haiaand Keopunlani, and a work on Popery ;
and we have authorized the republication of
several tracts now out of print.
It will thus be seen that we shall need all
the funds there may be on hand for publication, together with all we may receive during the year.
During the year past 2,800,486 pages
have*been put in circulation, 2,437,295 of
which were sold. The receipts from the
sales of books have amounted to $893 44.
Farelsja Drpurlatsent.

The Morning Star was sold in December,
by order of the Prudential Committee, arid
we expect a new vessel of the same name,
of the same rig, and perhaps a little larger,
early in 1867.
MICRONESIA.

The Morning Star left Honolulu July
17ih, 1865, on her tenth and last voyage to
the West. She was detained several weeks
for Mr. and Mrs. Doane, expecjed from the
United States; but, hearing of iheir shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico, she finally left
without them. They arrived, however, on
the 2oth of July, and, taking passage on the
Ffeil,, reached Ebon two days in advance of
the Morning Star.
The Rev. J. S. Emerson visited Micronesia as our delegate, and rendered much valuable service in communicating with our
Hawaiian brethren. Mr. and Mrs. Snow

and children returned to Ebon on the Morning Stt.r. R. Maka and wife, of Wnikane,
Oahu, also went as Missionaries to the Gilbert Islands, he having been licensed to
preach by the Oahu Evangelical Association before leaving.
Haina, of the Gilbert Islands Mission,
came with the return of the Morning Star,
to Honolulu, with the consent of his brethren and our delegates, Messrs. Emerson and
Snow, for medical assistance. On the 28th
of May, just closed, he left in the Ffeil, restored to health, to resume his work on Tarawa. By the same opportunity we have
sent this year's supplies for all our stations

in Micronesia.

PONAPE

(ASCENSION ISLAND.)

Ronokiti—Rev. A. A. Sturges and Mrs.
S. M. Sturges ; Rev. E. T. Doane and Mrs.
C. H. Doane.
Mr. Doane has, after an absence of eight
years, returned from Ebon to this, the first
scene of his Missionary labors in Microne-

sia.
The work still progresses in Ponape, notwithstanding opposition, fire, and bloodshed ;
perhaps we" should say by their help. In
February, 1865, the drunken Nanakin of
Kiti burnt the Church erected at great expense of time and labor at the Mission station, and, by several horrid murders he has
tried to check the Christian cause. In
April the pirate Shenandoah added to the
reign of terror by destroying four whaleships in the Bonatik harbor. They first
gave the vessels over to the natives for plunder; and it is noteworthy that but few
Church members were induced by this, to
them, great temptation to join in the robbery. The officers and crews of these
vessels remained on shore for four months,
and, with but few exceptions, assisted more
than can be told to the debasement of the
people.

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THE FItI X N I), JULY, 1866.
jects, and that he had forsaken his old god
of storms and fruitful seasons, and was
searching for the true God.
We may well join with Mr. Snow in saying : " What hath God wrought for this
poor, filthy people ! Formerly stupid as
indifferent as the grave; now indeath,
have."
best they
Thirty persons had, during the year pre- tensely interested in the word and work of
vious to August, 1865, been added to the life." Let this encourage us to labor on for
Church. Five had died, leaving the total the fields in which we have not yet begun
179. A few are under discipline. In the to reap.
MARSHALL ISLANDS.
main they do well, though their pastor says
Ebjm—Rev. B. G. Snow and Mrs. L. Y.
of them : " They are very much like very
young children." The triumphant death of Snow ; H. Aea and his wife, Debora.
Namnrik—J. A. Kaelemakule and wife.
a remarkable woman, named Ruth, is reJaluit—Rev. D. Kapali and his wife, TaShe expressed a longported at length.
ing desire to see Jesus ; not one lisp of com- mara Kealakai.
The Chiefs and people of Ebon could
plaint, not one desire to get well." " The
satisfaction," writes Mr. Sturges, "we have hardly feci reconciled to Mr. Doane's leavwith our Christians, helps to fill up our cup ing them, when it was first proposed in Auof joy, which is a very large one, and all gust last, so attached were they to him ;
but the Christians were at latest dates bethe time running over."
ginning to feel that what was their loss was
than
that
more
Mr. Emerson reports
"
half of the head Chiefs now reckon them- Ponape's gain. Mr. and Mrs. Snow are
selves as friends of the Bible and adherents again left without foreign associates, in cirof the Missionaries, and an equally large cumstances of isolation too extreme to be deportion of the people." After a tour of five sirable, though they themselves accept it
days round the-Island with Messrs. Emer- with a cheerful sadness.
Mr. Doane writes : " Aea has done well
son and Sturges, Mr. Doane, who is well
able to compare the present with the past, in Mr. Snow's absence. Things look very
expresses his delight at the spread of the hopeful on Ebon. Some have fallen away,
good work, the number ofreaders, the readi- but many othefs have been gathered in."
ness to take part in religious meetings, and Aea reports three (ffridred and ten scholars.
the desire of the Chiefs for teachers, and Seventeen Chiefish persons among them
speaks of the necessity of now giving " per- have learned to read. Mr. Emerson speaks
manency to what has been done." "In of a school examination, at which there
order to this," he very justly says, " the were one hundred and twenty-five scholars
people should, as far as possible, be gathered present, mostly girls and young mothers,
into schools." Both the brethren there ask and most of them readers. Forty-four could
for a Hawaiian laborer or two to engage in repeat the Gospel of Mark entire, fifty knew
the Multiplication Table, and about as many
teaching.
Regarding Mokil, (Wellington's Island,) more sung well together. He says : " The
about a degree east of Ponape, Mr. Emer- process of schools at Ebon, and the fidelity
son found that ten to fifteen had learned to of Aea, are praiseworthy and very encourread and sing from Ponape books, having aging." Aea has been licensed to preach.
The Morning Slur made but a brief visit
been taught by a white man formerly on
Mr. Doane says: "We
at Namarik.
Ascension Island.
found the brethren well, had a meeting and
KUSA IE (STRONG'S ISLAND.)
heard their report. During the year they
Mr. Snow made a short visit to this, his have had sad trials from an oil-trader, (left
old station, in September last. During the there by the Morning Star.) but on the
year previous but one had forsaken the whole they have made progress. We voted
meetings kept up by themselves, and re- to let Kapali take up a new station."
turned to heathenism. Four others had
In accordance with that action, on the rebeen suspended by the nction of the Church turn of the Morning Star from the West,
itself, but still attended all the meetings, Rev. D. Kapali and wife removed to Jaluit,
and Mr. Snow truly remarks : '■ It is an (Bonham's Island.) The way had been
interesting and touching fact in the Church prepared by Mr. Snow's having touched
discipline here, that hardly a prayer is of- there a few weeks previous, and having sefered in which they do not make mention cured the Chiefs' assent.
The station
of and pray for the fallen members."
seems to have been taken under favorable
Some forty were reported to Mr. Snow as auspices.
Mr. Doane touched at Mile on the voyage
having turned to the Lord during the year,
making the total of hopeful converts not yet from Honolulu, and saw the Chief named
admitted to Church privileges about one Drime, a kind man, who promised to take
hundred, of whom more than thirty were in care of a Missionary. Mr. D. says:—
September admitted to the Church. This "The field is a good one. A Hawaiian
makes the number of Church members about would get along well there. He would have
eighty. Nearly seventy gallons of cocoanut a goodly number of souls to preach to, and
oil were sent up by the Morning Star as a fair supply of food."
Monthly Concert contributions.
The Morning Star also touched at OnaMr. Emerson, in his report to us, re- iro, (Pleasant Island,) and Mr. Emerson was
marks : " That little band of Christians at impressed with the fact of that Island's being
Kusaie appeared to me more m.ture, more open for Missionary labor.
manly, and more Christ-like than any peoIn view of the healthy state of our Treasple I found in Micronesia." The King ury, and of these several calls for laborers,
told him the Christians were his best sub- the Hawaiian Board has decided to send out

Mr. and Mrs. Sturges have devoted much
time to laborious touring round the Island,
but Mr. Sturges lemnrks: "Going round
Ascension Island is not now what it used to
be. Now we have friends to welcome us at
very many bright little spots, giving us the

"

several new men. Let us pray the Lord of
the harvest to raise up and send forth the
laborers best adapted to work in Micronesia.
GILBERT ISLANDS.

Tarawa, (Knox Island)— Rev. J. H. Mahoe and his wife, Olivia ; G. Haina and his
wife, Kaluahine.

Apaiang. (Charlotte's Island)— Rev. W.
P. Kapu and his wife ; D. P. Aumai and
his wife, Maule.
Butaritari, (Pitt's Island)—Rev. J. W.
Kanoa and his wife ; R. Maka and his wile.
In the United States—Rev. H. Bingham
Jr., and Mrs. M. C. Bingham.
Mr. Bingham left in July for the United
States. He is somewhat invigorated, and
hoping to return to his Missionary field.
Regarding Tarawa Mr. Emerson reports :
The meeting-houses, school-houses, and
"buildings
show that the Missionaries have
been neither idle nor destitute of success.
Some fifty are learning to read and sing.
Five or six have become tolerable readers."
On Apaiang the Queen still remains firm.
"At a conference meeting," says Mr. Emerson, "the King, who was present with his
wife, led in prayer with much propriety. I
could but hope that the Spirit of the Lord
had visited the hearts of a few in the place."
A hurried meeting of the brethren of that
Mission, with Messrs. Snow und Emerson,
was held at Apaiantr, at which it was decided that Rev. J. W. Kanoa and R. Maka
should take a new station on Butaritari.
Kanoa very cheerfully left his well-built
house, and we have reason to hope that he
will win the good-will of the people of his
new field, as he has those of Apaiang. The
young King of Butaritari, after a full conference, received the Missionaries, promised
his protection, and sold them a piece of land
near the main village.
In the words of Mr. Emerson, Although
the evidence of the Spirit of the Lord among
the people of the Gilbert Islands is not so
marked as at some of the stations farther
west, there is much occasion to give thanks
and take courage."

"

marquesas islands.

Fatuiva—
Omoa—Rev. J. W. Kaiwi and his wife,
Hana Napaeaina.
Hanavave— Rev. A. Kaukau and his wife,
Ruta Kaihihekai.
Hivaoa—
Fuamau— Rev. J. Kekela and his wife,

Naomi.

Atuona —Rev. Z. Hapuku and his wife,
Hannahi—J. W. Laioha and his wife,
Hana Ihuanu.
Uapou—

Hakae\au—Rev. S. Kauwealoha and his*

wife, Kaaiawahia.
Our last report was rendered just after the
return of the Morning Star from her seventh
voyage to Ihe Marquesas Islands, and, as
we have sent no vessel since then, we have
comparatively little to report. It is to be
hoped that when we shall again have a vessel entirely at our command we shall be
able to communicate annually with that

Mission.

We have received letters from Kauwealoha, Kekela, Kaiwi and Kaukau, the latest
dates being December 20th. The Mission-

aries are reported well, and regarding their

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THE FIUEND.

