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ds shall escort the &udge & angels shall reap,

the earth angels shall bring the harvest home & angels

d jthe ungodly for the burning & angels shall

the recorded guilt & angels recal the forgo tten,

sins angels shall at t end the last great jubilee

throng the pavilion of undyn praise. O ,&th

be much ,

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it w ill be well & nigh every thing , t o have&“

n angel’s holiness on earth &It w ill be wel lf

who have sought to do for Christ

has hidden,and who have

and perfect , even as that for w

t to pray , nay which they teach themse

as they bow the knee , and say,

“ Thy

earth,as it is in heaven .

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THE & A ITING ISLES .

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ISA I AH xlu . 4.

The isles shall wait for His law .

B& that “ Law for which in the vision of the

prophet the isles were t o wait must be underst ood

the revelat ion of love and mercy set forth t o the

world in the incarnat ion,suff erings

,death

,and

exaltat ion of the & ivine Redeemer,carried on in

it s progress t owards complet ion , and rendered etfec

t ual t o the individual soul,by the Holy Spirit in

the Church . I t implies a t once the inward spiritual

agency described by our Lord as a “ kingdom

within us,

& and what must ever be it s outward ex

pression and embodiment,—the kingdom of Christ

visible here on earth,His Myst ical Body

,the

blessed company of all faithful people, His Holy

Catholic Church .

This is that new dispensat ion for which the

Apost le Paul declared to the Romans “the whole

creat ion was groaning and travailing in pain to

A 2

4 THE WAITING ISLES.

ge ther . In all her supernatural aids , through all

her sacrament al gifts, the virtue of the great Mys

t ery of the Incarnat ion is seen &owing int o hu

mani ty,raising what was before base and defiled to

become again sanct ified and fit for the Mas ter’s

use,worthy of Him who creat ed it . So that in

wai t ing for His Law the i sles,that is

,the whole

Gent ile world,were in very t ruth “ wait ing for the

adopt ion ,&to wit

,th e “ redempt ion of the body .

And often has this wait ing been illustrated in

the his tory of the Church generally, and of our ownin part icular. The known readiness of K ing E thel

bert t o hear the Gospel,no less than the sigh t of

the Saxon boys in the market & place a t Rome,seems

t o have moved Gregory the Great in sending A u

gust ine over t o evangelize the kingdom of K ent .

In that of Northumbria, t oo, was there not an

eviden t wait ing for the Gospel message, when before the arrival of Paulinus the Angles there rose

up and d es troyed t heir exist ing idols , their high

priest himself t aking the lead, and assert ing his

belief that “the wooden images hithert o worshipped

were no gods a t all,

& for that “there was only one

Supreme Being dwelling in the heavens &&

The whole his tory of that far & distant group of

island s with which we are concerned is an exempli

ficat ion of the predict ion,

“ The i sles shall wait for

His law .

&

After their discovery by Cook in 1 778 sailors

and traders seem frequent ly to have t ouched a t

THE & AITING ISLES . 5

their shores . These men,chie&y English or Ame

ricans,themselves of licent ious and abandoned

habit s,coming int o cont ac t with a highly sen

sualized people, no doubt diffused among them a

fearful amount of vice . A t the same t ime such an

in tercourse could not be carried on w i thout the

nat ives growing in civilizat ion and enlight enment .

Two men,&ohn &oung and Isaac & avies

,the for

mer a Liverpool shipwright , fell into the hands of

the chief of Hawaii—one who had an int ense wisht o raise his people t o the level of those st rangers

who,he saw

,were so far beyond himself in the

power which superior knowledge always gives . They

t ook up their permanent abode wi th him,and be

came his chief advisers . & issat isfact ion ere longsprung up in the m ind of K amehameha, —for thatwas the name of the chieftain,—w ith the then exist

ing religious sys t em ,and when Vancouver

,after

repeat ed visi t s t o the islands during several years ,finally t ook leave of them in 1 794, he begged th e

