The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-06-18
WORK OF ANCIENT HAWAIIANS,
Words Of Rev. S. E. Bishop Com
pared by an Observer.
obligations to Native Chiefs for Exist
ence and Growth OF Present Pros
perity-Yalor OF Kamehameha.

Mr.. EDITOR THE Rev. S. 4.
Bishop is reported in your columns
to have spoken the following words,
they being part of q sermon
preached by him at the Central
Union church On Sunday evening,
the 9th inst. The reverend gentle
man, speaking of the late Daniel
Publ, said, "He well remembered
what this new generation of Ha-
waiians often strove to deny-the
squalid poverty of their ancestors,
even as [ can remember them more
than sixty years ago, their AFFECT
slavery to their landlords and
chiefs, their nakedness, Incidence
and stupid ignorance, their bodies
much disfgured by sores, and their
minds tortured by fear of the ka-
hunas and their familiar demons"
VIII you, sir, permit me also to
give renewed publicity to other
words of the reverend gentleman,
spoken by him on another occa-
sion. The reverend gentleman
said, "Perhaps few realize under
what incalculable obligations we
are to the Hawaiians for the exist
ence and growth Of our present
prosperity. We owe it to the valor
and craftsmanship of Kameha
meha and his noble phalanx of
chieftains, that the group was
united under one orderly govern
ment, rendering the growth of
peaceful civilization possible from
the outset. We owe it to the mag
unanimous friendship of the earlier
chiefs and people to the incoming
foreigners and missionaries; we
owe it to their cordial, uniform hos
pitality that we have so prospered
and that so high civilization and
such charming home life has
grown up here. A savage, jealous,
hostile race would have made this
Impossible for a long time. Our
Hawaiian brothers have very
heartily and steadily cooper
ated with US in all good
things, and while we may feel that
we have been largely their benefac-
tors, certainly they have most
abundantly returned the benefit,
else we should not be so happily
settled in their land, and feeding
upon its abundance with them.
There has been mutual kindness
and help from the outset, establish
ing claims of brotherhood and
friendship of the strongest nature.
When in all the history of men,
did ever a people go kindly receive
aliens and strangers, and so hearth
" work with them for the common
good? Even when disturbances of
feeling arise, and partial aliena-
tons, as in these TRANSITIONAL times
we are liable to, how little
serious apprehension we feel,
knowing as we do, the kindly,
generous nature of the Hawaiians.
Such a friendly, helpful people
have worthily become, as they are,
the wards of the civilized and
Christian world. Is not also our
own relation to them one that calls
for the most considerate regard and
loyal friendship? If we see them
weak in some things in which We
are stronger, then our strength
should become their shield and
support. In honor and fraternal
regard, how can we too strongly
feel the obligation to make every
sacrifice needful to strengthen this
people and build them up in this
beautiful land of their fathers"
That these eloquent and right
eous words may be read far and
near, I ask that you will give this
communication place in an early
issue of your journal.
Yours obediently,
CHARLES F. HART.