The Hawaiian gazette., 1869-09-01

BOTH the religious papers In this town
the Friend, and the Kuokoa, lin its issue
of August l4th,) comments on the remarks
of writer in the former paper, upon the
record of the meeting of the Hawaiian
Evangelical Association, in June last. We
speak Of the Rltotod, as religious paper
correctly, we hope-because the "Asso-
citation" at the said meeting, claimed it as
theirs, or at least, allowed report to be
accepted, in which it was said to be their
paper, and further, because the paper ITSELF
whilst disclaiming the soft impeachment,
says, in effect, that the language of the
report was sufficiently correct, and remarks,
July 17th,) that it is distinctly "Evangeli-
cal" in its religious sentiments, and is
zone of the most IMPORTANT AUxILIARIEs
which EVANGELICAL RELIGION has in this
land"
The aforesaid important auxiliary" un-
der date of August l4th, says:
"The Association in June, drew attention
to the fact that there had been some little
improvement in our Schools, from the con-
dition of comparative neglect and disorder
of the last few years. This was the statement
of fact questioned by none. An effort was
made by a few to have the word little struck
out, and omit the suggestion that this improve
ment was in consequence of agitation. The
amendment was lost, and on the final adop-
ton of the report, but one hand was raised in
the negative. This was the point, regarding
which, writer in the Friend, for August,
takes exception, suggesting that the scribe
should have also recorded that some did not
vote, and that others, who would have voted
In the negative, were not present and to
which, the Friend very properly replies, that
it was not the business Of the scribe to record
what was not, but what was, done; and that
it was not to be supposed that members of
that Association withheld their votes, and still
desired to be counted as in the negative"
Evidently, the writer in the Friend,
who comments on the report, is not fully
up to the mark of refined sophistry, to
which, considering the advantage which
he enjoys, of living in the same town with
these opponents of truth, justice, religion
and morality, and sometimes reading, and
perhaps hearing their productions, and if
fortune very much favors him, of enjoying
their conversation, he ought to have at
tanned. He (the writer in the Friend
says, that the report, while literally
correct, conveys an untruth, because
it conveys the idea, that all but one,
of the members of the Association, ap-
proved its utterances, and this is by no
means true. He is one who has allowed
himself to think that the suppressio reri,
suppression of the truth is not different
from the expression Of falsehood. He
thinks, perhaps, that the only object of
publishing the proceedings of public bodies
is, to impart information to the Public, and
if such a publication misleads; whether
its language be literally true or not, it be-
becomes false, and if it is intended to mis-
lead-it is purposely false.
This writer in the Friend has not be-
come Sufficiently "matured' in morality
and philanthropy, to know that it is per-
fectly proper to manipulate the report of a
religious body, and give the impression
that all or nearly all were not only support
ing interpretations then before the meeting
but likewise endorsing other assertions and
resolutions, made at some previous times,
from which, likewise, they wholly dissent
1t is usual, in reporting the proceedings of
other bodies, on matters of interest to the