cap tain t o procure t eachers from England t o in

s truct his people in the faith of Chris t . That um

happily was not a missionary age . I t was a t ime

of unreality and spiritual deadness in the Church

of England &“the love of many had waxed cold &

and it is not therefore t o be wondered at,though

sadly t o be regret ted, that such an opportunity was

lost . Had it been seized,how diff erent from the

actual one migh t have been the religious history of

the various archipelagoes of the Pacific & Inst eadA 3

6 THE WAITING ISLES .

of owing whatever of Christ ianity they do possess

to communions we believe,t o say the leas t

,far less

likely than our own t o deal successfully w ith the

nat ive character,they migh t have been among the

most glorious t rophies of our Church’s conques t s

,

and from th is group as a centre migh t have pene

tra t ed into many a dark corner of that ocean—andeven among the Indians of Vancouver’s Island and

Brit ish Columbia—the rays of the blessed Gospelof the Son ofGod & The request was renewed again

when another English cap tain visited the islands in

the years 1 804—1 806 He describes the s tat e of

civilizat ion which even then this old chief and his

people were fast at taining,and the openings presented

for the introduct ion of Christ ianity among them .

That blessed g ift was not to be obt ained, however,from this country . Aft er the death ofK amehameha,st ill in a st at e of heathenism and unbapt ized, we find

his successor Rihoriho i ssued an edict abolishing

idolat ry arid the old religion . This met with some

opposit ion & a bat t le was fought , but victory proved

on the side of the reforming party . And i t was

when the way had been thus remarkably prepared

that some Congregat ionalist Missionaries visit ed

them from th e &n ited States of America. They

were not permit ted t o land t ill the king had assured

himself by consultat ion with Mr . &oung that they

would speak of the same God and Saviour as the

English missionaries , whom they had been in vain

Captain Turnbull .

THE WAITIN G ISLES . 7

expect ing for the quart er of a century,which had

then elapsed since the pet i t ion made t o Vancouver .

Christ ianity under this form made rapid progress

among the people . R ihoriho and his queen came

over to England in the year 1 8 23 , and, it will be

remembered,died in London . The account s of his

visit ment ion how the royal party at t ended the ser

vices of Westminst er Abbey,

“ with which they

were much pleased . The music aff ect ed them a

good deal, and they were impressed with venerat ion

for the place Was it not this which prompt ed the

t ouching applicat ion he is s t at ed t o have made t o

K ing George the &ourth before his death ,“ I have

t o ask your Majesty t o send missionaries to t each

my people the Prot est ant religion as t aught in the

Church of England && He probably longed t o

t ransplant in h is own count ry some reproduct ion ,however inadequat e it migh t be

,of the solemn and

beaut iful worship he had at t ended & ithin these

venerable walls .

May we not regard the series of applicat ions

which have reached our Church from these island s

during seventy y ears or more , as a significant com

ment ary on the prophet ’s words,

“ The isles shall

wait for Thy law

And now in more recent t imes , when the group

has assumed an import ance it had not before,when

the development of it s product ions w ith various

2 Hulbert ’s R oyal Biography, Memoirs of the Kings Kamehameha I . and II .


forms of t rade has collected in Honolulu a foreign

population,when a sys tem of nat ional educat ion

has brough t the Hawaiian in to a comparat ively

advanced s tate of civilizat ion , when , t oo, Chris

t ian ity, in the form of Congregat ionalism or the

Roman Church,has become nominally the religion

of the islands,the cry for help has again reached

our shores , and this t ime h as not been heard in

vain .

The circumstances of the origin of the mission

are too well known to need any de tail of them on

the present occasion . Nor need I remind you of

several features in the work i t self no t w i thout in

t erest to th e Church generally & how that we have

here the firs t ins tance of our Reformed Church

being invi ted by an independent sovereign t o plan t

i t self in his dominions &how,too

,by the format ion

of this new diocese the only link is supplied which

was want ing t o make the girdle of her in&uence

encircle t he globe . By that of Melanesia in th e

South,and that of Honolulu in the North Pacific

,

the space be tween Bishop Selwyn’s province of

New &ealand and the diocese of Bishop Hills in

Columbia i s bridged over,and we may fain h0pe

that in many an isle of that vast ocean, but yes ter

d ay, perhaps, the home of savages and cannibals,the voice of our &ion shall be heard on high ,and there

,as here

,she shall speak in accent s

that bring hope, and t rus t,and peace

,and joy

,t o

un told thousands . Happy shall I he should it be

THE WAITING ISLES . 9

ih y lot to mee t in some cent ral isle of the Pacific

my brother, the Bishop of Melanesia& happy if

there we may hold refreshing in tercourse on the

progress of our great work,and kneeling down on

the sea& shore t ogether,offer up a prayer for God

’s

blessing on our effort s for the ext ension of His

kingdom .

