The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-01-13


: raarl. are presumed - H. blind. whatever these
their would-be leaders may h. Ii l. true the
request i0r this ep!scgIlte emanat7i from the
late kim: but IL j. alSJ notorious that tie >lE-
g--tlYu -prarg from cIEase-9r- who ought -
have known better. Tor. tie doctrines of this
Mission are not such a. We hold . De- the " tue
filth gc Christ" Tie title which this Anglican
branch has assumed : indicative Of the d.-mas
l. ur1p.s- % teach. TIE Reformed Catholic
Church # Hawaii" T. ;hs tt.e IL, doctrines
conform. Bapti-ual Regeneration and Sauctif-
cation through the priesthood are distinctly
taught; and the clergy are only waiting Tor the
transmission Of these subscriptions from England,
In order - carry out IL all It's sI-eudyr the ca
tleiral service Of the Mother Church. But.
after ali. the natives are not attracted. turIos-
IrT has gwen place % Indifference. They hold
tx = r.-ir old guides. IAev estimate the doc
thine and tie ritual ~ their true worth, by pro-
u5unc.aE i Just Ike the Roman Catholic.
With native shrewdness they call only the Amer
lean Mission - Protestant, aud class the Kings
Bishop, a. they designate Nh >aley, with the
Church %. Rome.
The plea Of poverty which the Bishop Of OK
ford urge. cannot b. sustained We can under
stand that il may be our duty 10 send, al no
small cost, our missionaries u lands rich IN in
te.l-ctual and material wealth but surely i l.
not our duty - graft upon them . branch u our
National Church - = state Institution. unless
there BE- some corresponding readiness on the
part VI sUci people - sustain that Church. In
reply. the Bishop Of Oxford pleads the poverty Of
tLs islands. But these islands are not poor.
This fact the Bishop Of Oxford himself admits
when Lis TurI.Se ! u eZtyl and NOT u degrade
them. d" They sent" said he. " $500 - the
Lancashire Relief Fund But when ne wants
money .0r his cathedral and the endowment Of
his clergy. he tells u they have had neither i'm
ports nor exports since their s~andilwOod failed.
HEY have nO means, therefore, with which 10
baili even one Church in which their clergvmen
D. - - H---
both imports and exports and they are rapidly
increasing Their exports are sugar, rice, coffee.
wool. hides, ~arrJwTOOt, and some oil and whale
bone, the produce Of vessels belonging 10 Homo
lulu. Their export Of sugar alone last year WAS
10000. 900 pounds. and II VIII probably reach
this year y 900 goo pounds. Their imports
correspond and, by q duty Of ten PER. cent,
the expenses u the native Government are met.
1t may b. said that ell this prosperity i due TO
English ami American enterprise but il i also
true that II i conducted under a andwich
leland native Government. and that natives take
their share in the commercial and political life
Of the Sandwich Island nation. They have the
power aud tine Will u build both slnctUaries and
schools from their OWN resources. If they 80
please for IN Honolulu there stands. On the plot
Of ground touching the plot on which the AEgli-
can cathedral l. u stand. a church OF the Ameri-
can Mission, built Of the coral reef stone, built
by native hands and with native means. in which
Mr.. Smith now breaches, capable OF holding up
wards Of two thousand people.
We refuse = believe, therefore, that aDv such
Mission - this i needed or desired in those
Islands. II such an experiment must be tried,
let II be on some savage and yct Unreclaimed ma
ton. But then the soil would be Unc0ngenial.
1t requires the forty years labor Of the uen Of
God. simple IN faith and prayer, without ritual
and tITmularies, with 10 endowment or catAe-
dral, u prepare the way. Such i process takes
time, and such an experiment as this cannot
wait. \ royal invitation u arise and build, and
L. posses the land which the bows and spears OF
other warriors have won, does not come twice in
the short life Of one p%relate. 10 our mind. it Is,
using one Of the Bishop Of OxtJId's own ~illustra-
NabOth's vineyard. Tie ground has been re-
claimed, titled and s1wn, and when the fruit is
ripe for plucking the rightful inheritor Is 10 be
dispOsses>ed. Such an attempt Is only equaled
by the thanklessness OF those, who, like Queen
EmIua herself, owe all they ever knew, whether
IN secular or religious knowledge, To the instruc-
ton they received III the American Mission
Schools.
Upon the labors Of our American brethren the
Lord has set His seal. They may say of these
islands is they contrast the present with the past,
as Paul said Of the Thessalguiaus For what
Is our hope, OF JOY, or crown Of rejoicing? Are
not even We in the presence Of our Lord Jesus
Christ 1T bis appearing? For We are our glory
and jJy.' For III having bequeathed. as tLey
do, u distant generations the UnSVeakable boon
Of "a Hawaiian version of the ScriptuTes-the
basis ON which rests all else that they have done
for IIawaii-the success attending other labJrers
for Christ in those islands will only add to the
lustrs which Is already gathering around these
first heralis Of the Cross.