their is nothing specially noteworthy,
very dark shadow has, however, passed
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over tbem, in the desertion of Rev. A. Kaukau's wife. In August Kekela visited
New Foreign Policy in China.
Hoou'ii, Island of Nuukahiva, and found
stationed
laborthe Christian converts
there
For some years past there have been seing steadily. Fourteen persons are reported rious fears that the affairs of the Chinese
as attending their meetings. Some who at- Empire had fallen into such disorder that
tended have left.
Mr. Kekela's letter to President Lincoln the time was not far distant when England,
has been published in America and Eng- France, Russia, and perhaps America would
land ; and has done good in showing the step forward and demand a partition e>( the
character of our foreign Missionaries.
Empire. France had already made serious
CALIFORNIA.
demonstrations, and was for claiming a ProWe have requested Rev. Lowell Smith, tectorate of the silk-producing Provinces,
D. D., to visit the Hawaiians in Tuolumne while the- British Lion was ready to place
county, California, while on his way from
the Eastern States ; and we hear from him his paw upon the tea-growing regions. If
that he was to leave San Francisco for Jack- that result had been fully consummated,
sonville on the 9th of May. We trust he Russia add America would doubtless have
will be able to make provision for the con- had their share of the enormous spoils of the
tinuance of the work commenced among oldest
empire on earth. We are most happy
these Hawaiians by Mr. Theodore W. Guto
learn
that a new and entirely different
remain
will
longer
that
no
lick, and
they
policy has been inaugurated. The four
sheep without a shepherd.
above-mentioned powers have mutually
The Alumni Society of Punahou—Which was
pledged each other and the highest authoriorganized in Juno, 1864. held its second annual
Chinese Government at Pekin
celebration on Friday evening, loth inst., in the ties of the
school room, in honor of the twenty-tilth anniver- that hereafter the integrity of the empire,
sary of the opening of Oahu College. There were territorially, shall reanin intact. This is
present many of the graduates, trustees and noble. It virtually emancipates the empire
scholars of the Institution. The proceedings were
from foreign interference. The future inopened by an eloquent oration from the Presithis co-operating policy, as it is
dent, YY. I). Alexander, which commanded the at- fluence of
with blessings inculculable
is
fraught
tention and admiration of all present, hollowing styled,
this was an exceedingly interesting historical to the most populous empire on earth. The
sketch of the Institution, rmd reminiscences of
part taken by the American Minister, Mr.
school days, by A. Francis Judd. Esq., which was
Burlingame, is most creditable to the Govwell received and justly appreciated by the guests.
ernment which he has the honor to repreincidenls
he
narrated
the
removal
of
Among the
tie "big rock.'' near the College building, in sent, as well as to his fjwn diplomatic skill.
which sport King Kauikeaonli joined with all the When this policy was initiated in China,
zest of a school-boy, and sat ash ide the rock as Sir
F. Bruce, now British Minister at Washthe natives brought it down from the hill. To
at Pekin.
close this part of the celebration, Miss Mattie ington, was the British Minister
the
best
of
huHis
stand
and
conduct
at
the
eventful
crisis
Chamberlain kept the audience in
mor with another sketch of school-day recollections were worthy of all praise. Any one of our
at J'tinaliou, written in her usual facetious style.
readers who would thoroughly investigate
After the mental purt of the entertainment was
this all-important subject, we would refer to
over, our reporter* and his companion (including,
Mr.
Burlingame's dispatches as printed
a
adjeurned
audience)
rest
of
the
to
course,
of
the
sumptuous supper table where all the dainties of among the documents issued by the State
the season were liberally provided, and everybody Department at Washington. In those comenjoyed the supper heartily. Remarks fell from munications will be found most honorable
Rev. Mr. Damon (a trustee). Rev. Mr. Dole (a references and allusions to the British,
former President), and one or two others, which French and Russian Ministers at Pekin. It
were aprvpos to the occasion. Several toasts were is believed that for once, at least, the Plenioffered and eloquently responded to by the gradu- potentiary Ministers of those great nations
ates of the College. The company broke up about rose above national prejudices and jealous
• eVsven o'clock, and all retired well pleased with rivalries, and inaugurated the co-operating
the entertainment, and expressing the hope that policy, which will for a long time to come
tbc Alunmi would have a similar gathering every
give quiet and peace in that part of the
year at least,— Adveiiiiir.
world. Under these circumstances, the
Government has done well to reThe clipper hark Swallow arrived on Mon- American
turn Mr. Burlingame to Pekin. With Milthe
lion.
Anson
Rarlast,
bringing
afternoon
day
ton we may truly say,
V.Bganic. 1". S. Minister Plenipotentiary to Pekin.
hath her victories
" Peaco
and. .fleti.R: R'.Tan Valkenbnrg.U.S.Min. PlenipoNo less recowu'd than war."
t 'iitlnryto Japnn. Mf. Bnrllngnme is accompanied
wfrb. his wife and children, and the (ieneral with his
Secretary of Legation. They are stopping at the
American House, and will remain till about the
fourth nf July, when they will proceed on in the
.SaxiUow to Kanagawa. Hen. Charles R. Bishop
and his wife also arrived in the same vessel, having been absent some two and a half months.—Ad-

Editor's Table.
Tue American Mission in the Sandwich Islands i
A Vindication and an Appeal in relation to the
Proceedinpa of Ihe Kefonaed Catholic Mission at
Honolulu ; by flat). IV. Kltiit, formerly Missionary in the Sandwich Islands, and Honorary
Member of the American Hoard of Commissioners for Foreign) Missions. London, 27 Paternoster Row, 18ti(i.

This is the title-page of a new work of
103 pages. It is written by a veteran in the
Missionary service. If the writings of any
man on Missionary subjects are worthy of
perusal, they are those of this distinguished
author and Missionary. Most especially is
this true when he takes up his pen to write
respecting affairs in any part of Polynesia.
His " Researches" have been a text-book on
Polynesian antiquities for more than a quarter of a century. Those four volumes are a
perfect Thesaurus upon Polynesian historical subjects. To any one familiar with subsequent writers upon Polynesian affairs, it
is a matter of perfect nstonishrnent how
much they are the debtors of Mr. Ellis.
Hrs works on Madagascar are equally exhaustive and valuable.
The pamphlet or volume which has just
made its appearance, only a single copy of
which has reached the Islands, is equally
meritorious and judicious. It abounds with
a careful review of the whole subject indicated by the title-page. The style is admirable, occasionally enlivened by a touch
of quiet humor not unworthy of Washington Irving. He has not written ignorantly
and without due research, but appears to be
completely conversant with every book and
pamphlet which has recently appeared relating to this part of the world, even to the
letter of the Rev. J. Kekela, addressed to
the late President Lincoln. This letter is
published in full, with much other valuable
documentary matter. Our limits will not
allow us to quote as much as we should be
glad to do from this work, but the following
paragraph upon the hulas is worthy of perusal

:

"I once, when residing in Honolul
went in obedience to a message from tl
Queen, to a place, where, to my surprise ant
disgust, a sort of rehearsal of one of tl
dances was going on, and, almost before
was fully sSvare of what it was, the filth
picture seemed to be burned, as with vitrio
into my mind, as i turned and hurried horn
from the spot."
Because the American Missionaries hn
discouraged such exhibitions, certain perso
have, heaped upon them unmeasured abu
We hope a supply of this pamphlet will
due time be forwarded for sale in Hondluli
Following the example of some EastKapiolani ; thr Heroine ok Hawaii.—
ern newspapers, we shall issue this number
the May number of the " Hours
In
of our paper a few days previous to the date.
Home"
we find an interesting sketch oft
This will account for the absence of the remarkable
High Chiefess, Kapiolani, w
notice of the State Funeral and other curon the sth of Ma
Kealekeakua,
died
at
rent topics.

II!
1841. This sketch is .prepared by Dr. Anderson. His visit to Hawaii in 1863, and a
study of her character, has led him to write
an article, which will be read with interest by
the friends of Missions and loversjof the heroic.
The character of Kapiolani has also been
sketched by a clergyman of the Church of
England, who aspires to the rank of poets.
The following is the title-page of a volume
now lying before us :
; with other Poems. By the Jiec. Httbert
Grant. B. C. L., Fellow of Winchester College,
Vicar of Bradford Abbas, Dorset, Ac. "One of
the greatest acts of moral courage which has
perhaps ever been performed; und the actor
was a woman, and,as we are pleased to call her.
a Bavage.'' Voyage of li. M. S. Blonde to the
.■Sanduiich Island's, '1824-1825.—Page 187. London
John Hatchsud & Son, 187 Piccadilly.

Kapiolani

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53

ica represents the blossoming limeof ProtestRev. Dr. Anderson's Farewell Letter.
antism. A Republican Church has Riven
Missionary Hovsk, Boston, April 3, 1866.
birth to Republican Society. In America
liberty has sprung from religion ; for this To the Hawaiian Evangelical Association :
reason, undoubtedly, it has resisted all
Dear Brethren :—I nm drawing, as
storms, while in France, liberty, the daughter ot revolt, has been almost always lost by most of yon know, nenr to the ordinary limit
her own excesses. In America Rhe has ere- of human life, and equally near to the period
I have proposed for the close of my lite as a
ated institutions ; here she has destrsyed.
Corresponding
Secretary of the Board ; and
This is surely remarkable language for a
as my last official letter to you.
I
this
regard
thoughtful and reflective Frenchman. What Allow me, therefore, a few words of exhortis the world corning to when Frenchmen ation, as your brother in the Gospel of our
eulogise the Puritans and Puritanism ! Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Some of you will recollect my aniriety,
renders will find an interesting article on this
when I was with you, that the meetings of
Home,"
the
Hours
at
for
May.
subject in
"
the Association should embrace native pas-

We would call attention to the loss
of the John Wesley and the earthquake re1848.
ferred to by Capt. Morse. Both, it will be
This poem occupies about thirty pages,
seen, occurred in November, I860, in the
and presents a beautiful picture of many inSeas. We regret the date of the loss
South
cidents and characters celebrated in HawaiJohn
of the
Wesley is not given. See page
ian annals, viz: the abolition of idolatry;
54.
the conversion of the people to Christianity ;
An Earthquake at Sea.—English pathe visit of Kapiolani to Kilauea; the death
pers contain the following :
of Capt. Cook, &c, &c. At some future
" Capt. Morse, of the ship Syren, of Bostime we may print the poem entire.
ton, U. S., which recently arrived nt Birkenhead, states that
lSih of November,
Fifty Gallons of Cocoanut Oil for a
1865, at six o'clock, A. M., in latitude 24'
Bible.—We learn by a letter received a S., longitude 173 30 W., while on his pasfew days since, that the work of Missions is sage from Baker's Island to the port of Livprogressing throughout the low coral islands erpool, he experienced what he supposed to
to the north and northwest of Samoa, as a be a shock of earthquake. At first was
heard a heavy, deep, rumbling sound, accentre. J. C. Williams, Esq., British Con- companied by a vibration of the ship, which
sul at Apia, Upolu, Samoa, (son of the mar- increased in violence until the vessel seemed
tyr of Erromanga,) thus writes, under date as though driving over a reef. There was a
strong breeze, with rather heavy clouds ; the
of March 6, 1866.
of the ship appeared as if
natives of the Ellecis group are in sea in the vicinity
" The interesting
fixed, a phenomenon which lasted
suddenly
state;
wanting,
longing
a very
between three and four minutes.
Tor teachers. In their unxiety to have apparently
The compass-card during the time of the
lotu,"
or
a
Chief
religion,
gave
Christian
"
shock was rapidly revolving. The man at
about fi(ty gallons of cocoanut oil for an
and visibly shaken,
English Bible, which nn English captain the wheel was violently
generally were scarcely
had the wickedness to charge that price for. and those on deck
Honor be to another English captain, who able to keep their feet. One man engaged
the hose-pipe to a force-pump
urged the Chiefs to burn their idols and the in connecting
forecastle was thrown
the
topgallant
,upon
of
their
These
are
a
people
in
gods.
houses
bitts. The sound at
the
backward
against
very pleasing condition, ready for the Gosfirst resembled distant thunder, and increased
pel."
in intensity, till, at its height, in could only
as
Frenchman's
Idea
of
Puritanism
be
compared to the deafening roar of innuA
the tierm of American History.
merable pieces of the heaviest artillery."
Professor Astie, of Lausanne, has recently
We would acknowledge the receipt
published in Paris a new history of the
a "Catalogue of the Young Ladies' Semof
United States. The eminent French writer,
inary," Benicia, under the management of
Edouard Laboulaye, has written a preface our old friends, the Rev.
Mr. and Mrs. Mills.
to this history, from which we copy the folthat 104 pupils have been conIt
appears
lowing paragraph, which, being penned by a
nected with the School during the year. It
Frenchman, is remarkable:
is a Day and Boarding School. From the
What M. Astie wishes to show the old success
and experience of Mr. and Mrs.
world is this that one and the same idea,
teachers, at the Islands and in the
Mills
ns
one and the same force, impelled the emigrants of the 17t!i century to the Rock of Eastern States, it may confidently be prePlymouth, sustained the emigrants of the dicted that a'prosperous career must attend
18th century against the arrogance of Eng- this Seminary. Parents may feel the utland, and covered America with independent most confidence in confiding their childen
provinces and free Governments. This idea, to their care.
this force, is the religion of the Gospel unTwo hundred and eighty-nine pupils
der its austerest form—Puritanism. As
Athens represents art and poetry, Rome the have been connected with Oahu College
spirit of conquest and government, so Amcr-

:

i;,

tors and delegates from the native Churches,
and that its proceedings should be in the native language. My brother Missionaries
felt as I did ; and I cannot tell you the satisfaction which the account of your last
meeting gave nic. As in that meeting, so
in all your future meetings, I trust that none
will forget the respect due to the fathers of
your Churches, and that the Christian dignity of your assemblies will ever be preserved. Mutual courtesy is always and
everywhere a Christian duty. In preparing,
lately, a biographical account of the excellent Kapiolani, for a religious periodical, I
was interested in seeing how much she possessed of Christian gentleness and urbanity.
I am thankful in being able to say that
the recent efforts to prejudice the good people of this country and England against the
work of God on your Islands, though not
without effect in some quarters, has on the
whole, been overruled for good. Attention
has thus been awakened ; the facts are the
better and more extensively understood and
known ; and those on whose prayers and
contributions you must chiefly rely have not
for-a long time been so much interested in
your religious welfare as they are now.
Allow me, as in my Inst letter, to speak
of the importance of laboring for a revival of
religion through all the Islands, as did our
Missionary brethren before the jjreat outpouring of the Spirit in 1837 and the following years. Such lubors" for a revival of
religion are now becoming abundant among
our pastors and Churches in this country,
and they are not in vain. Revivals ure
multiplying among us, and we hear of hopeful converts by the thousands. Think what
will become of your Churches and the
Church of God on your Islands if you have
not a'great and general revival soon. When
the enemy is " coining in like a flood," pray
the Lord to " lift up a standard ngainst
him." Let each pastor, let each officer and
Church-member penitently humble himself
before God, and earnestly offer the prayer,
revive Thy work !"
" Oh, Lord,
Your Churches must be spiritually revived, or they will decline and die. And
be assured, dear brethren, that there is no
unwillingness to grant the richest spiritual
blessings on the part of Him who is King in
Zion. He, Himself, hath said, u If ye, being
evil, know how to give good gifts- unto your
children, how much more shall your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them
that ask Him » (Luke xi, 13.) And again :
Whatno" Verily, verily. I thesay unto you,
ever ye shall ask
Father in my name

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THE FRIEND, JULY, 1866.

he will give it you." (John xvi, 23.) With
such petitions, and such promises to encourage, we may " come boldly unto the Throne
of Grace, that we may obtain mercy and
find grace to help in time of need." (Ueb.
The great thing needed for the highest
prosperity and happiness of your beautiful
Islands is an outpouring of the Spirit. Methinks, should I hear of such a shower of
heavenly grace upon you, I should feel like
saying, with Simeon of old, "Lord, now
lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace."
Let me exhort you to remember in your
prayers your King and his Ministers, and
your Judges and Legislators, (1 Tim. ii, 2,)
your pastors, your Missionaries in Micronesia and the Marquesas Islands. Nor forget
your numerous friends and patrons in this
country ; nor me, who have so long borne
intimate relations to you ; nor to my intended successor in office ; that we may " all be
one," in the sense of our Lord's prayer,
(John xvii, 21,) when He prayed, not only
for His disciples, but for them also, in every
age, who' should believe on Him through

their word.

