The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1871-08-09
An Address 10 the Gar.

TO the Hnaperial Majesty, Alexander H., Emperor d
ell he E,ssias: The undersigned citizens Of the
United States Of America and delegates ofthe Amer
lean Board Of the Evangelical Alliance, which is an
organization composed Of Protestant Christians Of
different denominations and countries, beg leave
most respectfully to explain the circumstances which
have permitted this appeal your Imperial Majesty
With increased facilities of Communication the unity
of the human family become moreand more practic-
able National acts of philanthropy exert a direct
influence beyond the boundaries of the countries in
which they originate. The benevolent DEGREES of
your Imperial Majesty in reference TO the sers com
1nand the admiration of the friends of humanity in
our own land and throughout the world, and had a
favorable effect upon our own Government in bring
ing about shortly afterward the emancipation offour
millions Of slaves. Confidence in the weIl-llnown
beneyolence Of your Imperial Majesty emboldens US
to express the profound sympathy felt by the null
titudes in our own country with a large number OF
your Imperial Majestys subjects in the Baltic Pro-
uinces whose condition lie graphically described in
the report made 10 your Imperial Majesty by Count
Brobenski in April 1864, and who, by the existing
laws, were prevented from openly returning to the
faith of their Lutheran ancestors
AS Americans, we venture to refer to our own ma
tional experience of the effects of religious liberty
on the welfare Of individuals and the stability of
Government. By religious liberty do not intend
freedom from all authority, much less that all
opinions equally good, but simply the right of
every individual to believe and worship according
to his own free conscience, responsible only TO the
authority OF God as revealed in His holy words In
the United States, religious denominations and the
forms Of worship are equal before the law which,
supporting none protects all and every (whichinter
feres with their internal affairs The orthodox Greek
Church, though with US the smallest as to numbers
enjoys in every respect the liberty the largest
denomination. 1t may build churches propagate
its opinion and exert its influence freely in the
United States il has in the Empire of Russia.
This religious freedom we have found not only re-
lieves the State from agiatons and but is the
surest pledge Of social order and national unity by
promoting mutual respect and charity among differ
ent denominations, but by iBaugurating of
security TO all in common, the eDjoymenkof their
most sacred rights In view ofthese considerations
respectfully solicit. in common with breth-
rem in Europe, in behalf Of your Imperial Majestys
subjects in the Baltic that they may be permitted
TO worship God and educate their children according
to the faith of their fathers and the free preference
of their own cosciences.
Still further in behalf of American Missionaries,
distinguished by intelligent pety and scholarship,
who have labored long and successfully among the
Armenians, HISTORIANS and other Christians under
Mahomedan rule in Turkey, and on the borders of
the Russian DomiHions, we beg leave 10 ask your
Imperial Majesty that Christian Governments may
be induced to grant within the limits ofther urisdic
tion among all subjects not belonging TO the ortho
dox Greek Church, the liberty of worship and relg
ious obstruction, including the circulation of the
Holy Scriptures, in support of the memorial which |
is now earnestly and respectfully presented. We
appeal to the genius of Christianity which being
spiritual in its nature requires moral influence and
motives TO the sacred rights Of. conscience, which
demand outward expressions of freedom of public
worship by the spirit of modern civilization, in
which religious liberty seems 10 anticipate its uni
versal prevalence, to the preceps of Jesus Christ
whose kingdom is not of this world and who is the
head Of things belonging to the Church, with the
sincere hope that your Imperial Majesty may have
the high satisfaction of adding another to those
acts Of benevolence which have inspired the graft
tude of mankind, and deyoutly invoking upon your
Imperial Majesty and upon all Russia the blessings
of Almighty God, by whom Kings reign and Princes
decree Justice
We subscribe ourselves with profound respect
your Imperial Majesty's obedient servants,
William Adams John Crosby Brown, William E.
Dodge, Charles P. McInaine, Nathan BISHOP
Salmon P. Chase, Peter Parker, Matthew Simson,
Cyrus W. Field, Philip Scof, Secretary
LONDON, July 16th.-Prince Gortschakoff has ex-
pressed TO deputation Of the American Evangeli-
cal Alliance, the sympathy of his August Master,
the Car, with the object Of their prayers viz: Ad
vancement OF the cause ofregous liberty in Russia
SACRED HAWKS = Whenever the sacred hawk
died, its body handed over to the embalmer,
and subsequently deposited in q sacred tomb. 1t
mattered not where orbow it had met its death, in
common with other sacred animals it was wrapped
in linen cloths, and followed to the grave by pro-
cession of mourners, whose outward signs of grief \
were shown by beating their breasts, and by such
voluntary penances testified to the generation
with which these animals were held. Even the
hawks which died in foreign countries were en-
balmed and brought to Egypt have seen nothing