The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-29

invitation brought by the chamberlain,
and was beautifully entertained by the
| queen. With President Dole of the pro-
! visional government and Chief Justice
Judd | went to the executive build
ings, which were formerly the palace
The council of the president were already
| assembled in what was originally the
throne room, and taking the chair on the
| platform he called for order, and then
rose, and all the councillors arose with
him, and he led them in prayer, saying,
as near as | can renIem Der: 80, Lord
God of nations we ask thy direction in
the matters that shall come before u.s.
Give US wisdom and prudence and fidelity
in the discharge of our duties, and thou
shalt have all the praise, world without
end. Amen" | have not been told
whether most of the presidents of the
United States have opened their cabinet
meetings in that way, but it certainly is a
good way.
AT o'clock that afternoon the Congre-
gational church was packed to overflow
ing with a multitude, about one-half
native Hawaiians, and the other half,
people Of many lands. 1t was amazing to
me that with such short notice of few
hours such throng could be gathered.
But the Honolulu papers have been pub
fishing my sermons for years, and il was
really gathering of old friends. An in
terpreter stood beside me in the pulpit,
and with marvellous ease translated what
] said into the Hawaiian language. II was
such scene as | never before witnessed,
and shall never see it repeated. After
shaking hands with thousands of people,
| went out in the most delicious atmos-
phere, and sat down under the palm-trees.
What bewitchment of scenery! What
heartiness of hospitality! The Hawaiians
have no superiors for genialty and kind
ness in all the world. In physical pres
ence they are wondrous specimens of good
health and stalwartness. One Hawaiian
could wrestle down two Of our nation.
THE LAND OF FLOWERS.
Miracle of productiveness, these ISL
ands. Enough sugar TO sweeten all the
worlds beverages. Enough bananas to
pile all the worlds baskets; enough rice
to mix all the worlds buildings; enough
cocoanuts TO powder all the world s
cakes; enough flowers to garland all the
worlds beauty Banks of flowers white
as snow or blue as skies or yellow as sun
set. or starry as Novem Der nights or red
as battiefelds A heaven of flowers.
Flowers entwined in maidens' hair, and
twisted around hats, and hung on necks
and embroidered on capes and sacks
Tube roses, gardenlas, maguolias. passi-
tioras, mpet-creepers, oleanders, ge-
raniums, convolvuli, fuchias. hibis-
Gus req as ure, 1eSSdmlne. which
we, in America, carefully coax to
climb the wall just once, here run
ming up and down and jumping over TO
the other side and coming back again TO
Jump down this side. ight-blooming
cereus so rare in our northern latitude we
call in our height ors to see it and they
must come right away or never see it at
all here 10 these islands scattering its
epulence of perfume on all the nights
and, not able to expend enough in dark
ness, also flooding the day Struggling
10 surpass each other all kinds of trees
whether Of fruit or Of rich garniture
mango and orange and bamboo, and allI-
gator pear, and umbrella trees, and
bread fruit, and algabora, and tamarine,
and all the South Sea exotics. Rough
cheek Of pine apple against smooth cheek
Of melon. The tropics burning incense
OF aromatics 10 the high heavens.
THE WORLDS GREArEsT VOLCANO.
These islands are volcanic results. The
volcanoes are giants living in the cellars
Of the earth and warming themselves BY
sabterraneOus fires, and when they come
out ~ play they toss islands, and some
times in their sport they sprinkle the sea
with the Society Islands, aud then they
toss ~ the Navigator Islands, and then
the 4 10 Islands and then the Hawaiian
lsian6s They are 1itans aud when they
play quote they pitch Islands. When the
earth hnaAy goes 40 90 q WILL while ~