The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-06-25

important particulars may with some confidence De
imnrovement in learning, end, That he has long been
Indifferent to idol worship, 3rd, Ihat ne is not uu-
friendly to the whites: Our nearis 40 ,o reJoIc To-
preach Christ to that venerable CHIEF VINO mas SO
long and so ably governed this people" On the
following day some of the missionaries landed at
Kawaihae Bay, and there the brig remained at an
Choir until Monday, the 3rd of April The first Sab
bath was spent at kawalhae, where Ine Hes' Mi Mi
Bingham preached from the text, 'Ihe isles snail
wait for his law Is. 42:4. During that week the
vessel proceeded to Kailua, where they all landed,
and where there was much intercourse between
King, chiefs, people and the newly arrived mission
aries. Thus commenced the first Christian MISSION
TO the Hawaiian Islands from America: Inc event
is the most memorable in our Island history from
their discovery to the present time. we nave gain,
erred to commemorate the transactions, and many OF
our exercises during the current week have been
planned with reference to the same event.: IL merlls
to be kept in perpetual remembrance: IL syncnro,
pizes with another great event which Americans ano
New Epglanders especially delight, to
I refer to the landing of the Pilgrims, on Plymouth
Rock, in 1920. This year is to be @ celebrate the ees oIh
The note of preparation has already peen SOUNDED.
When on my way recently across the American Con.
tinent i spent a day at Chicago, fortunately II 1eli
on the 9th of April, when there were gathered
of Puritan Ministers and people in that
city, to make the necessary pTePParo ou@isd ior l more
throughout America, by the descendants OF the FL
grims and the Puritans of New England, scattered
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 1t is quite note
worthy that these two great events should thus syn
chroniZe. 1t was fitting that the two hundreth an
niversaIy of the landing of the Pilgrims from sai,i ine
of the "Thaddeus'' from Boston, with the fIoneer
band of Puritan missionaries to the shores OF Hawa-
ii. During the very year that Daniel webster ut
tered the sonorous paragraphs OF his immortal DIS.
course on the First settlement of New England, at
Plymoutb.' on the 22nd of December, 1920, the Brig
soThaddeus,, was pIoughing her way around Cape
Horn, on an GRAND equally grand Win tnat nlcu
two centuries before guided the May Flower from
the shores of Old to New England. Says bancroft,
ga grateful p~osterity has marked the rock which
received the Pilgrims footsteps" Shall not an
equally grateful posterity mark the lavaPoeh o ! M;a-
sionaries on the shores of Hawaii? says Bancroft,
'1n the cabin of the May Flower humanity recovered
its rights, and instituted government on :he oasis OF
teaual laws for the general good" May we
not add, that in the cabin of the "Ihaddeus'
Christianity. as embodied in the belief of the Pill
0rims. was on its way to Hawaii for the recovery and
Salvation of a portion of Adams lost race. Did not
the "Thaddeus" follow in the "MayF Flowers" wake
Aoa has os mot tSe the !9Th mMHrns? q s What ' ioVeT Of z Zion,
what friend of Missions and humanity, Will Tot de-
and trace the history of the voyages made by these
vessels.
"Charged with a freight transcending in its worth,
The gems of India, Natures rarest birth,
Each flew like Gabriel on the Lords commands,
a herald of Gods love to pagan lands"
Soon after the landing of the pioneer band of
Missionaries, stations were taken on Hawaii, Oahu,
and Kauai. The King and Chiefs were led to adopt
a most liberal and enlightened policy in regard to
grants of land and other privileges. Inc history OF
no Christian Mission, in ancient or modern tlmes'
gers of the Gospel. For the most part, that
policy has been uniformly continued through the
entire half-century which has since elapsed. This
was conspicuously apparent when the time came for
granting Royal Patents to lands which had been &C.
