The Hawaiian gazette., 1869-05-26
CORREsPoNDENCE.

g And Job answered and said unto hi:
friends: No doubt but We are the people
and wisdom shall die with you.'"
Since Jobs friends shufied of this mortal
coil, the world has seen Solomon and the
Prophets, the wise men of the East and 9
host of Gentiles, whose wisdom has llu-
mined the world, and they have gone too,
They have left this clayey sphere to journey
in the vast unknown; yet wisdom liveth
still-pariieularly that egotistical, meddling,
self satisfied wisdom, which Job sarcastical.
IL rebuked in his friends, still fingers TO
illumine our benighted minds. For, is not
he who writes for the newspapers over the
name of " Missionary LETT to US! Are we not
blessed with semi-occasional scintillations
from the mind and heart, of, not the real
Missionary-the man who left his native
shores, TO come and teach an unknown,
savage people-not the old and honored We
teran, who has passed his life in the service
of his master, with great singleness of pur-
pose; indeed am sure in my own mind,
that he is not Missionary at all-nor do
believe him TO be preacher-but one who
has impudently assumed the name of Mis-
sionary But whoever he is, have We not
the benefit of his wonderful knowledge OF
the things of this world, his great love of
truth, and his devotion TO the canse of vir-
tue: Indeed We have. Yet ungrateful beings
that we are, We will not heed his warnings /;
We will not listen TO the words of wisdom
which fall from his lips, or glide from his
pen, but perseyere in looking at things for
ourselves, and governing our actions, accord
ing to our ewn consciences, instead OF taking
him for our guide, philosopher and friend.
As though this were not enough, there are
occasions when We even doubt his inspira-
freely dispenses is entirely earthly in its ma
ture, and frequently poor at that This iu-
/ dividual's strong, and at the same time tender
| point, is education; he has somehow got the
idea that the future of the rising generation
entirely depends upon whether it receives its
I intellectual pabulum from himself or from
what he would probably call, the &" worlds
people" To receive if from himself, is to be
ism but his own, will be implanted in the
tender bosom of Rising Generation, and as
his own ism is the only ism in which saving
grace abounds, as well as worldly wisdom,
it is vitality important that Rising Generation
ISL contaminated by any other.
This is the reason why we have had lately,
the benefit of certain efforts, exposing what
he thinks to be the Vaccinations of the evil
minded and corrupt, TO sap the strong foun-
dation of moral uprightness. Herein Mis-
sionary is unfortunate. Herein he has,-by
long brooding upon one subject, having
started wrong in the first place, being all the
time unable to see long distance and only
one side at that-so contracted his vision
that he can hardly see at all. To him, all
may appear dark and dangerous outside of
his own narrow range; whereas, to those
who have not been blinded, as he has been,
and who are able to look with impartial eyes,
on all sides, everything looks serene. 1t is
| indeed difficult to make one believe, that
Missionary when he makes such sweep
ing allegations, as he does sometimes; in
regard TO the character of those whom he
thinks it his duty TO animadvert upon, is
not wilfully and maliciously slandering his
neighbors, 10 attain some evil end of his own
II is most natural for US 10 think, that when a
person who has opportunities to "know
whereof he speaks" and processes ''to know"
makes charges against Others, (be they public
servants or private citizens which the law
would probably punish by the name of SLAM
der" and which charges have no foundation,
except in the distorted brain of him who
makes them, that the man is wilfully mis-
chievous character; and that he dares TO
make his allegations to the injury of Others,
because of the comparative security of an
anonymous newspaper correspondent Now
this is what this individual signing himself
Missionary" has done, and this is what
most impartial people think of him. We
should, however, have more charity for him;
We should recollect how easy it is for ones
mind to become distorted by misdirected
zeal, and an over-weening confidence in
himself, and his own opinions, so that he be-
leves all, outside Of his little narrow world,
are capable of every offence. If for the
moment, he imagines himself the protector
of morals, he thinks these wicked people
are corruptors of morals, and accuses them
oooorJ;,cl1- II l,a ;r,ocr;,as b;,,solg .ba
champion of liberty, these wicked ones are
the oppressors of the weak, and he accuses
them of being so. If he feels called upon
TO protect the worldly wealth of himself or
Others, these ungOdly cormOrants are seek
ing for spoils, and he loudly warns his friends
to double lock their doors and keep careful
watch The world in fact is going to per-
dition-aceording to his diseased imagina-
ton. He looks forward from day to day
with the most melancholy forebodings, DEEM
ing it impossible that any other fate can be
in store for the world, save that OF the
" cities of the plain" and that he may at
any moment, be called upon to act the part
of another Lot. Like another Jonah, be be-
ieves himself to be sent to warn the modern
Nineveb, and as it does not repent, he no
doubt believes that the reason why it is not
utterly destroyed, is because it still contains
one righteous man, and that be is that right
eous one. This is my theory in regard to
Missionary" BE believes all he says, and
you can bring the most irrefragable proof
that he is wrong, you cannot convince him.
He will not see. The world advances and