I t is,however

,rather on the nature and object s

of the work t o be done, than on it s general aspect s

I ought now t o dwell .&irst , then , as regards the nat ive populat ion .

We shall have t o remind them of those & ivine

t ruths, which have been hitherto sadly over

looked in the syst em of Christ ianity familiar t othem & that by His Incarnat ion the Son of God

has made Himself one w i th them,entered in to

all their sufferings , t emptat ions, and joys & that in

Him all manly,all t ender graces combine & that th e

more they grow in to His image, the purer, the

braver, the t ruer, the more loving will they be

come & that religion was never designed t o make

their innocent pleasures the less 3 & that it is com

The want of t his t eaching is described in the followingext ract from t he Polynesian Gazett e,

& Honolulu,April 26 th

,

1 862“ BON &I RE .

— Ou Monday evening last,a number of the

German resident s, in commemorat ion of an ancient cust om intheir ‘ Vat erland ,’ which they were prevent ed by rain on theevening of East er Sunday last from performing

, lit a large andsplendid bonfire, preceded by rocket s and fireworks , on one ofthe spurs of Punchbowl Hill.


pat ible wi th the free indulgence in all manly and

athlet i c exercises,be ing not designed to crush their

We w ould like to see severa l of the good ancient cont inent alcustoms revived here upon great festival occasions . Surelyreligion i s not all psalm& singing and gloom . While the heavyof heart and the unforgiven are welcome to groan and lament t hatover their souls no gladness and light have ari sen, yet we w ouldlike t o see merriment and rejoicing, in t hose whose spiri t s areso attuned, exhibit t hemselves especially on t hose great Christ ian occasions so eminent ly calcul ated t o invite the mind t ojoy

,thanksgiving, and gladness, such as Christmas & ay , Easter

Sunday,and Ascension & ay . We not ice t hat this land is said

t o have been convert ed to Christ ian ity , and yet the most remarkable event s in the life of the Founder of that faith are notcommemorat ed by the people & are, on the cont rary, studiouslyignored by t heir t eachers

,who thus forego one of the great est

element s of rendering that relig ion national as well as rat ional &ingrafting it upon the cust oms of the people from earliestchildhood

,rich in many bright memories from the morning of

life,t o which the soul may look back and gather fresh courage

from t hem,when rocked by the t empest and prost rate by woe ,

and which , in all ages, have softened the manners and openedthe heart , by the int ermingling of all classes for one commonobject , and that a lofty and holy one . But independent ly ofreligious fest ivals , why shoul d not a properly nat ional one ofdomest ic origin be revived or inst it ut ed & We would like tosee some of the old&world secular festivals int roduced, such asMay & ay

’ for inst ance,to be celebrat ed w ith nat ional sport s ,

jubilee, and bonfires through every village and hamlet in thecount ry . Were this properly t aken in hand

,it coul d not fail

of the best result s . As it now i s,t he nat ion

,as such

,has no

festival either religious or social,but gropes in the ashes of the

past for some st ray ember of a half& forgot t en mele,

’which it

chaunt s w ith fear and t rembling,lest it s sound may provoke the

ban of the preacher or the rebuke of religious mart in et s .Such were our re&ect ions on see ing the bonfire on Monday