I remember, in writing you, that you are
Hawaiian citizens and subjects. And 1
counsel you, as a religious duty, while you
God," to " honor the King," (1 Pet. ii
" fear
17 ;) to " be subject to the higher powers,"
not only for wrath, but also for conscience
"sake,"
seeing " there is no power but of
God," for " the powers that be are ordained
of God." (Rom. xiii, 1, 5.) Even though,
for the time being, the rulers should apparently be not in sympathy with you, but rather with those opposed to you, resist them
not. " Live in peace, and the God of love
and peace shall be with you." (2 Cor. xiii,
11.)

The ordinary business of your annual
meeting will remind you of the great responsibilities resting on you as a Christian community. Upon the Hawaiian Board, not
upon the American Board, rests, now, the
responsibility of working the instrumentalities for the upbuilding of Christ's Kingdom
in your portion of the ocean-world. You
must furnish the Missionaries ; to the extent
of your ability you must provide the funds;
and on you it will devolve to see that all is
done wisely and effectively, to the glory of

God and the best interests of His blessed
Kingdom. You are now among the recognized Christian communities of the earth, as
your nation is among the recognized Christian nations, and the eyes of the Christian
Church will be upon you. Being encompassed " with so great a cloud of witnesses,"
let me exhort you to lay aside every weight,
and the sin which doth so easily beset you,
and run with patience the race set before

you, " looking unto Jesus." (Heb. xii, 1, 2.)
It is matter of joy and thankfulness with
us that we hear a good report of the native
pastors. May they have grace to feel their
responsibilities more and more deeply. I
commend unto them thefrequentand prayerful reading of the Epistle to Titus. May
they be faithful unto death," as the only
condition" on which they can expect to receive ''a crown of life.'' (Ravi ii, 10.)
1 can, close my last epistle to you no better than in the words of the holy Apostle
Paul, when writing, near the close of his

life, to his beloved brethren at Ephesus :
"Finally, my brethren, be strong in the
Lord, and in the power of His might. Put
on the whole armor of God, that ye may be
able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this
world, against spiritual wickedness in high
places. Wherefore, take unto you the whole
armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all,
to stand. Stand, therefore, having your
loins girt about with truth, and having on
the breast-plate of righteousness ; and your
feet si ol with the preparation of the gospel
of peace. Above all, taking the shield of
faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench
all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take
the helmet of salvation, and the sword of
the Spirit, which is the word of God. Praying always with all prayer and supplication
in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with
all perseverence and supplication for all
saints."
Your affectionate brother in Christ,
R. Anderson,
Foreign Secretary of the Board.

out the sessions.

Of the detnils of the work

and the present condition of the spiritual
field you will receive fuller information from
the Eeports of the Hawaiian Board, and the
Beport in a separate form on the Sfcte of the
Churches. We have to lament the continued spiritual dearth of the field as a whole,
although there are not wanting some encour-

aging signs.
May we all be stirred up to more earnest
self-searching and more prayerful effort for
an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. We rejoice to hear of the revivals in the beloved
Fatherland, while we wait and long for similar blessings here.
And now we are called upon to pronounce
that saddening word farewell. To you,
whose admonitions and example have so
long animated our efforts and stimulated our
zeal; to you, whose counsels and words of
heartfelt sympathy have so often strengthened our weakening faith and cheered our
fainting hearts ; to you, whose presence and
voice in our midst remain as precious memories ripening for a heavenly reunion, we
say farewell. Yet not a sad farewell. Rnther a solemn, glorious farewell, until we
meet around the great white Throne on high.
And while we thus address our reluctant
REPLY.
parting words to you, we would nlso extend
Hoxou i.u, June 14, lufifi.
our cordial greetings arid assurances of
Rev. R. Anderson, D. D., Secretary of the hearty sympathy and co-operation to the beA. B. C. F. M. fir Foreign Missions, loved brother who succeeds you in your
Boston :
high position of responsibility and Christian
Dear Brother :— Your excellent letter of privilege.
April 3d, 1866, has been read in the HawaiAloha nui.
ian language before our Association, during
In behalf of the Hawaiian Evangelical
its sessions of this month, which are now Association,
■
drawing to a close.
\
G. P. Judd,
of
a beIt comes to us all as the counsel
A. O. Forbes, > Committee.
loved father to his children. But especially
M. KIIABA,
)
to those of us who have so long been accustomed to look to you for counsel and assistWreck of the "John Wesley."—The
ance in the ardous work of reclaiming this London Watchman gives an account of the
land to Christ does it come as a tender fare- loss of the Mission brig John Wesley, on the
well, whose earnest exhortations we trust coast ofTonga, in November last. She had
will abide with us, and animate us to a on board four Missionaries, who were going
higher and holier sense of the great and to the District Meeting, and was wrecked on
glorious work in which it has been our priv- a coral reef, on which she was cast by a violent ocean current. This current was proilege to co-operate with you.
The remembrances of the past can never duced by an earthquake, which extended
die in our hearts. The hopes, the fears, the hundreds of miles, and caused much damtrials, the prosperities, the joys, the sorrow*, age on the islands. The brig has done
of the past forty-six years have bound us good service to the cause of Missions, havtogether with you in precious bonds of ing been used for twenty years, conveying
Christian love and sympathy. Your name our Missionaries and Mission stores from
is a household word in these Islands, and island to island, and was fully insured in
your life-long endeavors in behalf of the England. No lives were lost, and the carhighest welfare of the Hawaiian people is a go was all saved. The Watchman states
part of their history. As the result of those that the Jubilee schooner will soon be
efforts, and by the blessing of God, you have ready, and able to perform most of the trips
the happiness of seeing this nation raised necessary for Mission purposes, and that
from the depths of heathenism to the high steps will soon be taken to supply a tempolevel of Christian civilization. The Lord be rary successor to the John Wtsley.

praised for His wonderful works.
The Hawaiian Evangelical Association
commenced its sessions this year on the 6th
instant, and has now been in session six
days. There is a full attendance from all
the Islands, especially-of the native pastors
and delegates. The number»of native pastors present has been nineteen, and of
delegates from the various Islands fifteen.
Of the Missionary fathers eighteen have
been present, and of the sons six. It ds
gratifying to record the unanimity and harmony of spirit which has prevailed through-

as

When any one complains,
Diogenes
did, that he has to hunt the streets with candles at noonday to find an honest man, we
are apt to think that his nearest neighbor
would have quite as much difficulty as himself in making the discovery.
If all mankind were suddenly to betake
themselves to telling the truth, and nothing
but the truth, the whole world would appear to have pjt on a mask merely from
having taken one off.

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56

Address of Rev. F. S. Rising before the
Hawaiian

Evangelical

Aaaocintion.

After the Rev. Mr. Corwin had made a
verbal report of the Fort street Church, the
Rev. Franklin S. Rising, a clergymen of
the Protestant Episcopal Church in the
United States, from Virginia City, Nevada,
was called upon to address the meeting, and
spoke as follows :
I am glad to avail myself of this opportunity to heartily thank you for your courtesy
in tanking me to sit as a correspoliding
member of this Association. I suppose that
this courtesy bus been extended to me becnuse you lisive rightly judged me in full
pympathv with the cause of evangelical religion. Few feulures of your Missionary
work have struck me so forcibly as its
ihoroujfh evangelical character. As a clercvmnii of the Protestant Episcopal Church
in the United States, I count myself most
loyal to my own Church, to her articles and
to her history, when I thus express my sympathy with a faithful ministering of the Cospel of Christ, whether in my own country or
in heathen lands ; therefore I am happy to
prove my loyalty to my own Church hy
uniting with you in thanking God for the
Gospel work which He has put it into your
hearts to do in these Islands.
1 thank you for the affectionate hospitality
that has welcomed me. at everv station which
1 have visited. You could not have shown
more kindness had I been one of your own
number. I shall, therefore, carry away
with me, deeply impressed upon my mind,
the precious truth which no Christian, and
especially no Christian minister, ought ever
to forget—the essential oneness of all who
love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.
We represent here the opposite poles of
Church polity. May the time speedily
come when "all our differences shall be
reconciled in Christ."
I have been taught from boyhood that the
preaching of the unsearchable riches of
Christ to the heathen world is the sublimest
work that Christ's ministering servants have
to do in this life. I firmly believe that
those called of God to this work are His
most honored servants upon earth. Their
crown of honor becomes effulgent when the"
Lord seals their labors with His outpoured
blessing. It has been permitted you to
raise this once heathen people to their present point of Christian attainment. I deem,
it, therefore, a rare privilege to meet with
you, whom God has so greatly honored, to
learn from you the ways in which God has
led you on to the accomplishment of this
amazing work, and to rejoice with you that
your earnest, faithful labors have been rewarded with so abundant a harvest.
The Lord has never deemed me worthy to
be sent to a foreign Missionary field. It is,
therefore, for me to take my place with the
native pastors. They do in Hawaii what I
try to do elsewhere; our work is one. The
end of our ministry is the salvation of the
souls of men through Jesus Christ. A
chief means to this end is a bold, earnest,
unceasing setting forth of that Lord Jesus as
the one all-sufficient Saviour, with a simple
looking to the Holy Ghost to give efficacy
to

that means.

FIMKM).

J I I, V

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1866.

May we, brethren, so preach the glorious
The new Hawaiian childs' paper,
Gospel of Christ, by our lives and with our Ke Alaula (Dawn of Day) is a success. It
lips, that when we appear before the Chief has already 4,000 subscribers, and an edition
Shepherd we may receive a crown thut
fadeth not away. Then with the four and of 5,000 is printed. Of the native weekly
twenty elders we will fall down before Him newspaper Kuokoa, (Independent,) edited by
that sitteth on the Throne, and worship Him Dr. Gulick, 2,300 copies are printed. Of
that liveth for ever and ever, and cast our the native weekly newspaper, Okon, (New
crowns before the Throne, saying, Thou Era,) Government paper, about 2,000 are
" and printed.
art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory,
honor, and power, for Thou hast created all
Five hundred and fifty Sabbath
things, and for Thy pleasure they are and
were created."
School Scholars were present at the late
S. S. meeting at the Stone Church. About
#The death of ihe late Mr. Wyllie, at one hundred were foreign children, from
Kauni, wns most sad, and can only be ac- Fort Street Church and the Bethel. Among
counted for by considering (hat he was the speakers on the occasion was Mr. James
afflicted with temporary insanity. We have Mcßride, the American Minister-Resident.
conversed with those intimately acquainted
During the month of July the Hawith all the facts and circumstances, and waiian Evangelical Association will issue
that is their unanimous concluu'on. High two supplements to The Friend, containing
as may have been the eisteem of his friends the sermons on Home and Foreign Missions
and neighbors in America, it was not higher which have recently been delivered by its
than that which he secured for himself invitation.
during his sojourn upon the Islands. Most
cheerfully we give place to the following
communication received by the lust mail:
A Curd.
PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I.

MARINE JOURNAL

W'ai.tiiam. 1i.i.., U. S. A., April 12. IBM,
W'r. Uie uudVrsigui'd, Id-deepcit sympathy witli
our bereaved Menus, pen the following tribute to
the manor* of Koiskut C. Wyuk•■
He was a young man who was held in the highest esteem by all who know linn. bwCWlaaj of his
strict moral Integrity, his quirt, unassuming deportment, and liis consistent Christian lids. His
kindness of heart uml cheerfulness ol temper wen'
peculiar. lie was tlie farthest removed from
everything like nioiosonc-s. misanthropy or mclancboly. lie had a pleasant smile anil it kind word
for all. lie never exhibited the ■lightest symptom
of mental aberration, but was regarded, on the
contrary, U possessing u sound, well-balanced ami
discriminating mind. In the winter of IMiO ho
made a public profession of his Faith in Christ,
uniting with the Presbyterian Church ol this place,
anil always giving evidence of a high-toned personal piety. His violent and untimely death we
deeply deplore, and we who knew him longest and
best shall be the last to believe that he fell by his
own hand, ircii under the inlluence of a diseased
or deranged mind. His many warm friends in bis
American home will await with intense anxiety
further particulars, since we cannot give lull credence to any account we have yet heard of his
death, contrasting, as they do, so strangely with
his well-known cheerful and hopeful temperament.
We .hall ever, remember, with grateful hearts,
Hie many acts of kindness shown him by bis dear
friends iv his far-off island-home, and shall appreciate every effort they may put forth to unravel
the deep, durl: mystery of his death.
W. \V. Wki.i.s. his former Pastor.
James Wyi.u:.
Jobn Wvi.ie, Elder of tbe Church.

