Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-11-12

ment to make the laws, with n sound system of
hn mn, ful treasury, and scarcely any debt,
Aud back of these is thorough and universal edu-
cational system, with the school house and the
church conspicuous on every part Of our shores
Under these protecting and securing influences
going on and developing these forty years, every
art and appliance of civilization nourishes and
wealth Ia accumulating.
Such nation and government, however small
IL respectable, and is necessarily respected and
honorcd. Its public chief and represent ative,
wherever he goes, is naturally welcomed and
esteemed, especially when his outward bearing so
well BELTS his position He is thus honored as tho
head of civilized Christian kingdom and NJ
standing III the attitude Of Christian prince and
gentleman, and no other.
Now we ask. what has brought us up into this
high estate What has lifted to this singular
honor! What has raised this little despised king
dom, these people reputed chiefly as having eaten
Capt Cook, out of their low estate of only two
generations ago2 Why, tho old men and women
yet i've who were wont to participate in human
sacrifices to the hideous idols of the old heiaus
Many OF us whose heads are now gray can wildly
recall the ways of forty or fifty years ago. Then
the people were naked and destitute, though par
TALLY evangelized; they had no thought of free
government, and no capacity for it, few some
what able and lordly, but wholly arbitrary and
capricious chiefs ruled M they pleased, though
somewhat amennble to Christian restraints. and
held III check toward foreigners by two or three
| bullying consuls. There was no constitution, no
settled laws, no judges, no finance. No commoner
mad any title To the land he lived on to his
| own personal effects. No commerce was practica-
BILE for a native, and hardly to foreigner beyond
| small bartering trade. Many of us remember
| all this, and yet how 1t has all disappeared and
given place to this cumely civilization and these
free institutions; and that unseemly past is gone
and can hardly believe myself it ever had been
although 1t WAS the familiar of my childhood
what was it that so suddenly lifted up this nation
I INTO freedom and responsibility and Christian
civilization For the radical change was all be-
| gun ana completed within ten years. What has
covered this barren plain of Honolulu with man
slons and with shade and verdure Covered our
shores with villages and mills and dwellings
| n,itf Nt.. ,l,,n
government of liberty, order, peace, aud justice
| what inspired that naked, crouching. bestal
Hawain people of the 30s, TO fructify in the
4os into such growth Of civilization and politi-
cal liberty, such AZ has elsewhere been found only
| IN the highest races and then only rs the outcome
| of ages of struggle Here the freedom was born
| In day, and yet has lasted well for nearly forty
years.
l know of but one answer to these questions |
know of but one adequate solution to this unique
| ana astonishing phenomenon, which this year has
eliminated in the high honor accorded to the
sovereign OF this free and Christian nation. The
one adequate cause, was that wonderful blessing
OF God III sending down the mighty transforming
power OF His Holy Spirit upon this whole people
m the marvellous revivals OF the years 1893 to 40.
This great revival effectively lifted the nation out
OF heathenism, gave them the elements of Chris
| tian manhood, and rendered them capable of free
institutions. by this mighty working of His
Spirit the Lord Jesus Christ took possession of the
Hawaiian nation as an Israel for himself and
from horde of despots and serfs converted them
into free and Christian people 1t is true that in
heather still kept root but great multitude be-
came true, earnest followers, however lowy of the
kedeemer. by the powerful influence of these
believers the whole mass was leavened, and ell
lightened; and the whole people III u body out
wardly accepted Christ King, and his doctrines
rs the truth. In this general moral illumination,
ana elevation, free constitutional government by
these recent savages became not merely practical
BILE, but almost necessary and inevitable. Chris
tian chiefs fully emnncipated and endowed with
lands their Christian brethren, the common people.
And these converted people zeaously chose worthy
aud upright representatives to make the laws, and
gladly supported the execution of those laws.
Upon tins great change respect arose among the
nations of the earth. Our independence was
guaranteed. Our nationality was recognized.
Treaties we're generously made with US. The JUS
ticc OF our laws and the equality Of our Courts
being manifest, full jurisdiction conceded to
Courts over all cases, and we arc exempt from
hari a'sing consular courts for foreigners like thes
OF Egypt, China and Japan.
For all this unique history know Of no cause
ut all adequate or probable, except the extraordi-
nary moral and spiritual force of the great revival
that forty-three years ago began to lift up the
whole people.
2. In praying for the welfare of our sovereign and
his Kingdom we would look to the same blessing
OF God which created the prosperity OF the past 10
give security and success in the future. The prob
lem of our future IN many respects seems strangely
dark and difficult. Our hope must be that OF the
Puritan coonists IN their motto Qui hansfuif,
susfinet. HE who bore US hither, shall sustain
us.) Such gracious mercies of God as lifted the
nation out OF slavery into liberty are imperativey
needed To continue our peace, order and independ
ence. We need much of like general moral and
spiritual uplifting light and love- 10 reach and
change, and weld together in Christian bonds the
heterogeneous masses Of our present population
have called the problem OF near future q
dark and difficult one, and l believe that every
thinking person considers it. tbs is-how in
our greatly changed conditions to maintain our
cherished Independence and autonomy and our
dearly priced liberal institutions, and at the
time maintain order and internal peace, without
which we shall cease To have the confidence and
respect abroad which ensure our Independence
The social conditions which have favored our
liberal institutions hitherto, are greatly altered,
and arc rapidly undergoing further changes. We