News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-08-02

supernatural force began infanticido
was common. and not by milder forms
of assassination, but buried alive. De-
mented people were murdered; old peo-
pie were allowed TO die Of neglect
/ Polygamy in its worst form reigned,
and it was as easy for man to throw
away his wife as to pitch an apple core
into the sea. Superstition blackened the
earth and the heavens.
Christianity found the Sandwich Is
lands a hell and turned them into a
semiheaven. AS in all the other regions
where Christianity triumphed, it was
maligned by those who came from other
| lands TO preach their iniquities. Loose
| foreigners were angered because they
were hindered in their dissoluteness by
q new element they had never before
/ confronted.
''There is Honolulu" cried many
voices this morning from the deck of
the Alameda. These islands, called by
many an archipelago, l call them the
constellation of the Pacific, for they
seem not so much to have grown up
as alighted from the heavens. The
bright, the redolent, the outrageous,
| the floralized, the orcharded, the forest
ed, the picturesque Hawaiian islands,
They came in upon us as much as we
came in upon them in the morning.
| Captain Cook no more discovered them
in 177S than we discovered them today.
He saw them for the first time for him
self, and we see them for the first time
this morning for ourselves More fortu-
nate are we than Captain Cook. He
looked out upon them from filthy boat
and wound up his experiences by fur
nishing his body as the chops and steaks
of O savages breakfast. We from
graceful ship alight amid heritage and
arborescence and shall depart with the
good wishes and prayers from all the
islanders.
High Official Courtesies.
AS you approach the harbor there is
in sight long line of surf, rolling over
reefs of coral. High mountains, hurri
cane cleft and lightning split but their
wounds bandaged with the green of
perennial foliage In few minutes
|
queen called to invite US to her mansion,
and Chief Justice Judd called with a
delegation to ask me to preach that
afternoon. accepted the invitation
brought by the chamberlain and was
beautifully entertained by the queen.
With President Dole of the provisional
government and Chief Justice Judd
went to the executive buildings, which
were formerly the palace.
The council of the president were al
ready assembled in what was originally
the throneroom, 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 l can remember:
so Lord God of nations, we ask thy
direction in the matters that shall come
before us. Give US wisdom and pru-
dence and fidelity in the discharge Of
our duties, and thou shalt have all the
praise, world without end. Amen" 1
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 good way.
At 3 o'clock that afternoon the Con-
gregational church was packed to over
flowing 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 a throng could be
gathered But the Honolulu papers
have been publishing my sermons for
years, and it was really gathering of
old friends An interpreter stood beside
me in the pulpit, and with marvellous
ease translated what 1 said into the Ha-
waiian language. 1t was such scene
as never before witnessed, and l shall
never see it repeated. After shaking
hands with thousands of people went
out in the most delicious atmosphere
and sat down under the palm trees.
What bewitchment of scenery! What
heartiness of hospitality! The Hawaiians
have no superiors for geniality and kind
ness in all the world. In physical pres
ence they are wondrous specimens of
good health and Submarines. One Ha-
waiian could wrestle down two of cur
nation.
The Land of Flowers.
Miracle of produotiveness these is
lands. 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
worlds cakes; enough flowers to garland
all the worlds beauty Banks of flow
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