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PASSENGERS.

For Sas tuxtisoo—Per D. C. Murray, June 2d—Mr. ami
Mrs I* OJoiies, airs Oeo Hunt, C Arnold, O W I'raeger, W
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W 0 Kimball, W W Kimball, X T Merriman, W Uurnham,
Mr» McDonald. Thus An her, Capt J Smith and aervl, T Metcast, Miss Kmma Metcnlf. V Metcalf, X Leyton,L l.rvi.oi. C ti
Cliadwlck, J II Uriffln. Mr and Mn Wtnalow, Mis. Whmlaw,
Mr and Mrs J Harris and 4 children, Jno Johnson, J Mcßryde
V l'otta,J Smith, j Di.lz.ia N Rahh, A Carachschl, H. Clark,
O X lUubcii, J lloliin s, John Quincy Adams Warren and lady
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ThniJ Cooks.
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II Logan, child and ncrvaut, Win .Mann, A W Allen, W Wilson,
li Credifurd, Ah Sing.
From San FBiNcirco—per Comet, June 13—Rev L Smith,
lady and son, Mill X L Smith, Mr II Mackie and lady, Mr J J
Aycrs, lady and child, Mlr-a Armstrong, Miss M Harrington.
Mrs Sawyer, Mrs M. Iville, J U hartenhy, 11 W Severance, II
Wateihiuse, H Puttman, J Caulking, J Bird.
For Sax Fkakoisio—per Bliering, June 19—Mrs Menitt, T
Waters, F A Srhamroer—3.
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C X Bjalmp. Ku route for China and Japan—Hon and Mrs A
Hawaiian Evangelical Association.
Burliiißiiaie, child and servant, GenM X B Van Valkenhurg, .Mr
S N Burdick, Col WKumsuy, J Davenport, X X Fuller,
.Verniers Present tram Hawaii—Rev*. T. Coan, D. B. and Mrs
A Uiirlingame. O W Burgess—l 6.
Lyman T. Pohano, J. Kauhanc, J. F. Pogue, 8. W. Papanla, F. S Ituillnjame, W
From Banks's Island— per Odd Fellow, June 18—I Fisher
a. Pali, S. C. Luhiau, a. Bond, 8. Kukahekahe. Delegate! wife
and child, and o natives.
Kaaua.
from theChurches—D. Bareiutba, Pakaula,

From Maui and Molokai—Bevi. 8. Kamakahiki, W. P.
Alexander, D. Baldwin, 8. K. Biahop, C. B. Andrews, J. 11.
Moku, N. Pall, A. O. Forbes. Delegates—A. Kaukau.
from Oahu—Revs. B. W. Parker, M. Kuaea, J. S. Emerson,
n Parker, L. Andrews, 8. C. DaA. Kaoliko, J. Bicknell, H.
mon, B. Corwin, O. H. Oulick, L. 11. Uullck, P. J. Uulick, A.
-O. P. Judd, Ktq., K. 0. Hall,
Wsiwalole
Poll,
B.
Bishop, Z.
Ksq., Hon. 8. N. Castle. Delegates—P. Naone, P. Kapobaku,
Natankla.
Paikuli,
N.
From Kauai—Heir: K. Johnson, D. Dole—Mr. A. Wilcox.
Delegates—J. W. Habere, 8. D. Kupahu, 8 Y. Nauinu.
Corresponding Members— Hon. Johnli, Major W. L. Moeh.niua, S. Kamelainela, P. Kaaekuahlwl, *. Kekoa, P. W.

ataavwa,

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MARRIED.
Foiiii—Ucasoa.—In toiscilv, an the 2d inst, by the Kev.
Asa Tliuratoo,Dr. 8. P. Ford to Miss Caroline Jaekaoo.
llov—loHNSOM.—In the New Meeting Houii at Kalnalio,
NorthKona, Hawaii, May 21th, by the Key. J. D.Parla, W. »'.
Koy to Mrs. K. Johnson.
Qolditosb—Miller In Honolulu, June93d, by Rer. 8. 0.
Damon, Mr James Goldstone to Mrs. Mary T. 8. Miller.

—

DIED.
WlLftB—In this clly, May 30th, of consumption, Samurt
W' Lib, in the 30th year of his *Te.

57
FRISUP LEMNDENT
THE
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t{ the §wminu

<6vmstlial

more elevated than that occupied by the wise men of heathen antiquity.
While philosophy was discussed in the schools of Aristotle and Plato,
at Athens, visions of the Messiah's triumphs among Gentile n ions
Honolulu, June 18, 1866. were passing before the enraptured minds of Isaiah, Daniel and MalaRev. S. C. Damon—Dear Sir:—The undersigned respectfully chi. All the rays of light radiating from Hebrew prophecy were
request the publication, at your earliest convenience, of your inter- found to converge and centre on the Promised Messiah, as the central
esting and very comprehensive discourse on " The History of Puri- figure in that grand panoramic picture of coming events. In the fultan Missions in the Pacific" preached in Fort Street Church last even- ness of time He made His appearance, and finished His work, but ere
ing.
taking His departure from this world He gathered His eleven disciples,
With the expression of sincere friendship, as ever yours,
and thus addressed them : "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
E. Corwin,
Lorrin Andrews,
baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Elisha H. Allen,
S. Peck,
Holy Ghost." That command seems clothed with a species of military
James Mcßride,
J. W. Austin.
authority, admitting of no questioning or reasoning on the part of those
to whom it was or is addressed. Never has our Saviour's last command been canceled, revoked or altered. It is as binding now upon ihe
Church, individually and collectively, as when it was first uttered.
When a young English clergyman applied for advice to the Duke of
Wellington, respecting his duty to go as a Missionary to India, the
hero of Waterloo replied, " Look to your marching orders." That
pithy and. laconic answer is the best of all comments which I have ever
read upon our Saviour's last command to His disciples. That command contains the marching orders of the Church-militant, until the
Gospel shall be preached to every creature. When those orders are
obeyed, then will the great Captain of our Salvation fulfil His gracious
promise, " Lo, 1 am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."
Gathered on this Missionary Anniversary, I have chosen as my theme
PuMristanoPacific:
itnhe
of discourse,

HONOLULU, JULY, 1866.

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ADISCOURSE,
i,versary
ForDeStlivChontaterhetduretAofcnhthe
EVAHNGAEWLICALI NASSOCIATION,
EVSEANBINGAT, H17,JU1866.
NE

PURITAN MISSIONS IN THE PACIFIC.
The time has not arrived for writing a full and complete history of
Missionary enterprises in the Pacific. It is. however, approaching.
:
For a work of this nature the most abundant materials are in process of
When Isaiah glanced his prophetic eye down the vista of coming collection in London, Boston, Lyons, Honolulu, or wherever there is a
centuries, he was favored with a glorious vision of the conversion of centre of Missionary operations, extending to any portion of Polynesia.
the Gentile world to the Messiah. The vision has passed away, but The time is coming when the history of each separate Mission will not
the reality has taken its place. Prophecy is now receiving its fulfil- be viewed apart and isolated from the rest, but as an integral part of a
ment and gradually melting away inio the details of history.
and comprehensive work, bearing some such title as " The
" Proph-no grand
ecy," says Lord Bacon, " is a kind of historiography." It requires
History ot Christianity in Polynesia," or " The History of Missions in
forced and.arbitrary principle of scriptural interpretation to apply the the Pacific." As the various dialects spoken by the Fejeeans, Samoans.
language, of Isaiah, in the text, to the peculiar situation of Hawaiians Tahitians, Marquesan? and Hawaiians form but one language, so all
when the law of God was first proclaimed among them, or to Polyne- Polynesians are members of the same family or race, and whoever
siims generally when Protestant Missions were first established in the would understand or study one should study all.
Pacific. The application is natural, graceful and satisfactory.
At a glance it will readily appear that a most interesting field of inWhile prophecies are not to be regarded as our rule of duty, yet from quiry and investigation is spread open. A complete history cannot at
their study we may gather strength and courage to press forward in the present be written, for the work of evangelization remains unfinished.
pathway of obedience, especially when we witness passing events in the All the Islands of Polynesia have not as yet been visited by the Misworld's history manifestly fulfiling what the prophets of the Lord fore- sionary of the Cross. There are numerous dwellers on the islands of
told should take place in the last days, when the mountain of the Micronesia, and upon those islands with New Guinea, or Papua, for a
" mountains, and shall centre, who have never yet seen a Missionary or heard the name of
Lord's house shall be established in the top of the
be exalted above the hills: and all nations shall flow into it." Was it Jesus. From this widely-extended field of operations—evangelized
not so with Peter on the day of Pentacost ? With what telling effect and unevangelized—the most abundant historical materials are now
he quoted the prophetic language of David and Joel, in his sermon on being gathered in the archives of the various Missionary and Historical
that memorable occasion !
Societies. When such a history is completed, it will embrace the
The subject of Foreign Missions, or Missions to unevangelized records of the labors, efforts and doings of various Missionary Associanations, may be profitably contemplated in the light of Hebrew tions, Protestant and Catholic. This history will prove one of no ordiprophecy. Those old prophets stood on a mount of vision far nary interest, when it shall be written by an Ellis or Jarves, a BingIsaiah 42 : 4.*-" The isles shall wait for his law."
Matthkw 28 19.—" Go ye therefore, and teach all nations."

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58

Puritan Missions in Polynesia form a bright and gloham or Anderson, a Williams or Cheever, a Turner or Dibble, a Mur- Apostles," while that
in
To
those
whose
rious
appendix.
chapter
It
be
character.
unique
will
in
or
Stewart.
ray
minds are fully alive to the sublime work of man's Redemption by a
Tahitian Mission,
Crucified Redeemer, this .history will exceed, in thrilling interest, the On the 10th of August, 1796, or just seventy years ago, a vessel
most exciting tales of romance which were ever written. Most truly sailed down the River Thames, conveying as precious a company as
may those readers be envied, who will, at some future day, peruse a that which left Plymouth on board the Mayflower for the shores of
comprehensive history of Gospel triumphs at Tahiti, Samoa, and hun- New England in 1620. This vessel was called the Duff, and comdreds of other islands of Polynesia. Look at a map of the Pacific. manded by that most remarkable man, Capt. Wilson. He was the
Scarcely a generation hits passed away, since, throughout nil these man whom Hyder Ali, that monster of cruelty, in India, had loaded
widely-extended regions of our globe, the Prince of Darkness reigned' with irons and confined in a prison of India, from whence he
supreme. Idol temples were as numerous as the villages which lined came forth, after twenty-two months of imprisonment, emaciated, half
the shores or were scattered over the hills and mountains. Idolatry starved and naked. This was the man whose hair breadth escapes and
everywhere abounded. Cruplty and oppression were common. There daring adventures»caused a Turk in the train of Hyder Ali to exclaim,
was much in the beauty of the natural scenery to please the eye and
This is God's man.* Having experienced such unexampled suffercaptivate the fancy. Voyagers delighted to describe the paradisiacal "ings, God honored him as the commander of the firsr Missionary vessel
appearance of the numerous islands which sparkled like so many gems to the isles of Polynesia. It was at early dawn when the Duff quietly
in the peacefnl waters of the vast Pacific, but the moral aspect was glided awny from the dorks of London, and the Missionary company
dark, and the nearer it was viewed the darker it appeared, although on board united in singing,
the Bishop of Oxford describes the inhabitants of Polynesia as " chil-

