Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-03-13
HAWAII AND UNITED STATES

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HAWAII AND UNITED STATES.
DR.. Twitchell Delivers. q Scholarly
discourse ut Dwight Place church.
He Also speaks Against the Pool I
Rooms.
; Rev Dr.. Twitchell of Dwight Place
church delivered most interesting lecture
on s'Hawaii and the United States" to
large audience, last evening. He spoke as |
follows:
The relation of the Island of Hawaii to |
the United States is of such Importance,
and is at present commanding such atten-
ton that make no apology for considering
the subject on Sabbath evening; but take
it up in the hope of impressing your minds
and hearts with numerous and conspicu-
GUS Divine providenees playing there and \
here along the later decades.
About 1919 the missionary movement
began and 1t had 80 remarkable an in
oeption and has had so much to do in
leading up to events now engaging public
attention as to make 1t worthy here of
special note.
Refresh, therefore, your memory with
the fact that twenty five years before, In
1895, babe was born on the island of
Hawaii and named Ohookiah; that this
babe when q boy of fourteen for some rea-
son was induced to ship for America, and
finally, in 1909, made his way to New Ha-
ven am not sure whether the ship on
which he came landed at this port or at
some other, and walking aimlessly but
wonderingly along the streets of this then
small city be was attracted by the college
buildings Learning for what these build
| ings had been erected and what the young
men of the college were doing, he began to
weep because of his ignorance and the
| ignoranes of his people.
In this condition this waif from far
| Pacific island was found by Rev. Edwin
| W. Dwight, who took the sad-hearted boy
| to his home and for awhile became bis
teacher.
Soon after Samuel J. Mills came to New
Haven on q visit to college friends, his
! whole being enthused with the idea of q
mission to heather lands.
You will remember this young man
Mills as one of the four students of
williams college who, in 1905, gathered
under the lee Of haystack on Q meadow
near the college for refuge from a thunder
storm, and who then, while the storm was
passing, proposed to his three college
| mates an attempt to send or carry the
| gospel to heathendom.
Mills at the time of his visit to New Ha-
ven was a member of Andover theological
| seminary. While there he made the ac-
auaintance of this Hawaiian boy Obookiah,
became deeply interested in him and wrote
to Gordon Hall, one of his classmates in
the seminary, urging that some means be
devised whereby this bright-faoed but
dark skinned youth might be educated and
sent back home as preacher of the gospel
| to his idolstrous people.
The result was that this Hawaiian boy
| went with Mills to his home in Torring-
ford, where he spent few days, and then
on to Andover, where he became hopeful
Christian.
These facts Of course, soon became
noised about among the churches, and
nany of them, especially here in Con
nectieut were aroused In behalf of this
Hawaiian boy and in behalf of the people.
Ere long an academy was founded at Corn
wall, Conn, with special reference to thu
education of heather youth who might
come to America. This school opened
with twelve pupils, seven of them from
the Hawaiian Islands. ''Obookiah" be
gan his education, but died in 1918 at tn
age of twenty three. He had, however
not lived in vain, nor had he come t.
America in vain.
One year from his death and about tw,
years from the time when he was founl
J weeping on the college doorstep, chiefly /
not wholly because of him and because o
his coming to America, fifteen missioE2arie
! | sailed from Boston for the work of evan
gelizing the Pacific islands.
Here we come to remarkable coine1
dencs illustrating very fully and foreefull
| to my mind the providence of God. Kane
hamea, the savage and selfish chief of Hs
! wall, was dead and Kamehamea II, becom
ing chief, had abolished idolatry by mean
and for causes which we have not tim
here to explain. Of the death of this Of
new chief in sbolishing idolatry, no wor
4 had reached America.
q These missionaries therefore expected
r find naked savages, practicing the MOI
cruel and revolving forms of idelatry, II
: eluding human sacrifice; expected to 81
= idol temples everywhere standing and i'd
Y alsars reeking with the blood of their VII
! j TINS; expected to hear the yells of savae
. warfare and witness long and bloody ba
! ties before idolatry would end. -
l. They found Kamehamea dead and thu
4 aIB SU6C6SoOE uho o0obEO56A ILL 1A6 N4OO1
torn down all the temples, abolished tt
priesthood, and that he had renounoed Il
Q long prevailing superstitions of his peopl
n also that he had put an end forever to b
a man sacrifice among them,
They found still further that this ne
n chief had Suppressed the rebellion arouse
because of his radical measures, and tn
Ls the people had no religion, but were wal
& ing for the gospel, or for any new religie
d which might be made known to them.
Ia DR.. Twi.chell referred to the missional
work which was carried ON from that tin
10 for several years, which resulted in Il
ID Outstanding of the islands. He told
O. the building of schools and churches, Il
w abolition Of polygamy, the introduction {
. Christian morals and ethics, the translate
Ii of the entire Bible into the Hawaii
le language, until at the end of a quarter OF
al century succeeding this great awakenil
=, there were $4,000 converts.
In continuing his remarks, DR.. Twitch
le said: p
ID 1t is worthy of note here as bearing up
r the question at issue that as early as 1874
al the committee of foreign relations in &
= house of representatives, through it's cha
>. man. John Quincy Adams, made a repc
IL concerning Hawaii from which report
y make the following extracts. Mr.. Adar
d said: 'It is cheering contemplation to &
g. friends of human improvement that by t
d mild and gentle influence of Christie
charity, dispensed by humble missionarie
,e unarmed with secular power, the people
]. the Hawaiian islands have been raised fro
/. the lowest abasement of idolatry to Il
a. blessings of the Christian religion" N
IT Adams then refers to the laws, the WRIT
10 language and constitution of the peopl
d and then adds: "To the contamination
l. their acknowledgment, the people of ii
y North American Union, are urged by
"a interest of their own deeper than that
d any other portion of the world; by
n virtual right of conquest not over t
1t freedom of their brother man by I
b brutal arm of physical power, but over t
le mind and heart, by the celestial psnop
3 of the gospel of peace and love-"
al These were the ringing words of the II
"a mortal Adams in 1842.
a. The very next year the United Stat
It was represented there by commissions
At and the next year after Great Britain "
u represented there by a CONSUL general al
two years later, in 1916, a special comm
l. sioner came from the king of France; al
ID SO the years have gone, until every nation
20 the world oonfesses Hawaiian indepe
a dence.
Is Where shall the people of that islal
Ia turn for closer relations-social, civil, p
n | litical, commercial, religiousl