The Litchfield County post., 1828-02-28


 larmed by the noise of war, nor by the shrieks of victims immolated on the altars of demons; and they have been taught to 1 read, and write, and to make provisions for { the necessities, the decencieS, and ,he com forts of life. Some thousands have been introduced into the Christian church upon crcditable profession of piety. When 1 one island had received the Gospel, it ex- erted itself to send lt to another. The intelligence of the past year states, that single missionary society of one group, G that not the largest, contribution in sim gle year, of the productions of the couD- try, 10 the value of more than thousand dollars; that thirty pious natives had gone as missionary teachers to islands and peo- pie, which to them were strange and for eign and that thirteen missionary stations are occupied by native missionaries alone.
 From our own missions at the SandUtch Islands, we have heard of animating Suc- cess among the natives, and of bitter Op- position from foreign residents and visit ants ;--which opposition, however, has been the means of making the existence and prosperity of the mission known to thousands in this country and in England, who otherwise might have remained in ignorance respecting it; and so the wrath of man has been overruled for good.-To dwell on this mission so signallv blessed of heaven, will not comport with the space allotted to this article. We shall therefore, advert to only one scene, which in view of he missionaries is with singular loveli- ness and that is the last hours nf Kdrd- ,mOku, the pious regent of the Sandwich Islands.
 He had been the friend of the mission from the frst-had forsaken his vices, enl- braced the Gospel, joined the church of Christ and maintained consistent life. And when he found he must die, he resol- ved to retire to the island, which had been familiar to his early days. As he stood upon the shores of Oahu, ready to depart. and the missionaries near him, and multi tudes about him weeping because they should sec his face no more, he declared in the presence of all, his confidence in the missionaries, aud his joy in the religion they had brought to the islands, and to him; and then desired that all might be quiet, while on that beach, and under the ] open heavens, one of the missionaries commended him to the guardianship of Almighty God. Having retired to the home of his fathers, he few days after died :; and as he died, this venerable war rior and chiefian said: " am happy-I am happy, ,"-a speech, which, we venture 10 say, no dying islander ever uttered be- ! fn thn nd ol the Gospel.
 We are now about to end our long, but delightful pilgrimage through the world, Ill survey of the divine goodness, and of the progress of the reign of righteousness. It is but little distance from the Sand wich Islands to the Western Shores of the American Continent, on which we hope to see a missionary station within two years. From thence crossing the Rocky Noun tains, ,and coming four hundred miles this side-but at distance from us of more than half the space of the pacific ocean we may be surprised at hearing the song of Zion, where, perhaps, we were trem- bling lest we should hear the war-cry of the savage of the wilderness. At that re- mote distance,* the American Board of Missions has missionary stations. After we had travelled still farther toward the abodes of civilized life, we should find O. ther missionaries,f and might cheer our minds by intercourse with pious natives of the forest. There we should hear, if we had not heard before, that the venerable Indian, the father of Catharine Brown, & of four or five others who are believed to be members of the household of faith, di- ed in peace, the past year, rejoicing in hope of the glory of God.
 Incur progress eastward, we should cross the Mississippi, and then should find the benevolent missionaries, with their schools and preaching houses, occupying numer- ous spots in the wide forest. In less than month, we might visit, perhaps, twenty of these interesting stations.
 And the Choctaw we should find, in many of their own language. And if we inquired how and ,chen they were obtained, and a0ho gave their language scritten ] form? we should be informed, that these 1 books were prepared by missionaries, that their language was reduced to writing by missionaries, that the books were printed for them by missionary society, and that most of them were prepared during the past year.