The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-05-18


mote in everyway the good and well
fare OF his people. When the little
Prince was taken from them, the
Kings lament and grief, and those
of the sorrow-strickcn young mother,
were most touchingly conveyed to
English hearts by letter written by
the King himself to our gracious
Queen, who had lovingly condos
cended to be godmother to the little
Prince of this far distant isle; and
in the beautiful and touching OK
preston of their sorrow, enforced
by the simple but powerful eloquence
of native language rendered into
English, it was forcibly suggestive
of another royal fathers sorrow
King David of holy writ-for the
same tender, gentle love filed both
hearts, and the same submission to
the Divine decree consecrated their
sorrow, when indeed they knew the
child was no more. Scarcely re-
covered from this great trial, the
King and Queen resolved not to de-
lay the interests of their country,
but to come on mission to Eng
land, and ask for the sympathy and
aid of our Queen and country in
endeavoring to save their country
men, both spiritually and bodily,
from determination. But God did
not permit King Kamehameha to
realize this desire. He was called
to his great account but he had
sown the good seed, and it was his
earnest hope that once planted it
would spring up and bear fruit and
increase q hundredfold. That he
was a man of wonderful intellectual
vigor, as well as graced, as becomes
the ruler of kingdom, with all the
refined and generous virtues of
large, pure heart, noble and devoted
to all that is good, is proved by
having devoted himself to and ac-
complished the task of translating
our prayer book into the Hawaiian
language.
He wished his people to feel re-
Iigien in their hearts, and not only
subscribe to its outward forms and
expressions he wished the lives of
his countrymen to be pure and holy;
and SO progressive in all that can
create and elevate nation; and so
his first act was to train some of the
ablest and most intellectual of them
in the English language, so that
after learning all the teaching and
principles of Christianity they might
teach it to the masses. And this is
only to be done at first by native
teachers, who understand how to
win their hearts, and of course
must be conveyed in their native
language; for is not this one of the
primary doctrines of the English
Church, that religion to be felt, and
realized, and loved, must bs con-
veyed in language known to all
who seek its teaching. King Ka-
mehameha desired to establish the
Christian religion under the form
clearest to his insight of what his
people needed-that of the English
Protestant Church-permanently in
his country, and to effect this he
asked the Queen and Archbishops
of England to aid him. To this
end-not to plant mission, but to
establish church in the land
founded on all the principles of the
English one-a bishop was conse-
Grated and sent to found the See of
Honolulu in Hawaii; and in time to
come, if God prospers this great
work, English divines can withdraw
and leave the educated competent
llawaiians to select their own clergy
from their own countrymen. And
now we come to explain the cause
and object of the widowed Queens
visit to this country. 1t is partly
to realize the wish of her husband,
and to tell all of us in England who
care to hear, how earnest and true
that little spot in the world-the
Sandwich Islands-is in the work of
regeneration. 1t is partly to feel
she is carrying out the sacred wish
of her husband, and inspiring by
her presence those who plead her
course so eloquently to be yet more
eloquent and convincing. 1t is
partly, perhaps, to see the country
so powerful to save and to destroy
to understand our ways and our
principles-to see and judge for
herself what our church is like-to
note the working Of Christianity in
this favored land, and to learn to
love us and to honor us in reality,
as she has hitherto done in idea !;
and perhaps who shall say how much
she may be influenced by the innate
desire to come and see land from
which she may be said remotely to
derive her birth. Let any one who
has seen Queen Emma say, if they
do not feel-she is come on high
and holy mission, more real, more
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