The Hawaiian gazette., 1869-05-12

tiOR Of ATctimsdsS hOhG'S School at
WGimds
Atabout 5 o'clock in the afternoon, another
meeting was held respecting foreign tongues
Koha remarked, that in the morning no
prayer had been made before the examina-
ton, and therefore he had had headache.
To prevent second one, PRAYER was made
by native kahunapule. / retired, and staid
outside until the end OF said prayer Koha's
school does not belong to the Government,
therefore he had = right TO have this Kind of
prayer made But it Is not the same when,
in the examination of Government schools,
q prayer is made in the Calvinist fashion, in
the presence Of children and parents of differ
ent religions. This is done against the rules
of the Board of Education.
They play tie Dsril (Iitsraly)
/ Doctor Koha announced what was TO be
treated at this meeting, and among other
Z things, the Judgment OF Satan. Soon after
appeared the dreadful foe OF mankind. be
advanced proudly, in pompous tress, royal
| hat on his head, a cane in hand, and two
| large leaves Of the eocoanut tree crossed ou
his back, figuring his numerous arrows. He
| looked around with fierce eyes and hissings;
blew in his followed cane, and darted out,
/ several times, his internal tongue, IA flexible
/ rod Here comes, behind, another devil,
with similar dress, mournfully sommiserat-
/ ing his dear lord for the Judgment he is about
to undergo. They both blow ard hiss aw-
fully on the same cane Behold, again, two
moustrous devils, covered with dry banana
leaves, and drawing long tails They walk
like bears on their hind legs, pointing TO
/ the people around them. Suddenly an iron
chain takes hold of them. They rear and
pitch, crying for help, but are pitilessly
| driven back to hell, with a roar of laughter
/ from the assembly.
They hare a critical biblical discussion.
Archimed Koha then began to speak of the
number of books, chapters and verses of the
Bible, adding that in the Catholic Bible there
are many more. But he called the Catholic
Bible apocryphal, without naming, however,
the pretended apocryphal books, and with
out giving any proof of his bold asser-
ton. remembered the adage-9vod gratis
GsseTitir, gratis Hegatur, and did not think
| the circumstances fit for engaging in a con-
troversy on the csnonical books of the Holy
Scriptures. But l asked Koha to svow, in
the presence of the assembly, on account of
his great fane for knowing foreign tongues,
that the Greek Bible has been very badly
translated into Hawaiian. l added that, on
this ayOwal from him, l would recognize
that be knew something about foreign Ian
guages. Koha refused to make this ayowal
then told him that in the first verse Of ST.
Matthew, there are three mistakes in the
Hawaiian New Testament, even in the last
edition, printed in 1s6S. I'VE are obliged
to omit the particulars of the verbal criti-
eism.-ED.l
The examination proceeded by Koha's re-
latiou of long history or story about the
Cross of our Saviour. He said that the very
piece of wood of which the Cross was made,
had been formerly column in solomon's
Temple; that afterwards it was taken away
from the Temple by one of Solomon's sue
cessors. The learned teacher related how it
had been wonderfully preserved from that
time down to the day our Divine Redeemer
took it on his shoulders, TO be nailed upon
il. member OF the Committee asked my
opinion on the subject. "Koha knows more
than about it, :" was my answer.
After that, Lion of the North, or Bear
of the Rivers, 1 can't say exactly which, went
to the blackboard to write the Hebrew word
Jehovah, in Hebrew characters The word
consists of four letters, of which he wrote
three wrong-and these he wrote from left
to right.
Next, Archimed Koha, requested one of
his scholars to write two words expressing
two titles of Jesus Christ. He said: Write
Aleph Qnstead of Alpha, and Omega" In
fact, the scholar wrote the Hebrew Aleph
and the Greek Omega, the latter of which he
made wrongly. Koha bantered him, saying.
pleasantly, las he did frequently at any schol-
ar's iault), that there was confusion in the
pupils head, on account of the abundance
of his learning. said the letter written by
the scholar was true Omega-the capital
one member Of the Committee looked
into the Greek Grammar Of Koha, and said l
was right. Koha had not specified what
Omega he wanted, and he denied generally
the scholars letter to be an Omega Here
is another mistake of his about Greek: he
said that KatolIkA means makua, (fatherl. l
told him that the Greek word kAtholikos
means universal, from kata, (over), and olos,
(aID. The renowned Hellenist said, loudly
enough, that he was nearly puzzled, because
there was present one who knew too much
about Greek.
Koha forgot (or did not dare), TO examine
his scholars in Latin. asked him If be would
be pleased, in order to prove his knowledge
of Latin and Greek, to answer some ques-
tious on declensions and coujugations. The
Committee told me not to ask him such
questions, and Koha, not contrzdicting them,
indicated that be was truly unable to answer
queslOns on lAaL euOJrSi. Dub HS sisHeo
(crussed) himself in Latin, saying, sin nom-
inc Patris, ct Fiji, ct Spirtus sancti"
That was his answer to my demand. he IS
never short an Of answer.
The new Archimed, to be an accomplished
Hnguist, had learned, during one month, some
words Of the Chinese language, and taught
them in his school He did not omit TO ex-
anime his scholars in that language 4 Chi
nzman present said some words were right
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