The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-06-21

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| In the islands of the Pacific we have the
same Boosting and the same miserable
| failures that have attended Protestant
Missions in every quarter OF the globe. In
the PHILIPPINES, in Tabite, in Wallis and
Rarotonga, 10 Tutuna, in Hawaii and in
! the Sand " ich Islands, we see Catholic con
verts excellipg in the faith and willing to
die in it's defence, and on the other side
savages robbed even of their natural vir-
tues, abborring the human religion which
they were paid to profess, and flngipg it
away with disgust when the power to con
| troll them was lost.
Islands were held ia lease by an army of
Protestant Missionaries. Every temporal
advantage, including an enormous annual
revenue amounting as early as 1882 to one
hundred thousand pounds, was on their
side, end there were none to contest their
| influence or dispute their sway. And what
were the fruits of their long reignf 1t is
their own associates and advocates who
| have answered US that, while they grew
rich themselves at the expense of their
i disciples whose most fertile lands they ap-
propriated, and whose humble commerce
they wrested from them, call being engaged
| ip trade, ;" as their friend Capt. w oldergrave
discovered, some having seized :" the
monopoly" others dealing in cocoa-nut oil
and arrow root" others like Williams
"speculating largely in tobacco" and
struggling, as even the London Missionary
Society complained Sin invidious and de-
grading competition with their own people"
the only legaces which they bequeathed,
at their departure, to this once happy and
contented population were as Mr.. Bennett
relates, "riot and debaucbery that would
have disgraced the most profligate purlieus
of London" Nothing" as Mr.. Walpole
reports" but many of the vices of civiliza-
ton, and most of the follies of the savage"
Little" as Mr.. Dives adds, =" except in
name and outward observances, of the real
spirit of Christianity" At length they
were elected amid the acclamations of the
" haggard and diseased" remnant of the
population, among whom, in the words of
Mr.. Pridham, they had only " added by
their own presence new plaques to the
as Mr. Wilkes aud Mr.. Melville noticed
they had kept their own children aloof
from all Intercourse with the natives,
because of the universal immortality, of
which the worse examples had been given
by Protestant " Missionaries" such az
Lewis, Veeson, and Broomhuil. So prompt
was the regenerating Influence of Catholic
France that in 1861 Mr.. Therny found
amongst the once degraded women of
Tahite, refined and educated mothers,
admirable specimens of the CO mingled En-
ropean and Tahitian blood" While Mr..
Tilley ascertained in 1868 that this i'm
portaut island is now, in spite of all that
had been dope to pollute and destroy it, "a
civilized and prosperous community"
= The Sandwich Islands have been for
nearly fifty years the spoil and prey of
Missionaries of the same class. In vain,
during thirty years, they strove to hide
both their own proceedings and the real
in official reports addressed to the English
and American Society, "the extensive
prevalence of piety among Them" and
"the signal triumphs of Divine grace"
AT length the veil was torn away, and the
heartiess fiction exposed. Mr.. Hines, Mr..
Olmsted and Mr.. Dana revealed, one after
the other, "the astonishing depopulation
without parallel in the history of nations"
Others recorded with surprise the luxurious
lives and unblushing greed of the Missiona-
ries, "seeking wealth diligently" in the
words of Mr.. Manly Hopkins, in spite of
their ample salaries and investing it in
very remunerative securities" proverb
as Mr.. Walpole discovered for "undenied
monetary dirtiness," abandoning Mission
work az DR.. Seeman remarked, to seize
upon official positions and reducing the
natives to perjury" as DR.. Meyen observed,
"by their detestable frauds" AID these
men continued the confidential agents of
Protestant Missionary Societies for long
series OF years, who willingly augmented
their revenues by propagatlng the shame
less reports of these very men and still
continued to employ them, and pointed to
their fictitious successes, with a dishonesty
at least equal to theirs in Justification of
their annual appeal for fresh contributions
to their exhausted treasury.
With regard to their large churches, DR..
Smith tells US of one of them, we suppose
the one spoken of, which was of such
dimensions that they used to preach from
three pulpits simultaneously. Brother
Henry occupied the east pulpit, Brother
Wilson the middle pulpit, aud Brother
Bicknell the west pulpit, and this was the
end of all the preachings of Ellis, and
Williams aud Wilson and fifty more.
The Cathol came; freedom was given
to the natives, and straightway the chapel,
into which the Tahitians had so often been
driven by the scourge, became desert.
We may hereafter pay our respects to
the Queen of Madagascar and her Prime
Minister, but at present we must conclude,
and remain, your obedient servant,
D. p. S.
"Wby will people, who know nothing about