New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-16
THE ANNIVERSARIES.
AMERICAN BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS

held yesterday morning lr the Rev. DR.. Cbeeyers
Church, on Union square. The President Of the
Beard the Hon. THEoDoRE FRELIsGEUrsEs. took
the chair at 10 O'Clock, and the Rev. Dr..
WIcKoFF Of Albany offered prayer.
statement Of the operations Of the Boari and its
agents and missionaries during the past year
made by the Rev. George W. Wood, one of the
Secretaries.
The Rev. Mr. BUsHsELL Of the Gaboon Mission,
West Afica, made the frt address. lie spoke of
the progress Of the missionary work in the field in
which be had abored. For years he said, Protestant
missionaries had crcumnavigated Africa TO carry the
Gospel to the nations Of the East, leaving that be-
nichied continent 10 it, darkness. The pioneers
Of the missionary work ID that continent and espe
cially in the region from which he had come,
countered not only great obstacles IN the prosecu-
ton Of their work but suffered great personal trials
and privatons. Fifteen missions and one hundred
mission stations have been established along the
coast down e. far the GabOon River ct the
south. Twenty of the languages spoken IN the west
of Africa have been reduced to grammar, and the
Gospel il preached in these tongues lie referred
10 the savc-trade which at first was the great evil
TO be combatcd, but which u now giving way be-
fore the gradual progress of Christianity He made
susiop sl.o 10 the recent discoveries and explora-
tons of Dr. Livingstone in the intenor. The Gaboon
Mission. be said has accomplished good work: Sew
eral hundred children the representatives of seven
or eight tribes have received the elements of
Christian education in the schools. The Gospel has
been extensively preached. The missionaries he
said look with great interest to the comparatively
une EXPLORED interior, which having fine climate and
being free from the cOrTUptions OF the slave-trade,
would no doubt offer a free and open field
for missionary operations. lie narrated some
incidents illustrating the manner and results OF
his personal missionary work with the NATIVES;
On one occasion savage chiefain, who had
threatened him with DEATH 30 impressed with the
power Of the truth which preached to hum that he
WINS moved not only TO desst from ms murderous pur-
rose but TO offer TO the missionary the hospitality of
his house and ever afterward his warm friendship
and powerful influence. This mans son IS now being
educated ard has expressed desire to become a
missionary himself to his people. His father has
given full permission to the missionaries to make
:" white man Of him if they can. lie related also the
Triumphant death through faith IN Christ, OF one OF
the converted natives whose departure he described a.
one Of the most snbime he had ever witnessed,
whether in heather Christian land. In reference
10 the progress and final triumph OF the missionary
cause in Africa, he spoke IN strain OF great hopeful
ness He believed that the continent is destined to
become field for great and successful Christian effort
Ethiopia is ARE dy stretching out her hands unto God
Tbs. Rev. l.. j. BECKwITH, President of Oahu Col
lere Sandwich Islands was then introduced to make
some remarks in reference 10 those islands. He re-
prctted TO be only the bearer OF tldngs, and not to
come fs the preceding speaker had come as one OF
the fighting soldiers OF the field In reference 10 mis-
siopory operations in the Sandwich Islands, he had
been n bvstander rather than co-labOrer. lie said
that the marked manifestation of Gods saving grace
which has been made to tins people OF the sea- mas
given TO them peculiar interest IN the eyes OF all the
friends of missions. The triumph OF the cross IN the
Sandwich Islands has been truly signal. The mission
aree went and asked that people to go with them a
mile and they have gone with them twain lie re-
tIred 70 the sending out BY the children Of the Sunday
Scbools of the United States the missionary packet
Morning Star He wished he could see all the children
whose contributions had sent out that handsome craft
that he might convey TO them the salutatlons and
tbankscivings of the children Of those ocean isles
He sad that the results Of the abors undertaken for
Christ in the Sandwich Islands cannot be estimated by
6gures and statistics. No one knows the vast extent
Of what has been done but God himself He did not
think that Christian men, in giving their aid Ia tho
cause of missions should look forward tor visible
and exact return of their generous investment. We
must measure our gains by faith he said and not by
sight There will be day when dividend VIII be
made bv Him who giveth to every one his portion OF
meat in due season. There was never seed sown In
Gods VINEYARD in faith and tears, but has grown aud
home fruit for God himself watches and prospers IT,
The work to be done at the Sandwich Islands is no
longer TO rcyolutionize but to perpetuae mere Is
not now TO be overturning but upbuildlng There Is,
| however a want, and great want IL Is CHRISTIAN
COLLEGE, TO provide Christian education for the peo-
ple There are abundant materials Tor such
| a college. There is upon the ISLANDS pop
| ulaton of several thousands Of Foreigners a.
| though the main dependence of the college
| vet is the children of the missionaries. The
institution that needed should be open both to the
| foreigners TO the MISSIONARIES ana 10 the natives.
| He lad been asked if the native Hawaiian people
Give evidence of sufficient intellectual endowments to
warrant the establishment of college for their educa
lion and development He pointed to the progress of
the Sandwich Islands, unparalleled except perhaps by
that of this country, sufficient answer to this
| ouestiop. They can be educated he said, and they
ouebt 10 be- Ii is Just the time to make an effort
in This direction, for the people are In transition
state and under formative influences foreign mis-
sopary cannot be sent to every one OF those islands,
| for moi enough men can be spared but native mis-
,jonares can be sent, and they willing and want
| 10 90 and will 90 when they are properly educated
and fitted for the work. II is not e1pedient that they
should be brought TO this country TO so to college.
They ought to be provided with the means of educa-
ton there They want good college, and they ought
| TO have IT, He believed that the Sandwich Islands
are The Palestine Of the Pacific from which the Gospel
| is TO 60 out to the other isles of the sea-
| The Rev. L. DWIGHT Hunt Of California next ad-
dressed the audience II is question he said whe-
Their the missions established and supported year after
! wear by Christian people, will ever sustain themselves
and alone There is question ms to tho growth
which has gone on, in the Sandwich Islands, TOR In
stance but viii il ever do for such people, who are
supposed to be weak and ignorant to be left alone He
efred 10 the fact that his first preaching in California
was 10 audience Of Sandwich Islanders 10 their own
tongue They had left their work and come, many of
| them from distance to hear a person who could
preach the Gospel tO them IN their own language. On
another OCCASION when he had been invited by the
same people 10 go and witt them in their own district
he surprised to see that they had built little
booih-chapel, at the suggestion of nobody outside,
but of their own desire. These few of idOaters
| whose Christian worship would stimulate them
| nv its example To like worship, but the peo-
| pie around them Sabbath-breakers, whose
| only influence, if il had been allowed to
operate would have been to corrupt and demOraliZe
them lie mentioned also several other instances of
Christian Sandwich Islanders in California, protesting
the Gospel and sustaining the worship of God, and
dep0rting themselves according to the testimony OF
several pastors of churches with consistency and err
eumspection equal 10 that of American Christian
pregatiops He said that he had seen enough in the
| conduct Of these Sandwich Islanders to demonstrate
to him that a whole nation of people, Christisnized