The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-09-21

GLIDING one mother with FIVE children. That
company had only liberty to come on shore
and stay one year. What circumspection.
what power oil endurance they were called 10
exercise I, The ladies were n rare curiosity
10 the nation the children more so To
turn from scenes OF pressing their own chll-
dren beneath the sod with their own heels,
or, If allowed to live. TO 90 entirely naked
then 10 behOld our children dressed with
shirts, pants and coats, with dresses and neck
attire, with stockings and shoes, with hats
and hornets. they were delighted-they were
fascinated with them, as much SO as our
children would be with a fresh importation
OF London dolls. halaImoku, a great war
rior, who put down the rebellion in favor OF
idols. who sustained the position of prime
minister of the nation, and was called the
Iron Gable. passed by educated men and
chose little Daniel Chamberlain, five years
old, to be his teacher in learning the English
alphabet. When MIS-. Chamberlain started
TO 60 10 church with her family, by the time
she got there, she was as destitute of chill
dren as young married ladies. One queen
would secure one child, another "A second,
and so on. We had ten queens in those days.
A deputation from the London Missionary
Society was providentially brought TO US.
They were thirty years ahead OF US IN a
knowledge of the experience OF missionary
Iabors. They awoke as from n dream of Sc
curly. Their advice, after being months in
our family, was gratuitous and full. Let
Mr.. Chamberlain take his SIX children, 90
home with them, and train them up for God.
He never can do it here. AS society now is,
TO come in contact with natives or foreigners
would be moral DEATH Our own mission
o-,a=4 a., - 80 - flI.,. -. ia th,.r
missionary work up quick, and returned TO
their native land. But the winning intiu-
ence that they exerted over the minds of ma
tives IN causing the Mission so quickly TO
become the acknowledged teachers of the
nation, will never be appreciated IN this life.
During successive years, several other fam
lilies, parents and children retired, and their
places were filled with new recruits Some
nine or n dozen children in early childhood
were torn from the arms of their parents, and
sent across the waters for education. A re-
turned missionary lady from the East said
10 me, "A child left in the streets in Amer
lea would have a better education than in
the best .fan1iiy in a heather land. One
divine among us who had a regard TO the
sacredness of the family institution, thought
that these human clippings went TO make a
ann OOh Inv a AbNOdiiut NlNC hbOttlCI
fourteen years after the commencement of
the Mission, with all the ardency of his ma
ture hoped that no daughter would ever
remain in this land up TO the age of her fif-
teenth year. But the good hand of our God
was upon us. Punahou school rose up TO
bless our land. 1t worked together for good
that some of our children were there edu-
Gated, that some were sent 10 America, and
nrna traIpad in p IN Z a "a m tliaS The CouS-.
ms Society is a monument of glory to the
American missionaries. The Instructions
given to the nation had It's natural result. A
standard was raised of what was right. Vice
fed from the open face of day to lens and
secret places.
When a white man died in former times,
a line in his yard was drawn around his
dwelling. Everything within that line went
to the king, even down TO a pewter spoon.
The natural heirs were stripped of every
thing. So all the land belonged to the king.
aud could not become alienated from him.
He could at an hours warning dispossess
any subject of his home. Thus we lived for
twenty-seven years.
Kamehameha ILL.,, who was emphatically
the Father of his country, gave to his people
~salutary written laws. He put land, too,
into the hands of his subjects, to become
theirs, their heirs and assigns forever. Then
it was that grandmothers migrated TO this
land from abroad, and mothers here be-
so by ordinary generation. Then 1t
was that our sons and daughters were re-
tanned by the side of their parents. 1t was
good to bring woman here when gross dark
ness was upon the people. 1t was good to
bring grandmothers here when light began
to shine. 1t was cery good to plant chill
dren on Hawaiian soil-sons to become the
sinews of the land, and daughters 10 become
corner-stones, polished after the similitude of
a palace.
This first conspicuous "Grandmothers'
Tea Party is to congratulate her, who in
our whole little realm stands pre-eminent in
age. With physical and mental powers in
good preservation, she this dav completes the
count of ninety years. She is able TO look
and see her house sustained by grand
children, seven pillars, all in the prime of
life and around their tables olive plants are
clustered, like lilies by the water brooks.
Peace be to grandmothers, who have chill
dren and grandchildren TO lead them down
the slope of life, over green fields, and beside
the still waters. Peace be to grandmothers,
whose lines are fallen TO them in pleasant
places, having a goodly heritage, a heritage
by the beams of the sun of right
eousness and blessed with a knowledge Of
ins salvation.
This address was followed by the accom-
p%oetical effusIon from the pen OF
Hrs. Emma Dillingham;, which was read by
Der mother. Mrs. Lowell Smith
With greeting warm oh mother dear,
Our hearts oerfow, as gathered here
We celebrate thy natal day
For JOuTscOre years and tea have sped
Since first above thy honOred head.
Life tuned her harp 50 blthe and gay.
Yes, Hinefy years Of storm and shine.
of care and counsel have been thine,
Wherein thou'st bleat this world Of ours.
The suffering poor have known thy care
With burdened hearts hast borne q share