The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-12-23
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.


II IrIyI d ltC l1E4JI VI 'A-NAH q N~"AN
in behalf of the Reformed Catholic Mission to
the Hawaiian Islands, at Salisbury, England,
has been published in the London Times. If
English stenographic reporters were not noted
for their accuracy in reporting the proceedings
Of public meetings. We should say they must
have misrepresented the Bishop. The au-
dience when crying out - Hear, hear, and
otherwise cheering, may have supposed the
speaker was uttering truth but We can assure
the good people Of Salisbury if any speaker
should presume to utter such sentiments in Hon
olulu, he would be Kissed instead Of cheered.
Never have we met with such utter Justification
of facts in 50 short q paragraph as the follow
ing
AT this moment YOU iAre everything to help
Won. The throne i filed by a monarch deter
. mined 10 do all he can u carry ont your missions
the people are craving for them are wearied out
by the mi-manasement md malireatment OF AMER
lean Puritaui>m are -hrinkfng exceedingly from
the Mari1lOtry Of the R0mi-h Church. and are
-tying. VIII Won give "a, the morals of Christian
iuv without those terrible alloys lCheer>l J.
not that q call 10 be- doing something
We presume not 10 speak in behalf Of the
King, or 70 know what he has determined to
do; but We do not hesitate to assert that the
same number Of lines could not possibly con-
tain 4 more fragrant perversion Of the honest
and sober facts as they exist to-day in Honolulu
and upon the Islands generally. The words
:. craving Z" shrinking " Encouragement
and maItreatment' must have utterly changed
their meaning and signifca zion, or the Bishop
has egregiously misapplied them TO describe the
state of religious opinions and parties at the
Islands. If he had applied " craving to the
crowds thronging the Puritan or Protestant
Churches and the Roman Catholic Cathedral,
it would have been much nearer the truth.
rs for the aborigines of Hawaii nei " craving
for the Reformed Catholic Mission, We shall
allow Bishop Staley to make his own report.
Touching the = acknowledgement and m~altreat-
ment Of American Puritanism," we will refer
our readers 10 the address Of Admiral Pearson
before His Majesty. on the llth ult., wherein lie
remarks We feel an honest pride in the
moral and social advancement of your people,
which we attribute in no small degree 10 the
action of the Missionaries from our own coun-
try, and especially So when we have mingled
with tie cultivated and interesting society Of
Honolulu, where we always find ourselves at
home What adds peculiar significance TO
this language of the American Admiral. is this
that his religious sympathics incline him to
worship. when at home, with the Episcopalians
u VIZ mn 49, AH@ N~S'-CH 4-'N
nizcs with that of Mr.. Dana, OF Boston, another
American Episcopalian, whose views were pub
lished some years ago. ''lt is no small thing
writes Mr.. D., " to say Of the Missionaries OF
the American Board, that in less than forty
years they have taught this whole people to
read and write, 70 cipher and TO sew, &c.
Now, the good people OF England may cheer
their Bishops when haranguing upon the " mis-
management and maltreatment Of American
Puritanism'' at the Hawaiian Islands. So they
have cheered their statesmen when haranguinS
on q = divided and disunited' Union, and "a
nation created by JEFF Davis. The time has
already come when the errors of English states
men are exposed, and we hope the time will
come when English Bishops will cease misrepre-
senting the good work which has been accom-
plished at these islands through Gods blessing
upon the labors of American Missionaries.
We could add much more, but we have al
ready written more than we intended when we
took up our pen to notice this address of the
Bishop of Oxford. Other portions of the adj
dress equally deserve censure. 80 far as re-
ported, it is utterly unworthy Of a man occu-
pying the position of an English Bishop or lay
man. He appeals for funds in behalf of the
Reformed Catholic Mission, asserting that Ila-
waiians are poor, dc. This may be true, but,
poor a. they are, they have built scores of Prot
estant churches. or meeting-houscs, and this
they have done without aid from America.
The funds Of the American Board are not ex-
pended in materials for church buildings. 1t
1t 4 rule Of the Board that Il people converted
to Christianity should build their own church
cdifccs. This is what Hawaiians have done
and are doing in all parts Of the group. In the
parish Of tie Rev. Mr.. Lyons, in Hawaii, the
people have built for their own accomplodation
fourteen chapcls, besides the large Mission
Church, near the Missionary's house. This is
what they have done in all parts of the islands.
Now. for an English Bishop to pirate about the
90 mismanagement and maltreatment Of Ameri-
can Puritani>m'' is absolutely absurd and false.
The Bishop of Oxford may detest Americans
and everything done by Americans, but for all
that he should adhere to truth. 1t is not in
good taste for the Bishop to refer to the porerty
OF librarians, when, on the platform where he
stood, sat Queen Emma, who is receiving a sal
airy of six thousand dollars per anuum from her
- poor people.