The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-06-10
(For the Pacific CONT Advertiser.)
Bishop StaIey's EncyciicaI I.et:er,
tober, 1864.

Bishop StaIey's Encyciical Letter.
HIS Bull against the alleged progress of Ha,cai-
laHS IN Christianity and CiriHzQfi0n, as seen
thF0Hgh Haloolian SpectacieS.
Mr.. EDITOR The Bishop, for some reason. seems
very DESTROYS to prove us Hawaiians to be be still =
heather people. and 10 be sadly in need of the civil
izng and outstanding influence of " the Church
his Church. 1t is true that, not many years since.
we used TO think that We were heather, but as we
have now stores established in every district on the
Islands, where We and our children see spread ont 10
our view the tempting wares Of other lands as we
have had circuses and tbeaters for our entertainment.
as our principal city has grog-shops, in which Amer
leans, Englishmen and Frenchmen offer for sale the
exhilarating drinks Of their countries; as we now
have dlstllleries; as our country is visited by the
ships OF every land; as our lands are being settled by
the enlightened %emigrants from Christian nations: as
we are now all of us, or at least nearly all Of US.
clothed from head to foot; Except the feet. as we
nave ministers ana teaCners, Churches au, I'm
established in every district. and as so many Of us
think ourselves passably good Christians, we are nor
hattered by the Bishops view. However, we know
that battery is not improving or beneficial 10 a youno
people, any more than it is TO a young person. We
Will not ask any one to fatter US, but only to tell the
truth.
We find the larger part, or at least the half of this
people, are in the habit of observing family nravers
and of asking a blessing before they eat, and perbars
in no country doa larger portion of the people attend
worship. Does any one say this is all bv-
pocrisy, because there are evidences that . of
these same protesting Christians are immoral scam,s,
That would be cOudemning the innocent with ,bo
guilty. Does our would be friend, the Bisbor COW
hat the bad state Of morals indicates tina, VIC ~
but a good Christian people Let me lust
MIN 10 look at the morals of Americans and
'renchmen, and Of his countrymen, who come 70
ur shores' some OF whom, notwithstanding the lives
lead, are members of Churches in their ra,ivs
anus are the foreigners who come here to live any
moral than we are ? Do the people in ENGLAND
ttend Church any more than we do Do thew live
orderly lives, and give any better evidence Of
eng a Christian people than we do
Rumor tells US that, when on his wav to the Islands
he Bishop spent a few days in San Francisco. The
acket for Honolulu was to have sailed on Saturd,r Z
rs his Lordship could not be ready on that day. !
informed the agents that if they would delav the
ling of their vessel till the Sabbath-beg pardon
TIL Sunday Re would take passage in her. Ac.
rdIngly, the vessel was delayed and he took mas.
ge IN her on the Sabbath. If this is true, perhars
accounts for the fault he finds with HawaiiaDs for
I thInhlDg 1t right TO spend the day of rest in
ntlng up stray horses, making fires and CARVING 6
rdens. See page 80. Do steamers tale :, coo1
d sail from port on Sunday in Christian ENGLAND
Englauds Bishops and ministers of religion teach
IRE that such is the proper manner of Observing
y time !; If so, no wonder they thought We
eded a missionary Bishop to teach US heather the
alght and narrow path to Heaven. See PAGE AZ
But what seems the worst is the unkind and untrue a
ngs the Bishop says about the missionaries. He
AXIS OF them just as some Of the wicked. rum
hiking and Sabbath-breaking foreigners used to do
nty and thirty years ago. Those foreigners have q
y some OF them, become better men, and are good Il
nds Of the missionaries; others of them have taken
P and gone TO ASCENSION, to the Marquegas and TO
South Sea Islands. The Bishop seems to have
ied up the old cracked fiddle which they threw
y long since, and is playing old tunes from II. -
es familiar to our ears long years ago. He how
plays the old tunes with variations and accor
iments; ne puts IN some new trills and a few ex- i
notes, Those who have a taste for such kind of
&c may now hear tunes familiar in the childhood e
heir nation, 10 the ears Of those who dvelt in an,
olulu or Lahaina. -,
'ys cur critic. on page 81 Of his pamphlet, " Even o
planting Of coffee il said 10 have been dfscorr- lOt
oy the missionaries BY whom, pray, is it MOD.
: That redoubtable Com odore Wilkes-tbe y.
man who took Mason and Sliiell from the The
't-ln his work called the Exploring Expedition, Coal
that Mr.. Coan was guilty Of such folly. The great
whom Secretary WelIes has put down ton,
Is many sins too numerous to mention, ought to Tn
been dismissed the service long ago for spinning go6i
a yarn. He Saw the coffee growing in Mr.. III.
s yard, and drank Of the same at Mr.. Coan's exper
and then IN return 10 relieve his bilious 'em- =" .Ee