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

that the merchant princes Of Boston. and New Bed
fbrd, and NeV London, and New York, cannot afford
70 let that people 90 back again to the poverty Of
;Asathenism, or to the still worse depths Of Romish
ignorance and superstition.
But there Is another view Of the Importance Of that
little group, which i higher than all these. 1t is
their relation to the great missionary work in all that
island world. Thousands Of islands are scattered all
over the western Pacific, green and beautiful in the
smiles Of n tropic sun. but the night of death broods
over them Who shall carry them the light which
viii dispel this darkness! You cannot plant q mis-
sionary upon each OF those Islands Many Of them
ere small, containing from a hundred to 3 thousand
people. How shall they be won to Christi God has
provided the means He who is wiser than we, sees
the end from the beginning as we cannot see it
Though you knew it not, and intended it not, yet in
sending the gospel to the Sandwich Islands you have
kindled q blaze whose beams shall illumine all that
western sea- Already have the hill-tops caught the
rising rays, and those b~enighted nations are begin
ring to walk in the light Of it. God has raised up a
people eminentIy fitted to do this work. And they
are ready to do it.; they love to do il; they are eager
10 20. Already have they planted q mission in the
darkest island Of all that Ocean, and where missions
from this country and from England have several
times failad, these humble Hawaiians are winning
souls to Christ This, then, 80 far as we can see, is
Gods plan for teaching the isles his law. The
Hawaiian missionary can go where we cannot go; he
can live where we cannot live; and he makes AZ
edheient laboyer. But ne needs guidance. He is not
20 intelligent, and far-sighted. and prudent, as the
educated missionary who goes from this land. He
must have wise councillors At central points
through that island world there must be stationed
just such men as you are sending cut from year to
year. Where shall these men be found? You might
send some from this land But we think we have q
better way God has raised up in the Sandwich
Islands . noble band Of young men and women, the
children Of your faithful laborers there, and worthy
OF their parentage; earnest young men who see the
work which God has assigned them, and who wish to
prepare themselves for It. Some OF them are already
there. Others, who have not yet begun their college
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God would have them labor, when they are fitted to
30. We believe these young Christians will be better
fitted for this work than any who go from this country
can possible be They know the language of the
They know their peculiarities, and they could act, at
once, harmoniously and efficiently together. This,
then, Is . part Of our object, to train these young
minds for this specific work which God has given
them to do, to ft them to do as their fathers have
done. For this purpose we must have q college in
full efficiency. We must have it, or the work will
esase.
That we have the material in the foreign and native
population, my colleague has already shown you.
But when shall it be established. Now now
The cause Of Christ needs it now. The nation needs
II now. 1t has reached that point when its future
VIII be determined by the immediate action of Chris
tians here 1t is with that nation, as it sometimes is
with the Hawaiian. in launching his little canoe. In
some Of the beautiful bays of those islands there is no
nfe landing place Long surging waves roll in from
the open sea, and sweep the whole circumference of
Suore. III cannot row out against them. 80 he
grasps his oar, and leaps into his little craft, and
Strong men seize it on either side, and bear it out
over the first wave, and over the second, and over the
third, and there they hold it, as it rises and falls on
the heaving sea, watching till it is poised on the crest
OF the incoming wave; then, If they send it quick and
strong over the Gaming breaker, the light bark
giides like . sea bird over the dancing waves of the
open sea But If they let go too soon, the wave
breaks over il, and the frail thing is swept back, and
stranded on the shore.
So you have taken this little nation, and have
borne il out over the first and second, and third waves
Of the troubled sea upon which it is launching, and
now it stands poised on the crest Of the highest billow.
II you give it now an impulse onward, it viii glide
out into the open sea Of independent political life, and
the prospecting gales Of heaven will give it success.
But, il you leave it now on this breaking wave, and
give il no impulse onward, it will be driven back,
and wrecked ON the bleak shore from which you have
borne it.
Shall we succeed in this work. We must succeed.
We shall succeed We have no doubt of it. Not
simply because the object is a worthy one; not simply
because we find encouragement everywhere; not sim
ply because Of our own purpose in it. There is one
thing which confirms our faith more than all these.
In that distant land, so lately won from pagan bond
age, there IS q little band of Christian mothers pray
ing that God will give us success. They pray for
their children's sake, whom they have consecrated to
this work-for the sake Of that nation for which their
tears, and prayers, and labors have been freely given
for the sake Of the millions in the region beyond.
Morning. noon, and evening, their prayers 60 up
ike the wrestling OF Jacob. They are no common
prayers; they are such as they have learned to utter
in the dark days Of uncertainty and trial-such
prayers as have brought down light from heaven
snch prayers as went up in those days when thousands
came Hocking over the mountains and through the
prayers. He viii hear them again.