The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-08-01
DR.. TALMAGE IN HAWAII.
THE GREAT DIvINE's IMPRESSIONS
or THE NEW REPUBLIC.
what Christianity Has Done for the
HaVRiinns-A Land Full of BeRuti-
fuI FIowers-Graphic Picture of the
Worlds Greatest Volcano.

I
stepped aboard the Alameda OF the
J Oceanic steamship company, our captain.
/ Morse, one OF the most genial, popular
and able commanders who ever sailed
| the seas. He and the Pacific ocean are
old acquaintance. He has been in sew
enteen hurricanes and safely outrode
| them. PROPULSION of flowers were sent
| up the gangplank, and the masses OF
people on the wharf who had come TO see
| their friends off. waved handkerchfefs
and threw kisses and cried and laughed
as is usual when an ocean steamer Is
about to start. The gong sounded for
| the leaving OF all those from the ships
deck who did not expect to accompany
us. The whistle blew for loosening from
the wharf. and the screw began to
whirl. and the ship moved out toward
( the Golden Gate.
The Pacific ocean met us with waves
high enough To send many TO their berths
and to arouse I'm the rest OF us the ques-
ton why so rough a sea should be called
| the Pacific And for two days the roll.
the jerk, the rise, the fall, the lunge, the
trcmor, the quake. spoiled the appetite
] and hid from sight the majority of the
| passengers. But after the third day the
ocean and ship ceased their wrestling.
and peace smoothed the weaVs and
hushed the winds, for the same Lord
who took a short walk upon rough Gall
| lee takes a longer walk upon Pacific
seas.
Different from most voyages there
seemed no dlsagreeables on board
enough passengers 10 avoid loneliness
not so many as to be crowded. What
difference between a sea voyage now.
with all comforts afforded and the table
containing all the luXures that can al
lure a weak appetite, and those days
when the missionaries crossed 10 Homo
lulu in vessels greasy and rude and with
food rancid or stale and with sail full
OF whims, now full curbed, and now
limp and idle!
Politics has never done much for the
Sandwich Islands. III a man have no eX-
pectations FOR these gems OF the Pacific
except that which comes from human
legislation, / would think he would be
"a despairful as was Kamehameha, the
third king Of the Sandwich Islands,
when on his dying bed he said: What
IL TO become OF my poor country? There
Is no one to follow me- Queen Emma
l do not trust, Lunalilo is a drunkard
and Kalahaua Is a fool" All that has
been done for the Hawaiian islands has
been done by our gracious God and the
missionaries. \ foreign ship brought
them the mosquitoes. The foreign sail
ors brought them the leprosy. American
politics brought them the devil Had IL
not been for the gospel those islands
would have been putting 70 death women
for eating bananas when forbidden 10 do
so and bowling to a disgusting idoatry.
and I'm all the islands II would have been
midnight Of cruelty and abominatlon.
But the missionaries came, and In eight
years 1900 people gathered into the
churches and $4,000 children into schools
proposing Christian civilization. which
now holds beautiful supremacy over
the Sandwich Islands. There are two
great parties In the Hawaiian Islands
royalists. who want the queen, and an
neNationists. who want to come under
our eagle wing.
Neither of them will triumph The
final result will be a republic by itself.
Of which the present government is
ante-past. The Hawaiian nation IS strong
enough TO stand alone. Because a nation
IS not gigantic is no more reason why il
should not have self-control than man
with limited resources Of physical or
financial strength should be denied in
dependence. If God had intended Homo
lulu to belong 10 the Unites States, he
would have planted IL hundreds OF miles
nearer our American coast. The United
States government Is not so hungry for
more land that IL needs TO be fed on a
few chunks OF island brought from $500
miles away. No danger that some other
foreign nation shall take possession OF
the islands and give US trouble when
want to run into Honolulu for the
cOaling and watering Of our ships. With
some ironsldes from our new navy and
the aid of our friends on the islands we
would knock into smithereens such for
eign impertnence. Besides that. If we
become as a nation great maritime
power. and we will none of the islands
OF the Pacific would decline us shelter
ing harbor or supply for our ships. What
though they belonged TO other nations.
they would sell US all we want. II is
not necessary to own store in order
to purchase goods from II.
Hawaiian Progress.
These are venerable islands. Those
who can translate the language of rocks
and the language of human bones say
that these islands have been inhabited
l, 400 years at least. When found in 1878,
they were old places Of human habita-
ton. The most unique illustration in all
the world of what pure and simple Chris
tianity can do is here. Before the super
natural force began infanticide was COM
mon, and not by milder forms Of assas-
sination. but buried alive. Demented
people were murdered; old people 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
10 pitch an apple core into the sea. Su-
perstition fblackened the earth and the
heavens.
Christianity found the Sandwich islands
a hell and turned them into a semi
heaven As in all 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 a new element
they had never before confronted.
There Is Honolulu" cried many voices
this morning from the deck of the Ala
media. 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,
islands, They came in upon us as much
as we came in upon them in the morning.
Capt. Cook no more discovered them in
ITS than we discovered them today. He
saw them for the first time for himself.
and we see them for the first time this
morning for ourselves. More fortunate
are we than Capt. Cook. He looked out
upon them from filthy boat and wound
up his experiences by furnishing his body
as the chops and steaks Of a savage's
breakfast. We from a graceful ship
alight amid heritage and arborescense
and shall depart with the good wishes
and prayers from all the ISLANDERS.
High OmciaI CourtesIes.
AS you approach the harbor there Is
in sight a long line of surf. rolling over
reefs of coral. High mountains. hurri-
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