Polynesian., 1851-04-26

quire an account, that Theatre can be
raised instanianeousIy at the first mention,
and that a straw of difficulty can turn off
the efficient attention from the object under
consideration How can such be satisfied
with the inglorious distinction of making on
ly the cipher to the sum, who ought to be
the leading figure in it and that Seamen
should have their appropriate building and
service, and the natives theirs and can
point the finger to the dominating class
and say, They do not care for religion =
they are without Minister or Church OF
their own!
The Government, also, has a large stake
in the affair, and would find the free dona-
ton of lot for buildings more lucrative in
a pecuniary sense, as well as in any other
view, than any transactions of dollars.
Every observer can perceive that this
fast increasing community of foreigners and
their families is not provided for in the pri-
mary meaning of that term and let the
question be considered and answered, What
may be expected, if one generation, or halt
a one, is suffered to pass away on the pres
ent scale of moral and religious culture
The Seamens' Chapel can accommodate
but small proportion Of those who are de-
sirous of attending, or rather would become
so, if building appropriated for their par
ticular use was erected, while the plea OF
incommoding or dispossessing those for
whom it is provided, serves in general nom
attendance, as a palliative to the conscience
for neglecting public worship, which other
wise would demand attendance. There is
one impedment in the way, and only one
diversity of denominations. | should say,
let the most Jealous proceed, and the others
would fail in, as far as denomination is con-
fined to form and not to faith, which princI-
pie would probably carry with it two thirds
of the community !; and even in regard to
the difference of the latter point, the greater
would carry the less. As most men would
rather err by excess than deficiency on such
subject as Religion, on the calculation o
safety.
Still it appears almost condition Of sue
cess, for leader to arise of some wealth
and faith, who would be ready to say with
the magnanimous Apostle, put that to my
account" one whose faith would count the
sacrifice, even if unreturned in this lite.
nothing, in comparison with having origina-
edness, whose branches would be ever OF
the increase in number and depth, and that
through eternal duration, to innumerable
members of the human iamily;-but sucl
outlays are generally, if not always, certain
of receiving ''maniiold more in this life o
similar return"
While the subject of Commerce is com
manding the absorbed intellect and energle:
of the age in this and in all countries, th'
commerce of moral weath must be forward
! ed in corresponding advance, or the othe
will become a curse instead of good. "Tht
question is to be decided, whether there i
in this country, christian benevolence e
nough-sufiiciently undivided, unobstructed
and unrestrained, ,-s sufficiently resemblin;
the charity which descended from heaven
to bear any propprtionable part in this grea
work." as fairly put by DIR. Worcester il
regard to missions An idea may here b
opportunely added, that II appears singula
over sight in all missionary institutions, II
not embracing in their main object and pro
visions, the foreign with the native spiritua
interests; and thus, instead OF becoming a
their several stations, surprised by unforsee
and formidable opponent and obstructions, a
in most, if not in all instances, they hav
been, particularly at the outset they woul
have met the difficulty and evil with dis
tinct provision, and have turned bite
stream into a healthy, invigorating and re
generating river of good, in aid of thei
original design. 1t is true, the expens
would be greater in comparison, than tn
other, but it would be one, always certain c
redeeming itself at an early period, an
remedy the uniform necessity of the tw
parties existing in opposing character, a
well as an immense mass of trouble and dis
{ comfort, peril and hindrance to the Mission
ary. In reference to similar subject a
that which elected the preceding observa
! tions, we find the prophet Haggai thus ad
dressing the Jews:
s' Thus speaketh the Lord Of Hosts, say
ing, This people say, the time is not come
the time that the Lords house should b
built Then came the word of the Lord b
Haggai, the prophet, saying, Is it time 70
you, o ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses
and this house to lie waste ? Now there
fore, thus saith the Lord of Hosts: Cor
slider your ways Ye have sown much, an
bring in little Ye eat, but ye have nc
enough; Ye drink, but We are not file
with drink Ye clothe you, but there IS non
\ warm, and he that earneth wages, carr
eth wages to put it into bag with hole:
Fl Go up to the mountains, and bring the WOO
and build the house, and will take plea:
ure in it, and will be glorifed, saith tb
J, Lord Ye looked for much, and 10, it cam
to little; and when ye brought it home,
did blop upon 1t, and why saith the Lor
Fl of Hosts. Because Of mine house that
waste, and ye run every man unto his ow
house. II.
A DECEASED LEGISLATOR.
Fl THE BEEFsTEAK CLUB.