"Jesus, at tby command
dren of nature, children of the air, children of light, children of the sun,
I launch into the deep."f
children of beauty, taking their greatest pleasure in the dance." Alas,
The year previous to the sailing of these pioneer Missionaries, the
man is a sinner. His heart is depraved. The debased character of
the unevangelized Polynesian has never been fully laid open to view, London Missionary Society was organized, and was now sending forth
a band of Missionaries to the fur-distant South Sea Islands.
They
any more than the heart of the sinner in civilized lands.
were going forth to establish the first Mission planted under the ausIs this tlii! flight of fancy ? Would it wen-!
Heaven's Sovereign saves nil beings lint Himself
pices of that noble and most truly catholic Missionary Society, which,
That hideout sight, a naked hitman heart."
for seventy years, has not filtered in its glorious career.
Many were tho difficulties and obstacles which attended these early
Yet at the door of bear's concealing " that hideous sight" the
Saviour has knocked and found a welcome. Most cordially has He efforts of the friends of modern Missions. Some of their views were
been welcomed by multitudes of idolatrous Polynesians, some of whom incorrect. The minds of the Directors were laboring under that false
were once cannibals. Is not the history of such a people full of in- and erroneous idea that civilization must precede the introduction of
terest ? What can be more so ? Whut struggles, what joys, what Christianity among a heathen and savage people. We may learn this
sorrows the Recording Angel has noted down in God's
of Re- fact from the somewhat unclerica! nnd non-Missionary character of that
membrance, which will be disclosed in another world! To a sketch of first band of Missionaries to the shores of Tahiti. The following is a
Puritan Alissionary operations in the Pacific I would now call your at- list of these Missionaries Four ordained Missionaries, five carpenters, one shop-keeper, one buckle and harness maker, two tailors, two
tention.
After Cook, Vancouver and other explorers had returned to Europe, shoemakers, one gentleman's servant, (subsequently turned tin-worker,)
and published the thrilling narratives of their voyages in the far-off re- one whitesmith and gardener, one suigeon, one brazier, one cooper, one
gions of the Pacific, their reading awakened an interest second only to butcher, one cotton-manufacturer, one Indian weaver, one hatter, two
that which followed the report ol Columbus that a new world had been bricklayers, one linen-draper and one cabinet-maker. Only two of the
discovered. A Macedonian call was heard, " Who will volunteer to go four clergymen were accompanied by thf ir wives. The weaver, one of
forih as Missionaries to reclaim the dwellers on these beautiful islands the carpenters, the butcher and the brazier were also accompanied by
from heithenism to Christianity ?" Years passed away, and there was their helpmeets. Three children also belonged to the company. In
no response to this call, although some have reported, but I think with- all there were thirty-nine souls. The youngest member of the company
out due foundation, that Vancouver had solemnly pledged his word to was sixteen months, and the oldest s xty-four years.
send forth a Missionary to the Sandwich Islands. Cook took to EngThe Duff made a prosperous passage from England to Tahiti, touchland, from the Society Islands, the " gentle savage," Omai, but listen ing at the Western Islands and Rio Janeiro. In contrast with the
to the desponding address of the poet Cowper to that visitor from Poly- habits of Puritan Missionaries of that period and those of the present,
this fact is noteworthy, that at Teneriffe, the Mission-ries were inrepresented the heathen imploring the Gospel:
structed to procure " four pipes of the best wine, in hogsheads," and
Alas! expect it not. We found no bait
" To tempt us to tbv country. Doing good,
pay for the same by " a draft on the Treasurer" of the Society. MisDisinleresM t/mui. is Ml Met trade.
sionaries of recent times do not receive instructions of this nature from
W'v travel lUr. 'tis true, but not for iiimglit.
the Secretaries of those Societies which send them forth. During the
And must be bribed to eompanH earth again,
voyage the attention of the Missionaries was much occupied in making
other
richer
fruits
than
yours."
hopes
and
By
r, however, was about to strike on Time's dial-plate for Poly- arrangements for future operations. It was decided that the four ordained Missionaries*, together with twenty others, including five females
pass into a new form of being. Old things were to pass and
two children, should remain at Tahiti, ten of the company should
all things to become new. To whom shall be assigned the
and two—Mr. Harris, the cooper, and Mr. Crook,
ir of performing the human portion of this grent work? proceed to Tonga,
the gentleman's servant—should proceed and establish a Mission on
the
of
Old
and
New
Heaven assigns the enterprise to
Puritans
England.
Who can doubt that it was the Spirit of God which first awakened a the Marquesas Islands.
On the 4ih of March, 1797, the Missionaries approached the long
Missionary zeal among them to enter upon this Herculean undertaking?
and beautiful shores of Tahiti. The following day being
wished-for
to
lie
It must be borne in mind that the Missionary enterprise appeared
a far different work then from what it does at present. Whatever other the Sabbath, they did not land, but held divine service on board, the
branches of the Church-universal may hereafter follow in the footsteps simple-minded and idolatrous inhabitants witnessing the srene from the
of the Puritans, yet to them belongs the high honor of having been the shore. The Rev. Mr. Cover preached from the text, "God is love,"
pioneers in this bold work. To English Puritans was assigned the and hymns commencing with the following lines were sung:
work in the South Pacific, and to American Puritans a similar underbills of darkness," Ac, Ac
" O'er tbe gloomy
the trumpet, blow," Ac, Ac.
ye
Blow
taking north of the Line. Bigotry, prejudice and sectarianism may
"
combine to overturn what the Puritan has accomplished, or Christian
It may now be said the work of evangelizing the inhabitants of Polyzeal may prompt Missionaries of other denominations to perform what nesia had commenced. The Missionaries had entered upon their arthe Puritan had left undone ; but the future and impartial historian duous, difficult and untried work. For them not to have made miswill ever award to him a most honorable meed of praise, for having takes would be to expect something more than that they were erring
been the apostle of Christianity among the inhabitants of Polynesia.
of the Mission to Tahiti has been so often pubThe Puritan's record is a noble one. It cannot be effaced or blotted mortals. The history
out. It has become a part of the history of a world's redemption. The
• Williams' Missionary Enterprises.
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lished, and is so familiar, that 1 shall not dwell upon its details, buti The Island Queen," thus portray the character of the martyr, Wilonly touch upon those points deemed worthy of notice, in presenting a liams:
"A man sublime in his simplicity—
rapid sketch of the operations of the London Missionary Society in the
Hero of Missions—whose expausive soul
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Pacific. The fundamental principle of this Society, adopted at the
Nor realms could satisfy, nor space control;
is,
1796,
annual
is
thus
defined:
"Its
design
first
To one great purpose true, his manly part
meeting, in May,
Proving the power of earnestness of heart;
not to send Presbyterianism, Independency, Episcopacy, or any other
While burned bis zeal amid all dangers warm,
form of Church order or government, but the glorious Gospel of the
Brightest when tried, aud strongest in the storm."
this
is
Now,
Society
supported
although
blessed God to the heathen."
t
was Rev. William Ellis, who still survives, and is one of the
by various Evangelical Christian denominations in England, yet the The other
Missions in
remarkable men now living. His fame is
most
for
such
|
the
Missionaries
to
assume
themselves
leave
it
to
Directors
" shall appear most agreeable to the South Seas and the Hawaiian Islands are his debtors, while his reas
j
to them
form of Church government
to rank among the
the Word of God." So far as lam able to ascertain the facts, all Mis- | peated visits to the Island of Madagascar entitle him
from
sionaries sent out from England to establish and perpetuate Christianity Missionary benefactors of the heathen world. The very last accounts for
is
still
laboring
age,
that,
inform
us
his
old
he
in
England
vigorous
Puritan
those
stamp, except
of the
in the South Seas have been of the
the last mail a
Church Missionary Society," and of the " Society for the Propaga- Missions, and that our Mission is not forgotten. By
"tion
received, with the following on its title-page
was
pamphlet
goodly-sized
of
confined
these
two
Societies
have
of the Gospel." Missionaries
Islands; a Vindication and
their efforts almost entirely to New Zealand. The VVesleyar. Mission- "The American Mission in the Sandwich
relation to the Proceedings of the Reformed Catholic
aries at the Tonga and Feejee Islands, as well as those in New Zea- an Appeal in
This is a sound,
land, I doubt not would wish to be classed among Puritans, rather than Mission in Honolulu. By Rev. W. Ellis," &c.
vindication
appeal,
by a veteran in
and
and
triumphant
Pumasterly
among those " Church" Missionaries, whose views are High Church.
the Missionary cause. Respecting its author, I would add : Noble
Puritan
Missions
in
subject,
view
of
the
or
this
Taking
seyite Ritualistic.
Long may he survive to labor in the Missionary cause, ere his
Soci- man
the Pacific, are spread over the following groups of islands, viz
be enrolled beside that of Elliot, Brainard, Martyn, Buname
shall
ety, Marquesan, Hervey, Friendly, Samoan, Feejeean, New Hebrides, chanan, Schwarz,
Mills, Judson, Cary,
Hawaiian and Micronesian. This is a very large and populous field
it,
Puritans
from
Old
and
"Whose
honored names on history's pago shall live,"
for Missionary operations, but, in working
New England have sent forth as devoted bands of Missionaries as ever For they, with many others, have devoted their lives to the evangelizalabored among the heathen, and most liberally expended funds to carry tion of the heathen world.
forward their enterprises. As a groundwork ior their operations, they
During the last half-century the Missionary work has been prosehave caused the entire Bible to be translated into the dialects spoken, at cuted at the Society Islands with varied success. The Missionaries
Tahiti, Tonga, Samoa, Harotongn and Hawaiian Islands, and parts of and native Christians have passed through a series of trials and persethe Bible into many other dialects. The cardinal idea of all these Mis- cutions. Most nobly have the native Churches been sustained. The
sionaries is this, that Missionaries, when sent to preach the Gospel among Tahitians have held on to the principles of Protestant Christianity with
an unevangelized and heathen peopb, should aim to convert sinners to true Waldensean tenacity. The emissaries of Rome have found their
Christ, and preach among them the simple principles of the Gospel, match among the guava and orange groves of Tahiti, as well as amid
and not the tenets or opinions of any one sect of Christianity. They the fastnesses of the Alps. It is a mattpr of great astonishment that
hold that the Bible should be translated and printed in the various lan- the Tahitians should have so pertinaciously and resolutely adhered to
guages and dialects spoken by all nations. They place great stress the faith taught them by the English Missionaries. It is proof positive
upon the preicfiing of the Gospel.
that Christianity has taken a firm hold of the hearts of the Chiefs and
With such views the English Missionories commenced their labors people of Tahiti. At the last accounts Protestant ministers and teachat the Society Islands. At the end of three years a chapel was built, ers were settling among them, who were sent out from France, while
but it was nearly five years before the Missionaries could preach famil- an appeal has been made to America for funds to sustain the Mission.
iarly in the language of the people. Sixteen years rolled away ere a
The following pom's I deem worthy of special attention in estimating
single convert was made. Many changes had taken place in the Mis- the good accomplished by the establishment of the Mission at Tahiti
sion. Several of the company left for the colony of New South Wales. 1. It being the pioneer Mission in Polynesia, all subsequent Missions
The interest awakened in England at the outset of the Mission had have profited by its example—its errors, its failures and its successes.
died away, and the question was seriously discussed of abandoning the Not only have other Missions in Polynesia profited by a study of its
enterprise. The work required was too exacting for the weak and history, but Missions in other parts of the heathen world have also been
faint-hearted. There was, however, one devoted friend of the Mission benefitted by reviewing its progress. 2. The history of this Mission
in England, who would listen to no such proposition. He declared he has effectually exploded the idea that civilization should precede Chriswould sell his coat from his back rather than the Mission should be tianity, in the evangelization of a heathen people. Neither the London
given up. This good man was Heweis. He was a Churchman of Missionary Society, nor any other Missionary Association, will ever
enlarged views and noble conduct. He, presented the Society with a send forth so many secular men to establish and prosecute the Missiondonation of £200, or $1,000, and then proposed that the friends of the ary work. 3. Tahiti has been found to be admirably situated as a
enterprise should observe a day of fasting and prayer. This was the centre or basis of Missionary operations. From thence Missionaries
set time for the God of Missions to favor His Zion at Tahiti. The ves- have gone in many directions, as will appear from brief sketches of
sel taking out instructions lor the Missionaries to continue their work Missionary operations in other groups.
was'on her outward-bound passage while a homeward-bound vessel
Tongan Mission.
from Tahiti was returning to England freighted with idols which had
been given up. The dawn was now approaching, after a long night of The Directors of the London Missionary Society entered upon the
toil. The glad news thrilled the hearts of the friends of Missions in work of Missions in Polynesia with enlarged and noble views. From
England and other parts of the world. It was a most memorable event the beginning they designed to extend their operations to other groups
in the history of not only the Mission to the South Seas, but of Mis- besides the Society Islands. No sooner had the Missionaries become
sions in general. While the Christian Church wns praying, God heard settled on Tahiti than the ship Duff sailed for the Friendly or Tonga
and answered their prayers. These events occurred just half a century Islands. Upon those were landed ten Missionaries, who xame out
not successful. In a few months
ago. What momentous events have since occurred in the history of from England. This Mission was murdered,
and the remainder were
Missions!
three of these Missionaries were
the year 1817 two most remarkable men joined the Mission at taken to Sydney; in 1800. No subsequent attempts were made to
iti. One was the Rev. Mr. Williams, who won for himself the en- evangelize the Friendly Islanders until the establishment of the Wesle title of the Apostle of Missions in the South Seas, but who finally leyan Mission in 1822. The Rev. W. Lawry was the leader of. this
killed, and will forever be known in the history of Missions as the new enterprise, which was destined to be crowned with success. Other
artyr of Erromanga." A monument has been erected over his re- Missionaries followed in 18i6, 1827, 1830, and so on down to the
mains, at Apia, Samoan Islands, with this inscription : " Sacred to present time. The peculiarities of the Wesleyan system of Church
the Memory of the Rev. John Williams, the Father of the Samoan organization has been introduced and found to be eminently successful.
and other Missions, aged 43 years and 5 months, who was killed by the King George is now a local preacher, and has successfully officiated as
cruel natives of Erromanga, while endeavoring to plant the Gospel of Chief Magistrate of that little Kingdom, and also as a laborer in proPeace on their shores." Beautifully does Mrs. Ellis, in her poem, moting the Kingdom of God. He has granted to his people a written

