The Hawaiian gazette., 1871-07-12

writing the Scriptures were translated into it ;
and the religious revivals of 1889 proved this
mission to be the most successful one Of all that
the American Board had sent out
The reader will have OWNED that the main
causes Of this success are not those that DR.. An
derson indicates. We have outlined them as they
existed in the Hawaiian people themselves and
in the faithful missionaries that went out to them
1t was not in Boston that the success was won.
1t was due. on the one hand to the conditions
we have endeavored to outline; on the other to
the labors of men like Bingham, Thurston, and
COan. Yet the Prudential Committee could
recall the first named missionary, upon the pre-
text OF temporary business, from his station. and
could prevent him from returning to it and Dr..
Anderson could say (p 1921 that Mr.. Blnghams
connection with the Board was terminated at
his own request" Those who know something
OF the secret history Of the mission. and remem-
Der Mr. Binghams twenly-three unoccupied years.
spent in this country after his recall-twenty-
three years Of sappointment-wll regard this
statement as one Of the most dsingenuous that
could be made in words not literally false But
those who know that DR.. Anderson 10 1854, sup
pressed the mission schools in India in order
that men like Wilder and Spaulding should give
more time to the preaching Of the Word" and
then announced to the public that the action Of
the missionaries was uncOnstrained and Free
will regard the former statement as quite charac-
terlstlc Of the man.
The same policy Of suppressing the individual
is exercised in the present volume towards SO dis
tinguished a missionary as the Rev. Titus Coan.
Protestant mis- ions have not known a name Of
which the record is more honorable than this
The pastor Of a church that for many years was
the largest Of al Protestant churches the gath
erer of thirteen thousand Hawaiians into the
Christian fold the laborIOus observer and histo-
rian for thirty six years Of the most important
volcanic phenomena in the world the registrar of
facts which have supplied the materials for more
than one monograph pabshed by writer's who
had never seen an eruption, the faithful pastor
that would never turn aside to seek preferment
when it was within his reaeh-this steadfast
Of the. American Board" was entitled to other
than an individual mention by its official historian
" of his success Says DIR. Anderson. (p. $50 y
" The facts we're so extraordinary, and attracted
at that time so much attention among the patrons
of the mission, that pains we're taken to draw
from him statement of his labors. &c. The
imputaton is wholly unjust. Titus Coan is not
less frank than lie is able he has always fully
reported his labors; but his modesty has pre-
vented him from becoming his own eulogist. and
his unsellishness has prevented him from CRITICS.
ing the eyeling policy which the Prudential
Committee" uniformly directs against its more
prominent missionaries. Mr. Coan's name. even
is excluded from the index of this wOrk-an
index in which, though it is very scanty, there is
room for the author to figure.
But We are not long left in doubt concerning
opinion the success Of the Hawaiian mission is
due. The following passage, quoted from page
285, will enable US to uncover the face of the
prophet himself: The reaction following the
Accordingly at the close Of 1862. the Prudential
Committee resolved that it was expedient for the
Foreign Secretary, (Dr. AndersOn,) to repair to
The Islands and aid the brethren by personal con-
erence. in the reconstruction Of the Christian
The Foreign Secretary" forth
With repaired lat the expense of the coatribu-
ions to the Board) to the Hawaiian Islands be
ct the schools alone during this visit and con-
ented himself with reconsfructng the Christian
1t was like Moses striking the
Ock in the wilderness He returned TO quote,
in the sams page. the following testimony from
he Hawaiian Evangelical Association respecting
he effects of his visitation We believe our
.hurches growing in knowledge and grace
There never was time when we have had more
leeisve evidence Of genuine piety."
We have left ourselves little space to speak Of
he minor errors and deficiencies Of this volume
10 leave it with the favor in our mouth, as it
we're, of extracts like the foregoing, would not
,e unpleasant; but We must notice such import !
mt inaccuracies that Of recording DIR. Lafon |
p. BID once a resident of the islands, and now
t New Jersey, as deceased" We cannot credit
he cold and cautious spirit Of the author Of this
'oOk with any sense Of humor, or we might sup
lose that we had in this statement a new varia-
ion of the old joke against this foreign coun-
ry." Questionable mention Of another State is
made in the following extraordinary sentence:
Mr. Chamberlain was born in Dover, Vermont.
August 29, 1892. and consequently lived almost
o the age of 81" The literary style Of the
FORK is that in which women are always called
females and the mission, instead Of ending in
$40, connects its close" with that year We
hnk that the cause Of missions would have lost
tile if Dr. Anderson had been proyidentially led
D connect the close Of the present literary
Tork with its beginning But we notice with
pprehenslon that he proposes to write two more
olumes, describing the other missions Of the
American or Congregational Board" Perhaps
e will then explain why neither Providence nor
the Prudential Committee" have procured for
iese missions q success equal to that which has
TENDED the labors Of the English Protestants
r of the Roman Catholics in various missionary
elds.
[From the New York world Of May ztb.I
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