The sun., 1895-04-20
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AZ Eighty the Venerable Missionary is
Called Upon to Answer Godkin's Brutal
ISLANDERS OF Her Dead Associates In the
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entitled "A Missionary Disgrace" the state
ments were 90 incorrect that could only sa,
AN enemy hath done this" remembering
Matthew 4, 25; and, after mature reflection,
must consider the article a series of great mis-
takes. / cannot allow even the shadow OF
nearly eighty years to prevent my striving tc
| vindicate the characters of my friends of more
than half century whose lips are now sealed
| In death.
With regard to the amount Of property owned
by missionaries and their children, four ifths OF
| the property OF tho islands: This must include
the property OF all the foreigners, and the larg.
est land holders are not the children OF mission
| aries. Some fine plantations are owned by per-
| sons who have no connection with the mission
| while there is not plantation owned entirely
| by any son of q missionary. There are several
| plantations, corporations they may be called
! whose shares can be purchased for n small
amount and this is favorite Investment OF
teachers and others Of small means, and some
missionaries sons have bought in these corpora
| tions. No one of them is manager of planta-
| tion, but several have some work on the planta-
tions. Seventy children of the missionaries have
| gone 10 other lands and nearly tho same num-
| Der remain here. These sons are clergymen,
| lawyers. judges, doctors. surveyors. teachers.
and clerks, nearly all in moderate circumstances.
| but useful and respected. There may be ten
who, men Of integrity, have developed rare busi-
moss abilities and are rich for this country, not
millionares as you have. Some Of the families
are saved from actual want by the patrimony of
their parents being invested here. which yields
to their children frugal living.
or the 101 Cabinet Ministers from 1s42.
the first Cabinet to the last in 1893. only eight
were missionaries or the sons of missionaries.
In the present Government there are about
| one hundred oficeholders; ten of these are de-
scendants Of missionaries or the eight who
| composed the Military Commission there was
not one. What is one to understand by fifty
| or sixty years of unbroksn missionary govern
ment?" The Kamehamehas were kingly race
| and governed their people. Kamehameha III.
and Lunalio were inclined to seek the advice of
| missionaries. The four others who have reigned
| within my recollection were not, but pursued
| their own plans. Whom kamehameha V. was
asked to sign the free liquor bill, he replied: II
will not sign the death warrant of my people,"
No entreaties of missionaries could prevent the
elected king. Kalakaua. from signing this bill,
| and the dire effects of the act only those who
| strive to do Christian work among the natives
can understand. 1t did not avail when we
begged the ex-Queeu not TO destroy the remnant
Of her people by making opium free. But that
act and the lottery bill. and claiming absolute
power. contrary to the expressed wishes of her
mission friends, prevent the fiction of an un-
broken missionary government
There has been a settled conviction in the
minds of the thoughtful natives. as we'll as
foreigners. that the power to rule this land
wisely passed away with the extinction Of the
noble house of the Kamehamehas and the
flooding Of the islands with liquor. Suddenly
the tone changed" When and where? We
have been sensible of no change. The revival Of
sorcery and the free liquor have corrupted
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islands class of idle, dissolute men. many of
whom took part in the late uprising, and God
has been gracious to this land that they did not
gain the power. But very few of the good
church members had part or lot in that affair."
The good Hawaiians are the best Of people, and
our hearts cling TO them as to our children.
AS to leprosy. there is no missionary who could
be spared to live among them. Only three or
four survive of the many who greeted us when
we came to the islands in 1s41. and they are
feeble. Three persons have come from the
States to take their places. DR.. Hyde gave up
his salary for the support of tho latest helper.
Upon these mon rest the whole burden of the
work. We have native ministry, but they are
to be educated, and a constant supervision of
the churches is needed. This the churches at
the leper settlement receive with the others.
few days since a young leper, tho son of Ha-
waiian pastor, wrote to mo that the Sabbath
school was flourishing and the 1.-TWO native
churches doing splendidly." and added. Per
haps was stricken with the disease because
was needed In the work Of Christ here"
One Of the successful missionaries sons has
built home for boys and anot ther u reading room,
and we try each week to send them fresh reading
AS for the Mongolians. tho missionaries of the
Board have nothing to do with their coming,
but we receive them as those for whom we must
work. The son of our former seamens chap
lair. with his wife. missionarys daughter born
In China, devote their lives to The Chinese.
Already their church building has been en-
larged and schools are sustained for Chinese
children. even to kinderGartsns. The Japanese
also have besides their own gifted pastor the
labors of mssonary's son and his wife and
missionary's daughter. who devote their time to
the Japanese and native work. Then the Portu-
guese church Is outgrowing its buildings land no
one acquainted with the two Portuguese pastors
and the superior women who labor with them
in the schools, would speak sightingly of the
Portuguese on tho islands. One plantation
partly owned by missionaries, has German
colony, with church and schools. and highly
educated pastor. Besides this an owner en-
ploys Japanese and also native colporteur.
Not only has the work Of the Master been for
wardeG in the lines given above, but we arc
anxious for the many young men coming to
these shores from Christian lands. and for this
reason our Y. NJ. G. A. building 10 being en-
larged at q cost of about Sic, 1000. More than
half has been contributed by the sons of mis-
sionaries. A son Of a missionary who, on the
smallest Of salaries has iabored for years in the
first native church, is dependent for home On
the patrmony Of his parents. Many daughters
Of the missionaries have married suitably men
who are a power In tho land. Daughters of
missionaries, who were Israelites indeed and
who have passed on, have taken up their work
and carry 1t ON In remote, lonely portion OF
the islands. Another has taken the work left by
her parents. though It involves great self-denial
More than one of the missionaries have given
back to the uses of the American Board larger
amount than ever received. while others, not
able to return all, have given what they could.
Besides all that is required to carry on tho
many different missions, we have schools to
sustain, something between q home and an
asylum, where work 10 taught as well as books.
There is constant demand for help in all these
different missions, and we arc grateful that to
some God has given means to carry on this
work. II am become fool In gorying. but ye
have compelled me-" l cannot endure the