The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-12-10


those islands, who has fifty children daughter
have such family clustering around me every day
children who as dear 20 meealmost, as though
they were bone Of my bone, and ies1sGf my flesh
children for whom have come before va to plead,
to-day. said we wanted a nursery for them; a
nursery of learning and pety; nursery Of scholars,
and teachers and preachers and statesmen; in other
words, we need Christian College. 1 shall add but
few words to what has already been said, to shsSg
this necessity.
need not waste the hour in attempting to show
she importance of the Christian College to the perma-
nency of free institutions The very walls of the time
IGNORED University Of this city would laugh at the
die words. New England knows wherein her great
,trength lieth- Harvard, and Brown, and Yale, and
Williams, and Amherst, and Bowdoin, and all the
sisterhood, clustered so thickly your hills and in
your valleys that they almost hear the chime of
zach others chapel bells-these tell the story of New
England supremacy; these reveal the secret Of her
deep pety, of her active benevolence of her
querabe devotion to truth and freedom. You all
know, better than can say il, how inseparable
learning, and Christianity, and freedom.
In determining the importance of establishing a
College the Sandwich Islands, the question is not
whether few more discoveries shall be made in sci
ence; it is not whether few more few less young
shall be educated but is question of the very
existence Of the Christian institutions which your
benefcence has established there; it is question of
life death to that people I do not state it too
strongly The proof of this assertion is very brief
There is a naton-a nation which you are proud to
Board has been scattering in prayer and faith these
many years. nation with its own churches its own
schools, its missionary societies. its own courts
its own legislative councils. Now who is to control
all this complicated machinery of commerce. and
chool, and church. and State: Who are to be our
teachers, and preachers, and lawyers, and judges,
and statesmen: szar1-
You will not send another million of dollars
: and another band of noble and women. You
cannot You have told US that already Nor would
1t be wise TO do it, if you coud could they do
the work which remains to be done, if you should.
Who, then, shall do this work Ignorance cannot
You would trust the interests of science and rel
gon to the exclusive control of the uneiucated You
would not peril justice and liberty in the hands of ig
29rant men Iggnorant men cannot teach the people
nd diplomacy ey cannot mo ~e' take into a@''"ir theirs
hands widening commerce., and viralize it
with the spirit of living Christianity We have vice
among US in its ten thousand shapes 40 shall re-
buke it Jesuitism is there, coiling its deldy folds
around the very heart of the nation Who shall lay
hold on the old serpent, and help to bind him We
have those among us who would rejoice to every
vesfige of Christianity swept from those beautiful
islands, and the darkness of heatheuisIn again brood
ing them, that they might riot in unrestrained
lust, and heap up ungody gain. Who shall restrain
their madness:
Where shall that nation look for counsel and
strength In its difficulties and dangers There can
be but Its strength must lie, under God,
in the development of its resources If Christian
institutions to be perpetuated those islands,
there must be raised up in their very midst band Of
educated Christian men and women who know the
wants of the people and who sympathize with them
young men full of courage and strength girded with
moral and intellectual power for the conflict which
awaits them; men who shall stand like rock when
the storm RACES; who will frown upon vice, and
buke iniquity in high places and in low places young
who will stand where their fathers have stood,
and do their fathers have done. repeat it, then
the question of College at the Sandwich Islands is
question Of life or death to the Christian civilization
which you have so successfully planted there.
1t only remains, then, to show that these Islands
of sufficient Importance to warrant the expendi-
ture OF few more thousand dollars TO give them this
crownng glory of Christian civilization.
will stop inquire whether the spiritual in
terests of the twentyone thousand church members,
brethren in Christ, and the spiritual interests
f their children and of their childrens children,
worth providing for. I know they dear to the
heart OF Hin who died to them-nay not say
doubly dear, because they the lost sheep which
went far astray from the Good Shepherd fold
know He loves them, and have faith to believe he
will provide for them.
there is another view of this work, in the light
Of which, duty to stand by that people until they
can stand alone, is very plain. Why has so large n
proportion of the funds of this Board been expended
u that little group of islands, while the world was
lying in darkness, These brethren tell you the
providences which led them to do it. need not re-
De them Whatever they were it is plain that God
had a specific purpose in it. And why has that mis-
sion been blessed above all other missions, with the
outpouring Of the Spirit? What means the forty
souls ransonei from the viest heathenism
Men wonder at it, and Christians ask US how we ex-
plain it, and attempt to account for 1t upon
natural causes 1t because these souls more
precious than others Its not because those mssion
aries wiser, or better. or more aborious men,
than your faithful aborers in India, and Africa, and
China. We know how all these beloved brethren /
have /Hled, and wept, and prayed As to the causes
mis- wonderful success, we can do little more than
saw Even so, Father for it seemed good In tiny
sight" :,
But though we cannot tell how it was done, nor all
the reasons why, yet thing is very plain God
has granted this in the very beginning OF tins
work, pledge Of his favor. IL is the
seal of his approval 1t is the experiment which shall
through ali time, the Transforming i
power of the Gospel. He has taken that people who
we're sunken low that they tell us we cannot, even
n imagination get down far enough to conceive the
depth of their degradation; he has reached down INTO
hose depths, and brought them up into the light and
iberty of the GospeDof Christ lie has transformed
nation in single generation and the lesson which
teaches is, that nothing is too hard for hln ana
gicked men are silenced when they see what God
iath wrought.
Van NAV see we do not need this proofof the trans
orming power of the Gospel; we believe 1t already.
wish we did not need it. wish we had sucn iaitn
n God that we could work with unabated zeai though
he heavens were brass over heads and the earth
ron beneath feet; work till we lie down 10 de'
hough no little cloud had arisen over tue distant sea-
But oh, how weak our faith is 1t ought not 10 De
a. but it is so. We do need these proofs OF God s
athfnIness, to prop up our poor, trembling faith'
gs RIM or Christian race crutches. We go limp
no along through life, hoYllhg to experiences and
esults to keep poor, feeble faith from falling
md half the tune we down in the miIe OF unoe-
;ef instead of walking in the dignity and strength OF
perfect confidence in Him who is the Author ana
7inisher Of our faith
Now let this experiment fail-no, not fail; it can
ot fail; for were the work to cease to-day harvest
A. souIs has already been gathered home, and tnou-
nds more are waiting to be welcomed there-but let
be said here, to-day, that the Sandwich Island ma
ION was going back to heathensm, that the pastors
rere gone, the churches deserted. the schools DIS,
anded-O, how would our hearts dle WITHIN Us sl
'ath would falter and the joy in which we are ali
ruIting would be swallowed up in sorrow Brethren,
he nrches cannot afford let that experiment faii
Z complete success. You know how that TRIUMPH % .,
he gospel stimulated you to prayer ana euor. ;';o
,;ss;onares all the world over, teaching them, by
aost convincing proof that God is able 70 save, ana
r;lI save to the uttermost. Brethrens We cannc,