last , and we turned away in sadness .&

THE WAITING ISLES . 1 1

natural inst inct s,nor to form,

as unhappily all ad mit

i t has hitherto done,a sort of crust around and ex

t ernal t o their daily life,bu t rather to work w i th those

ins t inct s and hallow that daily life & that the bodies

o f Christ ians are become t emples of the Holy Ghost,

and that “& hoso defileth the t emple of God

,him

shall God des troy that He is honoured by the

consecrat ion of all that is beaut iful in nature and

art to the worship of the Sanct uary & that it is as

we seek to realize Him in all the duly & appoint ed

channels of grace we may expect t o hold“ com

munion with the &ather and the Son through the

Spirit .& By the blessing of God upon the in

culcat ion of these principles,and by giving them

pract ical eff ect in the organizat ion and discipline

o f the Church,we may hope for the elevat ion of

the nat ive races t o a higher and purer ideal of

their manhood . All who visit th e islands bear

t est imony t o the sad want of any thing like moral

purity among them 4

,in part due t o the sensualit y

engendered by their luxurious climat e, in part to

the licent iousness of European sailors and t raders s.In t ouching accent s the king lately complained

t o his Legislature Our act s are vain unless we

can stay the was t ing hand that is destroying our

people . I feel a heavy responsibility in this mat ter .&

He has accordingly suggested the inst itut ion of

See Tilly ’s “ Voyage at the mouth of the Amoor and in thePacific & Hill’s “ Tour in the Sandwich Isles && Mr . ManleyHopkins’s Hawaii

,

&&c. &c.

See Ext ract s from the King’s Speeches, Appendix A .

A 6

1 2 THE WAITING ISLES .

boarding& schools for the educat ion of nat ive girls&t aking them from home a t an early age

,and raising

t hem by the t ra ining of Christ ian ladies t o a higher

appreciat ion of their digni ty as women . The

Sis ters of th e Sacred Hear t have opened such

schools in connexion wi th the Roman Church , and

defect ive indeed will be our machinery if no pro

vision is made by us for furthering the same object

in ways consonant wi th the pract ice and dist inct ive

character of the English Church . I am cert ain

that devot ed women can be found t o engage in this

work,if only funds are forthcoming. It is to me a

mat t er of thankfulness that there are in our party

going out those who, having devot ed the bes t part

of their lives to labour of this kind, are eminent ly

fi t t ed to organize and superint end ins t itut ions such

as those proposed to be established . Without this

ins trumentali ty we shall be indeed shorn of half our

s trength . Rome will cont inue her onward progress,for when does that corrupt Church & in men’s

heart s more e ff ectually than when seen in the

gent le ministrat ions of self& denying women & Those

m inistrat ions, though directed nominally t o the

removal of moral and physical evil,are ever found

to end in proselyt izing t o that communion, & i thoutthe pale of which they believe there is no salvat ion .

How deeply the king feels the wan t of such agency

appears from his speech at the las t Opening of his

Legislature —“ I regret that there has been bu tsmall progress in the inst itut ion of schools for the


educat ion and moral t raining of females . This

subject ought t o be considered paramount t o any

other in considering t he educat ional necessit ies of

the people . I therefore hope that this Legislature

will devise some means for more fully carrying out

my view s expressed in my address upon this sub

ject to the last Legislature, and in connexion there

with,I cannot forego the opportunity, as the head

of this nat ion,t o express my acknowledgment s and

appreciat ion of the services already rendered to

this cause,either by individuals or organizat ions .

As an English Mission, it is hoped, we may

render valuable aid t o the cause of primary edu

cat ion in the islands . I t is in contemplat ion to

give a more indus trial and pract ical character t o

the syst em pursued in the St ate Schools,and

gradually to bring about a displacement of theHawaiian for the English t ongue throughout the

nat ive populat ion . How inadequat e the old lan

guage is as a vehicle of th ought or moral t rainingappears from the fact that there are no words in it

whereby t o express hope, grat itude, or chast ity .

In the address , quoted before, the king says,“ The

importance of subst itut ing English for Hawaiian

schools I have already earnest ly recommended &and

in again bringing the subject under your at tent ion ,I would t ouch upon a mat ter which I think of

equal import ance,and that is the raising the

standard of element ary educat ion in the Common


Schools . This lat t er object may be secured by

the inst i tut ion of Normal Schools,as recommended

by the Presiden t & but combined w i th the t eachingof the English as a general thing throughout the

kingdom ,i t mus t place the object beyond a per

adventure .