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Constitution, and, so far as reliable information can be obtained, the
Friendly (slanders have bejpme a civilized and Christian people. What
I deem of special importance to observe in tracing the progress of civilization and Christianity among that people is this, that it matters not
whether Missionaries are Independents, Wesleyans or Episcopalians in
their views of Church government or ecclesiastical polity, the Lord will
crown their labors with success, if they are faithful in their work of
preaching and exemplifying the Gospel.
Marquesan Mission.
In the rapid sketch of Puritan Missions in the South Seas, I shall
next direct attention to the various efforts which have been made to establish the institutions of the Gospel on the Marquesas Islands.
Strange as the announcement of the fact may appear, the first rites of
Christianity were performed on this group long before the Pilgrims
lainli-.l on Plymouth Rock, even as early as the 25th of July, 1505.
These islands were discovered by Alvaro Mendana tie Negra, and
named Marquesas in honor of the Marquis of Ciinck , then Viceroy of
Peru. The Mass, or Catholic service, was performed on shore, and
just two hundred years from that date the ship Duff landed two English Missionaries on those islands. Their names were John Harris
and William Crook. After residing upon the islands for one year, disheartened and discouraged, they returned to Tahiti. More than a
quarter of a century elapsed before another effort was made on behalf
of the Marquesans. In 1825 Mr. Crook, accompanied by two Tahitinns, returned and renewed his efforts. He discovered that a few natives had given up their idols, in consequence of his former efforts, thus
showing that good seed had been sown. Again, discouraged, he returned to Tahiti. The following year, 1826, the Mission was again
renewed, but only to be again abandoned in the year 18:29.
The work of Missions on the Marquesas Islands was renewed in
1833, by the Rev. Messrs. Armstrong, Alexander and Parker, with
their wives, from Honolulu as a base of operations. Before a twelvemonth had elapsed, they returned from the field, to lie succeeded by
Missionaries from Tahiti, who prosecuted the work for several years,
and again abandoned the enterprize. In 1838 two Catholic Priests
landed upon the islands, which led to their occupation by the French
for political and naval purposes. An effort was made to make n penal
settlement of them. This scheme was soon abandoned, and the Catholic Missiofiaries alone remained, with a merely nominal occupancy by
French military authorities.
Thus matters were continued until the Hawaiian Missionary Society
sent out a Mission from these islands, in 1853. The history of this
successful enterprize is too well known for me to enter upon the details.
Our Society has not only sustained the original Missionaries, but sent
out reinforcements. The Marquesans have been found to be the most
savage and untractable of all the various members of the great Polynesian family. One attempt after another has been made to evangelize them, but hitherto all efforts failed, until our Hawaiian Missionaries
settled among them. They have held on with a firm grasp, determined
not to give up until the work shall be accomplished. This is much to
their honor, and if no other good has been done, this point has been established, that Hawaiian Missionaries arc worthy of all praise for their
persevering zeal, when both English and American Missionaries had
given up. A letter recently published, and written by one of those
Missionaries to President Lincoln, indicates that an Hawaiian Missionary, for mind, scholarship and piety, may take rank among the best of
those employed to preach the Gospel among the heathen.
It is a question of much interest and importance why Marquesans
should have been so unwilling to receive the teachings of the Missionaries, while other branches of the Polynesian family have received
them with open arms. Perhaps I may be mistaken, but I think the
almost utter anarchy in regard to civil and political government has
been the principal reason. Human government is a Divine institution,
but among Marquesans there appears to have been very little of what
could be called " law md order." This leads me to remark, I think
that Missionaries and the friends of Missions do not sufficiently value
the regular form of government which hasfor so many years existed upon
these islands. Wherever the Government is unsettled, or anarchy prevails, it has in all ages been found a difficult thing to plant the institutions of the Gospel. This is a point to which my attention was first
called while visiting Oregon, in 1849, and conversing with a Missionary of the Board who had been laboring among the North American
Indians. He had experienced the sad effects of an absence of civil
government among the Indians, and his remark was that Missionaries
Sandwich Islands were peculiarly favored. The Marquesans
are divided into as many clans, or tribes, as there are valleys in the
1

They have, from time immemorial, carried on warfare. They
never at peace. The following lines of Cowper are applicable to
the Marquesans, as well as to the nations of Europe :

group.
are

"

.Mountains interposed,
Make enemies of Millions, which had else,
talk* kindred drops, been mingled into one."

Samoan Mission.
our
of
Puritan Missions in the South Seas, the
survey
general
In
1
Samoan or Navigator Islands will next claim our attention. Most intimately associated with this group are the Islands of the Hervey
group, embracing the islands of Raratonga, Aitutake and Mangaia.
The first publication of the Gospel on these beautiful and populous
islands will always be associated with that ardent, enterprising and adventurous Missionary to whom I have already alluded, the Rev. John
Williams, the Martyr of Erromanga. " For my part," wrote Williams
to the Directors of the Loudon Missionary Society, " 1 cannot content

myself within the narrow limits of a single reef; and, if means are not
afforded, a continent would he infinitely preferable to me ; for there, if
you cannot ride, you can walk; but to these isolated islands a ship
must carry you." Because there was no ship at his command, and no
money to purchase one, he actually built one with his own hands and
the assistance of the natives. It was called " The Messenger of Peace."
"Tis brave to see the gallant ship,
Willi snowy pinions, tly
Across the ocean, like n bird,
licncalh a pleasant sky ;
Vet braver night I deem it is.
And goodlier, when a ship.
With Mercy's beralib, doth In r wing
In yonder waters dip.
A burden bearing, rioter far
Than gold or canning gem
Yea, walling tiding! of the star
That shines from Bethlehem."

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be an excellent sailer, and most serviceable in the Missionary cause.
The building of that vessel, anil its trips to the Navigator Islapds, on
voyages of exploration, are most wonderful, and well entitle the projector of these enterprises to be accounted an original genius. Ono
English writer has remarked that Defoe, the writer of the adventures
of Robinson Crusoe, " never ascribed to the hero of his romance an
achievement so wonderful." The fact is something stranger than fiction. It is now something more than a quarter of a century since Mr.
Williams published an account of his Missionary voyages, under the
title of " A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea
Islands." The details of Missionary labor contained in that volume
read more like a work of romance than sober reality. Subsequent
events have proved that the originator of those enterprises was no enthusiastic adventurer. Thousands of British and American Christians
perused the volume with the deepest interest. I have not forgotten the
thrill of delight which 1 experienced while reading that volume. The
Church at large was now convinced that the Angel having the everlasting Gospel to preach was fully commissioned to extend his flight
over all the islands of the South Seas, and those stnnzas written by an
American poet to be sung at the embarkation of the second band of
Missionaries sailing for these islands from New Haven, were now found
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Wake isles of the South, your redemption is near,
No longer repose in the borders of gloom ;
The strength of His chosen in love shall appear.
And light shall arise on the verge of the tomb.
The billows that girt ye, the wild waves that roar,
The zephyrs that pluy where the ocean-storms cease,
Slmll bear the rich freight to your desolate shore,
Shall watt tlie glad tidings ol pardon and peace."

Williams, having led the way, was soon followed by as noble, laborious, patient and successful a company of Missionaries ns ever left the

shores of Christian England nnd landed upon the shores of heathendom. The names of Buzacott, Pitman, Royle, Mills, Turner, Geddie,
and many others are associated with that of Williams in prosecuting
the work of Missions in the Hervey, Samoan, New Hebrides, New
New Caledonia and other islands, stretching away to the westward.*

• On the day but one following the delivery of this discourse, the author .received a letter from J. C. Williams, Ksq., 11. 11. M. Consul at Apia, Upolu, Samoa,
who is the only son of the late Missionary, Key. John Williams, Martyr of KrroThe natives have the
manga. Under date of March 6, 18(ifi, be thus writes
Bible In their hands, which they can read and understand, and with this wettpou
The
are
well
armed."
natives
ol
Ellice's
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they
group are in an inter* *
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New Zealand and Feejeean Missions.*
Although I do not feel justified in classing the New Zealand Missions among Puritan Missions in the South Seas, yet 1 can appreciate
what has been done by those dilfering from the Puritans in their ecclesiastical organization. The Church Missionary Society commenced
operations in New Zealand in 1814, and has there accomplished a
noble work. The devoted Missionaries of the Society have labored
with alternate successes and defeats. The Wesleyan Missionaries
came to their aid in 1819, and nlso Missionaries under the auspices of
the ancient " Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts,"
have entered that field. The history of all those Missions abounds
with incidents of thrilling interest. The steady and persevering efforts
and patronage of the Rev. Samuel Marsden, an Episcopalian, and
Chaplain at Sydney, presents one of the finest pictures of Missionary
zeal anywhere to be found upon record. Ho stood by that Mission
through evil ns well as good report. Cannibalism and idolatry have
been the main obstacles in the way of the preaching of the Gospel.
The late Sydney Smith presented the cannibal feature in a most striking light. When Bishop Selwyn was about to leave England lor Ins
distant diocese. Sydney Smith thus addressed him : "I hope, my
Lord, you will keep a bountiful supply of cold cooked infant on your
sideboard, for all visitors, and, if any of the natives should fancy to cat
you, I can only heartily hope you will disagree with them." The
good Bishop yet survives, but, if reports are to be credited of the
Maories reluming to their cannibal practices, it would be impossible to
predict how long he may be spared. The humorous sarcasm of the
witty Divine indicated a condition of heathenism in New Zealand and
the Feejce Islands, which those devoted Missionaries have been called
to encounter in all its hideous and loathsome features.
From New Zealand turn your eyes for a moment to the achievements of the Wesleyan, or Puritan Missions, in the Feejee Islands.
Contemplate Gospel" triumphs in that region of Polynesia. No Missionary hereafter need be discouraged at the most appalling obstacles and difficulties that may be presented in any part of the heathen
world. Just thirty years ago, or in 1835, the Rev. Messrs. Cross and
Cargile landed among the unblushing cannibals of the Feejee Islands.
Human flesh was no inconsiderable portion of the food of the debased
Feejceans. Foreigners of the very lowest class had introduced the
vices of civilization j but even there the Saviour has found followers.
Schools have been established and the Bible has been translated. The
Wcsleyans have happily and successfully introduced the peculiar practices and forms of John Wesley's system, and these have been found

admirably suited to the elevation and amelioration of the debased Feejeeans. All honor to those devoted laborers.

wh eh the Sun of Righteousness has not risen. If the work advances for the next
twenty years at the same rate of progress as it has done during the past, that eonBtimmatioti will not be far from being realized. When we began our labors here,
in L896, all beyond us to the West, and all to the North except your group, was
enshrouded in heathenish darkness. A glance at the work which was published
some time since, a copy of which 1 beg your acceptance of, will show what has
been done in the way of extension, in connection with this Mission, and will also
give you a glimpse of the opening prospects in the respective neighborhoods of
the islands and groups of which it treats. Each of the off-shoots of this Mission
is. ia its turn, becoming a centre of influence, a radiating point, whence the light
is spreading fur and wide. And now that our Westward Missions are off our
bands, we are turning our attention to the northwest, and intend, God helping us,
to press forward in that direction till we reach the boundary which your Missionaries have lixed as the limit of their operations southward. A very hopeful commencement was made, in the months of May and June of lust year, among the
range of low coral islands known by the name of Ellice's group, Mitchell's group.
Ac., Ac. I visited five of these and placed teachers on three of them, and we have
since sent teachers to the other two. I found these Islanders in a deeply interesting state. They had long abandoned idolatry, and were literally waiting for the
law of the Lord. I cannot give you particulars. One deeply interesting thing to
is that the whole, eight in number, with
itH, connected to the islands referred to,
a single exception, are peopled by the descendants of Samoans, who had been
drifted thither many years. I suppose centuries, ago. Hence our books are available and our teachers are at home. The islands are small, as is also the population. Tbe whole range, I suppose, does not number over z.&OO, or, at most, 3,000,
but they have a relative importance which is not small, especially with Nui,
which has been peopled from the King's Mill group."
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T/ie hour had struck for the Hawaiian people to pass into a new form
of being. Through the thick darkness of heathenish night, Divine
Providence had been leading this people to abolish their old system of
worship. Unseen hands drew back the bolts from the gates, and threw
wide open the doors for the pioneers of the American Puritan Mission
to enter upon their work of evangelization. This event has thus been
portrayed in poetic strains by the Rev. Robert Grant, a clergyman of
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In my remarks upon Missionary operations in Polynesia, I have
dwelt exclusively upon the laßfcrs of the English in what may strictly
be denominated the South Seas. 1 shall now invite your attention
somewhat briefly to the labors of the American Puritan Missionaries in
the North Pacific. The Hawaiian Islands will, of course, first claim
our attention. In passing, I cannot refrain from alluding to that harmony which has always existed between the Missionaries of the London Missionary Society and those of the American Board. At a very
early stage of operations, there was a perfect understanding that Islands
south of the Line should belong to the English Missionaries, while
American Missionaries should go to the North Pacific. As events
have been developing, and the streams of emigration have flowed to
the Australian colonies via the Cape of Good Hope, and to the Pacific
coast via the Rocky Mountains and the Isthmus of Panama, it has become
clearly apparent that an overruling Providence guides the streams of
emigration and the progress of foreign Missions. The leading facts
relating to Missions nt these islands are so familiar to your minds, and
have been so often published, that I shall not be expected to dwell upon
the details of Missionary operations. The work has not been done in
a corner, but openly, and in view ol friends and enemies. The system
and principles adopted by the Puritan Missionaries have been severely
criticised und examined. In reviewing the establishment of the Mission, it would be quite impossible to keep out of view certain marked
interpositions of Divine Providence. The visit of Obookiah and his
companions to America, and their education in the Mission School at
Cornwall, Conn., form a most beautiful introduction to a history of the
American Mission to the Islands. 'The abolition of idolatry and the
tabu system are also incidents of marked significance. Before the news
of this unheard-of and unexpected event reached the United States, the
first Missionary Company had embarked from Boston. The way had
been thereby prepared for the introduction of the Christian religion into
these islands. " The isles shall wait His law." Literally were the
inhabitants of these isles waiting for God's Law. Not to recognise in
this wonderful work of preparation an interposition of an unseen but
Divine hand would savor of n denial of an overruling and Divine Providence. In contemplating this event in Hawaiian annals, how forcibly
the following truthful, eloquent and philosophical remarks of Bancroft,
the historian, forming the exordium of his late eulogy on the life of
President Lincoln, will be found to apply : " Sometimes, like a mesreligion, a Chief gave about fifty gallons of cocoanut-oil for an English llible, senger through the thick darkness of night, Omnipotence steps along
which an Knglish captain had the wickedness to charge that tor. Honor be to mysterious ways; but when the hour strikes for a people or mankind to
another English captain, who urged the Chiefs to burn their idols anil the bouse of pass into a new form of being, unseen hands draw the bolts from the
their gods. These peoplu are ready for the Gospel." Another letter wiw reoelved
of futurity ; an all-subduing influence prepares the minds of men
from the Rev. A. W. Murray, author ola very important work. " Missions in gates
letter,)
who
has
been
ut
the
for
the
coming revolution ; those who plan resistance find themselves in
of
which
the
accompanied
Western Polynesia," (a copy
Samoan Islands over a quartet of a century. Mr. Murray, under date of Match conflict w'th the will of Providence rather than with human desires ;
Z, IB6C, thus writes: " One cannot help feeling sonielhitig like regret that your and all hearts and
all understandings, most of all the opinions and inMorning Siar is no longer to be employed in the high and holy work for which fluence of
the unwilling, are wonderfully attracted, and compelled to
she was built, and which she has done ho well for so many years. The consolation is that she is to have a successor, which we trust will take up the wort where bear forward the change, which becomes more and more an obedience
she ilaid it down, and carry it forward, till few if any of the isles shall remain on to the law of universal nature than submission to the arbitraments of

oped a wide and an effectual door,
" God
For ere the messengers of peace unfurled

