The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-01-13
Y PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
The Bishop of Oxford and the
Church Of England in Hawaii.

ELtLF Is 2 Gl4F oil. EJELa E@arE u" 4A a-fl~ 4-h=A y
who's prpEr->s combines. with the usual round
C: ~i---ivitv aud sightseeing, the somewhat III
usual features Of an episcopal visitation and q
MISSIONARY depua:i5n- This lady i Emma. ez-
Queen Of the 4ndwIch Islands. " hen Lady
Franklin visited those Islands. she was well r.
c-..ef 10 the Sandwich Island Court. This has
brought ab1lt an interchange Of cOurt=-l-= be
tween LADY, Franklin and Queen Emma. But
nar visit q this country ! ASP for the purpose
a. collecting funds for building = Cathedral IN
Honolulu. Er the new mission % the English
Episcopal Church. Ia prosecution Of this pro
iect Queen Emma has already visited several OF
our chief towns. Leeds. Liverpool, Manchester,
as well as tie Metropolis, have been h5n,red BY
Isr presence, and large audiences have listened
% TIE r~l=atinE= On her behalf Of her Chanc-!,r.
the righ: reverend T~reiate Of Oxford Attended
nv h-r native chaplain, Nr. H1aViii, aad the
Bishop of Oxford, she has been holding public
meetings under the shadow Of municipal hl-Ti-
t%4Iities, Soliciting subscriptions and making col
!~s-tiJns- We have followed this royal progress,
under guidance 81 the public prints, with some
care The object which Ills Li-s-TiJus visitor
and tie Bishop Of Ok: ri have IN view : con-
c.-e!y stated n bis Lgrd=Lip's speech at Man
chester - being ~ found . native Church,
converting % IL our orders through our own
tpizcOpare. - that there shall be "a daughter
Church like our own IN ritual, IN doctrine and
ia discipline That purpos. includes. a. lie
told the people az Leeds, the raising OF 4 suti-
cient SUM VI money 70 build their first
tu4ECDr-r ana LIu- u pant among the people
f- Frst MISSIONARIES Of CUT Christian fGfI.
tie pleads with Ei- accustomed ellqueuce for q
people sunk ~ degradation. scarcely removed
from baFbarism and the debaseInent Of their
idClatrOUs rites He pictures those Islands g u
spot on which the light Of pu.e Christian truth
ha- never -hone. he sketches in dark cOlors the
tcnoraIizing influence Of their intercourse with
other nations, and tells US that =. The main fruit
Cf that intercourse has been q introduce among
them the vices and diseases Of a high state Of dis
taHt civilization He describes the people o.
TJJr IN the extreme o. having no exports or
Imports since the DAYS Of s~andalwOOd and as
beng unable therefore u support teachers or
ministers or (. - build even ~ the capital one
single church for the IuinIstTatiJns Of her cler-
gy-' lie priys therefore - for some great effort
OF Christian charity, not, o. he told them IL
Liverpool, with an OblIque rebuke We presume
for the scaBtiness Of the Leeds collection. "a
miserable plltry OEering.' 70 accomplish this
most PIou= purpose OF Planting in the midst Of
the Hawaiian people "a branch of ChriSt's
holy Church. which iOurishes e in its r~erfect
purity III this happy. land Of England"
L. all this credible? Are these the facts and
all the facts? Has no missionary ever landed on
those shores? Have they no Bible. no teachers.
10 chapels. no signs Of civilization? Are they
Yet worshiPpers Of idols? Do they still dance
around their human sacrifices, and find their
heaven on earth in bestial nominations? Is
all that We have heard Of the lab0Ts Of devoted
men for more than forty years, who have cJus--
Grated themselves 70 the work Of training those
natives Of the South Seas in the ways Of truth
and soberness, all u dream? What, we ask
again. are the real facts Of the case?
Some fifty years ago those islands were sunk
in savage superstition. Their idolatrv was Of q
severe type, and Its rites cruel and bloody.
It's idols were hOrTid. Their morals or places Of
sacrifice We're often wet with the blood Of human
victims. Blu, in 1919 the rare phenomenon was
seen Of a nation voluntarily abandoning Its idols;
and when, in 1920, the FIRST detachment Of Amer
lean missionaries landed in Oahu. they were re-
ceiyed with every demonstration Of respect BIZ
RlhOrihO, their king From that time the Sand
wlch Islands have been the scene Of most success
ful iabors on the part Of the agents Of the Amer
lean Board Of Missions. The preaching Of the
Gospel there Led TO the speedy adhesion Of the
king, chiefs and people 10 the Mission Church.
Schools were established in all the chief districts
of the Islands. Savage habits gradually gave
way % the Costume and manners Of their pastors
and teachers. ChurcEe-cougregatiJus Of faith
ful men-multiplied. Buildings arose in which
10 worship God. The change became 50 marked
as 70 justify the following description published
IN the Nautical Standard. Of JULY Is, lS4g. A
stranger % the history Of the uawaiiaus since
the days OF Captain Cook, If dropped down at
Honolulu now, would scarcely credit his senses.
So completely altered would lie find everything
and If immortality still exists % a greater degree
than IN older civilized nations. the American
missionaries must nevertheless receive their NEED
Of praise for the immense revolution they have
been instrumental in efectiug in less than half
2 century, with a people whom they found sunk
IN the depravities Of heatheuiSm." These mis-
sIOuaTies reduced their language 70 q written
form, and then translated the whole Bible into
that tongue and every blessing, socially and re-
HgIOuSlv, tuat the people possess, they owe IN
strUmeutally 10 the uuIidcd efforts Of these
American brethren. But W. look in vain tor
any recognition Of such laborS in all that has
been said by the Bishop Of Oxford. y sentence
Of cold reference occurs in his speech at Liver
pool, and at Leeds he contemptuOu-y describes
taem - men whose preaching was - distinctly
hostile 10 AL the natural tendencies Of that rar-
tcular people lie renders them no thanks
he accounts them worthy Of no praise but with
Characteristic intolerance Of all N0ncOnformitv,
ne dismiSses them and their forty wears service
IN the cause Of Christ, and Of these once heather
souls, with a criticism that sounds very much
like "a sheer. We enter our protest against an
attempt 70 Ignore with sarcastic ind ference the
labOrs Of brethren whom we revere. in whose
success we unieiguedly rejoice, but whose dis
tauce from this controversy ehcctuallv prevents
their being heard in their own defence. There
may De some consolation In knowing that all the
eloquent defamation Of even a distinguished pre-
late cannot subvert facts. The sun shines and
VIII SHINE though 4 diguitary of the Church
may seem tor a moment 10 obscure the light.
But the Bishop Of Oxford wields great influence
IN certain religious circles Of the land. and many
excellent people will accept his descriptions 6f
the American missionaries and their labors as
unquestionably true. We appeal. therefore,
from his to the true version OF the story. The
verdict would - against our brethren by default
II no advocate were u protest.
The Mission Is in itself. 10 our mind, of a most
Objectionable and even Eernici0us character. Il
Is an attempt 70 graft on 10 another race some Of
the worst features of our own Anglican system.