The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-09-05
TELM-TALE ADMISSIONS.

TELL-TALE ADMISSIONS.
Rev. o. 2. Emerson, editor Of the :
department of the Friend devoted !
to the Hawaiian Board Of Missions,
makes some rather telling admis-
sions il. the latest issue Of that peri T.
odical. He mentions with consider !
able pr use the work of Revs. Z. S.
rimoteo and j. Ezera as an evangel
istic com mittee, whose especial aim
is ''to heal the dissensions and ami
mosities which have grown out OF
the late political strife, and to recon-
.ile dissentient people with their
pastors, some of whom may have
been unwse in the expression Of
their political sentiments" This ad-
mission Of possible unwisdom on the
part of native pastors coached by
evil-disposed foreign preachers, in
throwing the brand Of political dis
cord into the midst of native bodies
of believers in the gospel Of the
kingdom that is not of this world, is
significant 1t shows the failure of
the desperate and disreputable effort
of persons who assume to be the
guides of the Hawaiian churches to
degrade their pulpits into the posi-
ton Of political party rostrums.
There is another admission from
the same source, which will be rather
startling to the Christian public OF
America who had been given the in
formation, as one Of the reasons for
the violent overthrow of .constitu-
tional government in Hawaii, that
the monarchy was responsible for
unchecked gambling amongst lot
of other rampant public vices. The
editor of the missionary page in the
Friend, after giving the committees
report that there had not been de-
fections Of natives to other churches,
says, Large numbers Of persons
congregated on Sundays at certain
che ia gambling resorts conducted
by Chinese, which appeared to es-
) cape suppression by the police"
Tell it not in CATH After seven
. months of absolute control of affairs,
, this new Government, that was 60
ing to change everything from pan
demonium to paradise forthwith,
' allows two distinct laws to be vio-
4 lated with impunity in the most
= hagrant manner. Large numbers
Il of persons congregated" to defy the
= laws, and vet appeared to escape
= suppression by the police" Their
S friends and correspondents in the
z States will be asking awkward ques-
e tions as to what has been gained for
J. ordinary morality, let alone the cause
Il of pure religion, by the appeal to
q gunpowder aud cold steel initiated,
+ aided and endorsed by the repre-
sentatives and supporters of Ameri-
!; eau missionary enterprise in Hawaii
L Their replies showing to what extent
e. ball cartridges and bayonets are
y superior to the Bible, in transform
- ing society in the tropics, would
d make an intensely interesting chap
9 ter in the history of Hawaii's rela-
tions with the United States.
! Still another admission is made
8 by the Friends missionary editor,
., i'm tha follOwinD words. "Mr Tima-
Y teo is a highly esteemed pastor Of
D. great intelligence and kind spirit,
r. He has long been personal friend
,i of the ex-queen, and is still loyal TO
Is her in his politics. This is favor
Il able qualification to him in laborng
q to harmonize differences, as the bit
j terness of anmosity has been about
e, all on the side Of the royalists, and
he is likely to succeed where one Of
:, opposite political sympathies would
rs be repulsed. He is, we believe, the
j on ) one Of the leading native pas
q tors who is not on the other side"
{ The foreign leaders Of the native
/. Protestant churches have proclaim
cd far and wide that practically the
whole decent and devout element OF
those churches was with tho destroy
"a ers OF their nations independence,
y Now, however, the official spokes-
- man OF those foreign religious lead
a.. J eTE isals p1ngl Tainal Ia admit that