The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-03-08

and breeding bitterness.
True missionaries-carnest, de-
self.sacrlicing mcn--who
yearn to make their fellow men good
and happy, and teach obedience TO
the Great Architect of the Uni
verse, love of the human kind,
mercy, charity, forbcarance, up
rightness, and purity, practising
themselves what they preach to
others, and keeping themselves Gun
spotted from the world,' are n
blessing to any community. BE they
catholic, protestant, or scctaran,
they do good, and the world is the
better for their presence in it. Poll
tical and trading missionaries are
different. cannot say n word in
their praise. They are spurious
limitations "The cause" is in
jurcd by their association with it.
They should be required by the
genuine missionary to "forsake the
word,' or throw off the cloth.
They may be excellent men as citi-
zens, but they are made of the
wrong metal for good missionaries.
Some people don't like missiora-
ries--never have good word for
them. | have tried to find out the
reason why, and after investigation
have concluded that some very good
people dislike missionaries because
their experience of missionaries has
been confined to the "Brumagem'
breed, and they hastily judge of the
entire fraternity by the spurious imi-
tation; while others, who have q
secret aversion to the moral law,
ground their dislike, really although
not Ostensibly, on the fact that their
lewd, lascivious, or lax notions are
opposed by missionary teaching.
There may be other reasons, but the
foregoing alone affect nine-tenths of
the missiOnary-haters of my ac-
quaintancc. Men who do not de-
pend entirely upon others for ideas,
naturally form their opinions on the
basis of experience ; and men whose
experience is restricted to the bogus
class of missionaries, naturally
enough regard them as types of the
whole fraternity. Men who find it
more congenial to their inclinations
to yield unresisting submission to
the promptings of passion, than to
obey the dictates of morality, have
a natural enmity towards those who
are opposed to their course of life.
The islands of the Pacifc-north,
south, and central-have furnished
fine field for missionaries. 1t is
not very many years ago since mis-.
sionary operations commenced upon
them, but to-day there is scarcely
an island in the whole ocean without
missionary. Some of the untutorcd
savages, especially down south,
cvinced strong and peculiar liking
for the propagators of religion at
sight-a liking for their fleshy parts.
Here in the Hawaiian group, the
missionaries, on landing, seventy
years ago, more or less, were re-
ccived with welcome and treated
with hospitality. Coming as they
did from severcr climcs, winters of
ice and snow, where they had strug-
gled hard in common with their
nelghbors for an impecunious exist
ence, to these sunny isles of peren-
NAL spring and summer. vieldino
'ho'' 'f'''e .avishly and spontan-
eo".,sly the whole year through, and
| pcopled by race as gentle as the
climate and as generous as the soil
they found themselves suddenly in
paradise before they expected. The
Protestants came first. When tho
Catholics arrived, later on, they die
not meet with the same kind of wei
come from their Protestant brethren
but were bundled out, neck ant
crop-an exhibition of Christian
charity which the ungodly and sin
ners are wont to speak of till this
day in language more potential thar
poetical.
At the present time there are,
believe, five denominations of mis-
sionaries on these islands-Seventl
Day Adventists, Mormons, Englisl
Episcopalians, Roman Catholics
and Congregatonalists. General.
speaking, the brotherly love existin!
between these different sections |