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q ishop StnIey's Encyclicnt Letter, n"d other
scenery. IA. Viewed through Hawaiian
SpectncIes.
The dear public Of Hawaii nei have noticed that
ON pages 55 and Sc of the blue pamphlet published
by Bishop Staley, a Constitution is spoken OF. " which
virtually gave supremacy to a single Glass;" (the
American Missionaries understood -" and impeded
every measure for the social and sanitary advance
ment Of the Hawaiian, il not found to accord with
their illiberal views and sectarian aims"
What Constitution or what class has so long i'm
peded the establishment of a Hospital for the victims
of the Chinese leprosy, go amply provided for by the
late Legislature /? Is this ruinous delay to be as
cribed to the presence in the councils OF the nation
of that ecclesiastical dignitary-the Lord Bishop OF
Honolulu Is " the well known i~ncapacity of &C.
cleeiastics generally for the work Of government OF
legislation > being verified in his case ? Page Do.
MIR. Editor, is Bishop Staley on the Board OF
Health, as we'll as on the Board of Education . 10
he a member Of the Privy Council ? All yes l see
that the Bishop informs Us that he is. on page 81.
We poor enthusiastically folks, as they say in
America-don't see the Government Gazette every
week, and are quite in the dark as to who is who.
and what is what. But what class, pray, Is noU to
be made the scape goat for the sins Of the Hawaiian
kind in general, and Of Government officials in par
ticular !,
fortune, the new Constitution, and Bishop Staley,
that the weight of the Island world no longer rests
upon their shoulders. Indeed. hereafter they are to
be Of no account whatever. Really, L wonder that
the good Bishop. in the kindness Of his heart, had
not ere this offered them a free passage to any foreign
land that they might choose for their future home.
They are of no farther account here, ana they might
make good pioneers TO open the way for the mission
ary Bishops projected mission to Ascension. Hogoieu
or Guam See one of Bishop Staley's letters pub
lished in England. We know these sturdy, stubborn
old "puritans,' ''illiberal and "sectarlan
though they are, make good pioneers. They will do
for hewers of wood and drawers OF water. They
will do to cut down the forests. clear away the scrub:
and break up ihe.sod for those who are to come after;
g.. .lo D;oinn cays INN n III ~ We owe them manN
thanks for having prepared the way for us, by IA
mililrizing the people with these mighty truths =
truths of the Gospel. Indeed, l don't believe that
that big English, maD-of-war which took from our
shores our lovely Queen Emma-(God bless her and
return her safe. could be better employed, after land
ing Her Majesty at Ponama, than in exporting the
Calvinistic missionaries from these shores. We shall
never have any peace in the land till they are
shipped.
But the worst of it is. there would be left such q
swarm of missionary children, " nearly all hopefully
pious.' (see page 44) whose piety, If like that Of
their Purstan fathers, would, we should think, ren-
der it necessary that they too be exported . Perhaps
they too might consent TO do pioneer work for the iu-
ture generations Of England's missionary Bishops
who are yet TO visit every land when the way shall
have been prepared. Notice the tenor OF page oZ.
We now see how the Bishops prospective - mis-
sionary yacht spoken of on page go, can be fully
employed IN flying that beautiful and significant Nag
with a { : red cross " and A" thirteen stars and in
carrying provisions TO these pioneer missionarles OF
his. in the Islands of Western Micronesia. The
Morning SiQT Is ALREADY luHy ciopoSoS IN oi'bkANE
up those cannibal Marquesians for cane planters, and
in carrying supplies to the American and Hawaiian
missionaries of the Mareuesas and Micronesia.
By the way, don't you think il was we'll that that
American gentleman, Mr.. Gallagher, explained TO
Bishop Staley what the g thirteen stars on the nag
meant If | remember rightly. there were once
thirteen colonies who rebelled-seceded from old
England-snd set mp to be q nation for themselves;
a nation that still lives, though just at present II IS
sick from the bite of a yenomous snake. If MIR. Cal
lagher had not explained it fully to the Bishop, he
might have thong ht the Sag was intended to signify
that, as those thirteen colonies threw off the yoke Of
Old England's Governors, so at some day these thir-
teen Islands Of this group would not submit to ths
ecclesiastical control of England's Bishop. You
know there are just thirteen Of these Hawaiian
Islands. 1t is evident that Bishop Staley thinks thai
Puritan missionaries may do some good to people who
are in a Uery savage and heather condition, bat thai
they are valueless in the work Of advancing a people
10 any high degree Of Christianity.
Of Puritanism, such az he finds has been intro
duced here, he says, we believe it. as a system. Il
be utterly unable to solve the moral problems OF th'
universe" Again, he says. who can doubt tina
such n system must engender. as all Impartial 90
servers contend it has done, a fearful amount OF nm
reality and hypocrisy"
, 1t Is evidently the Bishops idea that the American
missionaries, having failed to save the nation. shouls
leave. and give place to better men. 30 mote 1t %
Ever Yours. KAAwE.