Love's banner, waving o'er a rebel world,
Moved by a mighty impulse from on high,
liursting each social, each domestic tie,
a
The Island King tbe ancient creed disowned,
Threw offthe burden beneath which they groaned,
At one bold stroke ; and, with a statesman s view,
He broke the fetters of the strict tabu,
Enforced by stern authority's high band:
Thus idol-worship ceased throughout tbe land."

Enemies arose and opposers resisted the onward march of the new
order of events, but they have passed away. A righteous judgment
appears, in many instances, to have overtaken the enemies of the Gospel in this land, not unlike the fearful destruction which at a subsequent date, awaited Boki and his band, to the number of near five hun-

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dred, who embarked at Honolulu, in December, 1829, for an expedition
South Seas. Only twenty of the number ever returned. The
leader had placed himself in opposition to the advancement of the cause
of truth. His career an 3that of his followers was marked by " prodigality, inteniperence and opposition," imperiling the very Government
us well as the Church. "At length,*Temarks Dibble, the historian,
of nations, who had so signally interposed in other emer" the Goddisplayed
again his timely aid." In more than one crisis have
gencies,
truth in this nation had occasion to
the Missionaries and
adopt the language of Ezra " The hand of the Lord was upon us,
and he delivered us out of the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay
in wait by the way." As I once took occasion to remark, on a national
fast-day, more than twenty years ago, so I will now repeat the remark
The more I become acquainted with the history of the affairs of these
"islands,
the sentiment becomes more strongly impressed upon my mind
that the Sandwich islands is no field for wicked men and the opposers of
truth and righteousness to think of practising their schemes before high
heaven, unless they are willing to incur the awful risk of being pursued,
even in this life, with the retributive justice of God."
There have been many bright as well as dark providences in the history of this people during the last half century. The friends of foreign
Missions in the United Stales have been permitted to learn the good results of their investment of a million of dollars to redeem Hawaiians
from heathenism. Missionary labor has produced a goodly harvest.
How striking the contrast between this and some other fields of Missionary efforts. The great and successful African Missionary and
Explorer, Dr. Livingstone, recently has put forth the statement that
forty foreign Missionaries going to Africa, died of disease and the climate before a single convert to Christianity came forward to cheer the
hearts of God's Missionary
Not thus has the great Head of
the Church compelled the American Missionary to toil on in faith.
Those who have sown the seed have been permitted lo gather in ihe
harvest. The sower and the reaper are combined in one. I rejoice in
being permitted to see present on this occasion a representation of the
first Missionary band landing on Hawaiian shores, in IS2O. Long
may our venerable associates be spared to make their annual appearance at our Missionary and festive gatherings. Their presence is ever
welcome and cheering. They form golden links in that historic chain
connecting the present with the past.*
Whatever may await Hawaiians in the future, the past is secure. A
record has been made. Were Missionaries on these islands now to
erect a monument commemorative of the past, no more appropriate inscription could be found to chisel upon that monument than the one
furnished by the prophet Samuel three thousand years ago • "Hitherto
hath the Lord helped us."
In estimating the good which has been accomplished at these islands,
no candid and impartial observer can overlook or undervalue the strong
conservative influence of American Missionaries in upholding and perpetuating the independent sovereignty of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Individually and collectively, their influence has been upon the side of
good order and the Kamehameha Dynasty. Glance your eye ny- a
map of Polynesia, and where, I would ask, has the kingly authority
been more happily sustained ? Whem troubles have arisen, and ships
of war threatened, the American Missionary's influence and pen have
been ever found in defence of the native Government. Look at Tahiti;
look at New Caledonia ; look at New Zealand. 1 do not undervalue
the skilful labors of the diplomatist, or the incessant toils of the civil
magistrate, or the invaluable efforts of our Judges ; neither will 1 knowingly undervalue or slightly pass over the prayers and toils of those
who have spent their lives to perpetuate the Hawaiian race and Kingdom. Republican as the Missionaries may have been in their origin
and sympathies, yet they have proved the very staunchest supporters of
a monarchical form of government in these islands. Yet the Bishop of
Oxford describes these men as " rather more severe, sour and vinegarlike" than even their fathers, " the stern old Puritans of New England.
to the

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Mioronesian Mission.
In order to complete the sketch of Missionary*opemtions in Polynesia,
1 will briefly call your attention to the efforts which have been made to
evangelize the islands of Micronesia. A Mission thither was undertaken in 1552, and has been prosecuted to the present time. Many
hindrances and obstacles have retarded the work. The islands are
remote from each other. The inhabitants speak different languages or
dialects. The influence of foreigners has been most'pernicious.
Sweeping epidemics have more than decimated the people. It has
* Reference la made to the Hey. Asa Thnrstnn and wife, and Mrs. Whitney.

been difficult to hold regular communication with the Missionaries and
forward supplies. Notwithstanding all these hindrances, and more
which might be enumerated, American and Hawaiian laborers diligently prosecuted the work. They have reduced four languages to
written forms, established schools, organized Churches, and performed a
vast amount of Missionary work. Having been permitted to visit those
islands and witness what a few laborers have performed, I can bear
my humble testimony to the good which has been accomplished. The
Puritan Missionary has been a great worker. He has gone down
among the people, and labored to bring them up to a higher standard of
civilization, and introduce among them the principles of the Gospel.
But few Missions in any part of ihe world can boast of more cheering
results. The mariner in those seas owes an everlasting debt of gratitude to those Missionaries. It was the presence of the Missionary, beyond all doubt, that put an end to that series of bloody massacres which
have been perpetrated at the Marshall Islands, thus affording a good
foundation for a remark of the Rev. Dr. Kirk, in his sermon at the
last meeting of the American Board: "The Missionaries have become the guardian angels of seamen in the Pacific. Formerly the natives were pirates and murderers. It was dangerous to sail among
them. Now that is all changed wherever a Missionary has been laboring." The inhabitants of some of those islands were living the most
debased lives, rendered doubly so by the vicious example of depraved
foreigners, from Sydney and elsewhere, yet from among those very inhabitants God is gathering a people to himself. The wonderfuljvorkon the
Marshall Islands, Kusaie and Ascension, I regard as particularly noteworthy. Light is breaking on the Gilbert Islands. All honor to ihe
few noble men and women, American and Hawaiian, who have commenced and carried forward this good work. They have not entered
of all praise,
into any other man's field of labor. They are
and are entitled to a most generous sympathy and support.

Kemarkß on the Character and Ecclesiastical Polity of the Puritan
Missionaries, as Developed in ths Pacific. >
Having presented a sketch of Puritan Missionary operations in the
South and North Pacific, by English and American Missionaries, it appeal's that I have merely performed what Montgomery executed in a
much briefer style

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"The immense Pacific smiles
Round tea thousand little isles,
Haunts of violence and wiles.''
'•Hut the powers of darkness yield,
For the Cross i* in ilm field.
And the life of light revealed."

In passing to my concluding remarks, I would observe that the following appear to be the prominent features of these Missions : Preach-

ing, Bible-translation, establishment of Schools, organizutixm of Cluirch.es,
and general welfare of the people, including their civil, sociul and physical condition.
The plain preaching of the Gospel and scriptural exposition of Bible
truths claim the first place in the programme of the Puritan Missionary.
In order that this work may.be successfully accomplished, he resolutely
sits down to the study of the language and the translation of the Bible,
or parts of it, into the vernacular of the peop.'e among whom he has undertaken to labor. As soon as he feels confident that he has sufficiently
mastered the language to communicate with the people, he commences
preaching; not timidly, but boldly ; not faint-heartedly, but fearlessly,
as did Paul on Mars' Hill, when announcing the great truths of the
resurrection of the body, the unity of the human race, and salvation
through Christ; or as did Martin Luther, of whom it has been eloquently remarked by Edward Everett that he " moved to his great
work, not

'

To the Dorian mood
Of flutes and soft recorders,'