&

The foreigners centred there for the purposes

of t rade and agriculture,chie&y English and

Americans,cont aining many professedly members

of our Reformed Church or others who are

willing t o unit e with her,though in the absence

of any other alt ernat ive they have chosen,it may

be,one or other of the ext reme forms a t present

in the islands, w ill have to be t ended and fed with

Christ ’s holy Word and Sacrament s . Especial

at tent ion must be paid to the spiritual want s of

the sailors, who, during their s t ay in the port s

visit ed,so oft en run int o evil

,through want of

any in terest being t aken by those around them in

their t emporal or spiritual welfare .

Las t ly, among the heathen islands we may

operat e from Honolulu as a base . There is no

reason why we should not have a college,& here

the Hawaiians may be t rained t o go out as mis

sionaries to Micronesia,including the Caroline

and other groups t owards &apan,as w ell as to

Southern Polynesia . Their language,physical

t emperamen t , and general similarity of race, would

well qualifv them for this work & and that they

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lies a subst ratumof truth in the admission of thegreat historic fact s of the Creeds

,which may well

increase their faith in those fact s,and lead to

greater charity and forbearance in our treatmentof those Art icles of the &ai th which are called in

quest ion . We are t o speak the t ruth,but it mus t

be in love & and we are to give all who have been

hi therto labouring wi th so much devo t ion and

earnestness in their Mast er’s cause,while we have

been looking & ou with cold indi fference,the credit

they deserve . We must make it clear we do not

go forth t o ignore or override what has been done

by others .

And this suggest s another d anger, that of seek

ing to prosely t ize . I t is an admit t ed fact that a

large number of the people are in act ive com

munion with none of the exist ing bodies,and

among them we must seek to labour, not doubt ing

that , as we thus exhibit and carry to them the

Church ’s message in all fideli ty,and zeal

,and

love,she & ill at tract many others

,whom she would

eff ectually repel were she t o assume a posture of

unfriendliness or aggression . If we keep before

our eyes the fact , that the great object of the

mission is the salvat ion of the souls and bodies

of those among whom we are going t o labour,and

not the numbers we can count as members of our

communion,we may h0pe

,by God’s blessing

, to

escape this danger .

In the complex character of the populat ion , we


may see another ground for the exercise of pru

dence and caut ion . An adaptat ion of the for

mularies and syst em of the Church to the feelings

and requirement s of any one element may prove

very unsuit able and mischievous in the inst ance of

another .

In the nat ional jealousies,t oo

,which usually

prevail in a centre of resort such as this,—one

owing it s independence t o the forbearance and

protect ion of its more powerful neighbours ,—we

have reason for care and circumspect ion .

But if the difficult ies t o be apprehended are

great , so t oo are our encouragement s .“ N ot by

power or might,but my Spirit

,saith our God .

And t o the end of t ime the promise g iven by our

Lord t o His Apost les shall be t rue in the ins tance

of their successors,Lo

,I am wi th you alway, even

unt o the end of the world .

& There are also con

s iderat ions subordinat e to this . The in terest feltby the present very int elligen t , high & principled

,and

even accomplished king in the realizat ion of an

English episcopat e, the clinging on th e part of theislanders from the first to England as the coun try

t o supply them with a religion they could t rus t , the

co & operat ion of the English and many of the Ame

rican residen t s in preparing for the recep t ion of

the mission 7

,the bapt ism of the Prince of Hawaii

,

7 The Polynesian & of April 1 9 th last describes a meet ingwhich t ook place w ith this object in the Court House, theKing t aking a part in the proceedings. A committ ee was


our own beloved Q ueen standing , by proxy, as the

sponsor, with which ceremony the Church will, so

t o speak, be inaugurated— these are all hopeful

signs . When, t oo, I consider the warm sympathy

and support ext ended t o the Mission by my coun try

men and fellow & churchmen during the months thathave elapsed since my consecrat ion

,—shown by

their liberal contribut ions no less than in the hearty

prayers they have ever been ready t o off er for its

success,—there is indeed reason “

to be of good

cheer and t ake courage .

