The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-11-11
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
SATURDAY. Y, NOVEMBER IL.
Emma In England.


Yesterday morning Queen Emma. of the Sand
wich Islands. attended divine service AZ Christ
Church. Ciapham. where ii had been announced =
sermon would be preached on behalf Of the Homo
lulu Mission. by the Rev. ". HoapiG. Tie Majcs-
y : chaplain and the first ordained deacon al tho
diocese 81 Honolulu. If Her Majesty. since she
has been in England. has attended any OF the quiet
and transformations services of the Established
Church. she must have been considerably aston
lsAcd at what she witnessed YESTERDAY in the sub
urban village of Chaplain. For some months past.
the incumbent Of Christ Church has been in con-
met Win his diocesan. the Bishop of Winchester.
IN reference 10 the manner in which be conducts
the services Of the Church. particularly a. 10 the
use % incense. the result Of i; being that the Bishop
has given way on a compromise. viz. that the in
cunbent NAV Use incense an the five great festi-
walls of the Church. and that on every other day
he may do exactly what he did before the Bishop
took any objection 20 his proceedings. Yesterday
was not one Of the FIVE great festivals. and there
was no incense but there was a good deal that
was unintelligibie to ordinary. and. j; may hc. un-
Instructed Churchmcn.
4 the end of the Nicene Creed. which was
very chaStcly and beautifully sung. the Rev. W.
Iloapita assembled the pulpit. wearing his surplicc,
with his stole crossed over his left shoulder. indi-
eating that he had not vet advanced beyond dca-
cons orders in the Church. He IS q tall. dark.
handsome young man, wearing a beard and nous
tachc. and with so slight Il foreign accent.
that II was scarcely possible To detect he was
not an EngiiShman. He selected for his text the
9TH chapter of II. Paul's Epistle to the Romans,
verse u. "Uh. wTctchcd man that | am! who
SiiiI denver me from The BODY Of tins DEAN .
After dealing with the text personally. he said il
applied as much TO nations rs 10 individuals.
These Paragraphs appeared in the London
Tunes in = hong article relating 10 Queen
Enme's visit to England. We do not copy
them in order TO indicate the religious teach
ings under which our worthy Queen Dowager
has fallen. although 1t A. noteworthy. Our
object in quoting these paragraphs is merely
to bring before the minds Of our readers the
beautiful tribute which is therein paid to the
literary and educational system of instruction
of the American Missionaries on the Hawaiian
Islands. We are confident that the Rev. W.
lIoapili never went one day to any school except
10 those taught by or instituted by the Ameri-
can Missionaries, and yet the young man speaks
the English language so accurately that 'tit
was scarcely possible to detect that he was not
an ~Englishman.'' Now. we are bold TO assert
that there are scores-aye, hundreds-of young
IEawaiians, as well, if not better, educated than
Mr.. ~Iioapili. Whatever American Missionaries
may have neglected to do, they certainly have
not neglected TO give Hawaiian youth such an
education rs the youth of but few nations can
boast.
At one of the meetings, when the Queen
was present, she exhibited to the audience a
Book of Common Prayer, translated into Ia-
waiian by His late Majesty. That is undoubt-
edly an admirable translation, a fine literary
composition. and yet where did His Majesty
learn the English language and acquire such
a mastery of - Kings English ?" The people of
Honolulu know very well that it was at the
Royal School, kept by Mr.. and Mrs. Cooke,
who were American Missionaries. No better
proof of the faithfulness of their teachings. or
of the good results of their school system is
than the tributes so freely offered in
England to Queen Emma's and Hoapili's edu-
cation, as well as To that Of her late consort.
From the public prints we learn that the
Queens visit to England, and Bishop Staley's
visit to America, are mainly TO raise funds to
build \ splendid Cathedral. In doing 50. both
these distinguished personages pay the highest
possible compliment to the educational system
by the American Missionaries. 1t
is not to raise funds for educational purposes
that they are now pleading, but 10 build 4
grand Cathedral among an educated people.
Probably not Il nation of Europe Certainly not
En.land) can boast of more readers in proper
10 the whole population than are to be
found among lIawaiians. These are facts, and
facts worthy of historic record, and which we
wish known and remembered in England as
well as here. There are undisguised attempts
IN the part of some to ignore these facts, and
they are laboring with Il zeal y worthy of a
cause to produce the impression that
the American Mission at these Islands is a fail
ure. Never was there a greater Justification
If facts or pcrversion of the truth. 1t is NOR
ally wrong that such a view should be impaired
to the history of our times and the Hawaiian
nation, and those who attempt to do so are
;u rely enemies of the nation. Napoleon, the
Emperor of France, asserts. i'll the opening
paragraph to his history of Julius Cesar, that
Historic truth ought TO be no less sacred than