But grasped the iron trumpet of his mother tongue and blew a blast
that shook the nations from Rome to the Orkneys. Sovereign, citizen
and peasant started at the sound." Thus went forth the Puritan Missionary, preaching among Polynesians. Having acquired a familiar
and idiomatic acquaintance with the vernacular language of the people
—their mother tongue—he dispensed with interpreters, nnd blew the
Gospel trumpet, which gave forth so clear and certain a sound that
Kings, Chiefs and common people were aroused from their idolatrous
slumber of centuries, and directed to the Lamb of God, who taketh
away the sin of the world.
As soon as a few were discovered who professed to have accepted of
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ministered. Thus the work of Christian evangelization went rapidly false aspersions and unfounded misrepresentations before an enlightened
they have been called to encounter oppoforward when it had been once commenced. There were hindrances Christian public. Sometimes whom
no exposure could shame or argu>
and obstacles, but the work advanced. Throughout all parts of Poly- sition from a class of persons
class),
reach.
refer
to
a
of
foreigners whose habits rendered
I
Puritan
have
established
ment
referred,
which
have
Missionaries
I
nesia to
heathen frorr
Christian Churches. They have not aimed to build up a great hier- them even more debased than the heathen. ofA civilized
truth,
his influecclesiastical
Christian
lands
is
the
most
the
and
deadly
sysopponent
and
burdensome
and
a
cumbersome
introduce
archy
the
an
the
South
Missionary
in
pernicious.
themselves
to
ence
most
When
English
the
of
the
Apostles,
adapted
example
tem, but, following
Seas met a person of this class, he inquired his name, and received foi
the peculiar circumstances of their situation. Taking even the nine- answer,
"My name is Satan." By no other name would the man evei
teenth Article of the thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England as
Church,
Alas, the name was fitly chosen. He was an adversary
a
maintain
be
known.
I
Christian
the proper definition of what constitutes
that English and American Puritan Missionaries have established hun- and represented a class.
When the Puritan Missionary came to the Pacific, he enlered nc
dreds of'genuine Churches. "The visible Church of Christ is a conman's field of'lubor, any more than did his ancestors, the Pilgrim!
gregation of faithful men, in which the pure Word of God is preached, other
and the Sacraments be duly administered according to Christ's ordi- when they landed on Plymouth Rock or the Puritans in Massachusetts
Bay, but boldly faced the powers of darkness whose sway was supreme
nance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same."
Even before Churches had been organized, the Missionaries had es- throughout this part of the world. He grappled with heathenism ir
la- her stronghold. He bearded the lion in his den. The contest was
tablished Schools, set the printing-press in motion, and otherwise The
fierce, but the issue not doubtful. Bible truth was the Missionary's
welfare
of
the
people.
spiritual
and
bored to promote the temporal
weapon. He dealt many and fierce blows with " the sword ol
Puritan Missionary goes forth, accompanied by his educated and faith- principal
the
which is the Word of God." Perhaps Missionaries of a
spirit,
before
the
a
community
endeavors
exhibit
heathen
and
to
ful helpmeet,
of
the
stern
faith would have quailed before the enemy and suca
estimate
less
proper
well-ordered Christian family. In forming
of opposing influences. Ere long, however, the
good accomplished by the Missionaries in the Pacific, no language cumbed to the array
idols
the contest. The idols—those hideous
of
of
yielded
appreciation
worshippers
would
embody
fully
my
can
command
which I
that important part which woman—educated and refined—has per- mages—"grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile" and surrendered; a shipformed. Reports from the South Seas tell of noble Christian women, load was sent off" to England, and they are now on exhibition in the
who have toiled at Tahiti, Samoa, and elsewhere, but 1 do not depend British Museum.
upon flying repo-ts when I speak of Christian woman's work on the' It has been happily remarked that if Lord Bacon were again to visil
and witness the wonderful results achieved by the steamHawaiian Islands and in Micronesia. Let no one presume to assert our world,
and
female,
and
could
have
acmagnetic telegraph, he would lay his hand upon both these
engine
Missionaries,
male
possibly
that unmarried
complished for good what may now be witnessed. She that was " last machines, saying, " These are mine, for they are the resultsof of inj
Polyat the Cross and first at the Sepulchre" has made the voyage of eighteen principles of philosophy." Would not the Mission Churches
thousand miles around the Cape, and here, if she has not established nesia be as justly claimed by those old Puritans of the 17th century
Churches, she has established many Christian Homes. This work I who sent an Elliot, the Mnyhews and others among the North Americall of the Protector Cromwell
regard as only second in importance to the establishment of Churches. can Indians, or collected, at the Waldenses,
the interest on a pan
Thus Christian principles have been exemplified before the heathen. £38,241 10s. 6d. for the persecuted the
British Government to that inIt is no mockery to sing " Home, Sweet Home," in the Pacific. We of which'is now honorably paid by
have our homes, centres of refinement, culture, happiness, intelligence, teresting people ? Igo one step farther. Suppose the great Missionwhich are presided over by woman, officiating in all those offices recog- ary Apostles, Peter and Paul, were again to visit our world, and, dur
ing their voyaces and travels, should sail in the John Williams, the
nized as her sphere ol duty.
some
who
have
John Wesley and the John Knox, among the Christianized Polynesian)
know,
am
to
been
openly
sorry
There have always, I
and persistently endeavored to misrepresent or ignore the good which of the South Seas, or in the Morning Star among the Hawaiian anc
has been accomplished by Protestant Missionaries in the Pacific. Micronesian Islands, would not those Apostles recognize Churches es
Recently the most extravagant charges have been put forth and reiter- tabhshed by Puritan Missionaries as genuine Christian Churches, ir
ated. It has been published in England that the Puritans at these which the ordinances were duly administered ? Furthermore, would
Islands had "done more harm than good." " The people were wholly not these Apostles recognize the Pastors, Elders or Bishops of these
neglected when sick,"* and " This nation is as really heathen as it Churches as their successors ? I trow they would.* " Divest the
ever was, only with a thin film of Christianity over it;"t while the Apostles," as was most forcibly stated at the Conference of Missions a
Bishop of Oxford is reported in the London Times to have employed the Liverpool, in 1860, "of miraculous power and the gift of inspiration
following language at a public meeting at Salisbury. " The people of the and you have the modern Missionary, a true successor of the Apostles. 1
Hawaiian Islands are wearied out by the mismanagement and maltreat- Among modem Missionaries, results have fully demonstrated that the
ment of American Puritanism." Before any one allows himself to Missionary of the true Puritan stamp has as fair a claim lo be accountee
employ such language in the pulpit or from the press, he should make a successor of Peter and Paul as any who have left Christian Europe
a careful investigation and thorough examination. The Puritan Mis- or America. He goes forth free and untrammelled. He takes witl
sionary is prepared to meet such charges and prove their falsity. When him no Procrustean ecclesiastical organization, but. with the Bible ii
fresh laborers enter upon an enterprise thai is supposed to be unfinished, hand, he proclaims " the unsearchable riches of Christ," and otganize;
they are accustomed to undervalue what has already been performed. Churches. Puritan Missionaries have spread themselves through
To "such persons the language of a King of Israel may be appropriately out nearly all the Islands of Polynesia. Not more firmly did the Puri
addressed: " Let not him that girdeth on the harness boast as he, tan of the 17th century plant his foot upon the rock-bound shores ane
granite hills of New England than has the Puritan Miisionary of thi
that putfeth it off."
There is a marked contrast between Hawaiians in 1820 and 1866. 19th century planted his foot upon the reef-encircled islands of the Pa
It is a very different matter to land among a naked, ignorant and un- cific. Here, among the aborigines, he has made his home. The dcs
civilized nation of savages, or to come among them clothed, instructed tiny of these two branches of the human family have become closel;
and civilized, supplied with schools, books, newspapers, churches and identified. The graves of the Puritan and Polynesian will be side bi
many other of the accompaniments of a civilized and Christian people. side. It is not possible to conceive of any social, political or religiou
Macauley remarks that, in the 17th century, those had little reason to revolution which can separate them. You might as well attempt tt
lauo-h who met the Puritan in the hall of debate or field of battle, and uproot the one as the other. .The seed has taken root in the soil, ane
may I not with equal justice ndd, neither have those who meet the can no more easily be uprooted than the stately cocoanut tree, whost
tall and slender trunk sways so gracefully in the windy blast. The in
Puritan Missionary on the Mission-field of Polynesia.
I do not appear as an apologist for the errors or shortcomings of the fluence of the Puritan is not only now felt, but it must continue to.bi
Missionaries, but I will bear my testimony to the truth, and carefully
guard the interests of evangelical Missions here and elsewhere. Although not one of them, lam emphatically one with tfiem. I would
have those know, who set themselves in opposition to a cause so signally blessed of Heaven, that they will be held responsible for their

*

The Mission Field, Vol,

IX, p.

13 : London.

1 Occasional Tracts : London ; Xo. 2.

■ • The author of this discourse is gratified to learn that his views, as expreasee
in the foregoing paragraphs, are fully sustained by the conductors or editors o
the London Record, the organ of the evangelical party of the Church of England
From a notice of Mr. Ellis's pamphlet, published in that paper, on the 26th o
April, 1806, we copy ns follows "It has been shown by us that the Church o
England has ever recognized the various Reformed Churches as being tni*
Churches of Christ, and worthy compeers with herself in the great work of evan
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felt for ages to come, or so long ss there shall be dwellers upon these
fair islands. Not only is the Puritan brought into contact with the
aborigines, but he is called to breast a wave of immigration from China.
Asiatic laborers will overspread these Islands and other parts of Polynesia. The Puritan and Asiatic will be brought together. Here they
meet. But I cannot dwell on this interesting and important subject.
Not only has the Puritan Missionary become a power in this part of
the world, but his influence is felt in Turkey, Africa, India, China, and
other portions ol the globe.
The elements contributing to form the character of the Puritan Missionary are aggressive and expansive in their nature. They are essentially the principles of the Mew Testament. Their birth, as one has
remarked, was in Bethlehem of Judea, and their development is religion laboring for the people. Necessity rests upon the Puritan to take
a part on the world's theatre ofaction. He adopts the sentiment of the
old Latin Poet, Terence :
'I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity concerns myself;" and also that of the old Latin Father, Augustine: " In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things
charity." He may not believe in manifest destiny, but he does believe
in manifest duty, declaring, with the modern Missionary Cary, " Duty
is ours, consequences belong to God." In the performance of that duty
he is thoroughly in enrnest. According to ancient fable, it was possible
for King Mollis to confine the winds in a cave of the mountain, but the
principles of the Puritan cannot be so readily confined to a narrow
space. With him, as with his Divine Master, " the field is the world."
New England cannot be shut out in the cold, or Plymouth Rock blown
up. New England principles are rapidly permeating all portions of the
North American continent, and controlling the destiny of the Western
world. The recent struggle in America has made this fact more and
more manifest.

'

"There is a power at the secluded hearth
Of yon New England household, that may bo
l'elt by the dwellers at the ends of earth,
Known to tbe islands of tbe distant sea."

There is an "irrepressible conflict" among the nations, and the New
England Puritan will be found on the side of civil and religious liberty,
free speech, free schools, a free press, a free Gospel and foreign Missions among the heathen and unevangelized nations of the earth.
"Coming events cost their shadows before.''

scribe the organization of Mission-Puritan Churches in Polynesia.
All those great ecclesiastical establishments and " Church and
State" arrangements centering at Antioch, Constantinople, Rome and
elsewhere were an after-growth—aye, and may 1 not add, a fungusgrowth—when Christianity became corrupt. The Mission-Churches
of Polynesia, I maintain, have been modelled after a New Testament
and Apostolic pattern, and the English and American Puritan Missionaries, 1 furthermore maintain, have most fully carried out the spirit of
the last command of an ascending Saviour, " Go ye therefore, and
teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost."
They have sown the Gospel seed and much good has been produced.
Some of the fruit may havefallen unripe and immature; still,after making
a full allowance for all the defections in the Mission Churches, and permitting the bitterest enemies of the Missionary enterprise to set off a

broad margin, there remains much scattered over the numerous islands
of Polynesia which we should still cherish, of which we may be justly
proud, and from which we should be extremely unwilling to take a
farewell. Who would say, " Level the Church-edifices which the people have built for the worship of Jehovah, and raze their foundations;"
or who would silence the chime of many hundreds of church-going
bells, the sound of which breaks the Sabbath-morning stillness on so
many islands, inhabited by Tahitians, Samoans, Marquesans, Tongans,
Fecjecans, Hawaiians and Micronesians ; or who would forbid those
thousands of simple-hearted Christians singing the Songs of Zion in
concert with their fellow-Christians of other climes and other lands ;
or disband these Churches, and turn over their members once more to
idolatry; or scatter the week-day and Sunday Schools, or burn the
school-books, hymn-books nnd Bibles ? Or who would rebuild the old
morals or heiaus, rekindle fires upon their altars, call forth the human
victims for sacrifice, make the hills and valleys ring with the shouts of
midnight revellers around the burning pile ? Or who would summon
from Heaven those who have died in the faith of Jesus, and are now
striking their golden harps and raising their voices to the song of" Him
that loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood?" Or
who can for one moment doubt that the Revelator, John, saw in vision
a goodly company of redeemed Polynesians among that great multi"
tude which no man could number, of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues, [who] steiod before the Throne and before the Lamb,
clothed with white robes and palms in their hands, and cried with a
loud voice, saying, Salvation to our Gotl, which sitteth upon the Throne
and unto the Lamb" ?

Men of narrow minds and bigoted opinions may ignore this class of
agents. Writers, of prejudiced views and a limited range of ideas,
may misrepresent their principles and conduct, but the future historian,
following the example of Macauley, will assign them in history a position even more exalted than that distinguished writer gave the Puritans
of the 17th century, respecting whom he wrote that they were, perhaps, Missionaries of the London Missionary Society in the South Seas.
"the most remarkable body of men which the world has ever produced
[From the Annual Report of 1861.]
—a brave, a wise, an honest and a useful body." Listen to the language of the Earl of Shaftesbury, before a London audience, respecting
Soe-iM; Islands.
American Puritan Missionaries at Constantinople : " He did not beTahiti —Rev. George Morris, Papeete. Huahine—Rev. Charles Barfl".
lieve that in the whole history of Missions—he did not believe that in
Tahaa—Rev. J. L. Green.
the history of diplomacy, or in the history of any negotiations earned
Raiatea—Rev. George Piatt.
Rev. J. C. Vivian.
on between man and man, they would find anything to equal the wisHervey Islands.
dom, the soundness, and the pure evangelical truth of that body of men
who constituted the American Puritan Mission. There they stood, Rarotonoa—Rev. E. R. W. Kjmuse. Mangaia—Rev. W. Wyatt Gill.
tested by years, tried by theirworks, and exemplified by their fruits; Aitctaki—No report.
tnd he believed it would be found that those American Missionaries had
Samon n Islands.
done more towards upholding the truth and spreading the Gospel in the Savaii—Rev. George Pratt, P. G. Bird, JosephKing.
East than any body of men in this or any other age." I might quote
TJroLU—Rev. A. W. Murray, Rev. Geo. Prummond, Rev. (Joo. Turner,
similar testimony from British officials in high stations in India, reLL. 1)., Roy. Henry Nisbct, Superintendents of Mission Seminary at Malua ;
specting the character and labors of American Missionaries in Ceylon Rev.
Henry Gee, Rev. J. M. Mills.
and other parts of India.
Thomas Powell, Rev. S. J. Whitmee.
Totuh.a—Rev.
Puritan Missionaries, scattered throughout Polynesia, have displayed
Loyalty Islands.
similar wisdom and foresight, common sense and sound piety. These
characteristics are remarkably conspicuous, as 1 maintain, in the orNkngone (or Mare)—Rev Stephen M. C'reagh, Rev. John Jones.
ganization and management of their Churches. If we take the Book
Rev. James Sleigh.
of Acts and the Epistles of Paul, Peter, James and John, or the New Liru—Rev. Samuel Macfarlano,
Niue—Rev.
G.
Levwes.
W.
Testament as a whole, for our guide, I do maintain that the Churches
organized by Puritan Missionaries in Polynesia will favorably compare
N. B. We regret that no recent reports of the Wesleyan Missionwith the primitive Churches gathered by the Apostles in various parts
of the Roman Empire, during the first century of the Christian era. ary Society and the Church Missionary Society have been received, so
In many respects there is a most striking resemblance between the that we could publish a full list of English Missionaries now laboring
Churches organized by the Apostles and those which now exist in va- at the Tonga and Feejee Islands and nt New Zealand. We also rerious parts of Polynesia. The more closely the examination is made gret that, from no publications or reports at our command, can we
and comparison drawn, the more manifest the parallel will appear. present a satisfactory sketch of the important labors of the Presbytp.
The very language employed by Mosheim and other ecclesiastical his- rian Missionaries from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, now located
torians, respecting the Churches of the first century, would aptly dc- in Melanisia.