The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-03-30

OF many persons lest the company might contest
the payment of the amount OF insurance to the
heirs. LIFE INSURANCE.
To THE EDITOR OF THE 7. c. ADVERTISER Your
remarks last week respecting the very extraor-
binary discourse preached in the Reformed Catho-
lie Church. by the Venerable ArChdeacon Mason,
on the evening of Sunday. the 18th inst. have been
called in question, | am informed, and their truth
denied by the reverend speaker. There were others
present, besides your reporter. who will indorse
the remarks as perfectly correct. and justly called
forth. The whole sermon, from beginning TO end.
was a glorifcation of our faith in contrast with
yours, and considering the occasion and the au-
dience present, some of whom had been personally
requested to attend, was ont of place. The alII-
sions made to the honorable services of the de
ceased as Judge of the Supreme Court, and ac-
crediting him with He chief honor of the present
Judiciary system, utterly ignoring the arduous
labors of the late Chief Justice LEE and the present
honored Chief Justice ALLEN, were in keeping with
the occasional filings at other denominations
Now, sir. this tendency to draw invidious COM
parsons between our sect aud other sects. TO laud one
and denounce others, may accord with the motives
which inspired the sending ont of the Reformed
Catholic Mission. but it is not in accordance with
the teachings of our Lord and Saviour. The same
disposition to SANDER others has been shown ever
since the Mission was established here, OCCASION
ally at times appearing more bitter than at others.
For instance, the following paragraph taken from
the american Quarterly Church Herier. and cred
tied therein to A Member of the Reformed Catho-
lie Mission " at these Islands, would seem to have
been inspired by some other spirit than that of
Christian charity
THE bitterness we experience from the TAmer-
can] Missionaries would not be believed. They
do not conine themselves To argument. Personal
SANDER, especially of the King, is the commonest
possible thing in their pulpits. These low. unedu-
Gated persons, formerly blacksmiths, carpenters,
shoemakers, etc, do not understand what gentle
manly feeling is. To make their mission self
supporting, is the grand aim of their ministry.
The sick. the dying, are never looked after by
them. or rarely; not one person who dies in ten
receives Christian burial children are left unbap-
tied praying to death and sensual vice are con-
nived at in their deacons and best members with a
shrug while the dollars are taken in pay for the
mOlasses and poi given as the Sacrament. The
Sabbath is the one grand test of piety. Female
virtue, after forty-three years of Christianity. is
ordinarily unknown in girls in their teens. The
people are h%eathens. really, in belief and practice,
processing Christianity because it is respectable
The epithets - low, uneducated persons, former
ly blacksmiths, carpenters" &c. are intended to
be derogatOry to the Missionaries. When Jesus re-
turned to Nazareth from dsputing with the doc
tors, and was subject to his reputed parents, he
doubtless worked under Joseph at the carpenters
trade, and some said OF Him, - Is not this the car
peuter's son? ~ 1t is the man that digniiies the en-
%ployment. and there is no degradation in any
honest calling, however humble it may be. Many
of the counts in the statement quoted are utterly
false. The Missionaries entered yonng into the
service of the Board. but before doing so they re-
ceived, first, a common or select school education
second. a preparatory for College education Hird,
a full College education and degree and, fourth,
a three years professional education, occupying
usually, beside the first step, full nine years of dill
gent study. Were the Missionaries u0eiucate32
Who reduced the Hawaiian language TO writing,
adapting the sounds to letters? Who gave them
schools and books, and taught them to read and
write? Who translated the Bible from the HebTelr
and Greek into the yeInaculaT, completing the
whole in May. 1888? Who have printed and cir
culated full 100. 900 copies of bibles and Tesla
mcnts? Who scattered schools throughout the
land. so that full seventy-five out of every one
hundred could read and write before the writer of
the above ever saw the Islands, whilst in old Italy
out of 2l.T03.1l0. only ~3,SSf,2f5 can read and
write, and in the Roman Territory. 9l2 ont of
every 1000 could neither read nor write? Are
the sick and the dying never or rarely looked after
by the American Missionaries Does not one in
ten who dies = receive Christian burial - Are the
children left uubaptised ? Is sensual vice con
nived at in their dcacons and best members
Those who know the condition of things at these
Islands, must admit that the statements Of the
writer quoted are slanderous and wholly false.
II Is more in sorrow than in anger that | have
noticed the sermon and these extraordinary state
ments. made by 4 Member Of the reformed Cdho-
lie Nissi0R.f 1t is only in vindication of truth
and justice that | have done so. JUSTICE.