The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-07-06
From the Evangelist.
Sandwich Islands.
Letter from J. S. Green.

In filing my sheet, dear brother, what topic
among the many which deeply interest my feel
ings, shall / select Shall tell you that we are
all anxiously waiting for intelligence from the
United States This is one of our severe trials.
We are always from to Is months behind the
rest of the world and are now more than year
behind you. We often look over the calm wa
tiers of the Pacific, hoping to catch the sight Of
some vessel direct from the land of our fathers.
But what shall we hear? We tremble lest intel
ligence Of painful character reach
This, you may say, aee should uniformly expect
During the ten or fifteen months which eIapse
from the receipt of intelligence at one time to the
receipt of intelligence at another time, would it be
strange if sickness and sorrow had visited pour
friends, or if death had removed some of them
from time to eternity? BY no means. But as
sure you my dear sir, that this is not the precise
shape of my fears. Friends will scken and die.
Others may feel the pressure of the times-may
become greatly reduced in their circumstances and
the whole country may be convulsed from unfore-
seen embarrassment, as was the when we
last heard. All this we can hear with comparative
composure.
But Oh, the Zion of our God what shall we
hear respecting her The church ofChris what
is her state? Are seasons of refreshing from the
presence of the Lord enjoyed or is the country
like the top of Gilboa, on which neither rain nor
dew descends? How is the Presbyterian church
How the General Assembly? Is peace restored n
or are the sounds of war still heard And dol
the enemies of our common Lord still triumph in
witnessing your unnatural dssensons How is
the sacred cause of freedom Are all blood
bought followers of the Lamb washing their hands |
of all participation in this amazing God-dishonor-
ing sin The cause of Temperance and MORA
Reform, are they advancing? And are the friends
of the Lord Jesus the unblushing advocates of
these and kindred institutions Are your waste
places filling up with devoted, able ministers or
is the man of sin actually gaining ground, and is
he likely to supplant the religious institutions of
the great West? Are all who profess to love
the Lord Jesus Christ, waking up 10 a sense of
their amazing obligations to the heathen! Are
they praying with unwoned fervor, that God
would lei his kingdom come, and speedily fill the
world with his glory? And are they evincing
the sincerity of their prayer by defeating their
all to the service of Him who died for them, and
saying, Here Lord we-our souls, dodies
tinae talents, possessions; all that we are and all
that we have use us as instruments ofthy gory!'
Oh could hear that Christians in the United S
States had truly assumed this attitude-were in r
the fullness of their souls utterng this language
how would my heart rejoice How soon would
The glory of God overspread your happy land
How soon would the earth be filled with the knoWl
edge of the Lord How soon would a world of
'edeemed sinners be seen at the feet of the Son of
God Shall intelligence of this cheering charac-
er reach us at these ends of the earth God In r
mercy grant it and his name shall have the glory. v
Amen. o
But you would know how we are at the Sand
vich Islands. could ill many sheets in relating q
What God has done for us. But as gave you CT
N account of the revival some few months since,
will only add, that the Holy Spirit seems to be
till with us. At our station there is manifestly a
eep interest felt on the subject Of the souls saliva
ion. MuItitudes who have never manifested the
east interest in divine things, are now awaking, II
nd hockng to the house of God, and attending on ar
he means of grace. We hope that many ofthese in
DOR, degraded, ignorant dying men and women, 10
,ill find the Lord Jesus Christ precious to their
ous will be delivered from the hradom of sin pe
nd Satan, and made the heirs oflfe eternal. Oh, M
he efficacy of.he gospel of Christ Could you W