cupied by the Missionaries
Having become located, the herculian task was
undertaken of learning the language, and reducing
1t to a written form, instructing the ignorant peo-
pie, printing books, and performing an Inc mul1ila,
heather people. So much encouraged were the
pioneers in their work, and so favorable reports
the spring of 1928, a reinforcement arrived. This
was followed by a second, in the spring OF 1873; q
third in 1881 a fourth in lSSs; a NTH IN ao5S "a
and subsequently,, several additional achievements
came, the last arriving in 1854. The Rev: DIR. An
derson reports, that up to the year 1903, there mad
arrived forty ordained missionaries, six physicians,
twenty lay teachers, and eighty-three female mis-
siouaries, all but three wives of missionaries or as
for each clerical missionary then amounted 10
twenty-one years. The full amount OF missionary
suits appear in the ffty-six Protestant churches
gathered in various parts of the group, TO which
have been admitted no less than 67,600, upon a pro-
fession of their faith in Christ; and the total number
of children baptized, 1887. To these statistics,
must be added the establishment of common schools,
and several of a higher grade; the complete trahsla-
tion and publication of the Bible, besides no small
amount of educational, secular, and Christian litera-
ture. The Missionaries not only wrote and trans
lated many scores of books into the Hawaiian
language, but they also taught the natives to read.
"T6e schooImaster was abroad" Not only were
the young taught to read and write, but also the old.
Those of I" three score and ten" were enabled to
acquire sufficient knowledge to read the Bible with
ease and intelligence. Persons becoming acquainted
with the condition of the nation in 1870, can, with
difficulty, imagine how great the amount OF work
performed by the Missionaries from the year 1920,
durFag the -irst half of the fifty years which have
since elapsed. Fully to appreciate those labors, the
observer must review the nations history prior to
the arrival of those judicial and legal gentlemen who
have labored in conducting this people from their
Feudal state and system, TO the adoption of a Con-
Monarchy. Coming to these Islands in
1910 I haua hnan nnpuliarly favored in nhSaryinO
has been accomplished. That was the year
DIR. Judd entered the service of the Govern
by Mr.. Haalelio, on their foreign en-
bassy to Europe and America. l can barely allude
to those events in Hawaiian history. Up to that
period, the native Government had utterly refused
to adopt any system of land-tenure except the old
Feudal arrangement. Only a very small code of
sd tvIed nab t6e D e Blue ena Booki. sn1 Great National ma Il e5a Dees
were in progress. The amount of work accom-
plished by the Missionaries in Church and State,
marvellous. l do not undervalue what has been
during the last quarter of a century
by the learned IN law and diplomacy, but the Mis-
ionaries laid for them a foundation upon which to
build; and unless that foundation had been success
fully laid, never could this Kingdom have been es-
tablished upon a firm and Constitutional basis. The
must also be borne in mind, that there were
50 foes without and foes within" which must be met
and resisted. The whole time allotted for this dis
course might be fully employed in repeating the mar
rative of American, French and English aggressions.
only wonder is, that the nation now remains
and independent, when we reflect upon the
LIOUA LluO " 'oAN. -N1 1870 1AA
has swept away the native governments of
the Society Islands, New Zealand, Fiji, and other
groups. While / acknowledge the
jealousies of rival Great Powers has had something
10 do in this matter, 1 will not ignore the fact, that
from 1920 to 1870, the American Missionaries on
these Islands have uniformly combined to form a
strong conservative element to uphold the throne.
Democratic or Republican by birth and education,
they have rallied for the support of the Hawaiian
represented by the Kamehameha Dy-
nasty. They came not hither as Democratic Propa-
or Republican Revolutionists. Whatever
may have done or written, one thing is GER
tain, the American Mission to the Hawaiian Islands,
at the close of the first half century of its existence,
exhibits a good record with regard to political inter
ference, except for the good of the people, support of
the government, and welfare of the nation. The fact
is patent, that from the landing of the Missionaries
to the present time, they have exerted a greater or
influence upon the general policy and administra-
of the government. I make no attempt to ignore
or conceal this fact; but 1 challenge the world, to
show that this influence, direct or indirect, has not
been good, salutary, and conservative. 1 can point
to the Bill of Rights, signed by the King on the 9TH
of June, 1889, as embodying those principles which
the Missionaries had taught the Rulers of these ISL
ands. and you viii find them in harmony with the
Magma Charta of England, and the Declaration of
Independence. The document opens thus