The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-07-09

the pastoral office. as well as into the Christian church. receiv
ing their support from their own Pf 5apng @ and ai h9s i b~Sn ~ ~
means Of christiauiziug the Islands, should be sustained Their,
during the remainder of their lives, as elders, counsellors, anI
conservatorS in the young Christian community so that (whi
exceptional cases. the Board should not undertake the supper
of others"
1t is now about forty-three years since the
first missionaries arrived here from America
They were sent out only in response to the most
urgent invitations of several Sandwich Islanders.
who had visited that country, been educated
there and converted to the Christian faith.
These humble Sandwich Islanders may there
fore be considered as the representatives of their
! people, and the cali for teachers to go TO them
as strong and as direct as any that ever was
made by any heather people. Forty-three years
have passed, and there are few living here who
will not admit that the following remarkable
changes have taken place in that interval
IA Christian Government is established, with q
King aud Queen at its head, who are in every re-
spect as educated and as competent for the position
they hold, as any rulers on earth.
2-rhe Hawaiian people have become in every
sense of the word a CHRISTIAN PEOPLE, a large pro-
portion of them being protested Christians. who have
the Congregational, Catholic and Episcopal forms of
worship, established among them, from which they
can adopt such as they may prefer.
3.-Religious and political liberty is enjoyed in
this kingdom, to a degree not surpassed in any other
Christian nation.
How far these changes and the present state
of things in this kingdom are attributable to
the labors of American Missionaries, is a ques-
ton which We do not purpose here to argue,
but the fact that the American Board has ex-
pended in sustaining its mission here, during
the period named, Ocer one million Of dOHdTS,
entities it to at least a small claim of having
been a principal means in etfecting them. That
this state of things now exists is all that con-
Germs US for the present.
DR.. Anderson's visit to the islands was under
taken with this view Of our religious and social
condition. After visiting each Mission station,
and comforting with the missionaries, the follow
ing changes were discussed and have been adopted
by them at their recent general meeting in this
city
1st.-The Missionaries of the Board will be sds-
tanned by it in future and not by the native churches,
as has been the case in part for the past ten years.
2d-Natives will be educated for the ministry and
settled as pastors, all over the group, as rapidly as
they can be brought into service.
3d.-More attention will be given to the education
of native females.
4th.-A Board consisting of u members, of whom
two thirds are foreigners and one third natives, has
been organized TO carry on and be responsible for the
work Of missions both here and abroad.
This board is to meet monthly, and has been
by the choice of Rev. T.. Coan as
DR.. G.. P. Judd as Vice president,
O. Hall, Esq, as Treasurer, DR.. L. H.
Cor. Secretary, and Rev. f. W. Clark,
Secretary.
The purpose OF the American Board in send
ing DR.. Anderson out here has not been to ter
inmate its mission, nor to reduce its expenses,
to make it more active and eficient-to
place it on a different basis, so that the native
may in the lapse of time be brought
to perform its own aoork-and native
may be prepared to occupy the places
md fulfil the duties now performed by foreign
So far from the Board in Boston
laving any idea of relinquishing the field which
t has occupied for forty-three years, it is as
eady to expend a second million of dollars, if
in carrying out its plans, as it has
in expanding the first million.
The plan of the Board to call into active
ervice the labor and talents of native Hawaii
ms, is one that will meet the hearty endorse
nent of all foreigners. If this people is ever
occupy the position of a self-sustaining, indie
endent people, now is the time to begin. Let
Is public Offices be filled with natives, its Judge
hips with natives, it's schools with natives, and
Is pulpits with natives. The old heather pro-
erb applies with special force here: The
DDS help those who help themselves" Hawaii
MS as public officers, school-teachers and pas
may not in all eases, and at first, do quite
well as foreigners might in the same places,
ut as a nation it will be more respected, more
nited and we may hope will make more rapid
in all the true elements Of social, reli-
ious, and political progress.
On Sunday last, the Stone Church was filed
it'll a very large audience to listen to some
lrewell remarks from DIR. Anderson. The
rowded house evidenced the respect which the
ntives entertain for one who has been employ
l in their behalf for forty years, and whose
resence has had the effect of kindling afresh
warmest aloha. lie told them the object