&&or those loving t okens

of interest and sympathy how can I ever be grateful

enough

And now,on the eve of d eparture wi th those

brethren who have thrown in their lot wi th me,and

are devot ing themselves to this arduous ent erprise,I have t o ask you, on their behalf as well as my

own,a cont inuance of your Christ ian sympathy

and your prayers . &ou will follow with in t erest

and,when such help may be needed, further with

your alms the work of building up the walls of our

&ion,as it progresses, in these central isles of the

Pacific . &ou will remember us in your private de

vot ions,your lit anies and common prayers

,among

those that t ravel by land or by wat er, that they

who go forth t o “sow the seed of e t ernal life beside

all waters & may be safe in the Everlast ing Arms &but especially that they may be endued with “

the

formed to obtain donations for the Cathedral and MissionFunds , and nearly 10001. was promised t o the former object .

THE WAITING IsLEs. 1 9

Spirit of power,of love

,and of a sound mind

,

&that

the great work,they are engaged in

,may not be

marred by human corrupt ion or by the infirmi ty

of those t o whom it is commi t t ed,that many an

islander of the Pacific,now wait ing for Christ ’s law

in grat eful adorat ion for benefit s received from this

mission of our Church,may hereafter rise up and

call Her Blessed .

A P PE N & I & .

(A

AT a recent opening of his Chambers , the King addressed thefollowing imprompt u remarks in English t o foreigners residingin his dominionsTo be kind and generous to the foreigner, t o confide and

t rust in him,i s no new thing in the history of our race & i t i s

an inheritance derived t o u s from our forefathers & and I sayt o the foreigner he is welcome t o our shores, so long as hecomes w ith t he laudable object of promoting his own interest sand respecting those of his neighbour & but if he comes w ith nomore exalted motive than to build them up at the expense oft he native, to seek our confidence only t o bet ray it, then is hemost unwelcome .&

On the institut ion of the A gricultural Society, t he Kingdescribed t he climat e and its eff ect on the Hawaiian chareet erWhoever heard of w int er on our shores & When was it so

cold the labourer could not go t o his field & These difficultieshave no place in our beautiful group

,which rests on t he

swelling bosom of the Pacific like a water& lily .

&

He then reproaches them for no t making t he most of theiradvantagesThe great fault s of the Hawai ians are laziness and want of

perseverance . It i s a matter for our shame &but as a fatherto my people, I canno t hide the fact .

&

APPEN& I& . 2 1

(B )

THE CH&RCH IN THE N ORTH PACIFIC .

THE following st at ement was issued soon aft er the Missionwas originat ed

,and cont ains an out line of the principal fact s

connect ed w ith itThe Hawaiian Islands

,lying nearly twenty degrees nort h of

the Equat or, and nearly midway between the coast of Americaand t he east of Asia , were discovered by Capt ain Cook , whoperished t here in 1 779 . They contain a people of noblephysique, gent le disposition, and a remarkable apt it ude forcivilization , t owards which t hey are advancing w ith rapidsteps .Honolulu, the capital, possesses a fine harbour

,and has

become the rest ing& place of the commerce now finding it s pat hacross the Pacific between the Old and N ew Worlds . Somehundreds of ships resort t o this and other port s of the groupduring t he course of the year. Int ermixed w ith the nat ives isa large number of English, American, and other foreignresident s .The government is a constit ut ional monarchy

,under the

guarant eed protect ion of England, France, and the & nit edStates . Order and just ice are enforced, and educat ion promoted, while English is fast displacing the native t ongue .After t he t emporary cession of Hawaii by King Kameba

meha I . and his chiefs t o t he British Sovereign through Vancouver

,in 1 794, they begged the capt ain t o procure for t hem

on his return English clergymen t o inst ruct t hem in the

Christian faith . Vancouver pressed t heir pet it ion on Mr .Pitt

,but nothing was done . Meanwhile the way was remark

ably opened among these islanders for the int roduc t ion of theGospel by their spontaneous abandonment of idolatry in 1 8 1 9 .

“ After waiting in vain for a quart er of a century the fulfilment of Vancouver’s promise, some Congregat ionalist mis

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sionaries from Amer ica 1 arrived in 1 8 20. They preached,

est ablished schools,and laboured w ith much success . A t t he

present t ime t hey have places of worsh ip erect ed in many part sof the i slands .

A French Roman Cat holic mi ssion was finally int roducedin 1 839 . I t is presided over by a Vicar Apostolic, t it ularBishop of A rathia. The natives are gradually passing overint o it s communion, and it i s cert ain t hat Rome w ill , ere long,be firmly seat ed in t hi s ‘ Heart of the Pacific,’ if we againrefuse as we have done t o supply it with the formidablebulwark of our own Scriptural Church .

In 1 844, 1 847 , 1 8 51 , and 1 858 , at tempt s were made,chie&y on the part of the English and other resident s

,t o

obtain Episcopal clergymen at Honolulu, but & ithout success.“ This year the King wrot e himself on the subject to HerMajesty the Q ueen, and by his min ist er t o the Primate

,ex

pressing not only his own earnest wi shes , but t hose of many ofthe principal resident s . He off ers to the mission such incomeas the limit ed means of the islands w il l afford , and w ill probably appropriat e a larger port ion of land t o it s future support .There are several feat ures of peculiar int erest in this

movement . 1 . We have the only inst ance of our Church beinginvit ed by an in dependent sovereign t o plan t it self in hisdominions. 2 . This invitat ion is the renewal of other urgentappeals sent us before

,and unhappily & it hout effect . 3 . Eng

land’s daught er Church of America des ires t o unit e wi th us inthis w ork . 4 . The Hawaiian Isles are the key t o many othergroups in the N ort h and South & east Pacific

,as yet belonging

to no missionary d iocese,and st ill heathen .

The Commit tee cont emplat e sending out w i th the Bishoptwo or t hree clergy, to be jo ined by others from the AmericanChurch . The Society for Promot ing Christ ian Kn owledge hasgrant ed 2002. per annum for five years

,and t hat for the Propa

gat ion of the Gospel 3002. for each of t hree years, t owards this

I t is a m istake to suppose the London M issionary or any English As

sociation has d one any th ing for the Christ ian iz ing of these islands, as th eyhave In the case of the groups of the South Pacific.

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themse l ves Chr ist ians , th is grea t w ork of Chr isti an char itycou l d never l angu ish for w an t of means. If e very one w ho

w as in easy c ircums tan ces wou l d de vote one & t enth of the i ryearly income to acts o f p iety, for the rel ief of the t empora lor spir i tua l necessities Of the ir fe l low & men

,how diff erent

w ou l d be the aspec t of our coun try How few cou l d th erethen be who w ou ld say , There i s no one who c ares for oursou l s—none who fee l for our stra i t s and necess it ies &’ A nd

y e t , thi s proport ion Of the ir annua l revenu e w as the veryl east amount wh i ch &ew i sh char i ty a l low ed to be enough tosat i sfy su ch cal ls . If those who s t int the measure of the i rbenevolence, w i th the View Of amass ing a fortune, and accumu lat ing w ea l th to aggrandise the ir fam i ly

,cou l d bu t fee l

w h at a drag th is w e igh t of w ea lth , thu s gotten , mu st proveto the i r heavenw ard ascen t —in th e path of godl iness h ere , aswe l l as in t he path to glory h ereafter—th ey wou l d be fa in ,before i t w as too l ate , to l ay up thei r treasure in h eaven, andto m ake themse l ves an ever last ing &r iend, by a r igh teou su se of the mammon of unr igh teou sness . But there i s anothersacr ifice bes ides that many may offer, and w hi ch many, w erej o i ce t o know ,

are w i l l ing to offer—and that i s, the ch asten ing in&uen ce , and the foster ing care Of s isterly love, whi chmay cherish the good seed implan ted in the pen i ten t h eart, soth a t i t sh al l br ing forth fru i t unto e ver last ing l ife. M ay suchgentle and w inn ing gu idance e ver be found to consp ire w i th

the movemen ts of the Holy Spir i t from abov e , in enabl ingthe return ing w anderer to be steadfas t and unmov able in her

Chr i st ian profess ion & th at, hav ing escaped from th e sorebondage o f s in , she may rejoi ce evermore in that l iber ty

w h i ch i s the pr iv i lege of th e ch i ldren of God , and may be

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